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THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE AIR
Just who the first person was to fly in Wairarapa
is, as they say, 'up in the air.'
Local Maori have a legend that one of their
ancestors, the famed chief Nukupewapewa, strapped himself
on a large kite to attack a paa on the banks of the Ruamahanga
River near Moiki, Greytown, perhaps foreshadowing the invention
of the hang glider.
The arrival of hot air ballooning in Wairarapa,
however, can be much more accurately dated.
The first balloonist in New Zealand was
an American, Professor Baldwin, who made the first New Zealand
balloon flight in Dunedin in early 1889, using coal gas to
inflate his oiled-silk balloon. He was soon followed by a
number of hot air balloonists, but it wasn't until June 1894
that Masterton was included on the itinerary of these travelling
Hot air ballooning in the 1890s was far
from the safe pastime it now is. It was more akin to a circus
performance, and filling the balloon with the hot air was
part of the show. A 10 metre long and 60 cm deep trench was
first dug in line with the prevailing wind, and an old water
tank, with both top and bottom removed, placed at the downwind
end of the trench. The trench was then filled with firewood
and covered. The balloon was suspended on two high poles
and placed over the water tank outlet. The fire was then
lit, the wind carrying the hot air (including some sparks)
along the trench, through the tank and into the balloon,
like a crude blast furnace. A man stood inside the mouth
of the balloon, armed with water to extinguish any sparks
that landed on the balloon. The crowd was then invited to
assist by pulling the skin of the balloon outwards, allowing
the balloon to inflate.
As can be imagined, the process usually
ended up with soot-filled eyes, burnt hands and even singed
Masterton's first balloonist was a graceful
and daring young American woman, Leila Adair, the self–styled "Aerial
Queen."Leila travelled New Zealand, performing acrobatic
acts on a trapeze bar suspended under the inflated balloon,
before dropping gracefully from the bar, and drifting to
earth by parachute. Or at least, that was the way it was
meant to work.
On Leila's first New Zealand ascent, in
Auckland, things went a little awry when the balloon, which
had risen to a considerable height, was blown out over the
channel between Auckland and Rangitoto Island. Not wanting
to parachute into the sea, Leila rode the balloon down until
just metres from the waves. She then dropped into the sea,
suspended by a life belt until she could be rescued by steamship.
Her New Zealand adventures did not end in the waters of the
A Te Aroha ascent ended with a Waihi descent.
In Cambridge she landed in the tops of some tall poplars.
In Hamilton the balloon burst in mid-air while her Wanganui
ascent was even more spectacular. She was unable to get sufficient
buoyancy to inflate the balloon and it flew on a perilous
journey through flagstaffs and chimneys before Leila was
dumped unceremoniously in a fig tree.
Deatails of these adventures were reported
in the local newspapers so the Aerial Queen's arrival in
Masterton was awaited with great anticipation. A huge crowd
paid their shilling entrance fee and congregated in Masterton
Park to watch what they were informed would be the "greatest
sensational feat ever performed in these parts." The
huge crowd was to be disappointed.
Leila and her brother arrived at the ground
in a cab, as arranged, and the dramatic inflation process
was commenced. People stood open-mouthed as the balloon,
said to be the size of a circus tent, slowly inflated. The
men and boys helping to hold the balloon were jolted as the
balloon rocked from side to side. The crowd's intrigue turned
to concern however, as a small whiff of smoke was seen escaping
from the top of the balloon. Before long it became a large
whiff of smoke, then the whole balloon caught fire. The crowd
was excited at the sight of the large balloon burning, but
their excitement turned to alarm as they realised a man was
trapped within the inferno. With the calico burning all around
him the man was trapped within the balloon, and there were
anxious moments before he managed to extricate himself, blackened
and burnt but without serious injury.
Leila Adair sat in her cab watching the
destruction of her balloon. Her brother did his best to help
salvage what remained of the balloon but it was a hopeless
case. The balloon was gone.
Leila's brother stood and addressed
the crowd, telling them that the balloon was beyond repair,
and that it was going to cost £145 to replace. He promised
that he and Leila would have a new balloon built in Wellington
and would be back the following Saturday to give a free exhibition
to all those who had paid. Not everyone was convinced, some
even going so far as to say that the whole thing, including
the burning of the balloon, was pre-planned and a swindle.
Many Mastertonians did have faith in Leila
and the following Saturday each of the Wellington trains
was met by a crowd, certain that the flamboyant aerialist
would be on the train with her balloon. They were proven
wrong each time.
Leila never returned to Masterton although
she did have a new balloon made, a balloon she toured other
parts of New Zealand with. The closest Masterton got to seeing
Leila in the air was that Sunday when local wag G.S.W. Dalrymple
sent a toy balloon, complete with doll attached to a trapeze
bar, into the air from the Masterton Park.
It wasn't to be until 1908 that Masterton
saw its first balloonist, and it wasn't the 'Aerial Queen'
it was the 'Aerial King'.' Before that, however, the
first aviation death had taken place in New Zealand, a death
rather bizarrely caused by drowning!
An aerialist calling himself "Captain
Lorraine" (actually Aucklander David Mahoney) was making
an ascent in a gas-filled balloon in Christchurch when his
poorly inflated balloon was blown out to sea. The aerialist
was unable to use his parachute and was seen to plunge into
the sea with his balloon. He clambered on top of his partially
inflated balloon as it floated for a short time but by the
time a boat reached the site, a mile out to sea, Lorraine
Noah Ezra Jonasson, Christchurch-born of
Danish parents, was to be the first successful balloonist
in Masterton when he made two ascents in the town in 1908.
He seems to have learned his trade from an American, Professor
Barnes, the 'Aerial King' who made a number of ascents in
Dunedin in late 1907/early 1908. Barnes had a lucky escape
in Dunedin when a parachute descent went awry, his life being
saved by his landing in some telephone wires.
Jonasson made his first ascent in Masterton
on 2 April, 1908, from the Showgrounds in Dixon Street, now
the Cameron and Soldiers Memorial Park. A very large crowd
gathered to watch his display which was slightly delayed
because firewood used to inflate the balloon was too green
and the balloon filled with smoke. Eventually the balloon
was cast adrift and it shot up into the air with the Captain
performing 'clever gymnastic evolutions for the crowd.
The balloon did not travel very far, nor ascend very high,
however, and the Captain parachuted down into a paddock behind
Bunny's Bush (now known as Garlands Bush, at the end of McKenna
His next ascent, a week later, was said
to be much more successful.
The newspaper said that although only little
over a hundred people paid to enter the grounds, many were
draped over the Dixon Street fence, and three hundred children
from the nearby Central School had sneaked in free. One of
those children was ten year old Clementina McKay, who, when
recalling the event in an interview in the 1980's, said she
could not remember much about the balloon, but could still
remember the spanking she received for attending when she
had been forbidden to.
The ascent was more impressive this time,
the balloon rapidly rising then catching the gentle southerly
breeze to drift over the town. Jonasson alighted from his
parachute in land between Cole and Essex Streets, while the
aerialist-free balloon continued over the town, eventually
landing in Adamsville (Oxford Street). As the balloon passed
over Adamsville (then largely in paddocks) it was said to
have had curious effects on animals, two quiet horses going
into all sorts of antics, while the tame cockatoo, then resident
in the Adams' Bush, was said to have become very alarmed


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The Alaska-Yukon moose (Alces alces gigas) is the largest of all moose. Adult moose can range in size from 800 pounds (small adult female) to 1600 pounds (large adult male), and they can be up to almost 6 feet tall. Moose can range in color from golden brown to almost black, depending on the season and the age of the animal. Newborn calves have a red-brown coat that fades to a light rust color within a few weeks. By late summer, the calves have shed this coat and grown one that is similar in texture and color to that of adults.
Moose are often easily recognized by their antlers, carried only by the males. These bony protrusions form within the first year, and are produced every summer after that. Trophy class bulls are found throughout Alaska, but the largest come from the western portion of the state. The largest sized antlers are usually produced when bulls are 10 – 12 years old, but bulls can reach trophy size as young as 6 years of age.

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text: Mountain summits present a unique challenge to manage sustainably: they are ecologically important and, in many circumstances, under high demand for recreation and tourism activities. This article presents recent advances in the assessment of resource conditions and visitor disturbance in mountain summit environments, by drawing on examples from a multiyear, interdisciplinary study of summits in the northeastern United States. Primary impact issues as a consequence of visitor use, such as informal trail formation, vegetation disturbance, and soil loss, were addressed via the adaption of protocols from recreation ecology studies to summit environments. In addition, new methodologies were developed that provide measurement sensitivity to change previously unavailable through standard recreation monitoring protocols. Although currently limited in application to the northeastern US summit environments, the methods presented show promise for widespread application wherever summits are in demand for visitor activities.


