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2011 Back Cove 37
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A motor yacht built in the Maine lobster tradition.
- Year:
- 2011
- Hull Material:
- Fiberglass
- Length:
- 37'
- Engine/Fuel Type:
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For 2009 Back Cove Yachts proudly presents the Back Cove 37, our largest Back Cove model to date, Continuing with the same same practical features, usability and low maintenance, which have built the popularity of the Back Cove brand since it's inception.
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Hull Shape: Deep Vee
LOA: 38 ft 0 in
Beam: 13 ft 0 in
Maximum Draft: 3 ft 3 in
Headroom: 6 ft 6 in
Deadrise: 16 ° at Transom
Dry Weight: 22000 lbs
Engine Options
Engine Option 1: 1x Cummins 480 HP
Fresh Water Tanks: (120 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (300 Gallons)
Holding Tanks: (50 Gallons)
Number of single berths: 5
Additional Description
Salon Seating Area
- L-Settee with Hi/Low table ? converts to double berth
- Double settee opposite with molded end table
- Flip-down LCD TV w/ DVD
- Large engine room hatch opens by electro-hydraulic actuator
- Premium flooring material
- Molded headliner with padded panel inserts
- XM friendly stereo system with CD and interior/cockpit speakers with wired remote
- Oversized head with separate shower stall
- Built-in vanity with sink
- Solid surface countertop
- Full length mirror on door
- Single lever faucet and soap dispenser
- Shower drain sump pump system
- Molded seat in shower stall with storage beneath & locker outboard
- Fresh water electric MSD with holding tank
- Waste tank monitor
- Macerator for overboard discharge
- Pump out fitting on deck
- Stainless steel opening port with screen
- 12V Vent Fan
- Cherry interior on molded composite hull liner
- High pressure laminate ?teak-n-holly? cabin sole
- Molded headliner with padded panel inserts
- Island queen centerline berth forward with drawers and storage below
- Shelves outboard with cherry fiddles
- Cherry hull ceiling
- Cedar lined hanging locker with shelf
- Reading lights
- Multi drawer dresser with dovetailed drawers
- LED overhead lighting
- Molded headliner with padded panel inserts
- Wide double berth with drawers under
- Night stand with storage
- Outboard storage shelves over berth
- Cherry headboard with reading lights
- Cherry hull ceiling
Additional Description
- AC and DC control panels with polarity indicator
- DC system battery management switching
- DC breakers for electronics
- (2) 110V AC 30 amp shorepower with 50 foot cord set
- Emergency parallel switch
- Galvanic isolator
- Battery Charger, 50 amp
- (2) 4D AGM house battery
- (3) Group 31 engine start battery
- (3) 12VDC automatic bilge pumps
- 12V outlet at helm
- Bonding system with zinc anode
- Cockpit courtesy lights
- GFI protected 110V circuits
- (3) windshield wipers with washer system
- Compass, illuminated
- Running lights
Additional Description
- Surface mount cook-top
- AC/DC drawer-type fridge/freezer compartment
- Galley sink with single lever faucet & drop in cover
- Solid surface countertop
- Under-counter convection microwave
- Drawer and doors below counter
- Molded lighting soffit over countertop
- Premium flooring material
Additional Description
- Cummins QSB 5.9 480 hp electronic engine and marine gear
- Electronic single lever engine control
- Digital engine control panel with alarms and hour meter
- Internal sea strainer
- Fuel Filter
- (3) Engine room lights
- 2?? Aquamet shaft
- 4 Blade NiBrAl propeller
- Dripless shaft log
- Electric trim tabs with indicators
- 6?? Exhaust with two stage horizontal muffler
- Teleflex hydraulic steering with tilt helm pump
- Stazo teak steering wheel
- Hot and Cold pressurized water (110V and engine heated)
- 11 gallon hot water heater with heat exchanger
- Bow thruster with joy stick control
- Marelon sea valves on underwater thru hulls
- Fireboy extinguisher system & carbon monoxide detector
- Macerator with overboard discharge
Additional Description
- Vacuum infused FRP construction
- Advanced prop pocket hull design
- Back Cove white iso-npg gelcoat
- Vinylester backup resin
- Cross-linked PVC foam core
- Multiaxial E glass reinforcement
- Awlgrip boot top
- Molded cove stripe depression with ?gold leaf? style stripe
Additional Description
- Vacuum infused FRP construction
- Port & starboard molded steps leading to side & fore deck
- Teak accent stripe
- Back Cove white iso-npg gelcoat with graystone anti-skid on walking surfaces
- Multiaxial E glass reinforcement
- Lewmar hatch with screen in main cabin
- Lewmar hatch with screen over island berth
- Lewmar hatch with screen over head compartment
- Lewmar hatch with screen over guest stateroom
- Lewmar pilot hatches with screens/shades in hardtop
- (6) opening Port lights with screens
- Clear anodized aluminum windshield with center opening
- Trumpet horn on hardtop
- Anchor locker
- Molded Composite bow sprit w/ stainless steel anchor roller
- Mooring cleats w/ skene chocks forward, aft & spring line cleats
- Pop-up cleats at transom corners
- Custom 1 1/4?? 316L stainless steel bow rail
- (2) Stidd 500N helm seats
- Swim platform and swim ladder
- Hot and cold cockpit shower
- Self bailing cockpit
- Transom Door
- Seat in cockpit with storage below
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Portrait of Lady Mary O'Brien, later Countess of Orkney
Sir Joshua Reynolds, English, 1723 - 1792
Made in England, Europe
c. 1772Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
50 x 40 1/8 inches (127 x 101.9 cm)Curatorial Department:
European PaintingObject Location:
1948-95-1Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Donner, 1948
Made in England, Europe
c. 1772Medium:
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50 x 40 1/8 inches (127 x 101.9 cm)Curatorial Department:
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British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of ArtLady Mary O'Brien was the only surviving daughter of Murrough O'Brien, 5th Earl of Inchiquin, created Marquess of Thomond in 1801. Her mother was the 2nd Countess of Orkney, a title Mary inherited on her mother's death in 1790. She was born on September 4, 1755, and married on December 21, 1777, Hon. Thomas Fitzmaurice, of Llewenni Hall, county Denbigh, Ireland (1742-1793), a second son of John, Earl of Shelburne, and brother of the 1st Marquis of Lansdowne. According to his former schoolmate Edmund Malone (Reynolds's first biographer), Fitzmaurice was "a light headed foolish Boy."1 Mary died on December 30, 1831, having borne one son, John Hamilton Fitzmaurice, Viscount Kirkwall (1778-1820). Mary's father married Sir Joshua Reynolds's niece and heir, Mary Palmer, as his second wife, who accordingly became the Marchioness of Thomond and stepmother to Mary. Although baptized Mary, she was called Nelly at home to distinguish her from her mother, also Mary. Even in the eighteenth century, in Henry Bromley's Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits (London, 1793), the sitter in our picture was confused with another, more famous--or rather more notorious--Nelly, Nelly O'Brien, the beautiful courtesan whom Sir Joshua frequently painted.2 And throughout the nineteenth century the picture was exhibited under the title Nelly O'Brien. Although we know little about Lady Mary's life or personality from written documents, Reynolds's portrait contrives to tell us a great deal about her--not, as might be the case in a portrait by another artist, by revealing her character through a look, a smile, a turn of the head, or the strength of the face itself, but through costume, props, landscape, and pose. These tell us about her position in the world, her taste, and most important, about how she viewed herself. As Lady Mary was not married at the time the portrait was painted, and the painting was immediately engraved, possibly a covert function of the portrait was to advertise the sitter's charms to eligible young men. Reynolds shows Lady Mary seated in profile to the left, her right elbow resting on a vase, her right hand propping up her chin, her left arm tucked into the elbow of her bent right arm, looking off into the distance at three poplar trees. The pose is an adaptation in reverse of a figure on a Roman bas-relief in the Musei Capitolini (Palazzo dei Conservatori), Rome, The Conquered Province (Weeping Dacia) (marble, height 47 1/4" {120 cm.}, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori) the pose of which, when it turns up in eighteenth-century paintings (Gainsborough's {1727-1788} Girl with Pigs, 1782, 49 1/2 x 58 1/2", Yorkshire, Castle Howard), suggested melancholy. Classically draped female figures resting against urns were frequently found on mourning rings or funerary monuments at this period (see Thomas Banks's [1735-1805] monument to Dean William Smith, 1787, Chester Cathedral).3 The pose and the urn suggest, at first glance, that we are looking at a lady in mourning; and if, as is the case here, no immediate reason can be cited for her sadness--the death of a parent, a husband, a lover--we should bear in mind that in paintings and sculpture by artists as different as Greuze (1725-1805) (Young Girl Crying Over the Death of Her Bird, oil on panel, 26 3/4 x 21 1/2", Paris, Louvre) and Thomas Banks (Monument to a Robin Redbreast, 1803, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales) young ladies of feeling were shown mourning the death of pet robins or sparrows. But there is no reason to be literal in the case of Lady Mary; rather, she chose to be painted as a lady of "sensibility," that precursor to the romantic mentality in which the feelings of the heart were held sacred, and indeed, as an antidote to an age obsessed with reason, tended and cultivated to a pitch that seems extravagant to twentieth-century minds.4 Like Mrs. Robinson in Reynolds's own Perdita (1784, 29 x 24 1/4", London, Wallace Collection), where the sitter looks toward the horizon in much the same way as the sitter in this portrait, Lady Mary is supposed to manifest a fashionable touch of melancholy, a sincerity quite different from a lady who would dress up, powder her hair, and face the artist head on for her portrait. Melancholy was, of course, a la mode at this date, not only in art but in poetry, garden design, the cult of ruins, and in novels. It is possible that Mary's pose and particularly the inclusion of poplar trees in the distance subtly refer to a character in contemporary literature, Laurence Sterne's (1713-1768) Maria, who is described in his Sentimental Journey, which was published in 1768 and immediately became a best seller. In that book the character Yorick meets a peasant girl named Maria by the roadside outside Moulins, "sitting under a popular--She was sitting with her elbow in her lap, and her head leaning on one side within her hand. . . She was dress'd in white ... her hair hung loose."5 Sentimental Journey was one of the first English novels of sensibility, and one that Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) would turn to in 1774 as a source for his Captive (40 x 50", Derby, Derby Museum and Art Gallery) and again in 1777 for the first of his two versions of Maria (63 x 45 1/2" , Great Britain, private collection).6 Wright's Maria makes a particularly interesting comparison with Reynolds's portrait because in it he depicted the heroine seated in the Dacia pose chosen by Reynolds for Mary O'Brien, although in reverse. Furthermore, Wright's maiden wears her hair in a coiffure so nearly like Lady Mary's that we might well believe he knew the Reynolds or a print from it. Ironically, Wright's Maria is not seated under poplar trees as she should be (and as she is in the Reynolds), although she is dressed entirely in white, which Lady Mary is not. But then Wright was illustrating a story, while Reynolds merely added an allusion to a contemporary heroine of fiction by way of adding another level of meaning to an already richly suggestive portrait. Robert Moore made this point in his article on Reynolds's method of characterization: "The most important ... of Reynolds's modes of exploring character and individualizing portraiture, [is] his appropriation of some pose or fiction from either literature or art that will simultaneously illustrate something about the sitter and lend something dramatic or imaginative to the painting."7 But whatever else Reynolds tells us about Lady Mary, he does not allow us to mistake her for anyone other than a respectable scion of the upper classes: a great swag of curtain, a column, the huge urn convey more than a little information about the world of Adam and Chambers houses, of security and established values, to which the sitter was born and in which she moved. Her dress, halfway between a frock of the 1770s and a Roman toga, leaves no doubt that her country and class were the inheritors of the Roman Empire and civilization. In addition, Reynolds put forward in the Seventh Discourse of 1776 a practical reason for this kind of vague costume: "He ... who in his practice of portrait-painting wishes to dignify his subject ... will not paint her in the modern dress, the familiarity of which alone is sufficient to destroy all dignity .... He ... dresses his figure something with the general air of the antique for the sake of dignity, and preserves something of the modern for the sake of likeness."8 The urn, ornamented at each side with the head of a lion holding a ring in its jaw and decorated on the body by another lion beneath a festoon, is copied from an engraving by Enea Vico (1520-1567), one of a series of fourteen vases after the antique (Vase with Lion Heads, 1543, engraving, courtesy of the British Museum, London).9 The Vico itself is a copy in reverse of a print of 1531 by Agostino Veneziano (active c. 1509-36). Waterhouse dated this portrait to 1774, while a date apparently on the frame when the picture was exhibited in London in 1867 reads 1773. Dixon's engraving (Smith, 1878, vol. 1, pp. 213-14, no. 26) is generally dated 1774, but this is only the inscribed state that was published on September 29 of that year by W. Wynne Ryland. An earlier state, with an uncleaned edge before the inscription, in scratched letters, reads "Sr Joshua Reynolds pinxt J Dixon Fecit 1772" (an impression in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, John Dixon {1740-c. 1780} after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1772, mezzotint, 19 1/8 x 14" {48.6 x 35.5 cm.}, courtesy of the Fitzwiliam Museum, Cambridge), giving us a date before which the portrait must have been completed. This earliest known state was also recorded by C. E. Russell and Hamilton. Richard Dorment, from British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Century (1986), pp. 288-291. 1. For Malone's opinion of Fitzmaurice, see Farington Diary, [1795], February 13, 1796. For Lady Mary O'Brien, see Scots Peerage, 1904-14, vol. 6, pp. 580-81. 2. Henry Bromley. A Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London, 1793, p. 431, s.v. "Nelly O'Brien, Courtezan." 3. Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny. Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900. New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 193-94, fig. 100. Jonathan Richardson (Sr. and Jr.), An Account of Some of the Statues, Bas-reliefs, Drawings aud Pictures in Italy, Etc., 2nd ed. (London, 1754), p. 114, described the relief as "incomparable." In the 1750s the sculpture was incorporated in portraits by Batoni (1708-1787) and in views by Panini (c. 1692-1765/8) and was also drawn by Richard Wilson (1713-1782) (see Denys Sutton, ed. An Italian Sketchbook by Richard Wilson, R.A., London, 1968, vol. 1, repro. p. 7, vol. 2, pp. 29-50). By the time Reynolds used the pose for Lady Mary O'Brien, Dacia was being used in England for jewelry. See A Catalogue of Cameos, Intaglios, Medals and Bas-reliefs, with a General Account of Vases and Other Ornaments after the Antique Made by Wedgewood and Bentley and Sold in Their Rooms in Great Newport Street, London (London, 1773), p. 11 (Class 1 Cameos and Intaglios), no. 1055, "A Conquered province; in Carnelian." Reynolds also used this pose for his Hon. Mrs. Spencer (Contemplation) (35 1/2 x 28 1/2", Christie's, March 3, 1924, lot 143), engraved by R. H. Parkes, published 1864. 