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July, 9, 2012
By Mark Simon, ESPN Stats & Information
Getty Images/Nick LahamDavid Wright can look ahead to the second half knowing the first half was MVP caliber.
There are a lot of ways to twist the numbers when looking at the first half of David Wright's 2012 season.
But our favorite is the one in the chart on the right. Since the All-Star Game divided the season into two chunks in 1933, there have been 16 instances in which a New York City baseball player racked up 250 plate appearances, a .350 batting average and a 1.000 OPS.
They didn't know about OPS back in the days of Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, or Duke Snider, but New York baseball fans knew a special season when they had one.
Those numbers have only been achieved by the most beloved of ballplayers to come through these parts (Willie Mays didn't hit them until the Giants moved to San Francisco).
Three Yankees have had a first half like that since the Mets inception in 1962, but no Met had until 2012.
Wright became the first.
What else was special about Wright's first half? Read on …
Playing the Percentages
Wright finished with the second-highest batting average (.351), second-highest on-base percentage (.441) and third-highest OPS (1.004) at the break in Mets history.
He was beaten out only by Jose Reyes (.354 batting average last season) and John Olerud (.450 on-base percentage 1999) in the first two categories, along with Mike Piazza (1.107 OPS in 2000) and Todd Hundley (1.046 OPS In 1997) in the latter category.
Wright also matched the Mets mark for most seasons with a .400 on-base percentage prior to All-Star Break. This was his second, surpassing his .410 in 2009. Edgardo Alfonzo, Olerud and Darryl Strawberry each also had two. Olerud was just short of a third in 1997, finishing at .398.
Double Your Pleasure
Wright finished the first half with 27 doubles. That's tied with Kazuo Matsui (2004) for second-most at the break in Mets history, trailing only Carlos Beltran's 28 last season.
Wright also had 40 extra-base hits, the fourth time he hit that mark as a Met (he's had as many as 45 in 2006). That's the most instances in club history, snapping the mark he shared with Beltran.
Captain Clutch
Wright finished the first half with 19 go-ahead RBI, tied with Keith Hernandez (1985) and Alfonzo (2000) for third-most by a Met prior to the break.
The two with more: Bernard Gilkey had 24 in 1996 and Olerud had 20 in 1997.
The single-season mark is 36, set by Hernandez. Wright's career-best is 33 in 2007.
Best among Mets?
Where does Wright's first half rank among the top offensive first halves in Mets history?
Statistician Bill James devised a runs created metric to gauge a player's offensive value, looking at all facets of offensive ability.
By his formula, Wright created 69 first-half runs, and a lineup of nine David Wright's would score 8.7 runs per 27 outs.
That's the third-best first half by a Met, trailing the Piazza (10.4 in 2000) and Hundley (9.4 in 1997) seasons that beat him out for best OPS, and just ahead of the Olerud season (8.6 in 1999) that edged him out for top OPS.
However, given Wright's advantages over Piazza and Hundley on the defensive side and the significant difference in offense in this era compared to the late 1990s/early 2000s, we have no problem with someone who wants to proclaim his half the best first half in Mets history.
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I thought my weight would be up at my WW weigh-in today, but it was actually DOWN 1.8 pounds! Yay!
(I stopped eating and drinking a few hours in advance though, and wore as little as was decently possible.)
Well, it's Day 2 of my Cape Cod challenge and so far, so good! I'm weighing in at a WW meeting in 3 hours and although I'm disappointed knowing that my weight will be higher than it was when I went two weeks ago, it's down since yesterday.
Day 1: 148.0
Day 2: 145.8
Today at school I was reading a book with a small group of students in which a character described baking fresh bread and eating it with homemade butter. I caught myself thinking, "mmmm - project for this afternoon!" But then I remembered about my challenge, and thought, nope, not THIS week! That's a great example of how I love the fact that this challenge is temporary.
When I arrived at home I was putting away a bunch of tupperware containers and I thought, "These containers have a lot to do with my weightloss!" I realized how many things I've purchased/done to make weightloss easier, so I decided that I'd blog about it. So bring on "My Top Tips for Losing Weight!"
*Prepare large quantities of healthy food, then immediately separate into individual portion sizes before putting in the fridge. This requires owning a lot of tupperware!
*Use the "Food Groupings" option under "my Nutrition" on SparkPeople to list all the ingredients and their quantities in these large dishes. Then, if you've separated into, let's say, 4 portions, each time you eat it you enter .25 of a serving.
*A crockpot makes batch cooking easy - just throw in meat and veggies. But I'm still learning what tastes best together - and what to avoid!
*For summer, batch salads seem to be working well...but I'm trying to get all portions eaten up within a day or two, which means having a portion for lunch AND dinner.
*Keep the kitchen stocked with healthy choices. To plan meals, pick an item or two that you've bought (say, shrimp and cabbage) and do an internet search for a recipe ("shrimp cabbage salad"). Substitute as needed to a) make the recipe healthier and b) include food items you already have around.
*I've tried many times to get around this somewhat tedious task, but the only times I'm successful losing weight are those times when I plan ahead of time what I will be eating the following day. Prepare as much as possible ahead of time, and if needed even pack it up in an insulated lunchbox that you store in your fridge overnight, so in the morning you just pick it up and go. No excuses for going off your plan!
*Use delay tactics to spread out your alloted food for the day. Distract yourself with non-food activities, drink calorie-free beverages, and chew gum.
*Read and write about weightloss, fitness, etc. to stay motivated.
All that stuff about continually "reinventing" my weight management program? That's just a nice way of saying that I can't stick to doing the things I know I need to do for the long term. I KNOW I need to exercise regularly, and not only go through the motions, but deliberately gradually push myself harder to continually increase my fitness level. I KNOW I am only successful in my quest to manage my weight when I plan/track my food. However, I don't think I can keep up these things at an efficiently strict level "forever" (and by "efficiently strict," I mean at a level that keeps my weight in my goal range, which is unfortunately rather strict). That may be a self-fulfilling prophecy, but I do think that my motivation can only last "so long." As much as I do believe that the long term solution has to be to find a balance, I have to admit that right now I want a short term solution. So, bring on the CAPE COD CHALLENGE.
