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Mako Hemp Co. Review 

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If you are buying hemp products for the first time and do not know the most important facts, Mako Hemp Co. will help you. The brand has one of the most interactive websites in the hemp industry. The website provides you with lots of information on everything you need to know about hemp enabling you to have first-hand knowledge on the effects of the product you need.

The company also offers a wide range of products from different brands across the industry. They handpick all the products carefully, guaranteeing high quality to ensure that they provide the users with nothing but the best CBD-based products. Mako Hemp Co. came into the hemp industry scene after the 2018 farm act bill to take advantage of a market flooded with hemp products from various brands.

Mako Hemp Co

Unlike many other hemp brands, Mako did not focus on formulating its own line of canna-based products. Instead, the brand created a one-stop virtual shop by pooling reputable names from various hemp brands in the industry. The shop stocks literally every product you need as a supplement for your wellness and health, which Mako Hemp Co. ensures you know by feeding you with a wealth of information through their website.

 Product Line-Up

If you browse through the product catalog on the Mako Hemp Co. website, you will see six different product categories. The six categories are hemp flowers, edibles, pet products, tinctures, topicals, and vapeables. The best-selling product on the line-p is the best hemp flower.

The brand offers twelve different raw hemp flower strains at slightly higher prices than that from other brands. The starting price for the hemp flower is $12 per gram. The most popular strains of the twelve include CBG White, Sour Space Candy, and Kush E1.

The raw hemp flowers’ packaging is available in different denominations ranging from 1 gram to 3.5 grams and 7 grams. The brand also offers pre-rolls that come in a 1-gram denomination and retail at $12 apiece. The edibles are another popular category in different picks, with the most popular being the Vivid CBD brand.

The edibles come in raspberry rings, CBD Honey, agave syrup, gummy bears, peach ring gummies, and CBD coffee. Other products worth mentioning include the various e-liquids for vaping, topicals, and the potent broad-spectrum dog tincture.

 Website, Discounts, and Coupons

As mentioned earlier, Mako Hemp Co. has a very interactive website that pays attention to information. The website provides you with knowledge about the legality and the benefits of hemp. The site has a FAQ page that provides buyers all the answers they need before spending money on purchases.

However, one thing that may surprise you about the website is what happens when you click on your chosen product. A click on any product takes you to another website by the name MySimpleCBD that shows other partner brand products alongside those of Mako Hemp.

Nonetheless, the distraction actually makes it even easier to shop, and it is as informative as the Mako Hemp Co. website. The advantage is that you find the strains faster and more easily without scanning through many pages for results.

When it comes to discounts and coupons, Mako hemp is not very big on that section. Unlike many other hemp brands that allow you to sign for a newsletter, Mako hemp does not do so, but users can open personal accounts on the My Simple CBD Website.

Being part of the user database gets some registered buyers exclusive offers and discounts. You can follow the brand on social media where it has an active presence.

Legal Compliance

All the products sold by Mako Hemp Co. are legal and safe. The brand only partners with reputable brands that abide by the farm act bill limiting the THC levels on hemp products to a maximum of 0.3%. The website also touches on the legality of the products, which assures you of buying only that which is legal in all the USA’s 50 states.

Wrapping it up

Even though the prices of the products Mako Hemp Co. sells are steeper than those of other brands, you get value for money. The brand sells a wide range of high-quality products with a potency that aligns with your preferences and needs.

The brand provides all visitors to the website with much more information on different products than you find on other hemp-based websites. Overall, Mako Hemp Co. virtual store has everything you need under one roof.

How to Drive a Golf Ball 300 Yards

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Great golfers can shot a ball 300+yards. However, achieving a great distance does not just happen overnight.  You need to develop an extremely effective swing that will send your golf ball zooming off your clubface. In most cases it never about power, but how you hit the golf ball. To continuously hit golf balls for over 300 yards, beginners or expert golfers must work on their stroke. They should also exercise patience for them to guarantee maximum power. These five tips will give you practical ideas for driving a golf ball to at least 300 yards.

How to Drive a Golf Ball 300 Yards

Speed and Effort

For you to hit a 300-yard shot, you need lots of patience and learning. The average clubhead speed that is needed to achieve this type of shot is about 120mph with a distance of about 295 yards. For any amateur, this will be a good shot. With great speed and lots of effort, you will definitely hit a 300-yard shot.

