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Today in London's housing history: rent strikes start in the East End, 1938…
Posted on February 13, 2016 by mudlark121
2016: housing in London spirals into a morass of high rents, inflated property prices, homelessness and housing benefit cuts… Resistance is growing…
A time to remember that those who face this before us didn't just take it lying down… To remember some of the many tenants who organised rent strikes against greedy landlords charging exorbitant rents for run-down and over crowded housing, back in the 1930s…
In the 1930s and the terrible housing conditions in the area began to ignite discontent and collective action. Much of the grassroots work organizing tenants at this time was alter claimed to originate with members of the Communist Party (CP), who were strong and active in the area at the time – but members of the Labour Party and other activists were also involved.
In 1938-9 the struggle became huge, as mass rent strikes were organized in the borough of Stepney, which then included this area. The CP were heavily involved, and a useful short account of the rent strikes can be found in Phil Piratin's book, Our Flag Stays Red. Piratin was a local CP member, who later became a CP councillor and MP. Two years of organizing among tenants in various streets and blocks came to fruition with rent strikes that erupted in 1938. Between August 1938 and mid-1939, tenants organized, refused to pay rent, and physically resisted violent eviction attempts.
"Locally there were rent strikes during 1938-39 in Hogarth mansions, Brunswick Buildings, Pelham Street, Montague House, Hawkins, Estate, Langdale Mansions, Brady Street Mansions, Juniper Street, Commercial Mansions, Lydia Street, Fieldgate Mansions, Duckett Street, Ocean Street, Philchurch Street, Eileen mansions, Bromehead Square, Fenton Street, Mariner Street, Anthony Street, Settles Street, Flower and Dean Street and Golding Street… The rent strikes though, spread further afield, and soon there similar outbreaks in Bethnal Green, Clapham, Willesden, Finsbury, Poplar, Bermondsey, Paddington, Battersea, Highgate, Norwood and Shoreditch… And in Birmingham, Huddersfield, Liverpool, Aberdeen, Sunderland Oxford and Sheffield…
In the autumn of 1937 the Stepney Tenants' Defence League was established… and began to deal with the individual rent and repair problems of hundreds of tenants… Tenants' Committees were set up in blocks of buildings and streets. The individual issues of the tenants were dealt with by the Tenants' Committee, acting as a kind of shop stewards' committee and dealing direct with the landlord. The tenants were gradually gaining confidence and organisational ability ready for the big struggles ahead.
The actions varied. The tenants were organised and formulated their demands. All kinds of repairs and decorations were specified, and reductions in rents were demanded. The rents varied considerably, particularly between controlled and decontrolled houses. The law defining controlled houses was incomprehensible to the tenants, and the landlords did not hesitate to take advantage of this to defraud them. Irrespective, however, of the law, demands were made for reductions of the decontrolled to the level of the controlled rents.
In some cases… the fight was bitter. The Brunswick Buildings tenants were out on strike for eleven weeks. Langdale Street Buildings and Brady Street Mansions, both owned by slum landlords, were on strike for five months. These latter battles were particularly fierce. The landlords were firm and brazen. They refused to negotiate and after a while issued eviction orders to some of the most active tenants. The battle now began in earnest. Barbed-wire barricades were placed around the entire blocks. Pickets were on duty day and night. Only those who lived in the buildings, or could give reason for entering, or who were known tradesmen, were allowed to enter.
One day in June the bailiffs, with the police, decided to act. They managed to gain access into Langdale Mansions. The alarm was sounded. The police drew their truncheons. The men and women of the buildings defended themselves with saucepans, rolling-pins, sticks, and shovels. The police were brutal, particularly in their treatment of the women. A cordon was placed round the building. More police, a score of them mounted, were called up. They broke open the doors and forcibly removed the tenants. By the end of the morning the news had spread throughout Stepney. The police, using the dirty tactics not unknown in Stepney, waited until the men had gone to work, and then attacked the women…. The men-folk left their work to come home… Some workshops closed down. Thousands of angry Stepney people gathered round Langdale Mansions. The police. sensing the feeling. withdrew. Immediately. the Stepney Tenants' Defence League loudspeaker van toured the area. calling a meeting… When the meeting ended they marched to the Leman Street Police Station to protest… There was some rough scuffling. A number of arrests were made… the Stepney Tenants' Defence League, immediately issued a statement that the 7500 members of the League would join in a solidarity strike with the Langdale Mansions and Brady Street Mansions tenants, unless their demands were met. The tenants themselves were now filled with indignation, bitterness, and hatred of all who supported the landlords. Messages of sympathy came from many prominent citizens and leaders of the Labour movement… by Friday of the same week the landlords had caved in: £1,000 worth of reductions were obtained; £10.000 worth of arrears were ignored; £2.500 to he spent on repairs immediately. £1,500 each succeeding year. The twenty-one weeks' rent strike, bitter, bloody, had been won. Other landlords wishing to avoid trouble now became quite amenable. They, too, had learnt the lesson of Langdale Mansions.
