So truth time how many of you have lived in Marbella and you still haven’t made the effort to learn Spanish and with the modern advances of the internet there really isn’t any excuse.

Fiona Gonzales of Teach Yourself Spanish

So for those of you who want to teach yourself Spanish and take the ball by the horns so to speak I came across this fantastic website click Teach Yourself Spanish to see for yourself. Now being a guy its hard not to be impressed with such a stunning lady as Fiona Gonzales and if I was going to get some advice on how to learn Spanish Id defo be getting it from her but that’s all as she is head over heal in love with her fella (lucky guy) so we will have to stick to Spanish.

For those of you who want to give Fiona a swerve but want easy Spanish lessons then get online find that Spanish course and starting mixing with the local Spanish who are wonderful people by the way.

Loathe her or love her but Angeles Muñoz is certainly doing her best to promote property Costa del Sol & Marbella and it looks like that all her hard work and obvious self promotion is now paying off  with the news that the new owner of Malaga Football Club, Abdullah ben Nasser Al-Thani, has announced that he will invest a large amount of money in a Marbella project.

Boost for Marbella

Al-Thani said after a meeting with Mayor Angeles Muñoz in Marbella that he is in advanced negotiations in a major project in Marbella, related to the tourism industry. He did not reveal exactly what kind of investment project it was.

Angeles Munoz claimed after the reunion with the Qatari sheik that this was wonderful news for the city of Marbella. She looked very excited about the plans, but could not either identify exactly what they were.

Until further information comes from the mayor or the sheik, one can only speculate what the spectacular plans consist of. All we know for know is that the Qatari will invest money into something related with tourism in Marbella. Sundream Blog is very hopeful it will create much needed employment for the citizens of Marbella.

This is great news for Marbella and this blog who has been championing the causes of our wonderful Mayor of Marbella who has been heavily criticized for self promotion and wasting public money. What we pointed out to the idiots who were criticizing her was you only needed one deal like this and you were miles ahead of the game so well done Angeles.

Can you actually sleep in Marbella? Sleeping like a baby has become a distant memory for many.  Nearly 2,000 people arrive at Costa del Sol Hospital annually complaining of sleeping disorders. For them, the arms of Morpheus is an elusive ‘dream’, and in most cases that disorder has a name: apnoea.

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Sleeping is the most important thing we do

Over 90 percent of the people we see in the Costa del Sol Hospital have breathing disorders during . It is a problem that increases 10 percent every year according to figures, in fact, since the Hospital started its Sleep Unit seven years ago.

The clearest symptoms of this disease include snoring, but also other respiratory pauses during sleep, and mainly, the daytime sleepiness and fatigue are’, the expert explains. He adds that multiple factors lie behind the disease. However, if one were to produce an ID to identify these patients, being overweight would be the main feature.

It affects 4% of men and 2% of women and is defined as an airway obstruction that prevents one from maintaining a deep sleep.

Treating this illness is not a trivial matter: In the Carlos Haya Hospital Complex in Málaga, two units have coordinated treatment of sleep disturbances. The Neurophysiology Unit is responsible for determining the type and degree of neuronal disorders in patients through sleep studies. In 2009, nearly 900 people passed through the Sleep Unit of this department, which is part of the Civil Hospital’s Department of Maternal and Child Health. One fact that these studies have revealed is that these problems do not only affect the old. There are in fact many children who are affected.

The Unit for Management of Respiratory Diseases treats patients who suffer from sleep apnoea. ‘We serve about 3,400 people who cannot sleep because of apnoea, although we know that there are many patients who are undiagnosed’, Dr. Jose Luis de la Cruz Rios, head of the department, said. ‘The audible symptom is snoring, which in itself is not a disease, but it is dangerous if accompanied by respiratory arrest. The result is a bad dream and a break in the sleep cycle that harms the sufferer’s performance the next day, causing fatigue, irritability, social and labor problems, and can even cause depression’, the specialist said.

In addition to apnoea, many other causes lie behind insomnia. In the western world, one third of the population has trouble sleeping, and Málaga province is no exception. About 478,000 Malagueños have some type of sleep disturbance, to which must be added the 20,000 more who cannot sleep a wink at night due to the noise they endure in their homes. In total, for half a million people, every night is a living nightmare. This is 24% more than a decade ago, due to increased population.

Bad sleeping habits are winning the game in the big cities. Stress, poor diet, too much dinner before bedtime, alcohol and drugs, watching TV late all take time away from sleep. All these factors, which experts call ‘poor sleep hygiene’, adversely affect healthy people and can lead to other medical conditions, worsening the health of society as a whole.

Sleep is one of the great pillars of health, and we are not aware of how fragile the balance is-

The categories are not watertight, however, and problems may have a cascading effect, with one condition leading to others. Sleep apnoea can lead to narcolepsy, hypersomnia, and on and on’, the expert said.

The most common ailment for sufferers is insomnia, according to Puertas. Some 10% of the population suffer from it, and it is considered chronic when a person needs more than 45 minutes to fall asleep three times a week and for more than three months. According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), 20% of the population claims to have trouble falling asleep, the percentage being higher among older people.

