Shiraz Airport

 مامورين وی را با دختر اشتباه گرفتند و پس از بازداشت متوجه پسر بودنش شدند
Shiraz is the sixth biggest city in Iran and is the capital of Fars Province. It is located in the southwest of the country on the ‘Rudkhaneye Khoshk’ seasonal river; 200K m from south seashore of Iran. It is built over a green plain of the Zagros Mountains, 1500 meters above sea level with a moderate climate and regular seasons.
Fars province is the origin of two biggest Persian empires from 550 BC to 630 AD (Achaemenian Empire from 550 BC to 330 BC and Sassanid Empire from 241 AD to 630 AD) and most of historical sites of these two dynasties are located in this area (Gershevitch, 1985). Shiraz has been a regional trade centre since the 8th century AD (the earliest reference to the city is dated on 500 BC). In the 13th century AD, it had become a leading centre of visual arts and publications for three centuries. Shiraz was the capital of Iran (historical Persia) during the Buwayhid dynasty in 11th century AD and the "Zand" dynasty in 18th century AD (Khoobnazar, 2001).

Shiraz has a population of 1.3 million in 2011 (Figure 4). According to an official survey, the shares of the different modes of travel in this city are as follows: private cars and taxis: 66 percent, buses: 19 percent and the other modes: 15 percent which is an unsustainable trend in a longer term. Therefore, the public bus is the main mode of public transportation (Soltani and Esmaeili Ivaki, 2011; Soltani and Marandi, 2011). For the time being, public transportation in Shiraz relies mainly on the bus network and the subway system is not opened yet. The metropolitan area consists of 9 Zones each of which has its own municipal authority. Shiraz historical zone consists of different public spaces and buildings such as bazaar, mosques, schools, houses and palaces as well as traditional squares and streets. Shiraz is known as the city of poets and flowers. It is also considered to be the "city of gardens", due to the numerous gardens and fruit trees existing in the city. Shiraz economy is based on agriculture, electronic industries and trade (crafts and electronics).

Swing in Park

The Islamic dress code - or hijab - is a game for 25-year-old Tahereh, who feels perfectly comfortable letting her headscarf fall off her shoulders as she covers the distance from her car to a friend's apartment building on a residential street in central Tehran. The same cannot be said for the Basij militiamen who regularly cruise through this part of town on their motorcycles, stopping to reprimand pre-teen girls for stepping out of their home without a headscarf and a loose coat, or manteau. Typically, this is the minimum level of covering tolerated by an Islamic establishment whose official line is that "hijab is protection from sin." Despite the official hard line, the scale of covering up in Iran varies by region and neighbourhood, and many women agree that in terms of their rights, hijab is low on the list of their immediate worries. Nevertheless, it remains a universal topic of public discourse among the secularising middle class that helped elect the moderate President Hassan Rouhani into office this summer. Though the enforcement of public dress code has remained largely unchanged during his first three months in office, the government has indicated an imminent change in the current policy on "hijab and chastity."

One recent signal is the announced plan to transfer the responsibility for hijab enforcement from the police force to the interior ministry, which would free the police to focus on more pertinent "security" issues. Another indication are the statements of Rouhani himself, which have been in line with his pre-election promises to lift the restrictions on personal freedoms young people experienced under the previous administration.

At a recent government meeting, the president advised the police force to approach the hijab issue "with respect for human dignity and refrain from excessive measures," according to a 13 November front-page article in the reformist Shargh daily analysing the signs of a potential change in the official stance on hijab enforcement. At the same time, the newspaper highlighted Rouhani's message to the public, in which he asked the people to treat "the topics of character, chastity and hijab" with sensitivity and to respect "societal norms."

Makeup effects

As actors, we rarely say to ourselves, “Oh boy! I want to be an actor so I can sit in a make-up chair for endless hours and be turned into a monster!” We instead think about getting proper representation, taking classes and learning lines. We dream about our big break and what it's like to be on set. Yet make-up is part of the job. Whether we play a burn victim, someone with lots of scars and tattoos or a creature from another planet, we must keep in mind that there's a good chance we're going to be asked to have extreme special effects (SPFX) make-up applied to our body. Below, actress NAOMI GROSSMAN (Pepper on “American Horror Story: Asylum”) and Special Effects Make-up Artist RACHEL GRIFFIN (“Fringe,” “Once Upon a Time”) give us insight to the pleasures and pains of being turned into unrecognizable characters. “Oh, and how! I've even been accused of snoring! I can sleep through anything -- root canal, 'Django Unchained.' It's often 5:00 AM, they lay my head back, tell me to close my eyes… What else is there to do?” Exclusive pic to @NYCastings – Naomi pulls the prosthetic off her face. 4. Do you have help taking your make-up off after work or is it something you can do on your own? “They take it off for me. It only takes about 20 minutes. Sometimes their edges are so seamless, even they who put the prosthetics on, have to poke around my face to find where to lift off! Requires lots of pulling and scrubbing, but in the end, I get nice, hot, jasmine towels! Where else do you get a facial after work?” - See more at: http://www.nycastings.com/dmxreadyv2/blogmanager/v3_blogmanager.asp?post=actorsandextremespecialeffectsmakeup#sthash.mqZYkTSj.dpuf

NAOMI GROSSMAN agreed to shave her head for her role in “American Horror Story: Asylum” 1. Did you know in advance there was going to be extensive make-up for your character of "Pepper" when you accepted the role? “Yes, my callback was essentially a meeting with the make-up department. They took a bunch of photos of me, which they then manipulated to see what I'd look like with the prosthetics. I guess I must have looked the freakiest! After I was cast, they showed me the photos, and boy, was that a surprise.” “Yes and no. Not specifically for wearing prosthetics, but I'm in the makeup chair hours and hours, and they of course pay for that. I obviously was compensated for the head-shave.” You can watch here. 3. In the beginning, you were in the make-up chair for about five hours. Now it's perfected down to approximately two hours. Do you get to SLEEP while your make-up is being applied?