These struggles became front-page news. In March a conference had been held in Stepney of representatives of London organisations and delegates from the Labour movement to decide on the co-ordination of the London tenants' struggles. Now the National Tenants' Federation began to organise a nation-wide convention. It was to be held in Birmingham in July, when representatives of every town and city in the country were to demand a new code for tenants and residents, a new Rent Act, and new standards of conditions to be provided by the landlords. A " Housing Charter" was drawn up, and a campaign begun. Labour leaders were drawn into the struggle. At the great demonstration held in Hyde Park late in July the speakers included Aneurin Bevan and Ellen Wilkinson of the Labour Party, and Elsie Borders. Michael Shapiro. and Tubby Rosen of the Communist Party. It was the latter who had done the work and the organisation, who had faced the bailiffs and the batons. Bevan and Wilkinson, as usual, were responding to the mood of the masses. The campaign was reaching its height, even during these menacing pre-war days and weeks. but then came the war and new problems had to be faced.
At the very commencement of the war the Government immediately introduced legislation to ensure rent control. Rents were frozen at the levels obtaining on 1 September 1939. The Government undoubtedly learned from the great Clydeside rent struggles in 1915, but a much nearer warning were the great rent struggles which were taking place during the months preceding the war." (Phil Piratin)
Phil Piratin, Our Flag Stays Red. Read a PDF online
Joe Jacobs, Out of the Ghetto.
Henry Srebrnik, Class, Ethnicity and Gender Intertwined: Jewish women and the East London Rent Strikes, 1935-1940 (Women's History Review, Volume 4, Number 3, 1995)
Sarah Glynn, East End Immigrants and the Battle for Housing: a comparative study of political mobilisation in the Jewish and Bengali communities (Journal of Historical Geography 31 pp 528545) (2005)
More very interesting stuff on rent strikes can be found at www.sarahglynn.net
A past tense pamphlet on an earlier rent strike, in Glasgow during World War 1, can be found online at http://alphabetthreat.co.uk/pasttense/past tense publications.html
1930s evictions housing rent-strikes Stepney
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John · February 27, 2016
Rent strikes are an essential weapon in the armoury of the people's struggle for that better life. It has been used for centuries, one of the earlier ones in Scotland was the Battles of the Braes 1882, and the Glasgow/Clydeside 1915 successful rent strike, and today in America there is the Midway New York rent strike going on. We should learn to use it more frequently and with great solidarity.
Sarah Glynn · July 29, 2016
Thanks for the reference – can you tell me where your picture comes from?
technolalia · August 10, 2016
From the National Media Museum:
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/collection/collectionselections/demonstrations
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Do you have that moment that defined you, that sent your life down another path… most of us do, even if it isn't as dramatic as what happened to three high school friends 10 years ago. Letters for Scarlet: A Novel tells the story of those three friends now while slowly revealing what happened on that awful night.
The high school assignment was long forgotten: write a letter to your future self and it will be mailed to you 10 years later. Those letter arrive and cause Corie to look back at what happened and the regrets she has, especially when it comes to her then best friend, Scarlet, whom she hasn't spoken to since high school. Meanwhile, Scarlet has her own demons to face, wondering if she could ever be a good mom to the child she's now carrying.
I got swept up in the story that Julie C. Gardner created in Letters for Scarlet . It didn't surprise me because I've been a longtime blog reader of Julie's and I've always admired the rhythmic flow of her words and I was happy to see this in her book, too.
