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Q: Pre-existing jTable very slow - even on few records Seeking help again...
I  have a query that I run, when I run it in Netbeans it's very fast (less than a second) and about a second to display the info. When I run the same query and populate a JTable (defined at design time, not runtime), it is very slow.
DB has about 600 records - delay of 20 seconds
Limit to 10 - delay of about 10 seconds
Limit to 1 - delay of about 3 seconds
Is there a way to make the Tablemodel "quicker"?
I have contemplated paging, but even a delay of 10 seconds for about 10 records is not great - something must be inherently wrong with my code (sorry, complete Java Noob).
Below is my code:
String SQL = "SELECT RecTable.ipkRecNo, RecTable.RecName order by ipkRecNo";

DefaultTableModel defaultModel = (DefaultTableModel) jTable1.getModel();
Statement stmt = con.createStatement( ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE   ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE);
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery( SQL );

int i = 0;
String PreviousKey = "";
while ( rs.next( ) ) {
i++;
String MyRecNum = "";
String MyRecName = "";

if (rs.getString(1).trim() == PreviousKey.trim() ) {
} else {

MyRecNum = rs.getString(1);
MyRecName = rs.getString(1);

defaultModel.addRow(new Object[]{MyRecNum,MyRecName}); //1307
}

A: Javadoc for addRow method states:

Inserts a row at row in the model. The new row will contain null values unless rowData is specified. Notification of the row being added will be generated.

So, 1307 times event is generated. and that makes your program slow.

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Castle Ward is an 18th-century National Trust property located near the village of Strangford, in County Down, Northern Ireland, in the townland of the same name. It overlooks Strangford Lough and is 7 miles from Downpatrick and 1.5 miles from Strangford.

Castle Ward is open to the public and includes  of landscaped gardens, a fortified tower house, Victorian laundry, theatre, restaurant, shop, saw mill and a working corn mill. It has a shore on Strangford Lough. From 1985 to 2010 it has also hosted Castleward Opera, an annual summer opera festival.

Features

The most interesting aspect of Castle Ward is that of its dual architecture, representing the differing tastes of Lord Bangor and his wife, Lady Ann Bligh. While the entrance side of the building is done in a classical Palladian style with columns supporting a triangular pediment, the opposite side is Georgian Gothic with pointed windows, battlements and finials. This difference in style continues throughout the interior of the house with the divide down the centre.

There is a tower house in the estate's farmyard, built as a defensive structure during 1610 by Nicholas Ward.

History
The north end of Strangford Manor was originally called Carrick na Sheannagh () and owned by the Earls of Kildare. In 1570, it was bought by Bernard Ward, father of Sir Robert Ward, Surveyor-General of Ireland, and renamed Castle Ward. The 850 acre walled demesne also dates from the 16th century. The Ward family built a succession of homes in their estate; Old Castle Ward, built about 1590 near to Strangford Lough, still survives, but a mansion built about 1720 by Judge Michael Ward was demolished about 1850, although some of the associated landscaping remains.

The architect of the current building, built during the early 1760s for Michael Ward's son, Bernard Ward, is unknown, although he may have come from the Bristol area, with which the Ward family had associations. It may have been James Bridges, who practised in Bristol between 1757 and 1763 and whose work there has some similarity to Castle Ward. Bernard Ward was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as The 1st Baron Bangor in May 1770. In January 1781, Lord Bangor was further advanced in the Peerage of Ireland when he was created The 1st Viscount Bangor.

The property was inherited in May 1781, under a settlement made in 1748, by the 1st Viscount's eldest son and heir apparent, Nicholas, 2nd Viscount Bangor, who was clearly insane. When his younger brother, Edward, died in 1812, leaving a young son, the youngest brother Robert took the opportunity to relocate the insane Lord Bangor into a smaller house in Downpatrick and strip Castle Ward of everything valuable. The house stood empty until the death of the 2nd Viscount in September 1827, when it was inherited by Edward's son, now the 3rd Viscount. He and his descendants restored the building and its furnishings, but on the death of the 6th Viscount in 1950 the house and estate were given in lieu of death duties to the Government of Northern Ireland, who presented the house and its gardens to the National Trust in 1952.

