On Wednesday, August 23, the Czech government approved the so-called “energy tariff” program.
It consists of the provision of state assistance to all private consumers with the payment of bills for electricity, gas and heating. On average, households will receive CZK 15,000.
Part of the program is the abolition of the mandatory fee for the development of renewable energy (poplatek za obnovitelné zdroje elektřiny). Consumers will be exempt from this fee until the end of 2023.
In total, households with low energy consumption should receive CZK 11,000, those with medium consumption around CZK 14,000 to 15,000 and those with the highest rates of consumption CZK 18,000, Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Síkela said on Wednesday.
Currently, the government is preparing a website with a special calculator, where residents can find out the amount of assistance specifically in their case. It will be launched on the website of the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The energy-saving tariff will take the form of a subsidy from the state budget intended for energy suppliers, who will then reduce payments to households by this subsidy.
Assistance will be provided gradually throughout the winter season. Consumers will notice the first discounts on invoices in October. Until the end of 2022, residents will receive an average of CZK 4,000 of compensation, the rest will be “transferred” at the beginning of 2023.
In total, the government allocated CZK 66 billion for the program. Two-thirds of this amount will go to help household consumers, one-third – businesses.
Energy has been among drivers of Czech inflation, which has been running at three-decade highs of 17.5% year-on-year in July.
According to the Ministry of Finance, Czechia’s households and industry are not in danger of being impacted by gas cuts this year due to the accumulation of sufficient reserves and the renting out of LNG terminals abroad.
For a country so rich in traditional handicrafts, it only makes sense that workshops would be offered in various crafts. Such is certainly the case in Prague, which has a number of workshops for adults as well as children.
If you would like to paint your own plate, bowl, serving tray, or mug – or a number of other pieces of pottery – this is the place to go. Parents often bring their children here so that the whole family (or a birthday party) can indulge in a painting session. You buy your own piece, then paint it according to your whim. Paints and brushes are provided, as well as stencils.
If you’d rather create your own item before painting it, pottery lessons are also offered. Mosaic tile courses are another option at Kavarna Maluj. Corporate events can be arranged through the company, as well as various activities for children.
Want to create your own marionette? Here’s your chance. This workshop takes 16 days. Students will learn not only to carve marionettes, but to paint them and design their costumes. In addition, they will make short films “starring” their marionettes, assisted by professional filmmakers. This is no quick and easy course; students work 8 hours per day.
Courses are limited to 12 students. Other workshops include one on making a skeleton marionette that appears to fly apart; making four marionettes that are operated by one controller; and one on puppet animation for film.
For adults, MUDDUM offers courses in pottery, life drawing (with a nude model), and drawing and painting. For children, a variety of different techniques are taught in a three-month course. A science workshop is also offered. In the summer, an art camp is available, during which kids will explore the neighboring area (Letna) and work on various art projects.
The minimum age is 5. Other classes give children not only a chance to explore their creativity, but to work on their language skills. A workshop titled Garabatos is conducted in Spanish, French, or English. The age range is 4 to 11.
While not a traditional handicraft, 3D printers are the wave of the future, and this company allows you to make – not an item in a 3D printer, but the printer itself. This is a one-day workshop. All materials are provided, and at the end of the day, you will take home your 3D printer.
The Czech Republic, which holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, is considering whether to call an emergency energy summit for the bloc to tackle soaring power prices, including discussing price caps, a government minister said on Wednesday.
The EU is facing a surge in energy prices to record highs, leaving governments scrambling to find ways to help households and businesses feeling the impact.
“The market has gotten out of control to a certain extent, market volatility stops reacting to good news and only bad news accumulates and pushes prices up,” Czech Industry Minster Jozef Sikela was quoted by CTK news agency as saying on Wednesday.
“It is a problem in all of Europe, and of course if you have a European market and European problem, then the easiest solution can be found on the European level.”
Sikela said setting a maximum price on the European level would be one possible measure, and that the Czech Republic would support this if the EU decided to look at this.
Europe is facing a sharp rise in power bills driven by sky-rocketing gas prices, as war in Ukraine and European sanctions on Russia heighten concerns over the security of gas supplies.
The Czech government is looking at implementing a discount energy tariff for households while other EU states have also turned to measures like price caps or cash handouts to help people hurt by soaring utility costs.
The atmosphere of magical dusk in Prague and thousands of excited runners and spectators. This is going to be an experience to remember.
Birell Prague Grand Prix races will take place in the city center on September 3rd and no one should miss them. The 5 km adidas Women’s race will start at 6 pm, followed by the Birell 10K Race at 7:30 pm.
