When he was just a teenager, Prince William had the hots for an older woman. An older woman who would later become his father’s niece.
William was 17-years-old when he reportedly “fell in love” with a then 25-year-old Emma Parker Bowles — the niece of Camilla, according to royal biographer Andrew Morton. The year was 1999, just six years before Camilla and Prince Charles married.
One palace insider supposedly revealed to Morton that Prince William would “gaze adoringly” at Emma.
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A waiter who served the couple back in 1999 told London’s Sunday People at the time that William was “looking lovingly at Emma and she was hanging on his every word.” And a close friend of Emma’s said that “sometimes he gazes at her so adoringly that it becomes a bit embarrassing. He looks every inch a young man who is falling in love.”
And while no major romance came of this flirtation, the two remain close friends.
When William started dating Kate Middleton in college in 2003 and subsequently proposed, Emma was invited to the wedding. Now 44, she told E! that she was surprised by the invitation “because I know he didn’t invite a lot of people.”
She also said she thinks William “just started off as a nice person.
“You could see in that situation how he possibly could have turned out to be a real brat, but he couldn’t be further from that and has much more humility than a lot of people I know.”
In 2017, Emma was a contestant on the British TV series “The Jump” in which celebrities compete in dangerous winter sports. Think “Dancing With the Stars” but with snow and ice.
People get drunk because they drink alcohol faster than their bodies can metabolize it. Our livers can only do so much for us. By eating some food before you go out and start drinking, you’ll add some padding onto your stomach, slowing down the getting drunk process and preventing your blood alcohol level from rising so rapidly.
While all foods will act as a buffer, there are some that do a better job than others, providing you with larger amounts of nutrients and keeping your stomach busier, which is key. Thrillist compiled a list of foods that are perfect for your pre party rituals, treating you much better than a pop tart or a large pack of Doritos would. Check out five of our favorites.
This food is delicious and filled with macronutrients, playing a good compliment to sandwiches, pita chips, wraps, salad dressings and veggies. According to nutritionist Kim Larson having hummus with raw veggies is the best way to go, although you might be hungry within the hour.
Yogurt contains a perfect amount of macronutrients and it’s also the perfect snack, being able to be consumed on the go. This is an easy and cheap solution, especially if you top it off with some granola and fruits. Complimenting your yogurt will make your meal have plenty of carbs, proteins and fat. Yogurt will also stick to your stomach and digest itself slowly, keeping your digestive system moving and working for up to six hours.
Salmon has become the it food in health circles for several reasons, with one of the main one being the tons of vitamins that it contains. When it comes to alcohol, salmon’s effect is even better since it contains a lot of vitamin B-12, an element that’s depleted once alcohol starts to make its way through your body. Vitamin B-12 is also known for helping out your short term memory and neurological functions. Perhaps it’ll help you prevent blackouts?
Carbs are good for preventing hangovers and drunken messes, staying in your digestive system for long periods of time. Glycocen, an element normally stored in the liver, is affected by alcohol. Carbs do a great job of keeping your glycocen levels high and keeping your stomach full, both factors that can really help you pace yourself when you’re out drinking.
Foods like almond butter and avocado contain lots of healthy fats, which take a lot of time to digest. These foods are versatile and delicious, allowing themselves to be used in sandwiches, salads, and plenty of other meals.
Even if you didn’t hear a single track from Wiz Khalifa’s catalogue of music, you’d still know one defining characteristic about him: this guy likes to smoke weed. His whole brand, after all, revolves around marijuana. He has an eponymous marijuana strain he developed —called Khalifa Kush — and his breakthrough mixtape into the mainstream was called Kush and Orange Juice.
On a recent episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, host Joe Rogan asked Khalifa when his long-standing romance with cannabis began. That would be in high school at the age of 16, when Khalifa’s music career started taking off. He credits smoking cannabis with helping him “get through school because it made it tolerable.”
“For me, that was the bare minimum — to graduate high school. I could move on with the rest of my life after that,” he said. “Weed helped me get through high school. I ain’t gonna say that for everyone, but it helped me.”
Then again, Wiz Khalifa’s marijuana consumption is far from comparable to the average user. “We burning a cool ounce per day,” he told Rogan. (For the record, Rogan responded that was more like “a joint a day” for him.) And Khalifa recognized that health and wellness trends will move people away from smoking cannabis and consuming in different ways.
“Smoking pot is gonna be old school,” he said. “We’re still going to do it, but it’s totally moving to just ingesting it and rubbing it own. It makes people less scared of it and it works.”
