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When I began working online back in 2013, I discovered affiliate marketing (AM) as the surest way to start a business online. I plunged into it and after months of "hard work" wondered why I wasn't going anywhere. What were the others doing that I wasn't? Unknown to me, successful affiliate marketers (AMers) chose niches because internet marketing is too large a market for a newbie to succeed in.
This post is going to help you do exactly that.
# 1: What is actually a niche?
A niche is actually a small segment of a market where folks interested in something are prepared to dish out the required amount of money to acquire it. So when hunting for a particular niche, make certain that there are actually search terms folks are actually using when searching for your particular niche info so that you may be included among the best 10 search engine results pages.
# 2: What actually is the difference between a market and a niche market concept?
If we take a main category like AM and check under the titles we can easily discover a market level idea like affiliate programs.
To see if money is actually being made in this market, carry out a Google search to try to find advertisers. If you found ads, then Affiliate program (AP) is actually an interesting market.
So, if you narrow it to the two specifics of where individuals are actually spending funds as well as where there are actually search phrases folks are actually utilizing when searching for AP info, after that make use of Google AdWords KeywordToolExternal and also place in affiliate programs to receive overall suggestions concerning possible niches. If you require additional programs make use of AdWords.Google tool which can easily provide you up to 800, instead of 100 keywords the previous one gives.
Input (AP) into the search engine window on top left of the webpage and then click on search.
Get your hands on a list of a minimum of 10-20 AP associated search terms which display a reasonable number of searches per month however certainly not a lot of competition.
This can also easily offer you a number of profitable search phrases to utilize on your site as categories, in your content and also in your marketing campaigns.
Discovering profitable keyword phrases
Volume: is the average number of searches per month over the past 12 months.
Comp: is the higher this number, the more organic competition for the keyword.
IAAT: A count of webpages on which the keyword appears in both the title tag and the text of a backlink.
Keywords Volume Comp. IAAT
AM programs 3,592 11.96 170
best AP 3,334 11.92 167
high ticket AP 1,050 6.73 12
best AM programs 912 8.02 27
Travel AP 896 7.67 22
saas AP 849 — 0
top AP 816 7.75 23
AP for bloggers 629 7.43 19
best AP for beginners 606 5.98 7
best AP to make money 556 7.6 21
high paying AP 551 8.88 43
pay per click AP 528 7.35 18
top paying AP 466 6.32 9
keto AP 347 — 0
AM programs for beginners 342 6.32 9
software AP 310 6.73 12
makeup AP 302 5.3 4
gaming AP 295 5.3 4
pet AP 292 4.56 2
AP site 261 — 0
best AP 2018 261 — 0
essential oil AP 261 — 0
highest paying AP 207 6.73 12
personal development AP 207 3.92 1
AP amazon 130 3.92 1
'top golf' AP 85 — 0
a list of the best AP 85 — 0
AdWords AP 85 — 0
affiliate credit card programs 85 — 0
affiliate credit card programs to build credit 85 — 0
AM network programs 85 — 0
AM programs comparisons 85 — 0
AM programs for education 85 — 0
AM programs for local business 85 — 0
AM programs people want 85 — 0
AM programs plugin WordPress 85 — 0.
AM programs plugin WordPress woocommerce 85 — 0.
AM programs to make money online 85 — 0.
affiliate network programs 85 — 0.
AP easy to join 85 — 0.
AP for brands 85 — 0.
AP for dating bloggers 85 — 0.
AP for domain flipping 85 — 0.
AP for ecommerce 85 — 0.
AP for food bloggers 85 — 0.
AP for guns 85 — 0.
affiliate blogging programs 82 — 0.
AP for beginners 82 6.47 10.
One other excellent keyword research tool you can easily make use of is actually Jaaxy obtained through Wealthy Affiliate.
Avg: The average amount of searches that the keyword phrase gets each month
Traffic: Visits to your website if you make first page rankings in the search engines
QSR: Quoted Search Results: the amount of competing websites ranked in Google for this exact keyword
KQI: Keyword Quality indicator: Green is terrific; yellowish is alright; reddish is inadequate.
SEO: A score based on traffic and competition, the greater the score the more likely you will rank for this keyword on the first page (scale of 1-100, the higher the better)
Keyword Avg Traffic QSR KQI SEO
best affiliate marketing programs 178 31 219 Great 83
best affiliate marketing program for beginners 80 14 89 Great 93
are best affiliate marketing programs 48 9 5 Great 98
the best affiliate marketing program for beginners 80 14 73 Great 92
best affiliate marketing programs for beginners 56 10 175 Great 84
best affiliate marketing programs beginners 56 10 52 Great 96
the best affiliate marketing programs for beginners 56 10 111 Great 91
top 10 affiliate marketing programs 75 13 114 Great 97
top affiliate marketing programs 88 15 179 Great 89
top rated affiliate marketing programs 40 7 96 Great 97
what is the best affiliate marketing program 114 20 53 Great 91
the best affiliate marketing program 114 20 156 Great 86
best affiliate marketing program 114 20 176 Great 88
affiliate marketing programs 3037 517 232 Normal74
affiliate marketing companies 458 78 122 Great 91
affiliate marketing training 199 34 219 Normal80
start affiliate marketing 654 112 226 Normal77
best online affiliate programs 104 18 96 Great 97
best affiliate marketers 48 9 86 Great 96
best paying affiliate programs 86 15 118 Great 97.
# 3: Choose your niche market.
Statista determines that the amount of blog writers in the U.S. alone are going to go up to 31.7 million by 2020. If you're beginning to build a blog anywhere on the planet today, it is clear that you're dealing with a great deal more competition.
The only means for you to stand the very best odds of success is actually to niche down.
You need to concentrate on a specific category. "Food" is actually a huge category yet "grilling food" is rather sufficiently small to manage.
Tight topics like these may aid you develop a more focused audience and also possibly assist you rank higher in search engines.
Si Quan Ong did just that when he created his first website confining themself to only breakdancing rather than discussing "dance" or even "hip hop". He declared he really did not understand just about anything regarding SEO at that time, however he was able to rank for a handful of key terms and produce ~ 3,000 organic visits each month.
# 4: It is really imperative to choose the right niche.
The information in # 2 above prove that there are actually numerous niche markets for you to pick from. Taking the one you are actually passionate about is actually the most effective niche market for you. Even if you work for months without getting any kind of results, it will definitely keep you going as a result of your strong excitement for it.
# 5: There are definitely consequences for selecting the inappropriate niche market.
It is actually most likely that you will certainly select the right niche if you follow the above actions. But in case you choose the incorrect one, you can do whatever is right for 12 months (which should be your long-range objective for success) and also still have nothing at all to show for it.
# 6: Monetization setup.
Having actually selected your specific niche, you have to now study its moneymaking capacity. Right here are actually a few of them:.
Create your own product: Your own product might be an eBook, a video training series or paper book.
AM: You might join free any affiliate networks or programs. For Digital product AM, you may sign up at ClickBank, the biggest AM network. As for Physical product AM, we recommend an AM program like Amazon Affiliates program, and so on. Concerning other affiliate programs, look for your "niche name" and sign up for those you like. You can easily likewise sign up with eBay.com, and so on. Know that Amazon.com as well as eBay.com possess everything any sort of niche market may supply.
Printing adds: There are many out there. The most popular ones are actually GoogleAdsense as well as Mediavine.
# 7: Abandon any niche you cannot monetize.
If you look at the above and can't fathom any way for you to actually monetize your chosen niche, then it's not a good choice you have made. Well, if something isn't good for you, you know what to do with it, don't you? You turn your back on it. Then you look for another one.
# 8: There is actually keen competition in AM yet enough place for all.
One more ambivalence, you might state.
Yes, competition in the AM industry is actually cut-throat, yet that should not in any way scare you from it.
All the successful AM professionals you see around or hear about all have has that experience. If they had let it terrify them away years back, they definitely would not have been around as examples for us to learn from.