“This is the most romantic running event of the season. Runners will enjoy Prague at dusk, so it will enchant them with its mystery. The 5 km adidas Women’s race is perhaps more of an experience than a race. The Birell 10K race brings together runners of all performance levels and also lets them experience something unique,” said Carlo Capalbo, president of the RunCzech organizing committee. The races return after a three-year break caused by the covid restrictions.
Those who want to enjoy a sport performance combined with a spectacular experience should take the time to register for one of the two Birell Prague Grand Prix races on the evening of September 3rd. The first one is exclusively only for women.
The five-kilometer course of the adidas Women´s race will be an enjoyable running party that participants will certainly talk about for a long time to come with their friends and colleagues. For example, Lucie Křížková, a Czech TV moderator and Miss Czech Republic 2003, will also be at the start.
The main charity of the race is a non-profit organization Loono, which, among other things, points to the importance of mental health education. It is possible to donate to the charity already when registering and paying the entry fee (more info here www.runczech.com).
Starting at 7:30 pm the Birell 10K race is a ten-kilometer race boasting the World Athletics Label Road Race. The organizers have already confirmed the participation of top Kenyan elite athletes, together with top European and Czech athletes.
“The Birell 10K race has a very fast course, making it popular with pro-athletes as well as All Runners. Moreover, it takes place in a beautiful setting. Everybody just loves Prague at night,” Carlo Capalbo invites all to participate.
Last registrations are available at www.runczech.com.
Now an entertainment and shopping complex, the first business located in Lucerna Palace was a Japanese tea house. Because of the ‘geisha’ hostesses, the people of Prague believed the place to be a brothel.
Throughout the 125 years of its existence, Lucerna Palace has been home to many restaurants and cafes, but one of the first was the Japanese teahouse Yokohama, created by the Hlouch brothers.
The brothers traveled Japan extensively and were great admirers of the country. They first introduced their teahouse at the 1908 Jubilee Exhibition of the Chamber of Commerce and Trade at the Prague Exhibition Centre. Their idea was so popular that they decided to move the teahouse to the Lucerna building.
Today, Lucerna Palace is an integral part of the Czech capital. It would likely be difficult to find someone across the country who has not heard of Lucerna. It was built 125 years ago by the grandfather of the first president of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel.
Originally, he planned to build an ice hockey and winter sports stadium, but the land was too small for such a huge project, so he decided to build Lucerna. Construction took place over 14 years between 1907 and 1921, spanning the entirety of the First World War.
The concept of the Japanese teahouse caught the eye of the developer Václav Havel, and he offered the Hlouch brothers the space to create their business.
Instead of vices?
In 1909, Czech World magazine featured the teahouse, encouraging Prague’s residents to descend into the “underground of Lucerna”.
“Like a colourful lantern, the colours of the Orient are shining,” the magazine continued, “girls in fiery robes are passing by. Would you like to have a cup of tea tonight? Escape for a moment from the peaceful flow of Czech life?”
The ‘geisha’ staffing the tearoom were Czech girls dressed in Japanese kimonos. The presence of geisha was suspicious to some Prague residents, who imagined the tearoom as a brothel of sorts.
The newspapers of the time set the record straight. In 1910 the Mládenec magazine printed the following: “An explanation is needed for the article about the Geisha in the last issue. By the word ”geisha”, the writer meant a girl intended to serve guests. As is well known, in Japan they have their own teahouses instead of our restaurants and one of them was opened in Prague. The Yokohama Teahouse is a purely Czech establishment and we know nothing derogatory about it.”
The business proved to be popular among Prague residents and enjoyed a great boom for several years. However, at the end of the 1920s, the owners ran into financial difficulties and had to close the teahouse.
The Yokohama Teahouse was replaced by the restaurant Zimní zahrada.
By attacking Ukraine, Russia gained nothing and lost virtually everything, said Czech President Miloš Zeman, considered one of the Kremlin’s biggest EU friends before the war.
Zeman made the comment on Tuesday at a meeting with Czech diplomats at Prague Castle. He said Russia had suffered economic, human, material and reputational losses since invading Ukraine. Putin attacked Ukraine due to NATO’s surrender in Afghanistan, Zeman said, citing the explanation offered by Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog.
The Czech president told the diplomats that practically everybody in Czech politics believed the war in Ukraine was Russian aggression. He said he fully supported supplying arms to the Kyiv government and praised the welcoming of Ukrainian refugees to Czechia.
The central European country has welcomed some 400,000 people to date.
Zeman said he believed Czechia would contribute to the reconstruction of Ukraine but said a long war of attrition could be expected.
The government has already stated its ambition to lead the reconstruction efforts and has established a channel for Czech companies to participate.
Until the war in Ukraine forced him to change his position, Zeman was considered one of the Kremlin’s greatest friends in the European Union.
Notably, he advised Ukrainians to take the annexation of Crimea to Russia as a done deal and only seek compensation.
