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Fog turns to glacier turns to ice turns to water as it meanders, over the ages, through the twisting hulks of rock on the Greenland coast.
Creating the name plate took much longer than I anticipated. Getting the size right and color, and making the vynle lables cut and applied took a few weekends too long. I thought about adding RHAS (Royal Human Alliance Ship) in front of the name and or a serial number as most ships have, but ultimatly decided on just doing the name with out either. I can always add those things later if I want but probably won't. With this last detail completed the bottom of the ship is finsihed and is ready to be flipped over. I've also been dragging my feet on getting that done as well. I have to recruit and schedual help for lifting it and turning it over, which is a hassle. Hopefully that will be done by the end of this week.
A rain drop has landed on the middle "puddle" disrupting the pattern of the reflection. Photo taken looking straight up from under a glass eave/overhang on a rainy afternoon in Vancouver. There is a neon sign above the glass overhang.
The two weapons shoot intense, tightly focused soundwaves. (There's probably a technical term for such a sound laser, if anyone wants to chime in with it, go ahead.)
I've always liked quadroped mechs.
Disruption for Arriva Trains Wales services at Crewe after a bridge strike in the Sandbach area closed the Crewe to Cheadle Hulme line on Friday 17th October 2014. On the left of picture is Class 175 No. 175113 which had formed the 11:03 Carmarthen – Manchester Piccadilly, forced to terminate at Crewe while on the right is Class 175 No. 175110 arriving with the 15:30 Manchester Piccadilly – Carmarthen service, diverted via Macclesfield and Kidsgrove where it reversed to take the line via Alsager to Crewe. Hence the arrival into the south facing bay platforms and considering the diversion and reversals involved departed Crewe a mere 40 minutes late.
Ock's costume was terrific from every angle and always drew a crowd.
This is why when I spotted him walking towards my "photo studio" I turned away and didn't stop him for another photo...
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Damn, but somebody else did. And within thirty seconds, "my" studio was packed with people. Oh, well...I had been thinking about taking a break anyway.
There is growing interest in the possible health threat posed by endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which are substances in our environment, food, and consumer products that interfere with hormone biosynthesis, metabolism, or action resulting in a deviation from normal homeostatic control or reproduction.
In this first Scientific Statement of The Endocrine Society , we present the evidence that endocrine disruptors have effects on male and female reproduction, breast development and cancer, prostate cancer, neuroendocrinology, thyroid, metabolism and obesity, and cardiovascular endocrinology.
Results from animal models, human clinical observations, and epidemiological studies converge to implicate EDCs as a significant concern to public health. The mechanisms of EDCs involve divergent pathways including (but not limited to) estrogenic, antiandrogenic, thyroid, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ, retinoid, and actions through other nuclear receptors; steroidogenic enzymes; neurotransmitter receptors and systems; and many other pathways that are highly conserved in wildlife and humans, and which can be modeled in laboratory in vitro and in vivo models. Furthermore, EDCs represent a broad class of molecules such as organochlorinated pesticides and industrial chemicals, plastics and plasticizers, fuels, and many other chemicals that are present in the environment or are in widespread use.
We make a number of recommendations to increase understanding of effects of EDCs, including enhancing increased basic and clinical research, invoking the precautionary principle, and advocating involvement of individual and scientific society stakeholders in communicating and implementing changes in public policy and awareness.
Accepted: April 17, 2009 - First Published Online: July 01, 2013.
Sources and more information
* Flickr album DES and EDCs Research.
* EDC-2: The Endocrine Society’s Second Scientific Statement on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, DOI: 10.1210/er.2015-1010, November 06, 2015.
* Executive Summary to EDC-2: The Endocrine Society’s Second Scientific Statement on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, DOI: 10.1210/er.2015-1093, September 28, 2015.
* Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement, NCBI PMCID: PMC2726844, doi: 10.1210/er.2009-0002, June 2009.
It's difficult, at first glance to know how many zebra are in the picture and which way they are facing.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 28: Sophia Kianni, Co-Founder, Phia, speaks onstage during day two of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at Moscone Center on October 28, 2025 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch)