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I basically took some local icons and buildings, drew them all and then made the little logo and added text. Then I printed them off, and stuck them on keyring rounds & sealed them Those are technically copyright

My dog and I were freezing overnight and had fuel comp come out to get heat going. Glad it is going b/c below freezing again tonight. Spring weather not here, yet. Brr. Staying in b/c of bears around. Will take dog out tomottow.

No mater what information we get, we all need to live by faith and not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7

Many of the problems can be avoided by following the simple principle of "Too many cooks in the kitchen" NWS requires an approach that not many in the congregations have the experience for it. Many of the permissions and rights are assigned according to what the individuals responsibility is in the congregation which contributes to the problem because they may be tech challenged and not being familiar with networks and how to use collaboration tools. Following the suggestions in the NWS documentation 2-3 should only have administrative permissions. In our congregation those who use NWS when they start it their first action is check are there any updates? If yes, restart the PC, install the updates and restart the PC. Next all elders have viewing privileges and only the ones that need edit and change rights get those assigned. If a task needs to be done and the person doesn't have the permissions, notify the admins and request that they implement it. Admins should do all the regular backups and keep track of them and ONLY they should have the exclusive rights to do restores full and selective ones NO ONE else. Select for your admins those that have earned a living in the IT world. Basically you have 3 groups of users and it can be illustrated in the automobile world. Those that drive the car and do nothing else, those that make sure it has the necessary things to drive it on the road and finally the car mechanics. You get the idea. No problems here because we do have brothers that have made a living in the IT world. Never forget it is called the leading / bleeding edge for a reason.

All right, I will be hitting the gym tonight. I've been going for 3 days a week for the past two weeks. Am definitely getting stronger but the chest press is the hardest exercise for me. Lateral raises are of the devil. I also plan on hiking with friends this weekend.

Please invite me to join one of your FF leagues. I've been trying to find one for years now. I've played on Yahoo Sports and ESPN. My last FF team name was Just the Tua Us.

Friends, one quality of trustable Christians is not to reveal confidential information. That includes not giving information about subjects that are not released yet. Revealing that information will get you banned from this community. And reveals very poor spirituality. Even if no relevant information is revealed, the attitude of "I know something you don't" is a lack of respect and not appreciated at all.

I can add both in a upcoming version.

Here's some thoughts: No software is perfect. I wrote my own software that we used for quite some time. Then we switched to NWS and I used it extensively, in our current assignment we use hourglass. Each had / have their own issues. I wont argue the merits of security claims in this message, that's for another day. Same thing with technology. I always start with these questions: Does the software do what you want it to do? Is the organization behind the software responsive to support requests and change requests? How do they tread requests? Then there are softer questions, like: Is it a business, (or does it feel like a business). There are pros and cons to this question, every one deserves to eat. Purchase vs Open Source vs Build your own. Again there are pros and cons here. Ageless question that every one faces. We make this decision every week where I work If you are already using something and it mostly meets your needs, work to make it better. If the devs dont want to do that, change. Being a programmer for 40+ years, I can say that solo writing software from scratch is a huge undertaking. Unfortunately AI has muddied the waters here, with people claiming they wrote some magnificent piece of software using claude in 15 minutes. But I am all for new projects!

Hospitality Availability Checkbox Issue I’m working with the hospitality settings and understand that the checkbox needs to be selected to show a speaker is available for hospitality. Most of the time this works as expected, but occasionally I run into speakers where the checkbox can’t be clicked at all. Has anyone else experienced this issue, or is there something I might be missing?

Tomorrow ? Exciting

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/pro-kremlin-loyalist-turns-on-putin-ilya-remeslo-russia Interesting that there is a former supporter of Putin now criticising him! He has 90,000 followers!

NW is a great tool when it works... It's too much work to change because there is not much to change to. In our case we got this mainly to use for public talks. Then we added other meeting parts and reports and stuff. Now people are used to get a notification when something is changed and getting reminders. We are a small congregation so it works for us. But I know some big congs that doesn't want something else because it's a huge task to swap system. I have some concerns about why NW is so closed system, we have no clue who is behind it. We do not get any roadmaps and it's hard to give input. Instead of adding more and more stuff they should make it more stable. I have to make daily backups because it's unstable and we cannot use all features. So I am very excited about Baruch... And to be able to talk to the developers directly.

Under Printing, Email and Reports tab: It will print all custom groups and members. If you only want 1 group, save as Document and edit out the other groups in Word.

Listening mainly. But the playlists would be nice in Swedish. I can also Finnish.

Even though we live in utah ( no football teams) 98% of our congregation watch football and the 2% is baseball. Anyways a brother and his wife who are ravens fans started it all when they did the maxx crosby trade they talked about at the service meeting a little and got the whole group in, eventually it spread and now they won't stop talking!

The world is changing from unipolar (one hegemon) to multipolar. All countries ignore the US. Enemies don't fear the US, but allies will also stop respecting it.

This is why I like the updates. More of us get the necessary information at the same time in comparison to the annual meeting.

Which prophecy are you talking about?

Yes, Paul. The have been some Bethelites throughout the years who, contrary to proper procedure, leaked information to the brotherhood. Here on JWTalk discussions based on unreleased/leaked information is strongly discouraged, because it goes against organizational unity.

As it's not on the servers yet, how do some people have this info that has just been posted? A leak at Bethel?

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/17/the-us-israel-war-on-iran-is-shaped-by-religion-as-much-as-strategy

In relation to this, this article is funny. Jehovah is laughing at them. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/webb-telescope-photos-show-mysterious-123034486.html