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  about livs
Within weeks, the staff doubled to forty and extra telephone lines were added to handle the unexpected call volume.
Experienced specialists, advanced equipment found at a handful of centers in the country and a dedicated staff have made LIVS the place where veterinary specialists send cases for advanced diagnostics and treatments ranging from brain surgery, intraocular lens implantation, cancer therapy, hip replacements, cardiac evaluations, allergy testing and therapy and MRI.
With employees voluntarily sleeping at the facility to maintain patient staffing, while others drove to pick-up the willing to relieve the weary on duty, LIVS was one of the few veterinary emergency centers open from Brooklyn to Montauk.
www.livs.org /LIVSAboutUs.htm   (901 words)

  
 III World Congress of the Finno-Ugric Peoples, Helsinki 2000
The Livs did not have their own school, but the language could be learned at Latvian schools of the Livonian villages along the coast of North Kurzeme.
However, the ethnic self-awareness of the Livs did not die, and in order to save the Livonian language and culture, folk-song groups were developed – “Kandla” in Ventspils and “Livlist” in Riga, in the early 70-ties.
For the sake of solving many problems vital for the Livs and in order to involve public institutions, last year a long-term target programme “The Livs in Latvia”; was advanced under the commission of the Prime Minister.
www.suri.ee /kongress/kolmas/en/ermanb.html   (1281 words)

  
 The Livonian Confederation
Father Meinhard’s objective was to convert the "pagan" Livs and establish a foothold for the Roman Catholic church in the region.
With the intent of forcibly converting the Livs, Berthold took an active role in the fighting and was killed before his first year as Bishop was completed.
Approximately thirty men from Liv villages were abducted and shipped to Germany to be educated in the doctrines of the Catholic Church and the ideology of the west.
depts.washington.edu /baltic/papers/livonia.html   (3436 words)

  
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The "Livonian Coast" is the second officially registered organisation representing Livs in Latvia, the other being the Livonian Union, which existed in the 1920s-30s and was re-established on 26 November 1988.
The major problem for the survival of Livs as separate community is their demographic decline and the process of assimilation to which they have been subjected for four decades.
Today, after all the tragic events affecting the Livs of Kurzeme during and after World War II only about 50 Livs are settled in the area of the "Livonian Coast".
www.cemes.org /current/LGI/189-eng.htm   (950 words)

  
 History - The Livs - Embassy of Finland, Riga
The villages were located in an approximately 60 kilometers long and a few kilometers wide coastal zone (Liv coast), which runs from the northernmost point Kolka to the west.
The Liv language, culture and way of life have been of interest to Finnish and Estonian linguists and ethnographers.
An exhibition based on photographs they had taken in the fishing villages from 1902 until 1927 was presented to the Liv Society on its 80th anniversary by the Finnish government in 2003.
www.finland.lv /doc/en/embassy/thelivs.html   (263 words)

  
 Address by Mr. Guntis Ulmanis, President of the Republic of Latvia
at the opening ceremony of the Livs festival
...
The colours of the Livs' flag are the green, white and blue - the colours of forest, white sand and sea.
The House of the Livs' Society that was opened in Mazirbe on 6th August 1939 again brought together those who were not indifferent to the past of their ancestors and their language which had become almost extinct.
It is the task of the State of Latvia to facilitate the fulfilment of the goals of Livs, the native nationality of Latvia.
www.suri.ee /r/liivi/ulma-eng.html   (768 words)

  
 The Jumava Publishing House: Catalogue of books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The edition will be of use to any professional and enthusiast of history of culture, art, psychology, theatre, film art, architecture, literature and fashion, as well as to anybody, who is interested in cultural heritage of mankind.
It is original work, in wich, for the first time, the history of Livs of North Kurzeme during several centuries has been summarized by scientist of history of civilisation.
Memories of inhabitants of villages and of the author have been used in the book, as well as archives, materials from library and, of course, texts in Livs, that are understandable to the rare.
www.jumava.lv /en/enciklopedija.htm   (675 words)

  
 Drama & Livsöden - Flimrigt.se
En kul inslag i hela historien är utrymmet Prins Philip får, i hela sitt liv har han levt i skuggan av drottningen och här får vi se hur han kämpar för att hävda sig: han går mest omkring och skriker och är negativ och drottningen bryr sig sällan om hans åsikter eller råd.
Filmen handlar om Sissi som arbetar på en sluten psykiatrisk mottagning och som i övrigt lever ett avskilt liv.
En dag möter hon före detta soldaten Bodo när han räddar hennes liv och blir hjälten i hennes värld.
www.flimrigt.se /category/drama-livsoden   (2705 words)

  
 Luminator
The LIVS is a hardware/software system of data collection and programming of signs and audio announcements.
Data is then transferred to a laptop running the same software and connected to a LIVS system, either installed on a bus or another vehicle.
LIVS provides two Stop-request inputs––one for general passenger use and the other designed specially for use in the disabled passenger area of the vehicle.
www.luminatorusa.com /lumroot/bvoice_03.html   (358 words)

  
 ETHNO-LINGUISTIC CONTACTS BETWEEN LETTIGALLIANS AND SELONIANS AND BALTIC FINNS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Moora has attributed to Estonians and Livs stone burial mound gravesites from the first millennium BC, as well as stone casket burial grounds from the first to the fourth century AD; these were commonplace in Estonia and in northern Latvia.
the etnonym of the successors of Baltic Finns in this region -- leivi < Livs) (Stepermanis 1960:232; Ancītis and Jansons 1963: 44).
We can furthermore posit that the southern Estonian elements in the Liv language are actually the result of an adstratum or superstratum of the southern Estonian dialect (Breidaks 1981: 86; 1989: 7).
vip.latnet.lv /hss/breidaks.htm   (3800 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/LIVS
Livs is a songwriter/arranger and has had the privilege of working with many talented people in the music industry.
Livs, its been a while, just thought I would come by to check you out.
LIVS how are things going, We're sure you've been staying on your grind trying make thing happen; We know how you feel.
profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=109308   (707 words)

  
 Kiss Me, Stace * fashion & shoe blog! » Blog Archive » Sweater Shoes !!!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I hope goats and sheep are contentedly growing wool as fast as this trend is catching on, though.
(LIVS is devoted solely to the focus.) But Steve Madden designed the most daring of them all; chunky knit slides–some with flowers or bling)
This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 at 6:04 pm and is filed under Shoes, Walk of Shame, Boots, Wedges, Trends.
www.kissmestace.com /archives/2005-09/sweater-shoes   (913 words)

  
 International Women's Club of Riga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I was glad to see that we would be introduced to Kaupo, the last of the great Liv chieftains whose remnants lie at the church in Kubesele.
When in 1217 Kaupo fell in the battle near Vilande, the remains of the Liv chieftain were buried in the Kubesele Church.
The Liv in finno-ugric language means sand and curiously enough our stop at a cave was a sand cave where ancient Livs practiced their beliefs, or so we were told.
www.iwcr.lv /?section_id=92&l=1   (901 words)

  
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So went back to Livs and watched Napolean Dynamite- we have to be like the two only ppl who thinks thats like not a very funny movie- except for when he dances.
Then Sonia came over, and because there is like nothing to do in Troy at all, we layed around- ate-, played with Livs clothes- ate, and Liv made me a smore in the oven.
And Sonia and Liv made a nice big scuff on the wall, and so livs sister got the magic eraser out- and aha.
www.blurty.com /talkread.bml?journal=marti7240&itemid=48550   (385 words)

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