Letters for Scarlet comes out today and you should absolutely read it! It's $4.99 for the kindle edition or free if you have kindleunlimited.
You can read the prequel, Guest List, for free. (Free as of this posting, regular kindle price is $.99) You don't have to read it before you read Letters for Scarlet, but you'll want to and it's free, so why not? This way, you can spend more time with these characters: they were so real, no one perfect or no one completely to blame- but real.
I was sent a review copy of Letters for Scarlet. Because I asked to read it since I was super excited to get my hands on it. All opinions are my own. Amazon links are affiliate, should you choose to buy these books!
Oh WOW, Shell! You picked some of my favorite lines from the book to share which is surreal and awesome!
Thank you so much not only for this beautiful review, but for years of support and friendship.
I'm one lucky lady to know you and count you in my circle.
Adding them both to my TBR list.


Chief Constable Dee Collins, left, with PC Fiz Ahmed, centre, modelling the alternative uniform at a meeting with the Muslim Women's Council.
A NEW looser police uniform has been developed especially for Muslim women as part of efforts to recruit more black and minority ethnic officers.
West Yorkshire Police, which already allowed female officers to wear the hijab, or headscarf, has developed the alternative uniform as it tries to make its workforce more representative of the communities it serves.
Assistant Chief Constable Angela Williams said: "For the last month we have been trialling a new uniform for women which is designed not to show the female form. This was suggested by a Muslim female officer and was designed by our Clothing Manager in conjunction with the officer.
"The tunic is a looser and longer fit, and has full sleeves.
"This has been well-received from officers in the force and we have now made further supplies of this uniform for other officers to trial it if they wish.
"PC Firzana Ahmed, who works in Bradford, has been trialling it and has had some really positive feedback from the local community.
Members of the West Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel had quizzed police chiefs on Friday about what they were doing to boost the number of black and minority ethnic (BAME) staff members.
Chief Constable Dee Collins said for some women, concerns about the existing uniform's design could be preventing them from signing up for the force.
Panel member Roger Grasby said the force had seen some success in boosting the number of staff who were female, disabled or lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) but "less so with BAME".
The proportion of its workforce from a BAME background increased marginally from five per cent in 2015 to 5.6 per cent this year.
Mr Grasby asked whether they had done an in-depth analysis of the recruitment process, to see at what point people from non-white backgrounds were failing to progress to the next stage of a job application, "to establish whether there is any unconscious bias".
Ms Collins said they were developing mentoring programmes to help more people from BAME backgrounds to complete the application forms, saying they tended to go on to do well at interview.
Ms Collins said they had met with the Muslim Women's Council in Bradford and "showed them a redesign of the uniform".


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I have published over fifty books -many of them about California's past and the colorful characters who rode our trails to fame or infamy. I sold more than 180,000-plus copies of my first book, "Little Known Tales in California History".
Fate derailed my 33-year journalism career–I had never aspired to write a book, and certainly never anticipated I would come to be regarded as "Mr. Self-Publishing" by my peers in the Sacramento area. I would have liked living in the Old West. I wanted, at one time, to be a really good cowboy. I had horses as a young man and even took a raw colt and trained it to work cattle.
By the time I was born, that was on March 19, 1927, the era of gunslingers and gold miners was over, and I started life, instead, on my family's farm outside of King City in the Salinas Valley.
I was terminated after writing for 27 years for a magazine. The magazine was sold to a midwest firm. I turned to writing books–I wish I had been fired 20 years earlier.
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Hallar-Steinn fue un escaldo de Islandia que vivió hacia finales del siglo XII. Es conocido por su poema Rekstefja, conservado en el Bergsbók y Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta. Otros pocos versos dispersos también han llegado a nosotros, mencionados en Skáldskaparmál, Laufás-Edda y el Tercer tratado gramatical.

Rekstefja relata la vida del rey Olaf Tryggvason desde su auge en el Rus de Kiev hasta su caída en la batalla de Svolder. Consiste en 35 versos en métrica dróttkvætt. El nombre del poema deriva del referente en nórdico antiguo stef que consiste en tres líneas divididas en tres versos consecutivos. El poema se proclama a sí mismo como el tercer drápa sobre Óláfr Tryggvason, en referencia a los dos previos obra de Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld y un desconocido Bjarni. El poema es técnicamente complejo y hace uso de intrincadas combinaciones de kennings. Está influenciado por la obra de Arnórr Jarlaskáld y Einarr Skúlason y tiene muchas similitudes con Óláfsdrápa Tryggvasonar, conservado en el mismo manuscrito.

