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Sins of a Solar Empire
Sins Rebellion
The AI is too hard, AGAIN!
sulley1
June 16, 2013 4:46:52 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums
So I complained about this before, I mean before sins had this new update. I think that you guys made the "hard" AI much harder again. I don't know if you just put the income modifier back in, but I'm finding it much harder to form relationships and to beat "hard" AI. I've tried playing against just one hard AI, in a large (multi) map, but it still is much harder than it was. The AI somehow destroys every other race in their system, then conquers the other one and starts bombarding my system with ships. The other AI's would be completely overrun if I weren't playing.
One example is that the "hard" AI starts building experimental weapons when I'm only on tier four research in military and civilian. I move pretty quick also, I've been playing this game for years! But somehow the AI gets waaaay better waaay faster.
I wouldn't say this was so bad, if I could get some of the other AI's on my side, but for some reason they are very hard to persuade. I researched almost every tech on the diplomacy tree and did all kinds of missions for this one TEC faction (I was vasari) but the relationship was only at about -3.00. I was getting a -10.00 from "faction relations". I don't know what this means but it was killing my relations ship with this civ. I wasn't completing missions from other factions and this TEC faction wasn't with anyone else. How do I fix this?
And why is the "hard" AI so HARD?
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Turchany
Reply #26 June 19, 2013 1:49:33 AM
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Quoting sulley1,
Also, I have been playing these games on random maps
I always play on random maps.. You can decide where to put your chokepoint there, most of the times there is an option for it, 1-2-3 planets closing the way to yout inner planets from AI side, and if you move your fleet when AI attacks somewhere you can defend 3 worlds at once (of course with fully upgraded starbases)
Smaller maps (like medium ones) are better in the case you will not let him develop freely (and have a 2000+ fleet while you only have like 500). This is the key, not letting him do what he wants, and against Hard or Unfair you need to kill his fleets with minimal losses, to take away his extra resources so he will not surpass you in every field. A starbase with a moderate defender fleet and some repair strucutres is enough to destroy 5-10 times larger fleets, with capital ships, and with titan.. AI is really stupid, though sometimes it really wants to kill your starbase like 30 ogrovs..
Frostflare
I'm pretty sure Hard AIs do not gain any income advantage -- they just seem to spend it more effectively than we do because they have no sense of foresight or self-preservation.
Human player: "I'm gonna need X soon, so I won't get Y right now," when nine times out of ten you could afford X anyway.
AI player: "I don't even care, I'm just gonna research all the things, spam all the ships, and get all the planets."
But what makes an AI player ultimately beatable is their predictability. They will always attack when you're not at a planet (so leave choke-point planets only when you have adequate defenses), and they will inevitably attack with combinations of ships that can be beaten with proper fleet synergy.
Quoting Frostflare,
I'm pretty sure Hard AIs do not gain any income advantage
................... Just check the end game results, he clearly gets advantage. Just think, how the hell would he get more credits if you had more population ad trade ports than him?
and get all the planets."
It should be your priority too... In the beginning grabbing as much planets as possible is key for victory.
and they will inevitably attack with combinations of ships that can be beaten with proper fleet synergy.
Is it surprising? The game is all about counters... There is nothing that cannot be countered. It's not the AI's fault.
XATHOS
Look at all the bitching in here. If it's too hard, turn down the difficulty (you have more than 3 presets for a reason), or find what the issue is, and mod it out.
On a side note, I haven't played the new AI yet, but I'll be happy to play once my mod is fully converted over. The mod is tech level expansions, racial/planetary (making each race/planet more unique) rebalancing , dramatically increased importance on roletypes, and gameplay optimizations. It's much harder than vanilla, and more fun. I recall the standard difficulty being "unfair" for the AI, in my LAN group. Regardless, I'm working on making our SupCom modset smaller while I wait for TSOP to get done. Plus, I don't know how many more times they'll be patching Sins. I don't want to be in the middle of working on something before they break it.
WOEaintME
Allow me to explain how difficulty settings work.
Easy - This is for those who are new to the game or still developing their skills. It is generally a non-challenge (or easy) and players will quickly move beyond this state.
Normal - An average game, players should still prevail, although victory will require more effort, planning and skill.
Hard - Difficult, which is defined by Google as:
Needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand.
Characterized by or causing hardships or problems.
"Much more skill", hmm, sounds tricky. Almost sounds like I may lose the odd game because of all the "HARDships".
But alas, I think I'll load a game and expect hard to be like easy then demand the hard AI nerfed when I'm defeated because I'm not willing to put in the "effort" to gain the "skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand" SOASE and its hard AI.
Timmaigh
They do for sure. Just play the game for few minutes, then turn it off and check the difference in the planet income graph. You will see AI is getting 2,25x more income from planets than you do.
@WOEaintME>
i teached my 2 friends to play Rebellion, they never played Sins before. They are however RTS veterans, they played lot of CnC and Supreme Commander in the past and while Sins is different, it is not that much different.
i played maybe one or 2 games with them against Normal. We did not even bother with Easy. I guess thats a difficulty for people, who never played RTS game before, or do not have anyone to explain things as they go (like they had me). After those 2 games, it was obvious the Normal was not a challenge anymore - i guess even them could beat multiple of Normals by themselves. So we simply had to move to Hard and the difference in difficultly is staggering.
After maybe 10-15 games we played, i think we won maybe half of them. The rest we had to restart as the AIs ganged up early game on one of us, he obviously had no chance due to AI superior numbers (thanks to income advantage every AI had about 2x more ships than him) and we could not really help him in time as we were too far away. In such situation the rest of us can technically kill one AI off, while they concentrate on him and try to win basically "last man standing" style. But that is not an option, if play together, we want to see the end of the game together.
Anyway I think we are getting better now and eventually we find a way to win consistently. But i played the game since last March and they are smart guys with experience playing RTS games, so they can learn pretty fast. I can however see not everyone is like them and can really have serious issue with Hard difficulty, to the point, where the frustration stops him from playing the game further.
Mecha-Lenin
Reply #32 June 19, 2013 1:01:20 PM
Wait, he's complaining that hard AI is hard? And I'm supposed to be the troll?
Quoting Timmaigh,
After maybe 10-15 games we played, i think we won maybe half of them.
It sounds actually good, It would be surprising if you defeat Hard in the beginning with 100% succes rate.. Just look at the name: Hard.
stein220
i haven't played the new ai yet so I can't comment on the specifically, BUT it would be nice if there were some sort of damage and/or income handicaps you could apply to AI's on top of the difficulty level (i've seen other RTS's do this) so if Normal is too easy but Hard is too hard, you can find a happy medium.
Alternatively, if this were easily moddable some where...(anyone know if this is possible?).
bilun
The way the AI acts in this game make it rather hard to really create AI that feels challenging but not too strong for newer players.
When it comes down to it, the AI is godawful at actually controlling & microing it's fleets(most notably it's ability use). The result is that in a battle of comparably sized fleets between the AI and an actual player, the player has a pretty substantial advantage.
However as the game progresses, extra incomes makes less and less of a difference in fleet size(In longer games max fleet supply is the main constraining factor rather then resource acquisition).
As a result the AI only really has a few ways of winning:
1). Attack early when the AI economic cheat's have the greatest affect on fleet size.
2). Use early eco cheats to rush out superweapons or some other particularly powerful high tier tech faster then a newer human player can match paces with.
3). Establishing a huge enough economic advantage before the endgame that the war becomes a war of attrition the player won't win- The AI is unlikely to do this against skilled players who know how to expand quick(faster then the AI ever does), build a strong eco, and take advantage of AI's tendency to throw fleets to their deaths on static defenses; But for a newer player this is a very real threat especially on very large maps. That said, due to the above mentioned poor fleet control, this method of winning is likely the least reliable option the AI has; the kind of economic advantage it needs is the kind only really possible if the player themselves have a rather slow start- I only mention this third method because it is a very real possibility against newer players who usually haven't refined their start very much.
Those really are pretty much the only chances the computer has. Which is unfortunate as those feel like some of the most one-sided ways to lose for a new player. The sad fact of the matter is that the current AI just isn't smart enough to actually put up a good fight in what most newer players consider a fair fight. The AI needs the crutch of being able to hit the player before they are ready and easily recoup losses to really pose any challenge.
Sulley1 makes some very good points, which match my own experiences. Previously I had been playing on a "vast" map with a single star and 9 AI players, and was able to win most (but not all) of the time vs. 9 "hard" AI players, sometimes with a couple of "unfair" AI's mixed in for good measure. Luck of the draw as far as factions, maps and type of AI definitely affected the type of game I would wind up playing.
Since the update and DLC, however, what was challenging has become almost impossible...these days I usually wind up fending off one or two attacking players, and then someone else starts bombarding me from a distance with superweapons. Attacks are constant and get larger and larger, even when mounted by AI players with an inferior economic base. Diplomacy, which used to be my mainstay, also seems to have become less effective...frequently I will see relations improving with a target faction and then turn around right around and start declining despite my best diplomatic efforts.
Just to sense check, I went back and started a few games with "normal" AI's. Everything (except for diplomacy) was much easier. In fact, against "normal" AI's the game is far too easy, so easy that it is almost impossible to learn good early game habits from playing against them.
So whatever parameters were adjusted between the old "hard" and the new "hard", perhaps they need to be dialed back a bit. Or at least made random across several separate dimensions.
I played a few 4 player ffa's with the AI. it was harder but i did win 2 games with TEC and Advent rebels (I lost with the loyalist versions of each race). part of it just seems like luck of the draw based on how the AI's ally and if you make an AI friend in your game. If i get into a 2 front war, it's over.
Quoting stein220,
If i get into a 2 front war, it's over.
That seems to be the kicker. If you use the Vasari this isn't as bad because you can jump all over the place and you are super mobile. Play with anyone else and you're a goner.
Everyone keeps saying Hard is meant to be "HARD". Well it is. It just is HARDER than it was. I'd think it would be ok that Hard was that "HARD" if there were only three tiers of difficulty, but there are a bunch more. I'd never dream of going against an unfair or insane AI now. I'd think about having one unfair before, but that's changed.
Normal is just too easy, and Hard is just too hard.
I played a game recently (with the Dark Reavers mod, witch is pretty awesome) with two AI's (one normal and one hard) as my allies. It was 3 v 3 v 3 and we were doing pretty good. Not many people attacking me and I had 5 planets (only about 30 colonizable ones in the system). Then suddenly one of my terran planets that was two lanes away from my main area was attacked by every race but 2. All of them that attacked (and at the same time) were the hard AI's and several of them weren't even allies with each other. They had about 20 or 30 orgov's and so my starbase was useless.
I decided to quit there because I didn't even have a titan yet, and they each had one.
Maybe I'm just loosing my touch. The game is still fun, but it seems impossible sometimes.
Darksxx
Reply #39 July 1, 2013 2:19:54 PM
Sully, you have here by been deemed a cry baby!!
I'm a super noob and have been able to get to playing against 3 Hard AIs in FFA and winning (have done it with all 3 races). Just play some Normal outnumbered then play 1 v 1 Hard.
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The emails surfaced as part of an investigation into political interference by the Trump administration after former HHS scientific advisor Paul Alexander and long-time Trump ally Michael Caputo were accused this summer of meddling with the work of career scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged with no conditions etc. have zero to little risk....so we use them to develop herd...we want them infected....and recovered...with antibodies," Alexander wrote in a July 4 email.
—Will Feuer
FDA authorizes Abbott's rapid Covid test for at-home use
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced that it has authorized Abbott Labs' rapid Covid-19 test for at-home use, though doctors must prescribe the test for patients.
The test, which is an antigen test that delivers results in about 15 minutes, had previously been authorized for use by trained personnel only, but the new clearance will allow patients to test themselves at home with virtual assistance from a doctor. It's the third test authorized in the U.S. "that can be used completely at home," Dr. Jeff Shuren, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in a statement.
To deliver the test, which is called BinaxNOW and costs $25 for at-home use, to people's homes and to supervise the collection and testing process, Abbott said it has partnered with telehealth provider eMed. Patients collect the sample with a nasal swab themselves and an app helps guide the testing process and provide results, Abbott said.
The authorization comes after the FDA cleared Ellume's at-home Covid test on Tuesday. That product was authorized for use in anyone 2 years or older and does not require a prescription.
