on all new, branded and non-branded tyres!!  The Costa Del Sol’s ONLY mobile tyre company, whether at work or at home we come to you, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Puncture repairs and blowouts we cover that too, batteries also supplied.  ITV coming up?  Call us now for a fast and no-obligation quote on your tyres.

Steve Campbell

Mob: 676 186 499

email: steve@tyres-2-u.com

www.tyres-2-u.com

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 at 21:26 and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Business 1st and all of its members would like to wish a very Happy 60th Birthday to Sandy.

Key Media Group

Tel: 952 934 805

Mob: 666 666 998

www.keymediagroup.net

This entry was posted on Friday, April 20th, 2012 at 08:18 and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

We have the pleasure to announce a unique Gourmet Experience organised by CIOMIJAS in collaboration with the Foreigners Department. The event will be celebrated on april 20th, being presented by the Lyrial Theatre of Andalusia.

Departamento de Extranjeros
Foreign Residents Department
Residentenbüro

frd@mijas.es

AYUNTAMIENTO DE MIJAS
Plaza Virgen de la Peña
29650 Mijas Pueblo

Tel. (34) 952.58.90.10
Fax (34) 952.58.90.11

www.mijas.es

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 at 23:02 and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Anyone who has varicose veins can tell you what they are! Whilst many varicose veins are small and do not cause a great deal of concern, sometimes they can develop and become enlarged tortuous, swollen blue veins on the legs. Many people who have varicose veins are not too concerned however others are very self-conscious about their veins and try to keep them covered up as much as possible, which down here on the sunny Costa del Sol can make life a bit uncomfortable, especially in the summer time. Eventually varicose veins become symptomatic and result in aching, swollen legs. Chronic veins can lead to discolouration of the skin around the ankle which may ultimately break down and become ulcerated.

Varicose veins are veins in the skin of the legs over filling with blood secondary to damage to the valves that normally hold the blood in the deep veins of the leg.

There are many old tales of Varicose Veins, what causes them and how they can or cannot be treated. Here are the answers to some of the most common myths about Varicose Veins.

1. 1.       They are hereditary.

True. Unfortunately, if your parents had varicose veins, then your chances of developing them are higher. This is particularly true if your father had varicose veins.

1. 2.       Standing or sitting for long periods brings them on.

True. Those people with jobs where they are standing or sitting for extended periods of time can find they are more prone to develop varicose veins to those with a more varied work pattern. This is because the blood pools in the legs and the muscles that normally pump the blood back to the heart are not being used. If you have to stand for a long period of time, try shifting your weight from one foot to another every few minutes. For those who work sitting down, try and get up and move around every 30 minutes or so to stimulate the circulation.  If you have a job which involves a lot of standing or sitting, wearing support socks or stockings can help reduce the incidence and severity of varicose vein development.

1. 3.       Having hot showers or baths makes them worse.

False. How many of us have heard this one? One of the roles of the veins in the skin of the legs is to help cool the body and heat does dilate blood vessels to facilitate cooling. Therefore if you do take hot showers, the veins in the legs can dilate and appear worse. Trying cool, quick showers will reduce the appearance of them. Regardless of this there is no evidence that having hot showers or baths makes the varicose veins develop quicker.

1. 4.       They are not life threatening and can be left untreated.

False. Whilst the majority of varicose veins are deemed as “cosmetically unappealing” and may not cause any long term problems, there are occasions where patients can find that their legs are aching or painful to touch. In extreme cases, the blood flow in the veins can be so slow that it stops resulting in a superficial vein thrombosis and thrombophlebitis. Occasionally the veins can be pierced by sharp objects such as corners of tables and the bleeding that results can be quite dramatic and require hospitalization. Furthermore, if veins are left untreated, the pressure in the veins lower down around the ankle can rise to a level where the red blood cells get forced out of the vessels and break down in the skin. The iron from the red blood cells is deposited in the skin giving it a brown colour. Over time this can lead to damage to the skin and ulcer formation. Untreated these ulcers can become very extensive. In rare cases the ulcers can turn cancerous and if they cannot be healed, some patients require lower limb amputation.

