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3 Basic Settings On Your Phone That You Should Change

Maria Loreto
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3 Basic Settings On Your Phone That You Should Change

When you buy a phone, the last thing you do is mess with its settings. At least that’s what I try to avoid, believing that if I tinker with the phone’s original settings, I’ll disrupt the magic and balance of the new device. Experts disagree, believing instead that you should adapt your phone’s basic settings to fit your individual needs.

By messing with a few basic settings, you’ll be left with a more secure device that has better storage, and that feels comfortable and personal to you. Gizmodo compiled a few basic tips that’ll leave you with a more secure and better phone. Here are three of our favorites:

Create A Back Up Pin

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Nowadays, your phone is basically your life, so it’s important to set up different layers of security. If your phone has bio metric security, make sure to back that up with a pin. If, for some reason, your phone doesn’t recognize your face or fingerprint, then your pin is the most reliable source of security.

On Android, head over to Settings, and then to Lock screen and security. On iOS, head over to Settings and then tap on Touch ID & Passcode or Face ID & Passcode.

Lock Down Your Phone

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It’s important to reduce your screen time out so that the device locks down as soon as you’re not using it. By setting your screen time out to 2 minutes or less, you’ll reduce the odds of someone taking your phone and unlocking it when it’s most vulnerable.

On Android, tap on Settings, then on Display, then on Advanced. This will take you to Sleep, where you’ll choose the window where your phone’s screen will dim. On iOS, select Display & Brightness and Auto-Lock in Settings.

Tweak Your Photo Settings

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This step is really useful and will prevent tons of problems in the future. New versions of both Android and iOS allow you to easily select where you’d like your photos to be stored, helping you prevent filling your phone up with pictures and data that you’ll later have to painstakingly delete.

Google photos is available on Android and iOS, and it includes unlimited storage if you don’t mind that your photos and videos will be reduced to 16 megapixels and 1080p. You can pay 1.99 a month to store everything in full size. Apple Photos is only available on iOS, and it’ll sync up with all of your Apple devices. This system allows 5GB of cloud storage, after which you’ll have to pay 0.99 a month.

Kate Middleton Sends Demand Soaring For This Surprising Fashion Accessory

Amy Hansen
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Kate Middleton Sends Demand Soaring For This Surprising Fashion Accessory

It’s not a secret Kate Middleton has perfect hair, and now we know the reason. It’s a little trick that was big back in the day and now, thanks to the Duchess of Cambridge, is back in fashion.

It’s…a hairnet.

The Daily Mail reports that the online UK retailer Superdrug has seen a 40 percent surge in sales after it was revealed that Kate uses them to create her impeccable signature updos. A big fan of coiffed hairstyles, Kate uses hairnets to secure her hair in place, creating the flawless effect.

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Meg Potter, Superdrug head of beauty, tells The Daily Mail:

Sometimes the classics are the best and the hairnet is a great example of a simple idea which can achieve the best results, without the need for fancy technology or expensive ingredients. To hear a humble hairnet is the secret to keeping The Duchess’ up dos in place and looking sleek is a far cry from all the usual high end gadgets and beauty lovers have rushed out to pick up hairnets in a bid to recreate these fabulous looks.

But there are tons more products that go into creating Kate’s signature Disney Princess hair every day.

Ahead of Kate’s visit to Norway and Sweden, her royal tour hairdresser Amanda Cook Tucker posted a photo in Instagram that looked like a Sally’s Beauty exploded. The hair product haul included 13 brushes, six combs and two hairdryers.

At the time, celebrity hairdresser Jason Collier was quoted as saying, “I’m not surprised Kate’s hairdresser has such a substantial kit for the Royal Tour – we’ve come to expect Kate to look impeccably groomed and glamorous, and she is so famous for that beautiful blow-dry that it always needs to look perfect.”

