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Andreas Korneliussen wrote: > Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > >>>email@example.com wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Author: andreask >>>>Date: Fri Aug 18 06:05:45 2006 >>>>New Revision: 432569 >>>> >>>>URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=432569&view=rev >>>>Log: >>>>Fixed bug in setUp causing it to only start server when running in embedded mode. >>> >>>> final public class NetworkServerTestSetup extends TestSetup { >>>>@@ -57,7 +53,7 @@ >>>> */ >>>> protected void setUp() throws Exception { >>>> >>>>- if (config.getJDBCClient().isEmbedded()) { >>>>+ if (!config.getJDBCClient().isEmbedded()) { >>>> BaseTestCase.println("Starting network server:"); >>>> networkServerController = new NetworkServerControl >>>> (InetAddress.getByName(config.getHostName()), config.getPort()); >>>> >>> >>>Why is the check for isEmbedded even there? >>> > > > As it is now, I need the check of isEmbedded() somewhere. Either in > NetworkServerTestSetup, or in the jdbcapi._Suite.suite() method. > > >>>Wouldn't a test or a suite installing this decorator indicate that the >>>network server needs to be started? Not saying it's wrong, I'm just >>>trying to understand how it would be used. I was assuming that this >>>decorator would only be used outside of the existing harness, or inside >>>the harness only for tests that only run in network server mode. >>> >>>E.g. I was imanging a top level JUnit suite AllJDBC that would include >>>the jdbcapi._Suite and jdbc40._Suite like this. >>> >>> suite.add(jdbcapi._Suite.suite()); >>> suite.add(jdbcapi._Suite.suite()); >>> >>> suite.add(new NetworkServerTestSetup(jdbcapi._Suite.suite())); >>> suite.add(new NetworkServerTestSetup(jdbc40._Suite.suite())); >>> > > > Then NetworkServerTestSetup would also need a mechanism to tell the > underlying test(s) that they should use network driver instead of embedded. > > The way I was planning to use NetworkServerTestSetup, right now, was to > have : > > jdbcapi._Suite.suite() { > .. > suite.addTest(ConcurrencyTest.suite()); > suite.addTest(..); > .. > > return new NetworkServerTestSetup(suite)) > } I'm lost here trying to understand what that achieves, adding the network server test setup decorator? When run in the harness the network server is already started correctly so won't this just try to start another server and fail? When run in a Junit test runner the that decorator will do nothing (I think). I think the decorator you've added is useful but I think how different frameworks are handled when just running using JUnit test runners needs some planning. I've been thinking about it, but not sure of the correct approach. Seems to me it should be based upon requirements of developers, which I think are: 1) Run the whole suite in all frameworks without having to specify any options. I think this should be something like: java junit.textui.TestRunner org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.suites.All or (as well) java -jar test/derbyTesting.jar 2) Run all the tests relevant to a single area, e.g. store, language, jdbc in embedded, e.g. java junit.textui.TestRunner org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.suites.JDBC java junit.textui.TestRunner org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.suites.Language java junit.textui.TestRunner org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.suites.Store 3) Run all the tests relevant to a single area, across all frameworks Does this make sense? java junit.textui.TestRunner org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.suites.AllJDBC 4) Run a single test (or suite) in a specified framework How to do this? Could be system properties, e.g. # Single test java -Dframework=DerbyNetClient junit.textui.TestRunner org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.tests.jdbcapi.ProcedureTest # Single package suite java -Dframework=DerbyNetClient junit.textui.TestRunner org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.tests.jdbcapi._Suite # Suite of multiple packages java -Dframework=DerbyNetClient junit.textui.TestRunner org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.suites.JDBC Could be a Derby Junit test running, just used for this development purpose # Run two tests using the Derby network client java org.apache.derbyTesting.junit.DerbyClientRunner org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.tests.jdbcapi.ProcedureTest org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.tests.jdbcapi.BLOBTest # Run two tests using the DB2 client java org.apache.derbyTesting.junit.DB2ClientRunner org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.tests.jdbcapi.ProcedureTest org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.tests.lang.GrantRevoke My gut feeling is relyin on system properties to drive behaviour from the command line will led to tests that are hard to integrate into suites of other projects. Dan.
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Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce
Recipe by Karen From Colorado
I came up with this recipe for dipping homemade egg rolls (try Easy Chicken Egg Rolls) in but we have also used it to dip chicken tenders. It is so easy to make and takes no time at all. Much cheaper then buying the bottled sweet and sour sauces and it tastes better. Try adding some finely diced green bell pepper to the sauce for a more "in depth" flavor. I prefer it without the bell pepper, but others like it. Serve it warm or cool. (Multiply the recipe and use in sweet and sour meatballs if desired)
Top Review by c.a.box
I loved this easy recipe for dipping sauce. I improvised a little with the ingrediants and it still came out great. I used the surup from canned pineapples instead of juice, because that was what I had in the pantry. I prefer a thick dipping sauce so I added in a little more cornstarch and heated it on the stove.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2⁄3 cup pineapple juice
- 2⁄3 cup red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic powder
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- Mix together brown sugar and corn starch in a small sauce pan.
- Stir in rest of the ingredients.
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Are the tips divided & how are they divied?
I went to one of my favorite Mexican restaurants & my usual guy wasn't in. I got some terriable lady :( Long story short, she asked if I wanted more chips. I said yes but they never came. When my food arived I told her you never brought me any more chips. She said "I told the busboy" I said well you're responsible to make sure they do their job. You walked past me 6 times & didn't even look. She said it's their fault. WHY argue? Say "sorry, I'll get them for you now"
Anyway she never came back. Not even to ask if my dinner was OK. I know where they keep the ice tea so I helped myself.
It's my oppinion that it's her responsibility AND her tips (good or bad) I hope that other servers don't get less because of her inactions.
I'm a pretty genorous tipper. My regular guy is on me hand & foot. I figure he's nice & he wants the bigger tip I usually leave.
Your thoughts.
