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I love that this thread is still going
I love that this thread is still going
Right, JJay's said that he knows the problem, and it'll be solved by Wednesday at the latest, so we should be back soon
We're back!
Thanks to JJay for getting it sorted so quickly
Good news Jammy. Thanks JJay. I'll get going with my next batch of work over the next few days.
Done a lot of work on this today:
Training has been completely rewritten
Various staff pages completely rewritten (including 'Chairman', 'Manager', 'Staff')
'Attributes' has been redesigned to have links to all 4 pages that have types of attributes on them.
Successful day, in all
If anyone has a link to the guidelines for FM11 7* coaching, it'd be much appreciated!
EDIT: Finances page and FM06 page been added to, meaning we now have no stubs on the site!
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Very good Jammy to have no stubs left on the site. I'm starting on my guide on Crewe for FM11 and it's nice to see GTPG are already up for a variety of teams and players.
Are we down again for anyone else?
Says account is suspended
The site got suspended again.
Grrrr, i'll try and find out what's happened...
cheers for noticing
Tis another problem with billing, it'll be sorted soon and this'll be the last time it happens (hopefully!)
Was just going to come in here and let you know about that. Will it be down for long? Cheers.
Not sure yet Crouchy. Hopefully not for too long
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I'd imagine it'll be a couple of days, really depends on how fast the hosting company process the payments (as far as I understand!), we can only guess really. Hopefully it'll be soon, but can't be sure.
Sorry about this lads, JJay's working on it
We're back online!
Thanks JJay
Hopefully this won't be happening again
I've started putting the FM11 team guides i've recieved permission for on the site
What do people think to the home page now? Felt it was time for a change...
Also, Stig, you should have an e-mail
Like it and have recieved the email. I'll have a think about it if that's OK and let you know
That's fine, no rush - if it's a competition it will probably run through January
Any ideas if you're going to go for it yet mate?
Haven't thought about it tbh. Prize it though - doubt i'd have a lot of time with it.
Alright then, will do. Will be interesting to see if there are many entries for it...
Do you think that we should as well as having the list of clubs that a player has played for also have which versions of the game we have a player profile for?
Just wondering, but is there gonna be an update for Inter?
As in squad or team guide for FM11? If it's the former I can sort that out. If it's the latter i'm either still waiting for permission for the GTPG Inter thread or I haven't got round to putting it on yet.
What, so have categories?
If that's what you mean, I reckon it's a good idea.
So, if you gave players who have FM09 and FM10 profiles the following categories:
[[Category:Player Profiles 2009]]
[[Category:Player Profiles 2010]]
and then made them sub categories in the FM09/FM10 categories etc
If that is what you mean, I like the idea
That's exactly it Jammy
I've started to do them now like the FM09 Player Guides page. Are there any more changes that need to be done?
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Ssestig, drop me an email
Who else is about still?
PM your email please sir
rightyo, the site's updated again, there is now a competition running with a year long subscription to FML on offer!
what i've done:
- (sidebar) moved links into two separate boxes
- (sidebar) removed 'selected articles', 'help', 'facebook & twitter' and 'about'
- (sidebar) added 'FMW in pictures', 'competition', 'facebook', 'twitter' and 'community portal' which now leads to...
- this thread in the fansites forum - doubt it'll get many views but ah well!
- the header on the main page is slightly changed
- competition added (including own page, T&C page and mention on Feb 11 picture
- facebook and twitter both updated - hopefully they'll start being used a bit more at some point!
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We've now had 17 entries to the competition, which is more than I was expecting in all honesty!
Still over a month to go - it'd be good if we could reach 30 entries by the end!
The facebook group has also grown a lot - to 42 members now, from about 7 earlier in the week.
We got a mention on the Football Manager group, which I think got us a lot of extra views/entries/fans!
I was thinking of signing up but what would be the purpose?
To edit any of the pages of the wiki to keep them updated or to create pages on players/teams that aren't currently on the wiki
54 entries into the competition now, doing pretty well!
Just to let everyone know i'll be sorting out screenshots for all players on the site for the new patch over the next month or so.
Here is the FM wiki Facebook group those that are interested in joining it.
Down for anyone else?
Down for me
Yep, seems to be down again I'm afraid - I'll ask JJ to see if he know why it may be
Hey guys, just to let you know we're back online now - sorry about the delay!
The winner of the competition, which attracted over 80 entries, is now finished and I'll be announcing the winner within the week. Hope everything's going okay, let me know if anything needs doing!
Any numbers on how many for the this month's competition which has about a week to run?
Just to let everyone know that April's competition has been extended into May and can be found here - http://www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk...April/May_2011)
Just a reminder that this month's competition ends on Tuesday here - http://www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk...le=Competition
Google says site may be compromised, don't know if that's a new thing.
And also, it looks like it's turned into a fan site... is that true?
The site will be staying as it is Jim. Not sure about the google bit as I just have a link on my favourites bar.
Just saying it's hardly going to attract people to look at the site when Google's warning them to steer well clear.
And I'm not criticising or asking you to change it, just a genuine question about what role it is actually trying to perform.
sticky this is really good
I don't want anyone to get me wrong as I appreciate the work that you guys from FMWiki do, but shouldn't this thread be in Fansites section as every other fansite thread?
EDIT: Just checked and I see that you already have a thread over there, so I don't understand how this one can be in GD?
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This thread is here because it started off as a concept to start a wiki.
Obviously at some point it has turned into a fansite, but was never moved across.
That, for what it's worth, has been successful. Whilst there have only been 1,679 visits to the April/May competition page, there were over 270,000 page views overall in the same time period. Compare this to the 185,000 that we got in January/February, and you can see a marked improvement which I have no doubt is linked to some of the changes we've made.
Since the formation of the site, we've been aiming to pass on knowledge from people who know large amounts about the game to those who may need assistance in certain areas. An increase in over 40,000 views a month would, to me, make it seem as thought we've been successful with this. If just 10% of those 40,000 views have resulted in someone learning more about the game, that's still 4,000 pieces of knowledge we've passed on. That's the aim, and as far as I'm concerned we're well on the way to meeting it!
As always, if there are things that you'd like to see changed on the site, we'd really appreciate your comments on it - feel free to email firstname.lastname@example.com with your comments, I'd love to have a conversation with you!
Cheers guys
I disagree!
Nah, not really. All cool Jamie (IIRC that is your name ).
KUTGW guys.
Ahh right.
Going back to the site recently (I only remembered it when I saw this thread bumped), I feel as though it has continued in that theme. The new landing page was the first thing that surprised me... maybe I'm a bit old-school or something, but it doesn't feel like an editable wiki.
Two examples: firstly, the Q&A sessions with SI staff. It's not verifiable, it's not editable, it's not related directly to the game. Especially Ter's interview in the last instance! Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that you've got them, but to me, personally, it doesn't seem in tune with the concept of a wiki, and has much more in common with a fansite. Rather than saying it should all go in the bin (I'm really not attempting to slam the whole thing!) and be forgotten about, I think it would probably benefit from more division/separation from the wiki itself, because if that's an uneditable wiki page, then it's setting a precedent to new users of not touching anything.
Secondly, I've just looked at a few of the articles I edited/wrote back in 2009. Regrettably, apart from yourself and ahmufcwafc there have been very few users making continued edits to those articles. Compare that to what I consider one of the best game wikis out there, UESPWiki for The Elder Scrolls, and it's a whole different ballgame. People are dropping in their own thoughts and experiences in wherever they think they're apt.
Maybe people just aren't bothered enough about FM to make the effort, but that seems unlikely. I'm concerned that it seems to much like an authored fansite for people to feel confident or able to edit the articles, and furthermore that the direction of articles on repetition of available of guides and historical information wasn't attracting people to make the effort to read and give their own thoughts.
When I look at game wikis, it's often to find out what I've done wrong, to find out how to get over a difficult patch, or to better educate myself about a feature I don't understand. The FM Wiki doesn't seem to be doing that. Searching for team talks for example doesn't turn up anything at all, other than an article reproduced in full from FM Britain with an obscure title.
