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Bhakti Yoga: Emotions to Love
- Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
- 14651 Ballantree Lane Grass Valley, CA 95949 USA
- Mar 22 - 27, 2020 (6 days)
About This Event
The term Bhakti comes from the root 'Bhaj', which means 'to be attached to God'. Bhakti is love for love's sake. The path of Bhakti appeals particularly to a those of an emotional nature. The Bhakti Yogi is motivated chiefly by the power of love and sees God as the embodiment of love. Through prayer, worship and ritual the devotee surrenders to God, channeling and transmuting his/her emotions into unconditional love or devotion. Chanting or singing the praises of God form a substantial part of Bhakti Yoga.
The course offers you a foundation in the philosophy and techniques of this ancient and heart-based tradition. You will be supported in cultivating your capacity to be a joy-filled vessel of Divine wisdom. The program is an invitation to nurture your own bhakti yoga practice share the blessings of this devotional path in a loving and supportive community.
Daily Schedule
6-8am Satsang: Silent meditation, chanting and lecture
8-10am Beginners Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
1-2:30pm Bhakti Workshop
3-4pm Free Time and Nature walks
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7-8pm Chantig / Free Time
8-10pm Satsang: meditation, chanting and lecture
Venue HighlightsOpen to guests year round, the Yoga Farm welcomes people from around the world and provides a peaceful setting in which to find a way back to a holistic lifestyle in harmony with nature. Additionally, our guests testify to the effect of a sense of stress relief and moreover they feel an improved physical, emotional, and spiritual health. You can join for a day, a week, or longer.
06:00am Satsang (Meditation, Chanting, Lecture, or Silent Walk)
08:00am Asanas and Pranayama (All-Lervels Yoga Class)
10:00am Organic Vegetarian Brunch
11:00am Karma Yoga (Selfless Service)
04:00pm Asanas and Pranayama (All-Lervels Yoga Class)
06:00pm Organic Vegetarian Dinner
08:00pm Satsang (Meditation, Kirtan chanting and Lecture)
To keep up the spiritual atmosphere of the Ashram, the participation in the morning and evening meditation and one Asana class daily are mandatory. Programs are subject to change or cancellation.
AccommodationsThe Yoga Farm accommodations are separate cabins that are nestled under trees with beautiful surroundings. If you would like to register, please click on the links below and it will bring you to the Yoga Vaction registration page for the accommodations of your choice. The rates below include daily Satsangs, organic vegetarian meals, Hatha Yoga classes and access to ashram facilities. Learn more by checking out our Guest Information page. Special courses and events have an additional tuition rate. You can check our Program Calendar for a full listing of events. We also welcome day guests, but please let us know ahead that you are coming. There is a holiday surcharge during Easter, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year.
Deluxe Shanti Cabins
These extremely comfortable and spacious cabins are tastefully furnished and decorated. Watch the deer wander by from the front porch with sun shade. For your comfort, an air conditioner, propane heater and ceiling fan are provided; furnishings include a desk/table and chairs, dresser/wardrobe and a sitting area. A small refrigerator, dishes and cutlery are provided.
Om Cabins
Our original Om Cabins are placed in a peaceful and tranquil setting, on a gentle hillside overlooking the pond and surrounded by the natural beauty of the Ashram. Each cabin is named for a different virtue, such as happiness or contentment. Each cabin is furnished with a dresser, desk, night stand, ceiling fan and propane heater.
Guests may bring their own tent or rent out an ashram tent and camp on the land. Sleep closer to nature in the fresh, open air. There are deck platforms designated for tenting.
- Free Wifi
- Towels
- Free Parking
- Coffee/Tea
- Yoga Studio
Menu Types
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Ayurvedic
- Organic
- Gluten Free
- Dairy Free
- Nut Free
Menu/CuisineEating a plant-based diet has been conclusively shown to be good for health and well-being. Furthermore, it is detoxifying and nutritive at the same time. In addition, the meals are freshly prepared with love and care by dedicated karma yogis. Also, the ashram uses mostly organic, locally produced fruits and vegetables.
The buffet meals offered are lacto-vegetarian. We also have a permaculture vegetable garden and grow some of our own food and flowers.
Please note that meat, fish, alcohol, tobacco, coffee, black tea, and eggs are not served in the ashram.
The meals are offered at 10:00 am and 6:00 pm with a small fruit snack served in the afternoon. Additional snacks are available in the boutique if needed.
In case you have any special dietary restrictions please mention so on your application form and we will do our best to accommodate you.
DirectionsThe Ashram is situated near highway 49 between Auburn and Grass Valley, just one hour from Sacramento and three hours (without traffic) from San Francisco and is easily accessible by car or by Amtrak (train and bus).
Cancellation Policy
100% deposit refund for cancellation 30+ days before event.
50% deposit refund for cancellation 15-29 days before event.
0% deposit refund for cancellation 0-14 days before event.
The remaining balance (total price minus deposit) is due upon arrival.
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Reviews To review this event, visit the page for the venue or retreat leaders (above).
Estrella Espinoza September 14, 2020i attended to a Bhagavad Gitta chapter 5 with Swami Dharma Ananda
Life is so complex and without a deep understanding of your internal world and how to relate to the external world it is impossible or painful to life a life on earth. This is why I go to the Sivananda Yoga Farm to seek guidance, understanding and courage to continue going to the places that scared me with LOVE. Swamidharma Ananda has a way to explain this book in a language that you see the connection with your daily life struggles and since this book is the book of the VEDAS or the wise..... I look forward to know what is a good loving way to approach life. Thank you Sivananda Yoga for giving the tools needed to live my life in a more whole some way.
Indy Rishi January 07, 2020Grateful for Govina
We had a tremendous introduction to the ashram. We started with a great Ayurveda talk that was superb and very informational. Then Govinda led us to the Shiva temple where we all played kirtan together. We also went to Durga temple and sang songs of devotion there. It was sublime. The yoga class and the talk were also wonderful. The evening dinner was incredibly healthy and delicious. I think this is the best part, especially since the gut-brain connection is so important for health and happiness. Overall, I recommend this Ashram to anyone seeking a deeper connection to nature, themselves, health and happiness.
Jill Warren December 30, 2019Always a wonderful, magical experience!
Absolutely love Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm. The yoga, the chanting, the meditating, the food...oh the food! And the grounds are so peaceful and well kept. I will keep coming back.
Carol Ann March 12, 2019Must return sooner then later
I have been to the Ashram twice now within the past 3 years and wonder why it took me so long to go back. This place is very spiritual, open minded and gives the mind a chance to rest and focus on your inner Divine self. It's where people from all walks of life came together. Everyone is welcome to use this experience as they want. You can follow the schedule or just go one hikes all day. Plus they have animals! They have cats, dogs, llamas, cranes, fish..... the list goes on. Lastly, the staff, students and other guests I met where all so nice, friendly and respectful. I can't wait to go back and am not waiting another 3 years to go.
Mae Chesney February 25, 2019Amazing Place!
This place is a wonderful restorative and seemingly well-kept secret. Located in a gorgeous area outside of Grass Valley with a wonderful Yoga and meditation hall as well as sweet cabins nicely spaced apart. The staff and volunteers are kind, generous and fun and the Yoga instructors were some of the best I've ever had. I felt a part of the community as soon as I arrived. I will be returning!
Mae Chesney February 24, 2019Amazing place
This place is a wonderful, restorative and seemingly well-kept secret. Located in a gorgeous area outside of Grass Valley with a wonderful Yoga and meditation hall and sweet cabins spaced nicely apart. The people are kind, generous and fun and the Yoga instructors were some of the best I've ever had and I felt welcome every step I took. I will be returning!
Leslie Haggege January 31, 2019BREATHE
It was really great staying for the week-end. A real break from the city, focused on yoga, meditation and philosophy, surrounded by llamas, alpacas, goats and hills.
