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North American Ski Industry Nears Total Shutdown as Fight to Prevent COVID-19 Spread Ramps Up
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Winter over
Stuart Winchester
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And now we just wait
It started on Twitter as all things now do, with this tweet from Vail shortly after the lifts closed at their Western mountains on Saturday:
VailResorts @VailResorts
Vail Resorts has made the difficult decision to suspend operations of all its North American mountain resorts beginning March 15 through March 22. Please read this letter from our CEO Rob Katz.
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10:21 PM ∙ Mar 14, 2020
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Alterra followed shortly, their individual mountains carrying the social load:
Crystal Mountain @CrystalMt
Alterra Mountain Company to close 15 North American Resorts starting March 15. bit.ly/Alterra-Closure
12:16 AM ∙ Mar 15, 2020
As I was preparing to go to sleep that night, I checked Killington's website one more time. They announced a suspension of operations at 11:45 and posted this half an hour later:
Killington Resort @KillingtonMtn
Killington and Pico will suspend all resort operations starting March 15, 2020, through March 22, 2020. We will continue to monitor the dynamic COVID-19 situation and reassess our approach for the rest of the season. More details here: bit.ly/2xtCB4n
4:15 AM ∙ Mar 15, 2020
Boyne's eponymous Michigan mountains announced season (Highlands), and temporary-for-now (Boyne Mountain) closures somewhere in that timeframe, and I expected their big three Northeast mountains to follow shortly. I was kind of shocked when I checked the Sugarloaf snow report Sunday morning and saw that they were still open. Finally, at mid-day, they, along with Sunday River and Loon conceded:
Sugarloaf Mountain @SugarloafMaine
In light of the most recent recommendations and guidance in regard to the COVID-19 situation, we have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend all operations at the end of the day today until further notice. Visit bddy.me/2ILriXK for additional information.
4:42 PM ∙ Mar 15, 2020
Magic, Mad River Glen, Bromley, Jiminy Peak, Black (N.H.), Pats Peak, Ragged, Windham, Bolton Valley, and the New York State-owned trio of Belleayre, Gore, and Whiteface all closed as of yesterday afternoon. There are probably others. I'm not into exhaustive lists.
Some of these are explicit season closures. Some are "suspensions of operations while we evaluate the situation." The distinction is likely irrelevant – the chance of any Northeast mountain re-opening this season is almost zero. The snowpack here, with our constant freeze-thaw cycles and rain-snow-sleet-hail-meteor storms, requires constant, intensive maintenance. We all take for granted how good our mountains have gotten at the grooming-snowmaking matrix that keeps the unskiable skiable.
All of this is about to go away. These mountains are about to lose weeks of business, and they are going to cut every cost they can. One of their biggest costs is labor. The focus, once these interim shutdowns stretch past a week or two, will be a controlled shutdown of the mountain for the season. Killington is unlikely to keep groomers and guns running on Superstar just so it can open for three weeks in May. They already lose money in May. They stay open because it is part of their Beast branding and identity. They are not going to do us all this big favor of opening for three weeks in T-shirt season after losing six to eight profitable spring skiing weeks.
Camelback, Smugglers' Notch, Cannon, Waterville Valley, Bretton Woods, Gunstock, and McCauley were open as of Monday morning if you still want to go skiing (again, there are probably others). I wouldn't book a condo though – more public spaces are shutting down by the hour, and if any of these lasts until the end of the week I'll be surprised.
The good thing about ski season is that we're used to it ending
Berkshire East and Catamount owner Jon Schaefer became, of course, the first ski area operator in the United States to shut down the season as a direct result of COVID-19 concerns last Thursday (Schaefer was a guest on The Storm Skiing Podcast in December). A number of smaller ski areas, as well as Jay Peak and Burke, had followed by Friday.
When I wrote on Saturday morning that I would continue to ski until the lifts stopped spinning, my view was more or less in line with the 450 or so still-open-at-the-time ski areas in the country. This annoyed some people and resonated with others. It was intended to be pragmatic rather than defiant. By booting up at my car and skiing midweek on open slopes and empty chairs, the risk of transmission seemed low. I didn't explicitly make that point in the essay, but I was attempting to achieve some sort of balance as life tilted slowly toward the unprecedented.
A lot has changed since then. Not only did the entire U.S. corporate ski industry shutter operations, but daily life here in New York City has gone into a sort of wartime posture. Schools are closed until at least April 20. Bars, restaurants, and movie theaters are closed by order of the mayor's office. Grocery shopping this weekend felt like a mix of group therapy and combat sport. Fearing a transit shutdown and a subsequent Superstorm Sandy-style run on gas, I topped off my tank last night.
