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powerplayunit · 2 years ago

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The stories you don't know about Evgeni Malkin's journey to 1,000 points

Mar 13, 2019 (x)

Evgeni Malkin is not one to take for granted having scored 1,000 points in the NHL. However, but he does have more lofty goals on his mind.

“I know what (Sergei) Fedorov did,” Malkin said, referring to his childhood idol. “I want to have more than him.” Goals? Points? Games? “More goals. More points. Of course. And Fedorov has three Cups, same as me. So I need one more. Maybe two. I don’t know. At least one.”

Despite his omission from the NHL 100 a couple of years ago, Malkin remains a star with few peers regarding achievements. He is one of only a handful of players to claim the Stanley Cup, and the Art Ross, Calder, Conn Smythe and Hart trophies. He is also one of only five Russians to join the Millennium Club among scorers.

Those who know Malkin best shared their memorable stories from his run to 1,000 points.

Geno pulls rank Sidney Crosby thought he knew “the rules.” He was wrong. And even though Malkin spoke few words of English during his earliest days with the Penguins, he knew enough to pull rank on the other young superstar center in Pittsburgh.

Prior to Malkin’s first regular-season game at the old Civic Arena in 2006, he and Crosby instinctively remained behind as Penguins teammates took to the ice for the opening period. As it came down to Malkin and Crosby, each player looked at each other wondering which one should go next.

“And we couldn’t really say it, right?” Crosby said, smiling. “And I’m, like, ‘Geno, you can go.’ I mean, like, ‘You. Can. Go.’ And he’s, like, ‘Oh no, you go.’ You know? And that’s, like, the most he would hear at that point.”

Again, Crosby insisted that Malkin be the penultimate Penguin to take the ice. Malkin held firm.

Crosby suggested they play Rock, Paper, Scissors to break the stalemate.

“And then I’m, like, ‘Wait a second, he’s not going to know what Rock, Paper, Scissors are,’” Crosby said.

Crosby next tried cutting to the chase. He explained that Malkin should go next so that Crosby could go last. Again, Malkin held firm.

“He goes, ‘No, three years (in) Super League,’” Crosby said. “I go, ‘This is the NHL, I went last year.’ He goes, ‘Super League (is) best league in the world.’ And I’m, like, ‘What?!’

“What he just said was more than I heard him say up to that point.”

And at that point, Crosby experienced Malkin’s preference to make a point in a roundabout way.

“He was basically trying to say, ‘Hey, I’m older, you’re younger — I’m going (last).’ But he couldn’t say that in English. So I said, ‘OK.’ And so I ended up going second, and that’s how it goes.

“That’s the story of why Geno goes last, you know? To this day, we still go in that order.”

Geno gets a crush

Max Talbot had no idea how he would handle rooming with Malkin on the road during the 2007-08 season. Between them, they spoke three languages but didn’t have one in common.

After the first couple of road trips, Talbot realized that he and Malkin did have something in common: the “Transformers” movies. During his second NHL season, Malkin became obsessed with the original “Transformers” film after Talbot purchased it on their hotel room’s television the night before a game.

“Oh, Geno watched it, like, every night,” Talbot said. “I mean, it’s not a great movie, you know? You can see it once or twice. But Geno … he always wanted to watch that ‘Transformers’ movie. You could say it got a little bit annoying.”

One night, Talbot attempted to coax Malkin into going out for dinner. Malkin declined. He invited Talbot to order room service and join him for a viewing of his favorite movie. It became the last straw.

“I said, ‘Geno, why do you always watch that movie?’” Talbot said. “He said, ‘Look (at) girl, learn English.’ And, honest to God, I probably laughed for the next five minutes.

“He had a crush on that actress (Megan Fox). He watched the movie because she was in it, right? And I guess (Sergei) Gonchar had told Geno to learn English by watching the same movie over and over. So, Geno watched that ‘Transformers’ movie because he liked that girl.”

A few weeks later, during his first group interview with Pittsburgh media, the ice was broken when Malkin recognized the word “Transformers” during a question I asked. The next day, when reading my story to Malkin, Gonchar did Talbot a favor.

“Gonchar said to Geno, ‘You know, there is a second movie,’” Talbot said. “And all I could think was ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ At least it wasn’t the same movie the rest of the year.’”

Geno learns to lie Technically, these next anecdotes are not from Malkin’s days with the Penguins. However, they were provided by his parents Vladimir and Natalia, who almost as beloved in Pittsburgh as their son.

As a 4-year-old in his native Magnitogorsk, Malkin and his father played 1-on-1 hockey outside the apartment complex where the family lived. Evgeni was behind the net one day when Vladimir shot a puck that deflected and hit Evgeni in the eye.

“I said to him, ‘What do we do? Your mom will surely be upset,’” Vladimir said. “He said, ‘Let’s not tell mom, she won’t let us play anymore.’”

Later that night, during supper, Natalia never asked her youngest son or his father about a mark near Evgeni’s eye. She did not say a word about anything during dinner.

“You could tell she knew,” Vladimir said. “We never have talked about it.”

About seven years after that incident, Evgeni was again injured — this time during an off-ice training session. He landed wrong while jumping. His leg was broken, and Evgeni was forced into a cast and to use crutches.

“This was before a tournament,” Natalia said. “We let him go with his teammates, but insisted, of course, that he could not play.”

Natalia and Vladimir were unaware that Evgeni’s coach had seen him playing tennis — the sport was a favorite pastime for Evgeni and elder brother, Denis — while on the crutches. The coach was convinced Evgeni could still help their team win the tournament even though Evgeni could not walk.

At the rink, Evgeni’s teammates helped him cut the cast off his leg with a rusty saw and then cram his foot into a skate boot. Evgeni returned home without a cast, still using crutches and also carrying a trophy awarded to the tournament MVP.

“I was not happy with him; but, yes, I was happy for him,” Natalia said. “It was never easy to keep him from hockey. I blame his father.”

Geno sees his future

Penguins centers Evgeni Malkin (left) and Sidney Crosby raised the Stanley Cup for the third time in June of 2017. (Christopher Hanewinckel / USA Today)

The day before Game 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup final — so, the day before the biggest game of his life — Malkin walked into the players’ lounge at Civic Arena and spotted me sitting against a doorway’s wall. During a 20-minute conversation, he discussed the many differences from the previous postseason, which ended with the Penguins watching the Detroit Red Wings skate with the Cup in Pittsburgh.

Malkin, who played injured during that 2008 Cup final, was healthy this time around. He had the postseason lead in scoring to prove it. But he wanted more than the Conn Smythe Trophy he would ultimately claim.

He pointed to a picture on the wall that showed Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr each holding up the Stanley Cup from the Penguins’ championship win in 1992.

“Me and Sid,” Malkin said. “We get our picture. It’s time.”

On the page of my notebook, I scribbled Malkin’s words and marked the time he said them into my digital recorder. I asked if I could write that part in my story advancing Game 7 at Detroit.

