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The Meaning of Role in Drama, Therapy and Everyday Life
Robert J LandyIn Persona and Performance, Robert Landy shows that drama provides not only a metaphor for everyday life, but also a means of self-examination and life-enhancement. Encompassing the full range of human experience, role allows us to conceptualize the personality, which Landy views as a system of roles. Learn More1993, 250pp
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A Handbook for Those Entering the Therapeutic Field
Robin HigginsA practical guide for those working with patients, this book will assist students in settling into their early placements and form a useful reference for those with more experience. It draws on anthropological and biographical as well as medical models. Learn More1993, 120pp
New Skills for Social Workers
Edited by Alan Chapman and Mary MarshallThis book explores the new skills needed in multidisciplinary work. These include counselling, creative use of the past, groupwork, empowerment, family therapy, care management, and network analysis. The book is intended to build on what readers already know, while exploring new dimensions of work in the field. Learn More1993, Paperback / softback, 8.19in x 6.30in / 208mm x 160mm, 160pp, AU$52.99ISBN: 978-1-85302-142-8
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Edited by Michael TittertonThis book critically examines the new agenda of welfare and assesses the implications for change for policy makers, formal and informal carers and consumers including examinations of key topics such as care planning and case management. Learn More1994, 160pp
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An Evaluation of a Family-Based Respite Care Service
Kirsten StalkerShare the Care' examines the different ways in which respite care schemes operate, focusing in particular on the Share-the-Care service in Lothian and the experience of parents of children with learning difficulties of using the scheme, respite carers, families facing an extended wait for respite and families who withdraw from the scheme. Learn More1994, Hardback, 8.50in x 5.51in / 216mm x 140mm, 160pp, AU$69.00ISBN: 978-1-85302-038-4
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Edited by Michael OliverThis book redefines the issue of disability as a social rather than an individual problem and considers the implications of this view for the provision of services and for social work practice. It looks at the experience of people with disabilities in society, and the influence that their organisations have had on service provision. Learn More1994, 208pp
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Philip Seed and Gillian KayeThis practical book covers the complex issues involved in assessment procedures and care management. It is addressed to care managers and to social care providers, including staff at all levels. It includes sample forms and many examples, and explains in clear terms the implications of various approaches. Learn More1994, Paperback / softback, 0.04in x 0.04in / 1mm x 1mm, 152pp, AU$49.99ISBN: 978-1-85302-227-2
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Edited by Marian LiebmannThis first collection of art therapy work with offenders describes how the use of art therapy has grown in prisons, young offender institutions, secure psychiatric and probation centres. Examples of work by people of different backgrounds show how art therapy contributes to the understanding of offenders, and to their understanding of themselves. Learn More1994, 320pp
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Music Therapy, Remedial Music Making and Musical Activities
F W SchalkwijkThe author describes how music therapists work at child day care centres, adult day care centres and in other institutions. The first chapters cover the history and theory of working with music with people with developmental disabilities. The main body of the book covers discussion of the various methods, including individual and group work. Learn More1994, 160pp
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John C DenmarkThis practical book, by one of the world's leading psychiatrists in work with deaf people, outlines the nature of the different kinds of deafness and covers both clinical and service aspects of working with deaf people. It is written for professionals in the mental health field also for all those who work in contact with deaf children and adults. Learn More1994, 204pp


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Place the chicken breasts in a large container with the oil, herbs, garlic, lemon zest and pepper, and marinate overnight.
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Rick Perry Is Dead Wrong
There are many things I like about Texas Gov. Rick Perry, including his stance on the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. But apparently his new glasses haven't altered his perception of the world, or allowed him to see it any more clearly.
There are obviously many important events going on in the world right now, but with 60,000 foreign children streaming across the Texas border, I am surprised Governor Perry has apparently still found time to mischaracterize and attack my foreign policy.
Governor Perry writes a fictionalized account of my foreign policy so mischaracterizing my views that I wonder if he's even really read any of my policy papers.
In fact, some of Perry's solutions for the current chaos in Iraq aren't much different from what I've proposed, something he fails to mention. His solutions also aren't much different from President Barack Obama's, something he also fails to mention. Because interestingly enough, there aren't that many good choices right now in dealing with this situation in Iraq.
Perry says there are no good options. I've said the same thing. President Obama has said the same thing. So what are Perry's solutions and why does he think they are so bold and different from anyone else's?
He writes in the Washington Post, "the president can and must do more with our military and intelligence communities to help cripple the Islamic State. Meaningful assistance can include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sharing and airstrikes."
The United States is actually doing all of this now. President Obama has said he might use airstrikes in the future. I have also been open to the same option if it makes sense.
I support continuing our assistance to the government of Iraq, which include armaments and intelligence. I support using advanced technology to prevent ISIS from becoming a threat. I also want to stop sending U.S. aid and arms to Islamic rebels in Syria who are allied with ISIS, something Perry doesn't even address. I would argue that if anything, my ideas for this crisis are both stronger, and not rooted simply in bluster.
If the governor continues to insist that these proposals mean I'm somehow "ignoring ISIS," I'll make it my personal policy to ignore Rick Perry's opinions.
But the governor and I do have at least one major foreign policy difference, something Perry also conveniently fails to mention.
Said Perry forthrightly during a Republican presidential primary debate in 2012, "I would send troops back into Iraq." Obviously, this is something he advocated long before the rise of ISIS. At the time, Perry urged the United States to return troops to Iraq to act as a balance against Iran, a country my colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham says we must work with to help beat back the extremists.
Does Perry now believe that we should send U.S. troops back into Iraq to fight the Iranians—or to help Iran fight ISIS? As everyone agrees, governor, there are no easy options.
Unlike Perry, I oppose sending American troops back into Iraq. After a decade of the United States training the Iraq's military, when confronted by the enemy, the Iraqis dropped their weapons, shed their uniforms and hid. Our soldiers' hard work and sacrifice should be worth more than that. Our military is too good for that.
I ask Governor Perry: How many Americans should send their sons or daughters to die for a foreign country—a nation the Iraqis won't defend for themselves? How many Texan mothers and fathers will Governor Perry ask to send their children to fight in Iraq?
I will not hold my breath for an answer. If refusing to send Americans to die for a country that refuses to defend itself makes one an "isolationist," then perhaps it's time we finally retire that pejorative.
Today, the overwhelming majority of Americans don't want to send U.S. soldiers back into Iraq. Is Perry calling the entire country "isolationist" too?
The let's-intervene-and-consider-the-consequences-later crowd left us with more than 4,000 Americans dead, over 2 million refugees and trillions of dollars in debt. Anytime someone advocates sending our sons and daughters to war, questions about precise objectives, effective methods and an exit strategy must be thoughtfully answered. America deserves this. Our military certainly deserves this.
Tough talk like Perry's might inspire some for the moment, but when bombast becomes policy it can have long and disastrous consequences. It is vitally important that we remember past mistakes so that we learn from them. When Megyn Kelly of Fox News tells Dick Cheney that "history has proven that you got it wrong" on Iraq, it is a very important lesson—we must remember that history so we don't repeat it.
Perry seems entirely comfortable repeating the history, the rhetoric and presumably, the mistakes.