4. For a discussion of sensibilité in France, see Anita Brookner, Greuze: The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon (London, 1972), chaps. 1-3. 5. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (London, 1768), vol. 2, p. 171 6. For the second version see Benedict Nicolson. Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light., London, 1968, vol. 1, no. 237, also sec vol. 1, pp. 150-151. 7. Moore, 1967, p. 346. 8. Robert R. Wark, ed. Sir Joshua Reynolds: Discourses on Art. San Marino, California, 1959, p. 140. 9. Adam Bartsch. Le Peintre Graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1803-21., vol. 15, p. 350, no. 420; Walter L Strauss, ed., The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 30, ed. John Spike (New York, 1985), repro. p. 259. See also Timothy Clifford, "Polidoro and English Design," The Connoisseur, vol. 192 (August 1976), p. 291 n. 20. LITERATURE:
Henry Bromley. A Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London, 1793, p. 431 (as "Nelly O'Brien, Courtezan"); Hodgson and Graves. Engravings from the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. 3 vols. London, 1836, vol. 2, p. 58 (as "Miss Nelly O'Brien"); William Cotton. A Catalogue of the Portraits Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt., P.H.A.: Compiled from His Autograph Memorandum Books, and from Printed Catalogues, &c. London, 1857, p. 56; Charles Robert Leslie and Tom Taylor. Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with Notices of Some of His Contemporaries. 2 vols. London, 1865, vol. 1, pp. 188-89, n. 7; John Chaloner Smith. British Mezzotinto Portraits. 4 vols. London, 1883, vol. 1, pp. 213-14, no. 26; Algernon Graves and William Vine Cronin. A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. 4 vols. London, 1899-1901, vol. 2, pp. 701-2; Walter Armstrong. Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy. London and New York, 1900, p. 222; Freeman O'Donoghue. Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits ... in the British Museum. 6 vols. London, 1908-25, vol. 3, p. 378 (listed under Orkney, Mary O'Brien); Ellis K. Waterhouse. Reynolds. London, 1941, pp. 64-65; Allen Staley. "British Painting from Hogarth to Alma Tadema." Apollo, n.s., vol. 100 (July 1974), p. 35; Timothy Clifford, "Polidoro and English Design," The Connoisseur, vol. 192 (August 1976), p. 291 n. 20.


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As of late, it appears that chaos reigns in the Impact Zone. After last week's shocking ending to the wedding of Bully Ray and Brooke Hogan, how will Taz explain his defection to the dastardly Aces and Eights? And what will the gang have in store this week? Also, in the main event of the evening, "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels will battle TNA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Hardy for the strap. All that and more should guarantee a lot of action on this week's edition of Impact Wrestling!
The show kicks off with a replay of the shocking end to last week's wedding. Post-show footage is shown of the TNA roster coming out to help clear the destruction caused by Aces and Eights.
We are LIVE from the Impact Zone in Orlando, Fla. Todd Keneley and Mike Tenay have the call, with an empty chair right next to the former. The two discuss the shock and awe behind last week's events.
Aces and Eights is shown having a celebration in the parking lot of the Impact Zone.
Video intro to the episode rolls.
Taz leads Aces and Eights into the arena. Taz says life is about opportunity and he couldn't pass up joining the group. Taz lists off all the reasons to join the gang and notes that the wedding last week was an opportunity to show their power. Taz wants Dixie Carter and the TNA front office need to review his contract because the language within makes him "bulletproof." Taz says that he is untouchable and TNA will now have to deal with the higher power.
Jesse gives TNA Knockouts Champion Tara a pep talk before her match with Velvet Sky tonight.
Christopher Daniels video package rolls. Daniels and Kazarian are backstage and they are ready for the match tonight. Christopher Daniels is ready to be "World Heavyweight Champion of the World."
Match One for the TNA Knockouts Championship: Tara (c) vs. Velvet Sky
Velvet Sky starts with the rollup from behind for a nearfall. The two grapple back and forth before Tara gets a shoulder block. Japanese arm drag from Velvet Sky leads to a flurry of offense. Tara heads outside to be consoled by Jesse, but Sky brings her inside for a little more punishment. Velvet again sends Tara outside. Tara appalled on the arena floor as we break.
Sky cornered and kicks Tara away before going up top for a crossbody. Nearfall for Velvet Sky. Sky unloads chops on the chest of Tara and shoulder rams her into the corner. Sky tries a monkey flip, but Tara pushes her off for a nearfall. Tara now using power offense to keep Sky grounded. Snap suplex by Tara for another nearfall. Tara with a standing moonsault for yet another nearfall.
Tara locking in the sleeper on Sky. Sky fights back to her feet, but Tara drags her down by her hair. Tara tosses Sky by her hair. Tara up top, but Sky meets her with a gorilla press to the mat. The two exchange punches in the middle of the ring. Velvet with a few clotheslines and a headscissors takeover. Sky with a neckbreaker, but Jesse distracts Taryn Terrell. Tara charges at the cluster, but she knocks Jesse down. Sky goes for a suplex, but Jesse sweeps the leg and holds Sky's foot down.
Winner by pinfall: Tara
Sting says he will be doing all the talking about last week in the ring later tonight.
Zema Ion walks in on Kenny King giving himself a pep talk. King and Ion will team up tonight, but the two seem to have a bit of tension.
Joseph Park making his way to the ring. Park says that he now realizes his true calling as a member of the Impact roster. Park says that his debut match a few weeks ago was not a success, but he is here to be the best he can be. Park is ready for next week's Open Fight Night in Manchester, England and he will be competing. He will render his verdict next week after some deliberation, but the whole world should be ready for him next week. Park says he will be getting the win next week.
Match Two: Rob Van Dam & Christian York vs. Kenny King & Zema Ion
RVD starts with Ion. The two counter strikes until RVD presses Ion up and lands a dropkick. York tagged in and lands a running knee to the stomach. RVD back in with a dropkick in the corner on Ion. Kenny King pulls Van Dam down by his hair and Ion with a sneak attack. King in and gets a snap suplex into mount. Punches and a nearfall for King. Ion back in with kicks to the ribs. Ion knocks York off the apron and the referee holds York back while Ion rakes the eyes of RVD. Ion up top and misses a 450 splash.
Tags are made and York and King in. York with a few clotheslines and a neckbreaker. York with a flying knee for a nearfall that is broken up by Ion. RVD in to take care of Ion, but Ion is able to knock him down with a big boot. King is sent outside by York. King drags him out and beats him down. RVD going for a split-leg moonsault on Ion, but King is able to push him into the turnbuckle. Ion sends him outside and York soon takes Ion out.
Ion on the apron with the blind tag. King with a hangman's neckbreaker, but Ion is shucked off on the flying DDT attempt. King gets on the apron and hits a huge Blockbuster. Ion crawls over for the cover.
Winners by pinfall: Kenny King & Zema Ion
Brooke Hogan and Bully Ray make their way into the building. Bully Ray has no answers for the cameraman about his wedding and will talk about it in the ring later.
