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Let Freedom Ping
From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth,
From the laziness that is content with half-truths,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
O God of Truth, deliver us.
—Source Unknown
I can't stand listening to Ralph Nader. His rap resonates with a lot of people, but for me the guy is strumming on a brick.
See, I love business. And I love markets, which are the social environments of business. They're fascinating to me, especially right now, when the sociology of business is changing so rapidly. Many of those changes start with the sociology of software—most notably the Free Software and Open Source movements. That makes business really interesting right now.
But Ralph hates business. Ever since he made consumer advocate a job title and became its permanent exemplar, he's been out to protect consumers from producers, no matter what.
Pick any big business and Ralph has a beef with its producers. Take air travel, for example. Since airline deregulation, a system built primarily to serve the world's upper business castes has been transformed into a bus system for everybody. As affordable transportation, a coach seat from New York to Chicago on American Airlines today is about the same price as it was on Greyhound in 1960.
Considering what it's asked to do—transport millions of people millions of miles at great altitudes at explosive speeds in fuel-engorged metal contraptions between airports built to handle far less traffic, every day, and do it while killing people at a rate far lower than automobiles—the airline industry delivers a service that routinizes the miraculous on a grand scale.
But, it has problems. There are lost bags, late arrivals, suspicious cancellations, bad food, stale air...all the stuff comedians have been joking about for generations. So comes the question: What do we do about all those problems?
Well, it depends on whether "we" are the government or the market. Ralph thinks We the People means We the Government. So do most of your basic Democrats. Your basic Republicans think We the People means We the Market. So Democrats like solving problems with Big Government while Republicans like solving problems with big market.
The problem is that neither side has ever seen a big market in which there has been much balance of power between supply and demand. Supply has pretty much controlled demand ever since Industry won the Industrial Revolution. That's why those of us who listened in history class remember a little something about James Watt's steam engine, James Hargreaves' spinning jenny and Eli Whitney's cotton gin, while we remember zip about the angry losers who broke into Hargreaves' home in 1768 and smashed twenty of his jennies. On the road of history, those guys were pavement.
We do remember something about the Luddites.
Here's some context from the French historian Elie Halevy, who wrote the six-volume History of the English People in the Nineteenth Century . In the first volume, originally published in 1913, he writes: "The equilibrium of society was overthrown to the detriment of the country districts, and to the advantage of the towns which were rapidly increasingly both in number and in size."
Production, Halevy notes, changed from a local and artisan-based system to a centralized factory-based system, requiring workers and their families to abandon their rural homes and move to the cities and towns surrounding the new factories. This was no abstraction. It was the relocation and enslavement of a defeated people: "In these vast urban masses and in the manufacturing districts surrounding them the established social fabric was completely shattered."
Luddites were craftspeople who refused to admit defeat. "A movement of insurrection on a large scale was organized in 1811," Halevy writes:
For two years the Luddites, as these revolted workmen were called, smashed (knitting) frames by the hundred, pillaged houses, and assaulted or killed obnoxious persons. The agitation spread to the neighboring districts and caused panic throughout the length and breadth of England. Cobbett extolled the Radicalism of Nottingham; Byron sang the praises of the Luddites.
So does The Working Class Encyclopedia (http://hammer.prohosting.com/~penz/encycl/), but with a different spin:
The original Luddites operated in the Midland counties of England in 1811 and 1812. They did not roam the country, destroying any machine they found, as popular belief has it. They did their research and attacked only the looms belonging to scab Weavers who undercut the price of Handweavers. Often looms belonging to different Weavers were set up in the same room within a factory. The looms of fair-priced Weavers were left untouched.
The hearts of their cultures were the markets where they met and did business.
The beginning of the Industrial Revolution was the end of craft. While a few people continued to produce goods on their own, their economic significance was trivial. What mattered were the mines, factories, mills and transport systems that made and moved goods from production to consumption.
Markets were reconceived as commercial habitats where schools of fishlike creatures called consumers were organized by appetite and fed products pumped down distribution pipes that terminated in retail outlets. The culture this produced was often called "consumerism", but the better label is producerism: an economic and cultural system where producers were in charge.
This is the vast economic machine that Ralph Nader—the ultimate Luddite—is out to break. So he attacks it everywhere producers make life hard for consumers, such as coach class in airplanes. "One would think that buying an airline ticket for a seat on the plane would include knees along with toes and torsos," Ralph writes. "But since airline deregulation over twenty years ago, passengers who do not fork up the dollars for a first class seat are treated more as cattle than as customers when it comes to space."
Well, not entirely. Airlines also had to find ways to handle demand for more passengers on a finite number of routes. Still, some airlines are starting to treat coach passengers as full-bodied bipeds again. American Airlines, Ralph observes, "will give them three to five extra inches of space in about a year." Then, he adds, "Hooray for small favors."
He sees no reason why big government shouldn't correct the airline industry. "Within the next 60 days the Aviation Consumers Action Project (ACAP) will file a petition with the FAA and the Department of Transportation to set minimum leg standards, unless the industry follows American Airline's lead in increasing coach class leg room to tolerable levels", Ralph writes. He also calls for a Six-Footer's Club, "to advance normal comforts for tall people". If you want to find out more, he provides a PO box in Washington, D.C., plus a phone number, but not a web site (although I found the quoted piece at http://www.nader.org/).
As a working (and consuming) class hero, Ralph is right up there with Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg and César Chavez. No other individual has had more influence on the biggest industry in the United States—automobiles—than Ralph Nader. The man has single-mouthedly saved thousands of lives. We owe him.
So why can't I listen to him?
Because he has already won and doesn't know it. The Industrial Age is over, and the Information Age is well underway. Workers are walking away from rusty old industrial machines that are dying for a single transcendent reason: they mistook people for parts. Now those people are going off to ply their crafts as competent human components of better, smaller machines—or large machines with better, smaller, more craftlike, i.e., autonomous—parts. These are machines they run, not machines that run them.
Consumers—those poor victims Ralph still fights for—are starting to discover what they really are, which is customers. If they don't like what they find in the market, it has never been easier for them to go make those things themselves, or to draw the attention of smart producers to the presence of demand. In this new age, the threshold of enterprise is so low it verges on zero. The thresholds of creation and innovation aren't much higher, which is why product and service choices spread wide everywhere supply hears demand. And what choice does supply have but to listen? If they don't, somebody with better ears will get the business.
The world is working like a real marketplace again, for a single reason: it's wired that way.
