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To cut a long story short, I was tired of Windows and wanted change. After grabbing myself a copy of RH9, I set up a dual-partition, with XP the default OS.
The installation went fine, but apparently, X configuration didn't. Before I continue, here are the vital specs:
*Windows XP (Primary), RH9 dual-boot environment, with GRUB as boot loader.
*GeForce FX 5200, 128 MB of video RAM.
*SyncMaster 955DF Monitor
*PS/2 optical mouse
When I select to load RH9 at GRUB, it starts to load, then the screen goes black and my monitor goes off. VERY frustrating, as I have to send a CRTL+ALT+DELE command to reboot.
At the X config screen during the installation process, I chose the GeForce FX driver, 24 bit color, and 1024X768.
What's going on here? How can I fix X? This is really frustrating, and I pray you guys can help me.


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Simultaneous English translation by Tina Lenert. Running time: Approximately 60 minutes.
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From Media Day until opening night, NBA.com's John Schuhmann will provide a key stat for each team in the league and show you, with film and analysis, why it matters. Up next is the New Orleans Pelicans, who hope not to defend like the Hornets did last season.
|The basics
The stat
111.2 – Points allowed per 100 possessions by the Hornets after the All-Star break. They had the worst post-break defense in the league.
The context
Head coach Monty Williams often says that his team has a defensive identity, but the Hornets were the third worst defensive team in the league last season. They were a top-10 defensive rebounding team, but ranked 25th in forcing turnovers and 27th in both 2-point (50.5 percent) and 3-point (37.4 percent) defense.
As the Spurs figured out last season, rebounds are nice, but contesting shots, is, by far, the most important thing you can do defensively.
|Lowest % of opponent shots
from mid-range
The Hornets' poor shooting defense was, in part, a result of the shots they forced. Only 23.5 percent of their opponents' shots came from mid-range, the lowest rate in the league. If you want to be a great defense, you need to run your opponents off the 3-point line and keep them out of the paint, and the Hornets didn't do that enough.
They were particularly awful, allowing a whopping 115.0 points per 100 possessions, in 697 minutes with Anthony Davis and Ryan Anderson on the floor together. They basically did everything worse in those minutes. They didn't defend the 3-point line or paint as well, they didn't force as many turnovers, they rebounded worse, and they fouled more.
The Orlando Magic ranked 27th offensively last season and went 8-49 after Dec. 20. But on March 4, they scored a ridiculous 72 points in just 25 minutes with Anderson and Davis on the floor, shooting 29-for-47 (62 percent) from the field. Here are some of the defensive lowlights…
Anderson's primary issue is foot speed. He has a difficult time staying in front of quick guards on pick-and-rolls. Davis, meanwhile, was probably too quick for his own good in his rookie year. He has the potential to be a fantastic defender if he can stay in control more. The Hornets might be better off asking him to contain (stay back on), rather than hedge (jump out on), pick-and-rolls.
That night against the Magic, Robin Lopez was in foul trouble. Now, he's in Portland. Williams could start Greg Stiemsma or Jason Smith at center, but Anderson and Davis will spend a lot of time on the floor together and they'll have to defend a lot better than they did last season.
New Orleans added talent this summer, but Tyreke Evans and Jrue Holiday can't improve this team as much as better defense can.
Pace = Possessions per 48 minutes
OffRtg = Points scored per 100 possessions
DefRtg = Points allowed per 100 possessions
NetRtg = Point differential per 100 possessions


text: Gus Correa wrote: > Hello Beowulfers > > (This thread should be renamed "Matlab and Octave".) > > Matlab is the "lingua franca" for computing among students and young > scientists, > at least in Earth Sciences (solid earth, atmosphere/oceans/climate, > geochemistry, etc), as I observe it here. > A number of our students come from Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc, > hence the trend is probably more widespread. > Some can get by graduate school even with Excel only. Hrmph. I know of one "numerical analysis" class taught in Excel. I've more confidence in Matlab for that, but that's an aside. Do me a favor and say "Hey!" to Rob Arko, please. > As others observed on this thread, Matlab is a great prototyping tool, > which makes it very attractive. > Integrated environment, with GUI, editor, online help, > programming examples and tips, and instant visualization of results, > is yet another high point of Matlab. > For most people this type of environment is not only convenient, > but also addictive. > I like Octave, the command line is virtually identical to Matlab, > but couldn't get all these GUI-sh bells and whistles to work in Octave. > Because of this dependence, our Observatory has a Matlab site license. I've long suspected that the GUI is the opiate of choice in these cases. Especially when one thinks in terms of the reluctant... or untrained... programmer. > Moreover, several top numerical models in oceans and climate depend > heavily on Matlab scripts for post-processing and data analysis. There's also lots of work going on in ATMO, including radar analysis. However, it's my opinion, having been involved with the products of a radar class that was taught here (the prof left for other pursuits) that he did the kids a disservice by making things easier with Matlab: They knew which scripts and building blocks to use, but had little concept of the signal analysis they'd invoked, nor of the underlying science/engineering of their code or of a doppler radar system. > This may be the case in other areas too. > For instance, not long ago I saw several job ads for Matlab programmers in > the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. > As Matlab scripts and tasks get bigger and bigger, the positive feedback > created the need and market for parallel versions of Matlab. > > In many cases Matlab is the only programming environment that > science and engineering students came across with. > It is introduced on Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis, Signal Processing, > and other classes, and it sticks, it settles down. > As James, Gerry and others observed, > a lot of people only need to do prototyping anyway: proof of concept, > one-time calculations of modest size, > and for this Matlab works very well. > > Matlab's cavalier approach to memory management - > or perhaps the inadvertent cavalier approach to Matlab by naive users - > may be the main cause for the scaling problems. > Most failures I've seen in Matlab scripts come from exhaustion of > computer resources, particularly memory. > Even when you free memory judiciously, problems may arise. > This happens here very often with people trying to do, say, > singular value decomposition or principal