CHELSEA have made shock enquiry for Peter Crouch.
The Premier League champions turned their attention to the Stoke striker, 36, after a move for Andy Carroll collapsed.
Paul Lambert wants to keep his squad together following his appointment at the Bet365 Stadium.
But the Scot could be open to selling the ex-England striker in a £3million deal to generate cash for the transfer window.
Antonio Conte wants a targetman at Stamford Bridge.
And Crouch is an option after losing out on Fernando Llorente to Tottenham then seeing Carroll get injured.
Carroll was on Chelsea's wanted list but an ankle injury has ruled out a loan deal for the West Ham man.
Conte is looking for back-up to Alvaro Morata and is ready to allow Michy Batshuayi to leave the club.
But getting in a striker has proved difficult and even a deal for Crouch is not straightforward as he has another full season on his deal at Stoke.
He signed an extension in November and has been used in their first team.


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2017 Ford F-250 Super Duty: Here's The First Real Picture!
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The 2015 Ford F-250 Super Duty is aesthetically similar to its predecessors; but "she's…
This picture came to us with no context or information, so no news on power, equipment, or capability. But Ford recently tuned up their 6.7 Power Stroke diesel and still offers the 6.2 gasoline V8, those powerplants will probably see duty in the new truck.
It's also been confirmed that Ford's next Super Duty (this one pictured here) will have an aluminum body just like the 2015 F-150.
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A Tribe Called Quest slam President Trump for 'Muslim ban' at Grammys
Joined by Anderson .Paak, A Tribe Called Quest took the Grammys stage Sunday to run through a career-spanning medley — and they used their national stage to take aim at the new president.
The final song of their mini-set — which included "Award Tour," "Can I Kick It?," and "Movin Backwards" — was "We the People," the incendiary cut off their 2016 album We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service. As the instrumental began to play, longtime Tribe affiliate Busta Rhymes took a moment to address America's current political state.
"I just wanna thank President Agent Orange for perpetuating all of the evil that you've been perpetuating through the United States," Busta said, also referencing Trump's "Muslim ban." Tribe's other members and .Paak then busted through a stone wall set behind Busta; as they performed the song, extras wearing hijabs joined them on stage.
Though some performances at the annual music awards show fall into the "only at the Grammys" category, Tribe's collaboration with .Paak wasn't one of them: The rising Angeleno, nominated for Best New Artist at this year's event, appeared on the legendary rap group's final album, released last November. Famed Tribe MC Phife Dawg died due to complications from diabetes in March 2016.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl was originally slated to perform with Tribe and .Paak at the Grammys, but the Recording Academy walked the news back earlier this month, telling Billboard in a statement that the "announcement was made prematurely."
The Tribe Called Quest performance was the most overtly anti-Trump during the Grammys broadcast, though Katy Perry urged viewers to "resist" while debuting her new single "Chained to the Rhythm" on the show.
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Q: python time format check At python, I want to check if the input string is in "HH:MM" such as 01:16 or 23:16 or 24:00. Giving true or false by the result.
How can I achieve this by using regular expression ?

A: import re

time_re = re.compile(r'^(([01]\d|2[0-3]):([0-5]\d)|24:00)$')
def is_time_format(s):
    return bool(time_re.match(s))

Matches everything from 00:00 to 24:00.

A: You can achieve this without regular expressions:
import time

def isTimeFormat(input):
    try:
        time.strptime(input, '%H:%M')
        return True
    except ValueError:
        return False

>>>isTimeFormat('12:12')
True

>>>isTimeFormat('012:12')
False

A: This will give you the regexp object which will check it. However, depending on who you ask 24:00 might not be a valid time (it's 00:00). But I guess this is easy to modify to suit your needs.
import re
regexp = re.compile("(24:00|2[0-3]:[0-5][0-9]|[0-1][0-9]:[0-5][0-9])")

A: This pattern should help you:
http://regexlib.com/DisplayPatterns.aspx?cattabindex=4&categoryId=5

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Ático con piscina. Urbanización 1ª línea de playa.
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En unos 7 min. andando se llega al campo de golf y al casco histórico y comercial.
Dotado de sábanas, toallas, menaje de hogar, microondas, lavavajillas, lavadora, TV,…todo lo necesario para sentirse como en casa.
Ideal para familias con hijos y para parejas.


MuKappa exists to create meaningful, Christ-centered relationships among TCKs, while simultaneously creating an international community that fosters belonging for anyone who has experienced cross-cultural transitions.
MuKappa will gather weekly for genuine, Christian fellowship in order to cultivate an environment of understanding in which TCKs can be known and can contribute vibrant, cultural learning to the Wheaton College community.
1. Attend Sunday Night Dinners.
2. Attend weekly cabinet meetings (2 hours) and be mentally and physically present for the duration of the meeting.
3. Be willing to lead or co-lead the occasional event or project.
4. Inform the President or Vice-President of any changes of plans within a respectful timeframe.
If no, what is your current cumulative GPA?
Please read through the position descriptions before continuing.
the President is responsible for vision-casting, planning and leading meetings (with the VP), delegating tasks to different cabinet members, caring for cabinet members, meeting weekly with ISP Director and other representatives of the college and generally accepting responsibility for the activities and well-being of the organization.
The Vice President (VP) will meet with the President to plan the weekly agenda and provide any additional support needed for the weekly meetings. They will help the President align meetings to the year's vision and can become a versatile role to other members on the team. The VP will be primarily responsible for team dynamics, which includes coordinating Cabinet hangouts and connecting one-on-one with other cabinet members. VP will also work with the President to maintain external relations with MuKappa (i.e. TCK Connect).
The events coordinator is responsible for taking notes on all conversation in cabinet meetings including discussions, brainstorming, and updates; turning notes into an understandable summary which is sent out by email to the cabinet each week; and overseeing logistics for events which includes reserving rooms and checking out any equipment needed.
The Business Manager is responsible for overseeing all money transactions and financial records of the organization. This includes advising cabinet members on filling out expense reports for organization purchases and recording the amounts reimbursed, assisting in setting budgets for events, requesting checks for Snow Camp and brainstorming methods for saving and raising the organization's financial resources.
The Publicity Managers (2) are responsible for communicating on behalf of MuKappa cabinet to primarily the MuKappa community, but also to the broader campus. This includes making and putting up posters for events, maintaining MuKappa's various electronic accounts, as well as maintaining MuKappa's public image. Publicity managers also are in charge of composing and sending out weekly emails to the mailing list they maintain, as well as frequently checking and responding from the MuKappa gmail account. They are responsible for brainstorming creative solutions to both simplify and improve the organization's communication with the MuKappa community and the broader campus.
The Worship Coordinator heads a team of students in leading multi-lingual, multicultural musical worship every other Sunday, practicing once per week. They aim to hold at least one full-worship Sunday per semester in place of MuKappa dinner, and the Coordinator should highly consider collaborating with other cabinets or worship and praise teams to hold an all-campus multicultural worship night once per semester or year. The Coordinator also commits to praying for the campus, MuKappa as a whole and the Cabinet weekly.
Please list any other commitments you would have outside of MuKappa and their time commitments (hrs/wk) .


