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The Blue Stompers Jump Review: This Friday, August 7, at the Coyote Club we will do a special concert to celebrate the birthday of Paul, our singer and harmonica musician of the band, we are also pleased to announce that our good friend Edward will also celebrate his birthday, so he will bring their band ” KARMA ” from Coin to play too, two bands in one night and a big celebration, there will be free cava and maybe a beer or two. We also have some good friends of ours who will join us to play some tunes with us, so this will be a great night! This great club has many seats available, but we recommend you message us or call the club to book a table on 952 585 356, all social distancing measures are in order and drinks prices are amazing, Coyote Club is very close to downtown from Fuengirola, so no excuse not to come to an evening of good music and great atmosphere, it’s free entry and we invite you all. Pl. San Rafael, Nave 4, Mijas 29651. FB link
Live Music with Guillermo Spain: Friday Aug 7th at Legends Bar, Torre del Mar. Come to try this two fantastic plates for 7,95€ and from 20:00 Guillermo Spain. Tfn 952540080 FB link
Live Music at The Monaghans Pub: Captain Vinilo pop-rock show. Saturday 15 Aug, 11pm. The Monaghan´s Pub, Avenida de la Música, 29130 La Capellanía Alhaurín de la Torre. FB link
Live Music Wednesdays: Joy’s Restaurante. Happy hour 6-8pm. Music from 8pm. Marbella Paseo below the tourist center. Reservations recommended. Tel. 952770933 FB link
Monday Jam: Bea’s Postamt, BLQ 80 Torrox Costa. 9pm. FB link
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CycleNerja: Bike rental and cycle hire in Nerja, Torrox & Frigiliana. Free Bike delivery and collection service is available anywhere in Nerja, Torrox & Frigiliana and the inland villages. Professional Carbon Race Bikes, 29er Mountain Bikes & Electric Mountain Bikes. Free delivery subject to a minimum rental value of 90,00 euros. Contact via https://cyclenerja.com/ Contact also located under our banner in the DigameXtra Sponsor’s Section every day. 
Hanningtons Kitchens and Bathrooms: We have been installing kitchens and bathrooms here on the Costa for 13 years. We pride ourselves on our professionalism, highest standards of work and customer service.
Whether you are thinking of updating an existing kitchen or bathroom, or whether you wish to create the kitchen or bathroom you have always dreamed of, we are here for you, every step of the way.
With an unrivaled knowledge of the best local materials and suppliers we are able to work to all tastes and budgets.
Our full range of services includes
– Installations and Refurbs
– Wall & Floor tiling
– Full range of Plumbing work including radiators and underfloor heating
– Solar Installation
– Design & planning ideas to get the look you are after
– Electrical works
– Alter / Install walls, dropped ceilings and hang doors
– Plastering, woodwork and floor leveling
Visit our FB page on the link below to be inspired
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Call us : 669 665 156
Email us : hanningtons.bathrooms@gmail.com
Mandy’s Paintbox: Painter for 30 years. Painting work undertaken. Inside and outside large or small. Furniture painted or sprayed. Kitchens cabinets, wardrobes doors any colour any surface. Check out the before and after photos all the furniture was spray painted.
Call for advice WhatsApp 680739577
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Items For Sale / Wanted / Rent
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BluCee Inmobiliaria
We are friendly, honest and offer a bespoke service for all your property needs.
Winter sun rental!
Casita Tomate in El Ferrer, Granada is available for long-term winter rent.
November 2020 to end of March 2021, rental for 3 or 4 months, €400 per month plus electricity usage.
This lovely casita in located in a small village of only 16 houses. A great place to relax and unwind.
Please click the link for more details – Casita Tomate
Not exactly what you are looking for. Thinking of renting out your property?
Contact us to discuss what we can do to help you, please get in touch.
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We are based in Rincon de la Victoria.
