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Vortex Helicopter Services provides professional helicopter services to Southwestern Pennsylvania and unforgettable Pittsburgh helicopter tours.

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Vortex Helicopter Services is the team that you can trust for the best helicopter services. We are a team full of professionals who can give you the best experience in the air. We have a wide range of services that you can get and we have plenty of ideas that you can use to make your experience in the air exhilarating. We are an affordable company and we look to give people a proper view of Pittsburgh, PA. Whenever you want to get a helicopter ride, we are the team that you can rely on. Trust us to give you an experience like never before.

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Pittsburgh, PA is one of the best cities in the United States. The skyline is fantastic and trust us when we say the view is better from above. There is a lot of ground to cover in the city and if you are looking for the best experience learning the city, and fast, then helicopter tours should work for you. Professional Pittsburgh helicopter services include helicopter tours and we are the team that will give you the best one possible.

There are various packages when it comes to our helicopter tours. All packages have predetermined routes. We are also open to customized routes which we can discuss with you before the trip. The various packages include a 1-hour trip, 1-hour breakfast hop, 30-minutes breakfast hop, and a Pennsylvania from above tours. All the trips have different pricing ranges and you can contact us for more information.

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We have the team that you can trust for the best helicopter tours in Pittsburgh, PA. Our team passionately wants to help people view and explore the city. We touch on every corner of the city and we will show you the best monuments and views from the best angle. Our tours are fun and educative and by the time we are done, you will feel like you know and are part of Pittsburgh. We offer several fun-filled and affordable flight experiences. Enjoy Pittsburgh from the clouds today by getting our services.

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Vortex Helicopter Services provides professional helicopter services to the city of Pittsburgh and South Western Pennsylvania.

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Before you climb aboard that helicopter, you will want to know if you are making the right choice. Is a helicopter tour worth it? Definitely! you will enjoy every second that you are up in the sky inside the chopper. The views are breathtaking, and the experience is unforgettable as you get to see the city from a view that very few people get the privilege to do.

With Vortex Helicopter Tours, you will learn a lot and have a lot of fun while at it. We have predetermined routes made for people to experience the best of the city. You can also make a custom route to see specific areas that you fancy. We offer unbelievable value for the experience you receive, and we are looking forward to having you aboard. A Pittsburgh helicopter tour is the best way to see the city. Call us today to learn more!

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“I began singing and performing as soon as I was walking”

“I started with piano lessons in elementary school, like most do, but grew aggravated with the classical approach and I quit in middle school because I just wanted to play songs I liked which at the time was nearly exclusively Sara Bareilles, Regina Spektor, and anything Disney.“

“After graduating highschool, I forced my dad to take me to Ireland (I raised the money, but I’m not the kind of girl you let travel alone). One evening we moseyed into a pub where I heard the autoharp for the first time. I told my father it was the most magical thing I’d ever heard. I was gifted my harp that Christmas (2014)and it has become my songwriting companion and good traveling buddy because it’s far more portable than a piano.”

“I don’t know how my health doesn’t affect my art. Being diagnosed with MS as young as I was, my experience with illness has shaped my perspective so intimately, I wouldn’t know how to split the fine hairs of illness vs. family vs. culture vs. geography etc“.

“I learned a young age that honesty is the

price of compassion,so honestly–

I’m not the most afflicted. I’m not the

most deserving, but, I need help, and as much as I can get.”

I have scars on my brain and have to take a lot of precautions to maintain my health. I’ve been sick for most of my life and I know I need all the help I can get, so I’ve learned to help myself.

My work skill set pertains to childcare and hospitality (they call me Mary Poppins ). I write stories for children and songs for all ages, and I make lots of friends who contend with me.

I’ve learned, as well, that helping myself means, there are times where I must ask for help.

