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Power BI and Big Data
If you're worked in the wide and diverse field of information technology for almost any amount of time, it probably hasn't taken you long to discover that the one thing constant about IT is that the technologies and strategies involved change faster than you can learn them. And if you work in business intelligence like I do, you don't have to look very far at all to see change. The Microsoft Power BI team rolls out a software update every month! If I want to stay learned up on the technology, I have to really be on top of things.
About ten years ago when Hadoop was first being developed at Yahoo, I don't think anyone could have anticipated the size of the ripples (more likes cannonball sized splashes) being able to access Big Data could and would have on the IT industry. Hadoop (and other advances in hardware and software technologies) gave us something we never had before: The ability to access and report on data in real time on a scale never previously imagined gives an organization to identify and understand trends and patterns in the data and gain previously unknown insights. The organizations that are able to leverage big data will be the organizations that leave their competition in the dust.
Not only does Power BI Desktop give us the ability to connect to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for reporting we can also mash it up with other more traditional and structured data sources with minimal effort required. But that's not what this blog post is all about. This post is about setting up a virtual machine in Azure running Hadoop and connecting to our Hortonworks Sandbox with Power BI Desktop :).
The first thing you do if you don't have access to a Hadoop cluster is to set up the Hortonworks Sandbox on Azure. The good news is its free (for the duration of the trial) and its super easy. Just follow the instructions at this link to set up the Hortonworks Sandbox.
Once that's set up, you'll need to add mapping for the IP address and host name to your hosts file. Devin Knight has a blog on this that you'll find helpful.
Once your Hortonworks Sandbox is set up, you're ready to set up your connection to Hadoop with Power BI Query. Start up the Power BI Desktop and click Get Data. Scroll down and select Hadoop File (HDFS) and click Connect.
From there you can follow the rest of the wizard to load the data into the semantic model.
Once the data is loaded, you'll need to modify the query to navigate to the data you wish to use in your model.
In Power BI Desktop, go to the Home ribbon and click Edit Queries.
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Three Best Practices for Power BI
Since the release of Power BI Desktop this past week, I've been really spending my extra time digging into the application focusing on learning and experimenting as much as I can. When my wife has been watching Law and Order: SVU reruns at night after the rug rats are in bed, I've been right there next to her designing Power BI dashboards like the total data nerd that I am. When my kids have been taking their naps during the weekend, I've been writing calculations in the model for my test dashboards. Or when I've been riding in the car back and forth to work I've been thinking of new things to do with Power BI Desktop.
Since I've been spending a decent amount of time with Power BI Desktop, I thought I'd take a moment to share three things to know and remember when designing your Power BI models and dashboards that I think will help you make the most of this tool and be effective at providing the data your business needs to succeed.
It probably hasn't taken you long to figure this one out if you've built Power Pivot/Tabular models or at least it won't when you do start developing Power BI dashboards. The visualizations in Power BI and Power View are heavily meta-data driven which means that column names, table or query names, formatting and more are surfaced to the user in the dashboard. So if you using a really whacky naming convention in your data warehouse for your tables like "dim_Product_scd2_v2" and the column names aren't much better, these naming conventions are going to be shown to the users in the report visualizations and field list.
For example, take a look at the following report.
Notice anything wonky about it? Check the field names, report titles and number formatting. Not very pretty, is it? Now take a look at this report.
See the difference a little cleaned up metadata makes? All I did was spend a few minutes giving the fields user-friendly name and formatting the data types. This obviously makes a huge difference in the way the dashboard appears to the users. By the way, I should get into the movie production business. ;)
My point is that the names of columns, formatting, data types, data categories and relationships are all super important to creating clean, meaningful and user friendly dashboards. The importance of a well-defined semantic model cannot be understated in my opinion. A good rule of thumb is to spend 80% to 90% of your time on the data model (besides, designing the reports is the easy part).
I'd also like the mention the importance of the relationships between the objects in the semantic model. Chance are you will have a small group of power users that will want to design their own dashboards to meet their job's requirements and that's one of the beauties of Power BI. But when users began developing reports, they may query your model in unexpected ways that will generate unexpected behaviors and results. I only want to mention this because the relationships between the objects in the model will impact the results your users will see in their reports. Double check your relationships and ensure that they are correct, especially after you add new objects to the model since the
Power BI Fantasy Football Player Stats Dashboards for Download
Every year at Pragmatic Works some coworkers, including consultants, marketing staff, support team members, software development staff and project management, partake in a company fantasy football league. And with the recent release of the new Power BI Desktop, I thought what better way is there to prepare to completely annihilate my coworkers and friends in an imaginary nonsensical game than by creating some nifty Power BI dashboards based on last years player stats as recorded by Yahoo! Sports. So I thought I'd walk you through some of the steps I followed to leverage the Yahoo! Sports NFL player stats page as a data source and some of the query transformations I applied to prepare the data for reporting.
If you're completed new to Power BI Desktop I highly suggest you watch my video walkthrough of Power BI Desktop or read my blog post which walks you through each step of creating your first Power BI dashboards with Power BI Desktop. Last Friday, I also blogged about my three best practices for designing a killer Power BI solution, so take a look at that.
To create these dashboards, I simply navigated to the Yahoo! Sports NFL stats page and found the page for each position I'm interested in for this fantasy football season. I copied the URL to my clipboard. In Power BI Desktop, click Get Data and then use the Web data source option. Then all you have to do is copy and paste the URL into the text box and click OK.
Then select the HTML table that contains your data and click Edit. We need to edit our query because there are some issues with the data. By clicking Edit, we can apply transformations to our query which will allow us to do things like rename columns, remove unwanted columns, modify data types, create custom columns and much more.
One thing you'll notice in the above screen grab is that the column names are in the first row, so we need to fix that.
On the Home ribbon of the Query Editor, just click the Use First Row As Headers button. Pre
Power BI Tip: Use the Treemap Chart as a Colorful Slicer
Power BI Desktop has been out for GA for over a week now and some of the pro's out there have come up with some pretty cool tricks. For instance:
But if you're looking for a way to spice up you report filtering with a little color, try using the Treemap chart as a Slicer for those fields that only contain a few unique values. At this point with Power BI, you don't have any customization options for the Slicer visualization (although I'm sure that is coming down the pipe in a future release). This option won't work terribly well if the field you would like to use as a slicer has more than a dozen or so unique members, but you can experiment with it and see what you can come up with. Here's my Treemap Slicer in action.
To multi-select tiles in the Treemap slicer, just hold Cntrl as you click. To reselect
This little trick relies on the natural cross filtering between data regions in the Power BI dashboards. First I created a measure that calculates the distinct count of the field that I wish to use as my slicer. In this case the field is Genre.
Then I added a Treemap chart to the report using the field Genre as the Group value and the measure Distinct Count Genre as the Values.
Then just resize the Treemap visualization so that the squares are about evenly sized. There's a few ways you can arrange it, but just play around with it and see what you can come up with.
What do you think? Leave me a comment below and let me know. Or if you've got a neat Power BI trick you'd like to share, let me know, as well. I love to hear new ideas! Thanks for reading!