Buckle Up! Traffic Accidents Rise On 420 Cannabis Holiday

Evan Eitzel
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Buckle Up! Traffic Accidents Rise On 420 Cannabis Holiday

Commuters and anyone else on the road April 20 might want to consider telecommuting or taking the bus. Assuming they already aren’t cannabis enthusiasts calling in sick.

A report earlier this week by The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that, after analyzing data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, deadly crashes rise 12 percent after 4:20 p.m. through the rest of the day.

Researchers looked at records from April 20ths in the past 25 years. The crash was considered fatal if someone involved in it died within 30 days of it happening. Calculations showed 7.1 crashes per hour during that time period.

Similar incidents during the control group, the same time period a week before and after that day, were 6.1.

The increase is in line with the rise in risk on Super Bowl Sunday.

When the data was broken down by state, New York topped the list of fatal crashes on April 20 with Georgia second. Minnesota saw the smallest increase.

The unofficial cannabis holiday, known as 420 or 4/20, is observed by users lighting up their favorite herb (or chowing down on edibles if that’s their thing) on the day, notably at 4:20 p.m. The tradition’s origins got its start in San Rafael High School, just north of San Francisco. It is now celebrated around the world, sometimes in public as civil disobedience in places where use is illegal or heavily restricted.

Some researchers, members of law enforcement, and politicians have claimed that using cannabis impairs a driver similarly to alcohol. And many states, including those where the substance has been decriminalized or is now legal have added it to what constitutes “under the influence.” But those laws may not be effective, Jake Nelson of the American Automobile Association told MarketWatch. “There is no concentration of THC that would allow us to predict impairment among drivers.”

Researchers pointed out the risks to the general public during that time, not just celebrants, which is despite the fact that “the vast majority of Americans do not celebrate 4/20,” study authors John Staples and Donald Redelmeier wrote. If its popularity continues to increase, so too may the number of traffic fatalities.

Science Proves Marijuana Is Not A Gateway Drug, And Never Was

Terry Hacienda
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Science Proves Marijuana Is Not A Gateway Drug, And Never Was

Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, America’s leading drug warrior, took another shot at his herbal enemy: Cannabis.

During a speech decrying the nation’s opioid addiction epidemic, Sessions displayed his reefer madness tendencies by claiming, “The DEA said that a huge percentage of the heroin addiction starts with prescriptions. That may be an exaggerated number; they had it as high as 80 percent,” Sessions said. “We think a lot of this is starting with marijuana and other drugs too.”

Wrong. Instead of saying “I think,” perhaps America’s top cop should say “I read.” The latest in a countless string of studies regarding the “Gateway Theory” was released earlier this week and it demonstrates that Sessions is out of touch with reality.

According to a paper published in the journal Drug And Alcohol Review:

Given the expansion of cannabis legalisation throughout North America, it is encouraging that cannabis use was associated with slower time to initiation of injection drug use in this cohort. This finding challenges the view of cannabis as a gateway substance that precipitates the progression to using harder and more addictive drugs.

Sessions, of course, is infamous for saying that “good people don’t smoke marijuana,” so it’s pretty obvious he is not the most objective person on the subject. But it has been demonstrated over and over and over again that there is no empirical evidence that marijuana use causes harder drug use.

A report by RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center explains:

The new DPRC research thus demonstrates that the phenomena supporting claims that marijuana is a gateway drug also support the alternative explanation: that it is not marijuana use but individuals’ opportunities and unique propensities to use drugs that determine their risk of initiating hard drugs.

Furthermore, there is a growing body of evidence that suggests marijuana actually reduces opioid use. Data has shown that medical marijuana legalization lowers the number of people misusing opioids.

According to Canadian brain researcher, Dr. Matthew Hill, “I’d say the whole idea of cannabis being a gateway drug is a debunked thing at this point. …I don’t think there’s any evidence to support that,” said Hill, who is an assistant professor at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary.

