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Neil deGrasse Tyson came to Washington on Wednesday to deliver the science-specific version of President Barack Obama's second inaugural address.
Where Obama emphasized the utility and necessity of government doing what citizens cannot do individually across the breadth of society, Twitter's favorite astrophysicist focused on the case for government having a unique capacity to fund basic research.
The occasion for Tyson's speech was the launch of the new House Science and National Labs Caucus, founded by Reps. Randy Hultgren (R-IL; Fermilab is in his district), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM; Los Alamos is in his), and Alan Nunnelee (R-MS). This group isn't the only one aiming for better science funding—the Research And Development Caucus has similar goals and a six-year head start—so the new caucus opted to call attention to its launch with a name-brand guest at the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium.
(The caucus also invited a dozen or so science-leaning Twitter users, myself included, to good seats and a peek at some of the Library's artifacts, including one of Carl Sagan's slide rules.)
Tyson framed his talk around three things that motivate societies to tackle never-been-done-before efforts like the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, Columbus' voyages, and the Apollo program. One of these three factors—praising royalty or a deity—doesn't apply in the US. A second—countering an existential threat, which Tyson called "the 'I don't want to die' driver"—has faded since the end of the Cold War.
That leaves the promise of economic return: in Tyson's words, "I don't want to die poor!"
"If you have a healthy science program in this country, you guarantee your economic future," he declared in one of the moments that could have been snipped from a campaign speech.
But with basic research, that payoff can come at a slow and unknowable pace.
Tyson cited Michael Faraday discovering the basic principles behind generating electricity in the 1830s (with a quote that is apocryphal at best), then noted "We didn't electrify cities until the turn of the century." Quantum physics was born in the 1920s, and it took another 50 years for those principles to see widespread commercial applications in computing: "A third of the world economy is based on quantum physics, because information technology requires quantum physics!"
In one case Tyson spelled out, the reward won't fit in a spreadsheet cell: the shift in our cultural consciousness will be forged by images like Apollo 8's Earthrise and other images of the lonely Earth floating in space.
Tyson criticized two recent examples of the United States pulling back from big science projects that might have had their own long-term payoff. One was the 1993 cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider that, he said, could have discovered the Higgs Boson "on the first day." The other was the government balking at the Space Exploration Initiative NASA drew up for President George H.W. Bush, estimated to cost $500 billion over 20 to 30 years.
One area where Tyson did not nail his case was when he argued that non-government entities—a few of which aren't quarterly-earnings obsessed corporations—will never back comparable efforts. He may feel that "private enterprise will never lead a space frontier," as he said during Q&A afterwards, but SpaceX founder Elon Musk seems quite serious about going to Mars.
The director of the Hayden Planetarium did not remind Congressional representatives and staffers in the room of how science funding compares with the $3 trillion and up spent on the Iraq war. But as he'd said earlier: "If you feel threatened, money flows like rivers."
He did, however, break out a prop to emphasize the relatively small amounts of money involved: a dollar bill from his wallet.
"You can take a dollar and cut off this edge but don't get into the ink," he said. "Then cut off the other edge and don't get into the ink. Those two amounts of this dollar, that's the R&D budget of the United States.
"The rest is everyone complaining that our economy is losing ground in the world."


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Last week we mentioned Mars One, the combination space mission/reality TV show project that aims to send four lucky space travelers to the Red Planet... forever. Interest in the project had been quite high, with the company's latest press release noting that it had received "10,000 messages from prospective applicants from over 100 countries." But that was before it started taking actual, formal, paid applications from would-be astronauts.
Turns out that in the week since, at least 20,000 people have paid $38 to formally apply for Mars One. Various sources around the Internet, including China Daily, are reporting that the world is full of people who wouldn't mind living out the remainder of their days in a questionable camera-stuffed habitat on Mars. Around 600 of the applicants are Chinese citizens, and it's arguable that some might not understand what they're getting into. According to China Daily, some of the prospective astronauts are a little optimistic about what they might find waiting for them once they reach their destination:
Ma Qing, a 39-year-old bookseller, said, "I think the chance to be part of the project is a cool way for me to change a dull daily life. Besides, the air on Mars must be much cleaner and easier to breathe."
Spoiler alert: Mars has an average atmospheric pressure of about 0.6 percent of Earth's, measuring 0.087 psi compared to Earth's 14.7 psi. It isn't a vacuum, but it's not far off, either. Citizens of Mars will need to bring their atmosphere with them, at least until we figure out how to terraform the entire world (a feat which is utterly beyond our current level of technology, at least in part because it requires the ability to shift large amounts of cargo from Earth to Mars).
So what makes Mars One so confident of success at a task that NASA has struggled with since the 1970s? Cofounder Bas Lansdorp's plan is to pull in tremendous public interest by playing the entire mission as a "reality TV" experience, getting folks attached to Mars One contestants candidates just like they do to American Idol hopefuls. The process has already started: the Mars One applicant site already lets people rate applicants. From there, you can pick out your favorites and vote them up.
In fact, this is how the project expects to clear the majority of its financing: the Mars One project will be filmed, from beginning to end, with the spacecraft and habitats all wired up with cameras and microphones like a grand version of the Big Brother house. No word on whether or not contestants will be able to vote each other out of the airlock, but here's hoping, because that would be awesome. And also horrible. But awesome.
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NBC Confirms Jimmy Fallon Will Replace Jay Leno on The Tonight Show in Spring 2014
Jimmy Fallon will replace Jay Leno as the host of Tonight Show next spring, NBC confirmed Wednesday.
"Congratulations Jimmy," Leno said in a statement. "I hope you're as lucky as me and hold on to the job until you're the old guy. If you need me, I'll be at the garage."
Check out other stars who deserve a late-night talk show
Fallon added with his own humorous sentiment: "I'm really excited to host a show that starts today instead of tomorrow."
NBC also confirmed reports that The Tonight Show will move back to its original home in New York when Fallon takes over. The Tonight Show debuted in the Big Apple with Steve Allen in 1954 before Johnny Carson moved it to Burbank, Calif., in 1972.
Report: Seth Meyers Is Late Night Frontrunner
Lorne Michaels, who currently produces Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, will executive-produce Fallon's The Tonight Show. Plans for Fallon's Late Night successor are in development, NBC added. Fallon's former Saturday Night Live co-star Seth Meyers is reportedly the frontrunner for the gig.
"We are purposefully making this change when Jay is No. 1, just as Jay replaced Johnny Carson when he was No. 1," Steve Burke, chief executive officer of NBCUniversal, said in a statement. "Jimmy Fallon is a unique talent and this is his time. I'm thrilled he will become the sixth host of The Tonight Show at exactly the right moment, in conjunction with our coverage of next year's Winter Olympic Games from Sochi, Russia."
NBC's announcement comes a month after news first broke of NBC's late-night plans and only three years after Leno, who took over for Carson in 1992, returned to the show following his ill-fated prime-time show and Conan O'Brien's departure from The Tonight Show.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is fglrx?
How do I know fglrx is installed correctly?
There are several ways to check if fglrx is loaded and running.