There is nothing to do but get in my tube and ride down the river. I'm not going to try to paddle upstream. I was in denial still on Saturday. I'm not any more. For me, ski season is over. I'm OK with that.
I had a great season. I skied 36 days at 25 ski areas in 10 states – good numbers considering where I live and the fact that I have a full-time day job in addition to The Storm. I skied 12 days with my 11-year-old daughter and took my 3-year-old son skiing for the first time. I had some incredible powder days and some memorable adventures. I had hoped to notch another 10 to 15 days. But that's OK. Part of being a grown-up is acknowledging that what you want and what you can have are not always the same thing.
But I also think it's OK to say that this sucks. I don't think it needs to be qualified every single time with a, "but it's for the greater good." Some things can be implied. I also think interpreting the speed with which someone arrived at their decision to stop skiing over COVID-19 fears as a mark of personal worth or morality is a mistake. There are a lot of factors accompanying any such choice, from personal experience to worldview to openness to risk to stubbornness to physical condition to the prevailing wisdom of your friends-and-family network. Some people coalesced around this early and good for them, but the public social media shaming of those still fighting the premature end of something they love is a little grating. The season is over and that's a drag and it's OK if people are still having a hard time accepting it.
The good thing about ski season is that we're used to it ending. It's not like breakfast, where you have to do it every day or you die. It's not even like hot showers, which are nice to have but not absolutely essential to survival. I would probably give up skiing before I'd give up hot showers. But it's nice to have both when you can.
Right now, at least the showers and the food are intact. I'm not in the worst situation. My wife and I are fortunate that we can work from home, and our livelihoods are not at immediate risk, unlike friends of mine who work in the service industry – or folks who work in the ski industry and were counting on several more weeks of pay. Vail, for its part, noted that it would pay all full-time and season staff at least through March 22. Other large resort groups made similar promises.
But the consequences will be far larger for the broader economy, which isn't used to shutting down. The economic fallout from this is probably going to be unlike anything most of us alive have ever seen – we have never shuttered our services- and experiences-based economy on this scale before, or for this duration. The bricks-and-mortar retail economy, already teetering for years on the edge of solvency as online competition grew, may well collapse if sales disappear for weeks or months. Airlines, event operators like Live Nation, gyms – anyplace where people gather or anything that transports them there en masse – are all at enormous risk.
I do also worry about the social fallout – and this was another thing I was trying to get at on Saturday. The dangers of social isolation are well-established. By institutionalizing social distancing, even for a short while, I fear that this most isolated of nations will only turn further inward toward itself. I understand the rationale behind social distancing. Me and my family are doing it. But things that are necessary can have negative unforeseeable consequences.
I know. Stick to skiing. You don't come here for half-assed economic theorizing. I'll do my best. But I'm having a hard time caring about skiing right now, and from the leveling off in the number of newsletter sign-ups, I'm guessing pretty much everybody else is too. This feels like a reverse Sept. 11 – on that day, everything happened all at once, and then we reacted. Now, we're reacting and waiting to see what will happen.
Either way, COVID-19 has everyone's attention, including mine. I recorded a podcast last Wednesday with the general manager of one of the biggest and most important mountains in the Northeast, and now I don't know what to do with it. It seems both inappropriate and wasteful to release it now, when no one is looking. It's a good and vital conversation, and I think a lot of people will want to hear it – in about two months. For now, I am thinking of other ways to engage with this – The Storm will not end with ski season. I have always intended it to be year-round, albeit with a slower offseason cadence.
For now, there's nothing to do but sink into the moment. I'm not used to this. None of us are. We have never in my lifetime been asked to make a shared sacrifice. After Sept. 11, President Bush told us to go shopping. In the wars that followed, we were never taxed specifically for that and there was no draft. This notion that we would actually have to curtail daily life is something we haven't experienced together as a nation since probably World War II.
That means I have only experienced this world through books. I have always found it amazing that Americans actually came together like that. Until this week, I had a hard time believing we ever could again. But I think now of this remembrance from Pete Hamill's excellent book, A Drinking Life, on growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s:
At night from the kitchen windows, we could not see New York. There were wartime blackouts, every light in the city extinguished so that German bombers could never find us and so that German submarines couldn't see the freighters and navy ships as they left New York Harbor. Mayor La Guardia was in charge of all this, talking in his thin squeaky voice over the radio, asking all New Yorkers to cooperate. Everybody did, because almost everybody loved Mayor La Guardia, except one of my aunts, who lost her job when [former mayor] Jimmy Walker lost his. To keep out the light, people began buying blackout shades, which were, of course, black, and on some nights there would be air raid drills, with sirens blaring from the firehouse up the block and air raid wardens walking around in the dark streets shouting orders at the deaf, the careless, or the indifferent.