component analysis > on huge and dense matrices / datasets, etc. > > In the old days of punched cards, Fortran was part of the > engineering and scientific training. > Fortran was king in Intro to Computers classes or similar. > That is no longer true. > Fortran lost its charm and status among computer scientists > (even John Backus abandoned it). > In addition, today most college scientific curricula take for granted > the computer literacy of its freshmen students. > A mistake, I think. > (A few students are great hackers, but most only know Skype, > Facebook, MS Word.) I'll second this, as well. Fortran, as an intro language, has fallen from favor, often because programs DO believe that kids, today, are competent with computers. Since I've yet to see a kid program a velocity decoding application in iTunes, or compute a Fibonacci series, I suspect their beliefs misplaced. My students, unless they can prove via both transcript and actual code writing a previous exposure and degree of competency, have to take two semesters of programming. Depending on what they're working on, I recommend C, Fortran (we still have a Computer Science intro course therein) or (shudder) Java. Despite having Stroustrup on faculty (and actively teaching) I rarely recommend C++ to 'em as I just want them competent, not esoteric. I might add that any working with me in my lab, either on their degrees or as research assistants, get a healthy dose of Linux and BSD, and appropriate open source tools. > I think Intro to Computers courses would continue to be useful for > engineers and science majors. > (Not for prospective computer scientists, of course, who need much more > than that.) > These courses should include basic Unix/Linux literacy, shell scripting > (or Perl, or Python), the old-fashioned but effective principles of > "structured programming" > (call it "modular programming" to make it palatable), > and the rudiments of a language of choice. > This language may be Fortran, which continues to be the dominant one > in science and engineering code, or perhaps C. Strongly agree. > However, when these Intro to Computers courses exist, > they try to teach Java, C++, etc, often using Microsoft Studio, > or another programming environment that traps the user, > and doesn't give him/her the required computer craftsmanship (and autonomy) > for their professional life. All too true. When I interview research assistant (grad student labor) candidates, I get tons who claim proficiency in MS Office, as if that's a programming toolset, as well as Studio. As I've not installed Mono, I don't even talk to those who claim all they know is .Net. > For most prospective engineers and general scientists a computer > is more of a tool than a theoretical model. > OO-languages, Turing machines, cellular automata, > make nice class discussion topics, > but can't replace the development of basic computer literacy and skills. > > My $0.02. Gus, good points, all. Development and evolution of good skills is a key element, in my mind, in developing our students and young scientists, and in preparing them for their futures. gerry > Gerry Creager wrote: >> OUR users are willing to pony up the funds to buy Matlab. We're >> already running Octave but they claimed they didn't know how to use >> it. Even after we showed them Matlab scripts that "just ran" on Octave. >> >> As for Fortran vs C, "real scientists program in Fortran. Real Old >> Scientists program in Fortran-66. Carbon-dated scientists can still >> recall IBM FORTRAN-G and -H." >> >> Actually, a number of our mathematicians use C for their codes, but >> don't seem to be doing much more than theoretical codes. The guys >> who're wwriting/rewriting practical codes (weather models, >> computational chemistry, reservoir simulations in solid earth) seem to >> stick to Fortran here. >> >> gerry >> >> Jeff Layton wrote: >>> I hate to tangent (hijack?) this subject, but I'm curious about your >>> class poll. Did the people who were interested in Matlab consider >>> Octave? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Jeff >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> *From:* Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com> >>> *To:* Jeff Layton <laytonjb at att.net> >>> *Cc:* Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>; Beowulf Mailing List >>> <beowulf at beowulf.org> >>> *Sent:* Saturday, December 27, 2008 11:11:20 AM >>> *Subject:* Re: [Beowulf] Hadoop >>> >>> N.B. the recent MPI class we gave suggested that we need to re-tool it >>> to focus more upon Fortran than C. There was no interest in Java from >>> the class I polled. Some researchers want to use Matlab for their work, >>> but most university computing facilities are loathe to spend the money >>> to get site licenses for Matlab. Unfortunate, as Matlab is a very cool >>> tool (been playing with it first in 1988 ...) its just not fast. The >>> folks at Interactive Supercomputing might be able to help with this with >>> their compiler. >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843


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John Rhoads argues in a recent article (off-site link) that it was Josephus, not Luke, who misdated Quirinius's census. The gist of his piece is that the Judas whom Josephus associates with a tax revolt in AD 6 (Ant. 18.4–23) is the same Judas whom Josephus says was killed a decade or so earlier by Herod the Great (Ant. 17.148–67). Rhoads offers two main arguments in support of this thesis.
First, he argues that the slightly different names given both Judases (Judas, the son of Saripheus, and Judas the Galilean) are actually two ways of referring to the same individual. Second, he argues that Judas's tax revolt occurred during Herod's reign, not following it. Rhoads's arguments are a bit complicated, so I've tried to sort them out below. If he's right, then many recent attempts to exonerate Luke are largely unnecessary, since Luke doesn't need to be harmonized with Josephus. Whether or not he is right, however, is a question I'll have to leave for another day (or, more likely, someone else).
Argument #1: Judas the son of Saripheus = Judas the Galilean.
In Ant. 17.147–67, Josephus describes the activity of Judas, the son of Saripheus, while in the parallel accounts in Wars (1.648), he's called the son of Sepphoraeos. Alternate readings of the Antiquities account, however, lead Rhoads to conclude that the Wars account is the more accurate of the two. This suggests that Judas, the son of Saripheus/Sepphoraeos was likely the son of a well-known inhabitant of Sepphoris, the capital of Galilee (cf. Ναζωραῖος in Luke 18:37)—perhaps the Galilean bandit Hezekiah, who is identified as Judas the Galilean's father in another place (Ant. 17.269–85; cf. cf. Schürer 1:381). In short, Judas, the son of a well-known Sepphorian in Ant. 17.148–67 is, plausibly, Judas the Galilean in Ant. 18.4–23 (cf. Wars 2.118). What further adds to the plausibility of this identification is the fact that in both accounts Judas is described as a teacher, surrounded by disciples, and aided by another rabbi.
Argument #2: The tax revolt occurred during Herod's reign.
