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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Meeting of April 22, 2009 - on Best Practices To Avoid Discrimination Against Caregivers
Acting Chair Ishimaru, Acting Vice Chair Griffin, Commissioners Earp and Barker, and colleagues: On behalf of the more than 300 corporate members of the Equal Employment Advisory Council (EEAC), I appreciate the opportunity to appear before the Commission to discuss programs and policies used by EEAC members to ensure that individuals with caregiving responsibilities are afforded equal employment opportunities in the workplace.
First, I would like to commend the Commission on today's release of written guidance on "Employer Best Practices for Workers with Caregiving Responsibilities." We look forward to sharing your suggestions with our members who, as you know, are among the largest employers in the country and are fully committed to complying with our nation's employment nondiscrimination and affirmative action laws. In that vein, it should be emphasized that the initiatives our members undertake on behalf of employees with caregiving responsibilities that I will be discussing with you today are motivated less by a desire to avoid unlawful discrimination (as important as that is) than by a desire to attract and retain the most talented employees possible — many of whom have significant caregiving responsibilities. Acknowledging and addressing those responsibilities is essential to maintaining a talented and productive workforce.
In preparing today's testimony, I asked our members to provide me with examples of initiatives they have undertaken to ensure that individuals with caregiving responsibilities are afforded equal employment opportunities. Many examples were provided, several of which are reflected in your new guidance. I will summarize those initiatives according to whether they primarily address childcare, adult and eldercare, care for individuals with special needs, or caregiving generally.
I would like to devote the majority of my time, however, to new trends regarding flexible work arrangements. Employee surveys consistently reveal that attempting to balance work and family responsibilities is one of the most significant sources of stress on the job. An employer's willingness to be flexible with respect to where and when work is performed can go a long way towards reducing that stress and promoting employee job satisfaction and retention. Of course, not all employers are in a position to offer flexible work arrangements, nor do all jobs lend themselves to such treatment. Given the large size of many EEAC member companies and the variety of jobs they have, some are in the forefront of experimenting with new forms of job flexibility. Accordingly, I thought their experiences would be particularly appropriate for EEAC's testimony here today.
Current Programs To Facilitate Caregiving Responsibilities
All EEAC members are subject to the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and similar state laws. The initiatives summarized below comply with, and in many cases go well-beyond, the requirements of those laws.
Backup Childcare – Several EEAC members offer backup childcare for occasions when the employee's normal childcare arrangements are for some reason unavailable. Some companies offer such services specifically during school vacations or holidays. The childcare may be provided at the employee's worksite or at an approved offsite facility. Often, there is no cost for such services, or the costs are subsidized by the company.
New Mother Care Centers – These centers are designed primarily for accommodating the needs of new mothers who are nursing their infants. Private space and refrigeration facilities are standard offerings.
Adoption Assistance – Some EEAC members provide employees with counseling, legal and financial assistance in navigating the often complicated path to adoption.
Adult and Eldercare
Counseling and Assessments – There often are a wide variety of services designed for adults and the elderly in need of care that generically can be categorized as counseling and assessments. Included in this group are such benefits as:
Individuals with Special Needs
One EEAC member company has developed a cost-free estate planning resource for employees who are parents or grandparents of children with special needs. The service is designed to assist families through the maze of legal and financial complexities surrounding planning for the future of special needs children. Using a network of specialists, counseling is provided on such issues as meeting long-term care needs, structuring a financial plan to provide cash when needed, and preserving government benefits.
Federal law provides that if individuals with special needs are left assets in excess of $2,000 (life insurance proceeds, for example), they automatically lose eligibility for most government benefits such as Medicaid. This service provides advice for establishing and funding special needs trusts that will protect government benefit eligibility and ensure lifetime care. The service also provides current information on local and national resources, educational workshops, and other materials.
Leave Policies for Caregiving Generally
In addition to FMLA and standard pregnancy medical leave policies, EEAC members have broadened existing leave policies or created new ones to accommodate employees with caregiving responsibilities. One company, for example, converted its "sick leave" policy (available only for the employee's own illness) into an "unplanned absence policy" to provide paid time off for the unexpected illness of the employee or their family members. This company also allows employees to purchase up to five additional vacation days.
Some EEAC members have instituted leave policies to supplement FMLA leave. One company offers up to four weeks of unpaid "personal leave" for employees who are not yet FMLA eligible (i.e., they have not yet worked the required 12 months or 1,250 hours).
Another company offers "Working Caregiver Leave" to be used by employees who are not yet FMLA eligible, or whose FMLA leave has been exhausted. Working Caregiver Leave can extend for up to 12 consecutive weeks in any calendar year. It must be used for purposes of caring for the extraordinary needs of a "family member" (broadly defined to include not only the employee's own family members, but the family members of a spouse or domestic partner as well), and the employee must work a minimum of 20 hours each week he or she is on leave. During the period of leave the employee continues to receive benefits that equal those he or she would have received when working normal hours (30, 35, 38, 40 hrs...). The policy was originally created to help mothers returning from maternity leave to integrate back into the workforce gradually, but it has proven to have broader application in practice.
Workplace Flexibility
Workplace flexibility programs are intended to provide flexibility regarding when and where work gets done in order to address employees' personal needs and preferences. As noted earlier, work/life balance is consistently noted by employees as an essential ingredient of a productive work environment, and the "millennial" generation has come to expect such flexibility. EEAC members increasingly are looking to flexible work arrangements as one way to become recognized as an "employer of choice" in the quest to acquire and retain talented employees. While such programs benefit all employees, they often are of particular benefit for employees with caregiving responsibilities.
Workplace flexibility arrangements exist in many forms at EEAC member companies. In most organizations they may be used either individually or in combination with one another to accommodate the employee's unique circumstances. They may not be available for all jobs nor are they necessarily available at all times for the same job. The primary criteria for use of flexible work arrangements are (1) the needs of the business, (2) the needs of the employee, and (3) the ability of the employee to perform his or her job. Supervisory authorization is almost invariably required as a condition to using a flexible work arrangement.
Workplace flexibility programs at most EEAC companies have two primary components. One component adjusts an employee's work schedule or location; the other provides time off from work.
Work Schedule or Location Adjustments
Flexible work arrangements often include adjustable work hours — varying the start and end of the workday around core hours. They may also include a modified work week in which a full schedule is worked, but the normal five-day schedule is adjusted (e.g., compressed into four 10-hour days) to accommodate personal needs. Finally, these programs often enable an employee to work from home or elsewhere to accommodate personal needs.
Time Off From Work
Time off options offered by one EEAC member company reflect the innovative ways some progressive companies are attempting to accommodate the personal needs of their employees:
Because of the wide variety of purposes for which personal leave may be requested, the time off may be either paid or unpaid, and in certain circumstances limits may apply.
Assessing Compliance With Nondiscrimination Requirements
With the exception of statutorily mandated leave requirements (e.g., FMLA) the programs discussed in this testimony are voluntary and are motivated primarily by a desire to attract and retain a talented workforce. That said, they do constitute terms, conditions, and privileges of employment that must be implemented on a nondiscriminatory basis under the laws that EEOC enforces.
In evaluating corporate caregiver programs, the EEOC must be mindful of the fact that not all companies are in a position to be able to provide the benefits discussed in this testimony. Moreover, for those companies that are in a position to provide caregiver services, the specific benefits that are made available, and to whom they are made available, can vary significantly depending upon the circumstances. For example:
The key to compliance assessment for both EEAC members and the EEOC is to ensure that when caregiver benefits are made available they are made available to all similarly-situated employees on an equitable basis. To assist in this process, several EEAC member companies have established complaint procedures through which employees who feel they have not been afforded equal benefits can request an investigation of their treatment. While the procedures for filing such complaints and conducting the investigations vary, all are designed to ensure that there is no unlawful disparate treatment in the application of the company's programs. Detailed standards, guidance and training for supervisors often are provided to foster consistency in application.
Once again, EEAC appreciates the Commission's new guidance on "Employer Best Practices for Workers with Caregiving Responsibilities." For the reasons outlined above, such practices are essential components of corporate efforts to develop and retain talented and productive employees. We appreciate the opportunity to inform the Commission about our members' workplace flexibility initiatives and hope that the information we have provided will be useful to the Commission in evaluating such programs in the future. Thank you.


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The aunt of a Worcester native killed in Brazil by a police officer has announced a campaign to bring awareness to the high rate of deaths in that country at the hands of police.
Elizabeth Martin has named the campaign "Don't Kill For Me, Safe Games for All" with the hope the international community will demand change in advance of the 2016 Olympic Games and the 2014 World Cup, which will be hosted by Brazil.
