Vaughan Williams month day 9?
I'm a mess, sorry, I should've told you I'm not very organized. I'm doing my best to get these in everyday.
So, today was a special personal day for me, I'm settled back in at Lawrence! I'm ready to start my sophomore year and do all that fun college stuff (mainly comp, oboe, and organ).
I would like to dedicate this post to those who have suffered as a result of the attacks on the twin towers and the Pentagon 13 years ago this day. I would like to dedicate this post to our friends and family who have stuck together through those times and hardships and to those heroes who took action to protect their friends and family here. I would like to dedicate this post to our troops who have bravely defended our nation these past 13 years. I want to dedicate this post to the Arab families and communities who have had to endure the wrath of those blinded by corruption. I want to dedicate this post to the Muslims that follow the Qu'ran with their heart, and to those who do the same with the bible, and to anyone else who was able to see past the corruption of their leadership and refused to let it affect their spirituality.
These are scary times we are facing, it gets scarier when the reality gets closer to us. With threats coming from halfway around the world, it can seem like they're a long way off, it can be easy to ignore them. I am Lebanese myself. I spent this past summer there as ISIS continued to grow around Iraq and Syria. They even attempted a skirmish on the border of Lebanon but thanks to the brave soldiers of the Lebanese Army, they were not able to get past the border.
In the face of trouble ahead. When dealing with violence, hatred, and blood, it can be easy to get overwhelmed, and sometimes, you may forget to question morality.
Some people have asked me for my word on what we should do in the Middle East, this is all I have to say.
Well friends, I'm going to have to be honest, I think I may have to skip a couple days this month to make time in my schedule. I hope that's alright with you.
Well, we had Symphony 4 on Day 4, Symphony 5 on Day 5, guess what we have today? I do see these symphonies as a trio. Before, During, and after World War II, these symphonies all characterize everything that is Vaughan Williams, and it also characterizes the war. Vaughan Williams never wanted us to associate the music too much with the war, but art is influenced by the world it lives in, and the entire world was completely engulfed in the war. The fourth movement is my favorite in this one, all I can say is that is a musical representation of a nuclear wasteland. This entire symphony is in four linked movements, so there's no break, I will give this piece a much shorter description than the last one. In fact, I have one word per movement. Desperate, chilling, menacing, haunting.
Wow posting every day takes a lot more energy than I thought…especially when I'm just starting this. Ok, enough excuses let's get down to business.
This next piece is my absolute favorite. Ever. I have fallen in love with this symphony from the minute I heard it. It has become my best friend, the piece I go to whenever I need a hug, the piece I listen when I need to reconnect with my soul. It has been with me through every moment of my life. It was there to calm me in tragedy, and there to calm me from anger, and there to humble me from conceit.
I love this piece. I bought a score my junior year of high school, after listening to it for a couple hundred times. I bring that score with me everywhere I go, and I ask every composer I meet to sign it.
First let me talk about the Symphony for a bit.
This piece could not have been written at a more perfect time. It was in the middle of World War II and Britain was suffering. This was not the time for a loud aggression, people were hearing bombs exploding over their head the whole time, their loved ones were either dead or dying, hope was dimming and being alive was turning into not dead yet. What everyone needed was hope, love, sincerity, love.
I don't want to go too deep into analogies because this piece is definitely not programmatic in anyway and this piece should go straight to the heart, not being pestered by images it creates in your head.
When I hear it, I think of it like getting four different kinds of hugs. The first movement is so passionate, yet light. It's a huge splash of color that calmly invites you to a hugging embrace. Listening to this first movement gives me the same feelings I get when I see my family after I get off my plane at the end of the school year. It's beautiful, inviting, warm, and loving. You may have noticed that this piece speaks to me in ways which are beyond words.
The second movement, the Scherzo, is more like the kind of hug when you see a friend walking down the street and you sneak up behind them and surprise them with a hug.
The third movement, is beyond words. I'm listening to it now, and I'm holding back tears. I hold back tears every time. I think Vaughan Williams put it best when he was considering (and eventually decided not to) put this quote above just that symphony. I apologize I'm not able to find it out for sure, but I think this might be it. Spoken by Pilgrim from his opera, Pilgrim's Progress.
Where the Romanza is like a hug to help someone through grief, the fourth movement is when that person hugs you bit longer, so that you get over the grief. I usually relate the Romanza to losing a loved one while the Passacaglia is gaining a loved one.
yes, I know it's after midnight, I'm sorry, my brother kept me up with a terrible romance movie (people, take note, hooters is a terrible place for a first date). Anyway, here's my submission for the 4th day of Vaughan Williams month. I've shown you the beauty, glory, and passion of Vaughan Williams, now for the rage.
interview from BBC again, pieces starts at 3:07 if you're too impatient.
and here is Walton1, enjoy!
A Special Announcement and Vaughan Williams Month Day 3!
Ok I have 7 minutes before midnight, here we go!
before I get on to Vaughan Williams, I would like to make an announcement. As you may or may not know, the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra will be performing my piece, O Great Mystery on September 27th at the Schlesinger Center at the NOVA Campus. It is a huge honor to get such a rewarding premiere from such an amazing orchestra, I really hope all of you can make it. If you're in the area, you can buy tickets here!