Zeman has often diverted from the foreign policy of the Czech government. For example, while welcoming diplomats at Prague Castle on Tuesday, Zeman did not invite Foreign Affairs Minister Jan Lipavský (Pirates).
Even though he changed his rhetoric towards Russia, he plans to visit China and Serbia before the end of his mandate next year.
Following outrage from Czech and international producers, the Czech Republic is bringing back its film production incentives – but at a reduced rate that’s being called a stop-gap measure until a new law can fully restore them.
Czech President Milos Zeman has signed a new act to keep the incentives at 20% of rebate on cash spent – lagging behind the 30% rate now in play in Hungary and Poland and also trailing Slovakia and Germany, who each offer 25%.
The new law also caps the fund available for rebates at about $6 million per project, a limit that the head of the Czech Film Commission, Pavlina Zipkova, says “is going against the pure sense of production incentives, which is to attract inward investment.”
Zipkova adds that industry officials are at work on an improved version of the incentives law to create more competitive conditions to keep the recent flow of mega-productions such as Netflix’s “The Gray Man” and Amazon’s “The Wheel of Time” coming.
Details of the draft measure are still under wraps but Zipkova says it’s expected to pass and take effect in 2024 ideally.
This summer, with incentives depleted, Vratislav Slajer, the head of the country’s main producers’ association, the APA, said government inaction had left the industry “on the edge of a precipice.”
He cautioned colleagues at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, that they were witnessing the impending loss of more than a decade of progress in bringing in foreign shoots – and the prospect of witnessing billions going to other countries.
The Czech government suspended film production incentives early in 2020 year, citing a spending crisis brought on by the need to rescue businesses hit by COVID-19 losses and to accommodate war refugees from Ukraine.
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The Czech Health Ministry has signed a contract with the Pfizer US firm for the supplies of the Paxlovid antivirotic used for the treatment of COVID-19 until the end of this year and its first supply is to arrive in Czechia in September, ministry spokesman Ondrej Jakob told CT today.
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The number of illegal migrants entering Czechia across the Slovak border has increased this year. Mostl of them are Syrians coming from Turkey and heading for Germany and Austria. The Interior Ministry increased the number of places in the refugee facilities and wants to tighten the penalties for people-smugglers.
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Frozen wages will be raised by 10 percent as of September not only for people working in the public sector but also for civil servants, trade union leaders and government party heads agreed today. This pay rise will cost the Czech state 1.1 billion crowns by the end of the year.
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The Czech Republic has sent 5.9 billion crowns to war refugees from Ukraine in the form of humanitarian benefits in the six months since the start of the Russian invasion, the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry told journalists today. The state has given 846 million crowns to households for accommodation of the arrivals.
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Almost 25 kilometres of new motorway will be opened in Czechia this year, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Tuesday. Speaking after talks with the minister of transport, Martin Kupka, Mr. Fiala said a further 40 kilometres of motorway would be completed in 2023.
Writing scientific papers has always been one of the major struggles for students of all majors. Yet, the assignments that cause the most confusion are the ones centered around tech topics.
Clearly, if you are studying math or engineering, you may not be naturally good at writing. So, when assigned to craft a research paper on your subject, you can face quite a lot of challenges and misunderstandings. But, since there is no way to avoid this type of academic activity, you must learn how to deal with such tech assignments effectively.
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Study the Assignment Thoroughly
First of all, before you get straight to your tech assignment, you want to ensure that you know all the demands well. As a rule, when assigning you a task, teachers will provide you with a set of rules, requirements, and guidelines that explain what exactly is expected from you, as well as how your work will be assessed in the future. Carefully study all these requirements to know that you are on the same page with your teacher.
Understand the Core Purpose
Unlike other sciences, engineering (as well as other technology fields) is more of physical science. This basically means that it can be and is physically applied in the real world. Thus, research for such subjects is also more application-oriented. That’s what makes such tasks so complex and often forces students to seek professional help at a reliable research paper writing service.
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Papers on engineering and similar subjects are narrow-focused. As a rule, they examine one specific issue and often seek to change other people’s views toward it.
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Formulate a Clear Research Message
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- An Introduction provides the background and the history of the study you are undertaking and states a clear hypothesis or question that you will address. Also, it can be good to explain the motivation for your study and the expected outcomes.
- The Materials and Methods Section states all the processes, methods, techniques, and special equipment used in acquiring the study results. This part should be very detailed and well-organized.
- The Results Section presents the data acquired in the course of the research. As a rule, this section relies heavily on figures, such as graphs, tables, etc.
- A Discussion Section examines the findings and interprets the data given in the Results section. This part also explains whether the hypothesis was proved or not and explores opportunities for further research.
- A Conclusion Section summarizes the entire work and all key findings.
