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April 2018 Vol. 23 # 06

WORLD CUP WONDER HAT-TRICK HURST

HOW NORMAL IS NORMAL?

IS 60s MUSIC DEAD AND GONE?

(ANTI)SOCIAL MEDIA THE STRUGGLE IS REAL

EASTER BREAKS MAJESTIC MILAN

SPRINGING INTO SPRING FASHION

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hope by the time you’re reading this that the rain gods have shown us some mercy and there’s no longer a need to travel to work by canoe. It’s been a tempestuous few weeks so it’s important that you look after your health, para no refriarse, miarma!

THE GREATEST WEALTH IS HEALTH

Speaking of health, that’s the theme running through our issue this month. To start us off, Graeme delves into the dark side of (anti)social media, and the Pavlovian effects ‘likes’ have on our brain (p.30). Could we soon be finding ourselves in a real-life episode of Black Mirror? It may eventually be the case in China, where talks of citizens being ‘rated’ via a dystopian super app called ‘Zhima Credit’ have been circulating social media again this month. On a lighter and brighter note, Molly speaks to personal trainer and entrepreneur Lorraine Van Kleef, whose fervour for fitness led her to establish her fitness brand - LVK Personal Training (p. 41). And that’s not all! Elena pops into the GHA for a chat with not one but two surgeons (p. 50) - how do you like them apples? Often, and as part of a well-balanced diet according to Dr Gillian. In her bid to promote a healthier way of living, she dissuades us from always choosing drugs over diet (p. 76). Our cheeky monkey is using his annual holiday leave on an Easter trip to Milan after reading Elena’s page-turning depiction of the Italian metropolis (p. 65); in his haste, he’s dropped 6 colourful eggs which are dotted around the magazine. Can you find them all? You could be in the running to win a £25 Hungry Monkey voucher AND a tongue-tantalisingly tasty Easter egg if you do (p. 89)!

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‘Attending the Maiti Nepal gala last month.’

As we (hopefully) transition into more clement climates, we can finally pack away the expanse of heavy coats and chunky knits of our winter wardrobe (sorry Mum, you know what’s coming - there’s no space at my house). Luckily we have Julia on hand to mentor us through the minefield of brights, bolds, plaids and polka dots set to hit the shops this Spring (p.72).

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Last but by no means least, we have the pleasure of sitting down with the scorer of that hat-trick, the man gracing our cover this month, Sir Geoff Hurst (p.45). See what he has to say about some of his fellow footballers!

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News

18 Around Town 20 Hello There: What is your healthiest habit?

BUSINESS 23 Gibraltar Fintech Forum 27 Regulators’ Little Book of Quotes 30 (Anti)Social Media 34 Startup Grind: Silicone Valley 38 Contrary Investment in Property

LIFE

41 A Woman’s Work: Lorraine Van Kleef 45 World Cup Wonder: Hat-Trick Hurst 48 How Normal is Normal? 50 GHA Surgeons: Gut Feelings & ‘Diabesity’ 55 Climate Change in Our Oceans

SCENE 59 Is 60s Music Dead and Gone? 62 Psychological Thriller: Review of Revenge 94 An Olympian Diet: The Gods on Calories

LEISURE

65 Easter Breaks: Majestic Milan 72 Springing Into Spring Fashion 76 Eating You Way to Pill-Free Health 79 100 Calorie Snacks: Two a Day Max! 80 A Helping Hand in Health 82 Palo Cortado: Fact or Fiction?

REGULARS

76 FRONT COVER: Sir Geoffrey Hurst MBE. World Cup Final 1966 GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

84 Recipes: Charlie’s Hornazo & Easter Egg Choco-Baskets 86 Guides and Information 93 #GibsGems 96 Schedules 98 Coffee Time 7

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WHAT'S ON? APRIL 2018 15th March - 15th April

The Ocean Village Tapas Route Ocean Village, 9:00am–8:00pm

Sponsored by Centry 21, with Mary Kay beauticians doing a make-up demonstration for all to see. For further information contact: sonpat45@gmail.com

For just £3.95 each you can enjoy a tapa plus a drink from 7 of Ocean Village venues: Benjamin's Gourmet Foods, Bridge Bar & Grill, Casino Admiral Gibraltar, Little Bay, Indian Tapas Bar & Restaurant, Wagamama, O'Reilly's - Irish Pub - Gibraltar, The Ivy Sports Bar & Grill.

The Art SocietyTalks - Peter Warwick

Saturday 7th April

Registration and welcome drink at 6:30pm, talk at 7:30pm.

Annual Alzheimer's Bake Sale Piazza, 9:00am–4:00pm The annual bake sale to help raise money for the Gibraltar Alzheimer's & Dementia Society. For further information contact: +350 56001422

Crafts & Collector's fair St Andrew's Church, Governors Parade, 10:30am–12:00am

Wednesday 18th April

At the basement of the O’Callaghan Elliot Hotel, Governor's Parade

Russian Apocalypse: The Tragedy of the last Romanovs. Saturday 21st April

Kitchen Studios 'No Cuadros' Kasbar, 9:00pm This exhibition is dedicated to contemporary, creative artists and will showcase a variety of local art in a vast range of media.

Entrance £1.00, all proceeds go to the Church Restoration Fund.

Saturday 28th April

For further information contact: viviend13@hotmail.com

Garden Tours of the Botanic Gardens

Saturday 14th April

Peak Classic Bodybuilding Fitness Competition John Mackintosh Hall, 308 Main Street, 10:00am - 5:00pm Purchase tickets via email: peakgymgib@gmail.com For any other enquiries: peakgymgib@gmail.com Tuesday 17th April

George Don Gates, at the south end of Grand Parade, 10:00am–2pm Price: adult £5.00, children free. Guided tour of the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens, The Alameda. For further information contact: +350 20041235

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Bosom Buddies, Cancer Trust, Tea Party Calpe Rowing Club Admission Prices: Adult £6.00, children under 5, £3.00. 8

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news GIBRALTARBERLIN CULTURAL EXCHANGE – CALL FOR ARTISTS

KITCHEN STUDIOS 'NO CUADROS' Kitchen Studios is calling all installation artists, performance artists, animators, film makers, story tellers, musicians, ceramic artists, sculptors, poets, writers, live painters and creatives alike. No paintings, illustrations, or framed artworks this time. This new exhibition is dedicated to contemporary, creative artists and will be exhibiting at the Kasbar on the 21st of April at 9:00pm. As always they are deeply grateful for Kasbar’s continued support and are delighted to be working with them on yet another exhibition. The exhibition “No Cuadros” will showcase a variety of local art in a vast range of media. Artists are asked NOT to work in frameable mediums or any works on paper, such as painting, drawing, printing, etc. Instead, they are to work through me-

diums that cannot be framed or hung on a wall. Artists are encouraged to challenge their own creative and cultural expectations and boundaries and reflect upon a wide range of contemporary practices and media. This could be solved through performance, sculpture, spoken word, model-making, sound, film, animation, installation, etc. Gibraltar Kitchen aims to explore unique approaches and viewpoints within Gibraltar and would like to call upon anyone interested in participation. Submissions are open to all ages and anyone interested in the arts (deadline 15th April). If you would like to contribute to this exciting event send an email to gibkitchen@gmail.com.

Gibraltar Cultural Services on behalf of the Ministry of Culture, will once again be organising the GibraltarBerlin Art Residency. The cultural exchange is organised in conjunction with Lichtenberg Studios and is a programme for artists working in any medium, interested in developing their work in Urban public spaces. The artist selected to take part from Gibraltar, will be required to travel to Berlin from the 9th July to 5th August 2018. The artist selected from Berlin will be in Gibraltar from the 13th September to 7th October 2018. A publication and an exhibition of both artists will follow at the John Mackintosh Hall in October 2018. Local artists wishing to apply to participate in the exchange are required to do so via email on: gibraltar@lichtenberg-studios.de. Artists are required to submit a CV and statement detailing recent projects, a portfolio with samples of works and a brief description of the artist’s interest in art in public spaces. For further information please contact Lichtenberg Studios on email: info@lichtenberg-studios.de or visit their website: www.lichtenberg-studios.de. Alternatively, please contact GCS Events Department on 20067236. Closing date for applications is Wednesday 2nd May 2018.

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news LOWER ST MICHAEL’S CAVE REVAMP PROJECT UNDERWAY The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Climate Change has just completed the first phase of a project to revamp of the extraordinary Lower St Michael’s Cave. Phase one has included a major cleanup of the Cave. The old electrical cabling and conduit system has been removed and new LED lighting has been installed along the main entrance and throughout the Cave. In order to assist them in conducting the tours, guides have been provided with an office and storage facilities for equipment. The following phases will see information panels at the entrance of the Cave providing details about the history of Lower St Michael’s, rock formations and general information. There will also be improved access to the pathway leading up to the entrance of the Cave as well as a new staircase inside the cave at the start of tour. These are all improvements that will enhance the visitor experience. Lower St Michael’s cave is not open to the public and can only be visited by pre-booking a tour with a qualified guide. Tours normally last around 3 hours. For more information or to arrange a tour visit www.visitgibraltar.gi.

THE GIBRALTAR TOURIST BOARD UPDATES ITS WEBSITE The Gibraltar Tourist Board (GTB) is pleased to announce a further update of its www.visitgibraltar.gi website. The update includes a fresh new look including more image and video content and the availability of the website in the Spanish language. The ease of navigation has been improved too with faster access to the more popular sections. The website will be made available in other languages over the coming months. New sections include suggested itineraries for visitors to Gibraltar with different requirements. The events section has been given more prominence, building on the success of Gibraltar’s increasingly popular cultural calendar. The UNESCO World Heritage Site, Gorham’s Cave Complex, is given a higher profile and the Gibraltar 2019

NatWest International Island Games XVIII will feature throughout the year. Minister for Tourism, Gilbert Licudi QC, said: “To support the GTB’s new Year of Culture campaign and to enhance the website, we felt it was time to introduce some improvements. The website will now have a greater reach as it is translated into different languages and it has become easier to move around the different sections. The video content is very effective and this will serve to strengthen the marketing of the destination along with our strong presence on social media.”

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NEW AUDIO SYSTEM FOR WORLD WAR II TUNNELS The World War II Tunnels on the Upper Rock can now be experienced in a new way thanks to a multi-language audio tour system.

Reserve, Upper Rock have increased steadily over the years. In 2017 an impressive milestone was achieved with over 1 million visitors to the Upper Rock.

The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Climate Change is pleased to announce the acquisition of a new audio tour system for the WWII tunnels, which is expected to result in an increase in the number of visitors who can take the tour. Following tourist visitor trends, the most audio descriptions will be available with a total of six languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish and Polish. Should there be a growth in demand, more languages can be added in the future.

The Hon John Cortes, Minister for Education, Heritage, the Environment, Energy and Climate Change said "The Government of Gibraltar is continuously committed to investing in Gibraltar's tourist product. The WWII Tunnel audio tour system is a great example of this as it improves information on Gibraltar's historical sites with the aim of offering a world-class tourism product. I would also encourage Gibraltar residents to take this fascinating tour, to increase our overall appreciation of this important part of our heritage."

Tourist numbers visiting the Nature

RESIDENTIAL PARKING SCHEMES MAKE FAIREST POSSIBLE USE OF AVAILABLE SPACE The Government notes the Opposition’s Press Release regarding Zone 2 parking. The Government’s position on parking is detailed in the Sustainable Traffic, Transport and Parking Plan (STTPP). The Plan clearly explains that Residential Parking Schemes will be implemented as a direct result of stakeholder feedback and involvement, which identified the need for these schemes. As stated explicitly in the STTPP and its supporting documents, which were sub-

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ject to public consultation and scrutiny, the Residential Parking Schemes aim to provide residents with an improved chance of parking whilst still supporting the needs of visitors and commercial activities in the area. The Schemes do not aim to guarantee a parking for everyone, but aim to address the issue of demand for parking exceeding the number of available spaces.

ers from other residential areas, tourists and visitors require shorter-term parking.

To clarify, in Zone 2 there are 2700 unique addresses competing for 500 onstreet parking spaces. These spaces were included in order to increase the number of parking spaces available within the Residential Parking Scheme in Zone 2 to residents.

• Pay & Display - 190 spaces within Ragged Staff Car Park, Romney Huts, Line Wall Road, Landport Ditch and Flat Bastion Road;

Each Residential Zone has different parking requirements in terms of its residents and other users. Travel data compiled in the development of the STTPP shows that in Zone 2 residents predominately require long-stay parking, whereas commut-

Whilst not everyone can be guaranteed to find a parking space at any given time, the Residential Parking Schemes aim to make the fairest possible use of the available parking in the limited room that Gibraltar has. Within Zone 2 there is parking available for all as follows:

• Free day-time parking is available at Landport Ditch, Coaling Island and Mid-Town Car-Park; • Private Parking facilities are also provided by the ICC Building; • There is also free parking just outside Zone 2 at Grand Parade.

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MAITI NEPAL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING Last month a charity event was organized on the Sunborn Gibraltar to help in the fight against human trafficking and sexual exploitation of young women and girls. The organisation Maiti Nepal was founded in 1993 and has rescued over 35,000 women and girls. A shocking 300,000 Nepalese women and children are estimated to be held against their will in brothels around India. Maiti Nepal work not only with rescue but also prevention and rehabilitation which are the key to end this crime. At the gala, â&#x201A;Ź12,000 was raised through the auction and raffle. Marianne 12

Steneholm gave a talk addressing the issues females in Nepal are facing every day, and spoke about her own visits to the shelters in Kathmandu. Diamond Occasions and Caroline Azzi put on a fashion show along with Little Divas fashion alongside performances from world famous Sheyla Bonnick (founder of Boney M), local soprano singer Claire Hawkins, and RnB singer Tmar. Anyone wanting to help with more donations or read more about Maiti Nepal and their work can visit: www.justgiving. com/crowdfunding/mariannesteneholm and www.maitinepal.org. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

news STATEMENT ON EU CITIZENSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; RIGHTS POST-BREXIT Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar has noted that some international media have misinterpreted statements made to the media as a suggestion that Gibraltar would seek to 'rescind' acquired rights of EU citizens post Brexit. In answer to questions from the various press agencies, the position of the Government of Gibraltar is that this could be a potential unwanted side-effect of the exclusion of Gibraltar from withdrawal and transitional periods. The position of Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar - as also repeatedly stated by the Government of the United Kingdom - is that Gibraltar should be included in the withdrawal, transition and future arrangements. That would obviate any potentially losses arising to EU Citizens working in Gibraltar.

The Deputy Chief Minister, the Hon Dr Joseph Garcia MP said: "Theoretical consideration of the effect of Gibraltar's exclusion from the withdrawal and transitional periods is becoming more and more common in the media as we move closer to the date of departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Despite that, I am genuinely optimistic that the attitude of all relevant parties is to ensure that instead of talking of vetoes, we all want to talk about cooperation and ensuring that citizens are not in any way adversely affected by Brexit. Snr Dastis, the Spanish Foreign Minister has been explicit in stating that he wants to avoid any detriment to those who live and work in this area. That is an area of deep common ground between us and is, indeed, our common responsibility."

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news FINTECH CO-OPERATION AGREEMENT Last month Minister Isola met with the CEO of the Hong Kong Insurance Authority at the formal signing ceremony of a Fintech co-operation Agreement with the GFSC. Minister Isola said: “I am very pleased to see this first Fintech co-operation agreement by the GFSC with the Insurance Regulator in Hong Kong, and I am most grateful to the regulatory teams in Gibraltar and Hong Kong for having completed this work over the last months. The Gibraltar DLT Working Group have strongly focused on bringing the new Regulatory Framework to life and working with other authorities in major Fintech Jurisdictions is now the next step forward. The IA took over the regulatory functions of the previous Office of the Commissioner of Insurance in June 2017 and it is particularly pleasing that Gibraltar has been able to establish this new relationship in the IA’s first year of operation.”

ARGOS FREYANES Last month saw the official christening of two of the world’s most advanced fishing vessels – the Nordic Prince and the Argos Georgia. After only 15 months in construction, these two long-liners have recently undergone sea trials in the Mediterranean and will now head to South Georgia for the start of the toothfish season. Designed by Norway’s Marin Teknikk and built by Tersan Shipyards in Turkey, these ships reflect the company’s commitment to provide the safest possible working environment for their crews, to set new standards for sustainable fishing and to minimise the impact on the pristine marine waters in which they operate. “We’re very privileged to be allowed to fish in the Southern Oceans, so as a company we’re driven to create ships that are as safe, innovative and environmentally sensitive as possible,” commented Peter Thomson, Argos Froyanes’ Head of Operations. “It’s nothing short of miraculous that two ships of such a high standard have moved from drawing board to launch in only 15 months. It’s testament to the strength of our special Anglo-Norwegian fishing partnership that has sustained and grown for three decades. Building and testing in the Mediterranean means we have been able to have the christening in Gibraltar which is an ideally suited operating base for us.” Stig Ervik, CEO of Ervik Havfiske added, “Every new ship in our fleet feels like a new member of the family and today we’ve added two; I’m very proud. These are strong, powerful vessels that elevate our industry to a new level, but it’s the endur-

ing strength and power of the relationships that have designed and built them that we are equally celebrating today.” The Nordic Prince and Argos Georgia feature cutting edge technology and facilities, including: • An innovative hull and propulsion system which has helped reduce emissions by 30%, saving 340 tonnes of carbon emissions a year. • An ‘ice belt’ of 20mm steel plate and 300mm frame spacing protects the vessel to DNV 1-C Ice classification. • Equipped with labs, communications systems and separate living quarters for independent observers, plus living environments for a full complement of 28 crew. • The fishing equipment is the latest and most advanced on the market. • Fish will be brought onboard through a moon pool, offering the safest working conditions for the crew and the surest way to provide a high quality product for consumers. • The onboard freezing plant will be able to rapidly freeze the fish to minus 30 degrees, perfectly preserving its freshness. To read about the company and its operations, visit www.argosfroyanes.com. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

news HONG KONG FINAL STOP IN ASIA VISIT

attracted some 130 guests mainly from the Fintech sector. In common with the earlier visit to Singapore the reception was an opportunity to update the guests on the recent developments in Gibraltar in Fintech.

The final leg of the Gibraltar Finance business development visit to Asia, led by Albert Isola Minister for Commerce, reached a conclusion in Hong Kong, having been in Beijing and Singapore. Minister Isola was accompanied by Michael Ashton and Paul Astengo, Senior Executives with Gibraltar Finance.

Albert Isola, provided the opening address and was followed by Nick Cowan CEO of GBX and guest speaker Brian Tang, Managing Director of the Asia Capital Markets Institute.

Minister Isola hosted an evening reception in Hong Kong’s business district which

Albert Isola commented, “This has been a very successful visit to two key mar-

Gibraltar private sector firms in attendance included GBX, Hassans, Isolas, Callaghans and Sovereign.

kets in which we continue to develop strong commercial relationships in the area of Fintech. Hong Kong is a major economy in the region and at the leading edge of technological developments and Gibraltar’s recent moves with its new legislative programme on fintech has proved an attractive proposition to a number of firms based here. These visits are an important part of our business development strategy and our firms continue to successfully engage with Hong Kong businesses and we wish to continue facilitating these exchanges. I am especially grateful to Paul Astengo of Gibraltar Finance for his excellent work in delivering these events in Asia so successfully.”

GOVERNMENT WELCOMES 100 GIBRALTARIAN INTERNS IN WASHINGTON The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia has said that the Government will continue to improve commercial, educational and political links between Gibraltar and the United States of America. One hundred young graduates from Gibraltar have had the benefit of working as interns in Washington since the scheme was established in 2013. These interns spend 15 weeks gaining experience in a variety of private sector companies and public sector organisations in the US. Some have served with Members of the US Congress or in the office of the Mayor of New York.

profile in the USA. ‘The scheme has also provided Gibraltar with important commercial links,’ he added. ‘You should be aware that the Government has received very positive feedback after each group’s visit.’

The Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Joseph Garcia, pointed out that the scheme has been most useful, not only to contribute to the intern’s personal development but also to promote Gibraltar’s

Dr Garcia went through the historic connection between Gibraltar and the United States through two World Wars and he made the point that the first engagement of the US Navy outside their shores

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took place from Gibraltar against the Barbary pirates in the early nineteenth century. The Deputy Chief Minister also pointed out the little-known fact that, during World War 1, the US Navy had based some 40 ships and 4,000 servicemen in Gibraltar and that, in thanks, for Gibraltar’s contribution to the American war effort, in 1932 the US Government paid for the construction of the American War Memorial on Line Wall Road.

news ROCK UNDER SIEGE MMA CAGE FIGHT Rock Under Siege return for their 5th MMA Cage Fight Night on Friday 4th May at 8pm in Gibraltar and as always have a stacked card with hard hitting action. They will be featuring local fighters from Gibraltar and Spain, in a mixture of both professional and amateur Mixed Martial Arts bouts across a variety of weight classes. They are flying over some new all action fighters from the UK, who fight out of a gym owned by an

MED GOLF – DUKE OF ED Gibraltar joined a small and illustrious group of countries by providing the winners of the Duke of Edinburgh Golf Cup World Finals which were held in London 25 – 28 September. Gibraltar’s qualifying event, facilitated by Med Golf, was held at San Roque Golf Club on July 31st and won by Mike Cowburn and John Hunter. Mike and John were subsequently flown to London to enjoy 3 days of golf the highlight of which was playing Her Majesty the Queen’s golf course in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The culmination of the World Finals was a black-tie gala dinner held in Windsor Castle during which Mike, who won the Individual competition and John, who won the Pairs completion playing with Mike, were presented with their trophies

ex-UFC fighter - so quality is guaranteed. They have the first female MMA fight put on in Gibraltar and will complete the night with a Title Fight featuring an unbeaten Gibraltarian Fighter, Jyl Pozo, who previously finished his opponent with a TKO. See www.gibraltarmma.co.uk for more information.

by the Earl of Wessex. A reception for players and sponsors was held at the Convent on 4 October which was attended by the Governor and Chief Minister. In welcoming everyone to the reception, the Deputy Governor Nick Pyle, whose idea it was to enter Gibraltar into the finals, said he was humbled by Gibraltar’s generosity and announced that £24,000 had been raised for local children’s and youth charities. Nick further announced that such was the success of the event, that he had secured an entry for Gibraltar into the 2018 World Finals and was delighted that many of this year’s sponsors had already signed up to sponsoring next year’s event which would take place on 24 June 2018 at San Roque. When asked to sum up what was driving him to do this, Nick said: “Those of us who are better off have a moral obligation to help the less fortunate. And if we cannot look after the youth of today who will look after us tomorrow?”

