იქ, სადღაც

ყოველთვის მეზარებოდა ჩემოდნის ჩალაგება. გამონაკლისი არც ეს დღე იყო. დანი(სნულების ადგილზე ათჳს ნახევარზე უნდა ვყოფილიყავი, ამიტომ მაღვიძარა რვა საათზე დავაყენე. ერთ სააათში ჩემი ვარდისფერი სამგზავრო ჩნთა, რომელიც უმოწყალოდ გამომეტენა გამოუდეგარი სამოსით, გამგზავრების მოლოდინშჳ უკვე კართნ იყო აყუდებული. ახლა ცვენ მხოლოდ ქეცბოს ზარს ველოდებით და ისიც.

ერთმანეთს ყოველდღე ვხედავთ, თჲმცა დღეს სულ სხვა საქმეა. ალბათ პირველად ხდება, როცაჩნთებში არც ერთ ჩვენთაგანს უგდია ან ნაგლეჯი ფურცელი ანდაც მოპარული კალამი. ხოოდა თუკი ვინმეს ერთიც და მეორეც საგულდაგულოდ წამოუღია- წინდახედულადაც მოქცეულა. აბა უხერხულია, ყოცელთვის ბარმენს ხომ ვერ ვეთხოვებით ფურცელს და“ პასტას“ კოკრის თამაშის სურვილით შეპყრობილები.

გზამ თავისი გაიტანა. ყველა მოგვთენთა. ამიტომ მგზავრები, რომელთა უმეტესობასაც მე და ჩემი მეგობრები წარმოვადგენთ, ახლა ან მძღოლის მიერ შერჩეული „ზბორნიკით“ „ტკბებიან“, ან ძინავთ, უკეთეს შემთხვევაში კი საკუთრ ფლეიერებში ვუსმენთ სიმღერებს. 5 საათ ნახევარიც გავიდა და ეს ხუთ საათ ნახევარი უკვე უმნიშვნელო მოგონებადაც იქცა. კიდევ ნახევარი საათიც და ახლა თჳთჲეული ჩვენთაგანი უკვე საკუთრ ნომრებში ვართ. იწყება..

აქ ყოველი დღე ისე ჰგავს ერთმანეთს, რომ რომ არა ერთი უცნაური საღამო, ალბათ განსაკუთრებული არც არაფერი დამამახსოვრდებოდა. თუმცა, მაგ საღამომდე ჯერ კიდევ 5 დღეა წინ. ამიტომ შევეცდები ყველაფერი ქრონოლოგიურად აღვწერო. ლაკონური ვიქნები და ამ ხუთ დღეს ზუსტად ხუთ წინადადებაში მოვყვები.( საბაბია ლაკონურობა, თირე აბა მეტს რა მოიგონებს ახლა).

1.დილით ათჳს ნახევარზე ვიღვიძებთ და ათზე უკვე სასადილოში ვართ.

2. ვსაუზმობთ, შემდეგ „ვზაგრაობთ“, მერე ვსადილობთ, შემდეგ ისევ „ ვზაგრაობთ“ და ვახშმის დროც მოდის.

3. ამასობაში 9 სათიც ხდება, ნახევარი საათჳთ ავდივართ ნომრებში, მერე ისევ ჩმოვდივართ და ვერთობით.

4.გართობის ალტერნატივებია: სეირნობა, ბუნგალო, ბარში ჯოკრის თამაში, შემდეგ დალევა და აგერ ბექაც უბრახუნებს საცოცავ გიტარას გამწარებული. ( ამ დროს ნუცა სავარაუდიდ ისევ აუზში ცურავს, ან კიდევ საუნაში ლღვება ჩაძინებული).

5. ეს ყველაფერი კი 5 დღე მეორდება. დადგა მეექვსე დღეც.

ნათია- ნუცა(მოძრაობს)-ქეთი-ქეცბო-დოლა-თკო-ქობულა-მე-რუსკა.. თუ არ ვცდები ზუსთდ ამ თანმივდევრობით ვართ ძღვის პირას ყველანი ერთდ. მოწყენილობისგან ვკვდებით, ამიტომ ვთანხმდებით, რომ თამაში ყველას გაგვახალისებს. და აი, ქობულაც წინადადებით: ერთმანეთი დავახასიათოთო. ეს ე.წ. თამაში სხვა დროს სხვა „სასტავშიც“ ვითამაშე. მაშჳნ ვითომ გართჴბა ურთიერთდაპირისპირებაში გადაიზარდა, ამიტომ ახლა ვცდილობ ჯერ კიდევ მეგობრებს ( ყველას რომ ერთმანეთი გვიყვარს) გადავაფიქრებინო ეს თამაში. თჲმცა რად გინდა- ის მაინც შედგა!

დავიძაბეთ..

ყველა ერთად ვთნხმდებით, რომ არ ვიქნებით სუბიექტურები და შევინარჩუნებთ ჩვენს „საყვარელ“ ობიექტურიბას.( აქ დავფიქრდი ბოლო ორი სიტყვიდან რომელი ჩამესვა ბრჭყალებში.. აქაც დავკარგე ობიექტურობა). მაგრამ ძალიან გამკვირვებია, თუკი ვინმეს ჯერავს, რომ აქ ვინმემ რაიმე არასუბიექტური მოსაზრება წარმოთქვა.