Keep Note of the Wind Speed and Direction

When golfing, the wind can be quite helpful in achieving your goals. Downwind may add yards to your shot off the tee. As a result, you may have an easy time hitting a shot of more than 300 yards.  Additionally, wind can impact the direction of the golf ball flight. When setting up your tee shot, you need to take into account any appreciable wind. You need to observe how it will ultimately affect your shot.

Use the Right Club

When you use the right club, you boost your chances of achieving your goal of 300-yard shots more easily. For example, with a 9-iron club, you can send a golf ball approximately 145 yards.  Longer irons tend to send the ball rolling farther and you will achieve more distance with a driver. Therefore, it is best to use a driver if you want to hit a drive of 300+yards. Ensure that you invest in the right golf clubs to help you achieve a 300-yard shot.

Correct Timing and Clear Thoughts

Excellent timing is important if you want to make an effective swing. Timing involves a lot of things like a good body posture, right thoughts, and a rhythm. Your thoughts can significantly affect your posture and rhythm.  Everything should focus on the ball and the shot and nothing else. A distracted mind will not help you achieve your 300+yard shot.

Have a Specific Aim

For you to hit 300 yards, you should have a specific target and aim. Even if you are not a professional golfer, you can still achieve this shot if you give it all your effort. You do not want all your efforts to go to waste just because you did not have a specific target.

Considering the advancement of golf gear, every modern golfer must truly perform at his/her best when it comes to distance. When you have the right club, the right mindset, the right swing, and a body that is built for speed and power, then you definitely have everything to help you achieve 300+ yard shots. Whether you are a professional or casual golf player, you will command near-universal respect if you can hit a drive of 300yards or more.

How Long Is Coffee Creamer Good For

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While some coffee lovers like their coffee black, many others love theirs with a little cream mixed in their drink. Coffee creamers are a popular staple in the households of those that love their coffee creamy, with many of them storing the ingredient for several months.

If you are one of those that use creamer in your coffee and keep it for several months, you may have wondered how long the creamer is good for before it goes bad. The same goes for those that drink an occasional cup of coffee and always have powder cream available to add taste to their coffee. In this article, we talk about different types of creamers and their shelf life also about best dual coffee makers

How To Store Different Types Of Creamers

different types of coffee creamers

Before we look at how long creamer takes to go bad, let us look at the different kinds of creamers and the best ways to store them. The most popular available coffee creamers come in different varieties: liquid creamer, dairy creamer, powder creamer, and whitener.

Liquid creamer

Liquid creamers go through ultra-high processing, which helps to extend their shelf life. The process also makes it unnecessary to refrigerate the creamers unless you choose to do so. Even without refrigeration, you should store your liquid creamers in a cool and dry place.

Dairy Creamer

Dairy creamers, unlike their liquid counterparts, do not have a long shelf life. Dairy creamer has the same characteristics as regular milk, which means you need to store it in a refrigerator if you want it to stay for a while. The creams come in plastic containers or Tetra Pak with easy opening and closing snaps. Before storing, you should always ensure that you close the containers tightly.

Powder Creamers

Powder creamers are the easiest to store as you can find a place for them on the shelves in your pantry or on the countertop. They have a long shelf life, but they go bad, mostly if you leave the containers around a moist place or open. Moisture and leaving powder creamer containers open, provide bacteria with the opportunity to grow, thus spoiling your creamer’s lifespan. Store the powder at room temperature, in a dry place for longer shelf life.

Whiteners

Whiteners or non-dairy creamers also come with a longer shelf life than dairy creamers. You can store them on the pantry shelf or countertop, but you should refrigerate the rest once you open the container. Keep the lid closed tightly at all times.

So, How Long Do Coffee Creamers Last

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Liquid creamers have a shelf life of between six and nine months. Some non-dairy liquid creamers contain a milk derivative, sodium caseinate that helps increase their shelf life. The long shelf life is because of the Ultra-High Temperature Processing.

Dairy creamers come with use before or use by date. It is safe to store an unopened dairy cream container for a week or two. Once you open it, ensure that you check the label on how long it can stay fresh after opening, and if the label does not come with any freshness specifics, do not keep it any longer than two weeks.

Powdered creamers stay fresh the longest. Even after the use-by date on the label, you can still use the powdered cream for another one month or more. However, if you keep them too long, they may degrade with time. Whiteners come with a sell-by or best-before date, and you can get away by extending the date by one month.