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A guide to COVID tests: When to test, what kind to use and what your results mean
By Melody Schreiber,
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Rapid COVID tests are distributed in Brooklyn in late December. Self-tests are in short supply in many parts of the country.
Updated January 11, 2022 at 5:37 PM ET
Each week, we answer frequently asked questions about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have a question you'd like us to consider for a future post, email us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the subject line: "Weekly Coronavirus Questions." See an archive of our FAQs here.
In an ideal world, the U.S. would be awash in COVID tests. Anyone exposed to COVID-19 could self-test and/or go to a lab or clinic for a test if necessary.
But right now, self-tests are in short supply in many parts of the country.
The Biden administration pledged to distribute 500 million rapid tests "within weeks," White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients said last week, but few other details have been announced.
And test manufacturers are ramping up production, so the hope is that at some point, although no one can say exactly when, you won't be seeing those "no tests available" signs at the local pharmacy or have to wait a week or more for tests ordered online.
What's more, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its testing guidelines in the wake of the omicron surge in the U.S. — and public health researchers are critical of some of the recommendations.
The end result is a lot of confusion about testing and a lot of frequently asked questions. Here are some answers to queries you might have about COVID-19 tests.
What types of COVID tests are there?
There's the rapid, do-it-yourself home test, which involves swabbing your nose and takes about 15 minutes to display a result on a test strip provided in the kit. These typically cost about $20 - $24 for a package of two tests. Most commonly used at-home tests are antigen tests — antigens are basically the proteins from the virus that the rapid tests can identify.
Then there's the PCR test performed in a lab or clinic. PCR stands for polymerase chain reaction, which is a technique for amplifying trace amounts of virus DNA. Depending on how busy your local technicians are, you may have PCR results within a day or it may take several days. A PCR test usually costs about $150 without insurance.
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COVID rapid tests can be hard to come by. This was the message in a pharmacy in Washington, D.C.
Are there any other types of tests?
There's a third type of test: a blood test that looks for antibodies after you've been sick, and some samples can even be taken from a finger prick at home and sent to a lab. But they are not used to diagnose COVID-19.
Does health insurance cover testing?
Most insurance policies cover PCR and rapid tests administered by health providers. The Biden administration has announced a plan for insurance companies to reimburse at-home tests starting this month.
Under the new policy announced by the White House, individuals covered by a health insurance plan who purchase an over-the-counter COVID-19 diagnostic test that has been authorized, cleared or approved by the Food and Drug Administration will be able to have those test costs covered by their insurance beginning this Saturday.
How many tests can I get under this new policy?
Up to eight per month.
Insurance companies and health plans will be required to cover eight free over-the-counter at-home tests per covered individual per month, according to White House officials. For instance, a family of four all on the same plan would be able to get up to 32 of these tests covered by their health plan each month.
What if I have Medicare? Can I get reimbursed for testing?
At this time, those who are on Medicare will not be able to get their at-home COVID-19 tests reimbursed through the program, according to the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services.
Currently, among federal health care programs, only Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program plans are required to fully cover the cost of at-home tests.
What's the difference between antigen and PCR tests?
The PCR test is much more sensitive in identifying an infection because it can amplify traces of the virus — in other words, even if you have a small amount of virus, it can detect it. So it can tell whether you're infected even a day or so after you develop what appear to be COVID-19 symptoms or a few days after exposure to someone with COVID-19.
The antigen tests don't magnify the amount of virus in the sample you take, so you need a pretty high viral load to test positive. As Susan Butler-Wu, associate professor of clinical pathology at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, puts it: "It's a test for [determining whether you have] a lot of virus."
So you might test negative on a home test even if you are infected — at the beginning or the end of your illness, for example, when you don't have a lot of virus.
So which test should I go for?
The more urgent question, says Butler-Wu, is: "Which test can you get?"
If you have symptoms and likely have been exposed to the virus by traveling or socializing, a positive antigen test is probably enough evidence that you have the virus, says Dr. Abraar Karan, an infectious disease physician at Stanford University.
As for PCR tests, availability depends on the demand in your community. Some testing facilities are slammed, with few appointments available and hours-long waits even if you can snag an appointment. And it can take several days to get results from a PCR test.
What should I do while awaiting PCR test results?
While you're waiting for test results, if you have symptoms you should act as though the test is positive and quarantine.
If you've been exposed but don't have symptoms, the CDC says you can go out while wearing a well-fitting, protective mask if you're vaccinated and boosted.
Those who aren't vaccinated should quarantine after a known exposure until test results are in.
(See this story for guidelines about quarantining or self-isolating after an exposure.)
When should I test — and how many times?
The answer depends on whether you can get tests — and what you're using them for. Tests can be used to tell you if you have COVID-19 – for instance, if you have symptoms or you've been around someone who tested positive. And they can also be used as an added precaution before socializing (which we'll discuss a couple of questions down).
If you've been exposed to someone with COVID-19, you should self-test. But not right away.
"If you've been exposed, wait a few days because testing right away could be negative," Karan says. After you wait, "then we'll be able to detect virus."
The CDC recommends testing either when symptoms develop or, if you aren't showing symptoms, five to seven days after exposure. That would give enough time for the body to develop a viral load that can be detected by a test.
With the omicron variant, there have been reports that rapid tests are negative during the first day or two of symptoms. So even if you're showing symptoms, you might want to wait a day or two to take the first test, especially if you have a limited supply of tests.
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A home tester checks out the result on a test strip.
How many home tests should I take?
At least two.
Why test twice? Home tests are most accurate when you use them serially — at least two over the course of a few days. And if you have a limited supply of home tests, you will want to aim for the time when you are most likely to get an accurate result — say, on Day 5 and Day 7 after exposure.
"These tests absolutely have to be used serially, to be perfectly honest. They don't have the sensitivity to be used one-and-done if they're negative," Butler-Wu says. "By repeating it, you're allowing the virus to potentially grow more to the point, essentially, where now you can detect it."
"If that test is negative, all that's telling you is: At this point in time, you don't have a ton of virus in you," Karan says.
Should I get tested before seeing people?
"If you're going to visit Grandma or something, yeah, I would probably rapid-test before that," Karan says. "Or if I'm going somewhere where there's going be a lot of people. If I'm contagious that day [and don't know it], I could infect tons of people."
A positive test result will tell you to cancel your plans and stay home and isolate.
But negative results don't mean it's time to rip the mask off in social settings. Rapid tests could be negative before a party and positive during it, just a few hours later — even if you're vaccinated and boosted.
"To say that the negative test means being indoors unmasked — I think that needs to get rethought, pronto," Butler-Wu says.
"Omicron has changed the game completely," she says. "We know from Christmas soirees that occurred in European places that those exact scenarios happened: vaccinated people, negative tests and there was still spread."
If I test negative — how accurate are negative tests?
There can be false negatives, especially soon after exposure when not much virus is present in your body, or if the virus is replicating somewhere other than where you were swabbed — for instance, in your throat instead of your nose.
That's why you should test at least twice.
