(PHOENIX, AZ) – The hustle and bustle is taking a toll on our sleep. A Gallup poll on sleep found three out of four (76 percent) adults reported losing sleep between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day with half (49 percent) losing three or more hours of sleep per week. Too many activities, financial pressures and family issues were among the top reasons for sleep deprivation. While the survey was done in 2003, the findings still apply to many of us today.
Saying "no" – don't get caught up in attending every holiday party and event. It may sound exciting at first, but entertaining night after night can become exhausting. Be choosy and avoid overbooking.
Planning ahead – don't want until the last-minute to do your cooking, cleaning and shopping. If you're the host, ask others to bring dishes or cook some food ahead of time and freeze it.
Watching holiday treats – too much alcohol and heavy, greasy foods, especially at night, can hurt your sleep.
Keeping your schedule – so you get some time off during the holidays? Congratulations! Use the time to relax and recharge, but don't alter your regular sleep schedule too much.
Traveling smart – if you're driving be sure to get enough sleep. You need to be alert on the crowded roads during the holiday season. If you're not driving, invest in a travel pillow to avoid a stiff neck, wear comfy clothes and bring along soothing music.
Exercising – with the parties, travel and shopping, many of us put exercise on the back burner. Don't. It's not only a great stress reliever, but helps you sleep better.


