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The heart-felt sentiments you see to the left are
unsolicited. They are culled from the e-mails I get from the wonderful
people who are training themselves in The Yoga of Alignment.
I deeply appreciate the honor of working with all of you. I am
perpetually uplifted, inspired, and energized by your process.
You give me a
tremendous gift when you bring your unique energy to this ever-evolving work.
Thank you for sharing yourself in such a generous and satisfying
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I am writing to say thank, thank you. I am so
fortunate that I was lead to you. From your column in PhenomeNews then to your website I traveled....then some
tapes...then the Results
workshop...then the Inner
Circle....and on and on......
But you lead me to so many other things as well. Mind Movies and all that comes with it....all the teachers etc. is extraordinary.....and then Revolutioniz from that.
I finally clicked on Ho'oponopono...what took me so long?.....and now I am reading "zerolimits"........WOW!....I trust it is all in the right time.....
Thank you again........you are a blessing in my life.
i so respect you and your work. i
think that your message is of tremendous value. i think that your work can
literally save lives.
i also feel that you are the one to
deliver the message. your presentation is so non-judgmental.
also, you field questions and responses in such a pure way. i love
the way that you respond to people. you really "hold the sacred
--Carol Leitner, Long Island, NY
Thanks for another great workshop. Every
workshop of yours I learn something valuable.
--Maria Cohen, Long Island, NY
I am so aware of how long I dwell on things now! As soon as I hear an internal conversation bound to sap my energy, I change it and imagine the cone you drew on the board.
Looking forward to a monthly tune-up.
--L.C., Long Island, NY
L.R., Long Island, NY
rebbie. i think this stuff actually works. ... i really can't
think of more important and life altering work. thanks very much for
sharing it with me ..
Long Island, NY
Hi Rebbie:
I just want to let you know that I came home and went over the whole
meeting with my kids and husband. I also told some friends about the
meeting. I was thrilled. ...THANK YOU FOR A VERY INTERESTING EVENING.
Looking forward to other meetings.
Teresa A., Long Island, NY
I loved the workshop. I am trying
to remember all the great new tools for living a good, positive life. I
can't wait for another workshop .
W.B., Long Island, NY
Wow did that go by in a flash or
what? thank you for an interesting (tele)class I'm looking forward to next wk
... If I can help someone else the way I was helped on your call ... that
would be awesome!! see ya next week!!
Connie Carpenter, Ct
Hi Rebbie,
I look forward to seeing you at this next workshop. I have been putting
your teaching into practice, and I believe I am clearer each day - stressing
less about my situation, and getting out of my own way with more ease.
Thank you for showing me this path.
Dr. Diane Becker, Long Island, NY
Yesterdays class was the best..... What a great blend of women.
I always enjoy your classes and come away with some great tools, but this
one was over the top in terms of the depth of honoring our divinity. I've
never been with a group of people who shared so deeply about the positive
things about themselves. Group work is frequently about uncovering and working
through the traumatic events that we think shape who we are. This was the
exact opposite.
…. Thank you Rebbie, for the opportunity to be with everyone yesterday
and experience all this through each of these women.
L.C., Long Island, NY
... thank you for helping me turn my thinking
around regarding my relationships .......... (wow! your "y" axis is
soooooo fine tuned, it's amazing)....
I also wanted to say that my personal
experience with my "relationship block" that you helped me turn
around is a great example that your method works wonderfully. as is......I HAD
been feeling the emotional pain of my perception of my reality, and I just got
totally stuck there in the "feeling bad space", which did me
absolutely no good....then you helped me turn the feeling around to a positive
thought, and the relief and results were instantaneous..........you have
created a form of "mental" chiropractic (does that make any sense?)
It's such genius!
hi rebbie. i have been
meaning to contact you... your workshop was wonderful. i
thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon. i so wanted to be there,,, you taught
me exactly what i needed to learn. it was so interesting and helpful.
you are excellent at presenting this work. you did great work as a
chiropractor, rebbie, and are now doing equally great and life-saving work.
i very much look forward to our next meeting.
Long Island, NY
Thank you for putting this all together for all of us. You have provided the tools for me to bridge a gap I had not been able to manage on my own.
your work, rebbie, is causing me to look at everything with new eyes, and to see beauty wherever i possibly can. the joy, the wonder, the love of life is there. this work asks me to access it and focus on it. this work is very essential and very good for me.
Thank you so much for offering this to us. I'm getting so much more out of it than I thought I would. I really hope you consider extending the class and delving more deeply into all this.
Rebbie ..
You are helping me so much...
I'm so disappointed that I won't be able to attend the Nov, and possibly Dec, workshop.
I am looking forward to the Jan workshop though & will continue to read the emails avidly ..
Bless you ..
Ellen Smiley
Dear Rebbie,
...I wanted to thank you for our last workshop. I have been able to fill my days with happiness.... I can still see and hear you speaking to me, and it has been very powerful.
Your meetings are good stuff....
--Workshop Participant
Long Island, NY
Hello Rebbie,
First, I want to let you know that I got the job that I wanted! It took about 2 weeks to find out for sure, during which time I focused on allowing (this stuff really works!).
I have been visiting your website and reading your articles, which I really "get" at this point in my understanding of the teachings of Abraham.
I think that you are a really loving and giving person and you have helped me so much already. It's great that you have started evening workshops for those of us who can't make it during the day.
Thanks again for sharing what you have learned.
Addie Weinberg
Long Island, NY
Hi Rebbie
Just some feedback on yesterday's meeting. For the first time in a long time, I began to gather hope. Hope that I can be happy and filled with joy, laughter, and giggles...especially giggles. I look forward to your meetings.
I can't wait to listen to my new CD.
Thank you again for your teachings.
Evelyn Dannen
Long Island, NY
i sometimes reflect on the body of knowledge that you have collected over the years and how you
gleen from it that which is so very pertinent to our living happier and more satisfying lives. i am also in awe of your ability to articulate. sometimes you are in the middle of a sentence searching for the rest of your thoughts and i am amazed at what you pull up. it is so very articulate.
--Carol Leitner, Long Island, NY
Dear Rebbie,
Two of my friends have birthdays coming up the end of this month, so I will bless them with your wonderful vibrations. I really think that's how it works: your uplifting words make us vibrate on a higher level.
In May one of your CDs will go to Germany for a birthday gift.
The one to my 83-year old friend I will send off as soon as I receive your shipment.
I am looking forward to spreading your blessings.
