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We think Rome is an example of the worlds cultural heritage, so Esther Neumann spent several days in May 2009 photographing the city. On one of her photographs you can see a pigeon flying over St Peters which is very typical for Rome.
Images are not repeated within the roll. The ends of the rolls can be connected, thus allowing for a seamless repetition of the motif. All borders have a 2 mm white border on the top and bottom.
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Leaders, Corey meet on teen punishment
Program used to divert kids from going to jail
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – When is a classroom fight just a fight, and when should it be considered battery and warrant criminal charges?
It's a question school administrators and prosecutors are having a tough time seeing eye-to-eye on.
Duval County Public Schools Superintendant Nikolai Vitti, state Rep. Mia Jones and state Sen. Audrey Gibson all sat down with State Attorney Angela Corey on Monday to address the issue.
Jacksonville's Civil Citation program tries to divert kids from going to jail by putting teenagers in teen court and offering alternatives. Local leaders asked Corey if this program is being used enough in Jacksonville.
Corey used a fight that occurred at Baldwin Middle Senior High School earlier this year as an example of when criminal charges are necessary for students in the classroom. But Jones and Gibson are pointing to other cases where the fights were nowhere near as violent, but still the students were charged criminally.
Local leaders say a diversion program rather than prosecution may have helped in these cases. They asked the state attorney to reconsider the way her office approaches juvenile civil citations, especially simple battery cases, which can end up on a teenager's criminal record for years.
Corey said the method of diverting teenagers is something her office has been practicing for years.
"Well, we don't consider diversion a break from prosecution, we consider diversion an appropriate law enforcement prosecution tool to use when a child or even an adult commits a crime that we believe would be better served by putting them into some kind of services to see what they need," Corey said. "If they need mental health counseling, if they need to make restitution."
Vitti said the purpose of Monday's meeting was to understand Corey's position on the issue, especially after hearing from parents up in arms in the community. Vitti said he wants to make sure prosecutors look at the level of the fight and the extent of the fight before deciding whether or not criminal charges are really warranted.
The civil citation program is being embraced by local law enforcement. It began in May of last year, and so far more than 200 teenagers have been diverted to the program and back to the classroom rather than the criminal justice system.
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Applied Acoustics Tassman 1.2 Review
TASSMAN 1.2 (WIN)Flexible physical modeling and more in a software synthesizer.Have you ever wondered what a bowed marimba sounds like? Or how about the sound of a cello changing size as you play it? These feats and many others are possible with Tassman 1.2, a new modular software synthesizer from Applied Acoustics Systems (AAS).
Tassman employs physical-modeling techniques to create unique sounds. It provides a toolkit full of sound generators, resonators, filters, and other processes with which you can build accurate acoustic simulations or outrageously gritty vintage synths. Furthermore, many aspects of these sonic building blocks can vary in real time with MIDI controllers.
Software synthesizers are booming, and Tassman distinguishes itself by combining state-of-the-art physical modeling with a retro aesthetic, featuring lots of knobs, LFOs, and step sequencers. What's more, you have a tremendous level of control over your synthesizers' internal patching.
SYNTH BUILDING 101If I taught a synthesis course, my syllabus would include Tassman. It's the next best thing to physically patching together oscillators, filters, and so forth on an old modular analog synthesizer. In addition to an interface that clearly shows the cause-and-effect relationships between modules, Tassman comes with an impressive collection of more than 100 instruments that you can use as study models. The synths are organized into three categories: Analog, Acoustic, and Miscellaneous. Within these groups, you'll find all manners of bowed beams, blown bells, and bubbling basses. Each instrument includes several presets, and you can download more instruments at the AAS Web site.
Tassman actually consists of two separate programs: Builder lets you assemble the synths (see Fig. 1); Player then lets you hear the results. Builder is a straightforward application that includes a Library window (on the screen's left), where you find a bin full of building blocks; and a large Construction window (on the right), where you assemble your synths. A Help window is located at the top of the screen.
To begin your design, select the module type you need in the Library window. (To see a complete modules list, check out the AAS Web site.) First click on a module icon, then click on the Construction window where you want the module to appear. If you prefer multiple copies of a module, shift-click on the Construction window as many times as needed. Once you place the modules in the Construction window, you connect them by pulling virtual patch cords from one to another. To discover what a module's inputs and outputs consist of, position the mouse on them to see an informative display.
When you select a module in either the Library window or the Construction window, the module's description appears in the Help window. The printed documentation offers more detailed module descriptions, but the Help Window provides a good deal of practical information.
As a general rule, a module's output can be patched to any number of other modules. This allows, for example, a keyboard module's Velocity output to control an oscillator's amplitude and a filter's cutoff frequency at the same time. Builder also lets you save and import subpatches, which are groups of modules or entire synths that you can encapsulate in a single module. Subpatches let you reuse your favorite inventions as parts of new designs and can simplify a complex synthesizer's layout. You can enter a subpatch's description before saving the subpatch, and this description appears in Builder's Help window, just like with Tassman's stock modules.
GOOD VIBRATIONSTassman's sound sources are called Generators and Resonators. For the most part, Generators are objects that induce vibration in Resonators, although this category also includes an LFO and a VCO. The acoustic Generators collection consists of two mallets for beating on items and a plectrum for plucking others. A variety of acoustic Resonators are provided, including a beam, a marimba, a membrane, a plate, and a string. Each of these is also available in a bowed variation. Rounding out the Resonators are a single tube, a complex arrangement of four tubes, a flute, and an organ.
Instead of being available as an independent Generator, a bow is integrated into the associated Resonators. According to AAS, this is done for the sake of efficient coding. Bowing an object creates physical feedback between the object and the bow, and separating the two would bog things down. A future release should include a separate bow module, along with additional Generators such as reed and brass modules.
The complexity of Tassman's objects is impressive. For example, the flute module is a model of a recorder. When a player blows into a recorder, the air stream is directed across a sharp edge (called the labium) at one end of the recorder's body. This sets the instrument's air column in motion, creating its characteristic sound. Tassman's flute module takes this into account, letting you set default values for the turbulence noise of the player's air stream, the air stream's behavior, the labium's position relative to the air stream, and even the sharpness of the labium's edge, which affects the instrument's timbre and response.
The ability to define an instrument's characteristics is cool enough, but you can then control these parameters during performance, either from the virtual onscreen knobs or by assigning MIDI controllers to them. This lets you modify the instrument's behavior in numerous ways as it plays.
THE ENVELOPE, PLEASEAAS included a healthy complement of filters and envelopes for shaping the sound of Tassman's synths. Lowpass and highpass filters are available in static and variable varieties, along with bandpass and comb filters. Flexibility is, again, the name of the game.