Meanwhile, here are the program notes so you can get an idea of what the piece is about (sorry, not posting a MIDI for this one).
Most of my music can be broken down to one essential question, Where is God? O Great Mystery marks the start of this musical quest. In essence, this piece can be split into three parts, the first part being an introduction to the motif of conservatism. When I wrote this part, I imagined a line of monks chanting in an ancient, grand cathedral. It's beautiful and mystic, but has a sense of darkness inside. The theme of this introduction goes back to when I was in choir in high school, and my teacher handed out a piece she was considering for us to do, and then played us a recording. The piece was "O Magnum Mysterium" by Tomas Luis de Victoria. I quoted the first two lines of the piece and included a translation from its original Latin.
The piece has such a beautiful mysticism to it, and the color of the words themselves, even without the music, gives off the perfect sense wonder yet it has a slightly ominous quality to it. What is this great mystery? It's beautiful, yet ambiguous.
It should be noted that I don't write for myself, nor do I believe my music comes from me, therefore, please do not treat this analysis as an extension of the piece, but rather a way of seeing it from someone who loves the piece, but is indeed separated from it. Therefore your view of the piece is no less important than mine, nor does it need to be similar.
This piece is a journey, I wrote it when I first started to hear the world I was witnessing, and I hope you enjoy my sharing of this mysterious voyage with you.
I hope at least some of you are as excited as I am for this premiere, it's going to be a spectacular.
Vaughan Williams Month, Day 2!
Hello all, so I guess my schedule's gonna be to post these at the last minute of everyday.
So today's piece is the introduction to Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony. As far as first symphonies go, I got the same impression as I got from almost every other composer on their first symphony, which was, "I like the rest more" although I will admit, this beginning is fantastic and this doesn't sound like a composer's first symphony. It sounds like he's already mastered crafting enormous universes before tackling his first, and right away, you see the universe he creates by setting these poems by Walt Whitman (who, by the way, happens to be my favorite poet). Once again, he reaches into the poems and digs the music out of them, creating a strong link between the lyrics and the notes.
Also, I'm wondering if anyone might know any history behind this piece? Mainly, who had that much faith in a rising composer that they asked him to compose such a huge work for chorus and orchestra without anything remotely that large in his name?
This video shows and interview by the conductor and the piece starts at around 5:40, enjoy!
In a quest to stop being afraid of this blank space I would need to fill and fear that people wouldn't like what I write, and to do something with this blog, I shall bring to you Vaughan Williams month! Each day I will post a piece I adore by him and also put up a blurb about why I love the piece. I got this idea from a blog post a friend of mine wrote. A while ago she tried this with Mozart and now she's doing poetry. here's the post, please do check it out, she has exquisite taste! I'm very tempted to go on a long rant on why I'm upset there's not enough collaboration between writers and composers and how literature and art music are so much more similar than we tend to think but that's probably something I should write later on. Meanwhile, I suppose I shall start!
Today's piece is the Turtle Dove for Baritone and Mixed-or-male chorus (I prefer mixed). Vaughan Williams loved poetry and he had an extraordinary sense of the music portrayed between the words of the poems he read and composed a perfect combination of language and music that work together to create a beautiful and heart-wrenching farewell.
Since I can't find a good recording on Youtube, here's a Spotify track. Please let me know if this doesn't work, I didn't even know Spotify could be embedded until now.


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Bitcoin is designed to adjust its mining difficulty every 2,016 blocks (approximately 14 days), based on the amount of computing power deployed to the network. This is done to ensure the block production interval at the next period will remain constant at around every 10 minutes. When there are fewer machines racing to solve math problems to earn the next payout of newly created bitcoin, difficulty falls; when there are more computers in the game, it rises.
Right now the machines are humming furiously. Bitcoin miners across the world have been performing calculations at an average 56.77 quintillion hashes per second (EH/s) over the last 14 days to compete for mining rewards on the world's first blockchain, according to data from mining pool BTC.com.
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Fun Fact: Bitcoin Price is Up 838,000,000% in Ten Years' Time
Since its birth in 2009,
Bitcoin has been on a remarkable run.
The cryptocurrency was at first a currency for the fringe — used by those that wanted to bypass the pitfalls of traditional payment solutions, wanted to make a bet on the future of fintech, or wanted to make a statement against the fiat system, which was then embroiled in the aftermath of 2008's Great Recession. Now, Bitcoin has entered the mainstream, frequenting the headlines of mainstream media outlets and becoming a part of the world's vernacular.
Bitcoin's Humble Origins.
It wasn't an easy journey for it, however. Back during Bitcoin's earliest years, it was often ridiculed by cynics who claimed that the project was nothing more than a currency for criminals. What's more, no one really attributed value to the coins.
But, this changed seemingly for the first time in 2010,
when early adopter Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for some pizza. Many have argued that this is the first time that BTC was assigned an actual dollar value. eToro's Mati Greenspan has even said that without that one transaction, the industry wouldn't be where it is today.
