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Civil actions filed under the Child Support Recovery Act, O.C.G.A. § 19-11-1 et seq., are subject to fees charged by the clerk for alternative dispute resolution programs under O.C.G.A. § 15-23-7; but collection of fees must await conclusion of the action and the fee ordinarily should be charged to the child support obligor.
This is in response to your request for my opinion as to whether civil actions filed on behalf of the state pursuant to the Child Support Recovery Act, O.C.G.A. § 19-11-1 et seq., are subject to fees assessed for purposes of funding alternative dispute resolution programs under O.C.G.A. § 15-23-1 et seq. If such cases are subject to these fees, you further ask who should be responsible for their payment.
When construing statutes, the goal of any inquiry is to effectuate the intention of the General Assembly, keeping in mind the old law, the evil, and the remedy. O.C.G.A. § 1-3-1(a); Calhoon v. Mr. Locksmith Co., 200 Ga. App. 618, 620 (1991). Ordinarily, the state is not bound by passage of a law unless it is expressly named therein. O.C.G.A. § 1-3-8. Since the state is not named in the Alternative Dispute Resolution
Act, O.C.G.A. § 15-23-1 et seq., it might be concluded that the fees provided in that act are inapplicable to child support recovery actions. Compare 1984 Op. Att'y Gen. U84-7. However, I reach the opposite conclusion when reading that act in pari materia with other statutes on filing fees due from the state.
Prior to July 1, 1991, the statute governing filing fees due the clerks of court, O.C.G.A. § 15-6-77, provided that "Nothing contained in this subsection shall be deemed to require such sum of the state, its agencies, or political subdivisions." O.C.G.A. § 15-6-77(b)(5). Effective July 1, 1991, the General Assembly revised this Code Section to provide that "Nothing contained in this subsection shall be deemed to require advance payment of such sum by the state, its agencies, or political subdivisions." O.C.G.A. § 15-6-77(e)(2) (emphasis added). Thus, it appears that the General Assembly intended that the state, its agencies, or political subdivisions be liable for filing fees, but that these fees need not be tendered as of the filing of the action.
The rationale behind this statutory change is simple. Actions filed on behalf of the public should be allowed to proceed without prepayment of filing fees as they further the public interest and the state, its agencies, and political subdivisions pose no danger of nonpayment. In addition, if the public body is successful in prosecuting its action, this cost can be taxed to the opposing party by the court at the conclusion of the action.
Because both O.C.G.A. § 15-6-77(e)(2) and O.C.G.A. § 15-23-7 relate to filing fees, they are statutes in pari materia and should be construed together. See Georgia Marble Co. v. Whitlock, 260 Ga. 350, 354 (1990); Reid Rental, Inc. v. City of Waycross, 197 Ga. App. 676, 677 (1990). It would be an incongruous result to conclude that the General Assembly intended for the state, its agencies, and political subdivisions to be subject to filing fees in general, but to be excluded from the fee imposed for alternative dispute resolution programs; especially in light of the broad language used in O.C.G.A. § 15-23-7. Thus, I conclude that actions filed under the Child Support Recovery Act are subject to the fee imposed in O.C.G.A. § 15-23-7. To remain consistent with the related statute, O.C.G.A. § 15-6-77(e)(2), though, this fee should not be required as an advance payment from the state, its agencies, or political subdivisions.
There is one exception of note which should be mentioned. In concluding that actions filed under the Child Support Recovery Act are subject to this fee, I do not mean to include those cases which are filed under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA), O.C.G.A. § 19-11-40 et seq. The General Assembly has indicated its intention that no filing fee be imposed in conjunction with cases filed under this reciprocal law. O.C.G.A. § 19-11-56. Accordingly, these cases are not subject to the fee.
