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Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yKgAEkCKxY...feature=related

indeed

if spain keeps playing like they did, south american style futbol, they have a good chance my team is Spain (my sons is Germany) its gonna be fun game.

yes its shame Portugal lost, they should of played all the game like they did in last 10 minutes, I was superior futbol, they dominated Germans, to bad they lost as far as Holland I agree with garmag, dutch always had an ego problem, Gulit-Van basten-or the couch now they seem to be playing very disciplined and for the team. I predict win for Holland vs Russia. I'm looking forward Italy-Holland game.

its very bright, I have never seen "bela luna" like this.

I agree, unfortunately and sadly this is what buys politicians remember what Julius Caesar said, if you must pay then- whores are better bet "oh brutus you too"?

They usually and always do before elections!!!! so we are in for another disappointment, when would we learn.??? even if turkey recognizes US and brits never will

Spain? I dought it....so far most discipline team is Holland and Croatia, i wouldn't rule out Portugal eider, Croatia-Turkey is going to be interesting, i just hope Germans get kicked out by Portugal tomorrow, never liked German unflavored lame futbol

actually my favorite team always been Holland and sadly they have this bad lack, i remember 1978 world finals game in Argentina.....what a game that was I hope they meet and beat Germans in Finals, its going to be more of a boxing match then futbol they hate each other

So why do you appose when Armenians speak against this sell out fink brydza? another factor you forgot that the fact there is an arms embargo against azaeris and Armenians, that is a violation of UN resolution but party (Israel) involved is no stranger to spit on the face of UN....who has the most resolutions against her. but your right, we should ignore and play along...the key for peaceful state is Armenians strength and well being, for this we as a Nation have much work to do, such as boost the economy war is part of our unfortunate history....maybe this factor is an answer why we have not perished?! I dont know any Nation who fought war on her own soil and lost, do you? *** brizya and the whole neo-con nazi institution

By MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press Writer Sun Jun 8, 12:52 PM ET YEREVAN, Armenia - What would prompt a young family to abandon a comfortable life and move to a poor country where running water is still a luxury for many, politics are messy and the threat of war looms large? ADVERTISEMENT For Aline Masrlian, 41, her husband, Gevork Sarian, and their two children, it was their motherland calling. "It is something special when you live in your own land," said Masrlian, who moved here after her family had lived for generations in Syria. Lured by the economic opportunities in a fast changing country and the lure of home, some people from Armenia's vast diaspora are moving to the land that their ancestors had long kept alive as little more than an idea. Longtime residents, meanwhile, are no longer fleeing the country in large numbers. While 3.2 million people live in this landlocked Caucasus mountain nation — the smallest of the ex-Soviet republics — an estimated 5.7 million Armenians reside abroad. The largest disappears are in Russia (2 million), the United States (1.4 million), Georgia (460,000) and France (450,000), according to government data. Most of the diaspora, like Masrlian's family, are descendants of those who fled the killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey during World War I — a tragedy Armenia wants to be recognized as genocide but modern Turkey insists was an inherent part of the war's violence. Much later, others ran away from the economic collapse that Armenia suffered following the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, when electricity was available only several hours a day, people had to chop down trees for heat, and bread and butter were strictly rationed. The devastating conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Artsax, in which over 30,000 people have died, compounded the exodus. An estimated 500,000 people left the country in 1992-94, many heading to Russia. However, over the past four years Armenia has registered an overall population inflow of 33,200, the first positive trend since gaining independence in 1991 with the Soviet collapse, said Vahan Bakhshetian, a migration expert with the Territorial Management Ministry. While it's difficult to tell how many Armenians are returning permanently, Bakhshetian said the trend offers hope. "We are now seeing many of those who had left return," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Vladimir Karapetian. Among the returnees are many from the Russian diaspora. Some are lured back by economic improvements here, while others are escaping growing xenophobia in Russia. Garik Hayrapetyan of the United Nations Population Fund said Armenians also are no longer leaving in large numbers, but he cautioned that the emerging repatriation will not be sustained without economic and political progress. For many, the country's biggest asset is its rich cultural heritage. Two millennia ago, Armenia was a vast kingdom stretching between the Black and Caspian seas. Eventually it was divided and absorbed by bigger states, including the Ottoman empire and czarist Russia, and later the Soviet Union. Armenians like to brag that Noah's Ark came to rest in their country, on the biblical Mount Ararat — though the snowcapped mountain is now part of Turkey, overlooking Yerevan. The country is said to be the first state to adopt Christianity as its religion. Still, in many ways Armenia remains an unlikely place to attract returnees. Despite economic progress in recent years, over a quarter of the population lives in poverty and the average monthly wage is a meager $275. Outside aid is crucial. Diaspora Armenians send millions of dollars for investment and aid projects, and much of the population survives on individual money transfers from relatives abroad. The International Monetary Fund estimates that remittances make up 10 percent of the country's economy. Those sending money are moved by the same love of country that draws Armenians back. James Tufenkian, an Armenian-American, has invested some $30 million in reviving the traditional carpet industry — largely destroyed in the Soviet era — building hotels and running charity efforts. Today, he provides jobs to over 1,000 people here. Tufenkian, 47, said he decided to help after his first visit at the height of Armenia's economic decline in the early 1990s. "I felt like I had a chance to do something to improve people's lives, that it was my homeland calling," Tufenkian said in a telephone interview from New York. Today, Yerevan is slowly transforming itself from a run-down city into a vibrant, modern capital. The downtown boasts Western boutiques, expensive restaurants and young people in trendy outfits. Yet the rest of the city, perched on steep hills, is a bleak mix of Soviet-era concrete apartment blocks and dilapidated two- and three-story houses with laundry hanging on balconies. The air is heavily polluted, mostly from the exhaust of the battered Soviet-era cars that clog the city. Some districts in Yerevan continue to have shortages of running water, which were common in the 1990s. While Armenia is considered one of the freer countries among post-Soviet republics, its fragile hold on democracy became apparent earlier this year. Eight people were killed in clashes between government forces and opposition activists protesting election results. The Nagorno-Artsax conflict also keeps tensions high. But ask Gevork Sarian about life in Armenia, and the emigre who returned from Syria with his wife and children talks more about finding a homeland than about the wider political climate. The bearded, smiling Sarian attended university in Yerevan in the early 1980s and said he always wanted to return. The family moved back in 1998, and he started several successful businesses, including a lingerie store run by his wife. Now 46, Sarian said he had felt separated from his Syrian neighbors. "Even if they look at you in a good way, you are still a stranger — this is the feeling of Armenian diaspora everywhere," he said. His 15-year-old son Ardag added that in Armenia "you feel that it is your country." Repatriation wasn't as easy for Aline Masrlian, the wife in the family. She recalled a middle-class life in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, with running water available 24 hours a day and the markets full of fruits and vegetables. In Yerevan, when the family first arrived, water was on just two hours a day, sometimes the only bread she could find was stale, and she missed the job she had loved, as a construction engineer. But 10 years later, sitting in a new, spacious apartment decorated with family photos, Aline said she has no regrets. "I decided that this is my country." More recent returnee Zorair Atabekian, 36, hopes for a similar future. He came back in 2005 after five years in Canada, homesick and hoping to go into business. Though he still earns far less selling jewelry in Yerevan than he did running an apartment design firm in Montreal, he said he knew his decision would eventually prove right. "Today this country offers a lot of possibilities," he said. "That is why many diaspora are returning here to start up businesses."

happy birthday Arman, wish you the best

happy birthday Eva, best wishes!