Coponius. Rhoads argues that Josephus incorrectly assumed that Coponius's presence, alongside Quirinius, meant that Quirinius's census took place in AD 6, since that was when Coponius became prefect of Judea (see Ant. 18.1–23; Wars 2.117–18). The problem with this, however, was that Coponius could not have been prefect at this time since Josephus's narrative presents him as subservient to Quirinius. Quirinius, e.g., is said to have been of consular rank, whereas Coponius, along with others who were sent with Quirinius, was of the lower, equestrian rank. Had Coponius been prefect, he would have answered only to the governor of Syria, which Quirinius was not. Quirinius, rather, is described as an assistant to the governor (a legate juridicus; governor = legati pro praetore). What's more, Josephus says that in his administrative capacity Coponius had "dominion over the Jews," which would overstate his jurisdiction in AD 6, since it did not include Antipas and Philip's territories. If Coponius was indeed active in Judea prior to his prefecture, then this probably explains the otherwise anomalous reference to his presence at the trial of Herod's son Antipater in 5 BC (Ant. 17.134 v.l.).
Sabinus. Rhoads argues that Sabinus, who was present in Jerusalem at the time of Herod's death, is another name for Quirinius (see Ant. 17.221, 18.1–2; Wars 2.16). Both were assistants to the governor of Syria, both were of consular rank, both were concerned with Judea's tax revenue, and both were in charge of settling Herod's estate. Rhoads suggests that both names may have been cognomens (i.e., an extra name—often a nickname—given to a Roman citizen), since such names were often ethnically-based. Quirinius, e.g., may have been the Roman nickname (as opposed to the Semitic Sabinus) given Publius Sulpicius, as a result of the deity associated with his Sabinian heritage (i.e., Quirinius), a heritage Rhoads infers from the fact that Quirinius was born in Lavinium, a city SW of Rome that had a significant Sabine population.
Joazar. Rhoads argues that the high priest removed immediately following Herod's death is the high priest Joazar who was removed by Quirinius immediately following Judas's tax revolt (see Ant. 17.164b, 206, 339b; 18.26b). Rhoads suggests that Joazar was appointed high priest by Herod after Judas's armory raid, not after his eagle incident, as Josephus assumes. This means that Joazar was high priest during Judas's tax revolt and eagle incident/execution, which followed. Rhoads then notes that the high priest deposed during the time of Herod's funeral and at the behest of Judas's followers corresponds with Josephus's reports elsewhere of Archelaus's removal, shortly after Herod's death, of the high priest Joazar and with his report of Quirinius's removal of a priest with the same name following Judas's tax revolt. In short, Joazar was priest during Judas's revolt against the tax administered by Coponius and Sabinus/Quirinius during the latter years of Herod's reign.
As I noted earlier, I'll leave off a full-scale review for the time being. I did, however, want to conclude by noting a handful of lingering questions that I suspect will need to be part of any fuller engagement of Rhoads's thesis:
(1) Why does Josephus say Joazar was succeeded by two different persons if Joazar was appointed and deposed just once (see Ant. 17.399b and 18.26b)?
(2) If Joazar was, in fact, the priest deposed by Archelaus to satisfy his followers' demands (Ant. 17.206), why does Josephus's other report of this incident, which explicitly mentions Joazar, say Archelaus deposed him for "having risen-up with the partisans" (Ant. 17.339b)?
(3) Why does the catalogue of disturbances in 17.269–85 fail to mention the eagle incident, especially if, as Rhoads argues, it followed the armory raid incident?
Author's note: For another approach to the Quirinius incident, see Once More: Quirinius's Census. And, for the historicity of another part of the nativity narrative, see Star of Wonder, Star of Light. (off-site link)
Jared Compton is an assistant professor in New Testament at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. He received his M.Div. from DBTS in 2007 and is a Ph.D candidate in NT at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he is presently writing a dissertation on Psalm 110 in Hebrews.
This article was originally posted on the DBTS blog, and has been posted here with permission.
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It's an impressively constructed argument, but it is not a solution to the problem of Luke's Quirinius reference, for at least three major reasons.First: Even if Rhoads is 100% correct in everything he posits, he has only succeeded in placing the Jesus-birth-census after Herod's death. Although Rhoads attempts to skirt this with a quick aside/footnote near the end, his actual argument depends on Quirinius 'the Sabine' coming along to dispose of "his Herod"s estate, for tax valuation purposes. Further, in that aside he takes Herod's death at 4 BC, suddenly posits Quirinius began as early as 5 BC, but cites Eusebius' date of Christ's birth as 3/2 BC. Is this all an afterthought? At any rate, if Quirinius' activity was in response to Herod's death, then Rhoads may have technically exonerated Luke at the expense of Matthew's entire infancy narrative. Surely, this was not what anyone wanted. (?)Second: Rhoads' Judas-Judas-Judas conflation finds little similarity in the characterizations of these three different men. Apart from a willingness to die, which is not so unusual among first century nonviolent Jewish resistors, they have nothing in common. The armory-raiding Judas comes off as a roughneck with similar constituents, who collectively display no vision greater than seizing control of their own middling city, ultimately defying a Roman Legion in their obstinate desire to hold power, and being destroyed for it. (B) The rabbi Judas is presented as a Judean local whose clientelle must have been somewhat well to do, whose m.o. was inherently nonviolent and whose concern revolved around symbolic acts of upholding Torah. (C) The Gamala Judas is presented as a groundbreaking new thinker, whose philosophy was specifically anti-Roman and yet who did nothing but talk up rebellion before being taken and having his hopes nipped in their proverbial bud. Rhoads complains that Schurer has defended "activities" and Rhoads asserts he is conflating "men" instead of activities, but the actual problem is that Josephus presents completely different men.Third: Rhoads has said nothing at all about Quirinius' larger career, or his significant wherabouts in prior and later years. Along with all the other reams of standard chronology Rhoads attempts to realign, Rhoads also needs to reassess Quirinius' prosecution of the Homanadensian War (which Syme and Levick both date to 4-3 BC, but which also probably implies preparations in late 5 BC, given that the Via Sebaste was freshly completed in 6) and to reassess Quirinius' mission advising young Gaius Caesar in Syria and Armenia (c.AD 2-4). If Rhoads can somehow reassign all that activity then Rhoads may at least succeed in presenting the single most complicated revisionist theory on Herod & Quirinius ever put forward. And that would be quite saying something. Nevertheless, at the moment Rhoads has Quirinius in Palestine in the same years when two titans of scholarship have Quirinius in Pisidia and Lycaonia. Something should have to be said about that, one way or another.I should emphasize, in conclusion, that Rhoads' source criticism on Josephus, following Schwartz, was not only impressive but surprisingly compelling, as was his general command of the relevant material involved. Honestly, I not only felt myself almost being persuaded, I actually shocked myself by wanting at one point to find myself completely persuaded. It is indeed as rigorous a construction as Jared had promised it would be. But, for the obstacles listed above, I must reaffirm that Rhoads' tremendous effort here ultimately fails.For any argument to move this many mountains in attempting to stamp out one molehill, it should have to be absolutely flawless in its power to convince instead of relying so much on speculative "possibility". The standard reading of Josephus on Quirinius remains, for the moment, far more convincing.There may yet be a solution to the "problem" of Luke's Quirinius statement, but this is not it.
