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Submitted by Karl on December 7, 2009 - 7:10am.
Albert Yee shares news that R. Bradley Maule has completed his move to Portland, OR. He managed the very significant phillyskyline for almost ten years. His knowledge and love of architecture, of place, of photography and Philadelphia inspired and informed thousands across the city.
From the phillyskyline about page:
Hello, I'm R. Bradley Maule, sometimes RBM, always B Love. This is my web site. It is made in honor of the city I live in and love, Philadelphia. It is to present an honest look—warts and all—at the city and its varied urban fabric.
I came here from Tyrone, Pennsylvania (Steelers Country) in 2000, and have spent all my 33 years at a PA address. I have no mission statement or goal with this site, but if I had one wish, it would be that Pennsylvanians could see past the nonsense and love one another, from Erie to Philly up to the Poconos back out to the Burgh and everywhere in between.
But here on Philly Skyline, my friends and I are just sharing our experiences right here in Philadelphia with our fellow humans.
Albert points to his Farewell, Philadelphia slideshow on Flickr. Make sure to subscribe to Maule of America to follow his work in the future (some great shots already there!).
He left an imprintis going to be greatly missed. His impact will live on.
Thank you Brad.
Submitted by Karl on December 5, 2009 - 7:57pm.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Villanova football star Szczur to donate bone marrow:
Szczur, a wideout in football and outfielder/catcher in baseball, is preparing to become a bone-marrow donor. The junior learned three days ago that he was match for a 1-year-old girl who has leukemia. He did not comment; when and where the procedure will take place were not disclosed.
Submitted by Karl on November 30, 2009 - 9:18pm.
Philadelphia Inquirer: From Ardmore to Afghanistan, a mission of giving:
The goodwill gesture is called Operation Angel Wings, and it's the brainchild of an Ardmore shopkeeper and a Broomall trauma surgeon stationed in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Kenneth Marx.
"Someday those kids will grow up to place their finger on a trigger," Marx said in an e-mail. "The moment when the target in their sights resembles the guys who once gave them a winter cap is that moment when reconciliation might hold violence at bay.
"Life in the mountains here is nasty, brutish, and utterly strange. Soft power and indirect means may be the winding path to an improvised solution, if there is a solution to be found."
Writing from Nangarhar province, where he is deployed with the National Guard's 108th Cavalry, Marx said the immediate aim was to get Americans and Afghans talking.
"We have asked for folks at home to send small gifts of winter clothing, which are excellent conversation-starters," he said.
When he arrived in Afghanistan on Oct. 12, Marx said, he saw a need for children's hats, gloves, sweaters, socks, scarves, fleece jackets, and small, lightweight toys that could go with soldiers on patrol.
On Nov. 9, Marx received an e-mail from Sherry Tillman, 6,824 miles away in Ardmore, inviting him to the holiday sale at her gift and art-gallery store. He wrote back, saying he couldn't attend and asking if she could send warm clothes for the Afghan children.
"He wrote me that the kids are barefoot and in rags, and it's winter," Tillman said. She said she recalled thinking, "Oh, my God, I have to do something."
Sponsored by First Friday Main Line, a nonprofit organization that promotes the Lancaster Avenue shopping district, Operation Angel Wings began immediately.
Tillman, director of First Friday Main Line, said she was determined to collect everything on Marx's wish list. The gifts will be stored at her shop, Past*Present*Future, and the Ardmore Initiative office, both on Lancaster Avenue.
Tillman has set Friday as the shipping date for the first donations.
"I'd like to be able to send several packages right away, and to be able to continue sending," Tillman said.
A couple of weeks ago, Carla J. Zambelli, publicist for First Friday Main Line, sent out an e-mail blast asking residents for donations. The donations have started trickling in, Tillman said.
Visit First Friday Main Line for more information.
Submitted by Karl on November 29, 2009 - 3:47pm.
Philadelphia Inquirer: How he rescued Boscov's: Al Boscov's work and goodwill saved the stores that bear the family name.:
The odds were against the Reading company when it went bankrupt just weeks before last fall's stock market crash.
There was, conventional wisdom said, no realistic way to rescue its thousands of regional employees, dozens of stores, or century-old legacy. No money. No banks willing to step into the economic meltdown with emergency loans. No hope.
But in crunching the numbers that spelled doom for the nation's largest family-owned department-store chain, the doubters underestimated the power of a pint-sized 79-year-old man.
Had their spreadsheets been able to tabulate big-time heart and brains, they would have predicted a different outcome. Because Al Boscov is no ordinary businessman.
"I can dance, I can sing," Boscov joked later in a Manhattan elevator, tap-dancing in a charcoal suit to an absurd ditty about saving the company. The vaudevillian flash ended as the doors opened. "That's what did it," he said, and hopped out.
