Brewing in Czechia is steeped in tradition but there are corners exploring modern craft styles in a very Czech way talk through their approach to classic styles with modern flair as well as modern styles with a local touch It’s easy for New World brewers to lump Czech beer into the “historical” category but—while many prominent brewers there focus intently on the lagers we all love—a growing contingent are also tackling evolving styles such as hazy IPA and more—and they’re often doing it in their own ways In Louny, a historic town about 40 miles northwest of Prague, Pivovar Zichovec is just such a brewery but they’re not locked solely into traditional styles and they’ve been exploring just how far they can go in making trendier styles such as hazy IPA including this take from Huml: “When you’re doing a triple decoction and you don’t have [a direct-fired kettle] This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The studio is committed to an architecture that pays attention to detail and is well conceived with a careful yet optimistic project methodology The practice puts the relationship between space and program in the foreground The studio's work covers different sectors and scales Archive Competitions Name: Jiri Fronk Number: 15 Position: Forward Height/Weight: 6-foot-2 Czech Republic Noteworthy: Brought by … Home / News Noteworthy: Brought by RoughRiders to the United States for first time over summer Was taken last year in Import Draft by Victoria of Western Hockey League (Major Junior) but club team in Czech Republic would not release his rights a case eventually ruled upon by hockey's world governing body (International Ice Hockey Federation) Has represented his country in several international tournaments scoring six goals in eight games for Under-19 squad in 2012-13 The Gazette has been informing Iowans with in-depth local news coverage and insightful analysis for over 140 years independent journalism with a subscription today © 2025 The Gazette | All Rights Reserved The new proposals would not mean an end to funding for fossil fuels, but would represent a departure from previous regulations. Under these rules, the bank has provided sizeable financial support for coal-fired power stations in the developing world in spite of protests from governments and green groups only the very poorest countries would be eligible to receive grants or loans for building new coal-fired power stations and then only if they could prove they were necessary and that alternatives – such as renewable energy – were not feasible An entirely new energy strategy is being written by the development bank in part because of concerns that its current funding practices favour fossil fuel power emphasise the potential of renewable sources of energy But the proposals were criticised by campaigners as inadequate. "The draft strategy is disappointing. It looks as though the World Bank is trying to greenwash its activities while by and large continuing with dirty business as usual," said Alison Doig senior adviser on climate change at the charity Christian Aid "While it proposes a ban on coal lending to middle-income countries the bank will continue its fossil fuel investments in the poorest countries this means that the bank could still end up spending more than ever on fossil fuels because it intends to keep backing such dirty projects in the poorest countries." She added: "The draft strategy eloquently describes the plight of the more than 2 billion people who live in energy poverty cooking on smoky open fires and with no electric lighting and no power for their small businesses But it is worryingly vague about how it will tackle this and the target is woefully short on ambition - it would reach less than 2% of people who currently do not have electricity in their homes." The World Bank's record on funding fossil fuels has long been a target of green campaigners. Last year, for instance, the World Bank was attacked for its controversial decision to grant nearly $4bn (£2.5bn) to the South African company Eskom to build what would be one of the world's largest coal-fired power stations The bank spent £3.4bn – one-quarter of all its spending on energy projects – on coal-fired power in developing countries in the year to June 2010 That was 40 times more than the sum spent five years previously has frequently spoken out in public about the need to realign the institution's funding criteria with its climate change goals The World Bank is also one of the world's biggest funders of low-carbon energy generation but critics complain that there has been a lack of a coherent institution-wide strategy on energy funding to date The bank has also been attacked for its attempts to take over the international funding of climate change projects. Under the 2009 Copenhagen accord the bank could be charged with dispensing the billions of funding that rich countries are due to send to poor countries in order to help them cope with the effects of climate change and cut greenhouse gas emissions Doig said: "The World Bank seems to think it can manage the world's new climate funds while continuing to bankroll high-carbon development credible strategy to promote thriving