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JUDGE BURNS IS 1/2 ARMENIAN Armenian Reporter, The 05-14-2005 California State Senator Chuck Poochigian and Federal District Court Judge Larry Burns, both attorneys and luminaries in their respective fields of politics and the judiciary, were honored by the Armenian Bar Association (Armenbar) at its 16th annual national meeting at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, here on the weekend of April 1-3, 2005.

FIVE OUTSTANDING JUDGES HONORED BY THE ARMENIAN BAR ASSOCIATION AT RECEPTION IN PASADENA Pasadena,California - Over 150 judges, attorneys, law students and guests joined the Armenian Bar Association (Armenbar) in honoring five outstanding judges on their accomplishments, retirements and appointments, at an evening reception on April 12, 2006 at the Rococo Room of Santorini Restaurant in Old Town Pasadena, California. The honorees were Federal Judge Dickran Tevrizian, Federal Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian, and Los Angeles County Superior Court Judges Richard Kolostian, Sr., Ruth Essegian and Maral Injejikian.

Dickran Tevrizian From Armeniapedia.org On the Central Board of Directors of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) (current 2002) Representative from the United States. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USC Armenian Institute Gala Honors Judge Tevrizian and Raises $700,000 By Eva Emerson The USC Institute of Armenian Studies hosted a gala banquet on Oct. 2 to honor federal judge and USC alumnus Dickran M. Tevrizian Jr. for 32 years of public service. Tevrizian was the first Armenian-American to be appointed to the U.S. federal bench. The evening marked the second community event organized by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies which was launched by USC College in February, and raised an estimated $700,000 in new gifts for the institute's endowment, which now totals $1.5 million. With a broad mission to increase understanding of modern Armenia and Armenians, the institute is envisioned as a multidisciplinary center of research and learning that will respond to the needs of the Armenian community. The institute is the first academic center of its kind, said Joseph Aoun, dean of USC College. Created in close partnership with the local Armenian community, it also represents a model for a new, more collaborative and responsive kind of town-and-gown relationship. Dean Aoun was among the 25 speakers, including former Gov. George Deukmejian, who saluted Tevrizian as an outstanding jurist and community leader during the evening's program. Aoun called Tevrizian one of USC's most distinguished alumni and thanked him for his early support of the institute. Close to 850 guests gathered at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City to celebrate Tevrizian as he assumed the new status of Senior U.S. District Judge. Attendees included Tevrizian's USC fraternity brothers, professional colleagues, distinguished public figures, religious leaders, family, friends and admirers, including more than 200 of his current and former law clerks and externs. Providing plenty of accolades - and good-natured ribbing about his fierce loyalty to the USC football team and his matchmaking prowess - speakers praised Tevrizian's accomplishments as well as his integrity, fairness and deep commitment to mentoring young lawyers. Speakers included luminaries in law and business such as Edward Roski Jr., USC trustee and CEO of Majestic Realty Co.; Ronald Tutor, USC trustee and president and CEO of Tutor-Saliba Corp., a leading construction firm; Kinko's founder and USC alumnus Paul Orfalea; and Armand Arabian, a former member of state supreme court. USC Trustees Stanley Gold, John F. King and Alfred Mann attended the banquet, as did former Gov. Pete Wilson, Sheriff Lee Baca, USC Athletics' Mike Garrett, and a long list of prominent attorneys and judges. During the evening, Tevrizian was awarded a Medal of Honor from the Armenian Apostolic Church. A letter from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger congratulating Tevrizian was included in the program. Decades of Service Tevrizian began his judicial career at age 31, when then-Gov. Ronald Reagan appointed him to the Los Angeles Municipal Court in 1972, making him the youngest judge ever appointed to the judiciary at that time. Six years later, Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. elevated him to a post on the California State Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles. In 1982, Tevrizian returned to private law practice until 1986, when President Ronald Reagan selected him to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Tevrizian graduated cum laude from USC with a B.S. in finance in 1962, before attending USC Law School. After earning his law degree, he joined and became a partner in the law firm of Kirtland and Packard. Later, he was a partner in the law firm of Mannet, Phelps, Rothenberg and Tunney and Of Counsel to the law firm of Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard. He has received many awards, including: being named Trial Judge of the Year by the California Trial Lawyers Association in 1987; the Ellis Island Medal of Honor Award in 1999; the Maynard Toll award from the L.A. County Bar Association for his service to the underprivileged in 2002; and the Emil Gumpert Award for his efforts in promoting alternate dispute resolution in 2005. In 1997, Tevrizian joined a delegation of distinguished U.S. jurists led by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to visit the newly independent Armenian Republic to assist in the development of a democratic legal system. Last month, he returned to Armenia with several members of the institute, where he met with the Armenian pontiff Karekin II and government officials. Awakening a Sleeping Giant Ever since the establishment of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, its director, Richard Hrair Dekmejian, has received a flurry of calls about possible events and projects. It seems, he said, that the institute is an idea whose time had come. "We have awakened a sleeping giant," said Dekmejian, a professor of political science in the College. "We've had call after call - one group is interested in hosting a symposium on economic development in Armenia, one's interested in Armenian classical music and another in the music of the Armenian church." The institute aims to promote Armenian-related scholarship and activities in a wide range of fields, from dance, music and the arts to politics, religion and community affairs. Addressing concerns of the community will be a top priority. A key purpose of the institute in Tevrizian's eyes is to focus on the next generation, connecting Armenian-American students with internships, scholarships, advisors and professional mentors. His hopes for the nascent institute, Tevrizian said, is to create a "home" for young Armenian-Americans at USC. "The impact of this institute will extend far beyond USC," said dean Aoun, a key architect of the institute. "It will help the world to understand the many contributions of Armenians to society, as well as to remind them of the tragic history of the Armenian people." At the gala celebrating the institute's launch in February, the enthusiasm of the Armenian-American community for the institute was evident. Among the 575 guests attending was a virtual "Who's Who?" of the community, including Judge Tevrizian, USC Trustee Roski and Gerald Papazian, College alumnus and member of the College Board of Councilors. In June, the institute co-hosted a well-attended symposium and lunch in conjunction with a visit by His Holiness Karekin II. Event speakers explored the impact of globalization on the Armenian church and related themes. On Oct. 15, the USC Institute of Armenian Studies will host an all-day, public conference entitled "The Christian Response to Violence." Speakers, including the visiting church leader Catholicos Aram I, will examine violence from the micro-level - in families, gangs and schools - all the way up to terrorism and genocide. For more information about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, call 213-821-3943 or email: armenian @ college.usc.edu.

