ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAM TOMORROW...

The English proficiency exam of Eastern Mediterranean University is scheduled to take place tomorrow: as slated below

Date: 28/09/2015
Time: The bus will arrive at 9:30am and leave at 10:00am and also another bus will come at 12:00 and leaves by 12:30,
Exam Venue:  English Preparatory School (PREP. SCHOOL).

Cyprus President sends message of condolence to the King of Saudi Arabia

In these difficult moments, I assure, Your Majesty, of our solidarity.

Saturday, 26 September, 2015

President Anastasiades has sent a message of condolence to the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, for the tragic incident near the Holy City of Mecca, which cost the lives of hundreds of people. 

source:famagusta gazette

HAPPY Eid-al-Adha [KURBAN BAYRAM]

We  wishing all the Muslim Ummah Happy EID mubarak, and May Allah bless us all.

About EID [BAYRAM]

Eid-al-Adha

Eid al-Adha is an Islamic festival to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim (also known as Abraham) to follow Allah's (God's) command to sacrifice his son Ishmael. Muslims around the world observe this event.

Qurbani Cattle market in Bangladesh.

©bigstockphoto.com/A K Choudhury

What do people do?

At Eid al-Adha, many Muslims make a special effort to pray and listen to a sermon at a mosque. They also wear new clothes, visit family members and friends and may symbolically sacrifice an animal in an act known asqurbani. This represents the animal that Ibrahim sacrificed in the place of his son.

In some traditionally Muslim countries, families or groups of families may purchase an animal known as udhiya, usually a goat or sheep, to sacrifice, but this is not common or legal in many parts of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States or many other countries. In these countries, groups of people may purchase a whole carcass from a butcher or slaughterhouse and divide it amongst themselves or just buy generous portions of meat for a communal meal on Eid-al-Adha. People also give money to enable poorer members of their local community and around the world to eat a meat-based meal.

In the period around Eid al-Adha, many Muslims travel to Mecca and the surrounding area in Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj pilgrimage. Package holidays are organized from many countries. Muslims may plan and save for many years to enable them to take part in this event, which is one of the five pillars of Islam.

Public life

Eid al-Adha is a public holiday in places such as the Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. It is not a nationwide public holiday in countries such as Australia, Canada,the United Kingdom or the United States. However, some Islamic organizations may be closed or offer a reduced level of service and there may be some local congestion around mosques in countries where Eid al-Adha is not a public holiday.

Background

Ibrahim, known as Abraham in the Christian and Jewish traditions, was commanded by God to sacrifice his adult son. He obeyed and took Ishmael (Ismail or Ismael) to Mount Moriah. Just as he was to sacrifice his son, an angel stopped him and gave him a ram to sacrifice in place of his son. Some people dispute that the son of sacrifice was Isaac (Isḥāq). Regardless, these events are remembered and celebrated at Eid al-Adha.

The Islamic calendar is based on observations of the moon and the length of a particular month can vary between years. For this reason, predicted dates of Eid al-Adha may be corrected at the start of the month of Dhul Hijja. This is around 10 days before the start of the festival.

Disclaimer: Please note that the opinions and views shared in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Timeanddate.com regarding the son of sacrifice.




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Eastern Mediterranean University: Regulate Famagusta rent and living cost· CLICK & Sign the PETITION

Every year thousands of students come to TRNC to get education because they consider as TRNC good option due to its low living cost and environment . With lack of financial opportunities in this island students contribute most of their time in studying to get a degree and minor social activities around the city of Famagusta. But during recent months regulatory bodies have been doing nothing to maintain the living cost on this island. The landlord are increasing their rent every semester without any ethical reason, markets are rising the food prices every months, things are becoming expensive with a greed of getting more profit from new incoming students. They should realize the money is being sent from our sponsors and parents and we do not have much expense adjustment with low university hourly wage rate as assistant if we get one. Frustrated students does not have any option to make a complain to anyone due to lack of consumer rights association or governmental body. This is petition is towards the Eastern Mediterranean University committee and Famagusta Municipality to stabilize the rents and other significant aspect so that the student can have good scope of studying peacefully and help to get rid of unethical businessmen's by setting up a consideration meeting with them to make strict rules on house agreements. With lack of working student council and body this petition is started to get then attention of concern authority to give provision to international students and listen their needs and demands.