Who wired it? Try the Open Source development community, including the Free Software movement from which it grew. If you want to see a model of a craft-driven world in which every "worker" is a free, autonomous and effective agent, this is it. Show me a large technology producer (e.g., IBM, Dell and HP) that now proclaims itself as Linux-committed, and I'll show you a company in compliance with its software engineers as well as its customers' software engineers. All of those engineers like Linux and open-source software because it's easy to craft. It still might not be easy to use, but the software craftspeople are taking care of that. This was made especially clear by the GNOME, Helix Code and Eazel developers at LinuxWorld Expo in August 2000. Finally, we had an answer to the innovation vs. implementation question. These geeks can do both, thank you.
These are the same geeks Ralph addressed at The Bazaar last December, (his speech is at www.cptech.org/ms/harm.html). In that speech, he expressed extreme agreement with the government's case—and judgment—against Microsoft. I just checked on Altavista to see how many pages link to that speech. Try six. A total of 1,748 pages point to the Consumer Project on Technology (http://www.cptech.org/) domain, where the speech resides. Ralph's own home page (http://www.ralphnader.org/) makes an even sadder case, attracting a whopping total of five inbound links.
Perspective: Slashdot's number is 28,303. Which goes to show there aren't a whole lot of consumers left in the Open Source development world.
Or anywhere, which is Ralph's real problem. Ralph has a vested interest in the consumer, just like a Marxist has a vested interest in the worker. His heart is in the right place, but that place is being vacated by people who are starting to notice they have real power that power doesn't come from social and political movements, or from those movements' leaders. It comes from themselves.
Consumers and workers are rhetorical relics. The Net is uniting both, and they're throwing off their chains. Industrial communism and capitalism are both terminal. They can't survive in a networked marketplace, where "We the People" means exactly what it says.
We have real challenges in this marketplace, not the least of which is understanding how it's going to work, now that "the People" are working both sides of the supply-and-demand handshake. What are the new social contracts? What laws do we really need, and why are we keeping the ones we don't? How can we truly help those who can't help themselves? What are our agreements about privacy and anonymity, and how do we organize them? How do we build the needed infrastructure around our new Commons, and how do we keep those stuck with dead industrial market models from wasting our time?
We can find a democratic answer in the networked market's most honest voting mechanism. It's called the hyperlink. If what you say doesn't attract many, maybe there's no market for it.
Doc Searls (email@example.com) is senior editor of Linux Journal and coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto. His opinions are his alone and do not express those of Linux Journal or SSC.
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal
Re: Let Freedom Ping
Just like the Corvair ~ unsafe at any speed & both LOSERS!
NADER SUCKS - he's been smokin to much wacky tabacy.
Just like the Green Party ~ a bunch of assholes!
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Angels crying we are on this white ground
We don't know what's our purpose down here
We're all lost but I know we'll be found now
There's no need to give in in our fear
All our bones have been crashed like a tombstone
All our voices escaped from this hell
It's all right cause their charon's alone
And I'm waiting to see why we fell
God, I'm so angry…
I'm angry at my parents because they should have known better. Because they should have raised me well. Because for all these years, my brother has been their son and I have only been their son's brother. For God's sake, he was 20 when I was 13! I needed them more than he did! But still, they were always focused on him. They still are and he's 25 now.
I'm angry at my brother because, for some reason, he makes me feel so inferior… Because he's prettier, straighter, happier than I'll ever be. He may not have as many dreams as I do, but at least he lives his.
OK, so what's new with my life?
Yesterday, for the first time in more than a week (yey!), I didn't dream of George. Instead, I dreamt of a girl I know, Faith, asking me out. And after thinking about it a bit, I said yes, thinking "Yeah, it's a she. So what? You like both, Billy. Don't be confused
I was walking my way to the gym, thinking about how I've known very few guys that I would actually date besides George, when I saw a poster for a book display (?) that had a date on it… George's birthday. I didn't think of it as important, of course, just a coincidence. But it did make me think of him. I came to realise that, come the day, I could only date *him*, not any other guy, kinda like Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain.
I can't breathe.
I'm not being metaphoric, I'm serious. I really can't breathe. I got asthma and this fucking weather doesn't really help at all. It's so damn hot (the bad way) and I can't really do anything about it. Air-condition doesn't cut it too, the air is too fake to help most of the time.
At first, you feel like there's not enough air for you. Which is ridiculous because you know the world is full of air, but you still feel it. You gasp for breath but you can't. There's something blocking it, something that stops it from filling you with life.
OK, so I've been out of the closet for 5 days for my best friend. And I'm kinda dealing. That's not the point. The point is, ever since I finally did it, I've been having these dreams...
My high-school and lyceum and University crush has been George. I've fallen for him twice and both times I tried to do something about it but, after I managed nothing, I pushed myself to get over him. And I have.
OMG, I did it.
I came out to my best friend.
Ok, so it went kinda like this… She's leaving on Monday for her vacation, so we went out to have a good-bye night. We started with coffee. Once we sat there, I kinda led the conversation to gay people and movies and asked her opinion about it. So, once she told me (once again) she could never have a problem with someone for something they didn't choose and can't change, I changed the subject, trying to not make her suspect anything, as I was still not sure if I would go through with it.
The last couple of days (since I signed in this site, actually) have been weird for me. I've started to realise that I am what I am and I cannot change. And it's mixed up: a little dash of serenity, a spot of freedom, a slice of security, but also a big wodge of fear.
I've been thinking about coming out to my best friend. I mean, she's always so understanding about everything, so sweet and sincere, she's more than a decent human being, she's an angel. So I don't think I can keep on lying to her, I can't do this to her anymore. But I also don't want her to change. I don't want her to ask questions that I can't answer like, say, "Will you ever get married, and if you do, will you cheat on your wife with other men?
His name is George. He's only a few months older than me. We used to be in the same class when we were high school students. Now we're not and I rarely see him, though we live in the same town. We're not friends so I guess that's expected. And I don't think of him quite often. It's just, sometimes, when my mind is covered with dust from the past and I can't unlock myself from my thoughts, I go back to high school and relive those days when I was in love with him.
I always expected to change
the secret that burns me within
I guess growing up has taught me
That that's not the way things will be
I always believed I was special
But isn't that what we all do?
You say what I am is perverted
I say that I'm just not like you

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The plots below show that voting patterns on the budget votes are quite consistent with legislators' ideological positions. We array the votes from the most liberal proposal (the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget) to the most conservative proposal (the Republican Study Committee budget) and it is clear the the cutting line that divides predicted Yea votes from predicted Nay votes moves steadily across the ideological spectrum (the first dimension). Note that only a handful (14) of House Democrats did not abstain on the Republican Study Committee budget in an effort to allow the measure to pass the chamber with Republican votes and tie vulnerable Republicans to its more conservative elements.