The cannabis space is full of opportunities for bright young minds to bring innovation and a new way of thinking to an industry that is rather new and open to different perspectives. As such, Millennials have begun to make their mark within the cannabis industry, and their efforts are being recognized.
Here are three emerging and successful entrepreneurs who are making waves in the cannabis industry and modeling the way for both their successors and predecessors on how to make a serious impact in an emerging industry:
Karson Humiston, Founder & CEO, Vangst
Recruitment has become front and center with numerous platforms that aim to connect eager applicants with vacant opportunities within a growing and established companies.
Karson Humiston, with a background in student travel after founding On Track Adventures, Karson has gone on to become the Founder & CEO of Vangst, the cannabis industry’s leading recruitment and hiring platform.
Since launching in 2016, through Direct Hire & Vangst GIGS, Vangst has connected more than 10,000 people with jobs at over 650 leading cannabis businesses around the US and Canada.
Her accomplishments include raising $12.5M from leading tech and cannabis investors, including Lerer Hippeau and Casa Verde Capital. She was featured on the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 lists.
Ryan Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, LeafLink
Companies that have aimed to streamline communications and operations processes within the cannabis industry have found great success. POS systems, inventory management systems, and internal/external communication systems are helping cannabis companies find efficiencies that in turn increase profit.
Ryan Smith is the co-founder & CEO of LeafLink, the cannabis industry’s wholesale marketplace. LeafLink connects thousands of cannabis brands and retailers and empowers them to streamline the ordering process, simplify communication, and spend less time on administrative work, so they can focus on growing their businesses.
Launched in Colorado in March 2016, LeafLink is now live in 20 territories across the United States and Canada. Under Smith’s leadership, LeafLink has raised $14 million in investor capital with the software helping cannabis retailers and brands to manage over $1B+ per year in orders.
Smith specializes in managing B2B firms and online marketplaces, successfully founding and exiting two companies, one of which he sold to an NYSE public firm. In 2016, he was the first CEO of a cannabis-facing company to be listed on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. In February 2018, LeafLink was the first company in the cannabis space to make Fast Company’s 2018 list of Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise.
Aaron Riley, President & CEO @ CannaSafe
An important component of cannabis legalization has been product testing to ensure all that is sold to consumers are free of contaminants and pesticides while providing information on cannabinoid content for consumers.
With experience in the luxury car industry, Aaron Riley brings his business acumen to the cannabis industry in his role as President of CannaSafe, the first ISO accredited cannabis lab in the world. CannaSafe is a full-service testing lab offering a one-stop solution where cannabis cultivators and distributors can ensure they are in full compliance with all regulatory requirements and that their products are safe and effective for use.
Their 12,500 square foot lab facility, based in Los Angeles, CA, currently tests approx. 25% of all compliant batches in the state. The company has a second facility opening later this year. Riley obtained a Bachelor & M.B.A. from Jacksonville University, earning his way through college on a football scholarship. Under Aaron’s leadership, CannaSafe recently won Testing Facility of the year award for California by Dope magazine.
Follow in their Footsteps
Opportunities abound for emerging professionals within the cannabis industry. Green Market Report featured cannabis companies that are accepting summer internships for young professionals to get their foot in the door and follow in the footsteps of these three professionals under 3 who are getting noticed within cannabis.
Perhaps the Prince of Darkness isn’t the first person you’d expect to extend your sympathies, but from the sound of it, Ozzy Osbourne has been having a tough go this year. Osbourne had planned to tour significantly, but he’s since postponed all 2019 tour dates due to sickness and injury.
Pneumonia and a fall at home — in which his head smashed a bedside table, dislodging metal rods from a previous ATV accident years back — are to blame. But according to his wife and manager, Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy has turned to CBD oil to assist in his recovery.
“He’s off all of those [painkillers]. He had to have it after he was operated on the last time but now for pain, he has that CBD oil — whatever it’s called — and he’s dealing with it that way,” she said in an interview with Loose Women.
Ozzy has a history of addiction issues, which might explain why he’s opting for CBD oil instead of addictive opioids. In her interview, Sharon said he’s currently working with a physiotherapist as well. But Ozzy’s greatest difficulty, according to Sharon, might be the boredom of being stuck at home.
“He’s in terrible pain and his pain is, he’s not good at being at home. He prefers to be back with his band and he’s pining and it’s really—the challenge is not his injuries, it’s state of mind and keeping positive.”
