Thursday, June 29, 2017

Crowd Funding Lousy Way To Do Healthcare

Huffington Post
If The Future Of Health Care Is Crowdfunding, We’re All In Trouble

"Organized begging is not a way to solve access problems in health care... GoFundMe has raised $3 billion since 2010, according to its annual giving report....

According to a study published in the journal Social Science and Medicine in February, 90 percent of medical campaigns did not meet their funding goals. Researchers analyzed 200 medical campaigns on GoFundMe in 2016 and found that campaigns raised an average of 41 percent of their target, with 3.5 percent of campaigns raising zero funds whatsoever."

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Revenge on a IRS Phone Scamming Company

I myself so far this year received two of these calls. Then I came across these videos of a guy who's taking care of business. Telephone companies and the government haven't been effective. Nice to see someone has.

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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

So I ask Myself...



Why....

...do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke?

...do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put Our useless junk in the garage.

...do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in Packages of eight..

...do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.




...the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

...you don 't ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery '?

...is 'abbreviated 'such a long word?

...is it that Doctors call what they do 'practice '?

...is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

...is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

...is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

...isn 't there Mouse-flavored cat food?

...didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

...do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?


You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes?
Why don 't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

...don 't sheep shrink when it rains?

...are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

...if con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

...if flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?



Repost From January 23, 2013

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Dorney Park's History (2 Videos)

For you local history buffs I present a brief part of Dorney Park's history.

While the following videos are entirely edited and narrated by me, I want everyone to know the following videos in their entirety come from the paperback "Images Of America: Dorney Park" published by Arcadia Publishing written by Wally Ely & the late Bob Ott.

It is not my intention in anyway what-so-ever to leave my viewers with the impression that I in anyway profit nor have in any way had a part of the penmanship of the book.

Nor it is my intention to violate the publishers nor authors of this work. I simply enjoyed the book so much that I was inspired to create a video documentary verbatim from the pages of this book.

Think of the following videos as a teaser. I'm only partially presenting three of the chapters of an eight chapter book.


I strongly encourage anyone interested in the history of Dorney Park to go out and buy this totally unique historical book.

You can either click on the picture or HERE



The late Bob Ott himself left lots more information at..
"Laff In The Dark"

PBS 39 also did a fantastic job on a one hour program about ALL the area's old amusement parks called:
Carousel of Memories

Reposted From: January 30, 2010

Monday, May 29, 2017

Bottle Versus Tap Water

In light of the recent discussions centering on the water quality in our various cities, here are some issues I've been strongly advocating for some time including how to get rid of using plastic bottled water.

At the bottom of this post I link to information about 'reverse osmosis" devices. These filters are my prime choice because they remove chlorine and the fluorides that municipal water suppliers put in the water. Chlorine does serve a purpose to keep the water sanitized till it arrives into homes. However once it arrives at the tap there is a downside to drinking this chemical. It certainly has no health value, that's for sure. Something else few think about... reverse osmosis units nearly eliminate traces of radioactive elements that could be in drinking water.

"Tapped" (the trailer) (2009)

Video Courtesy tappedfilm


"Katie Couric discusses whether bottled water is healthier than tap water and also the bottled water regulations with "Tapped" producer and director Stephanie Soechtig and Joe Doss of the International Bottled Water Association." At issue is bottled water even regulated by the FDA?

Video Courtesy CBS News (2010)

Are Plastic Bottles Dangerous?

Video Courtesy CBS (2008)


Even Tap Water May Not Be 100% Safe!

Video Courtesy tappedfilm (2009)


Buy a water filter and refill a stainless thermos repeatedly over and over again. It sure keeps it a lot cooler then a plastic bottle and over time a lot cheaper too!

Here is a bunch of informational videos about "reverse osmosis" devices.

People complain, what can they do? Well the answer is simple and everyone can do it. Yet many make the choice not to. I enjoy drinking cool water out of a stainless thermos rather then a warm chemical leached plastic bottle, but hey people want to insist otherwise, what can I say?

Besides why waste energy to recycle plastic in the 1st place when there are really cheap and simple alternatives?

Updated Repost From July 30, 2010

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Computer Advice- Back It Up



You may blow off this advice, but anyone who's been a victim of a computer failure should heed my advice..


BACK IT UP!



If you bought a computer with a preinstalled OEM (original equipment manufacturer) software, they urge you to create a reinstall backup disk. This will only take you back to the day you bought your computer. It will not re-create everything you worked on since. That includes both your files and settings.

As someone who's been there (several times) I can tell you how miserable restoration can be. I've spent up to 40 hours getting my stuff all back.

Here's What I recommend.
I've bought a second 931GB internal hard drive for around eighty buck$. I also bought a Maxtor external hard drive and yet one more Seagate 465GB external hard drive.

Once a month I use the second internal hard drive to make an "image" of my entire C drive. This feature is available in Windows 7, 8 and 10. It allows you to make an exact replication of everything you have. In the event your computer crashes, it's just a matter of a few steps and your back in business.

In between I do a 3x's weekly backup to that Maxtor USB connected external drive. I use FREE software to back up my files to the Maxtor.

Once a month I use that same software to back up many more files to the external Seagate 465 GB drive.

In addition I use a FREE version of Winzip to compress my most important files with password protection. I attach them in eMail to myself. And save them in my Hotmail account. This would be just in case someone would swipe all my equipment, I still have a means online to recover my stuff.

Fortunately for me I saved copies of the older version of WinZip when it was free. NOW THEY CHARGE for the software.


Now you don't have to do everything I do, but here's a basic recommendation.
(1) Purchase a second internal HDD or use a external HDD
(2) Use Win7, 8 or 10 to make a "system image backup" of your C: drive

It's quite simple!

PS: I also used Symantec's Norton Virus software which encrypts and stores all my passwords so I never have to remember my logins. Just click on the site and Norton fills it all in. It too is also password protected.


Updated Repost From January 27, 2013
NOTE: Though the video describes Windows 7 systems --the same procedure still applies to the Windows 8 & 10 systems in use today.