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For Sale: Levante brand mobile air conditioning unit works fine needs the 4inch extract hose. Mark, Torrox Pueblo. €60
meearnshaw@hotmail.com
For Sale: Wooden dining table with 4 chairs (Ingolf Ikea type) plus cushions if required. Table and chairs have been stripped and limed. Table: Height 75cm, Diameter 106cm Chairs: Height (back) 91cm, Height (seat) 45cm. 125 euros
Situated between Torrox and Cómpeta (Happy to meet Cómpeta or at Torrox BP or deliver locally)
Lynne Tel 649 307 966 or
email: lynnepart AT gmail DOT com (no spaces)
For Sale: Denon HiFi CD Player, AM FM Radio Tuner, Amplifier UD M3+ 2 Denon bookshelf speakers SC M5K. The speakers are almost as new, the cd player/radio/amplifier works, but had some minor issues, hence the price of 40 euros (it originally cost about £250). Located Sayalonga. Derek 644599499
derekblend2@gmail.com
2 Computers For Sale: Dell Tower and Siemens laptop
–Used DELL Tower Computer.
Dell Optiplex 755- Only 180 days on the clock.
Full sized tower, not the smaller desktop version.
-Intel Core Duo processor at 2.33GHz, 32 bit, with updated BIOS
-Upgraded cooling system
-Upgraded video card
-Upgraded to 3Gb high performance RAM
-Fresh Windows 10 v1909
-150Gb Hard drive
-Built-in wifi and DVD player
-8x USB 2.0, DVI & VGA video output (no HDMI, but DVI to HDMI converters are available for a few euros at large computer shops, or online)
Fully cleaned but there was no need to refurb this one. I just installed some high performance hardware upgrades I had in stock. Runs great.
Price €200 (add large flat screen LG monitor, €20). Buyer collects.
-Siemens laptop Refurb. Model Esprimo V5505. A full size 15.6″ display laptop, fully refurbished by DoctorLaptop. Has a hard-to-find international North Europe/English keyboard perfect for bilingual English and Scandinavian speakers, 250 Gb hard drive (reconditioned), 3Gb RAM (brand new, high performance), Windows 10 Pro (UK English), processor speed 2.0GHz, DVD/CD drive, 2hr battery. Includes delux briefcase style carry bag. No HDMI. €200. Buyer collects.
Contact Naythan, Torrox Costa, Tel. 675 993 069 (no calls answered before 11am, missed calls returned asap)
Email: doctorlaptop @ protonmail . com (no spaces)
Wanted: Looking for a 3 drawer filing cabinet. Must be in good condition.
Anywhere in the Axarquia area
call Denise 618 295 063, Torre del mar
casadelsueno @ gmail dot com
Recommendations & Requests
Volunteers needed Urgently: TAILs charity shops Urgently need your help.
We need volunteers to work in our 2 shops on Torrox Costa. If you can spare 1 day a week, (10am to 2 pm Monday to Saturday). We desperately need you to help continue with our fundraising to help the dozens of abandoned dogs in our kennels. So many of our volunteers return to the U.K. or their home countries for the hot summer months , leaving us desperately short of staff to open the two shops.
Call in to our shop at El Faro, Opposite Russell’s or phone: Ian 620694825
or Jean 62946944. Thank you.
Meeting: I am a widower of mature years and would very much like to meet a lady of similar circumstances for socializing and who knows, if interested. please contact me on mikestevenitt@gmail.com
Mike, Frigiliana
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Please be careful about believing crisis info posts on Fakebook, Social Media and even mainline news sources: There are tons of hoaxes circulating. If there is no verifiable source provided with the info, while it may contain some degree of truth (as do all good lies) you should always have a healthy degree of scepticism. -Ed.