I am sick with the flu and am extremely tired today. My mind is not working and all I want to do is to sleep. I don't have the enegy today to do any searching for these federal judges.

I would have to do some research myself to get the names. I think that Dikran Tevrizian is a Federal judge. One of the current California Supreme Court judges, Marvin Baxter is 100% Armenian. The other one, Armand Arabian, retired ten years ago.

There are a few full-blooded Armenian judges at the Federal level. As for current legislators, there are two part-Armenian Congresspersons, Anna Georges Eshoo of California who is 1/2 Armenian, 1/2 Assyrian and John Sweeney who is 1/4 Armenian. There are no cabinet level Armenians, but some of their higher level staff are Armenian.

Hey Arpa, Enough about your dolma keet. Where does it say they are doing perverted acts in Echmiadzin Cathedral?I sort of knew that this article that Mosjan posted would make you go unhinged. As for my nose, it was always an aquiline Roman nose and was slighly improved by a famous Armenian plastic surgeon. Lots of French blood in my Armenian Catholic family.

Thank you, Arpa for posting your knowledge on this subject.

Hey sSebB, Please change your avatar. One does not honor Christ by advocating murder, you hypocrite.

Hey Harut, My ambivalence is directly related to the church. How can one's psyche not be impacted by a violation at such a tender age as I was subjected to. You state: Is child molestation part of the church's role in society? The churches are GODLESS, given what is transpiring and being covered up, as in my case. "certain doctrines and laws written by the god." Oh please, Harut these doctrines were written not by Gods, but by men. Other doctrines written by Jesus' close associates, including his wife Magdalene, were expunged from his formal teachings by the church "fathers." What do you know about Christ's teaching that you state that they are not Christian?