No existe información biográfica sobre Hallar-Steinn. Su nombre puede derivar del nombre de una granja llamada Höll en Þverárhlíð, Borgarfjörður. Se ha intentado identificar a Hallar-Steinn con un poeta del siglo XI  Steinn Herdísarson, pero este argumento no tiene apoyo de investigadores modernos.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Eysteinn Björnsson (2002). Index of Old Norse/Icelandic Skaldic Poetry. Disponible en línea en: https://web.archive.org/web/20060923215712/http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/skindex.html Ver "Hallar-Steinn" en https://web.archive.org/web/20070318071037/http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/hst.html

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Vikingos de Islandia
Poetas del siglo XII
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'Beyond anything I've ever seen': Mayor Strickland speaks about Tyre Nichols investigation
Exclusive: The culture that allowed Durham to thrive
Dave Boucher and Joel Ebert
dboucher@tennessean.com; jebert@tennessean.com
Rep. Jeremy Durham used his power to sexually harass women and was enabled by a Capitol Hill culture that involves deals over drinks, late-night meetings and a good-old-boy network, an investigation and other sources said.
Speaker Beth Harwell says nothing could have stopped Durham, who used his nearly five years in elected office to methodically harass or sexually take advantage of at least 22 women.
"I don't think anything could have avoided what happened. He violated our current policy, and I think he would violate any policy," Harwell told reporters last week.
Many lawmakers, staffers and lobbyists knew about his predatory misbehavior for years, but didn't speak up to stop him, according to the findings of an attorney general's investigation.
Durham, 32, used his power to go "fishing" for women, the report said. He has been married since 2011 and was elected in 2012.
In one case, he had sex with a 20-year-old college student twice in his legislative office and once in his home.
Even though Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey said similar behavior like this wouldn't have been allowed to fester in the Senate, it's a culture that's not new in the legislature under Republican or Democratic leadership, or one that's unique to Tennessee.
It's a culture that emphasizes deals between lawmakers, lobbyists and legislative staff over alcohol, lots of late nights and loyalty to a fault.
It's a culture where the House and Senate ethics committees haven't met for a combined 15 years and where legislative affairs are not uncommon.
It's also a culture where many female lobbyists, legislative staffers and lawmakers expect to have to fend off sexual advances by some men at the statehouse.
"As legislative clerk Jane Doe #12 explained, when she told Rep. Durham that his requests for drinks with her in 2013 were inappropriate because he was married and she was engaged, she said his response was, 'Welcome to Capitol Hill'," states the attorney general's recent investigation detailing Durham's misconduct.
After The Tennessean published an investigation in January detailing Durham's late night inappropriate text messages to three women, he resigned his leadership position and removed himself from the Republican caucus. Harwell, Gov. Bill Haslam and others called on him to resign his seat. And Harwell convened a committee to make recommendations to toughen the legislature's sexual harassment policy.
Several lobbyists and a lawmaker who spoke with The Tennessean said they agree Durham's harassment and overt sexual advances are not typical, and one praised Harwell's actions. But it will take more than a policy change to improve the culture at the statehouse
They think speaking up about harassment or any other problem is still viewed as causing trouble. There is a fear of intimidation and retribution. All requested anonymity from The Tennessean to speak candidly about their experiences for this story.
"Is it fair to say that it's a widespread culture problem? I don't think it's necessarily fair to say that. At the same time, you can't say either that everything is going to be fine now that Jeremy's gone," said a male lobbyist.
'There is still a level of frat boy mentality'
Booze and sex are not new in Tennessee politics, said a successful longtime female lobbyist. But the actions of Durham surprised her.
"I think there is definitely a level of sexism and there is sometimes adults who make dumb decisions and do things they might not want to have public. What I don't think is part of the culture is the predatory nature of what was going on with Jeremy Durham. That was a foreign, to me, form of harassment," the lobbyist said.
