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Dec 4, 2008 #1
eternalarcadia New Member
I remember hearing long ago and then again recently something about christmas having its roots as a pagan holiday. Is this true?
cedarhart When good men do nothing, evil will triumph.Take a
Non-Christian celebrationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChristmasMain article: List of winter festivals Mosaic of Jesus as Christo Sole (Christ the Sun) in Mausoleum M in the pre-fourth-century necropolis under St Peter's Basilica in Rome.[16] Christians consider Jesus to be the "sun of righteousness" prophesied in Malachi 4:2.A winter festival was the most popular festival of the year in many cultures. Reasons included the fact that less agricultural work needs to be done during the winter, as well as people expecting longer days and shorter nights after the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.[17] Modern Christmas customs include: gift-giving and merrymaking from Roman Saturnalia; greenery, lights, and charity from the Roman New Year; and Yule logs and various foods from Teutonic feasts.[18] Pagan Scandinavia celebrated a winter festival called Yule, held in the late December to early January period. As Northern Europe was the last part to Christianize, its pagan traditions had a major influence on Christmas. Scandinavians still call Christmas Jul. In English, the word Yule is synonymous with Christmas,[19] a usage first recorded in 900.Dies Natalis Solis InvictiDies Natalis Solis Invicti means "the birthday of the unconquered Sun." The use of the title Sol Invictus allowed several solar deities to be worshipped collectively, including Elah-Gabal, a Syrian sun god; Sol, the god of Emperor Aurelian; and Mithras, a soldiers' god of Persian origin.[20] Emperor Elagabalus (218–222) introduced the festival, and it reached the height of its popularity under Aurelian, who promoted it as an empire-wide holiday.[21] This day had held no significance in the Roman festive calendar until it was introduced in the third century.[22]The festival was placed on the date of the solstice because this was on this day that the Sun reversed its southward retreat and proved itself to be "unconquered." Several early Christian writers connected the rebirth of the sun to the birth of Jesus.[4] "O, how wonderfully acted Providence that on that day on which that Sun was born...Christ should be born", Cyprian wrote.[4] John Chrysostom also commented on the connection: "They call it the 'Birthday of the Unconquered'. Who indeed is so unconquered as Our Lord . . .?"[4]
tomwebster New Member
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Is December the 25th a pagan holiday? It wouldn't matter whether it was or not. Christians celebrate it because of its relationship to Jesus Christ. It is very easy to prove and document in God's Word that the conception, of Jesus Christ took place on December the 25th not His birth.LUKE 1:5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.Elizabeth "the daughter of God", "the daughter of Yah". She was a special daughter she was chosen by Him.What do we have here? We have a date. Zacharias was of Aaron, meaning he was a Levite, and to serve as a priest he could only marry a Levite. He had to be married to a daughter of Aaron as well as being a full-blood Levite himself or he could not serve a course. Now, what is Abia? You'll find the answer in 1 Chronicles 24:10. It's the eighth order and it is that week a priest must go to serve. This particular time, Abia, would have fallen on June the 13th through the 19th. I'm not going to go into the year, I simply want to fix the time of the year. Those of you with Companion Bibles the year is fixed and this is the date in that year of Herod that this event took place. So, when it say he was of the order of Abia, it simply means that he was there from June the 13th through the 19th. The case in which I build, is this: John the Baptist was born exactly six months before the birth of Christ. The pregnancy's, both of Mary and Elizabeth, that were brought about by Divine intervention from Almighty God therefore they would be perfect as far as the days of pregnancy. So it makes it very easy to figure the dates, both of conception and of the birth. Follow along.LUKE 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.If you were to really translate this to English in its fullness, this is what would be said: They fulfilled all the legal requirements of a Levitical Priest and his wife to follow the commandments of God to serve in this course of Abia. LUKE 1:7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.They were advanced in years. Is it not ironic how many times that God has touched her that was barren and brought forth by Divine intervention a child in our Father's Word? I think it is. It would seem that she was saved for this specific child, this one John. LUKE 1:8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,He was on duty and fulfilling his obligations as the priest of this course.LUKE 1:9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.It was customary that in this course this one priest would burn incense when his lot was up. Again emphasizing and drawing your attention to time. Though some of you might say, "Well what's this Abia?" It's as plain were it to be fully translated to say his course fell on June the 13th through the 19th. Within this time frame it was his turn to burn incense at this particular time of day. Now we're coming down to even an hour within this day. LUKE 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.When this incense would be burned and the odor would go up to the Father, then it was sort of a special time for prayer. Perhaps some felt, "Our prayers are better heard." Because the incense is going up.LUKE 1:11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.He was on duty and fulfilling his obligations as the priest of this course.That's rather a moving thing. An angel literally appears to Zacharias.LUKE 1:12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.Sometimes you have some preachers make a flippant remark like, "You know God spoke to me today." If an actual Angel of God appeared they'd probably have to change their trousers. These arrogant, johnny come lately that are not students of God's Word. God does lead through the Holy Spirit. In the flesh an occurrence like this, the flesh does not adjust quickly. So, it frightened Zacharias.LUKE 1:13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.God named John, which is to say "Yahveh's gift" and he was a gift from Yahveh. God will also name Jesus, both Divine perfect births. No doubt Zacharias was getting along in years and he wanted a child, a son that would be able to take his place in this course. Then he could even think about retirement if you would. Knowing he was replaced by his own seed. He'd probably been praying about it.LUKE 1:14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.Think about that. What an honor. Many would rejoice at his birth.LUKE 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. Even before John breathes his first breath of air, he's going to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Now mark that in your mind. For at the conception on December the 25th, the time that the Holy Spirit shall feel this John the Baptist before he breathes his first breath. Being exactly six months old in the womb. Why is all this happening and why is Luke giving such an account? So you would know not only the birth date of Christ, not only the birth date of John, but you would know also the genealogy of the participants. Both Elizabeth, Mary, and Christ Himself.LUKE 1:16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.In other words, he would not be the Saviour of the world, but he would turn many to the Saviour. He would be that voice crying in the wilderness, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord." In other words the forerunner of Christ, the first advent.LUKE 1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.This is quoting from Malachi, that Elijah, not just necessarily in the spirit, even at the second advent would be preparing a people and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just. Who is the Just? Christ. So we see then the intervention in the womb of Elizabeth and the seed of Zacharias as been pronounced by this angel. It did not say that John the Baptist was Elijah, but that he came in the spirit of Elijah. Always remember that.LUKE 1:18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.He says give me sign that this is really going to happen. Not only has he stopped fearing but he's kind of challenging the angel, "How I'm I gonna know this! For I am an old man and my wife well stricken in years!" It is strange about both of these Divine births, Elizabeth and Zacharias would seem to be late for they were advanced in years.LUKE 1:19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.Do you know what Gabriel means in the Hebrew tongue? It means "Mighty man of Yahveh". I'm sure a little bit of fear would probably come back into Zacharias by this time.LUKE 1:20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.Everything will be done right on schedule. Again time has everything to do with this. He gave Zacharias a sign alright, he won't speak another word. So my friend, if 'ol Gabriel ever comes along and appears to you and speaks to you (rap,rap,raps on desk) I wouldn't challenge him if I were you. I would listen very carefully to his words. There's a little humor in this, to me it is, 'ol Zacharias says, "How am I supposed to believe this! Give me a sign." Gabriel says, "I'll give you a sign all right friend (chuckling) you just spoke your last word until this is all over with. I tell you what, for a priest that's kind of a handicap. A lot of priests would be better off on judgment day if their mouths were zipped too, so that they stop teaching falsehoods rather than the Word of God. LUKE 1:21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.The people are wondering what's keeping him.LUKE 1:22 And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.I'm sure by the countenance that when the angel Gabriel would appear that certainly the effects would be left on a mans face. He kept making signs trying to tell them, Gabriel kept his word.LUKE 1:23 And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.His course of Abia would not be finished until June the 20th. He had to serve the 19th, he was not free to leave until the 20th. Now Zacharias lived about 30 miles from the temple. For a man his age in this terrain, it would take this man approximately 2 days to make that journey. This would put us at about June the 23rd or 24th when he would arrive home.LUKE 1:24-25 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, 25 "Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men."From June 23rd or 24th, five months later would bring us to November 24th. No big deal, simple addition.Let's think for a moment. We have gone from the course of Abia, the journey home, and then a five month period, which brings us to if you would, to November the 24th. This would be exactly one month away from the day of conception of Christ which would be December the 25th.LUKE 1:26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,Now what date is this? Elizabeth hid herself for five months to November 24th. Now in the sixth month, exactly one month later, Gabriel is back again. John is six months in his mothers womb which brings us to December the 25th. LUKE 1:27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.Did this verse say that Mary was of Judah? No. It's stated here that Joseph, the man she is engaged to is of the House of Judah, not that Mary was.LUKE 1:28-31 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. 