LETTER TO

Rector's Office, Famagusta Municipality Eastern Mediterranean University

Setup a committee to regulate house rents and market commodity prices

click on the link below to cast your vote on this issue..

source:https://www.change.org/p/eastern-mediterranean-university-regulate-famagusta-rent-and-living-cost?lang=en-GB

This snake is giving birth without having sex and no-one quite knows why

Unique Snake Birth at Louisville Zoo

The Louisville Zoo and researchers from the University of Tulsa have discovered that the world’s largest snake is capable of virgin birth also known as parthenogenesis. The Louisville Zoo’s 11 year-old reticulate python affectionately called “Thelma” has given birth to six offspring without the benefit of a male snake. The 20 foot 200 lb. reticulate python has been housed at the Louisville Zoo for four years without a male. Shed skins from the mother and all six offspring as well as other biological material were sent to a molecular ecology laboratory in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Tulsa, in Oklahoma. Over the next several months, their molecular lab determined through genetic testing and analysis that all six offspring were produced by the mother alone - without sperm from a male snake. This has never been documented before in the world’s largest snake. The reticulate python is the world’s largest snake based on more than a century of documented physical evidence. Some physically assessed specimens have exceeded 25 feet and weighed more than 300 pounds. They reside throughout tropical Southeast Asia: India’s Andaman Islands, the Philippines, Indo-China and through Indonesia’s vast Malay Archipelago. You can see mom in the HerpAquarium daily where she is on exhibit with another reticulate python. These six offspring aren’t on exhibit just yet. Due to their size and exhibit space, the Zoo will likely share some of the offspring with other zoos within the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.... watch the video below

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Floyd Mayweather RETIRES Undefeated [49-0]

49-0: Mayweather cruises through Berto, and into retirement=

Alas, it was vintage "Money."

Floyd Mayweather ran his illustrious and still unblemished record to 49-0 Saturday night, outclassing mismatched challenger Andre Berto in a farewell fight that played out as most expected: in underwhelming and highly predictable fashion.

Mayweather's peerless defensive boxing was on full display, as he was hit with just 17 percent of the punches Berto threw. And though he was never the aggressor in the bout, Floyd was able to pick apart Berto on the inside, and on the counter, connecting with 68 percent of his power punches.

He hurt Berto late, and for a moment, appeared as though he might finish the fight - his career - in spectacular, anti-"Money" fashion. But then he danced around the ring until the final bell.

Afterwards, Mayweather confirmed what he's been proclaiming - but few believed - in the lead-up to the bout, asserting in his post-fight interview that he will indeed retire, and not attempt to eclipse Rocky Marciano's legendary 49-0 mark.

"You've got to know when to hang it up," Mayweather said. "I think it's about time for me to hang it up. I'm knocking at the door now. I'm close to 40 years old. Been in this sport 19 years. I've broken all the records. There's nothing more to prove."

As for Berto, he drops the fourth decision over his last seven bouts, but takes home $4 million for his haphazard effort.

"Money," who earned at least $32 million for the win, said after the fight that he won't be lured back into the ring by another payout.

If that's the case, Mayweather leaves the sport as one of the greatest pound-for-pound boxers of all time, albeit but one that frustrated fans just as much as he frustrated opponents.

And that's what makes his win over Berto - a former world titlist who looked out of place in the same ring as Mayweather - the most appropriate final opponent for a fighter who plotted his perfect record almost as skillfully as he boxed.

source:here

THE GREAT DANGER POSED BY BONZAI..

Cypriot Experts,express their worries about the harm that Narcotic drug,most especially the substance known as "synthetic cannabinoid" brings to the health of their people.The say its posing a great danger to the health stability of their people.

Esra rightly mentions; the most dangerous,hazardous and addictive substance,likely either lead to a brain dysfunction or even pave a way for death is the "synthetic cannabinoid". she says that it has brought our country to point of the  worst nightmare ever.Despite, the changes in the severeness of the punishment by tribunals when found with it,they are finding it difficult to put a stop to increasing use of drugs.

