.modal-backdrop.in { filter: alpha(opacity=90); opacity: .9; background-color: #fff; } #lee-services-modal .dismiss-paywall { font-size: 50px; margin-top: -15px; z-index: 1; color: #000; opacity: .3; font-weight: 300; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; line-height: 1; right: 15px; position: absolute; } #lee-services-modal .dismiss-paywall:hover { opacity: .6; } #lee-services-modal .modal-content { box-shadow: 0 5px 15px rgba(0,0,0,.1); border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,.1); border-radius: 3px; } #lee-services-modal { font-family: ‘Lato’, sans-serif; } #lee-services-modal .modal-body { min-height: 300px; } #lee-services-modal .modal-top { margin: 0 -15px 20px -15px; padding: 15px; z-index:0; border-bottom: 3px double rgba(0,0,0,.1); } #lee-services-modal .title { font-size: 24px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: 700; } #lee-services-modal .logo img { max-height: 50px; max-width: 50%; margin-bottom: 15px; } #lee-services-modal .tagline a { color: #222; text-decoration: underline; } #lee-services-modal #lee-service-no-access { display: none; } @media (min-width: 992px) { #lee-services-modal.packages_2, #lee-services-modal.packages_3 { width: 80%; } #lee-services-modal.packages_4, #lee-services-modal.packages_5 { width: 90%; } } @media (min-width: 1200px) { #lee-services-modal.packages_2 { width: 50%; } #lee-services-modal.packages_3 { width: 60%; } #lee-services-modal.packages_4 { width: 70%; } #lee-services-modal.packages_5 { width: 80%; } } /* inline */ #lee-subscription-wall-inline { position: relative; margin-bottom: 20px; } #lee-subscription-wall-inline .lee-subscribe-panel { background-color: #f7f7f7; padding: 30px 20px; border-radius: 5px; } #lee-subscription-wall-inline .lee-redacted-overlay { height: 80px; width: 100%; top: -90px; z-index: 1; position: absolute; background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), #fff 80%); } #lee-subscription-wall-inline .head { font-size: 36px; line-height: 36px; font-family: ‘Yrsa’, serif; } #lee-subscription-wall-inline .tagline { padding-bottom: 15px; } #lee-subscription-wall-inline .tagline a { color: #222; text-decoration: underline; } @media (max-width: 767px) { #lee-subscription-wall-inline .lee-redacted-overlay { display: none; } } #lee-subscription-nag-inline { text-align: center; display: none; border-top: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 20px; box-shadow: 0px 3px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.02); } #lee-subscription-nag-inline h4 { font-family: ‘Yrsa’, serif; font-weight: bold; margin:0; } #lee-subscription-nag-inline p { font-family: ‘Lato’, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; }
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‘); $(‘.lee-featured-subscription’).html(sFallBack); } function lee_formatPackage(oService){ try { var bOnlyModal = true; var oSettings = lee_getPackageSettings(oService.HomeMembership); var newService = {}; if(parseInt(oService.WebFeatureFG) === 2) return false; if(oService.WebStartPrice != ”){ var custom = JSON.parse(oService.WebStartPrice); $.each(custom, function(k,v){ newService[k] = v; }); } if(bOnlyModal && newService.in_modal === ‘false’) return false; if(!bOnlyModal && newService.not_members === ‘true’) return false; newService.sort = parseInt((newService.sort) ? newService.sort : oSettings.sort); newService.title = oSettings.title; newService.level = oService.HomeMembership; newService.html = oService.WebOfferHTML; newService.disabled = newService.disable_purchase ? ‘disabled’ : ”; var price = lee_formatPackagePrice(newService.start_price); newService.start_price = price.cost; newService.format_dollars = (price.format_dollars) ? price.format_dollars : ”; newService.format_cents = (price.format_cents) ? price.format_cents : ”; newService.start_at_rate = (newService.fixed_rate === ‘true’) ? ‘for the low price of’ : ‘starting at’; if( !newService.term ) newService.term = ‘per month’; if( newService.promotional_price && newService.promotional_price != ” ){ newService.has_promotion_class = ‘has-promotion’; var promotion = lee_formatPackagePrice(newService.promotional_price); newService.promotional_price = promotion.cost; newService.promotional_format_dollars = (promotion.format_dollars) ? promotion.format_dollars : ”; newService.promotional_format_cents = (promotion.format_cents) ? promotion.format_cents : ”; } newService.action_button = ‘Sign Up’; if(newService.disabled === ‘disabled’){ newService.start_at_rate = ‘Call us at’; newService.start_price = ‘800-452-7570’; newService.term = ‘to get started’; newService.action_button = ‘Call Today’; } window.lee_service_impressions.push({ ‘id’: newService.level, ‘name’: newService.title, ‘price’: newService.start_price, ‘brand’: “qctimes.com”, ‘category’: ‘subscription’, ‘list’: ‘Block’, ‘position’: newService.sort }); return newService; } catch(e){ if(window.console) console.warn(e); return false; } } function lee_sortPackages(property) { var sortOrder = 1; if(property[0] === “-“) { sortOrder = -1; property = property.substr(1); } return function (a,b) { var result = (a[property] b[property]) ? 1 : 0; return result * sortOrder; } } function lee_getPackageSettings(sPackage){ switch(sPackage.toLowerCase()){ case ‘dob’: return {title: ‘Digital Basic’, sort: 0}; break; case ‘dop’: return {title: ‘Digital Plus’, sort: 1}; break; case ‘dopl’: return {title: ‘Digital Platinum’, sort: 2}; break; case ‘silv’: return {title: ‘Silver’, sort: 3}; break; case ‘gold’: return {title: ‘Gold’, sort: 4}; break; case ‘plat’: return {title: ‘Platinum’, sort: 5}; break; } } function lee_replacePackageTokens(sPackage, oService, sCol){ var hasPromotion = false; $.each(oService, function(k,v){ if( k === ‘html’){ v = v.replace(new RegExp(‘{{domain}}’, ‘gi’), ‘qctimes.com’) .replace(new RegExp(‘{{site_name}}’, ‘gi’), ‘The Quad-City Times’) .replace(new RegExp(‘{{business_name}}’, ‘gi’), ‘The Quad City Times’) .replace(new RegExp(‘{{site_phone}}’, ‘gi’), ‘800-452-7570’); } sPackage = sPackage.replace(new RegExp(‘{{‘+k+’}}’, ‘gi’), v); }); if(sCol) sPackage = sPackage.replace(‘{{col}}’, sCol); return sPackage; } try { var oPackages = [], oFeatured = false, sHtml = ”, sTemplate = $(‘#lee-service-template’).html(); $.each(window.leeMembershipPackages, function(i, oService){ var oService = lee_formatPackage(oService); if(oService){ oPackages.push(oService); if(oService.featured === ‘true’) oFeatured = oService; } }); if(oPackages.length === 0){ throw ‘No packages defined’; } oPackages.sort(lee_sortPackages(‘sort’)); if(!oFeatured) oFeatured = oPackages[0]; switch(oPackages.length){ case 6: var sCol = ‘2’; break; case 5: var sCol = ‘5ths’; break; case 4: var sCol = ‘3’; break; case 3: var sCol = ‘4’; break; case 2: var sCol = ‘6’; break; default: var sCol = ’12’; break; } $(‘#lee-services-modal’).addClass(‘packages_’+oPackages.length); $.each(oPackages, function(i, oService){ sHtml += lee_replacePackageTokens(sTemplate, oService, sCol); }); $(‘#lee-services-list .packages’).html(sHtml).promise().then(function(){ setTimeout(function(){ $(‘#lee-services-list .body’).each(function(){ if( $(this).prop(‘scrollHeight’) 0 && oFeatured ){ $(‘.lee-featured-subscription’).each(function(){ var html = $(this).html(); if( !oFeatured.featured_button_text ){ if(oFeatured.promotional_price){ oFeatured.featured_button_text = oFeatured.promotional_format_dollars+oFeatured.promotional_price+oFeatured.promotional_format_cents+’ ‘+oFeatured.term; } else { oFeatured.featured_button_text = ‘Join for ‘+oFeatured.format_dollars+oFeatured.start_price+oFeatured.format_cents+’ ‘+oFeatured.term; } } html = lee_replacePackageTokens(html, oFeatured); $(this).html(html); if(oFeatured.promotional_price) $(this).addClass(‘has-promotiom’); if( $(this).hasClass(‘show-after-loaded’) ) $(this).show(); }); } } } catch (e) { if(window.console) console.warn(e); lee_serviceError(); } window.lee_fetched_services = true; });
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Someday, we hope to fully understand the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States; where it began and how it spread so quickly and so devastatingly.
As of this writing, more than 85,000 Americans are dead due to this disease, a figure that is truly extraordinary when you realize the first U.S. casualty came in late February.
There is a lot of focus being put on China, where the virus originated. President Trump is clearly seeking to focus attention there, and Joe Biden, his rival in the 2020 election, is working hard to leverage suspicion of China to his advantage, too.
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