Importing Excel Power View Dashboards into Power BI
If your organization is now a Power BI customer, congratulations. You're now ready to create some very cool dashboards, integrate disparate and disconnected data sources and take advantage of Power BI's ability to modify and transform your data, build interactive and dynamic dashboards and then share them with your team and organization. But until you create your dashboards to take advantage of the new visualization types and other improvements, you can easily import any existing Power View sheets in Excel into your Power BI site.
Above you'll see an example of a Power View dashboard that I will import into my Power BI site.
To import Power View sheets into Power BI, navigate to your team's Power BI site and click the Get Data button at the bottom left.
Then select where your data exists. In my case, I have my Power View reports in Excel saved in my One Drive folder so I'll select Files.
You'll have to log into your One Drive account. Once you've done that, just navigate to where your Excel file is and then click Connect.
After the import is complete, you'll see your new Report and Dataset on the left in your My Workspace explorer. Open the new Report based on your Power View sheet. Now I can browse and interact with my Power View dashboard within my Power BI site.
I can also pin visualization from my Power View report to a Power BI dashboard with other visualizations.
And now that we have our Power View report imported and pinned to a dashboard can use Q&A to quickly generate visualizations using the imported data set.
Pretty cool stuff! It's nice to know that I can easily jump from my legacy Power View dashboards to the new Power BI.
It's important to not that in order to import Excel workbooks into your Pow
#PowerBI and #SSAS Tabular: A Natural Fit with the Power BI SSAS Connector
In late June last month, the Microsoft Power BI team released the Microsoft Power BI Analysis Services Connector. The Power BI SSAS Connector allows your deployed Power BI reports to utilize your on-prem SSAS data sources. It's super easy to set up and can be downloaded for free! And I who doesn't love "free"?
One of the advantages to using Power BI is that the tool has the ability to connect to an incredibly wide variety of data sources including SQL Server Analysis Services instances. With that in mind, what's the purpose of using the Power BI SSAS Connector? Why not just load our SSAS data into our Power BI semantic model like we do with our Access, Excel, CSV and web data and then schedule the Power BI semantic model to refresh? And that's a good question.
First of all by utilizing the Power BI SSAS connector, we are granted a live connection to our SSAS instance. What this means is that every time a user interacts with a filter, slicer, chart or other data visualization, Power BI quickly generates a DAX query behind the scenes which is sent to your on-prem SSAS Tabular model. Now currently Power BI users are restricted to how often data sources are refreshed. If you're a free Power BI user you're limited to one data refresh per day and if you're a Power BI Pro user you're limited to Hourly data refreshes. By leveraging the live to connection to your SSAS Tabular instance, you can update the data in your Tabular model as often as you are able.
Because the Power BI SSAS Connector allows you to have a live connection to your SSAS Tabular model, this also means that your users experience less latency between updates to their data. Without the live connection to SSAS, each day the users would have to wait for the SSAS Tabular model to be processed and then for the Power BI semantic model to be refreshed. With the live connection, as soon as the Tabular model has finished processing, the Power BI users have access to the most current data instantly. Data is available to your users with potentially much less time between data refreshes.
Currently, the Power BI SSAS Connector only supports live connections to SSAS Tabular instances, although I would expect a future update to support live connections to SSAS multidimensional cubes.
Currently Power BI semantic models are restricted by a data capacity limit. If you're a free Power BI user you're limited to 1 GB per/user and if you're a Power BI Pro user you're limited 10 GB/user. This can be a
Twitter Analysis with #PowerBI & Plus One
Earlier this week Christopher Finlan put together this awesome Datazen dashboard using Plus One. Christopher has been doing a lot of cool things with Datazen so I recommend that you do like I did and subscribe to his blog. But Christopher's cool work with Plus One inspired me to create my own Social Media dashboard using Plus One, as well.
Plus One has created this nifty little desktop application that you can download and install on your computer. Once you've set the app up, all you need to do is enter a search query. In my case, I wanted to see what people were doing and saying with Power BI on Twitter. Plus One can only recover the previous seven days of data, so you'll need to periodically refresh your search or schedule the search, which you can do easily with the Plus One application.
After running the search, the results of your query are saved in an Access database on your machine in the folder C:\Users\username\Documents\Plus One Social. And then all you have to do is use Power BI Desktop to suck the data into your Power BI semantic model and then start building some awesome dashboards.
Here's the report and dashboard I created in Power BI. I haven't scheduled the Plus One application to refresh the data so I don't have any trend reports yet, but I did create some snapshot visualizations to gain insights into who is talking about Power BI and in what context by analyzing the accompanying hash tags. Pretty cool stuff!
Here's the resources:
Leave your feedback down below! I'd love to see what kind of dashboards you can come up with using Plus One so feel free to leave a comment and a link to your blog, as well!
Cleaning Your #PowerBI Power Query Code
Over the weekend I found this nifty tool called Power Query Management Studio. Someone shared it on Twitter and you've probably seen the link to download the tool on technet. Basically this tool is a fancy Excel workbook that allows you to easily clean up your Power Query code and insert it back into your Excel workbook or Power BI semantic model. It's pretty nifty and easy to use so I figured I'd give you a quick run down on using it to clean up my Power Query code in my Fantasy Football & NFL stats Power BI model, which you can download here.
To begin using the Power Query Management Studio, download it here.
I want to use this tool to clean up my Power Query code in my Power BI model, so the first thing I'll do is open my Power BI model in Power BI Desktop. Next, we need to capture my Power Query queries so to do this I'll click the smiley face icon at the very top of Power BI Desktop and click Send Frown.
A little Send Feedback dialogue box will pop up. Uncheck the Include Screenshot (since we really don't care about that) and leave the Include Formulas box checked. This will allow us to see the Power Query queries. Click OK.
When you click OK, this will open up an email for you that will include your Power Query queries in the body of the email. The code is broken up by queries seperated by semicolons so you can easily see each query.
I copied everything below the line "section Section1;". Once you've copied that code to your clipboard, open the Power Query Management Studio Excel workbook. Clear the sheet called CodePaste (but don't delete the table) and paste your Power Query queries into the table like so. Then click the Refresh All button up top in the Data ribbon of Excel.
After a few moments, the Excel workbook will have completed its magic. There's a few sheets in the workbook I'll point out that you'll find useful.
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Here's the New #Excel 2016 Chart Types!
The Office 2016 Public Preview is now available for download! Included in the preview of Excel 2016 are a handful of new chart types and since I'm a huge fan of awesome data visualizations, I thought I'd take a few moments to play around with them and share my experience with you so you can have a better idea of what to expect in the next version of Excel. But to be honest, if you're a data & visualizations nerd like me, you're probably pretty excited!
Now one thing to be aware of with these new chart types is that if you attempt to create this chart on top of some data in a pivot table, you'll get a warning like the one seen here. In order to use these charts, you'll need to create them on top of data that is not in a pivot table (at least for the time being).
The Box & Whisker chart is a really nice visualization for getting a quick look at the distribution of data including outliers, mean, range and quartiles, for example. In the below chart, I pulled in some data from NFL.com with Power Query and performed some analysis on the yards per game for the top four running backs from last season.