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news NEW PRIMARY CARE CENTRE AND PAEDIATRIC CENTRE HMGoG and the GHA are proud to announce a new and fully bespoke Primary Care and Community Centre and a Paediatric Centre, in the surrounding grounds of St Bernard’s Hospital. The Paediatric Centre will combine children’s medical health services under one roof. The project has been driven by a team of clinicians who specialise in paediatric healthcare. The centre will be a cutting-edge hub for parents and their children with a wide range of healthcare services, in a convenient and child friendly environment, delivered by highly trained specialist staff. Children’s healthcare will include multidisciplinary primary and secondary outpatient paediatric medical care. There will be a full range of child services

available, including Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Audiology and Child welfare services, including Health Visitors and Immunisation services. Medical Director and Consultant Paediatrician Dr Daniel Cassaglia said, “We all know how worrying it can be when our children become unwell and we need access to healthcare. The team of specialist professionals at the Paediatric Centre will be able to provide a friendly and efficient service and ensure that the child sees the right professional in a timely manner. This will give peace of mind to parents, grandparents and carers.”

The Primary Care and Community Centre will be a brand new three-storey building designed around the needs and advice of the health care professionals working in the primary care system. Primary care in itself will become a much more comprehensive service, focussing on improving community services and aiming to repatriate services from tertiary centres and secondary care, to where they are best provided. Whilst the backbone of this service is that of GP clinics, there will also be additional services such as an expanded health promotion, a ‘walk in’ minor treatment area and provision for an out of hours GP service. Familiar departments such as nursing, district nursing, diabetes, asthma clinics, community physiotherapy and occupational therapy will all be enhanced, improved and located close together to create a more cohesive team and increase efficiency.

INCREDIBLE YEARS PARENTING PROGRAMME Since the opening of the new Family and Community Centre, there has been a steady increase in families attending the drop-in service, held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. It is recognised, that parents are a major influence on children’s lives and it is also understandable that, at times, parents may find it hard to cope with the additional responsibilities which inevitably come with parenthood. It is therefore crucial that families are provided with the right support at significant points in their children’s lives. It is with this in mind, that the Care Agency has commissioned training for their staff from the ‘Incredible Years Training Group’ in UK, with the view of delivering the training locally. The Incredible Years Parenting Programme was developed by Carolyn WebsterStratton, in the University of Washington’s Parenting Clinic. The programme, aimed at children aged between the ages of 3

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and 12 years old, is founded on social learning theory and consists of at least 12 weekly, two-hour group sessions, delivered by skilled practitioners. The programme aims to promote positive parenting, improve parent-child relationships and increase the use of positive strategies. It also works towards helping parents to identify social learning theory principles for managing behaviour and improve home-school relationships. The programme uses a collaborative approach, encouraging parents to learn from each other. Methods used include role-play, modelling, group discussion, homework

and reviewing videos of family behaviour. For the first time, the Care Agency will be offering the Incredible Years Programme for 12 consecutive weeks, commencing on the 13th March, between 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., at the Family and Community Centre in Mid Harbours Estate. Anyone who is interested in undertaking the programme can email incredibleyears@gibraltar.gov.gi, or contact the Family and Community Care Centre on 200 46386.

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Dream Girl of the Year 2018 – around town © Mark Galliano Photography

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hello there

Marina Abdul

Christian Isola, 23

Manager at Fiduciary Group

Trainee Accountant at EY Limited

I try not to take life too seriously, so I would say that I laugh and I smile a lot.

I try to take on a big charity event at least every two years. I most recently completed the London to Paris Cycle in under 24 hours and the London Marathon, both of which raised money for incredible causes with an added bonus of getting me away from the gym cafeteria and onto the treadmill with a clear goal.

Laughing is good for the mind and for your body!

WHAT IS YOUR

Mayo Emilio Sanchez Moya, 21

Star Isabel Farrugia, 22

Betting Assistant at The Arena

Receptionist at ISOLAS

My healthiest habit is going to the gym every day for at least 2 hoursâ&#x20AC;Ś and I have a good diet of rice and chicken!

My healthiest habits? I always make sure I eat lots of vegetables & fruit daily! I also like to keep active by going to the gym a few times a week.

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Will Birtwistle, 30

George Linares, 32

Risk and Compliance Manager at Fiduciary Group

Pharmacist at Calpe Pharmacy

I enjoy taking my dog out for a walk on the beach several times a week, it's great to go out and get some fresh air and time to de-stress after work!

My healthiest habit is drinking lemon water in the morning. I try to drink more than two litres of water daily as it’s the perfect detoxification drink.

HEALTHIEST HABIT?

Simon Landon, 40

David Pilkington, 20

Designer at Mayfair on Main

Bartender at All’s Well

Hair… it brings me joy and passion and is my hobby. It fulfils me inside and is definitely my healthiest habit.

I make sure I do 50 push ups every day!

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GIBFIN 2018

February was a bumper month for crypto and the wider distributed ledger technology (‘DLT’) industry in Gibraltar. With three events held during the month that focused on the burgeoning fintech industry in Gibraltar, it was left to GibFin to conclude the conference programme for February at the Sunborn.

BY SELWYN FIGUERAS

ver the last year or so, Gibraltar has emerged onto the global fintech scene and established itself as a leading light with a particularly strong focus on the cryptocurrency business, which has caught the imagination of an increasingly mainstream audience with the headlines captured by the main drivers of growth in the industry; Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, IOTA – 2017 was the year when these projects truly hit the big time. Beyond cryptocurrencies themselves, and the increasingly popular use of token sales or, as they are referred to by most, ICOs (which is an acronym for Initial Coin Offerings, itself a crypto play on the classic Initial Public Offerings, or IPOs), Gibraltar has also taken great strides towards becoming an international centre of excellence for the wider DLT space, becoming the first jurisdiction in the world to create a purpose built regulatory regime built around DLT financial activity.

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Set against this backdrop, over 200 delThe Chief Minister explained, “We egates converged in the ballroom in the [Gibraltar] are only interested in entreYacht Hotel where a number of exhibitors preneurs and businesses which hold their had set up their stands, with Abacus and reputation is as high a regard as we hold Gibraltar’s longest established law firm, ours.” He explained that it had been a ISOLAS LLP, offering goodies and inforfocus on strict regulation that had been mation about their services to all who the key ingredient in Gibraltar’s success as attended during the two days. The main the capital of global online gaming, a place stage was set in the room with where only the best businesses the exhibitors, and plenty of have come to set up, and that Mr Isola other sponsors set up camp in a the protection of our reputation explained number of the breakout rooms, would be the foundation on that where coffee was served to aid which we would build success Gibraltar conversation. in this new and exciting area of is “serious, business too. professional, The Chief Minister, the Hon committed”. Fabian Picardo QC MP, was called The Hon Albert Isola, the upon to welcome all guests who Minister for Commerce, then had travelled to Gibraltar from all over the addressed the delegates and talked briefly world and to formally open the event. The about what Gibraltar has done in this Chief Minister was clear about Gibraltar’s space so far, why we’ve done it and what determination to apply to this exciting new it is that Gibraltar is looking towards, industry the formula that Gibraltar applied what it hopes to achieve, as we move to the telephone/online gambling business forward in this business. He thanked the back in the early nineties. Gibraltar Government working group and 23

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ment has to be in Gibraltar and we believe the model works. What is critical is that we encourage and embrace innovations, standing tall in the Blockchain community as a standard bearer of quality and regulation.” The next phase in the story, he continued, was the development of a tailored regulatory environment for Token Sales – “we want good token sales, not the bad ones”. He announced that a policy paper in this regard would be published early in March.

the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission for working hand in hand with the Government over the last three years and highlighted how Blockchain technology is a technology that can offer solutions not just in financial services, although that seems to be the key focus of it today.

Mr Isola explained that Gibraltar is “serious, professional, committed”, and echoing the words of the Chief Minister, that “we have done this before. We’re taking what we did in gaming and we can flip it into the DLT space – mind and manage24

Finally, and as this item went to press, the British Government has also confirmed its commitment that “The UK will guarantee Gibraltar financial services firms’ access to UK markets as now until 2020. Ahead of this, the UK Government will work closely with the Government of Gibraltar to design a replacement framework to endure beyond 2020 similarly based on shared, high standards of regulation, and enforcement of this regulation, and underpinned by modern arrangements for information-sharing, transparency and regulatory co-operation… The UK has provided assurance that gambling operators based in Gibraltar will continue to access the UK market after we leave the EU in the same way they do now - and we are working towards agreement of a MOU which will enable closer working and collaboration between gambling regulators in Gibraltar and the UK.”

Gambling operators based in Gibraltar will continue to access the UK market after we leave the EU.

The event then welcomed a series of speakers presenting on key and topical issues for the industry, including a panel on legal and regulatory developments. Present on the panel was Joey Garcia, the partner who leads the DLT team at ISOLAS LLP, and who The was recently recognised by development Chambers and Partners as one of only 12 legal Blockchain experts, of this in the world, and the only one business is in Gibraltar, who spoke about a powerful his experience in this space and shot in the specifically about the applications arm for process his firm has been underGibraltar’s taking since January 2018.

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nor that Spain will seek to exercise her veto in respect of the applicability of a UK/E.U deal to Gibraltar, makes us cautiously optimistic about the future.

There can be no doubt that the development of this business is a powerful shot in the arm for Gibraltar’s economic interests as we count the weeks down to our departure from the EU. The combination of suggestions from Spain that border fluidity will not be impacted,

Despite the challenges we can fully expect to face during these tumultuous times, there is much that we can point to as evidence of a ‘softening’ of the context in which we approach Brexit and the cryptocurrency/DLT business will no doubt become one of the many and varied key drivers of economic growth in Gibraltar for years to come. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

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THE REGULATORS' LITTLE BOOK OF QUOTES For those days when originality just isn’t working for you.

BY MARCUS KILLICK

here is something cathartic about the spring clean of one’s office; the eventual disposal of all those articles and journals that you really meant to read but somehow never got around to. However, this year I decided to actually look at this motley collection and then I went deeper, down into the shelves of forgotten filing cabinets, where for reasons of either ego or nostalgia, I had kept copies of some of the periodicals I had contributed to. As I worked my way through the subsequent pile of reading matter, a terrible sense of déjà vu came over me. The more I read, whether from 2007 or 2017, the more I realised I was reading the same article. Different authors, different journals, different dates, different jurisdictions, but the same article, sometimes word for word. I therefore present a set of quotes from the past. Some are mine but I probably

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wasn’t the first to use them, indeed they have certainly been well tested and there is clearly no copyright in force. “Our proportionate, risk based approach is integral to the financial sector in…” “… has a long established, excellent reputation for quality business” “Financial firms and their clients are increasingly looking to do business in reputable jurisdictions such as…” “We have a demonstrable track record of regulating to international standards” “… prides itself on its constructive relationship with the finance sector” “… firmly supports and encourages innovation within the sector” “… is committed, as is the jurisdiction itself, to transparency”

“as a regulator we realise it is important to be approachable by our stakeholders” “We operate on the principle of open communication with our stakeholders” “We are compliant with the highest standards of international regulatory requirements” “The jurisdiction has proven itself to be robust in fighting money laundering” “We have a proactive approach to meeting developing international standards” “Despite our size, we have been effective in having had our voice heard in the international standard setting bodies” “We are aware of the risk of too much, restrictive, regulation and therefore seek to deliver good regulation that further enhances the reputation of…” “We recognise that, as in any jurisdiction, a 27

business satire few firms may operate in a way that disadvantages clients and damages the reputation of… In such circumstances we can and do use our enforcement powers to ensure safeguards are maintained” “… continues to demonstrate that it is a safe location for firms and clients”

“Our principles based approach has allowed us to move from tick box supervision to assessing actual risk” “We believe in better regulation, not more regulation” “Did I mention proportionate?” “And risk based?”

“We are aware that, in a rapidly changing financial environment, regulatory response times can be critical. We therefore spend considerable effort ensuring our speed of response meets market needs and expectations” “We are acutely aware of the cost of regulation both to the firms and their clients. We therefore ensure that we look at the cost benefit of all proposals” “Our principle based approach allows us to focus on uniformity outcomes whilst recognising that one size doesn’t fit all”

This conformity in approach should be of little surprise. Regulators, especially from small jurisdictions or less developed economies have become increasingly unable to express individuality in their approach. This is partially due to the way international supervisory standards are generally developed. Whilst appearing to be inclusive in nature due to their large membership, international standard setting bodies such as the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) are, in reality, domi-

nated by a few large jurisdictions, with the majority of their membership having little (if any) influence, and the industry they seek to set standards for even less so. This is because only the largest regulators have the capacity, in both financial and human resources, to fully participate in the numerous working groups at which the standards are actually set. A few, such as Jersey, have been able to exercise some influence by focusing on one or two key areas most material to their specific needs. However, most standards are effectively set by the regulators from a few jurisdictions with virtually non-existent general political scrutiny or effective broad industry consultation. This dominance may become of concern in respect of establishing standards for Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and crypto currency/token offerings. The risk will be that the preconceived prejudices and concerns of some powerful jurisdic-

“Our proportionate, risk based approach is integral to the financial sector in…” “We have a proactive approach to meeting developing international standards” “Financial firms and their clients are increasingly looking to do business in reputable jurisdictions such as…” “We have a demonstrable track record of regulating to international standards” “… prides itself on its constructive relationship with the finance sector” “… firmly supports and encourages innovation within the sector” 28

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business satire tions may result in standards less aimed at effective regulation and supervision (as is already being developed in jurisdictions such as Gibraltar), but rather aimed at restrictive and anti-competitive control by favouring existing large market participants and creating high entry barriers. The resulting standards will then be required to be applied globally so harming the growth of potentially beneficial, if disruptive, new technology players. It would be far better that the standard setters learnt from the work of places such as Gibraltar and its regulator, but history does not provide an optimistic prognosis that this will be the case. In the nineteen years I was a regular attender at IOSCO meetings and conferences, some standards were set following horse trading between the major players, other delayed or changed due to the national interests of a single powerful member. Even the voting structure, which was amended to permanently deny the

Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories of their own votes despite their being full members, was achieved by a shoddy political compromise and lacked any coherent logic. As a result, whilst the standard setters press hard for board diversity, they have themselves ended up suffering from conformity and confirmation bias, looking for the same solutions in the same places and then enforcing the resultant standards with little regard for jurisdictional differences. It is no wonder that we all began to use the same language and terms when we spoke. Regardless of how meaningless the words became, they were safe, non-controversial and conformist. It is difficult to imagine a regulator claiming to be “disproportionate” or “random based”, although in answer to one particularly ludicrous question from a journalist asking for why a particular event occurred, my response (subsequently quoted) that

“s*** happens” was probably not the highpoint of my dealings with the media. As a result, regulatory speeches and interviews, with a few brilliant exceptions, normally at the end of a career (intended or otherwise), will continue to be warm sounding but meaningless gloop. For those of you who aren’t regulators, you can always turn this into an unusual version of Bingo and see how many of the key words are used in a speech, interview or article. 1 Point: Risk based, Proportionate, Principle, Reputation. 2 Points: Cost effective, Proactive, Reputable, Quality. 3 Points: Transparency. Approachable, Safeguards, Standards. 4 Points: Better not more, Robust, Speed of response, Stakeholders, Have fun.

technology

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA

Technology: If it runs your life, might it ruin it, too?

BY GRAEME FULTON

you realise it or not, there’s a battle going ow often do you pick up your on for your attention, and it’s creating a bit phone to do something important, then notice that tiny red of a behavioural epidemic for our generaencircled number in the corner of tion, and the next. your app, indicating that you’ve got a notification? You tap it and see you’ve been Companies will actually go as far as using tagged in a video by a friend. The next the very same techniques used to hook thing you know, you’ve entered a rabbit adults into gambling on 6 year old children. hole of nonstop videos that auto Former Google design ethicist, play from one to the next without Tristan Harris, wrote about this You’ve your intervention. So much for 2 years ago, saying that smartactually been phones are the equivalent of slot that important task! programmed machines — but instead of waiting to check for us in casinos they’re sitting It may feel like it was your it, like a right in our pockets. decision to check that notification, but you’ve actually been Pavlovian programmed to check it, like a As dangerous as it sounds, there dog. Pavlovian dog waiting for its next aren’t any rules against it, and meal of ‘likes’. This is the way our the smartest people at the biggest tech apps work today. Technology is intencompanies are paid to get you hooked, and tionally designed to suck you in, and then keep you there. Shreya Dalela, co-founder crafted to keep your eyes on the screen for at Speaking Walls, says that companies will as long as possible. The longer you’re using go as far as hiring neuroscientists and psythe app, the more money they make from chologists to understand how our minds advertising revenue. Therefore, whether work to capitalize on our ‘Fear Of Missing 30

Out’ (or ‘FOMO’, to the kids) as much as possible. She goes on to suggest that this leaves our mind in an endless loop craving the next hit, and it’s not good for our mental health. I’m no psychologist, but it doesn’t take one to recognise some of the following techniques that mess with our heads. If you’ve not thought so much about them before, I hope being aware can help you defend yourself against them: 1. The Slot Machine/ Dopamine Hit If you think about any app you use, there’s a ‘pull to refresh’ gesture on just about every single one. You can ‘pull down’ by swiping your thumb in a downward motion along your screen to check for more messages, notifications or anything new. The interaction is often paired with a fun animation and even a ‘pop’ sound. It’s very much like the lever on a slot machine. Each GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

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time you pull it, something slightly different happens — you could have a new message, a new like, or nothing at all.

At the biggest tech companies are paid to get you hooked, and keep you there.

their newsfeed. The strongest weightings are given to events that boost the ego most, such as changing your profile picture. So when an events like this happens they are given more prominence.

This plays with our mind, and is known as the dopamine seek and As Georges Abi-Heila puts it, any signal of reward loop, where the pleasure sensors increased social vulnerability will purposely in our mind are stimulated. The key here is reach further and longer on Facebook, that the rewards that come back from the interaction are also varied — so we often triggering a flow of likes and comments get a surprise time. Interestingly, apps can that draws you into the platform. When it comes to birthday, everybody is in fact update in real-time by themselves, without us carryencouraged to wish you a happy Any signal one. ing out this action. However, of increased companies choose to craft their social apps for us to seek information in This technology can therefore vulnerability this way. create a behaviour that I will call will ‘like fishing’. The pleasure we get purposely from social acceptance encour2. Social Recognition reach further ages us to share more so we can and longer get more ‘likes’. As we get more, Social acceptance falls amongst we only crave even more still, like the highest motivators for huon Facebook. a drug addict. mans, according to the famous Maslow hierarchy of needs. Companies capitalize on this one very cleverly. For 3. Distraction and Social Pressure example, Facebook has algorithms that manipulate what everybody sees in When you open a message on WhatsApp, GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

“ The average person checks their phone 150 times a day. Why do we do this? Are we making 150 conscious choices?” – Tristan Harris, Google

technology and the app automatically shows a read receipt with two blue ticks to the message sender, do you feel pressure to respond right away? An experience not too dissimilar to that of a face to face conversation is created. It’s as if you’ve just listened to somebody speak to you, but you don’t answer. That would feel socially unacceptable, so this mechanism causes us to answer messages quicker — even if we’re in the middle of something. And to make things worse, the app will even display when you are typing back. Not only have you read their message but now your friend can see you typing and are excited for your response. You can’t let them down! This means that we’re almost constantly on call, hooked to our phones forever distracted. It also makes you wonder who’s in control of the conversation — do we really want to talk, or is the technology forcing us to? Conclusion Each of the 3 technology issues outlined above are pretty big pressures our generation face, and they’re unlikely to stop. We spend quite an insane amount of time in front of our screens as highlighted by Quartz:

In the UK, it adds up to around 7 hours a day: 148 minutes in front of a TV screen, 97 minutes on a laptop, 111 minutes on a smartphone and 55 on a tablet screen. With all this time interacting with technology, and the craftiness of the companies controlling what we’re using, it’s bound to affect our mental health. The first step to combatting this is to be aware of it, and the presDo we sures each-other are facing. So really want don’t worry when people don’t to talk, respond to your messages, and or is the take a break from responding to technology others — tell them why and take a forcing us to? digital detox.