The solution to the competition merely depends on finding a particular niche which necessarily belongs to a much larger market where there is actually money to be made with little to no competitors.
# 9: Is AM a scam?
No, AM as such is actually certainly not a scam. You will certainly get into one quicker than you may shake shit off your brand new, bright footwear if you're devoting your hard-earned cash as well as valuable time looking for get-rich-quick schemes.
# 10: Decide on the platform to utilize.
AM could be carried out on any sort of platform where the promoter may send out information to a consumer. Also social media.
The ideal area to develop a target market and also improve your sales is actually by means of a blog site or even a YouTube channel.
There you have them, the 10 ways for newbie promoters to choose niches to become successful.


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From: The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with Thanksgiving. And he is you're board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind, you, fear not the "Nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay." And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; for without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the Spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught. And let your best to be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? See him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.


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Healings of pancreatitis
Healing of Pancreatitis
Margot Miebach (65), Cologne (Germany)
In 1972 colic-like pains appeared in my upper abdomen, sometimes so intense, that I was prescribed opiates. After every meal I suffered from nausea and diarrhea. Sometimes I was so weak, that I couldn't hold a teaspoon. From 1972 to 1974 I survived on baby and toddler food only. I was bloated and my weight went down to 97 pounds (44 kg) [regular weight 110 pounds (50kg).] The doctors diagnosed me with acute pancreatitis. This disease occurs in acute attacks; in my case it became chronic. Sometimes I had an attack once or twice a day, sometimes every few days or once a week, sometimes I was OK for a whole month. They were triggered by certain foods, worry, stress and without any discernible reason. When it was very bad I had to spend a day or two in bed.
Healing of pancreatitis with frequent acute attacks (chronic)
Mrs C. S. (77), Oldenburg (Germany)
In April 1980 the first severe bout of cramp-like pain occurred in my upper abdominal region accompanied by vomiting. After a six-week stay in hospital, the medical diagnosis was acute pancreatitis. I was put on a strict diet of low fat foods, with no raw fruit, salads, cherries, cake or coffee. Despite this, I had two more severe attacks that same year, each followed by five weeks in hospital.
The medical diagnosis then was: acute attacks of chronic pancreatitis. Despite maintaining my diet, the pain and vomiting continued to occur about five to six times a year. Each time I lost up to 5 kilos. Finally I lived on boiled chicken, potatoes, mixed grain bread, light jam and stewed pears.
In December 1989 I learned about the teachings of Bruno Gröning. At the end of the year I had an attack of pain once again and it recurred six months later. Since then it has never come back and I have been healed since the summer of 1990. I can eat whatever I fancy, even cakes, whipped cream, ice cream and chocolate. In the past this was unthinkable.
Healing of chronic pancreatitis
Mrs M. M. (61), Cologne (Germany)
From 1972 I suffered from chronic inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis) with acute attacks. My condition was pathetic. I often had unbearable stomach pain and after every meal I felt nauseous and had diarrhoea. I adhered to a strict diet and ate only food for babies and infants. I was totally devoid of strength and became very thin, weighing only 97 pounds. I had severe depressions. Before each meal I took Pankreon 700 tablets, which eased the nausea and diarrhoea.
In February 1992 I was introduced to the teachings of Bruno Gröning and since then my condition gradually began to improve. In March 1995 I stopped taking tablets. I am strong and can work and eat everything once again. All my complaints are gone.
Healing of chronic pancreatitis
Mrs E. L. (57), Bonn (Germany)
In 1985 a chronic infection of my pancreas was diagnosed. I was prescribed tablets (Nortase) and had to maintain a strict diet. Despite this I often suffered from a burning sensation in my throat, tiredness, weakness and severe attacks of wind. Finally I could only eat rice gruel, tomatoes and boiled potatoes.
Since my introduction to the teachings of Bruno Gröning I no longer have problems. Even when I ventured to stop my diet a few weeks later, my problems did not recur. I can eat everything and no longer require medication.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army, for the first time, is offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to highly skilled recruits who join for six years, The Associated Press has learned, as the service struggles to lure soldiers into certain critical jobs during the continuing pandemic.
Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, head of Army Recruiting Command, told AP that shuttered schools and the competitive job market over the past year have posed significant challenges for recruiters. So heading into the most difficult months of the year for recruiting, the Army is hoping that some extra cash and a few other changes will entice qualified young people to sign up.
"We are still living the implications of 2020 and the onset of COVID, when the school systems basically shut down," said Vereen. "We lost a full class of young men and women that we didn't have contact with, face-to-face."
Two years of the pandemic has made it more difficult to recruit in schools and at public events, and the competition for quality workers has intensified as young people weigh their options.
Some, said Vereen, are taking what he calls a gap year, and "are making the decision that they don't necessarily need to work right now."
The annual recruiting goal fluctuates as currently serving soldiers decide whether to reenlist or leave. In the last two years, as the pandemic raged, many decided to stay in, lessening the pressure on recruiting to help keep the Army at its full strength of 485,000. Last year's recruiting goal was 57,500, and Vereen said it will be about the same this year.
To entice recruits, those who sign up for a six-year enlistment in one of several high-demand career fields can get bonuses that total as much as $50,000. Given the high standards, it will be difficult for many to qualify for the top bonus.
The final figure depends on when they agree to ship out for training, if they already have critical skills and if they choose airborne or ranger posts. Certain careers — such as missile defense crew, special forces, signals intelligence and fire control specialists who coordinate battlefield weapons operations — can often come with the maximum bonuses. But other key jobs include infantry, intelligence analyst, combat medic specialist, military police, combat engineer and several others. And those may change every month, based on available spots in the training pipeline and other service needs.
Until now, the Army has offered a maximum bonus of $40,000.
"We're in a competitive market," said Vereen. "How we incentivize is absolutely essential, and that is absolutely something that we know that is important to trying to get somebody to come and join the military.'
Sgt. 1st Class Mary James has been working as a recruiter in Ohio since November 2020, and she said the early months — when COVID-19 was surging and there were no vaccines — were challenging. It's gotten better, and she said the higher bonuses will help her.
"Money isn't always the first thing that they talk about, but it does come into play," said James, who's been in the Army for 15 years. "It will be exciting to see what the return is on that. You know, I think it does put us in one of the top tier levels of competitive businesses."
James, who previously worked as a signals intelligence analyst, can also talk to recruits about deploying to war zones, and the exciting opportunities the military offers. And she said she hears a lot of questions and worries about stability, leaving home and a career that may have them moving from place to place every few years.
Vereen said the Army is doing more to address those types of concerns. Last fall the Army significantly increased the option to enlist for two years, expanding it to a total of 84 different career fields. And some will be able to choose where they will initially be assigned — a benefit Army leaders approved in an effort to be more family friendly and bolster the recruiting effort, particularly in the pandemic.
According to Vereen, the total amount of bonuses available hasn't been set. But the money has decreased every year since a peak of more than $485 million in 2018, after the Army failed to meet its annual recruiting goal. In the fiscal year that ended last Sept. 30, the Army spent more than $233 million on bonuses, with about 16,500 recruits getting an average enlistment bonus of more than $14,000.
"We want to promote the value of serving your country first," said Vereen. "But we also know that, this generation and I guess human nature, you know, it's all about compensation, too."
For James, the money may help her meet her recruiting goal as the Army heads into what it calls the "bathtub" months of February to May, when recruiting is historically at its low point. During the spring, the Army's more than 9,400 recruiters have to seek out and sign up people who have already graduated from high school and college. Recruiting traditionally spikes as students graduate in the spring and start looking for jobs.
James said her goal is to get 20 qualified candidates a week to take initial enlistment steps, and last week she made 75% of that. She had more success around the holidays, but it's more difficult now.
Compounding the issue is the highly contagious omicron variant, which is prompting some school systems to shut down — just as recruiters want to get into the schools or get out to sports events to woo candidates.