On 10 February 1973, Leonard O'Hanlon (age 23) and Vivienne Fitzsimmons (age 17), both members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, were killed when the bomb they planted exploded prematurely in the grounds of Castle Ward estate.

In popular culture

Castle Ward was used as a filming location for Winterfell in the HBO television series Game of Thrones.

See also
 The Troubles in Strangford

References

External links
 Castle Ward - official site at National Trust
 Virtual Tour of Castle Ward Northern Ireland - Virtual Visit Northern Ireland

Buildings and structures in County Down
National Trust properties in Northern Ireland
Historic house museums in Northern Ireland
Museums in County Down
Grade A listed buildings
Ward family (Anglo-Irish aristocracy)

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Accountancy made easy with DNS Accountants in York
Vidit Agarwal 15 Nov, 2016
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La Muse Enchantée is a bath and beauty products company with long-standing, secret family recipes.
This Montreal-based client approached me to help create a brand for her bath and beauty products.
The recipes have been passed down through generations of women in the owner's family and are a blend of all natural ingredients, including some rare and unusual. Originally a side project, the client was getting ready to expand her company and focus solely on marketing her products in the competitive beauty and lifestyle market. She needed to stand out from her competition and not look like a "mom and pop shop".
The client felt an affinity towards fantasy and talked about her products in an almost fairy-tale-like manner. The first step was to create a logo which reflected an almost mystical aspect of these family secrets. I developed the logo using a typeface which was playful and manipulated one of the letters to become an icon of a fairy to help emphasize the fairy-tale which would become a key identifier of their brand.
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario showcased this logo in their annual day planner.
Give me a call or send me an email:
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With overtime looming on Thursday afternoon (Eastern time, anyway) at the O2 Arena in London, the Toronto Raptors (25-15) could be forgiven for having flashbacks to their last UK foray*, one that included a 137-136 triple-overtime loss to the then-New Jersey Nets. Mercifully, this time around the Raps spent less time on the court and actually came away with a 106-103 win over the 'host' Orlando Magic.
The Raptors and Magic didn't put on the most picturesque showcase of basketball for the British crowd, but they did treat them to some high intensity play that went the distance and then some. Orlando scored the last five points of regulation, including a cutting jumper by leading scorer Victor Oladipo, to force overtime. From there, though, the Raps made their first three shots in the extra frame to take a lead they would not relinquish, securing their 25th win of the season in front of 18,689 UK fans.
While no Raptor could answer Oladipo's game-high 27 points, Kyle Lowry anchored Toronto with 24 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. Though the back court tandem of he and DeMar DeRozan shot just 9-39 from the floor, they contributed in other ways, pulling down 19 combined boards and leading an aggressive free throw-based attack by going 17-20 from the charity stripe. That effort helped spark a stark free throw disparity, with Toronto making 24 of 31 attempts to just six of eight tries by the Magic, thereby offsetting Orlando's advantages in field goal percentage (45.4% to 41.1%) and in the assist department (28-20).
A few days of overseas team bonding didn't quite lead to plentiful ball movement on the part of the Raptors, but it did bring about a balanced scoring attack in which a good portion of the active roster chipped in. In fact, Toronto saw a whopping seven players hit double digits in scoring, from the team-leading Lowry down to Bismack Biyombo, who got his 11 points on just four shot attempts. Outside of Lowry and Biyombo, DeRozan, Cory Joseph, Jonas Valanciunas, Patrick Pattersona and Luis Scola all got in on the double digit scoring action.
In a radio interview from London with Sportsnet's Dean Blundell, Joseph likened the buzz surrounding the lead-up to the game to an NBA Finals atmosphere. Maybe it was fitting, then, that the Raps back-up point guard thrived amidst some different surroundings from the typical regular season game. Joseph scored 19 points on an efficient 9-11 shooting, leading a 43-20 second unit scoring advantage for the Raps.
Joseph brought some efficiency to what was an inefficient showing by the starting guards. Compared to the 23.1% shooting by likely All-Star selections Lowry and DeRozan, the starting Magic tandem of Oladipo and Evan Fournier poured in 48 combined points while shooting 18-31 (58.1%). Oladipo and Fournier have helped Orlando stay in the Eastern playoff hunt with some explosive play alongside Tobias Harris and Nikola Vucevic, but a British fan new to the NBA watching Thursday's game would conclude that they are better than the Lowry/DeRozan pair, which seems misguided.
It wasn't quite a smooth broadcast foray into London, with a sometimes-choppy TV feed, a scoreboard that didn't always work and an embarrassing snafu when the clock ran prematurely through to the buzzer during a critical final possession in regulation. However. there was still a uniquely cool atmosphere to the proceedings thanks to a decidedly more knowledgeable and engaged crowd and a cache of notable attendees, including Didier Drogba, Michael B. Jordan, Gordon Ramsey, Commissioner Adam Silver, ex-Commissioner David Stern and an impressive fivesome of NBA alumni (Hakeem Olajuwon, Rick Fox, John Amaechi, Muggsy Bogues and Horace Grant).
This is a few days late, but this SI profile on DeRozan nevertheless offers a pretty interesting bit of statistical insight into why the star shooting guard is enjoying the best stretch of play in his career. My favourite nugget: he leads the NBA in points scored on drives with 8.9 per game, connecting on 52.4% of attempts.
For the third time already this season, the Raptors 905 fell precisely one point short, losing to the pesky Sioux Falls Skyforce for the fourth time in their last five games and the fifth time in their past eight. Their 102-101 loss saw the Mississauga D-Leaguers spark a late 10-0 run, only to fall agonizingly short. Ronald Roberts led all scorers with 26 points on 8-16 shooting that included a perfect 10-10 mark from the free throw line.
Amidst a losing stretch that has seen the club drop six of their last seven games, it has to be encouraging to coach Scott Skiles and the Magic to see them hold their No. 8 seed in the current Eastern Conference standings. Still, Skiles will clearly need to figure out what ails his team, with a largely healthy roster that is struggling to jive after jumping out to a surprising start to the year. Maybe it's time to unleash some of the talent toiling in sparing minutes off the bench, including Elfrid Payton, Mario Hezonja and Andrew Nicholson, who had been logging significant floor time until recently.
After a couple of jetlag recovery days over the weekend, the Raps return to the ACC for a stretch of home cooking on Monday (7:30pm, SN1). Toronto opens a seven-game homestand and wraps the first half of their season by welcoming in the now-Brooklyn Nets.


