In any equine assisted program, horses and volunteers are the life blood of the program. The horses, who build healing relationships with us and the volunteers, who give their time and energy to be a part of it. Every year the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) awards volunteer of the year and horse of the year to each region. This year both those awards for region 4, which include Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Ontario, have been awarded to Reins of Life in northern Indiana. This is exciting news for the oldest equine assisted center in Indiana.
The Equine of the Year award recognizes outstanding therapeutic equines that symbolize a celebration of ability, optimism, diversity, and the power of equines to enrich lives. Presley a 15 year old POA will be honored at the national PATH conference in Bellevue, Washington this fall as not only the Region 4 horse of the year but as a contender for the National Horse of the Year. According to staff from Reins of Life, Presley "is a versatile pony that works with a variety of students from independent to those with moderate disabilities. He is patient with new riders but steps up to the challenge of hard patterns with experienced riders. He is spirited, challenging volunteers at times, but is wonderful with his students, no matter the degree of their disabilities." Presley is a 15-year-old Pony of the Americas (POA) that has been with Reins since 2009. He will be considered for PATH International Equine of the Year at the International Conference in November, which will be held in Bellevue, Washington.
In addition to Horse of the Year, a volunteer from Reins has been named Volunteer of the Year from region 4 also. Diane Sennett has volunteered more than 600 hours for Reins of Life since she came there in 2007. She is an asset to the barn through her work assisting students in classes, feeding and caring for the horses. In addition, she "trades her barn boots and jeans for dress clothes to help out by volunteering at special events." The staff portrays her as having a natural ability with horses and students, she encourages willingness, participation, and good behavior in horses, students, and fellow volunteers. Along with Presley, Diane will be considered for PATH International Volunteer of the Year during the national PATH conference this fall.
The Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship or PATH is an international certifying and accrediting organization in the field of equine assisted activities and therapies. In Indiana alone there are fifty organizations that provide equine assisted services. This includes centers that offer therapeutic riding services but also mental health services, hippotherapy, coaching and even yoga! Not all of those programs are associated with PATH but several have received the distinction of being premiere accredited centers. This means that they have been visited by an outside auditor form PATH and have met criteria and standards of the highest level. Reins of Life is one of the oldest centers in Indiana and has been premiere accredited since it began 34 years ago. Each year 500 riders of all ages with disabilities come through their doors totaling 3,000 hours of lesson time. It currently operates two facilities in South Bend and Michigan City. Join us in saying congratulations to Diane Sennett, Presely, the staff and herd of volunteers who make this program such an icon in Indiana! If you want to find out how you can help support the great work of Reins of Life, visit their website.


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Bad Dogs or Bad Owners? Snarling issue finds majority oppose banning 'dangerous' breeds
58% say dog attacks are 'isolated incidents,' not result of breeding
March 16, 2016 – It's a question that has been around almost as long as man's best friend: Are dog attacks the result of dangerous breeds or bad owners?
A new survey from the Angus Reid Institute finds most Canadians come down on the blame-the-owners side of this equation, but their opinions vary significantly depending on how old they are and whether they've ever owned a dog themselves.
And while most Canadians stop short of calling for bans on specific breeds – such as pit bulls or Rottweilers – they do support other measures aimed at reducing the risk of dog attacks such as those reported last month in Windsor, Ont., and in Richmond, B.C., last December.
Most Canadians (58%) say "dog attacks are isolated incidents caused by bad owners, not by the breed of dog." The rest (42%) say particular breeds "are inherently more aggressive and dangerous"
Two-in-three Canadians (67%) support requiring muzzles for breeds of dogs deemed "dangerous," but fewer than two-in-five (39%) support banning those breeds from their communities entirely
Canadians are generationally divided on this issue, with older people more likely to blame breeds, and more supportive of various policies targeting both breeds and owners
Dangerous dogs or bad owners? Opinions vary by age, dog ownership:
Statistics on dog bites vary wildly depending on what's being measured and how. On its web page about preventing dog bites, for example, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that 4.5 million bites occur in that country annually.
However, only a fraction of these bites – fewer than 350,000 in the most recent year for which data is available (2013) – result in injuries significant enough to be reported in the CDC's own statistical database.
Canadian data is less readily available, but the Canada Safety Council estimates that 460,000 Canadians are bitten by dogs each year. That said, relatively few of these incidents are as serious as the December attack in Richmond, in which three people were injured, one critically.
Much of the disparity between these numbers can be attributed to the fact that not all dogs that bite people are large enough or strong enough to actually do any serious damage. When it comes to the dogs that are powerful enough to hurt people, there is an ongoing debate over whether the breed or the dog-owner is more responsible for attacks – one that is driven by a notable age-divide.
Most Canadians (58%) blame owners more than breeds, but this feeling is stronger among those ages 18 – 34 and weaker among those ages 55 and older, as seen in the following graph:
Men are more likely than women to say certain breeds are inherently dangerous (46% of men do so, compared to 37% of women), and British Columbians are marginally more likely than residents of other regions to say the same (see comprehensive tables for greater detail).
It might be expected that people who have been bitten by dogs in the past would have a different perspective on this issue than those who haven't, but this poll does not find that to be the case (see summary tables at the end of this release).
There are, however, divides on this question based on whether they have – either now or in the past – shared their home with a 'Fifi' or 'Fido'. Two-in-three people who currently own dogs (66%) blame bad owners, while those who have never owned a dog are almost evenly split between blaming the breed and the owner.
Those who have owned dogs in the past, but don't currently, are in the middle:
Most oppose breed bans, support other measures
Canadian municipal and provincial governments have taken a variety of different approaches to limiting aggressive dog behavior. Some jurisdictions – including the cities of Edmonton and Burnaby, B.C. – have laws requiring higher licensing fees for individual dogs that have histories of biting, chasing, or causing injury.
Other governments – notably Winnipeg's in 1990 and Ontario's in 2005 – have enacted bans on specific breeds.
This latter strategy is more controversial. Indeed, it's the only policy canvassed in this survey that receives less than majority support from Canadians, as seen in the following graph:
Interestingly, though Ontario has had a pit bull ban for more than a decade, residents of that province are no more supportive of such legislation than those who live in other regions.
Indeed, it is in neighbouring Quebec – which doesn't ban any dog breeds province-wide – that support for breed-specific bans is the highest (45% support banning particular breeds there, compared to 37% in Ontario, see comprehensive tables).
Older respondents are also more likely to favour banning certain breeds, with those in the 55-plus age group almost twice as likely to say they support such measures as those under 35:
Canadians aren't opposed to breed-specific legislation that stops short of an outright ban, however. Fully two-thirds of respondents (67%) support requiring muzzles for breeds such as pit bulls when they are off their owners' properties. Another three-in-five (58%) support more expensive licensing for "dangerous" breeds.
Again, there are significant age divides on each of these measures, with older Canadians more supportive across the board – and also more likely to say they "strongly support" each one (see comprehensive tables):
Current dog owners are also less likely to support policies that would put either owners or animals themselves in the proverbial dog house:
The Angus Reid Institute (ARI) was founded in October 2014 by pollster and sociologist, Dr. Angus Reid. ARI is a national, not-for-profit, non-partisan public opinion research organization established to advance education by commissioning, conducting and disseminating to the public accessible and impartial statistical data, research and policy analysis on economics, political science, philanthropy, public administration, domestic and international affairs and other socio-economic issues of importance to Canada and its world.
Click here for the full report including tables and methodology
Click here for comprehensive data tables
Shachi Kurl, Executive Director: 604.908.1693 shachi.kurl@angusreid.org
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Edmonton, September 5, 2012: Residential property sales in August slowed both month-to-month and year-to-year, mirroring a trend that has evolved nationally all summer. Sales of all types of residential properties in August (1,430) were down 17.4% from July and down 10.7% from a year ago. The number of people offering their properties for sale also slowed but not as sharply as sales. There were 2,732 residential properties listed on the Multiple Listing Service® in August; down 2.2% from a month ago and down just 5.6% from a year ago. The available inventory was reduced 2.9% to 7,458 properties.
Despite the slowdown in sales, prices were up as compared to August 2011. The average* selling price of a single family detached home (SFD) was down marginally (-0.15%) at $384,477 from last month but up 3.8% from a year ago. Condo prices were also down marginally (-0.9%) from last month at $237,042 but up from last year. The all residential average price was $334,395 (down 0.5% m/m) which is up 3.2% from August 2011.
Average prices are affected by the difference in price of similar properties as well as the market composition or mix of homes sold. Compared to a year ago, a typical bungalow in August sold for 2.2% more while a typical 2-story home sold for about 3.2% more. While the price of an individual home was rising, the market composition was also changing. In August 2012, 53% of SFDs sold were priced below $375,000 as compared to 59% in 2011. In addition, the number of sales of homes over $500,000 was up from 11% in 2011 to almost 15% this year.
The average days-on-market in August was up two at 54 days. The sales-to-listing ratio was down, moving down from 62.0% in July to 52.3%.


