TOP women of Slovakia

Fates, often incredible humanly strong. Artistic portraits of famous photographers. Stories of women which are not only inspiring, but also humanly attractive ...

37 women of Slovakia is an exclusive publication, which represents our extraordinary female figures. There are 37 women, but it does not mean that this number limits their actual number. On the contrary, only at the beginning of project there was prepared over hundreds of exceptional life stories, more or less-known personalities from various areas of our lives. The advisory team of great masters, who are presented at the final pages of the publication helped to choose symbolic 37.

Three and seven are happy magic numbers and these ladies are real happiness for our country. Even the quality of our life and good reputation in the world is based on their business and social activities. Their art brings us an amazing experience and their mastery, whether in sports, dance or dramatic profession - the joy to life. Who is the number three in the book and who is the magic seven?

When creating publications Top 37 Women of Slovakia, the authors tried to do the most objective selection and take into consideration an amount of criteria of excellence of these figures. What may be interesting for all of us, what they have reached so far, what everything they can do for others, what families and the attitude to life they have. Olympic medals are the highest valuation of sport performance, but human life and decades of dedicated rescue health, successful business, the judiciary, the financial strategy for the country, building companies and their brands, or artistic and media projects, which have equally high value.

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Ballroom dances

Each of us had experience when we were walking solemnly to the floor with his partner at School ball. In that time we have encountered something extraordinary – Cha-cha, Jive, Slowfox, Waltz ... We learnt all of these dances and with the noble introduction we showed our skills to our is parents, friends, acquaintances ...

History
Dances, as we know them today, originated from two different types of dances: the standard dances and Latin dances.

Standard dances have appeared on the scene first. They owe its existence to a new melody, originating from America, where they came into the world of early 20th century. New melodies of African-American origin were given the name ragtime. American dance audience immediately responded to this exciting music made up of many unknown wild dances.

Charleston has become a hit in a short time hit, but the other dances went out of fashion quickly. Nevertheless, ragtime and more refined musical styles, which arose a few years later, revolutionized the basic structure of ballroom dances around the world. Until then French dance masters taught dance based on the five positions of the feet, which were also used in classical ballet.

Ragtime meant the beginning of "common" partner dance based on natural movement such as walking. The basis of the ballroom dance scene now consists of 10 dances, which are also included in international competitions. They are: English waltz, Slowfox, Quickstep, Tango (the standard dances), and samba, Cha-cha, Rumba, Pasodoble, Jive (so-called Latin American dances).

Between 1920 and 1930 a group of British professional dancers has developed four dances: English Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep and Tango. It appeared that those dances suited to the audience the best and they also suited to the dance halls to popular music of those times the best.

Discover the hidden power of saunas!

Stay in the sauna is just perfect to relax! It has beneficial effects on the health of body and the spirit of body. After being in the sauna you feel as a new person!

Stay in the sauna is rotate hot and subsequently cold environment. Positive effects are visible! To achieve long-term support for your immune system, prevent diseases or total relaxation, sauna should be regular (at least once a week).

Positive effects of sauna on the human body:

• overheats the skin and internal organs totally, thereby reducing muscle tension
• increases oxygen in blood, normalizes blood pressure, trains cardio-vascular system
• is the prevention of the infections of respiratory tract
• increases food conversion
• increases the body defenses
• Encourages the hormonal functions of organism
• has a mental relaxation effect, releasing, removing stress
• accelerates healing of little injuries
• is an ideal cleansing of body, the body better disposes waste substances
• improves physical and mental coordination and mood

Note: The sauna is not suitable for epileptics, people with cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, lung disease or diabetes.
Do not go to sauna with a full stomach (first 2 hours after eating a meal), even after considerable physical exertion.

Hot trend: colored jeans

Also, this summer will be full of colors. And the variability didn’t avoid jeans, a basic piece of clothing of every woman. Eighties are back and with them narrow jeans in rainbow colors!

Colored jeans literally conquer the world. Fashion designers contest who will bring "jeans trousers” in even courageous colors. Celebrities simply love them and dress for every occasion. Because to fall in love with them is no problem. They are playful, funny and enormously sexy. Which woman would refuse them?

"Mrs Fashion" prepared for us a small decoy. If you don’t own a perfect figure, you should avoid narrow jeans in colors. Their perfect cigarette cut can shear beautiful curves of female body, but on the other hand, can very false highlight its shortcomings. Follow the rule that jeans have to suit you and feel good in it.