“Yes, you write (it), Rossi,” Malkin said. “Because we (will) win.”

The Penguins won the 2009 final. The Red Wings watched them take laps with the Cup on Joe Louis Arena’s ice. It was Malkin’s first team title at any level as a professional.

He needed another couple of Cup wins by the Penguins to finally get that picture with Crosby, though.

It was taken after the Penguins finished off the Predators at Nashville in Game 6 of the 2017 final. As he had in 2009, Malkin was the top scorer in the 2017 postseason. On the ice, he and Crosby recreated the Lemieux-Jagr pose from 1992.

That picture hangs in Malkin’s condominium on Fisher Island in Florida.

Geno gives props Gonchar had been gone from Pittsburgh for a couple of seasons when Malkin headed to Las Vegas for the NHL awards show in June 2012. Though their bond had strengthened in Gonchar’s absence, Malkin’s big night was not on Gonchar’s mind the evening of the broadcast.

“We were just sitting down at the table for dinner, and I turned on the TV with (eldest daughter) Natalie to watch cartoons,” Gonchar said. “I start getting all these text messages: ‘Great job.’ ‘Such wonderful things for Evgeni to say.’ And I didn’t get it — like, ‘What are they talking about?’”

Gonchar and his family had not planned to watch the televised broadcast of the NHL awards show. “I knew he would win,” Gonchar said. “I knew he would tell me about it.”

Malkin had already given one acceptance speech at the ceremony, so he was somewhat unprepared when taking the stage to accept the Hart Trophy. And in a callback to his first couple of seasons with the Penguins, when Malkin lived with the Gonchar family, he turned his MVP moment into a tribute to his best friend.

Thankfully, that best friend’s daughter showed Gonchar a video replay of the speech — after the cartoons, though.

“You know, I wanted to talk to him right away — after those text messages,” Gonchar said. “I called and left him a message. He never called me back.”

Instead, Malkin showed up the next afternoon at Gonchar’s house. He had a miniature Hart Trophy with him. And a fishing rod.

“He spent, like, the next 10 days with us,” Gonchar said. “It was a lot of time fishing and swimming. It was not different from any other time he was with us.”

Well, it was different one afternoon. Gonchar asked Malkin about the dedication.

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“He said, ‘Why talk, just watch (the) video,’” Gonchar said, laughing.

“But Evgeni was saying that he had to give a speech if he won and how he thinks everything’s been said when he won the other awards. He was telling me he just felt like he wanted to say something else. But he did not really prepare another speech. He wasn’t thinking. He was feeling emotions. It just came out.”

And that is as far as Gonchar allowed Malkin to go with the conversation about the Hart Trophy dedication.

“He was getting very emotional,” Gonchar said. “I was emotional, too. So we started talking about something else.

“We’re still Russian, I guess.”

Geno finds a friend One afternoon in August 2012, Evgeni and I walked through the Kremlin’s grounds with a photographer. The idea was to get some photographs of Malkin walking near historic sites that were a quick hop from his Moscow apartment. We would consider these for photos for the cover of his authorized biography.

During those couple of hours, Malkin started feeling his sweet tooth and stopped by a street vendor’s ice cream cart. A boy approached. Malkin offered to buy him a cone. The boy accepted.

As Malkin and the boy chatted, a woman hurried to the reigning MVP of the NHL. She appeared to scold the boy, then Malkin. In an attempt to calm her — or at least explain himself �� Malkin motioned as though he would to pose for a ceremonial faceoff. He then mimicked shooting a puck with an imaginary stick. As he did this, the boy pointed and repeatedly shouted “Malkin!” but the woman remained defiant.

She grabbed the boy’s ice cream cone and handed it to Malkin. She left with the child’s hand in hers.

Malkin smiled as he rejoined our group. I asked what had happened. He explained that the woman did not want to spoil her son’s dinner. I suggested he track them down and explain who he was.

“I did,” Malkin said. “I say, ‘I’m Evgeni Malkin!’ She (did) not care. Maybe if I was Sid.”

Malkin waited a beat. His timing revealing the comedian he could have become had he not been born to do this hockey job.

“Sid (does) not eat ice cream,” Malkin said. “It’s why he’s (the) best player.”

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pittarchives · 3 years ago

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The Pittsburgh Musicians’ Union Merger: “It Revolves Around Representation”

This post was written by Char Pyle (Fall 2021 Undergraduate Intern).

(Above) Pages from the program of the AFM’s 1962 Annual Convention, hosted at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. American Federation of Musicians, Local 60-471, Pittsburgh, Pa. Records, 1906-1996, AIS.1997.41, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.

The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) is a labor union representing musicians across the country. The Pittsburgh Musicians’ Union, Local 60-471 of the AFM, has a particularly storied history. Local 60 was formed in 1897, one year after the AFM was founded. In 1908, Local 471 was created for black musicians in Pittsburgh. The two locals merged in 1966 following an integration order from the AFM. While the integration seems like it could be a positive thing, this only meant it would be more difficult for black musicians to advocate for themselves and be heard. This is evident even in the meeting minutes between both locals surrounding the merger. This interaction is noted at the beginning of the meeting:

“Before considering items, Pres. Davis asks: ‘How can we meet on common ground? What do we need? (to effect agreeable merger)’ Pres. Westray answers: ‘It revolves around representation.’”

This emphasis on representation is visible in Local 471’s proposals during the merger. Policies proposed by Local 471 included suggestions of affirmative action, shown in “Exhibit D” under “Negro Representation in Elective Offices of the Merged Union”. They sought out guaranteed representation in elected office, as they were likely not hopeful that they would truly be perceived as equals by the majority-white membership base of the merged union. Unfortunately, this has proved to be true. Since the merger, and still today, leadership of Local 60-471 is primarily white. Based on these minutes, it appears these suggestions were heavily contested and subsequently dismissed by members of Local 60. One of their arguments was that this was “a type of segregation in reverse”. This shouldn’t be an unfamiliar idea, as similar arguments are still echoed today in the realms of employment and education.

(Above) Exhibit D in the merger meeting minutes between the executive boards of both locals. American Federation of Musicians, Local 60-471, Pittsburgh, Pa. Records, 1906-1996, AIS.1997.41, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.

Another result of the merger is the lack of records from Local 471. There is significantly more material available for Local 60, including film reels, publications, meeting minutes, photographs, and various booklets. It’s not clear why this discrepancy exists, but Local 471’s records may have simply been overshadowed as the merged union was mostly made up of former Local 60 members. This could have led to the merged local being viewed as simply a continuation of the white local, devaluing the preservation of artifacts related to Local 471. The merger also caused many black members to become disillusioned with the union, so there wouldn’t have been many people interested in preserving those records anyway. The effects of this lack of preservation were apparent almost immediately, as membership cards for many Local 471 members were lost in the merger. This led to a discontinuation of seniority benefits (even though the opposite was promised in the merger minutes), which caused many to cancel their memberships.

