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Which dry-herb vaporizer should you buy?

In recent years, vaping has become a fad that many people are following. It is being used by people of various ages for both therapeutic and recreational purposes. With rising demand, the vaping sector has been developing continuously. While there are many different types of vaporizers on the market right now, cannabis consumers increasingly choose dry herb vaporizers. It might be challenging to pick the best dry-herb vaporizer among the many options available, especially if you’re a beginner. Are you considering purchasing a dry-herb vaporizer but are unsure of where to start? Then enter now to discover the entire manual for picking your first cannabis vaporizer. A dry herb vaporizer is what? You may heat dried cannabis flowers in a portable device called a dry-herb vaporizer to extract vapor from the plant material. It is also known as a herbal vaporizer, and it often uses conduction to directly heat the cannabis plant. Some vaporizers have a convection heating system as well. They feature sophisticated temperature settings that boil the cannabinoids and terpenes into vapor rather than burning the herb. Dry-herb vaporizers come in two varieties: desktop and portable. A desktop vaporizer is perfect for a leisurely vaping session, while a portable vaporizer is unobtrusive and allows you to vape while on the go. How to choose a dry herb vaporizer? When purchasing a dry herb vaporizer for the first time, it is rather simple to become confused by the many functions and settings. Even while it may appear to be quite difficult, it isn’t if you know what to look for. The following are all the factors you need to take into account before making your first dry-herb vaporizer purchase: Portability You should first think about where and how you want to utilize the vaporizer. Choose a desktop vaporizer or a bigger vaporizer if you simply want to smoke at home. But a portable dry herb vaporizer might be the best option for someone who is constantly on the go and enjoys smoking sessions at any time and location. They may simply fit inside a pocket because they are tiny and compact. They also are easy to transport and won’t add extra weight to you. Additionally, utilizing a portable device might provide the discretion, particularly in a public setting. Regulating temperature While some dry cannabis vaporizers offer heat settings, some employ completely programmable temps that give you total control. Both options are OK as long as you know how to utilize them. The temperature control allows you to savor the fragrances of various terpenes while preventing combustion. Terpenes are the substances found in cannabis that are responsible for the plant’s distinctive scent. You may enjoy different terpenes by adjusting the temperature settings because each terpene has a unique heating point. Make sure the temperature when heating the cannabis flower doesn’t exceed 420 degrees Fahrenheit as a general guideline. Powered Nothing is worse than getting your pals together for a much-needed vape session and realizing your vaporizer is battery-less. Choose a dry-herb vaporizer with lengthy battery life if you don’t want to find yourself in this predicament. The Li-ion battery may be recharged using the USB connector that is included with the portable devices. Choose a vaporizer with longer battery life if you use it frequently. The most recent vaporizers also include an LED panel that shows the battery level so the owner may determine how long they can use it. You should not be concerned about the battery with a desktop vaporizer because they normally plug into a wall adapter. Superior An investment is a vaporizer. Finding a high-quality item with an extended shelf life is crucial. Start by looking for a well-known brand that has good customer feedback. Use only approved, safety-checked, and compliant items. False vaporizers and vaporizing liquids should never be used since they can seriously harm your health. Even if you’re looking for a portable gadget, be sure it’s strong and resilient enough to endure years of usage or even little damage from a mishap. Style Although it may not be crucial, the aesthetics of your device may undoubtedly improve the vaping experience. You may vape in elegance with the aid of a sleek little gadget. Other features on some devices include buttons for setting adjustments, an LED screen for battery life, several modes, and other accessories for vaping cannabis. Some high-end versions, like those provided by Gofire, even provide dose advice and record your usage history using vape pods with AI capabilities. Price Finally, take into account your spending plan. Today, there are all different kinds of vaporizers accessible, including a budget, midrange, and luxury models. A higher-quality item will often cost more, but it will typically last longer and provide a better vaping experience. Get a cheap device to enjoy the experience without spending too much if you’re just experimenting with vaping cannabis herb. Final reflections Cannabis is being vaporized by an increasing number of people who are interested in its therapeutic and medical properties. Don’t be intimidated if you wish to join the dry-herb vaping fad. Simply look for a legitimate distributor that can assist you in your hunt.
