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4 Ways To Vacation Without Leaving Your House

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4 Ways To Vacation Without Leaving Your House

Summer is great. It used to be even better during school when we got a months-long break that actually allowed us to travel. But who says that you need to go on holiday in order to see things you’ve never seen before? Here are 4 ways to vacation without leaving you house.

While nothing can compare to the feeling of being in a different place, technology is sure trying hard to recreate that! Does it work out smoothly? Probably not. Still, it’s worth a shot if you really feel like traveling and aren’t able to do it. Here are 5 ways you can take a mini vacation without leaving your house.

Ride a theme park

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There’s a whole subset of YouTube videos dedicated to bringing the theme park experience right into your home. For starters there’s Defunctland, which is a YouTube channel that focuses on the history of extincted theme parks. It’s an extremely interesting and popular channel that has branched out into a podcast, and even VR, which transform the whole rollercoaster experience into something even more immersive. If you just want to experience a cool ride, YouTube’s got you covered as well.

Look at some zoo animal live-feeds

Zoos tend to remind us of vacation activities, right? Why not watch some live streams of your favorite animals as a way of relaxing and forgetting that you’re still at home and that you have work tomorrow?

There are feeds for all sorts of animals, ranging from elephants to penguins to pandas. While it’s not the most active of viewing experiences, since these are live streams and are not edited clips, it makes it very special and rewarding when something does happen.

Virtual museum tours

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A lot of great museums are now offering ways of viewing their content from the comfort of your home, giving you the chance to appreciate some of their art without feeling like you’re surrounded by people smarter than you.

While most of the artwork won’t be available on most museum virtual tours, you can still catch a glimpse of some of the classics. Here’s a list with some of the best tours.

Instagram?

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Alas, when you’ve exhausted all options there’s always the Instagram travel tag, which can depress you as much as it can transport you. There’s all sorts of influencers out there who live off of traveling. You can find daredevil accounts, fashion, foodies or more. Scroll with care.

Is This Why Prince William Never Warmed Up To Meghan Markle?

Patricia Wallace
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Is This Why Prince William Never Warmed Up To Meghan Markle?

It’s no secret that Prince William and Meghan Markle don’t have a close relationship. Not only is there tension between Will and her husband, Harry, but it’s been rumored that the future King wasn’t sold on her marrying his brother. But now, it turns out that the name “Meghan” never had a good standing with William. Is this why Prince William never warmed up to Meghan Markle? A new book claims that back at university, the Duke of Cambridge was turned down by an American with the same name.

In her new book Kate: The Future Queen, royal biographer Katie Nicholl writes that during his time at St. Andrews, Prince William had a huge thing for this girl named Meghann Gunderman. And she was not having it.

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“One of the first girls he spotted was the Texan heiress Meghann Gunderman, known as Gundy,” writes Nicholl. “When William asked her out-something he did not do lightly-it came as somewhat of a shock when she declined his advances. This seemed to make him want her more.”

According to Marie Claire, Meghann, who is the founder and executive director of The Foundation For Tomorrow, went on to marry former NFL star Jason Sehorn in 2017. Her birthday, by the way, is May 18 — the day before Meghan Markle and Harry’s anniversary.

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The Foundation for Tomorrow is a global impact organization. The Foundation For Tomorrow’s programs are impactful, personalized programs that focus on the value and promise of each student, each teacher, and each community we work with. Providing a previously out-of-reach education to some of Tanzania’s most vulnerable children is the heart of our work. To ensure the success of this educational opportunity, TFFT provides Whole Child life skills, a Teachers Training Program, and will soon build a community-enriching Learning Centre.

Is Canada About To Decriminalize All Drugs?

Brendan Bures
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Is Canada About To Decriminalize All Drugs?

A report released last month from a House of Commons committee in Canada called for the country to decriminalize all drugs. It was part of an effort to treat addiction as a public health issue, following rising rates of methamphetamine addiction. The Standing Committee on Health advised the government to “undertake an evaluation of Portugal’s approach to the decriminalization of simple possession of illicit substances and examine how it could be positively applied to Canada.”

Now, one Canadian lawmaker is taking the proposal one step further. Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith recently introduced legislation that would repeal parts of federal laws that concern controlled substances in Canada, as Marijuana Moment first reported. The bill would effectively decriminalize possession of all illicit drugs.

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“It does not mean removing the criminal sanction for producing or trafficking, but for personal use by the very people we want to help, it means treating patients as patients and not as criminals,” Erskine-Smith said when introducing the legislation. “That is exactly what this bill seeks to do by removing the criminal sanction for low-level possession. It is a necessary next step in following the evidence to save lives.”