I am going to Cape Cod on Thursday, July 26 and staying three nights. When I am there, assuming we have good weather, I will be spending a significant portion of my weekend on the beach. I WILL LOOK GOOD.
I was at my lowest weight, 132, at the end of May, though I must admit I only hit 132 on Jess' scale (which always reads lower than my scale) and only the morning after I'd had a bit of a stomach bug. So it might be safer to say that my real lowest weight was 134, which was a number I saw multiple times in April and May. I looked fantastic then and fit into 4s and 6s. Now, however, I weigh 148 and have noticed a huge change in my body. My stomach especially is so much bigger and flabbier, but it's also evident in my face, arms, chest, back, and legs. Basically everywhere.
(Side note - despite being in worse shape now, I actually have been in a better MOOD lately. Food=energy=better mood for me. What a conflict! However, once I get to the Cape the challenge ends. I will try to use moderation for my eating while I'm there. That inevitably means I'll be eating more, but it also means I won't be a grouch. Maybe while I'm there I can work on finding that balance to keep the weight off while still being able to feel good and enjoy my food.)
Soooo....it's time to bring out the effective guns again. I have a few major advantages working for me:
1. I now know exactly what is effective for me to lose the weight - track what I eat, eat 1,250-1,450 calories (more about this later) of healthy foods per day, exercise, etc.
2. My theory is that if the weight has been off recently before, it's somehow primed to come off again much faster. I fully expect to be at least 8 pounds thinner by next Thursday, which is 8 days away.
3. Because it's temporary, it gives me a psychological advantage. I can say no to certain things (like going to my brother's for dinner tonight!, or my latest routine of pig-out fests after work) because I know that I don't have to say no forever, just for now, and for my very motivating goal of looking good on the beach on the Cape. This may sound weird, but I love the idea that Jess' family won't know that I worked so hard these 8 days to look good. The last they saw me was this past weekend when I was pigging out at the two birthday parties we were all at. They'll think I can somehow eat like that and stay slim! I also LOVE the idea that I can look as good or better than Jess' 19 year old sister. The idea of wearing a smaller size than her thrills me. Call me catty, who cares, nobody else knows (well, except my blog readers now!), and it motivates me!
I would like to follow the Weight Watchers and SparkPeople plans like I was at my best. Of course I can't cheat, and just for now I am going to be preparing all my own food, so no restaurants/eating at other people's houses etc. (unless I bring my own food!) between now and the 26th. I will drink non-caloric beverages (water, coffee, and tea) until I turn into a small lake. I will stick mostly with unprocessed foods, though I do want to make an effort to stay within my fiber range and not eat too much of it like I was doing before. I think I will be much more comfortable physically if I don't overdo it on fiber. It's surprising how difficult it is to come up with healthy, low-calorie, unprocessed food choices that AREN'T high in fiber. Of course fiber is great, but when you go OVER your range you're constantly bloated and feeling icky.
I will stick with my SP recommended ranges for macro- and micro-nutrients, and my WW guidelines for oil (EVOO) and calcium (mostly yogurt, maybe some skim milk). Of course I will be getting plenty of vegetables and fruit. As far as my calorie range is concerned, I am going very low on calories today (about 1,280 I think) and will see how I feel. Because today is my first day doing this it will be easier to handle fewer calories. As the 8 days goes on I can adjust within a range of about 1,200-1,500 depending on how I'm feeling. But keep in mind that this is temporary and that there is a fantastic goal at the end, so I'd love to try to stay at the lower end of that range if possible.
I feel like I have to add in something for those who might read my blog and want to warn me against doing something like this. I KNOW it's better to be intrinsically motivated, to have a long-term solution, all that. But I have to do what works for me and right now this challenge really has me psyched up. I will be living a much healthier lifestyle than I have been the past couple of weeks, where I was coming home from work (and by the way, I only work until noon over the summer) and eating my way through TV show after TV show. No wonder my body has changed so much for the worse. I am still swinging wildly from one end of the spectrum to the other. At least I recognize that in the end, balance is the ultimate goal. I'm just not there yet.
In sum, my Cape Cod challenge has one main goal: looking MY BEST on the beach next weekend.
My rules are:
1,200-1,500 calories per day
Follow all SP and WW nutrition recommendations (carbs/fat/protein, calcium, low sodium, veggies & fruit, water, etc.)
Have a written plan for what I will eat on SP every day and stick to it
At least 60 minutes of exercise per day, including high intensity cardio, strength training as close as possible to every other day, and daily stretching
Wish me luck!
THANK YOU to everyone who's sent me messages and/or added me as a friend lately. I wouldn't be logging on at all if it weren't for you guys, but once I do get online I get motivated. I'm going to the Cape in just under two weeks and I'm gonna look good there!! Time to get serious!
I wrote a while back that in order to stay on track I have to keep "reinventing" my program, and that is true. Right now my focus is really on listening to my body. I'll be like a parent, making choices that reflect balance between how I'm feeling and what I know about weight maintanence and health. That is opposed to either end of the spectrum - being the child who bases all decisions on immediate satisfaction, and the drill sargeant whose only goals are thinness and fitness.
I'm at 144 today (Jess' scale).


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Middle East: At today's informal session of the General Assembly on Gaza the SG remarked that the most recent ceasefire has held since yesterday at 8 a.m. local time. He noted that a durable ceasefire is necessary and UN shelters must continue to remain safe zones. The SG thanked UN staff in Gaza and will fly the UN flag at half-mast tomorrow in memory of those who died in the conflict.
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Net Suicide Bill would breathe life into government censorship
Government moves to reduce the availability of suicide sites on the internet may herald a new era of online censorship in the UK. Last week, Justice Minister Maria Eagle announced a review of the law on suicide. Citing the usual suspect – "public concern" – she said: "Protecting vulnerable and young people must be a priority and …
Censorship has NEVER worked
When are these Nanny State types ever going to learn?
Censorship just makes it MORE exciting and more interesting and people will go to greater lengths to find it. This holds for alcohol, drugs, porn, and yes, even terror/suicide/racist websites.
I still don't understand why suicide is considered illegal.
It's a matter of personal choice and none of the state's business.
So, I guess Suicides-R-us.com will be moving to a Russian hosted server then and then our dear Nannies won't have any control over people accessing them.