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I have to admit I was skeptical at first about the no-poo routine, but after lurking and absorbing everything I could for almost a month, I have gained the confidence to try it, so here we go!
goal: grow hair to tail bone? maybe?
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H. pylori and Peptic Ulcer
What is a peptic ulcer?
What is H. pylori?
How does H. pylori cause a peptic ulcer?
What are the symptoms of an ulcer?
How is an H. pylori-related ulcer diagnosed?
How are H. pylori peptic ulcers treated?
Drugs Used to Treat H. pylori Peptic Ulcers
Can H. pylori infection be prevented?
Why don't all doctors automatically check for H. pylori?
A peptic ulcer is a sore on the lining of the stomach or duodenum, which is the beginning of the small intestine. Peptic ulcers are common: One in 10 Americans develops an ulcer at some time in his or her life. One cause of peptic ulcer is bacterial infection, but some ulcers are caused by long-term use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs), like aspirin and ibuprofen. In a few cases, cancerous tumors in the stomach or pancreas can cause ulcers. Peptic ulcers are not caused by stress or eating spicy food.
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a type of bacteria. Researchers believe that H. pylori is responsible for the majority of peptic ulcers.
H. pylori infection is common in the United States: About 20 percent of people under 40 years old and half of those over 60 years have it. Most infected people, however, do not develop ulcers. Why H. pylori does not cause ulcers in every infected person is not known. Most likely, infection depends on characteristics of the infected person, the type of H. pylori, and other factors yet to be discovered.
Researchers are not certain how people contract H. pylori, but they think it may be through food or water.
Researchers have found H. pylori in the saliva of some infected people, so the bacteria may also spread through mouth-to-mouth contact such as kissing.
H. pylori weakens the protective mucous coating of the stomach and duodenum, which allows acid to get through to the sensitive lining beneath. Both the acid and the bacteria irritate the lining and cause a sore, or ulcer.
H. pylori is able to survive in stomach acid because it secretes enzymes that neutralize the acid. This mechanism allows H. pylori to make its way to the "safe" area--the protective mucous lining. Once there, the bacterium's spiral shape helps it burrow through the lining.
Abdominal discomfort is the most common symptom. This discomfort usually
is a dull, gnawing ache
comes and goes for several days or weeks
occurs 2 to 3 hours after a meal
occurs in the middle of the night (when the stomach is empty)
is relieved by eating
is relieved by antacid medications
Other symptoms include
poor appetite
Some people experience only very mild symptoms, or none at all.
Emergency Symptoms
If you have any of these symptoms, call your doctor right away:
sharp, sudden, persistent stomach pain
bloody or black stools
bloody vomit or vomit that looks like coffee grounds
They could be signs of a serious problem, such as
perforation--when the ulcer burrows through the stomach or duodenal wall
bleeding--when acid or the ulcer breaks a blood vessel
obstruction--when the ulcer blocks the path of food trying to leave the stomach
Diagnosing an Ulcer
To see whether symptoms are caused by an ulcer, the doctor may do an upper gastrointestinal (GI) series or an endoscopy. An upper GI series is an x ray of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum. The patient drinks a chalky liquid called barium to make these organs and any ulcers show up more clearly on the x ray.
An endoscopy is an exam that uses an endoscope, a thin, lighted tube with a tiny camera on the end. The patient is lightly sedated, and the doctor carefully eases the endoscope into the mouth and down the throat to the stomach and duodenum. This allows the doctor to see the lining of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum. The doctor can use the endoscope to take photos of ulcers or remove a tiny piece of tissue to view under a microscope.
H. pylori bacteria
Diagnosing H. pylori
If an ulcer is found, the doctor will test the patient for H. pylori. This test is important because treatment for an ulcer caused by H. pylori is different from that for an ulcer caused by NSAIDs.
H. pylori is diagnosed through blood, breath, stool, and tissue tests. Blood tests are most common. They detect antibodies to H. pylori bacteria. Blood is taken at the doctor's office through a finger stick.
Urea breath tests are an effective diagnostic method for H. pylori. They are also used after treatment to see whether it worked. In the doctor's office, the patient drinks a urea solution that contains a special carbon atom. If H. pylori is present, it breaks down the urea, releasing the carbon. The blood carries the carbon to the lungs, where the patient exhales it. The breath test is 96 percent to 98 percent accurate.
Stool tests may be used to detect H. pylori infection in the patient's fecal matter. Studies have shown that this test, called the Helicobacter pylori stool antigen (HpSA) test, is accurate for diagnosing H. pylori.
Tissue tests are usually done using the biopsy sample that is removed with the endoscope. There are three types:
The rapid urease test detects the enzyme urease, which is produced by H. pylori.
A histology test allows the doctor to find and examine the actual bacteria.
A culture test involves allowing H. pylori to grow in the tissue sample.
In diagnosing H. pylori, blood, breath, and stool tests are often done before tissue tests because they are less invasive. However, blood tests are not used to detect H. pylori following treatment because a patient's blood can show positive results even after H. pylori has been eliminated.
Antibiotics: metronidazole, tetracycline, clarithromycin, amoxicillin
H2 blockers: cimetidine, ranitidine, famotidine, nizatidine
Proton pump inhibitors: omeprazole, lansoprazole, rabeprazole, esomeprazole, pantoprozole
Stomach-lining protector: bismuth subsalicylate
H. pylori peptic ulcers are treated with drugs that kill the bacteria, reduce stomach acid, and protect the stomach lining. Antibiotics are used to kill the bacteria. Two types of acid-suppressing drugs might be used: H2 blockers and proton pump inhibitors.
H2 blockers work by blocking histamine, which stimulates acid secretion. They help reduce ulcer pain after a few weeks. Proton pump inhibitors suppress acid production by halting the mechanism that pumps the acid into the stomach. H2 blockers and proton pump inhibitors have been prescribed alone for years as treatments for ulcers. But used alone, these drugs do not eradicate H. pylori and therefore do not cure H. pylori-related ulcers. Bismuth subsalicylate, a component of Pepto-Bismol, is used to protect the stomach lining from acid. It also kills H. pylori.
Treatment usually involves a combination of antibiotics, acid suppressors, and stomach protectors. Antibiotic regimens recommended for patients may differ across regions of the world because different areas have begun to show resistance to particular antibiotics.
The use of only one medication to treat H. pylori is not recommended. At this time, the most proven effective treatment is a 2-week course of treatment called triple therapy. It involves taking two antibiotics to kill the bacteria and either an acid suppressor or stomach-lining shield. Two-week triple therapy reduces ulcer symptoms, kills the bacteria, and prevents ulcer recurrence in more than 90 percent of patients.
Unfortunately, patients may find triple therapy complicated because it involves taking as many as 20 pills a day. Also, the antibiotics used in triple therapy may cause mild side effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dark stools, metallic taste in the mouth, dizziness, headache, and yeast infections in women. (Most side effects can be treated with medication withdrawal.) Nevertheless, recent studies show that 2 weeks of triple therapy is ideal.
Early results of studies in other countries suggest that 1 week of triple therapy may be as effective as the 2-week therapy, with fewer side effects.
Another option is 2 weeks of dual therapy. Dual therapy involves two drugs: an antibiotic and an acid suppressor. It is not as effective as triple therapy.
Two weeks of quadruple therapy, which uses two antibiotics, an acid suppressor, and a stomach-lining shield, looks promising in research studies. It is also called bismuth triple therapy.
No one knows for sure how H. pylori spreads, so prevention is difficult. Researchers are trying to develop a vaccine to prevent infection.
