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The House of Representatives passed a bill this week to spend $50 billion to help states struck by Hurricane Sandy. The action comes more than two months after the storm, and the measure now goes to the Senate.
The delay outraged politicians and residents from the Northeast, who blamed Washington for playing politics with desperately needed aid. But some scientists and engineers say there's danger in rushing ahead to rebuild a coastline that's sure to get hit again.
Tough talk in the House from Republican Peter King and Democrat Jerrold Nadler of New York and Democrat Bill Pascrell, Jr. of New Jersey paid off. The total aid package is now looking to run about $60 billion, compared to more than $80 billion for Hurricane Katrina.
Most of the money is to help people whose homes or businesses have been lost or damaged, or for infrastructure, including bridges and roads.
But several billion dollars are pegged for projects to reduce risk of future storms. Some scientists are alarmed, like Rob Young, a geologist at Western Carolina University who studies what happens to structures built along coastlines.
"What in the world are they going to spend that on?" he asks.
It looks like a lot of the money will go to things like trucking sand back onto beaches or rebuilding beachfront property the way it used to be. But Young says that's a ton of taxpayers' money for projects that may not make the coast more resilient.
"You have this massive government subsidy for development in vulnerable coastal areas, particularly on the immediate coast, on the oceanfront, in resort communities," he says.
Spending tax dollars to rebuild coastal communities isn't new. Young points to Dauphin Island along the Gulf Coast — it's been rebuilt numerous times after storms, to the tune of tens of millions of tax dollars. Most insurance companies shy away from these places. So the taxpayer pays.
And as the climate warms, all the scientific models predict more storms, bigger storms and more devastation. In fact, the insurance industry says giant disasters are becoming more common.
"So we're going to have to do these projects over and over again," Young says. "We're going to have to do it more frequently in the future and it's going to get more expensive."
Young is among many scientists and engineers who say: Slow down. Find out if more sand really saves beaches. Maybe wetlands are better. Do floodgates work? And who should pay for this?
New Yorkers like Andrew Darrell are thinking along the same lines.
"I live here in New York City. I'm raising kids here in New York City. I also believe that if there's any place that can get this right, it's a place like New York," he says.
Darrell is an energy analyst at the Environmental Defense Fund and an adviser to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He is focused on how the city's electricity grid gets rebuilt. He saw part of it go down from his apartment during Sandy at the 14th Street power station in Manhattan.
"A wave crested a 12-foot wall that surrounds the substation and caused a huge electricity arc, and it lit up the sky," Darrel says. "In the arc of that light, you could see quite clearly all of the buildings in lower Manhattan that night."
Darrell says rebuilding the grid means doing things differently. Take solar power, for example. After Sandy, a few buildings with solar panels had power when the sun came back out. But most did not — for a strange reason.
"Those solar panels largely work by feeding into the electric grid," Darrell says. "So when the grid goes down, those solar panels go down too."
Darrell says it costs building owners more money to get their solar panels to work independently of the grid. He says people should get paid to be independent from the grid, so they can provide a safety net for the power company during disasters.
Experts like Darrell and Young say little changes like that could reduce the cost — and the pain — of the next big storm. And the money's on the table right now to do it.
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Principles of Economics
By Alfred Marshall
Economic conditions are constantly changing, and each generation looks at its own problems in its own way. In England, as well as on the Continent and in America, Economic studies are being more vigorously pursued now than ever before; but all this activity has only shown the more clearly that Economic science is, and must be, one of slow and continuous growth. Some of the best work of the present generation has indeed appeared at first sight to be antagonistic to that of earlier writers; but when it has had time to settle down into its proper place, and its rough edges have been worn away, it has been found to involve no real breach of continuity in the development of the science. The new doctrines have supplemented the older, have extended, developed, and sometimes corrected them, and often have given them a different tone by a new distribution of emphasis; but very seldom have subverted them…. [From the Preface to the First Edition]
First Pub. Date
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.
Pub. Date
8th edition
The text of this edition is in the public domain.
- Preface
- Bk.I,Ch.I
- Bk.I,Ch.II
- Bk.I,Ch.III
- Bk.I,Ch.IV
- Bk.II,Ch.I
- Bk.II,Ch.II
- Bk.II,Ch.III
- Bk.II,Ch.IV
- Bk.III,Ch.I
- Bk.III,Ch.II
- Bk.III,Ch.III
- Bk.III,Ch.IV
- Bk.III,Ch.V
- Bk.III,Ch.VI
- Bk.IV,Ch.I
- Bk.IV,Ch.II
- Bk.IV,Ch.III
- Bk.IV,Ch.IV
- Bk.IV,Ch.V
- Bk.IV,Ch.VI
- Bk.IV,Ch.VII
- Bk.IV,Ch.VIII
- Bk.IV,Ch.IX
- Bk.IV,Ch.X
- Bk.IV,Ch.XI
- Bk.IV,Ch.XII
- Bk.IV,Ch.XIII
- Bk.V,Ch.I
- Bk.V,Ch.II
- Bk.V,Ch.III
- Bk.V,Ch.IV
- Bk.V,Ch.V
- Bk.V,Ch.VI
- Bk.V,Ch.VII
- Bk.V,Ch.VIII
- Bk.V,Ch.IX
- Bk.V,Ch.X
- Bk.V,Ch.XI
- Bk.V,Ch.XII
- Bk.V,Ch.XIII
- Bk.V,Ch.XIV
- Bk.V,Ch.XV
- Bk.VI,Ch.I
- Bk.VI,Ch.II
- Bk.VI,Ch.III
- Bk.VI,Ch.IV
- Bk.VI,Ch.V
- Bk.VI,Ch.VI
- Bk.VI,Ch.VII
- Bk.VI,Ch.VIII
- Bk.VI,Ch.IX
- Bk.VI,Ch.X
- Bk.VI,Ch.XI
- Bk.VI,Ch.XII
- Bk.VI,Ch.XIII
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Appendix E
- Appendix F
- Appendix G
- Appendix H
- Appendix I
- Appendix J
- Appendix K
- Bk.App,Ch.L
- Bk.App,Ch.M
§ 1. The present chapter contains no new matter: it is a mere summary of the results of Book V. The second half of it may be of service to anyone who has omitted the later chapters: for it may indicate, though it cannot explain, their general drift.
In Book V. we have studied the theory of the mutual relations of demand and supply in their most general form; taking as little account as possible of the special incidents of particular applications of the theory, and leaving over for the following Book the study of the bearings of the general theory on the special features of the several agents of production, Labour, Capital, and Land.
The difficulties of the problem depend chiefly on variations in the area of space, and the period of time over which the market in question extends; the influence of time being more fundamental than that of space.
Even in a market of very short period, such as that of a provincial corn-exchange on market-day, the "higgling and bargaining" might probably oscillate about a mean position, which would have some sort of a right to be called the equilibrium price: but the action of dealers in offering one price or refusing another would depend little, if at all, on calculations with regard to cost of production. They would look chiefly at present demand on the one hand, and on the other at the stocks of the commodity already available. It is true that they would pay some attention to such movements of production in the near future as might throw their shadow before; but in the case of perishable goods they would look only a very little way beyond the immediate present. Cost of production has for instance no perceptible influence on the day's bargaining in a fish-market.
In a rigidly stationary state in which supply could be perfectly adjusted to demand in every particular, the normal expenses of production, the marginal expenses, and the average expenses (rent being counted in) would be one and the same thing, for long periods and for short. But, as it is, the language both of professed writers on economics and of men of business shows much elasticity in the use of the term Normal when applied to the causes that determine value. And one fairly well marked division needs study.
