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In austere times, can bribery be healthy?
Many governments are offering financial incentives to encourage people to drop their bad habits and live more healthily.
Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:26 AM
QUITTERS WIN: Participants in Britain's Give It Up For Baby program get $19 on a grocery store card every week they stay off tobacco. (Kristian Sekulic/iStockphoto)
DUNDEE, Scotland - Moira Christie has to ring the doorbell when she goes to visit friends these days. That's a new thing for her. Until a few months ago, everyone knew she was coming because they could hear her hacking smoker's cough from far down the street.
"My cough was my calling card," the tiny 54-year-old Scot says with a laugh. "But not any more. I'm not coughing now. My friends and relatives can't believe it. They say 'You've never given up! You? Never!' — but I have, I've done it, and I feel so much healthier already."
Christie is not only quieter and healthier, she's a little richer too. That's because the local health authority paid her to quit. The scheme is one of a clutch of experiments cropping up across Europe, the United States and parts of Latin America which use financial incentives — cash payments, gift cards, shopping vouchers and the like — to encourage or cajole people to drop their bad habits and live more healthily.
"The underlying rationale of incentives is that healthier people are less costly to the system than sick ones," says Harald Schmidt at the Harvard School of Public Health.
The experiments have grown out of studies in the relatively new discipline of behavioral economics, which examines how emotional factors affect economic choices. Some public health experts are yet to be convinced that bribing people can work.
But as healthcare costs keep rising in such heavyweight nations as the United States and heavy-smoking locations as Dundee, and as governments move to cut huge budget deficits, hundreds of local authorities, employers and health insurers — even the occasional former investment banker — are dabbling with health incentive schemes.
Pay now, save later
The idea is simple: Pay people to act now and governments will reap the rewards later in lower healthcare costs. Statistically speaking, people who shun harmful habits are more productive and have less need for expensive hospitals, doctors and medicines.
By changing "habitual health-related behaviours," says Theresa Marteau, director of the Center for the Study of Incentives in Health and a psychology professor at King's College London, those behind the schemes aim to make more people healthier for longer. Specifically, "they're trying to tackle the big four that are responsible for most of the world's premature deaths and illnesses— excessive eating, smoking, drinking and lack of exercise," says Marteau.
Many in Dundee are at risk from all four. Moira Christie had smoked for around 35 years by the time she joined her incentive program, which is called Quit 4 U. The scheme is backed by Britain's National Health Service and was born out of a similar project, Give It Up For Baby, which aims to reduce shockingly high rates of smoking among mums-to-be in Dundee. In some of the poorest areas of the city up to 40 percent of pregnant women and half of all adults smoke, while rates of obesity and alcohol-related illness are among the highest in Europe.
"What we have here is a cocktail of influences on our most deprived communities who have the worst health — a cocktail which ensures that trying to change their behavior through simplistic messages is just not going to work," says Andrew Radley, a public health expert who along with colleague Paul Ballard has championed Quit 4 U and is now overseeing its expansion into other areas. "You therefore have to work with them to come up with motivators that are actually part of their way of thinking."
Participants get 12.50 pounds ($19) on a grocery store card every week they stay off tobacco, building to a potential total of 150 pounds after three months. For mums-to-be who stay off cigarettes, the payments continue until the baby is three months old. Anyone who gets that far would take home 650 pounds. Participants in both schemes commit to regular carbon monoxide breath tests to prove they're not cheating.
The lure of extra cash has so far proved enough to get even some of the most die-hard tobacco addicts to quit. Margaret Robertson, a former 40-a-day smoker who attends the weekly breath test and support group sessions alongside Christie, is proud of the little nest egg she's nurturing. "I'm letting it build up until Christmas. That's when it'll really help," says Robertson, 61, who started smoking when she was 11 years old and has just completed her sixth smoke-free week in 50 years.
'Mega unhealthy'
When Dundee's first pilot project started in 2007, critics condemned the idea of incentives as little more than state bribery. So far, though, the results have been impressive: 12-week quit rates are more than double those achieved in any previous years.
By the end of the first year, 55 mothers in the city of Dundee, which has a population of 140,000, had quit smoking using the incentive scheme, and 140 had quit across the coastal Tayside region of eastern Scotland. The year before, just six pregnant women had made contact with Tayside's stop smoking services — and none of them stayed in touch beyond four weeks.
Even these pilots can be cost-effective, argue Ballard and Radley. They put the overall cost per quitter at 1,700 pounds, which might sound a lot until you consider that smoking costs Britain's taxpayer-funded health system some 5 billion pounds a year according to a 2009 study by Oxford University researchers. Globally, the World Lung Foundation estimates the annual cost of smoking is $500 billion in medical expenses, lost productivity and environmental harm.
"The whole methodology of this incentive scheme is defined by community-based research. It is driven by what is of most value to the target audience," says Ballard. If you get it right, it can be "an approach that can really deliver results."
There is no doubt Scotland can do with the help. It is known, after all, as the land whose citizens don't just eat Mars Bars and pizza in perilously large amounts, but deep-fry them first. A study published last month found that almost the entire adult population of Scotland — 97.5 percent — have habits that are deemed "dangerous to health" including smoking, heavy drinking, taking no exercise, being overweight and eating a poor diet.
Ballard calls Dundee an "incredibly unhealthy" city in a "mega unhealthy" nation. In truth, the rest of the developed world is not much better. Obesity, smoking, alcohol and lack of exercise are causing more protracted and expensive diseases, and killing more residents of the rich world earlier, than anything else. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that by 2015, around 2.3 billion adults worldwide will be overweight and more than 700 million will be obese.
In Europe, the WHO reckons obesity alone is already responsible for up to 8 percent of all health costs and between 10 and 13 percent of deaths. Experts predict that in Britain almost nine out of 10 adults and two thirds of children will be overweight or obese by 2050. By then the medical bill and loss of productivity could top 50 billion pounds a year.
Little wonder that drug companies are spending billions of dollars searching for treatments and cures for cancers, diabetes and heart disease. But why develop drugs when the best thing we could do to improve our health is quit smoking, stop eating so much fat, salt and sugar, exercise more and cut back on alcohol? And if getting more people to do that is difficult, which of course it is, then why not pay them?
'Incentives culture'
Former investment banker Winton Rossiter is convinced paying people to get healthier is the next big thing. Rossiter, a 55-year-old American-born businessman who's lived in England for 20 years, has become one of the pioneers of British incentive schemes. Three years ago he founded a company called WeightWins which now promotes a scheme called "pounds for pounds".
"We earn incentives from shopping in certain places, flying certain airlines — so why not get financially rewarded for doing something that's positive?" he says. "We're in an incentives culture where people need a reason to even think about getting healthy."
Rossiter's firm has been running a pilot scheme in Kent, southern England, where the taxpayer-funded local health authority asked him to help cut a 24 percent adult obesity rate. The programme works by adding up how much weight each participant has lost and how long it remains off. A sliding scale of payments is applied; those who lose the most and keep it off earn the most money.
Rossiter says his program is already working. By last month, of the 402 people who started a "pounds for pounds" plan in the Kent scheme, 321, or 80 percent, had lost weight, while just 20 percent either stayed the same or gained weight. Less encouragingly, more than three-quarters of participants had dropped out by 12 months, meaning their progress, or lack of it, could not be counted in the final results.
Rossiter makes his money through a joining fee, which starts at 45 pounds sterling and goes up to 135 pounds, plus a monthly subscription fee of between 10 and 30 pounds. Participants can earn rewards of up to 3,000 pounds. To get that, they'd have to lose 150 pounds of weight over 21 months and keep it all off for at least three months.
"You get paid to lose weight — two things people definitely want to do," he says.
In the Kent scheme, taxpayers footed the subscription bills via the local health authority. But Rossiter says the cost to local governments could be returned many times over. He's broken down British government data that estimated the annual cost of obesity at between 3.3 billion pounds sterling and 3.7 billion pounds. For every pound of obesity weight that is removed permanently, he says, the government saves 170 pounds in medical expenses and 1,200 pounds in lifetime economic costs. Kent paid Weight Wins around 12 pounds for every pound of fat lost.
Waiting for the call
Public health scientists are less enthusiastic. "I think they can be useful in some instances, but it depends very much on how they're implemented," says Harvard's Schmidt. Both King's College's Marteau and Tammy Boyce, an expert at the King's Fund healthcare think-tank in London, say the Kent pilot was "not a proper trial" because it lacked the proper scientific procedures needed to evaluate the outcomes.