According to a pre-omicron study, the Abbott BinaxNOW antigen test was 92.6% accurate at detecting the virus in symptomatic people and 78.6% accurate in asymptomatic people, compared to PCR results in cases where people had viable virus.
It is also possible to have a false negative from a PCR test.
"Any test is a snapshot of what's happening in the part of your body that was sampled at that moment. That's all it tells you," Butler-Wu says. "So, yes, PCR is more sensitive in that it can detect lower amounts of the virus. But if you're in the very early stages of incubating an infection and haven't reached what we call the 'limit of detection,' that too, can be negative."
What happens if I test positive?
When you test positive, you should isolate yourself for a minimum of five days and wear a mask for five days after that, according to the CDC. If you have rapid tests, you can use them after five days to see if you're still positive, which would mean you need to continue isolating.
If you were tested at a clinic, they report the results to the local public health department for you. If you test positive on a home test, you should notify the health department so it can keep track of how many cases your community has.
Are there ever false positives?
False positives are rare on PCR tests and usually happen because of contaminated samples, research has found.
A false positive on an antigen test is possible but fairly unlikely if the test is taken correctly, says Butler-Wu, especially if you develop symptoms and you know you've been exposed to someone with COVID-19. And a lot of people are being exposed at this current time of great spread to the omicron and delta variants.
If "there's a bunch of COVID and I'm symptomatic, it's probably a true positive," Butler-Wu says.
If you think you have a false positive from a home test, you can get a confirmatory PCR test if you can find one.
"If your PCR is negative, then it's possible that your rapid was a false positive," Karan says. "If you're able to do that, great."
When else are PCR tests recommended?
If you are at risk for severe illness, you should get a test in case you need medication for COVID-19. And some workplaces and schools require a negative PCR test to return after travel or a non-COVID illness.
Do the tests detect omicron?
Rapid tests may not be as accurate for omicron, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in late December — but they haven't released data yet on why they are less accurate and to what degree.
The FDA has also warned that three types of PCR tests may not detect omicron.
Because of these issues, if you're testing at home after symptoms or an exposure to someone with COVID-19, the use of two tests spaced a few days apart is critical.
Can I use a rapid test to get out of isolation or quarantine early?
No. You should complete at least five days of isolation after you test positive.
According to the CDC, you may end isolation five days after testing positive, as long as your symptoms are "resolving," including no fever for 24 hours, and you wear a mask "at all times when around others" for five more days.
The new guidance prompted criticism from public health experts. "I personally think a five-day lifting of isolation regardless of vaccination status, regardless of testing, regardless of anything — I am very concerned about it," Butler-Wu says. "I'm just looking at how often people who have COVID still shed infectious virus at five days, and it's quite a chunk."
On Tuesday, the CDC changed those recommendations to include taking a test on Day 5, if possible, but it stopped short of requiring a test.
But if you do test at that point and test positive, continue isolating until you test negative.
"If you have COVID, and your antigen [test] is still positive at five days, you're almost certainly still infectious," Butler-Wu says.
And viral load isn't the only factor for transmitting the virus. It also has to do with the situation you're in and human behavior, like how much you are talking or singing and whether you're masked, as well as environmental factors, like ventilation.
And what about taking a PCR test to end isolation?
PCR results can be positive for up to 12 weeks because they don't differentiate between viable and unviable viral particles, which means they may detect unviable virus after an infection has ended. So, a PCR test likely won't tell you when to end isolation.
Melody Schreiber (@m_scribe) is a journalist and the editor of What We Didn't Expect: Personal Stories About Premature Birth.
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A complex, multifactorial, chronic, severe, disabling brain disorder, diagnosed in young adults at the time of the first psychotic episode of hallucinations and delusions.
Has a 10% chance in first degree relatives. Second degree relatives have a higher chance (1%) than the general population. There is a 40-65% chance of occurrence in an identical twin of a person with schizophrenia.
Interactions between genetic and environmental factors are necessary for the occurrence of schizophrenia.
2. Different brain structure and chemistry.
Imbalance in the chemical reactions involving neurotransmitters Dopamine and Glutamate maybe a cause.
Brains look different in small ways.
Eg: Larger ventricles, less grey matter, some areas show more or less activity.
Some differences of brain tissue may also be a cause.
Exposure to viruses and toxins or malnutrition while in the womb during the first and second trimesters.
Older age of the father.
Psychoactive or psychotropic drugs during teen years and adulthood.
– Males and females have an equal chance of occurrence. But males develop the symptoms a little early in life.
– In most cases, this does not occur after 45 years of age.
– Rarely occurs in childhood. But awareness is increasing.
– It's difficult to diagnose in teens as some symptoms show similarity with normal teenage behavior.
– All ethnic groups show similar rates of occurrence.
Only the person can experience the sounds and the sensations, but the others cannot. It may involve any one of the five senses.
Auditory hallucinations are the most common. Most of the time, the person complains as "hearing voices". These "voices" are mostly critical or abusive in nature and comes from someone the person knows.
Visual hallucinations are also relatively common.
These are the false beliefs that are not based on reality.
Very common and occurs in more than 90% of cases.
Unusual or dysfunctional ways of thinking.
Excessive movement or agitated movements.
Lack of initiative or drive.
Lack of pleasure in everyday life.
These are subtle and therefore difficult to recognize as being part of the disorder.
Trouble focusing or paying attention.
These symptoms make it hard to earn a living and lead a normal life. They also lead to emotional distress in the person.
– All these symptoms of schizophrenia usually begin to appear during early adulthood.
– In case of men, they appear during early twenties.
– In case of women, they appear during late twenties and early thirties.
The main focus of diagnosing schizophrenia is, to eliminate other mental disorders and to determine that the symptoms are only due to this disorder and not due to any substance abuse, medications or any other medical conditions.
a.) Two or more of the following symptoms, each of which must be present for a significant amount of time during a period of one month.
b.) Social or occupational dysfunction.
Since the onset of the symptoms, there is a marked decrease in the major daily functioning of the person for a significant period of time.
c.) Continuous signs of disturbance persisting for at least six months.
d.) Schizoaffective and major mood disorders have to be excluded.
e.) Substance or general mood conditions have to be excluded.
f.) If there is a history of autism spectrum disorder or other communication disorders of childhood onset, the schizophrenia diagnosis is made only if hallucinations or delusions are present for at least one month.
1.) Typical or conventional drugs.
These are first generation drugs.
They control the positive symptoms.
2.) Atypical or new drugs.
These are the second generation drugs.
They control the positive and negative symptoms.
These atypical drugs have lesser side effects than the typical drugs and they can be managed successfully. Therefore, they are more preferred now.
This includes job counselling and training, money management counselling, practice of communication skills.
The therapist has a role in helping the family members to learn coping strategies and problem solving skills that are required to take care of the patients and to make sure the patients stick to the medication and treatment plan at all times.
CBT focuses on the thinking and behavior of the patient.
It helps the patients to cope with the symptoms that are not controlled by medication and helps to reduce the severity of these symptoms. It also reduces the risk of relapse.
This teaches the patients to take an active role in managing their illness on their own by helping them to cope with stress and to recognize warning signs of relapse of the condition.
These are for patients and their family members. The members of these groups support each other to cope with the disorder.
– Full recovery of these patients is not common.
– 5% of cases have a risk of suicide throughout their life time.
– Positive symptoms respond well to antipsychotic drugs while the other symptoms persist.


