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Victoria County History - Oxfordshire
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 15, Bampton Hundred (Part Three)
Minster Lovell: Local government
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 15, Bampton Hundred (Part Three). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2006.
Manor Courts
Parish Government and Officers
Courts were held for Minster Lovell manor by 1297. Elsewhere in Chadlington hundred view of frankpledge was held by the earl of Gloucester, but in Minster it was held by the Lovels, whose other liberties included infangthief (the right to apprehend criminals within their lands) (fn. 1) and, from 1442, hunting rights in Minster woods. (fn. 2) Courts baron and views of frankpledge, sometimes called lawdays, were still held regularly during the 16th and early 17th centuries; the last surviving court roll dates from 1631, (fn. 3) although in 1711 the Cokes, renewing the Wheelers' tenancy of the demesne farm, reserved the right to hold courts at the manor house once a year, the tenant providing food and drink for the steward, his servants, and his horses, and a dinner for the jury. (fn. 4) Business transacted, apart from copyhold conveyancing, included imposition of fines for nonattendance, for neglect of the landlord's property or of communal property such as the river or bridge, and for the unlicensed sale of ale and disturbances to the peace.
Orders were made against tenants taking wood or hunting illegally, and for repair of roads, bridges and ditches. Courts usually elected a constable and a tithingman, although in 1687 a constable seems to have been appointed directly by the justices at the quarter sessions. (fn. 5)
During the 18th century, with the disappearance of the manor court, parish government was presumably increasingly taken over by the vestry, though the first evidence is the levying of a poor rate in 1776, (fn. 6) and vestry minutes survive only from 1857. (fn. 7) Officers elected by the vestry in the 19th century included a surveyor of highways or waywarden, two overseers, and two churchwardens, one for the vicar and one for the parish: churchwardens were recorded from 1642, (fn. 8) and existed presumably from the Middle Ages. Until the Parish Constables Act of 1842 the vestry presumably appointed constables, thereafter nominating four candidates to the local magistrate, and in 1866 it appointed an assistant overseer of the poor. (fn. 9)
All officers were drawn from among the chief farmers in the parish, including at least three women in the 19th century. In 1885 the joint surveyor of highways and sanitary inspector asked that his office be divided, since together they were too taxing for one person. (fn. 10)
Until the 1894 Local Government Act the vestry also dealt with repairs of roads and drains, maintenance of the church, approval of accounts, and the setting of rates. Thereafter its few residual civil powers, as elsewhere, passed to a newly established parish council. From 1894 to 1974 the parish belonged to Witney rural district, becoming thereafter part of the new West Oxfordshire District. (fn. 11)
1. Rot. Hund. II, 727, 736.
2. Cal. Chart. 1427–1516, 37; above, econ. hist. (fields).
3. Bodl. MSS Film 14, no. 58; Film 704 (from MSS in Holkham Arch.); ibid. MSS Top. Oxon. d 170, ff. 29–47; c 114, f. 315; d 49, ff. 1–7; Holkham Arch., ct roll 6 July 7 Chas I. Court rolls survive intermittently from 1546.
4. Holkham Arch., lease 27 Feb. 1711.
5. M.S. Gretton (ed.), Oxon. Justices in 17th Cent. (ORS 16, 1934), 33.
6. Poor Abstract, 1777, p. 141.
7. ORO, MS dd Par. Minster Lovell e 2; ibid. c 3.
8. Protestation Rtns and Tax Assess. 93.
9. ORO, MS dd Par. Minster Lovell e 2.
10. Ibid. c 3.
11. ORO, RO 3251, pp. 201–3; RO 3267.