Nutrasine, a critically essential supplement I’ve taken since I was six years old, was discontinued in 2014 after the passing of it’s inventor. In a miraculous turn of events, my family now owns the rights to produce and distribute Nutrasine for myself and others like me. You can help by donating to my ms.annegirl PROJECTS.

https://www.msannegirl.com/projects/

Songwriting has always been profoundly organic for me. Melody and lyrics come simultaneously 99% of the time, and depending on where I am or what I’m doing when the song starts to come, I’ll either sit down with my harp or piano and start figuring out the chord progression, or I (most often) record sound bites on my phone and save them for a rainy day.

when I was 3-5 years old I had a habit of sitting on strangers laps and asking them to tell me a story (true story). I’ve likely heard more versions of Three Little Pigs than any child ought to be allowed, but it was only the beginning. I began babysitting at nine and by twelve had quite the collection anecdotes, so all of my children’s books are based on, or inspired by actual events (I always include a dedication to the tater-tot who gave me the idea, see I Wanna Be An Animal and There’s a Bleck On My Plate on Amazon). I struggled with insomnia in middle school-early highschool and so the night became my creating space. I’ve discovered how to harness powers during daylight hours, but I still occasionally have sleepless-seasons that result in a new album/book/God-knows-what…

TOOT, the album, was recorded during my exacerbation in 2016. I only had strength to record my vocal/piano/harp tracks then go back to sleep, so there are things about it if I had gotten to participate more in the production process I’d have done differently. TOOT was mostly a gift from my brother (Isaac McCready, sound engineer) to me. During my 4 month exacerbation, I wrote around thirty songs and TOOT is really just the tip of the iceberg of what I created in that season. So, I guess, recording an album for me so far has just been a record of time passing and standing still. That said, I hope to release a demo album this fall titled “Golden“.

“MY “resolve” is the result of never being allotted the courtesy of having secrets a day in my life. For readers who likely won’t understand the scale of being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at six years old, the day I was diagnosed, I became international property. My MRI’s were being studied across the globe and every two hours or so, medical students came knocking on my door to “observe” me (ask me to do things I wasn’t strong enough to do). I wasn’t old enough to understand or explain to anyone what was happening to me and got used to grown-ups speaking for me, speaking over me, and talking about me like I wasn’t in the room. My music and stories have become my way of taking ownership of my story because I am in the room; I am international property because I’m not a mistake and have found a way to belong. My sole source of encouragement these days is the Holy Spirit because I live at rock bottom (literally what my doctor told me) and down here it’s just me and him vs. the world. The impact of my relationship with God and music has most positively expressed itself through my senior friends“

“I’ve recently begun playing at a local retirement community every other Wednesday and their feedback is the richest. My new favorite comment is, “You have a lovely voice, but you’re just so pleasant to look at!” Readers can’t know that I’m no beauty queen, but I’ve been told time and time again that I have joyful presence, that I bring levity to heavy situations, that I seem to easily find the most practical way to accomplish a task. I was told to give my very best and in all my years, despite the recognition my voice has received, I’ve come to know the greatest gift I’ve been given is my perspective; it is all I am and all I have to offer, and though I’m learning through trial and error not to “throw my pearls to pigs” all in all I ‘put myself out there’ because where else am I supposed to go?

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John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940. He rose to fame as a member of the iconic singing group, the Beatles. Lennon recognized that he could use his celebrity status to change the way people thought about issues.

Imagine at Strawberry Fields Central Park [Taken by the Founder of One World Blue Media 1992]

He was committed to the anti-war movement raging over the Vietnam War. Starting with their famous “Bed-Ins for Peace,” Lennon and Yoko Ono who he married in 1969, turned the tables on the paparazzi that followed their every. Using their honeymoon at the Amsterdam Hilton in March 1969 to start their anti-war efforts, the Lennons invited the worldwide media to join them in their hotel suite. They sat in bed for two weeks from nine in the morning to nine at night, engaging in discussions about world peace. A second Bed-In followed three months later in Montreal, where Lennon wrote and recorded what became the unofficial refrain of the peace movement — “Give Peace a Chance.”

As Lennon explained:

What we’re really doing is sending out a message to the world, mainly to the youth, especially the youth or anybody, really, that’s interested in protesting for peace or protesting against any forms of violence… There’s many ways of protest, and this is one of them. And anybody could grow their hair for peace or give up a week of their holiday for peace or sit in a bag for peace. Protest against peace, anyway, but peacefully, because we think that peace is only got by peaceful methods, and to fight the establishment with their own weapons is no good, because they always win, and they have been winning for thousands of years. They know how to play the game violence, and it’s easier for them when they can recognize you and shoot you.

