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The Cline Buttes Area Plan EA will be out shortly, Supposed to be around 200 pages. This will be addressing motorized recreation in the area west of Redmond, OR and east of Sisters along Hwy. 126. Due to private ownership in the area and other factors, motorized will be taking a big hit on this one, even though a couple of clubs in the area have worked for years out there. Contact the Prineville BLM office to get either a hard copy or a CD, ot to be notified when it is released to the website. Need to get comments in on it to try and keep some motorized use out there, especially for class II.
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Wolfpack 4x4's - Region 5 - "Cave Lupum"
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Thank you Art, I got my letter on this yesterday.
Beth Ayer
Wolf Pack 4x4
The ox is slow but the earth is patient
The Cline Buttes area is located in the Deschutes County 4-Wheelers area and we have been actively involved in this project since its inception. In fact, Randy Drake has been fighting the BLM over incremental closures for decades. These incremental closures have caused us to refer to the area as "Cline Flats" rather than "Cline Buttes".
We have had numerous site visits with the BLM, COHVOPS and State Parks. Several of our club members were also members of the BLM working group in the initial development of this plan.
This area was analyzed during the development of the Upper Deschutes Resource Management Plan and was designated as a motorized recreation area. It has proceeded to site specific development with this Cline Buttes Recreation Area Plan.
As is typical of the BLM, much of the "designated motorized recreation area" is slated for closure to motorized vehicles and is planned to be developed for hiking, horses and bicycles. They have heard our objections every step of the way.
We are not hopeful that an acceptable plan will come out of this. This plan has taken the BLM three years to write, several hundred thousands of dollars of OHV funds and numerous BLM staff changes to complete. They have been difficult to work with, at one point we had to file a Freedom of Information Act form to get info. During a site visit with the BLM, we reviewed about a half dozen possible play areas and trail features connected by several miles of trails of various difficulty levels. At the end of the meeting, the BLM member looked at us and said, "Now pick just one." This area is over 32,000 acres and he wanted to give us one rock pile!
The sound of our objections could be heard throughout the state!! We have heard rumor that they may have reinstated some of our trails proposals back into the plan, but we shall see.
When we get our copy of the EA, our land use committee will review it and post a list of talking points for people to use in their responses. We will post these talking points here. As the local, actively involved users group, we would appreciate your assistance on this issue.
Patti Pyland
Deschutes County 4-Wheelers
Oregon Executive Director Staff
PNW Forum Leader Team Member
Region 6 Delegate
Bend, Oregon
Last edited by Peppermint Patti; 07-24-2009 at 11:02 AM.
Thanks Patti, I look forward to your comments and input on it, so that I can brief the RAC, as well as put in comments as the RAC rep and my own personnal ones. I know the club has been working the area for at least the last 30+ years, along with the old Redmond club.
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1988 Cherokee 4 door, 3" Rancho lift, custom sliders/steps, custom roof rack, custom camo paint, custom camo headliner, custom bumpers and Warn 9500 HS, 31-10.50's
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Wolfpack 4x4's - Region 5 - "Cave Lupum"
Pres.- Outcast Land Use Review Team
Last edited by Art Waugh; 07-24-2009 at 01:42 PM.
Thank you, Art, we appreciate the help of Region 5. Region 6 has broken our region down into smaller areas and assigned a local club to handle land use matters in that area. I am sure the other regions do the same thing, it just makes sense. We have had problems in the past with the responsible club and region advocating one thing and a couple of people advocating and writing letters with an opposing viewpoint. Thus, the local club now has the responsibility of developing talking points for the use of others so that we can present a united front. So we welcome the suggestions and assistance of all the regions and clubs and will keep you posted as Deschutes County 4-Wheelers and Region 6 develop a response.
Patti Pyland
Deschutes County 4-Wheelers
Oregon Executive Director Staff
PNW Forum Leader Team Member
Region 6 Delegate
Bend, Oregon
The BLM will be releasing the EA for the Cline Buttes Recreation Area Plan on Friday, October 16th. When we get our copy of the EA, our land use committee will review it and post a list of talking points for people to use in their responses. We will post these talking points here. As the local, actively involved users group, we would appreciate your assistance on this issue.
Patti Pyland
Deschutes County 4-Wheelers
Oregon Executive Director Staff
PNW Forum Leader Team Member
Region 6 Delegate
Bend, Oregon
Explaining Cline Buttes Recreation Area Plan
Explaining Cline Buttes Recreation Area Plan
Please write as much or as little as you have time for. Writing in your own words will make a larger impact than copying mine.
Any questions call me Randy Drake at 541 419 9952.
Cline Buttes is important to the OHV community. What we get is what we put into it. If we sit on our hands and keep silent we will net not one thing. Writing until your fingers cramp will net a result of more than we have. The last two paragraphs of the long letter explain why I am so passionate about the area and the EA.
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Attention: Molly Brown
(Letter one the Short Version please write at least this muchin your own wording)
I and my family use the Cline Buttes area to operate my Class II vehicle. With many exceptions I favor Alternative Four. Alternative Four does not offer a true 4x4 experienced. I would expect an OHV area which states it includes all three classes of OHVs to offer a substantial Class II trail. Roads and shared trails are not Class II trails. If Class I or Class II can go down the trail it is not a 4x4 trail. There are no trails that require the use of 4-wheel drive at the present time. Only two small areas proposed for climbing around on rocks is not adequate. A 4x4 trail goes up and down trails, across canyons, large boulders that 16 inch tires would hang up on, loose, sandy stretches of soils, etc Your team at the Prineville BLM needs to get into contact with a 4x4 club to understand what a 4x4 trail is. Where are the hill-climbs to the tops of the Buttes for the scenic part of our outing? Per the Upper Deschutes Resource Management Plan (UDRMP) the Cline Buttes Recreational Area was supposed to be an OHV area. Why are there not more miles of trail for OHVs? Why are OHVs required to stay on trails if the non-motorized user can go cross country? I love going cross country also!
Camping is very important to my family and me. Why is there no camping in Alternative Four for OHVs? Please allow camping in this area for OHVs also, camping with access to Class II trails.
Please reconsider these alternatives and redirect Molly Brown to create this area as true OHV area with no consideration for Non-motorized use as was directed in the UDRMP.
This area should be an OHV area primarily with some non-motorized use. It is not being planned as a primary area for OHV but is being planned for just the opposite. We have not one mile of Class II trails in this plan. We have not one mile of Class II trails within the Prineville BLM Lands. Planning a recreational area and not including us is discriminating against us who originally had been assigned this area by Prineville BLM. This plan is not right, fair or adequate.
Please create at least 20 or more miles of true Class II trails within this plan.
Thank you for allowing me to comment.
Your name and family,
(Letter two the Long Version please write in you own words)
There has been a mistake made in the Cline Buttes Recreation Area Plan and Environmental Assessment. This needs to be corrected ASAP. All vehicles entering BLM lands not on pavement are termed Off Highway Vehicles thus the short version OHV There is but OHVs that enter pubic lands as they leave the pavement.. They are divided into three distinct groups. Class I are more than two tires and weigh less than 800 pounds and are narrower than 50 inches motorized vehicles. Class III is two-wheeled motorized vehicles. Class II is the largest class of OHVs. They are all motorized vehicles over 800 pounds, wider than 50 inches and include jeeps, pickups, passenger cars, buggies, trucks, 4x4 buggies and yes SUV. It does not matter whether they are filled with camping gear, hunting rifles, include a bed full of bikes, pull a horse trailer or whatever they are Class II motorized vehicles. All Class II vehicles must be managed; not a select group of Class II users or that would be discrimination.