It’s difficult to say whether much would have changed had these policies been approved. Perhaps with more of a presence in the administration of the union, Local 471 would have retained more of its membership and its history would have been better preserved. When so many former Local 471 members resigned, they lost the ability to play music in Pittsburgh. The city may have missed out on countless performances and talented artists because of this. Unfortunate as it may be, this event was a milestone for black musicians in Pittsburgh, and greatly shaped the landscape of Pittsburgh music as a whole. This collection would be of use to those researching local musicians from the 20th century. Prominent figures that were members of Local 471 include the following, and membership cards are available for each:

Carl Arter (President)

George Benson

Art Blakey

Ray Brown

Roy Eldridge

Erroll and Linton Garner

Walter Harper

Joe Harris

Earl Hines

Roger Humphries

Ahmad Jamal

Grover Mitchell

Horace Parlan

Stanley Turrentine

Joe Westray (President at time of merger)

Mary Lou Williams

Ruby Younge Hardy (Secretary-Treasurer)

(Above) Membership cards (from top to bottom) of Art Blakey, Erroll Garner, and Mary Lou Williams. American Federation of Musicians, Local 60-471, Pittsburgh, Pa. Records, 1906-1996, AIS.1997.41, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System.

Additional Sources:

http://jazzburgher.ning.com/profiles/blogs/old-mon-music-pittsburgh-blog

https://www.afm.org/about/history/

https://www.afmpittsburgh.com/a01-aboutus.html

http://exhibit.library.pitt.edu/labor_legacy/MusiciansHistory471.htm

American Federation of Musicians, Local 60-471, Pittsburgh, Pa. Records, 1906-1996, AIS.1997.41, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System

#jazz #pittsburghjazz #laborhistory #labor unions #erroll garner #art blakey #mary lou williams

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urbanforesterpgh · 4 years ago

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Gentrification and Pittsburgh’s Troubled History of Minority Displacement

The United States has a long history of displacement and consolidation of minority communities and Pittsburgh is certainly no exception (Vilay, 2020). In the 1950’s, the city began an urban renewal campaign that included the construction of the Pittsburgh Civic arena and ultimately resulted in the displacement of over 8,000 primarily African American residents from the Hill District community. Prior to these urban renewal initiatives, the Hill District was considered a cultural center for the African American community and the neighborhood benefited from strong social networks and high levels of trust between residents. The displacement of the Hill District community had traumatic and long-lasting effects, as the breakdown of social networks lead to psychological distress and depression which amplified economic disadvantages and made communities more susceptible to adverse health outcomes. Those that remained in the Hill District now live in one of the most distressed neighborhoods in the city (Flórez et al., 2016). With the fallout from this example of displacement still impacting African American communities and Pittsburgh experiencing levels of gentrification commonly seen in postindustrial cities, even the most at-risk residents may be hesitant to participate in buyout programs or engage in conversations about relocation. While some may argue that this influx of wealth into working class communities is a positive change, existing, lower income residents may no longer be able to afford a new home in their original community if they are displaced by a landslide. Buyout programs, when they are available, are often underfunded, with homeowners only receiving compensation for the current value of their properties (Vilay, 2020). If residents are forced to relocate to a new community because they can no longer afford the higher rents and home prices in their current neighborhood, this leads to the breakdown of community bonds, reduced access to employment or increased commute times to work or school, and worse health outcomes stemming from trauma and depression and potentially degraded environmental conditions of the new neighborhood. While Pittsburgh does not currently have a buyout program for landslide-impacted properties, any discussions surrounding the implementation of such a program should be sensitive the city’s history with minority displacement and should include feedback and engagement with members of those communities. Aside from buyout programs, the city could also pursue landslide prevention techniques that utilize reforestation and other examples of green infrastructure in order to stabilize its steepest slopes, including the Pittsburgh Greenways.

Flórez, K. R., Ghosh-Dastidar, M. B., Beckman, R., de la Haye, K., Duru, O. K., Abraído-Lanza, A. F., & Dubowitz, T. (2016). The Power of Place: Social Network Characteristics, Perceived Neighborhood Features, and Psychological Distress Among African Americans in the Historic Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. American Journal of Community Psychology, 58(1–2), 60–68. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12086

Kozak, S.L., 2014. From section 8 to Starbucks: the effects of gentrification on affordable housing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thesis (PhD). University of Kansas.

Vilay, Erica. Floodway Buyout Strategy for a Resilient Houston. 9 July 2020, www.jchs.harvard.edu/research-areas/working-papers/floodway-buyout-strategy-resilient-houston.

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purplehassan · 7 years ago

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01. Boogie intro (instr.) incl. Jingle Bells (a.k.a. One Horse Open Sleigh) [James Lord Pierpont] (instr., short) 02. Soft And Wet 03. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? 04. Still Waiting 05. Bambi 06. Band introduction 07. Sexy Dancer 08. Just As Long As We’re Together 09. I Wanna Be Your Lover

Disc Two Live at Carolina Coliseum | Columbia, NC | USA | 16 March 1980

01. Boogie intro (instr.) incl. Jingle Bells (a.k.a. One Horse Open Sleigh) [James Lord Pierpont] (instr., short) 02. Soft And Wet 03. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? 04. Still Waiting 05. Band introduction 06. Sexy Dancer 07. I Wanna Be Your Lover

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01. The Second Coming (show intro) 02. Sexuality 03. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? 04. Jack U Off 05. When You Were Mine 06. I Wanna Be Your Lover 07. Head 08. Annie Christian 09. Dirty Mind 10. Do Me, Baby 11. Let’s Work 12. Controversy 13. Uptown 14. Partyup

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soccerdrawings · 5 years ago