How Marijuana Can Help With The Pain From Endometriosis

Richard Faulk
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How Marijuana Can Help With The Pain From Endometriosis

One of the more bizarre, and bizarrely long-lived, diagnoses of ancient Greek medicine was an imagined malady called the wandering womb—which is exactly what the name implies: a footloose uterus that bonks into surrounding organs, causing myriad ailments, including weakness (that is to say, even greater weakness than ordinary affects women), dizziness, death, and madness.

It’s the madness part that lingered the longest. Even until the end of the 19th century, when doctors had known for generations that internal organs don’t just get up and leave on their own, it was still a given that a dysfunctional womb could cause any number of emotional illnesses. Hence the synonym for insanity, hysteria, from hystera, the Greek word for uterus.

Today we know with scientific certainty that wombs do not wander. But they can migrate. Or at least, part of them can.

Endometriosis is a painful condition in which the inner lining of the uterus—the endometrium—starts colonizing its neighbors in the pelvic cavity. The endometrium is the thing that thickens, breaks down, and then bleeds out every month. So having endometriosis is like having multiple periods—not just from your womb, but from a bunch of other parts on your insides. (I don’t even have a period, but I’m getting crampy and bloated just thinking about this.)

The most common target is the ovaries, but endometriosis can affect the peritoneum, bladder, intestines—any of that viscera stuff.

While endometriosis is not life threatening, it can make you wish you were dead with a bodyblow of intractable cramps, extra long and heavy periods, nausea. It can also be to blame for painful sex and infertility.

Like many a woman’s health issue, we know scandalously little about endometriosis, including what causes it and what can fix it. The growing body of evidence that cannabinoids can quell inflammation (as in arthritis and Crohn’s disease) and slow proliferation of—and even induce death in— cancer cells, however, suggests that cannabis might help us understand and treat endometriosis.

The research on this subject is scant, but promising. A 2012 review examined 8 studies on the ednocannabinoid systme and endometriosis (it’s not many, but it’s what they came up with) and concluded that cannabinoids “appear to have a favorable action in limiting cell proliferation and in controlling pain symptoms” of endometriosis. Another review, from 2013, expands to the focus to the female reproductive organs as a whole and reaches a similar conclusion: “it is possible to speculate that reduced cannabinoid signalling might underlie the enhanced proliferative capacity of endometriotic lesions.”

This isn’t a cure, but it is solid evidence to justify more research.

Here’s How You Can Permanently Delete All Of Your Social Media Accounts

Maria Loreto
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Here’s How You Can Permanently Delete All Of Your Social Media Accounts

Social media is supposed to connect you with the world, giving you access to tons of people you wouldn’t otherwise interact with on a day-to-day basis. In theory, social media is amazing. In practice, it can be overwhelming, absorbing, and hard to cope with, making some people unhappy and stressed.

If you’ve decided to pull the plug on social media and want to cut it out of your life, here’s what you should do: 

Cover Your Bases

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For starters, make sure you’re deleting your account for the right reasons, and that you back up your important photos, contacts, and information. If you want to switch your username, there are a few ways in which you can do this without erasing everything, so look into every option and do your research.

Deactivating Accounts

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Deactivating an account is temporary. When you deactivate your Facebook, your page will be deleted from your friends’ feeds and all your posts will disappear, but they’ll be back if you decide to reactivate it. To deactivate your Facebook go to the site, choose “Settings,” then “General,” and then “Manage Account.” Look for the “Edit” option, click on it, and you should see “Deactivate account.”

Instagram also allows you to deactivate your account. To do so, you have to access the Instagram site through a computer (I’m sure they do this to make things even harder for you), where you have to click on “Edit Profile” and select “Temporarily disable my account.” For other users, your Instagram page will be gone, but once you log in, it’ll be back to normal.

Deleting Accounts

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If you want to delete Facebook forever, you’ll have to visit this page on a browser. You’ll disappear immediately from your friends’ timelines, but if you change your mind, you’ll have a period of 15 days where you’ll be able to log in to Facebook again and cancel the elimination process.