All motorized vehicles using a specified trail system for OHVs will have an OHV permit on it or it cannot enter onto the trail system. If the trail system includes OHVs without permits then that section of road cannot be counted as OHV trails. Exclusively just the miles of trail which require an OHV permit can be counted as Class II trails. Class II trails will require a state issued OHV permit and be built to Class II user specification which will provide a true Class II experience. This does not happen on a road. Roads are not Class II trails!
My family and I use a class II vehicle (or ) on BLM lands in Central Oregon. This is my preferred way to access public lands. I am a member of (your club) and a member of Region 6 of the Pacific Northwest Four Wheel Drive Association (Blue Ribbon, United Four-wheel drive etc )
I have read and talked amongst my friends and fellow Class II users. While we are not in favor of a single Alternative; I am in general favor of Alternative Four with the following exceptions. I want these exceptions to be included within Alternative Four and to become the final decision.
1. Our history of use is being considered but we need to be working with you hand in hand with what trails we want in this entire area. It is apparent to us that your staff has not read or is not following the guide lines set forth in National Management Strategy for Motorized Off-Highway Vehicle use on Public Lands Manual. It is important that the people working on the Cline Butte Recreation Area Plan and Environmental Assessment read and understand the content within this manual as its purpose is to educate the BLM how to work with us; the OHV community.
2. We want access to the tops of the buttes for their scenic beauty and for the trail experience of going up the steep slopes. Many of the OHV users have no way to access these buttes except in a motorized vehicle. The lack of your understanding this is apparent. OHVs accessing the one and only butte which currently has OHV access to the top in Central Oregon is the Cline Buttes. Your belief that only pedestrian, mountain bikers and horse back riders have a need to ascend this butte is unfounded and in error. Your belief that the above three are the only ones who enjoy the endless panoramic views is unfounded and is not correct. We of the OHV community appreciate the climb to the top and the breath taking views just as much as the non-motorized users. Per your own statements within these pages why have we used these trails to gain access to these Buttes for over 50 years? Is it not the same as theirs? The simple thrill of the climb and the gorgeous, breathtaking views of Central Oregon. Which is the same today as yesterday and it is the person ascending the butte in what ever manner and each enjoying the butte in their own way. All recreationalists have to learn to share Cline Buttes. Motorized and non-motorized alike and there cannot be any exceptions. Discrimination within the Prineville BLM has to stop. All user groups will be allowed to access these buttes as they recreate sharing trails.
3. The Tower Road should never be maintained beyond its current state. In fact pictures need to be taken so all will know the condition of the road and no further improvements should be allowed. This trail as per the map needs to have an additional loop trail to the top of the FAA butte and down alongside the Oregon State properties looping the two buttes together as a shared trail for all users. This is the best of the best and to exclude any particular group of users from this trail would be discriminative against that group of public land users. Many of the OHV users would have no other means to access this area except in an OHV.
4. As we are being consider within this plan as needing the most trails and the largest group of users we should have the majority of the area. Our riding area is ashamedly to small. The mileage of trails for class II needs to be doubled and the mountain bikers and pedestrians trails should be the less than a quarter of what it is.
5. Areas closed to us in the Upper Deschutes Resource Management Plan (UDRMP) includes the Matson Area, Ochoco Reservoir area, Prineville Reservoir area, Eagle Rock area, Lower Crooked River area, Chimney rock area, Taylor Butte area, Powell Buttes area, Grizzly Butte area, Combs Flat area, Smith Rock area, Steamboat Rock area, Tumalo recreation area, Horse Butte area etc these areas set aside that OHVs would not be allowed in. Tens of thousands of acres set aside for non-motorized activities. We the motorized community would have but five areas one of which was the Cline Buttes area. Why are there this many non-motorized trails being put inside of our motorized area. These non-sharing groups such as mountain biking, pedestrians and horse back riding trails should not be allowed in our OHV area! Yes we thought a few trails of this type would be within this area but not of this magnitude. This per the UDRMP was the reason for closing OHVs out of the other areas and we were told at meeting after meeting the Cline Buttes area would be primarily for OHVs. Instead of doing what you said; (at these meeting) you have done the opposite. The miles of trails within these pages are almost doubled for the non-motorized uses. Is this not discrimination against the OHV community; then what is it?
6. My wife and I have used other BLM lands from here to Wyoming. We have used BLM lands as far south as Bullhead City, AZ and into Utah as far north as Moab and no where is there the lack of user sharing the same trail as there are within these pages. In the entire list above these places the users are sharing the same trails. Only in this book is there so much emphasis put on users of public lands not wanting trails to be shared. Why is the Prineville BLM allowing this to happen on public lands is not understandable?
7. The bottom line here; lands previously set aside for non-motorized activities should be being used and leave the Cline Buttes open for the motorized hill climbs that they are famous for. All other buttes you have closed in the UDRMP leave this one butte open for OHVs it is the right thing to do.
8. While in Central Oregon camping is very important to me and being able to camp near the trail heads is essential. In Alternative Two the Barr North and Buckhorn are the least of the camping areas that need to be included. My main concern is why a much nicer camp site further from the highway is not being established on both sides of the highway. Trail heads are for unloading and loading rigs and a camp ground should be found for quiet camping with access to trails. Camping within sight of a busy highway is not very relaxing and is actually dangerous for families with small children. There is a need for a family friendly campground with restrooms.
9. There is no Class II trails; just shared trails. I believe you do not understand our recreation which requires 4-wheel drive. If Class I and III are using the trail it is quite obvious the trail is inadequate for a true meaningful outing for my family and I. I would expect at least 28 miles of Class II trails only within this area which requires my 4x4 to be engaged. If not the miles cannot be counted as Class II user trails. There are thousands of miles of flat dusty roads within Central Oregon but they are not Class II trails! We need Class II trails and areas to recreate on and none of the alternatives offer a true Class II experience. Simply stated if a bike or quad can ride it; it is not a Class II trail.
10. The ODOT pit needs to be managed for OHVs. It is very close to town and a quick trip out for an hour or two is very important to us all. Being this close to town it would be easy to police. No shooting allowed in this area. As the pit continues to grow ODOT needs to work with the OHV community and leave as much open as possible for us. The gate needs to be as close to the pit as possible leaving the used up portion of the pit open to us. The gate needs to move as the mine increases in size; allowing us access at all times.
11. Keep in mind the ODOT pit area (not necessary the pit itself) was supposedly a play area for all ages and was suppose to include an area for young riders separate from the pit and would never be closed. The gate has to move right up to the entrance of the open mine not way back on Barr Road. The gate at Barr Road would close off to much area from OHV use and this pit is used the most by OHV users in the Cline Buttes area.
12. All trails for OHVs use will be posted operating a motorized vehicle on this trail requires an OHV permit. All who do not comply should be sited. NO Right Of Way (ROW) will be a part of an OHV trail system. If we are not allowed on pedestrian, mountain biker trails, and equestrian trails then they should not be allowed on our OHV trails unless they have in hand an OHV permit. This is not negotiable. Trails will be open in an OHV trails system only to those with an OHV permit; period with no exceptions. It is not just to open our trails to any user but close us out of their trail systems entirely. This is simply discrimination against OHV users on public lands managed by the Prineville BLM. It also allows the other users to have use of the entire area and they will close us out one foot at a time.
