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That Jazz Is a Risky Choice As a Career, and Is Constantly Reevaluating Her Goals for the Present, Near Future, and the Long Run DECEMBER 5, 2015 Mirror-SpeTHE ARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXVI, NO. 21, Issue 4415 $ 2.00 NEWS INBRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 Hayastan All-Armenian Armenia’s President Attends Paris Climate Summit Fund’s 18th Telethon PARIS (Public Radio members suggesting Raised $10,378,465 of Armenia) — On that it should not be Monday, November 30, simply about good YEREVAN — Hayastan All-Armenian Fund’s world- President Serge intentions but clear-cut wide Telethon 2015 raised $10,378,465 in pledges Sargisian participated at and strong political mes- and donations. The amounts raised at the telethon, the 21st Conference of sages to ensure that safe with the theme “Our Home,” will be used to con- the Parties to the United future of the humanity struct single-family homes for families in Nagorno Nations Framework has no alternative. Karabagh who have five or more children and lack Convention on Climate During his speech, adequate housing, as well as to implement special Change. The conference, Sargisian stressed that projects adopted by the benefactors. which is presided over by climate change threat- Toward the realization of the projects, the worldwide France, is being attended ens all states equally, affiliates of the fund have been carrying out a multitude by the heads of state and regardless of their size of public-awareness and fundraising campaigns during representatives from 150 or level of development. the year, including phone-a-thons, radio-thons, a charity countries and by thou- Even though Armenia’s concert and fundraising dinners. sands of delegates. share in global emis- The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund continues to At the beginning of sions is not large and accept donations and pledges. the meeting, delegates does not exceed two observed a minute of President Serge Sargisian addresses the Climate Change Convention in Paris. hundredth of a percent, silence in tribute to the according to the Russian Lawmakers memory of the victims of Sargisian Armenia Propose Bill the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. tions on the gravest challenge faced by the attaches great importance to the need for According to the organizers, the presence human kind – disastrous change of climate, combining the efforts of all countries to Criminalizing Genocide of numerous world leaders at the Paris with no delay there will be adopted a address this issue and as a developing Conference in the wake of these tragic groundbreaking decision. nation has committed herself to contribute Denial events proves that when it comes to con- The Final Agreement of the Conference to this global endeavor. MOSCOW (RFE/RL) — A group of Russian law- fronting challenges presented to the entire will be adopted on December 11, with see SUMMIT, page 2 makers have submitted a bill to parliament on hold- humankind, civilization and solidarity are ing to account anyone who denies that the 1915 stronger than barbarity. killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces In their opening remarks the President was a “genocide.” of France Francois Hollande, the Minister 100 Lives, NEF Come Together for Scholarships The leader of Russia’s opposition, A Just Russia of Foreign Affairs of France Laurent Party, Sergei Mironov, said on November 25 that Fabius, who is presiding over the meeting, for 100 Students from Middle East the bill proposes a fine of up to 500,000 rubles UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Prince (more than $7,500) for any denial of the Genocide. Charles of Great Britain and other speakers NEW YORK — The announced plans for a The move by Russian lawmakers was made a day stressed the importance of the 21st coming together of two $7 million scholarship By Alin K. Gregorian after the Turkish air force shot down a Russian jet Conference for the future of planet Earth likeminded organiza- program which will ben- Mirror-Spectator Staff near the Syrian-Turkish border. and humanity and noted that today people tions, including the efit 100 students from from all over the world are looking at Paris, Near East Foundation the Middle East. expecting that as a result of the delibera- and 100 Lives, has led to the recently Both parties are happy with the collabo- Gephardt Signs Capitol ration, which according to Shant Mardirossian, chairman of the Near East Counsel Deal for Turkey Foundation, is the first time that the two WASHINGTON (Politico) — Capitol Counsel has groups, born 100 years apart as a result of a rich new deal to represent Turkey, as a sub- the same events — the Armenian Genocide contractor for Gephardt Group Government — will collaborate. Affairs. At a $32,000 monthly rate, Capitol “Our hope is to continue the collabora- Counsel’s tasks include to “develop and utilize tion with 100 Lives,” Mardirossian said. contacts at the State and Defense Departments, The third party to this collaboration is and the National Security Council to convey the United World Colleges (UWC), which has seriousness of the genocide