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Bro, which one are you reading? I read the first three, that I remember. Then I took them to the NH for my sister to read and the books 'disappeared". so now I am not sure which three I read....will have to review all and order the ones I have not read. He is a wonderful author! I love his books!! Enjoy. Even my COBE asked me about the books...not sure if he reads extra or not but I told him they were great.

We got to 37°C by lunch, then a storm passed by about 4pm, but we didn't get any rain. 😪 Another storm is bypassing us to the west.

If there was any cash, jewellery, or anything valuable in the coffin, I would take it and leave a cheque of the corresponding value instead.

Starlink can be disrupted by jamming GPS, which it relies on. This was how the Iranian government blocked access recently. It's too difficult to jam the Starlink signal itself, so GPS jamming is the quick & dirty way,

Yes. I'm not tech savvy, but I assume the app coming soon will use legacy infrastructure. Or, will it use Starlink? What do you think? If it uses Starlink, then it won't be the global phenomenon that it's being promoted to be, because there are just so many Starlinks. The press release on this new app makes it sound like everyone will have it immediately.

We wipe dust away without thinking. It settles on shelves. It drifts through beams of light. It gathers in corners. We call it nuisance. Leftover. Refuse. But dust becomes part of one of the most precise light displays on earth. To understand why, we need to picture something simple: the atmosphere is not thicker at sunset — the sunlight simply travels through more of it. Imagine standing in an open field at noon. The sun is high overhead. Its rays come almost straight down. The light passes through a relatively short column of air before reaching your eyes. Now imagine late evening. The sun is near the horizon. Its rays are no longer coming straight down. They enter the atmosphere at a shallow angle. Instead of dropping vertically through a thin column of air, the light slices sideways through the atmosphere, traveling across it. It is the same atmosphere. The same thickness. But the path is dramatically longer. A simple comparison helps. Think of shining a flashlight straight down through a shallow tank of water. The beam passes through quickly. Now tilt the flashlight so the beam travels diagonally across the tank from one side to the other. The water is not deeper — the path through it is longer. That . . . is what . . . happens at sunset. When the sun is overhead, sunlight may pass through roughly one atmosphere’s worth of air. When it sits near the horizon, that path can increase dozens of times. The light must move through more gas molecules, more water vapor, more suspended dust, more aerosols. And every encounter matters. As sunlight enters the atmosphere, shorter wavelengths — blue and violet — are scattered strongly by the tiny nitrogen and oxygen molecules. This is Rayleigh scattering. During midday, this scattering sends blue light in every direction, painting the sky above us. But when the sun lowers and its light must travel that extended path, the blue wavelengths are scattered out of the direct beam long before it reaches us. With each additional mile of air, more blue is redirected away. What survives that journey are the longer wavelengths — red, orange, deep amber. Now dust becomes more influential. When light encounters particles closer in size to its wavelength — soil fragments, sea salt, smoke, pollen — Mie scattering occurs. This type of scattering is less selective and tends to push light forward, spreading the remaining reds and oranges across the horizon. The extended path length increases the number of these interactions. More collisions. More filtering. More diffusion. The sky is not changing color because the sun changes. It changes because of distance. Because of angle. Because of how far light must travel through the medium Jehovah designed. There is also subtle curvature at play. The earth is round. When the sun is near the horizon, its rays skim along the curved surface of the planet, grazing through the densest layers of air before emerging toward us. The lower atmosphere holds most of the dust and moisture. So when the light enters at that shallow angle, it passes through the richest concentration of scattering material. That is why the horizon glows. Not because the air is thicker there — but because the light has taken the long road. And the long road transforms it. Psalm 104:24 says: “How many your works are, O Jehovah! You have made all of them in wisdom. The earth is full of your productions.” Even geometry participates in that wisdom. Angle. Distance. Density. Wavelength. Each factor interlocks with the others. If the atmosphere were much thinner, scattering would be weak and the sky would appear dark. If much thicker, sunlight would struggle to reach the surface clearly. If particulate levels were wildly unstable, sunsets would lack consistency. Instead, there is law-governed balance. The same dust we sweep aside becomes the filter that softens daylight into gold. The same molecules that scatter blue into the noon sky later remove it from the evening beam. The longer path does not create color; it reveals what remains after selective scattering has done its quiet work. Jehovah makes the most beautiful things out of dust. Man and woman, formed from it. Sunrises and sunsets, intensified through it. What seems small participates in a system of angles and laws so precise that the sky ignites on schedule every evening somewhere on earth. Light takes the long road — and because it does, we are given crimson. The earth is full of His productions. Full of dust. Full of geometry. Full of light traveling farther than we realize. Did you feel, as your read this, your words speed up. The comprehension was often simple and sublime. Your reading may have felt like you need to pause. To put it all together. To catch your breath. Because when you see the real thing . . . the sunrise or sunset, It just takes your breath away!

This is exactly what Starlink can provide. Internet access that is out of reach of governments. There was a recent launch from California and the effect was seen around the world. https://starwalk.space/en/news/spacex-starlink-satellites-night-sky-visibility-guide Its getting pretty crowded up there: https://earthsky.org/space/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-headed-for-catastrophe/ Our congregation was having trouble with local services for Zoom access, so they opted in for a starlink connection a month ago. So much faster and dependable, but I feel a bit uncomfortable about it.