Having concluded that the fee imposed in O.C.G.A. § 15-23-7 is applicable to child support recovery actions, I will address your inquiry concerning the party responsible for paying this fee. To answer this question, another statute which should be read in pari materia with O.C.G.A. § 15-23-7 is instructive. Effective April 20, 1992, the General Assembly charged the child support receivers of the various counties with the task of collecting "all costs of court and service fees of the sheriff in any [child support] action initiated by the state." O.C.G.A. § 15-15-5(b). Using mandatory language, the Code Section requires the child support receiver "to assess and collect from the paying party." Id. The fee is to be collected "with the first child support payment collected." Id.
Reading this language in pari materia with O.C.G.A. § 15-23-7, I conclude that the child support obligor is responsible for paying the additional fee to support the alternative dispute resolution program. In the event no child support obligation is established, the fee would be due from the state agency, or political subdivision initiating the action. I also note that like other fees, the alternative dispute resolution fee should not be collected in such a manner so as to reduce any payment due the parent or guardian of the minor child. See O.C.G.A. § 15-15-5(c).
In closing, this advice presumes that all prerequisites for charging this fee have already been met prior to its imposition. See O.C.G.A. § 15-23-10. Consequently, it is my unofficial opinion that civil actions brought pursuant to the Child Support Recovery Act are subject to the fee imposed under O.C.G.A. § 15-23-7 to support alternative dispute resolution programs, but the state, its agencies, and political subdivisions should not be compelled to make advance payment of the fee which should ordinarily be collected from the child support obligor upon the conclusion of the action.
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Blind Guardian suck.
Album Rating: 4.0They sound good.
They don't suck.
Album Rating: 4.5Weak guitar riffs, MY ASS. tame drum patterns? who the fuck even cares? power metal isn't about the drums. Hansi Kursch is almost never cheesy: his voice is PERFECT for the genre, and yeah, diversity is usually an issue, but as my review tried to set apart, BG always avoid that pitfall in my opinion.
What I gather from you is: You don't like power metal/heavy metal at all, which is totally fine with me... it just amazes me that you're posting here though.
Besides, have you even HEARD the album?
Album Rating: 4.0I love the guy's voice. The guitars are not weak, and neithre are the drums.
They sound good.
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Album Rating: 4.5Is there anything wrong with liking simplistic, effective tunes? Sure, I like some progressive stuff too, but I just want straightforward metal sometimes, good old power metal, consistent, with some twists to it.
I don't care if that makes it regurgitated. I like the band, and I'm trying to set that apart in my review. If you don't like the band, fine. But this is an argument about taste, so please, if you have anything constructive to post about the review. I think I gave a very solid base for my opinion in this article.
Album Rating: 3.0Pretty good review, but you could have described the songs a little more.
I think this album ranks last place in BG's discography. It's not as over the top as their other stuff (you say that's a good thing, but I disagree). It sounds like this album was designed for a lesser ear. Basically, this album is good, but it pales in comparison to anything off of Nightfall in Middle Earth or Somewhere Far Beyond. I think it was a step back.
Also, you seem to dislike the tracks that I like. Otherland and This Will Never End are two of my favorite songs. I also like Straight Through the Mirror a lot, but Skalds and Shadows is my favorite song on here. Fly and Another Stranger me suck and the last three songs could have been left off of the album.
Acidicity, if you think this band has a lack of song diversity then you obviously have never heard them or have no ears. They are the most unique power metal out there. Also, this isn't the album to check out if you want to get into BG. Nightfall in Middle Earth is much more diverse than this.
Just learn to ignore this guy.
Good review.
Stop the hate
Album Rating: 4.5I personally don't like track-by-track reviews, or song details too much: I have the feeling it's nitpicking. Besides I'm not a musician myself, I'm not very good with technical musical stuff, so I prefer just to give an overview, compare it to their other releases, give off the general feel of the album to someone who wants to get this, to give the reader a general idea of where this album goes, and where it stands compared to the rest.