Below we also plot the 36 Representatives (30 Democrats and 6 Republicans) who did not support any of the six budgets. This group appears to be mostly composed to the dwindling number of moderates remaining in the chamber: in particular, the moderate (Blue Dog) wing of House Democrats with high second dimensions scores at the top of the plot.


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'Bachelor' Ben and his 'bride-to-be' Courtney are reportedly keeping up their romance for the cameras! Read on to find out WHY!
Lights, cameras, showmance!
Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robertson are staying together for the fame, according to a new report in Reality Weekly.
"They're both addicted to the limelight, and they both want to be famous," a source tells the mag. "They are getting many freebies out of this 'romance' and that's a hard thing to walk away from."
Ben, 28, and Courtney, 28, have been making their rounds of public appearances lately — holding hands, kissing and talking to reporters about their blossoming relationship — but eyewitnesses say this all comes to an end when the cameras are turned off.
"Ben and Courtney showed zero chemistry together," an eyewitness at the Night of a Billion Reality Stars gala in Hollywood on March 29 told Reality Weekly. "They showed no affection all night. They never touched or engaged each other unless it was for a picture. They certainly don't look happy."
But when HollywoodLife.com caught up with them on the red carpet– they couldn't keep their hands off each other!
"We are taking things very slowly," Ben told HollywoodLife.com exclusively at the gala on March 29. "We have been in the public-eye so much, we just want to date and take things one day at a time."
Hmm! You can't fool us, Ben and Courtney!
What do you think, HollywoodLifers? Do you believe that Ben and Courtney's romance is just for the cameras? Vote and weigh in below.
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Posted at 9:25 PM on June 7, 2012
I honestly do not think it is for the cameras. Ben was a moron for choosing her over Casey B. and Lindsey. It only makes sense that he is dumb enough to stay with her after he seen what she was really like on the show. He is so stupid. I am glad though b/c Casey and Lindsey deserve way better and I am hoping to see Casey on the next Bachelorette. .
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Posted at 2:02 PM on May 11, 2012
Such BS .. There was never anything real between them, she was only in it to win the prize, not win his heart. He supposedly was so serious about finding love and the one, at least half of the other girls on the show genuinely had feelings for him. Ben just turns out to be a cu*t player f'ing these good girls over for a cold b!tch
Posted at 11:55 AM on April 15, 2012
It's not fake and not just for the camera's. I met the couple yesterday April 14, 2012 in Cumming Ga. As you know Ben has a good friend that lives here, Constantine Tzortzis from season 7 of the Bachelorette. The couple was with two other friends. Their relationship is far from fake!!!! If your going to report news make it TRUE news!!
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Posted at 10:51 PM on April 11, 2012
These two hardly go together. They don't fit properly. I am sure they are in it for the money. Ben seems digusted with the witch. How dare Courtney say on after the final rose that she could not trust him completely. What man would not have run the other direction when viewing the gal they chose bully every contestant on the show and speak of him as a dime a dozen? She does not love Ben, never did. She just wanted to win. Ben is not such a great catch himself and a sleazy guy doing a cream dream video. I think girls should be running away from him too. The two are going to self destruct in a very short time, just wait and see.
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Posted at 2:21 PM on April 11, 2012
During Brad Womack's 1st season, he got all kinds of grief for telling both girls he wasn't going to propose because he couldn't say he really loved either of them. It seems to me that was actually a very smart position to take and there are a lot of people out there who owe Brad an apology.
Posted at 1:21 PM on April 11, 2012
Shocker! They are both into the fame and attention, nothing more. It's always been that way. Look at Ben – he did this TWICE. The freebies and fame are too hard to give up. personally I think they're holding out for a new show and more $$$$. Ben is in the wine business and Courtney is in the Courtney business. That's all.
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Tara Cass jumped the line to become a public school principal—and took with her some tips she learned at a charter school during an unconventional leadership training program.
Cass (pictured) is one of 10 New Haven educators who have finished the Residency Program for School Leadership. The program launched three years ago as an experimental collaboration between New Haven Public Schools and Achievement First charter network, which had previously been locked in bitter disputes. It launched with an ambitious goal of becoming a national model for how charter schools and traditional school districts can work together to share best practices and develop leaders from within teaching ranks.
Cass was one of the first five "residents" to sign up for the program in 2011, when it was just getting started. Residents spent half a year at an Achievement First charter school and the other half under the tutelage of a mentor principal at a traditional New Haven public school. The program aims to address a shortage in high-quality principal candidates—and give talented leaders a way to rise quickly in the district so they don't get frustrated waiting in line for promotion and skip town instead. Click here and here to follow one resident's journey through the program.
Teachers who signed up for the program faced skepticism from their peers about associating themselves with charter schools. Critics said they were looking to "jump the line" to become principals, recalled Matt Taylor, who oversees the program on behalf of Achievement First (AF). Taylor spoke at a recent event at Yale School of Management honoring the 25 people who have graduated from the program—including educators from Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven public schools as well as from AF.
Before joining the program, Cass had been teaching at Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School. She had risen to be the coordinator of the school's Advanced Placement program. She taught for 11 years, three of them in San Diego, before deciding she wanted to leave the classroom and take on a leadership role.
Cass enrolled in the Summer Principal's Academy at Columbia University in 2011. That fall, she signed up for New Haven's nascent training program for aspiring principals.
Cass spent the first half of the school year at Amistad High School, one of the five charter schools Achievement First runs in New Haven. She encountered a different way of doing things. She learned how to "create and monitor systems" that hold kids and adults to standard expectations across the school. That fall, the school was just trying out a new way to track student discipline using software called Kickboard.
Cass encountered some methods she wanted to bring back to New Haven public schools, and some she didn't.
AF's behavioral management system "would be impossible to implement in a public school," she concluded. AF schools are known for holding kids to rigid rules for how to behave and suspending them at higher rates than at traditional public schools.
"You have to be more flexible" in traditional public schools, Cass said. Whereas students at charter schools can leave and join neighborhood schools, neighborhood schools often must accept all comers, including kids expelled mid-year from other schools, she noted.
(Update: Samantha Miller, director of partnership operations at AF, replied that some participants in the residency have adopted "elements of our school culture systems" and used them "to fit their personal leadership styles as they lead traditional district schools."
"The goal of the Residency Program is to give school leaders a variety of tools and the flexibility to use those tools as they see fit," she said.)
