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ContentsBlowing Your Trumpet

In the beginning there was radio, then there was TV and then there was YGTV. It’s a whole new ball game and it’s getting bigger. In the month leading up to February 2012 we received over 20,500 hits, that’s amazing and honestly, it’s all down to you, our readers, viewers, watchers and listeners, whatever you like to call yourselves.

It’s our third edition of the new magazine already and to be honest with you, I can’t believe how fast it’s going. It’s nearly Spring, officially it happens at some point this month, but unofficially, we seem to have lost the horrible arctic weather that had come down upon us, and that to me justifies spring.

As always, we have lots to tell you about in this month’s magazine, including new articles from The Word Tzar, more travel stories from our resident travel writer, Leo Hayes, an interview with His Excellency, The Governor of Gibraltar and a quick write up on our latest series, Business Matters.

On a technical note, we were very proud last month when Google updated our website to Page Rank 4 (Google’s ranking of websites goes from 0-10) and to have reached this standard in just 3 months is really a fantastic achievement.

We want to remind you all that we set up Your Gibraltar TV to make it about what you wanted, so why not get in touch, email us, phone us, let us know about your events and what you want us to look into. That way we can continue to create the news and programming that you want.

From the team at Your Gibraltar TV have a great month and we look forward to seeing you soon on the site. PS: we have some great competitions coming very soon, so keep up to date by registering for our newsletter.

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Picture a quiet Sunday evening. It’s around 10:30 on the clock. You are settling down to read quietly or watch some TV programme; one last moment of peaceful indulgence prior to the start of yet another hectic working week. It’s the perfect occasion to finally and completely unwind. Sunday night. The calm before the storm; an opportunity to ready oneself for the days ahead and a chance to draw the curtain across another splendid weekend of carefree relaxation. Everybody needs this moment.

This is not the case for some, however. There are certain elements of the proletariat among us who choose to perform a very strange ritual; a ritual that only they can truly understand; a ritual that is invasive; a sacrament of deliberate deep breathing and unrestrained reverberation; a premeditated act that even requires a specific outfit and a special “tool”! There is a thought process involved in this ritual that boggles the mind.

Who purposely elects to sit down to watch the good old idiot box replete with a plastic horn, with the sole intention of poking it out of a window to annoy the neighbours every time a goal is scored?

Suffice to say, this is a bizarre practice. A rather unnecessary, antisocial practice routinely exercised by a select few special horn blowers, much to the annoyance of those seeking a peaceful end, and calm beginning, to the week. If only there was a way of encapsulating this folly and wanton disregard for the sublime sound of silence in a succinct and witty manner!

Idioms are a great source of wisdom. They are insightful phrases that are designed to tersely encapsulate a meaning. We use them every day, oftentimes to the point of making them cliché, all but losing their original meaning and desired effect. We sometimes evoke and verbally jettison an idiom into conversation without knowing its true meaning, and even less so its origin. However, never was there a more significant moment to call upon one of the most suitable idioms ever coined.

Being humble, modest and unassuming are qualities that are highly respectable. Conversely, to blow your own trumpet is to act in a boastful, self-promoting manner; clearly, not dignified or gracious behaviour. Fitting really.

Blowing one’s own trumpet, you idiom!

By The Word Tzar

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Princess Caroline’s Cannon by: Jayden Benyunes

YGTV Photo of the Month

Retail Shift: BHS finds new home

International Franchise Ltd – The Gibraltar based company that owns, Oasis, BHS and Mothercare, have been reorganising and redistributing their shops within Gibraltar last month.

Oasis, having been on Main Street, has now moved in to the ICC (International Commerce Centre) where BHS Home used to be located. The new and beautifully presented BHS Home now finds itself situated in the heart of Main Street, just opposite the Piazza.

There has been a lot of movement in the Retail sector recently in Gibraltar. Keep your eyes open for new shops and businesses around town.

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Over the past month:

The Gibraltar Pool Association’s President Sean Rumbo, committee members and all the association’s members, helped to organise and run a very successful event. All players and spectators enjoyed the event.

Gibraltar Pool Association YGTV Launches it’s Tourist Guide

At the end of February 2012, Your Gibraltar TV launched it’s very own tourist guide. Starting off with descriptive narration on some of Gibraltar’s hottest tourist spots and some unique photography from Just Consulting Ltd.’s photographer Leo Hayes. The guide is being developed and will include short videos about the sites and hotspots for tourists to be able to browse before arriving in Gibraltar.

