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May 5, 2019 · 10:26 am
Emori Pleezer: Princess in Training, Part One
AINews editor Steve Nelson is always on the look out for BDSM performers because he knows I love to talk with them. At this year's AVN show, Steve came through with Foxxx Modeling's Emori Pleezer.
Our AINews team corralled her for an interview in the press room. Let's see what she has to say.
Photos are credited to Kevin Sayers. The bondage pictures are courtesy of Emori Pleezer.
My Regular Life
Emori tells us she's new to porn and shooting vanilla scenes right now, but she's open to anyone who wants to capture her kinks.
"I haven't gotten to the BDSM scenes, but I really want to," the twenty-one-year-old exclaims.
You're not far enough along in the industry to call yourself a fetish model, right?
"Not strictly. I mean if I could be one, I would totally be one. But, as of right now, it's just the regular stuff because that's all I've gotten booked for," she says. To reassure everyone that kink is her sexual gold standard, Emori adds, "I do this in my regular life."
Following that opening into her private life, I mention that she is collared (her Dom has marked his territory, so to speak)
Emori flashes a broad smile. "Yes, it's definitely more than just he's my Dom and I'm his sub. It goes way further than that.'
How does she address him to show her submission?
She laughs that "master" is appropriate, though "my sir, my owner, whichever one," also works.
Is sir the same thing as master?
Emori changes gears just a bit. "I call him either 'sir' or 'daddy,' whichever one works at the moment 'cause sometimes I get really like daddy-ish and then there's other times I feel like just my normal self, so I call him 'sir.'"
The buxom lass concedes that any term she uses to address him is an acknowledgement of the power she gives him. I get that. Any submissive voluntarily plays her role for her own pleasure, but Emori seems to be learning the ropes (pun intended) as she finds her way into the lifestyle.
Daddy often references age differences, which is true here. Emori admits her Dom is forty-six, a twenty-five-year spread, and adds that he adores younger girls.
From her perspective, Emori is in tune with the age parameter. "I like older men and I don't mean I like them five years older. I like 'em older!" she declares with that enduring smile.
In fact, a fifty-year-old guy is fine with her. (Since we talked, Emori shot a bondage scene for New Sensations' award-winning director, Eddie Powell. Her partner was Steve Holmes, a well-known German dominant who is fifty-six).
As for her current BDSM squeeze, "I'm still learning a lot of things about myself because he is my first owner [and] hopefully my last," she says.
Emori still struggles a bit with the BDSM terminology.
"Most people are like subs or something like that. I'm a princess, apparently," she says, explaining how her Dom's expresses his preference for her.
As for the basics, Emori admits she is a masochist and her man is clearly a sadist, but roles are not cleanly cut for her. I fact, she drifts toward switching. "I'm also a sadist, but not towards men. I'm a sadist towards women. But I'm learning how to manage that to where it's fun and not just mean."
So, is your sadomasochism emotional, psychological, or physical?
"With us, it's all three. He likes to play mind games with me. It's physical because I do like the beatings. Pain is pleasure," she declares in true masochistic fashion.
However, there are emotional moments in their kinks, she remarks, but they are not negative. "He'll bring out my tears to make me just cry. [He'll say] 'You need to cry,' so he'll do that in a good way emotionally."
Are there marks in her private life and how does that factor into scheduling her porn scenes?
She's a brat, Emori announces humorously, and that challenges her Dom. When she pushes the envelope, he'll ask when her next shoot is. Important, you see, because recovery is central to every masochist's arrangement with her Dom.
"He takes my career very seriously. So, when there's two weeks I'm not doing anything, no scenes, he can time how long the marks last. So, that gives us the fun," Emori chuckles, and quotes her man, "You'll have a lot of ass whoopings."
Because, they don't live together, their BDSM play is at his house.
"He actually has a paddle engraved with 'Punisher' on it and that thing is heavy, let me tell you! My ass took a good beating that day," Emori comments, mentioning a recent playtime they enjoyed.
Some subs top from the bottom. Do you?
"I'm definitely not a top from the bottom kinda girl 'cause I'm scared of the repercussions," Emori declares.
She continues that power exchanges between Dom and sub "depends on your dynamic, whatever you do [when you play]. Some call it topping from the bottom, others call bratting. I would say I'm not a topper from the bottom."
Safe words?
"Yes," Emori exclaims, "yellow and red. Yellow means I can't take this anymore, just go in another direction. Like kinda lead it over here [and] maybe come back to it [later]."
Like most accomplished Doms, Emori's lover can read body language and how much his sub can take. That brings us back to red.
"With my guy, you cannot call red unless you need to go to the hospital. There's no point in calling red 'cause he considers that topping from the bottom. So, I like it."
Wow, things must get pretty rough. However, I do suggest to Emori that as a sub she yields all control and enjoys herself.
"Pretty much," the Princess exclaims with that beaming smile.
In our next installment, Emori Pleezer talks about BDSM parties, rules about sex and porn.
Tagged as AVN Show, BDSM, Brat, Dom, Eddie Powell, Emoir Pleezer, Foxxx Modeling, New Sensations, sadomasochism, Steve Holmes, sub
AEE 2019: Porn Stars on Camming. Casey Calvert
by Rich Moreland, April 2019
This is the second post in our porn stars and camming series from the 2019 AVN trade show at Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel.
Casey Calvert is a popular BDSM performer who has expanded her acting skills and moved into the upper echelon of porn performers. Recently, she joined Gamma Entertainment's Adult Time as a director, advancing her industry resume into Hall of Fame territory.
For the record, Casey and I have known each other for years and have had our share of frank conversations about the industry.
Photos are credited to Kevin Sayers.
Have you ever cammed?
Only a couple of times, Casey responds.
Because the alluring brunette shoots scenes as her primary source of income (she doesn't dance or escort), does she believe that camming is advantageous for a porn girl?
"Yes, it definitely benefits her to cam," Casey says, and mentions Dani Daniels. "She started as a girl-girl performer shooting scenes, transitioned to boy-girl. Now she cams and does Snapchat and other social media. She's made that transition really seamless. Her fame that she built as a performer drove her cam traffic."
Casey agrees that porn girls bring their audience with them when they cam. But, she suggests, that same accomplishment might be tougher for a cam girl who gravitates to porn.
"There's a lot of cam girls who have gotten flack for shooting scenes because of their fans. Camming is a really intimate, dynamic relationship" and there is a cost involved, the University of Florida grad says.
Fans do not always take to cam girls who "are doing solos" online then "go shoot a boy-girl scene, Casey believes. Some of them will say, "'You're taking dick on camera now? That's not okay!'"
Fans seem to regard cam girls as their own and get a little jealous and offended when they shoot scenes. So, the bottom line of this interpersonal dynamic is risk for the cammer.
"I think that's a part of it," Casey says. "I think there's some slut shaming which is inappropriate. But I know that happens.
Cam Girl Stigma
Are cam girls creating amateur porn?
"That's exactly what they're doing," Casey replies. "They're entrepreneurs, they're businesswomen and they're amateur performers. And I don't mean amateur in the derogatory sense. Just amateur in the literal sense."
In her opinion, cam girls are not porn stars, but they're "making porn", nonetheless.
"Some of them also see themselves as amateur performers," she adds, while others insist, "'I don't do porn, I am not a sex worker, I am not a porn performer.'"
Things get complicated from there.
"There's this cam girl stigma of 'I'm not a porn star' and there's this porn star stigma of 'I don't cam, why would I need to cam? I'm a performer.'" Casey explains.
Is that a dividing line?
"No. To me, all of us are sex workers," she asserts, and mentions there are plenty of cammers and porn performers who agree with her. But she understands those who don't.
"I know that there are some people who live within the stigma. When I was just a fetish model, I told people 'I don't do porn, I'm not a porn star.' I was wrong. I was doing porn."
Without penetrative sex?
"I was creating a product for people to masturbate to. That's porn."
The highly respected Speigler Girl elaborates.
"I didn't know that then. I was afraid of the stigma. I didn't want to be a porn star. I don't do fluid exchange, I'm not making porn. But in hindsight now I see that I was being a sex worker. I just wasn't doing 'this.'"
I suggest that anyone can watch porn and not masturbate. But I do concede Casey has expanded my interpretation of what porn is.
From her perspective, porn's "intention is to create something masturbatory," as she puts it. Of course, the viewer makes that decision and there are people who don't.
"I watch porn all the time and don't masturbate to it," the long-time Kink.com model says, "But it was created as a product to be masturbated to."
For a moment we get into the phrase "porn star" and I got from Casey what I expected.
"I don't know if I even like the phrase 'porn star.' I'm a porn performer. I'm an adult performer. I don't feel like I'm a porn star. But porn star means something so I use that word to convey meaning."
A portal
Does Casey think that camming to a portal into porn?
"No. There are thousands of cam girls and how many of those girls go shoot porn…a hundred? So, just statistically, no. Not enough people make the transition for [me to] agree with that."
Should a cammer want to get into porn, does it matter if she gets an agent?
"Yes, it does matter because it shows an interest in sex work and an interest in creating pornography," Casey insists.
"You have some experience talking to the camera and being sexy on camera and all of those things that an agent finds desirable. It's not a necessity. There are plenty of girls who get into porn who have never cammed, who have never worked in a strip club, who have never done any fetish modeling and just go right into hardcore.
"But, for the most part, I find that most girls did some form of sex presentation before they started doing hardcore porn."
In the end, Casey summarizes her take on our discussion.
"There are fans who don't want to watch scenes ever. They just want to watch girls on cam. [Then there are] scene fans who have no interest in watching their girl on cam.