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Grantee Credibility Assessment
A Grantee Credibility Assessment provides insight into a grantee's reputation, the impact of its programs, and other key criteria to help ensure your support will prove a good investment. Our customizable grantee scoring system employs criteria such as the following:
- Strategy: How do the organization's programs work? What makes their approach different from other approaches? What is the theory of change?
- Impact of Programs: Can the organization demonstrate immediate and lasting impact from its activities? Does the organization have a system in place to measure and evaluate outcomes and impact?
- Organization and Operations: Does the organization have a strong financial track record, a clear plan for long-term sustainability, and an ethic of transparency?
- Leadership: How effective is the executive and management team? In what manner does the board support and contribute?
- Innovation: Is the organization recognized as a leader or innovator in its field?
- Reputation: What is the organization's reputation among peers, the public, and its beneficiaries?
- Local Empowerment & Capacity: Does the program empower its beneficiaries and integrate gender equality and social inclusion principles?
Paragon's team is uniquely positioned to evaluate potential grantees through the lens of programmatic impact and other key criteria. Our team members are recognized experts and thought leaders in their fields. Following are principal areas of focus:
The San Francisco Foundation
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text: The Qom Formation, which hosts the Mazraeh celestite deposit, contains dominantly limestones, marl and subordinate evaporites deposited in shallow marine environments. Petrographic evidence indicates that the celestite deposits were formed by replacement of limestone. The presence of carbonate inclusions within celestite crystals as well as the pseudomorphic habits of some crystals suggests that celestite replaced preexisting carbonate. Based on petrographic evidences and celestite mineralization occurred as a late-diagenetic process during deposition of Qom Formation. Celestite occurs mostly at lower part of members of the Qom Formation as banded, rhythmic, massive, cavity and cave fillings. The layered, rhythmic and elongated lenticular celestite crystals are positioned parallel to the general bedding of the sequence and formed at early principal diagenetic stage. Relatively high strontium ion content of the Karadj Formation suggests a high probability of ion supply to form celestite from these formations.


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After showing you how to feed pigs and deer earlier, today we're going to show you how to use a five gallon bucket to feed chickens! Jimmywait on the backyard chickens forum made a great guide that showcases how to make a chicken feeder, we took his idea and improved further upon it.
-One five gallon bucket (link)
-One piece of 3″ pvc elbow (link)
-A sillicone kit or pvc cement (link)
I'll assume you already have a saw, but the rest of the required equipment may be useful to buy in one go at Amazon, to cut down on delivery costs.
Step 1: Cut the PVC elbow at the red line, as shown here above.
Step 2: Make a round hole in the bucket one inch off the bottom, using a knife or a saw, where the PVC will fit into the bucket.
Step 3: The PVC pipe should now be attached inside the bucket, with the angle pointing downwards. The piece you cut off, should be attached on the opposite side, as shown in the image above step 2.
Step 4: If you think one PVC pipe is not sufficient for your chickens, you may want to add more PVC pipes.
Step 5: When the PVC cement dries, your chicken feeder should be ready for you to use.
The final result should look as following:
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Thirona says the system could have 'far reaching' patient care potential
April 5, 2021
A Dutch medical tech firm says it has created an AI-based system that could revolutionize cystic fibrosis (CF) care.
Dubbed PRAGMA-AI, the algorithm developed by Nijmegen-based Thirona can detect lung abnormalities in patient computed tomography (CT) scans.
PRAGMA-AI has been released as part of Thirona's lung quantification software package LungQ, paving the way for potential usage in clinical trials and clinical care.
CF is a rare genetic disorder with approximately 70,000 known cases worldwide. Those affected suffer from severe lung problems and reduced life expectancy.
Many clinical experts currently rely on PRAGMA-CF, a quantitative method for assessment of cystic fibrosis on CT scans. Thirona argues that PRAGMA-CF is time-consuming, taking up to several hours per patient and requiring highly trained data analysts. In comparison, a version of the process automated with AI reportedly takes "several seconds."
Professor Harm Tiddens from Erasmus Medical Center, who co-developed the original PRAGMA-CF method, commented, "It [PRAGMA-AI] allows for large scale investigation of CF lung disease in both research studies and clinical trials. This is a crucial component in the evaluation of new expensive treatment options for patients suffering from CF."
He continued, "CF patient registries, collecting information on the health status of CF patients, have already shown interest in the PRAGMA-AI method. They use patient information to create care guidelines, drive quality improvement, and to study CF treatments and outcomes."
Thirona secured €1.5m in funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) last March to use AI to analyze X-rays and other medical images.
A spin-off from the Radboud University Medical Center, the company also works on diseases like COPD, asthma, and tuberculosis.
Ben Wodecki is the Jr. Editor of AI Business, covering a wide range of AI content. Ben joined the team in March 2021 as assistant editor and was promoted to Jr. Editor. He has written for The New Statesman, Intellectual Property Magazine, and The Telegraph India, among others. He holds an MSc in Digital Journalism from Middlesex University.
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Effectiveness of Simulation-Based Training on Transesophageal Echocardiography Learning: The SIMULATOR Randomized Clinical Trial.
Pezel T, Dreyfus J, Mouhat B, Thébaut C, Audureau E, Bernard A, Badie YLavie, Bohbot Y, Fard D, Nguyen LS, Monteil C, Bière L, Le Ven F, Canu M, Ribeyrolles S, Mion B, Bazire B, Fauvel C, Cautela J, Cambet T, Le Tourneau T, Donal E, Lafitte S, Magne J, Mansencal N, Coisne A JAMA Cardiol. 2023;8(3):248-256.
IMPORTANCE: Evidence is scarce on the effectiveness of simulation-based training in transesophageal echocardiography (TEE).
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of simulation-based teaching vs traditional teaching of TEE knowledge and skills of cardiology fellows.
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Between November 2020 and November 2021, all consecutive cardiology fellows inexperienced in TEE from 42 French university centers were randomized (1:1; n = 324) into 2 groups with or without simulation support.
MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: The co-primary outcomes were the scores in the final theoretical and practical tests 3 months after the training. TEE duration and the fellows' self-assessment of their proficiency were also assessed.
RESULTS: While the theoretical and practical test scores were similar between the 2 groups (324 participants; 62.6% male; mean age, 26.4 years) before the training (33.0 [SD, 16.3] points vs 32.5 [SD, 18.5] points; P = .80 and 44.2 [SD, 25.5] points vs 46.1 [SD, 26.1] points; P = .51, respectively), the fellows in the simulation group (n = 162; 50%) displayed higher theoretical test and practical test scores after the training than those in the traditional group (n = 162; 50%) (47.2% [SD, 15.6%] vs 38.3% [SD, 19.8%]; P < .001 and 74.5% [SD, 17.7%] vs 59.0% [SD, 25.1%]; P < .001, respectively). Subgroup analyses showed that the effectiveness of the simulation training was even greater when performed at the beginning of the fellowship (ie, 2 years or less of training) (theoretical test: an increase of 11.9 points; 95% CI, 7.2-16.7 vs an increase of 4.25 points; 95% CI, -1.05 to 9.5; P = .03; practical test: an increase of 24.9 points; 95% CI, 18.5-31.0 vs an increase of 10.1 points; 95% CI, 3.9-16.0; P < .001). After the training, the duration to perform a complete TEE was significantly lower in the simulation group than in the traditional group ( 8.3 [SD, 1.4] minutes vs 9.4 [SD, 1.2] minutes; P < .001, respectively). Additionally, fellows in the simulation group felt more ready and more confident about performing a TEE alone after the training (mean score, 3.0; 95% CI, 2.9-3.2 vs mean score, 1.7; 95% CI, 1.4-1.9; P < .001 and mean score, 3.3; 95% CI, 3.1-3.5 vs mean score, 2.4; 95% CI, 2.1-2.6; P < .001, respectively).
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Simulation-based teaching of TEE showed a significant improvement in the knowledge, skills, and self-assessment of proficiency of cardiology fellows, as well as a reduction in the amount of time needed to complete the examination. These results should encourage further investigation of clinical performance and patient benefits of TEE simulation training.
MeSH terms: Adult; Clinical Competence; Computer Simulation; Echocardiography, Transesophageal; Female; Humans; Internship and Residency; Male; Simulation Training
DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2022.5016


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Shiraiwa River Dam
The Shirakawa River Dam is a composite dam which combines a rock-fill dam and a concrete dam. It was built in the Tateyama Shiraiwa area to control floodwaters and regulate water flow in the Shiraiwa River.
From long ago this area was repeatedly effected by flood and drought. Since being completed in October, 1974, this dam has done what it was built to do; control floodwaters, replenish water supplies for unspecified use, supply tap water, and protect the livelihood of people living in the Shiraiwa River Basin.
The dam has a total reservoir capacity of approximately 2.2 million ㎥, with approximately 1.2 million ㎥ of that capacity being able to be controlled during a flood.


