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Originally Posted by KCALB SIRAY

Hola Bob! Still laughing at the picture you sent me, lol

Picture?

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FWD to John...... he might see that today!

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Thanks I needed that.

[KCALB SIRAY]

Originally Posted by Bob_VT

FWD to John...... he might see that today!

done

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Remind you of anyone?

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Originally Posted by PreciousPups4U

Fried Turkey, ham with brown sugar and pineapple glaze, dressing (stuffing), rice, gravy, macaroni and cheese, corn, green beans, sweet potato casserole, broccolli casserole, hashbrown casserole, rolls, pumpkin cheesecake, coconut cake, cranberry orange relish, chocolate delight (mmmm) and probably lots more stuff. Now I am stuffed.

Okay..... I just got fatter reading that!!!

Originally Posted by dvlnblkdrs

i went to my cousins house.. we had.... mashed chipotle sweet potatoes, fully loaded mashed potatoes, like a 20 pound turkey, sweet potato with marshmallows, string bean casserole, stuffing, broccoli with rice n cheese, cranberry, dinner rolls, brusselsprout salad, cookies shipped from ny, white chocolate banana mouse, pumpkin pie, fresh whipped cream



and all that for 6 people!

OMG Cookies shipped from NY!!! I could kill for that.

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Bacon's real claim to fame is: not that he, as the lord chancellor, in 1621, was removed from office for accepting a litigant's bribe; nor, that he was the real writer of the Shakespearean plays (one of the controversies in English literature, the "Baconian controversy")3; but rather Francis Bacon is known as a philosopher, one of the first order. Bacon delineated the principles of the inductive method, which constituted a breakthrough in the approach to science, even though philosophers and scientists of the day, - and seemingly today, yet - repudiated both his theories and methodology, alike. Bacon argued that the only knowledge of importance to man was empirically rooted in the natural world; and that a clear system of scientific inquiry would assure man's mastery over the world. He was the originator of the expression, "Knowledge is power." He was quite taken up by the "materialist" theories and the resultant discoveries of both Copernicus and Galileo. Bacon, along with Galileo are known in the literature as "the great anti-Aristotelians who created the 'modern scientific' view of Nature."

Francis Bacon was born at London. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of twelve. He studied law and became a barrister in 1582; two years later he took a seat in the House of Commons. His opposition, in 1584, to Queen Elizabeth's tax program retarded his political advancement. While in the earlier days he supported the earl of Essex, Bacon, in 1601, was involved in his prosecution. With the accession of James I (1566-1625) and thereafter, a number of honours were bestowed on Bacon: he was knighted in 1603, made Solicitor General in 1604, Attorney General in 1613, and Lord Chancellor in 1618.

He had powerful enemies, foremost among them was Sir Edward Coke. "Bacon and Coke were bitter political rivals, in Parliament and the law courts." They even contended for the hand of the same woman, a widow, Lady Elizabeth Hatton, - "beautiful, widowed, and rich."

Bacon, not having come from a rich family, and always pressed for money: accepted, and this is one of the great surprises of history, a litigant's bribe. This was in 1621; so, just four months after he was raised to the peerage, Bacon was evicted from office. ("I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense.") Francis Bacon went into retirement and died in 1626; he was buried at Saint Michael's Church in St. Albans, just north of London, Hertfordshire.


The Elizabethan Times:-

If one is to get to know about another person's life and their work it will be necessary to take an historical look at the times during which that person lived; this is particularly so of Francis Bacon. Let us first start by looking to the principal actors of the age. Our leading lady is Elizabeth the First, the Queen of England.

Elizabeth I, lived between the years 1533 and 1603. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She was, after her mother's execution, declared illegitimate, but in 1544 Parliament reestablished her in the succession. On her accession in 1558 (she reigned until 1603) England's low fortunes, included: religious strife, a huge government debt, and failure in wars with France. Her reign took England through one of its greatest periods, a period that saw the country united to become a first-rate European power with a great navy; a period in which commerce and industry prospered and colonization began. Elizabeth followed in her father's footsteps and asserted the Tudor concept of strong rule. She reestablished Anglicanism, and measures against Catholics grew harsher. Although she had many favorites, Elizabeth never married, but she used the possibility of marriage as a diplomatic tool. Vain, fickle in bestowing favors, prejudiced, vacillating, and parsimonious, she was nonetheless considered to be a great monarch, highly aware of the responsibility of rule and immensely courageous.