Bill Heroman - 12/29/2012 5:28:43 PM
As to the Luke 2:2 issue, it could be possible that what we have in extant Gospel of Luke manuscripts is a dittography of "TE" in the word "PROWTE". This would change the resulting English translation from "first" to "before" (subordinating conjunction), solidifying Luke 2:2 as a parenthetical note reading "Such a census would originate before the governor of Syria was Quirinius." But how early of a manuscript deviation would we be talking about for that?I have also read of another solution that actually ends up being an Antimereia of Hyperbaton in which "PROWTE" ("first") really does mean an emphatic "PROW" ("before").
Z. E. Kendall - 1/13/2013 9:20:26 PM
In private correspondence, I've thanked Jared for his thoughtful engagement with my work. I repeat that here. I also want to thank Bill Heroman for his contribution. Let me add just a few comments in response.First, with respect to the first two of Jared's lingering questions, I will say that the various accounts accounts of the priesthood succession have defied easy reconstruction by those who have focused on this question. My article refers to some of the relevant literature. I hinted at my idea of an answer which I noted the semantic parallelism between the removal of the high priesthood from Matthias and the removal of the high priesthood from Joazar which Jared mentions in his second question. I will not make it more explicit until I can take the time to dot my i's and cross my t's.Jared's third question simply raises the issue of why one of Josephus' sources did not mention an event discussed by another of his sources. While we can speculate, those kinds of questions reach beyond the data we have. He could have been ignorant of it or unconcerned. It's like asking why Luke refers to Joanna at the empty tomb while the other Gospels do not.With respect to Bill's first concern, I apologize that I was not more clear. Sabinus/Quirinius had been in the area for the sake of the Census prior to the death of Herod the Great. That was the whole point of arguing that the Judas who revolted against the census was the same one who was captured and executed by Herod the Great shortly before his death. With respect to the date of Herod's death, my article did not take a clear position. It simply acknowledges that according to Josephus, the Quirinius finishes the census work after he takes care Herod's estate. As a result, the 3/2 BC date Eusebius gives for the census could legitimately refer to both the end of the census after Herod's death if one accepts the 4BC date or the start of the census before his death if one accepts the 1BC date. I personally agree with my colleague Andy Steinmann and accept the 1BC date.I simply disagree with Bill that the Judas's of the three accounts reflect divergent personalities and different persons. I encourage readers to make up their own minds on this matter.I agree with Bill that I did not address the issue of Quirinius' wider career. I simply argued for what I consider the best construal of Josephus. I may have some more to say on this question, but I disagree that such analysis was necessary for that article. Instead, I believe that the proper historical approach would be to investigate the history of Quirinius' career given the likelihood that he was the figure that two of Josephus' main sources identified as Sabinus.
John Rhoads - 6/27/2013 3:01:33 PM
According to Luke 2:1: Now at this time Caesar Augustus issued a decree for a census of the whole world to be taken. This census — the first — took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. The historian Paul Orosius precisely date the census of Augustus in the year 752 of Rome (Histories against the pagans VI:22:1; VII:3:4) or in 2 BCE.According to Josephus: Quirinius had now liquidated the estate of Archelaus; and by this time the registrations of property that took place in the 37th year after Caesar's defeat of Antony [= 6 CE] at Actium were complete (Jewish Antiquities XVIII:1-4,26). The first registration under Herod the Great in 2 BCE, as the census of Apamea, was made to know the number of citizens and it is not to be confused with the one implemented in Judea by Quirinius when he came in 6 CE to ensure the liquidation of property of Herod Archelaus after his disgrace, and of which Josephus says it was followed by an evaluation of property. This two-step operation did not have the same nature, nor the same goal, or the same geographical scope as the previous one. It was conducted according to the principles of the Roman capitation and not according to Hebrew customs, and only covered the sole Judea, not Galilee.General censuses were performed every 5 years (= 1 lustre) as can be deduced from those reported by Cassius Dio.The census prior to the one of 4 CE, confined to Italy (Cassius Dio LV:13),was performed in 2 BCE. Two other topics linked to the first census of Quirinius are examined: Dating the war of P. Quinctilius Varus. The intervention of Varus, after Herod's death, is described as a war by Flavius Josephus and also by the Seder Olam, yet the only war mentioned in the Roman archives in this region and at that time is the one conducted by Caius Caesar in 1 CE. The career of Caius Caesar, the grand-son of Augustus, was very brief, an inscription in a cenotaph of Pisa provides his cursus honorum and mentions as the only honorary remarkable action: after the consulship which he held with good fortune, waging a war beyond the farthest borders of the Roman people. Dating the birth of Jesus.Clement of Alexandria (The Stromata I:21:145) place the birth of Jesus 194 years before the death of Commodus (31 December 192 CE) and Tertullian (Against the Jews VIII:11:75) place it in the 41st year of the reign of Augustus [which began from the second triumvirate of October 43 BCE] and 28 years after the death of Cleopatra (29 August 30 BCE). By combining these data, the birth of Jesus must be fixed in 2 BCE in a period between 1 September and 30 October.see: Dating the two Censuses of Quiriniuswww.academia.edu/.../Dating_the_two_Censuses_of_Quirinius
Gertoux - 9/7/2013 2:03:00 PM
