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Update: 24 languages, and what's new A few things have shipped since I last posted, almost all of it language work. Three new languages recently: Hindi, Indonesian and Romanian. Before those, Chinese, Vietnamese and Hungarian. That brings the site to 24 languages: English · Español · Português · Français · Deutsch · Italiano · Русский · 日本語 · 한국어 · Filipino · Svenska · Cebuano · العربية · עברית · Українська · Polski · 简体中文 · 繁體中文 · 粵語 · Tiếng Việt · Magyar · हिन्दी · Bahasa Indonesia · Română Every one of them is complete, not partial — the merge app, Study Explorer, Study Stats, Note Sharing, Library Doctor and the Reading Companion are all translated, along with all 37 guides. Arabic and Hebrew are properly right-to-left throughout. Two things I took some care over: Chinese is three separate languages here, matching how jw.org itself publishes — Mandarin Simplified, Mandarin Traditional, and Cantonese. Cantonese is genuinely written differently (嘅 唔 係 喺 咗), so it isn't just Mandarin in traditional characters, and a converter can't produce it. The Bible chapter links in the Reading Companion now open jw.org in the right language for all 24. That sounds like a small thing, but jw.org quietly serves English for any language code it doesn't recognise — no error, the page just loads in the wrong language. Every code has been checked against the live site rather than guessed. If something reads awkwardly or plainly wrong in your language, I'd really appreciate hearing about it — even one sentence. That's the part I can't check myself, and I'd much rather fix it than leave it sitting there. Same for any bugs. jwsync.org

I just finished spoke one of the Infinity Engines. It's called The Anachronist by Andrew Hastie. I ordered book 2

Just went to the library yesterday and got: Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer (DC graphic novel) The Bookshop of Second Chances, by Jackie Fraser Rough Country (short story collection), edited by Reavis Wortham The Midwife's Confession, by Diane Chamberlain The Venom Business, by John Lange (early alias of Michael Crichton)

NOAA says the contiguous United States (the lower 48) had the hottest month ever in July 2026. What are we expecting the differences for winter in North America to be based on a super El Nino? Is it warmer? Warmer and wetter? Tons of snow in the northern states?

He figured it out. There is a way to add additional information to the DNC designation for the location, so now the Brothers Only locations say "DNC-Brothers Only" and show up on the map colored as a DNC.

Welcome to the site, Jared, and thanks for your very helpful input. It may be useful for many.

Yes I think thats the correct expression. Im old. 🤣

Antarctica now at 2nd lowest. Massive Ice losses for 3 days straight during refreeze season. Melting season starts around Nov 1st. Ocean are at its hottest ever since record keeping began.

Record breaking El Niño, +2.76C now. we are going to have a really dangerous winter coming up, forecast models are calling a very dangerous winter this year.

Does anyone here have old Bibles in PDF format, in Latin, Italian, or other languages? If you have any, could you please send them to me by email? Thank you!

So, the territory servant had enabled the DNC button, so that's why a new location had been marked as a DNC by someone working the territory recently. He has just disabled the DNC button so that won't happen again. The good news is that existing DNC are still labeled and locked. 😁 He is using one of the custom buttons for "Unable to Work". We'll see if that works. We are still looking for a way to label the Brothers Only locations. Any suggestions?

I live in South Wales not too far from the fire that has been burning for several weeks. I heard some people have been arrested for starting one. Another started yesterday on another mountain nearer Pontypool. Sad to see this happening. Weird to have such a strong smell of smoke for days at a time in the summer. Locally we have experienced some really bad floods in the last couple of years and now fires. Nevertheless, we are fortunate that neither is to the extreme. It's heart breaking to see videos in other far flung places to see flames and floods engulfing homes knowing there has been loss of life. It is devastation to Jehovah's creation all around but a wildfire in South Wales is nothing compared to the fires that have raged in places like California, for example. Awful knowing they are continuing in France, Spain and Greece at scale.

Without saying you have to get an A-2 ... They are almost sounding that way. It is already being rolled out by the various LDCs in the US. Talk with your LDC contact person. They should have already scheduled training for the KHOC people. PS It is a great way for the branch to see what type of work is being done at various halls and if the maintenance is being done. This is especially important now that the branch pays the bill.

Tuesday, August 11 Since Christ suffered in the flesh, you too arm yourselves with the same mental disposition.—1 Pet. 4:1. “You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole strength and with your whole mind.” (Luke 10:27) Jesus acknowledged this as the most important command in the Mosaic Law. Notice that our love for Jehovah involves our heart, which includes our desires, feelings, and emotions. It also involves our whole-souled devotion and our strength—including our energy. However, loving Jehovah also involves our mind, which includes the way we think about matters. Of course, we can never fully understand all of Jehovah’s thinking. But we can better understand God’s thinking by studying “the mind of Christ” because Jesus perfectly reflects the thinking of his Father.—1 Cor. 2:16. w25.03 8 ¶1

and another mention here https://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2026/08/toward-a-sense-of-peace-and-well-being.html

The local news reported over 1000 dead and then revised it to 111...

Lion Nebula roars to life for Webb 10 August 2026 20am; ID: 2026-127 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope previously viewed this planetary nebula in 2000, imaging the lion face-shaped target in visible light and revealing features such as the “mane” of hazy, comet-shaped objects. Now Webb has captured a clearer, more detailed view of the Lion Nebula due to its high-resolution imaging. At first glance the nebula’s overall structure in Webb’s infrared images, both with the NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument), may look quite similar to Hubble's earlier visible-light view. However, Webb's infrared vision highlights features like compact clumps of dust and haze of ionised gas. It’s taken several thousand years for this collection of gas and dust to reach its current shape, and the nebula’s components continue to be altered. Article link: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/lion-nebula-roars-to-life-with-nasas-webb/ Pic Description: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged the planetary nebula NGC 2392, the Lion Nebula, using the observatory’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments. The central star’s remains are responsible for the nebula’s structure, including a lion face-shaped bubble of ionized gas and dust “mane.” Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pa gan (STScI)

Does anyone know how to make the JWL app have a larger appearance on the MacBook? I just think everything looks small and I want to make it slightly bigger! Kinda like how big my ipad font sizing looks.

Lots of structural damage.🙈😢

It looks like Custom Buttons are not locked. I tried it both entering it in NWP as a publisher and from NWS as the Territory Servant, they are still able to be changed... it does ask, "are you sure?" but.... You can put in individual Address Notes in NWS and those are only able to be permanently changed by the Servant, but you have to click on an address to see them in NWP...

I like the sound of that, seems simple enough. We found having it as simple as possible helped the technology averse publishers be comfortable with the app. That "Not Able to Work" one I have to think about and maybe chat with my Service Overseer about🤔😅. Existing DNCs cannot be changed in the app once they are received/accepted in NWS. Custom buttons... I have to look into that. Let me try to find out and I can report back.

Agreed. That just happened to a territory I gave to a group to work. Someone marked a home as a DNC. I suspect they pushed the wrong button and now I need to figure it out. Is there a way to mark locations as DNC and Brothers Only that show up on the map and can not be changed by anyone working the territory?

Thanks. We are thinking of having just three buttons available, "Worked" "Not Worked" "Not Able to Work" or something similar. The Not Able to Work button would be for locked gates, dogs, signs, busy, anything that keeps the publisher from working the home in person and will need a letter.