View allAll Photos Tagged influence
Until a few years ago, a handful of people had total influence over the way most women in the eastern Afghan hub of Jalalabad should live.
One of the many things women were deprived of was radio. Many were not allowed to listen to radio, let alone watching television, according to local women.
Now things have changed for the good, thanks to the sway Nargis radio has among the local women.
“Women are getting to know their rights gradually. In the past, many extremist people didn’t allow women to even listen to radio. Now, they have no restrictions,” said Faza Noorzai, a newscaster and journalist with Radio Nargis 88.6 MHz, her head fully covered with a white scarf. “It’s a big change.”
Established on 11 September 2007, the radio station, set up by the Shaiq Media Network, has 18 hours of programmes all dedicated to women.
Nargis radio can be heard in three eastern provinces – Nangarhar and parts of Laghman and Kunar.
Nargis – referring to the daffodil-like yellow narcissus flower – is the third radio station – run by women for women to be established in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Nargis has 20 staff – 16 news and four technical staff.
Harsh social conditions and radically conservative attitudes towards women make the Nargis unique from the two others – Voice of Women (Kabul) and Radio Zohra (Kunduz).
The latter two were established on 4 March 2004, coinciding with International Women’s Day, with support from the Internews, an NGO that supports media organizations worldwide.
One thing that is so unique about the Nargis is that none of its staff – news-related or technical – received prior training in their respective fields.
Overall manager of the Shaiq Network, Shafiqullah Shaiq, said the women receive training after they are hired. “This helps in their personal growth too,” said Mr Shaiq, who aspires to become the top media moghul in eastern Afghanistan.
Mr Shaiq, 40, whose father was killed by the Russians during the occupation, runs a second radio station called “Sharq” and a television station with the same name – both based in Jalalabad.
His media network also publishes a four-page newspaper and runs a journalism training centre. He claimed that his documentary on terrorism, education and narcotics called “Black Poison” has sold 20,000 copies since 2005.
“I was living here during the dark days of the Taliban,” he said. “We are very optimistic and my centre will be like the CNN one day. When they [CNN] started, they were also as we are today.”
The problem, he says, is the lack of funds and resources. Yet, the unrelenting Shaiq is ambitious. “I will establish media centres in Mazar-e-Sharif, Kunar and Laghman.”
A news staffer with Nargis, Gulalai Naseri, claimed that there has been a decrease in the number of women committing suicide “by self-immolation” in Jalalabad due to this media boom.
“Between 9:00 and 10:00 am, we air a programme called ‘Life of Women’, which is dedicated to addressing women’s problems,” said Ms Naseri. “The topics we cover are suicide, forced marriage, education and security, among others.”
Other programmes include news, entertainment, jokes shows and drama.
Shahla Shaiq, who is the wife of Mr Shafiqullah, has been given the overall responsibility of managing Nargis.
“We invited more than ten female provincial council candidates in for roundtables discussions during the election campaign period,” said Ms Shaiq. “We are now planning special programmes ahead of the Peace Day (21 September).”
The latest in the Shaiq family to enter the media empire is their 12-year-old daughter, Hina, who is already a newscaster with the Nargis.
The radio has already started broadcasting a 30-second radio spot with peace message prepared by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Nargis was started after conducting a survey among women, who pitched for a radio for women to support their cause.
“Now, they have their voice,” said Ms Noorzai. “We are getting a very positive response.”
Ms Naseri said she got a night letter threatening her life when she visited her home in Laghman about eight months ago.
“I didn’t panic about it and entered the area and spoke to the people who know me very well,” she added. “Some people are jealous about me. Out of jealousness, they did that. There is full cooperation from my family and they encourage me to continue the job.”
Adds another newscaster, Khcola Sadat: “Our purpose is to enlighten the minds of the women. Many people are very happy and praise our role.”
Photo: Shafiqullah Waak (UNAMA).
Use our fitness influencers to help your health and fitness business grow and influencers make money helping them #TrainHard #NoExcuses #GetStrong #GirlsWhoLift
#GymLife #GymTime #NoPainNoGain #PersonalTrainer #Sweat #Treadmill #Weights #WeightTraining #gymlife #YouCanDoIt #FitnessGoals #Workout #beastmode
The former St. Peter's Church of Ireland (1891), in the forgotten, 19th centry mill village of Laragh, Co. Monaghan.
This church is unusual in that it is made from corrugated iron. The story goes that it was brought back to Laragh by the mill owner and his wife from their honeymoon in Switzerland, where she saw and fell in love with it. Designed in a swiss-gothic hybrid style, it is located in a small, narrow wooded valley alongside the river which powered the village's mill. The landscaping around the church is designed to evoke a small mountain glade with rocky outcrops around the church.
It was deconsecrated in 1962. It's not that obvious from this shot, but the exterior has become quite run down.
Influencers church (Paradise) fireworks 19/12/2014
Carols and Fireworks.
Canon EOS 5D, 24-70L, ND2-400 Variable filter, 1 sec exposure and longer
2015
_MG_8941
Under The Influence 2014 featuring Wiz Khalifa, Young Jeezy, Tyga, Ty Dolla $ign, Mack Wilds, Iamsu!, Sage The Gemini, DJ Drama, and Rich Homie Quan.
