Team ZOO Presents: GO HARD OR GO HOME PtII @ CLUB PLAZA

OPEN BAR

Ladies: 15 EURO
Men: 20 EURO

Reservations: 99236222

TeamZOO

https://www.facebook.com/TeamZOOproductions

UV LIGHTS
PHOTOGRAPHERS
LAUGHING GAS
GLOW-STICKS
FREE MERCHANDISE FROM AQUA after party
CHAMPANGE GIVEAWAYS

Playing the very best of
Hip-Hop
R’n'B
Bashment
Funky
Electro
Dubstep
Trap

Club sponsors:

Club Plaza (Larnaca)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Plaza-Club/219932574737201

Club Aqua – The After Party! (Ayia Napa)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aqua-Nightclub-I-am-the-After-Party/227627807248402

SO LETS GET THE PARTY STARTED WITH THE TEAM ZOO PARTY ANIMALS

GO HARD OR GO HOME!

Event contributed to OnThisIsland.com by Drew Andreou through the Cyprus Events Application on facebook.

Playing 70s 80s 90s and more…Free entrance. Doors open 10.30pm. Info 99860304 or 99426011 Friday 31st May.

Watkins 9, 6022 Larnaca, Cyprus

Event contributed to OnThisIsland.com by Drew Andreou through the Cyprus Events Application on facebook.

We do want to officially thank her for auditioning and making us so very very proud. We have reached out to her for a chat and interview and hope we get the chance to catch up with her.

Our pictures could be out there on the Internet, being used by others for advertising or for fake profiles, and we just don’t know it.

Today I learned a little trick: you can check for public online copies of your photos… on Google!

This helps us find if anyone is using those pictures we have from Summer last year or that modelling shoot we did the other day.

When on http://www.google.com you can simply click the ‘images’ tab and then select the little camera sign (on the right hand side of the text box) then copy-and-paste your image URL into the text box.

You can also upload an image if you prefer to do it that way.

What it will then do is find as many images that are as close as possible to it. (Sometimes it just gets it wrong, but thats better than finding your picture on a ‘dating’ site you didn’t know about, right?)

I hope you don’t find anything you don’t expect! 

Entrance 5.

Doors open 10.30pm.

Info 99860304 or 99426011

Find Savino Live at Watkins 9, 6022 Larnaca, Cyprus

Event contributed to OnThisIsland.com by Drew Andreou through the Cyprus Events Application on facebook.

We do our very very best to avoid political topics here at OnThisIsland.com but this is gathering a lot of steam and we would not feel right if we had not shared it with you our readers.

A screenshot of Yahoo’s weather app, showing a ‘local image’ for Nicosia was shared by several angry locals, with the following message:

Hello friends. It’s me again. It seems that the image on the Yahoo! Weather app for Nicosia, on both Android and iPhone devices wasn’t an accidental mistake, and was done on purpose. 3 days after my complaint, the image is still there! [16/5/2013 13:31]. Even worse, my complaint on Yahoo!, has been deleted, without getting any sort of feedback whatsoever. Not even a “decline”. [Of course not, they know we are right]. My post with YOUR help gathered 342 votes in less than 48h and was in the top 5 to be reviewed. I’ve taken this to a personal level, and have re-posted my complaint for review, and my aim is to make this even more viral than the previous one so it gets noticed the earliest.

I’ve passed the point of caring whether I’m a burden, or a spammer on your wall or newsfeed. Delete me, Unfriend me, Hide me. I don’t care. I’ve put aside all my job-hunting applications, and all my efforts will solely be emphasized on this issue until it gets resolved. I kindly ask you to spare a couple of minutes to VOTE on my new complaint [please give 3 votes which is the max], but it is also important to click the “SHARE” button on this post, so that more people see it, so that they do the same.
Here is the link: http://feedback.yahoo.com/forums/168895-weather/suggestions/3962184-change-the-image-displayed-on-yahoo-weather-app-

Thank you.

Stelios

Politics aside, this seems to be a massive blunder on the customer support department. Not quite as bad as the Amy Baking Co fiasco, but one that has already garnered this support request with 1,300 votes (at the time of writing).