Greetings Gerard Gertoux and all,The paper to which Mr. Gertoux gives us a link has good supporting documentation for his statement that it was a Roman custom to perform a general census every five years. As Mr. Gertoux acknowledges, however, various events such as a crisis in the empire could cancel or postpone a census. He presents evidence from Roman authors for censuses in 28 BC, 23 BC, 18 BC (postponed), 13 BC, and 8 BC. There is no direct Roman evidence for the exact year of the following census, which we should expect in 3 BC. A census limited to Italy occurred in AD 4, but this was 11 years, not 10, after the 8 BC census. For other reasons, Mr. Gertoux determines the "missing" census date back from this date rather than measuring forward from the 8 BC date, thus giving his 2 BC for the census that brought the holy family to Bethlehem. If we keep open the option that this could have been in 3 BC, then we have fairly good agreement with the conclusion reached in Jack Finegan's "Handbook of Biblical Chronology" (p. 319) and Andrew Steinmann's "From Abraham to Paul" (p. 254), namely that Jesus was probably born in late 3 BC or early 2 BC. I would encourage others to examine Mr. Gertoux's reasons for narrowing the date of the Nativity to between 1 September and 30 October of 2 BC.Mr. Gertoux is therefore part of a growing consensus that dates the death of Herod the Great to sometime between the lunar eclipse of 10 January 1 BC and the Passover of that year, 89 days later. The older "Schürer consensus" followed Laurentius Suslyga (AD 1605) who placed the date of Herod's death in 4 BC. This idea arose because of the practice of Herod's sons of backdating their reigns to when Herod appointed them responsibilities in administration in 4 BC, although Herod did not die until 1 BC. The scholarship supporting the new consensus is quite convincing. It includes a paper written by Mr. Gertoux in 2005 entitled "Datation de la mort d'Hérode et de sa naissance," in which he places the birth of Herod in 72/71 BC, his de jure appointment as king of Judea in 40 BC, his capture of Jerusalem thus becoming de facto king in 37 BC, and his death in January of 1 BC. These dates may be compared to those of Andrew Steinmann, "When Did Herod the Great Reign," Novum Testamentum 51 (2009) pp. 1-29, which dates Herod's birth to about 72 BC, his appointment by the Romans to late 39 BC, his conquering of Jerusalem to 10 Tishri 36 BC, and his death in the first quarter of 1 BC.It is of some interest that Dr. Steinmann, while citing many other references in his paper on Herod, does not refer to Mr. Gertoux's "Datation" paper, even though it deals with the same problems that Dr. Steinmann was addressing. But there seems to be a good reason for this: Mr. Gertoux's paper only exists on the Web and was never published in any of the journals. This has been a characteristic of Mr. Gertoux's work that has puzzled me from time to time when I have perused his articles: they all show considerable erudition in citing sources both ancient and modern, yet they are not published in the journals. I wondered why until I read some comments contained in the "Dating the Two Censuses" paper to which Mr. Gertoux gave a link in his entry above. He is a graduate student at the University of Lyon, and of course his native language is French. At the end of his "Two Censuses" paper he makes the following revealing comment: "According to this prestigious and powerful academic [M. Sartre] 'in fact all of the information [from Luke] appears unbearable (…) how Luke could be so wrong.' " A footnote to the word "academic" explains, "As a member of the editorial board of major journals of French history he [Sartre] is the guarantor of "orthodoxy" of articles."Very revealing. It explains why French Biblical scholarship has largely stagnated. Its "orthodoxy" defends the relics of the old documentary hypothesis, whose "Biblical" scholarship might better be characterized as anti-Biblical scholarship. In his footnote, Mr. Gertoux reveals the frustration that any writer who challenges the conventional wisdom will encounter, since he will not be up against the Académie as represented, and defended, by Monsieur Sartre.Mr. Gertoux certainly has many ideas in his numerous unpublished papers that counter the ideas of the Académie. We will not agree with many of them, since he is by no means committed to our conservative estimate of the authority of God's Word as found in the Bible. Yet in this latest paper he is offering some original research that supports Luke vs. Luke's critics regarding the Quirinius census, which obviously will clash will Academian Sartre's estimation of Luke. So if you're reading this, Gerard, may I make a suggestion? Do an end run (that's an American football term) around the academicians. Rewrite your research on the Quirnius census somewhat and submit it to a non-French journal such as Novum Testamentum. You are to be commended for writing this latest article in English. Submit it in English; the modern church thinks and communicates mostly in English. Your English is generally good, far better in comparison than if I tried to write in French, but it does have some awkward phrases and grammatical mistakes. Get someone whose native language is English to go over the final draft before you submit it. In the body of the article, interact thoroughly with John Rhoad's article in JETS. Luke has been maligned for so long over the matter of the Quirinius census that we need to rattle the cage of those who have charged Luke with error in this matter.There's more to say about your thesis (two censuses) vs. that of John Rhoads (only one), but that's enough for now. What is important is that both of you, for sometimes different reasons, firmly state that the ancient evidence is in favor of a census of the Roman empire in 3 and/or 2 BC, and the Roman official P. Sulpicius Quirinius played an important part in that census.Yours in appreciation,Rodger C. Younghttp://www.rcyoung.orghttp://independent.academia.edu/RodgerYoung
Rodger C. Young - 9/10/2013 5:01:18 PM
Unless I have misread it, Gertoux's contribution seems to simply assume, rather than to argue, that my interpretation of Josephus is false. It is as if he were saying, "Ignoring Rhoads' assessment of Josephus, here's a way to hold together Luke, Josephus and other data. While I certainly expect that a challenge to a scholarly consensus will typically be ignored, I find it odd that he would ignore it in a thread dedicated to its discussion.With this in mind, I will seek to bring his paper into conversation with my work by responding to a portion that seems to challenge my thesis. Gertoux argues that Quirinius was Governor of Syria. This claim is particularly bold since there is no explicit evidence that Quirinius was ever Governor of Syria. For the first governorship, he seems to assume that Luke's ἡγεμονεύοντος means "being governor," perhaps following Schuerer; however, both Luke and Josephus use that verb for exercising political authority with broader application. Hugh Mason's 1974 volume, Greek Terms for Roman Institutions, would have been a helpful resource for him here. Furthermore, this decision to introduce a Quirinius governorship into 3-1 BC causes Gertoux to divide the