13. The monies for OHV trails come from gas tax and the state OHV permits. They can be used for creating trails, educating OHV trail users, maintenance of trails and policing of OHV trails only. We will be watching that our monies will not be used for closing us from other lands or trails but utilized on the OHV trails only.
14. Grazing should be allowed as grazing has been an important part of fire management. It is my opinion that the permittees should be allowed to graze livestock free as more benefit comes from grazing than credit is given. Grazing on public lands should be free and fence fixing should be on the tax payers. Cattle guards rather than gates should be provided again from the tax payers. No gates allowed in OHV areas!
15. No trees or shrubs should be cut now or ever. In this case every tree and shrub will help to aid in air quality. They will help keep the dust down. The noise level will be lessened by each tree and shrub left to stand. For each tree left will be a greater barrier between rider and other users. Every tree and shrub left will be a greater barrier between all wildlife and people. If one user cannot see or hear the other their experience is heightened by that amount. I do not support any trees or shrubs being removed by any method in the Cline Buttes area. Do not forget the OHV user appreciate the old growth junipers and will assist in any way we can to making sure they all stay alive.
16. Decommissioning of roads, ways, routes or play areas need to be examined by the OHV community and a joint decision of all involved will be the final factor in closing or being left open. It is our contention from previous closures that the Prineville BLM does not have the knowledge in this matter. The Prineville BLM has closed more great trails than they have left open due to their lack of OHV knowledge. Class II users have suffered the most in these closures with no consideration by the Prineville BLM.
17. All ROW roads should be the responsibility of the land owner. Neither the public nor the BLM should provide any monies for the private land owners ROW through public lands. ROWs cannot be counted as OHV trail. Roads are roads and cannot be counted as trails as they do not provide Class II user satisfaction!
18. ROW for power lines and public utilities should be incorporated into OHV trails as many of these have many (corridors) side areas that could be used for Class II extreme trails. These ROWs for energy companies are required to be vegetation free and OHV travel would aid in that.
19. Instead of closures on the buttes and areas close to private lands: post speed limits. In other words no wave rules that would be on land. For instance on the buttes; ten miles per hour. Along a private section of land or lands of questionable soil integrity a speed of 5 miles per hour. In areas where pedestrians and horses frequent a decibel reading of 84 and a speed limit could be established. These rules are already being applied in other OHV shared use areas and work very well.
20. There will be no cross country travel by any users. Pedestrians have for centuries used cross country travel for hunting and scaring up game. This cross country travel by pedestrians with or without dogs unleashed is not to be allowed in this area which is supposed wildlife habitat area. I personally use my unleashed dog hunting upland wild game and fully understand this cannot be allowed. All travel whether motorized or non-motorized will be allowed only on trails. What is the sense of a managed area with trails if only OHVs are expected to stay on trails?
21. We the OHV community enjoy wildlife along our trails. Trail runs without wildlife is like and outing at the beach without water. Your team needs to go out on a Class II outing and see first hand how we effect wildlife. We enjoy watching all kinds of birds, reptiles and mammals just like the non-motorized users. Do not separate us from wildlife and other natural things. That is what families are out doing while operating their vehicles on 4x4 trails.
Members of Region 6 of the Pacific Northwest Four Wheel Drive Association have been operating their vehicles in this area since before our organization was created. Since 1953 we have used these buttes operating brush buggies and flat fender Willies. We used this area before there was a word in the dictionary for dirt bike, quad, mountain bike before riding horses for pleasures and pedestrians walking about on public lands were a sport. This has been our area before Eagle Crest and we had permission form Everett Thornburg to ride his lands as we wished. However we had to promise not to run the cows over. I ran these lands decades before ever seeing a dirt bike attempting to climb these buttes. My club has climbed these buttes for three decades far before the first mountain biker arrived in Central Oregon. We have a written history of using the Cline Buttes area and not a single mile of Class II trail is drawn out that is a true 4x4 trail. Our hill climbs have not been incorporated into a single sentence within the Cline Buttes Recreation Area Plan. This is our area; Prineville BLM had set it aside decades ago for 4X4 use. Why has the Prineville Bureau of Land Management left us entirely out? You have left possibly two areas open that could be used by us in Alternative Four; but no trail system. Why?
The Members of Region 6 (Redmond Four Bangers, Deschutes County 4-Wheelers, Strawberry Hill 4-Wheelers, Klamath Falls 4-Runners, Sunshine 4-Wheelers, Rough Mountain 4-Wheelers, Roseburg 4-Wheelers, Umpqua Timber Cruisers etc ) have held two giant clean ups at the Cline Butte area with the Prineville BLM. We have signed the Cline Buttes with signs provided by the Prineville BLM providing us access to the tops of Cline Buttes. Recently we worked with the Prineville BLM for over three years on these projects specific to the Cline Buttes. We the Deschutes County 4-Wheelers have attended every meeting put on by the Prineville BLM since the early 80s. I do not understand the lack of Class II trails within this plan after all these years. I would expect miles of trails that required 4x4 to be engaged. A trail system of 20 miles or more with areas of extreme 4x4 along side from time to time would be appropriate within an OHV area for all three classes of OHVs. It is not sharing the trail that bothers me as much as being all but exclude from this plan. Not a single mile of 4x4 trails, no hill climbs, no sandy stretches of trail to hinder us, no boulders in the trail bigger than a 16 inch tire, no play areas, and only a remote possibility of two areas with seasonal closures in the canyons. We were the first users in the BLM lands in the Cline Butte area and we have the least. Why?
Thank you for allowing me to comment on the Cline Butte Recreation Area. I am partially in favor of Alternative Four with the above 20 exceptions. Please include me in all meetings dates, updates of the EA and for the Final Decision.
Yours truly,
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Please take time to write a letter in favor of Class II and Alternative Four. If you are not in favor of flat, dusty roads say so as that is what we will get without your written comments. The dead line is December the 5 which is only days away. Please write!!!!!!!!! Randy Drake
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Caressa Mercer has mental capacity of a 5-year-old, deputies say
A 24-year-old woman reported missing in DeLand has been found safe, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
Caressa Mercer was last seen sleeping at about 6 a.m. in her bed at her New Hampshire Avenue home. At 7 a.m., her family noticed her missing.
Her family conducted their own search before calling deputies at 11:40 a.m.
She was found about 6:20 p.m. Tuesday after a resident saw a television report and called in to report seeing Mercer in the area.
She was found eating in a soup kitchen at a local church 2 miles from home.
"I just got a million pounds taken off my chest. If they hadn't gotten her tonight, I think I was going to end up in the hospital," said her father, Eddie Mercer.
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It may not be the royal baby, but the National Aquarium has got a new tenant that could be just as cute.
The aquarium announced Wednesday that a new female puffin chick was born on July 4. She is the fourth chick for her parents, Victor and Vixen, who were the first puffins to ever successfully breed at the National Aquarium.
The chick was born after a 30-day incubation period in a specially constructed enclosure that mimicked the deep burrows the species typically use in the wild, officials said.
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GENEVA -- At least three separate research teams here at the 12th World AIDS Conference announced that strains of HIV resistant to many drugs, including the powerful protease inhibitors, have been transmitted from one person to another. None of these cases was from New York, but among the nearly 14,000 conference participants was a couple from Manhattan, one of whom recently contracted a highly resistant strain of HIV from the other.
