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These London Buses Use Fuel Made From Coffee

In an effort to reduce transport emissions and to try and save the world, the public transportation department of London has begun to use a new biofuel on their buses that’s made from coffee.

The Daily Meal reports that these sorts of experiments are not new for the city of London, which has invested in different sorts of biofuel from all kinds of foods, including tallow and cooking oil. London is a city that suffers from heavy pollution, so these investments have sadly become a necessity.

Luckily for Londoners, a lot of people drink coffee there, producing around 220,000 tons of coffee waste every year. This hopefully means that they’ll have a lot of fuel for their buses while also helping out our environment. This “coffee oil” is made by Bio-bean and it’s a mixture of coffee waste and diesel. The company claims that they have enough fuel to power a bus for the duration of a year. In a rough estimate, it takes around 2.55 million of coffee cups to power one bus. Wow.

Bio-fuel gets their coffee supplies from different shops and factories that make instant coffee. Even though they need a lot of coffee to make fuel, the drink will never stop being a priority in the modern world, so we’ll never run out of those.

Feeling Lonely? Here’s An Easy Formula For Friendship

The Like Switch is a book written by Dr. Jack Schafer, a retired FBI agent who claims that there is a formula you can follow if you want to be friends with someone. While friendships and relationships seem like extremely personal things that can’t be quantified, Schafer is an expert on human relationships and behavior, so it’s safe to assume that he knows his stuff. 

The formula has four elements: Proximity, frequency, duration and intensity. Proximity refers to the distance between you and another person and the exposure you have to each other. Frequency and duration refer to the amount of times you contact that person and the length of each encounter. Intensity finally refers to how strongly you’re able to satisfy the other person’s psychological or physical needs. According to the formula, the more time you spend with someone, the more they’ll like you and the deeper your relationship will grow.

Our brains have a territory scan, which allows us to assess if the person we’re talking to is worth pursuing when it comes to friendship, based on the analysis of the elements mentioned above.

If you want to be friends with someone, it’s important for them to see you around, and that you become familiar to them so that they feel more comfortable in your presence. To develop the friendship you must extend the amount of time that you’re with that person, increasing the intensity by talking about everyday things and about stuff you have in common. This should be easy since you see each other around regularly. 

Schafer believes that friendships take time to grow, so instead of being insistent and demanding someone to be your friend, you should take things slowly and increase your exposure to them gradually, making the relationship bloom naturally. 

Hear A Woman Wake From A Nap Screaming During The Symphony

Have you ever been to a concert, one where the music was so good and relaxing that it sort of sent you up into the clouds, sprinkled dream dust in your eyes and cradled you like you were in the starring role of your own lullaby? That’s presumably what happened to one lady who found herself roused from slumber by the rude conductor of California’s North State Symphony orchestra, who didn’t even bother to ask her if it was okay if he picked up the tempo during Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.”

The moment it happens is a hilarious one, as you can hear the woman scream during an uptick in the music’s pace, causing everyone around her to laugh out loud. Like, can you imagine the pure embarrassment this woman must have felt? Was there drool involved?

Music director Scott Seaton, who uploaded this video, found the incident hilarious, even Tweeting about it:

Kudos to the orchestra for not missing a beat:

‘Avengers: Infinty War’ Trailer Analysis: Needs More Chris

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The expectations for Avengers: Infinity War—the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s long-brewing endgame to collect all of our favorite superheroes into one movie—couldn’t be higher. While seeing Joss Whedon’s original Avengers onscreen was pure ecstasy for fanboys, this property will be a true cultural event.

Put simply: We won’t see only two of Marvel’s Chrises in one movie—we’ll see all three.

That Marvel would attempt to corral so many members of the most powerful name in Hollywood within their cinematic universe seemed a very foolhardy proposition when they announced their intentions. The Chris Wars—the battle of supremacy between Chris Evans, Chris Pratt, Chris Hemsworth, and Chris Pine—has gestated longer than your parents’ marriage and some wars.