Marteau's sense is that the best evidence to support the use of incentives schemes can be found not in large, cross-societal groups, but in specific niches of unhealthy behavior where all the usual health messages have failed. Here, it seems, an immediate and relatively large reward may be enough to change a pattern.
"The two places where incentives really have been found to be effective are in drug addict abstinence programs, and in smoking cessation in pregnancy," she says. "And when you think about it, these are outliers" — extreme, addictive behaviours generally shown by people on the margins.
Former banker Rossiter is undeterred. Frustrated by what he sees as dithering among public health officials, he is planning to take "pounds for pounds" direct to the public via the internet, where anyone can pay a joining fee and sign up to win cash rewards for slimming down.
"If obesity really is the public health crisis and the ticking timebomb that we keep hearing about, then we need to throw out some of our scepticism and prejudices and really push this thing forward," he says.
So sure is Rossiter that his scheme will work, he's ready to guarantee "long-term results" for any government in Europe prepared to back the scheme. "If Scotland wanted to put a million overweight people into my programme, I would guarantee long-term behavior change and weight loss or they would get their money back. But I'm still waiting for the call."
Perhaps he should meet Gianluca Buonanno, the flamboyant mayor of the small north-western Italian town of Varallo, and another big enthusiast of using health incentive schemes to make whole nations healthier.
A few years ago, Buonanno set up a plan which promised to pay oversized residents 50 euros ($70) for losing 3 to 4 kilograms in a month, a further 200 euros if they kept the weight off for 5 months, and yet more if they managed to keep their weight down for a year. The scheme, he says, was a great success, particularly for one 42-year-old woman who said she had become so fat that her husband "would not even look at her any more".
"Sixty percent of participants reached their objectives," Buonanno told Reuters. He's now lobbying in Italy's parliament for the plan to be scaled up across the nation. The results, "can't be measured only in prizes. If a person feels better, consumes less medicine, then the nation's entire health system gains."
'Trendy idea'
The notion of health incentives has been popularised in the past few years by books like 'Nudge' and 'Freakonomics', which describe how such concepts as "behavioural economics" and "choice architecture" can be used to engineer people toward healthier habits. It's no coincidence that as the Obama administration started to show an interest in behavioural economics, one of the authors of Nudge, Cass Sunstein, joined the White House staff.
"Incentives are definitely becoming a very trendy method," says public health specialist Boyce, who has watched with dismay as governments have become excited by the idea of old-fashioned bribery. The idea, she says, allows politicians to cozy up to the powerful food and drinks industry lobby and duck out of writing tough legislation for better health. It satisfies many governments' desires to be libertarian and business-friendly and avoid slapping taxes on high-fat or high-sugar junk foods.
Britain's health minister, Andrew Lansley, said last week that the country's new coalition government does not believe in "lecturing or nannying" people to change their behavior, preferring a "non-regulatory approach". It has not indicated whether incentives may be a part of that.
Mike Kelly, director of public health at Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which advises government on cost-effective health policies, says incentive schemes are popping up all over the place. So far, though, there isn't much in the way of hard scientific evidence about incentivising people for health.
"If these things are going to go forward it ought to be on a proper evidence-based set of principles. And we desperately need to know whether it is a cost-effective option."
The London-based Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Center published a review last year that found there were studies underway on around 130 incentives schemes globally. More than half were in the United States, with Britain, Germany and Mexico among active countries. It found around half the schemes were aimed at getting people to stop smoking, with healthy eating next and obesity targeted by a minority.
Health insurers see potential
In the United States, where healthcare is largely handled through private insurance companies, major employers such as Safeway and General Electric are also getting into incentives in a big way. In recent years they have begun paying bonuses or offering health insurance discounts to employees who give up bad habits or keep their weight and cholesterol levels in check. That, in turn, has spawned a clutch of new companies such as VirginHealthMiles and RedBrick Health, who sell "pay for prevention schemes" to big corporations.
In Germany, Barmer Ersatzkasse, a large sickness fund which insures around 6.8 million people, offers incentives to members who take part in any or all of 17 named healthy activities — from turning up for immunizations to giving up smoking or going regularly to the gym. Members get a bonus card on which points are credited; anyone earning 500 or more points over two years can redeem them against such "healthy" prizes as cycle helmets or sports watches.