You can eliminate Twitter by visiting this page on a laptop. Click on “Deactivate account” and follow all the steps Twitter provides. Twitter gives you 30 days to change your mind; 12 months if you’re a verified user. Your tweets will be invisible during this time, but you can still reactivate your account and not lose anything.

To eliminate Instagram you have to visit this page on a browser. Give your reason why you’re leaving them and then click on “Permanently delete account.” If you decide to come back, you’ll have to start over from the beginning. Are you feeling lighter already?

Here’s Why This Yoga Teacher Asks Her Students To Get Naked

Amy Hansen
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Here’s Why This Yoga Teacher Asks Her Students To Get Naked

Rosie Rees, who teaches nude yoga in Australia, encourages her students to take their clothes off in order to promote body image and mind and body well-being.

According to the 30-year-old’s website, “Women’s Nude Yoga is not just about practicing yoga in the nude, it is a practice in vulnerability, courage and radical self acceptance. Simply turning up to the workshop is a major feat for some women and enough to change their entire life.”

If you’re making an “ew” face right now, Rees says the benefits outweigh the nudity:

Women of all ages, shapes, sizes and shades come along for a powerful 3 hour immersion in surrender, softening and letting go of our acquired armour, masks, masculinity, shame & body insecurities, which we gather over time from not feeling or believing we are “good enough”, especially in relation to the media’s current standard of “beauty”.

And you don’t have to get naked at first  – guests arrive wearing robes (or something similar) and get naked when they feel comfortable doing so.

Rees quit her job in 2012 as a Finance Recruiter in Sydney to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a sex therapist. She headed to Perth to study sexology and, according to Rees, “Once in Perth, I moved into a shamanic beach shack with a nude-positive, sex-positive, tantra-trained guy who taught me how to become comfortable in my naked skin and how to freely express myself.”

She says in addition to boosting confidence in her students, naked yoga enhances both sleep and sex, helping women feel sensual and sexually free.

In addition to teaching workshops in Australia, she has been invited to the Naked In Motion studio in New York later this year.

 

Chrissy Teigen Creatively Skirts Around Instagram’s Nudity Policies

Brendan Bures
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Chrissy Teigen Creatively Skirts Around Instagram’s Nudity Policies

Sometimes you just want to show off your fruits and vegetables when you’re preparing a salad. That was Chrissy Teigen’s m.o. when she posted a pic on Instagram of herself crafting what looks to be a delicious salad at home.

Oh, and she was partially nude, did we mention that part?

Teigen, who is pregnant with her second child, couldn’t help flirting with Instagram’s nudity policies, which prohibits photos of female nipples. (Rihanna’s account once got suspended over this very issue.) So how did she get around this hiccup? By playfully posting salad emojis over her breasts, effectively covering them up.

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“Plz don’t shame me I am a strong proud salad making woman just being natural and trying to live my life,” she wrote in the caption.

Teigen, author of the best-selling Cravings cookbook, had a food disaster of another kind on social media recently. She posted a relatable and hilarious story on Twitter about the moments when you cook something amazing and still manage to ruin it. Chrissy Teigen is all of us. Minus the salad pasties.

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Nashville Law Enforcement Agencies Have No Clue What CBD Is

Terry Hacienda
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Nashville Law Enforcement Agencies Have No Clue What CBD Is

It’s yet another episode of the “Can Our Law Enforcement Officials Be Even More Ignorant About Cannabis?” show. This one takes place in Tennessee and it plays out like Keystone Cops.

In a months-long joint investigation involving officials from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, “Operation Candy Crush” — yes, this is absolutely true — shut down  nearly two dozen stores for allegedly selling illegal marijuana products that look like candy. But the candy in question contained CBD from industrial hemp, and law enforcement officials admitted the products did not contain any THC, the psychoactive substance found in cannabis.