You also have control over the chart formatting through some options specific to the Box & Whisker chart type.
The Waterfall Chart was just added to Power BI so you've probably already had a look at that visualization. The neat thing about Waterfall chart is that it allows us to see how the small pieces of a whole contribute to the total. For instance, below I have a Waterfall chart that shows the play stats from the New England Patriots first drive in their conference championship game against the Indianapolis Colts which resulted in a touchdown. Using this chart I can see how each play in the drive led to the total yards gained on the play. Pretty cool!
A Waterfall chart could be really useful for monitoring changes in inventory or for viewing balance sheet data.
The Sunburst chart is good for viewing hierarchical data. So if you wanted to view how individual accounts contribute to their parent accounts in a balance sheet, the Sunburst chart could be a really interesting way to visualize that type of data.
Here I'm using the Sunburst chart to analyze the receivers of a few different teams by player and position.
Refreshing Excel Power Query & Pivot Tables with SSIS and Task Factory
With SSIS 2014 and earlier there is currently not native way to refresh an Excel workbook which include Power Query queries. Now that functionality is rumored to be included with SQL Server 2016 but if you're currently running SQL Server 2014 or 2012 you are out of luck. But that's why Pragmatic Works put together the Excel Power Refresh component for SSIS.
Configuring the Excel Power Refresh Task is pretty straightforward. There's not a lot of complexity to this component, which is a good thing.
First create a Connection Manager to your Excel 2013 file that includes your Power Query queries. In my case I have an Excel workbook that has some Power Query queries that query NFL.com for some data that I used for a blog post on the new Excel 2016 chart types.
Once you create your connection to the Excel file, use the Data Connections and Pivot Table Sheets to select the queries and pivot table sheets that you wish to refresh.
And now I can schedule the refresh of any Power Query data connections or Pivot Tables with SSIS.
Very cool!
Download the free trial of Task Factory here.
If you have any questions or would like some more information on Task Factory, feel free to send me an email or leave a comment below. Thanks!
Power BI Tip: Use a Scatter Chart to Create a Calendar Report
The Scatter Chart in Power BI and Excel is very useful chart for visualizing three different metrics in tandem. But with a little bit of work you can use a Scatter Chart to create a Calendar chart for visualizing your metrics across the days of an individual month.
New to Power BI Desktop? Start here!
To configure a Scatter Chart too mimic a Calendar type report, you need the follow:
1) An attribute for the day number of the week (1,2,3,4,5,6,7).
2) An attribute for the day number of the month (1,2,3…29,30,31).
2) An attribute for the week number of the month (1,2,3,4,5,6).
3) An attribute for sorting the week numbers in reverse order.
4) A business metric you wish to represent in the report.
Most of these items you can get from a traditional date dimension. In this example, I'm utilizing the Adventure Works DW database which has a date dimension table.
To set up the Scatter chart correctly, configure the visualization as seen in this screen shot from Power BI Desktop.
I want to point out a couple things here. First, you can optionally add a field to the Legend to differentiate between the weekend and weekdays or to identify holidays, as seen below.
Secondly, in order to display the Calendar in the correct order, we actually need to reverse the order to the Week numbers so that the first week of the month is numerically higher than the last week of the month. To do this I used a TSQL Case statement to populate the new column in the Adventure Works Date dimension table:
[WeekNumberOfMonth] AS
[WeekNumberOfMonthReverse] AS
(case (datepart(week,[FullDateAlternateKey])-datepart(week,dateadd(month,datediff(month,(0),[FullDateAlternateKey]),(0))))+(1)
when (1) then (6)
when (2) then (5)
when (3) the
Setting Up an HDInsight Cluster (No Scripts Required)
Let me start by saying, I am not a fan of scripting. It definitely has its place and a lot of my peers really like it. It is the easiest way to get functionality out from software vendors such as Microsoft. PowerShell is an incredibly powerful tool which can do just about anything. However, therein lies the problem for me. Scripting solves a lot of problems, however, I just wanted to set up and use a basic HDInsight cluster to create some Power BI demos (posts coming soon). So I started the journey to find the scripts and try to understand the syntax and so on. Then I went to the Azure Portal, here is what I did to set up my cluster and load data with no scripting required. My goal was to go to get a working demo platform up. Would I necessarily recommend this path for production work, not sure yet. But now I can work with HDInsight with considerably less work required to set up the environment.
You need an Azure account. You can go to http://azure.microsoft.com to sign up for a free account if you like. If you have an MSDN subscription you should have some time available as well.
Once you have your account created, you should go to http://portal.azure.com. We will be doing our setup from here. During the process we will be creating a storage account (if this is your first run in azure, you may choose to set up a Resource Group as well) and the HDInsight cluster. Be aware that the cluster has compute costs and the storage has storage costs. At the end we will remove the cluster to save your compute time.
This step can be done during the HDInsight cluster creation, but this limits your ability to share data across clusters. If you are just trying it for fun, you can do this during the cluster set up.
Click the + symbol on the portal, then Data + Storage, then Storage Account. This will open a blade with the set up instructions for a storage account.
When you create your account you will have some options to fill in:
Click Create and it will create your storage account. This may take a few minutes. The notifications section on the portal will alert you when this has been completed. Once that is complete, we will continue with setting up the cluster.
Uploading Files to an HDInsight Cluster (No Scripting Required)
As I noted in my first post, I am not a fan of scripting. In that post we set up a cluster without using scripts to do so. Now we are going to look at how to upload files without scripts. While this will work for our demo and learning purposes, I would encourage you to use scripting to handle production level loads or even if you want to upload a lot of files. While I am not a fan, it does not mean the scripting may not be a better overall tool. However, when I am trying to learn the functionality or work with system using other tools (in this case Power BI), I find that methods such as these help me be more productive sooner.
A key difference between standard Hadoop and HDInsight is file management. With HDInsight, you can load files into Azure Storage and they can be consumed by the HDInsight cluster. Keeping with the No Scripting Required mantra, we will be using a graphical interface to load files into Azure storage. There are a number of options out there, you need one of them installed. For our example, we will be using the freeware version of CloudBerry Explorer for Azure Blob Storage. Once you have your tool of choice installed you are ready to get some files.
At this point, you need some files to load. I am using some data I created for another demo. My data is in 7 files of daily receipts for my restaurant for a week in March. Once you have the data, we can load that into the cluster.
A noted above, the next steps for use will use CloudBerry Explorer to load our data. In this case, I just copied the folder with my files over to the Azure Storage once I connected the tool to Azure.
Once that is done, we will look at working with the data in Hadoop and with Hive.
You can create two types of tables using Hive – internal and external. An internal table loads the data into a Hive database. An external table applies a schema to the data without moving it. I will be creating an external table. I like this concept because it applies schema to the files that have been uploaded and allows other tools to interact with that data using HiveQL. When you drop an external table, the data remains because the table represents structure only.