1. Check your X.org or XFree86 log. You should see "DRI Initialization Successful."
# less /var/log/Xorg.0.log or # less /var/log/XFree86.0.log
2. Check glxinfo. You should see "direct" and not "indirect."
# glxinfo | grep direct
3. Check your kernel log. You should see fglrx messages near the bottom.
# dmesg
4. Check your modules. You should see fglrx loaded.
# lsmod | grep fglrx
- NOTE: glxgears is not a definite way of checking the installation of fglrx.
Is the rebooting really necessary?
However, rebooting is the easiest method to ensure that the kernel module(s) from the old driver are unloaded and the fglrx module is loaded instead. If you don't want to reboot for some reason, you may manually shut down Xorg, unload any old "drm", "radeon" or "fglrx" modules and then start Xorg again.
Why does fglrx not work for my kernel?
The development process of the fglrx driver and the Linux kernel are not on the same level. The fglrx driver requires some special interactions with the kernel memory API and these tend to change between kernel versions.
There is also an 11-12 week cycle required to develop, validate and test each release of an ATI driver [1]. ATI will only look to support the latest kernel that is officially out (no -rc or -git releases are supported) at the time they release a driver. Example: fglrx version A comes out Monday, but kernel version B comes out Tuesday. Kernel version B is not supported by fglrx version A. (but might be able to work anyway by doing a 'modprobe -f fglrx' in a shell)
The binary part of ATI's kernel module has no explicit dependency on the Linux kernel. There are a set of source files that provide the glue to the kernel. This is where the dependency to different kernels exist. As a result, user contributed patches for newer kernels can often be found by searching Bugzilla.
Note: That's why an opensource hardware driver is necessary. Hopefully, AMD will continue releasing more documentation and we will be able to code our own maintainable and free driver, thus freeing ourselves from this dependency on AMD's good will - and freeing AMD to focus on hardware.
X Configuration
How do I configure my system to use the fglrx driver?
- aticonfig
- Command line program to modify the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
- amdcccle
- GUI program that allows detailed configuration over the driver's controls.
- /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- X configuration file. Find the Device section for your ATI card and edit the Driver line to read
Driver "fglrx"
- Note: This is the least-preferred method. Many things can stop working.
- See Troubleshooting page.
How should I refer to this wiki?
If I want to give a proper citation to this wiki -- Is this the "Unofficial AMD Linux Driver Wiki", or the "Unofficial AMD Linux Community Wiki", or what?


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Welcome to November 26, 2020 and to Fandango's One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). It's designed to fill the void after WordPress bailed on its daily one-word prompt.
I will be posting each day's word just after midnight Pacific Time (US).
Today's word is "gravy."
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
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Facebook finally unveiled its long-speculated "Facebook phone" on Thursday in the form of the HTC First, but the phone was actually the least important part of the announcement. More importantly, Facebook revealed an entirely new piece of software called Facebook Home that will be available for an array of popular Android handsets next week: Samsung's Galaxy S III, S 4, and Note II, and HTC's One, One X, and One X+. Support for other Android handsets (and, eventually, tablets) will follow in the coming months.
One of the inquiries at the post-event Q&A session asked an obvious question: will Facebook Home support iOS?
"We do have an active dialogue to do more with them but anything that happens with Apple will happen through partnership with them," said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the press conference. "Google is aware of what we're doing, but Android is a more open system so we don't have to work directly with them to build this experience."
In short, Apple's phones won't be getting Facebook Home any time soon. If you're familiar with how each operating system works, this should come as no surprise. But if you aren't, a brief explanation may be in order.
"Open" versus "closed"
The word "open" is thrown around by so many people and in so many contexts that it can basically mean anything you want it to mean. In the case of Android and iOS, the distinction is simple: Android's source code is freely available to those who would like to download and tinker with it, and iOS' is not. Android also allows end users to customize things like their keyboard and app launchers, while Apple opts not to in the name of simplicity and consistency.
iOS does allow you to download and run any software you want from Apple's App Store, but even those apps come with restrictions (some obvious and some less so). Third-party apps aren't allowed to communicate directly with one another, for example (you can't use the Facebook app to post a photo stored in Dropbox), and apps can generally only interact with third-party services that Apple explicitly supports (you can post a photo from the Photos app to Twitter or Facebook, but not to Google+).
Android, on the other hand, lets third parties modify the user experience pretty much however they want—Google has loose requirements for phones that provide access to the Google Play store and the Google Android apps, but otherwise anything goes. Android browsers can use their own rendering engines. The Gallery app can upload photos through any app that tells the Gallery app that it is capable of uploading files (a system called "intents"). Phone makers, carriers, and users can all install basically any application launcher, keyboard, or app that they want.
This is the "open"-ness that Facebook is taking advantage of in order to make Facebook Home work. Home itself is essentially an application launcher that changes the way your phone looks and acts without actually modifying the core Android OS, which will also allow Facebook to keep Home updated without having to clear the updates with a carrier first. Because of how Home works, basically any Android phone can become a Facebook phone as long as it's supported, and the company doesn't have to worry about the fragmentation headaches, vastly different UIs between phones from different manufacturers, and other inconsistencies that plague the platform.
Because of all of this, Home in its current incarnation can't move away from Android to most other platforms, either. Both Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry 10 have the interfaces and app launchers that they have, and there aren't any mechanisms by which a third-party application could dig its hooks in as deeply as Home does on Android. Without coding a completely separate operating system, then, Android is the only platform that can support Home at all.
Never say never?
Android exclusivity doesn't necessarily doom Facebook Home to failure—Android's worldwide smartphone market share exceeds that of its competition, so the number of potential users out there is high regardless of whether Home comes to iOS or any other platform. It just means that Home as it was shown off today is not a thing that can exist on iOS in the same way that it can exist on Android.
None of that is to say that Home can't evolve or change for iOS, though. Zuckerberg did say that Facebook's relationship with Apple was good, and Apple doesn't have a dog in the social networking fight the way Google does with Google+. The third-party Facebook app for iOS could pick up some of Home's easier-to-port features, and Apple could deepen the native Facebook integration in future versions of iOS (the current level of integration was just introduced in iOS 6, so it could be the first step in a longer journey).
However, Home in its current form simply can't come to iOS (or Windows Phone, or BlackBerry 10) unless Apple drastically changes how it deals with third-party applications. But given that Apple has been bringing many of its existing rules over to its historically more-flexible desktop OS in recent releases (instead of the other way around), we wouldn't count on that happening any time soon.
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I've received this question from several people now. Below are two videos from Matt Cutts who works on Google's Webspam team explaining how tagging content mostly does not affect their search results. This also means that tagging largely will not affect how results appear on Middlebury's site, since we use Google to provide our search results.
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Saturday, October 28, 2006
USC Shocked at Oregon State!
BCS Turmoil!
USC finally got caught, and it wasn't even to one of the "power" teams on their schedule. It was to middling Oregon State, who played as inspired a game as I've seen in a while, particularly that defense on the game-saving 2-point non-conversion.
The biggest implication? The BCS is officially in "turmoil" status. Here's how:
One title-game spot will go to the Ohio St-Michigan winner.
The other? Let's see:
It SHOULD be the winner of Thursday's titanic battle between Louisville and West Virginia, presuming that the winner of that game wins out.
