You have surely noticed promotional products that are either priced higher than indicated on the promotional sign, or at the till it turns out the new price has not been entered into the system. This time RIMI has taken its creativity a step further - indicating the promotional price not per unit, but per a fraction of a unit!
If one imagines the mood created by Čaks's poetry, for some reason an autumn evening on the streets of Riga immediately comes to mind. Wet cobblestones, puddles reflecting something yellow - the moon, lamplight or a maple leaf. Yet leafing through books of verse, autumn as such is rarely mentioned in any poem. Be that as it may, let us commemorate Čaks on his 110th birthday by rereading a few poems about autumn that have come to hand.
A truly masterful escalation of emotion in the face of inevitable destruction. Such is the film "Melancholia" by controversial Danish director Lars von Trier. For a fuller impression I recommend watching it on the big screen.
Since time immemorial, when the harvest was gathered and the Apjumības harvest festival was celebrated, when the days grew shorter and the evenings longer, large Latvian families would pass the time by the light of pine-splinter torches solving riddles. Sharp wits, ingenuity, and powers of observation were put to use. And how many of the answers to these riddles do you know?
Beer tasting or evaluation is very similar to tasting other drinks, including wines. Assessed are: the bottle, beer colour, consistency, aroma, flavour, and finally the finish. Although taste is a personal matter, we tried to be as objective as possible in our descriptions. The result revealed the most and least drinkable beer.
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This year in Latvia, the switch back from summer time to winter time will take place on 30 October 2011 at 03:00 (on the night from Saturday to Sunday), when the clock hands will need to be turned back one hour. When such a time shift happens, one cannot help but wonder who and when first had the idea of all this fuss?
Looking at politicians' manoeuvres around questions of occupation and ethnicity, there arose an involuntary impulse to look into history and find out - just how many ethnic Russians are there actually in Latvia? I wish to draw attention to the following statistical data, namely concerning the ethnic composition before and after the Second World War.
Initially the company manufactured laptops, but soon turned its attention to the rapidly growing smartphone market. The foundation of HTC's success was the decision to manufacture devices not under its own name, but to offer mobile operators ready-made devices with their own logos.
One evening I slipped into contemplation on the topic of "spending time usefully". I could not say I had heard such a phrase for the first time, but I had never thought through to the very core about the meaning of this verbal pun, nor about what it truly means to spend time usefully. Usefully for whom? For oneself?
Any text editor capable of saving text without formatting will do for working with PHP, JavaScript and CSS. PHP is essentially a scripting language, meaning that to get a result from the code, the code must be interpreted. This is both good and bad. The article reviews several text editors that will make working with PHP/CSS/JS more comfortable.