I accept that in part, the charge leveled should be "it's a wiki, if you don't like it, go change it", and fair enough. But when I initially started editing, it seemed as though I was the only one on that page. And looking now, it seems that more than ever, that's the case. I started off hoping for a massive repository of user-submitted information where people shared ideas on how training benefited their players, what team talks helped what kind of players, and how much each stage of ground improvements could cost, based on research from their own games, but it never seemed to be going that way.
In essence then, it's not so much the fansite aspect that I'm worried about - it's really a question of whether it's meant to be a "gamewiki" as I perceive them to be, comprehensive guides on every aspect of gameplay as represented by UESPWiki, even if the information is self-researched and potentially wrong, or a gamewiki not as I perceive them to be, serving a different purpose and/or goal. The fansite part comes in because I suspect it may be inhibiting editing, and thus preventing any move towards the aforementioned "ideal" that I laid out.
If I've got the wrong end of the stick, then feel free to call me out on it . And if you would rather converse via email as previously mentioned, then that's fine... just wanted to outline my reasons on the forums initially.
http://www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk...r:Arsenal_2111) you'll see a list of articles which I hope to have written as soon as possible - school work means it's not always easy to fit work in.
Also, at present, on the entire site, there are just nine pages which are 'Protected', meaning only admins can edit and make changes to them. The interviews make up three of these, and I cannot see that there is any good that could come out of these pages being editable - an interview is an interview, you can't edit what was said in it. Absolutely any content page is editable by users - it's only the 'official' pages which are not.
Thanks for your reply!
I see where you're coming from. I guess this is going to be the difficulty - to get more edits, you need more users; to get more users, you need more attractions; and to be more attractive you need to be more of a fansite. Ideally the content would provide that draw but clearly that hasn't actually happened yet - and the only way that's going to happen is when the number of users and editors reaches critical mass... regrettably that seems a while away.You've a valid point here, and one which I really don't know how to get over. Users provide the basis of the majority of wikis, the one you've linked to having 29,950 users compared to our 166. Part of the reason we have done competitions in the past, which may make the site seem more like a fansite, is to try and attract more people to sign up to the site, but unfortunately this hasn't particularly happened. I think I'm going to talk to JJay, our webmaster, about reducing the security on the site, meaning people will be able to edit before signing up. In case you weren't aware, the reason for this being introduced in the first place was that we had a lot of 'Spammers' on the site. I'd be more than happy to do a 'trial' run to see if this returns if the site were to be unprotected.
I wasn't aware of the spamming, no, I must've missed that period.
Again, fair enough. I think your list is definitely heading in the right direction. If we want people to read the wiki, then we need to be giving them useful advice to help them during their game. You see a lot of people dropping into GD saying "what should I say during team-talks" and so on, so if just some of them started to look on the wiki for that kind of information it would be a great start.Another plan for the coming months is to reduce the number of articles from other websites that we have on the site. Ideally, we wouldn't have any of these and we would write our own but unfortunately one can't be an expert in all fields and sometimes, especially with so many editors, it is best to increase the number of places that someone can access the same article rather than not having any content on a page. If you look on my user page (http://www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk...r:Arsenal_2111) you'll see a list of articles which I hope to have written as soon as possible - school work means it's not always easy to fit work in.
I wasn't really using it as a comparison - I agree that would be extremely unfair. As far as I'm concerned it is the best gamewiki on the web, so if I'm using it as a comparison, I'm only doing so in a very loose sense. Above all, I'm presenting as a target, an example of what to aim for. I would absolutely love to see an FM wiki with that level of detail and participation in the future - there's certainly a keen enough community to achieve that.Your comparison between us and the UESPWiki, whilst understandable that you're looking for an example, isn't the best you could have chosen. On their website, it says 'The UESPWiki Your source for The Elder Scrolls since 1995' - that's 16 years of collecting knowledge. We've been going for around two years, so it's understandable that we're not quite at their level.
That's what this is all about really - I was very disappointed to see that it hadn't really taken off, as I originally expected it to, and became concerned that the reason for it was a change of focus. It appears that there hasn't really been one, so that's a plus point in my view.
I'll probably do a bit more editing over the next few weeks again, and hopefully I'll keep my interest for a bit longer... I do have a habit of starting projects then forgetting about them and doing other things
FM definitely deserves a proper wiki
As Jammy has said above about the player and team guides i'm working as a 1 man team atm and obviously I am going to miss some things within the transfer windows due to work and life in general. Hopefully there will be more interest as I get more guides from both on here and 'around the FM scene' (the many fansites) and we will get more editors on board.
It'll be nice to have you back on board anyway Jim and hopefully you'll stay a bit longer this time
Two months since a post in here, ouch!
Anyway, with the announcement of FM12, the work begins once again - if anyone sees any think that isn't on the FM12 page, let me know and I'll put it in!
Still here and good to see the site still going strong.
We are still here and we'd like a number of knowledgable posters from here to help out with updating the wiki with the new regen dates for youth players, updating squads and player profiles. If you are interested request an account on the site and i'll accept it so you can start the work.
Would it make sense to add The Hut (http://www.llamaland.co.uk/phpBB3/) too to the Wiki as a fansite or would that not match the criteria?
Nevertheless, I want to congratulate you a lot to the wiki, you're doing a great job.
That place exists because of FM but I wouldn't say that it qualifies as a fan site.
went on today and it says account suspended
Same here and i'll let J-Jay know.
My fault! My debit card for hosting expired end of January and I hadn't updated with a new card. Done it now so should be back up ASAP - normally the Billing team start about 8am so should be done by 10am!
Edit: 4 mins later - site back up
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Just to say that we are still around and are looking for you to be involved in the community. If there is anything on the site that you feel you can contribute to you can sign up to the site and update the page(s) you have knowledge of or add the changes in here for those who have an account to edit for you with a disclaimer stating that it is your work.
Onwards and upwards for the site
Wow - hadn't realised it had been this long since the last post.
Anyway i've started a new feature on the twitter page called #wikiwednesday which will contain a page from the wiki website which is on the site. I'll be looking to different types of pages and any page on the site could be part of the thing so keep your eye out to find out what is on the site.
My OP
Most of which wasn't wrote by you
Anyway's enough of the OT talk. Anyone else interested in helping with the writing of any of the league structures that are in the game currently?
Just to let everyone know, we are still going strong and adding pages that we have permission for from the GTPG forum on here. I'll be going on some of the unofficial sites around 'the scene' to see if there is any useful information around that can be added.
Anyone got any ideas what else to add to the site?
Just went on there... 14 bots and crawlers! :P
The forum looks dead.
I have seen some FM13 of the guides on your website however that are very very good I must say.
Keep up the good work
Perhaps you should make a thread on this forum asking players to give their evaluation of a player... the player could then be included on a sort of shortlist on your website... i,e - wonderkid... cheap player... good backup etc.
thats all I have to add.... keep up the work!
Thanks for the feedback Astrix.
The forum on the site was hardly used except for the time that here was down for a couple of weeks near the start of the wiki site. As far as the thread on here goes, we have had a thread in the GTPG section of these forums for the last few years regarding permission to use people's threads within that section and IIRC we had a few of the player evaluations done in this thread but there wasn't too many of them unfortunately.
My last point of this post is there are few on-site members compared to a lot of the sites out there especially at this time of night.
Where can I get unlockable material from (especially no manager sacking option)?
If you are playing the "full fat" mode they don't feature at all
I don't know exactly where in there, but I'm sure they won't have made it hard to find seeing as it potentially gets them money. I understand the purchasables can also be unlocked through achieving various things within FMC mode though.


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16 Apr 2007 12:49 AM #11
When you use the split bar handles to resize the layout, that's not a 'layout' event, but a ContentPanel's or a Region's resized / resize (I don't know why the one letter difference).
Since I have no horizontal split bars in my layout, I didn't notice this. Try to attach autoSizeColumns() on one of those and see how it turns out.
18 Apr 2007 12:26 AM #12
'layout' Is the correct event but not fires when I want.
Any ideas?
