Short Term Rental Agreements Clears Legislative Hurdle
AFP-UT applauds House Business and Labor Committee for preventing cities from preying on free-market
SALT LAKE CITY – Americans for Prosperity-Utah (AFP-UT), the state’s leading grassroots advocacy organization for free market reforms is applauding the House Business and Labor committee for passing HB 253 related to Short Term Rental Agreements. The vote was 13 - 1.
AFP-UT state director, Evelyn Everton released the following statement:
“Property rights are the foundation of a free society and HB 253 ensures that homeowners can use their property in a way that they see fit. Many families depend on the supplemental income that home sharing provides, and the government should not pose as a barrier to that economic benefit. We commend the House Business and Labor committee for passing this bill and we encourage the rest of the Utah legislature to follow suit.”
This bill allows owner-occupied residences to rent out portions of their home and blocks cities from using home sharing websites to target citizens who are using these free market service.
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) exists to recruit, educate, and mobilize citizens in support of the policies and goals of a free society at the local, state, and federal level, helping every American live their dream – especially the least fortunate. AFP has more than 3.2 million activists across the nation, a local infrastructure that includes 35 state chapters, and has received financial support from more than 100,000 Americans in all 50 states. For more information, visit www.AmericansForProsperity.org
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EWG: DuPont Settles Big Teflon Case, But PFOA Pollution Lingers Nationwide
SAN FRANCISCO – DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours agreed today to pay $671 million to settle about 3,500 lawsuits from West Virginia and Ohio residents whose drinking water was poisoned by a cancer-causing chemical used to make Teflon. Although the settlement closes the most infamous case involving the chemical PFOA, its toxic legacy lingers worldwide, said EWG President Ken Cook.
"PFOA contaminates the tap water of 7 million Americans, pollutes the blood of virtually everyone and is found in the most remote parts of the planet," said Cook. "We celebrate the fact that justice has been served for tens of thousands of people in the mid-Ohio Valley, but we can't forget that PFOA and related nonstick compounds will continue to threaten our health for a long, long time."
PFOA is the best known of the class of chemicals called PFCs, which were used for decades in hundreds of consumer products – including DuPont's Teflon and 3M's Scotchgard – even as chemical companies covered up internal studies of its hazards. PFOA and its cousin, PFOS, never break down in the environment. They build up in people's bodies, and can be passed from mother to child in the womb and though breast milk.
PFCs' dangers came to light in a 2001 class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of more than 50,000 residents of the region surrounding Parkersburg, W. Va., the home of DuPont's Teflon plant. In 2005, acting on a petition from EWG, the Environmental Protection Agency fined DuPont a record $16.5 million, and the company and other manufacturers agreed to phase out PFOA and PFOS.
A scientific panel funded by DuPont found probable links between PFOA and illnesses including testicular and kidney cancers and thyroid disease, and subsequent studies showed other health effects at even the smallest doses. Although PFOA and PFOS are no longer manufactured in the U.S., chemical companies have replaced them with very similar chemicals that have not been proven safer.
"The story of PFOA is a tragic tale of how the worldwide spread of toxic chemicals in our everyday products – even when their manufacturers know they are harmful – has turned everyone on Earth into unwilling participants in a dangerous chemistry experiment," Cook said. "Are we going to learn in the decades to come that the chemicals replacing PFOA are also threatening our health? The chemical industry's history says yes."
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Compliance packaging is packaging that helps the patient take their medication as prescribed. This has worked in birth control, antibiotics and other drug regimen to improve medication adherence. Currently opioids are dispensed in a Child Resistant package like most other medications, but most of the studies show abuse starts from ages 6-26 and better packaging can improve household prevention of opioid abuse and it should be mandated as a preventative measure.
We call the campaign: Putting a lid on opioid abuse! to bring awareness to the problems families face with taking and keeping opioids in the household and how simple and inexpensive prevention can be.
Here is the list of what families should do if opioids are in the house.