This is where many in my own party, similar to Perry, get it so wrong regarding Ronald Reagan's doctrine of "peace through strength." Strength does not always mean war. Reagan ended the Cold War without going to war with Russia. He achieved a relative peace with the Soviet Union—the greatest existential threat to the United States in our history—through strong diplomacy and moral leadership.
Reagan had no easy options either. But he did the best he could with the hand he was dealt. Some of Reagan's Republican champions today praise his rhetoric but forget his actions. Reagan was stern, but he wasn't stupid. Reagan hated war, particularly the specter of nuclear war. Unlike his more hawkish critics— and there were many—Reagan was always thoughtful and cautious.
But above all, he was strong. America must always be strong.
On foreign policy, Perry couldn't be more stuck in the past, doubling down on formulas that haven't worked, parroting rhetoric that doesn't make sense and reinforcing petulant attitudes that have cost our nation a great deal.
If repeating the same mistakes over and over again is what Perry advocates in U.S. foreign policy, or any other policy, he really should run for president. In Washington, he'd fit right in, because leading Republicans and Democrats not only supported the Iraq war in the first place, but leaders of both parties campaigned on it in 2008.
Any future military action by the United States must always be based on an assessment of what has worked and what hasn't. This basic, common sense precondition is something leaders in both parties have habitually failed to meet.
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I have made a new Favicon generator, Faviconist. Since most favicons are just a letter with some colour theme, I found it crazy to have to open up a photo editor every time I wanted a new favicon. Or alternatively, it's easy enough to convert an image with ImageMagick, but most images don't scale down nicely to a tiny icon! So the aim here is not an editor as such, but a true "favicon generator".
Using Faviconist
To create a favicon, it's as simple as typing the first letter of your website. But you probably don't want the default colour scheme, so it's easy enough to tweak. Under the covers, Favicon has a concept of a "FillStyle" and both foreground and background are instances of FillStyle, so they have the same flexibility. You can have a solid fill style (just a single colour), a linear gradient, or a radial gradient.
For simplicity, Linear gradients don't have stops (it's just a linearly increasing spectrum from start to finish), though you can choose the direction. And in the same sprit of simplicity, radial gradients may only begin at some points, and their span is fixed. The guiding principle here is "YAGNI" - You Ain't Gonna Need It. I'm catering for the 95% of people who don't want to micro-design their icons; the rest will still need to resort to PhotoShop et al.
The preview images are PNGs, which can easily be downloaded directly. However, another gripe of mine is the whole thing of downloading to hard drive and uploading back to a server somewhere else. Hot-linking, aka "bandwidth theft", is rightly a problem for the original image host…but it's a shame the only way we can deal with it is to silo everything. (A parallel vision of the web, which might have almost succeeded and still might, saw it more as embedded content than a collection of copies and links.) In this case, it's only favicons, so I'll just say hot-link and be merry. When you click "Save Favicon", it saves the icons on my server and you can just cut-and-paste into your own project.
I hope this is useful for quick hacks and hackathons, where favicons are often forgotten! These days Favicons are more useful than here. Of many reasons to use a favicon, things one might forget are: they're used on third party sites like Google Plus, tabbed browsing is super-popular these days; if you don't provide favicons, you'll get 404s in your log files.
And here's a little tip for you - don't just use letters. Try special characters, and don't just limit yourself to ASCII. You have the entirety of Unicode at your disposal!
How Favicon Works
Buzzword Bingo time. There are a number of technologies at work here:
Canvas Text To draw text, Faviconist uses Canvas's fillText method. e.g. context = canvas.getContext('2d'); context.fontStyle = '25px arial'; context.fillText('Yo!'). When Ace Editor effort got started (called Bespin), in the early days of canvas, text support was patchy. But now it's very well supported.
MeasureText Library I thought Faviconist would be easy because I thought there would be simple metrics for fonts. Turns out canvas's measureText() returns a "TextMetrics" object, and guess what TextMetrics contains:
interface TextMetrics { readonly attribute double width; };
Huh? We can only find the text's width, not its height. And as a I went down the path, I learned you can't just say "draw this text with its top-left at (0,0)". To center the font, as we do in Faviconist, we actually need to determine text offset as well - left and top.
So I built the MeasureText library. It works as a drop-in replacement (~shim) for the built-in HTML5 Canvas MeasureText mechanism, and also provides a new convenience function not requiring an existing canvas. It works by drawing the text and scanning the resulting bitmap to get a true representation of the metrics. Using this, and with a little geometry, it's possible to center text.
Favicon Library Figured it would be cool to show a preview of the favicon by changing the site's actual favicon! For which I used ye olde Favicon library, which I originally created via this blog and I've now officially moved to Faviconist.com. The library also incorporates a new "badge" feature, so you can show number of pending emails, etc. Go try the demo!
Font Selection You can choose fonts, with the fonts coming from the Google Font Directory. It wasn't feasible load all fonts, so they're loaded dynamically, but I wanted to show previews … so there's a script to build a 38,000 pixel sprite map! It's loaded after the page loads, with a canvas-based check to see if it loaded successfully (since it doesn't work on Firefox). To show it in a dropdown, I used a fork of the Chosen library, a fork which retains the class of each option in the select list.
Chrome Frame Didn't want to support IE6-IE8, so introduced Google Chrome Frame, based on the code in HTML Boilerplate, but increasing the version check from 6 to 8.
JavaScript Libraries Faviconist uses several useful libraries: jQuery, Underscore, Backbone, and jQuery Tools. And just to say, jQuery Tools is the very picture of Developer Experience heaven. Great explanations, many easy-to-follow demos, lots of options…and a CDN for the libraries.
NodeJS, Connect, Express The server is NodeJS running the Express-Connect stack. Considering that the app is almost all client-side, I spent a ton of time getting up to speed with this stack, partly due to performance optimisatins, and partly due to the next point …
Jade, Stylus, Kaffeine Being a fan of DRY, I'm very happy to be using higher-level abstractions of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I certainly am happy with Jade, with the exception of dropping in raw HTML script snippets. And Stylus is absolutely awesome. Kaffeine makes JavaScript much easier, though I've found it difficult to incorporate everywhere because the ecosystem is very much geared around CoffeeScript. e.g. Connect comes with a default CS compiler, Nodemon (a node watch-and-run-tool by Remy Sharp) supports CS, there's a ton of doco about getting CS working with things. So that was really the biggest challenge. I mainly wanted Kaffeine because I'm not such a fan of significant whitespace, but the ecosystem's preference for CoffeeScript did present challenges.
I hope you enjoy Faviconist. It's a work in progress, so please leave feedback if you have suggestions.


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Daniel Green's (b. 1985, San Francisco, CA) artwork conveys an intense and playful fascination with American entertainment and popular culture. Working on wood, cardboard, and paper, Green uses ink to draw figures from television, politics, sports, or history, and then carefully lists dates, titles of shows and songs, cities, and names. Within the dense repetition of his lists sometimes lurks a brief, but direct, personal statement, "Now Eric," "Shut Up Gilles," "No More Treasure Island Movin' Back," which comments on his immediate environment and concerns. These short bursts of the personal show that inside this impressive visual display of his memory, the present moment is registered, but must be actively sought out amid the tangle of other stimuli.