18 Apr 2007 1:42 AM #13
What do you mean by not firing when you want?
The 'layout' will fire when a layout redraw happens, I guess. Since the grid columns can only loose their fitting on window or panel resize, you doesn't have too much other possibilities to resize them, but on this event, since panel's resize events doesn't monitor window changes.
18 Apr 2007 2:45 AM #14
Sorry my English is bad.
'layout' event OK. But the problem continues for me. The grid not autoSizeColumns when I want (After 'layout' event) and defer not works for me.
Can you post your code (Only the autoSize lines).
Thanks in advance,
18 Apr 2007 3:21 AM #15
I see. Here's the code, it's very simple:
init: function() {
innerLayout = new Ext.BorderLayout( 'product-grid', {
center: { split: true, collapsible: false, titlebar: false, tabPosition: 'top', alwaysShowTabs: true, closeOnTab: true, hideWhenEmpty: true },
east: { initialSize: 250, split: true, collapsible: true, titlebar: true, hideWhenEmpty: true }
// load the grid
// add grid and preview pane into inner layout
g_panel = new Ext.GridPanel( pg, { autoCreate: true, fitToFrame: true, title: 'B
18 Apr 2007 9:42 AM #16
Sorry for my bad English.
I have this application model:
The principal layout with head and left menu and each content load into a tab (iframe).
Whe I expand/collapse the left menu panel my grid not autosizecolumns correctly.
Provisionally I put autosizeColumns in grid "click" event and works fine.
I a tab (iframe) that loads grid, I put this code:
window.parent.layout.addListener('layout', pp)
19 Apr 2007 2:38 AM #17
You tried to attach the autoSizeColumns() to the left (west?) region's proper events?
r_west = yourLayout.getRegion('west'); r_west.on('resized', pp); r_west.on('collapsed', pp); r_west.on('expanded', pp);
10 May 2007 2:58 AM #18
the best way, that works is use this code
ds.on('load', function(){ grid.getView().autoSizeColumns();} );
2 Jun 2007 5:13 PM #19macmGuest
Thank you for posting this. I spend an hour looking for the answer before I found this post. I just couldn't get the resize event to fire on the NestedLayoutPanel. I appreciate it!!
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Hello I have the same problem! it has been a long time, but today I found a similar problem when changing the size of my window did not update the size of the columns in my gridext.jpg
I found a solution:
//win is the window and I added the event "resize" when I update the size win.on('resize', function() { var grid = Ext.getCmp('grid_geocode'); //this is my grid if(grid != undefined){ grid.getView().refresh(); //refresh updated the size of columns to new size } });


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VA students are eligible to apply for VA work study positions. KCTCS colleges may offer positions such as customer service work study positions in the academic affairs and student services departments. Additional VA work study information is available at the VA GI Bill website.
Eligibility for VA educational benefits are determined by the US Department of Veterans Affairs in St. Louis, Missouri. Forms may be obtained online at www.gibill.va.gov. Students eligible to receive VA educational benefits must submit a copy of their schedule to the college's VA Coordinator. Any change in your program or schedule must be promptly reported. The student must provide a copy of the certificate of eligibility to the college VA Coordinator upon enrollment at a KCTCS college.
After gaining admission to a KCTCS college, students should go online to www.gibill.va.gov to begin the process of applying for VA benefits. If you are a veteran transferring from another school, you must fill out Form 22-1995 "Change of Program or Place of Training." If you are a family member or dependent, you must fill out Form 22-5495 "Change of Program or Place of Training." The following documents should be presented to the college's VA Coordinator when making application for VA benefits:
Students are responsible for paying all college tuition and fees. KCTCS and the VA do not have an agreement to process tuition/fee waivers; therefore, failure of the VA to pay students in a timely manner does not eliminate or delay students' financial responsibility to the college. It normally takes the St. Louis VA processing center 6-8 weeks to process new education claims, so please plan accordingly.
Veteran students at KCTCS colleges have ongoing responsibilities to the VA. The college VA Coordinators closely monitor each student's enrollment status and academic program. The student's entitlement is based on the number of credit hours for which they are enrolled. Current pay rates can be viewed on the GI Bill website.
Veteran students at KCTCS colleges must do the following to ensure continued benefits:
All students receiving Chapter 30, 1606 or 1607 benefits must verify their monthly enrollment on the last day of each month or after. The benefit (monetary award) will not be released by the VA until this is done. Enrollment verification can be accomplished by using the VA toll-free telephone number 1-877-823-2378 or the WAVE feature found on the VA website www.gibill.va.gov.
KCTCS does process VA Advance Pay, but must be notified and processed 60 to 120 days BEFORE the start of the semester/term.
The Kentucky Tuition Waiver Program is an educational benefit provided for children, step-children, adopted children, spouses, and un-remarried widows and widowers in recognition of military service of certain disabled or deceased Kentucky veterans. Additional information about this program and the application process is available at Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Are there any good methods for planning and writing anything (I'm thinking of articles, blog posts, and books)?
My current method is to gather some information about a topic and write about the topic. This method works pretty well for short articles, but what about more elaborate articles or even books? You will lose track of the resource you used (not in a sense of literally losing the resource but rather the contents).
Most answers contain elements of mind mapping or high level overview building. What I did to begin with was creating a high level overview (because the topics are already there). Then I started mind mapping every topic (chapter). My real problem is going from mind maps and ideas to actual writing.


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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
PURE Bar: A Product Review
Posted by Vegan Dad at 8:06 PM
6 comments:
- shelby said...
I keep seeing these bars on blogs now! I want to try them now.
- December 31, 2008 at 9:12 PM
- tasteslikeyum said...
I received one of the chocolate variety in goodie bag from a co-worker; I'll crack into it tomorrow and share my thoughts :)
Happy new year to you and yours.
- January 1, 2009 at 11:46 AM
- Eating Consciously said...
Haven't seen these yet. I'll have to look for them at Whole Foods. They sound pretty yummy.
- January 1, 2009 at 4:24 PM
- andy said...
great review, and honest which is soo refreshing. in my experience all of these types of bars are a little pastry, it just when on a 50mile ride i get so hungry il eat anything hence why thats the only time i try these bars.
- January 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Bianca said...
I've never seen those down here, but I'm a huge fan of raw bars, like Larabars. So I'd love to try them! Especially cherry cashew.
- January 2, 2009 at 5:14 PM
- 'myKakes' Holland, MI said...
Very good and filling! I eat one every morning and am completely satisfied until lunch comes around.
My favorite is the Cherry Cashew!
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A grand opening and free sub fundraiser will be held from its opening date through Sunday to support the Metroplex Health System Foundation.
They will donate the money to the Sue Mayborn Women's Center at Metroplex.
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The State of Georgia was much-disputed since the 1500s, with France, England, and Spain all taking possession of it at various times. Those times were: 1513, Discovery, 1565 to 1763, First Spanish Colonial Period, 1763 to 1783, British Colonial Period, 1784 to 1821, Second Spanish Period, 1821 to 1845, U.S. Territorial Period, 1845, Became the 27th State.
Georgia was founded in 1732, as the last of the Thirteen Colonies and was named for King George II of Great Britain. Georgia originally consisted of 12 parishes at the time of the American Revolution. These parishes were St. George, St. Thomas, St. Mary, St. Philip, Christ Church, St. Matthew, St. Philip, St. David, St. Patrick, St. John, St. Andrew, St. James and St. Paul. Counties were not formed until 1777, covering at that time only a portion of Georgia's present jurisdiction. Eventually as Native American land was acquired, new counties were created.
Georgia is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Florida, on the northeast by South Carolina, on the west by Alabama, and on the north by Tennessee and North Carolina.
When people envision the first organized states within the United States, many often forget that Georgia was among them. This is a state with a long and fascinating history, and there have been many kinds of families, groups, and individuals associated with it. This is probably the reason that the state has so many resources available for Georgia genealogy researchers.