Renee Mortensen December 30, 2018Didn't feel welcome
I never really felt welcomed here -- I guess I was expecting an elevated, joyous atmosphere since it is a spiritual place, but there was a certain coldness and detachment from the staff that surprised me. I wasn't expecting 'customer service' or anything, but how about generosity of spirit? Make eye contact, smile and greet your guests -- just simple stuff. There were times when I said hello and wasn't even acknowledged. I think it would help the ashram immensely to put this basic kindness into practice -- otherwise you give the impression that spiritual practice means disconnecting from people and being in a not-so-happy state. It's not a good example, especially for novice seekers like myself.
Debbie Radha Desrochers November 16, 2018Wonderful
I have taken several courses now at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm and am never disappointed. The energy there is very pure and the teachings of the highest quality. The Swami's and staff are dedicated to service and upholding these ancient teachings in their true form.
Brigid Donohue October 23, 2018Weekend visit
I attended a weekend retreat last August and enjoyed many nice aspects of my time there. The food was delicious, the facilities are nice, and there were some devoted teachers who worked hard to create a good experience for participants. The overall atmosphere is very, very serious and not altogether comfortable for that reason. I don't think a spiritual center must be only a matter of somber business - at least not a spiritual center that opens its doors to members of the community to come on retreats. Maybe I'm just too light-hearted and expect some degree of that in an offering such as this. I certainly missed that feeling during the weekend. On a similar note, our group was told that a certain gathering was optional. We decided that we preferred to spend time quietly on our own out in the sunshine and clear air. (We were escaping some terrible smoke in our hometown.). However, one of the monks cornered us when he saw us outside during that time and pressured us to go in and participate in the session. We meant no disrespect and were simply exercising the option we had been given to do something else, but I felt as though we were treated as transgressors, which didn't feel very good. One thing I found quite surprising is that, although we were told that modest dress is required at the ashram, we arrived to see a giant poster of a nearly naked man on the side of one of the main buildings! And in the first yoga class I took, there was a man wearing a small tank top and small, form-fitting shorts. I'm ok with all of this personally, but if the ashram is going to have a policy like this, I would recommend that it examine its own imagery and practices and see if they comply with the policy. Probably best to either adhere to it across the board or do away with it. Thanks for soliciting this feedback and for welcoming my friends and me that weekend.
Olivia Trujillo October 18, 2018First Time Visit
Om Shanti, Om Shanti, Om Shanti. That is the first, the last and the most important. I spent my weekend surrounded with such peace. This was my very first visit to an Ashram and I did not want to leave when Sunday came around. I visited at the end of September for the Diabetics weekend. My husband purchased it for me and I also didn't go because I do not have diabetes and I am pretty healthy. The weekend taught me so much about myself and I learned to look at my food so very differently. I was able to cook for with my fellow attendees and got some great recipes to take home. I will be back to the Ashram very soon. Olivia
Abbey Kingdon Smith August 31, 2018Amazing place to re-connect
This was my first trip to an ashram and I was warmly welcomed. It was an amazing experience. Really life altering in the most subtle and gentle way. I am so happy I have found the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm and plan to return. The food is amazing, the energy and feel of the place is so alive, and everyone is inviting and kind. It was an opportunity for me to reconnect with myself. I left feeling more alive, aware and happy. What a gift!
Gary D Osborne August 27, 2018Family Week
My 2 young children and I had a remarkable time attending the Yoga Farm's Family Week. Tara the coordinator was wonderful and attentive to each family's needs and had creative projects prepared for the children each day with adventures around the ashram in between. We will definitely attend in years to come. My suggestion is that the ashram also bring in a specialized children's yoga teacher that is trained in story telling and managing young children during asanas. This is a skill in itself and not something a regular yoga teacher can simply pick up. Tara is a wonderful orchestrator, however it would be difficult for her to teach yoga to the children with her full plate of managing the program. The family camp would be a richer experience with a specialized children's yoga teacher that can really teach the benefits of asanas with joy.
Karen Barker August 10, 2018Amazing weekend!
This weekend surpassed my expectations! The tranquility of the ashram was much needed. I'm not vegetarian so was concerned about what there would be to eat, but was pleasantly surprised by how tasty everything was. From the people attending to the yoga instructor to Satsang, I wouldn't change a thing...it was a weekend I won't forget.
Allen G Corey July 29, 2018Seva Study at the Yoga Farm
Seva study at the farm was very helpful in my Sadhana. The people I met there during this time were reflections of the issues and growth that was needed for this Sadhana. People from all over the world and the country showed up with similar issues to work through. The discussions about our personal journeys and how these fit into the daily lectures were co very helpful. I believe that this experience could only happen at the the Yoga Farm and no where else. The daily lectures were very helpful along the path. I recommend that anyone requiring a place for reflection and healing consider the yoga Farm for their Sadhana.
Chika Kawahara July 23, 2018So blessed
Love for Yoga leads me to wanting to learn Vedic philosophy and the way of life. When I found Vedic Counseling Course offered in California, I didn't wait a moment to sign up. Just 1.5 hours flight away from LA, Sivananda Yoga Farm Ashram was a completely different place. An Alpaca and Lamas greeted me upon my arrival, and the serene environment made me feel at ease instantly. The day at the ashram starts at 5:30am, Satsang, meditation, yoga, and workshops. The Vedic Counseling Course consists of Ayurveda, Bastu, Jyotish Astology, Yantra, philosophy, Puja, yoga, and so on, and I have learned so much about the karmic nature and myself. The daily routine helped me to be more aware of my life and to live in Yogic way of life. Their vegitalian meals were so delicious and healthy,too! Now I'm back home and slowly starting to digest the experiences. I'm filled with the gratitude and will definitely keep coming back at the ashram for my spiritual maintenance and inspiration!
Ravi Kumar July 12, 2018Tranquility Disturbed
The overall calmness around the place was wonderful. Located in the mountains and a wonderful place for calmness and silence around. The place was filled with few Lama's and a goat. It provides you the ability to reach a state of bliss. The annoying aspect was the ever buzzing flies disturbing constantly in the process of doing yoga. The room needs to be equipped with a machine that keeps flies alway like the one placed in the dinning room. Overall! a wonderful experience and would recommend for others to visit and enjoy!
Patsy Martin Hollingsworth July 01, 2018Children's Yoga Camp
The experience my daughter gets from this camp is fantastic. I love that it's more than an active camp of just "playing", that it offers deeper life long skills that will help to guide her. She makes great friends and is eager to go back next year. This was our second year attending. It's a beautiful, positive, loving place. The staff, counselors and swamis hold this in their heartspace. It takes special people to work with children with all kinds of personalities, backgrounds and ages. I thank you for keeping my daughter safe, being kind and encouraging her spiritual growth.
James Sebastian Williams June 20, 2018World Class Instruction at Sivananda Yoga Farm
Really enjoyed the Nada Yoga workshop and found the instructor, Ram Vakkalanka, a profound expert in the field of Sanskrit, Vedic History and Scripture and the healing and transformative music of Nada Yoga as well as being a Yogi himself, Sivananda's ability to bring such luminaries makes me want to become more involved on this ancient and sacred path - Om
BRUNO TORRES June 13, 2018Extraordinary, life changing Experience.
Extraordinary and life changing experience. The TTC is a complete program that is worth from beginning to end. If you can have this transformative opportunity have no doubt and register to the next TTC.
Toni Bradley May 22, 2018could've been a good thing
Pros: setting is beautiful so many song birds to listen to, accommodations are clean, food is very good and filing, pleasant people Cons: their program is their program and waking at 5:30 AM everyday (to sit in a 2 hour meditation, chants and lesson) and staying up doing programs until 10:30PM is not what I consider a retreat. In print it says they are optional but in fact they take attendance and require for the good of the group for everyone to be at these and the afternoon yoga session for 2 hours from 4-6pm. The first meal does not happen until 10AM and while they warn you of this and tell you to bring snacks, unless you eat at 5:30AM it won't happen until 10am brunch. Since I was in a yoga101 class, my class also met from 8-10AM, had "suggested" karma yogi chores from 11:45am-12:45pm, and then had class again from 1-3pm. So basically you are in a program from 6am-10:30pm everyday. If you were at a business conference maybe this would be the norm, but I had hoped for more "me" time without someone talking at me for hours, and I certainly had hoped for more resting/quiet time outdoors to just be. While you know of this when selecting your lodging, not having a bathroom in your bedroom is not a good thing if you require toilet in the night. Accommodations with toilet are not plentiful. Showers are also an issue. Due to a fire that burned down the largest shower house they are only left with 2 stalls on the women's side of camp. The rules ask for them to not be taken during morning rush hour, and for someone in a program like I was that meant either 5am or 10pm shower. I am not into the Sivananda religion, perhaps if I was or was interested it would not have felt so cult like. You get the feeling everyone else drank the Koolaide. Again, this would be a positive thing if you are already into their following.
