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5 Lies Invented To Spin UN Report On Syria
Insane White House Syriagate spin now at F6 on Fujita-Pearson Tornado Scale
By Tony Cartalucci
As predicted days before the UN's Syrian chemical weapons report was made public, the West has begun spinning the findings to bolster their faltering narrative regarding alleged chemical weapon attacks on August 21, 2013 in eastern Damascus, Syria.
The goal of course, is to continue demonizing the Syrian government while simultaneously sabotaging a recent Syrian-Russian deal to have Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles verified and disarmed by independent observers.
A barrage of suspiciously worded headlines attempt to link in the mind of unobservant readers the UN's "confirmation" of chemical weapons use in Syria and Western claims that it was the Syrian government who used them. Additionally, the US, British, and French governments have quickly assembled a list of fabrications designed to spin the UN report to bolster their still-unsubstantiated accusations against the Syrian government.
The BBC's article, "US and UK insist UN chemicals report 'blames Syria'," again states unequivocally, [emphasis added]:
The UN report did not attribute blame for the attack, as that was not part of its remit.
However, that did not stop UK Foreign Secretary William Hague who claimed:
Doofus swift boat traitor Kerry with deviant, cross-dressing blowjobberall Hague during lying, UN suckfest
From the wealth of technical detail in the report - including on the scale of the attack, the consistency of sample test results from separate laboratories, witness statements, and information on the munitions used and their trajectories - it is abundantly clear that the Syrian regime is the only party that could have been responsible.
And US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power who stated:
The technical details of the UN report make clear that only the regime could have carried out this large-scale chemical weapons attack.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius is also quoted as saying:
When you look at the findings carefully, the quantities of toxic gas used, the complexity of the mixes, the nature, and the trajectory of the carriers, it leaves absolutely no doubt as to the origin of the attack.
The Washington Post went one step further, and perhaps foolishly, laid out a detailed explanation of each fabrication the West is using to spin the latest UN report. In an article titled, "The U.N. chemical weapons report is pretty damning for Assad," 5 points are made and explained as to why the UN report "points" to the Syrian government.
1. Chemical weapons were delivered with munitions not used by rebels: This claim includes referencing "Syria watcher" Eliot Higgins also known as "Brown Moses," a UK-based armchair observer of the Syrian crisis who has been documenting weapons used throughout the conflict on his blog.
While Higgins explains these particularly larger diameter rockets (140mm and 330mm) have not been seen (by him) in the hands of terrorists operating within and along Syria's borders, older posts of his show rockets similar in construction and operation, but smaller, most certainly in the hands of the militants.
The Washington Post contends that somehow these larger rockets require "technology" the militants have no access to. This is categorically false. A rocket is launched from a simple tube, and the only additional technology terrorists may have required for the larger rockets would have been a truck to mount them on. For an armed front fielding stolen tanks, finding trucks to mount large metal tubes upon would seem a rather elementary task - especially to carry out a staged attack that would justify foreign intervention and salvage their faltering offensive.
2. The sarin was fired from a regime-controlled area: The Washington Post contends that:
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The report concludes that the shells came from the northwest of the targeted neighborhood. That area was and is controlled by Syrian regime forces and is awfully close to a Syrian military base. If the shells had been fired by Syrian rebels, they likely would have come from the rebel-held southeast.
What the Washington Post fails to mention is the "limitations" the UN team itself put on the credibility of their findings. On page 18 of the report (22 of the .pdf), the UN states [emphasis added]:
The time necessary to conduct a detailed survey of both locations as well as take samples was very limited. The sites have been well travelled by other individuals both before and during the investigation. Fragments and other possible evidence have clearly been handled/moved prior to the arrival of the investigation team.
It should also be noted that militants still controlled the area after the alleged attack and up to and including during the investigation by UN personnel. Any tampering or planting of evidence would have been carried out by "opposition" members - and surely the Syrian government would not point rockets in directions that would implicate themselves.
3. Chemical analysis suggests sarin likely came from controlled supply: The Washington Post claims:
The U.N. investigators analyzed 30 samples, which they found contained not just sarin but also "relevant chemicals, such as stabilizers." That suggests that the chemical weapons were taken from a controlled storage environment, where they could have been processed for use by troops trained in their use.
Reading between the liars
Only, any staged attack would also need to utilize stabilized chemical weapons and personnel trained in their use. From stockpiles looted in Libya, to chemical arms covertly transferred from the US, UK, or Israel, through Saudi Arabia or Qatar, there is no short supply of possible sources.
Regarding "rebels" lacking the necessary training to handle chemical weapons - US policy has seen to it that not only did they receive the necessary training, but Western defense contractors specializing in chemical warfare are reported to be on the ground with militants inside Syria. CNN reported in their 2012 article, "Sources: U.S. helping underwrite Syrian rebel training on securing chemical weapons," that:
The United States and some European allies are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, a senior U.S. official and several senior diplomats told CNN Sunday.
The training, which is taking place in Jordan and Turkey, involves how to monitor and secure stockpiles and handle weapons sites and materials, according to the sources. Some of the contractors are on the ground in Syria working with the rebels to monitor some of the sites, according to one of the officials.
4. Cyrillic characters on the sides of the shells: The Washington Post claims:
The Russian lettering on the artillery rounds strongly suggests they were Russian-manufactured. Russia is a major supplier of arms to the Syrian government, of course, but more to the point they are not a direct or indirect supplier of arms to the rebels.
The Washington Post's logic fails even at face value. Terrorists operating inside of Syria also possess rifles and even tanks of Russian origin - stolen or acquired through a large network of illicit arms constructed by NATO and its regional allies to perpetuate the conflict.
Additionally, had the attacks been staged by terrorists or their Western backers, particularly attacks whose fallout sought to elicit such a profound geopolitical shift in the West's favor, it would be assumed some time would be invested in making them appear to have originated from the Syrian government. The use of chemical weapons on a militant location by the militants themselves would constitute a "false flag" attack, which by definition would require some sort of incriminating markings or evidence to accompany the weapons used in the barrage.
5. The UN Secretary General's comments on the report: The Washington Post itself admits the tenuous nature of this final point, stating:
"This is perhaps the most circumstantial case at all, but it's difficult to ignore the apparent subtext in Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's news conference discussing the report..."
That the Washington Post, and the interests driving its editorial board, could not even produce 5 reasonably convincing arguments as to why the UN report somehow implicates the Syrian government casts doubt on claims regarding the "wealth of technical detail" pointing in President Bashar al-Assad's direction.
The UN report confirms that chemical weapons were used, a point that was not contended by either side of the conflict, before or after the UN investigation began. What the West is attempting to now do, is retrench its narrative behind the report and once again create a baseless justification for continued belligerence against Syria, both covert and as a matter of official foreign policy.
TC/SL
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YOICHI SHIMATSU : Umea Culpa - The UN's Syria Inspector Shills For NATO And Israel
From the Call for Papers by the CBRNe Convergence Conference, San Diego
By Yoichi Shimatsu
1. The lack of international body monitoring CBRN use in war is undermining attempts at control and elimination of CBRN weapons.
2. CBRN allegations have become a tool of war.
That is expert opinion from the world's best first responders to chemical, biological, radio/nuclear and explosive (CBRNe) attacks - and it raises hard questions about the obviously biased and possibly doctored UN report on Syrian sarin attacks. Instead of a non-politicized investigation and lab analysis, the UN investigation of alleged nerve-gas attacks inside Syria was led by Professor Ake Sellstrom, a man of mystery who keeps a veil of secrecy around his sources of research funding and political-military relationships.
"Revverything was rrregitimate... RREARRRY!!!"
Sellstrom's report on Syria for the UN and his prior inspections record in Iraq are dubious, to say the least. In the eyes of laymen, his seeming objectivity and non-partisanship is based on the myth of Sweden's neutrality. The public assumes - wrongly- that Sweden never takes sides in wars or geopolitical conflicts.
Fraud of Neutrality
This cosmetic veneer of Swedish neutrality been deftly exploited by Israel and NATO to perpetrate falsehoods throughout Sellstrom's work for the UN, including denial of the chemical-and-biological causes for Gulf War Syndrome and the shipments of U.S. chemical weapons to the Saddam Hussein regime. The Hans Blix-Ake Sellstrom inspection teams in Iraq did not investigate the special-weapons bunkers that were bombed by American warplanes in the U.S. invasion, causing organophosphate chemicals and a bioweapon known as mycoplasm to drift over American servicemen. "
Sellstrom and Moon
Sellstrom also never made any attempt to probe the U.S.-produced 20-foot-long canisters of VX nerve gas discovered at Balad Air Base by American National Guardsmen. His mission was not to prove Iraqi guilt but to get Washington off the hook for supplying tons of nerve gas to Baghdad. Saving U.S. officials like Donald Rumsfeld from disgrace and treason charges is far more important to imperial power that disclosing any facts in a theater of war.
The salient critique of the UN inspections in Iraq was made by American inspector Scott Ritter who accused the team of spying for Washington and NATO. The same question hangs over Sellstrom's report on Syria. Is Sellstrom acting on behalf of Washington and Tel Aviv?
NATO Front Man
What is publicly known about Sellstrom is that the biochemist heads the European CBRNE Center, at Umea University in northern Sweden, which is sponsored by the Swedish Defense Ministry (FOI). Though not a NATO member, the Swedish military and police have a leading role in European security affairs as drafters of the repressive 2009 EU action plan based on the Stockholm Counterterrorism Programme.
