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Disarmament Kathy Kelly Social Movements US foreign policy
Hammering for Peace
"Last winter, at our Voices for Creative Nonviolence home/office in Chicago, we welcomed two friends who were in town for a Mennonite church gathering focused on the symbol of beating swords into plowshares."
Kathy Kelly
Published in: Common Dreams, Huffington Post, The Nuclear Resister, Counter Currents, Pace e Bene, Gilmer Free Press, Transcend Media Service
Date: May 14,24,25,June 1,2016
Last winter, at our Voices for Creative Nonviolence home/office in Chicago, we welcomed two friends who were in town for a Mennonite church gathering focused on the symbol of beating swords into plowshares. Their artistic project embraces a vision from the biblical "Book of Isaiah" which longs for the day when "they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they study war anymore." Our friends quite literally enact this vision. They use metal-cutting saws to cut guns and rifles in half and then hammer on the broken weapons, turning them into useful tools for gardening.
Throughout the service, one of the men could be seen, on a screen, standing outside the Mennonite church hall, fashioning, with hammer and anvil, a rifle into a garden tool. Sparks flew with his hammer, but no one was inflamed into anger. The fire our friends wanted to ignite was inside us. With what work can we replace war? If we are no longer training for war, what else could we be doing?
That winter night, at the Mennonite church, I couldn't help but think of another activist who had swung a hammer last December, because she was inspired to confront weapon makers and encourage alternatives to war. Jessica Reznicek, age 34, felt responsible to help the general public own up to its complicity with weapon systems funded by U.S. taxpayers. She took a sledgehammer to the plate glass doors of a major weapon producing company, Northrop Grumman, outside Offut Air Force base. In a written statement, Jessica asks people to understand that Northrop Grumman's weapon systems shatter and destroy the lives of people the world over.
As the manufacturers with the largest share of the global Unmanned Aerial Systems market, (18.9%), Northrop Grumman profits immensely from peddling complex weapon systems often designed to be eyes in the skies monitoring targets for assassination. This kind of surveillance and extrajudicial execution generates intense anger and backlashes in other lands. It also promotes proliferation of robotic weapons. But the U.S. military and acquiescent institutions encourage us to feel that we've been made safer by complex weapons of destruction, and we should instead be frightened of a young woman breaking a door and then awaiting arrest.
On May 24, Jessica Reznicek went go to a trial in Nebraska, expected to last two days, for her action. She has chosen to go "pro se," – to defend herself. Courts in the U.S. seldom allow the necessity defense. If the judge in Jessica's case does so, Jessica could try to defend herself saying she acted to prevent a greater harm. She could establish that the U.S. government consistently provides Northrop Grumman with lavish funding, devoting immense resources of materials and scientific ingenuity to the study of war, all desperately needed elsewhere. Northrop Grumman steadily experiments in perfecting the high-tech advantage of an empire bent on endlessly dominating the world through endless war.
I wish that the testimony of my friends who literally beat guns into garden tools could be part of the courtroom proceeding. They urge us to make guns and other weapons unnecessary, using raw tools of compassion and service to heal the conflicts in which weapons are used. I wish my young Afghan friends here in Kabul, who live under constant surveillance of Unmanned Aerial Systems, could testify about their desire to refine tools of peace making and constructive service.
They could assure the court that it's far more worthwhile to develop tools for producing needed goods and services than to develop weapon systems of mass destruction.
Jessica's action makes me wonder if the "norm" in our society is the opposite of the biblical plowshares exhortation. Our major institutions study the ways of war comprehensively and our "top crop" in the U.S. has become weapons. Jessica provokes discussion of the role militarism plays in our world.