Garrett Bischoff and Wes Brisco with Samoa Joe and they want to know how Kurt Angle is doing. Joe doesn't want to talk and Angle enters to greet everyone. He isn't 100%, but he is happy to be back.
Recap of the wedding last week.
Bully Ray and Brooke Hogan hit the ring. Bully wants Taz to answer to him. He never expected this betrayal and he has hurt Bully and anyone involved in this wedding. Bully says he hurt Brooke the most and says that Taz ruined their special day. Bully is ready to inflict serious pain on Aces and Eights and tells them to sleep with one eye open. Bully guarantees that he will not sleep until he gets his hands on every Aces and Eights member. Bully can't do any of this until Hulk Hogan lifts his suspension.
Sting makes his way out. Sting notes that Hulk Hogan never goes halfway on anything, but he has only gone halfway on Bully and Brooke. Sting wants Hogan to announce Bully Ray will be reinstated next week in the United Kingdom.
Recap of Bobby Roode and Austin Aries being confronted by Hernandez and Chavo Guerrero. Aries and Roode backstage. The group is gameplanning and no one wants to match up with Hernandez tonight. Roode argues that Aries is quicker, but Aries says Roode is stronger. Roode says that Aries beat him and he should take on Hernandez, but Aries admits it was a fluke and fools Roode into matching up with Hernandez.
Jeff Hardy video package plays. Hardy backstage and he is ready for his title bout tonight.
Match Three: Bobby Roode vs. Hernandez
Chavo Guerrero joins Hernandez, while Austin Aries is nowhere to be seen.
Hernandez muscles Roode, but Roode using his quickness to land strikes. Back bodydrop from Hernandez is followed by a delayed vertical suplex. Roode turns the tide with some quick offense for a nearfall. Roode works Hernandez in the corner and hits a running neckbreaker. Hernandez fighting back with strikes to the stomach, but a Roode elbow drops him for another nearfall. Roode with two elbows and a knee drop for yet another nearfeall.
Sleeper in for Roode. Hernandez fights his way back to the feet and drives Roode into the corner. Hernandez bodydropped to the apron, but he hits a battering ram. Splash in the corner on Roode and he hits a backbreaker. Roode stops a bodydrop with a kick to the face and some chops. Roode off the ropes, but he gets sent outside with a huge shoulder block. Hernandez wants to fly, but Austin Aries makes the save. Chavo Guerrero brawls with Aries outside.
Inside, Roode with a sneak attack bulldog on Hernandez. Hebner gets away from the brawl to make the count.
Winner by pinfall: Bobby Roode
Kurt Angle will make his way to the ring next.
Recap of the injury of Kurt Angle at the hands of Aces and Eights.
Angle steps inside the ring. Angle is tired of Aces and Eights sneak attacks that have taken out numerous members of the Impact roster. Angle wants his revenge next week on Open Fight Night and he will take it out on Mr. Anderson. Angle asks for Mr. Anderson to join him in the ring right now.
Anderson's music hits and he makes his way through the backdoor like all Aces and Eights members do. Anderson asks if Angle really wants to fight him next week. However, Anderson doesn't want to fight him next week because he wants to do it now. Anderson with a cheap shot on Angle and starts a beating. Angle powers out of the corner with a clothesline. Anderson escapes an Ankle Lock. Angle says Aces and Eights won't be able to interfere next week because he will fight Anderson in a steel cage.
Anderson worried in the Aces and Eights clubhouse, but Devon assures him and tells him to just relax.
Match Four for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship: Jeff Hardy (c) vs. Christopher Daniels
Kazarian with Daniels as usual.
Jeremy Borash makes the introductions for the title bout.
Daniels locks up with Hardy and presses him into the corner. Ref breaks it and another lockup leads to a Hardy side headlock. Daniels works hardy into the corner and gets a few shoulder blocks to the stomach. Hardy floats over on an Irish whip and hits a headscissors takeover. Clothesline from Hardy puts Daniels in the corner. Hardy tries a pendulum kick, but Daniels ducks to the outside and Hardy lands hard. Daniels tosses Hardy outside and Kazarian comes in to raise the hand of his partner as we break.
Daniels with a clothesline as we return. Nearfall for Daniels.
Action during the break shows Kazarian beating Hardy down.
Daniels pressing the elbow into the eye of Hardy. Daniels with a Saito suplex. Off the ropes and a clothesline to the back of the head earns Daniels a nearfall. Daniels with strikes and stomps to the downed champion. Hardy moves into the corner and Daniels picks up to land a headbutt. Daniels digging the knee into the head of Hardy. Neckbreaker from Daniels earns a nearfall.
Neck crank submission applied by Daniels. Daniels driving the knees into the spine of Hardy, but Hardy gets up to his feet. Hardy dragged down by his hair. Kazarian in the face of Hardy. Daniels tries an Irish whip, but Hardy pulls him into a clothesline. Both men down and the referee starts the count. The two exchange punches in the middle of the ring. Hardy gets the advantage and gets a flying clothesline. Atomic drop and leg drop to the midsection followed up with a dropkick from Hardy. Corkscrew kick puts Daniels down for a nearfall.
Hardy drags Daniels and goes up top. Splash from the second rope gets Hardy a nearfall. Daniels hits a Death Valley driver for a nearfall. Daniels choking Hardy with the back of his leg. Hardy gets the rope break, but Daniels places Hardy up top. Daniels going up top, but Hardy hits a front suplex. Daniels gets his foot on the rope to cause a nearfall. Twist of Fate is turned out of and Daniels hits the Angel's Wings for a close nearfall.
Daniel getting frustrated. He attempts a BME, but Hardy ducks away and goes for Whisper in the Wind. Daniels ducks it and cradles him for a nearfall. Daniels setting up Hardy, but Hardy with a headscissors takeover. Twist of Fate from Hardy sends Daniels into his manager on the apron. Another Twist of Fate and Hardy baseball kicks Kazarian. Hardy up top and he nails the Swanton Bomb.
Winner by pinfall: Jeff Hardy
Taz wants to interview Jeff Hardy. He asks what Hardy will do when Aces and Eights takes over. A masked member comes from behind and cracks the left knee of Hardy with a hammer.
Hardy down as we fade to black.
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By Frank Radosevich II
May 3, 2012
When graduating senior Kyle Orne recites his majors of study at Bradley, most people don't understand what they are hearing. The reason is because Orne has three of them — English, political science and Spanish.
"Most people assume one or two of them are minors," said Orne, a native of Phoenix. "They're just interesting subjects."
But Orne, who started at Bradley just studying political science, said fielding three majors is a demanding but worthwhile endeavor. Besides letting him explore his favorite subjects, a triple major has taught Orne how to handle an on-the-go schedule. Though studying and playing on the men's soccer team kept him busy, Orne found time to work a part-time job and apply for law school.
"You have to learn early on how to manage time correctly," he said.
He chose to attend Bradley partly because of its successful soccer program and strong academics.
"I wanted a good balance between the two," said Orne, who was the team's goalkeeper. "I like how soccer is a bigger deal here than most schools."
Orne will attend law school at Arizona State next year and said his trio of majors prepares him well for a career as a lawyer. The reasoning of politics and the critiquing of literature taught him how to fashion convincing arguments and express them clearly. His fluency in Spanish will come in handy studying and, possibly, working in the American Southwest.