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The binding change effect on the K-shell ionization by 0.3–0.7 MeV/amu deuterons and alpha particles
C. N. Chang*, Y. C. Liu, S. L. Huang, S. C. Yeh
物理學系
The ratios of the K-shell ionization cross sections induced by deuterons to those induced by α-particles for Cu, Ag and Tb targets were measured in the energy range of 0.3–0.7 MeV/amu at equal velocities of the deuterons and α-particles. The observed ratios are found to be 15–20% lower than those predicted by the CPSS theory of Basbas et al. The predicted rise of the ratios with decreasing velocities is consistent with our Cu data but not with our Ag and Tb data. The importance of the relativistic effect of the K-shell electrons is discussed.
"Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics"
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Chang, C. N., Liu, Y. C., Huang, S. L., & Yeh, S. C. (1980). The binding change effect on the K-shell ionization by 0.3–0.7 MeV/amu deuterons and alpha particles. "Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics", 79(4), 301-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(80)90353-9
The binding change effect on the K-shell ionization by 0.3–0.7 MeV/amu deuterons and alpha particles. / Chang, C. N.; Liu, Y. C.; Huang, S. L.; Yeh, S. C.
於: "Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics", 卷 79, 編號 4, 1980, p. 301-304.
Chang, CN, Liu, YC, Huang, SL & Yeh, SC 1980, 'The binding change effect on the K-shell ionization by 0.3–0.7 MeV/amu deuterons and alpha particles', "Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics", 卷 79, 編號 4, 頁 301-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(80)90353-9
Chang CN, Liu YC, Huang SL, Yeh SC. The binding change effect on the K-shell ionization by 0.3–0.7 MeV/amu deuterons and alpha particles. "Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics". 1980;79(4):301-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(80)90353-9
Chang, C. N. ; Liu, Y. C. ; Huang, S. L. ; Yeh, S. C. / The binding change effect on the K-shell ionization by 0.3–0.7 MeV/amu deuterons and alpha particles. 於: "Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics". 1980 ; 卷 79, 編號 4. 頁 301-304.
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N2 - The ratios of the K-shell ionization cross sections induced by deuterons to those induced by α-particles for Cu, Ag and Tb targets were measured in the energy range of 0.3–0.7 MeV/amu at equal velocities of the deuterons and α-particles. The observed ratios are found to be 15–20% lower than those predicted by the CPSS theory of Basbas et al. The predicted rise of the ratios with decreasing velocities is consistent with our Cu data but not with our Ag and Tb data. The importance of the relativistic effect of the K-shell electrons is discussed.
AB - The ratios of the K-shell ionization cross sections induced by deuterons to those induced by α-particles for Cu, Ag and Tb targets were measured in the energy range of 0.3–0.7 MeV/amu at equal velocities of the deuterons and α-particles. The observed ratios are found to be 15–20% lower than those predicted by the CPSS theory of Basbas et al. The predicted rise of the ratios with decreasing velocities is consistent with our Cu data but not with our Ag and Tb data. The importance of the relativistic effect of the K-shell electrons is discussed.
JO - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics


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This week marks 30 years since Section 28 became a thing in the UK.
For anyone who doesn't know, Section 28 was a law that the government passed in 1988 that stopped local councils from "intentionally promoting homosexuality"
It didn't really bother me much when it came into force, but then I was 5 years old, and more interested in normal boyhood things, like Star Trek and annoying my brother, and trying to find my real family, who were obviously rich Americans who would one day come back for me and take me to my real life as some kind of playboy superstar. Y'know, the usual kids stuff.
Incidentally, my dad though this was brilliant. He was all for it. He kept telling me he couldn't wait for them to turn up, as he'd have a bill waiting for them. Which I thought was a bit of a liberty - surely bringing up a whiny little snotball like me was reward enough… Anyway.
Section 28. Came into law when I was five, and was repealed when I was twenty. So, y'know, most of my formative years.
And let's just check the wording for a moment. "Not to allow the promotion of homosexuality, or allow the teaching in any school of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship."
Not only was it illegal to 'promote' queer lifestyles, but that the idea of an LGBTQ family was so absurd that even pretending it might be a thing was illegal.
So, no teaching kids about being gay, no books in libraries, nothing . Remember this was the height of the AIDS crisis, and a whole generation of kids grew up not only without proper guidance, but without even knowing what HIV was. Or even thinking that it was a thing that we could (and should) talk about.
For example, when I was 16, I wrote a one-man play for my Drama GCSE because of course I did. Shut up. It was about a couple, a straight couple because I don't think my school was ready for anything else at the time, who both got infected with HIV after a blood transfusion.
I got an A-Star, obviously. But anyway. To learn about HIV and how it was transmitted, and answer questions like "Can a man get HIV from having sex with a woman? How? She's not putting anything in him…"
I had to write off and be sent leaflets through the post. So, yeah. Arguably one of the most vulnerable sections of society, horny teenage queers, were not only not actively taught this stuff in schools, but even if they WANTED to learn about it, they had to go out of their way to do so. I mean, I don't know about you, but when I was in my teens and hormone-fuelled and gagging to try sticking things in places, I definitely said to every other horny teenager "Yes, Troy, I too want to do those things with you, on you and to you, but we must wait until tomorrow, as I checked the post this morning and the leaflets hadn't arrived."
So all of that usual teenage angst, all that shit we all have growing up, where we worry about being liked, and having friends and dramas and all that sort of thing, but on top of that all the trauma of realising we were different and coming out to ourselves and possibly others. Not only did we have to deal with the very real possibility that people around us would reject us for being uphill gardeners, friends of dorothy and great big wooftys, but the very society we grew up in, the government itself said that not only is this part of who you are bad, and wrong, but it's so bad, so awful that you're forbidden from even talking about it.
Is it any wonder that so many of the queer kids of my generation turn to drink and drugs and shagging to feel accepted? To feel validated, and a worthy part of the world.
Is it any wonder, then, that we all grew up a little damaged? That so many LGBTQ kids spend their twenties and early thirties being hot messes? There's this idea that we're immature or we act like teenagers throughout our twenties and into our thirties, and yeah, kinda. Because for our actual teenage years, we couldn't be ourselves, for fear of a kicking, or worse. I mean, some of them are just messy bitches who live for drama, but the rest of us are just working out who we are, and how we fit in, or don't.
All the queer kids in their twenties, thirties and forties now, with HIV, or with anxiety, depression, and self-worth issues, how much of that could have been avoided if this nasty, homophobic law hadn't been introduced? And that's those of us lucky enough to have made it this far. There's plenty more people who aren't around now, who might have been, if things had been different.
And the 90s were hard enough to get out of as it were. Kids today don't know the struggle of trying to get your hair to look like whatsisname out of Take That, or stopping your tamagotchi from drowning in its own poo, or seeing Adam Rickett's six-pack and wondering why your body didn't look like that. For example.
I'm not saying Section 28 is the cause of all the homophobic fuckery in the world. But Section 28 certainly didn't help.
Our government failed us. Spectacularly. Margaret Thatcher stood up and told the country, told the world, that she was protecting the morals of all the children, who were being cheated out of a sound start in life because they were being told they had a right to be gay. Just when our community was at its most vulnerable, when we needed help and understanding the most, our government failed us.
I wasn't pleased when she finally died. There was no reason I should be - her mind had gone long ago; she wasn't the person who'd done all of that. Besides, why celebrate the death of a witch when her spells keep going?
Ideas aren't like people: They don't die. There will always be people who think that homosexuality is wrong. Some of them, sadly, will be homos themselves, who've heard these things about how awful it is to be queer and not made the connection, not thought to themselves "Hang on a second… That can't possibly be true, for I enjoy the cock, and yet I am a wonderful person and a joy to be around. Evidently this assertion is flawed." I'm not saying that makes it ok, just that that's a thing.
How do you undo that kind of damage? Slowly. Gently. It takes time. And the law was changed in 2003, but as recently as 2014, studies showed a lot of schools hadn't updated their policies at all, and were continuing with Section 28-style not-talking-about-things. Luckily, nowadays there's the internet and youtube and stuff like that, so kids don't have to learn about sex from cycling for miles to look at a porn mag someone found in a hedge. For example.
Still, it's been 15 years since it was repealed, which is most definitely something better to be focusing on. Because even when the government went the wrong way on something and screwed over so many of its own people, there were plenty of people, communities and teachers who pushed and never gave up fighting for the law to be changed.
So, as we're heading into Pride season again, and as ever there will be all those people who go "Ugh…" at the thought of the flag waving and the excessive drinking and the partying and all of that, there are many reasons we do it.
Sometimes it's to feel validated. To know that we are who we are and, finally, that's not just ok, but it's awesome.
Sometimes it's to feel connected to a big, queer, family. For some of us, that'll be the only family we care to know.
Sometimes it's to celebrate how far we've come, because we know full well there's a lot further to go.
Sometimes it's to show all those other lost, and lonely queers around the world living lives of fear under oppression or death that there is another way, that they're not alone.
And sometimes it's because if you can't occasionally wake up in a skip wearing hot pants, one high heel and three kilos of glitter, what's the point?
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Overlooking the harbour, Battery House's roof terrace is in an ideal spot for ship watching, also offering views of the city defences dating from the 1400s, the Garrison Church and Grand Parade, and the original Navy parade ground.
The accommodation comprises of four elegant bedrooms and a modern open plan living area on the top floor with access to the roof terrace.
The living area includes a well-equipped kitchen with electric cooker and gas hob, fridge and freezer, dishwasher and wine fridge; a dining area which can seat eight; and a comfortable lounge with a flat screen TV (with free digital channels) and a DVD player. From the living area and the roof terrace, you can enjoy spectacular panoramic views and a front-row seat for the activity in the harbour.
There is also a washing machine and tumble dryer on the ground floor.
The four bedrooms are situated on the first and second floors of the property.
Three of them can be configured as either a king size or twin bed and the fourth is a double.
There are three en-suite shower rooms with an additional family bathroom and a separate WC.
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Considering that Old Portsmouth is a relatively small area it is able to offer a surprising range of places to eat and drink within 5 minutes walk of the house. If you want to eat and watch the ships go by then try the Spice Island Inn or the Bridge Tavern.
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If you only learn or teach one phoneme, make sure it's the most common English sound - the schwa.
stressed in connected speech. Grammar words such as auxiliary verbs, pronouns, articles, linkers and prepositions are not usually stressed, and are reduced to keep the stress pattern regular.
This means that they are said faster and at a lower volume than stressed syllables, and the vowel sounds lose their purity, often becoming a schwa. Listen to these two examples of the same question. The first is with every word stressed and the second is faster and more natural with vowels being reduced.
The same thing happens with individual words. While stressed syllables maintain the full vowel sound, unstressed syllables are weakened. For example, the letters in bold in the following words can all be pronounced with a schwa (depending on the speaker's accent): support, banana, button, excellent, experiment, colour, sister, picture.
To understand the concept of word or sentence stress, learners also need to be aware of the characteristics of 'unstress', which include the occurrence of the schwa. In addition, if learners expect to hear the full pronunciation of all vowel sounds, they may fail to recognise known language, especially when listening to native speakers. Even if they understand, students often do not notice unstressed auxiliaries, leading to mistakes such as, 'What you do?' and 'They coming now'.
Helping your students to notice the schwa won't necessarily lead to an immediate improvement in listening skills or natural-sounding pronunciation, but it will raise their awareness of an important feature of spoken English.
I find this activity useful for introducing the schwa in context. However, it can be repeated several times with the same group of students, as it also recycles grammar and vocabulary.
Warn students that you are going to dictate at normal speaking speed, and that you will not repeat anything. Tell them to write what they hear, even if it's only one word. Then read out some sentences or questions including language recently studied in class.
1) How many brothers and sisters have you got?
2) How often do you play tennis?
4) What time do you usually get up?
After reading the sentences, allow students to compare in pairs or groups. Then read again, while students make changes and additions, before a final comparison with their partner(s). Next, invite individual learners to write the sentences on the board, while others offer corrections. The teacher can correct any final mistakes that other learners do not notice.
Say the first sentence again naturally, and ask learners which words are stressed. Repeat the sentence, trying to keep stress and intonation consistent, until learners are able to correctly identify the stressed syllables. Then point to the schwa on the phonemic chart and make a schwa sound. Get students to repeat. Read the first sentence again and ask learners to identify the schwa sounds. Repeat the sentence naturally until students are able to do this. Ask them to identify the stress and schwas in the other sentences, working in pairs or groups. My students found the following, although again there is some variation between accents.
N.B. I normally get learners to write the schwa symbol underneath the alphabetic script.
Once this is done, you can drill the sentences, perhaps by 'backchaining'. This is where the sentence is drilled starting from the end, gradually adding more words.
Try to maintain natural sentence stress when drilling. A danger of focusing on the schwa is that it can be given too much emphasis, so correct this tendency if it occurs in individual and choral repetitions.
Take a short section of tape or video script (a short dialogue or a few short paragraphs of spoken text). Before listening or watching, ask learners to identify the stressed syllables and schwas, and to rehearse speaking the text. They then listen or watch and compare their version with the recording. There will probably be differences, but this can lead to a useful discussion, raising issues such as variations in the use of schwa between accents, and emphatic stress to correct what someone else has said.
I often ask learners to identify word stress and schwa in multiple-syllable words recently studied in class. This recycles vocabulary, and illustrates the point that schwa does not occur in stressed syllables. It also helps with aural comprehension as well as correct pronunciation of these words.
You may still find, even when drilling, that learners are tempted to pronounce the full vowel sound in unstressed syllables. I give my students a gentle reminder that schwa is the 'Friday afternoon' sound. Slumping in the chair and looking exhausted while saying schwa normally gets a laugh!
Many of my students have seemed fascinated by the insight that English is not spoken as they thought, with every vowel being given its full sound, and after an initial introduction to the schwa they start to look for it themselves in other words and sentences. More ambitious students take every opportunity to practise this 'native-speaker' feature, while others revert to the full vowel sound after drilling, but in either case their expectations of how English sounds will have changed.
In phonemic accounts of English it isn't usually treated as a phoneme.It's interesting to note though that English as spoken tends to find 'neutrality' in upper mid to upper front part of the mouth, at least in terms of tongue contour. In Japanese, by way of contrast, neutrality seems to alternate between upper front and upper back vowels.
How do we really produce the schwa?
I recently interviwed Dr Piers Messum about why so many language learners have such problems withe the schwa. His insights about how we produce it at the deepest levels provides what may are saying is the lissing link in our understanding. Here it is. Enjoy!
It's really helpful for the teachers who are trying to teach their students the correct pronunciation. Yes, the Schwa sound is the most common sound in English language.