The way AF trains its teachers, however, struck Cass as worth replicating. At AF schools, every classroom teacher has a "coach" whose job is to observe, support and train him or her. When a classroom teacher wants help with a lesson plan or needs someone to model a method of handling kids' behavior, the coach is there to help. Coaches also conduct the teacher's job evaluation.
In New Haven public schools, Cass recalled, "you didn't necessarily get coached." Assistant principals have all sorts of duties, including organizing bus dismissals and prom. They "weren't really coaches." Teachers have some access to math and literacy coaches. And they have "instructional managers" who are supposed to evaluate them. That division—where coaches do not evaluate the teacher—creates an "us versus them" mentality, Cass reasoned. The AF model—where the coach helps the teacher and also evaluates him or her—was not prevalent in New Haven's school system.
Another conclusion she reached: Principals and assistant principals in New Haven's system "have to do everything" in a school, while AF schools have clearly delineated roles for who runs the school's operations, student culture, and who is the instructional leader.
Cass spent her second half-year at Sound School under the advisement of then-Principal Steve Pynn. She said Pynn "lived" his "core values" and "taught me how to live mine."
She came up with a vision for a school that is a "safe, supportive and challenging environment," and a "model lab school for leadership" among students and staff.
Cass didn't get to create that vision right away: After her residency, she didn't land an official administrative job. She went to Nathan Hale School, a neighborhood K-8 in the East Shore, as a teacher doing an administrative internship. After a year there, her time came: Her principal, Lucia Paolella, retired.
Last fall, after 13 years as a teacher, Cass became principal of her own school, Nathan Hale.
Cass said some people were skeptical about her quick rise to leadership.
"What makes you think you can skip AP [assistant principal]"? someone asked her during her interview for the principal post, she recalled.
By that time, she had spent two full years developing her values as a leader and her vision for how she would run a school.
When she started the job last fall, she brought what she had learned from Amistad to Nathan Hale: She started coaching teachers. Cass, who doesn't have any assistant principals, doesn't have the staff to offer as much coaching as AF schools do. But she said she has started coaching seven teachers on a weekly basis, stopping in to their classrooms and helping them build skills in emotional intelligence. And she is training other teachers to do the same.
Cass said she has also tapped a teacher to become a "dean of students" at her school—a role that's more typically found at an AF school.
Cass said her year-long residency has taught her that "in order for education to get to the next level, we need to suspend some of our perceptions of charter or [traditional] public schools. Neither is going to work if we stay with the same model." Both have areas that need improvement, she said, and "there's great stuff going on in both places."
The residency program has been a test of whether New Haven and Achievement First could maintain that frame of mind.
"Over the last decade, charter and district schools have been at loggerheads," Taylor noted. New Haven public schools and AF used to fight bitterly over funding and whether charter schools are serving enough special-needs, English-language and transient kids.
"After a good decade of uneasy cohabitation," both sides decided to try to work together, Taylor recalled. The partnership, forged under former Mayor John DeStefano, is supported by Mayor Toni Harp, who served as a keynote speaker at last week's event.
Gemma Joseph-Lumpkin, New Haven schools' executive manager for district strategy and coordination, said maintaining a working relationship has not been easy.
"We've had longstanding disagreements with Achievement First," she said. "We've had a clash of cultures at times. But as a result of those clashes, I think both [organizations] are better off today."
An initial three-year grant that funded the program has dried up, Joseph-Lumpkin said. But she said New Haven and AF are committed to finding the money to keep the program going. AF pays for the staff to coach and train the aspiring principals. New Haven pays for residents' salaries during their year of training, she said. She said a grant from First Niagara Bank covered the three New Haven residents' salaries this year, which amounted to about $225,000.
Seven residents completed the program in its first two years. So far, three—Zakiyyah Baker, Zakia Parrish and Cass—have landed principal jobs. Three others have become assistant principals. The seventh, Jenny Clarino, just got a job last week as an assistant principal at Lincoln-Bassett School.
Three city educators—Stephanie Paris-Cooper, Laura Roblee and Kimberly Danily (pictured above)—just finished the residency last week along with eight counterparts from Hartford, Bridgeport and AF.
None of the three has landed a job yet.
Danily, who taught 6th grade at Celentano before signing up for the residency, said she is hoping for one of the city's six vacant assistant principal posts. Like Cass, she would be taking a shortcut to leadership: Danily taught for just four years before becoming a resident. She was making a career change after seven combined years working at Anthem Blue Cross and as a management consultant. She said she has learned a lot during the residency, including the AF mantra: "feedback is a gift."
As she awaits word on her job prospects, Danily has "strong faith" that she will land where she is needed—and take with her some of the lessons she has learned over the past year.
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posted by: Threefifths on July 7, 2014 4:01pm
Cass (pictured) is one of 10 New Haven educators who have finished the Residency Program for School Leadership. The program launched three years ago as an experimental collaboration between New Haven Public Schools and Achievement First charter network.
Give me a break.Have you all not learn from the Jumoke Scam.
Charter schools are not the solution: The widow of famed UFT leader Albert Shanker blasts 'reformers'
They are unwilling to work within the system.
posted by: connecticutcontrarian on July 7, 2014 5:28pm
I know I'm beating a dead horse here. But I really long for the day where we focus on educating all children rather than exploiting them as if they were lab rats in experiments conducted by grad students writing their dissertations. "Experimentation" and "Innovation" have become the new buzzwords in New Haven public education with no sign of demonstrable progress.
Is four years of teaching really long enough to understand the dynamics of leading a school? There seems to be much more to effectively running a school than understanding management styles. Particularly in an urban environment like New Haven where students often arrive with deep emotional and financial challenges that become even more pronounced in classrooms run by teachers with little connection to them or their circumstances.
Even more disturbing is the revelation that Achievement First had embedded its tentacles so deeply into the New Haven PUBLIC School system. From launching charter schools, to seating an employee on the Board, to now hand picking candidates for leadership positions in schools across the city. At what point do we stop allowing NHPS to be a franchisee of the Achievement First corporation??
posted by: OccupyTheClassroom on July 7, 2014 5:49pm
Shaking my head.
posted by: BillSaunders1 on July 7, 2014 7:31pm
See, Achievement First is the cutting edge of education, indoctrinating…..
posted by: Brian V on July 7, 2014 10:32pm
Young, bright, passionate, energetic leaders are tough to find and this program found one in Ms. Cass. She is awesome, Nathan Hale and New Haven in general are lucky to have her. If she is representative of what this program can produce, keep it going and expand it.
posted by: Samuel T. Ross-Lee on July 8, 2014 6:20am
What evidence is there that the privately owned and operated Acheivement First corporation is qualified to prepare educational professionals to be principles in the PUBLIC school system, unless we have already conceded that the PUBLIC school system is no longer even pretending to educate ALL of the public?