FROM A PREVIOUS HYE FORUM THREAD Arpa wrote "...one would get the impression that Diyarbakir and Tigranakert are the same. There is a sizable diasporan community that ideNtify themselves as Dikrangerdtsi/Tigranakert-tsi and leave the impression that they are in fact from Tigranakert. Amid and Tigranakert were never the same. However there may be a valid reason why they do that. When Tigranakert (built by Tigran the Great) was finally destroyed many of its inhabitants were absorbed into the region of Diyarbakir, they not only brought the name with them they also continued to speak with the distinct dialect of Tigranakert. Many still do. The reason why I said "slight" misconception. There is very little about Tigranakert except that it was located several tens of miles NW of Diyarbakir, best estimation is that it may have been where the Turkish town of Silvan is now. In fact it is said that several years ago the ruins could still be seen there." The original Tigranakert is probably (almost certainly) a site known as Arzen, a long way east of Diyarbekir. Amazingly, the only proper description of the place was published way back in in 1865 (Taylor - Journal of the Geographical Society, vol35, 1865). Here is that description. I will post more recent writings about the site later, if I am not banned again. abcdefghijkNov 7 2004, 02:21 PM In October, 1861, I made a short journey from Diarbekr to Saert, by Miafarkeyn, Arzen, and Zok; and from thence, following the course of the Bohtan Su, or Centritis, to Til, where it joins the Tigris, whose course I followed close up to Redhwan, on the Arzen Su. Crossing this latter river, I proceeded to Hesn Keyf, on the Tigris, and then, via Mediat and Mardin, back to Diarbekr. (I've left out the rest of the text until he reaches Arzen.) Four hours and a half from this (an old bridge over the Batman Su) I crossed the Iluzu Arzen, or Redhwan Su - it is called by all these names - into the present district of Gharzan. The province in which it is situated was called Arzanene by the Romans, and Artzn (Moses of Chorene), Aghdsnik, Aghdsen, and Khordsen by Armenian writers, and Arzen by the Arabs, since corrupted into its present name of Gharzan by the Kurds and Turks. It was one of the provinces taken by the Parthians from the Armenians, and was ceded A.D. 298 with Intilene, Zabdicene, Moxoene, and Cordouene, by Narses King of Persia to the Romans, under Galerius, in the time of Diocletian. The ford was near the flourishing village of Giri Hassan, close to the ruins of Arzen, the Oppidum Arzanenorum of Procopius, situated on the left bank of the river. The ruins are very extensive; the remains of the old walls, 20 feet thick at the base, and tapering up to 8 foot, constructed of irregular pieces of rough stone, cemented with mortar, that surround the town are easily traced; and the defences towards the river, consisting of thicker walls and a number of small-domed buildings, are in still better preservation. The area contained within them is about 2700 square yards. On the north-eastern and southern sides the walls are straight and regular, but towards the west it narrows off into an irregular shape that follows the course of the stream. It has four gates, one in each of the three regular walls, and a fourth leading to the river. At the southern side is a mound of ruin connected with the wall, that seems to have been a large fortified bastion. The whole ruin is surrounded by a deep ditch, which was crossed at three of the gates by as many bridges, whose foundations still appear above ground. When I visited it, the area included within the walls was bearing a fine crop of wheat, but the regular lines of the streets, and some of the sites of the larger buildings, could still be traced. So many medals in gold and silver are found here that the fellahs who till the ground are paid nothing by the owner for their labour, and they give him in addition half of everything they may find. The town was built on what appears a natural platform of some little elevation, which, at its western end, has a steep sharp fall into the plain about a mile from the walls, where it is bounded by a deep bed, through which a small marshy stream flows towards the Tigris, close under the Yezid village of Tellebeea, or Tileeba. Independently of other associations, Arzen is interesting as being connected with the earliest Christian history, it having been visited, according to Abul Furraj, the Syrian historian, by Mar Addaeus, or Thaddeus, one of the Seventy, the apostle of the Syrian Chaldaeans (and the same who cured Abgarus Uchama of his leprosy), in the thirtieth year of Our Saviour's Ascension, and the fifteenth of Tiberius Caesar, who then built a church here, which was afterwards called by his name. Higher up the river, and on the same side as Arzen, are the remains of another large city, where I found some of the earliest records of the Moslem conquest, in the shape of tombstones, bearing Cufic inscriptions in the character peculiar to the first century of their