Suzanne Marie said that storytelling is taught informally and not in an organized manner in Australia.
He added that storytelling is one of the programs in Australia Book Week which is held annually.
The 18TH International Storytelling Festival with the participation of domestic and foreign storytellers was held from February 27-30 in the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA).
The production line was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine, and Trade Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh and a number of his deputies as well as IKCO managers.
The cars manufactured in this factory will be assembled using the semi-knock-down (SKD) kits sent from Iranian cities of Tehran and Tabriz.
The news production line in Alexandria site, with a daily production capacity of 30 pick-ups, is the second line for manufacturing IKCO cars in the Arab country.
Given the growing demands for Arisun pick-up in Iraq, it is predicted by the Iranian company that at least 5000 cars will be manufactured in this line next year.
Last month, the leading Iranian automaker had also signed a joint venture deal with Oman, based on which it will set up a production line for two of its cars in the Arab country.
Iran Khodro signed the deal with Oman’s government and private sector, and the two sides are accordingly committed to establish a company with trilateral joint investment.
The Omani sides will fund 80 percent of the total investment, and Iran Khodro Company (IKCO) will fund the rest.
The factory is scheduled to be developed in future and turn into a regional hub for Iran Khodro’s productions throughout the Persian Gulf and Northern Africa regions.
The deal was signed against the backdrop of a new wave of interest in ties with Iran after the country and six world powers on July 14, 2015 reached a conclusion over the text of a comprehensive deal on Tehran’s nuclear program and implemented the agreement on January 16.
The agreement between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) terminated all the sanctions that had been imposed on Iran over its nuclear energy program.
Experts believe that Iran’s economic growth would rise remarkably now that the nuclear deal has come into force.
Iran’s automotive industry is the second largest in the country after its oil and gas industry, accounting for 10% of the country’s GDP.
Amir-Hossein Zamaniniya, the director for international affairs of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), has been quoted by the media that the Iranian oil will be sold to Hellenic Petroleum.
Zamaniniya added that the volume can increase to as high as 150,000 bpd in a later stage.
He added that this is based on arrangements that were agreed on during the recent visit to Tehran by the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
Nevertheless, the official emphasized that Tehran and Athens are currently working on the banking problems that still remain as a result of the sanctions. Once those problems are resolved, Iran will start its oil exports to Greece.
Iran announced on Thursday that it had shipped more than 7.1 million barrels of crude oil in only two days thus setting a new record in the country’s oil exports not seen in several years.
It said four million barrels had been shipped to Europe and the remaining 3.1 million barrels were shipped to Iran’s traditional clients through the southern Kharg terminal earlier this week.
The landmark exports came in light of the removal of the multiple-year sanctions against Iran last month.
Iran had already emphasized that it will increase its oil production by half a million barrels per day immediately after the removal of the sanctions.
The NIOC announced this past Sunday that the country’s oil production capacity had increased by 400,000 bpd.
It is now only less than a week to Parliament and Assembly of Experts elections in Iran. Candidates from all political parties and factions are jockeying to win the largest number of supporters and papers do play a special role in this regard. On Saturday, February 20, 2016, most of the top headlines were devoted to election campaigns.
Here are the top headlines:
Abrar:
1. Women and children make up 70% of Syrian casualties in 2015
2. A candidate in all election lists!
3. Obama signs off fresh US sanctions on N. Korea
4. European Court of Justice says Iran’s Bank Mellat Was unfairly sanctioned
5. North Korea’s nuclear tests ‘could trigger catastrophic volcanic eruption’: S. Korea
Asrar:
1. Chinese FM: Iran Nuclear deal could be used as a model to solve N. Korea issue
2. Parliament Speaker: N. deal took 2 months to implement not 20 minutes
3. New round of sanctions relief
Afkar:
1. Israel fears new missile system in Iran
2. Iran, France to start healthcare cooperation
3. 70% of power plants ready for summer peak
Arman-e Emrouz:
1. 70 reformists against 3,000 principalists in parliament election
2. 250 kids in Iranian prisons
Amin:
1. Diplomat calls for promoting Turkish culture in Iran
2. Iran builds first private school for Tabriz orphans
Ebtekar:
1. Rafsanjani calls on nation to vote for full lists
2. Virtual election fraud
Ettela’at:
1. Economy of Resistance will be the basis of development in Iran
2. Terrorist blast kills 40 in Turkey
3. Friday Prayer leader: Certain figures holding posts will harm the country
4. Unscrupulous fraud by institute for supporting kids suffering from cancer
5. Knowledge-based firms can help country’s progress
Etemad:
1. Expect a “News Bomb”: Mogul’s advocate
The defendant of Babak Zanjani, corporate mogul charged with fraud, has said big news is underway
about his client’s case.
Emtiaz:
1. 60% of taxpayers evade taxes in Iran: Vice President for legal affairs
2. Iranian futsal players thrash Vietnam to face hosts in final
Iran:
1. Culture Minister: Running country in 1394 was like a miracle
2. Report: Women’s status in 9 Iranian parliaments
3. Candidate lists jockey in election campaign
4. Turkey hits Kurdish targets after Ankara bombing
Payam Zaman:
1. Economic growth no longer confidential
A detailed report about the country’s economic growth
2. Iran supports any measure to help crude oil prices
Jomhouri Eslami:
1. Election bustle in Iran
As days pass, the Election Day comes closer adding to the hustle and bustle of campaigns by
candidates vying to win a seat at the Iranian parliament.
2. Iran to stick to boosting-crude-output policy to revive pre-sanctions exports
3. Friday Prayer leaders urge nation’s high turnout in upcoming elections
Javan:
1. British dictate of election for Iranian nation!
Hemayat:
Khorasan:
Resalat:
Royesh Mellat:
Sayeh:
A report about trading rare species online
Shargh:
Russia again failed to deliver S-300 missile systems to Iran.