Major funding for the CBRNE multidisciplinary research projects at Umea comes from the EU budget for the war on terrorism. These projects include: defense strategy for large-scale terrorist attacks (notice the term "relatively large scale" in his just-released Syria report); recommendations for EU medical emergency responses; and specialized training at Umea for experts, including military officers attached to NATO.
Sweden's military-industrial complex, which includes Saab and Bofors, is anything but peace-loving and neutral. The kingdom's cloak of neutrality is most useful for Israeli interests, which have exploited Scandinavia's clean image to skew international policy against the Palestinians and Arab states, as demonstrated in the half-baked Oslo Accords.
Israeli Infiltration of Scandinavia
Umea University is deeply involved in joint research with Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), the Haifa-based university that provides state-of-art technology to the Israel Defense Force (IDF) and its intelligence agencies. Several departments, which are involved in joint Israeli research, participate in multidisciplinary studies at Sellstrom's CBRNE center. These include: the computer department, which has cooperated with Technion on control systems since 2004; the medical faculty; and chemistry, his own field of studies.
The Israeli-Swedish research cooperation is fostered by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which provides scholarships and awards to bind together the industries and universities of the two countries. This year the State of Israeli is sponsoring the Start Tel Aviv program for expanded cultural ties, in its relentless campaign to subvert Scandinavia. The political agenda and military links behind the bilateral cooperation has prompted an anti-Israel boycott by conscientious Swedish academics.
No Credibility on Syria
The term "relatively large scale" chemical-weapons attack used in the introduction to the UN report on Syria is hyperbole, since any major attack with sarin would have resulted in tens of thousands of fatalities, especially if dispersed by military rockets. The first videos from Gouta showed residents pouring out of their homes onto the street, gasping for fresh air. If indeed highly efficient rockets had been used, every one of them would have been killed instantaneous. The gassing, therefore, must have been an accidental release indoors, probably from a hidden rebel arsenal.
Chemical residues from the alleged rockets would have been oxidized by the heat of impact and certainly no intact organophosphate traces would be detectable, since sarin is designed to decompose after 20 minutes. Rockets are designed to use a binary system by which two chemical precursors are mixed during mid-air dispersal. Thus, there is no need for stabilizers or dispersants, meaning an absence of any identifying chemicals. The UN inspectors arrived long after the expiration period for sample testing. There is a possiblity also that the site and rocket parts may have been tampered with falsified evidence by the rebels and their foreign military advisers.
The casualty figures are unverifiable, and certainly not any of the videos showed more than a dozen corpses at a time. The scenes of swaddled infants is typical of war propaganda, certainly not believable when only a few faces were visible. The sum effect of these images is closer to theater than credible reporting.
Sellstrom's strategy is to point fingers of guilt at the Syrian regime, while avoiding all possibility of alternative and more probable scenarios.
American ambassador to the UN Samantha Power made emphatically clear that the "nerve gas used in Syria was more concentrated than the nerve gas in Iraqi." Her statement should be rephrased as: "Saddam may have trans-shipped U.S.-supplied nerve gas into Syria, but it wasn't our nerve gas used against Syrian civilians."
That is the essential point of the Sellstrom report: To take Washington off the hook for being the major supplier of nerve gas precursors, formulations, delivery technology and storage systems to the Middle East, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and very possibly Syria (during the Clinton era of good will).
The UN report of chemical weapons on Syria lacks basic credibility due to the duplicitous record of its chief inspector, Ake Sellstrom, who is politically and financially compromised at every level. An impartial fact-finding mission of credible international experts is required, but it would have no chance of conducting a fair investigation so long as Washington provides weapons and political support to the insurgency, including its Al Qaeda faction.
The geopolitical objective underlying the White House orchestrated histrionics over Syria is to strip Damascus of its limited deterrence capability against Israel's nuclear forces. Nerve gas may not be much of a counter-strike response compared with atomic warheads, but it seems Israel's goal is absolute strategic supremacy against the Arab states and Iran. With the new UN report on Syria, Tel Aviv is a giant step closer to the dream of rendering all its neighbors defenseless and divided.
The Call for Papers for the upcoming San Diego conference of special-weapons experts states the Sellstrom report on Syria succinctly: CBRN allegations have become a tool of war."
Yoichi Shimatsu is a science journalist based in Hong Kong who led a team of investigative reporters for the Japan Times Weekly and served as consultant to Takarajima 30 magazine during the Tokyo subway gassing in 1995.
Brazilian President's State Visit To White House Cancelled After Spying Flap
Proof positive that world leaders are not buying into Obama criminals' NSAgate bullshit; Snowden revelations gather steam again - nobody wants to be seen with or give any credibility to White House murderers
By Catherine Thompson
A Brazilian newspaper reported Tuesday that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has cancelled a state visit to Washington, DC in October.
GIVE ME A BREAK: President Pousseff blows off Obama's ludicrous NSAgate lies, refuses to be seen with illiterate White House bullshitters
Rousseff was angered by media reports that the United States spied on her and other Brazilians' personal communications. O Globo newspaper said Rousseff was not swayed to go forward with the meeting by a 20-minute phone call from President Barack Obama Monday night, giving no source for the information, according to Reuters.
The White House confirmed the two presidents agreed to the cancellation in a statement issued Tuesday.
"The President has said that he understands and regrets the concerns disclosures of alleged U.S. intelligence activities have generated in Brazil and made clear that he is committed to working together with President Rousseff and her government in diplomatic channels to move beyond this issue as a source of tension in our bilateral relationship," the statement read.
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"President Obama and President Rousseff both look forward to the State Visit, which will celebrate our broad relationship and should not be overshadowed by a single bilateral issue, no matter how important or challenging the issue may be," the statement continued. "For this reason, the presidents have agreed to postpone President Rousseff's State Visit to Washington scheduled for October 23."
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Facebook plans to make political ads 'more transparent'
Posted 8:59 PM, September 21, 2017, by CNN Wire, Updated at 09:01PM, September 21, 2017
Facebook just announced something that might be a radical change to its advertising business. Key word: Might. Right now it's hard to tell how significant it'll really be.
"We're going to make political advertising more transparent," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday.
The announcement is, among other things, an attempt to stave off government regulation. But it may not be enough. Hours after Zuckerberg spoke, two Democratic senators said in a letter to colleagues obtained by CNN that they intended to write legislation about ad disclosures.
Facebook: sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
Spurred by the embarrassing disclosures about Russian-linked ads that targeted American voters last year, Zuckerberg said Facebook will require disclosures for all buyers of political ads. Users will be able to see what ads those buyers are showing to other groups of people.
Facebook did not provide further details about how this will work.
In the past, Facebook executives have called this kind of information "confidential," and they have tried to enforce consistent policies for ads, treating campaign messages no differently than gadget ads. So the company could be on the verge of a big change.
Zuckerberg said "we will roll this out over the coming months, and we will work with others to create a new standard for transparency in online political ads."
But how will Facebook determine what's a "political ad" and what's not? Questions about classification are going to be tricky, and a Facebook spokesman said the company has no further information to share at this time.
Some ads are overtly political — "vote for Candidate X" — but many others are not. Ads with cultural and economic messages could be intended to influence the outcome of an election without ever mentioning a candidate or a political party. And it's not as if the Russian group that has been linked to the ads at issue here started a Super PAC or in any other way announced that their intentions were political.
Facebook faces other challenges on this front. Its automated ad systems are incredibly complex. Enabling users to see all of the political messages that advertisers are targeting to users is a tall order for the company's engineers.
Zuckerberg described the plan this way: "Not only will you have to disclose which page paid for an ad, but we will also make it so you can visit an advertiser's page and see the ads they're currently running to any audience on Facebook."
Users, journalists, researchers and competing advertisers may benefit from having information about which Facebook page purchased a political ad. But the disclosures still may not truly answer questions about who's really pulling the strings and for which reasons. Facebook pages are free and easy for anyone to set up.
Zuckerberg also said that Facebook will "strengthen our ad review process for political ads."
The announcements were met with curiosity and a whole lot of skepticism. "They are walking up to the starting line," Jason Kint, CEO of the publishing trade group Digital Context Next, said. "This is complete reaction to try to get back some control of the discussion."
Kint and other analysts said the planned changes are partially a response to growing calls for federal regulation of online political ads.
Campaign ads on Facebook and other social networking sites currently face none of the disclosure requirements that TV and radio ads do.
When a campaign or a political action committee buys ad time on TV, there's a record of the buy, and stations have to make that information available to the public.
Transparency advocates would like the TV disclosures to be a lot more detailed, but at least there's a little bit of sunlight. On the web, there's almost none.
Many Democratic lawmakers have been urging disclosure standards for online ads.
"We encourage the Federal Election Commission to take immediate steps to understand the threats posed to our democratic process by foreign influenced internet and social media advertisement, and to promulgate new guidance on how advertisement platforms can better prevent foreign nationals from illicitly spending in future U.S. elections," a group of House and Senate Democrats said in a letter on Wednesday.
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О́лег Анато́льевич Васи́льев () — советский и российский художник-иллюстратор, график, плакатист, портретист.

