Benidorm: the new Las Vegas

Tourism chiefs plan to turn Spanish resort Benidorm into Europe's Las Vegas by allowing luxury hotels to open casinos.

The initiative was proposed by Hosbec – Benidorm’s hotel association and so far has received support from Benidorm’s town hall.
The initiative hopes to attract wealthier tourists amid an increasing decline in visitor figures and tourist spending (Currently Benidorm tourists are spending an average 60 euros per day, well below Spain’s average of 100 euros).
It is important to do it as quickly as possible, as our future depends on attracting this type of tourist.
Benidorm attracts around 6 million tourists a year, out of which 1 million are from the United Kingdom.

Ferrari in Valencia

The President of the Valencia Generalitat, Francisco Camps, and the Mayor of Valencia, Rita Barberá, are in Italy today for a working meeting with Ferrari bosses. Under discussion is the Ferrari World Finals, to be held in the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia on November 27 and 28, as well as the possibility of the construction of a Ferrari theme park in Valencia.

Camps made a visit to Abu Dhabi, where Ferrari already has a theme park, last year, with the intention of increasing commercial relations.

The Ferrari World Finals will take place on the Ricardo Tormo Circuit at Cheste in Valencia towards the end of this month.



Francisco Camps and Ferrari

La Granadella beach

This gorgeous beach near Jávea, on Spain's Costa Blanca coast, is known as La Granadella and its seagrass beds make it perfect for snorkelling.

The beach is between Jávea and Moraira. Head towards the Cabo de la Nao headland and take the turning down the gorge through the pine forest to La Granadella. You need to get there pretty early in the morning to get a place in the car park and avoid being stuck in a jam.

Venture capital in Spain

Venture capital (also known as VC or Venture) is provided as seed funding to early-stage, high-potential, growth companies and more often after the seed funding round as growth funding round (also referred as series A round) in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realization event such as an IPO or trade sale of the company. To put it simply, an investment firm will give money to a growing company. The growing company will then use this money to advertise, do research, build infrastructure, develop products etc. The investment firm is called a venture capital firm, and the money that it gives is called venture capital. The venture capital firm makes money by owning a stake in the firm it invests in. The firms that a venture capital firm will invest in usually have a novel technology or business model. Venture capital investments are generally made in cash in exchange for shares in the invested company. It is typical for venture capital investors to identify and back companies in high technology industries, such as biotechnology and IT (Information Technology).

Spanish venture capital list:

AC Desarrollo

Active Venture Partners

Adara

ADE Capital Sodical

Aleuria Aurantia

Arico 99

Arnela Capital Privado (Inveravante)

Atlas Capital Private Equity

AXIS Participaciones Empresariales

Axón Capital

Banesto Enisa Sepi

Bankinter Capital Riesgo

Baring Private Equity Partners

BCN Ventures

Bullnet Capital

C.D.T.I.

Caixa Capital Risc CAN

Cantabria Capital

Capital Alianza Private Equity

Capital Stock

Catalana de Iniciatives

Clave Mayor CDTI

CMC XXI S.A.

COFIDES

Compas Private Equity

Corporacion Empresarial de Extremadura

CORSABE

CRMadrid

Cross Road Biotech

Debaeque Venture Capital

Demeter Partners

ENISA

Entrinnova

Espiga Capital Gestión

Fides Capital

Finaves

Genera

Gescaixa Galicia

Gestión de Capital Riesgo del País Vasco

Going Investment

Grupo Alisio

Grupo Intercom

Iniciativas Ec. de Almería

Innotarget

Innova 31

iNova Capital Management

Invercaria

Inveready Capital

Inverjaén

Inverpyme

Inversiones e Iniciativas de Málaga

Kiss Capital Group

Landon Investments

Lealtad Desarrollo

Madrigal Participaciones

M-Capital

Möbius

Murcia Emprende

Najeti Capital

Nauta Capital

Next Capital Partners

Octapris Private Equity

Ona Capital Privat

Perennius

Prince Capital Partners

Qualitas Equity Partners

Realiza Business Angels

Reus Capital de Negocis

Riva y García Gestion

Sadim Inversiones

Seed Capital de Bizkaia

Sepides

Sevilla Seed Capital

Sodecan

Sodeco

Sodena

Sodiar

Sodicaman

Sodiex

Sofiex

Soria Futuro

SRP Principado Asturias

Start Up Capital Navarra

Suanfarma Biotech

Talde Gestión

Tandem Capital

Uninvest

Unirisco Galicia

Univen Capital

Valcapital Gestión

Venturcap

Venturewell Capital

Vigo Activo

XesGALICIA

Ysios Capital Partners http://www.reafianzamiento.es/principal.htm

Desposicionar resultados

Es muy frecuente que la gente se pregunte que puede hacer si tal u otro resultado está bajando los ingresos o empeorando tu reputación online.