Much love,
Contemplation listener)
Los Angeles, California
Like the lilliputians in the locker at the train station in men in
black, when agent J opens the locker, they start to Hial Agent J,...
that was the feeling I got when I read your response to my Point of
Order Query! Hail Avatar Rebbie! You have opened the duir for me in
more perfect timing than I have realized. Your web site was exactly
what I was seeking NOW and from the entirety of my heart I thank You.
You have helped me to unbridal my passion and participation in the
this new scripting group.
Major Namaste!
hi rebbie.
you sure rocked today. i wanted to tape the class, but wanted to respect the privacy of the other women. i just had a feeling that you would be "cookin' with grease". i think i got down every word that you said without the use of a recorder.
thanks for a superb workshop.
i can't tell you how great i thought that workshop was yesterday. it might have been the best workshop i've ever attended in my life. and i've been around!!!
thanks so much for everything rebbie.
Your workshops have been "off the map" of excellent.
I wish that you could hear yourself. The content is extraordinary, as is your command of language.
It is such a pleasure to be part of anything that you offer.
Extraordinary work, Rebbie. Thank you!
Last nite was great as usual.
Thank you for your beautiful website.....your spirit comes through wonderfully through the articles you share with your readers.
I actually enjoy reading the abe teachings through your writing
...The YOFA meeting was perfect for setting up my thoughts about this
[upcoming event]. I was dreading it before the YOFA workshop. Now I see things differently. Thank you.
Dear Rebbie,
I have been thinking about what you did for me at our last workshop. I have no words to express how you touched my heart. I wish I could have recorded your words because I lost them. Actually, I hardly heard them on my human level...I heard them with my soul.
What I have been able to do is to slowly understand what my words to you really meant to me.
So you see, the work you are doing is helping me discover the truth about myself.
Thank you.
I loved meeting you the other night. The meeting was fantastic. It was life altering. I can't wait to see you again.
You are beyond incredible and I am so happy to have you in my life.
Doreen Faccibene
Long Island, NY
I enjoy receiving your emails, you have a wonderful gift of language,
I apologize that I never made the time to drop you a line and let you know how much I enjoyed meeting you and participating in your workshop.
Thank you… I wish there were more of you around!
Have you ever done or thought of doing teleclasses and reaching out more globally. You have so much to offer.
I recently attended your Women's Workshop. It was so worthwhile; I've realized so much from it (it came at just the perfect time, not accidental I guess). I would love to attend your next workshop since it sounds wonderful
Just wanted to THANK YOU so very much for your
informative and great emails
Rebbie, thank you for sending your 7 secrets course for free. This is a very thoughtful, generous thing to do. It gives me hope.
thank you Rebbie for your words... I so resonate with this material and so much appreciated your insights.
I gave much thought to the class yesterday and it was most helpful, in fact extremely liberating. It was better than most therapy sessions I have had and believe me there have been many. I can now honor my complete expression of myself in having desires other than just fusing with this man that I care for. I will be working on moving forward and having excited expectations... looking forward to our next meeting..
Thanks so much for your intention and your insight at Monday's workshop. You may have saved me years of therapy!!!! Seriously, I think I am on the way to becoming unstuck around my weight issue.
hey rebbie. just a note to say, once again, that you and this work are helping me so much.
thank you for the beauty of all you are doing in this world
Loved your article...Muscles Don't Push.
Rebbie, you are a wonderful teacher. I am filled with gratitude for having met you. You put life into my life.
So, let's have more articles written by you.
I'm really enjoying the way you express everything in kinesthetic terms. It speaks to me. Thanks,
...I also have been reading your column in Phenome
News for years. You have inspired me to start my own business
... I have so enjoyed your mailings.
I consider your newsletters and the affirmation website to be medicine administered to my sometimes "under the weather" soul.
After taking dose of your advice, resources, and tools I always feel better physically and emotionally.
You are a blessing.
I recently bought the Affirmative Contemplation audio tracks. Let me tell
you, it has affected me in many positive ways.
It is just a great product.
Thank you so much for these words:
"I wish you a new year where the you
who you love being steps forward to be you."
They do sound like the most beautiful magic to me -
I will write them down and look at them often in
this New Year!
Love and Gratitude to you
from Maria
I want to commend you for your very reasonable prices for your e-books and your CDs.
You make it impossible for a person to refuse such offers. My dream is to spread seeds of help and happiness to all who would avail themselves also. It shows that your heart is in the right place.
Dear Rebbie,
Thanks for everything. I love your web site. I teach a graduate course in
Ethics in Exercise, Leisure and Sport.
I am using some of your material
incorporating it into things I have put together from several sources.
... I include your web site in the list or references and recommended readings. Just want to let
you know.
blessings to you,
Dr. Walter E. Davis
Associate Professor
Kent State University
I loved the workshop. It gave me new insight into myself. You are a blessing in my life and to those people whose life you touch.
What a wonderful workshop...fun mixed with learning.
All of your workshops are wonderful. I am privileged to be part of them. Rebbie, "YOU light up my life."
I had an unusually difficult work day and came a little wound up. I left feeling calm, peaceful and joyful.
Hi Dr. Rebbie,
Your work is wonderful, I have benefited from it greatly.
Kristal J Wyatt
I started a few weeks ago listening to the "I am Love" meditations. I listened several times a day. Simultaneously, I purchased "Ask and it is Given" and "The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent" and started reading. I had visited the Abraham website after seeing the link on the Go Gratitude 42 day process. I also started the Relationship program you
...... I have had numerous challenges resolved in a miraculous way since starting this process.
Thank you for your work. I will continue to study and share this gift.
All great souls are "tuning forks"; their vibrations emanate at a higher level all humans can aspire to. I believe that when we are in the presence of these vibrations, we become attuned and rise to that level of the Higher Self, and once there, can lift others to that level ourselves. Or, like an orchestra conductor, you keep all of us playing on the correct "pitch". It's also kind of like when seeing someone smiling the radiant inner smile, and one begins smiling too, and it's a contagious experience for everyone who sees it. Passing the torch in dark times is holy and much needed work. Thanks for being that "Tuning Fork", Conductor, Smile and Light-Bearer for me!
Even in my phases of contentment, the truth held in a context of time is no more than a movie of what my heart space truly seeks to know. That knowledge - is the immediate and unebbing flow of consciousness.
Sheesh , this is all like stuff I have always known, and as I am participating with the energy of the group it is being remembered .. Deepest thanks for the sangha -
thanks for your presence in 'the light', Rebbie
you shine in brilliance
love your work..it is mana from Heaven!
and your offerings
are dear to me! It is because of your personal,
loving presence that makes the difference--it's not
just, 'fellow members'--you create a warm circle!
think, in this time in particular, it is essential
to align ourselves with our soul kindred and
progress together. We ARE Needed! The
guided progress you offer is Wonderful!!