Guy Citrin April 17, 2018Beautiful!!!!
I love Sivananda ashrams, and this one is amazing! Beautiful, great food, wonderful staff. Highly recommended!
Yi Zhao April 05, 2018Uplifting yet relaxing
As a twin mom, I got my recharge by spending a long weekend at the yoga farm. What to say? The wholesome vegetarian food prepared with love, friendly staff and like-minded fellow retreat participants, being in nature with other animals, soaking up in the sun, getting up early for meditation and chanting, beautiful Kirtan concert, blissful ayuvedic treatment and many more... It relaxes me and put me back to my AM routine of meditation, chanting and pranayama. Not just me, my whole family benefit from this retreat. Om~
Rachel Stetenfeld April 05, 2018I am completely renewed
What an absolute gift to be able to spend time at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm. From the moment the staff picked me up at the train station, I felt welcome and a part of the family. As someone who studied at the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, India, I can say that I felt the same spiritual commitment and presence at this Yoga Farm. The yoga classes were beautifully taught, the lessons from the Swamis and guest teachers opened my heart, and the food cleansed and rejuvenated my body. I will come again and again and probably again. Thank you so much for this space.
Joseph Krammer March 07, 2018An Enlightening Experience of Love and Connection
Sivananda Ashram is a very special place of healing and reconnecting. The volunteers and devotees that live at the Ashram more permanently truly make you feel not just welcome but loved and cared for. That was the thing that stood out the most, the people were wonderfully warm. This was my first Ashram experience and I was very impressed with the level of spiritual immersion that occurred. Time seems to stand still here as you practice yoga twice a day, engage in Satsang which consists of silent mediation, teachings and chant two daily as well as the plethora of workshops and other things to participate in. Getting into that routine for a few days has inspired me to get serious about my own daily practice. The whole experience I felt high from the amazing vibrations that come from engaging your inner spirit and expanding your heart center. Overall good accommodations and really great food. We also loved the workshops. Overall, highly recommended to those who love yoga and want to engage with a deeper spiritual practice.
Andrea Santos February 19, 2018Peaceful Slice of Heaven
I highly recommend spending some days at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm. It has gorgeous surroundings, yummy food, nice people, wonderful yoga classes, and more. I went there for the meditation course. For many years, I practiced transcendental meditation with great benefits until I did not. I needed a jump start into the meditation practice. The course was insightful, deep, and extremely helpful. Besides the course, I participated in the two daily group meditation sessions, attended the two daily lectures, the two yoga classes, helped in the kitchen after brunch, and walked around the gorgeous surroundings. It is a really special place.
Gina Hess February 09, 2018Yoga Nidra Training
I love the delightful staff which has been there for many years. They are so welcoming you immediately feel at home. During Karma yoga you get to know the rest of the staff which is great fun. The Yoga Nidra Training was over the top filled with brilliant information. I can't imagine life without it now. The pujas before and after the training were awe inspiring, heartwarming and left me with tremendous love in my heart. Altogether the yoga farm is a place where you leave inspired whether you come for a day, a few days or a week or more.
Molly Ferry February 07, 2018Reset
I had a beautiful 2-day experience here a year ago and it completely changed my habits and outlook on life. It was exactly what I was missing. It was exactly what I needed. I quit caffeine, alcohol, and social media. These rajasic things were sucking the life out of me. I replaced these habits with daily yoga, chanting, and mediation. I have been back a few times and it feels like coming home to my self and the beautiful people of this world. The chattering person inside my head quiets down and I am filled with positivity. There is so much to learn in every minute you spend at the yoga farm. Bring your friends, go alone, just open your heart and go.
Andy Betancourt Allen November 02, 2017Beautiful!
It was a beautiful experience! Sure there are opportunities to grow, but I´ll go back tomorrow without a doubt. The retreat and my time at the ashram was soul and body nourishing! I did the Yoga Nidra Training. Blessings
Lora Christoffel October 04, 2017Ayurvedic Detox Retreat
Of course it is a peaceful time, for the most part, at the Yoga Farm. However, this was a DETOX. I think the staff should have been more aware of this and instead of automatically putting me in a cabin with someone who was NOT on the detox, they could have given me a separate cabin. There were 5 empty ones when I checked in. A detox implies you will be using the restroom often (and there are not an overabundance of restrooms at the Farm) so there were times when I was not that comfortable. There was no actual daily agenda. It was very loose and I was rescheduled a few times as far as my consult and my bliss therapy. My consult was very short, much less than an hour and I felt like I was being rushed so the doctor could get back to Sacramento. I still have not received the materials which he was going to email me and this is 5 days later.
Tia Mavanie October 02, 2017Marma Point Therapy Workshop
Dear Spiritual Warriors, When first arriving at the Yoga Farm Ashram after a long and arduous journey of 30,000 miles my body was exhausted and out of alignment. So much so, that the pain was intolerable, it made it very difficult to walk without grimacing. The auspicious timing of my arrival and the commencement of the Marma Point Therapy workshop (also known as Ayurvedic Acupressure) was undeniable, so I chose to join in and learn a new technique as a compliment to the healing practice I already have as a Polynesian Bodyworker. Not only did I learn an ancient healing art which is foundational to all healing modalities, I also had the opportunity to experience the therapy first hand. Within three days my body was back into alignment and I was walking pain free. I highly recommend Marma Point Therapy as an alternative medical treatment, which integrates the knowledge of ancient Ayurveda and the principles of acupressure, to aid in completely healing physical, mental, emotional and spiritual illnesses. Om Namah Shivaya, Tia Mavanie
Rupa September 14, 2017Great Experience
It certainly is a great experience in a peaceful, serene setting with dedicated and friendly staff. The meditation and yoga taught provide is quite a learning experience for beginners. You will not be pushed to do things you won't be comfortable to do, and yoga staff will tell you what not to do if you have certain health conditions. They help you relax your body and mind with warm ups and do the ones you can and correct you if you are doing it wrong. The meditation and the chanting helps you to bring out the positive energy and again it is not forced on you if you are not into it or have different religious beliefs. The fresh organic food cooked for each meal is good, nutritious and plenty. Fellow attendees or volunteers are very friendly and welcoming. The nice thing about this place is you will have a community to interact and socialize, but will have an opportunity to self reflect or have plenty of time for yourself or take a hike on different trails in the 200 acre oak studded scenic area with alpacas, goats, deer, turkeys, etc. Nice cabins in a great setting. Highly recommend spending a weekend in a retreat or a week stay here for a relaxed body and mind.
Sarah Cochrane September 07, 2017An enlightening and enriching experience
The labour day weekend retreat was beautiful. The food was nourishing, the speakers offered relevant talks, the space was peaceful, and I am grateful for the connections I made with other people.
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HAppS tutorial
To install HAppS the following packages are needed:
- HaXml 1.13.X ( http://www.haskell.org/HaXml )
- base
- cabal (for installation)
- mtl
- network
- stm
- template-haskell ( http://www.haskell.org/th )
- with GHC 6.4 fps (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps.html)
The quick way to see what's missing is to get the darcs repository, change into that directory, and run
runghc Setup.hs configure. If you don't get an error, try
runghc Setup.hs build and then as root
runghc Setup.hs install.