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sport Archives - unblocked games - corporate soccer 2 unblocked | corporate soccer 2 unblocked "And afresh aback you anticipate about the demographics (with them) and how they’re targeting that, they accept done a abundant job targeting millennials and the bodies who are accommodating to absorb that money," Nelson says. "And they accommodate an ‘experience.’ Sporting provides an ‘experience.’ "We’re a baby non-profit; we don’t pay great. And adolescent bodies on our staff, they accept division tickets to Sporting and they will not accord them up. And to bazaar that is incredible. They go early, they break late, they go to watch parties aback they’re on the road, they go to Sporting Park and they get this ‘experience.’ With an NBA and an NHL game, does it feel the same? I don’t know." The added you look, the added hurdles you find. The NBA has set a ambrosial bright contour for its ambition markets: Either massive all-around metros that accept yet to be broke — Beijing, Mexico City, London — or, in because areas alfresco the 10 bigger in the U.S., would it be the aboriginal best for the sports dollar or, bigger yet, the alone big-league aggregation in town? Memphis and Oklahoma City, like Sacramento afore them, gave the NBA a clear, accessible aisle to the advanced folio of the sports section. And the Thunder’s success to this point gives the alliance a Abundant Plains ballast afresh that makes Kansas City, in the big picture, on the behemothic alliance map, geographically redundant. Of course, in pro sports, you never say never — attending at the Royals, bodies — and Josh Riesgo has both anxiety durably in the "never" camp. Riesgo is co-founder of Charlie Hustle sportswear, the bounded accouterment bandage best acclaimed for those "heart KC" shirts that you’ll see beat by celebrities such as Rudd, who grew up in Overland Park. Amid their abounding appearance offerings is a dejected shirt that reads, in a actual ’80s, awakening font: "Our parents would allocution about how they acclimated to accept the Kansas Burghal Kings and the NBA was here, and it’s gone," Riesgo says. "Think about the Chiefs abrogation or the Royals leaving. How did you let them leave? What’s activity on? What, did you NOT go to games? (They said) ‘They were terrible.’ We’re like, ‘That is crazy to us.’" Riesgo contends the Kings shirt charcoal amid the top bristles acknowledged items in their absolute catalog, and that it makes "a acceptable chat piece." And speaking of conversations, AEG CEO Tim Leiweke told KHSB-TV absolutely two Octobers ago that his accumulation was, indeed, still in the coursing for ballast tenants, sniffing for teams that may appetite a sweetheart charter in a sweetheart of a town. But the coercion of 2007 is gone now. "What anybody in the business association believes is the assortment of those contest is far added ambrosial than aggravating to go attempt with the Royals and the Chiefs and the soccer aggregation and aggravating to cull added money out of division tickets," Leiweke told KHSB. "So if there’s a aggregation that is moving, we’re engaged. We absolutely accept a ambrosial acceptable accumulation of bodies actuality that are absorbed in affairs a team, apparently hockey added than basketball because (Kansas Burghal is) a abundant academy basketball marketplace. "That said, I anticipate the accuracy of Sprint Center is, I anticipate the business association and the association as a accomplished loves the assortment of the 140 contest a year that we’re accomplishing here. We’re authoritative added money than anyone anytime anticipation we would make. We’re giving a lot of money aback to the city. And whether it will be the ambassador or the business community, what anybody is adage now is, ‘You apperceive what? Break the course. This is ambrosial good, what’s activity on here.’" Bottom line: Sprint isn’t absolutely affliction for dates. Or dollars. Because of the accoutrement in the administration arrangement amid AEG and the metro, Sprint Center administrator of communications and business Shani Tate Ross says the burghal of Kansas Burghal able has accustomed $10 actor in "unanticipated revenue," collectively, aback the architecture opened in October 2007, or almost $1.43 million, on average, per year. The P&L commune has hosted at atomic one NBA exhibition a year aback 2008, save for the lockout abatement of 2011. While Ross says there isn’t one on the calendar for 2015 yet, "we are actual admiring with the accident — as is the (Heat)."

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Alabama Goes On 50th Anniversary Tour With Very Special Guests | Classic Country Music

One of the most-loved groups to ever hit country radio is celebrating more than half a century of incredible music…and they’re giving fans the chance to join them!

Hitmaker country band Alabama is heading out on tour in just a few weeks for their 50th Anniversary Tour and tickets are on sale now!

But, the excitement doesn’t stop there…

ON SALE NOW🎶 @TheAlabamaBand's 50th Anniversary Tour is heading to @USCellCenter on Friday, May 31 & tickets are on sale now! Get tickets here: https://t.co/fq0HHOsbfT pic.twitter.com/VCUIBosYgd

— Outback Concerts (@OutbackConcerts) December 14, 2018

Kicking off on January 10th, 2019, Alabama’s hallmark celebration of their musical journey and all the fans that have stuck with them will be the concert to see – especially after you see who’ve they have lined up as special guests.

50 years is a big deal for anyone – and it’s especially big for guys like Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry, and Jeff Cook who have delivered hits like “Mountain Music,” “I’m in a Hurry (And Don’t Know Why),” and “Song of the South.”

The band has charted songs across genres and throughout the last 50 years, and held more than 30 No. 1 hits since 1980.

5th time seeing them in concert and they still rock the house! One day I’ll have front row seats! @TheAlabamaBand #bestgroupever #rupparena pic.twitter.com/fmRgrA67jS

— Courtney Durham (@tupey9800) December 8, 2018

Formed in Fort Payne, Alabama in 1969, they have won more than 200 awards and have been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

They will be kicking off this grand celebration on January 10th, 2019 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit with rising country star Chris Janson as their special guest.

The Charlie Daniels Band, Tracy Lawrence, and The Oak Ridge boys (among many others) are all slated to appear alongside Alabama on this sure-to-be-amazing tour.

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— ALABAMA (@TheAlabamaBand) December 14, 2018

See the full list of dates below and watch the promo for it in the video.

Jan 10 – Detroit, MI – The Fox Theatre (w/ Chris Janson)

Jan 11 – Indianapolis, IN – Bankers Life Fieldhouse (w/ Restless Heart)

Jan 19 – Atlantic City, NJ – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena

Feb 14 – San Antonio, TX – San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo

Feb 15 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center (w/ Tracy Lawrence)

Feb 28 – Plant City, FL – Florida Strawberry Festival

March 1 – St. Augustine, FL – The St. Augustine Amphitheatre

March 14 – Salem, VA – Salem Civic Center (w/ The Oak Ridge Boys)

March 15 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena (w/ Tracy Lawrence)

March 22 – Springfield, MO – JQH Arena (w/ The Charlie Daniels Band)

March 23 – North Little Rock, AR – Verizon Arena (w/ The Charlie Daniels Band)

April 5 – Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Coliseum (w/ The Charlie Daniels Band)

April 6 – Charlottesville, VA – John Paul Jones Arena (w/ The Charlie Daniels Band)

April 12 – Wilkes-Barre, PA – Mohegan Sun Arena (w/ The Charlie Daniels Band)

April 13 – Hartford, CT – XL Center (w/ The Charlie Daniels Band)

April 26 – Providence, RI – Dunkin’ Donuts Center (w/ The Charlie Daniels Band)

April 27 – State College, PA – Bryce Jordan Center (w/ The Charlie Daniels Band)

May 31 – Cedar Rapids, IA – U.S. Cellular Center

June 1 – La Cygne, KS – Tumbleweed

June 6 – Myrtle Beach, SC – Carolina Country Music Festival

June 7 – Macon, GA – Macon Centreplex Coliseum (w/ The Marshall Tucker Band)

June 13 -16 – Grand Junction, CO – Country Jam (performance date TBA)

June 15 – Salt Lake City, UT – Maverik Center

June 26 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center (w/ The Charlie Daniels Band)

June 27 – Oshkosh, WI – Country USA

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Sidney Crosby hints the Stanley Cup will return to his hometown

HALIFAX -- Hockey superstar Sidney Crosby has hinted he will mark is 30th birthday by once again parading the Stanley Cup around his hometown in Nova Scotia.