"They're saying they're cleaning house and they're killing on our behalf," she said in a telephone interview from her Boston home. "In terms of the World Cup and the Olympics, it becomes a larger message for people to say this isn't how we want (police to be preparing for the events)."
Ms. Martin cited recent studies showing that police in Brazil, and especially in Rio de Janeiro, are poorly trained and act with military force, often killing criminals and civilians rather than placing them under arrest.
Her nephew, Joseph E. Martin, was killed in front of a nightclub in Rio the night of May 25, 2007, while celebrating his 30th birthday. He had been living in the country for about two years while teaching English.
Authorities made the case that 22-year-old Officer Joao Vicente Sa Freire was defending himself against Mr. Martin, but witnesses reported Mr. Martin was trying to stop the officer from shooting a young person who had stolen a woman's purse.
"It's been excruciating," Ms. Martin said of trying to cope following her nephew's death.
The officer was held in custody briefly and soon returned to duty. In 2010, he was put on trial and acquitted of charges of manslaughter, and in a twist of fate was gunned down in a Rio restaurant a few months later, leaving no chance of an appeal or re-opening the case.
There have been several reports published laying out recommendations to lower the rate of police killings in the country, and Ms. Martin said there are several groups in Brazil who are pushing for those changes.
However, she believes that it will take wide international awareness to force the country to do so.
Between 2003 and 2009, police in Rio and S�o Paulo killed more than 11,000 people, according to researchers in a report published by the United Nations Human Rights Council in mid-2010. Noting those cities, the report author wrote that "citizens in certain parts of Brazil live in fear of police violence and militias just as much as they fear violence from drug trafficking gangs and criminals."
The author made the case that killings by police "remain at unacceptably high levels, with perpetrators continuing to enjoy impunity." Many times, they are reported as "resistance" killings, meaning that police killed the person while they illegally resisted arrest or disobeying other lawful orders of police.
"The police don't contest the fact that they are killing civilians," Ms. Martin said. "What they contest is the reason."
The night he was killed, Mr. Martin reportedly put himself between the armed officer and the young man and challenged the officer, saying, "What are you going to do, shoot me?"
In the year Mr. Martin was slain, there were a reported 1,330 total killings by police in Rio which fell under that category, the UN study showed. According to a separate report, the Rio police were responsible for nearly 20 percent of homicides in 2008.
The international Human Rights Watch organization reported that police in Rio killed one person for every 23 that they arrested in 2008. The UN publication attributed that to police using excessive force.

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text: By Paula Lau As I stood staring at the slammed bedroom door of my teenage son (I'm withholding his name to protect the identity of the guilty) I once again thought to myself, this isn't what I signed up for. Where did that cute little guy who liked to play with dinosaurs and watch Walt Disney movies go? The fact that he drives and shaves now is a little beyond me on the best of days. We had just concluded another of those frustrating "battle of the wills" contests. And even though in the end, I technically won when the… Read More


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Fans: Send off Pirates in style
All Poteau Pirate fans who will be in town to see the high school football team head out for a state championship battle in Stillwater Saturday are encouraged gather for a grand send-off. On Friday at about 12:45 fans are asked to line Broadway from Shockley's Auto Sales to the Choctaw Travel Plaza, donning Pirate colors of red, white and black. The convoy is scheduled to embark from Poteau High School at about 12:45 p.m. as it will stop by Pansy Kidd Middle School, then both Poteau Upper and Primary Elementary Schools. Once it returns to Broadway, the convoy will head north up Broadway on their way.Don't miss out in a chance to show your pride for the Pirates as they prepare to play the Anadarko Warriors in a history making match.


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With his collared shirt drenched in sweat, Steve Ballmer stood on stage before an attentive audience. He provided as much energy as Clippers fans at Staples Center show once Blake Griffin throws down a lob from Chris Paul.
Ballmer shouted key words to explain his vision as Microsoft's former CEO, shouting "developers, developers, developers" in one instance and "advertisers, advertisers, advertisers" the next. Ballmer pranced around on stage the same way a basketball player occasionally performs during lineup introductions. Then, Ballmer passionately outlined his philosophies at these countless events where he touted the company's products.
All of this partly explained how Ballmer oversaw Microsoft's annual revenue jump from $25 billion to $75 billion during his 14-year tenure as CEO before retiring in early February. All of this partly explained how he has gained a net worth of $20 billion, according to Forbes. All of this partly explained why he agreed on Thursday to buy the Clippers for $2 billion, the second-most expensive sports franchise purchase of all time.
What Ballmer displayed with words and body movements revealed a man intent on following his convictions with unmatched energy.
"Number one, great ideas matter," Ballmer said in 2011 when he spoke as the commencement speaker for USC, where his son attended. "Number two, find passion. And, number three, be tenacious, be irrepressible."
It appears Ballmer will bring such qualities to the Clippers.
"Steve Ballmer loves basketball, is a smart businessman & he'll probably shake every fans hand outside the arena on opening night!" tweeted Lakers legend Magic Johnson.
Those around the league expect Ballmer to spend lavishly. With the Clippers' regional sports network TV deal with Fox Prime Ticket expiring after the 2015-16 season, they expect him to launch a new cable channel to maximize the team's revenue. Those in the league also anticipate he will provide colorful behavior, just like he did at his Microsoft presentations.
Ballmer will do so both to generate excitement and resources for a team that expects to make a championship push after falling in six games to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2014 Western Conference semifinals.
"This is going to be great for the Clippers. This guy is so competitive and he's already incredibly rich," said one league source who has had indirect contact with Ballmer. "He's not here to just show up and shine in the spotlight. He's going to roll up his sleeves and ensure the Clippers have a winning basketball team."
The NBA still needs to hold a formal vote in which 23 of the 30 NBA owners would have to approve Ballmer's purchase. There is no date set, but a league source familiar with the proceedings believes the date "will be determined within in a matter of weeks" after conducting financial and background checks.
Beyond handling a $1 billion lawsuit from the formerly embattled Clippers owner Donald Sterling, the NBA does not anticipate many hiccups with the sale. Part of the reason involves Ballmer, who attempted to purchase an NBA team in past years. He tried to form an ownership group with the former Seattle Supersonics to prevent them from moving to Oklahoma City. Ballmer also bid to buy the Sacramento Kings last year with Seattle investor Chris Hensen.
"The Lakers and Buss Family welcomes Steve Ballmer to Los Angeles," Lakers president Jeanie Buss tweeted on Friday. "Congratulations on your purchase of the Clippers."
Yet, questions still loom.
Ballmer's abrasive personality reportedly alienated those in Microsoft, which could explain why the company declined on Friday to make any officials available to speak about him. Hensen's spokesperson did not respond on Friday to requests for comments, making it unclear how Ballmer's latest project could hurt his former partner's quest to bring a team to Seattle.
But league accounts downplayed Ballmer's apparent abrasiveness. The NBA also does not anticipate Ballmer moving the team to Seattle because Los Angeles serves as the second-biggest market and it would require Board of Governor approval. Instead, the league believes Ballmer will use his role as a member of the Board of Governors to entice other owners to vote in favor of adding another NBA franchise in Seattle.
"I will be honored to have my name submitted to the NBA Board of Governors for approval as the next owner of the Los Angeles Clippers," Ballmer said in a statement. "I love basketball. And I intend to do everything in my power to ensure that the Clippers continue to win — and win big — in Los Angeles.
"L.A. is one of the world's great cities — a city that embraces inclusiveness, in exactly the same way that the NBA and I embrace inclusiveness. I am confident that the Clippers will, in the coming years, become an even bigger part of the community."
And those in the league seem confident Ballmer, who attended City Hall on Friday and watched the Kings game in the AEG suite at Staples Center, will do so by demonstrating the same passion and colorful personality that made Microsoft's presentations so memorable.
— Staff writer Dakota Smith contributed to this report


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A quick bonus post, with highlights of Jürgen Klopp's quite endearing post-match interview. "They were too clever this evening. It was not easy. But we got the goal. What happened in this stadium, it was crazy," he says. Málaga thought the winning goal was offside, he's told. "Really? What?" he deadpans, a look of utter innocence upon his face. "I think by the two games we are the deserved winner. I cannot describe what happened. It was really crazy. It was like a championship. It was not a championship, but it felt like one. Can we win it? If we play like tonight, no. But if we play well, and show the passion of tonight, then we are hard to play. We reached the target … semi-finals … nobody who knew us a few years ago could believe it … it's one of the best things I've ever felt."
And that really is it for this evening. Bye! Again!
It looks like Sky are going to show us highlights of the Galatasaray game now, so I'm going to bow out. What a finish that was. Drama! Skill! Bungled refereeing! It had the lot. Dortmund, who looked cursed when Willy pulled off his two extraordinary saves with the very outside edge of his calf and his toe, end up looking and feeling blessed. Funny old game, etc etc. Thanks for your company. 'Night.