AIDS activist Stephen Gendin took years to become resistant to most HIV drugs, using them one after another as they came on the market, desperate to save his life. But now his partner, Kyle McDowell, is starting out with Gendin's resistant strain. "This eliminates most treatment," says McDowell.
Such cases re-emphasize the importance of prevention. But they also point to the implacable logic of HIV, which has killed almost 12 million people, infects another person every five seconds, and now is mutating under the pressure of powerful but not curative drugs. "It's not surprising at all" that resistant strains have begun to circulate, says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Indeed, given the astonishing vigor of this virus, many of the conference's scientific findings were sobering but not surprising. Among the most important are that HIV continues to replicate even when patients are taking potent medication, and that in the very first days after the virus enters the body, it infiltrates certain long-lived cells that then harbor it for many years. So even if a patient has an ordinary strain of HIV that is vulnerable to the drugs -- and even if that patient is among the lucky 10 per cent of infected people who live in a First World country, where the expensive drugs are available -- still, says Fauci, "it will be very difficult to eradicate this virus" from the body.
Yet the AIDS death rate continues to drop all across the developed world, and "I don't think deaths will go back up," maintains Bernard Hirschel, the doctor who chaired the conference. Like many researchers, Hirschel and Fauci believe it might not be necessary to eradicate every last virus from a patient's body. They point to growing evidence that suggests the immune system can control HIV under the right circumstances, and that an AIDS-ravaged immune system can be regenerated with therapy. As David Ho, director of New York's Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, puts it, "Control without eradication is something we might call remission."
Whether the goal is eradication or remission, the lynchpin of therapy is a cocktail of three or more drugs, often involving a protease inhibitor, that patients must take every day to suppress the virus. But McDowell and Gendin are resistant to at least nine of the 11 currently approved drugs -- and possibly to all of them.
Gendin has known for more than a year that he carries a multidrug-resistant strain of HIV. He and McDowell never engaged in the riskiest behavior -- having Gendin ejaculate into McDowell during anal intercourse -- but sometimes Gendin would enter McDowell without a condom, withdrawing before climax. (In a case documented by San Francisco researchers, the source partner also withdrew before ejaculation; HIV is known to be present in preseminal fluid.) In addition, McDowell was often the insertive partner, and he didn't use a condom either. This, too, could have led to his infection.
Several studies presented at the conference suggested that some people are relaxing their safer-sex standards because they believe the new treatments have made AIDS manageable. Prevention workers will undoubtedly have to combat this misconception, but McDowell's story makes it clear that people engage in unprotected sex for reasons that are tangled and personal.
"For 10 years I was so safe," McDowell explains. His riskiest activity was to fellate without a condom, a practice generally considered low risk, and which he would do only once or twice a year. His friends, he says, considered his standards "maddeningly tight." Then McDowell turned 30, which, he says, "had a lot to do" with why he's now infected. He remembers thinking, "Oh my god, I let my twenties go." So he let himself enjoy "a few stolen insertions" with Gendin. Those gave him morning-after anxiety, but twice over a one-year period he tested HIV-negative, which bolstered what turned out to be a false sense of security.
Having sex without a condom "really made me feel profoundly erotically close," McDowell recalls. "When Stephen was not feeling well, it seemed the only way to be intimate." And when problems arose in the relationship, McDowell says, "I wanted to fix it with something highly symbolic." So they would have "makeup sex" that sometimes became "really intense." There was, he says, "something profoundly rich about risking my life for Stephen."
"This notion of sharing everything is being romanticized, and that's dangerous," warns Martin Delaney, a leading AIDS activist. Indeed, many activists believe Gendin had already romanticized "barebacking," as unprotected sex is called, when he wrote an article in the AIDS magazine POZ last summer about having skin-to-skin intercourse with another man who was also HIV-positive. That article sparked a heated controversy, because even between two infected people, a drug-resistant strain might be transmitted, unleashing a secondary infection that could sabotage a drug regimen. But many people with HIV consider that possibility theoretical.
Of course, there is no doubt about the danger to an HIV-negative partner. "So why was I doing something risky?" Gendin asks. "I don't know. If someone handed me a knife, I wouldn't throw it around." Now he feels "guilty and confused."
Researchers feel worried.
In San Francisco, one out of 35 newly infected patients was found to have a virus resistant to all four approved protease inhibitors and most of the AZT family of drugs.
In Switzerland, two out of 67 recently infected patients were found to be carrying strains highly resistant to protease inhibitors, and several more were resistant to other drugs.
U.S. military researchers found two out of 16 untreated patients with mutations that confer resistance to protease inhibitors.
There are likely to be more such cases, if only because more than 40 per cent of U.S. patients are being prescribed substandard drug combinations, which greatly increases the risk of resistance. Moreover, 30 to 50 per cent of all patients have trouble taking their medicine as directed, which also induces resistance.
Even so, Fauci, Ho, and Frederick Hecht, the lead researcher in the San Francisco case, all warn against exaggerating the danger. It's likely that "most new infections are coming from people who don't know they're infected and haven't been treated," says Martin Markowitz of the Aaron Diamond Center, who has been studying recently infected patients for three years. And such individuals are unlikely to carry drug-resistant virus.
AZT, the first approved AIDS medication, has been on the market for a full decade, yet only about 16 per cent of HIV-positive people in San Francisco start out with a strain that is resistant to that drug. Helene Gayle, director of the AIDS program at the Centers for Disease Control, says that the proportion of people newly infected with strains resistant to protease inhibitors will likely rise only to "the single digits or teens." But, she notes, for a deadly disease like AIDS that would still constitute "a real disaster," because those unlucky patients would effectively be thrust back to an era when doctors had few or no options for treatment. Indeed, the San Francisco case was discovered partly because the patient did not respond well to his drugs.
HIV doesn't need to be super-resistant to wreak havoc. Ordinary HIV is virulent enough. In the first days after infection, the virus infiltrates so-called "resting T-cells." Since those cells are long-lived, HIV can lurk in them for years, dormant but capable of re-emerging and continuing the progression toward AIDS. If drugs could completely shut off virus replication, then this pool of cells would die off in an estimated three to five years.
But last year, evidence emerged from Fauci's lab that the drugs don't completely suppress the virus. And in Geneva, Ho presented proof that HIV keeps replicating even when the drugs appear to be working so well that very sensitive tests cannot detect any virus in the blood. HIV's under-the-radar replication keeps infecting the resting T-cells, foiling attempts to eradicate the virus. Ho's conclusion: "We have overestimated the potency of our [medical] regimens."
Trial results of several promising new drugs were reported, but it remains to be seen if they will have a more powerful effect. Probably the most encouraging was a drug called efavirenz (brand name Sustiva), made by DuPont. It was shown to be at least as potent as the strongest protease inhibitor, though its long-term efficacy is not yet known. In marked contrast to the corporate PR, Paul Friedman, the scientist who led the discovery and development of efavirenz, was humble: "This virus," he says, "is very, very difficult."