data from Josephus on the governorship of Varus into two distinct administrations, before and after the unmentioned governorship of Quirinius. Furthermore, it requires the assumption that even though Josephus and his sources refer to a reaction by the Pharisees against some loyalty oath in 6 BC and the a revolt against taxation in AD 6, they are silent of any protest prompted by a Roman requirement of people to travel for registration in 3/2BC.For the supposed second governorship, he asserts that Quirinius became governor of Syria in AD 6. While this assertion is not unusual among those who combine the over-reading of Luke 2 with the apparent reference to arrival of Quirinius in AD 6 by Josephus, Gertoux seems to assert this governorship on the basis of Josephus alone. However, Josephus explicitly labels Quirinius as a δικαιοδότης or legatus juridicus not legatus pro praeotore. He then supports his assertion that Quirinius was governor of Syria twice with reference to the titulus tiburtinus saying, that Quirinius is "the only character to match all indications." While I am not a master of the literature relating to the Titulus Tiburtinus, Syme et al have argued against Quirinius. While Gertoux makes cogent arguments against the suggestions of Piso and Saturninus, he does not, in my opinion, fully engage the arguments of those who favor them nor their reasons for rejecting Quirinius. He does not even cite Syme's article in which he challenges identifying the ignotus with Quirinius.
John Rhoads - 9/11/2013 1:09:17 PM
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September 2013
By Carla WheelerEsri Writer
Listen to GIS in the Fight Against Hunger, a podcast with Senadheera that chronicles her latest assignments for the United Nations' World Food Programme.
Nadika Senadheera's job as a GIS consultant takes her to places where death may be only a doorstep or two away.
That became a tragic reality in May 2013 when she was on assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan, for her employer, the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP). One of her good friends, a woman from Italy who worked for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), suffered severe burns when suicide bombers set off an explosion outside a compound that housed the IOM in Kabul.
During that attack, Senadheera hid in a bunker nearby as Taliban attackers detonated bombs, lobbed grenades, and fired at Afghani police and NATO forces.
"Even one of our guesthouses was completely gone. Bullet holes were everywhere," Senadheera said during an interview at the 2013 Esri International User Conference (Esri UC), almost six weeks after her 14-month assignment in Afghanistan ended.
Though she left Kabul uninjured, the experience was frightening and heartbreaking. "Our good friend, we lost her because the Taliban attacked. She didn't survive," said Senadheera, pausing to wipe away tears. "She was 80 percent burned. I apparently had the last picture of her. We had a sushi night in one of our guesthouses, and she came over. I had to share that picture with her parents."
Danger comes with the territory for aid workers, even GIS professionals like Senadheera who was in Kabul to help organize and manage the WFP's geographic information system and infrastructure and train its staff to use GIS. Though they often work indoors on computers, standardizing and analyzing data or training colleagues how to use geospatial technology, they are sometimes called upon to work in the field in less than hospitable conditions. Even inside compounds protected by security details, there's no such thing as absolute security.
One night in May 2012, Senadheera huddled in a guesthouse in Kabul for more than six hours, listening to gunfire and bombing outside. "Eight suicide bombers were there shooting and blowing themselves up. I was so scared, and I was under the bed, wondering when would this be over?"
For her GIS work for the WFP under such dangerous conditions, Esri president Jack Dangermond called Senadheera a "real hero" and presented her with a Making a Difference Award at the 2013 Esri UC.
Senadheera, who grew up in Sri Lanka, accepts the risks inherent in her assignments for the WFP, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) where she has worked for the better part of the last 13 years. There's passion in her voice when she talks about the value geospatial technology brings to the mission of feeding people mired in poverty or displaced by a natural disaster or a conflict.
"Yes, it's risky," she said. "But if everybody tried to stay in comfortable, secured zones, how could we spread [knowledge of] these wonderful tools—geospatial tools—[that help] to identify the most vulnerable populations and fight hunger?"
The WFP uses GIS in several ways, including for food security analysis—identifying who does not have access to enough nutritious food and the underlying causes of the hunger problem in a certain region. The organization's Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) unit does this work.
Part of Senadheera's job involves training the WFP's national staff to use GIS. She also helps to standardize available spatial data and analyzes and maps the information using Esri ArcGIS. The mapping technology helps the WFP identify who needs food assistance (such as malnourished children or disaster victims), where they live, how to safely route the food to the people, and what areas of the country are vulnerable to natural disasters or conflicts. WFP often steps in to help during a crisis and needs to know, quickly, what areas will likely be the hardest hit.
Though she's worked in many countries in Asia, including the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, and her native Sri Lanka, her most recent assignments in Pakistan and Afghanistan were fraught with more than the usual danger.
When floods ravaged Pakistan in 2010, Senadheera flew in a United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) helicopter piloted by Russians, hovering low over hard-hit Sindh province to drop food to hungry people.
In parts of Sindh, whole villages were wiped out. Roads, bridges, and many homes were destroyed. People swam toward the chopper or scrambled from their houses, waving with arms outstretched while the crew dropped boxes of high-energy biscuits to them.
"They really wanted to get the food because they were starving," said Senadheera. "I was shocked when I saw the people in the muddy water, swimming." The smell of sewage and the bodies of dead animals such as cows made her stomach churn. "The water was all polluted. The smell was so bad. I was thinking, how can they live? How can they sleep? How can they breathe this air?"