I liked Somewhere Far Beyond a lot, but I actually like this just as much. For me, it's just another step in the BG milestone, and there's nothing wrong with quitting wankery: I hate it when bands get arrogant and then don't get their shit together on an album. Although BG have never done that, and I enjoy every single album these guys have put out, I believe that a more straightforward attitude doesn't have to be a bad thing; and it isn't here.
Fly is one of MY favourite tracks. :P
Album Rating: 3.0Oh yea, and I've seen this band live and they pull off the grandeur very well. They put on the best concert of any band I have seen live. This isn't just me because BG have always been known for putting on fantastic live shows.
Also, I forgot to add that BG are one of the fathers of power metal along with Helloween. I don't like Helloween though.
Album Rating: 4.5Yeah, I know BG are pretty good at all that, hence why they're one of my favourite bands
Helloween, I only have Keeper of the seven Keys part II album, and I liked most of it.
I also mentioned that BG have a long-lasting legacy with classic albums. :P
I've always though Nightfall in Middle Earth and Somewhere Far Beyond were overrated. My favourite Blind Guardian albums are Battalions of Fear and this. :p
Good review.
Album Rating: 3.0I don't like track by tracks either, but I like details on some of the songs. It was still a good review though.
BG still had pretty good guitar work on this album. I like this album and have enjoyed every album the band has put out also, but this album is my least favorite by them. Nightfall in Middle Earth is my favorite. I just love BG when they do things over the top. That's what they do best in my opinion. This album wasn't as epic or over the top as I wanted.
The album art is awesome though
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Album Rating: 4.5BG album art has always kicked ass period.
Album Rating: 3.0^^ That's true.
Album Rating: 4.0This album is wonderful. I really only dislike the ballads on here.
Good review, although I disagree with a large portion of it. Blind Guardian is like the only cheese power metal band you need to listen to.
I really only dislike the ballads on here.
Album Rating: 3.0There are no ballads on this album, but if you are referring to the softer songs then I disagree. I think Skalds and Shadows is amazing. Fly sucks though, IMO.
/Is wearing ATITM tour shirt. :cool:
Good review, but how you think that This Will Never End is a weak song is beyond me. Honestly, that's probably the best on this album. It shows what the band does best: pounding riffs coupled with a completely epic chorus.
And WHY does everyone hate ANATO? I think it's the best thing they've ever done.
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"It was unthinkable that a forum like this could have happened even ten years ago," Kevin Bone, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Design, says. "You had nine candidates for a major American Democracy of almost 9 million people up on stage discussing environmental policy for an hour and a half. The national scene may be too divisive for that at this moment, but if you can do that on a local level: that's prorgress."
Moderated by WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer, the candidates included Sal Albanese, Bill de Blasio, Adolfo Carrion, John Catsimatidis, Christine Quinn, Joe Lhota, John Liu, George McDonald, and Bill Thompson. Brian Leher's questions for the candidates ranged from general beliefs about global warming and natural disaster prevention, to hot-button issues like the proposed Spectra natural gas pipeline intended to run from New Jersey into the West Village in Manhattan. The occasional cheers and boos that erupted from audience served as a reminder of how seriously many New Yorkers take these issues.
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LITTLE ROCK � Entergy Arkansas expected to have power restored to nearly all of its Arkansas customers by New Year�s Day, a week after a fierce snowstorm left almost 200,000 customers in the dark.
Less than 7,000 electric customers remained without power at mid-afternoon Monday as thousands of utility workers from around the country worked to provide electricity to some homes that had been without it since Christmas Day.
Workers were concentrating on some of the harder-to-reach areas of west Little Rock, Hot Springs and Malvern, Entergy spokesman David Lewis said.