Height is height, right? Look at a Manhattan skyscraper, or the Washington Monument, or a mountain peak in California, and you imagine that it will be the same height tomorrow as it is today.
But across the United States, the heights of structures, landmarks, valleys, hills and just about everything else are about to change, at least with regard to average sea level. Most will get shorter. Parts of the Pacific Northwest will shrink by as much as five feet, and parts of Alaska by six-and-a-half, according to Juliana P. Blackwell, director of the National Geodetic Survey. Seattle will be 4.3 feet lower than it is now.
That's because height is only height compared to a reference point — and geodesists, who calculate the Earth's shape, size, gravitational field and orientation in space over time, are redefining the reference point, or vertical datum, from which height is derived. It is a fiendishly difficult math and physics task that, once completed, will have taken a decade and a half to accomplish.
"The U.S., at the scale that it is working at, it's a big deal," said Chris Rizos, president-elect of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and an emeritus professor of geodesy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
The grand recalibration, called "height modernization," is part of a broader effort within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, to establish more accurately where and how the United States physically sits on the planet. This new National Spatial Reference System, encompassing height, latitude, longitude and time, is expected to be rolled out in late 2022 or 2023, Ms. Blackwell said. It will replace reference systems from the 1980s that are slightly askew, having been derived from calculations that were done before the advent of supercomputers or global navigation satellite systems such as GPS.
The errors in height are magnified as one moves diagonally across the country from the southeast to the northwest. One of the few areas of the United States expected to either stay the same height or rise fractionally will be the toe of Florida. "There's really a tilt that shows that all of the accumulated errors in our vertical network are pushed up into the northwest," Ms. Blackwell said.
But height has long been tethered to ego. Some Coloradans worry that a few of their mountain peaks will fall below a bragging-rights threshold under the new height system, Ms. Blackwell said.
"They are very proud of how high these things are, and I know that it's going to be a bit of a bummer if they start to be a little bit shorter than they were thought to be previously," she said. She added that she is not yet sure precisely what the new measurements of Colorado's peaks will be.
And near Beaumont, Tex., citizens are grappling with the unwelcome news that certain areas have subsided so much since previous height calculations that these regions now sit in the floodplain. As a result, some landowners may now need to insure themselves against losses from floods, said Daniel R. Roman, chief geodesist at NOAA. "They didn't want to know that the heights had changed," he said, "because when they do floodplain mapping, they're like, 'Well, I'm this height — it hasn't changed.'"
The United States has been measuring its own height since 1807, when Thomas Jefferson, then the president, established the Survey of the Coast, forerunner to the National Geodetic Survey, to chart the waters and coasts on the Eastern Seaboard. The survey was the nation's first civilian scientific agency, and had the aim of making shipping safer.
As the country expanded westward through the 19th century, so did the measuring, using the coast, a proxy for sea level, as the reference point for zero elevation. Surveyors planted metal benchmarks in the land as they traveled, describing each point's height above sea level, often mile by mile. Anyone who wanted to measure the height of a building or hill measured it relative to the benchmark and, indirectly, to sea level.
Geodetic leveling, as the process was called, was painstaking and expensive. The rationale was to make sure heights were measured in the same way right across the country over time, rather than each county or state having its own system. For example, if engineers from two states were building a bridge across state lines, they needed to know it would meet in the middle.
And by 1900, geodesy had become even more sophisticated. Instead of using a coastline as the stand-in for sea level, geodesists developed a mathematical model representing sea level based on readings from tides. They have adjusted the height reference five times since then, in 1903, 1907, 1912, 1929 and 1988. The 1988 model remains the standard in both the United States and Mexico.
But the 1988 version was short on accurate information for California and parts of Texas and North Carolina, said David B. Zilkoski, a geodesist who is the former director of the National Geodetic Survey. That is because the crust there has moved up or down considerably, as a result of tectonic plate activity and the removal of oil, gas and water from beneath the ground.
The solution, Mr. Zilkoski decided, might be to use the global navigational satellite system technologies, such as GPS, that were then beginning to proliferate. GPS is excellent at pinpointing where you are in a flat, two-dimensional system — say, at the corner of Bank Street and Garden Avenue. But it is also capable of telling you where you are in a three-dimensional world: Bank Street and Garden Avenue at 40 feet above sea level. By the mid-1990s, Mr. Zilkoski said, the goal of using GPS to modernize height had caught on.
It had the advantage of being inexpensive and easy. Satellites, and therefore global positioning systems, measure height relative to a smoothed out mathematical approximation of the Earth's shape called an ellipsoid. (Picture a basketball squished at the top and bottom.)
But there was a big catch. "GPS doesn't know much about gravity," said James L. Davis, a geophysicist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in New York.
Gravity matters to a geodesist. Height is distance measured along the direction that gravity points, and the strength and direction of gravity's pull vary according to the density of what is beneath the terrain and near it. In other words, height is not merely distance or elevation above the ground; it is tied to gravity. Gravity, in turn, is related to the distribution of mass. Geodesists therefore use the term "height" rather than "elevation."
"Whenever I give a public lecture on gravity, half the talk is getting them to think about it differently," Dr. Davis said.
As a result, a height measured only by GPS could be badly inaccurate. An engineer who laid pipe only using GPS, without measuring local variations in the effect of gravity, might not get water to flow where it was supposed to go.
But making highly detailed measurements of the gravitational field, in order to factor them into heights captured by GPS, is no small task. In 2007, the National Geodetic Survey launched an ambitious mission — GRAV-D, for Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum — to accomplish just that.
Geodesists will then use these gravity readings to make a model that best represents average sea level everywhere in the world, even on land. Because the pull of gravity varies everywhere, this model, called the geoid, resembles a lumpy potato. All heights will subsequently be measured taking it into account.
Once the new height system is in place, people will find unexpected uses for it, Ms. Blackwell of the National Geodetic Survey said. She invoked "The Jetsons," the futuristic animated television sitcom from the 1960s that featured cartoon characters zipping around their cities in tiny spacecraft. The underlying technology — the ability to calculate heights and other positional coordinates swiftly and accurately — was unimaginable at the time. Today, with the proliferation of drones, self-driving cars and remotely operated aerial systems, the ability to navigate accurately in three dimensions is becoming paramount. "I think it's going to get adopted really quickly," she said.
Even as geodesists get better at calculating the shape of the Earth, humans are changing it. As we warm the planet, we are melting glaciers and ice sheets. Their mass shifts from the land to the ocean, raising sea level and, eventually, changing height, which uses sea level as the reference for zero elevation. The shift in mass also has an impact on the configuration of the planet.
"That mass on the surface of Earth pushes down on Earth and actually changes its shape," said Dr. Davis of Columbia University.
In effect, through climate change, our species is altering gravity across the planet. "We're doing it by making chemical changes in the atmosphere that cause mass to be moved around," Dr. Davis said. "And the amount of mass now is tremendous. It's noticeable in the shape of the geoid. It's also noticeable in the Earth's rotation."
Dr. Davis and other scientists are scrambling to figure out more accurately how to calculate the impact of the human footprint in the coming years.
"A few hundred years ago, it was all about what is the shape of the Earth," he said. "And now it's: Can we measure Earth's changing shape, and the amount of mass in the glaciers,


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Spatially Resolved Transport Studies and Microscopy of Ultrathin Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Structures
Final rept. 10 Oct 95-27 May 97
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The objective of the contract was the investigation of hot electron transport on a microscopic scale in metal oxide semiconductor MOS structures in order to assess intrinsic transport properties in SiO2 and defect generation processes that lead to oxide failure. The technique used to achieve microscopic resolution was Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy BEEM, a variant of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope STM. In BEEM, use is made of the nearly monochromatic and highly forward focused electron beam of the STM to inject hot electrons through the thin metal gate and into the conduction band of the SiO2. The measured minimum electron energy required to achieve injection and subsequent detection in the Si defines the oxide barrier potential. A research highlight was the demonstration of image force effects in electron transport through MOS structures. The observation was made that the oxide barrier potential decreased with the application of an oxide field. This effect was attributed to screening by metal electrons and was described by classical image force powering, an often-ignored concept by the MOS science and engineering community. The results led to a new dynamic value for the dielectric constant of SiO2, which was confirmed by theoretical modeling of the MOS transport process. Monte Carlo simulations were made of the spreading of the beam as it traverses the oxide. The inclusion of image force effects was necessary for agreement with experiment.
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It is very important to stabilize the functional components in foods, in order to guarantee the safety / security of those foods.
CDs can stabilize some functional foods and ingredients (e.g. CoQ10、alipoic acid、royal jelly)
Interaction of CAPE with CD
Stability of CAPE-γ-CD
Solubilization of CAPE-γ-CD
Stabilization of CAPE by CDs
- The binding constants of the inclusion of CAPE with CDs were evaluated (K = 2000 M-1).
- The Stabilization effects of γ-CD for CAPE against 1) enzymatic hydrolysis 2) Michael Addition with amino acid 3) oxidation were observed.
- CAPE-γ-CD was more soluble than CAPE in the presence of bile acid.
→ increasing of the bioavailability.
→ These results showed that CAPE in NZ propolis can be stabilize without losing its functions by formation of inclusion complex with γ-CD.