გველი; „სწერვა“; ეგოისტი; დაბნეული ბოროტი; კეთილი აფერისტი; მიზანდასახული მელია; ჭირვეული ბავშვი; ფეთქებადი სიმართლისმოყვარული; ოოოო გეშინოდეთ-ის ყველას ეჭვის თვალით უყურებს და რენდგენის სიზუსტით ააშკარავებს; ვითჴმ წყნარი და სინამდვილეშჳ კაი ოხერი- ხანდახან „შუტკებსაც ქე რო მოარტყავს ხოლმე; აქ გაიგებდით კარიერისტსაც- კარგი გაგებით..

მოკლედ, დღეს ყველანი საოცრად გულახდილები ვართ. ისე, როგორც არასდროს. თჲმცა რათ გინდა- ხომ ვამბობდი ეს თამაში კარგად არ დასრულდებათქო..

ღამის 4 საათია. ემოციებით გადატვირთული მოთმაშეები ძალიან „ვჭედავთ“. თჲრმე ვიღცამ რაღცა არასწორად სთქვა. სხვა ვიღცამ კიდე სწორად ნათქვამი გაიგო არასწორად. აქ გაიგებთ სიტყვათშეთანხმებას: „ იცოდე წყობილებიდან არ გამომიყვანო“ და დაინახავთ ერთის გაშლილ ხელს მეორის სახის მიმართულებით. აქ ზოგი სიტუაციით ვხალისობთ, ზოგს კი ეს სიტუაცია საერთოად არ ეჩვენება სახალისოდ.

ეს ხომ მეექვსე დღეა, ანუ მეხუთე დღის ღმე- ხოდა ამის შემდეგ „იქ სადღაც“ კიდევ ორი დღე ვიყავით ერთდ. რომ არა ქობულას „გენიალური“ თამაშჳს იდეა, ალბათ, ეს ორი დღე წინა დღეებივით შეუმჩნევლად ჩივლიდა. დილით, შუადღეს, საღმოს, ღამით, ჭამის, ცურვის, „ზაგრაობის“, თჲ კარტის თმაშის დროს- ახლაყველა იმ „ საბედისწერო“ ღამის ამბებზე ვბჭობთ და ცოტა არ იყოს და ბევრიც ნუ მომივა და უკვე მაგრად მოგვბეზრდა ერთმანეთი.

ახლა 19 სექტემბერია. შუადღეს 5 წუთი გადასცდა. „იქ სადღაც“ ყოფნას კი-მთელი 19 დღე. და ვხვდები, რომ „ჭირვეული ბავშვი“ დღეს უკვე აღარაა ისეთი, როგორიც იყო. ვხვდები, რომ „ მიზანდასახული მელია“ ახლა უფრო ფრთხილი გამხდარა მეგობრებთან. ის „წყნარი და სინამდვილეში კი- კაი ოხერი აფერისტკა“ კი -ისევ ისე ვხუმრობ ხანდახან.

Decision

Everybody makes mistakes. But the point is to have the feeling of regret.
When I was thirteen, I was quit level-headed child. But I was absolutely confused and nervous when Mr.David the cruel director of my school came into class and announced my name . I stood up..He said I did a big mistake and I should have to leave school at once. Explained that I shouldn’t write my name on the wall.
Actually, that wall was full of other children names. So what made him so angry was that my name was written with a huge letters. Oops, that was presumably a big problem. But I said I didn’t wrote my name there and I had no clue what was he talking about.
I thought he would burst with his anger. He stared my teacher. She whispered something. Director asked me again: so you really didn’t write your name there. Did you? I answered I didn’t. His eyes were wide and angry.
Suddenly my classmate George was standing in front of this man. Everything was clear for director. This boy loved me and so he wrote my name there. George apologized but the director didn’t accept it. Mr.david said he should leave school immediately. He called his parents. Meeting was arranged in an hour. .
Soon the bell rang, I ran home. Without saying any word to my parents, I went to my room and shut the door.
Next day I went to the school as usual. I didn’t expect to see George, but he was there. Said that his parents solved the problem.
The truth is that I wrote my name on the wall, not George.

Place that means something to me

Near my house, stands a little home with a large balcony. Every time I see this house sweet childhood memories come to me. I remember how I and my friends played silly games on the large and balcony of this house. We were so happy and proud of ourselves then.
That happened more than 15 years ago, but I still remember everything like the things that happened yesterday. My friends Ani and Pato lived in this house. Their parents didn’t let them go out so my neighbors and I used to visit and play there every day. This place was like our ,,little home”. The balcony was always full of useless things. Our toys looked poor thrown ownerless. In one corner of our little home stood red round table fasten in the floor with chairs around it. On the other corner was a basket and we played basketball there. We had a little stage too. We constructed it with chairs whenever we needed it.
The thing which I will never forget is how we made concerts there. We were so organized. Some of us made tickets from paper and others distributed them among our adult neighbors. We changed them on candies. Then my friends and I danced and sang different songs as well as we could. We used to play ,, mother and son” , ,, hide-and-seek”,,, the seller of ice-cream” and kind of other plays there. So this balcony was real ,,estate” for us.
Sometimes even close friends become strangers. This happened with us. My friends’ parents sold that house and we lost contact. But I am sure Ani and Pato also remember that time.
Now, whenever I walk along this house good feelings surrounds me. Though it is absolutely changed and has nothing common with the old balcony , it is still the place which wakes childhood memories in me.

