Most voters already know that Gavin Newsom and Dianne Feinstein — who easily advanced to the November general election in their races for governor and U.S. senator — were among the big winners in Tuesday's California primary election.
But there's another group also popping the champagne this week: environmentalists.
The biggest victory statewide for conservation groups was the passage of Proposition 68, a $4.1 billion parks and water bond that voters easily approved 56-44 percent.
The measure only passed in 27 of California's 58 counties, but it won by huge margins of 65 percent or more in most Bay Area counties and 61 percent in Los Angeles County, which easily offset "no" votes from the Central Valley and counties such as Riverside and San Bernardino, where it narrowly failed.
Proposition 68, a $4.1 billion parks and water bond on California's June 2018 ballot, passed in 27 of 58 counties.
Proposition 68 is the first statewide funding measure for parks approved by California voters in 12 years, with about $2.8 billion headed to parks and wildlife, and $1.3 billion going to water and flood control projects, much of it to be handed out by the Legislature and state agencies through competitive grants.
Environmental groups donated $6.4 million on the Yes on 68 campaign, with major funding coming from the Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, Save the Redwoods League and the Peninsula Open Space Trust.
Green groups faced opposition from taxpayer groups but no organized campaign against them. They spent heavily on social media, blanketed farmers markets, ran volunteer-driven phone banks and cultivated events with high-profile supporters such as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
They also secured endorsements from business groups, including the California Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Orange County Business Council.
The measure will mean millions for urban parks, soccer fields, baseball fields, basketball courts, bike paths and public swimming pools — with a special emphasis on low-income urban areas. Also slated for funding are trails, beaches, forests, visitor centers and campgrounds at state and regional parks, and new funding for groundwater cleanup, flood control and drinking water treatment plants.
Although business groups regularly battle with environmentalists in other states, many in the Bay Area and Southern California are increasingly finding common ground, said Larry Gerston, a professor emeritus of political science at San Jose State University. That's because they see parks, recreation, clean air and clean water as a "quality of life" selling point to lure and keep talented workers, particularly in the face of high housing costs and traffic.
Proposition 72, a tax break for people who install rain barrels or other systems on their rooftops to conserve water, passed 84-16 percent.
Proposition 70 went down in a landslide defeat, 64-36 percent. It would have allowed Republicans in Sacramento more of a say in how the state spends the money it generates from the "cap and trade" permits it auctions to oil refineries, factories and other large emitters of greenhouse gases. Environmentalists worried it would mean less money for public transit, solar rebates and other conservation measures.
Measure B and C in San Jose. An attempt by developers to allow the construction of 910 senior housing units on vacant land in the city's Evergreen area, failed 58-42 percent. The measure was opposed by environmental groups who said it would transform 200 acres of hillsides into a wealthy gated community without environmental review. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who also opposed Measure B, led efforts to qualify Measure C, which makes it more difficult to develop open areas in Evergreen, Almaden Valley and Coyote Valley. It passed 60-40 percent.
Regional Measure 3. A $3 toll increase over the next six years at seven bridges that cross San Francisco Bay, but not the Golden Gate Bridge, to raise $4.5 billion for transportation projects, won 54-46 percent. The measure was backed by business groups but also had the support of Save the Bay, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenbelt Alliance and the League of Conservation Voters. Although it funds freeway improvements, it also will expand BART, Caltrain, ferry service, buses and bike lanes. "We've got to reduce our reliance on cars to cut greenhouse emissions and roadway runoff pollution to the bay," said David Lewis, executive director of Save the Bay.
Measure C in Napa County, which would limit the number of oak trees that vineyard owners can cut down on hillsides, narrowly led Friday night 50.1 percent to 49.9 percent, despite farmers and the wine industry heavily outspending conservation groups.
In Davis, Measure H, which renewed a $49 annual parcel tax for parks, bike paths, swimming pools and street trees for another 20 years, was approved 73-28 percent percent.
In Santa Cruz, 76 percent of voters approved Measure U, an advisory measure that opposes recently announced plans by UC-Santa Cruz to expand campus enrollment by 10,000 students to 28,000 by 2040.
In Martinez, Measure I, which requires voter approval to develop areas zoned for open space or parks, led late Friday, but by tiny margin more than Measure F, which requires voter approval for such changes but only on publicly owned land. Measure I had 51.37 percent and Measure F had 50.87 percent of the vote, yet thousands of mail-in ballots in Contra Costa County remain to be counted, so the results could change. The measure with the most votes will prevail if both pass.


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2014 Run of Pregones Theater Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Dedicated to New York's Labor Force
This Friday, October 3rd at 8PM, join my father, Israel Garcia and myself as we host the kick off tribute to New York's labor force as part of Pregones Theater Puerto Rican Traveling Theater's 2014 run of 'EL APAGON'! We are very humbled to have been selected by this important cultural organization for this event. Tickets can be purchased by using the link below. If you can't make it to see us on Friday, October 3rd, please do make sure you get to the play at any of the other dates!
We proudly dedicate the 2014 run of EL APAGON to New York's labor force!
Israel García on his last ride as an MTA Train Operator. Photo by Ed García Conde.
Kicking off our tribute to New York's labor force, retired MTA Subway operator Israel García and his son Ed García Conde will host the Friday, October 3rd performance of EL APAGON.
Just like the main storyteller in the play, Mr. García's life is a celebration of hard work and perseverance.
He recently retired after 33 years of service to the MTA. To commemorate the occasion, his son wrote a moving essay and photo montage of his father's last day on the job, published in his popular blog Welcome2theBronx.
Here are a few excerpts from the post:
By 1965, at the age of 13, my father had reached the shores of New York City and landed in The Bronx along with his eldest sister and my grandmother and the rest of the Puerto Ricans who were still arriving for the last several decades.
Almost immediately dad began working. He worked at a local bodega on 152nd and Tinton Avenue at the age of 14 making a whopping $3 bucks a day or shined shoes at the corner of Prospect Avenue and 149th Street. By the time he was attending Morris High School, he was working at a local pizza joint making 25 bucks a week for 3 days work.
By the time he met my mom, got married and I was born he was working various jobs at factories throughout the city…[until] he began working for New York City MTA in May 1981.
Ed García Conde, Welcome2theBronx.
EL APAGON| THE BLACKOUT SYNOPSIS: While riding the NYC subway uptown towards El Barrio, eager to witness the birth of his firstborn, a factory worker and his best friend are caught by the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965. The play captures the innocence, good humor, and courage of its two protagonists, setting their adventure to the rhythms of classic Latin love songs of the 1950s and 60s.
Limited Engagement: Only 12 performances! October 1-12, 2014
Nights – Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays @ 8:00 PM
Matinees – Wednesdays at 1:30PM, Saturdays and Sundays @ 3:00 PM
Performed in English & Spanish with titles. Live music!
<<Click here for Advance Discount Tickets>>
Performances will take place at
Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
304 West, 47th Street,
(47th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues)
Manhattan, NYC, 10036
Pregones Al Día, Volume 16, Issue no. 9, 09-30-2014
Pregones Theater, 571-575 Walton Avenue, The Bronx, N.Y. 10451
Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, 304 W 47th St., New York, N.Y. 10036
For more information about our programs please call: 718-585-1202
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Sonia Cheng – New World Hotels
Because my formal education and early career centered around the hospitality business, I am very interested in mindset changes the hospitality industry makes in response to common sense. Since the changes in a culture's etiquette come from the youth, this 29 year old hotel company heiress' ideas about what proper hospitality is in today's business traveler's eyes influences how Chinese business society looks at practical practices of hospitality.
As published in the Wall Street Journal Asia Scene
November 16, 2010, 1:28 PM HKT
By Amy Ma
New World Hotels /Sonia Cheng
Sonia Cheng is no Paris Hilton. The 29-year-old granddaughter of New World Hospitality founder Cheng Yu-tung is a tough-talking Harvard-grad.
Even so, she has her work cut out for her.
As the newly named executive vice chairman of New World Hotels, Ms. Cheng will manage a $1.1 billion expansion plan in greater China: "We will do whatever it takes to be competitive within the markets we enter," she says, noting that the company's goal is to develop 40 hotel properties in China over the next five years – 20 are already in the pipeline. The unit of New World China Land Ltd., which was relaunched recently as New World Hospitality (from New World Hotel Management, Ltd.), currently owns eight properties in China.
Ms. Cheng is not one to forget about tradition, but there are old-school things about luxury hotels she won't miss, as well as some new-school trends she thinks won't last. Read about her pet peeves below and take the poll: Do you agree?
1. Too much service (in the wrong places): Bellboy service these days, says Ms. Cheng, is often more disruptive than it is helpful. "When it comes to the business traveler with one carry-on suitcase, is it really necessary to make them wait in the room while a bell boy brings up the luggage separately?" she asks.
2. Too little service (when you want it): "During check-out, why can't the reservationist get me a car to the airport? Why do I have to walk over to concierge to arrange this?" she asks. The traditional system of labor division in hotels translates to a less seamless experience for customers.
3. Over-the-top design: "We're taught to not judge a book by its cover, but with hotels, why are people so easily sold by design?" she asks. In her opinion, design-centric hotels run the risk of becoming gimmicky, and cutting corners in service. Sooner or later, she hopes, guests will learn to look beneath the surface.
4. Bed covers: Whenever she checks into a hotel, Ms. Cheng says the first thing she does is pull off the bed cover. "Who knows how often they wash it?" she says. "What's wrong with a simple clean, white bed sheet? Do we need a heavy and useless bed cover to represent luxury?"
5. Too much technology: Ms. Cheng isn't happy about how the iPad has infiltrated its way into many services at other hotels, from checking in to ordering room service. "Since when did a normal room-service menu become insufficient?" asks Ms. Cheng. She owns one at home, but she says that in hotels, the iPad and other gadgets — such as rooms with automated air conditioners and light switches — sometimes end up creating more problems than they solve.
"Of course," she adds, "you can't change it overnight." But for Ms. Cheng, the sooner, the better.
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Q: How to build a docker image with Stack Haskell? I am using Stack to build my Haskell project and would like to build a docker image from it.
I've found that Stack supports Docker integration, but as I tried it does not build for me ready to use docker image from my project.
The statement stack docker pull, that describes in the section https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/docker_integration/#use-stack-as-normal, it downloads the Haskell compiler
REPOSITORY                     TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
golang                         1.12.9              669220934599        3 months ago        814MB
kindest/node                   v1.15.3             8ca0c8463ebe        4 months ago        1.45GB
fpco/stack-build               lts-14.17           9adc774bb5e5        4 months ago        8.52GB
gcr.io/kuar-demo/kuard-amd64   blue