Families can pool their points and trade them in for a bigger reward such as a Nintendo Wiifit console (1500 points) or even swap them for hard cash rewards of up to 30 euros a year per person.
The fund also offers schemes giving discounts on premiums to people who don't use health services that much — a bit like a "no claims" bonus on a house or car insurance policy.
Carrot and sticks
The German plan highlights one of the potential disadvantages in such schemes: They may prove self-selecting. Harvard's Schmidt, who has studied health incentives in the United States and Germany, says incentives may not only improve insurance plan members' health — so their costs go down — but may also attract more healthy people in the first place. That risks leaving those in the poorest health, who are often also society's poorest financially, facing higher costs for the healthcare they urgently need.
That's just one of a broader set of problems that Schmidt sees as inherent in the incentives idea. Why should fat people get paid to do what thin people are doing already? Why should smokers who quit now get a bonus when those who quit last year didn't? If regular gym-goers were already quite happy to pay for it, why should taxpayers' money be used to subsidise others just in the hope a few more may be nudged in the same direction? Won't some people become adept at gaming the system?
Schmidt breaks those affected by incentive schemes into groups:
__the "lucky ones" — those who already go to the gym regularly and will now get extra cash or prizes for doing so;
__the "yes I can" group, who find the incentive gives them exactly the nudge they needed
__the "I'll do it tomorrow" group who never quite get around to it and feel punished by not being able to get the reward
__the "unlucky ones" who have no hope of getting to a gym because of their work or family life or disability
__and the "leave me alone" group which is self-explanatory.
For all but one or two of these groups, incentives would likely fail, Schmidt says, so using taxpayers' money to fund them doesn't look like much of a deal. "I don't have a problem with incentives if they work. But..." His voice trails off and he gives a shrug of the shoulders.
Fools rush in?
What evidence there is from scientific assessments is not that encouraging either. Marteau cites a so-called Cochrane review -- a systematic analysis of previous peer-reviewed studies — conducted in 2008 on using incentives to help people stop smoking. It found that none of the 17 trials it analysed had higher quit rates at six months when incentives were used.
On obesity, the findings are similar. A 2008 systematic review looking at eight weight-loss trials which were followed up for at least a year found that incentives had no positive effect on weight loss or weight maintenance at 12 or 18 months.
The King's Fund's Boyce worries that governments are starting up incentives plans before any proper scientific analysis has been done.
"You wouldn't do this with a drug," she says, pointing out that many years, even decades, of trials and tests are conducted on medicines before they are distributed to the general public. "But for some reason we allow ourselves to get caught up in the moment and attach ourselves to ideas like this that don't really have a big evidence base."
Baby thoughts
But such scepticism doesn't cut it with Rebecca Garside, who is 28 and just a few weeks off giving birth to her first baby. As part of Dundee's scheme to stop pregnant mums smoking, she's at her local pharmacy blowing into a carbon monoxide monitor to prove that despite 11 years as a smoker, she has finally given up.
As the blinking green light officially confirms her as a non-smoker, she strokes her swollen belly. Health statistics suggest her baby will now be a healthier weight and less likely to need intensive care after birth, and that both Garside and her child will be less likely to develop a range of costly chronic diseases like asthma, heart disease and cancer.
But Garside is thinking of the more immediate future. She is saving the "quit" credits on her supermarket gift card, she says, for "all those things I know I'll have to buy when the baby comes along."
"Buggies, nappies, and even my weekly food shopping. It'll definitely be a help."