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Paths of Curiosity – The Microstructures of Creativity
by Steve Hawk · February 26, 2015
Curiosity likes interstices where it can move unchecked and that are favorable for the emergence of the new, whose form and point of connection to the old are not previously known. Noris it clear beforehand what continuities there will be, what kind of ruptures will divide the new from the old, or how the conflict between preservation and overthrow will end. One well-researched kind of interstice is the social site where the indi-vidual creative act encounters things and a materialized nature that the gaze can penetrate, the mind can recognize, and the hand wants to change. Since the Renaissance, at the latest, the Western imagination has regarded the creative individual as a creator and the origin of the creation of the new. Hans Blumen-berg carefully and precisely traced the long preceding process of transformation and the valorization of curiosity to the striving for and drive for knowledge that was the precondition for the development of the individual.
After all, the strategy of uncovering roots in the individual psyche or in the social environment in which the creative individual acts is itself a practice that seeks to follow curiosity and decipher it. As clever as the research strategy presents itself as being, ultimately the individual creative act resists being ordered in existing clas-sifications. A look at the numerous biographical and auto-biographical testimonies about scientists and artists unearths repeating patterns—for example, how a sudden insight all at once brings together previously separated strands, thoughts, and associations from disparate domains or suggests that they be seen together. The conditions that foster creativity can be listed, including the necessary open spaces and free time. But the final, decisive aspect that could explain the creative act remains hidden in an impenetrable and incommunicable zone. It is as if the aura surrounding the act of individual creativity could be preserved only if it is able to elude its own introspec-tion and with it the words about it. The ladder is pulled up after it is used. If coincidence favors only the mind that is prepared for it, as Pasteur said, then the question remains how this readi-ness arose in a speciflc case, and analogies have to sufflce as answers to the question of how it can be consciously brought about.
The high value attributed to thoughts, visual associations, and language when following the traces of individual creativity has long concealed that creativity and the emergence of the new are owed not only to ideas and insights but also, to achieve lasting effect, to work on and with things. What the French historian of technology Marc Bloch aptly called "la force créa-trice de la chose créé" (the creative power of the created) con-tinues its effects in things. We have already spoken of the cultural matrix, the interacting social group, in connection with the invention and spread of symbolic technologies. For the inventions of the creative individual must be spread and com-municated if they are to become part of the social creative process that builds on the creativity that others emit, absorb, and reemit. Language is not the source of ideas; rather, it medi-ates between thinking and technology. It "washes" (as Marc Bloch put it) what would otherwise be incommunicable and would remain limited to the narrowest local space.
The symbolic technologies made it possible to build up the inexhaustible space of representation for the development of cultural-evolutionary strategies in which replicative informa-tion in the cultural memory that is inscribed in things is unloaded outside the limited biological memory. The external symbolic technologies and the networks they form are them-selves things in which the creative power of other things and of the ideas that have led to them continue to have their effects. They are the result of a continued history of interaction between things and people who create, mediate, learn, use, and pass on things. Thus, if we ask about the microstructures of creativity, we must always also examine this astonishing mixture, these seemingly inextricable loops and ramiflcations. By working with delays and temporal jumps, we can at best reconstruct the paths, which are never temporally straightforward, but we can never even partly determine them beforehand. The paths behind us always include paths not taken, as well as stories that would have been possible but that never occurred and were never told in this way. The passage between the space of possibility and the space of reality can be extremely short, and what previously appeared disordered but possible later all too easily appears to have been orderly. This is the famous moment when order arises on the margin of chaos, and this process, irreversible as it is, is also irreversible in the practice of research.
It is no coincidence that recent scientiflc research and scientiflc history have turned toward the material and cultural practices as applied, used, manipulated, given signiflcance, and implemented for further practical-scientiflc work as the "culture in the experiment" in the laboratory34 but also in the scientiflc fleld. Closer examination of these concrete sites of knowledge production has itself proven to be a creative reservoir for observ-ing, analyzing, and commentating on the processes of scientiflc activity—"emerging science" as well as "emerging technol-ogy"—in their temporal and geographical diversity and for conceiving and seeing them from new perspectives. They have placed the materiality of scientiflc practice—the signiflcance of instruments in producing or reconstructing processes and phe-nomena that are present or absent in nature—at the center of the deciphering of the creative process. In the laboratory, the context is mostly ignored because the aim is a constant, puri-fled, and siteless environment, but the proper selection of a site with its consciously sought-out particularities is central to fleld research. In this case, the manipulation of the site seeks to achieve what in the laboratory is striven for by means of the experimental design and by blocking out the site as much as possible. A third site has long since joined these, of course—an imaginary model created at the computer, where the researcher models and simulates what happens in another place.
One of the theoretically most original and historically most precise descriptions of the microstructure of creativity in the laboratory is that of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. He is inter-ested in those material arrangements that twentieth-century laboratory researchers in the practice and everyday language of biochemistry and molecular biology call experimental systems. They determine the framework conditions of research work in the experimental research flelds. They are set up so that they can provide currently unknown answers to questions that the experimenter is not even able to clearly formulate yet.
Here and elsewhere, Rheinberger takes up François Jacob's concept of the "machinery for producing the future." In flnding and producing the new, the process between the not-yet and the no-longer (which cannot be given precise temporal limits) always points beyond itself. Experimental systems serve to materialize questions and bring forth concepts that embody them. A closer inspection shows that two different but insepa-rable structures interlock in an experimental system. The flrst are the objects of knowledge or, as Rheinberger calls them, the epistemic things that are the aim of knowledge's effort. They can be objects but also functions, reactions, or chemical-biologi-cal structures. They are still unclear and undetermined; they are "ideas in flux." This state of still being undetermined, of course, should not be seen as a deflcit but rather as determining activity. Epistemic things paradoxically embody what one does not yet know; despite experimental presence, they are (still) absent.
To launch the process of operational redeflnition that aims to transform the epistemic things from a still vague shape into a deflned comprehensibility with clearer contours, either experimental conditions or technological things are needed. These include instruments, recording programs, and in particu-lar the standardized model organisms that are so prized in the life sciences. These technological things, apparatuses, and instru-ments and the model organisms prepared for this purpose are themselves the result of the technological civilization we live in. "It is not the sciences that have brought forth modern tech-nology," writes Rheinberger. "It was the technological form of life that gave the special epistemic activity that we call science its historical impetus and its irresistible momentum. In the flnal analysis, the systems of science draw their meaning, dignity, and esteem from this overarching realm." The technological things are themselves sedimentation products of local or disci-plinary work traditions with speciflc measuring equipment, preference for speciflc materials, or craftsmanlike skills. In contrast to the epistemic things, the technological conditions have to have characteristic qualities in the context of the current standards or purity or precision. They determine the epistemic things in two ways: they limit and bound them, but they also give them space by forming their environment and by allowing them to emerge.
Rheinberger reconstructs this temporally and spatially nontrivial interplay between epistemic things and the techno-logical conditions that allow them to emerge on the basis of a case study devoted to the test-tube system as an experimental system for researching protein biosynthesis. But if an object can function as a technological as well as an epistemic thing, depending on the place that it occupies in the experimental context, and if the interplay between the various components is closely interwoven, then the question of why the distinction between the two things should be introduced in the flrst place arises if this distinction is subject to a constant historical revision. Rheinberger's answer is unambiguous and brief: the distinction helps us to understand the game of bringing forth the new, the emergence of unpredictable events, and the gen-eration of surprises—for which experimental systems exist. It helps us understand the nature of research.
But the perspective can be reversed if we want to under-stand the creative power of things. The distinction between science and technology, between the objects of knowledge and the things that help bring it forth, is not identical to the bound-ary between uncertainty (which is feeling one's way toward new knowledge) and certainty (which is needed to trust that things will function). Nor does the boundary run straight between producing the future and securing the present. Science does not always stand for surprise in flnding an as yet unknown identity, nor does technology always stand for its consolidation. Research is not alone in asking questions; technological and machines are built not solely to give answers but also to make additional questions possible. Long before there was laboratory science, for centuries craftsmen and technicians worked as tireless tinkerers. Both science and technology produces the future, and, vice versa, it is also expected that science will secure the present by providing reliable answers from secured knowledge. Epistemic things and the technological conditions under which they crystallize to take shape and achieve a—temporary—identity together form the intertwining alternate strands of the micro-structures of creativity. Both are indispensable for bringing forth the new—and yet they are not sufflcient to produce innovations.
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The Psychic Side of Dreams
by Steve Hawk · Published January 13, 2014 · Last modified February 8, 2015
The virtual reality of lucid dreaming
by Steve Hawk · Published February 26, 2015
A Gift from the Gods


