High School Sports and courses

National Federation of State High School Associations wiki
California Interscholastic Federation Athletics wiki
State Championship Sports: Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Track & Field, Vollyball, Wrestling
Regional Championship Sports: Tennis (NorCal), Soccer (SoCal)
Other Sports: Badminton, Baseball, Field Hockey, Gymnastics, Lacrosse, Skiing & Snowboarding, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Water Polo
CIF Central Coast Section Northern Conference, Southern Conference, Central Conference
Baseball, Basketball, Badminton, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Football, Golf, Gymnastics, Lacrosse, Soccer, Swimming, Softball, Tennis, Track, Volleyball, Water Polo, Wrestling
CCS Central Conference BVAL (Blossom Valley Athletic League), SCVAL (Santa Clara Valley Athletic League), WCAL (West Catholic Athletic League)
CCS Santa Clara Valley Athletic League Cupertino, Fremont, Gunn, Homestead, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Lynbrook, Milpitas, Monta Vista, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Saratoga, Wilcox
Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Football, Golf, Gymnastics, Soccer, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field, Volleyball, Water Polo, Wrestling
SCVAL Fall Sports Schedules, Field Hockey, De Anza (Mitty, Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Gatos, St. Francis, St. Ignatius) El Camino (Homestead, Lynbrook, Monta Vista, Palo Alto, Presentation, Saratoga)
CCS School League Alignment by sport : SCVAL De Anza Division DAL, El Camino Division ECAL

MaxPreps Monta Vista Field Hockey
Athletic.net Track and Field, HS, US, California, Central Coast, Central Conference, SCVAL, ECAL, Monta Vista

Valley Junior High School Athletic League (VJHSAL)
Blach Intermediate School, Columbia Middle School, Cupertino Middle School, Egan Junior High School, Graham Middle School, Hyde Middle School, Kennedy Middle School, Lawson Middle School, Miller Middle School, Sunnyvale Middle School
Cross Country, Girls Softball, Boys Volleyball, Wrestling, Girls Volleyball, Boys Basketball, Girls Soccer, Girls Basketball, Boys Soccer, Track and Field
California Middle School Cross Country Statistics
Los Gatos Fisher Middle School Cross Country

DyeStatCal California Track
DyeStat High School Track & Field
High School Sports StudentSports

World Organization of the Scout Movement
Boy Scouts of America
Santa Clara County Council
Polaris District Boy Scout Troops grade 6-12, age 11-17 Troop 452 Cupertino Troop 453 Cupertino Troop 468 Fremont Troop 495 San Jose
Cub Scout Packs grade 1-5, age 7-10 Pack 408 San Jose Pack 452 San Jose

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts of the United States of America
Girl Scouts of Northern California Council
Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County Service Unit 30 Cupertino
Daisy Girl Scouts, ages 5-6
Brownie Girl Scouts, ages 6-8
Junior Girl Scouts, ages 8-11
Girls ages 11-17 experience Girl Scouting through STUDIO 2B

Chinese American Scouting Association CASA

FUHSD course selection text guide catalog
Lynbrook Course Information, LHS Course Selection Guide AP Physics C Mechanics
Cupertino Course Selection Information, CHS Course Selection Guide AP Physics C Mechanics
Monta Vista Course Guide, MVHS Course Selection Guide AP Physics C Mechanics
Homestead High Course Selection Information, HHS Couse Selection Guide AP Physics C Mechanics
Fremont Course Selection Information, FHS Course Selection Guide AP Physics C Mechanics

Saratoga High Course Offerings, Course Selection Guide, AP Physics Honors AP Physics 1, 2
Los Gatos High School Courses, LGHS Course Descriptions AP Physics C Mechanics

Palo Alto Course Catalog, PALY Course Catalog AP Physics C
Gunn High Registration, Gunn Course Catalog AP Physics 1, AP Physics C
Mountain View High Course Catalog, MVHS AP Physics 1, AP Physics C Mechanics, AP Physics C Electricity & Magnetism

Valley Christian High School Course Catalog, VCHS Course Catalog AP Physics 1, AP Physics C

Mission San Jose High School Course Catalog, Fremont Unified School District High School Catalog AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, AP Physics C

Fuel Cell Technology

fuel cell companies
Fuel Cells Works News
Fuel Cell Stocks
Fuel Cell Today Market Survey: Portable Applications 2005
Fuel Cell Today 2006 Portable
Price Waterhouse Coopers 2007 Fuel Cell Industry Survey

Medis 24-7 Power Pack
SFC Smart Fuel Cell EFOY
Mechanical Technologies, Inc. MTI Micro Fuel Cells
Antig Taipei Taiwan
Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corp (DMFCC)

Typical alkaline battery sizes and capacities (at lowest discharge rates)

Seasonal Running

60 degrees +: tank top or singlet and shorts
50-59 degrees: T-shirt and shorts
40-49 degrees: long sleeved T, shorts or tights or wind pants, sock or mittens and gloves
30-39 degrees: long sleeved T and T-shirt, tights and shorts, socks or mittens or gloves, and hat over ears
20-29 degrees: Polypro top or thick long sleeved T, another T-shirt layer, tights and shorts, mittens or gloves, and hat over ears.
10-19 degrees: Polypro top and thick long long sleeved T, tights and shorts, wind suit (top and pants), thick mitten, thick hat over ears.
0-9 degrees: Two polypro tops, thick tights and shorts (and thick underwear or supporter for men), Gore-Tex or similar thickness warm-up, gloves and thick mittens, ski mask and hat over ears, and Vaseline covering any exposed skin.
minus 15 to minus 1: Two thick Polypro tops, tights and thick polypro tights and thick underwear (and supporter for men), thick warm-up, gloves, thick (arctic) ski mask and thick hat over ears, Vaseline covering any exposed skin, thicker socks on feet and other measures for feet, as needed.
minus 20 and below: Add layers as needed. Stay in touch with the outdoor and ski shops for the warmest clothing which is thin. Watch your feet. There are some socks which heat up...and other innovations.