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Point S Canada named one of Canada's best managed companies for the third year in a row
Point S Canada has made the list of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the third straight year in recognition of its overall performance and sustained growth. This achievement is due to its investment in talent, innovation, and technology. The 2020 Best Managed program award winners are among the best in class of Canadian owned and managed companies with revenues greater than $25 million and demonstrating strategy, capability, and commitment to achieve sustained growth.
Now in its 27th year, Canada's Best Managed Companies is the country's leading business awards program, recognizing excellence in innovative, world‑class business practices among Canadian owned and managed companies. Every year, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies compete for this designation in a rigorous and independent process that evaluates the calibre of their management abilities and practices.
With over 860 independent dealers and over three million tires sold every year, Point S Canada. shifted its focus to retail four years ago when it turned its main brand, Unipneu, into Point S. In just four years, Point S has climbed to the top of the industry in terms of advertising awareness/noise—no small feat when you look at the competition. With its distribution network and seven retail banners, Unimax Tire has been able to up its purchasing power and improve the customer experience at its auto centres. "Receiving this prestigious designation is, above all, an opportunity to recognize our employees and dealers. It makes our group more credible with consumers, suppliers, and future employees," says Bruno Leclair, president and CEO of Point S Canada.
About Canada's Best Managed Companies
Canada's Best Managed Companies continues to be the mark of excellence for Canadian owned and managed companies with revenues over $25 million. Every year since the launch of the program in 1993, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies have competed for this designation in a rigorous and independent process that evaluates their management skills and practices. The awards are granted on four levels: 1) Canada's Best Managed Companies new winner (one of the new winners selected each year); 2) Canada's Best Managed Companies winner (award recipients that have re-applied and successfully retained their Best Managed designation for two additional years, subject to annual operational and financial review); 3) Gold Standard winner (after three consecutive years of maintaining their Best Managed status, these winners have demonstrated their commitment to the program and successfully retained their award for four to six consecutive years); and 4) Platinum Club member (winners that have maintained their Best Managed status for seven years or more). Program sponsors are Deloitte Private, CIBC, Canadian Business, Smith School of Business, and TMX Group.
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Brands will be able to bid on custom Olympics ads in real time
A group including Conde Nast and ESPN is joining forces on targeted advertising.
By Patrick Kulp on June 8, 2016
Jamaica's Usain Bolt crosses the finish line to win gold in the men's 100-meter final at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS/DAVID J. PHILLIP, FILE
Some of the world's biggest publishers are joining forces on a project aimed at delivering web surfers relevant ads with the speed of Usain Bolt during this summer's Olympics.
A group of nearly four-dozen well-known media brands including Condé Nast, ESPN and the New York Times (as well as Mashable) just announced a new advertising tool that will let each publication target personalized ads around particularly memorable moments during the games.
SEE ALSO: ESPN's new online ads let businesses focus on your favorite teams
For instance, if Bolt were to set a world record in the 100-meter dash, Nike would be able to create an ad congratulating him and promoting his specially-designed track shoe to people who've expressed an interest in track and field.
The project, a joint effort with automated advertising network Rubicon Project, will consist of a shared set of advertising packages including desktop, mobile and video ads that brands can bid on in real-time.
Rubicon also conducted some market surveys to gauge interest in such a tool and found that nearly 70% of millennials and 60% of parents are likely to watch the Olympics streamed online. Furthermore, six out of 10 millennials surveyed planned to watch on a mobile device.
For Conde Nast, publisher of the New Yorker and Vogue among other titles, the package is the first of an ongoing series of targeted ad packages it plans to roll out for "key consumer moments."
The ads are not unlike a similar product launched by ESPN last month that let it customize online ads based on the team preference of a given visitor.
Patrick Kulp is a Business Reporter at Mashable. Patrick covers digital advertising, online retail and the future of work. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in political science and economics, he previously worked at the Pacific Coast Business Times.


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Because there is a large variety of safety sweatshirt styles, deciding which one is the best choice can be tough. Popular styles include black bottom, two-tone, and hooded. High visibility hoodies help protect you from the elements like the wind and rain. They are also beneficial in shielding from the cold and providing extra insulation. You can wear an ANSI class 2 or 3 rated hi-vis sweatshirt in the place of a safety vest. This will maintain your safety and ensure you are in compliance on the job site.
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In this world of constant change, apparently accelerated in our time by unprecedented scientific and technological achievements, exaltation of man and his material progress is the outstanding theme. It is to our "supremacy" and ever increasing control over the forces of nature, to our standards of physical existence and social and cultural pursuits that we continue, more than ever, to devote all our thoughts and efforts. We see, and perhaps strive only to see and enjoy but one side of the picture, as it were-the picture of the phenomenal sensual world.
Great saints and masters of all ages have pointed to the other side of the picture-the reality not subject to change-and in their tender mercy, have offered those that would care to follow their lead to show the way in a positive and practical manner, which no mere reading of scriptures could equal. They have proclaimed the true supremacy of man as being the highest form of creation, having alone the capacity to make contact with his Creator, if he would, and solving the eternal mystery during his lifetime.
This book is about the philosophy of the Saints, about the inner path along which the soul must travel to reach its ultimate destiny, about the indispensability of a living Master and about the duties of a true disciple. It is meant only for the honest seeker, that is, one who is interested in pure spiritual uplift in the literal sense without any thought of physical and material benefits. Sant Mat is not a new religion; it is a philosophy which gives practical shape to the truth common to all contemporary religions.
Peter Fripp, the author of this book, whom I greatly respect and admire as a friend, has very ably presented all aspects of this philosophy for the guidance mainly of Western readers. I hope they will not fail to profit by it.


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Septimus (4 April 2003 – 12 December 2010) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which was frequently interrupted by injury he won eight of his thirteen races between September 2005 and November 2008. He showed very promising form as a juvenile, winning the Beresford Stakes and finishing third when favourite the Racing Post Trophy and went on to win the Dante Stakes by eight lengths in an abbreviated three-year-old campaign. At four he won the Mooresbridge Stakes and was then stepped up in distance to take the Lonsdale Cup and the Doncaster Cup. In his final season he won the Curragh Cup and the Irish St. Leger, taking the latter event by thirteen lengths. He was rated the best horse in the world over extended distances in both 2007 and 2008. He was retired to stud but had fertility problems and died on 12 December 2010 after complications resulting from a gelding operation.

Background
Septimus was a bay horse with a large white star and three white socks bred in Ireland by the Barronstown Stud in partnership with Orpendale, a breeding company associated with the Coolmore Stud organisation. In September 2004 the yearling was consigned by Barronstown to the Goffs sales and was bought for €220,000 by Coolmore's bloodstock agent Dermot "Demi" O'Byrne. He was sent into training with Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle. Like many Coolmore horses, the official details of his ownership changed from race to race: he was sometimes listed as being the property of Derrick Smith, whilst on other occasions he was described as being owned by a partnership of Smith, Michael Tabor and Susan Magnier.

He was from the eighteenth crop of foals sired by Sadler's Wells, who won the Irish 2,000 Guineas, Eclipse Stakes and Irish Champion Stakes in 1984 went on to be the Champion sire on fourteen occasions. His dam Caladira who was bred and owned by Aga Khan IV won on her racecourse debut and finished unplaced on her only subsequent start. She was a great-granddaughter of the British broodmare Run Honey (foaled 1946) whose other descendants have included Aloma's Ruler and Cirrus des Aigles.

Racing career

2005: two-year-old season
Septimus began his track career in a seven furlong maiden race on 10 September on Leopardstown Racecourse in which he was ridden by Wayne Lordan and won by half a length from his stablemate Arabian Prince. He was then moved up sharply in class for the Group 2 Beresford Stakes over the same distance at the Curragh on 9 October and started 4/6 favourite against five opponents. Ridden by Seamie Heffernan, he tracked the leaders before taking the lead inside the final furlong and won by a length from Rekaab. After the race he was offered at odds of 25/1 for the following year's Epsom Derby.

Two weeks after his win at the Curragh, Septimus was sent to England and moved up in class and distance for the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy over one mile on heavy ground at Doncaster Racecourse. He was made the odds-on favourite but looked to be outpaced in the final stages and finished third to Palace Episode and Winged Cupid.

2006: three-year-old season
On 23 April Septimus began his second season with a trip to France for the Prix La Force over 2000 metres at Longchamp Racecourse in which he was well-fancied, but never looked likely to win and finished seventh of the nine runners behind Barastraight. On his next appearance he contested the Dante Stakes (a major trial race for The Derby) over ten and a half furlongs at York Racecourse on 18 May. Racing on soft ground and partnered by Kieren Fallon he started 13/8 favourite ahead of Palace Episode and four other colts. After tracking the leaders he went to the front a quarter of a mile from thefinish and drew right away from his opponents to win by eight lengths from the Michael Stoute-trained Best Alibi. Fallon commented "I'm happy he's got this race under his belt and he deserves it. This horse is very fluent so we could take him anywhere... the way he went away from them there with his ears pricked, you'd have to be impressed".

On 3 June Septimus joined Horatio Nelson, Dylan Thomas and Mountain in a four-horse Ballydoyle entry for the Epsom Derby and started the 17/2 fourth choice in the betting. He was towards the rear of the field from the start and came home twelfth of the seventeen finishers behind Sir Percy. The colt subsequently had injury problems and missed the rest of the season.

In the 2006 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings Septimus was given a rating of 116, making him the 105th best racehorse in the world.

2007: four-year-old season
After an absence of over eleven months, Septimus returned in the Group 3 Mooresbridge Stakes over ten furlongs at the Curragh on 7 May 2007. Ridden by Heffernan he was made 4/1 second favourite behind Mustameet, a six-year-old whose wins included the Royal Whip Stakes and the Gladness Stakes whilst the other runners included Championship Point (Predominate Stakes), Fracas  (Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial) and Grand Passion (Celebration Stakes). Septimus raced in second place behind Championship Point before taking the lead approaching the final furlong and won by one and a half lengths from Fracas. Following the race O'Brien said "He did that very well – he's a very tough horse. Considering he's been off the track since the Derby that was great as he came back from that race a bit sore. I think he could be a serious horse in the autumn". At Epsom on 1 June the colt returned to the highest class for the Coronation Cup in which he led for most of the way before finishing second to his stablemate Scorpion with Sir Percy and Sixties Icon finishing in sixth and seventh place.

More than eleven weeks after his run at Epsom Septimus returned to the track and was moved up in distance for the Group 2 Lonsdale Cup over two miles at York and started 6/5 favourite against eight opponents including Sergeant Cecil (Ebor Handicap, Cesarewitch Handicap), Distinction (Goodwood Cup), and Percussionist (Yorkshire Cup). Ridden by Johnny Murtagh, Septimus ranked in third place for mot of the way before taking the lead approaching the final furlong and winning by a neck from Balkan Knight. Murtagh was again in the saddle when Septimus returned to Yorkshire and started the 11/10 favourite for the Doncaster Cup over two and a quarter miles on 14 September. Ditinction and Balkan Knight were again in opposition but his most serious rivals appeared to be Allegretto (Goodwood Cup) and Geordieland (Grand Prix de Chantilly). Murtagh settled the colt in third place as Finalmente set the pace and opened up a clear lead. Septimus made steady progress, overtook Finalmente approaching the last quarter mile and accelerated away from his rivals to win "easily" by five lengths. After the race Murtagh commented "He's a very progressive horse and has really improved. He showed he has no problem with the trip... he has a bit of speed, and is a class above those stayers at the moment".

In the 2007 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings Septimus was rated the 17th best racehorse in the world and the best horse over extended distances.

2008: five-year-old season
Septimus was off the track for nine and a half months before returning in the Group 3 Curragh Cup over 14 furlongs on 28 June 2008 in which he carried 140 pounds and started the odds-on favourite. After racing in fifth place he took the lead approaching the final furlong and won by two and half lengths from Mores Wells (Ballyroan Stakes) with Peppertree Lane (the winner of the race in 2007) a neck away in third place.

The Irish St. Leger on 13 September at the Curragh was expected to feature a clash between Septimus and his seven-year-old stablemate Yeats, but when Yeats was withdrawn from the contest Septimus was made the 1/3 favourite. The field did not appear to be a strong one, with the only other runners to start at less than 25/1 being Mores Wells, Hasanka (Ballycullen Stakes) and Yellowstone (Gordon Stakes). Heffernan settled the favourite in third place as his stablemate Mikhail Fokhine set the pace from another Ballydoyle outsider New Zealand. Septimus moved up alongside the pacemakers entering the straight, went to the front, and drew away from the field to win "very easily" by thirteen lengths. His win made Aidan O'Brien (who was at the Doncaster St Leger meeting on the day) the first trainer in 73 years to win all five of the Irish Classic Races. O'Brien's wife Anne-Marie addressed the press after the race and said "I'm so happy for everyone associated with Ballydoyle, and we've been so lucky that the horses have stayed sound.  Septimus got his opportunity today and I'm really thrilled".

For his final racecourse appearance, Septimus, who was being described as "the best stayer in the world", was shipped to Australia to contest the Melbourne Cup over 3200 metres at Flemington Racecourse on 4 November. Starting the 6/1 second favourite he was among the leaders from the start but faded badly in the straight and finished lame in eighteenth place. After the race Murtagh commented "I think we need to examine what type of horse to bring to Australia. Septimus wasn't the right one".

In the 2008 World Thoroughbred Rankings Septimus was rated the 23rd best racehorse in the world and the equal-best horse over extended distances alongside Conduit and Yeats.

Stud career
Septimus remained in training in 2009 but did not race again. He was retired to stud at the end of the year and was marketed as a National Hunt stallion. Standing at Coolmore's Castle Hyde stud in County Cork he had problems with fertility. He was withdrawn from stud duties and gelded but died from complications arising from the surgery on 12 December 2010.

Pedigree

Septimus was inbred 2 × 3 to Northern Dancer, meaning that this stallion appears in both the second and third generations of his pedigree.

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2010 racehorse deaths
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So I did the only sane thing I could think of: I rebelled against it. The result of my rebellion is all over my last blog post….
And after that rebellion, after opening up my vision to what was actually there, instead of what could be there when looking at me through the shaped lenses of certain ideas of definitions. What I actually want to do and am good at.
I ignored the ego trying to tell me that I'm just such a great person that I'm excellent at everything I touch. And I had deaf ears for my critizising voice telling me that I'm not good at anything and that I should just hide somewhere and wait to die.
What was left was my inner voice. Loud and clear. I want to share stories – My own, as well as other people's – about their journeys to follow their wild heart and listen to their intuition and inner voice.
And I want to share my experiences during all the different seminars and programs I did, what they're about and how they helped me on my path.
Additionally I feel drawn to support people and orgainsations that offer programs for deeper connection with yourself, others and nature.
I want to make them more visible to people just like me who are constantly looking to learn and grow. People who are drowning in information, but are actually looking for adventure, growing, and feeling alive and connected. People who are looking for their role and place in live, or who found their role to be a lifelong learner and want to dive into something new with a childlike happiness and excitement.
So to sum it up, I found my own definitions of who I am. I will write them down to catch them, and at the same time they are fleeting. I don't hold on to any of them, so that I can be free to openly listen to my wild heart and change the direction whenever needed. These loose definitions also allow me to have some kind of structure, and at the same time don't hold me back in any way.
Here it goes… I'm a storyteller, a matchmaker, a guide and a seeker. And who are you?
Live the Love at the all Jungles but always remember the Love is endless.


