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By Dr. Heather Graham
Left: Titian, Portrait of Francesco Maria Della Rovere, c. 1537, oil on canvas, 114 x 103 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy); right: Titian, Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga, c. 1537, oil on canvas, 114 x 103 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy)
Ideal representatives of masculinity and femininity
Batons (detail), Titian, Portrait of Francesco Maria Della Rovere, c. 1537, oil on canvas, 114 x 103 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy)
In a pair of portraits painted by the Venetian artist Titian, the Duke and Duchess of Urbino are presented as ideal representatives of their sexes. Duke Francesco Maria della Rovere, the great mercenary captain, stands upright, his body encased in shining armor. His right arm juts outward from his body, seemingly breaking through the picture plane, as his hand rests upon the war baton he carries as a reminder of his military authority as commander of Venetian troops. Francesco Maria's prominent codpiece and piercing stare emphasize his aggressive masculinity, while his dark beard and ruddy complexion mark him as a mature man of action. The objects behind him communicate his valor and political commitments: two other war batons bearing the
Papal Keys
Florentine lily
lean against a wall (the lily has faded over time) next to an oak branch marking his della Rovere lineage (the della Roveres were a powerful noble family of Italy).
His wife, the Duchess Eleonora Gonzaga, makes the perfect, demure counterpoint to her virile husband. While he stands erect and linear, she sits, swathed in copious folds of costly fabric that suggest the rounded forms of her body. While he is active, she is passive, her containment within the domestic sphere affirmed by the window to her right. Eleonora's bodily comportment is a far remove from her husband's thrusting fist that intrudes upon the audience's space. The small dog and the costly clock that rests upon the table beside her remind us of her loyalty and patience in reservedly awaiting her husband whose military pursuits often kept him abroad.
Internal virtues, including gender characteristics, were believed to be communicated through outward appearance. The author Pietro Aretino noted in sonnets dedicated to Titian's portraits that Francesco Maria's "place between his eyebrows inspires terror, his spirit in his eyes, his pride in his forehead, in which place honor and wise counsel sit. In his armored chest and ready arm valor burns…." For Eleonora, "Prudence guards her honor and counsels in beautiful silence: the internal virtues adorn her brow with every wonder." [1] Like the portraits, Aretino's sonnets highlight Francesco Maria's active and awe-inspiring masculinity and Eleanora's passive feminine charms.
Titian's portraits help us to understand ideas that people in the past had about gender. While sex is determined by biological markers such as genitalia and other genetic differences between male or female, gender refers to the social role that a person plays based upon individual and collective ideas about identity as it relates to being a man or a woman. Different cultures define masculinity and femininity differently. These social roles are constructed by multiple factors including medical understandings of the body and mind, as well as cultural and religious ideas about the sexes.
Simone Martini, The Annunciation, 1333, tempera on panel, 184 x 210 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
The feminine ideal
"Have you seen that [Virgin] Annunciation that is in the cathedral, at the altar of Sant' Ansano, next to the sacristy?…She seems to me to strike the most beautiful attitude, the most reverent and modest imaginable. Notice that she does not look at the angel but is almost frightened. She knew that it was an angel…What would she have done had it been a man! Take this as an example you maidens!"
—Bernardino de Siena [2]
When the popular fifteenth-century preacher, Bernardino da Siena, wanted to impress upon his female listeners the importance of proper feminine behavior, he pointed them to the model of the Virgin Mary as painted by the Sienese artist, Simone Martini. At the moment the archangel Gabriel announces to Mary that she would bear the son of God, Mary's reaction is exemplary: she pulls her cloak tightly around her and recoils from the angelic intrusion in her private space. So important in this patriarchal world was the regulation of women to the domestic sphere, that even an emissary of God should be considered with caution. A renaissance woman's primary virtues were chastity and motherhood; her domain was the private world of the home. As noted by the scholar and artistic theorist Leon Battista Alberti in his treatise On the Family (1435), "It would hardly win us respect if our wife busied herself among the men in the marketplace, out in the public eye." [3]
While gender roles were nuanced across European cultures, throughout the continent women's relegation to the domestic sphere was rooted in Christian tradition that placed blame for humanity's fall from grace upon Eve, the first woman. Eve was the temptress who led the first man, Adam, into breaking God's law, sentencing humankind to toil and death. Every woman thereafter was thought to live in the shadow of Eve's sin, justly sentenced to the pains of childbirth, the labors of motherhood, and submission to her husband.
Herman, Paul and Jean de Limbourg, Zodiacal man, from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413-16, ink on vellum (Musée Condé, Chantilly). The image is divided by quadrants marked by Latin inscriptions describing the properties of each sign according to the four humors.
The four humors
Women's subordinate role in renaissance culture was also tied to medical understanding of the human body inherited from ancient Greek and Roman traditions. Perhaps most influential was the ancient theory of the four humors. Originating in ancient Greece, humoral theory was thoroughly developed by the Roman doctor, Galen, whose writings were important to the medieval and renaissance world. According to Galen, it was the proper balance of four fluids called humors—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile—generated through the processes of digestion that determined physical and psychological health. Each humor was associated with particular mental characteristics, making a person's
psychobiology
a product of his or her unique humoral composition, a model further nuanced by qualities of temperature and moisture also assigned to the various humors.
Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504, engraving, 25.1 x 20cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
German artist Albrecht Dürer's engraving of Adam and Eve includes numerous symbols associated with the four humors: a rabbit (blood), an ox (phlegm), a cat (yellow bile), and an elk (black bile). This image captures the moment just before the first man and woman broke God's law. All of the animals—all of the humors—are shown at rest, symbolizing humanity's perfect internal balance before the
Fall from Grace
Generally speaking, men and women were understood to be humoral opposites. Men were physiologically characterized by superior humors associated with heat and dryness, women by inferior humors associated with cold and wetness. These perceived differences were used to justify men's and women's social roles: a man's hot-dryness gave him the constancy necessary for public social and political life; a women's cold-wetness made her inconstant, accounted for her timidity, and explained menstruation and the pains of childbirth. As Alberti also noted in his writings on the family, "Women are almost all timid by nature, soft, slow, and therefore more useful when they sit still and watch over things." [4]
Guido Mazzoni, Lamentation, 1480s, Ferrara, Italy (photo: Sailko, CC BY 3.0)
Women's assumed physiological inferiority to men also contributed to how they were thought to experience emotions. Women's cold-wet humoral nature made them more susceptible to emotions and less capable of managing their emotional behaviors in socially appropriate ways. In works of art like Guido Mazzoni's terracotta Lamentation tableau created for the Duke of Ferrara, biblical characters perform their sorrow over Christ's death in ways that reflect expectations for gendered emotional experience: the women are collectively far more violent than the men in their expressions of grief.
Titian, Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga, c. 1537, oil on canvas, 114 x 103 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy)
Titian's composed and contained Duchess Eleonora perfectly reflects the gendered ideal for a renaissance woman. Her youthful beauty, her curvaceous form suggesting the fertility of motherhood, and her careful containment within the domestic realm all communicate renaissance expectations of and ideals for femininity. It is rare in renaissance art to encounter women whose features do not reflect standards of youthful beauty and the relationship to women's primarily maternal role that they embody.
Titian, Portrait of Francesco Maria Della Rovere, c. 1537, oil on canvas, 114 x 103 cm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy)
The masculine ideal
"Fortune is a woman and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill use her; and it is seen she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity to command her."
—Machiavelli, The Prince [5]
Men, who in renaissance Christian thought were created in the image of a male God, were believed to have a natural superiority over their female counterparts. Niccolo Machiavelli's famous text on statecraft, The Prince (1513), reflects the way gender roles were tied to notions of power: fortune is feminized, desirous of subjugation, while the worthy ruler is one who uses masculine aggressive force to subdue her. While not every man was expected to project the level of audacious dominance that bolstered princely authority, the masculine ideal was nonetheless one of forceful mastery.
Antonio Rosselino, Portrait of Giovanni di Antonio Chellini da San Miniato, 1456, marble, H: 51.1 cm, W: 57.6 cm, D: 29.6 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
While female virtue was tied primarily to sexual control and motherhood, male virtue was much more broadly defined. Men were expected to participate in all aspects of public life, to excel in learning, in their trade, in governance, and to do so with the aggressive and assertive behavior particular to their superior biological construction. Such qualities were communicated in art through figure types, costume, and movements that suggested these masculine ideals. As Alberti advised in his work on the family:
"The beauty of a man accustomed to arms . . . lies in his having a presence betokening pride . . . limbs full of strength, and the gestures of one who is skilled and adept in all forms of exercise. The beauty of an old man . . . lies in his prudence, his amiability, and the reasoned judgment which permeates all his words and counsel."
—Leon Battista Alberti, The Family in Renaissance Florence [6]
While Titian's portrait of Francesco Maria might be said to embody the ideal vigorous military man, Antonio Rossellino's marble portrait bust of the aged physician, Giovanni Chellini, presents the ideal sage elder. With his hollowed cheeks and sagging flesh, Chellini is shown aged and worn, yet the delicate veins at his temple seem to pulse with life and his posture is erect and his body robust beneath his robes. If Francesco Maria is the man of action, the venerable physician represents the contemplative man still virile in flesh.
Piero della Francesca, Flagellation of Christ, c. 1455-65, oil and tempera on wood, 58.4 × 81.5 cm (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino)
Jesus Christ himself, whose own life-giving flesh had important associations with femininity, was overwhelmingly depicted in art in ways that emphasized his male sex and his masculine capacity to nobly endure physical and psychological pain. The stoic grace with which Christ endures the whips and torments of his torturers in Piero della Francesca's Flagellation was a worthy model of noble, masculine strength. Indeed, even for women, the Christian imperative to model one's life after that of Christ meant adopting qualities of temperance, constancy, and endurance that were understood to be fundamentally masculine in quality.
Raphael, Portrait of Pope Julius II, 1511, oil on poplar, 108.7 x 81 cm (The National Gallery, London)
Gender roles constructed in and by art
Images helped to communicate ideas about gender roles and to model appropriate—or expected—gendered behavior. One's performance of femininity or masculinity was expected to conform with their age and social rank, as we see with Titian's portraits of Francesco Maria and Eleonora. At times art could mask realities of character that were inconsistent with social ideals. Raphael's sensitive portrait of the stooped, aged, and bearded Pope Julius II della Rovere conveys a quiet solemnity. The pontiff is shown as thoughtful, introspective, and serene. In reality, Julius was famously aggressive, nicknamed the "Warrior Pope" for his penchant for warfare. Julius was formidable in temperament, notoriously impetuous, indomitable and resolute. While these are certainly appropriate masculine qualities for some (a man in the position of his nephew duke Francesco Maria perhaps), they do not reflect characteristics expected of a pope who embodied the living image of Christ on earth.
The gender roles we encounter in renaissance art reflect ideas and ideals, not necessarily the reality of lived experience. Many women did indeed participate in public life, as the duchess Eleonora often did as ruler of Urbino during her mercenary husband's many travels. Both Titian's and Raphael's portraits remind us that gender is a carefully constructed performance.
James Dennistoun, Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, vol. 3 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), appendix XI, p. 437.
Quoted in Ronald Rainey, "Dressing Down the Dressed-Up: Reproving Feminine Attire in Renaissance Florence," in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., ed. J. Monfasani and R.G. Musto (New York, 1991), p. 237 .
Leon Battista Alberti, The Family in Renaissance Florence, trans. Renée Neu Watkins (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1969), p. 20.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. W. K. Marriott (London, 1958), p. 143.
Alberti, The Family in Renaissance Florence, p. 115.
For more on gender and emotions in Renaissance art, read about Guido Mazzoni's Lamentation on Smarthistory
A short annotated bibliography on gender and art in the Renaissance from Oxford Bibliographies
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1999).
Margaret Carroll, "The Erotics of Absolutism: Rubens and the Mystification of Sexual Violence," in The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, 140–59 (New York: Icon Editions, 1992).
Whitney Chadwick, Women, Art and Society. 5th edition (New York:Thames & Hudson, 2012).
Margaret Ferguson et al., eds., Rewriting the Renaissance: the Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage Books, 1990).
Heather Graham, "Compassionate Lament: Somatic Selfhood and Gendered Affect in Italian Lamentation Imagery," in Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas, Heather Graham and Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 82–115.
Margaret L. King, Women of the Renaissance (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1991).
Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Woman: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983).
Lisa Rosenthal, "Manhood and Statehood: Rubens's Construction of Heroic Virtue," Oxford Art Journal 16 (1993), 92–111.
Patricia Simons, "Homosociality and Erotics in Italian Renaissance portraiture," in Portraiture: Facing the Subject, 29–47, ed. Joanna Woodall (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997).
Marina Warner, Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (New York: Vintage Books, 1983).
Joanna Woods-Marsden, "One Artist, Two Sitters, One Role: Raphael's Papal Portraits," in The Cambridge Companion to Raphael, pp. 120–140, ed. Marcia Hall (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005).