✔ Measure time since last dosage - Impaired patients need a foolproof way to know time of last dosage to know when it time and safe to take another dose.
✔ Monitor usage to know when it’s safe to get behind the wheel.
✔ Manage medication in the bottles they are dispensed - Medication and labeling should be together for the highest level of patient safety in case of emergencies.
✔ Detection of household diversion - Know if someone has been in the medication.
✔ Deterrent of unwanted openings - A likelihood of being caught reduces the attempts to steal
✔ Proper Habits for taking medication as prescribed - Per the CVS Study the first 60 days determines long term adherence patterns.
This is a daunting task for families to figure out and this is where compliance packaging can assist.
We wanted to introduce you the simplest compliance packaging solutions that is already at every CVS and Rite Aid Pharmacies for $9.99. TimerCaps solve all of the above issues, with a easy way to remember when you last took your medication. The TimerCap is a cap with a built-in stopwatch. Every time you open up the cap, the timer stops counting and goes back to zero. This means the cap is not competing with labeling instructions, foolproof as it starts and resets every time its opened, simple enough for anyone to use without instructions and inexpensive. TimerCaps are inexpensive and have been proven to help patients take their medication as prescribed and is the perfect tool for opioid tracking and diversion detection. This keep medication and labeling in the container its dispensed in for maximum safety, keeping all vital information such as: patient, medication name, pill descriptions, dosage, side effects, warnings, prescribing doctor, pharmacy, and refill information. This makes it simple for easy identification of medications and time of last dosage in case of emergency. The timer counts up and lets you know if the medication was taken at the wrong time or if it was opened by someone else. The TimerCaps are offered in Child Resistant and Easy Twist and models to fit most pharmacy vials.
We also carry TimerCaps that come in a green bottle which is part of our Mary Jane Collection. With marijuana getting legalized recreational in 8 states, we are offering a TimerCap to let people know the last time they got high to figure out when to drive again or if someone else got into their stash. In Colorado there was a doubling of DUI fatalities and want to make sure people are more responsible when partaking before they get back on the same roads we all drive in.
Below is more information on how TimerCaps are one solution to prevent opioid abuses.
Here is why it’s important:
As doctors and pharmacies are being scrutinized, restrictions and unifying databases are being mandated, the main culprit is not being addressed. The patients that are mentally impaired by the opioids need tools for monitoring their last drug intake. What gets measured gets done, making the patient’s part of the solution from the beginning by giving them the right tools to be responsible with their drug intake. What we know for sure is that patients disorientated on opioids in traditional packaging and forced to find external means of tracking are not working.
Cognitively impaired patients need automatic timers that count up since last opened to let’s patient and caregivers truly monitor usage to prevent unintended abuse, household diversion detection, and to know when it is safe again to operate a motor vehicle. Opioid need to stay in containers they are dispensed in for maximum safety with all vital information such as: patient, medication name, pill descriptions, dosage, and side effects in case of an emergency.
Traditional dispensing in bottles with generic cap is analogues of giving a person an automobile without a speedometer. Sure they can read the posted speed signs but without a speedometer they have no way of knowing how fast or slow they are going so they can appropriately self-correct. They can only guess or find out when pulled over by enforcement, this is what is happening to opioid patients they are already impaired and have no way to track their last usage.
My name is Phillip Sugarman and I would like to offer you an opportunity to speak to Larry Twersky, the CEO of TimerCap LLC on this matter. Please let me know if you are interested. You can reach me at PSugarman@TimerCap.com or call me at 818-817-6906.
Below is a link to a video you can use that shows Larry Twersky, the CEO of TimerCap LLC explain why the TimerCap helps curb opioid abuse.