(Additional reporting by Philip Pullella in Rome, editing by Simon Robinson and Sara Ledwith)
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not worth the pricePosted Aug 19, 2014
Pros: the pool
Cons: security, room cleaning, and food quality
Location: there are malls and play areas
There is no security the parking lot is wide open they even have sign that is clear about this they leave the 2nd tower unlocked anybody can just walk in .The price is way out you would think that with the high price and name that this would be a clean and secured hotel that is not the case. Also don't eat they food is very low on the chains list of stuff . you can swim pool is great and heated. I wish it was what I thought a good hotel should be . there was mold in bath room and hair in the bed they need to get some over sight on they hotel or change name ps I very really ever complain but sometimes you have to
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Great location, 10 minutes to airport & old port.Posted Jul 23, 2014
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Needs updatingPosted Jul 15, 2014
I booked this as an unpublished rate hotel on Expedia with 3.5 stars. When we got to the hotel, check in was good and the common areas were nice, but when we got up to our room, there was a piece of paper on the door that said "wet paint". I'm not sure what was painted, as there was a lot of wear and tear on the door and it had obviously not been painted recently. Inside the room, there were areas of the wallpaper that had obviously cut out and patched, and there was hair on the sheets. The bathroom had been partially updated (sink and mirror) but the bathtub/shower was old and the tile appeared mildewed. The room was a good size, and many items had been updated, but everything seemed very halfway done. We had stayed at a different hotel near the airport upon arriving in Portland, and I can definitely say there are better hotels nearby for a cheaper rate.
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Sink did not drain. Lobby seamed dated could use some sprucing up. Room was clean and staff was helpful.
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Last night, the BOE voted to take away April Vacation - even though we've only used FIVE snow days. They didn't want to take away Feburary because teachers have plans that week.
I was on Facebook: apparently, my school has a trip to Spain that week. So now those students will either have to a) reschedule the trip or b) be up to their brains in makeup work.
Personally, I do not want to have my breast reduction during the summer when Noah is here.
I just think it's stupid that they're taking away the vacation when we still have two snow days in tact. Watch, we're not going to get ANY snow and they're all going to look like total and complete assholes.
At least I get to graduate early…I think…I don't even fucking know.
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Can I go to college now? Please?
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What do I find scary in Altadena? Fast traffic on dark roads, power lines in a windstorm, the cello-packed seafood at Ralph's. Hot dry days when the mountains are full of brown and brittle brush -- yes, fire scares me.
But I'm not afraid of people; neighbors or strangers with whom I share the streets, parks, shops, gas stations. Whatever personal safety questions cross my mind, owning a gun, much less carrying a gun, doesn't offer much of an answer. I suppose I could shoot the Ralph's salmon, but for heaven's sakes, it's been dead far too long already.
Anthony Portantino has to ban the open-carry of rifles in public. This seems like such a reasonable bill, such a no-brainer, I've been nonplussed by the sturm and drang emanating from the gun advocate corner. I wonder about all these folks who are afraid to leave the house unescorted, without a lethal weapon by their side. I wonder what extra baggage, besides that rifle and ammo clip, they might be carrying. Murder doesn't even make the top 10 causes of death in the US. In fact, murder at the hand of another doesn't even beat suicide, and neither comes close to death by accident and death by disease.
With all the noise and obfuscation, it might have escaped notice that the proposed bill has absolutely no impact on one's ability to keep a firearm in the privacy of one's own home.
Correct me if I'm wrong (just don't do it in all caps), but it's pretty darned easy to buy a firearm for the home. You don't have to prove much of anything, other than citizenship or thereabouts, and enough good sense or good luck to have kept your nose clean, legally speaking. Other than that, you don't need any special training, just the ability to cool your heels for a brief period until the permit arrives in the mail.
As far as I can tell, there's not even a minimum vision requirement.
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I was about to say I'd continue to fight against concealed weapons and open carry, but then, I haven't really been fighting it. I just do what takes the least amount of effort and cast a vote for any politician who agrees with me; who agrees it's for the greater good if Trigger stays home at the stable.
If you're really concerned about personal safety, stop smoking and texting while driving. And here's a cheap fix: buy some plastic appliqués. In the U.S., the odds of death by an accidental fall are far, far greater than the odds of losing your life at the hands of another human being. So keep an eye on that most slippery of characters--your bathtub, as you step in and step out. Don't trust it for a second.


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Seems like not much has ben happening lately. Bike stuff in the workshop has been pretty low key. Frame repairs mostly and I got to finish (braze-ons, cable guides, alignment, reaming and facing) a bunch of road/touring frames that had been built a few years ago by another builder and never finished.