This all may be leading to putting into operation "Agenda 21". The whole movement to "Peace" by world leaders is behind it.

My son told me in Taiwan, coffins were supposed to contain the wealth of the man to be buried with him. Somebody had the brilliant idea of writing a cheque for the coffin. Another even better idea was to photocopy all his money and put that in the coffin. Whatever works!!!

Ha. Some 15 years ago there was a documentary from British Columbia of a couple who lived on food from dumpsters for a year. If you know about Canada, all packaging required French somewhere on the package. Failure to do so resulted in food being tossed. The most remarkable was an entire dumpster FULL of Humous! There was even a case load of expensive chocolate that was pulled out and given to friends of the couple. The only thing they purchased for the whole year was milk for their coffee. Haha. Not sure if it accessable now. Here is the trailor. https://www.foodwastemovie.com/about/

The most exciting words in science are: "Huh. That's weird."

This book is so compelling, that I thought I would finish it in one sitting. It's fast-paced and packed with actions.

Hello, I'm sorry to hear that. I just came across this post today, and wanted to suggest www.indeed.com. They have remote jobs on there sometimes. I hope you can find something that suit your needs.

Looked at some U.S. iqs. Won't tell you mine, but last time it was the same as a Hollywood star.

Saturday, February 21 Jehovah is alive! Praised be my Rock! Let the God of my salvation be exalted.—Ps. 18:46. “Critical times hard to deal with”—that is how the Bible describes the days we live in. (2 Tim. 3:1) In addition to the challenges that everyone faces in this system of things, Jehovah’s people have to deal with opposition and persecution. What helps us to keep worshipping Jehovah despite these problems? One main thing is that we have come to know Jehovah as “the living God.” (Jer. 10:10; 2 Tim. 1:12) Jehovah is a real Person who sustains us during our trials and looks for opportunities to support us. (2 Chron. 16:9; Ps. 23:4) Viewing him as the living God can help us to face successfully any trial that comes our way. w24.06 20 ¶1-2

Looks good, brother Qapla. I will look for chat, again. ys

Back in July of 2021, U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley told us it would take an estimated $40 billion each year to end world hunger by 2030. https://wfpusa.org/news/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-hunger/ In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. This estimate, based on estimates from USDA’s Economic Research Service of 31 percent food loss at the retail and consumer levels, corresponded to approximately 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food in 2010. https://www.usda.gov/about-food/food-safety/food-loss-and-waste/food-waste-faqs In the EU, over 58 million tonnes of food waste (130 kg/inhabitant) are generated annually (Eurostat, 2025), with an associated market value estimated at 132 billion euros (SWD (2023)421). https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/food-waste_en The amount of money wasted in food production is enough to end world hunger.

If things weren't interesting enough . . . The US Department of State announced a new app platform intended to give users the same uncensored Internet available to Americans, even in countries with strict online repression such as China and Iran, and increasingly tighter control in Europe. Freedom.gov Source: Reuters , Fox Frankly, it sounds dangerous. It will be completely open-source and completely anonymous. Quote: "Anyone can see how it works. No one, including us, can track or identify you". The app does not log IP addresses, session data, browsing activity, DNS queries or device identifiers that could be used to identify users. This is obviously intended to allow the people in countries to know what's going on in the world outside, while their own governments don't want them to know. But, it sure sounds like it can be misused by bad actors. But will it make our jworg easily accessible in China, North Korea etc ???

"A team of astronomers led by David Li has recently confirmed the discovery of ten potential "dark galaxies," where starlight is so faint that it's extremely difficult to detect anything with traditional observatories. The new list also includes Candidate Dark Galaxy-2 (CDG-2), a celestial structure that might be composed of 99% dark matter and just 1% of normal matter." (Dark Galaxy would be a good name for a band. ) It was discovered with the Hubble telescope and the Euclid space observatory. Dark matter (and dark energy) can be inferred because our observations of galactic mass don't match what Einstein's relativity equations tell us it should be.

I do! I watched it in the 70’s and sometimes think about it. It must be difficult to tie your shoelaces when their position/momentum is so uncertain. #watchOutForTheFog

Perhaps do NOT update to the latest build, #1431. Tried on 2 separate systems and the "Public Speaker Sharing" feature appears broken. The sync wheel just spins and does nothing. The nwscheduler.com website to report a problem also seems broken. Not able to contact them to report this issue I'm seeing.

God Bless America? I thought it would be ‘God Bless Aliens’ who discovers intelligent life here on earth.

"Imagine how much good could be accomplished with the money mankind wastes. Ecclesiastes 8:9 The phrase "man has dominated man to his harm." 1.5 trillion dollars spending on weapons.

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories (West Bank)

Well, it took them like an hour to announce Plan B. A global 10% tariff that can last only 150 days. This is in addition to any tariffs that survived the Supreme Court decision. In his dissent, Justice Kavanaugh wrote that the tarriffs under review were "clearly legal". Iron and Clay.