HOWEVER, given the way the BCS poll formula seems to discount the Big East, it's not a stretch to say that the Big East champ (WVA, L'ville, Rutgers, whoever) could end the season undefeated and STILL find themselves behind a higher-ranked one-loss team from the following batch, in this order (just my opinion, as always):
(1) 1-loss SEC champ (Auburn, currently No. 4 in the BCS, would seemingly have the best shot, but they aren't even controlling their own destiny in the SEC West to make the SEC title game. Florida, 6th in the BCS, has the next-best shot, but only if they beat Auburn in the SEC title game. Then I'd say Tennessee, if Florida falters. Then Arkansas, which ironically is in the driver's seat in the SEC West. But their blowout loss to suddenly VERY iffy USC would be held against them. Convoluted? Yes. That's why let's just say "1-loss SEC champ.")
(2) 1-loss Texas (only loss to Ohio St., but from the early BCS formula results, the Longhorns will need a lot of help, and their case doesn't get better by racking up more wins in the so-so Big 12.)
(3) 1-loss Michigan/Ohio St LOSER
(4) 1-loss Pac-10 champ (USC-Cal winner, although since USC lost to lowly Oregon St and Cal lost to SEC runner-up Tennessee, this is the longest shot).
Apologies to all of the other one-loss teams out there (not to mention other unbeatens like Rutgers or Boise St). You're just too far out to have a shot.
35 comments:
- john (east lansing, mi) said...
Told you, bitches.
- Ingrid and Jim said...
I have to believe that an undefeated Big East champ - and I think that one of the Big East teams WILL run the table - would get the second spot. And deservedly so. Imagine if West Virginia and Rutgers play in the final week of the season for a "play in" game to the BCS!!!!
Jim - Rutgers '02
- Ingrid and Jim said...
PS - Was the USC loss really a shock? It wasn't to me, and I'm a USC fan (Rutgers undergrad, USC grad school).
They are clearly middle of the road in the Pac 10 this year. I foresee them losing to Cal and Oregon, and maybe UCLA as well. And Notre Dame.
- Anonymous said...
If WVU can beat UL, Rutgers and Pitt, they deserve to go. Thing is, we don't know how good they are, since they've played Furman every week.
A Michigan/OSU rematch in the Fiesta Bowl just became a much bigger possibility.(look at the strength of schedule.)
- Mike said...
Wow, and I was blessed with a local network randomly picking up this game even though it was all the way across the country.
The only way this day could have been better was if Kyle Wright hadn't crapped the bed against GT when it mattered, and given VT second life in the ACC. Oh, well, maybe next year, right USC?
- Liam said...
I hate the BCS setup. I think majority of football fans with brains do. We all would rather see a playoff system.
It's going to get messy. The loser of the Ohio State/Michigan game will have one loss. Now they both have such a commanding lead in the BCS poll, that the loser of that game might not drop too low in the polls and thus still be #2 in the BCS. The polls might not punish the loser too hard for losing their only game in the last week of their season.
I hope that is not the scenario. As a Gator fan, I'm hoping for a way for us to sneak up to the top. But there needs to be a lot of help. USC losing is the start.
- Richard said...
Just so everyone knows why Miami is not in the title hunt (and there are many reasons):
They held GT quarterback Reggie Ball at one point to 3-16 passing, caused him to fumble on the first play (returned for a TD)and were down 14 with 3 minutes left.
By the way, nothing could make me happier than seeing the chaos that can result in te BCS. Anything to make everyone understand how much of a load of crap it is.
- nep1293 said...
The only teams I think deserve a shot are:
Michigan-Ohio St winner (possibly loser too)
West Virginia-Louisville-Rutgers survivor (assuming an undefeated record) btw, why does everybody just assume the WV-Louisville winner will automatically beat Rutgers? If Rutgers was named Florida St they'd be in the top 5.
SEC Champ (assuming they have 1 loss)
I think everybody else with 1 loss is out. (Notre Dame, Cal, USC, Texas) I'd say USC has the best shot since they have Notre Dame and Cal left to play. If they were to win those they would have a slate of good wins to throw them back into it.
My Prediciton:
Michigan beats Ohio St
West Virginia beats Louisville
Rutgers beats Louisville
West Virginia beats Rutgers
LSU beats Arkansas
Florida beats Auburn in the SEC title game
Michigan-West Virginia would be the fairest since they are both unbeaten. But I think West Virginia would get squeezed out by either Florida or Ohio St
The Michigan-Ohio St game has to be a blowout to open the door for someone else, if it's a close game there will be a rematch.
Am undefeated Big East team deserves to make the title game. Pitt is solid, Cincinnati has been pesky all year, USF is also tough.
This might be the best chance to get changes made in the system cause it sure looks to me like the computers will give us Michigan-Ohio St II. This year is screaming for an 8 team playoff
- mark said...
I agree with others that it's good to see the BCS in chaos.
Interesting, isn't it, that the bowls have survived as long as they have. While I comprehend the fact that the bowls are well-financed, and the teams themselves reap a ton of money from the bowls, wouldn't it seem like an actual playoff would make even more money for everyone? I mean, as it stands now, all but one of the bowls are meaningless. If the bowls had meaning, wouldn't more people watch them?
Also, my biggest problem with the Bowl Championship Series is that it's, um, not a series.
Proposed playoff format: Eight teams. The big six conference champs get nearly-automatic bids, and the best two remaining teams, per a BCS-type formula, take the other two slots. The conference bids would only be nearly-automatic, because the following rules apply: No two- or three-loss teams will qualify if there are undefeated teams left available, and no four-loss teams will qualify ever.
Four bowls, from a rotating pool of all of them, will host the quarterfinals, which will be seeded based on BCS-type ranking; 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, and so on. The Orange, Sugar, Rose and Fiesta bowls will rotate through hosting the final, semifinal #1, semifinal #2, and being placed in the quarterfinal pool.
The rest of college football can qualify for meaningless bowls as normal, if they want.
- adnteh said...
To all of you clamoring for a playoff, are you ready for a team's first loss to no longer matter? To other sports, "Every Game Matters" means the playoffs. In college football, it means "Every. Game. Matters." Think about any other sport, and you can conceive of scenarios where a team can accept defeat. This does not happen in college football, and it is a large reason why I like it a little better than the NFL. You won't ever get a throwaway game (or games) at the end of the season, a la the NFL, where a team is mathematically in and puts in everyone but the waterboy in a losing effort (in front of paying, ticket-holding fans, mind you).
On top of all that, remember that playoffs lead to some of the flukiest "champions," which is an outcome we all seem to want to reduce. How convenient that the World Series just ended for living proof. With all due respect, the Cards may own the trophy, but no one can call them the best team this season without making a hard statistical case that I haven't seen. But that's a tangent I don't want to get into. Suffice it to say, playoff victors are winners, and no doubt they are very good. Sometimes they're the undisputed best, other times they're underdogs that came upon a statistical peak out of nowhere at just the right time. But the system is very fluke-prone.
I say put in a plus-one game at the end. After the bowl season, just put in the best two teams left-probably the winners of the top two bowl games.
- nep1293 said...