Despite many efforts to integrate jeans to the evening elegance, even in this case, colored jeans are suitable mainly for daily wear, use them for informal meetings with friends, or for shopping. They quickly became the part of urban outfit, now very popular in Slovakia.

What colors are trendy? Simply all. Passionate red, romantic pink, original blue, green calming, playful blue, innocent white. But watch out for color combinations!

Colored jeans are here and you have the brilliant opportunity to try out celebrity style on your own skin. Add at least one foolishly-colored jeans in your wardrobe!

A water aerobics has become the hit of holidays!

Unassuming and very efficient, suitable for all ages that you can practice quietly outside the hotel pool.
Now you can train water aerobics in Slovakia. And you don’t have to use the services of fitness company offering mass practice. Just dress suit and let’s go to the garden pool, the indoor swimming pool or outside swimming pool.
Water aerobics is aerobic exercise in water, which not only helps to increase physical exercise, also different parts of the body forms beautiful and helps reduce weight. It uses water resistance to strengthen muscles. It’s very popular especially among the obese and elderly people, because it doesn’t strain joints or heart. So, if you can’t exercise normal aerobic, the water is an excellent substitute. You choose your own pace and exercises

that work best for you. And you can practice also if you are non-swimmer.

The exercise is divided into three blocks.

During the first block the body must be accustomed to physical exercise, it must be warmed up.

The second part should be devoted to actual exercise. Brush. Focus on every movement, Breathe regularly and note the action of water. You can use various aids such as balls, rubber, etc..

The third part should be more rest, and let the body regenerate.

Water aerobics is an excellent choice for rehabilitation, the person rests in the water the water top had a positive impact on the psyche of each of us.

Tourism is suitable for everybody

Have you really tried everything, but still you did not include exercise in your daily life? You can’t find the time to visit fitness center and you think that jumping in front of TV according to fitness videos is "strange"? If you have not found the physical activity, which would suit you, try walking. 

Put on your trainers and let’s go to nature! 

Tourism is the most practical form of exercise, you can burn fat free with a smile on the face and without unnecessary injury. Even tourism is regarded as the most popular part of fitness for people in every age.
You don’t need expensive machines or exceptional athletic talent and it’s available for everybody. 
As a beginner it’s fully enough to choose the half-hour walk in the park each day. Slowly you get used to physical activity and good physical condition can be simply "walked". And prepare for a longer weekend tourist tours. 

What should you know before you go for a walk? 

If you are trying to lose your weight, you better choose a short walk each day, as one of the large distanced from time to time. Only regularity ensures a positive effect on your body and learns it how to be physical active.
Be patient and don’t overvalue your forces. If you force your body to a high performance, it will reward you with pain and excessive tiredness. 
Walk about 30 minutes after a meal can increase the burning of calories by 30%. You burn more calories if you walk in the sand, high grass, or up a hill. 
You decided to start with tourism? Positive changes won’t wait to take a long time. Staying in the fresh air has a versatile salutary effect on the organism. Walking is easy and soothing, suitable for all ages.

Are you the television maniac?

Did you realize sometimes how much time do you spend in front of television? Try to count it. It’s terrible, isn’t it? Only one movie has about an hour and a half. If you count some news to this, some rest serial, you climb up to quite a high number. 

Because the time is still faster it suddenly appear, that the time spent before the TV is a rare luxury. The claims for man grow, also the obligations, but the day still has only 24 hours. 

How much time spend before the TV? 

Magic box with sound and pictures - who could resist? It can attract, advise, how we should make up, what to wear, we get valuable information about public events, and mediates to us the emotions and important information about the latest advances in science and technology... However, increasingly sitting before this miraculous discovery in our lives inconspicuously steal health problems.

There is the wonder – we still sit at home, without fresh air, without moving, just looking at the flashing screen and we crunch the chips or other goody. Conclusion? On the one hand, thanks to a TV we get so needed knowledge about the time in which we live, on the other hand, we’re becoming dependent on the media. This is a malicious "disease" that we often realize in extreme stage - that is when we discover that we were once again the whole weekend sitting and watched the serials, instead of we have lived our lives! 

Successful people do not sit before the TV! 