green economies which help developing countries to adopt technologies fit for the 21st century." The new proposals are likely to take months to be accepted gained an international reputation with his computer-generated compositions produced in the relatively liberal environment of Czechoslovakia in the 1960s He continued to work in both figurative and abstract styles after the Prague Spring of 1968 and in recent years his contribution has been acknowledged anew outside his own country which played a dominant role in his life even while he was immersed in the cultural life of Prague Although his education was interrupted by the German occupation and the onset of the second world war in 1945 he became a student at the art education department of Charles University 2003 Photograph: www.prague-art.czSykora's early work hurtled in no particular order through the history of modern art impressionism and post-impressionism to expressionism Much of his painting was based on the varied especially the river Ohre and the valleys beyond the village of Cítoliby which appeared in his first individual exhibition at the Ales Hall in Prague (1952) Seven years later his artistic development was accelerated by his encounter with Henri Matisse's pictures at the Hermitage in Leningrad The resulting transition from naturalism to abstraction can be seen most clearly in the remarkable Gardens series which culminated in the high stylisation of Garden/Composition (1961) During this era of thriving avant-garde activity Sykora was at the heart of Krizovatka (Crossroads) a disparate group of artists who gravitated around the poet and painter Jiri Kolar at the Slavia Cafe in Prague consisting of black-and-white geometric forms included his celebrated Structure paintings as well as a fire-curtain in Louny theatre (1963) that only survives as a photograph hanging in the foyer A year later his collaboration with the mathematician Jaroslav Blazek led to his first computer-assisted works which explored different combinations of abstract elements in accordance with predetermined rules While they have a passing similarity to Op art in western Europe and America their rigorous mathematical method was unique to Sykora Such striking innovation attracted international attention leading in 1965 to Sykora's participation in an exhibition in Genoa followed by other group shows in Germany and Yugoslavia in which he was also appointed an associate professor at Charles University culminated in some major decorative projects in Prague during the late 1960s the glass tile exteriors of the towering ventilation flues above the Letná road tunnel Political repression in Czechoslovakia during the 1970s did not hinder Sykora's experimentation although he also returned to producing landscape pictures of his native region as well as images of the Baltic island of Rügen in East Germany he developed an idiom characterised by dense clusters of interwoven which combined mathematical systems with a quality of randomness reflected a quasi-scientific understanding of reality As Sykora himself said: "The more I wish my paintings to be just what they are reflected in such monumental pieces as Lines No 24 The Last Judgement (1983-84) as well as in collaborations with his wife Lenka he received considerable exposure both at home and abroad celebrating a century of the avant garde in central and eastern Europe before becoming the subject of Jaroslav Brabec's hour-long documentary film for a Europeans series on Czech television (2001) In this final period Sy´kora also produced some ambitious linear designs for architectural spaces including the entrance hall of the new air traffic control centre in Jenec completed a career of considerable rigour and integrity See more of Zdenek Sykora's work at www.prague-art.cz Please enable JavaScript to view this page correctly A few weeks ago, we wrote about a new Christmas-themed Milka advert that was shot by Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet in the Czech Republic – specifically it turns out that Milka wasn’t the only brand to visit the locale for filming a Christmas 2016 advertisement For one of their global Christmas campaigns currently being rolled out in Europe Coca-Cola also shot an advert in three locations withinin the Czech Republic The advert, produced by Spanish ad agency Sra. Rushmore features a familiar Christmastime theme as a young boy brightens holiday spirit with… well which enhanced the majesty of Loket with a CGI Alpine backdrop the Coke ad downplays the shooting locations outside of a brief establishing shot: If you’re familiar with some of the Czech Republic’s more idyllic locales you’ll instantly recognize the opening frames as the town of Loket But what about that American-looking suburb Yup: filmed in Prague’s own “Little America” Additional scenes on Christmas village-like town streets were shot in Louny Alternate versions of the advert catering to different markets can be found on Coca-Cola’s official YouTube channel Your morning coffee deserves a great companion. Why not enjoy it with our daily newsletter? News from Czechia, curated insights, and inspiring stories in English. The toy car is returning to the Czech Republic after a year Google Street View to collect current images here for the feature of the same name within Google MapsIt is therefore possible that in the near future you will encounter cars equipped with various sensor and camera systems for perfect recording of the surroundings Little car Google Street View will be heading to almost every region in the coming weeks and months The only place to go this year Google does not plan to go however Google does not directly indicate where the cars will be located on a specific day all kinds of pranks that people would try to Google Maps smuggle its website states that the mapping will be carried out from April to October As for the regions to which the Google cars are going Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" This webpage uses Cookies and JavaScript in order to work properly We strongly recommend to enable those technologies in yur browser In case of wrongly displayed content you can request necessary information at e-mail address wwwadmin@mzv.cz On the occasion of the 80th death anniversary of the great philosopher and first President of the then Czechoslovakia Thomas Garrigue Masaryk and 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations with India the Embassy of the Czech Republic organized a cultural event called "Singing for Masaryk" on April 6th The Honorary Consulates of the Czech Republic are located in the following cities: Czechia to Send New Ambassador to Lebanon "Czech Support to Ukraine Will Continue," Minister Lipavský Assured Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha World Press Freedom Day 2025 New Ambassadors to Jordan and Ukraine who was one of the first to use computers for his geometrical paintings Mr Sykora’s aide Veronika Hudeckova says he died at his home in the town of Louny yesterday Mr Sykora’s style gradual­ly developed from landscape paintings in the late 1940s to geometrical abstract structures he became one of the first artists in the world to use computers to help him create geometric abstract paintings Mr Sykora turned to a less strict system of line paintings with lines of colour moving across large canvasses in random directions His paintings are owned by galleries around the globe please register for free or log in to your account místo na výsluní si nárokují draví konkurenti v čele s Čínou  FOTO: Archiv INFO.czLenka Petrášová01 2019 • 14:00The new director of the Louny wagon works Vojtěch Vagner tells us that there is a hope to have a healthy company with a billion turnover within a year the prospects looked pale: hundreds of people were left unpaid and the police had to disperse the feuding parties with warning shots as they fought against each other with a machete in hand the traditional Czech wagon works was rented from the liquidator by a group belonging to the holding of the arms manufacturer Jaroslav Strnad The company led by DAKO-CZ and the new boss managed to resume production and give people the pay Although you started as a new boss a few weeks ago your personal history related to the company for quite some time.. I worked here for four years in the past and over the time grew to the position of a procurement and logistics manager the first thing I dealt with was to buy toilet paper Then I assumed the position of a head of the sales department but when I realized what difficulties the company was running into What made you take the offer to come back and take over the factory in a situation that was definitely not roseate The fact that I really like the factory For me it's a matter of the heart Perhaps it is not entirely right to take it so personally but I wanted the people who have been working here for years to keep their jobs These are not employees who come through labour agencies or spend a couple of months here and then go on somewhere where they are offered five hundred crowns more Whole generations and whole families work here What have you achieved in those few weeks in office I noticed a poster saying that since the 2nd of September the canteen has been running again to provide for that was almost the most important thing to do Perhaps in addition to the pay the employees receive again The important thing is that we managed to stabilize the factory and calm the employees people were very scared of what was happening here whether it was night shooting or the fact that there was a fight with machetes Then they stood in front of the closed premises and could not enter attempts were made by the former tenant to enter the premises and barricade themselves in the building No wonder everyone perceived it very badly I will come to work tomorrow and there will be someone with an axe My main objective was to win back as many of the former employees as possible and give them jobs these people have been working here for thirty years and they want to stay for another ten years before they retire everyone knows each other because Louny is a small town We launched our recruitment campaign in early July I do not even understand how it happened that in such a short time we took over almost 90 percent of employees of the former company as it was very difficult for recruiters in such a chaotic situation