Georgia Counties
Georgia was admitted to the Union on January 2, 1788 as the 4th state. It seceded from the Union on January 19, 1861, and was one of the original seven Confederate states. It was the last state to be readmitted to the Union, on July 15, 1870. Georgia's nickname is the Peach State and the Empire State of the South. The State capital is in Atlanta. It has 159 Counties. The capital is Atlanta and the official state website is http://www.georgia.gov/. Select a Georgia county to view information & records pertaining to each County
Looking for Georgia Genealogy Resources
How to Start a Search for Georgia Genealogy Data – If you are daunted by the idea of beginning the search for Georgia genealogy materials, you should take comfort in the fact that you may not even have to leave home to begin! This is due to the simple fact that the state has already placed a large amount of their archival materials into digitized formats that are accessible to the public. This means that people looking for Georgia genealogy information may be able to find the things they need, and order copies, right over the Internet.
It is necessary to accept, however, that though there is a large amount of material online, there may be the need to make a trip to some distant locations as well, and this means that anyone doing research for Georgia genealogy will have to quickly discover tools that can save them from making any unnecessary trips.
The New Approach for Georgia Genealogy – Anyone in need of materials for Georgia genealogy is likely to understand the records below, but if you are new to this sort of thing, you should be sure you are familiar with:
- Local Records – anyone looking for Georgia genealogy will tend to begin in a county clerk's office or website, and then move on to the local small local libraries, genealogical societies, historical societies, and school or college libraries for Georgia genealogy data. These are places that are usually offline and open by appointment or special arrangement.
- State Records – from probate information to surname lists, state census information, private manuscripts, newspapers, military or veterans information, marriage details, maps, land records, genealogical folders, estate information, deeds, death records, cemetery information, birth certificates and more; these records are available as online and offline resources for Georgia genealogy.
- Vital Records – these are made up of the birth, marriage, divorce and death records from county, state, and national archives, and can also contain cemetery or obituary information, immigration and naturalization details, newspaper items, military records, census records, passenger lists and records as well. These are available as online and offline resources for Georgia genealogy.
Some of the Finest Sources for Georgia Genealogy – As a researcher you will quickly discover strong resources for Georgia genealogy work. Below are some of the best for Georgia genealogy that are currently available:
- Department of Health, Georgia Department of Community Health, Vital Records , 2600 Skyland Drive, NE, Atlanta, GA 30319-3640; Website: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w/georgia.htm .
This is where you can order birth, death, marriage and divorce records via a written request or even online.
Additional state and local records can be found at the:
- Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260; Website: www.GeorgiaArchives.org .Here you can access the vital records, a virtual vault, learn how to do research for Georgia genealogy, peruse land records, census data, tax records, war registries, African American resources, and even colonial documents.
Also, consider using the Georgia Vital Records website at http://www.georgia.gov/00/channel_title/0,2094,4802_5009,00.html.
Finally, these websites provide a tremendous amount of state-specific details to those in search of facts for Georgia genealogy projects.
- Georgia's Virtual Vault (sos.state.ga.us)
- Georgia Genealogy Community (plus.google.com)
- RAOGK Volunteers for Georgia (raogk.org)
- Georgia State Genealogy Network (facebook.com)
- Georgia Indexed Historical Records (familysearch.org)
- Encyclopedia of Georgia (georgiaencyclopedia.org)
- The Georgia Family Group Sheet Project (fgs-project.com)
- USGenweb – Georgia Genealogy (rootsweb.ancestry.com)
- Free GenForum Message Boards – Georgia (genforum.genealogy.com)
- Free Rootsweb Message Boards – Georgia (boards.ancestry.com)
- Cyndis List Georgia Links (cyndislist.com)
- Georgia Mailing List (rootsweb.ancestry.com)
- Georgia American History and Genealogy Project (usgennet.org)
- Georgia Migrations Project (rootsweb.ancestry.com)
- Georgia (wikipedia.org)
- Georgia Genealogy Look Ups (geneasearch.com)
- USGenWeb Archives Project for Georgia (usgwarchives.net)
Georgia Ethnic Group Research
The Native American population in the state of Georgia consisted mainly of the Creek and Cherokee tribes. However, they were later moved to either Oklahoma Territory or Indian Territory land, for the most part. Some Creeks remained behind, but many of those eventually moved to Alabama, instead of staying in Georgia.
North Carolina and Georgia Native American records are similar, even though the Native Americans in each of those two areas had completely different histories. The federal Cherokee records for the state of Georgia are particularly extensive. The Washington, D.C. National Archives holds those records. Unpublished typescripts of state Cherokee and Creek records have been indexed by the Georgia Archives. Information on white relatives of those Native Americans may also be available.
There are several records relating to African Americans on file at the Georgia Archives. Those records include: Lists of Free Persons of Color, Marriages, Slave Lists, Imported Slave Lists, Apprenticeship Bonds, Trial dockets, Lists of Slave Owners, Cemetery Records, Church Records, Bills of Sale, Deeds Transferring Slaves, Plantation Records
Not all of the above records were recorded in each county. In fact, there are far less slave records than there are records for free persons of color.
Freedman's Bureau records can be found at the National Archives, along with military records and federal census records. Post-Civil War Freedman's Bureau Georgia office records will soon be available on microfilm at the National Archives. Some former slave records can be found at the FHL, which also has a CD-Rom available for sake that lists Freedman's Bank depositors. Freedman's Bank offices were located in Savannah, Atlanta, and Augusta.
- USF Africana Heritage Project (africanaheritage.com)
- Georgia, Freedmen's Bureau Letters or Correspondence, 1865-1872 (familysearch.org)
- African American Genealogical Research (lva.georgia.gov)
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (memory.loc.gov)
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
- Georgia African American Books (amazon.com)
- Georgia Native American Books (amazon.com)


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"Today's society has gotten worse. They'll steal anything and everything. It's not nailed down, it's quick money, quick exchange. They can take them to another stockyard," Hutchison says.
Police say thousands of dollars in cattle were stolen from the Farmer's Livestock Market in Glasgow early Tuesday morning, and employ es say it was a huge loss to the stockyard.
"We're going to have to make up that difference somehow, hopefully insurance will pay for it," says office manager Carolyn Hutchison.
Hutichson received a call around six this morning about a possible cattle theft.
When she went back and looked on surveillance footage she noticed an old black pick-up truck with a utility trailer attached pull into the parking lot.
The thief originally took eleven Holstein steers, but one fell off the trailer as the truck pulled away.
"Some of the employees were on sight at the time. There's traffic in and out here a lot so they weren't aware of it until somebody had questioned somebody else and they realized they had been taken," says Barren County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Wilson.
"A lot of the cattle are being loaded out during the night after our sale yesterday. You don't notice when someone comes in with just a trailer that's hooked to the back of their truck, you don't notice them as much. You think it's just another farmer getting their cattle. We try to load out each one of them ourselves. We have really tried to crack down on that, but this one slipped through the cracks."
Hutchison says the truck was in and out within minutes.
She expects the thief knew how to handle cattle, noting that the person had to have known Monday's are their busiest days.
She says though a beef cow is worth a lot more money, it would have taken a lot longer to load, while a Holstein steer is easily moved.
"Today's society has gotten worse. They'll steal anything and everything. It's not nailed down, it's quick money, quick exchange. They can take them to another stockyard," Hutchison says.
About $5,800 in cattle were taken.
If you have any information, you can contact the Barren County Sheriff's Office at 651-2771, or call their tip-line at 646-8771.


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I'm trying to play the DayZ Mod for ArmA2 Combined Ops but every time I join a server I get kicked about 30 seconds later due to "BattlEye not responding" issue.
Uninstall Arma 2 not OA, then reinstall it. It worked for me
Have you launched Arma 2 or Arma 2: Combined Operations yet?
I've read that you need to do that first so BattlEye can be set up. So if you haven't done that, try it.
Make sure you're on the latest version of DayZ. Update everything you can relating to Arma 2: CO as well.
Might I suggest you re-install BattlEye and also update the .dll's to the latest manually found here: http://www.battleye.com/download.html
I solved this issue by updating the firmware for my modem. My hardware is an iiNet BoB2.