Costa del Sol Set for Saharan Sand Storm that could Blanket the Coast: Meteorologist David Pinkitt has warned that a Saharan sand storm is brewing up in Northern Africa that threatens to blanket the entire Costa del Sol. Should it occur it would not be the first time the Coast has been ‘showered in sand’. Full story: https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/08/02/spains-costa-del-sol-set-for-saharan-sand-storm-that-could-blanket-the-coast/
Spain’s economy posts historic 18.5% quarterly fall due to coronavirus lockdown: New data shows that output has fallen to levels not seen since the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is the largest quarterly drop since the days of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). This means that during the first half of the year, a fourth of Spain’s gross domestic product (GDP) went up in smoke due to the strict restrictions introduced to curb the coronavirus epidemic. The lost production amounts to around €300 billion, a figure that would be enough to cover pension payments for Spain’s 10 million retirees for two years. Full article: https://english.elpais.com/economy_and_business/2020-07-31/spains-economy-posts-historic-185-quarterly-fall-due-to-coronavirus-lockdown.html
Costa del Sol COVID on the spot testing as police clamp down on BRITISH drivers in Spain: Costa del Sol police are now targetting cars displaying GB stickers or British number plates insisting on an on the spot COVID test that can take 20 minutes. Bike patrols today are pulling in all cars displaying UK number plates, checking paperwork and insisting on a COVID and temperature test. The operations are taking place in all coastal holiday towns as well as on the main AP7 motorway. Full story: https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/08/02/costa-del-sol-covid-on-the-spot-testing-as-police-clamp-down-on-british-drivers-in-spain/
Chrysalis-shaped space nebula turns into a butterfly: A chrysalis-shaped space nebula discovered in 1835 has become a butterfly that floats and flutters across the sky more than 3,000 light-years from Earth. In 1835, the English astronomer John Herschel discovered a planetary nebula located in the southern constellation Vela, which was called NGC 2899.
A planetary nebula is an emission nebula that has been ejected by a red giant star in the last moments of its life.
Originally it was appreciated that NGC 2899 had a curved, chrysalis-like shape, somewhat unusual for a planetary nebula, which is normally rotationally symmetric in one or more axes.
Now, the world’s most advanced astronomical observatory for visible light, ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), has obtained for the first time a precise image of that nebula and discovered that the chrysalis has become a butterfly. The image uncovers a cosmic butterfly, with a symmetrical structure, beautiful colors and intricate patterns, that seems to float and flutter across the sky. Spanish source article: https://tendencias21.levante-emv.com/una-nebulosa-espacial-con-forma-de-crisalida-se-convierte-en-mariposa.html
Google’s Rigged Search Results Kill Off Competition: The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page. n Google’s early years, users would type in a query and get back a page of 10 “blue links” that led to different websites. “We want to get you out of Google and to the right place as fast as possible,” co-founder Larry Page said in 2004.
Today, Google often considers that “right place” to be Google, an investigation by The Markup has found. We examined more than 15,000 recent popular queries and found that Google devoted 41 percent of the first page of search results on mobile devices to its own properties and what it calls “direct answers,” which are populated with information copied from other sources, sometimes without their knowledge or consent.
When we examined the top 15 percent of the page, the equivalent of the first screen on an iPhone X, that figure jumped to 63 percent. For one in five searches in our sample, links to external websites did not appear on the first screen at all!
Google’s decision to place its products above competitors’ and to present “answers” on the search page has led to lawsuits and regulatory fines. A number of websites said it killed their revenues—and their companies. Founders of both innovative startups and companies that had been around for a decade or more told The Markup that once Google started placing its product first, they didn’t stand a chance. Full story: https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-search-results-prioritize-google-products-over-competitors
Why You Should Stop Using Facebook Messenger: {Forbes.com}- The sad truth is that Messenger is seriously lacking on the security front. And this is a problem which is both getting worse and which Facebook cannot easily fix.
“Users choosing to communicate via Messenger must understand the real threat to their information within such apps,” warns ESET cybersecurity guru Jake Moore. “Although many may think the content in their messages isn’t personal, the real issue is that any information on you is open to abuse in the wrong hands.” Full article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/07/25/why-you-should-stop-using-facebook-messenger-encryption-whatsapp-update-twitter-hack/
Data isn’t just being collected from your phone. It’s being used to score you: {The Washington Post}- Operating in the shadows of the online marketplace, specialized tech companies you’ve likely never heard of are tapping vast troves of our personal data to generate secret “surveillance scores” – digital mug shots that supposedly predict our future behavior. The firms sell their scoring services to major businesses.