Almost done on the lathe restoration I've taken on. Seems like it's not quite what I thought it was (it's an early ML4 not a late model) which has meant getting parts has been (more of) a nightmare. I'll get some pics up of it when I get it finished. Still need to build a bench for it. Not sure what I'm going to do with it when I'm done. Was thinking about setting up as a mitering fixture but I'll have to do some tests and see if its stiff enough.
Other stuff:
- My other day job (software engineer) has been pretty busy. We've moved office and my role has changed slightly which has meant a bit more admin type stuff and not quite so much programming. Hopefully this'll get better soon.
- It's VERY cold this morning. Very frosty in the garden and Jack's keeping his slippers on. Must be cold.
I'm looking for some new breakfast ideas. The following options are ruled out as they're either too unhealthy, too boring or too what Im already having.
- cereal
- bagels
- bacon rolls (Im a veggie)
- cinnamon swirls (too nice, I'd need two and I'd die cause of being fat)
- Chocolate Croissants (Gordon pointed out that 'pain' means bread and 'chocolate' means chocolate so that's just a chocolate sandwich.)
- banannas (nice but boring)
Ok that's enough procrastination, it's time to get back to work.
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Park City • The Sundance Film Festival can't go to Las Vegas, so Las Vegas will come to the Sundance Film Festival.
Wynn Las Vegas, the luxury casino-hotel-resort brand, has taken over the venue at 427 Main St., formerly Harry O's, for Park City Live. It will serve as the epicenter for all the non-film-related music and entertainment through Monday, Jan. 21.
Wynn Las Vegas officials tapped into its high-profile DJ talent pool at Encore Beach Club, Surrender, Tryst and XS nightclubs to bring electronic dance music to Park City. The space will decorated with the same design scheme that adorns Tryst and XS, from the drapery down to furniture.
The festival's most highly anticipated concert is Dave Grohl's Sound City Players (including Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Foo Fighters and all surviving members of Nirvana) performing Friday, Jan. 18.
The rest of the weekend roster looks like an International House of Pancakes: Avicii (Sweden), Afrojack (Netherlands), 2Chainz (U.S.) and Cedric Gervais (France). Nero, from England, performed Jan. 17.
Once Wynn Las Vegas moves out, Utah's own Neon Trees will take the Park City Live stage on Wednesday, Jan. 23.
Kathryn Burns, CEO of Park City Live, sought out the Las Vegas partnership. "Wynn has literally the No. 1 nightclubs in the U.S.," she said. "They bring a lot of credibility."
It wasn't a hard sell, as establishing a presence at the Sundance Film Festival had been a Wynn priority for several years, said Ronn Nicolli, director of strategic marketing for XS and Tryst. With the recent "explosion" of electronic dance music, it made sense to move many of the elements of the exclusive clubs to Utah.
"It will have some of the flair and flavor of Las Vegas," he said.
Niccoli said patrons of Park City Live — which operates year-round as a venue — should also notice improved service. "One hundred percent of the Wynn experience is our attention to detail for customer service," he said.
Wynn is bringing in its own door team from Las Vegas. Burns said the previously "unfriendly" door experiences at 427 Main St. should be a thing of the past and the inside atmosphere should be more welcoming and not so "stuffy."
This isn't the first time a Vegas nightclub has come to town. Several years ago, the Venetian Hotel & Casino's TAO Nightclub took over the space. TAO officials are returning to Park City this year, presenting a pop-up nightlife experience at the Village at the Lift in Park City, with DJ sets every night through Jan. 21. The lineup includes rapper Nas performing with DJ Politick on Saturday and celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson spinning on Monday.
Burns hopes the weekend will excite local audiences so they will return to shows throughout the year. In February and March, Park City Live will have electronica act L.A. Riots, reggae ensemble The Green, bluegrassers The Infamous Stringdusters, singer-songwriter Martin Sexton and the polyethnic Cajun slamgrass of Leftover Salmon.
"We want to be more user-friendly," Burns said.
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Dave Grohl's Sound City Players • Tonight at 9 (Sold out)
Avicii • Saturday, 8 p.m.; $200
Afrojack • Sunday, 10 p.m.; $150
2 Chainz and Cedric Gervais • Monday, 9 p.m.; $50
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Free Weed // Free
Erik Gage is a pretty busy guy. He runs his own label Gnar Tapes, he's a member of bands like White Fang and The Memories (whose excellent self-titled debut was re-released by Underwater Peoples this year), and he has a prolific solo project known as Free Weed. His latest album Free was recently released by Lillerne Tapes, but he's also dropped tapes for Gnar Tapes and Beer On the Rug. Yeah, told you he was busy.