Once more,we feel very sad about, the findings of the team from the Narcotics Department.Last July, 112 cartons of synthetic cannabinoid was found in the area of Guzelyurt.

The Rule of Law President,Attorney Barış Mamalı says that spread of the substance is a very serious issue. He also recorded that the spread implies, that the trading of this substance within the confines of our soil is an obvious encouter, which is in front of us.

According to Dr. Özcan Hüdaverdi, the rate of drugs consumption on our soil has multplied over the last years.Most especially, the consumption of synthetic cannabinoid. he further stresses that the senetic substance can lead severe psychological problems, cadiac arrest,reduction in seminal fluid production and even can lead to death.

In an explanation made by two anti-Drrugs activists, USAM and President Ayse Gokyigit. There have been 4 deaths of young people in their 20s, during this year, 2015, resulting from Drug addiction.The deaths of young people in their early 20s, makes it a priority upon us, to take the issue of Drugs consumption very seriously.


SOURCE:KIBRIS GAZETE

Dust Phenomenon Expected To Retreat in CYPRUS

The high levels of dust in the atmosphere in Cyprus are expected to retreat by Thursday, when the high temperatures are also expected to fall. 

However, the temperature will remain much above the average levels during the whole week, including the weekend when it is expected to reach again 40 decrees Celsius.

According to Panayiotis Michael, Meteorological Officer A΄, the two phenomena, the high levels of dust and the heat, are linked since they were brought to Cyprus by the same warm air masses, coming from the East, and specifically from Syria, Jordan and Iraq.

Replying to a question, Michael said that the dust will start to retreat by noon tomorrow, but the phenomenon will essentially be reduced on Thursday. He added that the temperatures will drop slightly on Thursday around 37-38 degrees, but on Friday and the weekend “we expect another heat wave with temperatures around 40 degrees. The average temperature ranges for the season around 34 degrees”.

The Department of Labour Inspection of the Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance, announced that on Tuesday the hourly concentration of respirable particles in ambient air with diameter less than 10 micrometers (PM10), were between the maximum value of 2407 μg/m3 with minimum value of 193 μg/m3.

Because of the small size of the respirable particles and their negative effect on human health, the public and especially the vulnerable groups of population (children, the elderly and patients) are advised to avoid outdoors and exercising in open spaces during this event. Also, the Department recommends that the workers in open spaces use appropriate means of personal protection.

At the same time, the dust in the atmosphere caused problems in the landing of airplanes at Larnaca international airport. As a result, from 9 am (6 am GMT) five flights to Larnaca were diverted to Paphos international airport.

Adamos Aspris, spokesman for Hermes airports,said that due to the dust the visibility limit in the area of Larnaca airport is currently at 500 meters, which creates great difficulties in the processing of the flight plan of the airport. He noted that normal visibility limit at airports worldwide in a normal day is 10 km.

SOURCE - HERE

Naked truth about porn on social media [INFOGRAPHIC]

Are you a big fan of porn? We’re sure you are, even if you’re not willing to admit it. The numbers speak for themselves. Porn stars are extremely popular, not only across loads of websites devoted to XXX movies, but also across social media sites, where they’re gaining more and more attention. “But how?” you might ask, thinking that porn on social media is forbidden. Well, you’re right. Posting porn content across social media channels is banned, at least officially. But surprisingly, the vast majority of porn stars have their own social media profiles whose popularity is astonishing. The social media analytics company Sotrender together with Pornhub – the largest pornsite on the Internet, checked up on who the most popular porn stars are on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and analyzed their paths to social media success. Read more to learn about the habits, interests and relationship statuses of the most popular social media porn star fans.

Why are porn stars so good at social media?

On social media porn stars aren’t popular just because of boobs, as you would assume (though it definitely helps). Instead, they got so successful in managing their profiles by accomplishing what so many brands and businesses fail to do. As The Daily Dot suggests, porn actresses and actors build a strong personal brand where they connect and communicate with their fans. “Be yourself” as the expression commands, and they are, by showing their real side as opposed to their usual sex-fuelled personnas. And lastly, they stay far away from commercial gain by promoting themselves as opposed to their products. It’s what social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are perfect for. But rarely do brands do it as well as porn stars do.