1db936caa6ac        8 months ago        23MB

but it does not build an image.
The question is, how to build a docker image from my haskell project with Stack.

A: I believe that the purpose of the Stack Docker integration is simply to perform builds within the container, not necessarily to produce a container. I would recommend using the official Haskell Docker image and a Dockerfile to build the image instead.

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История

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Movie theaters are not making money on movies, they are making money on food.
On Tuesday, AMC Entertainment reported fourth quarter adjusted earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street estimates.
But admissions revenue, or money paid for movie tickets, actually declined 4.5% over the prior year as both ticket prices and attendance fell. And in a statement, AMC CEO Gerry Lopez admitted that the movies released during the quarter weren't all that great, calling it a "lackluster film slate."
So where did the company make money? Food.
During the fourth quarter, AMC reported concessions revenue rose 8.8% over the prior year to $215.3 million as average spending per customer rose 13.5% to $4.46.
Concessions were very strong: Even excluding the impact of a $5mn tax refund (aiding sales which are inclusive of tax), concessions were +10.9% with no margin erosion. The increase per patron (+$0.40/excluding tax) came from both new initiatives (+$0.25), ranging from the dine-in-theaters to bars to self-serve options while (+$0.16) came from a move to price excluding tax, similar to standard retail, allowing for price increases. For some sense of magnitude, the addition of a bar increases concession/patron at a venue by $0.35 alone. The result is that we anticipate a $0.40/patron concession increase for the first three quarters of 2015 based on these trends. With no increase to attendance estimates, this concession increase adds $50mn in EBITDA to our estimates.
Now, the question is whether this increased spending is being aided — getting what economists call a "tailwind" — from the decline in gas prices, as spending at movie heathers is right in the wheelhouse of the kinds of discretionary consumer spending economists expect to increase when the price of gas tumbles like it has over the last several months.
On AMC's conference call, Citi analyst Jason Bazinet asked if the company has seen increased spending due to the decline in gas prices, and AMC CEO Gerry Lopez responded saying, "I have honestly not thought about it in the context of what's been happening at the gas pump."
In talking about the strength of the current quarter, Lopez said that right now, it's about the big movies that are currently in theaters: American Sniper, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, and of course, Fifty Shades of Grey.
Lopez also noted that the strength of these movies helps the theaters because there is limited overlap in the target audiences.


for the same types of subsidies Marostica was seeking in his own failed bid to buy the same property.
the city's then "partner" CAMT (Colorado Association of Manufacturing & Technology) to develop an ACE Project.
C&W, the new owner of the property seeking similar subsidies again.
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By December of 2011 the City of Loveland concluded negotiations to sell C&W the old Agilent campus on Taft Ave.
leasing agent to find tenants for the some 800,000 sq. ft. of vacant space.
already contributed considerable hours to assisting C&W without any success.
and Creativity not only in Colorado but in the United States. "
be working for pecuniary reasons instead of charitable ones without violating the group's non-profit status.
States" is a lofty one given the city's proposed modest investment and previous track record with CAMT.
and supplies is estimated at $750,000 over the next five years and will be paid by the city's general operating fund.
Curiously, 50% of Hale's current salary is paid by city utility customers instead of out of the city's general fund.
40,000 square feet of space which is approximately 50% of an average building on the old Agilent campus.
leasing space and hiring a director but was unsuccessful.
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In the history of consumer products the history of video games is a relatively short one. But it has had a significant impact on how people play games especially X generation and millennial children. Nowadays many people who are interested in video games aren't children at all and the fastest growing segment has actually been adults. Let's have a look at the brief history of landmark video games and video consoles to trace the roots of this large industry.
It all started with a German engineer named Ralph Baer. He created a console called "brown box" in 1967 that had a chasing game where you could chase each other's dots on the screen. This was later turned into the first mass market console known as "The Oddyssy" which sold over 300,000 units including a light gun game. PONG actually came out later and was originally played in the arcade game format. The original first person shooter was called "Maze Wars" and came out in 1972.
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P.S. If you buy these, make sure you get a size smaller because they stretch. I'm wearing an XS.
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Those are the hottest damn sweat pants I've ever seen! The girl that said anything to the effect of boycotting sweats is a total snob. You look unbelievably stylish and chic. I might just pop over to Nords for a pair of my own.
Now on a side note, I know you get asked this probably more than you care to, and you know I am an avid reader of your blog so I have seen your answer, but…… How do you keep your abs so flat!? I know you keep up on your cardio, but do you do a million sit ups too, I desperately need to flatten my abs lol!
those pants are nice! i just might have to get a pair. you look gorgeous!
Love the whole look! Very chic. Putting my velour sweats to shame.
HAHA! This post cracked me up! I totally agree with you on the sweatpants though, love mine with converses and a cool leather jacket :). Also I think it helps that these are Leith! I just got a pencil skirt from them and it fits gloriously.
PS – You are rockin that lil bod!
You have such an amazing body! Love those high waisted sweats, they are so chic and cool!