In order to help everyone through this (in particular me), the next sections walk through the steps I took to create my table and select data from it. (This is not a detailed look at Hive, but rather a focus on the process of making HDInsight data available using HiveQL.)
The first step was to document the structure of the data in the files. Here is the data that I had in each of the files in column order:
My structure was fairly simplistic. Each file represented a day.
Now that I had the structure, I needed to work out the table DDL. (Reference: htt
Using Power BI with HDInsight Part 1: Power Query and Files
With the rise of HDInsight and other Hadoop based tools, it is valuable to understand how Power BI can help you take advantage of those big data investments. If you need to set up a cluster to work with, check out my previous posts on Setting Up an HDInsight Cluster and Loading Data Into Your New HDInsight Cluster. These posts show how to do this with no scripting required. If you prefer to script, there are a number of resources with sample scripts on doing the same work.
In this article, I will focus on using Power Query to get data from the Hadoop file structure in HDInsight. I will be using Excel 2013 with the Power Query Add-In. I will also be using the restaurant data I loaded as noted in the three previous posts. If you need to create a cluster and load data I encourage you to check the following blog posts:
These posts walk through the process of creating a cluster and loading up data.
First, open a new Excel workbook and click the Power Query tab. Once there, you can find the Azure HDInsight source in the From Other Sources dropdown. Select that option to open the following dialog:
You will need your storage account in order to continue. Then you will need the storage account key. Once you have added the key you will see that the Navigator opened in Excel on the right.
It should show the name of your cluster and the default container name. Double click the container name and it will open the Power Query window. It will show all the files available in the container. Even though we have it organized in folders, the view shows all the files. If you have a large amount of files and you don't want to scroll to find them, you can click the down arrow on the Folder Path column and use the text filter to find the folder you are looking for.
Now I have the files I want to use in Power Query. If you click the binary link it will open a copy of the file. However, this is not how we want to work with the data as we have multiple files. (If you did this, remove steps up to the Filtered Rows step in the Applied Steps section.) I now have the files I uploaded showing.
In order to work with them all together we need to Combine Binaries.


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The Scheme of the Universe [18]
Astrologers are, by nature, vertical thinkers. Vertical thinking adds another dimension to the more familiar horizontal thinking which is so favoured in our western educational system and culture. It enables us to identify the sympathetic correspondences which exist between various different fields of resonance. Seemingly unrelated objects and events immediately fall into a living relationship with each other, making connections which often explain the way we have instinctively felt about the world.
Have a look at the table of Planetary Correspondences. Find the Plant World category on the left hand side of each page and read horizontally across the five pages. Now, most people will immediately see the connection between marigolds and cauliflowers, medicinal herbs, cultivated crops, nettles, onions, maple trees, hemlock and orchids, wouldn't they? They all belong to the Plant World category which is familiar to us. Equally, if you follow the Mineral World category horizontally, you will find gold, silver, mercury, copper, iron, tin, lead, etc. The connection is obvious.
Now let's look at the same chart vertically. Now we are identifying the sympathetic correspondences which exist between the various different fields of resonance. Starting at the foot of the Sun column, the Sun resonates to the mineral gold and to the colour gold. Moving up to the plant world the solar plants are marigolds and sunflowers, which are heliotropic, following the Sun's path during the day. The orange is a solar fruit, and it follows that eating oranges will increase your vitality, or solar energy. These correspondences are central to the traditions of herbal medicine and healing, and if you can find an original copy of Culpeper's Herbal, you will find lists of herbs and plants relating to the various planets. In holistic healing practices these correspondences are real, and not just symbolic. In the animal world, the lion is a solar creature, the 'golden maned' lion, the 'pride' of lions. The regal nature of the lion corresponds to the solar principle. One level up again, we see that the Sun rules the heart, the back and the spinal column, which is also associated with pride and with holding one's head high, another solar correspondence.
Moving up another level, each planet rules groups or types of people. As the masculine principle, the Sun rules men in general, royalty, film stars and anyone at the centre of attention, a reflection of the fact that the Sun is at the centre of our solar system. The solar function is visibility, to shine boldly and brightly and to draw attention. Additionally, solar professions such as a goldsmith belong in this category. Each planet also rules a particular aspect of the mundane world - mundus meaning world. The Sun rules palaces and theatres, buildings which are designed to reflect the glory of the central players, whose function is to bask in the limelight.
One of the main goals of this term is to start building a planetary vocabulary, since there are many words and other associations for each of the planets right through the different levels. As we have seen, the solar principle describes lions, palaces, gold, Sunflowers and kings, but it also describes psychological qualities of confidence, enthusiasm and radiance. It is the symbol for spirit, it is about focus, daylight, clarity and authority. Exactly the same kinds of connections exist for all the planets, and as we explore each of the planets it is worth referring to this chart for the various associations at different levels, so that you can begin to build a rich and comprehensive vocabulary around each of them.
Audience: What should we read to prepare for next week?
Clare: Well, we have been doing the basics today, and I would really like you to learn the order of the planets, their orbit times, and the planetary symbols. Test yourself and write the planetary symbols whenever you have a few moments. This is a very good way to start making your own unique relationship with the planets.
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Carol Petraitis, an instructional assistant at Calvert Country School, on Dares Beach Road in Prince Frederick, Md., knew creating books about her students was an interactive way to get their creative minds flowing.
With some encouragement from colleagues, Petraitis published one of her books on Amazon and is donating proceeds to The Autism Project, a nonprofit program located in Owings.
"It wasn't meant to be a professional thing; it was just something we wanted to do," Petraitis said of herself and colleague Candice Sison, who illustrated the book, adding the book is "really just a cute little story."
This past summer, when Petraitis was talking to her students about the 17-year return of the cicadas, winged insects that live most of their life underground, most did not know what a cicada was. In an effort to educate her students in a fun and interactive way, Petraitis wrote a story about cicadas, with her students' names included in the pages, and read it to the class.
"Cindy the Cicada" is "an informative little story" about one cicada's journey to find a mate and a home to lay her eggs, Petraitis said.
Along with Sison, Petraitis wrote the story based on the life cycle of a cicada. The goal of the book was to hone their students' "tremendous imaginations," involve them in the story and make learning fun, Sison said.
As Sison and Petraitis re-read the story in December to students Cameron Vinson, 10, Noah Wainwright, 9, and Dorian Sprague, 7, Cameron wasn't ready for the story to end.
"I want a sequel," Cameron said, adding that he wanted to know what was going to happen to Cindy next.
Students like Petraitis' and Sison's who are in structured learning environments, classroom settings for students with special needs, benefit from having stories read to them over and over again, in addition to hearing their own names, which directly involve them in the story. Sison said the repetition helps the students retain the information. Petraitis has seen this technique work before with two other books she wrote for her students — one about the seven continents, and one about the planets.
"I just love … to see those small milestones," Petraitis said. "If it takes a story with a couple of pictures [for that to happen], I'm more than happy to do it."
Petraitis said she went to another publishing company that wanted $3,395 to publish the small book, which neither Petraitis nor Sison wanted to do. When Petraitis went to Amazon, the company only asked for $700. The book was published in October.
