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Nour Al Hassan, Chief Executive Officer, Tarjama, United Arab Emirates during the Session: " Embracing Disruption" at the World Economic Forum on the MENA Region, Jordan 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Bit of a belly crawl to get this shot of a Grayling on the path at Acres Down. Otherwise they'd fly up on approach. You can see how impressive its camouflage is, and also how intricate and rather pretty. Their camouflage is so good that they were very hard to spot until they flew up from the path on being disturbed.
Before this year I'd not seen a Grayling in the UK.
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Normally my two blogs don't overlap. A Raven Image - the passions of my heart (photography & beauty) and Tom's Mog - the passions of my mind (geopolitics & conspiracy) usually inhabit separate realities, but today they cross-over...
...creating some general quantum interference or Disruptive Patterns
hopefully thought provoking ones of beauty :-)
Check out my latest posts on Tom's Mog - Nanotech is Now! - Hidden Technologies and Imagine! - A World of Drone Wars, Weather Weapons and Nano-Tech Spies
Update: Well must have touched a nerve with that post... lost my job today out-of-the-blue. so will be heading off the grid for a while just in case those disruptive patterns I kicked off plan on getting any worse... stay tuned for follow up posts on my blog :-(
* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot SOOC
Plantage Muidergracht 09/12/2019 18h19
Not officially an installation of the Amsterdam Light Festival but the University of Amsterdam nevertheless participated with a light project with the subject "navigating a complex world". Well visible from the water as by foot.
Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam Light Festival is an annual light art festival in Amsterdam. Artists, architects and (light) designers from all over the world bring their light artworks and installations alive during the festival every winter.
The theme of edition #8 is DISRUPT!. In line with the theme 'DISRUPT!', the festival has chosen a completely new route for the first time: Oosterdok, Oudeschans, Amstel, Nieuwe Keizersgracht, Plantage Muidergracht, Entrepotdok.
From 28 November 2019 to 19 January 2020 Amsterdam was again the stage for international light art.
amsterdamlightfestival.com
How the chemical lobby blocked action on hormone disrupting chemicals
Publisher: Corporate Europe Observatory, May 19th 2015.
An investigation led by research and campaign group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and journalist Stéphane Horel exposes corporate lobby groups mobilising to stop the EU taking action on hormone (endocrine) disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The report sheds light on how corporations and their lobby groups have used numerous tactics from the corporate lobbying playbook: scaremongering, evidence-discrediting, and delaying tactics, as well as using the ongoing TTIP negotiations as a leverage. But industry's interests were also defended by actors within the Commission.
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that are present in everyday products – from plastics and cosmetics to pesticides. Because of their ability to interact with the hormonal (endocrine) systems of living organisms, they are suspected of having severe health and environmental impacts.
EU law demands action be taken on endocrine disruptors, with clear deadlines set. According to these rules, if a chemical is identified as an endocrine disruptor, a ban follows. The current approach is that chemicals are assessed following risk assessment procedures and safe levels of exposure are set accordingly. However, for endocrine disruptors it might be impossible to set such 'safe' levels.
The Directorate-General (DG) for the Environment of the European Commission was put in charge of establishing a set of scientific criteria for 'what is an endocrine disruptor'. The chemical industry lobby was up in arms at the potential banning of some EDCs. The main lobby groups involved were the chemical and pesticide lobbies (CEFIC - European Chemical Industry Council & ECPA - European Crop Protection Association), and the corporations at the forefront were BASF and Bayer. But they found allies in various member states, actors within the European Commission, and in the European Parliament.
Sources and more information
* Flickr album DES and EDCs Research.
* A Toxic Affair: How the chemical lobby blocked action on hormone disrupting chemicals, CEO, May 19th 2015.
* Download the full PDF.
* Our Endocrine Disruptors video playlist and posts tagged EDCs.
The concept of "Disruptive Innovation" is relatively new. It was introduced by Clayton Christensen (professor at Harvard Business School www. Claytonchristensen.com) in 1997 in the book "The innovators dilemma" and refers to how a product or service can Its origins is born as something residual or as a simple application without many followers or users become short time in the product or service market leaderhttp://www.luisan.net/blog/marketing Authorship photos
A good example of the effects of a disruptive pattern, replicated on this model of the Bismarck, which give an impression of the vessel being shorter than it really is, or further away.