I had previously found similar issues with related hardware but there was no upgrade for my modem's firmware when I wrote this question.


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I understand that one can configure a Game Center profile so that it is only visible to Game Center friends. Are such profiles also not listed among "friends in common"?
I have several friends, most of whom I have each other in common with me, but when I select the their lists of friends, I see no friends in common.


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The Elysia Council was the ruling body of Elysia. It was lead by Xerius, and its members included Devna and Magen. It had representatives of 123 different races, including Andorians, Tellarites, Klingons, Orions, Vulcans, Romulans, Humans, Phylosians, Aquans, and Gorn. The Council dates back over one thousand years.
When the USS Enterprise and the IKS Klothos were drawn into Elysia in 2269, Captains James T. Kirk and Kor were brought before the council, where they were told of the laws and rules governing the civilization. The council strongly advised against the two vessels' attempts to return home, but acted to warn Enterprise of an explosive device planted by the Klingons in the starship's computer banks. (TAS: "The Time Trap")


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Vehicle windows damaged on road
STEUBENVILLE - The drivers of two vehicles reported hearing loud bangs and then windows on their vehicles shattered around 6:50 a.m. Wednesday on Sinclair Avenue, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department reported.
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A second driver reported a similar story.
Steubenville Police officers and deputies searched the area for a person, possibly armed with a firearm or BB gun, but nobody was located.
Dedication programs still available
WELLSBURG - Those who didn't receive a program for the dedication of the Brooke County Veterans Memorial Park on Sunday may obtain one at the clubhouse at Brooke Hills Park, where the memorial park is located.
The clubhouse is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
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CHARLESTON - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and first lady Joanne Jaeger Tomblin invite all West Virginians to honor servicemen and women by contributing photos for the military recognition tree in the governor's reception room at the State Capitol Building during the holiday season.
Those wishing to participate are asked to send photos of loved ones or friends who have served or are serving in the military online at www.governor.wv.gov and click on the military recognition Tree icon or send to: Military Recognition Tree, Attn: Glenn Reed, Director of Operations; 1716 Kanawha Blvd. E, Charleston, WV 26305.
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This challenge requires you to get a chain of destroying 50 breakable objects. So far in the game, I have not been able to find any area that has that many objects close together. Is there a particular area that you find is good for getting this achievement? Any other tips?
Cemetery of the Forsaken is a pretty nice place with relatively few enemies. Just go around in a circle, keep your rhythm, and don't forget you can smash those stone column things near stairs. Use those columns to hop between the gravestone patches.
Also, having a skill such as Leap or some other kind of teleport will help you keep the rhythm if you accidentally end up too far away from your next target.
I recommend using a close-range melee attack. AoE attacks are not recommended because you might end up in an empty area that you created. If you use skills that consume your resource, make sure you have as much as possible and can easily regenerate it by, for example, attacking the skeletons in the area.
Grab some cheap +movement speed gear from the auction house, too.
I found royal crypts to be much easier with all of the ash pots. I failed at around 20 items and still ended up with a 63 streak.
To get this achievement, I recommend to use a Demon Huntress with the Skills:
Go to the Forsaken Cemetary and use your Ball Lightning. The Lightning travels rather slow, spreading the destruction of the tombstones and other destructible over a considerable amount of time. Move around the cemetary quickly using Vault and set of Balls of Lightning in different positions around the central pavillon. This should very easily generate this achievement.
Another Option is to go to the Royal Crypts and run through it using Ball Lightning as you run/vault. It took me 1 try with the above method.
Narrow hallways & 12+% Run speed boots are the key to success.
Use sweeping wind, spend 50k on two regen 1h and get all the regen passive + templar with regen skill, run in a circle in forsaken cemetary, refresh sweeping wind as needed. got it first try after switching to my wiz
i got this achievement with my barb by wearing the Fire Walkers boots and using the Sprint skill. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/fire-walkers Took me a few tries but i finally got it
Demon Hunter - grave yard - multi arrow. It will take you about 5 seconds. Use vault to get to the next set faster.
Cemetary of the Forsaken with my wizard, used chain lightning with up to 6 objects rune, np at all
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This is so easy I don't know why I didn't think of it before. Thanks to Isa for the cookie dough recipe.
- 1 recipe vanilla ice cream
- 1/2 recipe chocolate chip cookie dough (I omitted the tapioca, and went a little more generous on the flour. I also used mini chocolate chips).
1. Make the cookie dough. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. With floured hands, divide the dough into 6 pieces and roll each into a rope/snake, about 1/2" in diameter. Cut off pieces (about 1/2") and place on the prepared sheet. Cover, and place in the freezer for an hour to harden.
2. Make the ice cream as per the recipe. When the ice cream is almost done in the ice cream maker, start dropping in frozen chunks of cookie dough. You can add all of them (not at the same time, though) or as many as you see fit. Save the leftovers in the freezer for next time.
3. Thoroughly freeze before serving.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream
This is so easy I don't know why I didn't think of it before. Thanks to Isa for the cookie dough recipe.
9 comments:
- ed-julia said...
Great site! Thanks for keeping it alive.
- April 16, 2011 at 3:40 PM
- Liz said...
Vegan Dad - you will have to stop posting such delicious recipes and me and my roommate Amy are going to get REALLY FAT! Ha ha
- April 17, 2011 at 7:31 PM
- Meredith said...
- April 18, 2011 at 1:46 PM
- alienempress said...
Cookies! Yay.
But actually, I wanted to let you know that I'm opening a cafe in the far-flung Far East [the Philippines!], where I'm from originally, and I'm thinking of carrying vegan items. There aren't any vegan places there at all, and even vegetarians have a hard time of it, confined as they are to sad salads, a few garden burgers, and tofu, tofu, tofu.
Not vegan myself... well, my best friend and boyfriend both are, so at this point, I'm maybe 80% vegan, haha, but I sympathize, whole-heartedly.
My intro is now officially much longer than my point, which is just this: I hope you don't mind that I'm looking through some of your recipes for my menu! I'm just looking for easy, accessible food, and this is perfect!
- April 21, 2011 at 12:29 PM
- kelly said...
definitely going to make this. Coincidentally, I made Isa's chocolate chip cookies last night. Hooray for cookie dough ice cream again!
- April 24, 2011 at 7:38 AM
- AikoVenus said...
Ooh, I make a similar one except I use my sugar cookie dough instead. Sometimes I add peanut butter flavoring and chocolate chunks though.
- May 16, 2011 at 10:49 AM
- Shana said...
What kind of ice cream maker do you use? I'd like to purchase one, but I'm wondering if there is a kind that is best for making vegan ice cream. Thanks!!!!
- July 3, 2011 at 5:30 PM
- traci said...
Do you think the cookie dough calls can be TOO frozen? I just put them in the freezer, but probably won't churn the ice cream for 24-48 hours.
Thanks for all the great recipes.
- August 16, 2011 at 2:11 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Traci: No. They have too much fat in them to really freeze hard.
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SUNRISE, Fla. – Florida Panthers Executive VP/General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has recalled G Scott Clemmensen from the San Antonio Rampage (AHL) and have loaned C Drew Shore to San Antonio.
Clemmensen, 36, played in one game for San Antonio (AHL), stopping 24 out of 25 shots in a 3-1 victory over Rockord on Oct. 5.
The Des Moines, IA native played in 19 games last season for the Panthers recording a 3-7-2 record. The 11-year NHL veteran has played in 171 career NHL games, posting a 67-52-22 record with a .907 save percentage and 2.74 GAA.
Shore, 22, has played in two games this season for Florida, averaging 9:32 TOI. The Denver, CO native has recorded 13 points (3-10-13) in 45 career NHL games.


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This is a replay of the Live event.
Christmas Vespers tells the story of Advent through hymns, prayers, and readings. Dean of Religious Life Jennifer Walters will lead the services, which will include readings by members of the Smith College faculty, staff, and senior class. With Jonathan Hirsh, Grant Moss, and Gregory Brown directing, the music portion of the program will feature the Smith College Chorus, Glee Club, Chamber Singers, Handbell Choir, and Orchestra.