Holiday shoppers make fewer impulse buys amid pandemic
As holiday shoppers buy more gifts online during the pandemic, they're adding fewer extras to their baskets.
Impulse shopping usually drives 25% of overall holiday spending, according to The NPD Group. This year, it's expected to drive 18% to 20% — a potential loss of $5 billion to $7 billion in sales for the season, the market research firm estimates.
The shift towards online shopping — which is expected to outlast the pandemic — is forcing companies to crack a retail riddle: How do you get consumers to toss extras into their baskets without the help of Christmas tunes & catchy displays?
"What stores used to do is utilize the crowds, utilize the price points, utilize the floor to have product that you didn't expect to see in places where they wouldn't normally be," said Marshal Cohen, chief industry advisor for The NPD Group. "Without the traffic in the store, how do I navigate online to get you to see things you didn't expect to see? That's the challenge retail has today."
Some retailers are turning to targeted ads, emails and other digital tools to recommend items or nudge purchases. Walmart, for example, added a "Last Minute Deals" page on its website that teases fun items, from toys to small kitchen appliances, that shoppers may buy on impulse. Bed Bath & Beyond put together collections of products that shopper may buy together — such as the "Cozy Backyard Holiday Collection" with throw pillows, copper mugs for hot beverages, candles and fire pit. It also reduced the number of steps to checkout on its website, something that can cause shoppers to click away. —Melissa Repko
At-home Covid tests may be available in drugstores in February, says Ellume CEO
As soon as February, the at-home coronavirus tests recently approved by the FDA could be available in U.S. drugstores, according to Ellume CEO Dr. Sean Parsons.
The product is the first at-home diagnostic test for Covid-19 that does not require a prescription to be granted emergency use authorization.
"We'll be shipping first product in the beginning of January. That will be ramping up through the months of January, February and March," said Parsons, who also founded the diagnostic products company based in Australia. "We would anticipate that in the second part of February or March, we would like to have that available in the major retailers across the U.S."
— Kevin Stankiewicz
Antibody drugs could cut Covid hospitalizations by half, but they're not being used
With Covid-19 hospitalizations soaring across the country, one powerful weapon against the virus remains relatively unused, CNBC's Meg Tirrell reports.
Antibody drugs could cut hospitalizations by 50% to 70%, according to Moncef Slaoui, chief scientific advisor to the U.S. government's Operation Warp Speed, but only 5% to 20% of available doses are being put to use.
"It should be used much more," Slaoui said in a telephone interview.
There are a couple complicating factors at work: The drugs are not simple to administer, and they need to be given early in the course of the disease. There are also funding limitations for states that are already seeing massive strains on their budgets and health systems.
—Sara Salinas
Fed commits to continue bolstering the economy until U.S. recovers from Covid-era unemployment
The Federal Reserve said it would continue to support the economy and promised to continue buying Treasury bonds until the U.S. recovers from Covid-era unemployment, CNBC's Jeff Cox reports.
The central bank also upgraded its economic outlook held its benchmark interest rates near zero after concluding its two-day meeting.
Central bank leaders said in a statement they would continue to buy at least $120 billion of bonds each month "until substantial further progress has been made toward the Committee's maximum employment and price stability goals."
The Fed's historic spending and lending efforts helped prop up the U.S. economy amid unprecedented unemployment and economic shutdown.
—Thomas Franck, Sara Salinas
Gottlieb worries states will struggle with Covid vaccine administration
Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC he was concerned that states may struggle with the last-mile delivery of coronavirus vaccines, just like there has been issues with the administration of Covid-19 antibody drugs.
"The experience with the antibody drugs is not a good harbinger," Gottlieb said on "Squawk Box." "As we get into the next tranche of people to be vaccinated, which is going to be in the community, it might be challenging for states to distribute those vaccines if they can't distribute the antibody drugs."
The state-by-state variability in vaccine distribution plans may add to the difficulties, the former FDA commissioner and Pfizer board member said.
"If we are leaving this fully up to 50 states, we can expect to see a lot of differences between how well this is run and who gets access to it and who doesn't, and that's going to be unfortunate because in an ideal world, you want to see more uniformity," he said.
—Kevin Stankiewicz
Disclosure: Scott Gottlieb is a CNBC contributor and is a member of the boards of Pfizer, genetic testing start-up Tempus and biotech company Illumina. Gottlieb also serves as co-chair of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings′ and Royal Caribbean's "Healthy Sail Panel."
Member of Biden press pool tests positive, staffer for president-elect will quarantine
A member of the group of reporters traveling with President-elect Joe Biden has tested positive for the coronavirus, the president-elect's transition team said.
Following the positive test results, one person on Biden's communications team who had been in close contact with the reporter will spend a week in self-quarantine, the transition team said in a statement.
Other members of the press pool who were near that reporter "are not on pool duty today and will not be until they clear the window for being infectious," said the statement from the office of the president elect.
Biden tested negative for Covid on Tuesday. His office said that the reporter who tested positive "was not ever in close contact" with Biden, in accordance with the definition from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The reporter "adhered to masking and social distancing guidelines at all times during the trip," the statement noted.
"No other member of the President-elect's staff has been assessed to be at risk for exposure or transmission of the virus," the office added.
— Kevin Breuninger
Pfizer vaccine shipments in California, Alabama got too cold, vials had to be quarantined and replaced
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Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine is pictured at Rady Children's Hospital before it's placed back in the refrigerator in San Diego, California on December 15, 2020.
U.S. officials quarantined Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shipments in California and Alabama after they said a transit issue left the vials too cold.
Pfizer's vaccine requires a storage temperature of around minus 70 degrees Celsius. Vials of the vaccine are stored in trays, which carry a minimum of 975 doses each, according to the CDC.
Gen. Gustave Perna, who oversees logistics for Operation Warp Speed, told reporters that two trays of vaccine that arrived in California had to be returned to Pfizer after the temperature somehow fell to minus 92 degrees Celsius. He said the "anomaly" happened again in Alabama.
"All the way on the other side of the country in Alabama, two trays were received at one location. Same anomaly, went to minus 92. We were able to stop and quarantine the vaccine, stop and get a replacement shipment to Alabama," he said.
–Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to quarantine after Covid exposure
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United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on during a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at Chigi Palace on September 30, 2020 in Rome, Italy.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is quarantining after coming into contact with a person who tested positive for the coronavirus, the State Department said.
"Secretary Pompeo has been identified as having come into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID. For reasons of privacy we can't identify that individual," a spokesperson for the department said in a statement. "The Secretary has been tested and is negative. In accordance with CDC guidelines, he will be in quarantine. He is being closely monitored by the Department's medical team."
Pompeo had canceled a speaking appearance scheduled for Tuesday at an indoor holiday party at the State Department, according to The Washington Post.
It was not immediately clear if Pompeo would also skip a Cabinet meeting Wednesday with President Donald Trump, which is scheduled to start at 11:30 a.m.
—Kevin Breuninger
Delta starts shipping Pfizer vaccine on passenger planes
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An airport worker guides a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319-100 plane on the tarmac at LAX in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 6, 2020.
Delta Air Lines became the latest carrier to fly coronavirus vaccine doses on its passenger flights.
United Airlines earlier said it had started transporting doses of the Pfizer vaccine in passenger aircraft bellies. United had used cargo-dedicated planes to bring vaccines into the U.S. starting last month but the domestic shipments, which began after U.S. officials approved the vaccine last week, are smaller and can fit on almost any plane in United's network.
Delta said it flew vaccines from its Detroit hub, a roughly two-hour drive from Pfizer's plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to San Francisco and Atlanta.
Big shipping companies like FedEx and United Parcel Service, which are taking the lead in vaccine distribution, routinely contract passenger airlines to carry cargo volumes above what their networks can handle.
—Leslie Josephs
After months of political sniping, Congress has finally come within reach of a deal to send more help to Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
The top four leaders on Capitol Hill have come close to a $900 billion pandemic aid agreement, CNBC and NBC News confirmed. The lawmakers will put aside liability protections for businesses and state and local government relief, the two biggest hurdles to reaching a deal in recent months.
The developing rescue package would include a direct payment to Americans, which could come out to about $600 per person. It would also have about $300 billion for Paycheck Protection Program small business loans and funds for Covid-19 vaccine development and distribution, among other provisions.
GOP Sen. Steve Daines of Montana told CNBC he is optimistic congressional leaders will release an agreement today and vote on it by the end of the week.
Congress hopes to tie relief measures to a funding package that it needs to pass by a midnight Friday deadline to avoid a government shutdown. If lawmakers fail to extend lifelines put in place this year, millions will lose unemployment benefits or face eviction at the end of the month.
—Jacob Pramuk
Midwest daily new cases show signs of slowing, while surge continues elsewhere in the U.S.
U.S. stocks open higher on stimulus hopes
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite opened slightly higher as apparent progress in the U.S. fiscal stimulus talks helped to offset disappointing retail sales data, reports CNBC's Fred Imbert and Maggie Fitzgerald.
Both market benchmarks rose 0.1% at the session's start. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was flat.
—Melodie Warner
Southwest trims January flights as demand cools, launches new outdoor destinations
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A person watches as a Southwest Airlines Co. plane arrives at a gate at the Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Tuesday, July 2, 2019.
Southwest Airlines says customers are canceling more trips and that demand is soft for travel into early 2021 as Covid-19 infections climb and state and local governments introduce new restrictions.
Southwest isn't alone. Competitors American, United, Delta and JetBlue have also noted a slowdown in bookings in recent weeks.
Southwest says its January capacity will be down 40% to 45% from a year earlier, more than a previous forecast of no more than a 40% cut. Revenue that month will likely fall 65% to 75% from a year earlier.
The Dallas-based airline forecast a fourth-quarter cash burn of about $12 million a day, up from a previous estimate of between $10 million and $11 million. It also expects as much as a 75% revenue decline in December from a year ago, more than its earlier projection of as much as a 65% drop.
Southwest is launching a host of leisure destinations targeting travelers looking for outdoor space. In the second quarter, it plans to start serving Santa Barbara, California, and Fresno Yosemite International Airport.
How Time Out rebranded to entertain people stuck at home
Time Out Group CEO Julio Bruno discusses how the company temporarily rebranded itself to "Time In" at the start of Covid-19 lockdown measures to focus on at-home entertainment, local businesses and deliveries.
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Wendy Reicher (right) and daughter Scarlett Reicher,18, (left) walk back to their car after going shopping in Union Square on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 in San Francisco, California.
U.S. retail sales dropped 1.1% in November, more than the 0.3% decline expected, offering another sign the economic recovery from the pandemic recession is slowing, Reuters reported.
The Commerce Department also said data for October was revised to show sales fell 0.1% instead of climbing 0.3% as previously reported. October's decrease was the first since April when business restrictions were implemented to control the first wave of coronavirus cases.
United starts voluntary passenger contact tracing program with the CDC
United Airlines this week will start asking passengers to voluntarily provide information like an e-mail address, phone number and address at their destination to help federal health officials' contact-tracing efforts.
"Contact tracing is a fundamental component of the nation's public health response strategy for controlling the spread of communicable diseases of public health concern," CDC Director Robert Redfield said in news release. "Collection of contact information from air travelers will greatly improve the timeliness and completeness of information for COVID-19 public health follow-up and contact tracing."
Travelers can opt in to the program on the airline's app or website or at the airport. United said in the coming weeks the program will expand to all of its domestic and international departures. Delta Air Lines earlier this month launched a similar voluntary contact information program with support from the CDC for travelers arriving in the U.S.
The head of the American Ballet Theatre on the financial cost of the pandemic
Kara Medoff Barnett, the executive director of the American Ballet Theatre, discusses the group's difficult decision to cancel the 2021 season at New York's famed Metropolitan Opera House.
Health experts are concerned prisoners have been excluded from vaccine plans
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A nurse holds a sign during a nurses protest at Rikers Island Prison over conditions and coronavirus threat on May 7, 2020 in New York City.
Health experts and criminal justice advocates have expressed deep concern over the notable absence of prison populations among coronavirus inoculation plans.
It comes as both the U.S. and U.K. begin their national vaccination programs to curb the spread of Covid-19.