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For years now I have been struggling with Relational DBMS technology and Associative DBMS technology attempting to get them to do what I want. In my first efforts, Relational models were structurally restrictive, Dimensional models were unable to grow organically, EAV models are incompatible with relational architecture. I came upon Simon Williams Associative Model of Data and although enthralled with its potential I found it too had limitations. It was semi-structured and allowed for too much flexibility. 25 years in Information Technology had taught me that there was a single standard classification system for setting up databases not a plethora of ontologies. I was determined to find the theoretical structure and was not concerned with hardware limitations, database architecture, abilties of current query languages or any other constraints.
The Associative Model of Data had made the difference in liberating me from Relational and Dimensional thinking. A traditional ERD of the Associative Model of Data I at first thought would look like the following:
Basically what you have is a Schema composed of Nodes with Node Associations through Verbs and Associations with Nodes Attributions through Verbs. The range of Node Entities, Verb Entities, Association Entities and Attribution Entities are endless. As well the population of the Schema has an unlimited dataset of natural key values. I have been challenged by Relational database specialists and SQL experts regarding the viability of this model within current limitations, however their arguments are irrelevant. What is important is the logical validity of the model, not the physical validity.
After receiving the criticism I decided to revisit the model in order to simplify it. I went over Simon William's explanations of his model and its application and found I could reduce it to the following:
This was profoundly simpler and better reflected the Associative Model of Data's Architecture. But even with this simpler architecture I was not satisfied. I felt that the Associatve Model although giving the benefit of explicitly defining the associations was a tabula rasa. Research has shown that tabula rasa's are contrary to the behavior of the finite physical universe. There is an intermediate level of nature and nuture. And this is what I sought to model.
When I first encountered the Zachman Framework, something about it struck me in a very profound way. I could see there was something fundamental in its description of systems, however I felt that the metaphors that John Zachman used were wrong because they themselves lacked a fundamental simplicity. The consequences of this were that those who studied under Zachman ultimately could not agree on what he was talking about. Also the "disciplines" that Zachman's Framework generated were continually reinventing the wheel. Zachman had created a world of vertical and horizontal stovepipes. To further the confusion Zachman refused to conceive of a methodology based upon his framework. Consequently, there was no way to determine what the priorities were in creating a system. I call this the Zachman Clusterfuck.
Zachman's work spawned years of work for me. I could see that systems had a fundamental structure, but I could not agree with Zachman. Focuses and Perspectives were useless terms. The construction metaphor was useless. I read anything I could get my hands on dealing with systems, methodologies, modeling, networks and a broad range of other literature across the disciplines. Out of this came a set of conclusions:
- There were a fundamental set of Noun Entities
- There were a fundamental set of Verb Entities
- There were a fundamental set of Association Entities
- There was a clear order in which the Nouns were addressed
- There was a clear order in which the Verbs were executed
- The structure was fractal
- The content was a scale-free network
I made some attempts at creating the vocabulary and experimented with this new Structured Thinking Language. However, the real break came when I worked with John Boyd's OODA Loop:
The OODA Loop revealed a governing structure for the methodology and guided my way into the following hybrid relational/dimensional/associational model I call the Structured Associative Model of Data:
One of the key things this model demonstrates is the sequence followed by the OODA Loop. Starting from the top, each dimension set spawns the next. Choices are created from the dimensions. There is no centrism to this model which is an inherent flaw in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event based architecture, Data centric architecture, Goal-Directed Design, Rule based systems among others. The stove pipes of Focuses and Pespectives disappear by reasserting a clear order of priorities and dependencies for achieving success. The model also supports bottom up inductive as well as top down deductive sequencing. This will make the system able to reconfigure to handle exceptions.
Some of the things I have learned in designing this model include the realization that unit defines datatype and that all measures are variable character string text. This is because any displayed value is only a symbolic representation of the actual quantity. If operations are to be performed on measures they are converted to the correct type as part of the operation. I also recognized that Unit was necessary to define the scale and scalability of the system. Further, it became apparent that analog calculations should not be practiced. Every value should be treated as discrete and aggregated.
