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Thank you, that is what I said in the last line where I included the 8/26 date. It is available from WTL only at this moment.

As we learned in the Sermon on the Mount, a person’s light in their body may really be great darkness. Mat 6:23…”But if your eye is envious, your whole body will be dark. If the light that is in you is really darkness, how great that darkness is!”

These are the instructions for the Midweek Meeting. It tells how it is to be conducted, who may participate in each part, how long and so on. The current published S-38 is dated 9/25. You can download it in a variety of formats. The new WTL update yesterday provided a new version dated 8/26.

It must be new today. I checked yesterday...😎

In addition to Ramapo, since 2015 we already are remodeling the property at Mt Ebo, New York for Audio/Video use. "In February 2015, the Watchtower purchased the new property [Mt Ebo complex] to support their Audio/Video Center at the Watchtower Educational Center in nearby Patterson, N.Y. " *** hdu article 3 par. 5 Video Production for 2020 “Always Rejoice”! Regional Convention Program *** Many of our videos also call for specialized equipment and sets. For example, sets for Nehemiah: “The Joy of Jehovah Is Your Stronghold” were built inside the Mt. Ebo studio near Patterson, New York, U.S.A. To make the best use of dedicated funds while giving the film a historically accurate appearance, the brothers constructed lightweight set pieces designed to mimic the walls of ancient Jerusalem. Each structure consisted of a six-meter-tall (20 ft) wood frame covered in foam with a faux finish that looked like stone. These “walls” could be moved to fit different scenes, reducing the total number of sets needed. Even so, nearly $100,000 (U.S.) was required to construct sets for the drama alone.

Prior to 1968 we pictured Jesus in our artwork as a 'beardless' man. It was based on an error in an archeological finding (Antioch Chalice) that depicted Jesus without a beard and was dated to within a hundred years of his life. The 1968 Watchtower explained the change in a QFR in the magazine. The 1968 Calendar from the Watchtower Society had already be printed. It showed Jesus without a beard. The artwork we used after that showed him with a beard. We made very few moving pictures prior to this time and few or none of these (except the Photo-Drama) were ancient Biblical dramas. So our recognition of approved ancient males being bearded goes back at least to 1968 (or before). The end of the QFR shows the reason we wanted a 'clean-shaven' appearance for modern publishers of the Good News. *** w68 5/1 p. 286 Questions From Readers *** Questions From Readers ● When Jesus Christ was a man on earth, did he wear a beard?—K.A., U.S.A.

And you are Canadian...😎

CDN is the initials or abbreviation for Content Delivery Network. It is composed of a company who has many servers (server farms) around the world (such as 100 countries). They sell the ability to take your digital data at one point (input) and then post it or share it with their servers and release it around the world according to your instructions. It is 'cloud based' information distribution on a very large scale. Akamai is one company, Amazon got into the game around 2009. The Watchtower Society has used both of the companies. When a monthly broadcast is finalized, it is sent to the CDN company with instructions as to when and how it is to be released. The CDN company shares it with their 50-100 server locations around the world. At the appointed time the simultaneously release the material. Then they monitor the release. When you request access, the CDN identifies your location and releases the data from the nearest server to you. If one server is getting bogged down with too many requests, the CDN company will reroute the request to a more distant server with less load for a quicker response. I have attached a copy of Akamai's visual explanation from their website.

We used Akamai service for many years but after Amazon offered AWS in 2009 (at a good price I assume) we branched out to use much of their delivery package. So the content you see on Broadcasts and Updates and similar digital information is uploaded to one of these services and they redistribute it around the world using their 'server farms' or data centers to get it to your locality.

Possible 052 Since the last one was 061 (instead 051) it may be 062 instead.

Back in the Covid days it was often. It has settled to 8 or 9 mostly now...♥️

Close but no guarantee. To get 8 updates per year they have to be produced about every 6 weeks. They can be off a week either way.

The 1961 first edition was taller and matched the other books we had at the time. A few years later we shrank the overall height of all of our books (Bibles included). See picture below.

It is interesting to place a 'timeline' on the picture. The woman looking out the window had the books for some years. The black NWT does not look as used as the green one. She may have had them as a teenager and then left the Truth. The oldest timeframe would be limited to 40 years. The books would have been updated about 20 years ago. As a guess, she has been gone 20-40 years. If she was 16-18 years old when she left, she would be in her mid-late 30s to mid 50s now when she is looking out the window. My guess might be that she is in her 40s and has been away from the Truth for 25-30 years? Never give up hope...♥️

Here is a picture I just took in my library. The green book to the right is the original 1961 NWT, The brown songbook is from 1984. Any of our black NWT Bibles can be the one on the left. The one I grabbed was a bit more used and had 'spread' out a little. As Br. Shawn said, the caption refers to "older translations of the NWT and a songbook".