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CHASE GASSAWAY
PREMIERES COVER OF
"AIN'T TOO PROUD TO BEG"
WITH ROCK CELLAR MAGAZINE
LISTEN HERE
NEW COVERS RECORD
A FLY CAN'T BIRD OUT 2/24
PRE-ORDER HERE
FEBRUARY 13, 2017 - AUSTIN, TX - Singer-songwriter, Chase Gassaway, has premiered his new single--a cover of The Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"--exclusively via Rock Cellar Magazine. Listen HERE. The track is the second release from Gassaway's forthcoming covers record, A Fly Can't Bird, due out 2/24. The first single, a cover of The Lumineers' "Ho Hey", premiered earlier this month with Cover Me, who wrote, "[Gassaway's] got a true talent for revitalizing even a song we weren't sure we ever wanted to hear again." Fans can now pre-order the entire album, here. For more information on Chase Gassaway, please visit: http://chasegassaway.com.
"I wanted to cover some of my friend's songs; then I ended up with a whole album," Gassaway explains in regard to A Fly Can't Bird. The record provides original interpretations to some radio hits, while also giving a more personal look into Gassaway's life, with covers of songs by friends and emerging Austin artists. From local bands like Quiet Company and Alpha Rev, to known acts like The Temptations and John Legend, A Fly Can't Bird re-imagines select songs with Chase's signature blend of rootsy guitars, strings and horns.
A lifelong Texan, Gassaway studied music composition and theory in college, honing his skills as a composer by creating works for a wide range of ensembles from choirs to full orchestras, as well as composing the score to short film Take Two. He was also trained in classical guitar and voice, and plays a variety of instruments from banjolele to reed organ. His training, and the onstage lessons he learned as a solo performer and member of groups such as Canaries in the Coal Mine and formally the Matchmaker Band, has resulted in a multi-textured sound that recalls artists such as the Head & the Heart and Ben Folds.
In 2014, after releasing a few EPs over the years, Gassaway unleashed his first full length record, Certain Circles, which was called "fresh from beginning to end" by No Depression and "well-played, well-sung, beautifully arranged, and masterfully recorded"by Texas Music Magazine.His new album, A Fly Can't Bird represents not only a solid follow-up, but also a placeholder while he prepares for the next chapter of his life. Gassaway and his wife Kassie are expecting their first child in March of 2017, so he's happy to set aside his tour schedule to focus on his new role as a father.
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" is the second single from Chase Gassaway's forthcoming new record, A Fly Can't Bird, due out 2/24.
For more information, please visit:
https://www.chasegassaway.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chasegassawaymusic/
https://twitter.com/chasegassaway/
https://www.instagram.com/chasegassaway/
A Fly Can't Bird
1. Ain't Too Proud to Beg (The Temptations)
2. Never There (Cake)
3. The Best (The Rocketboys)
4. Ho Hey (The Lumineers)
5. Remain (Tyrone Wells)
6. All of Me (John Legend)
7. How Do You Do It (Quiet Company)
8. Black Sky (Alpha Rev)
Upcoming Tour Dates
FEB 15: The Saxon Pub, Austin, TX
FEB 21: Tellers, Austin TX - Release Party w/ Lang Freeman & Tara Williamson
FEB 23: Anderson Fair, Houston, TX
FEB 24: Desiderata Estates, Lockhart, TX - Album Release Party w/ Tara Williamson
FEB 25: The Auslander, Fredericksburg, TX
MAR 3: Vintage Market Days, Boerne, TX
MAR 3: Grey Rock Country Club, Austin, TX
MAR 4: Vintage Market Days, Boerne, TX
MAR 7: Annie's at ABIA, Austin, TX
MAR 7: Lonesome Dove Bistro, Austin, TX
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ATOM TICKETS TEAMS UP WITH MEGAPLEX THEATRES;
EXPANDS REACH IN UTAH AND NEVADA
Los Angeles, February 13, 2017 – Today Atom Tickets, the first-of-its-kind mobile movie ticketing platform, announced a partnership with Larry H. Miller (LHM) Megaplex Theatres, Utah’s favorite movie theatre, that will expand its availability in Utah and Nevada. To celebrate the partnership, from February 13-21, Atom users will be able to Buy One Ticket and Get One Free off their first order for a Megaplex theatre with the promo code “MEGABOGO.”