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Milwaukee's Housing First programs shows how lifting people out of homelessness can improve health, and cut costs
By Vanessa Rivera, Guy Boulton and Angela Peterson Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Published 11:16 am UTC Sep. 23, 2022 Updated 12:57 pm UTC Nov. 30, 2022
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Enjoying time with his family, Elijah Edwards, center, hangs out with, left, brother Albert Edwards, sister, Viola Edwards, right on at their family Fourth of July in Milwaukee. Edwards worked most of his life, starting at the age of 13, in a variety of jobs including a counselor at what is now the Boys and Girls Club. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Elijah Edwards begins each day reading Scripture from a Bible as worn from use as his leathered hands are from years of work.
He does this from a modest apartment that helped him rebuild his life, providing a foundation to move beyond addiction and homelessness.
"I'm grateful because this is what God is doing," Edwards said.
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He moved into the apartment, after living at a shelter for 19 months, in July 2019 through the Milwaukee County Housing Division's Housing First program.
The program, based on a national model, was introduced in Milwaukee County in 2015. It provides permanent housing to people who are homeless without any requirements, such as participation in programs, employment or sobriety. Instead, it offers optional services, such as treatment for substance abuse.
Elijah Edwards starts his day with his morning devotional. In his 50's his life began to unravel for Edwards. For a time he was living at the Milwaukee Rescue Mission. While there he learned about the Housing First Program. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The idea is that people need the stability of a place to live before they can make other changes in their lives.
The United House where Elijah Edwards lives. United House is an affordable supportive housing apartment building with 24 one-bedroom apartments. The building includes a community kitchen, fitness center, lounge, classroom, library, and chapel. United House is one of four facilities created though Milwaukee's supportive housing initiative. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"It is not necessarily the cure-all for all the layers of the things they are going through," said Eric Collins-Dyke, assistant administrator of supportive housing and homeless services for the Milwaukee County Housing Division. "But it is the first step to having that stability."
People have the comfort and stability of waking up in their own bed and walking into their own kitchen.
"They have that each day, before they start the day," Collins-Dyke said, "as opposed to the constant grind, the daily grind, of surviving on the street and all that comes with that."
Program aims to reduce hospital visits
The majority of people who are chronically homeless have behavioral health conditions or substance abuse disorders. And the Housing First program was started with $1 million in funding from the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division.
"Housing is the single greatest need in our community," said Mike Lappen, its executive director.
Michael Lappen, executive director of the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Behavioral Health Division continues to give $1 million a year to the program. The idea is that providing housing to people will reduce emergency department visits and hospitalizations for behavioral health conditions.
The Housing First program — which costs $2 million to $3 million a year — has done that.
The program has reduced costs for state Medicaid programs by $2.1 million a year and for behavioral health services by $715,000 a year for mental health services, according to a brief by the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
It also has saved the judicial system money by reducing the number of homeless people who are incarcerated.
The Housing First model — which has been used in other communities — is an example of how in some cases spending on social services can save money by lowering health care and other costs.
A three-day stay in a behavioral health hospital, for instance, can cost $4,500 or more. By comparison, the cost of a housing voucher — which limits what a person pays for rent and utilities to 30% of his or her income — averaged about $800 a month, or $9,600 a year, in February 2020.
New approach to help homeless
Homelessness reached crisis levels in the 1980s, prompting a rethinking of how to combat it.
Sam Tsemberis founded Pathways to Housing in New York City in 1992, the program that inspired the Housing First model. When Tsemberis came up with the idea, he was working as the director of Project H.E.L.P. (Homeless Emergency Liaison Project) in New York City, an emergency outreach team that serves people who were homeless, mentally ill and a possible danger to themselves or others.
Medical community seeing that better health hinges on social services
Before Housing First, there was no alternative for people facing such challenges. Programs required they be clean and sober before housing. His team took a different approach — to stop dictating and start listening to those they served.
"Pretty much everybody said, 'I want a place to live.'" Tsemberis said.
His team found homeless individuals to be much more capable than other programs imagined them to be.
"All of that day-to-day, exhausting — figuring it out," Tsemberis said. "If they can do that, of course they can do an apartment where everything is right between four walls."
Today, this model has been replicated all over the U.S. and has been adopted in other countries, such as Canada, France and New Zealand.
Injury led to addiction, challenges
A cascade of personal issues led Edwards to the program.
Since he was 13, Edwards has waxed and stripped floors and has done tile and grout work. He worked for a company that did remediation for water damage. His favorite job was working as a teen counselor and an assistant physical education director for what is now the Boys & Girls Club from 1970 to 1975.
TOP: Elijah Edwards, second from left, with his 12 siblings in this 1960's family photo; BOTTOM: Elijah Edwards' family, clockwise from upper left: sister Mae Kirby; sister Viola Edwards; niece Kathy Conley; brother Larry Edwards; Elijah; and brother Albert Edwards. TOP: Elijah Edwards, second from left, with his 12 siblings in this 1960's family photo; BOTTOM: Elijah Edwards' family, clockwise from upper left: sister Mae Kirby; sister Viola Edwards; niece Kathy Conley; brother Larry Edwards; Elijah; and brother Albert Edwards. LEFT: Elijah Edwards, second from left, with his 12 siblings in this 1960's family photo; RIGHT: Elijah Edwards' family, clockwise from upper left: sister Mae Kirby; sister Viola Edwards; niece Kathy Conley; brother Larry Edwards; Elijah; and brother Albert Edwards. Photo courtesy of Elijah Edwards and Angela Peterson/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
He also was an intramural basketball coach at the club.
"The exciting part was working with the kids through their hard times," Edwards said. "Every time I see them, they always call me Coach Edwards."
Then, in his mid-50s, his life began to unravel, starting with being injured while working and needing hip replacement surgery. He eventually ended up addicted to cocaine and living at the Rescue Mission.
Father Steven Block gives communion during mass at Brentwood Park Home in Franklin to one of the residents. Block also has a homeless ministry called St. Martin's Mission. Block was able to help Elijah Edwards get assistance through the Housing First program. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
If the weather was good, he said, he would stay in his truck and get high or drink.
A turning point came when Father Steven Block, a friend and spiritual mentor, put him in touch with an outreach worker for the Housing First program.
Block said the stability of a home provides crucial dividends to those with the challenges Edwards faced.
"I was able to help him make the transition smoothly. He knew how to get an apartment; he just didn't have the resources to get it. And I think that goes the same with anybody who is looking for housing — it's such a great thing to get people off the street."
He didn't stop smoking crack cocaine immediately after getting housing, but achieved sobriety in March 2021. And he acknowledged that getting an apartment helped move him to take that step.
"If it wasn't for Father Block, I probably wouldn't be where I am today," Edwards said.
Outreach to the chronically homeless
The Housing First program has helped more than 1,600 people get into housing since it was introduced in Milwaukee County.
Everything changed with the introduction of the program, said Collins-Dyke.
Outreach workers could go to an encampment and offer housing to people, some who have been homeless for more than a decade.
The initial response was often skepticism.
"'OK, so what are the 9,000 hoops I have to jump through to get this?'" Collins-Dyke said. "And we were like, 'None. There are no hoops. It's yours.'"
The Housing First program gives priority to people who are chronically homeless — those who have been homeless for one year or had four episodes of homelessness in the past three years equaling 365 days — and who have medical and behavioral health conditions.
The Milwaukee County Housing Division contracts with Impact — the nonprofit, confidential 211 helpline and online directory of community resources for nine counties in southeastern Wisconsin — to screen people who have applied for housing and to determine who should be given priority when a housing voucher becomes available.
(The vouchers can be used for apartments that rent for up to 110% of what is determined to be the fair market rent in a city.)
The number of vouchers is limited — nationally, only one in four people eligible for vouchers receive them — but some become available on most weeks, said Emily Kenney, the director of systems change at Impact.
As a teenager, Kenney tutored children who were homeless.
"I got to know the families and the situations of the kids in my home community that were experiencing homelessness and got angry at the injustice of it all," she said.
Kenney earned a degree in social work and then got her first job at Healthcare for the Homeless, now Outreach Community Health Centers.
Offer of housing made a difference
Kenney, too, has seen the effect of getting people into housing.
She remembers one of her first clients, a man who was always drunk. The approach at the time was to get him into treatment, and she would suggest it every time she saw him. He basically would tell her to walk away.
That changed when she could offer him an apartment in a supportive housing complex for people with behavioral health conditions.
"He sat straight up and said, 'I didn't know that you could offer me housing,'" Kenney said.
The man, who had been without medical care, had a cognitive disability and was almost blind from glaucoma in both his eyes. He cut down on his drinking immediately after getting an apartment and the safety of a locked door.
"He was drinking just to get through the day," Kenney said. "He was scared and lonely."
Navigating other services
An estimated 800 people in Milwaukee County are living in on the street, in cars or in emergency shelters.
The Housing First model shows the potential benefits of helping people by starting with housing and meeting their basic needs, Kenney said. But people also need other services.
Two of the most important are a steady source of income — most people who are homeless are eligible for Supplemental Security Income because of disabilities — and access to behavioral health care.
Eric Collins-Dyke, right, talks to Akeem Lawrence about getting a place to live while outside his tent in MacArthur Square Park, June 29, 2021, in downtown Milwaukee,. Collins-Dyke is , assistant administrator of supportive housing and homeless services for the Milwaukee County Housing Division. Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Housing First program has a staff of case managers to help people once they get into housing.
"Most of the folks we serve on the street have faced significant trauma in their lives, whether in their childhood or in their adult lives," Collins-Dyke said, "and they deal with it on a daily basis."
The rising cost of housing, though, means that more people could find themselves homeless in coming years.
A new jump in homelessness predicted
Dennis Culhane, a professor of social policy at the University of Pennsylvania and a national expert on homelessness, estimates that the homeless population over age 65 will triple by 2030.
They will have access to health care. Medicare and Medicaid will pay their medical bills when they seek care at an emergency department or are hospitalized. They may not have access to housing.
Dennis Culhane of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice. Candace diCarlo / University of Pennsylvania
Culhane challenges some of the projections on the potential savings from lower health care costs. But his research also has drawn attention to the high cost of shelters compared with housing vouchers.
"Building shelters isn't the way to go to get out of this," he said. "It's to get people rental assistance."
The Milwaukee County Housing Division receives support from several health insurance companies that contract with the state to manage the care of people covered by BadgerCare Plus, the state's largest Medicaid program. It also receives money from the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership, which includes the health systems in Milwaukee County, and the United Way.
But the money available for vouchers is limited.
"The only way we can end homelessness is through housing, and the only way people can afford housing is through rental subsidies," said James Mathy, administrator of the Milwaukee County Housing Division. "That's really the No. 1 thing when we talk about homelessness. That is what people need — rental subsidies."
Despite its limited funding, the Housing First program has nonetheless help change, and in some cases, maybe save lives since 2015.
Elijah Edwards at his apartment at United House. Edwards said getting an apartment helped him recover from drug addiction. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Each day begins with thanks
Edwards, who turned 65 in July, once again has a home. He works a few hours several days a week for a car wholesaler.
Edwards begins each day with his morning devotional.
His favorite passage in the Bible is Deuteronomy 1:31. It reminds him of his own time in the wilderness:
"There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place."
Elijah Edwards starts his day with his morning devotional. Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Vanessa Rivera reported this story while attending Marquette University and working as a research assistant to Journal Sentinel reporter Guy Boulton. Boulton spent the 2021-22 academic year as an O'Brien Fellow in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University examining the social determinants of health. Angela Peterson is a photojournalist with the Journal Sentinel.
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As a rookie Foster Care Coordinator in a big urban shelter, I had one foster mom that was a godsend. She and her two young children would take home a rubber tub full of crawly, squirmy puppies, covered in chow and bring them back weeks later, shiny, socialized, and well on their way to adoption. "The bigger litters were better for her," she said. Magic words to my desperate ears. After caring for about 40 puppies in under a year, I could see she and the kids had a system. They'd feed the litter in the guest bath tub and clean everyone up on the spot. She had two little helpers, which made for more helping hands. She'd ask me to have puppies or kittens lined up for them to take as soon as she returned a healthy litter. She was not only their savior, but mine.
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Giving: Kids of any age can appreciate helping homeless pets. It goes beyond teaching empathy to real selflessness.
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Q: matplotlib: change axis ticks of ndim histogram plotted with seaborn.heatmap Motivation:
I'm trying to visualize a dataset of many n-dimensional vectors (let's say i have 10k vectors with n=300 dimensions). What i'd like to do is calculate a histogram for each of the n dimensions and plot it as a single line in a bins*n heatmap.
So far i've got this:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
import seaborn as sns