what does the caloric value of natural gas means

 According to the regulation by the Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission, Natural gas or gas- is a type of hydrocarbons in a gaseous condition. Discussions about the caloric value of natural gas became frequent recently in Georgia. Some people are hesitating weather the caloric value of gas is about the standard or not. They claim that instead of the Natural gas, they are given an associated gas, which has less calorific value than the ordinary natural gas.  
Lela kuprashvili is living in Tbilisi. She is one of the citizens, who protest against the quality and price of natural gas. 
“I pay 0.51 GEL for each MG gas and this is not a little money. For this price gas must have more caloricity then it has now. It makes much more time to boil one liter water now then in the previous years. I see this problem especially in winter, when the gas worming equipment doesn’t produce heat enough, even when it is set on the high level. Simultaneously, gas counter counts a lot and the gas bills in winter are huge.” Kuprashvili says. As she asserts, there is a general view among the people, that the gas is either polluted with some unknown substances, or it is a low quality associated gas.
According to the Professor Tinatin Sakarashvili, There is difference between Natural and the associated gas. Associated is a gas which is extracted with oil and it may contain different not burning gases: nitrogen, carbon dioxide. Different is natural gas, which people use at home for heat and for cooking. It is liquid propane and butane. This gas is compressed but it has the same quality and caloricity.
“Normally Natural gas is blue, but if a gas which people use enclosures the red color, it means that it is polluted with the unstable airs like nitrogen and Carbon dioxide”- says Andguladze Mzia, Georgian Technical University professor. “More hydrocarbons have gas, more caloric value has it and on the contrary. It means, that CH4 is less caloric than C2H6”- She says.
Expert in Energy Gia Xuxashvili neither confirms that gas quality is law, nor rejects it.
 “I cannot say in a one hand, that the gas, which Georgia imports, is bad. There must be special research centers, which have to check the quality of the natural gas all the time. Only thing, I can say surely, is that the price of the natural gas is not realistic and it must be reduced.
Unlikely to Gia Xuxashvili, Giorgi Abulashvili- Director of Energy efficiency Centre is more decided in this issue. 
“As I know the caloric value of Azerbaijan gas imported in Georgia has to have 9000- 9300 MGCV, But there is no system in Georgia, even the Ministry of Energy of Georgia does not make a suitable verification of it”- Abulashvili says.
Indeed, it turns out, that The Ministry of Energy of Georgia is not responsible for this issue. Nino Kikacheishvili, the advisor of the Minister of Energy of Georgia claims, that the ministry has not duty to control the caloric value of gas.
 “We do not take part in this issue. This is a matter of the companies which are involved in gas imports and trade in Georgia. Also it controls Georgia’s Oil and Gas Corporation. What about the prices, we do not interfere in it either” Kikacheishvili says.
 Oil and Gas Corporation energy expert Temur Gochitashvili denies all the complaints about the law caloric value of gas and he says these complaints are a big misunderstanding. As he says, good quality of natural gas is in their company’s interest in the first place and they will not allow the importers to deceive Georgian consumers of the natural gas.
“Discussions about the law caloricity of imported gas are absurd. We have different sources of gas: Russia, Azerbaijan and 8 domestic points, from where we take it. Each of them has different caloricity value, but none of them is under the standard. “-says Gochitashvili.  
As expert explains, an associated gas contains heavy hydrocarbons and methane, which are burning gases and have high caloric value, so if the associated gas were delivered through the pipelines in peoples gas stoves, it would have only the good effect on the quality of gas.
Georgian Gas transportation Company- The subsidiary company of Oil and Gas Corporation also confirms this information. Gogi Tarxnishvili- analyst from the company says that the Natural gas has good quality enough to be delivered to people’s homes and talks about the gas quality control laboratory in Georgia.
“There is a special laboratory in Georgia, which gives us possibility to verify the quality of gas. Each day our specialists take the tests from the “Red Bridge” and from each point of Georgia, where the natural gas comes from. We are making the full control of the caloricity of the Natural gas. The equipment of the laboratory is latest and the modern. It is brought over here from America. -Tarxnishvili says.
According to the expert in energy and Tbilisi Mayor Candidate on the election in May 30th 2010, under the treaty of the Baku- Tbilisi- Erzurum pipeline, gas supplied by the Azerbaijan consortium must be 8500MGCV. With this energy, housewife can boil one litre water in ten seconds. As Chanturia claims, nowadays the caloric value of Azerbaijan gas is only 6000 MGCV that gives a housewife possibility to boil same amount of water only in 15 minutes.
Gia Chanturia says that usually procuring gas has law caloricity at the first time, but after some period its caloricity becomes more and more quality. He explains Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline agreement and says, that proceeding to the following fact, each year, 8500 MGCV gas must be grown by 1.5% from the 2011 year. With this figures, 1litre water will be able to be boiled in 5 minutes.
In developed countries, natural gas price is calculating based on kw/h it can produce instead of per cubic meters. This means people pay money according how much kw/h they get from each cubic meter of natural gas. As in the Ministry of Energy of Georgia states, Georgia is not going to move to this system of calculating gas price in the near future. System change needs lots of expenses, which country does not have. 
Nowadays Georgia uses 1miliard 200million cubic meter of natural gas a year. Its price for the inhabitant costs 0.51GEL per cubic meter, while it is 0.70 GEL for the industrial consumers According to the official statistics, 62-85% of the family income goes to the different communal taxes. 
So, while hydrocarbon fossil fuels represent the main energy resource, and while the calculating of gas price is based on cubic meter in the country, its caloricity value and price will be important and controversial for each taxpayer in Georgia.