"I paid for it to be published and wanted to give something back to The Autism Project," Petraitis said, adding that the whole experience was "so nice."
The book is available on Amazon.com for $8.99 in paperback and $4.99 for Kindle use.
Sison and Petraitis have been instructional assistants at Calvert Country School for three years. Both plan to write more books together to use in the classroom.


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'My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.'
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (35th President), 1961-1963. President Kennedy, nicknamed JFK or Jack, was assassinated on 22 November 1963 in Dallas.
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Types of Composting
Types of Composting
- Vermicomposting
- Aerated (Turned) Windrow Composting
- Aerated Static Pile Composting
- In-Vessel Composting
Composting Resources
Backyard or Onsite Composting
Backyard or onsite composting can be conducted by residents and other small-quantity generators of organic waste on their own property. By composting these materials onsite, homeowners and select businesses can significantly reduce the amount of waste that needs to be disposed of and thereby save money from avoided disposal costs. Learn how to create your own compost pile.
- Types of Waste and Waste Generators: Backyard or onsite composting is suitable for converting yard trimmings and food scraps into compost that can be applied on site. This method should not be used to compost animal products or large quantities of food scraps. Households, commercial establishments, and institutions (e.g., universities, schools, hospitals) can leave grass clippings on the lawn-known as "grasscycling"-where the cuttings will decompose naturally and return some nutrients back to the soil. Backyard or onsite composters also might keep leaves in piles for eventual use as mulch around trees and scrubs to retain moisture.
- Climate or Seasonal Considerations: Climate and seasonal variations do not present major challenges to backyard or onsite composting because this method typically involves small quantities of organic waste. When conditions change-for example, if a rainy season approaches-the process can be adjusted accordingly without many complications.
- Environmental Concerns: Improper management of food scraps can cause odors and also might attract unwanted attention from insects or animals.
- Requirements: Backyard or onsite composting requires very little time or equipment. Education is the most critical aspect of backyard or onsite composting. Local communities might hold composting demonstrations and seminars to encourage homeowners or businesses to compost on their own properties.
- Results: The conversion of organic material to compost can take up to two years, but manual turning can hasten the process considerably (e.g., 3 to 6 months). The resulting natural fertilizer can be applied to lawns and gardens to help condition the soil and replenish nutrients. Compost, however, should not be used as potting soil for houseplants because of the presence of weed and grass seeds.
Through this method, red worms-not nightcrawlers or field worms found in gardens- are placed in bins with organic matter in order to break it down into a high-value compost called castings. Worm bins are easy to construct (they are also commercially available) and can be adapted to accommodate the volume of food scraps generated.
- Types of Waste and Waste Generators: Worms will eat almost anything you would put in a typical compost pile (e.g., food scraps, paper, plants). Vermicomposting can be ideal for apartment dwellers or small offices that want to derive some of the benefits of composting and reduce solid waste. It is frequently used in schools to teach children conservation and recycling.
- Climate or Seasonal Considerations: Worms are sensitive to variations in climate. Extreme temperatures and direct sunlight are not healthy for the worms. The optimal temperatures for vermicomposting range from 55° F to 77° F. In hot, arid areas, the bin should be placed under the shade. By vermicomposting indoors, however, one can avoid many of the problems posed by hot or cold climates. The primary responsibility is to keep the worms alive and healthy by providing the proper conditions and sufficient food.
- Requirements: Vermicomposting has only a few basic requirements, among them: worms, worm bedding (e.g., shredded newspaper, cardboard), and a bin to contain the worms and organic matter. Maintenance procedures include preparing bedding, burying garbage, and separating worms from their castings.
- Results: One pound of mature worms (approximately 800-1,000 worms) can eat up to half a pound of organic material per day. It typically takes three to four months for these worms to produce harvestable castings, which can be used as potting soil. Vermicomposting also produces compost or "worm" tea, a high-quality liquid fertilizer for house plants or gardens.
Aerated (Turned) Windrow Composting
Organic waste is formed into rows of long piles called "windrows" and aerated by turning the pile periodically by either manual or mechanical means. The ideal pile height, which is between 4 and 8 feet, allows for a pile large enough to generate sufficient heat and maintain temperatures, yet small enough to allow oxygen to flow to the windrow's core. The ideal pile width is between 14 and 16 feet.
- Types of Waste and Waste Generators: This method can accommodate large volumes of diverse wastes, including yard trimmings, grease, liquids, and animal byproducts (such as fish and poultry wastes), but only with frequent turning and careful monitoring. This method is suited for large quantities, such as that generated by entire communities and collected by local governments, and high volume food-processing businesses (e.g., restaurants, cafeterias, packing plants).
- Climate or Seasonal Considerations: In a warm, arid climate, windrows are sometimes covered or placed under a shelter to prevent water from evaporating. In rainy seasons, the shapes of the pile can be adjusted so that water runs off the top of the pile rather than being absorbed into the pile. Also, windrow composting can work in cold climates. Often the outside of the pile might freeze, but in its core, a windrow can reach 140° F.
- Environmental Concerns: Leachate is liquid released during the composting process. This can contaminate local ground-water and surface-water supplies and should be collected and treated. In addition, windrow composting is a large scale operation and might be subject to regulatory enforcement. Samples of the compost should be tested in a laboratory for bacterial and heavy metal content. Odors also need to be controlled. The public should be informed of the operation and have a method to address any complaints about animals or bad odors. Other concerns might include zoning and siting requirements.
- Requirements: Windrow composting often requires large tracts of land, sturdy equipment, a continual supply of labor to maintain and operate the facility, and patience to experiment with various materials mixtures and turning frequencies.
- Results: This method will yield significant amounts of compost, which might require assistance to market the end-product. Alternatively, local governments can make the compost available to residents for a low or no cost.
Aerated Static Pile Composting
In aerated static pile composting, organic waste is mixed together in one large pile instead of rows. To aerate the pile, layers of loosely piled bulking agents (e.g., wood chips, shredded newspaper) are added so that air can pass from the bottom to the top of the pile. The piles also can be placed over a network of pipes that deliver air into or draw air out of the pile. Air blowers might be activated by a timer or a temperature sensors.
- Types of Waste and Waste Generators: Aerated static piles are suitable for a relatively homogenous mix of organic waste and work well for larger quantity generators of yard trimmings and compostable municipal solid waste (e.g., food scraps, paper products), which might include local governments, landscapers, or farms. This method, however, does not work well for composting animal byproducts or grease from food processing industries.
- Climate or Seasonal Considerations: Like windrow composting, in a warm, arid climate, aerated static piles are sometimes covered or placed under a shelter to prevent water from evaporating. In the cold, the core of the pile will retain its warm temperature, but aeration might be more difficult in the cold because this method involves passive air flowing rather than active turning. Some aerated static piles are placed indoors with proper ventilation.
- Environmental Concerns: Since there is no physical turning, this method requires careful monitoring to ensure that the outside of the pile heats up as much as the core. One way to alleviate bad odors is to apply a thick layer of finished compost over the pile, which can help maintain high temperatures throughout the pile. Another way to deal with odor, provided that the air blower draws air out of the pile, is to filter this air through a biofilter made from finished compost.
