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Arpa · February 16, 2012

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Nané · February 17, 2012

- Asbarez Armenian News - http://asbarez.com -

Armenia Fund Begins Construction of School in Shushi

Posted By Contributor On February 16, 2012 @ 5:29 pm In Featured Story, Latest, News, Top Stories

The construction of the Shushi vocational school

Facility is expected to revive Artsakh’s trade traditions

YEREVAN—The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund’s French affiliate has launched the construction of a vocational school in the city of Shushi. The future institution will be named after French-Armenian benefactor Yeznik Mozian, whose bequest has provided the necessary funds for the project.

With a total area of 4,050 square meters, the future school will accommodate up to 225 students. It will offer a three-year certificate program in various specialties as well as a broad spectrum of general academic subjects.

The two-story campus will feature all required amenities including fully appointed classrooms, workshops, labs, and a library. The facility will also be equipped with central heating and air-conditioning, and comprise storage space for educational materials. Currently construction crews are laying the building’s foundations.

“On the model and standards of similar French professional institutions our architects and consultants have designed this school to practice the most effective educational methods. School professors and instructors will be selected and trained accordingly”, says the Mozian family representative Robert Aydabirian, who is the overall project coordinator.

Graduates of the Yeznik Mozian School -who will be certified variously as locksmiths, metalworkers, welder, casing worker, mason, painters, roofers, stuccoer, tilers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and other specialists – are expected to enter the local job market, helping fill the shortage of trade professionals.

“The school will welcome students from all over Karabakh as well as Armenia, being equipped with dormitory facilities and aimed at becoming the most advanced school of this kind in the region”, points out the chairman of the Hayastan Fund French affiliate Bedros Terzian.

“Today Artsakh is in dire need of highly skilled professionals in the construction sector,” says Kajik Khachatryan, head of the Shushi District Administration. “The Yeznik Mozian School will mean a wonderful opportunity for young people who wish to specialize in a particular trade and become accomplished specialists.”

“The establishment of the Yeznik Mozian School is an unprecedented initiative in the history of our organization,” said Ara Vardanyan, executive director of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund. “We are confident that, thanks to the contribution of our French-Armenian benefactor, the socio-economic development of Shushi will be further boosted by an educational institution poised to produce generations of highly qualified professionals.”

The Yeznik Mozian School is being constructed in Shushi’s eastern neighborhood, which continues to be developed as the city’s educational quarter. It is already home to several music and liberal-arts schools as well as the Agriculture Department of Artsakh State University.

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URL to article: http://asbarez.com/101030/armenia-fund-begins-construction-of-school-in-shushi/

Nané · February 17, 2012

Year-long Armenian cultural events to be held in Canada

February 17, 2012 | 11:11

YEREVAN. - Armenia’s Ambassador to Canada, Armen Yeganyan, met on Wednesday with Dr. Daniel Caron, the Librarian and Archivist of Canada, and discussed bilateral cooperation in the field of humanities.

Armenia’s Ambassador informed that capital Yerevan is declared by UNESCO as the 2012 Book Capital of the World, and that this year the country is marking the 500th anniversary of Armenian printed books, MFA informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The interlocutors reached an agreement in principle to organize joint events in Ottawa and in other Canadian cities. And Dr. Caron expressed his readiness to assist in all the initiatives.

http://news.am/eng/news/93669.html

Arpa · February 17, 2012

Apres du Nane :clap:

Ապրէս դու Նանէ :clap:

You get the idea!

Yervant1 · February 18, 2012

THE MAYOR OF BUENOS AIRES TO ATTEND THE CELEBRATIONS OF THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN PRINTING

armradio.am

18.02.2012 15:50

Armenian Ambassador to Argentina Vladimir Karmirshalyan had a

meeting with Mauricio Macri, the Head of Buenos Aires Government. The

Ambassador invited the Mayor to participate in the events in Yerevan

dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Armenian book-printing and the

proclamation of Yerevan as World Book Capital 2012.

The head of Buenos Aires city government said the visit to Yerevan

would promote the reinforcement of ties between the two sister-cities.

Earlier the Armenian Ambassador met with the Minister of Culture of

Buenos Aires Ernan Lombardi to discuss the details of the Argentinean

delegation's participation in the events in Yerevan.

Yervant1 · February 18, 2012

ARMENIA CREATES VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY SERVER

news.am

February 18, 2012 | 11:35

YEREVAN. - The Institute for Informatics and Automation of the National

Academy of Sciences of Armenia has created a virtual observatory

(VO) database.

