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My pleasure - welcome to HF

Do you mean the Lada?

:o Sip, we can always count on you to report the weirdest accidents in NA. Thank you.

I thought it was Dark Ages (and not Acts.... but I could be wrong) In any case, I liked the strange juxtaposition of a 'friendly neighborhood barbeque', with an obscure (and mischevious) act of roasting cats.

I like the first one - and I'm certainly curious about the context of the three others. Good job.

Well, apart from the fact that I wouldn't exactly consider the Gazette as 'influential' per se, it is good news.

Well, I guess your litmus test must be good enough

A height map? Perhaps you mean a topographical map? I found one quickly HERE and there's another one for sale HERE for 14,000$ There's an small electronic map HERE as well.

Jesus!! You go away for a few days and this! Ok, Armen jan, bari taredarts! I hope you'll share some of Tantik Maral's famous cake with me. By the look of the pictures it seems like things are going well back home Happy belated! Movses jan, bari taredarts to you too! You're part of the reason that so many of us make HF a part of our 'on-line' home. Azat jan, Happy b-day! Well, what she said was true, although I don't know about the 'golden hands' bit. Seriously though, I know you've been super busy, but I hope you get a chance to enjoy the summer at least a bit. Sip! Happy birthday! Go nuts until school starts up again... Edward jan, urax taredarts! Have a wonderful day with your family My gosh! So many birthdays all in one week!

That CAN'T be good for your truck! Snorkle (or whatever have you) or not.

I wouldn't qualify it as 'waste' Sip - I'm sure you'Ve benefited from scholarships that have their root in someone's benevolance, and regards towards education. I think there are far worse things they could have done. Although I do agree that an 'Armenian' approach would have been preferable (from my perspective), it is still a significant & honourable contribution towards education & art.

That last post is kind of funny - the first one is quite disturbing (to say the least).

Edward don't worry, the multiple quotation function of the board software has a limit (I think it's 10 quotes maximum in a post). Once you surpass that, they all appear as tags. The only solution is the reduced the amound of quotes or to create two separate posts.

In other words, TAPAS! (Or MEZAS depending on where you wish to be from ) Love it! Starters (or "entrées** here in Quebec) are usually quick, easy, and can often be my favourite part of the meal. As for an entire meal of small entrées - AWESOME! I recently put together a 'tapas' dish with a medley of mushrooms. It will go great with your favourite oysters on a half shell. I may have time to include a recipe in the cookbook later, but here's the gist: Start with a varity of mushrroms: shtake, enoki, oyster, baby osyter, procini, portobello, and regular brown ones too if you wish. Chop or slice according to your wishes (I like'em in big-ish chunks, but most of the time I leave them whole except for large varieties lie portobellos). Lightly sautée in butter with a bit of sea salt and some chopped shallots. Splash with wine - I'll use a white for light flavouring, or a flavourful red like a spanish Tempranillo if serving with a meaty dish. Garnish with parsley & twist of lemon, and maybe a couple of Morrocan olives. Take care add the more fragile mushroom varities closer to the end of the cooking period to avoid overcooking. Yum! **Now anyone know why Main Dishes have become 'Entrées' in the USA? Entrer means "to enter" and hence should signify the beginning of your meal, non?

That's your opinion, and may what an opinion it is!

Vergiin, Yes there are many more supporters of that organization, including the departments of foreign affairs of Denmark, Switzerland, Canada, the European Commission, UNESCO and so forth. All in all I stand by what I said, it's a source that "more objective and neutral resources for news about international/inter-ethnic conflict." - more than the predominant western media sources like, say, Fox news? And it's more neutral than the fanaticism you posted earlier I might add. Anyways, International NGO/non-profit type groups have to depend on someone to help pay for their operating costs, we just have to hope that they take the money ethically (and not subvert their coverage because of the money train).

Here's an excerpt from the Balkan Crisis Report (#558 from June 2nd 2005) published by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting. For the entire article please see the SOURCE at the IWPR website. I regard this source as one of the more objective and neutral resources for news about international/inter-ethnic conflict. A breif browse through their balkan article database, and you'll quickly see that all sides are guilty of war crimes to some extent, and all the ruling governments have tried to blur the truth and leverage their own side of the story. I think with more inititives be impartial international organizations like the IWPR, we may one day arrive at a common truth that will be accepted by all sides, and perhaps at that time reconciliation may begin. Never seen the Serbs lie Vergin? I guess that depends where you look.

Vergine, this has nothing to do with Turks or Armenians, please don't try and muddy the issue. That parallel simply doesn't exist. I'm glad that life is so simple for you. But if you make a habit of jumping blindly to conclusions you may end up hitting something on your way back down. And the Serbs didn't lie? Neither did the Croats? NATO perhaps? No one told lies but the Bosnians, or 'these people' as you so put it? C'mon dude, look around. Lies were (and perhaps still are) flying around like flies in a cow field. I don't pretend to know the 'whole truth', I never have. It's fairly easy to judge by the sheer multitude of conflicting reports over the years that the involved parties all may be lying. It's hard to take any of it without a liberal dose of salt. Agreed entirely skhara. And in order to be capable of judging the article's relevance, we need to know more about the context under which it was published. When was it published? By whom? What sort of publication is VOX? Who wrote "The Eradication of Serbs" and under what context? These elements are all unfortunately missing from Veginnes post. Agreed again (on the most part). Although I still believe that under most (not all) circumstances it's possible to make decisions that are not at polar extremes. Amongst the shades of grey there must surely be options for reasonable folks, at least I hope.

Look vergine, I have no specific sympathies with any of the groups involved in the serb/bosnian/montenegran/croat conflict. The serbs did some very bad things - as did the bosnians, as did the albanians etc... no one group was entirely 'in the right'. My problem lies with you taking what is obviously a pro-islamist 'manifesto' and project it as the ultimate objective of an entire ethnic group (perhaps even out of context). It's incorrect to generalise to that level - there are so many shades of grey between your black and white.

286??? How old is this joke Mosjan? I think 286's were already obsolete in the late eighties, non? Funny just the same for us old-timers

Verginne, how can you take stock in this type of propogandist material? It was obviously written for a 'fringe' audience by a fanatic. It can't possible reflect feelings/aspirations of an entire population. Every ethnicity and/or religious group has its fanatics - and their views are rarely accepted by the majority they pretend to represent. There's a big difference between the 'think-tanks' and the 'crackpots' and you must learn to differentiate between the two.

In inter-racial/inter-ethnic conflicts that span over centuries, it is very difficult to point a finger at on party and call them 'entirely innocent'. It takes two to tango - and you can't have a 'war' all by yourself.

So it turns out that the bombers were British born and bred. Source & rest of article.

Cynical view IMO - but I don't think we're talking about the same thing. UniverseSaver is claiming that trampling the individual rights of those who 'may look like' terrorists is ok, as long as you do it to 'prevent' more terrorism. My POV is that repressing and/or antagonising an entire demographic based on looks/religion is going to trigger additional group-oriented defensiveness. You can't just squash them like bugs. To mitigate the risks of terrorism, we have work to identify and subsequently remove the motives behind the terrorist attacks. Otherwise it will continue in one form or another....

Sorry - I disagree. It has nothing to do with going 'PC'. It has more to do with individual civil liberties. Using your logic, anyone with 'ties' to an arabic, or islamic country becomes a terrorist suspect. That's plain wrong - and besides, there's not enough room at Guantanamo to put them all.