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Wednesday, August 26 Continue to love your enemies and to pray for those who persecute you.—Matt. 5:44. We can only begin to imagine the pain Jesus felt as well as the indignity and the injustice that he endured. Yet, he was not conquered by the injustice he suffered. Instead of cursing the soldiers who had nailed him to the stake, he prayed: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34) When we pray for those who mistreat us, it can lessen our feelings of resentment and anger and even change the way we view those who offend us. There is no telling what injustices we may yet face before this system ends. Whatever comes our way, let us never stop praying to Jehovah for help. Also, may we imitate the way Jesus responded to mistreatment and continue to apply Bible principles. If we do, we can be sure of inheriting a blessing from Jehovah.—1 Pet. 3:8, 9. w24.11 6 ¶16; 7 ¶17, 19

For my use case, it simply flies with very little correcting. Last year's model worked fast, eager, needed everything broken into small pieces, and would quietly lose the plot on anything long (strugglebus was real). This one works like someone who's been on the job three years. You hand it the messy thing and it comes back with the answer instead of forty questions. One of the main reasons for this is that the older models "skimmed". You could feel them pattern-matching on the shape of your input rather than the content. Fable on the other hand reads the whole thing (including the parts you forgot were in there, lol). It used to take four rounds of me correcting it. Now it's usually right the first time, so it stopped feeling like I was managing it and started feeling like I was working with it.

The digitizing was a game changer for us who organize the ministry and for the publishers as they now feel more engaged in working a territory by changing the status of homes. In addition what I have done is in the scheduler for each territory under the information tab you have 2 fields you can assign links to. The 1st one I labeled Directions. From the Satellite of Google maps I selected a spot that allows for parking of a few cars, that way you go straight from the meeting for field service into the territory and not have another meeting place where again rearranging what was already done after the conclusion of the meeting for field service.

ED: Busy weekend for Space watchers: How to watch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's launch NASA is broadcasting the event live on August 30. By Mariella Moon 24 Aug 2026 The Nancy Grace Roman telescope is heading to space in a few days. It's set for launch on August 30, no earlier than 7:26AM Eastern time, with NASA's live coverage to begin at 6:20AM. The agency's engineers completed the final inspection of the telescope's primary mirror in late May to make sure it hadn't been damaged during testing. In early June, NASA announced that the telescope will launch earlier than the September schedule it had previously planned. Article link: https://www.engadget.com/2243391/how-to-watch-the-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescopes-launch/ Saturday, Aug. 29 9 a.m. | Science briefing on NASA’s Roman Space Telescope. Stream on YouTube 10:30 a.m. | Prelaunch news conference on NASA’s Roman Space Telescope. Stream on YouTube Sunday, Aug. 30 6:20 a.m. | Launch coverage of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope. Stream on X, Discovery+, Amazon Prime, YouTube, NASA+ 9:30 a.m. | Postlaunch news conference on NASA’s Roman Space Telescope. Stream on YouTube NASA Live - NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/live/ Note: While NASA programming is free, obtaining it through third-party streaming services may require equipment purchases or subscription fees. These links are provided for your information and do not constitute NASA’s endorsement of any goods or services. NASA events: https://www.nasa.gov/event/nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope/

Galactic Gems Glisten New Gallery From NASA’s Chandra By Megan Watzke 25 Aug 2026 Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new gallery released today from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes displays a collection of galactic images that showcase this variety. Astronomers put galaxies into three main categories: spirals like our own Milky Way with arms emanating from their cores, ellipticals that are older and likely the results of mergers, and irregulars that can encompass a wide range of galactic phenomena. Note: There are 16 new images in this galactic gallery. Each one contains X-ray data from Chandra that has been collected across Chandra’s decades in space. This high-energy data has been combined with data from telescopes such as NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes, IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array), and others both on the ground and in space. Article link: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/galactic-gems-glisten-in-new-gallery-from-nasas-chandra/. Pic Description: This gallery displays a collection of 16 galactic images from Chandra and other telescopes. Astronomers put galaxies into three main categories: spirals like our own Milky Way, ellipticals that are older and likely the results of mergers, and irregulars that can encompass a wide range of galactic phenomena. All types are represented in this collection. Each galactic image contains X-ray data from Chandra combined with data from telescopes such as NASA’s Webb, Hubble, IXPE, Swift, and NuSTAR, and others both in space and on the ground. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO ED: 16 Hi-res images can be individually downloaded from the article.

I liked her movies "Steel Magnolias" 9 to 5 and countless others! And I liked her songs as well. One could just feel that she was truly a sweet person, who truly cared about others!

