Beer is the best medicine

Especially in the following cases:
- feeling homesick (N/A now)
- first symptoms of panicking
- depression
- fear of impending doom

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Czech Republic

31 December 2004

Area, total 78 868 km²
Percentage of selected land types
Agricultural land 54,1 %
- Arable land 71,6 %
Non-agricultural land 45,9 %
- Forest land 73,0 %
Number of municipalities, total 6 249
- Towns 527
Percentage of town population 70,2 %
Number of municipality parts 15 077
Population density 130 pers./km²

MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS
Gross domestic product at market prices 2 767 717 million CZK
- Per capita 271 161 CZK

POPULATION
Population: 31 December 10 220 577 persons
- Females 5 239 664
Population: by age, 31 December
0 - 14 14,9 %
15 - 64 71,0 %
65+ 14,0 %
Average age: 31 December 39,8 years
Expectation of life
(2003 - 2004 average)
- Males 72,55 years
- Females 79,04 years
Per 1 000 population
- Live births 9,6 ‰
- Deaths 10,5 ‰
- Immigrants 5,2 ‰
- Emigrants 3,4 ‰
- Total increase 0,9 ‰
- Marriages 5,0 ‰
- Divorces 3,2 ‰
- Abortions 4,0 ‰
Infant mortality 3,7 ‰

LABOUR
Average registered number of employees 3 198 855 actual persons
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing 127 982
- Industry 1 143 321
- Construction 161 902
Average monthly gross wage per employee 18 035 CZK
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing 13 171
- Industry 17 503
- Construction 18 071

Unemployment: 31 December
Registered job applicants 541 675 persons
- Females 276 254
- Graduates and juveniles 47 260
- Handicapped citizens 74 672
- Job applicants available 509 510
Vacancies, total 51 203 vacancies
Registered unemployment rate 9,47 %

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Registered entities: 31 December 2 352 601
- Legal persons, total 466 317
Business companies and partnerships 244 537
Cooperatives 13 334
State-owned enterprises 803
- Natural persons, total 1 886 284
Private entrepreneurs 1 674 595
Self-employed farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs 99 669

AGRICULTURE
Harvest
- Cereals, total 8 783 801 tonnes
- Potatoes, total 861 798 tonnes
- Rape 934 674 tonnes
Yields per hectare
- Cereals, total 5,46 tonnes
- Potatoes, total 23,96 tonnes
- Rape 3,60 tonnes
Livestock: 1 April 2005
- Cattle, total 1 397 308 heads
- Pigs, total 2 876 834 heads
- Poultry, total 25 372 333 heads
- Sheep 140 197 heads
Cattle farming intensity 38,5 heads/100 hectares
Pigs farming intensity 105,8 heads/100 hectares

FORESTRY
Afforestation/reforestation, total 19 042 hectares
Timber removal, total 15 601,4 thous. m³ u. b.

INDUSTRY
Number of enterprises 8 184
Sales of own goods and services
incidental to industry 2 371 494 CZK mil. current prices

CONSTRUCTION
Number of enterprises 2 404
Construction work of contractors and subcontractors 278 207 CZK mil.
current prices
Housing construction
Dwellings started 39 037
Dwellings under construction: 31 Dec. 146 801
Dwellings completed 32 268
- Per 1 000 inhabitants 3,2
Dwellings modernized 15 469

TOURISM
Collective accomodation establishments for tourist, total 7 640
- Beds 433 214
Guests in collective accommodation establishments 12 219 689 persons
- Foreigners 6 061 225

TRANSPORT
Length of class I roads 6 156,4 km
Length of class II roads 14 668,7 km
Registered vehicles: 31 December 5 997 306
- Passenger cars 3 815 547
- Commercial vehicles 371 437
- Buses and coaches 19 948

EDUCATION
Nursery schools 4 776
- Children 280 487 persons
- Per class 23,1 persons
Basic schools 3 785
- Pupils, total 917 738 persons
- Per class 21,4 persons
Grammar schools 345
- Pupils, initial study 142 374 persons
Secondary technical schools 812
- Pupils, initial study 208 929 persons
Secondary vocational schools 514
- Pupils, initial study 175 975 persons
Higher professional schools 174
- Pupils, initial study 25 033 persons

HEALTH
Physicians (f/t equiv. persons) 40 371 persons
- Per 1 000 population 4,0
- In non-state establishments 32 409
Inhabitants per physician 253
Paramedical personnel 105 077 persons
Hospitals 197
- Beds 65 488
- Per 1 000 population 6,4
- Physicians 8 867 f/t equiv. persons
Specialized therapeutic institutions 166
- Beds 23 189
- For long-term patients 73
- Beds 7 272
Independent surgeries of general practitioners
- For adults 4 460
- For children and adolescents 2 107
- Stomatologists 5 419
Out-patient care physicians
per 10 000 inhabitants 28,6 f/t equiv. persons
Pharmacies and dispensaries 2 302
Incapacity for work
Average number of the sickness insured 4 389 251 persons
Incapacity work for work on average 5,857 %
- Due to disease 5,256
- Due to industrial injury 0,222
- Due to other injury 0,379