# sample data:
vectors = np.random.randn(10000, 300) + np.random.randn(300)

def ndhist(vectors, bins=500):
    limits = (vectors.min(), vectors.max())
    hists = []
    dims = vectors.shape[1]
    for dim in range(dims):
        h, bins = np.histogram(vectors[:, dim], bins=bins, range=limits)
        hists.append(h)
    hists = np.array(hists)
    fig = plt.figure(figsize=(16, 9))
    sns.heatmap(hists)
    axes = fig.gca()
    axes.set(ylabel='dimensions', xlabel='values')
    print(dims)
    print(limits)

ndhist(vectors)

This generates the following output:
300
(-6.538069472429366, 6.52159540162285)

Problem / Question:
How can i change the axes ticks?

*

*for the y-axis i'd like to simply change this back to matplotlib's default, so it picks nice ticks like 0, 50, 100, ..., 250 (bonus points for 299 or 300)

*for the x-axis i'd like to convert the shown bin indices into the bin (left) boundaries, then, as above, i'd like to change this back to matplotlib's default selection of some "nice" ticks like -5, -2.5, 0, 2.5, 5 (bonus points for also including the actual limits -6.538, 6.522)

Own solution attempts:
I've tried many things like the following already:
def ndhist_axlabels(vectors, bins=500):
    limits = (vectors.min(), vectors.max())
    hists = []
    dims = vectors.shape[1]
    for dim in range(dims):
        h, bins = np.histogram(vectors[:, dim], bins=bins, range=limits)
        hists.append(h)
    hists = np.array(hists)
    fig = plt.figure(figsize=(16, 9))
    sns.heatmap(hists, yticklabels=False, xticklabels=False)
    axes = fig.gca()
    axes.set(ylabel='dimensions', xlabel='values')
    #plt.xticks(np.linspace(*limits, len(bins)), bins)
    plt.xticks(range(len(bins)), bins)
    axes.xaxis.set_major_locator(matplotlib.ticker.AutoLocator())
    plt.yticks(range(dims+1), range(dims+1))
    axes.yaxis.set_major_locator(matplotlib.ticker.AutoLocator())
    print(dims)
    print(limits)

ndhist_axlabels(vectors)

As you can see however, the axes labels are pretty wrong. My guess is that the extent or limits are somewhere stored in the original axis, but lost when switching back to the AutoLocator. Would greatly appreciate a nudge in the right direction.

A: Maybe you're overthinking this. To plot image data, one can use imshow and get the ticking and formatting for free.
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

# sample data:
vectors = np.random.randn(10000, 300) + np.random.randn(300)

def ndhist(vectors, bins=500):
    limits = (vectors.min(), vectors.max())
    hists = []
    dims = vectors.shape[1]

    for dim in range(dims):
        h, _ = np.histogram(vectors[:, dim], bins=bins, range=limits)
        hists.append(h)
    hists = np.array(hists)

    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(16, 9))

    extent = [limits[0], limits[-1], hists.shape[0]-0.5, -0.5]
    im = ax.imshow(hists, extent=extent, aspect="auto")
    fig.colorbar(im)

    ax.set(ylabel='dimensions', xlabel='values')

ndhist(vectors)
plt.show()

A: If you read the docs, you will notice that the xticklabels/yticklabels arguments are overloaded, such that if you provide an integer instead of a string, it will interpret the argument as xtickevery/ytickevery and place ticks only at the corresponding locations. So in your case, seaborn.heatmap(hists, yticklabels=50) fixes your y-axis problem.