29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. 31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.JESUS, Yeshua, which being fully interpreted rather than transliterated means "Salvation of Yahveh". In other words, God's way of bringing salvation to the world, in, to, and through this One. Always be intelligent in your Father's Word. Like you'll have these people say, "Well there it is Jesus only." Yeshua isn't Jesus only. It's both the Father and the Son, the Father's Saviour, that's what His Name is, it's both in one. Again Jesus was given His Name by God.LUKE 1:32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:Is that not ironic? For were gonna find out here in a moment, that it definitely said, "the throne of David". How can this be?LUKE 1:33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.Mary is asking, "How?" She had not been with a man.LUKE 1:34-35 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.December the 25th, the conception, The Son of the Living God.LUKE 1:36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.It stated that this Child was going to inherit the throne of David. What I'm about to give you is which tribe that Christ was literally from as well as being the Son of God. Again, Elizabeth and Zacharias are full-blood Levite. Mary's cousin is of the tribe of Levi, which means that one of Mary's parents was also a full-blood Levite. Many people say, "Well I wonder why Christ wasn't born after the order of Levi, He was the high priest? He was. But at the same time Mary's father was of the tribe of Judah. Joseph whom she will marry, was also of the tribe of Judah. So you have that play on the adoption, that Christ being adopted, can by that adoption adopt anyone He so chooses into Christianity. Doesn't change anything as far as duties and obligations of the tribes are concerned. But in as much as Almighty God was the Father, Mary's mother was also of the daughters of Aaron for she and Elizabeth from the mouth of the angel Gabriel was a Levite.Your documentation that Mary's father was of the tribe of Judah is in Luke 3:33. The genealogy in Matthew 1, is not and has nothing to do with the birth of Christ, other than by his adopted father Joseph Fr Joseph had nothing to do with the birth of Christ. But in Luke, you will not see nor shall you read the word "begat". "As was supposed..." means as by law. In other words, Mary did not have a brother, therefore Mary's father's heritage was passed on through the daughter to the son-in-law. That's why in Luke you don't see "begat" but "which was the son of..." In Hebrews Jesus is the high priest after the order of Melchisedec. Thus you have both the king line (Judah) and the priest line (Levi). Making Christ the priest of priests and king of kings,& the Lord of all Lords.It's still December the 25th.LUKE 1:37-38 For with God nothing shall be impossible. 38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.That's faith and trust.LUKE 1:39-40 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; 40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.She ran to the house of Zacharias, to Elizabeth.LUKE 1:41-44 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: 42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. 43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.The soul and spirit that was placed in Mary's womb was so strong, that when she cried to Elizabeth with the good news knowing that Elizabeth had good news, that John six months in the womb, leapt.LUKE 1:45-50 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. 46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, 47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. 48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. 49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. 50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.And so it is beloved. So it was, and Elizabeth will go to full term and that babe shall be born to and be known as John the Baptist, and he would come in the spirit of Elijah and he would be that one crying in the wilderness, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, repent! and what a work and a ministry he would bring forth. I wanna take you to The Companion Bible, to the 179th Appendix, and I want to show you there you will have on page 198, a full term chart of that pregnancy and then you will have two full columns of more documentation that document these dates, these things are true. Then on page 200, and this is one of the reasons I highly recommend The Companion Bible as a teaching Bible because of the appendices that are in the back that bring knowledge that your not commonly taught, you will note there that the conception of John fell on the 23rd of Sivan, which is our June 23rd or 24th. You will note that the birth of John happened on the 7th of Nisan which is our March 28th or 29th. Please note the miraculous begatting, that is to say the visit of the angel to Mary, happened on the 1st of Tebeth, December the 25th. Don't you dare, ever call that a pagan holiday. To call that day of the conception of Jesus Christ a pagan holiday is BLASPHEMY and ignorance to the highest degree.The nativity or the birth of Christ was the 15th of Tisri, which is our September the 29th and which happens to fall, if you would, that great Feast of Tabernacles. He was born on the first day of Tabernacles and circumcised on the eighth day.God's Word is so complete, it is so perfect, why do people in their ignorance allow men to rob them. I'm not saying beloved that you should take part in the commercialism necessarily that transpires at this time of year. Giving gifts, it's a blessed time, do what ever you will, but whatever you do know it is a time of joy, for it was the day of conception, the day that the Lord Jesus Christ began to dwell with man.Don't let someone rob you or your children from that blessed event, for it a blessed, sacred, holy day. The conception, December the 25th, of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
josh55plus New Member
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blessed1195 New Member
I also have been taught that Christ was conceived on 12/25 and born on 9/29 based on scripture, as Tom Webster has graciously shared with everyone else. This also means that the manger scene would not have taken place in December, as we were all taught as kids, but in September, while the shepherds still had their sheep grazing in the fields.Just today,as I was starting to put up Christmas decorations, I was wondering why we would still give presents to each other on the day of Christ's conception. It came to me that we were given a gift of life that day-12/25 and today, we celebrate it, by giving to others in remembrance of that heavenly gift we were given.Merry Christmas to all!
Christina New Member
Merry Christmas blessedSwampfox sent me an interesting article the other day (Ill see if I can find it) that said Christmas was made illegal by the pilgrims in the early days of America
Here it is http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81144
Alpha and Omega New Member
You know its funny the apostles never mentioned Christmas neither did they celebrate it. Christmas was celebrated long before Christ. It was a celebration of the winter solstice. It has deep pagan origins. It is never mentioned in the New Testament but it is in the old..... Jeremiah 10:1-5Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good.
The word "Christmas" means "Mass of Christ" or, as it later became shortened, "Christ-Mass." It came to us as a Roman Catholic mass. And where did they get it? From the HEATHEN celebration of December 25th, as the birthday of Sol the SUN GOD! It is, actually, an ancient rite of BAALISM, which the Bible condemns as the most abominable of all idolatrous worship!This festival, important as it seems to so many, is not of Christian, but of pagan — Babylonish — origin! But does that make any difference? Isn't it all right to go ahead and observe it anyway? Isn't the "Christmas SPIRIT" a good and splendid thing, regardless of how it got started? WE SHALL SEE!There is not one word in the New Testament, or anywhere in the Bible, telling us to observe Christmas. The Christians of the first century, under the inspired teachings of Peter and Paul and the other apostles, never observed it. There is NO BIBLE AUTHORITY for its observance, strange as it may seem.Then where did we get "Christmas"? Since it has come to us thru the Roman Catholic Church, and has no authority but that of the Roman Catholic Church, let us examine the Catholic Encyclopedia, published by that Church. Under the caption "Christmas," you will find:"Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church . . . The first evidence of the feast is from Egypt. . . . Pagan customs centering around the January calends gravitated to Christmas." And, further, we find this truth acknowledged: " . . . in the Scripture, sinners alone, not saints, celebrate their birthday.Encyclopaedia Britannica has this: "Christmas (i.e., the Mass of Christ). Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the church . . . ." It was not instituted by Christ or the apostles, or by Bible authority — it was picked up afterward from paganism.The Encyclopedia Americana says: "CHRISTMAS. It was, according to many authorities, not celebrated in the first centuries of the Christian church, as the Christian usage in general was to celebrate the death of remarkable persons rather than their birth . . ." (The "Communion" which is instituted by New Testament Bible authority, is a memorial of the DEATH of Christ.) ". . . a feast was established in memory of this event [Christ's birth] in the fourth century. In the fifth century the Western Church ordered it to be celebrated forever on the day of the old Roman feast of the birth of Sol, as no certain knowledge of the day of Christ's birth existed."Now notice! These recognized historic authorities show Christmas was NOT observed by Christians for the first two or three hundred yearsIt got into the Western, or Roman Church, by the FOURTH century A.D. It was not until the FIFTH century that the Roman Church ordered it to be celebrated as an official "Christian" festival!Then HOW did this heathen custom CREEP INTO a so-called Christianity?The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia explains it clearly, in its article on "CHRISTMAS": "How much the date of the festival depended upon the Pagan Brumalia (Dec. 25) following the Saturnalia (Dec. 17-24), and celebrating the shortest day of the year and the 'new sun' . . . cannot be accurately determined. The pagan Saturnalia and Brumalia were too deeply entrenched in popular custom to be set aside by Christian influence . . . . The pagan festival with its riot and merrymaking was so popular, that Christians were glad of an excuse to continue its celebration with little change in spirit and in manner. Christian preachers of the West and the Near East protested against the unseemly frivolity with which Christ's birthday was celebrated, while Christians of Mesopotamia accused their Western brethren of idolatry and sun-worship for adopting as Christian this pagan festival."Remember, the Roman world had been PAGAN. Prior to the fourth century, Christians were few in number, tho increasing, and were persecuted by the government and by pagans. But, with the advent of Constantine as emperor, who made his profession of Christianity, in the fourth century, placing Christianity on an equal footing with paganism, people of the Roman world began to accept this now popular Christianity by the hundreds of thousands.But remember, these people had grown up in PAGAN customs, chief of which was this idolatrous festival of December 25th. It was a festival of merrymaking, with its special SPIRIT. They ENJOYED it! They didn't want to give it up! Now this same article in Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia explains how the recognition by Constantine, of Sunday, which had been the day of pagan SUN-worship, and how the influence of the pagan Manichaeism, which identified the SON of God with the physical SUN, gave these pagans of the fourth century, now turning over wholesale to "Christianity," their EXCUSE for calling their pagan-festival date of December 25th (birthday of the SUN god), the birthday of the SON of God.And that is how "Christmas" got into our so-called Christianity! We may call it by another NAME, but it's the same old pagan sun-worshipping festival still! The only CHANGE is in what we CALL IT! You can call a rabbit a "LION," but it's a RABBIT, just the same.Again from the Britannica: "Certain Latins, as early as 354, may have transferred the birthday from January 6th to December 25th, which was then a Mithraic feast . . . or birthday of the unconquered SUN . . . The Syrians and Armenians, who clung to January 6th, accused the Romans of SUN-WORSHIP and IDOLATRY, contending that the feast of December 25th, had been invented by disciples of Cerinthus . . . ."But if we got Christmas from the Roman Catholics, and they got it from paganism, where did the pagans get it? Where, when, and what was its real origin?It is a chief custom of the corrupt system denounced all thru Bible prophecies and teachings under the name of BABYLON. And it started and originated in the original Babylon of ancient Nimrod! Yes, it stems from roots whose beginning was shortly this side of the Flood!Nimrod, grandson of Ham, son of Noah, was the real founder of the Babylonish system that has gripped the world ever since — the system of organized competition — of man-ruled governments and empires, based upon the competitive and profit-making economic system. Nimrod built the tower of Babel, the original Babylon, ancient Nineveh, and many other cities. He organized this world's first kingdom. The name Nimrod, in Hebrew, is derived from "Marad," meaning "he rebelled." (Gen. 10:6, 8-12)From many ancient writings, considerable is learned of this man, who started the great organized worldly apostasy from God that has dominated this world until now. Nimrod was so evil, it is said he married his own mother, whose name was Semiramis. After Nimrod's untimely death, his so-called mother-wife, Semiramis, propagated the evil doctrine of the survival of Nimrod as a spirit being. She claimed a full-grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead tree stump, which symbolized the springing forth unto new life of the dead Nimrod. On each anniversary of his birth, she claimed, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it. December 25th, was the birthday of Nimrod. This is the real origin of the Christmas tree.Thru her scheming and designing, Semiramis became the Babylonian "Queen of Heaven," and Nimrod, under various names, became the "divine son of heaven." Thru the generations, in this idolatrous worship, Nimrod also became the false Messiah, son of Baal the Sun-god. In this false Babylonish system, the "Mother and Child," (Semiramis and Nimrod reborn); became chief objects of worship. This worship of "Mother and Child" spread over the world. The names varied in different countries and languages. In Egypt it was Iris and Osiris. In Asia, Cybele and Deoius. In pagan Rome, Fortuna and Jupiterpuer. Even in Greece, China, Japan, and Tibet, the counterpart of the Madonna is to be found, long before the birth of Christ!Thus, during the fourth and fifth centuries, when the pagans of the Roman world were "accepting" the new popular "Christianity" by the hundreds of thousands, carrying their old pagan customs and beliefs along with them, merely cloaking them with Christian-sounding NAMES, the Madonna and "Mother and Child" idea also became popularized, especially at Christmas time. Every Christmas season you'll hear sung and chanted dozens of times the hymn "Silent Night, Holy Night," with its familiar "Mother and Child" theme. We, who have been born in such a Babylonish world, reared and steeped in these things all our lives, have been taught to revere these things as holy, and sacred. WE NEVER QUESTIONED TO SEE WHERE THEY CAME FROM — WHETHER THEY CAME FROM THE BIBLE, OR FROM PAGAN IDOLATRY!We are SHOCKED to learn the TRUTH — some, unfortunately, take offense at the PLAIN TRUTH! But God commands His faithful ministers, "CRY ALOUD, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and SHOW MY PEOPLE THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS!" Isaiah 58:1. Shocking as these facts are, they are the plain facts of history and the Bible!The real origin of Christmas goes back to the ancient Babylon. It is bound up in the organized apostasy with which Satan has gripped a deceived world these many centuries! In Egypt, it was always believed that the son of Iris (Egyptian name for "Queen of Heaven") was born December 25th. Paganism celebrated this famous birthday over most of the known world for centuries before the birth of Christ.December 25th, is NOT the birthday of Jesus the true Christ! The apostles and early true Church never celebrated Christ's birthday at any time. There is no command or instruction to celebrate it in the Bible — rather, the celebrating of birthdays is a HEATHEN, not a Christian custom, believe it or not!Nowhere does the Bible tell us to worship "Mother and Child." The apostles and early true Christians never did it! The Scriptures show an angel saying to Mary, "Hail, thou art highly favored, the Lord is with thee" — the addition "blessed art thou among women," is omitted in the best original manuscripts (in Greek). Elizabeth said to Mary, "Blessed art thou among women." And Mary herself said, "From henceforth all generations shall call me blessed" (Luke 1:28, 42, 48).She was highly blessed by God, and this has been acknowledged by all generations from that time — but this does not mean she is to be deified, worshiped, made a divine being, when she was merely human. The widespread worship of Mary, as "the Mother of God," the doctrine of the immaculate conception, which refers to her as a counterfeit mediatrix between man and God, is a continuation of this ancient Babylonian idolatry, begun by the clever deceptions of Semiramis, wife of Nimrod! It is inextricably bound up with the "Christmas" idea!Thus the ancient idolatrous "Chaldean Mysteries," founded by this wife of Nimrod, have been handed down thru the pagan religions into the Catholic Church under new Christian-sounding names, and from there into the Protestant denominations and on to all of us today!
Dec 10, 2008 #10
holyisthelord New Member
My website shows how there are many types (foreshadowings) of the Antichrist (Satan incarnate) throughout history such as Hercules, Dionysus, & many other pagan gods who were said to be born "of a virgin" on Dec. 25th and resembled Jesus in many other uncommon ways, to show that they are not the true Christ who was not born that day; that Santa Claus is really Satan Claws who constantly aims to "be like the Most High" Jesus (Is. 14:14); and that the Christmas tree is derived from pagan idol worship (i.e. highly adoring) mentioned in Jeremiah 10.
epistemaniac New Member
No one has a right to pass judgment on me in regard to their personal convictions. Colossians 2:16 (ESV) Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. The bible nowhere specifically and exactly says not to celebrate the birth of Christ. So to try and add man's traditions to the same level of authority as the Scriptures, much like the Pharisees did, is wrong. Since there is no clear absolute prohibition against celebrating Christmas, it is merely man's tradition which says that I can't celebrate Christmas.Revelation 22:18 (ESV) I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, Mark 7:8 (ESV) You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men." Colossians 2:8 (ESV) See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. Now if it bothers your conscience to celebrate Christmas, by all means, don't celebrate it, but my conscience is not bound by what your conscience is bound by….. 1 Corinthians 10:29-30 (ESV) 29 I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks? My family and I celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas, we do not worship trees with the druids, we do not worship the sun, we worship the Son, and it would seem we are free to do so, for by celebrating His birth we are honoring Him, and honoring Christ is a good thing… is it not…? …. especially since there are no biblical prohibitions against celebrating His birth.. Since there are no biblical prohibitions, people trying to bind my conscience by THEIR traditions, (the traditions that say Christmas is pagan etc) is unbiblical.Blessings,ken