Conclusion

Coffee creamers have different shelf lives depending on the type you choose to add to your drink. If you get the feeling that, your creamer is bad, you can test by smelling or tasting for anything unusual. If you leave it open, it will attract the growth of bacteria. We hope with this article; you will store your creamers appropriately for longer shelf life.

Scott promises to ditch Vermont Health Connect as governor

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Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott reiterated his call to abandon Vermont Health Connect in a web video released Thursday by his gubernatorial campaign.

Scott is facing off in a primary with former Wall Street executive Bruce Lisman, who is also calling for shutting down the state’s online health insurance marketplace.

Lt. Gov. Phil Scott calls for an independent assessment of Vermont Health Connect last month. (VPB/Josh O\’Gorman)

In an email sent to supporters Thursday morning, Scott’s campaign said he has been calling for “real” solutions for “more than two years” to fix the exchange, which has faced technological shortcomings since it launched in October 2013.

“Elect Phil Scott and Vermont will transition to a better, less costly model that provides Vermonters more affordable health insurance choices,” the campaign wrote in the email.

Vermont Health Connect launched without some major functions that were expected, including the ability for consumers to make changes to personal information online, such as their address or marital status. They had to go through a cumbersome manual process rather than the faster, automated way the website was expected to offer.

That function has since been added, but has experienced ongoing problems and was disabled for some time, resulted in a new backlog of requested changes the state is continuing to address.

Additionally, small business employees, who are required by state law to obtain health insurance through the exchange, were not allowed to enroll through the website and must obtain insurance directly from carriers. The state is now seeking a waiver from the federal government to continue bypassing the exchange in favor of direct enrollment.

Scott, last month, joined with several GOP lawmakers in calling for an independent assessment of the exchange. In Thursday’s email, the campaign said Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin, who is not seeking re-election, “continues to stubbornly refuse to do the right thing.” Scott, if elected governor, “will solve the problem when he’s elected Governor by transitioning to the federal exchange or a multi-state alternative that offers better, more affordable choices,” according to his campaign.

The Shumlin administration has said moving to the federal exchange would cost millions in up-front costs as well as millions more in ongoing operational costs. Scott said those costs should be explored as part of the independent assessment he has called for “so that we could understand the full ramifications of moving to the federal exchange or some other exchange.”

“We’re just hearing that from the administration,” Scott told the Vermont Press Bureau. “An independent body, such as the Green Mountain Care Board, could take a look at all aspects of moving to something else, including the costs of doing so. I think having some options on the table that all of us could consider would be appropriate.”

Lisman would also ditch the exchange and reverse many of Shumlin’s other health care reform actions, his campaign manager Shawn Shouldice said.

Bruce Lisman

Bruce Lisman

“Bruce Lisman has been very vocal and very consistent since day one — Bruce opposes the mandate, opposes the tax on independent doctors and dentists, will protect Medicare and the ability for patients to see their doctor, has called for an audit of the Medicaid program, has called for the shutdown of Vermont Health Connect and for the transition of our state exchange to the federal exchange,” she wrote in an email to the Vermont Press Bureau.

Shouldice lumped Scott in with “political insiders” who “have stood by quietly while Gov. Shumlin experimented with our access to health care and insurance.”

“I’m glad to see Phil Scott, who has served in the capacity of Vermont’s Lt. Governor for the past five years, join Bruce Lisman in his opposition to the mandate, a shutdown of Vermont Health Connect and a transition of our state exchange to something else, but there is so much more to be done,” she wrote.

The positions staked out by both Scott and Lisman have little support with Vermonters, according to a recent poll commissioned by Vermont Public Radio. The poll asked 895 respondents what they think should be done to address health care reform.

Just 8 percent said they want to discard Vermont Health Connect and “adopt the federal exchange.” More — 20 percent — said they want to improve and continue with the exchange. Another 33 percent said they want to move to a single payer health care system. Another 19 percent said they prefer some other, unspecified action, and 19 percent were unsure.

Scott said only a fraction of the state’s residents have health insurance coverage through the exchange. Those that do would overwhelming choose to abandon it, he said.

“When you look at the amount of people actually enrolled in the exchange it’s a small number. If you took the 35,000 people enrolled and asked them about moving to the federal exchange or some other … I would say that the percentage would be higher,” Scott said. “I would say it would be closer to 100 percent. It’s all in who you ask and how you ask it.”

Shouldice suggested that more Vermonters would want to move to the federal exchange if they knew the state was required by the federal government to be part of one or the other.

