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To resolve this problem with 4.0.11 you have to delete the entry in red in the error message that pops up. It warns you but press yes. Upon restarting the app all the entries for your Assignments, Duties, Reports and Upcoming are gone. Open settings then About and click on Refresh Data, ignore any warning. It will repopulate the app with your personal data.

Same here. Kinda unusual: 4.0.10 seemed like it worked fine. Now this... the constant instability is making this app pretty useless right now. MESSAGE TO DEVELOPERS: Here's an idea: once you get everything working again, how about DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING for another 6 months or so! Maybe we have enough advanced clever features... maybe we can just let everyone in the congregation learn to use what is there RIGHT NOW. If this prolonged error phase continues, some congregations will likely pull the plug - we would rather spend hours in the ministry than hours fighting this app!

An alternative app is starting to look nicer and nicer.... We can't keep having MAJOR hiccups with every MAJOR update.

I updated from 4.0.8 to the latest update for me on Android is 4.0.11 and I am not sure what is happening to the QC of releasing the NWP app. This has never happened before. Upon starting I get the message that there was an error in loading the app. It appeared that everything was successfully loaded except the local data. After a warning for deleting the local data I went through with it. The app now started but everything related to me, like assignments, duties, submitted FS reports and things coming up soon was no longer there. The error log was lengthy. To get the local data back I had to refresh the data under Settings/About and again with a warning. If this happens to other publishers in the congregation, we will be busy. Just my observation but this has never happened in the years we used NWS & NWP. The only explanation I have for this is that there is something rotten in the state of Quality Control before releasing updates.

Unannounced Foreign Overseer (Three elders scrambled to find their ties before realizing it wasn't a circuit visit.)

I had to Google this, and you're right. The expansion of the universe is not direct proof, because most stars that will ever exist have already been formed. New stars can be formed in nebulae (molecular gas clouds) but it's because gravity is compressing the clouds. The expansion of the universe means that the space between galaxies is stretching, not that matter is being continuously created to form stars.

From what I could find: Specifically for the 2016 Mendez paper, they recovered around 120 kilobases of Y chromosome sequence from El Sidrón. The entire human Y chromosome is about 57 megabases, so they captured roughly 0.2% of it, which is definitely less than I would assume is ideal. They got that using exome capture... essentially baiting specific target sequences with synthetic probes to fish out fragments of interest from a soup of mostly degraded or contaminated material. Now, for the 2020 Petr paper they did better, achieving something closer to full Y chromosome coverage but the raw DNA in the sample is still extremely old and damaged, not to mention, fragmented. The "sequences" are reconstructed from millions of tiny overlapping reads, not pulled out as intact strands. And apologies for the use of AI next, but to your second question, I didn't want my personal bias (which is in agreement with you) to affect the analysis of the data. This is what plugging the studies and asking the question output: "The legitimate criticism buried in your question There is a real concern worth raising: when scientists say "we sequenced the Neandertal Y chromosome," what they mean is they reconstructed a statistical consensus sequence from millions of tiny, damaged, overlapping fragments, filtered for contamination, corrected for damage patterns, and assembled computationally. It is not like reading a book. It's more like reconstructing a shredded manuscript from confetti, after mice have eaten some of it. That doesn't make it wrong — the methods are rigorous and have been extensively validated — but the popular science framing ("scientists read Neandertal DNA!") does obscure how indirect and probabilistic the process is. The researchers themselves are usually careful about this in the methods sections, even when the headlines aren't."

Looks like it's playing near me as well. I may check this out next week.

Sunny and in the mid to high 60s today.

Lasagna, Sandwiches and Brownies...😁

Today I start the Minecraft diet...

Technically you'd be a UAP: an Undocumented Alien Publisher. 😁

and its effect in sweden https://bitterwinter.org/jehovahs-witnesses-after-norway-sweden-also-rediscovers-neutrality-and-religious-freedom/

If I go to the US "undocumented," I will be an alien.

As attacks on Europe’s Jewish communities escalate, Iran may be recruiting operatives online https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/11/europe/europe-antisemitic-attacks-online-groups-iran-claim-intl-cmd

How much genetic material did they actually find? I keep getting contradictory messages. Some sources say DNA has a half-life and other sources say they can find Y chromosomes from a tooth? They also keep mentioning Mitochondrial DNA. Are they playing wordgames with us?

I came to this site as I want to wean myself off being on secular poetry sites, so I looked for an online witness poetry group. I love writing poetry, honing my craft, and I enjoy reading good poetry penned by others. Does anyone here like writing various forms of poetry, including rhyming/metered poems, a Haibun, other forms of poetry, brevities, or even free verse? Those last two are my favourites. Are any of you open to sharing constructive and friendly critiques on what we write? Love to hear your thoughts... : )

This is true!

Headshots: Left to Right: Thaddeus, Judas Iscariot, Simon the Cananaean, Thomas, Andrew, Peter, Nathaniel/Bartholomew, Philip, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus Brothers: John and James the sons of Zebedee

I like the sound of the song. I went to the link and cannot find the download button/option/link

Hello friends, Here's a free song download by the DMS BAND especially for the friends. KEEP GOING TO MEETINGS. Enjoy! 😁 LISTEN to Sample: KEEP GOING TO MEETINGS (SAMPLE).mp3 FREE Full Song Download Here: 👉 https://dmsstudiomasters.com/dms-band/free-songs/

WOW John! Those songs are great. You did all of that with AI? Amazing! You are really talented. Thank you my brother. 💚

Thank you Jerry. All of my songs are free for the friends. 🙂