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Postgres Plus Cloud Database: EDB Launch Guide
Thank You for Purchasing Postgres Plus Cloud Database!
You have selected the most scalable and full-featured cloud database supporting the world's best ACID-compliant, open source based relational database.
Important: If you used the "Launch with EC2 Console" buttons on the Marketplace "Launch on EC2" page, the instance created DOES NOT provide the database functionality you purchased. It will self-terminate within an hour. Please follow the instructions below to correctly launch the Postgres Plus Cloud Database. These instructions will ensure that your Postgres Plus Cloud Database account is set up to deploy high-performance database clusters successfully. If you have any difficulty, please call our support organization at +1-732-331-1320 or 1-800-235-5891 (US only) for assistance.
Please make sure the person who made this purchase in the Amazon Marketplace (the AWS account holder) has completed the EnterpriseDB Support Activation Form.
How to Launch Postgres Plus Cloud Database
This guide presents the steps required to launch EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Cloud Database. Completing these steps should take about ten to twenty minutes. Once you've completed them, you will have created an elastic high availability Postgres database cluster in the cloud.
There are two versions of Postgres Plus Cloud Database:
· Postgres Plus Cloud Database Basic – Choose this to use the community PostgreSQL database
· Postgres Plus Cloud Database Advanced – Choose this to use EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server with Oracle Compatibility and enhanced security, performance, and manageability
If you need help deciding which of these versions is right for you, please see our Postgres Plus Cloud Database product page.
Please read these instructions thoroughly before beginning. Each step includes a screenshot that matches your progress.
Table of Contents
1. Create AWS Account
2. Purchase Postgres Plus Cloud Database from Amazon Marketplace
3. Register Your AWS Account Information with Postgres Plus Cloud Database
4. Register with the EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Forums
5. Login to the Postgres Plus Cloud Database Console and Launch a Database Cluster
Step 1: Create AWS Account
Before you can purchase Postgres Plus Cloud Database from Amazon Marketplace, you need to have an Amazon AWS account. If you have already have an AWS account, please skip to step 2, otherwise follow these instructions:
1. Navigate to http://aws.amazon.com/
2. Click the "Create a Free Account" button at the top right of the web page.
3. Enter your email address into the "My e-mail address is:" text box.
4. Select "I am a new user."
5. Click the "Sign in using our secure server" button.
6. Follow the instructions on the next pages to create your new AWS account.
Step 2: Purchase Postgres Plus Cloud Database from Amazon Marketplace
With an AWS account, you can now purchase Postgres Plus Cloud Database. Please follow these instructions:
1. Navigate to the Marketplace page for the version you wish to purchase. You may purchase one or both products based on which Postgres databases you wish to use.
a. For Postgres Plus Cloud Database Basic: http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00MI8NK4U
b. For Postgres Plus Cloud Database Advanced: http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00MI8R5A0
2. Read the information on the page to become familiar with the product (the image shown here is for Postgres Plus Cloud Database Basic; the page layout and purchase process is the same for Postgres Plus Cloud Database Advanced). When done, click the Continue button.
3. On the next page, read the information about prices, End User License Agreement (the link is below the Accept Terms button), etc. When you are ready to purchase the product, click the Accept Terms button.
Important: DO NOT use the Manual Launch instructions or the Launch with EC2 Console button. The Launch Guide you are now reading is the correct way to launch the Postgres Plus Cloud Database product.
4. Verify that you see the following screen, which indicates that you have successfully purchased the product.
Important: DO NOT use the Manual Launch instructions or the Launch with EC2 Console button.
Please continue with Step 3 immediately below to successfully launch your Postgres Plus Cloud Database product.
Step 3: Register Your AWS Account Information with Postgres Plus Cloud Database
In this step, you will configure your AWS account to include roles and policies that will allow Postgres Plus Cloud Database to setup and manage your database cluster. You will cut and paste provided policy files into your AWS account, and make small edits. If you would like to know more about Amazon AWS roles and policies, and how they ensure security of your account information, please see Controlling Access to Amazon EC2 Resources.
Please follow these instructions carefully to ensure proper setup of your AWS roles and policies:
1. Navigate to your AWS account: https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?#home (you may need to login to AWS again)
2. Click the Roles menu item on the left side of the screen
3. Click the Create New Role tab
4. On the Create Role page:
a. Enter a custom Role Name (e.g., "ppcd-role")
b. Click Next Step
5. Click Select for Amazon EC2
6. Click Custom Policy
7. Click Select for Custom Policy
8. Enter a name (e.g., "ppcd-policy") into the Policy Name text box. Do not click Next Step now, you will return to this page after the next step.
9. In a separate browser window, navigate to https://s3.amazonaws.com/ppcd-role/ppcd-aws-role-policy.json and select, then copy, all content from the browser or reader application that displays the result
10. Return to the browser window where you just entered a policy name (2 steps ago), and paste the content from the previous step into the Policy Document text box
11. Click Next Step
12. On the Create Role page, click the Create Role button
13. In the Create New Role tab, click on the role you just created from the list of roles under the Role Name heading
14. Click the Edit Trust Relationship button
15. In a separate browser window, navigate to https://s3.amazonaws.com/ppcd-role/ppcd-aws-trust-policy.json and select then copy all content from the browser or reader application that displays the result
16. Return to the browser window in which you clicked the Edit Trust Relationship button (2 steps ago), remove any content already in the Policy Document text box, and paste the contents you just copied into the Policy Document text box.
Do not click the Update Trust Relationship Policy button now (you will return to this screen in a few steps).