"There's that degree of separation that a porn performer has with their fans that cam girls do not have because they 'cam-to-cam.' You see the guy [and] interact with them on a really intimate level. Much more intimate than shooting a scene.
"There's no real interactions with the fans just from shooting scenes. So, I think there are fans who want that level of intimacy, and fans who don't."
It's a choice, Casey Calvert concludes, that will prevail for some time to come.
Tagged as Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE), AVN Show, BDSM, cammers, camming, Casey Calvert, Dani Daniels, Gamma Films, Kink.com, Snapchat, social media
AEE 2019: Cory Chase
Cory Chase is porn veteran whose cam work began last year. In her thirties, this New Jersey girl who now lives in Fort Lauderdale, did her first "homegrown" porn shoot in 2003 and her initial adult film in 2006.
We made ourselves comfortable in the press room for our talk.
Recounting her professional past, Cory mentions that her adult career began with "just pictures" for a site called MyHottestGirlfriend. She won contests on the site and popularity came her way, but the next step needed a little push.
"What really got me into porn was my husband now, boyfriend back then. He liked to videotape us having sex. So, we had this [private] library of our own content," she says.
Cory mentions that the website she started, SouthernCharms, still contains that original work.
Now that her career is on solid ground, Cory's goal is to expand her custom videos.
"The fans enjoy knowing that they've produced, in a sense, their own porn that other fans are enjoying as well," she says.
Just Step Away
I bring up the idea that the new cam girl is really the new amateur porn model. Does Cory agree?
"Yes, especially if they're going nude and inserting objects," she replies.
In the midst of our discussion, Cory suggests that girls wanting to cam should take their time.
"Work slow. Don't expose yourself completely if you don't have to," she begins.
"You don't have to show off everything and do everything from day one. If you can talk and express yourself without having to undress, then go for it."
The heart of camming is "being able to express yourself and tell a story," she asserts. "So, don't expose yourself completely unless you want to." In other words, a girl needs to find her comfort level.
Cory offers the best advice I've heard about any girl who wants to begin camming.
"Remember that no matter how much you might feel like you're being bombarded with commands or requests, they [the fans] are not actually in the room with you in person. You can just turn off your computer. You can just step away from it and that is it.
"So, understand that if you're feeling overwhelmed, just step away."
For cam girl success, Cory insists, fetishes are important because they keep the customers coming back. Whatever the fans want creates the marketing trends that dominate cam work.
"Going with those market trends are great for business. But you have to be creative on your own and come up with something that you are passionate about. So, yes, you have to want to expand and grow the things that you do. But yet you still want to go with the flow because if what you're doing isn't quite working, you have a fallback and you can do something that is in trend."
She uses a personal example to explain what she means.
"I started out with footjobs, but the trend depleted. I stopped doing footjobs for videos."
Cory clarifies that what goes viral establishes market trends and returns to footjobs for a moment to illustrate her point.
For "a couple of celebrities," she remembers, "footjobs were big twelve, thirteen years ago. It was because celebrities were posting pictures of their feet on social media accounts. Footjobs just went through the roof that year and I jumped on that bandwagon."
She reminds us, however, that what is hot today, may fade and then return.
"I find [that] trends kind of cycle through. Bondage is coming back in style. With Fifty Shades of Grey, [BDSM] kind of peaked a little bit, but it's really coming back around [now]," she says.
Cory comments that she personally likes BDSM shoots, but the business world is not always receptive.
"Bondage sex has a tendency to be faux pas, credit card processors don't really allow when a female is bound completely and not able to give consent [or] walk away. I wish things like that could be changed."
A veteran of bondage play, Cory still dabbles in it with her husband though "most larger companies, other than Kink, don't really play with it too much because of the credit card risk."
Without an Agent
For the most part, cam girls don't have agents in the traditional porn sense. Is that a good idea?
"It really depends on the mentality [and] the work ethic of the model. Production companies usually don't talk to a girl if she doesn't have an agent because there's no fallback. If she doesn't show up, they can go back on [the agent] and get funds or get another girl to fill in for the girl that cancelled or no-showed," Cory says.
Having said that, if a cam girl wants to shoot scenes, an agent is probably a good idea.
However, Cory indicates that camming and porn tend to move in different environments within the porn world. There is a divide.
"A cam girl doesn't have to be a porn girl. A porn girl doesn't have to be a cam girl, but you can do both," she affirms.
Considering that response, does Cory believe established porn stars ought to pick up camming?
"Yes and no," she says.
"I'm more of an established porn girl who got into camming. I dabbled in a little bit of it when I first started [doing porn, but] it wasn't for me. It didn't feel right so I didn't cam for seven years. I only started camming [again] back in July of last year. So, I really haven't been camming that long."
But Cory hits on a serious issue in the adult business that separates cammers from porn girls, but maybe not for long.
"Because of porn and how it's all over the internet—a lot of times for free," she says.
In other words, porn girls have a problem: piracy. Cory mentions that some cam fans will be talking with their favorite porn star/cammer "in the public chat while watching them somewhere else."
The warning? "Established porn girls, you have to go back to making it personalized for that fan that is talking to you," Cory insists.
That's the cam girl's chief advantage, I comment.
"Yeah, and they don't have the content out there for free," she quips. Or at least, that is what they think.
Cory offers up a reality check.
"It's out there. Somebody is recording it, either with a camera, on their computer screen, or they're capturing it directly from their computer screen. It's being recorded and posted somewhere."
That Fourth Leg
Cory has an interesting response to the three-legged stool question of making money. She sees camming as a "virtual strip club that allows a lot more visual display than the typical strip club.'
So yes, camming is the fourth leg, but like a girl's other options, it's a personal decision, Cory indicates.
"What makes you happy as a model? Producing content or providing a service. Is it escorting? Is it dancing? Is it camming? Because pretty much everyone can produce porn now."
In the end, where is the adult business today when it comes to mainstream porn and camming? Cory makes an important observation that deals with the past.
"In the old days when porn started all the way up to the nineties when the internet first came out, fans were dedicated to the girl.
"Nowadays I'm finding fans are more dedicated to a website or a network, or a genre like camming or porn. They're more dedicated to a style as opposed to the girls themselves."
Her solution?
"I provide content and I have to post it throughout different websites. I'm getting more eyeballs, different fans, but they're watching the same thing," Cory Chase says.
Though technology and innovative platforms are pressuring industry girls to work harder, that's a positive because eyeballs turn into dollars.
Tagged as Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE), BDSM, cam girls, cammers, camming, Cory Chase, Fifty Shades of Grey, footjobs, Kink.com, MyHottestGirlfriend, Southern Charms
AEE 2019: AINews Reports from the Show, Part Two
This post is a brief visit to the Novelty Expo that was a part of the larger adult trade show in Las Vegas. Before we begin, a disclaimer is in order.
Neither I nor my cohorts—photographer Kevin Sayers and videographer Davyana San Miguel—were offered any compensation by any manufacturer for the photos in this article. We just wandered around and observed, enjoying everything we encountered.
Passing through the crowded and noisy rooms connected with the on-screen part of the Adult Entertainment Expo and into the AVN Novelty Expo is akin to moving from a frat party to an executive suite.
'Tis a pity, too, considering most fans never make it this far. Without porn stars ready for conversation and a signed photo or cammers with their computers, the atmosphere immediately loses some of its appeal.
Nevertheless, you never know who you might find hanging around. Maybe a superstar like Manuel Farrara.
There is certainly a lot of room to walk around and greet vendors, look at products, and ask for demonstrations.
What is trending this year are sex dolls, a rising product in adult at-home entertainment. Of course, some are caricatures (avatars?) that look like they came out of a Pure Taboo film.
But realism is making headway in manufacturing these days giving the dolls a natural appearance that at first is deceiving when seen from a brief distance. Up close a truer picture comes into focus but for the purchaser, the "feel" is as good as ever, or so I'm told.
Don't get too carried away, though. Never forget that the dolls are inanimate which means some customers may only want the more intimate parts!
Requires a little imagination, I think.
Apparel also plays a big part in the novelties show, especially for women.
Thigh highs are always in demand . . .
. . . Then there is Thighbrush!
Umm? Wonder what that could be? Oh, it's designed to appeal to the man with a beard and the lady he loves! Sorta gets her in the mood.
The fetish crowd always loves to see their paraphernalia on display. The kinky sort might pick up a little something to take home. Maybe replace those worn out wrist restraints.
Gotta make those sexy BDSM connections that will light up her night!
Toy vendors improve their products every year and it's evident that manufacturing has come a long (no pun intended) way.
Attracting the female customer is a major thrust (oops! another pun apology!) in the industry these days.
Of course, women are approached with exquisite promises that just the right outfit brings the joy of sex! If that doesn't work for the lady . . . .
. . . She can create her own solo excitement in a very private moment.
I was going to leave the next one out, but mechanization is a part of the adult industry and the pleasure it provides. So, those of you who are prudish please look the other way!
To be honest, motorbunny was not in the novelty room, but I threw this in anyway to let you know "personal items" could be found in other parts of the show.
Before we leave the novelties, Kevin snapped the perfect picture to describe the dilemma the adult industry faces everyday.
Sometimes selling a sexy good time has its quiet moments . . .
Thanks Hard Rock for hosting the show!
Tagged as Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE), AEE 2019, AINews, BDSM, Novelty Expo, sex toys
Vanna Bardot: The Girl with Braces
New girls come and go in porn at what seems at times dizzying speed. A shoot or two and a lot of girls go home never to return to the industry.