Now that Autotask has been set up for user-defined fields and configuration item types, we can put that configuration to use on the Auvik / Autotask integration.
IMPORTANT! For a device to sync between Auvik and Autotask, the device must match the configuration specified in Auvik. Inventory mapping configurations are treated as ANDs and ORs.
Device Identifier is Host Name OR Device Identifier is Serial Number AND Device Class Mapping is [Switch].
The device identifier is used to identify existing configuration records in Autotask to sync to.
Device in Auvik must have a discovered device name.
Device in Auvik must have a discovered serial number.
If the device name in Auvik doesn't match the configuration record in Autotask, a new configuration record is created.
If the device in Auvik doesn't have a discovered serial number, and you've chosen to use only the device identifier of serial number, the device won't sync until a serial number is discovered.
If the device in Auvik has a discovered serial number, it must match an existing record in Autotask by character, not by case. For example, if the Auvik serial number is AS1623145367, and the Autotask configuration record shows the serial number as as1623145367, this would match. A new record won't be created. But if the Autotask configuration record shows the serial number as as-1623145367, this wouldn't match the Auvik serial number and a new configuration record could be created.
From the Device Identifiers table, click the Add Device Identifier button.
Select the field(s) Auvik should use to match Auvik devices to Autotask configurations.
If you've added both Host Name and Serial Number as device identifiers, you can decide the priority in which they should be tried. To change the priority, find the one you want to change and at the end of its row, click the Up arrow to increase the priority or the Down arrow to decrease priority.
The identifiers are based on an OR condition. For example, the screenshot above shows that a match would be made based on host name OR serial number.
In the displayed list of device identifiers, find the one you want to edit. Click the box at the beginning of its row.
In the displayed list of device identifiers, find the identifier(s) you want to delete. Click the box at the beginning of its row.
The device classes are used to identify which devices in Auvik should be synced, and to what value in Autotask, when creating new inventory records.
Auvik's list of device classes can't be changed, but you can manage product and configuration types in Autotask. Once you've added a new product or configuration type in Autotask, it takes a few minutes to appear in Auvik.
From the Device Class Mappings table, click the Add Type Mapping button.
Select the Auvik device classes that should be synced with Autotask and the configuration type they should be synced as.
Repeat to add each device class mapping for which you'd like devices synced.
In the displayed list of device class mappings, find the one you want to edit. Click the box at the beginning of its row.
In the displayed list of device class mappings, find the identifier(s) you want to delete. Click the box at the beginning of its row.
Device make mappings allow you to identify which device makes in Auvik should be synced, and to what value of vendor in Autotask when updating inventory records.
Auvik's list of makes can't be changed but you can manage the vendors in Autotask. Once you've added a vendor in Autotask, it takes a few minutes to appear in Auvik.
The Vendor (Account) dropdown shows you a list of all active companies in Autotask.
From the Field Sync Mappings table, click the Add Make Mapping button.
Select the Auvik makes fields that should be synced with Autotask and the Vendor they should be synced as.
Repeat these steps to add each device make mapping you'd like synced.
(2) the vendor appears blank.
Any subsequent Auto syncs only pick up new makes that haven't yet been mapped. If there's already a mapping, it won't be updated. You must update it manually.
In the displayed list of make mappings, find the one you want to edit. Click the box at the beginning of its row.
In the displayed list of make mappings, find the fields(s) you want to delete. Click the box at the beginning of its row.
Field syncing allows you to select specific detail about a device that should be synced from Auvik to Autotask.
Auvik's list of fields can't be changed, but you can manage user-defined fields in Autotask. Once you've added a new user-defined field in Autotask, it takes a few minutes to appear in Auvik.
For all configuration types, sync field mappings are limited to device make (*), host name, IP address, Mac address, model name, and serial number. For device make, you'll want to map to the Vendor (Account) field in Autotask.
* Vendor (Account) is different from Vendor Name. Vendor (Account) syncs to existing Autotask configuration fields. Vendor Name syncs to a user-defined field, which you need to add in Autotask for each configuration type.
From the Field Sync Mappings table, click the Add Sync Field button.
Select the Auvik fields that should be synced with Autotask and the configuration type they should be synced as.
Repeat to add each device class mapping you'd like devices synced for.
In the displayed list of sync fields, find the one you want to edit. Click the box at the beginning of its row.
In the displayed list of sync fields, find the fields(s) you want to delete. Click the box at the beginning of its row.
Once you're done configuring your Auvik / Autotask integration for inventory sync, check Enable Inventory Syncing and click Save.
If you've enabled an inventory sync between Auvik and Autotask, you can see which devices have and haven't been sent between the two applications.
Click the Inventory Mappings tab.
MSP only: From the list of clients, highlight which client you want to see inventory mapping details for.
There are three tables of detail available. On each table, you can use filters to show only certain details. For more information on filtering, see How to filter data in Auvik.
Mapped Devices shows a list of all devices sent from Auvik to Autotask and how they've been mapped.
Unmapped Devices shows a list of all devices in Auvik that haven't been mapped to devices in Autotask.
Unmapped Configurations shows a list of all devices in Autotask that haven't been mapped to devices in Auvik.
After configuring inventory sync, if you find that inventory hasn't synced or there are duplicate entries, see How do I troubleshoot issues with my Auvik / Autotask integration? for possible solutions.
Details for all inventory synced from Auvik to Autotask are found in the Autotask application under CRM > Configuration Items.