1. 5.       Treatment is painful and drawn out process.

False. Whilst many surgeons still offer “old fashion” vein stripping surgery which is quite painful and requires hospital admission, recent surgical advances has made treatment of varicose veins much simpler, quicker and less painful than people might think. The key to treatment is the accurate mapping of the veins in the leg and identification of the damaged veins which are causing the varicose veins. Today most varicose veins can be treated as a day case procedure, often under local anaesthetic, and usually patients can get back to their everyday life very quickly. With the new minimally invasive surgical options of VNUS Closure Fast® or Laser, some clinics are now offering a “walk in – walk out” service. Your doctor will discuss the options with you.  Recent controlled clinical trials demonstrated that the Closure technology created less bruising and pain than Laser (ref)

1. 6.       You must walk a min of 30 mins per day for months after treatment for it to work.

False. The veins in the leg rely on movement of the legs to pump blood back to the heart and this was the basis of this myth, however this originated in the era of painful venous stripping surgery and some surgeons may still recommend this. As mentioned above modern, minimally invasive varicose vein treatments, means that you can get back to your everyday life immediately after the surgery. Obviously having an active lifestyle is highly recommended not only following veins treatment but also your general health.

1. 7.       Only women get varicose veins.

False. Whilst women are more prone to varicose veins primarily because they have babies (which result in increased pressure on the pelvic veins which drain blood from the legs), and also because of the high oestrogen levels seen in women, varicose veins can also occur in men. In many cases these can be traced through the male line in the family and suggest a congenital cause.

1. 8.       Taking birth control tablets affects Varicose Veins.

True. Circulating oestrogens can have adverse effects on the smooth muscle in blood vessels. Therefore taking birth control pills and other medicines containing oestrogen and progesterone also may contribute to the forming of varicose veins.

1. 9.       Treatment of varicose veins is pointless as they will just come back.

False. Previously surgical treatment of varicose veins was associated with a 30% recurrence rate at 5 years. There are many reasons for this and the phenomenon is not fully understood. The recently developed minimally invasive techniques of VNUS Closure and Laser have reduced the recurrence rate to less that 10% at 5 years. Studies have shown that the development of further varicose veins post treatment is normally due to untreated veins developing into varicose veins rather than treated veins re occurring or coming back. Your doctor will advise you on some methods to help to reduce this chance further.

1. 10.   Pregnancy causes varicose veins.

True. During pregnancy, there is a large increase in the circulating volume or blood in the body which causes veins to enlarge. Furthermore the growing baby and uterus increases the pressure on the veins in the pelvis which raises the pressure in the veins draining the legs and can damage the valves in the leg vein system. To minimize the risk and severity of varicose vein development during pregnancy, pregnant women should find time to elevate the legs and lie down to take some of the pressure off the pelvic veins and allow the blood to flow out of the leg veins. This is particularly important in the third trimester. Most women find that varicose veins will improve in the months after birth, however if the valves in the veins are permanently damaged during pregnancy, varicose veins will eventually develop.

If you have varicose veins and would like further information about the condition visit our web site www.thebritishsurgicalclinic.com.

Jane Naughton

Personal Assistant to Mr David Deardon

info@thebritishsurgicalclinic.com

Landline Spain: (0034) 951 703 243

Landline Gibraltar: (00350) 200 49999

Mobile: (0034) 607 912 403

Spain: British Surgical Clinic, Clinica Ochoa, Edificio Mayoral, Avda Severo Ochoa s/n, 29600, Marbella

Gibraltar: Specialist Medical Clinic, Unit F7, 1st Floor, ICC Building, Casemates Square, Gibraltar

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 15th, 2012 at 21:11 and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

In the Silicon Valley hierarchy, coders have always ruled the roost, but right now there’s a different skill set on the industry’s most-wanted list: designers.

From giants like Facebook and Google to barely hatched startups, everyone is fighting over a small pool of artists skilled at bringing websites and apps to life.

Johnnie Manzari, a prominent user interface designer for more than a decade, says he gets weekly phone calls from people asking him to recommend good designers.