SOCIAL SECURITY
Social care establishments, total 1 073
- Beds 79 074
- Retirement homes 373
- Beds 37 366
Pension recipients, total 2 625 685 persons
- Full old-age pension 1 371 420
Average monthly amount of pension, total 7 118 CZK
- Full old-age pension 7 270

CRIME, TRAFIC ACCIDENTS, FIRES
Ascertained offences 351 090
- Per 1 000 population 34,4
Traffic accidents, total 196 484
- Per 1 000 population 19,3
- Killed persons 1 215 persons
- Severely injured persons 4 878 persons
- Property damage 9 687,4 CZK mil.
Fires, total 21 191
- Killed persons 126
- Property damage 1 669,3 CZK mil.

Source: Czech Statistical Office

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Расскажи мне о себе, я - никто в твоей судьбе
Просто попутчица, и ты об этом знаешь

I love deadlines

I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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Newest rumors

It seems there will be even more fun with the ECTS. The newest rumors at the faculty go that there is a major problem with the classification system. The new grades A,B,C,D,E,F don’t respond to the normal distribution which is a necessary condition for getting the accreditation. The solution is still not decided but it seems we will get back to the old-fashioned system of 1,2,3,4 for a while. Good news for me. It looks better to get 3 than to get E. E looks already very loser-ish.

91 years since ...

(Pravda.ru) - Hundreds of thousands of Armenians on Monday streamed to a hilltop memorial in the capital, Yerevan, to mark the 91st anniversary of mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
Armenia accuses Turkey of the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1919, when Armenia was under the Ottoman Empire. Turkey rejects the claim and says Armenians were killed in civil unrest during the collapse of the empire.
"Today we are paying tribute to the victims of the genocide of Armenians," President Robert Kocharian said in an address to the nation. "The Ottoman Empire and its successor state bear full responsibly for this crime."
The killings began before April 24, but memorial services are held on this date because it is the anniversary of the day in 1915 when Turkish authorities executed a large group of Armenian intellectuals and political leaders, accusing them of helping the invading Russian army during World War I.
The former Soviet nation of Armenia has pushed for the United States and other nations to declare the killings a genocide. Many countries, including Russia and France, have officially recognized the event as genocide, along with some U.S. states, reports AP.

Inspired

The weekend was quite inspiring. I definitely have a lot of stuff what to think about. But first I need to pass another Economics test, so no thinking in my plan for today. Just studying.

I love spring

Another weekend outside Prague. Leaving in 10 minutes and I am already packed. I deffinitely improved my time management skills. I even managed to do some school stuff in the morning. Hooray for daylight :))) Getting up early is not destroying me anymore.I have the energy, I have the power, I have the courage to do stuff :)

...

Мне надо xорошо потраxаться.
Вот так.

Perfect weather

Today is a perfect weather for studying. I will spend the whole Tuesday at the university and at the end of the day I will be expert on investments.

What is love?

Can you be in love with someone to whom you never really talked to? When you don’t know anything about his private life? When you don’t know how he behaves with friends, his hobbies, his opinions about things that are important for you? When you don’t know if you have what to speak about when you stay alone for some time?

I am back

My weekend in brief (Stories coming later. Maybe):
Snow

Sheep

Snow and sheep

It is great to leave the city for several days!

Easter holiday!

Tomorrow morning right after my lesson I am leaving to Beskydy :))) I was warned that there is still snow there (I hope it's not true). Whatever, I will have better things to do than searching for an online computer so don't expect any posts till Tuesday :)
Nice Easter to everyone!

I got a tricky question today

My teacher asked me why I always sit at the same place (my favorite red sofas) near his office while studying. Well, what should I answer? For me it is completely natural to sit always at the same place, because I learn to ignore the distracting things quite fast.
The other similar places in the Paradise building are noisier and I don’t like sitting in the library for two reasons: 1. I already bought the books anyway. 2. It is like social event to go there. I always meet some friends.
And yeah, when speaking about the teachers at the 3rd floor...there is one more working in the same office. He always makes me smile. Not because he would be some extraordinary man, but because one of his shoes scroops. Yes, just one. It is so damn funny. On Monday evening, I was too tired to control myself and I just started to laugh at him, err, I mean laugh at his shoe (I never laugh at teachers!). And of course he noticed that. Oops, I hope that I will not meet him at some exam in near future. Or that he has a good sense of humor.

Oh, you think there is one more option! (Studying at home.) I thought about that as well. But what would I blog about then?

UPDATE: I forgot to mention why the 4th floor is not suitable as well. The vice-dean’s office is there. He is responsible for the student affairs and he is the guy with whom I solved my 4 or so situations when I was almost fired from school. Yes, I have the bachelor degree just because of his human approach to students. Now it always freaks me out when I see him. I don’t want to speak to him ever again. Makes sense, right?