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The counter current apparatus was the heart and the most complex part of the entire early
development of Penicillin in Oxford. With the raising of the scale of the production of Penicillin and the brewing of more and more culture
medium the researcher in Oxford needed to develop bigger and more efficient extractors to increase the amount of the Penicillin production
significantly. The new counter current apparatus had a weekly output of about 500 litre of crude broth and a capacity of about 12 litres per hour.
Norman Heatley built most of the used equipment for the Penicillin extraction by himself and even ordered parts such as vitreous
collecting bottles from elsewhere around Oxford. The influence and the contamination by air was a complete disaster
and destroyed a lot of the active substance because some air organisms have produced an enzyme which destroys the Penicillin substrate.
The basic construction of the counter current apparatus is mainly divided into 4 sections. The first section is the crude broth section which is the part for the culture medium. This is where the 1 gallon collecting bottle from step 2 is to be found. A Buckner funnel was used to have a control of the fluid of the crude broth. The second section is the 10% phosphoric acid section with a 1 gallon bottle as well. Here, a special funnel was prepared without parts of rubber to control the flow of the phosphoric acid and the amyl acetate. The phosphoric acid will be mixed with the cooled crude broth to an acidified solution with a pH value of about 2. The third section would be the amyl acetate section with a smaller bottle, with a volume of about a halfgallon. The amyl acetate is important to extract the precious Penicillin substrate from the acidified solution. This extraction will happen inside of the extraction unit, the fourth and the most important section of the counter current apparatus.


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Hiking TraIl nearby Borgorose population.
The largest locality in the area is Borgorose
, with a population of 4,524 persons, at a distance of 4.928 kilometers from the center of the map.
The following indicators give us an idea of the difficulty of the route:
- Trail length: 16.097 kilometers.
- Min height: 884 meters above sea level.
- Max height: 2,110 meters above sea level.
- Average height: 1,435 meters above sea level.
- Average slope uphill: 28.163 %.
- Average slope downhill: -17.370 %.
- Mathematical difficulty index: 102.189.


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"To provide strategic and operational support to the University's research activities / programs, while playing a central role in facilitating University–Industry Linkages, Intellectual Property Management, Technology Transfer / Licensing and Commercialization of Research."
In pursuit of this mission, Directorate of Research, Innovation & Commercialization has the responsibility of guaranteeing that all research programs and policies reflect the core values of academic freedom, professional integrity and ethical conduct and full compliance with all policies, legal requirements and operational standards of the university.
Keeping in view of the mission, following objectives have been laid out for BIC:
- Establish and maintain a research culture at BU.
- Inculcate the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship among BU researchers, both faculty and students.
- Ensure that the research pursued at BU has relevance to the industry, community and society.
- Commercialize R&D performed at BU.
- Promote industry focused multidisciplinary R&D.
- Promote training and education related to entrepreneurship and intellectual property.
- Be a catalyst for creation of new industries.
- Create job opportunities for BU graduates.
- Contribute towards achieving financial sustainability for BU.


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The best World Heritage Sites in Scotland
One of the most beautiful historic regions of the United Kingdom, Scotland is a very attractive tourist destination. With several natural and cultural wonders, Scotland is worldwide famous among travelers, especially for those who are looking for unique culture. In some of the previous guides I have already presented you some magnificent visitor attractions and cities in Scotland.
Below I will present you the best World Heritage Sites in Scotland. There are five fantastic such sites of both cultural and natural importance. These are the following: Edinburgh's Old and New Towns, the Antonine Wall, New Lanark, the beautiful St. Kilda Archipelago and the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney".
Edinburgh's Old and New Towns
The Scottish capital city, Edinburgh is one of the most visited destinations of the country. The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh were inscribed at the same time on the list of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites in 1996. Both include some fascinating landmarks: the Old Town is home to the famous Edinburgh Castle, the beautiful Holyrood Palace and the Royal Mile which actually runs between the two previously mentioned landmarks. Other notable buildings in the Old Town are St. Giles' Cathedral, the University of Edinburgh and so on. As for the New Town, the most popular street of it is the Princes Street and it is home to wonderful Georgian and Neoclassical buildings.
The Antonine Wall
Inscribed time on the list of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites in 2008, the Antonine Wall runs across Scotland's Central Belt. It was built during the Roman times and served as the northernmost frontier of the Empire. The wall is not as well preserved than the southern Hadrian's Wall, but it is still a major visitor attraction.
The village of New Lanark is famous for its several mills and historic buildings which were restored in 2006. Since then the village has become a major tourist destination. Inscribed on the list of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites in 2001, New Lanark is very attractive for visitors. The mills and buildings make it an excellent destination for the lovers of rural life and peaceful atmosphere.
St. Kilda Archipelago
The wonderful islands which compose the archipelago of St. Kilda are famous for their wildlife and scenic landscapes. The islands are home to a Biosphere Reserve and numerous prehistoric buildings and medieval villages. Visiting St. Kilda is with no doubt an unforgettable experience.
The "Heart of Neolithic Orkney"
The fifth World Heritage Site of Scotland, the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney" includes some Neolithic monuments which are situated on one of the islands composing Orkney Islands. It includes the Standing Stones of Stenness, Maeshowe, Skara Brae and the Ring of Brodgar.


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Using learning materials that are adult-oriented and relevant to learner goals and needs is important for learner retention. Practitioners should use a wide variety of relevant resources that are geared to adults.
Unfortunately, it can often be hard to find adult-oriented learning materials for low level learners.
Some good resources do exist, however. It is just a matter of knowing where to find them. There are many ways to gather effective learning materials. Community Literacy of Ontario has listed just a few of these ways here.
- Program-based Learning Materials. Your literacy program probably has tried and true learning materials. Other programs have also developed some great material over the years, and most literacy programs are willing to share, so ask around!
- Adapt your own materials. Since all materials should be based on the needs and goals of adult learners, adapt learning materials suited directly to their individual needs. For example, complex documents can be rewritten using plain language. Also, it isn't necessary to tackle an entire document at once. You can work on individual sections. For example, you can use just the table of contents to learn how to locate important information. Or on an application form, you can just focus on the personal information section. Be creative!
- Talk to your regional literacy network. Ontario's regional literacy networks are a wonderful source of information and resources. Most have built up a library of various literacy resources and they are eager to help.
- Talk to other literacy practitioners. Effective learning materials can be shared at regional or provincial meetings and conferences or at Literacy Services Plan meetings. Or, simply call or email your colleagues. Working in a caring profession is useful – literacy practitioners are usually extremely helpful to their colleagues!
- Talk to your local library about what material they have for low level adult readers and suggest reading materials or places to order such resources. Libraries are naturally concerned with public access to books.
- The National Adult Literacy Database (_URL_) provides diverse online resources for learners and practitioners. NALD's resources are easy to find in their searchable online database and these resources are from across Canada and around the world.
- Visit the website of Laubach Literacy Ontario to order learning materials from the highly acclaimed "Voyager", "Challenger" and "Laubach Way to Reading" series. Please visit: _URL_ and click on "Bookstore."
- AlphaRoute is an online literacy learning environment developed by AlphaPlus Centre. AlphaRoute has four separate but virtually linked learning areas, one for each of the four streams of Literacy and Basic Skills delivery agencies in Ontario: Anglophone, Deaf, Native and Francophone. AlphaRoute features a variety of learning exercises for all levels. It allows learners to learn computer skills at the same time as they are enhancing their literacy skills. AlphaRoute is a self-directed learning environment but it can also provide feedback from mentors. Please visit: _URL_
- The Learning Edge is a project of the Wellington County Learning Centre. The Learning Edge is a highly rated online newspaper for adult learners packed with interactive learning activities. Check out: _URL_ The Learning Edge is also available via AlphaRoute.
- As well, computer-based learning on CDs can be valuable for some learners. Try out programs such as "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing", "Money Matters," "Measuring Up", and the "Everyday Living" software (Math for Everyday Living, How to Write for Everyday Living, How to Read for Everyday Living, etc.). Again, search the Internet and talk to your fellow literacy practitioners to find out your options!
- The Golden Oak Reading Program is another great resource for adult learners. This award is sponsored by the Ontario Library Association and it provides new adult readers with the opportunity to read specially-chosen Canadian books geared to them. They can read the books by themselves, with their tutors, or as part of a reading group. Readers can also share their thoughts in an online discussion. The winning author is chosen based on the ratings given by the readers. The awards are presented in June of each year. For more information, please visit: _URL_
- Grass Roots Press provides a variety of adult literacy resources for practitioners and adult students: _URL_.
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text: Dr. Kyes often travels for up to seven months each year as the leader of the Division of Global Programs for the Washington National Primate Research Center and Director of UW's Center for Global Field Study. Students from around the world get to learn about the convergence of environmental and global health through field course programs in countries such as: Indonesia, Nepal, China, India and Thailand. Kyes has spent nearly 30 years leading field courses in a dozen countries. UW Today writer Deborah Bach recently interviewed Dr. Kyes about his experiences, outreach efforts, challenges and rewards of running this successful program. The piece is titled: From crop-raiding monkeys to political unrest: UW's Randy Kyes embarks on 100th field course.


