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Public Holiday TODAY- Tuesday 1 Nov: In Spain, every 1 November is All Saints’ Day to remember Christian saints who do not have their own Saint day. This is a national public holiday.
– This year it falls on a Tuesday, so that, in principle, it could not unite with the previous weekend, and would not give rise to any bridge (long weekend).
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Malou in Concert: Tuesday, 1 Nov., 9pm
Los Huertos del Sevillano, C/ Huertos 33, Nerja.
Dutch singer-songwriter, Malou, will present a candlelight concert devoted to both All Saints’ Day, and the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed on All Souls’ Day, that is widely celebrated in the Netherlands. Reservations: Call 952 52 41 38
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The 6th edition of The International Flamenco Cajon Festival- Torrox: 12th to the 19th of November. Teatro Villa de Torrox
– A series of box-drum master classes of the highest level, which will begin on 12 November with ‘El Guille’, who introduced the cajoneadas (Peruvian technique) to Spain, a classic of the Festival.
– The prestigious dancer Jesús Carmona Friday 18 Nov.
– Sat, Nov 19, Rosario ‘La Tremendita’, from a base of flamenco, with avant-garde jazz and funk, among other styles”. Ref: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/jesus-carmona-y-la-tremendita-en-el-cajonea-de-torrox/
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Rincón de la Victoria: New edition of the “November Music” series. A schedule of concerts, live music every Friday of the month. The concerts will be free entry until capacity is full.
– 4th Nov. at 20:00 hours with Musical Chapel Rosary, a quintet of professional musicians; four wind instruments and a singer soprano.
– 11th Nov. Duo Axarquia, with `A trip to Europe through the music interpreted with the instruments harp and cello works of composers of Italian, Spanish and French among others, 20:00.
– 18th Nov. at 19:00 it will be the turn of the Coral El Castillo “with a repertoire of popular music with the participation of the Coral El Castillito, and Campo de Cámara de Casabermeja”
– 26th Nov. Concert of the Rincón de la Victoria Music Band in honour of Santa Cecilia in the Parish Church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario in La Cala del Moral at 20.00 hours. Ref: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/rincon-de-la-victoria-celebra-el-ciclo-noviembre-musical-con-conciertos-de-musica-clasica-en-la-emblematica-casa-fuerte-bezmiliana-2/
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We are part of the ADH storage and Transportation company and as such have storage available in Competa and Peunte Don Manuel. Very reasonable rates.
We provide a one stop service for all your transport needs and pride ourselves on reliability, flexibility, good communication and a very much ‘can do’ approach. No job is too small and there is always a solution.
Our services include:
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Extensions, retaining walls, driveways, swimming pools, damp problems, roofs, blocked drains.
Replacement kitchens and bathrooms, Tiling and terraces. Plumbing, electrics and plastering, painting.
Architect service, building licence applications.
Handyman service now available for those smaller jobs.
NEW- Water Deposit Installations: Due to the ongoing drought and current water restrictions SPW Construction are currently offering the following service.
– Supply and installation of new above or below ground water deposits. 1000 litres up to 25000 litres. Delivered and installed, all relevant plumbing. All work warrantied.
– We can also advise you or help to organise water deliveries from local suppliers. For free consultation and estimate contact us on 622 938 440
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Mobile Hairdresser: Hi, my name is Jenny and I’d like to introduce myself. I am a fully qualified mobile hairdresser with over 13 years experience, fully legal. Covering Torrox and surrounding areas. WhatsApp, private message or call for an appointment in your own home or chat about what you would like.
Jenny, Torrox. Tel or WhatsApp 622 690 133
Email: jmainwood01 @ gmail dot com (no spaces) or go to my Facebook page.
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Great Deals From The Nerja Household Centre:
– Natural solid wooden sideboard with spearmint & turquoise colour paint measurements 110 x 36 x 82cms Price 145€
– 2 single mattresses 180 x 90cms Price 30€ for the pair
– 4 leather & chrome dining chairs price 60€ for the four
contact Jackie / nerja 672170429
info at nerja household centre dot com
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For Sale: 2 curtain panels 110 cm x 240 cm each. Newly cleaned. Some seams need to be restitched. Asking 20€. Ingrid, Algarrobo-Costa
Email: udahl@gmx.de
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For Sale, 2 items:
– Unusual queen size headboard. Bow shaped with mirror panels. Good as it but would be great for an upcycling project. 65 euros.
– Two small bedside tables with marble tops. 40 euros the pair. Canillas de Aceituno. Tel Heather. 628306371
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For Sale, 2 items: Washing machine and dryer.
– AEG OKO LAVAMAT 606 €25
– AEG LAVATHERM 523 €25
Both still working well. Used in holiday home.
To collect from between Sayalonga and Algarrobo (Campo).
Anja, Algarrobo. What’sapp +31651012685
Email: areinders10@gmail.com
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Endesa: Does anybody have any experience setting up an online account with Endesa using a UK telephone number?
We have been charged twice for two periods and are struggling to speak to somebody on the phone. We have tried to set up an online account but don’t seem to be able to receive a code to register via SMS on a UK mobile number.
Deborah, Torrox. Email: dssp@btinternet.com
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News & Articles
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{ Translations by www.DeepL.com/Translator }
COVID & MONKEYPOX
Three symptoms of new Covid-19 sub-variants are noted: {Translation, summary} Immunologist and professor Alfredo Corell has detailed the three new symptoms that may lead us to suspect an infection with the new subvariants. In an interview on Antena 3 Noticias, the expert specified that “these subvariants include new symptoms such as loss of appetite, aphonia (loss of voice) and tachycardia (rapid heartbeat). These are three new symptoms that were not at all common in the previous variants. So watch out for people with loss of appetite, aphonia and tachycardia. These may be symptoms of Covid-19 in these new subvariants.” Source, Spanish: https://www.larazon.es/sociedad/20221031/irfjsx4nxzg7fiakqs53wte4qm.html
UK
All poultry and captive birds in England ordered to be kept indoors as bird flu measures stepped up: The mandatory housing measures have been stepped up by the UK’s chief veterinary officer, making it a legal requirement to keep the animals inside and to follow stringent biosecurity measures to help protect flocks from disease. The new rules come into force at one minute past midnight on Monday, 7 November – giving owners one week to prepare. The measures apply to all bird owners, whether they keep a few birds, or thousands.Full article: https://news.sky.com/story/all-poultry-and-captive-birds-in-england-ordered-to-be-kept-indoors-as-bird-flu-measures-stepped-up-12735094
HEALTH
Toxoplasmosis- Why is the cat parasite spreading so successfully among humans?: {Translation}
– A study led by researchers at Stockholm University in Sweden has discovered how the Toxoplasma parasite spreads so successfully in the body, for example to the brain, that it is carried by a large part of the world’s population. Researchers have found that the parasite infects immune cells and hijacks their identity, they report in the journal ‘Cell Host & Microbe’.
– To fight infection, the various functions of the body’s immune cells are tightly regulated. Scientists have long wondered how Toxoplasma manages to infect so many people and animal species and spread so effectively.
– “Now we have discovered a protein that the parasite uses to reprogramme the immune system,” says Arne ten Hoeve, a researcher at the Department of Molecular Biosciences at the Wenner-Gren Institute at Stockholm University.
– The study shows that the parasite injects the protein into the nucleus of the immune cell and thus changes the cell’s identity. The parasite tricks the immune cell into thinking it is another type of cell. This changes the gene expression and behaviour of the immune cell. The Toxoplasma causes the infected cells, which should not normally travel through the body, to move very quickly and thus the parasite spreads to different organs.
– The phenomenon has been described as Toxoplasma turning immune cells into roaming Trojan horses or “zombies” that spread the parasite. The newly published study offers a molecular explanation for the phenomenon, and also shows that the parasite is much more selective in its spread than previously thought.
– Toxoplasmosis is probably the most common parasitic infection in humans worldwide. Toxoplasma also infects many animal species (zoonosis), including our pets. The WHO has estimated that at least 30% of the world’s human population carries the parasite. Studies indicate that 15-20% of the Swedish population carry the parasite (the vast majority unknowingly). The incidence is higher in other European countries.
– Felines, and not only domestic cats, occupy a special place in the life cycle of Toxoplasma: only in the cat’s intestine does sexual reproduction take place. In other hosts, e.g. humans, dogs or birds, reproduction takes place by division of the parasite.