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Sesame Bok Choy Stuffing
•2 tablespoons vegetable oil
•2 leeks, sliced
•8 ounces shiitake mushrooms, stems removed, sliced
•1 small head bok choy, cut into bite-sized pieces
•8-ounce can sliced water chestnuts, drained
•1/4 cup soy sauce
•2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
•2 cups low-sodium chicken or turkey broth
•2 eggs, beaten
•Cube about 8 cups stale country bread, (1 loaf)
•1 tablespoon sesame seeds
Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a large casserole dish or a 9- by 13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
In a deep skillet over medium-high, heat the oil. Add leeks and saute until soft and translucent, about 8 to
10 minutes. Add the mushrooms and bok choy and continue to cook until tender, another 8 to 10 minutes.
Remove from the heat and stir in the water chestnuts, soy sauce, sesame oil, broth and eggs.
In a large bowl, toss together the leek mixture with the bread cubes, then spoon into the prepared pan.
Sprinkle with the sesame seeds and bake for 40 to 50 minutes until golden on the top and hot in the middle.
Servings: 10
Nutrition information per serving (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 250 calories; 73 calories from fat (29 percent of total calories); 8 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 43 mg cholesterol; 37 g carbohydrate; 8 g protein; 4 g fiber; 904 mg sodium.


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So lets talk laundry detergent… I don't know about your house, but in ours we ALL have sensitive skin. Trying to find a laundry detergent that all of our skin agreed with was very painful to say the least. It can not have any scents or dyes added to it. No parabens or sulfates…. It is a headache to stand in an aisle and read label after label so I decided to make my own.
I started my research and asked some friends locally who made their own and what they liked. Right away I knew I did not want to mess with the liquid form. Seemed like a lot more work than I wanted to do. So powder it was. Now which of the thousands of recipes did I want to try.
My first recipe contained the Fels Naptha soap in it (picture below). With that recipe you had to shred the bar of soap into your laundry detergent….. So I grabbed the cheese grader…. And lost half of my knuckles I swear. This is a very tough hard bar of soap. But success, between me and my hubby we got 2 of them shredded. Mixed up the recipe and fail. The fels naptha did not dissolve in the water. Instead it stuck to the clothing and I had to run an extra rinse to get it all out. NOPE!! Back to the drawing board.
So once back to the drawing board I found a recipe minus the hard, non dissolving soap. I have since used this recipe for almost 5 years.
! box of borax
1 box of Baking Soda
1 box of Super washing suds
1 container of Oxi Clean ( We use Oxi Clean Free in our house )
Just mix equal parts together and store in an airtight container.
Add 1 TBSP of detergent per load. This is a concentrated mix so it does not take much.
I have been told it is HE safe. I have not use it in an HE Washer before but research says yes you can. When I upgrade to HE I will continue to use this as well.
I am lucky enough to have a big container that I am able to just dump each of these into stir and store. If you do not just measure out equal parts into your container and mix as you need it. This is my old Chlorine container I mix in and then I have a small container on the counter.
Now if you are one who likes to have scent in your laundry you have a couple of options. You can mix any of the scent crystals that are on the market today directly into your mix. This is not a choice for us. For those on the more all natural or sensitive spectrum you can add essential oils. This is the option we go for. You can add a few drops to your scoop of detergent just before you put it in or you can make a DIY fabric softener with it in it.
For a DIY Softener you just mix vinegar with a splash of rubbing alcohol and your drops of essential oils and shake. The Rubbing Alcohol helps the essential oil stay mixed with the vinegar. The Red is my vinegar mix. I add about 20 drops of oil to that container. The green is just baking soda with essential oils added to it for extra stinky loads 😉 Works like scent boosters in a way.
My last little bit of DIY Laundry tip is for the dryer. Dryer sheets are full of chemicals and scents. Another no no in our house. My solution is wool dryer balls. I actually make my own. You can place a few drops of essential oils directly to the dryer balls, toss in the dryer and run it. The dryer balls help keep the clothes separated and decreases drying time as well as adding the scent from the essential oils on them.
Any questions or tips that you have feel free to add them below I am always up for tips on laundry 🙂
About Brandi Christian
Stay at home mom, Stepmom and Girl Scout Leader with a passion for a healthy lifestyle.
102 Responses to "DIY Laundry Detergent"
I have heard great things about homemade laundry detergent. I still have quite a bit of Purex left from a previous campaign, but when I run out, I want to try making my own.
I make my own laundry soap. It's not that hard! It so much healthier, and cost effective.
Interesting. Do you think the homemade version cleans as well as the commercial brands?
Yes I do!!! I love it. I used this when my husband climbed cell phone towers and got super dirty and washed them up like new. My son is 3 and well we all know 3 year olds and his clothes come out like new 😉
Great tips! We are scent sensitive so these are great. I like the dryer ball as well. Way more affordable
Yes, I think I want to try using those dryer balls too. It makes good sense!
I enjoy making my own laundry detergent. I started making it back and we were trying to get out of debt and needed to be really frugal.
Thank you for the tips. I am a huge fan for the smell of clean laundry so using oils would be a fabulous option for me.
I never thought to make my own but it looks simple enough and with as much wash as I do Im sure it could save me tons!
I buy the stuff to make this twice a year since I mix such big batches. Its $20 wish a batch!!!!!! Huge savibgd
When I was growing up my mom was use to do our our detergent using natural products thanks for sharing you made me remind a special time with my mom
I've never tried making my own detergent, but it sounds pretty easy. I would love to be able to save a little money by making it at home.
TY so much for pointing out what a pain it is to grate Fels Naptha. I'm glad your recipe uses something else!
I never thought about doing this before, but since you made a powder, I might do it. I tend to use powder or packs all the time!
What? You can make your own laundry detergent? Who knew! Great idea.
Awesome tips! We are allergic to scents, so these are a great option! I like the dryer ball!! Love your post!!!
Such a smart idea to DIY! We spend a fortune on detergent, so believe me, I'm game!
I never try doing this, honestly I didn't know there was a way to make your laundry detergent. I'm kind of excited to try it.
this is good to know as my daughter has skin issues – I may look into this
I didn't even know you could make your own and that it was so easy! What a great solution for sensitive skin.
Great DIY tips. I don't know if I want to mess w/ making my own laundry detergent, but I love all of the reasons WHY it's a good idea, thanks!
This seems so simple, I have always wanted to make my own laundry detergent.