The Armenian VO likewise is a product of cooperation, between

astronomers and computer specialists, within the framework of

which corresponding environments are created, where a wide range

of astronomical data are jointly used and an effective scientific

research is conducted.

The Armenian VO server currently uses a new catalogue comparison

program, which surpasses the similar programs created throughout

the world, and the scientific research is conducted on the basis of

this program.

This database enables to dynamically increase the quantity of the

data being kept. Also, there are no strict limitations on the volume

of data being added.

The comparison program is installed in the webpage, in the Armenian

VO environment, and this allows for the astronomers to apply online

for a new effective approach for comparison.

The Armenian VO was recently included in UNESCO Memory of the World

International Register.

Arpa · February 23, 2012

THE YEAR OF THE BOOK AND PRINTING

Note that the year 2012 is the 500th anniversary of Armenian Printing.

A very rare event when NYT writes something positive about Armenia and Armenians.

http://hetq.am/static/news/b/2012/02/11029.jpg

Armenia: Imprints of a Civilization; Venice Exhibition Review

17:45, 23 February, 2012
By Roderick Conway Morris
The following review deals with the exhibition “Armenia: Imprints of a Civilization”, dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Armenian book-printing, that is running at the Correr Museum in Venice until April 10.
Armenian civilization is one of the most ancient of those surviving in the Middle East, but for large parts of its history Armenia has been a nation without a country. This has given the spoken and written word, the primary means through which Armenian identity has been preserved, enormous prominence in its people’s culture.
Over the centuries this emphasis has fostered a particular regard for books and the means of producing them. Scribes added notes on the proper care and conservation of books and advice on hiding them during dangerous times, even on “ransoming” them should they fall into the wrong hands. A late 19th-century English traveler observed that the Armenians prized the printing press with the same “affection and reverence as the Persian highlanders value a rifle or sporting gun.”

In 1511 to 1512 (the exact date is uncertain), the first Armenian book was printed in Venice. The event was especially significant for this scattered nation, which did not acquire a modern homeland until 1918 and then only in a small part of its ancestral lands.
The anniversary is the occasion for “Armenia: Imprints of a Civilization,” an impressive exhibition organized by Gabriella Ulluhogian, Boghos Levon Zekiyan and Vartan Karapetian of more than 200 works spanning more than 1,000 years of Armenian written culture. These range from inscriptions and illuminated manuscripts to printed and illustrated books, including many unique and rare pieces from collections in Armenia and Europe.
The show opens with the atmospheric painting of 1889 by the Armenian artist Ivan Aivazovski, “The Descent of Noah from Mount Ararat,” from the National Gallery in Yerevan. It shows the Old Testament patriarch leading his family and a procession of animals across the plain, still watery from the subsiding Flood, to re-people the earth.
The extraordinary grip that this mountain has had on the Armenian imagination is tellingly demonstrated by subsequent sections on sculpture, the Armenian Church and the Ark — the conical domes of Armenian churches seeming eternally to replicate this geographical feature that symbolizes the salvation of the human race.
Christianity reached Armenia as early as the first or early second century. And Armenia lays claim to having been the first nation that adopted the faith as a state religion, sometime between 293 and 314, a date traditionally recorded by the Armenian Church as 301.
There followed, in around 404 or 405, an initiative that has been one of the cornerstones of the endurance of the Armenian ethnos: the invention of a distinctive alphabet capable of rendering the language’s complex phonetic system. This made possible the translation of the Bible — the majestic 10th-century Gospel of Trebizond is on show here — and the foundation of Armenian literature in all its manifestations, sacred and secular.
The desire to illustrate the gospels and other Christian texts was the primary impetus for the development of Armenian art, which drew on an unusually wide range of sources thanks to the country’s position at the crossroads of several civilizations.
As Dickran Kouymjian writes in his essay in the exhibition’s substantial and wide-ranging catalog, which is available in English, French and Italian: “Armenian artists were remarkably open to artistic trends in Byzantium, the Latin West, the Islamic Near East and even Central Asia and China.”
A sumptuous display of these illuminated books brings together some of the finest surviving examples from the ninth to the 15th centuries, and it is curious to discover that even after the advent of printing, the tradition of illumination continued in Armenian monasteries for a further two and a half centuries.
The acme of the Armenian miniature was reached in the 13th century, during the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, which ruled over a substantial part of Asia Minor (1198-1375), until it was overthrown by the Mamluks of Egypt.
Armenian contacts with Venice date to the period when the nascent lagoon republic was a remote western outpost of Byzantium, where Armenians held senior positions in the administration and the military. In the sixth century the Armenian governor Narses is credited with introducing the cult of Theodore, or Todoro, Venice’s first patron saint and Isaac the Armenian is recorded as the founder of the ancient Santa Maria Assunta basilica on the island of Torcello.
Contacts became frequent during the Kingdom of Cilicia as Venetian merchants expanded their activities in the Levant and their Armenian counterparts sought opportunities in Europe.
In 1235 the Venetian nobleman Marco Ziani left a house to the Armenian community at San Zulian near Piazza San Marco, which came to be called the Casa Armena and provided a focal point for Venice’s ever more numerous Armenian residents and visitors.
The testament drawn up in 1354 by the governess of this house, “Maria the Armenian,” indicates that by that time there was not only a thriving community of merchants, but also clerics and an archbishop, to whom she left three of her six peacocks. Later the church of Santa Croce was founded on the same site, still today an Armenian place of worship. Both Marco Ziani and Maria’s wills are on show.
A precious copy of the first Armenian book printed in 1511-1512, a religious work titled the Book of Friday, is also on display. The innovation led to the setting up of a host of Armenian presses all over the world. The fruits of these — from locations as far-flung as Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna and St. Petersburg to Istanbul, Isfahan, Madras and Singapore — form the absorbing last section of the exhibition.
Venice was given a further boost as the global center of Armenian culture by the arrival in the lagoon of Abbot Mekhitar and his monks in 1715. This visionary was born in Sivas (ancient Sebastia) in Anatolia, and had spent time in Echmiadzin and Istanbul. Later he took the community he had created to Methoni in the Peloponnese, which had been conquered by the Venetians in the 1680s. But the prospect of the town’s recapture by the Ottomans led to Mekhitar’s decision to take refuge in Venice. In 1717 he and his followers were granted a lease on the island of San Lazzaro, which has been their headquarters ever since.
Under Mekhitar, San Lazzaro became the epicenter of a worldwide Armenian cultural revival. The community created a study center and library, was responsible for printing scores of books in Venice and elsewhere, and established an international network of schools, where a high proportion of Armenia’s religious and secular elite received an education into modern times.
The Armenian Academy of San Lazzaro has published Bazmavep, a literary, historical and scientific journal since 1843, one of the oldest continuous periodicals of its kind. And the first Armenian newspaper-magazine was Azdara (The Monitor), founded in Madras in 1794.
San Lazzaro’s most famous foreign student was Lord Byron, who learned Armenian there with the scholar Harutiun Avgerian, with whom he collaborated on the production of an Armenian and English grammar, containing translations by the poet.
(New York Times, February 23, 2012)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/arts/24iht-conway24.html