In the red velvet cake recipe can real eggs and milk be used instead of the egg replacement and rice milk?
Yes, Jeanette, you may. Please let us know how it turns out for you!
I love your cookbook and am so grateful to have found it! My husband just discovered he has many alleriges that are at the root of his asthma and acid reflux. Your book has been a lifesaver…He is allergic to vinegar and lemon and leaf lettuce in addition to the top allergens. Do you have any suggestions for substitutions in your salad dressings? Thank you very much!
Thank you for your blog and for this recipe! I just made this cake today and it was fantastic! I followed the recipe exactly, with the exception that I used two eggs instead of the egg replacer. This is the best "from scratch" gluten-free cake I have ever made and my guests, who are not GF, absolutely loved it. I was so happy with this cake I took pictures! Next time I will try leaving out the lemon juice and salt in the frosting since was a little too tart.
Thanks, Loretta! Some like it tart (i tried to mimic the flavor of cream cheese frosting) some like it sweet. Let me know how it tastes w/out lemon.
You really need to format your website better. There is no reason for this page to print on 8 pages. What a waste of paper.
Hi Patrick: This doesn't have a print option, and wasn't posted with that in mind. However, I have done better as I've gone along at condensing my text. IT's a learning process. I assume you cut and pasted this into a word doc, so you should have been able to reduce the line spacing yourself, and also reduce the font size. But again, I didn't really post this with a print option, so it wasn't designed with that in mind.
My son has numerous food allergies but he can eat gluten. May I substitute all purpose flour for the gluten-free flour mix? Should I make it a pastry flour or just the regular all purpose?
I just made this for a party so my daughter would be able to eat the same thing as everyone else – it was excellent! I can't believe I made something gluten free and eggs and dairy free that tasted so delicious!
Hi! As per the question above, is it okay to sub out your gluten-free flour for regular all purpose baking flour if our household can eat wheat?
I am going to make the red velvet for a dear friend and wanted to know can you double the recipe to make a larger cake than 8 inches? And why do you refridgerate the dry ingredients before mixing?
I have two boys with severe allergies, I can not tell you how much my Entire family enjoyed this cake. After making this cake, I searched other articles by you and found your book titles. I purchased two of them and can not say thank you enough. You have opened a creative touch in my heart and kitchen. My children felt more included in our meals. I have made several selections out of your books and I just purchased them two days ago. I wish I could post my pictures. Again, thank you for blessing my boys with the ability to be included. They love the Blondie chocolate chunk bars.
I love your book so much. My son is allergic to gluten, soy, nuts, eggs and dairy and your book enabled me to cook some treats for him. I baked this cake for his birthday and it was a winner. Everybody loved, even the non-allergic crowd. Thank you very much.
I have been looking for a red velvet receipe for my grandson, Anthony. He must be gluten, wheat, dairy and egg free. Your receipt seems to be perfect. I have some questions…I have Arrowhead Mills, gluten free all purpose baking mix which has ricer flour, sorghum flour, tapioca starch, baking powder, xanthan gum. Can I use this as the flour mix. Also, do I still add the xanthan gum, baking powder, baking soda to the receipe. I have Earth Balance Vegan Buttery sticks which contain salt. Is this good to use or should I use a vegetable or canola oil. Do I still add the salt if I'm using the sticks which also contain salt? I would appreciate some help since I hope to surprise him for Thanksgiving with this cake. Thank You!
Amazing! I made cupcakes with the recipe. It made 24 cupcakes (with frosting leftover.) I baked them for 20 minutes and they were perfect.
Question – I have a juicer at home, so is it possible to substitute red beet juice for the red food coloring?
Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, that arrowhead mix won't work with my recipes. They've been developed around my flour mix. Also, I don't know how much baking powder and xanthan gum are in the mix proportionally, so wouldn't know how to tell you to adjust the called for leavening and xan. If you follow the recipe as written, you'll have a beautiful cake for your grandson, however!
Hi! I just wanted you to know how great this recipe was. Even substituting my own GF flour blend turned out well. And the icing is absolutely the best icing recipe ever. I did use butter instead of shortening but still…fantastic recipe!!!
Awe you are so sweet! So happy you liked this cake!
Cybele, thank you for your beautiful recipe! My boyfriend of a few months has gluten and egg allergies and is (mildly) dairy intolerant, and this looks like such an amazing way to spoil him for his birthday!
I'm curious to know what you think about using chia seeds as an egg replacement in this recipe, seeing as I have them on hand? I've heard they're a good replacement, but I don't know how they'd do for baking.