“It is very clear in our meetings and communications with Vermonters they don’t know the ACA requires us to provide access to an exchange. A Lisman Administration will work to restore more choice and options for Vermonters beyond an exchange of any type,” Shouldice wrote.

On the Democratic side of the gubernatorial race, both candidates want to review the exchange themselves as governor before determining its future.

Matt-Dunne-

Matt Dunne

“I think we can all agree that the current solution is not working. Having been in IT for much of my career, I also know that I can’t make a prescription for how to fix it until I get a team of people under the hood,” said former Windsor County Sen. Matt Dunne, who recently left his job at Google to focus on the campaign.

He said the Shumlin administration has “tried very hard” to make the exchange work, but intimated better developers and managers would have a different outcome. Creating a working exchange is “not enormously complicated if you have the right people actually designing it and implementing it,” he said.

Dunne said he will not rule out any potential options but has reservations about “putting our health care future in the hands of the federal government.” Likewise, he said a partnership with another state could be disadvantageous to Vermont.

“They would be the larger stakeholder and we would have to be deferring to their priorities. I don’t think that would be good for us,” he said.

Molly Ritner, campaign manager for former Agency of Transportation Secretary Sue Minter, said Minter believes it is “relatively clear that Vermont Health Connect is not functioning correctly.” But a full analysis of the exchange is required, Ritner said, and Minter will seek that as governor.

Sue-Minter

Sue Minter

“The first step is not to throw out the baby with the bath water and see if this is something that we can fix,” Ritner said. “Before we make a decision on how to move forward we need to do an analysis of the system and find out where we are and be thoughtful about the next steps to make sure that we do it in a cost-efficient manner and that we solve it in a manner that makes it more costumer-friendly, because that’s what Vermonters deserve.”

“Then if it that is not the case then, yes, we need to consider other options,” Ritner added.

neal.goswami@timesargus.com

Gun rally set for Statehouse steps Saturday – this time in favor of stricter controls

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A well-attended rally on the steps of the Statehouse last month helped kill off a proposed ban on assault weapons. Now one woman wants to use a similar tactic to bring it back to life.

Montpelier resident Danielle LaFleur Brooks says the voices of Vermonters who support stricter gun-control measures have been drowned out by a better organized opposition. At a rally outside the Statehouse this Saturday morning, Brooks aims to demonstrate to lawmakers the intensity of public support for new curbs on guns.

“I’m beginning to realize that the other side is really loud and really good at getting their side heard,” Brooks says. “I just wanted to create a space for the other side to show there are other voices out there.”

Brooks said she saw the power of public protest last month, when about 250 activists convened outside the Statehouse one Saturday to decry the assault weapons ban. Less than 24 hours later, Sen. Philip Baruth, the Chittenden County Democrat who introduced it, notified colleagues that he intended to withdraw the proposed ban.

“I thought we were at least going to have a conversation about this,” Brooks said. “And I was just so upset to see it taken off the table like that.”

While Brooks’ event was borne out of a desire to realize a ban on assault weapons, she says the rally is designed to spotlight public support for a range of control measures. Rep. Linda Waite-Simpson, an Essex Democrat, has introduced legislation in the Vermont House that would, among other things, impose a statewide ban on high capacity magazines and require background checks at gun shows.

Waite-Simpson, who plans to attend the Saturday rally, said she’s heartened to see proponents of gun control coming together.

Nine-person Committee To Recommend Tax For Single-payer

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The Shumlin administration and top legislative leaders will delegate to a nine-person panel the task of coming up with a way to finance single-payer health care.

The issue of financing has followed the Democratic governor since he made single-payer the cornerstone of his gubernatorial agenda in 2010. The single-payer law enacted five months after his election directed his administration to deliver a financing plan by last month. Shumlin, however, said it was still premature to tell Vermonters what tax he’d use to pay for the universal system.

The decision to form the new panel defers until 2015 the unveiling of an official financing recommendation.

The panel will includes two appointees each from Shumlin, House Speaker Shap Smith and Senate President John Campbell. The three men will then decide together who should fill the three remaining seats.

“They will really dig into the issue of what the cost of the system will be and how the system is currently financed, and what a system going forward would like if you financed it a different way,” Smith said today. “I would see them putting forward a financing plan that supported a single-payer plan, or as close to single-payer as we could get under law.”

For more on this story, check out tomorrow’s editions of The Times Argus and Rutland Herald.

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