02-09-2014 09:57 | Daniela Lazarov

The Czech government has received the ECs proposal for new sanctions against Russia and the cabinet will meet to debate the proposal on Wednesday, the Office of the Government announced in a press release on Tuesday morning. A tripartite meeting of government officials, trade union leaders and employers will be held on Thursday to debate the impact of the proposed sanctions. The Czech prime minister said at the EU summit that the country reserved the right to reject the sanctions should they cause disproportionately high economic losses. His cautious stand has come under fire from opposition parties and the coalition Christian Democrats who likened it to the Munich Agreement of 1938. The opposition parties have demanded that a special session of cabinet be held on the issue.

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Czech mens tennis number one Tom Berdych defeated Austrias Dominic Thiem 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 in the fourth round of the US Open on Tuesday night to advance to the tournaments quarterfinals. The sixth seed Berdych, the last Czech remaining at US Open, will play the Croat Marin ili, seeded 14th, for a spot in the semifinals.

A court in Prague sentenced a physician to 7.5 years in prison for having induced opiate addiction to one of his former patients. The court said the doctor between March 2008 and November 2010 sold doses of opioid analgesic to his patient who suffered from painful anal injury, making him heavily addicted to the drug. The patient sold his business and other property to be able to afford the drug, and eventually died in a car accident while driving under the influence of opiates. The court also banned the man from practicing medicine for ten years, and ordered him to pay a fine of seven million crowns.

Two Czech citizens have been killed while fighting in the ranks of pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, the website of a local Czech communist party organization in Frdek-Mstek reported quoting source Russian sources. The reports says the men, whose names were given as Ivo Stejskal and Vojtch Hlinka, were killed in combat on August 12 in the east of the country, and were buried on the spot. The Czech Foreign Ministry has said it has no knowledge of the Czech citizens deaths; the countrys intelligence services however believe around 30 Czechs have joined the ranks of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.

The Nov divadlo (New Theatre) was officially opened in the West Bohemian city of Plze on Tuesday night. The modern structure with a capacity of just over 450 was built at a cost of CZK 880 million. Among those in attendance on Tuesday was actor and theatre director Tom Tpfer, who said it was an amazing thing that the country had received its first purpose-built theatre in over 50 years. The first performance at the Nov divadlo was of Bedich Smetanas opera The Bartered Bride. Plze will be a European Capital of Culture in 2015.

Police in Rumburk, North Bohemia have ruled out the possibility that a nurse illegally euthanized an elderly cancer patient, Mlad fronta Dnes reported on Wednesday. Investigators no longer believe that the patient wanted to die and are working on the assumption that the nurse acted out of antipathy towards patients, the newspaper said. Nurse Vra M. has herself denied that she was committing euthanasia when gave the patient an injection of potassium that caused her heart to stop. Detectives are looking into another 10 deaths at the hospital.

The City of Prague has decided to suspend its twinning with the Russian cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Mayor Tom Hudeek wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday. The move comes in response to what the mayor described as the Putin regimes arbitrary attack on Ukraine, which threatened not only Ukraines sovereignty but the security of the whole of Europe. Mr. Hudeek called on other Czech cities to follow Pragues lead in this regard. The Czech capital is twinned with more than two dozen cities around the world.

In an address to the lower house on Tuesday, President Milo Zeman warned MPs he would take a civil service bill to the Constitutional Court if they push the legislation through despite his previously signaled veto. Mr. Zeman said the amendment would not achieve its stated aim of depoliticising the civil service but would rather make it more politicised. The government has won support for the bill by taking on board opposition demands, including dropping a provision to create a top civil servant whose office would control the entire system. Mr. Zeman is critical of a provision under which every minister would have at most two deputies who are political appointees.

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Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) September 02, 2014

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to appoint veteran Lower House member Toshihiro Nikai as chairman of the LDPs General Council, the partys top decision-making body, administration sources said Monday.

Abe is also making arrangements to keep Hakubun Shimomura as education minister and give a ministerial post to LDP Lower House member Yuko Obuchi, 40, the daughter of late former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, when he reshuffles his Cabinet and LDP executive lineup Wednesday.

Abe has been working on the lineup, including a replacement for LDP Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba in his first Cabinet reshuffle since returning to power in December 2012.

Ishiba will likely get a ministerial post after an unusually public tussle with the prime minister.

On Friday, Ishiba indicated he will accept whatever position he is offered after declining to take up a planned new Cabinet post in charge of national security legislation, purportedly due to his differences with Abe over security policy.

In addition to the security legislation portfolio, Abe plans to create a new post for revitalizing regional economies.

We would like to step up our work on the development of regional economies, and it is also important to develop national security legislation, Abe said Monday, referring to the two new posts.

But Abe did not mention names, and changes in the LDP lineup are not expected to be finalized until Wednesday.