This went on for the duration of the war. And when it ended, it was a glorious thing:
[The neighbors] had sandwiches and soda bottles and pails of beer and were heading for the roof. …
The roof was as packed as the street during an air raid drill. I saw people from every building on the avenue, and men from the bars, and they were all looking out at the harbor. … The sun was now setting into New Jersey, the sky all red and purple, the skyline beginning to disappear into the darkness. We could hear the foghorns of dozens of ships. And then the sun set, the sky turned mauve and then black. The skyline disappeared as it did every night during the war. For a long time, people murmured to each other in hushed expectant voices.
"What's going to happen?" I asked. "Why is everyone here?"
"Just wait," my mother said. "Watch the skyline."
And then, without warning, the entire skyline of New York erupted into glorious light: dazzling, glittering, throbbing in triumph. And the crowds on the rooftops roared. They were roaring on roofs all over Brooklyn, on streets, on bridges, the whole city roaring for light. There it was, gigantic and brilliant, the way they said it used to be: the skyline of New York. Back again. On D day, at the command of Mayor La Guardia. And it wasn't just the skyline. Over on the left was the Statue of Liberty, glowing green from dozens of light beams, a bright red torch held high over her head. The skyline and the statue: in all those years of the war, in all the nights of my life, I had never seen either of them at night. I stood there in the roar, transfixed. And then softly, her voice trembling with emotion, my mother began to sing.
It's that light that we're all waiting for now, even though we know it may be an awful long ways off.
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Previous podcasts: Killington & Pico GM Mike Solimano | Plattekill owners Danielle and Laszlo Vajtay | New England Lost Ski Areas Project Founder Jeremy Davis | Magic Mountain President Geoff Hatheway | Lift Blog Founder Peter Landsman | Boyne Resorts CEO Stephen Kircher | Burke Mountain GM Kevin Mack | Liftopia CEO Evan Reece | Berkshire East & Catamount Owner & GM Jon Schaefer| Vermont Ski + Ride and Vermont Sports Co-Publisher & Editor Lisa Lynn| Sugarbush President & COO Win Smith| Loon President & GM Jay Scambio| Sunday River President & GM Dana Bullen| Big Snow & Mountain Creek VP of Sales & Marketing Hugh Reynolds |
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Bricktop, the Fabulous
March 5, 2017 Laura Mills
"She was a lady of the dawn who drank only champagne and expected a rose from every male visitor."
– Jim Haskins
To wrap up Black History Month, we are going to do another two-part article looking at a woman who was the center of the night scene in Paris during the 20's. We will look at a woman who was not only talented in her own right, but also fostered the talent of the people around her, and made connections with some of the most incredible rising stars of her day. We will discuss the impact of a woman who was loved by almost everyone she interacted with.
This woman was named Ada Smith but went by the name Bricktop. Although she was a force of nature who created one of the most well-known meeting places for artists and socialites at the time, she gets left out of discussions about the lost generation. So today, we hope to rectify this mistake by looking at the life of the wonderful woman called Bricktop.
Bricktop was born in West Virginia. From childhood, she was an entertainer; she took to the theatre in a performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin when she was five, and only went up from there. Though she had a talent for both singing and dancing, her love was about being an entertainer rather than following any one skill. By the age of sixteen, she had joined TOBA (Theater Owner's Booking Association) and was working on the vaudeville circuit. After that, she was picked up to work at a cafe, singing alongside Florence Mills.
From here on, her story is very much a star studded one. From her first steps into show business, Bricktop found herself surrounded with some of the most incredible people alive during that time. She moved from New York to Paris, where she worked at a tiny club, and she wept at the size, only to be comforted by another person who we have written about, Langston Hughes. At this point, he was not the incredible and well-known poet he would become, but he was kind. He brought her soup and sat with her until she felt better, and the two became friends. Later, Langston said "You liked [Brickstop] right away, she liked everybody and made everybody like her. . . . Bricktop was simply a good old girl of the kind folks call 'regular… Bricktop was the toast of Montmartre, with dukes and princes at her tables".
