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United State of College Football Team Sport Logos on map

NCAA Division I Schools

Popular Taiwan News Sites

新聞資訊網站調查與使用概況

Yahoo News 雅虎奇摩
Apple Daily 蘋果日報
ET Today 東森
UDN 聯合
Liberty Times 自由時報
China Times 中國時報

Berkeley Computer Science

Daily Californian: Campus computer science program does not compute (Culture at UC Berkeley promotes computer science without providing adequate resources)

Berkeley Academic Guide Computer Science
Petitioning to the Computer Science Major minimum cumulative GPA of 3.30 of
CS 61A The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
CS 61B Data Structures
CS 70 Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory
A, A+ = 4, A- = 3.7, B+ = 3.3, B = 3, B- = 2.7

UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science  admits students by declared major (Computer Science, Computer Science and Engineering)

Bay Area Universities

New SAT and ACT Score Ranges for 360 Colleges and Universities sorted by ACT
 
The 22 colleges that have students with the highest SAT scores, old SAT

SAT Exact Start Time and End Time 3:00 + :50 essay.  proctor 7:45 8:00 8:30-9:00, 12:30-1:00

New SAT to Old SAT Concordance conversion table
Gagnon Composite Ranking (GCR) of the Top U.S. Colleges started 3/2016, used for 2017 admission, class of 2021

College Scorecard Data spread csv

Best Colleges in California


             Ret  4G  6G SAT 75% ACT
Northwestern             790 770 34
Stanford   5N 98  75  94 780 760 35
Tufts                    780 760 34
Case Western             780 740 33
Rochester                770 720 33
Berkeley  21N 97  76  92 760 720 34

UCLA      21N 97  74  91 760 710 33 Los Angeles
UCSD      42N 95  59  78 740 710 34 San Diego

SCU        2R 96  82  89 730 710 32 Santa Clara University 
UCSB      37N 93  72  88 720 680 33 Santa Barbara 

CalPoly   11R 94  48  83 700 680 31 San Luis Obispo

Davis     46N 93  55  85 700 660 32 University of California
UCI       41N 92  71  87 700 650 32 Irvine

Pacific  110N 85  50  68 680 650 30
UCSC      81N 90  54  79 680 660 31 Santa Cruz 

USF      110N 86  62  72 650 640 28 San Francisco 
Mills      9R 78  62  66 593 640 29
St. Mary   9R 88  60  73 610 630 27

CalPoly P 31R 90  18  69 620 610 27 Pomona
SJSU      35R 87  11  62 610 600 26 San Jose State
Dominican 30R 84  54  68 595 620 25
Maritime   3C 83  45  63            Cal State 
Menlo      9C 78  43  59 580 585 25

NDNU      41R 77  34  50 550 560 22 Notre Dame de Namur 

Pocket Notebook

Notebook

Moleskine Notebooks - Journals Pocket Cahier Volant, Diaries, Planners, Pocket (3.5x5.5, 9x14), Mini XS Extra-Small (6.5x10.5)

Field Notes Planner Calendar

Fabriano EcoQua Staple Bound 4pk

Word Notebooks, 3pk, Bradley Mountain Adventure Log

For fountain pens, dotted, dot grid
Clairefontaine notebooks, exaclair usa, Goulet Pens My Essential Dot Grid A5
Rhodia notebook, Amazon Webnotebook Dot A5, Atlas Stationers Webnotebook A5 Dot Grid,  Classic Side Staplebound A4, A5
Tomoe River, Tomoe River Paper,

Bullet Journal
Bullet Journal, Leuchtturm 1917
Rhodia Goalbook with Clairefontaine paper, Wet Paint Art

Frozen custard and steak burgers

Frozen custard
Milkshake
Steak burger
Steak sandwich
French dip
Cheesesteak
Reuben sandwich

Gilles Frozen Custard
Leon's Frozen Custard
Kopps

Culver's Fresh Frozen Custard Vanilla One Pint, 450g, 990 cal, 58g fat
Crazy for Cookie Dough Concrete Mixer regular 454g, 1130 cal, 57g fat
Bacon Deluxe Triple: Butter Burger ButterBurger 376g, 1090 cal, 76g fat

Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers
Brownie Delight Concrete, large 1932 cal, 75g fat
Signature Turtle Sundae, large 1912 cal, 116g fat
Triple Steakburger California Style, 848 cal, 53g fat
Triple Bacon Steakburger with Cheese, 926 cal, 52g fat