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Creator: Fox, Raymond E.
Description: In this exposition, the writer has attempted to give a clear idea of the origin, organization, and curricua of the three types of schools of the Mexican public educational system. The information was gathered from first-hand knowledge, from careful study and analysis or publications of the department of Education, visits to schools, Interviews with school pen, and from various earler works on the subject of Mexican education.
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A Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP),, is defined as a tuple, where:
The assignment of value to variable will be denoted by. Any tuple can be viewed as a set of value to variable assignments. The set of variables over which a tuple is defined will be denoted by. For any subset of, denotes the sub-tuple of that includes only assignments to the variables in. Any two tuples and of can be ordered by the lexicographic ordering. In this ordering, iff there a exists a subset of such that and. An assignment is consistent, if for all constraints, where,. A solution to a CSP is a consistent assignment to all variables in. If there exists a solution for a given CSP, we say that the CSP is soluble. Otherwise, it is insoluble.
A basic way of solving CSPs is by using backtracking search. This can be seen as a traversal of a search tree which comprises of the possible assignments of values to variables. Each level of the tree corresponds to a variable. A node in the search tree corresponds to a tuple (i.e. an assignment of values to variables). The root of the tree corresponds to the empty tuple, the first level nodes correspond to 1-tuples (an assignment of a value to one variable), the second level nodes correspond to 2-tuples (assignment of values to two variables generated by extending the first level 1-tuples) etc. At each stage of the search tree traversal, the variables that have been already assigned are called past variables. The most recently assigned variable is called current variable. The variables that have not been assigned yet are called future variables.
In the rest of this paper we will use the notation for the number of variables in a CSP, for the number of constraints in the problem, for the maximum domain size of the variables, and for the maximum arity of the constraints.


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In such a case, you can specify the endpointConfigurationName as a parameter to the constructor for a service reference.
Note
Your computer might show different names or locations for some of the Visual Studio user interface elements in the following instructions. The Visual Studio edition that you have and the settings that you use determine these elements. For more information, see Personalizing the IDE.
To select a service endpoint
 1. Add a reference to a WCF service by right-clicking the project node in Solution Explorer and choosing Add service reference
 2. In the Code Editor, add a constructor for the service reference:
 Dim proxy As New ServiceReference.Service1Client(

 ServiceReference.Service1Client proxy = new ServiceReference.Service1Client(

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 Replace ServiceReference with the namespace for the service reference and replace Service1Client with the name of the service.
 3. An IntelliSense list will be displayed with the overloads for the constructor. Select the endpointConfigurationName As String overload.
 4. Following the overload, type = ConfigurationName, where ConfigurationName is the name of the endpoint that you want to use.
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 If you do not know the names of the available endpoints, you can find them in the app.config file.
To find the available endpoints for a WCF service
 1. In Solution Explorer, right-click the app.config file for the project that contains the service reference and then click Open. The file will appear in the Code Editor.
 2. Search for the <Client> tag in the file.
 3. Search underneath the <Client> tag for a tag that starts with <Endpoint>.
 If the service reference provides multiple endpoints, there will be two or more <Endpoint tags.
 4. Inside the <EndPoint> tag you will find a name="SomeService" parameter (where SomeService represents an endpoint name). This is the name for the endpoint that can be passed to the endpointConfigurationName As String overload of a constructor for a service reference.
How to: Call a Service Method Asynchronously
Most methods in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services may be called either synchronously or asynchronously. Calling a method asynchronously enables your application to continue to work while the method is being called when it operates over a slow connection.
By default, when a service reference is added to a project it is configured to call methods synchronously. You can change the behavior to call methods asynchronously by changing a setting in the Configure Service Reference dialog box.
Note
This option is set on a per-service basis. If one method for a service is called asynchronously, all methods must be called asynchronously.
Note
Your computer might show different names or locations for some of the Visual Studio user interface elements in the following instructions. The Visual Studio edition that you have and the settings that you use determine these elements. For more information, see Personalizing the IDE.
To call a service method asynchronously
 1. In Solution Explorer, select the service reference.
 2. On the Project menu, click Configure Service Reference.
 3. In the Configure Service Reference dialog box, select the Generate asynchronous operations check box.
How to: Bind Data Returned by a Service
You can bind data returned by a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service to a control just as you can bind any other data source to a control. When you add a reference to a WCF service, if the service contains composite types that return data, they are automatically added to the Data Sources window.
To bind a control to single data field returned by a WCF service
 1. On the Data menu, click Show Data Sources. The Data Sources window will appear.
 2. In the Data Sources window, expand the node for your service reference. Any composite types returned by the service will be displayed.
 3. Expand a node for a type. The data fields for that type will be displayed.
 4. Select a field and click the drop-down arrow to display a list of controls that are available for the data type.
 5. Click the type of control that you want to bind to.
 6. Drag the field onto a form. The control will be added to the form together with a BindingSource component and a BindingNavigator component.
 7. Repeat steps 4 though 6 for any other fields that you want to bind.
To bind a control to composite type returned by a WCF service
 1. On the Data menu, select Show Data Sources. The Data Sources window will appear.
 2. In the Data Sources window, expand the node for your service reference. Any composite types returned by the service will be displayed.
 3. Select a node for a type and click the drop-down arrow to display a list of available options.
 4. Click either DataGridView to display the data in a grid or Details to display the data in individual controls.
 5. Drag the node onto the form. The controls will be added to the form together with a BindingSource component and a BindingNavigator component.
How to: Configure a Service to Reuse Existing Types
When a service reference is added to a project, any types defined in the service are generated in the local project. In many cases, this creates duplicate types when a service uses common .NET Framework types or when types are defined in a shared library.
To avoid this problem, types in referenced assemblies are shared by default. If you want to disable type sharing for one or more assemblies, you can do so in the Configure Service References dialog box.
To disable type sharing in a single assembly
 1. In Solution Explorer, select the service reference.
 2. On the Project menu, click Configure Service Reference.
 3. In the Configure Service References dialog box, select Reuse types in specified referenced assemblies.
 4. Select the check box for each assembly in which you want to enable type sharing. To disable type sharing for an assembly, leave the check box cleared.
To disable type sharing in all assemblies
 1. In Solution Explorer, select the service reference.
 2. On the Project menu, click Configure Service Reference.
 3. In the Configure Service References dialog box, clear the Reuse types in referenced assemblies check box.
Title Description
Walkthrough: Creating a simple WCF Service in Windows Forms Provides a step-by-step demonstration of creating and using WCF services in Visual Studio.
Walkthrough: Creating a WCF Data Service with WPF and Entity Framework Provides a step-by-step demonstration of how to create and use WCF Data Services in Visual Studio.
Using the WCF Development Tools Discusses how to create and test WCF services in Visual Studio.
How to: Add, Update, or Remove a Service Reference Describes how to add, update, or remove WCF services from a project.
How to: Add, Update, or Remove a WCF Data Service Reference Discusses how to reference and use WCF Data Services in Visual Studio.
Troubleshooting Service References Presents some common errors that can occur with service references and how to prevent them.
Debugging WCF Services Describes common debugging problems and techniques you might encounter when debugging WCF services.
Windows Communication Foundation Authentication Service Overview Describes how to use WCF to provide a role service for a Web site.
Walkthrough: Creating an N-Tier Data Application Provides step-by-step instructions for creating a typed dataset and separating the TableAdapter and dataset code into multiple projects.
Configure Service Reference Dialog Box Describes the user interface elements of the Configure Service Reference dialog box.
Reference
System.ServiceModel
System.Data.Services
See Also
Visual Studio data tools for .NET


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This training, part of a national educational campaign aimed at civilian healthcare professionals, will enable these community providers to use their current clinical skills to provide culturally appropriate treatment to service members and their families. Participating attendees will be able to address such issues as:
- The importance of military culture in providing treatment for veterans and their families;
- Understanding behavioral mental health concerns of returning veterans as well as for their families;
- General post-deployment concerns of returning service members;
- Treatment and resources for veterans and their families; and
- Resources for health professionals.
View flyer for details on presenters.
Maine Area Health Education Center


Contactless Live Line Detector
The LED to flash 5 times per second if the unit is brought close to a live conductor (insulated, and even buried in plaster) capacitive coupling between the live conductor and the probe clocks the counter. That's caused the 4017 IC divides the mains 50Hz frequency by 10.
The unit stops counting, the LED resulting permanently OFF (or permanently ON but with only 10% probability) when remote from a live line. For your notes, use a more or less long sensing probe to vary the sensitivity. And LED's current limiting resistor can be omitted due to 3V operation.