they didn't even hand over any documentation to you so it wasn't clear how many people and in what positions they worked in We signed the lease of the company in the second week of July and for the next two weeks we were frantically trying to get at least some of the staff documentation I understand that the former tenant did not want to give us things needed for production or accounting But not having any of the staff documents is bad but you have to bring your original contract your salary assessment or at least the payslip let us know that you were really employed here do the employees receive the remuneration regularly as we paid out only an advance during the holiday season due to the lacking HR documentation I believe the following fact contributed significantly to the trust of the people that the wagon works would rise from ashes and that they would receive their pay regularly and the reason is the following: we are connected with Tatravagonka Poprad which is together with the CSG the owner of DAKO-CZ there is a strong financial group behind our back that is why people were not afraid they would lose money and came to work here again They believed we would build on the history and tradition of a good business you can't even tell how many people worked here then about ninety percent of those who worked here before I do not include agency employees; there were about two hundred of them working here previously We plan to employ approximately 150 of them by the end of the year Did you take over anything from the previous company I assume you have your own production program We couldn't take over the work in progress because those things were processed according to the Legios Loco certification We didn't even have a legal right to do it We were very careful to do anything about things that belonged to another company and the liquidator withheld as she had the lien whether they were items related to production or inventory Thanks to our partner wagon works in Slovakia They had contracted many orders and did not have the capacity to produce we began repairing freight cars for the Czech customer Now we are about to hand over the fortieth car the repairs are running; as for the production of new railway cars And we will be at a hundred percent utilization of production capacities in about a month About 40 finished cars and about a hundred in progress We did not take over a functioning factory so this year we will naturally finish in the red This is also due to the fact that you first have to have the parts: the preparation process takes a month and a half To manufacture a car takes the same time and invoicing takes another month for four and a half months you have only generated a negative result We already have three times more demand than we can satisfy next year It seems logical since you are one of only three similar businesses in Europe we feel the demand from the market already Tatravagonka Poprad is the largest in Europe in this type of business and yet it is not able to satisfy all customers That means we definitely plan to expand our production capacity so that our two companies can meet the demand Do you have any plans to expand your production portfolio We will focus only on what we already know and can do What will be the financial situation of your company next year Our plan is to get into the black next year I sing point at the turn of August and September exactly we should finish in the black by a few millions our goal is to have a billion turnover every year which means a profitability of about a hundred million a year as the margin in this business is about 10 percent And do you plan to make some other investments next year in addition to increasing your production capacity I spoke in person to at least a hundred people And I told everyone what we wanted to achieve and asked everyone what they needed and wanted to change or improve I remember all of that to such an extent that if my wife wakes me up at night as long as we are only tenants of the premises making investments can be a bit of a problem I expected that workers would be unhappy with the cranes and other machines and would ask for robotic or automated lines and new technologies to make their work easier the rough roads made of concrete blocks are really bad and the volume of internal transport is high but there is an issue: it is quite difficult to calculate the return of such an investment.. 