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Submitted by pastor on February 10, 2010 - 2:06pm.
Greetings!
You are invited to join us as we begin our week of National Prayer for the Healing of AIDS, sponsored by the Balm of Gilead organization.
We will begin our week on Sunday, March 7, 2010 with a Service of Word and Holy Communion. It will begin at 11:00 am.
We are located at St. Michael's Lutheran Church, 6671 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa 19119. (215)848-0199
Blessings!
Pastor Andrena Ingram
You may visit us on the web at St. Michael's Lutheran Church
you may also get more information at: *Living* With HIV
Submitted by pastor on December 9, 2009 - 6:43pm.
Christmas can be a painful time for some. It may be the first Christmas without a loved family member who has recently died; it may be a time that has always been difficult.
The constant refrain on the radio and television, in shopping malls and churches, about the happiness of the season, about getting together with family and friends, reminds many people of what they have lost or have never had. The anguish of broken relationships, the insecurity of unemployment, the weariness of ill health, the pain of isolation - all these can make us feel very alone in the midst of the celebrating and spending. We need the space and time to acknowledge our sadness and concern; we need to know that we are not alone.
Our spirits sink, as the days grow shorter. We feel the darkness growing deeper around us. We need encouragement to live the days ahead of us.
For these reasons, St Michael's Lutheran Church offers a special “Blue Christmas” service on December 18th at 7:00 pm. Come out, and join with us in sharing and hearing prayers, scripture, and music that acknowledge that God’s presence is for those who mourn, for those who struggle - and that God’s Word comes to shine light into our darkness. Everyone, regardless of church background (or lack of it) is welcome.
We are located at 6671 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa 19119, for more information, please call the church office: (215) 848-0199.
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 pastor on November 23, 2009 - 12:29am.
Join us as we come together as people of God, to worship and lift up those infected and/or affected by the HIV/AIDS virus.
The global theme for 2009 and 2010 World AIDS Day is "Universal Access and Human Rights".
Service of Word and Holy Communion on November 29, 2009 @ 11:00 a.m.
St. Michael's Lutheran Church
6671 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, Pa 19119
(215)848-0199
All are welcome.
Pastor Andrena Ingram
visit us on the web: http://stmichaelsgermantown.org
Submitted by pastor on October 2, 2009 - 9:58am.
In honor of St. Francis Assisi,which is on October 4th, there will be a short service of The Blessing of the Animals at St. Michael's Lutheran Church...6671 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa 19119. Weather permitting the service will be outside. Please bring your furry companions, or scaly companions or feathery companions for a blessing for being such a blessing in our lives.
for more information: 215-848-0199
Submitted by search4india on September 21, 2009 - 4:11am.
Truly India is one of the most beautiful places in Asia. The beauty comes mainly due to its varied heritage and rich culture along with some exciting destinations. India is a country which is famous its culture, wild life and different people in different state. The hosting of India is world famous. "Indian tells Guest is God”.
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.
Most of the pilgrim places in India have some or other legends associated with them and seem to be immersed in mythology. Some of the most popular pilgrimages in India comprise of Vaishno Devi, Char Dhams, Golden Temple, Meenakshi Temple, Tirupati Temple, Jagannath Puri Temple, Shirdi Sai Temple, Haji Ali Dargah, Mecca Masjid, Jama Masjid, etc. Then, there are the numerous Buddhist monasteries in India, concentrated around Ladakh and North-eastern states of the country. Come and visit these pilgrimages to rediscover your faith.
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Submitted by lukamagnotta on June 30, 2009 - 1:04am.
If you think that cosmetic surgery is just for women, then think again. More and more men are having the surgery done. My name is Luka Magnotta, I am a 24-year-old male, and to date, I have had five cosmetic surgeries done.
It first started off as a self-esteem issue with my face when I was a teen; I had acne, so I had a laser face peel. Let's just say that my face looked like a lobster after I was finished. I regretted it, and it only made the acne and my face worse. I was under a lot of pressure from peers at school and constantly teased, so I think it stems from the emotional and mental abuse I suffered from the other kids. Self-Esteem Issues Lead to Plastic Surgery Addiction
I then graduated into my twenties and had my eyelids done, so that I would not look old. My eyes do look better, but I lost a lot of friends because they thought I was nuts. I would get comments like, "You are way too young for that" and "There is absolutely nothing wrong with you." Maybe on the outside there wasn't anything wrong, but I could see a million different little things wrong with me every time I looked in the mirror.
After one incident at the liquor store when the clerk didn't ask me for my ID, I freaked out and thought I looked old. So, I got my laugh lines around my face done. I had Juviderm injections put into my face and I could not move my face for three days. It is sort of like botox. Everyone by this point was getting scared for me. I was working out all the time because I was told I was underweight. I do modeling, and the pressures of that cause me more stress, so I again went to the surgeon.
This time it was a big operation. In September, 2006 I had hair restoration, also known as a hair transplant. They cut me open in the back of my head and took a piece of my flesh off, they then sewed me back up and planted the grafts of hair into my head at the front. As a result, now I cannot feel the back of my head and there is a huge scar.
Within five months I got turned down for a modeling job because my hair was again too short so I became worried and called the doctor. He told me to come in said he would do my surgery again. For the second time in five months, I had another hair transplant. I now can't feel my entire head. I am not crazy; cosmetic surgery is an addiction. Get Help For Addiction Problems
If you are reading this and considering surgery, and you are under the age of 30, consult a therapist or talk to someone. The issue is not on the outside, it's on the inside.
I did it for personal and professional reasons; I felt plain looking and noticed how well beautiful people are treated. There are tremendous risks, I had excessive bleeding in my head and had to go to the emergency room. I can never cut my hair short and I have to wear concealer on my face to hide the scars from the facial peel.
Remember...no amount of surgery can satisfy a plastic surgery addict -the problem isn't with their body, it's all in their head. The mental disorder Body Dismorphic Disorder has been linked to the compulsion behind having multiple cosmetic procedures, and medical professionals generally agree that this is a dangerous obsessive disease.
Addiction to cosmetic surgery is a real and growing compulsion associated with disturbed body image and heightened beauty obsession in our culture. My idol was Michael Jackson, he has influanced me in so many ways.
As for Michael Jackson, he was an idol and inspered millions of people . He changed the world of Music with his breath taking voice and Amazing Dance moves to us he will always be the "King of Pop" but for others he was more then that. So today we will Morn the death of this Major Music Icon. I pray that his Family is well and Friends are safe .
And to all the Fans Pray for this Man Cuz without most of the music you mear wouldn't be here with out him.
God Bless is soul and hope he is there with the ones he lost.
I will miss him My Family Will Miss Himt he Nations around the world will Miss him.
Rest in Peace My Idol I will Pray for you and will love you forever and always.
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 pastor on June 17, 2009 - 9:29am.
St. Michael's Lutheran Church, 6671 Germantown Avenue, will join Philadelphia Fight (www.fight.org) to participate in National HIV Testing Day on Saturday, June 27, 2009 from noon to 4 pm. Speakers, literature and on-site HIV testing will be available. Other health-related information will be provided including resources for people who are living with HIV/AIDS, a healthy living table, and information about the SHARE food program, A community barbecue will be held during the event. The event is free and open to the public. Walk-ins welcome.
This program is a part of the15th Anniversary of National HIV Month during the month of June. The theme this year if Prevention, Treatment and Justice. Prevention because this is still the only way to stop the spread of HIV!. Treatment because HIV is not a death sentence! And Justice because HIV is caused by a virus, but the epidemic is caused by poverty, injustice and despair!
For more information, contact the church office at 215-848-0199.
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