On the one side of this division are long periods, in which the normal action of economic forces has time to work itself out more fully; in which therefore a temporary scarcity of skilled labour, or of any other of the agents of production, can be remedied; and in which those economies that normally result from an increase in the scale of production—normally, that is without the aid of any substantive new invention—have time to develop themselves. The expenses of a representative firm, managed with normal ability and having normal access to the internal and external economies of production on a large scale, may be taken as a standard for estimating normal expenses of production: and when the period under survey is long enough to enable the investment of capital in building up a new business to complete itself and to bear full fruits; then the marginal supply price is that, the expectation of which in the long run just suffices to induce capitalists to invest their material capital, and workers of all grades to invest their personal capital in the trade.
On the other side of the line of division are periods of time long enough to enable producers to adapt their production to changes in demand, in so far as that can be done with the existing provision of specialized skill, specialized capital, and industrial organization; but not long enough to enable them to make any important changes in the supplies of these factors of production. For such periods the stock of material and personal appliances of production has to be taken in a great measure for granted; and the marginal increment of supply is determined by estimates of producers as to the amount of production it is worth their while to get out of those appliances. If trade is brisk all energies are strained to their utmost, overtime is worked, and then the limit to production is given by want of power rather than by want of will to go further or faster. But if trade is slack every producer has to make up his mind how near to prime cost it is worth his while to take fresh orders. And here there is no definite law, the chief operative force is the fear of spoiling the market; and that acts in different ways and with different strengths on different individuals and different industrial groups. For the chief motive of all open combinations and of all informal silent and "customary" understandings whether among employers or employed is the need for preventing individuals from spoiling the common market by action that may bring them immediate gains, but at the cost of a greater aggregate loss to the trade.
§ 2. We next turned aside to consider the relations of demand and supply with reference to things that need to be combined together for the purposes of satisfying a joint demand; of which the most important instance is that of the specialized material capital, and the specialized personal skill that must work together in any trade. For there is no direct demand on the part of consumers for either alone, but only for the two conjointly; the demand for either separately is a derived demand, which rises, other things being equal, with every increase in the demand for the common products, and with every diminution in the supply price of the joint factors of production. In like manner commodities of which there is a joint supply, such as gas and coke, or beef and hides, can each of them have only a derived supply price, governed by the expenses of the whole process of production on the one hand, and on the other by the demand for the remaining joint products.
The composite demand for a thing, resulting from its being used for several different purposes, and the composite supply of a thing, that has several sources of production, present no great difficulty; for the several amounts demanded for the different purposes, or supplied from different sources, can be added together, on the same plan as was adopted in Book III., for combining the demands of the rich, the middle classes and the poor for the same commodity.
Next we made some study of the division of the supplementary costs of a business,—and especially those connected with building up a trade connection, with marketing, and with insurance—among the various products of that business.
§ 3. Returning to those central difficulties of the equilibrium of normal demand and supply which are connected with the element of time, we investigated more fully the relation between the value of an appliance for production and that of the things produced by it.
When different producers have different advantages for producing a thing, its price must be sufficient to cover the expenses of production of those producers who have no special and exceptional facilities; for if not they will withhold or diminish their production, and the scarcity of the amount supplied, relatively to the demand, will raise the price. When the market is in equilibrium, and the thing is being sold at a price which covers these expenses, there remains a surplus beyond their expenses for those who have the assistance of any exceptional advantages. If these advantages arise from the command over free gifts of nature, the surplus is called a producer's surplus or producer's rent: there is a surplus in any case, and if the owner of a free gift of nature lends it out to another, he can generally get for its use a money income equivalent to this surplus.
The price of the produce is equal to the cost of production of that part of it, which is raised on the margin, that is under such unfavourable conditions as to yield no rent. The cost of this part can be reckoned up without reasoning in a circle; and the cost of other parts cannot.
If land which had been used for growing hops, is found capable of yielding a higher rent as market-garden land, the area under hops will undoubtedly be diminished; and this will raise their marginal cost of production and therefore their price. The rent which land will yield for one kind of produce, calls attention to the fact that a demand for the land for that kind of produce increases the difficulties of supply of other kinds; though it does not directly enter into those expenses. And similar arguments apply to the relation between the site values of urban land and the costs of things made on it.
Thus when we are taking a broad view of normal value, when we are investigating the causes which determine normal value "in the long run," when we are tracing the "ultimate" effects of economic causes; then the income that is derived from capital in these forms enters into the payments by which the expenses of production of the commodity in question have to be covered; and estimates as to the probable amount of that income directly control the action of the producers, who are on the margin of doubt as to whether to increase the means of production or not. But, on the other hand, when we are considering the causes which determine normal prices for a period which is short relatively to that required for largely increasing the supply of those appliances for production; then their influence on value is chiefly indirect and more or less similar to that exerted by the free gifts of nature. The shorter the period which we are considering, and the slower the process of production of those appliances, the less part will variations in the income derived from them play in checking or increasing the supply of the commodity produced by them, and in raising or lowering its supply price.
§ 4. This leads to the consideration of some difficulties of a technical character connected with the marginal expenses of production of a commodity that obeys the law of increasing return. The difficulties arise from the temptation to represent supply price as dependent on the amount produced, without allowing for the length of time that is necessarily occupied by each individual business in extending its internal, and still more its external organization; and in consequence they have been most conspicuous in mathematical and semi-mathematical discussions of the theory of value. For when changes of supply price and amount produced are regarded as dependent exclusively on one another without any reference to gradual growth, it appears reasonable to argue that the marginal supply price for each individual producer is the addition to his aggregate expenses of production made by producing his last element; that this marginal price is likely in many cases to be diminished by an increase in his output much more than the demand price in the general market would be by the same cause.
The statical theory of equilibrium is therefore not wholly applicable to commodities which obey the law of increasing return. It should however be noted that in many industries each producer has a special market in which he is well known, and which he cannot extend quickly; and that therefore, though it might be physically possible for him to increase his output rapidly, he would run the risk of forcing down very much the demand price in his special market, or else of being driven to sell his surplus production outside on less favourable terms. And though there are industries in which each producer has access to the whole of a large market, yet in these there remain but few internal economies to be got by an increase of output, when the existing plant is already well occupied. No doubt there are industries as to which neither of these statements is true: they are in a transitional state, and it must be conceded that the statical theory of equilibrium of normal demand and supply cannot be profitably applied to them. But such cases are not numerous; and with regard to the great bulk of manufacturing industries, the connection between supply price and amount shows a fundamentally different character for short periods and for long.
For short periods, the difficulties of adjusting the internal and external organization of a business to rapid changes in output are so great that the supply price must generally be taken to rise with an increase, and to fall with a diminution in the amount produced.
But in long periods both the internal and the external economies of production on a large scale have time to develop themselves. The marginal supply price is not the expenses of production of any particular bale of goods: but it is the whole expenses (including insurance, and gross earnings of management) of a marginal increment in the aggregate process of production and marketing.