Биография
Родился в 1953 году в Москве, в Марьиной Роще.

В 1972 году окончил Московское государственное академическое художественное училище памяти 1905 года. Его учителями были Д. И. Соколов, В. И. Пастухов, Д. И. Воронцов, А. Г. Чалтыкьян.

 1973 — «Мосфильм», художник живописной мастерской, комбинированных съёмок, внештатно сотрудничал с издательствами: «Совершенно секретно», «Если», «Крокодил», «Дружба народов», «Литературная газета», «Чудеса и приключения», «Шварц и К», «АСТ», «Рекламфильм», «Совэкспортфильм» (член художественного совета Госкино СССР). В 1988 году вступил в «Международную федерацию художников» (IFA).
 1990 — участие в выставке «Русский дом» (Антверпен, Бельгия).
 1991 — приз на конкурсе киноплаката «Эпика» (Франция).
 1993 — первая персональная выставка на «Кузнецком мосту».
 1994 — вторая персональная выставка в «Доме дружбы с зарубежными странами».
 1995 — третья в «Доме дружбы с зарубежными странами», «Храмы России».
 1997 — главный художник «Издательства Московской Патриархии».

Работы находятся в частных коллекциях США, Бельгии, Испании, Германии, Кипра, Мексики, России.

Киноплакаты к фильмам с участием В. Высоцкого находятся в «ГКЦ музея Высоцкого» в постоянной экспозиции, Музее имени Бахрушина, Музее кино и др.