Regarding your xtick labels, I would simply provide them explictly:
xtickevery = 50
xticklabels = ['{:.1f}'.format(b) if ii%xtickevery == 0 else '' for ii, b in enumerate(bins)]
sns.heatmap(hists, yticklabels=50, xticklabels=xticklabels)

A: Finally came up with a version that works for me for now and uses AutoLocator based on some simple linear mapping...
def ndhist(vectors, bins=1000, title=None):
    t = time.time()
    limits = (vectors.min(), vectors.max())
    hists = []
    dims = vectors.shape[1]
    for dim in range(dims):
        h, bs = np.histogram(vectors[:, dim], bins=bins, range=limits)
        hists.append(h)
    hists = np.array(hists)

    fig = plt.figure(figsize=(16, 12))
    sns.heatmap(
        hists,
        yticklabels=50,
        xticklabels=False
    )

    axes = fig.gca()
    axes.set(
        ylabel=f'dimensions ({dims} total)',
        xlabel=f'values (min: {limits[0]:.4g}, max: {limits[1]:.4g}, {bins} bins)',
        title=title,
    )

    def val_to_idx(val):
        # calc (linearly interpolated) index loc for given val
        return bins*(val - limits[0])/(limits[1] - limits[0])
    xlabels = [round(l, 3) for l in limits] + [
        v for v in matplotlib.ticker.AutoLocator().tick_values(*limits)[1:-1]
    ]
    # drop auto-gen labels that might be too close to limits
    d = (xlabels[4] - xlabels[3])/3
    if (xlabels[1] - xlabels[-1]) < d:
        del xlabels[-1]
    if (xlabels[2] - xlabels[0]) < d:
        del xlabels[2]
    xticks = [val_to_idx(val) for val in xlabels]
    axes.set_xticks(xticks)
    axes.set_xticklabels([f'{l:.4g}' for l in xlabels])

    plt.show()
    print(f'histogram generated in {time.time() - t:.2f}s')

ndhist(np.random.randn(100000, 300), bins=1000, title='randn')

Thanks to Paul for his answer giving me the idea.
If there's an easier or more elegant solution, i'd still be interested though.

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With Reverso dictionaries embedded in your videos, you can click any word in the subtitles and instantly get its translations together with real-life usage examples. A good way to learn the meaning of "corker", "well-supplied" or "resupplied".
Fleex automatically detects the English expressions in The Pacific, such as "get the boot", "hang tough" or "light a fire under". A great way to perfect your English!


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//
//  PXClassUtils.m
//  Pixate
//
//  Created by Kevin Lindsey on 1/4/13.
//  Copyright (c) 2013 Pixate, Inc. All rights reserved.
//

#import "PXClassUtils.h"
#import "PXSourceWriter.h"
#import <objc/runtime.h>

@implementation PXClassUtils

+ (NSString *)classDescriptionForObject:(id)object
{
    return [self classDescription:object_getClass(object)];
}

+ (NSString *)classDescription:(Class)c
{
    PXSourceWriter *writer = [[PXSourceWriter alloc] init];

    // emit class name
    [writer print:[self stringFromCString:class_getName(c)]];

    // emit superclass
    Class sc = class_getSuperclass(c);
    [writer print:@" : "];
    [writer print:[self stringFromCString:class_getName(sc)]];

    [self emitProtocols:c withSourceWriter:writer];

    // emit content
    [writer printWithNewLine:@" {"];
    [writer increaseIndent];

    [self emitAddress:c withSourceWriter:writer];
    [self emitVersion:c withSourceWriter:writer];
    [self emitIvars:c withSourceWriter:writer];
    [self emitProperties:c withSourceWriter:writer];
    [self emitMethods:c withSourceWriter:writer];

    // close
    [writer decreaseIndent];
    [writer printIndent];
    [writer printWithNewLine:@"}"];

    return writer.description;
}

+ (void)emitProtocols:(Class)c withSourceWriter:(PXSourceWriter *)writer
{
    // emit protocols
    unsigned int count = 0;
    __unsafe_unretained Protocol **protocols = class_copyProtocolList(c, &count);

    if (count > 0)
    {
        [writer print:@" <"];

        for (NSUInteger index = 0; index < count; ++index)
        {
            Protocol *protocol = protocols[index];

            if (index)
            {
                [writer print:@","];
            }

            [writer print:[self stringFromCString:protocol_getName(protocol)]];
        }

        [writer print:@">"];
    }

    free(protocols);
}

+ (void)emitAddress:(Class)c withSourceWriter:(PXSourceWriter *)writer
{
    // emit pointer address
    [writer printIndent];
    [writer print:@"@ptr "];
    [writer printWithNewLine:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"0x%lX", (long) c]];
}

+ (void)emitVersion:(Class)c withSourceWriter:(PXSourceWriter *)writer
{
    // emit class version
    [writer printIndent];
    [writer print:@"@version "];
    [writer printWithNewLine:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", class_getVersion(c)]];
}

+ (void)emitIvars:(Class)c withSourceWriter:(PXSourceWriter *)writer
{
    // emit ivars
    unsigned int count = 0;
    Ivar *ivars = class_copyIvarList(c, &count);

    for (NSUInteger index = 0; index < count; ++index)
    {
        Ivar ivar = ivars[index];

        [writer printIndent];
        [writer print:@"@ivar "];
        [writer printWithNewLine:[self stringFromCString:ivar_getName(ivar)]];
    }

    free(ivars);
}

+ (void)emitProperties:(Class)c withSourceWriter:(PXSourceWriter *)writer
{
    // emit properties
    unsigned int count = 0;
    objc_property_t *properties = class_copyPropertyList(c, &count);

    for (NSUInteger index = 0; index < count; ++index)
    {
        objc_property_t property = properties[index];

        [writer printIndent];
        [writer print:@"@property "];
        [writer printWithNewLine:[self stringFromCString:property_getName(property)]];
    }
}

+ (void)emitMethods:(Class)c withSourceWriter:(PXSourceWriter *)writer
{
    // emit methods
    unsigned int count = 0;
    Method *methods = class_copyMethodList(c, &count);

    for (NSUInteger index = 0; index < count; ++index)
    {
        Method method = methods[index];
        SEL methodName = method_getName(method);

        [writer printIndent];
        [writer print:@"@method "];
        [writer printWithNewLine:[self stringFromCString:sel_getName(methodName)]];
    }

    free(methods);
}

+ (NSString *)stringFromCString:(const char *)cstring
{
    return (cstring) ? [NSString stringWithCString:cstring encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] : @"";
}

@end


This week the children's homework is to learn their times tables - please see their challenge books for details of which times tables to learn. This does need to be an on-going challenge. As of next week we will be practicing our times tables on a weekly basis and any help you can give your child at home will benefit them in the classroom. It is important that the children can answer questions quickly and in a random order.