I have never made my own laundry detergent before! This looks like a great way to save money and also know what exactly is in your laundry detergent as well!
I have sensitive skin too and it is very hard to find a detergent that won't break me out. I can't wait to try your laundry detergent and I love that you only need to use a TBSP so it will last me awhile.
Being able to control the ingredients is so important for those with allergies and sensitivities. It really is nice you could make it yourself.
I've never tried making home made detergent before. If I ever need to, now I have a place to go to learn!
What a great idea! I have never had the thought to make my own laundry detergent, but now seeing how easy it is, I want to try!
My family has sensitive skin and severe allergies. I have been making homemade laundry detergent for years and love it! No hives, itchy skin, or complaints ☺
I have been trying more DIY cleaners for my home. I will have to give this detergent a try.
This is a great idea. I have never tried to make my own laundry soap before. I am excited to give it a try.
My kids have sensitive skin. This would be perfect to try for my family.
I have made my own detergent, but I have never made my own dryer balls! That is such a good idea!
I love all of these handy DIY laundry recipes! I am sure they cost significantly less than the typical store bought versions too.
Substantialy less. I mix this twice a year roughly and each batch is $20ish !!!!!!!! Huge savings
I have seen DIY laundry detergents around for a while but have never thought of doing it myself. I'm pretty sure that I'll save tons of money doing it too.
Wow! That's so cool. Your very own laundry detergent
How awesome is that.
Can't wait to show my mum this
I tried making homemade detergent once but my husband is a Gain man so he was not happy with the outcome. It smelled good even though he said it didn't smell like his Gain. I call him the label ho now because of it 🙂
What a great recipe for DIY detergent. I just got into Essential oils and love them! I am curious what oils you add to your detergent? I love the lavender and lemon oils. 🙂
I use lavender and a cleansing blend 🙂
I know a lot of folks are making their own laundry detergent these days. I have an easy recipe which I've used to. It was sort of fun to do.
Never thought to make my own laundry defendant before. Sounds pretty easy and straightforward. May try it for fun to see how it works.
I am super excited that you guys are so excited!!!! I have saved so much money making my own!!! I mix this roughly twice a year since I am able to make a big batch. It costs roughly $20 for one batch!!!!!!!!!! That's $40 a year for laundry detergent!!!!!!! How great is that!!!! Some have asked the scents I use and I love Lavender for most anything. If it is super stinky or dirty I will use a cleansing blend. It is a citrus style blend. Any other questions hit me up!!!! I try to sit and read comments over coffee 😉
I have yet to make this but think I need to. Would save us so much money, we do so much laundry that a DIY detergent sounds like the option we've been waiting for!
I have never tried to make my own detergent, though I do have all the supplies. I'll have to give it a try!
I will try making my own laundry detergent too! I think this would be more economical! Just 1 Tbsp of it per washload? Awesome. Thanks for sharing your "recipe."
DIY laundry detergent is great when you have sensitive skin. Even better, it saves you a lot of money too. The brand name detergents can be a bit expensive when you have to do laundry for 4-5 people! lol
I hear you! On my last trip to the store, my laundry detergent alone was almost 9 bucks! And that was just enough for 2 people!
When my stash of laundry detergent runs out I will make this. I love saving money!
I have been wanting to make my own laundry detergent for a while, but I still haven't. My kiddos have sensitive skin, so it would be ideal to make my own versus paying the extra for the less harsh detergents I'm paying for.
I love all the ingredients you have used. You will have very clean and great looking clothes.
I would never have thought to make my won laundry detergent. That would save us so much money as we do laundry nearly every day.
That is AWESOME! I could save so much money doing that.
This is such a great idea. Thanks for the directions on how to make it. I have been wanting to make my own detergent.
I make a similar laundry soap. It saves SO much money.
Let me thank you for posting this article – NOT – it just reminded me of all the laundry I have been putting off doing.No one here has sensitive skin so I just buy whatever is on sale at the moment,
I've heard quite a bit about making your own laundry soap.
I will have to try it one day.
Thanks for sharing. Worth bookmarking
I am going to pin this. Right now I need to use up some natural goat soap but will try this when that is gone. Thank you for posting this… I have been looking for a dry one as most are liquid recipes.
Good idea! I think I am going to pin this too. This is definitely worth sharing!
What a simple way to make your own laundry. I will have to try this as it seems like it will save some cash!
I love finding new products to DIY. This sounds really easy so I will have to try making my own laundry detergent.
I have always wanted to make my own laundry soap. I guess I was under the impression it would take a lot but this seems easy enough. What a great way to save money as well.
This is similar to the recipe I use. I need to get back to making it because it has been awhile. My family was shocked how well it works!
I have used Borax to make a flea killer for my house before. We got one poor dog who was eat up with fleas and they got in our carpet. The Borax did wonders to stop the fleas. That stuff must be pretty good. If it can do that to fleas, using it in soap would be great!
I recently started adding Borax to loads of laundry. I'm not sure if I notice a difference yet, but I do think it helps when I hands wash items.
I've always used the commercial version, but this looks healthier
This recipe sounds so easy. I'd love to make my own detergent. I could save some money and know exactly what's going into the product, too!
I make my own laundry detergent as well! I bought a food processor at a second hand shop for $5 and use that to grate my soap (I don't use it for food related stuff). I've never had any problems with the soap not dissolving. 🙂
I never thought to use those little scent beads in my diy detergent. What a great idea, I am trying this for my next batch!
I have never made my own laundry soap. funny enough, I do have all these ingredients at home though!
I've never tried DIY laundry detergents before, that's really interesting. It's nice to have a homemade option, at least you know what goes in the detergent and you can definitely limit your spending in the grocery! I'm also curious about the dryer balls. They are useful!
I have been thinking of trying this myself. I'm not much of a DIY type, but am hoping this works for me.
This is such a great idea. I think I may try this for my own home. At least I know what is really in it!
i have never made my own DIY laundry. Sounds like a great idea and more affordable
This is really great, I love the idea of making my own laundry detergent. Seems like it has more washes in it than what I regularly buy.
I am going to try to make this, I keep telling myself I will make my own laundry detergent some day .. with having three kids and all but I never do it.