Neven Subotic sure interviews well. "It was the craziest moment of my football history for sure," he tells Sky. "The way we ended it, this is something straight out of a Hollywood movie. We knew we could get one goal, and then just push and see if we can get lucky. Luck was on our side today."
Yes, but what did he think about the winner? Was it offside? "I didn't feel anything except happiness in that moment. I wasn't thinking about offside, onside or anything. I've seen it, it seems offside but this is football. But I heard also their second goal was offside as well, so in the end it maybe cancels itself out. We didn't really get to play our football because Málaga as a team, they know how to play defensively and they did a good job of that. We won. I don't even care if it was deserved or not. This is like a Hollywood move … let's hope it has a Hollywood ending."
That winning goal is an absolute horror show of the linesman's arts. We're told that the Málaga players have just seen a replay, and are going a bit mental about it.
The Dortmund players are still on the pitch, celebrating. It's a miraculous ending to a game in which – one brilliant first-half goal aside – they never played at their best. It deserves to be relished.
"As soon as Santana poked in, Craig Thompson was looking to his assistant because he, like me, was probably 99% sure Santana was offside," writes Christopher Burke. "But if your assistant says it's good, what can you do? Then blowing for full time at exactly four minutes, even though there have been two goals in the allotted four minutes of extra time? Not the best refereeing at crunch time." Questions will be asked of the officials, no doubt about it.
After those two Willy saves, and Málaga's goal on the break, Dortmund didn't seem to have that in them. Still, play to the whistle and all that. Consider my cap doffed.
Roman Weidenfeller climbs up the fence to celebrate with the fans – and the rest of the Borussia team follow him up. What an incomprehensible, unbelievable final few minutes there. Extraordinary.
It's all over! Borussia Dortmund have made it!
Málaga have about 90 seconds to throw everything forward against the massed ranks of yellow and black, and then the referee blows his whistle! Ridiculous scenes of celebration – and desolation!
GOAL! Borussia Dortmund 3-2 Málaga (Felipe Santana, 90+3 min)
Unbelievable! Incredible! Incomprehensible! Lewandowski crosses from the left – four Borussia players offside – and it ping-pongs around a bit before breaking to Santana – offside again – who taps in from a yard. What were those Scottish officials thinking there?
GOAL! Borussia Dortmund 2-2 Málaga (Reus, 90+1 min)
A decent free-kick from deep is lumped into the area, and misjudged by Demichelis. Subotic is left free on the far post, and he knocks it across to Felipe Santana, two yards in front of an empty net, and though he's tackled by Jesús Gámez, the ball rolls to Reus, who converts!
90+1 min: Four minutes, that's how long Borussia have to score the two goals that will see them through.
90 min: Dortmund playing with a front five now, including Felipe Santana as a target man. More is less, though, and Málaga's massed ranks look comfortable.
89 min: No sign of a goal, and Dortmund's infamously amazing fans are, well, still singing quite a lot, but not as much as they normally do.
88 min: "How are you guys going to cope if Dortmund don't qualify after telling us for weeks how great they and German football are? This is a disaster," asks Nicholas. Yes, it's certainly inconvenient. Toulalan is booked for a foul on Subotic.
87 min: Another substitution, Joaquín coming off and Portillo coming on. Willy's name is the one that's going to be on everyone's lips tonight, though. Unless…
86 min: Reus, whose set-pieces have been poor throughout, shoots over the bar.
85 min: Lewandowski is fouled by Sergio Sánchez, a few yards outside the penalty area. They've got to get something from this, surely. Gundogan comes off, and Mats Hummels comes on.
84 min: So Dortmund need two goals in perhaps eight or nine minutes. Willy makes another save, a routine one this time, turning over a looping header.
83 min: That's Baptista's last action of the night – he's off, and Roque Santa Cruz is on.
GOAL! Dortmund 1-2 Málaga (Eliseu, 82 min)
Isco's pass finds Baptista running into the penalty area, and his shot is weak and going narrowly wide before Eliseu arrives to poke into an empty net. Replays show Eliseu was half a yard offside when Baptista took his shot, but the goal stands!
80 min: Dortmund, desperate to maintain this pressure, work the ball to Sahin on the left … and his cross is ludicrously bad. Goal kick.
79 min: Another great save from Willy! This time Götze is played in – another fantastic chance – and he steers the ball towards the far post, but hits Willy in the big toe and the ball goes wide.
76 min: Ludicrous save from Willy, but a terrible miss from Reus, who turned Piszczsek's low cross from the right goalwards but shouldn't have given the keeper a chance, from five yards.
75 min: In the other game, Drogba scores with a backheel to put Galatasaray 3-1 up against Real. Just two more needed.
73 min: A mistake in Dortmund's defence and the ball breaks to Isco, with Duda running into space on his right. The pass, when it comes, is underhit, and Duda is forced to check back into a thicket of defenders, from which his eventual shot deflects for … a goal kick. And with that, Duda comes off and Eliseu comes on.
72 min: Nuri Sahin comes on for Sven Bender, and Julian Schieber for Jacub Blaczczykowski.
72 min: Barely 20 minutes to go, and it's time for Dortmund to show us their plan B – they're about to bring on Sahin and Schieber.
70 min: Weidenfeller is forced into another save! This from Toulalan's vicious 35-yarder, which was soaring goalwards!
68 min: Schmelzer crosses from the left, and the fans demand a penalty as the ball strikes a defender, perhaps in the hand. The referee is unmoved (it hit his bum, it transpires). Moments later a cross from the right finds Lewandowski unmarked, but emphatically offside.
67 min: Another poor free-kick from Reus, from wide.
64 min: Half an hour to go, and Borussia still need a goal. Still delightfully poised, this. And Málaga currently have the ball, in the Dortmund half.
62 min: Now Gámez is on the ground, rolling around, and claiming contact from Schmelzer's arm. He's made a lot of the contact, but there was indeed contact – two hands on Gamez's face. The Málaga player is booked.
60 min: …moments after which Joaquín , breaking forward, is cynically fouled by Schmelzer, who is booked.
60 min: Another good move from Dortmund, but the final ball is poor and all they end up with is a corner.
59 min: But then they launch a quick, incisive move, Lewandowski playing a medium-range one-two with Reus but miscontrolling the return when well placed, just outside the penalty area.
58 min: Dortmund have had the ball for the last three minutes, in which time they have patiently worked it from the edge of Malaga's penalty area back to their own goalkeeper, and then impatiently thumped it forward again, finally losing possession.
55 min: Sergio Sánchez is up to more tricks, attempting to tackle Reus and succeeding only in nobbling Jesús Gámez, his own team-mate. Who, after some treatment, is fine.
53 min: Chance for Götze! The ball is looped forward by Felipe Santana from inside his own half, Sergio Sánchez misjudges the flight of the ball and he heads it into Götze's path, in the penalty area, but the German thrashes the ball wide of the near post.
51 min: Duda's set-piece delivery has been excellent. Reus has a chance to emulate him at the other end, but fails to find a team-mate.
48 min: Wonder save from Weidenfeller! A free-kick from the left is played to the far post by Duda; Demichelis knocks it back across goal and Joaquín is all alone – again. He turns the ball goalwards, but the keeper palms it away. Another wonderful chance that for Joaquín. That should have been his hat-trick right there.
47 min: Dortmund's first attack of the half ends with Lewandowski, just outside the penalty area, shooting low and hard and too close to Willy.
47 min: Key first-half statistics from Uefa: Dortmund had four shots, three on target; Málaga had two, both on target. Dortmund had 62% of the possession, and were caught offside four times to Málaga's 0.
46 min: And they're off! Again!
In the end, that has to be considered a very good half. Not just because there were surprises and twists and turns and one peach of a goal, but because you've got to expect the second half will be better still. Talking of which, the Málaga players are out and ready to restart. And here come the home side!
A brilliant chance for Málaga with the last action of the half! A free-kick taken 10 yards inside Dortmund's half is curled into the box by Duda, and Joaquín runs entirely clear and utterly alone to meet it with his head, 10 yards out. His header isn't great, and Weidenfeller saves.
45+1 min: Only one minute's stoppage time to be played, which seems a bit mean.
45 min: Dortmund on top now, their focus now being down the right, where Götze is playing well.
42 min: Lewandowski's first touch, to take the ball over Willy, was also amazing, but that goal was all about Reus's phenomenal assist.
GOAL! Borussia Dortmund 1-1 Málaga (Lewandowski, 40 min)
A brilliant assist from Reus, a first-time backheel flick from Götze's pass that sent Lewandowski clear. The striker took the ball past Willy and then slid the ball into the net, a bit closer to the corner than he really needed to go without a keeper to worry about, but very much a goal.