According to Saifedeani Ammous, an economics professor and the author of industry primer "The Bitcoin Standard," it wasn't Laszlo who first imbued BTC with value against fiat, it was someone else.
Ammous remarked in a recent tweet that ten years ago to this day, someone purchased 5,050 Bitcoin for $5.02 in the "first market transaction for BTC". Today, that same sum of coins is worth some $42 million.
As the professor noted, this implies that from its first sale, Bitcoin has rallied some 838,078,685% until now. Crazy,
Congressman Patrick McHenry from North Carolina stated on more than one occasion that he expects Bitcoin to have tremendous value and utility over the long term.
"I think Libra has opened a lot of new people's eyes about the value of cryptocurrency," said McHenry during the interview. "Libra is not cryptocurrency, however. And we need to stop lumping it together with very real, very important projects that are out there like Bitcoin."
McHenry clarified that he had no intention to bash Facebook or the Libra project with his comments, but for him, it's incredibly important for the differences between Libra and a much more decentralized project like Bitcoin to be made clear.
Looking forward in 2021
Watch out for this risk as bitcoin looks toward $50,000 and higher in 2021 – analysts
As bitcoin gets ready to tackle $30,000, analysts point to one serious risk that could potentially challenge the cryptocurrency's phenomenal surge this year.
Bitcoin saw an incredible comeback from the March low of $4,607 to its new record high above $28,300 in December. This is a more than 500% rise in just eight months. And analysts are confident that more gains are in store for bitcoin as it currently trades above $26,500.
Bullish outlook
What makes this rally different from the one in 2017 is the consensus that bitcoin is here to stay, especially in light of the wider acceptance by big tech companies such as PayPal, analysts told Kitco News.
"Investors are buying up large chunks of the asset, and these are long-term investors. Back in 2017, the majority were retail investors, who are usually very skittish and can buy and sell wherever. Institutional investors usually hold," said TradingView general manager Pierce Crosby. "For example, Microstrategy now owns more than 70,000 bitcoins. Hedge funds are talking about putting 1% towards bitcoin. Tech companies are also getting involved. This kind of interest could mean trillions of dollars for the cryptocurrency."
The outlook for bitcoin is quite bullish for next year, said Crosby, adding that it comes down to the supply and demand fundamentals.
"Right now, we are seeing a resurgence of demand," he said. "Scarcity defines the future of a given asset. We've seen that a long time with gold. Every time they find a new big deposit, the price goes down. In the same regard, the scarcity of bitcoin is finite — 21 million. That scarcity plays into the future price."
Bitcoin's limited supply has been attracting new investors who are looking for safety and a hedge against inflation in light of all the money-printing happening across the globe to support the struggling economies.
"Attraction here is that bitcoin is covered by a limited supply. This year has heard a strong argument against the current QE programs. We've seen a lot more money printing this year, and there is a lot of cash going around. This money trickles down to a lot of assets, and they have seen some irrational moves like the stock market, which is seeing unprecedented growth despite the grim economic outlook," Digix co-founder and COO Shaun Djie explained. "In the next 12 months, you will see bitcoin being touted as a real store of value, and buying will only continue."
Another bullish factor going for bitcoin is legitimacy, added Djie, reminding investors that this year's rally is very different.
"In 2017, the surge in bitcoin was mainly driven by initial public offerings (IPOs), which led to a lot of scams. It is not something you see anymore. Also, institutions are getting involved, and we are seeing central banks issuing licenses and receiving money from retail," he elaborated.
The bottom line for bitcoin is that it becomes legitimate every day it doesn't sell off, said Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mike McGlone.
On top of that, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated bitcoin's acceptance by the public due to the digitalization of the world, McGlone added. "COVID accelerated the shift towards digitalization of money. In the past, it was considered speculative interest money. Now, it looks to be solid money, and institutions are jumping on board," he said.
Bitcoin is likely to be one of the winning asset classes in 2021, said StoneX director of global macro strategy Vincent Deluard.
"Cryptocurrencies, which allow investors to bypass the financial system, are a game-changer," Deluard stated. "In 2021, if we see a significant correction in equity market and people will be worried about debt levels and inflation, bitcoin will be a way to move money outside the system. Bitcoin and gold are insurance policies against things going terribly wrong."
Biggest threats
New regulatory restrictions remain the biggest threat for bitcoin, and this is something investors should keep a close eye on, according to analysts.
Bitcoin's bubble-like features are not going away any time soon, said OANDA senior market analyst Edward Moya, noting that a possible regulatory crackdown in the near future is one of the biggest threats.
"We are going to see that there is still a tremendous amount of uncertainty as far as how bitcoin is going to progress going forward," he said. "Biggest problems for bitcoin has been hacking and regulatory issues. As you see central banks start to consider their own digital coin offerings, there can easily be some type of regulatory crackdown that will eventually panic the institutional trader. But they will be as happy to ride it down as up."
With bitcoin's popularity exploding this year, there has been a lot of whispering among bigwigs in the crypto space around how the scale of adoption will be noticed by regulators, said Crosby.