"If the biggest hotspots for Covid are prisons, doesn't it make sense to inoculate everyone from the guards to the prisoners?" said Ashish Prashar, a justice reform advocate and senior director of global communications at Publicis.
Health officials have been warning about the dangers of epidemics for those incarcerated for years, citing an inability for people to maintain safe physical distancing in correctional facilities because of their confinement in small shared spaces.
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command that sets the class of the body object to _class_. Other upgrades may use
the body class to alter the appearance of its UI to reflect some global
event. This upgrade also specifies styles for the default UI (logo and
message) when using a 'bright' theme to be used when the background is
set to a light color.

## Command
```
:upgrade {"type":"upgrade","name":"theme","markup":"","style":".bright #logo {\n  color: black;\n}\n\n.bright #message {\n  background: rgba(0,0,0,.1);\n  color: black;\n}","script":"(function() {\n  function changeTheme( message, next ) {\n    if ( message.type != 'theme' ) return next();\n    document.body.setAttribute( 'class', message.text );\n  }\n\n  chat.os.addInputHandler( changeTheme, 5 );\n  chat.os.send( '', {type:'replay', oftype:'theme', limit:1} );\n})();"}
```

## Style
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.bright #logo {
  color: black;
}

.bright #message {
  background: rgba(0,0,0,.1);
  color: black;
}
```

## Script
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(function() {
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Q: User Name is invalid. unable to read the username from database(ASP.net) i was trying to create a login page that connected to my database. but it showed user is invalid. May i know what is the problem? thanks!
here is the full code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Configuration;

public partial class Login : System.Web.UI.Page
{

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }

    protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["RegistrationConnectionString"].ToString());
        conn.Open();
        string checkuser = " select count(*) from [Table] where UserName = ' " + TextBoxUserName.Text + "' and Password='"+ TextBoxPassword.Text + "' ";
        SqlCommand com = new SqlCommand(checkuser, conn);
        int temp = Convert.ToInt32(com.ExecuteScalar().ToString());
        if (temp == 1)
        {
            Session["user"] = TextBoxUserName.Text;
            Response.Write("Login success");
        }
        else
        {
            Response.Write("Login fail");
        }

    }

A: To your question first: You have a space, where you shouldn't have one.
 where UserName = ' "
The system checks this space too and that's wrong. You only want the TextBox Content, am I right.
The second thing is the security of this code. Your code is very vulnerable to sql injections and the password should never be in plain Text, Hash is the better answer.

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Haka Guesthouse in Golem features 3-star accommodation with a terrace, a shared lounge and a bar. Each accommodation at the 3-star guest house has city views and free WiFi. The accommodation provides a 24-hour front desk and a shared kitchen for guests.
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Q: Visualise user journey for binary variables with Sankey I have a dataset that tracks lead generation (5 categories) to sales(binary). In between this process, there is an app involved with some analytics available - no. of sessions, duration of session, pages visited and buttons pressed (binary variable) My goal is to determine what combination of variables led to a successful sale. Here is a list of variables and type.

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Column
Dtype

0
id
int64

1
sessions
int64

2
duration
int64

3
pages
int64

4
Button 1
object

5
Button 2
object

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Button 3
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otp
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whatsapp
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meeting
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sales
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Will a Sankey diagram be the best way to represent this? If yes, then how? If not, then what should I try?


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Internet, Right of Communication to the Public and Implied Licence, Dr. Poorna Mysoor
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Dr. Poorna Mysoor's presentation, Internet, Right of Communication to the Public and Implied Licence, will build on her upcoming monograph on implied licences in copyright law, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2020.
Internet has become an inseparable part of modern life. While the Internet has revolutionised our relationship with the information world, playing a significant role in realising values such as free speech and access to information, the Internet has also been instrumental in proliferating access to content that infringes on copyright. Despite the Internet's prominence in our lives for about two decades now, the legal response to some of the challenges it poses to copyright content has been slow and patchy.
To a large extent, access to infringing content on the Internet is influenced by the manner in which the right of communication to the public is interpreted. It is somewhat baffling to witness how frequently the right of communication to the public is litigated before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Even more baffling is the ever-smaller fixes that the Court gives each time. The right of communication to the public has been given a reading far removed from the statutory language used resulting in an incoherent body of law, while the new Digital Single Market Directive also tries to tinker with this exclusive right.
With this as the background, Poorna's presentation explores whether the flexibilities ingrained in the doctrine of implied licence can be pressed into service to make sense of the right of communication to the public. On the back of a robust methodology guiding the implication of a copyright licence, her presentation explores the extent to which implied licences can deal with the access to infringing content on the Internet in a way that brings about a better balance among the interests of various stakeholders.
Biography: Dr. Poorna Mysoor is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Law Faculty at Oxford University. She is an academic member of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and is a Junior Research Fellow at the Queen's College, Oxford. Her current research explores how the structure of the law of tangible property can be transposed to copyright to achieve a balance between ownership and user rights. She completed her DPhil at the Law Faculty at Oxford in 2017 on implied licences in copyright law under the supervision of Professor Graeme Dinwoodie. She teaches several core private law subjects such as Land Law, Contract Law and Tort Law at various colleges in Oxford and Copyright Law at the Law Faculty at Oxford. Poorna obtained her undergraduate law degree from National Law School of India University, Bangalore and her LLM from SOAS, University of London. Before embarking on her DPhil, Poorna practised intellectual property law in Hong Kong and was a litigator in India.
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At Ribblesdale School we pride ourselves in being a technologically innovative school, enhancing the pedagogy of teaching with 21st century technologies. We allow pupils to access learning whenever and wherever they want; breaking down the walls of the classroom. At Ribblesdale we use technology and a range of other tools, in a blended way, to enhance the great teaching that takes place. Pupils at Ribblesdale each have their own one-to-one Windows 10 device, which is used to support learning both within and outside the classroom. Giving pupils access to their own device, provides them with a wealth of opportunities to help progression, but also allows teachers to formulate more engaging learning content which draw on different opportunities to enhance engagement and motivation.
One-to-one at Ribblesdale
At Ribblesdale, pupils have access to their own one-to-one device, to support learning. We use a Windows 10 device, which allows pupils to create and consume content. The production of work can be completed by typing on the detachable keyboard, utilising the touch screen capabilities or using the digital stylus. This allows pupils to choose the input method that bests suits them or the task being completed.
