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Falling for Lorenz Hart
F. Scott Fitzgerald called him America's poet laureate. Stephen Sondheim said he "freed American lyrics from the stilted middle-European operetta technique." Fred Ebb said he "made all lyricists a little braver." And he wrote some of the greatest love songs ever, but his own love life took place largely in secret.
The subject of all those statements is Lorenz "Larry" Hart, the gay man who was the primary writing partner to composer Richard Rodgers in the 1920s and '30s, preceding Rodgers's other celebrated collaboration, with Oscar Hammerstein II.
Hart has long held a place in the pantheon of great American lyricists, with songs that display a wit and creativity perhaps equaled only by Cole Porter's work. The many classic tunes he wrote with Rodgers — "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady Is a Tramp," "Bewitched," scores of others — are staples of jazz vocalists, piano bar performers, and any aging rocker who records an album of standards.
But less is known about Hart the man. The basic outline is that he was a short, hard-drinking, irresponsible charmer who died young, at age 48, in 1943. No one disputes that he was gay, but details about this aspect of his life are scarce.
Now a new play, having its world premiere in the Los Angeles area, aims to enlighten audiences about Hart's gay life in a closeted era. Falling in Love With Make Believe, written by Mark Saltzman, directed by Jim Fall, and featuring 21 Rodgers and Hart songs, opened in April at the Colony Theatre in Burbank and began an encore run there this month due to popular demand.
"The particulars of most love affairs of gay celebrities in the pre-Stonewall era were scrupulously eradicated from the record, often by families who literally burned love letters and journals," Saltzman says in an interview published in the program. "So it's very hard to find evidence of these past romances. … The details of the Rodgers and Hart professional life are readily available with some Googling. But what's missing, what's been eradicated and will never be uncovered by historians, that's for the dramatists to fill in."
Rodgers and Hart's shows are less often revived, and the few film versions — Babes in Arms, I Married an Angel, Pal Joey — are not particularly faithful to the originals and scrap or swap out many of the songs. But the team did advance the Broadway musical, and not just through their tunes. They were not often credited with work on the book, or script, for their musicals, On Your Toes and Babes in Arms being notable exceptions. Still, they frequently had a good deal of input, and their choice of subject matter is often notable. They had a groundbreaking antihero in Pal Joey's title character, an unscrupulous nightclub performer, drawn from stories by John O'Hara. They successfully musicalized Shakespeare in The Boys From Syracuse, based on The Comedy of Errors. On Your Toes pioneered the use of ballet sequences on Broadway with "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue," and Hart pushed for its inclusion. A 1998 regional revival of Babes in Arms showed the quintessential kids-putting-on-a-show musical to be "wildly satirical, surprisingly topical and a bit peculiar," according to theater historian Tom Briggs, who said it "still works like gangbusters."
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If you can't catch one of the infrequent revivals of their shows, films do provide a good opportunity to hear Rodgers and Hart songs. In movies they're probably best represented by Pal Joey; the so-so screenplay reworks the original to fit Frank Sinatra, but he does a great job of singing many Rodgers and Hart classics, including some from other shows. The corny, wildly inaccurate 1948 biopic Words and Music, with Mickey Rooney as a heterosexual Hart, is made palatable by a feast of songs performed by Rooney, Lena Horne, Mel Tormé, Perry Como, and especially Judy Garland. The team also wrote directly for the screen, most notably for the sophisticated 1932 comedy Love Me Tonight, in which Maurice Chevalier introduced "Isn't it Romantic?" And their songs make for memorable moments in many other movies, such as Michelle Pfeiffer's breathy rendering of "My Funny Valentine" over the end credits of The Fabulous Baker Boys. On recordings, singers who have mined the Rodgers and Hart songbook range from Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, and Tony Bennett to Rod Stewart and Lady Gaga.
And if you're anywhere near Southern California, by all means go see Falling for Make Believe; here's hoping it will be performed elsewhere soon as well. If you're not familiar with Rodgers and Hart, it's a great introduction; if you are, you'll be, well, beguiled again.