Speaking to reporters at his annual youth hockey camp in Cole Harbour, N.S., Crosby confirmed he will have the Cup on Aug. 6 and 7.

Crosby said his plans for the trophy are still in the works, but he noted there is an annual, civic parade in nearby Halifax on Aug. 7 -- his 30th birthday.

"The Natal Day parade is on the Monday ... so we're kind of throwing that idea around," Crosby said, referring to the event that celebrates Halifax's birthday.

"That seems like it would be a good fit."

Crosby added that he wants as many people as possible to see the trophy.

The Pittsburgh Penguins captain has shown off professional hockey's most prestigious trophy twice before in Cole Harbour -- in 2009 and 2016.

Last July, Crosby carried the Cup in the back of a pickup that made its way to an arena in Cole Harbour as thousands of cheering fans looked on amid sweltering heat.

Crosby recalled hoisting the Cup above his head many times as the truck crawled along the Forest Hills Parkway for just over half a kilometre.

"I had a little bit of a later night the night before, too, so it was tough," he said with a laugh.

"But it was fun. To see everyone turn out, you see all the chairs and everyone camped out on the sides. It's an experience. When you think about bringing the Cup home, that's the snapshots you have, seeing the amount of people that are there."

Each player of the Cup-winning NHL team gets brief custody of the trophy.

Crosby's annual hockey camp for boys and girls age 9 to 12 benefits his foundation for underprivileged kids.

On Wednesday, Crosby stopped by the camp to help coach some young players, donning a navy blue jacket and ball cap, both emblazoned with his hockey school's logo.

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@inejsghafa so this is going to be a long post. Bear with me.

So, quick history lesson. There was a neighborhood called the Lower Hill where the Civic Arena used to be. It was one of the most well-known black neighborhoods in the entire US back in the 40′s and early 50′s. It was the heart of the larger Hill District neighborhood.

In the mid-1950′s the neighborhood had hit a rough patch and “urban renewal” was all the rage. The City of Pittsburgh, under the guise of “urban renewal” tore apart the Lower Hill, East Liberty and the North Side, all of which were neighborhoods with a large population of black residents. Of the three neighborhoods effected, the Hill District was the worst. City of Pittsburgh decided to demolish the Lower Hill to make room for the Civic Arena and a couple highway projects. To build the Civic Arena, 1,300 buildings were demolished in 1956, displacing 8,000 residents and 400 mostly black-owned businesses. They completely cut off the larger Hill District from Downtown Pittsburgh, the economic hub of the city.

The effects were devastating. The neighborhood never recovered from losing its heart in the Lower Hill. Penguins-related businesses moved in, but the long-time residents of the hill reaped no benefits from the arena. Fast forward to present day. PPG Pains Arena was built five years ago. The Civic Arena was torn down in 2012. The Penguins organization won the exclusive rights to redevelop that 28 acres that used to be the Lower Hill- turned Civic Arena. The Penguins kept pushing back redevelopment construction. Their deadline was supposed to be last October. They pushed it back further. It looks like it finally broke ground earlier this year. Hill District residents have made some (in my opinion, not very demanding) requests. The most important one was that they want mixed income housing, with 30% designated affordable for low-income families. Basically, they want people from the Hill and families that were forced to leave the Lower Hill to be able to live in the new housing developments. Redevelopment is being fueled by public funds, so they want it to do some public good. What did the Penguins do? They designated 20% of units as “affordable.” Meaning if you make at least 80% of Pittsburgh’s median income (which is about $39,000) you could afford to live in a one bedroom apartment. It’s horse shit. It still keeps those apartments out of reach for many of the people living in the Hill. It’s complete and utter gentrification. The exact same thing happened in East Liberty. They’re displacing lifelong residents to build studio apartments for hipsters.They need to make 30% of the development affordable for people making 50% of the Pittsburgh median income. So, basically, the Penguins (working with City of Pittsburgh) destroyed an entire neighborhood for an arena, tore down the arena, retained rights to the land, and are still screwing over the people that live there. It’s bullshit.

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All over again

“Ah, there you are, or there you were, I was wondering if you were ever going to manage it, but of course you did,” the man speaking was tall and slim and had an accent, “it is absolutely silly of me to get so impatient.” He said that part mostly to himself but he was still looking at me.

The look on my face must’ve said it all.

“Oh, well, see,” he paused with a finger on his lips, pursed “you’ve made a torus, sort of, a kind of bubble in the universe, right?” He dropped both hands behind his back and straightened up a little and looked at me with a little concerned amusement.

I wondered where he was going with all of this before he cleared his throat and continued.

“Well, there’s something you want to change, I haven’t any notion of what it is myself, not this time and not last time either,” he strode over to the open door at the end of the office, “But for the time being, and for the space involved there’s sort of two of you, but it won’t last long. It never does. It never could” he gestured for me to follow, “come have a look at yourself.”

I followed him out of the office into an old-fashioned cube farm. The tops of heads were just barely visible over most cubes. He had walked into a foyer next to an empty secretary station shrouded in artificial plants and was waving me over. I remembered this place.

He gestured at the mirror.

I was so young. Those clothes! I can hardly believe anybody used to dress like that. I felt like a fool, but I fit right in. An elevator, one of four on this floor, pinged nearby and four people got out, and they all kind of looked like me. And there was, oh damn, what was their name? Stacy? Tracy? Three of the people walked to offices on the other side of the building but Stacy-Tracy walked past me, “See you tonight, right?”

They seemed to have a knowing look on their face so I gave a noncommittal grunt of agreement and looked at myself in the mirror again briefly. My hair! Those glasses. I suddenly recalled where my cube was.

I turned and followed my friend (office buddy? acquaintance?) along the cubes, they turned down a side aisle but I kept walking. I could see the man waiting for me in his funny clothes, but not that funny, everybody would dress that way later. He didn’t even stand out much. Everybody probably thought he was in a temp, or maybe in advertising. I went past the copy room and caught a bit of office gossip I’d forgotten, and was almost to my cube when he raised a hand to stop me.

“Now, you’ve done this before,” he looked into my eyes, “but you won’t remember. There is usually no danger at all. Unless you try to run away.”

Suddenly he didn’t seem so friendly. Suddenly his height and obvious physical fitness made it clear he was much more of a threat. The man who had felt more like a confidant and counselor now seemed much more like a cop.

“The energies involved in changing the past aren’t trifling. It helps to be close to a good source of gravity. This can’t be done on the Moon and it is more successful here than on Mars,” he continued, “Running is the worst thing you can do. It stretches out and magnifies the energies. It demands more and more from you and the part of the universe you are currently in. In both places and in both times. You know what you came here for, so do it and don’t dilly dally. When you see yourself in a moment there will be a sort of battle of wills, it will be brief. You’ll be surprised - the younger you will be surprised - but you’ve got all the regret and anxiety and emotional baggage of what you believe - the older you believes - was a mistake, ebbing and flowing around you like a hurricane. That is usually more than enough to make the change. If necessary, just get physically violent. You’ve done it before successfully. You’re not old anymore. You know how to struggle, how to take a little temporary pain, and to people nearby,” he indicated the cube farm “thank goodness there really won’t be any witnesses, not really, all anybody would see would be you shiver or maybe you wig out a little.”