Another aspect of this system is the inclusion of currency and amount. I have been critical of Zachman and academics for their hypocrisy regarding the economics of systems. All systems have a cost and a benefit and they are measurable in currency. Contrary to the reasoning of the majority, every decision is ultimately economic.
Tim Brown of IDEO has coined the term "Design Thinking" and has been toying with the concept for some time. Many designers dwell on the two dimensional concept of divergence and convergence as modes of thought. If we look at my model, divergence is the creation of choice while convergence is selection of choice. There is no alteration or deletion of choice in my model as history is preserved.
Now what you have is a unencumbered framework with a clear methodological sequence.
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TORONTO – Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC) says growth from its insurance operations in Asia helped deliver a profit increase of more than 50 per cent in the first quarter.
The insurance company said Thursday that net profit rose to $818 million, or 42 cents per share, compared with $540 million, or 28 cents per share, in the same quarter last year. The results were helped by lower costs, a stronger U.S. dollar and higher fee income, it said.
Core earnings, excluding such things as one-time items, were up at $719 million, or 37 cents per share, which was two cents lower than analyst expected, according to a Thomson Reuters survey.
Manulife reported that overall insurance sales dropped 15.3 per cent to $537 million, reflecting lower group benefits sales in Canada.
In Asia, sales grew 23 per cent to US$258 million with Japan and Indonesia being the biggest growers, both up more than 50 per cent.
"In the first quarter we saw improved momentum in insured sales with a very significant increase in Japan and double-digit sales growth in most of the other territories in Asia," president and chief executive Donald Guloien said in a conference call.
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But the results we weaker in North America, where modifications of its price model, designed to improve margins, actually negatively affected overall insurance sales.
In the Canadian division, insurance sales dropped 45 per cent to $134 million, which Marianne Harrison, general manager of Canadian operations, said was primarily because of prices that were higher than its competitors.
"We had done some, probably four or five, increases over the last couple of years and the more recent one I would say at the beginning of last year," she said.
"We didn't see the competition follow, so the change that we made in the third quarter of last year brought us in line with competition."
Price pressures were also a focus at John Hancock, the company's U.S. insurance division, where sales dropped 24 per cent to US$108 million from a year earlier, mainly because of decisions to increase prices last year, Guloien said.
"We expect recently introduced product enhancements and more competitive prices to improve sales," he added.
In Manulife's wealth-management business, which offers investment products and services like mutual funds, sales were $13.8 billion in the quarter, up five per cent from the same quarter in 2013.
Manulife said it had $635 billion funds under management.
The company's shares closed up 16 cents at $20.74 Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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I got to do the commercial with local artists, Jeff "Weirdo" Jacobson, and Angelina "179" Vilalobos. Check out their sites when you can. These two are always working something cool around town, and probably have some shows in the works, as I write this.
I did a few pages of rough thumbnails (below) before picking four to color up. The above color comp (scanned and cranked out in photoshop) is the one that was picked.
I was actually working on these comps while down in Cali, a day before heading to the San Diego Comic Con. My cousin Larry let me work on a spare wacom tablet while he worked on his comic pages. My bro popped off these shots on his phone while we were hanging in his studio (Thanks Dre!)
The commercial was scheduled the day after I got back from the Comic Con. It was a two day shoot, shot in a space in lovely Georgetown. There were a couple of time lapse cameras in the rafters, and some other floaters that were set up for other shots. It was all pretty spontaneous. After everything was set up, we came in, they rolled the cameras, and we went to town on the canvases.
It was a really fun shoot overall. Just kind of weird to have to stop your work flow in between set ups. Really gets you out of the zone for a few minutes, but then, back to it. With all the starting and stopping in between painting, I think we all got in 8-10 hours of actual painting. Kind of an aggressive schedule, but it just makes you think differently while you're executing the work.
Here are Jeff and Angelina chillin' with local artist Memo Diaz. Memo was in some shots as the "art critic", and you can catch a glimpse of him in the long version. There are no cameras that can capture the power of Memo's presence, which is why he'll eventually get his own movie as an artist/bounty hunter.
