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Jeremy Clarkson is a popular media personality, you could say controversial personality.
But even a regular Joe like you or are would be entitled to feel upset, maybe a little short tempered after the death of their beloved family pet.
So you might think that given the circumstances the medial would cut Clarkson a little slack – not at all.
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This page is where you can view all the latest news of things going on at Macclesfield Golf Club.
On Wednesday 13th February a great night was had by everyone who attended the opening of The Jamie Donaldson Lounge.
Captain Rod Price sincerely thanked Jamie for all his efforts in making this happen.
The lounge can be enjoyed by members & visitors and it is there for posterity.
The Captain also thanked Jack Buckley for all his hard work in pulling things together along with 'The Algarve 8', Rick Ward & Garry Tomlinson.
Welcome Phil
Macclesfield Golf Club welcome their new Head Green Keeper Phil Worth.
Phil commented that he feels honoured to be accepted as the Head Green Keeper at Macclesfield Golf Club. He said it's a great club with a prestigious heritage and unique & challenging course layout. I look forward to playing a pivotal role in the clubs continual progression & success going forward.
Phil starts in his new role on Monday 4th February 2019.
Pictured with - Captain Rod Price.
On 19th October our junior golfers held their presentation.
Prizes were awarded to the juniors for the competitions
they play throughout the season. The golfsixes team received
balls from The Golf Foundation.
The champion junior golfer of the year received their
prize generously supplied from Jamie Donaldson.
Thanks to everyone for a great night 🏆
Special thanks to Goodwins Auto Salvage for sponsoring
our new junior shirts.
Portpatrick 2018
Another great trip was enjoyed this year to Portpatrick in Scotland where all golfers enjoyed some unbelievable weather and the usual fantatstic hospitality with a great matchplay challenge by our Irish opponents.
MGC were unable to beat the Irish team but will try their best to beat them this year.
Up, Up, And Away
The drone filming of the course is now up live on our website.
Each hole has it's own flyover and from the air the course looks fantastic. All the great work Mark and his team have been putting in can be really appreciated.
A massive thanks to Greg, Jinny and the team at Lunar Aerial Imaging for providing us with such a fantastic product and service. More of their work can be viewed on their website:
The intro video can be viewed by clicking this
The Juniors are getting going at Macclesfield Golf Club.
We have welcomed 23 new junior members and the
Junior Academy launched last week which will provide our
junior golfers with a structured course of tuition, fun
competitions, days out and fun evening and weekend events
between now and March 2018.
Our PGA coach David Myers is doing a great job providing
fun, practical sessions for the juniors and this Wednesday we
start the next series of coaching.
For more information and to take part please contact
David Myers PGA or Kerry Ward our junior organiser.
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There's Something In The Air
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
No, it's Greg with his drone!
For those who have played this week you may have seen something a little strange in the skies above the golf course. Local drone pilot and owner of Lunar Aerial Imaging, Greg Chivers, has been out filming some quite stunning footage of the course with his state of the art drone.
To see more of Greg's work visit his website -
The filming is still ongoing but here are a few images to help whet the appetite.
Lights, Camera, Action
Some of Macclesfield Golf Club's juniors were out on the course this week, but not just to play golf, they were also taking centre stage to star in a film to help promote junior golf at the club.
We hope you enjoy the film - for more information about junior golf please
our Junior Organiser - Kerry Ward.
PGA Award for Jamie
Ryder Cup hero Jamie Donaldson received a PGA Recognition Award for his outstanding contribution to golf at a PGA fundraising lunch in
The 41 year old, who claimed the winning point for Europe in the 2014 matches against the United States, was the guest of honour in the annual event at the Midland Hotel which raises money for the PGA Benevolent Fund.
Donaldson will be forever remembered for sparking jubilant celebrations with a sublime nine iron to within inches of the flag on the 15th of the PGA Centenary Course to defeat Keegan Bradley 4&3 in the singles at Gleneagles two years ago.
It capped a career highlight to date for the Welshman who was playing off a seven handicap at aged 16 but climbed through the amateur and professional ranks on the back of hard work and dedication.
Along the way he has overcome a career threatening injury and landed the biggest win of his career at the 2013 Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship, holding off Justin Rose and Thorbjørn Olesen to win by one shot.
The Abu Dhabi triumph came only six months after he broke his European Tour duck with victory in the 2012 Irish Open, where he fired a stunning 66 to win by four strokes at Royal Portrush.
He also won the Thailand Golf Championship at the end of 2014 while he notched three Challenge Tour victories to his name as he was coming through the ranks.
PGA chief executive Sandy Jones said: "Few people will forget that winning shot to clinch the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles. It was a fantastic moment but was richly deserved for all the hard work and dedication Jamie has shown over the years which has seen him rise to the highest levels of the game both as a top amateur and professional.
"We are delighted to present the PGA Recognition Award to Jamie at this annual Manchester lunch which helps raise money for the PGA Benevolent Fund."
Spring Cup Has a Last Minute Visitor
Someone familiar turned up for a round on Saturday for our first major of the year - The Jamie Donaldson Spring Cup.
Honourary Life Vice President, Jamie Donaldson, enjoyed an afternoon round with club members in the glorious sunshine.
The course was in fantastic condition, with some challenging pin positions but this didn't faze Ryder Cup winner Jamie who finished his round with a respectable 4 under par.
Jamie was also on hand to chat with members after his round and present The Spring Cup to this years winner Gareth Robinson.
Design by Donaldson
Jamie recently walked the course with our head green keeper and course architect James Edwards.
They looked at what further enhancements can be made to the course such as fairway and green shaping.
Jamie drawing on his experiences of playing some of the best golf courses in the World.
Portpatrick 2017
Another great trip was enjoyed this year to Portpatrick in Scotland where all golfers enjoyed some unbelievable weather and the usual fantatstic hospitality with a great matchplay challenge by our Irish opponents.
Unfortunately MGC were unable to beat the Irish team on this occasion but it was very close indeed losing by just one match over the two rounds.
Rookie Paul Tovee took the individual Prize for Macclesfield Golf Club with a two round stableford score of 71.
Lovely Day for the Ladies Coaching
Dave Myers PGA Professional and England Golf provide ladies golf taster sessions.
Macclesfield GC hosted an England Golf - Get into Golf taster session for ladies on Wednesday 31st August.
PGA professional Dave Myers provided his expert coaching to the ladies with chipping and bunker sessions.
The ladies then relaxed in the clubhouse with tea and cake and discussed what they had learnt in a relaxed and comfortable environment.
For more information on coaching please email
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Work On The 16th Hole
This is a short video showing the fantastic work our head greenkeeper and his team are doing to address the drainage requirements on the 16th hole.


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We have groups of brilliant volunteers who conduct outreach programs in holiday parks and for churches. Our staff help, organise, and train, but these outreaches couldn't happen without the V-Team! To find out about or join one of our Beach Mission teams, head over here!