I looked over at my cube. “I’ve done this before?”

“Yes,” he turned and gestured to invite me to finish what I came back for. He wasn’t being impatient or rude, but I sensed part of him didn’t really want to say what he said next but that another part of him desired to explain it all to me.

“A great many people have done this sort of thing a great many times, and nobody ever really remembers” he looked down at me “you may have dreams of a different you, with different people you know or knew or didn’t, doing things you did or didn’t do. You may have dreams of odd arrangements of people and places and times you’ve known that don’t seem to go together and if the discontinuity is discomforting it wakes you up, but it all feels real enough. You may imagine alternative pasts, with their ascendant futures, and while a lot of that is just ordinary wistfulness or wishy wash trash on a star, some of it is just a little space and time flotsam and jetsam and the overlap of memory, what was once real and what is really real because that was what you did and not what you didn’t.”

He had maneuvered beside me and put a friendly hand on my shoulder, giving me just a little nudge.

“You’ve done this before and I’ve been here to keep you honest before.”

“I ran before, didn’t I?”

“You did. What was an embarrassing momentary lapse for you was years of grueling overtime and paperwork for me,” the nudge was becoming a push, “so get on with it.”

I walked to the cubicle. I might have walked a little apprehensively. I knew why I was here and what I had to do. I had done something like this before. I could hear myself typing in the cube. Did I try to do something or not do something before? Was I trapped in a loop? I looked back. He was right behind me.

“No, you aren't in a loop. This isn’t Groundhog Day” he whispered. “You’ve never been back to this particular moment. You’ve been back to high school and college and other times. Of course after this all the other times I knew you after this will be different in some way. You are changing the past to alter your future after all. Maybe you’ll have to sneak backwards in time to events after now and keep making little changes, a twist there and a tweak there. You’re never one for big changes.”

He smiled at me. I realized it was the first time he smiled at me.

“But you’ve been through this with me before? I’m putting you through the ringer?”

His smile got bigger and brighter. “Your concern for me is your most endearing trait. I do miss you. Don’t worry about me. All that overtime I put in got me a nice timeshare in Florida. I even wrote a book; made good money too. I can’t retire, not yet, but when I do me and the missus are set. The kids have a great future. Thank you.”

“Maybe I should be the one thanking you, for this chance to get a do-over.”

I turned the corner and stood in the cube. The phone was tucked between my shoulder and cheek, my fingers were hovering over the numbers, but my attention was on the computer screen. I mashed the hook switch down and yanked the phone out my other hand. The momentary contact with my other self almost overwhelmed me while it damn near knocked other me out. The energies involved are not trifling. I could feel a dam breaking. I spun the chair around to look at myself. The look of shock and fear in a face from so long ago was pitiable. I was so weak then. Overcoming myself felt like crushing a tinkertoy under a HEMMT wheel. I felt nothing but contempt and disgust as I crushed myself and suddenly felt myself falling.

I jerked upright in the chair and gasped. Ben stood and looked over the cube wall at me.

“Dude, you okay? he asked. That mullet has got to go.

“I’m okay I said,” I looked up at Ben, “just a little deja vu.”

Ben disappeared, sitting. “I get that too sometimes; except mine doesn’t usually sound like a cab going into a manhole without the cover.” He laughed at himself.

I looked at the phone in my hand and hung it up. I looked at the computer screen, saved my work, closed the tab, and logged off. I stood and picked up my Y2K mug, I was looking at Ben in his cube, his lips moved as he read what he just typed.

“Ben, that mullet has got to go,” I said. Ben nodded, grunted, and typed.

I walked down the rows of cubes to the cube that did duty as a coffee station. Shawn Tracy was standing by the windows talking with Stacy McAllister looking at the snow falling in Pittsburgh. I could see Civic Arena in the distance. They turned and looked at me.

“You’re coming to the game tonight, right?” he said.

“I already told you he said yes” she said.

“I’m sorry I gotta cancel on you two,” they put pretend expressions of hurt on their faces, “I’m driving to New York after work to see my folks, it’s a surprise” I said that part on impulse. I just had an urge to go see my folks. “Pens are in New York tomorrow anyway. I’ll wear my sweater and hassle my little brother. Take Ben, he could use some hockey. I’ll bet he’s missing Minnesota anyway.” I gestured out the window with my mug before I filled it up.

I went back to my cube and almost spilled coffee crashing into my chair.

From his cube next to mine Ben razzed me a little, “It’s like deja vu all over again.”

#deja vu #Pittsburgh

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jobsearchtips02 · 5 years ago

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Penguins pull out of plans to develop previous Civic Arena site in Lower Hill District

Mayor Expense Peduto’s chief of personnel says an offer for a significant redevelopment job at the old Civic Arena site is not off the table.Chief of Staff Dan Gilman stated he’s confident that an offer can still be worked out, even after the Pittsburgh Penguins stated Thursday night that they would be taking out.” At this point, given the present economic conditions and the evident absence of support from the URA, we are stopping our advancement operations on the Lower Hill,” Penguins President and CEO David Morehouse said, in part, in a written statement.” I have actually spoken to the Penguins– not only last night and this morning, but because that declaration through the night– and tried to reassure them that we are devoted to this deal and getting it done,” Gilman informed Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 on Thursday night.The Penguins’ choice came after the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority postponed a crucial vote on land for a prepared First National Bank tower, Gilman said.He stated URA members didn’t feel they had adequate time to review documentation beforehand.The 24- story building would have ended up being the new headquarters of FNB.The task would have produced more than 1,300 building tasks and transformed the city’s Lower Hill District.Read the declaration from the URA below:” Despite broad assistance for the basic concept, both from the URA and the Greater Hill District neighborhood, it’s a matter of public record that the advancement group knew in April that much more work was needed to strengthen details on dedications made to the general public in previous contracts,” said Board member Councilman R. Daniel Lavelle. “The minimum turnaround time normally requested is five organisation days.”” This is genuinely a transformative development, worthwhile of public support, and so it must likewise be strong enough to hold up against a short hold-up for evaluation,” said URA Executive Director Greg Flisram. “We know that we can achieve advancement objectives while likewise recognizing concrete neighborhood benefits; at today’s URA, we understand those are complementary, not completing, objectives.” The URA plans to announce an unique board meeting, as early as next week, to complete the delayed company as quickly as possible.

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Mayor Expense Peduto’s chief of personnel says an offer for a major redevelopment task at the old Civic Arena site is not off the table.

Chief of Staff Dan Gilman stated he’s enthusiastic that a deal can still be worked out, even after the Pittsburgh Penguins stated Thursday night that they would be taking out.