Changing medical belief and practice takes time. For nearly 100 years, scientists and doctors thought that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy food, and alcohol. Treatment involved bed rest and a bland diet. Later, researchers added stomach acid to the list of causes and began treating ulcers with antacids.
Since H. pylori was discovered in 1982, studies conducted around the world have shown that using antibiotics to destroy H. pylori cures peptic ulcers. The prevalence of H. pylori ulcers is changing. The infection is becoming less common in people born in developed countries. The medical community, however, continues to debate H. pylori's role in peptic ulcers. If you have a peptic ulcer and have not been tested for H. pylori infection, talk to your doctor.
A peptic ulcer is a sore in the lining of the stomach or duodenum.
The majority of peptic ulcers are caused by the H. pylori bacterium. Many of the other cases are caused by NSAIDs. None are caused by spicy food or stress.
H. pylori can be transmitted from person to person through close contact and exposure to vomit.
Always wash your hands after using the bathroom and before eating.
A combination of antibiotics and other drugs is the most effective treatment for H. pylori peptic ulcers.
Graham DY, Rakel RE, Fendrick AM, et al. Recognizing peptic ulcer disease: keys to clinical and laboratory diagnosis. Postgraduate Medicine. 1999;105(3):113-133.
Lahaie RG, Gaudreau C. Helicobacter pylori antibiotic resistance: trends over time. Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology. 2000;14(10):895-899.
Manes G, Balzano A, Iaquinto G, et al. Accuracy of the stool antigen test in the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection before treatment and in patients on omeprazole therapy. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 2001;15(1):73-79.
McManus TJ. Helicobacter pylori: an emerging infectious disease. Nurse Practitioner. 2000;25(8):42-46.
National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director. NIH Consensus Statement: Helicobacter pylori in Peptic Ulcer Disease. Vol. 12, No. 1. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health; 1994.
Saunders CS. H. pylori infection: simplifying management. Patient Care. 1999;(20):118-134.
Vaira D, Holton J, Menegatti M, et al. Review article: invasive and noninvasive tests for Helicobacter pylori infection. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 2000;14(suppl 3):13-22.
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Editorial: Take the pay-to-play out of L.A.'s development process
By The Times Editorial Board
Aug. 5, 2017 5 AM PT
How soon they forget. In the months leading up to the March election, Los Angeles leaders were on the defensive. A slow-growth ballot measure was picking up steam, pay-to-play allegations were swirling around City Hall and several city council members were running for re-election against challengers who pledged to take no campaign cash from developers.
Five City Council members decided to make a bold pronouncement: They proposed to ban campaign contributions from developers seeking city approval for their projects.
The proposal, introduced in January, called for the city Ethics Commission to create an ordinance that would prohibit contributions from developers with projects currently or recently before city decision makers. If that wasn't possible because of free-speech protections, the council members asked for other ways to limit the opportunities for corruption, such as requiring elected officials to recuse themselves from a land-use decision if they have accepted donations from the developer.
"The best way to restore trust in government is to avoid even the appearance of a conflict," Councilman David Ryu said at the time. Ryu already rejects developer contributions voluntarily.
Since then, however, voters have rejected the slow-growth Neighborhood Integrity Initiative and re-elected council incumbents, while the proposal to ban developer contributions has gone nowhere. In fact, the proposal hasn't even had a single hearing at City Hall, the Times reported. Council President Herb Wesson might schedule a first discussion in his committee by the end of the year. Maybe.
Of course, many council members never wanted to move forward with such a ban anyway. Real estate interests are a reliable source of campaign contributions, and elected officials are loath to turn away money they could use not just on their re-election bids, but also on office expenses and trips. Besides, city politicians insist, they never let campaign contributions influence their vote on a development.
Even if you believe that the mayor and City Council manage to ignore political contributions when making decisions, the mere exchange of money between people seeking city approval and the people granting it creates the perception of a quid pro quo. That fuels community distrust with the entire land-use and development-approval process, and makes it harder to have a reasonable discussion on how and where to build more homes to address the city's housing shortage.
Faced with the threat of the draconian Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, which would have imposed a two-year moratorium on certain development projects, Mayor Eric Garcetti and the council committed to reforming the planning and land-use system. The city is starting to modernize its outdated General Plan, which is its vision for growth. The council voted to require community plans to be updated every six years, which should reduce the need to grant developers "spot zoning" exemptions from existing land-use rules. The council also voted to bar developers from picking their own consultants to produce traffic studies and environmental impact reports.
Those steps are necessary but not sufficient. The mayor and City Council need to take pay-to-play — perceived or otherwise — out of the city's development process.
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Q: How Do I Retrieve An Instance of A Fragment Defined in XML? In short, the problem is that I can find my element by id but it keeps asking me to cast it to a view and I cannot cast it to a type of my object name. I'm not sure if casting to view is how it is suppose to be but the Android sample simply creates the fragment and adds it therefore it is not defined in xml. But the point is that in the sample, the object is not of type view.
More information:
This is probably a fast and easy fix. I have a fragment class that holds a custom view I created out of code (it is a game of sorts with constant drawing in it). I added the fragment in the top left portion of my xml layout. Under the fragment are buttons (defined in the xml layout). I have a main activity and I want a handle to the instance of the fragment that contains my custom view so that when buttons are clicked, some variables in the fragment are changed and the view is redrawn.
XML:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <fragment android:name="com.example.dcubebluetooth"
              android:id="@+id/lEDView1"
              android:layout_width="400px"
              android:layout_height="400px" />

<Button
        android:id="@+id/layer1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/lEDView1"
        android:layout_marginTop="50px"
        android:text="Layer1"
        android:textSize="12dp" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/layer2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@id/layer1"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@id/layer1"
        android:text="Layer2"
        android:textSize="12dp" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/layer3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@id/layer2"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@id/layer2"
        android:text="Layer3"
        android:textSize="12dp" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/layer4"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@id/layer3"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@id/layer3"
        android:text="Layer4"
        android:textSize="12dp" />

</RelativeLayout>

Main Activity:
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements LEDGridFragment.TriggerBlueTooth{

    Button l1;
    Button l2;
    Button l3;
    Button l4;
    BluetoothService bt;
    LEDGridFragment gridUI;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        initialize();
    }

@Override
public void onledSelected(int layer, int led) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    String msg = Integer.toString(layer);
    if(led<10) msg+=0;
    msg+= Integer.toString(led);
    bt.write(msg);
}