"More regulation or crackdowns is a big risk to space. From a geopolitical perspective, a nation taking a stand against crypto is another risk. A formal policy being issued by Canada or the U.S. could be very detrimental."
Hacking is another major concern for bitcoin since it is all digital, analysts added. If the actual technology behind bitcoin were to be sabotaged in any way, that would pose a significant risk to prices.
"If someone can break into a wallet or a brokerage account, that is a huge disincentive for investors to take this thing seriously," Crosby pointed out. "This comes at a time of international espionage, and large hacking operations are being made public. This destroys investor confidence. Exchanges take this seriously."
This year especially bitcoin has been taking on the safe-haven role for many new investors coming into the crypto space, which has been weighing on gold's inflows, said Moya.
"The run-up in bitcoin was surprising but was mainly due to breakthroughs on Main Street acceptance. Right now, it is a fight for yield. And a lot of new institutional investors and hedge fund managers are getting involved," he said.
But any regulatory crackdown or increased hacking activity would take away that safe-haven play, Moya added.
Another factor to keep in mind is that there are no price breakers in place in case of a major selloff, noted Djie.
"Without breakers in place, when a big selloff comes, we might see bitcoin testing as low as $10,000 and even lower. Any announcements from central banks on the way bitcoin would be eventually regulated could trigger that selloff," he said.
Price targets for 2021
The $50,000 level is a popular one for next year as that gets the cryptocurrency close to the one trillion market cap. In December, bitcoin's market cap was around $350 billion. In comparison, gold's market cap is currently at around $10 trillion.
"Bitcoin is heading towards 50,000 resistance next year, said McGlone. "After halving, the supply has been reduced, and demand is rising. That gets close to one trillion market cap, and it is about one quarter of 2017."
Best-selling author Robert Kiyosaki is also looking at bitcoin moving towards $50,000 next year based on new institutional money coming in.
Guggenheim Investments investment director Scott Minerd sees bitcoin as undervalued even at $26,000. Guggenheim's projection sees bitcoin eventually hitting $400,000.
Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal is calling for $300,000 bitcoin in just 18 months. "I use a number of measures. I use technical analysis, logarithmic charts, I use the stock-to-flow ratio … We're going to be somewhere between $500,000 and $1 million within five years, and we should be somewhere between $100,000 to $300,000 in the next 12 to 18 months," he told Kitco News in December.
Gemini crypto exchange founder Tyler Winklevoss told CNBC that he sees bitcoin rising above $500,000. Citibank is not ruling out $318,000 by the end of 2021.
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It's been a quiet past few weeks for Bitcoin.
After reaching $10,400 at the start of June, the cryptocurrency has seen a correction and now trades in the low-$9,000s.
Although a bear trend has yet to form, many have stated that the rejection BTC faced at $10,400 was bearish. After all, $10,400-10,500 is the exact region Bitcoin faltered at in February, prior to the crash to $3,700.
Yet a crucial on-chain signal that appeared at the start of three previous bull runs has just been seen.
Bitcoin Flashes Crucial Bull Sign
A cryptocurrency technical and on-chain analyst noted on Jun. 26 that an important on-chain signal just appeared: The MVRV Long/Short Differential indicator passed above 0% after a multi-month correction.
Blockchain analytics firm Santiment describes the MVRV Long/Short Differential as follows:
"MVRV is a measure of how much each coin holder paid for their coins and compares it to the current price of that given coin. If the ratio is above 1.0, then on average all holders will get profit if they sell their coins now. If it is below 1.0, on average everyone will realize a loss if they sell."
The reason why this is important is that every time the metric has historically crossed one, rallies have followed suit.
In 2012, the metric crossed one before BTC rallied to $1,000. In 2015, the metric crossed one before the ~2,000% rally to $20,000. And after 2018's bear market, the metric crossed one to precede BTC's rally to $14,000.
This historical precedent suggests that Bitcoin may be on the verge of a macro rally.
Luke Martin, a cryptocurrency trader,commented the following on the indicator's performance in September of last year:
"With $BTC continuing it's month-long chop, I've been learning more about on-chain metrics. MVRV ratio gives a good idea of exchange price relationship to "fair value" of a BTC. MVRC <= 1 has been an excellent buy every time."
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Q: BIRT reports integration with PHP I'm trying to integrate BIRT report viewer to my PHP application.
My questions are:

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*What is the client side requirement to view the report?

*The report viewer needs tomcat and BIRT to be installed on the server machine. Which works perfectly fine on my own machine or dedicated server. But what if there is a shared hosting?
Is there a solution to run PHP+MySQL+ BIRT?

A: 1) On client side actually nothing. On the server side, you have the .rptdesign files and your server will generate the file in desired format from it, so the client can just download and open this file in appropriate program (like Excel, Acrobat Reader and so on).
2) You need the embedded servlet container because you need to deploy WebViewer which can be a problem on a shared hosting. There are some workarounds for this but IMHO is not really worth to try (source)

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Mr. Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): I agree with the Foreign Secretary that the European Union is and should be more than a free trade area, but may I bring him to the specifics of the intergovernmental conference? A few months ago, the Prime Minister told the fishing industry that resolution of the flags of convenience scandal was his first priority at the IGC. A few weeks ago, however, we were told that the 48-hour week had become the major priority. I wish to ask a simple question: if the Prime Minister succeeds in resolving the flags of convenience issue, will he still block agreement until he gets his way on the 48-hour issue?