Green began working at Creativity Explored in 2008, and his work has been exhibited internationally (See below). In 2015, Green's artwork Basketball Michael Jordan, 2014, was selected for honorable mention in the Big-i Art Project's fifth open call.
Read more about Green in Priscilla Frank's HuffPost article "San Francisco Artist Daniel Green Proves the Insider/Outsider Art Binary Wrong," or Lani Asher's review of his solo exhibition, Daniel Green: Days of Our Lives, in SFAQ.
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Roster taking shape, Jays @ Phils pregame
So, here's what we now know:
The Blue Jays' bullpen will include B.J. Ryan, Scott Downs, Jesse Carlson, Brian Tallet, Brandon League, Jason Frasor and Shawn Camp. The bench will have Kevin Millar, Jose Bautista and John McDonald.
The only races left are for the backup catching job and the fifth starting job. No. 5 candidate Brad Mills is taking on the Phils tonight. His competition, Scott Richmond, takes the hill Thursday in Lakeland against the Tigers.
Toronto optioned reliever Jeremy Accardo to Triple-A Las Vegas today and manager Cito Gaston said utility man Joe Inglett will also be sent down. As far as the 'pen, Gaston said he didn't want to break up the group that led MLB in bullpen ERA last year. With Inglett, it was purely a numbers game — no room in the inn.
Gaston was also asked if he had any interest in recently released slugger Gary Sheffield and he said no. Adding Sheff would likely mean Travis Snider would be sent to the Minors and Gaston doesn't feel that would be moving in the right direction. GM J.P. Ricciardi, reached by phone, also said there was no interest in Sheffield on the Jays' end.
Asked if he was closer to making a decision on taking either Michael Barrett or Raul Chavez north as the backup catcher, Gaston said the move would be made before Friday. All spring, I've been saying Barrett was the front-runner for that job, but here's what Cito had to say today:
"Both have played well. It's a situation that Chavez has probably played better. But Mike's starting to come around swinging the bat. It's going to be one of those things, we're going to try to do the best thing for the club."
So, advantage Chavez? We'll see.
Don't forget, you can follow my in-game updates at www.twitter.com/mlbastian
Today's lineup:
Marco Scutaro, 2B
Jose Bautista, 3B
Adam Lind, DH
Vernon Wells, CF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Travis Snider, LF
Rod Barajas, C
Aaron Mathews, RF
John McDonald, SS
Brad Mills, P
Jimmy Rollins, SS
Jayson Werth, RF
Chase Utley, 2B
Ryan Howard, 1B
Raul Ibanez, LF
Shane Victorino, CF
Pedro Feliz, 3B
Chris Coste, C
Miguel Cairo, DH
Brett Myers, P
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Looks like Sheffield is garnering lots of interest with multiple teams expressing interest. Right now the the Philles or Reds appear to be the front runners.
Hopefully Accardo gets thing straightend out, Frasor and Camp scare me out there.
Well, how about that. Overbay finally did something more than stike out, which is all he's done for what seems days now, and the kid hit another one out.
Wheres Alex Rios hope he isn't hurting. We need him to get off to a hot start.
your right gjays Overbay is really struggling this spring lets hope he can be a contributer come April 6.
Not a great outing from Mills. He's got to figure out a way to stop hitting all those bats when he pitches. Could be his so called deceptive delivery has already been figured out. He certainly didn't help his case tonight, so over to Richmond.
Yes, Overbay has now struck out 14 times in 35 at bats and only walked 3 times so not only is his ba crap, so is his obp. But, at least tonight he grounded out once-yesterday he wiffed 3 of 3. I'm hoping he gets up to speed before the bell rings for the season.
I don't think there's any problem with Rios, if there is nothing has been said about it.
The other guy who's been in a consistent decline since the first week of spring training is Millar, who's now hitting a magical .189.
I'm not sure, we're going to ever celebrate his signing; personally I'd prefer Inglett came north instead of Millar.
Good thing none of us had to pay to watch that game, that had to be brutal watching in person-unless you're a Phillies fan.
Give Mills a couple of months in AAA and he will be okay.
I said from the start that Richmond would go North and I'm glad he is. I think he deserves a chance to play this year, After all JP screwed him for the olympics and Whitt for the WBC.
Ya looks like Richmond will come North. Cecil will be up buy the end of May so it should just be temperary for Richmond. Im optimistic about slots 1-4 in our rotation but I have ZERO confidence in Richmond/Mills. Hopefully they can prove me wrong.
I agree that I was one of the pesimists who thought that Romero was a flop. He is still only 24 I think he will be a solid starter with the potential to be an excellent 2-3 starter. I'm Really looking forward to watching the young guys play.
Gotta say that I am disappointed that Inglett is being sent down. At times last year, it seemed like he was the bright spark (other than the pitching staff, and before Lind/SNider were brought up).
If somebody gets injured soon after Joe is actually sent down, he better be on the roster for the rest of the year!!!!
I don't like Inglett being sent down either, but I think we need to give Aaron Hill some time to find himself again. If he can't though, between Inglett and Scott Campbell should put the pressure on him.
Can someone tell how a guy that hit 42 homeruns in AAA last year gets released today??? Dallas McPherson. I would be all over this guy if I were J.P. We need more pop from the corner infield positions, that is for sure. Weren't the Jays rumoured to be trading for him once? When he was in Anaheim? I don't know how much he will go for?
I was surprised Dallas was released yesterday as well. Nice looking 1st/3rd baseman and certainly worth pursuing.


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Chocolate Banana Soufflés Recipe
Soufflés are light and fluffy and made using mostly egg whites and no flour, which is great if you are on a low carb, or gluten free diet. My daughter makes soufflés all the time, and actually made the ones pictured here. They are not hard to make, so don't be intimidated. They should be eaten right away or they typically fall after 5-10 minutes so if you are serving these to guests, plan to eat them right out of the oven. I love topping mine with a heaping spoon of cool whip.
Chocolate Banana Soufflés
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Servings: 4 • Serving Size: 6 oz • Points +: 4 pts • Smart Points: 3
Calories: 131.2 • Fat: 3.6 g • Carb: 23.5 g • Fiber: 3.2 g • Protein: 4.8 g
2 ripe medium bananas, mashed
2 tsp cornstarch
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large egg whites
3 tbsp sugar
cooking spray
Preheat over to 400F. Coat 4, 6 oz ramekins with butter flavored cooking spray. Place on a baking sheet.
In a medium bowl, mash bananas and vanilla together. Sift cornstarch and cocoa powder over bananas and stir well.
In another medium bowl, beat egg whites with sugar until they form soft peaks. Fold 1/3 of egg whites into banana mixture. When incorporated, fold in the rest of the egg whites. Spoon mixture into ramekins.
Wipe the top 1/4 inch "collar" of the ramekin to remove any excess batter so that the souffle will rise straight and place ramekins on a baking sheet. Bake at 400°F for 15 minutes. Serve immediately.
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Russia awaits new Ukraine govt before bailout
Russian president Vladimir Putin agreed to the aid package with Ukraine in December.