//Full method below not showing. I don't know why

    public void initialize(){
gridUI = findViewById(R.id.lEDView1);

bt = new BluetoothService();

l1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.layer1);
l2 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.layer2);
l3 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.layer3);
l4 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.layer4);

l1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        gridUI.currentLayer = 0;
        gridUI.update();
    }
});

l2.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        gridUI.currentLayer = 1;
        gridUI.update();
    }
});
l3.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        gridUI.currentLayer = 2;
        gridUI.update();
    }
});

l4.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        gridUI.currentLayer = 3;
        gridUI.update();
    }
});

}
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

}

Fragment:
public class LEDGridFragment extends Fragment{

    LEDView view;
    TriggerBlueTooth mCallBack;

    boolean[][][] states = new boolean[4][4][4];

    int currentLayer = 0;

    public interface TriggerBlueTooth{
        public void onledSelected(int layer, int led);
    }

    @Override
    public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
        super.onAttach(activity);

        mCallBack = (TriggerBlueTooth) activity;

        view.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {

            @Override
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                int x = (int) (event.getX())/100;
                int y = (int) (event.getY())/100;
                int led = y+(x*4);

                mCallBack.onledSelected(currentLayer, led); //Notify Main Activity of the led that was toggled
                                                            //So it can send data over Bluetooth
                return false;
            }
        });
    }

    public void update(){
        view.drawGrid(states, currentLayer); //Update the view
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
            Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        for(int i=0; i<states.length; i++){  //Initialize the board off which the view will be drawn
            for(int j=0; j<states[0].length; j++){
                for(int k=0; k<states[0][0].length; k++){
                    states[i][j][k] = false;
                }
            }
        }

        view = new LEDView(getActivity());
        return view;
        //return super.onCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState); //Auto-formed. Commented out
    }

}

On the side (okay if you don't answer this): The graphical layout does not show what it is suppose to in terms of the initial drawing of the game. If I add the view itself, it does. But right now, it is a grey box with " Pick preview layout from 'Fragment Layout' context menu"
Where is this menu? I want to see if my view is working. I can't personally test it because 1. It does not compile, and 2. I haven't an android phone

A: This should do it:
FragmentManager mgr = getFragmentManager();
Fragment fragment = mgr.findFragmentById(R.id.lEDView1);

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My teenage son was talking to me about the Simpsons episode when Marge Simpson fell for her university tutor, while she was going out with Homer.
We got onto the subject via inspirational teachers. He mentioned his options at school and why he'd chosen not to go with certain subjects. And what did it come down to? Yes, the quality of the teaching. Did he like the teacher? And did they make the subject interesting?
That was what it was all about.
A sober reflection.. and it reminded me of how vital our teachers are to us. If a subject is taught imaginatively, we love it. If we have a dull teacher, we'll probably dislike that subject. We may even choose to drop it.
I immediately thought of how fertile a subject this can be for novelists. And yet there are few examples.
Malcolm Bradbury wrote his novel The "History Man"about university life in the seventies. It centred upon the dreadful Howard Kirk. He was the prototype of the libidinous university tutor of the early 1970's; but also in terms of his sociopolitical theories and his whole worldview, and how it impacted on his attitude to relationships, he was a man of his time.
In the TV adaptation of the book I remember one particular scene. Howard and his wife were sitting at the breakfast table with their children and he was having a go at her for giving the kids the choice of too many breakfast cereals. "Stop giving them so many options!" he snapped.
Then I worked out the dates Joyce Carol Oates would have been at university, and reasoned with myself – and breathed more freely.
The similarity, though, was still uncanny.
My first adult novel (unpublished) was set in a university; the main characters were undergraduates, and it revolved around relationships between the academics, as well as those between the students and their teachers.
Have you read any novels in which the student falls for her university tutor? It seems that they may be few and far between. But I'll be happy for you to prove me wrong! Find out here about other books I love.
Comment received from Tom Di Giovanni: Re your blog post on student / tutor relationships … I haven't read anything about this in a university context, but the novel I'm currently editing (which I wrote) is about that subject in a school context. It's still at the "needs a bit more work" stage at the moment but has been through a few drafts. I'm guessing that's a more common topic, although it would be interesting to know why – is it because school is a more universal experience than university, or because the moral choices appear more clearcut in a school context (debatable)? Or is because the nature of the student-teacher relationship at university inherently less personal (well, it was for me – I studied maths).


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The MOU is well-timed, introduced months after New Delhi hosted its dancehall camp, INDIES VIBEZ UP! The camp was developed by Dancehall India, founded by Shankaraa Satchi, who created the platform with the hope of spreading dancehall culture across India. New Delhi is also home to India's first reggae sound system, started by Taru Dalmia.
Hosted by the High Commission of India in Jamaica, appropriately, the evening's entertainment offered a taste of the potential of increased cultural exchange. Members of the Naataanjali Dance and Art Group performed an 'Indian-fusion' performance – cultural Indian dance choreographed to a dancehall-influenced Indian pop song. Done with traditional Indian dance moves, it was the perfect example of how both cultures could be intertwined.
The group was made up of predominantly very young dancers, though the moves weren't perfect, they were extremely adorable. They didn't nail the technicalities of the intricate hand movements, and the synchronised moves were a bit off, but their dedication and beautiful saris still had the audience captivated. It was clear that a passion for dancing is something shared by both Jamaicans and Indians.
The audience was treated to two more dances, choreographed by Prerana Prashant Singh and presented by dancers from the Mudra Art Group.
"I can confirm that the Government and the people of Jamaica are looking forward to strengthening the already rich cultural ties between our two countries," permanent secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Denzil Thorpe, said.
Foundation Day celebrations also invited Custos Errol Johnson, alumnus of the ICCR, who shared the fruits he reaped from being a member of the council.
He recalled that his great-grandfather came to Jamaica on a boat with a sack. Then, in the 1970s, he, Johnson, made the return journey by plane – with a suitcase – among a cohort of students sent to India to study.
"One of the beautiful things about this programme was that in my cluster of 248 students, we had representatives from 18 different countries. I learned first-hand why the Palestinians are rebelling, what was happening in Iran. I learned why Zimbabwe had guerillas – because one of them was my roommate, – who I was afraid of because he was a big fellow. I knew why the people from small African countries could survive by living off the sea," Johnson reported, highlighting the importance of cultural integration.


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Q: How to include Ghostscript with cx_freeze Is there a way to include Ghostscript with cx_freeze in virtualenv
I have tried this pip install python3_ghostscript-0.5.0-py3-none-any.whl but still getting below error
Downloaded the .whl file from this link - https://pypi.python.org/packages/6a/2d/e2d7474bea24d223d5dc86d51241fd305b75a9168f2e1d7ee07b883c80a5/python3_ghostscript-0.5.0-py3-none-any.whl#md5=0e3a24a374c0d9cc1f2008801ead6927
Error: RuntimeError: Please make sure that Ghostscript is installed
Installing the Ghostscript in my Windows system won't solve the problem as I need to include it in my build from cx_freeze so that non-python installed systems can use my desktop application which is build using Tkinter
Basically I am using camelot to convert pdf tables to excel but it needs Ghostscript
Any alternative solutions are more than welcome!
Thanks in Advance!

A: I believe I have found an answer
I just need to use flavor='stream' in my code as stream doesn't use Ghostscript
tables = camelot.read_pdf(filename, pages=input_page_nos, flavor='stream')

A: If you're in luck, you may be able to simply zip up your Ghostscript installation, bundle the zip with your software (I'm sure there's a way to bundle up arbitrary files with cx_freeze).
You can then have your program unzip Ghostscript to a temporary folder (or a known folder). After that, you'll probably need to hack camelot.ext.ghostscript._gsprint.__win32_finddll() to only look for the DLL in that installation folder, since there won't be any of those registry keys that would usually exist.
Good luck!


