The winner of the 2010 TED conference is JAMIE OLIVER!!!

What the hell is the TED Conference you ask? Why don’t you just ask some of it’s former speakers: Bono, Bill Clinton, JJ Abrahms, Al Gore, Isabelle Allende, Bill Gates and the Google guys to name a few. So how does Jamie fit into this equation?

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design.. It is a non-profit organization “devoted to what it calls spreading good ideas”.

From the years 2005-2009 3 winners were chosen and awarded $100,000 towards their wish to change the world (each winner is given only 18 minutes – this is the time period for any talk at TED regardless of how famous a speaker is! – to unveil their wish. This year the winner was limited to only one person and that would be a Mr. Jamie Oliver!

JAMIE’S WISH:
“I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.”

TED PHILOSOPHY:
“We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.”

Read more about TED here and check out something else that happened there just reminding us, not that we needed it, of how cool Google is and how amazing that this woman is getting her Ph.D in Nuclear Physics! And women, take special note of the last line………

This beautiful beautiful kitty named Misty needs a home! It’s owner decided it just didn’t want her anymore – who makes that kind of decision? Unfortunately more people than you think…Misty is currently at the Valley Vet Spay/Neuter Clinic awaiting adoption. About 5 years old, female and declawed she does best as the only cat in the house. Do you know anyone who she would be the perfect companion for? Common, who could resist!
Contact Valley Vet:
VALLEY VET NON PROFIT CLINIC
845 East Los Angeles Avenue
Simi Valley, CA 93605
805-584-3823

As I mentioned in a previous post, every day I go to the Animal Rescue website and click on the button to donate free food and care to animals who need it. How easy is that! and I do this every day. I also click on the other tabs for literacy, breast cancer, hunger etc. This quote was on the Child Health tab. Go to the site, bookmark it, click daily and you’ll also see words of wisdom, which I find inspiring and heartening, like above.

My sister Lisa and her husband Neil opened their home last Sunday for a really GREAT cause!

In an effort to increase their Spay/Neuter efforts VALLEY VET CLINIC has just opened VALLEY VET CLINIC CHARITABLE NON PROFIT SPAY/NEUTER CLINIC.

DR. NOVY IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE! He and his team are sooo passionate about the cause of getting animal population under control and I so wish there were more people and vets like him and Diane Bentz (who is the team leader at the Non-Profit).

DR. NOVY SPEAKS PASSIONATLEY ABOUT CAT AND DOG OVERPOPULATION

Valley Vet has stabilized the pet overpopulation in Eastern Ventura County – can you imagine the committment and hard work that took? Wow, these people are really something! And now they are tackling the Western part and plan on having that accomplished by 2012.

HERE IS ONE VERY ATTENTIVE CROWD WHO PITCHED IN – YOU CAN DO THE SAME!!!

I always feel that even the smallest contribution is better than none at all. They start to add up!
They need a website – does anybody want to design it???

In the meantime, call this number for information and contributions! 805-584-3823.

In addition to all the great information we got from Dr. Novy and Diane I can’t forget to mention all the AMAZING h’or d’oevres Lisa made herself (not once ounce of catering here!) I have to admit the Tenderloin mini sandwiches were my favorite and I will not admit to how many I ate!

Did Al and Gio give birth? Don’t be ridiculous but OMG! If I didn’t already have 4 I would totally want this little baby! How beautiful!

Want to add a new fluffernutter to your household? Here’s how!
Contact Carol Olson at 805.497.8425.
Carol rescues an amazing amount of kitties (she is a Saint!) and has lots to choose from!

FREE ME!!! I WANT TO CUDDLE!!!
(Come on, who can resist!!!!)

Carol’s daughter Diane has recently opened up a Cat/Dog Low Cost Spay Neuter Clinic. This service is free for wild or stray animals. How great is that!!! For info and appointment call: 805-584-3823.
Please, be kind to animals and pass this great info along!

This holiday season my siblings and I decided (finally) to do away with gift giving, no longer have that mountain of presents which takes hours to buy and unwrap (yes friends, I still love the rustle of paper…) and just donate that money to charity.

As we are a huge animal charity family each of us will choose the charity of our choice and do a little presentation of this on Christmas morning.

This will most likely be accompanied by numerous glasses of champagne – common there has to be a little luxury somewhere!

Think about giving to charities this holiday season and actually all throughout the year. Even if its ten dollars here and ten dollars there it can make a little difference to some of these small charities who are doing so much good! (It’s kinda like the Obama fundraising philosophy!!!).

I am proud to say that my sister LuAnn Apple in Melbourne Beach, Florida who has been involved with rescuing exotic birds for well over 20 years has this year started her own non-profit – M.A.R.S – that’s Melbourne Aviary Rescue Society. Her website marsparrots.org will be up come the first of the year and is going to be fantastic with lots of great stories of her day to day adventures with these amazing birds!

I’ve been involved with Catnippers (which is part of bestfriends.org)- they do huge spay/neuter clinics for feral cats and they are awesome!

http://network.bestfriends.org/

My sister Lisa works with 2 charities out in Simi Valley (this is where I took Parker and for the donation of $40 the examined him, neutered him, gave him shots and clipped his ear to show that he is spayed. (Wow, what a deal!). I know there are lots of you out there who are doing the same. I’d like to hear about them! Lets share some ideas!
St. Martins
Valley Veterninary Clinic

Who needs more “stuff”????? Make some little creature happy this Christmas! They will give you so much LOVE in return!

I click on this website every day to support the animals! One click a day helps give food to animals, I love that!!!

The Animal Rescue Site
MAKE IT YOUR 2009 RESOLUTION!!!