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Dinosaurs may have suffered from respiratory diseases like pneumonia, fossil neck bones show

As if dodging carnivorous predators in the Jurassic swamp was not stressful enough, life would have been miserable for “Dolly” the dinosaur. Key points: Paleontologists scanned the neck bones of a large plant-eating dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago Lesions suggest the dinosaur had a respiratory illness that caused a secondary infection in its bones These types of infections are common in birds today but have not been seen in fossils of non-avian dinosaurs before The large plant-eater probably suffered from a respiratory illness that triggered a bone infection, a new study of its neck bones suggests. If the diagnosis is correct, Dolly would have been plagued by pneumonia-like symptoms such as coughing, sneezing, headaches, weight loss, and fever. Cary Woodruff of the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum in Montana said Dolly would have looked visibly sick. “If you could get in a time machine and go back to when Dolly was alive, you would have very easily been able to tell that something was not right,” Dr. Woodruff said. This kind of infection, known as airsacculitis, is very common today in dinosaur descendants — birds. But this is the first evidence of respiratory infection in a non-avian dinosaur, Dr. Woodruff and his colleagues report today in the journal Scientific Reports. Well, hello Dolly Dolly — officially known as MOR 7029 — was a hefty long-necked type of dinosaur known as a diplodocid. When it roamed Montana about 150 million years ago, the area was a warm, humid coastal river system packed with plant-eating and carnivorous dinosaurs large and small. About 18 meters long, Dolly still had a lot of growing to do and half its life to live when it died at around 15 years of age. In 1990, a team of paleontologists dug up the front half of its fossilized skeleton, including its skull, some of its neck, shoulder, and rib bones. Thinking it was diplodocus, the classic long-necked dinosaur, they nicknamed it “Dolly the diplodocus”. This is a type of sauropod, a creature that belonged to the branch of the dino family tree that eventually evolved into birds. “From an evolutionary perspective, Dolly is more closely related to a pigeon than it is to triceratops,” Dr. Woodruff said. Given this lineage, paleontologists have long believed that sauropods and birds share anatomical traits including a complex respiratory system. Just like birds, sauropods had a series of air sacs near and in their bones, said Stephen Poropat, an Australian sauropod expert not involved in the study. “Sauropod dinosaurs are generally huge as adults. They have long necks, they have long tails,” Dr. Poropat of the Swinburne University of Technology and the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum said. “If all of their bones were solid, their skeletons would have been immensely heavy.” ‘This has got to be a respiratory infection’ In 2014, Dr. Woodruff decided to dust off the fossil, which had been stashed away in a museum storeroom. After scraping away the hard rock encasing the skull, he realized that Dolly was actually a different species related to diplodocus. Then he decided to look at its neck bones. Strangely, the CT scans revealed the edges of the bone that would have been attached to air sacs were lumpy and bumpy. “But I don’t work on injuries and traumas in the fossil record, it was out of my wheelhouse, so I literally just posted a picture on social media and just asked my colleagues, ‘What is this?'” He immediately got responses from other paleontologists as well as anatomists and vets around the world. “The group answer was basically, ‘Holy cow, this has got to be a respiratory infection.'” There’s lots of evidence in the fossil record of dinosaurs suffering from injuries and bone diseases such as cancer, arthritis and infections like osteomyelitis, Dr. Poropat said. But, he said, finding evidence of a soft tissue disease such as a respiratory disease was “pretty amazing”. “A lot of the times when any disease or trauma is found in a dinosaur skeleton, it’s often in limb bones where you expect it to happen,” Dr Poropat said. “Seeing it where the air sacs penetrate the vertebrae in a sauropod is quite unusual.” And something was definitely amiss with the dinosaur’s neck bones, he said. Instead of having a thin plate of solid bone running through the center of each vertebra, the middle of the bones was infiltrated by air sacs and telltale signs of disease. “That’s abnormal; that’s not what we’d expect to see in a healthy sauropod.” So what did Dolly in? Looking closely at Dolly’s scans. Dr. Woodruff and the team quickly ruled out volcanoes as a culprit. Inhalation of volcanic ash can cause a disease similar to