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(Zea Mays L.) Crop Performance.
Abstract: Application of organic mulching is soil management practice that seeks to improve soil moisture conservation, increase soil fertility and improve crop production. The study was carried out to quantify the effect of different organic mulches on some soil properties at three crop stages and maize production under coastal savanna condition. Four treatments of mulch; maize stover (MS), dry grass straw (GS), palm frond (PF) mulches at 3 Mg ha-1 each and no-mulch (NM) (control) with three replications were laid out in a complete randomized block design. After two consecutive cropping seasons, different organic mulches had no significant effect on the examined soil properties at the seed emergence stage. However, at both tasseling and harvest stages, the differences of bulk density, total porosity, organic carbon content and macro-nutrients (NPK) among the treatments were significant and were in the order of GS > MS > PF > NM. The germination rate was in the order of NM (91.0%) > MS (89.9%) > GS (87.9%) > PF (86.8%). The effect of mulches on both the plant height and the LAI was in the order of GS > MS > PF > NM. The increase in grain yield over the control were GS= 23 %, MS= 16 % and PF =15 % while that of the WUE relative to the control were 155 %, 122 % and 58 % for GS, MS and PF respectively. Dry grass mulch could be used to improve soil properties and achieve higher maize production in the study area.
Abstract: Microgreens are considered as an emerging superfood, which are young seedlings of vegetables and herbs, produced in seven to fourteen days. Known as "vegetable confetti", they gained popularity in upscale restaurants. But microgreens' nutritional value is only starting to be identified through scientific research. Microgreens are nutrient-dense and make a healthy addition to salads, sandwiches, dishes, and other portable food solutions. According to some recent studies, vitamin and mineral levels can exceed full grown vegetables by more than forty times, requiring less water and energy throughout the process. This case study is about a company called Greenbelt Microgreens, based in Hamilton, Canada. Greenbelt Microgreens grows, harvests and distributes certified organic microgreens. The aim of the case study is to better understand the model and how it could be expanded beyond the region by capitalizing on a growing trend of local, organically grown food products. The case presents how microgreens are positioned in the marketplace. It also describes the company itself, its challenges and a discussion on specific, strategic elements to consider.