Erskine-Smith has long advocated for decriminalization as a solution to the country’s opioid crisis. In Erskine-Smith’s estimation, possible criminal charges for drug possession persuade Canadians suffering with addiction from receiving the help they need. While federally legalizing marijuana was “about treating Canadians like responsible adults,” decriminalization is “about saving lives.”

“When you have such a serious issue and a clear policy response that every expert has embraced, we really need to follow the evidence,” Erskine-Smith told CBC. “Fundamentally, we should treat drug use as a health issue.”

The current probability of Erskine-Smith’s bill passing is low. Canada’s Parliament is currently shut down for a summer break before the country’s October election. Once that date passes, any lingering legislation that hasn’t received any action will expire. However, Erskine-Smith promises that if he is re-elected, his decriminalization bill will be the first one he re-introduces.

How Google Maps Can Help You Skip Traffic

Maria Loreto
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How Google Maps Can Help You Skip Traffic

Traffic is the bane of our collective existence, consuming hours of our time and our sanity, especially during holidays. This year, AAA expects a record breaking 49 million people to skip town in order to celebrate Fourth of July.

“This holiday builds on the strong travel demand seen for Memorial Day, and with schools now out of session across the country, families coast to coast are eager to travel,” said Paula Twidale, vice-president of AAA Travel.

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As it tends to happen on most holidays, Google has compiled traffic data and developed an interactive site that shows you the upcoming traffic trends, helping you figure out the best and worst times in which to leave according to your area.

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“We’re seeing only slightly elevated traffic in the days leading up to the holiday, indicating that many folks may be staying local due to the 4th falling midweek. If you’re one of the lucky ones who managed to snag additional days off, the best time to leave before July 4th is on July 3rd in the early morning or the late evening. After all, there will still be the typical weekday traffic during the workday,” reports the site.

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Although the site gives you an overall estimate of the best times to travel, it also allows you to add in your location in order to make your results as specific as possible. If you’re too lazy and want to skip that step, it’s safe to assume that traveling in the early morning — really early, like 4 or 5 a.m. — will lead to much less traffic than if you were to travel in the late afternoon.

A Guide To Tipping Your Delivery Driver In The Gig Economy

Rudy Sanchez
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A Guide To Tipping Your Delivery Driver In The Gig Economy

With the gig economy in full swing, there are more people than ever helping to taking care of the mundane, whether it’s picking up dinner, providing a ride home, dropping off groceries and, in legal states, delivering cannabis. But what do about a gratuity? Here is a guide to tipping your delivery driver.

Many apps include the ability to add a tip to an order, in the same way a restaurant will have a line for an optional gratuity. Unfortunately, the way delivery services pay their drivers — often independent contractors and not employees — can complicate how you approach tipping and might even change how you provide gratuities.

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The amount tipped can also vary regionally or by level of service. The general rule of thumb is to tip at least 15% at sit-down restaurants, although in some major US cities, 20 percent has become the new floor. The same rule-of-thumb can be used to tip ride-share drivers like Uber or Lyft. As independent contractors, these drivers are responsible for all of their expenses, and don’t get paid to drive to until they pick up their fares, if they came a long way to pick you up, considering a slightly better tip. For short rides, it might be more appropriate to tip 2-3 dollars instead of a percentage of the fare. Also keep in mind that many platforms not only allow customers to rate drivers, but also vice-versa.

Similarly, for food delivery, a percentage of your bill, or a few bucks for a small order, is generally considered an appropriate amount, with a little extra if drivers have to deliver in bad weather. But here’s where services like DoorDash and Amazon Flex make it a bit more complicated. Both services, as well as many others, guarantee a pay per order, but adjust how much they pay the driver, only covering the gap between tips and the guaranteed minimum. In other words, tips are more of a wage subsidy and less of a gratuity based on the quality of service. If the driver is on a platform with a similar pay system, and you want your “tip” to be a gratuity beyond the base pay, tip in-person, in-cash, upon delivery.

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For cannabis drivers tipping can be also be complicated, depending on whether the driver is an employee of the dispensary or is a contractor similar to non-cannabis delivery. Fully employed drivers probably rely less on gratuities than gig drivers, something to possibly consider. It also wouldn’t be out of place to ask the driver how important tips are to them. In-store, it’s always nice to throw a couple bucks in the jar, how much depends on the level of service. The same rule-of-thumb for other tip jars generally applies for budtenders too.

Whether you love or hate tipping, it’s a custom well-intrenched in our culture, and for many of those that make life more convenient, those gratituties are an important component of their livelihood, and few would want good service to go under compensated.

Lindsay Lohan Posts Naked Selfie And More

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Lindsay Lohan Posts Naked Selfie And More
In this week’s gossip – Lindsay Lohan posts naked selfie and more!

