Slovakia

We live in a beautiful, small country which is called The Slovak republic, so I decided that I profile her.

She is situated in the Middle of Europe and that’s why some people also call it ‘The heard of Europe’. Slovakia has five neighbours: Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Austria and Czech Republic. The capital city of Slovakia is Bratislava.

In Slovakia there are many things to see whether natural or historical. At first I would like to mention The High and Low Tatras which are situated in the east and middle Slovakia. You can see many wonders there like for example glamorous lakes, amazing waterfalls and peak. And next you can visit caves or Slovak paradise.

We can see a lot of historical facilities, too. First of all there are a lot of castles for example Spiš castle, Betliar, Bratislava caste, Orava castle which are situated all over Slovakia. Secondly in Slovakia there are many museums and memorials dedicated to the memory of the Second World War.

Moreover there are many places of interests like Aqua city Poprad, sky centres or baths. So many people can find right places for their hobbies like skiing, swimming or other relaxing activities.

Food in Slovakia is prepare mostly of potatoes, flour and eggs. Typical Slovak food is “Bryndzové halušky” which I recommend to try. Also you can try here “Pirohy”, potatoes pancakes or “Mačanka”.

I recommend you try all things which I have written here further more I would recommend you to visit Vlkolínec or Bardejov which belong to UNESCO.

SLOVAN-SKALICA

The big fight of West Slovakia ended. Skalica has the biggest achievement in club history. Season 2008/2009 had bad breaking-up for Slovan. They were leading the series 3:2 but in 6th match Skalica won 3:1 and enforced the last 7th match in Slovan. Mikus and Palffy are unstoppable in this season. Both of them scored 1 goal and Palfyy has also assist.
Bratislava - 28.3.2009
In first 10 minutes the both of teams were careful and the main target was to defend and no one wanted to get goal. Skalica was leading 2 times but each time Slovan scored a goal in less then 2 minutes. After 3rd period was over time.
Who else could send Skalica to final of Slovanf Extraliga like 2 biggest star of Skalica?
In the time 9:04 of over time Mikus assisted to Palffy and he scored goal with backhand. The cheer was hair-raising. In last season Skalica ended in front of gate to final, in 7th match of series against Kosice.
Pallfy has 1 or more point in each match from last 25 duels. His last match without point was on 13.January 2009 against Kosice. During this time he has scored 22 goals and he has also assisted on 22 goals.

Marian Gaborik

Marian Gaborik (born February 14, 1982 in Trencin)
He is currently playing fot the team Minnesota Wild. He was drafted from the third place in first round in the entry draft of NHL in 2008. Minesota Wild is the one from the newest team of NHL. In his first season he showed that his talent is enormous. He scored 18 goals and also assisted on 18 goals. In next season he scored 30 times and became one of the most dangerous offensive players. The following season in 2002-2003 he was nominated by fans to NHL All-Star Game and he won the skater competition. 2004-2005 was Lockout in NHL and he returned to the Slovakia to help his mother-club HC Dukla Trencin. He had 52 points in 29 games.
Marian has also frquetly problems with his health. In January 2009 he underwent surgery. Pessimistic prognose was that this will be and of his carrier. But opposite is true. In second match after operation he created new this season record. He scored 2 times and also assist on 2 goals. He seems fit and he will be very helpful for his team who is fighting for possition which provides them place in play-off matches.

The tea at five- how to make it right

The cup of good tea can be prepared in different ways. But you need to remember that even the best quality tea can change on disgusting fluid by wrong preparation.

Basic rules

The tea- never boil just steam because the fragrantly stuff leaks by boiling.

The water- has to be fresh.

Serve it always fresh prepared and warm.

It depends on the type

The taste of every tea is very individual and that’s why it’s impossible to prepare the tea just in the one way. If you use a common water to boil it you should leave to stand it or boil it longer. Give the one tea spoon of tea on the cup with capacity 200ml. If you prepare it to the teapot you should give there one extra tea spoon. The tea lixiviates 2- 4 minutes. Whole tea lists need the longer time of lixiviation. If they are broken or crushed the shorter time is enough. When you want stronger tea keep the lists longer in it. In the vessel in which you prepare the tea or water on it don’t cook anything else because the vessel sucks aroma. We prepare the tea into the ceramic, glass or porcelain vessel.

An extra type: To the aromatic cup of hot tea it's a great supplement teeny baked good.