The use of the device is complemented by a range of different software packages such as the traditional Microsoft Office Suite and more progressive tools such as Minecraft Education Edition, FlipGrid and Learning by Questions. All are used to complement and support the good teaching and learning that already takes place throughout school.
As a school are fully aware of the possible issues that can arise with the use of technology, and so working alongside the school's IT support team, we have a full web filtering system to ensure that each pupil is safeguarded both at home and at school. The pupils also have the added security that if there was ever any damage to the device they are fully insured. All required applications are pre-installed and updated regularly ensuring that our learners always have the tools that they would need to support their learning.
At Ribblesdale everything we do is based around the Office 365 platform, with Microsoft Teams forming the digital hub for our teachers and pupils, on which they collaborate, communicate and share resources. This allows pupils to have access to their learning materials on any device both in and out of school making learning accessible any time from anywhere. This allows our learners to choose when and how they learn with the use of technology.
We want to use innovative teaching techniques to engage our pupils to ignite curiosity towards learning. One way that we do this is through using apps such as Minecraft Education Edition, Learning by Questions, GCSE POD and Century Tech. These also allow teachers to track progress of each pupil allowing intervention and feedback in real-time. Parents are kept informed on their child's progress in real time via the school's app, so that they can support learning at home. This is complemented by Doddle and Class Charts, which provide a direct insight into behaviour, achievements and specific areas of success/development across all subjects.
More than ever, pupils need a range of skills to allow them to reach their full potential in their future career paths beyond Ribblesdale. All roles, at whatever level, have an expectation that young people can use technology effectively. At Ribblesdale we strive to ensure that all pupils are equipped with digital skills for the future. This is achieved by coherent development through all areas of the curriculum, not just in isolation through ICT lessons. Being proficient in the use of digital technology helps to give Ribblesdale pupils an 'edge' in the wider world of work and study. The demonstration of these skills is supported by widely recognised qualifications including Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) and Microsoft Technical Associate (MTA).
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Parents and Families of Youth with Chronic Medical Conditions
Editors: Emily F. Law, Ph.D.; Emma Fisher, Ph.D.
Empirical review status: Insufficient Evidence: Existing meta-analyses are not of sufficient quality.
Variable Example
Child Age Across trials, there was variability in the age range of children:
Toddler to Adolescence (0-14 years) (Seid et al., 2010)
Elementary to Adolescence (5-16 years) (Nansel et al., 2012; Wade et al., 2005; Wade et al., 2006)
Adolescence (11-18 years) (Sahler et al., 2013; Wade et al., 2011)
Child Sex All trials enrolled both male and female children
Parent Sex Three studies enrolled only mothers (Sahler et al., 2002; Sahler et al., 2005; Sahler et al., 2013). The remaining studies enrolled >90% mothers (e.g., Seid et al., 2010; Wade et al., 2005).
Family Ethnicity/Race The majority of trials enrolled primarily Caucasian/Non-Hispanic families. In two trials, participants were primarily Hispanic (Sahler et al., 2013; Seid et al., 2010).
Therapist type In the majority of trials, treatment was delivered by master's level therapists or Ph.D. students.
Presenting problem
Asthma: Seid et al., 2010
Cancer: Sahler et al., 2002; Sahler et al., 2005; Sahler et al., 2013
Diabetes: Nansel et al., 2012
Heart Disease: McCusker et al., 2010
Traumatic Brain Injury: Wade et al., 2005; Wade et al., 2006; Wade et al., 2011
Socioeconomic status In the majority of trials, average socioeconomic status of families was middle to upper class. In a few trials, families were from predominantly lower socioeconomic backgrounds (e.g., Nansel et al., 2012; Sahler et al., 2013; Seid et al., 2010)
Language In two trials, the intervention was delivered in English and Spanish (Sahler et al., 2005; Sahler et al., 2013; Seid et al., 2010). In all other trials the intervention was delivered in English.
Basic premise: Adaptation to the child's chronic medical condition is influenced by the interaction between social/environmental, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional factors.
Essence of therapy: Cognitive-behavioral therapy includes a range of techniques that promote identifying, challenging and modifying maladaptive or negative thoughts and behaviors that interfere with adjustment to and management of the child's medical condition.
Length: Treatment duration for children: 0-12 hours. Treatment duration for parents: 2-16 hours.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents (Palermo, 2012)
Managing Your Child's Chronic Pain (Palermo & Law, 2015)
When Your Child Hurts: Effective Strategies to Increase Comfort, Reduce Stress, and Break the Cycle of Chronic Pain (Coakley, 2016)
See Worksheets/Handouts in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents (Palermo, 2012)
Key review articles
Law, E., Fisher, E., Eccleston, C., & Palermo, T. M. (2019). Psychological interventions for parents of children and adolescents with chronic illness. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 3, CD009660.
Law, E.F., Fisher, E., Fales, J., Noel, M., & Eccleston, C. (2014). Systematic review and meta-analysis of parent and family-based interventions for children and adolescents with chronic medical conditions. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 39(8), 866-886.
Sansom-Daly, U. M., Peate, M., Wakefield, C. E., Bryant, R. A., & Cohn, R. J. (2012). A systematic review of psychological interventions for adolescents and young adults living with chronic illness. Health Psychology, 31(3), 380.
Click here for additional Clinical Trials, Systematic Reviews, and Meta-Analyses.


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IBM GETS TOO PC FOR ITS OWN GOOD, TOUTING SEXUAL DIVERSITY IN ARMONK
Well, you can't please everyone. Not even if you're International Business Machines Corp.
When the original Thomas Watson started up IBM and for years after, men working in the IBM offices were required to wear white shirts. Suits were the uniform of the day. And ties. I don't believe that back in those days there was something called "casual Friday."
You put on your navy blue suit and your white (starched, as I recall) business shirt and your necktie and you went off to work. And none of that Nicole Miller funny stuff with the tie, either.
Anyway, what got me started thinking about all this was a note from Bert Bartlett of Bartlett Communications in Washington, attached to a letter his brother Lynn Conant Bartlett had sent off on May 6 from his place in Poughkeepsie to IBM headquarters in Armonk, N.Y.