DAILY DISTRIBUTION OF SCREEN MINUTES ACROSS COUNTRIES (MINS)

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SILICONE VALLEY

A few weeks ago the world came together at the 2018 Global Conference in the USA. People from 6 continents, 7,000 attendees and hundreds of exhibiting start-ups participated in this yearly event which hosts world-class leaders/speakers from companies like Google, Slack, Tesla, Reddit, Houzz, Recode, Zendesk and hundreds more. Packed houses in all stages of the Fox Theatre in Redwood City.

BY DENISE MATTHEWS

hapter Directors from all around the world give a real Global feeling to the conference and are really at the centre stage as the local heroes that spread the Startup Grind values in their cities. They are paramount to the success of this community and responsible for educating, connecting and inspiring. Another of the striking factors of being a part of the Global Conference was how serious the attendees are about networking, and the opportunities that arise from just talking to others. When you are a start-up this is essential and events provide that platform, hence the unexpected success of the series. For some including myself, it was the first time in San Francisco and a truly magical experience visiting Silicon Valley. It is only then you realise how incredible it is to run a local chapter and to be a part of this network powered by Google for Entrepreneurs (googleforentrepreneurs. com). Their mission statement is simple

to start a chapter for the last four years. “We ourselves began in a garage nearly And then of that, we’ve accepted maybe two decades ago and today we celebrate our entrepreneurial roots. As entrepre250 or something and then 50 have probneurs, you build the future, grow your ably changed over.” economies, and launch the next generation of innovative companies.” During Unexpectedly for the organisation, a Director’s day at their office in San Gibraltar with a total population of Francisco, their message to us was that less than 10% of a small U.S. chapter no other organisation in the world comes has matched average attendance with close to what Startup Grind has high-level speakers, content, achieved building a global startmarketing, venue and consistenGibraltar is up community in just a few years. cy of events making us the best the perfect new chapter this year and receivhome for ing the Chapter Director “Rookie Startup Grind’s story is one of upcoming of the Year 2018” Award. the humble beginnings. The companies. first event was hosted in 2013, just south of San Francisco in There was also the excitement of Mountain View, with only a few members meeting the likes of Walt Mossberg widely in attendance, since then it has grown to credited with pioneering the modern, a vast global network spanning 115 counconsumer-focused technology review and tries and over 365 chapters at present. commentary, who for over 20 years was Founder Derek Anderson underlines that the principal technology columnist for The this is not for the faint-hearted, you need Wall Street Journal. to optimize for impact instead of profit: “We’ve probably had 3,000 people apply The CEO of Booking.com Gillian Tans was GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

start-ups responsible for creating 50+ Women in Tech Office Hours for the first time this year, connecting aspiring female leaders during the conference. Lastly, Steve Huffman, CEO and Co-Founder of Reddit. The speakers I met in person at Fox Theatre Main Stage on the first day were truly inspiring. So back to Gib; a year in and are we making progress? It seems that way, recently Philip Young, Marketing Director of the GSX Group announced plans for the GSX Blockchain Innovation Centre (bic.gi). The initiative will support emerging innovation and entrepreneurship in its early stages. The platform will bring together industry entrepreneurs, support services and legal experts working in partnership to facilitate breakthroughs within the global Blockchain community. The fact that Gibraltar is a favourable jurisdiction with the DLT Regulatory Framework makes it the perfect home for upcoming companies.

that with a start-up of my own. To those who sponsor and attend, thank you. For more information on local events visit startupgrind.com/gibraltar.

The Regulation itself has attracted global attention and local service providers are being overwhelmed with requests for advice and incorporation of these businesses locally. There is an urgent need to provide more infrastructures to support them. This will not just be a positive initiative for the thriving industry; it is an essential part of it. Entrepreneurship is instrumental to the economic growth and development. The right environment nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurs, business leaders, and innovators through training programmes, mentorship and investment are necessary for start-ups to achieve sustainable growth and development. Research from the Kauffman Foundation puts into perspective just how important they are â&#x20AC;&#x153;between 1980 and 2005, all net job growth emanated from companies fewer than five-yearsBetween old. When it comes to how to best 1980 and reverse an economic downturn, 2005, all net about the only thing you might job growth find politicians agreeing on is the emanated importance of supporting small from businesses.â&#x20AC;? Start-ups all over the globe are generating billions to companies local economies. fewer than

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CONTRARY INVESTMENT IN PROPERTY GIBRALTAR

In my past articles we have covered some interesting property areas including mortgages and finance, buying property, property conveyancing and property insurance. What about contrary investment in property? Will it work like in the stock market where vast fortunes have been made by using this perhaps controversial system? And if we decided to try this unusual form of investment what paths shall we follow? Is there a special secret to it and how shall we proceed?

ers cost. This often leads to an increase in office space availability and result in discounted office rents. This happened in Dublin, Madrid, Barcelona and other large European cities which were badly hit during the recession 2008-2014. It resulted in over exposed commercial property developers being completely Increasing interest rates with a very likely unable to meet their interest - let alone to come afterwards credit squeeze or capital - repayments and finally crunch. Higher interI have always believed that it default. Foreclosure property est rates mean most pays to avoid the crowd. But one It has paid This often became the order of the day in developers cannot must be well aware of what most handsome leads to an major European countries and people are doing and how and afford to keep property profits to increase in offered tremendous opportutrading stock as before. when the right moment arrives those who office space nities to property investment If interest rates increase do the absolute opposite. This dared and availability Funds from the China, The UK, and lending becomes may sound unconventional and at could afford and USA and other major countries more expensive this will times irresponsible but it has paid to shift the discounted to go in when the market was at surely lead to a certain handsome profits to those who a rock bottom level and buy up dared and could afford to shift reduction or scarcity of trend. office rents. all the prime stock available. The buyers. The recession the trend. Following these rules profits made were vast. But not only were that normally follows a credit squeeze has paid off enormously for years, even the large funds able to do great deals. centuries in the property market which has may very well force developers to sell at The clever contrary investment individual much lower prices, as it happened in Spain - as we are well aware - had booms and investors were there as well and did, and or Ireland in the last decade, way below downturns where fortunes were made and are still doing, remarkably well regardless lost similarly to those in the stock markets, cost or only just covering the develophis month I will try and provide some interesting tips to follow. Not necessarily easy to achieve or always feasible but at least they will mark a certain path and help a little to make you reach a successful goal in property, not only in Gibraltar, but in other markets as well.

even if property is normally more stable. For this very reason it is of quintessential importance to bear in mind the key contrarian factors and act accordingly. Some of these factors which could lead to sliding property values are:

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of their size of investment.

than later.

Some key factors which show the ending of a price drive and very possibly the right time to start picking up deals are:

- The Media again telling the world how fantastic the property market is. Booming endlessly. Jump off whilst you can.

- Housing starts as a low. A downturn in the economy and a recession will force building companies to cut back immediately and supply will be reduced. Demand for housing will take a while to recover but will eventually result in new housing stock on offer leading to an imminent pressure on prices.

- Easy money and easy lending. This reminds me of the USA and Ireland in particular about ten years ago. Banks lending almost to anyone, cheaply and without the normal and much needed due diligence and credit worthiness analysis. The banks will make mistakes, as they did, and start calling in most loans when the going gets tough.

- Bad news in the media reporting bankrupt property companies, builders and developers are sadly clear signs that it is the perfect time to start buying and getting some very good deals. - Estate agents offering great attractive deals: when agents start calling you and suggesting good buys here or there instead of the other way around, it only shows they can be desperate because properties are not selling and they are not doing enough business. - High vacancy levels in commercial property: if there are lots of offices which are empty and plenty of unsold residential property that is a good sign to start buying up.

- Low or unusually low availability in office spaces and new flats for sale: If most stock is snapped up by flush buyers paying over the top for their properties then it is probably a clear sign of the market being too hot. Low vacancies in offices do encourage building sprees which can lead to large stocks available for a few years down the road. This was the case in several European cities a decade ago just before the market crashed. - A very large unusual number of Estate Agents. If you see an estate agent every few shops, and they all seem to be doing rather well then something may go terribly wrong in the near future.

This article speaks in very general terms and is particularly useful if applied to the property markets of major cities of Europe and across the Atlantic in the USA and Canada. It may be of a lesser relevance in markets like Gibraltar where values - Absolute amateurs making vast amounts seem to hold well due to their of money as first time develquality and lack of large supply. opers. I have seen with my “If you Responsible planning in the case own eyes lawyers, dentists, tax see a band of Gibraltar plays an important consultants close their former wagon it is role for keeping the market at day to day business turning into too late to normal levels. property developers (some highly jump on it…” successful I must add) at a time A last golden rule in the property when everyone is doing the same business is that no matter how bad your thing. If this is the case pull out as fast as mistake may be there is a factor that will you can because it normally does not last play to your advantage and that factor is for long. As Sir James Goldsmith used to called time. It will often correct mistakes by say “If you see a band wagon it is too late its own if you are prepared to wait. Not so to jump on it…” If it is that easy to make I am afraid with most of other businesses. money the bubble is likely to burst sooner The opposite signs should scare the contrary investor away and show the market is topping up:

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IMPORTANT POINTS TO BEAR IN MIND IF YOU HAVE A FEELING THAT A BUST IS COMING SOON: Buy cheaply in the first place. If a recession hits the market you will still have room to manage till the bad days are over. Buy the best you can afford. Always remember location is the only golden rule. Location, location, location. In this way values will almost always hold. Do not over expose yourself with finance. Make sure the borrowing proportion is as low as feasible. This is a must if a property crash comes.

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LORRAINE VAN KLEEF Our monthly spotlight on the women carving out their own spaces on the Rock, and how they did it.

BY MOLLY MCELWEE

s the sun starts burning brighter and stronger, the first beach days approach, and the braver start dipping their toes in the quarri shores, many of us will begin thinking about that summer 'vodi' we were meant to have by now. Not if you’re Lorraine Van Kleef though, or any of her clients for that matter. The personal trainer has built a brand around fitness and training becoming a lifestyle change and choice, not a temporary, quick fix for the beach months that roll around for four months of the year. And she should know, as her own fitness journey has been over thirty years in the making. The entrepreneur’s interest in her field began when she couldn’t find anyone to answer her health and fitness questions - so she answered them herself, becoming a fully qualified PT, nutrition advisor and feeding her own insatiable hunger for knowledge about the way our bodies work. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

After 15 years of working in finance her ing more knowledgeable and getting to the past time morphed into what is now a fullpoint of being a professional. time career. With a team of three trainers, a studio and gym space, and innovative It was really for myself, I never used it as online correspondence with her clientele, an idea to set up a business – that always Van Kleef has established LVK Personal seemed like a pie in the sky. I had a full Training as the go-to fitness brand in an time job in finance, I was happy, had a arguably congested Gibraltarian good position and enjoyed my field. job. But it evolved over time, "And I slowly, over years I worked fullrealised We caught up with her to see time and had personal training on I felt I could what maintaining a fit and thrivthe side. do just as ing business is really like. good as I did this for about five years, them, or a and I think what actually flipped I chose this career because… the coin in the end was the fact better job." that I realised that I could make It’s funny because nothing really a difference with people, that I saw other triggered it off, it’s been a part of what trainers coming up around me and I realI’ve been involved in since I was young. It ised I felt I could do just as good as them, all started with a passion to know more – or a better job because the passion was what happens to your body when you hit in me. So by the time I left my full-time thirty, forty, forty-five, there was nobody job and I already had a client base and I at the time around to give me those opened up the first studio coming up to answers. With this hunger to learn more, I four years ago. just naturally moved into the field, becom41

a woman's work to squeeze in a work out in between sessions - usually my workouts are the ones that struggle the most! My day at the gym usually ends quite late, at half past seven or quarter to eight in the evening.

attend quite regularly. So there isn’t any “you” time anymore. It’s always business time. I think it’s something which in the early years it’s difficult to get a balance, but the longer you have a business running, the better it gets.

I get home, get dinner ready, and after that is when I sit down to do my admin. So my day continues at least for another four hours, five hours, "There once I sit down at home. My career defining moment was…

isn’t any 'you' time anymore. It’s always business time."

There are many of these. One of the first highlights has to be leaving the security of full-time employment and opening my first practice - going solo after years of balancing both full time job and PT as a side business. The best part of my job is… A typical day looks like… There isn’t a typical day as such but they’re often very early starts - I’m usually up about 5:30am or quarter to six if I’ve got my early client at seven or eight in the morning. Usually we have one-to-one clients or two-to-one clients back to back, on the hour, and then along the day we have semi-private, group training programme called Tribe. I try and allow myself one or two breaks in the day when my days are long, because I need to just refresh and reset myself and try

Knowing that I change people’s lives for the better. We’re talking about the quality of their lives, from people not being able to move, getting up in the mornings with back pain, and crying every day because they’re in so much pain to all of a sudden being pain free - something which many of us take for granted. When you hear that and you know that client came to you from day one, that is quite a moment.

I’ve had ladies who have required surgery for certain conditions and with training they have avoided that. That is such a relief. This is the beau"Every day ty of what I do; every day is is exciting exciting to find out what positive to find impact can I have on somebody’s out what life.

positive impact I can have on somebody’s life."

The worst part of my job is… Finding balance, with family, with life, with yourself – otherwise you burn out.

I’m not proud to say that my evenings are quite long in terms of work, as it’s never ending when it’s your own business. Though I quite enjoy admin - it probably comes from my background working in finance, having to be organised and having processes and procedures for things – I think perhaps not having time to myself is a challenge. I work a total of probably nine hours over the weekend. There’s always so much to do; programme design, nutrition plans for clients, giving feedback outside of training hours, questions and messages from clients, emails, phone calls. Then of course research, on-going training and learning, like the ad hoc attending of seminars and courses in the UK, which I 42

If I could be anything else, I would be… I had the opportunity to change my career and I did so - I’m doing what I love already and wouldn’t change that for anything.

Outside of work I’m still very active. Whenever I can I like to squeeze in skiing around Sierra Nevada, or travel away – but there must be a gym wherever I am! I also like to read things about nutrition and mind-set, about training and different cultures, which inspire me. So my career is a big part of my lifestyle. The advice I’d give to anyone wanting to go into this business… Is always lead by example. You have to prepare your meals, you have to eat healthy, you have to do what you’re preaching - it’s not only running your business. It’s also showing clients that if you are working, if you have a family, if you’re a mum of three, or you have your own responsibilities you can still apply these changes into your life. It’s been my lifestyle for 35 years. Try to instil education in your clients. When you start a lot of people are like, it’s such a big change, I have to go to the gym so many times a week, I have to spend so many hours doing it, I have to eat diet food, and it just becomes such a hill before they even start climbing it. What we tell our clients when they come on board is that we’ll just tackle one thing at a time - if you’re changing everything at once, you’re going to fail, we’ve seen that, it’s been proven. So it’s guiding them to make small changes to succeed and adapt. I had a conversation with a client last week and she said I don’t know if I should eat this or eat that, I don’t know if I should eat before or after, and rightly so, because it’s very confusing for the lay man, it’s confusing for the professionals sometimes! There’s so much conflicting information on social media, which people take at first hand and makes everybody panic. It’s a minefield; a lot of people who are not qualified are giving their own opinions about diet and stuff like that. We’re here to get rid of those myths and doubts. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

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HAT-TRICK HURST

This month we’ve nabbed you an interview with former West Ham and England legend Sir Geoffrey Hurst, best known for his cup final treble in England’s world cup win against West Germany. Sir Geoff also spearheaded West Ham’s attack on the way to FA Cup glory in 1964, and to their only ever UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup the following season.

BY SOPHIE CLIFTON-TUCKER

Bobby Moore fter a hairy journey over to Gibraltar, courtesy of our reIt was recently the 25th anniversary of cent spate of dramatic weather, the passing of club legend Bobby Moore, Sir Geoff thankfully arrived for which West Ham unveiled a comin one piece, ready to answer some memorative mural at London Stadium in questions ahead of an event to celebrate February. Sir Geoff said of his th Chesterton’s 10 Anniversary, fondest memories of Bobby: for which I was dressed "Bobby “The initial memory is he’s the accordingly. Moore is the best player I’ve ever played with best player in my 20 year career at West “You’re dressed up! Are you I’ve ever Ham. He was a complex man going out afterwards?” with dry wit who liked a drink played with “Maybe, we’ll see what happens at the right time – he used to in my 20 after this!” I replied, very accisay lager was his petrol. The dentally hitting on Sir Geoff. year career last thing he’d put on before he at West walked out onto the field was I will get the hang of these interHam." his shorts. He’d have a warm-up views soon, I promise. in his shirt and socks, boots tied up, and he’d pick his shorts off the peg at This isn’t Geoff’s first time in Gibraltar; the last moment, still with the crease in around 10 years ago he dropped by for a them. He was a fantastic Captain, a credit fleeting visit while on a cruise, and after a to the club and to England; a great leader, fun and candid interviewer with the mulgreat taker of responsibility. He was techtitalented sportsman, we hope it won’t nically very good at being able to read be his last.

defensive situations. He was a very hard worker, very dedicated. He wanted to be the best; you knew that the bigger the game, the better he’d play.” Jimmy Greaves In the last game before the quarter final, Jimmy Greaves damaged his shin and as a result was replaced by Hurst. But how did he feel about it? “Fate plays a big part in your life. I wouldn’t have played had he not been injured. It was about my 5th or 6th game for England – crazy.” And what about Greaves? “Jimmy was a funny guy and a great player. Of course it was a big blow but he wouldn’t put it all down to not playing – he had other incidents in his family life and during that period of time was ill with jaundice. He wasn’t at his peak. It was a big enough decision when Jimmy was fit actually keeping me in the team; between 16 and 20 years of age at 45

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DURING A SPEECH GIVEN AT CHESTERTONS’ CELEBRATORY PARTY, GEOFF TREATED THE AUDIENCE TO A FEW QUOTES FROM WELL-KNOWN FOOTBALL PLAYERS: “ I’ve had 14 bookings this season, 8 of which were my fault, but 7 of them were disputable.” – Paul Gascoigne

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1966 World Cup Final: England-4, Germany-2 at Wembley Stadium. Geoff Hurst scores England's third goal. a great player. He was born with it. He sensed where the ball was going to drop, and what does Bobby do? In the penalty area, in a World Cup Final? He chests the ball down. Big, tough, Jack Charlton, his lead centre back partner said in his Northern accent: ‘Bobby, please keep the On his World Cup win ball out of the ground.’ … Or words to that effect. Perhaps a little more strongThe final moments of the game will stay ly and direct, but you get the with Sir Geoff, friends, family, message. and the players for as long as "But I said time goes on. West Ham had 3 to myself, “Moore then completely ignores players in the final; the captain ‘sod you him, threatens to knock it to and 2 goal scorers, which is Bally, George on the right back, the phenomenal for a small East I’m on a 2 German players open up, London club. hat-trick!’" he walks through them like a Sunday afternoon, saw me “We’re leading 3-2 against running away, gave me a great ball, got Germany with seconds to go. The inside the German half, a few more Germans pushed their centre half up strides… I clearly remember what I was front (Willi Schulz) to be in the forward thinking at that time, because it was such position, just knocking the ball into our a big day. I heard a call from one of my penalty area – we’re hanging on 3-2, teammates (Alan Ball) just after that, on World Cup final, can you imagine? We the right wing; a high-pitched voice in my were already drawn 2-2 at normal time, ear squealed: ‘Hursty! Hursty, gimme the we’re hanging on again – what was to be ball!’ - as you can imagine, that call disthe last cross of the afternoon. It was acrupted the German defence. But I said to tually knocked in by Willi Schulz himself myself, ‘sod you Bally, I’m on a hat-trick!’ who found himself in the right wing. That ginger-haired bugger, God rest him, never forgave me for as long as he lived. I “The ball bounced around about the penalty spot, a very dangerous position. Who sadly miss him. One of our great players, and Man of the Match of the final, was read this and anticipated the trajectory Bally. of the ball? Moore. He was absolutely brilliant at reading the game; he had a great gift even as a kid, before he became “I got to the edge of the box, and sucChelsea, an ordinary team back then, he played 169 games and scored 132 goals. He went on to Spurs: 360 games, 260 goals. An absolute genius in the art of scoring goals.”

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life cinctly remember thinking, ‘I’m tired, the game is almost over, I’m now going to whack this ball with everything I’ve got left in the final seconds’, and I’m thinking this as it goes beyond the bar, beyond the stand, into the crowd, and by the time the ball boy gets it back to the keeper Tilkowski, surely the game has got to be over. As you all know, I miss-hit it and it fell in. Why has England seemingly been underperforming?

since you retired now for 30 or 40 years, and I’ve never seen you of an afternoon in our home screaming and shouting as much as during that match.' Just an indescribable game. Our own team talked about it; we found it astounding that a group of players with such ability could collectively perform like that. We couldn’t have beaten bleedin’ Iceland, the frozen food store.

You must play your best players from their clubs in their best positions.

“I think there is an argument with the Champions league that it’s more important for them to do well at the clubs. It’s becoming more difficult. It was difficult in our time but it’s becoming increasingly harder for clubs to release their players. In a recent friendly game 3 or 4 of the top players didn’t turn up, and that was only a friendly, which is unusual in itself. It’s not particularly good if you don’t want to play for your country.

"There was a spell where I don’t think a couple of the managers have been particularly good, for me, hearing things behind the scenes. Another issue for me, a big issue, is positioning. You must play your best players from their clubs, like Steven Gerard, in their best positions. At one stage he was playing wide on the left, which I found unforgiveable and just extraordinary. "German World Cup; I was out there for the whole of the month. The wives also all flew out to watch their husbands very closely – which to me is a very detrimental step. George Cohen summarised this quite brilliantly in his smart, posh accent: 'When you go to war, you don’t take your wives with you.'