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gorc::log_midend::log_midend()
{
    return;
}

void gorc::log_midend::insert_log_backend(flag_set<log_level> filter,
                                          std::unique_ptr<log_backend>&& b)
{
    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(log_backend_lock);
    log_backends.emplace_back(filter, std::move(b));
}

void gorc::log_midend::erase_log_backends()
{
    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(log_backend_lock);
    log_backends.clear();
}

void gorc::log_midend::write_log_message(std::string const &filename,
                                         int line_number,
                                         log_level level,
                                         std::string const &message)
{
    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(log_backend_lock);

    for(auto &b : log_backends) {
        if(std::get<0>(b) & level) {
            std::get<1>(b)->write_message(filename, line_number, level, message);
        }
    }
}

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1. Be sure to get adequate rest most nights.
2. Sleep in accordance with the natural light-dark cycle. When the light bulb was invented and became widely available it significantly changed our way of life. Occasionally think to yourself "Would I be up right now if there was no electricity and light?" This question can help you stay in sync with natural light-dark cycles.
3. The techniques and skills we've discussed in this blog will help a cancer patient sleep better. Those include making the bedroom a good sleep environment, keeping a regular schedule, etc. (Past issues of the more comprehensive e-newsletters can be found on the website at http://naturalsleepmedicine.net/news_letters_page.html).
This entry was posted in cancer, sleep, sleep deprivation and tagged cancer, health, immune system, sleep on October 14, 2009 by Dr. Catherine Darley.


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A fallow site in Oßmanstedt is the pivot, home and first project of the Institute for Grey Energy. Located on the railway line between Weimar and Apolda in Thuringia, storage facilities were created here by the Raiffeisen cooperative for the surrounding farming community at the beginning of the 20th century. The site was in use until 1990 and has now lain derelict for over 30 years, with the storage sheds having collapsed, the area overgrown and only the transformer station and, in particular, the 24-metre-high granary built in 1938-1941 remaining.
Granary in Ossmannstedt, view from south
Why Ossmannstedt?
The site has an immense mass of building material, in which we see a high potential for grey energy and a CO2 reservoir.
The special building typology and its location beyond the metropolises require new approaches to conversion and re-use in the sense of resource conservation.
The visibility from afar as a deteriorated landmark in the Ilm valley requires a new occupation and opening of the well-known site.
The period of its construction under National Socialism requires a determined examination of further historical and social dimensions of grey energy.
The site in Oßmannstedt is an example of heritage that is perceived as uncomfortable and can be found in a similar form throughout Europe. For the Institut für Graue Energie the site serves as a living laboratory for the joint examination of grey energy. At the same time, it is the centre and starting point of the institute with its associated studio, archive and platform for cooperation.
Due to its character as a real laboratory, the area will be used again in the long term, reassessed and adaptively reinterpreted.
The construction of a grain silo made of reinforced concrete requires a considerable amount of resources. In the future, construction projects like this will only be possible at great social and financial cost. Demolition or complete reconstruction – for example as a residential tower – could not be justified in this way. In the long term, the most economically and ecologically sensible use is to re-designate the site as agricultural land. The interim use of the Institute serves to preserve the building over this period.
In order to keep this vision possible, it needs gradual, smallest possible and reversible interventions along the basic structure of the building. The strategies of the studio are to be tested in the real laboratory in a radical form, so that a minimum amount of energy must be applied for the greatest possible use.
Project procedure
After the purchase process has been completed after about half a year, we will be able to start the first work on the site in June 2021.
We are currently conducting a detailed inventory of the area. The focus is on finding grey energy on site. Existing materials and structures as well as previous appropriations and transformations by nature and humans are being recognised, understood and upgraded.
In parallel, a nucleus for future uses will be created in the former transformer station. This will include sleeping, washing and cooking facilities. From here, the transformation of the area will begin.
The initial work will primarily involve sorting, relocating and, if necessary, disposing of hazardous materials. In addition, we are developing a concept for dealing with existing flora – especially ruderal vegetation – and fauna – the site is also a biotope for insects and small animals. Only partial areas and a repair strip are cleared around the buildings in order to erect scaffolding. Subsequently, emergency securing of the buildings, in particular the repair of the attic roof, is planned. From this point on, it will be possible to open up the area for experimental and cultural forms of appropriation. Initial talks are being held with cooperation partners such as TRAFO Jena, the initiative Fabrik.Weiterstricken in Apolda and the Godot Complex in Weimar.
The first use of the warehouse is to begin in the so-called funnel room (Trichterraum) on the ground floor. The room, which is currently completely walled off, will be opened up piece by piece along the original windows and doors and access to the building will be made possible. The ground floor, which is now illuminated, will house the studio and at the same time a low-threshold exhibition and discussion space of the institute, which will be explicitly opened as a place of learning and encounter – conceivable collaborations would be with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, which is already represented in the Wielandgut in Oßmannstedt, or the universities from Weimar, Erfurt or Jena.
The granary in the landscape
The transformation station
Another intervention is planned in the area above the funnel room, which houses 13 silo cells with a height of twelve metres next to the staircase. The largest of these cells is to be used for testing archive use. For this purpose, a subsidiary structure is to be placed in the "grey cell", which will serve as a non-public space for storing archive materials and literature. Since heating is not currently planned and the archive does not require thermal energy, the active period of use will be concentrated on the summer.
Further uses will only arise with the utilisation of the materials located there. This concerns, for example, the cellar where tyres have been stored so far and which would be suitable as a workshop, or the wasteland of the storage sheds where bricks and broken concrete have been stored so far and which could function as a covered open space with various uses. Until then, the areas serve as CO2 storage.
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This is my 15th year of teaching Preschool and I LOVE IT! I was born in Paintsville KY and have lived in Lawrence County all my life. I attended Blaine Elementary School (Grades K-8) and graduated from Lawrence County High School. I attended college at Ashland Community College and Morehead State University where I have earned a Masters Degree in K-5 Education. I also have a degree in Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education to teach Preschool.
I am married to David Prince and have a daughter named Wrendi Prince who is a Middle Grades Teacher at Fallsburg Elementary.


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Sphaerowithius basilewskyi es una especie de arácnido del orden Pseudoscorpionida de la familia Withiidae.

Distribución geográfica
Se encuentra en Tanzania.