Mr. Rifkind: We have spellt out a number of crucial objectives, of which the issue that interests the hon. Gentleman is one. It is not necessary to add to that now. We have said that those are crucial matters and the conference cannot come to a conclusion unless all members are satisfied with the outcome.
Even in the area of commerce, the EU is much more than a free trade area. But its benefits are also felt in many areas not directly related to the market, such as increasing co-operation in the fight against international crime, higher environmental standards and an increasingly confident European voice on the world stage. The common foreign and security policy does not replace national foreign policy, but complements it. That works to our advantage, as other European countries' views on many issues are very close to ours, and a common European policy where it applies can exert greater influence than the UK could achieve on its own.
Above all, the European Union is the basis on which we can consolidate democracy and prosperity across the whole of Europe, including our central European neighbours.
Opponents of British membership of the EU like to argue that we joined a mere common market that has insidiously developed a political agenda. That is nonsense. The European Union has always had a political as well as
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an economic purpose. Britain recognised that very clearly when we went in: indeed, it was a central consideration behind our application for membership.
Mr. William Cash (Stafford): Yesterday, my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that he had no objection in principle to the idea of a single currency. My right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary, in reply to me in the European Select Committee in February when I pressed him on economic and monetary union, said that he did not follow my point that it was a question of principle. Does my right hon. and learned Friend not accept that there is a basic and fundamental inconsistency in the views expressed on the question of principle by the Chancellor and by himself? Does he agree that that is causing a great deal of uncertainty and confusion, that the matter should be resolved, and that it should not be construed as dissembling?
Mr. Rifkind: I have no doubt whatever that the question of a single currency and the possible abolition of our national currency would be a great historic decision. It would probably be irreversible, so it is right that it should be addressed as one of the most important matters to be considered by a British Government for many years. I believe that every member of the Government believes that it is of crucial significance. It is therefore right to ensure that the issue is addressed with regard both to its economic implications and its wider consequences--the national decision making that we currently enjoy and the extent to which that might be diminished in the event of a single currency.
Mr. Norman Lamont (Kingston upon Thames): I should like to return to what my right hon. and learned Friend was saying about the European Union's functions and ask him a question that an ambassador of this country asked me. He asked me to explain to him why it was necessary for the European Union to have more than 120 embassies--or "delegations" as they are called--around the world at a cost of £150 million per year. Is it really necessary, given the European Union's functions, to have that degree of representation?
Mr. Rifkind: I would not necessarily wish to defend the exact number as it currently applies, but the European Union has overseas aid programmes in many countries and needs to implement those programmes through local offices. It is also responsible for handling the external trade policies of all its member states. Those external trade negotiations cannot be conducted without a physical presence in countries such as Japan or many other countries with a crucial involvement in trade matters. So while I am not inclined to justify every area of expenditure or every office, I acknowledge that the European Union needs a significant number of overseas premises to conduct its proper business.
Several hon. Members rose--
Mr. Rifkind: I realise that an awful lot of hon. Members wish to speak in this debate. Although I do not intend to give way to everyone who wishes to intervene, I shall try to be fair.
Mr. Christopher Gill (Ludlow): Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way?
Mr. Rifkind: Not at this moment, but perhaps later.
If Europe is more than a free trade area, it is less than a federal state and must remain so. The bedrock of the European Union is the independent democratic nation state. The European Union derives its legitimacy and functions from the powers freely given to it by its members. It can flourish only as a partnership of nations.
The Government have a clear view of what the European Union is, and how it should develop. It is a partnership of nations reconciled after centuries of rivalry and conflict. Those nations have a strong sense of shared purpose and shared values; they have created a single market open internally, and open to the rest of the world; they are committed to maximum co-operation in foreign and security policy and in such issues as the fight against international crime; and they have joined forces in the common enterprise of the European Union while retaining the separate identities that give Europe its richness and character.
Overall, and in its historical context, the degree of co-operation in Europe today is extraordinary and unprecedented. The European Union has been the focus of that achievement, but the quest for ever more institutional integration puts all that at risk.
If an hour of truth is approaching, it is perhaps for the integrationists in Europe, who need to define the limits of their ambition. Where do they see the process that they promote finding its natural conclusion? At what point will dynamism in the EU be measured in the use that we make of the institutions that we have created, rather than in their endless modification? At what point will integrationists accept that deeper is not always and necessarily better?
All sides decry the term "super-state". Chancellor Kohl agrees that independent democratic states are at the heart of the European project. Amen to that; yet if the EU is to be the basis of lasting peace and prosperity in Europe, and if people--not just in the UK--are to be reassured that they are not in the belly of some infernal machine that is running out of control, they need to feel that there is some logical conclusion to the process of European integration, short of a super-state.
That is why all the member states need to think hard about the purposes and limits of integration.