Indeed, Ho's work suggests that even under the most intense drug pressure, HIV not only keeps replicating, it also mutates and evolves. But when he charted the changes in HIV's genes, he didn't see any evidence of evolution toward drug resistance. So, he reasons, "there must be some compartment where virus can grow without any selective pressure for drug resistance." This sanctuary might be an anatomical organ, or it could be certain kinds of cells present in different organs. Ho's finding could be a fluke due to his small sample size -- he studied only seven patients. But Emilio Emini, who heads pharmaceutical giant Merck's AIDS effort, says that "slow evolution of resistance mutations" has occurred in patients on apparently effective drug regimens. He thinks that explains some cases in which the drugs appear to be working perfectly, yet the virus eventually breaks through, rising back up to dangerous levels.
Whether this ongoing replication maintains HIV in the body or actually leads to drug resistance, Ho suggests intensifying therapy, and, indeed, some doctors are recommending that their patients take four drugs instead of three. But the drugs often cause side effects. Widely publicized have been fat and cholesterol disturbances, possibly leading to coronary problems in the most severe cases. So other doctors are taking the opposite approach and suggesting that their patients delay starting therapy if they are healthy and have relatively intact immune systems.
Their logic was vividly illustrated in a plenary speech by activist Mark Harrington of Treatment Action Group, or TAG. Harrington recounted his personal history of HIV and showed slides of his lymph nodes, a key immune-system site. Just after the last international AIDS conference two years ago, HIV had ravaged Harrington's lymph nodes, which literally looked tattered on the slide. His CD4 cell count, a common measure of immune function, had plummeted to 152; healthy people typically have more than 1000. But now, following two years of effective therapy, Harrington's CD4 count has soared to 925 and he has "nice, plump, healthy" lymph nodes. "I'm lucky I waited" to begin therapy, Harrington said. "I could be dead if I had listened to those same researchers who now say hit hard and hit early."
But Fauci draws draws a different lesson from Harrington's experience: Harrington was lucky not because he waited until he lay at death's door to start treatment, but rather because effective drugs were finally developed. Fauci suggests that anyone who has a high degree of virus replication, even those who are very healthy, should start therapy, because suppressing the virus can protect the immune system. The cold fact is that no one knows the optimal moment to start therapy.
PERHAPS THE BEST NEWS from Geneva is that most patients who respond well to treatment are slowly regaining their immune systems. Brigitte Autran, a leading immunologist from France, has studied more than 300 patients who were fairly advanced in HIV disease. Among those who responded well to the drugs and almost never missed a dose, CD4 counts have risen steadily "with no plateau," says Autran. She looked at many other aspects of the immune system, such as the ability of cells to respond to various bacteria and viruses, and in virtually every test the immune system showed steady improvement.
Autran thinks "there is no limitation" to the capacity of the immune system to revive itself, though she estimates that full recovery will take four to eight years. That process might be speeded up by special immune-enhancing drugs, such as interleukin 2, or IL2, which showed excellent results in several studies presented at the conference. But even with IL2, the immune responses specific to HIV almost never come back.
The human immune system is exquisitely precise; the cells and antibodies that protect against the flu, for example, do nothing against herpes or TB. The reason HIV is so devastating is that it kills the very immune-system cells that orchestrate the body's counterattack against it. These cells are called HIV-specific helper T-cells, and the virus wipes them out in just three to 18 months after it has entered the body. Unfortunately, Autran has seen no revival of HIV-specific helper cells, even after two years of immune recovery. (The only researcher who has seen such recovery in advanced patients is Franco Lori, who has seen it in six of 12 patients treated with the AIDS drug ddI and an experimental drug called hydroxyurea.) But to control HIV and achieve what Ho calls remission, HIV-specific immune responses are required.
A few patients -- less than 1 per cent -- control the virus on their own, without ever taking drugs, and many of these "long-term nonprogressors" have very strong HIV-specific responses. Furthermore, Harvard's Bruce Walker and the University of Seattle's Julie McElrath have each found that if patients are treated very early, within weeks of getting infected, suppressing the virus prevents the destruction of the critical HIV-specific helper cells. Encouraged by anecdotal cases of patients who went off their medication yet have been controlling HIV without drugs, Walker and Hirschel are each planning trials to see if that experience can be duplicated. In the meantime, doctors strongly warn patients against stopping their drugs, lest HIV come roaring back.
The trials by Hirschel and Walker will use patients who started therapy soon after being infected. But the vast majority of people with HIV don't know they are infected until long after they have lost their HIV-specific responses. Can anything be done for them? Perhaps. In a "late-breaker" study, New York University Medical Center's Fred Valentine showed that an HIV vaccine developed by the late Jonas Salk stimulates strong HIV-specific helper responses in midstage patients being treated with combination therapy. Patients who did not get the vaccine but did receive standard treatment showed no such gain.
In the future, then, it is possible that patients will be treated with standard drug cocktails to suppress their virus, plus IL2 to hasten recovery of their immune systems, plus an AIDS vaccine to stimulate their HIV-specific immunity. After all that, maybe, just maybe, some patients would be able to stop taking the toxic and demanding drug cocktails and have their immune system control the virus on its own. But even if that goal isn't achieved, invigorating the immune system might extend the effectiveness of drugs, buying patients the most valuable thing: time.
Research assistance: Tyler Schnoebelen
This article was originally published in the Village Voice.
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The Waiver System Numbering change was introduced to deal with two issues.
First most waivers granted in the fall are also good for the following spring - some are not. Also there was no way to tell what the waiver was for. The new system answers both those questions. The new system is the same number of characters but is of the form
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- The first character is always "W" which indicates that the number is for a waiver.
- The second character indicates the seasons that the waiver applies to. The options are "A" for all (both Fall and the next Spring), "F" for fall and "S" for spring.
- The third character indicates the last digit of the year that the waiver expires in. The current options are "4" for 2014 indicating fall-only waivers and "5" for 2015 all-year waivers or spring only 2015.
- The fourth character indicates the subject matter of the waiver. Waivers under bylaw 2 will have an "R" for residency-based; under bylaw 5 the character will be "A" for age-based; Bylaw 6 will be "S" for size (more than 22 on a full size team this Fall); and Bylaw 3 (ADA - rarely used) will be "O" for other.
- nnn is still the same computer assigned sequential number and is not duplicated (meaning there will only be one waiver with the suffix 123 - not sequential for each type of waiver).
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It used to be of the form WS##-nnn where W stood for waiver and S was the season the waiver was first granted - either F for Fall or S for Spring and ## were the last two digits of the year the waiver was granted. nnn was just a sequential three digit number that was assigned by the computer in the order the waiver numbers were requested.
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Last week, 12 seriously ill patients died in a fire started by an arsonist at the Beimen Sinying branch of Tainan Hospital in Greater Tainan. However, the root cause of the catastrophe was administrative failings.
Beimen is a regional branch of the hospital. Originally specializing in the treatment of blackfoot disease, the Department of Health has reincarnated it as a hospital providing long-term care for the chronically and mentally ill. As the hospital is located in a remote area, it is not easy to find enough medical staff, let alone doctors for the night shift or enough nursing staff or long-term carers to fill all the shifts. These staff shortages hamper the hospital's ability to maintain adequate fire safety measures.
How can a small number of medical and care staff, however committed they are, be expected to deal with a major fire?
It seems that the fate of a hospital is very much tied up with economies of scale.
Another fire broke out not too long ago in a major hospital in the north of the country, but because this hospital was well-staffed and located in a metropolitan area, people were either able to save themselves or were rescued, and so it did not turn into a major problem.