I hope the words of a legendary barrister in Ireland, Mr. Nix, who defended "The Pitstop Plowshares," can be recalled as Jessica's trial nears conclusion. Shortly before the U.S.-led coalition began bombing Iraq in 2003, five activists invoked the swords to plowshares saying from the Book of Isaiah and hammered on a U.S. warplane parked on the tarmac of Shannon Airfield. Ireland is a neutral country, and they believed that the U.S. Navy warplanes making "pitstops" en route to a war zone violated that neutrality. They undertook the action shortly after attending a retreat during which the Sisters of St. Brigid, in Kildare, Ireland had asked me to speak about Iraqis who suffered under 13 years of U.S.-led UN economic sanctions. Before returning to Baghdad, I gave them enlarged, laminated photos of Iraqi children who were among the half million who died, according to the U.N., as a direct result of economic sanctions along with photos of children killed by an earlier U.S. aerial attack on the city of Basra. They used these photos to set up a memorial shrine next to the warplane they had damaged. Mr. Nix, preparing for trial, asked that I come to Dublin as a witness to help establish the defendants' motivations. I will never forget his closing statement in which he delivered a fiery indictment of war makers and described the hideous punishment wars inflict on innocent people, especially children. He ended his remarks by addressing everyone assembled in Dublin's Four Courts, saying: "The question isn't 'Did these five have a lawful excuse to do what they did?' The question is 'What's your excuse not to do more? What will rise ye?!'
The Irish jury acquitted the defendants on all charges.
No matter what the outcome of Jessica's trial, Mr. Nix's question, "What will rise ye?" abides. How can we, each of us, help lift the hammer of justice, cultivating a world at peace.
Kathy Kelly (Kathy@vcnv.org) is distributed by PeaceVoice and co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She is writing from Kabul where she is a guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers.
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USS Savannah
Zachary Allen, University of Georgia,
USS Savannah, 1799-1802
USS Savannah (AS-8), 1917-1934
USS Savannah (CL-42), 1937-1947
Between the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, multiple ships belonging to the U.S. Navy were named Savannah. Two ships carrying the name CSS Savannah were part of the Confederate navy and are the subject of a separate article.
The first USS Savannah was a coastal galley constructed by John Patterson in Savannah in 1799. It was one of a few vessels commissioned by Congress to serve as naval militia training craft. The ship was designed by Joshua Humphreys and eventually came under command of Major General Charles C. Pinckney of South Carolina. After three years of use off the Georgia coast, it was sold in 1802.
The second USS Savannah was commissioned by the U.S. Navy as a frigate. Construction began in New York City in 1820 but was not completed until 1842 for lack of funding. Commanded by Andrew Fitzhugh, the Savannah joined the Pacific Squadron as its flagship in 1844. In preparation for the Mexican War (1846-48), the Savannah and the rest of its squadron were positioned off the coast of California. On July 7, 1846, less than two months after war broke out, the Savannah successfully took the provincial capital of Monterey without firing a shot.
In 1853 the vessel was assigned a three-year stint on the Brazil Station, a fleet of ships that protected American trade with Brazil and Argentina. Inactivated upon its return in 1856, the ship was then converted into a twenty-four-gun sloop of war and later served as part of a home squadron that patrolled the Gulf of Mexico. On March 6, 1860, the Savannah and the USS Saratoga participated in the "battle" of Anton Lizardo, in which they engaged and captured two Mexican ships that had been commandeered by mutineers.
During the Civil War (1861-65), the Savannah was deployed off the coast of Georgia where it helped capture two Confederate prizes—a schooner, E.J. Waterman, and a ship, Cheshire—before being taken out of active service in February 1862. For the remainder of the conflict, it served as a training ship at the U.S. Naval Academy. After the war, the Savannah continued in that capacity on transatlantic routes, until it was decommissioned in 1870. In 1883 the vessel was sold to E. Stannard and Company.
The third USS Savannah was built in 1899. Originally a German commercial freighter named the SS Saxonia, the ship was seized by the U.S. Navy in Seattle, Washington, at the outbreak of World War I (1917-18). When the United States entered the war, the ship was converted to a submarine tender and renamed Savannah. It then sailed the Eastern Seaboard alongside the submarines N-1, N-2, and N-3, patrolling waters that were well-removed from the hostilities overseas.
USS Savannah (AS-8)
After the war, the Savannah participated in routine patrol missions along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Hawaiian coasts while also taking an active role in torpedo testing for the navy. The third Savannah lost its name in 1933, when the same name was assigned to CL-42, a new light cruiser battleship. The third Savannah was then known as the AS-8 until 1934, when it was sold to a merchant shipping company and later renamed the Orbis.
