Five New Hotels To Be Put Into Service In Armenia’s Capital In 2013

FIVE NEW HOTELS TO BE PUT INTO SERVICE IN ARMENIA’S CAPITAL IN 2013

TERT.AM
21:39 ~U 29.03.13

Five new hotels will be put into service this year under the Yerevan
Municipality’s program of cooperation with the private sector.

Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan visited the construction site of Wyndham
Hotel Yerevan in the Avan community.

“About 850,000 tourists visit Armenia yearly, so both our fellow
citizens and guests must feel comfortable in Yerevan. We have 44
hotels in Yerevan, and five new hotels will be put into service. We
are negotiating with investors in hotel construction in all the
administrative districts,” Mr Margaryan said.

From: Baghdasarian

Re-Imaginer Israël Comme Une Diaspora Pour Tous

RE-IMAGINER ISRAËL COMME UNE DIASPORA POUR TOUS

Publie le : 29-03-2013

Info Collectif VAN – – Le Collectif VAN vous
presente un article traduit le 28 mars 2013 par Georges Festa pour le
site “Armenian Trends – Mes Armenies”, d’après un article en anglais
d’Angela McRobbie du site Open Democracy.

Armenian Trends – Mes Armenies

jeudi 28 mars 2013

© Columbia University Press, 2012

Re-imaginer Israël comme une diaspora pour tous

par Angela McRobbie

Open Democracy, 25.02.2013

[Judith Butler suit une voie similaire a celle d’Hannah Arendt dans
son recent ouvrage Parting Ways : Jewishness and the Critique of
Zionism [A la croisee des chemins : identite juive et critique du
sionisme], livrant toute une serie de contributions revues et elargies
au debat sur la violence de l’Etat israelien et le colonialisme des
implantations, afin d’eclairer histoires et memoires.]

Il arrive souvent avec les ouvrages d’une telle portee philosophique,
traitant de questions politiques parmi les plus ardues de notre temps,
que leur opportunite meme les situe en quelque sorte hors des limites
du debat public immediat.

Ce genre d’ouvrages sont soit sommairement eludes sous pretexte d’etre
trop incisifs, trop judicieux, trop anti-conformistes, soit juges tout
simplement trop peu realistes au regard du monde pragmatique de la
politique internationale. Bien des annees après, cette ~uvre etant
comme mise en sommeil, gagne un nouveau lectorat des plus admiratif.

Tel fut le cas de la plupart des ecrits d’Hannah Arendt, dès les
annees 1930, lorsqu’elle s’engagea tout d’abord dans le sionisme,
jusqu’a son essai des plus controverse sur Eichmann a Jerusalem,
publie en 1962, mais aussi quelques annees plus tard, lorsqu’elle
publia Les Origines du totalitarisme. Judith Butler suit une vois
similaire dans son recent essai Parting Ways : Jewishness and the
Critique of Zionism. Profondement influencee par la thèse d’Arendt en
faveur du pluralisme et du federalisme, comme contrepoids a l’Etat
nation, a l’aune des perils de l’apatridie et de la depossession,
Butler n’hesite pas toutefois a reconnaître les limites de certaines
preferences peu digestes et impenitentes d’Arendt pour des traditions
de pensee emanant de la philosophie europeenne et pour ce que nous
pourrions qualifier de normes culturelles europeennes.

Son immersion dans les ecrits d’Arendt permet neanmoins a Butler de
mettre en circulation intellectuelle tout un ensemble de contributions
revues et elargies au debat sur la violence de l’Etat d’Israël et du
colonialisme d’implantation. Si ses recommandations sont apparemment
improbables, elles sont aussi courageuses, comme celles d’Arendt avant
elle, en ce qu’elles exposent l’auteur a des attaques au vitriol,
a l’instar de ceux qui reprochaient a cor et a cris a Arendt d’etre
une ‘Juive ayant la haine de soi’ ou, dans le cas de Butler, de se
ranger aux côtes du Hamas.