Stupid Nannies!
what a bunch of useless wankers - why do we have culture and sports ministers anyway? Shouldn't the soul purpose of a government be running the f----- country? If someone wants to talk about the best way to top yourself (a common conversation back at school, you'd be amazed at how many people wanted to go across the road instead of up the street.) But then nobody at my school topped themselves either - I think a few got hit by cars and died though.
Talking about suicide versus cars... well I know which ones more dangerous just by my example above.
Talking about suicide for 3 or 4 years of secondary school = 0 deaths.
Road accidents over 3 to 4 years = apprx 3 deaths.
So cars are infininatly more dangerous then words in this scenario.
policing this?
Well I guess this sort of law needs "monitoring". Which means someone needs to see what sites people look at. That would be the reason for phorm/webwise then I take it?
Now it will be rolled out, no opt outs for " your protection"
Otherwise this will be enforced how exactly?
BT etc will claim they have to force this through now "to protect the children and ensure compliance with the law, and it will be on the backbone so no avoiding it.
Bets anyone?
Suicide ideas?
Surely a medical textbook would do the job? Or a decently gory crime novel. I'd rather see people trawling sites & forums trying to talk to people & you know, actually *help* them, rather than stamp about in jackboots banning things.
I AM the law
"the internet is not a lawless environment and that we can meet the challenges of the digital world"
The problem is one of jurisdiction; by international agreement, a countries laws only apply within the boundaries of the country. If you live in the UK, and the UK law allows you to buy alcohol at age 18, the US police cannot prosecute you because you are under 21.
There are further agreements between countries - this is where extradition comes about. If you murder a person in the states, then flee to the UK, the US police can ask the courts to allow you to be taken into custody and given over to their jurisprudence system. (Note that US police may NOT arrest you or take you into custody - they would be breaking UK law in doing so).
However, not all countries sign up to this and some pick and choose which laws they will allow this for. For example, some women in Eire choose to come to the UK for an abortion before returning home as it is legal in this country, but not in theirs. Technically the Garda could arrest them for this, but as the offence took place outside of their borders, they choose not to.
The problem with the Internet (which most policitians seem unable to understand) is that often the sites that host the material are outside of UK jurisdiction. The information can be carried across cables in the UK and they could then go after the supplier of the service, but not the actual site itself. they can try to get local police to do this; but as most of this sort of thing happens in areas where the police are actually getting paid hard cash by the individuals concerned, they probably are not going to get anywhere.
I think it is clear that this is yet another example of a politician that wants to be seen to "be doing something" even if they don't have a clue.
I believe the state of Tennessee once passed one that made Pi equal to exactly 3 to save all this messing about with funny numbers. This is probably on a par with that.
Why not just buy censoring software from China?
We buy everything else there and New Labour should get along famously with the Beijing Politburo.
Woo! Yaay!
The end of notgood content on the internets!
Sarcasm aside, I can sort of see their point even if I think they should leave the 'net alone- I don't think many people would complain if sites that _encourage_ suicide were banned. Sites discussing methods of killing oneself without actually encouraging it shouldn't be, though.
And euthanasia sites should be kept up too.
Essentially, the annoying emo-teenager style sites should be shut down- or, alternatively, given extra funding to make them more and more effective until finally they run out of customers...
Control or compassion?
Was Tim Berners-Lee's comment the other day, that something has to be done about disinformation on the internet, part of a PR pincer movement?
'Many' would agree with his suggestion of labelling 'trustworthy' sites, even though, as Reg readers pointed out, mostly this is impossible to achieve. 'Many' would also go along with Jacqui's ideas for policing the net in areas that they personally find despicable, even if this means restriction of freedom.
How long will it be before an announcement is made about use of combined data from the NHS, schools and the social services (and monitoring of browsing habits) to generate predictions of those who are at risk; and those who present a risk?
It needs people to solve social problems, not rules.
Hadrian's firewall
No censorship of UK internet? Are the rumours of Home Office blacklists on Cleanfeed baseless then?
Telling us what to think
Gordon would love that.
The idea of "protecting us" is an old scam. Canada has some anti-free speech bodies called the "Human Rights Commissions" which are being abused by Moslem groups to silence any criticism. The things were originally created after a few Neo-Nazi's appeared in the 70's.
But... it turns out that those "Neo Nazis" were actually led and organised by a stooge of the Canadian Jewish Congress. They knew that Canada was full of ex-servicemen who would be horrified. How better to get an Act passed that would end freedom of speech.
Of course this has come back to bite them. Today it is Jewish people being hauled in for "discussions" if they dare to say anything about Moslems. The blog by Ezra Levant details the "chilling" of free speech, and the techniques being used; he had the temerity to publish the Danish cartoons, and has been harassed and threatened for 3 years now.
Do we trust the establishment? Do we believe that their views are ours? Do we share their view that (e.g.) crime is unimportant unless it affects either them or favoured minorities? I think not.
We need to keep free speech. Pretending to protect us is merely a scam.
Naughty Chair
I reckon Britain is the Naughty Chair of Europe.
Time for internet 2.0?
Yay for censorship!
The internet has been pretty much lawless for its whole life so far, and that is what's made it great. It's the one place that government haven't waded in crying "Protect the vulnerable! Think of the children!" and so we get the free exchange of all sorts of ideas, from the useful to the perverted and ridiculous.
Filtering and blocking this avenue of free and unrestricted speech should not even be on the minds of western governments. The fact that china is criticised for their effort to do the same should be more than enough to put them off. Of course there I'm ignoring the easy excuse "They are censoring, we are protecting!", but in the end it comes down to the same thing.
It's time for a distributed, encrypted net that routes around or through ridiculous propositions like these.
If someone is determined enough then he'll find a method to do himself in, whether or not a web site is blocked. Perhaps the government should be looking more to the social causes of suicide.
As a society now, is there much mention that our choices and actions have consequences on others, such as family, friends and aquaintances? It seems in this selfish age that even suicide is seen as a personal act that doesn't require too much consideration of others. It would be good to be wrong though.
Can we vote for some sites to ban?
Here are my top three. They encourage killing people abroad and are sufficiently depressing that they could drive some people to suicide:
The law is tight enough already. Successful suicide already carries the death sentence.