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Elk Creek Fire Department has 70 volunteers on its staff. Roughly 6,500 homeowners (or 98 square miles of land) are covered by the Elk Creek Fire Protection District. This department responds to about 1,100 calls per year. Money received from the community will be used to address purchases that tax dollars do not cover, such as special fire resistant clothing, boots, wildland tools, and other fire apparatuses. More at ElkCreekFire.org.
Evergreen Volunteer Fire Department
With 100 volunteers on its staff, Evergreen Fire Department covers thousands of homeowners and 121 square miles of land known as the Evergreen Fire Protection District. This department responds to about 1,800 calls per year. Money received from the community will be used to address purchases that tax dollars do not cover, such as special fire resistant clothing, boots, wildland tools, and other firefighting apparatus. More at EvergreenFireRescue.com.
Indian Hills Volunteer Fire Department
Indian Hills Fire Department has 40 volunteers on its staff. Roughly 750 homeowners (or 12 square miles of land) are covered by the Indian Hills Fire Protection District. This department responds to about 225 calls per year. Money received from the community will be used to address purchases that tax dollars do not cover, such as new and improved fire fighting equipment, clothing, computers, an SCBA Cascade System (fills oxygen tanks for fire fighters), and other fire apparatuses. More at www.ihfr.org.
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Hitting the last nail in the coffin, the Indian government has imposed a complete ban on the use of wild animals, including elephants, in tricks and other performances. The use of bears, lions, tigers, panthers etc was banned in 1998 but elephants were allowed until now.
New Delhi (Sputnik) — Elephants are often exploited for doing meaningless tricks for the entertainment of humans. Peddling cycles, juggling balls, balancing on two limbs were a common sight in Indian circuses. However, reinforcing the country's resolve to check cruelty to animals, the Indian government has banned inhumane confinement and torture-taming of elephants for use in tricks performed at circuses and other forms of entertainment. India's Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), in its latest orders, has canceled the recognition of all circuses which were found guilty of torturing wild animals including elephants by locking them in cramped cages and thrashing and intimidating them to perform tricks that are unnatural to their inherent characteristics.
In 1998, the Indian government had banned the exhibition of wild animals including bears, monkeys, tigers, panthers, and lions. Elephants were excluded from the ban, though protected under Schedule I of The Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
The decision to include elephants in the list was taken by the Ministry's Central Zoo Authority (CZA) after a year-long survey which concluded circus owners meted out extremely inhumane treatment to the animals at their disposal.
The zoo authority has also directed the chief wildlife wardens of states to rehabilitate the elephants from derecognized circuses. The inspection team found that the elephants could hardly move because of injuries and pain. They were chained and banned pointed metal sticks were used to train them.
With the cancellation of their recognition, circuses that used elephants as their mainstay are now facing the threat of closure. Circus owners are crying foul, accusing the inspection team of bias. They had taken the legal route last year to appeal against a similar survey conducted earlier submitting to the court that a ban would create job loss and livelihood issues. In response, the judiciary had asked the government to conduct a resurvey. However, the resurvey too reported similar violations, paving way for the Ministry to deregister popular circuses like the Apollo Circus and the Great Golden Circus.
The Ministry has claimed that circus owners were given ample time to improve conditions for the animals in their custody but that they flouted the deadline.
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has welcomed the step but with caution. "Though this initiative is in the right direction to prevent the abuse of wild animals for human entertainment, it is not a permanent ban. Inspections revealed widespread and rampant cruelty to animals in circuses and horrific conditions under which they are housed in violation of animal protection laws," head of PETA Pubic Policy team Nikunj Sharma told Sputnik.
"Unless an amendment is made to the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, removing the circuses from the list of establishments that are recognized by the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) this ban is can just be called a limited one," he added.
PETA tried to dismiss the circus owners' submission in the court regarding the loss of livelihood due to the ban.
"Livelihood can never be a justification for cruelty on any living being. More and more people today know that circus means cruelty to animals and want no part in it. People are not going to the circus because they don't want to see animals suffer," Nikunj Sharma told Sputnik.
He was of the opinion that human-only circuses would require more humans to be hired and in the process would create more jobs.