Lynn Bartlett's letter dealt with an ad IBM has been running in Business Week and The New Yorker. The ad headline reads, "Diversity works." The copy says, in part, "It has long made sense to us at IBM to welcome and value individual differences. We prove this commitment to our workforce every day. ..."
Fine; no one has an argument with that. It is the accompanying artwork that has Mr. Bartlett exercised up there in Poughkeepsie.
The drawing shows nine people, IBM employees presumably, around a conference table. There are five women, four men. One woman is in a wheelchair. One is white-haired. One is African-American. Of the four men, one is African-American, one Hispanic in appearance, one with a dandy Vandyke beard, another a Joe College type. No one is wearing a suit; there are no neckties.
"Dear IBM," Mr. Bartlett begins, "I am writing as an IBM stockholder ... to give you an idea of how I might view such an advertisement.
"Let me say that I am an elderly male of English and Irish descent. I also like to wear neckties and before I retired, I always wore a suit to work.
"I have a question: Why does IBM's notion of creative `diversity' apparently not include non-Hispanic white males over the age of, say, 45 or 50? Your `diversity' advertisement includes both men and women, blacks and whites, the healthy and the handicapped, the relatively young and the relatively old, but absolutely no representative of the kind of older white males who look, for example, like Lou Gerstner (IBM's chairman and CEO).
"The notion of `diversity' that the drawing in the ad conveys is inadequate and simple-minded, and obviously the product of the kind of political correctness most frequently found among the editors of student newspapers."
He winds up his screed by saying, "The picture of Mr. Gerstner on Page 2 of IBM's most recent annual report is a good deal more inspiring of confidence in IBM than that collection of people in the ... `diversity' ad, sitting around a table eating buns, staring into space, and giggling."
It's not easy running great corporations. Bill Gates of Microsoft has the federals on his case; Mr. Gerstner of IBM has Lynn Conant Bartlett of Poughkeepsie. Who likes neckties and used to wear suits and who, as a stockholder, will probably ask at the next IBM annual meeting for Chairman Gerstner's opinion on both.
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Mustard tones are never so alluring and appreciated as they are in the Fall months and I'm pretty sure is not just me.
From must-wear this season and not only (a pair of yellowish heels) to must-have (a plaid cozy sweater) I put together this look and I hope you like it as much I loved wearing it.
This coat and bag are just superb!
I'm also wearing a mustard coat in my new post ;) It really is a perfect color for fall! Those heels are amazing match!
DIOSS!!!QUIERO TU COLECCIÓN DE ABRIGOS!!!
definitivamente eres mi blogger favorita combinando tejidos y colores!!!viva el mix!!
That coat is simply gorgeous. Mustard is the perfect bold color for fall!
You look great in these tones! Beautiful combination!
Mustard is one of my favorite color. I love coats. And you have nice collections of them. Going to be ardent follower of your blog.
Amazing look! Loving everything specially the coat, you have the most awesome coats ever!
As I said before – yellow is so perfect for you Girl! You look stunning.
This colour is too gorgeous!! fantastic look.
Love this look, especially the pants and the yellow shoes!


Lynne Randell was a lass originally from Liverpool in the UK, she came to Australian with her family at the age of five and the family selected the Melbourne suburb of Murrumbeena and staying with the "M's" went to Mordialloc High School.
Must be something in the Liverpool water that helps show business talents develop for example, The Beatles (John, Paul, George & Ringo) Rick Astley, Cilla Black, Elvis Costello, Gerry Marsden, Kenny Everett, Billy Fury, Russ Hamilton, Magda Szubanski, Frankie Vaughan and that's only part of the talent list.
Lynne had dreams of becoming a famous hairdresser and designed her own mod hair style. Early in her life she never mentioned singing it was always hairdressing, however by fourteen Lynne was starting to get singing jobs during here school holidays.
During this time she approached Lillian Frank a famous celebrity hair dresser who was located right in the middle of the well to do and famous folk of Toorak. For Sydney folk, at that time Toorak was the Double Bay of Melbourne.
Lillian was impressed with the young enthusiastic youngster and when she discovered Lynne was also a singer that completed the package and a great addition to her Salon.
Yes I knew Lillian Frank; she was a larger than life personality and also a great judge of talent and willing to give young people a chance to live their dream.
I was also a client at Lillian's Salon saw Lynne but never really engaged on conversation, later she appeared on 3UZ when her release "Ciao Baby" became the VIP Hit Record of the Week and from memory she either appeared live or on a 16mm film clip Kommotion.
I moved the Kommotion hair dressing to Edward Beale whom I named Mr. Beale and he eventually became one of Australia's most successful hair dressers and promoters.
Through her work at Lillian's Lynne met Carol West, one of Lillian's customers, who also had a keen eye for talent and part of the Melbourne band scene. Carol became her manager and life would change dramatically for the lass from Liverpool.
During this time zone Lynne had a chance meeting at a beach with Ian Meldrum, it was only brief and no one realised how their friendship and professional association would develop later in life.
Then came "A Love like You" "Forever" both hit the 3UZ Top 40 ( Melbourne most (powerful chart) On TV she joined Normie Rowe and Olivia Newton-John as a regular on the 0-10 Networks "GO Show" and won the 3UZ Sound Award and GO Show TV Award for most Popular vocalist of the Year.
From that same year, at the age of 15, Lynne became one of the darlings of the Australian pop industry. Lynne broke into the then very tight Sydney market appearing on the Sydney produced TV shows, Bandstand, Saturday Date and Sing Sing Sing, remember she was branded as a "Melbourne" talent and the City rivalry was pretty fierce.
Note 2014 nothing has changed.
Following winning Go Set Magazines first GO Set Magazines award "Top Pop Girl Singer" Lynne and Carol headed for the UK and the USA with Lynne fulfilling a dream to perform at the Cavern Club (Beatles) Liverpool. Then across the Atlantic pond to the USA settling in Los Angeles. This was a very brave move and fate was in her favour when she came up trumps making friends with the then hot new teen act The Monkees. Lynne was to tour on The Monkees first National USA tour not only as a performer but romantically linked with Davy Jones. Later British press also had Lynne romantically linked with Maurice of the Bee Gees.