How much does lawn care cost? That's a question few home buyers consider as carefully as they should when they first lay eyes on that gorgeous spread of grass (which tends to look all the greener when you don't own it). Still, once those weeds creep knee-high, you'll want to know: How deeply do you need to dig in your pocketbook to trim things down to size?
Lawn care expenses will depend, of course, on how much lawn you have, your willingness to do some of the work yourself, and (let's be honest) just how jealous you want your neighbors to be. But there are some general rules of thumb to help you anticipate how much you'll have to spend—and how to trim those costs.
At the very least, your lawn needs to be mowed. If you choose to do it yourself, you'll need a lawnmower, which can range in price from less than $100 for a steel-blade push mower ($69.99 on Amazon for this snazzy green mower with a catcher) to $500 to $1,000 (or more) for a gas-powered push mower or rider. You can also get a basic smart lawn mower like the Robomow for $699, which uses GPS to mow the lawn by itself—which sounds dreamy, although you'll have to set up perimeters (so it won't mow your neighbor's lawn) and it might not do so well on tricky landscapes containing rocks or depressions.
If you choose a gas model, you'll also need to shell out for fuel. According to the University of Vermont Extension Department of Plant and Soil Services, each year a family with one-third of an acre of lawn will use an average of 5 gallons of gas for mowing and trimming. With gas currently sitting at about $2.25, that's about $11.25 per year on average.
If the thought of cutting your own grass makes you itchy, you'll want to hire someone to do it for you.
Ryan Farley, co-founder of LawnStarter.com, says the average lawn mowing service runs $30 to $45 per mow. That's based on the median lawn size in the U.S., which is currently one-fifth of an acre and typically includes trimming, edging, and blowing.
On average, lawns need to be mowed once a week in the summer and every other week in the spring and fall. So all told, that would amount to about $1,170 to $1,755 a year. If your yard is overgrown, don't be surprised if companies charge a "long grass fee" for the first mowing, which can range from 50% to 100% more than the regular mowing price.
Other additional mowing charges might apply in the fall for work associated with removing leaves along with the lawn mowing, as the lawn care provider has to spend more time and pay for dumping fees. Also, if you want your grass clippings bagged, there will likely be a charge (typically an additional 15% of the mowing cost).
Beyond the cost, however, there are other intangible things to weigh when considering whether to mow yourself or hire someone—namely, time. The average homeowner doesn't have commercial-grade equipment, so what a lawn care crew can do in 20 minutes will typically take an individual 1.5 to 2 hours. So be sure to ask yourself if you'd rather spend your weekends on lawn care or lounging.
Aside from mowing, your lawn will also need watering. A general guideline is 1 inch of water per week for grass (whether that's from rain or you watering it). Based on the national average cost of $1.50 for 1,000 gallons of water, it will cost roughly $8.15 per watering session to provide one inch of water to one-fifth of an acre.
Sure, you can do so some research and try to do these things yourself in an attempt to save a few bucks, but you'd better make sure you know what you're doing.
"When applying the wrong products—let's say, fertilizer not specific to the type of grass you have, or an herbicide that's for the wrong weed—you run the risk of doing more damage to your lawn than good," warns Rachel Betterbid, a marketing specialist at Tailor Made Lawns.
To save money, Farley suggests banding together with your neighbors to hire one lawn care company.
Other ways to save include getting rid of grass all together and planting drought-resistant shrubs and installing artificial grass or other low- or no-maintenance alternatives.
The worst thing you can do when it comes to your lawn is nothing.