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The weather report was a little too enthusiastic with yesterday's prediction – there was only a very light dusting of snow and most of that had melted by evening, but then it got very windy and beastly cold with -5.5°C during the night. This is still a shot from yesterday, of course.
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Weekly Once-Over (5.15.2014)
The Practice of Repentance: Most of us don't naturally enjoy repenting when we're wrong, but for leaders especially, repentance is a powerful, essential, and liberating practice.
9 Ways To Battle The Darkness: I love Jesus and he loves me. But I have struggled with fear, anxiety, condemnation, and even depression my whole Christian life. I actually struggled so much with these issues that I had to resign from my first pastorate. I wasn't eating, I couldn't get out of bed, I was having demonic nightmares, and I was thinking about suicide. I'm not out of the woods yet, but I have learned a few things in going through these struggles about God's grace despite our failures to trust him. Though each of us faces unique circumstances, here are a few lessons I have learned that I pray will help as you, too, battle depression, condemnation and anxiety.
How Jesus Changes Motherhood: Trying to be the perfect mom can be a crushing weight, and sometimes Mother's Day only makes it worse. We hope these stories from regular moms relying on Jesus in the midst of failure and imperfection will encourage you.
Offer Advice Very Carefully: Giving advice goes poorly so often, it is worth more careful thought about how we give it. We all need advice. We seek it every day. That is a wise and natural part of being a creature rather than the Creator. But we also know that advice can run from helpful to horrible, and it can bless a relationship or hurt it.
What Kind of Church Should You Belong To?: Being in a healthy local church is critical to the spiritual health of men. But how do you know if you're in a healthy church?
Miracles In a Modern Age: Anyone familiar with Jesus knows he spent a lot of time healing people. Those healings seem so foreign to modern disciples, as if from a far away land, the stuff of mythology or fiction. Yet, his healing ministry didn't stick with him; Jesus spread his power to heal into the lives of his followers. Does this mean that we too, as modern disciples, should practice healing? What should we expect when praying for it? Let's take a quick look at the 1st century to get our bearings. Then, we can turn to our response in the 21st century.


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A rare opportunity to fulfil the lifelong dream of part-time teacher and PhD student Khyiah Angel, 47, has seen her opera singing daughter return from London to put on an entertainment fund-raiser.
Chloe Angel, 25, has been in London for the past two years studying and pursuing a theatre and opera career.
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A couple of posts ago I talked about a freaky experiment where a young mouse is surgically attached to an old mouse to create Franken-mice. The two Franken-mice share blood and the young blood reverses heart disease in the old mouse. So scientists looked to see what it is in the young blood that can treat aged hearts. They found that the molecule GDF11 is much higher in young mouse blood than old mouse blood. When they gave GDF11 to old mice, it also reversed age-related heart disease.
Following on from this paper, another group found that the fly version of GDF11, called myoglianin, can extend lifespan in flies.
Now I want to tell you about another Franken-mouse experiment which showed that young blood, or GDF11 alone, can reverse age-related brain degeneration.
As we age, our cognitive skills decline – it becomes harder to remember things or to learn new facts or skills, and we lose the ability to see, hear and smell well. This is largely because there is less blood flow to older brains and less brain cell regeneration. Many people think that the brain can't regenerate. That we're born with all the brain cells we are going to get, and every time we drink alcohol or whack our head we are losing precious brain cells that we'll never get back. Well that is not exactly true. Adult brains have stem cells which can make new neurons. This just happens at a very low rate compared to a more regenerative organ like the liver.
So scientists stitched young, 2 month old, mice to older, 15 month old, mice for 5 weeks to see if young blood could reverse age-related brain changes. The old Franken-mice had 87% more blood vessel volume in their brains than old untreated mice and similar blood flow to their brains as young mice (measured by MRI). The 15 month old Franken-mice had more brain stem cells than untreated old mice, and these stem cells were better at generating brain cells. The old Franken-mice also had more new neurons in the area of brain that controls smell: the olfactory bulb. Once the old mice were separated from their young friends – de-Frankenised – they performed better in a smell test than untreated old mice.
Young serum can stimulate endothelial cells (the cells that line blood vessels) to grow 88% better in vitro than old serum. This shows that the young serum is most likely stimulating endothelial cells in the capillaries of old mouse brains to sprout new blood vessels.
GDF11 can increase endothelial cell growth by 23% in vitro. So scientists gave 21-23 month old mice either saline or GDF11 injections for 4 weeks. GDF11 treated mice had 50% more brain blood vessels and 29% more neural stem cells.
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More and more Americans are spending their golden years racking up debt—a trend that if left unchecked could derail entitlement reform and alter the traditional pattern of wealth being transferred from older to younger generations.
For the past several decades, millions of senior citizens have been able to enjoy relatively safe retirements, in part due to a lifetime of savings, private pensions, Social Security, Medicare, and home ownership.
Several recent studies indicate that the degree of safety might be eroding, as personal debt has become a way of life for a growing number of Americans older than 65:
* The Census Bureau reported last week that the median amount of household debt for Americans older than 65 had more than doubled between 2000 and 2011, climbing from $12,702 to roughly $26,000. Seniors experienced the largest percentage increase of any age group. Their individual debt loads are still below the overall median of $70,000, but the more than doubling stands out in an economy recently defined by consumers deleveraging.
* Analysis released in February by the Employee Benefits Research Institute indicates that median credit card debt for seniors older than 75 surged from $838 in 2007 to $1,800 in 2010, while the share of 75-plus households with mortgage debt ballooned from 10 percent in 1992 to roughly 24 percent in 2010.
* The AARP and the left-leaning think tank Demos released a survey in January indicating that half of Americans older than 50 carry medical expenses on their credit cards, almost a quarter used their credit cards to help other family members, and nearly 20 percent have paid their credit card bills by dipping into retirement savings.
Craig Copeland, senior research associate behind the findings at the Employee Benefits Research Institute, said there has been a cultural change in how seniors think about debt.
"It's become an accepted part of life," Copeland told The Fiscal Times. "I would almost argue that the tipping point has kind of passed."
The impact of that tipping point all depends on whether the debt is manageable; something that economic researchers say cannot be discerned from the existing data. To some degree, it largely hinges on whether older Americans can recover some of the cracks in their nest eggs from the 2008 financial crisis, a catastrophe that damaged their home values and investment portfolios. More than 582,000 seniors have maintained their cash flow by taking out reverse mortgages, of which a stunning 9.4 percent are in default.
WHEN DEBT BECOMES A BURDENThere is a major danger for taxpayers if the debt proves to be too burdensome for seniors. If retired Americans cannot service their debt or exhaust their savings to do so, they will become more dependent on Social Security income and health care coverage through Medicaid, potentially causing more spending in two programs that are projected to push the country deeper and deeper into debt in the coming years.