The fourth USS Savannah (CL-42) was a light cruiser that engaged in Atlantic and Mediterranean operations during World War II (1941-45). Constructed in New Jersey between 1934 and 1937, the ship completed multiple patrol trips during the late 1930s, including a visit to the Port of Savannah in 1939. It relocated to Pearl Harbor for training in 1940 and then conducted neutrality patrols off the coast of Cuba and along the Eastern Seaboard until Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
Nearly a year later, the Savannah participated in its most notable effort, Operation Torch, the allied invasion of North Africa. On November 8, 1942, the cruiser opened fire on the Vichy-held Port Lyautey in Morocco in order to provide support for invading troops. The ship's scout planes then introduced a devastating new tactic in warfare, dropping depth charges from a considerable height directly onto enemy lines. This multi-pronged barrage continued until November 11, when hostilities ended. Soon afterward, the Savannah returned to Norfolk, Virginia.
The Savannah took on many roles throughout the rest of the war, including patrols along the coast of Brazil to destroy Nazi blockade-runners, participation in the Allied invasion of Sicily and Salerno, and as part of the convoy that carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Yalta Conference in Crimea. Finally, the Savannah participated in Operation Magic Carpet, the massive endeavor to bring American troops home from Europe at war's end. The ship was officially deactivated in 1947 and was sold for scrap metal in 1966.
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Schizophrenia research in India: A scientometric assessmentof India's publications during 1990-2019
Asian J Psychiatr. 2020 Dec 15;56:102521. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102521. Online ahead of print.
Sandeep Grover 1 , B M Gupta 2 , S M Dhawan 3
1 Department of Psychiatry, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.
2 Formerly with CSIR-NISTADS, New Delhi, 11012, India. Electronic address: bmgupta1@gmail.com.
3 Formerly with CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, 11012, India. Electronic address: smdhawan@yahoo.com.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102521
The present study examined India's publications (2803) on schizophrenia, using various bibliometric indicators during 1990-2019. The study focuses on the number of publications, and citations received by the papers on schizophrenia, published by authors affiliated to Indian institutes by using Scopus data base. Additionally, an attempt was made to evaluate the performance of India's leading organizations and authors, and inter-collaborative linkages between them. Scopus database include publications of Indian Journal of Psychiatry and Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine from 2009 and 2011. Accordingly, the publications in these journals were included after these years. Analysis of the publications showed that India is globally ranked at 13th position in number of publications on schizophrenia with 2.04 % global share, depicting 14.21 % annual growth, with 22.8 % of publications having international collaboration. Publications from India published during the period of 1990-2019, registered a citation impact per paper (CPP) of 13.3. National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore (671 papers), Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (271 papers) and Central Instittue of Psychiatry, Ranchi (136 papers) were the most productive institutes. However, the most impactful organizations in terms of citation per paper (CPP) and relative citation index (RCI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (77.27 CPP and 5.78 RCI), Schizophrenia Research Foundation, Chennai (31.16 CPP and 2.55 RCI) and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (29.21 CPP and 2.18 RCI) were at the top. In terms of Individual authors, G. Venkatasubramanian (180 papers), and B.N. Gangadhar (162 papers) were the most productive authors and R.Thara (31.87 CPP and 2.38 RCI), B.K. Thelma (24.0 CPP and 1.8 RCI), M.S. Keshavan (23.91 CPP and 1.79 RCI) were the most impactful authors, among the top 15 authors. The journals which reported comparatively higher productivity for Indian publications included Indian Journal of Psychiatry (242 papers), followed by Asian Journal of Psychiatry (214 papers) and Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine (103 papers). In terms of most impactful Indian publications, these were published in The Lancet (97.7), Progress in Neuro Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry (50) and Schizophrenia Bulletin (44.67).
Keywords: Bibliometrics; Indian publications; Mental disorders; Schizophrenia disorder; Scientometrics.
Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier B.V.