The guide will include articles about, the Mediterranean Steps, the Alameida Gardens, the Gibraltar Apes and many more. The articles will be launched in stages and will give a new media format for tourists to see Gibraltar from afar.

SPAG – the Submarine Parachute Assistance Group have been training during February here in Gibraltar. The group focuses on Escape and Rescue operations for submarines that are in distress.

The unit are based out of RAF Brize Norton, and are on 6-hour take-off notice, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. There usual travel arrangement for situations is a C-130 aircraft, which is permanently available for the team.

SPAG training in Gibraltar

RGP’s new fleet of vehicles

February 2012 saw a long awaited improvement for the Royal Gibraltar Police force. Their new upgraded fleet of vehicles finally arrived. The new fleet consists of 3 new transit vans, for conveyance of arrested people and four new Ford Kugas to be used as patrol vehicles.

After months or preparation, town planning meetings and public outcries, Momy Levy’s Jubilee Celebration banner was finally approved and erected during February. The celebratory display has become a hit with the tourists whom are often seen photographing it.

Momy Levy’s Banner goes up!Your Gibraltar TV’s team were very proud to find out that Google had upgraded the YGTV site from a page rank 0 to a page rank 4 in the short 3 months that it has been live. Google ranks pages from 0-10 and usually it is a long drawn out process to increase that ranking.

Google upgrades YGTV’s Page Rank

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Your Gibraltar TV is proud to announce that our new series, Business Matters launched during February. The programme that looks to share what is important in business here in Gibraltar has had a great reception so far, with over 130 hits in its first week.

Our presenter, Ian le Breton, has a wealth of business experience and started the first in the series by interviewing two fantastic guests, the Hon. Minister for Financial Services, Education, Gaming, Telecommunications and Justice, Gilbert Licudi and head of RBS / Natwest Gibraltar, Marvin Cartwright.

The show, which went live on the 20th February, was great fun to produce, and as Marvin Cartwright said “I didn’t realise you were going to be emulating Jeremy Paxman so early on…”

We decided not to be too aggressive during our interviews, as these were our first “victims” so to say, but they were both wonderful to work with and we hope they enjoyed themselves as much as we did.

We look forward to continuing the series and wish to invite anyone who would like to participate to email us on businessmatters@yourgibraltartv.com. If you have a particular topic you would like us to discuss, then please feel free to email us as well.

Business Matter has Launched!Marvin Cartwright (left) & Ian Le Breton

Hon. Min. Gilbert Licudi (left) & Ian Le Breton

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The long boat arrived at Pak Beng under gathering storm clouds which had turned blood red as the sun started to set in the west behind the massive limestone peaks. With a hangover that could rival anything George Best had ever experienced, I grabbed my backpack and jumped onto the bank of the Mekong ignoring the guesthouse touts, all of whom were claiming cheap accommodations.

Making my way up the road I saw some high-end accommodation to my left; to the right the village of Pak Beng looked like something the Americans had rolled through with heavy armour. About half way up the single road I stopped outside a double story building, the upper half made of wood with what appeared to be a family restaurant underneath.

I enquired with the lady manning the reception/bar as to her rates. She said $3. I asked if I could see the room first and after viewing the somewhat basic bed and cold shower setup, I agreed to stay the night, not wanting to spend the $70 that it would cost to stay at the Pak Beng Lodge.

A quick shower and a Lao coffee that you could tar a road with later, I took a walk around the upper half of the village. PakBeng, is definitely just a night overstay kind of town. There are a couple of decent bars at the top of the road, but what put me off was the offer of drugs by a bloke sat on a large chair outside one of the bars at the end of the road.

Pakbeng is in the Golden Triangle; a drug production area of world standing. You will be offered weed, opium, cocaine and all the other goodies any enterprising street pharmacist might want to push. Only a total moron would contemplate buying anything off these people. As is often the case, you buy drugs off one bloke and within ten minutes another bloke claiming to be an officer of the law will be asking for money for not arresting you, and this second bloke is very often in cahoots with the bloke who sold you the drugs in the first place.

The penalties for drugs possession are extreme (but in my opinion justified, if you have seen a family member or a loved one’s life turn to s**t because of drugs misuse, then you will know what I mean), up to 20 years in prison. For those of you who may have an entrepreneurial streak, smuggling drugs will get you the death penalty. Stay away from drugs in S.E. Asia, unless you want a boyfriend called Havika (meaning Beloved) for the rest of your short natural life.