Vanna Bardot, on the other hand, is more than the blink of the eye. She's smart and friendly with a fan base that, I suspect, grows daily.
Interviewing her was more than a pleasure, it was downright fun!
All photos are credited to Kevin Sayers.
On a recent visit to a Girlfriends Films set, I sat down with newcomer Vanna Bardot. Though a mere nineteen, she is wise beyond her years with a killer attitude that spells porn fame.
A camera presence is natural for this slim and spicy girl since artistry is in her DNA. Vanna attended a performing arts high school and was steeped in the rigors of ballet for much of her young life. With adoring audiences always close by, Vanna expanded her on-stage resume. At eighteen she was dancing in Miami clubs and exploring the delights of camming.
By the way, that's all good with her family. Vanna grew up in a liberal household where self-expression was never stifled.
All of these adventures were a warm-up for the real deal: shooting porn. And boy, is she ready. With a smile, this petite sweetheart proclaims, "I've done a lot of living so far."
A Broader Market
Rather than delve into the formulaic interview questions every porn girl gets, we talk about Vanna's career interests. Is filmmaking from the other side of the camera in her future?
"Transitioning from an actress to a director is sparking my imagination now, especially after becoming more familiar with different sets and meeting different directors," she says.
As Vanna navigates through the industry, her education is expanding.
"I'm taking more time to really watch other people's work whether it's on sets or online."
It's inspiring she says. "I see things that I really like that fall into my style."
Vanna does have her opinions on what she sees in the industry, however.
"I would never tell a director how to do their job, of course. But it may happen I see things that could be altered in a way that could be more efficient or more esthetically pleasing."
That brings me to ask, "What drives porn, director choices or market demand?"
"I think market demand ultimately decides what's happening," Vanna replies.
"People want to make money and they want to cater to what people are asking for. But I think we're coming into a time where a lot of people are starting to shoot the kind of content they want even if people tell them this isn't going to sell. And those things do end up selling."
She mentions Spain's Erika Lust.
"She shoots a lot of porn that caters to LGBT people."
Vanna believes Lust's work is "a truer presentation" of porn's demand because the stereotype that "only old dudes buy porn" is a misconception.
"There's a much broader market for porn now, especially for younger people, people of different sexualities, gender identities, and race."
The Bondage Scene
Porn is becoming more diverse and that is particularly true in the fetish arena.
For example, BDSM is popular today. How does Vanna regard the bondage product and does she want to try it?
With eyes brightening, she exclaims, "I want to. That's what I'm most looking forward to. I really want to shoot for Kink soon. I've been kind of waiting to do everything super slowly. But yeah, that's something I have a really big interest in."
"What fascinates you about that?" I ask.
Pausing for a moment, the olive-skinned teen says, "I started watching porn when I was younger. Once I started having my own sexual experiences, it's something I started to dabble with. The power exchange is great, but I feel in BDSM porn I see real reactions."
Too often BDSM scenes rely on "frivolous acting" and that hides the reality of authentic bondage pleasures, Vanna asserts.
So, if you're listening Kink pick up the phone!
For Vanna's porn fun, it's about authenticity, an advantage she believes the amateur porn product has over scripted studio shoots.
Speaking of real porn reactions, I mention that a woman's sexual desire peaks in her thirties and beyond.
"That actually makes a lot of sense," Vanna comments.
Perhaps in the future being thirty or forty will be an industry norm. Vanna is on board with that.
"I do think so. In porn, girls fall into only two categories. There is rarely a middle. You're either a teen or you're a MILF. Girls as young as twenty-one, if they have big tits, can be cast as MILFs which is crazy."
She mentions director Greg Lansky, three-time winner of AVN's Director of the Year.
"What I've noticed with Greg Lansky's work is it's a lot less teen and MILF. A lot of the women he casts are girls who are women, not necessarily 'little girl' and not necessarily 'I'm your friend's mom.'"
Vanna believes that there are "girls in their twenties and forties and no girls in their thirties," or at least it seems that way. For whatever reason, today's content dictates that "those are usually the characters girls have to play."
She's hopeful that "more women in their thirties" will come into porn.
Her remarks lead me to delve into the final questions I have. The first has to do with camming and how that ratchets up the amateur porn universe in the mind of the online customer.
Reagan Foxx and Vanna along with Elsa Jean and Sarah Vandella.
The New Porn Girl
Is the cam girl the new porn girl?
"It's interesting," Vanna muses. "I think camming is really taking over the porn world, at least what I hear from a lot of men. They don't watch [traditional] porn anymore. They like to go on camming websites because they see this girl next door who is camming in her room. Then they can interact with her.
"This is a really big market now and it's easy for any regular girl to do it. You don't have to go through this whole process of getting into porn which is very daunting for a lot of young girls.
"So, this idea that you sign up on a website and work from the comfort of your own home appeals to a lot of people."
However, this self-proclaimed homebody believes that camming presents a major change, like it or not, for girls accustomed to shooting scenes.
"For porn stars, it's not usually enough to just do porn. A lot of girls do weekly or monthly cam shows because people want to be able to interact with their favorite girls and see them in real-time and not always acting in a role."
This brings us back to the young girl in porn. Regardless of camming or playing the 'little girl,' as Vanna puts it, an amateur product that markets a naïve girl sells well.
I'm interested to know if the young girl image represents a power exchange concept for the viewer, especially if he is an older man. Does it fit a formula that is easily repeated in amateur shoots?
Vanna is doubtful about that.
"I don't think it's necessarily a formula that is going to work because I don't think everyone enjoys seeing that," she says.
"It definitely works for a lot of men because they like this idea of preying on a young innocent girl but I think for a lot of other people they'd rather see a more empowered role not necessarily of a girl who doesn't know what she is doing but a girl who is more eager. She going to find this sexual encounter, or this sexual experience."
We should mention that for the present, Vanna's appeal lies somewhat in her braces. That certainly helps to sell her teen image.
"I still have my braces [which is] something I've been able to build my fan base on. It is pretty unique thing that not a lot of people have. I got them really late when I was seventeen, so I still have them."
For now, they're very marketable.
"But it's not something I plan on keeping forever. I don't want to be twenty-one with braces as much as I'm sure my fans would like it. I'm looking forward to taking them off. But I think it's a good thing because my fans are kind of growing up with me and can see me turn into a young woman.
And, the future?
"I don't know how long I'll be in porn, or if I'll reach MILF years. But I think it's going to be good. I think people are going to enjoy seeing me grow up."
Then this very intelligent sweetheart gives us the feel-good news.
"I'm here because I like sex, I like these sexual experiences, I like to see myself out there."
Braces and all!
Dan O'Connell's sets are always idyllic, a refreshing touch to the day's work for any performer.
Tagged as BDSM, Erika Lust, Girlfriends Films, Greg Lansky, Kink.com, LGBT, MILF, Vanna Bardot, webcam
April 5, 2018 · 8:22 am
Sofie Marie, Part Three: Hotwife
In this final post on Sofie Marie, we'll look at her on-screen adventures.
For Sofie Marie, her swinging history prompted her move to porn. I've interviewed other girls with similar experiences as swingers and wanted to know what Sofie could tell us.
A Hall Pass
"I am doing porn because of swinging or 'the lifestyle' (as it is known among its adherents). I am a true Hotwife which means I have a hall pass from my husband to go and explore whatever I want to as long as I am one hundred percent open about my plans and experiences with him. He likes to see and hear about my exploits from me and from Spike," Sofie says.
From what I've learned as a journalist, being absolutely open about everything is the cornerstone of acceptance into the swinging community and the ongoing enjoyment of it.
Sofie's interview with Adult DVD Talk gives us the back story. Her husband introduced his new wife (they've only been married for a couple of years) to the swinger community. "He told me about it and I didn't have any idea what a 'swinger' was," she tells Captain Jack.
Now husband and wife savor the lifestyle together which means parties and the excitement of hooking up in a consensual atmosphere. Sofie has loved it all, especially the variety of sex partners-in-waiting, an unexpected treat for her.
"We've met a lot of great people and I have been with girls through that. That's where it all began as far as fooling around with other girls," she beams.
That ongoing adventure of self-discovery became an important step in initiating a porn career.
Sexy Young Guys
Sex for the camera is another story.
Sofie's photography career began with bikini modeling which, as sometimes happens with porn girls, led to nude work. From there, her exhibitionist tendencies and relishing all things sexual nudged Sofie to take the next logical step: her own website and porn.
Sofie explains to Captain Jack that x-rated shooting is "no big deal" because she enjoys exploring her "sexual boundaries" which includes, no surprise, being naked and revealing her "girl parts."
Has porn benefited Sofie's free-wheeling spirit? You bet.
"I have gotten really comfortable in front of the camera. So, being nude or having sex is easy for me with the camera rolling," she says.
"I am really a shy person and exploring my sexuality and now doing porn has been a great experience."
From a psychological perspective, exhibitionism is a common trait among porn performers and often counteracts shyness. Sofie's fans are undoubtedly thankful she has made it work for her.
By the way, Sofie's age would dictate a career as a MILF, but she's not really into that. When it comes to shooting, "It's the job for me to play the MILF," she comments, "but I like playing the Hotwife better."
Actually, being a MILF took some getting used to, Sofie declares, because she not a mom in her real life, so the label feels a bit "weird" to her. But it does have its rewards. "I get to have sex with the young sexy guys as a MILF so that's a bonus for me!"
That's something all her fans can watch with delight as Sofie redefines "cougar!"