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The tricks that hotels don't want you to know
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- January 14, 2013
- Hotel insider tells how to avoid fees
- Go on drink the mini bar and watch movies
- The creative ways hotel staff get back at guests
A HOTEL insider has revealed three top tricks that are going to save you cash at your hotel stay. But a warning - they may not actually be legal.
First the mini bar. According to Jacob Tomsky, author of Beds in Heads hotel guests should NEVER pay for using the mini bar. No, we're not talking about filling up the tiny vodka bottles with water and the rum with tea. Tomsky says mini bar charges are the most disputed charges on any bill.
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"Why? Because it's done by people. The traditional minibar, before they invented the variety with sensors, is checked (maybe) once a day by a slow-moving gentleman or lady pushing a cartful of snacks. Keystroke errors, delays in restocking, double stocking and hundreds of other missteps make minibar charges the most voided item. Even before guests can manage to get through half of the "I never had these items" sentence, I have already removed the charges."
Tomsky has worked in hotels for more than a decade doing everything from valet parking to front desk and housekeeping. So he knows his stuff.
So what are his other cash saving tips?
Number 2: You don't have to pay for in-room movies.
"Here's how, in three easy steps: 1. Watch and enjoy any movie. 2. Call down and say you accidentally clicked on it. Or it cut off in the middle. Or it froze near the end. Or it never even started. Would you like them to restart the movie for you? No thanks. You need to go to bed/leave now. Just remove the charge, please. 3. Order another movie."
Lastly, Tomsky says travellers should never pay the hotel same-day cancellation fee. No matter what the hotel says. This one is legal.
Here's how to do it. Ask to speak to a manager. Don't give a long story. Keep it simple. Say personal emergency rather than going into details of how your flight was delayed or your sister's cousin's friend broken her leg.
Then try this:
"I just have a quick request. I think you can help me. I've had a personal emergency and won't be able to check in tonight. However, I have already rescheduled my meeting for next week. Do you think you could just shift tonight's reservation to next Friday without a penalty?"
More often than not, Tomsky says the answer will be yes.
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Dan Posted at 5:39 PM January 14, 2013
I work in top 5 star hotels, these are the most common comments, they dont work! Most mini bars are electronic and we can tell how long the movie were watch for. Bad karma to say a person emergancy. And all good hotel managers know more tricks than you do :)
James of Cairns Posted at 5:26 PM January 14, 2013
Thank you Jacob Tomsky. As I work in the hotel industry, if I hear any of these excuses, I will know that they're more than likely bogus and will not accept them.
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How does Belladonna work?Belladonna has chemicals that can block functions of the body's nervous system. Some of the bodily functions regulated by the nervous system include salivation, sweating, pupil size, urination, digestive functions, and others.
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Early last year, the Ministry of Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran awarded its World Prize for the Book of the Year to The Banquet: A Reading of the Fifth Sura of the Qur'an [1]—originally published in French as Le Festin: Une lecture de la sorate al-Mâ'ida. The book's author was invited to Tehran to receive the award from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and was subsequently asked to present his findings to academic gatherings in Tehran and at Iran's principal Shiite university at Qum. He managed to win over his initially skeptical audience and was invited to give a lecture to seminary students (which his travel plans did not permit).
The irony in all this is that the author, Michael Cuypers, is a Belgian Catholic, a member of the Little Brothers of Jesus who had been expelled from Iran in 1989. He had initially lived in Tabriz at a leper colony run by the brothers, but was later asked by his order to start a foundation in Tehran. There he studied Farsi and Iranian culture at Tehran University. But when some Iranian students were expelled from Belgium, the Iranian government retaliated by expelling two Belgian citizens, one of whom was Cuypers. He then moved to Egypt, where he learned Arabic and got a job as a file clerk at the Institute of Oriental Studies, run by the Dominicans. When the director of the Institute learned that Cuypers had a gift for analyzing...
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The latest statewide political fundraising numbers are out, and they include a few surprises and an intriguing hint or two about the political future of some of the region's political leaders.