§ 5. Some study of the effects of a tax, regarded as a special case of a change in the general conditions of demand and supply suggests that, when proper allowance is made for the interests of consumers, there is on abstract grounds rather less
primâ facie cause than the earlier economists supposed, for the general doctrine of so-called "Maximum Satisfaction";
i.e. for the doctrine that the free pursuit by each individual of his own immediate interest, will lead producers to turn their capital and labour, and consumers to turn their expenditure into such courses as are most conducive to the general interests. We have nothing to do at this stage of our inquiry, limited as it is to analysis of the most general character, with the important question how far, human nature being constituted as it is at present, collective action is likely to be inferior to individualistic action in energy and elasticity, in inventiveness and directness of purpose; and whether it is not therefore likely to waste through practical inefficiency more than it could save by taking account of all the interests affected by any course of action. But even without taking account of the evils arising from the unequal distribution of wealth, there is
primâ facie reason for believing that the aggregate satisfaction, so far from being already a maximum, could be much increased by collective action in promoting the production and consumption of things in regard to which the law of increasing return acts with especial force.
This position is confirmed by the study of the theory of monopolies. It is the immediate interest of the monopolist so to adjust the production and sale of his wares as to obtain for himself the maximum net revenue, and the course which he thus adopts is unlikely to be that which affords the aggregate maximum satisfaction. The divergence between individual and collective interests is
primâ facie less important with regard to those things which obey the law of diminishing return, than with regard to those which obey the law of increasing return: but, in the case of the latter, there is strong
primâ facie reason for believing that it might often be to the interest of the community directly or indirectly to intervene, because a largely increased production would add much more to consumers' surplus than to the aggregate expenses of production of the goods. More exact notions on the relations of demand and supply, particularly when expressed in the form of diagrams, may help us to see what statistics should be collected, and how they should be applied in the attempt to estimate the relative magnitudes of various conflicting economic interests, public and private.
Ricardo's theory of cost of production in relation to value occupies so important a place in the history of economics that any misunderstanding as to its real character must necessarily be very mischievous; and unfortunately it is so expressed as almost to invite misunderstanding. In consequence there is a widely spread belief that it has needed to be reconstructed by the present generation of economists. Cause is shown in Appendix I for not accepting this opinion; and for holding on the contrary that the foundations of the theory as they were left by Ricardo remain intact; that much has been added to them, and that very much has been built upon them, but that little has been taken from them. It is there argued that he knew that demand played an essential part in governing value, but that he regarded its action as less obscure than that of cost of production, and therefore passed it lightly over in the notes which he made for the use of his friends, and himself; for he never essayed to write a formal treatise: also that he regarded cost of production as dependent—not as Marx asserted him to have done on the mere quantity of labour used up in production, but—on the quality as well as quantity of that labour; together with the amount of stored up capital needed to aid labour, and the length of time during which such aid was invoked.


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Saturday, September 5, 2015
Eight years ago, SILVIA WOOD's father died in an industrial accident. After suffering through years of Psychotherapy Services and Mandated Medications for depression and multiple suicide attempts, she longs to work in Botanical Sciences. When the Occupation Exam determines she must work in Mortuary Sciences instead, she wonders if the New Order assigned her to the morgue to push her over the edge.
To appease her disappointed mother, Silvia enters the Race for Citizen Glory, in an attempt to stand out in the crowd of Equals. After she begins training with "golden boy" LIAM HARMAN, she discovers he also lost his father in the same accident that ruined her childhood. Then Silvia meets and falls for Liam's older cousin, whose paranoid intensity makes her question what really happened to her father. As the race nears, Silvia realizes that she's not only running for glory, she's running for her life.
Book Title: Dead Girl Running
Author: Ann M. Noser
Genre: Dystopian, YA/NA Crossover
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions
My tenth birthday was the worst day of my life. Dad had to work late because his replacement didn't show up on time. Mom and I waited for him to come home.
Eight years later, we're still waiting.
Most kids would've requested a Vacation Pass for their eighteenth birthday, but not me. I'd rather forget the whole thing and help Gus prepare the chilled bodies in the hospital mortuary. Dragging myself out of bed and pulling on teal scrubs, I fumble for socks and shoes, as a ray of early sunlight glints off my dad's picture hanging on the gray wall across the tiny room. Once again, his blue eyes capture mine as if he needs to tell me something important. On the floor, beneath the photo, sits a memory trunk full of how things used to be. But I won't open it today. I just can't.
Dishes clink in the kitchen. Mom calls out, "Hurry up, Silvia. I've got a surprise for you." She sounds happy, but I can't tell if it's real.
Since Dad's death, both of us have done a lot of pretending. So far this year, we've been able to avoid Psychotherapy Services and Mandated Medications, but sometimes I wonder if I was sent down to Mortuary Sciences to push me over the edge. Fortunately, I find autopsies intriguing, not depressing.
And since I never got to see Dad's body after the accident, caring for other people's dead soothes the empty ache inside.
My boss, Gus, is an excellent teacher and the closest thing I have to a best friend. He always knows what to say to me and what not to say.
Too bad Mom doesn't have a clue.
Mom glances up from her green tea as I enter the copper-colored, modular kitchen. "I planned a big surprise for your birthday."
I tense. "What is it?"
Mom slides over a bowl of organic oatmeal topped with raspberries, normally my favorite. "I got us Park and Art passes today."
"I'm not hungry." I shake my head. "And Gus is expecting me."
"No, he's not. He knows all about it. I told him weeks ago."
"Really?" I cross my arms, not sure if I believe her. "He must be good at keeping secrets. Gus didn't even mention my birthday yesterday."
Which proves he knows me better than Mom does.
She frowns. "At least eat the raspberries, even if you're not hungry. I had to barter for them. And if it makes you feel better, we can pretend it isn't your birthday. It's just some other day instead."
I want to protest more, but there's a determined gleam in Mom's brown eyes¾one that hasn't been there for a long time. And I don't want to be the one to snuff it out.
I half-heartedly take a few bites of breakfast, swallow my eight prescribed supplements, and then return to my bedroom to change into jeans and a long-sleeved, green T-shirt. All my clothes are soft and plain, without decoration, made by hands like my father's. Only Dad proved himself to be Gifted, so he didn't make Basic Worker Level clothes for long. Instead, he got promoted to Government Level clothing production¾a promotion which cost him his life.
"Hurry up!" Mom calls from the front door of our small apartment.
We clamber down six flights of whitewashed cement steps, the stairwell so brightly lit with safety lights that one almost needs sunglasses. Once we arrive on the main floor, we push out into the swarms of people flooding the streets. Dashing across the busy bike path and two empty car lanes, we reach the closest walkway heading toward the park.
Traffic is orderly today. No bikers stray across the wide, white painted lines separating their lanes from ours. Men and women wearing blue scrubs of various shades hurry toward the hospitals and medical facilities. Those in green coveralls rush toward the monorail station to speed off to one of the numerous Plant and Protein Production Facilities.
I glance back at a beautiful, dark-skinned woman, trying not to feel envious of her green uniform.
Normally, I don't mind my job. In fact, I feel more at home in Mortuary Sciences than anywhere else.
But part of me still longs to spend all day surrounded by plants. Nothing can be done about it now.
The Occupation Exam is over, and I've been placed where I'm most effective.
The streets are crowded this time of day. People whoosh past us on bikes as those on foot press constantly forward. Only the car lanes remain vacant. Flapping flags in the New Order colors of red, white, and blue crack overhead. I shiver a little in the cool morning breeze.
We march past rows of tall silver-gray buildings¾offices on the first two floors and apartments up above. We make good time until we hit the Citizen Family Planning and Reproductive Services Building. Traffic stalls. A tall man ahead of us shifts from side to side, waiting.
"What's going on?" Mom cranes her neck and rises on her toes. "Can you see?"