Work Sex
There is something about Sofie Marie that separates her out from the run-of-the-mill porn girl. Though I've not had the pleasure of being on one of her sets, as I've said, I can infer from the short clips I've seen that she is cultivating an image that sets her apart from the crowd.
That is a huge reason for her popularity, I believe.
In talking with performers and directors I've been reminded that porn sex is not the type of sex civilians (pornspeak for non-industry people) experience in their everyday lives. What is surprising is this: that goes for porn performers as well who are happy to separate film sex from home sex.
Another way of putting it is this: porn sex is acrobatics that involve contortions and positions that directors insist be held minute after minute to get the footage desired.
As you might expect, performers don't go home in the evening to their significant others and hang from the chandeliers. Work sex is a business and exhausting enough as it is.
Social scientists and educators tell us that porn, with all its outre positions and hard banging, has become the new sex education for today's young people.
Sometimes it's difficult for them to understand that sex is supposed to be enjoyable, intimate, and a mutually shared experience. It doesn't need to be nasty, rough, or vulgar and doesn't have to be dominated by deep throating, gagging, choking, tears that smear mascara, and reverse cowgirls (the most graphic position for the camera).
Here is what I mean. Watch Sofie in a girl-on-boy oral scene, for example, and compare her with popular porn performers today. The difference is noteworthy.
Her on-screen sex is instinctive and unpretentious. Without doubt, this is Sofie Marie's tour de force and why she is destined to luxuriate in the adult industry for as long as she wants. When she proclaims she projects the girl-next-door image, Sofie isn't kidding or trying to sell her fans a bill of goods. She really is as she appears on-screen and that, in a business that is turning more and more to the bizarre to keep fans energized, is in itself remarkable.
Think of it this way, Sofie communicates her sexuality without saying, "Hey, look at me!" Her scenes are less about her and more about personalizing the sexual experience for the camera. The more natural she is, the easier it becomes for viewers to imagine themselves in the shoot with her.
As I've already hinted, Sofie Marie's shoots explore sex as a spontaneous expression. In other words she reinforces the idea that sexuality as meaningful on a human level. It's not a superhero cartoon or the perils of Pauline. It's just us.
There's no drool, spit, or slobbering when she is performing orally. Dirty talk is subdued, and, she completely turns the porn formula on its head when she fails (forgets?) to point her toes. Those things are not important in her shoots because they are not her. As Sofie keeps telling us, she's natural . . . and she is a natural.
I could be wrong and if I ever see her in action on set in a way that disputes what I've said here, I'll let you know.
Not surprisingly, consent is important to Sofie.
"So far I have been treated with respect one hundred percent of the time. I expect nothing else from this industry or I will not shoot with a company who does not respect my time and boundaries," she proclaims.
For girls to accomplish what Sofie asserts, they must take control of their image just as this statuesque beauty clearly demonstrates in her work. That is a link to feminism she may not know she possesses.
Finally, I had a couple of questions for Sofie that arose from personal interest. She and I are similar in two ways.
First, I was raised in a conservative evangelical home (Southern Baptist) and didn't know much about sex growing up other than it was sinful outside of marriage.
I don't know if Sofie's childhood attitudes were the same, but she had this to say about her background.
"I, too, was raised in a very religious household and I still maintain my spiritual connection to my faith. But I have come to realize that I am a consenting adult and the people I perform with are adults as well and we are not hurting anyone by having sex."
She concludes with, "I always try to be kind to others." A lesson we could all share. Are you listening evangelicals?
The other area Sofie and I have in common is endurance sports, specifically triathlon and marathons. The training is grueling and fatiguing and I can't imagine having sex on camera in addition to that.
So how does she balance everything out?
"My last Ironman was 2016 so my training has been easier for the past year. My husband and I train together, so when we get our schedules synced, we will likely do another one. But my focus is my career now.
"Yes, it's hard to a balance business and training . . . business is first for now. I do workout with weights and cardio six times a week, just not as long as when I was training for my Ironman!"
We wish her well with all her loves: racing, on-camera sex, and of course, hubby!
A final note. Sofie Marie did not talk about her fetish performances because regretfully I didn't ask.
So, for the followers of this blog who like BDSM, I want to assure you Sofie is not shy when the fetish comes her way.
Be sure to follow Sofie's fetish adventures with your bondage dollars!
Tagged as BDSM, Captain Jack, cougar, Feminism, Hotwife, MILF, Sofie Marie, swinging, triathlon, YummyGirl Studios, YummySofie
A Gonzo Afternoon: Part Two
by Rich Moreland, December 2017
Their shoot for Eddie Powell wrapped up, Steve Holmes and Mandy Muse are game for a dual interview so we move outside to the veranda.
Steve's wife soon joins us.
Here's some of what we discussed.
A Convenient Marine
I open the discussion with a question about getting into the business.
Mandy starts us off. She's been shooting for a while and works with Kendra Lust's agency, Society 15.
"I'm 23 years old. I've been in the industry for 4 years now, started when I was 19. I have a big booty which I'm known for. I do pretty much everything except for double anal and double vag."
Mandy has no background in acting other than a film class she once took. But the Southern California lass is well versed in sex, having her first experience at the tender age of twelve.
"I had my first threesome with two guys when I was fourteen and then my first orgy at about fifteen." Her voice rises as if she's not sure of the age, or doesn't remember exactly.
She got into the industry once she turned eighteen, Mandy says, and relates how it happened.
"I was attempting my first DP with these two marines on base."
A good time was had by all before another soldier shows up. He was on duty but that didn't faze Mandy.
"He was really attractive and I wanted him to join in," she remembers.
The marine was interested but declined. He was on duty. Undaunted, Mandy gave him her number.
"He later asked me if I'd do a scene with him for a uniform fetish website. I wore my cheer leading uniform from high school and that's how porn found me!" the brunette declares gleefully.
Steve's path started at a much later age.
"I'm German, born in Transylvania, then went to Germany as a kid." he begins. "I worked in IT for ten years, before that in different jobs, always sales and marketing."
I can believe that. He's easy to get along with, just ask Mandy who met him for the first time today.
Steve's wife arrives to pick him up and takes a seat.
As if on cue, he says, "When I started I was already married with children."
I suggest his wife is a tolerant person. She smiles and sends him a knowing look.
"She is, yes," he responds and turns to Mandy, "I did a nice feature with your agent, Kendra Lust. She played my wife."
Come to think of it, I guess Steve has had lots of "wives" but only one real wife.
I tell Steve I first learned about him through his work with Kink.com in San Francisco.
"Kink is a funny story actually," he offers. "They booked me the first time in 2007. I didn't know the company. They always asked the girls at Kink who they like to shoot with. They were requesting me."
The fetish giant explained that before they booked him he needed to do a little research to find out his comfort level with what they do.
They said, "'It's not like the regular stuff. We'll send you a link to our website and a password,'" Steve remembers.
He checked out their shoots and noticed something. He didn't know how to do the rope work that seemed to be everywhere in a Kink production.
"They told me, 'no problem we have people for that,'" Steve explains. "So that's my first shoot at Kink for Sex and Submission in February or March, 2008."
As time passed, Kink expanded their offerings to Steve.
"They asked me if I can help with producing and organizing. That's how I started directing. One of the websites I produced was Public Disgrace. Princess Donna initiated that with the company."
Donna has since left the adult business. I remembered seeing her a couple of years ago in a shoot for a European BDSM company called Elite Pain. Their work is rougher than anything stateside.
"Yes, a company owned by a friend of mine in Budapest," Steve interjects. "They normally just shoot nudity with no sex."
He references a shoot he did for them and shows a still of the bound model on his phone.
"The girl contacted me many years ago. She wasn't a porn girl. She was a medical student in Germany. I booked her in Europe and we shot her in Berlin for Public Disgrace and I asked her if she enjoyed the scene."
"'I was hoping you'd beat me harder,'" he remembers her saying.
Asked about her limits and the girl said, "'I don't know, I've never reached that.'"
It turns out that Steve suggested she might want to give Elite Pain a shot.
"She came for the scene. We did it together. Hard punishment. I fucked her and she had so many orgasms. She was happy for the experience, but she'd never do it again," he says with a chuckle.
As time passed Steve's work with Kink was so impressive that he became one of their directors and specialized in filming in Europe.
Turning our attention to the shoot just completed, I asked our pair how they got to know one another when they arrived.
Steve begins
"Easy. We met. We got attracted to each other. We use the time they are setting up the lights."
Yep, all that "warming up" paid off.
Mandy points out that being comfortable with your co-stars is important and in her case, she has "never really had a hard time finding chemistry especially with a performer like Steve Holmes. It's just how I love being handled during a scene."
"Thank you," Steve says, forever the gentleman. Mandy giggles.
"We had a good time," he continues, and comments on touching, caressing, and the like.
Mandy chimes in, "We talked about that too."
Steve brings up the most important factor in porn . . . do you love what you do? It can make or break a shoot. And, of course, there is chemistry between performers.
"Productions have a certain idea about the scene and how they want it to be. But then sometimes they don't always book the right people. When I feel the girl is just going through the motions, it usually reflects in the scene."
Reading Expressions
How about communication when the camera is rolling?
Steve thinks of it as akin to dancing and uses a generational analogy I completely understand.
"My role model is Fred Astaire. Sometimes you go on the dance floor with a girl and she doesn't feel it. You try to lead her, push her, you know. And then there are sexual girls. You dance to enjoy and also to put on a show. This is what we do here. We know where the camera is. We try to enjoy ourselves and look nice for the audience, the camera."
I ask Mandy about making eye contact during sex.
She loves to do that but comments that in her personal life, it doesn't always happen.
