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My bad. Those kids aren't even cute.

I think they're 18-24. I wouldn't call an 18 year old a little girl.

Zankou Chicken is still one of the best. I hope one day it'll surpass Taco Bell.

http://www.bozigian.com/index.html

The Sherman Oaks guy is decent. He's the homeowner and he seems to take very good care of the house. It has a pool, too. I don't think he has a particular date in mind, as he's already living there and it's his place. Unfortunately, I think he's asking for 1k (with utilities). It would probably need to be an apartment for it to be cheaper. The Woodland Hills guy doesn't have a place as nice as the one who lives in Sherman Oaks, but I bet it's cheaper. I used to work/live in Woodland Hills, too, and I understand it's boring...but you could be living right next to the Topanga mall. I know what you mean about roommate vs. no roommate. I live by myself near downtown LA, and it's a very small studio for which I pay $1100.

That's like internet dating: getting to know the personality before seeing the looks.

I posted like that myself some time ago. But in your mid-20's, it's so much nicer to live by yourself. Hey, if you don't mind living with someone who isn't Armenian, I know two guys (one in Woodland Hills, another in Sherman Oaks) who are looking for roommates.

Maybe this is a bad sign and it means that your identity might soon be stolen, so it's probably a good idea to change your number. A few years ago somebody stole my dad's identity. They investigated it and traced the fraud to Glendale, and my dad was almost certain it was an Armenian. Hopefully that bastard is serving time.

What are the good Armenian features? And how can coarse, curly hair be considered an Armenian feature when most Armenians I've seen have straight hair?

Maybe some orphanages will accept used clothes in good condition, if they can be worn by teens or kids. I know somebody who works with orphans in Armenia, and they're happy to accept help from diasporans. I can try to get more info about this if you want.

Maybe I'm the only one who's seeing this, but the statue of Vahagn looks obscene.

In statues, does the fact that the horse is on all fours instead of the two hind legs have any significance? Somebody told me it has to do with whether the person died in battle.

Ok, what does it look like? Better yet, please show it.

I agree! That was just one example. That's why you need to join other clubs, too. I'm also trying to join the club of Angelenos (geographic club), and have just joined the club of those who work in the criminal law field (professional club). These two, combined with being of a certain ethnicity, are sufficient to make most of us content. Happiness is a different matter.

People turn to religion when they need it, and oftentimes the need is to feel like they're a part of something greater than they are. There are lots of ways to get there, though. For many people (including a great number of Armenians), having an ethnic identity adds meaning to their lives because it makes them a part of a society that's greater than the sum of all its members. If you have that--and if you're on this forum, doesn't that add meaning to your life? It doesn't even need to be that; it could be any identity that you'll have for many years to come.

I don't think that caring for such a child would be considerably easier if she's 4"5 as opposed to 5"6. The bulk of the problems the parents experience must be due to the fact that she's mentally and physically disabled; her size can't be such a big problem. If doctors had predicted that she would otherwise be a giant, the parents' choice would've been easier to justify.

Good to hear. That's the first thing I thought about: that they must be ridiculed, given that they live in such a provincial area. I also read something about them speaking a language of their own, which by itself can be the subject of a PBS documentary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Armenians That's a pretty long list of Armenian generals, many of them from the USSR.

There's always an advantage to waiting, and in your case it seems like you can afford to wait. I think pretty much all doctors stop doing it once your eyesight is -13, but if you're nowhere near that, there's no need to worry. But there's a limit to how long one should wait; at some point the advances in technology for any given procedure are minimal. Just look at breast implants...they sometimes still mess it up even after decades of practice (Tyra Reed is a good example).

She had the lasik surgery. I should mention that they asked her several times whether she wears contacts in addition to glasses. She only wore glasses, so her corneas were in good shape. They say that wearing contacts does damage to them, so it's worth cutting back on the number of times one wears them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4782492.stm (See the above link to see the pictures of these people. It's unbelievable.) Family may provide evolution clue The siblings may have reverted to an ancient form of locomotion (Image: Passionate Productions/BBC) Five siblings from Turkey who walk on all fours could provide science with an insight into human evolution, researchers have said. The four sisters and one brother could yield clues to why our ancestors made the transition from four-legged to two-legged animals, says a UK expert. But Professor Nicholas Humphrey rejects the idea that there is a "gene" for bipedalism, or upright walking. A BBC documentary about the family will be shown on Friday 17 March. Professor Humphrey, from the London School of Economics (LSE), says that our own species' transition to walking on two feet must have been a more complex process that involved many changes to the skeleton and to the human genetic make-up. However, a German group says a genetic abnormality does seem to be involved in the siblings' gait. Coordination problem Three of the sisters and one brother have only ever walked on two hands and two feet, but another sister alternates between a bipedal and quadrupedal gait. Another brother walks on two feet all the time, but only with difficulty. Calluses on the hands show the behaviour is no hoax (Image: Nicholas Humphrey) The siblings live with their parents and five other brothers and sisters. They were born with what looks like a form of brain damage. MRI scans seem to show that they have a form of cerebellar ataxia, which affects balance and coordination. However, scientists are divided on what caused them to revert to quadrupedalism (walking on all fours). The method of locomotion used by the Turkish children and by our closest relatives chimpanzees and gorillas, differs in a crucial way, said Professor Humphrey. While gorillas and chimpanzees walk on their knuckles, the Turkish siblings put their weight on the wrists, lifting their fingers off the ground. Tool use "What's significant about that is that chimpanzees ruin their fingers walking like that," Professor Humphrey, an evolutionary psychologist, told the BBC News website. The five quadrupeds grew up in a remote part of Turkey (Image: Passionate Productions/BBC) "These kids have kept their fingers very agile, for example, the girls in the family can do crochet and embroidery." He added that calluses pictured on the hands of one family member demonstrated that the behaviour was not a hoax. Professor Humphrey said this could be the way that humankind's direct ancestors walked. Hands which have kept the fingers dextrous would also have been able to manipulate tools, a key development which influenced the evolution of the human body and intelligence. "I think it's possible that what we are seeing in this family is something that does correspond to a time when we didn't walk like chimpanzees but was an important step between coming down from the trees and becoming fully bipedal," the LSE researcher said. 'Infant walking' Professor Humphrey thinks that the brain abnormality simply caused the siblings to rediscover a form of locomotion used by our ancestors. "Because of the peculiar circumstances they were in, they kept walking as infants," he said. But a team led by Stefan Mundlos of the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany, thinks that the genetic abnormality which causes the children's unusual gait may have played a more fundamental role in evolution. Professor Mundlos has located the gene on chromosome 17 and speculates that a gene important in the transition to bipedalism may have been knocked out in the children. Producer on the documentary Jemima Harrison said the programme's producers were moved by the family's "tremendous warmth and humanity".

I don't think we diasporans should wish for something to happen when whatever happens in Armenia has a minimal impact on our lives. I wish for one thing this year, and it's not on the list: I wish the residents of Armenia could make their own decisions, without pressure from the diaspora, since we're not the ones who'll have to put up with the adverse consequences of the changes that occur in Armenia.

My sister had it done about a month ago. She was concerned about the fact that she was very nearsighted (-10 in both eyes), so she went to this very expensive lasik place where they do the surgery for 7k. Her eyes felt dry at first, but now she's very happy with the results. Perhaps it pays off to pay as much as 7k.

What in the world is that--is it a Victoria's Secret angel?

I think maybe they want to be the ones pursuing someone, not the other way around, and they possibly see posting a profile as too passive for a man. I actually think it's the opposite: posting a profile is the equivalent of making the first move in "real life." But, speaking of pchatsats, I think that's what those guys must be like.