Video By Ed Bond on Cure for Canine Distemper Now on YouTube!

Dr. Sears Gives A Lecture in Houston Tomorrow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqeLrXH19g4

An updated version of the first video is now posted on YouTube. This one has some additional video of Galen, Ed's former dog who was treated in the body in February 1977 with Dr. Sears NDV treatment.

What can you do to help bring this treatment to more dogs?

Share this video with your vet and everyone you can, even blog about it, and be sure to leave comments on YouTube.

Thank, everyone!

Special Announcement:

Dr. Al Sears will be giving a lecture on the new treatment for canine distemper from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, in Houston, Texas.

E-mail savedistemperdogs@yahoo.com for more info.

If you love dogs and will be in the Houston area I encourage you to attend.

Distemper Activism Continues- New Video Produced By Ed Bond

I want to share with you a wonderful public service message that Ed Bond wrote regarding the new cure for canine distemper discovered by Alson Sears DVM.

It's in the rough draft stage but you have got to see this! It will definitely move you, (and keep your eye out for Carmella; she's included in it!)

Be sure to listen closely to the perfect lyrics of the two songs in the background.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=156398649871

Songs by Margaret Owens

"Tryin"

"Keep The Faith"

The full lyrics can be found on her website:

"Tryin"

http://www.margaretowens.com/newsite/site4/third_web_project/clip_Tryin.html

"Keep The Faith"

http://www.margaretowens.com/newsite/third_web_project/clip_Keep_the_Faith.html

Eye Candy Interlude-Sneak Preview!

Design Featured in Step-by Step Beads

Peace and Love, and all that Jazz
$190
18" long (not including 2" leaf pendant)
4-strand necklace including, Carnelian, Faceted Amethyst, green Freshwater Pearls, Aventurine, brass beads, copper beads, seedbeads, artisan-made Raku ceramic leaf pendant, and hand-crafted clasp made with copper wire and chain links.

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This necklace made the top 10 in the Colorworks Tertiary Colors Challenge sponsored by Interweave Press's Step by Step Beads in which participants were asked to create a piece of jewelry including primarily green, purple, and orange together.

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It took me several attempts to come up with something I was happy with, and finally I had a design that I felt brought these colors together in a subtle enough way so that they wouldn't clash, while still maintaining enough of an edge to be fresh and exciting.

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This design reminds me of those "psychadelic" color schemes that were popular during the late 60s and early 70s, and with the revitalization of that era in this years' clothing styles, it seems it's right on time.

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Be sure to pick up a copy of the November/December issue of Step By Step Beads and take a look at the gallery section for the featured top 10 designs. The magazine issue is on news stands as of October 20th.

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Here's your chance to own it. Convo me on Etsy and I can reserve it in your name when I list it on Etsy tomorrow (well, technically later today). If you're purchasing it as a gift please let me know in "notes to seller" if you'd like it gift-wrapped. Those of you reading my blog are getting earlybird notice before it shows up in the category pages!

http://Giftbearer.etsy.com/

Eye Candy Interlude- Sneak Preview!

Zinuki Fine and Sterling Silver Necklace

16", set with 5mm. Chrysoprase Cab

$165.00

Each link of this was handmade and the whole thing took many hours to shape, assemble, and put the brushed finish on after the focal piece was soldered and the stone set.

Please feel free to convo me on Etsy if you would like to reserve this piece for when I list it tomorrow.

The Navajo Blanket Ring is listed on Etsy now in case you have not already checked and seen it there.

Happy shopping!

http://Giftbearer.etsy.com

Eye Candy Interlude-Today's Sneak Preview!

Navajo Blanket Ring

Size 7: Made from PMC fine silver with fine silver bezel

and Australian Opal- $250

Sometimes you create one of those pieces that seems to get even more exciting as you go, and this was one of them! I knew as soon as I made the impression in clay that things were going to turn out the way I envisioned them in my head.

I wanted to make something powerful and at the same time intricate using the traditional chevron shape but with a twist, so I decided on a repeating and interlocking pattern on either side that mirrored the point at each end of the central pattern.

The mazelike focal area at the top of this ring reminded me of a Navajo blanket like the one that used to hang on the wall at the top of the stairs in the Baltimore rowhouse where I grew up.

This ring measures 7/8" at the widest point and is nice and weighty at approximately 2mm. thick!