Don’t Expel Us - Autism

One, two, three, Four... hardly counted the numbers 5 years old Dato for himself, but as soon as he recognized that his parents where looking at him, Dato stopped counting at once and concealed himself in the corner of the room, as if he wanted to be invisible from them.
Dato was 3 years old when the neurologist Gia Natriashvili diagnosed him Autism. He said that little boy had serious developmental disability. 
“Still that time I started to treat Dato more tenderly not to damage his psychic. Now I and his Father are trying to follow his wishes all the time” Says Tea Manjgaladze, mother of the child. 
According t mother, Dato was always capricious and nervous child; he could not socialize with different environment and preferred to seclude himself from others. Even he never tried to hug with her by his own initiative. But parents never thought of autism, so did doctors at first. 
“Diagnose for Dato’s disease become challenge for doctors. Only after one year of ineffectual treatment, doctors came up with the correct diagnosis. I wish they could diagnose it earlier. But I see autism people don’t care government, I just want to say: “Don’t expel us” Says Manjgaladze.
According to Qetevan Abdushelishvili, psychiatrist, mental health head instructor at Iashvili Clinic, there is a lack of adequate treatment and management for the prevention of this disease in Georgia.
”At Iashvili clinic we use diagnostic questioner ADI-R and ADOS, which contains 89 questions about children’s habits that makes possible to diagnose the disease. But this technique is used only in certain clinics; most polyclinics do not use this methodology. Says Abdushelishvili.
 Pediatrician Maia Kherkheulidze talks about the ineffective management of the prevention of autism in Georgia. She says that there is a lack of guidelines and the resources for this disease, like diagnostic methods, rehabilitation centers, parents training or intervention services in Georgia. 
“Every baby from 2 month takes special diagnostic service in polyclinics in developed countries, while we have not such services and can’t discover the disease until 18 month child.” Says Kherkheulidze.

 Lika Tushishvili -Psychotherapist maintains that child ill with autism must have special care, and the parents need special trainings to learn how to relate with their

children.

 

“In US and Europe there are special funds for such families, so they are able to take the long term psychological treatment. For example in US there is 3 to 5 million dollars fund of services throughout the lifetime of child with autism. But we don’t have any analog situation here, more if parents want to take a psychologist, they must pay 25 lari in an hour, which most of families can’t effort- she says. 
The exact reason of the appearance of this disease is not asserted yet. It may caused while the pregnancy period. 
“Autism is a disease which has not exact reason to exist. Also this is psychiatrist problem and it can’t be cured. One thing doctors can do is the adequate treatment and management of this problem- says Eka Tushishvili.
Concerning to this issue Georgian Association of Child Neurologists and neurosurgeons has made a project screening and diagnose methods of Autism. Project was granted by Open Society Georgia Foundation and GNSF in 2009 Juny17th. There was held trainings for doctors how to discover disease. Also they observed three region polyclinics in Tbilisi: Saburtalo, Digomi and Vake and set the results, that there is not any supportive service for children with autism there. 

Autism has become a worldwide problem. Approximately 17 percent of children have some type of developmental disability including autism. Experts estimate that every six child out of 1000 has autism. The biggest number of the disease has been discovered in Great Britain. According to the www.emedtv.com, one of the reliable web sites in Britain. 

 Autism signs and symptoms include difficulties with social interaction, problems with communication, and repetitive behaviors. A baby with symptoms may be unresponsive to people or focus intently on one item to the exclusion of others for long periods of time. Symptoms may include engaging in repetitive movements, such as rocking and twirling, or in self-abusive behavior, such as biting or head-banging.

 

People ill with autism can improve their abilities. Many of them have some special talents Famous musician Mozart had autism too.
 Autism was investigated and discovered by the professor Kaner after World War II. He asserted all the symptoms of this disease and named it as Autism, which comes from Greek Auto and means itself.

gypsy family in Tbilisi

Clothing-line was almost full of the cloth, but a gypsy or a Romani woman- barefooted and unwashed, was still swilling some clothes in a cold water flowing from the tap in the yard. Then she put them into the oozy dark grey plastic box and entered the house speaking something in her mother language in an anxious way. 
Though the surrounding houses where quite damaged and old, they still seemed to be a nice compared to the gypsy’s home. Partly wooden, partly iron plated and also cemented walls of gypsy house looked like a stumbling tree in a terrible storm. Without a floor and with a holed ceiling, the house was hosting sixteen member of a gypsy family in it.
16 years old Bela is one of the Romani family members, who speak in Georgian. She is going in a kind of educational centre and learns Georgian reading and writing there.
“My family came from Azerbaijan to Georgia 20 years ago. We like being here and are not going to move from Georgia. ”-Bella says. As she says, her family has lead a beggarly life all time along and this is how they keep their family in Georgia. 
“Sometimes people treat us roughly and impolitely, they don’t like that we beg, but mostly we are not discriminated from Georgians, even we have good relationship with neighbor Georgian families”-She says.
In the sixteen member gypsy family, some of them are couples, sisters and brothers, uncles and aunts.
A 12 years old gypsy boy, playing with a little, nice but a dirty baby with a Georgian name Vaxo says: I am not begging, because my father works, he is fixing cars.
None of gypsy men begs in Georgia and the situation is same with this particular family. Vaxo’s and Bella’s relative men don’t beg, some of them gather scrap-iron and buy, other fix cars.
None of the gypsies have a passport or any kind of identification card. They have no financial support from the Georgian government, no pensions, and no discounts. Because of a lack of money, mostly gypsy women give birth to a child in a home, without doctor’s help. Though if they have money, they are not against by the doctors and visit hospitals with no obstacles, according to Bela.
An aunt of Vaxo a 35 years old Romani woman, with an infant, wrapped up on her back says that there have never been journalist talking with their family and none of their acquaintances have ever had touch with them.
“ journalist doesn’t interested in our life in Georgia, maybe they had covered our history and life style article, but me and my friend gypsies have never been asked for interview by them”- this gypsy woman says.
Gypsy people are also known as a Romani people. Wikipedia says that “they are an ethnic group living mostly in Europe, who traces their origins to medieval India. The Romani are widely dispersed with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe and Anatolia, followed by the Iberian Kale in Southwestern Europe and Southern France, with more recent Diaspora populations in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, in other parts of the world. Romani language is divided into several dialects and mixed languages”. 