The application model in HAppS is to help separate state, application logic, wire formats, protocols, and presentation layer:
State is just a haskell data type you define. ACID [2] Consistency enforced by Haskell's type system. ACID Durability is handled by MACID write-ahead logging and checkpointing.
Incoming events are gathered in individual haskell threads and then pushed onto a single application queue for processing. The queue model gives you ACID Atomicity and Isolation and lets your app be simply a set of functions with types like:
SomeInputType -> MACID SomeOutputType
The MACID monad lets you update your state and *schedule* side-effects. To be clear, MACID is not in the IO monad so you cannot execute side effects, you can only schedule them. The framework takes care of making sure they are executed at-least-once (if they can be completed by a deadline you specify).
Wire formats
Since your app consists of a set of functions with various haskell input and output types, somewhere you need a place to convert between those internal haskell types and external protocol event types; e.g. from URL Encoded HTTP requests to SomeInputType and from SomeOutputType to XML encoded HTTP responses.
HAppS currently provides support for HTTP Requests/Responses and SMTP Envelopes. To be clear HAppS provides ACID Atomicity at the protocol event level. So if you write a protocol with SMTP envelopes being the arriving event type then your app will have atomicity in processing incoming SMTP envelopes. If you write a protocol with SMTP commands being the arriving event type, then your app will have atomicity at the level of individual smtp commands.
If your application outputs XML as its wire format, HAppS provides a lot of support for using XSLT to transform it for presentation purposes. For example, you can send XML mail and HAppS will take care of applying the relevant XSLT stylesheet before it is delivered. If you output XML HTTP responses, HAppS takes care of applying the XSLT stylesheet server side for user-agents that don't support doing so on the client. The value here is that you can have designer types who know XSLT modify presentation stuff without touching your application code.
First steps
This chapter will run you through some first simple programs written in HAppS. For other programs have a look at the directory named 'examples'.
First of all, default HAppS applications run their own webserver on port 8000, so you probably want to try out these examples at http://localhost:8000/
If you'd rather access these applications on some other port, use
./myapp --default-port=8001 obviously substituting the name of your binary for myapp.
Hello World
Cut'n'paste this into a file named Hello.hs and run
ghc --make Hello.hs -o hello to compile and then
./hello to execute the resulting binary.
import HAppS
-- simplest HAppS app
main = stdHTTP $ debugFilter : -- we want to see debug messages in the console
noState : -- our application has no state
h () GET $ ok plain $ val "Hello" -- any GET request will return "Hello"
First you import HAppS, then you pass your list of request handlers to stdHTTP. Handlers are tried in order. Handlers can do one of two things, they can modify the request and pass it on to the next handler, or they can handle the request.
h handler takes three arguments, the url it should handle, the request type it should handle and the action it should take if it matches.
This example uses two system handlers,
debugFilter and
noState, and one custom handler inside the list.
debugFilter does not modify the request, but it does log lots of information about the request to the console. If you don't want see gobs of debug information in your console, you can take this out.
noState tells HAppS that this application doesn't have any state.
For this custom handler, any GET request will return "Hello". The specifics here are that ok is shorthand for sending back an HTTP 200 response, and plain formats the response value as text rather than applying some sort of formatting.
Serve static files
Another common task is to serve files from the file system.
The HAppS code to do this is
basicFileServe. This example sets
clientPath and
staticPath to the same values as they are by default, so those two lines are optional.
import HAppS hiding (clientPath, staticPath)
-- serve from the filesystem
clientPath = "/s/"
staticPath = "static/"
main = stdHTTP $ debugFilter :
noState :
hs clientPath GET $ basicFileServe staticPath
,h () GET $ ok plain $ val "Hello" -- http://localhost:8000/hello
XSLT and State change
{-# OPTIONS -fglasgow-exts -fth #-}
import Data.Typeable
import Control.Monad.State
import HAppS
--define your application state. If you don't use application state, use noState in your list
data MyState = MySt { appVal :: Int } deriving (Read,Show,Typeable)
$(inferStartState ''MyState) -- boilerplate that will eventually by SYB
--Here are some trivial application functions
{-- all application functions take 2 arguments
* a value that is an instance of FromReqURI -- so you can grab stuff from the inbound URI
(see FromReqURI above for example instances and see how fileServe2 consumes the pathInfo not consumed by the match)
* a value that is an instance of FromMessage -- so you can grab stuff from the message body or querystring
(see the FromMessage instance below for an example of how to implement)
-- exampleGetVal :: (MonadState MyApp m) => Int -> () -> m (Either a MyApp)
exampleGetVal x () = do (MySt y) <- get; respond $ MySt (x+y)
examplePostVal () (MySt x) = modify (\ (MySt y)->MySt (y+x)) >> get >>= respond
exampleHelloWorld () () = respond "Hello there world!"
-- since you wantto expose functions that return MyApp as XML you need to implement ToElement
instance ToElement MyState where toElement = textElem "MySt" [] . show . appVal
-- since you want people to be able to Post MyApp to your app you need to implement fromMessage
instance FromMessage MyState where fromMessageM m = maybeM $ lookMbRead m "myst" >>= return . MySt
main = stdHTTP $ debugFilter: -- we want to see debug messages in the console
-- noState: --put this in if your app doesn't use state
[h "/$" GET $ ok xml $ val Index
,hs clientPath GET $ basicFileServe staticPath
,h "/hello1" GET $ ok plain $ val "Hello" -- val is a handler that ignores arguments
,h "/hello2" GET $ ok plain $ \() () -> respond "hello world" -- the most trivial handler
,h "/hello3" GET $ ok plain exampleHelloWorld -- put it in a function to make is prettier
,h "/val1/" GET $ ok plain_xml exampleGetVal -- produce raw unstyled XML
,h "/val1$" POST $ ok plain_xml examplePostVal
,h "/val2/" GET $ ok xml exampleGetVal ---- adds an xslt stylesheet at /s/style.xsl for templating
,h "/val2$" POST $ ok xml examplePostVal
For the code above, the file below should be saved in
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "libxslt/xslt2.dtd"> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" xmlns:html='http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40' > <xsl:template match="*"> 1. view source to see server output. 2. make templates for each of your output types. 3.use the xsl lib that handles all sorts of standard template issues to make it all nice! </xsl:stylesheet>


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The fight against Israeli cultural appropriation: Palestinian Heritage Wear Day
Naomi Kundera
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Now they're taking the clothes.
Israel's attempt to erase Palestinian identity from worldview goes far beyond their land grab tactic. State propaganda efforts consistently appropriate Arab and Palestinian culture and claim it as their own.
July 25 is national Palestinian Heritage Wear Day, which also coincides with Arabic Culture Day. Both of these initiatives are Palestinian attempts at reclaiming the culture being stripped away from them by the occupation.
Two weeks ago, on June 30, the celebrations commenced in al-Bireh, Ramallah. A crowd of almost 300 gathered in the streets and marched to the al-Bireh municipality office. Men and women, young and old, were all dawning different traditional Palestinian garb.
"This initiative started four years ago," Lana Hijazi, one of the lead organizers of the march, told Palestine Monitor.
"When we saw an Israeli fashion model wearing a Palestinian dress and saying that is it an Israeli dress. That made us angry and sad and we wanted to change that and stop it. So we decided that we should wear our national dresses and go out in the streets."
"That is our way to resist the Israel work on stealing our traditional clothes."
Israeli designer Yaron Minkowski
Israeli models with the traditional Arab headdress - and symbol of Palestinian resistance - the kuffiyeh. In the 2015 fashion week, Minkowski said he attempted to transform the kuffiyeh into a "symbol of coexistence."
In 2016 Israeli designer Dodo Bar Or went even further and
the kuffiyeh in her spring collection. Extreme cuts, backless dresses, and short rompers mocked the traditional design of Arab heritage wear.
And last September some bedouin women in Negev were actually
into creating a dress with traditional Palestinian embroidery for the New York Fashion Week. The group of women, known as Desert Embroidery, were approached by Israeli designer Aviad Arik Herman for a partnership, unaware that the project was sponsored by the OR movement, an Israeli organization that works to settle Jews in the Negev and Galilee.
