announcement from spain:.
on monday 26th septriembre, www.elperiodico.es published in its online edition the first publicly reported case of child abuse and harassment in spain watchtower, digital edition monday, tuesday print edition.
please maximum dissemination of the link, it will be online early in the morning of monday 26, in the online edition.
Interesting, as you know - and have thanked me for - I've taken the time to proactively upload the articles etc to this thread for all to read.
I appreciate that you are no doubt busy - well so am I! - therefore I'm sorry, but i'm gonna have to just refer you back to my posting in this thread from three days ago:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5088277520449536/_post/5972852660502528
september 22, 2016 to all congregation service committees in the united states branch territory re: 2017 special conventions.
2017 special convention application.
instructions for entering special convention groups and applications.
Is this what they used to call International Conventions?
Yes. It also appears that WT is doing a rolling programme of these Special Conventions each year.
The current series are listed at www.jw2016.org
It is understood that WT have also registered/own the following
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/481980004/proof-that-armageddon-will-come-2020-2021
looks like we lost ben emmerson for the england inquiries.
does anyone have an update on what's happening in the uk?
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Personally, I think it's more basic - it's seems to be a problem with the lack of calibre of people running the public inquiry.
Yes, admittedly those in the 'front-line' of public service - such as MPs etc - are not really paid a lot
It's the people behind them - the 'second-line' of public service where the money is paid - and that's what we're seeing with this Inquiry
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11319918
9,000 in public sector get more pay than prime minister. More than 38,000 public employees earning above £100,000 and 1,000 people on more than £200,000.
And what do we get for that money? And what would happen in the private sector??!?
Look at America - love him or hate him - I think that's also one of the reasons why somebody like Trump appeals to the electorate - he's not a 'career-public servant' - agree or disagree with how good he is/was in private business - the appeal is that he has actually been in business, and not a life long career based public service politician.
just found out last night that our congo is starting a campaign to invite interested people to meetings.
the instructions for the campaign clear out that "interested" people are not just those whom we visit often or have bible studies with.
it includes and random stranger we may talk to and who may show a hint of interest on the religion.
Growing up the WTS had the congregations print a small slip with the meetings times, days, locations that could be given to everyone that was contacted at the door, informal witnessing, not at homes, etc.
We were encouraged to give them to everyone with the delusion that many people would come to the meetings...in the 45 years I went maybe one person a month showed up because a random slip given out.
haha! in olden days the WT would also print individual congregation handbills with a list of dates and talk titles for that specific congregation a month at a time. (Ah the joys of the small job press!)
Hence, the following statements in various KMs:
Kingdom Ministry December 1973, page 3
Do You Leave a Handbill?
... In addition to handbills that advertise the public lecture program of the congregation for several weeks, there are those that give general information on the times of meetings and the location of the Kingdom Hall ...
Kingdom Ministry August 1967, page 4
Leave Something with Everyone
... The publisher then kindly offered him a handbill for the talk to be given that week ...
looks like we lost ben emmerson for the england inquiries.
does anyone have an update on what's happening in the uk?
.
I posted yesterday's front page news here:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5371090608062464/_post/5668434236932096
Today's front page? (with full double page spread inside)
Abuse inquiry in doubt after lawyer quits
Abuse inquiry in doubt after lawyer quits
The most senior barrister at the national child abuse inquiry quit last night, putting the future of the £100 million investigation in doubt.
Ben Emmerson, QC, had been suspended on Wednesday night amid concerns about his leadership. Yesterday it emerged that his deputy on the legal team had resigned days earlier.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/abuse-inquiry-in-doubt-after-lawyer-quits-962q3csbk
Janner family’s challenge could bring sex abuse inquiry to a halt
The first public sessions of the national child abuse inquiry could be scrapped in response to a new legal challenge.
The family of Lord Janner of Braunstone, the Labour peer who died last year, told The Times yesterday that they had instructed lawyers to seek a judicial review of the decision by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) to hold public hearings into the allegations against him.
Rising costs threaten to push final bill well above £100m
The cost of the child abuse public inquiry could soar above the predicted £100 million, Whitehall sources have told The Times.
Officials are understood to have proposed significant increases to the annual budget, which could lead to costs doubling as the inquiry moves from a formative period into conducting evidence sessions in a number of modules of its ambitious work programme.
Victims lose faith in an investigation ‘run by Whitehall’
At 6.27pm on Wednesday, after a day of fending off questions about the future of Ben Emmerson, QC, its leading counsel, officials at the independent public inquiry into child abuse stated that they would not be making any further comment.
Difficult negotiations on the terms of Mr Emmerson’s agreed departure had stalled and the lawyers and officials involved had decided to call it a day.
Ninety-six minutes later the inquiry announced that it had suspended him because of serious concerns about his leadership of the legal team and that there would be a full investigation.
There was no explanation of what had happened in the hour and a half between having nothing to say and taking the dramatic decision to suspend one of Britain’s most senior and respected barristers.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/victims-lose-faith-in-an-investigation-run-by-whitehall-h65dcrzqk
New child sex abuse inquiry crisis as two lawyers announce their resignations in one day
The future of the national child sex abuse inquiry was plunged deeper into crisis on Thursday night after the two most senior lawyers in charge announced their resignations.