1 = sc.parallelize(1 to 1000, 15)
val myrdd2 = myrdd1.coalesce(5,false)
Int = 5
Output :
Int = 15
Int = 5
19) Explain pipe() operation. How it writes the result to the standard output?
Ans. It is a transformation.
def pipe(command: String): RDD[String]
Return an RDD created by piping elements to a forked external process.
 - In general, Spark is using Scala, Java, and Python to write the program. However, if that is not enough, and one want to pipe (inject) the data which written in other languages like 'R', Spark provides the general mechanism in the form of pipe() method.
 - Spark provides the pipe() method on RDDs.
 - With Spark's pipe() method, one can write a transformation of an RDD that can read each element in the RDD from standard input as String.
 - It can write the results as String to the standard output.
For more transformation on RDDs see: Apache Spark Operations
20) What is the key difference between textFile and wholeTextFile method?
Ans. Both are the method of org.apache.spark.SparkContext.
textFile() :
 - def textFile(path: String, minPartitions: Int = defaultMinPartitions): RDD[String]
 - Read a text file from HDFS, a local file system (available on all nodes), or any Hadoop-supported file system URI, and return it as an RDD of Strings
 - For example sc.textFile("/home/hdadmin/wc-data.txt") so it will create RDD in which each individual line an element.
 - Everyone knows the use of textFile.
wholeTextFiles() :
 - def wholeTextFiles(path: String, minPartitions: Int = defaultMinPartitions): RDD[(String, String)]
 - Read a directory of text files from HDFS, a local file system (available on all nodes), or any Hadoop-supported file system URI.
 - Rather than create basic RDD, the wholeTextFile() returns pairRDD.
 - For example, you have few files in a directory so by using wholeTextFile() method,
 it creates pair RDD with a filename with a path as key,
 and value is the whole file as a string
val myfilerdd = sc.wholeTextFiles("/home/hdadmin/MyFiles")
val keyrdd = myfilerdd.keys
val filerdd = myfilerdd.values
Output :
Array[String] = Array(
Array[String] =
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21) What is Action, how it process data in Apache Spark?
Ans. Actions return final result of RDD computations/operation. It triggers execution using lineage graph to load the data into original RDD, and carries out all intermediate transformations and returns final result to Driver program or write it out to file system.
For example: First, take, reduce, collect, count, aggregate are some of the actions in spark.
Action produces a value back to the Apache Spark driver program. It may trigger a previously constructed, lazy RDD to evaluate. It is an RDD operations that produce non-RDD values. Action function materializes a value in a Spark program. So basically an action is RDD operation that returns a value of any type but RDD[T] is an action. Actions are one of two ways to send data from executors to the driver (the other being accumulators).
For detail study of Action refer Transformation and Action in Apache Spark.
22) How is Transformation on RDD different from Action?
Ans. Transformations create new RDD from existing RDD
Transformations are executed on demand.(Lazy computation)
Ex: filter(), union()
An Action will return a non-RDD type (your stored value types usually)
Actions trigger execution using lineage graph to load the data into original RDD
Ex: count(), first()
23) What are the ways in which one can know that the given operation is Transformation or Action?
Ans. In order to identify the operation, one needs to look at the return type of an operation.
 - If the operation returns a new RDD, in that case, an operation is 'Transformation'
 - If the operation returns any other type than RDD, in that case, an operation is 'Action'
Hence, Transformation constructs a new RDD from an existing one (previous one) while Action computes the result based on applied transformation and returns the result to either driver program or save it to the external storage.
Also, refer to operations of RDD in Apache Spark and its Operations
24) Describe Partition and Partitioner in Apache Spark.
Ans. Partition in Spark is similar to split in HDFS. A partition in Spark is a logical division of data stored on a node in the cluster. They are the basic units of parallelism in Apache Spark. RDDs are a collection of partitions. When some actions are executed, a task is launched per partition.
By default, partitions are automatically created by the framework. However, the number of partitions in Spark are configurable to suit the needs. For the number of partitions, if spark.default.parallelism is set, then we should use the value from SparkContext defaultParallelism, othewrwise we should use the max number of upstream partitions. Unless spark.default.parallelism is set, the number of partitions will be the same as that of the largest upstream RDD, as this would least likely cause out-of-memory errors.
A partitioner is an object that defines how the elements in a key-value pair RDD are partitioned by key, maps each key to a partition ID from 0 to numPartitions – 1. It captures the data distribution at the output. With the help of partitioner, the scheduler can optimize the future operations. The contract of partitioner ensures that records for a given key have to reside on a single partition.
We should choose a partitioner to use for a cogroup-like operations. If any of the RDDs already has a partitioner, we should choose that one. Otherwise, we use a default HashPartitioner.
There are three types of partitioners in Spark :
 - Hash Partitioner
 - Range Partitioner
 - Custom Partitioner
Hash – Partitioner: Hashpartitioning attempts to spread the data evenly across various partitions based on the key.
Range – Partitioner: In RangePartitioning method, tuples having keys with same range will appear on the same machine.
RDDs can create with specific partitioning in two ways :
i) Providing explicit partitioner by calling partitionBy method on an RDD
ii) Applying transformations that return RDDs with specific partitioners.
5. Apache Spark Interview Questions For Experience
25) How can you manually partition the RDD?
Ans. When we create the RDD from a file stored in HDFS.
data = context.textFile("/user/dataflair/file-name")
By default one partition is created for one block. ie. if we have a file of size 1280 MB (with 128 MB block size) there will be 10 HDFS blocks, hence the similar number of partitions (10) will create.
If you want to create more partitions than the number of blocks, you can specify the same while RDD creation:
data = context.textFile("/user/dataflair/file-name", 20)
It will create 20 partitions for the file. ie for each block 2 partitions will create.
NOTE: It is often recommended to have more no of partitions than no of the block, it improves the performance
26) Name the two types of shared variable available in Apache Spark.
Ans. There are two types of shared variables available in Apache Spark:
 - Accumulators: used to Aggregate the Information.
 - Broadcast variable: to efficiently distribute large values.
When we pass the function to Spark, say filter(), this function can use the variable which defined outside of the function but within the Driver program but when we submit the task to Cluster, each worker node gets a new copy of variables and update from these variables not propagated back to Driver program.
Accumulators and Broadcast variable are used to remove above drawback ( i.e. we can get the updated values back to our Driver program)
27) What are accumulators in Apache Spark?
Ans. This discussion is in continuation with a question, Name the two types of shared variable available in Apache Spark.
Introduction of Accumulator :
 - An accumulator is a shared variable in Apache Spark, used to aggregating information across the cluster.
 - In other words, aggregating information/values from worker nodes back to the driver program. ( How we will see in below session)
Why Accumulator :
 - When we use a function inside the operation like map(), filter() etc these functions can use the variables which defined outside these function scope in the driver program.
 - When we submit the task to cluster, each task running on the cluster gets a new copy of these variables and updates from these variable do not propagate back to the driver program.


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Effect Simulation
It can still be difficult to interpret the results of LMM and GLMM models, especially the relative influence of varying parameters on the predicted outcome. This is where the REimpact and the wiggle functions in merTools can be handy.
impSim <- REimpact(m1, InstEval[7, ], groupFctr = "d", breaks = 5,
 n.sims = 300, level = 0.9)
impSim
#> case bin AvgFit AvgFitSE nobs
#> 1 1 1 2.787033 2.801368e-04 193
#> 2 1 2 3.260565 5.389196e-05 240
#> 3 1 3 3.561137 5.976653e-05 254
#> 4 1 4 3.840941 6.266748e-05 265
#> 5 1 5 4.235376 1.881360e-04 176
The result of REimpact shows the change in the yhat as the case we supplied to newdata is moved from the first to the fifth quintile in terms of the magnitude of the group factor coefficient. We can see here that the individual professor effect has a strong impact on the outcome variable. This can be shown graphically as well:
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(impSim, aes(x = factor(bin), y = AvgFit, ymin = AvgFit - 1.96*AvgFitSE,
 ymax = AvgFit + 1.96*AvgFitSE)) +
 geom_pointrange() + theme_bw() + labs(x = "Bin of 'd' term", y = "Predicted Fit")
Here the standard error is a bit different – it is the weighted standard error of the mean effect within the bin. It does not take into account the variability within the effects of each observation in the bin – accounting for this variation will be a future addition to merTools.