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On some days I launch myself forward toward my new project, "Body Is A Guest", an Art project that is very personal and that only asks for my hand in painting it! Then I watch Frances Crowe wheel into the Roots exhibit gazing at her portrait as she remembers outloud the adventures of Resistance that we have painted into this likeness, and I am reminded that the main objectives of this endeavor lie ahead.
The main objectives are simple: To share the stories of these Women in honor of the work they have done and are doing so they may move, inspire and push us down the paths toward our own change making capabilities, at whatever pace or level they may be. To raise funds for these twelve Women Activists and their Organizations so that I am not merely using their images and stories for my own means but sharing and amplifying their voices to help gather funds to continue their Earthshaking, Earthsaving work.
These are the three objectives that remain and I know well that the easiest part of this Project, nine years of painting twelve Portraits is behind me, and the challenge stretches ahead.
The challenge requires me to find venues of all kinds inside and outside of this Community, across New England, where I can share these Portraits, the Women, and their stories. Where I can raise funds for these Women Activists one by one through the sale of our Posters and through kind donations.
This is the hardest part for me, all of this asking, the reminding, the calls for help and support and the new venues that I ask you all to come out for, one more time. Sometimes the challenge of having to call on you again is so much so that I want to give up, but this does does not last long as I am snapped into attention by Malalai Joya's emails from a bombed Kabul, Frances Crowe's remembering as she wheels to yet another of the Roots exhibits, Chouchou's reminder that things in the DR Congo are still so very bad. So Please accept my gratitude for joining this adventure in all of the ways that you are able to.
I have a goal and that goal is just a start. An exhibit for each of the twelve Women and during that exhibit 50% or more of the funds raised through Poster sales and donation will be put into the hands of the Women or those who survive in their stead. Our first two exhibits in Vermont were profoundly successful! We raised significant funds for Bangladeshi Organization BRAC who are aiding the Rohingya refugees fleeing Burma and for fallen leader Berta Cáceres' organization COPINH. The funds for Berta were actually taken directly to Honduras & COPINH in March by a trusted Activist on the West Coast.
Our current exhibit at the Anchor House Of Artists will end in two weeks and it is for the amazing Afghan Activist Malalai Joya, who is in need of our hearts, our informed attention and of our support. Here is the Anchor House Link in case you would like to visit!
We have yet to secure a venue for our Summer/Fall Fundraiser in support of the Zapatista Women and their new "Women In Struggle" campaign. We are profoundly lucky to have a close connection with the Zapatista Community who will be hand delivering the funds in Chiapas! Now we need only to brainstorm a venue and get feet, faces, hearts and minds in the doors! Thus while all of my instincts are pushing me to quietly duck into my studio for beloved 12 hour painting stints, I will also be pushing myself out toward you and toward new places and possibilities for this project.
So my dear friends, please bear with me in the months ahead as I call out more than I ever want to for your attention, company and support. I send profound gratitude to you in advance for your help in finding venues for this project, whether that be churches, community centers, farmers markets or spaces and venues unimagined across New England. I send great armfuls of thanks for your help in showing up to the exhibits when you can, and I know so many of you have come to so many! I send endless appreciations for your support of the Women and the project through donations and through purchase of the Posters at shows or at our new Etsy shop!
You truly must come down to Anchor House and see the beautiful Women bathed in natural light, dancing in the Museum space for the next couple weeks. The show spotlights and supports Malalai Joya and if you cannot get down to the show, you can support her and Roots through our poster sales: Postershop
Big Springtime love out to you all
May 15, 2018 by Roots2re
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Posted on February 26, 2018 by Roots2re
The Roots To Resistance Women fared incredibly well on their first Road trip together, landing in Brattleboro's Gallery In The Woods! The project was invited to the Vermont Gallery over the holiday season as an offering to their Community and a gift to the project. The project itself was still trying to create a path forward that would see us raising funds that could be put directly into the hands of the Roots Women. We had imagined finding a permanent home for the project, a larger institution or Community Organization that could garner more funds and attention for these amazing Activists. That process of searching still continues, but Gallery In The Woods showed us what a partnership between Roots To Resistance and a local exhibit space could do!
We have decided that in the foreseeable future, we will use all upcoming exhibits as Fundraisers with at least 50% of what is raised going to each one of the Roots Women and their Communities and Organizations. At Gallery In The Woods we were given 4 months and we did two separate Fundraising shows! The first was for the complicated legacy of Aung San Suu Kyi and we chose to raise funds now and in the future for an Organization called BRAC which gives aid in Bangladesh to Rohingya refugees forced to flee violence in Myanmar. The second exhibition was in the name of the slain Honduran Activist and Heroine Berta Cáceres, with funds to be passed on through her daughter Bertita to their organization COPINH. Both Fundraisers were profoundly successful due to money raised in kind donations and from the sales of our Roots calendars. We are so thrilled to be able to send out over $1200 in support to these profoundly important aims and our Gratitude goes out to Gallery In The Woods and to all who supported the show in Brattleboro!
The Vermont exhibit not only helped us to raise important funds, but helped us to imagine a way to carry the project forward as we search for a permanent home for the Roots Portraits! All these many years of creating the Women's portraits, postcards and street posters have seen me restlessly awaiting the day that significant funds are raised from this project that can be put directly into the hands of the Women or their Community Organizations. I had always imagined that this would happen due to an auctioning of the Portraits but in the end I could not bear to split the twelve Women up because I feel that their strength is in the connection of all twelve. So the portraits for now will stay together and raise modest funds through a traveling New England exhibition and the kindness and coming together of these wonderful Communities.
Next week we will be bringing the project back home and exhibiting it at Northampton's Anchor House Of Artists with an official opening on Friday March 9th. This show will be raising funds for Roots Activist and beloved Friend Malalai Joya. Malalai is an Afghan Peace and Women's Rights Activist doing critically important, brave and selfless work in the Communities of Afghanistan. She continues to face profound challenges and is in great need of our support and solidarity. Please visit our exhibit at Anchor House Of Artists in the coming months to support the aims of the amazing Malalai Joya and infuse yourself with the earthshaking strength and spirits of the Roots twelve!
If you live outside of our lovely New England area but would like to be a part of supporting the work of Malalai Joya in this upcoming exhibit please visit the link below! We are offering a Postcard Fundraiser in $10 increments of support and 100% of funds raised from these Postcards will be put in the hands of Malalai Joya in support of her work in Afghanistan.
Click Here To Visit The Malalai Joya Postcard Fundraiser
If you are interested in hosting an exhibition of these twelve earthshaking Superheroines contact us at invisible_earth@yahoo.com
Sending vast buckets of Love and Gratitude out in all directions. Please share this post or pass it on if you can.
denise & Roots To Resistance
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Posted on June 8, 2017 by Roots2re
I know you have heard the oft repeated story about how a butterfly flapping its wings in Tahiti can stir change in Siberia. We hear it and know vaguely what is being said but like all worldy things, personal experiences are what bring deep intimate understanding to such notions. These twelve Women Activists: Natalia Estemirova, Malalai Joya, Chouchou Namegabe, Rebecca Gomperts, The Zapatista Women, Wangari Maathai, Aung San Suu Kyi, Razan Ghazzawi, Frances Crowe, Shireen Issawi, Yvonne Margarula and Berta Cáceres have brought clarity to the concept of such traveling and profoundly awakening winds.
Upon completion of my twelfth and final portrait a wise friend concluded that it was time to reflect on the nine years of Roots To Resistance adventures and get those reflections down in writing, to which I promptly thought- Isn't there something I need to be painting?
Reflecting means a pause from painting, a pause from the busy, buzzing brain of mine that wants to be on a 24/7 loop of transforming the inside stuff into tangible seen objects called Art. The act of creating for me has been as magical as the dreams of the alchemists in their search to transform base metals into Gold and elixirs of truth. I remain enchanted by this gift that each Human has for making and creating, amazed that a subtle notion or emotion can pass from heart to brain to paper in an instant, a magical process to be sure and I experience it that way every time.
The discovery of Art has been the primary gift given to me in this lifetime, a profound gift for someone with a tendency toward fear and anxious worrying. I was the child who stayed up at night pondering how I would perish the following day. Would it be from a nail shot out of the lawnmower like I saw on Rescue 911 or a kidnapping by the ding dong cart as I had heard happened in the Midwest? Perhaps I would simply be whisked away by orange skinned big eyed aliens as my odd childhood friend claimed to foresee. These strange ever present death fears and ponderings followed me into adulthood and Art School where I picked up the most useful tools I have ever been given; making, painting, drawing and most importantly a concept I have coined as Art Alchemy. This being the process of churning Art out of one's inner workings, tapping in and making pathways that express the inner as outer. This was Life altering and it changed the trajectory of my path and infused it with meaning, purpose and medicine for my overactive worrying insides!
I have never stopped creating Art from that moment on. I painted my fears and my loves, my hikes, my imaginings and my questions. Many elements were added along the way and in my late twenties nature and all things creature stormed into my life and Art after a four month cross country camping adventure. By my mid thirties the influence of Social Justice was finding me and my perspectives grew much wider to encompassed the Earth as a whole. I felt I needed to be more informed and connected to People and Places on the Planet, who and where they were physically on the Globe. I wanted to be able to point to a map and say here is where Sri Lanka is and these are the People who are living there. I embarked on my first large sustained project called, Invisible Earth Our Human Family, which consisted of 234 painted Human faces, one from every country and territory in the World. These faces were then connected to the places that they called home by thousands of personal letters sent from People around the World. The project was greatly received and appreciated, exhibited widely in Schools and Universities, and personally shifted my perspective outward and carried me up the path toward new places. Art was no longer just used as a personal instrument, it could now be used as a tool for addressing things outside of myself.
With passing years the Art got bigger, more detailed and more diverse. There were painted rock cars driven by eggplants and luna moths, there were paintings on rusty metal dragged from old broken down amusement parks. There were devils, beckoning skeletons and fears but more and more there were snails and efts and fiddleheads. I was walking the woods each day and happily painting all of this quietly alone in my studio when I heard a news story in 2009 about a Woman named Natalia Estemirova…..
It is certain that the seeds of the Roots To Resistance project were planted with that first news story. That was the summer that I learned about Natalia Estemirova. That summer Natalia was abducted from her home in Chechnya and murdered because she raised her voice to speak truths about the horrors being perpetrated on her Community and because she refused to be silent when threatened by those perpetrators. I had never heard of Natalia Estemirova before, I didn't know that she was a Human Rights Journalist who had tirelessly served as a voice for the silenced, war torn, and poor Communities of Chechnya. I had heard stories before about heroes and Activists but for some reason I was more profoundly moved by her story than any other I had ever heard. Natalia Estemirova most certainly was the far away Butterfly wing flapping that so magically guided this project into being. When I started painting her portrait I had no plans for 11 other Portraits, it was just Natalia that I wanted to paint back to life, and the act of the painting was a holy one that has never quite been duplicated in any of the portraits that came after. But came they did and from Natalia was born a focus and a question: Who else is doing such work on the Planet? The answer, thousands.