Censorship through DNS
I believe we should do everything in our powers to protect children against inappropriate internet content - personally I use OpenDNS which has the ability to hide adult content. Schools and public internet providers should use something like this as a matter of course, If you want to access adult or inappropriate content then, as an adult, thats fine for you to do so in the comfort of your own home. The technology exists already, people just need educating on how to use it, but eroding freedom of speech should IMHO be avoided.
What a load of twat and codswallop
"Idiocracy" at it's finest silliest bunch of wankers and wowsers at work that be for sure .
Legally Grey
It is a crime to encourage or incite suicide, or to directly assist someone to commit suicide. It is not - since the Suicide Act 1961 - a crime to commit or to attempt to commit suicide, to threaten suicide, or (and this is the bit that I'd say applies most here) to seek advice or discussion on the subject of suicide.
Yes, there are sites out there that glorify death and encourage morbidity (in the sense of an interest in death); but there are books, magazines, music, and whole subcultures that do the same thing. Whatever your feelings on such groups and attitudes, are we to have every goth, emo and vampire site removed as well, in case it romanticises death?
The government seem to believe that they can simply beat every problem out of existence by hitting it with their big legislation hammer, but this is a prime example of their misjudgement. People who seek out sites relating to suicide may find them of positive benefit. To take away a channel for discussion and empathy would be potentially very damaging. It might seem fair enough to say that they'll focus on sites that glorify or encourage suicide - but that's rather subjective, and in any case, removing or blocking such sites doesn't address the problem being experienced by those who would seek them out in the first place.
Oops! Better go and present myself for re-education now...
Stamp out Censorship
The only way to protect freedom of speach on the internet is to make Censorship illigal. Otherwise we will see polotitions constantly chiping away at free spach untill there is no free speach. Would censorship stop suicides, of course not but "attempting" to censor it will make a whole army of cival servants happy . Of coures the perpetrator of this trash will also get the cudos of doing somthig about it.
Here's a suggestion
Whoever manages to gain access to the lists blocking specific internet sites and add at least ten major news sites (and the Sun) to the list should be promoted to godhood and given free beer and chocolate in heaven forever and ever amen.
Not that I suggest actually rewarding them but some nice high-profile backfiring of this censorship would be beneficial to all in society.
Hmmm. Smells tasty.
The article actually mentions that they are researching companies with filtering software. How long before the content 'filtered' increases to other areas - for the public good, of course.
Hmmm. Some sites critical of UK gov't policies. Ban 'em - for the public good, of course.
Can anybody feel the heat yet?
(Flames because there's not boiling frog icon).
you could just
stop kids under 16 using the internet.... that should help protect the children, and help us from getting to a great firewall of china situation.
I know I know, the internet isn't all porn and suicide sites, but think of it this way - does having an age ban on drinks, smoking or making drugs illegal actually stop it? No. So why will censorship? Kids are more tech savvy than the previous generation, they can use proxies and all sorts... the gov have no chance of stopping people visiting these sites, so why the hell are our tax dollars going into more useless acts like this.
Better saving the money, and putting it into something useful, like a new coffee maker and waffle machine for Gordon Browns london flat or something.
here's a shock way of combatting this
stop treating people like shit! they might not want to kill themselves then!
or lets up the prices of energy (ok, not this govs fault par se), fuel, food, tax etc etc... lets eradicate all their civil rights too...
the way society is going i can only see the suicide rate going up and up...
"It is probable that the intention of government is no more than tightening up the law on suicide - its stated aim." so i guess the same way as the US when its illegal? then just lock them up in a padded room 'for their own safety' - yup - thats going to make them less depressed! or just fill them up with thorazine?
surely someone so depressed that they want to kill themselves wont care if its against the law?
Down not across
I guess alt.sysadmin.recovery is now a banned site!
I've had one lifestyle (hunt sabbing &c.) already legislated out of existence, then I turned to Pen Testing and they made that illegal. Now the support group for my latest activities is being made illegal. i'm going to become a council tax colelctor next, let's see them get rid of that !
maby the tin hat is on to tight?
"The government has been working with a number of internet companies to develop filtering software to ensure that their products provide a high level of protection against illegal material that promotes or encourages terrorism".
can anyboady say phorm?
What's next, superimposing big black squares over footage of people slitting their wrists in the movies? Typical UK government bs. When will they every deal with the *problems* instead of the *symptoms* ??
"tightening the noose"
did you REALLY mean that piss-poor pun?
LOL though!
Frightening government stupidity
Ugh. The DCMS report on controlling internet risk mentioned in the article is truly frightening, showing an ignorance of technology, law, and logic. It's full of bizarre deductive leaps and confusion.
It's scarily pro-censorship but doesn't seem to have a clear idea what it's opposing: jumbling the entirely separate issues of preventing innocent children accidentally coming across unsavoury content and people (paedophiles, terrorists) deliberately seeking out illegal information or images, and slips in random references to cyber-bullying, unsafe chatrooms, paedophile grooming, and other concepts whenever they can be used to justify censorship. The word "potential" or "potentially" appears hundreds of times, and innocuous things (like Second Life) are condemned for "pos[ing] a potential risk to children in real life" - anything from cars to paracetamol pose a potential risk; a sane approach is not to ban anything potentially dangerous but to prevent potential risks from being realised.
You could offer some respect to minister Vernon Coaker, of whom it says: "Mr Coaker, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office, pointed out that it would be a significant step for the law to intervene in an area when no-one had been harmed and no children were involved." Though the very next paragraph points out that his concerns were entirely ignored.
It list the reasons why age verification doesn't work and the negative effects it has, before concluding that more sites should use age verification. It describes how proxies and encryption can be used to circumvent most ISP-level blocks and speculates that blocking technology could soon be rendered ineffective (if it isn't already) but still says the government should coerce ISPs to install such blocks whatever the cost. The fact that MySpace has hundreds of people verifying uploaded content is used as a reason why everybody should employ hundreds of people to do the same.
And companies who use the EC E-Commerce Directive (which makes companies non-liable for user-generated content in some circumstances) to avoid getting sued are told they should not "hide behind the law" (perhaps they feel people who're reluctant to kill paedophiles in the street are likewise hiding behind the law and failing to protect children).
The fact that it goes into raptures over Microsoft's time-lock on the X-Box, which is just a more complex and easily-surmountable version of parents physically picking up a console and locking it in a cupboard, shows how the members are bewitched by the possibilities of technology but utterly unable to assess its value.