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What is kampo
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Kampo in our everyday life
Kampo is all around us as we live our everyday life. We can buy kampo from a nearby drug store, and there are various kinds of food that has natural medicinal effect that are consumed in our daily meals.
Also, Japanese doctors can treat clients with traditional methods using herbal medicine as well as the most advanced western type methods. In a survey conducted by JKMA(Japan Kampo Medicines Manufacturers Association) at 2011, 89% of the doctors said that they prescribe herbal medicine for their clients in a daily basis. This means that doctors are providing us with the most updated western medicine while at the same time, using herbal medicine to treat our illness when thought appropriate.
This is why we can proudly say that in Japan, a fusion of western and traditional medicine is practiced, resulting as a new approach to medical treatment in our time.
So how had kampo come upon us, and what are the problems and possibilities they posses?
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2011 Japan Kampo Medicines Manufacturers Association"Survey on actual prescription of herbal medicine (quantitative)"
Kampo, also called Chinese herbs, chinese medicine, Sino-Japanese traditional medicine, is a traditional medical practice method that originally came from China and developed into its present state in Japan. The original method had also travelled into Korea at the time as well, which has evolved, and now called a "Traditional Korean medicine".Although Japanese kampo medicine, Chinese medicine and korean medicine has the same roots, their diagnostic methods, prescribing methods and medical systems are all different.
The history of Kampo
It is said that the very beginning of Kampo was when Chinese medicine was brought into Japan bypassing the korean peninsula in the 5th Century.
Missionaries that Prince shotoku of Japan sent abroad officially brought back chinese medical science in the 7th century.
After that, a temple was built in Nara along with many offerings including food with medicinal effects as a memorial service for Shomu Tenno(Emperor)'s death.
Medicinal practice shifted from what was only targeted towards the aristocracy class, to a practice affordable for the people of all classes soon after the Muromachi Era started.
But as the Edo era started, Japan took a national isolation policy which blocked all contacts with countries that include China. This is why Kampo medicine in Japan developed by integrating Japanese climate and cultures with the traditional Chinese medical practices during this period.
From the middle of the Edo period, medicinal practices from the Netherlands(Ranpoigaku) was introduced to Japan. This was when the traditional Japanese medical practices started being called "kampo" to distinguish one from the other.
Doctors from this time learned both methods, and a study called eclecticism, which includes both medicinal practices was developed by them.
As the Meiji era started, modernization and "policy of increasing wealth and military power"(Fukokukyouhei) by the Meiji Government was introduced, which meant western medicine was emphasized compared to the traditional methods. This was when a bill that announced doctoral exam would only question about western medicine passed in the congress, which literally pointed out death for Kampo medicine.
But in 1910,a Kampo medical Doctor Keijuro Wada wrote a book that cried out for more attention for the brilliance of kampo, and in 1927 Kyushin Nomoto wrote a book that systematically explained how Kampo can still be useful to us. These works gradually made a enormous effect on the people, and contributed to the existence and restoration of Kampo medicine.
Problems on Kampo nowadays
Nowadays, many people appreciate Kampo in our everyday lives, but it is little known that Kampo is actually highly dependent on imported goods. We only grow 12% of Kampo herbs that we consume, and the rest 80% of herbs are imported from China. Japan had been growing herbs used for Kampo medicine in the past, but due to the advance of aging society especially in the agricultural segment, the amount of production within the country has been decreasing.
Recently, it is said that the consumer needs for herbs is growing in China as well, and a few herbs are already restricted from export for the demand in China is increasing as well.
In order to keep kampo as a part of our life, we must consider finding a stable supply source of our herbs.
※)出所:渡辺賢治『日本人が知らない漢方の力』祥伝社新書 2012年
cited from : Kenji Watanabe, "The power of Kampo that Japanese don't know" published by Shodensha
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Survey report on raw material crude drug usage (in 2008), on 2011/7/15 Japan Kampo Medicines Manufacturers Association
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Kampo Industralization Consortium
日本特産農産物協会(Japan Special Association of Agricultural Products) Survey Report of productivity of special agricultural products (2013 December)
Kampo made from Nature
Kampo medicine consists of many types of natural resources such as plants, minerals and animal parts. The ratio and combination of each ingredients creates different types of effects. Combinations and ratios that create the more effective, or whether if it is toxic to the body has been studied over a long time by prescribing it to many people in the past. Repeating this cycle until today has made the present state of Kampo medicine.
It is now officially recognized by institutions as well, and 148 types of Kampo medicine has been added on NHI price listing as a medicine included as a part of health insurance, and can be bought from medical stores.
Kampo medicine is a combination of many types of natural ingredients. As mentioned above, changing the ratio of the same combinations of ingredients means that it will have different effects.
For example, A kampo called "Keishito" and "Keishikashakuyakutou" uses the same five ingredients; Keihi, Shakuyaku, shoukyou(ginger), taisou and kanzou. But if you double the amount of Shakuyaku in "Keishito" which is said to be good for the beginning of a cold, you end up with "Keishikashakuyakutou"which has an good effect on stomachache. Also, if you are to add glutinous starch syrup to "Keishikashakuyakutou" a "Shoukenchuto" is made, which treats children who were born with frail health.
What is "Shoyaku"(crude drug)
Shoyaku is a form of is any naturally occurring, unrefined substance derived from sources such as plant, animal, minerals, processed into a form of medicine to be preserved, transported and to adjust effects.
As for plants, the parts that can be used for shoyaku differs; roots, leaves, tree barks, seeds or the tree itself. As for minerals, Gypsum that contains calcium carbonate are used, and for animal parts, cicada shells and oyster shells are used as well.
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September 23, 2022 General
NASA's asteroid-smashing spacecraft is just days away from hitting its target at a speed faster than a bullet
It's finally happening. After roughly a year of anticipation around NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the mission will be executed on Monday night when the spacecraft is expected to crash into its target asteroid.
NASA said on Thursday that the mission — the world's first to test technology for defending the planet against potentially hazardous asteroids or comets — will strike its target asteroid at roughly 7:14 p.m. ET.
How to watch as NASA sends a spacecraft to deliberately crash into a 525-foot-wide asteroid at 15,000 mph
The spacecraft being tested will crash straight into the 525-foot moonlet, called Dimorphos, of the nearby asteroid Didymos. Dimorphos' size is "more typical of the size of asteroids" that would most likely be a significant threat to Earth, NASA previously said. It's a high-speed task with the spacecraft set to crash into the asteroid at just under 15,000 mph – faster than a bullet and rapid enough to change the moonlet's speed by a fraction of 1%, NASA said.
Neither Dimorphos or Didymos are currently a threat to Earth. According to NASA, there is no known asteroid larger than 140 meters (459 feet) with a "significant chance" of hitting Earth in the next century. However, only about 40% of those asteroids have been found as of October 2021.
Illustration of how DART's impact will alter the orbit of Dimorphos about Didymos. Telescopes on Earth will be able to measure the change in the orbit of Dimorphos to evaluate the effectiveness of the DART impact.
NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
"We are testing to see if you can make impact with an asteroid and it change its trajectory in case we ever do find an asteroid headed towards Earth," Karen Fox, senior science communications officer at NASA said Thursday.
Katherine Calvin, NASA chief scientist and senior climate advisor, said that the agency looks at asteroids to better understand the history of the solar system and Earth, but also "to make sure that we don't find ourselves in their path."
"Asteroid impacts have also had profound effects on the Earth," she said. "They've changed ecosystems and led to the extinction of species. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program to help them know what was coming, but we do, and so DART represents an important progress in understanding how to avoid potential hazards in the future and how to protect our planet from potential impacts."
NASA planetary defense officer Lindley Johnson said that while DART is an "exciting time," it's also monumental for the "history of humankind."
"This demonstration is extremely important to our future here on the Earth and life on Earth," he said.
Live: Join senior leaders from NASA and @JHUAPL working on the #DARTMission, the world's first test of planetary defense. Preview mission milestones between now and impact with a non-threatening asteroid on Sept. 26. https://t.co/Icq23Hb49a
— NASA (@NASA) September 22, 2022
Telescopes on every continent on Earth, as well as the in-space telescopes Hubble and James Webb, will observe the impact of the mission, DART program scientist Tom Statler said.
The agency will provide a briefing on the test at 6 p.m. on Monday and host another after the impact at 8 p.m.
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Creating replication is one thing and maintaining it is a different yet equally important thing. Over the time, you might add or remove some objects in your primary database and hope the same for your replication database and this article comes into the picture when you need to add some more object from primary (Publication) database to replicated (subscriber) database.
I will use the Publisher and Subscriber of Transaction Replication to demonstrate this article. You can create the same replication from here.
If you already having your replication ready to add article (Table, Stored Procedure, View, Index View, Functions etc.), follow the steps given below.
1.) Connect to your publisher server and right click on publication name and click on "Property" from pop up menu.
2.) You will get Publication property dialog box and you have to move to "Article" page from the left hand menu to get a list of articles available to publish in publication database. Select the object you want to replication. Make sure the database table you select is having the primary key. Without primary key, table won't be able to be a part of transaction replication.
3.) Once you select object and click on "Ok" button in above given dialog box, right click on "Replication" option in objection explorer of SSMS and click on "Launch Replication Monitor".
4.) You will see "Agent" tab in Replication Monitor dialog box, right click on "Snapshot Agent" and click on "Start Agent" option; it takes little time, based on the size of object and data, to complete the snapshot agent.
As soon as Snapshot Agent builds completely, you can check your subscriber database, you will find the entire selected object in subscriber database.
This entry was posted in add article in replication, replication, SQL Server 2012, Transactional Replication and tagged add article in replication, replication, sql server 2012, Transactional Replication on November 27, 2012 by Riteshshah.