Indistinct voices argue up ahead. Strangers murmur but avoid making eye contact. After a long pause, the people in front of us begin to shuffle past the building. A few cast furtive glances over their shoulders. Everyone's in a hurry to get somewhere. Now I see who is causing the fuss—a red-haired girl, who looks to be about my age, shoves an orderly away. The crowd behind us pushes forward.
Tears stream down the girl's pale face. She backs away from the building and turns as if to run before doubling over. She cries out in pain and clutches her swollen belly, breathing hard.
In her moment of weakness, the Suits surround and restrain her.
"I won't do it! I won't do it!" the pregnant girl screams as they drag her away.
About the Author:
My to-do list dictates that I attempt to cram forty-eight hours of living into a day instead of the usual twenty-four. I've chosen a life filled with animals. I train for marathons with my dog, then go to work as a small animal veterinarian, and finish the day by tripping over my pets as I attempt to convince my two unruly children that YES, it really IS time for bed. But I can't wait until the house is quiet to write; I have to steal moments throughout the day. Ten minutes here, a half hour there, I live within my imagination.
Like all busy American mothers, I multi-task. I work out plot holes during runs. Instead of meditating, I type madly during yoga stretches. I find inspiration in everyday things: a beautiful smile, a heartbreaking song, or a newspaper article on a political theory. For example, a long drive in the dark listening to an NPR program on the SMILEY FACE MURDERS theory made me ask so many questions that I wrote HOW TO DATE DEAD GUYS to answer them to my satisfaction.
I'd love to have more time to write (and run, read, and sleep), but until I find Hermione Granger's time turner, I will juggle real life with the half-written stories in my head. Main characters and plot lines intertwine in my cranium, and I need to let my writing weave the tales on paper so I can find out what happens next.


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QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms
"June is busting out all over," as the song says, and with it, U.S. residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts begin to gaze warily toward the ocean, aware that the hurricane season is revving up. In the decade since NASA's QuikScat satellite and its SeaWinds scatterometer launched in June 1999, the satellite has measured the wind speed and wind direction of these powerful storms, providing data that are increasingly used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Hurricane Center and other world forecasting agencies. The data help scientists detect these storms, understand their wind fields, estimate their intensity and track their movement.
But tropical cyclones aren't the only storms that generate hurricane-force winds. Among others that do is a type of storm that dominates the weather in parts of the United States and other non-tropical regions every fall, winter and into spring: extratropical cyclones.
Extratropical Cyclones: Meteorological 'Bombs'
Scientists have long known that extratropical cyclones (also known as mid-latitude or baroclinic storms) sometimes produce hurricane-force winds. But before QuikScat, hurricane-force extratropical cyclones were thought to be relatively rare. Thanks to QuikScat, we now know that such storms occur much more frequently than previously believed, and the satellite has given forecasters an effective tool for routinely and consistently detecting and forecasting them.
These storms, which occur near busy trans-oceanic shipping lanes, pose a significant threat to life and property for those on the high seas, generating high winds and waves up to 30 meters (100 feet) high. When they make landfall, in areas like Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, New England and the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast, they produce strong winds, high surf, coastal flooding, heavy rains, river flooding and even blizzard conditions.
Take the "Hanukkah Eve" extratropical cyclone of Dec. 14-15, 2006, for example. That storm viciously raked the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia with torrential rainfall and hurricane-force winds exceeding 87 knots (100 miles per hour) in spots. Dozens of people were injured and 18 people lost their lives, while thousands of trees were downed, power was knocked out for more than 1.5 million residents and structural damage topped $350 million.
NOAA defines an extratropical cyclone as "a storm system that primarily gets its energy from the horizontal temperature contrasts that exist in the atmosphere." These low pressure systems have associated cold fronts, warm fronts and occluded fronts. Tropical cyclones, in contrast, don't usually vary much in temperature at Earth's surface, and their winds are generated by the energy released as clouds and rain form in warm, moist, tropical air. While a tropical cyclone's strongest winds are near Earth's surface, the strongest winds in extratropical cyclones are about 12 kilometers (8 miles) up, in the tropopause. Tropical cyclones can become extratropical, and vice versa.
Extratropical cyclones occur in both the North Atlantic and North Pacific year-round. Those with hurricane-force winds have been observed from September through May. Their frequency typically begins to increase in October, peaks in December and January, and tapers off sharply after March. They can range from less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) in diameter to more than 4,000 kilometers (nearly 2,500 miles) across. They typically last about five days, but their hurricane-force winds are usually short-lived--just 24 hours or less. Because they can intensify rapidly, they're often referred to as meteorological "bombs." Wind speeds in extratropical cyclones can vary from just 10 or 20 knots (12 to 23 miles per hour) to hurricane-force (greater than 63 knots, or 74 miles per hour). During their development, they can trek along at more than 30 knots (35 miles per hour), but they slow down as they mature. At their seasonal peak, up to eight such storms of varying intensity have been observed at once in both the North Atlantic and North Pacific.
Early work by scientists at NASA, NOAA and other organizations demonstrated the effectiveness of using scatterometers for detecting these powerful and destructive winds. Scatterometers work by sending radar signals to the ocean surface and measuring the strength of the radar signals that bounce back. The higher the wind speed, the more the ocean surface is disturbed, and the stronger the reflection that is bounced back to the satellite.
Among those who pioneered these efforts at NASA was Senior Research Scientist Timothy Liu of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., who used data from the NASA Scatterometer, the predecessor to QuikScat, to study the transition of tropical cyclones into extratropical storms in 1997. In addition, Robert Atlas of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., demonstrated that scatterometer data were able to improve predictions of extratropical storm strength and location.
Raising Forecaster Awareness
Joe Sienkiewicz, chief of the Ocean Applications Branch at NOAA's Ocean Prediction Center, Camp Springs, Md., says QuikScat data have raised the awareness of forecasters to the occurrence of hurricane-force intensity conditions in extratropical cyclones and have significantly advanced their short-term wind warning and forecast processes.
"QuikScat winds have given forecasters at NOAA's Ocean Prediction Center a high level of situational awareness over the data-sparse waters of the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans," he said. "Ocean Prediction Center forecasters daily examine every QuikScat pass and patch of wind and frequently base wind warning and forecast decisions solely on QuikScat winds. Through confidence gained from QuikScat, the National Weather Service began issuing warnings for dangerous hurricane-force winds in extratropical cyclones in December 2000.
"From 10 years of QuikScat, we have learned that hurricane force winds in extratropical cyclones occur more frequently than thought, are most frequent in winter months, and the conditions are most often observed south of the cyclone center," he added.
Over the years, the number of storms observed with hurricane-force winds has steadily increased due to forecasters gaining confidence using the data, and improvements to the QuikScat data. From the fall of 2006 through 2008, NOAA's Ocean Prediction Center identified and issued warnings for 115 separate extratropical cyclones (64 in the Atlantic and 51 in the Pacific) that reached hurricane force.
As confirmed in a 2008 study, QuikScat substantially extends the ability of forecasters to detect hurricane-force wind events in extratropical storms. For the studied case, QuikScat was able to identify more than three-and-a-half times as many hurricane-force events as combined data from the European ASCAT sensor on the METOP-A satellite, directly-measured buoy and ship information, and model predictions.
Another study in 2002 found that incorporating QuikScat data increased the number of wind warnings the Ocean Prediction Center issued for extratropical cyclones by 30 percent in the North Atlantic and by 22 percent in the North Pacific. Between 2003 and 2006, the Ocean Prediction Center's forecasters successfully predicted hurricane-force winds two days in advance 58 percent of the time in the Atlantic and 44 percent in the Pacific. Considering that a successful forecast of hurricane-force winds requires accurate prediction of the timing and intensity of an explosive deepening cyclone, these numbers are impressive.
QuikScat data have been instrumental in the ability to forecast hurricane-force extratropical cyclones several days in advance, while they are still well out over the ocean. Forecasters can use the data to determine which numerical weather prediction models are handling a storm the best, thereby improving the accuracy of forecasts and increasing warning lead times. QuikScat data are available to forecasters within three hours of acquisition.
The availability of a consistent observing capability for extratropical cyclones from QuikScat has allowed NOAA to add a third "hurricane-force" warning category for extratropical cyclone winds, in addition to gale and storm, providing better warnings of a coming storm's severity. The U.S. Coast Guard broadcasts these warnings by radiofax, and they are posted online at: www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov .
A Boon to Shipping
These extratropical cyclone warnings have a great economic impact on the $200 billion global marine shipping industry. A recent study estimates improvements to warning and forecast services due to QuikScat save the container and bulk shipping industry $135 million a year by reducing their exposure to hurricane-force wind conditions in non-tropical storms over the North Pacific and North Atlantic. Without QuikScat, the severity of many extratropical cyclones would not be determined. The data are also vital to the fishing industry, offshore energy industries, search and rescue organizations, and agencies that track and manage marine hazards like oil spills.
Paul Chang, ocean winds science team lead at NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Camp Springs, Md., said ocean vector wind measurements from QuikScat have become a basic part of NOAA's day-to-day forecasting and warning processes.
"The 10 years of observations from the QuikScat mission have provided critical information for the monitoring, modeling, forecasting and research of the atmosphere, oceans and climate," he said.
For more information about QuickScat, visit winds.jpl.nasa.gov/ .
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2. Information Received and Collected by Overcoast.
When you use our Site, Overcoast receives and collects information, including personal information. "Personal Information" includes any information you provide us that could reasonably be used to personally identify you. The data we collect depends on the services, products, and features you use, and could include the following types information, some of which may include Personal Information:
2.1. Information You Provide Directly to Overcoast.
When you opt-in to our newsletter, we collect your first and last name, and email address.
2.2 Information from Third-Party Services.
When you use certain third-party services, such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, in connection with your use of our Site, we may collect information that you make available to us through those third-party services, including your account information. We may also collect information about you from advertisers about your interactions with our ads on their sites. We will only collect and use that information to the extent that such collection and use is permitted by the third-party services. Please review the privacy policies of third-party services before using them in connection with our Site.
2.3 Device Information.
We collect information from your computers or mobile devices, either directly or via our ad network and analytics partners, including your activity on our Site across devices. This includes data such as IP addresses, cookie information, mobile device, advertising identifiers, browser and version, operating system type and version, mobile network information, device settings, and software data. We may recognize your devices to provide you with personalized experiences across the devices you use.
2.4 Location.
Our analytics partners collect location information from sources such as IP addresses and mobile phone network data. You can manage your location preferences and opt out of location tracking by using the location settings on your devices and within your web browser.
2.5 Technical Information.
We collect information about how you and your device interact with our Site and our products, including, for example: (1) referring source (i.e., the site you visited prior to visiting our Site; (2) date and time of access to Site; (3) Site pages visited and Site features used, and the order of use; (4) type of computer or other operating device accessing Site, type of browser used to access Site, and type of operating system you use; and (5) other similar information about the interaction between your browser and our Site. We collect and store Technical Information through information gathering tools such as cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies.
Cookies. Cookies are stored in a computer or other operating device's memory during a user's browsing session. The cookies we use in connection with our Site are automatically deleted from the user's computer or operating device when the browser is closed and the session has ended. These cookies usually store a session ID that does not personally-identify the user, and they allow users to navigate our Site efficiently. These cookies provide us information about Site features used and activities conducted while using our Site. Generally, we use cookies to customize your experience while using our Site. We may use cookies to compile aggregate data about user traffic on and user interaction with our Site so we can offer better experiences and tools in the future. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can block cookies at any time by changing the preferences in your browser and/or delete cookies from your hard drive or other operating device. You can also have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie. Please refer to your browser for information on how to disable and control cookies. If you choose to block or delete cookies, our Site may not function properly on your computer or other operating device, and certain features may not be available to you.
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Web Beacons. We may use web beacons (also called clear GIFs or pixel tags) or similar technologies to collect technical information about your use of our Site and your viewing and use of emails we send to you. Web beacons are graphic image files imbedded in a web page, Site feature, or email that provide a presence on such web page, feature, or email and send back to its home server information from the user's browser. The information collected by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our Site and opening our emails, and for what purposes. For example, we might place a web beacon in a marketing email to notify us when a user clicks on the link in the email. We do not collect Personal Information with web beacons, and we do not link information retrieved from web beacons directly with Personal Information you have given us.
3. How Overcoast Uses Your Personal Information.
We will also use your Personal Information for the purpose stated when we ask for such Personal Information (e.g., to sign up for our newsletter). We also use Personal Information as described elsewhere in this Policy, including to provide our Site and its features and to send you communications.
3.1 Providing and Supporting our Site.
We use your Personal Information to provide and support the operation of our Site, including:
Customizing your use of our Site. We may use your Personal Information to customize and tailor your experience using our Site and display content we think you might be interested in, according to your preferences.
Support. We may use Personal Information to help diagnose problems with the Site, to make the Site more compatible with the technology used by our users, to analyze statistical use patterns, and to otherwise improve our Site. For example, we may use Personal Information to track what our users look at most so we can recognize and provide more of the desired content.
3.2 Communications.
We may use your Personal Information to provide you information about Overcoast's products or services that may be of interest to you, only if you have opted-in to receiving such information. We will never share your Personal Information with a third party for their own marketing or independent uses, except: (1) where you consent to such information sharing and (2) as described in this Policy.
If we use your Personal Information to send you marketing communications, we will provide you with an unsubscribe mechanism to opt-out of receiving future marketing communications, or you can contact us to request that we not send you marketing communications. If you request that we not contact you for marketing purposes (either by using the unsubscribe mechanism or contacting us), we reserve the right to contact you for non-marketing purposes relating to your use of our Site.
Information Shared with Third Parties.
Except in the circumstances described in this Policy, Overcoast does not share, sell, rent, license, trade, or otherwise transfer or disclose your Personal Information with or to third parties for their promotional purposes. We may share de-identified, aggregated information without restriction.
4.1 Third-Party Service Providers.
We share information with our third-party service providers who assist us by performing services related to our operation of our Site (such as hosting, data storage, payment processing, and security) and to conduct marketing on our behalf.
4.2 Third-Party Analytics Services.
We may use third-party analytics services to assist us in better understanding users of our Site. For example, we may use these services to track and analyze certain information, such as feature usage. We only ever provide these service providers with (or allow these service providers to collect on our behalf) the technical information described in Section 2.5. We use the information collected from these service providers to make our Site better and easier to use. The information we receive from these third parties may be re-associated with your Personal Information after we receive it back from these third parties. In particular, we use Google Analytics to evaluate and improve our Site and offer you more personalized services and products.
To learn more about Google Analytics and how to opt out, please review the Google Analytics summary of data practices at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 and privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. This information includes the content viewed or clicked on, the frequency and duration of your activity; your navigation of our Site, any purchases from affiliate links, and any ads you may have clicked on to arrive at our Site.