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Q: Bootstrap table data-show-columns="true" loses entered data I am using a Bootstrap table to display some data. My table includes several drop downs, labels, text boxes, etc. I also included data-show-columns="true" in order to allow the user to show/hide table columns.
I am having a problem with this functionality. If the user enters something in the text box, then uses column filter functionality, the data that is entered in the text box is lost.
Here is a jsfiddle . Could someone please let me know how to fix it, or at least point me in the right direction?
Thank you,

A: The reason why this is happening is because bootstrap is removing the objects from you DOM instead of just hidding the field.

A: You may handle any of the following events as per your requirement and update the table column:

*

*On show/hide of column using column-switch.bs.table and `search.bs.table' (recommended)

*On change of value or on blur of the input boxes

Following are the code changes (Fiddle):
Markup

        Name
        Price
        Columns1
        Columns2
        Columns3
        Columns4

            <input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" class="fname">
            <input type="text" name="price" id="price">
            <input type="text" name="1">
            <input type="text" name="2">
            Somehting
            Something

JavaScript
$(document).ready(
    function() {
        $('body').on('change', '#fname', function() {
            var nameValue = this.value;
            $('#myDataTable').bootstrapTable('updateRow', {
                    index: 0,
                    row: {
                        name: '<input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" value="' + nameValue + '"/>'
                    }
                });
        });

        $('body').on('change', '#price', function() {
            var priceValue = this.value;
            $('#myDataTable').bootstrapTable('updateRow', {
                    index: 0,
                    row: {
                        price: '<input type="text" name="price" id="price" value="' + priceValue + '"/>'
                    }
                });
        });
    }
);


The Irvine Unified School District will hold four upcoming parent forums to provide information on proposed changes to the district's high school attendance boundaries.
As it was explained at Tuesday night's Board of Education meeting — and as it's indicated in the maps below — the vast majority of IUSD students will not be impacted by the recommended changes. But planning for the district's fifth comprehensive high school requires a modest reconfiguration that may impact Irvine students who are currently enrolled in kindergarten through the sixth grade. Current seventh-grade students who live inside the proposed boundary for the new high school would also be impacted by the reconfiguration.