People with low scores can suffer harsh consequences.
CoreLogic and TransUnion say that scores they peddle to landlords can predict whether a potential tenant will pay the rent on time, be able to “absorb rent increases,” or break a lease. Large employers use HireVue, a firm that generates an “employability” score about candidates by analyzing “tens of thousands of factors,” including a person’s facial expressions and voice intonations. Other employers use Cornerstone’s score, which considers where a job prospect lives and which web browser they use to judge how successful they will be at a job.
Brand-name retailers purchase “risk scores” from Retail Equation to help make judgments about whether consumers commit fraud when they return goods for refunds. Players in the gig economy use outside firms such as Sift to score consumers’ “overall trustworthiness.” Wireless customers predicted to be less profitable are sometimes forced to endure longer customer service hold times.
Auto insurers raise premiums based on scores calculated using information from smartphone apps that track driving styles. Large analytics firms monitor whether we are likely to take our medication based on our propensity to refill our prescriptions; pharmaceutical companies, health-care providers and insurance companies can use those scores to, among other things, “match the right patient investment level to the right patients.”
Surveillance scoring is the product of two trends. First is the rampant (and mostly unregulated) collection of every intimate detail about our lives, amassed by the nanosecond from smartphones to cars, toasters to toys. This fire hose of data – most of which we surrender voluntarily – includes our demographics, income, facial characteristics, the sound of our voice, our precise location, shopping history, medical conditions, genetic information, what we search for on the Internet, the websites we visit, when we read an email, what apps we use and how long we use them, and how often we sleep, exercise and the like.
The second trend driving these scores is the arrival of technologies able to instantaneously crunch this data: exponentially more powerful computers and high-speed communications systems such as 5G, which lead to the scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence to rate all of us in some way.
The result: automated decisions, based on each consumer’s unique score, that are, as a practical matter, irreversible. Full article: https://www.chron.com/opinion/article/Data-isn-t-just-being-collected-from-your-phone-15449776.php
For the latest pandemic info visit:
World– https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
World– https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441
Spain Coronavirus Data from Spain’s Ministerio de Sanidad, Official C-19 Pages:
https://www.mscbs.gob.es/en/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/alertasActual/nCov-China/situacionActual.htm
AND
https://cnecovid.isciii.es/covid19/
Coronavirus Cases in Andalucia, Axarquia, Costa del Sol & Malaga Province:
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/institutodeestadisticaycartografia/salud/COVID19.html
UK Coronavirus:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/
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You will then be offered a choice of information on the different issues.
The service also offers the option of speaking to an operator for those requiring further information or with a specific query not dealt with by the automated options. Source: https://www.thelocal.es/20200218/spain-launches-dedicated-brexit-hotline
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Weekly Markets
Monday: Torrox Costa
Tuesday: Nerja, Salobrena
Wednesday: Rincon de la Victoria, Algarrobo Costa
Thursday: Velez Malaga, Torre del Mar, Frigiliana
Friday: Almunecar, Salobrena, La Herradura- Summers only
Saturday: Competa, Mezquitilla@Algarrobo behind the Sala Ottowa
Sunday: Velez Malaga, Nerja Car Boot
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Nerja 952 524 519
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Frigiliana: 952 533 231
Phone numbers for emergencies
Emergency Svcs.: 112
National Police: 091
Guardia Civil: 062
Ambulance: 061
Fire Station (Bomberos): 080
Emergency English Help Line: 902 102 112
Local Police
Torrox: 952 539 828
Nerja: 952 521 545
Frigiliana: 952 533 126
Torre del Mar: 952 549 238
Local News in English, The Sur: http://www.surinenglish.com/
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