Nicole Meyer, director of the Pre-Law Center at Bradley, said Orne had completed the first step for applying to law school — thinking through why he wanted to attend and what he wanted to do after graduation. She helped him then navigate the intricate application process.
"Kyle was ahead of the game," she said. "With him it was really getting into the nitty-gritty for applying to law school."
For his part, Orne said the advice and guidance he received from the center was invaluable. Out of the seven universities to which he applied, Orne was accepted at five and placed on a wait list for the sixth.
"She helped me narrow it down to a level where it was manageable," he said of working through the application process with Meyer. "She was there at the very beginning."


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The New York Comic Con is a frothing bouillabaisse overflowing with panels and pageantry. Here are some of the juicier news bites to come out of Javits Center this weekend.
- Geoff Johns announced that Hot Pursuit, a police officer who can use the Speed Force to power his motorcycle will debut in the team series The Flash: The Speed Force. The identity of Hot Pursuit will surprise readers.
- 100 Bullets team Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso will be reuniting for an unnamed project.
- At the IDW panel, Chris Ryall announced that Eric Powell of The Goon would be helming a new Godzilla series starring plenty of old-school Toho monsters, including Mechagodzilla, Mothra, and Rodan. Tony Lee also announced that he would be penning an 11th Doctor Doctor Who series come January.
- Attendance hit 95,000 this year, up from 77,000 in 2009. [icV2]
- Dark Horse will be launching new comics based on Dollhouse and The Guild. [Comics Alliance]
- Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos will reunite for a new Alias miniseries [CBR].
- Iron Man will be renumbered at 500 and War Machine will get his own series, War Machine 2.0. [Comics Alliance]
- Kotaku was on hand to check out MODOK's debut in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and the resurrection of the X-Men arcade game on Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network. Welcome to die!
- J.D. DeMatteis leaves Ardden Entertainment on the eve of the Atlas Comics relaunch. [Newsarama]
- Marvel's next big X-Men event? The mysterious "Age of X," which debuts in January. At Marvel's X-Men panel, it was noted that this name ties into the famed Age of Apocalypse series in some capacity.
- Brian Azzarello and Matteo Casali will be penning Batman Europa, a miniseries about Batman and the Joker traveling across Europe together to find the cure for a mysterious virus. [Bleeding Cool]
- Stan Lee is penning a futuristic Romeo and Juliet comic. [Deadline]
- He's also creating superheroes for all 30 NHL teams and creating motion comics with a Japanese metal band. Pretty productive for 87.
- Jason Aaron is helming Astonishing Captain America, which is not a tie-in with the new movie. [Bleeding Cool]
- Archie Comics is releasing a new series of Mega Man comics. I had such a jones for their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line back in the day. [CBR]
- Anthony Bourdain will be penning Get Jiro!, a series about a futuristic sushi chef, for Vertigo Comics.


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NEWPORT BEACH — The shot-making will come.
On Friday afternoon at The Tennis Club Newport Beach, Iain Russell was more concerned with the footwork.
"It's like ballet," Russell told kids at a free junior tennis clinic regarding springing your legs to go for a shot. "You just float."
Russell and Tennis Club pro John Craig put on the clinic, which ran all afternoon for about 25 young players seperated into groups. There was a smattering of local high school players participating, like Newport Harbor incoming junior Ryan Burns and a Sage Hill contingent featuring graduate Dominique Moore, incoming senior Olivia Simon and incoming junior Cali Goldberg.
More interesting, though, may be what Russell and Craig are planning for down the road.
Craig plans to open the new Edge Tennis Academy at The Tennis Club next month. The academy will feature year-round programs for juniors ages 8-18 and feature instruction from Russell, a former ATP World Tour competitior who was the original teacher and coach of French Open champion Michael Chang.
Craig, 50, was the director of tennis at the John Wayne Tennis Club (now Palisades) in the late 1980s. He came to The Tennis Club about eight months ago.
"There was another advanced academy here that, I guess, didn't work out," Craig said. "I thought there was an opportunity to do something special here. I thought with the quality of tennis in this area, and the quality of kids, that we needed to develop a program to appeal to more serious tennis players."
Craig first met Russell in San Diego about 30 years ago when Craig was a teenager and Chang was a top junior.
"One day, [Russell] came up to me and he said, 'John, I'd like you to meet Michael.' " Craig said. "So I'm going to hit some balls with Michael, and Michael trots off to the other side of the court. [Russell] puts his hand on my shoulder and says, 'He's going to be a champion,' and walks away. Ten years later, Michael Chang wins the French Open."
Now, Craig and Russell hope to bring a top-level junior academy to Newport Beach. Russell, 59 and originally from South Africa, has been living in Las Vegas but is planning to move to Lake Forest.
"I've never seen anybody more effective at developing juniors than him," Craig said. "He's a brilliant, brilliant coach, and I think he's going to be a real asset to the community."
Burns, who has been coached by Craig, said he would welcome such an academy. He played junior varsity for Newport Harbor last year but wants to make the varsity in the spring. He played his first tournament last month at the Costa Mesa Summer Classic, advancing to the second round.
"That'd be really cool," Burns said of playing for the academy.
There are definitely a lot of top tennis players in Orange County. One of the biggest programs around is the Advantage Tennis Academy in Irvine, which has featured several top juniors, including locals like Cierra Gaytan-Leach and Joseph Di Giulio.
Craig said he doesn't necessarily feel like his Edge academy will have to compete with Advantage, though.
"I don't know if that's the right word," Craig said. "I think that in a few years, we're going to be recognized as one of the top-quality academies in the county. Not in size, but in quality. We're not worried about becoming big, we're worried about turning out good kids and good players."
Craig will also be holding a camp next week, beginning Monday. For more information about the Edge Tennis Academy, contact him at (714) 648-0983 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Tucker West, who learned the sport of luge on a track built in the backyard of his Ridgefield home by his father, will be making his second trip to the Olympics.
And you can watch starting Saturday.
Set your DVR for coverage of the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea for:
- Saturday, Feb. 10: Run one and two will be live at 5:10 a.m. and 6:55 a.m. EST and will be broadcast at 11:30 a.m. on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN)
- Sunday, Feb. 11: Run three and four will be live at 4:50 a.m. and 6:55 a.m. EST and will be broadcast at 1:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN)
- Thursday, Feb. 15: If Tucker qualifies for the USA Relay Team, he will race at 7:30 a.m. It will be broadcast at 9:30 a.m. that day on NBC-TV or NBC Sports Network (NBCSN)
West was the youngest man ever to represent the U.S. in luge when he went to the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014.
He is now the top luger from the U.S.
West rode a wave of popularity during the Olympic games in Sochi. In an interview on "Today" back in 2014, his father, Brett, declared Tucker was "very single," prompting everything from marriage proposals to prom invitations. (FYI: Tucker now dates another U.S. luge team member.)
He and his dad appeared together again on 'Today" after that. Tucker said, "It's the nature of every parent to embarrass their child, and he took the cake on this one this year."
And the story of the family's homemade luge track — where West got his start — has gained national attention.
Brett West built the course in 2003, inspired by the lugers in the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. The top of the course is known as "Tucker's Tower."
In 2015, after the course was restored, the West family invited the public to try luging on the course and huge crowds turned out.