Sometimes, we need to print a report on a printed blank paper. Such as invoice, bill, credential, etc. With common reporting tools, we need to measure every data area with a ruler, and design the report according to the sizes. In a practical case, it may need to debug the report for many times. Therefore, it will be very complicated and frustrated. Moreover, if the paper format changes, developers have to design the report again. Preformatted paper printing is also called locating printing, which means to print desired content at a specific position on paper precisely. This function is widely used in report print. RAQ Report adopts base image depicting to realize the preformatted paper printing. With RAQ Report, developers can scan needed paper into an image, and set it as the background picture of the report. Next, drag the gridlines of the report to match the picture. Then, the report will be printed on the preformatted paper precisely. For specifi operations, please refer to


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Is there a straightforward way to write an inverse of UnitDimensions to get the SI unit from dimensions?
For example,
inverseUnitDimensions[{{"LengthUnit", 1}, {"MassUnit", 1}, {"TimeUnit", -2}}]
should return "Newtons".
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 - $\begingroup$ Slightly off-topic: Here's an automatic "unit simplifier" solution: mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/211950/26598: unitSimplify[Quantity[1, "Meters" "Kilograms"/"Seconds"^2], Join[SIbase, SIderived]] returns {Quantity[1, "Newtons"]} as desired. $\endgroup$
 – Roman
 Commented Jul 23 at 9:23
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You can use QuantityVariableCanonicalUnit:
QuantityVariableCanonicalUnit[QuantityVariable[
 {{"LengthUnit", 1}, {"MassUnit", 1}, {"TimeUnit", -2}}]]
(* ("Kilograms" "Meters")/("Seconds")^2 *)
Now you need a combination of UnitSimplify and UnitConvert:
QuantityUnit[UnitConvert[UnitSimplify[Quantity[1, %]], "SI"]]
(* "Newtons" *)
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 - $\begingroup$ Thanks. That's just what I hoped for. I wish Wolfram documentation would make better use of "See Also." The first time I saw QuantityVariableCanonicalUnit[] was in your answer. $\endgroup$
 – crabtree
 Commented Jul 22 at 17:34
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Using answer from Domen:
In[16]
si[dimensions_]:=
 UnitSimplify[
 UnitConvert[
 QuantityVariableCanonicalUnit[
 QuantityVariable[dimensions]],
 "SI"]]
si[{{"LengthUnit", 1}, {"MassUnit", 1}, {"TimeUnit", -2}}]
si[{{"ElectricCurrentUnit", 1}, {"TimeUnit", 1}}]
Out[17]= Quantity[1, "Newtons"]
Out[18]= Quantity[1, "Coulombs"]
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text: We investigate hydrogen isotope and nuclear quantum effects on geometries and binding energies of small protonated rare gas clusters (Rg X, Rg = He,Ne,Ar, X = H,D,T, and = 1–3) with the any particle molecular orbital (APMO) MP2 level of theory (APMO/MP2). To gain insight on the impact of nuclear quantum effects on the different interactions present in the Rg X systems, we propose an APMO/MP2 energy decomposition analysis scheme. For RgH ions, isotopic substitution leads to an increase in the stability of the complex, because polarization and charge transfer contributions increase with the mass of the hydrogen. In the case of Rg H complexes, isotopic substitution results in a shortening and weakening of the rare gas-hydrogen ion bond. For Rg X complexes, the isotope effects on the rare gas binding energy are almost negligible. Nevertheless, our results reveal that subtle changes in the charge distribution of the Rg X core induced by an isotopic substitution have an impact on the geometry of the Rg X complex. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


Nigel Townson, Director of the British Council Romania : The Significance of Cultural Relations between Romania and the United Kingdom - Nine O' Clock
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April 12, 2021
Firstly, what do we mean by cultural relations? At the British Council we have an official definition, as follows: Cultural relations is the building of engagement and trust between people of different cultures through the exchange of knowledge and ideas. This is a short and simple statement, but it encapsulates just why the cultural relationship between our two countries has been so significant over the past 135 years, particularly, although not exclusively, during the politically turbulent years from 1938 to 1990.
I have chosen to focus on those years because it is when nations are politically distant that the power of cultural relations is most in evidence. In fact, the British Council was formed in 1934 as a direct response to the rise of right-wing extremism in Europe, its aim being to provide what as then termed 'cultural propaganda' in countries where freedom of speech was curtailed and the persecution of minorities was rife.
The British Council opened its doors in Bucharest in 1938 just as British-Romanian relations were about to reach their lowest point. Our long-standing alliance, founded on the marriage of Queen Marie to King Ferdinand, faltered at the outbreak of World War II. It is true that the United Kingdom and Romania ended that conflict as allies, but ideological differences then kept the two nations at arm's length for the next forty-five years.
Yet throughout that difficult period, when mutual distrust was the default position of our respective governments, cultural relations kept alive the flickering flame of friendship. For many observers, the 1960s and 1970s represented the nadir of political distrust between Romania and the United Kingdom, and yet the exchange of knowledge and ideas thrived. Academic exchanges were plentiful (mostly Romanians studying in the UK, but with a few return visits) and arts events of the highest quality brought each country's achievements to the attention of the other. In 1964 London hosted the George Enescu International Festival and this played to packed houses and received extremely flattering reviews. Mircea Basarab, Director of the George Enescu State Philharmonic in Bucharest appears to have been the darling of the press and, in turn, was delighted with the reception the music and the musicians received. In the spirit of cultural reciprocity Henry Moore's sculptures were exhibited with great success in Romania in 1966. In both cases, cultural exchange was the vehicle which allowed us to undercut policy differences and learn about each other's culture, without political or ideological interference.
It is also worth noting the potential for sport to make cultural relations impact, and it is cited alongside music as an area where the Romanians had a growing reputation in the 1960s. In an internal British Council memo in 1969, R. Brash writes warmly of recent success by the Romanians. 'Romanian achievements are steadily becoming better known in Britain. Sometimes the process has been spectacular, as when the Romanian tennis players beat us in the Davis Cup or when Mr. Radu Lupu defeated all opposition to win first prize at the Leeds International Pianoforte Festival this year. The ability of the Romanian Football Team to force England to a draw at two matches last winter created a profound impression in this country.' Indeed, as England were reigning world champions at the time.
I gained personal experience of the power of cultural relations to build engagement and trust when I was visiting lecturer at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj at the end of the 1980s. For my students of English, I was the only window on the world outside Romania. For me, my students were the real face of Romania, one which extremely few of my compatriots were able to see at that time. If you go back to the beginning of this text and re-read our definiton of cultural relations, then this is just what we mean by that.
These days, our political alliance is strong again and there are relatively few barriers to physical and cultural movement between our countries. Thousands of Romanians study in the UK, millions more are learning English and enjoying our music and popular culture. At the same time, albeit more slowly, Romania is becoming more familiar to my compatriots. It boasts extraordinarily beautiful and varied landscapes, it has a uniquely creative film industry, and I know from my own experience that its people are gracious and generous hosts who are proud of their heritage.
It is, I suppose, possible that our relationship would be just as strong now even if the British Council had not been active here during the years of the Cold War, but I sincerely doubt it. In the 1990s our excellent relationship with the Ministries of Culture and Education was built on the foundations that had been laid during those years of political mistrust. We were received with open arms when we wanted to reform the teaching of English because we had built up trust over decades, not because we came with a blank cheque (we didn't). The work we did in the arts during that decade was also the result of relationships formed over the previous thirty years. Even now, I come across people who tell me with pride that they were members of the British Council library during the time of Ceausescu, and that we were their only connection to the world outside Romania.
Cultural inquiry and exchange, in a nutshell, is what has maintained the warmth of the relationship between Romania and the United Kingdom, even when the political temperature was well below zero. That is the significance of cultural relations.
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Child deaths in Vermont
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Definitions: Child deaths per 100,000 children ages 1 to 14 years old
Data Source: Vermont Agency of Human Services, Department of Health, Vital Statistics
Footnotes: Rate represents the sum of data for three years. For example, the 2009-2011 rate is derived from the sum of all deaths of children age 1 to 14 over that three year time period divided by the sum of the population of all children of that same age group over the same three years, multiplied by 100,000.
Change over time for child death rates is not applicable in most cases, as the actual number of deaths is very low.