Yervant1 · February 23, 2012

HEROISM WORTH A LIFE: ARMENIAN RESCUERS FORGE THROUGH THICK SNOW TO SAVE PREGNANT WOMAN

By Gayane Abrahamyan

ArmeniaNow

22.02.12 | 15:58

Photo: www.mes.am

The news of heroic action by a group of Armenian rescuers who carried

a pregnant woman on a stretcher three kilometers through thick snow

is making headlines in Armenian media.

On Tuesday, relatives of a seven-month pregnant, Gyulnara Faroyan, 20,

who had an acute kidney disorder, tried to take her from the village

of Tchartchakis to the hospital of Aparan (Aragatsotn province) by

a tractor, however the tractor was stuck in snow with three passengers.

Gyulnara's mother-in-law, Zoya Faroyan, told ArmeniaNow that the

woman had an acute pain in her kidney and they turned to the village

administration asking to open the road with the help of machinery

to take Gyulnara to hospital, however, they say it was impossible to

clear the way.

The family called the Emergency Situations Ministry of Armenia and

rescuers walked a few kilometers to reach their home, as the roads

in the village were impassable for vehicles.

"There has never been such a thing in our village or in adjacent

villages. Hadn't the rescuers reached on time I would have lost my

daughter-in-law. It was a matter of life, we almost lost our hope,"

says Faroyan. The rescuers took the pregnant woman to the interstate

highway, where the ambulance was waiting for them.

Nikolay Grigoryan, head of the public relations department at the RA

Ministry of Emergency Situations, says that this was a unique case

in the history of their rescuers.

"Of course, there were similar situations; however it is a unique

case when rescuers walked several kilometers through a hardly passable

area," Grigoryan told ArmeniaNow.

Doctors at Aparan's hospital say Gyulnara still remains in serious

condition. "Had she arrived a few hours later, it would have been

hard to save her life. The time of her delivery has not come yet;

however, let's hope that everything will be fine," says director of

the Aparan Medical Center Hayk Shmavonyan.