I was just thinking about switching detergents because I've been noticing some irritation. My skin can sometimes be sensitive partially because I have eczema but I am definitely going to have to remember this detergent recipe. This might be the answer.
I have seen a lot of recipes for homemade laundry detergent and I think I need to make my own now. Great post!
I can't believe that you can make your own laundry detergent, this will help me saved a lot of money!
This is cost effective too! I need to try it again.
I have had a recipe for my own laundry detergent and never actually sat down to use it. Now i really want to. I LOVE the DIY dryer balls!!!
What an interesting concept! I've never tried to make my own detergent (HE washer, so anything other than my usual brand scares me), but this seems like a great idea!
I have never thought to make my own laundry detergent but it would save a lot of money. I am going to give this a try and see how my clothes come out.
We make and use our own detergent too for our non-gym clothing!
My mom made a laundry detergent when I was a kid, I like it because I can't have some allergy attacks from DIY detergents.
I want to make a DIY laundry detergent and fabric conditioner too. I've been spending too much on laundry products.
I have always wanted to make my own laundry detergent! It doesn't sound like it's too hard, either. Definitely going to try this
Thank you for your thoughtfulness on sharing this hack, I will definitely try this.
Seems like a great idea. Might try using some DIY laundry deterget too, soon!
This is such a creative idea.
I am very curious to try this mixture out!
I've heard great things about making your own detergent. I'll have to give it a try!
There is a lot of interest in the dryer balls. If everyone wants me to I will get a blog on how I made them 😉
What a fantastic idea. Oxi Clean is such a great ingredient and I bet this DIY laundry soap works really well.
Wow, this is so incredible. I never thought to make my own laundry detergent! I might try to create the wool balls. Such an amazing concept.
I do have sensitive skin & I would prefer a detergent that is homemade using natural items. This is such a wonderful tip to make something on your own & I love that dryer ball as well.
I use a similar recipe 🙂 I actually grind up Dr. Bronner's Peppermint bar soap. I have noticed that if I put it in the freezer first, or if I open it and let it kind of "dry out" it grinds much better into powder, and then I don't have issues.
I have sensitive skin so I definitely have to be careful about what detergent I use so this looks great for me.
I love this idea! I am going to make some as it sound easy to do!
This is great! I am trying to get into making my own things as much as possible so I can control all the ingredients! Never thought to try making my own detergent.
Awesome way yo start your own business! Or save some money!
I did make homemade laundry before. Unfortunately, my husband told me that homemade laundry caused his skin rash. I think that he is allergic to some soap. I have to figure out what kind of soap he feels comfortable. :-/
Wow! I never thought to make my own laundry detergent. But this sounds fun and good for your clothes and the environment.
This is really great I've always wanted to try this! I'm going to have to do it now after seeing how easy it is to do.


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The Adsense Team has simplified the Home page of the Google Adsense for smoother and easier navigation of all the aspects of the Adsense Account. We can have quick look about our Estimated Earning, and Scorecard. These two were common when we compare with the previous home page, but Adsense has added Performance section at the bottom of the Scorecard which is not there in the previous home page. We can have look at top earned reports in respect of Channels, Countries, Platforms, and Sites.
We can even see a fantastic addition in the home page that we can see today's increase or decrease of the Estimated Earnings, and Reports by comparing the same day of the last week. This will help us to analyse our Adsense performance. Adsense has done a great work for this design and i feel it is a good tool to have quick look at our Adsense Account.
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PHP Variables Boolean
In PHP we have different kinds of data types such as integers, float, character, double and so on. There are one logical data type which is called Boolean data type. It is a primitive data type having either true or false values. This is the simplest data type that expresses only truth value. It is introduced in PHP 4 and other programming languages using Boolean in different way. For example :
$age = true; //assign the value true or false. $costs = 100; if($age==18) //comparison of Boolean Value
{$costs = 200;
}echo "The Entry Price is"." ". $costs;
The output is : The Entry Price is 200.
Here, in this example we assign the value of true and then compare with the condition. If the age is equals to 18 then print its revised amount. Sometime the only the if condition doesn't full fill our requirement. So, for this purpose we also use else if or else condition to full fill our need For example :
<?php$age = true; $costs = 300; if($age!=18)
$discount = 2; echo "You have got the special Discount on 31st december & your costs is". " ".$costs/$discount;
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echo "SORRY!! Do not qualify for the Discount because you are above 18! and your costs is"." ".$costs;
The output is : You have got the special discount on 31st December & your costs is 150.
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Absolutely astonishing was the cheese platter where we could choose between 60 (!) cheeses. we had one the the least expensive red wines at € 65 and found it excellent as well.
The setting on the outside terrace gives you a splendid view of the bay of St. Tropez. we will definitively return.
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The Phillippe Hotel is just a couple of minutes walk from the banks of the Nile in the bazaar district. The fabulous Karnak and Luxor temples are a five minute walk away. Luxor is a typically bustling Egyptian city with historical archaeological remains to see and a local market full of colour, exotic sounds and smells.
Distance from Airport:
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All have * bathroom/shower * WC * TV * telephone * air conditioning * mini fridge * safe * hairdryer * (certain amenities may be payable locally)
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The hotel has 69 comfortable wood floored rooms, pleasantly decorated and furnished. The property is just 350 metres from the Luxor temple and museum. The Karnak temple is approximately 2 miles away. The centre of Luxor has 3 main streets around which everything is based, and here there are plenty of souvenir shops, cafes and restaurants.
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Swimming pools:
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Why is Lim Kit Siang angry?
Why is the MCA President not angry instead?
It should be Liow Tiong Lai instead of Lim Kit Siang who should be angry since the article exposes the fact that MCA is DAP's running dog (or MCA is DAP's bitch, as they would say in America).
Well, the reason that Lim Kit Siang is angry was because DAP had been blackmailing MCA and blackmail works only if the threat remains a threat.
Once it has been exposed it would become ineffective and you can no longer use that threat.
DAP was able to control MCA and make it do what DAP wants it to do because of the threat hanging over MCA's head.
Basically, the potential for the three main Chinese parties — MCA, Gerakan and DAP — is 45-46 seats.