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Description of two new species of dryocosmus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) inducing galls on the strictly asian subgenus cyclobalanopsis of the genus quercus, with a key to species of dryocosmus in East Asia
Tatsuya Ide, Nakatada Wachi, Yoshihisa Abe
Biodiversity Science
Two new species of Dryocosmus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini), D. sefuriensis Ide, Wachi et Abe, sp. nov. and D. sakureiensis Ide, Wachi et Abe, sp. nov., are described from Japan. A key to species of Dryocosmus in East Asia is given. Although the members of Dryocosmus have been known to induce galls on the subgenus Quercus of the genus Quercus and the genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, and Lithocarpus of Fagaceae, this is the first record of this gall wasp genus from the strictly Asian subgenus Cyclobalanopsis of the genus Quercus. The discovery of two new species of Dryocosmus associated with Q. (C.) acuta suggests the exceptionally diverse host range of Dryocosmus and the species richness of Cynipini on this plant subgenus in Asia.
Annals of the Entomological Society of America
https://doi.org/10.1603/AN12050
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Dryocosmus Agricultural and Biological Sciences 100%
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Ide, T., Wachi, N., & Abe, Y. (2013). Description of two new species of dryocosmus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) inducing galls on the strictly asian subgenus cyclobalanopsis of the genus quercus, with a key to species of dryocosmus in East Asia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 106(1), 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1603/AN12050
Description of two new species of dryocosmus (Hymenoptera : Cynipidae: Cynipini) inducing galls on the strictly asian subgenus cyclobalanopsis of the genus quercus, with a key to species of dryocosmus in East Asia. / Ide, Tatsuya; Wachi, Nakatada; Abe, Yoshihisa.
In: Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Vol. 106, No. 1, 2013, p. 18-25.
Ide, T, Wachi, N & Abe, Y 2013, 'Description of two new species of dryocosmus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) inducing galls on the strictly asian subgenus cyclobalanopsis of the genus quercus, with a key to species of dryocosmus in East Asia', Annals of the Entomological Society of America, vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1603/AN12050
Ide T, Wachi N, Abe Y. Description of two new species of dryocosmus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) inducing galls on the strictly asian subgenus cyclobalanopsis of the genus quercus, with a key to species of dryocosmus in East Asia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 2013;106(1):18-25. doi: 10.1603/AN12050
Ide, Tatsuya ; Wachi, Nakatada ; Abe, Yoshihisa. / Description of two new species of dryocosmus (Hymenoptera : Cynipidae: Cynipini) inducing galls on the strictly asian subgenus cyclobalanopsis of the genus quercus, with a key to species of dryocosmus in East Asia. In: Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 2013 ; Vol. 106, No. 1. pp. 18-25.
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The Royal Navy doesn't have enough ships to patrol after Brexit
"This will be a crisis post-Brexit unless something is done urgently."
A former head of the Navy has warned of a developing crisis over the number of ships available to patrol Britain's coastal waters post-Brexit.
Labour's Lord West of Spithead told the Lords at question time there were not enough vessels to look after the inshore waters and the exclusive economic zone.
Calling for an urgent study, the former chief of naval staff and First Sea Lord said: "This will be a crisis post-Brexit unless something is done urgently."
Defence minister Earl Howe said the Joint Maritime Operations Coordination Centre (JMOCC) was responsible for making an overview of where "appropriate assets are and seeks to coordinate their support".
But Lord West said he remained concerned that there wasn't a single figure in operational command of the JMOCC "and if there is a clash of options of where these units should be used, with nine departments all talking about it, it will be like ferrets in a sack".
Royal Navy nuclear submarine leaves Plymouth after a 'complex' and 'challenging' refit
Lord West also warned that funding for the coordination centre for dealing with incidents in the UK's territorial waters did not seem at all secure beyond next April.
"Can we have an urgent study into the number of craft and ships available for these tasks of looking after our inshore waters, our borders, the exclusive economic zone, because there are clearly not enough of them," he said.
Lord Howe said the coordination centre was fully funded for the current financial year but all contributing government departments were committed to it and the work it did.
Coastguards criticised for delays in tragedy that claimed the life of Devon fisherman
"In its short life since October last year it has very much proved its worth in terms of coordination," he told peers.
Lord Howe told later questioners that UK Border Force had introduced six new coastal patrol vessels in addition to the five cutters already in service, and ministers were looking at "future needs across the piece".