Regardless if it's business sex or private sex, "You can see what they (your partners) are feeling more when you look at them."
The eyes "make connections" and bring people together, she adds.
Steve is on board with that.
"Eye contact is very important. You know what your partner enjoys by reading their expressions. We react to each other."
"Coming back to the BDSM fetish stuff," he says, "it's so important to read your partner so you can push them or back off."
In shooting that type of scene, there is always a potential a safety issue, so everyone needs to be on the same page.
Did Steve use his expressions to get Mandy to go where he wanted to be in the shoot, or where he wanted her to be?
In chorus, Steve and Mandy exclaim, "Both."
"It's a given thing," Steve says.
There was a fair amount of spanking in the shoot. How did this influence Mandy?
"I'm submissive," she explains. "I like pain so I like to be spanked. It gets me stimulated. When the penetration after the spanking happens, it's two different types of feelings so I just love the mixture of both."
The PA for the shoot, AJ Westwood, comes out and offers to drive Mandy to her car. She's parked at a local mall. Steve says it's on his way and he'll give her a lift.
Incidentally, in LA neighborhoods people coming and going from a house raises red flags. For that reason, my photographer and I parked down the street some distance away.
Keep the Energy
Before we wrap up, the conversation turns to Eddie Powell.
Steve says he's worked with Eddie for about a year. He likes shooting for him because the director gives his performers freedom to express themselves.
"There are certain directors you enjoy more than others," Steve says, and he's known ones that are not to his taste.
He mentions a director from years ago. "The first time I shot for him was so boring."
Once the director put the performers into a position, Steve explains, "he didn't change anything. Don't move your hand, don't change anything. Hold the position."
The crew worked around them.
"In the end the product looked great because the dynamic came from the editing. It was actually not a lot of fun, (just) hard work," he says, adding that some shoots can range from five to eight hours on set.
Today was much different, Steve declares. He didn't have to save his energy.
"The camera follows you, you can just keep going and enjoy yourself because you know the camera is going to pick it up.
"With Eddie, the scene is so good with the lighting and the camera being handheld. It's not so easy and he pulls it off so well. That's the quality of his shooting.
"The key is that Eddie actually tries to book performers who know what they are doing, then he tries to capture it. If you give him what he wants, then he lets you do it."
Mandy offers a final comment about maintaining on-set energy especially during breaks.
"Even when the cameras aren't rolling I want to continue the flow (of the scene) to still keep the energy there.
"Today was not supposed to be so hardcore. It was easy to not get worn out when the lights are changing," she says.
What is important, Mandy insists, is "to continue flowing with the same energy."
Understandable. That's always a priority when you make your living as an entertainer.
Tagged as AJ Westwood, BDSM, Eddie Powell, Elite Pain, Kendra Lust, Kink.com, Mandy Muse, New Sensations/Digital Sin, Prince Donna, Public Disgrace, Steve Holmes


Footprint® is a sustainable investment policy, developed by igloo, maintained and assessed independently by URBED, and overseen by a Sustainable Investment Committee chaired by Jonathan Porritt. Footprint® brings together in a holistic way the four themes of health, happiness and wellbeing, regeneration, environmental sustainability and urban design.
Most importantly, footprint® places a strong emphasis on the need to respond to the opportunities created by the site and its context. This includes engagement with stakeholders and encouraging developers and project teams to think more strategically, enabling the added value of the policy to be realised.
Each scheme is assessed against a range of quantitative and qualitative criteria which seek to benchmark against market, good, best and exemplar practice both in the UK and internationally.
Stage 1 - Screening: This is undertaken early on to decide whether a scheme should be pursued further.
Stage 2 - Design: This is a detailed assessment of the design of the scheme before it is submitted for planning and updated afterwards.
Stage 3 - Construction: This takes place towards the end of the construction process and assesses the scheme 'as built,' also collating feedback from the project team.
Stage 4 - Occupancy: This is undertaken around 1-2 years post completion to determine the actual performance of the scheme against the SI policies. This includes a review of energy use, regeneration outputs and occupier feedback.
URBED work closely with igloo to ensure that the standards within the policy remain relevant and stretching. URBED also conduct an annual audit which assesses the implementation of footprint® across projects, igloo team members and boards.
Buxton Building Contractors have started construction at the site of former garages on the Kipling Gardens Estate in Bermondsey. Designed by Bell Phillips Architects alongside residents, they will be building 27 affordable apartments and maisonettes. As construction progresses we will be working on a further assessment of the project against the footprint sustainable investment policy, as well as producing home user guides.
An update on Buxton's website shows a tower crane being moved into position.
Our latest stage 2 assessment is on Blueprint's Fruit Market development in Nottingham, a group custom-build scheme for three phases of residential units on a vacant site adjacent to the Victoria Leisure Centre and the revitalised Sneinton Market.
The group custom-build model will see home buyers engaged in a collaborative effort to design and build their new homes. This will give buyers input into the design of shared spaces and the customisation of their own home.
The first phase of housing at URBED's Trent Basin masterplan is taking shape. As a Blueprint development, this site is also being monitored against footprint. With the first homes due to complete this summer, we visited site and met with the contractor (Wilmott Dixon) to begin the construction stage assessment of the scheme.
The footprint policy can be downloaded from the link on the right.
Following submission in September, the Somerleyton Road project (being managed by igloo and using footprint® principles) has secured planning. The scheme, being brought forward by Lambeth Council along with Brixton Green and the Ovalhouse theatre, will deliver 303 homes across 4 buildings, including 65 extra care homes in a dedicated block, a theatre (for Ovalhouse), community facilities (including flexible spaces, a nursery and children's centre), retail facilities, training and workspace opportunities (potentially including a chef's school), creative/cultural office spaces, public realm and will provide a new home for the existing street gym. Carlton Mansions, a locally listed building with a famous Nuclear Dawn mural, is to be refurbished as part of the theatre development. This site has a number of constraints, most notably the railway line which runs down the entire length of the scheme, but it has responded to these positively and the proposals promise to be an exciting, quality addition to Brixton.
After finalising our latest assessment, we look forward to completing some post-occupancy evaluation of the scheme next year.
With a long history of involvement at Holbeck Urban Village in Leeds, igloo have recently secured planning permission for a residential led scheme to the front of the Round Foundry Media Centre, just off David Street. The proposed development includes: 57 apartments (a mix of 1 and 2 bedrooms), 15 townhouses (a mix of 2 and 3 bedrooms) and two commercial spaces for A1, A2 and B1 use. The architects are Leeds based Nick Brown Architects. Although there are currently some apartments elsewhere on the estate, these will provide some much needed units for sale in this area. This is an attractive location for city centre living, being in close proximity to the city centre and the vibrant business and leisure community of Holbeck Urban Village. Following on from a footprint® workshop with the design team in February this year, we are currently finalising the stage 2 assessment.
Blueprint have just completed on all of the new homes at Green Street in the Meadows, Nottingham. Green Street 2 adds a further 21 homes, that connect through to the first phase. These were also designed by Nottingham architect Marsh Grochowski and built by Loughborough based William Davis. As at Hobart & Pitcairn, the homes are designed to AECB Silver Standard and householders received home user guides produced by URBED. All of the homes were for market sale, including several that have been custom-built (where the buyer has customised the base design, changing layouts and specifications). The scheme won 'Best Custom build Project' at the 2015 Build-It Awards.
The pictures below are from our recent visit to site in preparation for the stage 3 footprint® assessment.
We were recently shown around the 400 Caledonian Road site in Islington by the contractor SISK - a visit that will feed into our stage 3 footprint® assessment. 400 Caledonian Road is an interesting site adjacent to Caledonian Road overground station, with the railway line directly to the north separated by a public footpath. To the south there is a line of 4 storey Georgian terraces. The site previously contained dilapidated workshops and stables. Planning permission was granted prior to igloo buying the site, however a section 73 application was made proposing improvements to the scheme. It includes 25 homes (21 new-build apartments, 2 converted apartments and 2 semi-detached houses), as well as three commercial units (one of which will be in the old stables). During handover, householders will receive home user guides (produced by URBED) to help them understand the features of their home.
Update: 400 Caledonian Road recently secured the Gold Award in the Sustainable Development category of the What House? Awards 2015.
Blueprint have been undertaking the first completions at Hobart & Pitcairn in the Meadows, Nottingham. An URBED masterplan, the site includes 73 new homes (2, 3 and 4 bedrooms) within an existing neighbourhood including a number for affordable rent and shared ownership. The homes are designed by Nottingham architect Marsh Grochowski who also designed the first and second phases of housing at nearby Green Street. The homes have been designed to the AECB Silver Standard, a performance standard focused on 'fabric first' in order to reduce energy demand. During handover, householders will receive bespoke home user guides (produced by URBED) to help them understand the features of their home.
The Guardian: Resident-led Southwark social housing scheme shows London the way.
igloo have been acting as development managers for the Leathermarket Community Benefit Society who are looking to bring forward a new residential led development on the site of existing garages on the Kipling Estate adjacent to Weston Street, SE1 (Bermondsey, London). The development of the site offers the opportunity to provide much needed genuinely affordable homes in the local area, designed specifically by and for the local community. The proposals cover 27 apartments and maisonettes, include 3 wheelchair accessible flats, communal gardens and a communal terrace. Although not an igloo Regeneration Fund project, the team have been using footprint principles to guide the designs and management plans. The development has featured in a piece in the Guardian, noting that "the involvement of tenants in a forthcoming council rent level housing development near the Shard could be a beacon for the rest of the capital." You can find a link to the article on the right.