Note lifestyles of successful people. Do they sit the hours before television? No. They do not have the time. They think, live, do not have time to deal with problems of strangers. They focused on yourself and did well.

Mottos of holders OTO

They are successful what shows the OTO in their homes. Find out what some of the popular women from TV moves ahead and what words they repeat in difficult moments.

Everything needs to be fought

The anchorwoman Jarmila Hargašová-Lajčáková says that behind the every success was huge drudgery. Everything you need to fight. She is motivated by fact that behind everything what person has is a lot of work and that why we shouldn’t be jealous.

Don’t make the plans

The singer Jana Kirschner has two mottos in her life. The first is: “Plan the future, as it is to go to the fish to dry gully.” The second is:” To entertain God, make it with your plans for the future.” She said that’s the reason she didn’t plan the future.

The life truth

The anchorwoman Adela Banášová has one which she would like to keep: “A way to luck doesn’t exist, happiness is the way.” She told sometimes was very difficult to keep it.

Beautify every day

The actresses Diana Mórová says: “Whether I go to work, to shop, whether I solve the problem with my husband in all of this I try to find something positive. Otherwise we would become go mad.” She always finds somebody who makes her happy and she makes happy his/her. Because everything what you put in life you return.

Talismans and their protective power

Probably there is no person on the Earth who didn’t have a talisman in whole life. Although modern people simplified the conception of this object and it’s meaning deprived of a lot of aspects, who wouldn’t know the function of silver coin, horseshoe…

The past and history of talismans is very rich. The magic things made “down here” by people affected the course of pursuance “up there” for ages. The talismans made in the certain conditions bound positive powers and brought happiness, love and health.

Their aim is to protect

The basic characteristic of these magic things is active protection. They are made according to the specific technology, according to exact rules and with the exact defined aim. They should be made for the concrete individual who will use it. It can’t be made by anyone without proper knowledge. A maker has to proficient in many specific knowledge, relation between planets, signs of the zodiac, metals, colors, rocks, odours, plants, choose for individual aims right time, day in the week, know about the magic characters of numbers, letters, formulas,…

If it didn’t discourage you and the horseshoe you have isn’t enough you should try to make one talisman for your, because the talismans which are made by yourself have the biggest effects. Try to make some simpler one but read some complement literature first. But it is very difficult and time-consuming process and that’s why it is much easier to take advantages of professionals.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

10 types how to be more pretty

Do you thing that the beauty needs a lot of time and money? Sometimes trifle is enough and you will look and feel better. Try some of these types!

1. For the white teeth

… strawberries are the best formula. They include fruit acids which help remove stain from the teeth. If you dream about the smile as the Hollywood stars have, before you go to see a dentist, clean your teeth with mixture of strawberries and a little bit of water.

2. For the soft lips

… an advise from our grandmas- honey. Put on your lips a thick layer of honey and keep it at least 15 minutes.

3. For the beautiful skin

… try peeling of whole body which congest it. Mix the two spoons of olive oil with the two spoons of salt and with the circle moves embrocate into your skin. Then shower it and use a body lotion.

4. For the shine of your hair

… try a bear. It sounds a little bit strange but bear includes which feed shine to your hair. After every wash rinse your hair with the glass of bear and effect will show up.

5. For relax

… of your body spoil yourself with the honey bath. Keep dissolve 10 spoons of honey in the half of liter and this mixture pour to the bath and stay there at least 20 minutes.

6. For the perfect complexion

… type from the far Orient- green tea. It has ability to remove harmful stuff from the body, cleans complexion and keep her soft for a long time.

7. For the beauty of spirit

… spoil yourself with some culture. What about to go on good concert or to the cinema? Or you can buy a book and your free time you can spend with it. Inside relaxation is very important because if you are satisfied your body will show up the beauty.

8. For the soft hands

… great recipe: mix a bit of yeast and warm milk, put on the hands and keep drying.

9. For the health

… and beauty of skin don’t refuse a sauna. Thanks to sauna you’ll not just feel like a new person but also your skin will be more elastic and ruddier.

10. For total well- being

… don’t forget to smile. Because just if you have smile on your face and you’re full of positive energy you’ll want to feel beautiful and your surrounding will notice it.