- Requirements: This method typically requires equipment such as blowers, pipes, sensors, and fans, which might involve significant costs and technical assistance. Having a controlled supply of air enables construction of large piles, which require less land than the windrow method.
- Results: This method produces compost relatively quickly-within 3 to 6 months.
In-Vessel Composting
Organic materials are fed into a drum, silo, concrete-lined trench, or similar equipment where the environmental conditions-including temperature, moisture, and aeration-are closely controlled. The apparatus usually has a mechanism to turn or agitate the material for proper aeration. In-vessel composters vary in size and capacity.
- Types of Waste and Waste Generators: In-vessel composting can process large amounts of waste without taking up as much space as the windrow method. In addition, it can accommodate virtually any type of organic waste (e.g., meat, animal manure, biosolids, food scraps). Some in-vessel composters can fit into a school or restaurant kitchen while others can be as large as a school bus to accommodate large food processing plants.
- Climate or Seasonal Considerations: In-vessel composting can be used year-round in virtually any climate because the environment is carefully controlled, often by electronic means. This method can even be used in extremely cold weather if the equipment is insulated or the processing takes place indoors.
- Environmental Concerns: In-vessel composting produces very little odor and minimal leachate.
- Requirements: In-vessel composters are expensive and might require technical assistance to operate properly, but this method uses much less land and manual labor than windrow composting.
- Results: Conversion of organic material to compost can take as little as a few weeks. Once the compost comes out of the vessel, however, it still requires a few more weeks or months for the microbial activity to stabilize and the pile to cool.


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The Greater Seattle Aquarium Society (GSAS) is pleased to sponsor a free lecture on Nano tanks and Aquascaping by Karen Randall. Karen grew up with aquariums as a child. While experienced in many facets of the aquarium hobby, as an adult her focus turned to a concentration in planted display aquariums and the study and propagation of aquatic plants. Her articles and photography have been published in six languages in 9 countries. For many years she authored the monthly column, "Sunken Gardens" in Aquarium Fish Magazine. She is an international speaker on aquarium subjects.
Karen is past president of the Boston Aquarium Society, and serves on the board of the Aquatic Gardeners Association. She was editor of the AGA magazine, The Aquatic Gardener for 5 years and is now technical editor of the magazine. She has served as a judge for both the AGA Aquascaping Contest and the Aqua Design Amano International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest since their inception. In 2010 she had the pleasure to serve as a speaker and jury member for the prestigious live international contest, "The Art of the Planted Aquarium" held in Hannover, Germany. She has also served as a consultant on several major projects at public aquaria.
She has traveled to South and Central America, Thailand and Taiwan as well as the southern part of the U.S. to study aquatic plants and biotopes in the wild. In Brazil she has assisted with Project Piaba, a conservation program in the Amazon centered on the aquarium fish trade. She regularly does programs on this topic for groups ranging from school children to garden clubs and church organizations.
Karen started a program a number of years ago to put aquariums in many classrooms in the local public elementary school. Now, with her own children grown, this program is still going strong. In 2003 she was awarded the Northeast Council of Aquarium Society's Betty Mueller Award; a life-time award for her outreach work and other contributions to the aquarium hobby.
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Inghams have launched their 2011/12 Ski & Snowboard brochure under the title 'The Skier's A-Z', with an unprecedented 56 new chalets and Chalet Hotels, 3 new resorts and huge new Inghams Plus savings of up to £600 per couple, including early booking Cash-Back offers, hotel discounts and upgrades, and savings on ski-packs, lift passes, tuition and ski hire
The thousands of savings across the ski programme, coupled with the new trebled range of catered chalet / Chalet Hotel accommodation and a revitalised new-look brochure, mark a quantum leap in Inghams 76 year history, at a time when value for money, exceptional service and snow-sure conditions are more important than ever in all skiers' minds.
Skiers and snowboarders can choose from 44 resorts in 4 different countries, with departures from Belfast International Airport to Innsbruck and Geneva along with 21 departures from UK airports.
Inghams CEO, Andy Perrin, commented on the new developments: "We recognise that times are still hard out there, and the new brochure responds to that overwhelmingly important current trend by going all out to give skiers outstanding value for money. The new chalets are a key part of this drive, with so much already included in the price, that any in-resort spend is kept to the barest minimum. Over £1 million of new 'Inghams Plus' deals also go a long way to ensure that Inghams guests now get fantastic value, as well as the first-class service for which the company is known."
Perrin noted the clear trend in the current tough economic times towards the unrivalled value for money provided by the quality catered chalet concept. With prices starting from just £535 including flights, transfers, and seven nights fully serviced and catered accommodation, Inghams' chalet and Chalet Hotel programme now encompasses 56 properties in 17 resorts, from small, traditional chalets sleeping six, to the new flagship ski-in/ski-out Chalet Hotel St Christoph, high in Austria's Arlberg ski area, for up to 136 guests, complete with swimming-pool, fireside lounge and bar. All offer high quality cuisine and service, including a full skiers' buffet breakfast, afternoon tea, and 4 or 5-course dinners with a choice of unrestricted complimentary wines, and tea/coffee to follow.
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Longtime Charles County government employee Roy E. Hancock will retire as deputy county administrator at the end of the year, prompting county commissioners and workers to gather at a presentation in his honor Tuesday morning in La Plata.
Hancock started his government career as an assistant county engineer in June 1973, soon after graduating from college, he said. In the late 1970s, with the formation of the Department of Public Works, he became chief of facilities, then the department's deputy director. In 1980, with the departure of future Maryland Del. Murray D. Levy, Hancock became director of public works, then took over the Department of Planning and Growth Management a decade later.
He was promoted to deputy county administrator in 2007 after serving a stint as acting county administrator after the departure of Administrator Eugene T. Lauer in 2005. In all, Hancock served three times as acting administrator, most recently since July, when a majority of the county commissioners fired then-Administrator Rebecca Bridgett. But he never aspired to hold the top post permanently, he said, because he came from a "technical background."
Hancock's retirement will come just two weeks after Mark J. Belton starts as the county's new administrator next Monday. The pair already have begun to work together so that Belton will know the ropes before Hancock's departure, including holding meetings with department heads, said county spokeswoman Crystal Hunt.
"I know that they're already in conversation with Roy, talking about things he'll need to be brought up to speed on. With that process, they're getting a jump on things," Hunt said.
Hancock, a Port Tobacco resident, will spend his retirement in Charles County, where he was born and raised, he said. He and his wife, Shirley, do plan to travel, first to Alaska, which he has long wanted to visit. He also plans to pursue some new hobbies, and "other than that, to keep an open agenda," he said.
"I've never been off for more than a week at a time. It will be a nice difference to see what it's like. I don't know if I'll enjoy it," he said.
Commissioners bathed Hancock in praise at their meeting Tuesday morning, winning two standing ovations from county staffers in the audience.