Referencias

Basilewskyi
Arácnidos de Tanzania

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In recent years that has been a re-emergence and now she is rising. She exists within every woman and man and is the source of Creation and is of the Earth and Moon. She wants to be heard. She needs to be seen. Women are coming together to empower and support each other.
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Teach-back (HLOL #129)
In these podcasts, you get to listen in on my conversations with some really remarkable people, hearing what health literacy is, why it matters and ways every one of us can help improve health understanding.
Today, I'm talking with Dr. Dean Schillinger, who is a practicing primary care physician, Professor of Medicine in Residence at the University of California San Francisco and Chief of the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital.
Dean Schillinger also directs UCSF's research program about health communication with vulnerable populations. He has authored over 200 publications about this work.
Dr. Schillinger also recently co-founded a novel public health campaign called "The Bigger Picture." This campaign harnesses the voice of young people to help change the social and environmental conditions leading to the epidemic of diabetes in minority youth.
I've known and valued Dean Schillinger's work for many years, starting with his teaching about teach-back. I am delighted he again agreed to be a guest on Health Literacy Out Loud.
Welcome, Dean.
Dean Schillinger: Thank you, Helen. Thank you for your leadership in this topic and for helping us to disseminate important information to our stakeholders.
Helen: Thanks. We're all in it together, we've been in it together, and we're all doing different pieces of the puzzle.
I learned about teach-back from you, and I'm very sincere about that. Teach-back has become quite the buzzword these days.
In 2003, I interviewed you for a column I was writing. The title was "Opening the Interactive Communication Loop." I learned so much from you about teach-back. Let's update that as it was quite a while ago.
Dean Schillinger: It was more than 10 years ago. What's interesting is that I give talks about health literacy and teach-back is part of it. At every talk, I ask people to raise their hand if they know what the teach-back method is. I've seen a consistent and gradual increase in the number of hands that go up. It would be about 1% of the room and then 3% of the room.
These are health literacy conferences where we're already preaching to the choir, if you will. We're at about 25% to 40% now where people are raising their hand.
Raising your hand doesn't mean that you do it, but at least you know what it is and you may even know how to do it. I think we're making some progress.
Helen: I hear about it too. I give a lot of workshops and everybody wants to know about teach-back. It's the most recommended strategy of what to do. I'm wondering if we're all talking about the same thing.
Dean Schillinger: That's a great question. I wrote that paper that you alluded to in 2003.
Helen: "The Interactive Communication Loop."
Dean Schillinger: Yes. It was really describing the teach-back method. We drew an association between patients whose doctors used the teach-back method and their diabetes control, suggesting that there was something good about the teach-back method.
I got a couple of letters to the editor in which people were saying, "If patients just did what I told them we'd be fine."
I think that there a lot of people who believe that teach-back means "if they'd just do what I told them to do we'd all be fine." It's really not that, obviously. It's much more about "are we seeing each other eye to eye and is our understanding matching each other's understanding?"
It may have very little to do with what our future behavior will actually look like. It's simply are we sharing the same meaning? Do we have shared meaning at this cross-sectional point in time about a diagnosis, a treatment plan, a barrier or a whole range of issues that come up in the healthcare context? It's just simply about sharing meaning.
Helen: In the moment.
Dean Schillinger: Yes, in the moment. Obviously it draws upon a lot of knowledge that someone may already have about a condition or trajectory of a disease, but it really is assessing the in-the-moment dialogue and the in-the-moment connection that you're having with someone, or lack of connection.
Helen: I'm glad you put that time gap in there because to me people are almost looking at it as this great panacea. They say, "If only everyone did teach-back then our healthcare system would be fixed."
Dean Schillinger: The Middle East problem would go away.
Helen: It's not quite like that.
You were there at the beginning. How did all of this get started?
Dean Schillinger: A couple of things had started to happen for me at the same time. One was in the research context. I was attending health literacy conferences. At some of the more early conferences there were some leading figures such as the Doaks.
Helen: Len and Ceci Doak.
Dean Schillinger: Yes. He really founded the field.
It's my memory that they had called out this strategy of ensuring that the learner has acquired the knowledge only if they could rearticulate in their own words what the teacher had taught them. I don't know if they called it the teach-back method, but I remember that very clearly.
In my clinical life as a primary care doctor, I was increasingly recognizing a couple of things. One is that many of my patients weren't doing well clinically even though I thought I was providing outstanding care to them.
All of the objective quality-of-care measures were checked off but legs were getting chopped off and heart attacks and strokes were happening, so there was some disconnect that I was seeing.
You asked me to tell a story so I'll tell a story. I remember almost as if it was yesterday a guy that I took care of who had really severe hypertension. He was a nice guy and we had a nice relationship, but every time he would come back his blood pressure was through the roof.
He would tell me what medication he was taking religiously but, every time, I would have to add another medication to his regimen.
He was on about nine or 10 blood pressure medications, which is not entirely unusual, but it was odd to me that we weren't making any headway. Usually you expect some improvement in blood pressure.
I had done the teach-back but now I was going to do the super teach-back, which was saying, "Bring in all of the bottles and show me exactly what you take next time."It wasn't really teach-back but it was "show me."
He brought back a shoebox full of pill bottles, many of which were from the 1990s. There were medications that I hadn't prescribed in over a decade. I said, "Mr. X, are you still taking these?" Then he said, "Doc, I never told you, but I just don't like swallowing pills."
We had been going on with this dance and this assumption that he was taking my pills for a decade. For a whole host of reasons, only some of which I might be able to figure out, he wasn't comfortable telling me that he wasn't swallowing them.
The long and short of it is that he's on two liquid medications now. It's like pediatric blood pressure pills but liquid form. His blood pressure is perfect on two medications.
There are a number of assumptions that we make as clinicians and a number of barriers that people have in actually disclosing to their clinician either their lack of understanding or their difficulty hearing. There are so many of them. If you multiply that by each other and extrapolate, you have an exponential number of reasons why miscommunication happens.
There's only one way to know, and that is to not assume and to explicitly have the person show you or tell you.
Helen: What you did, Dean, is the "show me." You put this in context of the words, as I understand teach-back. It's the words and repeating that short-term learning that you just did. You're really uncovering a bigger problem here. A bigger strategy is "show me" and really creating that shared meaning so it's not just that exchange of information.
Dean Schillinger: That's right. The "show me" takes it to the next level which is saying, "Let's see how and if you apply a shared knowledge and a shared language. Now apply it to a behavior."
It could be saying, "Show me how you inject your insulin," from the point of drawing it up into the syringe all the way to injecting it, "Show me how you take your pills," or, "Show me what time of the day."
Increasingly in medicine now we're creating more and more technologies where people can bring the hospital to their bedroom. We expect people to be able to use their meter-dose inhaler for asthma, inject themselves with this and that and use pedometers. All of these things require us to really ensure that the person has mastered the skills.
Helen: It's the skills and the knowledge. You also said it's not predicting the future. It's the present and maybe the immediate future.
Dean Schillinger: That's right. It's not predicting the future although I could say the absence of it will certainly predict the future. If you don't have shared meaning, I guarantee there isn't going to be any adherence to the treatment plan or whatever because it's in one ear and out the other.
Helen: Shared meaning alone won't commit to adherence.
Dean Schillinger: No. It sets you up. It sets you up well to say, "Let's take that shared meaning, make sure we have a therapeutic alliance where you and I trust each other and make sure we're going to cross the finish line together."
Ultimately it's in the hands of the patient and the family living in their home and community to decide and to have the resources to do what we hope they can do.
It's certainly not a guarantee, but I can say it's a sine qua non, meaning if you don't have it you're not likely to cross the finish line.
Helen: Thanks for that. I've never had as in depth a conversation about the meaning of teach-back. Often I focus on the how-to, but I'm thinking that a lot of the Health Literacy Out Loud listeners would like to hear from you some of the how-tos about teach-back.
Dean Schillinger: First of all, let me just make a couple of preface points.
One is that, in our work that we did over a decade ago, we showed that primary care doctors used the teach-back with respect to any kind of new concept only 12% of the time, which is really low.
Those doctors that did use it had patients whose diabetes was better controlled, so there was a suggestion that maybe there's something like a magic dust in the teach-back.
Until recently, that study had not been replicated, but I recently heard a presentation at one of the health literacy or health communication conferences about a year or so ago.
It was a presentation by a nurse who had studied certified diabetes educators who had taken care of 400 or 500 patients with diabetes and audiotaped their visits. They essentially duplicated the methods we did in our study.
The hypothesis there was that nurses, because of their excellent training in patient education and knowledge of the teach-back method, would apply it much more frequently than the primary care doctors in my study did.
Unfortunately, what she found was that less than 1% of the new concepts conveyed by the diabetes educator to the diabetes patient was accompanied by any form of teach-back, suggesting that we may know what the teach-back is but we're not doing it. It may be because we don't want to do it, we don't know how to do it or we don't think we've got time to do it.
Your question about how to do it is particularly important in light of that recent study.
Helen: Let's get there, because that's appalling. Ten years later, even though teach-back is kind of the buzz term, we're really not doing it in all professions.
Let's get to some of the how-tos. You brought up the issue of time too, so let's get to the objections of this too.
Dean Schillinger: The first thing I want to say about the how-tos is the how-not-tos if I could. It's not, "Have I been clear?" "Are we good?" "Any questions?" or, "Do we understand each other?"All of those are spitting in the wind.
