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Yeah I agree with you on that. No need to make them look sympathetic. Instead, there should be an asterisk under each deleted negative Turkish OR Armenian comment which explains that derogatory comments have been edited/ removed.

If I may interject, the site is in memoriam- for rememberance and respect. It's purpose is not for evidencing "Turrkish stupidity". I think it should be kept clean and to the point. I agree with Nairi that our side should not say such things on that site either.

Today was amazingggggggggggggggggggggg !

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door. SON: 'Daddy, may I ask you a question?' DAD: 'Yeah sure, what it is?' replied the man. SON: 'Daddy, how much do you make an hour?' DAD: 'That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?' the man said angrily. SON: 'I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?' DAD: 'If you must know, I make $50 an hour.' SON: 'Oh,' the little boy replied, with his head down. SON: 'Daddy, may I please borrow $25?' The father was furious, 'If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I don't work hard everyday for such childish frivolities.' The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money? After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down , and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $25.00 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door. 'Are you asleep, son?' He asked. 'No daddy, I'm awake,' replied the boy. 'I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier' said the man. 'It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the $25 you asked for.' The little boy sat straight up, smiling. 'Oh, thank you daddy!' He yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father. 'Why do you want more money if you already have some?' the father grumbled.! Because I didn't have enough, but now I do,' the little boy replied. 'Daddy, I have $50 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.' The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness. It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts. Do remember to share that $50 worth of your time with someone you love.

Lavner!

My fave line from same: "The romanticism of youth demands that we always take very radical stances." (Sounds all too familiar, no?)

I saw a dream last night. It was so real, it felt like I had gone back in time about 20 years. I felt like I was in my own (5 yr old) body; I felt like I existed in that state again. I was standing in my grandparent's bedroom, looking at the wall with the IKONAs. I think that is what they are called, They were Russian Ikonas. One of Madonna with Child and one of Jesus as an adult and another one that I don't remember and so it was blurry to me in the dream. I was not very fond of them as a child, and in my dream I was right back there again. Except in reality, I used to avoid looking at them, I ued to turn my gaze when walking past so that I would not have to look into the pictures. But in my dream, my self- as a child was staring at them. I couldn't move or did not really want to. I remember thinking that they are so beautiful and so hypnotizing. I haven't thought of them in the longest time. I don't know what the dream could mean, what it si symbolic of. But it was so real. THe images, my feelings, it was as if I/ my soul had traveled in time and was perhaps confronting a scary part of my childhood. ...

The Last Toast by A. Akhmatova I drink to the ruined house, To the evil of my life, To our shared loneliness And I drink to you-- To the lie of lips that betrayed me, To the deadly coldness of the eyes, To the fact that the world is cruel and depraved, To the fact that God did not save.

There Is An Utter Mark by A. Akhmatova There is an utter mark in the people's nearness, Which can't be crossed by love and passion,-- But in the striking silence lips become one And the heart is torn apart by love. And here friendship is helpless, And the mountain of high and flaming happiness, When the soul is free and estranged From the slow calm of sweet passion. In striving for it they become insane, And those attaining it are annihilated by grief... And now you understand why My heart doesn't beat under your hand.

Sand Art

Shnorhavor taredarct Aneta jan! Tsankanumem miayn lavn u barin.

I was just sent this and could not resist sharing! A little girl asked her mother, 'How did the human race appear?' The mother answered, 'God made Adam and Eve and they had children and so was all mankind made.' Two days later the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, 'Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved.' The confused girl returned to her mother and said, ‘Mom how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?' The mother answered, 'Well, dear, it is very simple. I told you about my side of the family and your father told you about his.