"What you have to watch out for is financial vulnerability that goes along with higher debt," Karen Dynan, vice president and co-director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution, told The Fiscal Times. "It means that more older Americans are going to be dependent on Medicaid for their retirement needs."
The Congressional Budget Office projects that Medicaid spending is already on track to grow from $265 billion this year to $536 billion by 2022. Social Security spending likewise is slated to balloon from $816 billion in expenditures this year to $1.35 trillion in 2022. Along with Medicare—the health insurance program for older Americans—these are drivers of future deficits but also financial lifelines for indebted seniors.
This is where a potential economic problem becomes a political headache.
House Republicans have targeted all three entitlement programs for overhauls to curb spending in their upcoming budget negotiations with President Obama and Senate Democrats. On the table will be hundreds upon hundreds of billions in spending over the next decade.
Obama previously considered a compromise that would involve a less generous measure of inflation when calculating the annual benefit increases for Social Security, something that is sure to meet strong resistance from liberal senators such as Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Some of Obama's own network of door-knockers would turn against him if he tried to clean up the federal books by using the so-called chained Consumer Price Index that assumes people responds to higher prices by purchasing cheaper substitutes.
"Any cuts to Social Security and Medicare really threaten to put seniors into poverty," said David Blank, a spokesman for the AFL-CIO affiliated Alliance for Retired Americans.
Seniors are less likely to be below the poverty line than other age groups, but the open question is whether higher personal debt levels indicate a sea change on this issue.
THE SILENT GENERATION SIGNS AN I.O.U.Unlike the increase in student debt afflicting the millennial generation, it's unclear despite surveys and anecdotal evidence about what precisely is causing more seniors to borrow. It is possible that the debt stems from a loan to help a younger family member, a mortgage refinancing to capitalize on lower interest rates, or perhaps to make up for lost retirement income or possibly higher medical costs. However, it is certain that the debt load for seniors will continue to rise as baby boomers—who have borrowed more heavily than their parents—retire en masse.
There are currently 26.2 million senior citizen households, 44.4 percent of which carry some debt. That's a diverse group that encompasses jet-setting billionaires and the bed-ridden. Two-person households tend to be better off than those living alone, such as the roughly two million women over the age of 65 whose assets, not include their homes, average just $7,754, according to the Census Bureau.
Not everyone agrees on the ideal data set for determining net wealth. Researchers at the Urban Institute rely on data from the Federal Reserve that does report a debt increase among the elderly, but it's much less than what was observed by the Census Bureau and a miniscule share of seniors' assets.
Then there is the challenge of calculating what it means to be "average," since extremes exist on both sides of the scale. The Federal Reserve data says the median net worth of someone older than 74 is $215,000, which means with a life expectancy of 78 that seniors should on the whole be financially comfortable.
But more than 46 percent of seniors die with "virtually no financial assets," according to a 2012 research paper by MIT economist James Poterba, Dartmouth College economist Steven Venti, and Harvard University economist David Wise.
"This group relies almost entirely on Social Security benefits for support in retirement," the paper concludes. "These persons balance on only one leg of the oft touted three-legged stool that is said to provide retirement support—Social Security, pension benefits, and personal saving."
The opposing sets of data present a dilemma for policymakers, since there can't be a solution until the source of the problem is identified. Copeland at the Employee Benefits Research Institute summarized the situation this way: "People don't know what's going on."
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Date Monday, 18 June 2018 , By: Sammy-Jo , In: Company News
Last Friday, 25th May, we got lucky with the weather and enjoyed a great late afternoon and evening party here at Blue Frontier.
We all finished a little early and headed outside to enjoy a barbecue, refreshing drinks, music, a little sunshine and great company. With a team of more than 40, there were plenty of us to enjoy the event and we were delighted to have been joined by some clients and friends of Blue Frontier.
Charter 1227 Barbecue Kitchen provided an exceptional barbecue of steaks, burgers and salads all laid on by Danny Bosic (of Charter 1227) and his team of chefs.
Drinks were provided courtesy of the award winning "Tally-Ho" bar – a cleverly designed and brilliantly converted horsebox bar for any occasion, run by Claire Burden and her partner Karl. Pimms, gin & tonic, prosecco and cold beer was the ideal drinks menu.
The tent (in case of rain) and furniture came from our great friend Tim Shipsey. Thankfully the sunshine reappeared for a few hours while we enjoyed the event.
We also enjoyed some music, provided by the inimitable DJ Will Haven (aka Stacy Woodhouse), one our Technicians.
It was a terrific evening and a great opportunity to share ideas, to unwind and to talk about the new and exciting challenges we have ahead of us. Our social events are always great fun and especially popular with staff as they have an opportunity to socialise with colleagues that they only see from time-to-time during work.
We have enjoyed a variety of social events over the years, including golfing, a pizza party, bowling, Christmas parties and pub quizzes. Every event has bought the team closer together and left us all with amusing stories and memories.
At Blue Frontier we believe it's important to have social events outside of work, so the team have the chance to relax and spend time with their co-workers. It makes for a positive working environment and great communication between the different departments. The main purpose of these events is to reward the team for all their hard work and dedication and give them an opportunity to unwind and relax.
The barbecue social was a great success and we are all very much looking forward to the next one.
Our next social event will be to celebrate the opening of our new office in Southampton in September, fingers crossed we will be lucky with the weather again!
We have put together a committee to manage Blue Frontier's social events and ensure that there is plenty for the team to look forward to. The social team includes:
If you're looking to start a career in a digital agency or want to move jobs, why not consider applying to Blue Frontier. We are growing very quickly and offer fantastic career development opportunites. Our team are all extremely friendly which creates an excellent working environment.
Take a look at some of our current vacancies below or send us your CV and a cover letter expalining what kind of position you're looking for and why you're interested in Blue Frontier. Who knows, maybe you could be joining us at our next social!
You will be responsible for writing and delivering content and copy. You will need knowledge and experience of Digital Marketing with a good understanding of Content Marketing and Social Media.
We are currently looking for a candidate with strong web design and front-end development skills, with at least 3 years commercial experience, to join our talented web team.
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You will be working as part of a development team to deliver quality web and mobile solutions, using a variety of technologies and toolkits.
Sammy enjoys thinking outside the box, finding new ways to attract and engage users. Having graduated with a degree in Media Arts, specialising in Transmedia, she has a broad knowledge of digital media, multi-platform marketing and consumer behaviour. Since joining Blue Frontier, Sammy has enjoyed developing her skills and knowledge of digital marketing, and is constantly striving to think of new ways to market her clients, driving valuable organic online traffic to their businesses.


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Programme Topics
A non-limitative list of topics includes the application of Raman spectroscopy in the fields of art, art-history, history, archaeology, conservation and restoration, museology and others.
Material characterization and degradation processes (pigments, inks, plastic materials, photographic materials, gemstones, stones, precious stones, glass, ceramics, contemporary materials etc.)
Conservation issues affecting cultural heritage (decaying, corrosion, etc.)
Raman spectroscopy of biological and organic materials (resins, fibres, ancient organic compounds, etc.)
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (dyes, organic pigments, etc.)
Chemometrics in Raman spectroscopy
Development of Raman techniques
New Raman instrumentation and applications in cultural heritage objects investigations
Raman spectroscopy in paleontology, paleoenvironment and archaeology
Forensic applications in art and archaeology (e.g. forensic archaeology, authentications procedures)
Other topics
|DAY 1 | 24 October (Tuesday)
|09:00 - 10:00
|10:00 - 10:30
|Opening Session
Ausenda de Cáceres Balbino (University of Évora, Vice-Rector)
Ana Paula Amendeira (Alentejo Regional Directorate of Culture)
António Candeias (HERCULES Lab, University of Évora)
|10:30 - 11:00
|Coffee Break - Poster Session
|11:00 - 12:00
|Keynote Lecture
On-site Raman study of artwork: Procedure and illustrative examples
Philippe Colomban
|Session 1 – Material Characterisation and Degradation Processes
|12:00 - 12:20
|Investigating the formation of dehydroindigo in Maya Blue simulants by resonance Raman spectroscopy.
Dalva Faria, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
|12:20 - 12:40
|Pigments, pigment changes and the identification of a "new" pigment in medieval wall paintings of the monastery church in Angermünde.
Martin Ziemann, University of Potsdam (Germany)
|12:40 - 13:00
|Iron-rich spinels in Ming Blue-and-white porcelains: a combined Raman spectroscopy and electron microscopy study of surface crystals.
Pinto Ariane, Centre d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales (France)
|13:00 - 14:30
|Session 2 – Chemometrics and Development of New Techniques in Raman Spectroscopy
|14:30 - 14:50
|The combination Raman imaging and LIBS for quantification of original and degradation materials in Cultural Heritage.
Juan Manuel Madariaga, Universidad del Pais Vasco (Spain)
|14:50 - 15:10
|Miniature Raman Spectrometers for Mineralogical and Gemological Practice: from Gemtesting Systems to Portable Sequentially Shifted Excitation Raman Spectrometers.
Jan Jehlicka, Charles University (Czech Republic)
|15:10 - 15:30
|Investigation of beryl varieties using miniature Raman spectrometers.
Adam Culka, Jan Jehlicka, Charles University (Czech Republic)
|15:30 - 16:00
|Coffee Break - Poster Session
|Session 3 – Material Characterisation and Degradation Processes
|16:00 - 16:20
|Pigments identification in oil paintings of 18th – 19th century from the Museum of Post-Byzantine Art of Zakynthos using Raman spectroscopy and XRF.
Konstantina-Aikaterini Koutliani, University of the Aegean, Rhodes (Greece)
|16:20 - 16:40
|Portable Raman and NIR systems for identification of plastics in museum.
Anna Klisińska-Kopacz, National Museum in Krakow (Poland)
|16:40 - 17:00
|Analysis of organic resins, coatings and decorates in a lyre-guitar of 19th Century prior to restoration.
Theodore Ganetsos, Piraeus University of Applied Sciences (Greece)
|17:00 - 17:20
|Analysis of pigments from rock shelters in Guanajuato, Central México
Antonieta Mondragón, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
|17:20 - 17:40
|Visit and Reception at the National Museum of Évora
|DAY 2 | 25 October (Wednesday)
|09:30 - 10:30
|Keynote Lecture
Challenges and Opportunities of Raman Spectroscopy Applications in Art and Archaeology.
Peter Vandenabeele
|10:30 - 11:00
|Coffee Break - Poster Session
|Session 4 – Biological and Organic Materials
|11:00 - 11:20
|Identification by Raman spectroscopy of bio-carotenes on mural painting from the refectory of Hurezi Monastery - Romania
Ioana Gomoiu, National Arts University (Romania)
|Session 5 – Material Characterisation and Degradation Processes
|11:20 - 11:40
|Creation of Specialized Electronic Library for Art Investigation Bulgarian Cultural Heritage
Vesselin Petrov, University of Sofia (Bulgaria)
|11:40 - 12:00
|Raman imaging qualitative and semi-quantitative approach to verify the thermal transformation of yellow ochre pigments into red colour in Pompeian wall paintings.
Maite Maguregui, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
|12:00 - 12:20
|Raman Spectroscopy of the Works of Szymon Czechowicz (1689-1775)
Marek Wiśniewski, Ewa Dolezynska-Sewerniak, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)
|12:20 - 12:40
|What information can Raman spectroscopy provide about pure and mixed carbon inks?
Olivier Bonnerot, BAM (Germany)
|12:40 - 13:00
|Scrutinizing "Ecce Homo" - European or Indian painting? Assessment by Raman spectroscopy and complementary spectroscopic techniques
Vanessa Antunes, ARTIS-FLUL, LIBPhys-UNL
|13:00 - 14:30
|Session 6 – Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
|14:30 - 14:50
|Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) Investigation of Dyes in Fellini's Felt-tip Pens.
Daniela Iacopino, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
|14:50 - 15:10
|SERS for polymers degradation.
Daniela Reggio, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
|15:10 - 15:30
|Raman and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the analysis of Mexican yellow dyestuff.
Maria Angelica Garcia-Bucio, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
|15:30 - 15:50
|Stability and reproducibility of Ag colloidal pastes for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) analysis of natural dyes in archaeological and historical textiles.
Patrizia Davit, Università di Torino (Italy)
|15:50 - 16:10
|A molecular study of the 19th century Winsor & Newton cochineal lake pigments.
Tatiana Vitorino, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal)
|16:10 - 16:40
|Coffee Break - Poster Session
|Session 7 – Material Characterisation and Degradation Processes
|16:40 - 17:00
|Portable Raman Spectroscopy for Rapid Identification of Unknown Precious Gemstones
Kristen Frano, BWTEK
|17:00 - 17:20
|U-Pb dating of zircon inclusions in sapphire from Alpine-Himalayan orogeny origins - Kashmir and Burma - and characterization with Raman spectroscopy
Wenxing Xu, Gübelin Gem Lab (Switzerland)
|17:20 - 17:40
|Pearlescent pigments in plastic artworks: a micro-Raman identification
Eva Mariasole Angelin, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal)
|17:40 - 18:00
|Social Program
|Dinner (included)
|DAY 3 | 26 October (Thursday)
|Departure (Évora)
|09:30 - 11:30
|Estremoz (Marble Quarry)
|11:30 - 13:00
|Vila Viçosa (Ducal Palace)
|13:00 - 14:30
|15:30 - 17:00
|Monsaraz (Historic town)
|Arrival (Évora)
|DAY 4 | 27 October (Friday)
|09:30 - 10:30
|Keynote Lecture
Raman spectroscopy, art, archaeology and South America: one eye on the past, one eye on the future.