Made me so sad! I met her in person once, she was recording her "Halo and Horns" Album at the recording studio my son-in-law owned. She came out of the recording booth and spoke to my Sis and Mom and me for awhile. She was so sweet, my daughter made her special kind of cookies to give her. We shared some of her last batch, she said she took them home and put them in the freezer to enjoy with her hubby. She was such a good person, hopefully Jehovah will remember her in the resurrection, along with my daughter and her husband, both are now deceased.

It is sad that some of old timers do not stop performing, like Rod Stewart, Barry Mellow, Lionel Richie and others. They in their 70’s and 80’s and performing has to be killing them.

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https://variety.com/2026/music/news/dolly-parton-dead-dies-country-music-1236842727/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/08/25/dolly-parton-death-cause-country-music-legend-singer/89232175007/ https://apnews.com/live/dolly-parton-8-25-2026 She was a very talented singer, musician and songwriter. Who knows, maybe we will see her in the New System where she can get a whole new 'cup of ambition'

The Craig Nettles error card 1981 fleer, is 250bucks on bay. I may have one upstairs.

One thing to remember about baking ... it is more of a science than "cooking". Measurements matter with baking more than they do with plain cooking. Bread can be simple and forgiving but can also be quite challenging when trying to get certain textures and results. I have been baking bread as well as many other foods for way longer than you are old. For a fairly simple bread to make - here is a video - keep in mind, though fairly simple, the measurements and steps are critical to get good results. I don't know that this will work in a microwave oven, though How Microwave Bread Works Cooking time: Takes about 3 to 6 minutes on high power instead of 30+ minutes. No crust: Microwaves do not get hot enough to brown the outside or create a hard crust. Texture: The bread turns out soft, spongy, and similar to a steamed bun. Limitation: Standard microwaves cannot bake traditional yeast-raised loaves well unless they have a special convection mode

I agree fully with @More4me2do. Once you add all the addresses to a territory, the concept of "blocks" becomes useless. If the territory is unworked, you can assign one or more groups with instructions like: "Work all the blue houses on Adams Avenue". If partially worked already, the instruction might change to "work all the orange houses (ie, NH once) on Adams Avenue. Since houses will be marked in real time, the group overseer as well as each car group can immediately see the progress on each street in territory.

When I married my dh before coming into the truth, I realized we had little in common,but he was a collector of comics,sports cards,coins, etc, So I spent time trying to support his hobbies. In 1981, Donruss joined Fleer and Topps, producing Baseball cards. Those early packs included a puzzle piece and a piece of gum. Len and I studied Beckett magazine to check on collectible cards and search for errors like Craig (Greg?)Nettles. We still had lots of gum and cards after our sons were born and I sent 100 pieces of BBC gum to school on their hundredth day. A fave piece may have been a comic book, mint Hulk #1 (Hulk was brown) which got damaged. Len died in 2022 and the remains of his collectibles are upstairs. One son is up there, waiting to move, and I can't make the stairs right now due to injury (starting pt for that.) I have a box of sports cards ready to mail my sister's family.

Thinking about the silence: As a writer and a word nerd, sometimes words just fail me, and I have to pray to Jehovah to understand that which seems incomprehensible. Glad you are still trying. And best wishes to all who are offering wordless prayers.

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It can be done with JavaScript. Well you know better. Thanks 🙏

CLM Explorer is still fine for our congregation.

we use hourglass. fully European privacy compliant (although that's not an issue for us)

Both do basically the same thing. I have used both extensively as well as wintm, khs and a home grown system. Hourglass + Mobile / Browser first: runs on all platforms + Updates have never caused me any issues + Solid data replication + Not commercial + Friendly support . Somewhat clunky interface (but getting better) - less features (but growing) NWS - Windows. They have been advertising a mac / mobile version, but ...well ... - Updates frequently cause some form of headache for everyone - Fragile data replication - Commercial - Condescending, sometimes rude support . Dated C# wpf interface has its quirks + More features, more reports There's a lot of difference in the underlying technology and security. That can drive a real discussion (or argument).

Have you fully digitized your territories so that the publishers can change the status of each individual home / residence? After doing this to our territories the number of residences per territory is between 100 and 300. Because we can see in real time where publishers work, boundaries become immaterial as we can see where they are by the change of the status of any given home. Our FSGOs just give publishers the territory number as they appear in the NWP app and street or area in the territory. The software does the rest. Our choice of status change for homes are 1. At Home 2. Not at Home 3. Do Not Call 4. No Trespassing 5. Vacant 6. No Soliciting My guess would be that this feature will not be of benefit to those of us who have fully digitized their territories and therefore the developers most likely will not implement it.

Yes, please add me 😃 I'll send you a pm. Busy right now, but will get to it 👍

Hi @Nnaemeka, Could you elaborate, please? Do you mean a daily reminder to read the Bible? I think that's outside of the scope of this web app. It runs in a very limited context, with no access to system timers/notifications.