For those who have followed this adventure, you know that Roots To Resistance is a project focused on 12 Women Activists doing profoundly important Justice work on this Planet. With Natalia I had one Portrait and was aiming to do 11 others. A collaboration of friends and mentors gathered to help me choose 11 Women, Women like Natalia, that were still alive and doing Earthshaking, often extremely risky work in Communities across the Globe. What I did not know then was that this list would be a revolving one, that as 9 years unfolded there would be new Women emerging and exploding onto the scene as the World raveled and unraveled. In this way I decided to prioritize what was happening in this very moment, to draw attention and protection to those alive and risking so much in these times. Thus some truly amazing Women, Maria Gunnoe, Parvin Ardalan, Ditah Indah Sari and the one and only Vandana Shiva sacrificed their places for Palestinian prisoner Shireen Issawi, Syrian Journalist Razan Ghazzawi, Local peace Activist Frances Crowe and the fallen Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres who stepped into the spot of what was to be my final portrait, Vandana Shiva. I feel certain Vandana has happily stepped aside and that the final 12 are just as they should be, symbolic of the issues, challenges and voices of Resistance we are witnessing in these times. Thousands of brilliant, earthshaking Women did not make their way into this small handful of vitally important change makers and I hope you will go out and find them.
The advice to take some pause for reflections on this project has been wise because I have the urge to storm through transitions and endings. I also have the habit that many of us have for discounting and quieting, or at the very least being uncomfortable with, naming our achievements. This has been a very long campaign, one that has been dependent on the support of others, one that has required more asking for help and more touting of achievements than I could ever have imagined. Having to ask for so much support has been uncomfortable, awkward, sometimes embarrassing, most certainly my biggest challenge and almost caused me to breeze by the completion of this project without naming or celebrating it. I do not want to breeze by nine years of passionate work or the amazing achievements of these twelve Women, so thank you Tuti Scott for the reminder to pause and for always being there to fit me with the big girl shoes and encouraging me to wobble forward in them!
As long as we are talking challenges and questioning, there is also the question of whether or how a western, seemingly white Woman, takes on the paintings of 12 Women Activists of the World. Most of whom, 9 to be exact, are Women of Color. For the record I am actually not officially white, I am half Puerto Rican, a mixed raced Latina I suppose, that did not grow up in contact with this part of my heritage and thus never felt the right to claim it officially and I am still very careful about doing so. The fact Is that I was adopted and raised by a white Family, have always presented as white, have always benefited from white privilege and have just barely scratched the surface of figuring out where my original Roots lead me. So the question of how this Woman from Western Massachusetts paints Indigenous Australian Yvonne Margarula and Palestinian Prisoner Shireen Issawi remains. I suppose the answer is that I have tried to approach this project with humility, openness to the questioning and always working hard to avoid defensiveness in the face of questions about taking on this project. Most importantly I have always sought to partner with the Women I am painting vs simply portraying, fetishizing or iconizing them and always letting their voices and ideas lead the way. I am certain mistakes on this long journey have been made given that my perspective is often that of an outsider but I have striven to make the emotional impact of the Art and the power of the Women's voices stand above all else.
Reflecting on the entirety of the Roots To Resistance project is a very large and overwhelming task which naturally starts with the twelve painted Portraits. These are the imposing, larger than life, visual hearts of the project, the embodiments of the Women themselves and each contains and captures the stories and narratives of the Roots Women in great and dizzying detail. The portraits however, cannot travel with ease to places near and far and for that purpose we created the Global Postcards Campaigns. These campaigns could carry the Women's voices and resistance cries to all corners of the Planet, to echo and amplify the words and work of each of the twelve Women Activists. In some cases the Women themselves or Organizations they worked with crafted the postcard campaigns. We then sent those campaigns through partnerships with International Organizations that helped us send and disperse over 25,000 Postcards into Communities around the Globe. We sent Postcards to the UN asking for Justice and inclusion for Burma's Indigenous and displaced Peoples, we sent them to demand truth about the murder of Natalia Estemirova and to bring the heart of Wangari Maathai and her Freedom Forests to inspire an entire Planet. In our final campaign we refused Islamaphobia by sending our "Standing with Muslim Neighbors" postcards to the trump tower in NYC from countries around the World. The Portraits may have been the home base of this project but the Postcards were the megaphone.
Creating the 12 portraits and postcard campaigns was an enormous undertaking and sometimes I forget that there was so much more! Within each of the twelve campaigns there was laser focus for the issues and places these Women were working. If it was Malalai Joya, I was all things Afghanistan, its History, her History, her brave story, her accomplishments, and in her case a friendship, as we have spent time together in the US on many occasions and continue checking in and working together when she returns to Afghanistan. It was she in many ways that brought local Massachusetts Peace Activist Frances Crowe and I together as we worked side by side on many campaigns to raise money for Malalai and the people of Afghanistan. Eventually I would paint Frances Crowe as well and we would craft a Postcard Campaign calling for an end to all Nuclear weapons. These postcards would be carried by Monks and Peace marchers from Western Massachusetts to Washington DC. in 2015. This is how it worked, one step would often seamlessly lead to another with each of the 12 campaigns, often there would be a pause to help raise money for an Afghan Woman to attend medical school or to raise funds to support refugee groups in Syria and Palestine. Eventually though I would have to leave the intense focus of Malalai's World or Frances Crowes work for a new campaign and in that way my work is very different than the sustained lifetime of commitment that all of these Women have dedicated themselves to. In the end my chosen place is the Art and I have only just dipped my toes into the issues these Roots Women have faced down for decades.
So the 12 Portraits are painted and the postcards continue to find their way over the lands and seas and the work is not done. A full circling is needed and for that I need to raise funds from these 12 larger than life avatars, some of the most magical, beautiful, fierce and transformative Activists on the Planet. Roots To Resistance will be raising funds from the sale of these Portraits, with 60% of what is raised landing directly in the hands of these Women or in the places they have designated. In doing this we can close the circle and put resources in the hands of those who know how to turn them into all things good. Thus for now my reflecting comes to a close and the work of bringing this project into a full landing is about to begin, it will be the hardest work I have embarked upon in these nine years.
There are not enough words of thanks and Gratitude to heap on my Family, Friends and Mentors. You have all contributed so much to this project, you have showed up at every event and pitched in with every fundraiser, so many of you leapt in at just the right moment, with just the right thing to offer to ensure that this project reached its potential. Thank you truly from the bottom of this indebted heart.
So much love and gratitude to all of you and to the twelve Women of Roots.
Sincerely and In Solidarity, Denise A. Beaudet
I am going to keep this blog update super short as I know it is a busy season for all of us 🙂
Roots To Resistance is painting its 12th and final Portrait.
A great deal of thought went into the decision to bring the project to completion on this 12th Portrait. The main consideration being that we want to offer the Portraits for purchase in an international auction where 50% and if possible 60% of the funds raised will go to the Women and their Organizations. This way the Women themselves or the Organizations they have created can decide how to best use the resources to continue doing the Earthshaking work they do. We have used the Portraits and the Postcard Campaigns to help inform small pockets of the World Community and to raise inspiration locally and abroad and now feel that this Auction will bring the project full circle.
The final Portrait will be of the recently slain Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres (above). We chose to portray her work long before she was murdered because of her dedication to protecting the lands and waters of her native Lenca Homeland. She was assassinated for her work and these devastating events only strengthened our conviction about her portrayal, her profound importance and that of her Organization COPINH.
We thank you for all of your partnership and support in honoring these Women and passing on our Postcard and Postering Campaigns. We will be organizing a broad international virtual auction in 2017, and there will be much more to come on that!
We have finally created some high quality and affordable posters of some of our Roots Activists and we are using the proceeds from the sales to help bring the project to the finish line. The Zapatista Women below seems to be the most popular at the moment!
If you are interested in taking a peek at the Posters Click Here 🙂
Much Gratitude to you all
Denise/Roots To Resistance
Berta Cáceres became a leader among her People, the Lenca and endeavored to protect the Forests and Waterways in her native Homelands from those attempting to harvest and destroy them for profit by founding the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras COPINH. In 2013 she lead her Community in a year long blockade to protect the Rio Gualcarque (River) from an illegal dam project and thwarted both the World Bank and SinoHydro, the Worlds largest Dam builder into abandoning their aims. Twelve Environmental Activists were killed in 2014 and Berta herself was assassinated in March of 2016. The loss of her in the fight for sanity and the protection of the Planet is an enormous one but the legacy and impact she has left behind is more enormous still. .
What I Am 150 Tiny Paintings To Fund Roots
Posted on July 22, 2016 by Roots2re
Hello lovely friends! I am Sending out a quick update about the 2016 path! I have taken a brief departure from the portrait paintings of the Women Activists and embarked on a season of tiny personal paintings created to fund the final leg of the Roots To Resistance Project. 'What I Am' is a loosely woven tale of a Woodswalking Artist in tiny words, paintings and photographs, and it was created because I did not want to hold another traditional fundraiser. Instead I am using my Artistic efforts to support what will be the final and 12th Portrait, of recently slain Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres.
We were devastated to learn of the murder of Berta Cáceres in March of this year. We had originally reached out to her organization in late 2015 about painting her Portrait and creating a Postcard Campaign in her own words and design. We were never able to complete that aim but intend to carry forward with that Portrait and Partnership in honor of the profound force of life that she was and is.
So this in fact will be the final Portrait for Roots To Resistance. We have had many thoughts and many intentions along the way for the future of this project, some of which included a lifetime of Portraits and Activists, a project with no end, a cross country Bus Tour, and international showings. The list of Activists originally chosen has changed, transformed and grown as the times have dictated, some of our aims have been met and others have fallen short. We have raised money for some amazing Women and Organizations along the way, spread some information, raised issues and stated our cases to the likes of Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama and the UN. We partnered with our local Peace Pagoda in 2015 outfitting the marchers with thousands of Postcards demanding an end to all Nuclear Arms, which they handed out on their long walk from Massachusetts to Washington DC. The project has had a good run and now we feel we want to offer more to the Women than the ongoing project can provide. We want to offer them funds to be used in their own Communities in the ways they see fit. With this goal in mind all 12 of the completed 8 foot high Portraits will be Auctioned off in 2017 with half of the proceeds going to each of the Women or the Organizations they were affiliated with.