HASTERT JOINS LOBBY FIRM REPRESENTING TURKEY Speaker is Latest in Long Line of Former U.S. House Members Joining Firms Representing Turkey’s Interests WASHINGTON, DC – Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) became the latest House member to join the army of Washington, DC public relations firms working to cover up Turkey's crimes, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). Dickstein Shapiro, LLP announced that the former Speaker joined their team in a press release last week. The firm, which represents a broad range of entities including General Motors, Kraft Foods and Pfizer, also represents the Government of Turkey "in connection with the development and financing by private sponsors of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline and TransCaspian gas pipeline spanning from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean." According to an ABC News story, "Ex-House Speaker Hastert Finds New Home" by Justin Rood, a Dickstein Shapiro representative "could not say whether or not Hastert would be working on projects involving that country." To read the complete ABC News story and to offer your comment on this coverage, visit: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id...0933&page=1 No stranger to Turkish American issues, as Speaker, Hastert led efforts to block Armenian Genocide legislation from passage dating back to October of 2000, when he withdrew H.Res.596, introduced by Rep. George Radanovich (R-CA), from the Congressional docket just five minutes prior to its consideration. Speaker Hastert cited a letter from President Bill Clinton expressing concerns about the national security implications of the resolution. In his subsequent terms as Speaker, Hastert blocked a series of Armenian Genocide resolutions from reaching the House floor, despite widespread Congressional support and grassroots calls for legislative action. In 2004, when the House adopted an amendment to the foreign aid bill blocking Turkey's use of U.S. funds for lobbying efforts to deny the Armenian Genocide, Hastert's response was swift, joining with Majority Leader Blunt and Majority Whip Tom DeLay in sharply criticizing the measure: "Turkey has been a reliable ally of the United States for decades, and the deep foundation upon which our mutual economic and security relationship rests should not be disrupted by this amendment." In 2005, Armenian Americans joined with System of a Down band members Serj Tankian and John Dolmayan in a rally in front of the Speaker Hastert's Batavia, IL office urging him to allow passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution. That effort was part of an eight-year ANCA national grassroots campaign urging then Speaker Hastert to allow Congress to have an up or down vote on the Armenian Genocide. Vanity Fair Cites Hastert Ties with Turkish Government An expose printed in the September 2005 issue of Vanity Fair revealed possible ties between Speaker Hastert and Turkish nationals geared to scuttle the Armenian Genocide Resolution. The magazine published a 10-page story on FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, who was fired after "she accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving Turkish nationals." According to the article by contributing editor David Rose, Edmonds claims FBI wiretaps revealed that the Turkish government and its allies boasted of bribing - with as much as $500,000 – the Speaker of the House of Representatives as part of an alleged deal to stop consideration of the Armenian Genocide Resolution. The article cited accounts by Edmonds regarding FBI wiretaps of the Turkish Embassy and Turkish groups such as the American Turkish Council (ATC) and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA), including, "repeated references to Hastert's flip-flop in the fall of 2000, over an issue which remains of intense concern to the Turkish government, the continuing campaign to have Congress designate the killings of Armenians in Turkey between 1915 and 1923 a genocide." Rose is careful to point out that "there is no evidence that any payment was ever made to Hastert or his campaign." According to the article, "Hastert's spokesman says the Congressman withdrew the genocide resolution only because of the approach from [President] Clinton, 'and to insinuate anything else just doesn't make any sense.' He adds that Hastert has no affiliation with the ATC or other groups reportedly mentioned in the wiretaps.'" In 2007, the ANCA joined a broad cross-section of civil liberties, public policy and human rights groups in calling on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in Congress to hold public hearings on the case of FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. No hearings have been held to date. Former House Members Line Up to Support Turkey Ex-Speaker Hastert is the latest in a long line of former House Members who have joined firms on the Turkish government’s payroll. Former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-MO) and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) at DLA Piper led efforts to block full House consideration of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106 / S.res.106) for an annual fee of $1.2 million. Former House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston of the Livingston Firm LLC, has, over the years, received over $12 million from the Turkish Government. He was recently let go by Turkey, and took on an even more lucrative agreement working for Libya. Turkey's efforts to buy influence in Washington DC and in U.S. academic circles was recently outlined in a powerful editorial and expose by David Holthouse in the Southern Policy Law Center (SPLC) Intelligence Report. To read the SPLC analysis visit: SPLC Intelligence Report: State of Denial http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport...cle.jsp?aid=935 SPLC Intelligence Report Editorial: Lying About History http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport...cle.jsp?aid=933