39 min: Dortmund had only been caught offside 10 times in their entire Champions League campaign until tonight. There have been at least four offside decisions against them this half.
37 min: Málaga are trying to score a second. They've had some decent pressure, but Isco for all his qualities is no target man.
34 min: Willy goes down after not being touched at all really by Lewandowski, but the referee quite properly tells him not to be so silly, and he gets up again. "The crowd at the Wesfalenstadion is such a class act," writes William Torikka. "I went to fix some popcorn and noticed the scoreline was different. The crowd had not stopped singing or supporting BVB in the slightest."
32 min: Götze crosses from the right, but there's only one Dortmund player in the penalty area and the ball doesn't go anywhere near him.
30 min: Borussia have had their moments, but with a third of the match gone they need to buck up their ideas, big time. Málaga's goal has remained distinctly unthreatened, but for one long-range chip that would have gone in if only it had been less rubbish.
29 min: According to this article by our own Sid Lowe, Joaquín was breastfed until the age of seven.
27 min: In response to Bob Green's second quiz, Gerard Taylor (again) and James Arrandale both say: Hull City.
GOAL! Dortmund 0-1 Málaga (Joaquín, 25 min)
Málaga take the lead! And it's ever so messy! Baptista's header comes back to him off a defender, and he plays the ball to Isco. He plays it back to Joaquín (though actually it's Felipe Santana who makes most contact with the ball) who takes out a defender by cutting onto his left foot and then has his low shot slightly deflected to take it just inside the near post.
24 min: Joaquín gets Felipe Santana exactly where he wants him – squared up, 10 yards from the half-way line, with a lot of ground to gallop into – but can't get the ball past him.
21 min: Bob Green proposes a new quiz question: "What's the only team in the English league whose full name contains no letters that you can colour in (as in how small children colour in the enclosed bits of letters like "a", "b", "e" etc.)?"
19 min: Blaszczykowski posts his entry in the most-overhit-pass-of-the-season awards. It lands about 30 yards ahead of the intended recipient, and already out of play.
17 min: Reus gives Sergio Sánchez a 10-yard head-start in a race for a loose ball heading towards Málaga's penalty area, and very nearly gets there first.
16 min: A shot! Lewandowski checks onto his right foot, earning himself some space, and attempts to chip the keeper from about 25 yards, but the ball floats over the bar.
15 min: Dortmund now pushing, with a succession of attacks down their left flank. All have ended at the feet of Reus, who has failed to get a cross in and/or been caught offside.
13 min: Dortmund slowly warming into the game. Piszczek and Gundogan exchange passes, but the German midfielder's return ball was overhit and goes out of play.
11 min: Meanwhile in Turkey, Ronaldo has scored an eighth-minute goal to leave the home side having to score, um, about 20 to go through.
10 min: A booking! For Sven Bender, who fouled Joaquín.
9 min: And then, Reus passes to Götze, whose through-ball finds Blaczczykowski only just offside, well-placed in the penalty area. The most incisive move of the game so far.
7 min: The pattern continues, Júlio Baptista and Joaquín closing down the defender on the ball, who frequently gives the ball away, or plays a midfielder into so much trouble that they do.
5 mins: Málaga have started brightly, and the ball has spent most of the opening five minutes in Dortmund's half. No penalty-area incursions, mind.
3 min: A noisy but not yet action-packed opening. Joaquín launches into a run, but ends it by giving away a free-kick.
2 min: And they've both been got: Gerard Taylor was first with Bury, and Andrew Dunn with Walsall.
1 min: And there are actually two teams whose entire name contains only one vowel. Dammit.
1 min: They're off!
Quizzers: Leeds and Bolton are among the correct answers for part two, but their full names involve a United and a Wanderers, so they can't be right for part one.
The players are out, the Champions League anthem is blaring. Brace yourselves, folks…
Quiz question, then: which is the only English league club whose entire name, excluding Football Club or the equivalents, contains, like Málaga's, only one vowel? Or the nine clubs (including that one) whose abbreviated name – in other words ordinarily excluding the United or Forest or whatever – has just one vowel?
"Though i personally think Dortmund will win this, I couldn't resist putting a fiver on Malaga at odds of 8-1," writes Harry Crane. "I know they aren't the best team left in the competition, but 8-1? Here's hoping for some Isco magic…" Hmm … probably worth a bet at those odds, so long as you've got some money you wouldn't mind losing.
I'm really looking forward to this. Dortmund are brilliantly watchable, and though I understand ITV's decision to broadcast Real Madrid's game against Galatasaray tonight – they've got the big names, after all – that tie is effectively over, where this is delicately poised, and surely every actual football fan would prefer to be watching this one. Anyway, here's another stat:
Karl-Heinz Riedle, whose hair is considerably more luxurious now than when he was a player, and it was always fairly impressive then, is part of Sky's panel for tonight's match. Try searching for his best goals on YouTube – they're not there. He's one of those goalscorers whose goals were all fairly unmemorable (in nature, if not in importance). He scored two (rubbish) goals for Dormund in the 1997 Champions League final.
The teams are in
And they look rather a lot like this. Exactly like this, in many ways:
Borussia Dortmund: Weidenfeller, Piszczek, Subotic, Felipe Santana, Schmelzer, Gundogan, Bender, Blaszczykowski, Gotze, Reus, Lewandowski. Subs: Langerak, Kehl, Leitner, Hummels, Sahin, Grosskreutz, Schieber.
Malaga: Willy, Jesus Gamez, Demichelis, Sergio Sanchez, Antunes, Joaquin, Toulalan, Camacho, Duda, Isco, Julio Baptista. Subs: Kameni, Lugano, Saviola, Piazon, Eliseu, Santa Cruz, Francisco Portillo.
Referee: Craig Thomson.
Hello world!
I've got a large sheaf of pre-match pointers and interesting statistics! I know what you're thinking: he's just taken Uefa's pre-match hand-outs, read them, masticated slowly and then regurgitated the best bits. This is partly, but not entirely, true.
• Dortmund absolutely thrashed Málaga 0-0 in the first leg.
• Málaga's manager, Manuel Pellegrini, travelled to Chile late on Saturday after his father died, and arrived in Dortmund earlier today, via Santiago, Madrid and Dusseldorf.
• Dortmund's last six home games against Spanish opponents: W1 D2 L3. The first leg was Málaga's first ever game against a German side.
• Málaga have a 100% European record after drawing first legs 0-0 at home: AEK Athens and Leeds United were both dispatched in the 2002-03 Uefa Cup.
• Dortmund have a 100% European record after drawing first legs 0-0 away (three in all). Indeed, they've won on six of seven occasions when they have drawn the first leg of a European knock-out tie away from home by any score.
• Málaga have had the fewest shots (89), won the fewest corners (38) and are the least impressive passers (65% completed) of all this season's Champions League quarter-finalists.
• Malaga have won just 31.6% of their games this calendar year (six of 19), and 22.2% of their last nine (two), in which they have scored eight goals. Dortmund have won nine of 15 this year (60%) and five of their last nine (55.6%), in which they have scored 19 goals.
• Weligton, who with nine appearances in the competition this season has played more Champions League games than any other Málaga player except Roque Santa Cruz (who has also played nine), is suspended. The influential midfielder Manuel Iturra is also suspended. Dortmund have no suspensions. Málaga's Martín Demichelis and Sergio Sánchez are just a booking away from being suspended from a possible semi-final; for Dortmund only Kevin Grosskreutz is similarly inconvenienced.
• Dortmund have only been caught offside 10 times in the Champions League this season, which is an unusually small number. They are three away from their 100th Champions League goal.
• Craig Thomson leads an all-Scottish officiating team. He has previously refereed two Germany v Spain Champios League ties, both last season. Leverkusen won the first (against Valencia, 2-1) but lost the second (against Barcelona, 1-3). He will be joined by the assistant referees Derek Rose and Alasdair Ross, the additional assistants Steven McLean and Kevin Clancy, and the fourth official, Graham Chambers. Thomson is a lawyer whose hobbies include golf, reading and cinema. And refereeing.
• This is what Neil Lennon thinks of Craig Thomson:
• A British artist I've never heard of is currently No1 in Germany. He's called Michael Rosenberg, he's from Brighton, and he performs under the name Passenger. According to Wikipedia his single Let Her Go has reached No1 in 16 countries, but it's not currently, nor has it ever been, in the British top 100. It's also a bit dull, so here's the top German track of the moment, Bilder Im Kopf by the bearded rapper Sido, currently No9 in the Deutsche hit parade.
