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Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"tbilisi" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"Hello, I'm angel tuck and you're listening to tour stories on monocle 24. Brought to you by the team behind the urbanist, the show all about the cities we live in. With a sword in one hand and a bowl of wine in the other, the mother of Georgia represents her nation's dueling personalities at once weary of danger, while also offering a warm welcome to friends. But what does this monument say about the role of women in this post Soviet state? Sally Howard brings us this tour story. At the silver feat of the mother of kartli, a 20 meter aluminium statue that dominates the skyline of Tbilisi from solar lackey hill, a flower cellar curses tourists who attempt to photograph the spring hyacinth that decorate her stall. Nearby, a busker, a Ukrainian refugee, thrums out the strains of hogni, or Ukrainian ballad from 2013 that was a hit across the Caucasus back then, and which has since become one of the soundtracks of the Ukraine wall. Someday, wall will be over, it enjoins the listener, lyrically. Some days spring will come. If you hug me, if you hug me. Courtly data or the mother of Georgia is a symbol of nationhood and womanhood in this country at the crossroads of Asia and Europe. A fertile land buffeted by centuries of invaders that has been subsumed into tens of empires. Most recently the Soviet Union. In flowing dress, cartilage holds aloft a sword in her right hand, and a bowl of wine, the traditional social lubricant in this country where viticulture has thrived for 8000 years in her left hand. Load a QR code from her base and cart the data speaks to you from her rarefied perch. A mother of cards. Simple of the children national character. Yes, you want to imagining. I'm holding a sword against enemies. And in the other, I have a pool of wine for Friends. Once a tourist asked me, it's worth ever gone tired. I also sincerely yes. My hands are always tired, especially on the right one. Tamale bull bull ashibi, a Georgian feminist and tour guide, preferred the original mother, Georgia statue from 1958, although she predated Tamar's three decades on this contended soil. The first statue was wooden and she wore a headscarf and looked more like a traditional Georgian peasant 31 year old Tamara tells me. The aluminum encased mother Mark two arrived in 1966, when Georgian sculptor, el gujar amateur, was commissioned by the Soviet powers to refresh the city symbol. The result a statue the sculptor enigmatically named capital holds a head higher than the bode headed original, and she wears a regal crown, although her breasts are similarly bullet like, and her agriculturist arms are just as muscular. Just like the city she presides over, therefore, the mother of George is the terrain for a proxy war, between George and yearn for self rule, and the powers that have always laid claim to her. Earlier this month, protest broke out on the streets she surveys on the broad arterial thoroughfare rest of Ellie avenue and outside its neoclassical parliament building. The protests were against the enactment of a law that tries to suppress foreign businesses and charities who wish to operate in Georgia. Modeled on a similar law in Putin's Russia, the foreign agents law was introduced by a garbage filling, the Georgian prime minister and head of the right-wing Georgian dream party. He's widely seen as a puppet of Vladimir Putin, and he's believed to be in league with the Russian strongman's ambitions of keeping countries of the former Soviet bloc in Russia's orbit. Tamara attended the protests on a sunny march day, and it was full of families and placard toting young to gliese. This march, after three days and nights of protests, the Georgia dream party agreed to drop its foreign agents Bill, which is good news as far as Tamara's concerned for Georgia and its women. Many of the charities offering refuge to the one in four Georgian women who experienced domestic violence are multinational NGOs who would have been affected by the law, which reclassed them as agents of foreign influence. The mother of kartli presides over Tbilisi at a feminist crossroads. The young Georgians who have migrated from their nation in recent decades have struggled to re import liberal attitudes towards women's roles into a country where women perform 13 times more housework than men. Liberal TV journalist Kaka kintsurashvili recently caused a national storm with his campaign men cares, which depicted the former actress as smiling hands on dad. Looking after his infant son. For all of the images of muscular womanhood proposed by their mother of khaki. She still holds Tama notes that bowl of wine in one of those heavy hands. When Georgians raise our wine and make a toast these troubled days, we make a toast of victory and to peace Tomas says. As we buy a red wine ice cream from a street vendor a few steps from the statue, it's a favored tourist snack in this wine mad nation. I hope one day to mark continues, we will toast to a more modern future for Georgian women. Maybe a future in which we use our swords. But a future in which we are doing much more than just smiling and serving the wine. You've been listened to toll stories and monocle 24 production. Today's episode was written by Sally Howard and produced and edited by David Stevens. Remember to tune in on Thursday, for the full 30 minute edition of the urbanist. I'm Antarctica. Goodbye, and thank for listening city lovers..
Monocle 24: The Briefing
"tbilisi" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Briefing
"Long as Sweden and Finland are still outside of the NATO alliance. So it could well be as Katie said that after the war is over and when Finland and Sweden are in the NATO that this information is released. Kadri leak and Patrick berts are thank you both for joining us on monocle 24. You're listening to the briefing. His page Reynolds now with a quick look at the day's other news headlines. Thanks, Emma. The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group claims his forces have taken full control of the eastern part of the Ukrainian city of bakhmut, the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the yearlong war. If the claim is true, it would mean Russian forces control nearly half the city in their costly push to secure their first big victory in several months. 5 women denied abortions in Texas despite facing life threatening health risks have sued the state over its abortion ban. The center for reproductive justice said it is the first time pregnant women themselves have taken action against anti abortion laws passed across the U.S. since the Supreme Court removed constitutional protection for abortion rights last year. And European space officials have called for establishing a separate time zone on the moon. The European space agency said the effort is part of a larger project to create a complete communication and navigation system for the moon. Back to you Emma. Thank you very much indeed page. There have been violent protests in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. They were in response to parliament backing a new law which critics say could limit press freedom and civil society critics say it's reminiscent of a Russian law that's been used to crack down on dissent. Well, joining me to discuss it is a civic activist and director of Tbilisi pride, Georgie to baggie a very good afternoon to Georgie. Good afternoon to you. So just briefly summarize what is this new law? This is a new proposed bill by the Georgian government, which ruling Georgian dream party basically which is a copy of the Russian law. The foreign agents law, which basically targets civil society media and everyone who is getting foreign funds and as you can imagine in Georgia, this is rather wide range of group because pretty much within the pro western discourse of the country. A lot of NGOs and civil society has been being funded by the pro western institutions. And this is an attack basically to the Georgia city integration path. Georgian government is trying to take this to the off road and directly trying to capture the state. Which has been the reality for the past couple of weeks now since they started to actively promote this bill. And there has been very clear statements from the European Parliament from the U institutions that still is going to affect the Georgia integration path. But yet, Georgian government is disregarding all the recommendations from the west and plus disregarding the citizens who are protesting on the streets. So what has prompted the Georgian government to adopt this direction? I do believe my understanding is that this is the wider geopolitical matter. As you know, Russia is trying to take away Ukraine and there is a war going on there. The same day you're trying to do the same in Moldova and the very same tactics are used in Georgia as well. This is the state capture orchestrated by pro Russian forces. Because this is the reality for us. If you cry in government is fighting for their independence, we already have a collaboration is the government, which is pretty much cooperating with the Russian forces at the moment. That would surprise many. I would imagine, given the fact that Russia on the doorstep, UK recurring acting as a potent reminder of the threat from Moscow, what is what could pull Georgia back towards Moscow when the independence has been so hard fought for? Well, as Georgia as Ukraine and Moldova and a lot of Soviet republics, we all had 30 years of independence so far. But this is in danger. This is what is happening exactly in Ukraine. And in different forms, it's happening in a wider region as well. Russia claims that former Soviet republics are still under their interest and this is sabotaging democratically elected governments in different places like Ukraine and Moldova and in Georgia. They practically are sabotaging and integration and NATO integration is written in the constitution of Georgia and basically derailing from this. With this proposed bill. And this is as we can call a state capture or whatever name we can call it, but this is basically Russia trying to take away Georgia's democratic future. There are still checks and balances though the opposition of a clearly fighting this proposal and indeed opposition leaders were arrested yesterday. But we also have the Georgian president who said that the law, if it crosses her desk, will be vetoed. There is a strong chance that this won't go through, isn't there? There is a strong opposition to the bill and this farther to any potential dimension that I could imagine. I've never seen Georgians so united and that applies to any field basically from sports to politics to celebrities. Everyone is vocal about against this law and saying that you integration can not be questioned. And it's great that the president is also on the forefront of this, basically she is she promised that she will Vettel the bill. Even though Georgian dream has a constitutional majority and they can overrule the bill probably, but it prolongs the process itself. And it gives us a chance to put the pressure individually also on the MPs who have voted on the first time on people who are generally supporting this. And this protest is growing in the streets of felicity and I'm sure I'm still hopeful.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"tbilisi" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"It was really really my work with the government and all that ended in 2010, but a lot of people still did think, you know, for a long time afterwards that I might still be with the intelligence service. And it's like frustrating because it's like, no, I'm exposed. I'm open. I'm public. There's no way I could be with the intelligence service or anything. So some people kind of treat it like joining the mob. It's like once you're in, you're never out. But yeah, that did happen. People did continue to think I was with them, or some people who reached out to me afterwards were kind of worried. They're like, you know, was I being investigated when you came around and, you know, of course I couldn't really say if somebody was under investigation, I would just lie and say no. But the vast majority of people who asked me, they were not under investigation. And I'd always make the joke of, you know, you're not even worth spying on, you know? So I calmed down. The probably inevitable closing question which I'm sure people in your line of work do reflect on is when you reflect on that time and you measure what had to go into it versus the results that it occasioned. Do you feel like it was worth it? Yeah, absolutely. I do feel it was worth it. My motivation was the fact that Islam is against terrorism. The Quran is very clear. There's a verse chapter four verse one 35. You know, oh, you who believe stand firm for justice, even against the rich, the poor, your relatives, even yourselves. Incredibly, how the verse ends, and when you are called to give your testimony, give it truthfully. And if you swerve or withhold, then know that God is aware of what you have done. So I felt I had license to do so. These were people who were claiming my religion and were looking to kill people innocent people. So yes, there were stressful moments. There were moments where I questioned myself. You know, there was one incident where I was in the mosque, I was praying, and I had this conversation with God. I said, you know, God, like, what am I doing? You know, I mean, a mosque, I'm praying next to these guys who think I'm their brother and betraying them. And what kind of I was filled with as a response if I can kind of see it that way, or I did see it that way. I was just filled with this feeling of, no, you know, look at what they are up to. Look at what they want to bring upon society. So it's totally fine what you're doing. And this was done, you know, I mean, there have been Muslim covert patrols, even the second caliph of Islam. He conducted night patrols, you know, to quote expose the suspicious people. So this was something that was done even in the Islamic context, and I was just being too hard on myself. I think I was just, you know, I wanted to make sure, and I had to have these inner conversations with myself. Otherwise, I would have just been an unfeeling automaton and I'm not that. That was a former counter terrorism