Signature

I updated my auto-signature in the e-mail. As I consider snail mail address to be already out of date, I just put there position data. (Yes, I am still in Prague.) So you can see my house at Google Earth if you are interested :)
The signature looks like this now:

*********************************
Jana Hamerníková
ICQ: 128 323 313
http://solnitchka.nomadlife.org/
Tel.: +420 776 xxx xxx
50°01'26''N 14°29'38''E
*********************************

And now, if anyone googles me, he will find my blog. LOL, I wonder if this will ever happen. Maybe some secret admirer...
Oh ... can you imagine how dating will be easier when everyone will be googlable? I will like some guy, find out his name, google him, look at his blog or webpage or whatever and then I will be more clear if we might be compatible or not. It will be easier to approach him and impress him :) Well, I made myself googlable by this post. Now it is your turn, guys :)))

Down & up again

I almost cried twice today. Once from despair, once from laughter. I had an extremely sucky day. So, on the way home with Marťa we decided that we need to do the day worth living. We wanted to test one of the childish activities that we heard about. To blow a wrapper off a straw. We came to McD and ordered: “Cheeseburger and a straw, please.” The staff looked a bit puzzled, but who cares ;) Oh, I never thought that it could be so much fun. It really works! We created several disciplines – flying the wrapper as fast as possible, as far as possible and then we tried to shoot the target. The last part was not that successful. Marťa’s wrapper got lost and mine sticked on the wall, probably due to static electricity. It’s true - eating at McD improves your mood :)

Muzzy & Co.

Do you remember Muzzy? He likes eating clocks. And what about the royal family in Gondoland? All the complicated plot with princess Sylvia in love with Bob the gardener and Corvax being in love with her...

If you miss them, click here.
Marťa, you have to click on the boat then. You will love it.

I am a bad, bad girl

Yesterday was amazing, but I didn’t start with my homework. And I didn’t even buy the sunglasses. Unbelievable what all I am able to do just to avoid studying. You will see :)

Efficiency

So, we met together with Marťa at 11 to spend some quality time with our Economics books. We are sitting at the university, chatting and checking friends' blogs. Right now we have decided that we are hungry and we are leaving to the nearest shopping mall. On foot of course, we want to do something good for our health. And yeah, I also need to buy some sunglasses. Studying is still in the plan for today, probably in some nice café.

My naivety is astonishing

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. How could I ever think that I might go to Armenia or Bulgaria for a week in April? Well, theoretically ... maybe ...
Whatever, I already have another travel plans:
14.-17.4. - Beskydy – family visits
21.-23.4. - somewhere near Frýdštejn – selections to People in Need. Should be fun, should be interesting, should be tough.
On that account I can’t have a test in the official Friday lesson, but hopefully already on Wednesday (still being negotiated). But that is also the day of Global Village where I promised to represent my favourite countries. Will be fun. I will manage both activities with almost no effort. Ehm, I mean in the terms of time management, not that I think I will pass the test easily - taking books to Beskydy.
And yeah, when speaking about plans ... on 28.4. I will officially get my Bachelor diploma. After more than 4 months since I passed the last exam. Still not decided if I am going there or if I pick up the paper later. I expect the lesson to be more interesting than the graduation ceremony. So I‘ll probably let my mum decide – if she wants to see it or not :)
To make the plans complete – I have a funny feeling that deadlines for handing over some of the papers are in April but I am too afraid to check it. I also intentionally do not look into my diary to find out about the rest of the tests. I don’t want to know yet.

Ouch

One of my eyes hurts. It feels similar as if you put the toothpaste into your eye. Have you ever tried it? I did and I didn't like it at all.

The last Iron Curtain

Armenia's deputy foreign minister on April 4 described the Turkish-Armenian border as the last vestige of the Iron Curtain that once divided Europe. To this day, the border remains firmly closed. Arman Kirokisyan was speaking at an international conference in Prague organized by the Czech parliament on the Armenian massacre of 1915-16. Ninety years after the killings and mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians from eastern Turkey by Ottoman troops, the Turkish government continues to deny a genocide ever happened. The issue threatens to become a major stumbling block on the path to Turkey's entry into the European Union.

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Perfect morning

It’s Wednesday morning and I am not at work. Free time! I slept till eight, ate breakfast, watched TV, walked the dog, had lunch ... everything is perfect. I needed a day like this.

Detox

As I have no major stress this week I started a short detox cure for myself. I do not smoke, I do some sports and I significantly diminished the daily dose of caffeine. Well, actually I had no coffee today but now I feel reeeeeally sleeeeepy.

Hluboká nad Vltavou

This wonderful place was in news quite often last week (before the floods came). Hluboká is the first place in the Czech Republic, where the avian flu appeared. Well, bad publicity is still a publicity :) These pictures were taken when I was going to the "business trip" on November.

Unimaginable

I didn’t even believe that this would ever come. April is here. No more work. I am a full time student and solely student again. Somehow I still cannot realize what it means. I have just one lesson on Thursday and another one on Friday (except the other normally busy days). So much free time! I can’t imagine!