It’s almost common knowledge by now that Kate Middleton and Prince William broke up back in 2007, five years after the two started dating during their time at University of Saint Andrews. Some say Kate couldn’t take Will’s wandering eye, but others say she was flat-out dumped, plain and simple.
One of those is royal correspondent Richard Palmer, who told the Daily Express that Will was feeling claustrophobic in their relationship and called it off, however, it only took a week before the future King started missing Kate.
“Prince William enjoyed a lonely trip to the cinema to cheer himself up after refusing to rule out an eventual reconciliation with dumped Kate Middleton,” wrote Palmer, adding that William, accompanied by only his bodyguard, “snuck in to catch a late comedy film, Blades of Glory, after leaving his Army base at Covington, Dorset, for a quiet night out.”
The two got back together shortly after splitting and William proposed three years later in 2010. The couple got married the following year.
“I think at the time I wasn’t very happy about it, but actually it made me a stronger person, you find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn’t realized,” Kate said during a TV interview shortly after her engagement to William was announced.
“I think you can get quite consumed by a relationship when you’re younger.
“I really valued that time for me as well, although I didn’t think it at the time!”
Pending the signature of Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois will become the 11th state in the country to legalize recreational marijuana. Late last week, both the Illinois State Senate and House approved legislation that will create a commercial recreational marijuana industry. Included in the bill is a social equity program that will provide benefits and potentially business incentives to those directly affected by the War on Drugs in the state.
This marks the first time a state has legalized commercial marijuana sales through the legislature instead of voter initiative. In 2017, Vermont lawmakers legalized recreational marijuana possession, but did not approve any legal apparatus for cannabis sales. Pritzker, who campaigned on pushing recreational marijuana legislation in his gubernatorial race, issued a statement promising to sign the bill once it hits his desk.
Pritzker labeled Illinois’ marijuana legislation as “the most equity-centric approach in the nation.”
“This will have a transformational impact on our state, creating opportunity in the communities that need it most and giving so many a second chance,” Pritzker said in the statement.
The bill will go into effect Jan. 1, 2020. Under the program, Illinois residents 21 and older can legally possess 30 grams of cannabis, 5 grams of concentrate or 500 mg of THC within infused products like edibles. Meanwhile, Illinois visitors will be able to possess 15 grams of cannabis.
The bill takes effect Jan. 1 and would allow residents age 21 and older to legally possess 30 grams of cannabis, 5 grams of cannabis concentrate or 500 milligrams of THC contained in a cannabis-infused product. Nonresidents could possess 15 grams of cannabis. Initially, medicinal marijuana dispensaries will be the only licensed sellers of recreational cannabis, though more licenses are expected to be handed out in mid-2020.
Under the social equity program, past convictions for possession of 30 grams or less will be pardoned by the governor and records will be expunged by the attorney general. Any possession conviction above 300 grams and up to 500 grams can be petitioned for expungement. Prosecutors may object to the petition, though judges will make the ultimate decision.
“Illinois has put in place a set of equity provisions that should serve as a national model for other state legislatures grappling with how to redress the harm caused to communities targeted in the drug war,” said Steve Hawkins, executive director for the Marijuana Policy Project, in a statement. “The expungement remedy in the Illinois bill is truly historic.”
“This is a measure that will improve people’s lives on a level commensurate with the devastation wrought by prohibition,” he added.
iTunes, one of Apple’s flagship apps, is finally phasing out.
After two decades of iTunes having a key placement within Apple devices, Bloomberg reports that the company will now replace it with three separate apps for all Mac laptops. These apps are called Music, TV and Podcasts.
iTunes has long been criticized for being a bloated app, containing a lot of important information mixed in with features that are no longer relevant. On a statement to Pitchfork, Apple said that users will continue to have access to their music library through the Music app, “whether they downloaded the songs, purchased them or ripped them from a CD.”
iTunes was released in 2001, during a time where the music industry was battling online piracy and file sharing sites. The iTunes store was a great step forward, changing the music industry and positively influencing the business, providing an easy and intuitive solution for distributors and buyers alike.
Over the years, some of iTunes’ key features have been handed over to Apple Music, the music subscription service that Apple has worked hard to build as their flagship music provider and as a rival for Spotify. The announced Music app will now take over some of iTunes features like managing Apple devices.
According to ReelSEO.com, a website about video marketing, there are more than two million cat videos on YouTube. People have watched these videos more than 25 billion times, which equates to an average of 12,000 views per cat video.
The statistics speak for themselves, but they don’t tell the whole story.