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Supreme Court to Hear Clash of Claims of Constitutional Rights Today
All eyes are on Justice Kennedy this morning as the Supreme Court will grapple with the clash of the constitutionally protected right to religious liberty and expression and the constitutionally protected individual rights of same sex couples.
In 2012, a Colorado couple walked into the Masterpiece Cakeshop attempting to purchase a cake for their wedding. The bakery's owner, Jack Philips who is a religious Christian refused service, saying that his religious beliefs would not allow him to sell a cake designated for a same sex wedding. The store owner's decision kicked off a multi-year legal battle that is center-stage before the Supreme Court today.
Whether the cake was or could be bought elsewhere did not matter and the same sex couple, Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins, won the first round of legal wrangling, as a Colorado court held that Masterpiece Cakeshop violated a state law that bars businesses from discriminating based on sexual orientation. Masterpiece Cakeshop was ordered to serve same sex customers, change its business policies and offer employees training regarding discrimination in public accommodations.
The store owners, however, declined to comply with the order as they saw it as a direct infringement on their religious beliefs and they were compelled to close down the wedding cake service before appealing the decision.
The Colorado Supreme Court later upheld the earlier decision, saying the act of cake making could neither be an expression of free speech nor an exercise in religion. The court did not accept that religion guided the Masterpiece Cakeshop ownership in their daily interface with society. The court saw it as a commercial transaction. Masterpiece Cakeshop then petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review of the case.
A final legal resolution to this case is looming, as the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The case will determine whether "creative businesses" can legally refuse to provide services to same sex couples due to First Amendment rights of free speech and the constitutionally-protected right of free exercise of religion. This case addresses the collision of religious liberty and individual rights.
How both sides are approaching legal arguments
In court filings, Masterpiece Cakeshop has argued that Colorado's anti-discrimination law is too expansive, claiming that same sex couples can easily find a bakeshop willing to provide service. The Masterpiece Cakeshop attorneys have also urged the Supreme Court to review Colorado's anti-discrimination law under "strict scrutiny" — a three-part standard that is applied to laws or policies to determine constitutionality. The three part test is as follows:
Is a law justified by a compelling governmental interest?
Is the law narrowly tailored to meet that interest?
Is the law the least restrictive means for achieving that interest?
This standard represents the most stringent form of legal review used by American courts and is commonly employed when constitutional rights are argued to have been infringed.
Statistics show that two in three laws subjected to strict scrutiny are not upheld — though this number rises considerably with laws dealing with religious liberty issues.
The U.S. Department of Justice, has filed a brief in support of Masterpiece Cakeshop, while the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is supporting the opposing side. The state and the ACLU have argued that the law is tailored at the conduct of a business rather than speech or religion, and that no "reasonable" person would construe providing a cake in a business context as an endorsement of same sex marriage.
How the court addresses this direct clash between persons who seek to compel other citizens with deeply held and constitutionally protected religious beliefs to bend to the individual constitutional rights of others will likely have overriding impact on the manner citizens interact with each other in commercial settings.
The decision is expected to be a close vote on the Supreme Court. Obergefell v Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court decision that established the legal right to same sex marriage, was a 5-4 decision, with Justice Anthony Kennedy providing the decisive swing vote.
It's likely that Kennedy, who has in the past been a supporter of same sex rights and who authored the majority opinion in Obergefell v Hodges, will once again be the swing vote. The comments and questioning by Justice Kennedy in today 's arguments will be closely watched.
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Mariken van Nieumeghen (Mary of Nijmegen) is a miracle play recorded in a Middle Dutch text from the early 16th century. The protagonist Mariken of the story spends seven years with the devil, after which she is miraculously released. The oldest edition dates from 1515 and was printed by Willem Vorsterman. Linguistic evidence suggests it was written by a poet from an Antwerp chamber of rhetoric.