Maybe it's an urban legend, but
wasn't it the UK that had, in the seventies, a law that punished failed suicide attemps by ... a sentence of death ?
Start those peers running, folks. We're getting China's internet, now. The only difference is that we don't need a firewall or filter to stop us reading about political scandle; The BBC simply doesn't report it.
In the mean time, let's see if we can't get El Reg banned; DOWN THE ROAD, NOT ACROSS THE TRACKS.
Stupid. Plain and simple.
Censorship doesn't work. People just find alternative ways to get to what they are looking for. Just like the stupid gun control laws - all they do is keep guns out of the hands of the law abiding and keep them in the hands of criminals.
Through the mist and fog I see
really if they want to kill themselves then hey perhaps that is not such a bad thing for the world, we are over crowded after all.
Oh and it is free speech, not speach or spach.
Kids are not tech savvy today, use of a proxy will more likely get you caught then not using a proxy.
Stop usage of the Net for any under the age of 40.
Then on their 40th birthday they have to pass a test to use the internet, which involves building three working applications in assembly based on protocols from the TCP/IP suite, with those they will be allowed to connect to the net.
Then if they need more programs, they will have to write them all themselves.
That will keep them from even thinking about topping themselves until at least their 31st birthday.
Censorship depresses me
I'm going to kill myself now.
Told you so...
Those of us who objected to the Governments plans to outlaw so-called "Extreme Pornography" were often accused of exaggeration or just being ridiculous when we said that if such a law was passed, it would open the door to even more ludicrous and draconian forms of internet censorship by a Control Freak Government.
Given that they haven't even been able to define *what* extreme pornography actually is, how do you think they're going to get on with defining "material that promotes or encourages terrorism" or "reducing the availability of suicide sites"?
Of course they have such a wonderful justification for this: "Protecting vulnerable and young people must be a priority and a responsibility for us all."
- Translation: We want to keep you scared and confused by passing laws which we claim will protect people, but which actually won't do anything of the sort. Meanwhile we're actually whittling away your liberties and freedoms one small step at a time until you're too afraid to do *anything* that might threaten our position.
Good intentions
Having known someone who killed herself with advice/encouragement from the sick fuckers on alt.suicide.holiday, I'd like to see them all locked up and throw away the key. Unfortunately, there are all these legal issues in the way.
One law for the rich and one law......
Since the Labour government came into office in 1997 they have introduced over 3600 new laws. Much of this avalanche of new legislation has in one way or another been directed at micro managing the lives of the citizens of this country by extending surveillance and diminishing or restricting rights we previously enjoyed. And we are told that all this is being done as part of the fight against terrorism: surrender your hard won rights and we will protect you. Sounds plausible, but just ask anyone in government to explain how the possession of a plastic ID card will protect you from a suicide bomber and you will be politely told to fuck off and do your duty as a citizen: believe the lies we tell and no harm will befall you.
Now, once again, it's the Home Office and Wacky Jacky Smith censoring internet content because nanny knows best and we stupid dullards need to be protected from ourselves. Note, however, that Smith's interference with our rights does not extend to protecting us from the billions of spam emails, the phishing scams, trojans and other malware that permeate the internet. That's because all this shit is being generated by wealth creators and eventually this will trickle down to the ungrateful peasants. Say, "Thank you, nanny Smith".
Meanwhile, back at the bookies shop where the wheels have fallen off in a pretty spectacular way you can see why people like Smith have enough time on their hands to enable them to micro manage the lives of private citizens. No regulation, no oversight, no supervision, and no governance for the spivs and wide boys in the financial markets.
Perhaps Monsignor Blair could put in a word with his boss and ask for absolution for all New Labour's sins on this earth.
No words
For how spectacularly ridiculous this idea is. Every time I see stories like this I can't help but think that even Orwell would be shocked.
P.S. "Tighten the noose"??? Bad pun, but I still loled.
Tux... just cos.
What really needs monitoring
Is the idiots who keep suggesting monitoring and suppressing whatever their "problem" of the day is; at any given moment. I'm frankly surprised that these folks are let out loose on the streets by themselves. Surely that can't be safe...think of the children (they might pervert with their strange thinking and ways!)...
Wouldn't it be amusing if...
Whilst I would not condone and will not encourage any criminal act(s), would it not be most amusing if *.gov.uk were to be added to the Cleanfeed list of blocked sites, thereby blocking access to all government sites via the same system that Herr Vernon Croaker demanded be used?
@ Tony
Actually, it was Indiana, but you got the gist.
@ Laurent_Z
<< wasn't it the UK that had, in the seventies, a law that punished failed suicide attemps by ... a sentence of death ? >>
Not that I'm aware of. I believe the penalty for failed suicide attempts was imprisonment. But the Suicide Act - decriminalising suicide - was passed in 1961, so it certainly wasn't in the 70s.
As for the death penalty, the last execution in the UK was in 1964 and the death penalty itself was abolished in 1969; although it remained on the statute books for certain offences (notably treason and piracy) until 1998, it was never applied. After the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, it was removed from the books entirely. And a bloody shame, too.
It's strange to think, though, that the act that officially ended capital punishment in Britain was the same act that gave us the lamentably useless ASBO, and approved legislative racial discrimination in the form of 'racial aggravation'.
banning book?
Are they planning on banning the book "Final Exit" by Derek Humphrey and the Hemlock Society? It recommends using alcohol to aid hypothermia. Happens by accident many times each winter anyway.
There is nothing wrong with defining pi as 3 provided you also define 1 as pi/3 and so on.
Reminds me of the windup we played on a new coder. Added the following line to stdlib.h on his machine:
# define if while
Cleanfeed / IWF / Home Office
Given the "voluntary" nature of the ISP's relationship with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), it is quite clear that the IWF is the Home Office in a skin.
I had a "discussion" with my ISP about their implementation of this when it started interfering with one or two things.
Firstly they claimed that it was to "comply with the law". But as indicated above and in the article, this is all "voluntary". (Aside - any bets that if the ISPs had not "volunteered", then BT Wholesale would have been commanded to?)(Another - any bets on how long until the use of quotation marks to indicate sarcasm is forbidden by law?)