Not only will the movie give us three of those Chrises together, but Marvel will raise the ante but slapping beards on all these guys. That’s right—we’re getting bearded Captain America.

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Around six months rest between now and the release of this movie, so we’ll have plenty of time for further analysis and speculation. Our primary concern at the moment, though, is simple: How hard must we petition to throw in the fourth Chris—Chris Pine—into this film?

DC has no need for him anymore because, spoiler alert, they killed his character off in Wonder Woman. Do what DC couldn’t, Marvel. Resurrect Pine and put him in the movie. Only then could the movie accomplish its goal of playing out the true Infinity War (the Chris Wars) once and for all.

NFL’s Josh Gordon Admits To Making $10,000 Selling Marijuana

Josh Gordon, the on-and-off suspended and one-time prodigal Cleveland Browns wide receiver, hasn’t been hiding.  Since being reinstated by the NFL following a multi-year absence related to substance abuse, Gordon has instead offered radical transparency in divulging the details that led to his fall from grace and battles with addiction.

His latest telling of truth? Gordon told Sports Illustrated he collected about $10,000 through marijuana sales while in college.

Via Sports Illustrated:

Gordon said that as a sophomore at Baylor, he was “receiving as much as six pounds of weed—vacuum-sealed and wrapped in Mylar, sprayed with kerosene and covered in coffee beans to mask the smell, shipped through U.S. mail—every week from a dealer back home.” He then would drive to Dallas, Austin and San Antonio to sell it.

“If I was going to be a thug or a gangster, I was going to be the best gangster out there,” Gordon said.

Gordon hasn’t seen an NFL playing field since 2014, his last regular season game. This Sunday he’ll be eligible to play against the Los Angeles Chargers. He is expected to play.

Gordon previously told GQ he was high for every NFL game he’s played. His reinstatement was, in part, because of his sobriety.

Cheese Please: Here Are The 20 Best Pizzas In America

Pizza is the best, and there are so many good places to eat pizza in America right now that it’s getting a little ridiculous. While ranking the best pizza is something that everyone with a brain and a stomach has tried to do, the people from The Daily Meal took things further, making a list of the best pizza places in the entirety of the US, covering around 900 restaurants.

To complete this truly heroic endeavor, the staff ate in as many different pizza places they could and they also gathered large amounts of intel from all kinds of people. Chefs, restaurant critics, bloggers, writers, and all sort of pizza fans.

Before we get into the top 20, we’ll mention the best states when it comes to their pizza magic. New York was the first, obviously, followed by Illinois, California, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Massachusetts.

Here are the top 20 pizza places in the US:

1. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, New Haven, Conn.

2. John’s of Bleecker Street, New York, N.Y. 

3. Modern Apizza, New Haven, Conn. 

4. Kesté, New York, N.Y.

5. Pizzeria Bianco, Phoenix, AZ 

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6. Di Fara, Brooklyn, N.Y.

7. Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria Chicago, Ill. 

8. Sally’s Apizza, New Haven, Conn. 

9. Joe & Pat’s Pizzeria, Staten Island, N.Y. 

10. Lucali, Brooklyn, N.Y.

11. Motorino, New York, N.Y.

12. Patsy’s, New York, N.Y.

13. Totonno’s, Brooklyn, N.Y. 

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14. Gino’s East, Chicago, Ill. 

15. Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, San Francisco, Calif.

16. Pequod’s, Chicago, Ill.

17. Roberta’s, Brooklyn, N.Y.


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18. Apizza Scholls, Portland, Ore.

19. Joe’s, New York, N.Y.

20. Prince St. Pizza, New York, N.Y.


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Rick Steves Is Once Again Fighting For Marijuana Legalization

Rick Steves is known throughout America as the guy on PBS who treks across Europe and offers up useful travel tips and tricks. This week, the popular travel guide and author flew to Chicago to offer advice of a totally different kind: Cannabis.

