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Oganessian et al Discover New Element (Z=117)
On April 9, Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian and his team of Russian and American physicists published a paper discussing their discovery of element number 117 in “Physical Review Letters.”
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My heart fills with pride when I read of an Armenian with such prestige and education… I am proud of Mr Oganessian…
May God protect you and may you discover many more Elements
Gayane
Thanks Armenian Weekly for covering a science aspect of our Armenian people. With no doubt Dr. Oganessian is a brilliant figure in the research of atomic physics. However, my heart graves with a lot of pain, when we cover a story about one scientist, whereas in the heart of Armenia thousands of brilliant figures are entirely neglected. There is almost nothing mentioned about for example, Paris Haruni, Margarian, and an entirely new generation of mathematicians, computer scientist, physicists, archeologist, as well as other disciplines of science and art. Thousands of our scientist are in so desperate situations that they are doing some low paying side jobs (e.g. taxi driving, selling tomatoes, etc.) to keep up with their daily life.
You are missing the point!! Dr. Oganessian is to be commended for his breakthrough discovery, which will sure to be beneficial for all mankind (although he didn’t do it all by himself…he was in constant contact with his fellow physicist colleagues)! No where does he say that this was for Armenia and the dashnak Armenian diaspora!! Why must all of you always have to try and put a political spin on everything? It would be like Dr. Mehmet Oz saying that every single new surgical technique that he discovered was for Turkey and Turks! All discoveries are for the advancement of all mankind!! Please stop trying to make everything political…the world’s clearly had enough of your dashnak antics by this time!!
Mr. Robert, which part of your brain is non-political? You had two paragraphs thought through your poor brain, and out of these two paragraphs, 1.5 of it was purely political propaganda.
Bravo Dr. Haro,
Well said.
Haro jan, if I am not mistaken.. this Robert guy is a Turk (the other half brother of another Turk Ahmet who is putting his nonsense comments on every Armenian forum.. well at least that is the joke about them).. If this is the right Robert and I have a feeling he is, he is obsessed with Dashnaks and every single paragraph he writes, he mentions Dashnaks.. One would think Robert is in love with them..Sir, get used to the fact that many brilliant scientists, intellects, physicists, archeologist, are Armenians.. and you will see more and more of us…
Gayane
Armenian Weekly is indeed collaborating with the commenter Mr. Roberts. I had more lines in both of my comments, and the Weekly is sensoring and altering the meaning of my comments. I will need to contact one of the Armenian Weekly representative and talk about this. A continuation of such behavior will be publisized by me on several influential websites and blogs.
Armenian Weekly, DO NOT CUT MY COMMENTS!!!! I had nothing abusive as Mr. Robert’s to be delibrately cut in my comments. All comments have been screen-shot and kept on my file. Please be careful here…
A portion of Robert’s comments were deleted because he denied the Armenian Genocide. The relevant portion in Haro Mherian’s post was also removed so that it does not seem as if he is putting words in Robert’s mouth.
Mr. Mherian, instead of realizing that the comment was edited for his own sake, is threatening the Armenian Weekly for “censoring” his comment and accusing the Weekly of “collaborating with Robert”!
Mr. Mherian, yes, go ahead and attack the Weekly, a respected institution, and then accuse the Weekly with collaborating with Turks! I am surprised the Weekly even published your insulting and threatening comment. I wonder if anybody here owes an apology…
Hello Armenian Weekly Admin,
As long as I have you posting here, i would like to request the following:
I have noticed that many comments never reaches to my inbox. I only get to read them once I log into the forum to read the one comments I receive. Is this a bug or is this intentional? I hope to assume it is a bug.
I would like to request that any comment to the forums that I have subcribed to be sent to my personal inbox.
Thank you very much…
Gayane
Dear Gayane,
You are supposed to receive all comments following your post if you have selected on the “notify me” option. Thank you for pointing out the problem you were having. We will forward your comment to the webmaster.
Regards,
Weekly Admin Team
Armenian Weekly, thank you for clarification, but your answer does not address the situation of my first comment. There was a poetic and scientific line in my first comment that you cut. The line was very educative and very much related with this article. By cutting this part of comment, you have arose in me the doubt that your moderator has not read this article itself.
On the other hand, yes, you did the right thing by not putting on web the part of Mr Robert’s comment where the word Genocide was in quotes and a clear statement of denial of the Genocide. However, all commenters of this article receive an email from you that had this comment intact. Therefore, your efforts have been annihilated by your poor comment messaging software system. The weakness of your technology is no excuse for being hijacked by a propaganda machine. Either eliminate your comment system all together or be careful in becoming an incubator for Turks and Turkish Propaganda.
Narine, I may apologize to you and all commenters here. But if my apology defies the truth, then it will destroy my essence. I am a mathematician, true mathematicians don’t lie. An apology is cheap to give, I can give as many as you want, but please don’t make me lie by apologizing. Finally, Armenian Weakly did publish my comment, which has absolutely no insult at all (unless if the truth is an insult to you). They publish my comment, because they realized the enveloping problem, and decided that it’s better to stick to the truth. This, I do appreciate and accept, but that does not mean, as a warning system, I should be put to silence. If they want to do just that, they can always turn the commenting section off, and I would be better off doing my daily work without being distracted with any article on world. Live carelessly, when the entire body of Armenian scientists and intellectuals are being eliminated by silence, because they dare to protest for the weaknesses of our “respected” News ports and papers.
Narine, I understand your pain when you see such situation, but only feeling the pain is not enough, you should teach them a lesson if you can do so. That makes the organization healthy and powerful, and not just “fear of respect” silence.
I have to agree with Haro…
Gayane
Admin,
I see that you’ve yet once again censored and deleted my posts! Your actions simply defy any words. I must be a huge threat to you all on the Board to warrant such actions! The last time I saw this type of cowardice was with the Vichey French government ( who were nothing more than puppets for the Germans in occupied France)!! Let me ask you all one question…Have none of you even have a semblance of an ethical soul? Or did you throw that into the trash with your conscience?!!
Armenian Weakly, As you can see, your action did not resolve the hijacking of your comments section as an incubator for Turkish propaganda. The warning I gave was a measured and well calculated procedure, but your moderator took upon her/him to belittle a strike of a mathematician’s paw. Thanks for your defeatalist action!!!!
Maybe, it is time that we listen to our mathematicians and scientists…
Can’t you get it: Erase all of Robert’s comments from this page, since he proved himself a Genocide denialist in the segment that you did not post! That’s how you resolve abuse, not by just cutting a piece. DENIALISM IS A CRIME!!!!
Robert,
What you have to say is not even half way intelligent.. so why are you upset about having your comments cut? I agree with Haro.. Weekly should have deleted all your comments all together.. at least they would have done a great deed for all of us who have to endure your stupidity…
Anyway… to resolve this matter fair and square… lets make sure to omit only comments that include but not limited to profanity, and Robert and his likes.. ok maybe not.. otherwise we won’t have the joy of reading nonsense and be able to poitn it out to them..
Respecting one’s opinion and allowing them to express how they see it fit (again without profanity) is the greatest rights we have in the United States… We are not leaving in Turkey..
Gayane