Eric, the problem is that there's a good chance that a 1 loss team will get a chance to play for the title over an undefeated Big East team. The plus one system is great if there are more than 2 undefeated teams or a bunch of 1 loss teams.
There should be no need for a plus 1 this year if the Big Ten champ and Big East champ are both undefeated.
Technically the Big East champ could win their bowl game and the Big Ten champ could lose their game. So they should have to come back and play another game when it all could have been avoided in the first place?
Best case to avoid controversy is to have all 3 Big East teams finish with a loss, the SEC champ have 2 losses and for Ohio St-Michigan to end in a last second FG with a controversial call. Then everyone will want OSU-Michigan II and that's what they'll get.
But if West Virginia, Louisville or Rutgers go 12-0 they shouldn't have to worry about losing the spot they earned to a 1 loss team.
- Chris (CT) said...
R.I.P. Red Auerbach. As a C's fan, he's been such a larger than life figure in the organization. Not to mention his genius is what broght Russell and Larry Legend to Boston. And he was a huge influence for Jim Calhoun. He will be missed.
- The heroin sheik said...
As much as I love Florida and as much money as Iwould win if they hit the national title double with football and basketball I have a sinking suspicion that we are due for another loss. Having discussed the matter with many alumni over this past weekend we are mostly in agreement that it seems that we are getting worse as a team. We can't play a full game. It is either a slow start with a fast finish or a fast start and we barely hold on. Granted we only have to play vandy, USC, West carolina and Fsu but that USC game is going to be tough. We all know there is nothing spurrier wants more than to beat UF at home.
This being said if we do run the table which I think is a very good possibility if we can keep our focus on one week at a time then I see only one outcome. UF 28 Auburn 17 in a rematch on neutral ground. It is pretty hard to beat a team twice in one season. IF we put the lockdown on Auburn how could we not be number 2 in the BullCrapSeries. Id love to play UM if only to shut up the arguments between all the big ten afficianados on this site and dan and his legion from the gator nation.
Regardless This might be the year where the BCS finally shows how convoluted it really is.
- MP said...
Yeah, I'm in total agreement with those that say the BCS system is in turmoil and should be abolished.
How many more messes need to happen before they finally institute a much-needed playoff system?
Moreover, how long until the NCAA is overthrown for people who AREN'T corrupt with power?
- Richard said...
One of the guys I work with used to play college ball. He says the players love bowls (even the supposedly bullshit ones) as long as they get free gifts.
Keep the lower tier bowls. Add a 12 team playoff with the top 4 ranked teams getting byes.
- chipp said...
Top ranked teams don't want byes: that would allow a "Cindarella" to possibly play 4 games (and get 4 games' worth of bowl money) while the top 4 could only possibly get 3 games.
Red Auerbach: Even as a -30, non-Celtic fan he still is synonomous with basketball. It'll be interesting to see if Stern/NBA does anything to honor him. They should.
USC/OSU: I picked OSU to cover because I've seen their D first-hand. I wasn't expecting an upset, but I didn't see it as an impossibility. However, OSU Coach Mike Riley should still be fired. After getting a 23-point lead late in the 3rd, he did everything he could to lose that game, it just wasn't in the cards.
Would it be weird having OSU/UM play twice in a row?
- Joe (Livonia, MI) said...
I wish other Gator fans would stop freaking out about Steve Spurrier and acting like he has some magical power to make a bad team good and beat us at home. South Carolina this year is not as good as they were last year, and Florida is much better this year than they were last year. Add to that the fact that the game is at home and there is a revenge factor, and that if we win that game, we clinch the SEC East division, and I just don't see the South Carolina upset.
South Carolina is going to muddle through a few 8-4 seasons and then Spurrier will get tired of it and retire.
Heroin Sheik, as far as the assessment that we are getting worse every week, I disagree. We just aren't finishing games very well. But we played better yesterday than we played against many teams early in the season. Not saying we are going to run the table from here on out, but this team is at least as good now as they were 4 weeks ago.
- TJ said...
Oh man is Charlie Weiss going to be pissed this week.
I think you're living in a little bit of a fantasy world, Joe (from Linovia). I'm extremely scared of Spurrier, and I can't believe you're not after how well they played against Auburn and now Tennessee.
The UF defense just hasn't been giving up the big play, which is great for facing a Spurrier offense. The last few weeks (and yesterday especially), however, have seen quite a few potential game breakers bounce off the hands of opposing receivers who had a step or two on the Gator defenders.
I'm trying not to write too much about the Gators for fear I overstate things, but I'm getting a distinct feeling of deja vu during the second half of games. I keep thinking that after one of these 3rd quarter drives (run-run-pass-punt) they're going to pan the camera over to the sideline and show the Ol' Zooker standing there with his clipboard, looking flustered. I'm not sayin... I'm just sayin.
- kmv9 said...
All I have to say is, thank god USC lost. Now the USC vs Notre Dame/Cal games will be extremely interesting because the losers of those games falls out of the big bowls. Don't plan on seeing any 2 loss teams in the top 8 at the end.
- ToddTheJackass said...
Hmm Dan... if you're a little critical of us making bad/inappropriate comments because you're trying to show off the blog to FoxSports, etc., might not want to use the phrase "To Piss on the Grave of USC." Dunno, might not go over too well.
- MoL said...
i echo Eric's sentiments and I'm actually a fan of the BCS. As convoluted a system it is, I think it works. We get the "whole season as a playoff" scenario where you need to go undefeated to give yourself the best chance of being in the title game. Lose once, and you need help, and a lot of it. Put in a playoff system and you lose this "do or die" mentality every week. I enjoy the hype with GameDay and the post-game shows where they go-over who is left standing and who has the best shot. Each week the number of suitors decreases (this week: USC). The other thing the BCS does is get us talking. Its the whole "any publicity is good publicity" deal. People complaing about the BCS is what makes it so good. All of these pundits predicting all the different scenarios and who will play in the big game. It may not be perfect, but its still better then the pre-BCS days.
My pick: OSU v WVU.
- TJ said...
You shouldn't write off Rutgers like that. It's fine to say they have no shot at going undefeated. I could maybe believe that. But to say they're too far out to have a shot at the BCS title game if they do go undefeated? Well, that means you haven't looked at the polls very well.
Rutgers is 15th in the AP (and will be about the same in the new Harris Poll). Before the year is out they will have played the #3 team (Lousiville-WVU winner) and the #10-ish team (Louisville-WVU loser). If they win both of those games I have a hard time believing they wouldn't jump WAY up in the human polls. #3 or so being a complete possibility. And if the human polls disagree as to which one-loss teams to rank highest, #3 could be plenty high enough to make it.
And don't forget that the computers have Rutgers ranked higher than Louisville and WVU right now--two teams you think have a much better shot at making the title game. Basically, what I'm saying is that if you look at all three polls the BCS takes into account, it looks like an undefeated Rutgers has about as good a shot at making the title game as any other undfeated Big East Champ.
- TJ said...
One more thing then I'll leave everyone alone and go study.
Now is the time of year when it makes sense to draft your top 10 with a mind toward bowl season. I don't think it's a bad idea to rank the top 10 now in terms of who most deserves a championship bid. With that in mind, my top 10 looks like:
1. Michigan
2. OSU - of course, it really doesn't matter which you put ahead at this point.
3. West Virginia
4. Louisville
5. Florida
6. Auburn
7. Tennessee
8. Rutgers
9. Texas
10. California
- Joe (Livonia, MI) said...