As a result, Brig. Gen. John Cushing, the deputy commander at Recruiting Command, said the Army decided to tweak its bonus systems. In previous years, said Cushing, the Army spread out the bonuses. "sort of evenly like peanut butter across the whole accessions (recruiting) year." This year, the money will be concentrated in the next few months when it is really needed.
"It is certainly a weapon that we have in our arsenal. And I think we've used it effectively and I'm very confident we'll get after it again this year," said Cushing.
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"There is power in praying together. Deuteronomy says of God's army that 'one man (could) chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight' (32:30). There is a multiplied effect in being together before God. It was the corporate prayer of Acts 1:14 that produced the corporate power of Acts 2:42-47. Corporate prayer brings corporate power (Acts 4:14-31)." Steve Meeks
God's heart is that we have agreement and unity in our prayers. The key to power in praying together is a single focus. Agreement in prayer brings breakthrough. We go to a powerful prayer meeting on Wednesdays. The reason it is so powerful is because we are focused on one thing – praying for America. The entire hour is spent in praying everything about our country. We don't suddenly launch out into something else but we all come with a determined mindset to pray for one thing – our nation. It's easy to be divided into a million areas when we pray. The needs are so great. But the most powerful prayer meetings are when everyone is in agreement about one thing at a time. We must learn to pray through a request until God moves us on to something else. We are one body with one voice seeking God together.
Agreement in prayer is not a new thing. It is Biblical! In Acts 1:14 we read "they all joined together constantly in prayer" and in 4:14 we read, "they raised their voices together in prayer". Together is a key that opens the door to the power of God. The King James Bible in Acts 2:1 says "with one accord". What were the results? – The filling of the Holy Spirit with boldness and Peter's miraculous release from prison.
To pray together is to dream the dreams of God together.
I don't know how you feel, but I want to dream the dreams of God together with other like-minded people. It is a huge encouragement when we don't have to carry a heavy burden alone. God has great plans and His Kingdom is coming to earth. I want to pray His dream with others regarding His Kingdom. I want to agree with others in alignment with His will. Praying in agreement is harmonizing together like a symphony.
When an orchestra is tuning up, everything can sound like a lot of noise – Every instrument is doing it's own thing – But when the conductor raises his baton, the instruments come together in harmony. That's how prayer should be when Jesus is the conductor of the meeting.
On Wednesdays I go to a prayer meeting from 6:30 – 7:30 AM with over 100 people praying together, mainly intercessors. It's great! And there is a beautiful harmony. Last week one person started a spontaneous song and two others continued the song with new verses and in perfect harmony. Every week a prayer theme is continued through the entire hour with one intercessor adding to the prayers of another. There's direction as everyone prays with one heart and mind under the direction of Jesus, the conductor. This brings encouragement, builds faith, and helps everyone to concentrate. We are all keenly aware of what the Holy Spirit is doing. The harmony keeps us all awake early in the morning! We are agreeing in prayer. We read in Matthew 18:19 in the Amplified Bible:
"Again I tell you, if two of you on earth agree (harmonize together, make a symphony together) about whatever (anything and everything) they may ask, it will come to pass and be done for them by My Father in heaven."
How to Agree in Prayer
"When you pray in agreement, there is no loophole, no alternate plan, and no changing your mind." Elmer Towns
Praying with one another in agreement helps us to bear one another's burdens. It's encourages faith and helps us avoid temptation. Here are some ways that will help you to pray in one accord:
- Pray with a clean heart – You must be in harmony. Make sure there is no unconfessed sin or unforgiveness. "If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened" (Psalm 66:18). See John 9:31.
- Pray with the Holy Spirit's direction – When you start praying, invite the Holy Spirit to come and direct you in prayer. Look to Him for His guidance, direction, and focus.
- Pray in agreement with honesty and love – "Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble" (1 Pet. 3:8).
- Pray God's will according to Scripture – "And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us" (1 John 5:14, Amplified). Also see James 4:3 and John 15:7.
- Pray one subject at a time – You may want to pray back and forth on one topic until you are finished. Remember to stay focused until you are finished with that topic before you move to something else.
- Pray brief, to-the-point prayers – Long prayers can cause the group to lose focus. You want everyone to participate.
- Pray with faith and confidence – Believe together that God hears and will answer your prayers. God can do anything. "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" (Genesis 18:14). "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer" (Matthew 21:22). See Hebrews 11:6.
- Pray with perseverance and urgency – Don't give up. "Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up" (Luke 18:1). Also see Matthew15:21-28.
Why is it so hard to start citywide prayer meetings and Houses of Prayer? The answer is simple. Satan knows the power of agreement in prayer. He knows that if the churches came together in united prayer, the city could be reached for Christ. So he fights it in every way he can. He loves disunity and this is one of his greatest tricks. He always wants to bring division, discord, and broken relationships.
But when there is unity in prayer, there is another outcome. Steve Meeks shares about how praying together in agreement affected his church and city. He says:
"Praying together has been like igniting a spiritual boiler room within our church. The temperature of our faith has risen. Answered prayers are an ongoing experience. We have seen the climate of our unity radically changed. We have entered a stream of God's activity along with a host of other churches and Christians and pastors' groups across our city. There is a feeling of oneness among the churches, and practical strategies are developing for the church in Houston to stand 'firm in one spirit, contending as one man fort the faith of the gospel' (Philippians 1:27)."
Sometimes one prayer from another perspective can change everything. Occasionally my husband and I go to a Turkey prayer meeting. In one hour we pray a multitude of prayers for that one nation. It's amazing the variety of prayers there can be prayed for one country. The prayers are direct, to-the-point, and are led by the Holy Spirit. On my own I could never pray from that many perspectives but together there is united wisdom and power.
Perhaps you have heard about the old farmer who drank his first bottle of soda pop while he was heading for the big city on a speeding train. After he took his first sip, the train roared into a dark tunnel. He cried out to his wife, "Don't drink that soda pop, Martie, it will make you blind as a bat!" The old man had evaluated the situation from his own perspective. He wasn't really blind. He was in a tunnel and didn't even know it. We can also have tunnel vision in our prayers. We need one another's wisdom and perspective.
There was an elderly Midwest couple that apologized to the TV repairman when he came to the door. With red faces they informed him that their TV had no problems at all. "We made a mistake," they told him. "We put on each other's eyeglasses." As Christians, we see the world through our own eyes. We think we see with 20/20 vision but that's not true. We need one another to see and pray from God's full perspective. We need one another to pray with the power of God. Snowflakes are very frail all alone, but if enough of them get together they can cause a traffic jam! (http://elbourne.org/sermons)
The Holy Spirit is inviting us to enter into His heart for breakthrough unity. We are living in exciting days. Agreement brings breakthrough. It's Scriptural and God promises to be present. We read in Matthew 18:20, "For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." God answers united prayer. As we saw in Matthew 18:19, the Bible says that if two of us agree on earth, it will be done for us by our Father in heaven. That's a powerful verse. Agreement is the untapped power of believers. Perhaps this is the day we should take hold of God's untapped formula for breakthrough in prayer! Let's learn the secret of agreement!
"Agreement is perhaps the untapped power of believers! What would be the results of real agreement among believers? If we will be led into perfect unity with Jesus Christ, having His mind in us so that we think as He would and ask according to his Word (John 15:7), and maintain unobstructed relationships between ourselves, having no resentments or unforgiveness toward others, we would open a channel through which God's power could flow unobstructed." Thetus Tenney
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Grenfell Hooked Mats
Gallery of Mats
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Gallery Two - "Capelin"
Gallery Three - "Three Puffins"
Gallery Four - "Nursery Mat"
The quiet months of February and March were known as the "matting season" along the rugged coast of northern Newfoundland and Labrador. It was a time of respite from the fishing season. Decades old by the time the Grenfell Mission began, the roots of mat hooking lay with the founding English and Scottish settlers. The women all hooked, most from their earliest childhood.