La solución es la clave... debes buscar como alejar ese resultado maldito en google o en cualquier otro buscador y conseguir que la reputación de tu empresa cuelva a estar intacta.

Personalmente creo que desposicionar webs es todo un reto y un trabajo seo bastante interesante.

Eso si, lo normal es pactar unos resultados de forma que si el consultor seo de turno no logra desposicionar ese resultado que tanto te agobia deberá devolverte el dinero. En este caso el precio subirá.

Por ejemplo: 700 euros por desposicionar un resultado sencillo. Si pactas que se devuelve el dinero el precio puede subir hasta los 1000 euros.

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Too often people wonder what to do if this or other outcome is lowering revenue or worse your reputation online.

The solution is the key ... you look like fucking away this result in google or any other search engine and get your company's reputation cuelva to be intact.

Personally I think misplacement sites is a challenge and seo work quite interesting.

That if it is normal to agree results so that if the consultant fails to shift seo misplacement this result is overwhelming that both will return your money. In this case the price will rise.

For example: 700 euros for a simple result misplacement. If covenants are refunded the price may go up to 1000 euros.

Vistaprint fraude

VistaPrint's business cards are fine but from what we hear, VistaPrint has a nasty habit of herding their customers. The company says it's just not so. Is a fraud from vistaprint?

I have no problems with Vista Print's products. I have ordered business cards and brochures. The problem I do have is this: They add items to my "shopping cart" and include them in my total--that I did not order and do not want. It takes a long time to figure out how to "delete" the unwanted items, and if I am not careful, I end up ordering magazines or other promotional items that I do not want. Vista Print should allow customers to easily choose extras or promotional products without automatically placing them on the order without explicit permission. It's like, "We will go ahead and sell it to you unless you catch us and make us stop." I will stop using Vista Print unless they stop this practice. I'd rather pay more somewhere else than deal with it. I use Vista Print because of the convenience, not the price. When they make it inconvenient, I will go away. Get rid of the magazines and junk, or make it easy to avoid them.


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Por mi parte no he tenido ningún problema con vistaprint pero hace mes y medio realicé dos pedidos gratis a vistaprint, un sello de caucho y unas tarjetas de visita. Cual es mi sorpresa que me ha llegado solo las tarjetas de visita que pedi 10 dias despues que el sello de caucho.
Me pongo a buscar un telefono en la web y no hay nada que hacer. De todas formas les he enviado un mail, a ver que me contestan.
¿Son unos estafadores?

No creo que vistaprint cometa fraude. Pero está claro que si abusa de los pobres consumidores que no están acostumbrados a leer la letra pequeña

US solar industry is growing

The US solar energy industry has become the latest renewable energy sector to report impressive growth figures for 2009, further underlining the extent to which clean tech industries have defied the economic downturn.

According to new figures from the Solar Energies Industry Association (SEIA) released yesterday as part of the trade association's annual report, the amount of installed solar capacity in the US grew 37 per cent last year to 2,108MW.

Solar industry revenue similarly grew 36 per cent over 2008 to $4bn (£2.6bn), driven by strong demand in the utility-scale and residential sectors, state and federal policies incentives and declining solar panel prices.

The report also said that the sector had enjoyed a strong start to 2010 with more than 46MW of solar capacity having come online by early February as a result of new grants released as part of the US stimulus package.

Industry analysts expect further growth across the photovoltaic industry this year as developers rush to begin construction work on projects before the Treasury Grant Program expires at the end of the year.

Meanwhile, thousands of jobs are expected to be created after more than $600m in manufacturing tax credits were awarded to solar equipment producers, allowing more than $2bn of investment in new and upgraded factories, according to the report.

"When the president looks back at how stimulus dollars were invested, he's going to see that solar was one of the best returns on investments in 2009 for the American taxpayers," said Rhone Resch, SEIA president and chief executive.

