Tuesday, September 08, 2026
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Permanente quarry, Lehigh Heidelberg Cement
Demolition of cement plant begins at historic Cupertino quarry
Hanson Permanente Cement Plant Site Transition - 2028
Vulcan Materials - 2035-2040
Permanente Creek Restoration Project - 2030
Reclamation Plan - 2065
Wednesday, May 06, 2026
Monday, April 27, 2026
Pilgrims’ Way
Pilgrimage, Pilgrims' Way pilgrim World Heritage Site UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites by year of inscription
Camino de Santiago, Way of St. James, French Way, Camino Primitivo, Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain (unesco), Shell of Saint James
Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela (Old Town), Weather/climate, Walking the Camino de Santiago in March, Doing the Camino de Santiago in March: the last calm month,
The Last 100 Kilometers/62 miles of the Camino de Santiago
* French Way, Start in March from Sarria 115 km,
* English Way from Ferrol 110 km,
* Portuguese Way from Tui, Spain 107 km, Valença, Portugal 108 km. Direct flight from SFO to LIS Lisbon by TAP LIS to OPO Porto
Kumano_Kodo 熊野古道, Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range 紀伊山地的聖地及朝聖路
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
End-of-life care/Palliative care
End-of-life care 善終服務 臨終關懷
Palliative care 緩和療護
Voluntary euthanasia Voluntary refusal of food and fluids (VRFF), voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), Patient Refusal of Nutrition and Hydration (PRNH)
Terminal illness 絕症
Terminal dehydration voluntary death by dehydration (VDD)
自主停止飲食/斷食善終是什麼?合法嗎?和安樂死有何不同?國際概況為何?病主諮商醫師常佑康專文解析
ECH, Palliative Care
PAMF, Palliative Care
Stanford Cancer Center Palliative Medicine Clinic
UCSF cancer symptom management
Palliative systemic therapy for women with recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer: current options 2013
腹部腫脹, 食慾不振, 無法排便: 談婦癌病患的腸阻塞問題 bowel obstructionOvarian cancer Palliative care
** Pharmacologic Pearls for End-of-Life Care Morphine, Lorazepam, Compazine, Octreotide 0.3mg/day (papers), Levsin
* Malignant Bowel Obstruction Guide, bowel obstruction, edema, ascites, constipation: total parenteral nutrition TPN, gastrostomy, octreotide
* Fraser Health Hospice Palliative Care Symptom Guidelines for Nausea and Vomiting, dopamine D2, (Prochlorperazine [Compazine]) , 5-HT3 Ondansetron, Zophran, Hyoscyamine (Levsin)
Doctor, Does This Mean I'm Going to Starve to Death?
Modest benefit of total parenteral nutrition and chemotherapy after venting gastrostomy tube placement
Palliative care in patients with ovarian cancer and bowel obstruction
Parenteral Nutrition in Malignant Bowel Obstruction: An Ethical Dilemma in Palliative Care
Gastrointestinal Complications
Palliative surgery for intestinal obstruction due to recurrent ovarian cancer
How Do You Triage Abdominal Pain in a Patient With Ovarian Cancer? small bowel obstruction SBO
Death Signs
** Bedside clinical signs associated with impending death in patients with advanced cancer: Preliminary findings of a prospective, longitudinal cohort study nonreactive pupils, a decreased response to verbal stimuli, a decreased response to visual stimuli, an inability to close eyelids, drooping of the nasolabial fold, hyperextension of the neck, grunting of vocal cords, and upper gastrointestinal bleeding
*台灣文化中末期癌症病人臨終症狀之探討 Clinical signs and symptoms on end-of-life for terminally ill cancer patients in Taiwanese culture, 臨終症狀發生率由高至低依序為:發紺冰冷(98.3%),至死亡日平均3.4天;鏡面舌(93.4%),至死亡日平均8.5天;耳垂縮(93.4%),至死亡日平均5.6天;陳氏呼吸(91.7%),至死亡日平均0.53天;煩躁不安(78.5%),至死亡日平均7.7天;死前嘎嘎聲(Death rattle)(65.2%),至死亡日平均0.89天;陰莖(囊)縮(54.4%),至死亡日平均10.1天;末期躁動(37.1%),至死亡日平均9.9天;鞏膜水腫(33.1%),至死亡日平均10.1天;譫妄(28.9%),至死亡日平均9.4天;夢到過世親人(11.5%),至死亡日平均11.4天。
*Predicting Active Dying The median time until death following the death rattle was 57 (+ or - 23, SD) hours, 7.6 (2.5) hours following respiration with mandibular movement, 5.1 (1.0) hours following cyanosis, and 2.6 (1.0) hour following lack of radial pulse.
Monday, November 24, 2025
Visa / Immigration
Trump Gold Platinum Card, individual’s ability to provide a substantial benefit to the United States, I-140G Instruction, Form I-140G $15,000 fee $1,000,000 gift per person, EB-1 extraordinary ability, EB-2 exceptional ability
Visa Bulletin: family 226,000, employee 140,000, country limit 7% 25,620
EB-1 Priority Workers 28.6% 40,040, EB-2 Advanced Degrees 28.6% 40,040
Diversity Visa DA 55,000, Asia 10,000, Taiwan 247
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Immediate Relative (IR) Visas, IR-5 parents
USCIS Green Card for Immediate Relatives of US citizen
USCIS U.S. Citizen Petition for an Immediate Relative to Become a Lawful Permanent Resident
PPT 出生證明
背包客棧 出生證明
Bringing Spouses to Live in the United States as Permanent Residents
I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status + Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization with other forms at the same time + I-131, Application for Travel Document
Friday, October 17, 2025
Caltrain & BART
Quantum computing
D-Wave Systems: How a Different Path in Quantum Computing Forged Commercial Success gate-model general purpose universal computer - Google, IBM