Photography by CZR-E for The Come Up Show. Check out the review at www.thecomeupshow.com
In its final days when this shot was taken late 86, unbelievable small in the flesh.........I copied this and did study in HB pencil for my GCSE art exam.....I got a C!
A wildfire is the result of a complex interaction of biological, meteorological, physical, and social factors that influence its likelihood, behaviour, duration, extent, and outcome (i.e., severity or impact). Changes in many of these factors are increasing the risk of wildfire globally (e.g., climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of weather conducive to wildfire outbreaks, changed demographics in high-risk regions are increasing the potential impacts of wildfires). Management options at junctures, such as fuel management (managing fuels prior to a wildfire occurrence), fire management (undertaking fighting of the fire once it has started), or relocating those threatened during a wildfire event (e.g., evacuation) can mitigate some of the economic, environmental, or societal impacts of wildfire but it is impossible to mitigate all risks for all fires. As a result, communities often have to learn to live with the residual risk of wildfire.
This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Andrew Sullivan/CSIRO, 2021.
Kladno.
Z cyklu URBAN COUNTRY - zátiší a podivnosti v městské krajině.
From project URBAN COUNTRY - still life and mystery in human landscape.
Olympus 35SP & ROSSMANN 200ASA film
Double page spread of my work informed by Kahlo.
On this spread I annotated and reflected upon Kahlo's work and my work in her style. Using her influence to bring across my cultural roots as she does within her work.
Photo of some of the top 100 SMB Influencers and key sponsors recognized at the SMB Influencer Awards Gala. This picture was taken at the end of the event so lots of folks had left already. For additional photos from the event see: SMB Influencer - New York Expo Show Flickr photoset.
Photo (cc). If using photo, please credit: Photo courtesy Grant Wickes.
In picture: Shashi Bellamkonda (@shashib), Bryan Lee (Senior Dir US Sales - RIM), ?. Laurie McCabe (@lauriemccabe), Gwen Moran (@GwenMoran - hiding behind Laurie), Dina Dwyer-Owens (@DinaDwyerOwens), Grant Wickes (@gwickes), Anita Campbell (@smallbiztrends), Mike Blumenthal (@mblumenthal), Ingrid Vanderveldt (@ontheroadwithiv of Dell), Carol Roth (@caroljroth), ?, Alibaba exec, Michael Simmons, Hilary Cable (Deluxe), Ramon Ray (@ramonray), Karen-Michelle Mirko (@KMMirko), ?, Melinda French (@smallbizlady), Eitan Saban (@eitansaban), Scott Gerber
Photo taken with Canon S100
Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
#smbinfluencer #nyxpo
INFLUENCERS is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment.
The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach.
Written and Directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, the film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today's pop culture.
"Influencers" belongs to the new generation of short films, webdocs, which combine the documentary style and the online experience.
www.facebook.com/influencersfilm
---
Director's Note: on.fb.me/bQ3kHj
Playlist: on.fb.me/cve0yF
Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by R+I creative.
A really lovely audio component. In developing the controls of this unit and the partnering electronics of this series, the designer Jacob Jensen was influenced by the scale and cursor of a slide rule.
Meeting details at 2011 Top 100 SMB Influencers. Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and currently VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
In picture: , Kendel Drysdale,
LITTLE ONE and EYE SPY
Tuesday 9 and Wed 17 July, 7.30pm, £10, Lock 91, 9 Century Street, Manchester M3 4QL; and
Friday 12 and Saturday 13 July, 7.30pm, £10, Eagle Inn, 18-19 Collier Street, Salford, M3 7DW.
Two one hour twisted yet comic explorations looking at the darker side of human nature with a short interval between. We all recognise love, we all understand hate and yet we dance between them day-by-day. How far do those emotions take us and can they push us across lines we should never have crossed? The first, Little One by Hannah Moscovitch is the haunting story of adopted siblings Aaron and Claire - one the definition of normal, the other deeply disturbed and unpredictable - and the strange lives of their neighbours, a man and his mail order bride. The second is Eye Spy, a company devised piece: A cycle of six short plays that take a peek at the not so distant future. Eye Spy is set in a Tech-obsessed society and looks at the stories of people living under the 'BOOK' regime. Sarah, a modern influencer needs more followers, how far will she go to get them? Jack has started wearing his yellow hat with pride, why? Will we ever find the Hacker? Whatever you do DON'T type a FORBIDDEN WORD!
Trailer... youtu.be/iY0t4YkqdEg
Meeting details at 2011 Top 100 SMB Influencers. Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and currently VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
In picture:
"Malá Strana (Czech for "Little Side (of the River)", German: Prager Kleinseite) or more formally Menší Město pražské (English: Lesser Town of Prague) is a district of the city of Prague, Czech Republic, and one of its most historic neighbourhoods.
In the Middle Ages, it was a dominant center of the ethnic German (and since 16th century also Italian) citizens of Prague. It also housed many noble palaces while the right-bank towns were comparatively more bourgeois and more Bohemian Czech.