MOSCOW/KIEV - President Vladimir Putin raised the pressure on Ukraine on Wednesday, saying Russia would wait until it forms a new government before fully implementing a $15 billion bailout deal that Kiev urgently needs.
Putin repeated a promise to honour the lifeline agreement with Ukraine in full, but left open the timing of the next aid instalment as Kiev struggles to calm more than two months of turmoil since President Victor Yanukovich walked away from a treaty with the European Union.
A day after Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned on Tuesday, hoping to appease the opposition and street protesters, Russia tightened border checks on imports from Ukraine in what looked like a reminder to Yanukovich not to install a government that tilts policy back towards the West.
Ukraine's new interim prime minister promised to try to limit the economic damage inflicted by the sometimes violent street protests, and said he expected Russia to disburse a further $2 billion aid instalment "very soon".
Putin had less of a sense of urgency. "I would ask the (Russian) government to fulfill all our financial agreements in full," he said, repeating a promise made on Tuesday after the government resigned in Kiev.
However, he signalled that the latest instalment was on hold in remarks he made during a meeting with senior government officials, extracts of which were broadcast later on Russian TV.
"Let's wait for the formation of a Ukrainian government," he said, before telling the meeting, "But I ask you, even in the current situation, not to lose contact with our (Ukrainian) colleagues," adding that discussions should continue before a new government is formed.
Putin agreed to the aid package with Ukraine in December, throwing the ex-Soviet state a lifeline in what the opposition and the West regard as a reward for scrapping plans to sign political and trade deals with the EU and promising to improve ties with Russia.
Alarm about Ukraine is growing in the West. German Chancellor Angela Merkel telephoned Putin and Yanukovich on Wednesday, urging a constructive dialogue between the government and opposition in Kiev. "The situation must not be allowed to spiral again into violence," a German government spokesman quoted her as saying.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was more forthright, blaming Russia for Kiev's failure to sign the EU deals. "An association pact with Ukraine would have been a major boost to Euro-Atlantic security, I truly regret that it could not be done," he told the French newspaper le Figaro.
US congressional aides said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama's administration was preparing financial sanctions that could be imposed on Ukrainian officials and protest leaders if violence escalates in the political crisis gripping the country.
Obama referred to Ukraine in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, voicing support for the principle that all people have the right to free expression.
Lawmakers loyal to Yanukovich offered an amnesty to people detained in anti-government protests - but only if activists first vacate occupied public buildings in Kiev and elsewhere, a condition they previously rejected.
Ukraine badly needs the Russian money. Figures compiled by UniCredit bank before the bailout put its gross external financing requirements at $3.8 billion in the first three months of this year alone, including $2.29 billion for gas that is covered by the deal with Moscow.
That rises to $5.5 billion in April-June, including repaying a $1 billion bond that matures then. Altogether, the government would need $17.44 billion this year to pay its foreign bills, including for Russian gas.
The EU's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, called for sincere discussion during Ukraine's crisis. "The dialogue which has happened from time to time needs to become a real dialogue. We hope to see real progress in these coming days. Time is really of the essence," she said after meeting Yanukovich.
In an apparent sign of further pressure from Moscow, the Ukrainian association of producers said Russia had started extra border checks, backed by demands for increased duties, on cargoes of food and machinery being shipped into the country by road and rail.
Russia took similar action in August in what was seen as part of Moscow's campaign to dissuade its neighbour from signing the association and trade agreements with the EU.
Ukraine has been gripped by mass unrest since Yanukovich walked away from the EU deals last November.
With Yanukovich and loyalist deputies in parliament now making concessions to defuse the crisis and with Azarov, a Russian-born hardliner, gone there had been speculation that Moscow might slow or even halt the stream of aid.
In Kiev, opposition deputies and Yanukovich loyalists were in back-room talks on Wednesday over the wording of a draft law under which protesters detained by police would get amnesties.
In an unusual move, Yanukovich himself went to parliament to intervene in the debate. There was no immediate response from protesters to the late-night passing of a law that would amnesty detainees if occupied buildings were first cleared. The opposition in parliament had abstained on the vote.
Although the unrest began because of Yanukovich's U-turn on policy towards Europe, it has since turned into a mass demonstration, punctuated by violent clashes between radical protesters and police, against perceived misrule and corruption under Yanukovich's leadership.
Several hundred people camp round-the-clock on Kiev's Independence Square and along an adjoining thoroughfare, while more radical activists confront police lines at Dynamo football stadium a few hundred metres away.
Anti-Yanukovich activists have also stormed into municipal buildings in many other cities across the sprawling country of 46 million. Hundreds of protesters in Kiev have occupied City Hall and the main agriculture ministry building.
In a big concession to the opposition and the protest movement, pro-Yanukovich deputies voted on Tuesday to repeal a series of sweeping anti-protest laws they brought in hastily on 16 January in response to increasingly violent clashes.
The opposition wants a return to the previous constitution, which would represent another significant concession since it would reduce Yanukovich's powers.
Speculation that Russia might cut the financial lifeline it has offered prompted the Standard & Poor's agency to cut Ukraine's credit rating to CCC+ on Tuesday.
Arbuzov said the central bank was ensuring stability on the financial markets and he made no mention of any changes to his predecessor's policy of keeping the hryvnia currency pegged close to the dollar and maintaining subsidies for domestic gas - both criticised by the International Monetary Fund.


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Days after police said a Delhi Township woman was followed home and raped in her own back yard, they're investigating whether the same assailant may have struck several months ago.
"Statistically speaking, there are not too many random stranger sexual assaults that occur. A lot of times it's somebody you know. It's an acquaintance; it's a family member. So for us to have two complete random sexual assaults, it's unique in and of itself," said Lt. Joe Macaluso, Delhi police.
Police said the first attack happened in April. A woman reported someone tried to sexually assault her inside her Foley Road condominium, but she fought the offender off.
The most recent attack happened early Saturday morning. Police say a man followed a woman to her home on Hickorylake Drive, attempted to rob her on her deck, and then forced her onto her lawn where he raped her. Police said her family was home at the time.
Police said both instances happened around 3 a.m. on the last night of the respective months. In both cases, the offender was a white man armed with a gun, and both victims may have been followed home from a local bar.
Police said both victims spent some part of their evening at the Knotty Pine Bar, located on Cheviot Road, in Colerain Township. The victim in the Sept. 1 assault made a stop at a gas station after leaving the bar. The victim in the April attack was at the bar, left, and went to a drug store, then returned to the bar.
"The coincidence is too great to overlook," Knotty Pine Bar owner Gary Weddle said. "If we're involved in any way, we want to make sure we take the right stance. We want to make sure that this gentleman gets his just desserts. If there's anything we can do to help, we will."
Weddle said he doesn't recognize the man but he's beefing up security just in case. He's also offering a cash reward through Crimestoppers.
"We've got plenty of people waiting for him if he'd like to come back," Weddle said.
Police are hoping DNA evidence helps them break the case.
"We're not at the point now where we want to say this is the same individual, but we are open to the fact that it's possible," Macaluso added.
Meanwhile, police are asking residents to be more aware, and to call for help and avoid going home if they think someone is following them.
"If you believe it's an emergency, then we believe it's an emergency. If you think you're being followed, then you need us to be there," Macaluso said.