"It was pretty cool," said 11-year-old visitor. "It would be a dream to have this in my backyard one day. It's way better than a water slide."
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Another of the companies in my loose affiliation of a portfolio is LoopMe, which has just emerged from stealth mode to take on some of the challenges we face in mobile advertising. My role is currently a Board Advisor along with the excellent Kate Burns – the first employee of Google outside the US back in the day and more latterly CEO of AOL Europe.
The management team we're advising is a couple of mobile advertising veterans with excellent pedigrees, Stephen Upstone and Marco Van de Bergh, who worked together at Ad Infuse and Velti. They've been beavering away for months and have a working product in the wild and in use – we're not talking vapourware here.
The idea behind LoopMe starts with the in-App user experience of mobile advertising. Currently, the user is presented with advertising that works on the old, intrusive model of trying to compete to get attention with the content of the app itself. Often this means more garish or interruptive formats, that can actually degrade the user experience.
LoopMe starts from the opposite point of view. A pretty small percentage of users ever engage with advertising in the first place – certainly less than 20%. So, let's not bother trying to get the attention of the 80% who aren't interested and focus on the few who actually want to interact.
They do this by providing an In-Box for app publishers to install (about a 10 minute integration process) and then fill that with ads that the LoopMe algorithm predicts that the specific user might like to engage with. This means that anyone who sees the ads will have made an active decision to see them and will clearly be more predisposed to engage with them too.
From an app developer/publisher point of view, it's also a compelling proposition. More "free money" from advertising, without needing to change other ad partners – the inventory is incremental, as well as revenues – and a better, cleaner user experience. Moreover, clicking on an ad keeps the user within the app, not off into the browser, which is the case with many other ad formats. Why wouldn't they try it?
The final part of the trinity is advertisers themselves. Again, the proposition is powerful, as they're being offered a conversation with users that actually want to talk in the first place.
You can see Stephen being grown up on CNBC here.
If you're an app developer who wants to give LoopMe a whirl, head on over here and integrate. You could be earning money in a few hours.
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This PrEP-ed Life: Damon Jacobs on Sex and Dating in a New Era of HIV Prevention
May 13, 2013
As a licensed therapist working with people living with HIV, Damon Jacobs heard about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as an HIV prevention strategy. When he found himself newly single after being out of the dating game for almost a decade, he re-entered a dating pool that was not at all condom-friendly. To deal with this, and to finally come to terms with his distaste for condoms, Damon began taking PrEP in July 2011 to stay HIV negative.
Now, almost two years later, he's never missed a single dose -- and he's become an advocate for education around PrEP, though he acknowledges that it may not be the right strategy for everyone. From dispelling myths around anti-condom attitudes to advocating that people be able to talk to their doctors about all aspects of their sex life, Damon reminds us that sex isn't dirty, and we can have sexual pleasure, but we have to be smart and know our own bodies.
Can you tell us a bit about your background and experience in the HIV community?
I'm a licensed marriage/ family therapist in New York state. I'm also licensed in California. That means that I work with people in relationships. Sometimes I work with couples in the room. Sometimes I work with individuals who are in couples.
I was getting my formative education and training in psychology in the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-early 1990s, in the early days of HIV/AIDS -- or, actually, it was after the first wave. That was a time when loving people with AIDS and knowing people with AIDS meant losing people with AIDS. You would see people one day and then the next day, you wouldn't see them. That was before we had treatments. And that really affected a lot of the way that I continued to want to be active in the HIV prevention, education and treatment community -- also as a therapist, as someone who could help people infected and affected by HIV to have lives that were still meaningful and purposeful and pleasure-filled.
That's really been the mission that I've had for the past 15 to 20 years, is trying to promote a sense of empowerment, and mental and spiritual health for people infected and affected with HIV -- people that are, often, in relationships with other people who are HIV positive, and a lot of serodiscordant relationships (meaning that one person is negative, one person is positive) -- and helping them negotiate the boundaries and agreements and how they discuss issues around sexuality, around sexual expression.
When was the first time that you remember hearing about PrEP?
The first that I remember hearing about PrEP was actually around Thanksgiving, the day before Thanksgiving, of 2010. I try to keep up with the latest research, and I had just heard about this study. I didn't really know anything about it. I just heard that there was this study called "I-Something." I thought it was like an Apple computer or something, because it was called the "iPrEx study." I heard about some sort of pill that could potentially prevent someone who was negative from becoming positive. And I thought, "Well, that could be interesting." Then I didn't really think any much more about it for another six months.
During those six months, a long-term relationship of mine was coming to an end, and I was getting back into the dating world. Also, the cruising world. I realized that in the seven years that had passed since I was last single, a few things had changed. For one thing, the partners I was meeting had a very different attitude around condoms than they had had in the early 2000s. They didn't want to use condoms. And to be honest with you, there were times I didn't want them to use condoms, either. For the very first time in my life, I was in this confusing state of, "Wait a second, I've been this prevention advocate about condoms and lube for all these years. And here I am, not exactly holding myself to the same standards."
So, I heard about this information session about PrEP that was going to be happening at GMHC in about June of 2011. And I thought, "Well, I just want to know more about this." I didn't think it was going to apply to me in any way. But when I got there, there were some of the researchers and some community advocates that were sharing the information that was available. And when I heard the researchers say that the variable aspects of efficacy in the iPrEx study ranged from 44 percent and 90 percent ... well, 44 percent wasn't going to sell me. I wasn't going to play that game. But when I heard that it was 90 percent amongst participants in the study who actually took the medication consistently, between 90 and 92 percent, that's when my ears perked up. I was like, "Wait a second, maybe this is something for me. Maybe this is something that would not only positively impact the people who I work with and my friends and my clients, but maybe this is something I would benefit from." Again, I was having a much more difficult time maintaining the consistent use of condoms than I had had before. Realizing that there could be a medication that could actually assist me in maintaining my HIV-negative status by about 90 to 92 percent made me want to learn more about it.
I talked to the researchers, and I got some of their information after this event at GMHC. I then learned more about the iPrEx study, and by that point the CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) had a page on their website for doctors to go to if they wanted to prescribe this as an off-label medication, because it was not yet approved by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) at this point. It would still be a year away before the FDA would approve it. But there was still plenty of information about the iPrEx study and information and guidelines for doctors -- even in 2011.
So, I printed all that out, took it to my doctor, who I have a very good relationship with, and said, "Look, this is what I'm learning. This is what the research is saying. And, I'm having a harder time in my early 40s staying safe than I ever had in my 20s or 30s. I think this might be the right thing for me." He looked it over, he thought about it, and said, "Yep, I agree with you." That's when I started PrEP. I started July 19, 2011, and I've not missed a single dose since. We are now in March of 2013.
What I've since learned and what I've become more knowledgeable of, what we've become more aware of, in the time since the iPrEx study, is that the participants who took Truvada (tenofovir/FTC) seven days a week -- who did not miss a dose -- appeared to be 99 percent less likely to contract HIV. The original estimate that they were putting out there was around 90 to 92 percent. Maybe it was always known, or that knowledge was not made readily available, that that subsection of the 2,500 participants who took this seven days a week appear to be 99 percent less likely to get HIV.