mesothelioma. “When these animals breathe in ash, the internal aspect of the bone is perfectly fine, they just develop weird growths on the outside,” Dr. Woodruff said. They also found no evidence of volcanic ash in the sediment from where Dolly was extracted all those years ago. The pattern of lesions also didn’t fit with lung cancer. Instead, Dr. Woodruff and his colleagues think bacterial or fungal infections such as chlamydiosis and aspergillosis are prime suspects. These respiratory infections are common in birds today. “We didn’t find anything that was 100 percent perfect match,” Dr. Woodruff said. “[But] if living dinosaurs get these symptoms when they have respiratory infections, evolutionarily a dinosaur in the past with a respiratory infection very likely could have had the same types of symptoms.” We don’t know for sure if the infection was bad enough to ultimately do Dolly in. “In the entire dinosaur record, there really maybe only just a few fossils that we can say what killed the animal,” Dr. Woodruff said. The Jurassic swamp would have been a very lonely place for a sick sauropod. If Dolly was anything like herd animals today, it may have tried to isolate to recover, or just simply fallen behind the pack, Dr. Woodruff said. “We don’t know whether Dolly could’ve just tipped over dead one day or was on its own and so visibly sick, making an easy target for a predator. “But either >>Read more
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Auto insurance for teen drivers

Is there a newly licensed driver in your home? Reduce the stress by understanding the implications for your car policy. For parents, the excitement of having a first-time driver in the house is usually tempered with worry. With little driving experience, immature drivers are at a higher risk for accidents. Of course, safety concern is uppermost in most parents’ minds but other stressors—like the high cost of insuring your new driver and the financial liability implications of a teen driving mishap—can be reduced with these steps. Before getting a learners permit, make a call to your insurance professional Your agent or rep can clearly explain the costs involved in insuring a teenage driver. The good news is, as your teenager gets older, insurance rates will drop—providing he or she has a good driving record. Therefore… Involve your teen in the car insurance discussion From the outset, it’s important to talk to your kid about the relationship between driving a car and the attendant responsibilities, including insurance costs. Explain and reinforce driving safety tips and the serious consequences of driving infractions or accidents, including increasing the cost of insurance. Encourage positive behaviors Auto insurers offer discounts or reduced premiums to: Students who maintain at least a “B” average in school Teens who take a recognized driver training course College students who attend school at least 100 miles away from home and don’t bring their car to campus Choose the right auto insurance company It’s generally less expensive for parents to add teenagers to their auto insurance policy than it is for teens to purchase one on their own. By insuring your teenager’s car with your insurer, you may also qualify for a multi-vehicle discount. That said, insurance companies differ in how they price policies for young drivers, so do some research into prices to be sure to find the best fit for you and your teen. Assign your teen to the right car Find out how your insurer assigns drivers to cars—some insurers will assign the driver who is the most expensive to insure (generally the teenager) to the car that is the most expensive to insure. If possible, assign your teen to the least valuable car. Note that with this kind of arrangement there can be no exceptions; your teen must use only the car to which he or she is assigned, even in an emergency. If your teenager is involved in an accident with an unassigned car, penalties could be imposed and your own premiums might increase. Increase your liability insurance for greater protection If your teen gets into an accident, state minimums for liability insurance will not be enough to fully protect you from lawsuits. Consider purchasing higher amounts of liability coverage—if your teenager is found negligent in an accident and the damages exceed your insurance limits, you will be held financially responsible and could be sued in court for those amounts not covered by your insurance. Depending on the value of your financial assets, you may even want to have the extra protection that a personal umbrella liability policy provides. Raise your deductible to save on your premium The higher your deductible, the more money you can save on your premium, so consider raising your deductible from the minimum amount required. You may want to use those savings to increase your liability insurance.