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Brussels, 15 April 2014
Finalising the Banking Union: European Parliament backs Commission's proposals (Single Resolution Mechanism, Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive, and Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive)
Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier said: "Today, the European Parliament has adopted 3 key texts to complete the legislative work underpinning the banking union. Thanks to the assiduous work of the co-legislators, we have turned the idea of a Banking Union into reality in less than two years. The EU has lived up to its commitments: the banking union completes the economic and monetary union and ensures taxpayers will no longer foot the bill when banks face difficulties.
Not only does the banking union help to restore confidence in the banking sector, but it also ensures a truly European system of supervision and resolution of banks when they fail. With today's vote, we remain on track for the operational work to start later this year.
The 3 texts adopted today are interconnected.
The Bank Restructuration and Resolution directive sets new rules for all 28 Member States to put an end to the old paradigm of bank bail-outs, which cost taxpayers' hundreds of billions of euros in the crisis. For the first time, it enshrines in binding rules the principle of bail-in so that shareholders and creditors pay for banks' mistakes, not taxpayers. Any additional funds exceptionally required will come from the banking sector itself in the shape of specially set up resolution funds.
The Single Resolution Mechanism implements the BRRD in the Eurozone and any other participating Member State. The agreement is based on a strong and efficient Single Resolution Board at its centre, where the Commission and Council respective role is limited to a minimum. The SRM will allow for the timely and effective resolution of cross border and domestic banks, over a weekend if necessary. Within the Banking Union, the resolution funds will be pooled into one Single Resolution fund.
Together with the provisions on preferential treatment for depositors set out in the BRRD rules, the recast Directive on Deposit Guarantee schemes, strengthens even further the protection of depositors: with pre-funded guarantee schemes in each Member State, depositors can rest assured that whatever happens to the bank they deposit money in, their savings up to EUR 100,000 remain fully protected from any loss.
I would like to thank all MEPs involved and in particular the rapporteurs of the three texts, respectively- Mrs Elisa Ferreira, Mr Gunnar Hökmark and Mr Peter Simon – as well as the shadow rapporteurs.
Together with the regulatory reforms for the financial sector in all 28 countries (the single rule book for banks), the completed banking union creates the right conditions under which the financial sector can once again lend to the real economy, spurring economic recovery and job creation.
Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD)
The BRRD (IP/12/570) is the single rulebook for the resolution of banks and large investment firms in all EU Member States. It harmonises and upgrades the tools for dealing with bank crises across the EU. Banks will be required to prepare recovery plans to overcome financial distress, while authorities will lay out plans to resolve failed banks in a way which preserves their most critical functions and avoids taxpayers having to bail them out. Authorities are granted a set of powers to intervene in the operations of banks to avoid them failing. If they do face failure, authorities are equipped with comprehensive powers and tools to restructure them, allocating losses to shareholders and creditors following a clearly defined hierarchy.
National resolution funds are set up, to be replaced for Euro Area Member States by the Single Resolution Fund as of 2016. Precise arrangements are set out for how home and host authorities of banking groups are to cooperate in all stages of cross-border resolution, from resolution planning to resolution itself, with a strong role for the European Banking Authority to coordinate and mediate in case of disagreements. The rulebook set out in the BRRD will be further complemented by technical rules to be developed by the European Banking Authority on, for instance, concrete information requirements for recovery and resolution plans and securing accurate valuations of assets and losses at the point of resolution. More info, see MEMO/14/297
Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM)