Un autre courant de pensee, lequel nourrit la critique juive du
sionisme chez Butler, derive d’Edward Saïd. Reprenant la relecture
politique de Freud par Saïd, afin de developper une voie possible pour
une cohabitation et une coexistence juive et arabe dans la proximite,
et se focalisant sur son argumentation quant a l’Arabe present chez le
Juif (comme dans la figure de Moïse) et, avec cela, un sentiment de
l’impurete des origines, et le melange historique des peuples et des
religions, Butler tente de conforter diaspora et dissemination comme
bases d’une coexistence. A l’oppose d’une patrie ultime comme lieu
de retour et de nostalgie nationaliste, Butler se range aux côtes
de Saïd pour re-imaginer Israël comme un lieu où une ethique de la
diaspora et de la dispersion pourrait prevaloir et donner essor a
une nouvelle politique binationale et federale.

En premier lieu, il y a la question de savoir pourquoi Butler prend
specifiquement position en tant que Juive contre le sionisme, a la
base de son entreprise. En fait, elle agit sur ce pour quoi elle
plaide, considerant l’identite juive comme non identitaire, impure et
dispersee. Elle n’ecrit pas d’un point de vue profane, cette posture
resultant de nombreuses annees de frequentation des synagogues, d’etude
du Talmud et de familiarisation a la philosophie durant son enfance et
son adolescence. C’est naturellement en tant que philosophe qu’elle a
maintenant acquis une reputation internationale. Elle demande toutefois
pourquoi ce genre de prise de position juive peut etre defendue sans
paraître soutenir involontairement l’idee du ‘caractère exceptionnel’
de la situation en Israël, ne concernant que le seul peuple juif,
a la lumière de l’histoire atroce de la Shoah.

Son projet est d’ecrire en tant que Juive, de manière a inclure les
non Juifs, en particulier les Palestiniens, ce qui en retour confirme
la thèse d’Arendt selon laquelle nous sommes tous des etres humains
sur la base de ces autres etres humains avec qui nous partageons
la planète. Compte tenu du caractère non choisi de cette condition
humaine, nous devons rechercher une cohabitation pacifique, sous
peine de vivre des cycles de violence et de destruction. De fait,
une conquete n’est jamais juste, car elle nous condamne tous a des
annees de conflits et d’antagonismes.

Butler sait aussi que son projet d’opposition au sionisme au moyen
d’une ethique juive doit etre identifiable, susceptible d’etre verifie
au sein d’une tradition. C’est la où elle se tourne a maintes reprises
vers Walter Benjamin et a sa notion de traduction, qui lui permet
d’observer la tradition sur ce qu’elle trace, laquelle prend la forme
d’une exigence ethique heritee du passe, subissant necessairement
changement et alteration. Resultat, a travers ses reflexions, ce
qui est diasporique dans la theologie juive emerge a nouveau pour
signifier un sens nouveau, une combinaison avec les non Juifs et
une ethique de la cohabitation. Cette notion de tradition qui, selon
la pensee de Butler, est restee dans un etat a la fois de ‘vestige’
et de ‘resonance’, est neanmoins apte a transmettre la signification
nouvelle d’une diaspora pour tous dans une Palestine qui peut lui
etre restituee, afin qu’il n’y ait plus ce ‘colonialisme pernicieux,
se qualifiant de democratie.’

L’echelle des difficultes que rencontre Butler dans Parting Ways
se fonde sur sa comprehension du traumatisme, de la souffrance et
de l’apatridie d’après la Shoah, couplee a sa tentative d’avancer
une critique juive post-coloniale du sionisme, laquelle signifie
inevitablement le fait d’envisager non pas la ‘destruction’ d’Israël
(a quoi ses critiques reduisent sa pensee), mais le remplacement du
sionisme politique par un bi-nationalisme federal, où des droits egaux
sont garantis a tous, mettant un terme a l’implantation des colonies.