They took a lot of footage with this Bolex, too. Unfortunately, I don't think much of that was used, except for a few frames in the long cut. You can see some of Tom Price's storyboards in the background. Tom's a local board artist that used to teach at the Art Institute of Seattle. I had the pleasure of taking his class back in the old AIS days.
Dave Leonard was the man at the helm on the shoot, and made the whole experience go pretty smooth. You can see him above working out a shot that was a cool idea, but didn't make the cut. You can see in the monitor how they lined up the drink with the painting.
Anyway, all in all, good times on the shoot. Here's the link to the actual commercial.
Also, here's the long version with some more added footage.


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Learn about ways to integrate with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to enable role-based access control (RBAC), tagging, and template-based deployments, and how Windows containers with Docker compatibility make your code deploy instantly and work consistently in any environment. Also learn how Service Fabric, Microsoft's hyper-scale micro-service PaaS that powers everything from Azure DB to Cortana, brings applications state-of-the art high-density, high availability and stateful computing capabilities.


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Business owners credit SnowGlobe with economic boost
All that remained of the SnowGlobe Music Festival venue Thursday were a few scattered boards and sections of chain link fence, but just because the revelers have departed doesn't mean the event's reverberations in the South Shore have stopped.
"We've had so much amazing, positive feedback. We feel great about it," event producer Chad Donnelly said.
SnowGlobe attendees, which Donnelly said numbered around 40,000 for the whole series, brought a large cash influx to the city, according to various business owners.
Executive Director of the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority Carol Chaplin said the reports she's heard so far have been mostly anecdotal, but the consensus seems to be that SnowGlobe had a positive economic impact on the community.
Various hotel owners told Chaplin that even though they didn't discount the four-night minimum stay requirement over the New Year's Eve weekend, business was still booming.
"I think it was definitely a good event. We were really surprised that the SnowGlobe demographic was willing to spend that additional night. It increased (the hotels') percentage of single, young people," Chaplin said.
Gaia Licious, a clothing and gifts boutique on Tallac Ave., also reported a highly profitable holiday weekend. Co-owner Kelly Brosch credits SnowGlobe with most of the traffic.
"After Christmas, people don't shop but everyone was coming in and buying sprit hoods –the animal hats – gloves, scarves. They were looking for stuff that was warm and looked different. It was pretty obvious that it was for SnowGlobe. It was a great event and it's great for the community," Brosch said.
Brosch didn't have specific numbers, but she estimated that this year brought about the same number of shoppers as the 2011 festival.
For some businesses, those numbers brought money but they also brought more chaos.
Jazz Kat Cafe waitress Mary Somma said that the restaurant was packed to maximum capacity throughout the weekend.
"It would be a lot better if it wasn't on the same weekend as New Year's. It was a big mess. We had so many customers in here we couldn't make them happy," Somma said.
Jazz Kat raked in about double what they would have on a normal weekend, but tips were down and diners complained of 45-minute waits, Somma said.
The cafe welcomed SnowGlobe customers last year when fewer tourists were in town for the new year because of lack of snow, Somma said. But having both concertgoers and New Year's Eve revelers in town at the same time stretched the small cafe's capacity.
Whether or not the music festival comes back for a third year has yet to be determined, but Donnelly said he's confident the community wants SnowGlobe to return next January. He said they plan to refine the shuttle service and develop ways to shorten the lines that formed at security, but overall the event went as predicted.
"I think based on what we heard from the city, I would be very surprised if we were not welcomed back with open arms," he said.
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These words dribbled out more than a year ago. Today Everton are much the same as they have ever been: a club with true traditions, fervent support and down-to-earth principles, just how many City supporters have viewed our club over the many years of trials and tribulations before we fell headlong into that gigantic pot of honey.