Hospitals with many patients are bustling, chaotic places, and there is always the possibility that somebody will get up to mischief. However, this is usually discovered within a very short time and dealt with. The Beimen branch had only a skeleton staff of medical workers and carers, who were responsible for dozens of seriously ill patients during the night, which was when fire was started. How could they be expected to notice, in the early hours of the morning, that an arsonist had struck until it was too late?
Many of the patients were hooked up to equipment by respiratory siphons, urethral catheters or nasogastric tubes. They were hardly conscious of what was going on around them. When the fire alarm went off, these patients had precious little hope of escaping from the fire unaided. On this occasion, only one seriously ill patient was saved for every four firefighters that went in to rescue them.
In the future this kind of situation is going to become more common as long-term care becomes more important in Taiwan. If the government does not take the issue of future long-term care or care of the elderly seriously, there will be repeats of tragedies like this in the future.
The health department has to pay particular attention to how long-term care centers are run, and to the training of long-term care staff.
Another question is whether it is possible to provide mentally ill patients with adequate guidance and monitoring within the community. Taiwan has an aging population, and arson committed by patients in long-term care is going to increasingly be a problem in the future. It is impossible to keep tabs on the psychological state of all the mentally ill people living in the community. This is the job of psychiatrists and psychologists, and community hospitals do not always have this kind of resident specialist, so are not always able to provide the kind of emergency psychiatric treatment that patients may require.
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Mayor Chris Beutler today said a customer survey about the City's new Development Services Center (DSC) resulted in high marks for the new permitting process. The DSC — a "one-stop shop" for the review, permitting and inspection of development projects — has been in operation since March. It co-locates five departments that work with development projects on the second floor of the County-City Building, 555 S. 10th St.
DSC Manager Fred Hoke said the survey also provided information to create a general profile of customers and to learn about potential improvements the customers would like to see, especially in the area of technology.
"All City departments are striving to improve how we do business, and the results of this survey are a step in that direction for the new DSC," Mayor Beutler said. "The DSC is cutting red tape and saving time and money for developers. This type of survey information directly from those customers allows us to further enhance customer service delivery and continue to promote economic development."
Hoke said the survey focused on the permit intake and issuance process because those steps involve extensive customer interaction, information exchange and financial transactions. Nearly 80 percent of the 89 survey respondents identified their primary occupations as building trades (44 percent), architect (20 percent) and general contractor (15 percent). The percentage of respondents who agreed or strongly agreed with the following statements are:
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Other areas suggested for improving the plan review process were the more availability of review team members as well as clear, concise and timely written comments. In both the plan review and inspection processes, respondents indicated they would like to see more consistent application of codes, standards and requirements.
"The next steps for the DSC include expanding our Process Improvement Teams that we call 'PIT Crews,'" said Hoke. "We also plan to expand our pre-application meetings, launch our DSC website, finalize our risk management and business continuity plans and incorporate more technology into our systems."
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A timely, insightful assessment of American education, with an emphasis on eliminating the "achievement gap."
With all the attention paid to economic malaise, it's easy to overlook the fact that the American education system is also in crisis (some of it caused by underfunded school systems). Pickles, a lifelong professional educator who holds a doctorate in reading and education administration, thinks most school system administrators find themselves "in a pickle," and so she lays out a plan "for achieving at high levels and eliminating the gap among subgroups and across socioeconomic lines." Pickles admits her work is an outgrowth of her dissertation about reading achievement, which she wrote two decades ago, but she's careful to note that she has broadened her scope to focus on systemic change. First, the author offers a historical overview to put current challenges in perspective and then addresses three key areas—"Creating Schools and Districts for Excellence" (specific strategies and tactics for improving students' performance and closing achievement gaps), "Educational Leadership and Professional Relationships" (a discussion of leadership principles applicable to teachers and school administrators) and "Building External Partnerships" (how and why partnerships are useful in meeting schools' challenges). In the book's final section, Pickles presents "A Future Platform for Education," in which she offers numerous specific suggestions, keyed to instructional leadership, professional relationships and families, partners and the greater community. There is no shortage of ideas for improvement, but unlike some works that may reach for lofty, unachievable goals, Pickles grounds her suggestions in research and the practicality of her considerable experience as a classroom teacher, principal and superintendent of schools. Pickles correctly focuses the majority of her attention on low-performing schools, suggesting that "if we can fix these schools, then we can fix all schools." This book will undoubtedly find its largest audience among forward-thinking school administrators who continue to believe that they have the ability to measurably impact the quality of education.
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If Shirley Morgan is headed to First Baptist Church in Booneville, there are a handful of dishes she's just about required to make and take with her.
"They either want chicken and dressing or chicken and dumplings," said Morgan, 76. "Or they want a dessert, like my buttermilk pound cake."
Church members aren't the only ones partial to her chicken and dumplings.
"My granddaughter tells me, 'You would win the national prize for your dumplings.' And I say, 'Yes, I would, if you were the judge.'"
Morgan began cooking meals for her family when she was about 10 years old.
"We lived on a farm in Prentiss County and we had cotton and corn and cows," she said. "I didn't like to milk so I'd cook supper while my mother went to the barn to help Daddy."
Morgan still cooks country-style meals for her husband, Herschel, just about every day, but more often than not, they eat their big meal at lunch and then have a light supper.
She might fix pork chops, pinto beans, creamed corn, Mexican cornbread and cherry cobbler, or chicken and dressing, green beans, sweet potato casserole and a chocolate cake.
"I don't cook now like I used to because Herschel has a pacemaker," Morgan said. "We don't eat a lot of fried food. We don't eat a lot of beef. We eat chicken and pork loin. But we both have a sweet tooth."
Morgan worked at the Prentiss County Courthouse for 16 years and then spent another 36 with the United States Department of Agriculture before retiring in 2005. Herschel is retired from FMC.
"We don't really get in each other's way," she said. "We do our own thing. He goes and drinks coffee in the mornings and I try to walk. I read a lot of Francine Rivers books. They're Christian-based and I'm hooked on them. And I tell Herschel we're either the cleanest two people or the dirtiest two, because I do an awful lot of laundry."
The Morgans have two children and five grandchildren and though they don't often all get together around the same table, they will come Thanksgiving .
"And they'll tell us exactly what they want to eat," she said. "We'll have chicken and dressing, creamed corn, sweet potato casserole, green beans and homemade rolls. And they'll want their daddy to smoke both a turkey and a ham. And he'll do it."
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Feeling Special: Zoo's last issue and Tyler's new song dedicated to us
Tyler's 'F—k It: a tantrum set to music
It's not every day you get a magazine and a song dedicated to you.
But this week, my friends and I received both.
Now defunct Lad's Mag Zoo Weekly devoted its final issue to us with this cover.
Apparently, protesting the objectification of women and messages promoting violence against women (drunk girls are a 'green light', for example) makes you a killjoy now. We didn't find much joy in the mag's pages, as documented in Collective Shout's storify.
Young designer and activist Laura Pintur, 23, led our campaign. It was great to see her face on ABC's Media Watch Monday night, in an extract from the video she made for The Guardian. The facts she presented stand in contrast to the depiction of the mag as just for a laugh and 'schoolboy humour'. Such nudge-nudge-wink-wink depictions trivialized Zoo's actual content. The kind of content which caused 20-year-old Coles employee Shannen to protest to management through her union.