era. Many of them are now used by the Armenians of Kani Masee, a small village situated at one end of the ruins, as gravestones. As neither they nor the Moslems knew anything of the characters on them, I thought it best to leave them in their ignorance, as without doubt the latter would soon have desecrated every grave in the place did they know that on each stone the formula of their faith, together with a verse from the Koran, were engraved. Opposite the ruins, on the right bank of the Arzen Su, which was formerly spanned at this part by a fine stone bridge, whose foundations peer above the stream, is the fine old ruin known now by the names of Kalla Sheikh Baj and Kalla Anushirvan. It is situated on a high hill of conglomerate, the usual rock formation here, having at its summit a circumference of l 1/2 mile. The remains are evidently Parthian, and consist of walls of common limestone, 14 feet thick, which in some places is composed of brickwork of thin broad tiles of the same solidity. A couple of families of decayed Gharzan Begs inhabited some miserable huts among the ruins, and they had cleared several of the old houses, which served them for a stable. These were all of course now under ground, the debris of centuries having accumulated over and covered them. They were built in arches in a very substantial manner, and seemed at one time to have occupied the whole surface, as, in several pits that had been dug in different places, the portions of many other similar buildings were also discernible. On all sides but one the mound in nothing but a steep high cliff, commanding a line uninterrupted view for many miles all round; but towards the west a winding and difficult path conducts the traveller to a large gateway still intact, and the only one in the ruin. A few greybeards of the place, who pretended to some traditional knowledge, informed me that the castle, during the times of ignorance - that is, before Islamism - belonged to the Beni Sassan; and stated that the Gharzan Begs, who live at Zok, 4 miles off, were the descendants of that dynasty in these parts; a fact that was corroborated to me by the Begs themselves on a subsequent visit I paid them. Near this is the mountainous district of Sassoon, inhabited by a warlike, unruly set of Kurds, called Baliki; they are neither Moslems, Christians, nor real Kizzilbash. They swear by a church, and never by a mosque, or the Deity, or any of the prophets. In a footnote: The city of Arzen at the time of the Arab conquest was the property of the Armenian lord of Bitlis, and was ceded by him to Iyadh Ebn Ghanem, Omer's general. It subsequently fell, on the decline of the Abbasides, into the hands of the Kurd Merwanides, from whom it passed to a local family. Abul Feda says, "El Melik el Mudhuffer Ghazi, son of El Adel (brother of Saladin), took Arzen of Diarbekr from its lord, Hissam ed Deen, of the ancient family of El Ahdeb, who had possessed it from Melik Shah's time, and gave him Heyni in exchange, A. H. 627," El Mudhuffer was at that time lord of Miafarkeyn. abcdefghijkNov 7 2004, 02:23 PM His sketch plan of Arzen: Click to view attachment abcdefghijkNov 7 2004, 02:30 PM Here is part of his map of the region. I've circled Arzen in red. The town of Miafarkeyn (look on the left side end of the map) is modern Silvan. Click to view attachment abcdefghijklNov 10 2004, 08:37 PM There is a short description of Arzen in volume 3 of T. A. Sinclair's book "Eastern Turkey, an Architectural and Archeological Survey". Sinclair visited the site in 1981. He writes that the walls had been mostly reduced to overgrown banks and mounds, but masonry was still well preserved in some parts. The interior has been ploughed up, destroying the lines of streets and buildings that were visible in the 1860s. The southern corner of the site is now crossed by a railway line. He says that the suburbs of the city stretched far beyond the actual walled area, upstream on the left bank of the river, as far as 12km away to surviving ruins at Golamasya. In the addenda to the same volume he writes "In the late summer of 1988 fearful destruction was being visited on the remaining masonry". He says that tacit concent for the destruction must have been given by Turkish officials, and assumes that the reason for that concent was the eventual flooding of the site by the proposed Idil dam. (But in the addenda to volume 4, he writes that actually the site of Arzen is too far upstream to be flooded by the Idil dam.) He adds "One can only hope that the site will be excavated, considering its claims to be Tigranocerta, and that it will not go the way of Arsamosata and Samsat, in other words that it will not be ignored by excavators simply because of its size and because of the complication of the material which is likely to be revealed". Arsamosata and Samsat were two other unexcavated Armenian city sites that were destroyed by dams. The "complication of the material" phrase is code for those-in-the-know: it means "the Armenian identity of the material".

A few years ago the Turkish military was sent to the site of Tigrankert to obliterate any remnants of the once proud city. It was said that this was being done for "national security purposes."

This article is about homosexuals, some of whom lead false lives as "heterosexuals" lying to themselves as well as others. Society has yet to comprehend that there are those who are truly attracted to both sexes, yet may not practice one or the other. Not all persons who have homosexual leanings are 100% homosexual in their feelings. Not all such persons are living a lie. They are genuinely attracted to both sexes! --- edit: removed long quoted article. -Sip

It is definately not Diarbekir, also known as Amida.

Hey Seb,, HELL NO!!!!!!!Are you nuts? Joan Kroc died relatively young eating her company's garbage and their last CEO who ate their meals every day died of colon cancer at 42 years old. Armenia has enough health problems without McDonalds to make things worse. Why am I not surprised that you do not question ANYTHING?

Hey CCA, This is not coming from me, but from a number of well-known Armenian historians contemorary to the events or living within a few centuries of the events. Our later-day Armenian historians of the present age decry this history because of current beliefs and misperceptions developed through a process of Europeanization and Russification.

The Azeris claim that IRAN is on their side Re: Artsakh.

Something on Anna Georges Eshoo. I will try to find her mother's Armenian maiden name. Anna Eshoo Anna Georges Eshoo (born December 13, 1942, New Britain, Connecticut), American politician with Assyrian and Armenian heritage, who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 14th District of California (see map). She was born an Assyrian Catholic and received an Associate of Arts degree from Cañada College.