17. In a separate browser window, navigate to the Postgres Plus Cloud Database console in the Amazon region in which you wish to run your database
18. Click Register
19. Enter your information into the User Details portion of the registration form
20. Click the Next button
21. Select then copy the contents of the Your External ID field
22. Return to the Amazon Edit Trust Relationship window
23. Select the EDB-PPCD-CONSOLE text at the bottom of the Policy Document, taking care to not select the quotes that surround the text
24. Do not click the Update Trust Policy button now (you will use this screen in the next step)
25. Paste the text you copied from the Your External ID field in the Postgres Plus Cloud Database window, replacing the EDB-PPCD-CONSOLE text [A]
26. Click the Update Trust Policy button [B]
27. In the Summary section [A]
28. Select and copy the content of the Role ARN field [B]
29. Return to the Postgres Plus Cloud Database window, and paste the content into the Role Arn text field [A]
30. Click Finish [B]
Congratulations! You have completed setup of your Amazon AWS and Postgres Plus Cloud Database accounts!
Step 4: Register with the EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Forums
Before you create your first database cluster, please take a few moments to register with the EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Forums where you'll find lots of good information and experts who can help if you run into challenges.
The Forum is located at http://forums.enterprisedb.com/forums/show/21.page
Please post any and all problems, questions, comments or suggestions here so that we have a central location for your feedback, one communication channel to monitor, and all the participants can benefit.
If you are not yet registered for an account on www.enterprisedb.com, please register at https://www.enterprisedb.com/user-login-registration
Step 5: Login to the Postgres Plus Cloud Database Console and Launch a Database Cluster
With your accounts set up, you can now configure and launch Cloud Database clusters.
1. Return to the Postgres Plus Cloud Database console in the region you registered, and login using the username and password you chose above.
2. Click the Launch DB Cluster button
3. Enter configuration of your cluster in the Create a new Server Cluster dialog.
4. Click the Next button
5. Adjust the Automatic Backup Retention Details in Step 2 of the Create a new Server Cluster dialog to suit your backup needs
6. Click the Launch button
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Chinese WoW partial relaunch pics, comparison shots of censorship {WoW}
Aug 11th 2009 4:34PM If the Chinese Ministry is so unintelligent as to have to question cartoon skeletons and cartoon blood in a game where your goal is to KILL things......well, enough said.
Chinese WoW partial relaunch pics, comparison shots of censorship {WoW}
Aug 11th 2009 2:49PM Be careful, stating the truth that conflicts with some people's opinions will get you downrated on here.
It's amusing that we have not seen any news reports or anything of that nature coming out of China about how evil Blizzard was for disrespecting "revered ancestors" yet for some reason, the government of the communists for the communists by the communists shut WoW down for this.
There's irony for you. The regime that killed 30 million people in coming to power, and wrought the Cultural Revolution on its own people and culture, can't handle red blood and skeletons.
Chinese WoW partial relaunch pics, comparison shots of censorship {WoW}
Aug 11th 2009 2:14PM SO tell me...the Chinese government is so much more concerned about the dead while they treat the living like crap?
The Queue: Punching our way to greatness {WoW}
Dec 19th 2008 2:57AM Anyone know a good place to fall to get the "Going Down?" achievement?
For horde players, this can be done in undercity if you jump out of the sewer tunnel (or 'bat tube') into the green goo down below. I have done this successfully on every toon so far. However you must JUMP right at the lip as running directly off does not work.
Breakfast Topic: Uh, now what? {WoW}
Oct 28th 2008 6:48PM It could have died off at the same rate it grew. Felt a little anti-climactic to be raving horrors one day and then next.....nothing or very little.
Breakfast Topic: Uh, now what? {WoW}
Oct 28th 2008 5:37PM @Nith - "considering wrath is around the corner I have a few goals to reach before i step into northrend and fighting zombies did nothing for it"
So what you are saying is your goals and wants are more important than a once in a lifetime world event.
@Jyotai - "Found a few people elsewhere who's reactions were even stronger - several who'd canceled their WoW accounts. Can't say I blame them."
Managed to get 8 of my gaming clan members into WoW and without exception every one of them had a blast with the zombie invasion and plan to subscribe once their 10 day trial is up.
Hell, I am by no means an "old school" WoW player. I started for the first time last year in December then quit in february. I restarted my account at the beginning of this month with some other member of my online gaming clan. I spent the weekend dodging zombies so I could get to level 30. Then more time dodging zombies to get to my class trainer so I could get my pally mount. Sure, I could have QQed at the length of time it took me to get to one place from another and how many times I became infected and died. I didn't I simply did what I had to do and enjoyed myself. People QQing about not being able to get business done in the auction house sort of make me laugh. One of my clan mates has always been razor sharp about making money on online rpgs, this weekend she managed to pull in over 500 gold in about 3 days and she's only been playing for about 2 weeks. One other mention is "the amount of people crying in trade". Someone with any sense would realize that the only people QQing in trade were the vocal minority. I mean with over 1000 people playing there are TEN QQing? Seems to me 990 people were playing the game instead of sitting in the city whinging.
Breakfast Topic: Uh, now what? {WoW}
Oct 28th 2008 9:22AM Zombies, being people who were formerly alive and now turned to the other side are of curse going to go after what they know are good targets, whether npcs or pcs this is something to be expected. Just because they became scourge doesn't mean they became brainless corpses.