Either way, it was designed to play havoc with an observer, who might be trying to compute an attack with torpedo's or large calibre guns.
Larger ships often had false bows and sterns painted in a different shade from the rest of the hull to create the impression of the ship being at greater range from the observer.
As I've said before, my father tend to look severe on photographs, and the graveyard scenery simply adds to it.
Got an Apocalypse game coming up - our team wants to use the Disruptor Beacon strategic asset, so I threw one together. Considering I literally pulled a pile of stuff out of my bits box and stuck it together until it looked vaguely beacon-like, I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out.
The Marine is holding a (kit-bashed) 'Wave Cannon', that I envisage sending vibrations into the ground to put off tunnelling Trygons - we'll be fighting Tyranids on Saturday. The gun has bits from Ork, Necron, Chaos, Defiler and Venerable Dreadnought kits - I can't identify every part of it any more...
OBSCENE EXTREME 2014 ASIA ( 3 DAYS - DAY 1 )
at Asakusa KURAWOOD
BUTCHER ABC
ORGASM GRIND DISRUPTION
BRAIN CORROSION (Taiwan)
CONTRAST ATTITUDE
JIG-AI (Czech Republic)
CRIPPLE BASTARDS (Italy)
We rarely play the lottery or get scratch tickets because we rarely win. A wasted 10 min. and a wasted $3...I bet
UPDATE: $20.00 WINNER LOL.
This week we sold off our old iPhones, MiniDV Camcorder and Kindle. We are also going to hawk our 12MP still camera. Why would we get rid of all this stuff? Our new phones (iPhone 4s) have proven to be a disruptive technology. We no longer need special devices for each task. We can finally take decent photos, videos and read books on our phones. It's a big deal to us as we have been desperately trying to cut down on the amount of material crap we bring into our home.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 19: (L-R) Dominic-Madori Davis, Senior Reporter, VC & Startups, TechCrunch, Mike Asem, General Partner, M25, Rich Wong, Partner, Accel and Elizabeth Yin, Co-founder & General Partner, Hustle Fund speak onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 on October 19, 2022 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
Are there reasons for concern? Who is at risk?
Where are EDCs hidden in the healthcare sector?
Created for healthcare professionals on EDCs, this leaflet by Health Care without Harm Europe (HCWH) examines the reasons why we should be concerned, who is at risk, including on pregnant women and babies, and where EDCs are hidden in the healthcare sector.
Sources and more information
* Health Care without Harm Europe, downloads/chemicals, 2013. See the webinar.
* Flickr album DES and EDCs Research.
* Our Endocrine Disruptors video playlist and posts tagged EDCs.
Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path. - Paulo Coelho
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Top 25 Romantic Hotels in the World 2018
Original photo credit: Felix-Mittermeier.de
Excitement in the neighborhood. Turned out to be carbon monoxide buildup due to problems with a gas stove. All clear.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 15, 2010)
Many reproductive and developmental health problems are caused by exposure to chemicals that are widely dispersed in our environment. These problems include infertility, miscarriage, poor pregnancy outcomes, abnormal fetal development, early puberty, endometriosis, and diseases and cancers of reproductive organs. The compelling nature of the collective science has resulted in recognition of a new field of environmental reproductive health. Focusing on exposures to environmental contaminants, particularly during critical periods in development and their potential effects on all aspects of future reproductive life-course, this book provides the first comprehensive source of information bringing together the arguments that are spread out among various scientific disciplines in environmental health, clinical and public health fields. It provides a review of the science in key areas of the relationship between environmental contaminants and reproductive health outcomes, and recommendations on efforts toward prevention in clinical care and public policy.
Sources and more information
* Flickr album DES and EDCs Research.
* Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health and Fertility, J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2011 37: 3.
* Book review, J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2011;37:3 doi:10.1136/jfprhc., 2010.0012.
* Our Endocrine Disruptors video playlist and posts tagged EDCs.