When asked by a journalist on twitter for her reaction to Zoo's final cover, Laura replied:
Zoo's closure was reported on our website as follows:
Goodbye Zoo Weekly, you won't be missed
We were pleased to report that after our successful campaign to get sexploitation mag Zoo Weekly out of Coles supermarkets Bauer Media announced the sexist lads mag was closing.
This week Zoo Weekly released their last edition ever. We're glad that pornographers will have one less outlet now to push porn to underage boys. See content from inside Zoo mag (warning, graphic).
ABC's Media Watch referenced our campaign, quoting Collective Shout's Laura Pintur.
Click here to view the video.
From Media Watch:
In May a young woman called Laura Pintur began a campaign backed by Collective Shout to persuade Coles and Woolworths to take Zoo off their shelves on the grounds that it was fostering hostile and aggressive attitudes to women:
"LAURA PINTUR: A British university compared lads mags with comments from convicted rapists. It found that people could not distinguish the source of the comments. That is, Zoo users' language practically indecipherable from that of sex offenders. It also asks readers to send in pictures of their girlfriends' breasts to win a boob job." — The Guardian, 21st May, 2015
Coles stopped selling the magazine two months ago as a result.
And when news then broke of the decision to close Zoo altogether the campaigners were quick to claim the kill.
"Collective Shout takes credit for hastening Zoo's demise: Coles dumping title was 'catastrophic for sales'"
Further reading:
Zoo shuts down: one less vehicle for sexism and promotion of male entitlement
20 reasons why Coles and Woolworths should #BinZooMag
RIP Zoo Weekly- a vile, repugnant and tasteless publication- News.com.au
From Tyler with love
Here's an extract from Tyler the Creator's (@fucktyler) new release 'Fuck It'. (I was interviewed by Jon Faine on ABC Melbourne Tuesday about the song. So replete is this ditty with expletives, our national broadcaster could only play a six second extract). Here are some of the lyrics:
Tell Australia I'm sneaking in with a mic in my damn hand
Instead of the vegetables that I packed in my backpack
When Marshall had this problem what the fuck was they telling him?
Is it cause of status or his melanin lacks black?
Huh? I think people love to be mad
How can I be misogynist? I love titties and ass…
Only thing they gave me was an opportunity and a pen
Look, freedom of speech, my freedom is breached
Border Patrol put me on streets immediately
For shit I said when I was a virgin repeatedly
Posted on Hypebeast cause nobody would listen to me
Collective Shout's campaigns manager Caitlin Roper gave these comments to media:
Tyler has had an opportunity here to pause, reflect on his behaviours and promotion of misogyny, and make a commitment to real change- to creating art that doesn't rely on the exploitation of women to generate profits.
Instead he's essentially had a tantrum to music.
While he may have been a young man when he wrote music describing raping women, mutilating their bodies, locking them in his basement and raping their corpses, he's not a child anymore, and he is yet to grow up and take responsibility for what he has put out into the world.
Our calls to deny Tyler a visa were never solely based on his sexually violent and misogynistic lyrics, but his real life behaviours- his history of inciting violence against actual women. It was only a few months ago that he singled out and tagged Collective Shout's Coralie Alison in a tweet, blaming her for his cancelled tour and essentially directing his 2.5 million fans to go after her with horrific threats of violence. He sat by and watched, and finally denied he held any responsibility.
We too would like to know why Eminem was granted a visa. Collective Shout partnered with a coalition of domestic violence organisations in 2014 calling on the government to deny Eminem a visa.
But we must be wrong – he loves titts and arse, so couldn't possibly be a misogynist!
I responded on twitter. Jane Fraser (@feministbirther) added her wondrous response.
So you're not a misogynist – because you love titts and arse? Pornographers, pimps, and perpetrators of violence love titts and arse too – so what?
And someone should tell Tyler you can't bring vegetables into Australia either.
See also:
Tyler the Creator tackles Aust visa laws
Tyler the Creator threatens to sneak a mic into Australia after feminist outcry
'We don't want Eminem here: Anti violence groups combine to condemn tour', Collective Shout
Solidarity with Coralie Alison as Tyler the Creator fans send death threats (How misogynists use dog whistle tactics to target women they want other men to punish) .
'The issue is misogyny, not race', Caroline Norma, Collective Shout


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Angie Pressey Joins USA Pan American Cup Roster in Miami
June 26, 2009
MIAMI - Courtesy of USA Volleyball / Bill KauffmanManager, Media Relations and PublicationsPhone: 719-228-6800E-Mail: email@example.com
Former California volleyball All-American outside hitter Angie Pressey will be one of 14 players representing the United States in the Eighth Women's Pan American Cup, scheduled for June 26 to July 4 in Miami. The nine-day event will serve as an historic occasion for the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, which has not been in action since winning the silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
Pressey is coming off an injury shortened regular season as a professional in which she helped Toa Baja to a playoff berth in the Puerto Rico Super League. In international competition, Pressey joined Team USA on its tour of China in 2008 prior to the Olympics, during which she tallied 20 points in limited action.
In recent history, the U.S. has not hosted many women's international events on domestic soil because of a grueling international schedule. USA Volleyball has never hosted the Women's Pan American Cup in the seven previous years of the event's history and the upcoming tournament represents the largest international volleyball event hosted in the U.S. in terms of country participation.
Further, Team USA has not hosted a women's senior-level international tournament since the 1998 FIVB World Championship Qualifier tournament in 1998. Due to international scheduling and professional league commitments, matches on domestic soil have become a rarity with only seven contests against foreign teams in the most recent Olympic quadrennial (2005-2008). In the Pan American Cup and the FIVB Women's World Championship Qualifier July 6-8 at Orlando, the U.S. will have played at least 10 matches in the span of 13 days.
'We are very happy to be playing in the United States to start the season,' U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) said. 'It is always great to play here in front of the USA fans.'
Pan American Cup pool play, scheduled for June 26-30, is a five-day, round robin preliminary to determine classification round matches. The U.S. Women's National Team, part of Pool A at University of Miami with matches at Bank United Center, starts competition on June 26 versus Costa Rica. The Americans face Guatemala on June 27, followed by a June 28 contest versus Mexico. Team USA hosts Peru on June 29 before concluding pool play on June 30 versus Puerto Rico. All U.S. pool matches are scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET.
Pool B, played at nearby Florida International University's U.S. Century Bank Arena, includes Argentina, top-ranked Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic and Trinidad & Tobago. The 2008 Olympic Games gold-medal participants of U.S. and Brazil are on opposite sides of the bracket. Colombia was originally part of Pool B, but was unable to attend.
After the preliminary pool round, the Pan American Cup quarterfinal and classification matches are set for July 2, followed by semifinal matches and additional classification matches on July 3. The championship match and final classification round matches are scheduled for July 4. All non-pool matches will be played at University of Miami. Classification round matches will be played on July 2 at 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. (all ET). Matches on July 3 and final classification matches on July 4 will be played at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. (all ET).
The Women's Pan American Cup is a qualifying tournament into the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix and the 2009 Women's Final Four. The top three NORCECA teams and top team from South America receive berths into next year's FIVB World Grand Prix. The top two teams from NORCECA, Brazil and the top remaining team from South America qualify for the Final Four to be hosted by Brazil.
For the Pan American Cup, McCutcheon will utilize a 14-player roster now allowed under FIVB rules. The roster is laden with Olympic Games experience, including five players who earned silver medals in Beijing last summer.