Themes and genre
Like the fourteenth-century Beatrijs, the story involves a beautiful young woman who is seduced, but unlike that poem Mariken has a lively, "Burgundian" style in often lower-class language, as opposed to the courtly elegance of the Beatrijs.

Though the story is often called a miracle play, Dirk Coigneau, in his 2002 edition, argues that the story was not intended as a drama; he likens its organization (the text is separated into sections where verse dialogues are preceded by prose introductions) to that of a prose novel.

History
The earliest known version, printed in 1515 in Antwerp (found in the Bavarian State Library, Munich) is designated A. The story was popular enough to become widespread very quickly. An English translation was printed by Antwerp printer Jan van Doesborch, as of... Mary of Nemmegen in the early-sixteenth century--this manuscript is usually designated D. The actual origins of the story are not well known, though in 2009 Dirk Coigneau proposed that it may originate in Syria, claiming as evidence a sixth-century novella about the fourth-century Assyrian Saint Abraham, a text which Coigneau claims shows many similarities with the Mariken.

Later translations and adaptations

A Latin version was included by Hadrianus Lyraeus in his Trisagion Marianum (1648), and ended up in the Italian book Sabati del Giesù di Roma by P. Joannes Rho (1655), from which it traveled to the Marianischer Gnaden- und Wunderschatz (Augsburg 1737) and finally in Alphonsus Maria de Liguori's Italian Glorie di Maria (1750). Luise von Ploennies made a German Faust out of her (1853). Eugen d'Albert wrote an opera in 1923 (libretto by Herbert Alberti), Mareike von Nymwegen, in 1923. The book was translated into German (1918 and 1950), English (1924), French (1929), and Norwegian (1975), and adapted for radio in Afrikaans.

The story was popular in the Middle East as well. In 2008, Herman Teule, professor of Eastern Christianity at Radboud University Nijmegen, discovered an 1821 translation in Syrian, which turned out to be a popular translation of an Italian version, distributed by Christian missionaries.

The story has been adapted for film twice, in 1974 by Jos Stelling and in 2000 by André van Duren, the latter based on a Peter van Gestel's adaptation of the story in children's book Mariken.

References
Notes

Bibliography

External links

 Mariken van Nieumeghen, original text in Middle Dutch at Project Laurens Janszoon Coster
 Scans of the 1615 edition from Ghent University on Google Books.
 The Truly Astounding Play Mariken van Nieumeghen (Proofed – A Boydell and Brewer blog, May 10, 2021; guest post by Therese Decker about the 1994 English–Middle Dutch bilingual edition)