You can control a filter's cutoff frequency with an onscreen knob, assigned to a MIDI controller, or set to track an incoming signal, such as pitch or Velocity. Resonance can also be assigned to a MIDI controller for complete control of the filter's sound during performance.
One of the benefits of Tassman's modular construction is the ability to combine elements in ways that expand their basic usage. For example, you can combine multiple bandpass filters to create a "quasi" parametric equalizer. The top of Fig. 2 shows the partial design for a patch in which a bowed marimba's output is sent to three separate bandpass filters. The filters include frequency and resonance controls, which means you can also control bandwidth, as it is inversely proportional to resonance. An image of the synth produced by this design appears in the inset at the bottom of Fig. 2.
The Envelope bin contains ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release) and VCA modules as well as modules for volume (manual control only, no modulation input), portamento, and Root Mean Square (RMS). RMS is an envelope follower that lets you, for example, track an audio input's volume and then use that information to control some parameter of another module. You could use the ADSR to control a VCA's gain or a filter's cutoff or center frequency. You can assign all four envelope parameters to MIDI controllers.
CAUSE AND EFFECTYou certainly won't want to throw away your multi-effects units, but Tassman does provide a number of useful effects to incorporate into your creations. These range from staples such as reverb and delay to more esoteric effects such as a sample-and-hold module and the Scratcher, which is a delay with modulated delay time.
The reverb simulates the effect of sound generated at the intersection of three tubes. You can define the length and radius of each tube. Two or more reverbs can combine for a stereo-reverb effect, and you can route the output of one or more reverbs through the tube or tube array from the Resonator bin.
A number of interesting sonic possibilities are available by applying delay, flange, or pan effects. The Splitter module doubles its input's pitch one, two, or three octaves down, and a variable pitch-shift module is also available. There's also a phase inverter and a pickup module, which models a magnetic-coil pickup's effects as used with guitars and electric pianos. The pickup's distance and lateral position relative to the source are variable, and you can control input and output gain. Three LEDs on the pickup module in Player display the amount of distortion produced by combining these parameters.
INS AND OUTSTassman has many input and output devices. Monophonic and polyphonic keyboards come with or without Velocity sensitivity. You can add Breath Controller, Modulation, and Pitch Wheel, or drive the whole shebang with a step-sequencer module.
Any Tassman synthesizer must include a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for its sound to be heard, and this module comes in mono or stereo. A number of other I/O options are also included, most of which are used for submixing elements or configuring subpatches.
IN PERFORMANCEOnce you create a Tassman synthesizer in Builder, open it in Player to hear it (see Fig. 3). This two-program approach is a bit on the clunky side; to audition any updates you made in Builder, you must close Player and reopen it with the updated synth. AAS is working on streamlining the process so that Player can load Builder's updates or new synths without closing first.
With brushed-metal faceplates, round "analog" meters, and lots of knobs, Tassman has a decidedly retro look. Modules are arranged in rows, and you can customize the components' positions in Builder. Tassman runs in 800 5 600 resolution, but you should run it in at least 1,024 5 768 or you'll have some difficulty seeing all the modules in some synths. However, you can easily scroll the entire screen left or right as needed.
Once you load a synth into Player, you must turn on its DAC before it will make any sound. This is a minor annoyance, but considering the number of included synths that begin to play instantly because of their built-in sequencers, it's probably a reasonable precaution against a loud surprise.
Player exhibits a high degree of latency. This is due to a fixed buffer size of 1,024 samples and the overhead of writing to the operating system's audio device - which requires three buffers - resulting in a delay of at least 68 to 200 ms when responding to incoming MIDI data. AAS says it plans to make improvements available in a free update. By shrinking the buffer size, the company anticipates latencies as low as 10 ms on a Pentium III/500 MHz. (I installed Tassman on two machines: a Pentium II/266 MHz with 96 MB RAM and a Pentium III/450 MHz with 128 MB RAM. In both cases, the latency was very noticeable.)
Unlike analog synths of yore, you can save all settings in presets. For the ultimate in tweaker flexibility, even individual modules and subpatches support their presets. It would be great to have a drop-down list of available presets for a given synth or module; currently, you can access presets through an Explorer-style window that opens by clicking on the Load button at the bottom of the Player window.
Speaking of presets, Tassman ships with one or more for each of its approximately 100 synths. You could spend days just working your way through this massive collection, and you can modify any of the synths.
TWEAKER'S DELIGHTTassman is the sort of program that inveterate tweakers love. With so many variables and customization opportunities, Tassman is almost overwhelming. Fortunately, it's laid out quite logically, so even novices can make sense of everything. What's more, its knob-laden interface begs you to start twisting away until you find a sound that moves you.
As an example of how customizable Tassman is, take a look at the plectrum, one of its Generators (see Fig. 4). You can specify the plectrum's stiffness, as well as the strength of its impact on the sound source. When you add a plectrum to a program, you can also assign a MIDI controller to vary its parameters in real time.
Four modulation inputs let you customize the plectrum's response to incoming MIDI data. The first is the trigger, which tells the plectrum to pluck the string (or other Resonator), typically in response to a gate signal from a keyboard module. The second input varies the plectrum's stiffness in direct proportion to some parameter of the incoming signal, typically pitch; that causes the stiffness to increase with pitch. The third modulation input is similar to the second, except it varies the stiffness in inverse proportion to some parameter of the incoming signal, typically Velocity. The fourth input varies the plectrum's strength directly with the amplitude of the incoming signal; that is usually used to cause strength to track Velocity, which is the expected behavior of an acoustic instrument. Three knobs - labeled mod1, mod2, and mod3 - determine the degree to which modulation inputs 2 through 4 track incoming signals. These can also be assigned MIDI controllers for real-time tweaking.
With so many knob twirling opportunities, Tassman cries out for some kind of external control surface along the lines of Keyfax's PhatBoy. If you only have a mouse, though, AAS has made Player reasonably easy to control. Grabbing a knob and dragging vertically makes coarse adjustments, and the arrow keys make fine adjustments to the selected knob. Right-clicking anywhere on a knob snaps its value to that point. Knobs with green LEDs indicate that you can snap to a centered position by clicking on their LEDs.
THE BIG PICTURETassman has some real strengths and a lot of potential, but it also has some first-version quirks. Until AAS finishes integrating Player and Builder, you will find yourself opening and closing Player constantly to audition new sounds or changes you made in Builder. (Fortunately, there are shortcut keys for these functions.) This minor bother is compounded by the fact that Windows often lets go of Player slowly, or not at all. If you open it again too quickly, you'll run into MIDI conflicts.