4.3 Merger, Acquisition, or Sale.
We may transfer your Personal Information to another entity owned or controlled by Overcoast or its principals or another entity if Overcoast is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, restructuring, or other sale or transfer of all or any portion of its assets or business, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding in which information of our Site users are among the assets transferred. In this event, we will, if allowed, use reasonable efforts to notify you when your information is transferred to a third party (this notification may be made via email to you or by posting a prominent notice on our Site). Unless you consent otherwise, your Personal Information will remain subject to the promises made in this Policy, even after the transfer. But any information you provide after the transfer will likely be subject to a new privacy policy, and you should review that policy.
4.4 Required by Law. Overcoast reserves the right to release your information Overcoast believes in good faith that (i) such release is required to comply with any law, rule, or regulation, or any search warrant, subpoena, court order, or similar legal process; or (ii) disclosure is necessary to protect or enforce Overcoast rights or property, to protect the rights or property of others, to protect your safety or the safety of others, in emergency situations, to defend against legal claims, to enforce our contractual or other rights, or to take action regarding illegal activities or suspected fraud.
Controlling Your Information.
5.1 Controls.
You can manage or review your account information, marketing preferences, and user data. For any of these controls or opt-outs, please contact email@example.com:
— to edit your account information and settings, including any profile and contact data — to ask us to restrict, stop processing, or delete your personal data — to unsubscribe from marketing messages or newsletters — to opt out of ad retargeting or personalized content suggestions — to access, manage, and remove geo-location information associated with your account — to delete your account login credentials, make your account inaccessible, and/or remove or anonymize any content you have posted to the Site or shared with others on the Site — to request a machine-readable copy of your personal data
See Section 3.2 above regarding how to opt out of receiving marketing communications.
California Residents: Under California Civil Code sections 1798.83-.84, California residents are entitled to ask for a notice identifying the categories of personal customer information that we share with our affiliates and/or third parties for marketing purposes, and providing contact information for such affiliates and/or third parties. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a written request to: Overcoast LLC, 409 E. Main Street, Ste 101, Richmond, Virginia 23219.
5.2 Retention and Storage of Information.
We may retain all Personal Information in our databases until you ask us to remove your information from our databases. Note that even after you ask that we remove your information from our databases, it may be impossible to remove some information, such as information tracked in our web server log files and information that may reside in backup files. This residual information is retained to preserve the integrity of backed-up files and for business continuity purposes. We may also retain certain technical information even after you request that we remove your information from our databases, for use in the aggregate and to analyze and improve our Site and affiliated sites. Further, even after you request that we remove your information from our databases, we may retain Personal Information with any document retention policy and to comply with applicable laws, rules, regulations, or guidelines; to prevent fraudulent activity; to protect ourselves against liability; to resolve disputes; to enforce our contractual or other rights; to permit us to pursue available remedies and limit any damages that we may sustain.
5.3. Do Not Track.
Overcoast does not track its users over time and across third-party websites to provide interest-based advertising. For this reason, we do not respond to Do Not Track signals.
Links to Third-Party Websites.
This Policy applies only to information collected through your use of our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites, products, or services that are not owned or controlled by Overcoast. Overcoast is not responsible or liable for the privacy practices or other actions of these third parties or their websites, products, or services. These third parties may have their own privacy and security policies. You should review such policies to determine what information about you may be collected and used when you use these linked websites, products, or services.
In particular, we use the following third party sites for purposes of providing tickets, music, merchandise, and other services and products related to our Site. To learn more about each of these service providers, their data collection policies, and how to opt out, please see their respective privacy policies as follows:
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Twitter – https://twitter.com/en/privacy
Security of Information; Disclaimer.
We have generally-accepted industry standard physical, electronic, and procedural security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction of information we collect and store. These safeguards include secure login authentication for user accounts, encryption of data during transmission, firewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability scans, and other security measures. The safety and security of your Personal Information also depends on you. You should not send us credit card information or other sensitive information via email, and you should not place orders with us via email, as this is not secure. If you have an account, you are responsible for keeping your username and password confidential. Please notify us if you become aware that your Personal Information is lost, stolen, or used without permission. We may disable access to your Site account in order to prevent an unauthorized third party from accessing your account. Further, in the event of an unauthorized use of your credit card, you should contact your card issuer immediately.
We cannot guarantee that your information will never be compromised. No Internet or wireless network transmission is ever 100% secure, and no security system can prevent all security breaches. While we employ reasonable measures to protect your information, we do not and cannot guarantee that there will be no unintended disclosures of your information or that unauthorized third parties will not defeat our security measures or use non-public information for improper purposes.
Children's Privacy.
Our Site is not directed to children under age 13, and children under age 13 are prohibited from using the Site. We do not knowingly collect information from (or permit submission of information by) anyone under age 13. If we learn that we have received information from a child under age 13 in violation of this Policy, we will delete that information from our files.
EU age limitation.
Due to the data and privacy laws in the European Union, we do not ask for or knowingly accept personally identifiable data from EU users under the age of 16. If you are in the EU and below the age of 16 years, we will require consent by the holder of parental responsibility over you.
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Our Site is hosted in the United States of America. If you are accessing our Site from a jurisdiction with privacy laws or regulations that differ from United States of America's laws, please be advised that through your continued use of our Site, you are transferring your personal information to the United States of America and you consent to that transfer, subject to the terms of this Policy. You agree to the data collection, processing, storing, sharing, transferring, and uses of your information as outlined in this Policy. You agree that we may transfer, process, store, and use your information in countries other than your own.
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If you have questions regarding this Policy, our privacy practices, or your information, please contact us.
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If any part of this Policy is determined to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, pursuant to applicable law, then the invalid, illegal, or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, legal, and enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision, and the remainder of this Policy shall continue in full force and effect.
Policy Updates.
We may update this Policy in our discretion. We will post any new Policy here, and you should review this Policy regularly to make sure you are aware of its terms. You can determine if this Policy has been revised since your last visit to our Site by referring to the effective date. We may provide notification of significant changes to this Policy through our Site. Your use of our Site following a revision to this Policy constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to this Policy, as revised by us.
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LazyLoad is the best free lazy load plugin for WordPress to lazy load images, videos, and iframes on WordPress. In a nutshell, LazyLoad displays images, videos, and iframes on a page only when they are visible to the user – that's one crucial way to speed up your WordPress site and optimize images for Google PageSpeed.
You can lazy load images in post content or widget text, plus thumbnails, avatars, and smilies. LazyLoad takes care of iframe lazy load, too: you'll easily replace Youtube iframes with a preview thumbnail to further speed up the loading time of your website.
No JavaScript library such as jQuery is used, and the script weight is less than 10KB.
Why is lazy loading crucial for performance?
Lazy loading is a key performance technique to make your site faster. You'll reduce loading time, improve your Lighthouse performance score and optimize your Core Web Vitals grades.
Lazy loading your images on WordPress will help you achieve a better PageSpeed Insights score for three main reasons:
- You'll address a specific PageSpeed Insights recommendation: [Defer offscreen images](https://wp-rocket.me/google-core-web-vitals-wordpress/defer-offscreen-images/, which means image lazy loading.
- You'll improve the performance of two key metrics: First Input Delay (Core Web Vital) and Total Blocking Time (Lighthouse metric).
- You'll make fewer HTTP requests – that is another way to boost your site speed and improve the Largest Contentful Paint score (another Core Web Vital).
Take a look at our complete list of reasons why you should use lazy loading. Then, turn on LazyLoad and make your WordPress website faster!