Nikai, who currently chairs the Lower House Budget Committee, served as chairman of the LDPs General Council between 2007 and 2008 under Abe. The 75-year-old Nikai has also headed the transport and trade ministries.

Obuchi, popular with voters, became the youngest postwar minister at the age of 34 when she was appointed state minister in charge of the declining birthrate in September 2008. She held that position until September 2009 under Prime Minister Taro Aso.

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The building that replaced the controversial Get Carter carpark in Gateshead has been shortlisted for a design award - as one of the years ugliest buildings.

Trinity Square, in Gateshead, is among six sites hoping to avoid picking up the Carbuncle Cup, the unofficial ugly sister to the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize, which is awarded to the best new building.

The building replaced the iconic but unloved carpark which towered over Gateshead for decades starring notoriously in the Michael Caine classic Get Carter in 1971.

The car park was finally torn down in 2010.

The nomination has not proved popular with Gateshead town leaders,

Councillor Mary Foy, Gateshead Councils cabinet member for the economy, said: Buildings are a matter of personal taste, when they built the Sage a lot of people said that was ugly but I think its beautiful.

Im shocked that Trinity Square has been voted for one of the ugliest buildings.

The student accommodation is fabulous and theres already 800 students moved in, and the town centre where the halo is is a lovely meeting place.

Respected architect Jonathan Meades gave stinging criticism of the shopping centre earlier this year in a documentary shown on BBC Four.

During Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry, he said demolishing unloved buildings which were stark and unforgiving in appearance, such as the Trinity Square carpark, had been a quick fix for councils.

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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Office has advised motorists that the exit ramp from southbound Interstate 65 to KY 44 (Exit 117) at Shepherdsville will be closed this weekend for concrete pavement repairs.

The ramp is scheduled for closure from 9:00 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29 until 5:00 a.m. Monday, Sept. 1.

Motorists should follow the signed detour via southbound I-65 to westbound KY 480 (Exit 118), northbound KY 61 and then connect with KY 44.

This work is part of a $20.7 million project for the removal and replacement of various sections of concrete pavement across a 20-mile section of I-65 in Bullitt County.

Construction work is proceeding north -- and Thursday, the work zone was moved to the section of interstate between mile points 112 and 118.

Two lanes of traffic are being maintained in each direction.

A temporary median crossover is being used to shift one lane of southbound traffic to the northbound lanes while crews replace the pavement in the southbound lanes.

Southbound traffic is separated from northbound traffic by a concrete median barrier wall.

Southbound I-65 motorists exiting at KY 44 (Exit 117), KY 480 (Exit 118) and KY 245 (Exit 112), must stay in the right lane to exit during this phase of construction.

This traffic pattern will remain in place for approximately two months while contract crews work to replace various sections of damaged concrete pavement.

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Kitchen cabinets can be the single-most striking feature in your kitchen. And whether youre looking to update base cabinets beneath a slab end on a kitchen island or seek easy-to-hang wall cabinets to showcase fine china, youll find a quick, easy and affordable solution at The Home Depot.

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Question: My dog ran into my china cabinet while chasing the cat. No damage to the dog or contents, but major damage to the curved glass. The cabinet is oak and from an estate sale 35-plus years ago, so it doesnt have any sentimental value, but its pretty. Any ideas where I might get new glass, or is it even worth it?

Charles Town, W.Va.

Answer: Dodsons Curved Glass in Frederick (301-662-0020) makes replacement glass. You can order it directly from the company or through a glass shop or an antiques restorer.

One advantage of going through a restorer is that someone else will take care of measuring for the replacement and installing it, a process that involves nailing thin strips of wood around the edges on the inside. One little nail you hit wrong, and the glass breaks, said David Wells, owner of Carrisons Restorations, an antiques restorer in Manassas (703-369-6318; http://www.carrisonsantiquerestoration.com). He said replacement glass runs about $100 to $200 if it has a uniform curve, which is the kind of situation Dodsons deals with. If the glass has a flat section and then curves, Wells orders it from a company in Michigan and the cost of one piece rises to $400 to $800. Wells charges $100 and up for installation, depending on how the furniture was designed. If the glass fits into a groove on one side and has a wooden stop only on the other side, the job is a lot quicker and less risky than when wooden strips secure the glass on all sides.

Ordering a new piece of curved glass involves determining not just the height of the glass and the length of the curve, but also the radius of the curve. B&L Antiqurie in Lexington, Mich. (800-840-1110; http://www.bentglasscentral.com), which bends glass sheets into custom shapes, describes the measuring process on its Web site.