"So, difficult question. For me it’s still the most important thing for this country for us to be successful in a World Cup competition. It’s important for any national team to be successful in any sport they’re competing in.”

Before we parted ways, I proffered some quick-fire questions. Who was the best goalkeeper you ever faced? Gordon Banks. Best player you ever played against? Pele. If you hadn’t become a footballer, what would you have chosen as a career? Something in maths or science.

– Mark Draper

“I couldn’t settle in Italy, it was like living in a foreign country.” – Ian Rush

“I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don’t know into what religion yet.” – David Beckham

Who was your hero growing up? My father (the late Charlie Hurst, an English footballer who played as a centre half for various clubs including Bristol Rovers, Oldham Athletic and Rochdale). What was your most embarrassing moment in football?

"A lot of English fans talk to me privately I don’t know about embarrassing, but the and the fans can see where worst was Gordon Banks saving there’s an effort, a passion, that penalty. "It’s when you play for your local important for club or you play for any club or any national you play for England, and someWhat manager would you most times they accuse some England team to be like to play under now? players of not showing their successful Jürgen Klopp or Pep Guardiola. passion. Alan Ball is one of the in any sport most, if not the most passionate they’re player to represent his counHow do you feel about being competing try. Whether it means as much the only person to ever score a in.” today in the current climate, I hat-trick in a World Cup final? don’t know. It’s hard to put your It wasn’t as big at the time, but nobody finger on it. What is hard to accept and has done it since so… understand and even fathom is how we played against Iceland. It was a weird At that point, Geoff asked me if the intergame. My wife remarked to me after I view was over. To my chagrin, I replied, watched it on the television with her: 'I’ve seen you watch football on television “It is now!” GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

“ I’d like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.”

“Germany are a very difficult team to play. They had 11 internationals out there today.” – Steve Lomas

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HOW NORMAL IS NORMAL?

We may not be aware of it, but statistics (or, ‘sadistics’, as my undergraduate and postgraduate students used to call it) rule most of our life. This month, we provide you with basic knowledge regarding ‘population’ data which confronts us every day of our life.

BY PROF. DR. SAMUEL ABUDARHAM

ne mention of the subject and the average person will run for cover … and you do not have to be an arithmophobic to do so. The subject of ‘Statistics’ is not just the collection of data but also their analyses using statistical test (both parametric and non-parametric). The fact is that one does not need to have a high level of arithmetical knowledge to acquire an understanding and ability to use statistics.

this month’s GCSE and A level results. How does one determine how our students performed in relation to the ‘normal’ population?

If we were to plot a population’s IQs (or for that matter, many other attributes) on a graph, we would most likely find that the results form a bell shape (see below), or normal distribution. The good Lord has designed much of His world to follow a particular pattern and deIs there Recently, there was a programme sign. Phenomena such as height, such a thing weight, growth rates, exam score, on TV called ‘Child Genius’. As as ‘normal’ temperature, etc. have, what is suggested by this name, a number IQ? And if so, referred to, as a probability distriof children were tested in a what is it? bution that are bell curves. This number of attributes including statistical concept allows us to arithmetic, general knowledge, logic and reasoning, vocabulary, etc. quantify and qualify attributes. It can also help us make certain predictions based on Most of these children had very high IQs probabilities. (Intelligent Quotient) but one could be left wondering what IQ is considered high and which is low. More to the point, is there But let us continue with the concept of such a thing as ‘normal’ IQ? And if so, what IQ as an example. Researchers found out is it? One can ask similar questions about when plotting IQ scores of a population

(or sample of a population) that they are distributed in a bell shape. An arbitrary score of 100 was established by some statisticians as the average (also called the ‘mean’), though this figure as an average, depends on the particular IQ test used. A cursory look at the bell shape below shows the following. The distribution of IQ scores shown on this particular graph, goes from 55 to 145, but lower and higher IQs are measurable, as we shall see later. In this case, the difference between one point and the neighbouring one is 15 - this is referred to as the standard deviation (s.d.). These points are referred to as ‘z’ scores and are used to show how far any IQ score is from the average (i.e. 100). So anyone with an IQ of 115, has a ‘z’ value of +1 (see graph). Whereas ‘z’ scores are constant in a symmetric bell shaped graph, s.ds are likely to be different for different measures, genders, populations, countries, etc. So for example, the average height of adult males in England is reported to GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

life be 1.753 metres (5ft 9 in) and the s.d. is about 7 cm. (approx. 2.76 in); the average weight for English adult females was found to be 70.2 kg (11 st) and the s.d. is 13 kg (29 lbs or 2.07 st). In practical terms, one might conclude that a 64.26% of males in England are between 1.683 m (5ft 6 in) tall to 1.823 m (5ft 11 in) tall. Of course, these figures change according to countries, ages and so on.

members, and Germany, with more than 13,000 members. Some members even live in Vatican City. It is difficult to state how accurate this information is as many of these people have never had their IQ formally tested, but these claims are often speculative and are based on factors such as whether they have gone to university, the success they have achieved in life, and so on.

The frequent challenge is ‘what is normal’. In a sense, there is no exact point suggestThe phenomenon of ‘normal distribution’ ing who or what is normal, but one can is not just used in the field of IQ. By using state that there is a range of ‘normality’. In this statistical reality, manufacturers, of this example, IQs between 85 and 115 (‘z’ say clothes or shoes, can calculate how scores between -1 and +1) are considered many in each size they should make. Using by some psychologists to be the normal distribution, they will ‘within normal limits’. As can be determine that, for example, 2% With seen from the graph, 68.26% of of the population will need either the right the population lie within normal the smallest sizes or the largest, support, limits. 13.59% of the population with 34.12% below the ‘average’ such has an IQ between 70 and 85, size and 34.12% just above the individuals and so on. These individuals average size. They will thus, deusually need some remedial help could do termine how many items should though one has to qualify this by be manufactured in any one size. much better stating that IQ on its own does academically not determine academic achieveThere are some types of data that than their IQ ment. With the right environdo not follow a normal distrimay predict. mental, family and educational bution pattern. These data sets support, such individuals could do should not be forced to try to fit a much better academically than their IQ may bell curve. A classic example would be stupredict. dent grades, which often have two modes. Other types of data that do not follow the Anyone with an IQ between 115 and 130 curve include income, population growth, (on the right hand side of the average) is and mechanical failures. considered to be quite clever, but again, other factors such as an individual’s moIn order to be able to make inferences tivation, the amount of work (s)he puts in and conclusions about data, one has to can compromise the level of achievement often subject them to statistical analyses suggested by their IQ. to determine how probable it is that the data were obtained by chance as opposed There are organisations which are dedicatto the result of the influence of a factor or ed to a membership of individuals with high factors. Tossing a coin, or betting on black IQs. ‘Mensa’ (meaning ‘table’ in Latin) is Vs red on a roulette table, are basic examsuch an international organisation. Mensa ples which can be used to illustrate the law is a round-table society, where race, colour, of probability. One would expect that if the creed, national origin, age, policoin is tossed 100 times, heads tics, educational or social backand tails (black and red) have an Individuals ground are irrelevant. Members equal chance (i.e. 50-50) of landwith an IQ of Mensa have succeeded in ing. But this is unlikely to happen of 145 or acquiring an IQ score in a Mensa on 100 tosses or spins of the higher are approved test in the 98th percenroulette - it may well take many sometimes tile i.e. top 2% of the population. more tosses for heads and tails, This could range between an IQ or roulette spins, to be equal. We thought of of 132 or 148 depending on the therefore, know that we can get as ‘geniuses’ IQ test used. In practical terms, 55 of one and 45 of the other and form an IQ of 130 makes one eligible and we accept this as ‘within less than for membership. Individuals with normal limits’. But at what point 0.13% of the an IQ of 145 or higher are somecan we conclude that the results population. times thought of as ‘geniuses’ are due to some variable such as and form less than 0.13% of the the person tossing the coin using population. Mensa International consists of a particular technique, or the coin, or rouaround 134,000 members in 100 counlette wheel/ball, being weighted in some tries, in 51 national groups. The largest naway which favours one of the two possible tional groups are:[America, with more than results? Would we accept that 60-40 is 57,000 members, Britain, with over 21,000 within the reasonable realms of possibility? GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

What about 70-30? This is what statistical tests are designed to determine. In the behavioural sciences, the probability or significance level accepted as the results being ‘within normal limits’ (i.e. due to a chance factor) is 5 in 100 or less. Anything above this (e.g. 5.1, or above, in 100) is considered to be due to some variable affecting the result. Significance levels are not necessarily the same for all subjects. For example, in the medical sciences, the significance level is more rigorous for obvious reasons, and could be set as low as 1 in 1000. Statistical tests have been designed mathematically to determine the probability of differences within and between variables. Other tests will measure correlations and yet others, trends. One has to select the appropriateness of a test according to set criteria. Basically, the main ones are: what is one measuring (i.e. the differences, correlations or trends); also the number of samples of data, the type of data, and whether the samples are related or not. Without such tests, and the correct choice of test, data can be rendered meaningless and without much practical value.

THE FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF WELLKNOWN INDIVIDUALS WITH A ‘PUTATIVE’ RANGE OF IQS: Muhammad Ali - 78 Andy Warhol - 86 George Bush Sr. - 98 and surprisingly to some readers, his son George - 125 JFKennedy - 119 Nicole Kidman - 132 Arnold Schwarzenegger - 135 Bill Clinton - 137 and wife Hilary - 140; Madonna and Shakira - 140 Sharon Stone - 154 Sigmund Freud - 156 Donald Trump - 156 Stephen Hawking - 160

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GUT FEELING

Consultant surgeon speaks about keyhole surgery for the abdominal cavity.

BY ELENA SCIALTIEL

fortunately it is a thing of the past and it obody wants to discuss their no longer needs to be that way since the piles - unless boasting about piles of money – but they are a day-hospital procedure known as HALO common ailment, which counts was introduced. for about 50% of routine surgical procedures. “Patients are embarrassed to The angelical name is actually the acrodisclose they suffer from haemorrhoids nym for the self-explanatory mouthful or incontinence, unless the doctor susses ‘Haemorrhoid Artery Ligation Operation’, a it out with targeted questions; procedure that almost takes lonpatients suffer in silence and this ger to speak out than to perform, "We can can make their life miserable, and that can drastically improve tie the ones causing not only physical but the sufferer’s life quality within feeding the also psychological problems,” St. days. “Haemorrhoids are not conpiles using a Bernard’s Hospital colorectal and sidered a disease in itself, but the suture akin laparoscopic consultant surgeon reflection of other conditions, like to a hair Ehab Mansour says. And they constipation, when the vascular are afraid of surgery, because scrunchie." cushion lining your entrails is prothis operation is still commonly lapsed and inflamed, sometimes regarded and dreaded as the ‘most painful as severely as thrombosed, causing on the whole planet’, with tales of patients discomfort, pain and unnecessary stress in hospitalised for weeks in terrible pain, as it your daily life. In the old days, they used was the case years ago. But it is no longer to cut off part of your back passage,” Mr so, the surgeon reassures us, despite your Mansour explains, “and this was almost grandparents having perhaps told you hortorture, but today we can ligate the blood ror stories about it. Indeed they were, but vessels and hence starve the piles with 50

minimal invasion and immediate relief.” With the help of a camera or Doppler ultrasound instruments, the artery’s exact position is detected. “Arteries make a characteristic chugging pulsating noise, so we can isolate them and selectively tie the ones feeding the piles using a suture akin to a hair scrunchie to starve the inflammation.” This procedure surely is a big improvement to the hospital’s waiting list, but Mr Mansour, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, doesn’t stop here in his bid to revolutionise tummy surgery locally, with the aim of curtail the need to refer patients overseas. Together with the physiotherapist, urologist and gynecologist consultants, he is setting up an integrated pelvic floor support group and is inviting patients to join a forthcoming program targeted to repair, improve and of course prevent the pelvic blunders that are ‘oh so awkward’ when you are on the ugly side of fifty. “Being unable to control your bowel movements is a frustrating way GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

health to live, but please don’t suffer in silence. Come forward and help us help you.” Of course, Mr Mansour’s main specialty is major surgery, minimally invasive keyhole surgery that is, which he has researched since his days as a medical student at the University of Alexandria of Egypt. His medical degree is about colon mobilisation and bowel dissection: his 1996 thesis studied the recurrence of bowel tumour after it was surgically removed through keyhole surgery, then in its infancy, assessing whether it carried a higher risk of breaking down during extraction and catching to the abdominal wall with disastrous consequences like metastasis. “This risk was later proven to be only an academic concern, with no validation in real clinical cases.” In his late twenties, Ehab moved to the UK and Ireland where he became a senior lecturer and assistant professor at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland RCSI, Trinity College Dublin TCD and an overseas MRCS examiner. But his longest and most productive spell was his eighteen-year clinical practice , research and consultancy in Dublin and UK Hospitals; “I was lucky I could spend a few weeks of clinical attachment with an Egyptian consultant there, so we shared our common culture and this helped me with the initial cultural shock. Irish people are warm and friendly and they hardly discriminate against foreigners; if they deem you a good professional they accept you for what you are, but still sometimes in the very early days, I had trouble with their accents before I mastered the differences between Irish counties. During my training, I spent five years in one hospital where I researched the advantage of keyhole surgery for and with colorectal professors pioneering the discipline.”

St. Bernard’s Hospital colorectal and laparoscopic consultant surgeon Ehab Mansour scars and is pivotal in diagnostics: scars are virtually the size of a dot, while one of the largest stretches to about three centimetres, enough to pull the entire colon out of it. Appendectomies are carried out this way, with the advantage that further investigation can be applied in case the appendix is found undisturbed and the cause of pain originates elsewhere, for example from the ovaries. “And the ladies, especially young ones, love the idea that the scar is invisible!” Ehab says. “From a clinical point of view, large scars may cause adhesions, incarcerations and incisional hernia, which may turn chronic, with an unsightly and painful bulge in the tummy area.”

zeroing the chance of relapse. As a general surgeon, he also deals with skin conditions and highlights the importance of checking your moles: “We do remove malignant moles, but for aggressive ones like melanoma we still have to refer patients overseas. Never underestimate a suspicious mole as skin-deep: the skin has several layers and if the mole penetrates them all, it can spread cancerous cells through the bloodstream or the lymph nodes, so it is important you voice your concerns with your GP, and get quickly referred to a specialist.”

He continues: “We researched the advantages, potential complications and Ehab arrived in Gibraltar last June to set survival projections for laparoscopic Endocavitary surgery is also a precious tool up the keyhole surgery suite, upgrading surgery compared to ‘traditional’ invasive to diagnose other ailments of the abdomto modern practice standards according surgery and we found that keyinal cavity, which are benign in to guidelines for minimally invasive surgery. hole surgery yields higher chance most cases, but still “People are genuinely friendly in "Keyhole of disease-free survival and of need addressing. “We Gibraltar, and the weather and "Never unsurgery course shorter convalescence, can break down and landscape remind me of my naderestimate which positively affects costs. extract polyps for examyields higher tive Alexandria, a Mediterranean a suspicious Yes, keyhole surgery theatres may ple. The camera allows port like Gibraltar, so I feel chance of mole as be costly to set up, but in the to explore what is going welcome here. This is my aldisease-free skin-deep." medium term they become on inside and be able to ternative hometown. And yes, survival." cost-effective in the number plan a topical intervensometimes there is a language of ‘working-hand’ hours spared tion, avoiding excess scarring.” Mr barrier to knock down when I visit Spanishto social grants and sick pay, when the Mansour works within a team that includes speaking patients, but they usually come patient can be dismissed within two-three dietitian, physiotherapist, anaesthetist and with relatives who can translate, or my days from the operation, versus the week intensivist. They pre-assess the patient and nurse will in any case. On the plus side, I or two of traditional surgery, and back to devise a customised strategy to minimise am growing in popularity with Moroccan work in a week or two.” the impact on his or her general health and patients, who can describe their symptoms lifestyle, while maximising the success rate in Arabic to me, notwithstanding the small of the surgical procedure, and hopefully Furthermore, keyhole surgery avoids large differences in pronunciation.” GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

health

DIABESITY? FAT CHANCE! What bariatric surgery is about and who it is for, as explained by St. Bernard’s Hospital resident specialist surgeon Alfonso Antequera.

BY ELENA SCIALTIEL

often goes hand in hand with a sedentary n a world inhabited by more over-nourroutine, so doubling or even trebling the ished than under-nourished people, obesity is a pandemic, and one hard to disastrous effects of excess calorie intake. tackle with the medical tools currently at our disposal. Most governments and Throughout history, being fat has been a health authorities worldwide sat idly and sign of wealth and health, as rich people watched the western world population wouldn’t suffer malnutrition or starve to growing fatter and fatter for three decades, death, but always had food on their tables, blaming it on fast food but withthree meals per day when the out officially promoting healthier man in the street would consider It is now lifestyle changes, and proactive himself lucky if he ate once every considered solutions to prevent it to spiral. other day. In the late Twentieth a disease, Century, when obesity became a a chronic ‘commodity’ accessible to many, This is partly because obesity has one, and a not just in elderly patients but always been regarded mainly as ‘contagious’ also young adults and children, it an aesthetic no-no rather than a one. was proven how one can be fat disease. Yes, it is now considered and malnourished concurrently, a disease, a chronic one, and a ‘contagious’ one (‘if either or both of your when following an ‘empty-calorie’ diet that doesn’t supply the energy and the necesparents, or your partner, are obese, there sary nutrients like protein and vitamin. is a notable chance you will steadily gain weight’ claims the sternest warnings issued by dieticians), but also because food is The five-a-day campaign soon started to readily and abundantly available – in the get everyone eat more fruit and vegetables western countries at least – and a rich diet and the food pyramid was invented to 52

educate consumers on how to split their nutritional intake in three or four nutritional groups. More recently, the traffic-light system was introduced to label percentage of fats, carbs and sodium in packaged food, but the stark reality remains the same: poorer people in richer countries cannot afford to eat healthy enough, because frozen TV dinners and processed food are cheaper than fresh produce and lean meat, notwithstanding that lower working class may have less time and resources to cook daily from scratch, so they turn to the frozen aisle and are grateful that the purported progress provides them with tasty and affordable hot meals. And so, umpteen chocolate bars, packets of crisps and microwavable trays later, the pounds pile up around your midriff, and drastically changing your eating habits becomes a harder battle to fight, often pointless against the almost inevitable effects of yo-yo dieting. Unfortunately, quick to label obesity a chronic disease, doctors haven’t GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

health yet found a cure for it. Prevention plays an important role, but when the damage is done, the existing pharmacology doesn’t list prescription drugs which could burn away the flab already accumulated under your skin - and when strict dieting fails, the only option left is surgery. Gastric bypass is the most effective way to decrease one’s body mass index from 40 or over down to 30, the average for a healthy adult, and to keep the excess weight off for virtually the rest of one’s life, thus increasing of up to 30% one’s life expectancy fifteen years after the procedure, compared to a much lower rate of success with dieting alone.

Alfonso Antequera

Until last year, patients eligible for bariatric surgery were Surgery is The team includes dietician and sort of allergic reaction to it, with sudden attended in the UK through the considered psychologist who assess the sweats and general malaise that will warn sponsored patients scheme, but the last feasibility of dieting alone as well you against consuming sugary snacks and given the alas increasing demand, resort as emotional implications, ruling eventually condition you to steer clear the Gibraltar Health Authority when other out bulimia and other eating from them! And what happens if patients eventually introduced a dedicated treatments disorders, or schizophrenia and do their homework so diligently that they clinic at the local hospital, which drug addiction. Hormonal imreach operation day with a body mass of have failed is now harvesting the fruit of its balance is also investigated, but 30 or just slightly over? That’s the surdrastically. investment, with thirty-five cases it is highly unusual that obesity geon’s dilemma, of course, but it is advisawaiting their operation under would be caused by endocrine conditions able to operate anyway, so that the yo-yo the supervision of consultant surgeon Mr alone, although there is hypothyroidism to effect is averted. Afterwards, patients are Alfonso Antequera, one of the best speadvised to follow a fitness regime to tone cialists in the field, with great experience in consider, and also the newly discovered, but apparently rare, obesity gene, that retheir muscles and re-absorb the excess running bariatric units in Madrid, Hull and opens the debate on the triggering factors skin: if this is relatively easy in young peoDublin. Bariatric medicine is still in its inbeing natural or social. ple, older patients may have to be referred fancy, and there are many issues to explore to the plastic surgeon after they have lost and experiment on, like for example the fifty-sixty kilos, one or two years later, Prepping for the op takes about one year role of hormones in inhibiting or triggering hunger and cravings, or the efficacy of gas- after the patient is referred to the bariatmost commonly for a tummy tuck. ric clinic through primary care: after the tric bypass in non-obese type II diabetes initial assessment by the team, sufferers, which is still relegated to clinical “When I was first offered to the patient is required to adhere trials only; and of course the most unstart and direct a bariatric unit “Gibraltar to healthier lifestyle in order to comfortable question of all: why do some because of my specialisation in is the ideal downsize considerably before patients struggle to lose weight under keyhole surgery,” Alfonso says, “I city for undergoing surgery, especially in supervised dieting while others seems to had my reservations, which were walking the month prior to that, in order metabolise everything they gulp down? soon dispelled by witnessing or cycling to shrink the liver. Despite the the change in my patients’ lives: minimally invasive keyhole sureverywhere." “Sometimes, two similar operations yield watching depressed, withdrawn, gery, patients are admitted for up different results with different patients,” lonely, sick people feeling reborn, to five days in Gibraltar, contrary to the US with a new body that allowed them to Alfonso says, “as bariatric surgery unforwhere similar procedures are carried out in tunately fails in 20% of the cases.” This seek and find employment, have a social day hospital, and they are also expected to means that after two or three years from life, fall in love… that made me feel it was their operation, some patients start regain- rest for a three-four week convalescence all worth it.” Alfonso Antequera graduing weight and fall victim of their old eating period. This being a public health service, ated and trained in Madrid, where he habits, if they haven’t learnt how to control the time off work is covered by social specialised in organ transplant at Clinica insurance, and costs to the tax their impulse eating during the Puerta de Hierro and went on working at payer are fully recovered within period of grace they enjoyed They make a state-of-the-art Fuenlabrada University two years, thanks to the patient’s after surgery. However, surgical hospital where he started the bariatric unit the bowel increased productivity at work procedure is so far considered before expanding his horizons in Hull and to ‘mistrust’ and the slash in future medical the only viable option in the long Dublin later. In early 2017, he was invited any sugar costs, especially if the operation term, because only a mere 1% to Gibraltar to tackle the local obesity rate, ingested. succeeds in reversing the effects manages to stay lean for the rest which is higher than in Spain, but definiteof type II diabetes, a.k.a. ‘diabeof their lives with dieting only, as ly lower than in the UK. He also calls for sity’ – thus the insulin insufficiency caused a comprehensive Swedish study begun in prevention and change in attitude towards the Eighties has shown. by excess sugar consumption is dubbed. an active lifestyle: “Gibraltar is the ideal city for walking or cycling everywhere: we Surgery is considered the last resort when could set an example to the rest of the In fact, gastric bypasses not only make other treatments have failed at drastically world in that.” your stomach smaller and hence easier reducing the patient’s body mass that is to fill, but they make the bowel to ‘misseverely affecting his or her quality of life. trust’ any sugar ingested, causing you a GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

environment

CLIMATE CHANGE IN OUR OCEANS To most of us, how climate change works and its effects on the terrestrial biosphere, are pretty well understood. However, how are these changes going to affect our oceans and the organisms within it? This question is almost never spoken about when the topic arises, despite the obvious impact it could have on our lives.