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The Feminine Mystique After 50 Years, A Woman's Rights Timeline by Mary Greenwood
Betty Friedan's book, The Feminine Mystique, was published in 1963. The first chapter is called, The Problem That Has No Name, and starts with this paragraph: "The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night--she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question--'Is this all?' " All over the country women were asking whether this all there was for women's opportunities. Friedan's helped start the women's movement in the 1960's along with other feminists such as Gloria Steinhem and Bella Abzug.
The Feminine Mystique was required reading at my college, but it took awhile to realize that women did not have many rights at that time. Women could not have their own credit or credit cards, the help-wanted ads were for men or for women, and women were not welcome in the workplace. Later in law school and then as an attorney, I saw first hand what needed to be done in the workplace, in the courts, in Congress and in the stereotypes of society.
These rights came slowly, one by one. I decided to do a timeline to show some of the barriers being broken by women over the last 50 years.
1962: Ivy League Schools like Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth were closed to women.
1963. The Feminine Mystique was published, the Equal Pay Act passed and Lesley Gore sang, "You don't own me!"
1964. Title VII of The Civil Rights Act was passed, which prohibited race, national origin, religion and sex discrimination
in employment. The federal government made clear, it did not intend to enforce the sex discrimination provisions.
1965. The Supreme Court established the right to privacy when it overturned Connecticut's law banning contraceptives.
1966. The National Organization for Women was formed. Betty Friedan was President.
1967. Muriel Siebert was first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
1968. Feminists protested the Miss America Contest in Atlantic City. The EEOC banned Help Wanted Male and Help
Wanted Female ads.
1969. Princeton and Yale finally admitted women.
1970. Diane Crump was first woman jockey in the Kentucky Derby.
1971. Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem form the National Women's Political Caucus.
1972. Congress passed Title IX, prohibiting sex discrimination in schools. Gloria Steinem launched Ms. Magazine. Helen
Reddy released, "I am Woman."
1973. Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes in tennis.
1974. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act allowed women to get their own credit cards.
1975. The United Nations declared 1975 International Women's Year. The Supreme Court held it is unlawful to deny
women jury duty.
1976. The Supreme Court struck down the requirement for written spousal consent in order for a a woman to obtain an abortion.
1977. The National Women's Conference was held in Houston (I was a delegate from South Carolina.) Women were
admitted as cadets in US Service Academies.
1978. President Carter established the National Advisory Committee for Women. Gloria Gaynor released, "I will survive."
1979. The first Susan B. Anthony coins were minted.
1980. The Supreme Court struck down a law that denied a widower's workers compensation claim unless he could
prove dependency.
1981.Sandra Day O'Connor became first woman Supreme Court Justice.
1982. The ERA was not ratified. It needed three more states to pass, but Connecticut passed it.
1983. Sally Ride was first American woman astronaut in space.
1984.The Supreme Court held that the Jaycess can't exclude women. Geraldine Ferraro was first woman to run for Vice-President.
1985. Wilma Mankiller was first woman Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
1986. Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment was held unlawful by Supreme Court.
1987. National Girls and and Women in Sports Day was started.
1988. The gender pay gap between men's and women's wages in 1988 was 72%.
1989. All jobs were open to women in the Coast Guard and Air Force but only 20 % in
the Marine Corps.
1990 Dr. Antonia Novello was the first woman Surgeon General.
1991. Sharon Pratt Dixon, of Washington DC, became the first black woman mayor of a major American city.
1992. Carol Mosely-Braun of Illinois became the first African-American woman Senator.
1993. Janet Reno was the first woman Attorney General. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second woman on the Supreme
1994. Shannon Faulkner was the first woman admitted to the Citadel. When it was discovered she was a woman, it
rescinded the offer. She sued and won but left after first week of classes.
1995. Eileen Collins was the first woman space shuttle Commander.
1996 Women first surpassed men in number of Bachelors Degrees earned in US.
1997. Madeline Albright was the first woman Secretary of State.
1998. Lt. Kendra Williams, USN, became the first US female combat pilot to bomb an enemy target.
1999. Nancy Ruth Mace was first woman cadet to graduate from Citadel.
2000. Hilary Clinton became first First Lady to be elected Senator.
2001. Condoleezza Rice was the first woman to hold post of National Security Advisor. Gale Norton was the first woman
to be Secretary of the Interior.
2002 Linda Sanchez and Loretta Sanchez were first sisters to both serve in Congress.
2003. Arizona became the first state where a female governor (Jane Dee Hull) was
succeeded by another female governor (Janet Napolitano.)
2004. Ireland President Mary McAllese assumed the Irish presidency from another
woman, Mary Robinson, and she was reelected in 2004.
2005. Condoleezza Rice became the first African-American woman Secretary of State.
2006. Betty Friedan dies. Janet Gurthrie is inducted into the International Motorsport
Hall of Fame as the first woman to compete in the Indy 500.
2007. Nancy Pelosi was elected first woman Speaker of the House.
2008. Hilary Clinton becomes the first woman to win a US presidential primary.
2009. President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act. Sonia
Sotomayer became the first Hispanic and third woman Supreme Court Justice.
2010. Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win Best Director Academy Award.
2011. Nobel Prize for three Women's Rights Activitsts: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen.
2012. Augusta National Golf Club admits first women members. (Condoleezza Rice.)
2013. Announcement that women in US will be allowed to serve in combat.
As that old Virginia Slims ad stated, "We have come a long way, baby!" However, in the next fifty years, we still have a long way to go.
Mary Greenwood, Mediator, Attorney and Author of How To Negotiate LIke A Pro: 41 Rules for Resolving Disputes, Winner of nine book awards; How To Mediate Like A Pro: 42 Rules for Mediating Disputes Winner of twelve book awards and How to Interview Like a Pro
www.MaryGreenwood.org
The Feminine Mystique After 50 Years, A Woman's Ri...


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Даза (также дазава; ) — чадский язык, распространённый в восточных районах Нигерии. Входит в группу боле-тангале западночадской языковой ветви.
Данные о численности говорящих отсутствуют. Язык бесписьменный.

Классификация
Язык даза как язык кластера боле рассматривается в классификации афразийских языков, предложенной британским лингвистом Роджером Бленчем. Даза вместе с языками гера, герума, дено, буре, куби, гииво (кирфи) и галамбу образует языковое единство, входящее в объединение «a» (северные боле) подгруппы боле группы боле-нгас подветви  западночадских языков A западночадской языковой ветви.
В классификации чадских языков, приведённой в справочнике языков мира Ethnologue, объединению «a» соответствует поддгруппа языков боле, а подгруппе боле, выделяемой Роджером Бленчем, соответствует группа языков A2 (или боле), напрямую входящая в подветвь A, или западночадскую подветвь (в классификации, опубликованной в лингвистическом энциклопедическом словаре в статье В. Я. Порхомовского «Чадские языки»,  а также в классификации, рассматриваемой в работе С. А. Бурлак и С. А. Старостина «Сравнительно-историческое языкознание», группа боле упоминается под названием боле-тангле, или боле-тангале).

В справочнике Ethnologue и в базе данных по языкам мира язык даза представлен как неклассифицированный. В первом онлайн-справочнике язык даза включён в западночадскую подветвь языков A, но место его среди групп этой подветви не указывается. Во втором онлайн-справочнике язык даза описывается как незасвидетельствованный афразийский язык, место которого в чадской семье языков не уточняется.

