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86 degrees F today and sunny with possible thunderstorms later tonight.

And at that speed, it would take about 100,000 light-years to go from one end of the Milky Way galaxy to the other end, which is approximately 588 trillion miles across. To give you a clearer perspective, a light-year is the distance that light travels in one year, roughly 5.88 trillion miles. And people talk about space travel and going to other planets in the future as if it could be done in a short amount of time! "Flesh and blood cannot inherit outer space." --- Ken 15:50

Yes. This song is AI-generated. The clearest evidence is embedded directly in the MP3’s metadata: “made with suno; created=2026-05-13…” So this track was created with Suno, rather than merely sounding AI-like. The file title is “Young Man Stuck in an Old Man’s Body.” I enjoyed listening to the song...😁

COLD!! 🥶 Just got up to 40F this afternoon with a windchill of 33F 🥶 Wore my winter jacket this morning to take Bandit for a walk.

How can you tell it's AI?

Back to the weather and its effects, has power been restored? It is still dry here and long lasting fires. Some rain this week.

High 80s right now and dog in front of window air conditioner. Should reach high nineties and 60s next week. Planning for service tomorrow, but might make it afternoon only. We had some nice suggestions last night, especially for young ones, about teaching. Hope someone starts a new study this week (CO here.) And you, too, whatever your service is this week.

It's AI... but completely delightful 😊

Episode 15 just dropped [14 mins] Tell-Tale Signs of Bogus Science about the Origin of Life (Long Story Short, Ep. 15) Scientific claims about the origin of life are often complex—so how can you tell if they're right or wrong? Even if you're not an expert, there are tell-tale signs to identify scientific claims that are dubious. Are the scientists unbiased? Do they exclude possible explanations before the investigation even begins? Do the scientists make assumptions? Are the claims being made reasonable or exaggerated? It turns out origin of life research regularly makes all these mistakes. This is the ninth of several episodes about the origin of life presented as part of the Long Story Short series. If you enjoyed this one, you will like all the others. Clever, humorous, substantive, brief, “Long Story Short," is an occasional video series that compresses key points in the debate between Darwinism and intelligent design into a very welcome format: concise, accessible, and funny. nfrTaG

Got the results of the sleep test. No sleep apnea. But oxygen level dropped for a total of like 76 minutes. Got the call today & they’re referring me to a Pulmonologist/lung doctor. The lady said I have to have oxygen at night. 😳😵‍💫 I hope I remember to ask if my mild exercise induced asthma has caused my lungs to weaken. Er, something like that.

A brother sent this to me and said I could share it. I don't know where he got it from or who sings the song but it is a great song about a brother getting older and still serving Jehovah. AUD-20260519-WA0010.mp3

Catlin Clark might break another record tonight, she had break many records.

The latest NWP update I see is 4.0.12. Is anyone still having issues after updating? I advised our publishers not to update for the time being past 4.0.10 if possible.

I also agree. A visible "mark" or sign can be deceiving of the real internal mark, like the Pharisees. Look at the contradiction in the image --the Law in the forehead but his face expresses what it's in his heart. Like them, today people can go literal with Deuteronomy 6:5-9, in clothing, social media, stickers, banners and so on, but their acts and attitude shows who they really are.

With the transfer portal, a player might start for the Georgia Bulldogs one season and start for the Miami Hurricanes the next. (That player was known for winning games but never could deliver a championship.) It is really hard to keep up with players. Another thing that caused me to start losing interest a decade ago was all the injuries. Seeing a really good player get drafted by the pros and play one season, then he gets injured and now he functions mentally the same as a ten-year-old child is not acceptable. College age players dying due to an injury is too much for me. How about a game where the defense controls the ball and the offense can score without ever touching the ball???!!!

I agree. The mark is already here in a way, with people mindset (forehead) and actions (hand), and it will show during the GT, with how people will take a stand

Im extremely skeptical about any digital mark. One, because it has to be spiritual. Second, there’s not enough digitalization throughout the world. As for now only 58% of world population uses internet on their mobile devices. Unless you think the end will come in 50+ years (I don’t). however, I think the spiritual mark can have a physical extension like party card in Malawi or lack of ID in Eritrea for people who dont actively support the government. It could be just a pin with a flag.

Yes, everyones phones will have stars everywhere indicating all the new and updated data, which will likely confuse some publishers. Also if any other brothers are working on something at the time, it might cause synch problems. I can't see any reason for someone to refresh the data if there no reported problems.

Are there any drawbacks or issues if an administrator does that even if there aren't any problems reported?

You can also refresh other data types, it's explained on this page https://nwscheduler.com/how-to/nw-publisher-app-problems/#How_to_Fix

No, you can Refresh all Persons at once. In NWS, 1.) go to the NW Publisher screen, then 2.) choose Persons from the dropdown box, then 3.) click the Refresh Selected App Data button

As in manually refresh one by one each individual person's app data in NWS? Or do you mean something else? Could you please clarify Matt?

I just noticed that you can select the previous service year in the Publisher Reports in NWP. So now there is more information available in NWP than before.

Sorry yes I did see your reply. It did appear to be a widespread issue with multiple users. I did Refresh Persons App Data and this morning it did appear to be working correctly. Thanks

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