Shake Shack frozen custard

Concretes 310-1240 cals

Cups and Cones 280-540 cals

Steak 'n Shake 7x7, 1330 cal, 95g fat
All American Melt 900 cal, 65g fat
Cajun Steakburger 870 cal, 63g fat
Speculoos Cookie Butter Milkshake, 1030 cal, 45g fat

Dairy Queen Blizzard Treats
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Smash - Large, 610g, 1510 cal, 70g fat
Brownie Cookie Dough - Large, 624g, 1500 cal, 63g fat
1/2 lb. FlameThrower GrillBurger, 970 cal, 68g fat
Chicken Strip Basket - 6pc, 1250 cal, 61g fat

Arby's Roast beef
Jamocha Shake 680g, 820 cal, 22g fat
Reuben 308g, 680 cal, 31g fat

Carl's Jr.
Oreo Cookie Hand Scooped Ice Cream Shake 397g, 720 cal, 40g fat
1/2lb. Thickburger El Diablo 431g, 1290 cal, 85g fat

Wendy's Frosty large Classic Chocolate, 580 cal, 15g fat

In-N-Out Burger Chocolate Shake, 15oz, 590 cal, 29g fat

McDonalds Desserts and Shakes McFlurry with M&M'S 650 cal, 23g fat, McCafé Chocolate Shake 560 cal, 16g fat

Iconic ice cream brand files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 
Baskin Robbins, Cold Stone Creamery, Haagen-Dazs, Marble Slab Creamery, Ben & Jerry's 
Dairy Queen, Sonic, Culver's 

Smash burger 

Five Guys 1986 Alexandra Virginia 

Shake Shack 2004 New York 

Smashburger 2007 Denver 

Animal Fat: 

Lard 豬油: Shortening 起酥油 

Tallow 牛脂: Margarine 人造奶油 

 3 Restaurants Where You Can Still Order Beef Tallow Fries 

 Buffalo Wild Wings preparation guide: beef shortening 

 Smashburger tallow/canola oil 

Ability, Aptitude, Career Assessment

The Highlands Ability Battery Aptitude
Highlands Ability Battery HAB test

Strong Interest Inventory Career assessment, tests
CPP Product
Sample Reports SII and MBTI Strong Interest Inventory (9), Interpretive Report (9), High School Profile (2), College Profile (4), Career Report (13), Skill Confidence Inventory Profile (1)
Strong Interest Inventory High School Interpretive Report
Strong Interest Inventory® & MBTI® Combined Career Report + Strong College Edition Profile
Strong Interest Inventory® & Skills Confidence Profile + Strong “College Edition” Profile + Strong Interpretive Report

True Colors (personality) personality profiling

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator MBTI INTJ-A 85% 61% 76% 54% 79%

16personalities 16 Personalities 

Blog services

Blog web publishing platform

Neocities 2013, no Ads
Medium 2012, blocked in China
Tumblr 2007, blocked in China
Wix 2006 
Weebly 2006, some blocked in China
WordPress.com 2005, mostly blocked in China
TypePad 2003, no longer free
Webs 2001
Blogger 1999, Blogspot blocked in China
LiveJournal 1999
Xanga 1998
Lycos Angelfire  1996, some blocked
Lycos Tripod 1995

Blogger linked with Google, LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad, AIM, OpenID

Comparison of free blog hosting services
Comparison of free web hosting services

Read It Later

For Archiving and searching

Microsoft OneNote 2003 not easy to share publicly
Evernote Web Clipper 2007 no free feedly
Pocket 2007
Instapaper 2008 bought by Pinterest, free premium, no free feedly
Readability 2009 no free feedly, shutdown in 2016
Feedly Boards Archive - Twitter, Facebook, no easy search

Instapaper is for Reading, Pocket is for Sharing archives, searches
The Best Apps for Reading This Article…Later Instapaper, Pocket
The best read-it-later service Instapaper, Pocket

Free Social Media Management System

Everypost VS. Buffer VS. Hootsuite

Hootsuite 2008
Buffer 2010
everypost 2012

iPad Air AirPlay external display monitor

Screen Mirroring with digital adapter HDMI resolution 1280 x 960 (4:3)

Privacy Browser / Search Engine

DuckDuckGo, Startpage and Ixquick search engines are doing well

DuckDuckGo Wikipedia, Yandex, Yahoo!, Bing, Yummly
Startpage.com Google
ixquick meta searches
Disconnect Search select Google Bing Yahoo DuckDuckGo
Qwant

Epic Privacy Browser Mac/PC with Epic Search (used to be Google), proxy
Chromodo Private Internet Browser Windows
Tor Browser Firefox based Windows / Linux / OS X