Steves testified on Tuesday before a joint House-Senate committee hearing and urged the Illinois lawmakers to “figure out a better solution” than the current war on drugs.

“When you legalize marijuana, use does not go up, teen use does not go up, crime does not go up, what goes up ix tax revenue, what goes down is the black market,” Steves said. “Seventy thousand people are locked up in our country every year, 700,000 people are arrested, for possession of marijuana, not violent crimes. They’re not rich white guys, they’re poor people and they’re black people. It’s amazing that it’s happening in our country right now and there is just a way out of this.”

Steves is no stranger to this subject. Steves is a longtime supporter of marijuana legalization and was a major campaigner in Washington state’s 2012 measure to make adult recreational cannabis legal.  He has also campaigned for legal marijuana in California, Oregon, Maine and Massachusetts. Now he can add Illinois to his marijuana travelogue.

“This is not a pro-pot movement. This is an anti-prohibition movement,” he said. “Marijuana is here to stay.”

State Sen. Dan McConchie, a Republican, challenged Steves on his upbeat message. “Just because you legalize it doesn’t necessitate that all of these problems are going to go away. … I think we would be jumping the gun to legalize this in the absence of robust data.”

Steves agreed that there would be societal repercussions with legalization, but trying to keep it illegal is simply not the answer. People will consume cannabis whether it is legal or not, Steves explained. He also pointed out to Illinois lawmakers that his home state of Washington collects $300 million per year in tax revenue. In Washington, Steves says, “nothing has changed except there’s not people selling marijuana illegally on the streets. They’re selling it in the shops.”

Watch the full press conference here.

Gossip: Meghan Markle’s Dog Will Stay In America; Was Meghan Lying When She Said ‘I Didn’t Know Much’ About Prince Harry?

Meghan Markle has finally found her Prince Charming – but it has come at a huge cost, with the American actress forced to give up on many of her passions. rince Harry’s fiancee had to make the heartbreaking decision to leave behind her dog Bogart after moving to the UK to start her new life, as the pet is thought to be too old to fly overseas.

Kensington Palace confirmed that Miss Markle’s new role would also force her to give up her charity work with the United Nations, plus her role as patron at organizations including World Vision Canada and One Young World.

The American actress has two rescue dogs – a beagle, Guy, and a Labrador-shepherd cross, Bogart – who she would keep in touch with via FaceTime during her long stints away. Kensington Palace confirmed Guy has come to the UK and has legal permission to stay here, but Bogart has been left behind. It has prompted speculation from fans on social media that Bogart may have been left behind because he is ‘too big or too old’ to fly to the UK. Many animal lovers have expressed their sadness online at the pet being separated from Miss Markle.

The Prince’s communication secretary Jason Knauf said: ‘Bogart is now living with friends.’ The Palace refused to speculate as to why Bogart was not brought to the UK and added the decision ‘would have lots of complexity to it’ while confirming Miss Markle remains ‘fond of her dogs.’
[From The Daily Mail]

Was Meghan Lying When She Said ‘I Didn’t Know Much’ About Prince Harry?

Meghan talked about being set up on a blind date by a mutual friend:

“Yes, it was definitely a set up. (laughs) It was a blind date. And it’s so interesting because we talk about it and now and even then, I, you know, because I’m from the States, you don’t grow up with the same understanding of the royal family and so while I now understand very clearly, there’s a global interest there. I didn’t know much about him, and so the only thing that I had asked her when she said that she wanted to set us up, was, I had one question. I said, “Well is he nice?” Cause if he wasn’t kind, it just didn’t, it didn’t seem like it would make sense and so, we went and had a, met for a drink, and then I think very quickly into that we said, “Well what are we doing tomorrow? We should meet again.”