They're really not authentic confirmation of understanding. They simply lead to a standard nod of the head or a "yes, doctor." There are a variety of reasons of why that's the case.
Half the time, the patient actually does understand so, sure, that's fair, but in the half of the time that the patient doesn't understand, patients do not see that as the opportunity to express that misunderstanding. Those don't count.
I know that the nurse that did the study of the 1% was hearing a lot of that, as was I in my study. People may believe they're doing the teach-back but that is not the teach-back.
What the teach-back is, just from a definitional point, is an explicit elicitation on the part of the patient to restate in his or her own words what she heard and understood about what the clinician stated in some domain.
How it's best done is first by framing it or setting it up. You don't just go on one knee and ask someone to marry you. You frame it first.
You have to sort of frame it like saying, "I'm about to do something here with you that's kind of weird so get ready." You have to have a framing statement.
I go to one of two strategies. If it's somebody who I know has a spouse, a daughter, a caregiver or whatever at home, and assuming it's a guy who has a wife at home, I'll say, "Mr. Jones, when you go home and your wife says, 'Frank, what did the doctor tell you today?' what are you going to tell her? I want to make sure I explained it easily for you so you could explain it to her."
What I do here is I really personalize it through that relationship of the husband and the wife. However, I really put the onus of any misunderstanding on Frank's part on me because I said, "I want to make sure that I explained it clearly to you."
If the person doesn't have a caregiver at home, I just simply say, "Ms. Jimenez, we went through a lot of things today. I want to make sure that I was crystal clear about what we want to do with your medications. Could you tell me in your own words what you've taken away from our conversation in terms of what you're going to do with your medications?"
Helen: You also specified it. You didn't ask her to give you an entire round of pharmacology.
Dean Schillinger: No. Don't tell me the passive physiology of kidney disease.
Helen: You just said, "What are you going to do with this?" You frame it.
Dean Schillinger: There's sort of a preamble to the teach-back where I describe the framing and then there's the post-talk or the post-amble of the teach-back.
There's one other preamble thing which is that you have to decide what you really care about at the end of the day that the patient goes home and tells his wife about.
Of all the things you've talked about, what are the one, two or three things at most that you want to make sure Frank gets? You have to know those things in your mind when you're going into the visit and during the visit because those are the ones you want to explain clearly and do the teach-back on.
Helen: You sure don't do it on everything.
Dean Schillinger: No. If you've got seven things in your head, you need to prioritize because we know people can't remember seven things. Really prioritize first before you say, "When you go home and your wife asks you." You really need to know what you're asking them to teach-back.
The post-talk piece really is about what you do with the stuff you get back from patients. You're going to get about half of the people who say, "Oh, you want me to increase my Metformin to three times a day. You told me that. Why are you asking me that?" You say, "Terrific. I feel like we did some safe medication practice there and we're good to go."
The other half are going to give you a wide range of responses. Some people will say, "I have no idea what you're talking about. What medication?" It's pretty clear that they were not with you for a lot of the visit. You're going to have to go back to the beginning and start over about the medication.
Other people will say things like, "Oh, right. It's that diabetes medicine. You want me to something, right?" I say, "That's right. I wanted you to change the number of times a day." They say, "Oh, right. You wanted me to do it three times a day and not twice a day, right?"
Helen: You're teaching it again.
Dean Schillinger: I'm kind of teaching it again but I'm also letting them get it right by saying, "Yes, we talked about the number of times a day," and then she says, "Oh, right. You want me to take it three times a day."
That's because people who say it and they get it right are going to much more likely remember it than people who get it wrong and get corrected.
Getting something wrong and getting it corrected is not an equation for you remembering. It's an equation for you to be stigmatized and feel ashamed. Getting something right and getting praise for remembering is an equation for recalls.
You may find also that people start to raise some things that you otherwise wouldn't have known. They might say, "You told me about that Metformin thing, but I don't really believe in medications and I'm going to take my cactus leaves and tea."
It may not be a misunderstanding, but you're going to reveal, or she would have just disclosed to you, an alternative health belief that you didn't even know existed. That's really important for you to know. There will be valuable information that may come back at you.
Lastly, you may discover that somebody just consistently isn't able to teach stuff back to you. Then you have to wonder, "Do they have some cognitive impairment? Do they have some hearing problems or sensory deficits of the eighth nerve? Is there a language barrier? Is their literacy so profoundly low that they can't do numbers?"
You have to be very curious around the response that you get. It's not just a simple dichotomous true/false, yes/no question. It's really like a very interesting response and you need to tailor your next step based on that response.
Helen: Dean, you're a busy doc. You're in practice and doing a zillion other things at the same time. How do you fit all of this in?
You get that response you weren't expecting, you're uncovering other problems and you're finding out they have a whole other world view about this medicine you just want to teach them how to take. What do you do about that time issue?
Dean Schillinger: First, I'll say that hard-data-wise our study that you alluded to earlier showed that visits that have a teach-back in them were actually a little briefer than visits that didn't. It wasn't statistically significant so I'll say that they were basically the same. They were basically 20 minutes long.
Why is that? They were 20 minutes because guess how many minutes I have for an appointment? I have 20 minutes for an appointment and that's how much time I'm going to use for an appointment.
You have 20 minutes, 15 minutes or whatever your health system gives you. The question you have to ask yourself is what are you going to do with those 20 minutes?
Sure, I could teach them all about diabetes, I could start them on 17 medications and I could take a train wreck and turn it into a beautiful engine, but if the person is not understanding a word that you're saying and if you're talking a different language, it's a complete waste of time. I should say it's an ineffective use of time.
Any time there's miscommunication, it's like a voltage drop of electricity. You lose energy every time you do that. The fewer voltage drops you can have in the course of a 20-minute visit or the course of a lifetime of caring for someone, the more effective of a clinician you'll be, whether it's a doctor, nurse, physical therapist or whatever.
You have to be curious. You have to start developing these habits that over time in an iterative way will turn you into a better communicator so that by the fifth year of doing the teach-back you're noticing, "More and more of my patients are actually able to teach this stuff back to me now. Have they gotten smarter or have I just gotten better?"
I had something happen to me the other day where one of my patients said, "Doc, aren't you going to do that teach-back thing on me?" I said, "That's fantastic. I love that. Thank you."
Helen: I love that.
Dean Schillinger: That's what we want. We have that in the airline industry where the control tower says, "Tell me when you're ready to take off."
Helen: I love listening to you. You framed where it began. You frame what's going on. You do it with humor but you do it with humanity too.
This is the last question about this. You did your research more than a dozen years ago on this. What keeps you excited about it? I can hear that excitement still today.
Dean Schillinger: Do you mean about teach-back in particular?
Helen: Yes.
Dean Schillinger: It's one of the few moments in medicine, unfortunately because of the way we evolved, where you can actually get the patient's story.
What's so interesting about medicine is the people, how they arrived where they have arrived, the resilience and the vulnerabilities they have and all of those things.
It's about maintaining your curiosity. I think the teach-back ultimately is about that. It's about maintaining your curiosity about people.
In fact, those of us who do the teach-back have begun to do it at the very beginning of the visit. I say, "We talked about a lot of things last time, Ms. Jimenez. What have you thought about those things? How has it gone for you?"
It's sort of a habit now which has much greater degrees of interactivity and reciprocal exchange than otherwise we're restricted to do. I think it can be freeing rather than restrictive. I think people think of it as a restrictive practice, but it's a very freeing practice.
Helen: We're going to put a semicolon in the conversation now.
This is the second time I've interviewed you for a podcast, and I'd love to interview you again. It's almost like a serial. We keep moving the story forward. We can begin with that shared meaning at the beginning of the next one and move on from there.
I don't want to take more of your time right now. You have shared so much with us and you do amazing work.
Dean Schillinger: You and I will not be happy until that 1% becomes 90%.
Helen: Yes, or at least in the double digits in the next decade.
Thank you, Dean, so much for being a guest on Health Literacy Out Loud.
Dean Schillinger: Helen, thank you so much.
Helen: I learned so much in this podcast conversation from Dr. Dean Schillinger and I hope that you did too.
Health literacy and using the teach-back and all of the other many strategies he talked about isn't always easy. For help clearly communicating your health message, please visit my Health Literacy Consulting website at www.HealthLiteracy.com.
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The number of studies of thin polymer films has increased over recent years as technological processes incorporate the use of nanomaterials. An enhanced understanding of these films would enable us to predict bound-polymer behavior and thus improve the efficiency of processes and the quality of products. This is especially true as the thickness of the films approach molecular dimensions. The glass transition temperature of a polymer is one of the most important properties for characterization because it indicates how the polymer might perform macroscopically. when a polymer is confined, such as one the surface of a substrate, its behavior is influenced by molecular interactions between the polymer and the substrate. These interactions may affect the polymer's glass transition temperature and warrant scientific investigation. This study uses modulated differential scanning calorimetric (MDSC) to examine the glass transition of poly (methyl methacrylate) adsorbed onto silica. We varied the amount of polymer adsorbed, and found that the Tg center and its breadth increased with decreased coverage. T o our knowledge this is the first reported analysis of such very thin polymer films using MDSC.
C. E. Porter and F. D. Blum, "Thermal Characterization of PMMA Thin Films on Silica Using Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry," Polymer Preprints, American Chemical Society (ACS), Jan 1999.