In the meantime, police are asking people who live or work along Cheviot or Northbend roads and who may have surveillance video from the night of either attack to give him a call.
"If somebody frequented that bar or that area and has ever felt something suspicious as far as somebody following them home, naturally we would like to know about that," Delhi Township police Chief Jim Howarth said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Crimestoppers at 513-352-3040 or Delhi Police at 513-922-0060.


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Richard Hunt and Mat Hayward fom the University of Colorado were interested in employees who asked
their employer for a loan, because they had no money but, for instance, had to
buy a car, pay for their daughter's wedding, medical bills, buy food and
utilities, or faced home eviction. Therefore, they undertook to survey and
interview small and medium-sized building contractors in Colorado. No fewer than 67 percent of companies lent at
least one of their employees money, with an average of about $1,100. Hunt and
Hayward looked at 83 of them in more depth.
The first thing they found out was that, of the 459 loans that these 83 companies in combination handed out to one of their employees, no fewer than 57 percent were completely informal; meaning without any contract or any other formal enforcement mechanism. Why would firms do this? Even if they wanted to lend them money, why not give them a contract for the loan? This was puzzling because making it an informal, instead of formal loan with a contract, left the employer vulnerable to cheating by the employee. Because the employee simply could not pay back, or eventually even somehow inform the tax authorities (since informal loans are illegal). Why would employers voluntarily take that risk?
Hunt and Hayward theorised that employers granting the loan sometimes deliberately make themselves vulnerable towards the employee - by choosing an informal arrangement rather than a contract – to solicit trust and commitment from the employee. Granting a loan to a valuable employee in his time of need and do that in a way which explicitly makes the employer itself vulnerable could create substantial commitment and reciprocity from the employee, grateful for the loan and honoured by the trust placed upon him.
In conformity with this theoretical perspective, Hunt and Hayward found that informal loans were indeed more often extended when the employee needed the money for something personal and emotional, such as a wedding, a graduation, or to pay medical bills. When the loan concerned buying stuff (e.g. a car), paying off a credit card debt or rent, employers more often resorted to a formal contractual loan.
Moreover, Hunt and Hayward conjectured that employers would be more likely to make such an informal loan (rather than a formal, contract-based one) to employees who they were more eager to keep. And indeed they found that the informal loans were more often extended to better performing employees; those that were neither very young nor old (but just the right age to be both experienced and still have many productive years ahead of them), and at a time when the firm was most dependent on them, because it was still relatively new and small, and did not yet have a big backlog in terms of outstanding work assignments.
The question is: Did it work? Does extending an informal loan – at thus putting yourself at risk of being cheated on – result in improved (financial) performance? Hunt and Hayward showed that the answer is a resounding yes: their findings indicated that employers were better able to retain employees to whom they had extended such a loan. Furthermore, their calculations showed that it resulted in enhanced employer profit. Hence, making yourself vulnerable (by not asking for a formal contract) eventually paid off in financial terms.
Paper presented at the "Sumantra Ghoshal Conference for Managerially Relevant Research" at the London Business School
Our vulnerability is my gain: Linking exchange parties' vulnerability to informal transactions and firm performance. Richard Hunt & Mathew Hayward (University of Colorado at Boulder)
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Mama's favorite cloverleaf and crescent holiday yeast roll remains my favorite recipe too, even after all of these years. These are truly the original old fashioned yeast roll - tender, light and perfect.
Old Fashioned Yeast RollsThis is my go to holiday dinner roll recipe, an absolutely perfect dinner roll for any holiday dinner, and, of course, any other day really. I wrote it for my stand mixer but if you don't own one, don't fret! You can still make these rolls with a little bit of extra elbow grease, so I've also included basic instructions for hand kneading in the recipe.
Airy, soft and tender on the inside and nicely browned with the tiniest bit of crunch on the outside, they truly are the perfect holiday roll. It's really a shame that we don't make homemade yeast rolls more often, but mostly they only make an appearance at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner because of the time needed for the two risings. Those 30 minute quick rolls are nice as a fill in, but they are really more like a biscuit than a roll to me because you really do need that extra long rise for the yeast to develop. They are so worth the extra time though, and especially for these two special meals, and aside from the rising time, so easy to make.
Scalding milk is an 'old school' method that is really not even necessary to do anymore, since the primary purpose of it in older recipes was to kill bacteria and also enzymes known to interfere with the chemical reaction from the milk with the recipe. With modern pasteurization that's not much of a worry these days, but you know what? I still do it. Old habits die hard, and why mess with a good thing?
You can do this entire batch in any shape you like - parker house, fan tans, whatever you like. I like to do the cloverleafs and crescents, because frankly they are the easiest, so I like to split the dough and form half of each. Once formed, the second rise can happen in 30 minutes or can take as long as an hour, depending on the environment, so plan accordingly, because you want to time these rolls to pop out of the oven when everything else is ready.
One important tip before we start. When measuring flour, be sure to spoon into your measuring cup, rather than scooping your measuring cup into a canister or bag, which causes the flour to compact, meaning that you will use more flour than needed and will create a heavier and more dense bread.
By the way, this is the same dough you'll use for homemade cinnamon rolls too! You'll find directions for those at the bottom of the recipe text.
Here's how to make these favorite rolls.
Heat the milk and set aside to cool. Proof the yeast with a pinch of sugar and the warm water for about 4 minutes. Combine 2 cups of the flour, with the cooled milk, sugar, salt, butter and egg. Using the dough hook, mix until well combined, then add the yeast and mix for 2 minutes. Continue on low speed 2, adding additional flour about 1/2 cup at a time, until dough bunches around the dough hook and cleans the sides of the bowl. Knead on speed 2 for 4 minutes, or until dough is smooth. The dough will still be a bit sticky.
Turn dough out into a greased bowl, then turn it over so that both sides are coated. Spray the top with butter flavor non-stick spray and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Cover that with a clean, thick towel and set aside in a warm place to rise, until doubled, about 1-1/2 to 2 hours.
Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide in half. Return one half to the bowl and cover so that it doesn't dry out. To make cloverleafs, cut sections of the dough into small sections. You'll be rolling each of these into a ball about one inch in size, so ideally you'd like to end up with 36 balls.
Spray a standard size 12 cup muffin tin with non-stick spray. Roll dough into 1 inch balls and place into the muffin cup.
Continuing rolling dough into balls, placing three balls into each cup. You should fill at least 11 of the 12 cups, depending on how large you roll the balls.
Spray the tops of the dough balls and the muffin tin with non-stick spray and very loosely cover with plastic wrap. Set aside in a warm, draft free spot to rise a second time. This can take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour or more. To make crescents, pat the dough into a circle about 1/4 inch thick and using a knife or a straight edge, cut in half.
Continue cutting into halves until you have sectioned out wedges. You can do up to 16 wedges, depending on the size crescent you want; less wedges for bigger crescents. Roll from the wide end to the tip, placing on a greased baking sheet with the tip facing down.
Set aside and let rise 30 minutes to an hour, or until nice and puffy. When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Carefully and very slowly remove the plastic wrap. Gently pat the rolls with melted butter before placing them in the oven and bake for approximately 15 to 20 minutes, or until nicely golden brown.