I was tempted to keep it, but knew that there would be somebody out there who would want it just as much.

If you are that person please convo me on Etsy before I list it tomorrow and ask that I reserve it for you and I'll put your name on the listing, then contact you back to let you know it is ready for purchase.

This is a very special one-of-a-kind ring, so don't let it get away! You might have someone on your holiday shopping list who would enjoy it (or you might want to keep it for yourself).

I am on a roll with lots more exciting metalwork to come, so stay tuned to my shop and if you aren't yet following my blog please do so that you will get up to the minute notice of new designs as they're completed. As always your comments are welcome.

http://Giftbearer.etsy.com

My Dog Recycles! See How!

It's been awhile since I updated readers about Carmella and it's been a whole year (October 1st) now since she had the rare procedure to cure her from Distemper, and I am happy to report that she's doing great! I took some unusual "Fall photos" of her against the new flooring in the kitchen while she was eating a melon rind (well actually four halves from a honeydew and a canteloup).

Those of you who have been reading reliably since the beginning when I first got her will remember that she loves apples, but did you know she loves melon rind?

Talk about recycling! Now that takes "green" to a whole new level!

This is one unusual dog, for sure!

She certainly is determined...

to get every last bite of melon she can out of this thing!

I have to take it away from her when she reduces it to a mere shell

or she'd eat that too!

Once she completely guts one half, she moves onto another!

Now that's one way to get your RDA of antioxidants!

Eye Candy Interlude- Sneak Preview!

Dark'N Sultry Petals (Earrings)

2" Long X 1/2" Wide set with 5mm Rainbow Moostone cabs

$40.00

Tiny Half-Bead Stacker Ring (Fine Silver) Size 8

2.5mm wide

$20.00

Be there first and reserve these now on Etsy before they're listed and shown to everyone tomorrow!

Go to http://giftbearer.etsy.com/ and send me a convo asking me to put "reserved for" (your name) on the listing.

If you're not following my blog yet you might want to do that so you'll be notified of future sneak previews!

Happy Shopping!

Eye Candy Interlude-Fall Colors in Jewelry-Accessory Must-Haves!

LIMITED EDITION Amber-colored Japanese Lantern Earrings with Facetted Citrine Rhondelles and Round Peach Moonstone Beads
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=48194

Jungle Love Three Leaf Necklace

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=228931

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Tomatos On The Vine (earrings)

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6306962

Harvest of Plenty Bracelet

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=140394

Warmly Glowing -necklace

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12208920

Gifts From The Sugar Maple Softies Crocheted Cuff Bracelet

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=633201

Ice is Nice Flawless Lemon Quartz Dangling Stud Earrings

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=18748314

Fine Silver Blackberry Leaf Necklace with Citrine Cabochon

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23748009

Facets that will knock your eyes out-Ice is Nice Beer Quartz Dangling Stud Earrings
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18752215

Copper Poppy (bracelet)

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16896352

Afterglow of Pink Zinfindel and Merlot (bracelet)

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16771882

Remember; when you buy handmade jewelry everybody wins!

Happy Holidays from Giftbearer!

A Better Healthcare System-In The Business of Caring

Despite the Whitehouse's new focus on the Middle East, people here at home are still waiting to see what Congress is going to do to make sure that their medical needs will be covered.

My own appeal for my medication still sits on the sidelines. A form was supposed to be mailed out for me to pursue my next level appeal and two weeks later I still have not received it. Things just don't tend to get lost in the mail here and it is about as unlikely as winning the lottery that they would have been lost twice in a row.

My pain level has been worse lately, but I wanted to get another article on healthcare written before going back to bed. This issue is too important to let fade into obscurity. Please keep up the pressure on your elected officials and on the Whitehouse to keep this front and center on their agenda.

If you have a healthcare story you'd like me to cover, please contact me on Etsy or leave me an e-mail address so that I can get it from you in its entirety, and I'll publish it in an upcoming article.

I found several more good videos on YouTube today. You will find alot of this information appalling, but please forward the link to your friends and family, even your elected officials;

Cigna’s annual report for 2008:
Revenue $19.1 Billion dollars
Net income: $292 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4TsaHmtgfA&annotation_id=annotation_881627&feature=iv

Private Healthcare are the true DEATH PANELS - Denying Claims for Paying Customers (Cigna)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_vQHJ2H1wI

This woman in the next video was an attorney who used to work for the Federal government authorizing benefits for people with disabilities and Social Security. Now she herself is sick with Dermatomyositis, a rare autoimmune disease and was just told her insurance company will not pay for her care.

