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Accommodation: Maple Bank
Type: shared facilities
Catered: Self-catering / Meal plan
Situated at the top of the Vale Village, Maple Bank comprises 87 flats providing accommodation for 435 students offering either self-catering or Meal Plan options. Each flat has five study bedrooms plus a shared kitchen diner, bathroom and toilet facilities. This hall does not have car parking spaces.
For further information, as well as virtual tours of our accommodation, please visit our Accommodation page.
Mixed with pure maple syrup and brown sugar, the cranberries cook down to a sweet and tangy jewel-toned sauce.
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Traditionally, maple syrup was harvested by tapping a maple tree through the bark and into the wood phloem, then letting the sap run into a bucket, which required daily collecting; less labour-intensive methods such as the use of continuous plastic pipelines have since superseded this, in all but cottage-scale production.
Production is concentrated in February, March, and April, depending on local weather conditions. Freezing nights and warm days are needed in order to induce sap flows. The change in temperature from above to below freezing causes water uptake from the soil, and temperatures above freezing cause a stem pressure to develop, which, along with gravity, causes sap to flow out of tapholes or other wounds in the stem or branches. To collect the sap, holes are bored into the maple trees and tubes (taps, spouts, spiles) are inserted. Sap flows through the spouts into buckets or into plastic tubing. Modern use of plastic tubing with a partial vacuum has enabled increased production. A hole must be drilled in a new location each year, as the old hole will produce sap for only one season due to the natural healing process of the tree, called walling-off. Maple sap is collected from the buckets and taken to the sugar house; if plastic tubing and pipelines are used, then the pipelines are arranged so that the sap will flow by gravity into the sugar house, or if that is not possible, into holding tanks from which the sap is pumped or transported by tanker truck to the sugar house.
Maple syrup is sometimes boiled down further to make maple sugar, a hard candy usually sold in pressed blocks, and maple taffy. Intermediate levels of boiling can also be used to create various intermediate products, including maple cream (less hard and granular than maple sugar) and maple butter (creamy, with a consistency slightly less thick than peanut butter).
Accommodation: Maple Bank
Type: shared facilities
Catered: Self-catering / Meal plan
The kitchen/dining facilities are shared by all members of a Maple Bank flat. Each flat is made up of five study bedrooms.
For further information, as well as virtual tours of our accommodation, please visit our Accommodation page.
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On the day we had to visit the Kinkakuji temple (the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, but officially, the Rokuon-ji temple, the Deer Garden Temple) in Kyoto, Japan, it was raining a slow, steady, soaking rain. The grounds were magnificent in their autumn colours, and the red maples were especially beautiful. Great day for photos. Lousy day for keeping dry. - JW
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Taken using a hand-held Nikon D5000 fitted with a Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 105mm, ISO640, Aperture priority mode, f/5.6, 1/160 sec. PP in GIMP: slight tone curve adjustment to brighten up some of the highlight areas, colour and saturation are SOOC, sharpen, add fine black and white frame, add bar and text on left, scale to 1024 wide for posting.
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Evening light adds a golden tint to the early spring foliage on a hilltop of Alyson's Orchard in Walpole, NH
A maple leaf was in the Dowagiac River.
Photographed using a Sony NEX 5N using a Cooke Kinic 1" c-mount lens wide open.