Shahrvand:
An amusement park in the western city of Hamedan is now free to cancer kids and their families.
Sahib Ghalam:
Kayhan:
Asia:
President Rouhani made the remarks in a ceremony on “laborers and future of the Iranian economy”.
He reiterated that the Iranian nation would never let the remarks of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution go unheard.
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has urged Iranians to make a strong turnout in the elections.
‘Massive turnout in the elections would pave the way for economic prosperity, further investment and youth employment,’ he added.
Elections for the 10th term of the Parliament as well as the 5th term of the Assembly of Experts will take place simultaneously on February 26.
There have been significant medical advances in recent years in the area of drug delivery systems. Using these systems allows the medicine to be delivered exactly to the target tissue or organ, and the rate of drug release will be controlled for a long time. The purpose of using drug delivery systems is to maintain long-term optimal drug concentration in the blood and thus increase the effectiveness and reduce the side effects of medication.
Simin Shibani, the project manager, explained “Azithromycin is an antibiotic used to treat many different types of infections caused by bacteria. Since this antibiotic has a high molecular weight and size, it can hardly pass through the outer membrane of bacteria. Thus, even in the case of using a drug delivery system, it has a low treatment efficiency.”
She maintained that the aim of the project was to tackle the mentioned problems by synthesizing molecular polymers through polymerization; “the benefits of using this drug delivery system include maintaining drug concentrations at a relatively fixed level for a specific period of time, adjustable speed rate of releasing drugs, and the possibility of drug delivery in nanometer dimensions to a specific organ or tissue.”
In this project, molecular polymers were synthesized through sedimentary polymerization method first with and then without Azithromycin. Then, the obtained polymer particles were isolated by centrifugation, washed by water and dried by heat. Finally, morphology, thermal stability and the rate of drug release were assessed for produced polymers.
The results of the research confirms production of spherical and homogeneous polymer particles with a size less than 100 nm. Also, studies on the thermal stability of the molecular polymers indicate their stability in high temperatures.
The results of the research have been published in RSC Advances, vol. 120, issue 5, 2015, pp. 98880-98891.
The election campaigns officially began in Iran on Thursday, and will last until the end of next Wednesday, February 24. The nationwide votes for the parliament and the Assembly of Experts will be held simultaneously on February 26.
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The NPR said in a report that the return of Iranian pistachio will specifically raise the stakes for American growers given that their yield this year has already been halved as a result of a lack of water and warm temperatures.
Many producers are worried that the Iranian pistachio will be a threat to the American growers not only in the domestic market, but also in the overseas markets.
Nevertheless, the fact that the US has implemented a hefty tariff of 300 percent on Iranian pistachios is already believed to have made competition for Iranian growers harder.
But this tariff may not be in place forever. This is because some are speculation that Iranian farmers will likely try to prove they are not subsidized by their government as soon as this summer, in a meeting with the US International Trade Commission, in an attempt which will be meant to reduce the tariff.
Iranian officials said last April that the country had ousted the as the leading producer of pistachio nuts and reclaimed the position which it has long held to its credit.
Production of the nut surpassed 235,000 tons thanks to satisfactory precipitations and Iran’s implementation of development measures for better yield, an official with the agriculture ministry, Ali Mohseni said.
Iran outpaced the United States as the top producer after unofficial figures of 240,000 tons of pistachio crop in the US for 2014 were brushed aside by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Mohseni said.
Iran is the top pistachio exporter, a position the country has strongly maintained, thanks to the premium quality of its produce.
Iran exported 180,262 tons of the nut worth $1.62 billion in 2014. Those exports marked a 50% rise both in terms of volume and value.
Iran also has the largest acreage of land dedicated to pistachio plantation, spread over more than 20 provinces in the country.
“The solution to the Syrian crisis, which has negatively affected regional security, is merely political,” Amir Abdollahian told the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on Friday.
He further censured some regional and Western countries, which are members to the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) and participate in the UN-brokered peace talks on Syria but in practice, they are pursuing a military approach to Syria.
“Undoubtedly, renewing the idea of a no-fly zone [over Syria] will not provide any help for regional security and stability,” Amir Abdollahian noted.
The idea of no-fly zone was first raised by Turkey. On Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that a no-fly would have prevented Russia’s air campaign in the region.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on February 17 denounced the humanitarian situation in Syria as “unacceptable” and renewed her call for a no-fly zone in the war-stricken country.
Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with various terrorist groups, including Daesh, currently controlling parts of it.
Meanwhile, Russia’s recent aerial support for the Syrian forces has given fresh impetus to the fight against the foreign-backed terrorists.
According to a new report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research, the conflict has claimed the lives of over 470,000 people, injured 1.9 million others, and displaced nearly half of the country’s pre-war population of about 23 million within or beyond its borders.
Manouchehr Takin told Deutsche Welle radio that Iranian officials have already stressed that they are going to go on with their marketing attempts.
He said he was sure Iran will in no way consent to maintaining a fixed level of production, noting that this would not be fair to the country.
The expert said Iran has got its own customers and is quite able of going on with its plan in the present complicated market.
The radio went on its report to note that Iran says it will ship its second crude oil consignment after the sanctions’ removal before the end of February.
Managing Director of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Roknoddin Javadi said Iran will send its second oil shipment before the end of February.
Iran shipped its first oil consignment after sanctions’ removal earlier this week and has said it will continue the shipments until it restores its pre-sanctions export levels.
The Islamic Republic has promised to add at least a million barrels a day to its crude oil exports a year after the sanctions removal.
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