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Washington, DC (STL.News) The Federal Trade Commission is sending checks totaling $774,755 to 13,221 consumers who bought Synovia, a supplement advertised and sold by A.S. Research, LLC as a treatment for arthritis and joint pain. The average refund amount is $58.60 per consumer.
According to the FTC's complaint, A.S. Research made misleading health claims and used phony testimonials, including one in which a user said he "gave away his walker" after using the supplement. The FTC also alleged that the defendants told consumers they had to pay extra for a version of Synovia containing an ingredient added to increase pain relief and speed joint repair, when in fact all purchasers received that product.
The order settling the FTC's allegations prohibits the defendants from misrepresenting the results of any scientific study or endorsement and requires them to disclose any material connections they have with endorsers. It also required the company to pay $821,000 to the Commission for consumer refunds.
Refund recipients should deposit or cash checks within 60 days, as indicated on the check. The FTC never requires consumers to pay money or provide account information to cash refund checks. Consumers who bought Synovia but do not receive a check may contact the refund administrator, JND Legal Administration, at 833-707-1185.
The FTC's interactive dashboards for refund data(link is external) provide a state-by-state breakdown of FTC refunds. FTC actions led to more than $642 million in refunds to consumers across the country in fiscal year 2020.
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Roosevelt Field Shooting Leaves 1 Man Dead and Another Critically Injured
According to CBS news, a shooting near the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York has left one man dead and another one injured. The man has been identified as Sang Ho Kim of Fresh Meadows in Queens. Authorities are saying that it is possible that Kim may have fled to Upstate New York.
Police detective, Michael Bitsko believes that the shooting was premeditated.
"This individual came here to confront these two individuals who work in this facility, Bisko told CBS New York. "This was not a random act, and then fled the scene."
Is it possible that surveillance cameras would have prevented this shooting? It is possible but it's not likely. However, it certainly would have sped up the process of apprehending the suspect. Because of the shooting, colleges such as Hofstra and Nassau Community College were locked down because of the high populated number of students in a congested area. Several schools in the area were closed and roads were shut down. It was nothing short of chaos.
Authorities were extremely fortunate that they were able to link Kim with his former employer, Save Energy. If not for that they would be looking for a man with the only description being an Asian man who was 6'2". It would have left doubt whether the shooter would be caught and brought to justice in a timely manner. In the Nassau County and surrounding areas, there are over 506,000 Asian Americans that live in the borough of Queens alone.
It's another day and another tragic shooting. It's a reminder that we need to take as many precautions as we can in today's day and age. It's a completely different world that we live in.
This is also a great example of why surveillance cameras are important on college campuses. There are thousands of potential victims swarming on a college campus at a given time. School surveillance cameras provide a school with much-needed security and protection, rather than locking students in buildings and hoping for the best. They are also a helpful way to protect your business, your families and yourself. In the case of the Roosevelt Field shooting, they were very lucky that they had further information to identify the shooter and that there were not additional casualties. Still, one loss is too many, and we should all continue to ask ourselves how we can help prevent these events from occurring in the first place.
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The 2008 campaign has devolved into a morass of media banalities and clichés, a sham that both Barack Obama and John McCain are doing nothing to discourage.
Last Friday I made a $5 bet about the presidential election with a colleague over one of the sillier questions in this climate of exceedingly silly media overload: Will Oprah Winfrey back down and invite Sarah Palin on her TV show before Nov. 4? My money says yes, based on the gut assumption that viewer backlash will convince Barack Obama supporter Winfrey to issue an awkward mea culpa and ask all four candidates to honor her with their presence. My co-worker was game, wagering that Winfrey won't back down, placing integrity over ratings (and magazine circulation). In truth, both of us felt unsure about the outcome, and a little embarrassed we were even talking about it.
The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan wrote on Sept. 6, quite breathlessly in my opinion, that, "It is starting to look to me like a nation-defining election… This campaign is about to become: epic." Actually, the election might indeed be "epic," remembered not for anything of real substance, but instead the indescribable banality of the entire process. Does anyone recall the flap du jour back in July when The New Yorker and its editor David Remnick were put on the defensive because of the satiric cover drawing the weekly ran depicting Obama as a Muslim and his wife Michelle in Angela Davis-like garb? It's fuzzy to me as well, which, at first blush, is a little strange since I wrote a piece about the controversy for The Journal.
Yet consider how much has happened in this contest since the shank of summer, especially during the two national conventions, and not much of it of relevance to who's going to lead the country for at least the next four years. Republicans derided Obama for having the temerity to give his acceptance speech before 80,000 people at Denver's Invesco Field with a backdrop that was ridiculed for its resemblance to either the White House, or more ludicrously, to Greek temples. As political theater, it worked. Yet this grand and fleeting stagecraft has little to do with how Obama will navigate the flagging economy or international threats should he become president in January, and isn't really worthy of derogatory GOP commentary.
Not to outdone, Al Gore compared Obama to Abraham Lincoln, a stretch that I'm not entirely sure even Oprah could make with a straight face. But what the hell, Gore is now America's wild card (or joker), since he's developed as many personas over the years as Bob Dylan or David Bowie.
The New York Times, last Monday, ran a front-page story about Palin's baby Trig, born last spring, that even 16 years ago would've been buried—if it ran at all—inside the paper. "In just a few months, [Palin] has gone from hiding her pregnancy from those closest to her to toting her infant on stage at the Republican National Convention." Now, imagine the media's reaction if Palin hadn't included the baby, born with Down syndrome, with the rest of the family after her acceptance speech. In fairness, McCain's campaign has so far muzzled Palin, keeping her away from the press, but this story, "Fusing Politics and Motherhood in New Way," has no place on the front page of the Times.
On the other side of media divide, GOP enthusiasts, after their own shock at McCain's risky pick, declared Palin the "new face" of the Republican party, and praised the Arizona senator for his prescience in, in baseball parlance, paying attention to, and developing, future major league talent. Let's see: there's Palin, Bobby Jindal, Eric Cantor, and… well, I've run out of names. At least one conservative blogger even alluded to The Mary Tyler Moore Show (since the convocation was in St. Paul), saying that like the fictional Mary Richards, Palin was "going to make it after all." I support McCain, but stuff like this makes me reach for the barf bucket.
In the days that followed, there was a bout of indignation from some Republicans that after Obama's convention concluded, allegedly thousands of American flags were chucked in the trash before an Invesco Field worker rescued them. Give the Obama campaign demerits for not saving the flags for future use, but to imply that the Democratic candidate is unpatriotic is absurd and further sullies any real debate about the very real differences between Obama and McCain.
Over the weekend, we learned that Obama will not be "bullied," "smeared" or "lied about," a fairly pedestrian rallying cry he gave at fundraiser in New Jersey where, as the Associated Press put it, "rock legend" Jon Bon Jovi hosted a dinner for his candidate of choice. There was also news that McCain and Obama will appear together at the site of the demolished World Trade Center on Sept. 11 and will refrain, on that day, from airing negative advertisements about each other. That's swell, but as a former Lower Manhattan resident, I'd be far more impressed if the opponent issued a joint condemnation of the federal and New York bureaucracies for the gross incompetence in failing—after seven years!—to rebuild Ground Zero.
This campaign, unless it's radically altered, will not be remembered as one of ideas. Yes, both Obama and McCain have sketched out rote platforms and proposals that are intended to turn out their respective voters, but I haven't a clue as to how either one will carry out their promises. At the upcoming debates I'd welcome one of the moderators asking each of the candidates about their plans for immigration reform. Obama's been largely AWOL on this issue, knowing it's hot turf for the nativist crowd and best to avoid it. For his part, McCain, who once staked a sensible and humane position, has retreated, and one hopes that privately he's ashamed about this. I'd also like to know how Obama is going to increase revenues to pay for his version of healthcare and education by merely hiking taxes of those who earn more than $200,000 a year. The questions may come up but both men will bob and weave, to no one's satisfaction except their respective strategists.
As I wrote in this space several weeks ago, there could be an event that elevates the discourse—say Russia invades the Ukraine (good for McCain) or General Motors files for bankruptcy (a boost for Obama)—but presently, amidst all the media clutter, the election will be decided by one factor alone. Will Americans opt for an older white man (who, due to circumstances beyond his control, looks closer to 80 than 72) or a middle-aged African-American. Maybe that's a jaded oversimplification, maybe not, but it's clear that the 2008 presidential election will be covered in black and white.
First things first, Russ, how dare you bag on Bowie by comparing him to Gore. Bowie's "personas" have been of great artistic influence, Gores have been typical political bs. As for the race, couldn't agree with you more. It seemed at one point to have the potential for serious debate. Now, I feel like I'm watching the finals for Trumps apprentice.
1. We know your political leaning and appreciate your evenhanded articles. 2. The electorate does (do?) not seem to be interested in the issues. Or do we merely accept the drivel fed us by the electronic media? Print pundits appear to be giving more substance. Bring back the daily paper from the grave!
I completely agree with you. While this year's campaigns have been entertaining there has been almost a refusal by the candidates to discuss anything besides their opponents' weaknesses and abstract concepts like "change" and "victory." I'm still waiting for Obama to express a real idea about any number of issues, and for Palin to give an interview that doesn't veer back to her parenting skills.
It's an election of personality, not ability, which is scary. I'm sticking by my opinion that Romney would have been the best (and most boring) VP candidate due to his economic background, but that's not what McCain needed. He needed someone new and exciting with the ability to fire up a crowd, which he got with Palin. What's worse is that the polarization between the candidates is so strong that once the issues finally come up, I'm not sure it will even make that big of a difference.
This reminds me too much of the Roger Clemens scandal, wherein everybody was concerned with steroids rather than baseball. People aren't going to vote for Obama for his policies, he's going to get votes in the North and West because of his race and he's not going to get votes in the South because of his race. It's that simple. Sure, people want "Change," but sadly, most people don't know what he means by "Change," they just like the word.
I believe it is always a mistake to expect (and bemoan the failure of) the American political system to conduct elections centered on issues in the style of the European Parliamentary systems. We have, by constitutional design a representative democracy with limited popular participation. Elections involve the selection of candidates for our confidence in their character and judment, not hewing in lock step to a party programme. Those who denigrate this as a "politics of personality" will only beggar their own capacity to grasp the reality of the system inevitably functioning according to its design.
this is really just a byproduct of the ridiculously long and overdrawn campaign cycle these days. this election started in october 2006 and it still doesn't feel anywhere close to being wrapped up.
this "campaign" is surreal...no issues, only bromides...never have there been so many serious issues completely ignored by the candidates and the media...wtf country is this? BE AFRAID...BE VERY AFRAID!!!
So what if the election is trivialized. I just know the Barack is going to win, it's a sure thing. He's been leading the polls like since American was found.
Our electorate allows itself to get distracted by trivia, and often votes against its self-interest...so maybe we get what we collectively deserve.
Globetrotter, last time I checked, McCain was ahead in the polls. And you should care about the trivialization of the election. We're talking about the most powerful man in America who either will or won't make efforts to pull us out of recession, continue international warfare, and initiate offshore drilling. With Russia doing what Germany was doing before WWII, I just hope America elects someone who will do a good job, not just give a good speech.
Demian, as you know, polls are fleeting, and I fuly expect, after the GOP "bounce," that Obama will be slightly in the lead by the end of the week. And that's quite an apocalyptic picture you paint, in reference to Russia. I don't disagree with you, necessarily, and do hope that at least in the debates Obama and McCain talk substance. For example, when is a politician going to have the courage, Florida voters be damned, that he will normalize relations with Cuba? It's crazy not to, but neither McCain or Obama has the guts to propose that.
Russ: Great column. You allude to something that I think is profoundly important in this election: the debates. For the very reasons you wrote this piece, there are some real, substantive and yes, tough questions, that neither candidate has been forced to answer. I have not researched the formats of the debates or who will moderate them, but here's hoping that both will encourage serious, and unscripted discussions of the most important issues facing our country.
Interesting column, Russ. Seems the normal side show has become the main show in this election. The Far Left,once bitter about Bush had lately perked up, seeing the Jan 20, 2009 light at the end of the tunnel via Obama. Now they're nervous again because of the Sarah Palin Energizer Bunny. The Far Right, once sour about Bush and lukewarm for McCain is optimistic the GOP can actually steal the White House (once again). The media loves all this, goading and provoking both sides - anything to manufacture a controversy. In the meantime, Obama and McCain are like two cyclists on an indoor, banked track, staying close to each other until the final sprint. Neither candidate dares to say anything too definitive on almost any issue. All this is great entertainment but it makes it harder to sort the candidates on substance.
this was a great piece. i support obama, but i agree that the media shouldnt have pounced on sarah palin like that. i do think she is the devil's spawn and have plans to retreat to France should she/they be elected, but still. the part that really ticked me off, though, was when BarOb kept saying to the media to leave her alone etc etc...and yet during the Repugnican convention all she could do was say bad things about him. tisk tisk. that's not a way to run an election...um...or is it?
Interesting comment, PoMoMad, but I doubt you'll move to France if McCain wins. Manhattan and Hollywood would have half the population of today if, after Bush won in '04, all the people who said they'd move abroad (always to Europe) actually did. That said, I agree with the above comment on Cuba. Why doesn't the media hammer the candidates on normalizing relations there? After all, McCain and Kerry went to Vietnam! together to extend an olive branch. It's a slam-dunk for Obama on Cuba, since it's likely he'll lose Flordia anyway. Make a principled stand and pledge that once he's elected we'll lift the embargo on Cuba and encourage free trade and tourism. I'm leaning to him anyway, but saying that, in public, at a debate, would seal my vote, and the votes of many other young people in Miami. He'd still lose the state, but would gain enormous respect.
In today's New York Times (9/11) there was an excellent editorial that mostly excoriating all the political bickering that's prevented the rebuilding of Ground Zero. The paper is resigned to the turtle pace, and concludes, "On Sept. 11, 2011, the memorial should be ready for the public to remember the 10th anniversary of the attacks at New York's ground zero." Better late than never, I suppose, which apparently is the Times' view as well. But it's hard to believe that China, India, Germany or even Great Britain would wait so long to rebuild the icon of its biggest city.