The architect for the scheme is locally based Bell Phillips Architects.
igloo are acting as development managers for the Somerleyton Road project (a scheme being brought forward by Lambeth Council, Ovalhouse theatre and Brixton Green), which although not an igloo Regeneration Fund project, is using footprint® principles to guide the design. In April we held a footprint® workshop at no.6 Somerleyton Road with the design team, including masterplanner and architect Metropolitan Workshop and block architects Zac Monroe, Foster Wilson, Mae and Haworth Tomkins. Splitting into four groups, each covering one of the footprint® themes of health, happiness & wellbeing, regeneration, environmental sustainability and urban design, the workshop was an opportunity to review the emerging designs, identifying opportunities for improvement and actions for the design and future management team.


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Only two years after purchasing a one-and-a-half acre lot to build a sprawling 9,500-square-foot home, former Boston Celtics point guard Kemba Walker has sold his Massachusetts estate in an off-market deal.
The move comes after Walker, who grew up in the Bronx, joined the New York Knicks in August. But his recent benching on the team, and removal from the Knicks rotation in favor of Alec Burks, put his future with the NBA in question.
Located in the upscale Brookline neighborhood, Walker, 31, purchased the home for $11.25 million in 2019.
While the current price remains undisclosed, it's been reported that Walker received more than he paid for it at the time, when he had signed a contract with the Celtics worth $141 million over a four-year period.
Made up of six bedrooms and eight baths, the home features a limestone exterior with a 22-foot custom iron entrance.
The residence also features a double bridal iron staircase, two kitchens, an au pair suite, a paneled library, "palatial" primary quarters and four en-suite bedrooms with 14-foot tray ceilings, according to the previous listing.
Kemba Walker #8 of the New York Knicks dribbles during the second half against the Indiana Pacers at Madison Square Garden on November 15, 2021 in New York City. The Knicks won 92-84.
The property was also touted for its "secluded living" with "estate expansion potential."
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Walker's career with the Celtics team took a turn when he was forced to sit out last December due to nagging pain in his left knee that stem cell injection therapy couldn't fix.
Speaking for the first time about his recent benching with the Knicks, Walker revealed his mixed emotions about Coach Tom Thibodeau's decision.
"It was tough, obviously, because as a competitor, I love to play basketball," Walker said on Monday after practice. "I love to be on the court. This is the first time this has happened to me in my career, pretty much on any level. But at the end of the day, I have respect for coach Thibs and the decision he made. It might not have been an easy one, but it was a choice he made. I have no choice but to live with it.
Brookline was also home to Tom Brady while he played for the Patriots. Following his trade to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the quarterback and wife, Gisele Bündchen, recently sold their 12,112-square-foot mansion worth $34 million — also in an off-market sale.
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I flew 61.8 hours, 9.6 of which were at night.
37.8 hours were cross-country flights (i.e., distances of more than 50 NM), and 14.8 of those cross-country hours were by myself.
I carried 16 passengers (plus my dawg).
I visited 16 new airports.
Jodie flew with me for 14.3 hours, nearly a quarter of my flying time!
I've flown on 3 business trips, 4 overnight trips, and 2 weekends away with Jodie.
As an AOPA Project Pilot Mentor, two of my mentees have soloed and are on track to become pilots this summer.
My old friend Ryan and I shared a love of motorcycles when we were younger, so it was only natural that he would have had the same life-long love of airplanes that I've had. It took a year, but he and I finally went flying this month when he and Rachael came to visit. The four of us set out to go to Luray Airport, where we were going to take a shuttle to Luray Caverns. The weather was iffy, and we almost didn't go, but after hanging around the airport cafe at Gaithersburg, the weather reports were finally showing that we could make it. Cloud ceilings were about 2,500 feet above the ground over most of the area and we could stay in valleys all the way to Luray. Although Luray is among the mountains, we didn't have to cross any big mountains to get there.
There were scattered showers and temperatures aloft were just above freezing, but it was warm and dry in the plane and our flight toward Luray was smooth. We flew over Harper's Ferry, then headed southwest down the Shenandoah Valley. The visibility was poor. When we were several miles south of Winchester, Ryan and I looked ahead and saw an opaque gray sheet a few miles ahead -- it looked like a wall of slate, running from the clouds all the way to the ground. It could have been rain, snow or who knows, but there was no way I was going to fly into it. With muttered apologies, I banked us into a u-turn and we landed at Winchester to see what there was to see.
A half hour later the four of us were spread out inside a huge Crown Victoria ramp car, a former police car that the FBO let us borrow to look around Winchester. We saw a dirt oval track with cars racing on it and walked around a cobblestoned downtown, then returned to the airport for our flight home. There was a gusting crosswind on takeoff, but once aloft, the flight was smooth. Ryan took the controls (his first time) and flew us all the way into the traffic pattern at Gaithersburg. He's a natural. Although I wished for better weather and more time to fly with Ryan, it was a fitting end to my first year as a pilot to be flying with him.
One thing I didn't do during my first year was spend a lot of time practicing landings. My landings are generally good, and I have frequent "greasers," where you almost don't feel the touchdown, but I haven't spent time just practicing. My flights usually have one landing at the end of each flight. To illustrate -- I noted above that I made 75 landings during the 61.8 hours of my first year as a pilot. Well, in the one year before I got my license, when I was a student pilot, I made 148 landings in only 51.4 hours.
So on Saturday I went and practiced landings. I flew the old routes from my time as a student pilot -- to Frederick, then to Carroll County, then home. I made several landings at Carroll County, and it was very good practice.
Sunday was also a treat, as I went and flew with an attorney from my firm who is also a pilot. He flies a Cirrus SR20, which I cannot wait to fly someday. His plane has been in the shop for a couple months following some damage from a metal hook that was lying around on the ground at the airport and got picked up by his propeller, so he hasn't been able to fly. We have been talking for months about going flying together, so this morning I flew across the Chesapeake Bay to Easton, picked him up, then we flew down to Cambridge for breakfast. We had a good time. Jeff is an excellent pilot. He took the controls for a while and had the feel of the Cardinal within a minute or two as he drew circles in the air. After breakfast, he offered to show me Ridgely Airpark in Ridgely, Maryland, so we flew up there. I did a couple landings at Ridgely for the practice of it, then I flew him back to Easton and headed west toward home.
From this graphic, you might draw the conclusion that I was flying in circles over a large body of water. It's true. It took a while for air traffic control to recognize my transponder, and I couldn't proceed home until they did see it. It was a waste of gas and time, but at least the Chesapeake Bay was gorgeous. I practiced holding my altitude exactly and enjoyed feeling the burble of my own wake as I circled through it each time.
March Madness. I flew 3.5 hours Sunday, for a total of 16.5 in the month of March. That's a lot of flying, and it included a business trip, a weekend away with Jodie, and a lot of good flying with friends, all in one month. This is what it's all about, and I'm really looking forward to the year to come.
Two weeks ago, Jodie and I demonstrated the utility of flying on a trip down to Virginia Beach. Jodie is a runner. For the last few years, she and a friend who also enjoys running have moved from job to job together. This year, Jodie, Meg, and Nick, Meg's husband, decided to run a half marathon (13.1 miles) together in Virginia Beach on St. Patrick's Day weekend.
Virginia Beach is southeast of Hampton, where I've driven and flown to recently for work. The closest airport is Norfolk International Airport, which is serviced by Southwest Airlines, Continental, and several others.
We landed ahead of a Southwest 737. While we taxied the plane to parking, we called for a . . . taxi. Jodie and I arrived at the hotel, had some lunch, and waited for Nick and Meg to arrive. They had begun the drive earlier in the day, but traffic made their trip about five hours long. Ugh. I've made that same drive with similar problems, so I can sympathize.
Jodie ran the race early Sunday morning and finished with a great time of 1 hour, 52 minutes, 12 seconds, her personal best so far.
We had lunch with Nick and Meg, got a late checkout, and were dropped at the airport around 1pm. The morning had been cold, rainy, and windy. While the rain had gone away, it was still windy and the clouds were low, so Jodie and I sat around in the plush leather pilot's lounge and waited for the clouds to lift as forecast.
We took off around 3 and headed north, taking note of the naval base and aircraft carriers off our left.
A stiff headwind increased as we headed north. About halfway home, there was a sudden jolt of turbulence. Between there and home, the ride was bumpy. The lack of a smooth ride didn't prevent us from picking out beautiful places to live along the Chesapeake Bay, though.
When we got close to Gaithersburg, I listened to the weather report. The first time I listened, the winds were variable from 320 to 020 at 21 knots gusting to 28 knots. I entered a 45-degree track to join the downwind for Runway 32. The airplane's crab angle was extreme, and while the airspeed showed 110 knots, our groundspeed was only about 85 knots. I listened to the weather again, and the wind was reported as being from 350 at 18 knots, gusting to 28 knots.
When we lined up on final approach, it seemed to take us forever to get close to the runway because the headwind was so strong. I told Jodie that we might have to go around and approach the runway a couple times before I was comfortable landing, which seemed to make her a little nervous. Fortunately, though, the first approach worked beautifully and we landed gently.
With the headwind, our flight time was about an hour and 40 minutes. We found out later that Nick and Meg had hit traffic again and it had taken them more than five hours to get home.
Mr. Nelson is an intellectual property attorney at my firm in Washington, DC. His busy work and travel schedule frequently require flexible travel arrangements so as to minimize any lack of productivity. An important bar event required that he be in Charlottesville, Virginia, last Thursday. It so happened that I was scheduled also to attend the event. Always eager to please the rising stars and power brokers of my firm, I volunteered to fly Mr. Nelson to Charlottesville.
It had been windy all day, so I postponed our departure until after 5 p.m. The wind still was 8 knots, gusting to 18 knots, but right down the runway. I did a thorough preflight inspection while Mr. Nelson walked around and looked at the planes, then we climbed in and took off. Once we were airborne, the ride was really smooth. We hit a bit of mountain wave activity as we approached the Shenandoah Mountains. It wasn't bumpy at all - just a constant, steady descent for a while despite our efforts to climb. Mr. Nelson didn't even notice. We didn't have to cross any mountains, so I stayed as far from them as possible while still avoiding Class B airspace.
It was a short flight, less than 45 minutes, but it was smooth and beautiful. It got dark while we were flying, but the winds had cleared the air and we could see the Charlottesville airport from 20 miles away at our altitude of 4,500 feet. Our heading was south by southeast, and the Charlottesville tower cleared us to land straight in on Runway 21. The effect was that we had just about the longest final approach I've experienced -- we started a slow descent about 15 miles out that continued straight to the runway.
Mr. Nelson flew the plane for most of the trip once we were outside the DC Air Defense Identification Zone. He first practiced holding altitude while we continued on course. We were in a hurry to arrive because of our late start, but we did take the time for him to turn to the left and then back on course to feel what it's like to turn the plane. (You can see his turns in the middle of the long straight leg to Charlottesville, above.) I have every confidence that Mr. Nelson would make a great pilot if he could find time in his demanding schedule to take lessons.
The next day, Mr. Nelson had further engagements, so I flew back alone, stopping for fuel in Culpeper, Virginia. It was a smooth flight, and I was treated to a beautiful sunset. A good landing back at Gaithersburg, and another flying business trip was complete.
I was playing around with Google Earth. With the "Terrain" feature turned on, I was able to create this view of the approach to the runway at Sky Bryce. In this "picture," the runway is in the top left corner, running at an angle toward the middle of the picture. This view is the view from final approach, before turning left to line up with the runway. The house with the bedroom windows I saw with Jodie is on the hill straight ahead.
I lay in bed Sunday night and wondered if I was dreaming.
Jodie and I had good reason to go to Knoxville this past weekend. But airfare was prohibitively expensive, so we thought we might fly. We drove to the airport on Saturday morning, but the weather was just not good for flying. Our route to Knoxville would take us along a mountain range for most of the 400 NM trip, and the winds were howling over those ridges at over 50 knots. Strong winds over mountain ridges cause things such as mountain waves and horizontal rotors that can make flying a small plane extremely uncomfortable. At the airport, I stuck my head into the office of a good flying mentor to confirm my judgment. That done, Jodie and I had breakfast and drove home.
Sunday was forecast to be beautiful, and so it was. Around early afternoon, Jodie and I decided to go fly somewhere for lunch. Recalling that my flying club had planned to go to an airstrip called Sky Bryce for a club trip, I confirmed the restaurant was open and we headed to the airport.
Jodie helped get the plane ready while I performed the preflight inspection, then occupied herself by taking many photographs of me performing my duties.
We took off into the gorgeous blue sky and headed southwest.
The visibility was excellent and we oohed and aahed as we made our way into the mountains. We saw this great series of bends in a river and took a picture. Later at the restaurant, we saw a photograph of this same piece of river, with the title, "The Seven Bends of the Shenandoah River."
We were both having a great time and the air was so smooth, it felt like we were just hanging suspended in the Cardinal.
Our first destination was the Sky Bryce airport in Bayse, Virginia. Sky Bryce is a small airstrip. It's not as short as Clearview, but it's only about half the length of Gaithersburg and narrower by 25 feet. More importantly, it is nestled in a small valley, up against higher ridges of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I tried to find a good photo or graphic to show how sheltered the airstrip is, but couldn't find a good one. This computer rendering from my flight planning software is the best I could do.
I had overheard an experienced pilot and instructor say that when flying into Sky Bryce, if you're not looking in someone's bedroom window on final approach, then you're too high. I found that to be exactly true. I approached from the east, and decided to overfly the airport to take a look at the runway, and the windsock in particular. The windsock was barely moving, so I circled around to land. You can't see the airstrip until you're almost on top of it, so I didn't start descending early enough. By the time I saw the airstrip, I was too high. I used all the tricks in my book to get the plane down, but then I had too much airspeed. The plane still wanted to fly when we were halfway down the runway, so I pushed in the throttle and pointed the nose at the sky and we climbed back up for another attempt.
This time around, I knew when to start descending and kept my airspeed nailed the whole way down. Final approach is a little funny, because you have to round a bend in the valley as you're descending, with trees on both sides. As we came around the last bend, I saw a house pass by Jodie's window on the right. I could see in someone's bedroom, so I knew I had the landing nailed!
And I did. It was a great, smooth, short-field landing and the plane was nearly stopped within a third of the runway.
We strolled across the parking lot to the ski lodge. Ski lodge? Oh, yes, I didn't mention that Sky Bryce is a ski resort, hence the mountains, etc. There's also a golf course and other amenities. We had a good lunch at the lodge, watching spring skiers come down the slopes. The little kids were our favorites. After splitting a slice of pecan pie and two cups of coffee, we headed back to the plane. I suggested we stop at an airport in Luray, Virginia, for some gas, and Jodie readily agreed.
We took off from Sky Bryce (being careful NOT to peep in anyone's windows) and headed over the mountains to Luray. The straight-line distance on a map is only about 18 miles, but there are two mountain ridgelines with a valley in between in those 18 miles. It was gorgeous. From Sky Bryce on the west of a ridge to Luray on the east side of another ridge, we popped up to 4,000 feet then circled back down to land.
Luray, Virginia, is home to Luray Caverns. I have never been to the caverns. As for Jodie and me on Sunday, it was about 5 p.m., too late to go to the caverns, so we had the plane fueled and I chatted with the nice people while Jodie lay back in the grass and soaked up the sunshine. We were completely relaxed. Luray was quiet and quaint, with planes tied down in tall grass and the mountains rising up above it to the west. Nothing seemed to be in a hurry, and us least of all.
We waved to the one other pilot who was there as he lifted off the runway to fly home, then got back in the Cardinal to head home ourselves. We followed a line of mountains northeast toward Leesburg, Virginia, before turning east to Gaithersburg. The late sun cast long shadows in the valleys and I wondered aloud to Jodie if people in the valleys considered it to be nighttime.
Even as we were still flying, I think we both appreciated what a special day we had experienced. The setting sun at our tail as we approached Gaithersburg made us smile, so I grabbed the camera to catch the moment.
We flew into the traffic pattern at Gaithersburg and joined the downwind leg for Runway 32. As we turned base and final, the sun set in one final, brilliant blaze and we glided down to land without even a bump. Jodie helped me secure the airplane and we drove home.
Lying in bed Sunday night, I stared at the ceiling in stunned reverie. Did that day really happen? Were Jodie and I really soaring serenely above the mountains and fields of Virginia? In our days of constant striving for one thing or another, did we really spend one day completely in love with each other and the exact thing we were doing at that exact moment? Was I dreaming?
I wasn't dreaming. It was just the magic of flying. Jodie got it on video.


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Morbius Is NOT in the MCU – Here's Why
The Morbius Trailer has recently dropped and before Jenn or I could get around to actually reviewing/reacting to it, the big spoilers were all over the place, and people were asking us about whether or not the film was in the MCU. We have some big reasons as to why we don't believe it takes place in the MCU, which we'll elaborate on below.
We'll start with something less obvious, an unassuming detail that's easy to miss, but paints a huge picture. Avengers Tower/Stark Tower/whatever you want to call it Tower is not in the New York skyline. This is a defining feature of the MCU, and was present in one way or another in every MCU Spider-Man Trailer for both Homecoming and Far From Home. If they wanted to set this film in the MCU the most blatant way to do so is to show that one building. They go so far as to show us an overhead view of 42nd Street in the next image, but they chose not pivot the angle to a proper view of the building and/or didn't put it in there to begin with. The building should be there, right on the left. The reason? This is my theory, but Sony's Universe of Marvel Characters (the SUMC) is not allowed to use items or characters introduced in Marvel Studios produced films, but characters and items from films with Sony attached (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Venom) are all fair game.
Exhibit 2: The poster Michael Morbius passes with his prison attire, of Spider-Man defaced with the word "Murderer" across it; IT'S THE WRONG SPIDER-MAN! It is not a costume ever worn by Tom Holland's version of the character. In fact, it's the Toby Maguire costume worn in the Raimi trilogy… taken from an in-game photo of Spider-Man on PS4.
WHY would the prop department go through the trouble of making a poster of Spider-Man, printing it out, roughing it up, defacing it with graffiti, only to use the wrong Spider-Man? Well, remember all those suits worn by Peter Parker? They were all made by Tony Stark. And the cheap suit created by Peter himself? Introduced in Civil War. Again, this coincides with my opinion that they cannot use items introduced through Marvel Studios. The concept of Spidey being a murderer does seem to be a direct reference to the end of Far From Home, however. So thematically it could be tangentially connected, though finer details may be conveniently glossed over.
And then there's that sting at the end of the Trailer where we see Keaton's character once again, last seen at the end of 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming in the same prison outfit. The Vulture was a character introduced in the Sony films, as opposed to the Disney owned films. I expect we can get to see characters like him show up, but say, Happy and Aunt May? They'll need to remain out of the fun, if my theory is correct.