BY LEWIS STAGNETTO

s Attenborough famously said, “Our planet is a blue planet, with over 80% of its surface covered in oceans”. Consequently, understanding how the increases in carbon dioxide are affecting the oceans seems to me to be the largest slice of the problem.

equilibrium with respect to exchanges in gases. Therefore, as carbon dioxide concentrations increase in the atmosphere, they increase in our oceans proportionately. Dissolved carbon dioxide is a weak acid and this is driving “ocean acidification” which is another term commonly used in conjunction with coral reefs.

carbon saturation limit which decreases the amount of gas the water can hold on to. We are already seeing this effect around the world with newly discovered methane seeps bubbling up from marine sediments below.

As it turns out, corals and other marine calcifiers are helping The bit we all know is that as we The Weather us out because they use this The oceans have been produce more carbon dioxide oceanic dissolved carbon dioxide to absorbing the bulk of through the burning of fossil fupatterns are absorption make their external skeletons. els, the amount of heat escaping the carbon dioxide we becoming of carbon This process removes the carbon our atmosphere is being reduced. produce and up to now, more erratic, dioxide is dioxide from the ocean and this has been a bit of a This is causing the planet, in unpredictlifeline for the planet. allows it to absorb more from general, to warm up. This is what reaching able and the atmosphere. There is one However, studies indigave rise to the original name saturation devastating. marine calcifier which has really cate that the oceanic of “Global Warming”. Today we state. peaked scientific interest in the understand that although on absorption of carbon last 10 years and the fate of this average the world is warming up, weathdioxide is reaching saturation state. Whilst this is bad news it actually organism could help to unravel our oceans er patterns are becoming more erratic, gets worse. As the average global temfuture. unpredictable and devastating. But how does the same atmospheric carbon dioxide perature rises the seas begin to warm. Sea ice, which typically reflects heat, melts and Coccolithophores are single cell algae cause changes in the ocean? warming speeds up further. This increase which calcify. They produce beautiful in oceanic temperature drives down the wheel like structures on the cell memThe atmosphere and the oceans are in 55

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brane which is used to defend it from predation. Over its lifetime the algae produce many of these structures which fall off the cell membrane and sink to the sediments below. This acts as a valuable export of carbon from our oceans.

Corals and other marine calcifiers are helping us out because they use this dissolved carbon dioxide to make their external skeletons.

The bad news is that ocean acidification will limit the ability of corals and coccolithophores to produce these defensive structures and consequently deteriorate the ability of future oceans to continue absorbing carbon dioxide. As algae they also form the base of the food webs which comes as a bit of a double whammy. Acidification will also prevent future oceans from absorbing any more carbon dioxide and that might elevate the rate of atmospheric build up which will increase warming. The good news is that coccolithophores 56

But this is not just something for scientists to resolve. Climate is something that concerns us all and therefore it is imperative that society do our part to help reduce our carbon footprint. At home, LED light bulbs combined with turning off lights when you leave a room are simple measures which can lower your power consumption. Reuse and recycling of goods can really help as its estimated that around 30% of greenhouse gases are produced from the provisioning of them. It is Instead of drinking bottled water imperative you could switch to a reusable bottle. A lot of emissions come that society from the transportation of botdo our part tled water which is very energy to help intensive. reduce our

have inhabited the oceans for millions of years and over this huge geological timescale have been through worse episodes throughout our planets history. Also, they are not the only marine algae available so it is possible that the impact may be limited to certain specialised species.

Further good news comes from scientific research which is investigating how mitigating the acidification might help to form pockets of ocean where these organisms can continue to grow. In these carbon areas the oceans would still be These are but a few small footprint. changes in our lives which can able to absorb carbon dioxide and have a larger impact than we might help to stem the impact of the negative consequences predicted by give it credit for. As with all these things; It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to cost the earth, but it just the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC). might save it!

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IS 60S MUSIC DEAD AND GONE

We’re in the 2000-and-teenies, so it goes without saying music of five or six decades ago is not going to be heard or played very much now. After all, it has to be accepted that today’s music simply reflects the times in which we live, and that music is something many of those ‘not of these times’ have difficulty tolerating!

BY RICHARD CARTWRIGHT

never had hit records but performed on ell, you know there are songs of the sixties and seventies bring all sorts – pop, reggae, occasions alongside the big groups of the back heart-warming reminiscences when hip-hop, rap, rock, soul day like, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the listening to our favourites being played. and r’n’b, grunge, garage, Tremeloes, the Foundations, Blue Mink heavy metal and other metals and so many and a number of others. I also attended Well I’ve been following many of those 60s recording sessions providing backing vocals groups who were big during that time and more genres some of us just can’t get our heads around. However, as with Country alongside Elton John, Dave Dee some may be surprised to know, music (even hilly billy) folk, jazz, Dozy Beaky Mick and long after the handful - in some In many big band, and so on there is an Tich and other names cases only one or two - hits they Those of these I don’t presently recall. interest in all of those genres may have had, many of them are songs of the groups the And of course, it goes some, with more of a following still working and very much in sixties and line-up may without saying it was than others, so it follows 60s demand in the UK, USA, Australia seventies music, along with 70s and all the the era of the Beatles only include and very especially in Northern bring back other decades of mainstream pop and the whole transforEurope in places like Germany, one, perhaps mation that followed, music up to the present, have Holland, Belgium and elsewhere heart-warmtwo original their aficionados also. not just in music, but where 60s and 70s acts are ing reminismembers, everything else that still sought-after. They go on cences. and in some `changed’ during the I am a devotee of the sixties, Nostalgia Tours where five or six cases no swinging sixties. So the 60s acts set off on 30, 40 or 50 not just because of my age but originals at music and experiences of that very much so because I was part of the dates and those tour offers are all. decade are pretty much ingrained also extended to acts of the 80s, swinging 60’s as a member of a band in me, hence the reason for or pop group playing residencies in top 90s and even going back to 50s highlighting all of this - mainly to support London hotels and other places, making hit makers who now include octogenarian the enthusiasm that exists for the genre records, whilst also appearing on nationpop stars still willing and able to rock the and the memories held by many, those stage! In many of these groups the line-up al and regional TV and radio. Our group GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

music may only include one, perhaps two original members and in some cases no originals at all with one individual who would have joined as a replacement during the original group’s existence and he or she may have taken over the group name under some arrangement to continue touring playing the group’s hits with no original members in the line-up.

(by the Eliott Hotel), other venues around the Rock and also held very successful 60s nights at the Rock on the Rock club home of music by and large, far removed from what The Rock Shadows and their twangy, echoey guitars produce: They’ve been going now for a number of years and are often asked in the street when their next concert is due. As an offshoot of that brand of 60s instrumental music, some of its members (with Bob Randall of It Takes Two), are already in rehearsals putting together 60s and 70s hit songs of the vocal kind, from the likes of Beatles classics, to I’m a Believer and 70s greats by the Eagles and more. `Bob and the Boys’ will soon be taking you back a few decades at a venue

Half a century or more since their heyday, groups like the Searchers, Marmalade, Herman’s Hermits, The Merseybeats, Gerry and the Pacemakers (about to, or recently retired) continue to do extremely well embarking on these tours taking in scores of towns and cities. These groups don’t tire of performing and are clearly making a decent living even today. These As regards the big names like, groups The Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, don’t tire of Led Zeppelin and others well, they come together every few performing years and fill venues of 20,000 and are and more, making a mint as they clearly go. Commercials on TV often making a carry 60s and 70s songs in the decent living advert. Proof, that decades-old even today. music is still very much alive! To boot, there are any number of `tribute bands’ doing the rounds rolling out the hits of yesteryear’s performers, some performing on the Rock in recent times. For obvious reasons, audiences at events featuring past decades’ top groups and singers don’t attract enough fans to fill arenas and stadiums any more, but halls, civic centres, theatres and smaller open-air venues, like Casemates and the MUGA venue by the Tercentenary Hall here, will pull in, oldies- music enthusiasts in their hundreds and single figure thousands. Locally we’ve had our fair share of sixties and seventies performers over the years, The Barron Knights, Wayne Fontana, The Tremeloes, Rubettes, Emile Ford, Status Quo and of course, Albert Hammond... and there are others. The tribute outfits that have come our way include, Rod Stewart, Boney M, Queen, ABBA, and how can we forget The Four Seasons’ hit songs of the early sixties in the shape of The Jersey Boys who have appeared here ‘Bob and a number of times at different the Boys’ venues over the past few years, will soon be and they keep returning! We’re taking you also blessed with our own very back a few good tribute band known as The decades at a Rock Shadows who produce an venue near excellent copy of the instrumental, 60s legends, `The Shadows’. you. The present Rock Shadows line-up includes, Tony, Douglas, Johnny, Emilio, Eric and another Emilio who comes in also with great Cliff Richard tributes! The Rock Shadows have gone down a bomb at the Fair pavilion, Central Hall, the Piazella 60

or dance floor near you. Yes, `nostalgia,’ seems to be the thing for many. So you see, despite yesteryear’s pop stars not making headlines, nor filling large venues to the rafters, the music of the 60s and 70s – as well as that of other decades - is very much active, healthy and functioning well for its promoters and fans. What’s more, oldies’ radio stations are everywhere too. I tune into Radio Caroline Flashback taking you back to the days of Pirate Radio where they play music of the 50s, 60, and 70s - not unlike Radio Gibraltar’s `Yesterday When I Was Young,’ you might say... Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

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BLOOD TIES – LITERALLY Back with a vengeance: Review of Revenge, the second book in the trilogy Psycho-Analysis by Catherine Nuza

BY ELENA SCIALTIEL

arely six months after publishing the first book of her trilogy ‘PsychoAnalysis’, Catherine Nuza has released the second part, featuring a harrowing front-cover photo designed by the author. She describes ‘Revenge’ as the ‘pinnacle’ of the tale of a broken man riddled with bloodlust for his an-eye-foran-eye justice. She was seventeen when she created Khedlar, a hero/antihero who morphs into a monster after growing up within a fragmented reality in which he has nobody to trust and turn to. However, the manuscript was left on the backburner until she and her wife and proofreader Angelique realised its value not just as fiction, but as case study - purely fictional, and yet crudely realistic in its make-believe parallel universe of ethically arguable society rules. After ‘Khedlar’s Story – The Beginning’ cliffhanger ending, it was only fair that fans demanded to know the truth as much as the protagonist does, so Catherine worked around the clock to ‘flesh out’ her unravel62

with despicable secrets and where tradition is… murder. “Dawn Vines is completely made up and not at all inspired to any real cities on this planet, unlike in other novels where you can clearly see New York or London for example behind the gossamer veil of pseudonym, accurate down to the bend the river traces across the metropAt the end of Book One, Khedlar escapes olis…” Angelique explains. “Here the mental asylum he was unwhat matters is not a sense lawfully detained at with nothing Rites of of place, but the pulsions that to lose, since he has already lost initiation govern its citizens.” In fact, every his only double reason to live may be the society has its norms and what - his wife and daughter, whose trigger of is normal for one may not be for murders he is accused of - except others; and surely in Dawn Vines’s Khedlar’s his desire of saving his daughter’s traditions are based on a moral soul. He feels nothing but hatred misfortunes. code that makes most of us shudnow, so he is as driven to revenge der: Catherine drops hints about as his reality is eroded by years of abuse cannibalism as a ritual practice performed and medication, and he seeks to uncover in this society, whose rules outsiders are his family’s own agenda, by confronting requested to abide, or else just run, if the pawns in a mind game larger than they don’t want to become prey. Rites of themselves. initiation may be the trigger of Khedlar’s misfortunes, and the labyrinth of lies that The action is set in present-time Dawn tarnishes his childhood and adolescence is Vines, poetic toponymy for a dark territory ling plot and, with Angelique’s collaboration, she completed the third installment, ‘Into The Shadows’, due for publication this summer, tying all loose ends after revenge is exacted and all family jewels are finally appraised.

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literature responsible for his psychopathy, yet very lucid in his quest for justice.

run in the family indeed, but nurture is as much responsible as nature when it comes

to unleash the evil nestled in one’s genes. “I am from South Africa,” Angelique explains, “where European heritage balances the Catherine points out that Khedlar wasn’t strong native society, so that monotheism, born evil, but was made so by circumstancwitchcraft, hoodoo, shamanism and canes, and she manages to sketch a likable nibalism coexist. Despite certain practices character with flashes of dark humour being frowned upon and ruled illegal, they to endear him to his audience, who can still play a big part in tradition. This inspired visualise his wrath in peaks of exaggerated the motives behind Dawn Vines violence. “Some passages remind self-containing set of rules, which me of Quentin Tarantino’s style,” Instead of may be an abomination to any Angelique purports. “The scene healing him, rationalist, but cannot be denied in ‘Kill Bill’, where the samurai leads him because they are steeped in herslashes his opponents and then down a path itage. We all exercise some kind orders everyone out, and the of ‘socio-police’ role, enforcing of psychotic victims just stand up, gather their what is normal to our individual episodes. detached limbs, and hobble out of or collective judgment, yet one frame… this kind of surreal, almost cannot blindly accept tradition if it cartoonish, dark humour, the outlandish goes against conscience, and this subjective brutality that audiences enjoy, is employed questioning is what makes the character of throughout the novel to defuse the tension Khedlar come to life.” and make the protagonist multifaceted.”

There’s catharsis in a quick chuckle, or cackStep by step, Khedlar reconstructs the past le, and if laughter won’t bury you, surely will his family and carers have kept from him, terminate the family no-one can choose not finding out who his aunt and uncle really to be born into. are. One may think that his bloodlust ran in the blood, but the reasons for Khedlar’s Angelique describes Khedlar as a psywife and daughter’s disappearance are far chopath rather than a sociopath, because more sinister and ‘convoluted’, thus the his actions are random, while a sociopath Nuzas describe them. The trilogy opens on would be cool and collected in mimickKhedlar being accused of having butching what is considered normal behaviour. ered the only two individuals to whom he “Khedlar is socially awkward as a child as has developed a healthy attachment, and much as he is as an adult,” Catherine says, being interned in a mental institution after “and he has to practise his moves and their bodies aren’t found and any proof for facial expressions in front of a mirror like an conviction is circumstantial, yet he is slowly actor before stepping out in the real world but surely instilled with guilt, no matter searching for the murderer, for his little how strongly he protests his innocence, girl’s sake.” Pages are spent to describe his and he is given psychotropic medication psychology in detail, as he matures and dethat, being unnecessary, instead of healing velops the kind of self-assurance he needs him, leads him down a path of psychotic for his mission. episodes. Here, the author introduces a veiled criticism to the current ‘Dr Knock’ His counterparts are steely sociopaths mentality that maintains there is a miracle and he is has to gear up for a clash of pill to pop for every alleged illness, even titans: “This is a controlling clan in which those diagnosed out of excess zeal, for survival of the fittest is the dominant rule,” character traits with no cure laid out in the Catherine adds. “The matriarch is future, attributable only to lack of narcissistic and she loves to play prevention. Later, doubt storms She her children against each other his already fragile mind when he is manages for her own benefit. And they fall told that his wife cheated on him for her web of deceit, because to sketch and his precious daughter isn’t they don’t know any better. There a likable really his, so that the reader may is method in her madness, and character be led to believe that the double what looks like warped reality to with flashes murder amounts to a honour us is perfectly logical for her. This of dark killing carried out by senior family is indeed horrifying to our ethical members to preserve the clan humour. system, and we come to question reputation; but there are far it as much as Khedlar does. This chillier reasons behind it, and it is the doing book is intense and pure horror, not for of more than one individual, covering up for the faint-hearted like my pitch claims, but each other. If Khedlar exacts his revenge at it also is thought-provoking as it puts you the end of Book Two, it will take the entire in Khedlar’s shoes and begs the question: Book Three to disclose the whole horrifywhat would you do in his stead, if you ing truth of a deeply dysfunctional family, were pushed to insanity by your own flesh proving that psychopathic tendencies may and blood? Is murder ever justifiable in a GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

Catherine Nuza state-of-nature society that doesn’t legislate against it?” The noir fascination with Dawn Vines doesn’t end here for Catherine, who is already spinning the plot for ‘The Artist’, an independent trilogy set there, and a standalone thriller titled ‘Remember Me’, set in Hag’s Cliff, the outskirts of Dawn Vines where tribal societies dwell. ‘The Beginning’ and ‘Revenge’ are published in Alaska (to add the extra chill down your spine), and are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and soon as audio-books. For updates and trivia, visit CatherineNuza.org.

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MAJESTIC MILAN Saffron, canals, spires, and… bull balls!

BY ELENA SCIALTIEL

n the yuppie Eighties, it was ‘drinkable’ according to the iconic vermouth advertisement that became the slogan of the careerist consumerist generation, and now ‘the city that never squanders but always invests’ buzzes with business, culture, street food and the evening ritual of apericena (A portmanteau of aperitivo and cena, this is the radical-chic weekday ritual that sees locals queueing for the all-youcan-eat cholesterolfest buffet of savory snacks included in the price of your drink) to seal another deal at the office.

dinner redundant when thousands of is rice with saffron and bone marrow from professionals eventually make it home to the accompanying ossobuco, drenched in the hinterland after a crowded ride on the gravy. If all this sounds too rich for you, five underground lines that worm their never fear: Milan is a hotpot for internaway under the city, or any of tional food well beyond the clasthe futuristic-looking tramways sic pizza, with Asian restaurants Typical of that are replacing the historical sprouting everywhere to comMilanese Art Nouveau streetcars. Lunch is pete with the Middle Eastern, cuisine are often consumed at the nearIndian, Mexican and Scandinavian minestrone est tavola calda, where freshly markets. and risotto made rolls or balanced meals are

In fact, at 6pm, when ‘Generation XS’ clocks out, bars and bistros lay out a selection of canapés and charcuterie to lure in lawyers and tycoons toasting to yet another hostile takeover with clinking glasses of fruity cocktails and slices of bresaola (cured and smoked wafer-thin beef slices) and raspadura (hard cheese ribbon-like shavings) on crispy michetta bread.

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giallo alla milanese, with or without ossobuco.