Общие сведения
Область распространения языка даза размещена в восточной Нигерии на территории штата Баучи, в районе . По данным Роджера Бленча носители языка даза живут в нескольких селениях указанного района. Ареал даза со всех сторон, кроме северо-западной, окружён областью распространения близкородственного западночадского языка хауса. С северо-запада к ареалу языка даза примыкает ареал другого западночадского языка бееле. Сведения о численности языка в изданиях, включающих даза в число западночадских языков, не приводятся.

Согласно данным сайта Ethnologue, степень сохранности языка даза  оценивается как «устойчивая», что означает использование языка в бытовом общении всеми поколениями его носителей и стабильную передачу языка детям. Стандартной формы у языка даза нет.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

Чадские языки
Языки Нигерии
Бесписьменные языки

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This paper examines the historical alternatives to welfare reform, namely the guaranteed income. This is, in a sense, the simplest possible approach to poverty, in that it proposes that each adult citizen receive a basic adequate income from a combination of market and state resources; if someone is not earning a wage, then she or he receives substantial support from the government and, in the case of a low wage, receives a smaller supplemental grant. The paper explores the meaning and history of the idea of a minimum income for all U.S. Citizens and argues that it was an object of serious discussion by intellectuals, advocates, and government officials during the Johnson and Nixon years. It also explores the reasons for its emergence, and both the strengths and weaknesses of the idea as it came into being. The article concludes the most successful solution to the problem of poverty in the early twenty-first century is likely to be a combination of "making work pay," a family-based strategy, and a functioning support system of basic income for those who earn very little or nothing.
Felicia Kornbluh, Is Work the Only Thing that Pays? The Guaranteed Income and Other Alternative Anti-Poverty Policies in Historical Perspective, 4 Nw. J. L. & Soc. Pol'y. 61 (2009).


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ADH inspectors will be onsite during Arkansas State Fair to ensure food safety
With yet another restaurant involved in the hepatitis A outbreak, food safety is top of mind for many across the state.
Author: Michael Aaron
Published: 10:31 PM CDT October 10, 2018
Updated: 10:56 PM CDT October 10, 2018
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - As thousands prepare to eat their way through the Arkansas State Fair, efforts are in place to make sure the culinary creations are safe for consumption.
"The food is part of the fair. You can't have a fair without food," Arkansas State Fair food & beverage director Jerry Cohen said.
More than 70 food vendors will dish out turkey legs, deep-fried dishes and other fair favorites.
"We want it to be safe. We want it to be clean. We want it to be healthy," Cohen said.
According to state environmental health director Dr. Richard McMullen, 14 Arkansas Department of Health inspectors have completed a pre-evaluation before the fair began to ensure the mobile eateries and other facilities are sanitary and have the proper equipment.
"We treat vendors that are at fairs that serve food just like any other establishment, like brick and mortar establishments," McMullen said.
On opening day, inspectors will return for an operational inspection to ensure conditions are sanitary. Several inspectors will also be on site throughout all 11 days of the fair.
"We want to make sure that they have the facilities to keep clean hands, water, a way to collect wastewater and an operation of what to do with it afterward," McMullen said.
The inspection also includes making sure no employees are ill and that all food is sourced from approved vendors -- steps that McMullen says should leave fair-goers feeling confident in whatever they choose to eat.
"Just eat like you would anywhere else," he said. "It's perfectly safe."
The fair will have free admission and free parking Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. so that people can stop in for lunch.
To submit a food establishment complaint, click here.


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Complete Coverage
How to Make Meaningful Change in Our Schools
—Courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action, licensed under Creative Commons.
By Ben Owens
"We know what we need to do. So why are we not doing it?"
That phrase, or something akin to it, is a common theme in my conversations with fellow teachers from across the country. Regardless of the location and demographics of the teacher's school or district—urban or rural, large or small, wealthy or Title I—I hear this same refrain: "Why can't we break away from what we've always done and adopt the practices we know will make real, positive changes for our students?"
As someone who has devoted much of my professional career to learning about and helping to lead or affect organizational change, I have given a lot of thought to this problem. Whether I was helping a private-sector organization better meet customer demands or helping my current school move to a teacher-powered framework, I have seen stalled progress boil down to three primary issues:
1. Trying to implement changes that are not consistent with the organization's underlying needs or values;
2. Failing to establish a clear, shared vision throughout the organization responsible for driving the change; and
3. Failing to clearly communicate anticipated outcomes of the change to stakeholders to avoid confusion and manage expectations.
Before we break each of these points down further, let's return to the original premise that we know what works in education. If this is true, first we need to get better at identifying the initiatives that address our specific challenges. Then we need to be more intentional about managing the change, ensuring that we address these challenges in our work.
Regarding the first part of this equation, I would argue that we have a virtual firehose of programs, techniques, methods, technologies, and other changes at our disposal that have been shown to result in positive student outcomes. Whether we follow Edutopia, the What Works Clearinghouse, professional journals such as The Learning Professional, nonfiction books like John Hattie's Visible Learning, or online publications like the one you are reading now, we are certainly not left wanting for good ideas to address our individual challenges.
And while some will legitimately argue that we need to get better at doing the research needed to identify initiatives that have a statistically significant impact on student outcomes, we have countless case-study examples of how "best practices" like project-based learning, personalized education, peer collaboration, competency-based learning, and adaptive technologies do have a real and lasting impact on student learning—assuming such initiatives have been effectively implemented. This is the hard part.
The three reasons I proposed to explain why initiatives tend to fail are interdependent. For example, unless a school or district tries to implement changes that are truly consistent with their specific needs and culture, the change is doomed from the start and the other two points are moot. We all can think of examples where we have lurched for the next shiny object without a lot of forethought, instead of being more strategic and intentional in deciding what changes to pursue. At my school, we have a policy that before we adopt new initiatives, our entire staff does a "litmus test" of the proposed change, measuring it against our school's mission and vision. If it doesn't align, we simply don't do it, regardless of the potential benefits (excluding mandates beyond our control).
The next point is what I call the "going all in" criteria. Once a school community decides to make a significant change consistent with its needs and values, everyone has to fully commit. The principal can't be the only one to see the clear benefit of the initiative. In order for an initiative to succeed, everyone in the school has to be invested, and they have to understand their distinct role in making it happen. How many school leaders have bought 3-D printers, for example, under the assumption that they would magically improve instruction in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—and then watched their purchase sit underutilized?
In order for an investment like a 3-D printer to make an impact, a school must develop a strategic plan for how each teacher will integrate use of the new tool into routine instruction. As my first point suggests, if you can't clearly articulate the value of the initiative to everyone involved, then perhaps it's a misguided effort.
Finally, once all affected parties are fully on board and understand their distinct roles in driving the change, the school must adopt a systematic approach to manage its implementation, in terms of both measuring progress and communicating realistic expectations.
Most major changes involve a "J-Curve," where moving from the comfortable to the new creates anxiety as people either realize the complexity of the work or see results (for example, test scores) temporarily go in the opposite direction, only to come back stronger in the long term. Schools that successfully manage change not only have measures in place to track real-time results and make quick adjustments; they have anticipated potential headwinds and have the credibility to transparently communicate to stakeholders how challenges will be overcome.
When my school moved from a traditional grading system to a competency-based learning approach, we not only invested the time to fully train all teachers and staff members, but also held early and routine informational meetings with parents and students so they would know what to expect as the shift occurred. This helped maintain consistent implementation across the school and strong support when unexpected problems would arise.
Few would argue that our current education system fully prepares students for an increasingly uncertain future. The fact that you are reading this article means that you have a genuine interest in figuring out how to make school improvements a reality. Perhaps you believe that part of your role as a leader in education is to find ideas and examples of what works for students and translate those ideas into actions for your own classroom, school, or district. But to affect positive changes, you have to know that what you propose will meet the needs of your situation—attract broad support—and, if managed properly, produce credible results.
When we can ensure that the solutions we propose will meet these criteria, we can say with confidence that we know what we need to do to improve our schools—and more importantly, we know how to do it!
Ben Owens is a Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellow, a member of the Teacher Advisory Council for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a virtual community organizer for the Center for Teaching Quality. He spent 20 years working as an engineer before becoming a math and physics teacher at Tri-County Early College High School in Murphy, N.C.
"Taking Competency-Based Learning From Policy to Reality," June 4, 2014.
"How to Embrace the Student Engagement Challenge," January 24, 2017.
"5 Ways to Use Student Choice to Improve Learning," January 17, 2017.
Mount Markham Central School District , West Winfield, New York
ESE Teacher
Duval County Public Schools, Jacksonville, Florida
University Guidance Counselor. IB School. Dubai.
Galvin Education, Dubai (City) (AE)