In 1892, when Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell arrived from England, he met courageous, hardworking people who were fighting terrible odds against chronic disease, hunger, poverty and exploitation. From his determination to alleviate their distress, Grenfell's medical mission began. His conviction that outright gifts of money, food and clothing would offer no long term help led to the development of a cottage industry known as "the Industrial," which produced distinctive handicrafts including hooked mats. The mat industry rose to peak production in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It began to decline as the effects of the Great Depression reached the region and fell off dramatically after World War II.
In 1905, Grenfell met Jessie Luther, an American woman who had set up a sanitarium with crafts as part of the treatment. Excited by her methods Grenfell encouraged her to come north. In 1906, Luther journeyed to the tiny settlement of St. Anthony on the northeastern most tip of Newfoundland to establish a weaving project by which the local women could augment their families' meagre and unreliable income from fishing.
Most probably felt no need for lessons in a craft they had already mastered. They were hooking some interesting mats of their own design - blocks or triangles arranged like a patchwork quilt, as well as floral motifs. They would offer to sell these mats to Dr. Grenfell or Miss Luther in return for medical services. Luther designed some mats herself using local motifs: deer, seals, walrus, komatiks, jellyfish, ducks, bears and rabbits treated as borders around a plain centre.
The earliest mat hookers working for the Industrial used new wool material and outing flannel, which was purchased or donated from benefactors. Fabrics were dyed in an enamelled pan over a little Florence oil stove. They tried madder and indigo vegetable dyes and experimented with spruce twigs mordanted with alum, producing a lovely fawn colour. They tested copperas (iron sulfate) with lime, resulting in an iron-rust tone. And they used dye made from Paten bark powder, used locally for the sails of the fishing boats to prevent mildew, yielding a soft, pinkish brown shade. To make the mats, workers were given a kit consisting of a design drawn on burlap (called "brin" locally) and 12 to 18 yards of hooking materials torn into 1/4" x 10" long strips. A visual aid, usually a small coloured drawing, or scraps of hooking material pinned to the appropriate area of the mat were included with the kit to indicate the correct colour scheme. The standard size mat measured 64 by 104 cm.
Kits were distributed to the mat hookers from the Industrial in St. Anthony or Harrington Harbour or by an Industrial worker travelling along the coast by boat or dog team. Luther, herself, travelled thousands of miles along the rocky Labrador coast by dog team and ship, giving out bundles of raw materials and picking up the finished work.
Grenfell's marriage in 1909 to the American socialite Anne McClanahan, whom he had met on shipboard as he travelled to Europe, and the friction that arose from her increasing role in the Industrial lead to Jessie Luther's resignation in 1914.
To the mat hooking industry, the mission brought standardization, colour harmony and incentive. Sixteen mission picture mats, many designed by Grenfell himself, were in production by 1916. Distinctly northern images - dog teams, snowy owls and polar bears - were now in the centre of the mat.
The first call for silk stockings occurs in 1928 in "Among the Deep Sea Fishers", the quarterly publication of the Grenfell Mission. The use of silk stockings, dyed to beautiful soft hues, helped to propel the mat industry into its peak production years. By the winter of 1929, 3,000 mats had been hooked and revenues from sales had risen from $27,000 in 1926 to $63,000 in 1929. New designs were in production. Geometric and floral patterned "scrap mats", often of the mat hooker's own design, were popular and provided an interesting contrast to the picture mats.
In the late 1920s, the Industrial work progressed with an assembly line efficiency. Many workers travelled by dog team or on foot, a journey which often took days to make. On a card, mission staff noted whether the family was in need, the kind and grade of her work, and the amount of work she had been given. The finished mats were then weighed (to assure that the materials that went out were returned), graded and paid for.
Mat hooking was overlooked as a cottage industry at first. Unlike weaving, hooking required only simple frames. Each home already had a mat frame made from four pieces of wood lashed together. The hook was simply a filed-off bent nail pounded into a stump of wood whittled to fit the woman's hand. The first mention of a matting industry occurs in Jessie Luther's journal on January 29, 1908: "This afternoon was the beginning of the matting club. Several women came but evidently with the idea of looking around before committing themselves."
During the 1930s, enthusiastic mission volunteers toured the resort areas of New England and New York, holding sales. Retail shops were opened in New York City and in Philadelphia. The establishment of the Dog Team Tavern in Ferrisburg, Vermont, in 1931 provided additional distribution for the products.
A decline in sales due to lack of mission funds, a surplus of mats, and a dearth of new markets brought trouble to the Industrial's efforts just when the people needed the work the most. The fish catch had failed and nearly 20,000 people were on government relief at six cents per day. In 1932, M. A. Pressley-Smith, a Scotswoman who had come to the mission in the mid-1920s, wrote:
It is simply heartbreaking to have everyone on the Coast clamouring for two or three mats. We are making up the last bags to be given out this Tuesday. Then we are through.Supplies of materials were depleted and the mission publication pleaded for donations of clothing, silk stockings and bolts of "cheap-grade" flannelette. "We can not fail them now," Pressley-Smith concluded in her appeal. Although the mat hooking craft did not die, the Depression had reached the North and the Industrial never recovered fully. After Grenfell died in 1940, the spirit behind the Industrial faded. World War II closed markets, created transportation and supply problems, and caused costs to rise. With only nylon stockings available after the war the program changed.
Mat hooking has had wide-ranging benefits for the women of Labrador and northern Newfoundland. In the early days of the mission their mat hooking income would only provide the bare necessities: clothing and medicines. But as the industry and their income grew, the goods they were able to purchase with "mat money" inspired a new pride. Women could earn their own livelihood and were no longer forced to marry young. The men looked at the women with new respect and proudly spoke of their own contributions to the art, sometimes offering technical advice on a mat design. They willingly hauled their wives by dogsled or rowed them to St. Anthony on Mat Day. Lady Grenfell (Dr. Grenfell was knighted in 1927) was particularly active in finding scholarships to enable promising students to go to the U.S. to Berea College, Pratt Institute, and other art schools. These students returned home to teach and enrich the lives of others.
In interviews conducted in 1992 to 2000, the older women recalled their mat hooking days. "There's nothin' in the world I likes better'en hookin' a mat." "I liked the geese, and the shadin' of the sky was all like rainbow colours." These comments were echoed frequently by the women whose mothers had hooked for the Industrial and who had hooked themselves in the late 1930s and 1940s.
With progress came a change in attitudes. Believing that only poor women hook, mothers have not encouraged their daughters to continue the tradition, with the result that mat hooking is now carried on by only a handful of women. The industry continues today under the independently owned Grenfell Handicrafts label in St. Anthony. The mats are original, copyrighted Grenfell patterns, hooked with the same precision in wool, but the colours lack the subtleties so cherished in the old mats.
But the original flawlessly-hooked mats are now considered an art form and are eagerly sought-after. They are distinctive in their almost universal use of straight horizontal line hooking and their use of every hole in the brin, which results in as many as 200 stitches per square inch. They have survived the test of time as folk art. Those who admire the handiwork of these unnamed women know that into each mat there went a genuine pride of workmanship and a spirit of individuality and commitment.
© 2002, Paula Laverty
This piece was originally written for the
Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
web site and is reprinted here with their kind permission.
Paula Laverty was the guest curator of "Matting Season: Hooked Mats of the Grenfell Mission" an exhibition at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto which ran through May 13, 2000. This exhibition toured Canada for two years. She was also guest curator for "Northern Scenes: Hooked Art of the Grenfell Mission at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City in 1994 and of "Silk Stocking Mats" at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont in 1996. She lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with her family.


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In the course of the visit, particular attention was paid to the treatment of persons detained by the police and the conditions of detention in police arrest houses. The treatment and regime of prisoners, including life-sentenced prisoners, were also examined. In addition, a targeted visit was carried out to Vilnius Republican Psychiatric Hospital focusing on the application of means of restraint.
The vast majority of detained persons interviewed by the CPT's delegation in the course of the visit indicated that they had been treated correctly whilst in police custody. However, the delegation did receive a few allegations, including from juveniles, of excessive use of force (such as kicks and punches) by the police at the time of apprehension, after the person concerned had been brought under control. The Committee encourages the Lithuanian authorities to pursue their efforts to ensure that police officers use no more force than is strictly necessary when effecting an apprehension. Further, recommendations are made aimed at strengthening the fundamental safeguards against police ill-treatment.
As regards conditions of detention in the police arrest houses visited, the report highlights various shortcomings (e.g. limited access to natural light; non-partitioned in-cell toilets; filthy mattresses and blankets; etc.). In their response, the Lithuanian authorities refer to the ongoing and planned refurbishment of several police detention facilities as well as to plans to construct new facilities.
In relation to the prisons visited, the CPT's delegation received a number of consistent allegations of deliberate physical ill-treatment and of excessive use of force (consisting mostly of punches, kicks and truncheon blows) by certain prison officers at Alytus Prison. In some cases, the delegation gathered medical evidence which were consistent with allegations made. Some allegations of inappropriate use of truncheons were also received at Šiauliai Prison. As regards investigations into complaints of ill-treatment by prison staff, the CPT expresses serious misgivings about their effectiveness. Further, the Committee notes with great concern that there was a high level of inter-prisoner violence at Alytus Prison, partly attributable to the fact that only a small number of prison officers was present in prisoner accommodation areas during the day and even fewer at night or at weekends.
The report highlights a number of other issues of concern, such as poor material conditions of detention and serious levels of overcrowding in most of the establishments visited, an impoverished regime for remand prisoners, and insufficient health-care staff resources at Alytus and Lukiškės Prisons. Particular attention is paid to the situation of persons sentenced to life imprisonment. The CPT stresses once again that there can be no justification for the systematic segregation of life-sentenced prisoners from other prisoners and urges the authorities to institute a process for integrating this category of prisoner into the general prison population.
In their response, the Lithuanian authorities refer to training programmes offered to prison officers on the use of physical force and special means. Further, information is provided on the steps being taken to combat prison overcrowding, including by placing emphasis on non-custodial measures for remand prisoners (such as electronic surveillance) and developing alternatives to imprisonment. Reference is also made to measures taken or envisaged to improve material conditions in the prisons visited as well as to plans to construct new prison establishments in Vilnius and Šiauliai.
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Zayn Malik ha lasciato i One Direction. L'annuncio ufficiale è stato pubblicato il 25 Marzo 2015 alle ore 17.30 sul Facebook ufficiale della band: www.facebook.com/onedirectionmusic.
After five incredible years Zayn Malik has decided to leave One Direction. Niall, Harry, Liam and Louis will continue as a four-piece and look forward to the forthcoming concerts of their world tour and recording their fifth album, due to be released later this year.
Zayn says: "My life with One Direction has been more than I could ever have imagined. But, after five years, I feel like it is now the right time for me to leave the band. I'd like to apologise to the fans if I've let anyone down, but I have to do what feels right in my heart. I am leaving because I want to be a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight. I know I have four friends for life in Louis, Liam, Harry and Niall. I know they will continue to be the best band in the world."
One Direction say: "We're really sad to see Zayn go, but we totally respect his decision and send him all our love for the future. The past five years have been beyond amazing, we've gone through so much together, so we will always be friends. The four of us will now continue. We're looking forward to recording the new album and seeing all the fans on the next stage of the world tour."
Simon Cowell says: "I would like to say thank you to Zayn for everything he has done for One Direction. Since I first met Zayn in 2010, I have grown very, very fond – and immensely proud – of him. I have seen him grow in confidence and I am truly sorry to see him leave. As for One Direction, fans can rest assured that Niall, Liam, Harry and Louis are hugely excited about the future of the band."


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Nature's Revenge: The Environments Of The Last Of Us
Photo courtesy of Marchand and Meffre
Gaming is no stranger to post-apocalyptic worlds, but Naughty Dog wants to deliver something you've never seen before with The Last of Us. The game takes place in a world where a deadly fungal disease and widespread strife has wiped out most of humanity. As the years tick away, nature begins to reclaim the buildings, roads, and other man-made structures our race has erected to keep it at bay. Straying from the dull grays and browns of many games that follow a catastrophic event, Naughty Dog looks to real life ruin photography to capture the haunting beauty of a world reclaimed by the elements.
Naughty Dog has cited numerous pieces of literary and film inspiration for The Last of Us, but the most relevant to shaping the game's physical world is arguably The World Without Us. Both the non-fiction book and documentary paint a picture of a future world where tree limbs burst through office buildings, vines ensnare the pavement, and huge structures crumble without human maintenance. While the imagery described in The World Without Us may seem fantastical, you don't have to look further than the American Rust Belt for a glimpse into modern decay.
A style of photography focused on capturing this degradation has cropped up over the last few years. Naughty Dog has studied these impactful images of present day ruins to inspire the world of The Last Of Us. While the developer has not named any specific muse, I've found striking parallels between the decayed scenery of The Last of Us and The Ruins of Detroit, by photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.
Packard Motors Plant
Fort Shelby Hotel
Fisher Body 21 Plant
Ballroom, American Hotel
Donovan Building
Classroom, St Margaret Mary School
Naughty Dog isn't content with simply popping main characters Joel and Ellie and some bad guys into these interesting environments. The developer is paying careful attention to the composition of every location to elicit different emotions from the player. For example, the lush greenery and open air of an overgrown highway may evoke a sense of calm. Conversely, the underpass of the same road may have support beams crossing at rigid angles and prominently feature the color red to instill fear and claustrophobia.
During The Last of Us demo we saw when visiting Naughty Dog, we were shown an attack made on Joel and Ellie by a band of desperate hunters. The color script below distills the locations featured in this assault down to their basic colors and geometry.
Color script from The Last of Us
Now that you've seen how much careful planning Naughty Dog is putting into the locations in The Last of Us, it's your turn. Try applying what you learned from the concept art to the photos of real life ruins. Would the mellow colors and rectangular shapes of Fort Shelby Hotel make a player feel comfortable or tense? Is there an opportunity for an ambush among the green trees and open road in Packard Motors Plant? Take a moment to apply the lens of Naughty Dog's game design to these photographs and perhaps you'll notice something different. It only takes a little bit of imagination to see just how much potential Naughty Dog has to deliver an end of days world unseen in games.
Be sure to check back and visit the hub all month long for more on The Last of Us.
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On Sunday October 21, a fun-filled and life-affirming event took place just mere hours after and eight miles from the horrific shooting at Azana Salon and Spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin. At The Brookfield Soccer Complex, in the same Milwaukee suburb, a veritable mob was gathering to eagerly have their heads shaved to fight cancer.
Be Brave and Shave for a Cure was a fund-raising event for cancer research and a successful attempt to break the Guinness "most heads shaved in one hour" world record. The previous record of 318 heads was set in Ireland in February 2011, but on October 21, that number fell when 371 heads were shaved to set a new record for the Guinness book.
At the helm of Be Brave and Shave were Naomi Prusinski and Shannon Lopez, co-owners of Roots Salon, with three locations in the Milwaukee area, and Andis Company who donated all the professional tools. A team of 10 stylists from Roots were ready for the brave souls who took a seat to shave their heads in support of CureSearch for Children's Cancer. Breaking the world record was incidental to helping cancer patients like two-year old Haven Anderson who inspired the event and whose mother Erin Anderson is a life-long friend of both Naomi and Shannon. Milwaukee radio personality Wes McCain emceed the event and gave directions to the crowd that jammed the indoor soccer fields eager to make a difference for Haven and all cancer patients and their families.
"You are all very brave," said Erin Anderson. "Your hair is a part of you and I can't thank you enough for giving a part of yourself for Haven."
None of this could have happened without clippers, and the Guinness Book of World Records is specific about the professional tools that must be used in an official world record attempt. Andis donated all the necessities—Envy Professional Clippers, Experience Cordless Clippers and SuperLiner Trimmers as well as combs, clipper oil and capes.
"We are so grateful to Andis," said Shannon. "And, it is wonderful that they are a local company, based in nearby Racine."
Many of the participants were men and boys, but there were also plenty of women who took the buzz, inspired by Haven, by personal friends or family members, or just by a desire to wipe out this devastating illness.
A grassroots effort of social media, a special web site and word of mouth by Roots Salon and a media alert from Andis encouraged generous donations and a contagious community spirit in a community that was reeling from earlier events. Each shaved head was documented by authorized witnesses and each participant's name will be noted. Visit worldrecordshave.com, myrootssalon.com and andis.com.
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As your Shoreline dentist, Dr. Co is committed to the health and well-being of the mouths in our community! As you already know, regular cleanings and checkups are vitally important to maintain healthy teeth and gums. However, in addition to fighting plaque, regular checkups can also help you and your family fight oral cancer.
April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month
There are an estimated 35,000 cases of oral cancers diagnosed in the United States every year – this year there's roughly 48,000 cases. On average, 83 percent of those with the disease will survive more than five years.
Causes & Risks of Oral Cancer
- Tobacco use: Smokers are six times more likely than non-smokers to develop oral cancer. Smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco) increases the risk of these cancers by about 50 times.
- Alcohol use: The combination of tobacco and alcohol can greatly increase risk.
- Poor nutrition.
- HPV (Human Papillomavirus).
Symptoms of Oral Cancer
Common symptoms of oral cancer:
- A sore in the mouth that lasts for more than two weeks.
- Persistent pain, numbness, bleeding, or swelling in the mouth.
- Lump or thickening in the cheek, gums, lips, or elsewhere in the mouth.
- White or red patch on the gums, tongue, tonsil, or elsewhere in the mouth.
- Persistent sore throat.
- Swelling and/or difficulty moving the jaw.
- Loose teeth.
While many of these symptoms may not be related to oral cancer, if you're at higher risk and you experience any of these issues for more than two weeks, discuss them with Dr. Co right away.
Shoreline Oral Cancer Screening
An estimated 25% of oral cancer patients have no known risk factors for the disease. Additionally, some patients may have no symptoms. This is why oral cancer screening is so vital. Early detection can result in easier treatment and greater chance for a cure.
During your scheduled hygiene appointment, we will complete a six-step oral cancer screening:
Step 1: Tongue. We will ask you to extend your tongue as far as it can go so we can examine the sides and underside for white and red patches and/or lumps.
Step 2: Lips and Cheek. We will feel for lumps or bumps, looking for white or red areas that should not be there.
Step 3: Double-Digit Probe. Using two fingers, we examine the floor of your mouth, feeling for lumps, and looking for white and red patches.
Step 4: Palate. We check the roof of your mouth for lumps, areas of softness on the hard palate, and white and red patches.
Step 5: Neck. We feel your neck for enlarged lymph nodes, which could indicate infection.
Step 6: Tonsils. Using a dental mirror, we thoroughly examine your tonsils for enlargement, redness, and/or bumps.
How to Prevent Oral Cancer
If you smoke or use chewing tobacco, the best way to prevent this deadly cancer is to quit. For assistance quitting, visit http://smokefree.gov.
Performing a self-examination regularly increases the chance of identifying changes or new growths
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Well, Google Closure Tools has been a negative surprise, at least this is what I can tell about it after a first quick review.
Closure Compiler
It's since ages I am wondering what kind of tool Big G is using to produce their scripts and finally we got the answer: Closure Compiler ... ooooh yeah!
Packer, YUIC, it does not matter, when Google needs something, it creates something. This is almost intrinsic, as developers, in our DNA: we spot some interesting concept? We rewrite it from the scratch pretending we are doing it better!
This is not the case, or better, something could go terribly wrong!
// ==ClosureCompiler==
// @compilation_level ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS
// @output_file_name default.js
// ==/ClosureCompiler==
"use strict";
this.myLib = this.myLib || {};
myLib.test = 123;
The produced output:
And 2 warnings:
JSC_USELESS_CODE: Suspicious code. Is there a missing '+' on the previous line? at line 2 character 4
"use strict";
JSC_USED_GLOBAL_THIS: dangerous use of the global this object at line 3 character 4
this.myLib = this.myLib || {};
Excuse Me?
The sophisticated compiler is able to understand the "use strict" ES5 activation statement and the fact we are passing the global object as this reference in the closure. It does not matter, as showed in the produced code the result will be a broken library, thanks to its missed name, magically transformed into "a".
Advanced Optimization Could Fail to both give us right suggestions and fix or optimize the code, since in that case, as example, this.a won't perform anyhow faster than original this.myLib.
Advanced Optimization parameter could also be dangerous for lazy loaded libraries.
We need to be extremely careful with this option and, as result, rather than a Compiler, we will deal with a "code messer" where hard debug will become automatically the hardest ever.
Read Carefully This Page if you are planning to use this option because under the flag "best ratio" and "removed dead code" we could have massive surprises in the middle of the application.
As summary, SIMPLE_OPTIMIZATIONS as compilation_level directive is so far the recommended one, but at the same time it won't offer that different ratio compared against YUI Compressor or Dean's Packer (NO base62) produced outputs while ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS could be tested for single stand alone files hoping these won't break the global namespace via renamed variables.
In this case a JavaScript closure, the real one, is an absolute must!
Closure Library
This is another part, not strictly related with the Compiler, but apparently able to work with it. The Closure Library is a wide namespace loads of core features and a cross browser User Interface. I have to admit this library is a massive piece of work, but techniques used to make it happen are often hilarious.
First of all, this is the first time I read protected variables called with an underscore at the end, rather than as first char:
// normal code
function Constructor(){
this._protected = [];
// Closure Library Creativity
function Constructor(){
this.protected_ = [];
Why On Earth? Python style a part, where the underscore has a concrete meaning, the technique to use underscore as first character has a reason to exists.
function copyOnlyPublic(o){
var $o = {}, k;
for(k in o){
if(k.charAt() !== "_")
$o[k] = o[k]
return $o;
var myC = new Constructor;
var $myC = copyOnlyPublic(myC);
No Way! To make the style "creative" the charAt method with optional 0 as argument needs to become:
if(k.charAt(k.length - 1) !== "_")
Is this what we would expect from the performances king? I don't think so.
Is this faster to read at least for human eyes? Neither!
Gotchas are everywhere in the library ... the most redundant stuff I've ever seen is the array namespace!
goog.array.indexOf = function(arr, obj, opt_fromIndex) {
if (arr.indexOf) {
return arr.indexOf(obj, opt_fromIndex);
if (Array.indexOf) {
return Array.indexOf(arr, obj, opt_fromIndex);
var fromIndex = opt_fromIndex == null ?
0 : (opt_fromIndex < 0 ?
Math.max(0, arr.length + opt_fromIndex) : opt_fromIndex);
for (var i = fromIndex; i < arr.length; i++) {
if (i in arr && arr[i] === obj)
return i;
return -1;
OMG, I can't believe performances matter only for a missed body tag in the layout ... it cannot be real, can it?
What we have there? 1 to 2 possibly missed checks for each call (IE) and everything just to emulate the native Array.indexOf which is present in basically every browser except truly old or Internet Explorer?
goog.array.indexOf = Array.indexOf || function(arr, obj, opt_fromIndex) {
var fromIndex = opt_fromIndex == null ?
0 : (opt_fromIndex < 0 ?
Math.max(0, arr.length + opt_fromIndex) : opt_fromIndex);
for (var i = fromIndex; i < arr.length; i++) {
if (i in arr && arr[i] === obj)
return i;
return -1;
Array.indexOf is used as fallback if for some unknown reason (and browser...) an Array has not indexOf but Array.indexOf is present ... well, if we can trust that case is there any valid reason to create a performance gap like that for almost every method?
forEach, lastIndexOf, every JavaScript 1.6 or greater emulated method contains redundant checks performed for each call ... where is the performance maniac here?