– It is spread through food and contact with cats. In nature, the parasite spreads preferentially from rodents to cats to cats to rodents and so on. The parasites are “dormant” in the brain of the rodent and when the cat eats the mouse, they multiply in the cat’s intestine and come out through the faeces. The parasite ends up in vegetation and when the rodent eats the vegetation it becomes infected. Humans become infected by eating meat or by contact with cats, specifically their faeces.
– The parasite causes the disease toxoplasmosis. When a person is first infected, mild symptoms similar to a cold or flu occur. After the first phase of infection, the parasite goes into a “dormant” phase in the brain and begins a silent chronic infection that can last for decades or a lifetime. Chronic infection usually causes no symptoms in healthy individuals. However, Toxoplasma can cause a life-threatening brain infection (encephalitis) in people with a weakened immune system (HIV, organ transplant recipients, after chemotherapy) and can be dangerous to the foetus during pregnancy. Eye infections can occur in otherwise healthy people.
Source, Spanish: https://www.infosalus.com/salud-investigacion/noticia-toxoplasmosis-parasito-gato-propaga-tanto-exito-humanos-20221031074948.html
TECH
Instagram Outage- Confirms ‘Issues’ as Users Report Arbitrary Account Suspensions, Follower Drops:
– If you were booted off Instagram for no reason this morning, you’re not alone. Tons of people are reporting the same problem. Instagram has confirmed that it’s having some “issues” but hasn’t clarified what type of issues they are or why any of this is happening.
– Downdetector, which tracks outage complaints on popular platforms, saw a surge in reports for Instagram starting around 9 a.m. EST on Monday morning. Users flocked to Twitter to share their stories, reporting a variety of problems. Some said they had attempted to log into their accounts, only to be greeted by a message telling them that their account had been suspended for violating community standards. Other users say they were met with a “user not found” message, as if their account had never existed in the first place. And still others were able to successfully log in but reported seeing their follower counts plummet precipitously for no apparent reason. Full article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/instagram-confirms-issues-as-users-report-arbitrary-account-suspensions-follower-drops/ar-AA13A6yj
SCIENCE
How tech is helping us talk to animals:
– We can use artificial intelligence-enabled robots to speak animal languages and essentially breach the barrier of interspecies communication. Researchers are doing this in a very rudimentary way with honeybees and dolphins and to some extent with elephants.
– “Digital technologies, so often associated with our alienation from nature, are offering us an opportunity to listen to nonhumans in powerful ways, reviving our connection to the natural world,” writes Karen Bakker in her new book, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants.
– Bakker cautions that the ability to communicate with animals stands to be either a blessing or a curse, and we must think carefully about how we will use our technological advancements to interact with the natural world. Full article: https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/30/23426406/ai-animals-google-translate-karen-bakker-sounds-of-life
FINANCIAL
The Euribor closes October at 2.63% and raises mortgages by 230 euros: {Translation, summary}
– The 12-month Euribor recorded a monthly average of 2.629% in October, reaching its highest level since December 2008, when it stood at 3.452%. Yesterday, the Euribor climbed again to 2.63% in its daily rate, after standing at 2.567% last Friday. However, the indicator remains below the level of 2.7% that it has reached during several days of the month, spurred by the expectation of a new rate hike by the European Central Bank (ECB).
– This speculation finally materialised last Thursday, when the central bank announced its agreement to apply a new rate hike of 75 basis points, which means raising it to 2%. In view of this situation, the index to which most variable-rate mortgages are referenced has remained in a range of between 2.5% and 2.6%.
– In this way, a person who has taken out a 30-year variable mortgage for 150,000 euros and with a differential of 0.99% plus Euribor will suffer an increase in their mortgage payment of around 230 euros, i.e. they would go from paying 450 euros per month to paying 680 euros from the revision, which is equivalent to an increase of 2,800 euros per year. Source, Spanish: https://www.larazon.es/economia/20221031/mlycrywmdrecnhxq3itumdymvi.html
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Useful Links, Info & Numbers
Petrol Prices – Updated daily: These are the fuel stations in Malaga province with the lowest prices. The price data for 95 and 98-octane petrol and diesel fuel is updated every day. See it here:
https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/updated-daily-these-20220314114157-nt.html
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
Taxi
Nerja 952 524 519
Torrox: 952 531 030
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/
Spain National News in English, El Pais: https://elpais.com/elpais/inenglish.html
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