Running In The Cold Rain

Valley's faces of diversity: Census data offer snapshots of 4 immigrant groups

U.S. Census Bureau Selected Polulation Profiles by County

2.5mm adapter for mobile phones and cordless phones

Jabra A210
Bluetooth version 1.2, up to 33 feet, talk time 8 hours, stand-by time 240 hours, 12 grams, 2"x1 1/2"x1/3"

Cardo BTA II Universal Bluetooth Adapter
Bluetooth version 1.2, up to 33 feet, talk time 7 hours, standby time 200 hours rechargeable Lithium Polymer, charging time 2 hours, 14 gram, Cambridge Silicon Radio

Everything you wanted to know about cables

XLR balanced unbalanced, TRS tip-ring-sleeve, TS tip-sleeve, RCA, MIDI, BNC, ...
2.5mm, 3.5mm 1/8", 6.5mm 1/4"
Understanding Instrument Cable
Grounding
Monster Cable FAQs twisted pair (Studio Pro 1000 12 gauge, Acoustic, Jazz), coaxial (S100 16 gauge, Performer 500 14 gauge, Rock 14 gauge, Bass) instrument cable, line level speaker cable
Planet Waves Twisted Pair Special double-insulated/double-shielded cable PW-G-05
Pro Co Sound LifeLines Line Instrument Cable 4 conductor microphone cable
HOSA
Live Wire

USB cable - double-braided nylon fabric kevlar reinforced sheath plastic housing rubber-encased

Safer Cars

IIHS Top Safety Picks
Front crash 40mph moderate and small overlap, and compare to NHTSA's 35mph
Crash Avoidance Features by make and model: forward collision warning, autobrake , lane departure warning, lane departure prevention, adaptive headlights and blind spot detection.

Insurance loss information collision, property damage, comprehensive, personal injury, medical payment, bodily injury

TSP+ with front crash prevention, Outback (Legacy), Forester
Safercar: has crash collision video and image
Rearview Video Systems, ESC, Forward Collision Warning, Lane Departure Warning
safe car for 2014 Subaru Outback, Mazda CX-5, Mazda3, Forester, Impreza, XV, Toyota Prius, Nissan Rogue
SUV: Mazda CX5, Outback, Forester (no blind spot detection)
Hatchback: Mazda3
Station wagon AWD, 4WD: Outback

Best & worst visibility: Outback, Forester (no blind spot detection)

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety - Shopping for a Safer Car 2007
Status Report: Top Safety Pick 2007 IIHS
Top Safety Pick 2006 Gold Award Winners, Si
IIHS Vehicle ratings

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA - Buying A Safer Car
NHTSA SaferCar

Airbag
Curtain airbags deployment videos
Side airbag deployment video
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 (FMVSS 208): Occupant crash protection 1998 dual front airbags

Electronic stability control ESC 55% 2009 to 100% 2012
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards 571.126: Electronic stability control systems

IIHS crash avoidance ratings: autobrake, forward collision warning, auto braking stop stopping, Subaru EyeSight active brake system Forester Premium, XV Premium, Impreza Limited, Outback Premium, Legacy Premium

Front crash prevention ratings, 2013-14 midsize cars and SUVs

Resize and Scaling using ImageMagick

ImageMagick default filter for resizing and scale,
'Mitchell' for enlargement, and for shrinking images involving transparency
'Lanczos' for shrinking when no-transparency is involved
Lanczos resampling

Down-sampling examples
Down-sampling methods

Examples,
MinGW MSYS, Cygwin, GOW (Gnu on Windows)

convert command line options
ImageMagick Usage: basic

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.JPG" -exec convert '{}' -strip -resize 1920x1080 HD/'{}' \;
convert img.png -rotate 270 img.jpg
identify -verbose img.jpg

convert img.svg -strip -bordercolor white -border 145x0 img.png

# pdf scanned dpi, fax group4 compression is better for black and white
convert -trim -density 300 doc.pdf doc.png
convert -trim -density 300 -compress group4 doc.pdf doc.tiff

adaptive-resize will sharpen the image
convert img.jpg -strip -adaptive-resize image.jpg

strip all exif mata data
mogrify -strip imagename.jpg

using GOW,

gfind 20?? -type d -exec mkdir -p "1600x1200/{}" ;
gfind 20?? -iname "*.jpg" -exec convert "{}" -strip -adaptive-resize 1600x1200 "1600x1200/{}" ;

IM usage under Windows
Batch processing a (sub-)directory tree
bulk processing using IrfanView batch processing

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking
Diigo
memosnag
StumbleUpon  Stumble Upon

Furl, Spurl or del.icio.us?

Furl and delicious are dead, use bit.ly

RFID Timing

RFID Journal - IPICO Enters Race for RFID Sports Timing
ChampionChip, AMB, Winning Time, RFID Timing, TekChip (out of business), and DAG
Road Race Management Forum

GPGPU

General Purpose GPU

ATI: CTM: folding@home, Chrome Chromium browser Native Client NaCl (salt)
nVidia: CUDA
Nvidia CUDA : practical uses