Typical of Milanese cuisine and thus available everywhere, from the simplest osteria to the glitziest grand hotel, are minestrone and risotto giallo alla milanese, with or without ossobuco. The first is a hearty soup made with vegetables and small egg-pasta shapes in thick broth, often made thicker with lard, although nowadays vegan-conscious eateries tend to substitute it with margarine; the second

Don’t miss out on street food like arancino, piadina, panzerotto, tigella, imported from all over Italy and fully adopted as convenient snack on the move. And leave plenty of room for dessert: Milan is dotted with artisan-made ice cream parlours and confectioneries baking yummy cakes, cupcakes, tarts, the most iconic being sachertorte and kranz, the only positive legacy of the Habsburg domination, according to the true Milanese. A spongy chocolate cake filled with apricot jam and covered in dark chocolate, sachertorte was 65

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invented in Vienna and it takes very long tery, in which patrons are invited to help to mix and bake, but very short to eat, solve a murder re-enacted by local theatre especially when accompanied by a cup of companies. barbagliata, the thick hot chocolate whose recipe is akin to béchamel. Kranz In the shadow of is a large braided brioche sprinSightseeing La Mia Bela Madunina kled with granulated sugar, ideal needn’t for breakfast. Full-immersion sightseeing be murder needn’t be murder thanks to the thanks to If you wish to marry fine dining efficient net of public transport, the efficient and sightseeing, the municipal and its app, but for a time-effecnet of public transport company ATM has tive comprehensive experience do adapted a historical tramcar into transport. hop on and off the double-decker the exquisitely retro restaurant that drives by most monuments. ‘ATMosfera’ offering a tour while serving a However, the beauty of Milan lies in selection of typical dishes and wine, with getting lost and found in the embroidery linen tablecloths and silverware reminisof medieval lanes between boulevards, cent of the Orient Express. And yes, for a reasonable price you may also add myswhere traffic is limited, and the path to

paradise (the manicured gardens secreted behind stately wooden portals or wroughtiron gates) is paved with large flagstones, or stone cubes called sanpietrini, because they were firstly used in Saint Peter’s Square, Rome. Milan is one of the busiest European destinations for weekend breaks with most tourists flocking to the Duomo. My advice is not to waste time in the frustratingly slow queue at the metal detector, but take your time to walk all around it instead and appreciate its facades flourishing with bas-reliefs and buttresses. If you are blessed with a crisp sunny day, you must take the lift to the rooftop, where you can ramble among the spires and command views over the Alps to the north and the View from The Duomo’s rooftop

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La Scala Apennines to the south. The Duomo’s highest spire is topped by the gilded statue of Our Lady to whom the cathedral is dedicated; it was ruled that no edifice in Milan would stand taller than the ‘Madunina’ (as she is affectionately known), so that replicas have been placed on skyscrapers. The Victor Emmanuel Arcade stands majestically to the left, built when kingdom of Italy was unified under this Savoy king. Two glass vaults cross in a domed octagonal centre, fronted by historical establishments and top-star restaurants. The pavement is ornate with mosaics, the most famous being the rampant bull, symbol of Italy’s first capital, Turin. Legend tells that if one places one’s right heel on the bull’s genitals and pivots around three times, one’s luck is guaranteed, together with

and home of the saffron risotto) just a safe return to Milan in the future. The arcade leads to La Scala theatre, staging next door to the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ and a seigniorial palace opened to Zandonai’s ‘Francesca da Rimini’ the public to display a variety of You must this month, Verdi’s Aida in May, armours, pikes and pistols, tapestake the Schubert’s ‘Fierrabras’ and tries, paintings (notable is Sandro lift to the Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in June. Botticelli’s ‘Lamentation over the rooftop, However, if opera isn’t your cup dead Christ’), and other artifacts of… aperol spritz, you may want where you to check out the traditional collected by this aristocratic family, can ramble Carlo Colla’s marionette theatre, including the bejewelled pocket among the acting out fairytales and literwatches collection. Right behind La spires and ature classics with handmade Scala opens the fine arts’ district of command wooden marionettes in reproBrera, with its Academy and comviews over ductions of period costumes. pact Botanical Gardens, narrow the Alps. cobblestoned streets lined with In Manzoni Street you’ll find boutiques, antiques and art supplies shops Don Lisander Trattoria (named after the author of the historical novel ‘The Betrothed’ and touristy eateries.

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Blend of architectural old and new

Taste and buy regional specialties and enjoy one of the best Margherita pizzas north of the Po river.

At the other end of Brera stands the modern brickwork block built twenty years ago for the Strehler Theatre, found next to Corso Garibaldi - a high-end high street connecting to Corso Como, a quaint pedestrianised area (reminiscent of Main Street, actually, only larger), where the trendiest nightlife happens, through XXV April Square. Here stands on three levels one of the largest ‘Eataly’ superstores, a must-visit for gourmet food, where you can taste and buy

regional specialties and enjoy one of the best Margherita pizzas north of the Po river.

Gently uphill is the ultramodern complex of Porta Nuova; a showcase of futuristic architecture with designer skyscrapers, sculptural office blocks shaped as barrels, and shopping malls, set around the fountain of Gae Aulenti Square, just next the residential towers named ‘vertical forest’ because of their balconies laden with plants creeping from one storey to the next. Should you choose to forsake Corso Garibaldi and proceed left at Strehler Theatre, you’ll follow a boulevard to

reach the Civic Aquarium, a cylindrical Art Nouveau building surrounded by gardens, ponds and animal-related sculptures, where you can meet freshwater and marine life, from trout to sturgeons and the ever popular walk-through see-through ‘sharkade’. Basilisk and castle Thence you can proceed into the Sempione Park, one of Milan’s green lungs, landscaped with secular trees and natural ponds that are home to mallards, terrapins and other wildlife, including the odd fox, and of course the Tout-Milan fauna of families strolling in their Sunday best and students lying lazily on the grass. The gated park is comprised between the Triennale

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Castello Sforzesco (contemporary art museum), the Arco della musical instruments, sculptures, refectory is decorated with Pace (a neoclassic pastiche akin to the furniture and tapestries, unravLeonardo’s Last Supper (preNowadays Parisian Arc de Triomphe, although built elling along the castle’s halls and booked admission only). Not far it is the to celebrate love and not war), and the private quarters; do take your lays the Archeological Museum, destination Castello Sforzesco, an imposing brickwork time through them all, because partly housed in fortifications for compound with several towers, a place of the itinerary includes a leisurely dating back to the late Roman discerning arms and quaint courtyards, dating back to walk on the ramparts above the Empire: it boasts an impressive leisure time the Renaissance and perfectly restored. It courtyards and unravels from collection of Greek and Etruscan on weekends was home to the Dukes of Sforza, hall to hall, giving you vases, Roman glass, some of It was and long successors of the Visconti, under an insight of castellan which featuring colours and the coat of arms which still is lifestyle with the added swirls reminiscent of our own under the balmy used in Milan, featuring a basilisk bonus of a glance to Gibraltar Museum’s amphoriskos, coat of evenings. devouring a child. Leonardo da Vinci’s Sala and temporary exhibitions with arms which delle Asse. exhibits borrowed from institustill is used tions worldwide. It accommodates most of in Milan, the city’s museums, featuring But if you are on a tight schedule, featuring Michelangelo’s Pietà Rondanini, just sneak out the side door and Brickwork, Greenery and more museums a basilisk well worth weathering the make your way to the church of devouring a queues. Other museums collect Santa Maria delle Grazie, whose If you like artistic brickwork, visit the

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travel Ca’ Granda, a stone throw from Duomo Square, now the headquarters for the university, built during the Renaissance as a lazaret and expanded in the Twentieth Century to accommodate Humanistic Studies, Languages and Jurisprudence. Its cloisters are an oasis of peace in the heart of town, although many swear that the Crociera, the lofty hall turned into library and classrooms, still echoes with the shrieks of leprosy victims’ ghosts as much as overworked undergraduate students. Don’t miss St. Ambrose Cathedral, where the relics of Milan’s first bishop are venerated: its millenary history comes to life around the splendid Volvinio’s golden altar on 6th December, on the eve of the patron saint’s day, with a processions of offers from the whole diocese, which by the way extends its Carnival festivities until the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, in what is known as Ambrosian Carnival. Outside this church stands proud a marble column which bears the sign of Satan’s horns getting stuck in it when he charged the bishop – actually they are the drillings for a metal ring used to tether chariots, but the legend lives on with assurances of absolution to those repenting of their sins while tracing the holes with their fingertips. More brickwork and more parks at the Indro Montanelli’s Gardens, with a layout similar to Sempione Park, close to the shopping district of Porta Venezia. Within the gardens you’ll find the Planetarium, where you can reach for the stars thanks to the mammoth projector, and the charming edifice of the Natural History Museum, where you can see the besanosaurus, a locally found dinosaur, amongst taxidermy and reconstructions of natural habitats from Italy and the pluvial forest. Opposite these gardens you’ll find Villa Belgiojoso, a masterpiece of neoclassic architecture opening on a manicured Romantic garden, once the venue for registry weddings and now an art museum

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most fascinating for the décor of its rooms, particularly the ballroom and the private quarters. Fashion rhymes with passion The Quadrilatero della Moda is the network of streets delimited by Via Montenapoleone and Via Spiga, a short walk from Porta Venezia. Here you can enjoy uninterrupted views on haute couture and jewellery by Italian designers, and on the struscio (the evening stroll) of model-spotting fashionistas and bauscia (mildly disparaging moniker for the self-styled upper-crust Milanese) scouring for the next trend, or a lift in the residents’ sports car. If your pockets aren’t deep enough, alas, just move along for high street brands to Buenos Aires Avenue, or the arcaded and pedestrianised Victor Emmanuel Street that will gently lead you back to the Duomo. Once the hub for first-vision cinemas, this promenade has become the showcase for international chain stores, after the closure of historical shops like Fiorucci and Ercolessi. Smooth sailing

you to the MUDEC or Anthropological Museum, in a revamped factory on the outskirts of town, featuring a permanent collection of artefacts from all continents as well as itinerant painting exhibitions and monographs on worldwide cultures (pop in for the one about New Guinean Asmat head-hunters). Shopping The old Fiera di Milano with its Art Nouveau buildings was recently extended into the modern shopping district of Three Towers (the third is still under construction) and new commercial pavilions have been built near the satellite town of Rho, where is still visible the extravagant Expo 2015 village. Here a comprehensive market fair of luxury goods from all over Italy and the world takes place on the first week of December, concurrently to the O’bej! O’bej! street market that once unravelled around St. Ambrose Cathedral, but was later moved to the pathway around the castle for safety reasons. Well connected

Milan’s topography lies on flat land and it is laid out as a Celtic settlement, unlike the No visit to Milan, especially in summer, is parallel and perpendicular thoroughfares complete without popping at the Navigli typical of the Roman cardo et decumanus and Darsena, the only canals spared system. To be able to move around like from the covering of a complex system a true Meneghino, just imagine it like a that once criss-crossed the city centre gigantic spider web, with concentric circles to and fro the rivers. Nowadays it is the linking the radiuses sprouting from Duomo destination for discerning leisure time on Square. weekends and long balmy evenings, with art studios and gourmet bistros in the refurbished countryside-style houses lining For its ideal location at the centre of the Po Valley, Milan is the base camp for day the waterfront. It hosts a famous antiques trips: half an hour train ride to the univermarket every last Sunday of the month, sity town of Pavia and artistic Vigevano, and twice a year an attractive or hilly Bergamo, one hour to flower show (the spring one is Many lake resorts like Como or Lugano, being held on 8th April this year, th north of the Swiss border, two swear that and the autumn on 7 October). from Turin, Genoa or Verona, the still Don’t miss out on a barge trip three to Garda, Bologna and a with live string quartet! echoes with fraction more to Florence, four to the shrieks Venice, and less to Alpine resorts A short tramway ride will take of leprosy like Bormio and Livigno, Europe’s victims’ highest inhabited parish. The ghosts. morning tilting train nicknamed Pendolino will take you as far as Rome or Naples in time for pomodori con riso or calzone fritto brunches respectively. Whatever you do and wherever you go in Milan, remember that everyone is perennially in hurry there. Ever heard of the tale of the lion and gazelle having to wake up in Africa and outrun each other for survival? Well, the locals adapt it like so: “It doesn’t matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises in Milan, it only matters whether you’ve retained the fastest broker in the Stock Exchange.” GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

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fashion Lazy Oaf Oversized Tshirt in Rainbow Stripe

River Island Chunky Cable Knit Cardigan

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SPRING TRENDS Spring is finally upon us and the time has come to take stock of the forthcoming trends and begin plotting our wardrobes for the coming months. After last month's weather traumas, I'm sure we can all firmly say that some sun and warmth is very much welcomed. Spring is one of my favourite seasons for the sheer fact that I can finally start to ditch the winter clothes and begin incorporating transitional pieces into my wardrobe. Here are just a few of the trends taking the fashion world by storm this season.

Expect to see bright pinks, reds, yellows and blues take over the high street very soon!

BY JULIA COELHO

BRIGHTS ASOS Design – Oversized Tshirt with Colour Blocking in Yellow ASOS £16.00

Bright and bold is back in this year. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, but still, most spring trends tend to focus on pastels and softer tones. Those will definitely still be around, no doubt about it, but the next few months will embrace vibrant colour at long last. From primary blocks through to neon accents; expect to see bright pinks, reds, yellows and blues take over the high street very soon! GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

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GRAPHIC PRINTS & LOGOS

ASOS £28.00

From big brand logos to funky graphic prints, the rule is: the louder the better.

Adidas Originals Tshirt with Large Graphic Print in Blue ASOS £28.00

Nike Air Max 97 Trainers in Beige ASOS £145.00

The uglier your trainers, the more on trend (and probably the more expensive).

ATHLEISURE I’m sure we’re all very much aware of the athleisure trend. It’s been blowing up for quite some time now. From the everlasting ‘trackie’ hype, to the more recently welcomed dad shoe; the uglier your trainers, the more on trend (and probably the more expensive). We definitely love a bit of athleisure in Gibraltar, and this season, it’s being taken up a notch, with brights, prints, and new silhouettes firmly settling themselves into the gym/ streetwear category.

I have to say this is one of my favourite trends this season; from big brand logos to funky graphic prints, the rule is: the louder the better. I love this trend in particular because it calls to the more adventurous side of me, as well as allowing me to explore my love for juxtaposition in fashion. I love pairing a graphic tee with a denim mini dress and some trainers, or tucking one into some skinny jeans, teamed up with a pair of strappy heels and a smart blazer.

Neon Rose Relaxed Tshirt with Etoile Print ASOS £14.00

Ellesse Logo Tshirt ASOS £20.00

Oversized Sweatshirt in Checkerboard ASOS £28.00

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GOOD TAILORING Spring, thanks to the colour palette and floral styles it usually invites, tends to cater to our more feminine side. This year, though, minimalists and tomboys will have plenty to choose from, for a good blazer and trouser suit with a funky flat-shoe will be all the rage. Checked blazers, specifically, burst onto the scene late last year, making an appearance in most notable designers’ SS/18 runway shows. Not only do they strike the perfect balance between laidback and formal, but if there’s one thing worth spending some money on, it’s a perfectly tailored summer jacket.

ASOS Design Circle Quilted Bum Bag ASOS £18.00

Mango Long Line Checked Blazer ASOS £79.99

They strike the perfect balance between laidback and formal

Adidas Originals Bumbag in Camo

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ASOS £23.00

Skinny Blazer in Grey Burgundy Wool Mix Check ASOS £70.00

For all of you accessories lovers out there, you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a whole host of new bag trends on the scene this spring. But if there’s one that’s really paved its way to the forefront, it’s the bum bag. From the sporty pouches which have been on the rock since the beginning of time, all the way to the feminine luxe crossbody styles, the good old bumbag is back! GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

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Glamorous Petite Sleeveless Shift Dress With Tie Back in Polka Dot ASOS £24.00

Polka dots are having a huge moment this spring; from delicate blouses and skirts, to chiffon dresses and cropped jumpsuits. If you’re slightly put off by the trend and equate polka dots with your childhood (cheers Minnie Mouse), it’s time to change your chip and start seeing polka dots for what they are: an elegant, adaptable and timeless print. Another favourite, checks, were huge throughout autumn and winter, and it looks like they’re here to stay. Although classic styles like plaid shirts are still very much on trend, this spring the high street will be teeming with Clueless-style checked miniskirts and cropped trousers.

Bershka Crop Satin Polka Dot Blouse ASOS £21.99

WAIST BELTS Summer Checked Mini Kilt Skirt

Leopard Double Circle Waist & Hip Belt

Aside from being extremely flattering, waist belts pertain to the 80s styles that have been around for a good while now, not only for the purpose of tightly cinching in the waist, but also to contrast the larger than life silhouettes and shapes inspired by that era. A waist belt can come in all forms; from a leather Western style, to a chain-belt paired with a slip dress, to those incorporated into jackets or paper-bag style trousers. There are no two ways about it: belts are key!

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An elegant, adaptable and timeless print.

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There are no two ways about it: belts are key!

New Look Stud Stretch Belt ASOS £9.99

It’s official; spring has arrived, and I’m more than ready to ditch the thick knits & jeans, and say goodbye to winter at long last. It’s time to open up my arms to some funky prints, bright colours, and, dare I say it, maybe even a little bit of athleisure! 75

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EATING YOUR WAY TO PILL-FREE HEALTH How big of a role does diet play in helping to prevent illnesses? What about curing them altogether?

BY DR GILLIAN SCHIRMER

s a society, the West has come to believe that there’s some sort of pill for every health problem. It’s a myth that the pharmaceutical industry has fostered and that we – and the doctors who treat us – accept as carved in stone. But, while some pills are invaluable in treating certain diseases and ailments, we are wrong to equate manmade medicines with health.

cold, but it could prevent one catching it.

body systems - those systems that cannot function without specific plant minerals. So the punchline really is that if your diet is inadequate, some function may run down and illness will result. The reverse, happily, is also true; if one eats a well-balanced diet, as fresh as possible, illness risk is greatly reduced.

Somewhere, as modern health care developed into a culture of the pill as a ‘cure-to-almost-anything’, the concept that illness could be prevented by non-medical methods was set aside, and with it the understanding that some of the needs for medical treatment could be removed by advising individuals on what each The right should and should not be eating; or how even food may We are a slight change of lifenot cure the wrong to style can boost one’s common equate health.

What many of us fail to accept, or do not grasp, is that eating is not just to satisfy hunger or In fact, the science of medicine stave off starvation, but that and the basic common sense at food nourishes the system. It is the heart of traditional healing the fuel which allows the body parted company three centuries cold, but man-made to function and, just as poor ago when much of the western it could medicines quality petrol or diesel will lead to world turned its back on the Just as no one size fits prevent one with health. the poor performance of a car’s teachings of Hippocrates, instead all, not all foods suit catching it. engine, so the wrong foods will embarking on a course which led everyone. Cheese, milk, hamper one’s health and lower eventually to a wide acceptance of a presugar and wheat are obvious the body’s natural resistance to illness. It’s scription for a pill, rather than an individual examples – no two people are the same. a regime of food, much of it drawn from life-plan to rebalance health. The reality is And while it is widely accepted that we the world of plants - the fruit and vegetathat we need not suffer many of our comall need iron, and that calcium is essential bles which provide the minerals, vitamins mon illnesses – both physical and mental. for strong and healthy bones, iron and and enzymes - that helps the body to The right food may not cure the common calcium are but two fuels for the many 76

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function at its peak. Everyone’s system needs its own specific fuel.

It’s an approach which not only plays to the advantage of patients, but could This was something which, for centuries, be massively doctors and healers had recsidbeneficial in ognised and practised; something Eating er a economic terms still accepted in many eastern is not just new to providers of cultures - reaching back to the to satisfy approach health services, such ancient knowledge of Indian, hunger or (or a cenas Britain’s NHS and Chinese, and even Babylonian cistave off turies-old one), our own GHA. Last year the vilisations - and which is gradualexplaining to patients starvation. NHS spent £9.1 billion on drugs ly recapturing lost ground among that food and health go hand in hand. and pills – the cost of filling more today’s medical practitioners. than one billion prescriptions, according to There is a snag, of course. To assess press reports. An official audit found that The early healers saw lifestyle and diet the health needs – both preventive and many of these were not necessary. In care to be at the heart of both diagnosis and curative – of an individual, just as the homes for the elderly alone, at least £200 treatment. Diet can also play a major part ancient healers did, the modern physician per patient was spent on unnecessary separate from, and in conjunction with the needs not only to prescribe a medication. modern regime of preventive medicine. regime, but also help patients And though commercial hype surrounding ...and to understand, and that takes And with most of us in the de‘specialist’ diets has given the concept a would be to time. In Britain, the average veloped world living ever longer, somewhat shady - and often controvereveryone’s consultation is expected to take where the elderly are sial - image, its core principle is benefit, othno longer than seven minutes. In often those whose sound. With many illnesses you With many Gibraltar the time slots tend to er than the treatment involves the can eat your way back to health. illnesses you be between 10 and 12 minutes widest variety of pills, shareholders can eat your duration. a new approach makes Similarly, in today’s world of daily in pharway back to financial sense ...and stress, an adjustment to one’s life maceutical So, initial pressure. But, as pawould be to everyone’s health. style can offer a cure for physical companies. tients come to understand more, benefit, other than the and mental health. But, in the eat healthier foods and build barshareholders in pharmaceutical long run, it is a combination of factors riers of prevention, the numbers seeking companies. diet, lifestyle, and understanding of when treatment should decline. and why a change is necessary - that can Perhaps it is time for the West’s medical both keep ill health at bay, or help cure it That’s surely worthwhile – to everyone. profession to widen its horizons and conshould it strike. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

100 calorie SNACKS

(Daya and Emily, Health Promotion Department) In the UK approximately a third of children leave primary school overweight or obese, and according to statistics from 2011-2014 the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Gibraltarian children is 3% greater than children measured in the England. Tackling obesity is an extensive issue, demanding wider action beyond individual effort by parents. PHE is working with the food industry to cut 20% of sugar from products children consume most frequently by 2020; the focus of initiatives in 2018 surround education on reducing calories. Children are consuming excessive amounts of sugar from unhealthy snacks and drinks; biscuits, cakes, sweets, chocolates, ice creams and fizzy drinks all lead to obesity and dental decay.

100 calorie snacks (two a day max!) • Beans on toast • Homemade popcorn • Slice of malt loaf • Lower-fat, lower-sugar fromage frais (flavours include strawberry, raspberry, and apricot) • Fresh or tinned fruit salad • Chopped vegetables and lower-fat hummus • Sugar-free jelly High energy, low nutrient foods should be limited; cake or biscuits may be served with fruit to make a nutritious pudding.