Megaplex Theatres joins an impressive list of growing exhibitor partners. All Megaplex Theatres locations will be Atom-enabled by today February 13.
Atom Tickets’ steadfast expansion, which continues to surpass industry expectations, is fueled by its unparalleled service that makes movie experiences faster, easier and more social than ever. With the Megaplex integration, Atom will see substantial growth in Utah and Nevada with the addition of 17 locations with nearly 200 auditoriums. Atom is revolutionizing the movie ticketing industry by helping theaters fill seats and maximize revenue with its user-friendly app that lets moviegoers buy tickets and invite friends with a few simple taps.
"We aim to give our guests the best movie experience possible. Atom Tickets will help us deliver on our mission with its user-friendly platform that makes going to the movies easier and more social,” said Blake Andersen, president of Megaplex Theatres.
Megaplex is known for technology, innovation, and legendary customer service. Providing an unparalleled VIP experience for moviegoers, they were the first exhibitor in Utah to introduce luxury and heated power recliners.
“Megaplex is an incredibly popular exhibitor who understands how to give their guests an amazing entertainment experience,” said Matthew Bakal, Atom Tickets co-founder and Executive Chairman. “Atom Tickets will only make that experience better and keep audiences coming back for more.”
In addition to pre-ordering movie tickets, Atom’s game-changing mobile app provides a VIP experience that includes bypassing lines at theaters. The intuitive platform also lets moviegoers watch trailers, read reviews and coordinate movie outings with friends while allowing each person to pay separately.
How Atom Tickets Works:
Atom Tickets re-imagines the most convenient way for users to plan a night out at the movies. The free app and website provide relevant reviews, trailers and synopses to help customers make the best decision on what to see. Moviegoers may then invite friends (via Facebook or their contact lists) to purchase their own tickets to join them. Atom offers streamlined ordering of tickets and concessions from any Android or iOS phone. At the theater, users go directly to the ushers and concession counters, where they simply scan a QR code at tablet kiosks. Paper tickets and IOUs have been replaced by Atom’s innovative platform, which keeps all plans, messaging, payment and tickets in one place.
About Atom Tickets:
Atom Tickets is the first-of-its-kind theatrical mobile ticketing platform. Through its patent pending recommendation and personalization technology, Atom Tickets allows consumers to search for films instantly, invite friends, buy tickets, pre-order concessions and more. Enabled on 15,000 screens across the U.S., the platform’s innovative marketing capabilities help studios, exhibitors and brands maximize revenue opportunities. Atom Tickets is available as a free app in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store and online at atomtickets.com.
About Megaplex Theatres:
Megaplex Theatres operates 17 locations across Utah and southern Nevada with a total of 185 screens, including five IMAX screens as well as a strategic partnership with the Mammoth Screen at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi. Megaplex also operates the only laser projection enabled auditorium in Utah.
Founded by the late Larry H. Miller, Megaplex Theatres are frequently among the top grossing in the nation and recognized as Utah’s favorite movie theatres. In addition, Megaplex Theatres feature regular and large-format movie screens, dinner and a movie gift options, conference and auditorium rental, and an industry-leading guest services team. Megaplex Theatres show times and other group information may be found on the web at www.MegaplexTheatres.com or by calling (801) 304-4545. Guests are also invited to follow their favorite films on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MegaplexTheatres and on Twitter @MegaplexTheatre.
Atom Tickets will be available at Megaplex Theatres in the following locations:
Cedar City, UT
Centerville, UT
Lehi, UT
Logan, UT (2)
Mesquite, NV
Ogden, UT
Providence, UT
Salt Lake City, UT
Sandy, UT
South Jordan, UT
St. George, UT (2)
Vineyard, UT
West Valley City, UT