To have the poetic giant Langston Hughes speak that well of you is an accomplishment on its own, but that is not where Bricktop stopped. She continued working in that club, and continued charming the people she met, including Scott F. Fitzgerald, who would always be proud that he was among the first to discover her before she was famous, saying, "my only claim to fame is that I discovered Bricktop before Cole Porter." Cole Porter, whose claim to fame was his songwriting, came soon after, and the friendship the two struck lasted their lifetimes. Their places in each other's lives were important enough to be remembered even today.
Bricktop spoke of her friendship with the man fondly, believing the man to be a part of the reason she became who she was, writing that he was "standing right there behind me until I became Bricktop, the one and only."
The list of famous people she charmed grew, soon including royalty such as Aga Khan, who said "How does it feel to have royalty kiss this little freckled hand of yours?" to which she replied, "I don't feeling anything. Royalty? They're only people."
It was this familiarity that played a large part in why people adored Bricktop so much. While she was an incredible person, even she admitted "I'm no singer, I'm a personality. Nobody ever came to hear me; they came to see me." And that seemed to be true. While many came to the club to learn the newest dance moves from her, they stayed because of her charisma. At a certain point, she had enough people who adored her that, with the help of Cole Porter, she opened her own club. Cole Porter insisted she called it "Bricktop's" because he knew it was her that would draw people into the club.
And draw them she did. From the beginning of her club, she saw only success; famous people from around the world came. Fred and Adele Astaire practiced their routines at the club before they would bring them to Broadway. Jasha Heifitz would come and borrow a violin from the band to play for the club. Later on, the Romani performers Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli became regulars at the club. And again, we find another one of the people we have discussed in a previous article in Bricktop's life: Josephine Baker.
After Baker had died, Bricktop told Josephine Baker's son, Jean-Claude Baker, that the two had had a brief affair. The two worked together throughout their lives, Bricktop helping Baker grow her reputation in Paris. She also helped push forward the career of the incredible singer Mabel Mercer, who was her assistant at Bricktop's.
Not only did she encourage incredible artists, but she inspired incredible art, including a song which Cole Porter wrote for her called "Miss Otis Regrets." All the famous artists at the time were regulars at her establishment and devoted to her. Once, after kicking John Steinbeck out for "ungentlemanly" behaviour, he bought her a cab full of roses to get back into her good graces.
During her time in Paris, she would write about how Paris was a much better place for women of colour to live than America. These articles would bring a wave of people of colour to Paris hoping to find better lives, and while she praised the country for the opportunities it gave people of colour, she was one of the largest parts of that. She worked to give preforming opportunities to other people of colour, such as the ones we mentioned before, but also the brilliant Duke Ellington.
Her time in Paris was a fabulous one, and in that time, she placed herself as one of the most loved members of the lost generation, not through writing or painting, but through sheer likability. It was not to last though. The war came, and she was forced back to New York. We will explore her life there in the second part of this article.
[Disclaimer: some of the sources may contain triggering material]
Patrick M. (August 15, 2011) To Bricktop, on Her Belated Birthday. Retrieved March 5, 2017
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/08/15/to-bricktop-on-her-belated-birthday/
Albin K. (February 1, 1984) BRICKTOP, CABARET QUEEN IN PARIS AND ROME, DEAD, Retrieved March 5, 2017
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/01/obituaries/bricktop-cabaret-queen-in-paris-and-rome-dead.html
Steven N. (October, 1, 2015) Ada 'Bricktop' Smith: Once the Grande Dame of Paris' Nightclub Scene. Retrieved March 5, 2017
http://www.theroot.com/ada-bricktop-smith-once-the-grande-dame-of-paris-ni-1790861265
MARIARYCHKOVAA (March 26, 2014) Ada "Bricktop" Smith & Chez Bricktop's night club. Retrieved March 5, 2017
https://marsharychkovaa.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/ada-bricktop-smith-chez-bricktops-night-club/
Christopher P. (October 24, 2012) Fabulous Dead People: Bricktop Retrieved March 5, 2017
http://www.wmagazine.com/story/bricktop-aka-ada-beatrice-queen-victoria-louise-virginia-smith
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The Boston Bruins were cruising in the first three games of their four-game road trip. They defeated the New York Islanders, New Jersey Devils and Florida Panthers before facing the Presidents' Trophy-winning Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday night.
Boston outscored their first three opponents 17-4, widening the gap between them and the Toronto Maple Leafs. The team also clinched a playoff spot with their win over the Panthers.