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My name is Harry and I am new on the forum.
Excuse me if this question is asked before or if it is posted in the wrong sub-forum.
Until now I shoot tripod panoramas with a Nikon D90 (DX) camera, Samyang 8mm/f3.5 lens and a NN4 with RD8.
I want to expend this with pole panoramas.
Is it posible with DX? If so, what do I need to buy?
(for the record, I want full sphere panoramas.)


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I think I might be dyslexic . Here are the reasons why:
I seem to forget the same words over and over again (don't we all?). I find it difficult to remember names of people after six months (even less at times), it causes a lot of embarrassment.
I am terrible at pronunciations. I seem to make up pronunciations somehow. This also causes a lot of embarrassments as well.
I struggle to speak (or put words into mouth) when under slight stress. In ordinary conditions I don't have problem though.
I was always considered lazy by almost everyone I know even though I don't consider myself lazy.
I procrastinate a lot even today as an adult.
I often have to reread text in order to grasp it fully (Don't we all?).
I found it hard to learn multiplication tables in school, although I was always good in maths (always among the top three in school).
My spelling is poor (even today). Thanks to the online spell checkers I might not have been able finish this writing at all.
I used to confuse the letters b and d as a child. I remember I used to write b in special way in order to distinguish it from d.
I am a working professional (software developer actually).
I want to know how deal with these problems so that it does not affect my work life and career.


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LISTEN AND READ FOR YOURSELF: Audio and Transcript of Windsor Hearing
As promised by the Supreme Court, the complete audio and transcript of today's one hour and 50-minute hearing was released ahead of the normal schedule. Usually the court waits until Fridays to do this sort of thing, but it made an exception.
With the justices still sticking with their rule against any outside cameras or recording equipment in the chamber, this is the best anyone will come to being there themselves.
Listen to the audio below and download the transcript here (PDF) or read it below the audio file.
TRANSCRIPT: United States v. Windsor
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Washington, D.C. Wednesday, March 27, 2013
- VICKI C. JACKSON, ESQ., Cambridge, Massachusetts; for Court-appointed amicus curiae.
- SRI SRINIVASAN, ESQ., Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Petitioner, supporting affirmance.
- PAUL D. CLEMENT, ESQ., Washington, D.C.; for Respondent Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the United States House of Representatives.
- DONALD B. VERRILLI, JR., ESQ., Solicitor General,
- ROBERTA A. KAPLAN, ESQ., New York, New York; for Respondent Windsor.
10:18 a.m.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: We will hear argument this morning in Case 12-307, United States v. Windsor, and we will begin with the jurisdictional discussion. Ms. Jackson?
MS. JACKSON: Well, Your Honor, the jurisdiction of the Court, it seems to me, is not affected by the length of the proceedings it undertook. In Kentucky --
JUSTICE SCALIA: I'm not talking about jurisdiction now. I'm talking about why the district court, without getting to the merits, should not have entered judgment against the Government.
MS. JACKSON: I am not sure I have a wonderful answer to that question, Justice Scalia, but I do think the case bears some similarities to Kentucky against Indiana, which was discussed by the parties, where Kentucky sued Indiana in this Court's original jurisdiction on a contract. The two States had a contract. Indiana agreed it was obligated to perform, but it wasn't performing. There -- it was worried about a State court lawsuit. This Court exercised original jurisdiction to give Kentucky relief. And I think that's analogous to what the district court did there.
The issue before us today, I think, is an issue of appellate jurisdiction. And the U.S. is seeking to invoke the appellate jurisdiction of Article III courts, notwithstanding that it doesn't seek relief; it seeks affirmance.
MS. JACKSON: I -- it's a little difficult, because the circumstance is unusual, Justice Kennedy, but I think the most apt of the doctrines, although they are overlapping and reinforce each other, the most apt is standing.
This Court has made clear that a party on appeal has to meet the same Article III standing requirements of injury caused by the action complained of and redressable by the relief requested by the parties.
MS. JACKSON: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Your Honor. Thank you.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Mr. Srinivasan?
MR. SRINIVASAN: Justice Scalia, one recognized situation in which an act of Congress won't be defended in court is when the President makes a determination that the act is unconstitutional. That's what happened here. The President made an accountable legal determination that this Act of Congress is unconstitutional.
JUSTICE KENNEDY: But then why does he enforce the statute?
MR. SRINIVASAN: Well, that's an option that's available to him, Justice Kennedy. In certain circumstances, it makes sense not to enforce. But I don't think the take-care responsibility is an all or nothing proposition such that when the President reaches a determination that a statute is unconstitutional, it necessarily follows that he wouldn't enforce it. That's not what happened in Lovett. That's not -
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Mr. Srinivasan -
JUSTICE SCALIA: It's not what the OLC opinion said, by the way.
MR. SRINIVASAN: It can be that the President decides to enforce it. That's what happened in Lovett and that's the course of events that was sought -- that happened in Chadha. And there's -
MR. SRINIVASAN: Well -
JUSTICE ALITO: -- trying to persuade the Court, you're representing the Court?
MR. SRINIVASAN: We represent the sovereign interests of the United States. Of course, in a case like this, the -- the -- we're submitting the dispute to the Judiciary for resolution, so in that sense, we -I'm not going to stand here and tell you that I can dictate the -- that the Judiciary comes out in one direction or the other. I certainly would like to be able to do that, but I don't think I can, in all fairness, do that. But I -
JUSTICE KAGAN: Mr. Srinivasan, Chadha says what you said it said about what it means to be aggrieved -
MR.SRINIVASAN: Yes.
JUSTICE KAGAN: -- but Chadha also left open the Article III question. Why did Chadha leave it open if it's the same thing?
MR. SRINIVASAN: I don't -- I don't know why Chadha didn't engage on it in particular. I think part of it, Justice Kagan, is that the Court didn't have the methodology at that point in time that it does now. Don't know that it neatly divided between those questions in the same way. So yes, it left the Article III question open, but I think the question of Article III injury necessarily follows from aggrievement and I haven't -- I haven't heard a persuasive argument to the contrary.
If we were aggrieved in the circumstances of Chadha, it seems to me it necessarily follows that we're injured. We're injured in a couple of ways. An act of Congress has been declared unconstitutional, which Chadha itself says constitutes aggrievement and therefore constitutes injury. In this case also, we're required to pay a judgment -
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Let's assume this very case. Would -- who would ever have standing on behalf of Congress? Anyone? Or are you saying there's never standing?
MR. SRINIVASAN: Well, there are two different cases. This case is different, because this case doesn't involve the kind of unique congressional prerogative that was at issue in Chadha. Chadha involved a legislative veto.
Here, if I could just finish this -
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: You can finish your sentence.
MR. SRINIVASAN: -- this thought. Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice.
Here, I don't think the interest that's being asserted is even in the same plane as the one that was asserted and found deficient in Raines v. Byrd.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Thank you, counsel. Mr. Clement?
This Court not only addressed the issue of the House's standing in Chadha; it held that the House is the proper party to defend the constitutionality of an Act of Congress when the executive agency charged with its enforcement agrees with plaintiff that the statute is unconstitutional.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Mr. Clement, Chadha was somewhat different because there was a unique House prerogative in question. But how is this case any different than enforcing the general laws of the United States? There's no unique House power granted by the legislation.
MR. CLEMENT: Well, Justice Sotomayor -
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: It's a law of the United States and the person who defends it generally is the Solicitor -- Solicitor General.
MR. CLEMENT: Sure, generally, unless and until they stop defending it, at which point we submit -
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Well, then, why shouldn't -- why shouldn't taxpayers have a right to come in? And we say they don't.
