Body of 41 year-old Czech diver from the village of Orechov (just outside of Brno) surfaced on the shore of Bali, Indonesia. The woman was missing since last Friday when she separated from her group during a morning dive. According to experts involved she violated many diving rules. Some say she violated all of them….
Details to come….
December 9, 2007. The day new train schedule for the winter season will be introduced. The day as of which train cars for smokers will be history.
It is about time. I don’t understand why there even was such thing as special cars where people are allowed to smoke. Why would anyone have to be nice to smokers, when smoking is NOT life-saving necessity that a passenger has to have during a four-hour ride. Why aren’t there special cars for mothers with infants in which the women can lock themselves in and have absolute privacy, with no obnoxious passengers AND people who use the special cars for parents with children (explanation: in the Czech Republic there are special cars that parents with kinds under 10 can use and ordinary passengers should not use).
Austrians and Germans banned smoking on trains quite recently.
Dozens of Czech pornstars caught syphilis during the last three months. The situation is so bad that even the Heath Ministry is involved in the issue, iDNES news server wrote.
The most probable cause is a fake test from some Prague health clinic that provides HIV and other STD tests for pornstars.
The people who are responsible for this should go to jail for attempted murder! If a porn star knew he or she is not, well, in the proper health condition for such job, he or she knew that anyone they, sorry to say, fuck with, is on a highway to hell.
And if an employer of a sick pornstar found out about it and faked the tests, they did it clearly with the fear of losing huge money. And that should be a multiple attempted murder. In the U.S. they would go to jail for life.
In the expert commission at the Health Ministry is also Czech porn star and producer Robert Rosenberg. A guy whose newborn son was named Forrest.
Czech STD stats are quite satisfactory so far. There are only five patients per 100,000 citizens. Now with the new scandal this rate skyrocketed.
I would say that this scandal will reveal a lot about Czechs and their sex habits. Doctors fear that this epidemic situation will most likely not remain within the pornstar community. We all have our sphere of sex partners, one expert said…
Sure. Pornstars go to clubs and have anonymous sex with girls. And girls go to clubs and have anonymous sex with guys who don’t bother to say what they do for living. Do irresponsible people deserve what they deserve? Yes, they do.
Pornstar is a legitimate job. It has rules, and it is not illegal. Health tests are a normal thing. Girls who work in bakeries and prepare my croissants have to have health tests of some sort too, and I expect them not to lie about their health. Same thing with I-fuck-for-living.
Who is to blame? Small porn production agencies, Rosenberg says.
According to a recent Supreme Court ruling, an owner of a dog that attacks another person could face criminal prosecution automatically and could go to jail for felony. Right now most such cases are second-class misdemeanors…
If the dog owner does not take all possible precautions that would prevent the dog from running away and hurting people, and if this really happens, it will be a felony, the ruling says. The court has issued it to unify the rulings of lower-degree courts. It is based on a specific case of a dog breeder whose dogs ran away and bit a 39 year-old man so may times he lost a lot of blood and died.
Since 1993 there were three changes in the license plate system in the Czech Republic. Everytime a change was announced many Czechs hoped they will have the chance to get a vanity plate on which one can arrange the letters and number the way they want. Once the possibility was incorporated in the road traffic law but it was appealed for some reason.
Drivers from all neighboring countries have the possibility to pay for a vanity plate. With some exceptions in Slovakia, where the first two letters have to be kept to identify the district, i.e. BA – 11111 or BA – JENNY1 for Bratislava…
Some Czech driver associations were asking recently — when? Probably never, the Czech Interior Ministry and Police Commissioner’s Office told them.
Death and taxes are the only 100-percent sure things in life, Americans say.
Czechs could add one more: five- to ten-percent increase in natural gas prices twice a year. It has been announced a few weeks ago that the increase will indeed be ten percent as of January 1, 2008. Again. There is a regulatory body that *regularly* gives its approval.
There is absolutely nothing that the vast majority of Czechs could do… They use natural gas to cook and heat their apartments. There is absolutely no competition. You can not pick a cheaper provider because there is only one set of pipes. About a decade ago some analysis said it would be cheaper to use electricity for heating. So some people switched to that. But the electricity bills have gone up, too.