Troy--with all due respect, I think all the Spurrier man love comes more from the fact that Gator fans remember when he was coaching at UF, and what he was capable of then. Only problem is, Syvelle Newton is no Danny Wuerffel, Shane Matthews, or Rex Grossman. He's not even Doug Johnson.
Can Spurrier knock off the big boys? Of course, in this world of college football parity. Last year, he was able to do so by taking advantage of the fact that a) UF was an awful road team; b) South Carolina had a talented defense; c) South Carolina was due for a win against Florida, having come agonizingly close in '03 in Columbia.
So is a South Carolina upset possible? Absolutely, as is a Vandy upset, a Mississippi State upset, etc. There are no guarantees. That said, Air Force played UT closer than SC did and Ole Miss came just as close as SC did to beating Auburn. So should I also fear the Falcons and Rebels if they come to Gainesville?
I probably don't fear Spurrier because I wasn't at UF when he was coaching, and thus I don't have the same cult of personality built up around him that many Gator fans seem to have. This became pretty evident when everyone bitched about the Meyer hiring. Meanwhile, Spurrier isn't doing anything at SC that Lou Holtz didn't do (and Holtz is every bit as much of a legendary coaching talent as Spurrier is).
I just feel like this year's Florida squad has SEC champs written all over them. They are a Chris Leak brain cramp and a blocked punt away from being front and center in the BCS title chase. Maybe that's a fantasy, but I expect a win on November 11th.
- The heroin sheik said...
Joe I think you are probably right in saying that we are the same as four weeks ago. We just keep letting teams hang in against us and I just hope it doesnt bite us in the ass again.
I am pretty confident that we will win the SEC but the cocks and vandy always play us pretty close. My money has been on the gators since the end of last year to win the SEC and I blindly put money on them to win it all as well. Im glad I dont bet the spread though because we never seem to cover.
- Richard said...
If you think the BCS works, you need to take a second look. The BCS is more than just deciding the national champion. It is used to give 15 million plus dollars to 4 at large schools.
Talk to Oregon about how fair it is. Their fans may form a picket line at your house.
Look, I could train a monkey to put USC and Texas in the title game last year. However, the real injustice EVERY YEAR is the at large slots going to teams that bring ratings instead of teams that are better on the field.
- Dan Shanoff said...
nep1293's comment has it as right-on as I have seen it.
I'm going to talk more about this tomorrow, but the more I think about it, the more I'm quite sure that the BCS title game will be an Ohio St-Michigan rematch, assuming that the game isn't a blowout (as nep1293 points out).
The BCS formula numbers seem to be likely to work out (even with an unbeaten WVA running the table) and, if it's a close game, it's be the "people's choice" game, not to mention the "media's choice."
I'm not saying the BCS formula would reflect that, but I think it's what'll end up happening.
(If WVA can beat Louisville and Rutgers to run the table, by the way, I'd have no problem siding with 'Eers fans that they deserve the spot in the national title game vs. the OSU-Mich winner. I hold out hope that beating those two teams would increase their standing in the BCS component polls -- including the computers -- enough to put them at No. 2, no matter how the Ohio St-Michigan loser finishes.)
Let the Ohio St-Michigan loser play a 1-loss SEC champ in the "woulda-coulda-shoulda been a contender bowl." (AKA the "Had-Your-Chance Bowl.")
- john (east lansing, mi) said...
Troy - I don't understand the moral system with which you're working; it's fine to write off Rutgers's chances of going undefeated, but it's somehow wrong to predict that the BCS wouldn't reward Rutgers for a perfect regular season? I thought it was worse to underrate a team than to underrate a ranking system which underrates that team.
Also, I disagree. I think Rutgers can certainly run the table; West Virginia might find Rutgers and their #11 rushing defense a little tougher to score on than Maryland, owners of the nation's 100th-best rush D. Meanwhile, I think Louisville will beat WVa by 20 on Thursday; they'll have a tougher time against Rutgers and that D, though.
Unfortunately, I think it's clear that the poll voters do not adhere to any rational system of making choices. West Virginia was near the top at the start of the year. Surprise - they're still there. Rutgers, which gets a boost from the computer polls, of all things, because they have proven more by playing better teams than Wva, was out of the polls at the start of the year. They're still nowhere near the top 10, although the world has more reason to respect them than WVa. The polls are just not respecting Rutgers, and they just won't. This seems like it should be illegal, but I'll bet you $50 that Kevin Pearson and/or Scott Wolf would vote West Virginia above Rutgers, if an undefeated Rutgers had just beaten a previously undefeated West Virginia. What the fuck is wrong with these guys? (Granted, they may not affect the BCS standings, but they clearly indicate a problem with human voters.)
Have you ever seen a very-low-ranked team beat a very-high-ranked team and get the bump they deserve in the rankings?
Arkansas over Auburn? Congratulations, you're in the Top 25! The team you manhandled is still in the Top 10, though. That's fair, right?
UM over Notre Dame?
(I'm not complaining about Michigan's low ranking early this season - Blue didn't deserve a high ranking after whatever last year was. I'm just pointing out that a team in the mid-teens does NOT get bumped into the Top 3 for beating a Top 3 team. It's a historical fact.)
If you are mindful of the behavior of human polls, I don't know how you can think it likely that Rutgers can earn a trip to the national championship. Even though they might deserve it.
- Anonymous said...
I love the BCS. Florida is ahead of Auburn. Florida lost to Auburn. Do all the math you want, but anything bad that you say about Auburn has to reflect upon Florida for losing to them.
and ND is 5 in the computer polls? time for a restart on those PC's.
- TJ said...
Dan - If there are enough one-loss teams--SEC champ, Texas, California, Notre Dame--I think the public perception toward the OSU-Michigan loser will be, "You had your chance; let someone else try." I know a rematch championship has happened before, but given how the past few years have made everyone sesitive to the "team that earns a shot but is denied" story. And it would be a lot harder to feel that, say, OSU didn't get a fair shot when they'd already played Michigan and lost.
- TJ said...
John--Normally I'd think you were right, but I would like to think the fact that Rutgers plays both Lousiville and West Virginia means that if they run the table, the voters would have to have left them underrated after 2 statement upsets. I don't expect any human poll to move Rutgers to 2 (except maybe the AP, to dig up some potential controversy) but I think there's a very real possibility that no team will be consensus #2, so a consensus #3 Rut, with a favorable computer ranking, could sneak in just as easily as WVU. Overall, though, I think it looks more and more like a 2001 situation where the #2 makes it in by percentage points over 2 or 3 other equally-deserving teams.
- Joe (Livonia, MI) said...
Maher--how exactly do you rank teams then, if we are just going by who beat who?
USC beat Arkansas
Arkansas beat Auburn
Auburn beat Florida
Florida beat Tennessee
Tennessee beat Cal
Cal beat Oregon St
Oregon St beat USC
I don't know if there is any objective head-to-head way to pick the best team out of that logic chain. At some point, you have to get subjective, or don't try and rank the teams at all.
- adnteh said...