Check out Comgressman Benjamin's obituary for his grandfather's name. Rep. Adam Benjamin Jr., D-Ind., 47, was found dead yesterday of apparently natural causes in his apartment on Capitol Hill, District police reported. Richard Hatcher, mayor of Gary, Ind., said Mr. Benjamin "was one of the most hard-working members of the U.S. Congress. It was not unusual for Adam to stay late working on legislation when everyone else had gone home. "He was so popular that he rarely had any significant opposition. That's the greatest tribute that can be paid to any public officer, that no one feels inclined to run against him." Mr. Benjamin, serving his third term and renominated without opposition for another term, last May, was found by an aide, Peter Visclosky, about 9:10 a.m., police said. "There is no evidence of any foul play," said Police Capt. Mike Boyle. "Visclosky may have been the last person to see the congressman alive, on Saturday, said another aide, Sandra Kormos. She said Mr. Benjamin had returned from Indiana earlier that day to help his son, enroll in a private school. Visclosky went to the appartment after Mr. Benjamin failed to keep an appointment. The 1st District, which Mr. Benjamin represented, includes the industrial zone around Gary. He lived in Hobart, Ind. A member of the House Appropriations and Budget Committees, Mr. Benjamin also served on the Democrat Steering and Policy Commitee as well as advisory groups for party effectiveness and reform of the budgeet process. He was chairman of the executive committee of the Congressional Steel Cacus and the House Transportation Appropritions subcommittee. In Congress, Mr. Benjamin concentrated on economic development, steel industry revitalization and improvement of transportation. He was a key figure in legislative battles over congressional pay increases. A lawyer and a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives, Mr. Benjamin was a state senator when he first ran aginst Rep Ray Madden in the Democratic primary in 1972. He received 42 percent of the vote and Madden won with 46 percent. ln l974, Mr. Benjamin did not run against the longtime congressman who served as the chairman of the House Rules Committee, preferring to keep his seat in the state Senate. However, in 1976, Mr. Benjamin defeated Madden, by receiving 56 percent of the vote. He was,consiered unbeatable in the 1st District in this year's general election. An affable man, Mr. Benjamin was considered politically shrewd as a congressman. Mr. Benjamin was born in Gary and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1958. Before he was admitted to West Point he served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. Following service as an Army lieutenant, Mr. Benjamin was zoning administrator for Gary from 1963 to 1965 when he began serving as state Senator. He received his law degree from Valparaiso University in Indiana in 1966 and was admitted to the Indiana bar that year. From 1973 to 1976 he was a member of the law firm of Benjamin, Greco & Gouveia in Gary. Mr. Benjamin lectured in sciences at Georgetown University and taught a course on the federal budget process. He was to receive a LL.M. Degree in international and comparative law from the university next month. He is survived by his wife the former Patricia Ann Sullivan, to whom he was married in 1966; a son ,Adam. III, and two daughters, Alison Louise and Arianne, of Hobart; his mother, Margaret, of Merrilville, Ind.; his grandfather, Ervand Marjanian of Hobart, and five brothers and sisters.

Hey Arpa,, My two favorite politicans are Anna Eshoo and Adam Benjamin, both kes-oo-kes wioth Armenian mothers and Assyrian fathers. With me it is the other way. It is my mother who had the Assyrian-surnamed father (we think that his mother was Armenian also). So my mother was only 1/4 Assyrian. As for Agassi, he and Cher are in the same class. They are periferally Armenian. They have much less Armenian attachment than do I.

All I know is that it is documented that he answered a question about his Armenian heritage that way. I do not know what transpired before or after in the interview.

Forget THIS Andre. When asked in an interview about his Armenian heritage, he replied "Don't insult me." It is the other Armenian Andre that will put Armenians "on the map." Diito Artsakh, sine that is where he is from.

CCA, What the h--l is wrong with you? I posted this to show that the Turks think that their work is superb, while the international ICOMOS organization would think that their job is not good at all. What in tarnation is wrong with revealing that the Turks are not competent to do this kind of work? Furthermore, there are beautiful Ottoman monuments within the Turkish state which should also not be butchered by these Turkish "experts." I SEE THAT YOU HAVE NOW DELETED THE INSULTS THAT YOU DIRECTED TOWARD ME! PLEASE READ MY POSTS CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU ATTACK.

This article shows how little the Turks think that they have done a superb conservation job at Aghtamar Church.They have made an attempt but have made serious mistakes. I wonder if conservation of Ottoman monuments are botched in a similar manner? My guess is that they are. http://www.thenewanatolian.com/opinion-10033.html

The Armenian Tondrakians preceeded Luther by approximately 600 years. They attempted to throw off the Roman/Hellenistic heresies which the majority of "Christians" practice today. The Armenian nobles proceeded to exterminate them along with the Paulicians, leaving Armenia's population decimated and therefore welcoming the Turkish hordes to come and fill the vacuum.