Preheat the oven to 300°F. Season the pork shoulder generously with salt and pepper. In a Dutch oven over medium-high heat, warm the olive oil and sear the pork, turning, until it is well browned all over, about 10 minutes. Transfer the pork to a plate.
Add the leeks and garlic to the Dutch oven and brown, stirring, 3 to 5 minutes.
Return the pork to the Dutch oven and add the tomatoes, wine, anchovies, cinnamon stick, bay leaves, and rosemary. Cover the Dutch oven and place it in the oven. Cook for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, turning the pork twice during cooking (once after 45 minutes and again after an hour and a half).
Raise the temperature to 425°F. Uncover the Dutch oven and add the olives. Continue cooking, uncovered, until the liquid is reduced and the meat is very tender, about 20 minutes more. If you have made this ahead of time, let it cool so the fat has a chance to rise to the surface, then spoon it off if you like (I usually don't bother). If you've made it the day before, chilling hardens the fat and makes it really easy to spoon off. Reheat if necessary and serve over polenta.


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To avoid a sloppy scientific scramble to put particular organismal genomes into bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has instituted a nomination process that will queue organisms according to priority. First submissions are due Nov. 15. Written requests will be ranked by a peer review committee based on such criteria as the importance of the organism, uses of the BAC library other than for genomic sequencing, the size of the resear
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To avoid a sloppy scientific scramble to put particular organismal genomes into bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has instituted a nomination process that will queue organisms according to priority. First submissions are due Nov. 15. Written requests will be ranked by a peer review committee based on such criteria as the importance of the organism, uses of the BAC library other than for genomic sequencing, the size of the research community to benefit from the resource, and the size and complexity of the genome. Priority rankings for the first set of submissions, says Jane L. Peterson, program director of large scale sequencing at NHGRI, should be sorted out in time for a new round of BAC production grants to be funded December 1. "They're going to need to know some organisms to make libraries for," she explains. While plant, eubacteria, and archaea...


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Trevor Davis injures hamstring, headlines Green Bay Packers inactives vs. Chicago Bears
Green Bay Packers kick returner Trevor Davis injured a hamstring on Sunday and headlines a group of inactives for the Green Bay Packers.
Trevor Davis injures hamstring, headlines Green Bay Packers inactives vs. Chicago Bears Green Bay Packers kick returner Trevor Davis injured a hamstring on Sunday and headlines a group of inactives for the Green Bay Packers. Check out this story on packersnews.com: https://pck.rs/2oTatAb
James Owczarski, Packers News Published 5:58 p.m. CT Sept. 9, 2018 | Updated 7:09 p.m. CT Sept. 9, 2018
Beat writers Jim Owczarski and Ryan Wood analyze the Packers' season opener against the Bears and provide their predictions on who wins. Packers News
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Trevor Davis (11) returns a kickoff during the first half of an NFL preseason football game against the Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas City, Mo., Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018.(Photo: Ed Zurga, AP)
GREEN BAY – The Green Bay Packers emerged from training camp and the four preseason games relatively unscathed in terms of overall health, with rookie linebacker Oren Burks' dislocated shoulder progressing better than anticipated and only safety Josh Jones ruled out of Sunday's season opener against Chicago with an injured ankle.
As the practice week ended for Mike McCarthy's team he was faced with a good problem – determining the bulk of his seven-man inactive list from largely healthy players.
But the fact that Burks dislocated his shoulder in pregame warmups in Oakland kept McCarthy from feeling comfortable about predicting his 46-man roster too early.
"You really don't know your 46 until an hour-and-a-half before the game," McCarthy said Friday. "I've had three different occasions in my time as a head coach where you turn the 46 in and someone's sick or someone goes down or something happens in the pre-game. That's why it's important to take it all the way up to that time.
"That's obviously the worst-case scenario, but you want to keep the competition going clearly through Thursday, Friday you have to pretty much settle in and you like to rep the players in their particular positions on Saturday. But once again, you always have to have the backup ready and that's just all part of the training."
McCarthy's words rang true Sunday, as kick returner Trevor Davis was a sudden addition to the Packers' injury report at about 5:20 p.m. He was listed as doubtful for the contest with a hamstring injury.
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Q: Is there a ring containing ideals where the union of the ideals forms a subring but not an ideal? In general the union of two subrings is not a subring, and likewise for the union of two ideals. However, I was wondering if there exists an example of a union of ideals that is actually a subring but is not an ideal? I've tried looking around without any success so I imagine the answer is no.

A: If $\{I_j\}_{j\in J}$ is a non-empty family of ideals such that $I:=\bigcup_{j\in J}I_j$ is closed under addition (as required for a subring), then $I$ is already an ideal.

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Russia's moves to expand its borders in the Arctic along the continental shelf almost do not overlap with other countries' zones of interest, Deputy Natural Resources and Environment Minister Denis Khramov told Interfax.
Khramov also heads the Russian delegation on the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS).
'If one were to draw other countries' potential zones of interest on a map of the Arctic, you could see that the boundaries of the shelf declared by Russia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and, likely, the U.S. (if they would join the convention), actually do not overlap. And if they do overlap, then within small sectors,' he said.
Khramov said that only Russia has sent an official application for shelf expansion in the Arctic. Accordingly, there is currently not another country whose application could overlap with Russia's goals.
'If we are talking specifics, then I'll remind [you] that we have already resolved territorial issues with Norway. We are holding two-sided talks with Canada and are not against the country's application to the UN commission. Canada's application does not even contain exact coordinates of sections in the Arctic that interest it; it [the application] only contains detailed justification concerning the Atlantic. Canada has not yet specified anything about the Arctic except for its intentions to submit such an application in the future,' Khramov said.
Russia has also agreed on an approach with Denmark, which is only in the preparatory stage of an application on the Arctic, he said, adding that in the approach, each country is not against the other applying. They are also required to resolve all two-sided issues at a later time, Khramov said.
The U.S. has not even ratified the convention (ratification of the UN Convention on the law of the Sea opens up opportunities for countries to apply for shelves of neutral waters), he said. The U.S. has long-term plans of ratifying the convention and applying for the shelf in the Arctic. 'As we understand, they have not even set this task before themselves for the near future,' Khramov said.
Khramov said Russia hoped its borders would expand by 1.2 million square kilometers, the resource potential of which is around 5 billion tonnes of reference fuel. For Russia, the Arctic application is a serious priority, he said, adding that Russia is working as hard as possible on this document.