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The Pittsburgh Steelers will play the Minnesota Vikings on the road Thursday night, and if you're like me, you're counting down the hours until the Week 14 game begins. As usual, I will attempt to project the Steelers' inactives for every game of the 2021 season, and below is my best guess as to which players won't be given helmets on Thursday night against the Vikings.
Game inactives are officially announced 90 minutes before kickoff, so make sure you check back at that time to see the names of the players for both teams who will be sitting the game out. Also, the new roster rules make this exercise even harder as teams can elevate up to two players from their practice squads to their active roster for gamedays. Teams also can dress up to 48 players for games if eight offensive linemen are dressed.
QB Dwayne Haskins – Four weeks ago, Haskins dressed for the first time this season and that was due to starring quarterback Ben Roethlisberger being placed on the Reserve/COVID-19 list that week. Roethlisberger returned for the Week 12 Sunday night game and remains healthy heading into Week 14, which is the same for backup quarterback Mason Rudolph. Haskins has been back on the inactive list ever since Roethlisberger returned from the COVID-19 list and he'll likely remain there on gamedays moving forward for the remainder of the season.
CB Joe Haden – The Steelers listed Haden as out on the team's injury report on Wednesday after he failed to practice all week and that now means he'll miss a fourth consecutive game with a foot injury that he originally suffered in Week 10. With Haden ruled out again, backup cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon will likely dress in his place and even start Thursday night against the Vikings. Witherspoon started in place of Haden in Week 13.
DT Isaiah Buggs – After being a healthy scratch inactive in Week 12, Buggs was an injury scratch in Week 13 with an ankle injury. after failing to practice this week, Buggs was ruled out for the Thursday night game against the Vikings on the Wednesday injury report. With Buggs now out for Thursday night, newcomer defensive tackle Montravius Adams is sure to dress again and potentially even start like he did in Week 13.
G/C B.J. Finney – Finney left the Week 13 game in the first quarter and never returned. He failed to practice this week and thus was ruled out for the Thursday night game on the Wednesday injury report. The Steelers elevated two offensive linemen from their practice squad to the Active/Inactive roster earlier in the day and those two players, tackle Chaz Green and guard Rashaad Coward, should dress Thursday night against the Vikings so that the team can have eight total offensive linemen in uniform. With Finney out, John Leglue is expected to make his first career start Thursday night.
ILB Robert Spillane – Spillane, who was activated from the Reserve/COVID-19 list earlier in the week, failed to practice these last few days due to a knee injury he sustained back in Week 12. Spillane was ruled out for the Thursday night game against the Vikings on the team's Wednesday injury report and thus he'll be on the pregame inactive list. With Spillane out, look for rookie inside linebacker Buddy Johnson to once again dress in his place.
RB Anthony McFarland Jr. – In Week 13, the Steelers chose to dress tight end Kevin Rader over McFarland and that may have been because the team had wide receiver Ray-Ray McCloud back from the Reserve/COVID-19 list. With this being a short week, we could see a repeat of that decision on Thursday night against the Vikings. It certainly seems as if though this particular inactive spot decision comes down to either McFarland or Rader with the latter being the better asset on special teams.
DT Carlos Davis – The Steelers activated Davis from the Reserve/Injured list last Saturday. Even so, he still wound up on the Week 13 inactive list as defensive tackle Henry Mondeaux seemingly dressed ahead of him. With this being a short week for the Steelers, there's a very good chance that Mondeaux will once again dress over Davis against the Vikings on Thursday night. The Steelers figure to dress just five defensive lineman against the Vikings with those players likely to be Cameron Heyward, Chris Wormley, Isaiahh Loudermilk, Adams and Mondeaux.
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December 29, 2021 December 29, 2021 by Sylvester Devano
Social media has massive repercussions on the sports industry, and this will continue to grow over time. Prior to the internet, athletes were not as socially famous, but today they have the highest level of interaction and engagement with their fans. After conducting extensive research, we selected the most popular athletes on social media 2022.
Unlike retrospect, athletes have more fans and craze than movie stars across the globe, and this is all because of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. There is no greater form of entertainment than sports, and we are passionate fans of our favorite athletes.
Fans want to know everything their favorite athletes do and say on and off the field. There is no doubt that athletes have an enormous influence on key societal and cultural issues. Using social media as a catalyst, they empower people and fuel their ideas. Let's dig deep into the most famous sports personalities.
Most Popular Athletes On Social Media | 2022 Ranking
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10. Marcelo – 8th Most Popular Footballer on Scoial Media
9. John Cena – The Most WWE Star on Social Media
8. Mesut Ozil – Most Popular German Footballer
7. Dwayne Johnson – Most Followed Athlete/Actor on Social Media
6. Ronaldinho Gaucho – Football
5. Ricardo Kaka – Football
4. David Beckham – Football
3. Neymar – Football
2. Lionel Messi – Most Popular Footballer on Scoial Media
1. Cristiano Ronaldo – All Time Popular Star on Social Media
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We have recently ranked the most popular soccer players and also the most popular cricket players in the world right now. However, our beloved fan base definitely deserves a cumulative ranking of all the athletes. So, here are the most popular athletes on social media.
Brazilian professional footballer Marcelo Vieira da Silva Junior, one of the best left-backs in the world and a captain of the Real Madrid team. He is widely regarded as one of the best football defenders the world has ever seen.
Marcelo has won La Liga four times and helped Madrid win the UEFA Champions League three times during his time at the club. The 33 years old vibrant and tenacious player, is hugely popular on social media with a great fan following.
A total of 47 million people follow his Instagram account; he has 12.1 million followers on Twitter, and 29 million people follow him on Facebook. Additionally, Marcelo has 1.25 million subscribers on YouTube.
He receives high brand endorsement requests because of the popularity of his fan base. The Adidas brand and Nike selected Marcelo as its new German icon. That's how he got 10th position out of the top 10 most popular athletes on social media.
John Felix Anthony Cena is an American athlete who performs for WWE on SmackDown. He is a wrestler, actor, television presenter, and former rapper. John Cena, 44, is known as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time.
As well as being a rapper, he is a well-known actor. John has achieved multiple records including 12 times WWE World Heavyweight Championship and 3 times WWE United States Championship.
Currently, he is among the richest wrestlers in the world. In comparison to other social media active athletes, he has the most interaction and approach with his fans.
Jhon always uses social media to spread positivity and enthusiasm. He has 45 million Facebook followers and 11.5 million Twitter followers, making his online fan base 56.6 million.
Fenerbahce's attacking midfielder Mesut Ozil is a German professional footballer. In three straight seasons, he helped the club win the league title and finished first in league assists. And now, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest football midfielders of all time.
As the five-time German Player of the Year, Ozil holds a multiple awards record for the most awards. The 32 years old Mesut is widely famous for his amazing performance on the field. And he is also well known for his creativity and innovation.
He has a great number of fans on social media platforms. He has 31.3 million Facebook fans and 24.9 million Twitter followers. For sure, he is the most fan-following sportsperson in the world. Besides being an Adidas athlete, Ozil signed a seven-year contract for commercial boot sponsorship.
Mercedes-Benz also made him its brand ambassador. Considering all this, Mesut Ozil deserves to be ranked 8th in the top 10 most popular athletes on social media.
An American actor Dwayne Douglas Johnson, started his career as a professional wrestler. The 49 years old Rock, widely famous as one of the most popular WWE wrestlers of all time.