Real People DENIED Real Healthcare: Bonnie Drew (Blue Cross/Blue Shield)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4kEvdyIcBk&feature=PlayList&p=CE06D0FE2CFE6960&index=2

There is a practice among insurance companies called rescission which means that the company sets up potential patients who file initial applications by asking them confusing and deceptive questions and later removing them from coverage claiming they “lied” on the application. Rescinded patients are routinely blacklisted with other insurance companies. This woman was rescinded merely for taking a medication in the past that she was no longer taking simply because she did not know the reason the doctor had charted in her medical records. She became the lead plaintiff against Blue Cross/Blue Shield in a class action suit. She spoke before a US Congressional Subcomittee about the need to outlaw such discriminatory practices.

Jennifer Wittney Horton: Make Them Keep That Promise (Blue Cross/Blue Shield)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCYPC2BMmB8&feature=related

The president of United Healthcare Steven Helmsley gets a salary of 3.2 million dollars! Every day in 2009 he makes $819, 363.10. They have a pattern of telling people that their treatment is “medically unnecessary”. You can do the math as to why they’re really denying so many claims.

You might remember if you’ve been reading my blog that I covered the story of Isabella, a little girl who was unable to eat on her own. In this video her struggle to have her treatment covered continues, as does a little boy’s with a Plagiocephalic condition, and a woman with a necrotic colon. The insurance companies in these cases also claimed these treatments were “medically unnecessary”. Oh, yeah, and I guess their private jets were necessary that they used to shuttle top level executives around, or the gold-plated silverwear provided travelers on that plane. Give me a break!

Fight back against health insurance lies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKI9be55N00

There's something intrinsically and morally wrong when people are living high on the hog at the expense of human lives. I mean who in the world needs that kind of excess?

Don't believe for a minute that the government would commit that level of unethical fraud and medical neglect against the American people. Pencil pushers they may be and of course the current government-run systems need to be improved as well, but at least nobody's getting filthy rich on the deaths of it's recipients.

The level of direct reward these HMOs are receiving by denying claims is exactly what makes privatization so dangerous. Something needs to be done to place limits on these private companies whether they like it or not, whether it's popular or not. If politicians have to forgo a few campaigne contributions then so be it. Other industries have state or federally mandated requirements, so the insurance industry should not be exempt from regulation either. It is high time for that, and the sooner the better. If they don't like it then maybe they need to go into another line of work.

I don't believe that private enterprise comes without responsability and neither should money. That is not the kind of freedom this country should become known for. Freedom without responsability is just anarchy, and that's not a good thing, not for us, not for our children, and not for society in the long-term for generations to come. Along with teaching our children to support themselves and achieve the American dream we should also be teaching them to have compassion for their fellow man, and to recognize that nobody "makes it" in a vaccuum. Those successes we achieve are not ours alone, but a conglomeration of hard work, being at the right place at the right time, and of help from others outside ourselves. We often forget just how many factors got us where we are today, how we landed a good job, what brought us to where we found that great partner, or who all the people were who contributed to our achieving some other good fortune. Sometimes we might not even know the answer to that question, but it is important that we know that man is not an island, and that our many collaborations in life are instrumental to our success.

In many ways the key to our success lies in our acknowledgement that we are in fact "our brother's keeper", and our lack thereof, may lead to our extinction. We alone can prevent it by creating a kinder and gentler society now. That energy and intention will bounce back and forth between ourselves and everyone we touch in the process of living our lives.

America should maintain citizens' individuality, but not to the extent that it steps on the rights of others or takes advantage of people less powerful.

It's clear that these insurance companies cannot be trusted to police themselves and that left to their own devices they won't do the right thing.

When an entire industry raises the bar on its own moral turpitude and it becomes industry standard then people working within that framework begin to become desensitized toward those they are harming in the course of their work, and it becomes generally acceptable. This should bother anyone and everyone when they see these practices in motion because anybody could end up on the bad end of a very sharp stick! If things have become so bad out there that "everybody does it" then who do you have left to turn to? Rather than to scale down our expectations to live within a cage of our society's own design, why not design something the way we want it, and then make our own expectations the new industry standard?