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Gifts for delegates at Special conventions
by TheWonderofYou inwhat for are such gifts made?
are they going around with such flowers?.
for special people special gifts.. .
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Britain Branch to Cease Printing Sooner Than Expected
by The Searcher ini've received the following news from a reliable and trusted source: .
the demise of printing literature in the u.k. is being brought forward by one year - to march 2018. graphic design and printing support will go too.
large numbers of "disposable" bethelites will now have to make their own way in the world, when their "mother" abandons them.
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TheWonderofYou
subject: sustainable buildings
BREEAM is the world's foremost environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings, with 425,000 buildings with certified BREEAM assessment ratings and two million registered for assessment since it was first launched in 1990.
BREEAM AG Bucknalls Lane
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Britain Branch to Cease Printing Sooner Than Expected
by The Searcher ini've received the following news from a reliable and trusted source: .
the demise of printing literature in the u.k. is being brought forward by one year - to march 2018. graphic design and printing support will go too.
large numbers of "disposable" bethelites will now have to make their own way in the world, when their "mother" abandons them.
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TheWonderofYou
Indeed printeries and factory building do not slot into the modern concept of a green city or garden town, prestigious campus are not fitting good together.
Temple Farm Development is designed as prestigious project of green cities an urban natural environement.
First ever BREEAM Communities innovation credit is claimed by Temple Farm Development
It is the second BREEAM Communities project to have received an Outstanding rating.... Temple Farm is not a restricted construction zone, but a state of the art development which when completed will admit tour buses and welcome visitors. It aims to knowledge share and showcase all the new and existing technologies and design solutions that were employed to develop a heavily contaminated yet ecologically valuable piece of land outstandingly
https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Temple_Farm_Development
https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/BREEAM_communities
The concept of garden towns or garden villages
Watchtower is planning a BETHEL as green city /garden town = BREEAM community that is backed by science and technology and owned and trusted by the community. Prestigious real estate that has uncontroversial value for communities and is good asset.
Anyhow the printeries and warehouses might not be so important in this general concept of a campus?
http://www.templefarmdevelopment.co.uk/
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Temple Farm Development
Temple Farm Development spreads across an 85-acre rural site in Chelmsford, England. The project comprises offices, residential and healthcare buildings, and an Energy Centre.
It is the second BREEAM Communities project to have received an Outstanding rating.
There are many innovative features that make this project an exceptionally dynamic and pioneering one in all aspects of sustainability, but the most prominent feature is the divergent and creative thinking that has gained Temple Farm its single innovation credit, a milestone in the history of BREEAM Communities assessments.
The innovation credit is awarded for implementing a methodology that significantly reduces transport carbon emissions attributable to construction workers engaged on this large development.
The methodology involves housing the majority of construction workers in accommodation on, around, or near the development site; thus significantly reducing commuting vehicle movements and transport CO2. Pedestrian and cycle paths link the adjoining accommodations to the construction site access points.
This methodology is innovative in that it redefines the traditional practice of construction worker commuting to the development sites, frequently over great distances and for extended periods of perhaps a year or more for large developments. This approach has been applied from the start of construction work at Temple Farm in Feb 2016 and has a projected saving of 64% of Transport CO2 (2,250 tonnes) over the five year construction period.
The primary benefit of this forward-looking solution is lessening current and future climate change effects attributable to CO2 emissions. This is a simple yet effective step that sets an example of how one of the foremost modern day issues can be addressed.
The secondary benefits of this approach are reductions in noise and nuisance by lowering local vehicle movements and potential accidents. This will result in improvements in health and safety and construction efficiency due to eliminating stressful and time consuming daily commutes of the majority of work-force. It is believed that this will lead to an improved quality of life, worker satisfaction and improved productivity which the management aims to evaluate via worker surveys throughout the construction period.
It is one of the aims of BREEAM to support innovation within the construction industry and its supply chain by rewarding construction projects that go beyond best practice in terms of a particular aspect of sustainability. Temple Farm clearly demonstrates going ‘above and beyond’ the requirements of the scheme to demonstrate tangible benefits not only in terms of transport related carbon emissions but also the social impacts of traffic on the local community.
Besides the innovation credit, Temple Farm demonstrated a commitment to excellence in many other aspects of its design and construction which is worth highlighting a few:
Due to its former use as a scrap yard/car breakers, the site has been heavily contaminated. During remediation of Temple Farm over 8,000 tyres were found buried which have been excavated and will be reused on site or recycled. This area has historically suffered from significant surface water drainage problems owing, in part, to this contamination. This has now been successfully and sensitively remediated, certified by the Environment Agency.
Temple Farm was also classified as Green Belt land until 2010 when a 39 acre parcel in the centre of the site was removed from Green Belt and approved for development. Subsequently, the site has a number of high value ecological assets including ancient hedgerows and veteran trees, many of which required restorative work due to years of neglect. As part of the redevelopment of the site, key ecological features (ponds, ancient trees and hedgerows, native species etc.) have been protected, restored, and made a focal point in the design.