Breakfast Topic: Uh, now what? {WoW}
Oct 28th 2008 9:17AM I have to admit I am kinda disappointed with the way it just suddenly "stopped". Sure, it was frustrating BUT FUN, on Sunday to have to jink and jive through zombies with a lvl 30 pally trying to get where I needed to go, Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff strewn with corpses and zombies roaming and running, but then to log on Monday to find very few zombies around and everything seeming to be business as usual? That's not how it's supposed to end! There has to be more! Give me satisfaction Blizzard! Please tell me there is more mayhem and chaos on the way! Yeah, I didn't want to be a zombie but I had to use my brains for a change instead of clicking. Forget my lower level alts I wanted to level, I didn't even log them on. I had enough worries about my main. Heh. And just a side note to all the QQers on trade, I shut that off as soon as all the constant whining started. Enjoy the world event while it lasts you idiots because it's a once in a lifetime event!
Guild Achievements may be incoming to WoW in the future {WoW}
Oct 28th 2008 8:45AM And you would be the non-creative warhammer fanboi douche? If warhammer is so much better stay the hell off a WoW dedicated site eh?
Zombie invasion phase 5.5 - quests to the faction leaders and Shattrath [Updated x4] {WoW}
Oct 27th 2008 7:54AM Yeah well, I don't think I'm doing so bad as only a level 30 pally. I returned to WoW a week or so ago after being gone since february and only 2 months of play back then. To come back to something this epic...man this is great!

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Get your Consortium gems! {WoW}
May 1st 2008 11:38PM Yes you have a better chance to get rare gems with a higher reputation. Its only a better chance though, you can still get a few rare gems at low rep like you did or no rare gems at higher reps like the person above.
All of the database sites show the better chance at higher rep levels although their actual numbers differ. Thats probably due to the way they each collect and parse the data.
Macro for a prettier WoW {WoW}
Apr 24th 2008 11:04PM Go to your "World of Warcraft/WTF" folder and delete the "Config.wtf" file. It will reset all of your settings.
Raid Rx: Raiding meets Patch 2.4 {WoW}
Mar 27th 2008 2:35PM Check the Autocollapse button at least once. A few people in my guild and I had no bars showing up and using Autocollapse checkbox fixed it. It doesn't matter if you actually have it enabled or disabled but using the check box once fixed the bars.
Does server progression matter? {WoW}
Mar 15th 2008 4:21PM I should have said Mal'Ganis is #1 US and tied for #4 worldwide.
Does server progression matter? {WoW}
Mar 15th 2008 4:17PM World firsts do not matter as much as they used to. Before Blizzard started putting the raid instances on the test servers it was a true race where everyone started on equal ground right when the servers came up. No one knew anything about any of the bosses and each one had to be learned. Now most world firsts go to the guilds who spend the time to learn the bosses before they are on the live realms. It just doesn't feel the same anymore to me.
I'm from Mal'Ganis and my guild and I were looking forward to the server competition to open up Sunwell. I'm pretty sure most of Mal'Ganis was but that probably has to do with us being ranked #1 on WowJutsu. ;p
I think Blizzard should have left the server competition in and just put a maximum time before things started opening automatically to help the less progressed servers.
Cool Guys and Girls needed to play Warlocks {WoW}
Mar 11th 2008 4:17PM This is very old.
Nebu/GFraizer is the web guy and his main is a warlock. Thats where the "and Cool Guy/Girl" came from.
Ever-enlarging WoW realms spell continued success {WoW}
Jan 18th 2008 3:14PM Before the upgrades it was around 3.2k. Now its about 4k.
Free character moves for the US {WoW}
Dec 22nd 2007 5:02AM I didn't miss it at all. I saw the post at wowinsider about it. The search didn't work though and I didn't feel like going back to find it so I just linked to the Blizzard forums
Free character moves for the US {WoW}
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2013 will be our fourth year with Grassfield Farms. If it wasn't fantastic, we wouldn't be coming back year after year.
Howard is incredibly knowledgable about the local area (what grows and doesn't) and makes sure we get the freshest produce. He tries to make the farm very family-friendly and encourages us to try something new. (Howard, I'm still not going to eat okra. No way!) We always have enough to can and freeze, but there are always enough fresh goodies to eat your fill.
I personally think that this CSA gives you a lot of bang for the buck. The location is convenient and the produce is divine, even the ugly tomatoes. Here's to a wonderful 2013 season!
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I bought 2 Simkar Fixtures at Lowes. They are on their website here:
http://www.lowes.com/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=124808-12833-WL108332A They use 3 32w T8 tubes and almost exactly cover the width of a standard seed flat. The fixtue is low profile and the have electronic ballast. They are not good candidates for overdriving, because the ballasts are built into the connectors. I am using 1 4100K and 2 6500K bulbs, each about 3000 lumems for a total of about 9000 lumens. The fixturea are about $32 each. Anyone else tried these? Jack |
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- Posted by shrubs_n_bulbs z8/9 UK (My Page) on Wed, Mar 16, 05 at 7:50
The SIMKAR fixtures include a nice parabolic reflector and a lens. Not sure I would use the lens for growing plants, it will probably block light but I haven't tried it. They don't just do three-bulb fittings. Useful if you want to grow a small number of taller plants, since you can position the lamp away from the plants and still light them properly. For growing seeds, I'd just get two-bulb shop-lights, use 40W bulbs, and put them close to the seedlings. Much cheaper. |
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One of my other jobs is writing the theater column for The New Criterion, but I rarely get to write about movies. But, wow, lucky me, I finally get to share some cinematic observations. Having watched every minute of When Mitt Romney Came to Town, the Gingrich-affiliated super-PAC hit film about Mitt Romney's career at Bain Capital — the things I do for you! — I have concluded that it promises to be a career-ender, and that the career it will end is Newt Gingrich's. It is the most embarrassing, vulgar, illiterate outburst you are likely to find.