Tails (operating system) The Amnesic Incognito Live System, Tor Project
Whonix a "Workstation" and a Tor "Gateway", running Debian GNU/Linux

Soft drink

Soft drink

Root beer

1. sassafras (Sassafras albidum) tree
1876 Hires Root Beer
1919 A&W Root Beer, Dr Pepper Snapple
1923 A&W Restaurants, menu, original store website: Lodi, CA, Root beer float
1947 Mug Root Beer foam, San Francisco PepsiCo

2. Smilax ornata Sarsaparilla (soft drink)
1898 Barq's less sugar, had a higher carbonation, and less of a foamy head, with caffeine, French Quarter New Orleans, Coca-Cola
1920s Sarsi
1945 黑松沙士 HeySong

1885 Dr Pepper
1919 IBC Root Beer Independent Breweries Company, Dr Pepper Snapple

* Carbonated water Club Soda
1783 Schweppes Dr Pepper Snapple
Seagram's

* Ginger ale
1904 Canada Dry Dr Pepper Snapple

Tonic water quinine for muscle cramp

ski 2015-2016

ticket

Boreal           223Mi $74 $64 $44

Soda Springs     222Mi $44 $40 $34

Donner Ski Ranch 224Mi $59 $48 $25
Tahoe Donner     236Mi $49 $43 $23

Dodge Ridge      167Mi $68 $55 $20

Bear Valley      186Mi $69 $59 $25

Tahoe Donner
Soda Springs
Donner Ski Ranch
Boreal

Bike Taipei

新北市自行車道 New Taipei City Bike Lanes
河濱自行車道 River bank

臺北市政府交通局 自行車 Taipei City Bicycle
河濱自行車道 Riverside park bike path
臺北市觀光地圖: 臺北河濱自行車道導覽摺頁, 雙北河濱自行車導覽圖

新北市河濱自行車道導覽圖
鐵馬御風 - 大臺北自行車網站

Worlds Top Tire Manufacturer

Bridgestone (Firestone, Uniroyal, Fuzion), Michelin (BFGoodrich, Uniroyal), Goodyear (Dunlop), Continental (General, Uniroyal), Pirelli, Sumitomo (Dunlop, Falken), Hankook, Yokohama, Cheng Shin (Maxxis), Zhongce, Cooper (Avon), Kumho, Toyo (Nitto), Nexen, Hoosier

石橋 普利司通 火石, 米其林 古德里奇, 固特異, 德國馬牌, 倍耐力, 住友 登祿普 飛隼, 韓泰, 橫濱, 正新 瑪吉斯, 中策, 固鉑, 錦湖, 東洋 日東

Taiwan Hwa Fong 華豐 Duro Tires, 泰豐輪胎 Federal 飛德勒輪胎 

Worlds Top Tire Producer
List of tire companies: brands

Ranking: 

tire 1: Michelin, Continental, Pirelli 

tire 2: General, Hoosier, Mickey Thompson, Nitto, Falken, Toyo, Yokohama, Goodyear, Bridgestone 

tire 3: Voguetyres, Nankang NS2R NS24, Kenda; Nexen, Coopertires, Kumho, Firestone 

tire 4: Sumitomo, Uniroyal, Federal, Ironman, Ohtsu, Hercules, Carlisle, West Lake, Linglong, Greenball, Lexani 

2016 Primary Results and Calendar

Presidential
New York Times
Huffington Post

Adventure Video

Outdoors Magic: Thought from the Outdoors
Running, Climbing, Cycling, MTB, Mountain Biking, Ultra

Knowledge Base

Knowledge base
Commonsense knowledge (artificial_intelligence)
Google Knowledge Graph, Knowledge Vault
Wolfram Alpha engine
Graphiq search

Citrus fruit

Citrus Fruits: Pomelo & Mikan

Citrus genus
Citrus hybrid

Pomelo 柚子
Citron 枸櫞
Papeda 宜昌橙
Mandarin orange 橘, Tangerine 甌柑, Satsuma 溫州蜜柑 

柑, Ponkan 椪柑,  mandarin x papeda 橘 x 橙
Orange 橙 Pomelo x mandarin 柚 x 橘
Grapefruit 葡萄柚 sweet orange x pomelo
Rangpur 黎檬  mandarin x lemon
Lemon 檸檬 bitter orange (sour orange) x citron
Key lime 墨西哥萊檬 (papeda x citron) 
Persian lime 青檸 key lime x (lemon or citron)
Bitter orange 苦橙 pomelo x mandarin

Kumquat 金橘