Sunday, August 28, 2016

College Fairs

National Association for College Admission Counseling NACAC
Performing and Visual Arts College Fair 9/20/2018 Thu SF .....
National College Fair
STEM College and Career Fairs 10/7/2018 Su 1-4pm SC Convention, .....

Coast to Coast College Tour: Berkeley, Dartmouth, NWU, Princeton, Vanderbilt.  6/4/2018 Mo
NUHE Tour: Notre Dame, Virginia, JHU, Emory 5/22/2018

College Tours/Fairs:

Rice in You Town 5/20/2018
Shepherd

Rochester Off Campus NACAC 
Eastman upcoming events

Case Western Reserve local visit 5/20/2018, NACAC double degree
Cleveland Institute of Music CIM

Northwestern Comes to You C2C 6/4/2018 Mo
Bienen

Tufts in your area browse all
NEC Music College Fair no SF

Barnard in Your Area
Juilliard
MSM  NACAC

Johns Hopkins visits you 5/22/2018 Tue 7
Peabody

Oberlin on the road
Oberlin Conservatory NACAC performing and visual arts

Others:

CMU information sessions

MIT Visits You
Chicago Northshore Music College Fair 10/6/2016
Palo Alto College Fair  10/10/2016

Oberlin Conservatory of Music Performing Arts College Fair 10/10/2016
New York City Performing and Visual Arts College Fair 10/19/2016
Los Angeles County High School of the Arts LACHSA College Fair  10/21/2016
Upstate New York Music College Fair Eastman and Juilliard 10/28/2016


Friday, August 26, 2016

Foreign Money Exchange Rates

Visa Exchange Rate Calculator, New Taiwan Dollar TWD  and Euro are lower (better) than
MasterCard Currency Conversion 

Saturday, August 06, 2016

Opioid Conversion


Equianalgesic 10mg morphine: 
NSAID              ASPIRIN 3600mg medium half-life 
NSAID            IBUPROFEN 2220mg  short half-life 2-4hr low ulcer 
NSAID             Naproxen 1380mg   long half-life 12 hr med ulcers 

Opiate:             morphine 10mg    3-6hr      codeine 100mg    4-6hr 
                                              Tylenol 3 
semi-synthetic hydromorphone  2.5mg         hydrocodone  10mg    4-6hr
                    Dilaudid              Norco/Vicodin w. Paracetamol
Opioids:         oxymorphone  3.33mg 6-8hr    oxycodone   6.67mg 3-6hr 

fully-synthetic:  methadone   2-4mg 
                   fentanyl 100mg 
                   tramadol 100mg 6hr schedule IV 

Acetaminophen with codeine Tylenol #3 300mg/30mg Teva 93/150 


Opioid Conversion Search 

ClinCalc 

Hydromorphone (dilaudid), hydrocodone (norco) half-life duration 

Friday, August 05, 2016

Health Statistics

Top 15 Causes of Death by County, State, USA
USA Life Expectancy Map

Leading Causes of Death
Heart disease, Cancer, Chronic lower respiratory diseases, Accidents, Stroke, Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Influenza and pneumonia, Kidney disease, Suicide

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Yellow color

1. Orpiment  雌黃 Arsenic trisulfide As2S3
 Orpiment Hue HTML #EEBD34, RGB (238, 189, 52), CMYK (7, 25, 93, 0 )


2. Cadmium pigments
color hexa fff600


3. Azo compound
Art Paints








Royal yellow Hex triplet #FADA5E, sRGB (250, 218, 94), CMYK (0, 13, 62, 2) 
Chinese yellow, Imperial yellow, Naples yellow, Jonquil

beauty color code fada5e

encycolorpedia #fada5e
spy color fada5e
rgb color code royal yellow

Huang surname黃姓, 黃國
嬴姓

Thursday, July 07, 2016

Teardown Cost

IHS iSuppli BOM Bill of Materials
iPad Air 2, iPhone 6s Plus

UBM TechInsights tear down
iPhone 6s, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air

Wednesday, July 06, 2016

Draw on iPad Pro

Wacom Pen Display - Cintiq

iPad Pro with Apple Pencil

Astropad Drawing Tablet works with Adobe Photoshop (Air Display 3 has bad reviews, Duet Display has no pressure sensitivity)