Perhaps it’s because I’m a dog lover with a cat allergy, but the staggering amount of cat media available to internet users came as a surprise to me. With numbers like that, I couldn’t help but wonder: who, exactly, is so drawn to this type of content? And what effects do cat-related media have on viewers?
These were the overarching question that spurred my initial quest to gather empirical data on the internet cat phenomenon. I scoured academic databases to see what the literature could tell me, but found no existing data about why people watched so many cat videos online, or what effects these videos might have on us.
My neighborhood internet celebrity feline – the adorable Lil Bub, who happens to also live in Bloomington, Indiana – shared the link on her website after I launched an online survey. With Bub’s help, the survey quickly garnered nearly 7,000 respondents.
The results from this exploratory study suggest that certain people are, in fact, more likely than others to view copious amounts of internet cat videos. It also showed that cat videos can positively influence the emotions of viewers.
According to my study, if you currently own or have previously owned a cat – or if you’ve volunteered to assist pets in the past year – you’re more likely to watch cat videos. Cat video viewers also spent more time online than other participants, tended to be more agreeable and shy, and felt they had adequate emotional support in their lives. However, emotional stability was negatively (albeit only slightly) related to watching online cat-related media.
The data also revealed information about the nature of audience interactions with online cat media. Three-quarters of respondents did not actively seek out cat content. Instead, they happened upon it in the course of their daily internet use.
This means that it’s hard to avoid internet cats, even if you want to.
Still, online cat videos aren’t all about passive consumption. Many people indicated they also produce their own cat-related media to post online, which often amass comments and likes. Online cat-media consumption is therefore an interactive process where media consumers can be media producers and media critics, all in the same space.
But I really wanted to learn what effects watching online cat videos might have on viewers.
People in my study reported experiencing more positive emotions and having higher energy levels after watching cat videos than before. They also reported lower levels of negative emotions after viewing online cat-related content.
In short, most of us get a little psychological “pick-me-up” when we watch Lil Bub climb the stairs or view a hilarious Grumpy Cat meme.
You might wonder: So what? Why does this study matter beyond its momentary entertainment value?
Well, we now spend more time with media than ever before. If – as my study suggests – part of that media diet includes cute pet videos, then it’s important to know how that specific genre impacts us psychologically if we want to truly understand the role of media use in shaping who we are.
Second, media is often criticized (sometimes rightfully so) for harming society – for making us violent, confused about science or even narcissistic. This study, though, indicates that media use can have a beneficial impact. Even a short-lived boost in one’s mood may help someone make it through a day or charge through an unpleasant task.
Because this study was an exploratory attempt to quantify an anecdotally popular activity, I don’t think it should be the final word on the role of pet-related media in our lives. Instead, it should be a springboard for more research.
Experiments that use control groups can test different types of cat videos (eg, humorous, cute, or inspirational) for differences in emotional reactions. Additionally, researchers could test if digitized cats or dogs can serve as a low-cost form of pet therapy for those who are allergic to real pets.
Cat videos are here to stay, so I hope researchers continue to study the potential “paw-sitive” effects of this type of media.
The gym is never as entertaining as running outdoors, but it does offer some benefits to those that live in areas where there’s weather to account for. Gyms are convenient, providing simple solutions for varied schedules and containing all that’s necessary for a complete workout. But they still can’t replace the benefits of the great outdoors.
Working up a sweat outside comes with its own set of challenges, but it’s an activity that should be pursued every once in a while, especially when it’s warm and nice out. This change of pace will help you feel invigorated, give you a break from the routine of the gym, and provide you with different health benefits. Here are 5 of them.
Different studies have proved that fresh air is good for your mental health, lowering your stress levels and positively improving your mood. If you spend long hours inside an office the benefits of outdoor runs are even greater, providing you with a healthy routine that can give you some much needed perspective and a mental break.
Grass, rocks and dirt make your runs more intense than the treadmill, making you more present and aware of your surroundings. Interval runs are also easier and more entertaining when you’re outdoors, using landmarks and hills as different ways of marking your runs and increasing and decreasing your speed.
Accounting for your daily vitamins is not as easy as you think, with 43% of Americans having a deficiency in vitamin D, according to one study. The sun is one of the best sources of vitamin D and running is an easy way of sneaking some in.
Running atop of ground and pavement activates more muscles on your body, making you work harder on your glutes and hamstrings since these have to push themselves. Different studies also show that outdoor runs are more successful in increasing leg strength and ankle flexibility when compared to treadmill runs.
A more distracting and entertainment environment helps people stay there for longer periods of time, which is why people who work out outdoors tend to burn more calories. You can’t hit the stop button even if you want to.