Secondly they said that normally they have no access to the content of the list that is kept encrypted, though access is available under very tightly controlled and recorded circumstances. Each web page request is simply compared to the list for a yes no decision. I guess that means the request is encrypted and the match made between encrypted entities. This is done on a transparent Squid proxy. Well, transparent until it starts sending out error messages on its own account!
Thirdly, a request for a banned page is NOT refused with a "Forbidden Content" page like Websense or similar commercial offerings. Instead a "Page Temporarily unavailable" error is created. But of course with Squid in the system they could actually do anything they liked. Is that BBC News page that you are looking at really the same one that the BBC thought they sent out?
Can't help but think one will need a Home Office approved licence to run an encrypted Virtual Private Network before long. After all TotC (Think of the Children)!
A title is required
>I believe we should do everything in our powers to protect children against inappropriate internet content<
I agree, don't let them on the 'net, solves all the problems in one, no grooming for peado's, terrorists or suicides.
Fire Jaquie Smith too, I think she's in the pay of the Illuminati, and stop bailing out banks. Let the chips fall where they may. Ferret out the perpetrators of the sub prime fiasco and fine 'em, take away their country mansions and stick that money back into the economy. Treat the citizens of the country like adults, not sheep and get on with running the country. Ensure one law for all and that it's maintained across all tiers of society.
Erase third world debt and cut defence spending (approx £32.6Bn last year).
Approx 60 million people live in UK, divide that by 32 billions pounds a year comes out to over £500 a year per person if I've got the sums right (32 billion divided by 60 million = 533.333333) - I'll take the cash please, no one's gonna invade us, we've got nuclear bombs.
Er, sorry, slightly off topic. Censorship bad!
Ta Daaa!
And now you know what Phorm is for.
Not really black helicopters just very dark intentions I suspect.
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making spring rolls
- rose water Jul 27, 2007 07:21 PM
what a fun summer activity! stopped by a vietnamese grocery (in the bronx, ny of all places!) and got rice paper sheets and holy basil. with a packet of rice stick and some fantastic crisp cucumbers, i was ready to go.
this is a helpful thread: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/389854
this also has helpful tips: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recip...
used this sauce: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/rec...
we subbed some soy sauce and balsamic vinegar for hoisin sauce, which i didn't have; lovely fresh scallions from our CSA for the onion, and added some water and some more soy sauce in the end. it's probably worth doubling this, though fresh lime juice alone is also great.
fillings (not all at once)--rice noodles with some lime juice and rice vinegar, basil, sliced cucumber, sliced pepper, sliced peaches, sliced avocado, scallions, tofu with soy sauce and sesame and ginger oil.
all in all, it was a pleasure to assemble these, and it was a great light summer meal highlighting great fresh herbs and other produce. assembly was a bit of a challenge--the key is to soak the rice paper for 10 seconds and not more, then stick it onto damp towels. And do not overstuff. of course, i couldn't help myself from overstuffing, resulting in misshapen, lumpy blobs. you'll note that i'm not attaching pictures!
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Thanks for the post... I have not made these in years and I think I hve rice papers in my pantry! Love the lime juice idea. I usually put shrimp in mine...
rose water, I love spring rolls! My homemade attempts have gone from a lumpy mass (that tasted great but looked ridiculous) to something that nearly resembles my local take out spring roll. I too learned how important a "quick soak" was for the rice paper and I used a tablespoon to gauge filling so I don't overstuff (my tendency too). The moist towel is a must! As for fillings, variations-I've only recently begun to experiment with all the delicious choices..and only after my "technique" had improved.
So far my fav combo is medium shrimp and shredded chicken with basil, mint, rice noodles and a dressing of 1 part red pepper hot sauce and 2 parts soy.
practice, practice! :0()
re: HillJ
Such discipline! I will admit that I reached a point when I gave up on even my lumpy blob rolls, and went for open faced rice paper sandwiches! I did figure out how to make pretty ones--not overstuffing is key, as well as putting the basil down first so that it shows through the skin of the rolled roll.
re: rose water
Funny! I usually end up cutting the up the holey ones to throw in a bowl and use the dipping sauce as a dressing. I know this basically ends up being a noodle bowl, but i really like the chewy consistency of the rice paper wrapper.
Usually put in poached shrimp, some kind of marinated grilled meat, lettuce, cilantro, mint, noodles, bean sprouts, thin slices of fresh jalepeno, and one time -- BACON. yum yum. :o)
Thanks for reminding me that I should make some rolls (I call this non-fried version "summer rolls") soon since I have some wrappers in my pantry. Great way to keep cool in the kitchen and to use up odd and ends in the fridge.
I like your use of peaches since fruit can add brightness and go well w/ the dipping sauce. I like to use manila mango w/ red bell pepper and shrimp.
Does anyone have a brand of rice paper wrapper they are loyal to? My Viet market has a number of different brands that vary in translucency and size. Last time I was at one market, the cashier was adamant that the one w/ three ladies was best so I bought that to try. Will report back...
re: Carb Lover
Ah, I forgot to link to this thread, which I didn't end up using, but it was a pleasure to come across it again. Such gorgeous, tempting photos! http://www.chowhound.com/topics/305892
I'm very excited about the summer roll possibilities, and would love to hear about your odds and ends rolls--what a great use for leftovers!
I ended up buying Peacock Brand wrappers, but I can't say how they compare with others without having done this before. When I get through the many dozen wrappers in this package, I'll compare to other things, and report back.
re: rose water
I actually don't make summer rolls that often, but your thread made me realize that I can deviate from the traditional fillings for a quick weeknight meal. For instance, I have some leftover grilled chicken in the fridge right now that would be great for this application. And I often have small amounts of cucumber, radish, carrot, green beans, etc. along w/ many fresh herbs that I can't use quickly enough before they spoil. Oh, the possibilities are endless! I'll report back on what I throw together in the coming weeks...
PS. Nice photo below, Rubee!
re: Carb Lover
I used Asian Boy Banh Trang Que Huong brand recently when I made a version on the Nigella thread (I used rice noodles, Chinese roast duck, scallions, cilantro, mint and purple basil).
