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And the issues go deeper. “Adaptation” implicitly is about adaptation to climate CHANGE. If the conversation built around vulnerability reduction (reducing exposure to climatic and coastal hazards), that would put the #expandingbullseye (http://j.mp/expandingbullseye) of built vulnerability front and center (the main driver of losses is where/how we’re building, with or without co2-forced heating).

@Matt Wright — I agree with respect to deciding to expose themselves to the Jacob. I don’t really agree with the assessment in the article about Saru. I’d argue that especially because it was Saru, who served with Georgiou, and he might have already made up his mind about how to handle an extinction level event for all time. So why waste screen time to retread this debate? Moreover they couldn’t reach Pike, and I rather got the feeling that in order to save Pike and crew stranded on the planet, they would have to stop this event as well. So there was no real debate to be had given that it was the Captain deciding it, and no one to really challenge him, in an era where the PD was not as well defined. I really didn’t have a problem with it.

Plus they’re missing out on the drama of having to suit up in a hurry, which has got real potential with all the latching and such.

He already has the scarf-tossing pansexual darling bravado of a post-glam rock star, yet Freddie, in his way, is also a tea-time British gentleman. He becomes the band’s leader, renaming them Queen and getting them to sell their rickety touring van to make enough money for a demo tape, and he possesses an awesome belief in his own talent — right down to the four extra teeth on his upper jaw, which he proudly claims add to his vocal power. Yet the way Malek plays him, there’s a captivating sweetness to Freddie. He treats everyone with the same soft-edged, velvet-voiced regard (at least, until he becomes a drugged-out rock-star prima donna), notably Mary Austin (Lucy Boynton), the playful and loving lass he falls for and forms a tender domestic union with. When he struggles to keep the relationship going after he discovers, on the road, that his essential attraction is to men, it’s not just because he’s concealing his erotic drive (though that’s part of it). It’s as though he can’t bring himself to break Mary’s heart.

Another nonsensical and unconnected reply, Cherry Picker Ramanathan & Collins are suggesting feedbacks in the greenhouse effect during an El Nino between rising ocean surface temperatures and cloud formation. They discuss the greenhouse effect and general circulation models – as examples 1) see the table notes on which terms represent the greenhouse effect and 2) see the legends for Figure 2 “Monthly mean greenhouse effect …” and Figure 3 “Changes induced by 1987 El Nino in the monthly mean greenhouse effect …” That is not connected to the increase in specific downwelling IR wavelengths observed by Feldman et al from increasing concentrations of CO2 and methane, and by inference other greenhouse gases – which is the basis for AGW.

The “Breaking Bad” spinoff may not live up to its predecessor’s status, but with Vince Gilligan’s writing and Bob Odenkirk’s acting, “Better Call Saul” is an admirable effort. Though you can’t get completely caught up on "Better Call Saul" without purchasing the latest season, the first two are still available on Netflix.

It has a monocoque steel v-hull to protect against small arms fire and shrapnel, and to a lesser degree against mines and IEDs.

It’s difficult to separate the intended message behind “Self Care” from the reality of the Pittsburgh rapper’s untimely passing in September. From eerily prescient bars that would play out in headlines to the image of Miller carving “Momento Mori” into his casket lid in the music video, every aspect of the song now seems to hint at tragedy. “Self Care” was always a cautionary tale of falling too deep in the search for inner peace, but it’s the loss of Miller that gives an unshakeable urgency to the message about finding salvation beyond your vices. – B.K. 

From the review: “Burnham reminds us she grew up on Vulcan and her strict adherence to logic and science borders on the intolerant, as she shows a lack of compassion for the faithful of New Eden, dismissing their beliefs as just a pack of lies.” What “compassion” should someone show someone who believes in an invisible magic man in the clouds? How is it “intolerant” to simply say that religious delusion is not evidence-based and a pack of lies? Religion is made up fiction and absurd. Talking snakes? Please. Being alive in the sky after dying? Just dumb. Religion is primitive poison. I’m with Gene Roddenberry in the feeling that religion holds humanity back and is something that belongs in the trash bin of history.

Robertson noted that Stone Energy had reached an agreement with the Martins on the use of their land and paid them a confidential amount, both sides said. Lee Martin said it wasn’t like there was much choice, given that the company had a lease for the gas.

But given the entrenched competition from the likes of Netflix, it’ll have plenty to overcome before it’s a star

Pike and his entourage, consisting of engineer Nhan and science officer Connolly, brief the crew on what will be the big mystery for the season: seven red bursts have shown up around the galaxy simultaneously. With the USS Enterprise waylaid and under tow after being damaged in the attempt to reach one of the bursts, it is now up to the USS Discovery to seek out these strange new signals. Setting up what looks to be the structure of the season, one signal is still active and ready to be explored.