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The Laws and the Service of Shavuot
What are the Laws and Service of Shavuot?
As with all of the Jewish Holidays, the Laws and Service of the Day are intertwined. For our holidays are days of special service to the "Ribbono shel Olam," the Master of the Universe, Whose Written Torah decreed, and Whose Oral Torah defined and expanded upon, the
Laws associated with those days.
Z'man Matan Torateinu
The Time of the Giving of Our Torah
All the prayers and the Kiddush of this holiday are similar to the prayers and the Kiddush of the others of the Three Regalim (the others: Pesach and Sukkot), with the exception that Shavuot too has its own unique description: "et yom chag HaShavuot hazeh, zeman matan torateinu," "this Day of Shavuot, the time of the Giving of the Torah."
In the Mussaf Prayer, the Additional Prayers include mention of the unique sacrifice associated with Shavuot, including the "Two Breads," the Grain Offering brought on the "fiftieth day," so to speak, after the bringing of the Omer on the second day of Pesach. This Offering was brought from "new wheat."
Mussaf Prayer
Additional Prayer
The description of the Additional Offering of Shavuot is introduced by the following paragraph: (transliteration and translation of the paragraph taken, with permission, from the Seif Edition of the SABBATH AND FESTIVAL SIDDUR, published by ArtScroll as an Orthodox Union Centennial Publication, with Introductory Essays and Comments by Rabbi Benjamin Yudin)
And on the day of the first fruits,
B'hak-riv'chem mincho chadosho Ladonoy,
When you bring a new meal offering to Hashem,
On your Festival of Weeks;
Mikro kodesh yih-ye lochem,
There shall be a holy convocation for you,
Kol m'leches avodo lo sa-asu.
You may not do any laborious work.
Other Prayer-ful Features of Shavuot
Hallel is completed, as it is on the other "Regalim."
When the Kiddush is recited, the "bracha," or blessing, of "She-he-cheyanu," "the One Who kept us alive," is included. When the woman-of-the-house, in general, makes the blessings on the candles, she includes that bracha as well, before the candles are lit.
Even though on every other "Erev Yom Tov," Holiday Eve, the Evening Services are begun somewhat earlier, in order to be "mosif min ha-chol al ha-kodesh," "to add from the mundane time to the holy time," on Shavuot we specifically do not do that!
Why not?
Because the Torah says that "sheva shabbatot t'mimot," "seven complete weeks" should transpire before Shavuot, and if we start early, that "t'mimiyut," or "completeness" will be lacking!
Kiddush should also not be recited before it is definitely night-time (three medium-size stars should be visible in the sky).
No "Chol HaMoed"
No Intermediate Days
One way in which Shavuot differs from the other Regalim is in its length. Pesach, in the Torah (and as celebrated in Israel) is defined as a seven-day celebration. Sukkot (including Shmini Atzeret), in the Torah (and as celebrated in Israel) is defined as an eight-day holiday. Shavuot is only celebrated, again, as defined in the Torah and as celebrated in Israel, as a one-day holiday.
Why is this so?
A possibility for the "why" behind this fact is, as mentioned in the header citation of this page, that the Torah does not want to keep the Jewish farmer, who has so much to do during this season, the season of the cutting of wheat and barley, away from his farm for longer than necessary. On the other hand, It is considered "necessary" for the farmer, as well as all Jews, to put in at least a brief appearance at the Temple, to "be seen" by G-d, in Jerusalem.
What has been surgically removed by Hashem, for the benefit of the Jew, is the period of "Chol HaMoed," the Days of "Chol," relative mundane-ness (eh?); that is, like weekdays, within the "Moed," the "bookends" of holy time. This period of Intermediate Days does not carry the same work restrictions as the holiday itself. The Period of Chol HaMoed is a combination of "Kodesh," holy and "Chol," mundane or less holy, which deserves, and which will receive a separate discussion. But this is not the place, especially because Shavuot does not have any Chol HaMoed.
"Yom Tov Sheni shel Galuyot" -
"Second Day of the Holiday" (Celebrated Only in Diaspora)
The meaning of this concept is that in the Diaspora, two days of holiday are celebrated where the Torah speaks of only one. The reason for this is that in the time of the Talmud, when communications were a very, very far cry from what they are now and, even when a procedure was initiated which could achieve fast communications, it was undermined by forces hostile to the Talmud and to the Rabbis.
What had to be communicated?
What needed to be communicated was the time of Rosh Chodesh because the entire Hebrew Calendar is based on lunar calculations. A means was devised to communicate this information swiftly throughout Israel (nearly at the speed of light) and to the edge of the "Golah," the Diaspora, by means of the chain-lighting of torches on mountain-tops between Jerusalem and the outer limits of that area. But the method was sabotaged by the "Tzedukim," the Sadducees, who were not at all interested in helping the "Sanhedrin," the Jewish Supreme Court, where testimony concerning Rosh Chodesh was taken, solve its practical problems.
As a result, the solution settled upon was that messengers went out from the Sanhedrin to the outer limits of Israel and to the Diaspora to communicate when Rosh Chodesh had taken place. But this introduced an element of uncertainty in the Diaspora as to when Rosh Chodesh had taken place, and hence when the holiday should take place.
So the device of instituting a Second Day of Celebration in the Diaspora was introduced, whereby the "Second Day" was accorded the same significance as the First Day by decree of the Rabbis, into whose hands the scheduling of the holidays had, in any case, been placed by G-d, the One Who sanctifies Israel and the Holidays.
Nowadays, when there is no uncertainty as to when astronomical events take place, we still maintain the original custom instituted when there existed that uncertainty. This is called the Principle (the Uncertainty Principle?) of "Minhag Avoteinu B'Yadenu," "We continue to maintain the custom of our ancestors."
Shavuot Torah Readings, Haftarot and Megillat Ruth
On the first day of Shavuot, the reading is from Parshat Yitro, in the Book of Shemot, from "In the third month after the Jewish People left Egypt" till the end of the Parshah. This reading covers the event of "Maamad Har Sinai," the stand of the Jewish People at Mt. Sinai, to receive the Torah.
The Maftir, the Second Torah Reading of the Holiday, comes from one of the sections of the Torah which deals directly with the Holiday of Shavuot, beginning "Uv'yom HaBikkurim," "The Day of the Bringing of the First Fruits."
The Reading from the Prophets on the first day of Shavuot comes from Yechezkel which deals with the mystical subject of the "Divine Chariot," which also deals with a Revelation of G-d in prophecy to an individual but, through his book, to all of Israel.
On the Second day in the Diaspora, the First Torah Reading is from "All the First Born," which deals with the various holidays, the second again from "Uv'yom HaBikkurim," and the Reading from the Prophets from Chavakuk, which deals with a vision of Hashem in His holy Palace.
On the Second Day in the Diaspora, and on the one day of Shavuot in Eretz Yisrael, Megillat Ruth is read after Hallel. Various reasons for reading the Megillah on Shavuot are given. Some are as follows:
The conversion of Ruth to Judaism was by a painful route, as seen in the Story of Ruth, just as the acceptance of the Torah by the Jewish People was via the painful route of years of slavery in Egypt!
The time of the year in which the events of the Megillah took place was in the grain-cutting season, as it says "in the beginning of the cutting of barley," and one of the names of Shavuot is "Chag HaKatzir," the Holiday of Grain Cutting.
The law that allowed Ruth to join the Jewish People was based on the Oral Law. Because according to the Written Law, "No Amonite or Moabite may enter the Jewish People (by marriage)." The Oral Law differentiated between the male Moabite and the female Moabitess, because the exclusion was tied to the cruelty of those nations, and those cruel decisions were made exclusively by the males - to show the importance of the Oral Law in the Jewish System, in the role of providing definition and explication of the Written Law.

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should we organize a friendly competition among members?
hello everyone,
im new to this site, n im thinking we should organize a competition among ourselves, wat do u all think? it should be very exciting since members here exchange thoughts bout every single things n yet d chance of playing badminton together seems pretty much unlikely since we come from diff part of d globe.
maybe we should hv a regional competition b4 moving on??
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Like that idea, I'm malaysian currently working in Sg. It would be really nice to have some friendly match among BC members.
I do prefer friendly match more than competition, as everyone has more chances to play more games. At least in friendly match, everyone that are not playing still can sit together and chit chat, where else in competition, it's more serious and i can hardly think anyone is going to stay and chat with others once defeated... Instead of going individual, we should make it as a group (club) thingy.
I have thought about something like a club tour (maybe something like football league (home/away), minus the score accumulation), moving from 1 club to another club. I assume most of the players are working, so maybe the move occurs once a month should be ok??
This will be a really nice (HUGE) stuff if everything can be pulled together. Need more people to input though...
yup, was thinking friendly match is such better, but i doubt ppl will make time for this anyways. Coz like u've said, this is Huge stuff for everyone to pull off. unless we can find sponsors! lol..
wat i really hope is tat how will d members here respond to it b4 we move on from here!
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We are all familiar with a range of Medieval English kings. We know about the fiery, charismatic Bolingbroke who deposed his weak cousin, Richard II, who was indecisive and... more »
Read Hamlet's "O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven" soliloquy below with modern English translation & analysis:
Spoken by Claudius, Hamlet Act 3 Scene 3
O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,
A brother's murder. Pray can I not,
Though inclination be as sharp as will:
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy
But to confront the visage of offence?
And what's in prayer but this two-fold force,
To be forestalled ere we come to fall,
Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up;
My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer
Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'?
That cannot be; since I am still possess'd
Of those effects for which I did the murder,
My crown, mine own ambition and my queen.
May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?
In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above;
There is no shuffling, there the action lies
In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd,
Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
To give in evidence. What then? what rests?
Try what repentance can: what can it not?
Yet what can it when one can not repent?
O wretched state! O bosom black as death!
O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,
Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay!
Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe!
All may be well.
"O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven" Soliloquy Translation:
His offence was rank, it smelt to heaven. It had the most primal ancient curse on it. A brother's murder! He tried to kneel but couldn't. He couldn't pray, even though his need to was as powerful as it could be. His guilt outweighed his strong desire. He didn't know where to begin as there were two main considerations: his crime against a human being and his sin against God. And so he could only stand there doing nothing. What if this cursed hand of his were thicker than itself with brother's blood; wasn't there enough rain in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow? What was mercy for if not to help him fight the effects of his crime? And what was prayer for if not to prevent his fall before it happened? Or if it did happen, to pardon him when it did? Then he would be able to look up because his sin would be behind him. He prepared to kneel but still, what kind of prayer would help him? 'Forgive me my foul murder?' That was no good because he still possessed those things that he had done the murder for: his crown, his ambition, and his queen. Could one be pardoned for a sin and still keep the benefits of it? In the corrupt ways of the world one could shove justice aside and the power and wealth one achieved by one's crimes could be used to bribe the dispensers of law. But that wasn't the case in heaven. There's no crooked dealing there. Our actions' true nature is laid bare before God and we ourselves are forced to give full and true evidence. What should he do then? What could he do? Only try what repentance he could. It couldn't do any harm. But it wouldn't help if one simply couldn't repent. Oh wretched condition! Oh heart as black as death! Oh soul trapped in sticky lime, that struggling to free itself, was becoming even more entangled! Help angels! Make him do it! Make his stubborn knees bow, and make the steel strings of his heart as soft as the sinews of a newborn baby! It may work. He knelt slowly in front of the altar, bowed his head and clasped his hands together.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline's novelistic production can be divided into three principal phases, which are usually linked to developments in the author's life. Thus, one can discern an initial period consisting of the novels written before he fled to Denmark, which concludes with the publication of Guignol's Band. The two volumes of Fable for Another Time constitute a second phase in Céline's literary production, for they mark the resumption of his literary career after his return to France and the controversial resolution of his political difficulties. In both novels, there is an increasing confusion—literally and figuratively—among protagonist, narrator, and author, as Céline proclaims his innocence as the scapegoat for a guilt-ridden French nation. The final phase of his literary production, consisting of the wartime trilogy Castle to Castle, North, and Rigadoon, continues the self-justification begun in Fable for Another Time, though in far less strident terms, as the character Ferdinand describes his perilous journey to Denmark.
Céline's novels are linked by the role and character of their respective protagonists, all of whom, except for the Bardamu of Journey to the End of the Night, are named Ferdinand and constitute variations on the same personality. The early novels emphasize the ironic interplay between the naïve protagonist being initiated into life and the protagonist...
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I was a bit under the weather Friday and slept about 30 minutes the entire night. It was agony.
How do people who suffer from chronic insomnia deal?
I was doing a bit of reading on the subject online and discovered The Insomnia Blog by Dr. Michael Breus, a clinical psychologist and self-proclaimed "Sleep Doctor."
Dr. Breus has a formula that he says will help you get all the sleep you need; wake up before the alarm goes off; and keep you from gaining the weight that can sometimes go along with insomnia.
This guy must be rich.
Here's what he recommends:
- Figure out your typical wake up time
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- Set an alarm to tell you when to go to bed (and go!)
- If you wake up 10 minutes before your morning alarm for three days, you have found your perfect bedtime.
- If you still need your morning alarm to wake up, then move your bedtime back by 15 minutes until you wake up just before your morning alarm.
After reading this, I realize why I don't usually have insomnia.
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- Rory Dog is the 'alarm' that tells me to go to bed.
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ReviewGist Report for Sony Alpha SLT-A55OverviewReleased on August 2010 the Sony Alpha SLT-A55 is the next in line from the Sony's alpha family of interchangeable lens cameras. In this report we note the big hardware innovations that Sony has released with the A-55 and look at how they fared on the field as some of the experts test out the A55. We look at 24 different reviews from digital camera experts including some of the most prominent ones like Imaging Resource, CNet, PC Mag and the famed DP Review, and then summarize their buying advice on the Alpha A55. What the Manufacturer SaysThe A-55 is the first camera from the Sony stable to employ what Sony calls the 'Translucent Mirror Technology'. The Translucent Mirror Technology enables a fast and accurate phase detect auto-focus by splitting the optical pathway between the main image sensor and a separate phase-detection auto-focus sensor. The primary advantage of the Translucent Mirror Technology is a high-resolution live image preview with a fast and accurate phase detect autofocus available at all times through the LCD or the electronic view finder.
What the Reviews SayImage quality and color accuracy seems to stand out for the A-55 across the board. Every expert supports the claim, including DP Review, Imaging Resource, PC Mag and PC World. DP Review also finds it decently good at lower ISO levels however they find some loss of detail over ISO 400 in JPEG mode. The image stabilization is also very effective and earns high praise from the reviewers at Neo Camera. Almost all experts have lauded the excellent shooting speed of the A-55. Even though they do point out that this is not the best money can buy, but at this price point this is the best in the market. The HD quality is also pretty good according to most reviewers, however PC Mag does report a quirk that the video capture often comes in with some audible lens noise. The Autofocus is the biggest highlight of the A-55. According to most experts the speed and accuracy of the autofocus is simply unmatched in the market today. The high speed autofocus is complemented by what experts found to be a very good electronic view finder - however there was some cribbing about the lack of an optical view finder. The A-55 comes in a solid build, with great ergonomics and handling according to most experts. CNet though did note a minor quibble and claimed the A-55 to be too small to hold comfortably. Most reviewers very happy with the user friendly and easy controls and found the swivel LCD to be extremely sharp. Even though the LCD received high praise from all quarters, the reviewers at About.com complained about some glare in decent sunlight. We were not able to get a lot of opinions as far as the battery life is concerned, barring CNet, who were not too happy with it. However, as most other reviewer didn't complain too much, this is most likely a minor issue. The 'ReviewGist'The Sony's Translucent Mirror Technology enabled Quick AF system delivers good on its promise and comes out, according to experts, a never before seen speed and an extremely accurate autofocus. The Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor also does it bit and has the experts raving about the superior video quality.
Buying AdviceThe Sony Alpha A-55 is a very good bet for the entry-to-enthusiast crowd who want the latest features in a compact package. Even though the HD movie footage is top notch and the autofocus great for fast moving scenes, it should be noted that this is not really a replacement for your pro-level sports DSLRs.
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What is the ErP Directive?
"ErP" stands for "Energy related products". The aim of ErP Directive 2009/125/EC is to lower the energy consumption of these products by means of environmentally friendly design ("Eco design").
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For fans with input power of between 125W and 500kW the Commission's regulation 327/20011 applies.
The construction of electric motors is regulated by means of Directive 640/2009.
How does the ErP Directive affect fans?
The prescribed efficiency grades for fans are set out in two stages for the first time in 2013 and then raised again in 2015.
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By signing the Kyoto Protocol the EU committed itself to lower its CO2 emissions by 20% by 2020.
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Former Olympic finalist and ex-Chelsea coach Ade Mafe joins Watford's coaching staff
6:19pm Saturday 6th October 2012 in Watford FC News By Frank Smith, Deputy Group Sports Editor
Former Olympic 200m finalist and ex-Chelsea coach Ade Mafe has joined the coaching staff at Watford.
Mafe joined the Hornets earlier this week following the departure of sports scientist Matt Springham, who joined Brighton and Hove Albion, and the former sprinter helped the players warm-up ahead of today's 2-1 defeat to Middlesbrough.
Watford's head coach Gianfranco Zola, who worked with Mafe at Chelsea, said: "I know him and he knows me. He knows what I am looking for and he is a big appointment for the club.
"It is on the fitness side because our fitness guy left and I do not think there is anybody better out there right now than Ade."
Mafe was a 200m and 400m runner who finished eighth in the 1984 Olympic 200m final.
The 45-year-old won the gold medal at the 1989 European Indoor Championships and silver at the World Indoor Championships in 1985 and 1989 – all at 200m.
He became a personal fitness coach following his retirement and in 1996 joined Chelsea, where he spent more than a decade.
Mafe joined Millwall following his departure from Chelsea and then linked up with ex-Chelsea colleague Roberto Di Matteo at MK Dons and then West Bromwich Albion
- Watford defender Adam Thompson was at Vicarage Road this afternoon after his loan spell at Wycombe Wanderers ended.
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So i'm tired of not feeling it, everyone talks about having a pump or feeling spent after working out. Yesterday i did nothing but chest
175# bench (smith) 8x8x7
40# incline dumbell 10x10x8x7
40# flye and press dumbell 10x10x9x9
body weight dips 8x8x6x5
When i'm done my muscle is weak and i can't really lift anything heavier. Is this just normal? Or should i feel it the next day? When i do lower weight and very high reps i always feel sore and tight the next day, but with heavy weights i just get muscle fatigue but i don't feel like i'm working hard.
btw my one rep max for benching is probably around 210 or so.
How should i change up this work out?
I only have a smith machine, dip bar and various dumbells.


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Bomberman Dance
Great game in which music and dance is combined, and with Bomberman as the main character. You have to hit the cursors at the right moment if you want our friend to be able to dance.
Dance With Barbie
Barbie is a true myth, mostly because she has covered every possible activity. In this case she will help you with a new task, learning how to dance.
Dance Pump-It-Up
Great music and dance game in which you will be able to count on the most up-to-date tendencies of these two arts. Keep the beat with the cursors and you will win.
Wiggi Dance Academy
In this music game the teacher Rudy will teach you the correct moves that will turn you into a great dancer. Try to follow the rhythm and everything will be very easy.
Strawberry Let's Dance
Strawberry is an incredible dancer, we will learn many things watching her dance. We will have to repeat her movements to advance in the game.
Totally Spies Dance
Our friends Sam, Clover and Alex, spies from the cartoon, are creating a choreography, maybe to celebrate their success. Help them by pushing on the cursors and buttons A, S in time with the music.
Elegant Dance Dressup
The moment of classic elegance has arrived, with its long dresses that you are not used to seeing on the street. Let's play with high-quality clothes and our lucky model.
The Coolest Dance Queen
In this original music game you will become the queen of the discotheque. You will have to follow the rhythm hitting the keys in time with the latest hits. Dancing well, you will be able to win the necessary money for dressing even better.
Diamond Disco - Dance Off
Original music game in which the true star is the atmosphere of the clubs from the seventies, the catchy music and three fun dancers. You will have to dance in time with the rhythm, keeping the beat with the arrow keys.
Dance Hall Queen
In this teen fashion game you'll be able to take a look at the new trends regarding clothes for going to a party. The most daring clothes combine perfectly with the gleaming shoes and sheer hairstyles that will exalt your beauty.
Dance Star Dress Up
In this teen fashion game you'll learn the guidelines for finding the right clothes for becoming the star at the dance club. It'll be important to combine the bright-colored clothes with the most original accessories for achieving a fascinating look.
Last Dance Dress Up
In this adorable school dance fashion game you'll have to dress a very shy girl to later go with her to the last dance of the school year. Everyone will notice you: you'll feel more confident thanks to your elegant look!
Tap Dance Makeover
In this dance and fashion game you'll be able to dress, put make-up on and do the hair of an incredibly beautiful and always-smiling tap dancer. Revolutionize the look of this fantastic artist so that, when performing, she can dazzle the audience with her beauty and art.
Dance Couple
Incredible fashion game in which you'll be able to dress the trendiest couple in the world. Change the hairstyles of this pair of dancers to later combine them with the ideal clothing and accessories for showing off their figures on dancefloors all over the planet.
Dolls Super Dance
Incredible DDR-style dancing game in which you'll learn to dance four different styles: Rave, Pop, Hip-Hop and Rock. According to the musical style that you choose, the dancers will wear different clothing. Challenge your friend and at the end and watch the video of your choreography.
Dance Party Dress Up
Exciting elegant fashion game in which you'll be able to choose the ideal look for going to the coolest dance clubs in the city. This game's fashion advice is essential for achieving the look that'll stun your friends.
Latin Dance Dresses
Incredible fashion and cosmetics game for professional dancers in which you'll be able to dress and do the hair and make up of a Cha-cha-cha champion, which is one of the funnest ballroom dances. Choose the ideal look for dazzling the judges of the championship in which you'll participate.
Dance Show
Exciting 3D dancing game in which you'll be able to play with the new choreographies of a dancer with manga aesthetics. In this DDR-style dancing and rhythm game, the music will flow freely and inspire your moves in this awesome music video game.
Party Dance Dress Up
Creative fashion and interior design game in which you'll be able to choose the colors of all the elements in a dance club, in other words, from the dance floor to the beautiful girls who're having a blast. The best styles can be seen at your place!
Belly Dance Costumes Makeover
The far east brings us the best dresses for dancing the sensual belly dance at a party with an Arab theme going on tonight. A beautiful girl who's talented at this kind of dance will be your model in this exotic fashion game.
Dance Dance Michelle
Michelle is an awesome breakdancer and... you're her choreographer! Define the steps she has to do and in which order, and later play the rhythm you like best for her fresh moves. Combine the best footwork with the toprocks and power moves with cool freezes.
Dance Club
There's nothing more fun than organizing a party with all your friends! Some of them will rent the sound and light systems, others will be in charge of the drinks and you will perfect your dance techniques on the dance floor. Design your look and choose the DJs for your nightclub and get ready to party!
Dance Star Part Time
Get ready for the incredible online version of the really fun dancing game for PlayStation 3! Move the cursor, which is shaped like the game console controller, so the characters move their bodies to the rhythm of the music. Let your inner Tony Manero out and do some moves on the dance floor!
Let's Dance
Are you ready for a night of crazy dancing? Not yet?!? Well, it's about time you combine the clothes in your closet to create an awesome look that'll dazzle everyone. You'll feel so confident that today, finally, you'll ask the boy you like to dance with you and move to the rhythm of the music on the dance floor.


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Prologue Part 1When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home and went into the mountains. Here he had the enjoyment of his spirit and his solitude and he did not weary of it for ten years. But at last his heart turned – and one morning he rose with the dawn, stepped before the sun and spoke to it thus:Great star! What would your happiness be, if you had not those for whom you shine!You have come up here to my cave for ten years: you would have grown weary of your light and of this journey, without me, my eagle and my serpent.But we waited for you every morning, took from you your superfluity and blessed you for it.Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it.I should like to give it away and distribute it, until the wise among men have again become happy in their folly and the poor happy in their wealth.To that end, I must descend into the depths: as you do at the evening, when you go behind the sea and bring light to the underworld too, superabundant star!Like you, I must go down – as men, to whom I want to descend, call it.So bless me then, tranquil eye, that can behold without envy even an excessive happiness!Bless the cup that wants to overflow, that the waters may flow golden from him and bear the reflection of your joy over all the world!Behold! This cup wants to be empty again, and Zarathustra wants to be man again.Thus began Zarathustra's down-going.
Friedrich Nietzsche is perhaps the greatest philosopher the world has known. He is also great in another dimension which many philosophers are simply unaware of: he is a born mystic.
His philosophy is not only of the mind but is rooted deep in the heart, and some roots even reach to his very being. The only thing unfortunate about him is, that he was born in the West; hence, he could never come across any mystery school. He contemplated deeply, but he was absolutely unaware about meditation. His thoughts sometimes have the depth of a meditator, sometimes the flight of a Gautam Buddha; but these things seem to have happened spontaneously to him.
He knew nothing about the ways of enlightenment, about the path that reaches to one's own being. This created a tremendous turmoil in his being. His dreams go as high as the stars but his life remained very ordinary – it does not have the aura that meditation creates. His thoughts are not his blood, his bones, his marrow. They are beautiful, immensely beautiful, but something is missing; and what is missing is life itself. They are dead words; they don't breathe – there is no heartbeat.
But I have chosen to speak on him for a special reason: he is the only philosopher, from East or West, who has at least thought of the heights of human consciousness. He may not have experienced them; he certainly has not experienced them. He also thought of becoming a man again. That idea, of descending from your heights into the marketplace, descending from the stars to the earth, has never happened to anybody else.
He has something of Gautam Buddha, perhaps unconsciously carried over from his past lives, and he has something of the Zorba. Both are incomplete. But he is the only proof that Buddha and Zorba can meet; that those who have reached to the highest peaks need not remain there.
In fact, they should not remain there. They owe something to humanity; they owe something to the earth. They have been born amongst human beings; they have lived in the same darkness and in the same misery. And now that they have seen the light, it becomes obligatory that they should come back to wake up those who are fast asleep; to bring the good news – that darkness is not all, that unconsciousness is our choice.
If we choose to be conscious, all unconsciousness and all darkness can disappear. It is our choice that we are living in the dark valleys. If we decide to live on the sunlit peaks, nobody can prevent us because that is also our potential.
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Chianti Turismo offers great Tuscany Packages for 2009
Post by TuscanyTalk - mercoledì, 3 giugno 2009If you're seeking the right opportunity to visit Tuscany for a holiday this may be just the opportunity you were looking for.
In this tough economic climate we understand just how difficult it is for you to fit your wish to travel to Tuscany for your holidays and we have come up with a package deal you cannot resist:
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This package holiday to Tuscany is our way of helping you out – here's how it works, the longer you stay the less you'll spend.
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You'll be staying at the Relais della Rovere, a 4 star hotel in Tuscany, located in Colle Val d'Elsa in the heart of the Chianti
Hotel Relais della Rovere is strategically positioned half way between Siena and Florence, an ideal location to make the best of your stay in Tuscany and visit both cities.
In the evening, after a long day out sightseeing or shopping at the many fashion outlets, you'll enjoy sitting beside the hotel swimming pool and enjoy a few drinks with friends and family in a relaxed yet exclusive environment.
Our staff will be more than happy to provide you with all the information you'll need to make your evenings in Tuscany most enjoyable, and offer tips and recommendations on where to go and what to see.
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Students describe mission to Honduras
The Yazoo Herald
Matt Peaster and Corley McGraw were two of several high school students from Yazoo City who recently spent their spring break in Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras.
Peaster and McGraw gave their testimony to the Yazoo Lions Club last week on their experience in Central America. They participated in a mission team that went in to a dreadfully impoverished area in Honduras and helped to revive an abandoned old mansion as an orphanage for young Honduran girls living in areas that the locals refer to as "the dumps."
The mansion, which was positioned on a mountain side, had once been owned by a wealthy family, and the views were amazing according to McGraw.
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With football season underway, it's crowded in the stadium and in the doctor's office. Many of us have witnessed a player shaken up and carried off the field after a big hit.
If we measure our child's development in milestones then potty training is a big one! I think that most toddlers are ready to be "involved" in the bathroom when they are about 18 months old.
Doctor Sue, The Kid's Doctor, shares some tips on potty training toddlers.
They fly, crawl and can ruin a perfect summer day. Bugs are creeping everywhere this time of year and there is only one way to keep them at bay...insect repellent.
Getting your kids vaccinated is a great way to fight the flu, but you can also keep their immune system strong with what they eat. Dr. Sue explains with the Kid's Doctor.
It seems as if it happens overnight. Your child's cough turns into something much worse. It's called croup…a viral upper respiratory infection that causes your child's trachea and larynx to become inflamed making it difficult for them to breath.
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State Botanical Garden of Georgia to hold workshops in early June
Topics are plant families, creative writing and cooking with garden ingredients
May 30, 2012
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- Connie Cottingham
Athens, Ga. - The State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of Georgia is hosting three different community workshops on various topics during the first week of June.
"Our workshops offer participants, including the general public, UGA faculty, staff and students of all ages, opportunities for recreation, events, research and learning using our natural areas, display gardens and building spaces," said Cora Keber, program coordinator at the botanical garden. "The workshops being held during this one week are examples of the diversity and range of programs conducted at the botanical garden year round."
The following is a list of the workshops with dates, times, costs and descriptions.
All in the Family: Introducing the Common Plant Families of Georgia
June 2, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cost: $50
Participants will learn about common plant families and how to recognize their characteristics in the classroom or garden, as well as the skills needed to rapidly identify the plants. Attendees also will have the opportunity to meet and talk with Wilf Nicholls, the garden director.
Connecting Stories and Passions: A Creative Workshop
June 2, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Cost: $40
Participants will explore ways to create and connect stories and passions from their lives. By using several writing and drawing techniques, attendees will create mini-sensory journals focused on experiences with nature, write brief narratives that deepen a sense of personal story, and explore ways to play with language through poetry and visual art. The course instructor will be Carlyn C. Maddox, a teacher and writer from Athens. Maddox has a master's degree in creative writing from Florida State University and has presented workshops on writing and healing for statewide and national addiction conferences. Her writing manual-"Voicing the Scars"-will be published soon.
Cooking in the Garden: Summer Salads and Stir Fry
June 5, 6-8 p.m.
Cost: $36
Tim Dondero, executive chef at Dondero's Kitchen, will offer a cooking demonstration and prepare dinner using fresh items from the garden. The menu includes:
· bruschetta with gorgonzola, honey and shredded basil (Genovese basil)
· watermelon and feta salad with lemon and herb-infused oil (lemon and lemon thyme)
· spring mix greens with herbed balsamic vinaigrette (marjoram and mint)
· pollo alle erbe Italian stir-fried chicken with fresh herbs and white wine (fennel, oregano, and rosemary)
· white wine sangria with fruit and herbs (tarragon, lavender, fennel, mint)
Vegan option: bruschetta without Gorgonzola, spring mix salad and sangria
The workshop will include dinner, the demonstration and recipes. Coffee and tea will be provided; participants may bring another beverage of their choosing.
All workshops will be conducted in the Visitor Center and Conservatory of the botanical garden, which is located at 2450 South Milledge Avenue in Athens. For more information or to register for the workshops, call 706/542-6156 or see www.botgarden.uga.edu.
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'Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,' a special television event on PBS
ABOVE PHOTO: Gabrielle Union and local student Duyen Le ride bikes in Thu Thua, Vietnam.
[Editor's note: If you missed the broadcast, you may watch the program online for a limited time. Part 1 one will stream online from October 2 - 8 and Part 2 from October 3 - 9, both on PBS Video]
San Francisco, CA— Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a Show of Force LLC and Fugitive Films production developed in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), is a special television event that uses in-the-moment investigations and emotionally explosive storytelling to confront the greatest moral challenge of our time: the oppression of women and girls around the world.
Filmed in 10 countries and inspired by the best-selling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the series is driven by the growing awareness that empowering women is the best way to increase prosperity and stability around the globe.
Six talented actress-advocates — Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union, Diane Lane, America Ferrera, and Olivia Wilde — join Kristof as he travels to Asia and Africa to meet face-to-face with inspiring individuals working to bring about change and the women and girls who confront extreme gender inequality in their daily lives. Introduced by George Clooney, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which will broadcast nationally as a special presentation of Independent Lens, premiered on Monday, October 1 and Tuesday, October 2 from 9:00 PM-11:00 PM ET on PBS.
Women and girls around the globe face threats — trafficking, prostitution, violence, and discrimination — every day of their lives. Says WuDunn, "In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge that women and girls face around the world is the moral challenge of our time." As we see in the series, hope endures as fearless women and men are developing innovative ways to turn the tide.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a landmark transmedia project with robust content across multiple platforms, including the four-hour PBS and international broadcast event, a Facebook-hosted social-action game and mobile games created by Games for Change, two websites, 20 educational video modules with companion text, a social-media campaign supporting over 30 partner NGOs, and an impact assessment plan. The project is part of the Women and Girls Lead initiative, spearheaded by ITVS in partnership with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS.
PHOTO: Nicholas Kristof, Prize-winning journalist and author of Half The Sky in Somaliland.
Episode One --Eva Mendes and Nicholas Kristof investigate gender-based violence in Sierra Leone, a country where most of the assaults and rapes go unreported. They meet with Amie Kandeh, who works with the International Rescue Committee and runs three of West Africa's sexual assault referral centers. Kandeh reveals that the vast majority of the center's rape and sexual assault cases are young women under 17, with 26 percent under age 12.
At the police station with her parents by her side, 14-year-old Fulamatu accuses a pastor of raping her. We follow the case closely as several witnesses back up her statements, but justice proves elusive in a country where police officers conduct "armchair investigations" rather than look for evidence or confront the suspect, and where accusations of rape bring shame on the family of the victim rather than the perpetrator.
In Cambodia, where 30 percent of prostitutes are children, the series examines the issue of sex trafficking. Meg Ryan and Kristof meet Somaly Mam, herself sold into slavery as a young girl, but who is now a world-renowned leader in the anti-trafficking struggle. Mam runs a center to rehabilitate and educate girls rescued from brothels. She introduces Somana, sold at age 13 and forced to work as a prostitute, her eye gouged out by the brothel owner.
When Mam learns that underage girls have been discovered in a brothel on the Thai border, she organizes a daring raid with the help of local authorities and Kristof and the cameras capture this dramatic and dangerous effort to free underage girls being held as sex slaves. Working tirelessly to bring the voices of these girls to the world, Mam uses innovative approaches, such as a weekly radio show, to raise awareness. "We're going to change Cambodia," she says. "We want you to hear from us. If you don't listen to us, we'll keep on talking. We're not tired at all."