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Running Club Founded in the '70s Still Pounding the Pavement
Footpounders group invites runners of all abilities for workouts and camaraderie
They've been running on campus for nearly half a century and though the group is informal, it is just as much a part of the fabric and history of WPI as athletics and Gompei the goat.
You may have seen them running—every Wednesday at noon, like clockwork. The Footpounders, founded in the early 1970s by two physics professors, a mathematics professor, and a mechanical engineering professor, is a group of runners at all levels, loosely led by former cross country coach Brian Savilonis (ME).
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the group would meet every weekday at noon at Alumni Gym and run 5 to 10 miles each day through the West Side of Worcester into Holden near the reservoir, says Al Hoffman (ME, recently retired). He ran in high school and competitively in college, graduated from WPI in 1963, and was elected in 1999 to the WPI Athletic Hall of Fame for cross country. After obtaining his PhD at the University of Colorado, where he was part of the track club, he returned to his alma mater in 1970.
The Footpounders gather for a group photo.
"When I first came back to WPI I was the only person who ran outside in the winter," he says.
At that time, Bob Long (PH), Steve Jasperson (PH), and Gordon Branche (MA) were jogging daily at noon in the nicer weather, says Hoffman, who would later coach WPI cross country.
As the group gained momentum, it was given the name Footpounders (by the late physics professor Van Bluemel) as a play on a unit of energy in physics, Hoffman recalls, and the group silk-screened shirts with the name. Later, the original founders would call themselves the "Turtles," a sub-group of the Footpounders made up of slower runners, he says.
"As time progressed, more people—high-quality runners—joined us," Hoffman says. "But, Bob, Gordon, and Steve in their own right were pretty good runners, just slower than some of the rest of us."
Undergraduate and graduate students and others from the greater Worcester community would also run with the Footpounders, which was also a social club for the runners.
"It was part of the fabric of the school, academically and socially," Hoffman says. "The base of the group was faculty members and we discussed a lot of WPI faculty business on long runs and we all knew each other's families and knew the good and bad times among the people we were running with."
Savilonis, referred to as "coach" by the members, was Hoffman's first graduate student. He soon joined the group and later coached WPI men's and women's cross country and track for decades.
"We're inclusive—anybody interested at all in fitness and running levels who wants to join us is welcome," Savilonis says. "Some people think that we're kind of serious and are afraid to join us, but we're not. You can be at any level. It is a social running group of all levels and we're looking for new blood."
Members of the Footpounders on the track.
Savilonis began teaching at WPI in 1981. Like Hoffman, he ran in high school and college. He also runs marathons and competes in race walking events, having taken third and fourth place at the National Senior Games held in Birmingham, Ala. in June. Still competing in races locally, the Pounders (as they're sometimes called) often place in the top three, he says, pointing out that Paul Reilly, director of academic advising, won the Harvard 5-mile Road Race a few weeks ago.
"There was a Footpounders PE class at one point," Savilonis says. "To fill a requirement, students could latch onto a Footpounder to monitor their running for a term."
Around the mid-1990s, the Footpounders became an official club, he says, and joined USA Track & Field (the national governing body for track and field, long-distance running, and race walking) and started running races all over New England.
"We didn't have noon classes or as many meetings back then," he explains. "In the ancient days, everyone would get together. It was a given—slow or fast people, whatever. But, the campus doesn't operate that way anymore. I don't think life runs that way anymore. Everyone is so busy with things. Now, everyone is trying to find a minute, but we keep Wednesday sacrosanct."
WPI graduate student Alino Te is finding the time. After downing a half jar of peanut butter following a Wednesday Pounders workout, he took a break to talk about why he joined the group.
"Running alone is really boring," he says. "It's tough to find people that 'like' to run or run on a regular schedule. With this group of people, no matter the weather or number of folks going to run, I can almost always guarantee people will be running every Wednesday at noon. Having other people to run with really helps me want to work harder and finish a workout rather than quitting halfway through."
Te said one of his favorite things about the group is that Savilonis is an "excellent coach."
"There is no possible way of getting him to say that it's a bad day to run," he says. "He is encouraging and really only sees the best in our runs, even if they are bad ones. He definitely knows his stuff. He never wants us doing garbage miles just to get miles. He wants us running good workouts that will really help us improve our times whether we want to or not."
He said he also likes getting out of the office in the middle of the day and running with "the friendliest" people.
"We have people from all different walks of life running different speeds. It doesn't matter if you're a triathlete, runner, or jogger. We learn so much from one another." -Debra Ofcarcik
"I'd never heard about the Footpounders until the day I asked to run with them," Te says. "I always saw them on the track at the same time and same day cranking through sets. I knew about Professor Savilonis's running from an old job I had on campus because he would stop by pretty often for his duties. I officially learned that he was the coach when I asked a fellow runner, Deb Ofcarcik, if I could run with her entourage."