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By Abigail Keel & Ryan Famuliner • Oct 20, 2014
For the past year, KBIA has been working on a special long-form story about a place in Northeast Missouri called Heartland. It's a story with threads of religion, law, business, and morality that all end in a knot, in the middle of a cornfield.
To download the full audio for offline listening, please click here.
"I don't know if you felt anything when you drove in, but you just feel the peace as soon as you drive in."
Credit Abigail Keel / KBIA
You're driving down a country road, whipping over small hills passing trucks and mailboxes for houses far off the road. Corn and soybeans are a few feet away from the shoulder. In the distance, you can see a water tower. It's white, and the closer it becomes, the more clearly the white cross on top stands out. And then there's another road. This one is perfectly straight and smoothly paved. It leads towards the water tower through what seems like days of tall, bronze corn. There's a sign that says: Welcome to Heartland.
Heartland is an intentional Christian community, designed after Psalm 107, where God leads the broken to a city of holiness. Charles Sharpe founded Heartland Community Church on the land, which belonged to his family, in 1995. Since then, it has grown into a neighborhood and series of businesses for those who live there.
Heartland isn't technically its own town, though many of its residents would call it that. It's located about 85 miles northeast of Columbia, between Kirksville and Hannibal. The closest municipalities are Bethel, Mo. (population 122) and Newark, Mo (population 94). Heartland is a lot bigger.
"I think there's about 500 people on the payroll," said Brenda Potts, official tour guide for Heartland ministries. "It's spread out over three counties," she told KBIA reporters in June 2013, when KBIA visited the Heartland complex.
So what do 500 people have to do in the middle of a cornfield? Well, a lot actually. Sharpe runs a construction company at Heartland, which builds all the houses for residents to live in. They are suburban homes, with lawns maintained by Heartland staff, a stone's throw from the nearby businesses also owned by Sharpe.
There's a laundromat called Cleansing Waters, a telecommunication company, a general store and gas station, two restaurants, a small private bible college, Salt and Light candle company, Scribbles and Scribes design company, a thrift store, an exotic animal zoo, a runway for Sharpe's two jets, an auto body shop, and a medical center. All of this is open to the public, and available for tours all year round.
Perhaps the biggest employer on the Heartland campus is Sharpe Land & Cattle, which runs the Heartland Creamery. The cattle operation is one of the largest operations in Missouri and the creamery makes cheese sold across the United States. Hyvee and Schnucks carry the Heartland brand of eggs, milk, and cheese, fixed with the heartland water tower logo. Their silver trucks say "Jesus is the Answer" and travel highways like 63, I-70 and I-44.
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But the point of Heartland isn't the businesses. Potts says Heartland was started for "helping people to give a fresh start in life and teach skills."
"Mainly," she said, "it's to get into [a] relationship with Jesus Christ, who is the center hub of Heartland. That's our goal."
And Heartland's proponents say it works. Potts said her family was struggling to make ends meet. She heard about Heartland and came to visit with her husband and children. She said they felt at home at Heartland.
"I don't know if you felt anything when you drove in," she said, "but you just feel the peace as soon as you drive in." Now she lives at Heartland with her family. She gives tours and her husband works on the cattle farm. She said he's even taken advantage of some of Heartland's recovery programs to get a better foundation with Jesus.
Heartland Community Church follows a pretty straightforward branch of Evangelical Christianity. The church's website calls is a "New Testament Church," meaning they emphasize the teachings of Jesus Christ. The church broadcasts sermons on local television stations, and sends young people around the world on mission trips every year.
Some people hear about Heartland through their churches. Many are referred by friends who already live there or know Sharpe through his companies. Some people find Heartland by going on a tour. Potts said she gives tours to hundreds of people a year, many of them church groups, and the annual open house event attracts thousands over the Fourth of July.
Once you find your way to Heartland, there's little reason to leave—living expenses are automatically docked from pay, so employees don't pay out of pocket for housing. Many of them are young, and start their adult lives with the support of Heartland.
Some important people in the region know about Heartland, too. Peter Kinder, Missouri's Lieutenant Governor tweeted in 2012 about his visit to Heartland. John Ashcroft, the former Governor of Missouri and former US Attorney General spoke at the Heartland Christian College fundraiser in 2013. Ashcroft is also a longtime friend of Charles Sharpe and even wrote the forward to Sharpe's autobiography, Turning Points.
So even though it's nestled in a very rural area in northeast Missouri, Heartland isn't a secret. In fact, people find Heartland from all over the United States, and then some of them send their children there.
"I had friends that just couldn't handle it and they would run through the cornfields to try to get out...they wanted to get out so bad"
Spare the Rod
Heartland Christian Academy is a private religious school that opened in 1996. It has a K through 12 Christian curriculum and currently has more than 200 students. The school backs up to the suburban style homes on the complex and looks out over a baseball field.
Some students at HCA live at Heartland with their families, some come daily from nearby small towns, and others are boarders, dropped off by their parents for the "youth program" a rehabilitation track for "wayward teens." These children can come from as far away as the East Coast, and some even hail from other countries, adopted by people in the U.S. and eventually sent to Heartland.
The youth program is not a new concept, especially in Missouri which is home to somewhere between 6 to 12 Christian youth programs and camps. Heartland's website says this about the academy: "If you desire a school for your children where God is honored, the Bible is revered as the standard for life, and excellence is pursued, consider Heartland Christian Academy."
And plenty of people agree. As a teen, Sarah Barton said she was pretty out of control. She ran away, skipped school, slept in parks. But Heartland, she said, saved her.
Heartland Christian Academy
"Of course Jesus is the forefront of everything," Barton said about her education at HCA.
"Without him and salvation, I don't even know what Heartland had to offer besides Jesus. He is the answer to all things. He saved me, he restored my family. He gave me opportunity."
Barton is not alone. Plenty of other former students at Heartland said they felt the stability and structure put them on the right path. But while the strictness works for some, others say it crosses a line.
Heartland Christian Academy openly uses corporal punishment. In Missouri, it's legal for schools to use physical punishment as long as parents know the school's policy. And Heartland doesn't hide its philosophy – it's easily found in the online application. Besides, it's in Proverbs: "Whoever spares the rod hates their children"
"Of course Jesus is the forefront of everything"
Many people at Heartland are proud former students who still live and work on the campus. But some former students no longer live at Heartland, and were not as comfortable with the school's policies.
Leah Devost-Scribner lives in Alaska now with her husband and children. She was a student at Heartland between 2003 and 2005 when she was in her teens. Her parents sent her there from their home in New Hampshire, she said, to gain a closer relationship with Jesus. Devost-Scribner said Heartland's policies felt like abuse to her.
"I know most people wouldn't say corporal punishment is abuse, she said, "but we would get swats from men in their 30's… and they used, the big paddles that had holes in them so when they would swat you it would leave welts."
"They would do it for nothing at all," Devost-Scribner said. "Like girls I know wouldn't maybe, didn't pass a test that they took and they would give them swats for it."
Leah Devost-Scribner, today
Credit Leah Devost-Scribner
Maiah Swanson was adopted from Bulgaria and lived in Wisconsin. She said her parents had trouble with the adjustment and sent her to Heartland with her brothers in 2001 when she was 9 years old. She lived there for 7 years, and like Devost-Scribner, she said the punishments went too far.
"Let's say you had a chore to wash the table and you didn't do it correctly," Swanson said. "You would get some form of consequence.. And it could be consisting of writing scripture, they believe in giving swats... it could be anything."
Heartland staff said it's their policy to never give more than 10 swats per student per day. But Swanson and Devost-Scribner said they knew students at Heartland who were given the maximum ten swats everyday for weeks. Both recalled experiences with discipline at HCA that led to medical treatment.
"I don't know exactly what I did wrong," Swanson said. "But I received 15 I think within 10 minutes. They went too far."
Swanson said she saw the doctor at Heartland and was picked up by her mother. She also received treatment for her injuries once back at home in Wisconsin.
Boy and girl students are kept completely separate at HCA, only mingling in church, where they sit on opposite sides of the sanctuary. Devost-Scribner said she got in trouble for trying to pass a note to the boys, and was asked to bend over at the waist with her hands holding the edge of a chair and be swatted as punishment.
"The guy hit me so hard that I fell forward and moved my shoulder weird," she said. "It dislocated, popped right out of place, and for the next few days…my whole arm, there was just so much pain, and it was just swollen." Devost-Scribner said she visited a doctor in her hometown over a break. She said the doctor advised that she not be given swats until her arm healed, but Heartland's staff did not heed the warning. When her parents discovered this, she said they took her out of Heartland.
"The guy hit me so hard that I fell forward and moved my shoulder weird... It dislocated, popped right out of place."
And it is not just physical. Heartland openly uses a variety of techniques to keep children in line. Swanson, Devost-Scribner and others described prison-style, orange jumpsuits that students must wear when they've broken a rule. Staff said it helps them spot children attempting to run away after getting in trouble. Swanson said there was a dress called the "ugly dress" that female students would wear when in trouble as humiliation. She also said they had signs that students had to wear which designated that they could not speak unless directed to by staff.
"And I'm talking about not you just can't talk for an hour," Swanson said. "Sometimes there were, I've seen girls that couldn't talk for months."
It's also Heartland policy to take students off of any medications when they arrive. Staff said the policy is strict, and some parent's won't send their children to Heartland because of it.
"What they say is 'Well God will heal you, you don't need medication,'" Swanson said.
The Missouri Department of Social Services lists isolation and spanking, as behaviors that could cross the boundary into abuse or neglect. It also includes emotional abuse in its definition of abuse. Swanson and Devost-Scribner say that while they were there, students were also isolated, denied meals, and verbally abused. Heartland monitors student's phone calls and mail. They can't have cell phones.
Devost-Scribner said the years she spent at Heartland made a lasting impact. She said she remembered being desperate, and considered running away. While she never tried, she said her friends did.
"I had friends that just couldn't handle it.," she said. "And they would run through the cornfields to try to get out and .. I would just remember them coming back and …from running through the corn, they would just be like completely like scraped up and just horrible. That they wanted to get out so bad that they would go through that much trouble of running through that."
"But all of those problems would be solved if we just knew God."
Charles Sharpe
Credit Ryan Famuliner / KBIA
The Man Behind It All
Charles N. Sharpe, or Pastor Charlie as manly affectionately call him, is nothing if not charismatic. His golden skin makes his white teeth glow whiter, and his hair combed neatly shines with the same hue. His cadence is slow, with a country drawl, but he speaks with so much punch it's impossible not to fall silent when he begins a story. And boy does he tell stories. Every question is answered with an anecdote in perfect pastor fashion. He brings his animates his own life story with characters good and bad.
Charles Sharpe founded Ozark National Life Insurance company in Kansas City, Missouri in 1964. He's made millions of dollars since then and remains President of the company at 87 years old. He also owns CNS Corporation and Sharpe Holdings, both of which own companies on the Heartland campus.
He may have made his millions in insurance, but his heart undoubtedly lies with Heartland, which is why he is so willing to respond to criticism. Heartland has gathered plenty over the years.
Sharpe remains adamant, "We have no abuse here. We have zero tolerance."
He defends Heartland's approach to discipline and calls it old-fashioned.
"Bottoms," he said, "A lot of people think they are just to be sat on. They're for spanking." Sharpe said he has even taken spankings in front of children to punish them.
"Now that usually is as hard on them," he said, "or harder on them, than when you give them swats."
But he also said that Heartland doesn't hit students as a first line of punishment.
"It's not the way," he said. "It's a way. Sometimes kids you can't get to them any other way so you got to try everything. We try everything. Spanking is the last resort but when it comes down to that, if you can't get kids to do what you tell them…what would you do?"
Sharpe believes that children with serious behavior issues respond to pain. He said being strict is an important part of how Heartland runs.
"You have to run the place like this with an absolute tough hand," he said, "or you won't make it.
He tells a story that everyone at Heartland knows about driving along a country road and hearing the voice of God. There's a mural of it in the school, with a yellow glow radiating from Sharpe's face as he pictures what Heartland looks like today.
"The Lord said to me," he said, "Now you can hear me. It's me, I'm talking to you. I want you to build a place for kids."
Sharpe's mission at Heartland is to provide the kind of instruction that he believes will put youth on the right path, and to combat the problems he sees with how society deals with children today.
"Why do you think today our juvenile places are packed?," he said. "Kids are wonderful. They just don't have anybody to raise them. They don't have anybody to teach them."
"But all of those problems would be solved if we just knew God," said Sharpe.
"Nobody will hire a person because he's been in prison. Those are the very people we want."
Erich Wilson, in the hospital, before coming to Heartland
Erich Wilson is husband and father who works in Heartland's dairy. He wears a shirt with his name stitched on the chest, and has a warm, open candor. He's been there for a few years and likes the support the Heartland community gives him.
Before Heartland, Wilson struggled with drugs and alcohol. He couldn't be the father and husband he said he wanted to be. He tried a number of different rehabilitation programs to deal with the meth, pain pills, and alcohol that he said had become his coping mechanisms. After relapsing, he said he felt hopeless.
"It's embarrassing and makes you feel weak as a person," he said. "I did try to kill myself after the second rehab. I slit my throat, 200 stitches in my throat. It was pretty much the lowest point because it was hopeless when I thought that I'm not going to be able to beat this."
Then he found Heartland's Recovery Program. It is a private, religious program that helps rehabilitate over 100 men at a time who have issues ranging from alcohol and drug addiction to serious crimes and stints in prison. There is a women's branch of the program, as well that is located on a different part of the Heartland complex.
Most of the men in the recovery program work for Heartland's huge cattle and dairy operation as part of their treatment. The program is 18 months long, longer than many rehab options, and the men live and work about 10 miles away from the main campus, technically in a different county.
For Wilson, the intensity of the program helped keep him on track.
"Number one is God.," he said. "It's a faith-based program. Number two, it makes you live a year and a half sober. It's the time."
Erich Wilson, three years after arriving at Heartland
Now he is one of Heartland's successful testimonies. He stuck around Heartland after the program for the job security and was later joined by his family. His story isn't uncommon around Heartland.
Sharpe said that Heartland brings out the potential in people like Wilson, who society has deemed broken.
"Nobody will hire a person because he has been in prison," Sharpe said. "Those are the very people we want. Once we rebuild them, they really make great citizens, great people. All of our people have been in prison, or almost all of them."
Some of the men who graduate from Recovery move back to the main Heartland complex, and find jobs there or remain in the Dairy. But some move into supervisory roles in the program, where they become responsible for leading others through recovery. Many of the men in the program have committed serious crimes—sometimes as serious as sex offenses—and then stick around Heartland and the vulnerable population it serves. But Sharpe and those who run the recovery program say that growing to the point of being able to help others shows real change of character. Wilson agreed and said he appreciated the chance to share his story with others battling the same demons.
"They are the ones who run this place.," Sharpe said about the Recovery graduates. "They are in charge and we trust them. We are let down occasionally. But how many times have been let down by people who haven't been in prison?"
But not everyone agrees. Matt Franck, deputy metro editor for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, wrote a series of articles about Missouri teen reform programs, including Heartland, in the early 2000's. He said that having the men from the recovery program continue to live at Heartland and in some cases interact with students is likely to lead to problem.
"It has been my experience that when there is a problem with any kind of institution," he said, "any type of group home with youth, that it's typically your worst employee that causes you problems."
Sharpe said Heartland does undeniable good in changing people's lives. That's why he said he's invested $140 million dollars over the years in building and maintaining Heartland.
"We didn't start this place to spend our fortune to do something wrong," he said.
Sharpe said he spends about $5 million every year to keep it operating and called it an "economic black hole."
But Sharpe sees Heartland as filling an important void. Frankly, he said, what the state is doing to help troubled youth and people who need rehabilitation is not working. And those who say he's running some sort of scam with his program baffle Sharpe.
"I don't care what the people say," he said. "It doesn't mean a thing to me." Sharpe is not pleased with the coverage and attention that Heartland has received over the years. Publications from People Magazine to online bloggers have given Heartland less than glowing reviews.
"Here's the part that is the biggest shock to me of all," he said. "People already determined that we had some kind of ulterior motive."
And he is not being paranoid. There was a period of time when he and Heartland were getting a lot of attention from the state.
"They were definitely out to get us."
Heartland vs. The State of Missouri
In the late 1990s, a few things about Heartland started stacking up in state offices. There were a number of environmental lawsuits handled by then-attorney general Jay Nixon's office, which in one case cost Sharpe's company $110 thousand. Sharpe Land & Cattle, on Heartland grounds, was fined for improperly disposing wastewater.
And then there was a hotline call about Heartland that launched an investigation into child abuse claims.
"They were definitely out to get us," said Sharpe. "There was no question the state wanted to take the place over. We run this place like a place should be run and they just hate it because they don't' have any success and we have a lot of success."
In 2001 criminal charges were filed against five adults at Heartland for what court documents describe as the "manure pit incident." Students were made to shovel, and by some accounts, stand in cow manure as punishment. A jury in Northeast Missouri acquitted three of the staff members, saying the punishment seemed more like farm work and less like abuse. Charges were dropped against the other two staff. But as rumors of abuse grew, so did concern from the state.
Maiah Swanson was one of the students removed from Heartland by the state in the raid, and later returned.
"October 30th is when the juvenile officers, I don't know how many, but there were way too many that came unexpectedly and, went in and took 115 students out," said Swanson. "For me, I mean I was 9 years old, it was very chaotic."
Children screaming. That is what raises hairs in the footage staff at Heartland shot the day of the raid. The video shows state officers escorting children out of the school and loading them onto school buses. Students are yelling and resisting, and staff members seem helpless.
A child is loaded onto a school bus during the 2001 raid.
"This is child abuse!" one of them screamed at an officer placing a child on a bus. "Take your hands off of her!"
All this happened on October 30th, 2001. The state removed 115 students from Heartland Christian Academy after the investigation into the child abuse claims. All but 3 of the students ended up back at Heartland after their parents returned them. Children become custody of the state in a raid, but legally, the Heartland students were still in their parent's custody.
Sharpe began a legal battle that lasted more than 3 years which he says cost him $6 million to win.
Basically, parents and Sharpe filed numerous lawsuits making the case that the state acted rashly and harmfully by removing students from Heartland.
They sued the State of Missouri, departments involved in the raid, like Social Services, and even some individuals working on behalf of the Youth Services Department. These individuals were Juvenile Officers, special agents who work with young people involved in legal issues with the state. Their involvement is part of what makes the Heartland case special.
"This is the kind of work you sort of hope people are passionate about."
Clark Peters is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri School of Social Work. He said the role of Juvenile Officers in Missouri is distinctive and complicated.
"I think one of the important takeaways involved, touches on the juvenile officer," he said. "And how critical that role is, how complicated, how fraught it is, and how challenging it must be to fulfill that role."
Peters said Missouri is one of few states who have these positions, agents somewhere between the legislative and executive branches. They are one of few constants in juvenile court, where many other lawyers and judges are rookies or on a rotation.
In the Heartland case, it was the Juvenile Officers, specifically one man named Mike Waddle, who were in charge of making the call. Waddle and a team of other Juvenile Officers conducted interviews with students at Heartland before the raid, but they said as the investigation got serious, they thought conversations with Heartland were strained. They felt there was evidence of child abuse worthy of action, and thought a raid was their best option. Heartland did not.
Peters said it is hard to navigate "how to constrain the authority of the JO while still allowing the discretion that they need to do their job well."
"This is not easy work," he said. "The juvenile officer has to make very hard decisions and often the best decision is simply the least bad among bad choices."
Heartland sued Mike Waddle in civil court over the raid. He represented himself. There were appeals, but eventually Heartland won $800,000 in legal fees and Judge E. Richard Webber signed an injunction barring the state from removing any child from Heartland without having solid proof the child is being abused or is in imminent danger of abuse.
This ruling essentially set a very high bar for the state to meet if it wants to get involved at Heartland.
"This is the kind of work that you sort of hope people are passionate about.," said Peters. "I don't know how you can be dispassionate about caring for children."
Passionate or not, legally, Waddle and his team made the wrong call. He didn't have the evidence to prompt the actions the state took.
"In a very important way, it was harmful for those children to be removed," said Peters. "It was harmful to do it the way they did, suddenly without preparation."
Mike Waddle did not want to be interviewed on tape for this story because he said thinking about the case takes too much out of him. He no longer works for the Youth Services Department, and not only that—he says he lost his faith in a system he defended, Missouri's juvenile justice system. Waddle says the personal toll of discussing it brings up things it's taken him 10 years to try and forget.
"You're talking about the state not only intruding on someone's family but also on someone's right to practice their religion."
Separation of Church and State?
In Charles Sharpe's legendary story, God spoke to him and asked him to build Heartland. He said he was driving out on what is now the Heartland complex when he heard divine instructions. He grew up on the same land, it belonged to his parents. There's a memorial to them listed as one of Heartland's attractions on its website.
But this land, sitting on three county lines and filled in with corn isn't just special because of its history to Sharpe, it's special because of where it lies. Missouri.
Many of our sources said Missouri is likely one of the only places Heartland could operate because of its specific set of laws and its political climate.
Missouri requires most childcare facilities, residential care facilities, and schools to be - at minimum - inspected for health and safety. This means there are minimum requirements facilities must meet, and they can exceed them if they choose to become licensed or accredited by the state. Any facility that receives public funding must meet those requirements. None of these regulations applies to Heartland.
"There is an exemption granted for religion--religiously oriented programs," said Cande Iveson, a social work professor at the University of Missouri. "And the thinking there is that, the state should not interfere with something that's religious based."
Religiously oriented facilities, like Heartland, can claim a religious exemption from state inspection and licensing. And facilities do not have to register with the state in order to make their claims.
Many organizations that use this exemption are small day care operations run by churches. Religious organizations can choose to pursue licensing and even accreditation, and many do. Childcare facilities generally want parents to know they have met state safety standards.
Matt Franck of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said for facilities using the exemption, "if you believe that you have this faith exemption as a facility, that's good enough. You don't have to apply to verify that that's the case."
This legal exemption is one part of a series of laws that make Missouri special. Corporal punishment in schools is only legal in 19 states, including Missouri. While multiple states, like Florida and California, have some religious exemptions to licensure, Missouri's regulations are some of the most lax in the nation.
"Missouri has long attracted teen reform ministries of this sort because they're totally unregulated due to the faith exemption," said Franck.
Teen reform camps and ministries have even been known to move to Missouri when other states tighten restrictions. Franck said when he was reporting on teen reform in the early 2000s, he knew of six to a dozen facilities open in Missouri—ranging from cabins in the woods to professional-style operations like Heartland.
He also said the lack of regulations can escalate a problem a facility might deal with internally. Bad employees, for instance, go unchecked because there is no regulatory body, let alone codified standards.
"When you add to that the fact that these students are unable often to communicate with their parents without having their mail censored and have no open communication with the outside world," said Franck. "You create a situation in which a bad employee can take advantage of that situation."
But Cande Iveson said it's important to keep in mind just how complicated it is to write and change laws about child welfare and state involvement at private facilities. Those are tangled up in something very important, especially in Missouri: Religious Freedom.
"It's a fundamental values conflict for us," said Iveson.
Iveson said when you mix religion and children, the situation gets very sticky very fast. And Missouri's legislature does not often tackle sticky situations.
"You're talking about the state not only intruding on someone's family but also on someone's right to practice their religion," she said. "And it just is not going fly in the Missouri legislature."
When it comes down to it, this debate is basically about individual rights; one side promoting the rights of the parents, giving them more control to make choices for their families, the other side promoting the rights of the child, which in this case means making it easier for the state to get involved in family affairs.
"Missouri has long attracted teen reform ministries of this sort because they're totally unregulated due to the faith exemption."
Franck said even the Heartland case boils down to this conflict. The parents who sued the state felt like their rights to make choices for their children were infringed by the raid.
"They were upset because they felt like they were fully aware of what Charlie Sharpe was doing," said Franck. "They were informed about the activities their children were engaged in and had given consent for them to take place. And for the state to come in and remove them, bus them off and take them somewhere else, they felt was a violation."
The most recent time Missouri made significant changes to laws dealing with child welfare and regulations was 2004. Catherine Hanaway, who was speaker of the state house at the time, sponsored House Bill 1453, which has its own connection to Heartland.
It was nicknamed the Dominic James bill after a young boy who died at the hands of his foster father and prompted the overhaul. The bill pushed for national accreditation for the state and privatization of services, created a special executive office to deal with child welfare issues, and changed standards for foster parents.
It also changed the standard of proof for child abuse from probable cause to preponderance of evidence, which makes it more difficult to prove abuse or neglect. It didn't change licensing laws.
Governor Bob Holden vetoed the bill, but the Missouri legislature overrode it and it became law. Hanaway's political ascent continued from there. John Ashcroft later appointed her to the US Attorney General's office, and she is running for governor in 2016.
Another one of many political forces behind the bill was someone familiar.
"There's so few that can make the difference, John Ashcroft was one."
Chancellor Charles Sharpe, Laurie Sharpe, and Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Heartland Christian College, April 23, 2013
Credit Heartland Christian College
While Charles Sharpe is very critical of the state, and refuses to take any money from the state for Heartland's benefit, he's very interested in state politics
"If I find a guy that I think is conservative," he said. "A person who doesn't want to give away the country, if he takes a stance against abortion, and he stands for marriage between a man and a woman, I'll vote for you."
Sharpe has a well documented history building relationships with Missouri politicians. He's proud of supporting John Ashcroft.
"There's so few that can make the difference," Sharpe said. "John Ashcroft was one. He was the right guy."
"Charlie Shape has always been a key political donor," Franck said. "I'd consider him one of the more influential people in Jefferson City circles."
According to data from the Missouri Ethics Commission, Sharpe, his wife Laurie, their business associates and their corporations have donated just less than $1 million to political candidates and organizations since 2002.
CNS Corporation has registered lobbyists – one of whom is John C. (Woody) Cozad, formerly the Missouri state chairman for the GOP.
When the Dominic James case prompted Hanaway's bill, Sharpe and his lobbyists had a seat at the table for a piece of legislation that dealt so intently with childcare facilities and regulation.
A 2003 editorial by the St. Louis Post Dispatch said the Dominic James bill should have actually been called the Heartland Protection Act. At one point, a provision was inserted in the bill that would have made it impossible for the state to consider something abuse at unlicensed facilities like Heartland as long as it was part of the institution's policy. This meant that the only rules applying to private facilities would have been the rules they made up for themselves. The provision was eventually taken out.
Franck said the raid and the expensive legal aftermath have certainly had an influence over Missouri's lawmakers, making them less likely to want to get involved at private facilities.
"I'd consider him one of the more influential people in Jefferson City circles."
He also said the way he sees it, there could be some sort of compromise reached on minimal regulations, just to have a record of these facilities existing, and protecting their clients from bad-intentioned employees.
"I would like to see a conversation take place in the legislature that hasn't yet happened," he said, "which is really sitting down and comparing how Missouri compares to other states and looking at a track record of these facilities."
But Franck acknowledged, protecting religious freedom is sort of in Missouri's political bones, so it's unlikely there will be a push to change the laws that affect Heartland anytime soon.
"It's right close to hell."
The Heart of Heartland
Matt Franck said while he was reporting about Heartland and other facilities like it, he saw the need that helps them exist. He said he met some desperate parents who often times were not even religious, but just at the end of their rope.
"It's easy to judge those parents or to think that 'I'd never do that to my child,'" he said. "But I'd invite anybody to talk to those parents and when you do you will sympathize, I guarantee it, with the struggles that they go through."
Brenda Potts, the tour guide at Heartland said she did not know what her family would have done with Sharpe and Heartland.
"I don't know what a lot of people would have done," she said.
But Leah Devost-Scribner said she still thinks about Heartland and the students there today.
"He doesn't know the damage that he's done," she said about Sharpe. "I just hope he knows that he's done more damage than good."
Sharpe, though, said it's all about embracing a desire to change.
"I'm sure there are kids that come here that hadn't had great experience because they didn't want to change," he said. "It is a terrible place for people that don't' want to change. It's right close to hell. Because we want to show them what hell is gonna be like when they get there. If you don't' want to change, you don't want to come here."
There are people who said that their experiences at Heartland were close to hell. But there are plenty of others still living there today who see Heartland as paradise or refuge – a place that took them when nowhere else would.
The truth is, Heartland is neither heaven nor hell. It's a place that can help, and it can inflict lasting wounds.
Special thanks to Janet Saidi and Casey Morell for their reporting on this story.
Digital layout and mixing by Austin Federa
Music by Poddington Bear, and Uncle Woody Sullender and Seamus Cater
NOTE: In the original version of this story, we quoted Maiah Swanson as saying she was "in the hospital for 2 weeks," due to the injuries she sustained at Heartland. She later clarified that she was in and out of the hospital and doctors offices for that time period and was not admitted to the hospital for two weeks. We also originally said Swanson was adopted from Romania. She was in fact adopted from Bulgaria.
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KBIA Wins Five Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, Shares One
On April 23 the Radio and Television Digital News Association awarded KBIA five prestigious Edward R. Murrow awards for our work as a small-market radio station in region 5. These awards recognize "the best electronic journalism produced by radio, television and online news organizations around the world"
Bethel colony 150 years ago is a lot like Heartland today
By Jack Howard • Oct 21, 2014
Wendy Brumbaugh
Not so long ago, Charles Sharpe said God told him to build a Christian communal society in Shelby County. More than one hundred fifty years before, Wilhelm Keil said he came to the same place the same way.
Walter Kamphoefner said that conviction is why Kiel's colony survived when other organized communities failed. He studies 19th century German colonization of the West at Texas A&M.
"I mean there were a couple of organized groups that came in the 1830's but they ended up not being very successful, giving up their group organization very quickly. In fact, almost before arriving."