So Much Appreciation and Gratitude,
u r a miracle; thank u
I highly value your
Last night was just
fantastic!!! YOU ARE FANTASTIC! YOU ARE SOO BEAUTIFUL!!
tHANK YOU,
Thank you for all your
sharing, I really appreciate you and your teachings and am
grateful to have met you. There is a lot more to this
computer than people realize, So many good things..
because of the work you do... I can...
Imagine a world where everyone feels loved and blessed by the presence of
everyone else. Just imagine how beautiful such a world would be.
I have been
listening to my Abraham tapes and I now see more clearly
how to maximize my life the way I want it and not what
others want for me.
I have had
these tapes for a few years and never utilized them
properly until I listened to your YOFA instructions.
I really appreciate all the work you are doing and hold
you very dear in my heart! You DO make a difference.
Dear Rebbie,
You are a Gen-U-Wine original. Every concept you manifest, every idea you conceive, is totally original, clean, elegant, beautiful and beneficial
for all concerned. There is a quiet beauty of your work for which I have
great admiration and respect.
I truly enjoyed the Feb. workshop. . . I get a real feeling of sincerity and "walking-the-talk" from your presence!
I absolutely adore your work and your vocal delivery. Your Spirit is so transparent and lovely. It is very refreshing to have come across your page after such a long time. It is interesting to note that for the past month or so, you have come to me in those times when I needed to really anchor myself in Peace.
" I am
Love" is always close at hand, and I look forward to participating in "your
Thanks so much for being you
I love your writing, your voice, your healing sessions, etc. Way to go!
... keep up the great work. Whenever I see something from you in my in-box, I know it will be worth reading.
I love...LOVE...your work.
Terrific class last night. I never know where you are going when you start, but so many gems show up along the way. Would love if you could record them, so I could remember all of it.
Thank you, you are awesome!!!
Keep up the inspirational work.
I have been reading your materials to much enjoyment. I have downloaded your
cd, and my mother has never sleep so good. So, in other words, I would like to thank you. I feel your information came to me at the right time, so as it has allowed me to absorb, and exude these principles.
Thank you again for helping me and my family in our new spiritual awakening.
Thank you for explaining things so clearly and beautifully and for your obvious caring.
I got up at 4.30 am this morning to listen to your great webseminar. Many thanks, it was full of good info and light, and love also.
Great telecast today. Thank you and keep up the great work.
wow! I was there [at the
telewebcast] and thank you SO much.
I LOVE what you do and your work is of great benefit to me and I Thank you!
Rebbie, this is the first time I have listened, and you really were terrific. I tuned in late so I don't know if you got to my question. Your other answers were superb.
I want to thank you so much for the many wonderful services you offer.
The jhe sessions are phenomenal! I am really noticing a difference! How lovely that you offer this gift to us. (Even if we share money with you in exchange, they still feel like a gift.)
I have also bought two of your products: the Affirmative Contemplation Meditation downloads, which I absolutely love, and your
book, which I have only just started, but like very much already.
You are so generous to give of yourself in the ways you do. I also love the various
teleseminars and conference calls you've sponsored. They always provide an affirmative, uplifting,
positive boost of energy.
I am so grateful that you are sharing your talents so generously with all of us. A huge thank you and a giant hug to you.
All the best to you,
S (from Boston)
I have found that the
lessons are wonderful and I listen to them all the time. I got your
book and started to read it as well. I am open to your help. I found while listening to your voice alone made me feel less
Thank you for all your messages they are helping me as well and your wonderful
book. I have been getting lost in reading it and all your messages. I have always been open to this I just wished I had met your years ago.
My never ending thanks for all that you continue to do to help me grow and for all of us.
The workshop Tuesday was wonderful, I was in awe the
whole time...
I'm sending gratitude your way ( I"m sure you receive lots of it! :)...for your thoughtful and generous offer of the teleworkshop on Uncommon Gratitude. Your offerings are always Beautiful--and I wouldn't miss it!
Your classes are a True Blessing. I really do enjoy and value them, taking notes as you talk. Openness to a virtual exchange of ideas and energy--what a wonderful gift! Like a living workshop online! What I value so much is how you gently shift our perception--and that works wonders! Your message takes hold, and your lesson comes at the moment when a shift is needed--and it works! Your unselfish giving is a Blessing online.
I am grateful for you.
And I am thankful that you are here on this Earth and in my life.
I found a note from last year, when I was working with you via a tele-group. The note said that I inteneded to "develop clarity about my highest path". In July of this year, I awoke and realised I am a writer: a poet, and a voice artist. My clarity came with the intention that you showed me alignment over.
And so Rebbie, THANK YOU for being. Being generous, grateful, sharing, skilled and loving.
Thank you ... For your tireless work, for all your efforts to bring more positive energy into this fast paced skeptical world.
For your patience, for your ability to try to understand and be understood.
For bringing reality back into truth and for helping others, without expectation of great returns, just for the mere chance that someone will shine a bit brighter through their day if not throughout their life.
You offer much joy and guidance, and I thank you for your teachings.
Rebbie, my dear magician,
thanks to you for these wonderful moments of deep reconciliation with
ourselves. Your letters are the air bags in my mails. With deep
affection and gratitude
It's an amazing early summer morning here in Cape Town, South Africa. I am filled with gratitude and so much love
and I needed to thank you - I came across the name "Abraham" in one of your writings earlier this year, and it has
changed my life. I have simply been reading their quotes, and found a blog which published excerpts - I have not
even been to one of their seminars, not even read a book or listened to a lecture - and my life has changed.
I know it was the right place, I know I manifested you, but wow, am I good! Look who came into my life!!! Thank you,
I love you.
I thank you for your work and your integrity.
Thank you for all that you do to enrich and expand our lives! You and your efforts are appreciated beyond measure!
Blessings to you!
thank you for your keeping in touch with me & sending me inspiring mails ...I do not delete any of them..
I found your post really interesting and it has really improved my knowledge on the matter. You've assisted my understanding on what is usually a hard to tackle subject. Thank you!
I am so honored to get to know you. You are a very special, loving and kind person. I am grateful to call you my friend. I will read your emails diligently and share good energy with you always. Love and Gratitude Angel
Thank you so very much for this wonderful Hannakah gift YOUR PRESENCE is all of our presents. Much light was sent forth, my understanding has increased exponentially and I am so very grateful for the time you took with explaining in such a clear and loving way. Your deep commitment to excellence is indeed shining brightly. Thank you precious one.
luv that stuff - what a great session I just listened to, thank you. I really like the way you hit the nail on the head then follow-up with abundant imagery that amply delivers the point. Feels good :)
Simply outstanding! YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!