A Change4Life ‘Food Scanner’ app is available for download from the App Store or Google Play to help guide healthy choices.

health

A HELPING HAND IN HEALTH

Giulietta Durante has chosen to dedicate her life to getting to remedying tricky health issues by focusing on her patients’ lifestyles. As a Gibraltarian, Giulietta takes us through the health benefits associated with the Mediterranean diet and how the Instagram 'healthy eating' craze has impacted society.

BY NICOLE MACEDO

ften we don’t find our calling in life until it is too late, and in an insulated environment like Gibraltar it is perhaps even more difficult to establish our career goals than elsewhere in the world. But, in recent years we’ve started to see Gibraltarians taking a leap into the unknown and establishing their own businesses, particularly in such unreliable industries as food and fintech. 13 years ago, way before the healthy lifestyle trend encroached upon our society, Gibraltarian and self-professed health-conscious human, Giulietta Durante, decided to diversify in her career and become a nutritional therapist so she could endeavour to help people take control of their lives through what they put into their bodies and surround themselves with. The role was far beyond her knowledge of healthcare at the time and so she embarked on a BSc in Nutritional Therapy at

Notably, Giulietta’s role is far more hands on than that of a traditional GP and often she will delve quite far into a patient’s life, considering how their environment and lifestyle habits have impacted them and caused health issues. She carries out indepth studies into a patient’s family history and diet and her speciality is women’s health and hormones. The

the University of Westminster. From there Giulietta trained under the Functional Medicine Model which places emphasis on the underlying causes of illnesses rather than the symptoms associated with it.

“I’m a nutritional therapist, it’s a little bit different to a dietician and a little bit different to a nutritionist in the sense that dieticians tend to Instagramwork in hospitals or within the fuelled public health arena,” Giulietta healthy living explains as we perch contently on fad powered a wooden bench, sipping dairyfree Rooibos lattes in a vegan very much by junk food café in the midst of matcha, acai London’s King’s Cross. bowls and

Mad for matcha, but is it really healthy living?

It’s almost as if she pre-empted today’s mass adoption of the Instagram-fuelled healthy living fad powered very much by matcha, acai bowls and mindfulness. mindfulness. After her stint as a mature stuAnd notably it has given us all the kick we needed to start taking dent Giulietta launched her busicare of ourselves, but it is all good advice? ness “Hormones in Harmony” in London with an immense enthusiasm to help people get to the bottom of the niggling “It’s probably one of the biggest shifts lifestyle complaints that often are attached I’ve seen in the health world and because to far more concerning issues. there are now online communities it’s a GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

health great place because you’re not alone if you’ve got issues with your diet but equally they move in cliques and they’ve got these ideas about food and they’re so militant about them,” Guilietta says.

The Mediterranean Diet

and detox in incredible surroundings.

Unsurprisingly common health issues vary To read more of Giulietta’s sage advice, visit in her London and Gibraltar-based clients Giulietta’s Facebook page: facebook.com/ and friends and Giulietta puts it down harmonyhormones. to extremely different lifestyles. On the “The worst thing is they may not being Rock, she notes, people generally have doing what’s best for them so in more time to prep meals and a way social media has made us prepare home-made food, but Social become more insular about our on the flip-side London is far media has food choices because we become more convenient for sourcing made us obsessed with one thing. And foods that meet special dietary become more requirements. obviously the rise of all these insular about Instagram personalities who have our food no training in nutrition and are But how does the difference sometimes giving out dangerous choices. in culture and diet between advice.” Gibraltar and the UK impact us? “Obviously there is a lot of fried fish, so To confirm, I’m just as guilty of adhering that’s probably not the healthiest way to to the fad as any other millennial, a (sort eat fish but there’s a lot to be said about of) dairy-free, meat-free, occasional fish sitting around a table with your family and eating flexitarian, all in the name of trying enjoying time with them. That has a hugely to do what is best for my body after years positive effect on your health,” Giulietta of bloating and discomfort. And for the comments. most part, the healthier approach has worked, if nothing else but to enforce a far “When you look at it more deeply How better relationship with food and eat more it’s not that healthy but there are does the vegetables and less convenient grab and other things that keep us healthy. difference in go, already packaged items. All the stuff that’s cooked by our culture and Grandmothers is just so much diet between But Giulietta admits we’re all guilty of it, better for us, especially the fact it’s Gibraltar particularly in the mania that is London been prepared at home.” and the UK and its long-work days and lengthy commutes. Often it just feels right to impact us? Her key tip to approachgrab a sandwich. Giulietta urges ing a lifestyle change for "The worst me to consider meal prepping on anyone’s striving for healthier part is we the weekend to ensuring I have climbs, is moderation. She advisall think it’s wholesome, home-cooked meals es making the tiniest of changes, normal, but for the week. one that can even be realistically carried over into a hangover day. it’s not.” She tells me a number of her patients approach her clinic in Uxbridge “Some things,” Giulietta says of adapting in the hopes of losing weight and insist your lifestyle, “are subtle and they don’t they’ve tried everything to establish much make a lot of impact. Some of the things better eating habits. “I don’t think I’ve ever we do are preventative so actually we met a client that said they weren’t bloated,” don’t know if it’s doing anything. The Giulietta notes. “It’s [down to] a whole host annoying thing about it is sometimes all of things, it’s our environment, it’s a lot you achieve by being healthy is not getting of the processed foods we’re eating. The ill. Watch out for adverse reactions, so for worst part is we all think it’s normal but it’s example if you’re putting turmeric in your not.” tea and then start to feel quite tired, then it could be that so take it out.” Elsewhere many of her female cli"All the ents come to her with much more “One thing people get very stuff that’s complex issues like hormonal acne good at is getting in tune with cooked by or mental health issues and her themselves,” she adds. our Grandfirst step to finding a solution is to mothers is explore her clients’ diets. “Then I Outside of her traditional onejust so much do a lot of functional testing which to-one services, Giulietta is suis looking at how hormones are better for us” per keen to offload her knowlworking in your body, rather than edge onto the general public, just a blood test. I would look more at and it seems with today’s hyper-health what your oestrogen is doing for example, aware society, the feeling is mutual. She because we have three types and each finds herself hosting cooking and wellness metabolises differently. I also look at stress, classes in London and has even organised that’s a big factor in hormonal issues.” a wellness retreat last summer in Ibiza, offering women a week’s worth of relaxation GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

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PALO CORTADO FACT OR FICTION?

Palo Cortado, Jerez’s most enigmatic wine continues to raise controversy and disagreement not only amongst producers there but aficionados as well.

BY ANDREW LICUDI DipWSET

ne gets the distinct impression that in Jerez, Palo Cortado is the thinking man’s sherry. It has arguably become the most analysed sherry amongst aficionados and one which continues to generate mystery, discussion and disagreement even amongst producers. Many believe that Palo Cortado occurs accidentally, yet others are strongly of the opinion that given the right conditions Palo Cortado can be coaxed into existence. In either case it will take decades for the wine to reach its full potential during which time it will take up valuable space and evaporate at an alarming rate. Making a sound economic case for its production would requires the verbal dexterity of Boris Johnson and the optimism of a bungee jumper. It is no wonder production of old and rare wines is undertaken grudgingly in a city that grew prosperous, not on the production of niche wines, but on the large-scale conversion of insipid Palomino mostos into magical, complex fortified Finos. Rare Palo Cortados,

when they appeared, were reserved for the family or used as showcase examples but never considered good business.

crust of Englishness baked on as only the public-school system in Blighty can. Impeccable English, a love of fox hunting, and a long contact list of future politicians and captains of industry as indelible proof The morning is cloudless and at this time that school fees had been well of year the sun shines without spent. The halcyon days in Jerez anger. Fields extend around us One which as far as the eye can see broken has a distinct might be over but the British like the Moors have left their indelionly broken by a pair of palm terroir-drivble print in the city’s psyche. trees incongruously standing side en quality, by side in the middle of nowhere, something Entering the building I am their owners long dead and the considered directed up a white marble buildings they once guarded staircase and I am soon talking melted into the famous Albariza alien in soils of Jerez. to Beltran Domecq president of Jerez where vineyards are the Consejo Regulador. Beltran’s presidency would have been less Arriving at the centre of the city, treated as onerous during the golden age of for Jerez is considered a city, I homogenous. sherry but the industry has been make my way to the Consejo facing falling demand for decades Regulador housed in an impresand Beltran’s role today is complex. The sive palazzo, its grand façade, elaborate Consejo Regulador’s function is to ensure doors and intricate ironwork hinting at that sherry quality remains high, not easy days when sherry was king and producers at a time when producers face intense sent their male offspring to be educated pressure to cut costs. Sherry sales started in England returning with a distinctive GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

wine declining when the Beatles were a band; slowly at first but gathering momentum as the twentieth century ended. I am soon ushered into the Consejo’s tasting room where a dozen Palo Cortado bottles are sitting on the clinical, white marble tasting bench. I am soon ploughing my way through Jerez’s best. The Palo Cortados are complex with immensely long finishes. One however stands above the rest which has a distinct terroir-driven quality, something considered alien in Jerez where vineyards are treated as homogenous. After the tasting ends and I take leave of my host, I decide to make my way to Chipiona, a small, old fashion, seaside town much loved by Spanish holiday makers, where I hope to find Cesar Florido the producer of the exceptional wine I have just tasted. Before driving there I have a scheduled stop at Bodegas Tradicion where I had arranged to meet Pepe Blandino a semi-retired industry veteran with a long memory. The Consejo Regulador, Sherry’s governing body describes PC in only terms of smell and taste criteria leaving its exact production technique up to individual producers. Unlike Finos, Manzanillas, Amontillados and Olorosos, Palo Cortado has followed its own fortunes - a path which has taken it to near extinction, scarcity, mistaken identity and simultaneously presented Jerez with arguably the best wines ever seen in the region. It is loosely described as having the finesse of a Manzanilla, the elegance of an Amontillado and the structure of a fine Oloroso. A description many feel is simplistic and today true Palo Cortado, remains an enigma, and one of the world’s rare and controversial fine wines whose origins can, arguably, be traced back to a pre-phylloxera age when the landscape in Jerez was very different.

recalls that few butts ended with the dreaded V sign - indicating wines suitable only for vinegar production. Blandino explains this relative lack acetic contamination was due to improved knowledge and techniques already available at the time and geared to large scale Fino production. Any deviation from Fino, irrespective if it was vinegar or wine with the characteristics of Palo Cortado was considered a fault though by the time he started in the industry these ‘accidents’ were few and far between. Chipiona Today it is even more unlikely reminds for deviations to occur and ‘true’ Palo Cortado has become as rare the visitor as hen’s teeth something hotly of a Spain disputed by many producers who now almost feel PC can be made to order.

Chipiona, clearly built before cars were invented, reminds the visitor of a Spain now almost disappeared. Only after “To understand Palo Cortado one needs to driving around the town several times do understand the production of sherry not as we find Cesar Florido’s bodega. When I it is conducted today but as it was in the explain the reason for my visit Cesar seems distant past. Palo Cortado is the taken aback that I have come all past not the present,” says Pepe the way from Jerez to talk about ‘True’ Palo Blandino, as we stand next to a his wines giving the distinct Cortado has row of 600 litre butts in the cool impression that this is far from a become as bodegas of Tradicion - the wellregular occurrence. rare as hen’s known producer of old, expensive teeth. sherries. Cesar seems happy when I tell him that of all the great Palo Our meeting with Pepe Blandino, now Cortados I tasted his was the one that virtually retired, had started his apprenreally stood out. He explains that his ticeship with Bodegas Domecq when he vineyards are almost lapped by the waves was thirteen and still vividly remembers and attributes this to the pronounced salty the “Nose” quickly and expertly classifying flavour and character his wines possess. wines at the start of their journey to hope“In France they would call this terroir,” I fully become the bread and butter of Jerez suggest. His Palo Cortado he explains is - Fino. Various chalk marks defined each at least 40 years old and he has only very butt’s progress but even then Blandino small quantities. He considers it a relic of GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

the past and a wine to be drunk on special occasions. He apologises for not having any for me to taste but he only bottles half bottles on order once a year for the only client he has for his Palo Cortado – De Maison Selections in North Carolina. I later Google De Maison Selections who turn out to specialise in unique producers in Spain and France. I wonder how they found their way to this hard to find small producer whilst everyone else seems to have missed him.

disappeared.

Sometime after my visit Sobremesa Magazine run a blind tasting of Jerez’s best. Much to everyone’s surprise Cesar’s Palo Cortado beat the good and the great to take home first prize. Cesar is now a celebrity and no longer taken aback by visitors coming to see around his bodega! A longer version of this article by Andrew Licudi was published by Jancis Robinson in 2016 as one of the finalists in a world-wide wine writing competition. 83

recipes recipe by The Gibraltar Vegan instagram.com/thegibraltarvegan

CHARLIE’S HORNAZO Locally this bread is often called Easter bread. Charlie, a born and bred Gibraltarian who is now retired from the GDP, amended his traditional recipe to make it vegan and graciously shared this recipe with us.

INGREDIENTS (Makes two loaves)

450g self-raising flour 150g sugar 150g dairy free margarine 8 tbsp aquafaba* 4 tbsp caraway seeds 2 shots of aniseed liquor * aquafaba is the liquid you find in tins or jars of chickpeas; it’s extremely versatile and can be used as an egg replacement for many recipes, even meringues! 3 tbsp of aquafaba = 1 egg. 84

METHOD 1. Rub the margarine and flour gently together. 2. Add the sugar and caraway seeds and gently mix. 3. Stir in the aquafaba. 4. Add the shots of aniseed liquor and mix it well. 5. Dust your work surface with some flour and use this to knead and form

the bread into two separate loaves. Alternatively you can divide it into smaller buns. 6. Place on greased baking trays and bake in the oven at 170°C for 45 minutes. 7. Check that the hornazo is cooked by sticking a skewer or knife gently into the deepest part and if it comes out clean, it is done. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

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EASTER EGG CHOCO-BASKETS This is a great Easter recipe that can be used all year round for a little chocolatey pick-me-up. Kids love to make them, and adults love to eat them!

METHOD 1. Break up the chocolate into small pieces and put into a heatproof bowl, together with the oil, syrup and cocoa. 2. Melt the chocolate over a bain-marie.

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3. Remove from the heat and continue to stir until the mixture is thick and creamy.

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4. Tip the cereal into the chocolate and mix until coated.

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5. Spoon the mixture into muffin cases. 6. Make a small dip in the middle of each nest. Press chocolate mini eggs into each dip. 7. Leave to set in the fridge for a couple of hours â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if you can resist! 85

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BON APPETITE FOOD AND DRINK CASA PEPE

NUNOS ITALIAN

CAFÉ SOLO

A delightful terrace, bar, restaurant on the prestigious Queensway Quay Marina. Wonderful location for business meetings, weddings, anniversaries and other special occasions. Specialising in fresh fish caught locally with daily specials including seabass, dorada, sole, and bream, plus a very comprehensive a la carte menu. Also available are tapas and raciones (double size tapas) to share (or not!) prior to a main course. Mixed paellas also available, as well as fish cooked in rock salt, whole suckling pig and baby lamb to order.

Nunos Italian Restaurant, overlooking the Mediterranean, is popular with hotel guests, tourists and local residents. This 2 rosette rated, AA restaurant is renowned for its eclectic interior, intimate atmosphere and fine cuisine. Savour a wide selection of freshly prepared Italian delicacies, including bread, pasta, meat and fish, followed by delicious desserts. In the summer months, the hotel offers alfresco dining for private parties in the Garden Grill. Sitting nestled in the colonial garden you can enjoy a mouth-watering menu of charcoal-grilled meats and freshly prepared salads in candlelit surroundings. Open: Mon-Sun 1-3pm lunch, 7–11pm dinner

Modern Italian eatery set in lively Casemates square. Everything from chicory and crispy pancetta salad with walnuts, pears and blue cheese dressing, or king prawn, mozzarella and mango salad to pastas (eg: linguine with serrano ham, king prawns and rocket; smoked salmon and crayfish ravioli with saffron and spinach cream) to salads (eg: Vesuvio spicy beef, cherry tomatoes, roasted peppers and red onions; and Romana chorizo, black pudding, egg and pancetta) and pizzas (eg: Quatto Stagioni topped with mozzarella, ham, chicken, pepperoni and mushroom) and specialities such as salmon fishcakes, beef medallions and duck. Daily specials on blackboard. No smoking.

Open: Tues-Sat lunch & evening, Sunday lunch only, closed Mondays. Casa Pepe, 18 Queensway Quay Marina, Tel/Fax: 200 46967 casa.pepe.gib@gmail.com. www.casapepegib.com

Nunos Italian Restaurant and Terrace Caleta Hotel, Catalan Bay Tel: 200 76501 Email: reservations@caletahotel.gi

Café Solo Grand Casemates Square. Tel: 200 44449

THE LOUNGE Stylish Lounge Gastro Bar on Queensway Quay Marina serving best quality food prepared by passionate, qualified chefs. Popular quiz on Sundays from 7pm and a relaxed friendly atmosphere. A separate Lounge Bar Area serving a wide range of hot drinks, wines, beers, spirits and cocktails at reasonable prices, with large TV’s for sports and events coverage. Open: 10am-late Mon - Sun Be sure to arrive early to ensure a seat! The Lounge, 17 Ragged Staff Wharf, Queensway Quay Marina Tel: 200 61118 info@thelounge.gi

SOLO BAR & GRILL

JURY’S CAFÉ-WINE BAR

Solo Bar and Grill is a stylish and modern eatery — perfect for business functions or lunches — and part of the popular Cafe Solo stable. Serving everything from Goats’ Cheese Salad, Mediterranean Pâté and Cajun Langoustines to Beer Battered John Dory, or Harissa Chicken, and Chargrilled Sirloin Steak. This is a delightful venue in Europort with a cosy mezzanine level and terrace seating. Well worth a visit, or two! Available for private functions and corporate events — call 200 62828 to book your function or event.

Next to the Law Courts, with a terrace seating area, Jury’s has a selection of Ciabattas, paninis, baguettes and wraps, plus popular sharing dishes, such as Your Honour’s platter. Jacket potatoes, main courses, pasta and some innocent salads too. For those with a sweet tooth, there are tantalising homemade desserts, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, as well as Lavazza coffees and frappes.

Open: 12-8pm. Solo Bar & Grill, Eurotowers Tel: 200 62828

Jury’s Café & Wine Bar 275 Main Street. Tel: 200 67898 │ www.jurysgibraltar.com

Open: 7am-midnight Mon-Sat, 9am-midnight Sun.

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restaurants, bars & pubs ALL’S WELL

O’REILLY’S

LORD NELSON

Traditional pub in fashionable Casemates area. Named for the 18th century practise of locking gates to the city at night when the guard called ‘All’s Well’. All’s Well serves Bass beers, wine and spirits plus pub fare. English breakfast all day, hot meals such as pork in mushroom sauce, sausage & mash, cod & chips and steak & ale pie plus a range of salads and jacket potatoes. Large terrace. Karaoke Mondays and Wednesdays until late. Free tapas on a Friday 7pm.

Traditional Irish bar with full HD sports coverage and Irish breakfast from 8am (Sunday from 9am). Guinness on draught. Food includes salads, jackets, beef & Guinness pie, Kildare chicken, chicken brochette, gourmet burgers, wraps, children menu, homemade desserts, daily specials and more. And just like in Ireland there’s no smoking inside, so a great atmosphere for all.

Situated in the corner of Casemates Square, the bar is a celebration of the life of Lord Nelson. See the collection of nautical art & memorabilia, including a brass pin from HMS Victory itself. HMS crews’ breakfast served from 10am, full menu including steak & ale pie, traditional fish & chips & much more served all day until 10pm. Jam session Thursday, live top local band on Friday & Karaoke Saturday nights.

All’s Well Casemates Square. Tel: 200 72987

O’Reilly’s Ocean Village. Tel: 200 67888 www.oreillysgibraltar.com

Lord Nelson Bar Brasserie 10 Casemates Tel: 200 50009 Visit: www.lordnelson.gi

BRIDGE BAR & GRILL

STAR BAR

SOLO EXPRESS

Located on the water’s edge, Ocean Village, just across the bridge from O’Reilly’s. This bar & grill is a fusion of an American themed menu with Tarifa chill out style. Open for breakfast from 9am serving healthy options, freshly squeezed orange juice and Italian Lavazza coffee. Try the spicy Caribbean rum ribs, southern fried chicken bucket, the popular Texas burger or a selection of tasty salads and homemade desserts. London Pride, San Miguel & Carling beer on draught, live sports.

Gibraltar’s oldest bar, just off Main St. Small cosy and famous for its full English breakfast from 8am (9am on Sunday). A full menu including fish & chips, until 10pm. The home of Star Coffee, draught beers include Heineken, Old Speckled Hen, Murphys and Strongbow cider. Managed by Hunter Twins from Stafford, England, also home to Med Golf & Tottenham Hotspur supporters club.

Located next to Pizza Hut in Casemates and in Eurotowers, serves a variety of salads/baguettes (white, brown, ciabatta) filled with a deli selection such as roast chicken; smoked salmon & mascapone; ham, cheese and coleslaw; or humous, avocado & roast red pepper. Salads fresh and tasty (Greek, Waldorf, cous cous, tuna pasta etc), great value. Jackets, quiches, coffee plus cakes (flapjacks, muffins) available all day. Eat-in area. Soups in winter.

