The week of January 8 has items of possible interest to residents of district 2 at the Finance Committee, the Plan Commission, the City County Homeless Issues Committee, the Transit and Parking Commission, the Urban Forestry Task Force, and the Joint Discussion: Common Council MPD Policy Procedure Review Ad Hoc Committee. The city meeting agenda items are open for testimony from the public should you be interested in weighing in. I also appreciate hearing from you on any items on which you have a particular interest or concern so please send me an email or give me a call..

The deaths are horrible, and I agree it has been mishandled here, but let me mention something that I haven seen anyone talk about yet. The elder care system is fucked beyond belief in Sweden since like 10 15 years back. It is largely privatized and almost entirely unregulated, the staff is grossly underpaid because of this, so barely anyone works in elder care that has a proper education.

The questionnaire is in English language, but this work also presents a study showing to what extent the results obtained are similar to native language questionnaire results.The CAE Framework is further extended by providing two ontologies, a full scale ontology, called the CAE F ontology, and a light weight ontology, called the CAE L ontology. These ontologies detail the HCI (Human Computer Interaction) features that need to be integrated into an adaptive system in order to cater for cultural adaptation. These features can be used for all types of adaptation, as defined in adaptive hypermedia.

(Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside) Next time you’re looking for someone to blame for the Pacific Northwest’s recent influx of transplants, I’d (jokingly) recommend pointing a finger at Fleet Foxes. After all, the band’s folksy hymnals partly inspired my migration north from California six years ago. Formed in Seattle in the mid ’00s, the five piece released its second EP, Sun Giant, and self titled LP in 2008.

Note: We’ve had to remove the publicity still posted here today (you can see it here, though) after discovering that it was not an offiicially sanctioned image. Maybe because he was “Donnie Darko” I just always expected more from Jake Gyllenhaal. My faith was shaken, though, as he grew out of his gawky phase, buffed up and started palling around with Lance Armstrong.

The European Union recent blunder triggering Article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol in a row over vaccines, threatening to effectively create a border on the island of Ireland, set off alarm bells in Washington DC. There was no public comment on the issue at the time from Mr Biden, who has made statements on the subject in the past and is deeply personally committed to the Good Friday Agreement, or from his administration. But it was considered the latest in a series of troubling diplomatic faux pas by the EU as the US seeks to rebuild relations.