Sunday, September 23, 2018

Pork Kidney Liver Porridge

翠華茶餐廳 金牌鮮豬潤粥 Cafe Tsui Wah San Mateo Fresh Pork Liver Porridge
興隆 鮮豬肝粥 Plan Congee 靚白粥加豬潤 Hing Lung Ichi Ramen San Burno Fresh Pork Liver Congee

ABC 茶餐廳 鮮豬腰潤粥 ABC Bakery and Cafe San Mateo Pork Kidney and Liver Congee
太湖食街 狀元及第粥 Tai Wu Mr Fongs Foster City Fresh Pork Kidney & Liver Porridge
好煮意 狀元及第粥 Cooking Papa Foster City Assorted Pork Organs Porridge

Friday, September 21, 2018

Grape Stomp

Napa Technology WineStation

Wineemotion Wine Dispensing Systems


Stomping Crushing
 
Peju Grape Stomp 8/18

Grgich Grape Stomping members 8/24- daily $50/person

Schweiger Vineyards Grape Stomp 9/28, 10/1 $225 pick and stomp

Napa Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival Family Grape Stomp 9/28-30 $40/stomper+swabber team

Sonoma County Harvest Fair World Championship Grape Stomp 10/5-7 $40/stomper+swabby

V. Sattui Winery Crush Party 10/14 $145

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Chinese Communist Party and Religion

中國共產黨紀律處分條例

第六十二條 對信仰宗教的黨員,應當加強思想教育,經黨組織幫助教育仍沒有轉變的,應當勸其退黨﹔勸而不退的,予以除名﹔參與利用宗教搞煽動活動的,給予開除黨籍處分。


Thursday, September 13, 2018

College and university rankings

College and university rankings rating

*U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking National, Liberal Arts, Regional
*Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings WSJ/THE, Sorted by Salary after 10 years
*Niche Best Colleges majors
*PayScale Best Universities and Colleges by Salary Potential survey Stanford, MIT, Harvey Mudd, Harvard, CalTech
*Percentage of Doctorates Awarded CalTech, Harvey Mudd, Swarthmore, Reed, Carleton, MIT
Forbes America's Top CollegesMethodology: PayScale, Niche, not reliable

Top colleges with no core curriculumLACs with open curriculum general education, Brown, Amherst, Wesleyan, Grinnell, Smith, Hamilton, Rochester

Money Best Colleges in America Sorted by Early Career Earnings, SAT/ACT, not reliable

THE Japan University Rankings Tokyo, Kyoto, Tohoku, TIT, Kyushu, Hokkaido, Nagoya, Osaka, Tsukuba, Keio
USNews Best Global Universities in Japan Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Tohoku, Nagoya, TIT, Kyoshu, Tsukuba, Hokkaido, Waseda
Going broke universities – Disappearing universities - 3 regions and many classes based on selectivity
Brand rankings of Japanese universities 東京大学, 慶應義塾大学, 早稲田大学, 上智大学, 一橋大学, 東京工業大学
Truly Strong Universities 東京大学, 早稲田大学, 慶應義塾大学, 京都大学, 東北大学, 大阪大学

International/World
World University Rankings 2022 CalTech, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, UC Berkeley, Yale, Chicago, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, U Penn, UCLA, Cornell, Duke, U Michigan, Northwestern, NYU, CMU, UW, UCSD, Georgia Tech, UT Austin, UIUC
US News Best Global Universities Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, UW, CalTech, JHU, UCSF, Yale, UPenn, UCLA, Chicago, Princeton, UMich, UCSD, Cornell, Duke, Northwestern, NYU, WashU, UNC, Pittsburgh, UT Austin
QS World University Rankings Quacquarelli Symonds 2023 MIT, Stanford, Harvard, CalTech, Chicago, UPenn, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, JHU, UMich, UCB, Northwestern, NYU, UCLA, Duke
Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, Columbia, CalTech, Chicago, Yale, Cornell, UCLA, UPenn, JHU, UCSD, UW, UCSF, WashU, UMich, NYU, UNC, Wisconsin, Duke, Northwestern, Minnesota, UT Austin, Rockefeller, Colorado, UT Med

CalTech MIT Chicago Rice Princeton Case Western CWRU Harvard Stanford Cornell Yale Brown Rochester CMU Duke Johns Hopkins Dartmouth Rensselaer Washington Brandeis Columbia Berkeley
No UPenn, Northwestern, NYU, Michigan, UCLA, Vanderbuilt, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Emory, USC 

Sunday, September 02, 2018

Monte Bello Vineyards and Wineries

Yelp Monte Bello Vineyards
Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association SCMWA Wine Passport events 
North Coast AVA region 
   Napa Valley AVA sub-AVAs: Los Carneros membersArtesa $700, Bouchaine $300x2Cakebread Rutherford $1100 1/2 Caneros, Chandon non-NapaDomaine Carneros $750 one CarnerosDonum SonomaEtude $612 SonomaGloria Ferrer SonomaMigration $1100 no Carneros, Saintsbury $900 no CarnerosZD Wines $70x12 SonomaHsu , Howell Mountain members, Wild Horse Valley, Stags Leap, Mt. Veeder, Atlas Peak, Spring Mountain, Oakville, Rutherfold, St. Helena, Chiles Valley, Yongtville, Diamond Mountain, Oak Knoll, Calistoga, Coombsville 
Santa Cruz Mountains AVA sub-regions: Skyline, Saratoga/Los Gatos, Summit, the Coastal Foothills (above Santa Cruz), Ben Lomond Mountain, and Corralitos/Pleasant Valley 

Henry Walker Crabb Oakville 1872 Zinfandel 
Beringer St. Helena 1876 
Inglenook Rutherford 1879, 1933 
Chateau Montelena Calistoga 1882 
Wente Vineyards Livermore 1883 
Concannon Vineyard Livermore 1883 
Freemark Abbey St. Helena 1886 

Mont La Salle Altar Wines Christian Brothers 

Picchetti Brothers Winery 1896, Picchetti Winery Leslie's Estate, Picchetti Estate daily $15
Relyea & Wood Vineyards 2005, Estate cabernet sauvignon
Fellom Ranch Vineyards 1987, Cabernet Sauvignon Montebello Ridge, passport tasting
Naumann Vineyards 1997, Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petite Verdot, passport day
Ridge Vineyards 1962, timeline, 1986 Otsuka Foods, 大塚製薬 groupOtsuka America, 大塚食品, Monte Bello Vineyard聖十字山 利吉莊園圣克鲁兹山 山脊庄园Aerial Tourweekends $20 + $30
Vidovich Vineyards, weekends $20, passports 

Black Mountain (near Los Altos, California)

Judgment of Paris (wine) 1976 blind tasting.  California vs French wines