Why did we decide to only focus on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? Well, porn stars don’t like YouTube, apparently. Only several of the actresses and actors included in the analysis run their own YouTube channels. The vast majority of the channels we found were not official and contained only short fragments of porn films. However, they’re short enough as not to breach the standards of the YouTube community. As the Daily Beast and Gawker suggest, it seems that porn stars don’t really like Facebook either. Although most porn stars don’t post any pornographic material, Facebook still bans their accounts. They seem to not want to take any chances with complaints about porn stars so they take their accounts down without giving it a second thought. It’s far from ideal for porn actresses and actors, but obviously they can’t stop using it because Facebook is still the most popular social media site around.

The most popular porn porn stars on social media

Who wins on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? Have a look at the chart prepared according to Sotrender’s data presenting the top 10 most popular porn star pages on Facebook based on the number of fans, with Alexis Texas topping the ranking. The top profiles typically posted the most pictures, usually with revealing clothing.

 The leader on Twitter is different than on Facebook. Below we show the top 10 most popular pornstar Twitter profiles based on the number of followers, with Lisa Ann topping the ranking. Contrary to other social media sites, porn stars on Twitter post tweets relating to their daily life, often with some humor and they quite often engage themselves in conversations with their fans.

And in the top 10 most popular porn star Instagram accounts based on the number of followers, Gianna Nicole tops the ranking.

And who is the most popular pornstar on Pornhub? We checked the popularity of films staring various porn stars so far this year. This is what we discovered:

Types of posts from porn on social media

The style of communication differs depending on the channel. It seems that porn stars treat Facebook mainly as a source of likes for their photos, as they collect the most activities. And frankly, it’s no surprise that photos are the most popular type of post for actors and actresses. As a result, we can expect that as visual materials become more and more popular, the role of Facebook will decrease while Instagram’s role will increase (and Instagram is already one of the main social media channels both for celebrities and brands). Porn stars’ Twitter profiles on the other hand are full of humor, controversial thoughts, short conversations with fans (which are very common) and grant links to events on which it will be possible to meet the stars in person.

Unsurprisingly, the most popular type of posts on Facebook are photos, and they are posted almost 3 times more than the second most popular type – links. As we can see, porn stars hardly use statuses that contain plain text only and very rarely post videos, which is very surprising. Maybe they don’t know that Facebook loves videos? 

Content is the queen

What are the best Facebook posts about? You guessed it. They contain pictures or videos showing various porn stars showcasinging their bodies. What are the best tweets about? Now here comes a surprise. Compared to other social media channels, Twitter is the most polite and lacking in nudity. The best tweets contain pictures of non-nude porn stars and that depict funny life events, thoughts or axioms. You will see the examples on the infographic below.

How is this so? Well, Twitter porn star audiences aren’t as impressed by a pretty body as they are with humor or real life. Of all the social media channels, Twitter is the one that most promotes and facilitates being social and conversational. So, it actually isn’t all that surprising that people are more interested in seeing their favourite porn star’s “real” side here. More pornography would just be more professional work and their audience can get that from loads of other places on the internet.

The most popular types of tweet are relatively close together, with links being used moderately more than plain text tweets and tweets with media attached. Media (pics and videos) is used the least, showing that porn stars are using Twitter for more than just sexy pictures.

Porn on social media – language choices of porn stars and their fans

As the wordclouds on the infographic show, lots of love is shared between porn stars and their fans. Porn stars very often use the word “love” as a greeting to their fans, while the fans seem to ascribe a bit more value to it. The majority of post topics revolve around love, beauty, the human body and of course, sex.