The atmospheric stadium, the dark old church, the heaving paddock, the swaying Glwadys Street, scene of a thousand and one hyperbolic Gerald Sinstadt commentaries ("...and Whittle's done it!!!!"..."Latchford at the far post, oh my word!"). Too hemmed in by the crumbly tenements of the Scottie Road, none of this can be redeveloped into glistening executive boxes and corporate lounges. The Z Cars theme that still blasts out on match days, the girls with baskets of toffees, the perimetre advertising shouting things like Hafnia and Pukka Pies.
What do modern day Evertonians think? Here are three generations and their ideas about City, City and Everton and this weekend's game:
|Gerry Gow shows how in 1981
Luke O'Farrell writes ESPN's Everton blog and sees it thus:
"For many years, Everton and City were two peas in a pod. The poorer relations within their cities, both tried to upset the established order with Everton making a slightly better fist of it over the years. However, a lot has changed in recent times and City now possess the sort of wealth that Everton can only dream about. The money has skewed the similarities with recent City managers doing their best to sour relations; few Everton fans would speak positively on Hughes or Mancini. The Lescott departure was acrimonious, to say the least, and Hughes irked a number of fans with his behaviour. Mancini has failed to endear himself to Evertonians with the Italian throwing sour grapes about whenever Everton get the better of his Manchester Millionaires. In spite of all that, and I'm using some kind of twisted logic here, Everton fans may think of City in a more favourable manner at present The reason for that would be Jack Rodwell. More than a few eyebrows were raised when Mancini came in for him. Despite showing glimpses, Rodwell's injuries were grabbbing more headlines than his football prior to his transfer. His progress had stalled and the money allowed Everton to sign the brilliant Kevin Mirallas; Everton easily got the better deal in this case. The money threatens to drive a wedge between two once similar clubs but the fact that you aren't United probably still applies for many."
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" Everton visit Man City at the weekend in a fixture laden with nostalgia for fans of a certain age. Everton and City sparred entertainingly throughout the late 60s and 70s, fielding some great players, but ultimately falling short of sustained success. We left that kind of monotony to Leeds and Liverpool. For City and Everton disappointment lurks around every corner. Recent years have seen an unexpected upturn in City's fortunes due to the sudden influx of Arab money, whilst Evertonians have become used to the club trading to survive. Fortunately, under Moyes we have one of the few managers able to make continued progress under such constraints. This season City have looked fairly ordinary so far, but have the knack of winning, often late in games which I guess marks them out as champions. Everton, whilst playing well and creating chances aplenty, have failed to see out games they should have won. This makes the weekend's game particularly intriguing and will be a key test of whether the Toffees can challenge for the top four places. In order to get a result - and a win is possible - Everton will need Gibson back to patrol in front of the back four and Jelavic to find his shooting boots. Midfield looks well matched, with Fellaini versus Yaya Toure being top of the bill. Mirrallas back would also be a significant boost to the Blues and he should enjoy the space available at Eastlands. Unfortunately, the loss of Baines to a hamstring strain reduces Everton's progressive play considerably and a draw might be the best we can hope for. Expect to see City's strikers rotated again from the start and during the game, until they find a way through. Lescott and Rodwell are likely to remain absent friends, which seems particularly tough on the former. Everton to score first, with Dzeko netting a late equalizer for City. Or not. Who knows? I'll be thinking of those dark terrace streets outside Maine Road and whether footy really was better in the 70s"
|Losing to Everton not a new thing: here's one we made in 1993
Chris Dottie was brought up on a solid diet of 80s successes in the blue half of Merseyside. Then it all dried up. Everton-City means this to him:
Thanks to Luke, Simon and Chris. May there also be a pot of honey at the end of the rainbow marked "Toffees" one day, for as sure as many football fans wished us well when our luck turned, I can't imagine too many begrudging the blues of Merseyside a go on the ride as well at some point."I think Evertonians feel a bit bereft nowadays, that they used to have brothers in arms. It helped that we normally felt like the big brother in my life time, that for all we had in common life was still that little bit worse for you. So we could share in the hatred for the famous reds that had stolen our cities in the popular mind and bitterly rant about how much better we deserved and how spawny and horrible and patronising they were. But at the same time we could feel a little bit patronising towards you, because you hadn't often been much higher than us and you've often been quite a lot lower.There were many shared players and managers, never any bitterly painful or violent games that stick in the memory – maybe because neither club had anything positive to play for during much of the past 30 years and we were never the ones to send you down. Away trips were a positive date in the diary because it was a short journey with little risk of physical harm and a possibility of getting points. The fans always very similarly minded as well – maybe a mixture of nature and nurture. The geographical proximity provides the natural link, that the fans are likely to be more similar in socio-economic and personality terms than 2 clubs from the other end of the country (especially during the 80's when the North/South divide seemed widest). And we were both nurtured by a traditional, respected, historic club that was perennially unsuccessful and so held no appeal to glory hunters. No surprise that we felt that the supporters of both clubs were cut from the same cloth.