Brush again with melted butter when they come out of the oven. Remove from the pan and set on a cooling rack to prevent them from getting soggy, or place directly into bread baskets and bring straight to the table.
You would be hard pressed to be disappointed in these rolls - I promise! Yes, I really do think that they are perfect and hope you will plan to serve them with your next holiday meal.
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Recipe: Old Fashioned Cloverleaf and Crescent Yeast Rolls©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep/Inactive time: 2-1/2 hours |Cook time: 20 min | Yield: 12-18 rolls
- 2-1/4 teaspoons (or one package) of active dry yeast
- Pinch of granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup of warm water at 110 degrees
- 3/4 cup of milk, scalded then cooled
- 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 cup of all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup of granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon of kosher salt
- 1/4 cup of butter, softened at room temperature
- 1 large egg
- 4 tablespoons of butter, melted, for brushing
In a small bowl, add the yeast, a pinch of sugar and the water. Let sit for about 4 minutes. In a mixer bowl add 2 cups of the flour, the cooled milk, sugar, salt, butter and egg. Attach the dough hook and mix on low (speed 2) until well combined; add the yeast and mix for 2 minutes. Continue mixing on low, adding additional flour, 1/2 cup at a time (do not exceed 3-3/4 cups), scraping sides down to push toward the hook at the beginning. Once the dough begins to gather around the dough hook and clean the sides of the bowl, stop adding flour. Continue on low speed 4 minutes. Turn out into a greased bowl, turn the dough to coat both sides, spray the top of the dough with butter flavored non-stick spray, cover with plastic wrap, and place a clean towel on top. Place in a warm, draft free area to rise, about 1-1/2 hour to 2 hours, or until doubled.
Punch the dough down, and divide it in half. Form half into cloverleafs by cutting into 36 pieces. Don't be troubled by that! Basically you're going to pull off pieces that will roll into a one inch balls and place three of them in standard sized, greased muffin cups. You should get a total of 12 rolls, but don't fret if you only manage 11 - it's fine! Spray the top of the rolls and the pan with butter flavored non-stick spray and loosely lay a piece of plastic wrap across the top. Set aside in a warm, draft free spot to rise 30 minutes to one hour or until nicely puffed.
Take the other half of the dough and pat it into a flat circle about 1/4 inch thick. Take a straight edge or a knife and cut into wedges. You can make these whatever size wedges you like, but you can get up to 16 wedges. Brush the wedges with room temperature soft butter and roll them up from the wide end toward the point. Place on a greased baking sheet with the point on the bottom. Spray the top of the rolls and the pan with butter flavored non-stick spray and loosely lay a piece of plastic wrap across the top. Set aside in a warm, draft free spot to rise 30 minutes to one hour or until nicely puffed.
When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until nicely golden brown, turning and exchanging pans halfway through. Brush with melted butter, remove from pan and transfer to a rack so that they won't get soggy, or put them immediately into napkin lined baskets and straight to the table.
Best fresh, but in a pinch, these rolls warm up nicely in the microwave if you need to make them slightly ahead of time.
Cook's Notes: When measuring flour, be sure to spoon into your measuring cup, rather than scooping your measuring cup into a canister or bag, which causes the flour to compact and creates a dense bread from too much flour. For pan rolls, place all 36 balls into a buttered cake pan and bake together. On other methods, how many rolls you get will be dependent on how you roll them - generally from 12 to 18 per batch. I like to do half cloverleaf and half crescents. Ovens vary in how they bake, so be sure to check them after about 12 minutes to see how they are browning. These are wonderful served with Whipped Honey Butter.
To Hand Knead: If you don't have a stand mixer you can still make these rolls. It will just take a little extra elbow grease is all! Stir all of the ingredients together by hand using a sturdy wooden spoon. Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead, using the heel of your hand to push on the dough, folding it and turning it a quarter turn, until the dough is smooth and elastic as pictured in the tutorial. How long will depend on your speed and strength. Place in a greased bowl, cover, let rise and continue as above.
To Make Ahead: Prepare and bake only until light golden around the edges, about 10 minutes. Remove and let cool completely. Wrap in plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator. To finish cooking, bring to room temperature, and bake at 400 degrees for 5 to 10 minutes or until golden brown and heated through. Brush with butter and serve.
To Freeze: Shape rolls and let them rise in the cake pans. Spray one side of the inside of a plastic bag with nonstick spray and insert the pan inside, close loosely and freeze. Thaw out in the refrigerator the night before baking. Bring to room temperature, then bake as usual and brush with melted butter when they come out of the oven.
For Cinnamon Rolls: Butter a cake pan; set aside. Prepare same dough as above, except roll into a rectangle, approximately 15 x 9 inches in size. Spread 1/4 cup room temperature softened butter over dough. Mix 1/2 cup of granulated sugar with 1 heaping tablespoon ground cinnamon and sprinkle all over dough. Roll dough up from the wide side and cut into 12 even slices. Place slightly apart into buttered pan and let rise until doubled.
Bake in preheated 375 degree F oven, for about 25 to 30 minutes, or until cooked through in the center. For glaze, mix 1-1/2 cups powdered sugar with 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract and up to 3 tablespoons half and half or milk. Start with 1 tablespoon adding additional milk, as needed, to create a thick but smooth and spreadable consistency. Let rolls cool, but while still slightly warm, spread icing over rolls in pan. May also make 15 smaller rolls in a 13 x 9 inch baking pan.
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[Originally posted on September 12th, 2011.]
Well, here we are. Pretty incredible. After ten thousand episodes and 45 years of memories, Entourage finally comes to an end. To say that this is the end of an era hardly does the momentousness of this occasion justice. If anything it's almost TOO important. I just feel honored and blessed to be alive in these times and in a position where I can offer up a recap, however inadequate. Anyway, where to even begin? How about the only way TO begin. With this:
Powerful stuff. Oh yeah, indeed. SO: Turtle, Johnny Drama, and Billy Walsh are all eating brunch together in the penthouse (HBO's new slogan should be "It's not TV, it's Brunch.") when in walks Vinny Chase [APPLAUSE]. He just got back from "the best 24 hour date of [his] life," which apparently is a kind of date, and he's got some big news. Well, so do the boys. Well, this is bigger. Well, the boys don't know about that. EASY, LADIES, I'M SURE YOU ALL HAVE BIG NEWS THAT'S GOING TO BE INCREDIBLE! Vince "thinks" he's getting married. Wait, that's not how you deliver that news, Vince. You either are getting married or you are not getting married, especially when THE WEDDING IS TONIGHT IN PARIS! Better make up your mind soon, you've got six hours. Wait, what is the boys's news? Oh, right, Sloane is pregnant. Vince falls asleep this news is so boring. He sleeps through his wedding. Ari dies. The End. JUST KIDDING THERE'S SO MUCH MORE WONDERFUL EPISODE TO RECAP:
It's kind of unfortunate that this is the series finale insofar as there should have been an episode in between last week's episode and this week's episode that can explain what the hell is even happening with this Vince Chase marriage thing. This Sofia woman who we are told is "the smartest woman who has ever lived" and who "hates Vince" gets a homemade Girls Gone Wild DVD from him, agrees to go on a date, and now she is instantaneously his bride to be? Sounds like a real fucking genius. (It is also unfortunate that this show skipped its opportunity to insert some kind of Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes marriage contract plotline in which Vince convinces Sophia to marry him in return for 10 million dollars cash and a guaranteed career bump. That would have been fun! Woulda Coulda Shoulda Johnny Drama.) Anyway, he is in love. Fair enough. Considering the fact that his character is razor thin and completely devoid of any kind of motivation who just floats along on a breeze of plumb luck and free millions, it makes total sense that he would go from a womanizer to the honorable husband of a SuperGenius in 10 seconds. Congrats, Vince. Couldn't have happened to a
better faker guy.