In addition to government spending, the industry was also bolstered by rising levels of private investment, including a total $1.4bn of venture capital backing during 2009.

The success of the burgeoning solar market is being mirrored across much of the US renewable energy sector as clean tech firms continue to resist the drag of the recession.

Just this week the US Geothermal Energy Association published its annual report showing that the number of projects under development rose 26 per cent during 2009, while the American Wind Energy Association recently reported that the sector delivered a record-breaking 10,000MW of new capacity during 2009.

The Ricote Valley

The Ricote Valley starts at the southern gateway, which is 23km from the capital Murcia. The eight towns (from south to north – Archena, Villanueva del Río Segura, Ulea, Ojós, Ricote, Blanca, Abarán and Cieza) in the valley straddle or sit along side the River Segura. In total the stretch is only 20km, a small portion of one of Spain’s major rivers. It starts at Santiago Pontones (province of Jaén) in the Segura Mountains, passes Calasparra, Murcia, Orihuela, Rojales and ends in the Mediterranean Sea near Guardamar del Segura in the province of Alicante, a course of 325km.


The alluvial plain is called the Vega del Segura and is a very productive agricultural region growing a wide variety of fruit, vegetables and flowers.
Much water is drawn off the Segura and its major tributary, the Guadalentín (Sangonera), to irrigate adjacent huertas (orchards), especially on the Murcia Plain.
Irrigation in the valley has been of paramount importance, as shown by the number of remaining waterwheels in various degrees of conservation. There are 19, but the number of associated mills has not been as fortunate, although there are some plans to restore several of them.


The most striking and attractive feature of the valley is the contrast between the lush green of the land around the river and the dry, stark and rugged mountains which envelop the area.
The whole valley has references to the Morisco Moors, who were forced to convert to Christianity, and it was here that the last Moors in the Levant region lived until their final expulsion by Philip II in the early 17th century. The impact devastated the area.

In 1285 Don Sancho IV donated the whole Ricote Valley to the Order of Santiago, with the exception of Archena. This town belonged to the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, principally because of the Balneario and its curative powers.
The Order of Santiago was a religious and military order founded on 29th July 1170, during the reign of León Fernando II. It owes its name to the patron saint of Spain (St James). The founder and first grand master was Don Pedro Fernández, a descendent of the kings of Navarre, and head of a group of thirteen men to whom the Order was entrusted. They were known as the Gentlemen of Cáceres.
Their initial objective was protect to the pilgrims of the on the way to Santiago. They erected many hospitals in order to harbour to the pilgrims...

As you can see in next pics is a good place to find a real spanish home




The sea near Ricote valley


Ricote town


Ricote street


River near ricote

AVE in Valencia

El Ministerio de Fomento iniciará antes del verano el periodo de pruebas del AVE a Valencia con los trenes con que Renfe prestará servicio comercial por esta línea, cuya inauguración está prevista para finales de año. El AVE llegará de momento a una estación provisional en Valencia que funcionará mientras se levanta la nueva, del arquitecto César Portela, y se eliminan las vías en superficie para que el tren entre en túnel a la ciudad.
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The
Development Ministry will start before summer, the period of testing in
Valencia with the AVE trains that RENFE commercial service on this
line, which is scheduled for later this year. The
AVE will reach the moment to a temporary station in Valencia to operate
while the new stands, the architect Cesar Portela, and removed the
tracks in that area for the train enters the tunnel to the city.

Convert psd in html

Many designers are looking for a tool to make html from psd. There is photoshop plugin called SiteGrinder. It is able to convert your psd Template into valid html file. It do everything automatically, even turning text layers into html text.

You just have to rename your layers with specific suffix to inform the plugin about the type and nature of the element that supposed to be in the HTML file.

However, it is expensive plugin Basic edition worth $129 while pro edition $349 and the easiest way to use it with no trial limitations is purchasing it. In other word, there is no keygen or cracks

Also you could still use a 3rd party service to manually convert your PSD designs into quality web pages, there's also options to use a programmed software to do the task for you. Artisteer might be a sound choice but I never personally tried it. It may or may not live up to your demands.

Turning PSD templates into working web pages that are well coded and accessible to both search engines and human readers are not easy and really time consuming. If I were you, I'd give up and learn the real ways to make web pages - create them directly from Dreamweaver or text editors if you are well versed in HTML + CSS languages.