He is a successful actor, producer, and businessman. Before joining the acting career, he wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation and got huge recognition and millions of fans around the globe.
After a successful wrestling journey, Rock joined movies, and his films have grossed over $3.5 billion in North America and over $10 billion worldwide and made him one of the world's highest-grossing and highest-paid actors.
He has a huge social media following. Currently, he has 58 million followers on Facebook, 14.3 million followers on Twitter, and 263 million followers on Instagram. He is widely known as one of the top 10 most followed sportspeople on Instagram.
Former Brazilian football player Ronaldinho Gaucho, also known as Ronaldinho de Assis Moreira, is an ambassador for Barcelona. As an attacking midfielder, he was also positioned as a winger.
He is also among the most-followed footballers on Instagram this year. The 41 years old Ronaldinho, got fame for his technical skills, creativity as well as his unique way of doing tricks and overhead kicks.
Besides his awesome career, he also gained a massive fan following across the internet, which is why Ronaldinho is on the 6th spot in our count down of the top 10 most popular athletes on social media.
Ronaldinho currently has 34 million followers on Facebook and 19.3 million followers on Twitter which makes his online fan base 53.3 million.
A Brazilian professional footballer Ricardo kaka, is a former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is 39 years old and football fans still consider him as one of the most handsome footballers in the world.
He has twice been featured in Time Magazine's list of the world's most influential people. Besides his popularity, he is also the first athlete to gain 10 million followers on Twitter. Kaka presently has 31 million followers on Facebook and he also has 29 million followers on Twitter which makes his online fanbase 60 million.
Even if he doesn't have many active fans on social media, he is still the most respected and loved athlete by fans. Ricardo is probably the only player who doesn't have haters. Additionally, he is known for his humanitarian and charity work off the field.
His strong fan base led Hyundai to appoint him as the 2014 FIFA World Cup brand ambassador. These factors helped him earn the 5th spot out of the top 10 most popular athletes on social media.
An English professional footballer David Robert Joseph Beckman is one of the most followed athletes in the USA. The 46 years old, David Beckham is still acknowledged as one of the most fashionable English footballers. Besides, he is also one of the most successful retired footballers who earn millions.
It was the first time an English footballer had won league titles in America, Spain, France, and England while he captained the English national team. In 2004, FIFA admitted him to their list of the 100 greatest living footballers.
With his good looks, outstanding football talent, image, and style, he is regarded as an ideal icon in the UK and the Far East. On social media, he has a huge following. In total, he has 121.9 million online fans, including 54 million followers on Facebook and 67.9 million followers on Instagram.
His popularity and his cherished lifestyle made him be in 4th position in the top 10 most popular athletes on social media.
Brazilian professional footballer Neymar da Silva Santos is currently on the field for the French club Paris Saint-German as a forward. He is also the captain of the national soccer team. In 2015, he won the Continental Treble of La Liga and UEFA Champions League with Barcelona's attacking trio.
He is the first Brazilian athlete to receive an honor from Time Magazine. Forbes magazine ranked him as the highest-paid athlete for this year's earnings of $95.5 million.
SportPro Magazine included him in its 2013 list of the world's most marketable athletes. Due to his huge fan base, Neymar is an idealistic and iconic celebrity for all the top brands.
Neymar currently has 258 million followers online, including 60 million on Facebook, 49 million on Twitter, and 149 million on Instagram.
Argentine professional footballer and one of the greatest footballers of all time, Leo Messi, now plays for the French Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain. As well as playing as a forward for the Argentina national team and the French club, he also captains the national side.
In the years 2010 to 2012, Messi won the FIFA Ballon d'Or three times. The award for the top scorer on the continent, the European Golden Shoe, has been presented to him six times, making it a record for each category.
In 2011 and 2012, Messi was ranked as one of the world's most influential people by Time Magazine. He is one of the most followed athletes on social media after Cristiano.
On his first day on Facebook, Messi gained 6.3 million fans within three hours. There are 90.1 million followers on Facebook and 253 million followers on Instagram, making his online presence 343.1 million.
The greatest Portuguese footballer of all time, Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, is known for his incredible leaping abilities. Besides, he is also known for his grace. As a forward, he currently plays for Serie A club Juventus and captains the Portugal national team.
In 2008, Cristiano Ronaldo achieved his first Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the year awards. These awards were repeatedly won by him in 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017. Among all athletes on social media, he has the most followers.
As a result of this huge fan base, he advertised some of the world's most famous brands, such as Nike, Clear, Herbalife, and CR7. LiveScore, the world's leading provider of real-time sports updates, employs him as its brand ambassador.
He has 150 million Facebook fans, 87 million Twitter followers, and 330 million Instagram followers. Therefore, he is ranked as the number one most popular athlete on social media.
Thanks for reading! We have compiled the most-followed athletes on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Moreover, we chose athletes whose popularity and ethical standards are truly worthy of remembering. Hopefully, you have enjoyed reading the article and if you have any queries, you can tell us through comments and email. Your response will be appreciated.
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Being on number 1 as the most popular athlete on social media is a feat itself. Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese superstar footballer, is the world's most influential social media influencer. Aside from being the most popular athlete on social media, he is also one of the greatest footballers the world has ever seen.
The most followed person on Facebook is the great Cristiano Ronaldo, with over 150 million followers as of 2022. In football history, he is probably the only player to accomplish such an outstanding record of success on and off the field.
The most-followed athlete on Instagram is also the one and only Cristiano Ronaldo, with over 315.75 million followers. He is not only the most followed athlete on Instagram but Cr7 is the one who ever reached this kind of fan following on Instagram.
Folks! The most followed person on Twitter is also the great Cristiano Ronaldo. He has 52.1 million followers on Twitter. Cr7 is the one who has such fanatical fans in the history of athletes. The way he is working so hard day and night, he will remain on the top.
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While eschewing attempts to legislatively mandate that tech companies build backdoors into their services, the president is continuing the status quo – that is, informally pressuring companies to give the government access to unencrypted data.
Basically, it's a partial victory for those of us fighting for strong, secure, private communications online.
Obama is taking a step in that direction, and that's a victory for the technology rights activists across the globe who have come together during this campaign. But it's not enough to acknowledge that a law forcing companies to build backdoors into their users' data is a bad idea. If Obama wants to leave a legacy promoting innovation and consumer privacy, he should create a clear policy position opposing secret, and sometimes informal, agreements between the government and tech companies to undermine security and privacy. Internet users –both in the United States and abroad—deserve to trust their digital service providers, and this step would go a long way to amending the trust rift caused by years of privacy abuses by the NSA.
There's still time for the president to do the right thing. While Obama seems to have solidified his position for now, he's also promised to respond to any We the People petition that gets over 100,000 signatures. Help us get there, and tell Obama that undermining encryption—whether through private agreement or through law—undermines the entire Internet. Sign now.