operative move in Sheik talking to Andrew Muller. The time here in London is 7 28, a quick summary now the latest headlines. The U.S. has taken the significant step towards banning the social media platform TikTok. The White House has backed a bill which would allow the American state to prevent certain foreign states from operating technological services. It comes amid growing distrust by the west towards the social network, which is Chinese. There have been violent protests in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, they're in response to parliament backing a new law which critics say could limit press freedom and civil society. The law would require any organization receiving more than 20% of its funding from overseas to register as foreign agents. Critics say it reminds them of a Russian law that's been used to crack down on dissent. New messages released as part of a defamation lawsuit against Fox News revealed that the company's chairman Rupert Murdoch said two of the network's hosts may be went too far in a coverage of voter fraud claims. The email is one among reams of new evidence unsealed as part of the lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems. And protesters in France say they will continue their national strike into a second day disrupting train services shutting schools and stopping fuel deliveries, unions are trying to stop the government from raising the retirement age. This is a globalist. Stay tuned. the
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"Even slow old me. I am so excited to join you guys this year. So we'll get into more details about what's going on with the 5 K let me hear a little bit more about you right before we start. Where are you right now and who is there with you? I'm in Guatemala City where it is pretty much always about 70° and sunny. Right now in the dry season, sometimes you get rained and the rainy season. Which is, it feels extra special as I watch these snowstorms and blizzards roll through the United States or at least where I'm from. And I'm here with my four kids and my in one dog that we picked up at our last post and my foreign service officer. And where was the last post, what countries have you lived in? So we've been in the foreign service we. My husband has been in the foreign service and I've been trailing him for the last 17 years. We haven't done any posts in the U.S.. I know they say that that's not possible, but it is. And so we've been to Tbilisi, Georgia, Quito, Ecuador, key Ukraine, a Susan Paraguay, Mexico City, and now we're in Guatemala City. A few minutes ago, you told us that you have started a number of business you're working with, the around the world, 5 K and that you have other virtual hobbies and that kind of thing. It sounds like you're extremely busy. So what do you do besides start businesses run 5 ks and educate people? What do you have? Well, I think that a lot of EFM. A lot of family members in the foreign service are like this. You don't become a specialist in one area. You have to be really flexible and adaptable. And do what makes sense, depending on where you are in your life, where you're posted, what's available, and what makes sense for you. And I've really found that that's been the case for me. And sometimes I despair because I'm not an expert in anything. I've just kind of dabbled in a lot of different things. I love to read. I'm a ceramicist, so I carry around my kill and my wheel and do that for fun. That was a business that I had before we joined the foreign service. It's a terrible foreign service hobby. I'm working right now on hemisphere's academy, which is a virtual school for foreign service families. We're hoping to open that in the fall. I have a business called after school plans. It's American history boxes for expats living abroad who don't have access to history courses. I started that business about ten years ago and that's been a steady presence in my life. And then of course, you know, with four kids in virtual school, I sit next to my son and try and have him continue to pay attention. Well, that sounds like the best hobby. I've had that hobby a few times recently too. It's not as fulfilling as you might think. So you mentioned flexibility is that your superpower or do you have another? You seem to be like extremely super powery to me. No, not really. I do a lot of things. I wouldn't say that I do them well. But I think that it really does help to keep yourself busy and to find things that define you outside of your spouse's job. Flexibility is probably not my superpower..
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"tbilisi" Discussed on WTVN
"Well, you know, we're all getting ready for the All Star game for those that are interested, but there'll be some interesting commercials tonight. Yeah, not not like the Super Bowl kind of interesting commercials. Although I could see that becoming something for Major league baseball. Last night, I watched the home run Derby in its entirety. And either I didn't see it or just wasn't memorable enough for me. But the big talk has been that there was going to be, and there will be a different commercials tonight for the home run Derby, a new political attack ad that is hoping to remind viewers that Hey, you know that All Star game that you're watching or the home run Derby you watched last night. Remember? That wasn't supposed to be in Denver that was supposed to be initially in Atlanta, Georgia. But the commercial paid for by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is harkening back to the spring when an outcry mounted over these new laws, these new restrictive voting laws engineered by Republican lawmakers in the state of Georgia That caused a big I'll call it kerfuffle because that's what that's like The I like to throw any kind of K and airports together that don't get me in trouble are banned by the FCC. So You've got Republicans that say corporations, including Major League Baseball came under intense pressure to speak out against those voting laws. So Major league Baseball then, according to their storyline, had to do the one thing they could do, which was denounced those laws and then move the game from Atlanta. Due course field in Denver that is really painting a picture here for Major League Baseball is a victim in this. They're painting not only major league baseball, the Georges victims there Focusing on the economic impact of the move, blaming the radical left woke crowd and specifically Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, a Democrat for the move of the game, even though it's more likely because they were in support of standing up to these laws. That's maybe what caused more of the debate here. But they're certainly placing the blame on Raphael Warnock, which makes me believe this is just sort of the national kickoff to the midterm elections in 2022 because Warnock, who was elected elected Tbilisi, previously vacated by the retirement of Former Senator Johnny Isakson is going to face re election here in November. 2022. So this is largely shown as okay. Well, this is I guess, the kickoff to that kind of a campaign but getting back to the law. It was the law that really caused the trouble here. The law added a variety of restrictions to absentee voting new I D requirements, strict rules on drop boxes and the one that gets me and I still can't get over his The new powers for state election board that can determine whether or not an election is valid. That doesn't make any sense to me. But you have supporters that stress that these these also, by the way, expand early voting access for some counties. But at the end of the day, the Department of Justice just announced last month that they would sue Georgia over the new restriction, saying that they target black voters, and it's going back to that you can remember in April Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, saying the decision to move the All Star game came after he discussed it with individual players, Players, unions and the players Alliance, which was an organization of black players. Formed after the death of George Floyd last year, and that's when he said Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box. That To me doesn't make Major League baseball sound like a victim. You know, you think about the great American pastime and it seems to be getting at what seems to be it is. It's getting muddied in politics in 2021, Michael, What isn't Brandon? Yeah, I know. I masks. Everything's muddied in politics right now. Back states. So right, Michael Bauer. Thanks so much for your time this morning. Appreciate it. You gotta stay safe Guys. Alright, 6 39, and by the way that, uh, seven figure ad accusing terms of stealing the All Star game from Georgia to push the political agenda. Here's a little snippet of one of those commercials. Baseball's Midsummer Trust The All Star Game $100 Million.