That is the update folks! Lots of tiny paintings of creatures, bones and underearth worlds, as well as amusing narratives of my anxious childhood brain, all on display August 26th 27th and 28th at the APE Gallery in downtown Northampton Massachusetts. The paintings will be small and profoundly affordable and all proceeds will be used to take Roots To Resistance to the finish line. Much love and gratitude to you all for your generosity and support.
For more on the What I Am show
Demanding Freedom For Shireen Issawi
"As water is to life, so dignity is to my Humanity" Shireen Issawi
Shireen Issawi is a Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer who was arrested on March 6th 2014 by the Israeli Military as part of a crackdown on Lawyers who where defending and advocating for Palestinian Prisoners. The lawyers, who were enacting fundamental Human Rights law, were branded as supporters of terrorism and have been incarcerated ever since. Shireen Issawi has become the very prisoner that she sought to defend, someone imprisoned and mistreated because of her work, her beliefs and her non violent resistance. Shireen was arrested because of her actions and complaints as a Human Rights lawyer concerning the mistreatment of Palestinian Prisoners and the holding of prisoners without charge. She was very much aware that defending the rights and treatment of Palestinians was a highly risky endeavor but this did not deter Shireen from her work and she continued to press forward in the face of mounting threats. Where would we be without such Humans, who are willing to sacrifice so much in the name of what is just, and what are we willing to do in support of them?
It is from the portal of Shireen Issawi that we can view the devastating effects of so many Palestinians currently imprisoned under similar conditions. Perhaps you might imagine your own Sister, Daughter, or Mother arrested, knowing she is innocent but entirely unable to help her, and the World is mostly silent. Indeed Shireen stands in for hundreds of thousands of Political Prisoners all over this Planet, in Burma, Bahrain, Egypt, China, Eritrea, Mexico, here in the US, and in almost every Country across the Globe. As citizens of the World, I hope we will feel obligated and committed to using whatever small tools we may have to denounce such abundant injustice, despite the complications, despite our fears about entering into the realms of Israel and Palestine, despite the ease and lure of keeping quiet and tending our own lives.
In this case, we at Roots to Resistance, a small Arts and Social Justice Organization, make our offerings to those who have long been seeking and fighting for Justice on issues in Palestine. We have painted an 8 foot high Portrait of Shireen and created a Global Postcard Campaign Demanding her Freedom and an end to the US funding that perpetuates conditions of Occupation across Palestine. Most importantly we have partnered with dozens of Organizations and hundreds of Peoples from all over the World to create A Global Sign Campaign Demanding Freedom For Shireen Issawi. The Organizations and People involved in the campaign may not speak with one voice when it comes to all of the issues involved with Palestine and Israel, but we do speak as one about the absolute demand for Shireen's release from prison.
The Global Sign Campaign is an initiative asking folks from all over the Planet to send pictures of themselves holding signs Demanding Freedom For Shireen Issawi. In the end we have gathered over 150 with more arriving each day. Our goal in this endeavor was to invite all voices to demand Justice, not just the politicized or those well versed in the talking points of the Middle East.The invitation was for all to join because we think that a movement filled with a diversity of opinions but one voice on Shireen is the strongest way forward. Please come visit and enjoy the gallery of beautiful faces on our campaign page. If you would like to add your own picture to our Global Sign Campaign please send your submissions on to us: invisible_earth@yahoo.com
Many of those who sent pictures and signs also sent answers to a question we posed: "Why is it important for you to be involved in the Campaign Demanding Freedom For Shireen Issawi? " Below are some of the answers beginning with a statement from the two Organizations working together to win Shireen's Freedom.
"Shireen Issawi's case is emblematic in highlighting how Palestinian human rights defenders are being targeted by Israeli authorities for arrest and prolonged detention due to peacefully working to protect and promote fundamental human rights. Ms. Issawi has now been held continuously in detention for nearly 19 months pending the outcome of her trial. We reiterate our call for the evidence relied upon by the Israeli authorities to indict Ms. Issawi to be subjected to rigorous examination and testing, in accordance with Israel's duty under international human rights law to protect Ms. Issawi's right to a fair trial.
Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights of the UK and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Ramallah Palestine
"Shireen has dedicated her life to justice and freedom for those Palestinian arbitrarily detained in Israel. She is a courageous and inspiring human rights defender who comes from a family committed to nonviolent resistance. The accusations held against her of supporting "terrorism" are ludicrous. She became a lawyer precisely because she believed the path to peace must be based on the protection of human rights and justice." Ines Osman Alkarama Foundation, Switzerland
"The imprisonment of human rights lawyer and activist Shireen Issawi is yet another stain on Israel's grim record of severe violations of human rights and international law and conventions. It is a gross miscarriage of justice, and should be terminated at once." Noam Chomsky, US
"I felt compelled to support the call to free Shireen after learning about her deep passion for supporting human rights. As a veteran of two recent wars – I fully appreciate the heart and soul she has put in her struggle (and consequent imprisonment) to allow the freedoms we all deserve. Although we may do it in different ways, we share the need and passion to serve our fellow humans – in hopes of obtaining what is the basic rights of all humans on our wonderful planet. " MSgt David Beaudet, USAF, Ret, B.S.
"I support this because we cannot let fear and confusion run our lives. Israel will not be safe until Palestine is free and Palestine will not be free until Israel is safe. As a Jew, I find it is critically important to take a stand against atrocities that are being committed towards Palestinian People. Shireen Issawi should be free. Free to live her life and speak her mind." Rachel, Massachusetts
"Hope springs from the lives of people like Shireen Issawi, who strive non-violently for the freedom of political prisoners. Her dedication to that cause was recognized in December when the president of PeaceWomen across the Globe awarded her (in absentia) the AlKarama Award for Human Rights. Then, as now, Shireen was locked behind bars in an Israeli prison with those for whose freedom she has devoted her efforts. Should we not also recognize Shireen's dedication and call for her release from prison and for the release of all non-violent political prisoners?"
Paul , New York
"It is important for me to be involved in the campaign Demanding Freedom For Shireen Issawi because justice must be universal. Justice for Shireen and all other administrative detainees must be immediate with freedom granted or charges laid. Administrative Detention is an usually cruel and inhumane practice and must be condemned. If a simple inhumane law like "Administrative Detention" cannot be overturned what hope for true justice for Palestine. Free Shireen and the other prisoners."
Nasser, Victoria Australia
" In our work with people in Gaza, we have been told repeatedly that the issue of the prisoners is a vital one for the entire Palestinian resistance movement that cuts across political divides. Shireen Issawi like all political prisoners needs to know that she is not forgotten and that she is in our hearts." Rafah Sister City Project, Madison, Wisconsin
"We support human rights and all those like Shireen Issawi who are working for Human Rights." Davis Committee For Palestinian Rights, California
"Why is it important for us to be involved?!
Well , if we can do not much – this we can ! We can give our voice for the People which have no voice right now ! Shireen Issawi and her Family suffer because they are Palestinians who fight for their rights! We will stand with them! Free all political prisoners!"
BDS Zurich, Switzerland
Shireen Issawi has been punished, not for committing a crime, but for daring to defend human rights and free speech in the face of a brutal occupation. Her arrest an incarceration show how threatening these basic values are to the Israeli occupation. Palestine Advocacy Project, Cambridge
Shireen Issawi and her family have been relentlessly persecuted by Israel for over two decades. The imprisonment of Shireen is another deep and brutal injustice for her and her family that is representative of how Israel attempts to quell and punish righteous rebellion against its many decades of systematic apartheid and ethnocide. Israel must release Shireen and the over-5,000 political prisoners it holds and tortures, remember that compassion is the essence of life, and abandon its current course.
Alisa Klein Massachusetts
" It's about empathy, I live in Mexico, Mexico is a corrupt country and where the law favors the powerful, I can be arrested arbitrarily to defend my people as has happened to Shireen, she defended her brother and she has defended political prisoners in Palestine, but who defends her? If I lived the case of Shireen, I wanted someone to defend my case, someone to talk to the world about the injustices that I live and that my people live, is my reason to get involved in the campaign to demand the liberation of Shireen Issawi, empathy and solidarity with someone who has fought for the Palestinian people without asking anything in exchange." Ana Rosa Moreno Puebla, Mexico
"I strongly support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that was adopted by the UN in 1948. As a person who believes in human and civil rights and human dignity, Palestinian lawyer Shireen Al Issawi,is a shining example of courage, perseverance, and determination in striving to achieve justice for Palestinians who have suffered an ugly and brutal military occupation for 48 years. She has been unjustly imprisoned and I call on all those leaders who say they endorse human rights to act to free Shireen Issawi and the Palestinian people from the prison they currently endure."
Will Thomas New Hampshire Veterans for Peace
I am in involved in the Campaign Demanding Freedom For Shireen Issawi, as I am involved in all the campaigns related to Palestinian political prisoners, because the issue of Israel's mass incarceration of Palestinians is at the heart of Palestinian resistance and struggle for liberation.
Rima, Jerusalem
I support the campaign to demand freedom for Shireen Issawi because she is simply asking for truth and justice for Palestinian prisoners. This should not be a lot to ask of the Israeli government. The fact that this government considers this inflammatory and unacceptable, to the point that they have kept Shireen imprisoned and silenced, demonstrates the brutality and irrationality of the Israeli regime and occupation. Shireen's fight is a fight to return humanity to her fellow Palestinian citizens, and it is emblematic of all brave activists around the world fighting for the humanity of all oppressed peoples. Shireen Issawi must be freed! Natascia Pica, Massachusetts
"Free speech and justice should be global rights" Kate, Massachusetts
"The world must demand release of all prisoners held by Israel in violation of international law!" Joyce, Germantown Wisconsin
Thank you ! Thank you, Shireen Issawi, for your brilliance and courage and perserverance! Michael, Colorado
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CLC's Sorn Made A Big Confession On YouTube, And It'll Break Your Heart
The comment was a shock, especially because she's so loved!
Bella Kay
On an episode of PRODUSORN, CLC Sorn's punnily named YouTube channel, the beautiful singer made a sad and startling confession.
Source: sssorn_chonnasorn/Instagram
Sorn was out and about with two friends on a quest for pictures worthy of posting to Instagram and the group of friends seemed to be having a good time, hanging out, chilling, and shooting the breeze as friends do. Once they found their ideal shooting location—a totally hip café that seemed like it was made for photoshoots—Sorn went off to powder her face.
Source: PRODUSORN/YouTube
While Sorn was having one-on-one time with the camera, she shared something that was likely meant as just a conversational, throwaway comment but has the power to make you cry if you think about it too hard.
I'm so excited because, like, I've never had a friend take pictures for me like this before. It's like, 'who would do this for me?' I don't have a lot of friends.
It's not just what Sorn said, but how she said it. Whether it was intentional or not, there was a hint of melancholy when she said, "I don't have a lot of friends." Whether Sorn feels like she has a lot of friends or not, and certainly, there is something to be said for quality over quantity, her Sornshines love her and always wish the best for her.
Watch the whole clip video below. The exact moment Sorn talks about friendships begins at 6:14.