Walking quickly back to my guesthouse, I picked up two large bottles of Beer Lao at the reception and went to bed. Waking up before sunrise I had a cold shower to shake off my beer head, got dressed, grabbed my pack and checked out. The hunt for breakfast is always exciting, as you never know what you are going to get. I settled with a baguette full of bacon and fried eggs washed down with Red bull.

I walked down to the dock and noticed rumbling in the distance followed by a flash of lightning. Running down to the riverbank I placed my camera on the tripod I carry and waited for the next set of thunder in the hope that I would capture the lightning.

Luang PrabangLaos continues, by Leo Hayes

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After several attempts of counting the flash to bang time of the thunderstorm breaking in the east, I managed to capture one frame. Feeling rather smug with myself I bought some cashews and fruit at one of the many stalls that line the road. At 0800hrs I rejoined the longboat for the final leg to Luang Prabang.

Much of the rest of the trip was spent looking out onto the banks of the river, passing small sandy beaches. On the higher ground you could spot smoke coming from fires that the woodsmen light to cook or brew the powerful thick coffee. After rounding a corner late in the afternoon with the sun beginning its final slow decent for the day I could see, in the distance, the City of Luang Prabang.

Situated on a peninsular formed by the Mekong and the Khan rivers in a basin surrounded by limestone cliffs it was once the capital of Laos, and although it has lost this title to Vientiane, it still is at least the spiritual capital of Laos. With its saffron robed monks, golden stupas and palm trees lining the streets, it is a sleepy town, with French influence in abundance. The fusion of the two cultures allows for a great variety in foods, drinks and things to do. Art and antiques galleries can be found on every corner, with the strangest one having on display many artifacts to buy left over from the bombing of Laos by the Americans during the secret war. Bomb cases and fighter jet fuel drop tanks being some of the stranger items on sale.

I made my way to the lower half of town, wanting to get a feel for the place before committing to a guesthouse.

My fellow passengers, in a bid to get the best accommodation, began running up the hill. I stopped at the Hive bar ordered a coffee and spoke to one of the really friendly bar staff about where would be a nice but cheap place to stay. He pointed across the road and said there.

Finishing my coffee, I crossed the busy intersection avoiding being run over by a half motorcycle half pick up van contraption. Stopping at the glass sliding door of a three floor brick building, removing my shoes, I walked in and spoke to the young lad about availability of rooms and cost.I In the end they settled with $4.00 a night if I stayed for three days. Thinking of what I had seen on the way up the hill and looking at the surrounding terrain, I kind of came to the realization that I would require at least three days to see the area.

Paying in advance I took my backpack up stairs and was shown a very functional room with double bed and en suite toilet and shower. Deciding that I needed to do some personal admin like wash my underpants, amongst other items of clothing I had been wearing since Thailand, I put together a bag of clothing, had a shower, put on my second set of clothes and went to find a laundry.

Making sure your clothes are clean when travelling can be quite difficult when living out of a bag and travelling the lesser-known routes. I had selected, when deciding to pack, that I would keep the weight down by only taking two of everything and swop as necessary.

This soon became a bit of a problem especially on the longer legs of my travels, or when I was staying in woods and forests, as within minutes you can sweat out what you are wearing and end up smelling like a tramp’s armpit.

After finding a laundry around the corner, I went back to the guest room.

Night came and was swiftly pushed aside by the dawn. I awoke to the first rain I had seen in a month and there was a chill in the morning air. I decided to explore the town first and leave the surrounding area for the next day.

With my stomach rumbling like the distant clouds that hung low and grey in the sky, I put on my sports sandals to give my feet some well deserved air, (I always travel with closed all-terrain shoes [Merrells being my shoes of choice] as they provide more stability than sandals and also provide protection from anything that may be crawling around in the undergrowth), but there were to be no such fears in a town that was well paved, well maintained and neatly laid out, with old colonial buildings mixed with gilded temples.

Feeling oddly at peace being a small town boy myself, I set about to find my first real European meal in six weeks.

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Language; it’s what separates us from animals. There are an estimated 6,700 recognized languages in the world. Most of them are spoken by fewer than 1,000 people. The two most spoken languages on the planet are Mandarin Chinese, with an estimated 1151 million speakers, closely followed by English, with an ever-growing 1000 million speakers. If looked at on a global scale though, English is the more widely spoken of the two and is effectively seen as a global vernacular that forms an integral part of education around the world. The English language is made up of approximately 44 phonemes (sounds) made up of vowels and consonant sounds. The reason it is an approximation is because regional dialects may have their own unique phonemes that are not used widely enough to be considered as standard.