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Georgian Cameraman Dies After Attack by Far-Right, Anti-LGBTQ Mob
"Cameraman, beaten up by anti gay activists in Georgia has died six days after he was attacked while covering a pride event in the capital Tbilisi. Like so last Avara suffered severe facial injuries, including broken bones. The Georgian Interior Ministry said four people had been
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"tbilisi" Discussed on 790 KABC
"And friends. Let's break down into those little little details that you want to know right now. Okay, so typically three days worth of Disneyland tickets would set you back about $303. Now, if you want to add Park Park Hopper passes on top of that to go to either Disneyland or California adventure for three days. That's $477. Well. Now, with this special deal only for California residents, you end up paying $249 for regular three day ticket or $304 for a three day park Hopper pass. You do a little bit of math there. That's a savings of $54 for the single part tickets and a whopping $173 discount for pot Park Coppers. If you've got a couple of kids that money really does start to add up on top of those savings. If you state Disneyland resort hotels while you're here, you can get an additional 25% off the cost of certain rooms. Here's another reason why this is interesting. Disney is offering us Californians these discounted tickets during the peak of their summer season rush. Typically, these discounted tickets aren't offered until after the holidays when things slow down for the winter, and you know, not as many people are going Well, back out here live these three day tickets are valid. Now, through the end of September. You would just need to make sure that you block out these reservations and you can use them on any three separate days, too, So it doesn't have to be you know, Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, you can go on Monday. Then go on, like a Tuesday another week or, you know, Friday at some point, yes, you can split those days up. Pretty pretty good. Just another reason why it's it's good to be California. And remember, you do need to be able to prove that you actually live here in the state at the time of purchasing these tickets, So my freeloading friends from Minnesota They wouldn't be able to get these things just for us, Chris and Megan, just for us. Now. Right now he's freeloading friends from Minnesota are very hurt. Yes, there's a tear running down there. I freeloading friends. Love it, Steve. Thank you. So much for 35, Speaking of freeloaders. And what? Me? Not you. I'm just saying, Wow, I didn't hear a word of what? Just we knew that somehow we knew I have a little trouble with my ear piece, so I had to do a little maintenance work. Little wax cleaned up high dogs. No, not really The case, but nonetheless, Kristen is 4 35. We're minutes away from seeing a beautiful montage of what? 10 years 12 years, 10. Years of just broadcasting excellence. Every step of the way already, like the one where we're wearing our Elvis hair. Yes, well, you know, that was during covid when we just didn't shave. 73 for you today in Hawthorne, 79 Long beach. In all seriousness. We do have a really warm forecast for you as we're looking at these numbers 80 nineties, even some triple digits. You know this is about nor we are seeing some areas, though starting to pull a little bit higher than that average That includes Palm Springs. That's hot. We know it gets hot out in the desert this time of the year, but 1 14 that's well above the average for you along the coast. Look at this. A beautiful warm up plenty of sunshine, you know, along the coast. It's been really difficult over the past couple of weeks to get some sunshine really socked in. Things started to change. Just in time for the July 4th weekend started to get to the Sunshine earlier on Friday, Saturday and this past Sunday, and now it looks like we're going to see more of that trend as well. Get some sunshine along the coast and will warm things up Mountains or in the eighties. High desert. You are hot boy. Look at that. Can't find a double digit number at all for the next seven days are more in a few minutes. Ginger. Let's send it over to you. I feel like the Italian. You came out. That's a hot Tbilisi, Mo. That's a heart. Hey, good morning to you guys. Good morning, everybody. So, yes, for us. We do have some things as well. In fact, it's kind of heating up for the dry 15 north right about Sierra Avenue. So the semi that caught fire here now, A lot of activity is actually to the right shoulder. So that is some good and helpful information. We hope right. But sometimes that activities like quite the distraction people stopping, taken A look. No. Keep it moving. Nothing to see here. We'll take you over to look at this 10 eastbound side Grant to the 57. Those two left lanes closed until six o'clock. You see it at Dr is already starting to load up, which is kind of surprising how going East Moving into Ventura County. Sylvia plans ahead into Oxnard or say 1000 Oh Simi Valley, these gray areas in Ventura County. The drive is really nice as it has been, and some of those spots we just discussed all toasty. So get ready for some of that heat for now, Anyway, you look like you're good to go. Megan and Chris Thank you so much as you're coming up tomorrow is the big day 30th.