LazyLoad script: https://github.com/verlok/lazyload
- Upload the complete
folder to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
How can I use native lazyload?
To use native lazyload on browsers supporting this feature, you need to use the following line:
add_filter( 'rocket_use_native_lazyload', '__return_true' );
Browsers that do not support native lazyload will use the JS-based solution as before.
How can I deactivate Lazy Load on some pages?
You can use the
filter.Here is an example to put in functions.php files that disable lazyload on posts:
add_action( 'wp', 'deactivate_rocket_lazyload_on_single' ); function deactivate_rocket_lazyload_on_single() { if ( is_single() ) { add_filter( 'do_rocket_lazyload', '__return_false' ); } }
How can I deactivate Lazy Load on some images?
Simply add a
property in youimg
tag.You can also use the filters
to exclude specific patterns.For iframes, the filter is
. -
How can I change the threshold to trigger the load?
You can use the
filter.Code sample:
function rocket_lazyload_custom_threshold( $threshold ) { return 100; } add_filter( 'rocket_lazyload_threshold', 'rocket_lazyload_custom_threshold' );
I use plugin X and my images don't show anymore
Some plugins are not compatible without lazy loading. Please open a support thread, and we will see how we can solve the issue by excluding lazy loading for this plugin.
How can I lazy load a background-image?
The plugin will automatically lazy load background-images set with a
attribute to adiv
element:

You can also apply it manually. The element you want to apply lazy load on must have this specific markup:

The element must have the class
, and adata-bg
attribute, which value is the CSS url for the image. -
Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin?
You can report any security bugs found in the source code of the site-reviews plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment and take care of notifying the developers of this plugin.
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Contributors & Developers
"LazyLoad Plugin – Lazy Load Images, Videos, and Iframes" is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Updated version to fix a mismatch between the tag of the release on Github and the release version which leads to a deployment issue that.
Enhancement: Launchpad compatibility (see https://github.com/wp-launchpad)
Enhancement: Raised compatibility with PHP > 7.3
Bug: Removed wp-media/rocket-lazyload-common
from vendors
Enhancement: Raised wp-media/rocket-lazyload-common
to 3.0
Bugfix: Removed rocket_lazyload_polyfill
filter due to a vulnerability on polyfill
Enhancement: Test the plugin with latest version of WordPress v5.9.3
Enhancement: Change WP readme content.
Enhancement: Allow
tags to lazyload background images
Enhancement: Add tag to lazyloaded picture elements
Bugfix: Prevent a Fatal error related to the League Container package conflict with WooCommerce 4.4
Bugfix: Update lazyload for background images support for new version of lazyload script
Bugfix: Correctly apply the rocket-lazyload class on elements with a background-image and an empty class value
Bugfix: Correctly apply the rocket-lazyloadclass on elements with malformed HTML
Bugfix: Prevent a display issue with background-images when using different types of quotes around the URL
Bugfix: Prevent Layout from breaking when alt attribute has any html encoded characters
Enhancement: Add data-skip-lazy and skip-lazy class to exclusions list as part of the interoperability initiative between lazyload plugins
Enhancement: Use native lazyload only if filter rocket_use_native_lazyload
is true
Enhancement: Apply lazyload on background images set on figure
Bugfix: Correctly add the rocket-lazyload class when class attribute is empty on an element with a background image
Bugfix: Correctly replace YouTube iframe with preview image when using relative protocol
Bugfix: Preserve youtube-nocookie.com during LazyLoad
Bugfix: Incorrect characters used in Youtube thumbnail HTML code
Bugfix: Prevent a conflict with WP Rocket
Bugfix: apply loading="lazy" on Youtube thumbnail
Bugfix: Add autoplay attribute on iframe loaded with Youtube thumbnail
Enhancement: Add support for browser native lazyload
Bugfix: Prevent broken image in some cases for picture element
Bugfix: Prevent wrong lazy attributes for srcset and sizes on an image inside a picture element
- Enhancement: Improve compatibility for the picture element
- Enhancement: Apply lazyload on background images set on section, span and li elements
- Enhancement: also pass $width and $height values to the rocket_lazyload_placeholder filter
- Bugfix: Use 0 instead of 1 for the default placeholder dimensions to improve compatibility
- Bugfix: Improve infinite scroll support
- Bugfix: Exclude Enfold avia-background-fixed background images and data-large_image from lazyload
- Bugfix: Auto-exclude data-height-percentage attribute to prevent display issues
- Bugfix: Correctly handle responsive videos using fitVids again
- Enhancement: add a way to customize the lazyload script options
- Bugfix: Prevent error on Internet Explorer 11
- Bugfix: Prevent conflict with WooCommerce variation swatches
- Bugfix: Prevent empty
when the image is an inline base64 - Bugfix: Prevent issue when the original
attribute uses single quotes
- Enhancement: Update lazyload script to the latest version
- Enhancement: Use the dimensions of the original image for the placeholder size when possible, to reduce content reflow
- Enhancement: Ignore images using the new loading attribute introduce by Chrome for browser-native lazyload
- Bugfix: Prevent matching with the wrong data when a data-style attribute is on a div for background images
- Remove data-cfasync="false" by default
- Enhancement: Add filter rocket_lazyload_script_tag to modify the lazyload script HTML if needed
- Enhancement: Add data-no-minify attribute to the lazyload script tag to prevent it from being combined by JS combiners
- Enhancement: Improve MutationObserver code to only call the lazyload update method if an image/iframe or element with .rocket-lazyload is contained in the new node(s) added to the DOM
- Regression fix: Correctly exclude scripts from lazyload again
- Bugfix: Ignore content inside noscript tags to prevent modifying them and causing some display issues
- Enhancement: Update lazyload script to the latest version
- Enhancement: Add a way to lazyload the Youtube thumbnail image
- Enhancement: Add width and height attributes to the Youtube thumbnail image depending on the resolution
- Enhancement: Disable polyfill for intersectionObserver by default, added a way to activate it instead
- Enhancement: Add data-cfasync="false" to the lazyload script tag
- Enhancement: Prevent lazyload on the Oxygen Builder page editor
- Bugfix: Wrap no JS CSS in noscript tag and remove the no-js identifier
- Bugfix: Correctly apply lazyload on
elements - Bugfix: Prevent double loading of an image when an
element inside apicture
element only has asrcset
attribute and nosrc
- Enhancement: Update lazyload script to the latest version
- Enhancement: Apply lazyload on picture elements found on the page
- Enhancement: Apply lazyload on div elements with a background image found on the page. See FAQ for more info.