Arpa · March 3, 2012

A DELIGHTFULLY BEAUTIFUL NOSTALGIC STORY

See the picture of Karo’s friend Koulka , the beautiful White Horse.

http://hetq.am/eng/articles/11414/gyumris-glory---phaeton-driver-karo-and-his-prized-white-horse.html

http://hetq.am/static/news/b/2012/03/11414.jpg

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Gyumri's Glory - Phaeton Driver Karo and His White Horse

12:17, 3 March, 2012

The black and white photo to the left, taken in 1968, shows one of the last horse-drawn buggies (phaeton) plying the streets of Gyumri in Armenia.

At the reins are master-driver Karo and his prized white horse, Koulka.

The accompanying photos of this bygone era in Armenia’s second largest city belong to Khachik Khachatryan. His father Karo was one of the last phaeton drivers in the town along with another well-known driver names Grish.

Khachik says that his father had a favourite horse called Koulka that pulled his father’s carriage for seventeen years straight.

“When my father died, I swear to you that the horse shed tears,” Khachik tells me.

Khachik’s forefathers moved to Gyumri from Kars back in the 1800’s. He says that the family has a long list of phaeton drivers to its credit.

With the growing use of cars, after WWII, the horse and buggy trade slowly faded. One of the reasons was that horses were constantly being frightened by the sound of the automobiles.

http://hetq.am/static/content/gyumri/faytonchiner.jpg

Phaeton driver Grish (left) and Karo

However, in 1960, Grigor Hasratyan, President of the Leninakan Political Council, decided to restore the old tradition. When word got out, a handful of the remaining phaeton drivers rushed to take advantage of the opportunity.

By the 1970s, only two were left – Khachik’s father Karo and Grish.

Karo passed away in 1977 at the age of 59. His sons decided not to sell the carriage but keep it as a memento of their dad and a more romantic time.

“Every 2 or 3 years, we take it out of storage, washed it sown and give it a repainting. One year, we have the carriage out in the yard and an acquaintance of ours walked by. He said he was the godfather to a young couple about to be married and wanted to take them to the church in the phaeton. I told him it would be fine but that he had to get the horses,” says Khachik

Every since then, the sons have rented out the carriage on a number of occasions.

http://hetq.am/static/content/gyumri/karoyi-fayton.jpg

Karo’s phaeton

“It turns out that years after my dad’s passing, his beloved phaeton still plies the streets of Gyumri. Neither I nor my brother ever drove the buggy. We went off and did our own thing and went into different professions. But the phaeton survives,” Khachik says with a smile that hides a degree of remorse.

Khachik works in the regional government office but still finds time to take care of the buggy with his brother’s help.

His father Karo appears in such films as “The Melodies of Shirak”, “Yerankyun” and “Heghnar’s Fountain”

(Phaeton is the early 19th-century term for a sporty open carriage drawn by a single horse or a pair, typically with four extravagantly large wheels, very lightly sprung, with a minimal body, fast and dangerous. The rather self-consciously classicizing name refers to the disastrous ride of mythical Phaëton, son of Helios, who set the earth on fire while attempting to drive the chariot of the sun).

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Where is Sip , our Dune Buggy nut?

In the English those vehicles are known both as Hansom (taxi of yore) and Buggy

http://ac4.yt-thm-a01.yimg.com/image/2d76f7913a577480

MosJan · March 4, 2012

Fayton nstats antsnim quchov....

Yerg hishum eq .

Es fayton lusahogi Vache Hovsepyann el e nstl... Videon gtnem post knem

Arpa · March 4, 2012

http://shirakcentre.org/images/stories/faeton.jpg

To see the rest go to Literature Khachik Dashtents

http://shirakcentre.org/hy/hayacqshirakic/1

ՖԱՅՏՈՆ ԱԼԵՔԸ

ԽԱՉԻԿ ԴԱՇՏԵՆՑ

Գյումրի քաղաքում շատ կառապան կար.

Այնտեղ էր ապրում Բաբիենց Հայկը,

Այդ տղամարդն էր Ալեքպոլ բերել

Առաջին փոքրիկ երկանիվ կառքը:

Այնտեղ էր ծնվել Ծուռվզենց Արշոն,

Աչքերով խաժակ, ձիերով նախշուն,

Ո՞վ տեսած չկա Կնութ Վարդանին,

Որ կանգնած էր միշտ իր կառքը քշում:

Հապա Կռո՞ւնկը։ Մի՞թե չի անցել

Այդ ժիր գյումրեցին մի օր ձեր թաղով…..