Words have the power to move, inspire, annoy, incite, and express our deepest secrets and desires or our basest functional needs. We use language every day; we speak, we read, we write. It’s everywhere. From the moment we are born we are exposed to and surrounded by language, beginning the long process of acquiring the ability to use it. We progress from a position of illiteracy to an apex of linguistic ability and then something strange happens; technology.

Advances in technology have provided the world with an open invite to regress to a more primitive and simplistic form of language; the acronym. For all the benefits and positive effects of technological advances we now find ourselves presented with a situation whereby the technology that we’ve strived to create in order to facilitate communication has ironically also facilitated its swift descent into mediocrity. It’s all a bit FUBAR if you ask me!

FB, MSN, SMS (these are not acronyms BTW they are abbreviations) and the WWW in general are mostly responsible for our collective dumbing-down of language. Ever since someone had the perspicacious idea of providing mobile phone users with a short message service, the world seems to have restricted itself to communicating in 160 characters or less. Not great for the English language as a whole, but kudos for providing the world with an opportunity for inventiveness with the concise and succinct! In fact, those who use Twitter need to be even more creative with their acronyms; there’s a 140 character limit in Tweets! LOL!

So as I write this and think about all the marvellous weighty tomes I have had the privilege to digest and immerse myself in, I cannot help but LMAO. I find myself actually ROFL for two distinct reasons; both are equally self-deprecating. Firstly, it humours me at how clumsy, forced and out-of-character it is for me to use acronyms in my writing. OMG it’s a struggle! It flies in the face of everything I’ve ever said, done or learned with regards to language. I wince, cringe and contort my face in pain with every acronym and abbreviation I write. It has the same effect on me as the tired dialogue of the plethora of teen movies that abound, exploring the issue of BFFs, teenage angst and one’s initial experiences of vampiric love (cue vociferous retching and dry heaving!).

The second is perhaps the most painful to admit of the two and really cuts me to the quick to have to openly admit it; I think I may be somewhat of an anally retentive, prescriptivist and linguistic elitist. Perched high atop my linguistic horse (that also happens to be balanced upon a tall linguistic pedestal) I survey the landscape of modern communication with up-turned nose. Language is a powerful tool. IMAO words are beautiful and bounteous in their meanings and uses; they can mesmerise, confound and astound. Hence, I find myself LOLA. The joke is on me.

There is most certainly a time and place for all modes of communication; different stokes for different folks and all! Language is adaptive. It moves, develops and reinvents itself to correspond with the communication needs of the time. The need to communicate with a limited number of characters has forced us to become more inventive and creative with the way we use written symbols (graphemes) and phonemes to produce meaning. It is the next link on the evolutionary chain of language; a new art form that can be quite clever at times. We set ourselves a linguistic problem and solved it by developing a new meta-language limited to approximately 160 characters; less, if you’re particularly resourceful! I just have to accept that the acronym is here to stay (GR8!). Just, whatever you do, don’t start speaking in acronyms, LOL!

TTFN.

Love of Language - LOLby The Word Tzar

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His Excellency, The Governor of Gibraltar, Sir Adrian Johns

YGTV was fortunate enough to interview His Excellency, The Governor of Gibraltar, Sir Adrian Johns.

You joined the Royal Navy in 1973, at what point in your career did you realised that this would make up most of your life’s work?

Well actually I realised a long time before I joined, that it was going to be my life’s work because I’d always wanted to join the navy, as from a very young age. I guess I was about 5 or 6 or something like that and we lived in Cornwall. We used to go to Plymouth on a shopping trip, usually by train, and when I looked out of the window, you could see all these ships in the river at the Devonport dockyard. I knew from that age that’s what I wanted to do. When I joined the Navy, it wasn’t so much as joining for a job, it was joining for life… and it was, it was my life’s work.

It sprung from a love of Ships and the Sea…

Yes, and a little bit of Navy in my family. We lived closed to the sea all of our lives, I think there was something in that, but it really captured my imagination.

As a student at the Imperial College you studied physics, do you find that you still have an interest for the subject?

I do, but it’s not the same interest I had then, I have to confess that I think I took physics because it was the path of least resistance. I didn’t find it particularly difficult to do but I didn’t have to do long tedious essays like they did in English and some of the humanities. So I did physics and very much enjoyed it and I still keep in touch in the sense that I think it’s been popularised these days by people like Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox and others, and it’s much more understandable and readable and viewable these days. I still keep a strong interest in it actually.