VelociPodcast
"tbilisi" Discussed on VelociPodcast
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Drive with Us Podcast
Interview With Ralph Velasco, Professional Traveler, Blogger
"Welcome row. Thanks so much for joining us today. Thank you for inviting me. It's great to be here survey cited to hear your stories especially since you travel so much throughout the year and i can't wait to hear the crazy driving experiences that you've had during those travels. So what would you say. Is the most craziest or most interesting driving experience. You've had well. I have had a quite a few about two years ago. Almost exactly and i was in tbilisi georgia. I adjust arrive my first trip there and my local tour operator. Pick me up at the airport. And it'd traffic didn't seem like much to me. But i could tell she was a little bit hesitant driving. I'm the passenger and so she was just kind of taking her time and going slowly being very cautious which was fine and then she says. Don't worry about my driving tomorrow. My father's gonna us. And i'll be able to talk to you and answer your questions to concentrate on the road to be honest in the back of my mind. I'm like oh great i was. I was kind of happy about that. 'cause over all having been to georgia now equivalent of three or four months total. They're driving can is something to be desired. Let's put it that way. So the next day her father and her pick me up at my hotel. He's an older gentleman. And that's you know that's fine. But i'm thinking okay. Great experienced driver. We're gonna be fine so little. Did i know that he just might have been one of the worst drivers. I've ever been with and i had to spend a total of. I think two days with them driving about eight hours a day because they were showing me all around the area which is great and my tour. Operators do this all the time in. Can't be more thankful so. I don't want to sound like i wasn't appreciative. But it was one of those things where i don't know how he did it but he slowed down to pass people and he sped up to be
Drive with Us Podcast
"tbilisi" Discussed on Drive with Us Podcast
"Welcome row. Thanks so much for joining us today. Thank you for inviting me. It's great to be here survey cited to hear your stories especially since you travel so much throughout the year and i can't wait to hear the crazy driving experiences that you've had during those travels. So what would you say. Is the most craziest or most interesting driving experience. You've had well. I have had a quite a few about two years ago. Almost exactly and i was in tbilisi georgia. I adjust arrive my first trip there and my local tour operator. Pick me up at the airport. And it'd traffic didn't seem like much to me. But i could tell she was a little bit hesitant driving. I'm the passenger and so she was just kind of taking her time and going slowly being very cautious which was fine and then she says. Don't worry about my driving tomorrow. My father's gonna us. And i'll be able to talk to you and answer your questions to concentrate on the road to be honest in the back of my mind. I'm like oh great i was. I was kind of happy about that. 'cause over all having been to georgia now equivalent of three or four months total. They're driving can is something to be desired. Let's put it that way. So the next day her father and her pick me up at my hotel. He's an older gentleman. And that's you know that's fine. But i'm thinking okay. Great experienced driver. We're gonna be fine so little. Did i know that he just might have been one of the worst drivers. I've ever been with and i had to spend a total of. I think two days with them driving about eight hours a day because they were showing me all around the area which is great and my tour. Operators do this all the time in. Can't be more thankful so. I don't want to sound like i wasn't appreciative. But it was one of those things where i don't know how he did it but he slowed down to pass people and he sped up to be
News 96.5 WDBO
"tbilisi" Discussed on News 96.5 WDBO
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Software People Stories
"tbilisi" Discussed on Software People Stories
"You can go back to kabul environments for banks and stuff so we must not leave behind the south worthless behind too soon because it still with us and time and time again received for most companies were working with the most potent see stem the most revenue generating systems are software although systems now ultimate be five years might be twenty five years old depending on the company but in a way i think a system ages whenever generation of maintainers moves on if you're if a system is still built and maintained by the people i wrote it many people i built it then it's going to be considered relatively young regardless of its actual age and technology because the people who work on it understand it but every time we have generation shifts every time the team changes lot of knowledge guests lost and much of the owners defeating of ownership in tbilisi also gets lost and every time the next generation has less information less knowledge in these folks to pitch upon the existing stuff and so time and time again ages and those generation ships can make duck impact will people coming to a very large complex system or sometimes just just deceased They don't know the documentation is out of date. Nobody knows what's going on with your code basin. You've no to start in that. So much of the offering logic so much of what is being designed kind of his lost time in many ways. I feel that that's the most common form of text it. It's not silly. That coaches spared doesn't do its job will. It's nobody understands. Trolling have code is achieving that. Nyu consuming That way and that's a huge problem. We're seeing for so many customers for so many companies in the industry. You actually touched upon a question that i had intended to ask which was elected. And so do you see tactic. More of a function of understandability of the code. I think into usually fall into one of three categories. I the code streuli bid code that was written policy from the get go. I have to say. That's that's the vast majority of cases. I mean if the code is written poorly from the get-go van it probably wouldn't have been successful from the get-go if a coat has been there for twenty years and has been performing adequately. It's hard to say that twenty later. That wasn't written enough. That's that's that's the edge case tech. That is quite often mall that when he wrote the system it was designed to do one thing and then as time moves on in the business requirements. Change your southern us. Same software that same code to do something else any. It's not quite as the doctors to do that. Other thing as time moves on and that is the other things move away from the original thing and then you do create that contacted the number one take seeing walking with customers is they just don't understand what's going on. And they're not sure is this good. Is this bed. why's these look behaving. The way does advise dysfunction. Coating that function is necessarily is not necessary. Is it something that was left over from the past. can i change the. can't they change. That kind of brings after sake sometimes feared to engineers life. I mean if you're making a change the system but you're not sure what's going to happen and then you're gonna push the change to production..