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More than $16 million will be invested to strengthen Singapore's cyber-security research and development under two separate programmes that aim to produce more commercial cyber-security solutions.
Announcing this at the opening of the second Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (Switch) yesterday, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said it would further public-private partnerships in areas of advanced cyber security.
Nine research projects were given funding of $15.6 million under a grant call by the National Cybersecurity R&D Programme, which was set up last November to develop capabilities to meet Singapore's cyber-security needs.
Each project is a collaboration between a cyber-security company and academic researchers, and falls under one of the nation's three key cyber-security priorities: national security, critical infrastructure and Smart Nation.
For example, local cyber-security start-up Attila Cybertech is working with researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design to use machine-learning in the software for critical infrastructure to detect strange, out-of-the-ordinary behaviour that might indicate a cyber attack.
Such partnerships mean that new research findings can be brought to market faster as there is already a company available to market the research.
"Should our cyber-security researchers arrive at new findings, industry leads... will stand ready to develop them into game-changing solutions," said Mr Heng.
Six projects were also awarded $600,000 under a seed grant call by the Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium launched last September.
The funding goes to proposals for proofs-of-concept of new cyber-security technologies and ideas. Among the projects are a safety management system for drones, a database for malware that affects the iPhone, and the creation of a platform for researchers to store and share confidential research data with minimal risk of leaks.
Meanwhile, six firms have won a multi-million-dollar bulk tender to help Singapore tighten its defence against sophisticated attacks aimed at disabling Government websites.
The Straits Times understands the three-year bulk contract, which started yesterday, is worth about $50 million - around twice the value of the last three-year contract that has lapsed.
The deal comes on the heels of StarHub's broadband outage last year linked to a cyber attack in the United States, and the theft of personal details of 850 national servicemen and staff at the Ministry of Defence (Mindef), discovered in February.
The six awarded the contract by GovTech are local telcos Singtel and StarHub, Britain-based telco BT, and Singapore-based tech firms CHJ Technologies, Evvo Labs and Embrio Enterprises.
They are expected to keep Government websites fully available to the public even when attacks are taking place.
Singapore is also setting aside $1.5 million over the next three years to train technical officers in Asean member states to boost the region's readiness to combat cyberthreats.
The effort includes an industrial attachment programme in Singapore, in what Communications and Information Minister Yaacob Ibrahim said will mark Asean's "move forward as a united and cyber-resilient region".
At the opening of the second annual Asean Ministerial Conference on Cybersecurity yesterday at the St Regis Singapore hotel, Dr Yaacob said the plan is to train up to 18 candidates in incident detection, threat containment, service recovery and forensics.
The budget comes from a $10 million initiative, dubbed the Asean Cyber Capacity Programme (ACCP), announced last October when Singapore unveiled its high-level cyber-security strategy.
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Q: How To Check 5 Empty Variables in PHP I need to make a conditional statement where the 5 variables should be empty before perform an action. The problem is some variables can be zero, false or NULL value. How to catch all of them?
Which one is better?
If (!$a && !$b && !$c && !$d && !$e) {

  // do some action

} else {

  exit;

}

OR
If (empty($a) && empty($b) && empty($c) && empty($d) && empty($e)) {

  // do some action

} else {

  exit;

}

Thank you.

A: First of all, use "code sample" to show code.
When you use !$a you are actually casting $a to boolean.
The problem here is
$a = 0;
if (!$a) {
  echo 'NOT EMPTY';
} else {
   echo 'EMPTY';
}
//OUTPUT EMPTY BECAUSE 0 to boolean is FALSE

Same example with NULL value.
About empty i advice you to check the documentation
Read it and choose the way that fit your needs.
Hope this helps

A: This could be an approach to check multiple variables are empty at once.
<?php
$a = $b = $c = $d = $e = '';
#$b = 5; // comment out to go on else block
if (empty($a . $b . $c . $d . $e)){
    echo "All variables are empty, do what you want to do man";
}else{
    echo "One of variable is not empty";
}
?>


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Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is a time that brings together healthcare professionals, community organizations, and health advocates. They are working to raise people's awareness of prostate cancer. The disease, according to statistics, affects mainly men over 50. Every year, doctors diagnose almost 175 patients with related diseases, and almost 32 more men die.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer, surpassed only by skin cancer. The first operation to remove the prostate was performed by Hampton Young at Johns Hopkins Hugh Hospital in 1904. Since then, specialists have been looking for new methods of treatment. For example, they injected radium into the prostate. They also used various surgical methods, and in 1962 they began to use megavolt radiation. However, all of these techniques helped only patients in whom cancer cells were located only in the prostate gland. Also in 1966, a special rating system was proposed, on the basis of which doctors determined whether the risk of prostate cancer was low, intermediate or high.
Modern medicine uses a combination of radiation therapy and hormone therapy to treat the disease. At the beginning of the 21st century, the first robotic operation was successfully performed to remove the affected organ, and in 2010 the first anti-cancer vaccine was officially approved, which increased the survival rate of men with prostate cancer.
According to statistics, one in eight American men suffers from prostate cancer.
Ethnicity matters – the disease affects African Americans more often, being diagnosed in one in six of them.
The older the man, the higher the likelihood of the disease manifesting. According to statistics, 6 patients out of 10 are older than 65.
The disease is hereditary – if close relatives have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, the likelihood this will happen to you is quite high.
In terms of prevalence, prostate cancer is ahead of such types of cancer as colon, kidney, and stomach cancer, and melanoma.
How to do Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Read more useful information – the more people know about the disease, the more likely it is to recognize the symptoms and overcome it. Raise the awareness of other people, talk about prostate cancer on social networks – how to protect and help yourself. Become a volunteer and help people who have been given a terrible diagnosis. You can also make a donation and support research aimed at finding effective treatments.
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Deposit of $100 (non-refundable) Is due at least 4 weeks prior to wedding. Any additional girls will be $50.00. Price includes travel and I will start preparation as early as 6am that morning. I will travel to wherever you need me to travel to. This could take up to 7hrs. Upon arrival if the amount of people getting makeup changes, the price remains the same and will not be altered.
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