It's a pity when good intentions doesn't carry the day.
Many art events and organizations review work online nowadays so it is becoming a neccessary part of an artist's toolbox to know how to prepare files to submit of your work. This seminar will cover best practices in preparing to submit your artwork for a show. Association of Hawaii Artists (AHA) is the oldest art organisation in Hawaii and offers exhibition opportunities for its members in juried shows twice a year. This seminar is to help the volunteers who put on shows as well as the artists submitting.
"It is a pity if someone has worked so hard and their work doesn't get selected because of a bad photo or they can't get the file to us in proper format", says AHA President Linda Umstead.
I will be leading this seminar and demonstrating how to take a photo, and perform the most common adjustments needed to prepare a file. If you have a piece and a phone and laptop, bring it to the session so you can follow along. Time allowing, we can share with each other tips on framing, packaging, etc.
To sign up for this seminar go to eventbrite. A suggested donation of $5-10 dollars will be collected to help cover costs.


Your Child Needs a Eye Examination!
1 Your Child Needs a Eye Examination!
Above: Here's someone willing and able to learn and explore his world.
If vision problems go undetected, there can be a profound effect on the process of learning and the child's success in school. Unfortunately, many vision problems aren't detected early because children think everyone else sees the same way they do, and they don't usually complain.
Do not rely on school vision screenings to detect vision problems.
While a vision exam can vary widely based on the age of the child, most of the key points are the same.
You may help your child by reassuring him that getting his eyes tested is mostly fun, and doesn't hurt at all. In fact, most children find getting a vision exam really is fun and interesting.
First, the eyecare practitioner will need to ask for some information regarding the child's personal health and the family history, both for general health and for ocular disease. This is because many eye conditions do run in families.
If the child has had a previous examination or a vision screening, please bring that information with you for the eyecare practitioner to review. Changes in the eyes and with a child's vision happen relatively quickly, but the more information that is available, the better the practitioner will be able to review his or her findings and point out any differences.
Many times, children don't complain or ask questions about their vision because they think everyone else sees the same way they do, but if your child has had difficulties in pres-school, kindergarten or elementary school, please share that with the eyecare practitioner, too.
After reviewing the family history, the first test will be to establish how well he sees by testing his visual acuity. For preschool-age children, the doctor may use pictures instead of letters, but these are standardized to represent the same sizes of the letters that would be used for older patients. Each eye will be tested separately, at 20 feet and at reading distance.
Parents may wonder how it is possible to determine whether a child needs vision correction when he is too young to be able to answer questions about it, but in fact it is relatively easy, using an instrument called a retinoscope. The retinoscope is mounted on a handle and is made in such a way that the EP can look through it while shining its light across the pupil of the eye. The light is reflected back from the retina, in much the same way as an animal's eyes reflect the light from an automobile headlight; by evaluating how much and how fast the reflected light moves, it is possible to determine whether there is a refractive error and what lenses will correct it. The person being tested doesn't need to say anything at all.
Stereoscopic vision and the ability to appreciate 3-dimensions are tested by using a set of 3-D glasses. The child is asked to choose the 3-D image from among a series of pictures. Very young children may be asked to "touch" the tips of the wings of a fly which is presented in three dimensions; the wings will usually appear to be floating above the image presented. Different versions of these tests are available, so the child may be asked to touch the tips of the antlers of a large deer, for example.
A type of stereoscopic viewer may be used in conjunction with special cards to test whether the child is using both eyes at the same time, and roughly how they line up together.
Eye muscle coordination is tested by asking the child to follow a moving light in a set pattern to make sure the ocular muscles are working correctly, in each eye separately and then together. The ability to track a moving target accurately is important in reading.
Peripheral vision, or vision off to the sides, can be tested by asking the child to pay attention to a small toy or light, then bringing in another object and taking note of how far off to the side the child notices it. This is a test done on each eye separately.
Alignment and aiming of the eyes is tested by having the child look at a small object, then covering one eye and removing the cover a few times to see if the other eye moves when the first is occluded. Then, the paddle is moved from one eye to the other several times while the child is still looking at the toy, to test whether there is a tendency for the eyes to cross too much or diverge too much.
Colour vision testing is done using a set of Ishihara plates in a booklet. Each plate in the booklet is covered with coloured dots, and will contain a number made of dots of a slightly different colour hidden within it. Each eye is tested separately here, too. Small children may be asked to use a soft, dry paintbrush or similar tool to trace the figures hidden within the plates if the child doesn't yet know his numbers.
To check for a normal response of the pupils to light is checked by dimming the lights in the room and watching carefully to see if each pupil contracts in response to a light shining in it, and opens up (dilates) when the bright light is removed.
To evaluate the health of the anterior segment, or the front of the eye, the doctor will use an instrument called a biomicroscope, or slit lamp. He or she will check for anything unusual in the front part of the child's eyes, including the eyelids, lashes, tears, conjunctiva, cornea and iris, and the crystalline lens behind the iris. By using a hand-held lens in conjunction with the slit lamp, it is also possible to view parts of the retina and optic nerve.
The health of the structures located in the interior of each eye will be checked using another instrument called an ophthalmoscope to see the retina and the head of the optic nerve.
Usually, the eyecare practitioner will use drops in the eyes to dilate the pupils for a better look, but this isn't necessary for all young patients. One effect of dilating the pupils is that the drops used may temporarily remove the ability to focus the eyes, which is useful for the doctor to re-check for refractive errors with the retinascope.
Sometimes, a school vision screening catches a child with a vision problem; more often, however, their value is questionable at best.
When the screening is done by eyecare practitioners or ophthalmic technicians, it can be of value, but when performed by teachers or parent volunteers, screenings will usually catch only one or two types of vision problems: myopia (nearsightedness) and high astigmatism. The reason for this is that the vision is checked by having each child read from an eye chart across the room. Children who are farsighted or have lower amounts of astigmatism can usually do that easily.
Having good vision across the room is necessary, but many school screenings don't test for how well the eyes work as a team, or how they track a moving object, both of which are skills needed to be a good reader. Some screening protocols don't test the vision up close, where the child holds reading material or his computer monitor.
The risk of screening by non-professionals is that if the child doesn't fail the screening, his parents may feel there is no need for a comprehensive vision exam. Relatively simple problems like uncorrected hyperopia (farsightedness) can cause the child to lag behind his peers and have serious long-term consequences.
We applaud the efforts of parents, teachers and other school officials to do what they can, but vision problems can easily hide behind a school screening that doesn't find anything wrong.
Unless your own eyecare professional has done the screening, please don't take the results seriously.
By all these methods and tests, a complete picture of the health of the eyes, their ability to see clearly, how they align and work together, how they move, how well they track, colour vision and neurological health has been constructed. Even without the child answering any questions, there is a lot of information that can be gathered.
If there is a need for corrective lenses or any other treatment, it is better to know earlier rather than later, because problems in any of these areas can interfere with learning and development.
Parents wouldn't think of sending their children to school without the proper supplies, clothing and other equipment needed to participate in the learning experience, and they would make sure he eats a good breakfast after getting enough sleep the night before. Having his eyes and vision examined, too, is just good, common sense.