My heart, mind, and ego all THANK-YOU, with Deep Gratitude,
Dear rebbie Thank you for your speech, my compliments. It is a beautiful, intensif and light experience to follow your words. Focussing and concentration are easy. You answered my question, Thank you for that. At that moment I am quite overwhelmed but I enjoyed your way of handling my question. Till next time Paul
Its been over two years that I've been blessed with your guidance and your teachings. Just want to say a Big Thank You! to you for your
endless compassion and love and your service to others. I am one of those that have
benefited from your teachings. You've been like a light that I have needed at times so I can find my way back to myself.
It was so nice to talk to you yesterday...
I also wanted to add a little to the picture I was painting of the feeling of your teleseminars.
Rebbie, you are very articulate and are gifted in coming up with images that help us with this work.
I can't think of anyone that is working harder and you have given so many extras like Napoleon Hill and Ram Daas etc.
It is just refreshing to have Snowball and the other little flavorings that remind us you are real.
It is a kind of refreshing honesty that you are willing to be out there demonstrating how to handle thoughts when things aren't going perfectly.
Thanks, Rebbie. I am grateful for your presence
Your teleseminar was SOOOO FANTABULOUS!!!!! I completely not only enjoyed it, but got so much out of it!!!!
Hi Rebbie,
how wonderful that you have decided to webcast last week's teleseminar! I set an alarm clock to be able to hear the session online, I tried to stay awake, but had to give up half-way.... over here in EUROPE it's long past bedtime when you people sit down to enjoy the transmission. Now I have downloaded the whole thing so that I can LISTEN and ABSORB your sharing. THANK YOU REBBIE!
... I do, by the way, enjoy the love-cd
and listen to it daily, makes me feel sooo good!
Love from Denmark,
Thank you for making your teleseminar recording available. Your work is a valuable addition to my studies and practices. I appreciate your work very much.
The seminar was fabulous and I had a few insights.....so thank you. I had the
meditative recordings that I purchased from your site, I guess a year ago when I first went to your website. I hope these are the same recordings.
I feel so blessed that I was led to you as I am learning so much and a lot of my previous work is coming together through the applications of your tremendous talents and gifts.
Thank you again.
Thanks for last
night's enlightening class. You really make things
clear to me and help me along my journey.
I just wanted to say thank
you for such an enlightening and comforting evening. I
left your Workshop feeling lighter and hopeful. You
deliver a strong, positive, understandable message, and
I (as well as [the others who came with me]) look forward to
your next Workshop.
Thank you all for your generous
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I liked the wild berry flavour the most and I was even able to get my young son to drink more water on a daily basis because of these. So now I always pick up a case of these along with a case of plain water. I now drink these on a daily basis and they have become one of my favourites.
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My parents used to buy these multi-packs all the time to stop themselves from buying soda. I think they're good if you're transitioning from soda to drinking water, but otherwise I'm not a fan. They have a really weird chemical aftertaste that is really unappealing. Not to mention the environmental waste of drinking of from plastic water bottles. I think if you want to drink flavoured water, it's smarter to buy a reusable water bottle and those little flavour shots or crystals. I still don't like the chemical aftertaste, but it is more environmentally responsible. Also, especially in reference to the lemon flavoured one, adding a squirt of real lemon juice to water tastes way better.
I really like the large variety pack that I picked up at Costco. I enjoy flavoured water rather than just plain, it motivates me to drink more water! Only minus is the slight after taste of all of them. I think it's the sucralose?
Not a big fan of the artificial flavor, love the water as it is ... Bit pricy for water in my opinion.
There was something off with the flavoured water that made it off putting. Perhaps it was the artificial sweetener? There was an aftertaste to it that seemed bitter. I have tried to like this stuff and have tried different flavours, but that aftertaste is keeping me from doing so.
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Good resources for parents and schools for Earth Day
The Earth Day Network website (earthday.org) has some great resources for parents and schools as you look at celebrating Earth Day.
The parents section has many ideas on celebrating Earth Day with your kids. Here is the link: www.earthday.org/education/parents
Here are just two ideas excerpted from the site:
The Green Schools Initiative: Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day (April 22, 2010) at your school! This year's historic event is a great opportunity for your students to learn about and take action for the environment. Register for Earth Day Network's free online Educators' Network at earthday.org/education to receive environmental education curricula and other resources to celebrate Earth Day. Be sure to tell us what you're doing at email@example.com! The link to find over 400 pages of Green School Documents are is http://earthday.net/greenyourschool
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There are few things more painful and less appetising than starting back at exercise classes after what's been a very long break. Just to qualify here – I'm not the world's fittest person. I'm not a gym junkie and I don't run marathons. But I know I feel better when I'm fit, so I exercise as best I can. But that all fell apart towards the end of 2009 when I contracted an illness that kept me from exercising for the best part of 8 months. I recovered okay, but the result was that I'd lost all the fitness I'd had, I'd put on more weight and could barely climb a flight of stairs without huffing and puffing. Something had to be done. Soon. Next week. Or the week after. Or…
It took me about six weeks to get around to actually doing some exercise. Gathering up the mental determination to finally shift myself off the couch that I'd been stapled to for 8 months was pretty hard, but I did manage it. I joined a group outdoor fitness training company who hold classes near to where I live. It was truly excruciating getting up for the 6.00am classes, but I pushed on, knowing that one day – soon (please, soon!) – I would start to feel the benefit.
After I'd only been doing this a couple of weeks, the trainer declared that our cardio training for the day would consist of doing a 2 km run around the suburban streets. And just like that, off we went.
It took me no time at all, literally, to end up at the back of the pack. I wasn't up to running more than about 50 meters at a time, and I walked in between. About 10 minutes into the 'run', after I'd already lost sight of everybody else, it started to rain. About a minute after that, my left calf muscle started to hurt. A lot. I lost count of the number of times I wondered what the hell I was doing out there at the crack of dawn, deliberately torturing myself. But I kept going.
Yes, I know that sounds heroic – but the truth was, I was at the point where it was going to take me as long to go back as to finish. Anyway, I kept on, the rain stopped and started but actually wasn't that bad. Then I turned the final corner, with still about 800m to go. What I saw really surprised me.
All my fellow classmates had already finished their run and come back for me. When they reached me, they slowed down and jogged alongside me, chatting, encouraging me, keeping me motivated, taking my mind off my sore calf and the icy spattering rain. We all moaned about it together – and you know what? That last 800m just flew by.
