WELLHAUS
Presented by Charlotte’s Web
THE FIRST HEALTH, WELLNESS
& CBD CONCEPT
TO DEBUT IN PARK CITY, UT.
DURING THE 2019 FILM FESTIVAL
JANUARY 25 - 27, 2019
WELLHAUS is pleased to announce its partnership with Charlotte’s Web, the market leader in hemp-based CBD wellness products and
wellness space as it takes on a new frontier during Sundance,
engaging the top independent storytellers and filmmakers in cinema.
January 7, 2019 (Park City, UT.) WELLHAUS, a new health, wellness and CBD focused event platform from event industry veterans Axcess Entertainment, is pleased to announce its debut installment during this year’s 2019 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT in conjunction with Presenting Sponsor Charlotte’s Web, the Colorado-based CBD industry pioneer. Located in the heart of historic Main St., WELLHAUS will take over Cantina (412 Main Street, Park City, UT 84098) from Friday, January 25 - Sunday, January 27, 2019 during the festival’s kick-off weekend.
Founded by the Stanley brothers, Charlotte’s Web is the world’s leading brand by market share in the production and distribution of innovative hemp-based CBD wellness products. Charlotte’s Web strives to improve lives, providing stringent product quality, efficacy and consistency standards. What started with seven brothers and the revolutionary story of a little girl named Charlotte, has culminated in millions of people demanding access to CBD oils, CBD capsules and CBD topicals and with that, the rebirth of the great American hemp industry. As part of its commitment to support the film industry, Charlotte’s Web partnered with the producers of Before You Know It, set to have its world premiere in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. WELLHAUS seeks to embody this ethos by implementing a series of unique programming and hospitality activations throughout the opening weekend of Sundance aimed to educate and entertain the public and the festival community on the rapidly growing CBD movement and wider health & wellness industry.
WELLHAUS will be the first fully integrated health, wellness & CBD-focused concept house ever at the festival, marking a departure from the typical mainstream consumer brand sponsor activations. Featuring the Charlotte’s Web Retreat on the ground floor with exciting experiential and hospitality activations daily, and a fully integrated CBD-infusion cocktail bar on the 2nd floor. WELLHAUS will tap the top leaders in the health and wellness space from famed culinary figures to scientists to industry founders/executives to curate unique and original content. The F&B program will be lead by renowned culinary guru The Herbal Chef, Chris Sayegh who is famous for CBD and cannabis-infused fine dining events which elevate the perception of hemp, CBD and cannabis through mainstream media. His events have been featured in GQ, The Guardian, The Washington Post and Fast Company, among other international publications.
Daily events at WELLHAUS will include panel discussions, daytime experiential activities, happy hours, networking events, nightly dinners with The Herbal Chef and the CBD infusion bar open from noon - 1am. WELLHAUS will mix programming from the health & wellness perspective with events in support of official competition films and leading filmmakers at the festival, to provide a truly integrated and unique Main Street experience. Select activities at WELLHAUS will also be open to the festival public, including the CBD infusion bar - making this one of the most sought-after and highly trafficked locations during the festival.
WELLHAUS is wholly owned and produced by Axcess Wellness, a division of Axcess Entertainment – a global leader in live event, festival and entertainment production for more than 16 years and producer of more than 500 individual film events worldwide. This will be the debut installment of the concept, which will then tour throughout North America and internationally in 2019 with executions in Malibu, Coachella, Las Vegas, Austin, Toronto, Miami and New York already in planning.
For more information follow @ThisIsWellhaus on Instagram and visit the Axcess Entertainment website.
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By Lawrence Wittner
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According to numerous reports, the world’s billionaires keep increasing in number and, especially, in wealth.
In March 2018, Forbes reported that it had identified 2,208 billionaires from 72 countries and territories. Collectively, this group was worth $9.1 trillion, an increase in wealth of 18 percent since the preceding year. Americans led the way with a record 585 billionaires, followed by mainland China which, despite its professed commitment to Communism, had a record 373. According to a Yahoo Finance report in late November 2018, the wealth of U.S. billionaires increased by 12 percent during 2017, while that of Chinese billionaires grew by 39 percent.
These vast fortunes were created much like those amassed by the Robber Barons of the late nineteenth century. The Walton family’s $163 billion fortune grew rapidly because its giant business, Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, paid its workers poverty-level wages. Jeff Bezos (whose fortune jumped by $78.5 billion in one year to $160 billion, making him the richest man in the world), paid pathetically low wages at Amazon for years until forced by strikes and public pressure to raise them. In mid-2017, Warren Buffett ($75 billion), then the world’s second richest man, noted that “the real problem” with the U.S. economy was that it was “disproportionately rewarding to the people on top.”