Totally with you joe. People need to realize that the transitive property is for algebra, not college football. Of course, it does make sense...but only in theory. In theory, communism works. (thank you Homer Simpson)
Those "A beat B beat C" chains are a logical house of cards. e.g.: "A beat B beat C beat A"--ok, so now who's best? And you can virtually always create one of those latter scenarios if you try hard enough.
That is why you simply must look at a team's resume for the season. In order to save your sanity, it may be best to not even look at the names of teams when you do this because, yes, it is frustrating that Florida looks better than Auburn on paper even after they lost to them. But I do think most teams would still rather play Auburn than Florida, just by a hair.
The BCS, like a broken clock, can still be correct every once in a while.
- nyc-steelers fan said...
The one loss to michigan may or may not be a big problem in the human polls, but it will cause a bigger drop in the computer polls than anyone seems to realize, and I can guarantee an undefeated team will rank significantly higher. It will be WVU against OSU atop the BCS, if they are both undefeated. I think UF or (more likely) Auburn sneak in ahead of michigan, in the event of a WVU loss. But here's hoping OSU loses...
- Josh said...
Dan -
Thanks for even mentioning the 1 loss Pac-10 team but there's no shot in hell that USC or Cal makes that title game even by winning out. At this point we here in Berkeley are starting our tentative New Years Day plays for Pasadena.


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Since my post last week when we unplugged the fridge I've gotten a lot of questions (mainly on my facebook page) about meat. Are we vegetarian? Are we switching to raw foods? How do we plan to keep meat from going bad? What about lunch meat?
Well, it's pretty simple. No we're not vegetarian or switching to a raw food diet. And we don't store meat in the icebox (or the fridge). Rick is a hunter. The majority of our meat is some kind of game meat, mainly elk right now. And we process his annual fall harvest (meaning we butcher and package the meat) ourselves. That means all our meat is in vacuum-sealed packages, appropriately sized for our family.
When meat is on our menu, roughly three days a week in the summer time, I go out to the chest freezer in the garage, retrieve the prescribed package of protein and let it defrost on a plate on the counter, just in time to get cooked up for dinner. If it's a hot day in the summer and it defrosts quickly (we don't have AC, I know you're shocked), I put the plate in the fridge. This is what I've always done in the past. I plan to use the exact same method with the new icebox set up.
We generally don't buy much in the way of meat from the grocery store. It's difficult to find humanely raised meat sources that don't cost an arm and a leg. That chicken we ate last week – regardless of it's toughness, totally made Henry's night – he loves chicken and we rarely eat it. Lunch meat/deli meat is generally very processed and full of nitrates and preservatives. Not very good for you in other words, and we basically never buy it. The one meat we find ourselves bringing home periodically is bacon or bratwurst (the nitrite free kind on both counts). But these are specific menu items that get used within a day or two of coming home from the store, and are a treat for us. I don't foresee a problem making half a pound of bacon last a day or two in the icebox.
When I announced this project, my mom, who really does think I've lost it completely, asked about the Thanksgiving turkey. Well, luckily for the experiment, Thanksgiving isn't in May. But if it were and I were in charge of the turkey, I imagine I'd either buy it fresh a day or two ahead and keep it in the icebox (or a cooler with ice packs?) until T-day, use the cold water method to defrost it, or, as a last resort, ask the bachelor neighbor who runs a nearly empty fridge anyway to use his.
The other question a few people asked me (people who admitted they hadn't been following along from the beginning) was where would we get the ice, since the fridge was unplugged and we were using the freezer compartment as a cooler? The answer to that one is from the freezer in the garage. We have two freezers in the garage, an upright and a chest freezer. They are both full come September/October. By the spring, we can usually consolidate to one and unplug the other.
Sadly, even the old 1980's chest freezer is running more efficiently than our refrigerator was, and we would be running the freezer regardless of this experiment. Our freezer contains a whole elk and countless pounds of frozen peaches and plums (around 200 pounds of fruit alone went in last September). There are a handful of ducks from the winter, grouse from the fall, and a few fish from the summer time. It holds all our excess farm and garden veggies that weren't otherwise canned or dehydrated, though we've consumed nearly all of those by now. In years past, when hunting's been slim, we've bought whole pigs or a side of beef from local farmers. Basically, we couldn't eat sustainably on our budget without a freezer. And, there's room enough in the freezer for a couple of gallon-jugs of ice to use in our experiment.
So far, the switch hasn't actually been too drastic. I've found myself accidentally opening the refrigerator door to reach for the milk, only to find an empty cavern. And I've made a conscience effort to collect and return items from the icebox all at once for recipes (let's see, I need cheese, yogurt and the cucumber) in order to keep it as cool as possible in there. It's basically like using a cooler, or as CitySister said in the comments last week, it's like camping!


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Dr. Jeff Hersh: Blue fingers symptom of Raynaud phenomenon
Q: While waiting at the bus stop, my 13-year-old daughter's fingers got cold and turned blue, with a clear line between the blue and normal parts. I am going to take her to the pediatrician next week to have her checked, but I wanted to know what this could be.
A: The description you give sounds a lot like pediatric Raynaud phenomenon (RP), a transient constriction of the small arteries that can compromise the blood flow to the fingers (less commonly the toes or even the ears), typically triggered by cold exposure (although stress and rarely other factors can be a trigger). You should absolutely follow up with your pediatrician to verify this.
The classic symptoms of RP are an initial white discoloration (while the small arteries initially squeeze down), followed by blueness (due to inadequate oxygen delivery) which may be accompanied by tingling or even pain, and then return to normal red/pink when the attack subsides, although most patients do not describe this "classic pattern," and just noting the blueness with a sharp demarcation is a common presentation. The attacks typically last for minutes to hours, resolving with rewarming (or reduction in stress or whatever other trigger initiated the attack).
The blood supply to the fingers not only brings nutrition (oxygen and glucose) to the cells, but under control of the sympathetic nervous system it also helps regulate temperature, widening to increase blood flow to carry off heat and narrowing in response to cold. RP is thought to be an over-reaction of this thermoregulation system, although other possible causes have also been proposed.
Whatever the specific underlying pathologic cause of RP, most authorities agree there are two major types; primary RP is when the condition occurs as an isolated issue, and secondary RP is when there it occurs in association with an underlying condition such as:
- rheumatic diseases, for example rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Sjogren's Syndrome, scleroderma or others;
- diseases of the arteries;
- trauma or overuse (including repetitive work/exercise);
- carpal tunnel syndrome;
- a reaction to certain medications or chemical exposures
- other causes
Pediatric RP is pretty common, affecting two to three percent of children (even higher in some studies) and occurring three to four times more commonly in girls; this is a similar prevalence to that noted in adults. Also similar to what is reported in adults is that about three quarters of cases of RP in children are primary cases, with the remaining quarter of cases being associated with some other condition. The average age of onset of pediatric RP is 13 years old.
Primary RP typically has a favorable prognosis, often only requiring correction of the initiating trigger (such as rewarming the hands) as treatment; of course avoiding attacks is preferred, so keeping the hands warm (for example wearing gloves) is recommended.