Surprise One: Despite arguing vociferously for a spending cap at the (hotly contested) 46th District Democrats' nominating convention, former anti-Hanford activist Gerry Pollet is actually outraising his "establishment" opponent, Scott White—so called because he used to chair the 46th District Dems and has the endorsement of most elected officials in the city. Last month, Pollet raised $8,000 to White's $6,300, leaving Pollet (with around $11,000) less than $5,000 shy of the $15,800 White has on hand. (Less surprisingly, well-funded business candidate Reuven Carlyle continued to clobber his opponent, John Burbank, in the 36th, raising $25,000 in April to Burbank's $6,600. Burbank, also not surprisingly, has also called for a spending cap)
King County Council member Larry Phillips, rumored to be mulling a challenge to King County Executive Ron Sims, has more than $135,000 on hand. If Phillips does run, the incumbent has a lot of catching up to do—Sims has just $16,000 in the bank, and he didn't raise a single penny in April. Meanwhile, King County Council member Bob Ferguson, also rumored to be considering a run for County Exec, has just $8,000 on hand.
On the local front, neither of the Seattle City Council members who are reportedly planning to retire this year—Richard McIver or Jan Drago—have raised any money to speak of, and Nick Licata, about whose plans nobody is certain, has just over $11,000 in the bank. While Richard Conlin, rumored to be considering a run against Mayor Greg Nickels, has a paltry $14,800, Tom Rasmussen, another potential contender, has $109,000 on hand.
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So NPR just released the results of their survey for the "Top 100 Science-fiction and Fantasy Books." It's a great list with some of my all-time favorite books on it (although I disagree with their decision not to include young adult books on the list, but that's just me). Some 5,000 books were nominated for the list, but the ones that made the top 100 were mostly ones that were more than just entertaining stories; they are the stories that mean something. Stories that through their imaginings of alternative worlds tap into the power of the prophetic to deliver the message that our world too is not absolute, but imagined and therefore capable of change.
Now, while I have complained in the past about why imaginative challenges to oppressive orders in our world only seem to happen in speculative fictions, the genre still remains my favorite -- often for that very reason. As this recent comparison of women of sci-fi vs. women of prime time shows, there are just so many more substantial ways of being in the world than the status quo generally allows for. Speculative fictions not only present the possibility that the dreams we struggle for now could someday actually be realities, they are also the prophetic voice calling us into that world.


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Were you frustrated by Daenerys Targaryen's season 2 progress on Game of Thrones?
Emilia Clarke understands. Sitting in the lounge of a hotel in West Hollywood, her natural dark hair effectively hiding her TV alter ego as the dragon queen to passing guests, Clarke says her character had a "very frustrating season two." The exiled heir to the Iron Throne spent the season in the wealthy city of Qarth, getting the runaround from its rich patrons, battling a warlock and even losing her precious trio of young dragons for a time (say it with me now, "Where are my dragons!?").
Season 3 starts much the same way. Dany arrives at another Mediterranean-style city (called Astapor) and still seeks resources to invade Westeros. But expect her story to move very quickly. "She hits the ground running, lets put it that way," Clarke says. "Season two was so much about trust and she learned she couldn't trust many people. Season three is her trusting herself and not trusting other people. She has to prove to herself and others that she knows what she's doing."
Dany sets her sights on acquiring a slave army called the Unsullied. The fighting men are considered among the best in the world, though are also quite expensive. "She starts the season with nothing — just the dragons," she says. "It's a huge test this season to get the army. It's what she always should have had, basically." Her dragons, by and by, are firmly bigger and more vicious than last year, as the Thrones producers discussed in our previous post. Not that Dany is afraid of them. "Her material instincts outweighs any trepidation," she says.
The 25-year-old Clarke has a unique position on the hit show since her character doesn't interact with any of the show's main cast members. She's basically the star of her own separate program and this season her scenes were largely shot in an entirely different country (Morocco) from the rest of the show. "I get to be in The Dany Zone for ages," she says. "I always get the lovely hot destination."
Though her characters still longs for her ill-fated Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa), she says fans can expect a "light smattering of romance" this season.
Clarke has also been expanding her sights beyond Thrones recently, starring in a new stage adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway. "She's probably the nicest human on the planet," says Thrones executive producer David Benioff. "But when she goes full Daenerys Stormborn, you completely believe she'd burn people alive."