Just look at the roster of agencies involved in Operation Candy Crush (and then ask yourself how much this cost the taxpayers):

  • U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
  • Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office
  • Murfreesboro Police Department
  • Smyrna Police Department
  • La Vergne Police Departments

This collection of not-too-educated law enforcement officials found an equally challenged judge — Circuit Court Judge Royce Taylor — and received permission to confiscate all CBD products from the store. And then ordered them padlocked until further notice.

The raid of the non-psychoactive products forced the shut down of 23 stores across the county and 21 peopled were indicted for selling illegal products.

“We’d like to inform the parents to be aware of what your children are bringing home with them,” Rutherford County Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh said in a news conference outside one of the shuttered businesses. “It’s an illegal drug. It’s a CBD product. It’s a derivative of marijuana, and it is an illegal drug except in medical situations.”

Smyrna Police Chief Kevin Arnold did his best Barney Fife impression when addressing the throng of media. “This [CBD gummy bears] isn’t’ healthy at all,” Arnold said, ignoring the fact that CBD, in fact, is healthy and is used to treat a wide variety of ailments.

But Arnold didn’t stop there. When asked during the press conference what the purpose of the product is, Arnold blurted out without skipping a beat, “It’s used to get high.” When the reporter corrected the police chief and calmly explained that it is not purchased to get high, Arnold doubled down on his ignorance. “Then why are they buying it?” he asked.

Um. People are buying it not because it gets them high. They’re buying it because it has medicinal value. You would think that a quick Google search would have aided this seven-agency task force. Nope. According to Arnold, “We have been on this radar for several months.”

So, nobody from the two federal agencies, one state agency, one county agency and three local agencies bothered to check what CBD is?

But, believe it or not, it keeps getting worse. Arnold was informed during the press conference that CBD products are sold at Wal-Marts. When asked if he will go after the retail giant, Arnold said, “If they [consumers] can get it at Wal-Mart, that’s where we’ll go.” Arnold was asked if the police department would be padlocking the doors of Wal-Mart. “If the judge approves it,” he said.

The raid cost 23 small, local store owners their ability to keep their businesses open. Meanwhile, the largest retailer in the country stays open and sells products with the same ingredients.

Arnold, Smyrna’s top cop, stated the obvious at one point: “This is not some obscure product. … They [store owners] know it’s there and what the purpose for it is.”

Yes, Chief, the store owners know what the purpose for it is. Sadly, you have no clue.

Terminally Ill Patients Might Soon Be Able To Access Marijuana In Utah

Amy Hansen
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Terminally Ill Patients Might Soon Be Able To Access Marijuana In Utah

Two bills that would allow terminally ill patients access to medical marijuana grown and distributed by the sate of Utah has passed the House.

House Bills 195 (which allows doctors to recommend medical marijuana for the terminally ill) and 197 (which puts the grow op in the hands of the state Department of Agriculture and Food) are both sponsored by Rep. Brad Daw (R) and approved by the House Health and Human Services Committee.

After dying on a narrow vote last week, House Bill 197 was resurrected on Tuesday.

Said Daw, “This bill becomes the way to supply a genuine cannabis medicine for both those programs. We need to pass this bill if we want to have patients the ability to try both under right to try and under research.”
Rep. Derrin Owens (R) says he is still concerned: “We expect to follow the order of law and with passage of this, we would be in noncompliance with federal law.”

Others, like House Minority Leader Brian King, (D), announced he was flipping his vote in support of  a ballot initiative that would greatly expand who can use medical marijuana in Utah. Supporters are trying to gather enough signatures to get it on the November ballot.

“I’m suspicious and concerned that what this bill really is is an attempt to undermine the ability of the people of the state of Utah to weigh in on this in the form of a ballot initiative,” said Owens.

HB 197 passed 38-32 and now goes to the Senate.

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