. people scrap their cars by the gross

The Slovak government has tendency to help and protect not only economy of the Slovak Republic but also inhabitants with against-crisis measures. Nowadays, one of the most spoken measures is a support for the car industry, called in Slovak jargon ‘car-scrapping’. The solid substance is based on the financial support of the decision people who decided to give their old car back for wholesome recycling. People could buy a new car with the reduction in price until 2000 € from the March, 9. If people comply with the provisions of the ministry of economy, people can acquire the pretension to the state allowance. The final height of the financial preferences depends only on the automobile dealers’ acceptance to decrease the price of car. ‘Car-scrapping’ has respect to the personal motor car buying with the price until 25.000 € (753.100 Slovak crowns). According to the assumptions, this allowance should recapture the car market that demand markedly decreased in the beginning of the year mainly because of the economic crisis. From the other point of view, money, assigned to this support to people, runned out. So people who used this advantage are cheerfully but it is also the preview as our government and its decisions keep going after acceptance.

ROBBIE WILLIAMS

Robert Peter Williams was born on February 13th, 1974, in Stoke-on-Trent, a town in the North of England. He grew up with his mother and sister Sally after his parent’s divorce. His mother saw an advertisement of a band that was looking for potential members. The 16-year-old Robbie was an instant go and became a pert of the boy band Take That. It would become a British sensation. It broke into North America With the hit single I Want You Back. After five years of record-breaking success he was dismissed from the group. Although Williams ultimately won and signed with EMI, he had problems keeping sober and had to go to a rehab clinic for his drug and alcohol habits. Finally, once Angels the fifth single off the album Life Thru A Lens was released and making his comeback as a solo artist. The Ego Has Landed was released in 1999, followed by the single Millennium, which was a Top 10 hit in North America and followed up with I Have Been Expecting You, No Regrets, Strong and the successful She Is The One.His third album Sing When You Are Winning with international hits Rock DJ(which has a very unique video) and Kids was very successful too. Since the 2001 Brit Awards, Williams certainly has had a lot to sing about: he took home a record-breaking 12 awards, including honors for Best British Male Artist and Best British Single and Video for Rock DJ. He also shows a love for the charity organizations that he supports, such a s UNICEF, Jeans For Genes and Children’s Promise. In my opinion Robbie seems to be the most popular man in Britain today.

JACK KEROUAC

Jack Kerouac was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. During World War II, Jack joined the US Merchant Marine and later the US Navy for a short time. When he was not sailing he was hanging around New York with Columbia University students Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. Together they formed part of the Beat Generation. Jack wrote his first novel The Town and the City, but it did not meet the success he hoped for.He decided to change his style of writing. According to his new motto „Something that you feel will find its own form“, he sat down and within 21 days he wrote the novel On the Road. He wanted to describe his and Cassady’s trip across America. He became a close friend with the young Zen Buddhism poet Gary Snyder and found enlightenment thrugh the Buddhist religion and nature. He described his new experiences in the novel The Dharma Bums. In 1955 The six Gallery Reading was organized. This event was the first important public manifestation of the Beat Generation, and publishers began to express interest in the unwanted manuscript On the Road. Kerouac’s novel was finally published in 1957 and it was an immediate success. He published many books during the following years. Neal Cassady, one of Kerouac’s good friends, was an unfailing source of inspiration. Dean Moriaty, one of the main characters of this nove lis inspired by him. He is responsible for all the excitement and desire that fill the road trip and the book. In my view The Beat Generation would not be complete without the sound of jazz and countless talks about the meaning of life. I thing that they are so famous for their chaotic and spontaneous style of writing and true feelings.

Wales

To the west of England lies a small, secret country called Wales. The area of Wales 20 764 square kilometers and has a population of 3 million. The capital is Cardiff. This country is not very famous between the Slovak people and that is why I write some information about this amazing country for me. Wales is a part of the United Kingdom. It is a land of green and grey, because there are green fields, valleys and grey mountains, sky and so on.

Wales has maintained its unique culture and strong national identity, particularly its language. Welsh is a Celtic language, very different from English. It is one of the oldest languages in Europe. In nineteenth century the number of Welsh speakers declined. The British government made English the official language.
A tradition of storytelling and poetry continues today. Every year the festival of music, poetry and drama “eisteddfods” is realized. It is a meeting of poets and singers who take part in competitions. The Welsh people like traditions, their culture and they are proud that they live in this country.
The flag of Wales, with red dragon is one of the oldest in the world. The patron saint of Wales is St David. The leek is another symbol of Wales. According to legend, St David ordered his soldiers to give them on helmets before the Welsh won in the battle against the Saxons.