News 96.5 WDBO
"tbilisi" Discussed on News 96.5 WDBO
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Podcast | Show me the ROI
"tbilisi" Discussed on Podcast | Show me the ROI
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Xander & Stone - The Science & Supernatural Podcast
"tbilisi" Discussed on Xander & Stone - The Science & Supernatural Podcast
"They're like water and then they're like under under under water. You know rivers and things like that. Maybe i just i feel like on the east coast. Everybody was really mermaid crazy and then here not so much. So i don't know but the malkin children lost point where able to make their pupils smaller and change their lens shape. And that's what seals and dolphins too and. We can't just normally do that. So i mean there are a lot of like really specific adjustments to their is. I just thought that was fascinating. And i mean it doesn't exactly happen overnight. It takes like hundreds of thousands of years evolution. Evolutions happens so that kind of implies that they have been living that lifestyle and they're kind of like almost foles generations and generations to to the point adoption supernova interesting. He added as mayor folk exist. But just not. In the way that that disney disney wants you to portray it. Sure is one of the things i also discovered when i was kind of wondering down the path of where the origin of the moment folks low came from. Is that in a western concept of Mermaids comes directly from greek folklore and the sirens in fact that's what they were referred to before sirens. And i think we've all heard the stories of i think it was hamas odyssey where there's sirens on the rock in the siren seduce the sailors. They sail the ship towards it and then they crash their ship and mermaids have their way with them or whatever it might be but before our concept of folk being hof fishing hof human. They were actually considered in greek mythology to be half bird half human and it was only once the like a christian kind of civilization came ancient greece that started shifting over to being officiant hoffman human. And that's where they incorporate. The idea of dove gun the philistine. God was officiant hof human. And obviously the the passages in the bible specifically about the christians having issues with the philistines for worshipping a false for shipping. This doug on this high fish off man. And there's there's really really interesting passages in the bible that address specifically the philistines worshiping god and you know he was. He was seen to be the god of this. Doug on going to be the god of tbilisi and harvest and one of the things that the philistines broke out with off. The dead been warned not to worship this dough gun. God was that they started to break arch with warts and boils blisters on their genitals. And everybody was like. That's a sign. That's a sign like the god. God is punishing you for worshiping. This fake you've got pimples on your junk yard s either way either way i think. They felt pretty punished by the fact that they were doing that. But yeah there is actually the they know they know like direct quotes of mermaids the bible but there are references to gods that are officiant half human in the bible also. When i was doing my research it said that it used to be half half reptile and half human and then it so is that different from a different all kinds of they all kind of evolved into this. I think it was. The babylonians are the hoffer rectal. Half human and they the advantage would be like like when you said that. The the christians came there. I don't understand the i'm not connecting. Why they would go from birds. Two fish. the it was in the greek mythology that they switched over from both sufficient. They just know that sometime. During the christian era of during that time it wasn't like they were influenced i. I'm not sure the the research want there. Technically i was just wasn't paying attention. There wasn't any change from birds or fish starting on the third offend theory firsthand accounts technically of emails. No one got back to me dear. Socrates.
1075 KZL
"tbilisi" Discussed on 1075 KZL
"One of those 75 Casey yell, You will now be known forever, no matter what he does as the farting golfer. Ian Poulter. He ripped 12 different ways. Things this with an audience there too Well, they can't have. But he There's a camera and his caddie, this caddy well, who's clapping? Clapped once, Katie. Yes, I enjoyed it. You get that just to play it right. One of the very, um Yeah. Club to Radley. Holter. The Pooter. Yes, There is a good putter If I do a mistake like that, which we've all done, I'm sure you have Katie Sure You think it's just gonna be a And it's not hate that there's one thing you can do to ensure itself. What? I have done it where I've been lazy. I'm like I'm like what land under something else tonight actually goes. What? Walk away immediately. You gotta walk away. What do we owe you Gotta walk away is that he could fight back. And if I'm walking down the aisle of the grocery store, I'm way out there. Can I ask you when y'all Yes, girls do fart. I know that that's sure to you. But have you ever let one go in its silent But it smells way War said you anticipated. Do you acknowledge that something around you stinks or do you just let somebody else pick it up? Typically, I don't say anything, and I looked at them funny like I'm not gonna say anything. Who did that. Make it so it doesn't you can insure us. Legit. It's hard to do if there's people around, but you take your hands and pull both buck cheeks opened because that noise is made by I think the skin or something. Is everything. Yeah, work the vibration of your buttocks. Yeah, she pull your cheeks apart if you pull them apart. It's a For the most part, I think you're I think there could be a next time. I don't want to get my hands on my pants. Not you just pulled them like I know we can. We understand You may have a little It's a the bottom corners. We can't do that. Like you say you can't do it published very subtle. Sometimes you can disappear like lean with this. But it was like I didn't do it like pulling his but apart and produce know who did that, Not the guy pulling his butt cheeks apart. But if let's say you're In the office, and he didn't want everybody in hearing from your office. You just like during Assume call. Watch out with the lifting, if you Oh, I just realized something. If you lift you could live one side and pull because the other side the other cast aside his whole Yes. By the chair, Okay, You're gonna wash your hands or what? My jeans. I'm not going down. My parents don't know where your bottom has been sitting in things. Gross. Okay, I've had it where it feels like. Just say is going to burst. Okay, the air bubble or whatever it is. Just yesterday I was going. I was peeing at the restaurant and Alcide E was in there by myself like I should. Probably. I feel like a toots coming on as it was. Get ready, and I'm my own nose, too. Don't know attitude, so I detect my friend like the ones turn into it to you Just turn around. Well, if I if I don't know if you're out of your uncle, you gotta go to the next day. You gotta leave. Yeah, I had a zip it up Lucky no. Was in there and went to the Stall was like, Oh, I almost trusted a fart. It would've been disastrous. I would have to run out the restaurant that night as your friend bring you some pain thing that I've noticed Now that I've potty trained, Ah, female and potty trained a male males do a lot more farting while they're peeing. Yeah, I heard there's something about that. It's harder to control. When I go Number one. It's hard to control back there. I don't know that either because I wasn't a big Harder while I was peeing, But I noticed when I go into a lot of the stalls like at the airport and e don't know at the airport, but just there's a lot of very much going on. And it's very normal. And Geiser. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If I heard women just letting one rip nonstop, I would know that's very normal if you are at a urinal to do a fart Because It had something to do with the lack of control back there standing up. I think maybe that's what it is. But it was one of the first things I noticed when we are parted training. My son is that while he's because he's learning how to you had to go to the bathroom number one standing up, and it's a lot of tooting. Yes, lot. And Nora doesn't do that. It's almost more acceptable. If you're in a public restroom, toe fart while you're going number one, then number two. Yeah, because you're never too You're like, Dude, that's your people here would like being too loud grows learning something brand new right now. I didn't know that when you walked into a men's bathroom, which is a bunch of farts. Yes. Sounds like orchestra sort. And the thing is do their gross. Katie's I mean, I know that we're all their gross in the thing is Stuff falling off our bodies. It's in the urinal issue, No one and no one cleans it up his growth. And then you walk in is always older Dudes, though. That will definitely fart when they pee standing up, and then they go. Yeah. Yeah. Are you just getting everything out your body at one time? You don't know what you're exactly right. And you know what my favorite thing was ever is. When they start mixing the bathrooms together. And in New York, I went into a hotel that did not identify men and women as a bathroom, right. I went in there and I'm like. Women are gonna like this. This is a nightmare over 12. Yeah, it's we can hardly do number two anywhere right in a restaurant. It has to be a clean restaurant, or we're in big trouble. Horrible guy stand up and do whatever they do all over the toilet seat, especially if there's no urine or or if there is still going all over the toilet s so I don't think of myself. Why would women want to come? Share the bathroom anyways. I didn't care, but I'm like they're gonna be enough for you Lose big disappointment way. Have a higher We're glad because they have to clean it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And forget wearing flip flops at a urinal. Oh, don't do it. No, No, because dudes are peeing everywhere. They don't care that sprays coming off of bounce off onto your feet. I did learn that potty training a little boy is that you have to have the lights on wipes clothes and I always wipe down the floor wiped down the actual base of the toy. You have to it goes everywhere. There's liquid everywhere in the men's bathroom, and I would say Oh, well, he's just learning how to aim. No ends the same way way. Yeah, I have to go number two out much rather go on a female's bathroom. Yes, If you go to like a Sam's club or a walmart, or even like a football game, there's lots of stalls. I would say 99% of stalls. You came from her toilet. It's just so disgusting People leave stuff there, Z. I don't know what it looked like a war happening each come Oh, did you have to and I'll be like one. That's everyone that it might be OK, and he can, baby sit down. Susan had a cat once and I will tell you this. You guys are also very lazy, even and probably your house. Sometimes we're just like I'm not getting picked the toilet seat up, and they just try to be Oh, without a doubt for sure some Sprinkles or troubles. I told my son Landon, who's now just turned 13. I had told him over and over to pick up the toilets. He picked up the Tbilisi and he will continually, not at seriously. I will sneak up behind him. And go while he's being Wait..
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
Travel to Tbilisi and Eastern Georgia
"The traveler. I'm your host Chris. Christensen let's talk about Georgia. I like to welcome back to the show. Tomo and Mexi from food FUN TRAVEL DOT COM who've come to talk to us about the Republic of Georgia's we're gonNA start with intimacy and head east. Tomo it makes me welcome back to the show. Hey thanks as always glad to be on the shore tomorrow makes me Williams. I didn't say your last name. Yes that's not married since we love to see you thank you. I didn't mention that I think because I not used to referring you'd as the same last name and someone makes me. We're on the show once previously in Philippines wherever the Yucatan Mexico you could join. That's right that's right. The more recent episode we have on the Yucatan merita excellent will. Why are we talking about the Republic of Georgia well? We actually moved to Tbilisi about a year ago. It's our third time living here the second time where here. We got married here a few months after that we decided we actually wanted to live here permanently and now we do so. We used to live in Merida Mexico for a while. That's why we talked to you about that a couple of years ago and now we live Tbilisi so when you say permanently. This is permanently from the context of a travel blogger which means more than a couple of months. I think this is more permanent than decisions. Cassia already almost a year and we've got no intention of leaving at this point. And why should someone else come to the Republic of Georgia? I would say the main draw here is firstly. It's quite undiscovered. It's a little bit out of the way for most travelers but it's beginning a huge amount of press internationally recently especially because of the food and the wine. It is the birthplace of wine according to the most recent archaeological evidence. And but yeah and that's eight thousand years old eight thousand years ago. They found pottery stained with wine from eight thousand years ago so at a definitive evidence that it was actually going on. People were making wine and drinking wine interesting. And what kind of itenerary are you going to recommend for US? So obviously there will be some wine to try but there's also a lot of history here because we're right in the e east-meets-west sort of area. We are nestled between the Caspian Sea and Black Sea with Russia to the north and Turkey to the South West and on Mesnier and Azerbaijan to the south and the east. So there's been a huge influence of all these different coaches for the itinerary. We're GONNA start off in the