Czechs are prisoners of energy companies. Every year you can read their annual reports that say what the net profits are. Most of the companies were privatized a while ago. Not so long ago the state still held its majority of shares in these energy companies – and politicians preferred huge profits to satisfied voters.
Over the last say three years I have heard of ten products/servies whose price skyrocketed and it was explained that “the prices have to get closer to those of the same products/services in the EU”. But the salaries did not move a bit. The inflation was always higher that the wage increase for most people.
Let’s not be mistaken: my philosophy is that everybody is responsible for their own destiny. If you hate your salary, ask for raise. If you still hate it, quit your job. The thing is that all Czechs are equal when it comes to a gas heating knob…
Average car age in the Czech Republic is almost 14 years, Novinky. cz news server wrote, quoting representatives of the Car Industry Association. Not so long ago old Czech Skoda 105 cars were to blame for this number. But over the last few years foreign-made cars took over. In other words, there are more and more old used cars from abroad.
Not a big surprise. The import of cars from abroad is a huge business in the Czech Republic. A car that a German citizen would sell as old is a pretty good deal for a Czech. Similarly, used cars from the Czech Republic or Slovakia are sold in great numbers in the Ukraine. And something tells me that old Russian cars serve well their new owners in Mongolia.
The Car Industry Association has very interestings stats about the car manufacturers and their cars in the Czech Republic. Aside from really old Trabant and Wartburg cars from the former East Germany, the car with the highest average age is Fiat. Followed by Skoda, Mercedes and BMW.
On the other end of the list, the ”youngest” cars in the country are Kia, Hyundai, Toyota and Suzuki. And Volvo.
Explanation of the above? Volvo is extremely expensive here. The target group that could afford it became rich in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. As for Kia and Hyundai, their most favorite models [?] are huge recent SUV’s. Again, most favorite among young couples and young families whose father is in early or mid-thirties. They buy these cars primarily because they decide they have the money to buy them, not because it is an absolute necessity.
I have to admit. Those once-typical Skoda 105 are harder to see lately. A few years ago one could see them everywhere….
One day in life of a newspaper editor.
At this very moment it is two hours before the absolute deadline when the last page (preferably B&W, not color) must be in the printing plant.
Several bikers collided on the Masaryk Circuit at which MotoGP normally takes place. In between official races amateurs rent it to race on it at their own risk. They collided in the pit lane, one of them is dead.
The boss of all bosses decided a reporter and photographer will be sent there. My first reaction: “Uh-oh”. It will take them about 40 minutes to get there. They might spend 20 minutes on the scene. It will take them 25 minutes to get back. And I will have 30 minutes to make them write ANYTHING, edit it and have the page proofread.
All this instead of having a reporter, who just happens to be still at work, to write a 20-line article from the table.
I think my ulcers are growing….
Petra Kovacova, the new girlfriend slash lover of the former prime minister, now opposition leader, Jiri Paroubek officially applied for membership in the Social Democratic Party, the Novinky.cz news server wrote.
This is too big a coincidence to me. She has been working for him for a very long time, she knows what the ideology of the party is about. A partner should not be a key factor for a person to become a political party member… I know many couples where one of them is liberal and the other one is conservative. And it the relationshop works just fine.
A woman from Orechov, a village on the outskirts of Brno, is missing on Bali since Friday. A 41 year-old diver separated from her group during a morning dive and he did not join her colleagues near a cliff where she was supposed to join them. Boat and choppers began a rescue operation but with no results whatsoever.
According to a diving instructor, also a Czech, who is a member of the group the woman was not experienced enough and did not follow applicable rules.
We are only hoping for a miracle, he said yesterday to a colleague of mine who is covering the story.¨
More to come as we follow this developing story during the day…
UPDATE: The name and passport number of the woman has been confirmed. The rescue (or just search?) operation is in process. According to one Jakarta newspaper two Czech divers died on the very same spot last year…