While the crew dispensed the biscuits, Senadheera used a GPS to get the exact locations of where the food was dropped and marked those locations on a basemap. She also kept track of how many cases of biscuits were left at a given location and took an estimated head count of how many people picked up the food. By figuring in the average family size for each person who carried away a box of biscuits and village population data, she could calculate whether the helicopter needed to return to that area and drop off more food. She also used ArcGIS to create maps that showed where the WFP had distributed food and where the helicopters still needed to go to distribute more biscuits.
Senadheera operated on a few hours of sleep each day during the helicopter assignment, which lasted five weeks. She stayed up until 2:00 a.m. daily, analyzing data and making maps, and returned to the airport at 6:00 a.m. to board the chopper. "Pakistan was crazy," she said, yet she enjoyed the frenetic pace of the assignment. "I was doing everything. It was kind of fun."
Senadheera said her father instilled a love of maps and travel in her when she was only 5. Hema Senadheera served as a radio officer aboard cargo ships from 1975 to 1995, and the stories he told during his brief trips back home were the stuff of legend for the young girl.
"Whenever he came home, he took the globe and he started [to show us] his route—'I went to this country, I boarded the ship, and this is the route I took, and these are the people that I met, and these are the countries that I passed,'" she recalled. "And he was showing us his passport and the coins, which fascinated me most."
A seed was planted. "I thought, this is something cool! Why can't I follow in my Daddy's footsteps?"
She started to draw and color maps. Then she studied history of the countries on the maps. By the time she headed off to college, Senadheera knew geography was for her.
She graduated with a bachelor's degree in geography from the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka in 1995 and soon went to work for the Esri distributor in Sri Lanka. After working briefly for the Asian Development Bank, she received a 15-day contract with the WFP in 2000 to analyze World Health Organization (WHO) data and map where malnourished people, especially children, were living in Sri Lanka. She used Esri software to analyze the data and create the maps, which helped the WFP deliver food to the neediest people in the country.
Senadheera received a Fulbright Scholarship to attend State University of New York (SUNY), Albany, from 2004 to 2006. She earned her master's degree in geography and spatial sciences from SUNY. She later interned at Esri in Redlands, California, before returning to the WFP and her life on the road.
"It's always good to see places," said Senadheera, who has been to 30 countries. "I love to read, but it's good to see and feel it. Then you know exactly what people are thinking and what you read about each place is correct."
Though she resisted the idea for a long time, Senadheera finally agreed in 2012 to work in Afghanistan to help the VAM analysts properly organize spatial data for the WFP (such as the location of helipads and airfields for the aircraft delivering food) and transfer the data into a working geodatabase. GIS will help the WFP identify the neediest people there who need the food and safely deliver it.
The WFP's eventual goal is to use ArcGIS Online to create one geospatial platform for all the countries the organization serves. "Then when there is an emergency, everybody can work together at the same time, on the same platform. All the data is standardized," Senadheera said.
Currently, the WFP uses Esri technology to share information with donors and potential donors such as in this Syria Crisis Map. The map shows the location of refugee camps, food distribution points, and the number of people the program reached in May and June 2013.
Though her 14 months in Afghanistan were marked by violence, Senadheera feels a sense of accomplishment, having led the effort to build the WFP's geospatial enterprise system for the country and trained close to 120 people—all men—in how to use GIS.
Where will this geographer/adventurer go next?
"I'd love to go to Africa—I want to go to the Sudan," said Senadheera, who is currently taking a break at home in Colombo. "It's another hot spot. I know it's red, red, but it's not red, red like Kabul because the war is kind of over, and there are no suicide bombers. But if I go, it will be, as a female mapper, another challenge for me."
To Senadheera, life as a geographer means going out into the world to share what she knows about geospatial technology with people who are just beginning to understand its transformational power.
"Life is hard, and it is an adventure. At times we need to take risks because we are so passionate with maps and spatial analysis," she said. "All we want to do is spread our wings and look for where we need to be to help someone that needs a helping hand to enter the spatial world."
Editor's note: Nadika Senadheera says she could not have accomplished her work for the WFP without the support of many people, including her parents; the late Professor Kusuma Gunawardena from the University of Colombo; Anil Wijewardene, who gave her a job at the Esri distributor in Sri Lanka; Hildegard Tuttinghoff, who offered her the first WFP assignment; Esri president Jack Dangermond, who provided an internship; and Michael Sheinkman, the regional VAM adviser for the WFP, who offered her GIS projects for Myanmar, Laos, Italy, Pakistan, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. She recently landed one of her dream assignments. She is currently traveling to South Sudan to work on a GIS project for the WFP.


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Congress should reject attempts to establish a geographically based value index for Medicare because the index would fail to differentiate between high- and low-performing physicians and other health care professionals within specific geographic areas, according to a new report issued by an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee.
The 178-page study report found wide and persistent variations in health care costs throughout the country. But in many cases, the cost variations occurred within specific, often narrowly defined, geographic regions, making a geographic value index "a poorly targeted mechanism for encouraging value improvement," says the report Variation in Health Care Spending: Target Decision Making, Not Geography(www.nationalacademies.org).
Some members of Congress have proposed paying more to physicians and other health care professionals in low-cost areas such as San Francisco and less to physicians in high-cost areas such as Fort Lauderdale, Fla. But this approach would be unfair and would not change behavior, leading to a failure to improve health care, says the report.
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- The Institute of Medicine has released a report saying that the establishment of a geographically based value index for Medicare would be both inefficient and unfair.
- A geographically based value index would fail to differentiate between high- and low-performing physicians, resulting in a poor mechanism for improving value, the report says.
- The report also calls on Congress to continue testing innovative payment and delivery models, such as the patient-centered medical home and accountable care organizations.
"If you are going to penalize all of the providers in a high-cost area, you also would be penalizing some groups in that area who are very low-cost, efficient providers," says Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., a senior fellow with Project HOPE and a member of the IOM committee responsible for the study report. "It would be unfair, in addition to being inefficient."
