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How to Drive a Golf Ball 300 Yards

October 13, 2020 Leave a Comment

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.

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How Long Is Coffee Creamer Good For

August 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

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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.

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

August 25, 2020 Leave a Comment

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.

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Nine-person Committee To Recommend Tax For Single-payer

August 25, 2020 Leave a Comment

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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