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How to Watch HBO Max in the UK
The Snyder Cut is almost upon us
Updated: Mar 10, 2021 6:20 pm
Posted: Feb 8, 2021 3:30 pm
Update: Sky has confirmed that Zack Snyder's Justice League will be airing on Sky Cinema and NOW TV in the UK. If you don't want to use a VPN to access HBO Max, then check out how to watch Zack Snyder's Justice League in the UK.
DC fans are eagerly anticipating the release of Zack Snyder's Justice League, a full-length HBO Max feature film, on March 18. If you're in the UK, one problem does immediately come to mind, we don't get HBO Max on this side of the pond. But, fear not, as there are a few workarounds that will allow you to watch the film.
Your first solution is a region unblocking VPN, most notably used to access alternate regions Netflix libraries. This will allow you to access a US server and create an HBO Max account. There are a few more steps, so here's our comprehensive guide on how to watch Zack Snyder's Justice League in the UK.
How to Unblock HBO Max in the UK
While US viewers can happily sign up for HBO Max and browse the impressive library of streamable content, those of us in the UK are currently missing out on the streaming service. Thankfully, we've found a workaround until HBO decides to bring some kind of version of the service to this side of the pond. This method will allow you to tune into every WB movie that's planned to launch on the service in 2021, including The Snyder Cut of Justice League, Dune, The Matrix 4, Godzilla vs. Kong, and The Suicide Squad.
Step 1 - Watch HBO Max with a VPN
In order to access HBO Max, UK viewers will have to download a viable VPN (virtual private network) which will allow users to browse the web using the IP address of another country. Once you've chosen your VPN, you'll next need to input your payment information.
Best VPNs to Unblock HBO Max in the UK
Step 2 - How to Pay for HBO Max
For the next step, you'll need to have the HBO Max app on your phone or tablet. This is easy enough to do once you're set up with a VPN.
Sign Up for HBO Max
Stream up to 3 devices with a single HBO Max subscription.
See on HBO Max
Follow These Steps
Launch your VPN on an iOS/Android device and connect to a US server
Create a new Apple ID or Google Play account, in your browser, that is tied to the US
Register the new account on your app store
Now you have access to the US app store, download the HBO Max app
Create a new account with your email address and password
Make sure to use PayPal as your payment method, this can be a UK account
After payment verification, you can then sign in from any device
Step 3 - Success
You should now have access to HBO Max on any device you choose to download or stream it on. You'll need to have your VPN activated on whichever device you're streaming on, every time, so make sure you pick a worthy service that you're comfortable with. HBO Max is $14.99/mo, so make sure to cancel the auto-renewal.
As is always the case when using a VPN to access content abroad, you'll be in violation of HBO Max's terms of use. This means the company could cancel your account at any time if it realises you're using a VPN. So, proceed at your own risk.
Get 22% Off 6 Months of HBO Max
Right now you can save 22% if you pre-pay for six months on HBO Max. If you've been waiting for a deal to subscribe, this is your best bet. The discount is available until March 1, so grab it by then if you want to save some cash.
In more Justice League news, Snyder may have just teased the brand new look for Jared Leto's Joker. Snyder has previously described the Joker's look for Justice League as "road-weary". We still don't know how the Joker will fit into the Snyder Cut of Justice League, but we do know that he's not the only character getting a new look, as Steppenwolf has also been pretty much totally redesigned.
Warner Bros. 2021 Movie Lineup
The movies stay on the service for 31 days, which means it's already too late to watch Wonder Woman 1984. But the serial killer thriller The Little Things arrives this month, and later this year you'll get movies like Dune, Mortal Kombat, The Matrix 4, and many more.
HBO Max Lineup
The Little Things - January 29
Judas and the Black Messiah - February 12
Tom & Jerry - February 26
Zack Snyder's Justice League - March 18
Godzilla vs. Kong - March 31
Mortal Kombat - April 16
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - June 4
In The Heights - June 18
Space Jam: A New Legacy - July 16
The Suicide Squad - August 6
Malignant - September 10
The Many Saints of Newark - September 24
Dune - October 1
Elvis - November 5
King Richard - November 19
Matrix 4 - December 22
Cry Macho - TBA
No Sudden Move - TBA
Reminiscence - TBA
Those Who Wish Me Dead - TBA