capital Tiblisi and it is quite a big city with a lot of history so this was founded in the fifth century. Ad. So it has been around for a long time. There's lots of different things to see when you fly in on the first day the flights that come in from the US and via Turkey or quite early. Morning arrivals cold yes. So we'd say the first day that you'RE GONNA be here. It's probably going to be a solid half day of recovering and sleeping and then you have like a half day in the afternoon to go out and see some things and then enjoy the evening and then have a secondary Tiblisi. It's quite a fun city and there's a lot to do here day. Three we'd be heading east towards Kakheti. Which is the primary Wine Region? But of course it's also a very historic region that changed hands between different cultures the Persians Arabs. And of course the Jordan's at the moment firstly we'd be heading to the hill town. Well it's a mountain town of Cigna guy the city of La City of love actually a town. But it's very beautiful nestled on a little hilltop with views down the valley and towards the Caucasus Mountains in the distance the next day staying in the wine region and moving too quickly which is right down in the valley. It's like a very central part of the wine region down there where the river valley runs through where the river runs through the Amazon Valley is the name of the valley and then day five heading north through the valley towards to Lavi which is the capital of Kakheti region. Kakheti actually used to be an independent state for a while as well with separate from Georgia. Now it's integrated with Georgia Day six. We'll be heading back towards Tiblisi through Tiblisi. And then there's a number of important historic sites just north of Tiblisi which include the ancient capital before Tiblisi. Which is called mosquito and also hopeless. Which is an ancient cave town slightly to the west of mosquito and also towards. Gori which was the birthplace of Stalin. And this will wind in that area for people who are real wine lovers. You can have some different wine region. They different groups in different regions. Definitely thinks to explore and then heading back on the seventh day towards Tbilisi so that people can catch they're flying out or if people flying out of Kutaisi. Which is the other main airport then heading from gory towards Kutaisi. Which is about a three hour drive so this couple of flexible options bad us the refinery excellent and we'll go back through that in more detail so before we get into that we should say that although it may be undiscovered it's not undiscovered on amateur travellers to other episodes of the first one at least ten years ago and the second one more recently and so we'll put links to those in the show notes and Tillman makes me have listened to the most recent one of those two so some of the things that are mentioned in there they may skip over. We'll see how that works for time but you started us in Tiblisi. Yeah so let's talk about. Maybe doing a walking tour covers some of the attractions. A few of these mentioned in the previous episode. But it's definitely worth mentioning a few of them again just briefly so that people get a general feel for it. Yes I mean generally in Tiblisi. It's this really vibrant city to visit. You can go out almost any time of day or night. And they'll be people out and about doing stuff in a good wholesome way. There's like restaurants that are our opinion as Baas. The repin sort of dining really is a little bit anytime. A food and wine is exceptionally important. Culturally he'll and as I mentioned earlier. It is surrounded by all of these really strong cultures. But when you actually come to Georgia and come to Tbilisi you'll realize just how unique the culture is here as well so there are definitely influences from those other places but it is very very strongly George into the core. They have their own alphabet one of the unique alphabets of the world. Always done that. Okay so some people say that has some similarity to Amin but when you look at it really doesn't lie. The symbols of very very different says a completely unique alphabet and lots of unique words and the way people pronounce stuff tight is one of the hardest languages to learn. For sure will. In one of the things I've always had trouble with with Georgia in on the amateur travellers site is I take every country and I- lump it into a continent and Georgia. I have placed in Europe. But you look at a map and it looks like I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah exactly I think Georgia in particular would consider themselves Europe and I think visiting. Here's a country. I also would just architecturally and culturally. I would consider it Europe as well definitely like Eastern Europe. But as you said if you look on a map would probably consider it to be Asia. I sometimes have a hard time putting my time zones in I can never find Tiblisi in a time when I'm changing from different countries. It's because it's always like nestled in Asia. But I think I would definitely say Europe and if we head straight south would get to Armenia Iran and Iraq and so Armenia. I would also be one of those that I would put in Europe culturally but Iran Iraq. I was certainly not Oshawa. John is just to the east and Turkeys just to the West. But it's the usual part of Turkey's eight is one of those as you say regions where cultures meet. Yes and I think at least from that perspective. It's because of the Orthodox religion right the Docs Christianity. I founded in Armenia in the fourth century or late third century century earlier than that. Armenia was the first Christian nation the first nation where Christianity became the main religion so it predates Rome becoming Christian in the three hundreds in Georgia was the second country they took on not too long after that. The estimate is somewhere between three nine three twenty six. Ad Different people have different opinions. And that was when Georgia took on the Orthodox religion poorly Al mentioned a little bit about that when we talk about some of the important attractions that relate to that a bit later on.
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Orthodox churches empty for Easter amid pandemic
"Millions of people across the orthodox Christian world have been marking Easter even though many governments have restricted the public from attending religious services David Bamford ripples restrictions have been imposed in mainly orthodox countries stretching from Cyprus to Russia but the rules have not always been fully observed increase in plain clothes officers kept watch on closed churches where midnight mass would normally have been the main event in Georgia dozens of worshipers attended a midnight mass in the capital Tbilisi despite a nationwide curfew in Bulgaria while most watch midnight mass on TV hundred still attended outdoor services they must go to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church held mass with no members of the public
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