• There are lots of Spanish songs in the Spanish charts, but all the most successful ones had me involuntarily beating my head against the desk within eight seconds. But this is currently No22, on its way down having peaked at No7. It's been seen 140,602,365 times on YouTube, but is new to me. Big in Italy last summer, apparently, and now working its way around the world in a variety of different languages. If you don't think this is bad, or if you actively want your faith in humanity to be immediately destroyed, the English version may be for you.
Simon will be here shortly. In the meantime, here is a match preview:
Borussia Dortmund hope history repeats itself when the German club welcome Málaga. Dortmund, the only unbeaten side left in the competition, have progressed each time after three previous scoreless away draws in the first leg of Uefa competitions, and are confident of finishing the job at their Westfalenstadion.
They missed a host of chances in Spain and will be wary of the threat posed by Málaga's blend of youth and experience. "It's a dangerous starting position," the Dortmund midfielder Sven Bender said. "We shouldn't start out stupidly and be caught out on a counterattack like we were on Saturday."
At the weekend, Dortmund came from a goal down to beat Augsburg 4-2 in the Bundesliga, but Jürgen Klopp made seven changes to his team including resting the goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller, defender Lukasz Piszczek, midfielders Sebastian Kehl, Ilkay Gündogan, Marco Reus and Mario Götze, as well as the Bundesliga's top scorer, Robert Lewandowski.
Dortmund still have doubts over the defender Mats Hummels, who returned to training on Thursday after an ankle injury, and the Polish midfielder Jakub Blaszczykowski, who is still troubled by a groin strain.
Málaga will be without two key elements of their defence, with their centre-back Weligton and holding midfielder Manuel Iturra suspended.
Manuel Pellegrini also fielded a weakened side for domestic duty on Saturday and watched Málaga lose 4-2 at Real Sociedad to lose ground on the Basque club who are fourth, four points above Málaga in sixth.
And here's a video preview of the game.


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Watch Abraham Lincoln come to life through the magic of Audio-Animatronics and behold rare Disneyland memorabilia.
Revel in the recitations of President Abraham Lincoln that changed history and helped shaped a nation. Through the latest Audio-Animatronics technology, the Great Emancipator returns to tell the tale of generations past and share his inspiring—and still very relevant—vision of the future.
A New Nation, Conceived in Liberty
Make your way into an intimate theater, passing through a large room of models, artwork and artifacts showcasing the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. The show begins with a screening of a film composed of dramatic paintings depicting President Lincoln's life from his humble rural upbringing to the White House. You'll be moved by real photographs of the Civil War, accompanied by the touching ballad "Two Brothers." Then, be awed as Honest Abe takes center stage and delivers highlights from some of his greatest speeches.
Next-generation Audio-Animatronics technology gives the President more emotion and vitality than ever before. Every detail is presented as realistically as possible; Lincoln's life mask was the model for the original figure's face. While no recording of Lincoln's voice exists, actor Royal Dano provides a stirring interpretation of Lincoln's immortal words.
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Walt Disney was fascinated with the life of Abraham Lincoln. As a child, he even recited Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to his elementary school class. The first Audio-Animatronics version of Lincoln debuted in 1964 at the New York World's Fair. The show was so life-like that National Geographic magazine called the figure "alarming" in its realism. In 1965, the smash hit was relocated to Disneyland Park, where it has been enjoyed in one incarnation or another ever since.
Trace the creation of "The Happiest Place on Earth" through rare artwork, models and mementos at this fascinating exhibit.
Step inside the majestic Opera House at Town Square, Main Street, U.S.A. and peruse a vast collection of artifacts and memorabilia showcasing the development of Disneyland Park through the years. Follow the timeline beginning when Walt Disney originally came up with the idea about creating a place where parents and children could have fun together, through plans currently in the works for the park in the near future.
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Chromed needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 140 designs submitted by 44 freelance designers.
"March 32nd" or "March 32"
We're a small company composed of an eclectic mix of writers, software developers, game designers, and film makers striving to create narrative-focused, interactive games with a very cinematic, tv-and-film-like feel.
Depending on the audience, we pitch it as Interactive TV. A choose-your-own-adventure come to life. Or the classic King's Quest-style Graphical Adventure Game re-envision. But in all cases, we pitch it as something Amazing.
We're targeting several disparate audiences simultaneously.
There's the "gamer" market - an audience that actively consumes video games across a wide variety of platforms. Entertaining gameplay and production value are their primary concerns.
There's the casual game market - an audience that isn't nearly as voracious
as gamers. They enjoy experiences that are approachable, the mechanics are simple and intuitive, and the entire thing is easy to pickup and put down. We're hoping to give them just that, but the production value of *real* games.
And finally, there's the TV and film viewing market - an audience that doesn't see itself as ever playing a game. Heck, they may even actively avoid any experience labelled as a game. But we want to give them the joy of experiencing a production built for them, but with an interactive component - an interactive film.
Basically - we want something great.
A perfect logo should scale all the way from displaying at the start of our game (full color and eye catching), down to black-and-white printed materal, and all the way down to a small-but-recognizable simple image, for branding purposes.
When envisioning the logo, imagine it on the movie poster for a dark psychological thriller. A modern, urban setting but with a creeping madness and corruption. Small dollips of dark fantasy and impossible things on top of a twisted reality. A mixture of Pan's Labyrinth and Dark City, for example (this is just a pair of relevent samples - please don't read too much into it).
If you can't see it on a movie poster, *your design won't work*. Think more "film" then "game".
We're currently leaning towards something with a more modern design. Professional. Strong. Urban and gritty. With nice subtle touches that are the hallmark of a professional design. Perahps with a *touch* of more organic elements to give it a small fantasy feel. We'd really like a design that relates to our productions. And a clever and iconic enough connection that if we just showed them a small image, they'd immediately tie it to our product (like Half-Life's
lambda, Portal's "o", Pan's Labyrinth's small circle maze, etc etc).
To provide context, to help inform the design:
- "March 32nd" is a gaming + film hybrid – a narrative heavy, interactive game with a very film-like feel.
- The look and setting is modern urban, mixed with a moderate dose of 30's-40's era film noir. The film "Dark City" is a good visual reference.
- Silhouettes are a *very* prominent design element in the production (see the sample screenshoot). An artful design that plays with them and silhuoette cutouts would probably work very, very well.
- The production toys with and confuses the notion of time and causality.
We've included our existing logos, along with a theoretical screenshot from our production.
The logos we have are serviceable, but we're picky - we want something better. Again, I want to emphasis (designers are taking entirely too much direction from the sample logos) - *we aren't satisified with the sample logos*. I don't recommend basing your design around them. But do realize, you need to exceed the bar set by them. While they aren't perfect, they're still artful, professional, and eye-catching. But I'm sure you can do better. :)
In an effort to provide some more direction, here's a critique of the sample logos we attached to the contest -
The sample logos aren't quite what we're looking for – they'll do in a pinch, but we're hoping to do better. Things they do well:
- The colorful versions are eye catching.
- They have a sense of decay mixed with a touch of elegance, though the base fonting projects a more rustic aesthetic then we'd like.
- The (ugly) limited-color versions are readily represented by vector images, allowing us resolution flexibility.
That said, they have a number of issues:
- They don't shrink well – it's difficult for us to create a smaller, simplified branding image that still has impact.
- They don't really project a feeling of what our project actually is.
- They're forgettable – there isn't anything particularly clever about the design. Perhaps something with more imagery (rather than the text-focus of the current design) may be a better fit.
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Opinion: Reverse-Engineering Race in Admissions
WSJ Political Diary editor Jason Riley on how diversity changed at the University of California after the elimination of racial preferences in admissions.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... green ... the Supreme Court signal that it's it's thinking about getting rid of racial preferences for admissions in universities ... and you know why people are wondering what you what that world look like ... I've but we have this real life example in California with what was California's experience shown ... well this is one the more frustrating things about the decision ... for someone like me because it's not just that racial preferences are unfair to kill certain groups of people is that they are doing actual harm to the intended ... beneficiaries ... and and that's the probably one of the Supreme Court to say whether or not college can categorize people by race and then hold certain groups to different ... standards than other groups is that causes until ... they won't ... answer that question again Ponting on it to a problem with this incremental approach because I do agree that Fisher decision ... was progress ... but the problem is that while these ... policies remain in place Mary ... are doing actual harm out in California back in the mid nineties ... nineteen ninety six I believe they passed the border proposition ... about aam banning racial preferences in college admission what happened what happened is that ... black and Hispanic graduation rates increased by fifty five percent ... not only that Mary ... black and Hispanic graduation rates than the more challenging STEM fields of math and science when up by more than fifty ok because you have kids you could actually do the work in the universities right the warrant putting kids who are reading and acquisitions bail ... that this the left might say below overall enrollment dropped when he said of the ... overall unwarranted meetings did not drop what happened was fewer kids were going to the flagship schools like UC Berkeley ... and UCLA ... and more we're going to schools that that ... the skills of the students we are surrounded ... by other students so overall the was not ... a decline but the important thing here Mary is that ... the law seems to only care ... about ... who enroll in college whether or not you graduate is that that's the secondary concern for them ... and I ... my theory is that ... they're interested in how the school brochure looks ... and they want no enough Asians and ... blacks and whites disorder and relish the photos but other than that they really don't care if the kids actually graduate now though the California entirely to read if racial preferences or have they tried to kind of reverse engineer preferences ... through other means of other trying to up again those enrollment rates ... by other means because that's ... that's the concern now aam and what has been some success ... in the to me the measure of success is he's learning ... in his graduating what we've learned ... as the racial preferences resulting ... in fewer blacks graduating from college ... and fewer black scientists and doctors and so forth ... that is that that that's that's the result of racial preferences in when you get rid of these things California's example of what happened to this one a C and those who argue lot diversity is a good all of its own it's a YouTube you shouldn't and universities that are ... all black or all later don't have a broad mix of people because you have a broad range of ninety it's ... the it's ... what you have to define diversity and in in our society diversity seems more of a one-way street only I can impart diversity ... see you it doesn't work the other way around there a lot of people arguing that historically black colleges don't have enough white kids ... and their four legged kids there being shortchanged because they can't debate ... Shakespear with Mary Kissel ... I mean no one's making that and that's a one-way ... trade one of the Comptroller of the two of the plane as you know we have to define diverse with quantify ... its benefits and I haven't seen anything ... convincing on that front so California's example and not a scary example of a good example for the country while scam Clinical diary


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Raptors hold off Timberwolves
Minneapolis, MN – Rudy Gay poured in a game-high 26 points and DeMar DeRozan added 25 as the Toronto Raptors held on for a 95-93 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday.
The Raptors trailed 90-89 with 2:35 left, but DeRozan's 3-point play at the 2:13 mark gave Toronto a two-point edge.
Ricky Rubio then split a pair of free throws, and Gay buried a turnaround jumper to put the visitors up 94-91 with just over 1 1/2 minutes to go.
Rubio bricked a trey, but Andrei Kirilenko stripped Gay and was quickly fouled. Kirilenko missed the first try, but knocked down the second to make it a two-point game with less than a minute remaining.
Kyle Lowry missed a short jumper, but Landry Fields grabbed the rebound and the Raptors called a quick timeout. Gay dribbled the clock down to five seconds, but missed a tough turnaround.
Dante Cunningham grabbed the rebound and quickly passed it to Rubio, who drove the length of the court before he was fouled attempting a layup with 1.7 seconds to play.
Rubio knocked down the first free throw, but his second attempt rimmed out and the Wolves were forced to foul Amir Johnson with 0.1 seconds showing. Johnson made the first free throw to put Toronto ahead 95-93, but missed his second attempt.
"Great team win tonight by us," said Gay. "We gotta keep taking steps in the right direction."
Nikola Pekovic led Minnesota with 24 points and eight rebounds and Kirilenko scored 20 in the setback.
The Wolves used an 11-4 run take a 19-11 lead with just over five minutes to play in the first, and held a 24-18 lead entering the second frame.
Minnesota pushed its spread to 30-22 early in the second, but the Raptors pulled within 37-36, The Wolves pushed their spread to six, 48-42 with 48.9 seconds left in the first half, but Toronto scored the final four points of the frame to go into the break trailing 48-46.
The Raptors took a brief two-point lead in the third following a DeRozan jumper, but the Wolves scored 13 in a row to go up 61-50 with just under eight minutes remaining.
Toronto came back with a 17-5 run to put the visitors ahead by one, but the Wolves held a slim 73-71 edge entering the final frame.
Game Notes
Toronto outscored Minnesota 18-9 in second-chance points ... Jonas Valanciunas, who was named Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month for March, scored 12 points ... Lowry had 11 points and seven assists ... Rubio finished with 13 points and 12 assists.


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Mass Readings: Acts 11:1-18/John 10:11-18
My mother was a perfectionist. Whenever anything went wrong with our house she would sigh, "There's always something." Meanwhile, her mother (my Nanna) would read a newspaper and sigh, "What's the world coming to?" Today Acts describes a situation where Nanna would have said, "What's the Church coming to?" Peter had recently baptized some Gentiles, and Jewish Christians were distressed that "the uncircumcised" could become Christian without first becoming Jewish. Plus, later in Acts we read about problems large and small where Mom would've said, "There's always something."
Indeed problems existed back then and still do today. How can we avoid losing heart in the face of Catholicism's struggles? I like what Pope John XXIII would do: He would pray about some serious situation then say to God, "It's Your Church. I'm going to bed."
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A. Plays
Blurt, Master-Constable. Or The Spaniards Night-walke. As it hath bin sundry times privately acted by the Children of Paules. 1602.
The Phoenix, as it hath beene sundrye times Acted by the Children of Paules, And presented before his Majestie. 1607. Another ed. 1630.
Michaelmas Terme. As it hath been sundry times acted by the Children of Paules. 1607.
A Tricke to Catch the Old-one. As it hath beene often in Action, both at Paules, and the Black-Fryers. Presented before his Majestie on New Yeares night last. Composde by T. M. 1608.
The Familie of Love. Acted by the Children of his Majesties Revells. 1608.
A Mad World, My Masters. As it hath bin lately in Action by the Children of Paules. Composed by T. M. 1608.
Your five Gallants. As it hath beene often in Action at the Black-Friers. [n.d., licensed 22 March, 1607/8.]
A Game at Chesse. As it was Acted nine days to gether at the Globe on the Bank side. 1625. [Acted in August, 1624.]
A Chast Mayd in Cheape-side. A Pleasant conceited Comedy never before printed. As it hath beene often acted at the Swan on the Banke-side by the Lady Elizabeth her Servants. 1630.
Women Beware Women. A Tragedy. (With More Dissemblers Besides Women, under title: Two New Playes. 1657.)
More Dissemblers Besides Women. A Comedy. [See previous entry.]
No Wit like A Womans. A Comedy, By Tho. Middleton, Gent. 1657.
No Help like A Womans. A Comedy, By Tho. Middleton, Gent. 1657. [Probably produced in 1613.]
The Mayor of Quinborough: A Comedy. As it hath been often Acted with much Applause at Black-Fryars, By His Majesties Servants. Written by Tho. Middleton. 1661. [Perhaps a quite early play.]
Any Thing For A Quiet Life. A Comedy. Formerly Acted at Black-Fryers, by His late Majesties Servants. 1662.
A Tragi-Coomodie, Called the Witch; long since acted by His Ma[char] Servants at the Black-Friers. [First ptd. from a MS. discovered by Isaac Reed, now in the Bodleian Library, 1778.]
(With William Rowley.) A Faire Quarrell. As it was Acted before the King and divers times publikely by the Prince his Highnes Servants. Written By Thomas Midleton and William Rowley Gentl. 1617.
(With William Rowley.) The Changeling: As it was Acted (with great Applause) at the Privat house in Drury-Lane, and Salisbury Court. Written by Thomas Midleton and William Rowley. Gent. 1653.
(With William Rowley.) The Spanish Gipsie. As it was Acted (with great Applause) at the Privat House in Drury-Lane, and Salisbury Court. Written by Thomas Midleton and William Rowley Gent. 1653.
(With Massinger and William Rowley.) The Excellent Comedy, called The Old Law, or A new way to please you. By Phil. Massinger Tho. Middleton William Rowley. Acted before the King and Queene at Salisbury House, and at severall other places, with great Applause. Together with an exact and perfect Catalogue of all the Playes, with the Authors Names, and what are Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Pastoralls, Masks, Interludes, more exactly Printed than ever before. 1656.
(With Dekker.) The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-Purse. As it hath lately beene Acted on the Fortune-stage by the Prince his Players. Written by T. Middleton and T. Dekkar. 1611. Rptd. in Ancient B. D. vol.II.
(With Jonson and Fletcher.) The Widdow A Comedie. As it was Acted at the private House in Black-Fryers, with great Applause, by His late Majesties Servants. Written by Ben: Johnson. John Fletcher. Tho: Middleton. Gent. Printed by the Originall Copy. 1652.
B. Masques, etc.
A Courtly Masque; the Device Called The World tost at Tennis. As it hath beene divers times Presented to the Contentment of many Noble and Worthy Spectators, By the Prince his Servants. Invented, and set downe, By Tho: Middleton & William Rowley Gent. 1620.
The Inner-Temple Masque. Or Masque of Heroes. Presented (as an Entertainment for many worthy Ladies:) By Gentlemen of the same Ancient and Noble House. Tho. Middleton. 1619.