For our full video and written interview, log in now to www.yourgibraltartv.com

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Released on 30th January 1985, Madonna’s Material Girl truly touched upon the sentiment of the time – we were living in a material world. If ever a decade should have a theme song, this would be the one to epitomise the 80s. Amazingly though, it’s now twenty-seven years later, and much like her virginity, nothing has changed. In fact, apart from the extinction of the Yuppie, the shrinking of the portable telephone and the current deplorable state of world financial markets, we are still very much slaves to the materialistic one-upmanship that defined the 80s. The question is, with all the redundancies, pension reductions, rock-bottom interest rates and sky-high inflation, where’s all the money coming from to fund our overbearing need, our inner-Yuppie desire, to possess everything? Is it still the dreaded C-word?

Credit is singlehandedly responsible for convincing people that it’s acceptable to live outside their means. However, all good things come to an end and now it’s “Crunch” time. Whilst the majority of Europe is floundering economically in a mess of its own creation (a single currency uniting wholly different economies with vastly differing strengths was always a recipe for disaster, or temporary success for freeloading, economically weak countries), whilst everyone in the United Kingdom has been tightening their belts, penny-pinching, switching energy suppliers, striking about pensions, bemoaning their lot, we here in Gibraltar seem to be doing all right. We have managed to build a reasonably strong economy. People, by and large, seem to have jobs, which appear to pay them considerably well. Things are looking good, right?

Material wealth, or at least the façade of it, is a tremendous sociological driving force by which we are able to differentiate ourselves from each other. It’s the old “Haves” and “Have Nots” syndrome. The suggestion that someone is “better” or “better off” than someone else just because they have more possessions is an inherently flawed and tragically shallow mindset to be blessed with. Like crows, jackdaws and other beady eyed little inhabitants of the skies, our attraction to things that are more expensive, shiny and new is seen as a measure of success. One example of this, which although not exclusive to Gibraltar is extremely prevalent, is our predilection for behemoth vehicles. These mammoth “off-road” cars (?) are the current status symbol of choice, if a little impractical for our narrow and already heavily congested roads. Rarely used off the road and kitted out like the inside of a private jet, with a price tag to match, a large, shiny 4x4 is the object of desire for the inner-Yuppie of this current generation, and God forefend if you do not have one! The troubling thing is that this acquisitive attitude is rapidly and undoubtedly being passed down through the generations, manifesting itself most worryingly in the preoccupations of our children.

When children ask for fruit it is a sign of a considered dietary education and an indication of thoughtful parenting. However, unlike their banana and strawberry cousins, Apples and Blackberries have recently acquired new and pejorative meanings. When a child requests an Apple iPhone or Blackberry for Christmas, or a birthday, alarm bells, not phones, should start ringing. They are not seeking sustenance. They do not wish to replenish their bodies with nutrients and vitamins. They want something altogether more expensive and less beneficial. What is striking, however, is how many children are currently in possession of such items. Not surprisingly though, the only reason they want these “fashionable” items is to have something that is better and more coveted than whatever their friends have. Madonna can therefore rest easy. The Yuppie Gene is alive and well. iPods, iPads, laptops, X-Box 360s, Playstation 3s, PSPs, mobile phones, “Beats” headphones by Dr Dre (whose medical credentials are somewhat suspect) are the new currency for pubescent social status. If it isn’t electronic, portable and expensive then you find yourself on the fringes of a society that is slowly reducing itself to speaking in abbreviations, monosyllables and displays of emotion via punctuation.

There is a solution to this problem though. In fact, there are several; the most worrying of which is the potential near-future bursting of the local, affluent, credit-based, part-financed bubble that we are ever so privileged to still live in. Another avenue to pursue is that of people in poorer countries, where having less in material possessions is usually inversely proportional to the amount of happiness and general wellbeing gained as a result. Whatever happens, whatever future we are building for ourselves and our children, whatever new excesses we are envisioning, the general answer to the questions posed by our materialistic attitude is… Whatever!

So, barring a colossal change of attitude we are most definitely stuck, “’Cause the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mister Right.” That is, until Mister Right’s credit card is declined, the bank repossesses his house and forecloses his mortgage, the bailiffs take the 40-inch Plasma HD 3D TV and its various HDMI connected appendages and the Material Girl finds some other sap to fill her Material World. So much for aspiring to attain the giddy heights of high society through hard work, venerable study and philanthropy; welcome to iSociety, it’s plugged in, charged and ready to go! That is… Until the upgrade is released in six months’ time.