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Heartland has invested in Touchtech, a software company. Heartland committed $4.4 million to the Swedish group.
EQT Ventures and LA ROCA Capital have invested in Timeless, an e-commerce platform. The two were among four investors committing €12 million to the Berlin-based group.
Aker Horizons has invested in Mainstream Renewable Energy. Aker committed €90 million to the Irish company.
Thorney Investment has invested in Packform, a packaging group. Thorney was one of three investors committing A$25 million to the Australian group.
DST Global has invested in Jefa, a fintech group. DST was one of 19 investors committing $2 million to the Mexico-based startup.
Picus Capital has invested in Rex, a veterinary platform. Picus seeded the German startup with an undisclosed amount.
Titan Capital has invested in ZenOnco, a biotech group. Titan was one of five investors committing $1.4 million to the Indian startup.
Dig Ventures has invested in Soveren, a SaaS compliance group. Dig was one of 13 investors committing $6.5 million to the London-based startup.
WndrCo has invested in Yassir, a transport app. WndrCo was one of nine investors committing $30 million to the Algerian-based group.
Schweizer Kapital Global Impact Fund has invested in Green-Y Energy, a cleantech group. Schweizer committed CHF2 million to the Swiss group.
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Willoughby Capital and Oberndorf Enterprises have invested in Tegus, a fintech platform. The two committed $90 million to the Chicago-based group.
Skip Capital and Horizons Ventures have invested in Harrison.ai, a healthcare group. The two were among five investors committing A$129 million to the Australian group. Horizons Ventures has also invested in Q-crtl, a quantum computing company. Horizons was one of nine investors committing $25 million to the Australian group.
Valar Ventures has invested in Simpl, a fintech company. Valar was one of three investors committing $40 million to the Indian group.
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Real Estate German family offices buy London building for re-development. More details here. Private Equity Comitis Capital has invested in PetCo, a supplier of premium dog and cat food.
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