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Also look here at the opening and at 24;15 … and on

http://haykmedia.com/videos/armenian-movie/karine-video_7f625622d.html

Edited March 4, 2012 by Arpa

Arpa · March 5, 2012

ԲԱՐԻ ԱՐԱԳԻԼ

http://www.armenianow.com/sites/default/files/img/imagecache/600x400/Stork-nests-armenia.jpg

Love Birds

Stork nests are a sure sign that spring has returned to Armenia.

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http://www.youtube.c...h?v=qjiqC5I8K20

ԲԱՐԻ ԱՐԱԳԻԼ

Խոսք` Ա. Գրաշու

Երաժշտ.` Ա. Հեքիմյանի

Ես ոչ անտուն եմ, ոչ էլ տարագիր,

Ունեմ հանգրվան, ունեմ օթևան:

Ազատ Հայրենիք, երջանիկ երկիր,

Երջանիկ, երջանիկ երկիր:

Բարով, արագիլ, բարի արագիլ,

Արագիլ գարնան, արագիլ ամռան,

Իմ տան մոտ ապրիր, բախտի արագիլ,

Բույն հյուսիր ծառին,

Բարդու կատարին:

Իմ բալիկների աստղերն են շողում

Հույսով անթառամ,

Վարդերով վառման,

Վշտերս դառան ժպիտներ շողուն:

Արագիլ, ինձ հետ ուրախ՜ գովերգիր

Յայլա ու վրան,

Հանդեր հոտևան,

Արտեր, այգիներ, մանուշակ երկինք:

Nané · March 7, 2012

glendalenewspress.com/news/tn-gnp-0307-glendale-community-college-student-torkom-pailevanian-selected-for-nasa-program,0,4446977.story

Glendale News Press

Glendale Community College student selected for NASA program

Torkom Pailevanian, 19, will be part of elite group in three-day space program at the Johnson Space Center in Houston

By Megan O'Neil, megan.oneil@latimes.com

3:26 PM PST, March 6, 2012

A Glendale Community College student is among 92 aspiring young scientists and engineers selected last week to join the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program and help design robotic rovers in an educational collaboration with NASA.

Torkom Pailevanian, 19, will join an elite group of community college students from across the country at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for a three-day, hands-on engineering experience starting May 9. It is designed to foster talent within science, technology, engineering and mathematics, known within education circles as STEM disciplines.

“It really caught my interest, and when this opportunity came up, I jumped right on it,” said Pailevanian, a student worker at the Glendale Community College Planetarium and an intern at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. “I thought it would be interesting to learn about a new planet.”

The second-year student learned about the program from a classmate, and quickly set about assembling his application. He was then tasked with completing a four-part, web-based assignment in which he had to develop an exploratory mission to Mars.

“You had to state why you wanted to do certain things in certain ways,” Pailevanian said. “You are basically creating a practical mission to Mars to the best of your knowledge of all the technology available today.”

The Glendale native, who currently has a 4.0 grade point average, said that he harbors a life-long fascination with how things function. He hopes to transfer to Caltech and major in engineering and physics, and credits Glendale Community College professor Rick Guglielmino as someone who has motivated him to work hard.

“It was easy to learn with him,” Pailevanian said of his Physics 101 professor. “The time would go by so quickly. You wouldn’t even realize you had been sitting in lecture for an hour and 15 minutes. I would try to impress that teacher, to do something he had never seen.”

Once at the Johnson Space Center, student participants will work together in teams to form companies engaged in Mars exploration, and build prototype rovers that will then be used to navigate a course and perform tasks, such as collecting rocks and water.

Engaging underserved and underrepresented learners in STEM initiatives helps NASA to build a more inclusive and diverse workforce, Leland Melvin, associate administrator for education with NASA, said in a statement.

“Community colleges offer NASA a great pool of STEM talent critical to our scientific and exploration initiatives,” Melvin said. “They also serve a large portion of our nation’s minority students.”

Arpa · March 7, 2012

:thumbup: Ապրէս/ Ապրիս :ap: ‘նուշիկ Նանէ- “Սիրելիս, հոգիս, հոգյակս, հարազատս ... և մի շարք շատ ավելի «ջերմ» արտահայտություններ:”

That is the kind of Good and Beautiful News we like to hear.

ED · March 7, 2012

I'm Proud of my people

MosJan · March 8, 2012

Ճանապարհային ոստիկանության անակնկալը

http://shanttv.com/am/news/public/2012_03_15/10507/

Nané · March 9, 2012

Ճանապարհային ոստիկանության անակնկալը

http://shanttv.com/am/news/public/2012_03_15/10507/

Հուզվեցի :wink2:

Arpa · March 27, 2012

ՁԷԹ, ՁԻԹԵՆԻ

http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/1ds2-4/olive-assortment-sm.jpg

http://i01.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/117325711/olive_seed_oil.summ.jpg

OLIVE Oil and Tree

ՁԻԹԵՆԵԱՑ ԼԵՌ Mount of Olives.