Dipsomania results from external factors such as noise pollution, allergies, or ingestion of alcohol or drugs. It also results from internal factors, commonly disorders in circadian rhythm, the normal cycle of sleeping and waking. The category also includes temporary disruptions, the best known of these being the transoceanic syndrome, commonly known as jet lag.

This category includes one more that can cause long term problems in circadian rhythms, leading to other physical, psychological and social issues: the enforced sleeplessness of night workers. ‘It is proven that many people working on night shifts, 25% of workers, have difficulty adapting to society as whole, and among them, there are increasing cases of divorce, traffic accidents, depression or gastrointestinal conditions’, Puertas stated.

Another category is parasomnias. These are less common disorders associated with medical or psychiatric processes. They are also the most spectacular. Confusional awakening, or sleepwalking, also known as sonambulation, occurs in 4% of pre-pubertal children. ‘Night terrors’ occur mainly in infants, who cry suddenly, sweat or hyperventilate, but without waking. Experts say these disorders occur during REM sleep. Muscles are not inhibited during deep sleep, and sufferers move as if they are in a dream-reality. Symptoms include nocturnal enuresis, or bed-wetting, and bruxism or clenching of teeth.

Humans spend one third of life sleeping, and failing to get proper rest can cause irreparable consequences. Growth hormones are released in REM sleep, why we need eight hours of sleep a day is a mystery, but the need for sleep is even stronger than hunger

SUNDREAM ESTATE

Many have wondering what Twitter make money on and how the popular site can survive. The answer is that they are not making money. But according to Twitter themselves, has they plenty of money in the bank and long-term investors with good patience. So they work peacefully and calmly with a business plan to find income opportunities.

The most logical method of financing is of course ads, but that has Twitter said no to. It will not be placing ads on their users’ micro-blogs; Twitter believes that the disadvantages are greater than the benefits. It simply makes too little money compared to how much criticism it is expected that such would generate.

Instead, it seems inclined to start up some form of payment accounts. Maybe can some certain percentage of users get to pay a membership fee for access to new and better features? I would guess that this is where they have to start looking. But I do not think you can block ads totally. I think there are a few; quite successful Twitter’s who would like to be able to place ads on their micro-blogs. Perhaps it is an opportunity that will be given on Twitter offers of payment accounts?

Right now seems they take it easy at Twitter and it does not seem to be a clear plan of how to finance the site in the future. They need to create some form of income, before the investors’ money is running out.

“It’s not tough for us because we have a lot of money in the bank and patient investors [and a] patient board,” said Stone during the interview in Twitter’s San Francisco offices. “We want to focus on this before profit. If we focus on profit, then we take people away from focusing on features.”

More about Twitter: 60 procent leave Twitter within a month.   

Tutorial Blog has a very good list of 10 WordPress Tips & Tricks for Your Comment Page on WordPress blogs that you can do. Here you will find helpful tips on how you can make your comments easier to read, more well-designed and transparent, and more. Sometimes forget you to trim away commentators, which it is a bit unfortunate as it is often among the comments that it really fun with the blog posts will appear.
Titles of the guides Tutorial Blog has gathered are:

1. Display the total amount of comments on your blog.

2. A cleer row of alternating colors for your comments.

3. Giving your Wordpress comments a bit of style.

4. Seperate your comments from trackbacks.

5. Styling your author comments.

6. Numbering your Wordpress comments.

7. Disabling commenting on older posts.

8. Remove the comment section on your blog.

9. Use Twitter graphics in comments.

10. Ajax edit past comments.

There is a tips that I think is smart; Seperate your comments from trtackbacks,

something I probably soon will introduce in Sundream Estate blog. I have written a lot of tips and links for WordPress before. Since I run with WordPress for my blogs,try I to keep a little eye on what happens in the field – for example, the useful additions, and write here in my blog about it.

It is a question – why leave so many? Twitter is an excellent service but it is understandable that twitter can not take over other services as Facebook and Myspace – Twitter should not do it, is whole different uses.

- There is no doubt that Twitter has grow exponentially in recent months thanks to all the attention the service received. The service grew by 100 percent during March, but the majorities, 6 of 10 people choose to stop using the service within a month.

The fact that Obama started use Twitter gave it substantial increase in users, but as soon as he finished in that he became president, just as quickly started to users lose interest. Think of it as running a blog. You can write how much any time and enormous contributions to both the content and design innovation texts, but if no one chooses to read, comment, or even follow the blog so the user will lose interest and stop. Twitter is on the same track.

Here you can follow thousands, but with no response, type the user for air. As with blogs follow the visitors content and Twitter can be used in various ways – ranging from short news messages to the personal I-do-this and have you no greater friendship circle, can the number of follower be very few at the end.

Twitters ability to maintain their users is much lower than, for example, Facebook and Myspace. These two services have the ability to keep 70 per cent compared with Twitters 40 percent.

As I wrote above, one should not compare Twitter with Facebook or Myspace, they’re good at completely different things and the latter is significantly better at retaining users when services entirely on building a network of contacts. Twitter is based on the short message to tell everyone and everything about everything. That so many that 6 of 10 reject Twitter does not surprise me, I will certainly stop a time. But until then, it is an interesting service.