One cannot help but note that all of this experimentation, as if public school students are lab rats, is occuring at the expense of students who are largely politically and economically underprivileged. It is also occuring in a context where the African-American middle class community in New Haven is so sold out to the political machine that is presently in charge of this city that it either will not or cannot look seriously at what is happening here and the effects this will have on the future of our children and communities after the students have simply been trained to follow orders and not educated to think or to ask questions.
But that is the proper rule of the RULED class, isn't it? Train them to follow directions, take orders, and NEVER question authority, because the re-enslaving of the African-American community is in full effect.
The Rev. Mr. Samuel T. Ross-Lee
posted by: ElmCityVoice on July 8, 2014 6:25am
Brian V - I agree that Ms. Cass is young, bright, passionate, and energetic. She was that way long before entering an AF program. I'm certain she'll toss 90% of what they taught her and go back to being a great teacher/new leader.
posted by: middle on July 8, 2014 8:32am
NHPS, how dare you create your own leadership development program drawing on broad experience from both traditional public schools and local charter schools? How dare you try to create something new, to deviate from the old system of promoting whomever has been around the longest or organized the most votes in a recent election?
Don't you know that developing your most talented leaders in a novel program is the quickest way to "re-enslave the African-American community?" Don't you know that experimentation is evil, and that sticking with the old, tried-and-true, top 10% go to college, everyone else goes to trade school or drops out, minorities get all the suspensions, boys who can't sit still go to special education, if you can't read by 3rd grade you're tracked to remedial classes system is the only way to go?
NHPS, stop innovating, stop researching, stop trying to make things better. We'll mock you when you fail, and belittle your successes. Don't you know it's safer not to try?
posted by: Freendeed on July 8, 2014 12:16pm
Would it be too much to ask that religious and community leaders, who offer nothing of substance towards a solution, do something other than talk?
posted by: RichTherrn on July 8, 2014 12:37pm
A lot of comments about the time the residents spent in charter school, note they also spent half the year in NHPS schools, getting a balanced experience. Those of us who went a more traditional route to get administrative certification also did year long internships, it's part of the state requirements, so the concept is not new, but it is tailored specifically to NHPS needs for school level leaders.
Richard Therrien
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posted by: Samuel T. Ross-Lee on July 8, 2014 9:34pm
Ms./Mr. Freendeed,
Yes, it would be too much to ask those of us who offer ideas to do more than that. As members of the community, we have as much right as anyone else to "talk", and to JUST talk, if we so desire.
Too bad you and others like you don't seem to understand or appreciate the value of ideas, even those that come in the form of critique or criticism. The freedom to just talk is one of the most sacred in the life of our republic. So, belittle it if you will, because I won't. I'll just keeping talking.
The Rev. Samuel T. Ross-Lee
P.S. Pershaps you should consider that you just might be unaware of what community and religious leaders are doing and have done to offer solutions to the problem of undereducating our children that don't include exprimenting on them with untrained, uneducated "teachers", and with procedures that have been proven ineffectual.


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He will cover how to exam and clean wounds, and how to assess severity, and which wounds require professional attention. There will be a demonstration of appropriate suturing techniques in an emergency situation for the packer unable to get to Veterinary care.
Jerry Bentz-
Jerry Bentz has packed for 20 years and worked as an Outfitter in the Eagle Cap Wilderness in NE Oregon. He is currently the President of the Back Country Horsemen of Oregon and a Stock Master Leave No Trace instructor.
-Manti Packing Hitches- Hands-On in Demo Area 4.
Jerry will help you learn to sling loads for Manti packing on the pack barrels.
Dr. Terri Bloomfield, DVM-
Dr. Bloomfield was raised on a grain and cattle ranch in eastern Washington. She graduated from Washington State University in 1989 as a Veterinarian, also with three other degrees. She owns Shasta View Animal Clinic in Klamath Falls and has a special interest in equine reproduction.
-The Geriatric Horse, Maintaining the Quality of Life in Demo Area 2.
This session will include when topics such as when we consider a horse geriatric, how to prevent age related problems, how to manage them when they occur, feeding, joint care, and when and how to carry out end of life decisions. Any other questions are most welcome.
Tom Cernansky-
Tom, in a routine visit to the doctor's office, learned about the advantages and benefits of thermography and saw it performed for the first time. He was intrigued with the medical possibilities of this advanced and versatile medical screening technology. He decided to earn his Clinical Thermographer certificate at the internationally renowned American College of Clinical Thermology. Shortly after that, he established his company under the name of Animal Infrared Imaging, Inc. focusing on equine, canine and bovine applications. Since then, he has been enjoying the privilege of helping owners, trainers, breeders and veterinarians to successfully resolve their animal's health challenges in both clinical and preventative scenarios.
-Thermography - Imaging Your Horse's Pain in Demo Area 2.
Thermal imaging in veterinary applications is an advanced, medical grade, non-invasive screening tool designed for early detection of hard to diagnose cases of lameness, injury and disease. Thermography looks for functional problems or physiological dysfunctions which are obscure to the standard structural tests (X-Ray, Ultrasound, CT or MRI) as they look for existing anatomical changes like fractures or sizable masses. This positions thermography to be a valuable, adjunctive screening method with significant benefits and advantages...
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Brenda Cordonnier-
Brenda has been horsin' around since early childhood fulfilling her dream of having her own horse and joining 4-H, High School and Junior College riding clubs and the drill team. In her later years she has been a 4-H leader, Pony Club hostess to 3 day events, and now trail riding and backcountry camping with the High Desert Trail Riders Back Country Horsemen.
-Horsin' Around is Fun for the Young and Young at Heart in Demo Area 1.
This will be a fun and informative presentation introducing many of the groups and activities that are available to you involving horses and mules. Short, entertaining presentations will be given by 4-H members, Pony Club members, the High School Equestrian Club and Rodeo Club members, youth who have packed into the backcountry, the Galloping Glitz Drill team and the H.E.A.R.T organization for adaptive riding therapy. Come see which group might be of interest to you or your young people.