The 5-0 win against the Islanders was a statement that they can dominate some of the top teams in the league. The Isles are in tight competition with the Pittsburgh Penguins for the second spot in the Metropolitan Division and a win against a team fighting for the upper hand speaks to how good this Bruins team really is.
Sean Kuraly had a strong two-goal night and showed that he could be a promising player entering the playoffs. But a broken hand in the game against the Devils will put him out for four weeks.
The Bruins showed up to New Jersey with the same attitude they had in their game against New York. The Bruins won 5-1 behind the great offensive talent of Patrice Bergeron, who recorded three points and a 21-save effort from Tuukka Rask. It may not have been a great matchup to test the Bruins readiness against a playoff team, but they got two points nonetheless.
After a day hanging out at the house of Owner Jeremy Jacobs, the team played the Panthers, who sit well outside of the playoff picture. With a chance to clinch a playoff spot, the Bruins needed to keep their success rolling.
Their 7-3 win was a complete team effort. Thirteen different Bruins players recorded a point against Florida — including an assist from goaltender Jaroslav Halak. Halak also stopped 34 of 37 on the way to win number 20 on the season.
The last game of the road trip came against the league-leading Lightning. Perhaps any outcome besides the one that happened could have been counted as a win for the team.
They were down 2-1 at the end of the first but scored three straight in the second period to take a significant lead.
In the third, the Lightning did to the Bruins what the black and gold have done to plenty of teams this season — they refused to go away.
Tampa Bay notched three consecutive goals of their own, including one with 53 seconds left, and stole two points and a big win from the Bruins.
The Lightning are the team to beat this year. The Bruins certainly gave it a good effort, but to defeat Tampa Bay, you must be perfect. Somehow, the Lightning made it look like they were on the power-play for three of their five goals. The Bruins defence clustered in areas that allowed Lightning forwards to find unoccupied areas and fire quality shots on Rask.
The question that is always in play for the Bruins is with Tuukka Rask. Surely you can look at the box score and say he can't give up five goals on 28 shots — that is a given. But before all the blame is thrown at Rask, look at the quality chances the Lightning had on all five goals.
Look at the other end of this as well. The Bruins generated 17 shots against their opponent. Seventeen shots in a game against the league's best team won't cut it.
The only other stat that the Lightning dominated was in hits, where they generated 11 more than Boston. Otherwise, the game was mostly even and it came down to depth of roster. The Lightning found that they can rely on their third line to go get that game-winning goal, where most teams might stick with their top two with only a minute remaining.
The Bruins have six games left in the regular season. They have three games against teams who are unlikely to make the playoffs. They will also play games against the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets. Both of those teams sit right outside of the postseason picture and, as of now, are only two points away from being tied for the second Wild Card spot in each conference.
The last game the Bruins play in the regular season is a rematch against the Lightning. On April 6, we'll get a chance to see the B's play the Bolts before the playoffs start in what could be a potential second-round matchup.


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Today America, tomorrow the world.
Josh Lester -- eighth-grader, shortstop, badass.
As I've mentioned before, my hometown of Columbus, Georgia, is not without its oddities and various embarrassments. But today we hold our heads up high, because today we stand but one step away from the top of the Little League mountain, for Columbus's Northern Little League team has beaten Beaverton, Oregon, in the Little League World Series to clinch the U.S. title and advance to the world-championship game tomorrow afternoon.
The road to the title bout has not been without the usual haters trying to harsh our team's buzz. First the apparently under-medicated mother of an Arizona player accused Columbus of throwing their Tuesday game against Lemont, Illinois, so that they wouldn't have to play the Arizona team again. Then, after the very same game, the Lemont coach accused power hitter Kyle Carter of showing "disrespect" to the game because he wears his cap slightly askew when, in fact, Carter wears it that way because he had a shunt implanted in his head as an infant to alleviate an arterial blockage (the Lemont coach still hasn't apologized). Then, after losing the game that advanced Columbus to the U.S. final, the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, manager suggested that Georgia baserunners were tipping off pitches. (Less conspiratorial, but still annoying, was the Atlanta Constitution's insistence on splashing today's front page with a big photo of Josh Lester crying to illustrate a story on young kids getting emotional in their sporting endeavors. Because every 13-year-old boy secretly pines to have a picture of himself crying on the front page of a major daily newspaper.)