"I jokingly call him Charles County's version of Leon Panetta," said Commissioner Reuben B. Collins II (D). "If you're familiar with federal politics, [Defense Secretary] Leon Panetta is the go-to guy whenever there's a need for a new appointee for the United States, and that's how Roy has been. … In this very political world that we associate ourselves with in Charles County government, if you were to ask me, 'What is Roy's party affiliation?' I would have no clue. Roy has always maintained a neutrality, which is totally recognizable."
The board also presented Hancock with a proclamation from the state Senate and one of its own, in honor of his retirement.


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Ubud Hanging Gardens
Bali, Indonesia
Perched on a steep embankment next to terraced rice fields that overlook the lush Ayung river gorge, this Orient-Express hotel consists of 38 Balinese-style villas that appear to float down the hillside. Just as dramatic is its split-level infinity pool, designed by the French architect Gordon Shaw. Lined with Batu Chandi volcanic stone and consisting of geometric walls of solidified volcanic ash, the striking bi-level pool is suspended over a dense rainforest, with an undulating shape that echoes the surrounding terrain. ubudhanginggardens.com
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Santorini, Greece
Built in the traditional Cycladic style, with white-clay walls and a maze of staircases, wood bridges, and terraces, this picturesque Greek resort sits atop a cliff overlooking an extinct volcanic caldera. Despite its intimate size, the 27-room boutique property actually boasts two pools—a small cold-water option inside a cave, as well an extraordinary cobalt blue infinity pool featuring sweeping views of the azure waters of the Aegean Sea. katikieshotelsantorini.com
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Canyon Point, Utah
Tucked within a remote valley in the middle of the Four Corners—the area of the Southwest where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona all meet—the three-year-old Amangiri resort was designed to blend seamlessly into its breathtaking desert surroundings. Created by Adrian Zecha in collaboration with architects Marwan Al-Sayed, Wendell Burnette, and maestro of the desert Rick Joy, the 34-suite hotel abounds with awe-inspiring details, but perhaps the most impressive is the extraordinary swimming pool—built around a massive, 165-million-year-old Entrada sandstone rock escarpment, it snakes through the rugged terrain and is surrounded by luxurious king-size daybeds. amanresorts.com
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Villa d'Este
Lake Como, Italy
Few properties in the world possess the legacy and enchantment of Villa d'Este. Originally built as a private residence by Italian architect Pellegrino Pelligrini in 1568, the elegant Renaissance estate underwent multiple transformations before being turned into a hotel in 1873. Its famous floating pool was added by then-owner Marc Droulers in 1966. Supported by pontoons and surrounded by a wood sundeck, the classic rectangular pool juts out into the waters of Lake Como and has become an enduring symbol of la dolce vita. villadeste.it
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The Raleigh Hotel
Miami Beach, Florida
Created by prominent Miami architect L. Murray Dixon and made famous in a 1947 Life magazine article, this glamorous Art Deco–style pool has long been considered one of the most beautiful in the world. Although there have been many updates to the 104-room hotel over the years—most notably a recent refresh by AD100 interior designer Mark Cunningham—the swirling shape of the iconic watering hole has remained exactly the same. These days, the pool is flanked by a cascading waterfall, verdant tropical foliage, and the Royal, an intimate Italian restaurant. raleighhotel.com
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Qasr Al Sarab Resort by Anantara
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Water is a recurring theme throughout this sprawling 206-room desert resort, from the terra-cotta jars outside the entrance (traditionally provided by locals for travelers to quench their thirst) to the tranquil stream running through the arid grounds. Not surprisingly, then, the swirling free-form pool is one of the hotel's defining features—set among towering palm trees and otherworldly sand dunes, it is a true oasis. qasralsarab.anantara.com
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Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka'Upulehu
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Located on the exclusive Kona-Kohala coast of Hawaii's Big Island, this 32-acre resort is dotted with picturesque guest bungalows, white-sand beaches, and a championship golf course. The property also boasts seven swimming pools, including King's Pond, a 1.8-million-gallon natural one carved out of lava, which is home to more than 3,000 tropical fish. Subterranean channels fill the pond with ocean water that ebbs and flows with the tide, and snorkeling equipment is provided to guests. fourseasons.com
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The Ritz-Carlton
Hong Kong, China
Definitely not for those who suffer from vertigo, this rooftop infinity pool is perched on the top floor of the 118-story International Commerce Center. Part of the two-year-old hotel's spa complex, the indoor pool is noted for its sweeping views of Victoria Harbor and the Hong Kong skyline. Adding to the drama are 144 LED screens installed into the ceiling, reflecting colorful images onto the water below. The award-winning spa also houses cold and hot plunge pools, and—for those who truly aren't afraid of heights—an outdoor Jacuzzi. ritzcarlton.com
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Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc
Cap d'Antibes, France
For more than 140 years, this illustrious hotel—built in 1870 by Hippolyte de Villemessant, founder of the newspaper Le Figaro—has been a legendary playground for international royalty, politicians, artists, movie stars, and the literary elite. It wasn't until 1914, however, that the property added a saltwater pool, carved out of basalt rock and overlooking the Lérins Islands and the Mediterranean Sea. Surrounded by a massive sundeck and Art Deco–style railings that resemble those on cruise ships, the pool's saltwater is heated to a balmy 82.5 degrees Fahrenheit. hotel-du-cap-eden-roc.com
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Playa Vik José Ignacio
José Ignacio, Uruguay
This stunning, 19-room boutique hotel is renowned for its low-slung sculptural design, created by Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott in 2010. The 75-foot lap pool is made of indigenous black absolute nero granite, and cantilevers out over the beach below. At night, the pool's bottom is illuminated by a fiber-optic system that displays the celestial map of the southern hemisphere, which plays along the water's surface like hundreds of twinkling stars. vikretreats.com
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The Resort at Pelican Hill
Newport Beach, CA
Since opening in late 2008, Pelican Hill has quickly established itself as one of the premier vacation destinations in the U.S., highly regarded for its country club–caliber golf courses and pristine oceanfront setting. Inspired by the work of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, the elegant main hotel consists of classically designed porticoes, barrel-vaulted ceilings, fountain-filled courtyards, and graceful arches. At 136 feet in diameter, the Coliseum Pool—named after the curved shape of the historic Roman structure—is one of the largest circular pools in the world and serves as the centerpiece of the resort. Most dazzling of all is its sparkling blue bottom, the result of 1.1 million hand-laid glass mosaic tiles. pelicanhill.com
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Wildflower Hall
Shimla, India
Set within a dense cedar forest in the middle of the majestic Himalayas, the elegant 85-room Oberoi Resort soars 8,250 feet above sea level, with awe-inspiring views to match. One of the most exquisite spots on the 22-acre property is the ornate indoor swimming pool, with intricate blue mosaic tilework and crystal chandeliers hanging overhead. A glass conservatory and elegant, arched picture windows look out over the snowcapped mountaintops. oberoihotels.com
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Hotel Arts Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Built for the Summer Olympics in 1992, this 44-story glass-and-steel structure is the work of Colombian architect Bruce Graham, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Set on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, the pool is surrounded by gardens and offers guests the chance to sunbathe next to one of Barcelona's most famous pieces of contemporary public art—a monumental golden fish sculpture by Frank Gehry, which was also created for the '92 Games. hotelartsbarcelona.com
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The Beverly Hills Hotel
Beverly Hills, CA
A Hollywood star in its own right, the idyllic pool at the Pink Palace, as this beloved 100-year-old hotel is known, will forever be a place of myth and lore. Once frequented by stars like Rita Hayworth, Katharine Hepburn, and Dean Martin, it has set the scene for endless drama, both on and off the screen. The trademark green-and-white striped chaises and discreet cabanas still carry the same glamorous allure, and with the hotel in the midst of a thoughtful renovation by renowned hotel architect Adam Tihany, it's sure to continue to attract City of Angels power players for many years to come. beverlyhillshotel.com
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One&Only Reethi Rah
North Male Atoll, Maldives
Set on a private island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, this tropical paradise, which opened in 2005, consists of 130 intimate villas scattered across white-sand beaches and lushly landscaped grounds. The property showcases more than 50 different pools, including a gorgeous, adults-only lap pool that extends over 100 feet into the crystal-clear waters of a lagoon. Its carved-stone bed is the perfect place to relax and bask in the sun. reethirah.oneandonlyresorts.com
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Rosemont, PA & Drexel Hill, PA –Monsignor Bonner & Archbishop Prendergast Catholic High School started their college partnership program in the fall of 2012 and it has more than doubled since that time. The pioneers of the program are Chestnut Hill College and Neumann University. Enrollment in the classes that Chestnut Hill and Neumann offer on the Bonner & Prendergast campus has grown from seven students in a class to thirty in class. This fall, Rosemont College joined them to offer their students a college art program on Saturday mornings.