Ben Emmerson QC, the counsel to the inquiry, quit at 10pm last night, a little over 24 hours after being suspended from the role.
Mr Emmerson’s deputy Elizabeth Prochaska, the inquiry’s junior counsel, announced she had also stood down although it was claimed her decision was not linked to recent events.
this coming saturday!.
memorial service for jehovah's witness george kraynak.
being broadcast worldwide as a livestream direct from the sharon kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses at 2885 hann hill rd, hermitage, pennsylvania usa.
This coming Saturday!
Memorial service for Jehovah's Witness George Kraynak
Being broadcast worldwide as a livestream direct from the Sharon Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses at 2885 Hann Hill Rd, Hermitage, Pennsylvania USA
Saturday 1 October 2016 at 3.00pm local time (EDT Pennsylvania)
NOTE: live broadcast due to start 45 minutes before service (ie 2.15pm local time)
Check for your time zone with the following link:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Webcast&iso=20161001T15&p1=418
http://obituaries.sharonherald.com/story/george-kraynak-1926-2016-832689241
just found out last night that our congo is starting a campaign to invite interested people to meetings.
the instructions for the campaign clear out that "interested" people are not just those whom we visit often or have bible studies with.
it includes and random stranger we may talk to and who may show a hint of interest on the religion.
Smells like desperation.
Smells like easy street.....
After a three week Memorial Invite campaign, handing out invitation leaflets
After a three week Convention Invite campaign, handing out invition leaflets
Here's another month long Meeting Invite campaign, handing out invitation leaflets
Sure you're really meant to also feature the magazine, but .... guess what?! - each invite leaflet given out counts as one 'placement' - the same as if you gave out a magazine or brochure or book!
just found out last night that our congo is starting a campaign to invite interested people to meetings.
the instructions for the campaign clear out that "interested" people are not just those whom we visit often or have bible studies with.
it includes and random stranger we may talk to and who may show a hint of interest on the religion.
The 11th April 2016 BoE letter regarding this, along with a copy of the S-141 Reminders for those assigned public talks form are included in the thread below
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5662759379271680/october-2016-campaign
The address and times would have been printed by your own congregation as per usual procedure with Memorial and Convention invites.
You can download a PDF of the invitation at:
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/?contentLanguageFilter=en&pubFilter=inv&sortBy=1
it's doing the rounds but i've not seen it before.. explaining your beliefs about homosexuality.
there are three pages.
here are my thoughts on each question on the pages:.
Hi konceptual99 and steve2!
WT has started to put a No Crawl to keep bots off their sites, so it doesn't always work.
That said, Here it is: https://web.archive.org/web/20160928231855/https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/ask/is-homosexuality-wrong/So why would an organisation with it's prime mission being the spreading of the good news, that has also been touting jw.org as the best thing to ever hit the internet, that has spent so much time and resources translating content into hundreds of languages, that only last week in their WT study emphasised the critical need for everyone to hear the message NOT want bots to index the content and help make it show up in web searches?
Because they're not? And, you know what? Particularly with a huge, multi-lanuage website such as the WT have - Google sometimes kinda needs some help so they can include useful pages of content in the google index
There are two things here:
Firstly - they're using a file protocol 'robots.txt' which keeps search engines like google from indexing certain parts of the website - this is normal - WT are basically stopping google from indexing 'back-room' junk and multiple instances of the same content hence the file is:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /apps/
Disallow: /*/nwt/*/mcr/
Disallow: /*/bi12/*/mcr/
Disallow: /*?*contentLanguageFilter=
Disallow: /*?*pubFilter=
Disallow: /*?*sortBy=
Disallow: /*?*start=0
Disallow: /*?*tourl=
Sitemap: https://www.jw.org/sitemap.xml
Secondly - and perhaps more importantly in your specific case....
WT is using the 'Sitemap' protocol - that is a file that includes links to all the content pages that WT wants to make sure ARE IN google and are searchable / findable.
They seem to have a sitemap for each language.
For the english sitemap - notice the example specific content pages that WT is telling google are IMPORTANT and should therefore be included in google making them seachable and findable:
https://www.jw.org/en/sitemap.xml
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/bible-about-homosexuality/Please note that the above is based on 'as-now' - it may have been a different setup etc earlier, but I woudn't have thought so, unless temporary while major work on the website was being done.
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/ask/is-homosexuality-wrong/
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/teenagers/worksheets/explain-your-beliefs-homosexuality/
https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201012/explain-bibles-view-of-homosexuality/
new show!
new cast!.
http://www.cbs.com/shows/big-brother-over-the-top/about/.
Yes! New Show! New Cast!
http://www.cbs.com/shows/big-brother-over-the-top/about/
http://www.cbs.com/shows/big-brother-over-the-top/cast/215501/
With ex-JW housemate Shane Chapman......
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/big-brother/big-brother-over-the-top-premi-61449.aspx