Divorce Reason

Having tried methods which involve varying degrees of danger for police officers, officials are now parking cherry-picker cranes in front of apartment blocks and checking balconies and alcoves, one by one. According to the Saham News website, which is owned by the reformist National Trust political party, the cranes were spotted in the country's second largest city of Mashhad and appear to be a new tactic in Iran's periodic attempts to confiscate dishes.

Having tried methods which involve varying degrees of danger for police officers, officials are now parking cherry-picker cranes in front of apartment blocks and checking balconies and alcoves, one by one. According to the Saham News website, which is owned by the reformist National Trust political party, the cranes were spotted in the country's second largest city of Mashhad and appear to be a new tactic in Iran's periodic attempts to confiscate dishes.

In the past, Iranian police have used helicopters and abseiling down the side of buildings to find illegally-owned reception equipment which is mainly used to watch foreign TV channels.
Private ownership of satellite dishes is illegal in Iran, with ministers criticising satellite TV and social media as "the chief sources of anti-Islamic models", Mehr news agency reported in 2013. According to a report by Dutch-based Radio Zameneh, around 60% of households in Tehran still own a dish, and if it is confiscated, residents often simply go out and buy another.

Too Hot

Turkish Airlines fired a flight attendant over “revealing” photographs from her modeling career, a move that reflects both the airline’s ideological stance and a broader trend toward conservatism in Turkey.

On November 27, a Turkish Airlines flight attendant was laid off after “revealing” photographs from her work as a model emerged.

Zuhal Sengal, 31, was fired immediately after airline management found photographs of her wearing heavy makeup and dressed in low-cut tops in an Italian magazine. A video of the photo-shoot also emerged, in which Sengal wore a bikini and showed off her many tattoos.

Representatives from Turkish Airlines have been forthright about the decision to fire Sengal. An airline representative told Mail Online, “There are certain standards and qualities we expect from our staff and modeling is not one of them.”

This is not Turkish Airlines’ first move toward enforcing a conservative protocol. Last year, photographs of proposed female flight attendants’ uniforms emerged, sparking a small controversy. The uniforms, which would include “ankle-length dresses and Ottoman-style fez caps,” according to Al-Arabiya, were never implemented, but other policy changes did go into effect. Female staff members were told that bright lipstick, tattoos and high buns were forbidden. Airline representatives stated: “Simple make-up, immaculate and in pastel colors, is preferred for staff working in the service sector.”

These decisions represent a conscious decision on the part of Turkish Airlines management to maintain a more conservative image. Atilay Aycin, the president of Turkish Airlines’ Hava-Is labor union, said, “This new guideline is totally down to Turkish Airlines management’s desire to shape the company to fit its own political and ideological stance.”

Turkish Airlines’ new and conservative “political and ideological stance” reflects broader changes in Turkish politics and society. Turkey was founded in 1923 as a staunchly secular republic. With the rise of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, now the country’s president, Islamic values have been incorporated into public policy.

New Kim

For our winter issue, we gave ourselves one assignment: Break The Internet. There is no other person that we can think of who is up to the task than one Kim Kardashian West. A pop culture fascination able to generate headlines just by leaving her house, Kim is what makes the web tick.
We tapped legendary French photographer Jean-Paul Goude to recreate his iconic "Champagne Incident" shot (an image also known as Carolina Beaumont, New York for the name of the model and the location in which it was taken) and all we can say about the images inside, which we'll be releasing this Thursday.
Earlier today, the 39-year-old comedienne took to Instagram to recreate Kim's PAPER magazine shot — and the results are simply AH-mazing.
Not only is Handler poking a little fun at Keek's cheeks, but she's also making a point about nudity guidelines on IG!
This cause is near and dear to her heart, after Insta removed a topless shot of her mocking Vladimir Putin last month.

Stash

Colombian authorities have found more than $29 million and 17 million euros in cash in two hiding places belonging to one of the country's most wanted drug lords, officials said.
Investigators acting on a tip uncovered a massive stash Monday in the nation's capital, Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera told reporters.
The bricks of cash were found in homes belonging to Daniel "El Loco" Barrera, the national police said in a statement. Raids over the past month have netted a total of more than $140 million, police said.
Monday's find was part of the "biggest drug-money seizure operation in the country's history," Rivera said. "With this operation we have broken the financial system of one of the drug trafficking groups that particularly monopolized the transport of cocaine hydrocholoride from Colombia to Mexico and Europe," said Maj. Gen. Oscar Adolfo Naranjo Trujillo, director of Colombia's national police.
In March, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said Barrera played a "significant role in international narcotics trafficking," noting in a statement that the Colombian government was offering a $2.5 million reward for his capture.
The statement said Barrera and partner Pedro Oliverio Guerrero Castillo operate primarily in the eastern plains of Colombia, between the capital of Bogota and the Venezuelan border.
U.S. officials allege Barrera has a partnership with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Marxist guerrilla organization also known as the FARC.