Sketch a Day

Thursday, June 23, 2016

World Marathon Majors Guaranteed Qualifying Time

World Marathon Majors 

    55-59 60-64 
3/2/2025 TokyoOne Tokyo Global 
4/24/2025 LondonInternational ToursUSA TourTaiwan KNT TourBallot 2:50 3:37 
4/21/2025 Boston 2029 qualifying window 9/1/2027 3:50 
9/21/2025 BerlinTours, Taiwan KNT Tour雄獅 2:55 3:25 inline skating 
10/12/2025 Chicago, Taiwan KNT Tour, 1/1/2023 3:30 3:45 
11/2/2025 New York CityToursUSA TourTaiwan KNT TourLion 含機票, 3:23 3:34 

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Liqueurs from France

French liqueurs liquor
The Catholic Origins of 5 Alcoholic Beverages

Cointreau Drinks

Bénédictine 1863 40% abbey Benedictine

Chambord Liqueur 1982 16.5%

Chartreuse 1605 1765 55% Carthusians monks monastery

Cointreau 1849 40%

Crème de cassis 1841 15%

Grand Marnier 1880 40%


Hpnotiq 2001 17%

Parfait d'Amour 18xx 30%

Pastis 1932 40%

X-Rated Fusion 2005 17%

Chinese Bakery

Marketing research on Bakeries market in China
Holiland(好利来) and Ganso(元祖), Paris Baguette(巴黎贝甜), Tous les jours (多乐之日), Comptoirs de France and Amandine

French: 
The Best Paris Patisseries
Singapore’s New Wave of Bakeries Maison Keyser, PAUL, Angelina

Dalloyau Tokyo Seoul Hong Kong

Angelina

Ladurée : Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, LA, Miami, New York, Washington

Paul Boston, DC, Japan, Singapore, Taipei

Éric Kayser : Maison Kayser Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, NY, Singapore, Taiwan

Thursday, June 09, 2016

Muscle Cramping

Cramp nocturnal night time leg cramps
dehydration, magnesium, potassium, vitamin B12, quinine (tonic water), calcium channel blocker (anti-hypertension, high blood pressure), pickle juice

Saturday, June 04, 2016

Study Notes / Charts

CliffsNotes Cliffnote Cliffnotes CliffsNote Cliffs Cliff Note
SparkNotes SparkNote
BarCharts BarChart Bar Chart Quick Study Academic QuickStudy

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Platinum-resistant Ovarian Cancer

YouTube Chemotherapeutic agents video
Chemotherapy Types
alkylating agents, antimetabolites, microtubule targeting agents, topoisomerase, anthracyclines, monoclonal antibodies, others

Targeted therapy
Hormonal therapy (oncology)
Cancer immunotherapy

Caris

Potential benefit

paclitaxel, docetaxel, nab-paclitaxel
gemcitabine
liposomal-doxrubicin
leuprolide, megestrol acetate
doxorubicin, epirubicin

Potential lack of benefit

irinotecan, topotecan
tamoxifen, fulvestrant, letrozole (aromatase inhibitor), anastrozole (anti-aromatase)
fluorouracil, capecitabine, pemetrexed
trastuzumab, pertuzumab
temozolomide, dacarbazine

NCCN

docetaxel 22%
etoposide 27%
gemcitabine 19%
liposomal doxorubicin 26%
paclitaxel weekly 21%
topotecan 20%

altretamine 14%
capecitabine
cyclophosphamide
doxorubicin
ifosfamide 12%
irinotecan
melphalan
oxaliplatin
paclitaxel
nab-paclitaxel 64%
pemetrexed 21%
vinorelbine 20%

bevacizumab 21%

aromatase inhibitors (letrozoleanastrozole)
leuprolide acetate
megestrol acetate
tamoxifen


Platinum-resistant

nab-paclitaxel, docetaxel (anti-microtubule)
gemcitabine (antimetabolites)
doxil (anthracyclines)

megestrol acetate (Megace - Antiandrogen Antiprogestogen)


etoposide 27% (topoisomerase)?
oxaliplatin (alkylating-like)?
vinorelbine 20% (anti-microtubule)?
altretamine 14% (nonclassical alkylating agent)?
ifosfamide 12%, cyclophosphamide, melphalan (alkylating agents)?

Friday, May 13, 2016

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

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)