While Durham's "predatory" acts may have been uncommon, the repeated references to intoxication or drinking throughout the report echo a history of partying and sexual misconduct by Tennessee lawmakers.
Durham has sexual 'interactions' with 22 women, report says
Harwell, Ramsey approve new sex harassment policy
Women, Democrats stand in solidarity against Durham
Williamson voters say Durham news an embarrassment
Durham suspends campaign, doesn't resign
Timeline: Durham investigation
After former Nashville Democrat Rep. Rob Briley was arrested for a DUI, evading police and other charges in 2007, it was revealed that he was having an affair with a lobbyist. In 2009, former state Sen. Paul Stanley had an affair with an intern, whose boyfriend later tried to blackmail the Germantown Republican. In 2009, then-Rep. Brian Kelsey accused former House Speaker Kent Williams of engaging in inappropriate conduct toward Rep. Susan Lynn, spurring the last meeting of the House Ethics Committee. Rep. Curry Todd, a former police officer, was arrested in Nashville in 2011 for DUI and having a gun while intoxicated.
Stanley was the only lawmaker to resign. Briley chose not to run again, while Todd lost his leadership position.
There was definitely partying during the reign of then-Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, who served as speaker from 1991 until 2009, said a man who previously worked at the statehouse.
"But Naifeh had control. If there were problems with an individual member, he f---ing told them to stop or he was going to end them," the man said.
Ramsey, who called on Stanley to resign in the wake of his scandal, has frequently blasted Durham and his actions. On Thursday he said the Franklin Republican was a lone actor and not part of a larger culture where sexual harassment is tolerated.
"It's a good culture in the sense that it's not reoccurring, but a bad culture in the fact that (lawmakers) should have turned him in," Ramsey said.
Ramsey's statement downplays other sexual harassment that could be happening at the Capitol, said the man who previously worked at the statehouse.
"No lobbyist with a brain, after Ron Ramsey says there's no culture problem, is going to come out and say there is one. That's the talking point now once they hear the lieutenant governor say that," the man said.
Women started reporting sexual misconduct from Durham as far back as 2012, according to the report. The fact it took years for any accountability to happen shows a problem, said the longtime female lobbyist.
"I think that this went on for so long speaks to a culture that maybe I'm not aware of. It went on for way too long. I knew about Jeremy Durham three years ago. So did everybody else. Everybody knew the Pants Candy story. Everybody!" the lobbyist said, referencing a part of the attorney general's report that states Durham offered a lobbyist candy from his pants pocket in a sexually explicit way.
'They have the trump card'
Many of the women interviewed by the attorney general said their specific experiences with Durham were not normal compared with their interactions with other lawmakers. But when they spoke generally, they talked about the culture of the statehouse that gives lawmakers the "trump card," as one female lobbyist told investigators.
"If you piss them off, they are the ones with the vote; they have the trump card. They can make or break you," she said in the report.
That leaves women at the legislature who have been sexually harassed in a precarious position: an already intimate and potentially embarrassing situation is made more fraught by concerns about whether telling someone about inappropriate behavior means being "untrustworthy."
A female Republican lawmaker who has been harassed by one Republican and one Democrat during her time in the legislature said she can understand how some of the women who Durham harassed would have not complained.
"When someone does something like that to you, you don't know what to do or how to act," the lawmaker said.
When she read the report, she thought most women reacted to Durham's advances in two different ways. They either recognized his predatory behavior and tried to cut off all contact or were flattered that a powerful, albeit, married man was paying attention to them, she said.
The lawmaker chose not to file a complaint over her two interactions, saying that one involved a male lawmaker who mistakenly made sexual contact with her and another male lawmaker who said something inappropriate.
"It's a personal decision, it is something that is going to impact and change your life," she said.
A younger female lobbyist who has worked at the legislature in recent years said she has had several lawmakers casually make comments about her appearance.
"They've told me how good I looked," the lobbyist said.
But she also said the culture has hardly been limited to lawmakers, with older lobbyists even occasionally referring to her as "baby" during their interactions. And some lobbyists are resigned that sexual harassment is going to happen, according to the attorney general's report.
While speaking to the attorney general's investigators and sitting in front of a female lobbyist, one male lobbyist who'd seen Durham act inappropriately toward the female lobbyist said, "she is a female lobbyist over there. She has to take this."