The Single Resolution Mechanism (IP/13/674) will complement the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM, IP/12/953) and will ensure that – notwithstanding stronger supervision – if a bank subject to the SSM faces serious difficulties, its resolution can be managed efficiently with minimal costs to taxpayers and the real economy. The SRM will apply to all banks in the Euro Area and other Member States that opt to participate. The division of powers of the Single Resolution Board and national resolution authorities broadly follows the division of supervisory powers between the ECB and national supervisors in the context of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. The decision to resolve a failing bank will in most cases start with the ECB notifying that a bank is failing to the Board, the Commission, and the relevant national resolution authorities. The Board will then adopt a resolution scheme including the relevant resolution tools and any use of the Fund. Before the Board adopts its decision, the Commission will assess its compliance with State aid rules. The Commission will then assess the Board's decision against the resolution objectives and either endorse or object to the resolution scheme. Only when the Commission significantly modifies the amount of resources drawn from the Single Fund or contests the public interest in resolving the bank and considers it could be put into normal insolvency instead, this will be subject to approval or objection by the Council (silence procedure). Where the Council or the Commission object to the resolution scheme, the Board will have to amend the resolution scheme. The resolution scheme will then be implemented by the national resolution authorities, in accordance with national law including relevant provisions transposing the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive.
The Single Resolution Fund will be constituted from contributions from all banks in the participating Member States. It will be administrated by the Board. The Fund has a target level of €55 billion and can borrow from the markets if decided by the Board. It will reach the target level over 8 years. During the transition, the Fund will comprise national compartments, the resources accumulated in which will be progressively mutualised, starting with 40% of these resources in the first year. The Fund and the decision-making on its use is regulated by the SRM Regulation, while the transfer of contributions raised nationally towards the Single Fund and the mutualisation of the national compartments is set out in an inter-governmental agreement established among the participating Member States. More info in MEMO/14/295
Deposit Guarantee Schemes (DGS)
The Directive on Deposit Guarantee Schemes (IP/10/918) ensures that depositors will continue to benefit from a guaranteed coverage of €100,000 in case of bankruptcy backed by funds to be collected in advance from the banking sector. For the first time since the introduction of DGS in 1994, there are financing requirements for DGS in the Directive. In principle, the target level for ex ante funds of DGS is 0.8% of covered deposits (i.e. about € 55 billion) to be collected from banks over a 10-year period.
In addition, access to the guaranteed amount will be easier and faster. Repayment deadlines will be gradually reduced from the current 20 working days to 7 working days in 2024.
These new rules will benefit all EU citizens: not only will their savings be better protected, but they will also have the choice of the best savings products available in any EU country without worrying about differences in the level of protection. The new Directive will require better information to be provided to depositors to ensure that they are aware of how their deposits are protected by the guarantee schemes. More info in MEMO/14/296
For more information on the banking union
See MEMO/14/294; a citizen-friendly and cross-cutting memo on banking union, which is published today.
See MEMO/14/244, which provides a wider overview of the architecture of the banking union and of the reinforced framework for the banks of the 28 Member States.
and consult the website:
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/finances/banking-union/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/bank/crisis_management/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/bank/guarantee/index_en.htm
Chantal Hughes (+32 2 296 44 50)
Audrey Augier (+32 2 297 16 07)
Carmel Dunne (+32 2 299 88 94)
For the public: Europe Direct by phone 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 or by email