It's great to have MIDI control over so many parameters, but establishing those assignments means digging three dialog boxes deep into Builder; it would be much better to right-click on a Player knob to create or change an assignment directly. That isn't possible because Builder is actually a compiler that creates and gathers source code according to your instructions. On the other hand, each synthesizer's source code is stored in a tiny text file with a .mom extension, making it easy and efficient to trade synthesizers with friends.
The user manual includes a fantastic tutorial on building a synth in Tassman, along with clear and detailed information about every module. Unfortunately, it neglects to tell you how to run Tassman with a sequencer and how to create multitimbral synths. (You can create such synths either by splitting a keyboard or by using multiple keyboards on different channels assigned to different instruments, all within a single synth program.)
For your sequencer to see Tassman, you must use a MIDI loopback program, such as the freeware Hubi's Loopback (www.simtel.net/pub/win3/music). This is an extremely easy program to set up, and Loopback will become unnecessary when Tassman is revised to operate as a VST Instrument within Steinberg's Cubase and Emagic's Logic or as a DirectX instrument within Cakewalk Pro Audio. (Tutorials on these subjects should be available at the AAS Web site by the time you read this.)
The models of acoustic objects are impressive for their attention to detail, but they have one important shortcoming: they can't perform smooth pitch bends. Any attempt to bend the pitch is stepped in semitone increments, rendering the effect all but useless. That is another computational compromise that AAS engineers are working on. On the other hand, the various analog-synth building blocks suffer from no such limitations.
While some musicians I respect were enthralled with Tassman's sound from the first note, it took me a while to warm up to it. A good number of the included synths are of the step-sequenced variety, which is not my cup of tea. I found more to like about the acoustic and analog sounds, but it wasn't until I started assigning controllers and tweaking knobs that I became truly enthusiastic. That is where Tassman's real potential lies. When not only the amplitude but the physical size of a cello model can be modulated as a function of Velocity, you have something unique.
The beauty of software synthesis is that you can audition Tassman. The downloadable demo version includes Builder and Player, so you have an opportunity not just to play Tassman but to design your own synths, remap patches, and assign MIDI controllers. That's when you'll feel Tassman's power and potential. Download the demo from the AAS Web site and tweak away.


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It is a familiar story that economic agents respond to changes in price of a commodity by changing quantity demanded. This is the basic law of demand formally learnt in Econ 101—that is, price and quantity demanded are inversely related.
Here is the same principle applied in the real world:
The number of climbing expeditions to Himalayan mountains, including Mount Everest, has risen since Nepal reduced off season climbing fees three months ago, officials said on Wednesday.
Nepal announced a 50 percent cut in the climbing fees in August for the three-month autumn season starting in September as incentive to off-season climbers and boost tourism, hit by years of Maoist civil war and political unrest.
As a result the number of expeditions to different Himalayan peaks in Nepal during the Autumn season had increased to 145 this year, up from 84 in 2007, Tourism Ministry official Gyanendra Shrestha said.
Officials say tourist arrivals in 2007 also jumped 27.1 percent to 360,000 as visitors began to return to the scenic nation after the Maoists declared a ceasefire in 2006.
By the way, eight of the world's 14 highest peaks above 8,000 meters, including Mount Everest, are located in Nepal, which is the poorest country in Asia with a GDP per capita income of $1,500 (PPP 2006 estimate).


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Artwork description:
the dew collectors series,
Ancestral Couple no. 4, signed july 2014
large size acrylic painting on canvas
canvas size: 100 x 100 cm (close to 40" x 40" inches)
"Dew Collectors" series
"Beginning in July 2014, this series of pictorial compositions idea centers on ancestral couple, primarily with a She and a He a nearby oneiric almost devoid of bodily harm, in a space crespuscular somewhere boundary tangible universe. The compositions have a special status and are like cosmic dust permeated the beginning, which brings the deformed areas and volatile energy glimpses of a luminary early, fine movements of stellar particles seem to outline the only hint of movement. Pictorial dichotomous splits in cold intangible cosmic space around the couple and seem to wear body imanentelor dermis of the stars Lost eroded. The atmosphere is set in a time zero in weightlessness forgotten somewhere in nothingness untold.
The achievement of the two and they bring no limit composition figurations, in presence unlikely his hand, searching to amfofial body, dressed in a kaleidoscopic color, betrays a subtle desire to close "
Ovidiu Kloska
"Kloska, seeking the road to Damascus
Certainly, the art signed by Kloska is taking part into the creators major effort to detect and express the essences of human beings, just as it shaped by the all times. Fallen into the subject of the temporal, in a sub-solar space, the humanity find itself forced to twist its spirit, almost mutilate it, referencing to the crossed historical and moral times.
The perpetual metamorphosis of the spirit produced visible traces, often even into the meat surface, at the human figure, where the artist Kloska searched and seacking to capture, through specific tools or effort, almost demiurge, kneading whole inner man, subconsciously placed beyond .
Whether artistic expression occurs in stone, metal or on canvas, she plays, possibly, a certain portion of the mystery that lies in nuce, in the most hidden place of human beings, where the spirit - today as a mustard bean detached from the universal primary fire - is still flashing and keep alive the being state of human nature, spoiled by the original divine gesture of unique genesis.
Undoubtedly, the human universe is as exciting to explore as the outside world as human beings, taking, however, urging the ancient Elders, who left at some point the investigation of the macrocosm in favor of the research of the microcosm typical to human being, so Kloska is taking this route of the ancients over the light of modern art, showing, following the impression that he left to us, as he is founding himself in a deep search of that THING of which many others turned to long time ago before him, respectively the Absolute detection.
Artistic methods means no comment, they completely belong to the author, who seems to be stuck in a sustainable areas, by the very matter in which his artistic approach consists in stone,and also in metal. So is also added, the dimarch on canvas witch is transposing the same stihial trend, detected in the works that had as the base the stone, as it is finded molded by Other hands, namely of the Creator himself.
The acquisition of divine design and the self try to remake a route to the being roots of the humanity - when, she was still finding in her lighter period - is representing a titanic effort for every artist; so, that's why Kloska himself, taking part at the same investigation, he is working a lot, reminding us of the sisific effort of the mythical character, the same of witch we should imagine happy, especially in the time that he was coming down from the top of the mountain to the base of it, for reassuming the eternally effort.