Meanwhile, Ari is looking ragged and disheveled in his office.
Wait, why? Last episode he was fucking Dana Gordon's brains out, but then ended that relationship because he knew that he still loved his wife, and he decided he was going to try to win her back. But so now he's just a wreck? What happened? He was still divorcing his wife even before he got back together with Dana and he managed to keep it together, and then he was fucking Dana and keeping it together, but now he is not keeping it together. The human is a very funny beast. Hey, I've got an idea, who wants a Mike Ditka cameo for no reason?!
The only thing dumber than a completely unnecessary Football Coaches Of Yesteryear cameo on Entourage (because Ari wanted them to come and give his agents a pep talk, but Babs didn't want them to come, but she doesn't explain why she didn't want them to come, because this show doesn't actually understand how to create dramatic conflict and so the closest they can come is just having someone say "I didn't want this to happen" without any justifiable reason for saying so. Going to miss you, Entourage old buddy!) is a RACHEL ZOE cameo on Entourage.
She is a loathsome garbage person. I can't believe she hasn't been on the show before! (Phew, just made it.) She slithers out of the wood work on her seven spider legs (spiders have eight legs normally but Rachel Zoe is a piece of shit) and offers unsolicited advice on Vince's engagement ring, but Vince is too busy blowing up Sloane's spot to her father, who hates E. Uh oh! Sloane didn't tell her dad that she was pregnant yet, which is actually kind of weird, like, how long was she going to sit on that one but also why was Vince talking about it? Why was Vince and this old man talking in the first place! Absolutely no reason for it. Cool plot device. It's called Raising the Stakes and Entourage does it perfectly every time. I can't believe we only have less than one episode left in which to resolve this dramatic and thrilling storyline! There is so much more to be told! Vince is so distracted by the phone call that he off-handedly purchases a 1.4 million dollar engagement ring because he cannot be bothered. THIS SHOW GETS PEOPLE!
E is packing up all of the things at his office. Huh? I guess he has decided he is going to move to New York to help Sloane raise the baby even though the last time he saw her she said that she didn't want anything from him and she never wanted to see him again. Definitely shut down your business. Very good thinking. (I'm all for being a responsible father, but a) this is a bit rash and extreme, and b) these people aren't real people so fuck them and fuck their imaginary babies.) Vince wants E to come with him to Paris and be his best man. OH MY GOD, AM I CRYING? ARE THESE REAL TEARS?
Turtle and Drama go to Sloane's house…to convince her to come to Vince's wedding…because she is carrying "their" baby inside of her? ( I am excited for the Turtle and Johnny Drama sitcom: Wing Men.) There is this weird insistence that this baby somehow belongs to the whole gang. How fun is that? For the girl? Ladies, quick poll: when you get pregnant with your ex-fiance's baby and you hate him because he is fucking your stepmom, how fun is it for his best friends to come to your house uninvited and refer to your baby as "everyone's baby"? The most fun? 100 percent of ladies agree that they love that shit. She will think about going to Paris, she says, if they will answer one question: did E sleep with her stepmom. Both Turtle and Drama bow their heads and say something to the effect of "we are both decent and honorable people, and our friendship with you means more than you will ever know which is why we keep referring to your baby as our baby, and so as much as it pains us to say this to you, you deserve nothing but honesty from us as a woman whose respect we yearn for even if we sometimes don't deserve it: yes, he did." Just kidding! They lie through their teeth! OH YEAH!
Now it is Vince's turn. He also comes over uninvited. He says that he would never forgive himself if he was the official ending of Sloane and E's relationship. Well, that is certainly self-centered! Sloane explains that she can never get back together with E because her father hates him. That's it? I thought there were more reasons. But I guess that's that! They'll almost never get back together. Only 10 minutes of Entourage left, so you better just kiss that one goodbye because there is NO WAY they are just going to resolve this right at the end with no real explanation for what changed. Sloane asks Vince the same thing she asked the boys, whether or not E fucked her stepmom, which he totally did, multiple times, which is disgusting. Vince tells her that he genuinely doesn't know the answer but that If E did fuck Sloane's ex-stepmom it is only because he's TOO loyal and loves Sloane TOO much. HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Unbelievable.
Ari calls his daughter because he and his wife were going to have a family meeting that afternoon to break the news to the kids about their divorce but then he called the school and it turns out she had the day off, which is just another example of how Ari has been an absentee father and doesn't pay any attention to his family. The daughter really doesn't seem to mind that much, to be honest. She is out shopping, what does she want to talk to her gross old dad about? Somehow, though, this conversation leads to her talking about some proto-teen-opera group that she is championing and how she gave him the CD because she thought maybe he could represent the band but he never listened to it and it's just been sitting on his desk for a week because he's a bad dad. If he signs them, she is going to get a commission. "My daughter the agent, when did you grow up?" When you are trying to pretend that you are not as bad and disengaged of a father as everyone is saying you are, don't ask "When did you grow up?" Because growing up takes years. Pay attention, dads. Also: "my daughter the agent." Barf me a river. So Ari goes back to the office and frantically tries to find the CD but it's nowhere to be found. Oh, Lloyd has it. Ari is mad that Lloyd has it. Who cares. (Hopefully everyone involved with Entourage will change their minds and we will get a ninth season and it will be all about Lloyd having Ari's CD, like the full story of what was going on there.) Ari tells him to play the CD throughout the whole office on the loudspeaker. Lloyd does this immediately. It is amazing that he has the power to do that from his computer! Moving on up, Lloyd!
Ari is overwhelmed by the trash popera he is hearing, and that is how he is convinced to abandon the company he built and go back and rejoin his family. Amazingly, this works! Like, right away! You would think that years of built up resentments and petty disagreements and fundamental shifts in attitudes and emotional attachments might be harder to repair than just pulling up in a porsche coupe and saying "I listened to this opera CD" but there you have it. So now Ari and his wife are back together, because Ari learned what is really important in this world: having enough money for five lifetimes. HAHAHAH. Oh, yeah, by the way, Ari points out that they have enough money for five lifetimes, which makes the whole "quitting your job and just traveling to the Amalfi coast and being a good father to your children and a wonderful husband to your wife thing" a whole lot easier? Lloyd pulls up and Ari tells him that he's in charge now. You get the keys to the Agent Factory, Gay Charlie! He also tells him that his first clients are the teenage opera singers, which makes no sense because Lloyd has been an agent for a couple of years and already has clients? Then Lloyd tells Ari that he better hurry up and get to the private airplane hangar if he's going to make it in time for Vince's wedding that Ari didn't even know about. RUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Everyone is here! Wow! Except Billy Walsh and Andrew Dice Clay, I guess. But look, there's Vince! There's Turtle! There's Johnny Drama! There's E! There's Scott Caan! Oh wait, here's Ari! And his wife! Her name is MELISSA! Incredible! (When they tell Vince they are working things out he actually says "Uh-mazing," which is about right. Sophia, of course, is here, and has absolutely nothing to offer. After all of her quips and references to graduating from Oxford and being a hard-hitting journalist, even she has been reduced to pretty arm-candy. CONGRATS, SOPHIA! Everyone is about to get on the private jet to Paris for the wedding. Uh, not you, E. WHUT?! E has to fly commercial. JUST KIDDING, HE WOULD NEVER! Vince got E his own plane. And guess who is standing at the steps of this plane? Sloane!