Anyways, Free is a logical progression of his sound if you've been listening up until now. They are still simple lo-fi jammy jams but they are noticeably cleaner this time around. What I love most about Free Weed's music is that it's a simple pleasure. There is no deep introspection, no pretense, nothing to grab hold of other than the music itself. His tracks are all basically easy-going guitar ditties that hearken back to the aesthetic of 1990's MTV advertisements. Let's just say that they are the musical equivalent to the sort of stuff that kids back then were scrawling all over locker doors and Trapper Keepers. And there is something almost beautiful about that.
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Kids in ATVs without helmets, babies dangling out of windows and a pregnant actress shoots a gun on film! Check out which celebs did what...
Pregnant 24 star Mary Lynn Rajskub posted this video of herself on MySpace shooting a gun while very pregnant.
Celebrities have always been somewhat fair game. But once in a while, they do something that makes us cringe--like dangling a baby over a balcony! If cameras were watching your every move, what would you be caught doing?
Here are some shots of other celebs arguably endangering their own kids...
My friend's OB actually told her that there's no real proof that shooting a gun while pregnant does any harm. She worked as a detective, and had to shoot in order to qualify for her job while she was almost 9 months pregnant. Her daughter was born perfectly healthy.
This woman seemed to have been in a controlled environment and it didn't seem like anything other than the target was in danger. What's the big deal and why is it even a topic?!?
I don't see that gun pointing at her uterus. Responsible shooting is not dangerous.


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Thanks I will test this tomorrow.
In response to high user demand for a 0.8 release and to give our users a more tangible idea of whats been happening on the development side we have decided to release a developer preview. This is by no means a fully tested or release quality build, it is just a trunk build that was tested by our development team to ensure it was stable before being pushed out the door. We have included a small subset of the common plugins, your mileage may vary adding 0.7 plugins which were not designed for this platform.
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I will also test this tomorrow. If all else fails, I can uninstall and reinstall .07 correct? Cant wait to try it guys!
If you don't know code, let me tell you (as I do know code) that OpenMobile is probably the most sophisticated stuff ever conceived for this purpose. OM will likely be the standard.
As a consultant, I get paid to rip code apart for a living. I have gone over OM in detail and I can find very little wrong in it using even the most critical eye and automated scanners.
OM team, what you are doing is going to change things. Thank you.
Cohesive Technology is in development to build a platform that takes the car PC and elevates it to a must have life-saving appliance. We are confidently using the OM framework.
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Where is the OMMediaDB located?
I couldn't wait last-night to try 0.8 so I installed it and I loved it I tested it on my Atom based laptop that's not nearly as fast as my actual car PC.
I was so fast the graphics felt really tight even with the skin only being a black background I could tell.
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I'm running it work right now. No show stoppers yet. Pretty much can only do Music as Pandora doesn't seem to be able to load its Settings page.
Is there anything specific you are looking for testing on?
Its a preview, so testing isn't the reason for this, and if you think hardware acceleration isn't a show stopper... then...
Must depend on the skin/hardware, but honestly, I don't see a huge difference in UI performance between the previously released 0.7 on my Atom330. The lack of HDRadio and Pandora means I obviously can't keep it running in my truck anyways, but I don't have and problems with the hardware accelleration.
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That does suck. I'm probably in the minority, but imo I don't think 17-23 is that big of a deal. Would I be happy about Bobbie dating a 23 year old? No, not really...but I wouldn't consider him a sexual predator or anything. I'd talk to her about expectations, saying no, and if she decided to go 'all the way' then she'd have to live with that.
I wonder what that woman thought she had to gain by bringing that up so long after the fact? Did she feel better after destroying his career?
The 70's were a different time. My father is 9 years older than my mom, and I have no doubt he genuinely loved her. He still does. She was 15 when they started dating.


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Well, now, we're going to go ahead and get that consent, for parents who would like their kids to participate in TPI. (I was finally prompted to do this by some kids in my daughter's third-grade class, who have wanted to post to TPI. So why not?)
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