- Enhancement: Add filter for iframe lazyload pattern exclusion
- Enhancement: Auto-exclude soliloquy-image pattern from lazyload
- Bugfix: Prevent issue when an image/iframe is duplicated on the same page
- Bugfix: Prevent W3C validation error for the SVG placeholder
- Bugfix: Correctly ignore inline scripts with line breaks inside
- Bugfix: Correct an issue preventing lazyload from working
- Bugfix: Don't apply lazyload on Divi/Extra/Beaver Builder Editor pages
- Bugfix: Use the correct URL for each iframe when multiple iframes are on the same page
- Bugfix: Ignore content inside inline script tags to prevent applying lazyload in it
- Bugfix: Fix an error in the compatibility for the AMP plugin
- Bugfix: Prevent a fatal error on case sensitive operating systems
- Enhancement: Lazyload is now applied on the template_redirect hook, which should allow the plugin to apply the optimization on more images and encountering less conflicts at the same time
- Enhancement: Specifically target with the lazyload script images/iframes elements with a data-lazy-src attribute
- Enhancement: Update lazyload script to the latest version
- Enhancement: Possibility to apply lazyload on background-images with a specific markup, see FAQ
- Enhancement: Use a svg image as placeholder instead of a base64 gif
- Bugfix: Only use MutationObserver if available in the browser
- Bugfix: When using the Youtube thumbnail option, correctly format the Youtube query if the video URL is encoded
- Bugfix: Improve iframe matching to prevent unexpected results
- Bugfix: Update CSS for the Youtube thumbnail option to prevent issue with the Gutenberg embeds block
- Enhancement: Update lazyload script to the latest available version
- Enhancement: Use lazy-sizes to prevent W3C validation error when sizes is defined but srcset is not
- Enhancement: Parse images or iframes only if the element is selected to be lazyloaded in the options
- Fix: Prevent warning for lazyload+v in Google Search Console
- Fix: Prevent PHP Notice with WooCommerce for product images
- Notice: Minimum WordPress version required is now 4.7
- Enhancement: Update lazyload script version
- Enhancement: Remove placeholder image to improve perceived loading time
- Enhancement: Compatibility with Youtube privacy URL
- Enhancement: Update play image to match Youtube logo
- Enhancement: Support Youtube URL parameters
- Fix: Use the correct size set in srcset for the lazyloaded image
- Fix: Prevent Youtube thumbnail replacement on playlists
- Fix: Prevent iframe lazyload on AMP pages
- Fix: Correct text domain for translations (thanks @ Chantal Coolsma)
- Fix compatibility with infinite scroll
- Prevent lazyload on masterSlider images
- Correctly include version 8.5.2 of lazyload script
- Prevent 404 error on lazyload script if URL contains "-v"
- Rename Setting Page Name in WP Menu
- New Product Banner in Settings Page
- Conditionally load a different version of the script depending on browser support of IntersectionObserver
- Fix a bug where images initially hidden are not correctly displayed when coming into view (slider, tabs, accordion)
- Admin Redesign
- Plugin is compatible again with PHP < 5.4
- Update lazyload script to bring back compatibility with IE9/10
- Fix bug caused by a too aggressive cleanup
- New option: replace Youtube videos by thumbnail. This option can improve your loading time a lot, especially if you have multiple videos on the same page
- 2017-09-16
- Prevent scripts and styles being removed during html parsing
- 2017-09-12
- Fix images not displaying in certain conditions because image attributes exclusion was not working correctly
- 2017-09-07
- Don't apply lazyload on Divi slider
- 2017-09-01
- Improve HTML parsing of images and iframes to be faster and more efficient
- Make the lazyload compatible with fitVids for iframes
- Don't apply lazyload on AMP pages (compatible with AMP plugin from Automattic)
- Use about:blank as default iframe placeholder to prevent warning in browser console
- Don't apply lazyload on upPrev thumbnail
- 2017-08-22
- Fix missing lazyload script
- Don't lazyload for images in REST API requests
- 2017-08-22
- Update lazyload script to latest version
- Change the way the script is loaded
- 2017-02-13
- Bug fix: Remove use of short tag to prevent 500 error on some installations
- 2017-02-12
- New
- JS library updated
- Support for iFrame
- Support for srcset and sizes
- New options page
- 2015-04-28
- Bug Fix: Resolved a conflict between LazyLoad & Emoji since WordPress 4.2
- 2015-01-08
- Bug Fix: Don't apply LazyLoad on captcha from Really Simple CAPTCHA to prevent conflicts.
- 2014-12-28
- Improvement: Add « rocket_lazyload_html » filter to manage the output that will be printed.
- 2014-07-25
- Fix stupid error with new regex in 1.0.1
- 2014-07-16
- Bug Fix: when a IMG tag or content (widget or post) contains the string "data-no-lazy", all IMG tags were ignored instead of one.
- Security fix: The preg_replace() could lead to a XSS vuln, thanks to Alexander Concha
- Code compliance
- 2014-01-01
- Initial release.


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Name of Product: Programmable thermostats
Units: About 180,000 in the United States and 8,300 in Canada
Manufacturer: White-Rodgers of St. Louis, Mo.
Hazard: The programmable thermostats constantly charge the backup AA batteries used to power the thermostat's clock. This can cause the batteries to leak, resulting in a fire hazard.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm is aware of three incidents involving minor property damage. No injuries have been reported.
Description: This recall involves all White-Rodgers programmable thermostats with model numbers 1F88-XXX and 1F85RF-275 and date codes beginning with 05, 06, 07, 08, 09 and 1001 through 1039. The model number is printed on the thermostat's front pull-down panel door. The date code is located inside the removable front cover. White-Rodgers and/or the utility company's name and logo are printed on the front of the thermostat. These thermostats were able to be controlled by power companies in homes that took part in energy demand reduction programs.
Distributed by: More than 40 utility companies to consumers nationwide who took part in energy conservation programs and by various HVAC wholesalers for about $150.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately remove the two AA batteries from the thermostat and contact White-Rodgers for a free repair kit. If battery removal causes changes in furnace operation, contact White-Rodgers.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact White-Rodgers toll-free at (888) 624-1901 between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. CT Monday through Friday or visit the firm's website at www.regcen.com/Thermostat
Note: Health Canada's press release is available at http://cpsr-rspc.hc-sc.gc.ca/PR-RP/recall-retrait-eng.jsp?re_id=1217
CPSC is still interested in receiving incident or injury reports that are either directly related to this product recall or involve a different hazard with the same product. Please tell us about it by visiting https://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/incident.aspx


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"What's This?" is a song featured in The Nightmare Before Christmas. It is sung by Jack Skellington when he first comes into Christmastown and discovers Christmas.
Jack Skellington: What's this? What's this? There's color everywhere
What's this? There's white things in the air
What's this?
I can't believe my eyes
I must be dreaming
Wake up, Jack, this isn't fair!
What is this?
What's this? What's this? There's something very wrong
What's this? There's people singing songs
What's this?
The streets are lined with
Little creatures laughing
Everybody seems so happy
Have I possibly gone daffy?
What is this?
What's this?
There's children throwing snowballs
Instead of throwing heads
They're busy building toys
And absolutely no one's dead
There's frost in every window
Oh, I can't believe my eyes
And in my bones I feel the warmth
That's coming from inside
Oh, look, what's this?
They're hanging mistletoe, they kiss
Why that looks so unique, inspired
They're gathering around to hear a story
Roasting chestnuts on a fire
What's this?
What's this? In here
They've got a little tree, how queer
And who would ever think
And why?
They're covering it with tiny little things
They've got electric lights on strings
And there's a smile on everyone
So, now, correct me if I'm wrong
This looks like fun
This looks like fun
Oh, could it be I got my wish?
What's this?
Oh my, what now?
The children are asleep
But look, there's nothing underneath
No ghouls, no witches here to scream and scare them
Or ensnare them, only little cozy things
Secure inside their dreamland
What's this?
The monsters are all missing
And the nightmares can't be found
And in their place there seems to be
Good feeling all around
Instead of screams, I swear
I can hear music in the air
The smell of cakes and pies
Are absolutely everywhere
The sights, the sounds!
They're everywhere and all around
I've never felt so good before
This empty place inside of me is filling up
I simply cannot get enough
I want it, oh, I want it
Oh, I want it for my own
I've got to know
I've got to know
What is this place that I have found?
What is this?
Christmastown? Hmmmmm...