The feeling is that this library has been created by some Java guy, probably extremely skilled with Java, but definitively not that clever with JavaScript programming style. Google if you need skilled JS developers there are hundreds of us out there. What I mean is that it does not matter if a minifier is able to remove dead code because dead code should not be there at all, isn't it?
// WebReflection Suggestion
goog.array.clone = (function(slice){
slice = function(){
var rv = [];
if(this instanceof Object)
// suitable for arguments
// and every other ArrayLike instance
return rv.slice.call(this)
for (var i = 0, len = this.length; i < len; ++i)
rv[i] = this[i]
return rv;
return function(arr){
return slice.call(arr);
Above suggested snippet is based on Features Detection, a technique apparently completely discarded in those files I've read in this library.
Features Detection Cons
- performed runtime, few milliseconds before the library or function is ready to use
Features Detection Pros
- performed once, and never again for the entire session
- best performances, browser independent and browser focused at the same time
- being usually based over most recent standards, features detections could cost a bit more only for deprecated, obsolete, or truly old browsers
If the problem is the wasted millisecond to perform a feature detection, we can always fallback into lazy feature detection.I agree that web performances are more about download time and round trip, but if Google has V8 as engine monster, do we agree that better JavaScript practices could make even V8 faster?
Lack Of Creativity
Even if this library uses some weird practice, most logical and common techniques to speed up execution and reduce code are often not considered. As example, this is just one method we can find in the crypt file:
goog.crypt.byteArrayToString = function(array) {
var output = [];
for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
output[i] = String.fromCharCode(array[i]);
return output.join('');
Oh Really? So now a JavaScript developer should create a function which accept an array in order to create another array to populate over a loop and a global method call to perform a join at the end? That's weird, I thought that method could have been written in this way:
// WebReflection Suggestion
goog.crypt.byteArrayToString = function(array) {
return String.fromCharCode.apply(null, array);
... but maybe it's just me that noob that I cannot spot the difference except better performances over less code ... please enlighten me!
Closure Library, The Good Part
Is massive, for basically each file there is a test case so it is robust. For sure as we have seen before, this is not the fastest general purpose library we could find in the net, something I was expecting from Big G, but hey ... we cannot blame the excellent work done so far, can we?Closure Templates
Well, here I am almost without a word ... I mean, the number 1 search engine able to create monster pages via JavaScript templates? I do hope those files will be performed everywhere but a web page and runtime, 'cause with incoming HTML5 I feel horrified thinking about a new web loads of document.write and nothing else. Where is the semantic? Where is the logic applied before and not during execution? Where are best practices? Looking at examples even V8CGI project is not able to perform that code ... what is that, exactly? And WHY???The only thing I do like there is the definition file, something simple, clever, easy to parse, exactly the opposite of its implementation via JavaScript: please avoid it!
Closure Conclusion
No this is not another piece of the puzzle, just the end of this post. I've been probably too aggressive and it's only thanks to Google decision that I can write a post like this: Open Source is the key, or your libraries, operating systems, whatever, will be always behind 'cause developers able to help you are not only in your team.I was expecting excellent ideas, new killer techniques unknown for everybody else, what I have found is "yet another toolkit". I am always up to contribute so if interested put my name in the committers list, I have already lot of stuff to optimize because a Compiler, whatever it does, cannot create a better code, it can simply try to make a bit better and shorter the existent one: never delegate skills to a machine until these will be able to take decisions for us!


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LATEST NEWS Record-breaking Nissan GT-R steals the spotlight at Saudi International Motor Show 2017
December 28, 2017
Jeddah, KSA: December 28, 2017 – During the annual Saudi International Motor Show (SIMS) 2017, the Guinness World Records title holder for the fastest ever drift Nissan GT-R was on display for event attendees to get a closer look. The record was broken with a speed of 304.96 km/hr and 30 degrees angle using a specially-tuned MY16 Nissan GT-R.
The record-breaking Nissan GT-R was developed with the support and coordination of Nismo specialists and was tuned to 1380 HP in order to set the record, and adapted, so all the power went to the rear wheels. The GT-R was prepared by GReddy Trust and tested extensively at Japan's Fuji Speedway facility with Kawabata at the wheel. The car was set up for agility while maintaining stability and confidence-inspiring handling characteristics – essential when performing such challenging feats.
"We were excited to showcase such an iconic Nissan GT-R during SIMS 2017 as it demonstrates the breadth of the supercar's capabilities" said Bader Al Houssami, Chief Operating Officer of Nissan Saudi Arabia. "There is a huge interest in motorsport in Saudi Arabia and the GT-R is a car which is loved by many, as it clearly demonstrates its performance leadership by beating the best drift cars in the market."


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Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge
This is where we are at in 2017: sophisticated algorithms are both predicting and helping to solve crimes committed by humans; predicting the outcome of court cases and human rights trials; and helping to do the work done by lawyers in those cases. By 2040, there is even a suggestion that sophisticated robots will be committing a good chunk of all the crime in the world. Just ask the toddler who was run over by a security robot at a California mall last year.
How do we make sense of all this? Should we be terrified? Generally unproductive. Should we shrug our shoulders as a society and get back to Netflix? Tempting, but no. Should we start making plans for how we deal with all of this? Absolutely.
Fear of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a big theme. Technology can be a downright scary thing; particularly when its new, powerful, and comes with lots of question marks. But films like Terminator and shows like Westworld are more than just entertainment, they are a glimpse into the world we might inherit, or at least into how we are conceiving potential futures for ourselves.
Among the many things that must now be considered is what role and function the law will play. Expert opinions differ wildly on the likelihood and imminence of a future where sufficiently advanced robots walk among us, but we must confront the fact that autonomous technology with the capacity to cause harm is already around. Whether it's a military drone with a full payload, a law enforcement robot exploding to kill a dangerous suspect or something altogether more innocent that causes harm through accident, error, oversight, or good ol' fashioned stupidity.
There's a cynical saying in law that "wheres there's blame, there's a claim". But who do we blame when a robot does wrong? This proposition can easily be dismissed as something too abstract to worry about. But let's not forget that a robot was arrested (and released without charge) for buying drugs; and Tesla Motors was absolved of responsibility by the American National Highway Traffic Safety Administration when a driver was killed in a crash after his Tesla was in autopilot.
While problems like this are certainly peculiar, history has a lot to teach us. For instance, little thought was given to who owned the sky before the Wright Brothers took the Kitty Hawk for a joyride. Time and time again, the law is presented with these novel challenges. And despite initial overreaction, it got there in the end. Simply put: law evolves.
Robot guilt
The role of the law can be defined in many ways, but ultimately it is a system within society for stabilising people's expectations. If you get mugged, you expect the mugger to be charged with a crime and punished accordingly.
But the law also has expectations of us; we must comply with it to the fullest extent our consciences allow. As humans we can generally do that. We have the capacity to decide whether to speed or obey the speed limit – and so humans are considered by the law to be "legal persons".
To varying extents, companies are endowed with legal personhood, too. It grants them certain economic and legal rights, but more importantly it also confers responsibilities on them. So, if Company X builds an autonomous machine, then that company has a corresponding legal duty.
The problem arises when the machines themselves can make decisions of their own accord. As impressive as intelligent assistants, Alexa, Siri or Cortana are, they fall far short of the threshold for legal personhood. But what happens when their more advanced descendants begin causing real harm?
A guilty AI mind?
The criminal law has two critical concepts. First, it contains the idea that liability for harm arises whenever harm has been or is likely to be caused by a certain act or omission.
Second, criminal law requires that an accused is culpable for their actions. This is known as a "guilty mind" or "mens rea". The idea behind mens rea is to ensure that the accused both completed the action of assaulting someone and had the intention of harming them, or knew harm was a likely consequence of their action.
So if an advanced autonomous machine commits a crime of its own accord, how should it be treated by the law? How would a lawyer go about demonstrating the "guilty mind" of a non-human? Can this be done be referring to and adapting existing legal principles?
Take driverless cars. Cars drive on roads and there are regulatory frameworks in place to assure that there is a human behind the wheel (at least to some extent). However, once fully autonomous cars arrive there will need to be extensive adjustments to laws and regulations that account for the new types of interactions that will happen between human and machine on the road.
As AI technology evolves, it will eventually reach a state of sophistication that will allow it to bypass human control. As the bypassing of human control becomes more widespread, then the questions about harm, risk, fault and punishment will become more important. Film, television and literature may dwell on the most extreme examples of "robots gone awry" but the legal realities should not be left to Hollywood.
So can robots commit crime? In short: yes. If a robot kills someone, then it has committed a crime (actus reus), but technically only half a crime, as it would be far harder to determine mens rea. How do we know the robot intended to do what it did?
For now, we are nowhere near the level of building a fully sentient or "conscious" humanoid robot that looks, acts, talks, and thinks like us humans. But even a few short hops in AI research could produce an autonomous machine that could unleash all manner of legal mischief. Financial and discriminatory algorithmic mischief already abounds.
Play along with me; just imagine that a Terminator-calibre AI exists, and that it commits a crime (let's say murder) then the task is not determining whether it in fact murdered someone; but the extent to which that act satisfies the principle of mens rea.
But what would we need to prove the existence of mens rea? Could we simply cross-examine the AI like we do a human defendant? Maybe, but we would need to go a bit deeper than that and examine the code that made the machine "tick".
And what would "intent" look like in a machine mind? How would we go about proving an autonomous machine was justified in killing a human in self-defense or the extent of premeditation?
Let's go even further. After all, we're not only talking about violent crimes. Imagine a system that could randomly purchase things on the internet using your credit card – and it decided to buy contraband. This isn't fiction; it has happened. Two London-based artists created a bot that purchased random items off the dark web. And what did it buy? Fake jeans, a baseball cap with a spy camera, a stash can, some Nikes, 200 cigarettes, a set of fire-brigade master keys, a counterfeit Louis Vuitton bag and ten ecstasy pills. Should these artists be liable for what the bot they created bought?
Maybe. But what if the bot "decided" to make the purchases itself?
Even if you solve these legal issues, you are still left with the question of punishment. What's a 30-year jail stretch to an autonomous machine that does not age, grow infirm or miss its loved ones? Unless, of course, it was programmed to "reflect" on its wrongdoing and find a way to rewrite its own code while safely ensconced at Her Majesty's leisure. And what would building "remorse" into machines say about us as their builders?
What we are really talking about when we talk about whether or not robots can commit crimes is "emergence" – where a system does something novel and perhaps good but also unforeseeable, which is why it presents such a problem for law.
AI has already helped with emergent concepts in medicine, and we are learning things about the universe with AI systems that even an army of Stephen Hawkings might not reveal.
The hope for AI is that in trying to capture this safe and beneficial emergent behaviour, we can find a parallel solution for ensuring it does not manifest itself in illegal, unethical, or downright dangerous ways.
At present, however, we are systematically incapable of guaranteeing human rights on a global scale, so I can't help but wonder how ready we are for the prospect of robot crime given that we already struggle mightily to contain that done by humans.
Christopher Markou, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.


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But the big story coming out of Spanish ballot boxes is the success of Podemos (We Can), a new left-wing, anti-austerity movement that came from nowhere to become Spain's fourth largest party and win five seats in the new European Parliament.
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New York Finlay Enterprises Inc., which operates Bailey Banks & Biddle and other jewelry stores, said Thursday 94 of its 316 locations in Macy's Inc. will close as the department store operator consolidates.
Macy's on Wednesday said it will consolidate regional headquarters and that its Minneapolis, St. Louis and Seattle headquarters will be consolidated into offices in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco, respectively.
Licensing agreements at 57 locations in Macy's North stores and 37 agreements at Macy's Northwest stores will not be renewed, Finlay said. The agreements will expire on Jan. 31, 2009.
In fiscal 2007, the locations at Macy's North and Northwest had revenue of about $120 million, out of $338 million total revenue from all of Finlay's Macy's locations.
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Broß believes that the EPO Boards of Appeal are not independent from the EPO President and the EPO administration. He considers the recent reforms as being mere "cosmetics".
A further point was the unjust imbalance regarding legal measures against validity decisions. While a European Patent is retroactively invalid with a final invalidation decision of the EPO's Boards of Appeal, the opponent can – if the EP is upheld by the EPO's Board of Appeal – continue to attack the then national parts of the upheld European patent in national invalidity proceedings.
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Christina was a nurturing soul who loved to feed people with her food, warmth, and good spirit. During its brief run, her restaurant Nettletown in Seattle developed a devoted following and probably offered the highest ratio of wild to conventional food of any regularly operating restaurant in the country. To eat at Nettletown was to know exactly what was growing wild at that very moment somewhere in the mountains, woods, or river valleys just beyond the city. This was one of the reasons why you had to be back next week—there was always something new coming into season, prepared in an unfussy way that allowed the ingredient's singular qualities to shine.
Another reason was Christina herself. The kitchen couldn't contain her. She needed to come out and visit with her customers—and we needed to bask in her glowing presence.
One time I brought a class of high schoolers to Nettletown. All week we had been foraging for wild foods as part of a week-long experiential course, in the Cascades, along the shore, even in a Seattle park. Our visit to Nettletown was a reward of sorts for the effort the students had put into the class and also a reminder of how food brings people together. Christina looked tired to me that day and I was worried about her. The hurly-burly of the restaurant business seemed to be taking a toll. Nevertheless, she rose to the occasion, coming out of her busy kitchen to spend time with the kids. She talked passionately about the various wild foods on the menu and where they came from, their high nutritious value and unique flavors. Afterward, on the bus ride back to school, several of the students told me how much of an impression Christina had made on them. "She's rad," one tenth grader said—high praise.
I usually visited Nettletown with my notebook and camera. My plan was to write a comprehensive post about this unlikely restaurant and its food over the course of a year's seasons, highlighting many of my favorite dishes. But just as soon as the experiment had begun, it was over. The restaurant closed at the end of August this year. In some ways I wasn't surprised. When I asked Christina about it, she said she was exhausted and needed to take care of her health. Like her cooking, she was direct, honest, and true to herself.
After months of not feeling like her usual self, Christina finally saw a neurologist. On December 12 she was diagnosed with a 5-cm brain aneurysm and went into surgery two days later. As feared, the aneurysm burst during surgery, and more complications followed. She died on December 28 while surrounded by the love of her family. She was 34.
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Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness that causes extreme mood swings.
Northwestern University researchers looked at eight mothers before and after childbirth. They discovered that blood concentrations of the bipolar drug lamotrigine decreased during pregnancy as their metabolism rose.
Some women in the study had worsening symptoms of depression as the levels of lamotrigine in their blood fell, according to the study published Nov. 1 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
"Now physicians change the dose of the drug in response to women's symptoms worsening. We need to optimize their medication dosing so they stay well," lead investigator Dr. Crystal Clark, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a university news release.
Pregnant women with bipolar disorder and reduced levels of lamotrigine in their blood are more likely to suffer depression rather than heightened feelings of happiness and energy (mania), according to the researchers.
"The safety of the fetus is at risk," said Clark, who's also a psychiatrist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "Pregnant women that are depressed are less likely to take care of themselves which often leads to poor nutrition, lack of compliance with prenatal care and isolation from family and friends. It has also been linked to premature births and babies with low birth weights among other poor birth outcomes."
The study helps physicians understand how to increase their patients' doses during pregnancy and then reduce them after the baby is born to avoid toxicity, Clark said.
About 4.4 million women in the United States have bipolar disorder, which is most common among women of childbearing age.
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