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Race to salvage fire-ravaged cargo ship drifting with thousands of supercars on board

Race to salvage fire-ravaged US-bound cargo ship drifting in the Atlantic with thousands of supercars on board including Porsches, Bentleys, and Lamborghinis with blaze fueled by batteries in electric vehicles The Felicity Ace caught ablaze on Wednesday and 22 of its crew members were airlifted to safety There are 4,000 cars onboard the ship including 189 Bentleys, 1,100 Porsches, and multiple Lamborghinis The cargo ship was carrying vehicles from Emden, Germany, to Davisville, Rhode Island Lithium-ion batteries in electric cars have caught fire and require specialist equipment to extinguish Rescuers are racing to salvage a US-bound cargo ship in the Atlantic engulfed in flames with 4,000 cars on board including Bentleys, Audis, and Lamborghinis. The operation is taking place off the Azores archipelago where the ‘Felicity Ace’ cargo ship caught ablaze at sea on Wednesday. Lithium-ion batteries in the electric cars on board have caught fire and the blaze requires specialist equipment to extinguish. Investigators are probing whether the batteries started the onboard inferno. The ship is still ablaze and plumes of white smoke are billowing from the vessel as a Portuguese navy ship works to stop it from sinking with the 3,965 Volkswagen AG vehicles on board, including 1,100 Porches and 189 Bentleys. One man said his custom-ordered Porsche Boxster Spyder, whose base models sell for at least $100,000 was on board the ship. Captain Joao Mendes Cabecas of the port of Hortas said: ‘The ship is burning from one end to the other… everything is on fire about five meters above the water line.’ What is on board the cargo ship? The Felicity Ace is believed to be carrying 3,965 vehicles on board on its route from Germany to the US. Volkswagen has not confirmed the number of cars on board, but Porsche said around 1,100 models are on the ship. Porsches range in price from around £45,000 to £200,000 for their standard models. Bentley said 189 of its cars were also on board. A new Bentley Continental GT V8 would set a driver back £157,000. There were reportedly 21 Lamborghinis on the doomed vessel last month, but the current number is unknown. A limited-edition Lamborghini can cost as much as £2.5million, while a standard SUV from the Italian supercar maker costs around £150,000. Rescuers believe the 650ft longship may be too large to be towed to a port in the Azores, which is more than 900 miles from the European mainland. Towing boats were en route from Gibraltar and the Netherlands, with three due to arrive by Wednesday. A sixteen-person salvage team from Smit Salvage, owned by Dutch marine engineer Boskalis, was sent to the ship to help control the flames. The Portuguese Air Force has rescued 22 crew members from the burning ship after they abandoned the vessel and were taken on board the Resilient Warrior tanker after it diverted its route to assist with the rescue. They were then airlifted to safety in a military helicopter and taken to Faial Island. The Felicity Ace sounded the alarm after a fire broke out in the hold, the Portuguese Navy said in a statement. The cause of the fire is not known. The ship was sailing from Emden in Germany and had left on February 10 and was heading to the Port of Davisville in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, according to online vessel trackers. The ship was originally expected to arrive at Davisville on February 23. Portugal’s navy said one of its patrol boats and four merchant vessels were helping with the rescue. The Portuguese Air Force aircraft were also mobilized. After transmitting the distress signal, a Portuguese Navy patrol boat together with four other merchant ships in the area headed toward where the distressed ship was located. The crew abandoned the ship and got into lifeboats. Eager Porsche buyers logging into the Track Your Dream service, which details the progress of the car’s delivery, stated how the company was ‘aware of an incident on the Felicity Ace carrying certain Porsche vehicles.’ Matt Farah, the man behind The Smoking Tire YouTube channel, posted Wednesday regarding his own Porsche that was apparently on board the ship. ‘I ordered a Boxster Spyder in August, and I was very excited to get it at the end of this month, and now it seems like it might become an artificial reef,’ said Matt Farah who runs the Smoking Tire YouTube channel, which has more than 1 million subscribers. ‘I’m only saying this because I know no one was hurt, which is obviously more important.’ Bentley said 189 of its cars were also onboard the blazing ship. That could work out at around a total loss of £22million in Bentleys alone. ‘We are working with the shipping company to find out further information,’ said a spokesman. Lamborghini has refused to comment on the number of its vehicles on board the doomed ship, but last month 21 supercars were being transported by the vessel. The majority of the rest are likely to be Volkswagens or Audis. On Wednesday, Porsche released a statement over the stricken ship. ‘Our immediate thoughts are of the 22 crew of the merchant ship Felicity Ace, all of whom we understand are safe and well as a result of their rescue by the Portuguese Navy following reports of a fire on board. ‘We believe a number of our cars are among the cargo onboard the ship. No further details of the specific cars affected are available at this time – we are in close contact with the shipping company and will share more information in due course.’ Volkswagen also released a statement: ‘We are aware of an incident today involving a cargo ship transporting Volkswagen Group vehicles across the Atlantic. At this time, we are not aware of any injuries. We are working with local authorities and the shipping company to investigate the cause of the incident.’ A Portuguese Navy spokesperson said there were no more details about the ongoing operation. Read more at DailyMail.co.uk