Bridge Bar & Grill Ocean Village Tel: 200 66446 www.bridgebargibraltar.com

Star Bar Parliament Lane. Tel: 200 75924 Visit: www.starbargibraltar.com

Solo Express Grnd Flr, ICC, Casemates & Eurotowers Tel: 200 62828

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clubs & activities Arts & Crafts Cross Stitch Club: John Mackintosh Hall, 1st Floor, Mon 6-8pm, fee £1. Gibraltar Arts & Crafts Association: Children: Mon&Fri 12.30-2pm, Mon-Fri 3.45-5.15pm Adults: Wed 5.45-7.15, Sat 10.30 to 12.30, Tel: 20073865 email: gibartsandcrafts@hotmail.com Knit and Natter Group: Tues 11am-3pm, Thurs 5.30-7.30pm, at Arts & Crafts Shop, Casemates balcony. Free to join and refreshments provided. Tel: 20073865. The Arts Centre: Prince Edward’s Road, Art classes for children and adults. For more info call Tel: 200 79788. The Fine Arts Association Gallery: At Casemates. Open 10am-2pm, 3-6pm Mon-Fri, Sat 11am-1pm. The Gibraltar Decorative and Fine Arts Society: Affiliated to UK NADFAS meets third Wed of month at 6.30pm at Eliott Hotel - lecturers & experts from the UK talk on Art etc. Contact: Chairman Claus Olesen 200 02024 claus.olesen@sghambros.com. Membership Ian Le Breton 200 76173 ilebreton@SovereignGroup.com Board Games Calpe Chess Club & Junior Club: meets in Studio 1, John Mackintosh Hall Thursday, Juniors: 5p.m. - 7 p.m. / Tuesday & Thursday 7p.m. - 10:30 The Gibraltar Scrabble Club: Meets on Tuesdays at 3pm. Tel: Vin 20073660 or Roy 20075995. All welcome. The Subbuteo Club: Meets in Charles Hunt Room, John Mackintosh Hall. Dance Adult Dance Classes: Wed evenings at Kings Bastion Leisure Centre from 7-8.30pm. Contact Dilip on 200 78714. Art in Movement Centre: Hiphop/Break Dance,Contemporary Dance, Pilates, Capoeira, Acrobatics, Street Kids & Tods, Modern Dance. Performance and Film opportunities. Judo & Jujitsu Classes: Tue/ Thur with Sensei Conroy. All ages. Budokai Martial Arts Centre, Wellington Front. www. artinmovement.net FB: Art In Movement A.I.M, tel 54025041 or 54007457 Ballet, Modern Theatre, Contemporary & Hip Hop: weekly at Danza Academy. Training from 3 years to Adult Advanced. 68/2 Prince Edward’s Rd Tel: 54027111. Bellydance Classes, all levels, Tue 8-9pm at the Ocean Village Gym (non–members welcome). Contact 54005593. DSA Old & Modern Sequence Dancing: Sessions at Central Hall Fri 8.30pm, beginners 8pm. Tel: 200 78901 or tony@gibraltar.gi Everybody welcome. Modern & Latin American Sequence Dancing: Mon at Catholic Community Centre 8pm. Tel. Andrew 200 78901. Modern, Contemporary, Lyrical, Flexibility, Hip Hop & Dance Theatre: Classes weekly at Urban Dance Studio, 2 Jumpers Bastion. Tel: Yalta 54012212 or Jolene 54015125. Rockkickers Linedance Club: Governor’s Meadow 1st School. www.rockkickers.com Salsa Gibraltar Salsa: Tues at Laguna Social Club, Laguna Estate. Beginners 7-8.30pm. Intermediates 8.30-10pm. Tel: Mike 54472000 or info@salsagibraltar.com Zumba Classes at Urban Dance: Jumpers Bastion, with certified instructor Tyron Walker. Tel: 20063959 or 54012212 or Twitter: @UrbanDanceGib History & Heritage The Gibraltar Heritage Trust: Main Guard, 13 John Mackintosh Sq. Tel: 200 42844. The Gibraltar Classic Vehicle Association: Dedicated to preservation of Rock’s transport/motoring heritage. Assists members in restoration / maintenance of classic vehicles. New members welcome. Tel: 200 44643. Garrison Library Tours: at 11am on Fri, duration 1h 50mins. Tel: 20077418. History Alive: Historical re-enactment parade. Main Street up to Casemates Square every Sat at 12 noon. Music Gibraltar National Choir and Gibraltar Junior National Choir: Rehearses at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Tel: 54831000. The Calpe Band: Mon & Wed. For musicians of brass/woodwind instruments of all standards/ages/abilities 7-9pm. Tel:

54017070 or thecalpeband@gmail.com Jazz Nights: Thurs at 9pm at O’Callaghan Eliott Hotel. Tel: 200 70500. Outdoor Activities The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Gibraltar: Exciting self-development programme for young people worldwide equipping them with life skills to make a difference to themselves, their communities and the world. Contact: Award House, North Mole Road, PO Box: 1260. mjpizza@ gibtelecom.net, www.thedukes.gi. Social Clubs The Rotary Club of Gibraltar meets the Rock Hotel, 7pm Tuesday evenings. Guests welcome. For contact or info www.rotaryclubgibraltar.com Royal Antediluvian Order of Buﬀaloes: (Gibraltar Province) meets RAOB Club, 72/9 Prince Edward’s Road - Provincial Grand Lodge, Thu/month, 7.30pm. William Tilley 2371, Thurs 8.30pm. Buena Vista 9975, monthtly, Social Lodge. www.akearn1.wix. com/raob-gibraltar, william.tilley.lodge@ hotmail.co.uk, Clive, tel: 58008074 Special Interest Clubs & Societies Creative Writers Group: meets up on Tuesday mornings at 10.30 in O’Reillys Irish Bar and it is free to attend. Tel: Carla 54006696. Gibraltar Book Club: For info Tel: Parissa 54022808. Gibraltar Horticultural Society: meets 1st Thurs of month 6pm, J.M. Hall. Spring Flower Show, slide shows, flower arrangement demos, outings to garden centres, annual Alameda Gardens tour. All welcome. Gibraltar Philosophical Society: devoted to intellectually stimulating debate. Frequent lectures and seminars on a range of topics. Tel: 54008426 or Facebook: facebook.com/gibphilosophy Gibraltar Photographic Society: Meets on Mondays at 7:00 p.m. Wellington Front. Induction courses, talks, discussions, competitions etc. For details contact the secretary on, leslinares@gibtelecom.net Harley Davidson Owners’ Club: www.hdcgib.com Lions Club of Gibraltar: Meets 2nd and 4th Wed of the month at 50 Line Wall Road. www.lionsclubofgibraltar.com St John’s Ambulance: Adult Volunteers Training Sessions from 8-10pm on Tues. Tel: 200 77390 or training@stjohn.gi The Royal British Legion: For info or membership contact the Branch Secretary 20074604 or write to PO Box 332. UN Association of Gibraltar: PO Box 599, 22a Main Street. Tel: 200 52108. Sports Supporters Clubs Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Club: Meets at Star Bar, Parliament Lane, when Spurs games are televised - call prior to matches to check game is televised. Great food for a lunch if KO is early or an early supper if the game is later. Gibraltar Arsenal Supporters Club: Meets match days upstairs at Time Out Café, Eurotowers. Gooners of all ages welcome. For info/news visit www.GibGooners.com Tel: 54010681 (Bill) or 54164000 (John). Gibraltar Hammers: Meets on match days at the Victoria Stadium Bar, Bayside Road. All league games are shown live. All West Ham supporters and their families are welcome. For details visit www. gibraltarhammers.com or gibraltarhammers@ hotmail.com Sports & Fitness Artistic Gymnastics: Gibraltar Artistic Gymnastics Association. Tel: Angela 200 70611 or Sally 200 74661. Athletics: Gibraltar Amateur Athletics Association holds competitions through year for juniors, adults and veterans. Two main clubs (Calpeans 200 71807, Lourdians 200 75180) training sessions at Victoria Stadium. Badminton: Recreational badminton weekdays at Victoria Stadium (Tel: 200 78409 for allocations). Gibraltar Badminton Association (affiliated to BWF& BE) junior club/tournaments, senior leagues/ recreational. www.badmintongibraltar.com Ballet Barre Fitness: Adults on Wed 10am & Fri 6pm at The Arts Centre. Tel: 54033465 or pilatesgibraltar@hotmail.com

Basketball: Gibraltar Amateur Basketball Association (affiliated FIBA) leagues/ training for minis, passarelle, cadets, seniors and adults at a variety of levels. Tel: John 200 77253, Randy 200 40727. Boxing: Gibraltar Amateur Boxing Association (member IABA) gym on Rosia Rd. Over 13s welcome. Tuition with ex-pro boxer Ernest Victory. Tel: 56382000 or 20042788. Cheerleading: Gibraltar Cheerleading Association, girls and boys of all ages. Chearleading and street cheer/hip hop at Victoria Stadium. Recreational / competitive levels. Tel: 58008338. Canoeing: Gibraltar Canoeing Association. Tel: Nigel 200 52917 or Arturo 54025033. Cricket: Gibraltar Cricket, National Governing Body & Associate Member of ICC. Governs International & Domestic Men’s, Women’s, Boys’ & Girls’ cricketleague & cup competitions and in-school coaching. www.gibraltarcricket.com, info@ gibcricket.com, Twitter: @Gibraltar_Crick Cycling: Gibraltar Cycling Association various cycling tours. Darts: Gibraltar Darts Association (full member of WDF & affiliate of BDO). We cater for men, ladies & youth who take part in leagues, competitions and a youth academy for the correct development of the sport. Tel: Darren 54027171 Secretary, Alex 54021672 Youth Rep, Justin 54022622 President. Email: info@ gibraltardarts.com Football: Gibraltar Football Association leagues/competitions for all ages OctoberMay. Futsal in summer, Victoria Stadium. Tel: 20042941 www.gibraltarfa.com Gaelic Football Club (Irish sport): Males any age welcome. Get fit, play sport, meet new friends, travel around Spain/Europe and play an exciting and competitive sport. Training every Wed on the MOD pitch on Devil’s Tower Road at 7pm. Andalucia League with Seville and Marbella to play matches home and away monthly. Visit www.gibraltargaels. com or secretary.gibraltar.europe@gaa.ie Hockey: Gibraltar Hockey Association (members FIH & EHF) high standard competitions/training for adults/juniors. Tel: Eric 200 74156 or Peter 200 72730 for info. Iaido: teaches the Japanese sword (Katana), classes every week. www.iaidogibraltar.com Iwa Dojo, Kendo & Jujitsu: Classes every week, for kids/adults. Tel: 54529000 www. iwadojo.com or dbocarisa@iwadojo.com Judo and Ju-jitsu: Gibraltar Budokai Judo Association UKMAF recognised instructors for all ages and levels at Budokai Martial Arts Centre, Wellington Front. Tel: Charlie 20043319. Ju-jitsu: Gibraltar Ju-jitsu Academy training and grading for juniors/seniors held during evening at 4 North Jumpers Bastion. Tel: 54011007. Karate-do Shotokai: Gibraltar Karate-do Shotokai Association - Karate training for junior & seniors at Clubhouse, Shotokai karate centre, 41H Town Range. Monday: 9:30 p.m. & Wednesday 9:45 p.m. Karate: Shotokan karate midday Mon beginners, other students 8.30pm. Thurs 8.30pm. In town at temporary dojo or privately by arrangement. Contact Frankie 54038127 or info@fhmedia.co.uk. Motorboat Racing: Gibraltar Motorboat Racing Association Tel: Wayne 200 75211. Muay Thai and Muay Boran Club: Tues & Thur at Boyd’s Kings Bastion Leisure Centre at 6:30pm, Tel: John – 54024707 FB: Gibraltar Muay Thai Netball: Gibraltar Netball Association (affiliated FENA & IFNA) competitions through year, senior/junior leagues. Tel: 20041874. Petanque: Gibraltar Petanque Association. New members welcome. Tel: 54002652. Pilates: Intermediate Pilates: Tues & Fri 9.30am, beginners Pilates: Fri 10.50am at the Shotokai Centre, 41H Town Range. Tel: 54033465 or pilatesgibraltar@hotmail.com Gibraltar Pool Association: (Member of the EBA) home and away league played on Thurs through out the season, various tournaments played on a yearly basis both nationally and internationally, Tel: 56925000 gibpool@gibtelecom.net, www.gib8ball.com Rhythmic Gymnastics: Gibraltar Rhythmic

Gymnastics Association runs sessions from 4 years of age, weekday evenings. Tel: 56000772 or Sally 200 74661. Rugby: Gibraltar Rugby caters for all ages from 4 years old to veterans (over 35’s). It organises competitions and sessions for Juniors; 4 x Senior Clubs; Veterans team; Touch Rugby and a Referees Society. Email admin@gibraltarrfu. com or visit www.gibraltarrfu.com Sailing: Gibraltar Yachting Association junior/ senior competitive programme (April - Oct) Tel: Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club at 200 78897. Shooting: Gibraltar Shooting Federation. Rifle, Europa Point Range (Stephanie 54020760); Clay pigeon, East Side (Harry 200 74354); Pistol, near Royal Naval Hospital (Louis 54095000). Snooker: Members of European Billiards & Snooker Association - facilities at Jumpers Bastion with 3 tables. Professional coaching for juniors/seniors. Organised leagues/ tournaments and participation in international competitions. Tel: 56262000 / 54000068, or info@gibraltarsnooker.com Squash: Gibraltar Squash Association, Squash Centre, South Pavilion Road (members WSF & ESF). Adult and junior tournaments and coaching. Tel: 200 44922. Sub-Aqua: Gibraltar Sub-Aqua Association taster dives for over 14s, tuition from local clubs. Voluntary sports clubs: Noah’s Dive Club and 888s Dive Club. Tel: 54991000. Commercial sports diving schools available. Time - Thursday 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.. Telephone, Jenssen Ellul - 54027122 Swimming: Gibraltar Amateur Swimming Association (member FINA & LEN) opens its pool for leisure swimming. Junior lessons, squad for committed swimmers, water polo. Pool open Mon&Thurs: 7-10am, 12.30-4pm. Tue, Wed, Fri: 7-10am, 12:30-5pm. Sat: 3-5pm. Sun: closed. Mon to Fri from 5-6pm groups training. 6-7.30 squad training. Mon, Wed, Fri 7.30-8.30 swimming joggers, Tues & Thurs 7:30-8:30 junior Water polo. Mon, Tues & Thurs 8:30-10pm Adult water polo. Tel: 200 72869. Table Tennis: Gibraltar Table Tennis Association training and playing sessions, Victoria Stadium, Tues 6-10pm and Thurs 8-11pm with coaching and league competition. Tel: 56070000 or 20060720. Taekwondo: Gibraltar Taekwondo Association classes/gradings Tel: Mari 20044142 or www. gibraltartaekwondo.org Tai Chi: Tai Chi for children and adults. Mon-Thur 6.30-8pm at Kings Bastion Leisure Centre and Sat 9am-1pm at the Yoga Centre, 33 Town Range. Tel: Dilip 200 78714. Tennis: Gibraltar Tennis Association, Sandpits Tennis Club. Junior development programme. Courses for adults, leagues and competitions. Tel: Louis 200 77035. Ten-Pin Bowling: At King’s Bowl in the King’s Bastion Leisure Centre every day. Gibraltar Ten Pin Bowling (members FIQ & WTBA) leagues, training for juniors and squad. Tel: 200 52442. Triathlon: Hercules Triathlon Club organises swimming, running and cycling training sessions and competes regularly in Andalucia and Internationally. Contact chris.walker@york. gi or Facebook “Hercules Triathlon Club” Volleyball: Gibraltar Volleyball Association training, indoor leagues, beach volleyball competition, 3 v 3 competition, juniors and seniors. Tel: 54001973 or 54885000. Yoga: Integral Yoga Centre runs a full programme of classes from Mon-Fri at 33 Town Range. Tel: 200 41389. All welcome. Theatrical Groups Gibraltar Amateur Drama Association: Meet at Ince’s Hall Theatre Complex, 310 Main Street. Tel: 20042237. Trafalgar Theatre Group: Meets 2nd Wed of month, Garrison Library 8pm. All welcome.

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AN OLYMPIAN DIET Even the Olympian gods cannot agree on daily calorie counts. As he tucks into his diet of junk food, Zeus lays down his law on overeating.

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Village to which their off-spring had moved eople eat far too much – and it’s mainly junk food loaded with calo- during their parents’ trip to Italy. Escaping ries and carbohydrates,’ said Zeus from the worst of winter atop the Rock through a mouthful of battered to the relative comfort of an apartment rented - illegally as it turned out - from cod and vinegar-soaked chips. ‘Then they someone named ‘Henwi’. become grossly fat... and give no thought to the discomfort they cause others’, he added, spooning mar[‘Henwi’, Artemis had discovered In the malade onto his next mouthful. by Googling on the internet, was process, had a wealthy English property-owner angered the who actually lived in a ten-bedFor two days, ever since making a cramped return journey to room mansion across the border in Moscow the Rock in an easyJet economy Sotogrande, but was ‘domiciled’ in mafia, Gibraltar where he paid a minisclass seat, the Father of the several rival cule level of tax on his global inGods had chuntered on and on Chechen come. Zeus, whose main concern about large bottoms and butgroups, and always and in any situation was for tocks in general, as well as the the ISIS gourmand habits of some airline his own comfort, had taken to the hierarchy. passengers. relative luxury of the penthouse apartment with the enthusiasm of a seagull for a discarded Marina Bay ‘We were squeezed in the central seats hamburger. But Hera, ever the keeper of between two passengers whose rear ends tradition, had tut-tutted her disapproval could comfortably have taken up two though less vociferously than usual – seats,’ explained Hera primly over the suphappy to have escaped the dietary regime per table of the penthouse flat in Ocean 94

of pasta and poor Chianti which had been their fare with the Jupiters.] It was the first evening meal the full Olympian family had shared for many months – brought together hoping for all the gossip and scandals about their distant Roman relatives, instead treated to a catalogue of godly discomforts. ‘And it’s not just women and children, men are just as bad - even worse’, Zeus continued. ‘There was a passenger with a beer belly that would have been the envy of Jupiter’s drunken nephew Bacchus. How he...’ ‘What is Bacchus doing now?’ As his parent paused for breath, Dionysus seized the opportunity to interrupt the grumbled flow. ‘And what about Diana?’ asked Artemis. And Minerva?’ Athena wanted to know. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

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between producers in Europe, Russia and the United States with various Arab states. He had made ‘a great deal of money’ from the transactions but, in the process, had angered the Moscow mafia, several rival Chechen groups, and the ISIS hierarchy.

‘And Mars?’ – this from Ares. And soon they were all at it, clamouring for news about their distant rivals with most of whom they had clashed. As was so often the case, it was Hera who picked up the various threads and brought them together. ‘Diana? Well, Diana still claims that it was her arrow, not yours, that brought down the golden stag on the only hunt you shared,’ she told Artemis. And before the huntress-turned-feminist could protest, Hera hurried on. ‘Minerva spends hours on Google, Twitter and Facebook, and Juno is irked by the huge phone bills that are racking up. But it’s Mars who has really set the family on edge. He is so deeply disgraced that Jupiter has disinherited him’. And she went on to explain that Mars, bored with the rural life at the Jupiter family villa outside Florence, had used his grasp of military matters to negotiate arms deals GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE APRIL 2018

‘People eat far too much – and it’s mainly junk food loaded with calories and carbohydrates,’ said Zeus.

‘He refused to share any of his new fortune with the family, and, instead bought a small Mediterranean island which he fortified against the possible “hit men” on his trail,’ Hera continued. ‘But things went seriously wrong… a tsunami struck and an unexpected earthquake,’ - she looked pointedly at Poseidon - ‘and Mars has fled to North Korea where he is acting as technical advisor to Kim Jong-un. So his family have disowned him.’ ‘Well, you can hardly blame me for the quake and tsunami,’ huffed Poseidon. It was a Greek island that he bought – one of OUR islands. I wasn’t going to let a Roman get away with an attempt at re-colonisation, for that’s what it was.’

cyclonic emotions, none of which spared room for logic. They all remembered the long list of debates with Plato and Sophocles in which Zeus was always bested.

‘But where do you draw the line between obesity and necessity?’ asked Apollo whose verbal diet feasted on rhetorical questions. ‘In the deserts of Namibia and Botswana there’s a folk, Bushmen whose women, over the millennia have evolved physiques and steatopygous bottoms. I’ve seen ‘em and they’re bigger even than the most excessive Victorian bustle. Anthropologists reckon that their bums act like the humps of camels, storing up energy against periods of drought, or semi-starvation.’ ‘I don’t think you should talk about them like that – it’s certainly not PC,’ Hera chided.

‘Britain has exemplary plans to reduce obesity within the next six years,’ said Athena looking up from her computer screen. ‘It says here that they plan to reduce everyone’s calorie intake by at least ‘Nothing wrong with colonisation, as long 20 per cent. 400 at breakfast, 600 at lunch as it’s us that are doing it,’ Zeus grasped and again at dinner. They will also the opportunity to regain the force producers to use better conversational upper hand. ‘All Anthropolingredients in their junk food.’ this retrospective angst about ogists reckon who colonised what is just part that their of the whole PC madness: the ‘Who’s going to bother to count battle of the sexes… concern that bums act like ‘em?’ Zeus exploded. ‘And junk there isn’t enough diversity on the humps of food doesn’t contain good intelevision... then suddenly, it’s gredients – that’s why it’s called camels wrong for a male to call someone “junk” food.’ “Sweetie Pie”…’ And he slathered a large dollop of ketchup None of the Olympians saw any logical link on his double Mac and began to munch between political correctness and obesity, contentedly. Silenced – at least for the but the Father of the Gods was a being of time being. 95

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