But whatever, because the Bulldogs of Columbus Northern are headed to the world-championship game (so suck it, Arizona, Illinois, and New Hampshire!) tomorrow to face the winner of tonight's Mexico-Japan international matchup. And for the first time in my storied illustrious occasionally respectable blogging career, I will be trying my hand at liveblogging an event. Yup, some people do BCS bowl games; some people do political conventions; I do Little League.
But shut up, because it's Columbus, and we're a proud people. The game begins at 3:30 Eastern tomorrow afternoon and will be televised on ABC. Either watch the game or read this blog, because if you do neither, Kyle Carter and his skewed baseball cap will come to kick your ass.
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Doug, congrats to you and all the other Columbians. Or columbusonians. I've never really known what Columbus natives are called, now that I think about it.
What's really funny in those links is that you get the impression from reading the text of the articles and the comment sections that the parents and coaches creating the "controversies" in question are viewed by their neighbors as absolute crackpots. Or, in the case of the New Hampshire coach, a whiny little bastard.
Looking forward to it. I hope the boys bring it home. Carter and Lester are straight cold pimpin' bad mofos. At least as much as a 12-year-old can be.
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Once you have acquired the Concealed Carry license, you can start purchasing different types of Concealed carry holsters and choose the one that suits your requirements the best. You can get stuffs, which are completely undetectable and you can wear them all through the day. You will require a separate outer garment with "Hip" holster, which can be worn comfortably in the winter months. However, you will feel like carrying a "firearm" if you dare to wear such vests during the summer months. A Hip concealed carry holster can be kept hidden under a shirt, but you will have to bear with the discomfort because of wearing it for long hours. Shoulder Concealed carry holsters can be stylish, but you need to judge the aspects of comfort and ensure you are making an informed decision.
Pocket concealed carry holsters can be suitable for travelling short distances. It is easy to grab and stays in your pocket. Moreover, you do not feel uncomfortable sitting with it either. Some other varieties of Concealed carry holsters include "Belly Band" and "Waist Band", which are designed to strap around the shoulder. You can get good concealment with both. However, it is better not to wear it all the time and should be particularly kept away during the warm weathers. So what can you do to ensure you buy the right Concealed Carry Holster? Read this article further if you are really interested to know.
Concealed carry holsters tend to vary in styles such as ankle holsters, pocket holsters, belt holsters and waistband holsters. The weaknesses and strengths of the Concealed carry holsters depend on a number of factors. Proper selection of Concealed carry holsters depends primarily on climate, body type and size of the weapon.
It is very important to consider size of the handgun, to ensure concealment and comfort. When it comes to the larger weapons, it becomes more difficult to conceal them. Size of the weapon has an important role to play on how it can be concealed. The aspects of comfort must also be given due attention. It is better to go for moderate sized weapons and then look for a Concealed Carry Holster.
Type of the body must also be considered. If you are still growing or in case you are thin, you will have problems with the holsters. You must look for the different options and look for the OWB holsters that conceal well under the T-shirts. Front pockets can be a comfortable option and virtually disappear. It is good to spend some time testing before purchasing Concealed carry holsters.
Your gun holster selection must be guided by factors like weather and climate as well. If it is a warm weather, you need fewer clothes and you will need to conceal handgun in a pocket or under a T-shirt.
You won't have to think much in case of cooler climates and make sure to take good care if you experience frequent climate changes.
So, as you can see, if you want to include all variables before buying concealed carry holsters, these are the pointers that you must keep in mind.


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Sideline Prep | Breast Cancer Awareness: Think Pink with Sideline Prep!
Breast Cancer Awareness: Think Pink with Sideline Prep!
October is a month that ends with ghouls and goblins, trick or treaters, and a whole lot of candy we should not eat! But on all the other days of the month, there is a demanding focus on breast health and breast examination awareness of woman… both young and old.
Sideline Prep is dedicating this newsletter to Breast Cancer because this topic likely hits home for every one of us… not just because we are females but because we are likely connected to someone who is fighting it, surviving with it, or lost their lives to it.
For me, both my Grandmother and Aunt were survivors. Me personally… I had a horrible scare about 10 years ago. I had not been for a regular check up in almost 2 years. I know… shame on me!! And when I finally went, there was a lump in my left breast. The time between getting an appointment scheduled and being tested seemed like an eternity! To make matters worse, since I'm a huge believer in the Law of Attraction, I did NOT want to but this idea into the universe… so I struggled with this fear all alone. Luckily, my lump was benign and the scare was just that… a scare. But I was negligent in getting my annual check ups… so the horror I felt was compounded by the fact that I neglected myself for a few years.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, except for skin cancers. About 1 in 8 (12%) women in the US will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime. Think about your closest 8 female friends/family members. One will develop breast cancer. That's scary… but simply means we MUST put ourselves first by getting annual check ups and conducting regular breast exams.