The focus of the partnerships is to allow the 97 percent of Bonner & Prendergast's student body that goes to college after graduation to get a jump start on their college career while they are still in high school, without having to leave their campus. This program is dual enrollment, which means that students receive both honors high school credit and college credits. Juniors and seniors may take up to six credits a semester and no more than fifteen credits per year (includes summer semester). Students can graduate with thirty college credits; this translates to quite a cost savings for the participating students.
According to Mrs. Diana Goggin, a parent of a Bonner & Prendergast student, "When the College Partnership Program began last year, I thought it would be a good alternative to my son having open periods at the end of every day. It turned out to be so much more than that. He entered college in the fall with 6 additional elective credits and with an idea of what college classes entail. In addition, he really enjoyed them! So this year, it was a given that my junior would take the classes as well. It is a huge benefit that Bonner & Prendie is affording our children and one which our parents and students should take advantage. The cost savings alone is wonderful!"
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Rosemont College: Karen Creely, Public Relations Manager, 610-527-0200 x2967, 484-433-3842 (cell).
Monsignor Bonner & Archbishop Prendergast Catholic High School: Tricia Scepansky, Director of Communications and Special Projects, 610-259-0280 x3221, 610-659-5961 (cell).


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The Cloister Beach Club is one of the accommodations in Sea Island. Georgia. Executive chef Kurtis Baguley of the resort provided this recipe to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. We made it, loved it and are sharing it with KosherEye readers. It is a chocoholic's dream, but certainly NOT Weight Watcher friendly. In moderation, y'all. This is a 5 star dessert from a 5 star resort!
1 cup roughly chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Arrange pecans on a rimmed baking sheet and bake 10 minutes or until just toasted, stirring occasionally.
While pecans are toasting, in a large saucepan, melt butter over low heat. Remove from heat. Stir in milk chocolate and semisweet chocolate and keep stirring until chocolate has completely melted.
To serve, top one or two scoops of ice cream with 1/4 cup warm topping. Garnish with whipped cream and a cherry and serve immediately. Any remaining topping will keep refrigerated for up to 2 weeks. Warm gently before reusing.
Makes: 2 1/2 cups
The decadence of the dairy butter is unbelievably delicious. However, to make this parve, simply substitute Earth Balance parve margarine and parve chocolate and serve it over parve ice cream.
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"I asked them, 'How do you spell my name?' because that's what everyone always asks me," said Muse-Ariyoh, a senior at Charles H. Flowers High School in Springdale.
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clear imitation vanilla extract
8 cups
confectioners' sugar
I recently tried the recipe for a wedding cake and it was positively wonderful. I used crisco and as recommended butter. The trick to not having greasy frosting is to whip the crisco and butter for at least 20 mins or until it is light and fluffy. I also added additional vanilla flavor and almond flavor for a richer taste. My recipe was modified to cover a cake that would serve 40 people. I had nothing but continous compliments and serveral request to make more cakes. Thanks Jeannie
I am SO glad I tried this before putting it on a wedding cake. AWFUL! Wouldn't make this tasteless stuff again.
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I used this (with a few alterations) to ice my parent's 50th wedding anniversary cake. I used salted butter and I also used evap. milk. I went with other suggestions to use less sugar (6 cups was best for our taste). This was so easy to make and it had wonderful buttercream flavor! Had enough to add raspberry glaze to it and made a raspberry buttercream filling for the French Vanilla anniversary cake. Was great for piping decorations and borders also. Highly recommended for those looking for a GREAT buttercream frosting!
I used this icing for my Mom's wedding cake this weekend, and everyone complimented on it. I took other reviewers advice and whipped the butter and shortening for 10 minutes, and it had none of the greasy taste of shortening. Also, if you use the butter flavored Crisco, the frosting will turn out very yellow-unsuitable for a wedding cake. I stopped at 4 cups of sugar for the main icing and then added one cup to the remining frosting for the piping. It tasted great, looked professional, and held up well at an outdoor wedding. If I even find myself doing another wedding cake (heaven forbid), I will use this recipe again.
I am also a big fan of Rick's Buttercream and use it as "my" frosting, but wanted to give this one a try. I was worried when mixing it up that it would be too soft for piping but it was fine. Note that this will yield more of an ivory frosting due to the butter, you won't get a pure white frosting. I definitely prefer the flavor of this frosting using butter as opposed to frosting in the Rick's Buttercream. I will use this one when I don't need it to be pure white.
Great frosting! I used about 6 cups of sugar instead of the 8 called for. And, I beat the shortening and butter for about 20 minutes before adding the other ingredients. It turned out great. Thanks.
This recipe is very similar to the one i use currently. I add a tsp of popcorn salt (or very fine salt) to take the sweetness off a bit. I also add an additional 4 cups of confesctioners sugar to stiffen it for piping decorations i.e. roses, leaves etc.
I picked this recipe because it seemed really easy to make and it was my first attempt at buttercream icing. The result was awesome!! Very easy to make and I received so many compliments! I had enough icing to cover a birthday cake and 20 cupcakes. I creamed the butter and shortening for 20 minutes like a previous reviewer suggested. I didn't use all the sugar that the recipe called for because when I got to 6 cups I stopped and did a taste test, perfect for my taste(20 servings). This recipe will be used over and over and over again. Thanks!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Wedding Cake Frosting
Serving Size: 1/20 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 20
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 370
Calories from Fat: 177
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