The prognosis and treatment of secondary RP are determined by the underlying associated condition. In some of these patients the RP can be fairly severe, significantly compromising the blood flow, with possible complications such as poor wound healing, development of ulcers, changes in sensation, and others.
When the symptoms of RP are severe, certain medications (to prevent the artery constriction) may be required. Some refractory cases may be treated with surgery to prevent the sympathetic nerve stimulation.
This discussion shows that the differentiation of primary vs. secondary RP is important. Therefore evaluation of a patient with suspected RP requires a complete history and physical to determine if there are any symptoms or risk factors for a secondary cause. Blood tests (such as a complete blood count, blood chemistries, and even an anti-nuclear antibody or ANA test) will likely be ordered. The ANA test is usually positive in patients with a secondary cause, although a significant amount of primary RP patients also have a positive ANA.
Children with RP should be referred to a pediatric rheumatologist to be evaluated and followed. They should avoid the trigger for their RP, and should be followed for development of complications, as well as signs or symptoms that may suggest a secondary cause of their RP.
Jeff Hersh, Ph.D., M.D., can be reached at email@example.com


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VaxXed Tour: Marcella On Glyphosate in Vaccines
The Vaxxed bus makes a special stop in Fort Wayne, Indiana to talk to Independent Researcher Marcella Piper-Terry about the discovery of finding glyphosate in vaccines. Interview by Polly Tommey and camera by Joshua Coleman and Anu Vaidya with editing by Joshua Coleman.
VaxXed Stories: Marcella Piper-Terry in Indiana
Independent researcher Marcella Piper-Terry visits the VaxXed Bus while on tour in Fort Wayne, Indiana to share her and her daughter's vaccine injury story. Interview by Polly Tommey with camera Joshua Coleman and Anu Vaidya with editing by Joshua Coleman.
VaxXed Tour: Marcella on GARDASIL
The Vaxxed bus makes a special stop in Fort Wayne, Indiana to talk to Independent Researcher Marcella Piper-Terry about Merck's Gardasil vaccine. Interview by Polly Tommey and camera by Joshua Coleman and Anu Vaidya with editing by Joshua Coleman.
VaxXed Stories: Alexandra Woods in Redding, CA
VaxXed Stories: NICU Nurse in Redding, CA
VaxXed Stories: Misty in Hernando, MS
Misty's son was born in 2004, perfectly healthy and hit all of his milestones. He got vaccinated according to the CDC schedule. At 12 months, he got his MMR shot. He began screaming all day long, he would spin in circles, and he started repetitive behaviors. He couldn't wear shirts with tags and his skin became very sensitive. He began having chronic diarrhea, stomach aches, and very bad gluten allergies. They went to a neurologist and had MRIs because he began to have muscle tics and couldn't go to sleep. He was diagnosed with autism at the age of 4.
VaxXed Stories: Nicole in Hernando, MS
Nicole's son Brandon was fully vaccinated according to the CDC schedule. Early on, he started having eczema, chronic diarrhea and constipation. Her nurse said it was normal and gave them steroid cream for the eczema. When he turned 1 years old, he had every shot except the MMR. At 15 months, he had the MMR. After that he stopped talking. He had been talking perfectly. He lost social skills and stopped playing with his toys and couldn't handle loud noises. They began to suspect he might have developed autism and got an evaluation at 18 months. 2 months later they began special instruction therapy. Her doctor discouraged her from trying any sort of biomedical treatments.
VaxXed Stories: Michelle's Daughter, Sarah, in Redding, CA
VaxXed Stories: Dawn Winkler Tells Hailey's Story in Redding, CA
VaxXed Stories: Kay Wilson in Redding, California
Steve Quayle and Pastor David Lankford – The Rapture
ONE FOR ISRAEL Ministry – Jewish Johnathan Ben-David forgave his killer and you would not believe why!!!
World Video Bible School (WVBS) – What Must I Do To Be Saved?
World Video Bible School (WVBS) – The Truth About… Staying Saved
Testimony by Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty
1 Corinthians 15 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Five acts of worship
Ephesians 5:19
19 speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
1 Thessalonians 5:17
17 Pray without ceasing.
Acts 20:7 Authorized
7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
The Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
1 Corinthians 16 Authorized
1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Sins – New Testament
Galatians 5:19-20
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Romans 1:29-31
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Hebrews 6 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2 of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
8 but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Isaiah 53 – Old testament Prophecy about Jesus
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,and as a root out of a dry ground:he hath no form nor comeliness;and when we shall see him,there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men;a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:and we hid as it were our faces from him;he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs,and carried our sorrows:yet we did esteem him stricken,smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,he was bruised for our iniquities:the chastisement of our peace was upon him;and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;we have turned every one to his own way;and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,yet he opened not his mouth:he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment:and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living:for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked,and with the rich in his death;because he had done no violence,neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him;he hath put him to grief:when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin,he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great,and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;because he hath poured out his soul unto death:and he was numbered with the transgressors;and he bare the sin of many,and made intercession for the transgressors.
The Only Sin That Leads To Hell – Kenneth E Hagin
1 John 1:7 Authorized
7 but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.


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William Rudolph Kunkel, known to his family as Robert Kunkel, was the son of William Thomas (Bill) Kunkel and his wife, Rosetta (Hilda) Kunkel nee Brechbuhl, and great-grandson of George Mathias and Mary Kunkel, the founding couple of the Australian Kunkel family. Bill and Hilda's other child was Marguerite Elizabeth (Jill) Kunkel. The family moved around as Bill's job with the Queensland Government Railway (QGR) took him around the state, ultimately settling at Howard, near Maryborough. Anyone wishing to know more about this family should contact me via comment on this post.
William Rudolph Kunkel was born in Brisbane on 14 November 1930 and as a young lad of 16 went to work with Queensland Rail in early 1947 as a nipper in the Maryborough District. Although his railway appointment was confirmed in 1948 he left the railway soon after, and on 18 December 1950 signed up with the Australian Regular Army for a six year period. His service record tells us that he only had "reasonable primary" education. He was a labourer, 5 ft 9.5 ins (176.5cms) with brown hair and brown eyes. On 7 April 1951 he married his wife Innis. The couple had no children. Robert went to Korea with the 1st Battalion, departing on the Devonshire on 3 March 1952, with a few days in Kure, Japan en route (as well as visiting on a later leave).
There is a photo on a website called Memories of Korea by George Hutchinson, the caption for which says "the other lad is Pat Kunkel (Qld)". I had previously thought this might be Robert, misnamed, but now believe it to be his cousin, Gregory Patrick Kunkel, now listed on the Korean nominal roll. I have tried to contact the author of the website in the past without success in the hope of getting any extra insights or further information about it and to confirm it was Gregory Patrick (usually known as Greg to his family).
The Australian War Memorial website lists William Rudolph Kunkel on the Australian Roll of Honour as wounded and missing in action, presumed dead, on 16 November 1952. The roll includes his official service photograph. Robert's service record indicates that his status was missing in action until 12 February 1953 when his status was updated to "now reported missing in action, wounded and believed prisoner of war". His wife became his next of kin after their marriage, and her younger sister remembered the day the message came to say he was missing.