Operons quelques digressions. Durant les annees des troubles en Irlande
du Nord, marquees par des cycles analogues de violences et de meurtres
incessants, de niveaux similaires de haine exprimes de part et d’autre
de la frontière, il semblait que la paix ne pût jamais voir le jour,
tandis qu’une sorte de resignation s’etait installee. Et pourtant
une volonte se manifesta au milieu des annees 1990 de rechercher la
paix, faisant chorus a un desir psychique inscrit au c~ur meme de
la colère et de la haine. Le gouvernement de Tony Blair avait alors
fort a faire en Irlande du Nord : le demantèlement du Royal Ulster
Constabulary (RUC) [police nord-irlandaise] et son remplacement par
la Police Federation for Northern Ireland (PFNI), sous l’egide de
Peter Mandelson, un des changements les plus significatifs et des
plus inconcevable. Cette part reperable par dela la violence ayant,
d’après Butler, un caractère messianique, en ce qu’elle est capable
d’interrompre et de suspendre les histoires et les memoires, laissant
entrevoir un eclair de lumière. Un executif partageant le pouvoir,
le desarmement, les notions de cohabitation et de proximite suscitant
la vision jusqu’alors impensable de Martin McGuiness et du Reverend
Ian Paisley se serrant la main et plaisantant, tout cela nous parle
de la possibilite d’une existence et d’une politique quotidienne par
dela et après un conflit. Durant les annees qui ont suivi, l’idee
d’une Irlande unie a ete arrachee a ses nationalismes exacerbes et
remplacee par les notions pratiques de cooperation transfrontalière.

Des comparaisons simplistes ne sauraient naturellement en etre
tirees et la politique agressive de colonisation, qui demeure une
caracteristique du gouvernement quotidien en Israël, rend un revirement
des plus difficile a envisager. Quelque chose de plus profond doit
se produire dans la psyche des Israeliens de gauche comme de droite,
pour qu’un changement advienne. Avec obstination, Butler entreprend
de mettre fin a une rhetorique sans cesse affichee d’autodefense, et
ce que cela pourrait entraîner en terme de demilitarisation. Dans le
chapitre final, elle defend l’idee d’une conference internationale sur
le droit au retour, tout en se demandant a quoi pourrait ressembler
le droit au retour propose aux Palestiniens disperses, en terme de
reinstallation, de compensations et de redistribution des terres. Le
droit au retour rendu accessible aux Palestiniens signifierait
aussi une revision ou une suspension de la loi sur le retour, qui
jusqu’a present fonctionne sur la base de l’absence de toute loi de
retour pour la population soumise au plan colonial. Dans le cadre
de cette ‘eternite politique’ figure la realite quotidienne d’un
‘bi-nationalisme derisoire’ et d’une lutte pour la survie.

La contribution de Butler peut etre consideree comme semant les
germes de la fin du projet colonial d’Israël. Qualifier Israël de
pouvoir colonial rompt avec le monde de l’etiquette politique de
l’après-Seconde Guerre mondiale. Parallèlement, adopter une ethique
de relationalite revient a definir l’identite juive comme quelque
chose qui existe dans la rencontre avec autrui, avec des non Juifs,
avec qui l’on peut avoir des droits egaux, ce qui nous conduit vers
un avenir aux antipodes de la catastrophe.

A l’heure actuelle, nous sommes contraints par la pregnance de
l’Etat securitaire au point qu’il semble contre-intuitif de porter
les arguments de Butler en faveur d’une egalite radicale sur la
scène politique. Or les renvoyer a des temps meilleurs c’est aussi
convier a d’autres pertes ; aussi vais-je revenir sur mes remarques
introductives.

Le constat de Butler est d’une lecture eprouvante pour toutes les
raisons que nous savons quant aux espoirs d’une defaite du fascisme
a la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, de la securite a venir et
d’un sanctuaire pour les Juifs, espoirs embourbes dans une politique
qui a considere le racisme et le deplacement de populations comme
etrangement compatibles avec les idees d’une democratie moderne.

Neanmoins, cette meme politique n’a pas toujours ete aussi consensuelle
ou homogène qu’elle semble l’etre actuellement, ce qui incite a
re-imaginer Israël en termes d’egalite, de cohabitation et d’un
partage pacifique de la terre.

[Angela McRobbie enseigne les sciences de la communication au
Goldsmiths College (universite de Londres). Elle est l’auteur de
nombreuses etudes sur le feminisme et la culture populaire.]

___________

Source :

Traduction : © Georges Festa – 03.2013.

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Serge Sarkissian Et Raffi Hovhannissian Communiquent Par Lettres Ouv

SERGE SARKISSIAN ET RAFFI HOVHANNISSIAN COMMUNIQUENT PAR LETTRES OUVERTES

Alors que Raffi Hovhannissian, en grève de la faim depuis le 10
mars sur la place de la Liberte avait propose au chef de l’Etat une
rencontre sur place pour entamer un dialogue, le porte-parole de la
Presidence a rejete cette offre : ” les audiences du President sont
organisees selon un protocole preetabli, a des heures fixees a l’avance
et ont lieu au Palais presidentiel “. Armen Arzoumanian, porte-parole
du Chef de l’Etat a indique qu’en depit du ton comminatoire des
invitations faites par Raffi Hovhannissian, la proposition de dialogue
du President Sarkissian restait ouverte : ” le Chef de l’Etat est
patient et constructif dans ses actions “, a-t-il souligne.

Lors d’une conference de presse en plein air, le 27 mars, Raffi
Hovhannissian a insiste sur le fait que Serge Sarkissian devait
accepter ” toutes ses propositions ” et notamment l’organisation
d’elections anticipees d’ici la fin de l’annee ainsi que ” le partage
du pouvoir avec le peuple “. Il a par ailleurs exige le recompte
des bulletins de 120 bureaux de vote. Le quotidien Azg exprime sa
perplexite face a cette demande, dans la mesure où un tel exercice
intervient legalement les jours suivant le scrutin. Azg, qui titre
son article ” Raffi Hovhannissian appelle donc les autorites a une
action illegale “, appelle les parties a se mettre d’accord sur un
modus operandi.

Extrait de la revue de presse de l’Ambassade de France en Armenie en
date du 28 mars 2013

vendredi 29 mars 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

From: Baghdasarian

http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=88279

Zhamanak: Carrefour To Buy Yerevan City Supermarket Chain?

ZHAMANAK: CARREFOUR TO BUY YEREVAN CITY SUPERMARKET CHAIN?

10:09 29/03/2013 ” DAILY PRESS

Armenian authorities have decided to negotiate with Samvel Alexanyan
over selling his Yerevan City supermarket chain to French Carrefour,
Zhamanak daily says.

“If this deal takes place, it will be a sensational step and a decision
to abruptly change the economic policy. If the authorities really want
Carrefour to buy the huge supermarket chain owned by Samvel Alexanyan
and enter Armenian market in such large scope, it means they have
finally decided to show a political will in ending the monopoly in
import and realization of goods,” says the paper.

Source: Panorama.am

From: Baghdasarian

Baku: US Amb. To Azerbaijan: "We Should Strengthen Our Efforts Towar

US AMBASSADOR TO AZERBAIJAN: “WE SHOULD STRENGTHEN OUR EFFORTS TOWARDS THE SETTLEMENT OF THE NK CONFLICT”

APA, Azerbaijan
March 28 2013

Guba. Veli Turan- APA. “We should strengthen our efforts towards
the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,” US ambassador to
Azerbaijan Richard Morningstar told journalists during his visit to
Guba, APA’s northern bureau reports.

The ambassador said that his country will do its best for peaceful
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict within OSCE Minsk Group:
“I know how this tragedy is disappointing and complicated. Otherwise
the solution of the conflict would not have taken 20 years. We should
strengthen our efforts for this conflict. I know that regardless of
political position, age and other indicators, the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict is important and painful for every Azerbaijani. I and the
OSCE Minsk Group co-chair of the US will continue our activities along
with Azerbaijani officials to put forward new ideas for achieving
progress in the settlement of the conflict.”

From: Baghdasarian

Ankara: Armenian Slain Private Not Granted ‘Martyrdom’ Status

ARMENIAN SLAIN PRIVATE NOT GRANTED ‘MARTYRDOM’ STATUS

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
March 28 2013

The family of an Armenian man who was killed by a fellow private
during his army service in 2011 on April 24 — the anniversary of
the day marked as the start of what Armenians say was a genocide of
their people in 1915 — claim their son is being denied “martyrdom,”
a legal status that provides benefits to families of soldiers killed
while serving in the military.

However, to the family, there is more to this than benefits. The
family, which has vowed to take the case of Pvt. Sevag Þahin Balýkcý,
whose death was found to be the result of an accident by a Turkish
court on Wednesday, is certain that the young man fell victim to a
hate crime.

The concept of martyrdom in religious understanding corresponds to
falling when fighting for spreading a just cause, but in the Turkish
experience it has gained a more secular meaning, usually attributed
to individuals who are killed while protecting their country, or
during military service. It also has legal consequences in terms of
family assistance.

The young man’s father, Garabet Balýkcý, said: “They do not consider
him a martyr because he was Christian. Why, then, did they draft
him in the first place?” Military service is compulsory in Turkey
for males and the country does not allow conscientious objectors the
right not to serve in the military.

Balýkcý’s shooter, Kývanc Aðaoðlu, was found guilty of involuntary
manslaughter and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison. Ani
Balýkcý, Sevag’s mother, said the family was not satisfied with
the ruling during a press conference the family held at the Cezayir
Restaurant in Ýstanbul’s Taksim neighborhood on Wednesday.

In addition to Sevag’s family, the family’s lawyer Ýsmail Halavurt
as well as Melis Tantan and Gencay Gursoy, two members of the Nor
Zartonk Initiative — a civil society group representing Turkey’s
Armenian community set up to fight hate crimes and discrimination —
also attended the event.

Ani Balýkcý, speaking about her son’s murder, said, “His name is Sevag
and he is an Armenian, there is nothing else to think,” saying she
was certain it was a hate crime. “First they look at our ethnicity and
we are treated as foreigners, as others. Then we are dehumanized. And
if they find the opportunity, we are killed,” the heart-broken mother
said about being a member of a non-Muslim minority in Turkey.

Garabet Balýkcý said his son was killed “knowingly” and by a “racist
bullet.”

The Diyarbakýr Military Court heard the trial concerning the Balýkcý
shooting. There were 12 hearings in the trial and the verdict was
delivered on Wednesday. The defendant was given four-and-a-half years
and if the Military Court of Appeals affirms the ruling, he will serve
for one year and nine months and then will be released on parole,
according to the Code on Criminal Procedure (CMK).

Critics believe that the panel of judges — whose members were changed
frequently during the course of the trial with the exception of the
presiding judge — covered up what happened on the day of Balýkcý’s
murder. Several witnesses have changed their testimony in favor of
the defendant and lawyers representing the plaintiffs have claimed
that military commanders have forced them to change their initial
statements through intimidation. The judges also rejected a demand
from plaintiff lawyers to “expand the investigation.”

The Nor Zartonk community released a statement and suggested that the
defendant’s sentence was only given to create the impression that
some sort of punishment was given. It also said that the trial set
a bad precedent for other “barracks murders.” It noted that most of
the privates killed in the military service are either Kurds, Alevis
or Armenians and often officially found to be killed “by accident”
or as a result of “suicide.” It called for introducing a hate crime
law in Turkey.

From: Baghdasarian

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-311034-armenian-slain-private-not-granted-martyrdom-status.html

Soccer: Mkh The Knife: Liverpool Keen On Wantaway Shakhtar Donetsk A

MKH THE KNIFE: LIVERPOOL KEEN ON WANTAWAY SHAKHTAR DONETSK ACE

Mirror, UK
March 28 2013

Chelsea and Manchester City are also interested in the goalscoring
midfielder that has his heart set on a big move

Liverpool have made Shakhtar Donetsk midfield Henrik Mkhitaryan their
“top target” according to Russian website Sportbox .

The Armenian’s all-action displays have drawn many scouts to keep an
eye on 24 year-old, and he boasts an astonishing 19-goal haul from
central midfield this season, mainly thanks to a run of ten goals in
six games during the early part of the campaign.

With Shakhtar now out of the Champions League, Mkhitaryan has admitted
that he is looking to leave Ukraine this summer and the Premier League
could well be a target:

“For every player, to play for the strongest clubs in the world is
a dream, and the main goal,” said Mkhitaryan.

“I will do everything possible to move this summer to a different
team.”

Any deal would require a fee of around £25million according to
Russian reports.

From: Baghdasarian

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/henrik-mkhitaryan-liverpool-reds-keen-1789984

Lithuania’s DM, Ambassador Of Armenia Discuss Bilateral Coop

LITHUANIA’S DEFMIN, AMBASSADOR OF ARMENIA DISCUSS BILATERAL COOP

LETA, Lithuania
March 27, 2013 Wednesday

On March 26 Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas discussed
bilateral defence cooperation and contribution to multinational
operations in a meeting with Ambassador of Armenia HE Ara Aivazian,
Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said.

At the meeting Minister Olekas expressed his delight over the bilateral
dialogue of Armenia and Lithuania in defence sector. In his turn,
Ambassador Aivazian thanked Lithuania for the manifold support in
military training. Minister Olekas also presented to the Ambassador
Lithuania’s priorities for the Presidency of the Council of the
European Union – energy security and Easter Partnership (EaP).

The Minister and the Ambassador also addressed participation in
multinational operations and the upcoming visit by the Minister of
Defence of Armenia in Lithuania. Armenia’s Minister of Defence is
expected to come to Vilnius in mid-April.

Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Defence of
Armenia have been cooperating since 2002 on the basis of an annually
updated military cooperation plan. Last update of the document was
signed in Yerevan in 2012.

The main area of Lithuania’s and Armenia’s defence cooperation
is military training. Expert-level consultations are consistently
held on law-making, military training, military medicine, public
relations, armed forces control, and other subject-matters. Armenia’s
representatives are invited to study at the Baltic Defence College
(BALTDEFCOL) in Tartu (Estonia), founded by the three Baltic States,
and to attend international training and courses at the General Jonas
Zemaitis Lithuanian Military Academy.

Armenia is also invited to delegate military observers to multinational
exercises held in Lithuania. The country’s representatives conducted
observation in the Exercise Amber Hope in Lithuania in 2003, 2005,
2007, 2009 and 2011.

From: Baghdasarian

Steve Bedrosian reminisces at Ephrata card show

Steve Bedrosian reminisces at Ephrata card show

LancasterOnline.com (Lancaster County, Pennsylvania)
Sunday, Mar 24, 2013

By Tom Arnold, Correspondent

EPHRATA, PA — With the start of baseball season looming, Lancaster
County fans received a treat when former major league pitcher Steve
Bedrosian visited Ephrata on Saturday morning for the Ephrata Lions
Club’s annual sports card show and auction.

“This is the 34th show,” said Nevin Rutt, one of the show
organizers. “I remember 34 years ago when our first guest was [former
Phillies pitcher] Chris Short. It’s still just as much fun as it was
then.”

Bedrosian, who will turn 56 in December, looked tan and slim. Besides
a touch of gray at the temples, the former pitcher looked as though he
could take the mound again and go for another save.

“Bedrock” was one of the top closers in the league through the late
1980s and finished his career with 184 saves. In 1987, while with the
Phillies, Bedrosian finished with a 5-3 record and a 2.83 ERA and a
league-leading 40 saves. That performance earned him the Cy Young
Award and Rolaids Relief Man of the Year.

“I’m blessed for sure,” Bedrosian said. “Looking back … playing 14
years for four different teams, raising a family in between, four boys
and a little girl we adopted from Russia, and now the journey has come
full circle with my son [Cameron Bedrosian] playing for the [Los
Angeles] Angels. Now we’re chasing him around.”

For a man who has amassed a multitude of awards to accompany a 1991
World Series championship and a 1987 All-Star appearance, Bedrosian
claims an event in San Francisco as one of his all-time favorite
moments in baseball.

“If I had to pick one moment, I guess I’d pick winning the Willie
McCovey Award while with the Giants in 1990,” Bedrosian said. “I guess
that and the Dave Dravecky story are two of the best memories of my
career.”

Dravecky was a Giants pitcher who was diagnosed with cancer. He first
had part of his pitching arm removed, and eventually had to have an
amputation from his shoulder down.

“There was a game where [the fans] pledged money on every pitch, like
they do for a March of Dimes walk where they pledge for every mile and
so on,” Bedrosian said. “Well, Dravecky came back and pitched a game
against Cincinnati and won 3-1. Going into the eighth inning in
Candlestick, [the Reds] got two men on and they called for me and I
came on and got the save.

“I’m glad I won, because if I’d have lost that game, oh my… it would
have all been on me.”

Along with that game, Bedrosian was happy for his Cy Young Award, but
upset at the same time that the Phillies didn’t win it all that year.

“I wish we could have won as a team, but we didn’t,” he said. “But I
got to play with some of the greats, like [Mike Schmidt] and [Steve]
Carlton and watched them retire. But I guess winning the Cy Young was
the highlight.”

With his son Cameron pitching in the Angels organization, Bedrosian
doesn’t have enough time to watch professional baseball.

“We are chasing him all over the place while he plays,” he said. “So I
don’t get as much of a chance to watch or listen to the majors as I’d
like. I still keep an eye of the Phillies and Braves and Twins. In
fact, the other year when Roy Halladay won the Cy Young Award, I was
asked to come and present it to him, since I was the most recent
winner presenting it to Halladay. That was nice.”

These days Bedrosian is content to do a few card shows and a few major
league fantasy camps, and of course follow his son.

“I retired as a baseball coach after 14 years, and coached all my
boys,” he said. “I coached briefly in the Braves’ minor-league
system. I also served on the board of education for 10 years, the last
two as chairman.

“I served in the only county in Georgia that does not pay their board
of education members – so obviously I did it because I enjoyed it, not
for the pay,” he said with a laugh.

From: Baghdasarian

In Memoriam: RZ Zildjian, 1923-2013

In Memoriam: RZ Zildjian, 1923-2013

Cymbal Honcho Dies at 89

TMZ.com
3/28/2013

By TMZ Staff

Robert ‘RZ’ Zildjian — the guy who founded the Sabian cymbal company
— died today at the age of 89 … TMZ has learned.

Zildjian was a titan in the music world — and was credited with
re-inventing the cymbal industry after leaving the business started by
his family, the Zildjian cymbal company.

According to reports, Zildjian singlehandedly grew Sabian into the 2nd
largest cymbal company in the world … only placing behind his
family’s business, which he helped run for years.

Basically, if you’ve ever played the drums … or know someone who has
… or have ever seen a live band perform … there’s a damn good
chance you’ve heard Robert’s work.

R.I.P.

From: Baghdasarian