After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, ALLAN WU soon realized that his career would veer far away from his Pre-Med major and biotechnology background. Little did he know that his career in entertainment would propel him all the way to Asia even after modeling for the prestigious Ford Model Agency in Los Angeles, California.
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TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili's talk show will not go on air until February at the earliest.
the businessman who dedicated himself to strengthening civil society after retiring from politics announced his plans for a talk show a few weeks ago, in a TV interview on Georgian Public Broadcaster.
The weekly show will feature himself alongside the hosts. It is to be broadcast on GDS, a TV company created by his rapper son Bera, and will offer analysis of current events in Georgia. Ivanishvili said it should go on air sometime in December.
GDS is an entertaining channel, however, and doesn't have a license to air political programs. The company applied to the Communications Commission for the appropriate license in late October.
The commission said in a statement Friday that due to technical issues, GDS will not be able to completely prepare programs foreseen by the common broadcasting license until February 2015. The company therefore requested to suspend the public administrative proceedings and the commission granted this request.
GDS will have to send a new application for a license as what's called a 'common broadcaster', which allows the company to also broadcast political programs.
Ivanishvili said in the interview that the TV show will be called 'Society 2030' and will be live every day from Monday to Friday with three analysts and invited guests.
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Chillin' is an album by saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman which was recorded in 1998 and released on the HighNote label the following year.