These three parties cannot win in the Malay heartland and now it appears they have problems winning enough seats in East Malaysia as well (since the voters in Sabah and Sarawak prefer local-born parties rather than 'federal' parties like MCA, Gerakan and DAP).
Hence the Chinese parties have only these 45-46 seats to play with.
Politics is a zero-sum game.
If one wins the other loses.
As far as DAP and MCA are concerned, those 45-46 seats practically 'belong' to DAP.
DAP 'owns' those 45-46 seats. MCA, on the other hand, owns nothing.
So is is up to DAP whether they want to 'sedekah' (give charity) any seats to MCA.
DAP can 'sapu' (sweep) all 45 or 46 seats and leave nothing for MCA – zero.
Or DAP can sedekah sseven to eight seats to MCA.
That way MCA will not be buried for good.
To 'earn' those seven to eight seats, MCA must refrain from attacking DAP.
MCA must also toe the DAP line.
In other words, as they say in America, MCA will be DAP's bitch (or DAP's running dog, as the Chinese would say).
Does this, therefore, make MCA a coward or a traitor?
Or maybe MCA is a treacherous coward?
Traitor or mo choon toi eunuch?
DAP goes all out to attack Umno and PAS.
DAP goes on a no-holds-barred crusade against what they call 'Malay policies', Islam, the syariah (which the party keeps calling 'hudud' so that its ignorant Chinese supporters get confused and think that the syariah was about stoning and amputations) and anything at all that can raise the sentiments of the non-Malays or non-Muslims and make the Chinese hate the country and hate the government.
Basically, DAP is playing hate politics and it uses Chinese schools, Chinese media and, Chinese guilds and associations to spread this hate.
But then the Chinese schools, the Chinese media and the Chinese guilds and associations are being funded by MCA.
Over the years MCA has been giving them millions in government aid.
So, technically, MCA 'owns' those Chinese schools, Chinese media and Chinese guilds/associations.
This is why DAP wants MCA under its thumb.
MCA turns a blind eye and pretends that it was not aware of what DAP was doing.
DAP then uses those Chinese schools, Chinese media and Chinese guilds/associations — which are funded by the government through MCA — for its political agenda, which was to make the Chinese hate the Barisan Nasional (BN) government and Umno.
But DAP can only do this if they are able to turn MCA into a eunuch: mo choon toi.
Chicken feed
With MCA desperate for seats, and with DAP promising to sedekah them seven to eight seats in the next general election, MCA becomes a perfect bitch for DAP.
In short, MCA has been reduced to a beggar, begging for 'dedak' (chicken feed) from DAP (as Mahathir Mohamad would say) and would be prepared to become DAP's bitch or running dog to earn this dedak.
The DAP supporters have the gall to accuse Malays of 'makan dedak' (eat chicken feed) when their fellow Chinese not only makan dedak but become a bitch to DAP on top of that.
We would expect political enemies to whack each other like the way DAP whacks Umno and PAS.
But MCA does not whack DAP or its leaders because, if it does, then DAP will not give it those seven to eight seats.
DAP owns the Chinese so if MCA wants any seats it must bend over for DAP.
Party poll
DAP's party election in December 2012 and the re-election in September 2013 were fraudulent.
But MCA says nothing and does nothing even though until today the Registrar of Societies (ROS) has not approved the 2012 and 2013 elections.
In fact, the ROS has issued a letter saying that the appointment of DAP's secretary-general (Lim Guan Eng) is invalid.
Yet MCA turns a blind eye and still says and does nothing.
If that had been Umno or PAS, DAP would have gone all over the world to scream about it and Tony Pua would be foaming at the mouth like mad dog.
Guan Eng is embroiled in a sex scandal, as is his father, Kit Siang, just like Muhyiddin Yassin and Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah.
But we do not hear a word from MCA.
Guan Eng has been implicated in a corruption scandal involving his house, plus many other scandals involving projects being implemented by the Penang government.
Still MCA does not reveal this.
Some of those corruption scandals are huge but yet no word from MCA.
The impression we get is that DAP had been screwing the Malays.
Actually MCA is also screwing the Malays, only that it has not been so obvious.
MCA works from within Barisan Nasional while DAP works from the outside.
Malays get screwed front and rear at the same time.
For MCA, it has no choice – either serve DAP to screw the Malays or DAP will screw the Malays plus MCA as well.
So, as far as MCA is concerned, it is better it do the screwing than to be screwed.
In return DAP will reward the MCA with seven to eight seats in the next general election.
This was the reason why Mahathir was so angry with Prime Minister Najib Razak in May 2013.
Mahathir knew that DAP and MCA were playing a game with Umno.
DAP whacks the government and MCA will go running to Umno saying that the government must give this, that and the other to the Chinese to make them happy.
Mahathir wants DAP as his running dog to help oust Prime Minister Najib.
Actually, as what Mahathir said, the Chinese were controlled by DAP and they will not vote for the government whether you give them nothing or you give them RM1 billion.
So it does not really matter what you do or don't do with the Chinese.
Najib, however, said Mahathir, was trying please the Chinese, which was a waste of time, argued Mahathir.
Mahathir lamented that instead of wasting his time on the Chinese, Najib should focus on the Malays, who are Umno's support base.
The Malays have always supported Umno and will continue to support Umno.
So that is where Umno's effort should lie, not wasting time with the Chinese who will never support you no matter what you do or don't do.
Of course, when Mahathir said all this in May 2013, he did not think at that time that he would need the Chinese and DAP to help him oust Najib.
Mahathir thought that if he said all this, the Malays would get angry with Najib and would kick him out.
Mahathir's initial strategy was to oust Najib from the inside or with Umno's help.
When that did not work, he changed strategy and is now trying to oust Najib from the outside with the help of the opposition.
But the opposition Pakatan Harapan is controlled by DAP and is a DAP-led coalition.
So now Mahathir needs DAP if he wants to oust Najib.
But Lim Kit Siang is too smart to allow DAP to be used by Mahathir.
Lim Kit Siang will only work with Mahathir if DAP can gain from that association.
If DAP can use MCA as its bitch, why would Lim Kit Siang want to be Mahathir's bitch?
So, if Mahathir wants DAP's help, Mahathir will have to drop his pants and bend over, just like Liow is doing to ensure that MCA remained relevant and not get buried for good.