Debra Ofcarcik, senior administrative assistant to the dean of arts and sciences, is a triathlete who hooked up with the Pounders when she came to WPI in 2008. She said she loves to run and needed a coach. Her times have improved since joining, she says.
"I was on a road trip with WPI visiting New York when I first started and asked if anybody knew of a running group. They said, 'You have to get connected with the Pounders.' I said, 'Who and what are the Pounders?' I reached out to these Pounders and they welcomed me with open arms."
With just two women in the group, she says she would like to see more women join.
"Don't be intimidated," she advises. "We have people from all different walks of life running different speeds. It doesn't matter if you're a triathlete, runner, or jogger. We learn so much from one another and Brian pushes us. He's well prepared and always has a game plan and keeps us going."
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Dima Bilan Forum -> Known people -> Sergey Lazarev
TOPIC: Sergey Lazarev
Sergey Lazarev
In April 1st 1983, the story started to be written, a story about force and leadership.
Sergeys commitment and persistence in every matter he sets himself to have led to an outstanding result by 24 this young singer has achieved a lot, and after every achieved goal he immediately sets another one.
Everything begun with sport, when the four-years-old Sergey engaged himself in gymnastics. Taking part in competitions and winning different prizes, Sergey came to understand that he can and he must achieve everything with painstaking work and full preoccupation.
Together with this understanding another thought came to him he was not a true sports fan, because he was not completely devoted to sport and then a new hobby and a new dream appeared Sergey became keen on taking the first prize in the Morning Star contest a very popular contest of children groups and young singers. He gave up sport for music and was completely and forever absorbed in it. And again years of study, work in different childrens groups, which finally led him to the fulfillment of his most cherished dream of that time the victory in the Morning Star contest.
My whole childhood was connected with stage, audience, happiness of victory and goal achieving, wish of self-perfection, when I had to go through failures and defeats. But I never doubted that I will proceed with music activity, moreover, I never even thought about this, I just knew it is going to be like this and in no other way, says Lazarev.
And everything Sergey has done by the present time, proves his words the best way. Sergey and his friends were part from the Neposedy (Trotters) children group (the girls from t.A.T.u also sang in this group, and Julia Volkova is Sergeys halfsister) and one of them, Vlad Topalov decided to sing in a duet and recorded the aria BELLE from the musical Notre Dame De Paris.
Within a short period this aria recorded by the new duet became a hit, and that moment was a new step in Sergeys career as a singer in SMASH!! duet. The video Belle remained the leader of MTV-Russia chart for 6 months, and entered the Top 20 of Videos of the last five years.
In addition, Sergey started to take theater classes, he finished the course and he was part of the Romeo & Juliet acting as Romeo in the Moscows Theater.
The boys were compared to many groups at that time, they were called Alternative t.A.T.u, and The 21th century Wham! - because the first manager of SMASH!! was Simon Neiper-Bell, who was the manager of Wham! twenty years ago.
In February 2003 their first album Freeway was released, and almost immediately it became gold, more than a million copies were sold in Russia and in Southeast Asian countries. Each single from the album Freeway headed the charts in Russia and CIS countries.
In 2004, their second album 2Nite was released at the same time Freeway was released in Southeast Asia, (namely iin Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong-Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Philippines), where it hit tops of all charts.
During the promo-tour followed by this album, a video on a cover version of George Michaels hit Faith was made.
In the same year, SMASH!! worked together with the Italian group EARPHONES recording the song Obsession. After the premiere on the radio Obsession became the best hit of summer 2004. In September it was released in Italy.
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well, i found some "official" things about Sergey and so:) He is my favorite singer at the moment!!! but still Dima is great:) I think that i don`t know no other person than Sergey who would be soo talented. Really. Sergey can sing like an angel, dance and act like i don`t know how.. and he can also skate - like a bird:) and soo he is really, really talented... so try to hear some songs of him maybe you`ll like them:)
if you actually wanna try you can download some (i think all of them) songs from this site:
www.sl-vt.com
enjoy and have fun!!
-- Edited by Ruskinya at 21:59, 2008-01-31
Some more photos of Sergey:)
Good singer ;)
Yea!!! I am totally in love with him xD
Dima is the only <33 haha Atleast the only russian singer I like ;)
-- Edited by Sofia at 16:06, 2008-02-01
He's hot XD
Hehe ok Sofia... everyone has his own opinion and well taste for music and so...
YEaH Caroline xD
I loved his esc song 'Flyer"..i think?
Now I want all his songs xD - but still Dima is the best
So go in Sergey forum what Ruskinya did ;)
that u find in her biography i think :D
Yes:) i made a forum of him and so:) the link is here in my biography:D
Ok, i joined =D
Ok! Tnx:) i`ve activated your account, so if you want you can login right now:D
Matea Bilan
I think he is ok. I love his songs.
sergey isnt beautiful...he is ungly!!!! i dont llike him...
i love....DIMA!!!BILAN!!!
me too...i agree with kiki....sergey is soo ungly ...
sagapo Fatih.....kiki min peis ston fatih ti eipa!
eisai...min po...errika....afou esi eisai o fatih...psemata ola einai
ti les re........k ego pou ema8a na grafo se alles glosses opos ekane o Fatih-eisai poli xazi-ego dn imai o FATIH.....katalabe to!!!k an dn me pisteueis kane oti 8eleis-pantos min tou peis tipota gia mena!!!!


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