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Stačí kliknout Nebo se registrujte © 2001 — 2025 Copyright CMI News a dodavatelé obsahu. | Cookies Jan Hus (1369/1370–1415) was an eminent medieval church reformer who paid for his convictions with his life He was born around 1370 in a poor family in Husinec near Prachatice Since 1390 he studied at Charles University in Prague and in 1409 he became rector of the university Influenced by the English reformer John Wycliffe Hus became a sharp critic of the moral failings of the Roman Catholic Church His Czech language sermons at the Bethlehem Chapel attracted thousands of listeners he had to account for his critical attitude toward the church at the Council of Constance Despite assurances of safe passage Hus was imprisoned after his arrival to Constance Because he refused to retract his teachings After his death the Hussite Wars broke out in which Hus‘ followers attempted to break free from the Catholic Church In the 19th and 20th century he became a symbol of the Czech National Revival Everybody is most cordially invited to attend the opening on Friday http://hague.czechcentres.cz/programma/meer/meester-jan-hus-1415-2015/ A WOMAN has spoken of her hellish three month ordeal of being kidnapped and forced to drink from a dog bowl after a desperate early morning escape The unnamed 27-year-old was allegedly snatched and tortured by a sick and twisted truck driver Karel N. from Sirem in the northwest of the Czech Republic After fleeing the house of horrors around 3 am on February 16, the woman, who had a chain around her neck, begged neighbours for help before recounting the Fritzl-like hell she had endured The woman was allegedly kept in the basement of the Sirem house for over three months where she was chained up and held in filthy conditions and forced to drink from a dog bowl The resident who answered the door to the woman told Czech news outlet Idnes: "I was woken up by the doorbell at three in the morning. "I looked out the window and there was a young woman standing there. "I was terribly scared, she looked miserable." "She was wearing leggings and a hoodie pulled over her head. "She had a chain wrapped around her neck. She was moaning that she had been trapped in the basement since November and was begging for help. "I woke my husband up and we took her inside. I locked everything, I was afraid someone was following her." "She said he shaved her head and rarely gave her anything to eat just sometimes a little bread and water from a bowl raped her and did other crazy things to her." One resident said that she looked like someone who had escaped a concentration camp The woman told her neighbours how she managed to escape using the chain that had held her hostage on a bed "She [said she] was tied to a heavy bed," a neighbour said "She managed to pull the chain out and use it to climb out of the window." Her abuser was not home when she managed her escape they helped remove the chain from her neck and phoned the emergency services Her ordeal appears to echo that of Elisabeth Fritzl who was abused by her evil father Josef for years in his cellar in Austria Karel N has since been arrested and reportedly knew the victim Locals have described the truck driver as "sociable" though he was often away due to his job but local media have brought his dark past to light He has reportedly been known to police after luring a 22-year-old woman to his home in Kryry The monster allegedly promised she would get a job after she became unemployed and put a dog head mask on her used chains to hand her up and tie her limbs together It is claimed that a female accomplice helped Karel with these crimes Hana Bachova, the president of the Louny District Court, told local outlet CNN Prima News: "She was then held in a torturous manner one could even say tortured in various ways "There was also a certain form of sexual intercourse." the woman managed to escape which saw Karel jailed for three years for rape and deprivation of liberty an appeal saw him released early on probation in 2022 the judge ruled that the three-year sentence was harsh as Karel vowed that he would never do anything so depraved again He is now behind bars as he awaits trial for the alleged crimes committed against the second woman Prosecutors spoke out about the rejection of bail saying: "He is a person who often travels outside the Czech Republic so the reason for his detention was found to be a fugitive not all witnesses were heard and there is a risk that he could influence their statements and also repeat his criminal activity." THE twisted dad asks his daughter Elisabeth to help him install a door in his cellar in 1984 She agreed and moments later she is drugged with an ether-soaked towel She would spend the next 24 years locked up in the hellish prison in Amstetten Evil Fritzl went on to rape her over 3,000 times in rat-infested bunker He would beat and kick her and force her into degrading acts - including re-enacting scenes from violent porn films Elisabeth gave birth to seven babies in the cellar with no medical care Stefan (1990) and Felix (2002) were left to live with their mum in the underground hellhole (born 1992) Monica (1994) and Alexander (1996) - were raised upstairs by Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie after he convinced her they were left on the doorstep by Elisabeth Alexander's twin Michael died shortly after birth with cruel Fritzl tossing his body in an incinerator The family's nightmare sees Fritzl threatening them if they dare to escape and punishing them by switching off the electricity Their nightmare comes to an end when Kerstin fell critically ill in 2008 Fritzl allowed Elisabeth to take her to the hospital where she revealed the shocking horrors she had suffered Despite trying to argue he was trying to be a protective father, Fritzl was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. 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