Material World: Welcome to iSociety!

by The Word Tzar

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Communication Consultancy: Koser Communications arrive on the Rock!

Koser Communication Group presents itself as an innovative and enterprising group of companies based in Gibraltar but also with presence in Portugal and Spain, working in the field of communication consultancy, which is often considered to be the key to successful companies all over the world.

Koser optimises companies’ internal and external communications, helping them break into new markets with translation, marketing adaptation to international markets and research of clients all over the world, as well as the creation of content for newsletters and publications.

They also work on the optimisation of the company’s internal communication, improving it with executive and business coaching and with talent management programs focused on motivation and productivity.

Coaching is a highly specialised area dealing with the handling and optimisation of all actual and potential circumstances arising in the daily life of a company, using these to obtain leverage to optimise all the potential brought together in your project. A professional, qualified coach will organise individual and group sessions and activities to develop motivation and prepare your employees to achieve their goals.

This company, born and based in Gibraltar, was created by Elisabete Melo Coutinho, Business Manager, highly experienced Executive Coach and a recent arrival at The Rock (www.elisabetecoutinho.com). “I have always wanted to run a company that reflects the way I see business: ethics, commitment, innovation and happiness. And I made it.”

The team also features Miguel Pereira and Maria Baptista, Ines Passos, Isabel Catarino, Sara Duarte and Ana Martinho. They are based in various offices in Gibraltar, Spain and Portugal.

Their range of services is wide but specialised and it follows just one path: turning companies into more functional and active systems in their relationships with providers, clients and employees.

by Elisabete Melo Coutinho

Coaching!

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Electronic Cigarettes represent the best method yet to reduce the smoking-related death and disease rate, because they are a clean nicotine delivery system and reproduce the smoking experience better than any other product.

The basic principal behind electronic cigarettes is Tobacco Harm Reduction: the replacement of a dangerous delivery system by a clean nicotine delivery system. The harm is almost all caused by the smoke; remove the smoke and most of the potential for harm goes with it. For the vast majority of people, with responsible consumption, the consumption of nicotine poses no identifiable risk.

From his offices in Gibraltar, ‘Total Electronic Cigarettes’ (TC), Managing Director, Mark Williams, explained they carry a wide range of some of the safest and highest quality products available in the world. ‘Many of the factories I have personally inspected to ensure quality control, hygiene and working conditions are more than acceptable. We were established in 2009 and since, over 250,000 traditional cigarettes have been replaced with one of our products which is something we are very proud of.’

Total Electronic Cigarettes ltd. (TC) are Gibraltar’s specialist electronic cigarette supplier with a fantastic range of product from a simple no fuss set to the latest variable voltage units, with DCT V2 puff daddy tanks, and drip tips.

Cigar smokers, social smokers and pack a day smokers will benefit from using the right product most suited to them. Why not try something different, and make a huge but simple change to your life, using the resources, guidance and support of Total Electronic Cigarettes ltd, Gibraltar.

Free consultation and sampling, so pop by on your lunch hour:

‘TC’ - Total Electronic Cigarettes (Beside TOUS, near Barclays Wealth)

123 Main Street (1st floor), GibraltarMon - Fri 10:30am – 2:30pm

Tel: +350 58008158 www.TotalCigarettes.com

Learn more about this article, smoking, electronic cigarettes, and their safety, on the ‘Smoke Watchers Club’ page:

www.facebook.com/SmokeWatchersClub

Tried to quit? Want to cut down?Need to make a change?March 14th – Gibraltar’s No Smoking Day

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The Yellow House Restaurant

Parliament Lane, Gibraltar+350 200 48148

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Just Consulting Ltd Launches Product Photography Service

Just Consulting Ltd is proud to announce that they now offer Professional Product Photography services here in Gibraltar. Just Consulting Ltd that set up in 2008 has been developing new marketing services for Gibraltar and internationally based clients.

In February 2012, Just Consulting Ltd launched it’s very own Photography & Video department, offering all services from product and corporate photography, through to video and advert production.

One of the first product photo shoots they have published was for Sharleen’s Cupcake Heaven, and the photos look delicious.

If you want your product professionally photographed, contact Just Consulting Ltd on 00 350 216 56789.

http://www.cts-europe.com