Although it will be years before Temple Farm is completed and occupied to its full potential, there is already a sense of community and unity on and around this massive construction site. The temporary caravan-like accommodations have been individualised and turned into homes by Temple Farm construction workers and do not carry any resemblance to a temporary place of living.
The site itself is very positively known amongst the locals and the roundabout that was originally created by the developer to ease the entrance of large vehicles into the site, is turned into an attractive tree-lined feature as well as a main connection point in town with bus stops and the beautiful scenery of the pond and the forest rather than being just a grubby entrance to a construction zone.
Temple Farm is not a restricted construction zone, but a state of the art development which when completed will admit tour buses and welcome visitors. It aims to knowledge share and showcase all the new and existing technologies and design solutions that were employed to develop a heavily contaminated yet ecologically valuable piece of land outstandingly.
Temple Farm can be called the realisation of the aims and objectives of the BREEAM Communities scheme, as not only does it meets the planning conditions and regulations of Chelmsford City Council, but it also pushes boundaries, and encourages innovative sustainabledesign and creates a community.
BREEAM continues to be an instrumental tool that inspires and supports the industry to create socially, economically and environmentally viable built environments that are backed by science and technology and owned and trusted by the community.
This article was originally published here by BRE Buzz on 19 June 2017.
It was written by Rose Pourmatin, she is
Rose Pourmatin
BREEAM Communities Scheme Manager
JW in Britain can be thankful to Jehovah for such a good cooperation partner in green villages.
here she is in Kuwait
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RUSSIA: 2016 JW "Extremist" literature prosecutions
by OrphanCrow inforum 18 has reported on the number of prosecutions in 2016 in russia concerning extremist literature.. http://forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2287.
all of the prosecutions involved either islamic or jw texts and/or online postings.. from the article:.
jehovah's witness prosecutions overtake those for islamic literature for first timefor the first time since forum 18's records began, the number of prosecutions for possession or sharing of jehovah's witness materials is higher than that for islamic books or videos – at 63 versus 60 prosecutions.
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TheWonderofYou
Already seen? against homosexuality and destruction of christian values
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Britain Branch to Cease Printing Sooner Than Expected
by The Searcher ini've received the following news from a reliable and trusted source: .
the demise of printing literature in the u.k. is being brought forward by one year - to march 2018. graphic design and printing support will go too.
large numbers of "disposable" bethelites will now have to make their own way in the world, when their "mother" abandons them.
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This plan includes a large printery however. (Dont click on the blue text) Its even the biggest building there.
http://jw-branchoffices.blogspot.co.at/p/branch-expansion-britain.html
Who said that rumors are saying that the central european bethel in Germany would be sold after it will be refurnished and renovated with free labor and the british bethel will be ready? This will be fine after Brexit. Britains JW again will become the colonial might.
The Construction Project
At the heart of the site will be the printery. Office buildings and support facilities will be situated nearby. Modest accommodation will house the Bethel family. These buildings will complement the beautiful country site at Temple Farm.
The construction of the new Britain Branch Office includes:- A printery for Bible-based literature (capable of producing up to 184,000 Watchtower and Awake! magazines an hour)
- Administrative and Language & Translation offices (30,000m² of office space)
- An energy centre to support the site's infrastructure
- Water treatment plant
- 550 residential units (one and two bedroom apartments accommodating up to 1200 residents and visitors)
- Health and aged care facilities
- Recreational facilities
- A visitor centre
- On-site parking (undercroft...) for 1,040 vehicles
- Vehicle Maintenance & Vehicle Wash
- Gardens, ponds, and walkways
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Gifts for delegates at Special conventions
by TheWonderofYou inwhat for are such gifts made?
are they going around with such flowers?.
for special people special gifts.. .
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What for are such gifts made? Are they going around with such flowers?
For special people special gifts.
What is this? Its JW stuff http://www.jwstuff.org/
Earrings for JW girls USD 7,-
Convention lap pins
http://www.jwstuff.org/specialpins
More
https://www.google.at/search?q=special+convention+vienna&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirqaiCi9fUAhVPJ1AKHWEWCGkQ_AUICigB&biw=412&bih=554&dpr=1.75#tbm=isch&q=special+convention+vienna+pinterest&imgrc=Jq1yyXRTNAcVMM:
This is clear strategy.
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RC 2017
by wifibandit indue to last years success, i will post everything related to the 2017 regional convention in this thread.. to start us off.... thanks to exjw reddit user ich3b we have advance notice of the theme (this is not a joke!).
the theme for the 2017 regional convention is: "don’t give up!” .
as always, if you have access to confidential materials you would like to leak but need to protect your identity, pm me or email me: wifibandit1 (at) gmail.