So I thought I'd be blogging more often now that I have created a new Wordpress account, but no. I'm such a slacker. I did write a couple of entries for one whole week, but after two, three weeks, the enthusiasm died.
Sigh. I love how my Wordpress looks like. The layout is neat, kinda professional-ish. I'm still looking for that drive to blog again. I considered niche blogging, but thought it required a lot of effort. I wanted to do 'a day in the life' that kind of thang but figured it may be boring; or a travel blog, but I'm too lazy (I do have a separate blog of the places I've been to, but they're purely photos, no words). And so here I am, back to my old Blogspot.
I've come across so many blogs that inspired me to blog again but at times I'm just so tired from work, that the only thing I do to rejuvenate is to attend yoga classes and do some Ohmmsss. Ahhhhh life. Maybe I'll just sleep it off and wake up tomorrow refreshed and ready to write something worthwhile.
Anyhoooo. That photo above was taken at sundown, when I was about to leave the office. Sunsets, they really take my breath away.


Family-run waste management company, B&M Waste Services has pledged its support for Crisis, the national charity for homeless people. Crisis help people directly out of homelessness and campaign for the changes needed to solve it altogether.
Supporting the charity, B&M Waste hope to further raise awareness of the dangers of sleeping in bins amongst those who find themselves without shelter.
Many of the B&M Waste team will be offering their time as volunteers to assist with the charity's efforts to support people out of homelessness.
Most notably perhaps, the waste management company have donated £10,000 to allow Crisis to continue with the good work they do.
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But will it make it to Apple App store?
Opera Mini will be shown running on an iPhone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month, although the company has yet to get the application through Apple's rigorous vetting process.
Apple has been anything but accommodating when it comes to allowing rival browsers onto the iPhone, but Opera's open statement of intent over the platform does, at the very least, sound confident of success.
Opera Mini is a popular mobile browser, and could prove a competitor to the pre-installed Sarafi browser that is already on the iPhone.
"We are thrilled to offer journalists and partners an exclusive preview of Opera Mini for iPhone during the year's biggest mobile event," said Jon von Tetzchner, Co-founder, Opera Software.
"This is a unique opportunity to introduce the fast, feature-rich Opera Mini experience for the iPhone, and to showcase our latest beta releases of Opera Mobile and Opera Mini on other platforms and devices.
"Opera's mission is to bring the Web to the world, and by making Opera Mini available on yet another platform, we are one step closer."
The browser running on a iPhone will be just one of Opera's showcases with the company also trailing Opera Mobile 10 beta 3 on Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile handsets, Opera Mobile 10 beta running on Android handsets, Mini 5 beta, running 'on a variety of handsets and platforms' and the company's cross-platform Widgets Manager beta, running on Windows Mobile and S60 handsets.
But it will be the iPhone browser that garners the most attention, and raise the question as to whether Opera Mini will soon be making a public appearance on an Apple handset near you.


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Aaron Speach to Hold a Speech at the Needham Virtual Growth Conference
Esports Technologies' chief executive, Aaron Speach, will participate in the Needham Virtual Growth Conference
He will speak about the company's successes in the past year and its plans for the future
Key investors will have the opportunity to personally speak with Speach
It was announced that Aaron Speach, the chief executive officer of the leading global esports tech and betting provider Esports Technologies, will hold a speech where he will address the company's state of affairs and future plans.
Speach to Address the Company's Shareholders and Investors
Speach's panel is scheduled to take place on January 14 during the 24 annual Needham Virtual Growth Conference. The CEO will use the opportunity to speak about Esports Technologies and the state of the company. Speach's address will touch on the company's latest M&A deals and will also speak about Esports Technologies' future and what the firm has planned for 2022.
Furthermore, the chief executive will take some of his time to personally speak with some of the company's key investors and answer whatever questions they might have.
Speach said that he is delighted to have Esports Technologies take part in the Needham Growth Conference. The CEO called it "one of the premier events for growth company investors" and added that taking part in it would be incredibly beneficial to his firm. Speach concluded that he couldn't wait to talk with investors and tell them about Esports Technologies' recent acquisitions and the thrilling expansion strategy that the company plans to go for.
Esports Technologies Had an Exciting 2021
Around the end of 2021, Esports Technologies made some exciting deals. A little over a month ago, the company negotiated the acquisition of Aspire Global's business-to-customer business, which includes its proprietary online casino and sportsbook brands Karamba, Hopa, Griffon Casino, BetTarget, Dansk777, and GenerationVIP. The deal saw Esports Technologies pay $75.9 million to seal the deal.
At that time, Speach had shared some insights in his goals of establishing Esports Technologies as a global leader."
"Acquiring Aspire Global's portfolio of innovative B2C brands, access to new markets, and its 1.25 million deposited customers is a strategic leap in our journey to become a world leader in esports wagering."
In early December, Esports Technologies managed to secure a license for the UK market, which immediately positively affected the company's share prices.
Additionally, 2021 saw the innovative company patent a few novel ideas such as a live streaming betting product for sports and gaming, a new esports predictive model, and an interesting idea for multiplayer battle games.
By participating in the five-day-long Needham Virtual Growth Conference, Esports Technologies will be able to provide industry enthusiasts, shareholders, and notable investors with further insights on the significance of the company's 2021 feats and how they will help with the firm's future growth.
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Yasmin is an iGaming and gaming journalist with over 10 years of writing about various publications. Her experience spans the entirety of iGaming, traditional sports, as well as online poker. She is well-versed in every aspect of online gaming and her wealth of knowledge provides additional substance to our coverage.
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Shakespeare's early comedy explodes on the Bard Fest stage as a festival of witty word play showing the youthful power Shakespeare displayed with language. An audience favorite , it is clever, silly, and just plain fun.
Harold Bloom writes, "....But we all have favorites , in literature as in life, and I take more unmixed please from Love's Labor's Lost than any other Shakespeare Play........I entertain the illusion that Shakespeare may have enjoyed a particular and unique zest in composing it. ....(It) is a festival of language, an exuberant fireworks display in which Shakespeare seems to seek the limits of his verbal resources and discovers there are none. "
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John writes , "I am currently the drama coach at Columbus North High School (North Drama), a position I have held for 25 years. I have directed over 100 plays and musicals for high school, middle school and community groups. Our production of LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST will be my 8th full length SHAKESPEARE show to direct. In addition I have cut and adapted 5 of his plays for 10-14 year olds to do in a weeklong drama camp—we do full verse in these productions and the kids love it.
I've been married for I am going to say 22 years to a wonderful woman who puts up with all my crazy antics. We have a 20 year old daughter who acts (her Celia in AS YOU LIKE IT kicked major butt) and is a helluva stage manager. She is starting her third year at the School at the Art Insitute of Chicago. I'm a marathon runner and currently run 35+ miles a week as I'm training for the Dopey running challenge at Disney World in January. I love to cook and am teaching myself to bake
So to say I'm a Shakespeare nut is an understatement. I believe Shakespeare is not only important to the development of the western theatre cannon, but that he taught modern society how to think and interact. When I was prepping my western version of MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, I was delighted to learn that most wagons and coaches heading west had two books in their store: the Bible and the Complete Works of William Shakespeare—these were the things that mattered.
I believe in the power of the verse, and that if you acknowledge and honor it, Shakespeare tells the actor how to say every line. Iambic pentameter is important, sure, but it's when things go off rhythm that the fun begins.
But mostly I believe that Shakespeare is fun.
I'm not interested in doing "dry, boring, vomitless" Shakespeare.
Shakespeare matters, and when things matter, fun follows. I want to see real people (even the caricatured extremes) talk to each other, fall in love and experience all the heightened emotions that go along with living for the day. This isn't a mirror we hold up to society—it's society, warts and all. "
Below is Mr Johnson's Analysis of Love's Labor's Lost-
Love's Labour's Lost is considered one of Shakespeare's first comedies if not his very first. Too often it is dismissed as one of the lesser plays--perfectly serviceable with some brilliant moments of word play and dialogue sections full of wit and delicious interplay. It is seen as a first draft of greater things in later plays. The witty banter and wordplay here for Berowne and Rosaline soar to new heights in Much Ado About Nothing. The play within the play sequence that the clowns present for the Princess becomes a masterpiece in Midsummer Night's Dream. The humble truths spoken by Love's natural man Costard are more profoundly affective from the mouth of As You Like It's Touchstone.
This is all true of course, if not rather dismissive. It's a perspective that can only be created after centuries of hindsight and consideration of the complete Shakespearean oeuvre. However, at the time of Love's writing Shakespeare wouldn't have given a flying fig about either his oeuvre or hindsight of any kind. He had a story to tell and an audience to entertain.
Love's Labour's Lost was written for a private showing for a small, elite and decidedly aristocratic audience. These were courtly people and would have traded heavily in the art of Euphemism, a very fashionable pastime using polite words while clearly indicating the delicacies of the most intimate of relationships—if you know what I mean. Now I wouldn't say Love's is his dirtiest play (I mean there is always Taming of the Shrew) but the euphemisms are so plentiful that I can't keep up, and euphemism and innuendo are my preferred choice of trade.
Likewise the clown characters in Love's are so plentiful (8 in total) that they have their own sustained and detailed plot which is practically unheard of in the Shakespearean comedies. More often the clown (or perhaps two clowns) have a nominal plot point or two and then appear mostly to comment on the craziness they witness from other characters. Here they have a full third of the time devoted to their various shenanigans. The Rude Mechanicals in Midsummer are nearly as many, but only three of them are clearly defined and all but one sit the middle of the play out.
The clowns in Love's are derived of the Italian commedia traditions, which the original courtly audience would surely have recognized, but Shakespeare goes further. He clearly calls out well-known figures in Queen Elizabeth's court. He and the actors pump the affectations and peccadilloes of the real people of the court and suddenly you have a biting satire of Elizabeth's coterie. Think Saturday Night Live. All those "great" impressions from SNL are just playing up of one or two noticeable physical traits to comic extremes, but it feels delicious and timely and very wicked. That's what Love's Labour's Lost really is. Let's get the Queen to laugh at all of her hangers on. Publically. And without regret.
Time of course has taken its toll on the clowns, having dulled their sharp points to charming and funny if mostly toothless caricatures. For those of us who remember Tom Snyder, Dan Ackroyd's impression of him from the early years of SNL is still a delight. To audiences without that perspective, Ackroyd is still an actor saying things funny. Sometimes that's all we as an audience can ask. But Shakespeare is Shakespeare. He may have written this as a one shot, satirical romp, but still he added depth and nuance. Even the lightest and seemingly most insignificant of stories can have more to them. This works. Every time. Eventually Love's was performed again privately and then entered the public arena. A sequel was written and ironically lost. (Love's Labour's Wonne is mentioned in a contemporaneous letter but no copy of it exists. Now many scholars think Wonne is the original title for Much Ado About Nothing.)
The satire of Elizabeth's courtly figures with the clowns is a gateway to a much larger satire of the aristocratic class. It is here where the story withstands the test of time. Four young men deciding to give up matters of the heart to focus solely on study and then encountering four young women who romantically upend their world is straightforward enough. Shakespeare takes this traditional, masculine coming of age tale and fills it with the aforementioned euphemism, innuendo and double entendre. He makes the men of the court as ribald and randy (if not more so) than the rustic and rough-hewn clowns. The court's pretense of civility and decorum is just that: pretense. But Shakespeare will go further. He has the visitors of France (seen in Elizabethan aristocracy as the pinnacle of good form, taste and fashion) even more crass than the men of Navarre. These ladies are no shrinking violets. Likewise he mirrors the male coming of age tale in the very real progression of a Princess to a Queen. An argument can be made that the reckoning that the Princess encounters fosters the only real change and growth for the characters.
The thematic overlay of time as lord and master of all and the natural approach that each moment is and has its own time add profound and bittersweet depth to the whole proceeding.
This is all well and good, and I hope informative to our approach to the production. But I'm going to take a cue from Shakespeare and say don't give a flying fig about it at all. We are here to tell you a story and see that you are entertained. So, "Sit thee down, sorrow."
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Østfold () es una provincia (fylke) del sudeste de Noruega. Tiene fronteras con la provincia Akershus y con Suecia al nordeste.

Se encuentra situado en las riberas del fiordo de Oslo. Está constituida por una región ondulada por colinas (240-300 m de altitud), cubierta de espesos bosques por el norte y por el este. Cuenta con astilleros navales, industrias químicas, de galletas, madereras y de papel. Es una región turística.

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El condado de Østfold está integrado por 18 municipios (kommuner, en noruego) a nivel local:

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Black Girl Festival: Women in Media Panel
October 21, 2017 October 21, 2017 by Siana Bangura
Catch Siana THIS Sunday (29th October 2017) at the UK's first one-day festival celebrating Black British girls and women. From 15.30 to 16.20, Siana will be on a panel chaired by Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, the co-founder & executive director of UK Black Pride. Other panellists include: Gena-mour Barrett, staff writer at Buzzfeed; Sian Anderson, BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ and music journalist; Kuchenga, writer, black trans feminist & activist; and Kelechi Okafor, actress, personal trainer & instructor of pole dance.
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Siana Bangura is a writer, poet, performer and producer hailing from South East London. She is the author of critically acclaimed debut collection, 'Elephant', a book of poetry meditating on Black British womanhood and life growing up in London and the founder and former editor of No Fly on the WALL. Siana is the producer of '1500 & Counting', a documentary film investigating deaths in custody in the UK. With experience in indie publishing, journalism, and campaigns under her belt, Siana's wide portfolio of work focuses on bringing voices on the margins to the centre. To find out more about Siana's work visit: www.sianabangura.com And catch her tweeting at @Sianaarrgh
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Witty people are eagerly sought, but seldom liked. They are admired, but feared. For, what ordinary persons cannot forgive others is not money, but talent.
People sing even when sad, but dance only for joy. And no one dances in his sorrow as he might play or sing, since woe stifles motion and robs us of rhythm.
What men seek most is serenity. And that is what they always sought but never found.
As it is, the greatest evils are committed by those who seek no evil but are afraid of life; or, more mistakes arise out of fear than stupidity.


EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER	vol.:49, issue.:6, p.:1356-1364.
Little is known of cancer rehabilitation needs in Europe. EUROCHIP-3 organised a group of experts to propose a list of population-based indicators used for describing cancer rehabilitation across Europe. The aim of this study is to present and discuss these indicators. A EUROCHIP-3 expert panel reached agreement on two types of indicators. (a) Cancer prevalence indicators. These were proposed as a means of characterising the burden of cancer rehabilitation needs by time from diagnosis and patient health status. These indicators can be estimated from cancer registry data or by collecting data on follow-up and treatments for samples of cases archived in cancer registries. (b) Indicators of rehabilitation success. These include: return to work, quality of life, and satisfaction of specific rehabilitation needs. Studies can be performed to estimate these indicators in individual countries, but to obtain comparable data across European countries it will be necessary to administer a questionnaire to randomly selected samples of patients from population-based cancer registry databases. However, three factors complicate questionnaire studies: patients may not be aware that they have cancer; incomplete participation in surveys could lead to bias; and national confidentiality laws in some cases prohibit cancer registries from approaching patients. Although these studies are expensive and difficult to perform, but as the number of cancer survivors increases, it is important to document their needs in order to provide information on cancer control. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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Tom Trago - Iris In Dub. Bleep.
Amsterdam's Tom Trago puts an end to a great year that's seen a fine album release of his own, plus that hefty collaboration with Night Slugs' Bok Bok with four dance floor dubs taken from his 'Iris' album. It's a varied selection, taking in trancy mood-shaping atmospherics ('Life of Dubs'), tribalistic throwdowns ('Dubtopia') and foreboding darkness meets uptempo jack ('We Like Dubs').