Gabrielle Union and Kristof visit Vietnam with former Microsoft marketing executive John Wood, who started Room to Read, an organization which works to promote literacy and equal education for girls across the developing world. In Vietnam women have been traditionally devalued, and many girls are kept at home to tend to household chores while boys continue their education.
PHOTO: Eva Mendes with the IRC Women's Protection and Empowerment Coordinator Amie Kandeh in Sierra Leone.
Duyen, a teenage girl in the Room to Read program, travels 17 miles by bike and boat to get to school from her rural home. Nhi, age 14, is the primary earner in the household, put to work by her father selling lottery tickets seven days a week. Phung, also 14, rises at 3:00 AM to care for her younger brothers and sisters while her father works as a day laborer. But she is going to school, encouraged and supported by her father, because they understand that education is their only way out of poverty.
"When you educate a girl, there's a ripple effect that goes beyond what you would get from a normal investment," says Sheryl WuDunn. "When you educate a girl, she tends to get married later on in life, she tends to have fewer kids. She takes better care of her kids. She has greater economic opportunity. She might create a business so she can contribute to the local economy. When you educate a girl, you educate a village."
Episode Two--"Half a million women a year die in childbirth," says Nicholas Kristof. "It's not biology that's killing them but neglect." Diane Lane and Kristof investigate maternal mortality in Somaliland, where one in 12 women dies in childbirth due to poor nutrition and the effects of female genital mutilation (FGM) — also known as cutting — a brutal ritual that has been performed on more than 130 million women around the world. They meet with Edna Adan, founder of the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital, Somaliland's first maternal health facility.
Adan saves the lives of pregnant women on a daily basis with sophisticated health care and C-sections. She also trains midwives, who then return to their communities, and works to educate women about the dangers of FGM, which causes infection and scarring that leads to difficulties in childbirth. Lane and Kristof visit the hut of a local woman who performs cuttings and learn how Adan and her army of midwives are trying to turn the tide against this dangerous, deeply entrenched tradition.
In India it is estimated that 90 percent of sex workers' daughters follow their mothers into prostitution and, of the three million prostitutes in the country, 1.2 million are children. In Kolkata, America Ferrera and Kristof visit the Kalighat red-light district to meet Urmi Basu, who is working to break the tradition of forced prostitution passed down from mothers to daughters. Basu's New Light shelter program was established to protect and educate young girls, children, and women who are at high risk for commercial sexual exploitation.
We meet two of the shelter's brightest girls, whose mothers are still in active prostitution — Sushmita, whose mother believes her daughter can have a different future than her own and is thriving in private school and dreams of becoming a lawyer; and Monisha, whose mother wants her to return to her village and what Urmi is certain will be a life of prostitution. As Kristof says, "We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous — it's that we're luckier."
Economic empowerment is key to turning the tide against poverty, violence, and the oppression of women. When women have money of their own, they invest more than twice as much as men in their families, education, and the future. In Kenya, Olivia Wilde joins Kristof to see firsthand how women entrepreneurs are changing not only their lives but their communities. Ingrid Munro founded Jamii Bora, a microfinancing organization for women; one of Jamii Bora's greatest success stories is Jane Ngori, a former prostitute and single mother of four who is now running a dressmaking business.
In Nairobi, they meet Rebecca Lolosoli, the founder of an all-women's village called Umoja, which was established as a haven from rape and violence and sustains itself by creating and selling traditional beaded wares. "One of the best ways that we can deal with all of the abuses that are so troubling against women and girls is through economic empowerment," says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "Unleashing the economic potential of women is a win-win economic strategy."
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Ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela is not "doing well" but is continuing to put up a courageous fight from his "deathbed," members of his family have told the South African Broadcasting Corporation in an interview.
A movie depicting the life of Nelson Mandela has become South Africa's highest grossing picture after its opening last week, its producers said Thursday. The film, Long Walk to Freedom, has already earned $427,000 (Rand 4.4 million), according to Videovision Entertainment.
Iran struck a historic deal Sunday with the United States and five other world powers, agreeing to a temporary freeze of its nuclear program in the most significant agreement between Washington and Tehran in more than three decades of estrangement.
Most of Nelson Mandela's handwriting is neat, but it harbors a few mysteries. Archivists sometimes struggle to decipher words in the vast body of documents that Mandela penned, and he often jotted an acronym that nobody, not even the former South African president in later years, has been able to explain.
Four investigations, hundreds of testimonies and stacks of medical reports on Yasser Arafat's unexplained death in 2004 have failed to produce hard evidence of what killed him - and findings presented Friday only created more confusion.
Students from some of the toughest neighborhoods in Jamaica's capital hunched over school desks, clacking wooden dominoes, pausing to ponder their next move and razzing opponents with good-natured taunts. "Look out, here comes the end of the game! Nobody can stop it," said 20-year-old Chevon Brown.
Five African-American gentlemen in full 1860s-era Union troop regalia marched toward the west side of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia. Two of them held the Tennessee and United States flags, a slight breeze brushing leaves past their feet as clouds covered the sky.
One of the world's most wanted women, a British-born convert to Islamic extremism, lived close to one of Nairobi's major malls in 2011 but likely wasn't carrying out surveillance on it, a Kenyan security official said Wednesday.