I never really heard any confirmation of this from Lynne or Maurice. Her star was on the rise and Lynne also appeared with legends Tina Turner and Jimi Hendrix. You would have had to have been in the USA at that time, this was big news.
Being around The Monkees paid off and Lynne signed with Epic Records releasing her biggest hit "Ciao Baby" written by Larry Weiss and Scott English Larry also wrote the Glen Campbell hit "Rhinestone Cowboy and Scott English was also a hit writer (Brandy/ Mandy) and producer. Scott was the likely person to produce the record and Lynne surprised all in the session with her singing ability. One person posted on Youtube that "Ciao Baby" was written and produced by Ian Meldrum but that is unlikely. Must ask Ian about this next time we bump into each other at The Logies.
With solid management and foresight Lynne was the first Aussie female act to release a colour promo 16mm film clip. It was shot in NYC and shows her incredible energy. New Yorkers took it in their stride as she ran around the City and into Central Park in a red jump suit with flares, filming the promo clip. Unfortunately a quality copy is yet to surface.
I met up with Lynne and Carol West when I arrived in California and will always remember the warm welcome and friendship I received. Despite having great US media contacts I knew that I was amongst Aussie friends and we spent many sessions talking about the OZ music scene, mutual friends and how hard it was for many Aussie acts at that time to break into the market.
Lynne Randells success was marred when in her efforts to stay slim she became addicted to so called "diet pills" and I will not go into the rest of that episode in her life and the terrible results, as it saddens this writer.
In 2004 she went public in Melbourne's AGE Newspaper about her addiction.
She became a writer/reporter for GO Set posting articles on TV and Music celebrities including, The Carpenters, David Cassidy, Dr. Hook, Michael Jackson and James Morrison to name but a few.
Lynne eventually returned to Australia and began to work for the boy she met on a beach when she was 14, Ian "Molly" Meldrum as his personal assistant.
Health and her personal life grew tougher and she never fully regained her successful solo career however appearing on "Sixties Revival Concerts" there she was amongst friends.
Lynne Randell went to Rock and Roll Heaven June 8 2007 with her final request that there would be no funeral but a big party and from all reports it was.
I will always remember Lynne as a beautiful young teenage hit maker, gifted with a natural singing voice and a delightful young women who without fully realising the fact, broke many barriers especially in the USA for future Australian performers to follow.


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Now some bitch wants to reclaim the rainbow
Morris Chapdelaine
Is THIS the face of someone who we'll let steal away our worldwide symbol of Pride?
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, pictured above in her tragically gaudy 'rainbow' scarf and speaking on behalf of the National Organization for Marriage Affiliated Ruth Institute, is seriously lobbying to take the rainbow away from us gays. The nerve!
Posted on the extreme right wing nut site, 'People for the American Way', comes this story:
The Rainbow Belongs to Us, Not the Gay-Rights Movement
The leader of a National Organization for Marriage (NOM) affiliate has demanded that opponents of marriage equality reclaim the rainbow from "the gay lobby." Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, the founder and head of the Ruth Institute, which describes itself as "a project of the National Organization for Marriage," told the right-wing American Family News Network's OneNewsNow that the rainbow should be the symbol of Prop 8 supporters and Religious Right activists because "the rainbow is a sign of God's covenant with man." According to Morse, who was also a speaker on NOM's "Summer for Marriage" bus tour, the rainbow has been wrongly appropriated by the LGBT community. Morse appears to channel the famous 2009 NOM "The Gathering Storm" TV-ad which said "a rainbow coalition of people of every creed and color" are uniting to stop the "gathering storm" of gay-rights advocates.
"Proposition 8 was passed by a great grassroots coalition that included people from all across the religious traditions, and also people of every race and color," Morse recognizes. "We are the real rainbow coalition. The gay lobby does not own the rainbow."
She tells OneNewsNow that she wore a rainbow-colored scarf to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing on Proposition 8 as a statement to signify that supporters of traditional marriage still own the symbol.
"We can't simply let that go by. Families put rainbows in their children's nurseries. Little Christian preschools will have rainbows...Noah's Ark and all the animals.... Those are great Christian symbols, great Jewish symbols," the Ruth Institute president points out.
The Ruth Institute's projects include "bringing lectures and debates to pro-life, pro-marriage student groups around the country, at minimal cost to the students" and assisting "students in organizing pro-life, pro-family clubs on their own campuses."
The main campaign of the Ruth Institute is "Gay Marriage Affects Everyone," a seminar led by Morse on the dangers of same-sex marriage. Among the ways "gay marriage affects everyone," writes Morse, include the notions that "same sex marriage will marginalize men from the family" and "increase the power of the state over civil society."
Columnist and activist Dan Savage had this to say in response:
"Let's make a deal: give us our full civil equality—repeal DOMA, let us marry legally in all fifty states, end DADT, pass ENDA, stop torturing gay kids to death—and we'll let you have your f**king rainbows back."
My good friend Gilbert Baker, who created the original rainbow flag, which is now seen as a worldwide symbol for the LGBT movement, must be steaming. I tried to call him for a response, but he's probably out shopping for the holidays. Gay rainbow tree ornaments for everyone.
Actually, let's all buy some lovely gay holiday paraphernalia for the frumpy doctor Jennifer so she can do up her entire home and office with rainbow pride.
Some people are just plain crazy. I always think to myself...isn't there something they could be doing to really make this world a better place?
I know I need some egg nog. Stat!
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HANDEL by William Hayman Cummings, Edited by Peter Danckwerts (110 pages)
Autor: William Hayman Cummings	, Editor: Peter Danckwerts
Tiger of the Stripe Publishing
'He was the greatest composer that ever lived,' said Beethoven of Handel. 'He is the father of us all,' wrote Haydn.
This short, vivid biography of Handel reminds us of the composer's greatness. Separate chapters are devoted to the Messiah, the Harmonious Blacksmith, Handel's organ at Cannons, and his will and codicils. A few notes and an index have been added to this revised and reset edition.
William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915) was a singer and music historian. He taught singing at the Royal Normal School and the School for the Blind before being appointed a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1879. In 1896 he was appointed principal of the Guildhall School of Music. His historical studies of music and musicians led to him being made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1884.
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