One of Meghan’s childhood friends claims that Meghan was always obsessed with royalty:

Meghan Markle “was always fascinated by the royal family’’ — and hopes “to be Princess Diana 2.0,’’ a close childhood friend said Tuesday. Markle coyly claimed while announcing her engagement with Prince Harry on Monday that she “didn’t know much’’ about her blue-blood fiancé or his royal family before she met him, but old pal Ninaki Priddy said the pair traveled to London as teens — and the American actress was obsessed by the royals, the Daily Mail said.

“I’m not shocked at all’’ by Markle’s engagement to Harry, Priddy told the Mail. “It’s like she has been planning this all her life. She gets exactly what she wants, and Harry has fallen for her play. She was always fascinated by the royal family. She wants to be Princess Diana 2.0. She will play her role ably. But my advice to him is to tread cautiously,’’ Priddy said.

On the then-15-year-old girls’ trip to London, they posed for one photo sitting on a metal railing and beaming in front of Buckingham Palace.
[From Page Six]

 

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SoCal Cannabis Investment Forum Happening Today

Don’t miss Southern California Cannabis Investment Forum, a discussion on investing in Southern California’s newly regulated cannabis industry. Hosted by Harris Bricken’s in Los Angeles, the Southern California Cannabis Investment Forum will connect top investors and leading companies in Southern California’s cannabis and ancillary industries.

The Forum will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday with a keynote from Hilary Bricken that addresses the many recent changes to California’s medical and adult use cannabis laws under MAUCRSA. From 6:45 to 8 p.m., I will moderate a panel comprised of Alex Fang, Founder of Sublime CO2; Paul Henderson, CEO of Grupo Flor; Stephen Kaye, COO of Big Rock; Kenneth Berke, President of PayQwick; and Carlton Willey, our own San Francisco-based securities and equity financing attorney.

Panelists will cover:

Audience questions will be taken throughout the presentation. A cocktail networking session will follow the panel and last until 9:30 pm. Food and drink will be provided.

The Southern California Cannabis Investment Forum will be held at Wanderlust Hollywood. Doors open at 5:30 pm. We’ll have a few tickets at the door, but we expect this event to sell out just as we did a similar event in San Francisco so it’s best to register in advance!

Will Citizens Be Able To Grow Their Own Marijuana In New Jersey?

Since Phil Murphy became governor elect, replacing the nation’s least popular governor in history, Chris Christie, New Jerseyites have been waiting with bated breath to see cannabis become legal. Some out of worry, but most out of pure excitement.

Murphy promised to legalize recreational cannabis within his first 100 days in office. While there was already a bill introduced in January, it has stayed in committee and in Assembly respectively, with Christie’s foot firm on the brakes.

Legislators and advocates are working on drafting a new bill now, as they acknowledge that the older bill needed some tweaking to pass the Legislature.

To answer the above question on home cultivation, the answer is a strong maybe. In the current bill the answer is no, no growing your own, however, that could change with the new bill. Kate Bell from the Marijuana Policy Project says that they are advocating strongly for home grow inclusion and they seem to be making progress with their case, according to NJ.com.

As to the rest of what we know about the existing bill, adults 21 and over will be able to possess up to one ounce of dried cannabis. Only towns that allow recreational sales will stand to benefit from the tax revenue. Best of all, those whose criminal records consist of nonviolent cannabis “crimes” will be eligible to have their records expunged.

Criminal justice is one of Murphy’s main reasons for wanting to dispel of prohibition. He knows the numbers and that black and brown people are arrested and incarcerated at much higher levels than whites, while data shows that people of all races use cannabis at around the same rate.

A new, diverse market is about to open in New Jersey, and diversity is one of the original bill’s points. It calls for women and minorities to be given the chance at licenses to grow or distribute. It’s not all about the weed, it’s about jobs, justice, diversification, infrastructure and the tax revenue that will help in all areas.

And though the original bill doesn’t allow for public usage, there’s a great possibility that legislators have been doing their homework and know that places to consume are a must. Plus, MPP is already on it. New Jersey may have a new kind of social club sooner than later…

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