Just two Rieslings purchased, destined both to compete with each other and to complement one another. The first, also first in tasting order, was a white wine from Germany - J.L.Wolf Wachenheimer Riesling Kabinett Pfalz 2008 - a classic, a choice that never disappoints; the second - a New World wine from South Australia's well-known producer, Penfolds Rawson's Retreat Riesling 2008.
I would rather call it a walk through the Sarkandaugava district on a sunny-rainy Saturday afternoon. A special walk that brought together around a hundred people from the local and other Riga districts to listen, at eleven stopping points, to readings of works by up-and-coming and now well-known poets and prose writers.
Events of a Sunday around a suspicious service centre. A trader who has taken up residence in warehouse premises located next to a residential building has decided to carry out repair work on parts related to oil transshipment, which inevitably produces a terrible stench. The services are powerless.
Virgo too begins thinking about education and a possible future profession from early childhood. They understand how serious life is, and therefore want to study and work, improving themselves throughout their life.
The 17 gentoo penguins who spent three weeks in temporary accommodation at Riga Zoological Garden are now gone to an aquarium in China. Will we have to wait another 50 years and rely on a lucky coincidence to see penguins again?
That is why the grassroots project PenguinHouse (http://penguinhouse.lv) was created - initially to bring like-minded people together, and then to collect signatures and encourage a public vote on allocating funding for the creation and maintenance of a permanent penguin house. The dedicated website penguinhouse.lv offers news about penguins, videos and photos of penguins at Riga Zoological Garden and around the world, as well as information about the project's core idea.
Follow, comment and support the idea FOR penguins in Latvia on social networks Facebook, Twitter and Draugiem.lv!
The topic of money at school has always been a sensitive one. Parents either resign themselves to it or talk around it, fearing that their child will not be viewed favourably by the class teacher and school management. One must conclude that legally such collection of money is not particularly legitimate, but there is also no alternative for solving the problem or legalising the process.
Riga is this year celebrating its 811th birthday for three days running, from 17 to 18 August. The event programme is rich, and the weather is holding reasonably warm. This time we only managed to walk through the central celebration venues. Below is a photo glimpse of the festivities at the Esplanāde, Bastejkalns, Vērmaņdārzs, Dome Square, Līvu Square, and Town Hall Square.
It has finally happened - penguins have arrived in Latvia, specifically at Riga Zoo, albeit for a short period, passing through, so to speak. They have come from Edinburgh Zoo (United Kingdom) to spend a 3-week quarantine period here before departing from the European Union to an aquarium in China.
As Riga Zoo informs, visitors will be able to see these gentoo penguins - the third largest in the world - every day from 9 August at 13:00 until 30 August.
Tormented and poisoned by oil products (benzene is a carcinogenic substance whose concentration is regularly exceeded at least fourfold), Sarkandaugava and Kundziņsala residents have been dealt two more unpleasant surprises by Riga City Council, which promise to make daily life even more unbearable with even greater stench, noise, and now also the threat of explosions.
From time to time, looking at a web page, the question arises of who built it and with what technologies. Although various IP and domain tools exist that allow extracting some information about the page owner, I recently came across a Chrome plugin - Wappalyzer - which allows identifying interesting information about a page without having to pore over the source code.
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