Question: We have an old, wooden hot tub that we enjoyed for many years. We went on a foreign assignment about 10 years ago and, for insurance reasons, emptied the hot tub when we rented out our house. When we returned, the wooden planks had shrunk and the tub didnt hold water. We tried to fill the gaps with epoxy, but that didnt work, and we have been unable to find anyone in the area who either repairs hot tubs or carries and installs them. Can our existing tub be repaired? Or is there someone in the area who carries and installs new wooden hot tubs? We need one about five feet in diameter because ours is set into a small deck and there isnt space for something larger. We also prefer to stay with a wooden tub.

Cabin John

Answer: Assuming the wood hasnt rotted, you might want to start by trying to coax the fibers to swell up again. It can take several weeks, but if it works, its essentially free.

Preparation includes scraping off any remaining epoxy, making sure any groove joints in the stages (sideboards) line up properly and tightening the metal band or bands around the outside, after first measuring the height to make sure each metal strip is level. Then moisten the tub with water and keep it damp. Jill Peck, customer sales associate at Snorkel (800-962-6208; http://www.snorkel.com), a Seattle company that makes wooden, wood-fired hot tubs, said one way to do this is to sprinkle the tub with water from a hose or splash on buckets of water, preferably warm. Wait half an hour, and do it again. Repeat several more times. Then spread sopping-wet towels over the sides of the tub. Keep those soaked for two weeks. Try filling the tub. If youre lucky, the gaps will be swollen shut.

If that doesnt work, or if you want professional help from the beginning for tricky steps such as knowing just how much to tighten the bands, try Jack Marshall of Marshall Pool and Spa (202-244-5005; marshallpoolspa@verizon.net), which is moving from McLean to Reston next month. Marshall still repairs and sells wooden hot tubs; one company that deals only in plastic tubs recommended him and said hes the only one they know of who still does.

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Patna: Bihar government today extended a helping hand to women falling victim of acid attack by making a provision for medical assistance up to Rs 1 lakh from the Chief Minister's fund.

This was decided at a meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi.

The cabinet also enhanced the amount for medical purposes from the Chief Minister's medical aid fund for BPL and other needy persons.

Accordingly, the amount for total hip replacement assistance from the CM relief fund has been increased to Rs 60,000 from existing Rs 20,000, Principal Secretary, Cabinet Coordination Committee Brajesh Mehrotra told reporters here.

The money for knee replacement has been raised to Rs 50,000 from Rs 20,000 at present.

The cabinet decided to accord "Pitripaksh fair" and "Sonepur cattle fair" the status of state fair.

Pitripaksh fair in Gaya district is for worship of ancestors and will begin early next month.

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GERB has called for drastic reforms and replacement of the central banks governing council should the party win majority in the upcoming snap vote.

Lilyana Pavlova, former Regional Development Minister in the GERB cabinet (2009-2013) on Tuesday told Nova TV that the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) and the Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) were the bodies most responsible for the current crisis at Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB).

There should be a change in BNBs leadership, said Pavlova, adding that controls over banking operations in Bulgaria should be improved with the help of the European Central Bank.

Bulgaria's President, political leaders and other officials agreed last month that Bulgaria should take immediate steps to join Europe's Single Supervisory Mechanism and submit itself to a peer review from the European Banking Authority. The consultations were called after the BNB put KTB under special supervision in June following a deposits run, freezing its operations and ordering an audit of its books.

In 2009, Bulgarias parliament re-elected the BNB Governor Ivan Iskrov for a second six-year term that began on October 10 the same year.

According to the results of a recent survey by Bulgarianpolling agencyAFIS, GERB would win 24.6% of the vote, followed by the Bulgarian Socialist Party with 17.8%, and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms with 7.9%.

These are the same people that re elected Ivan Iskrov ....... ie they will elect another idiot .....

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ABC Chief Minister Adam Giles said he had not been lobbied by people seeking the deputy's position.

The Country Liberals have put off finding a replacement for deputy NT chief minister Dave Tollner, who resigned last week after a furore over slurs he made to a gay staffer.

The meeting of the party's parliamentary wing was their first opportunity to discuss Mr Tollner's resignation and return to the backbench after revelations he called a gay staffer a "pillow biter" and "shirt lifter".

A Government spokeswoman said the 13 members agreed not to hold a vote so they could focus on legislation going before Parliament this week, and have postponed the decision until next week's meeting.

Chief Minister Adam Giles will take questions on Mr Tollner's seven former portfolios, including treasurer.

At a press conference in the hours ahead of the meeting Mr Giles said he had not been lobbied by people seeking the deputy's position.

"We've got 13 Members of Parliament, there are 12 people who should be vying for the deputy's position.

"Everybody wants to stand up and be one of the leaders within the team and set forth their vision for the Northern Territory.

"I am under no urgency to have a deputy, we will go through Parliament this week preferably without a deputy and we'll just get on and just do business as usual," Mr Giles said.

The Labor Opposition Leader Delia Lawrie said it was extraordinary that the Country Liberals could go through a week of Parliament without finding someone to replace Mr Tollner.

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