This year there are 10 cities and villages around the West Bank that will be hosting an event in celebration and reclamation of Palestinian heritage wear from Israeli appropriation.
"[Palestinian] heritage wear is very unique and it's different from one city to another. That's what is special about making these activities in each city. [And] each city has its own challenges," Hijazi explained to Palestine Monitor.
"For example, Salfit is one of the places that has a lot of settlements and problems with settlers… Qalqilia is surrounded by the Israeli apartheid wall… Battir is a very well-known historical city and its known for its special plants and is now on the map of the international heritage map."
"Every city has its special, own circumstances," Hijazi continued, "and having a happy, Palestinian ceremony happening in these places – a happy march – its very special."
"Usually as Palestinians we have a lot of sad ceremonies, a lot of sad days. So this is a happy day. We want everybody to wear the Palestinian traditional wear, be happy, sing the traditional songs, dance, walk on the streets, take photos, smile, and connect with our ancestors through our clothes and our culture."
The Palestinian Heritage Wear Day Initiative is a team of volunteers who simply want to take action in their own hands.
The last march, on July 7, took place in Battir and was a celebration in combination with a local wedding. Women of the bride and groom's family along with Palestinians from all over the West Bank came together in dresses traditionally worn for weddings.
The women paraded behind the happy couple's car clapping and chanting traditional wedding songs.
"We don't want to be like the UN and just [be] worried and not doing anything. We want to do something to change the situation," Hijazi said about the volunteers in the initiative.
The Palestinian Heritage Wear Day Initiative also takes action outside these annual marches.
Efforts are made to keep the knowledge and skill of traditional embroidery alive in the younger generation.
Talking about the importance of keeping the tradition of embroidery going, a woman from Darna Couture, a
shop in Ramallah that showcases Palestinian fashion and heritage with a modern touch, at the Battir march told Palestine Monitor, "We don't want it to die out with the younger generation."
"Your grandmother passed it to your mother and you mother passed it to you [but] now it's starting to be [made] by computers. We're trying to pass down theses artistries, not let somebody claim our heritage, our dress, our food, our culture. We want to re-appropriate our culture."
The initiative helps empower young and marginalized women from Gaza and the West Bank by bringing sewing kits to their homes and teaching them the skill of embroidery. This action keeps Palestinian heritage alive and helps the economic status of Palestinian women.
The next march will take place in Hebron on July 12.
Lead photo: Lana Hijazi, one of the lead organizers of the Heritage Wear Day events.
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The latest test build of Snow Leopard, 10A335, had no significant changes since the last beta. Developers are still being encouraged to develop and test 64-bit kernel extensions. The accompanying release notes also noted some known issues, including crashing bugs in QuickTime X and Rosetta, problems with Migration Assistant, and odd errors being reported by Disk Utility.
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Water, But Not Salt, Effective in Changing Grazing PatternsBy David Elstein
October 20, 2004
Ranchers have traditionally used water and salt to move cattle from one place to another--to prevent overgrazing, for example. Now an Agricultural Research Service rangeland scientist has found that, while water is an effective tool for moving cattle, salt isn't as helpful as was once thought, at least on sagebrush steppe rangeland.
David C. Ganskopp tracked the movement of cattle on large western rangelands by putting Global Positioning System collars on them to determine their precise location. At the ARS Range and Meadow Forage Management Research Unit in Burns, Ore., Ganskopp observed that cattle were attracted to water nine times more often than they were to salt.
They were willing to travel farther to get to water, and whenever water and salt were separated, they altered their habits to remain close to water. Since water is required on nearly a daily basis by cattle, the animals will alter their distribution patterns to remain near dependable water sources.
According to Ganskopp, cows have the ability to learn and remember, thus knowing how to find water sources that they've previously visited. If producers selectively open and close gates to watering points on the range or move portable water tanks to unused points in the pasture, they can get the animals to occupy these under-grazed areas.
While the salt will likely not attract cattle for great distances, it is an excellent carrier for supplementing their diets with the many minerals needed to sustain animal gains and reproduction. For those reasons, salt should still be readily accessible to cattle.
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If everything Apple does is growing so well, why isn't the company "growing" its Worldwide Developers Conference?
Tickets for WWDC 2013, June 10-14 in San Francisco, went on sale at 1 p.m. EDT today. By 1:02 p.m. EDT, they were gone.
People trying to log in or complete their purchase suddenly found themselves staring at the WWDC equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death: "Sorry, tickets are sold out. However, you will still be able to take advantage of great WWDC content. Stay tuned for exciting announcements on videos and more."
That's not likely to mollify the many disappointed and angry developers, though it may hint that Apple is considering faster posting of WWDC sessions on video, instead of waiting until the conference is over, or possibly granting some kind of online access.
Last year, tickets sold out in under two hours, sparking anger from West Coasters who woke up to learn tickets were gone before they even knew they were available.
For 2013, Apple this week pre-announced the time when tickets would become available, so everyone knew. But the forewarning may only have intensified the anger and disappointment over the abrupt sellout. Developers and users took to online forums today to complain.
"I'd say one event a year no longer suffices," wrote Andy-V in a comment at MacRumors.
"I logged in at 1pm EST....looks like i should have pre logged in because typing my email/password took too long :(," posted Rudy69.
"Sold out in 90 seconds," wrote abhsc. "Crazy, I managed to sign in and then had an error page again and again, then sold out. Appalling."
Another, Sweetbrat, disagreed with MacRumors' Eric Slivka, who praised Apple's slick processing of the huge transaction load. "There were a lot of people that received errors as they were trying to confirm their tickets, so it didn't go as smoothly as you seem to think." Sweetbrat wrote. "Apple really needs to find a better way to handle this. A lottery might be a better option. When 'first come, first served' becomes luck of the draw based on if the site is working or not, something needs to change."
Their complaints underline a striking mismatch. At this week's earnings conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook touted Apple's growth in revenues, profits, in sales of iPhones and iPads, in the number of apps being written, published and downloaded on the iTunes App Store. All of which shows a still growing wave of new users and new developers to the Apple ecosystem.
Yet, WWDC attendance remains, apparently, a single event, capped at 5,000.
It's not as though this is, or should be, a surprise to Apple event planners. After last year's two-hour sellout, Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng underlined the problem with a pointed headline: "Can Apple revamp the WWDC ticket system? Does it want to?"
Her story notes that opening of the App Store in 2008 signaled a steep climb in WWDC attendance, which Apple capped that same year at 5,000. That was also the first year that WWDC was a sellout event.
"Since then, the WWDC ticket situation has only intensified," Cheng wrote in 2012, despite the big jump in a ticket's price, to $1,599.
In 2013, it's deja vu all over again.
Options that developers suggested in Cheng's story included: making use of the full Moscone Conference Center, instead of just half of it; split up the conference into multiple events, based on some criteria such as geography, audience or operating system; using a lottery system to offer tickets, or limit the number of tickets sold per hour based on geography for example.
One area not yet publicly explored at least is recasting WWDC in whole or in part as a virtual event, using video, slides, real-time interactive sessions, video and text chat, in short the tools that Apple's products are actively bringing to their users.
Apple is justly proud that its customers don't just use but love the company's products. Maybe those same products could be used to share the love with those that won't be trekking to San Francisco this year. Again.
John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for Network World. Twitter: @johnwcoxnww Email: [email protected]
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An umbrella group that fashions itself the head of Syria's political opposition should no longer be considered the "visible leader" of efforts to form a government to replace Bashar al-Assad, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday.
Clinton said the Syrian National Council, which is made up mostly of Syrian expatriates cannot alone shape the future of Syria apart from those fighting and dying inside the country amid a civil war that has claimed more than 30,000 lives.
"This cannot be an opposition represented by people who have many good attributes, but have in many instances not been in Syria for 20, 30 or 40 years," Clinton said during a joint news conference with Croatian President Ivo Josipovic in Zagreb. "There has to be a representation of those who are on the front lines fighting and dying today."
