Petr B., Author at Prague Morning

LEDs are now the standard replacement for legacy lighting in most cities around the world. At the same time, smart controls are becoming more mainstream and are increasingly installed alongside LED deployments.

Public lamp posts could become key carriers of modern technologies in Prague. This way, a network of sensors will be installed throughout the entire city.

They will collect data related to the city operation and its environment. The objective is reducing electric energy consumption and, at the same time, furnishing the posts with other functionalities by the means of newly installed measuring sensors. The modernized public lighting posts may also increase the safety of people at the given location.

The streetlamps will be equipped with sockets for recharging electric cars and bicycles, Wi-Fi access points, SOS buttons for calling emergency services and various sensors (temperature, air pollution, noise etc.).

About 32 thousand of the current 130 thousand lamps will be equipped with motion sensors. That means that a street lantern can switch on and off depending on how busy the street is: if nobody is there, they dim, but as soon as a car, bike or pedestrian approaches, they turn themselves on and accompany the vehicle or person on his way.

Smart Prague

Smart Prague, is a project which hopes to use modern technologies in public spaces to turn Prague into a so-called ‘Smart City’.The aim of ‘smart cities’, is to create a more pleasant place to live, as well as finding solutions to ecological and population problems. The development of Smart Prague is supported by CTU, Charles University, and other academic institutions.

Author: red

The QS Best Student Cities 2019 has placed both Prague and Brno among the most attractive cities in the world to pursue your studies, according to the students themselves.

The survey which was completed by approximately 87,000 students considered factors typically important to students and recent graduates such as; culture, affordability, nightlife, employment opportunities, diversity, ease of getting around, friendliness and so on.

The QS Top Universities article states that students specifically noted the „affordability of everything and the fantastic sights”, as well as the city’s “integration of culture and diversity.“ Not to mention the post-graduate opportunities. There are more and more multinational companies establishing headquarters in Prague every year, and coupled with the historically low unemployment rate graduates have great employment prospects in Prague.

Brno rises three places in this year’s index compared to 2018. Ranked 60th overall, the Czech Republic’s second-largest city also boasts the second-highest student ratio of all the cities in the ranking.

To be considered for inclusion, each city must have a population of over 250,000, and be home to at least two universities featured in the most recent QS World University Rankings®. For population metrics, the metropolitan area is used where possible. Current calculations suggest that 125 cities qualify for consideration.

Criteria considered include:

Student Mix (student make-up of the city, both overall and from an international perspective)
Desirability (reflects the overall desirability of each destination)
Employer Activity (provides an indication of which cities are most highly sought-after as recruiting grounds among graduate employers)
Affordability (recognizes the importance of affordability for most prospective students and their families)
Student view (a student survey which collected over 50,000 responses worldwide)

Here are the top 10 best student cities, according to the QS survey:

Munich, Germany
Montreal, Canada
Melbourne, Australia
Berlin, Germany,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Brno, Czech Republic
Boston, U.S.
Prague, Czech Republic
London, U.K.
New York, U.S.

The rankings are compiled by the global education consultancy QS Quacquarelli Symonds and published by TopUniversities.com.

Prague-born Jewish novelist’s literary estate, including exercise book in which he practiced Hebrew, had been held by his sisters until Israel’s National Library won the ownership battle

The National Library of Israel said on Wednesday it received the last part of a collection of Franz Kafka’s writings that it planned to put on line, after winning an ownership battle for part of the Prague-born Jewish novelist’s literary estate.

The papers had been held by sisters Eva Hoffe and Ruth Wiesler, who argued they had legally inherited them from their mother, Esther Hoffe. She was secretary to Kafka’s friend, biographer and executor Max Brod, who ignored the German-language author’s dying wish to burn all his unpublished work.

In one of his notebooks — revealed to the public for the first time in Jerusalem on Wednesday — he sketched a man lying in bed, perhaps depicting his own terminal illness and auguring the end. The drawing was a fitting, if grim, coda to a yearslong, labyrinthine legal battle over the author’s legacy nearly a century after his untimely death.

Stefan Litt, the library’s curator of humanities, said the collection also included drawings. “Parts of them are known, others aren’t so – that’s maybe one of the most important things,” he said.

The notebook and materials arrived recently at the National Library of Israel from Zurich, where they had been held in safe deposit boxes.