It made all the difference to me. I barely knew these people, and sure, the trainer had sent them back so they weren't all sitting around while I finished – but the trainer hadn't told them to stay with me, to help me and motivate me. I ended up running the whole way back, without stopping to walk. I finished that class in an entirely different frame of mind.
I started to enjoy it.
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This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/321,939, filed May 28, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,051,357, entitled "COMMUNICATING ANCILLARY INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A PLURALITY OF AUDIO/VIDEO PROGRAMS," which issued May 23, 2006.
The invention relates to communicating ancillary information associated with a plurality of audio/video programs, such as television content associated with a plurality of channels.
Ancillary information, such as program sub-titles, emergency messages, closed caption messages, and program guide information, may be transmitted with regular television content. More recently, other types of ancillary information that may be sent with television content include enhancement data such as web pages, multimedia information, or other digital data files. Ancillary information may be sent in the vertical blanking interval (VBI) of an analog television broadcast signal. Alternatively, the ancillary information may be sent with digital television content over a digital transport medium.
Various standards exist that provide for transmission of ancillary information with television content. One standard is the Advanced Television Enhancement Forum (ATVEF) Specification, Draft Version 1.1r26, dated Feb. 2, 1999. The ATVEF Specification is designed to provide for transmission of enhancement data along with television content in both analog and digital systems, such as cable systems, satellite systems, terrestrial systems, and so forth. The combination of the enhancement data and the television content may be referred to as enhanced television content. Enhanced television content provides more information and options to viewers. For example, a viewer may be presented with the option of viewing advertisements, educational information, and so forth, while watching regular television programming.
Transmission of enhanced television content, however, may increase bandwidth requirements of the transport medium between the transmission source and receiving sites. Thus, a need exists to provide for solutions that address bandwidth limitations of transport media as well as provide for greater flexibility in the transmission of such ancillary information.
In the following description, numerous details are set forth to provide an understanding of the present invention. However, it is to be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these details and that numerous variations or modifications from the described embodiments may be possible. For example, although reference is made to the Advanced Television Enhancement Forum (ATVEF) Specification, Draft Version 1.1 r26, dated Feb. 2, 1999, it is contemplated that other versions of the ATVEF Specification as well as other standards and techniques for transmission of ancillary information with content that includes audio data or video data (e.g., television content) may be included in further embodiments.
Referring to
The transport operator system 14 provides an enhanced television content delivery infrastructure that may include terrestrial, cable, satellite, or other types of transmission facilities (either analog or digital). The television content and enhancement data may be transmitted over a transport medium 22 which may be a terrestrial, cable, satellite, or other type of link, to the receivers 16. The receivers 16 may include televisions, set-top boxes, personal computers, or other types of systems adapted to receive television content and associated enhancement data.
As used in this description, the term audio/video (A/V) content is intended to include any type of audio and/or video data that may be transmitted or distributed to one or more receiving sites for presentation to viewers and/or listeners. As used here, A/V content may refer to content that may include both an audio and a video portion or one of an audio or video portion. Further, ancillary information other than enhancement data may be transmitted with the A/V content. For example, ancillary information may include program sub-titles, emergency messages, closed caption messages, and program guide information.
The receivers 16 may further be coupled to a secondary link 20 which may be a data delivery communications channel such as the Internet, a DOCSIS network (which is an interface for cable modems), or other communications link (whether uni-directional or bi-directional). DOCSIS stands for Data Over Cable Systems Interface Specifications, and is described in DOCSIS, Version 1.0, dated March 1998, as provided by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The secondary link 20 may be coupled to the transport operator system 14 and/or to one or more servers 18. According to some embodiments, portions of enhancement data associated with the A/V content transmitted over the transport medium 22 may be communicated over the secondary link 20 from the transport operator system 14, the one or more servers 18, or some combination of such systems.
In an alternate embodiment, another type of secondary data path can be part of the A/V transmission itself, but not tightly tied to a particular A/V channel. For instance, in MPEG-2 based systems like ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) or DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting), transport stream programs correspond to what is commonly thought of as TV channels. MPEG stands for Moving Picture Experts Group, and the MPEG-2 standard is described in ISO/IEC 13818-1 (MPEG-2 Systems), ISO/IEC 13818-2 (MPEG-2 Video) and ISO/IEC 13818-3 (MPEG-2 Audio), dated in 1994 and provided by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). A description of ATSC may be found in "Guide to the Use of the ATSC Digital Television Standard," dated October 1995. DVB standards may be available from the web site {http://www.etsi.org}.
These transport stream programs can contain audio, video and data (e.g., ancillary information), with all of them tightly associated with that single transport stream program. When a user tunes to the transport stream program, the receiving device knows the audio, video, and data that are associated because they are marked as all being part of the same program. In addition, other transport stream programs can be created that contain no audio or video, only data. In this case, ancillary information associated with a plurality of audio/video programs could be carried in a single data-only transport stream program. This creates the same situation as if that ancillary data was carried outside the transport that carries the audio/video program. Data that is intended to be associated with a particular audio/video program is transported separate from it and instead may be multiplexed onto a single delivery mechanism (e.g., a data-only transport stream program) that carries ancillary information for many audio/video programs. The problem then becomes being able to re-associate ancillary information with the proper audio/video program at the receiving end.
One standard for describing transmission of enhancement data with television content is the ATVEF specification, with one version described in ATVEF Specification, Draft Version 1.1r26, dated Feb. 2, 1999. Enhancement data may be transmitted in a number of different ways from the transport operator system 14 to the receivers 16, depending on the type of transport medium 22. For example, with an analog transport medium such as the National Television System Committee (NTSC) Standard of the Electronics Industries Association, portions of the enhancement data may be sent in the vertical blanking interval (VBI) of the NTSC transmission. A description of NTSC may be found in Keith Jack, "Video Demystified: A Handbook For the Digital Engineer," HighText Publications (2d Ed. 1996). Other types of transport media (analog or digital) may provide different mechanisms of communicating the enhancement data.
Enhancement data according to the ATVEF Specification may include enhancements each having the following components: an ATVEF announcement, a resource, and a trigger. The three components may be transmitted using Internet Protocol (IP) multicast to the receivers. An IP multicast standard is described in Request for Comment (RFC) 1301, entitled "Multicast Transport Protocol." RFCs may be available at website address {http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html}.
Generally, an ATVEF announcement indicates that enhancement data is being transmitted, a resource includes one or more files that contain the enhancement data, and a trigger synchronizes the enhancement data with the TV transmission. An announcement may describe the location of both the resource stream and the trigger stream. For each television (TV) channel, one or more enhancements may be offered as choices presented to the user, who can select which of the enhancements, if any, to view. The ATVEF Specification may utilize a one-way transmission protocol (the Unidirectional Hypertext Transfer Protocol or UHTTP, described in the ATVEF Specification) to deliver resource data.