Paul Power part of a shared legacySo until City attracted investment there was a lot to like and little to dislike. After that, things have changed to a large degree. Our erstwhile wingman has found he can get into the high-end nightclubs and flirt with the Champions League totty, leaving us with our pint of mild in the social. There's a bitter element to the jealousy because it seems down to luck. Why buy City and not Everton? Because City have a stadium. Why do City have a stadium? Because the Commonwealth games was in Manchester. Not your fault but not our fault either, and a real "Sliding Doors" moment, almost up there with the impact of Heysel on Everton's recent history. Neither club seemed to get a break, then you won the lottery.I still think there is a lot more affection from Evertonians for your club than for the rest of the rich and famous because the feeling is that most of the fans haven't changed. But power corrupts and your managers have really driven a wedge sometimes, not just with signing our players but with comments about styles of play and sizes of clubs. Sometimes it feels like the club is forgetting quickly where it came from.Your best mate wins the lottery and you celebrate like hell while he's sticking it to "the man" and flying the flag for the previously ignored. If he then becomes "the man" and acts like winning the lottery was down to good judgement, the distance starts to grow. That's where are paths are diverging and the brotherhood is becoming a pleasant nostalgic memory."


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In wake of Libya attack, president praises efforts of civilian employees overseas.
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In the wake of an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other embassy staff were killed, President Obama has ordered increased security at U.S. diplomatic installations around the world.
"I have directed my administration to provide all necessary resources to support the security of our personnel in Libya, and to increase security at our diplomatic posts around the globe," Obama said in a statement. "While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants."
Obama praised not only the work of Stevens and other embassy personnel, but federal employees who serve in other foreign outposts as well.
"The brave Americans we lost represent the extraordinary service and sacrifices that our civilians make every day around the globe," he said. "As we stand united with their families, let us now redouble our own efforts to carry their work forward."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement that in addition to Stevens, Sean Smith, an information management officer and 21-year veteran of the Foreign Service, also was killed in the attack. "Like Chris, Sean was one of our best," Clinton said. Before working at the post in Libya, Smith had served in Baghdad, Iraq; Pretoria, South Africa; Montreal and The Hague in the Netherlands.
"America's diplomats and development experts stand on the front lines every day for our country," Clinton said. "We are honored by the service of each and every one of them."
On Wednesday, President Obama ordered that flags be flown at half-staff at federal buildings and military posts in the United States and abroad until Sept. 16 in honor of those killed in what he called a "senseless attack."


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As a tropical butterfly specialist, John has been on many field trips to the islands of the South Pacific. While on a recent collecting trip to Papua New Guinea, John noted that this expedition to some of the remote islands east of the main island of New Guinea includes many of the world's most spectacular butterflies, including Queen Alexandra's Birdwing, the largest butterfly species in the world.
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