As he battled with tuberculosis in an Austrian sanatorium, Kafka, a German-speaking Jew from Prague, asked his close friend Max Brod to destroy all his letters and writings.

After Kafka’s death, in 1924, Brod, also Jewish, felt he could not carry out his friend’s wishes and in 1939 fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for Tel Aviv, carrying the writer’s papers in a suitcase.

Brod published many of the works and played a key role in establishing Kafka’s success as a key literary figure of the 20th century.

The Kafka papers are due to be digitized, and construction is underway for a larger building to house the library’s treasures, he said, adding that the intention is to make the archive accessible “for the good of the public in Israel and abroad.”

Author: red

The Czech Republic had by far the lowest unemployment rate in the European Union in June, at just 1.9 percent. Next was Germany with a rate of 3.1 percent.

According to Eurostat, all of the countries of emerging Europe boasted unemployment rates lower than the EU average of 6.3 percent, except Latvia, where 6.5 percent were unemployed. The region’s best performers aside from the Czech Republic were Hungary (3.4 percent), Poland (3.8 percent) and Romania (4 percent).

Greece had the highest unemployment in the EU, at 17.6 percent.

In the last decade, the highest annual unemployment rate in the EU was seen in 2013 (10.9%).

Youth unemployment rate — under-25s — fell in both the EU28 and EA19. The EU28 has 3.17 million young unemployed persons, of whom 2.25 million were in the EA19.

“In June 2019, the youth unemployment rate was 14.1% in the EU28 and 15.4% in the euro area, compared with 15.2% and 17%, respectively, on June 2018,” Eurostat said.

Meanwhile, the preliminary flash estimate for July 2019 showed euro area annual inflation at 1.1% downed from 1.3% in the previous month, it said.

In 2050, Prague’s climate will feel more like Naples’s, according to a new climate change study.

Hundreds of other major cities worldwide could be facing droughts, flooding, storms, and other climate catastrophes, said the study, which was conducted by the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich university.

Some of these climate effects aren’t even known or predictable yet — a fifth of cities, including Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Singapore, are facing conditions so extreme they don’t currently exist anywhere in the world, according to the study.

The study predicted the future climate conditions of 520 major cities worldwide, and paired those predictions with the conditions of cities today. By 2050, Madrid will feel more like Marrakesh, Seattle will feel like San Francisco, and New York will feel like Virginia Beach, according to the report.

An estimated 77% of cities around the world will see their climate conditions drastically change, indicating “the global scale of this climate change threat and associated risks for human health,” the study warned.

The danger is different in tropical regions — temperatures there won’t rise by much, but the level of precipitation is expected to change significantly. Wet seasons will get wetter and dry seasons will get drier — increasing the danger of droughts and floods.

This new study is the latest in a series of climate warnings from scientists and policymakers worldwide.

Just last month, a new UN report warned that more than 120 million people could slip into poverty within the next decade because of climate change, creating a “‘climate apartheid’ scenario where the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger and conflict while the rest of the world is left to suffer.”

Other cities are also facing extreme climate this summer. Germany recorded its highest-ever June temperature last month during a major Europe-wide heat wave — 38.6 degrees Celsius. A new June temperature record was also set in neighboring Poland, where meteorologists measured 38.2 Celsius.

Author: red

Prague Castle remains to be the most popular tourist destination in the Czech Republic, according to figures put together by Czech Tourism agency. Last year, it attracted over 2.4 million tourists, a nearly three-percent increase year-on-year.

The first 3 tourist destinations in 2018:

Prague Castle (2.4 million visitors)
Petrin funicular (2.07 million visitors)
Prague zoo (1.4 million visitors)

While Prague Castle may be a given, some surprises made the diverse list of locations—which includes plenty of destinations beyond Prague—from the industrial sights of Dolní Vítkovice, to the zoo in Zlín and Aqualand Moravia.

CzechTourism also released some other rankings, aside from the top 50 list. The most popular architectural site was Obecní dům (the Municipal House) in Prague. The most popular memorial site was the ossuary at the Church of All Saints in Kutná Hora – Sedlec. Prague Castle was the most popular castle. The most popular museum was Forest, Game and Fishing Museum at zámek Ohrada in Hluboká nad Vltavou.

Other popular places include the Jewish Museum, the National Theater, Žižkov Television Tower, Průhonice Park, the National Technical Museum. While Průhonice Park is technically outside of the city limits, it is counted as part of the city’s UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Author: red

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