He said URA members didn’t feel they had sufficient time to review documentation beforehand.

Check out the declaration from the URA listed below:

” Regardless of broad assistance for the general principle, both from the URA and the Greater Hill District community, it’s a matter of public record that the advancement group knew in April that much more work was needed to solidify details on dedications made to the public in previous arrangements,” stated Board member Councilman R. Daniel Lavelle.

” This is genuinely a transformative advancement, deserving of public support, and so it must likewise be strong enough to endure a brief delay for evaluation,” said URA Executive Director Greg Flisram.

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This is Why Pearl Jam is my Favorite Band

I grew up loving music. Not so much as a musician but more of a fan. I did play the saxophone, guitar and tried to teach myself the harmonica, but that’s not the point here. My dad had a nice record collection. He also had one of those old, shiny, silver Pioneer stereos that were made in the USA and had the big ½” cable for the over-the-ear headphones. Not Beats. This is old school music. If it wasn’t terrible dancing and a missed lip sync then it was him blasting WDVE or WRRK in the station wagon that shaped me into a music fan. My mom always let us stay up past midnight to catch the musical act on Saturday Night Live too. These are some of the things that got me hooked on any music that had guitars.

I made a few bad music choices in the 80s. I am not afraid to admit that. We did what we could with what we had. The 80s, in my opinion, was when the trend of having to look deep to find the good music started. Then came 90s rock; the revival. The saviors of rock n’ roll. I didn’t know it at the time but this movement made rock music real, raw, emotional and unapologetic again. My brother and I tried to figure out the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit. We also tried to figure out why Temple of the Dog had two singers and one looked like the guy from Soundgarden and the other looked like the guy from Pearl Jam. And they all kind of looked like the bands on my dad’s record albums. (Except David Bowie and Elton John. No one could imitate either of them. And not because their outfits changed like the wind either. They were so expressive and eclectic.)

In those early 1990’s I grew up in a town that was hit hard by severe economic loss due to a near full collapse of the American steel industry. Opportunities were lost, lives were ruined, and families had mounting pressure to stick together even though many struggled to put enough food on the table. Our family scraped by at times. Other families were not as fortunate as ours. But listening to the passion that poured from the speakers when I played these albums made me feel like someone out there seemed to understand me and my life. It wasn’t only the lyrics but the screeching guitars and pounding drums emoted something inside of me. Something that I strayed from as I explored other new music and rolled with the changes in my late teens and early 20s. Kurt was gone, Soundgarden seemed to be on hiatus, Layne passed away. It seemed like the moment was over. But I returned to Pearl Jam when a friend in college invited me to see them at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh in April 2003. I had heard some cuts from their new album Riot Act on the radio and they sounded great. But I wasn’t prepared for that show. It just blew me away. I was reminded of my youth and innocence.

After 2003 I explored Pearl Jam on a deeper level. PJ20 took place in 2010 and I learned some new things about them. I continued to dive deeper into their music, examining lyrics, and connecting with other fans on the internet. I also traveled alone to see them in Dallas and made single serving friends on the way.

Pearl Jam survived the fame. Similar bands of the 90s were not able to maintain the same longevity. There is a saying I repeat to my children, fall down seven times; stand up eight. In life, you really must choose to push forward. Pearl Jam helped me do that when times were tough. Because life is not easy. We, as people, must extract motivation from somewhere. Why not from a band that has been an example of sticking together through tough times? Through divorce, disease, addiction, obsession, death. There is no quitting in life. There is no quitting in art. There is only progress.

When I die I hope my people will have a celebration of my life. If that happens, I want everyone to stop and look up at the giant screen. There will be playing a live performance of Pearl Jam’s Alive. Because I may be dead but my spirit still lives on inside my loved ones. When I was on Earth I lived a life of love and passion. I ask each and every person to do the same. Love one another. Take care of your family and neighbors. Live a life of expression and respect. Your life is only alive once. But your legacy lives on forever. What will your legacy be? How will you be remembered when you were Alive?

#pearljam #90srock #eddievedder #nirvana #soundgarden #music

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alwayssummerblog · 6 years ago

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Alabama Unveils Dates & Openers For 50th Anniversary Tour

It’s time to celebrate Alabama’s 50th anniversary with a 2019 tour! While the Country Music Hall of Fame trio has been announcing new tour dates throughout the year, they’ve now made it official: 2019 will be packed with live dates across the country.

The band won’t be alone on the road, as top-notch openers are joining them along the way. Chris Janson, Tracy Lawrence, Restless Heart, Exile, Charlie Daniels Band, the Marshall Tucker Band and the Oak Ridge Boys are all set to join select dates.

“We never thought playing for tips at the Bowery in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, that 50 years later we would still playing arenas, stadiums and festivals,” said Randy Owen in a statement. “Teddy, Jeff and I are humbled at the amount of fans that are coming out to see us. We are finding out that we are playing to three generations of fans who have followed us and our music from day one. The fans are the ones responsible for our continued success on the road and we love them.”

For tickets, click HERE.

Alabama’s 50th Anniversary 2019 Tour Dates:

1/10 – Detroit, MI @ The Fox Theatre* 1/11 – Indianapolis, IN @ Bankers Life Fieldhouse** 1/19 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena 1/20 – Albany, NY @ Times Union Center*** 2/14 – San Antonio, TX @ San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo 2/15 – New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center**** 2/28 – Plant City, FL @ Florida Strawberry Festival 3/1 – St. Augustine, FL @ The St. Augustine Amphitheatre 3/14 – Salem, VA @ Salem Civic Center***** 3/15 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena**** 3/22 – Springfield, MO @ JQH Arena****** 3/23 – North Little Rock, AR – Verizon Arena****** 4/5 – Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum****** 4/6 – Charlottesville, VA @ John Paul Jones Arena****** 4/12 – Wilkes-Barre, PA @ Mohegan Sun Arena****** 4/13 – Hartford, CT @ XL Center****** 4/26 – Providence, RI @ Dunkin’ Donuts Center****** 4/27 – State College, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center****** 5/31 – Cedar Rapids, IA @ US Cellular Center 6/1 – La Cygne, KS @ Tumbleweed 6/6 – Myrtle Beach, SC @ Carolina Country Music Festival 6/7 – Macon, GA @ Macon Centreplex Coliseum******* 6/13 -16 – Grand Junction, CO @ Country Jam (performance date TBA) 6/15 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Maverik Center 6/26 – Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center****** 6/27 – Oshkosh, WI @ Country USA 9/14 – Peoria, IL @ Tailgate N’ Tallboys

*With Chris Janson **With Restless Heart ***With Exile ****With Tracy Lawrence *****With The Oak Ridge Boys ******With The Charlie Daniels Band *******With The Marshall Tucker Band

#country #megacountry #alabama #tour

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Revisited: Rise of the Global Republic (DS)

18 October 2018

“Rise of The Global Republic (DS)” was originally posted on September 27, 2009, basically 9 years ago.