Her remarks come as preparations are underway for Arab League-sponsored meetings next week in Doha, Qatar, that will focus on the composition of a post-Assad political leadership in Syria.
"We have recommended names and organizations that we believe should be included in any leadership structure," Clinton said. "We've made it clear that the SNC can no longer be viewed as the visible leader of the opposition. They can be part of a larger opposition, but that opposition must include people inside Syria and others who have a legitimate voice that needs to be heard."
The SNC was formed last year after the once-peaceful uprising against al-Assad's rule turned deadly, but it garners little credibility from opposition forces inside Syria. While it was recognized as an interlocutor with the United States and other governments seeking a way to stanch the carnage of the al-Assad regime, the Obama administration has been frustrated by the lack of cohesion and infighting that seemed to define its workings. There are also questions of whether the group truly represented the interests of the wide variety of religious and ethnic groups inside Syria.
Clinton reiterated concerns that opposition forces are not doing enough to stem the tide of Islamic extremists who are exploiting the violent situation on the ground in Syria.
"We also need an opposition that will be on record strongly resisting efforts by extremists to hijack the Syrian revolution," she said. "There are disturbing reports of extremists going into Syria and attempting to take over what has been a legitimate revolution against a repressive regime for their own purposes."
As to a recent attempt by Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League special envoy, to bridge a temporary cease-fire in Syria, Clinton said she was "not surprised" that it failed to take hold.
The Assad regime "did not suspend its use of advanced weaponry against the Syrian people for even one day," she said. "And the shelling in the suburbs of Damascus was as bad last weekend as at any time in the conflict."
Clinton is on a trip that already has included stops in Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo. She is scheduled to visit with leaders in Albania before returning to Washington later this week.
hillary clinton and Barack Obama should be tried for treason for watching the Ambassador, the two Seals and the other man getting killed via drone. The democratic party is made up of a bunch of left-over 60's anti-Americans and a bunch of baby-killing degenerates. 55 million babies (human life) have been murdered since the 1970's because of radical mean democrats. God gives life and only God can take life away. Dramatic as it sounds, it is true. Abortion should only be done in extreme situations, not kill off a whole generation of people. How would Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, Bill Clinton like to be an abortion?
How DARE you!!
You should be ASHAMED!!
President Obama and SoS Clinton are true PATRIOTS!!
the only leader in Syria is Assad the others are all terrorists!!!!!
Good luck finding legitimacy among these "freedom fighters". These are people who were went abroad and enjoyed success. And for icing-on-the-cake, they want power, but know they can't have it legitimately while Asad is in power. And they found their chance once war broke out so they pose as "freedom fighters" because they know the West will eat it up. The West always does, from the days of Soviet occupation of Afganistan when they back anyone opposed to their #1 enemy with no questions asked; thereby training and arming Osama. Still haven't learned their lessons, as evidenced in Libya. And they never will as long as warmongers like John McCain is in Congress stoking the fires of puting "boots on the ground" in every conflict in the world, so not to appear to be "leading from behind".
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The Assad regime "did not suspend its use of advanced weaponry against the Syrian people for even one day," she said ==> The Obama regime "did not suspend its use of advanced info-weaponry against the Syrian people for even one day," i said
If the syrian rebels who hope to overthrow Al-assad cant unite under one leader, how do they plan to settle their differences and unite and create a democracy. I dont think these people are ready for a democracy yet and they deserve their dictator. Most middle eastern countries have not developed culturally to a level that a democracy can take roots. They still have age old rivalries and hatreds that is totally incompatible with a democratic philosophy.
Hillary Rotten Clinton giving advice to Syrian terrorist .She really needs to take look at herself. She is the one that needs advice. LOTS of it.
Hey SYRIANA....I can't wait to watch your leader die a horrible death..
I can honestly say I will enjoy the sectarian violence against you Alawites for what you did to so many innocent people..how sad is it that your life has already seen its best days? You brought this upon yourself. The people have spoken.
Mohamed The PEDO Pig Eating Donkey Offal.
Trust me if it was not the ala-wites killing sunnies and shiites, it would have been the sunnies killing the other two or the shiites. They are all the same with no group any less civilized than the other. It makes no difference who is ruling the country, it is the clans and tribes that rule those countires and the ruling club will make sure everyone else will suffer. These people are not yet civilized to the level where tolerance and social sense takes precedence over tribal hatreds and differences.
THE pedo is SANDUSKY and the millions like him lives in SAN FRANCISCO [N AMERICA most likely you are one of them,are you a boyscout leader,YOU breed pedos in AMERICA by the thousands.KEEP THEM IN AMERICA,
...and finds none because they are all opportunists or al-Qaeda sympathizers
US seeks new Syrian rebels, non-islamist ones. 🙂
fuk all the chinks
Clinton -> monica lewinsky is waiting for me , we'll go pick her up togather LOL (:
that doesn't matter you stupid chinks. she isn't dating Monica.
Is this the same Hillary Clinton who was praising Bashar Assad as a "reformer" in the not-too-distant past?
She forgot..........We haven't heard anything from her friend Nancy yet. She too was a great admirer of Assad. Remember her photo op wearing a brand new headscarf.
is this the same chinks that supports assassination presently
is this the same chinks that supports assad presently
So many experts with so much information with so many opinions. There should be a forum for every person that works so that we can all comment and suggest how they should do their job.
....but that's the whole idea. People sharing their views and opinions. If you have any, I would be very interested in hearing them.
These guys are Islamic fighters. No matter their lip service to "freedom" what they want is replace the Syrian secular government with their beloved Sharia religious dictatorship. Some of them are related directly to AlQaeda, others are Salafi radicals(which is worse, I dunno), most are armed and paid by Saudi Arabian Wahhabi billionaires.
Their hero model is Osama bin Laden. Nice "friends of the West". Sheesh.
This article does not make sense! From my understanding, the U.S. govt. has had a descent relationship with Syria & it's leaders!
Lets stay out of this one Hillary, it's a lose-lose situation.
hillary needs to get L...d
There's no line up!
I see Hillary is hard at work to orchestrate another Benghazi.
Well done, Secretary Clinton.
Far too often the U.S. has supported and installed leaders, who have been the worst and most corrupt leaders that foreign countries could have: The Shah of Iran, Marcos, Noriega, etc..
This kind of thing is, no doubt, why so many hate us. Of course making a hasty decision and supporting the wrong leader can ultimately result in terrible misery for the U.S., as well.
Fortunately Secretary Clinton is a wise and decent person.
There's a good chance that Ms. Clinton will be president one day, and I plan to vote for her.
By the way, I'm a registered Republican.
Well done, Ms. Clinton. Keep up the good work! You have my support and can count on my vote.
Seriously? By putting in a member of the Muslim Brotherhood as leader you think Clinton is doing a great job? Because that's who the rebels are, radical Muslims. And they like the Syrian regime aren't worried about killing civilians in the name of their religion.
Only the President of Syria can save us from the terrorists. Blessings on Bashar al Assad, it is he who loves his country and his people. The outsiders who practice genocide on Syrian citizens, are financed by the puppet government of Israel...the USA.
Warning..........Warning.............Warning!!! Towel Head Alert!!!!!!!!!
Tall stars and stripes hat,sissors tail coat.AL YOU NEED IS A RED NOSE AND YOU ARE A PERFECT CLOWN.The rags are used to sheild the sun to avoid headache,YOU hat shows you to be a perfect clown
People like you who are back Assad are equally responsible for the genocides of the innocent people in Syria. Go and get yourself a better hallucination medication.
And your "rebels" didn't kill innocent people? do you go on youtube and watch what the rebels have done and how behead people's head just because they don't agree with them? has profit Mohammed done this? the scenery of the rebels and the way they kill anyone who doesn't stand by them, is very disturbing and no way the base of FREE country.