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Binge Drinking in Adolescence May Increase Risk for Anxiety Later in Life
Jim Liebelt | Senior Writer, Editor and Researcher for the HomeWord Center for Youth and Family at Azusa Pacific University | Thursday, March 14, 2019
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on MedicalXpress.
A growing body of evidence supports the idea that alcohol exposure early in life has lasting effects on the brain and increases the risk of psychological problems in adulthood. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have found that adolescent binge drinking, even if discontinued, increases the risk for anxiety later in life due to abnormal epigenetic programming. The findings of the study, which was conducted in animals, was published in the journal Biological Psychiatry.
"Binge drinking early in life modifies the brain and changes connectivity in the brain, especially in the amygdala, which is involved in emotional regulation and anxiety, in ways we don't totally understand yet," said Subhash Pandey, professor of psychiatry in the UIC College of Medicine, director of the UIC Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics and lead author of the study. "But what we do know is that epigenetic changes are lasting, and increase susceptibility to psychological issues later in life, even if drinking that took place early in life is stopped."
"Epigenetics" refers to chemical changes to DNA, RNA, or specific proteins associated with chromosomes that change the activity of genes without changing the genes themselves. Epigenetic alterations are required for the normal development of the brain, but they can be modified in response to environmental or even social factors, such as alcohol and stress. These kinds of epigenetic alterations have been linked to changes in behavior and disease.
Adolescent rats were exposed to ethanol (a type of alcohol) for two days on and two days off or to the same protocol using saline for 14 days. All rats underwent an assessment for anxiety.
Pandey and his colleagues exposed adolescent rats to a regimen designed to mimic binge drinking. Those rats exhibited anxious behavior later in life, even if the binge drinking regimen stopped in late adolescence and the rats were allowed to mature to adulthood without any further exposure to alcohol.
These rats also had lower levels of a protein called Arc in the amygdala. Arc is important for the normal development of synaptic connections in the brain. Rats with less Arc also had about 40 percent fewer neuronal connections in the amygdala compared with rats that weren't exposed to alcohol.
"We believe that the decrease in Arc levels is caused by epigenetic changes that alter the expression of Arc, and an enhancer RNA, which modifies the expression of Arc. These changes are caused by adolescent alcohol exposure," said Pandey.
Source: MedicalXpress
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-binge-adolescence-anxiety-life.html