The announcements, resources, and triggers associated with an A/V channel may be delivered at about the same time as and with the transmission of the A/V content on that channel. Conventionally, for each enhancement, the resource stream may be delivered along with the announcement, with the resource stream stored locally in the receiver 16. If a viewer so desires, the enhancement data can be retrieved at the receiver from local storage for viewing.
Conventionally, ATVEF announcements arrive at an expected location, such as a predetermined Internet Protocol (IP) address and port. The Internet protocol is described in RFC 791, entitled "Internet Protocol," dated September 1981. The locations of the resource and trigger streams specified in the ATVEF Specification may be described as IP addresses and ports where the resources and triggers may be found. The ATVEF announcement may be a Session Description Protocol (SDP) announcement, as described in RFC 2327, entitled "SDP: Session Description Protocol," dated April 1998.
In current ATVEF systems, the enhancement data including announcements are delivered with the A/V content associated with each TV channel. However, announcements for multiple TV channels are not grouped for arrival at the ATVEF announcement IP address and port in the receivers 16, as the one or more announcements of the currently tuned TV channel are received at the ATVEF announcement IP address and port along with the A/V content stream of the currently tuned TV channel. Thus, conventionally, when tuning from one TV channel to another, the receiver assumes that the source of the data network changes correspondingly, that is, only announcements for the currently tuned TV channel flow on the announcement IP address and port. For example, when a receiver is tuned to channel B, the enhancement data of channel B is received at the announcement IP address and port but not enhancement data associated with other channels. According to the current ATVEF Specification, ATVEF announcements for channels other than the currently tuned channel cannot arrive in the ATVEF announcement IP address and port. The enhancement data is thus tightly coupled to the A/V content associated with each TV channel so that the receiver can easily associate the enhancement data with the A/V content of the currently tuned TV channel in a conventional ATVEF system.
To provide for greater flexibility and/or to alleviate bandwidth concerns of the transport medium 22, some embodiments of the invention transmit (using IP multicast) enhancement data associated with multiple A/V channels (e.g., TV channels) over a link that is separate from the transport medium used to transmit A/V content (or, alternatively, that is part of the same delivery mechanism as the A/V content but is not associated with any A/V channel, e.g., an MPEG-2 transport stream with ancillary information in a data-only program separate from the A/V programs). The separate delivery mechanism to deliver the A/V content may be a separate transport stream or a separate link 20 such as a general purpose data link or some other type of communications link. Thus, according to some embodiments, enhancement data is separated from the A/V data at the transport operator system 14 (or alternatively, at another source), with the A/V content transmitted over the transport medium 22 and the enhancement data transmitted over the secondary link 20 (or a separate transport stream).
In the ensuing description, reference is made to receiving enhancement data received over the secondary link 20; however, it is contemplated that the enhancement data or other type of ancillary information may be received over a separate transport stream such as that used with MPEG-2 delivery systems. In addition, reference is made to tuning to a specific A/V channel (e.g., TV channel) at the receiving end. It is contemplated, however, that the receiver system can be tuning instead to one of the A/V transport stream programs in an MPEG-2 based systems.
Thus, generally, tuning to an A/V program may include tuning to A/V channels (e.g., TV channels), to transport stream programs (e.g., in an MPEG based system), or to other separations or segments of A/V content. Also, associating ancillary information with an A/V program can thus refer to associating ancillary information with an A/V channel, a transport stream program, or other A/V separations or segments.
In accordance with some embodiments, the enhancement data associated with multiple A/V channels may be grouped and stored in the transport operator system 14 and/or the one or more servers 18 and multiplexed into a transmission stream on the secondary link 20. Consequently, according to some embodiments, enhancement data associated with multiple A/V channels may be combined into a transmission stream on the secondary link 20. At the receiving end, the combined stream of enhancement data is separated and associated with a currently tuned A/V channel.
In accordance with some embodiments, indications (referred to as special announcements) may be transmitted over the secondary link 20 along with the enhancement data to aid in the association of enhancement data with the tuned channel. In a conventional ATVEF system, such special announcements are not employed because enhancement data is tightly coupled with the A/V content. Upon receipt of the special announcements, each receiver 16 determines the A/V channel that the receiver is tuned to and identifies the special announcement associated with the tuned channel. The special announcement includes data identifying locations of one or more ATVEF announcements associated with that A/V channel. At the receiving end, instead of ATVEF announcements arriving at the expected location (e.g., predetermined IP address and port), the special announcements arrive at the expected location. Using information in a special announcement, each receiver 16 can then locate the one or more ATVEF announcements received over the secondary link 20 and associate them with the tuned channel. From the retrieved ATVEF announcements, locations of resource files and triggers can then be conventionally determined for retrieval and presentation. The resource files of the enhancement data can then be combined with the A/V content for presentation (audio or video presentation or both).
Thus, effectively, some embodiments of the invention separate A/V content and enhancement data at the source (e.g., the transport operator system 14). The A/V content is transmitted over the transport medium 22, while the enhancement data (along with special announcements) associated with multiple A/V channels are combined and multiplexed onto a separate transmission stream. At the receiving end (e.g., receivers 16), the combined enhancement data are separated (demultiplexed) and associated with a currently tuned A/V channel.
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In the embodiment of
Special announcements may also be sent by the distribution system 50 or 51 over the secondary link 21 or 23. As with receivers 16 in the
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Enhancement data may be stored in a storage medium 126 in the server 18 in addition to or instead of the enhancement data stored in the transport operator system 14. The server 18 further includes a transceiver 124 coupled to the secondary link 20 and a control device 128. More than one server 18 may be coupled to the secondary link 20 to store additional enhancement data. Alternatively, a plurality of servers 18 may be coupled to the receivers 16 over separate links.
In the receiving system (receiver 16, 17, or 19), a receiver circuit 114 (e.g., a TV tuner card) is adapted to receive content over the transport medium 22 and a transceiver 116 is adapted to communicate over the secondary link 20. The receiving circuit 114 may be associated with an A/V device driver routine 130 that forwards the received A/V content to application software adapted to process and present the A/V content in the receiving system. The transceiver 116 may be associated with a network device driver 132 to receive enhancement data from the link 20.