Coming Soon: Center of Contemporary Art -Tbilisi

Everything started in Bucharest, on a big conference. It was 2007 then. Seeing amazing Cultural exhibitions and centers in Europe, Artist Vato Tsereteli got inspiration to found alike Center of Contemporary Art in Tbilisi.   Building near river Mtkvari where                                                      the center of   contemporary                                                          art will be situated     

After six month 27 Georgian Artists had exhibition near Amsterdam. There were presented big companies too. Though Vato’s desire was deeper and superior at that time, he had no finances to implement it himself. So he talked to PR manager of TBC Group there and soon it came out that he had already have a foundation on which Vato could built his dream Cultural Center soon.

“I believe in private initiatives, in step by step projects. With my 10 years experience in organizing the cultural events, I am sure Center of Contemporary Art in Tbilisi will justify my hopes and it will definitely serve the aim for what it is building now”- Vato says.
TBC group approved the idea of Art Center. They gave two floors building to Vato and therefore Tsereteli started to found different sources from different countries to bring grants for his project and he did bring. The highest finance he has got now is 10 thousand Euros, which Vato got from Swiss development Agency.
Library, cinema screening place, Three Exhibition and three class rooms, reception, resting and bath rooms. In two floors building which is under thorough repairs now will serve students of different age and education to develop their personal skills and initiatives in contemporary art soon.
“We believe it is of crucial importance to have an independent and open institution, which will work on the development of contemporary visual culture and help artists to effectively address their creative products to local and international audiences” says Tsereteli.
As The Artist explains, Georgia cultural education is behind the east and west culture of middle ages. Even Tbilisi Art Academy does not teach the students the values of contemporary art, which means private ideas and initiatives realization in free and independent art life.
Video Art, Photography, Painting and sound Art. 9 month courses in these spheres of Art will start from October. Teachers from local and foreign countries will introduce to students their knowledge and experience. Each month will cost 350GEL and in return of diploma, graduated students of Center of Contemporary art will gain exhibition and concept based realized private ideas.

Tbilisi's new pedestrian bridges

Pedestrian Bridge standing on the crossing of Vaja pshavela and Gamsaxurdia Avenue on Saburtalo.Bridge is metal and contains 40 step leader up and and 40 step leader down. It was constructed in he end of 2009.

Two young school pupils with well packed knapsacks on their little backs ran across the iron bridge over Gamsakhurdia Avenue recently, and followed the steps down laughing in loud voices.

“Happy kids, they don’t know how strict life is yet, I wish I were a little girl too,” mumbled an old woman watching as the little girls swept by merrily.
She looked up to the bridge and whispered something. Then she moved on the road slowly to the red sign of stoplight. Resting upon the crutch with her right hand and holding a little bag with some medicines in it on the other hand, old women slowly pulled herself up the metal stairs and crossed the street at last.
Crossing the busy, chaotic streets of Tbilisi is no easy challenge, as nearly 4,500 people were injured and 667 died while crossing street during the last three years. Recent surveys show that only 55 percent of 1,500 respondents say that they follow road rules. The other 45 percent just ignore them, according to research conducted by the Association of Safe Driving in 2010 January.
To reduce the number of traffic-pedestrian accidents, Tbilisi City Hall built 20 bridges in different regions of the city in 2009, and plans to build another 20 by the end of 2010. Each pedestrian bridge costs 100 000- 150 000 lari and the light signals will be removed. Starting in 2011, government transportation officials say they are going to install lifts to bring elderly and disabled people up the stairs more easily, but they don’t have a concrete budget yet, or a construction start date.
“We see this problem is one of the most painful issues for Tbilisi inhabitants. That’s the reason why did we start building these bridges. Each of them is done in order to ensure the safe transportation of the people on the streets,” says Akaki Joxadze, the head of the Transport Municipal Department.

The bridges have met with mixed results residents, according to an informal poll conducted in February. On a recent day in front of the bridge standing on the crossing of Vaja Pshavela and Gamsaxurdia Avenue in Saburtalo, 120 respondents were asked if they liked the new bridges. The majority, 50%, said that they liked the bridges, 30% said they disliked them and 20% answered they didn’t care.

Same bridge with another view. There is iron veneer in the end of 10 metre long pedestrian bridge, which covers the window of the flat, where people live.

Those who like the bridges say that this is the best way for safe crossing the streets and they appreciate it.