“There’s a huge demand for finding talent,” he says. “Just like with engineering, one of the reasons it’s been so difficult is there just aren’t many people that are that good. Not only are people looking for designers more than they used to, but the bar they’re willing to accept has gone up.”

Several of the industry’s power players have been on design-focused shopping sprees.

In June, Facebook scooped up Dutch software design company Sofa. It was the first of many design focused “acq-hires” — the industry’s term for buying a startup to get hold of its staff.

Two months later, Facebook bought Push Pop Press, a digital publishing company founded by former Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) interface designer Mike Matas. The deal was aimed at bringing in the talented designer and his team, not the e-book software they’d created.

Facebook made another design-focused purchase in December, hiring most of Gowalla’s team to work on its Timeline profile redesign. Google left behind Gowalla’s check-in service, which has since shut down.

Facebook isn’t the only one going after designers. When Google hired Digg founder Kevin Rose and a number of his employees from Milk, it made the unusual choice not to bring in the team’s engineers. It wanted Milk’s product and design talent — especially Daniel Burka, the former creative director at Digg. His creations are elegant and whimsical, which is exactly the vibe Google wants to bring to Google+ and its social products.

Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) attempted to buy Facebook founder Dave Morin’s new company, Path, for the same reason, according to those with knowledge of the proposed deal. Google coveted the Path team’s aesthetics and expertise in crafting intuitive mobile apps.

For sites where Web designers gather, it’s a new golden era.

Dribbble, an invite-only site where designers show off their work and talk shop, has become a recruiting mecca. There are currently 25,000 designers on Dribble, with more than 60,000 waiting to get in.

“We’re backlogged,” Dribbble co-founder Dan Cederholm says of the site he launched three years ago. “The demand has been high, and it’s turned out to be a fantastic resource to discover designers.”

Apple and Google are among the companies that scout talent through Dribbble, he says. Dribbble’s job board, which charges $200 per post, currently features ads from Facebook, ESPN, Yelp, Zappos and PayPal, among dozens of others.

There’s been a surge: Cederholm says Dribbble hosted a record 411 job ads last quarter, almost twice the number it had in the previous quarter.

San Francisco-based 99designs, which connects designers looking for work with small businesses, is also enjoying the boom times. It raised $35 million last year in a funding round led by Accel Partners and has more than doubled its staff since then.

“Demand for design is only increasing,” CEO Patrick Llewellyn says. His site is now paying out $1.5 million a month to designers — twice the volume it had a year ago.

There are several catalysts at work. Manzari cites faster broadband speeds and better browsers as a factor. Designers can do things now that they simply couldn’t 10 years ago, and the rise of smartphones and tablets gives them a new canvas to play with.

Companies are also recognizing just how make-or-break design can be.

Mint.com, for example, was far from the first personal finance website out there, but its elegant, intuitive style catapulted it to the front of the pack. Two years after Mint launched, Intuit snapped it up for $170 million.

Veteran entrepreneur Rocky Agrawal cites Mint and recent phenom Pinterest as examples of companies that took off because of their visual flair.

“The first 50 or 500 people that come to your site, the biggest thing that’s going to impact them is the design,” he says. “If you have great design, you can acquire the audience you need.”

As the demand for designers increases, their salaries are going up as well.

The latest AIGA/Aquent Survey of Design Salaries, a long-running industry benchmark, found that online designers command significant premiums over their print-focused peers. Those with specialized skill sets, like information architects and user-experience designers, now draw a median salary of $85,000.

They’re also moving up the career ladder. Apple’s top designer, Jonathan Ive, is widely regarded as one of the company’s most powerful executives. In its IPO filing, Facebook called out the two types of personnel it considers strategically vital: software engineers and product designers.

Designers used to fall “somewhere between what an engineer would get paid and what the receptionist would get paid,” Manzari says. “It was definitely a tier below in terms of salary and say in high-level decisions. I think that’s completely changed.”

(First Published: April 6, 2012 by www.money.cnn.com, New York)

Paul Scotton

Creative Director

+34 617 423 094

info@paulscottondesign.com

www.paulscottondesign.com

Skype ID: pablosix3

This entry was posted on Friday, April 13th, 2012 at 08:23 and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.