Fans tend to be a bit dirtier than porn stars with their comments. After analyzing over 10k posts,Sotrender discovered that fans prefer to write about sex rather than love. Facebook is full of posts containing love declarations with compliments like “You’re hot,” “Sexy butt,” or the very eloquent “Nice ass”. Porn stars are always “cute” and “sweet,” but their tenderness doesn’t stop fans from asking them for anal sex. It’s also popular to see posts directed to former porn stars in which fans beg them to come back to the porn industry and stop wasting time on “stupid things.” In some cases, those stupid things included, for example, the defense of animal rights… which of course is more than far from being stupid.

Some porn stars have very loyal and devoted fans who regularly perform actions such as liking, commenting or sharing their posts. We constantly see comments mentioning “Love” and compliments like “Beautiful” and more of “You’re hot”. On the chart you will only find actresses who performed in a film within the last 6 months, so remember that previously famous stars such as Zuzka Light (widely known as Susana Spears) or Jenna Jameson also attract a big number of very loyal fans.

What’s love got to do with it? – The relationship status of porn fans

What is the average relationship status of Facebook users interested in sex and porn on social media? Unsurprisingly, single people hold the highest percentage. Those in more committed types of relationships are less interested in porn, but married individuals are still more interested than engaged ones. It may seem funny, but interest in sex and pornography is not particularly different in real life than where Facebook users are concerned, but with one difference. People interested in porn stars’ pages, when compared to all Facebook users are, less frequently, married. But on the other hand, they are significantly more often engaged to someone. Fairly often they also declare that they’re in a relationship. The structure of this group has a strong cultural background. Have a look at a more conservative country like Poland, for example, among the fans of sex and porn sites, only 7% were engaged, 11% were married, and 52% were single.

Naked truth about porn on social media – political POV’s

What are the political opinions of people interested in pornography? We analyzed the views of Britons as a follow up after the report on the Britain General Election we had prepared in April. It turns out that about 10% of people engaged in porn actress and actor profiles also engaged themselves in political Facebook pages. Of this group, the vast majority were engaged on pages devoted to right and extreme right parties (Britain First, British National Party and UKiP). It seemed a bit fishy to us, as we thought that it was likely that extreme right profiles simply attract a bigger number of engaged users. That’s when we decided to deepen our analysis using the affinity index. We compared all users engaged in political party pages with users engaged both in political party pages and porn star pages. How did it turn out? It’s time to bust out the numbers.

Let’s assume that 12% of all users interested in politics are engaged on the page of UKiP.  From that same page, 16% of users were engaged both on the pages of political parties and pages devoted to porn. In this case, the affinity index amounted to 16/12. Which in other terms, is 1.3 (all results higher than 1 mean that there is a large correlation between the two groups).

It seems that people who relate to the far right politically are engaging in porn pages much more heavily than those in the centre or left of centre. They’re more apt to voice their opinions on whatever subject the stars posted about. After looking at the affinity index, we can see that generally, people with extreme political views comment more on porn pages. It’s not just limited to right-wing extremism. So what’s the conclusion? Simple. If you visit pages devoted to porn and you’re interested in politics it’s highly probable that you have extreme opinions and more often lean to the right rather than left.

See the whole infographic by Sotrender & Pornhub

SOURCE

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CHANGE OF TIME AND VENUE [PASSPORT RENEWAL]

The Date of the renewal and collection of passport has been changed to Friday instead of Thursday due to the change of flight ticket of the Immigration officials, The officials will arrived at Ercan airport at 19:00 on Thursday evening, thereby they will start the renewal and issuing exercise on Friday morning at LALA MUSTAFA sport complex (conference hall).
The information was sent by the Immigration Officials this evening through  NSS EMU.

90 percent of seabirds have eaten plastic, says new study...

In 1960, plastic was found in the stomachs of less than five percent of seabirds; by 2010 that figure had risen to 80 percent.

About 90 percent of the world's seabirds today have consumed some form of plastic, a study estimated Monday.

The study, published in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is important in revealing the pervasive impact of plastic on seabirds.

"This is a huge amount and really points to the ubiquity of plastic pollution," lead author Chris Wilcox, a senior research scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Oceans and Atmosphere Business Unit, said in a statement.

The investigators' analysis of studies published since the early 1960s showed that plastic is increasingly common in seabirds' stomachs



source:famagusta gazette
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