In general and not surprisingly, the vast number of people who did like the bridges were under the age of 30.
“I use bridges frequently and I guess it is very nice job done for people,”-says Bella Beradze, a 26-year-old medical student.
But the older respondents got, the more they were likely to complain about the bridges – probably because it’s difficult for them to climb up and down the metal steps, such as the Gamsakhudia Bridge, which has 40 steps up and 40 steps down.
Middle aged respondents were less likely to care, but more likely to question whether building bridges was the most important spending priority for the city government.
“Bridges can’t fill in my empty stomach. Authority should think about our vital interests, rather than wasting money in unnecessary things,” says Manana Dumbadze, a 56-year-old woman. She thinks that government should spent money on making new job places, rather than building pedestrian bridges.
Some opposition members claim the bridges are simply visual public relations for the upcoming direct mayor’s election on May 30, and don’t address the real problems.
“Main obligation of Tbilisi City hall is to provide researches about the most vivid issue for the citizens. They must have discussions with NGO-s, experts and after all assert the project, these rules are just ignored -“says Petre Mamradze, president of the Just for Georgia political party.
One of the oppositional political parties, which entered the parliament after the parliamentary elections,-Christian Democrats contends that though the rate of car accidents was high, making so many bridges was “just absurd.”
“I see some of bridges stand on strategic places and I appreciate it, but most of them are constructed in a wrong way, where there aren’t needed,” says Giorgi Axvlediani- member of the political party. “Ninety nine percent of this project is simply P.R. They want us to look like the European Countries, but forget to solve the real problem- unemployment,” Axvlediani says.
Governmental side doesn’t agree with oppositional parties, contending the bridges have saved lives.
According to the Tbilisi Police statistics conducted in 2010, the number of car accidents has decreased by 30% during 2009 in comparison with the last three years, says police officer Guja Gviniashvili.
“We made big changes in a little time. I’m certain, that people will get used to and be satisfied with the bridges,” he says

My profile by Katie tutberidze

When Tako was a little girl, she longed to be a professional journalist. She was fascinated with this job for the colored and lovely microphone the journalist held in her hand. But when she grew older and guessed that journalism isn’t only the big and lovely microphone, covered with a yellow or orange pattern, she was disappointed a little bit. Still, she has chosen this job and is enrolled at the GIPA journalism school.


She remembers two problems from her childhood. The first is that she couldn’t pronounce the letter “R” till thirteen. She did some exercises to improve her speech speaking rhymes and sayings until she could pronounce the symbols.

She also remembers her piano classes as the other problem of her childhood. For seven years her parents forced her, to play piano, but Tako didn’t like it. Maybe , this is the reason she doesn’t like classical music and always prefers to listen to alternative rock, like Coldplay, but sometimes she plays piano, when she’s alone.
Tako is keen on Japanese culture and her dream is to travel around this amazing country, wondering from small town to town, from Nagasaki to Tokyo.
“I’m fascinated with Japanese architecture, amazing bridges and Pagodas. And I’m definitely sure I’ll travel around this country someday“, – says Tako.

The biggest discovery in Georgia

The biggest discovery in Georgia. Ioseb Alaverdely grave has been found in Kakheti. 
After fifteen century from his death, Georgian archeologists has found Ioseb Alaverdeli grave in Alaverdi church.
Thirteen Assyrian holy fathers came in Georgia in VI century. They built churches in different parts of Georgia. They prayed for Christianity and for Georgians there. Ioseb Alaverdeli, One of the thirteen Assyrian holy fathers, prayed in Alaverdi chuch.
Georgian orthodox church is happy for founding Alaverdeli grave.

Swine Flue

According to the official data, approximately 400 people are ill with the swine flu in Georgia. Experts say that the disease will reach its peak in January. People are in Panic.
40 years old Manana Dumbadze has flu and high temperature for more that one week. She has heavy heath condition, though Dumbadze doesn’t visit the doctor, because she is afraid that doctors will diagnose her Swine Flu. 
National Centre for Disease Control and Public Heaths reports that every heavy flu is identified as Swine Flue and needs accurate treatment.
 ,, according to the official facts, about 400 people are ill with Swine Flu, but we expect three times more ill people, who has not registered in our system’’-says Shota Caava- Main assistant of the National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health.
Georgian Ministry of Health reports , that they have enough vaccines and are ready to cure this disease.
Situation is too much alarming in Gali. People has no vaccines and are in a big trouble. 
Georgian Health Ministry is going to solute this problem. They are going to send the vaccines to Gali soon.
Swine flu is the second pandemic disease after Chicken flue, which was spread all over the world last year. Nowadays the whole world stands in front of this problem. World Health Organization sends vaccines and veils to the countries , which need support. 
Swine flu spread in Ukraine a month ago. thousands of people were ill with this disease and many people were died too.
There are not any accident of the death by Swine Flu in Georgia. Though four patients, ill with this flue, have especially heavy health condition.
Georgian Ministry of Health advice people to wear veil and to visit doctors as soon as they appear to have complicated flu.


    

Europe is more then you think

Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Age, individualistic culture, philosophy, humanism and rationalism under Aristotle, Socrates and Plato. History with Herodotus, Poems of Homer and science with Pythagoras, Euclid and Archimedes. Law, language, engineering, architecture and government. Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius- Welcome, this is Europe.
Nowadays Europe is considered to be the most powerful, rich and comely continent with its 27 European Union member states and largest economy on the world. It does correspond, But Europe is much more then they consider. Europe is its history, culture and Religion.
It has very long history of existence with it’s miscarry and triumph, Dark Ages and Classical antiquity periods. Europe has entered a long period of change arising from what historians call the "Age of Migrations.’’ There were numerous invasions and migrations amongst the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Goths, Vandals, Huns, Franks, Angles, Saxons, and, later still, the Vikings and Normans and this is not all. Middle Ages were full of mortality. There were incursions by nomadic Turkic tribes, by the Mongols, Tatars. The period between 1348 and 1420 witnessed the heaviest loss by the famine. In the mid-14th century Europe was devastated by the Black Death, one of the most deadly pandemics in human history which killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe alone — a third of the European population at the time.
But Europe survived and between the 14th and 16th centuries The Renaissance spread across the continent. This was the time of Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci – Age of Discovery. A period of exploration, invention, and scientific development, when Europe has had a major influence in culture, economics and social movements in the world.
In 18th century Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain and spread throughout Europe. The invention and implementation of new technologies resulted in rapid urban growth, mass employment, and the rise of a new working class. Europe’s population doubled during the 18th century and doubled again during the 19th century.
Period of big mortality come back to Europe again in 20th century during two World Wars. Death, Economical and social instability dominated in Europe. After World War II the map of Europe was redrawn at the Yalta Conference and divided into two blocs, the Western countries and the communist Eastern bloc. The United States and Western Europe established the NATO alliance and later the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe established the Warsaw Pact. In 1967 European Economic Community, European Coal and Steel Community and EURATOM formed the European Community, which in 1993 became the European Union. The EU established a parliament, court and central bank and introduced the euro as a unified currency.
Follow to foresaid, Europe has very big history of wars and peace and it is rich with its cultural inheritance, which will never die. Europe is rich with its sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, music, and cinema...


Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, and Vivaldi, Luciano Pavarott, Ancient Greece and Roman Architecture. Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Beaux-Arts , Expressionist architecture, Homer, Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Voltaire, Agatha Christie, Anne Frank- This is the Culture of Europe, without what It couldn’t exist.
Religion took important part in the formation of Europe. Christianity shaped up European culture at least last 1700 years. Religion has been always dominant in peoples trust.
 Nowadays Europe is not as unanimous as it had been, but still the most popular religion in Europe is Christianity with its branches: Roman Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodox Christianity. However, there are Millions of Europeans, who profess no religion or are atheist or agnostic.
XXI century Europe is absolutely formed continent. It has normal situation in demography as well as economically. In 2009 the population of Europe was estimated to be 830.4 million according to the United Nations which was slightly more than 12% of world population. Besides, Europe is home to the highest number of migrants, while 400,000 people emigrated from the UK for a year or more.
Nowadays 27 European Union member states are highly integrated economically and politically. As a continent, the economy of Europe is currently the largest on earth. Most of European countries are rich, though some of the eastern countries economies are still escaping of the ruins of Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.

Alarming Number of Miscarriages in Georgia

According to the official statistics of Georgia number of miscarriages has increased during last three years. There were 2621 miscarriage occasions in 2006. This number increased by one hundred in 2007 and over 300 in 2008.

World Health Organization considers miscarriage, same as spontaneous abortion to be happening before 22 weeks of pregnancy . According to the http://www.uptodate.com/ , accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (cooperated with) about 10 to 20 percent of women in USA , who know they are pregnant, have a miscarriage some time before 20 weeks of pregnancy. 80 percent of these occur in the first 12 weeks. But the actual rate of the miscarriage is even higher. Many women have very early miscarriages without ever realizing that they are pregnant.

22 years old Tinatin Tujishvili had miscarriage when she was 5 weeks pregnant. She was poisoned by gas and that caused her miscarriage. She had high temperature for five days, then she went to the doctor, who said that embryo had died.

,, I remember that small, untidy room, where doctor Dodo Sigua made my spontaneous abortion, I looked for sympathy in the surgeon’s eyes, but they looked at me indifferently, ’’ Tujishvili said. As she reported, she got psychological stress and felt in deep sorrow. It happened two month ago. Tujishvili is taking medical treatment nowadays.
Miscarriage issue is discussed in the book,, Unfinished pregnancy and yearly childbirth-” edited by medicine doctor D. Sigua in 2008. According to this book, miscarriage in Georgia has become one of the biggest problems for obstetrics as well as for population of Georgia during recent years. The percentage of the unfinished pregnancy has considerably increased and by incomplete figures, it is 12-14 percent of all pregnancies.
,, this is the reason of ineffective treatment. There is not throughly studied etiology and pathogenesis of early pregnancy disorder , also there is no simple and effective methods of predicting miscarriage,’’ says the book.
Chachava Inatitute (Scientific Research Center of Prenatal Medicine and Obstetrics Gynecology) gynecological sector instructor- Paliko Kintraia talks about the reasons of miscarriage. He explains, that there are three main reasons of miscarriage in Georgia: social factors: stress, earthquake, revolution, economical problems, unemployment; Chemical and radiation environment; various diseases.
,, Most of XXI century Georgian women are too much stressed. This reflects on their fetus and it causes the miscarriage. Food is another problem, even vegetables are full of chemicals,” Kintraia says. He agrees that ineffective treatment is the most important issue nowadays. ,, But this is not the problem of Georgia only, it is the problem of the whole world, changes must be invented in order to get fast and qualitative treatment,’’- Kintaria says.
The World Health Report of 2008 also states: ,,Globalization is putting the social cohesion of many countries under stress, and health systems are clearly not performing as well as they could and as they should. People are increasingly impatient with the inability of health services. Few would disagree that health systems need to respond better – and faster – to the challenges of a changing world.’’
Increased miscarriages reflect on the demographic index. According to the official statistics made by Health Care in Georgia compared with the European countries in 2005, Georgia stands after Andorra according to the live births per 1,000 population.




Way out of of this problem is in the economical development in Georgia by Tamaz Kordzakhia , expert of the Ministry of Healthcare and director of the maternity home “Hera”. Kordzaxia talks about the miscarriages to the Human Rights Center in 2009.14th January. He thinks, that economical problems reflects on the women reproductive health condition and while this problem exists , miscarriage problem will be alarming in Georgia.
As it is written in the book ,, Unfinished pregnancy and yearly childbirth’’ solution of the miscarriages must be found in reorganizing treatment methods, which will ensure accessible, gradational, expertly helping of the pregnant women.