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Q: Getting value from dropdown and use it in query i am having trouble in deleteing values from my database using php can someone help me plsss this is for my project
this is where i get the  value

<select name="fname" id='mySelect' value='Foodname'>

and this is what i want to do after i submit it

if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{

        $food = $_POST['fname'];
        echo $food;

        if($food=='')
              {
                echo"<script>alert('Please Dont Leave any Blanks')</script>";
              }
        else
        {
        sqldel="DELETE FROM menu WHERE food = $food;";
        }
}

A: just remove ; after query and put single quote around variable $food
sqldel="DELETE FROM menu WHERE food = $food;";

shoulb be
sqldel="DELETE FROM menu WHERE food = '$food'";

A: Here is a fix for your query:
    $sqldel = "DELETE FROM menu WHERE food = '".$food."'";

A: This is how your complete code should be look like. Hope it helps!!!
<form name="" method="post" action="">
    <select name="fname" id='mySelect' value='Foodname'>
        <option value="">select</option>
        <option value="option1">option1</option>
        <option value="print server, printer">print server, printer</option>
    </select>
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

<?php
//Check if Form is submitted
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
        //Store submitted value in variable
        $food = $_POST['fname'];
        echo $food;

        //Check if the submitted value is blank or not
        if($food=='')
        {
            //User submitted blank value - so throw an error
            echo"<script>alert('Please Dont Leave any Blanks')</script>";
        }
        else
        {
            /*user selected a valid value in drop down so we are in else part*/
            //This is your database configuration settings
            $servername = "localhost";
            $username = "root";
            $password = "password";
            $dbname = "yourDBName";

            // Create connection - here you are doing database connection
            $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
            /* Check connection - If you database configuration settings are wrong it will throw an error and stop there itself  and wont execute your further code*/
            if ($conn->connect_error) {
                die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
            }

            /*Now Check if record exists in db for the selected value. If record exists in database than only we can delete record.*/
            $sql = "SELECT id FROM menu WHERE food = '".$food."'";
            $result = $conn->query($sql);

                /*check if select query return a row greater than 0, implies record exists in table */
                if ($result->num_rows > 0) {

                        /*Record exists in database so - sql to delete a record*/
                        $delete_sql = "DELETE FROM menu WHERE food = '".$food."' ";
                        /*this will execute the delete query, if it return true we will show success alert else throw an error*/
                        if ($conn->query($delete_sql) === TRUE) {

                            echo"<script>alert('Record deleted successfully')</script>";

                        } else {
                            echo "Error deleting record: " . $conn->error;
                        }

                } else {
                      echo"<script>alert('No record found for the seleted item')</script>";
                }

            //Close database connection
            $conn->close();

        }

}
?>

A: You need to put quotes around $food.
$sqldel="DELETE FROM menu WHERE food = '$food';";

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Two parallel worlds are starting to rub up against each other – open data enthusiasts and local activist groups. As Sam Smith has pointed out, embedding the power of open data in other worlds such as local activism has barely begun.
Maps are one medium where I've been trying to bring these worlds together.
In the left corner we have people like Rob Hopkins, who has just written a great summary of Transition Town groups mapping wild food, local groups and visions of the future. This wonderful work makes use of relatively open tools like Google Maps, but (so far as I can see) they make absolutely no use of open data, and keep all of their data in their own separate mapping systems.
In the right corner we have open data crowds like OpenStreetMap, and after some prodding from me the Greater London Authority and the Department for Energy and Climate Change. Together we have stacks of open data on renewable energy generators, allotments, recycling bins and more. But so far we haven't made it easy for activists who aren't super-geeks to do interesting things with this data, nor to use platforms like OpenStreetMap to store data they gather.
This is a great shame because both camps believe in the value and power of co-operation and collaboration.
Here in Southwark (south east London) I have found several local groups, the council and the Greater London Authority all trying to map local food growing, or at least interested in getting the results. Why not all work together on one open dataset that everyone can then use?
With OpenStreetMap it is possible for everybody and their dog to gather data of interest to them, and put it all in one place. That way you don't duplicate effort, and you benefit from other people's work.
It should also be possible to share the tools so local groups don't need a resident geek to reinvent the wheel. Google Maps enabled people to make maps of local fruit and nut trees with ease; sadly OpenStreetMap has required too many geeky power skills to do this.
First, easy access to the data we hold. My tool generates KML files with nice pointy clicky icons for all sorts of data related to low carbon power, waste, transport, food and culture. It pulls fresh data out of OpenStreetMap every hour. You can use these KML files on your own map or desktop programme, and you can embed the map itself if you don't already have one.
Second, a customised editor (using Potlatch 2) that focuses only on the features that the map shows and that makes the presentation of all the OpenStreetMap data a little less overwhelming.
If every community group, charity and government body in London used OpenStreetMap then we would all be contributing to one definitive map instead of all doing our own thing ignorant of each other.
I have extended a hand to friends and contacts in my local Southwark who want to map food growing and renewable energy generators. Through various emails and pub meetups I hope they will begin to use the maps on their web sites (as Peckham Power have done) and to use the customised editor to enter new data.
I have also started discussions with staff at the GLA (who lead on Londonwide food strategy and projects like Capital Growth) and Southwark Council. To my slight surprise, they have been very enthusiastic about the potential of this work. If our tentative first steps in Southwark bear fruit, there is interest in rolling this approach out across London.
Given that this is a hobby, competing with a life and my Green Party responsibilities, I'm taking it all quite slowly. I know there are good reasons whymany groups will want to stick with the tools they already have, perhaps because they don't have the time to make the switch, or because we don't yet offer something they need.
But if you're involved with any mapping exercises for local community groups and would like to find out how you could make better use of open data, or if you're an open map data geek interested in helping bridge the divide with local groups, get in touch by leaving a comment below.
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This is fantastic. I wish you every luck in engaging local groups and the GLA to make use of this. I think before long, you'll be getting calls from groups in other cities asking how they can set one up.
I especially like the custom Potlatch 2. Excellent idea to use a wireframe background in the editor. I wonder whether less busy tiles might work better in the map view, too – maybe Mapquest tiles?
I've been thinking about using other tiles… I really like Mapquest when zoomed right in, but the wider views seem very car-centric. I'm also not sure how to use them.
Thanks for your other kind comments.


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