We’ll keep an eye on this and update you as it develops.

Update: 13:50 – The request has been removed for moderation by support staff at Yahoo.

Update: 14:22 – It appears they underestimated how angry people actually are. More and more ‘ideas’ being submitted.

Update 14:25 – and some more…

Update: 17:56 – the 15 top ‘suggestions/bugs/ideas’ are all related to the Cyprus image. People are demanding an official apology.  Over 7500 votes have been casted on the posts that have not been deleted yet. (Source: http://feedback.yahoo.com/forums/168895-weather)

At least, a support staff member tagged one as ‘Gathering Feedback’, just incase they missed the tidal wave of complaints this received today.

Soooo…

And… the first message we get is a copy-pasted message, in Greek, about how a company would like us to share their ‘Social Media Conference’.

We can’t be the only ones who see the irony here.

Whilst we do try our best to promote as many events and businesses as we can On This Island (see what we did there!), but we won’t be ‘sharing’ this conference, not just yet.

Whilst this conference may be legitimate and provide some real value, we invite the organisers to re-start communication with us, in a way they would hopefully teach their attendees to partake in PR and marketing.

We are not the know-all or be-all in Social Media in Cyprus, and we know that, but we also have a duty to try and protect our readers from what we feel is slightly… well strange. Should you, as a reader, believe we were wrong in holding the information back, do let us know in the comments below.

Prove us wrong, prove to us that you aren’t just throwing out buzz words in bright colours to part businesses from their hard-earned money in exchange for cheap tips and tricks.

We do however believe that Social Media should be professionally handled, especially for family-owned businesses in Cyprus where we are passionate about what we do and how people talk about us. If not only to avoid becoming the next epic Social Media Melt-Down Horror-Story.

Oh, and we’d love to speak at an actual conference, should anyone be organising a legitimate one anytime soon.

Whilst we will share the main findings with you below, there’s one that blew our mind…

The unemployment rate amounted to 11,8% of the labour force, which was lower for females 11,1% and higher for males 12,5%. The highest rate of unemployment was observed among young persons below 25 years of age where it accounted for 27,8% of the labour force of the same age group.

This hammers home that even before the financial-clothes-line we just felt, the ‘new blood’ was not being pumped in our own economy. This obviously led to many leaving for jobs overseas, thus further contributing to the brain drain that our little island is constantly ‘fighting’ (and yes, we use the word fighting… so lightly it could be poured over a hamburger and reduce it’s calorie count).

Now whilst everyone keeps complaining, we’re on a mission. That mission’s first step is called RentADeskCyprus.com, we’re not sure if you’ve noticed as there are ONLY two banners for it on this page right now, in which we try to keep these young minds here in Cyprus, building businesses and driving forward growth.

Whilst it’s still early days, we believe that as these new businesses grow, they too will need to expand out of our partners’ office spaces and into their own offices, with teams around the island or world, creating job opportunity and investment opportunities outside of Forex, Gas Reserves and Periptera (no offence if you work in those, but a bit of variety helps us all).

Without further ado, heres the rest of the summary of the Survey for 2012.

The report provides data on the employed and unemployed population which are analysed by gender, age, education, branch of economic activity and occupational group. Data are also presented on part-time employment as well as for second job holders and the weekly hours of work. The report also provides data on the ad-hoc module on “Transition from work to retirement”.

The main findings of the survey are the following:

(a) The labour force (i.e. the employed and unemployed persons) amounted to 440.604 persons in 2012 consisting of 52,7% men and 47,3% women.

(b) The employed persons reached 388.605 and the employment rate for persons aged 20-64 years old was 70,2 %. The corresponding rate for males stood at 76,1 % while that for females was much lower at 64,8%. Both rates, however, are among the highest in the European Union.

(c) The workforce of Cyprus has a relatively high educational background since more than one-third (42,1%) of the workforce have completed tertiary education and 39,0% completed upper secondary education.

(d) 41.670 persons or 10,7% of the employed worked on a part-time basis and 48,2% of these reported that they could not find a full-time job while 18,9% reported that they work on a part-time basis for personal or family reasons. 