- A References Section cites all external sources used for a particular study (typically, in the IEEE format). Sometimes, you might be required to use other citation formats, so be sure to clarify this requirement and craft your references according to the required style manual.
- Appendices Section – Provides all raw data and figures that were not included in the paper’s body. You can think of it as an “additional data” section.
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- Provide enough clarity in the Results section by interpreting the data in a way that would be easy to understand for your audience;
- Provide sufficient theoretical support for data used;
- Use your figures effectively;
- Always proofread and edit before submission.
The Bottom Line
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Czechia would like to be a leader in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, and the key task is to secure European finances for this purpose, Industry and Trade Minister Jozef Sikela said on Monday.
According to Czech News Agency, Sikela, while talking to a meeting of Czech ambassadors in Prague, said the Ukrainian side presented a document defining their needs related to the renewal of critical infrastructure in the wake of the Russian invasion.
Sikela added that his Ministry has established “Business Club Ukraine” as a platform to connect the information about Ukraine’s demand with Czech companies’ offers.
“We are also cooperating with the Foreign Ministry on a joint document concerning the reconstruction,” he said.
Other countries have started to help as well. In early August, the reconstruction of Ukrainian schools and kindergartens began during a visit by Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu to Kyiv.
The Albanian capital of Tirana will also assist in rebuilding schools and providing expertise gained following the 2019 earthquake which destroyed hundreds of educational institutions.
Moreover, last week President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an agreement deal that will provide for the participation of the Turkish side in the reconstruction process of Ukraine.
As for Czechia’s energy security, according to Sikela, the country did nothing in the past to reduce its dependence on Russia. Diversification of sources was neglected, as was the construction of infrastructure.
The cabinet is now taking steps to remedy the situation. At the EU level, a political agreement on a voluntary 15% reduction of the demand for natural gas has been achieved.
“This will help us prepare for the upcoming winter and possible disruptions of gas supplies from Russia,” Sikela said.
If you live in a city, you’ve probably had the experience of waking up at 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. to the sound of a garbage truck rumbling outside your apartment, pumping diesel exhaust through your window.
If you live in Brno, however, that experience may soon change: the city now has the country’s first electric garbage truck, which runs on a nearly silent motor, and plans to slowly phase electric vehicles into its full fleet.
The technological Volvo FE Electric truck battery is charged in 2 hours. A full charge is enough for 200 km, and at -10°C – for 70 km. But even this reserve of power will suffice for a standard eight-hour shift.
The electric truck can transport up to 13 tons of garbage per day. At the moment, it is in operation in the areas of Židenice, Slatina and Černovice. Mayor’s Office plans is to buy several more trucks (one unit costs CZK 12 million).
“A typical garbage truck drives about 2,000 kilometers a month and burns 450 litres of diesel fuel. The electric garbage truck does not produce emissions at all, which means it does not cause discomfort for passers-by or its crew,” said Deputy Mayor of Brno Petr Hladik.
“We will continue to develop our electrified offering. At the same time, we are steadily reducing the environmental and climate impact of our diesel and gas-powered trucks, primarily through energy-efficient drivelines,” says Roger Alm, President Volvo Trucks.
The truck has a low-entry cab for easy on-and-off movements. And while the quiet ride is beneficial for the driver, it’s also a boon for parents with sleeping babies and anyone with pets who are easily startled.
Last spring, New York City began running all-electric garbage trucks on five routes in Brooklyn. With the world’s largest sanitation department, NYC has a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2035 and becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
The Cold War that ensued after World War II partitioned Europe into East and West, with an Iron Curtain cutting right through Germany.
The division of East and West Germany culminated in the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Many East German refugees died during attempts to cross directly into West Germany, and as a result, people began to look to third countries to reach the West.
On August 23, 1989, the West German embassy, in the exquisite Baroque Lobkowicz Palace just below Prague Castle, was forced to close down for its day-to-day business.
By then hundreds of East Germans were trying to get in, many climbing over the fence into the manicured embassy gardens. The surrounding streets were soon packed with their abandoned Trabants and Wartburgs.
For several weeks, around 4,000 people lived in its garden and adjacent streets in makeshift conditions.
In the following days, Red Cross was brought in and tents were set up as the number of people in the embassy garden grew.
Deliverance from this bleak situation came on 30 September, when, after several rounds of talks with representatives of the GDR, the USSR and Czechoslovakia, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the West German foreign minister, delivered his legendary “balcony speech”: “Dear fellow Germans, we have come to you to tell you that today, your departure…” The rest was drowned out by cheering. The path to the West was free.
This historic moment spelled the symbolic start of peaceful revolutions in the states of Central and Eastern Europe. For the GDR it ushered in the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, while for Czechoslovakia it became an important impetus towards overthrowing its communist regime with the Velvet Revolution.