Are you really spending your Saturday waiting for the latest Thrones box set giveaway and keeping an eye on Twitter? Because that's what it will take to get one of these two sets, and anybody doing that sure deserves this. First two to hit me up on Twitter get them. Code word is (of course): "Dracarys!" Fulfilled! If you don't win, I'm giving away the last two in Sunday night's Thrones premiere recap. (One day away!).
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It's that level of support that may be crucial to keeping weight off, says Leslie Bonci (pronounced BAWN-see), MPH, RD, director of sports nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Bonci is nutrition consultant to several professional, college, and high school sports teams as well as to the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre company.
"People doing Weight Watchers are keeping some ties to it. They go to meetings they are tracked better than in other programs," Bonci tells WebMD. "And with this type of eating pattern, it is not a diet in the strict sense of the word. It helps people find a certain calorie level that makes them good losers and keeps them maintaining the weight loss."
Bonci says that people who lose weight and keep it off -- whether they are on Weight Watchers or not -- have several things in common:
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Judge Brett Cullum likes to look at blue eyes and blondes on VHS!
The Charge
Shocking true Hollywood stories!
The Case
Hollywood The Dark Side: Frank Sinatra & Marilyn Monroe is one of those discs you wonder why a distributor would even bother to release. It's a DVD with three short features about Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, and a look at famous blondes. The segments are made up of stock footage, and look like they are ports from VHS with no additional work done on them.
They cover things you already know if you're a fan of Frank or Marilyn, and only are nice since they feature interviews from the vaults with some people who knew them well. The quality is truly terrible. The picture freezes often, the image is sub par even for VHS, and the whole thing looks messy and sloppy.
Some facts are even wrong in the narration. Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is mentioned as being in How to Marry a Millionaire when it is actually from Gentleman Prefer Blondes. Another mistake is referring to Jayne Mansfield's accident as beheading her which is incorrect at least in part. These gaffes could be forgivable if we got valuable insight into Frank Sinatra or Marilyn Monroe, but we don't. We just get to see clips of the icons and see people talk about them for twenty or thirty minutes.
This release comes from Little Dizzy! which is an enterprise founded by Former Motown record producer/songwriter Michael Sutton and Roberta "Birdie" Wilcox. Hopefully they both will find better projects for their video company other than short stock footage of Hollywood legends.
The single extra is a look at famous blondes which is just the third segment I've been referring to this whole review.
Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe are fascinating figures, but they aren't given much respect in this release. Hollywood The Dark Side: Frank Sinatra & Marilyn Monroe promises salacious stories of the stars, but simply delivers sorry surveys of people we know better than the people who produced these segments. Sad really.
Perhaps it's all worth a look if you're a diehard fan just to see the news reel footage, but even that sputters and stops frequently. I'd say give this one a pass and find an E! True Hollywood Story to satisfy your need for revelations of the stars.
The Verdict
Guilty of not being what it promises, Hollywood The Dark Side: Frank
Sinatra & Marilyn Monroe is just too common to be anything you'd want
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Caramelized Pineapple & Oranges in Honeyed Port
From EatingWell: January/February 1997
Winter fruits, such as pineapple and oranges, take on a special intensity when sugared and broiled and then served in heady Port.
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- 1 medium pineapple
- 4 large oranges, such as Valencia or blood oranges
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/3 cup Port
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon lime juice
- 1 cup seedless red grapes, halved lengthwise
- 8 large fresh mint leaves, slivered
- Preheat broiler. Line a baking sheet with foil; set aside.
- Peel pineapple, removing eyes. Cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Remove center core from slices with a 1-inch cookie cutter or paring knife.
- Remove all peel and pith from 3 of the oranges with a paring knife. Cut crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Juice the remaining orange, discarding any seeds. Set aside.
- Lay pineapple slices on one end of prepared baking sheet and arrange orange slices on the other end. Sprinkle with sugar. Broil, 4 to 6 inches from the heat, until the oranges are caramelized, about 5 minutes. (Watch carefully to prevent burning.) Removethe oranges with a spatula and set aside. Rotate the baking sheet and continue broiling until the pineapple is caramelized, 4 to 6 minutes more, removing any slices that are ready sooner.