The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty is a national symbol of freedom for the United States. It was given to the Americans in 1866 as a gift from France. It had supported the American Revolution. Liberty’s crown has seven continents of the world. Liberty’s left arm holds a tablet with “JULY IV MDCCLXX” written on it. The Declaration of Independence was signed in this day.

There were a lot of problem with a location of the Liberty. The American government did not have enough money to build the pedestal. One American poet wrote a poem called “The New Colossus” in 1883 about the Statue of Liberty, which helped to raise 100000 dollars for the pedestal. The final lines of this poem were placed on a tablet on the pedestal.
In 1924, the Statue of Liberty became a national symbol of peace and liberty. After the several years Bedloe’s Island was renamed Liberty Island, and the American Museum of Immigration was installed at the statue’s base.
The Status of Liberty has been the symbol of hopes and dreams for immigrants from around the world arriving to the USA. Nowadays, thousands tourists visit this historical monument every year and it belongs between the most popular tourist attraction in the world.

How to become workaholic?

Dependence on the work is the phenomenon of time. We live hurried life, desire for money, success, credit moves us ahead. Work is the most important thing. This dependence which is accepted by society becomes life style for many people.

Beginnings of workaholic

It starts innocently. You get longed- for job, in these days it miracle. You want to make impression and show everybody what is in you.

You stay at work longer and longer because there are lot of things that have to be done. You take more and more duties on your responsibility which you can’t manage on the time that why you often take your work home and you do in at your free time and at the weekends. Your work gobbled you up gradually and you haven’t time on other things. Work is on the first place. Even your family, children, the best friends, interests you happy stay sideway.

How to get out of it?

The worst and the most important at the same time is to admit that you have the problem. Till the workaholic realize that s/he has the problem treatment is impossible. At the many cases the one way to understand the problem is damage health.

Statistic

Dependence on the work affects more men then women. Women are curbed by responsibility to the family.

. battle for the presidential seat continues

Slovak people will choose the president in the second round of presidential elections scheduled for April 4. According to expectations, Ivan Gašparovič and opposition candidate Iveta Radičová are the main characters of the decisive battle that progressed from the first round with the two highest numbers of voices from the voters. It is necessary to say that Ivan Gašparovič won the first round with less lead like were the predictions of public opinion polls. Politicals assume the balanced battle in the final round. Both opponents believe themselves before this final plebiscite. Actual president Ivan Gašparovič, backed by two parties of the ruling coalition the Smer, the largest party in parliament and the Slovak National Party (SNS), received 46,71 percent of the votes and Iveta Radičová, the candidate of the parliamentary opposition parties finished with 38,05 percent of the votes. The voter turnout was at 43.63 percent. For this presidential election there were 4,339,331 eligible voters registered in the voter lists and 1,875,629 valid votes were cast. In my opinion, the second round will be more interesting mainly because of the votes from the voters that elected others presidential candidates who did not succeed in plebiscite or persuaded Slovak inhabitants.

The Aromas and appetites of Slovakia

This is the notable project which prepare for us nine museums from The Slovak national museum. They unit their energy and prepare for each gourmets and lovers culinary´s specialities all over the World the uniquely exhibition which is called The Aromas and appetites of Slovakia. There on the exhibition are presented traditional dish Slovak people and constituent kitchen of minorities who live in Slovakia – Hungarians, Germans, Croatians, Ukrainians, Ruthenians, Gypsies, Jews and Czechs people.

This exhibition will be to everybody´s liking who wants to familiarise not only with the Slovak traditions but also with manners of feeding ethnic´s minorities who are living here in Slovakia. It adverts to peculiarities of traditional kitchens at the specifics occasions which are associated with the red-letter days in their life's. For instance: The Wedding day, The Christmas day, The Easter day, festivals and so on. Everybody who visits this interesting exhibition will be prepared for them the culinary book with typical recipes and for children and school classes will be prepared the special guide.
The exhibition ,,Aromas and appetites of Slovakia´´ is open up to public from the end of March 2009, everyday (except Tuesday) from ten to fifteen o'clock, here in Bratislava.

The Spiš castle

I come from the East of Slovakia where are the most of cultural facilities. So I decided that I sketch you a castle which is the most famous on the East of Slovakia. It is called the Spiš castle.