Adam Lambert Just Lightly Trashed Madonna’s Music

In an interview with The Independent, Lambert says Madonna is one of his idols, but questions if the flack she gets these days has anything to do with her being a sexualized 60-year-old, or her larger-than-life personality:

‘’I’m a long-time Madonna fan for sure – but here’s my question: does she? Or is she getting a pushback because of the music she’s making?’‘

”I love that she reinvents herself. I love her, and I think she’s brilliant. And I do think she’s pissed upon a bit, but I don’t think it’s because she’s a strong sexual woman.”

‘‘I think it’s because she’s making the music of 2019 that doesn’t fall quite in line with her legacy, perhaps.”

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Lindsay Lohan posts naked mirror selfie to mark her 33rd birthday

Via Fox News:

Lindsay Lohan posted a naked mirror selfie to her Instagram late Monday on the eve of her 33rd birthday.

The actress, musician and reality host appeared to be wearing nothing but her birthday suit while she held up her phone and strategically posed on the floor of an almost empty white room. “The Parent Trap” star did wear sparkling earrings, a ring and a bracelet despite the apparent lack of clothes.

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B-Real Finally Tells Real Story Smoking Weed On SNL

Brendan Bures
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B-Real Finally Tells Real Story Smoking Weed On SNL

When Cypress Hill went on Saturday Night Live back in 1993, it accomplished two distinctly different but equally important outcomes. One, it cemented their lingering status as a “weed” hip-hop group when DJ Muggs lit up a joint on the stage before performing “I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That.” As a result of Muggs sparking up, Cypress Hill also got banned from SNL for life.

Today none of this would be seen as a big deal, but smoking marijuana during a live television broadcast was enough to draw the overwhelming ire of good-natured, conservative America back in the 90s. But Cypress Hill was countercultural back when such an attitude could still exist.

“Hey New York City,” Muggs said. “They said I couldn’t light my joint, you know what I’m saying. But we ain’t going out like that.”

Muggs’s remarks were enough to earn Cypress Hill a legacy that would last a lifetime. But according to B-Real, what Muggs did wasn’t the plan at all. On a recent episode of Talib Kweli’s “People’s Party” podcast, B-Real explained how the group meant for it all to go down.

“What was supposed to happen was in the last verse, when we were getting close to the chorus, the DJ was supposed to start smashing the turn tables,” B-Real explained. “Kind of like The Who used to smash their equipment at the end of a set. We were doing that for a time and lighting our shit on fire. So we wanted to do something like that on Saturday Night Live.”

But the DJ chocked up. He panicked and wouldn’t do it, messing up the original plan of Cypress Hill lighting up their joints amidst the ruins of the smashed set. They wanted to look anarchic and rad, but instead Muggs had to improvise.

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“Because dude was kind of nervous up there, Mugs said fuck it and pulled out the joint first,” B-Real said. “Later on, the DJ doesn’t smash anything, so Mugs pushed over Bobo’s percussions and stuff so it looks like we were starting to smash stuff up.”

“It was a total fuck-up on what we were trying to do,” B-Real continued. “Mugs lighting that joint got us banned forever. But it also added to our legend.”

On the podcast, B-Real also discussed his All-Star team of who he’s smoked weed with and how he went from just smoking weed to becoming the marijuana activist he is today. You can watch the full interview below.

 

Liam Gallagher Talks About Marijuana Tolerance Breaks

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Liam Gallagher Talks About Marijuana Tolerance Breaks

Liam Gallagher is no longer finding the oasis in cannabis that he once did following a recent “mad one.” And while most marijuana users probably have gotten too high for their own good, Gallagher’s experience was bad enough he’s done with cannabis. Period.

“I had a bit of weed, because I was on holiday, and it was strong,” he told Celebretainment. “You know when you have to sneak off because you’re having a mad one? That was me.

“I had to go and have a word with myself in a cupboard and all I could hear was this song by Fat White Family that sounded like ‘Nightclubbing’ by Iggy Pop on a loop, for about an hour. It was top.”

Top indeed, Mr. Gallagher. The rocker also remembered another time when he overindulged with marijuana. That would be back in his Oasis days when he ate almost 150 oysters while partying in Philadelphia with his bandmates.

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“Me, Whitey (Alan White) and Guigs (Paul McGuigan) got really stoned and kept ordering trays of them,” said Gallagher. “It was really good weed. All night we were talking about going to the beach in the morning. I think that’s why we kept ordering oysters.”

Unfortunately for Gallagher and his bandmates, they never made it to the beach that night, because, if you read closely, they were in freaking Philadelphia.

“Then Whitey said, ‘Er, there’s no beach in Philadelphia,’” Gallagher said. “I went over to the window, pulled back the curtain to show them the sea … it was an air conditioning unit in a brick wall.”