⦁ About 232,670 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women.
⦁ About 62,570 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be diagnosed (CIS is non-invasive and is the earliest form of breast cancer).
⦁ The chance that breast cancer will be responsible for a woman's death is about 1 in 36 (about 3%).
To reemphasize the importance of breast cancer awareness, the NFL & the NBA… and the lovely dancers on the sidelines are all joining forces with the American Society of Cancer. We'll tell you all about it in today's Featured Article.


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Mental diseases will be crippling and demoralizing. A normal out-affected person clinic presents normal diagnoses or treatments without an overnight keep. Holistic medicine also understands how amazing the human physique is, especially in its capability to heal. For instance, there are many natural remedies based mostly on herbs that may remedy various ailments without using conventional medicine.
Due to the stigma associated with psychological problems, employers want to ensure that people feel supported and able to ask for assist in persevering with with or returning to work and are supplied with the mandatory sources to do their job.
A woman with a historical past of most cancers of the breast , uterus, or ovary has an elevated danger for colorectal most cancers. A lot of people purpose to search out pure alternate options to conventional pharmacological measures for hair loss, since these often have extreme side effects.
Holistic remedies have grow to be extremely common lately. Mental health problems happen when somebody is in a inclined position of coming into into the mental sickness continuum. Although fatigue is usually described as tiredness, it is completely different to just feeling tired or sleepy.
The health of a child is essential to his or her mum or dad. Traditional medicine is predicated on substances acquired by completely different mixtures of chemical compounds found by experimentation that cause quite a few defects to the thoughts and physique, instead of therapeutic the illnesses they're trying to remove.
Before the development of medical expense insurance, patients had been expected to pay health care prices out of their very own pockets , under what is named the price-for-service business mannequin. Partnerships and coordination among service providers, authorities departments, and neighborhood organizations in offering remedy applications are a necessity in addressing the multi-task solution to poly-behavioral habit.
In 2007, the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health was established. Fitness 4 Her is a gathering place for ladies in search of assist with their health and health plan.
Whereas going about our lives, particularly as we get older, we consider our mortality and focus more emphasis on health ideas. Vitamin A is saved in the liver and fat cells of the human physique and might attain poisonous levels. Many individuals just use juicers to begin implementing higher foods into their diets. Once you search homeopathic cures from practitioners or pharmacies, remember to ask questions in regards to the treatment.
Psychological illness impairs your capability to perform routine tasks, foster healthy relationships, or deal with anger or stress. The upper the degree, the larger the prerequisites of examine with that college will likely be. So as to find an acid reflux disease homeopathic remedy that is effective, you need to have your whole signs evaluated by a physician of homeopathic medicine.
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In line with a examine by RAND Health performed in 2005, the US health care system may save more than $eighty one billion a yr if most healthcare suppliers were to undertake the expertise. They purpose to gather details of patients' medical history and make sure that they are correctly saved.
There are some proven homeopathic treatments for circumstances like flu, despair, weight loss and a few widespread illness in youngsters. They've a Medical Scientist Training Program, if you participate in it, then you'll get full tuition remission and a stipend. There are lots of pharmacy faculties on the planet and if you want to research in one of them, there are a few things you would need to know.
The patient solely must pay for any treatment supplied by doctors that are not affiliated to the NHS), many individuals dwelling in the UK in the present day opt for personal health insurance with the intention to cowl surprising medical costs.
Generation X faces many challenges, but chief amongst them is coping with ongoing healthcare concerns. A Doctorate Diploma will even provide you with the information and skills required to conduct unbiased analysis throughout the public health arena. 3) Maximum protection amount: This is the utmost quantity for which a person is entitled to get the duvet.
Although they could be side effects, thus a full medical historical past needs to be understood before any of these medicines are prescribed. Insurance firms aren't allowed to have co-payments, caps, or deductibles, or to deny protection to any person making use of for a policy, or to charge anything other than their nationally set and revealed commonplace premiums.
In 2012 the Internal Income Service mandated that every one non-revenue hospitals undertake a neighborhood health needs evaluation (CHNA) that 12 months and each three years thereafter. There should be many caring, dedicated and clever people within the medical system but they are thought of uncommon by lots of the public who're compelled to show to self-education and self care practices to make sure their health when common practitioners let them down.