Now, condoms, which I've relied upon to stay negative, despite having positive partners, despite having positive boyfriends, which I always have, those are about 98 percent effective. So I knew when I was being sexually intimate with a positive partner with condoms and lube, there was 98 percent protection, and I could work with that. With PrEP now, with 99 percent efficacy -- if taken everyday -- wow. Wow. Revolutionary.
It confuses me why more people don't know about this. It may not be the right decision for everybody. For me, I really had to think about it from a medical perspective. From an emotional, sexual perspective, I had to think whether this was the right choice for me or not. But, the fact is, it has been approved by the FDA for this use since July 16, 2012. And the majority of the people I know, the majority of the people I talk to, don't even know it exists, much less that it has been approved -- and that many insurance companies pay for it. It baffles me how we can have such an effective tool in the fight against HIV and so little information out there about it.
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Just so you know, when you're talking HIV+ people who are in the habit of using condoms out of using them because you are one single case in which you have money and insurance and know PrEP is being taken correctly, does, in fact, make you part of the "bareback brigade" who is actively breaking down the habit of HIV+ men wearing condoms when they top.
Und what about women takin this? yus did not mention that. We have sex mit bi sexuals und straights who may be positive. So why not mention women? Can we take it? Please inform. Thenx.
Congratulations Damon for not only discovering a 99% effective protection against contracting HIV while enjoying bareback sex, but also for managing to take advantage of a widely-viewed forum to convey this astounding message to those of us who are deeply and passionately condom haters! Your interview is just amazing, truly uplifting, and empowers those of us who have been unwilling to forfeit the profoundly passionate, incomparably sensitive and rapturously intimate joy of skin-on-skin intercourse to also take hope that we can now depend upon having the same degree of protection as those who shroud their manhood in a plastic burkha. The advice and information you present is welcome and valuable and as someone who rarely clicks to start a video interview I must admit that I actually expected another downer report intended to strike guilt and fear in those of us who, from years of fighting the battle, have become inured to those warnings.
One of the points you mentioned which particularly captured my attention was when you mentioned the subset of men in their 50s who think at this point in my life Im going to die from something else, so why not, who cares about HIV. I happen to be someone approaching that age and it had never entered my head that my 50s, or even my 60s, would be the time to throw in the towel. Who are these guys? It sounds like theyre suffering from Major Depressionwhich can also be alleviated by an oral medication.
Anyway, just let me say that it seems were finally reaching the point, as a community, where we can appreciate and respect one another whatever their personal choices may entail. I know Ive been lucky depending on the word of my partners to protect me during raw sex (especially since Im a bottom). Now though I wont even need to pop the question but instead just pop the pill. Awesome!
Thank you Joshua! I appreciate your words. Although there is a pattern for some men in their 50s to give up condom use (without PrEP), I caution people from assuming it is a symptom of Major Depressive Disorder. We generally don't question the mental state of straight men who choose not use condoms. I'd say a lot of the times it simply "condom fatigue."
BTw - I'm from Culver City!
Thank you commenting... Damon
Bravo Damon, Thanks so much for reporting on this. As an HIV/AIDS educator I am frequently asked about this and how I feel about condom vs. a pill. At first I though it was just a way that the medical community was just using as a way to fill in the gaps of somewhat failed prevention messages. I know better now. As we now know PrEp can be very effective if taken correctly just like other ARV treatment. Thanks for getting me excited about this and keep up the good work !
I find this article "very" interesting. However, I do have a couple wee comments...
Aids/HIV is obviously a global issue to us all on this planet(republicans) not included. Sorry, mate just a bit of tongue and cheek! Right, back to my point. Many of my straight mates are every bit as... free with love as "WE" are, therefore shouldn't this article focus on what the drug can and would do for both gay and straight individuals? Its simply daft to mention the "party" components of this drug when compared to its obvious life saving upside. People will abuse it or rather use it for other issues whether there is actual education about its proper use or not. Before, I get flamed by some clever sod let me address the 800lbs elephant in the room...Yes, if we all were 100% monogamous there wouldn't be as big of a need to adhere to this drugs proper use now would there? But, "WE" all are people with feelings and needs whether "gay or straight". Ignoring one's emotional/physical needs is just folly and not at all living in reality. If I was doing the PR for PreP I'd try to appeal to "ALL" people not just us brilliant gays. Aids/HIV after all doesn't give one single toss about who we humans fancy having a shag with--now does it? Loved your piece mate;-)! Cheers.
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You are absolutely correct in asserting that PrEP education and information would ideally be targeted to EVERYONE who could be at risk. At the same time, 78% of new HIV infection rates in the U.S. are still occurring through M2M contacts. I would love to see women getting on board with this as a health issue.
Dear Damon,
When you decided to utilise PrEP, was it only Truvada or Truvada and condoms?
Hi N. Van Der Bergh -- I have used both, depending on partner's preferences. Some people still prefer using condoms, and that is fine. Truvada is "A" strategy for prevention, not "THE" strategy. It is one of many tools, which includes condoms.
Will you stop demonizing the AHF? The ONLY application for this pill is for recreational, and Weinstein deserves kudos for being the only person in the HIV community who said so and is still standing. PrEP is not going to stop the spread of HIV, it's not going to limit stigma, and it's sure as heck not going to make things better for anyone except the party crowd. The nonstop advertisement for a recreational drug on supposed educational sites has got to stop. It's a public health disaster waiting to happen, and everyone knows. Give it a rest, the entire world is rolling it's eyes.
Hi Tom,
I, for one, do not demonize the AHF. PrEP is not only used to enhance intimacy, but it is also being used as a prevention strategy by individuals in violent relationships who cannot (for various reasons) leave. It is also being used by sex workers to reduce safety risks. These groups may not be as public as I have, but one could reasonably say their use goes beyond "recreational."
PrEP is not going to stop the spread of HIV, but used effectively it could sure slow it down. We haven't seen any significant drops in new HIV infections in the U.S. for the past decade. PrEP could change that if it was widely known about and available.
In a sex negative paradigm, risk reduction and protection will always be a source of stigma and shame. Women have been dealing with this for decades in regard to having accessible birth control and abortion rights. We can all learn a lot about from Feminism about how to stand up for rights to express oneself sexually with a partner - even under the threat of misogyny and hate.
Damon, thank you for telling your story. One of the saddest parts of this epidemic (besides the millions that have died and the fact that it didn't have to happen) is the cruelty and discrimination in our own community. As someone who is educated and who does not consider status when deciding who to date and who to love, I think the truth about this drug must finally be told. But it cannot be told without telling the story AHF and Michael Weinstein, who railed against the makers of Truvada and said that it would be a bareback festival, if approved. That did NOT happen, according to studies and the drug has proven very effective. Thanks again, Damon. Maybe our community can stop acting like Rick Santorum when it comes to people living with HIV/AIDS.
What you don't mention is who is paying the expensive cost of this drug? I doubt any insurance coverage would cover something deemed "preventative" in this set of circumstances. By not disclosing that financial reality the article is incomplete.
Hiv+/Undetectable and 6 years strong on Truvada/Kaletra regimen. I know the issue of viral resistance - my initial diagnosis and viral analysis indicated I was one of the "lucky" that got the double whammy - diagnosis and the 25% that are infected with a resistant strain, most likely due to non-adherence by a patient on meds.
hi there, he talks on the first and second pps of the article about insurance companies. that looks like his insurance pays for it. my insurance pays as my doc prescribes as i am a person at risk.