The throes caught by the artist , on the faces fixed in stone, metal or on the canvas, are showing us the exact last stage of the human existence before the Apocalypse, the event announced not only by the Bible but also by many other great book of humanity, in different times and particular moments; placing us in a spiritual level, where is proper to insist on the idea of the extinction of the actual human kind - the extinction announced also by the Kloska's artworks - in the sens that is not about a biological disparition, on contrary, pointing to a radical metamorphisms of the world, at a specific moment, so as to have the possibility to reborn again complete, rounded,perfect, as at the beginnings, when it was saying, that it was traversing an absolute age, perfect in all respects, unaltered by further progress subject to time devorated consuming.
Hope that will come a time when mankind will radically transform itself, is rendered by the Angels's world that crossing the creations of Ovidiu Kloska, a sensed world, based on the true believe of a superior existence to which human beings can tend to their path to Eternity.
Kloska is an young artist, noted already in the so demanding world of the artists. He is continuing to seek the road to Damascus, but on witch we are confident, that one day, he will have the happiness to know it."
.Fl.Agafitei - writter, indianistic expert
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acrylic tehnique on canvas
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Acrylic painting by Kloska Ovidiu
$3,861.90 Sold
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 39.37 x 39.37 x 0.79 in (unframed) / 39.37 x 39.37 in (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Nudes and erotic
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This artwork is sold by Kloska Ovidiu from Romania


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Ronaldo avoids infection!
Football fans are rejoicing everywhere as Cristiano Ronaldo narrowly avoided Ebola Paris Hilton contamination last night at Villa. Could the most potent virus in Hollywood be weakening? Or will this rejection only make her more vicious?
Fortunately for Ronaldo, he escaped unscathed despite her best efforts. Because as soon as she saw him, she wanted to f&ck him and ruin his career. But as Ebola sauntered over and pressed her tits together trying to entice him into the diseased black hole between her legs, Ronaldo instead decided to take a pass.
Benji Madden, meanwhile, was nowhere to be found…
As for Ronaldo, thank you for your emails arguing for his spot on the Freebie Five. Don't hate…but he's not my kind of quiver. Too coiffed and cheese…
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All you really need to do to get exalted with the Lorewalkers is read each of the lore objects located throughout Pandaria; you can see a list of them (like The Seven Burdens of Shaohao) in your Exploration Achievements tab, under Pandaria. When you read all of the objects for each "story," you get an item to bring to Lorewalker Cho, who presents you with a sort of play about the story you collected, and you get a ton of reputation (thousands).
The best part? You can collect them all in an hour or less with 310 flying and a map to help you out.


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Most of you may be aware of date command. There is also a ddate command. It converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates or Erisian calendar, which is an alternative calendar used by some adherents of Discordianism. It is specified on page 00034 of the Principia Discordia:
The Discordian calendar has five 73-day seasons: Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy, and The Aftermath. The Discordian year is aligned with the Gregorian calendar and begins on January 1, thus Chaos 1, 3173 YOLD is January 1, 2007 Gregorian.
Just type ddate:
$ ddate
Today is Setting Orange, the 71st day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3173
For fun put following alias in /etc/profile (try out on 1st April 😉 ):
alias date=ddate
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For the past 18 hours Republicans have been giddily waving around a new article by Bob Woodward as a smoking gun that proves sequestration should be replaced with spending cuts and spending cuts only — and that President Obama once conceded the point.
Here's the key section, which certainly carries that implication.
[T]he final deal reached between Vice President Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2011 included an agreement that there would be no tax increases in the sequester in exchange for what the president was insisting on: an agreement that the nation's debt ceiling would be increased for 18 months, so Obama would not have to go through another such negotiation in 2012, when he was running for reelection.
So when the president asks that a substitute for the sequester include not just spending cuts but also new revenue, he is moving the goal posts. His call for a balanced approach is reasonable, and he makes a strong case that those in the top income brackets could and should pay more. But that was not the deal he made.
Woodward's book about the debt limit crisis includes the fairly inconsequential detail that the idea of using sequestration (as opposed to other policy options) as an enforcement mechanism originated in the White House. Republicans, who voted for the Budget Control Act in overwhelming numbers, argue flimsily that this detail absolves them of all blame for the coming spending cuts, and have since tried to turn Woodward into a sort of grand arbiter of the debt limit fight.
But in this case Woodward is just dead wrong. Obama and Democrats have always insisted that a balanced mix of spending cuts and higher taxes replace sequestration. It's true that John Boehner wouldn't agree to include new taxes in the enforcement mechanism itself, and thus that the enforcement mechanism he and Obama settled upon — sequestration — is composed exclusively of spending cuts. But the entire purpose of an enforcement mechanism is to make sure that the enforcement mechanism is never triggered. The key question is what action it was designed to compel. And on that score, the Budget Control Act is unambiguous.
First: "Unless a joint committee bill achieving an amount greater than $1,200,000,000,000 in deficit reduction as provided in section 401(b)(3)(B)(i)(II) of the Budget Control Act of 2011 is enacted by January 15, 2012, the discretionary spending limits listed in section 251(c) shall be revised, and discretionary appropriations and direct spending shall be reduced."
Key words: "deficit reduction." Not "spending cuts." If Republicans wanted to make sure sequestration would be replaced with spending cuts only, that would have been the place to make a stand. Some of them certainly tried. But that's not what ultimately won the day. Instead the, law tasked the Super Committee with replacing sequestration with a different deficit reduction bill — tax increases or no.
"The goal of the joint committee shall be to reduce the deficit by at least $1,500,000,000,000 over the period of fiscal years 2012 to 2021," according to the BCA. The bill even provided the House and Senate instructions for advancing a Super Committee bill if it included revenue. This couldn't be clearer. In the Super Committee's waning hours, Republicans tried to entice Democrats into a spending-cut heavy agreement by acceding to a small amount of revenue. Democrats balked — the balance was off — but all of that just goes to show that a tax increase has always been a likely element of a replacement bill, and Republicans know it.
Woodward just biffed this one.


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Anna Thalacker-Mercer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Krista Casazza, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences have been admitted into the Dannon Institute, Nutrition Leadership Institute for 2011. Dr. Thalacker-Mercer has recently concluded her postdoctoral training in the Nutrition Obesity Research Institute and where she had been appointed as a postdoctoral trainee on the NORC administered T32 Training Grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Dr. Casazza is continuing her research funded through her K99/R00 grant from the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
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GWSS Identification
Identifying the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter
If you have an insect that you think is the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter you can use this page to identify the insect.
GWSS Adults
The Glassy-winged Sharpshooter at ½ inch (13mm) long is relatively large for the Sharpshooter/Leafhopper family of insects. On the left is a good example of the sharpshooter's profile. You can see the distinct orange underside of the head where the proboscis or mouthpiece is. It uses this mouthpiece to pierce the shoots and branches to draw in the fluids and get nutrients and minerals from the plants. The wings of the sharpshooter are translucent brown with red veins. The top of the insect is dark brown while the underside is white.
GWSS Nymphs
Nymphs are the immature insects that will later on become adults. The sharpshooter's nymphs, like the one to the left, are greenish grey in color and quite similar in shape to the adults. The nymphs do not have wings and are generally smaller than the adults, ranging in size from .07 inches (2 mm) to nearly ½ inch (13mm) long. The nymphs have very distinct red eyes that are visible when they are alive, but this fades when they die. The nymphs are much more active than the adults and are more likely to jump away when approached.
GWSS Eggs
The Sharpshooter lays its eggs inside of the underside of leaves. The Sharpshooter will lay its eggs on almost any plant including cactus. To the left is a good example of a Sharpshooter egg mass. The egg masses are usually composed of 10 - 20 eggs, but they can lay more or as few as 1. Most of the egg masses have a waxy coating around the eggs for protection. The eggs are lined up making a rectangular pattern of eggs on the leaf. The eggs are all in separate chambers so you can see the walls between each egg making the egg mass look distinct from egg masses that other insects can lay in leaves. On the top of the leaf there is usually a little discoloration of the leaf. To find the eggs it is easiest to get under the tree or shrub and look up at the leaf with sunlight behind it. The egg blocks out some of the sunlight and you can see the distinct shape of the egg through the leaf.
When the Nymphs hatch they split the leaf open on one side. In time the area where the eggs were will start to turn brown leaving an "Egg Scar" which can stay until the leaf falls from the plant. Another way the egg mass can leave an egg scar is after parasitization. To the left is a picture of an egg scar left after the egg mass was parasitized. These scars are good tools to find where the Sharpshooters have been. At times the scars have been brought in with the plants in new landscaping so as to give the appearance of a previous infestation. Again with egg scars you can find them in the same way as the fresh egg masses by looking at them through sunlight. The egg scars tend to stand out more than the fresh eggs.
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The Sharpshooter can consume about 300 times its own weight in fluids from the plants that it feeds upon and can be found in such high numbers that they cause what is called Sharpshooter Rain. When a large number of Sharpshooters are in a tree they constantly draw fluids out of the branches and excrete them out the other end giving the appearance of rain coming off the tree. This excreta also causes the whitewashed appearance on leaves, fruit and even on the sidewalk under it. There are other ways to create this whitewashed appearance, mineral deposits from water is one common way. White spots on plants are not always a sign that Sharpshooters are present, but if you see it, closer inspection may reveal the Sharpshooter hiding on the stems or branches of the plant.
Some of the Sharpshooter's favorite plants to feed on are bougainvillea, camellia, citrus, crape myrtle, grapevines, eucalyptus, privet and oleander. The Sharpshooter will feed on almost any plant available and will not limit itself to this list or the latest host list by CDFA. You can close CDFA's window to return to this page when you are finished looking at the host list.
If you find an insect fitting these descriptions or are still unsure if the insect you have is a Glassy-winged Sharpshooter please bring it in to your local Department of Agriculture.
In Contra Costa County the phone number is
(925) 646-5250
If you live near Concord and can drop off a sample we are located at
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With this roadmap, there's no need to buy that 10-pound "Vogue" to see the newest fall makeup trends. Here's how to translate your favorite runway looks to real life
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Step 3: Apply a cream blush, which goes on more sheer than regular blush and looks more like a natural flush, says Ukaeje.
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Google Chrome is the latest browser to incorporate the Do Not Track (DNT) feature in a recent update. Sites that you visit collect data to serve you ads based on your interests and demographics. The DNT option blocks sites from collecting that data about the sites you visit.
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The only thing San Diegans might enjoy more than beaches, burritos, and brews is enjoying all of those things with man's best friend. Let's face it, it's tough to stay indoors in a city like San Diego. It's even tougher to leave your dog behind to miss out on the adventure. Luckily, America's Finest City might also be one of America's most dog-friendly cities. From North County to downtown, local dog owners are constantly discovering outdoor and indoor destinations where they can be accompanied by their four-legged friend. So, if you're looking to have some fun this fall with your pup, grab the leash and check out some of the dog-friendly activities we've put together – they'll have Fido's tail wagging in no time.
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Beach days are not just for us – our canine companions love the waves too! For San Diego dog owners, there are plenty of dog-friendly beaches to choose from. From Del Mar Dog Beach to Coronado to the "Original Dog Beach" in Ocean Beach, there is no shortage of beaches to let your dog off-leash for some fun in the sun. Want to make your beach trip even more memorable? Sign you and your pup up for some surf or stand up paddle boarding lessons!
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Tired from an afternoon of hiking or beach-going? Grab you and your pup some refreshments at any of the dog-friendly breweries throughout San Diego. Relax with a cold one while your dog enjoys some attention and treats of their own. Mission Brewery, Mother Earth Brew Co., and Bagby Beer Company are among some of the most dog-loving brew houses. Not interested in beer? San Diego boasts a variety of dog-friendly restaurants and cafés – just take your pick.
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One of the most fun aspects of being a dog owner is interacting and making friends with other owners and their dogs. While this can easily be done at a dog park, one of the most sure-fire ways to get some doggie play-dates scheduled is by attending a dog meetup. Meetups can vary in design from breed-specific to mutt-inclusive to hiking or Pokémon GO dog walkers, so be sure to choose the meetup that is right for you and your dog. Look for meetups in your area at www.meetup.com.


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It's a good song…although I find it repetitive which is probably why it needed her. Because did she ever take the Church to another level, holy F-CK, Annie Lennox. Holy F-CK. Who could possibly follow that? Is that why I'm listening to No More I Love Yous on repeat this morning? And then there was Prince. Full Story
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The portion of images and video in the typical payload of a website can be significant. Unfortunately, project stakeholders may be unwilling to cut any media resources from their existing applications. Such impasses are frustrating, especially when all parties involved want to improve site performance, but can't agree on how to get there. Fortunately, lazy loading is a solution that lowers initial page payload and load time, but doesn't skimp on content.
What is lazy loading?
Lazy loading is technique that defers loading of non-critical resources at page load time. Instead, these non-critical resources are loaded at the moment of need. Where images are concerned, "non-critical" is often synonymous with "off-screen". If you've used Lighthouse and examined some opportunities for improvement, you may have seen some guidance in this realm in the form of the Offscreen Images audit:
You've probably already seen lazy loading in action, and it goes something like this:
- You arrive at a page, and begin to scroll as you read content.
- At some point, you scroll a placeholder image into the viewport.
- The placeholder image is suddenly replaced by the final image.
An example of image lazy loading can be found on the popular publishing platform Medium, which loads lightweight placeholder images at page load, and replaces them with lazily-loaded images as they're scrolled into the viewport.
If you're unfamiliar with lazy loading, you might be wondering just how useful the technique is, and what its benefits are. Read on to find out!
Why lazy load images or video instead of just loading them?
Because it's possible you're loading stuff the user may never see. This is problematic for a couple reasons:
- It wastes data. On unmetered connections, this isn't the worst thing that could happen (although you could be using that precious bandwidth for downloading other resources that are indeed going to be seen by the user). On limited data plans, however, loading stuff the user never sees could effectively be a waste of their money.
- It wastes processing time, battery, and other system resources. After a media resource is downloaded, the browser must decode it and render its content in the viewport.
When we lazy load images and video, we reduce initial page load time, initial page weight, and system resource usage, all of which have positive impacts on performance. In this guide, we'll cover some techniques and offer guidance for lazy loading images and video, as well as a short list of some commonly used libraries.
Lazy loading images
Image lazy loading mechanisms are simple in theory, but the details are actually a bit finicky. Plus there are a couple of distinct use cases that can both benefit from lazy loading. Let's first start with lazy loading inline images in HTML.
Inline images
The most common lazy loading candidates are images as used in
 elements.
When we lazy load
 elements, we use JavaScript to check if they're in the
viewport. If they are, their
src (and sometimes
srcset) attributes are
populated with URLs to the desired image content.
Using intersection observer
If you've written lazy loading code before, you may have accomplished your task
by using event handlers such as
scroll or
resize. While this approach is the
most compatible across browsers, modern browsers offer a more performant and
efficient way to do the work of checking element visibility via the
intersection observer API.
Intersection observer is easier to use and read than code relying on various
event handlers, because developers only need to register an observer to watch
elements rather than writing tedious element visibility detection code. All
that's left to do for the developer is to decide what to do when an element is
visible. Let's assume this basic markup pattern for our lazily loaded

There are three relevant pieces of this markup we should focus on:
- The
classattribute, which is what we'll select the element with in JavaScript.
- The
srcattribute, which references a placeholder image that will appear when the page first loads.
- The
data-srcsetattributes, which are placeholder attributes containing the URL for the image we'll load once the element is in the viewport.
Now let's see how we can use intersection observer in JavaScript to lazy load images using this markup pattern:
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
var lazyImages = [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll("img.lazy"));
if ("IntersectionObserver" in window) {
let lazyImageObserver = new IntersectionObserver(function(entries, observer) {
entries.forEach(function(entry) {
if (entry.isIntersecting) {
let lazyImage = entry.target;
lazyImage.src = lazyImage.dataset.src;
lazyImage.srcset = lazyImage.dataset.srcset;
lazyImages.forEach(function(lazyImage) {
} else {
// Possibly fall back to a more compatible method here
On the document's
DOMContentLoaded event, this script queries the DOM for all
 elements with a class of
lazy. If intersection observer is available,
we create a new observer that runs a callback when
img.lazy elements enter the
viewport. Check out this CodePen
example to see this code in action.
The drawback of intersection observer, however, is that while it has good support amongst browsers, it's not universal. You'll need to polyfill browsers that don't support it, or as the above code suggests, detect if it's available and subsequently fall back to older, more compatible methods.
Using event handlers (the most compatible way)
While you should use intersection observer for lazy loading, your application
requirements may be such that browser compatibility is critical. You can
polyfill intersection observer
support (and
this would be easiest), but you could also fall back to code using
resize, and
event handlers in concert with
to determine whether an element is in the viewport.
Assuming the same markup pattern from before, the following JavaScript provides the lazy loading functionality:
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
let lazyImages = [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll("img.lazy"));
let active = false;
const lazyLoad = function() {
if (active === false) {
active = true;
setTimeout(function() {
lazyImages.forEach(function(lazyImage) {
if ((lazyImage.getBoundingClientRect().top <= window.innerHeight && lazyImage.getBoundingClientRect().bottom >= 0) && getComputedStyle(lazyImage).display !== "none") {
lazyImage.src = lazyImage.dataset.src;
lazyImage.srcset = lazyImage.dataset.srcset;
lazyImages = lazyImages.filter(function(image) {
return image !== lazyImage;
if (lazyImages.length === 0) {
document.removeEventListener("scroll", lazyLoad);
window.removeEventListener("resize", lazyLoad);
window.removeEventListener("orientationchange", lazyLoad);
active = false;
}, 200);
document.addEventListener("scroll", lazyLoad);
window.addEventListener("resize", lazyLoad);
window.addEventListener("orientationchange", lazyLoad);
This code uses
getBoundingClientRect in a
scroll event handler to check if
any of
img.lazy elements are in the viewport. A
setTimeout call is used to
delay processing, and an
active variable contains the processing state which
is used to throttle function calls. As images are lazy loaded, they're removed
from the elements array. When the elements array reaches a
length of
0, the
scroll event handler code is removed. See this code in action in this CodePen
While this code works in pretty much any browser, it has potential performance
issues in that repetitive
setTimeout calls can be wasteful, even if the code
within them is throttled. In this example, a check is being run every 200
milliseconds on document scroll or window resize regardless of whether there's
an image in the viewport or not. Plus, the tedious work of tracking how many
elements are left to lazy load and unbinding the scroll event handler are left
to the developer.
Simply put: Use intersection observer wherever possible, and fall back to event handlers if the widest possible compatibility is a critical application requirement.
Images in CSS
 tags are the most common way of using images on web pages, images
can also be invoked via the CSS
property (and other properties). Unlike
 elements which load regardless
of their visibility, image loading behavior in CSS is done with more
speculation. When the document and CSS object
and render
are built, the browser examines how CSS is applied to a document before
requesting external resources. If the browser has determined a CSS rule
involving an external resource doesn't apply to the document as it's currently
constructed, the browser doesn't request it.
This speculative behavior can be used to defer the loading of images in CSS by using JavaScript to determine when an element is within the viewport, and subsequently applying a class to that element that applies styling invoking a background image. This causes the image to be downloaded at the time of need instead of at initial load. For example, let's take an element that contains a large hero background image:

Here's a hero heading to get your attention!

Here's hero copy to convince you to buy a thing!

Buy a thing!
div.lazy-background element would normally contain the hero background
image invoked by some CSS. In this lazy loading example, however, we can isolate
div.lazy-background element's
background-image property via a
class that we'll add to the element when it's in the viewport:
.lazy-background {
background-image: url("hero-placeholder.jpg"); /* Placeholder image */
.lazy-background.visible {
background-image: url("hero.jpg"); /* The final image */
From here, we'll use JavaScript to check if the element is in the viewport (with
intersection observer!), and add the
visible class to the
div.lazy-background element at that time, which loads the image:
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
var lazyBackgrounds = [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll(".lazy-background"));
if ("IntersectionObserver" in window) {
let lazyBackgroundObserver = new IntersectionObserver(function(entries, observer) {
entries.forEach(function(entry) {
if (entry.isIntersecting) {
lazyBackgrounds.forEach(function(lazyBackground) {
As indicated earlier, you'll want to make sure you provide a fallback or a polyfill for intersection observer since not all browsers currently support it. Check out this CodePen demo to see this code in action.
Lazy loading video
As with image elements, we can also lazy load video. When we load video in
normal circumstances, we do so using the
<video> element (although an
alternate method using
 has
emerged with limited implementation). How we lazy load
<video> depends on the
use case, though. Let's discuss a couple of scenarios that each require a
different solution.
For video that doesn't autoplay
For videos where playback is initiated by the user (i.e., videos that don't
autoplay), specifying the
on the
<video> element may be desirable:
<video controls preload="none" poster="one-does-not-simply-placeholder.jpg">
<source src="one-does-not-simply.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="one-does-not-simply.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Here, we use a
preload attribute with a value of
none to prevent browsers
from preloading any video data. To occupy the space, we use the
attribute to give the
<video> element a placeholder. The reason for this is
that default behaviors for loading video can vary from browser to browser:
- In Chrome, the default for
preloadused to be
auto, but as of Chrome 64, it now defaults to
metadata. Even so, on the desktop version of Chrome, a portion of the video may be preloaded using the
Content-Rangeheader. Firefox, Edge and Internet Explorer 11 behave similarly.
- As with Chrome on desktop, 11.0 desktop versions of Safari will preload a range of the video. In version 11.2 (currently Safari's Tech Preview version), only the video metadata is preloaded. In Safari on iOS, videos are never preloaded.
- When Data Saver mode is
preloaddefaults to
Because browser default behaviors with regard to
preload are not set in stone,
being explicit is probably your best bet. In this cases where the user initiates
playback, using
preload="none" is the easiest way to defer loading of video on
all platforms. The
preload attribute isn't the only way to defer the loading
of video content. Fast Playback with Video
Preload may give you
some ideas and insight into working with video playback in JavaScript.
Unfortunately, it doesn't prove useful when we want to use video in place of animated GIFs, which we'll cover next.
For video acting as an animated GIF replacement
While animated GIFs enjoy wide use, they're subpar to video equivalents in a number of ways, particularly in output file size. Animated GIFs can stretch into the range of several megabytes of data. Videos of similar visual quality tend to be far smaller.
Using the
<video> element as a replacement for animated GIF is not as
straightforward as the
 element. Inherent in animated GIFs are these
three behaviors:
- They play automatically when loaded.
- They loop continuously (though that's not always the case).
- They don't have an audio track.
Achieving this with the
<video> element looks something like this:
<video autoplay muted loop playsinline>
<source src="one-does-not-simply.webm" type="video/webm">
<source src="one-does-not-simply.mp4" type="video/mp4">
muted, and
loop attributes are self-explanatory.
playsinline is necessary for autoplaying to occur in
iOS. Now we have a
serviceable video-as-GIF replacement that works across platforms. But how to go
about lazy loading it? Chrome will lazy load video for
but you can't count on all browsers to provide this optimized behavior.
Depending on your audience and application requirements, you may need to take
matters into your own hands. To start, modify your
<video> markup accordingly:
<video autoplay muted loop playsinline width="610" height="254" poster="one-does-not-simply.jpg">
<source data-src="one-does-not-simply.webm" type="video/webm">
<source data-src="one-does-not-simply.mp4" type="video/mp4">
You'll notice the addition of the
which lets you specify a placeholder to occupy the
<video> element's space
until the video is lazy loaded. As with our
 lazy loading examples from
before, we stash the video URL in the
data-src attribute on each
element. From there, we'll use some JavaScript similar to the earlier
intersection observer-based image lazy loading examples:
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
var lazyVideos = [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll("video.lazy"));
if ("IntersectionObserver" in window) {
var lazyVideoObserver = new IntersectionObserver(function(entries, observer) {
entries.forEach(function(video) {
if (video.isIntersecting) {
for (var source in video.target.children) {
var videoSource = video.target.children[source];
if (typeof videoSource.tagName === "string" && videoSource.tagName === "SOURCE") {
videoSource.src = videoSource.dataset.src;
lazyVideos.forEach(function(lazyVideo) {
When we lazy load a
<video> element, we need to iterate through all of the child
<source> elements and flip their
data-src attributes to
src attributes. Once
we've done that, we need to trigger loading of the video by calling the
load method, after which the media will begin playing automatically
per the
autoplay attribute.
Using this method, we have a video solution that emulates animated GIF behavior, but doesn't incur the same intensive data usage as animated GIFs do, and we get to lazy load that content.
Lazy loading libraries
If you're not so concerned about how lazy loading works under the hood and just want to pick a library and go (and there's no shame in that!), there's plenty of options to choose from. Many libraries use a markup pattern similar to the ones demonstrated in this guide. Here are some lazy loading libraries you may find useful:
- lazysizes is a full-featured lazy
loading library that lazy loads images and iframes. The pattern it uses is quite
similar to the code examples shown here in that it automatically binds to a
lazyloadclass on
elements, and requires you to specify image URLs in
data-srcsetattributes, the contents of which are swapped into
srcsetattributes, respectively. It uses intersection observer (which you can polyfill), and can be extended with a number of plugins to do things like lazy load video.
- lozad.js is a super lightweight option that uses intersection observer only. As such, it's highly performant, but will need to be polyfilled before you can use it on older browsers.
- blazy is another such option that bills itself as a lightweight lazy loader (weighing in at 1.4 KB). As with lazysizes, it doesn't need any third party utilities to load, and works for IE7+. Unfortunately, it doesn't use intersection observer.
- yall.js is a library I wrote that uses IntersectionObserver and falls back to event handlers. It's compatible with IE11 and major browsers.
- If you're seeking a React-specific lazy loading library, you might consider react-lazyload. While it doesn't use intersection observer, it does provide a familiar method of lazy loading images for those accustomed to developing applications with React.
Each of these lazy loading libraries is well documented, with plenty of markup patterns for your various lazy loading endeavors. If you're not one to tinker, grab a library and go. It will take the least amount of effort.