Arden Corey-
Arden teaches crosscut saw skills and certifies trail clearing personnel as far away as Yellowstone National Park. He has logged out 2500 miles of trail on Trail contracts himself as well. Arden worked for years perfecting the saw sharpening technique and opened the Oregon Experience, a crosscut saw sharpening business which keeps him busy today. Years ago Arden competed in the Albany Timber Carnival and in Vancouver when he and his brother set World Records in bucking contests. He and his daughter Yvonne also won the Jack and Jill contest in Albany.
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Arden will cover using your ingenuity and hand tools; how to keep from pinching your saw, under bucking, field maintenance, transportation, safety and anticipating before, during and after your cut. There will be hands-on use and instruction. Tune up your trail clearing skills!
Garrett Duncan-
Garrett has worked as a silversmith for seven years and has been making bits and spurs for five. He learned how to engrave from John Hyde, going on to also learn engraving and bit and spur making skills with Ernie Marsh and Les Iveson. Garrett makes gear in the winter months, while running cattle, haying and day work keeps him going during the summer months in Sprague River, Oregon.
-Bits and Spurs- From Fabrication to Function
He will be talking about the process of making handmade bits and spurs and there proper functions. Come learn how this detailed art is performed.
Emily Elias-
Emily grew up in Connecticut with her Welsh pony and other horse partners riding with Pony club, Fox Hunting, competing and spending lots and lots of time on the trail. Emily left horses at the age of 20, but returned to owning horses again at 40 when she was introduced to natural horsemanship methods. Now living in Eugene, OR, she has a small business giving lessons and training horses. Emily is a member of Emerald Empire BCH and she lives to ride in the mountains.
-Trail Riding 101, Confidence and Relaxation for Horse and Rider in Demo Area 1.
One of the most rewarding times on horseback is when on a glorious sunny afternoon, tromping down the trail, reins loose; all the daily troubles drop away. Not the description of your experience? Come have a talk with Emily and ask questions on what you are experiencing and get ideas for exercises you can use to find confidence and relaxation on the trail for yourself and your horse. We will explore the prior and proper preparation needed for a positive experience.
-Trail Riding 102, Trail Riding as Cross Training for Horse and Rider in Demo Area 1.
Trail riding is way more than it seems and has a huge effect on our horse's minds and bodies. When used effectively in training, trails become an important part of both the horse and rider's confidence and ability; mentally, emotionally and physically. Spending time on the trail brings purpose to the training that gets started in the arena, then coming back to the arena puts polish on the training that got done on the trail. Emily will talk about ideas and techniques to use to get the most out of the time spent following the trail.
Robert Eversole-
A U.S. Marine, and most recently a refugee from corporate America, Robert is enjoying his new career helping fellow trail riders stay found and safe on the trail. When he's not on the trail "The TrailMeister" resides near Seattle, WA and teaches land navigation to a wide variety of outdoor groups across the nation. Robert "The TrailMeister"- started creating trail maps, and gathering trail data when he served with a Mounted Search and Rescue team and found that accurate trail information wasn't available. Five years later, www.TrailMeister.com is the largest database of horse riding and camping areas in the U.S. with free trail and trailhead information, trail maps, and much more to help horse enthusiasts experience the joys of trail riding.
-Staying Found - The Needle Points North or Does It? In Demo Area 5.
We'll explore the world of magnetic forces and discuss where your compass points as well as many of the reasons why it might lie to you. If you've ever been confused by the word "Declination" this is the session to attend as we explore the several "North's" and why your compass doesn't point to either Santa's home (or Superman's Fortress of Solitude, take your pick). In addition to discussing the concept of declination we'll also discuss instances where your compass may give erroneous readings and how to prevent such occurrences from ruining your ride.
-Staying Found - Contour Lines in Demo Area 5.
What are those wavy crazy lines? Ever get confused by that mess of Rorschach swirls and designs on a map? No more! Learn to visualize your map's information in 3 dimensions. This is a very hands on chat and you'll be using with Play Doh to illustrate the skills that will get you back to camp in time for dinner. We'll explore the trail ahead in three dimensions and learn to interpret the contour line data found in topographic maps. This class is very hands on with participants using modeling clay to visualize the elevation data found in a map. Using these techniques will help riders determine their location without benefit of a compass or GPS unit.
-No mule? No Problem! In Demo Area 5.
Let's talk about visiting the backcountry on your riding animal and using light weight / low volume equipment to comfortably spend a night. We'll talk about using modern gear and technology to expand our time in the backcountry without the use of pack stock. Most equino-philes don't have either the extra mount or the knowledge to safely load and pack. This discussion talks about how the average rider can enjoy the serenity of the backcountry safely and comfortably for themselves and their riding mount. We'll discuss light weight / low volume alternatives to the traditional and often antiquated gear and equipment that many riders still cling to.
Galloping Glitz Equestrian Team-
The Galloping Glitz is a Non-Profit Organization of horse enthusiasts, established in 2004. The Group consists of about 12 Members. They perform for the public and are active in Drill Team competitions, rodeos, parades, trail rides, camp outs, parties and providing Community Service. Anyone interested in joining their group, please talk to one of their members or contact them on Facebook!
-Equestrian Drill Routine in Demo Area 6.
An Equestrian Drill Team is a group of horses performing precision, choreographed routines to music. It is fast paced, dangerous and requires a well-trained horse and rider. They will perform "Run for Life", a breast cancer awareness routine.
Peggy Goshgarian-
Peggy lives in Siskiyou County and has camped with her horses in the local mountains and wilderness areas for 30 years. Peggy has traveled solo, long distance from the California/Oregon border to the Canadian border with her horse and a pack animal.
-Knots Used Around Stock in Demo Area 5.
Knots are an important part of a packer's trade. This session will teach common knots used when working with horses and mules like the half hitch, quick release knot, clove hitch, cavalry knot, bowline and square knot and examples of where they are used. Audience participation.
Ken Graves, Lee Roeser, Michael Morse, Matt Carson-
Lee Roeser is a second-generation packer from the Eastern Sierra of California, where he grew up in his family's packing business in Mammoth Lakes. He owned or managed his own pack station for 30 years. He has packed for U.S. Forest Service for the last 12 years. In this time he has packed everything from generators and bridges to trail & fire crews to thousands of families enjoying vacations in the wilderness. Lee is an executive board member for the famous Mule Days Celebration in Bishop, CA. He was also chosen as the 2010 Most Honored Packer. Lee has taught packing schools, pack stock safety classes and numerous pack station employees. He is known for his skill as a custom saddle maker; building 100's of riding and pack saddles as well as pack equipment.