What should worry Mitt Romney is this: When it comes to filmmaking, the Democrats have a much deeper bench, better skills, and more effective distribution channels. When it comes time for Hope and Change Features to proudly present a Barack Obama production along the same lines, the Democrats will not make the same mistakes. If he wants to be president, Mitt Romney had better get a lot more persuasive than he is today when it comes to explaining his business career.
When Mitt Romney Came to Town employs every anti-capitalism cliché in the book: You want a guy blowing cigar smoke nefariously? You got it. Ominous fades to black-and-white? It's in there. An attaché case full of $100 bills? Aplenty. (Because, as everybody knows, Wall Street tycoons do their business in old-fashioned paper Benjamins, and in fact derive all their professional practices from Wesley Snipes in New Jack City.) You want cheap xenophobia? Get a load of "He took foreign seed money from rich Latin Americans." (Translation: "Eek! A Mexican!") You want a sad-faced toddler watching the news (really, a four-year-old watching CNBC) while the talking heads go on sadly about the closure of KB Toys outlets? Yeah, they did that, and they superimposed a Red Chinese flag on one scene, too. Et cetera ad literal nauseam.
The sort of people who are going to be influenced by this illiterate little film weren't going to be voting for Romney, anyway, since they're busy occupying Portland or occupying Austin or occupying anything but an honest job. They're Democrats or Ron Paul voters, if they are voters at all.
Spare a moment of sympathy — but not too much — for the laid-off workers exploited by the makers of When Mitt Romney Came to Town. They are hurt, angry people who are not terribly articulate, but who can be riled up to say banal and ignorant things for the purposes of cheap political theater. One woman, whom the filmmakers like so well they have her repeat the line three times, protests: "It hurt so bad to leave my home because of one man that's got 15 homes." But of course there are limits to sympathy (and this, among other things, is why I'll never be president), and one is tempted to retort: "If you really think that the value of your labor is that high, how do you explain the fact that nobody else wants to hire you at the wage you were earning before your firm went out of business, and doesn't that disparity suggest that the company was not especially well-run?"
I know, it's hard to give that speech to Grandma. But the fact is that output is the production of an interaction between labor and capital and, as it turns out, those executives who are always saying "Our people are our most important asset!" often are not telling the truth. When capital gets put to more productive uses, the labor left behind discovers that its value without the capital that had been at its disposal is relatively low. That's a hard fact to live with, but a fact nonetheless. If you want to improve the value of labor, you get it more capital to work with — and where might you go for that? The answer is: investors, including private-equity investors such as Mitt Romney. If you want to improve American employment and American wages, your main tools are going to be improving the American education system and improving the American investment climate.
On the other hand, if you view jobs as entitlements and believe that workers should be permanently protected from changes in the marketplace, you believe that profits from investing are nefarious, believe that less-productive enterprises should be somehow sustained indefinitely in order to preserve the less-productive jobs associated with them, then — wait, why are you voting in the Republican primary again?


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President Obama was supposed to kick off a new, Kennedyesque youth movement. Obama's popularity with the under-30 voters who swept him into office in 2008 promised to make government service sexy again, but the enthusiasm hasn't been sustained.
Young people don't see change coming from a broken political system. Rather, they look to "green" businesses or Silicon Valley; Google, not government, is the place to effect the revolution. National Journal's Ron Fournier recently wrote in the Atlantic about his visit to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In two days, he didn't encounter a single student whose career goals included government service or elective office.
Crucially, the President's critics say, Obama hasn't projected himself as leader of the federal workforce, something critical for morale but also for making government work seem cool. Although in his opening months both the President and the First Lady visited an array of federal agencies as morale-boosting trips, those visits seem to have dried up amid the partisan rancor of the second term.
Max Stier, CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, says Obama—unlike his predecessor, George W. Bush—has never met collectively with the 7,000 members of the Senior Executive Service, representing the top government officials below the appointee level who set the tone for the 2.1 million career employees. "He's lacked the recognition that his job is to actually run and manage the federal workforce," says Stier, who served in the Clinton administration. (Obama's letter to furloughed workers during the October shutdown assuring them they were nonetheless treasured may be too little, too late.)
Kennedy, by contrast, made history by being the first President to visit the IRS, a fact Mortimer Caplin is visibly proud of to this day. Priscilla McMillan remembers that Kennedy actually bore a mild contempt for the rank-and-file under him, but he never let it be known. "He would reach out to people within the bureaucracy," she recalls.
Aaron (a pseudonym) is a thirtysomething with two Ivy League degrees who works at a top-tier agency on foreign aid. He feels his office is a place where his skills will never be rewarded, even if they're recognized. "Managers are answering to bosses rather than cultivating talent, which is perhaps a function of short tenures in government at the political levels," he says.
Other young government workers catalog similar complaints. They point to turf wars that prevent senior staffers from mentoring underlings because good ideas are often a zero-sum game: If someone else gets credit for smart thinking, you don't. And no matter how many good ideas you have or implement, you probably won't become the boss because that person's position is an appointed one.
Aaron, who traveled to Iowa and Pennsylvania in 2008 to canvass for Obama, plans on giving notice in the next six months. He's not sure where he'll land, but the private sector is looking appealing.
Biggs isn't surprised to hear that. He argues that the very nature of bureaucratic work is the biggest factor deterring future generations from considering a life of public service. "It's not like it was in the Kennedy era when we had the Cold War and the Russians breathing down our necks," Biggs says. "There were these huge, existential threats. We were putting a man on the moon. Now you take money from young people and give it to old people."
He waves off the idea that current challenges, such as income inequality and climate change, will inspire the young: "It's just not as exciting a time to be in government—resources are constrained. It's why people are saying, 'Ah, screw it. I'm going to just go make some money.' "
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Between the defection of bright, talented "millennials" like Aaron—those born from the early '80s to the early '00s—and hiring freezes, the federal workforce is going gray. Stier points out that only 8 percent are millennials, compared with 25 percent of the private sector's workers. And there's some question whether the millennials we're getting are the ones we want.
In many European countries, where the private sector offers few good options, the best students aspire to careers in the public sector. In the US, it's a boon to everyone that our technology and financial companies are attracting our top graduates. But government needs talented new workers, even if we have vibrant private companies.
Kennedy's legacy isn't completely dead; it may just be changing, according to Patrick Hidalgo. One of five children of Cuban exiles, Hidalgo has a public-policy degree from the Kennedy School at Harvard and an MBA from MIT. In 2007 he joined the Obama campaign, went on to become a political appointee at the State Department, and most recently was named deputy director of the White House Business Council.
"It was this once-in-a-generation thing that you have a leader who inspires you," says Hidalgo, 34. Notably absent in our conversation are mentions of Muffingate or pay freezes.
Yet the economics of public service for highly educated white-collar workers can be difficult. The disparity in pay between the White House and the law and lobbying firms in town—never mind Silicon Valley or Wall Street—is growing faster than ever. In the Kennedy era, a top official's salary and a private-sector executive's were not so far apart; now the difference can be in the hundreds of thousands or even millions. Law clerks leaving the Supreme Court today receive starting bonuses at law firms larger than the annual salary of the justices they helped.
Hidalgo admits that the economics of a public-sector salary are daunting for young people looking for upward mobility, or even for enough to pay their bills. His student-loan debt runs to six figures. "I don't have the luxury of not worrying about a better economic future for me and my future family," he says. Hidalgo's story suggests that government work may soon be only for the financial elite who graduate without student debt or whose parents can help foot the bill of a career in public service.
Recently, Hidalgo left the White House to start two companies, one focused on emerging markets, the other on minority communities. He says it won't be easy to make government work as appealing to the new generation of workers as the private sector is: "You just can't make the government look like General Electric or Google."
Hannah Seligson is the author of Mission: Adulthood: How the 20-Somethings of Today Are Transforming Work, Love, and Life.
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I am putting the chandelier below in my dining room. Everyone (ok, my mother mostly) keeps asking how I'm going to keep it clean. I've read about sprays that you mist on the chandelier and it drips off taking the dirt with it. Do those work? If you have experience with them, is there a particular brand you recommend? |
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- Posted by Geoffrey_B (My Page) on Wed, Dec 18, 13 at 13:46
The crystals and chains of crystals are 'hooked' onto the frame. You really need to remove them, and wash in soapy water, and dry immediately. |
- Posted by patty_cakes (My Page) on Wed, Dec 18, 13 at 14:06
I use a soft cloth(one that won't 'catch' on the metal ends, no terry cloth!), spraying a light mist of Windex on the cloth. Starting from the top, work your way down each row/single crystal. As the cloth dries, spay a bit more on a clean part of the rag. It's not a quick job, but it is a quick fix and easier than disassembling the complete fixture. |
i do like patty cakes... it doesn't need to be done that often, so it really isn't that big of a pain... |
- Posted by schoolhouse (My Page) on Wed, Dec 18, 13 at 16:15
Yes, the spray works . I always have a bottle of "Hagerty" chandelier cleaner on hand which lasts me years because I do not clean my chandelier regularly. BUT, I still blame it for causing the wire on which the beads are strung to rust - I may have sprayed on too much once. The crystal beads however shine afterwards. Be sure to lay newspaper under it before spraying the chandelier with the cleaner. Cover any bare sockets. I prefer to wash it by hand with soap and water, but my chandelier is large and has many, many beads, some small as a BB. And each needs to be rinsed and dried after the soapy water. Plus I always have to use caution when putting hands in between the strands of larger beads or a wire will break. No fun when you are standing ontop a tall ladder. |
Thanks, all. I may give the Hagerty's a try. This chandelier is going to be a pain to keep sparkly, but I think it will be worth it. |
I feel your pain. My crystal pendants and chandy don't have near as many crystals as yours and I am scared witless at the thought of cleaning them. I am actually thinking I will look for a cleaning service to clean them. My cleaning lady doesn't want to tackle the job! |
- Posted by schoolhouse (My Page) on Wed, Dec 18, 13 at 20:42
The basket of mine is the tough part to clean. The beads graduate to tiny ones set very close together. Even difficult to dust. Then as I mentioned, the strands of larger beads are very fragile. Good luck with the cleaner, let us know how it works for you. Now you have me thinking I should really do mine after the holidays. |
I think I would rather do it myself than trust the job to a cleaning service. And I know I don't want my cleaning lady doing it. She's a sweetheart and works hard, but dealing with small, delicate things just isn't her forte. Schoolhouse, your chandelier is gorgeous! |
In a previous house with a crystal chandelier I would disassemble it bit by bit. Soak for about 30 seconds in a shallow pan with windex. ( I actually used a frisbee because I wanted something that would be less scratchy than a bowl.) Then wipe dry with a soft dishcloth (linen is best), and then re-hang. This made sure each piece got back into the same spot. It always came out great. It took a decent amount of time and was a total pain. I never selected a crystal chandelier again in any other house. Just couldn't justify the time for doing this. |
Bbstx, you are so right. My Jeannie is a sweetheart but like a bull in a china shop. I can't count how many things she has broken or damaged but I wouldn't dream of replacing her. She has a heart of gold and is as honest as the day is long. |
- Posted by mlweaving_Marji (My Page) on Thu, Dec 19, 13 at 13:10
I have a 1920's crystal chandelier that I've moved with me from house to house, and it's going into the new house we're building now. I've tried the spray on stuff and wiping it down, and haven't been happy with either. I'm also convinced that spray on stuff accelerated some of the rust that occured on the strands of crystals. I had the whole fixture rewired and restranded about 10 years ago. I love the chandelier so much that I actually enjoy the process once I get started of cleaning it. I have to take the individual crystals off, then each rope of crystals off, then the bowls around the lights. I carefully layer them into a plastic tub of soapy water, then let them soak while I clean the arms and the parts that don't come off. Then I remove all the crystals from the soapy water, rinse and lay on towels and dry with linen towels. It is a labor of love, but looks so amazing everytime I clean it, and I wouldn't let anyone else touch it. I've never had cleaning help that is that careful. I find that cleaning it twice a year is totally adequate. Just pick a day when you don't have anything else planned. |
- Posted by schoolhouse (My Page) on Thu, Dec 19, 13 at 14:29
Helpful hint: never layer your chandelier with live pine tree boughs no matter how lovely it looks. You'll have dried needles in the bottom for many, many, many years. Ask me how I know. :( |
- Posted by AnnieDeighnaugh (My Page) on Thu, Dec 19, 13 at 20:33
I have a crystal ceiling fixture which I take apart to wash and then reassemble. I keep a pair of the old fashioned white gloves just for the purpose of reassembling so I don't put finger prints on the crystals. It is a labor of live, but the sparkle makes it worthwhile. |
bbstx - I LOVE that chandelier, will look forward to seeing it in place. I have a much simpler version that I regularly forget to clean. No way to disassemble and boy is this thing heavy. When I do remember to clean, I use the bottles of canned air. |
oldbat2be--love your light fixture! |
I think if you can dust it regularly, something I never do, then a major cleaning won't be needed as often. I've use the spray in the past and, like schoolhouse, I found rust starting to form along the electrical wires that run along the frame. So, I'm back to hand cleaning........my least favorite chore. Love the idea of the Dust Off! |
Too many incidences of rust. Crossing the spray off my list! Guess I better get used to taking the chandelier apart and washing it periodically (notice, I didn't say "twice a year" or the like. I know I won't do it that often!) Thanks, ob2b. I was going for a contemporary take on an empire fixture. Only 2 more months until I can actually see it hanging, I hope! |
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game of the year. did u see how close the ranger came to winning just before henrique's OT winner? WOW. amazing. we are the best of the east!
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x2. zach is our lifeline. he epitomizes new jersey devils hockey. LOCK HIM UP, LOU!
yeah man. i've been lucky enough to see them several times, in the rock and on the road (@ carolina, @ anaheim). we've won every game i've been to. 6-0!
also, i want to go to the finals as LA is an hour north of here, but i don't think i'll be able to get tix. i'll try, but i might faint when i see the price. lol. any idea how much they run for SC finals?
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Our 4th line has to play like they have been to win the cup
yeah. brown and kopitar scare me. we need to neutralize them to have a chance.
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Tina Brown On The Dark Side Of Innovation And Progress
Renee Montagne talks with Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast, for the Morning Edition regular feature, "Word of Mouth." Brown has three reads looking at the dark side to notions of innovation and progress.
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Let's hear, now, from Tina Brown, with us once again for Word of Mouth. Of course, that's our regular feature where Tina offers some reading recommendations. Today, three picks looking at the notion of progress and innovation and its dark side, and one tale of a circus animal may even be hard for some to listen to. Tina, good morning.
TINA BROWN: Good morning, Rene.
MONTAGNE: So you've got a new book, to begin with, by Michael Daly. It features some great American innovators, including P.T. Barnum and Thomas Edison. The book is called "Topsy." And just briefly, who was Topsy?
BROWN: Well, Topsy was the famous, tragic elephant who was electrocuted in 1903 at Coney Island, as part of a horrible demonstration of the power of electric current, administered and overseen by no less than Thomas Edison. So she's a kind of great cultural figure, in a sense, and a tragic one.
MONTAGNE: Topsy was an elephant who, as a baby, was captured in Asia, brought to America to perform in the circus. And this apparently simple story opened a window onto these two competitions; and the one lead to a really horrible story, when Topsy gets executed. Just tell us that story, Thomas Edison trying to prove that his version of electricity was the best.
BROWN: Absolutely. Well, he had this endless kind of rivalry and competition with Westinghouse about direct current versus alternative current. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: AC is alternating - not alternative - current.] And he wanted to show that direct current was actually the way to go. Well, in fact, he was wrong about that. And one of the ways that he wanted to show it was by using this poor elephant who was going to be executed for supposedly being a killer of men - although frankly, Topsy only became violent at the end because she was so baited, so tortured, so tormented, so horribly, horribly treated that eventually she did kill a trainer who fed her a cigarette, a lighted cigarette - this poor elephant who was so benevolent and such a sweet-natured creature.
And so the decision came to execute the elephant, and Edison then filmed this execution to show the power of electric current. And it's a really tragic story because this elephant, throughout the book, really is the only decent individual, in a sense, in this endless competition between, first, the showmen Barnum and Forepaugh, and then these two other showmen, you know, high testosterone, you know, high-wire innovators, Edison and Westinghouse.
And so you see this climax of the book is the execution of Topsy by electric current. And we know they buried her head in a spot there. And what was amazing was for years to come, elephants would stop, and they refused to pass the spot where Topsy's head was buried. So it's a kind of repudiation of the awful cruelty that was inflicted upon Topsy as some kind of grotesque pop culture experiment, and an equally grotesque experiment between the two innovators.
MONTAGNE: Of course, that story is especially shocking, I think, because we think of Thomas Edison as bringing great good, that his inventions transformed human existence for the better and also allowed for much of the innovation that followed. So you have brought us a piece about one man who thinks that the continual growth and progress that we've seen for centuries is just about over. Tell us what he says.
BROWN: Well, it's very interesting. This was a piece in New York Magazine; a very interesting piece by Benjamin Wallace-Wells, who describes how Robert Gordon, a 72-year-old economist, is something called a declinist, and he's at Northwestern. And he's a man behind the increasingly popular view of America's economic future, which is that the improved quality of life is never going to return; that this is not a blip - as this piece is called - but is, in fact, the new turn of the dial because we have had two industrial revolutions - first in the U.K., then in really what is the long, long cultural memory of America - which have been about constant innovation, constant leap and bound innovation - in electric light, as you say with Edison; the invention of the engine; all of these things which made such an extraordinarily quantum leap in the improvement of life; and that those things are over. They're not going to return, and we are not going to be able to have the kind of growth that we have seen.
I mean, he talks about four- or five-fold reasons: the aging of the American population, stagnation in educational achievement, fiscal tightening to fix our debt, the cost of health care and energy, and the pressures of globalization and growing inequality.
The combination of all of those things means that we're not going to see the kind of robust, boisterous growths that Americans are used to thinking of as the American dream. So it's, in that sense, a very dour portrait; something that P.T. Barnum certainly didn't feel when he was, you know, at the dawn of the Great American century, when the book of Michael Daly - really is all about the 100-year anniversary of America. And now as we head for the next millennium, it looks pretty dark, according to this professor, Robert Gordon.
MONTAGNE: Although, could not this last two and a half centuries be looked at as an adolescent growth spurt in the march of civilization and that at a certain point, you can't just do that over and over again?
BROWN: Well, that's exactly right, but it's not very pleasant to live through because, I think, Americans expect everything to keep improving. But we are seeing a period where things are not improving. This is going to be the first generation where the next generation will be less well-off and probably less well-educated.
MONTAGNE: There are, of course, countries and regions that are growing. Brazil, in these last few years, has turned into a huge economic power. And your final pick brings us to the underbelly of growth, the dark side of growth. There always is one, it seems, and in this case, it starts in the hillside slums known as favelas.
BROWN: Yes. It's a wonderful piece by the great chronicler of cities, Suketu Mehta. And this piece is his description of the attempts by the Brazilian government to pacify the favelas. The favelas of Brazil are so violent that cop helicopters don't even want to fly over many of them because they're afraid of being shot down by the drug dealers. So it's a really violent world - so violent that the government really is treating this now as almost like pacifying an insurgency. They go in, and they have to deal with not just the drug gangs, but also the militias that have grown up on the other side; always at constant war. The homicide rate is absolutely astronomical. And they go in and pacify it, and take it over. They literally take back the streets.
He describes what that process is like, going into these villages. You know, the incredible thing is that, you know, Brazil's middle class grew from 40 million to 105 million in the last five years and ye, at the same time, its violence is absolutely prodigious. And what he says - which I think is a fascination conclusion - he says that, you know, the juntas that ran Brazil for so long destroyed democracy, and that now Brazil, of course, is a democratic nation, and that process has changed.
But he says that in the favelas, there was no democracy. The traffic has continued with their own dictatorship. The people of the favelas still had great trouble getting access to the courts or casting a vote. Pacification, says Mehta, is an attempt to interrupt a despotic process. It is - for the construction workers and ladies who sell black bean stew in the slums - the final fall of the dictatorship. So this is the last attempt, in a sense, of Brazil to take back those streets before the World Cup.
MONTAGNE: Talk about competition - Brazil's been very successful in competing and winning the next summer Olympics.
BROWN: Yes, indeed. I mean, there's so much growth, and so much excitement, in Brazil. And it's a time of great unrest in Brazil at the same time as great progress. So it's a very interesting social study, and Suketu Mehta is a fantastic writer to do so.
MONTAGNE: OK. And that article, in the New York Review of Books; the article on Robert Gordon is in New York Magazine; and the book "Topsy" is by Michael Daly. Tina, thanks very much.
BROWN: Thank you so much, Rene.
MONTAGNE: Tina Brown is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast, and she joins us regularly for our feature Word Of Mouth.
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Winter in Finland means combination of three things – endless tracks, hours spent in the nature and of course skiing. People can be crazy about it. Count their kilometers or even the calories. However, I think the most beautiful feeling is when you stand on skis for the first time and every little success and moving forward bring you a feeling of a great achievement.


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Shuttle planning netbook with poached ECS team?
Shuttle are best known for their small-form-factor (SFF) desktop PCs and barebone systems, but according to the latest rumors swirling around the unnamed "market sources" of Taipei they're considering branching out into netbooks. To do that, so DigiTimes suggest, they're not taking the arduous high-road of locking themselves in the lab and seeing what they can come up with, but instead are allegedly planning to poach a 40-strong team from rivals Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS).