Other personages of the time should be considered. There would be the 2nd earl of Essex, Robert Devereux (1566-1601) who quite literally lost his head over Elizabeth. Then there was the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley (1532-88), who received a number of favours from the queen. Dudley's wife Amy was reported to have committed suicide, but did she? Eventually, Dudley himself was found poisoned to death. Then there was James I (James VI of Scotland), son of Mary, Queen of Scots; and, indeed, Mary, herself. And a string of others, including: Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-98), Sir Francis Walsingham (1530-90), Sir Francis Drake (1540-96), Sir Edmund Spencer (1552-1599), Walter Raleigh (1552-1618), Edward Coke (1552-1634), Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), and Shakespeare (1564-1616). All of these historical figures should be looked up, I have no time but to only mention them at this place.

I have yet to undertake an exhaustive examination of Bacon's life; it has been done many times before. The standard biography is that of James Spedding.4

Before passing on to saying a few words about Bacon's philosophy it is worthwhile to make the comparison between Sir Thomas More and Francis Bacon, as Frederic R. White did:

"In many external respects, the life of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was similar to that of Sir Thomas More [1478-1535], a century before. Both came from distinguished families, and both received excellent educations. Both studied law and both practised that profession. Both entered public life at a comparatively early age, and both finally arrived, at the end of their political careers, at the Lord Chancellorship. Moreover, each fell into disfavour with his sovereign; each was accused of taking bribes; each was condemned and imprisoned in the Tower. Finally, each was the most distinguished writer and thinker of his time, and each was in a sense, a martyr to his faith. More died because of his steadfast devotion to his religion. Bacon, so the story goes, met his death through devotion to experimental science. While testing the preservation powers of snow, he contracted a chill and perished. This external similarity does not extend, however, to the characters of the two men. More was a man of the utmost integrity, sweetness, and generosity; Bacon was by no means admirable." (p. 207.)

Bacon's Philosophy:-
Francis Bacon's major contribution to philosophy was his application of induction, the approach used by modern science, rather than the a priori method of medieval scholasticism.

Up to and during Bacon's time there existed philosophies rooted not so much in reason but in pure faith; philosophies promoted by the church. [See Saint Anselm (1033-1109) and Thomas Aquinas' (1225-1274) and, more generally, the Scholastic School.] Bacon was "violently opposed to speculative philosophies and the syllogistic quibbling of the Schoolman ..., Bacon argued that the only knowledge of importance to man was empirically rooted in the natural world."

"There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms: this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried."
Thus, Bacon delineated the principles of the inductive thinking method, which, while as a method goes back to the times of Aristotle, constituted a breakthrough in the approach to science. It was just these kind of materialist theories that brought about the great discoveries of Copernicus and Galileo. Bacon could see that the only knowledge of importance to man was empirically rooted in the natural world; and that a clear system of scientific inquiry would assure man's mastery over the world.5

Bacon's Writings:-

"The style of Bacon has an idiosyncracy which we might expect from his genius."6
Earlier, we referred to the comparison which Frederic R. White made between Sir Thomas More and Francis Bacon. Their lives were remarkably paralleled, but as White points out there was little similarity between their writings. "More was a classicist and a humanist; his Utopia is well-planned ... Bacon ... [was a] scientist; his New Atlantis is incomplete, ill-proportioned, somewhat heavy in style, and dogmatically devoted to the glorification of natural science."
Bacon's first work was The Advancement of Learning (1605). His second came along in 1620, Novum Organum; it was part of his larger philosophical work known as Instauratio Magna, of which he only completed two parts: this, Novum Organum, and De Augmentis Scientarum.7 De Augmentis Scientarum, which came out in 1623, was an expansion of his 1605 work. Apothegms came out in 1624. His aphoristic Essays were continually worked on between 1597 and 1625. Bacon's utopian fable about the island of "Bensalem," the New Atlantis, came out in 1627, appended to Sylva Sylvarum. And his final work, The World, came out three years after his death.


Bacon the Man:-

Carlyle thought Bacon was one of the few who could "converse with this universe, first hand." And Lord Macaulay thought that Bacon "had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable ... brilliant, expedient"; but, nonetheless, Bacon was to Macaulay a "thoroughly dishonest man."8 One who so dazzled others by his brilliant mind that he made them forget "the standards of ordinary decency and morality." Bacon acknowledged his weakness: "I will not question whether you ... pass for a disinterested man or no; I freely confess myself that I am not, and so, I leave it there."