It would, indeed, require an extraordinary businessman to pull off a Rocky-worthy win against an economy devouring itself: a savior who was beloved, not feared, but no-nonsense when needed; one with more friends than enemies; who preferred details and long hours over swagger and power lunches.
Submitted by Karl on November 29, 2009 - 2:33pm.
CityPaper: A Voice For The Fallen: One man's quest to memorialize the 4,600 gay men who died of AIDS in Philadelphia.:
If Bartlett's wiki had a mission statement, it would probably go something like this: "To help those who lived through those dark years heal, and to connect that generation with those who came after."
"As I am gradually becoming an elder in the gay community, I'm trying to find that next way to connect these generations," Bartlett says. "This wiki is a tool to develop conversation between young generations of activists — gays, yes, but not just gays — also anyone who wants to start, live and sustain a movement."
In the summer of 1991, ACT UP Philadelphia converged with other LGBTQ, labor, women's rights and sundry liberal organizations in Kennebunkport, Maine, to protest then-President Bush's re-election campaign. They chartered a bus. Bartlett was riding. So, too, was a man named Harry Reed, a sanitation worker who came with a travel bar in tow, making martinis and handing out beers — which, as Bartlett mentions, is referenced on Reed's wiki entry.
"A lot of the people on that bus died that year or soon after, including Harry," Bartlett says. "I think we all knew he was sick then and that must have been scary." But they pressed ahead anyway. The movement was bigger, more important, than any individual, or any disease.
"That was a time when I realized I was born at a unique moment that allowed me to participate in a defining time in history," Bartlett says. "We can't possibly let all these stories disappear."
Link: Gay Networks in Philadelphia Wiki
Submitted by search4india on September 21, 2009 - 4:11am.
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India is a land of famous adventure tourism destinations. There are several wildlife parks and sanctuaries in India providing abundant scope for the nature lover tourists and adventurous tourists to treasure the beauty of wildlife.
Indian wildlife parks and sanctuaries are rich in their flora and fauna. The wild animals and mind-blowing scenery of dense Indian parks and sanctuaries attract tourists from all over the world. Each and every wildlife parks and sanctuaries of India have its unique charm and variety to offer its visitors.
Traverse through the Great Himalayan Range and appreciate the sheer geographic diversity - from the verdant, forested valleys and tropical jungles of Arunachal and the flowering meadows carpeted with rare orchids, to the rugged terrain of the Trans Himalaya that extends to the Tibetan plateau.
Desert tour to Rajasthan, historical tour and culture tour; for its ever-demanding medical tourism, Ayurveda tourism and Yoga tourism and for its royal Tour will be really unforgettable for life long. All these features of Indian tours and travels symbolize Incredible India as place of cultural diversity.
Popularly known as the Devbhumi – "Land of the Gods", Himachal Pradesh is a beautiful hill state in northern India nestled in western Himalayas. The state is landlocked with the Tibetan plateau to the east, Jammu and Kashmir to the north, and the Punjab to the west. However the state stands apart from its neighbors in terms of its sheer topographic diversity and breathtaking pristine natural beauty. From vast tracts of high-altitude Trans-Himalayan desert to dense green deodar forests, from apple orchards to cultivated terraces, from snow capped high Himalayan mountain ranges to snow fed lakes and gushing rivers.
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Submitted by Karl on June 21, 2009 - 9:15am.
The city's thoughts and prayers are with Ralph Archbold, the city's premier Benjamin Franklin impersonator as he recovers from a stroke.
In 2003, Time Magazine ran a profile of him that shared his level of commitment and what is at the heart of his success - that he works to create a community.
According to the Time piece, he checks his email, linked to from his home page regularly.
He has a linkedin page as well.
Submitted by Karl on June 20, 2009 - 12:06pm.
Submitted by CHRISMARTIN on June 5, 2009 - 3:46am.
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Submitted by douganderson on May 29, 2009 - 6:09pm.
Has anyone here seen these "She's coming home, Philly" advertisements that are floating around the Internet and Chicago? I have no idea who's coming, but it is definitely interesting. Something is coming up and it looks big. It's viral marketing at its finest. Here's what Philebrity.com had to say about it:
"This Moment In Viral Marketing: “She” Is Coming Back To Philly, Whoever The Hell “She” Is
If you’ve been on The Book of Faces or The Google or elsewhere on the web lately — and obviously, you have — you may have seen links for shescominghome.com, with the tagline, “Hey Philadelphia! She’s back… Can you guess who it is?” Go to the site, and it’s a woman’s silhouette against the Philly skyline with a countdown clock to the reveal of who “She” is. (As of this writing, 2 days, 19 hours.) Well, we’ve done a little snooping around, and we’ve got two theories on who “She” might be:
First, the real one: The shescominghome.com domain is registered to concert promoters AEG, so we can safely assume whoever “She” is, she is a musical performer of some kind. We called the AEG Philly office — full disclosure, they’re an advertiser on Philebs — and found that either they really did not know who “She” was, or were feigning ignorance. Fair enough. Without the “viral,” it’s just “marketing” and what fun is that? But upon further Internet snooping, we have developed a hunch, and we think that the “She” in question, could be, maybe, Celine Dion. The weird miniature Jennifer Aniston silhouette would seem to back that up, as would this link, which purports that Dion is “back” in 2010 with a series of concerts booked by - natch - AEG. So, yeah, Celine Dion. Who cares.