After hearing absolutely nothing even remotely convincing from everyone, she has decided to give it another shot! Vince says that the pilot is ready to take them anywhere in the world that they want to go. Wait. Isn't everyone going to Paris for your wedding? So, what, they're going to fly to Hawaii, land, have a Mai Thai, and then have to get back on the plane for a 16-hour flight to fucking Paris? Nice present. Very thoughtful. Anyway, it looks like it all worked out for everyone. The two planes take off. AND SUDDENLY VEER OF COURSE AND CRASH INTO EACH OTHER! NO SURVIVORS! THE TARMAC IS COVERED IN BLOODSTAINED LOUIS VUITTON LUGGAGE. TURTLE'S NEW YORK METS HAT TUMBLES DOWN THE RUNWAY. AS THE HAT COMES TO A STOP THE CAMERA ZOOMS IN. CELINE DION SINGS THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. HBO GOES DARK FOR 10 MINUTES IN HONOR OF THEIR MEMORIES.
For real, though: A blooper reel plays during the credits in which Ari Gold is sipping champagne with his wife at George Clooney's castle on the Mediterranean Sea, or whatever, and he gets a phone call from that old Australian dude from The O.C. and also Lost who tells him that he wants Ari to come be the CEO of his company and that he is the ONLY ONE who can do it (which makes absolutely NO SENSE even to someone who doesn't know about business? I mean, how is some Hollywood agent the ONLY person to be the CEO of a multi-national company with numerous non-entertainment industry business interests? A candidate, fine. The ONLY candidate?) and find out what it's like to have as much money as God. Ari's face looks conflicted. WILL HE OR WON'T HE? And…..that's the very end of Entourage.
Holy fucking shit. I had every expectation that the final episode of Entourage of all time would be bad. That it would casually wrap up its boring storylines in convenient ways and that at the end of it all we would be left with exactly what we had when we started eight seasons ago: nothing. And that is basically what happened, but it was so MUCH WORSE than I could have imagined! Obviously, this was a bad, lazy, terribly written show, but you would think that after eight years they would have managed to squeak out some kind of half hour conclusion that was more satisfying and less disgusting. This isn't The Sopranos. There are literally no actual loose ends to tie up. The only thing they had to do was bring all the characters together, pop open a bottle of champagne, wave their ATM receipts showing the millions each of them has in their checking account in the air, and crash a Lamborghini into the White House. Only Entourage would base its series finale around the wedding of its main character and then NOT SHOW THE WEDDING and KIND OF IMPLY IT DIDN'T EVEN END UP HAPPENING PROBABLY. And this final scene in which Ari Gold hovers at the edge of emotional redemption having abandoned his greedy, self-aggrandizing ways in order to enjoy his life and reconnect wit his family only to have an unlikely business opportunity arise and we as an audience are genuinely supposed to HOPE that he takes it because "wouldn't that be great" (this is definitely the implication of the scene) is weird and misguided and gross even for a show as weird and misguided and gross as Entourage has been about money and material wealth since the very beginning. Is this what the rumored Entourage movie is going to be about? Ari running a company? While Turtle eats his baked clams on a bed covered in 50 dollar bills? And Sophia takes Vince to Divorce Court? GREAT MOVIE, PRETTY SURE THE FANDANGO SERVERS HAVE ALREADY CRASHED. I suppose it is appropriate, though, for Entourage to end as it began: terribly. R.I.P. Entourage. May you rot in TV hell.
[Originally posted on September 12th, 2011.]


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After beginning the week slightly lower, corn futures bounced modestly in response to the weekly Export Inspections report issued around midmorning Monday. Wire service sources also cited light short-covering for a portion of the rebound, especially after the nearby March contract had closed lower for six consecutive CBOT sessions. March corn was trading 0.75 cents higher, at $7.0975/bushel in late-morning trading, whereas December had slipped 1.0 cent to $5.6225.
Soybean futures continued their recent breakdown Monday, with market observers citing persistent weakness stemming from the February 8 WASDE report. The USDA boosted its forecast of global soybean carryout for 2012-13 over 1% on that release, which substantially exceeded expectations. The industry may also be reacting to moderate improvements in short-term weather forecasts for dry Argentine soybean fields. March soybeans had fallen 18.0 cents to 14.345 late Monday morning, while March soyoil dropped 0.27 cents to 51.16 cents/pound, while March meal sank $8.16 to 414.3/ton.
The Monday morning export inspections report apparently did little to excite wheat traders, since they quickly reversed their initial bullish reaction. Bulls are probably disappointed with early-week activity, especially after Russia announced it would suspect a 5% import tariff on wheat imports in order to alleviate its domestic supply shortage. Large soybean losses may be dragging wheat lower as well. March CBOT wheat futures were trading 7.0 cents lower, at $7.4925/bushel around noon, while March KCBT wheat had slipped just 2.5 cents to $7.9725, and March MGE futures slid 4.25 cents to $8.32.
After opening weakly, CME live cattle futures posted a moderate bounce late on Monday morning. We suspect talk of a lengthy Russian ban on U.S. product weighed rather heavily upon prices late last week and again this morning, particularly when those were viewed in light of relatively strong Russian buying over the past two years. However, the decline seemingly lost its downward momentum, which may have prompted the subsequent rebound. April cattle rose 0.22 cents lower to 130.35 in late-morning trading, while August bounced 0.30 cents to 126.77. Meanwhile, March feeder cattle were 0.32 cents lower, at 144.67 cents/pound at that point, and August had rebounded 0.60 cents to 157.30.
Hog futures were generally mixed to slightly higher around mid-session Monday. News of the Russian embargo on American meat probably weighed upon prices somewhat, but the realization that Russia is a much smaller player on the pork side may have prompted the subsequent bounce. We wonder if anticipation of a last-gasp mid-winter bounce boosted Chicago prices. April hogs had risen 0.32 cents to 86.45 cents/pound by mid-session, while June gained 0.02 cents to 94.52.
After traded in mixed fashion in early morning action, cotton futures rallied late Monday morning. We suspect two tentative U.S. acreage forecasts reports, one from the National Cotton Council and another from the long-term outlook published by the USDA this morning, sparked the late advance, because both implied substantial reductions in domestic cotton plantings this spring. March cotton had risen 0.20 cents to 82.87 cents/pound in late-morning activity, while its December counterpart had climbed 0.31 cents to 83.23.