Dalva Faria
|10:30 - 11:00
|Coffee Break - Poster Session
|Session 8 – Material Characterisation and Degradation Processes
|11:00 - 11:20
|Raman and Tof-SIMS investigation of the Bosch's painting "Saint Wilgefortis Triptich"
Armida Sodo, Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy)
|11:20 - 11:40
|Uncertain identification of decaying compounds in Built Heritage: K3Na(SO4)2 and Na2SO4-system
Kepa Castro, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
|Session 9 – Palaeontology, paleoenvironment and archaeology
|11:40 - 12:00
|Depicted on Stone: Raman Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Rock Art Paintings
Anastasia Rousaki, Ghent University (Belgium)
|12:00 - 12:20
|Raman spectroscopic analysis of 195-million- year-old embryonic dinosaur bone remains
Therese Harrison, University of Sydney (Australia)
|12:20 - 12:40
|Combined micro-Raman and gemological study of the provenance investigations of the archeological gemstones
Barbara Łydżba-Kopczyńska, University of Wrocław (Poland)
|12:40 - 13:00
|Chemical study of degradation processes in underwater metallic materials
Estefania Estalayo, Universidad del Pais Vasco (Spain)
|13:00 - 14:30
|14:30 - 15:30
|Keynote Lecture
A Decade of Colorful Research at The Met: Trends, Applications, and Challenges of SERS for the Characterization of Organic Colorants in Artworks
Federica Pozzi
|Session 10 – Material Characterisation and Degradation Processes
|15:30 - 15:50
|Hidden Hazards in the Pharmaceutical Collection at Museums Victoria
Rosemary Goodall, Museums Victoria (Australia)
|15:50 - 16:10
|Degradation of cellulose nitrate cinematographic films: a comparative analysis by Raman microscopy
Artur Neves, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Portugal)
|16:10 - 16:40
|Coffee Break - Poster Session
|16:40 - 17:00
|Pigments identification of the plasterwork decorations of the Room of the beds in the Royal Baths of Comares in the Alhambra
Paz Arjonilla, Universidad de Jaén (Spain)
|17:00 - 17:30
|Closing Session


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Excluding the leaked Halloween episode and the episode today, I'm all caught up with this 2nd half of this season that's available. And with that, I thoroughly enjoyed them just like when I first got into the series. Even the CMC episode with all the songs was more enjoyable than I thought it would be when I realized it was going to have a flurry of songs.
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In an old-style pavement picket complete with evocative placards, 6 (mature) Fans Against Criminalisation members welcomed ACC Wayne Mawson to the top police job in Glasgow under the new Police Service of Scotland, with a reminder that we haven't gone away either. With the modern addition of a camera phone, and all avenues of social media waiting to report, we made sure that Mr Mawson was clear that the heavy-handed tactics of the officers of Strathclyde Police, whose misdemeanours he has inherited, may well come back to haunt him.....well, if we have anything to do with it they will. The pickets made it clear that we will not stand by while our young people are criminalised and bullied off the streets.
In a letter handed in to Mr Mawson on behalf of FAC, the group said:
"Fans Against Criminalisation, made up of the five main Celtic supporters' organisations, has organised evidence-gathering sessions at which individuals caught up in the disturbing events around the Gallowgate on Glasgow on the 16th of March 2013 have given first-hand accounts of their treatment at the hands of police officers. This is to facilitate those people who feel unable to complain directly to the police for fear of retribution. We already have evidence of those who have complained having their details used for other purposes and being approached in an unwelcome and rather sinister way by your officers.
A report of those events will be produced and will be presented to Members of the Scottish Parliament and to the Parliament's Petitions Committee. We intend to ask for a full independent inquiry into the events of that day.
We write to you today, on your first working day in office as ACC in charge of Local Policing for the West of the country, to register our strong condemnation of the behaviour of your officers on that day and to inform you that we will be continuing our campaign until there is a full, transparent account given of who ordered this assault on peaceful protesters and till that person or persons is held to account."
This small protest will be followed by what we expect to be a slightly bigger one in George Square on 6th April. Be there in the Square.
Supporting your team is not a crime....and neither is peacefully protesting against unjust laws!
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Yes, I think it might be......
Is this a new meaning of the bhoys/ghirls of the old brigade?
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Well, incomplete parts as I don't have all the parts yet.
My Deep Ocean Twist jumper is nearing completion, 😲. I believe I've made this much progress because sewing has been somewhat relegated, and I'm knitting on 5mm needles. This will probably be the quickest garment I've ever knitted. The back was a breeze, and I was expecting the front to be just as easy, but the cable turned to be a feat to achieve on a moving train. Though not difficult, it's done in parts and that slowed me down.
This slowed I put the left half of the front on scrap yarn, while I knitted the right half for a couple of rows, and vice-versa. Not difficult, but not really the commuter-friendly knit I expected it to be. I had several nervous looks 😨 each time I brought out my darning needle and began to put live stitches on scrap yarn; so much that I restricted that part of the knit to my lunch time and home.
So far, I've finished the front, back, and one sleeve, and I'm almost half-way on the second sleeve. Pictures are dull because it's been consistently cloudy.
I really like this pattern and the Kids-Silk/Nord combo gives it a luxurious feel. I only wish the instructions are better written, but I have enjoyed knitting this, and also love the top-down construction which makes try-as-I-knit possible. I hope to finish the other sleeve this week, but we'll see.
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Happy Pharmacist Day! 2014
Uh….I know I'm pretty late (it should be on September, 25) but here ya goes! My good for nothing contribution for all pharmacist around the world 😀 I did it out of boredom and laziness .w. lazy coloring and lazy … Continue reading
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ERASER (demo) now available on Google Play!
It's free, check it out 😀
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ERASER now has its Official Website
I'm pleased to announce that ERASER-1st Clinical Trial, my next visual novel project, now has its official website. All the development and news will be posted here. Demo ver 0.1 now available on PC and Android version. Why don't you … Continue reading
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There are many great books on the subject of running, they tend to come in two types – a practical guide to training and running or a description about a runner's experience of the sport. Both can be great motivational tools to encourage you to run more. Here are a couple of my favourites:
The Marathon and Half Marathon: A Training Guide – Graeme Hilditch
This is my favourite 'guide to running' book. It keeps things simple, so although it packs in a lot of information (including step by step training plans for marathons and half marathons), it's easy enough to sit and read through. I still find myself going back to this book from time to time:
What I talk about when I talk about running – Haruki Murakami
This is a facinating insight into the world of Murakami as he reflects on how running has shaped his life and his writing. This is a must for anyone who likes to talk and think about their running.