This castle counts among the biggest ruin in the Central Europe. In 1993 the Spiš castle was registered in the list of world culture and natural inheritance UNESCO. In this castle complex we can find exhibition from the Spiš museum about history of castle, medieval weapon and feudally judiciary.

I would recommend you visit not only the castle, but its surroundings which is very beautiful as well. For instance :

* Spišské podhradie

This is the town which arose in 11 century. There we can admire beautiful streets and square surrounding with houses from the Renaissance. There are a lot of sacral buildings for example : church which is called ,, Kostol narodenia panny Márie´´, baroque complex which consist from ,, Kláštor milosrdných bratov a Kostol Sv. Jána z Boha.

* Spišká kapitula

It is the city memories place, which is situated in the west of the Spišské Podhradie. Its the

most important build is the Katedrála Sv. Martina.

* Náučný chodník Sivá Brada – Dreveník

The pathway is 14,5 kilometres long. When we walk on this pathway we visit all facilities which Spiš castle contains. At the end this jaunt we get to the Spiš castle. The biggest travertine formation in Slovakia is hill Dreveník (609 metres).

Women with the best style of clothing

Every year in the end of the season worldfamous magazine People inserts the best dressed women in showbusiness, so women, who bewitch with trendy outfits but also with natural elegance and respectability. Who was the best dressed woman?
Kate Hudson
Showbusiness has the new queen! The trendiest and the best dressed celebrity in 2008 become Hollywood actress Kate Hudson, who bewitched edition People magazine not only with her dresses, which she posed in on the red carpet but also with her natural elegance and the fancy of choosing her clothes on common day. And maybe we are looking on the genesis of new fashion icon who will give trends in clothing.
At the second place is…
… exotic beauty from far Barbados, Rihanna. Natural bronzed singer despite of her starred carrier took attention also with her nonpareil outfits, bright colors and scarce combinations. She likes to change elegant cocktail robes to “street” fashion. Rihanna knows how to be trendy and sexy at the same time.
Gwyneth Paltrow
The symbol of romantic beauty is Gwyneth Paltrow. Successful actress and the wife of Chris Martin, who is a singer of Coldplay, has been placed on the ranking positions in all fashion inquiries for years. Her classic elegant style, modesty and flair for fashion magazine People appreciated and Gwyneth was at the third place. In 2008 she arrested the attention with her new hair cut, but also with her high heel in which she appeared at the public. 

. a man vs. a woman

The Slovak Republic stands before one of the most important decisions for the next five years. This weekend belongs to these more important because of the Slovak presidential election which constitutes the most interesting event of our boring politics. 2 million voices, a number of people whose the new head of a state has to convince on its electoral program. The president is mainly a representant of the Slovak Republic but he is also the highest institutional functionary, signs laws, appoints and appeals the members of a government. A red carpet is rolled out before Bratislava's Grassalkovič Palace, the official seat of the Slovak president. Seven candidates are standing in the first round of the presidential election, which will be held on Saturday, March 21. In the first round it is necessary to gain more than a half of valid voices. According to last researches it will be compulsory for voters to participate in the second round because neither of electoral candidates is not the leader in public opinion. Voters can elect from the two most successful candidates from the first round in the second one. From the public point of view, this election will be a fight between actual president Ivan Gašparovič and ex-minister of social affairs and family Iveta Radičová. We will see, whom before-election campaign and promises could convince around 4.25 million beneficiary voters. It is up to us...

. half part of the leaving examination

Finally. One of the most spoken words on Thursday or Friday on all secondary schools in the Slovak republic. Passing a leaving exam as a test of maturity, can be considered by the first step to the adult’s world. As for the age of maturity, 18 years, e.g. in an African tribes is a habit of the venting tooth young men, who became adults, in our country is leaving exam one of the advanced how belong to the adults. Time passed and this week was full of nervosism, bitted nails and heads of knowledge on secondary schools. It was a chance for students to show a content of their brains. The first day of nervous students was Tuesday, 19.3. when the knowledge from the Slovak language was verified. Hungarian and Ukrainian language was on program on Friday, 20.3. An exam from Slovak language is divided into external and internal part which is divided into test from grammar and literature and verbal response. English, German, French or Russian language were verified on Wednesday, students could choose from levels A and B and it was also divided into internal and external part. The last day of stress was Thursday, 21.3. when students demonstrated knowledge from Maths. It is necessary to say that this written part is only a half of leaving exam and students continue on May by verbal representation of their knowledge from certain subjects which they chose. In my opinion, a leaving exam is a base of successful occupative life. Nowadays, not the leaving exam but the university degree is considered by an inseparable part of Curriculum Vitae when people want to succeed in life.

Stylish Victoria Beckham

Some people love her style, other hate it. She won some scales as the vest dresses woman of the world but alike she is between the worst dressed women. Title, which the wife of famous English footballer deserves, is the women with the most expressive shop spirit on the world. 
She started as the one of five young crazy girls singing for teenagers. She married to on the first look drab although famous and successful footballer. Today she is a part of showbusiness. She made male fashion icon from her husband and they founded fashion brand, she poses in the clothes of famous fashion designer and make unreal money. 
From the closet of Victoria Backham
Always when Victoria goes outside she is chic. Dupe her in the jogging suit when she goes out with rubbish is very difficult. “Fully elegant” –the synonym that fashion critics give her. She changes her clothes several times a day and you will never see her at the same model two times. 
Her style is faced on clothes which are snug on her slim figure and on the big accessories- favorite big glasses, big bags or shoos. You find in her closet just branded clothes- favorite dress by Gucci, accessories Dolce & Gabbana or Chanel. From the colors dominate black and white. 
Hair, hair, hair
Hair chameleon- that can be Victoria’s title too. Her short cut on the shingle became model for the whole world. And when her hair cut staled her she chose short cut on a boy. Victoria simply knows what suits her a what makes her beautiful.

PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER

About the novel

The best-selling thriller of the brilliant and murderous perfumer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was first published in Switzerland in early 1985. It made author Patrick Suskind, who was born in 1949 near Munich. The novel has sold over 12 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 42 languages. It is studied at universities around the world, in all the various disciplines with which it deals: psychology, history, criminology, law and of course literature.

About the movie

After Grenouille is born, his mother tries to hide child under the table in a market place. But the newborn screams and is saved by a passer-by. The mother is hanged. Grenouille spends the first years of his life in the orphanage, he possesses a phenomenal sense of smell. Later he starts to work in a tannery, he visits Paris and he follows the scent of beautiful plum vendor. The girl senses a sudden chill in the air, but he loses the scent and he knows he must capture it again...

Then he finds new job in Paris for perfumer Baldini. Grenouille quickly shows his talent at creating fragrances which will help Baldini`s reputation. He goes to Grasse, because only there mystherious method is being used. He want to capture scents of beautiful women`s bodies.

During few weeks young beautiful girls are being murdered. The marchant Richis starts to fear for his daughter Laura. He killed twelve girls for capture their scent and he is missing only one scent...scent of Laura.

On the day of his execution he drops few dashs of his perfect perfum and everybody starts embrasing.Even the father of the murdered girl throws his arms around Grenouille crying for forgiveness.

Grenouille comes back to place where he was born and he sprinkles his perfume, all people only think they love him. All that remains of him is the flacon and one last drop of the most valuable perfume in the world.

DEPECHE MODE

Depeche Mode is a rock band from the town of Basildon, England. They have been one of the longest-lived and most successful bands to have emerged during the New Wava/New Romantic era. Depeche Mode has sold over 70 million albums worldwide. They have influenced many of today`s popular artists.

The three current members of Depeche Mode are:

Martin Gore (primary songwriting, vocals, guitars and keyboards)

David Gahan (lead vocals, recent songwriting, and other occasional instruments)

Andrew Fletcher (early keyboards, primary management, and other occasional instruments)

Former members include:

Alan Wilder (production, keyboards, drums, vocals and occasional songwriting) from 1982 to 1995.

Vince Clarke (primary songwriting, and keyboards) from1980 to 1981

Martin Lee Gore has been a member of Depeche Mode since its start in 1980. He is currently the primary song writer, but also does most of the music and guitar. He is also the backup singer and sometimes even the lead singer.

Vince Clarke was responsible for the material on Depeche Mode`s first album, Speak & Spell (1981). The themes were unreguited love and naivete, with a dash of everything from politics to religion. This set a precedent for the darker tones in both the lyrics and melodies for the group.

In 2003, David Gahan released his first solo album, Paper Monsters. The album made Dave and he sometimes personally attacked Martin and Andrew in interviews. In 2004, Gahan said that if did not get to write half of the songs on the new Depeche Mode album, there would not be one. There was a compromise and Dave wrote three songs on 2005`s Playing the Angel-their first album since 2001`s two million-selling Exciter.A sense of optimism and pleasure at what Depeche Mode has achieved can be felt in Playing the Angel.