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Overview - ADPTD CLASSICS TM - QUIET ON THE WSTRN FRNT RL 5-6
Accessible Classic Literature and Literary Masterpieces.
Appeal to students of all abilities with the high-interest titles in these series. The books are adaptations at various reading levels of classic literature, plays, novels, and stories. Each title is a concise book that retains the integrity and tone of the original work. Features easy-to-understand text and engaging illustrations.
Pacemaker Classics Reading Level 3–4.
Each 48-page Study Guide offers 35 reproducible project sheets, background information about the author and time period, plot summaries, character descriptions, teaching suggestions, and answer keys.
Adapted Classics Reading Level 4+.
The Teacher's Resource Manual includes cooperative learning activities and reproducible writing worksheets.
|• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- A Christmas Carol
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Anne Frank
- Call of the Wild
- Frederick Douglass
- Grapes of Wrath
- Great Expectations
- Gulliver's Travels
- Helen Keller
- Julus Caesar
- O. Henry
- Phantom of the Opera
- Red Badge of Courage
- Romeo and Juliet
- Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
- The Canterbury Tales
- The Scarlet Letter
- Treasure Island


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The Philippines is blessed with a very high biodiversity, including the plants living in its remaining forest cover. Trees alone comprise about 3500 species. Just to research on a species a day would take about 10 years to finish all of just the trees. Then there are still the shrubs, herbs, ferns etc. Through this blog we hope to introduce you to some important plants in the forest before they completely disappear because of habitat destruction.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Another Katmon in Flower
Dillenia sibuyanensis in flower
Flower is much smaller than a katmon's
Quick Post: I was gifted by Wendy Regalado with a cutting of Dillenia sibuyanensis or katmon-sibuyan. In about 8 months it established itself then grew from 6 inches to about 2 feet. The other day I saw it in flower. It had a smaller flower compared to Dillenia philippinensis, but has an attractive yellow flower. It must be a delight to see a specimen heavily laden with the yellow blooms. For now I have to contented with the single flower, and at least I know my plant will be doing so someday.


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Cimicifuga racemosa [sim-iss-SIFF-yew-ga, ray-see-MO-suh] is the former name of Actaea racemosa.
It's one of the 2,252 known flowering species of the family Ranunculaceae, commonly known as the buttercup family.
Cimicifuga Racemosa is a perennial plant native to North America.
Like most other members of its family, the plant is herbaceous and produces small white flowers and large compound leaves from an underground network of rootstalks, called rhizomes.
From creek and forest margins to wooded slopes, ravines, moist meadowlands, and mountainous terrain, Cimicifuga can grow in a range of habitats.
Some other common names you may hear include:
- Black Cohosh
- Black Bugbane
- Black Snakeroot
- Fairy Candle
Cimicifuga Racemosa Care
Size & Growth
Black Cohosh is a little tricky to grow from seeds and slow to establish.
Exposing the seed to a cycle of warm-cold-warm climate for germination is essential.
The plant requires patience to grow.
Seeds bought from the market can take up to 2 years to germinate after being sowed.
Personally collected seeds and planted immediately can germinate a bit earlier.
Late summer and early fall is the best time to sow the seeds.
This plant grows in an upright position and grows to an average height of 4' – 6' feet.
However, if provided the optimum conditions, Cimicifuga black cohosh can grow up to 8' feet tall and 2' – 4' feet wide.
Flowering and Fragrance
The Black Snakeroot blooms in late summer to early fall.
The small, creamy white colored fragrant flowers grow on thin stems in the form of terminal racemes that look like fluffy spires 1' – 2' feet long.
Light & Temperature
While snakeroot grows in full sun, its natural habitat is shaded or partially shaded areas.
It needs protection from strong winds.
Cimicifuga Racemosa is a tough plant and can survive temperatures up to -40° degrees Fahrenheit (-40° C).
Watering and Feeding
On average, the Black Bugbane requires regular watering.
It needs watering frequently in times of drought.
The plant cannot grow in dry, waterlogged, or poorly draining soil.
Soil & Transplanting
While Racemosa grows in average, moderately moist soil, it prefers organically rich and moisture retentive soil.
As long as the plant has adequate moisture, it can tolerate variations in soil quality and light.
But, if left in the dry soil, the foliage tends to burn and decrease.
The ideal pH of the soil for planting Cimicifuga is 5 – 6.
Grooming and Maintenance
Cimicifuga is one of those plants requiring almost no maintenance once established.
The only factor you need to be highly careful about is that its soil doesn't dry out and the plant is protected from strong winds.
How to Propagate Black Cohosh
The best way to propagate Black Cohosh is by a division of rhizomes.
To do this:
- Cut the rhizomes into 2" – 3" inches long pieces.
- Make sure the fibrous roots remain attached and each section has at least one bud.
- Plant these pieces of rhizomes in a 3' – 5' feet wide prepared bed.
- Stagger the rhizome pieces 18" – 24" inches apart.
- Ensure the buds point upright and the portions are deep enough that they can be covered with 2" inches of soil on top.
- After the plantation, cover the site with 3" inches to leaf mulch or shredded hardwood bark.
Continue adding mulch throughout the planting period to prevent weed growth and promote moisture retention in the soil.
Propagation by rhizome division not only reduces the time it takes the plant to grow to the root harvest stage but also ensures a more consistent plant stand.
Black Bugbane Pest or Diseases
The Fairy Candle plant is not affected by any severe disease.
Occasionally, the plant can get affected by diseases causing root rot and leaf spots.
One of the common conditions that cause the damping off (or death) of young emerging seedlings of black cohosh is the fungus Rhizoctonia Solani.
Planting in well-drained soils can help in disease prevention.
Control it by changing the site of the plantation.
Leaf spots can reduce the growth of roots, which then will cause premature defoliation of Cimicifuga.
Leaf spots are prevented by planting in non-crowded areas with proper air circulation.
While destroying all the affected foliage is the best way to stop the diseases from spreading.
If the disease spreads to a large area, consider applying certain organic fungicides such as neem oil or a spray with baking soda.
Uses for Black Snakeroot
Due to its bright green foliage and white flowers, this plant's grown to add color and texture to gardens and backyards.
Traditionally, Cimicifuga Racemosa is used as a bug and flea repellent.
Cimicifuga plants have a long history of use for several medicinal purposes.
Native Americans used it for treatment of fever, pneumonia, cough, musculoskeletal pain, and menstrual irregularities.
The safety of using the plant or products made from it for the long-term hasn't been evaluated.


Named ways of preparing the body for the second wave COVID-19
the Russians told how to prepare your body for a possible second wave of coronavirus.
According to therapist Vladimir Beketov, the immune system in humans is the same in all seasons. In this regard, the expert in interview "KP" urged not to rely on the decrease of the infection in the summer.
the Doctor recommends during the period from late August until October to get vaccinated against influenza. Especially, he advises not to neglect vaccinations for people suffering from lung, heart diseases or diabetes. Also, the doctor believes that it is possible to be vaccinated and pneumococcal disease.
Beketov had been warned that to strengthen the immune system, taking Supplements, tinctures, impossible. Meanwhile, long sleep 8-9 hours, as noted by the candidate of medical Sciences, is able to exert a positive effect on the protective functions of the body.
the physician Also advises Russians to eat chicken, Turkey, fish, fruits, vegetables, greens, and bran, to reduce the consumption of meat, mostly sausage products.


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Are In-Demand Jobs in the Hospitality Sector, In-Demand for Opportunity Youth?
A familiar theme in a "changing world of work" is the fear of job loss to automation, matched by insufficient job creation to meet the demands of youth unemployment. Despite these fears, the hospitality industry continues to grow: Demand for workers, the large number of entry-level jobs, combined with low barriers to entry, transferable customer service skills, and a tendency to promote existing and long-term employees to management-level positions, make the hospitality sector ideal for workforce development efforts that target young people. Hotel supply chains also represent a diverse array of opportunities for youth in a changing world of work. With so much potential for career pathways in hospitality, why aren't more youth engaged? This session discussed the potential of the hospitality industry alongside some of the common and persistent barriers to Opportunity Youth gaining access to jobs in the sector, as well as some of the strategies being deployed to address these challenges.


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The cape honeysuckle (Tecoma capensis or Tecomaria capensis) brightens your landscape with vivid coral orange blooms from mid-autumn through early winter in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 to 11. The evergreen plant grows as a vine up to 25 feet long, but is often trained as a shrub 6 to 10 feet tall. Prune in late winter to early spring to maintain your cape honeysuckle's shape and still see plenty of coral blooms.
Remove any dead or damaged branches at their base with hand pruners or loppers whenever you notice them.
Clip off any minor frost damage with hand pruners, removing foliage that is limp and dark brown or discolored around the edges back to where it connects to the branch.
Cut out up to one-third of the largest, oldest canes with pruners or loppers. Space your cuts evenly throughout the plant to both open up its interior to light and air and control its height. Repeat annually to keep growth in check.
Follow any long stems that extend outside the basic mound profile of the plant during the growing season back to a side branch or bud up to 1 foot inside the plant. Cape honeysuckle can send out long stems that need to be controlled to maintain the plant as a shrub. Cut back any stems that touch the ground so they don't root and spread.
Cut the plant back to within 6 inches of ground height in early spring when it has outgrown its space, is no longer blooming well or has experienced significant winter damage. Cape honeysuckle can die back when temperatures drop below 28 degrees Fahrenheit but will re-sprout in spring.
Things You Will Need
- Hand pruners
- Plant "Apricot," a smaller, more compact cultivar, to minimize trimming.
- Cape honeysuckle is tolerant of salt spray.
- Hand pruners can handle stems up to 1/2 inch in diameter. Use loppers for branches up to 1 1/2 inches across.
- Though the plant is not widely invasive, it has escaped cultivation in subtropical and tropical climates.
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