issue and the poten- 15 schools across the world, including its tial threat it poses to the US/Turkey relation- latest one in Dilijan, Armenia. ship,” according to newly filed Justice see SCHOLARSHIPS, page 6 Department documents. The addition of Capitol Counsel appears to boost Turkey’s bench on the Republican side: Former Rep. Jim McCrery (R- United Armenian Fund La.) leads the account. Turkey hired Gephardt Group, led by former Majority Leader Dick Ends Humanitarian Gephardt (D-Mo.), in March for $1.7 million, with subcontractors getting monthly fees of $32,000 Shipments to Armenia for Dickstein Shaprio, $7,500 for Brian Forni, GLENDALE — The Board of Directors of $15,000 for Lydia Borland, and $40,000 Soprano Tigranuhi Howhannisyan performing with Diana Sahakyan the United Armenian Fund (UAF) for Greenberg Taurig. announced that the non-profit organiza- tion was ending its operations on Germans Celebrate Paruyr Sevak November 30, following the death in June of its main benefactor, Kirk Kerkorian, pre- INSIDE WIESBADEN, Germany — The saying goes that “there is no more beautiful ceded by the closing down of his Lincy woman than the Armenian language.” If that is the case, German author Jochen Foundation. Mangelsen writes, then the two After 26 years of providing humanitarian women who have just published a new aid to Armenia and Artsakh, the five major All that By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach German translation of poems by Armenian-American religious and charita- Special to the Mirror-Spectator Paruyr Sevak “have tackled a really ble organizations that formed the UAF audacious task.” It is an adventure, he have decided to concentrate their attention Jazz goes on, not only for the translators and resources on other projects that they but for the reader who encounters this language “full of secrets, surrealistic sponsor and fund in Armenia and the Page 9 images, dreams and dreamlike playfulness.” Mandelsen, who has published on the Diaspora. Armenian Genocide, made these remarks in his introduction, or rather, “greet- The leaders of UAF member organiza- ings,” to the new book. tions expressed their gratitude to Indeed the slim volume, Paruyr Sevak: And It Pierces My Soul: 24 and 4 Poems Kerkorian for his generosity, who through INDEX Armenian-German published by Schiler Verlag in Berlin, is a huge achievement. his Lincy Foundation, contributed tens of Arts and Living . 9 The sub-title symbolically recalls the tragic date of 24.4, or April 24, 1915, when millions of dollars over the past quarter Armenia . 2 the leading members of the intelligentsia were rounded up in Constantinople, century to fund the UAF’s operations, Community News. 4 arrested and almost all put to death. Heide Rieck, a prize-winning German author including the shipment of hundreds of mil- Editorial . 14 International . 3 see GERMANY, page 16 lions of dollars of relief supplies to Armenia and Artsakh by air and sea. see UAF, page 6 2 S ATURDAY, D ECEMBER 5 , 2 0 1 5 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Armenia Hosts Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Actress Varduhi YEREVAN — Understanding how lightning is initiated within thunder- Varderesyan Dies clouds is probably one of the biggest mysteries in atmospheric science. The YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — Armenian actress relationship between thundercloud Varduhi Varderesyan died aged 87, Panorama.am electrification, lightning activity, and learned from Armenian Culture Ministry. the generation of radio waves is not A government commission will be set up for orga- completely understood. A promising nization of the funeral of the actress. window into this area of research is the Varderesyan was born in 1928 in Bucharest. In study of the interaction of thunder- 1946 she moved to her historic homeland – Armenia. storms, lightning, and cosmic radiation She studied at the studio of Leninakan Drama (so-called Thunderstorm ground Theatre after Mravyan (now Vardan Ajemyan Drama enhancements – TGEs). Theatre in Gumri). To discuss these high-energy atmos- In 1958 Varderesyan started to perform on the pheric phenomena, a conference on stage of Sundukyan Theatre in Yerevan. Thunderstorms and Elementary Particle Acceleration (TEPA) was held Chronic Hepatitis B and at the Nor Amberd International TEPA 2015 guests touring CRD Aragats research station cosmic ray particle detector array Conference Center of the Yerevan C Affects Armenia’s Physics Institute (YerPhI) in Armenia in October. The Cosmic Ray Division ferent conditions and with different events within a few tens of nanosec- Population (CRD) of YerPhI and Skobeltsyn instruments. Armenian physicists sug- onds. On October 7, for the first time, gested that sensors developed by other TGE particle fluxes and lightning were YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Armenian Republic is Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University organized the work- groups be installed at Armenia’s captured on a millisecond time scale on considered a medium prevalence area in terms of Aragats high altitude research station the CRD particle detectors on Mt.
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