The reason why the Olive Branch has become a Symbol of Peace

http://www.stroseoflimacatholic.net/new_pa1.gif

http://hetq.am/static/news/b/2012/03/12351.jpg

http://albertgarr.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/paloma-paz.jpg?w=640

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/MtolivesviewC.jpg/250px-MtolivesviewC.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_of_Olives

http://www.mrobroin.stcronans.ie/images/p012_1_00.png

Do we name our daughters Ձէթ/Ձէթանի/Ձիթենի/ՁիթանիDzeth/Dzethani/Dzithani?

Origin of the name Olive/Olivia:
Evolution of the older and now unused Oliva, which was taken from the Latin oliva (a tree of the olive family). A branch from the olive tree has long been regarded as a symbol for peace…

Here she is Olive Oyl;

http://www.gpdesenhos.com.br/imagens/outros/outros/popeye/oliviapalito2.jpg

Olive press;

http://www.zeytincilik.tv/images/haberler/haber_1318261367.jpg

I was flabbergasted to learn that the Italians call their Olive Groves Massera.

هعصره ma’ssara from “assir=juice.

You don’t believe me? See what the Persian dictionary says about ‘asseer/عصیر “juice” from Arabic.

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=18557

http://hetq.am/eng/articles/12351/karos-olive-orchard-hard-work-pays-off!.html

Is it a mere serendipitous coincidence that his name is Masarjian, an abbreviation from Mahserejian. Search and see how many you see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25S28tK6r6A

PS. We will see why and when that Heroic Kilikian Town Zeitun was named so.

Karo's Olive Orchard: Hard Work Pays Off!