Wilensky says changing incentives to reward physicians who provide efficient, low-cost care is a good idea, but trying to accomplish that goal on a geographic basis will not work because geographic areas themselves cannot be held accountable for health care decisions. Wilensky served as CMS administrator during the administration of President George H.W. Bush.
The report breaks out regions of the country that have the highest and lowest Medicare costs. "Within any of those areas, there are low-cost, efficient providers in high-spending areas and high-cost, low-efficiency providers in the low-spending areas," says Wilensky.
Former AAFP President Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., of Waco, Texas, testified before an IOM committee in 2011 about the need to eliminate Medicare geographic adjustment factors in favor of a 50 percent to 60 percent incentive payment for primary care physicians. He says the IOM committee report "validates a number of the concerns that the AAFP has expressed."
Post-acute Care
The report attributes most of the cost variations to post-acute services, such as those provided by nursing facilities, home health care and long-term hospitals. In fact, the elimination of variation in post-acute care would reduce variation in total Medicare spending by 73 percent, the report says. Moreover, if there was no variation in acute care and post-acute care spending, total Medicare spending variation would fall by nearly 90 percent.
Wilensky points out that home health care, in particular, often lacks well-defined evidence-based protocols, which accounts for the greatest variations in cost. "When it comes to treating a hip fracture, the diagnosis is pretty clear and there is not a lot of variation in what should be done," says Wilensky. As a consequence, there is not a great deal of cost variation. But when diagnoses are not clear and clinical interventions vary, the likelihood of cost variations jumps dramatically.
In addition, Medicare and private-sector commercial spending do not correspond with one another and vary dramatically in some areas, according to the report. "The high-spending areas of Medicare are not necessarily the high-spending areas of the commercial market," says Wilensky. "I always assumed that might be the case, but I had not seen it demonstrated and was unaware of how clearly this is the case."
The differences largely are a result of how each sector is financed. In Medicare, the government sets the price, and cost differences are largely determined by use. In the private sector, however, regional cost variations are driven, in large part, by prices negotiated by hospitals, physicians and other health care entities and not by increased use of medical services.
Innovative Models
The report addresses the need to move from a volume-based to a valued-based health care system by calling on Congress to continue testing innovative payment and delivery models, such as the patient-centered medical home and accountable care organizations. These reforms "are directed at decision-making entities and provide incentives for health care providers to integrate care delivery, coordinate care with other providers, and share data on service use and health outcomes in real time," says the report.
During transition to these new models of care, CMS should evaluate the effect of reforms on value and use the findings to make ongoing improvements in the models, the report adds. If reforms improve the value of care, Congress should give CMS the flexibility to accelerate the transition from traditional Medicare to new payment models .
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Will be back with my stitchy posts soon...
Love,luck and sunshine,
Hi Deepa,
I was waiting for an update from you.Wish, everything will be fine regarding your health. Be cheerful always. When we have energy inside, nothing can harm us. Be energetic.
The work is too good.
Can you please tell me where can I get the BE threads.
Take care
wow...extremely beautiful!!!ReplyDelete
Dear Deepa, it is lovely to hear from you even though the news is not what we hoped to hear. You are faced with a difficult decision and my thoughts are with you.
Sobha's embroidery is beautiful and a credit to you and your class. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Many hugs from Chilly Hollow. Good health is so important! Here's to a quick recovery.ReplyDelete
Hi Deepa,
Really kept wondering how your health has been. Sorry to hear that things haven't gotten any better. We will pray for you, hope ayurveda helps. Take care.
Take care Deepa....wishing you a very speedy recovery. Get well soon!!!!ReplyDelete
Deepa... all day yesterday I was thinking of you, I must have known you were going to make a post... I was worried because we had not heard from you in a while... I should have emailed you, but I hate to "bother" people and I knew you would let us know what was up sooner or later... I am sorry to hear of your plight and I wish you all the best and am sending positive thoughts your way... we have not forgotten you. Thanks for sharing the BE... lovely. Hugs.ReplyDelete
Hey deepa wish u a fast recovery. I have started following ur blog only a week ago, and its already inspiring me in my work.ReplyDelete
Lucky for you Deepa.
Everything will be alright!
HI!! Deepa,
I´ll be waiting you back and 100% better .... I know is not easy this kind of surgery .... But I´ll be here keep think positive for you and your doctor ... everything is gone be all right!!
Great stitcher student you have!!
Big Brazilian Kisses!!
Hope and pray that everything is going to be fine soon...glad to know that you are trying to think positive...and staying cheerful and pleasant...
Lovely embroidery too
hi deepa.... ur student done a great job.... and regarding ur health.... than allopathy our siddha and ayurvedha have great medecines for this problem... all things u need is little patience.... and if u can get a nice doctor homeo is also a best choice.... please don't take too much steroids coz it will make the problem even worse... why i'm saying these to u is I've seen before my eyes as we have siddha, ayur and homeo medical shop n my father in law is a homeo doctor. Get well soon... i'll pray for uReplyDelete
It is good to do Ayurveda... It will surely reduce your problems... Be happy always... Get well soon....ReplyDelete
I am sorry, Deepa, to read that things have not improved with your sinusitis, but pray that Ayurveda medicine will provide a cure.
Your student's work is very impressive and beautiful.
Take care. Blessings and hugs
Dear Deepa,be positive and cheerful always.everything will be fine.my thoughts and prayers are with you forever.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the update, I didn't dare to write again and bother you. I am glad to see that you are in a good mood, in spite of.
Thinking of you, and hoping for the best.
Get well soon Deeepa...
though virtually v and our prayers r with u...
Happiness always..
I'll be thinking about you Deepa and hoping for a quick recovery for you.ReplyDelete
Wish you a speedy recovery... get well soon.ReplyDelete
I was thinking about your health.Wish u a speed recovery.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous :) No words to sayReplyDelete
thanks for the update. happy to hear you're in a good mood and doing some stitching. hoping aryuveda works for you.
all the best


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