The Magnificent Entertainment: Given to King James, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, upon the day of his Majesties Tryumphant Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London, being the 15. of March, 1603. As well by the English as by the Strangers: With the speeches and Songes, delivered in the severall Pageants. Mart. 1604. [To this Middleton contributed only the speech of Zeal.]
The Triumphs of Truth. A Solemnity unparalled for Cost, Art and Magnificence, at the Confirmation and Establishment of that Worthy and true Noblyminded Gentleman, Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight; in the Honorable Office of his Majesties Lieuetenant, the Lord Mayor of the thrice Famous Citty of London. Taking Beginning at his Lord-ships going, and proceeding after his Returne from receiving the Oath of Mayoralty at Westminster, on the Morrow next after Simon and Judes day, October 29. 1613. All the Showes, Pageants, Chariots; Morning, Noone and Night-Triumphs. Directed, Written, and redeem'd into Forme from the Ignorance of some former times, and their Common Writer, By Thomas Middleton. 1613. Reissued with additions in the same year
Civitatis Amor. The Cities Love. An entertainement by water, at Chelsey and White-hall. 1616.
The Triumphs of Honor and Industry. 1617.
The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity. 1619.
Honorable Entertainments, Composde for the Service of this Noble Citie. Some of which were fashion'd for the Entertainment of the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privie Counsell, upon the Occasion of their late Royall Employment. 1621.
The Sunne in Aries. 1621.
The Triumphs of Honor and Virtue. 1622.
An Invention performed for the Service of y[char] Right honorable Edward Barbham, L. Mayor of the Cittie of London. 1623.
The Triumphs of Integrity. 1623.
The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity. 1626.
C. Other Works
The Blacke Booke. 1604.
Father Hubburds Tales, or The Ant, and the Nightingale. 1604.
Micro-Cynicon. Sixe Snarling Satyres. 1599. [Verse.]
The Wisdome of Solomon Paraphrased. A Jove surgit opus. 1597. [Verse.]
Sir Robert Sherley. 1609.
The Peace-Maker: Or, Great Brittaines Blessing. 1618.
D. Modern Editions and Criticism
Works. Ed. Dyce, A. 5 vols. 1840.
Works. Ed. Bullen, A. H. 8 vols. 18856. [The standard edition.]
Thomas Middleton. (Mermaid Series.) Vol. I, ed. with an Introduction by Swinburne, A. C. [n.d.] (Contains: A Trick to catch the old one; The Changeling; A Chaste Maid in Cheapside; Women beware Women; The Spanish Gipsy.) Vol. II, ed. Ellis, Havelock. 1890. [Contains: The Girl; The Witch; A Fair Quarrel; The Mayor of Queenborough; The Widow.]
Lambs Specimens. [Extracts from A Fair Quarrel, Alls Lost by Lust, A New Wonder, Women beware Women, More Dissemblers besides Women, No Wit Half like a Womans, The Witch, The Witch of Edmonton, The Old Law.]
Jung, H. Das Verhältniss Thomas Middletons zu Shakspere. Müchener Beiträ vol. XXIX, Munich, 1904.
Wiggin, Pauline G. An Enquiry into the authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays. Radclyffe College Monographs. No. 9. Boston, 1897.
A. Plays
A Search for Money, or, The lamentable complaint for the losse of the wandring Knight, Mounsieur l'Argent. Or, Come along with me, I know thou lovest money. Dedicated to all those that lack money. Frange nucis tegmen, si cupis esse nucem. By William Rowley. 1609. Rptd. Percy Soc. Publ., vol. II, 1840.
A New Wonder, A Woman Never Vext. A Pleasant conceited Comedy: sundry times Acted: never before printed. Written by William Rowley, one of his Majesties Servants. 1632 Rptd. in Dilkes O. E. P. vol. v, and in Hazlitts Dodsley, vol. XII.
A Match at Midnight. A Pleasant Comoedie: As it hath been Acted by the Children of the Revells. Written by W. R. 1633. Rptd. in Ancient B. D., vol. II, in Reeds Dodsley, vol. VII, in Colliers Dodsley, vol. VII, and in Hazlitts Dodsley, vol. XIII.
A Tragedy called Alls Lost by Lust. Written by William Rowley. Divers times Acted by the Lady Elizabeths servants. And now lately by her Majesties Servants, with great applause, at the Phoenix in Drury Lane. Quod non dant Proceres, Dabit Histrio. 1633.
Ed. with the Spanish Gipsy by Morris, E. P. (Belles Lettres Series) 1907; and, with A Shoomaker a Gentleman, by Stork, C. W., 1910. (See Sec. B, post.)
A Merrie and Plesant Comedy: Never before Printed, called A Shoo-maker a Gentleman. As it hath beene sundry times Acted at the Red Bull and other Theaters, with a generall and good applause. Written by W. R., Gentleman. 1638.
As to the source of this play, cf. Palaestra, vol. XVIII, 1903.
For The Birth of Merlin (by Shakespeare and Rowley??), see bibliography to Vol. V, Chaps. VIIIXII, Sec. 5; for The Witch of Edmonton (with Dekker, Ford, etc.), see bibliography to Chap. II, Sec. III A, ante; for Fortune by Land and Sea (with Thomas Heywood), see bibliography to Chap. IV. Sec. I A, post; for The Old Law (with Massinger and Middleton), see Sec. I A, ante, for The Changeling and The Spanish Gipsie (with Middleton), see Sec. I A, ante; for The Travailes of The three English Brothers (with Day), see bibliography to Chap. IX, post; for A Cure for a Cuckold and The Thracian Wonder (with Webster), see bibliography to Chap. VII, Sec. II A (ii), post; for The Maide in the Mill (with Fletcher), see bibliography to Chap. v, Sec. I, post; and for the World Tost at Tennis (with Middleton), see Sec. I B, ante.
B. Criticism
Stork, C. W. William Rowley. His Alls Lost by Lust, and A Shoemaker, a Gentleman. With an introduction on Rowleys place in the drama. (Publ. of the University of Pennsylvania.) Philadelphia, 1910. [This edition was brought out after Chapter III had passed through the press.]
Zeitlin, W. Shakespeare und Rowley. Anglia, vol. IV. 1881.
For The Birth of Merlin (by Shakespeare and Rowley??), see bibliography to Vol. V, Chaps. VIIIXII, Sec. 5; for The Witch of Edmonton (with Dekker, Ford, etc.), see bibliography to Chap. II, Sec. III A, ante; for Fortune by Land and Sea (with Thomas Heywood), see bibliography to Chap. IV. Sec. I A, post; for The Old Law (with Massinger and Middleton), see Sec. I A, ante, for The Changeling and The Spanish Gipsie (with Middleton), see Sec. I A, ante; for The Travailes of The three English Brothers (with Day), see bibliography to Chap. IX, post; for A Cure for a Cuckold and The Thracian Wonder (with Webster), see bibliography to Chap. VII, Sec. II A (ii), post; for The Maide in the Mill (with Fletcher), see bibliography to Chap. v, Sec. I, post; and for the World Tost at Tennis (with Middleton), see Sec. I B, ante.


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MINNEAPOLIS—U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a heavy favorite for re-election, says she would use a second term to try to help steer the Senate out of perpetual gridlock on major issues.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Klobuchar both criticized and defended Congress, calling out unnamed colleagues for "dysfunctional talk on TV" but also claiming there are 62 to 75 senators "who are willing to buck the partisanship" to cut the national debt, stabilize the U.S. economy and create jobs.
"It has to happen, because we are facing a lot of major challenges in this country," Klobuchar said in a wide-ranging interview this week.
Klobuchar led her main challenger, GOP state Rep. Kurt Bills, by nearly 30 points in a recent statewide poll that confirmed her sizeable advantages in money and name recognition. Bills, who hasn't yet aired a TV ad, has tried to make up some of the ground by tagging the Democratic incumbent with Congress' bad reputation—something Klobuchar herself joked about in a recent tweet comparing Congress' popularity with NFL replacement referees.
Klobuchar's fellow Democrats in such states as Missouri, Montana and Ohio are locked in tough reelection fights. Similarly intense campaigns are underway for open seats in Wisconsin, North Dakota, Virginia, Massachusetts and Indiana as Republicans try to overturn a slim Democratic majority.
Regardless of which party controls the chamber, neither is likely to have the 60 seats that would really break gridlock. Klobuchar said that would create a bigger incentive than ever for senators who want to cross party lines, even on seemingly intractable differences over what spending might be cut and what taxes might be raised to make a dent in the national debt.
The $16 trillion national debt could be reduced by about $4 trillion in the first few months of 2013 with just a few steps, Klobuchar said. She would let Bush-era tax cuts lapse on yearly income above $250,000 and cut federal spending by about $2 trillion on top of $1.2 trillion in planned cuts that were part of a 2011 package approved by Congress.