The situation is much the same elsewhere. Since the 1980s, the share of national income going to workers has been dropping significantly around the globe, thereby exacerbating inequality in wealth. “The billionaire boom is . . . a symptom of a failing economic system,” remarked Winnie Byanyima, executive director of the development charity, Oxfam International. “The people who make our clothes, assemble our phones and grow our food are being exploited.”
As a result, the further concentration of wealth has produced rising levels of economic inequality around the globe. According to a January 2018 report by Oxfam, during the preceding year some 3.7 billion people--about half the world’s population--experienced no increase in their wealth. Instead, 82 percent of the global wealth generated in 2017 went to the wealthiest one percent. In the United States, economic inequality continued to grow, with the share of the national income drawn by the poorest half of the population steadily declining. The situation was even starker in the country with the second largest economy, China. Here, despite two decades of spectacular economic growth, economic inequality rose at the fastest pace in the world, leaving China as one of the most unequal countries on the planet. In its global survey,Oxfam reported that 42 billionaires possessed as much wealth as half the world’s population.
Upon reflection, it’s hard to understand why billionaires think they need to possess such vast amounts of money and to acquire even more. After all, they can eat and drink only so much, just as they surely have all the mansions, yachts, diamonds, furs, and private jets they can possibly use. What more can they desire?
When it comes to desires, the answer is: plenty! That’s why they drive $4 million Lamborghini Venenos, acquire megamansions for their horses, take $80,000 “safaris” in private jets, purchase gold toothpicks, create megaclosets the size of homes, reside in $15,000 a night penthouse hotel suites, install luxury showers for their dogs, cover their staircases in gold, and build luxury survival bunkers. Donald Trump maintains a penthouse apartment in Trump Tower that is reportedly worth $57 million and is marbled in gold. Among his many other possessions are two private airplanes, three helicopters, five private residences, and 17 golf courses across the United States, Scotland, Ireland, and the United Arab Emirates.
In addition, billionaires devote enormous energy and money to controlling governments. ”They don’t put their wealth underneath their mattresses,” observed U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders; “they use that wealth to perpetuate their power. So you have the Koch brothers and a handful of billionaires who pour hundreds of millions of dollars into elections.” During the 2018 midterm elections in the United States, America’s billionaires lavished vast amounts of money on electoral politics, becoming the dominant funders of numerous candidates. Sheldon Adelson alone poured over $113 million into the federal elections.
This kind of big money has a major impact on American politics. Three billionaire families--the Kochs, the Mercers, and the Adelsons--played a central role in bankrolling the Republican Party’s shift to the far Right and its takeover of federal and state offices. Thus, although polls indicate that most Americans favor raising taxes on the rich, regulating corporations, fighting climate change, and supporting labor unions, the Republican-dominated White House, Congress, Supreme Court, and regulatory agencies have moved in exactly the opposite direction, backing the priorities of the wealthy.
With so much at stake, billionaires even took direct command of the world’s three major powers. Donald Trump became the first billionaire to capture the U.S. presidency, joining Russia’s president, Vladmir Putin (reputed to have amassed wealth of at least $70 billion), and China’s president, Xi Jinping (estimated to have a net worth of $1.51 billion). The three oligarchs quickly developed a cozy relationship and shared a number of policy positions, including the encouragement of wealth acquisition and the discouragement of human rights.
Admittedly, some billionaires have signed a Giving Pledge, promising to devote most of their wealth to philanthropy. Nevertheless, plutocratic philanthropy means that the priorities of the super-rich (for example, the funding of private schools), rather than the priorities of the general public (such as the funding of public schools), get implemented. Moreover, these same billionaires are accumulating wealth much faster than they donate it. Philanthropist Bill Gates was worth $54 billion in 2010, the year their pledge was announced, and his wealth stands at $90 billion today.
Overall, then, as wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, most people around the world are clearly the losers.
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Dr. Lawrence Wittner, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany. He is the author of Confronting the Bomb(Stanford University Press).
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DOI Responds:
Services to Resume at National Parks
WASHINGTON – In the midst of a partial lapse in government appropriations, Rep. Rob Bishop (UT-01) delivered a letter to the Acting Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt. The letter requested that the Department of the Interior "take emergency measures to resume operations” at Utah’s national parks.
Bishop signed the letter as the top Republican on the House Committee on Natural Resources. Signatories also included Rep. Chris Stewart (UT-2) and Rep. John Curtis (UT-3). Stewart and Curtis represent the congressional districts containing Utah’s national parks.
In a January 6 response from the Department of the Interior, Acting Secretary Bernhardt said, “… the burdens being born by local communities should be addressed by Park Service personnel within days, particularly at the bigger parks such as Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks.” (emphasis added)