Cousin Greg Kunkel also tried to find out more about what happened to Robert while he too was serving in Korea. On Robert's file is a statement from Greg that an RC Chaplain, Captain Shine,[i] had heard a Chinese radio announcement mentioning Robert's name but investigation by the Army indicated this had been incorrect. Nonetheless his parents continued to be convinced that a propaganda broadcast had been heard on 18 November 1952 which mentioned their son's name and his Rockhampton address. It appears that Bill and Hilda had managed to talk to some of Robert's colleagues on their return from Korea. Their advice was that he had been badly wounded above both knees by a burst of machine gun fire and was last seen "surrounded by Mongolians and being well and truly tortured". It seems hard to reconcile this with the findings of the Court of Inquiry which investigated the incident and strange that servicemen would relay this level of detail to their colleague's parents. It's apparent that Hilda was desperately trying to get the Army to focus on her missing son and help her to find out more about his fate.
The official War Diaries for 1 Battalion RAR are now digitised and available online and are invaluable in learning more about a battle or event. Having encountered enemy patrols on the night of 15 November 1952, two fighting patrols were sent out on the night of 16 November. The diary states that in addition there was a nightly standing patrol at the position code-named Calgary which "had a sharp clash with a strong enemy patrol" that night. Casualties from the action amounted to: Own tps (troops) 3 KIA, 1 MIA (wounded and believed PW) and 4 WIA. Enemy: 5 KIA counted.
A fighting patrol from B Company was sent out at 0130 on 17 November to Calgary and was subjected to "intense enemy arty (artillery) and mor (mortar) fire" and it was assumed that "the enemy action was designed to prevent reinforcements moving to Calgary while the enemy was making a strong bid to take that post and capture a PW (my note-Pte Kunkel)". At first light, and under heavy mist, the bodies of the three Australian men killed in the "sharp clash" were recovered but "no sign was found of Pte Kunkel, the missing member".[ii] Another patrol was similarly unsuccessful.
Amidst the serious military reports over the next few days, a glimpse of the person behind the reports is seen. Deep penetration bombing of a light machine gun placement missed its target but landed in a Chinese cooking fire from which the Australian troops took pleasure, thinking of the "fried rice added to the enemy's morning menu": a flash of Aussie humour.
MIA and POW must be among the hardest of war casualties for families to come to terms with – there would always be the glimmer of hope that the loved one might return, or more learned about his fate. Robert's Army file includes many letters from his mother to the authorities and his parents plainly left no stone unturned trying to find out more about their son, including travelling to Melbourne to meet Army officials, and appealing to the Red Cross, United Nations Forces, and their parliamentary representatives. Similarly Robert's wife wrote many letters trying to find out more of her husband's fate. During Robert's parents' visit to Melbourne in September 1953 they were in a "very distressed state of mind believing their son to be alive and a prisoner of war".[iii] They were possibly also partly frustrated that all official correspondence was sent to Robert's wife as next of kin. The political situation at the time was difficult and letters to POWs were not being accepted by the North Korean authorities but despite reassurance from various officials the family continued to feel that their case was not being given due consideration.
My father remembered his cousin Robert going to Korea, said to be a gunner and radio operator, and that he never came back. Dad said his Uncle Bill never recovered from the loss of his son and from not knowing what happened to him. Dad also mentioned that over the years Army officers kept coming back to interview Bill & Hilda. Now my father was usually a cynic so perhaps he overstated the case, but if this is correct, you would have to ask why they harboured questions. Did they think he had defected voluntarily? Perhaps an inadvertent comment by Robert's mother Hilda in a 1954 letter seeking help had triggered this question. She had said that "no personal belongings returned (WHY), his best friends were Chinese right from 16 months of age" and there is a question mark against this comment by the official reading it, perhaps because it seems such a non sequitur.
The Army lists his effects including a framed photograph, crucifix, wallet, smoker's pipe, ring and a receipt for registered letter. Also among his effects was a tin containing film negatives and 87 photographs as well as 120 films and a Welmy camera – he was obviously something of a photographer and perhaps he'd bought the camera and the film while on a recent leave in Japan or in transit to Korea. In mid-1953 his belongings were still being held in Japan pending news of his fate and in 1954 had not been received by his wife. It's unknown whether his family ever received his effects but his photographs would have been fascinating.
The Army file for William Rudolph (Robert) Kunkel is comprehensive, detailing the Court of Inquiry which commenced "in the field, Korea" on 12 January 1953 to "investigate the circumstances appertaining to the disappearance of 1/1641 Pte Kunkel W R on the night of 16 November 1952". There were 10 points to investigate in relation to the event including why the wounded soldier was not brought back to the base, what efforts had been made to retrieve him subsequently, and whether there was any negligence involved. The results of this inquiry resulted in the revised description of his status as wounded, believed taken prisoner.
It's likely that the terms of reference explain why some parties were interviewed and others weren't. Certainly some were away from the area but I found it strange that some people weren't interviewed by the court, although of course there was a war going on at the same time. The patrol leader, Corporal W Crotty was interviewed and one other member of the patrol, two others were away, one on a course (B R Mau[iv]) and one in hospital (S Brent), and three of the patrol were killed in this action (Reisener, Head, Castle). A Private M Pollard had been replaced on the patrol by Robert Kunkel because the latter wanted to stick with Crotty as they usually did patrols together and the changeover was approved by the Sgt Kavanagh – a fatal and fateful decision by Robert. Pte Kunkel was wounded in a grenade attack around 22:30 and was heard to call out "I'm hit, Mau, I'm hit…." and later moaning and "leave me alone you bastards, let me die". Both Pte B R Mau and Cpl Crotty were close friends[v] of Kunkel's and Crotty recognised his voice when he called out. A report by Sgt E J McNulty of 5 Platoon also heard a similar statement. Fearful this was a Chinese trick, they were not drawn out of cover, but a Pte Westcott, also in that patrol, recognised Kunkel's voice as he knew him well. When searching Calgary they found the deceased members of the patrol but could not find Robert Kunkel although there were signs of track marks from bodies being dragged away. While the military-speak is considered and technical, there is certainly enough detail to distress any close family member or friend. We can only hope that Robert died quickly of his wounds before the enemy interrogation as assumed by the Court of Inquiry. After the cessation of the war, interviews with returned Australian POWs shed no light on the fate of Pte W R Kunkel.
In February 1955, over two years after he was wounded, the Army wrote to Robert's wife to say officially he was missing, presumed deceased, on or after 16 November 1952. His name is inscribed on the Korean War Honour Board at the Australian War Memorial. In a quirk of fate, a William Marion Kunkel of the USA Army was also MIA, presumed dead in Korea. Meanwhile determined veterans and their relations are working tirelessly to try to identify any remains recovered from Korea and to raise the profile of MIA cases with the Australian government.
Robert's memory, and that of 43 others Missing in Action in Korea, deserves to live on and it is for this reason that I've written this commorative post. Lest we forget.
[i] Also see http://www.trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/50581814?searchTerm=chaplain shine korea&searchLimits=
[ii] War Diary, 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, 16 and 17 November 1952 on http://www.awm.gov.au
[iii] Service Record Pte W R Kunkel.
[iv] Brian Ransfield Mau was from Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.
[v] Per Corporal Crotty during the Court of Inquiry.