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MacTech.com
Xplain Announces Macworld CreativePro Special Interest Pavilions
— Many companies new to Pavilions, and to Macworld
— Majority of companies expected to announce & show new products
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA — July 10, 2003 — Xplain Corporation, the leader in
pavilion management, announced today that the Special Interest Pavilions at
IDG World Expo's Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo, in New York (July
14-18, 2003), have several companies new to Macworld and have many products
new to the Macintosh. These special interest pavilions allow exhibitors to
target attendees interested in particular technology categories.
Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo is presented by IDG World Expo and
Apple. The upcoming Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo will take place
July 14-18, 2003 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.
Additional information about Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo is
available at (http://www.macworldexpo.com).
Special Interest Pavilions have long featured both up-and-coming companies,
as well as showcased technologies. These pavilions provide exhibiting
companies with a cost-effective, turnkey method to reach their target
audiences face-to-face without requiring a large staff or display. In turn,
attendees with particular interests can experience first-hand the very
latest Macintosh technology for specific market segments in a cohesive
"Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo is the premier Macintosh community
event on the East Coast. The special interest pavilions are a focal point
at the Expo for Macworld attendees seeking out technologies and solutions
in a specific market segment," said Neil Ticktin, CEO of Xplain
Corporation. "With a mission focused on serving the specific communities,
these pavilions have vendors of all types and sizes showcasing the best the
Mac has to offer."
The pavilions contain a number of new companies that have never exhibited
before at any Macworld event. Across the board, the majority of exhibitors
in the pavilions are announcing and showing new products on the first day
of the show. Attendees can stop by for more information.
The pavilions are located near the event's Official Store brought to you by
DevDepot. For more information on Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo,
see http://www.macworldexpo.com There are two primary Special Interest
Pavilions at Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo, 2003 in New York
defined as follows:
MacTech Central: Developer, Enterprise & Technical Products
The premiere place for the technical audience – see a showcase of the
latest developer applications and custom solutions for Mac OS, and get a
glimpse of what the future holds. See tools that provide powerful
interfaces – and help you build the solutions you need. From Mac OS X to
Xserve, see the amazing products build on Apple's technology. From
wide-ranging support for the network file services, to supporting every
major server platform in the market today, these are the technologies you
can leverage for your solutions. Add to it mobile computing, and of course,
Enterprise level networking, and the possibilities are endless.
Digital Media Pavilion
You'll find the most innovative companies, all exhibiting cutting-edge
applications and solutions for creating, editing, storing, and delivering
digital media content. Learn new ways to maximize your Mac through the
hottest products and the coolest desktop innovations.
About Xplain Corporation
Xplain Corporation has been managing pavilions around the world since 1994
including the very long running MacTech Central. For exhibitors wishing to
partake in future pavilions, contact mailto: pavilions@xplain.com or see
http://www.xplain.com/macworldexpo/
Xplain Corporation has three divisions — publishing, mail order and custom
services. The publishing division includes MacTech(r) Magazine, and THINK
Reference(tm). The mail order division operates DevDepot(r) and RadGad(sm).
Custom Services provides turnkey production services for publishers, and
tradeshow services including turnkey pavilions and on-site management.
Founded in 1984, the company has its offices in Westlake Village, CA. See
http://www.xplain.com for more information.
About IDG World Expo
IDG World Expo (http://www.idgworldexpo.com) produces technology-focused
tradeshows, conferences and events for professionals seeking world-class
education, peer-to-peer networking and one-stop comparison shopping. As the
leading technology event management company, IDG World Expo leverages its
experience and knowledge of technology-focused events and conferences,
enabling technology companies to capture the attention and loyalty of
influential buyers. IDG World Expo's portfolio of conferences and events
includes Macworld Conference & Expo(r), LinuxWorld Conference & Expo(r),
Bio-ITWorld Conference & Expo(tm), COMNET Conference & Expo(r), Integrated
Security Conference & Expo(tm), BiometricsWorld Global Series(tm)and
Portable Power Conference & Expo(tm). IDG World Expo is a business unit of
IDG, the world's leading technology media, research and event company.
About IDG
IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers and offers online
users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world
through IDG.net ( http://www.idg.net ), which comprises more than 330
targeted Web sites in 80 countries. IDG is also a leading producer of 168
computer-related events worldwide, and IDG's research company, IDC,
provides global market intelligence and advice through 51 offices in 43
countries. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com .
In "MacTech News"
Xplain to manage special interest pavilions for Macworld Expo
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Xplain Announces Expanded Special Interest Pavilions at Macworld
Categories: MacTech News, Uncategorized