Traveling - amusement or necessity?

The main task of traveling is changed. In the past the most of people traveling for pleasure and they enjoyed. Nowadays people live very fast and the movement belongs between basic needs. But traveling is still a great hobby for a lot of people. Every summer you can see thousands people waiting at bus or railway stations or at airports for the means of transport that will them to place of their summer holiday. These people travel for pleasure and amusement. Traveling by train was quite common in the past, but with the rapid development of the car industry it became partly neglected. In my opinion traveling by train have a lot of advantages. If you travel at night you can sleep in a sleeper. If you are hungry, you may have a meal in a dinning- car. Nowadays traveling by plane has become more and more popular. It is the fastest and the safest way to travel according to statistics.

A lot of people travel on business every day. People go to work, to school and they often have to passed many kilometers from their house to place of working. The traveling is necessity for these people.

Breaking hockey records

Zigmund Palffy has scored goal or assisted in last 19 matches. Only one player accomplished this in Slovnaft extraliga, Martin Hujsa.Palffy has chance to create new record in next match on Friday in Skalica. Palffy has also 56 goals, 110 points and 83 points in +/- stats.

Juraj Mikus, 22 year old, is second in the historical charts of our highest hockey league. His goal against Slovan is his 100. point in this season.

Who is the best goalman in NHL ?

If you said Patric Roy you are wrong. It was true for a long time but NHL’s team New Jersey Devils has new recordman. Martin Brodeur. His yesterday victory against Chicago was his 552. vicotry. No one from goalmen has more. He is in very condition after inujry and this season isn’t his last so he will increase this record.

The semi-final of play off began

Slovan - Skalica 6:8!
The first semifinal match of Slovnaft extraliga was amazing. 14 goals per match! Visitors had to be content. This series has no favourite. Skalica unexpectedly won this match. The biggest star of this match was young man Juraj Mikus who scored 3 times and he has also two assists. He has 99 points in this season and he is only third player in the history of Slovanft Extraliga who has approved 99 points. The home players of Slovan took care of Zigmund Palffy but whey were not successful. He scored 1 goal and on 2 goals assisted.
Second match was different

Sasu Hovi, the goalman of Slovan Bratislava, was headstone of Slovan’s victory. They won convincingly 4:1 and balanced the series on 1:1. Juraj Mikus scored 1 goal and Palffy assisted him. But these 2 biggest stars of Skalica were successfuly defended by Slovan. Maybe this is the right way for Slovan’s players how to win this series. Next 2 matches will be played in Skalica and this can in principle change the progress of this series.

London

London is a capital of the United Kingdom. It has a long history and it is a popular tourist destination in Britain. London is a very important industrial and agricultural centre.

It can be divided into four principal parts: the City of London, the City of Westminster, the East End and the West End.

The City of London is only small area known as the Square Mile, which was the original settlement. There are a lot of historic monuments, for example: the Monument, St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower Bridge, the Museum of London, the Tower and so on.
In 1666 many important buildings were completely destroyed in the Great Fire. The Monument is a memory of this tragedy. Who are interested in learning about London’s history? You can visit the Museum of London. There are the chronological displays of costumes and paintings. The Tower served as a fortress, a royal palace. In the past it was a famous prison where many great figures of the British history were imprisoned. Nowadays it serves as a museum. There is a famous crown jewels. The Tower is guarded by the “Beefeaters”, who are dressed in their traditional uniforms.

Zigmund Palffy

Zigmund Palffy
SKALICA-Palffy,the 36 years old player of HK SKALICA, created new goal record in the main part of Slovak extraliga. He scored 52 times and he broke the old record of Vlastimil Plavucha who scored 50 goals in season 1999/2000. He also make even the record of Pavol Demitra (99 points in one season) and now in play-off matches he created new. In this time his formation with Mikus and Hartman is the most dangerous in Slovak extraliga. This trio has 265 points with 112 goals. Skalica have played against Slovan six times in this season. Each team won 3 matches. Palffy scored 4 goals in these matches but he had never scored more than one goal per match. Play-off between Slovan and Skalica stars on Monday and this series has no shoo-in.
Sasu Hovi, the goalman of Slovan, has great form. He is the headstone of Slovan’s victories. What does he think about Zigmund Palffy?
“He is a famous player and in his actual form he can still play in NHL. He can score from any positions and he is also good asistant. We have to play our game and we have good chance to play in final series.”