Mr. Hugh Dykes (Harrow, East): I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for giving way at this stage, as he is giving a fair and objective description of what the European Union should mean in the future. Would it not be better for the British Government to avoid the use of the word "federal", as it is so misleading? Too many people fear that it means centralisation, whereas it has many different meanings in different countries. NATO was a federal treaty in every respect and all the way through its clauses. It would be much better to refer to the use of majority voting and greater integration to enable enlargement to take place. That is the aim of the process.
Mr. Rifkind: I strongly disagree with my hon. Friend. I do not believe that the term "federal" is inappropriate. Of course, if one starts with a single central state and then federalises, one is decentralising. However, that is not the starting point in Europe. The starting point is 15 independent nation states. If the attempt is to create a supranational institution with supranational authority at the expense of national Parliaments and national
Governments, one is undoubtedly moving in a federal direction and, depending on the degree of integration that is conceded, one can end up with a federal state. Those who want that objective should not be so shy about using the term that properly describes their ambitions.
Mr. Nigel Spearing (Newham, South): The right hon. and learned Gentleman said a few moments ago that the European Union was something less than a federal state, or words to that effect. Surely it is already something more. A federal state has a separation of powers, whereas we already have a single court, a single Council, a single Commission, a single Parliament, possibly a single currency and a single central bank, and perhaps a single representation abroad on a single commercial policy. Does that not mean that, far from being federal, the EU is already centralised?
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said yesterday that he wanted to know what his colleagues abroad thought. In effect, they are asking for a single institutional state that would leave no real power for a national Parliament such as ours.


The AFL has decided it will appeal against the tribunal's findings at last night's Bachar Houli hearing.
Houli was found guilty of striking Carlton's Jed Lamb and suspended for two games after being sent straight to the tribunal by the Match Review Panel.
The League believes the sanction is inadequate and will therefore appeal against the decision and argue for a longer ban.
The hearing has been set for Thursday evening.
"AFL has determined it will appeal Bachar Houli Tribunal case, on grounds sanction was manifestly inadequate. Appeal heard Thursday evening," the League said in a statement.
Thursday night's appeal will be heard by three of the six members of the Appeals Board, which consists of Peter O'Callaghan (chairman), Brian Collis QC (deputy chairman), Brian Bourke, Michael Green, Stephen Jurica and John Schultz.


Someday, we'll be together without fear.
Today, however, cannot be as such.
Always has it been this way, my dear.
Never can our lives so lightly touch.
& so we stand, my hated love and I.
Still, I feel an aching void within.
And we will be together once we're free.
So I give you the seed of hope to bear.
Today you learn the truth about your life.
Upon you, wonderous gifts have been bestowed.
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Selene, your mother, guides you on your road.
Fear not, this is no dream, but destiny.
It's only you can change the dark to light.
Let not the ancient evils now run free.
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A gift I give to aid you in your task.
Let these symbolize the strength you hold.
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Filled with its dark bliss.
Until it is black as ash.
It welcomes me to its infinite darkness.
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Q: How to trigger an AngularJS directive every time the view changes? I have this in my index.html:

Whenever the controller/route changes, the html is inserted into data-ng-view.
However, I have an Angular directive which executes a Javascript function (callMyJSFunction) when it sees that there is a class 'chat-window' attached to a div in chat.html:
angular.module('myApp').directive('chatWindow', function () {
        return {
            restrict: 'C',
            link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
                element.callMyJSFunction({
                    hostname: 'www.domain.com',
                    data: 'other data'
                });
            }
        }
    });

What I want to happen is that every time the view changes, this Javascript function is called again. How do I do this?
Note that I don't want to move the chat.html into every html file - there are 20+ different views!

A: You can use the viewContentLoaded event that is emitted from the ngView directive.
In your directive, you could do this:
angular.module('myApp').directive('chatWindow', ['$rootScope', function($rootScope) {
    return {
        restrict: 'C',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
            element.callMyJSFunction({
                hostname: 'www.domain.com',
                data: 'other data'
            });

            $rootScope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', function() {
                element.callMyJSFunction(...);
            });
        }
    }
}]);


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Q: C# ReportViewer 2010 - Series Color Differ from Legend Color I have a report with a column chart, on it i have made a simple "Iif" to make sure the colors always stay the same based on the grouped property,
The series color show just fine, but the legend color only picks the first item and the rest is black.

I really have no ideia whats going on, does anyone have any ideia what could i do?
Ah, if i set the color to automatic the legend works as it should.. not sure why its not respecting with custom values,
Thanks!


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Home / Free Essays / Review / Family Preservation and Reunification Programs
Free Family Preservation and Reunification Programs Essay Sample
What will be studied is the family preservation and reunification program. Family preservation and reunification programs are designed to help children and families, including extended and adoptive families that are at risk of abuse or are in crisis. Comprehensive family preservation programs started in mid-1970's in response to an exponential increase in child abuse and neglect reporting and a similar exponential increase in foster care placements and the cost to public child welfare agencies of such placements.