Klobuchar said some of those additional cuts could come in the areas of defense spending, closing tax loopholes that benefit oil and ethanol producers and other corporations, and negotiating lower prices with drug companies that serve Medicare patients.
Klobuchar said some Democrats would resist this approach.
"I will say there are some people in my party, I have heard them say it behind closed doors, who just say we don't want to deal with this," she said.
In her first term, Klobuchar teamed up with Senate Republican colleagues on bills aimed at boosting agricultural producers, making government reforms and benefiting veterans. She touts her work with U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., on the bill, sponsored by Klobuchar, for federal money to build a new St. Croix River bridge in Stillwater.
Bills' campaign and other Republicans have criticized Klobuchar as too cautious, preferring smaller policy initiatives over the big challenges.
Klobuchar said if reelected, her focus in 2013 would be on big issues, the debt reduction efforts and passing a federal farm bill that passed the Senate but has been stalled in the House. She said stabilizing the economy would give breathing space to pursue legislation aimed at boosting exports, encouraging American innovation and invention, and investing in job training and re-training—policies she said would goose the stagnant job market.
"There really are senators, some of them saying it behind closed doors, who say things like, 'I didn't give up everything in my life to come here just to fight every day," Klobuchar said. "There are people that want very badly to move forward for this country."


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Jean-Thomas (Tomi) Ungerer was born in Strasbourg, France in 1931. Tomi's first artistic emotions started in the Rhineland. His childhood years were marked by the war. He tells about this period in 'A la guerre comme à la guerre' and in 'Die Gedanken sind Frei'. In these first sketches, Ungerer displays a keen sense of observation, especially in his caricatures of the German army.
In Strasbourg, Ungerer came in contact with American culture. He discovered the satirical drawings of the famous magazine The New Yorker. He particularly admired the work of cartoonist Saul Steinberg, and decided to go to New York to meet him. In 1956, Ungerer arrived in the US with a few manuscripts, some drawings, and only 60 dollars in pockets. His dream came true in 1957, with the publication of his first book for children, 'The Mellops Go Flying'. The book was an immediate success.
Although he has stopped doing children's books, Ungerer still publishes very diversified drawings: erotic ones in 'Totempole', 'Femme Fatale' and 'Schutzengel der Hölle', and satirical ones in 'Babylon', 'Symptomatics' and 'Schwarzbuch'. He also has explored the theme of death in 'Rigor Mortis' and 'Warteraum'.


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Food Processing Picks Favorite New Food and Beverage Products of 2012
The top 10 new products that Food Processing and Friends find to be irresistible over and over again.
We dedicate this month's cover story to Diane Toops, our News & Trends Editor, who died Oct. 31 following a brief illness. Tracking new products was her favorite part of the job, and so this was her favorite cover story each year.
This is one of our favorite projects of each year. We write about product introductions in every issue of Food Processing. Rollout and Food Biz Kids are devoted to them, and new products pepper our features on product development and sometimes even plant operations. But this is the only issue in which we put them on the cover.
Every year we survey our full-time editors, freelancer writers and others who help us out and ask them for the new products that have delighted them during the year, the ones they actually buy, repeatedly, for themselves and their families.
It's not scientific or comprehensive, but it is fun. The only rules are that the items are nationally available and "new," meaning introduced since July of 2011.
We usually trot out that well worn phrase "new products are the lifeblood of the food industry." That's not entirely true, as quite a few processors make a nice living creating private label products, contract manufacturing for others or simply maintaining tried and true old products (like Coca-Cola). But like the birth of a baby – every one of whom could some day be president – a new product could be the next Coke or Oreo. Even if it's just the next Caffeine-free Coke, it could provide nice returns on your investment.
New product watcher Mintel Group sees product launches slowly recovering along with the economy. "In 2009 and early 2010, we saw new product introductions drop, due primarily because of the recession. At that time, companies cut back on their new product introductions in the U.S. market, across all categories and all types of products," says Lynn Dornblaser, Mintel's director of innovation and insight.
"Since that time, however, we have seen increases overall in product introductions in food and beverage. The patterns are quite different from category to category, however. For example, the two largest categories with the greatest increases are Dairy and Snacks.
"Dairy has shown strong increases in new product introductions in the past 12 months due mainly because of the impact of Greek-style yogurt, plus all types of yogurt," Dornblaser continues. "Snacks growth has come from alternate types of snacks -- for example, vegetable-based or unusual grain-based snacks -- plus an overall increase in snack bars and nut snacks. The Meals category also has shown growth, driven in part by meals formulated for two people and further expansion of vegetarian offerings.
"Two of the largest categories that have shown the greatest decreases in the past 12 months include Bakery and Sauces. Bakery's decline may be due in part to the lack of 100-calorie pack type introductions [which boosted numbers in the recent past]. Sauces & Seasonings has slowed following strong increases in late 2009, which likely were driven by consumers choosing to cook more at home."
A few facts and figures are all well and good, but nothing drives home the point like taste. And whatever else factors in for repeat purchases. Following are the top 10 new products that Food Processing and Friends find to be irresistible – over and over again.
By the way, keep this in mind: After Jan. 1, we will set up a yearlong poll on our web site so you can tell us what are your favorite products of all time. We'll give you 10 months to think about it. Next November, we will devote this feature to whatever products you specify. It should be interesting.
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- Adonia Frozen Greek Yogurt
- Fair Oaks Farms Core Power
- General Mills Gluten Free Chex Apple Cinnamon
- Hershey's Simple Pleasures
- Hostess Chocolate Crème Twinkies
- IHOP At Home Syrups
- Roland Flavored Quinoa
- Stouffer's Farmers' Harvest Steam Meals-For-One
- Vitalicious VitaPizza
- Wells Blue Bunny Cake-Inspired Ice Creams
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The parties at the centre of the potential Oxford United takeover were all remaining tight-lipped yesterday and said they had nothing to say . . . yet.
U's owner and chairman Ian Lenagan again failed to break his silence when contacted, although his son, Simon, did answer our call.
"As soon as there is something that needs to be communicated, it will be," Simon Lenagan, who is also a board member, said.
A consortium led by Mark Ashton appear to be the favourites to take over the club should it be up for sale, with a team of Oxfordshire businessmen, led by Charlie Methven, also interested.
Although Ashton is the man fronting the bid for his group, the Oxford Mail understands that the person leading the talks is Darryl Eales.
Eales was once reportedly interested in trying to take over Birmingham City, whom he supports, and has strong connections with Ian Lenagan.
The United owner made £19m when selling Workplace Systems in December 2011 to LDC – part of the Lloyds Banking Group.
Eales is listed on the LDC website as an 'advisory chairman'.
Further investigations show that last month a new company was founded – ENSCO 1070 Ltd – which lists Ashton and Eales as directors, along with Michael O'Leary and Frank Waterhouse.
There is no evidence, however, that this company is involved in the potential takeover of Oxford United.
When the Oxford Mail contacted Ashton yesterday, we were told: "Mark is unable to talk about anything at this moment, which you will hopefully appreciate."
Oxford United supporters' trust OxVox have also tried to speak to Ashton about the potential deal.
OxVox chairman Mark Sennett commented: "We have tried to contact Mr Ashton and are hoping for a conversation with him."
Rumours of a takeover surfaced on Wednesday, with Ashton's consortium first linked.
Methven's group, all United supporters, then went public 24 hours later with their interest.
If any deal is struck, it is not clear whether it would involve just the purchase of Oxford United Football Club, or include the stadium, which is owned by former chairman Firoz Kassam.
Talks about the purchase of the stadium have taken place with Kassam in the past, but no deal has ever been struck.
United's players report back for pre-season training on Monday, with head coach Gary Waddock having made just one addition to the squad this summer, striker Danny Hylton.
Our top stories:
- Oxford United sign loan deal with Everton full back
- Business secretary visits motor firm that powers electric Jaguar supercar - see it in action
- Sunday Times columnist suggests Oxfordshire should be 'concreted over'
- Helicopters land on school field to launch Oxford Poppy Appeal
- WESTGATE: Major clothing brand announces it will open store
- Veterans remember soldiers who died at Battle of Passchendaele
- American-style restaurant chain wants to open at the new Westgate Centre
- New faces around the county council cabinet table
- Oxfordshire detective is a contestant on Channel 4 survival show The Island with Bear Grylls
- Managing director Greig Box Turnbull to leave Oxford United at end of season
- Companies still signing up for jobs fair at Oxford Town Hall
- Hundreds will gather as soldier killed in Iraq is repatriated
- Staff and students celebrate actress's big win at the Golden Globes
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Thank you so much for MFLS. I have played other
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