"Hearth Holders, Plus . . . : Artsax women defend their rights for “gender self-determination” By Naira Hayrumyan ArmeniaNow Artsax reporter Published: 11 April, 2008 At the beginning of this school year principles in Stepanakert received a very strange order from Minister of Education Vadik Khachatryan forbidding female teachers from wearing trousers to work. The minister explained his oral instruction by a wish to ensure the teachers’ appropriate moral image. But the teachers did not share the minister’s views on morality and declared that they are not going to follow his instructions. The order raised noisy protest and almost turned into scandal. The minister was taken aback and trying to justify himself said that he did not mean trousers, but meant provocative clothing. It has never been clear what the minister intended, but it sure that he did not base his judgment on contemporary thought. Women in Artsax have changed, having survived war, famine, bitterness of losses and equally shared all the hardships of post-war years with men. “Gender” life in provincial Stepanakert changed since the outbreak of hostilities when Artsax’s demographic balance changed drastically. From 1991 to 1994 3,100 people died 1,137 of whom where from Stepanakert. These people had wives, fiancés. According to statistical data, the men and women ratio in Artsax is 47-53 percent respectively. In Stepanakert with population of 40,000 and more than 5,000 unmarried people older the age of 30, 1,500 of whom are men. Julietta Arustamyan’s dream is to open a women’s center in Shushi. Women left without support of men had to take their cue from complicated conditions of war to be able to feed themselves, their children, keep the house. Things weren’t easier for women whose husbands were by their side either, as it was hard to earn their living in those circumstances. “My husband was at the front, and then after the truce was concluded he stayed in the army,” tells Lyudmila Sarkisyan, who is trading in clothes at a market in Stepanakert. “His salary was very low, it was impossible to take care of two grown up sons with it. The city was ruined, enterprises didn’t work, I don’t even have higher education. So I decided to take up trade. It took me a long time to persuade my husband, and finally went to Sadakhlo (on the border of Armenia, Georgia and Turkey ), brought goods and started selling. And so until now that’s what I am doing. My husband helps me, goes after goods himself.” Sarkisyan’s family moved to Stepanakert from their village in 1984. “When my husband and I moved, it was a quiet provincial town where everybody knew each other by sight, where girls where not allowed to go to cafes or wear pants,” Sarkisyan recalls. “‘Business’ women-those who could earn their own living- were known by sight in the town. There were many single women too. Whereas now there are only unsettled women around, who have nobody to take care of them and have to earn their living on their own.” Working as a business woman in Artsax is no more a surprise to anybody. The National Assembly has 33 deputies, 4 of which are women. Two out of 11 minister’s chairs belong to women- Narine Azatyan is the Minister of Social Affairs, Narine Narimanyan is the Minister of Justice. About half of the judges are women. The moderate number of women in administrative bodies is not conditioned by somebody hindering or forbidding them to take up politics. The majority of women prefer to have more time for their families, children. Despite the mostly preserved patriarchal system the gender issue is not strongly felt, and family has not lost its meaning to Artsaxtsies. The overall opinion is that Artsax in gender terms harmoniously combines patriarchy, emancipation processes, physical needs and segregation of duties. “There is always a possibility for professional growth,” says an employee of one of the state institutions Anahit Avagyan. “My chief is even asking me to take up a higher position. But I resist. I have a husband, 3 children, an elderly mother-in-law. They like home-made food, pastry. We like to spend our evenings watching TV. Is a job worth sacrificing all that for?” she says. Some people think that gender equality in any country depends on the development of household appliances. “I used to waste all my free time from work on housework. I had to clean, cook, do the laundry by hand. My husband and I constantly argued. Now I have an electric meat grinder, washing machine, dish-washing machine. In other words, the same work that would take me my whole evening, takes me an hour now. I have spare time for fitness, internet, and my husband and I even go out for a walk sometimes,” tells a nurse, Aida Adamyan. In 2004 in Shushi Harmony NGO was founded. The founder Julietta Arustamyan says that the main goals of the organization is struggle for peace and women’s rights, Artsakh women’s spiritual and professional improvement, as well as organization of cultural leisure. “We have a dream to open our own women’s center in Shushi where women could spend nice and useful time. It will be possible to get free psychological and legal consultation there, attend, say fitness club or dancing class, needlework class etc. Many of our women could have jobs at our center,” says Arustamyan. Svetlana Petrosyan has been heading a state institution in Stepanakert for many years. “I have a family, but I can assure you that there are no barriers for women in Artsax. Any woman is free to have a career, given a desire,” Petrosyan says.

I don't believe I have to explain this... It's a purely artistic, photojournalist's viewpoint. Hence, photography would fall in ARTs section.

In the original thread of same name, I wrote that I was waiting for a symbolic gesture of condolence from the executive gov't for the victims of 3/1. Still waiting..... ... 168 Zham” writes that the promise made by Armenia’s new President Serzh Sarkisian in his inauguration speech to be the president also for the citizens who did not vote for him had raised hopes that immediately after being sworn in as the new head of state he would hurry to the Myasnikian monument, one of the main scenes of the March 1 bloodshed, to pay tribute to the memory of the eight citizens who died that night, “citizens for whom he could not be a president but in whose deaths he admitted his share of responsibility.” “…Thereby,” the paper continues, “Sarkisian would have removed at least one stone from the ‘wall of misunderstanding’… But he chose to visit Yerablur to lay wreaths to the graves of military commanders Andranik Ozanian and Vazgen Sarkisian, something that did not require much courage.” Lawyer Vartan Harutiunian tells “Aravot” that any honest man can be clapped into prison today and it would be no surprise to anyone. “It is terrible but in independent Armenia that has declared itself to be a democratic state, like in the most brutal totalitarian regimes, the most decent place for the most decent man is prison. Any honest man with an opinion may appear in jail and it will no longer surprise anyone.” “Hayots Ashkhar” writes about recent pro-opposition protests of Diaspora Armenians in Europe and the United States: “It is obvious that the traditional Diaspora will never become a participant in these radical “shows” or “anti-Armenian actions” staged in the heart of Europe or across the ocean. No matter how absurd and illogical it may sound, but it is obvious that today those who go into the streets in Los Angels or elsewhere in support of [opposition leader] Levon Ter-Petrosian fled their homeland in the early 1990s, in the first several years of Ter-Petrosian’s presidency.” “Hayk” sees it as a problem that when saying ‘dialogue’ and ‘cooperation’, representatives of the ‘dictatorship’ imply ‘a division of posts’. “They sometimes frankly acknowledge that they don’t have any idea what they can discuss with Levon Ter-Petrosian. ‘He won’t agree to a ministerial post?’ they say. So, in the first place they need ‘political lessons’ to understand what ‘political dialogue’ is all about and then release political prisoners, show a fearless approach to mass public rallies and marches and stop violence, after which it will be possible to start a constructive dialogue and discuss how to lift the country up from the depth of the abyss.” “Zhamanak Yerevan” asks a question: “How can a citizen punish the state when the latter brazenly lies and constantly commits blunders?” And gives an answer itself: “Citizens go down to the square, fill the streets, close their eyes, open their mouths and demand that the authorities stop lying, redress their mistakes and put up with the thought of having to resign from power and transfer it in a peaceful manner to the one elected by the people, obey the rules of democracy and finally admit the reality and leave.” (Armen Dulian)

I tried Ashot jan. Pics are copyright protected. Cannot save to comp. Don't know any other way. Sorry.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world...USSIA_FEATURE/#

Seriously very fascinating stuff! Now, if someone searches for it, they may be lead to HF. Nice job!

"There are more women in college than men. As technology grows the demand for hard labor gets weaker and weaker. Is this going to shift anything in the way things are run in this society? If more women are educated where does that leave men? Hard labor? Women are becoming more and more influential as time passes by. Look at Clinton and Pelosi. They are very powerful and influential women. What about the moral and social values of Sweden? Will this western society eventually become female oriented? Or will it stay the same way? Maybe break even - 50/50? Will religion change its perspective? It definitely influences the way people think. Will more people begin to lose faith in something that was once concrete? " So much to be said. No way I will say them. I can predict how long this thread will become and I don't want to step on any male's toes! But very I have pondering these very same questions for a long time. Yesterday, we were taking a very diffficult mid-term. We all agreed that the teacher has a habit of going out of his way to make the questions as complicated as possibe. No wprries right, if you know the answer, you know it BUT having ti weed out all the unnecessary bits to get to the root of the questions takes additional time. So, I observed that all the men finished later than the women in the class. I am not making any broad generalizations about women being smarter than men but we found out that the top five scores were from the women who finished first, so I was jsut wondering. If men use only one side of their brain during any given task, and women use both (proven fact), is it because we are genetically programmed to multi-task and pay attention to a few things at a time. Say a women may do many things at once but not do all as succesfully. But a man does one thing at a time, and does it well. Which is better? Just wondering... But I have realized in class that the mmale to female student ratio has changed drastically. ANd the guys who are in class can sometimes be indimidated in class. At least in my field/ classes. Lol. We do tend to be stronger in numbers.

Lol. And some were otherwise engaged (finally took that damn midterm) and thought: I wonder if this part applies to me as well. "Vochmeki haves@ chunem"

Shat gitem, Ash? Russian words in Latin text = undoable. Bayts... "Togh lini, togh lini, togh lini.... "

T. Rossi: Besame Mucho French Tango http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsFz2JBRz1M...feature=related

This is how it's done! Sergey Ryupin & Elena Khvorova: Paso Doble Samba Rumba Cha Cha Cha Jive Misc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPFopxqwA1s...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEyJKVbaar8...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTfuiGjmaYA...feature=related

It's from a song Ash jan. Blatnoy.. M. Krug.... edit: (It's a slang word..not in dictionary.)

Now I understand why you cannot possibly believe. The major part of the puzzle fell into place. How about if I disagree with you and add that I am not an absolute Armenian, or an absolute Christian, nor an absolute mother, an absolute daughter.... i am partial, dilluted and at times so off that I don't even know how or where I fit in. I am NOT religious, I am spiritual and have faith in a type of belief that very closely mirrors the overall message and story behind Chrisitianity. I don't read the bible, just like I don't read "how to manuals", I only go to church when it is empty, and I have no interest in listening to sermons, attending services, ... But I Christened my daughter as a symbolic gesture.. it was the only "ritualistic" Christian thing I have done since my own Christening. In essence, I believe in somehting greater than myself. I don't judge those who do not believe (though I worry about them ), and I do not like to be judged in return. And I believe there is one truth, but either we see it and realize it, or for whatever reason we have chosen to close our eyes to it. I am sure even as I type this that you feel the same way but for the exact opposite - lack of God. I accept that. No skin off my nose. I don't live my life in either extreme. No black or white. It is all grey to me. If Christianity cannot be grey, then I kow I am not a true Chrisitan.. I am just a true believer in something close... To sum all that ^^ up, I'm good with God!