This Wednesday I attended quite a tasty tasting - but not of wine or food. It was a seminar tasting, an introduction to the lecturer and the topic he was presenting to the audience. The tasting took place at the training company Sapņu Osta in central Riga.
An interview is not a conversation or dialogue - it is a way for you to sell your story. An interview is a sales act - everything you say makes people either "buy" or "leave it on the shelf." This was explained to participants at the LTRK seminar "Every Interview Is an Opportunity! How to Use It?" by journalist and LNT News TOP 10 host Haralds Burkovskis.
In press release texts, clarity is more important than creativity - so says Aiga Veckalne, expert in Latvian language and business communication etiquette. On the afternoon of 25 October, her masterclass on writing effective press releases and correct use of the Latvian language was held at Birojnīca in Berga Bazārs.
Some cinematic works that have spoken to us with a slightly caricatured but sufficiently harsh view from the outside of the modern person and their place in society, in a specific structure, a network.
The essence of the app is that it can be used to report to the Environmental Service about disturbing smells, construction waste left in forests, unidentified fishing nets, and so on. Anything related to the environment that the reporter considers worthy of the Environmental Service's (or any other supervisory body's) attention.
From time to time, contentious topics appear on social media, about which clever and less clever minds, scientists and practitioners try to prove they are right. Various statements are quoted, links to studies are copied, etc. Some enthusiastically prove that it is so, others - that it is not so, and not because it is somehow otherwise, but simply is not so and cannot be.
Does that mushroom in the image visually remind you of anything? Exactly - there is power in the fertility of the earth! Not for nothing was the mushroom named in the 18th century the shameless phallus, or in Latin - Phallus impudicus. It turns out that in folk medicine this mushroom is used to improve regenerative processes, heal wounds, reduce inflammation and pain, and ease joint stiffness.
This morning was flooded with sunshine. The weather is clearly inclining towards summer. The perfect mood for switching from professional literature to lyric poetry. And why should it not be the verses of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
The American political drama series House of Cards is full of ruthless pragmatism, manipulation, the ignoring of any universal or religious values, but also global strategic thinking and juicy quotes. Here are the quotes of the main character, US Democratic Party politician Frank Underwood.
Although at the time of writing the Kučinskis government had only been in office 57 days and it is still too early to evaluate the government's work, certain outlines of the ministers' activities are beginning to emerge, and it is unlikely that, as it approaches the 100-day mark, the government's profile will change substantially.