MR. CLEMENT: Because the House is very -in a very different position in a case like this and in Chadha from just the general taxpayer. Now, in a case like Chadha, for example, you're right, it was the one-house veto, if you will, that was at issue. But it would be a strange jurisprudence that says that the House has standing to come in and defend an unconstitutional one-house veto, but it doesn't have standing to come in and defend its core Article I prerogative, which is to pass statutes and have those statutes -
JUSTICE KENNEDY: Well, that -- that assumes the premise. We didn't -- the House didn't know it was unconstitutional. I mean -
MR. CLEMENT: Well, with all due respect, Justice Kennedy, I think the House -
But what I would say is I just -- I would continue to resist the premise, which is that the House's prerogatives aren't at stake here. The House's single most important prerogative, which is to pass legislation and have that legislation, if it's going to be repealed, only be repealed through a process where the House gets to fully participate.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: What if you -- what if you disagree with -- the executive is defending one of your laws, if that's the way you insist on viewing it, and you don't like their arguments, you say, they are not making the best argument. Is that a situation in which you have standing to intervene to defend the law in a different way than the executive?
MR. CLEMENT: No, I would say we would not, Mr. Chief Justice. I would say in that circumstance the House would have the prerogative to file an amicus brief if it wanted to, but that's because of a sound prudential reason, which is when the Executive is actually discharging its responsibility, its traditional obligation to defend an Act of Congress, if Congress comes in as a party it has the possibility of second-guessing the way that they are actually defending it.
But if the Executive is going to vacate the premises or, in a case like this, not just vacate the premises, but stay in court and attack the statute, you don't have that prudential concern. And that's why -
JUSTICE BREYER: This is what -- we have always had the distinction between the public action and the private action. A public action, which does not exist under the Federal Constitution, is to vindicate the interest in the law being enforced. Now, when the government, State or Federal, in fact has the interest, a special interest in executing the law, here given to the President, and they can delegate that interest to Congress, if they did, which arguably they didn't do here. But to say that any legislator has an interest on his own without that delegation to defend the law is to import in that context the public action into the Federal Government.
Now, that -- it hasn't been done, I don't think, ever. I can see arguments for and against it, but I can't think of another instance where that's happened.
MR. CLEMENT: Well, I would -- a couple of things, Justice Breyer. I mean, I would point you to Chadha and I realize you can distinguish Chadha.
JUSTICE KENNEDY: Well, why not? They're concerned about the argument and you say that the House of Representatives standing alone can come into the court. Why can't the Senate standing alone come into court and intervene on the other side?
MR. CLEMENT: It -- because it wouldn't have the authority to do so under Chadha. What -- Chadha makes the critical flipping of the switch that gives the House the ability to intervene as a party is that the Executive Branch declines to defend the statute. So if the Senate wants to come in and basically take -- share argument time or something as an amicus, they can, but there's no need for them to participate as -- as a party.
And I would want to emphasize that in the lower courts, participation by a party is absolutely critical. It doesn't make sense to have the party that wants to see the statute invalidated be in charge of the litigation in the district courts, because whether the statute is going to be invalidated is going to depend on what kind of record there is in the district court.
It'd be one thing, Justice Scalia, if all that happened is they entered consent judgment. I suppose then the thing would end, and then in the long run, the Executive would be forced to do their job and actually defend these statutes -
JUSTICE ALITO: Then why is -
MR. CLEMENT: -- but if that's not going to happen -
JUSTICE ALITO: Then why is it sufficient for one house to take the position that the statute is constitutional? The enactment of legislation requires both houses, and usually the signature of the President.
MR. CLEMENT: Justice Alito, I think it makes perfect sense in this context, because every - each individual house has a constitutional rule before a statute is repealed. And so yes, it takes two of them to make the law. But each of their's participation is necessary to repeal a law. So if the Executive wants to go into court and effectively seek the judicial repeal of a law, it makes sense that one house can essentially vindicate its role in our constitutional scheme by saying, wait a minute, we passed that law; it can't be repealed without our participation.
Ms. Jackson, you have 4 minutes remaining.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Sure.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: I meant that we would take a break, not that -- we will continue argument in the case on the merits.
Mr. Clement?
JUSTICE ALITO: Suppose we look just at the estate tax provision that's at issue in this case, which provides specially favorable treatment to a married couple as opposed to any other individual or economic unit. What was the purpose of that? Was the purpose of that really to foster traditional marriage, or was Congress just looking for a convenient category to capture households that function as a unified economic unit?
MR. CLEMENT: Well, I think for these purposes actually, Justice Alito, if you go back to the beginning of the estate tax deduction, what Congress was trying to do was provide uniform treatment of taxpayers across jurisdictions, and if you look at the brief that Senator Hatch and some other Senators filed, they discussed this history, because what was happening in 1948 when this provision was initially put into Federal law was you had community property States and common law States, and actually there was much more favorable tax treatment if you were in a community law State than a common law State.
And Congress didn't want to have an artificial incentive for States to move from common law to community property; it wanted to treat citizens the same way no matter what State they were in. So it said, we will give a uniform Federal deduction based on marriage, and I think what that shows is that when the Federal Government gets involved in the issue of marriage, it has a particularly acute interest in uniform treatment of people across State lines.
So Ms. Windsor wants to point to the unfairness of the differential treatment of treating two New York married couples differently, and of course for purposes of New York law that's exactly the right focus, but for purposes of Federal law it's much more rational for Congress to -- to say, and certainly a rational available choice, for Congress to say, we want to treat the same-sex couple in New York the same way as the committed same-sex couple in Oklahoma and treat them the same. Or even more to the point for purposes -
MR. CLEMENT: Well -
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: You are saying that New York's married couples are different than Nebraska's.
MR. CLEMENT: But -- but the only way -
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I picked that out of a hat. But the point is that there is a difference.
MR. CLEMENT: But the -- the only way they are different is because of the way the State law treats them. And just to be clear how -- you know, what this case is about, and how sort of anomalous the -- the treatment, the differential treatment in two States is, is this is not a case that is based on a marriage license issued directly by the State of New York after 2011 when New York recognized same-sex marriage. This is -- the status of Ms. Windsor as married depends on New York's recognition of an Ontario marriage certificate issued in 2007.
JUSTICE BREYER: You would say it would be the same thing if the State passed a law -- Congress passes a law which says, well, there's some States -they all used to require 18 as the age of consent. Now, a lot of them have gone to 17. So if you're 17 when you get married, then no tax deduction, no medical, no nothing.
Or some States had a residence requirement of a year, some have six months, some have four months. So Congress passes a law that says, well unless you're there for a year, no medical deduction, no tax thing, no benefits of any kind, that that would be perfectly constitutional. It wouldn't be arbitrary, it wouldn't be random, it wouldn't be capricious.
MR. CLEMENT: Well, I guess I would -- I would say two things. I would say that the first question would be what's the relevant level of scrutiny and I assume the level of scrutiny for the things -
JUSTICE BREYER: No, I just want your bottom line. The bottom line here is we can imagine -- you know, I can make them up all day. So can you -differences between -
JUSTICE BREYER: Differences between States have nothing to do with anything, you know, residence requirements, whether you have a medical exam, whether -- we can think them up all day -- how old you are. And Congress just passes a law which takes about, let's say, 30 percent of the people who are married in the United States and says no tax deduction, no this, no that, no medical -- medical benefits, none of these good things, none of them for about 20, 30 percent of all of the married people.
Can they do that?
MR. CLEMENT: No, no. They treat them -which is to say they -- they are preserving, they are helping the States in the sense of having each sovereign make this decision for themselves.
JUSTICE KENNEDY: We're helping the States do -- if they do what we want them to, which is -- which is not consistent with the historic commitment of marriage and -- and of questions of -- of the rights of children to the State.
MR. CLEMENT: With respect, Justice Kennedy, that's not right. No State loses any benefits by recognizing same-sex marriage. Things stay the same. What they don't do is they don't sort of open up an additional class of beneficiaries under their State law for -- that get additional Federal benefits. But things stay the same. And that's why in this sense -
JUSTICE KENNEDY: Well, I think -- I think it is a DOMA problem. The question is whether or not the Federal government, under our federalism scheme, has the authority to regulate marriage.