I LOVE the idea of using peaches - I've used mango and shrimp before, but I think peach is brilliant. Hmmm. I might have to try peach and duck summer rolls next weekend.
re: Carb Lover
I find them at Cost Market Place, Blue Dragon, I buy those when I can't get into Chinatown. I find them very good quality.
I love fresh spring rolls! The fresh, clean flavors really shine through. I really like the texture of rice paper wrappers too.
re: chef chicklet
Thanks Chef Chicklet! I like mint too, and cilantro. But unfortunately all I had that day was Thai basil. Still very good though..
I love those things!!
I use very hot water and just dip the rice paper several seconds. On to a wet towel and fill. It's great with shrimp or left over whatever. Fresh mint and Thai basil is almost a requisite. They don't keep well, but that is seldom a problem.
I like to wrap steamed carrot strips, pickled daikon strips, seasoned spinach, bean sprouts, with any of: crab, korean spicy grilled chicken, tuna, or Korean spicy pork.
re: katkoupai
You know, it doesn't really take a special touch at all. What was most exciting to me about making these is that, my fussing with fillings aside, it's really very simple to do. Dunk a rice paper in hot water for 10 seconds, stick it on wet towels, fill but don't overstuff, roll up. And your avatar has me imagining other non-traditional possibilities--I bet some rice stick, lettuce and pomegranate would be delicious!
Thank you, these were incredibly fun to make and turned out great. I combined elements from the Tyler Florence recipe you cite and the shrimp method and dipping sauce from here:
Actually I added garlic to the dipping sauce, but omitted vinegar: just lime juice (1 1/2 limes), turbinado sugar (2 Tbsp), hot water (3 Tbsp), 1 clove pressed garlic, the cloudy Thai anchovy sauce (2 Tbsp) and some sriracha.
Filling was simple: (1) rice noodles cooked in the water that the shrimp had been poached in, chilled and tossed with lime juice, sesame oil and chopped peanuts (2) fresh mint, holy basil and cilantro (3) 3 shrimp per roll. They were really beautiful, and delicious, with the dipping sauce and extra sriracha squeezed on each bite. We ate them too fast to take pictures, but next time.
These are so great in the summer - I guess that's why they call them "summer rolls", sometimes salad rolls. My favorites...3 slices of shrimp (if you slice them in half and lay them along the one end, you still get a bite of shrimp in each bite, and it makes it easier to roll up the filling with all the other good stuff), rice vermicelli, avocado, sliced carrot, mint leaf and arugula (instead of lettuce...but I like lettuce, too). Sometimes hearts of palm, sometimes jicama...and sometimes even a slice of pork tenderloin that's been poached in chicken stock.
Really, this roll lends itself well to creative ingenuity. Just look in the fridge and see what calls your name...the possibilities are endless.


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I got a year.
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The results are in! You'd survive for fifty years after the apocalypse.You'll be around until civilisation rebuilds itself. There'll be legends told about your name.
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I don't mind being Kevin Costner though, I rather liked Waterworld. It had some awesome props.
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Are ya sure? Cuz it sure seems like a long week already....
Today is my rest day from walk/jog. Yay! LOL. I have 1.5 hours of dance rehearsal tonight tho, so not exactly "rest" day.
After careful thinking, I've decided to go for the goal change - 100 pounds in 40 months. That's 2.5 pounds a month - super, incredibly slow. Can I hope it will go faster than that? Yes, I can hope! That would put me at 150ish by my 50th birthday. Still heavier than the "charts" say for my height (5') and build...but I truly can't imagine myself at less than 150. I think that is a fine goal - a reasonable goal - and at 2.5 pounds a month, an ACHIEVABLE goal.
See...I've been "trying to lose weight" for a long time. And not really going anywhere. I change my diet, I increase exercise...and the weight does not fall off. It redistributes some, and I look better...but I don't seem to lose weight. I've had the tests, I've been checked out....not much good reason why it's not happening except for one concrete result: No progesterone, meaning my estrogen is running rampant. Most importantly, this is called "unopposed estrogen" (meaning nothing is being done to fix it) and is a leading cause of cancer in women - and the biggest reason it needed to be addressed. The doc felt this has probably been going on for YEARS and could be a significant reason why I'm having problems losing weight. The solution? Progesterone cream to help balance the estrogen. I've been doing the progesterone about 3 months now. While I hoped it would magically fix me, LOL, it hasn't. Who knows how long it takes to get balanced when you've been THIS unbalanced for years? Add perimenopause in there along with some insulin resistance...and I've struggled terribly to lose weight.
I set a seemingly reasonable goal, work very hard at it..with little or no result. Then I get discouraged and quit trying for awhile. That was my cycle for YEARS.
Now, I'm making this a VERY long term program. Less than a pound a week is sort of crazy slow, I know. But it occurred to me, if I'm trying like crazy and nothing is happening, I get really discouraged and fall off. Perhaps this is like running for me, success is in "go slower than you think you can".
Every obese person wants to go to wake up one morning and be miraculously at a healthy weight. Doesn't work like that tho, does it? It takes a long time of consistent activity and effort, retraining ourselves - the way we eat and more importantly the way we think.
As stubborn as I am, 3 years is likely about as long as retraining my thinking is going to take!
Yep...I ran today. The good news, best time yet for the loop I've been doing - speed at 17 minute mile. The bad news...that means I need to add some distance in there. What started as a 25 minute loop is now getting done in 20 minutes...so it's time to go just a little farther. Not much, 2 or 3 tenths of a mile is all I'm adding - just enough to take a little more time....
I'm definitely running farther on the running intervals every time I do it. This indicates to me I really am building my cardiovascular capacity.
Cool, eh? I think so.
Do I love it? No, no I don't. Same battle every run day "I don't wanna". Same sigh of relief on non-run days "thank god I don't have to do it today!" Will that change? I hope so, but if it doesn't it doesn't. This isn't quilting or knitting or going to the movies. Those are the things I do for FUN. This is what I'm doing for my HEART. My BODY. My LIFE.
I'm proud of myself too...and that's actually even better than fun.
Ah Monday..back to routine.
This is week 2 of C25K...however, I will be repeating week 1. I can't yet run a full minute all five cycles of the workout, so I'll be repeating it until I CAN. Saturday's run I was able to do it 3x...so it's improving. I knew going into it that I would take longer than 5 weeks and I'm good with repeating until I am really THERE.
