Celebrating Dad's 89th Birthday

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Liz, Mary Ann, Olivia, Paul, Carl, Kathryn, and myself went to Orlando's in Muncy for dinner. We surprised Dad with a candle topped dessert. His first response was "I didn't order anything"... to us telling him that we were celebrating his birthday early! We sang and ate dessert... he also enjoyed his salmon entree...it sparked his appetite.

A Very interesting God article

This article is from the NY Time... please read it is very interesting
"August 23, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor
A Grand Bargain Over Evolution
By ROBERT WRIGHT
THE “war” between science and religion is notable for the amount of civil disobedience on both sides. Most scientists and most religious believers refuse to be drafted into the fight. Whether out of a live-and-let-live philosophy, or a belief that religion and science are actually compatible, or a heartfelt indifference to the question, they’re choosing to sit this one out.
Still, the war continues, and it’s not just a sideshow. There are intensely motivated and vocal people on both sides making serious and conflicting claims.
There are atheists who go beyond declaring personal disbelief in God and insist that any form of god-talk, any notion of higher purpose, is incompatible with a scientific worldview. And there are religious believers who insist that evolution can’t fully account for the creation of human beings...." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/opinion/23wright.html?pagewanted=all

Be careful while driving

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Please just watch this video before you drive again and then please be careful while driving or watch out for that other driver.

My word on Health Care Reform

I have found this article on Fresh Air on NPR. I can't read papers or books so I am not up on all the Medical Plans being purposed by President Obama but I have been so frustrated. When I was nurse, things were so simple and people got into health care because for the most part they enjoyed taking care of people. People with a common goal: to assist people when they were sick but after DRG’s (regulation controlling the length of hospital stays) were instituted, the health care system in this country went to the …you can’t say the dogs because most dogs get better care than most people do. It seems in this country when certain “people” get an idea, “I can make lots of money doing this” let’s dive in. Then after they have raped the health care system or the home loan business for example for billions of dollar of profit, they are off on their yachts enjoying the spoils. Then common sense people have to come in and pick up the pieces fixing what the money-grubbing creeps have ripped off. Then they complain because they don’t want anyone in their business screw the poor people they need a helping hand. I hope that with my whole heart we become a Nation that lends a helping hand to all that need a step up…we only have one life. Enjoy the article from NPR.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112172939
T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America'

Brian New Apartment

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Here is Brian unfinished apartment

Here is a video of Brian apartment before he got a chance to put his touch on it. Tomorrow I will put up some picture of what Brian has done to make the apartment his.

When a woman becomes ashamed of her body

I watched this interview and was draw to the question of WHEN DOES A WOMAN LEARN TO BE ASHAMED OF HER BODY - reading this I story I remember when I had those feeling pushed on me, I was 5 years old I remember and a neighborhood father said, "don't you think you should be wearing shirt" - what gave him the authority to discuss such a sensitive topic with a 5 year old. I hated that man from that day on, it makes no sense. Despite my experience I would guess that every women has her moment we just have to hope that we can make a change in the next generation!A QUOTE FROM THE INTERVIEW"...Matter defended his use of a picture of a nine-year old girl. “…what it represents to me is a question of at what point does a girl become a woman and learn that her body is something that needs to be covered up and something she needs to be ashamed of?”

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A severe storm hit Williamsport

Went to the movies today and due to the storm we lost power causing us to miss the end of the movie...we did get a pass to come back to see another sshow or finish watching "Julia and Julie" which by the way apart from the end was a very good movie...two thumbs up. From NBC NEWS

WILLIAMSPORT, LYCOMING COUNTY- Thousands of PPL customers were without electricity late Sunday. They lost power when powerful storms swept through northeastern and central Pennsylvania Sunday afternoon. Eyewitness News found some of the worst damage in Lycoming County.It's an all too familiar scene Sunday evening in Williamsport - work crews sawing fallen trees into pieces after a most unusual storm. It came in fast and with plenty of rain, wind and a very big lightning strike.Scott Andrew-McMahon said, "I'd say the wind was probably going about 80 miles an hour. After the wind went by, that's when I saw the lightning strike hit the tree."The tree ended up resting on this power pole in the 500-block of Center Street. That downed power lines and sparked a fire in a neighbor's yard.Smoke was still coming up from the scorch mark an hour and a half after the strike. Neighbors take pictures to capture the aftermath of this storm for posterity.A front end loader lifts and pushes debris out of the way trying to clear the road. Center city Williamsport took the brunt of the storm.A couple blocks away on Lycoming Street, two big trees are toppled on the property of Wanda Holmes. She was enjoying a family barbeque when the storm forced them to run for cover. "And the next thing I knew there was a big tree on the front window and we couldn't get out the door," she said.The family got some help to cut up and remove the tree. With so much damage in front of the house, she thought her entire property was in jeopardy. "We thought everything in the back was going to blow down but it didn't. There was a lot of limbs and bushes and stuff blowing around," added Holmes.The storm knocked out power to traffic lights all over the city, including along Hepburn Street. It’s just one more sign of the devastating storm that people of Williamsport won't soon forget.The storms first hit Tioga County just after 3:00 P.M. According to the National Weather Service part of Hills Creek State Park had to be evacuated after large trees came crashing down, blocking roads and damaging vehicles. Large trees also blocked Route 287 about 3 miles south of Wellsboro.The storm then rolled into Lycoming County causing widespread damage. Hardest hit areas included Jersey Shore, Loyalsock, Williamsport, Mifflin Township and Waterville. There were also reports of large trees down around Lock Haven in Clinton County and in Milton, Northumberland County. Some trees were knocked in the Canton area of Bradford County as well.

This is very very scary