Saturday, May 1, 2010

Solar Calendar Proves Biblical Sabbath

Join us, in person or on line, for the next 3 Friday nights, May 7, 14 and 21 at 8pm as Don Roth presents a three part series on his calendar calculation: SOLAR CALENDAR PROVES BIBLICAL SABBATHS, that looks at how to place events in the Bible from a unique view point. Instead of trying to establish events in the Bible from now and ...go backwards as most historians do, he has used the accounts of the Bible and started from zero and counted forwards using the examples, text and events of the scriptures. Don Roth will present the charts and equations he has come up with and we encourage you to join in, and feedback is very much encouraged. We look forward to having you join us for this presentation and discussion

A quote from his paper:
“It would add a great measure of certainty about this calendar if a solar calendar were constructed by seven day Sabbaths, beginning with the creation week, showing that its Sabbaths coincide with the Hebrew Calculated Calendar (HCC) and the biblical accounts of creation, the flood and its Sabbaths in Gen. 7, the Sabbaths of Ex. 16 and the Passover of Josh. 5:10-12. This would establish a solid foundation to project dates through the entire bible and confirm the validity of the HCC.

Through further study of the solar calendar, beginning with the creation year, it will be shown that the progression of the seven day week through the solar years will match the Sabbaths of Genesis 7 and 8 and Exodus 16. The HCC, when brought forward by its nineteen year cycles will also match these Sabbaths, thus adding the mathematical proof that the HCC is the calendar that God employed in the accounts of the bible; thus making it the only usable calendar for God’s people.”

Don has based his calculation on the Hebrew Calculated Calendar (HCC) and his own Seven Day Solar calendar. The HCC can be a hot topic in calendar discussions so I would like to say that whether you use the HCC, the Observed Calendar, First Crescent, the conjunction or the Abib or the various versions of establishing the Holy Days, they all come together/ reconcile every 19 years so it may be a moot point in what he has to offer.

(on a personal note: What Don has to offer is so very interesting and innovative, I don’t want his presentation derailed because of his firm belief in the HCC being used from the beginning. Give him a chance to introduce his charts and tables and get the gist of what he is presenting and then determine if the postponements make a difference to the outcome.)

He definitely wants input and discussion on what he is presenting, there is a lot of math involved and many charts, which will be available on line.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Keep Your Widgets (updated)

I updated the template on my photo blog yesterday.  I've pretty much ignored that one for a while, and I was still using an OLD Blogger layout.  Anyway, I found a template I like and decided to install it.  And that's when I noticed that Blogger now lets you choose to keep your widgets when you upload a new template - instead of having to lose them all, or manually find them in your old template and insert them into the new one.  I'm not sure when this started because I haven't changed a template in a while, but this is going to make changing your template so much easier. 

Thank you, Blogger, for realizing that after we put all that work into adding our widgets, we don't want to lose them just to change the look of our blogs!
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Twitter Followers on Your Twitter Background

I'm thinking it's about time for a new background for my twitter page, but I'm not sure what I want.  Do I want to create a custom background, which would take some kind of idea and artistic talent?  Or do I just want to pick a free one from one of the many sites that offer them?  I still haven't decided, but I noticed one of the people I follow on twitter was using a background from Twilk - so I had to check it out.

It looks like fun.  Basically you sign in with twitter, and Twilk creates you a background made up of the profile photos of the people you follow, or your followers, or both - however you want to set it up.  The more you mention, retweet, or interact with someone, the more they should show up in your background.

I haven't decided if I'm going to try it or not, but it does offer a very unique background for everyone - unless, as someone said, you have the exact same followers and interact with them the exact same way as someone else does - highly unlikely.
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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Free Photoshop Brushes

I came across this list of free Photoshop brushes today - the best brushes in various categories.  There are some nice looking ones here, and I think I could have some fun with some of these.  I haven't downloaded or installed any of them, so I'm saving this list for later.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Free Books

I came across a couple sites for free books today.  One is for audio books, and one is children's books.

You can download free audio books from BooksShouldBeFree.com. There are quite a few books available in different genres.  Most of them are older books, so you won't find any recent best-sellers, but definitely worth a look.  There are quite a few books I've never read and might enjoy listening to, as well as some old favorites I haven't read in years.  Books can be downloaded into iTunes or in MP3 format.

Free children's books can be downloaded at Children's Books Forever.  There are some really cute books here.  It looks like most, if not all, of them are written by Hans Wilhelm.  The books open with Adobe Reader, so you can read them online, save them to your computer, print them out, and even use them on Smartboard, PowerPoint or overhead projectors (non-commercial use only) - so it looks like a great resource for parents and teachers.
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Friday, March 5, 2010

Multicolr Search Lab

Lady Banana shared this on Twitter today, and it's so much fun.  You can select up to 10 colors, and it searches for Flickr images with those colors.  I'm not sure if there's any practical use to it, but it's fun to choose different colors and see what comes up.  If you find a photo you really like, you can click to view it on Flickr.

 

Check out Multicolr Search Lab and try it for yourself.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Fun with Photos

Mosaic of a seagull (using birds and other nat...Image via Wikipedia
Today's Giveaway of the Day was some kind of program to create shapes with your photos.  After reading through the comments, I decided not to download it, but I grabbed some links to programs I can get later if I want.  The first two are for photo mosaics,which is more what I was interested in.  They take your photos and create an image, like the seagull here.  The last one takes photos and arranges them into shapes, which could have some fun uses.
Now, if only I can find the time to play with them...
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