Get yourself a new hallucination medication
Only the wise will understand.Bashar is our president and ONLY the citerzins of SYRIA has the right to choose their leader.We will not allow or accept ANY installed or foreign suckbutt leader.ANYONE who intervenes in our political affairs WILL pay the price.We will expand this conflict beyond the control of the UN,USA (UNITED SNAKES OF AMERICA) AND THE UK(EUROPE) THE UNITED COLONIAL KILLERS
Too bad too sad Clinton,Assad ain,t going nowhere.Keep funding terrorist to kill leaders you don,t like,How is that Viagra lie in Libya working for you and your fellow murderers.
She go someone to try viagra on her and she like it,now she wants a camel to try viagra n he.SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR SURE,then she would adopt th cmel as her PET
She is only trying to give insight to the future, and what needs t5o be done to end Asaads days as leader..Funny how no one has any ideas posting on this matter..At least she's trying t6o give some ideas of strucuture to develop help and unity..far more than the UN or any other country or leader has attempted to do
Just where does Hilary Clinton get off demanding any kind of "leadership change" for the so-called Syrian "rebels"? In fact, Syria's biggest problem is the Interference of both the U.S. and it's "allies" and the Arab League. If the outsiders would only leave Syria alone, this needless bloodshed could end!!!
For sure this conflict woud end if there is NO interference and arms suport FROM OutSIDe,
That's a good question, George. Where does she demand a "leadership change"? Certainly not in this article. Here, she is simply pointing out that it is unrealistic to consider this group of expatriots as representative of a post-Bashir Syria because they are disconnected from the violence that is part of the new national consciousness. That seems to be what one should look for in a Secretary of State – a thoughtful, intelligent voice that is able to think rationally about the best way for the US to interact with other countries.
Hillary Clinton speaks for the US unlike the coo coo posters responding to this article. From poster "AM" to poster "nader": Coo Coo!!
Why in the world do we even bother with people in the Middle East? Who gives a hoot about them? Not me for sure... They want to kill each other, let them... America is a beautiful country with all we need, right here. To hell with the Middle East.
AM you are the definiton of pathetic. The only essence your life stands for is self-preservation. Do you think all the children who have been killed by the shellings deserve that. You are the kind of person who will push a baby out a life raft to save your own life.
Boy your country is certainly not happy for a long time at present.Economc misery,school shootings,katrina,sandy and forest firers are making havoc and it will never ever go away.The AMERICAN dream is a nihtmare.But you have a right to stay in YOUR home sweet home,(AMERICA THE BEAUTIFULL? KEEPIT FOR YOURSELF
Minor problems every place in the world has to deal with. But you crazy muslim extremists in Syria get to deal with a madman who is trying to kill you and all those crazy muslim terrorists trying to kill you. L-M-A-O I can walk to the store without getting blown up by a carbomb, suicide bomber, machine gun fire, sniper, tanks, etc. If you tried to prove an American is worse off than you, it was an EPIC FAIL!
Actually the biggest problem I have had was not being able to charge my I-Phone due to the hurricane (FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS) LOL sure beats the heck out of wondering if a bomb is gonna fall on my house or not.
Mrs Clinton is finally waking up to smell the coffee. It's finally sinking in that those fighting the
Syrian regime are nothing more than criminal organizations. All the bombings they have orchestrated shows
that they really don't care about the loss of Syrian civilian lives. Unfortunately its taken Mrs Clinton nearly 2 years to see this. Perhaps she can try and reclaim back the $25million of our tax dollars she gave the opposition. I really wonder which gang made off with that money. Good thing I read she is stepping down in January
Clinton seems to be as confused as the rebels. What happened to the so called 'Friends of Syria' seems like their friendship can no longer hold.
Agreed, She looks exactly like Miss Piggy
She really thinks she knows who will take over from Assad? Her and Obama are so just power hungry. Obama gives free money because he believes America owes reparations. Clinton is a left-over hippie from the 60's stuck in a time warp.
She looks exactly like Miss Piggy in the picture above!!! Amazing likeness, not kidding. How can anyone believe a word she says after she refused to protect the Ambassador and the other men in Libya and she won't even talk truthfully about Bengaze to the American people.about what happened, all because of her aspirations to be President (?) can you believe it? no qualifications for Secretary of State and absolutely no qualifications to be President. Why? because she was married to a President? I guess the Clintons have no excitement in their life anymore. But she might have saved the Ambassador's life and othe others if she had been competent instead of loving the enemy.
What she is saying is that some joeblow outside of Syria for 40~ years isn't going to waltz in and take control of the country, that it should be one of the individuals in the country putting their life on the line. Personally, if I was a Syrian rebel and I heard our future leaders were outside the country waiting for the fight to come to an end to take control, I would end their reign rather quickly.
But remember also that those who are fighting inside Syria came from Turkey and Jordan as Qaeda Muslim Mjahedeedn and are also foreigners to Syria, mostly recruited by Turkey and few other Secret Services.
How is Mrs. Clinton going to democratically pick the leaders of the Syrian Arab nation. Shameless hypocrisy, trying to impose leaders on a people from outside.
no one in Syria accepts terrorists or those who support them from outside from US to Turkey, Qatar, France or Saudi Arabia make king for them. we will fight to last drop of our blood and kick out all Al-qaeda members (Free Syria Army) from our lovely country.
What I am telling to Clinton is: Please Shu*t Up
I am witH you for sure and i am sure there are others with us of our blood around the world.We will f ight to our last drop of blood.NO COLONIOL OR FOREIGN INTERVENTION atall
The days of Clinton is numbered. HA HA HAAAAAAAAA
Would the number 4 work for you? As in 4 more years? And then 4 + 4 as President? Hahahahahahahahaha
I do not share your beliefs. I say, Well done, Secretary Clinton.
Far too often the U.S. has supported and installed leaders, who have been the worst and most corrupt leaders that foreign countries could have: The Shah of Iran, Marcos, Noriega, etc..
This kind of thing is, no doubt, why so many hate us. Of course making a hasty decision and supporting the wrong leader can ultimately result in terrible misery for the U.S., as well.
Fortunately Secretary Clinton is a wise and decent person.
There's a good chance that Ms. Clinton will be president one day, and I plan to vote for her.
By the way, I'm a registered Republican.
Well done, Ms. Clinton. Keep up the good work! You have my support and can count on my vote.


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Reality Pilot Follows Web Icon As He Contemplates Making the Leap From Paducah, Kentucky To The World Of New York High Fashion
NEW YORK, December 4, 2007 � Bravo announced today that William Sledd, a 24-year-old Paducah, Kentucky native best known for his irreverent web commentary about fashion and pop culture, will star in "Hey Bitches" (working title), a reality pilot produced by Realand Productions for NBCU Domestic Television Distribution and Bravo. Sledd, who currently appears on Bravo's OUTzoneTV.com's web series "Ask a Gay Man," where "Hey Bitches!" is his signature greeting, has been touted as one of the Internet's buzziest personalities, garnering a huge following from fans all over the country including Tony Award-winning actress Christine Ebersole. The pilot will follow Sledd as he contemplates making the leap from his hometown of Paducah, Kentucky, to the world of high fashion in New York. If you've ever watched one of William's videos you know that he can dish it out, but the question is can he take it?
"With over 80,000 subscribers and more than three million channel views to date, William's sense of humor and style have clearly struck a chord with the American public," said Frances Berwick, Bravo's Executive Vice President, Programming & Production. "The response to William on OUTzoneTV.com has been overwhelming; his charm and sense of fun are infectious. People are asking to see more of him and his life."
Armed with a video camera and a mission, Sledd's weekly vlogs (which are several minutes in length) tackle thorny fashion and pop culture topics and offer witty advice about the fashion/style issues of the moment. The baby-faced Sledd, who the Los Angeles Times called "playfully catty and a little bossy," leans toward preppy in his own choice of style, admitting that "it just really bothers me when people look like crap." He first made headlines one year ago when his eighth YouTube installment, exploring the world of denim, was watched more than two million times and quickly thrust him into the national spotlight.
"Hey Bitches" is produced by Realand Productions for NBCU Domestic Television Distribution and Bravo.
About Bravo:
Bravo is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBC Universal one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Bravo has been an NBC cable network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com.
About NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution:
NBC Universal is a leader in providing entertainment programming to the domestic and international marketplaces. The NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution division is responsible for the distribution of NBC Universal product to all forms of television within the U.S. and Canada. This includes distribution of current and library film and television product, including formats and non-scripted programming, in the pay, free, and basic markets, as well as the domestic syndication of first-run syndicated TV programs and theatrical and TV movie packages.


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ESOC flight controllers ready for MetOp launch
Flight controllers at ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, are continuing training for LEOP, the launch and early orbit phase, in preparation for MetOp's 17 July start.
"The aim of our simulation campaign is to train the flight control teams to react to any unexpected situation. We started in March with two simulations per week and until a few days ago, we were very busy finalising the flight procedures to be used for monitoring and controlling the spacecraft. Now we have entered LEOP freeze," Pier Bargellini, Spacecraft Operations Manager (SOM) for the 'B' team, said.
'LEOP freeze' is the period immediately before launch when mission control software and flight operation procedures are fixed so as not to inadvertently introduce errors.
ESOC is providing LEOP control services to MetOp's eventual owner, EUMETSAT (European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), as a contracted service and will hand control over to EUMESAT for instrument commissioning and then routine operations at the end of LEOP, scheduled for 20 July.
MetOp is formally 'MetOp-A', the first in a series of three satellites, and will be launched on a Soyuz from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Critical activities during launch and early orbit phase
We assume control once the spacecraft has separated from the launcher; we will be very busy as MetOp is a complex satellite.
The multinational flight control team is split into 'A' and 'B' shifts to provide 24-hour-per-day operations during the high-stress launch and early orbit phase, when critical mission activities must take place at the right time and in the correct sequence.
These include confirming separation from the launcher, deploying the solar array and powering up onboard systems.
The flight control team includes 15 ESA staff and contractors working directly on MetOp-A, who are supported by additional ESOC experts in functional areas such as software support, flight dynamics and ground station control.
During some simulations, ESOC personnel have also been joined by representatives from EUMETSAT, the project team at ESTEC, who were responsible for satellite development, and from the satellite's prime contractor, EADS-Astrium.
Due, in part, to MetOp's planned polar orbit, a larger-than-usual set of ground stations will be involved in LEOP, including Kerguelen, Malindi, Esrange, Alaska, Hawaii, Svalbard and Maspalomas; of these, the Maspalomas station is part of ESA's worldwide ESTRACK ground tracking station network, while the others are cooperating stations operated by other agencies.
Svalbard, Norway, is home to the EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) Command and Data Acquisition station, to which data from MetOp will be transmitted during routine operation.
Launch set for 17 July, 18:28 CEST
ESOC, home to ESA's operations directorate, is well known in the space community as a centre of excellence for satellite control and in particular for LEOP operations.
"We start our work some 16 hours before launch, monitoring the long series of activities at Baikonur as they get the Soyuz and MetOp-A ready to launch. We actually assume control one hour and eight minutes after lift-off once the spacecraft has separated from the launcher; we will be very busy as MetOp is a complex satellite," says Bargellini.
For MetOp, controllers will be watching very carefully throughout LEOP, but particularly at certain key steps. Support cables that keep the solar array tightly folded must be released, and then the array must properly deploy via activation of four electrical motors. Later, pyrotechnic charges will fire to unlock other onboard units.
There's good interaction and now everyone on the team knows each other.
Many of these steps are automated and executed by onboard software, but controllers must monitor and be ready to react in case of any problems. "Until the solar array deploys, we're running on batteries, and they're only designed to last a short time," said Bargellini.
On the second and subsequent days of LEOP, several payload antennas must be deployed, which Bargellini says is "a complicated and critical operation," and orbit correction manoeuvres will take place using MetOp's onboard thrusters.
In addition to Bargellini's B flight control team, MetOp LEOP will be controlled by the A team under Spacecraft Operations Manager Francois Bosquillon de Frescheville.
The two teams' activities will be overseen by a pair of expert flight directors, with John Dodsworth assigned to the A team shift and Andreas Rudolph assigned to the B team shift.
Months of preparation for flight control team
All ESOC personnel involved in MetOp are looking forward to launch as the culmination of months of preparation, which have included long hours in ESOC's Main Control Room during LEOP simulations and diligent work to build teamwork and cohesion from an international group of individuals.
The MetOp programme's series of three satellites is being designed and developed by ESA in partnership with EUMETSAT, and forms the space segment of EUMETSAT's Polar System (EPS).
According to the co-operation agreement between ESA and EUMETSAT, ESA is responsible for the development of the space segment and EUMETSAT for the overall system, including the launch services, the ground segment and the operations for the duration of the mission.


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HONG KONG — The galloping Chinese box office and 3D top the list of what the Asian biz will be buzzing about at Hong Kong's Filmart, which runs March 22 to 25.
A majority of the top 10 Chinese-language box office hits in China were Hong Kong movies or co-productions. The number of movies that started lensing in 2009 was 30% higher than the previous year at 70, and the council expects that number to increase in 2010.
"Hong Kong movies, including the co-production of Chinese movies, have proven very popular in the Chinese market," says says Jack So, chairman of the Hong Kong Film Development Council and prexy of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), which organizes Filmart.
The integration of the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese film markets is an ongoing process, with the cross-border pollination fertilizing the rebound of the Hong Kong biz. And films successful in China have diversified, away from just police and crime movies into musicals, family stories and historical epics.
"In the past couple of years there are signs that the Hong Kong film industry is staging a remarkable recovery," says So.
Hong Kong's expertise is in action movies, and local helmer Wilson Yip says martial arts films will continue to play a key role in the city's movie industry, even as local production companies increase cross-border cooperation.
Some major cross-border projects in the pipeline include the chopsocky pic "Future Cops," starring Andy Lau and Barbie Hsu, which is being directed by Wong Jing, and will feature the martial arts choreographer Ching Siu Tung. Project has a budget of $22 million.
"The Karate Kid" remake, co-produced by China Film Group and starring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith, son of Will Smith, is also hotly anticipated this year, as is Ning Hao's "Wu Ren Qu" (translated as "No Man's Land"), which has finished post-production, and is waiting for a release date.
One film expected to keep the hot mainland box office on a roll is "Aftershock," about the deadliest earthquake of modern times, the 1976 disaster in Tangshan. It's directed by Beijing helmer Feng Xiaogang, who has scored hits in the domestic market with pics like "Assembly" and "If You Are the One," and is the first to pass the 1 billion yuan ($150 million) B.O. threshold for his films.
Hong Kong helmer Peter Chan, who last year linked up with Beijing distributor PolyBona and Chinese helmer Huang Jiangxin to form the shingle Cinema Popular, has been skeptical about the belief that the market will keep rising forever.
"Last year was too good to be true. This year everything will go back to being real," he says.
People are also watching closely to see if more foreign product gets into China, and what that will mean for the Hong Kong market and other Asian markets.
China Film Group vice president Shi Dongming said in a recent Variety interview that the burgeoning Chinese market was opening up to foreign product.
"The number of screens, theaters and audiences keep increasing, and every year we have more films released. The number of imported films is rising and every year we have more than 20 imported films in China," he asserts. "A long time ago, the national film industry policy viewed film as a propaganda product, which was a wrong position. But since the policy changed, our film industry has started to develop at a very fast speed."
"It is fortunate that Hong Kong has a huge market on the Chinese mainland, where we are finding new and expanded opportunities," says thesp Tony Leung, who is acting as Hong Kong Entertainment Ambassador.
"On the downside, dependence on the mainland means we lack market diversity and that's not healthy," he says. "And we also still face constraints on film productions, since it's not easy for some movie themes to win approval from the authorities."
At FilMart, 3D will also be at the fore: HKTDC has invited experts to come and give presentations to the local industry, since the Chinese are eager to get onboard the lucrative technology.
"Hopefully this year we will start to shoot our first 3D film, since we have already had the script and team in place. The film's theme will be a folk story, very magic," says China Film Group's Shi.
Here's a link to the Filmart site.


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