Family preservations and reunification services go by many names, including in home services and family centered or family based services. The main aim of these programs is to preserve the integrity of the family, to prevent the unwanted placement of children in substitute care, to link the family with better community services and to increase the family coping skills and community functioning. According to Henggeler & Santos one of the earliest and best known of the family preservation services is the Homebuilders program, which was established in Tacoma, Washington in 1974. Since then this program has served as a model for the establishment of same type of programs in the entire country.
In addition, Reamer & Siegel noted that "family preservation and reunification programs involving both maltreated and delinquent children will be studied because increasing number of oppositional defiant children are referred to child welfare agencies and because important tests of family preservation have taken place in the juvenile justice system" (p. 88). Researchers limited their meta-analysis to studies with control or comparison groups.
Operationalization of Key Terms
Family preservation and reunification programs reflect the basic, socially efficient tenets of liberalism and its reliance on the social sciences for intervention truths. Epstein says that these programs at the centre of contemporary social work are also uniformly superficial in spite of their author's claims. Permanency planning does not seem to have been achieved for an enormous number of children unless one accepts the questionable and professionally convenient irony that the great increase in foster care itself somehow realizes the expectations for permanency.
Parent motivation plays a key role in successful reunification. Epstein says that the program should employ research design capable of testing the motivation of parents, comparison group and randomized controls that are significant to prove causation. He continues to say that impending assessment of the number of similar children who have reunified in the absence of intensive services.
Intensive services should be designed to achieve family preservation and reunification. Epstein says that "far from suggesting a promising solution for the problems of child welfare, the most credible evaluations of family preservation and reunification programs hint at only limited possibilities to enhance reunification through short term and relatively superficial supportive services". Epstein noted that a few hours of discussion, short lived relief from the strains of poverty, and a bit better housing may be intensive compared with the vagaries of customary state services.
There should be enthusiasm for reunification so as to have greater symbolic value in support of chauvinistic notion of the American family. Epstein says that, ironically, the reunified family is one of the few standards against which foster care compares favorably even while it provides an indictment of American compassion. According to Epstein, the family preservation and reunification program should address the compelling point of skepticism that administrative fiat.
Why Should We Study Family Preservation and Unification Programs?
The need to study family preservation and unification programs arises from the fact that for more than a century child abuse and neglect have been conceptualized as a child welfare problem that is best responded to by the social service or child welfare system. On the other hand the criminal justice system has operated on the periphery of child maltreatment hence the need for studying family preservation and unification programs.
Since child maltreatment has been viewed as a child welfare matter, the basic assumption that guides intervention is that social and clinical interventions are more effective in protecting children and preventing the reoccurrence of abuse and neglect. Therefore this gave rise to family preservation and reunification programs which occurred in the wake of the rediscovery of child abuse in the 1960s.
Another reason for studying family preservation and unification programs is to examine the policy and practice in these programs. Gelles says that such programs determine the services provided in a client's home, the length of home visit which is variable and not confined to 50 minute clinical hour. The study helps us to establish the caseloads which typically should be 2-3 families per worker. Gelles says that through the program we establish that, soft services such as therapy and education, and hard services such as food stamps, housing, a homemaker and supplemental social security are provided. Family preservation programs are claimed to have reduced the placement of children, reduced the cost of out of home placement and at the same time ensured the safety of children.
Family Preservation and Unification Programs
Family preservation and reunification program began in Tacoma, Washington in 1974. The core goal of the program is to keep children safely in the home or to facilitate a safe and lasting reunification. White indicated that "these services program were designed for families that have serious crisis threatening the stability of the family and the safety of the family members" (p. 370). The main feature of these programs is that they are normally short-term, crisis intervention.
These family perseveration programs offer services that have an ecological perspective, stressing collaboration and coordination with community supports and services. Henggeler & Santos continues to say that programs are geared towards family preservation and reunification unless the child's safety is jeopardized. The service delivery of previous programs is comprehensive and flexible to meet the needs of the families. Henggeler & Santos established that previous programs were committed to empowering families, fostering hope and assisting families in setting and achieving goals and priorities.
The most successful family preservation and reunification programs included a number of core elements. Reamer & Siegel says that these elements of family preservation are critical because they can provide promising findings. Family preservation services appear to be moderately effective in preventing placement outside the home of children who are in early adolescence and who are referred for truant, oppositional or delinquent behavior. Reamer & Siegel also noted that arrests and incarcerations are reduced by risk focused multi-systemic family intervention models.
Study results indicate that family preservation and unification programs may be effective in preventing placement into foster care, group homes and residential treatment of youths referred for child behavior problems by the public child welfare system.
According to a book published by Diane publishing (n.d) studies have shown that on average 80% of the families receiving family preservation services have remained together one year after the intervention ended. The estimated annual cost of care in institutional settings ranges from $10,000 to $50,000 per child nationwide while family preservation and reunification programs range from $2,500 to $5,000 per family and even less per child (Center for the study of Social Policy [CSSP] 1991). In New York City the average cost of family preservation services was $5,000 per child, compared with $13,500 per year in foster care Through family preservation and reunification programs, in Denver, Colorado, 93% of families remained together six months after receiving family preservation services and 83 % were still together one year post services.