My cross training needs to get stepped up. Last night I did one of the "boot camp" workouts ...and had my butt handed to me on a platter. I hadn't done one for weeks and boy, could I tell! So I'm trying to set a reasonable goal there...reasonable being the key word. I basically work two jobs and have a family...setting myself up for an unreasonable goal is not good for me. I'm going to give myself a few days to think about what reasonable looks like and form the goal.
You know, rather than saying "I'm going to do the bootcamp EVERY DAY!" which is what I tend to do...set a very unreasonable goal and then burn out. See, old dogs can learn new tricks!
In that same vein....I'm thinking about the 100 pounds I want to shed. I weigh 250ish on any given day...I've gotten down to 239 but popped right back up. The weight is not falling off me, depsite significantly increasing my exercise and making some pretty significant dietary changes as well. My main goal has been to lose X amount in a few months time. Perhaps I need to overhaul my entire goal structure. I'm thinking about the Slowest Loser team...and considering resetting my goal to losing 100 pounds by my 50th birthday, March 11, 2014. Now...that is SLOW. Like 3 pounds a month. I'm thinking about it. I want results RIGHT NOW. But....I've wanted results RIGHT NOW for a very long time. Perhaps I need to approach weight loss as I'm learing to approach running: Go slower than you think you can.
This is looking pretty good at 11 weeks of cycling the same 2 pounds.
At any rate, again, I'm THINKING about it. What is reasonable? What is doable? What will make me feel good about myself instead of feeling guilty and a failure?
Here's to a new week...to get life right.
I am sooo happy to see the weekend! I've had little down time in the last month and today I'm taking a day off! I'll do a couple chores, do day 3 of C25K, and that is IT... I may spend the rest of the day on my butt with a book!
My walk/jog schedule is Tues, Thur and Sat...even tho some blog posts make it look like I'm training on consecutive days - I promise, I'm not! I NEED that day in between for my joints, believe me!
Weigh in reflects the same 2 pounds down. It is discouraging, but I'm not letting it be the focus of what I'm doing. I noticed last night at dance rehersal, my cardio fitness is definitely improving! I was able to run through the routines repeatedly with MUCH less huffing and puffing at the end, and didn't need a break in between every run through. I'm noticing my clothes are fitting differently and two people at work this week said "You're losing weight aren't you?" I just replied "oh I don't know, I try not to weigh too often" LOL. The reality is I've lost and regained the same 2 pounds about 10 weeks in a row! But they don't need to know that! I suspect, one week I will step on the scales and there will finally be a difference and I'll start loosing then. My body apparently really enjoys being fat and wants to keep it!
Emotionally, things have been hard. Money is extremely tight..which makes my partner stress like crazy and she doesn't keep that stress to herself! My son has been up and down with the mood swings...I've been working too much....and sleep has been a problem as well. I can say this week I didn't eat over things, which is a HUGE success for me. So the scales? Eh, I'm not going to sweat that!
Anyone on Pinterest? I'm sort of addicted, LOL! you can save webpages you like in different categories..and I'm really enjoying it - probably too much, "Step away from the computer..."
Have a GREAT weekend!
I will be so freakin' glad to see the end of this week! WHEW. Work crazy-ness...family dysfunction....fatigue.
As seems to be the way for me, the alarm went off and my first thought was: It's run day. I don't want to....
But I did it anyway.
On my way out the door, my partner said "have fun on your walk" and I stopped and said "mmmm, I don't really find it fun. Yet. I don't know that I ever will. But I have to do it...it's good for me....and it makes me feel good about myself".
That's it in a nutshell. It doesn't matter that it isn't fun...it doesn't matter that the scale continues to play with the same 2 pounds....it matters that running 3x a week makes me feel good about myself. That's something I've struggled to find my whole life...and this works.
I learned a lesson today. Because of a huge event (the Cascade Cycling Classic), my usual walk/jog route was out of the question - around 1,000 extra people (literally) right in the middle of my route. I used the map thingy here on Spark to map a route in my neighborhood and the most resonable route was 1.18 miles. My usual is 1.27. 11/10ths of a mile less, no biggie.
Well, I got smarty pants on myself. I thought, this is a little shorter route, I'll work HARDER!! I ran sooner and longer than usual....and burned myself out. Instead of the usual 5 reps of walk/jog, I could only do 4 reps of jogging...and I was badly winded the last half of the route...which slowed me down. I did the exact opposite of what I thought. As I was panting and kicking myself I recalled a running article I read here by Coach Nancy Howard that said "Go slower than you think you can".
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Yesterday, a statement from Maison Martin Margiela finally ended months of speculation about when or if the label's elusive designer Martin Margiela had left his own fashion house.
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Margiela had still been at Maison Margiela but, at his request, had taken several months off to reflect on his future, according to Giovanni Pungetti, the chief executive officer of Maison Martin Margiela. A state that fitted perfectly with his low-profile limelight-shunning sensibilities, and which finally makes sense of Margiela majority stakeholder Renzo Rosso's ambiguous statement last month that 'Martin has not been there for a long time. He is here but not here. We have a new fresh design team on board.'
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Margiela is revered by many in the fashion industry as the ultimate avant-gardist, introducing cleft-toed boots, deconstructed fashions (with seaming unfinished and on the outside of garments), and exaggerated proportions such as overlong sleeves. Marc Jacobs once claimed, 'Everyone is influenced by Comme des Garçons and by Martin Margiela. Anybody who's aware of what life is in a contemporary world is influenced by those designers.'
Margiela seems to have left a legacy that has weighed heavily on Rosso (who also owns Diesel), since he bought a majority stake in the house in 2002.
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(II) Thomas Henry, son of John Robert and Elizabeth (Hennion) Stilts, was born at Bradford, Steuben county, New York, in 1835, died May 16, 1898. He was a farmer. He married, December 14, 18J5, Sarah Parks, born December 13, 1838. Children: John R., mentioned elsewhere; Robert C., born April 28, 1861; Carrie, March 16, 1863
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MLA Source Citation:Milliken, Charles F. The History of Ontario County, New York, and Its People Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York. 1911. AccessGenealogy.com. Web. 27 November 2014. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/new-york/biographical-sketch-of-thomas-henry-stilts.htm - Last updated on May 25th, 2011
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