Ken Graves was raised on a ranch in northern California. He has packed for the U.S. Forest Service for 37 years and transported all kinds of equipment all over Region 5 for the Government. Also a Leave No Trace Master Stock instructor, he has trained many people in backcountry camping and travel methods with their stock.
Michael Morse hails from Mammoth Lakes, California and has worked for the U.S. Forest Service on the Mammoth Ranger District for over 39 years. Michael started his career in packing, working for a private pack outfit in the Eastern Sierra and later started working as a trail worker for the U.S. Forest Service in 1974. He is the North Zone Wilderness and Trails Supervisor on the Inyo National Forest and also oversees the Forest's stock program, including logistics for projects on other Region 5 units. He is a "Leave No Trace Master" and teaches wilderness ethics to fire crews that may be operating in the wilderness. In 2012, Michael became co-director for Region 5's "Pack Stock Center of Excellence," which was developed as a pilot program on the Inyo National Forest. Michael also represents Region 5 at numerous pack stock clinics throughout the State of California.
Matt Carson has been packing for the Forest Service for ten years in the Trinity Alps Wilderness. He came up through the ranks of the CCC backcountry program as a trail worker, foreman, and crew leader to finally take on the packing for the crews.
-Saddle Animal Safety for the Packer in Demo Area 3.
Lee will cover methods and ideas that can be implemented to keep you and your animal safe while packing in the mountains. They will include you, your saddle animal, your equipment and what you should have with you.
-Prepare for your Pack Trip at Home and Pack Out of the Trailhead Safely in Demo Area 6.
Ken, Lee and Michael will cover preparing gear, equipment and your animals at home before leaving on a trip. Trailhead safety will cover how to select the trailhead you plan to access the wilderness from; how to park, pack and cleanup at the trailhead before leaving on the trip and when leaving to go home. There will be a safety tips checklist to use before leaving on your wilderness trip from a trailhead.
-Pack Saddle Comparison, Using the Right Saddle for the Job in Demo Area 6.
Ken, Lee, Michael and Matt will cover the difference between the Decker, Sawbuck and Salmon River saddles, the mechanics of the saddle and why they use all three for their projects including packing odd loads. They will demonstrate how the Forest Service utilizes the right gear for the right job including odd loads.
Jerry Henning-
Jerry has been involved with horses and mules since 1967; riding, training, guiding and packing in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Canada. He's here to help you.
-Walker Hitch Hands- On in Demo Area 4.
Jerry will teach you how to tie the Walker Hitch on the pack barrels.
Dr. Don Howard, DVM-
Dr. Don Howard is a 1968 graduate of Washington State University Veterinary School. His specialty has and continues to be Equine Medicine and Lameness issues. In 1997 he was certified in Animal Acupuncture (IVAS), and in 1999 certified in Animal Chiropractic (AVCA). Since that time he spends most of his professional time working with these modalities as well as giving seminars throughout the U.S.A. to professionals and riding groups.
-HELP! 40 Miles into the Backcountry and I Need a Vet!!? in Demo Area 2.
This seminar is designed to help you deal with horse and packstock emergencies that are commonly seen in the backcountry. An equine wilderness emergency kit will be explained as well as preferred treatments and dosages of pharmaceuticals. Real life situations will be discussed.
Casey & Phil Hufstader-
Wilderness packers Casey and Phil of Sawbuck Packers and 3H Ranch are active members of the Emerald Empire Chapter of the Back Country Horsemen of Oregon in the Willamette Valley area. They are both National Directors for the Back Country Horsemen of America representing Oregon. Casey is a Master Leave No Trace instructor and shares his backcountry knowledge with horsemen. Phil is also the Education Chair and a Member of the Executive and Business committees at the National level.
-Learn the Basics of Packing for Your First Backcountry Pack Trip in Demo Area 1.
This class will cover the basic skills of packing mules and horses into the back country. We will discuss the right type of pack gear when planning for a trip. Then demonstrate how to load them all up and tie it all down.
Wade Mauhl-
Wade and Simone, owners of Outfitter's Pack Station since 2010, reside in Weiser, Idaho. Wade is an avid hunter and has been packing since he was a boy into the Gospel Hump Wilderness, Frank Church Wilderness, Bob Marshall Wilderness and in Eastern Washington. He builds his equipment for the business and will share his knowledge with you about tack.
-The Formfitter Pack Saddle & Other Essential Backcountry Gear in Demo Area 3.
Wade will talk about the unique function and design of the Formfitter Pack Saddle in comparison to traditional pack saddles. Different styles of hobbles, feed bags and highlines, and their usage will be discussed. He will suggest what to carry with you to repair gear in the backcountry too.
Dr. Tony Oddo, DVM-
Dr. Oddo is a 1985 graduate of UC Davis and has owned and operated High Desert Veterinary in Bend, OR since 1986. He has extensive experience at the local, national and international level working with Endurance horses, as a Vet and a competitor, in race control, critical care, and training and performance management. These days, he enjoys backcountry travel at a more leisurely pace.
-Equine First Aid for the Day Rider in Demo Area 2.
This session will help you become acquainted with the common problems encountered on the trail, how to recognize them, and what to carry in your trailer and saddlebags to render first aid. Dr. Oddo will cover trailer injuries including casting, lacerations, choke and horse inflicted trauma. Trail injuries will cover lameness from different causes, lacerations and fatigue.
Garrick Pasini-
After apprenticing for a number of trainer/ clinicians over the years Garrick and his wife started their own business Pasiniequine. Today they travel around the country working with recreational to pro level riders introducing and working with the hackamore, two-rein and bridle phases of riding.
-The Hackamore in Demo Area 3.
This demo will show how the hackamore works, the different kind of bosals and how the hackamore can help you and your horse. The hackamore is thousands of years old and today still plays an important role in development.
-The Two-Rein in Demo Area 3.
Learn how transitioning to a bit by using the two-rein system will develop a better horse. The mouth is one of the most important parts of the horse. By using the under bridle, riders can give the horse a chance to learn to carry the bit while still training for better feel and communication.
Jennifer Paulson-
Jennifer grew up in Grants Pass, Oregon where Red Metherd, a saddle maker and his wife Irene adopted her as their granddaughter. Her interest in saddle making began in 1966 and in 1983 she started Paulson Saddlery. Jennifer has 45 years of experience with riding, trail riding and training horses and riders. She is a National Foundation Quarter Horse Judge, an AQHA Specialized Judge, an Open Show Judge and a Clinician. In her clinics she teaches Trail, Tack and Saddle Fitting, Showmanship and Equitation.
-Fit Your Horse First in Demo Area 2.