Women all over the world are increasingly employed - and exploited - at the far end of the global supply chain. Whether by picking fruit in Chile, processing cashews in Mozambique, sewing in Chinas Export Processing Zones, or providing biotech companies with indigenous knowledge in India, women's labour and skill are crucial elements in the scaling up of globalised production processes. It might be argued that women benefit in terms of status and income from this trend, but what are the hidden costs of new trade regimes, and do they outweigh the benefits? What do women stand to lose from trade agreements on agricultural products, intellectual property, and the movement of migrant labour? Contributors to this volume show how women are finding ways to influence national and international trade policy agendas in developed countries and are joining forces in global forums to campaign for reforms. Authors include Nazneen Kanji, Pun Ngai, Peggy Ntseane, Marceline Suman Sahai, and Marceline White. Case studies are cited from a wide range of countries, including Australia, Botswana, China, Mexico, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.
Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific?


Its Monday! What Are You Reading?.
'A Taste of Life and Love in Australia' by Margaret Lynette Sharp.
An easy to read collection of Short Stories set in Australia.
Review and Guest Post probably on Thursday.
Please support me, an Australian Woman Writer.


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URGENT RECALL
Cans of non-alcoholic Guinness recalled over fears they are unsafe to drink
Alice Grahns, Digital Consumer Reporter
CANS of non-alcoholic Guinness have been recalled over fears they are unsafe to drink just a few weeks after launch.
The beer, which is called Guinness 0.0, is sold in supermarkets and off-licenses in the UK.
Guinness is recalling cans of its non-alcohol drink just a few weeks after launchCredit: PA:Press Association
The company said it was recalling cans of the stout as a "precautionary measure".
Guinness said in a statement: "We are recalling Guinness 0.0 in Great Britain because of a microbiological contamination which may make some cans of Guinness 0.0 unsafe to consume.
"Guinness 0.0 currently is not on sale to the general public in Ireland."
It added that the issue doesn't affect any other Guinness variants or brands.
Your product recall rights
PRODUCT recalls are an important means of protecting consumers from dangerous goods.
As a general rule, if a recall involves a branded product, the manufacturer would usually have lead responsibility for the recall action.
But it's often left up to supermarkets to notify customers when products could put them at risk.
If you are concerned about the safety of a product you own, always check the manufacturer's website to see if a safety notice has been issued.
When it comes to appliances, rather than just food items, the onus is usually on you - the customer - to register the appliance with the manufacturer as if you don't there is no way of contacting you to tell you about a fault.
If you become aware that an item you own has been recalled or has any safety noticed issued against it, make sure you follow the instructions given to you by the manufacturer.
They should usually provide you with more information and a contact number on its safety notice.
In some cases, the manufacturer might ask you to return the item for a full refund or arrange for the faulty product to be collected.
You should not be charged for any recall work - such as a repair, replacement or collection of the recalled item.
The company urged anyone with cans of Guinness 0.0 not to drink it.
Instead, you should return the cans to where you bought them from for a full refund.
Alternatively, you can contact Guinness' owner Diageo on 0345 601 4558 or consumercare.gbandireland@diageo.com to receive a refund voucher.
Diageo told The Sun it's only recalling a small number of cans given it's a new product, but it didn't specify how many.
A four-pack of the non-alcoholic drink set you back between £3.50-£4.50.
The recall comes just a few weeks after Guinness announced the launch of the drink, which was said to have taken four years to develop.
The product was developed by an innovation team based at Guinness's brewery in Dublin, and has the same ingredients — water, barley, hops and yeast — as its standard stout.
The difference is cold filtration at the end to remove alcohol.
The company had planned to sell the non-alcoholic drink in pubs from next year.
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Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut to select word occurrences in just one line in visual studio code I know the topic of multi cursors-editing in visual studio code is duplicate but what I want is the way (by keyboard) to select word occurrences in just one line in visual studio code, because the other option: ctrl + F2 it selects all the occurrences in all the file, and not the mouse way by holding alt and click.
let say I have this:
const FETCH_USERS_REQUEST = "FETCH_USERS_REQUEST";
const FETCH_USERS_REQUEST = "FETCH_USERS_REQUEST";

when the cursor is on REQUEST word for the second line I want to do two cursors in the second line after the two occurrences of REQUEST.

A: You have 2 alternatives:

*

*Enable the Find in Selection option in the Find Widget after entering your find query.

*An extension that I wrote does this fairly well, see Find and Transform.
With this simple keybinding:
{
  "key": "alt+y",             // whatever keybinding you want
  "command": "findInCurrentFile",
  "args": {
    "restrictFind": "line"   // find all on current line only
      // with multiple cursors you can have as many current lines as you wish
  }
}

It does a find in the current file.  Since there is no actual find query, like REQUEST, designated in the args.  It will find the current word at the cursor on the line.  Different languages define what a "word" is differently.  For javascript, for example, FETCH_USERS_REQUEST is the current word even if the cursor is on Request only.
You can manage this by actually selecting, double-clicking on Request or Ctrl+D, and then trigger the above keybinding.  Then the extesnion will search for whatever is selected, if there is a non-empty selection.
The extension is designed to select those find matches, not put the cursor after them, but you can simply right-arrow to dismiss the selection and the cursor will be where you want.
[I have to update the extension, the current version v0.9.7 in the Marketplace won't do this - but here is a demo of it already working.  It should be updated tomorrow at the latest, look for v0.9.8.]