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NFTs or non-fungible tokens: The new kind of digital art that could prove a bonanza for creators

Paul “Lamborghini” Kell made the news in 2018 when he paid $US38,000 for a digital artwork that anyone could already view or download. This week, he sold the same artwork — a depiction of Homer Simpson combined with internet meme Pepe the Frog — for $US320,000. It’s an example of the surging demand for digital artworks called NFTs, which are selling for thousands, even millions of dollars. But why would anyone pay for online artwork they can already get for free? The answer goes to the heart of this emerging digital economy and opens up new avenues for artists to (finally) make more money for their work. But first: what even are NFTs? NFT stands for non-fungible token. Fungible means are exchangeable. A movie ticket is fungible — you can give it to anyone else to use. A typical plane ticket, on the other hand, is non-fungible. You can’t give it to a random person waiting at the airport after you’ve decided not to jump on your plane. So NFTs are unique collectible tokens that are permanently tied to, for instance, digital artworks and music. They cannot be separated; the token is the art. Though NFTs have been around for years, recently the market exploded. An animated flying cat with a pop-tart body sold for almost $US600,000 in February. This was soon topped by a 10-second animated video of what appears to be Donald Trump collapsed on the ground in an urban park. It sold for $US6 million. Again, these are videos you can watch for free. Right now. Here’s the Trump one: So why pay good money for NFTs? Mr Kell, who made his money as a cryptocurrency investor and lives in Denver, Colorado, where he drives a white Lamborghini, said the value of owning Homer Pepe is the “token under the picture that represents Homer Pepe”. “You can take a picture of the picture, but you don’t have what’s under the picture.” The total value of NFT transactions increased 300 percent to $US250 million last year, according to a recent report. OpenSea, a marketplace for NFTs, reported selling $US86.3 million worth in February, up from $US8 million in January. And January had been a good month. Monthly sales were at $US1.5 million a year ago. For some, the “stupid money” being paid for NFTs is just the latest example of a speculative bubble that will soon pop. For others, it means artists get paid. They point to a central fact of the internet: in a digital medium where objects can endlessly be cut-and-pasted, copied and reproduced, nobody bothers to pay for the original. For instance, music ripped from CDs and put online to download as mp3s is why musicians have been paid less for each song they release. But with NFTs, a JPEG can be as unique as an oil painting. Buyers pay to own the original artwork instead of having a copy. That means that artists will get paid more for the music they create or the images they draw. ‘Paying money for JPEGs kind of blows my mind’ Serwah Attafuah, a Western Sydney artist, was one of the first Australians to sell an NFT. Foundation, a website for buying and selling digital goods and run by a company based in New York, contacted her last year about selling one of her works as an NFT at their launch. Through the website, her piece Voidwalker sold for $2,000. This isn’t a bad price, but what makes the process really interesting to Ms. Attafuah is that she retains 10 percent equity in the artwork. Every time it changes hands, she gets 10 percent of the sale price. At the time of the sale, no one in her circle of artists knew about NFTs. Last month, a GIF sold on the same website for $US580,000. Australian artists have since been rushing to get on the website. “When I dropped my NFT, none of my artist friends understood it, but now all my artist friends are saying ‘how do I get onto it?’ “It feels very futuristic.” Flume, and others, are exploring benefits The music business is quickly taking notice of this, particularly as the lack of revenue from live music has forced a recalibration in the industry. People involved with two separate Australian independent records labels described the NFT situation at the moment as the “wild west”. Australian producer Flume released an NFT collaboration yesterday with Sydney visual artist Jonathan Zawada. “It’s such early days. I’m just wanting to experiment more,” Harley Streten, aka Flume, told the ABC. “Jonathan and I have essentially been making NFTs for years. We just didn’t have a name for them. “We’re excited to push the boundaries of it — experimenting with the space, going beyond just audio and visuals. This feels like phase one.” Nathan McLay, Flume’s manager and the founder of his label, Future Classic, said from initial conversations with NFT marketplaces, it seemed artists will get a cut of the subsequent sale of the works, rather than just the initial one. That is unusual in the creative world and could be a useful additional revenue stream. But what’s also exciting is the flexibility of the technology, Mr. McLay said. “The first drop from Flume and Jonathan Zawada has a 1- to 2-minute audio piece that goes along with a visual, so it’s a new ‘piece’. The Australian company Blockchain Music has created Rarez, a consultancy that seeks to help artists take advantage of the new technology. It has so far facilitated about $150,000 in sales of digital art created for the DJ and producer deadmau5. “The space has just accelerated so much that almost every artist out there is considering how they should be using NFTs and what they should do,” Sean Gardner, co-founder, and CEO told. A collaboration between deadmau5 and the LA-based Australian designer Sutu — a 30-second animation of a golden mouse head backed by music — sold in December for 78 Ethereum, or, at the time, >>Read more
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