Gaps in the Existing Literature
Early studies of family preservation programs tended to show positive results, specifically in rates of out-of-home placement. Henggeler & Santos says that "later studies with more intensive designs however have shown more mixed results, often with no statistical differences in the proportion of children placed from family preservation and unification programs". Children receiving family preservation services may have been placed at a slower rate.
Eventually, Barnett, Miller-Perrin & Perrin indicated that "proponents of family preservation and unification believe that such children should remain in their homes while their families receive intensive services aimed at keeping the children safe". In this context there is considerable debate in the research literature, however regarding the value of family preservation and unification programs and their effectiveness. Some scholars argue that the doctrine of family preservation and reunification should be abandoned and replaced by programs that are based on child protection and intervention aimed at children needs.
Research evidence of the effectiveness of some types of programs is growing but significant gaps exist. Assessing the effectiveness of family preservation and unification programs is challenging because different programs that use the same name and follow the same general model can be quite different from one another. The gaps in literature continue to exist because the main aim of family preservation services is to keep children in their parents' home or to reunify families whose children are in out-of-home placements but there are also other services that also exist within such setting such as foster care, group homes, residential treatment and juvenile correctional facilities. Reamer & Siegel indicated that in-home family preservation services in which workers have small caseloads and intervention lasts no more than twenty weeks.
The full review undertaken for the study should touch on relevant issues that have been addressed in family preservation and unification programs. It is important to note that whether or not children are able to return home, contact with family is important for successful reunification. Kufeldt & McKenzie mentioned that children who experience frequent visits are more likely to be reunited with their natural family.
The hypothesis surrounding the family preservation and reunification program evaluation is young children and families that will be reunited through First Steps. The hypothesis surrounding the evaluation of First Steps indicated that the longer a child remained in out-of-homecare, the less likely the child was to experience successful family reunification. The program evaluation will assess the effectiveness of First Steps in its role of protecting young children and their families from abuse and neglect, to strengthen individual and family functioning and preserve the integrity and dignity of the family while addressing the developmental needs of the individual members.
In relation to the research literature review, majority of the family preservation and reunification programs, the evaluation of First Steps will either employ control group or use comparison group with an appropriate match for the group under the program. White says that with regard to First Steps family preservation and reunification programs, the literature review indicates that children were more likely to be placed in stable and significant settings. Evaluation of First Steps shows that the underlying hypothesis for family preservation and reunification services shows that many more children could remain with their families if services were provided earlier and more intensively.
To establish whether First Steps program services are effective there are a number of methodological problems in comparing evaluation of family preservation and reunification programs. Firstly, the hypothesis should outline if there is lack of clear, consistent intake and eligibility standards. Through the use of First Steps as a basis for evaluation there could also be poor specification of the services delivered or the integrity of the services delivered over time. From the evaluation of First Steps family preservation and reunification services will have to be congruent with a number of upcoming trends such as the need for permanent homes for children, foster care reform and cost containment as indicated in the literature review. Also from the evaluation of First Steps it is critical that standardized measures of family and child functioning in a variety of settings, and to better understand which families can benefit from family preservation and reunification programs.
From First Steps evaluation it can be stated that effective family preservation and reunification programs can be built and funded for with little net increase in what would otherwise be state's long run expenditures for child welfare and family programs. The substantive benefits that have expanded First Steps family preservation and reunification program can bring to such children and parents benefits that can be purchased with a limited increase in tax spending in the short term and promote tax savings in the long run. From the evaluation, it is critical to note that an enlarged capacity of First Steps family preservation and reunification program may prove capable not only of cutting costs attached to specific placements it takes care of, but also of making more affordable the price of placement programs it cannot prevent. These research findings and evaluations will then be communicated to the board members of First Steps to help them make decisions about whether or not to continue, expand, or cancel specific services.
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Heard, 31, who finalised her divorce from actor Johnny Depp in January, posted a series of photographs playing with his sons Damian, Kai, Saxon, Xavier, and Griffin at the Sydney Opera House while they were in Australia as she filmed "Aquaman" in May.
Musk's children are from his first marriage to wife Justine. His second wife was actress Talulah Riley, but they divorced in 2015.
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It's Bach!
The 82nd Carmel Bach Festival gets creative with a concert of movie music.
Walter Ryce
Among the Bachs and Handels, Telemanns and Purcells of the Carmel Bach Festival, the artistic leadership likes to program novel stuff into their two weeks of concerts to elevate the element of surprise and the fun factor…
Shakespeare, women and theater chart new ground for the Carmel Bach Festival's interdisciplinary take on music.
Paul Wilner
Ever since Paul Goodwin took over as music director and Principal Conductor of the Carmel Bach Festival in 2011, the venerable event, founded in 1935, has covered new musical territory…
Guitar compositions take center stage during two Bach Fest performances.
Paul Fried
"Now is the time to bring these contemporary film scores to life in extraordinary arrangements for the classical guitar and orchestra…"
The Bach Festival changes up which stages it performs on, and who the target audience for classical music is.
Marvin Green IV
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