MR. CLEMENT: And it doesn't have the authority to regulate marriages, as such, but that's not what DOMA does. DOMA provides certain -- DOMA defines a term as it appears in Federal statutes, many of those Federal statutes provide benefits. Some of those Federal statutes provide burdens. Some of those Federal statutes provide disclosure obligations. It appears in lots of places, and if any one of -
GENERAL VERRILLI: But the federalism concerns come into play in the following way: In that Mr. Clement has made the argument that, look, whatever States can do in terms of recognizing marriage or not recognizing marriage, the Federal Government has commensurate authority to do or not do. We don't think that's right as a matter of our equal protection analysis because we don't think the Federal Government should be thought of as the 51st state. States, as we told the Court, yesterday we believe heightened scrutiny ought to apply even to the State decisions -
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: All right, heightened in some way. Going back to the Chief's question about a law that was passed recognizing common law heterosexual -- homosexual marriages. I think even under your theory that might be suspect because -- that law might be suspect under equal protection, because once we say sexual orientation is suspect, it would be suspect whether it's homosexual or heterosexual. The law favors homosexuals; it would be suspect because it's based on sexual orientation.
GENERAL VERRILLI: You would have -- you would have to impose the heightened scrutiny equal protection analysis, sure.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: Exactly. And so when we decided race was a suspect class, people who are not blacks have received -
GENERAL VERRILLI: Yes, that's certainly -
Ms. Kaplan?
JUSTICE SCALIA: No, no, no, no. It includes -
MS. KAPLAN: I'm not sure that the Federal Government -- this answers your question, Justice Scalia -- I'm not sure the Federal Government can create a new Federal marriage that would be some kind of marriage that States don't permit.
JUSTICE ALITO: Well, let me get to the question I asked Mr. Clement. It just gets rid of the word "marriage," takes it out of the U.S. Code completely. Substitutes something else, and defines it as same-sex -- to include same-sex couples. Surely it could do that.
MS. KAPLAN: Yes. That would not be based on the State's -
JUSTICE ALITO: So it's just the word "marriage"? And it's just the fact that they use this term "marriage"?
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: So I pose the same question I posed to the General to you. Do you think there's a difference between that discrimination and -and the discrimination of States who say homosexuals can't get married?
MR. CLEMENT: Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice, just three points in rebuttal.
First of all, I was not surprised to hear the Solicitor General concede that there is no unique federalism problem with DOMA, because in the Gill litigation in the First Circuit, the State of Massachusetts -- the Commonwealth of Massachusetts invoked the Tenth Amendment, and on that issue the United States continued to defend DOMA because there is no unique federalism problem with it, as the Chief Justice's question suggested. If 10 years from now there are only 9 States left and Congress wants to adopt a uniform Federal law solely for Federal law purposes to going the other way, it is fully entitled to do that. It has the power to do that.
I would say also the Federal Government has conceded in this litigation that there is a rational basis for this statute, something else to keep in mind.
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7 Ridiculous Origins of Everyday Words
#3. "Shitfaced" Used to Mean "Young-Looking"
Dictionary.com succinctly defines "shitfaced" as "very drunk"; we think they might be missing a few superlatives. The idea, we guess, is that when you're drunk your face resembles poop? Or you somehow get poop on your face? We're not sure.
But even if you'd never heard the term before, you'd still assume, from the inclusion of the word "shit," that it can't mean anything good. Turns out that wasn't always the case.
We guess if she starts puking right after someone took a cr -- never mind. Not thinking about it anymore.
But It Came From ...
The word "shitfaced" as slang for "drunk" dates back to the 1960s, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist before that. In fact, it's present in a Scottish dictionary from 1826 -- which bizarrely defines it as "Having a very small face, as a child." In other words, back then anyone who had boyish looks was considered to be permanently shitfaced.
"Aren't you a little shitfaced to be shitfaced?"
There's an explanation for this: Scottish people have always had a predilection toward calling kids "little shits," and it looks like somewhere along the way they got confused about whether the "little" or the "shits" was the affectionate part. Keep in mind, however, that this particular use of "shit" was derived from "chit," which was just a "contemptuous designation for a child" and had no relation to excrement.
Sometime between the 19th century and 1948, "shitfaced" somehow came to mean "undesirable person." It's not difficult to see how it could have evolved from that to "annoying drunk" by the '60s, especially considering drunks' tendency to poop in unusual places. During that decade the word caught on especially among youngsters in colleges, meaning that most people getting shitfaced would have been considered shit-looking in old-timey Scotland as well.
Plus, it's Scottish law that all children begin drinking at age 4, so there's that.
#2. "White Elephant" Comes From an Actual Elephant
A "white elephant" is a possession that you want to get rid of but can't, usually in the context of Christmas and a sweater from your aunt. But why do we call that an elephant? Maybe it's just us, but if someone gave us any type of large animal for Christmas we would be super impressed.
It's one of those terms that makes so little sense that you'd have to assume it comes from a story or a fable, like maybe somebody got a huge white porcelain elephant as a gift that was useless but impossible to give away and, we don't know, maybe it turned out it granted wishes or something. The point is, it clearly refers to something that, though forgotten, was no doubt cute and charming.
"Merry Christmas! You'll want to boil that for, like, ever."
But It Came From ...
There are two competing theories about where the term comes from, and one of them is pretty freaking disturbing.
First, according to Oxford Dictionaries, the term comes from actual white elephants that the kings of Siam (now Thailand) would gift to annoying people in order to screw them over. Since white elephants were sacred in Siam, they couldn't be regifted or put to work. But, they were still pretty expensive to maintain, meaning that the owners usually ended up being elephanted to ruin.
Via Wikimedia Commons
And that is the greatest prank we've ever heard.
But then there's the other theory: that the term comes from a specific elephant that belonged to P.T. Barnum, the famous businessman and circus owner. In the late 1800s, Barnum sent an agent to India to buy one of those legendary white elephants for his circus, for $100,000. When the first elephant was poisoned and died on its way to America, Barnum shelled out $200,000 for another one. And then, finally, Barnum got his white elephant ... and realized it was more like "grayish with white spots."
Via Elephant.se
Also it was actually two guys in a suit.
Barnum's audience was as disappointed as he was. To make matters worse, his main competitor at that time simply took a regular elephant, painted it white and had a big hit.
Obviously Barnum wasn't willing to give away a $300,000 investment, and he probably couldn't sell it, either, so he decided to lock the elephant away in a barn in Bridgeport, the equivalent of hiding an ugly pair of socks in the back of your closet.
Sadly, the elephant died in a fire a few years later, but its legacy (supposedly) lives on in every unwanted present too valuable to throw in the garbage.
"And some say at night, when the moon is full, you can still hear him make that cartoon trumpet sound with his nose-holes."
#1. "Robot" Was Another Word for "Slave"
We are no stranger to robots, and specifically to the fact that robots will eventually kill us all. Of course, the idea that robots are forced labor and will some day take retribution on their slavemasters is ridiculous. They're just tools, like your power drill or massaging office chair.
In fact, the word "robot" probably originally just meant "tool" or "machine" or something. Right?
Or "laser spider"?
But It Came From ...
"Servitude of forced labor." A fancy term for slaves.
The word "robot" is relatively new: It was invented in 1921 by Czech playwright Karel Capek, who wrote a play called Rossum's Universal Robots featuring artificial people built for the purpose of being slaves. He named these beings "robots" after the Czech word "robota," which means "forced labor." That's right: Even back then, we were giving these things a reason to revolt. This would be a good moment to note that the Czech Republic is right next to Austria ... birthplace of the Terminator.
Finally, a satisfying explanation for the accent.
Even though the robots in the play aren't mechanical at all (they're just made-up people with no souls), that doesn't stop them from fulfilling every other basic robot trope -- like taking over the world and killing all the humans in it. Also, the play ends with a male and female robot learning how to fall in love and wandering off into the sunset to repopulate the now humanless world.
Via Findfreegraphics.com
They called it "Cybertron."
When the play was translated into other languages, the word "robot" caught on not just in English-speaking countries but pretty much everywhere in the world where they have stories about machines killing us all. It effectively displaced other, arguably less awesome terms for the same thing, like "android" and "automaton." On some level, we just had to keep reminding robots of their place. Eh, it probably won't come back to bite us.
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