Going back to the Variety article from Sept 27th of last year, wherein they revealed Spider-Man would remain in the MCU after a new contract was signed, Feige's comments seem to suggest there are two separate universes between the MCU and the SUMC. "Spider-Man is a powerful icon and hero whose story crosses all ages and audiences around the globe. He also happens to be the only hero with the superpower to cross cinematic universes, so as Sony continues to develop their own Spidey-verse you never know what surprises the future might hold." This is Feige's personal separation from Sony's universe, but also a concession to understanding the shared rights. As Amy Pascal likes to deem their SUMC, it's "MCU adjacent."
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Unknown2:56 AM 1 sweets for free!
So, I watched Frozen Sunday night with my boy :) I was happy tired from our Pole Stars workshops and I begged, that we watch the last full show of something! I was so happy that we watched Frozen! We barely made it to the movie, but thanks to the super powers of my boyfriend, we made it - with hotdog and popcorn! (I haven't eaten yet after 3 hours of pole).
Thank you for the wonderful treat love, I really needed that.
I saw Frozen's trailer before and it didn't really strike me. I was just "meh"... Disney movies or other cartoons are getting lame or boring these days.
Well, tonight, my heart just went spiral.
One realization I had after watching the movie is that FEAR hinders us from doing what we want. That only an act of TRUE LOVE can make us achieve what we want, even the impossible. This is what the whole story is about. Well, lately, I've been really fearful. I fear that I won't reach my dreams, that I'll be put down and rejected, that I have a whole lot to prove. I FEAR... that I will just die trying.
Sometimes, when you dive into something, you feel like your goals change. I keep on forgetting why I do things. I do things because I LOVE doing them. I don't do it for anyone else. I don't care if people approve of me or not, as long as I get to do the thing I LOVE I am happy.
And for every endeavour I am in right now, all the struggles that I have... I am happy that right now, I don't find myself alone. I have friends, I'm close to family now, and I have my boy making me snap out of my fearful trance. I'm used to being so independent and dealing with things alone, but it's quite nice to actually have people you can rely on.
Right now, I have no regrets. I keep on trying and doing what I can. I keep on living, because life is for the living - and I am not dead (something I got from watching Desperate Housewives).
After our movie, we finally found this restaurant we've been wanting to locate and try. I used my WAZE powered by Smart LTE to find our way to Kanto Freestyle Breakfast. Finding this place was a bit tricky because of the never-ending road rehabilitation going on Mandaluyong center. That rotonda where the city hall is along Boni Ave.
We're just happy Waze and Smart is super reliable. We were there in no time!
I tried their Pampanga longanisa and it was as expected - good! But more! What made it super awesome is the tomato pesto that came along with it. It cleanses the pallet every time making the food NOT "nakaka-suya".
One thing we also wanted to try were their pancakes. We got the Oreo butter pancake and boy it was delicious!
Ito na pala yung bagong blog mo. Sayang yung mga old posts at traffic.


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Clinical Drug Investigation
January 2019 , Volume 39, Issue 1, pp 109–111 | Cite as
Response to Comments on "Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Safety of the Novel Calcimimetic Agent Evocalcet in Healthy Japanese Subjects: First-in-Human Phase I Study"
Tadao Akizawa
Ryutaro Shimazaki
Masanari Shiramoto
Masafumi Fukagawa
Evocalcet Study Group
This reply refers to the comment available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s40261-018-0738-x.
We are extremely grateful to Dr. Srinivas for his thoughtful review of our article. His comments about the pharmacodynamic properties of evocalcet were from a clinical development perspective, with a particular focus on the calcium-lowering effect of evocalcet and the resultant risk of corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation [1].
As described in the letter, while both doses of evocalcet (6 and 12 mg), administered as multiple doses, showed similar efficacy in reducing intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) levels, the 12-mg dose showed a marked reduction in corrected calcium levels compared with the 6-mg dose in healthy male adults [1, 2]. Furthermore, both doses showed linear pharmacokinetics in the present study, indicating that the difference between reduction in iPTH and reduction in corrected calcium may depend on the pharmacological effects of evocalcet and/or the physiological responses of subjects to evocalcet [2]. Our results suggest that iPTH may have increased as a biological response to the reduction in corrected calcium after administration of evocalcet in subjects with normal renal and parathyroid function in the study, eventually resulting in similar reductions in iPTH levels between the 6 and 12 mg dose groups. This could be attributed to a greater increase in iPTH levels resulting from a larger decrease in corrected calcium at 12 mg. In addition, the reduction in iPTH reached a plateau at an iPTH level of approximately 10 pg/mL at 4 h after administration at a relatively high dose of 6 or 12 mg in healthy adults with a baseline iPTH level of approximately 30 pg/mL [2], which is markedly lower than that in hemodialysis patients (e.g. approximately 270 pg/mL at baseline in a phase Ib/IIa study in patients with hyperparathyroidism undergoing hemodialysis [3]), thus failing to demonstrate the dose dependence of evocalcet for reduction in iPTH levels. In contrast, the difference in baseline-corrected calcium levels between healthy adults (approximately 9.0 mg/dL [2]) and patients undergoing hemodialysis (approximately 9.8 mg/dL in the phase Ib/IIa study [3]) was not as significant as the difference in iPTH levels between these groups, successfully demonstrating dose dependence at both 6 and 12 mg for reduction in corrected calcium levels. In fact, the phase Ib/IIa study showed a trend toward dose dependence for reductions in iPTH and corrected calcium at evocalcet doses up to 12 mg in hemodialysis patients, although there was a limitation that the number of patients in the 8 and 12 mg groups was small [3].
Since QTc prolongation is associated with reductions in serum calcium, we are of the opinion that caution should be exercised with the use of evocalcet, as also pointed out by Dr. Srinivas [4, 5, 6]. Calcium reduction is one of the characteristic effects of calcimimetics [7, 8], and, indeed, reduction in corrected calcium was correlated with QTc prolongation in our study [2]. Cinacalcet, a currently available calcimimetic, is used worldwide with high efficacy in controlling iPTH, thereby contributing to a reduction in the number of patients undergoing parathyroidectomy [9, 10, 11, 12]. Cinacalcet, which also reduces serum calcium, can be successfully used to control iPTH while minimizing the risk of QTc prolongation by adjusting the dose of cinacalcet, along with the dose of an active vitamin D and/or a calcium preparation, taking into account the serum calcium levels [13].
In a phase III study of evocalcet versus cinacalcet, QTc was prolonged after administration in both groups (data not shown in the study by Fukagawa et al. [14]). However, the degree of prolongation was similar between the two groups, and the adverse event of 'QT prolonged', which was reported in two (2/317, 0.6%) and seven (7/317, 2.2%) subjects in the evocalcet and cinacalcet groups, respectively, was mild in all these subjects [14]. In a phase III long-term study of evocalcet (unpublished data), a mild adverse event of 'QT prolonged' was reported in one subject (1/137, 0.7%) during 1-year treatment with dose titration to 12 mg. The risk of QTc prolongation associated with the use of evocalcet appeared to be as low as that with cinacalcet. In both these phase III studies, the starting dose was 1 mg in principle and 2 mg for subjects with high iPTH and corrected calcium levels at baseline, followed by an increase in 1 mg increments thereafter, taking into account corrected calcium levels. As a result, a rapid fall in corrected calcium levels and QTc prolongation immediately after administration, which was observed in the high-dose groups in the present study and the phase Ib/IIa study in hemodialysis patients using the fixed doses, were not identified in the phase III studies. In the long-term study, the dose of evocalcet, which was administered once daily, was titrated to as high as 12 mg in 10 subjects (7.3%). The adverse event of 'QT prolonged' was not reported in subjects treated with 12 mg, and all adverse events reported were mild, demonstrating that evocalcet was safely administered.
These findings suggest that evocalcet, like cinacalcet, can be safely used by adjusting the dose to control corrected calcium levels appropriately. In conclusion, it should be emphasized that careful monitoring of QTc prolongation with the use of evocalcet is important, as also indicated by Dr. Srinivas. Furthermore, evocalcet, like cinacalcet, may be expected to control iPTH while reducing safety concerns, including QTc prolongation, by adjusting the dose, taking into account the corrected calcium levels, and by starting treatment at a low dose (1 or 2 mg), followed by a dose increase in increments of 1 mg.
No funding was received to assist in the preparation of this response.
TA has received consulting fees from Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co, Ltd, Astellas Pharma Inc., Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd, Fuso Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd, Japan Tobacco Inc., Ono Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd and NIPRO Industry; as well as lecture fees from Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd, Kissei Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd, Torii Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd, and Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. RS is employed by Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd, which funded the original research. MF has received consulting fees from Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd and Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd; as well as lecture fees from Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd, Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd, Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd and Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, and grants from Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd and Bayer Yakuhin Ltd. MS has no conflicts of interest to declare.
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1.Division of Nephrology, Department of MedicineShowa University School of MedicineTokyoJapan
2.R&D DivisionKyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.TokyoJapan
3.SOUSEIKAI Hakata ClinicFukuokaJapan
4.Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Department of Internal MedicineTokai University School of MedicineKanagawaJapan
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s40261-018-0737-y
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Some are very sick and believe it can be treated at home, others are low on cortisol and believe they urgently need Emergency Department treatments. It can be very hard to tell the difference at times.
Many with Addison's Disease, especially in the early years after diagnosis, don't have a clear understanding of what an Adrenal Crisis is.
Then we have the Dr's view, based on books, not on experience, which is, don't know so won't treat.
Dr's DO cause Adrenal Crisis' because they don't know, or don't listen to their patients.


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    // add commas to sql column and index strings
    addCommasToSql(primaryTable)

    return primaryTable
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub