Dear All,

Attached please find the announcement for the upcoming ARPA panel discussion on “Modern Media and Communications: Getting The Right Message to the Armenians, Non-Armenians & Elected Officials “. It will be held on Thursday night, September 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm in the Merdinian Armenian Evangelical School in Sherman Oaks. Please attend if you are in the Los Angeles area. All ARPA Lectures are Free to the public. But, please support ARPA activities in Armenia and the USA by donating generously. Please send your tax deductible donations to the ARPA Institute Treasurer, Mr. H. A. DeMirjian, 13100 Addison, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. If you want to do an on-line transfer, please let us know and we will send you the ARPA Account information.
We will especially appreciate your help in our new initiatives of establishing a modern DNA Lab in Armenia and also our e-Archeology project, which entails establishment of databases to resent all the antiquities, museum articles and monuments in specially designed websites, with highly specialized software programs. The annual ARPA Invention Competition in Armenia has so far received 43 inventions in various fields. Our “Distance Learning Program” via satellite has helped numerous students and researchers in Armenia. If you were not able to attend the lecture on August 11 “Armenian Merchants of Isfahan and Dissemination of Art Between East and West”, you can view it on Youtube by clicking on the following link:
http://youtu.be/Em343cu3lzk
 If that did not work, copy the address and paste it in the address widow of your browser and hit return. Please forward this e-mail to all the youth organizations, university student unions and those who
you feel that might be interested and are in the LA area. Please attend if you are in the area.
You can indirectly contribute to ARPA by using  GOODSEARCH.COM
<http://goodsearch.com/> for your search engine (like you do when you search using GOOGLE), and select ARPA Institute as the charity of choice and search for ARPA a few searches a day, thus raising a few pennies a day. Go to Goodsearch, in the window where it asks for your favorite charity, please select ARPA Institute and make Goodsearch  as your default page. You can choose Goodsearch as your default internet page by clicking on Tools at the top of the page and on Internet Options, then change the internet address to Goodsearch.com Thank you for your support. You can also find good deals using GOODSHOP and if you buy anything on-line through GOODSEARCH by using its GOODSHOP and selecting ARPA as your charity, will earn several percent of your transactions.

Hagop Panossian, Ph.D.
ARPA President