Reception

In his review on Allmusic, Scott Yanow states "This straight-ahead effort is pretty definitive of his jazz abilities, for it has Newman making four appearances on tenor, two on soprano, and one apiece on flute and alto. ... Highly recommended". In JazzTimes, Willard Jenkins noted "Standing in the middle of a mountain stream, barefoot and coverall-ed on the CD cover, all's seemingly right in Fathead's world. And that sense of comfort and good vibes permeates this disc, whose title is quite apt. Newman embraces this music with the seasoned improviser's special coupling of swing and relaxation. There is a level of communication reached when bandleaders have the luxury of long-term work with familiars". On All About Jazz Douglas Payne said "This compelling, easily enjoyable set shows the many sides of David Newman's personality – and his distinctive and vital talents on a variety of reed instruments too".

Track listing
 "Take the Coltrane" (Duke Ellington) – 5:51
 "Return to Paradise" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 5:51
 "The Whole Tzimmes" (David "Fathead" Newman) – 5:58
 "These Foolish Things" (Jack Strachey, Holt Marvell, Harry Link) – 9:37
 "Invitation" (Bronisław Kaper, Paul Francis Webster) – 5:32
 "Chillin'" (Newman) – 6:34
 "Caravan" (Juan Tizol, Ellington, Irving Mills) – 4:42
 "Red Top" (Lionel Hampton, Ben Kynard) – 4:26

Personnel
David "Fathead" Newman – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
John Hicks – piano
Bryan Carrott – vibraphone
Steve Novosel – bass
Winard Harper – drums
Cadino Newman – vocals (tracks 7 & 8)

References

David "Fathead" Newman albums
1999 albums
HighNote Records albums
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio


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Carol: A Versatile Volunteer
Carol Koppenhaver's interest grew as she typed up paperwork at the law firm of McNees, Wallace & Nurick.
She was working on Caitlin's Smiles' application for charitable status. Her boss then was Harrisburg attorney Tim Finnerty, who now volunteers on our Board of Directors.
"As I was typing it up, the more I read about it, the more it sounded interesting to me," Carol says. "My mother and I had always done crafts, and she had since passed, and I just needed something to try to help me out, too. So I volunteered at a couple of the Craft Nights while I was still working, and then, in 2009, I retired and I started coming in even more full-time than I am now."
Carol has filled many roles in the years since then. "I packed Bags (of Smiles), made craft kits, made deliveries, did all the silent auctions for many years," she says.
Today, she is our statistician. She not only fills Bags of Smiles and packs them for shipping, she keeps count of every bag, Coping Kit, craft kit, and toy that we send out and notes the medical facilities that receive them.
When she's not doing that, she is working on craft kits or assembling journals at home. "I put in more hours at home than I do in the office now," she says.
That includes holding craft sessions at home for five former co-workers.
"We meet once a month on a Friday night," Carol says. "I feed them dinner, and then I make them put craft kits together for a couple hours."
To Carol, it's all for a great cause.
"It's a great place to volunteer," she says. "It helps the kids. I can see from their thank-you notes, (the pictures with) the smiles on their faces with the Bags of Smiles. … It's just a good feeling when you get a box of stuff done and bring it back in here. It's as much for my well-being as for the kids' well-being."


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The big news story last week became the media's non-coverage of the Ron Paul campaign. After Jon Stewart of The Daily Show successfully brought out the full nature of the media prejudice, it became the story.
That's how bias backfires. Trying to keep Ron Paul out of the headlines led to putting Ron Paul in the headlines.
How easily a conspiracy of silence turns into a deafening noise.
Media bigots think they are doing a public service when they pick winners and throw out losers before almost anyone has even heard from the challengers. They consider it their job.
Undoubtedly they look at Ron Paul's platform and say to themselves "This guy doesn't fit into the normal left-right spectrum, or even neatly into his own party. That makes him unelectable. So we won't talk about him." This points to media's true power: establishing what's worth talking about.
Trouble is, by rushing to judgment against Paul, they miss the day's major story: Paul's appeal transcends usual party lines. It's not just a tiny cadre of libertarians on his side, it's conservatives and liberals and exes of both persuasions; it's centrists who've never heard anyone talk about the Federal Reserve before; it's peaceniks who are serious about ending America's wars.
It might even be that strong core of American society that still respects honesty and consistency.
The media has missed this elsewhere, too: In repeated recalls and initiatives around the country.
Cover the big story, folks. Not just your own spin.
Ron Paul has fairly decent name recognition among the citizens that pay attention.
Gary Johnson however has been truly ignored and I find it maddening. He acquitted himself well on Stossel but has gotten little other national attention. He did a good job for us here in NM as Governor for 8 years, leaving a budget surplus. He started a one man business that grew to employ 1000. He has real executive experience unlike Dr Ron Paul.
Try to imagine what it would be like if Ron Paul were President….it boggles the mind and I have to say…Dare I hope???
Worked when they end-runned Gary Johnson. Gues they thought to run the same play on Mr. Paul. Poor Johnny One-Note.
Gary Johnson is a super candidate for president, who I can easily and enthusiastically support.
That's why it was so important to marginalize him early and deny him the national stage. He could have been a contender. Now he's playing catchup and getting further behind as the media continues to ignore him.
The media is Presbo's 5th column in his fight to subjugate THIS country.
Well the media will always be the media! They should be more informative and deliver the truth to the public, not with sugar coated words.