Prague (/ˈprɑːɡ/ PRAHG; Czech: Praha [ˈpraɦa]; German: Prag [pʁaːk]; Latin: Praga) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters.
Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378) and Rudolf II (r. 1575–1611).
It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era.
Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the violence and destruction of 20th-century Europe. Main attractions include Prague Castle, Charles Bridge, Old Town Square with the Prague astronomical clock, the Jewish Quarter, Petřín hill and Vyšehrad. Since 1992, the historic center of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
The city has more than ten major museums, along with numerous theatres, galleries, cinemas, and other historical exhibits. An extensive modern public transportation system connects the city. It is home to a wide range of public and private schools, including Charles University in Prague, the oldest university in Central Europe.
Prague is classified as a "Alpha-" global city according to GaWC studies. In 2019, the city was ranked as 69th most livable city in the world by Mercer. In the same year, the PICSA Index ranked the city as 13th most livable city in the world. Its rich history makes it a popular tourist destination and as of 2017, the city receives more than 8.5 million international visitors annually. In 2017, Prague was listed as the fifth most visited European city after London, Paris, Rome, and Istanbul.
Bohemia (Latin Bohemia, German Böhmen, Polish Czechy) is a region in the west of the Czech Republic. Previously, as a kingdom, they were the center of the Czech Crown. The root of the word Czech probably corresponds to the meaning of man. The Latin equivalent of Bohemia, originally Boiohaemum (literally "land of Battles"), which over time also influenced the names in other languages, is derived from the Celtic tribe of the Boios, who lived in this area from the 4th to the 1st century BC Bohemia on it borders Germany in the west, Austria in the south, Moravia in the east and Poland in the north. Geographically, they are bounded from the north, west and south by a chain of mountains, the highest of which are the Krkonoše Mountains, in which the highest mountain of Bohemia, Sněžka, is also located. The most important rivers are the Elbe and the Vltava, with the fertile Polabean Plain extending around the Elbe. The capital and largest city of Bohemia is Prague, other important cities include, for example, Pilsen, Karlovy Vary, Kladno, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice and České Budějovice, Jihlava also lies partly on the historical territory of Bohemia." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
Meeting details at 2011 Top 100 SMB Influencers. Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and currently VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
In picture:
Nowadays we see the sex maturation each time earlier between children and teenagers. Examples are prolific: media, school, family, friends and even the streets.
Medium: graphite on paper.
Original: 30"x50". Available.
Email: info@ritaelsner.com
Web: www.ritaelsner.com
Influencers church (Paradise) fireworks 19/12/2014
Carols and Fireworks.
Canon EOS 5D, 24-70L, ND2-400 Variable filter, 1 sec exposure and longer
2015
_MG_8990
Meeting details at 2011 Top 100 SMB Influencers. Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and currently VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
In picture:
Meeting details at 2011 Top 100 SMB Influencers. Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and currently VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
In picture: , Regina Ciardiello
St Michael is a Jesuit church in Munich, southern Germany, the largest Renaissance church north of the Alps. The style of the building had an enormous influence on Southern German early Baroque architecture.
The church was built by William V, Duke of Bavaria between 1583 and 1597 as a spiritual center for the Counter Reformation.[1] The foundation stone was laid in 1585.[2]
In order to realise his ambitious plans for the church and the adjoining college, Duke William had 87 houses in the best location pulled down, ignoring the protests of the citizens.[3] The church was erected in two stages. In the first stage (1583-88), the church was built by the model of Il Gesù in Rome and given a barrel-vaulted roof by an unknown architect, the vault being the largest in the world apart from that of St Peter's in Rome, spanning freely more than 20 meters. When the church was built, there were doubts about the stability of the vaulting. But it was the tower that collapsed in 1590, destroying the just completed quire. [4] Duke William V took it as a bad omen and so planned to build a much larger church. The second phase of construction continued until the consecration of the church in 1597.[5] Friedrich Sustris built on to the undamaged nave a new quire and a transept and a magnificent facade.[6] The church is 78.2 meters long, 20.3 meters wide and 28.2 meters high.
The facade is impressive and contains standing statues of Duke Wilhelm and earlier rulers of the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty, cast in bronze, in the form of a family tree.[7] Hubert Gerhard's large bronze statue between the two entrances shows the Archangel Michael fighting for the Faith and killing the Evil in the shape of a humanoid demon.
The interior is a representation of the triumph of Catholicism as true Christianity during the Counter-Reformation. The heavily indented chancel arch as well as the short side aisles and even the side chapels are designed as a triumphal arch to ancient model. A very deep choir room adjoins the mighty nave. The stucco decoration of the nave represents the life of Jesus Christ. The altarpiece "Annunciation" was created by Peter Candid (1587). The sculpture of the holy angel in the nave from Hubert Gerhard (1595) was originally intended for the tomb of William V, which was not completed.
Having suffered severe damage during the Second World War, the church was restored in 1946-48. Finally, between 1980 and 1983, the stucco-work was restored.