In one embodiment, the network device driver 132 may send received data to a TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) stack 134. TCP is described in RFC 793, entitled "Transmission Control Protocol," dated September 1991. Data flows through the TCP/IP stack 134 to application software, including an enhancement routine 138 for receiving and processing enhancement data and a special announcement routine (SA routine) 136 to receive and process special announcements. In an alternative arrangement, the SA routine 136 may be part of the enhancement routine 138. The application routines, device drivers, and other routines or programs may be executable on a controller 120. Such routines or programs may be initially stored in a storage medium 118 and loaded by the controller 120 for execution. The SA routine 136 is capable of associating enhancement data received over the secondary link 20 to the currently tuned A/V channel. The SA routine 136 may then combine the associated enhancement data with the A/V content of the currently tuned TV channel for presentation. Alternatively, the enhancement data and special announcements may arrive in a separate transport stream program (e.g., such as those in MPEG based systems) over the transport medium 22, in which case it may be different parts of the SA routine 136 (or different routines) that process receipt of the enhancement data and A/V content.
Referring to
The controller 106 next resolves (at 206) any IP address conflicts that may occur among IP datagrams containing resource and trigger streams. If a clash in IP addresses exists for IP datagrams of the resource and trigger data for different TV channel sources, the IP addresses of the datagrams may be changed to avoid collision. Conventional techniques exist to detect and resolve IP address conflicts. Alternatively, conventional techniques also exist for assigning IP multicast addresses (e.g., static owned address allocation) to avoid creating conflicting addresses.
The enhancement data, including announcements, resources, and triggers, are transmitted (at 208) over the secondary link 20. A special announcement is also transmitted (at 210) with the enhancement data to indicate that ATVEF announcements associated with the A/V channel is available from a different source.
Separation of the enhancement data and the A/V content is illustrated in
Thus, according to some embodiments of the invention, the ATVEF announcements are not sent on the usual ATVEF announcement address and port. Instead, ATVEF announcements for a single A/V channel are made available on their own announcement IP address. Instead of the regular ATVEF announcements, a special announcement is transmitted on the ATVEF announcement address and port to indicate that the ATVEF announcements for the TV channel have been re-directed. In other embodiments in which ATVEF is not used, announcements may refer to other indications of presence of ancillary information.
According to the current ATVEF Specification, an ATVEF announcement sent on the ATVEF announcement address and port includes an attribute "a=type:tve" to identify that enhancement data is being sent. According to one embodiment of the invention, instead of including the attribute "a=type:tve," the special announcement includes a different identifier attribute, e.g., "a=type:x-tvemult" or other predetermined attribute. In one embodiment, the special announcement does not locate resource files and triggers for the enhanced TV program, but instead locates the announcement data for each TV channel. The special announcement is not recognized as a standard ATVEF announcement because of the lack of the "a=type:tve" attribute.
In one embodiment, the special announcement may include the following information: TV network name (if any), located in a first string, e.g., "a=x-tvnet:networknamestring"; TV station call letters, located in a second string, e.g., "a=x-tvstation:stationnamestring"; and/or major and minor channel numbers for tuning, located in a third string, e.g., "a=x-tvtune:majorchannelnumber:minorchannelnumber". The information of the fields in the special announcement may be used to tie the special announcement to a particular TV channel through an electronic program guide or other channel mapping mechanism that may be made available to the receiving system.
Referring to
The processing performed by the controller 120 (at 310) may be performed in one of various ways. In one embodiment in which the SA routine 136 is part of the enhancement routine 138, the controller 120 in the receiver 16 may directly access the ATVEF announcements located at the indicated IP address, from which the resource and trigger files may be located.
In an alternative embodiment in which the SA routine 136 and enhancement routine 138 are separate, the SA routine 136 first processes received special announcements. Based on the currently tuned A/V channel, the SA routine 136 identifies the one or more announcements associated with the tuned channel and retransmits or redirects them onto the expected ATVEF IP address and port so that the enhancement routine 138 can properly process the ATVEF announcements. The enhancement routine 138 can then proceed to locate the resource and trigger stream based on the received ATVEF announcements. In this alternative embodiment, the enhancement routine 138 need not be modified—instead, the responsibility of processing special announcements is placed on the SA routine 136. An advantage of this alternative embodiment is that existing receiving systems may be easily retrofitted with the SA routine 136 by simply loading the component 136 from storage media (such as floppy diskettes or CD or DVD media) or down-loading the component 136 from a data network (such as the Internet).
Referring to
Thus, a system has been described in which enhancement data associated with multiple TV programs or channels may be sent as a group to one or more receivers. A predetermined indication (e.g., a special announcement) may be used to identify the location of ATVEF announcements for enhancement data of the tuned A/V channel. The ATVEF announcements may then be received and processed to obtain locations of resource and trigger files.
Some embodiments of the invention may include one or more of the following advantages. Enhancement data for multiple channels or programs may be carried over a general purpose data network separately from the A/V content transport medium. This provides greater flexibility in how the enhancement data may be transmitted. For example, if the transport medium for delivering the A/V content does not have sufficient bandwidth for sending large amounts of enhancement data, the separate channel may provide a mechanism of increasing that bandwidth. In cases where the A/V content is transmitted over an analog transport medium (such as an NTSC medium), delivering enhancement data over a separate channel such as a DOCSIS link, the Internet, or other communications link, avoids the expense of employing a VBI data decoder in each receiver. Additionally, the viewer may be able to watch the enhancement data portion of the TV program separately from the A/V content if the viewer has a separate TV and personal computer.
Further embodiments of the invention may include transmission sources to transmit A/V content other than TV content. Ancillary information associated with such A/V content may be similarly made available over a separate link.
Various software or firmware (formed of modules, routines, or other layers, for example) may be stored or otherwise tangibly embodied in one or more machine-readable storage media in the information delivery system. Storage media suitable for tangibly embodying software and firmware instructions may include different forms of memory including semiconductor memory devices such as dynamic or static random access memories, erasable and programmable read-only memories (EPROMs), electrically erasable and programmable read-only memories (EEPROMs), and flash memories; magnetic disks such as fixed, floppy and removable disks; other magnetic media including tape; and optical media such as CD or DVD disks. The instructions stored in the one or more storage media when executed cause the information delivery system to perform programmed acts.
The software or firmware can be loaded into the information delivery system in one of many different ways. For example, instructions or other code segments stored on one or more storage media or transported through a network interface card, modem, or other interface mechanism may be loaded into the system 10 and executed to perform programmed acts.
While the invention has been disclosed with respect to a limited number of embodiments, those skilled in the art will appreciate numerous modifications and variations therefrom. It is intended that the appended claims cover all such modifications and variations as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
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Indeed, the guy has been impossible to miss on television lately, with his new Gatorade and Adidas commercials both in heavy rotation.
"I done seen my man RGIII on 3 different commercials in 3 weeks," former Baylor basketball star Perry Jones III recently observed.