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Q: Why General error: 1364 Field 'id' doesn't have a default value what are the possibilities for this error to exist?
or solutions?
SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1364 Field 'id' doesn't have a default value (SQL: insert into jfmg_inventario (nome, data, ficheiro) values (hhhh, 2020-06-27, 96dbe622ec757cbb042d8605172432ff47e777f4.pdf))

A: You have provided no value for id in the insert statement.  Hence, the database has to assign one itself.
But, id would appear to be declared not null, so NULL can't be assigned.  And there is no default value or generator for the column.  Typically, an id would be auto-generated somehow with an incremental value.  In standard SQL, the declaration would look like:
id int generated always as identity primary key,


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Johnson & Johnson Cites Over 100,000 Pending Lawsuits
By Johannah Grenaway
The pharmaceutical company's quarterly report lists over 100,000 pending lawsuits as of June 30, 2019.
On Monday, a judge found Johnson & Johnson guilty for helping fuel Oklahoma's opioid crisis that includes more than 6,000 overdose deaths in the state. But this landmark case is just the latest lawsuit the company is facing. It's also dealing with tens of thousands of other suits over products like its talcum powder, hip implants and the blood thiner Xarelto.
Johnson & Johnson's quarterly report, as of June 30, 2019, shows 59,200 pending cases for those products. The report lists another 42,100 pending cases with products like pelvic meshes, a drug to treat certain mood disorders, and a drug for diabetes. That's a total of 101,300 pending lawsuits the company is facing.
The judge's ruling in Oklahoma includes the company paying $572 million to the state for its role in the opioid epidemic. So what could this mean for Johnson & Johnson when it comes to the other lawsuits?
Let's dig into some numbers here: Forbes added up the lawsuits pertaining to talc, hip implants, artificial hips and the blood thinner Xarelto, coming to a rounded number of 50,000. It then estimated average figures for each settlement cost. Forbes calculated the costs to see just how much Johnson & Johnson would lose *if* it were to settle just those 50,000 particular cases it's facing with the cash in hand the company currently has.
With about 10,500 cases related to hip-plant and artificial hips, it could cost an average of $180,000 per case. There are 14,000 cases related to Talc, which could cost an average of $280,000 per case. And the company's blood thinner, Xarelto, could cost it $31,000 per case and it's got nearly 25,000 of those. Forbes crunched the numbers and added up all of the costs, totaling $6.2 billion.
According to the company's quarterly report, Johnson & Johnson had some $14.4 billion cash in hand as of June 30. The figures from Forbes do not consider the $572 million dollar ruling in Oklahoma. Johnson & Johnson says it's going to appeal the "flawed judgment."
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In Portland's heart, diversity dwindles: 2010 Census shows city's center turning whiter as many African Americans pushed to the fringes
Gallery: In Portland's heart, diversity dwindles: 2010 Census shows city's center turning whiter as many African Americans pushed to the fringes
By Nikole Hannah-Jones, The Oregonian
Portland, already the whitest major city in the country, has become whiter at its core even as surrounding areas have grown more diverse.
Of 354 census tracts in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties, 40 became whiter from 2000 to 2010, according to The Oregonian's analysis of the
. Of those, two lie in rural Clackamas County. The 38 others are in Portland.
The city core didn't become whiter simply because lots of white residents moved in, the data show. Nearly 10,000 people of color, mostly African Americans, also moved out.
And those who left didn't move to nicer areas. Pushed out by gentrification, most settled on the city's eastern edges, according to the census data, where the sidewalks, grocery stores and parks grow sparse, and access to public transit is limited.
As a result, the part of Portland famous for its livability -- for charming shops and easy transit, walkable streets and abundant bike paths -- increasingly belongs to affluent whites.
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Portland's central city gets whiter
What Portland leaders did — and didn't do — as people of color were forced to the fringes
The change raises unsettling questions for a city that prides itself on tolerance, social equity and valuing diversity. What did Portland, a city known for planning, do as people of color were forced to the city's fringes and beyond? What role did city leaders play in the dispersal? And as the city maps its future, what steps will it take to protect the diversity that remains?
"The exodus from the central city causes me great concern; it is alarming,"
Portland Mayor Sam Adams
said. "Whether you are a Portlander of color or a white Portlander, you should care about the fact that we offer such limited access to equal opportunities."
Striking transformation
The rate of displacement surprised even people with a front-row view.
"I am so saddened by these numbers," said Judith Mowry, who runs the city's
Restorative Listening Project
, which brings people together to discuss the harms of gentrification. "This is not a healthy, sustainable city; this is not who we want to be."
The trend also runs counter to state and citywide numbers. Overall, Oregon saw significant gains in communities of color, particularly with 64 percent growth for Latinos and 40 percent for Asians. Statewide, the nonwhite population climbed from 16 percent in 2000 to 22 percent in 2010.
Lessons learned? What Portland leaders did -- and didn't do -- as people of color were forced to the fringes
The Oregonian's continuing coverage of 2010 Census
Portland as a whole grew more diverse, too, with its nonwhite population increasing from 25 percent to 28 percent. Still, the city showed small gains in diversity compared with most big U.S. cities and solidified its position as the nation's whitest. For the first time, Multnomah County, dominated by Portland, took a back seat to Washington County as the state's most diverse.
On the city's inner east side, however, most census tracts became whiter, even those already overwhelmingly white. Tracts along Southeast Stark Street, for example, climbed from 78 percent white to 82 percent, or 80 percent to 85 percent.
Inner North and Northeast witnessed the most striking transformation. The area bounded by the Willamette River, North Greeley Avenue, Northeast Columbia Boulevard, Northeast 42nd Avenue and Interstate 84 lost about 8,400 people of color, including 7,700 African Americans, or a loss of one in four compared with the population in 2000. Today, about 29,900 people of color remain in a total population of 105,500.
For people pushed from their cultural homes, the loss can be devastating. In all of Oregon, only Northeast Portland provides the cluster of churches, beauty salons, restaurants, nonprofits and political groups that signal to African Americans that they have a place in a very white state.
"Often residents no longer feel they have power in the community,"
Japonica Brown-Saracino, a Boston University ethnographer
, said of such displacements. "Their social networks are gone."
North/Northeast remains home to the highest concentration of African Americans in the state. But in 2000, people of color outnumbered whites in 10 of the area's census tracts. A decade later, all of those tracts had flipped to majority white. One tract alone, encompassing
the Woodlawn neighborhood
, saw a net loss of 915 black residents and a net gain of 840 white residents, shifting from 33 percent white in 2000 to 53 percent white in 2010.
Karen Gibson, a Portland State University urban planner
, put it: "Those who can afford it push out those who can't."
"Fraud and deception"
How did we get here? Mowry said people like to think of what happened as completely in the past, unrelated to what we see today. But it's not history, she said. It's part of one long story of a city that today professes a live-and-let-live ethic but was once known as the most segregated city outside the South.
The seeds of gentrification were planted during World War II, when African Americans from the South flowed into Portland to take jobs in the shipyards.
Portland officials and community members, from real estate agents to bankers, pushed the black community into a small area called Lower Albina, near the present-day Rose Quarter, through redlining and other now-illegal practices. White Portlanders fled, and the city began a long pattern of disinvestment.
Street and sidewalk repairs were neglected, and the city did little to develop businesses or enforce housing codes, said Gibson, the PSU planner, who wrote a study in 2007 called
"Bleeding Albina: A History of Community Disinvestment, 1940-2000."
Many banks refused to make home loans in black areas. Some residents were denied loans for less money than their bank-approved car loans. Appraisers artificially devalued the area's housing stock, so even people who did own saw little growth in wealth or equity that they could tap to maintain their homes. Predatory lenders swept in, and the area became ripe for drugs and crime.
"The degree of fraud and deception perpetrated on the people of Albina was remarkable," Gibson wrote. "Hundreds rented substandard housing while others paid high rates or were swindled out of homeownership."
Beth NakamuraPortland native Anjala Ehelebe, historian of Northeast Portland's Woodlawn neighborhood, moved there 27 years ago and has watched it undergo dramatic change. Woodlawn saw a net loss of 915 black residents from 2000 to 2010, more than any other Portland neighborhood, going from 33 percent white to 53 percent.
Anjala Ehelebe remembers the frustration she and others felt when she moved into Woodlawn 27 years ago. She'd fallen in love with a 1913 Craftsman bungalow on a double lot. Like her, Ehelebe's neighbors were black.
"There were people here who wanted to fix up their houses, but they couldn't," she said. "It's not a fair system, and people do the best with what they've got."
Ehelebe said the neighborhood got little help when gangs took hold. "We were told that (police) said, 'These people deserve the crime they get,'" said Ehelebe, who serves on the neighborhood board and wrote a book on Woodlawn's history. "Our property values just went down and down."
An investigation in The Oregonian in 1990 titled "Blueprint for a Slum" detailed the city's neglect and lenders' illegal practices. It found that Northeast Portland held one-third of the city's abandoned homes, with 26 percent in just two neighborhoods, Boise and King.
Block-by-block plan
The investigation inspired Gretchen Kafoury, then a new city commissioner, to lead a campaign to bring predatory lenders to justice and redevelopment dollars into the sagging neighborhoods.
The city and county collaborated to funnel local and federal money into the area and to transfer hundreds of tax-foreclosed properties to community development corporations created to repair and sell decrepit homes.
Kafoury led the city to adopt a block-by-block action plan in which code enforcers tracked down absentee landlords and forced them to fix up or sell their units, or face steep fines.
"We changed the whole focus with the way we dealt with the neighborhoods in inner Northeast," Kafoury said. She also worked to shame banks that had abandoned or preyed on Northeast Portland into making loans there.
But that rush of official attention and investment had consequences after years of neglect.
Experts say Portland followed a typical road map to gentrification, which is challenging cities as demographically diverse as Seattle, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. First comes disinvestment in areas near downtown where affluent, typically white, residents have fled. Then comes an economic resurgence, drawing middle-class residents back.
Portland, with an economic boom in the 1990s, was ripe for the "new urbanism" wave in which young adults rediscovered the allure of old homes and the benefits of living close-in.
City reinvestment and the influx combined to send home prices and rents climbing. The urban-growth boundary, by restricting new construction, pushed prices even higher. Restaurants and boutiques opened, displacing longtime businesses and making the areas even more desirable to newcomers.
"We are now seeing people return to the cities, and it's an issue of personal taste and convenience," said
Sabiyha Prince, an anthropology professor at American University
who is writing a book on gentrification in Washington, D.C.
"The early pioneers of gentrification have been gay people, artists, empty-nesters, people who didn't necessarily have kids and didn't have to be concerned about putting their kids in the schools," she said. "But they are the ones who also have access to the loans."
Ehelebe watched her neighborhood change in ways both good and bad in the 1990s. She liked the diversity of her block as more whites and Latinos moved in, and she liked that her home value inched up.
She didn't like the
umption that white residents made the neighborhood better, or the lengthening list of closed black businesses.
But it was nothing like what was to come.
"Oh my God," Kafoury said when shown the 2010 Census figures. "We thought we were doing a good thing."
-- Betsy Hammond contributed to this report.