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Engaging in Mathematical Experiences-as-Learners
In the type of professional development experience we describe in this chapter, teachers engage as genuine learners in mathematical learning experiences. While the nature, content and duration of these learning experiences may vary considerably, they all model effective instructional and/or learning practices promoted by school mathematics reform. Reflection is a critical part of these activities because it helps teachers analyze the experiences in light of their own beliefs and practices.
Theoretical rationale and empirical support
The benefits of teachers experiencing mathematics as learners go well beyond the important, rather obvious one, that teachers learn more mathematics. Research shows that teachers' beliefs about mathematics and about teaching mathematics are formed mostly as a result of having been students in traditional mathematics classrooms (Thompson, 1992). Since traditional mathematics is informed by pedagogical beliefs and practices that are radically different from those promoted by the current reform efforts, many teacher educators argue that before classroom teachers can change their beliefs, they must have personal experience of alternative pedagogical approaches (Brown, 1982; Schifter & Fosnot, 1993).
Further support for the value of experiences-as-learners for teachers comes from research on the learning of complex tasks. As we discussed in Chapter 1, Collins and his colleagues (1989) identified modeling as the first of three phases in the process of learning a complex task. When the complex task is learning a novel approach to teaching mathematics, we believe that facilitated "experiences as learners" activities offer an especially effective vehicle for such modeling. First, teachers observe an expert mathematics teacher educator teach mathematics in a non-traditional way. Second, because teachers participate in this instructional experience as learners themselves, they are in a unique position to examine how their students may feel about the new approach. As a result, they are in a better position to evaluate its potential advantages and drawbacks.
Simon's "learning cycles" model of teacher learning, which we described in Chapter 3, clarifies further the multiple roles that this type of activity can play in a professional development program. In Simon's first phase of the learning cycle, teachers must participate in situations that engage them actively as learners and that evoke cognitive dissonance. In this way, they are stimulated to construct new meanings. In the second phase, through sharing and discussing these constructions with a group, teachers come to consensus and make generalizations. This model suggests to us that good mathematical learning experiences for teachers need to invite active engagement, provoke cognitive dissonance, and encourage social as well as individual construction of meaning. Simon's model further claims that what is learned in one cycle can be used to stimulate another cycle of learning. We suggest that reflecting on these mathematical learning experiences can become the catalyst for teachers to begin yet another "learning cycle," this time focusing on the nature of mathematics as a discipline, how people learn and what can best support such learning.
Research corroborates the benefits of teachers experiencing mathematics as learners articulated above. This type of professional development experience plays a central role in several professional development programs with documented success (Simon & Schifter, 1991; Schifter & Fosnot, 1993; Borasi, Fonzi, Smith & Rose, 1999). A systematic study conducted by Simon and Schifter (1991) in the context of one of these programs has specifically shown changes in teachers' beliefs and practices toward a more constructivist approach to teaching mathematics. Since mathematical experiences-as-learners were not the only kind of professional development experience employed in these professional development programs, the results may not be considered conclusive. However, case studies and anecdotal evidence (Schifter & Fosnot, 1993; Borasi, Fonzi, Smith, & Rose, 1999) further confirm that experiences-as-learners were a critical element in changing the beliefs and practices of several participants in these programs.
Illustration 1: A facilitated inquiry on area for teachers
We derive the illustration in this section from one of the Introductory Summer Institutes in the Making Mathematics Reform a Reality in Middle School (MMRR) project described in Chapter 2. This experience-as-learners was designed to help teachers analyze how an inquiry approach to teaching mathematics involves a radical rethinking of both mathematical content and pedagogical practices. It was also intended to introduce teachers to an "illustrative inquiry unit" they might be teaching in their own classes later -- a unit on area formulas designed for middle school students (the same unit featured in the classroom vignette included in Chapter 1). This experience-as-learners thus engaged participants in an inquiry similar to one they might be using with students.
The participants in the implementation described here included elementary teachers, secondary mathematics teachers, and special education teachers at the middle school level. It took about seven hours over three consecutive days to complete.
The instructor began by asking participants to take off their "teachers' hats" and become learners in a series of activities about the concept of area. The instructor warned participants that this was not going to be a simulation in which they should pretend to be elementary or secondary students. Rather, the content would challenge everyone at their own level of expertise, so they should participate as genuine learners and use all they knew to deal with the tasks presented to them.
The first task was to find the area of a "fish" similar to the one middle school students worked with in the classroom vignette (see Figure 8).
Figure 8
The "fish"
Each teacher worked on this task first individually, then with a partner. The pairs then shared their results with the whole class. Most secondary mathematics teachers broke the fish into simpler figures, computed their areas using formulas they knew, and then added up those areas. A special education teacher had used a similar approach, yet made more efficient by using the symmetry of the fish and folding the figure in half. An elementary teacher showed instead how she had "boxed" the fish and then subtracted the area of the "extra pieces." Another elementary teacher "admitted" that she had simply "counted the squares," matching partial squares as best as she could to form whole squares.
Everybody was surprised by the variety of these approaches and by the fact that non-mathematics specialists had proposed the most creative solutions. A lively discussion surrounded this sharing, and participants came to appreciate the value of alternative strategies for finding the area of complex figures and the role that area formulas played in some of these strategies.
Next, the instructor challenged the participants to develop some area formulas on their own. First, she modeled this novel process by creating, together with the participants, an area formula for "diamonds." Later in the activity, she defined a diamond as "a quadrilateral with perpendicular diagonals." This task, and the reflection that followed it, highlighted important elements in the process of developing area formulas.
Participants then worked independently in small groups to develop area formulas for "regular" stars. The next day, they shared the area formulas they had created and explained the process they had used to derive them. Once again, everyone was amazed by the variety of area formulas thus created and by the creativity shown by several class members who had little mathematical background.
To help participants further appreciate the complexity of the mathematical concept of area, the instructor asked them to grapple with some thought-provoking questions for homework:
Why are squares chosen as the "unit" to measure areas? Could other shapes be used? Why or why not?
How do we choose the "size" of the squares to be used as units? Can this choice affect the value of the area of a given figure?