"Francis Bacon's life, with its slow rise to political power and its sudden awful fall, is a drama on the heroic scale of the old Greek tragedies. The world knows the famous last will and testament, where Bacon left his "soul to God above, his body to be buried obscurely, his name to the next ages, and to foreign nations." The world knows his writings, or the titles of them, at least. But there is a composition of Bacon's which the world has lately forgotten or overlooked. In the fullness of his power and reputation as Lord Chancellor of England, Bacon was impeached by Parliament for taking bribes in office, convicted, and banished from London and the law courts. ...
We shrink from the evidence; it is painful to see genius stoop for a mean prize. Perhaps the times were to blame. To live in the shadow of a Queen's favor, to strive continually for a King's smile, is not pretty work. It drove Sir Walter Raleigh to fantastic plots, to despair, egregious lying and the executioner's block. Outside the circle of royal patronage there was no way for an ambitious man to rise in government, no way at all." (Bowen, pp. 3-18.)

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World Rally Championship
Rally Japan, October 31-November 2
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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In the BP Ford Abu Dhabi WRT Focus RS, Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen completed Sunday's short final stage in Sapporo to take the victory at Rally Japan, while third place for Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena in the Citroen Total C4 was enough to secure Loeb the 2008 WRC drivers' title. Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila's BP Focus finished second, helping Ford to a maximum 18-point haul in the manufacturers' championship and ensuring the battle would go to the final round in Wales in December.

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It's Loeb's fifth consecutive Drivers' Championship title from just six full seasons of WRC competition. The score takes Loeb and co-driver Elena clear of the record they previously shared with Juha Kankkunen and, more importantly, Tommi Makinen, who was the only driver before them to rack up four consecutive championship wins (1996 to 1999).

Hirvonen led Rally Japan at the end of a shortened Day One of competition that was punctuated by one stopped and three cancelled stages. Only four of the planned eight countryside tests ran completely as scheduled; the others were cancelled or shortened as a result of snowy weather (SS3/SS7), a crash involving Stobart driver Francois Duval (SS6), and disruption following the incident (SS8).


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On the stages which did run, Hirvonen was in dominant form and didn't put a foot wrong all day. He took the rally lead on the first test and went on to win six of the seven stages he started. He went into Saturday's competition with a lead of 26.2sec over teammate Latvala in second.

Loeb was third overall and on course for the six points he needs to clinch the drivers' championship. The Frenchman took a couple of stages to settle into a more cautious driving rhythm than he was used to, but ended a trouble free day 4.4 seconds behind Latvala.

The Sapporo Dome Super Special Stage on Day Two caused no problems for the leading competitors, and the top four positions remained exactly as they had done after SS18. Leader Hirvonen started the day with a 26.2sec lead but lost a small part of that after swiping a fence with the rear of his Focus on the opening test. He avoided problems on the remaining three stages to end the morning loop with a 16.9sec lead over Latvala.

Despite deteriorating conditions, Hirvonen won two afternoon stages to extend his advantage, before Latvala narrowed it again to 15.5sec after the two Dome tests. For his part, Latvala focused his attentions on staying ahead of Loeb, who was well cushioned in third place, 38sec behind Latvala but 1m32.5s ahead of Chris Atkinson in fourth.

At the end of the rally's final day, Hirvonen crossed the finish line with a winning margin of 31.1sec, but even the best possible result wasn't enough to prevent Loeb from sealing the series. After a heart-stopping spin on the penultimate stage, Loeb and Elena climbed onto the roof of their C4 at the finish control, waving a French flag in celebration.

Despite Hirvonen losing out in the battle for the drivers' championship, a one-two result in Japan meant the BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team still had plenty to celebrate. Hirvonen and Lehtinen led from Friday's opening stage to take their third victory of the WRC season. Team-mates Latvala and Anttila completed the team's domination of the 14th and second to last round of the series.

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It was the squad's third formation finish of the season following one-two wins in Sweden and Turkey. The result also means the battle for the manufacturers' title, which Ford is hoping to clinch for a third consecutive year, will go to the final round in Great Britain next month. The team is 11 points behind Citroen with a maximum 18 at stake. Hirvonen won 11 stages to secure his third win of the campaign while 23-year-old Latvala claimed three victories en route to his first podium since June.

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I want a post count!

[Kal-El]

Originally Posted by gwasabi

I want a post count!

It's funny, but when this thread first started, I actually thought you could somehow get your pre-hack post count back.

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Originally Posted by Kal-El

It's funny, but when this thread first started, I actually thought you could somehow get your pre-hack post count back.

It is possible, but only if you capture the hacker/s, roll them in an egg and milk mix, flour them , batter them up and deep fry them for 20 mins until golden brown.