The Complete Book of Running for Women – Claire Kowalchik
Covering topics from pregnancy and menopause to training programs and cross-training, this is possibly the most comprehensive book written specifically for female runners.
Downloadable books:
If you want a complete guide to running instantly, then these downloadable guides could be the answer, put them on your mobile device and read them on the go:
Beginning Jogging & Running Guide
Inspirational stories from Endurance Planet


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In MT versions 3.1x and earlier, you may have noticed in your Movable Type blog archive directory on your web server, a bunch of .xml files beginning with numbers. What are these files and do you need them?
By default, Movable Type generates an individual RSS feed for each entry that lists the TrackBack pings for that entry. This is useful is someone wants to subscribe to your Trackbacks via RSS. How often does that happen? Usually, never. You can safely delete those files from your archive directory on your web server. To unclutter your archive directory and keep from generating the TrackBack .xml files in the future, find the line on your mt.cfg file that says:
Uncomment that line by removing the
# from the beginning of that line. Save the file and reload it to your server, remembering to reset the permissions to whatever permissions you had originally set for that file.


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Now He had to go through Samaria. So He came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as He was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to Him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water."
"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"
Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."
He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."
"I have no husband," she replied.
Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."
"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."
Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and His worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth."
The woman said, "I know that Messiah (called Christ) is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us."
Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am He."
This conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well is one of the most profound conversations recorded in the entire Bible, and is undoubtedly one of the high points of John's gospel. There are many deep lessons contained in these verses, and included in this conversation is a priceless lesson about true worship, which is what we will be looking at this morning.
The first thing which we notice is that this encounter didn't take place in a hushed, sacred setting. We might have thought that if Jesus was going to teach us about worship, He would have done it in the Temple, but of all places He chose Samaria – a place the Jews avoided at all costs, but Jesus revealed the heart of true worship to a woman whose life was marred by all kinds of immorality.
But this is the glory and beauty of God's truth: it knows no limit of time, place, or person. It is revealed to those who are ready to receive it, whoever they are and wherever they are. From our perspective there was no more unsuitable setting or person which God could have chosen to teach us about worship. So by God's Spirit the truth was revealed to this Samaritan woman. And true to form – something which we sinners are very good at doing – when Jesus began teaching her the truth, and started revealing the deeper sin in her life, she tried to change the subject.
Jesus was talking about her morals, and what was her reply? "Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem." Rather than deal with the important things in her life, she preferred to focus on when and where they were supposed to worship. As I was preparing this I couldn't help but be struck by the fact that these are exactly the same red herrings which have created so much lively debate in our own congregation recently. If only we had the same passion for Jesus that we have for service times, music styles and buildings! Imagine how much deeper our own worship would be…
It's interesting though that when Jesus was presented with this red herring by the Samaritan woman, He didn't ignore the question. Rather, He used it as a springboard from which to reveal to her the classic Christian definition of worship, the pattern for all true worship.
The first subject which He tackled was man-made worship, and in His conversation with her, Jesus shows us three basic weaknesses of worship when we decide just what worship is, and how it should happen.
Firstly, man-made worship is contrived. It is the result of people adding a little here and taking away a little there until they have redefined the Bible to suit themselves. By doing this they have turned the Scriptures into a monstrosity. We either believe the entire Word of God (from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22), or we reject the entire Word of God. What the Samaritans had done was to adjust God's truth to such an extent that they insisted that true worship must be conducted on Mount Gerizim. They had adjusted history to suit themselves by insisting that it was on this mountain that Abraham had been willing to sacrifice Isaac, and that it was here that Abraham had paid tithes to Melchizedek. Not only that , but they tampered with the Scriptures themselves when they taught that it was on this mountain that Moses first built an altar and sacrificed to God in preparation for the entry of the Israelites into the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 27:4 clearly states that this all happened on Mount Ebal (about 10km away), not Mount Gerizim. Every cult has done the same thing in twisting and distorting the Truth of God. A contrived gospel is a false gospel and it will always lead people to destruction.
Secondly, not only is man-made worship contrived - it is also ignorant of the truth. Jesus said to the woman, "You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know." What He was talking about here was the fact that the Samaritans accepted only the Pentateuch, what we know as the first 5 books of the Bible. They rejected all of the teachings of the prophets and all of the beauty and inspiration of the Psalms. So what they ended up with was only a partial revelation of the truth. It was available to them, but they would not accept it. They chose to remain in spiritual darkness.
The lesson for us today is that we need to spend time in all of God's Word. Some Christian denominations will teach only from the Old or only from the New Testament. They are in the same spiritual darkness that the Samaritans chose to live in. By disregarding the whole of God's truth, they are no different to the Samaritans of Jesus' time. There is no excuse today for Christians to be ignorant of what they believe or of the basic teachings of God's Word. There was a time when people were ignorant of spiritual things because they did not have the full revelation of God. But not anymore. Jesus has come and He has revealed God's true nature to us. We have the complete Word of God. And not only that: we have the gift of God's Holy Spirit who interprets the Word for us.
Thirdly, Jesus pointed out to the Samaritan woman that man-made worship is also superstitious. The Samaritans had twisted true worship of God by recognising the pagan gods of the foreigners who lived among them. They had mixed in with their worship of God all of the superstitions of the pagans. The danger and the warning sign for us is that we must guard against allowing superstitions to dictate how we worship.
Someone once said that some Christians attend church not out of a genuine sense of need, nor out of any real desire to meet God in a worship experience, but because they are afraid not to, and they feel that if they do not go through the motions of worship, something bad will happen to them. I suppose the question we need to ask ourselves before coming to worship is 'why?'
Why am I here today? Is it because it is 8:30 on a Sunday morning, or is it because I have a genuine desire to meet with God? Am I excited or even apprehensive about how God's Spirit is going to stir my heart today, or am I here because my biological clock dictates that this is where I come every week?
Eugene Peterson, who wrote the Message translation of the Bible, answers the question 'why' far more eloquently than I can: "Worship is the strategy by which we interrupt our preoccupation with ourselves and attend to the presence of God. Worship is the time and place that we assign for deliberate attentiveness to God - not because He's confined to time and place but because our self-importance is so assiduously relentless that if we don't deliberately interrupt ourselves regularly, we have no chance of attending to Him at all at other times and in other places."
A true worship experience is motivated by love for God and by gratitude for what God has done in our lives and in the lives of our families.
Once Jesus had dealt with the issue of man-made worship, He began to teach the Samaritan woman about true worship, God-centred worship.
"A time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and His worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth."
In these words, Jesus defines for us the true heart of worship.