Statistics of spontaneous abortion
Year Total number of abortion Spontaneous abortion
2006 21204 2621
2007 20642 2767
2008 22062 2958

Graduate Record Examinations

National Examination Centre will publish the list of students, who obtained finance in Master’s degree in a week. The results had to be published earlier, but it didn’t. Students are waiting and confused.

Tbilisi State University administration official, Zviad Muradashvili said, that university started studying students in Master’s degree, Though they don’t know the results of financing. One of the student Natia beridze also reported: ,,I am confused, I have already started my study, but if it comes up, that I am not financed, I’ll have to call off my study. I wish the results published soon.”


Tbilisi Technical Institute also started studying students in Master’s Degree. But they demanded students to pay the tax beforehead. So, after the results publishes, the administration of the Institute will refund money to the students who will get finance.

Merab Topuria, the superior of logistic group on National Examination centre reported, that publishing results delayed because of some unexpected problems appeared in the system.
,, Main cause of this problem is that specialization exams conducted delayed in some institutes, So they send us the facts later, also there are 122 students, who has registered in different Institutes and we need to know Where do they want to enter the Master’s degree program. 85 of them came and chose the institute, we are waiting other 37 student. If they don’t inform their decision until the end of this day, we are going to exclude them from the list,’’ Topuria said.

Government has decided financing students in Master’s Degree in 2009. They have emitted two million GEL for the program this year. Five thousand people have taken part in the competition. They took exams in General Skills and in Specialization exams. Students will get place in Master’s Degree defend on their score in specialization exams. They get finance according competitive score in General Skills. Financing has three steps gradation.
First: the rating. 10 percent of 2 million GEL (200 000 GEL) will finance students whose rating in the list are the highest. Second: 11 Directions of Specialty. 40percent of 2 million GEL goes on them. Third: Priorities. 50 percent of total amount will send on them. There are 11 directions, but only 9 are priorites: Humanitarian, Juridical, Natural sciences, pedagogical, Engineering .. Jurispodence and Business will not be take this additional finance.
,,We have too much professionals in Jurispondence and Business, that’s why we financed other directions to bring more students there,“ Topuria said.

forth form infected with virtual meningitis in Georgia

According to the Rustavi2 News pupil of the fourth form at the #147 public school in Tbilisi has been hospitalized with the diagnosis of viral meningitis. At the moment patient is being treated in the Tbilisi Clinic of Infection Diseases and his health state is stable now.
Due to the fact of infection, classes have been disrupted at the school.
This accident has been broadcasting by other New agancies in Georgia.

too much traffic jams in Tbilisi streets

Every day on my way to the Insitute, I see streets full of cars. Especially streets are crowded in rhe mornings. Auto Radio become very popular among sitizens recently as it broadcasts which ways are crowded and which are not. However, drivers can't decide which road to chose to move, as usually Radio says that all the streets are overcrowded by cars.
though, Tbilisi road department has made some changes in street moving regulations, it is more hard to move along without traffic jams.
This situation is boring. I widh it finished soon.

Four Georgian detained teenagers are not reliased yet

According to Rustavi2 News, Georgian side demands inconditional reliase of four Georgian teenagers detained by representatives of the South Ossetian marionette regime. The Georgian side calls on the international organizations for an adequate response.
Imedi News also broadcasted this accident. ,,Giorgi Romelashvili, 14, Aleko Sabadze, 16 Victor Buchukuri, 16 and Levan Khmiadashvili, 17, were lost from nearby territories of the village of Tirdznisi in the afternoon-'' Imedi broadcasts.Nowadays Georgian side has not exact information where are the detained pupils now, though They think Georgian teenagers are in Tskhinvali. Other details are obscure.

Number of divorce is increased in Georgia

Why do the wife and husband divorce so freguently? what may the reasons of it? This issue troubles me a lot. Unfortunatelly, many families divorce nowadays. MOst of them are young couples. It is asserted,that divorce has its basis in early age made marrige decision. It is the point. This people make families when they are not ready for it at all. the worth thing is that little babies become witnesses in parents conflict. They need to grow in health family atmosphere, but parents don't care it.
I wish youth made concerned decisions while taking such steps. Statistic is really alarming and regulation of this issue is absolutely requisite.

Jackal attacks people in Marneuli

Policnilic doctor was biten by jackal, while being in her consulting room. She was moved in hospital and is under doctors supervision.
People living in Marneuli are apprehensive about the accident. They say that it is not the first time when the jackal bites people. However, Marneuli government members intimate as if the jackals has never existed in the City before. This information has broadcasting by Imedi TV News. This fact was also reviewed by Rustavi2 News and different daily newspapers.

Yellow buses in Tbilisi

Yellow, long, with three doors and with a big split on the front window- this is the bus number 9. It moves people from Railway Station to Vake Park. This is usual municipal transport with big, transparent windows around it. Driver’s chair is situated in front, on the left side of the bus. Behind it, on the both sides of the bus, pear of chairs are arranged. In the end, four place chair is situated.
As soon as you enter the bus, grey box, with some buttons on it, takes your attention. This is the cash apparatus. People take tickets from it. There is one more cash box in the middle of bus too. On the bus stops, ticket controllers come in the bus and check tickets.
Bus is always overcrowded. There is no air to breath. Especially in summer. The worth thing that troubles people is, that the windows doesn’t open. ,, hey driver, stop packing bus with people,’’ passengers cry to driver all the time.