Area formulas essentially enable us to compute the area of a two-dimensional figure by taking only linear measures (i.e., the length of the height, base, radius, etc.). How is this possible? Does this mean that you can measure area with a ruler?
Can we ever find the area of a curved figure EXACTLY? For example, does A=π r2 give us the exact value for the area of a circle or just a good approximation?
The difficulty they encountered responding to these apparently simple questions astounded the teachers. In all of their years as students of mathematics, not even the secondary mathematics teachers had been asked to think about questions like these, because learning about area had been reduced to memorizing and applying area formulas.
In the next session, the group discussed these questions in depth. At the end of this discussion, the facilitator handed out a mathematical essay on area as a follow-up reading assignment, to both validate some of the conclusions the group had reached and expand them further.
A number of follow-up activities encouraged the participants to reflect on this unusual learning experience and to analyze it from different perspectives. Participants listed "what they had learned" about area from this experience. This list was quite detailed and complex. Interestingly, although the teachers included a few technical facts, such as learning area formulas for diamonds and stars, they primarily identified elements related to mathematical processes and the nature of mathematics. For example, they highlighted the importance of learning to develop area formulas on their own, of understanding the role played by the choice of unit in measuring area, and of recognizing that mathematical problems could have more than one acceptable solution. Several participants also mentioned gaining increased confidence as learners of mathematics as a result of this experience.
The facilitator then began a discussion on the instructional goals that should inform a unit on area for their students. Not surprisingly, the group established quite different goals for their students than it is traditionally the case, such as: Students should understand the concept of area (how it is useful, what is actually measured); students should understand the concept of scale; students should discover that there is more than one formula for a given figure; students should be able to derive formulas.
A day later, as a culminating experience for the whole Summer Institute, the facilitator asked participants to reflect on this experience-as-learners on area and another experience-as-learners on tessellations they had engaged in a few days earlier. This time, the participants were asked to identify the teaching practices that the institute instructors had modeled in these experiences. As individuals shared their reflections with the whole group, the facilitator probed responses to elicit the rationale for, and potential effects of, these practices in their own classroom instruction.


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If the price of the cruise goes down after the final payment is made, will Royal Caribbean give a credit or refund? Thanks in advance for help.
Blotter, yes, Royal Caribbean is one of the cruise lines that will adjust your price, even after final payment is made. Depending on how close you are to sailing, they'll issue a refund or onboard credit. Just have your travel agent give them a call. Do it soon, before the price goes up again!
I was wondering the same thing. I've already had my price adjusted once, but have been holding off on paying the rest of the cruise in hopes the price will drop again. I would be ok with onboard credit to help with those beer bills my husband and friend's husband is going to run up.
Thanks Sandy for the info. Price has not come down yet, but one can always hope!! It will be a fabulous vacation at any price!! I just love cruising!!!
RCCL has just altered their policy- see the 'Best Price Guarantee' segment on their website. After final payment has been made they will still honor a price drop, but will refund only by giving an OBC. Before final payment it's unchanged, you can get a direct refund.
Sandy, are you saying that after final payment has been made,a person can get an OBC in the case of a subsequent price reduction, but it's not automatic? If I understand your post, you need to contact your TA and have her ask RCI for it?
Look at the RCI Best Price Guarantee
The bottom line is that you or your agent needs to find the new lower price, and your agent needs to request the new fare. Nothing is automatic about it.
johnboy, the cruise lines never tell the travel agent or the passengers that their price has gone down. That has to be determined by the agent or passenger, and then a refund or onboard credit has to be requested.
In some cases, there are conditions to the lower price, like it's available only for new bookings. If that's the case, your fare is not eligible for reduction.
I just went on to the RCI website to check the current JS price of our upcoming Grandeur cruise on 10/31. All the suite prices are now indicating "Not Available Online. Please call for Availability".
Does this mean that there has been a price reduction and RCI is not advertising current pricing? Even if they're not published online, I would think that the TAs have to know the price? Would they normally let me know if the price was reduced?
Or... I'm also wondering if this means that the suites were all sold out, but there's still 38 days left before sailing - I can't imagine that they're all booked.
Sure is a confusing business.
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Hi, I'm trying to use the NER option and will appreciate any help given,
1. I read in the manual that there's an option to use "bio-ner", in case i want to use it, what flags do i need to update in config file?
NERecognition=bio -> didn't work, and what NPDataFile should i give in this case?
2. It seems that the first capital letter is very important for NER, is it possible to retrain the models of english on the same data after applying lowercase on all the data?
3. in case i want to train my own models, can you please direct me to how the input data should be? and a sample recipe to how to do it?
again, any help will be appreciated :)
Fri, 02/03/2017 - 16:51
just change the config file
If you are using freeling calling the "analyze" program, you just need to change the NER file in your config file (.e.g. en.cfg)
Look for the lines:
# NER options
## --- comment lines above and uncomment one of those below, if you want
## --- a better NE recognizer (higer accuracy, lower speed)
# "rich" model is trained with rich gazetteer. Offers higher accuracy but
# requires adapting gazetteer files to have high coverage on target corpus.
# "poor1" model is trained with poor gazetteer. Accuracy is splightly lower
# but suffers small accuracy loss the gazetteer has low coverage in target corpus.
# If in doubt, use "poor1" model.
and comment/uncomment lines as needed
If you don't want to change the default config fle, you can make a copy, or you can simply use the command line option --fnp to specify the NER configuration file.
Yes, uppercase letters are a strong marker of a NE, so the classifier learns to strongly rely on this feature.
If you have a corpus with NE marked, you can retrain the classifier using the scripts and procedures provided with FreeLing. Check README file at:
Sun, 02/05/2017 - 12:18
No, we haven't
We have not experimented on simply training a model with all word lowercased, but I suspect that performance would drop dramatically.
The reason is that the model will need to heavily rely on dictionaries (either regular dictionaries or gazetteers) to make its decision, and this is problematic, since:
- Gazetters are always incomplete. You can build one for a domain, but there will be always missing names. If you change domain, it gets much worse.
- Proper nouns (e.g. surnames) are often also common nouns or adjectives (e.g. "Smith", "Brown", may be surnames). So, the fact that something is in a regular dictionary does not rule out the possibility of it being a proper noun.