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Willgoto also provides you directly with plenty of tourist information mainly in the form of explanatory notes of the pictures that are posted under the heading "Pictures and travelogues" of many countries listed in the Willgoto site. So you find there both information and photos about the tourist attractions of the country you are interested in.
In addition, Willgoto offers you online travel guides to some tourist destinations, mainly in the Indian Ocean and Asia.
From time to time, Willgoto also posts feature articles on various themes related to travel and tourism in the world (such as our very popular articles about air ticket booking and the most beautiful beaches in the world) as well as a few informative articles on some tourist attractions in Belgium.
Since April 2015, you have found two new entries in Willgoto site: "News in brief" and "Calendar of cultural and sporting events in the world". The first one reports major news in the world that may affect favorably or wrongly your trip. The second entry provides you with a calendar of cultural and sporting events in the world.
In addition, as from April 2016, Willgoto picks out and comments each week a nice picture of a tourist attraction in the world. Finally, since June 2017, Willgoto has brought various promotional and lastminute offers together in a single page that is permanently updated.
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Under this heading, Willgoto reports major news that may be of interest to travelers. The news concerns current or upcoming facts which may affect positively or negatively trips in various parts of the world. The topic is updated on an ongoing basis. So, visit regularly the page. See the latest news here.
Current deals, discount offers and promo codes.
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Take advantage of the best deals available now in the travel market.
Calendar of cultural and sporting events in the world.
Here you find a calendar of the main cultural and sporting events in the world, including the most important festivals and carnivals. The calendar lists the events year by year until 2023. Keep it in mind when you plan your trip.
The most recent feature articles.
! NEW ! 1. Our latest article deals with low-cost long-haul flights. While most of the low-cost flights were long limited to short and medium-haul, the recent development of low-cost long-haul flights is a dramatic change of the air transport market. This article completes our series of articles related to the best ways of booking cheap air tickets (see below).
2. In collaboration with the British Tourist Board (Visit Britain), Willgoto has posted a comprehensive series of articles about the many tourist destinations in the United Kingdom outside London. These articles deal, among others, with the English Islands, the Scottish islands, Britain's lakes, and various tourist attractions on the English coast, in Wales, Scotland and Belfast.
This travel guide was initially intended primarily for those who want to explore the United Kingdom beyond London, including those who choose to explore the country by sea or with one of the many cruises that call at British ports. In addition, we provide foreign tourists entering the United Kingdom by air with information about how they can get to the attractions in the countryside from airports. ! NEW !
However, month after month, it is developing into a complete travel guide to the United Kingdom. Additional articles about the attractions and cultural events in London and elsewhere in the country - among others, museums, festivals, and heritage -, about the pubs in the United Kingdom, the Scottish distilleries of Whisky, and, recently, the Lake District have been added to this series.
More recently, Willgoto has also posted an article about South Woodham Ferrers (in Essex), one of the most pleasant places to live in Britain, and another article about "Coventry UK City of Culture 2021".
3. On the other hand, we updated early March 2017 the list of the countries that have been infected with Zika virus, which is of particular concern for pregnant women.
4. On behalf of a third-party site, we have also posted an amazing article about the best beaches of the French Riviera with nice pictures.
-- Madagascar travel guide with pictures from the tourist attractions of the island.
-- As for Mauritius, Zanzibar, Reunion Island, and Sri Lanka, our online travel guides take the form of extended comments of pictures from their numerous tourist attractions. In addition, as for Reunion Island, Willgoto offers you online a travel guide in French.
-- Detailed travel guides are also available online for China, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
-- Our online travel guide to Myanmar and Cambodia are presented under the form of many pictures and explanatory notes from their numerous tourist attractions. As for Cambodia, these commented pictures come in addition to the abovementioned text travel guide.
The Willgoto website contains many thousands of pictures - actually much more than 10,000 - from all parts of the world. These pictures come either from our partners (tourist offices and professional or recreational photographers who enjoy sharing their pictures with the users of our site) or from our own portfolio.
They are posted mainly under the heading "Pictures and travelogues" of many countries, including Canada, USA, UK, France, Australia, South Africa, Morocco, Bangladesh, and a lot of other countries that are listed in the Willgoto site. Many other pictures are shown as thumbnails you find to the right side of many pages of the Willgoto site. Click the thumbnail to see the photo in its original size.
! NEW ! The latest pictures that have been added to Willgoto are several nice pictures from New Zealand and from Poland. Their author is Dirk Wuyst (ADC scuba diving club Antwerpen/Deurne), whose site (in Dutch) contains also countless pictures from the marine life in the world.
-- 120 pictures from the Cape Verde archipelago. They include pictures from the most popular islands such as Sal and Boa Vista which are famous for their beach holiday opportunities as well as pictures from other islands visited by tourists who are looking for cultural attractions or hiking holidays. Detailed information annexed to these pictures makes the series a complete guide to Cape Verde.
-- pictures from Brazil, more particularly Rio Grande do Norte (incl. Natal), Bahia (incl. Salvador), Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Pantanal.
-- pictures from Cuba (beaches, birds, and transport).
The author of the pictures from Brazil and Cuba is Marie-France Grenouillet, a wildlife photographer. Visit her very nice web site and discover all her pictures.
-- Birds from all parts of the world.
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! NEW ! Each week (actually about 3 times a month), Willgoto picks out a nice picture of a tourist attraction in the world and emphasizes it with appropriate explanations. The picture of the week is accessible from Willgoto's homepage. The link to the picture is just below the list of the countries. The pictures of the previous weeks are then archived and remain accessible. Find here all our "pictures of the week".
1. A series of articles on cheap air ticket booking.
This series is highly appreciated by our users. It tells you everything you need to know in order to book online air tickets at the cheapest rate. It consists of four articles that answer the most usual questions about flight booking.
Hundreds of airlines operate in the world. Each destination is served by several of them with a direct flight or a connecting flight. The airlines have developed a so-called "yield management" strategy that enables them to optimize airfares in their own interests. Take advantage of our advice and get the cheapest air ticket.
-- How to buy online the cheapest air tickets?
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-- One-way air ticket: how to get it at a cheap price?
In addition, Willgoto draws your attention to several airports which are located far away from the city they are named after. Often transfers to and from these airports take a lot of time.
2. A series of articles on the most beautiful beaches in the world.
This series of articles - one of the most popular of the blog - aims to introduce you to some of the most beautiful seaside destinations in the world. It supplies you with both pictures and information about these destinations.
-- The most beautiful beaches in the world.
-- The most beautiful beaches of Southeast Asia.
-- The most beautiful beaches of Thailand.
-- The most beautiful beaches of the Indian Ocean.
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-- Implementation of multilingual and/or international search engine optimization: the case of travel and tourism sites. NEW!
-- SEO: how to know the geographic target of your competitors? & The most common mistakes in national and multinational SEO. NEW!
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This series introduces you to the large travel operators in the world. In recent years, Google took large stakes in a large amount of travel activities ranging from air tickets booking and hotel reservation to cars without driver, carpooling apps, and many others.
Far away from its search engine activities, Google has become a direct operator of the travel market. This trend is not merely the matter of professionals of the industry. It has also several consequences for consumers. Some of them may be positive while the others are negative. The increase of the intermediation costs results sooner or later in a price increase or a quality decrease of the services. Read these articles if you don't want traveling idiot! The articles are in French only.
-- Air ticket booking with Google.
-- Hotel booking with Google.
-- Users' comments of hotels and restaurants with Google.
-- Vacation rentals with Google.
-- Transport by car with Google.
-- A first article explains how Google exploits users' personal data.
-- The second article examines whether VAT is due on the use of the engine due to the monetization of personal data.
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Articles about tourist attractions in Belgium.
1. A series of articles about the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium in June 1815.
This battle, known in the whole world, fixed the fate of Europe for decades. Waterloo, which is located about 20 km south of Brussels, preserves many monuments and remains of this famous battle. The troops of Napoleon Bonaparte were defeated by the allies, particularly an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington and a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. There were Belgians in the two sides.
Each year, this battle is celebrated with pomp by re-enactments. The festivities were especially spectacular during the 200th anniversary of the battle in 2015. Throughout the year, visitors from all parts of the world come and discover the battlefield of Waterloo and its famous Butte du Lion (Lion's Mound).
-- The battle of Waterloo: the major phases of the battle from June 16 to 19, 1815.
-- The reenactments of the battle, the museums and monuments in Waterloo: everything you need to know to visit the battlefield.
-- The celebrations of the bicentennial of the battle with practical information.
2. A series of articles on museums in Brussels and in the surroundings.
-- The Belgian Comic Strip Center: this museum is specialized in Comic Strip Art. It is one of the most popular museums in Brussels. The comic strip center is housed in a magnificent art nouveau building that is located not far from the city center of Brussels. The informative article is supplemented with nice pictures of the building and several comic characters such as Asterix and Smurf. Comic strip fans and art nouveau enthusiasts would not miss the Belgian comic strip center for the world.
-- Hergé Museum is dedicated to Hergé, the famous Belgian cartoonist. Hergé is the author of the "Adventures of Tintin" and other comic strips. Hergé Museum is located in the university town of Louvain-la-Neuve, 30 km south of Brussels. In addition to the article, splendid pictures of several characters such as Tintin, Captain Haddock, Snowy, and others are posted in the Willgoto site. You find also here several pictures from "The Adventures of Tintin - The secret of the unicorn", a 3D film directed by Steven Spielberg.
-- Magritte Museum: this article, currently available in French only, introduces you to the museum dedicated to René Magritte, the famous surrealist Belgian painter. The Magritte Museum and the nearby Musical Instrument Museum are the most favorite museums with foreign visitors to Brussels. Both museums are located a 10 minute walk from the famous Grand place in Brussels. The Musical Instrument Museum is housed in a splendid art nouveau building.
-- The Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels is worldwide famous for its gallery of dinosaurs. The Museum is family-friendly and organizes often activities for children.
The Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels periodically sets up also temporary exhibitions, such as the exhibition "Destination Mars" in 2011. In addition, the museum has become known for Peregrine Falcon watching. Each spring since 2004, the museum gives people the opportunity to watch a couple of peregrine falcons that nest in the heart of Brussels at the top of a tower of the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in downtown Brussels. Two articles dealing with Peregrine Falcon and nice pictures have been posted in the Willgoto site in French and Dutch.
NEW ! Our last article about this museum deals with the temporary exhibition "Ours et Nounours" (Bears and Teddy Bears): More than other exhibitions of the Museum, this temporary exhibition is to be seen with children: the little children with their stuffed animals receive a badge that activates the illustrations so that everyone can visit the exhibition at their own level. In Dutch, the exhibition is titled "Teddy en Beer".
In addition to comprehensive travel guides, Willgoto provides you online with travel-related articles, travel news, and countless large pictures of tourist attractions from all parts of the world.