Even after the report's release, victims are facing problems. Harwell called on the public to not try to identify people listed in the report, but some of the Jane Does are getting messages from people saying they know the women were in the report. That was one of the fears of Rep. Billy Spivey, who served on the special committee assigned to investigate Durham and opposed releasing the final report.
"If someone spent enough time up here and went through and figured out who enough of these people were, and filled in all the names and put it on the internet, then we have done grave damage to future people who may have experienced the same thing. It was already an experience trying to get someone to come forward this time and if we betray that confidentiality and anonymity with this report, we've taken more steps back then we have forward," Spivey said last week.
'I do not believe responsibility is being accepted'
In a culture where sexism and, at times, sexual misconduct go unchecked, it's tough to foster a work space where everyone feels safe, said Rachel Freeman, vice president of programs at the Nashville Sexual Assault Center.
"As long as we continue to make excuses for inappropriate sexual activity we're never going to end sexual violence or create an environment where victims feel comfortable coming forward. One of the best ways to start making change and put an end to sexual violence is for us to hold people responsible when they act inappropriately. I do not believe responsibility is being accepted," Freeman said, in response to the allegations against Durham and his decision not to resign.
A female lobbyist pointed to the new sexual harassment policy created with the help of Harwell's task force as progress. It includes creating publicly available reports when a violation occurs, mandatory reporting and requires training for staff and lawmakers.
When discussing the prospects of creating a different environment at the legislature, the female lawmaker, who stressed that the overwhelming majority of the male Democrats and Republicans she has worked with have been respectful of her, said it partially involves knowing what to do if someone makes inappropriate advances or comments toward another person.
"The policy ought to create an atmosphere where a woman can come to work without fear of being distracted by sexual harassment from either a coworker, supervisor or an elected representative and do her job without fear of all of this interference," said attorney Thomas Clay, of the Louisville, Ky.-based law firm Clay Daniel Walton Adams.
Clay represented three legislative staff members who filed sexual harassment and retaliation claims in the Kentucky legislature. The consequences of sexual harassment must have actual teeth, he said. Even for elected officials, it must be more than stripping away titles and removing lawmakers from committees.
"There has to be some kind of effective disciplinary mechanism, otherwise the conduct has no consequences," Clay said.
The new policy outlines more points of contact for people who believe they've been sexually harassed. But the younger female lobbyist said she believed the onus to change things shouldn't simply fall on lobbyists and staffers who may be victims to say something. It also falls on legislators to speak out against one another.
Lobbyists, especially those employing someone who is a victim of sexual harassment, need to do more to ensure their employees feel safe reporting the problem, said the male lobbyist.
"I think there is a burden of a culture change that not only belongs to the legislature and the legislative plaza, but also the advocacy community up there," the male lobbyist said.
"What probably needs to change culturally more than anything up there is people can feel like if people come forward and talk about this, that they're not going to be held professionally in contempt."
The impact of the new harassment policy remains to be seen. But for now, Durham remains a member of the Tennessee General Assembly. And at least some women remain afraid.
Reporters Holly Meyer, Stacey Barchenger, Nate Rau, Kirk Bado and Thomas Novelly contributed to this story.
Reach Dave Boucher at 615-259-8892 and on Twitter @Dave_Boucher1. Reach Joel Ebert at 615-772-1681 and on Twitter @joelebert29.

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Q: How to change the same code stored in several places after I improve one of them? I have some code written in Matlab. I use the code in different folders which contains different data. Because I want to change some parameters for each different data, I keep the code in the folder of each data to remember what parameters I have used.
The problem is that sometimes I improve the code and it is hard to go to each folder and change that part of code. Is there any solution to this problem? It would be good if I change some part of the code then it changes in all other places I have stored the same code.
Would version control help with this problem?

A: Version control is not the issue here. It's a fundamental principle of programming that says "Don't repeat yourself". It's a time-honored maxim, largely for exactly the reason you cite.
If at all possible, arrange things so that the logic you write lives in one place and one place only. I know nothing about Matlab, so I have no diea whether it's possible to include code from another file, cal subroutines, etc., but it's worth finding out.
If it definitely isn't possible to refactor your code to obey DRY, the next biggest principle applies: "Don't write code. Write programs that write code." In other words, write a tiny shell script/Perl app/whatever you like that generates all the variants of this code at once. Then, the next time you change something you only have to change it in the helper script. (You do have to remember to re-run the helper script - that's the price you pay for using a tool that doesn't allow you to practice proper DRYness.)

A: Version control isn't what you need here. You need to put your code which lives in many places in a single place.
A good first step would be to create a folder for your shared code, copy the shared code into functions in that shared folders, and replace the original copies with function calls to the code in the shared folder.
Here is the documentation to get you started with authoring functions:
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/function-basics.html
For the original files to be able to find the new functions in the new shared folder, you'll need to add that new folder to your MATLAB search path. more information is here:
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/search-path.html

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By Aimee L. Cook
Sandy - Pets are beloved members of the family, and they are also the most at-risk for getting lost. For anyone who has lost a pet, the stress of locating your four-legged friend can be unbearable. The odds of having a lost pet returned to you safely greatly improve if that pet has a microchip.
In an effort to help families hold on to their precious pets, Subaru, the Humane Society of Utah and AVID Microchip offered free microchipping for one pet per family on Halloween. Five Subaru locations across the Wasatch front participated in the event, and Banfield Pet Hospital provided licensed veterinarians and technicians to insert the AVID Microchips in the dogs and cats.
"We do these events because of Subaru of America and our retailers' commitment to our 'Love Promise' program," Barry Jellick, District 2 sales manager for Subaru, said. "We believe in being part of the community in setting an example. We want to build lifelong relationships and ensure the love is felt not just by our customers, but by all. Not because it's good for business, but because it's the right thing to do in our communities. Our customers love their pets, and this is an event that we can give back to our customers and the community by offering free microchipping to their furry family members."
Overall, 708 pets received a free microchip that day, providing peace of mind to those pet owners. Subaru purchased 1250 AVID microchips for the event. The remaining microchips were donated to the Humane Society of Utah and will be implanted in some shelter animals before they are adopted.
"We have been meaning to get our dog microchipped for a while and just had not gotten around to it," Erick Cook said. "This was a great opportunity for us to get it done. We are grateful to everyone who helped make this happen."
Participants have the option of only registering the microchip with the Humane Society, or paying a $20 fee to AVID to register the microchip with them. The advantage of paying the fee allows for AVID to contact the pet owner directly if their pet is found; otherwise, calls have to be fielded through the Humane Society and only take place during business hours.
The Humane Society of Utah held an event like this in February and plans to hold more in the future.
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Annually in the vast migration that's changing the face of America, 1000's of Central Americans attempt a harrowing 1,500-mile journey through the length of Mexico on the tops of freight trains.
Nearly all are visited by cruelty, hunger and fatigue. Stowaways call the unscheduled train they run to catch, "La Bestia" or The Beast. Some are maimed or killed by the iron wheels. In the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mara Salvatrucha gangsters, corrupt law enforcement officers and opportunist citizens hunt them like animals. By contrast, in the state of Veracruz trackside residents throw gifts of food, water and clothing to migrants as the train passes by.
Among these migrants are children as young as 12 who travel alone. Most are trying to find parents – usually mothers - who left them behind years ago to work in the United States. For children, the dream of reunification becomes the quest for the Holy Grail. Success comes only to the brave and the lucky.
Don Bartletti retired in late 2015 after a 32-year photojournalism career at the Los Angeles Times and a combined10 years prior to that with the Union/Tribune, the Oceanside Blade Tribune and The Vista Press. He has been a resident of Vista since 1961 where he and his wife Diana make their home. Don has 2 grown children and 4 grandsons.
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The Council will adopt an opinion on the report in February in order to allow for the discharge of the 2009 EU budget.
Moreover, the European Commission is under substantial pressure to adopt an opinion on the issue.
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The EU's Economic and Social Committee (ESC) proceeded, during its April 28/29 plenary session in Brussels, to adopt an Opinion on European Commission proposals tabled last July 22 involving free movement and residency of workers.
In the light of a European Commission Recommendation, the Council of Ministers will adopt an Opinion on Finland's economic stability programme and Greece's convergence programme (see European Report No 2347).


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