great performance, thanks Zartonk

inch lava asel, kartses te amen martu srove asel

Eduard a, Edward, ed-O is an old name for Tokyo, see now we have a Japanese connection just like mamik-o

you still ride your Harly? man, does youngsters don't know what oldies mean to us.

bayts spaseq, inchne hartsakani tak kam hart@ vorne? menq axpenq? ove hamadzayn sra het mi 15 amyan hanrapetutyunits, u 200 amya spyurqits, voronq "geri" en yeghel texi azdetsuyan, kulturaits sksats mijev uteliqnerov verjasrats u hima zarmanumenq...."vonts te im azg@ axp eh?" axp che ayl azget nore sksel azat (enel chapavor) shnchel....mi qich jamanak tveq, handzins Paron Stepanian, yete da Tv-iov chenq lsum, tesnum apa amen tegh el sexani shurj line te vorevitse havaquyt lsumenq. Qnnadatelov lok, bani ches hasni, vatnen asum lavnel togh asen

mi gutse, bayts yes chem sirum, anun@...ksazer at axchkan anun u azganun orinak Bela Darpinyan, Flora Martirosyan, Raisa Mkrtchyan, Lola xoments, Tatevik Hovanissian, Sushan Petrosyan, sirush lav, e O-n avelorte kam HaykO...inchi voch Hayk ayl HaykO? chgitem bayts indz dur che galis et verjatsants@

I have only one issue with name "Sirusho" what does O has to stand for? edo, avo, gago, mko, yexo, and now sirusho? why cant she change her name to Sirushan? thats a nice name or Siranush, sirushO......che sazakan anun chuni ir yerqelu dem, artakark yerqume bayts shat andur Anune entrel

those who know and don't, wont can speak, eventually end up in solitary confinement, when you should speak do not hesitate, or you'll end up crazy. me PS. of course speaking has to bare some marits and seance, otherwise staying silent is much better. that is all i have to say about this

che yes es miutyane demem, ba chtesnenq ova, um txena, gone hargi mi or beri asi esel im armolnds....yes savsem nexvatsem indz zgum....parzapes apagan (hyeforumi) chem patkeratsnum arants Extra Amy Hye Amy jan kuku, manto ho ches janik, menq qu lavnenq uzum u maxtum, amenayn anketxtsutyamb, Mosjan bayts mi ban srtovs chi apo...lav ban chem gushakum, Amy jan es lriv, bayts voch bolor@ Joka janik, srtit dard chanes hankarts tanumen eli......

enger jan welcome to Hyeforum, as we have said its like hotel california here, "you can check any time you want but you cant ever leave here" J/K not ok it was a joke Amy lav mtatsi, TO BE OR NOT TO BE, thats the question dear......3 tari heto armond@ yerqela sovorelu, du el WEGHIT WATCHERS program es nayelu, erexeen xjjalu a, kisuret zangelu a, dinner time a......hye forum jamanak chka.... OPS MEKEL TESAR JAM@ 4AM A, pempers poxelu jamanaknna....sharunakem de arten diprest es?

Yrevant jan hesa mi 30 or heto el kariq chi lini qez hamar hakanal im posters, skselu em mandarin grell arthen. Movsesi ayqu tsirani sogolnernel.....hastat vororshelem goxutyan gnall, hents nayumem tsogolnerin ayters sksumen tsaval. apo, axpor pes eli, kdor me tsogol pahe mez. verch@ chhaskatsanq Hyeforum or Arnold! Amy, ba ova 1st asistant linelu heto a?