Hi WH - As of yet, no one that I know has been denied access to the drug through their insurance. In New York, the state Medicaid system now pays for it due to the efficacy. My understanding is that Medicaid is paying in other states, but not making a public pronouncement about it. Gilead has pledged to make it available through their Assistance Program for those with no means. One person I know has received it that way as well.
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Missed Baby Camp But Still Got Some Goodies
May 5 2008
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it to Johnson & Johnson's Baby Camp but fortunately they sent me some goodies. My kids aren't babies anymore so some of the items I'll probably give to some friends with new babies or maybe even use them myself! They wrote a nice note saying they were disappointed I could not make it to the camp and sent me some of their classic and new products:
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Smelling the scent of their classic line brought back memories of when my kids were babies. Sigh. Nice for a moment of nostalgia, but I'm thankful those early days are over! We still have an almost empty bottle of their original baby shampoo that we sometimes use on our daughter.
Here are links to some of the posts other bloggers who attended wrote about the baby camp:
Mom's Favorite Stuff: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
Plain Jane Mom: So why did J&J send me to New Jersey anyway?
SoCal Stuff: My Mommy Went to Baby Camp and All She Brought Me Was This Lousy Lightup Mirror
Maryamie: What happened at Camp? Johnson's Camp Baby Report Day 2 and 3
From dates to diapers: Camp Baby
Marketing Roadmaps: Camp Baby Post Mortem Part One: The Mom Bloggers' Perspective (a long, but good one!)
The LadyBug and her Blogging Mama: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
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I'm sure there are more posts out there about Johnson's Baby Camp, so please leave the link to your or someone else's post in the comments below and I can add it to the list. I would search the Internet endlessly myself, but I'm home with a recovering sick kid and wondering how I'm going to get caught up on all of my other work. Plus, I'm feeling a bit achy myself. Bleh!
I only have one request for J&J. Please give me more than a few weeks notice next time because I will take any excuse to get pampered! 😀Author: Aruni | Filed under: baby, baby care, baby stuff | Tags: baby advice, baby care, baby items, baby lotion, J&J baby camp, johnson & johnson, johnson & johnson's baby camp, Maryamie, mom's favorite stuff, plain jane mom, SoCal Stuff | 5 Comments »


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Here is one more young doctor shifting into the field of nursing. She expresses her sentiments and reasons for choosing a new career. It is worth appreciating how someone begins with idealism, and later on, transforms to a new person with a totally different outlook in life.
I do not blame her for her decision. Maybe if majority of the doctors here become nurses, and leave for greener pastures abroad, some good leader(s) of this country will notice there's a big problem in the health system, and do something about it. I just pray that when that happens, it is not too late yet.
Excerpts from the article:
"If this nation thinks that paying $200 to a doctor here is equivalent to $5,000 to a nurse abroad and should be enough compensation for our toil and brains, I am not going to play a martyr. We doctors are just like every decent, hard-working citizen of this country who has an instinct of self-preservation. We are trying to stay afloat even as the nation seems to be sinking. Government officials can continue to bicker until one day they have to go to a hospital --- only to find it empty. We boast about the brawn we send overseas, but if we lose our brain as well, what is going to happen to this country?
"Since I am young and broke, this could all be useless bellyaching. But couldn't it also be the valid complaints of a thinking citizen of this country? Although some of our colleagues remain hopeful about our country's future, I don't think I can stay longer, waiting for a miracle. I am turning 30 in a few months, with only one ton of medical textbooks and a stethoscope for assets. And I still owe my parents half a million pesos in medical school tuition. A doctor cannot save lives if his own is in peril."


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Women looking for Nordic sperm are out of luck
Mad cow disease restrictions exclude European donors
When Julie Peterson decided to have a baby on her own two years ago, she picked a tall, blond, blue-eyed Danish engineer as a sperm donor to match her own Scandinavian heritage. But when she went back to the sperm bank to use the same donor to have another child, she was stunned to discover that the federal government had made it impossible.
"I just cried," said Peterson, 43, who lives in North Carolina. "I was in complete shock. I hadn't thought about anything but having another baby with this donor. It was just so surprising and bewildering."
The sperm bank had run out of vials from Peterson's donor and could not get more, because of restrictions health officials have instituted to protect Americans against the human form of mad cow disease. Since May 2005, the United States has effectively barred sperm banks from importing from Europe for fear it might spread the brain-ravaging pathogen that causes the affliction.
Now, as the remaining vials of Nordic semen frozen in U.S. sperm banks are running out, a small but desperate number of would-be parents are frantic. Peterson has flown repeatedly to Denmark, and is going again this week, to try to get pregnant with sperm from the same donor. Others are going to Canada or Mexico, or haggling with other American women who have leftover vials.
"I think it's outrageous," said Laura, a Los Angeles lawyer who asked that her last name be withheld to protect her privacy. She decided against paying a New York woman more than $2,000 for a few vials from a donor she nicknamed "Sven," whom she used a few years ago to conceive a son. A vial usually costs less than $500. "I'd love to give him a full sibling. But I just couldn't do it. It's so unfortunate."
The restrictions on sperm from Europe were among the steps the U.S. government took in the wake of the mad cow outbreak in Europe in the late 1990s. In rare cases, people who eat meat from infected animals develop the fatal, untreatable human version of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The ailment is caused by an infectious mutant protein that slowly eats away brain tissue. Some people have been infected through contaminated surgical equipment and transplanted tissue, such as corneas, but there are no known cases of infection from sperm.
Before the restrictions went into effect, two sperm banks - California Cryobank in Los Angeles and Cryos International in New York City - imported sperm from Denmark. The Nordic donors were popular because of their blue eyes and blond hair, and their tendency to be tall and have advanced degrees.
"The demand was huge," said Peter Bower of Nordic Cryobank of Copenhagen, which had supplied California Cryobank. "In addition to being tall and well educated, their motivations for donation are quite sincere - they want to help childless couples. They tended to sell out very fast."
With California Cryobank's and Cryos's supplies virtually depleted, Nordic Cryobank filed a petition in June asking the Food and Drug Administration to lift the restrictions.
"The risk is insignificant," Bower said. "There's a huge demand, and the FDA is essentially saying to these patients they can't choose the characteristics of the children they want, even though there is absolutely no scientific evidence on their side."
Bower cites one study that concluded that getting mad cow disease from sperm is far less likely than being killed by lightning.
"They say the risk is theoretically possible, but the risk is too small and too insignificant to even be described," he said.
Because of the pending petition, the FDA refused to discuss the restrictions, which bar importing sperm from any donor who has lived in the United Kingdom or France for more than three months, or elsewhere in Europe for more than five years, since 1980. But some experts defend the guidelines, saying that while the risk is probably small, women have other options.
"I don't see it as a big negative," said Jacob Mayer, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. Mayer noted that if transmission occurred, it could affect not only the mother but also the child.
"You have to worry about the next generation," Mayer said. "I think most people would tell you they want this to be as safe as possible both for themselves and their offspring, and they'd want to eliminate any possible risk."
Other experts noted that spreading the disease by sperm has never been documented, even among regular sexual partners of people with the illness.
"The restriction is really arbitrary," said Charles Sims, medical director of the California Cryobank. "I did a review of the world literature, and we could not find any support for it. There's no record of any transmission this way. It's restricted because the FDA made an administrative decision to regulate all tissues on the same standards."


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