Weary eyes

Our eyes are very exhausted every day. Watching television, hours of sitting in front of computer, artificial illumination, air- condition, draught, dry air and air filled with smoke or reflected sunbeam don’t help your eyes to get better! Another possible reason could be lower frequency of blinking. It makes eyes much drier, more exhausted and more tired. Researches pointed that common blinking is 22.4 times per minute. While you are reading it’s just 10.5 times per minute and during the concentrated work with a PC it’s only 7.6 time per minute. What can you do to make your sight stronger and safe this irreplaceable organ?
Solution

Eye drops moist your eyes, they calm and prevent them from another irritation.
At pharmacy they advise you according to your symptoms.

Massages and exercises with the eye
Massages help with the coordination and make quality of sight higher:
Narrow your eyes and relax. Then use your fingers and massage your eyes slowly. After that move alternately up and down and again down and up. Repeat six times. After that blink your eyes strongly 10 times and then relax. And the last exercise is focus. You should write big written letters H and A with your eyes. Then relax again.

Extra tipe:
You can make your overburden eyes stronger with two spoons of peeled seeds of sunflower.

Dress makes Oscar

On Sunday ladies and gentlemen walked on the red Oscar carpet. Like in old films celebrities preferred black and white the most.
Black classic
Angelina Jolie, who presented an elegant dress of Elie Saab without straps, joined the classic. She completed it with expressive green temple rings.
Halle Barry could be titled “gorgeous”. Her gold and black dress, which reminded tail of mermaid, come from Marches collection. The winner of category The best actresses in main role Kate Winslet had dressed grey and black dress from Yves Saint Lament.
White princes
Penelope Crúz, the winner of category The best actresses in supporting role, could be proud of her beautiful, romantic robe. Also mode icon Sarah Jessica Parker shined on the red carpet. She bet on a bright white dress from Christian Dior.
Jennifer Aniston chose cream white Valentino dress, which brightened her and underlined her slim figure.
“Beauty and the beast”
Pretty Frieda Pinto became favourite. Her exotic blue John Gallian dress assumed every media and certainly lot of men attention too. Inside out British actresses Tilda Swinton made a big mistake. Beige top made her much older and fair in face and black satin skirt seemed old- fashioned.

Use and don’t put off on a shelf

Do you know that feeling of losing naturalness and security when you stop work with foreign language for a long time? Knowledge of foreign language isn’t a privilege today, it’s a necessity. You can choose many learning methods.

At school

Work with group of people moves you ahead, you can communicate not only with a teacher but also with your classmates. A teacher corrects your mistakes not only in exercises but also in common speech and gives notice on right pronunciation.

Are you autodidact?

The cheapest solution in quest of learning foreign language is self-study. You can learn everywhere. Big advantage is independence, flexible study time, you can practice the same module as long as you need. Procure high- quality books, which are written also in Slovak language and don’t forget on CD versions, so you can listen right pronunciation.

Languages on the internet

It didn’t take a long time and with a development of internet start arise web-sides, which offer opportunity to learn language on-line. E- learning, it means interactive study, offers explanation of grammar on examples, different multimedia exercises and games, dialogs, which you can join, records and all your mistakes are corrected and explained. Except paid sides you can find many “free” sides, which offer apart from traditional languages like English, German, French also languages like Chinese, Japanese, Arabic.

To learn language go abroad

Foreign language courses are still favoured by many people. Where would you learn or improve your English language skills if not in England? Reunion with students from different parts of the world helps you obtain conversational lightness, ability to talk in foreign language on different topics.

Few steps to happiness

Today when we live so fast we forget on things which make us happy. Everyone of us has totally different life priorities. However there are some things that can make day a little bit happier.

Learn to be thankful

Instead of common thanks express true thanks for anything what your colleague, friend of someone who is close to you has done for you. Work or thing that somebody has done for you, makes you happier and with it comes joy which is a little step to happiness. You should learn how to be thankful also for little success.

Deal joyfulness

Joy is close to happiness. Try to deal joyfulness every day. Make happy your friends or relatives. To make happy someone you don’t have to spend a lot of money even you don’t have to spend anything. Nice word and smile on your face is enough to make them smile too.

Forgive bad things and remember good things

I’m sure that somebody said or did something what hurt you. It comes with life too but if you are angry at someone you don’t solve anything just make days of your life unhappy. It’s needed forgive and forget on bad experiences. On the other hand keep great moments in your memory.