In the realm of Nigerian Gospel music, TB1 is one of the most promising rappers. In his new single "God No Dey Lie", which features yummy vocals from Frank Edwards, and a more balladic, acoustic approach to the production, TB1 does his thing.
This is song is off da hook men!!!
to mr frank edwards, i love your music, but i jst wish dat oneday i will sing with you jst like others do cos i have the talent, the song and the voice.


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Weekly: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories 5/13/05
This week, we revisit some corrupt cops we've covered in the past as new developments unfold.
In Boston, fallout from the arrest and trial of former state narcotics officer Timothy White is now threatening to envelop other state narcotics officers, the Boston Herald reported. White is accused of stealing 27 pounds of cocaine and other drugs while assigned to the Narcotics Inspection Unit in 2002 and 2003. In testimony during his trial, the unit's former commander, Lt. Michael Kelly, said that he has been interviewed by state police investigators looking into the case, and the Herald reported that several other sources confirmed an internal affairs investigation of the unit is underway. The investigation will determine whether evidence handling and reporting procedures at the unit was so lax as to merit criminal charges for others, or whether it was merely sloppiness and incompetence. "It's going to be ugly," one source told the Herald. "They're waiting until White's trial is over," he said.
In Honolulu, police officer Harold Cabbab pled guilty May 5 to a one-count indictment charging him with possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Cabbab, a former local star athlete, was nabbed in a sting operation in December after conspiring with an acquaintance for more than a month to steal a shipment of drugs in hopes of making $100,000 each. Cabbab and his buddy, both wearing shirts emblazoned HPD, broke into a storage locker and stole what they believed to be 20 pounds of meth and eight pounds of cocaine. But unfortunately for Cabbab, his buddy was actually a snitch working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Cabbab faces a mandatory minimum 10-year prison sentence, but prosecutors said he would be eligible for the "safety valve" for first offenders if he cooperated fully in the case.
In Dallas, a special prosecutor released a long-awaited report on the Dallas "sheetrock" scandal Monday. In that scandal, Dallas Police narcotics officers working with crooked informants arrested dozens of people, mostly Mexican immigrants, on drug trafficking charges although the alleged drugs turned out to be gypsum, the stuff used to make sheetrock and pool cue chalk. Dallas district attorneys prosecuted them and Dallas judges sent them to prison in an assembly line fashion showing that justice really is blind. Former Dallas police officer Mark Delapaz has been sentenced to five years in prison for lying in the case, and three other police officers and six paid informants have also been indicted.
Monday's report by special prosecutor Jack Zimmerman accused prosecutors of cozying up to police, but said he found no evidence they intentionally prosecuted cases they knew were bad. He did find cases of "inexcusable neglect," such as a case where prosecutor Vanita Budhrani White received a lab report saying a drug seizure did not contain real drugs, but filed the report without reading it, then told defense attorneys the drugs in the case were real. Also, Zimmerman found, prosecutors developed an "us versus them" attitude toward defendants and defense attorneys. "Many prosecutors came to view all defendants accused of drug offenses as being guilty," Zimmermann said at a Monday news conference. "The prosecutors were skeptical of any claim of innocence or police wrongdoing." But Zimmerman also had choice words for some public defenders, whom he accused of inadequately representing their clients and even failing to file motions for dismissal when prosecutors had suggested they do so.


And now with more color!
That's the view out to the deck. Note Arya hiding under one of the chairs. Also please note the last traces of snow along the hedge way to the back of the yard. But wind chill and the words "wintry mix" are no longer in any long range weather reports so I think we're in the clear. I think by Saturday we'll actually see temperatures in the 70s which is a far cry from minus twenty-five.
The spring/summer birds are out in force. A host of robins descended upon the berries from our mountain ash. The cats ran them off a few times but I'm glad the tree got stripped. We have to make room for the new buds. The apple trees survived the winter but the verdict is still out on the honey berries. And I think we need a new tree in the backyard. Something to block out the view of that elephant our neighbors have (see photo above).
Now if it would just rain.
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Interview with former Hawaiʻi State Congressman and attorney, Anthony P. "Tony" Takitani recorded in his law offices in Wailuku, Maui on March 5,...
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In 1793 the famous explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the earliest known explorer and surveyor of Canada west of the Rocky Mountains, camped near what is now the municipality of Mackenzie. Our community reflects the spirit of adventure and discovery of its namesake. Fur traders, trappers, prospectors, squatters, missionaries and Hudson's Bay Company personnel traveled the region. The Kwadacha Nation, Tsay Keh Dene Band and McLeod Lake Indian Band are the First Nations people in our surrounding area.
As the damming of the Peace River would create a huge water reservoir, flooding out the tiny settlement of Finlay Forks and thousands of acres of prime forests, a frantic effort was made in the early 1960's to harvest the trees on the bottom lands of the Parsnip, Peace, Finlay and Omineca Rivers. Literally dozens of small sawmills and logging operations were involved, including the BC Forest Service, to clear the reservoir basin of what was to become known as Williston Lake.
The District of Mackenzie was virtually carved out of the wilderness in the mid 1960's to service large pulp and lumber manufacturing facilities. A new "instant" town was created. Roads were built - water systems, sewer systems, schools, a hospital, electrical power lines, houses—all infrastructure that most towns have years to develop, had to be erected immediately. In 1966, the District of Mackenzie was formally incorporated as a municipality.