Mr. Leamer is the author of The Kennedy Men and The Kennedy Women.
Rick Shenkman, Are the Medical Disclosures Intended to Manipulate Public Opinion?
Was JFK the Victim of an Undiagnosed Disease Common to the Irish?
How Many Presidents Have Lied About Their Medical History?
Rarely has a story about a forthcoming history book had such a stunning effect as did the Sunday front page New York Times article detailing material in President John F. Kennedy's medical files opened to the researcher Robert Dallek.
In an age demanding heroes, here was JFK standing naked before us, his body punctured by the ravages of disease. All the unseemly revelations and revisionist scars were miraculously gone, and Americans saw John F. Kennedy anew, a brave, solitary figure standing up against the brutally unfair onslaughts of ill health and disease.
Most of this medical history had already been explored or speculated upon in a series of books in the last two decades. What was new was the overwhelming detail, the dramatic context, and the sense that finally here was the full, unmitigated truth. As important as it is that the Kennedy Library is finally opening up these files, if only to one select researcher, they offer a skewed, incomplete picture of Kennedy's health and his medical life in the White House.
Last year in my book, The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963, I had the first time use of the material that Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, secreted away when she left the White House. This is precisely the kind of material that probably would have been excised before reaching the Kennedy Library.
In November 1961, Dr. Eugene Cohen wrote President Kennedy an extraordinary letter warning him about injections filled with amphetamines that he was receiving from Dr. Max Jacobson.
Cohen, who had been Kennedy's endocrinologist since 1956, was worried about ministrations that risked addicting the president. A bill in the Lincoln files shows that Jacobson was seeing the president roughly once a week.
Beyond that, the doctor gave favored patients doses that they could inject themselves. Many of his patients returned repeatedly delighted at the bounce they had in their steps when they left his office, but others ended up ravaged, emotionally destroyed when they tried to stop the injections.
I confirmed these letters and this account with Cohen's sister and two of his medical associates and ended up convinced that Cohen was a hero whose concern was not only Kennedy's health but the health of the nation.
Although Travell was pushed aside as the White House doctor at the end of 1961, her treatments apparently did not end. Nor did Kennedy stop seeing Jacobson. His brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, became so worried that in June 1962 he had the FBI examine vials of Jacobson's mysterious injections. The New York doctor continued to see the president, giving him the kinds of medication that would later see him barred from medical practice.
Kennedy had his own heroic qualities in his refusal to live life as a semi-invalid. He was also in some ways a willful, reckless man who took chances with his health, in his personal life, and with the nation. Although Kennedy acted magnificently during the Cuban missile crisis, it is absurd to suggest that his illnesses and amphetamine use had no impact on his presidency.
President Kennedy made his own choices. We can only ask ourselves what kind of president he would have been if had listened to Cohen, gotten rid of Jacobson, stopped taking Novocain injections, and attempted to deal with his health in other ways.
This article first appeared in the Boston Globe and is reprinted with permission of the author.
am interested in dr max jacobson am suffering from mild strain of mental illness and cultural(ethnic heritage)pessimism. i want to be a kind and loving person instead. would you please tell me more about dr max jacobson. am 36 years old, single, never married, with alternative lifestyle interests.
Our Ngo based in Stockholm Sweden is just issuing an open letter proposing a major change in global planning, hopefully it will have an effect of the UN's policies, and not knowing about your research we based our point on the fact that many world leaders were addicts, therefore we feel very grateful for such revelations of factual truth.
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Okay......I agree he ideally SHOULD have dealt with his health problems in other ways....however as a sufferer of Celiac I know full well two things:one, he was never ever for a single solitary moment told the truth about the diet he should have followed because the medical profession was--and remains generally today---far too incompetent in the proper assessment of such a disease. Secondly, he did the best he could under such a situation which was rife with ignrorance and a pharmaceutical bent.
The other thing I know is that his Catholicism tended to make him philosophically a fatalist with regard to the issue of life and death, and that his statement that "Life is unfayyyyahhh" and the statement that followed:"some people are sick while others are wayell- arose out of his Celiac Disease. I know full well the frustration when common grain proteins found in common foods create the disease process of Celiac.
The thing I find most disheartening however is that the doctors involved in this, instead of using this information to benefit the living a la a quote from Jesus:"Let the dead bury their dead" instead would rather play the game which suggests they were always tied to science and the scientific method, which is as false as false can be. Besides which, valid science and conclusions can be made from the descriptions of his symptoms, an art and science lost in the development of modern medical practice and thinking.