Lennon was prepared for public mockery and vilification. He explained, “Bed-ins are something that everyone can do and they’re so simple. We’re willing to be the world’s clowns to make people realize it”. (Richie York, 1969)

Following the Bed-Ins, Lennon and Ono lent support to the plight of the working class by way of a shipbuilders’ work-in, railed against the Vietnam War, voiced discontent over the brutal murders of 14 unarmed civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland (memorialized in “Luck of the Irish” and “Sunday Bloody Sunday”), bemoaned the death toll from the uprising at Attica Prison and held forth with leading American peace activists using music as the medium for their message. Released in October 1971, Lennon’s Imagine album became his call for world peace.

Lennon’s involvement with the anti-war movement grew deeper and more directly political. “Give Peace a Chance” was the chant of the massive Vietnam Moratorium March in Washington in the fall of 1969. Lennon become the target of FBI surveillance for his part in the anti-war movement and engagement with leftist politics. A planned 1972 anti-Nixon tour with Jerry Rubin and Rennie Davis caught the attention of the authorities. A past drug’s offence would be used to threaten Lennon with deportation. He would struggle to gain permanent resident status in the U.S.

Lennon’s capacity and desire to move across cultures was evident in his art and politics. Inspired by his song “Imagine”, Lennon called a press conference in 1973 to announce the establishment of Nutopia, “a conceptual country” that “has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people.’ Nutopia’s national anthem- a brief line of silence- appears on the album Mind Games (1973). The event was intended to be both playful and provocative.

Right up until his death on December 8, 1980, at the hands of an assassin, Lennon remained true to the anti-war activism that had shaped much of his life. Time magazine contributor Martin Lewis noted in his remembrance of Lennon on the 20th anniversary of his death:

John Lennon was not God. But he earned the love and admiration of his generation by creating a huge body of work that inspired and led. The appreciation for him deepened because he then instinctively decided to use his celebrity as a bully pulpit for causes greater than his own enrichment or self-aggrandizement.

Adapted and edited from: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/john-lennon-anti-war-activist_b_1948185.html

https://www.popmatters.com/133778-revolutionary-man-john-lennon-as-political-artist-2496108495.html

The Ideals and Beliefs of One World Blue are Founded Upon the Dreams and Beliefs of John Lennon and all great people as Dr. King, Mahatmah Ghandi, Rosa Parks, Dr. Bishop Reginald Kelly and Maya Angelou who lived their life to Stand for Righteousness, Equality and Peace.

This letter below was written by the Founder of One World Blue, Mr. Joel Pirchesky MPPM, when he was in elementary school circa 1983. All of the aforementioned have given great inspiration to the life and work of Mr. and Mrs. Joel and Baila Pirchesky and the conception and implementation of The One World Blue Network and Global Community!

I have a dream that the world would be better and a safe place to live.

Children should not be afraid to be without their parents. They should not be worried about being kidnapped. People should realize that they should not hurt anyone and try to understand what they are doing.

I think it is very meaningless to have war. It is senseless to fight and kill one another. God did not put people on Earth to fight, argue, or hurt each other.

Poverty is very harmful and cruel to people. It can sometimes kill a person. It would be nice if poor people did not have to go to bed hungry.

Robbery scares me a whole lot, and I am sure it scares alot of other people too. People are sometimes shot and killed because they protect their belongings. Probably if people had the things they needed, there would be no more robberies.

It is a shame people are so terrified about highjacks on a plane that they don’t even go on them. I hope in the future people will be able to go on a plane without worrying about a highjack.

If people try and work together they can make this world a better one. I am willing to try, are you?

Imagine at Strawberry Fields Central Park [Taken by the Founder’s Wife, Baila, of One World Blue Media 1999. Taken a decade before Baila and Joel had met one another. The two were on the same wavelength and destined for each other. We all have Destiny if we Just IMAGINE ! Joel and Baila wish you their Love, Light and Peace]

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