"Ay real tlk RGIII if ya Gatorade commercial come on one more time lol," Redskins teammate Jarvis Jenkins wrote.
"They keep showing that commercial of him winking at some dude too lol," Niles Paul chimed in.
Now here comes the new Football America catalog, with RGIII on the cover, pushing EvoShield, another of his sponsors. This comes not long after RGIII landed on the cover of Eastbay, decked out in Adidas gear.
And it brings to mind a passage from Dave Sheinin's wonderful profile of the kid.
The hectic [offseason] schedule had some people close to Griffin wondering whether he was spreading himself too thin, but he promised them it wasn't too much and insisted the marketing engine would shut down once training camp started. The goal was partly financial. Griffin hoped to live for the year off his sponsorship income, which could reach seven figures for someone with his national appeal, and put all his Redskins earnings — more than $14 million in bonus and salary — in savings.
Training camp starts this week. So prepare for the marketing engine to shut down.
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The pork donations in December accounted for more than 4,200 servings of protein, using serving size of 5.5 ounces. The donations, from loins, ribs, bacon to pork steaks, offer a variety of meal choices for pantry clients and kitchen diners for holiday celebrations and meals.
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Jesus said on the Mount of Olives (Matt. 24) that deception would be the primary cultural sign of the last days. Even some of God's "elect" might be deceived by false theologies. "Good would be called evil and evil good" (Isaiah 5:20). Men would substitute light for darkness and darkness for light. Apostasy would consume churches and denominations that were once solid.
I have been consistently concerned about the global warming/green agenda entering evangelical churches now for many years. There are a dozen church-based organizations that exist entirely for environmental reasons and many others who are just supportive of them.
One of the most significant influences within Evangelicalism the last twenty-five years has been the reemergence of "latter rain" theology. Yet, many are not even aware that such an influence exists within modern Christianity.
Paul Smith, the younger brother of Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel fame, has written an important new book entitled, New Evangelicalism: The New World Order. [] In this book, Smith identifies the snares that threaten to destroy the effectiveness of Bible-believing, gospel preaching, Bible teaching churches, like those within his own Calvary Chapel movement. New Evangelicalism traces the roots for the last hundred years that lurk on the horizon and threaten biblical churches today, by demonstrating how too many evangelicals have already swallowed the poison. Smith not only exposes the problem, which is abandonment of the inerrancy of Scripture, but what the solution is and how it can revive our evangelical churches.
I was recently interviewed by radio talk show host, Jan Markell for her Olive Tree Ministries on which we discussed Rick Warren's Health and Wellness plan designed by his three New Age doctor/advisors who practice Hinduism, Buddhism and Japanese Reiki Healing.
The Evangelical Environmental Network has chosen Friday, May 20, as "National Day of Prayer for Creation Care." While I'm wholeheartedly in favor of praying for a clean, healthful, beautiful Earth every day, I'm cautious about this campaign.
All warnings of the end of the world have apparently been "raptured" off the homepage of a doomsday preacher who wrongly predicted the return of Jesus over the weekend, and made a new prediction tonight that the end would now come on Oct. 21 of this year.
For many months, Oakland, Calif.-based Family Radio and its main voice Harold Camping had been thundering warnings that Judgment Day was to take place May 21, 2011, and that it would be a certainty with "no Plan B."
The site even had a countdown on the front page of its website, listing the number of days left until the return of the living God:
From the safety of his London palace, the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury is questioning whether the U.S. Navy Seals' killing of Osama Bin Laden exemplified "justice."
"The killing of an unarmed man is always going to leave a very uncomfortable feeling because it doesn't look as if justice is seen to be done," Rowan Williams told a press conference at Lambeth Palace. "I don't know full details any more than anyone else does. But I do believe that in such circumstances when we are faced with someone who was manifestly a war criminal, in terms of the atrocities inflicted, it is important that justice is seen to be observed."
Is Rick Warren telling the truth? Does the Bible really say that "God wants us to be as healthy physically as you are spiritually"?
No, it does not! Though Jesus often healed the sick and continues to do so today, our spiritual and eternal life with Him is far more important than our physical and temporary life on earth. Countless faithful martyrs have faced torture and death because they refused to compromise their faith! Of course, we should take care of our bodies and help each other, but our highest priority is to trust God and follow His narrow way no matter what the cost. And that's not bad news:
By Dave Hunt
The Berean Call
Question: Why are you and other "discernment" writers so critical of Rick Warren and his new Daniel Plan? What difference does it make that Rick Warren turns to some of the best secular doctors in the nation to help the church with its battle over obesity, physical fitness, and mental health? After all, Christians don't have to ensure that their cars are repaired only by Christian mechanics, and their toilets unstopped only by Christian plumbers. If you've got a problem with your physical body, isn't it far more important to have the very best doctor's advice, regardless of their religious background?
Many have asked the question: how is it possible that End Times apostasy can sweep the world so quickly in these Last Days and so few see that it is happening? There is only one way to understand this phenomenon. The Bible foretells this would happen (Matthew 24: 3-4). Now that we are witnessing End Times spiritual deception fewer and fewer Bible professing Christians see what is taking place.
When discerning believers confront their pastors or church leaders about the apostasy happening in their churches where they have worshiped for many years, they are often told to leave and go somewhere else. This "get out or shut up" attitude is common and follows a pattern. The teaching of the Word and the love of God once in fellowships of believers has got up and gone. How sad it is to see what is happening to the church of Jesus Christ in our time.


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Since its restoration on February 22 2013, Cheap Runescape Gold the way it was back in early August 2007 has kept hundreds of thousands of players busy. With 449,351 players voting for its return, old school Runescape will be subscription only for the first 6 months (5 USD per month) and currently sports a small but dedicated maintainance team. So what's the fuss? What's so great about it? Why bother?
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Art in the Sun, in its 29th year in 2017, draws close to 20,000 visitors during the three-day weekend. Join the many artists who return each year to have a successful experience in southeast Michigan. Art in the Sun has the reputation of being one of the "nicest" art fairs in the midwest, as we take pride in taking care of our artists. From water deliveries to booth sitters to a free "Artists Brunch" on the last day, Art in the Sun is a great place to sell your work.
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If you have a cold, stuffy nose or allergies, or even a crazy-lazy immune system, then you should try this spicy Sinus Juice, that will flame your mouth, literally! If you spice the juice way above the limit just add an apple or two more and it will balance it's flavor. On three… one .. two .. three .. Sinus is free
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To all of you workout "maniacs" here is a juice that will help you build and repair your muscles after mighty training. The potassium contained in the almonds, which is twice higher than the one in banana, will balance your electrolytes and fluids.
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