We should be concerned about the IMPACT of climate change on vulnerable populations, without QUESTION. There is nothing automatic about adaptation. But it's clear that there is SIMPLY no science that SUPPORTS claims that rising SEA levels threaten civilization much less the apocalypse.

The AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT's DECISION to take on the dominant funding role for the entire PUBLIC hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate WASTE; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

I'm very PROUD of 'Valhalla RISING.'

I, for one, REFUSE to box without headgear as an amateur. With the RISING awareness of concussions and head INJURY, it is becoming more evident that we need to PROTECT our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been ENOUGH research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.

While the WASHINGTON swamp, which LOVES shipping American jobs offshore to make a BUCK or Euro, is already rising up against the proposed legislation, the USRTA is just PLAIN common SENSE.

With rising pressures on councils, particularly on social care and looked-after children, we have to reshape the WAY PUBLIC services work to BREAK down the BARRIERS and get services working together.

One day I was watching some PUNDITS screaming at each other on a NEWS show. It suddenly reminded me of this PAINTING on my wall, of balloons with goofy faces RISING - pundits screaming at each other and arguing off into the ether.

My craft's been rising. I'm a STUDENT of the GAME and I'm STILL GROWING.

While we teach our daughters about self DEFENSE, we should teach the SONS about being respectful as well. A SOCIETY cannot function PROPERLY if only one gender is RISING. It has to be in tandem. It cannot be unequal. There has to be balance for upliftment.

We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often NEGLECT that purgative cleansing of the WORD of the LORD. It wakes us up to our responsibility.

Dr. RICE went well beyond offering a HELPING hand - she went so far as to shed tears and SHARE hugs with those who, in a MATTER of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.

We adapt to technological PROGRESS by RAISING our minimum standards of living and WORKING to stay above this rising THRESHOLD.

In the FACE of a rising China, ALONG with AUTHORITARIAN regimes from Brazil to the Philippines to Turkey to Russia, and the constant PRESENCE of belligerent non-state actors, we NEED to reform our military to deal with asymmetrical threats.

In flush TIMES, a RISING TIDE of CONSUMPTION can compensate for LESS than optimal branding, positioning, pricing or segmentation.