The amazing story of Miroslav Satan

Pittsburgh- Management of team gave him on „weaver list.” This is list of players who can be trade to the another team. This is last chance for all to make last changes in their teams before the play-off.
It was shock for Miroslav Satan. Pittsburgh drafted him for this season with year income 3,5 mil $. He was on the 4th place in team productivity. But no one wanted to buy him and despite of this fact Pitsburg bought new player with contract on 4,5 mil $. This was the problem because Pitsburg broke the salary ceiling. Satan started his carier in AHL and after more than 1000 matches in NHL Pittsburg sent him to its “farmery” team Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.
Satan has one way contract so in AHL is his salary as big as in NHL.
In play-off matches is no rule about salary ceiling for teams. So after main part of NHL will dnes he can be back in the first team. Miroslav has 2 possibilities. He can play in AHL or he can end his contract and after this season he will be unlimited free player and he can chaose where he want to play

Giraffe’s women wear family fortune on the neck

In south-easterly Asia, women from Kareni people, where also belong Padaung tribe, wear unconventional decoration till now. Nobody knows why crossed anybody mind to put heavy hoops on the neck.

The tradition of putting hoops on, carry over till now thanks to profitable business. Tourists pay for the look on the women, who are situated to special touristic reservations and look like exhibited peace in the zoo, with pleasure.

Family fortune on the neck

In Thai town- Chiang-Rai- there are a lot of touristic offices, which take you on the trip to jungle where Padaung tribes live till now, just for little money.

Today the irrational tradition of putting hoops on, which weight is sometimes 5 – 10 kilograms, would probably lapse if there are no interested people about “the excursion to the past.” That why they put them on to little girls up to now. It starts at the fifth year of their life and when the neck gets used to hoops they gradually add other until their neck is deformed and inadequately lengthened to 30 centimeters. Hoops are made from brass of gold color and that way men put off their fortune on the safe place when they were away.

Local women have expressive difficulties with movement. Another problem is cold. Since in the mountains temperature goes down, brass hoops absorb cold fast and become very uncomfortable. On the other hand during the immense tropical heat, when temperature reaches more than 45 degrees, women are sweating and they don’t avoid different skin diseases.

The false myth

Information wide- spread between amateurs is that in the past to woman, who didn’t admire her husband, took the hoops off and she died. But in reality the superstition, that after removal woman will dye, isn’t truth. But during the cleaning brass decoration– if they take it off- women have to be very careful because their muscles and bones aren’t accustomed to hold heaviness of the head.

. and the winner is ...

After a month of Eurovision’s experience Slovakia has its locum tenens on Eurovision Song Contest after many years. Our colours will be represented by a duet from a couple of Nela Pocisková and Kamil Mikulčík called Leť tmou (Let darkness). This pair became the winner of the sixth live transmission on the Slovak television, which decided to allow spectators to choose their favorite in 5 semifinal´s and 1 final night. Talented Nela Pocisková and charismatic Kamil Mikulčík persuaded not only beholders but also jury that delegated them to the Moscow´s final. In the last final night 16 finalists contested for an advance to Moscow. Spectator´s vote and jury´s decisions resolved on the second place and second substitute Tomáš Bezdeda and the third place which means the first substitute was filled by Mukatado. As for chance to win the international final in Moscow, one hundred one hundred people taste, many music experts will execrate this song but in my opinion, whole project can be considered by an alarm clock for music dramaturges and Slovak radios can renewed their playlist with 16 new songs, including the winner duet. From my point of view, the idea of finding national representative was excellent but by execution fell behind huge programs as Slovak Idol or Let´s Dance.

BEYONCE

Beyonce Giselle Knowles as a young girl would drown out everyone, including the church choir, on Sundays at church. At eight years old, she met Latavia Robertson while auditioning for a girls` musical group. Matthew Knowles, his manager and father, later paired the two with Letoya Luckett. In 1992, cousin Kelly Rowland joined the group, and they performed together as Destiny`s Child. In 1997 “No, No, No” became their first official single. Beyonce had three top ten hits within the year:”Jumpin, Jumpin”, “Say My Name” and “Bills, Bills, Bills”. They became one of the best-selling female groups. Their second album sold more than nine million units worldwide.

Later Letoya and Latavia left the group because of management struggles. Destiny`s Child took home two awards, Best R&B Song and Best Performance. Their third album was called Survivor. The success of “Survivor” resulted in another Grammy for the group in February 2002. In fact, the American Music, MTV, Soul Train and Image Awards all showered the group with praise.

After all this success, the group`s three talented girls decided to try their solo careers. Beyonce became so famous with her strong voice and vocals. Her first album was organized, she had a hit with Jay-Z called “Bonnie and Clyde and also Dangerously love. She created the club hit “Baby Boy” and the pop success “Crazy Love”. She also can be seen in ads for L`Oreal and Pepsi. Fans never must wait to news of their favorite R&B star, because she loves her job. Singing and dancing are two important part of her life.

T. S. ELIOT - THE MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL

One of the best known figures of the English literature of the 20th century was Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) who was born in America but spent most of his life in England. Eliot was born into a prominent family in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at Harvard and later he lived in Paris, studying at the Sorbonne.

His most successful play is Murder in the Cathedral. The play was performed at Canterbury Cathedral. The plot of the drama describes the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket. Thomas was a normal young man-stormy, proud, selfish and arrogant. But in later life became one of the most pious Archbishops of the 12^th century. Thomas`s greatest friend was Henry Anjou Plantagenet, who was later to become King Henry II of England. When Henry became king at the age of 21, Becket became his Chancellor. They both worked to bring law. They were friends and they spent their free time together (they hunted together).

Archbishops of Canterbury died, Henry saw his chance again that Church by promoting his best friend Thomas to the new Archbishops. King Henry and Becket remained good friends until they started arguing over clerical privilege. Thomas spent some years in exile.

When he came back their relationships (between Thomas and Henry) completely changed. King became so furious and sent four knights to the Cathedral. Thomas closed the door and barred it. He cried in a loud clear voice “The Church of God must not be made a fortress.” He reopened the door and stood beyond the central pillar. Knights came in. A voice cried: “Where is Thomas Becket?” It seems that the knights did not at first intend to kill Becket, but as he stood firm after the first blow, the four attacked and butchered him.

After Becket`s death, people were talking of the miracles that happened, and they went to pray to Canterbury. For almost four hundred years St. Thomas Becket was regarded as England`s greatest saint.

. family tragedy

In these days, Bardejov has not became famous for its historical masterpieces but for crime. The day of March 4 belongs to the black days of the history of this historical town in the eastern part of Slovakia. The family´s tragedy was occurred in the centre of Bardejov. The life of 38-year old man has changed forever. He will never see his wife and son alive. This man found his 31-year old wife and nearly 2-year old son, dead, around 7 p.m. in the sauna of their house. The man called a policy, together with its came also an expert from the forensic medicine. The time of death was determined between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on that day. According inhabitants of Bardejov and policeman, there is a lot of questions about this self-murder maybe murder. As for the first information, woman killed her kid and then she destroyed herself. On the other hand, policy also does not include out a dual murder. The weapon, which is owned by a husband of late woman, was found on the floor in the sauna and was taken on a technical expertise. Only investigation shows where the truth is but anyway it does not return lives young people, who had a whole life before themselves.

Attack the flu

The weather changes and change from one season to another make people with weak immunity sickness. The flu can affect us also in the spring. High temperatures and the ache of whole your body are the typical symptoms of flu. Get the flue is too easy because you can be infected by straight contact with ill person or using the same things with him/her.

Free vaccination

All insurance- companies offer free flu vaccination. In spite of this just few patients use it. Vaccination is needed every year because flu virus mutates gradually and there are always new substances in it. It has 70 % success.

Hardy fellows win

There are also other ways how to duck flu. Conditioning suits to your body. Thanks to this the changeable weather doesn’t surprise you. Well when the winter comes don’t underestimate right clothing.

Other types

Well sleep, sport and shuffle from the stress affect for prevention on all illnesses. We shouldn’t forget on vitamin C, which is contained in citrus fruit, sour cabbage, kiwi, bunch of grapes, apple.

Make your immunity work

Natural vitamins are more suitable than their tablet forms. Wash your hands more often then other time.

Your helpers in the fight with flu

- temperature is your helper now. If it’s not higher than 39 degrees don’t suppress it. It’s the natural ability of your body against the virus

- honey, garlic, linden tea, thyme good affect the flu

- long bath is not recommended. Small bath on the feet is better.

- you should dodge bigger company of the people to not expand the virus