(e) 2,6% of the working population or 10.015 persons reported having a second job also and a large proportion of these (22,1%) chose agriculture as a sideline.

(f) The unemployment rate amounted to 11,8% of the labour force, which was lower for females 11,1% and higher for males 12,5%. The highest rate of unemployment was observed among young persons below 25 years of age where it accounted for 27,8% of the labour force of the same age group.

The main findings of the ad-hoc module are the following:

(a) 89,8% of the persons aged 50-69 receive old age pension from social insurance and/or pension from government/semi government/ local government or social pension, 3,2% receive old age pension from an occupational old age pension scheme, 2,8 receive old age pension from a personal old age pension scheme e.g. through life-insurance companies while 7,0% receive widow’s pension and 6,2% disability / invalidity pension. It is noted that someone could receive more than one type of pension. 

(b) 41,9% of the persons aged 50-69 received their first old age pension at the age of 63 years old, 18,7% received it at the age of 65 years old, 16,8% at the age of 60 years old while only 5,5% received their first pension at the age of 55 years old. 

(c) From the persons aged 50-69 who receive a pension and did not stay longer at work, 33,7% stated as the main reason for doing so that they had reached compulsory retirement age, 23,5% that they had reached eligibility for a pension, 16,5% stated as a reason own health or disability, 9,4% for family or care-related reasons, 7,3% stated that they had lost their job and /or could not find a job and only 4,7% stated that they did not stay longer at work due to favourable financial arrangements to leave.

(d) From the employed persons aged 50-69 who receive a pension and stayed at work 35,8% stated as the main reason for doing so the provision of sufficient personal/household income, 6,0% stated the establishment or increase of future retirement pension entitlements, 30,4% the combination of the two above while 27,8% stated other non-financial reasons for staying at work like work satisfaction.

(e) From the employed persons aged 50-69 who receive a pension and stayed at work 40,3% stated that they plan to stop working in more than 1 year and up to 3 years, 27,3% in more than 3 years and up to 5 years, 15,5% in more than 5 years and up to 10 years, 10,9% in up to 1 year while only 6,0% stated that they plan to stop working in more than 10 years. 

(g) From the persons aged 50-69 who do not receive a pension 96,3% stated that they have contributed so far towards building up pension rights for old age pension from social insurance, and/or pension from government/semi-government/local government. 

(h) From the employed persons aged 50-69 who do not receive a pension but have contributed towards building up pension rights 50,5% stated that will stop to work immediately after receiving old age pension while 39,4% expects to continue to work even after they receive a pension for financial reasons. 

(i) From the persons aged 50-69 who do not work and do not receive a pension but have contributed towards building up pension rights 42,6% stated that they will stop immediately to look for a job after receiving old age pension, while 51,9% expect to continue to look for a job even after they receive a pension for financial reasons.

(Source)

FXTM International Boxing Cup Final 2013 – FREE ENTRY

FXTM would like to invite you to “The FXTM International Boxing Cup Final 2013″ which will be taking place on May 19th, 18:00 at the Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Centre in Limassol, Cyprus.

Competing for the Cup will be boxers of Olympic standard from 3 continents and 15 countries.

The Cup will take place under the auspices of FXTM ARAVIS BOXING TEAM and will be co-organized by the International Boxing Federation, the Cyprus Boxing Federation, the Limassol Municipality and the Cyprus Technological University.

Entrance is FREE but space is limited- register on Facebook if you plan to attend!

This is way too good to miss… Register now and share with friends!

Event contributed to OnThisIsland.com by Charli Day through the Cyprus Events Application on facebook.

We like the idea, but it runs into some minor problems, ideally that it’s around 176km from Kavo Greko to Manara, Beirut (and 169.97km to Tripoli).

Guess that means they want us to swim the other 10ish kilometers? Challenge accepted, you grab the maps, I’ll grab the car!

Edit: From what we’ve read there will be a fee to use the bridge, and after 10 years it will become the join-possession of both Governments.

Edit 2: Some have said that we shouldn’t have measured from Kavo Greko, but instead between the points they said…

So… erm… here that is:

What do you think? Fib or truth? Let us know in the comments?