Four-time Olympian Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.) and three-time Olympian Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) will serve as two of the three middle blockers. Christa Harmotto (Aliquippa, Pa.) is a new middle blocker to the U.S. Women's National Team after leading Penn State to consecutive NCAA Division I titles.
Libero will also have an Olympic flair as three-time Olympian Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) and Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) will compete in Miami. Sykora has been regarded as one of the best liberos in the world, while Davis served as Team USA's libero at the 2008 Olympic Games.
Both U.S. opposites have Olympic Games experience. Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) has been on the last two Olympic Team rosters, while Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa) made the Olympic Team that competed in the 2004 Athens Games.
Setters Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.) and Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.) will gain significant international experience leading the team at the Pan American Cup. Thompson helped the U.S. to a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil, while Spicer just finished her college eligibility at UCLA last fall.
On the left side, McCutcheon will have plenty of firepower at outside hitter, but many may not be well-known in the international community. Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) and Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah) were alternates for the 2008 Olympic Games. Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) completed her collegiate eligibility at University of Nebraska last fall and was the most valuable player of the Puerto Rican Super League. Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Jane Collymore (Seattle, Wash.) have ties to the Pan American Cup host state. Pressey is from a suburb of Orlando and Collymore was a collegiate standout at University of Florida.
'At the start of the quadrennial, we are focusing on our side of the net,' McCutcheon said. 'We understand that there are a lot of good teams here. However, our focus will be on USA and the systems we want to implement over the next four years.'
'It is a huge benefit for us to start the quad in Florida and in a comfortable location,' Davis said. 'By having the events back-to-back in Florida, it will allow us to compete in two tournaments without all the travel associated with the other international events. At the same time, we can introduce our team to the country, much like the City of Anaheim has embraced us in our new training center home.'
Even the coaching staff has an Olympic flair as McCutcheon served as head coach of the U.S. Men's National Team which won the 2008 Olympic Games gold medal. In his first year as an assistant coach, Karch Kiraly earned Olympic games gold medals for indoor volleyball in 1984 and 1988, then won the first-ever Olympic Games beach event in 1996. Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.), a three-time Olympian who earned a bronze at the 1992 Barcelona Games and current UC Irvine women's head coach, is assisting the team at the Pan American Cup.
A Pan American Cup tournament pass, good for all matches at both venues, is $75 for adults and $60 for children. Tickets for each date of competition at the specific venue (either University of Miami or Florida International University) are $20 for reserved general admission, $12 for adult general admission and $10 for child general admission. Tickets can be purchased online at www.miamisports.org.
The U.S. Women's National Team placed fifth at the 2008 Women's Pan American Cup with a young roster, yet still qualified for the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix. Dominican Republic captured the gold medal with a five-set victory over Brazil, which was using a junior-level team at the competition.
USA won its only Women's Pan American Cup in 2003, its first year competing in the event after missing the first two competitions in 2001 and 2002. The U.S. earned the silver at the 2004 Women's Pan American Cup. During the 2005-2008 Olympic quadrennial, Team USA primarily used young rosters at the event and finished with back-to-back fourth-place spots in 2005 and 2006, followed by a bronze medal in 2007.
Miami will be a busy location for volleyball the last week of June and first week of July. The 2009 USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships will be played June 26-July 5 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Typically, the tournament attracts 788 teams and approximately 9,500 athletes in addition to parents and relatives. A total of 19 championships are contested in age groups ranging from 12 to 18.
'It would be great to see the players from the Juniors Olympic championships come over and watch and provide us support,' Davis said. 'Likewise, it is great for us to have an opportunity to share in the experience at the Junior Olympics and support them in their arena when we have a chance. Overall, it is a great way to promote within our sport and our team.'
After completing the Pan American Cup, the Americans will have a day of rest and travel to Orlando before hosting the FIVB World Championship Qualification Tournament at UCF. The four-team, round-robin event includes the host Team USA, Costa Rica, NORCECA Second Round Pool D winner (played June 10-14) and NORCECA Second Round Pool C runner-up Netherlands Antilles. Match times will be 5 p.m. ET and 7:30 p.m. ET, with the United States playing the second match each day.
In addition to the matches, Team USA and UCF volleyball coaching staffs will hold a pre-match clinic involving chalk talk and skills demonstration. The third-round pool winner will advance to the 2010 FIVB World Championship held Oct. 29-Nov. 14 in Japan.
U.S. Women's National Team Preliminary Roster for Eighth Women's Pan American Cup# - Name (Pos, Ht, Hometown, College)2 - Danielle Scott-Arruda (MB, 6-2, Baton Rouge, La., Long Beach State)3 - Tayyiba Haneef-Park (OH/OPP, 6-7, Laguna Hills, Calif., Long Beach State)4 - Angie Pressey (OH, 5-8, Lake Mary, Fla., California)5 - Stacy Sykora (L, 5-10, Burleson, Texas, Texas A&M)6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-6, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)10 - Kristin Richards (OH, 6-1, Orem, Utah, Stanford)11 - Jordan Larson-Burbach (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)12 - Nancy Metcalf (OPP, 6-1, Hull, Iowa, Nebraska)15 - Courtney Thompson (S, 5-7, Kent, Wash., Washington)16 - Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, Aliquippa, Pa., Penn State)17 - Nellie Spicer (S, 5-9, Barrington, Ill., UCLA)19 - Jane Collymore (OH, 5-11, Seattle, Wash., Florida)Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)Assistant Coaches: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.), Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.)Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)Athletic Trainer: Jill Wosmek
Women's Pan American Cup Schedule (all times Eastern Time)
Pool A (at University of Miami)June 26: #1 Puerto Rico vs. Guatemala, 3 p.m.June 26: #2 Peru vs. Mexico, 5:30 p.m.June 26: #4 United States vs. Costa Rica, 8 p.m.June 27: #6 Costa Rica vs. Peru, 3 p.m.June 27: #7 Mexico vs. Puerto Rico, 5:30 p.m.June 27: #9 United States vs. Guatemala, 8 p.m.June 28: #11 Costa Rica vs. Guatemala, 3 p.m.June 28: #12 Puerto Rico vs. Peru, 5:30 p.m.June 28: #14 United States vs. Mexico, 8 p.m.June 29: #16 Mexico vs. Guatemala, 3 p.m.June 29: #17 Costa Rica vs. Puerto Rico, 5:30 p.m.June 29: #19 United States vs. Peru, 8 p.m.June 30: #21 Guatemala vs. Peru, 3 p.m.June 30: #22 Mexico vs. Costa Rica, 5:30 p.m.June 30: #24 United States vs. Puerto Rico, 8 p.m.
Pool B (at Florida International University)June 26: #3 Dominican Republic vs. Argentina, 5:30 p.m.June 26: #5 Brazil vs. Canada, 8 p.m.June 27: #8 Argentina vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 5:30 p.m.June 27: #10 Canada vs. Dominican Republic, 8 p.m.June 28: #13 Trinidad & Tobago vs. Dominican Republic, 5:30 p.m.June 28: #15 Brazil vs. Argentina, 8 p.m.June 29: #18 Brazil vs. Trinidad & Tobago 5:30 p.m.June 29: #20 Argentina vs. Canada, 8 p.m.June 30: #23 Canada vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 5:30 p.m.June 30: #25 Brazil vs. Dominican Republic, 8 p.m.
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