00:06, 26 March, 2012
If you are wary of believing in miracles, I’d suggest you go visit Karo Karapetyan’s olive orchard in Meghri.
It has survived the particularly harsh winter months and is now blooming.
Like many others, Karo used to be engaged in the wholesale trade, never thinking that working the land could provide an adequate living wage.
Touching base with a number of suppliers of imported goods, Karo noticed that much of their product was hardly being sold, including olives.
He’d go around distributing thousands of cans of olives to this and that store and, by his reckoning, the retail price was being increased several times before reaching the consumer shelves.
Karo consulted with a number of specialists regarding the cultivation of olives in the Meghri region. That was 12 years ago. Today, he manages a six hectare olive orchard.
“It was really difficult at first. In 2002, most of the olive vines froze and died,” he says.
Karo also recalls asking then President Robert Kocharyan, who was visiting Meghri, for an easy term loan to get back on his feet. Karo says that the president promised to assist him but that he never heard back from Kocharyan.
To raise funds, Karo sold off a number of apartments he had amassed in Yerevan.
The plan paid off in the long run. Last year, Karo harvested his first olive crop – 5.5 tons in all.
“Our olives are of superior quality when compared to the canned stuff being imported. We had no problems selling the harvest,” Karo says.
The olive farmer says he and his brother will can the olives themselves and that they won’t need additional credit.
“Olives are a fickle crop. That’s why I decided to irrigate the orchard with clean potable water even though I could have used water from the Arax River. It was a huge expense.”
He told me that over time local residents had moved away from farming and gardening, even though the soil of Meghri is quite fertile.
“People started to work in the mines and at the customs house on the border. They neglected the land under their feet,” Karo notes.
He says that if the government continues to pay attention to rural agriculture, the land can not only sufficiently feed the populace but can provide a really decent way of life.
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00:06, 26 մարտի, 2012
Եթե սովորական հրաշքների նկատմամբ թերահավատ ես, խորհուրդ եմ տալիս Մեղրի գնալ, այցելել Կարո Կարապետյանի ձիթենու այգին, որն արդեն հաղթահարել է Մեղրիին ոչ հատուկ այս տարվա խստաշունչ ձմեռվա բոլոր դժվարությունները և զարթոնք է ապրում:
Տարիներ առաջ, ինչպես և շատերը, Կարոն ևս մանրածախ առևտրով էր զբաղվում, չէր հավատում, որ հողը կարող է բարեկեցություն ապահովել: Շփվելով տարբեր մատակարարների հետ` տեսնում էր, որ պարբերաբար որոշ ներկրվող ապրանքներ դժվարությամբ են իրացվում, որովհետև դրանց արտադրությունն արդեն իսկ երկրում էր կազմակերպվում: Այդ ընթացքում նա ձիթապտղի` զեյթունի, պահածոյացված հազարավոր տուփեր էր «ցրում» խանութներին և հաշվարկում, որ այն սպառողին հասնում է մի քանի անգամ թանկ գնով: Ու խորհրդակցելով մասնագետների հետ, որ հնարավոր է Մեղրիում ձիթապտղի այգի հիմնել, Կարոն թողնում է առևտուրը և որոշումից 12 տարի անց արդեն 6 հա ձիթապտղի այգի ունի:
«Դժվարություններ շատ եմ կրել, -պատմում է Կարոն,-2002 թվականին դեռևս նորատունկ այգու ծառերի մեծ մասը ցրտահարվեց, առիթից օգտվեցի և դիմեցի Մեղրի այցելած երկրի այն ժամանակվա նախագահ Ռ.Քոչարյանին` խնդրելով,որ արտոնյալ վարկ տրամադրեն այգին վերջնականապես կործանումից փրկելու համար, խոստացավ, բայց այդպես էլ որևէ պատասխան չստացա»:
Եվ քանի որ Կարոն հաստատ էր իր որոշման մեջ, վաճառեց տարիների ընթացքում առևտրով մայրաքաղաքում և Աբովյանում ձեռք բերած բնակարանները և 2011թվականին ստացավ առաջին բերքը` 5.5 տոննա ձիթենու պտուղ:
«Ամենահեշտն իրացումն էր, -ասում է Կարոն, -համային և արտաքին որակական հատկանիշերով մեր բերքն ավելի որակյալ է, քան ներկրվող պահածոյացվածները, մանավանդ, որ տեխնոլոգիական առումով դժվարություն չկա տնային պայմաններում պահածոյացնելու համար, ուստի շատ կարճ ժամանակում սպառվեց բերքը:
Այս տարի, սակայն, Կարոն և եղբոր ընտանիքը, ում հետ համատեղ են մշակում այգին, որոշել են ստացված բերքի պահածոյացումը ևս տեղում կազմակերպել: Լրացուցիչ վարկային միջոցներ չի ուզում ներգրավել, չնայած համոզված է, որ վարկային ռեսուրսների նպատակային օգտագործումը խնդրի լուծման հաջողություններից մեկն է, ինչպես, օրինակ, ինքը ՔԱՐԴ-ից ստացած վարկով ամբողջովին ոռոգելի դարձրեց վարձակալված այգին.
«Քմահաճ բույս է, դրա համար մտածեցի, որ մաքուր խմելու ջրով պիտի ջրվի այգին, և չնայած կարող էի Արաքսի ջուրն օգտագործել, բայց հսկայական ծախս կատարեցի, որ բարձր բերքի բոլոր պայմաններն ապահովված լինեն»,-ասում է Կարոն և հավելում, որ Մեղրիի հողը անսպառ աղբյուր է բարեկեցիկ ապրելու համար, բայց տարիների ընթացքում մարդիկ հարմարվել էին հանքարդյունաբերությունում, մաքսատանը, սահմանապահ կայազորում աշխատելուն, դրա համար որոշ ժամանակ հողն աչքաթող էին արել և սոցիալական պայմանները վատացել էին:
Նրա խոսքով, եթե պետությունը շարունակի վերջին տարիների գյուղատնտեսության նկատմամբ ցուցաբերած ուշադրությունը, աջակցությունը, ապա հողը ոչ միայն կկերակրի մարդուն, այլև բարեկեցիկ ապրելու լավագույն միջոցներից մեկը կդառնա:

Edited March 27, 2012 by Arpa

Yervant1 · March 29, 2012

A CLASS GAMBIT

Albany Democrat Herald

http://democratherald.com/news/opinion/editorial/editorial-a-class-gambit/article_9c436d2a-785f-11e1-a608-0019bb2963f4.html

March 28 2012

Since we're always talking about education reform in Oregon, here's

an idea from Armenia: Make chess a compulsory subject in grade schools.

That's what they've done in that small country, a former Soviet

republic sandwiched between Turkey and Azerbaijan, and between Georgia

and Iran.

The Internet news program European Journal reports on the development

in its current edition. It quotes the leader of a public school and

others about the hoped-for benefits of the new requirement.

They expect the pupils to learn logic and the ability to plan ahead,

along with flexibility to meet unexpected moves, and certainly

patience, self-discipline and nerve. The one who loses his nerve first

loses the game, one of the children earnestly says on the program.

Chess apparently is the Armenian national sport. The country has

produced dozens of grandmasters. So it seems like a natural subject

in Armenian schools.