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TheWonderofYou
An Austrian radio station brought a short report about Geoffrey Jackson first visit to Vienna. He spoke to delegates from the USA, Germany, Balkan States and the Czech Republic.
http://religion.orf.at/radio/stories/2849479/
Jackson said in many parts of the world JW would be a growing religious community.
"Its true that worldwide we are seeing good growth, but perhaps in countries were people have still a strong respect for the bible. Africa, Central America and South America.
Those countries that no longer consider the bible a sacred book .... perhaps our growth is a little slowing in those countries."Behind the ban in Russia Jackson assumes a low tolerant climate in Russia.
"Maybe the traditional belief systems there in Russia find it very challenging when people dont follow the same type of belief systems."
David A. Semonian, a speaker of the headquarter in Warwick announced that last year 13 millions attended the conventions worldwide. (press text)
Further it was reported that about 21.500 persons served last year active in the missionary service.
Over 100 new members would baptzied on Saturday according the radio report.
On Friday 16.6.2017 - 26.241 delegates were counted, according to a paper
In Austria the number of JW in the 299 communities would have remained stabil, while other churches would face a shrinkage of members
However it is strange that a province paper from the district in which the convention took place wrote about an awaited talk of a brother Zimmermann about child abuse, what would be the scandalous subject that would actually now stress the community. But nothing heard about this again.
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Witness of History - Hermine Liska - biblestudent
by TheWonderofYou inthe association "purple angle" reports of a witness of history, part of a contemporary witness project.. https://www.meinbezirk.at/leibnitz/leute/unbrauchbar-gemeinschaftsfremd-und-staatsgefaehrdend-m12811051,2165034.html.
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The association "purple angle" reports of a witness of history, part of a contemporary witness project.
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The bizarreness of Genesis 6:2
by doubtfull1799 in"the sons of the true god began to notice that the daughters of men were beautiful.
so they began taking as wives all whom they chose.".
it may be feasible to some to accept the bible's assertion that the first humans were tempted to pursue independence from god, especially since they were created in his image and he is independent from any authority.
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TheWonderofYou
Drearyweather, your phantasy is amazing. It is but not good to arrange the whole life round such assumptions. But your phantasy is great you should work in that industry.
You wrote above something like that the angels "were not made to have sex".
As Jehovah certainly had known what he had created and for what he had angels created, then it is impossilbe that they would have been able to make themselves their human bodies how they wanted so to speak in a do-it-yourself construction including the suitable sexual organs. Everything without allowance from above without divine construction plan?
You certainly see that Jehovah God would have made a big fool of himself, if he had created them so that they could create for themselves a human body.
Was he not, he, Jehovah alone, responsible for any creation of any kind? Did he not make the basic plan for angels? Jehovah certainly did not include in the basic plan an angelic evolution modul so that they could change or develop themselves and become another kind or overleap the limit of kind.
Either Jehovah wanted that they became human and had sexual experiences or he did it not want. Either jehovah wanted that they got G-I-A-N-T children, or he wanted it not. Imagine Jehovah making the construction plan for the Giant babies that would ruin the earth. Otherwise the Angels could not work out such an evolutionary kind jump plan because they were not able to do, they were not created to create or to let sprout evolutionary organs.
How would the holy angels do something so silly or try it at all knowing that he alone was the creator or without asking Jehovah.
Angel cannot make themselves bodies only J.G. would be able to do. It is most likely an old legend.
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Lizz Huerta, writer, storyteller and performer, grown up as JW-child
by TheWonderofYou inlizz huerta is writer, storyteller and performer from san diego, california has grown up as a jw child.
she wrote a story about the fear of firestorm and how she handled christmas, published on xojone and facebook too.
good read.. "it happened to me: i grew up jehovah's witness"i learned quickly that the kid who tells everyone they’re going to die in a firestorm isn’t terribly popular.http://www.xojane.com/family/it-happened-to-me-i-grew-up-jehovahs-witness.
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Lizz Huerta is writer, storyteller and performer from San Diego, California has grown up as a JW child. She wrote a story about the fear of firestorm and how she handled christmas, published on xojone and facebook too. Good read.
"It happened to me: I grew up Jehovah's witness"
I learned quickly that the kid who tells everyone they’re going to die in a firestorm isn’t terribly popular.
http://www.xojane.com/family/it-happened-to-me-i-grew-up-jehovahs-witness“Ho ho ho!” The man boomed. My younger cousins shrieked in excitement. I grimaced. “Come, sit here.” He beckoned to me. I had wanted this my entire life, to sit on Santa’s lap, to regale him with my Christmas wishes but it felt horrible, sinful. I was twelve years old. I was celebrating Christmas for the first time."
I published this a couple of years ago. The holidays always remind me of all the weirdness of growing up J-Dub, especially this time of year.