She will be able to share her experience by showing, telling, and answering questions about saddles. Having the proper tree that fits your horse first and you second is important. The proper tree is one designed for the job you want to do whether it might be trail riding, roping, ranch work, reining, cutting, showing, equitation, endurance or others. She will show you examples of saddle trees and how a broken tree can affect a horse. She uses the Dennis Lane Measuring and Saddle Fitting System and will show how that works. Your questions are welcomed.
Dick Phillips-
Dick was born and raised in southern Idaho on a ranch, where he farmed until he went to the University of Idaho. He moved to Idaho Falls and started the Outfitters Pack Station in the 80's. There he designed and made a number of products for the packing industry. An example is the Phillips Form Fitter packsaddle which is selling all over the world. Dick has been cooking with Dutch Ovens for over 25 years in his summer camps and on pack trips.
-Cooking with Dutch Ovens in Demo Area 1.
He will be cooking breads, cakes, deserts, and hors D' oeuvres in this demonstration. Please ask Dick any questions you may have on Dutch oven cooking. This is the 23 year Dick has been coming to the Pack Clinic.
Bill Roberts, Mike Bryan, Peggy Goshgarian
Bill has been the USFS Packer and trails coordinator on the Klamath National Forest it seems like forever! He has many years of packing experience with all kinds of loads. Mike is a rancher/packer from Scott Valley in Northern California. His great grandfather packed food and supplies to the miners in the 1850's and 60's. Mike had a commercial packing business for 19 years in the Marble Mountains of Northern California. Peggy lives in Siskiyou County and has camped with her horses in the local mountains and wilderness areas for more than 30 years. Peggy has traveled solo, long distance from the California/Oregon border to the Canadian border with her horse and a pack animal.
-Salmon River Saddle Hitches Hands-On in Demo Area 4
These experienced packers will help you learn to tie the hitches associated with this type of pack saddle which is used primarily in northern California. It was developed to carry the heavy loads associated with mining in the 1800's.
Southern Oregon Horse & Carriage Club-
It is the goal of SOHACC to educate and train both horse and driver to the highest standards of safety possible, in order to ensure a pleasant, happy, and trouble-free experience in driving.
-Despooking Fun! In Demo Area 6 or the Outdoor Arena weather permitting
One of the most undesirable traits for a horse is "spookiness". Because of their instinct to "fight-or-flee" when faced with a possible threat, they can be considered a dangerous animal, leading to injury for the owner and other horses. In order to deal with this problem, horses must be desensitized and taught not to react when faced with things that aren't dangerous. At our desensitizing course, you will be able to expose your horse to a number of obstacles that he may perceive as scary, and through patient, desensitizing, your reward will be a calm, relaxed, and obedient partner.
Steve Spencer-
Steve Spencer has been involved in photography all his life. As a youngster he took pictures under the guidance of his grandfather, Leo Morstad, the founder of Leo's Camera Shop. In college, Steve won numerous awards for his pictures, worked for a small town newspaper and the college alumni office, helped with the college newspaper and yearbook, and still managed to graduate, Magna Cum Laude, with a degree in Communication Arts. Using his photographic skills he worked 12 years in the video production industry and in1996 returned home to take ownership of Leo's Camera Shop from his grandfather. Steve has been teaching photography to his customers ever since taking over the shop and taught 3 terms for Klamath Community College. Steve keeps up on changes in photography by attending industry trade shows and educational seminars every year
-Capturing Memories with Better Photography -Tips and tricks to improve your photography in Demo Area 5.
Understanding the basics of photography can quickly improve the quality of your picture taking. In this session we'll describe what makes a good picture. You'll learn what setting does what and how that will affect the image. Bring your camera for this one hour introduction to the basics of photography. From point and shoot cameras to Advanced SLR cameras, all levels of photographers will gain some insight into better picture taking from Steve Spencer, president of Leo's Camera Shop.
Chris Tornow-
Chris Tornow has been building pack equipment out of her shop in Washington state for the last 25 years specializing in "Equipment for the Backcountry Horseman". She has also taught classes about pack equipment for the Washington Outfitters & Guides Association program "Women in the Wilderness".
-Evaluating Your Tack for Safety and Suitability in Demo Area 3.
Learn to evaluate your gear for safety. Find out how to check for a broken tree and get a safety checklist for evaluating a used saddle. She'll have tips for getting your gear in shape for the coming season and keeping it that way.
-Braiding & Eye Splicing in Demo Area 3.
Learn to eye splice and back braid 3 strand twisted rope so you can make your own lead ropes, lash ropes, manty ropes, high lines and more. This will be a "hands on" class with personal attention to help you learn this technique, or brush up on your skill if you are a little rusty.
Michael Wakefield-
Michael Wakefield grew up on a farm in Southern Minnesota entirely powered by horses. They had 12 head of draft horses of different sizes for the many different jobs to be done; large 17 hand Shires for the plow and disc; smaller Belgians for the mower and hay rake and a nice leggy team of Percherons to haul the grain wagon to town. By age nine Michael could harness and hitch a team of five to the grain binder and do a day's work. He became interested in buggies and carriage driving in the 1970's and has since been studying and honing his craft; competing, teaching, training and breeding driving horses. For the past 15 years Michael has driven the stagecoach for Wells Fargo Bank, and appears in parades all over the Northwest.
-Lunging and Long Lining- A Training Foundation in Demo Area 6. Things covered in this clinic will be: Secrets of getting obedience on the lunge, Use of the Lunge whip and voice, Getting Bend and relaxation, Introducing transitions, Developing an eye for results and adding other techniques, like ground poles. Following this will be long lining basics, exercises for developing suppleness and obedience and teaching advanced movements starting with half-pass. (two track)
Becky Wolf-
Becky is a longstanding member of the Backcountry Horsemen of Oregon and Oregon
Equestrian Trails. Currently, she is the Backcountry Horsemen of Oregon Public Lands
Chairman and Education chair. She is also a Master Trainer in the Leave No Trace
Program. Her experience also includes being a crew leader for clearing 26 miles of
the Pacific Crest Trail in the Mt. Hood National Forest. Becky has travelled and ridden
her horse in eleven western states. She will share experiences and ideas with you, so
you too can go on great trail rides with your horse.
-Horsin' Around on the Pacific Crest Trail in Demo Area 5.
Join Becky as she shares her trip of a lifetime across Oregon --500 miles on the PCT in 5 weeks. She will lead you through preparing for, challenges of, and just enjoying this life changing adventure. This will be presented as a slide show with supporting visual aids.


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