- Meanwhile, whisk Port, honey, lime juice and reserved orange juice in a small bowl.
- To serve, place 2 pineapple slices in each of 4 shallow bowls. Arrange the orange slices over the pineapple. Top with grapes and pour honeyed Port over all. Sprinkle with mint. Serve immediately.
Per serving: 256 calories; 0 g fat (0 g sat, 0 g mono); 0 mg cholesterol; 61 g carbohydrates; 3 g protein; 6 g fiber; 4 mg sodium; 552 mg potassium.
Nutrition Bonus: Vitamin C (242% daily value), Fiber (24% dv), Folate (19% dv), Potassium (16% dv).
Carbohydrate Servings: 3 1/2
Exchanges: 3 fruit, 1 other carbohydrate
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This work first provides a literature review of product development and knowledge management including product development process, design history and domain knowledge. It then presents a method for the knowledge-based multi-view process modeling including process implementation, process monitoring, and knowledge management. The integrated framework and hierarchical model of the design history is built. The relationship among process history, design intent and domain knowledge is analyzed, and the method for acquisition and management of process history, design intent and domain knowledge is presented. The functional modules of knowledge-based PDPM system are described, and the architecture of integrated knowledge management (IKM) system based on PDPM is set up and developed with a B/C/S structure. The system is used successfully during the life cycle of a new type of railway rolling stock development in a Chinese enterprise.


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Connection limits restrict the number of simultaneous connections to your Web sites and your Web server. If the number of connections reaches the maximum allotted, all subsequent connection attempts return an error and then are disconnected.
By limiting connections, you can conserve bandwidth for other uses, such as e-mail servers, news servers, or another Web site running on the same installation. Limiting connections also conserves memory and protects against malicious attacks designed to overload your Web server with thousands of client requests.
To determine whether you need to limit connections, use System Monitor to log the Current Connections, Maximum Connections, and Total Connection Attempts counters on the Web Service and FTP Service objects. Continue logging until you have a good sense of the normal range; typically, logging can take several days to a week or more and must be repeated at regular intervals. For more information about performance logging, see Enabling Logging and Analyzing Log Files.
You can establish global WWW service or FTP service connection limits for all Web and FTP sites, or you can establish connection limits on individual Web or FTP sites. IIS checks for a global connection limit before checking for connection limits on individual sites. If the global connection limit is exceeded, IIS returns error message 403.9 (Forbidden - Too Many Users) regardless of the connection limit set for individual sites. (You can customize the connection limit error message in IIS 5.0; however, IIS 6.0 does not offer that option.) For information about limiting connections for the WWW service, the FTP service, a Web site, or an FTP site, see Limiting Connections.
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Released: Sep 01st, 1994
Running Time: 84
Directors: Harry Hard, Nick East
Company: Total Video
Cast: Kerri Down, Honey Wells, Micky Lynn, Samara (I), Melisa Hill, Tony Montana, Nick East, Isis Nile, Santino Lee
Critical Rating: A 1/2
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From the department of Where Are They Now, And Who Gives A Rat's Ass?, comes the answer to a question better left unasked: What's one half of that bogus German pop group up to now? From the looks of things, Milli (Santino Lee) has nothing better to do than hang around a coffee shop nursing a soda and reminiscing about how much pussy he and his bodyguards used to get while his manager Sam Cooper berates him for being a talentless, washed-up asshole. (Tom Arnold, hello?)
I used to thing that great porn actors made great porn directors (John Leslie, P.T., Eric Edwards, etc.) but Nick East needs a quick refresher: They don't call it the money shot for nothin', kid. And Santino, in his "interview" with rock reporter Isis Nile, fails to deliver it. Try Federal Express next time.
Nick manages to cover his own scene slightly better, as a bodyguard strip-searching groupie Micky Lynn. A conveniently placed bean-bag chair is the focal point for a tepid reverse-cowgirl hump, but the only reason to proceed any further is the delightfully natural presence of one of the rock groupies who has to pass USDA inspection by Tony Montana. Though her ass gets eaten and plundered nicely, an initial penetration shot would have helped, but why bother telling a pornographer his business, eh? (At least she gobbles the goo without making a face.)
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AbstractNASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program is integrating its three current agency networks: Space Network (SN), Deep Space Network (DSN), and Near Earth Network (NEN). This effort raises several issues for the network management in the future integrated space networks. First, an integrated network management function, which uses common standards and implementations, is needed to serve as the interface for all SCaN network customers. Second, satellite operations currently use a highly manual approach. The research and development of autonomous operations has been conducted recently but is still at early stage. Third, due to different characteristics of space networks, security management mechanisms and other network management functions that are widely adopted in the traditional networks are not fully suitable to space networks. In addition, several issues related to Bundle Protocol exist and need to be further investigated to enhance the performance of bundle delivery in delay tolerant networks. To address these issues, we propose an innovative Security-Enhanced Autonomous Network Management (SEANM) scheme for reliable communication in space networking, which allows the system to adaptively reconfigure its network elements based upon awareness of network conditions, policies, and mission requirements.
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Clean lines combined with an organic form lend a softly modern, timeless feel to the Dunn cocktail table. Created by skilled Vermont artisans, Dunn features unique joinery that gives the base the illusion of being carved from a single piece of wood. A glass top showcases the distinctive base.
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Come and meet our local recommended suppliers or see the hotel set up for your dream country house wedding at one of Ettington Park Hotel's wedding venue open days, showcase events or wedding fayres in Stratford-upon-Avon. In addition we offer appointments 7 days a week including evenings, please contact the hotel directly to confirm an appointment.
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Sunday, 17 July 2016 13:00 until 16:00
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Wedding open days
Our wedding open days offer everything you could need to plan your dream country house wedding. View the rooms that would be used on the day and meet our wedding co-ordinators who are expert at organising all details of your wedding, big and small, perfectly. Pre booked appointments will be available for show rounds on an individual basis. There will also be a selection of suppliers present. If you would like to look around yourself, please do pop by.
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Our food and wine tasting evenings provide an opportunity to view rooms that would be used on the day of the wedding. The wedding co-ordinators will be on hand to offer show rounds of the hotel and there will be food and wine tasting, with our head chef on hand to discuss menu ideas. Limited spaces available mean that pre-booking is required.
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Amazon RDS Security Groups
Security groups control the access that traffic has in and out of a DB instance. Three types of security groups are used with Amazon RDS: DB security groups, VPC security groups, and EC2 security groups. In simple terms, a DB security group controls access to a DB instance that is not in a VPC, a VPC security group controls access to a DB instance (or other AWS instances) inside a VPC, and an EC2 security group controls access to an EC2 instance.
By default, network access is turned off to a DB instance. You can specify rules in a security group that allows access from an IP address range, port, or EC2 security group. Once ingress rules are configured, the same rules apply to all DB instances that are associated with that security group. You can specify up to 20 rules in a security group.
DB Security Groups
Each DB security group rule enables a specific source to access a DB instance that is associated with that DB security group. The source can be a range of addresses (e.g., 203.0.113.0/24), or an EC2 security group. When you specify an EC2 security group as the source, you allow incoming traffic from all EC2 instances that use that EC2 security group. Note that DB security group rules apply to inbound traffic only; outbound traffic is not currently permitted for DB instances.
You do not need to specify a destination port number when you create DB security group rules; the port number defined for the DB instance is used as the destination port number for all rules defined for the DB security group. DB security groups can be created using the Amazon RDS APIs or the Amazon RDS page of the AWS Management Console.
For more information about working with DB security groups, see Working with DB Security Groups.
VPC Security Groups
Each VPC security group rule enables a specific source to access a DB instance in a VPC that is associated with that VPC security group. The source can be a range of addresses (e.g., 203.0.113.0/24), or another VPC security group. By specifying a VPC security group as the source, you allow incoming traffic from all instances (typically application servers) that use the source VPC security group. VPC security groups can have rules that govern both inbound and outbound traffic, though the outbound traffic rules do not apply to DB instances. Note that you must use the Amazon EC2 API or the Security Group option on the VPC Console to create VPC security groups.
DB instances deployed within a VPC can be configured to be accessible from the Internet or from EC2 instances outside the VPC. If a VPC security group specifies a port access such as TCP port 22, you would not be able to access the DB instance because the firewall for the DB instance provides access only via the IP addresses specified by the DB security groups the instance is a member of and the port defined when the DB instance was created.
You should use TCP as the protocol for any VPC security group created to control access to a DB instance. The port number for the VPC security group should be the same port number as that used to create the DB instance.
DB Security Groups vs. VPC Security Groups
The following table shows the key differences between DB security groups and VPC security groups.
|DB Security Group
|VPC Security Group
|Controls access to DB instances outside a VPC
|Controls access to DB instances in VPC.
|Uses Amazon RDS APIs or Amazon RDS page of the AWS Management Console to create and manage group/rules
|Uses Amazon EC2 APIs or Amazon VPC page of the AWS Management Console to create and manage group/rules.
|When you add a rule to a group, you do not need to specify port number or protocol.
|When you add a rule to a group, you should specify the protocol as TCP, and specify the same port number that you used to create the DB instances (or Options) you plan to add as members to the group.
|Groups allow access from EC2 security groups in your AWS account or other accounts.
|Groups allow access from other VPC security groups in your VPC only.
Security Group Scenario
A common use of an RDS instance in a VPC is to share data with an application server running in an EC2 instance in the same VPC and that is accessed by a client application outside the VPC. For this scenario, you would do the following to create the necessary instances and security groups. You can use the RDS and VPC pages on the AWS Console or the RDS and EC2 APIs.
Create a VPC security group (for example, "sg-appsrv1") and define inbound rules that use as source the IP addresses of the client application. This security group allows your client application to connect to EC2 instances in a VPC that uses this security group.
Create an EC2 instance for the application and add the EC2 instance to the VPC security group ("sg-appsrv1") you created in the previous step. The EC2 instance in the VPC shares the VPC security group with the DB instance.
Create a second VPC security group (for example, "sg-dbsrv1") and create a new rule by specifying the VPC security group you created in step 1 ("sg-appsrv1") as the source.
Create a new DB instance and add the DB instance to the VPC security group ("sg-dbsrv1") you created in the previous step. When you create the instance, use the same port number as the one specified for the VPC security group ("sg-dbsrv1") rule you created in step 3.
The following diagram shows this scenario.
For more information on working with DB security groups, see Working with DB Security Groups.
Delete DB VPC security groups
DB VPC security groups are an RDS mechanism to synchronize security information with a VPC security group. However, this synchronization is no longer required as RDS has been updated to use VPC security group information directly.
We strongly recommend that you delete any DB VPC security groups that you are currently using. If you do not delete your DB VPC security groups, you may encounter unintended behaviors with your RDS DB instances which can be as severe as losing access to a DB instance. The unintended behaviors are a result of an action such as an update to a DB instance, an option group, and so on which causes RDS to re-synchronize the DB VPC security group with the VPC security group. This re-synchronization can result your security information being overwritten with incorrect and outdated security information and severely impact your access to your RDS DB instances.
How can I determine if I have a DB VPC security group?
Because DB VPC security groups have been deprecated, they do not show in the RDS Console. However, you can call the describe-db-security-groups AWS CLI command or the DescribeDBSecurityGroups API action to determine if you have any VPC DB security groups.
If you call the
describe-db-security-groups CLI command with JSON specified as the output format, then
you can identify DB VPC security groups by the VPC identifier on the second line of the output for the
security group as shown in the following example.
"DBSecurityGroups": [
"VpcId": "vpc-abcd1234",
"DBSecurityGroupDescription": "default:vpc-abcd1234",
"IPRanges": [
"Status": "authorized",
"CIDRIP": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/n"
"Status": "authorized",
"CIDRIP": "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/n "
"OwnerId": "123456789012",
"EC2SecurityGroups": [],
"DBSecurityGroupName": "default:vpc-abcd1234"
If you execute the
DescribeDBSecurityGroups API action, then you can identify DB VPC
security groups using the <VpcId> response element as shown in the following example.
How do I delete a DB VPC security group?
Because DB VPC security groups do not show in the RDS Console, you must call the delete-db-security-group AWS CLI command or the DeleteDBSecurityGroup API action to delete a VPC DB security group.
After you delete a DB VPC security group, your DB instances in your VPC will continue to be secured by the VPC security group for that VPC. The DB VPC security group that was deleted was merely a copy of the VPC security group information.
Review your AWS CloudFormation templates
Older versions of AWS CloudFormation templates can contain instructions to create a DB VPC security group. Because
DB VPC security groups are not yet fully deprecated they can still be created. Make sure that any
AWS CloudFormation templates that you use to provision a DB instance with security settings do not also create a
DB VPC security group. Do not use AWS CloudFormation templates that create an RDS
DBSecurityGroup with an
EC2VpcId as shown in the following example.
"DbSecurityByEC2SecurityGroup" : {
Type" : "AWS::RDS::DBSecurityGroup",
"Properties" : {
"GroupDescription" : "Ingress for Amazon EC2 security group",
"EC2VpcId" : { "MyVPC" },
"DBSecurityGroupIngress" : [ {
"EC2SecurityGroupId" : "sg-b0ff1111",
"EC2SecurityGroupOwnerId" : "111122223333"
}, {
"EC2SecurityGroupId" : "sg-ffd722222",
"EC2SecurityGroupOwnerId" : "111122223333"
} ]
Instead, add security information for your RDS DB instances in a VPC using VPC security groups, as shown in the following example.
"DBInstance" : {
"Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
"Properties": {
"DBName" : { "Ref" : "DBName" },
"Engine" : "MySQL",
"MultiAZ" : { "Ref": "MultiAZDatabase" },
"MasterUsername" : { "Ref" : "
<master_username>" },
"DBInstanceClass" : { "Ref" : "DBClass" },
"AllocatedStorage" : { "Ref" : "DBAllocatedStorage" },
"MasterUserPassword": { "Ref" : "
<master_password>" },
"VPCSecurityGroups" : [ { "Fn::GetAtt": [ "VPCSecurityGroup", "GroupId" ] } ]


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When you lose 100 pounds or more, what happens to the extra skin? For many, the answer lies in body-contouring surgery.
The Facts About Body-Contouring Surgery
Body Contouring: Is It For You?
Not everyone who loses a lot of weight needs body-contouring surgery. Moreover, experts say, not everyone needs it for the entire body.
"A lot depends on your age, your genetics, level of sun exposure, how evenly the weight was distributed, and, more importantly, how you feel when you look in the mirror," says Colon. "If you're not unhappy about the way you look, you shouldn't be made to feel you need body- contouring surgery."
Those least likely to want or need the procedure, he says, are usually under age 40. "The majority of the patients I see for this surgery are over 40. It's pretty hard to avoid the slackening effect of the skin after that age," says Colon.
What can also make a difference, however, is where you lose the weight. While a loss of 50 pounds that was concentrated in your midsection might leave you with a lot of loose skin in that area, a 100-pound loss that was more evenly distributed on your body may have less of an effect on skin.
If you do end up with droopy, sagging skin and think there's some other way around it, experts say, forget it.
"Short of surgery, there is really nothing that can help. Exercise won't tighten it, and skin creams and lotions won't do a thing to help," says Nolan Karp, MD, associate professor of plastic surgery at New York University Medical Center.
But body contouring doesn't come cheap. The average price of a full-body lift is around $30,000. Arm surgery runs in the range of $8,000, while inner thighs cost about $10,000 a pair. A breast lift and upper back surgery will set you back about $15,000, and a neck and face lift would add another $15,000 to the bill. (As you probably already guessed, insurance rarely covers any of it.)
When you add to this the need for four to six weeks of at-home recovery, for many, spandex can seem like the only viable option.
In an attempt to make things easier, many doctors use finance companies to help patients work out a kind of "plastic surgery mortgage" -- a payment plan that allows you to reduce the size of your midsection without paying an arm and a leg up front.
Doctors say they also help patients rationalize the expenditure, frequently comparing it to the purchase of a new car.
"Many people wouldn't hesitate to spend $30,000 for a new car. So I ask them, after all that hard work losing the weight, aren't you worth the same $30,000 to look the way you want to look?" says Karp.