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Check out the new trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorcese's new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and a host of other stars. The teaser trailer for the film was great, but this new trailer is insane and has me counting down the days until the film is released. Wolf of Wall Street also features Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, Jon Bernthal, Margot Robbie, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Favreau, Jean Dujardin, and Spike Jonze.
The story of a New York stockbroker, played by DiCaprio, who refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, the corporate banking world and mob infiltration.
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This was about the 3rd dish I ever made in my life. Turned out really well. I added a yam, carrots and celery, 1 can stock,1 pint Guinness, 1 yellow onion - but my 12 yr. old daughter complained about the onion - I couldn't find frozen pearl onions which she likes.
This is delicious. Followed previous suggestions and doubled stout, broth, and flour. Served over mashed potatoes. Since I used raw yellow onions, I substituted oil for the butter in order to saute onions long enough to soften. Sometime I would like to try this with the original amount of gravy, the meat in sliced strips, and served over a toasted bun.
I used regular beer and cooked the stew in the crock pot - it was very good. I also added potatoes.
Very hearty and great tasting. This was a simple dish to make and we'll definitely make it again. :)
The stew was great! I quadrupled the recipe and made a few substitutions. Before adding the meat, I followed another reviewer's suggestion to use a few cloves of minced garlic. I added in 4 stalks of celery and 4 carrots (ran out of carrots) and the celery tastes great in here. Also, I used fattier meat (boneless chuck -- I'd been planning on making something else), but it worked well - very tender. Throughout, I used a very generous amount of black pepper. Even with (or because of...) those substitutions, the stew was great -- perfect for an unseasonably cold night.
I must agree with the previous reviewers that this stew is delicious! It's quick, easy, low clean-up and best for me, doesn't make too much. I used leeks instead of pearl onions (just because I had them on hand), added garlic and tossed in fresh parsley just before serving over garlic mashed potatoes - yum!
Very wonderful flavor. Simple and mild. I also found a recipe on here that uses stout to cook a corned beef and cabbage in. VERY nice.
I used regular yellow onions cut up, added cut up potatoes, tripled the stout and broth, also added some garlic salt and a salt free multi seasoning blend, used appropriate amount of corn starch to thicken. I have just one thing to say about this recipe.......WOW, okay two things!!! YUMMY!!!! I don't think my husband will ever eat my old beef stew recipe again!!! The sauce is just out of this world yummy! Will make this one over and over.


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I just saw a tweet from a Mousefan Travel Agent I follow on Twitter that she just booked a phone call from Mickey for one of her client's birthdays. The only information I can find online is for the expired Holiday Call program of a few years ago. Does anyone know about a new program where you can arrange to have a call from Mickey?? We leave next month and my 2 yo DD would LOVE a call from her favorite mouse!!!
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Wow. That's all I can say. Thank you so much for this link! I will shortly be going broke ordering calls from characters for my daughter. Ok, and for me. THANKS!
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I saw this post and had to reply. My wife just celebrated a special birthday and I had heard about Disney Enchanted Calls here on the forum. What a wonderful way to start her birthday!!! I started the morning with a birthday wake-up call from Mickey and you should have seen her eyes! It was as if she was 4 not...well.....I won't say . I then followed that with a call from her favorite princess later in the day.
I would recommend this to anyone who wants a wonderful - yet simple surprise for someone special and bring a little Disney magic to the day.
The enchanted calls get be "purchased" with Disney movie rewards points. So, if you are already buying/going to the movies, you can get them basically for free.
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The Google Play Store changed quite a bit this year and with it came some really amazing apps. In this roundup, we'll look at the best Android apps of 2014.
Koushik Dutta's new Helium Chrome app enables Helium backups on your Android device straight from your web browser or Chome OS, even without root.
The Chromecast is cheap and reliable so it's no wonder that it's become so popular. If you're picking one up, don't forget these awesome Chromecast apps!
Koush came up with a simple app that adds a handy Clear Notifications button at the top of your notification stack.
In this week's Google Play Weekly, we talk about lots of things Google did, how root apps have some troubles ahead, and 5 more Android apps you can't miss!
Koushik Dutta's AllCast lets you stream media to several devices, including Chromecast, Apple TV, Fire TV, and Roku, but with the new AllCast Receiver companion app, compatibility extends to just about any Android device.
This week on Google Play Weekly we talk about the fake antivirus app, some huge Facebook Messenger changes, new Google Apps, and more Android apps news!
Koushik Dutta just keeps adding features to his AllCast media streaming app, with support for Amazon's brand new Fire TV added in the latest update.
In version 220.127.116.11 of AllCast beta, Koush added a feature that was often requested by users – subtitle support for Chromecast when streaming from a media server such Plex or Serviio.
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We really enjoyed the 1920 theme and the wonderful relaxed atmosphere created by the staff. We were suprised that although there were animals by the camp we had to travel some distance onto the Mara for any of the big five.
Once on the Mara the game veiwing was excellent, the high light being surrounded by thousands of wilderbeast and zebras on the migration. Wonderful experience.


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When you're walking from the EPCOT Resort Hotels into EPCOT, there is a garden on the France side of the canal. Does anyone know the significance (if any) of the arrangement of these flowers? I've heard them been called "Spider Flowers" before, but I was wondering if there was any obscure logo or pattern in the flowers that has any deeper meaning.
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The duo explained a bit about obtaining and accessing DCUO's new superhero lairs, and they also pointed out that you don't have to be a paying customer to get some personal space. Free players will get a small apartment to call their own, while Legendary members will have more options and more available swank.
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