Of course, everyone has a different relationship with cannabis. But we would suggest that if you mistake an air conditioning unit as a beach, you maybe should take a tolerance break. Or embark on a long-term marijuana abstinence as Mr. Gallagher is.

Why Prince Harry Didn’t Go To University Like His Brother

Patricia Wallace
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Why Prince Harry Didn’t Go To University Like His Brother

We’ve heard so much over the years about Kate and William’s relationship at university ⁠— how they met, dated, broke up, dated again, broke up a second time, got back together ⁠— that it’s easy to forget Harry. Here is why Prince Harry didn’t go to university like his brother.

Back in 2013, while serving a four month tour in Afghanistan as an Apache co-pilot/gunner, Harry said he enjoyed flying and that he’d be fine doing that over anything else.

“I probably should have done a lot more reading, but I was fine at flying.

“And then every now and then a written test would come up, and I’d be absolutely useless and I’ve been like that from stage one of my youth.”

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Harry was always better at sports in school. He even needed to repeat his final year at his prep school Ludgrove to get into Eton College in the late 90s. Now, remember, this is the U.K. where “college” equals two years of study to prepare for university. And university is the equivalent of college in the U.S..

“Exams were always a nightmare, but anything like kicking a ball around or playing PlayStation — or flying — I do generally find a little bit easier than walking, sometimes,” said Harry.

After taking a gap year to travel, Harry shunned university and enrolled in a 10-month course at Sandhurst officer training college.

Harry said he was surprised to be selected for the Apache co-pilot gunner course because he didn’t have any higher education under his belt.  “I think back in – whenever it was, two years ago – when it was all decided, it was never expected.

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“Because being a junior captain, or a lieutenant then that I was and a non-grad (non graduate), obviously not going to university, therefore the army presume you to be less intelligent, which is nice of them – probably true.

“It’s a joy for me because I’m one of those people who loves playing PlayStation and Xbox, so with my thumbs I like to think that I’m probably quite useful.”

Cannabis Industry Ramping Up For July 4, 7/10 Holidays

Debra Borchardt
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Cannabis Industry Ramping Up For July 4, 7/10 Holidays

Cannabis consumers love a good holiday and July brings two in quick succession. First, of course, is the Fourth of July. Cannabis software company Akerna Corp. (NASDAQ: KERN) said that it expects Americans will spend more on cannabis this Fourth of July than chicken for their BBQs.

According to Akerna, Fourth of July-week (June 28 – July 4) cannabis sales are expected to increase by 80% compared with an average week, ringing in approximately $450 million in total sales nationally. If this keeps up, Akerna said that by 2020 Americans could end up spending more money on cannabis than they would spend on wine for the Fourth of July.

While sales are expected to begin on the weekend before the holiday, increased sales are expected to continue throughout the week. Since the Fourth falls on a Thursday this year, Wednesday’s sales are forecast to be the busiest of the year.

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Akerna released these retail sales figures that they compiled through a statistically relevant analysis of the cannabis retail market analyzing data tracked in MJ Platform across 20 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.

July 4th by the numbers:

  • The order total on average will be $3.43 more than the average daily order total of $97.57.
  • Average basket count for 2019 is 2.64. 4thof July week will ring in an average basket count of 3.12.
  • Cartridge/Pens are expected to take a category share increase of 5%, as the second most popular category purchased June 28-July 4.
  • In states where flower is legal, flower will be the largest sales category with 40% of all sales for retailers.

“Utilizing the largest data set in the cannabis industry, we are able to provide a unique insight into market peaks and trends to anticipate and prepare for their busiest days,” said Jessica Billingsley, Akerna’s CEO. “Cannabis sales rival the sales of traditional holiday staples. It’s time to stop looking at this industry as niche or marginal. The growth of consumer adoption is explosive as the legalization of cannabis expands and Americans across all demographic segments are incorporating cannabis into their everyday lives.”

7/10

However, the fun doesn’t end with the Fourth of July. Just as 4/20 holds significance for cannabis consumers, there is the extracts holiday on July 7. 7/10 looks like OIL spelled backward. Some take it a step further and call it Happy Dab Day to celebrate the concentrate side of the market. There is a Dab Day celebration in Miami on July 13 this year sponsored by Trulieve.

Flowhub, the seed-to-sale software company tracked a sample set of cannabis consumers on this holiday over the course of one year, and the company found that in 2017, concentrate sales rose 88% versus 2016. In 2017, Dab Day sales increased 34% for that specific day of the week. The most popular type of concentrate is shatter (by a large margin), followed by wax, vape cartridges and live resin.

This article was originally published on Green Market report.

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