The first point is that true worship is initiated by God. He makes the first move towards us in establishing a true worship experience. Contrary to popular belief, we don't need to go looking for Him. Other religions do that with their rituals and superstitions, but we don't need to seek after God or beg and plead with Him to meet us in worship. Seeking out a non-existent god is precisely what the prophets of Baal did on Mount Carmel in that famous contest with Elijah. They begged and cried and worked themselves up into hysteria, eventually cutting themselves and shedding their own blood in their fanatical frenzy.
But what did Jesus say? "The Father seeks His worshippers."
People do not seek God; God seeks people. God has always worked that way. When Adam and Eve sinned, what was God's first question? "Where are you?"
And He continues to ask that same question of you and I today. He wants us to experience Him in every aspect of our lives. This is not about a weekly one hour ritual. He is seeking us constantly, wanting us to experience a life of worship. People often say that you don't need to go to Church to worship God. That is quite correct, but the problem is that when people say that, they are usually using that statement as an excuse to cut themselves off from the fellowship of other believers. Worship is a very personal experience, but the corporate aspect of worship is just as important. When we come together as His people, He is here, the audience of One, waiting and eager to meet us.
The second point about God-centred worship is that it is not only initiated by Him, but worship is a spiritual experience. "God is spirit, and His worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth."
What did Jesus mean when He said that God is spirit? Does this mean He is some vague, impersonal, ethereal being and beyond our reach? No.
Because God is Spirit, He is free. He is not confined to any one place or time. How else could He be with us in a very real way right now, and also in other true Christian Churches all over the world at the same time?
For thirty-three years, in a mysterious union which we cannot fully understand, God took on human flesh in the person of Jesus. Then, in an even greater miracle, God died in the person of His Son and rose again on the third day. But even during that amazing time of identification with us, God was still omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. At no stage did God stop being God. During those 33 years Jesus remained fully God, even though He was fully human at the same time.
Because God is spirit, His omnipresence makes it possible for us to worship Him anytime, anywhere. In the privacy of personal devotions, in the routine of the mundane affairs of everyday life, and here in a place where believers sing and pray together, we can worship God. God-centred worship is a spiritual experience that is expressed both privately and corporately. We are not just physical beings. There is a deep spiritual hunger within every human being to want to know and understand the God who created us and loves us, and through worship, He makes this possible.
Thirdly, we are to worship God not only in spirit, but also in truth.
In His prayer for us in John 17, Jesus prayed to the Father on our behalf, "Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth."
God still speaks to us today, and His primary means of doing so is through His Word – the Bible. We will find that when we treat the Bible as the living Word of God, rather than just as a book, His Holy Spirit will speak to us. In other words, when we spend time in God's Word, we experience worship. Worship is not simply about singing hymns or choruses. That is only part of the experience. Every time we have an encounter with God, including the times He reveals His truth to us through His Word, we are worshipping Him.
In John 18 we find the conversation between Jesus and Pilate which deals with a crucial question (reading from verse 35): "It was your people and your chief priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have done?" Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place." "You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." (Then comes the big question, asked by Pilate).
"What is truth?"
It is a question which every human being has asked. And we have come up with some rather weird, wonderful and quite frankly, some incredibly stupid ways of answering that question, but we will really only be able to answer it by responding to God as He reveals Himself to us. I suppose you could say that truth is not something we can learn or know. Rather, it is something we can experience as we learn to worship the Father in Spirit and Truth. He is Truth, and He reveals Himself to us.
So what is true worship? How are we to experience worshipping in spirit and truth?
If it is man-made worship and contrived, it is filled with ignorance of the true message of God's Word, and will lead us to all kinds of false ideas and superstitions. But if it is God-centred worship, then it is always initiated by God. He is constantly seeking us to enter into a worship experience with Him.
True worship is a spiritual experience that transcends the earthly, the mundane and the worldly. It is Bible-centred, because God's Word is truth.
Do you want to experience true worship? Then you have to turn to Christ.
"I know that Messiah (called Christ) is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us." Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am He."


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One of the most important features of web frameworks is performance and the routing process can become an important performance killer. I'm going to introduce you a comparison between the list (in particular the skip list) and the tree as data structure for web framework's routers.
Why this article
Routing consists in calling the correct handler for the URL that user requested. Sometimes this can be a simple and fast process, but in modern scenarios most times this process slows your application, in particular when:
- You have a huge list of routes
- You rely on path parameters (sometimes 2 or more path parameters in the same route)
- You want to run multiple handlers for every URL segment
I'm writing this article because I want to implement a tree router inside Vert.x Web framework, so I'm investigating around to find what the best solution would be.
List routing vs Tree routing
A Route is a combination of HTTP method and path. The path can be a simple constant path or a path with one or more parameters, managed via regular expressions.
The list routing uses a list to contain all defined routes (in a precise order). When the server receives a request, the router iterates through the list and searches for the routes that match with the received request. This process cannot be a simple list search, because a request can match multiple times. For example: if we have a router that declares
GET "/users"
GET "/users/userA"
and we receive
/users/userA as request, the router has to run all the handlers of these three routes.
The tree routing differs from list routing for one simple thing: the routes are inside a tree. So when the router receives the request, it follows the tree searching for matching routes
When you think about a website (or, in the same situation, a web API) you think about a tree of web pages (operations) you can retrieve (perform). But most of the web frameworks don't implement the routing as a tree of resources, for multiple reasons:
- It's difficult to build a routing codebase around a concurrent tree preserving good performances
- Does the user manually build the routing tree or is the insertion a task for the algorithm? And how can we manage the regular expressions inside this insertion algorithm?
- Modern lists (for example the SkipList) are really powerful and can obtain performances similar to trees mantaining the routing codebase simple
But, not considering these problems, the tree seems a better solution for this problem, right? This is the starting thesis, now I need to prove it.
Before starting, I want to underline that some frameworks have succesfully implemented the tree routing, for example Fastify, achieving really interesting performances
Reproduce the two types of routers
The first step is creating the sketches of these two routing mechanisms. I've tried to create the list routing similar to Vert.x Web router, but of course these are only simplified examples. The router of a web framework is more complex than my 50 lines of code. The list router is implemented inside class
ListRouter and tree router is implemented inside class
The list router has a simple loop that calls for every route the function
route(); when this function returns true, the route matches perfectly and the routing process stops. Remember that when I check if route matches (both in tree and list scenario) the router:
- first checks if the path matches partially (in case of regexes it calls
lookingAt()method, while in string paths it calls the method
- Then it checks if the path matches totally (methods
equals()). If the path matches totally, the routing stops
The tree routing is a simple recursive function that works as follow:
- Base case: The path chunk is empty so we have finished the routing succesfully
- If not base case: We try to match partially first the constant paths and then the regular expressions. If we found a match, we go deeper with recursion
- If we don't find any match the requested route doesn't exist and the routing process stops
We test against path chunks for a simple reason: when we go deeper with recursion we don't need to test against previous path components (and we don't need to re-extract the parameters), so the router simply removes it from the requested URL. And of course when the string is empty we have finished the routing. To gain good performances inside tree nodes I used the skip lists (I know I've cheated) to contain associated routes.