looking for the old truck or maybe a towing and salvage company with some treasures behind fences.
This 1950 Dodge Truck was out in the open and I got several great shots of it.
The most intriguing was this one, like a tattered flag or rugby jersey.
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Posts Tagged 'Columbus Symphony Orchestra'
In my lifetime, I have seen a decline in audiences that attend symphonic concerts. Not too many years ago, when the Columbus Symphony
Orchestra performed at the 2,700 seat Three Arts Theater, formally the Royal movie and stage show theater, the theater was almost
filled for every concert. Not only were the audiences large,they were dressed well, the wearing men suits and ties and ladies in their
Sunday bests.Now, in the beautiful, state of the art almost 2,000 seat Bill Heard Theater at the River Center, there are many empty
seats. Also, many attendees just don't bother to dress up any more. That's certainly not because of the quality of the orchestra,
because, in my view, it is superb.
It's true that back in the Three Arts Theater, days there were not as many competing musical events as now. The Columbus State University Schwob School off Music offers many free concerts, some by the school's Philharmonic Orchestra, an excellent full-sized student symphony orchestra. Except for Kaleidoscope, when all students in the Schwob School participate, the Philharmonic does not use the Bill Heard Theater. It performs in the much smaller Legacy Hall. Still, I think the professional Columbus Symphony should be attracting more patrons. Hopefully, the upcoming season will draw larger crowds again. Director George Del Gobbo makes a very good case for your participation. More on that in Chapter 4.
Tags:Columbus Symphony Orchestra, George Del Gobbo, Music, orchestra, Philhrmonic, Schwob School of Music, symphony
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Some May Just Like Symphonic Music and Not Know It
Symphonic music is highbrow, stuff for the snooty social elite, some think. For an example of that not being the case, look no further than movie music. D.W. Griffith's 1915 silent blockbuster Birth of a Nation featured a symphonic score played by a live orchestra. Like many film score composers, Joseph Breil adapted some classical music for the film, using, for instance, passages from Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 and Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.
For a modern example, composer, conductor, and pianist John Williams wrote symphonic scores for Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park and three Harry Potter films.
It's impressive on the big sound systems in movie theaters. But, to me, better when played by a live orchestra. The Columbus Symphony Orchestra demonstrated that last year with its highly successful John Williams concert. The orchestra is going to give us more memorable movie music this year. CSO at the Oscars features such blockbuster scores as James Bond, Out of Africa, Lawrence of Arabia, and many more including a repeat of the John Williams' Star Wars composition.
The other pops concert this season will be American Icons: Words of our Nation. Musical tributes will be paid to the flag, jazz, bluegrass, baseball, cowboys, and the Grand Canyon and, iconic Americans like Martin Luther King, Jr, John Wayne, Lincoln, and Elvis, featuring the music of Aaron Copland, John Williams, Ferde Grofe, and others.
The season will feature great classics also. The opener on September 17th is Beethoven's Fifth, which also features his Piano Concerto no. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37, and Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 67.
There will also be concerts featuring the music of Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Saint-Saens, Strauss, and Prokofiev and others.
So, join me at the River Center for a super CSO season.
For more info go to www.csoga.org.
Tags:Columbus Symphony Orchestra, CSO, Elvis, John Williams, Movies, Music, Oscars, River Center, Star Wars
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Symphonic Music for Everyone
It's good to see that the Columbus Symphony Orchestra is playing symphonic music that everyone can enjoy. I like a lot of the classics, but a good way to get the general public to become symphonic music fans is to play new, popular movie scores like the ones featured Friday evening in the Bill Heard Theater at River Center. Maybe it would be a good idea to do more pops concerts during a season. This one starts at 7:30. Hope to see you there.
Cameron Bean, Executive Director of the orchestra, says now is a great time to pay a tribute to John Williams because more of his musical masterpieces are premiering this year, "Jurassic World" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." "We thought it would be fitting to celebrate his works with a pops concert for the whole family to enjoy."
Also, there will be a costume party before the concert. Sounds like a winner to me.
Tags:Columbus Symphony Orchestra, CSO, John Williams, Lucas, Movies, Star Wars
A TUNEFUL CSO SEASON
As Maestro George Del Gobbo says, "There is nothing in the world like hearing a symphony orchestra live." The first symphony orchestra I heard live was the Pittsburg Symphony when it came to Columbus in the mid-1940s. I have been hooked on that wonderful sound since. And, believe me, being live makes a huge difference.
The CSO season, which starts Saturday, Sept. 13 at the River Center at 7:30, has something for everyone, including a concert that features the lush sounds of a symphony playing some country music favorites. The opener Saturday is an all Tchaikovsky concert. This is great powerful, passionate, romantic, beautiful symphonic music with melodies that you'll humming on your way back to your car. Do yourself a favor and join me Saturday and experience what Maestro Del Gobbo says is sound that "comes from the depths of the human soul."
Oh, the T-shirt is something I won a few years ago when the orchestra held a pops concert that featured an audience quiz. The orchestra played excerpts and the person who identified the most titles won some tickets and a T-shirt. It was my lucky day. I got all of them. The concert had been scheduled for the band shell in Weracoba Park, but it was moved into the Jordan High auditorium because of rain. That old auditorium has excellent acoustics.
Tags:Columbus Symphony Orchestra, CSO, Music, symphonic music, symphony, Tchaikovsky
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Saving the Symphony
Before Saturday night's wonderful performance of Wagner and Straus by the Columbus Symphony orchestra, I was speaking with Columbus cultural icon Clason Kyle. I told him how pleased I was to see the school busses arriving with a lot of middle and high school kids to attend the concert. When I told him that my first exposure to a live symphony orchestra was when the Pittsburg Symphony played the 9th Street USO in about 1947, he remembered that he was there that night also. One of the Three Arts League members bought tickets for students of the Columbus and Jordan High bands. We sat on the first two rows. I was blown away by the sound of that live orchestra. I have loved symphonic music ever since. Clason, a Columbus High student, wasn't a member of the band. I guess he was there simply because he wanted to be.
"Remember when the train came by?" he asked me.
The 9th Street USO, torn down long ago, sat very close to the tracks than run down 9th Street.
After he mentioned it, I did remember.
"The conductor of the orchestra was quite amused by that."
I even remembered the encore that the orchestra played, the rousing march "El Capitan." No doubt the conductor knew the high school bands were there and agreed to play something especially for us. I heard that the Columbus High kids had requested that number because their director was called "Captain Lee." Who knows, maybe that was true.
I had to reflect on all of that when I saw all those school kids lining up go into the Bill Heard Theater. I also reflected on how important is it for the symphony to invite school children so they can be exposed to the great sound of a full symphony orchestra. There is just nothing like hearing live symphonic music. Symphony audiences all over the country are getting smaller. Attracting young audiences is the only hope of reversing that trend.
And it was good thing the symphony played Wagner and Straus because those composers really knew how to get the most out of an orchestra. They also knew how to write not only beautiful, but also exciting music.
No doubt, thanks to the sponsors who paid for the kid's tickets, more students will be invited to attend future concerts. To love that music, a person has to be exposed to it. It wouldn't hurt for the orchestra to follow the example of the Pittsburg Symphony and play an encore targeted for them, something like "The Stars and Stripes Forever," or the theme from "Star Wars."
Tags:bands, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Music, school music, Straus, symphonic music, Wagner
A Silent Movie and a Live Symphony Orchestra Create Magic
One of the most enjoyable evenings I have ever spent in a theater was on Valentine's Day in 2010 when I saw Charlie Chaplin's City Lights accompanied by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra playing the movie score live. The two things that came across the most that night were that Charlie Chaplin was a creative genius and Columbus, Georgia has a really fine symphony orchestra. It was magical.
That magic was captured again when the orchestra played the score as we watched Chaplin's 1928 hit The Circus. Chaplin's humor is timeless. The 2013 Columbus, Georgia audience roared at Chaplin's 1928 slapstick comedy. The two things that stood out in the 2010 event did the same thing this time. Chaplin, who not only produced, starred, and directed The Circus, wrote the score when the movie was revived in 1967. That was the score that the Columbus Symphony played Thursday night. Again, Chaplin's genius was obvious and the orchestra's performance superb. Conductor George Del Gobbo told the audience that he had watched the movie 20 times getting ready to conduct the score. It worked.
Tags:Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, silent movies, The Circus
A Big Night for the Columbus Symphony
Congratulations to George Del Gobbo, who was honored Saturday evening with a proclamation by Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson for his dedicated service in leading the Columbus Symphony Orchestra for twenty-five years. The proclamation presented by City Manager Isaiah Hugley prior to the symphony's sensational concert.
The audience was blown away by the stunningly impressive performance by 29-year-old violinist Tai Murray. She played the extremely difficult and exciting Shostakovich Violin Concerto, Op. 99. The standing ovation that followed was loud and long. Not only was she in top form, the orchestra had never sounded better to me.
Columbus is truly fortunate to such a fine symphony orchestra, the second oldest in the country, founded in 1855. The New York Philharmonic was the first. The CSO went dormant during the Civil War, and World War I and II, but was reborn in 1949 under the baton of Robert M. Barr. Harry Kruger followed Barr and Del Gobbo followed Kruger.
Not only does this year mark Del Gobbo's 25th anniversary of leading the orchestra, it is also the tenth year of the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. Delo Gobbo writes in this season's program guide, "This remarkable building is certainly a treasured jewel in the crown of the city." Indeed!
What was truly encouraging was the impressive number of young people attending the concert. They have to be exposed to the world's most beautiful music in order for symphonic music to survive. To me, there is still nothing musically that matches the sound of a live symphony orchestra. Even with today's marvelous recording technology, live still is best, especially in a hall with the acoustics of the Bill Heard Theater. Internationally acclaimed artists that perform there rave over the "beautiful hall with its remarkable accoustics."
Tags:Bill Heard Theater, classical music, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, CSO, George Del Gobbo, Music, Violin
"Mr. Music," George Corradino, Says MCSD Music Program Needs a Supervisor
Dr. George Corradino playing with Columbus Community Orchestra (Courtesy: Joey Cumming)
Dr. George Corradino, as only he could, used the occasion of being featured soloist of the Columbus Community Orchestra, to issue a call to action in support of school music in the Muscogee County School District. He had just finished playing "Georgia On My Mind," with the orchestra, and he added an unaccompanied solo of Italian music his mother loved, both crowd pleasers that got him a big hand, when he launched into an appeal for everyone there to lobby the school board to hire a supervisor of music. That's the job from which he retired. The system hasn't had one for years, now, and he thinks it shows.
"We are about to get a new superintendent of schools so now is a good time to push for an emphasis on school music and hiring a supervisor of music, " he told the crowd.
Afterwards, as we were walking out to ours cars, I said, "George, I guess the reason we don't have a supervisor of music is because of the money."
"It's not the money, Dick. They would save money by having a supervisor."
"Then what is it?"
"I don't know, but it's not the money. By having a central office for the school music program they could save money in ordering supplies, for one thing. And how about hiring music teachers? Principals are hiring them now for each school. Music is not their speciality. They don't have the qualifications for hiring band directors and other music teachers."
Over all, he thinks the music program in the schools has gone down. It appears to me that he is right. For instance, over all, the high school bands are nowhere nearly as impressive as they were for many years, years when the superintendent and school board ardently supported the program. That support started when Dr. William Henry Shaw became superintendent after World War II and it increased over the years. But, where is it now?
The strange thing is that Columbus is a music city. The Schowb School of Music at Columbus State University is one of the best in the country. The school's Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble are both outstanding. The Columbus Symphony is a fine orchestra. And we have community groups such as the Bob Barr Community Band, the Cavaliers big band, and the Columbus Community Orchestra, providing not only music for all of us to enjoy, but giving an outlet to adult amateur musicians. But, what has happened to the Muscogee County School District's music program?
George was getting really hot about it because he, like me, knows how far reaching a good music program can be. He knows that music students usually make good overall students and learn self-discipline which helps them all through life. Have you ever noticed how many physcians are musicians? The first violinist of the Community Band is Dr. Ken Goldman, a Columbus surgeon. Dr. Mary Schley, a retired pediatrician, plays viola. My late cousin, Dr. Billy Dodd of Macon, loved to play the piano, and had his own dance and jazz bands.
Dr. Ken Goldman, surgeon, first violinist of the Columbus Community Orchestra (Courtesy: Joey Cumming)
Yes, music is very important in life. Let's hope the new superintendent and the school board realize that and act accordingly. If they don't, beleive me, George will be after them because he has the energy to do it. Though my age, 78, he still goes full steam, giving his time to lead the Cavaliers Big Band, the Bob Barr Community Band and play for all sorts of occasions.
Columbus Community Orchestra, william E. Fry, Conductor, James B Mallard III, Assistant Conductor (Courtesy: Joey Cumming)
Tags:Bob Barr Community Band, Columbus Community Orchestra, Columbus State University, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, George corradino, high school bands, Jazz, Muscogee County School District, Music, school music, Schowb School of Music


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