What can go wrong
While lazy loading images and video have positive and measurable performance benefits, it's not a task to be taken lightly. If you get it wrong, there could be unintended consequences. As such, it's important to keep the following concerns in mind:
Mind the fold
It may be tempting to lazy load every single media resource on the page with JavaScript, but you need to resist this temptation. Anything resting above the fold shouldn't be lazy loaded. Such resources should be considered critical assets, and thus should be loaded normally.
The primary argument for loading critical media resources the usual way in lieu
of lazy loading is that lazy loading delays the loading of those resources until
after the DOM is interactive when scripts have finished loading and begin
execution. For images below the fold, this is fine, but it would be faster to
load critical resources above the fold with a standard
 element.
Of course, where the fold lies is not so clear these days when websites are viewed on so many screens of varying sizes. What lies above the fold on a laptop may well lie below it on mobile devices. There's no bulletproof advice for addressing this optimally in every situation. You'll need to conduct an inventory of your page's critical assets, and load those images in typical fashion.
Additionally, you may not want to be so strict about the fold line as the
threshold for triggering lazy loading. It may be more ideal for your purposes to
establish a buffer zone some distance below the fold so that images begin
loading well before the user scrolls them into the viewport. For example, The
intersection observer API allows you to specify a
rootMargin property in an
options object when you create a new
IntersectionObserver instance. This
effectively gives elements a buffer, which triggers lazy loading behavior before
the element is in the viewport:
let lazyImageObserver = new IntersectionObserver(function(entries, observer) {
// Lazy loading image code goes here
}, {
rootMargin: "0px 0px 256px 0px"
If the value for
rootMargin looks similar to values you'd specify for a CSS
margin property, that's because it is! In this case, we're broadening the
bottom margin of the observing element (the browser viewport by default, but
this can be changed to a specific element using the
root property) by 256
pixels. That means the callback function will execute when an image element is
within 256 pixels of the viewport, meaning that the image will begin to load
before the user actually sees it.
To achieve this same effect using scroll event handling code, simply adjust your
getBoundingClientRect check to include a buffer, and you'll get the same
effect in browsers that don't support intersection observer.
Layout shifting and placeholders
Lazy loading media can cause shifting in the layout if placeholders aren't used. These changes can be disorienting for users and trigger expensive DOM layout operations that consume system resources and contribute to jank. At a minimum, consider using a solid color placeholder occupying the same dimensions as the target image, or techniques such as LQIP or SQIP that hint at the content of a media item before it loads.
 tags,
src should initially point to a placeholder until that
attribute is updated with the final image URL. Use the
poster attribute in a
<video> element to point to a placeholder image. Additionally, use
width and
height attributes on both
 and
<video> tags. This ensures that
transitioning from placeholders to final images won't change the rendered size
of the element as media loads.
Image decoding delays
Loading large images in JavaScript and dropping them into the DOM can tie up the
main thread, causing the user interface to be unresponsive for a short period of
time while decoding occurs. Asynchronously decoding images using the
prior to inserting them into the DOM can cut down on this sort of jank, but
beware: It's not available everywhere yet, and it adds complexity to lazy
loading logic. If you want to use it, you'll need to check for it. Below shows
how you might use
Image.decode() with a fallback:
var newImage = new Image();
newImage.src = "my-awesome-image.jpg";
if ("decode" in newImage) {
// Fancy decoding logic
newImage.decode().then(function() {
} else {
// Regular image load
Check out this CodePen link to see code similar to this example in action. If most of your images are fairly small, this may not do much for you, but it can certainly help cut down on jank when lazy loading large images and inserting them into the DOM.
When stuff doesn't load
Sometimes media resources will fail to load for one reason or another and errors occur. When might this happen? It depends, but here's one hypothetical scenario for you: You have an HTML caching policy for a short period of time (e.g., five minutes), and the user visits the site or a user has a left a stale tab open for a long period of time (e.g., several hours) and comes back to read your content. At some point in this process, a redeployment occurs. During this deployment, an image resource's name changes due to hash-based versioning, or is removed altogether. By the time the user lazy loads the image, the resource is unavailable, and thus fails.
While these are relatively rare occurrences, it may behoove you to have a backup plan if lazy loading fails. For images, such a solution may look something like this:
var newImage = new Image();
newImage.src = "my-awesome-image.jpg";
newImage.onerror = function(){
// Decide what to do on error
newImage.onload = function(){
// Load the image
What you decide to do in the event of an error depends on your application. For example, you could replace the image placeholder area with a button that allows the user to attempt to load the image again, or simply display an error message in the image placeholder area.
Other scenarios could arise as well. Whatever you do, it's never a bad idea to signal to the user when an error has occurred, and possibly give them an action to take if something goes awry.
JavaScript availability
It shouldn't be assumed that JavaScript is always available. If you're going to
lazy load images, consider offering
 markup that will show images in
case JavaScript is unavailable. The simplest possible fallback example involves
 elements to serve images if JavaScript is turned off:

If JavaScript is turned off, users will see both the placeholder image and the
image contained with the
 elements. To get around this, we can place
a class of
no-js on the
 tag like so:

Then we place one line of inline script in the
 before any style sheets
are requested via
<link> tags that removes the
no-js class from the
element if JavaScript is on:
Finally, we can use some CSS to simply hide elements with a class of lazy when JavaScript is unavailable like so:
.no-js .lazy {
display: none;
This doesn't prevent placeholder images from loading, but the outcome is more desirable. People with JavaScript turned off get something more than placeholder images, which is better than placeholders and no meaningful image content at all.
Used with care, lazy loading images and video can seriously lower the initial load time and page payloads on your site. Users won't incur unnecessary network activity and processing costs of media resources they may never see, but they can still view those resources if they want.
As far as performance improvement techniques go, lazy loading is reasonably uncontroversial. If you have a lot of inline imagery in your site, it's a perfectly fine way to cut down on unnecessary downloads. Your site's users and project stakeholders will appreciate it!
Special thanks to François Beaufort, Dean Hume, Ilya Grigork, Paul Irish, Addy Osmani, Jeff Posnick, and Martin Schierle for their valuable feedback, which significantly improved the quality of this article.


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I should have known when I married my husband Jody — an avid gamer — that someday down the road our future children would be gamers as well, but I didn't think much about it. I kind of thought my husband would eventually grow out of his gaming "phase." I mean, grown men don't play video games and Dungeons and Dragons forever, right? Right???
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The small town of Bally, Pennsylvania boasts a growing population of about 1,100. And we may attribute part of their growth over the last seven years to bottled water.
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