This is only a way to implement the tree routing and also remember that I haven't written the insertion algorithm for the tree router, so I do all association between nodes manually.
Two common API scenarios
I've created two benchmarks: an example of ecommerce API and a social network API. This examples are really similar, they only differ in number of routes and how many regular expression are contained in said routes. Below you can see how this "fake" routers are composed.
Maybe Skip List is better?
The first benchmarks I wrote are simple accesses to routes. I wrote one benchmark for every route (that I store in
compatiblePaths) and every data structure. Below you can find results of
The first observation is that the constant paths in skip list are faster than in the tree router. This is caused by skip list optimization: when we get the same elements multiple times the skip list optimizes its links to access more quickly to its values. But the performances for skip lists falls in favor of tree when we use regular expressions, because of course we give a smaller string to the regular expression engine. With the
/health path we have a little difference because in tree we are at the first level, while in
/user/newUser we are one level deeper than
/health. This results are confirmed by the
SocialNetworkBenchmark with the same configuration:
So maybe skip lists are so fast that trees are not competitive in this application field? I've done two considerations:
- In a real case situation a router doesn't receive 12.000.000 same requests in one second, but maybe if it receives 1.000 same requests (for example the
/feedrequest) the skip list optimization helps a lot
- My tree implementation is rude compared to JDK's
And if I add some spice?
To confuse the skip list I've created a more real scenario: The benchmark function does 10 random requests and then the request assigned. This process complicates things a bit for the skip list, because it loses the optimization:
And of course it's a win for the tree. The fun fact is that tree defeats the skip list also in first paths.
For the social benchmark the random function that chooses the 10 requests is little bit hacky: Some paths (for example the
/feed) have more chances than other ones. But the results remain the same:
The results on
SocialNetworkBenchmark are impressive because with some paths we have 3x or more performances for tree router, but we have an unstable situation at the same level.
There's also an important consideration to do: When we go deeper, tree performances slope down, so to write a good tree router we need a good combination of access optimizations and insertion algorithm that avoids creating uselessly deep nodes.
You can find below the final results with and without load ("with load" values conveniently scaled x11):
And it's not finished!
For the two test cases and data structures I also wrote a final benchmark that accesses to
compatiblePaths sequentially and in both cases it's a huge win for tree:
But this is not a very realistic situation, because usually we have a situation like the social network benchmark with load: we have more frequent requests and less frequent requests, but it's unusual to get requests ordered in the router order sequentially.
So, what's better?
That's an hard question, because these examples don't prove a lot. But, according to this data, it makes sense to start developing a tree router because we have good preconditions. In some situations with regular expressions we have seen up to 2x performances thanks to the tree router, but it's important to get good performances also with constant paths (remember that when we have query parameters like
/user?q=blabla these URLs are splitted at the start of routing and the router treats this requests like constant paths).
Implementing a Tree Router: challenging tasks
Insertion algorithm
The insertion algorithm is the most important challange for different reasons:
- Providing an optimization at every insertion
- Splitting constant paths and mostly importantly
- Splitting regular expressions
The idea of insertion is not splitting for every
/ (like I've done in my examples) but something more like this:
- At the start we have an empty root node
- When I add a route I assign it to the root node
- When I add another route I check if it's a child of the root node or if I can split the root node in two nodes. In the first case I simply add the new route inside the list of childs, in the second case I split the root node creating two child nodes and assigning to the root node the shared first part of path
For example:
|Path inserted
|Tree update
|Empty root node
|Root node with assigned "/users/{user_id}"
|Root node assigned with "/users/" and with childs "{user_id}" and "addUser"
|"addUser" splitted in new node with "add" and childs "User" and "FacebookUser"
The last task in particular is very tricky, because a simple char to char comparison is very limiting and also can generate not working regular expressions. For example: path
/([a-b]{0, 9}) and path
/([a-z]{0, 9}) cannot be splitted creating a parent node with
/([a, because of course this regular expression is invalid. I've got some ideas about it:
- First I check if two routes have the same regular expressions in the middle. For example when we have
/users/{user_id}/eventswe split it into
/users/{user_id}/with childs
events. This can be done with some regular expressions
- If a regular expression is at the end of a path, I split at the last constant
/(not inside a group).
- If none of the previous, I treat it as first level child
To do these things maybe a library that helps "understanding" regular expressions could come in handy.
Mantaining good performances during routing
I really don't have idea how 😄. I want to start creating a simple router that does only the minimal routing and then I add conditions necessary to successfully pass the tests. Maybe operating in this way I can avoid creation of useless code.
Router Tree is possible and can give great performances to Vert.x Web. I cannot wait to start working on it!
Stay tuned!


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A Brief History
All-State Fire Protection, Inc. was founded in 1984 by Raymond Gibler. Raymond started the business with over 15 years experience.
Over the past 28 years, All-State has maintained an impeccable reputation with countless repeat customers business, we strive to maintain a superior level of quality control and customer satisfaction.
Company Profile
All-State Fire Protection, Inc. specializes in residential and commercial installation of fire sprinkler systems. We offer in-house design, fabrication and installation for steel, copper and CPVC systems. All systems are installed per NFPA standards (13, 13R, 13D). Our staff and crews are able to handle jobs big and small; ranging in size from 500 square foot residences to warehouses over 600,000 square feet. We also offer annual inspections, backflow testing and tenant finishes. Over 99% of our jobs are "design build" projects. Each project is approached individually and thoroughly assessed to address and cope with its individual challenges.
Our office is staffed Monday through Friday from 8:00 to 4:30, in the event of an emergency our staff is available to assist all customers.


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Why Cant I Just Use Anchors to Solve All Light Issues?
Are there any reasons why i cant simply create a variety of different state anchors and fire them off as and when i need them eg for public speaking?
two other quick questions are how long do anchors last for and how do they not become weakened over a period of using them?
As i just simply want to feel humour and relaxed to overpower nerves and self doubt in certain situations like public speaking.


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Both Tony Parsons and Nick Hornby find themselves quoted as reviewers of this book, which I suppose is High Fidelity and Man and Boy via Four Weddings and a Funeral. It has a sharp humour – I really enjoyed the scene on the beach in Greece where Emma's wit is at its best, and this book made me laugh out loud on a regular basis. I finished it in 24 hours, thanks to its precise narrative style, and the power of the unresolved sexual tension at its heart – you could say its premise.
Leavis criticised Hardy's use of coincidence, and this only avoids a Mills and Boon conclusion by heaping in spoonfuls of miserable coincidence near the climax. It's a pity that I finished over a week ago, before the Christmas holidays placed me in a computer free zone, and now I've forgotten lots of the details, and can't remember what I was going to say – except for one thing – read and enjoy!