In Oregon, not so much. Still, if our kids could sit still long enough,

learning chess moves and tactics might help them in everything else

they're supposed to learn. (hh)

Nané · March 29, 2012

A CLASS GAMBIT

Albany Democrat Herald
http://democratherald.com/news/opinion/editorial/editorial-a-class-gambit/article_9c436d2a-785f-11e1-a608-0019bb2963f4.html
March 28 2012

Since we're always talking about education reform in Oregon, here's
an idea from Armenia: Make chess a compulsory subject in grade schools.

What a pleasure to read this article early in the morning. Thank you.

Anoushik · March 29, 2012

I miss you guys and miss the forum! Sorry for being away for so long, but life just caught up with me!

What a beautiful topic and great posts. Why don't we have "like" buttons when we need them?

Nané · March 29, 2012

I miss you guys and miss the forum! Sorry for being away for so long, but life just caught up with me!

What a beautiful topic and great posts. Why don't we have "like" buttons when we need them?

Yes it is a beautiful topic. But please NOOOOOOO Facebookization of HyeForum

Anoushik · March 30, 2012

Yes it is a beautiful topic. But please NOOOOOOO Facebookization of HyeForum

LOL! I couldn't help myself!

Yervant1 · April 5, 2012

YEREVAN WILL OFFICIALLY BE ANNOUNCED AS BOOK CAPITAL ON APRIL 22

http://times.am/?l=en&p=6441

UNESCO has announced Yerevan to be Book capital on 2012. Cultural

councellor of the Yerevan Municipality Aram Suqiasyan announced

during the press conference today that Yerevan Municipality started

the preparations already. Official ceremony of announcing Yerevan as

Book Capital will take place on April 22.

"On April 22 Buenos-Aires Mayor will hand the title to the Yerevan

Mayor. Nearly 60 officials are expected to visit Yerevan on that day

and many Mayors will be among them", Municipality fellow-worker said.

A. Suqiasyan noted that 23 small scenes will be built in Yerevan to

celebrate the events. Some events will be organized for the children,

book-selling points will be opened and open-air book fairs will be

organized. "On May 5-June 10 20 book-selling points will be settled in

Yerevan and the publishers will present their works. The main events

will be held in Matenadaran and Liberty Square", the speaker noted.

A. Suqiasyan said further that England and China also presented

applications to be announced as Book Capital 2012 by UNESCO but just

Armenia was elected as the 500th anniversary of Armenian printing is

also celebrated in Armenia this year. As the speaker informed two book

stores will be opened on the eve of the festival. According to him in

frame of the program Moscow days in Yerevan will be announced on April

5-7 and April 25-27 Saint-Petersburg days in Yerevan are announced.

Yervant1 · May 2, 2012

ACHIEVEMENTS OF ARMENIANS

http://www.glendalenewspress.com/opinion/tn-gnp-0502-achievements-of-armenia

May 1, 2012 | 2:02 p.m.

The scientific and technical accomplishments of the Armenians are

impressive, given the fact that Armenians have not had a free country

to call their own until 1991.

In the United States, Armenians-Americans made important contributions

in medicine and the sciences. In medicine, Raymond Darmadian developed

the first MRI machine. Michel Ter-Pogossian co-invented positron

emission tomography scanning, which is used for functional brain

imaging and cancer detection. Dr. J.W. Kebabian and Dr. George

Aghajanian both did pioneering research that has allowed for the

development for more effective antipsychotics drugs.

Dr. Alex Sevanian helped establish that oxidized low-density

lipoprotein plays a role in atherosclerosis. Dr. Varaztad Kazanjian

was a pioneer in reconstructive surgery and has been called the father

of plastic surgery. Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr. was an important

physicist in the U.S. nuclear weapons research program at Los Alamos

and died from exposure to excess radiation at age 28.

Edward Keonjian developed the first pocket-sized, solar-powered radio

transmitter. In computer science, Avedis Tevanian was the architect

of the Apple OS X operating system.

In the former Soviet Union and today's Russia, Russian Armenians have

also made important contributions in the sciences and technology. Levon

Mikhailovich Chailakhyan was a Soviet Armenian biologist who was the

first to clone a mouse, known as Masha. Masha the mouse was the first

mammal to be cloned, years before Dolly the Sheep. Yuri Oganessian

is a Russian Armenian physicist who discovered a new element called

element 114, which was added to the periodic table. The famous

Russian MIG fighter aircraft were designed by a Russian Armenian

aeronautical engineer named Artem Mikoyan. MIG was an abbreviation

of Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau.

When given the opportunity, Armenians have achieved important

contributions to benefit mankind.

Patrick Movsessian

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