Second, the better one: That the “She” in question is the long-standing mysterious subject of every “That’s What She Said” joke, ever. Which would be AMAZING. For years, we have been amazed by both the candor with which the infamous “She” reportedly jokes about her sexual exploits, as well as the fact that, after all that nasty stuff, “She” is even actually still in possession of a working vagina. The identity of “She” has been a mystery through the ages, and the idea that she would be coming “back” to Philly opens up a, pardon the expression, Pandora’s box of other questions. It makes the mind wobble. And then reach for penicillin.
And, if perchance “She” would turn out to be Celine Dion and the woman Who Said That, well, that would work out pretty awesome, too."
Well, what do you guys think? Who do you think this mysterious girl coming home to Philly is???
Submitted by pastor on April 6, 2009 - 11:47pm.
 Palm Sunday was celebrated by proclaiming Christ's entry into Jerusalem, and by our procession around the block. We walked around the block waving our palms and singing hymns. Our service included the "Reading of the Passion", and Holy Communion.
Our worship services in the next days are shaped by the remembrance of Christ's death and resurrection. All are welcome to these services. The services are as follows:
Maundy Thursday Service, April 9, 7:30 p.m. will include Holy Communion, traditional foot washing following Jesus' example of servanthood,the stripping of the altar, and the extinction of all candle light as worshipers leave in darkness.
Good Friday, April 10, worship at 7:30 p.m. This service will recall the crucifixion and the seven last words of Jesus. Liturgical dancers will offer an interpretation of "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded."
Easter Day Worship, April 12, 11:00 a.m. will be a joyous celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord. Liturgical dancing and special music with trumpet, soloists, and the entire congregation singing the "Hallelujah Chorus" will enrich our worship.
Come and join us! Children are welcome at all services. A continental breakfast from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. will precede the service. All are invited. Children are also invited to an Easter egg hunt to be held on the church lawn following worship.
St Michael's Lutheran is located at 6671 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa 19119..
office #215-848-0199
Submitted by John Pangia on December 21, 2008 - 12:33pm.
71 year old John Hauck has played Santa Claus for the past 5 seasons at Granite Run Mall,
just outside Philadelphia, and we have to admit, he makes a pretty good looking Santa.
This year, Hauck is taking NJ Transit lines to reach the New York subways, in search of
another Santa job. Due to budget cuts, Granite Run laid him off.
Recession? Ho ho ho...
News Link: Unemployed Santa
Cartoon from Sid in the City
Submitted by Lorraine on December 18, 2008 - 4:18pm.
TogetherGreen Fellowships have recently been awarded to forty of the nation’s most promising conservationists. Meet Keith Russell, a Fellow who has been involved in conservation efforts for two decades. The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania man is the recipient of a new national fellowship designed to advance the work of individuals with outstanding potential to help shape a brighter environmental future. He is one of only 40 people selected from competitors nationwide for the TogetherGreen Conservation Leadership Program, part of a new conservation initiative of the National Audubon Society with support from Toyota.
Fellows receive specialized training in conservation planning and execution, the chance to work and share best practices with gifted conservation professionals, and assistance with project outreach and evaluation. Each Fellow will also receive $10,000 towards a community-focused project to engage local residents in conserving land, water and energy, and contributing to greater environmental health. For his fellowship, Keith will focus on organizing a volunteer monitoring effort to collect data on bird collisions with building windows, combining citizen science and wildlife conservation efforts. This study will help reveal how building lights and building glass in downtown Philadelphia affect many of the migratory birds that pass through the city each spring and fall, allowing Russell and others to work towards making the city a safer place for these prodigious travelers. Turning off lights and reducing the transparency and reflection caused by building glass will help protect these birds from deadly collisions, educate community members and business owners about the perils migratory birds face in cities, and ultimately help slow the rate at which many of these species are now declining.
The efforts of the Fellows will aid people and wildlife around 39 cities in 24 different states—a full list can be found at http://www.togethergreen.org/fellows.
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