There are some works in this direction though. You can have a look to
Mon, 02/06/2017 - 08:40
It is an open problem
NE detection in non-standard text such as chats, tweets, etc., is an open reserach issue.
Just training models with lowercase text will not be enough, because availabe annotated corpus is basically newspaper text. So, the entities that the model would learn will not be useful for other domains.
So, the solution must be in the line of using richer features, latent spaces, and semi- or unsupervised learning.
In summary, it is an unresolved issue. You can put money on it, but with no guarantee of getting results in the short term.


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Dave Chisnall defeated Phil Taylor to land the Players Championship title in Barnsley on Saturday
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The St Helens star followed up his March victory in Reading with a 6-3 triumph over the world number one after a stunning performance.
He averaged an impressive 111.80 in the final and took out 161 for a brilliant 12-darter in the fifth leg.
Despite Taylor's 105 average, the Potteries ace was unable to claw his way back from 5-1 down and it was left to his opponent to check out on double eight for a 14-darter and seal a shock success.
"It's nice to beat Phil," said Chisnall. "I've had a couple of good wins over him but he beat me 6-0 in the Championship League semi-finals the last time we played, so it's nice to get revenge!"
Chisnall also defeated Denis Ovens, Dean Winstanley, Paul Nicholson, Kim Huybrechts and Michael van Gerwen on his way to the final, seeing off the in-form Dutchman 6-3 in the semis.
"I'm delighted and I played decent darts all day. I was dreading playing Michael in the semi-finals because he's been the man (in form) on the circuit recently and I played well against him.
"I've played well all year and it's been an exciting year, and I'm pleased with how I've played. I'm enjoying my darts and hopefully I can take it on into tomorrow now and do the double."


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hello to all!
Just wondering if anyone can help me with measurements etc.
I am in Australia, so our cup and tablespoon etc measurements are a bit different to the US/UK/Canada ones. Just a few q's!
1. Do you think the recipes for RI, NFSC etc would still work if i used australian measurements?
2. Can anyone please give me the gram or ounce measurements your measuring cups equate to? (ie. 1 cup is how many grams/ounces/mls
3. How do you measure butter?? Most of the recipes i see have butter in cup measurements. Do u put your butter in a measuring cup to measure? (sorry if this is a dumb question!) In Australia, we measure butter by weight. (we don't have "sticks" of butter!) How many ounces/grams does 1 cup of butter equal?
Sorry for all the questions! Would really appreciate any help! I have been looking through the cookie photos in the gallery and oh my GOODNESS! The are all so awesome! Would luv to be able to make anything that looks half as good!
thanks heaps!
here are some good websites that will give you weights in grams & some in ounces I believe. Type in a broad term like sugar for the pantsblazing site
Hope this helps
i'm using this conversion chart at the moment - its by a cc member
i searched for ages for an online conversion thing, but i wasnt sure which one to trust because one site would tell me 1 cup flour = xx grams and another site would tell me something slightly different.
so i just use that one that i posted above since a real person actually took the time to measure everything out (thank u btw).
with the antonia74 RI, it has worked for me when using aussie tablespoons. i think aussie and US tablespoons and teaspoons are probably the same or at least similar in size, so i don't think you need to worry too much about the conversion equivalents.
with the nfsc recipe, since it uses CUPS of butter/flour/etc, i think you should use the conversion chart in case aus cups don't work out. i haven't made them completely successfully before so i know how sucky it feels to have trays and trays of cookies that look terrible. maybe halve the recipe just in case it doesn't work, cos even half the recipe makes ALOT of cookies.
also, i think i read somewhere that 2 US sticks of butter = 1 US cup?? somebody correct me if i'm wrong. if you see a recipe ask for "sticks" of butter, don't make the mistake of using those 250g "sticks" of butter you find in woolworths/coles.
ummm.... i think thats all... i'm still a cookie noob, but this is all the stuff i have learnt off cc so far. hope this helps you get started. sorry for the long post, but i just wanted to be thorough! happy baking!
thank you guys so much for all ure help! you guys rock!!!
I will definitely check out those conversion sites, hopefully i can make some cookies that are half decent! hehe.
dandelion56602 and tujy your cookies are soooo cute!!!! Can't wait to get started making mine!
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AbstractThis Small Business Research (SBIR) Phase II project is aimed to capitalize on our Phase I success of ultra-fast tunable optical filter technology for the applications of hyperspectral imaging, environmental monitoring and optical communication. During Phase I period, the feasibility of ultra-fast tunable filters based on electro-optical effect have been demonstrated through prototyping. State-of-the-art filter characteristics have been achieved, including ultra-fast response (< 500 ns), wide tuning range (> 80nm at 1550nm), narrow line width (< 0.1nm) and broad working spectral band (from visible to middle infrared continuously). Based on the successful Phase I execution, the major effort of Phase II will be developing an advanced tunable filter platform. At which several commercial products are expected to emerge. Such as ultra-fast hyperspectral imaging systems suitable for geosciences and medical diagnostics, high frequency wavelength modulators for high sensitivity spectroscopic detection of trace-gas and wide-range fast-tuning optical filters for spectroscopy and wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) optical communication Hyperspectral imagery has many existing and potential applications in agriculture, forestry, emergency response/disaster management, insurance, national security, oil and gas exploration, medical imaging, and military surveillance. The proposed components and system, featuring in lightweight, fast action, broad wavelength band, and low cost, is needed for airborne hyperspectral imagery. The tunable add/drop is promise to reduce network complexity and cost by eliminating expensive optical-electrical-optical conversion and reducing inventory of fixed-wavelength devices. A fast wavelength modulation, combined with synchronized detection, can form a very sensitive spectroscopic analytic instrument for trace-gas sensing. These gases usually have characteristic absorption lines in infrared (IR) band, where no other fast tunable filter existed. It has seen a growing demand from the largest application areas, such as chemicals, petrochemicals, power generation, national security and environmental monitoring.
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A new tool, TITAN, developed in the Shah Lab is now available. TITAN is a tool for predicting subclonal copy number alterations (CNA) and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) from tumour whole genome sequencing data. TITAN infers the clonal cluster of events along with their estimates of cellular prevalence, which is proportion of tumour cells harbouring […]
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