The inspiration behind this Dream Sequence was hard to miss, especially after that masterful 94-minute performance (and 6 times his allotted 15-minute time slot) given by Libya’s leader and chair for the African Union, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, at the United Nations general assembly on September 23, 2009. It was a derisive focal point of every mainstream media outlet for many days.

Not unlike Sinead O’Connor’s shocking performance on October 3, 1992 when she tore up a picture of the pope on live television, Gaddafi’s diatribe saw him rejecting, among numerous other things, the fakery of the UN charter before vetoing said charter then tearing it up in front of the dazed delegates.

While some of the media opted to outright gaslight Col. Gaddafi for flagrantly opposing the official agenda and not playing by the official rules, many in the mainstream blamed his erratic behavior on lack of sleep.

At the time, we weren’t quite sure why no one would give Col. Gaddafi a safe place to pitch his luxury tent or even a hotel room for that matter. It was reported that Donald Trump had agreed to lease Gaddafi some acreage on his property in Bedford, Connecticut with enough room for his high profile tent, but withdrew the offer last minute for reasons unknown.

To us, all of this seemingly unrelated drama was auspicious, making it ripe for a “Crazy Ivan” with the face of Julius Caesar, the embodiment of ancient Rome, and a 21st century progress report.

The reality this post brings to bear is that ALL roads lead to Rome … From ancient Rome TO Washington D.C. (formerly known as Rome, Maryland) TO the Rome we know today as the Vatican. Even when things don’t appear to be under the influence of Roman rule, we know enough now to know that they are. The imprint is unmistakable.

So how close to reality were we?

The New World Order-One World Government-One World Currency agenda under the mis-direction of the Vatican through its global networks is also unmistakable. All one has to do is research the United Nations’ approval and enforcement of Agenda 2021/Agenda 2030 to recognize that the UN has been one of the premier global organizations used to propel this malevolent NWO agenda forward. Maybe Col. Gaddafi was on to something after all.

Ancient Rome has historically been considered a Republic. Many have said that The United States of America (unincorporated) in its original form is a Republic as well, when, in fact, it is a Federation - a Federation of 50 sovereign states or 50 state Republics, with each state being basically a sovereign nation unto itself.

The sovereignty aspects built into our national structure from the beginning has posed a problem for this centuries old NWO Agenda because any kind of presumed sovereignty is in direct opposition to an enslavement Agenda. Hence the centuries of strategic and fraudulent corporate workarounds that included the hijacking of our financial system, our legal system and our national resources, which included the labor and creativity of WE, THE PEOPLE. And then They lied about our history.

Perhaps it’s time for WE, THE PEOPLE to re-consider what we think we know about the land of our birth and those who have been running it into the bloody ground.

But what we really want to know now is do the seemingly unrelated executions of Col. Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and former President John F. Kennedy in 1963 have something in common?

And this brings us to the deeper question going forward: Will the Vatican be taken out from within, just like Julius Caesar? Et tu, pope?

Rise of the Global Republic (DS)

We had a dream……and in that dream we saw Julius Caesar riding into Pittsburgh for the G-20 Summit on his white horse, just about the time Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi was trying to pitch his party tent on The Donald’s Bedford lawn. It took 94 minutes for Caesar to maneuver through the fray of plebeian protestors before triumphantly marching up the civic center steps where the new millennium’s world leaders were assembled en masse under the banner of economy and democracy.

Caesar may have lost a battle or two in his day, but he never lost a war, and his dark age-old debate with Jupiter was no different. None of the gods were surprised to see Jupiter finally acquiesce in allowing Gaius Julius to transcend the millennial span on a dream ride into 2009 A.D. so he could see what remained of his illustrious legacy.

Sitting astride his fine steed 'Toes' in the middle of Pittsburgh, Caesar broadly surveyed his modern day surroundings, took inventory of what old Republic hand-me-downs were still in evidence today, and made a summary assessment of Roman contribution to 21st century operations.

Every direction he surveyed prominently flaunted vestiges of ancient Roman-Greco urban master planning. J.C. found himself surrounded by a forum of modern day government buildings, civic centers offering public gathering places, plenty of holy temples to the gods, sports stadiums modeled after the beloved Coliseum, amphitheatres for the performing arts, parks, and even the standard victory parade route.

Togas were obviously out, and sadly there was not a public bath house in sight. The closest he could get was a 24-Hour Fitness and everyone he saw sweating in the window had their clothes on ... well, sort of. Surprised by the overall plumpness of the populous not sweating at the gym, Caesar thought a vomitorium comeback might not be such a bad idea.

And the month of July? It was still coming around once a year right in time for his birthday.

While he can’t take credit for the Caesar Salad or the lifesaving Caesarean Section (even though he and Queen Cleo did have a son name Caesarion), J.C. was shocked to see that his melting pot blend-n-merge approach to religious doctrinal unification had been cast aside in favor of pronounced civil dissention born out of intolerance and arrogant sect supremacy.

Back in Caesar’s prime time, marriages were simply mergers designed to create corporate-styled alliances for the purpose of growing the family business. He could see little had changed in that arena. As far as strong, powerful women who knew how to rule a kingdom went, few could equal Cleopatra in his experience (and his old buddy Marc Antony could back him up on that one). As far as women knowing their place in a man’s world, it looked as if the campaign for gender equality was still waging on.

Little seems to have changed in the political arena as well. He watched as those G-20 global governments predictably finessed their way through the agenda in the traditional part-democratic, part-oligarchic elitist manner he knew so well. Caesar did, however, find the new Republic’s budgetary crisis a bit intriguing. Perhaps that’s because Rome had ruled for a millennium without ever having a budget. He couldn’t help but laugh though when he heard the familiar high-pitched squeals of the upper classes when the subject of them paying taxes came up, again. Some things just never change.

Gaius Julius Caesar had naturally been born into patrician high society, yet he’d always prided himself on being a populist and man of the people. The Republic of Rome was more important than the individuals it was comprised of, and he was pleased to hear that a contemporary world leader named John F. Kennedy had kept the torch burning when he proclaimed “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

After gloriously expanding Rome’s real estate holdings during the course of an exemplary military career, Caesar could deservedly declare in triumph “I came, I saw, I conquered”. Unfortunately the fateful demise of Julius Caesar didn’t occur on the battlefield as one would expect, but it came shrouded in cowardice from those closest to him. Like the Roman Republic itself, Caesar was taken out from within. Et tu, Brute?

And then we woke up and knew the die had been cast. It seems the world leader crusaders have mobilized a campaign in earnest to defend democracy as the new religion, and internationalism as the new book of doctrine. As the crusaders press on for absolute global conversion, do we need to worry that the new global government will become too big to fail?

#InTheRearViewMirror #DreamSequence #DKKing #KAdCollins #Gaddafi #DonaldTrump #JohnFKennedy #SineadOConnor #Republic #GoddessofLiberty #Rome #TheVatican #WashingtonDC

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