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DNGRFLD is a studio album by American hip hop artist Prolyphic. It was released November 4, 2016 on Strange Famous Records.

Music
The album is mostly produced by Prolyphic, with one track contributed by Matt Stine. Guest appearances include Seez Mics and Cas One.

Track listing
All tracks are produced by Prolyphic except where noted.

References

External links
 DNGRFLD at Bandcamp
 DNGRFLD at Discogs

Strange Famous Records albums
2016 albums
Hip hop albums by American artists


As a shed-star, Azrael's appearance is reflective of the night sky, and specifically, the aurora borealis. He is a tall and well-muscled stallion, with a broad chest and long, strong legs. His coat is a dappled sort of roan, with shades of black and silver colliding in a manner reminiscent of a cloudy night's sky. Dark points accent his legs and face, and a dorsal stripe of iridescent blue and turquoise stretches from the crown of his neck down his rump. He has an iridescence swath of turquoise and purple along his neck and dorsal stripe, which glows softly in the night.
Azrael's mane and tail are long and dark – inky black with interspersed highlights of turquoise. The turquoise color is repeated in his eyes, a strange shade for shed-stars who usually bear silver-grey. They are the eyes of a priest who sees far more than he lets on – a priest who communes with the very stars in the night sky – knowing, seeking, holy. Still stranger, his very hooves are painted with a cyan hue, shining even in the darkest of nights with an eerie sheen. He is, in a word, an ethereal sort of beast – a true representation of his people – the people of light.
Azrael is an ethereal sort of creature. He is not old, but seems almost timeless in the way he carries himself. Though he can come off as being a bit stoic, once he begins to talk with others, there is a hint of humor that can come out. He tends to be a bit reserved and introverted, not so much because he doesn't like the company of others, but more because he is a creature who listens and observes the world around him – always keen to know more. These traits make him a skilled magician, astute and observant. Additionally, he is eager to speak of the lore of Novus, and eager to serve the night goddess Caligo.
The stallion is kind, and his curiosity about the world easily draws others in. There is a light of intelligence in his eye, and confidence it the way he interacts with others. It can be said Azrael is something of an old soul, and he particularly enjoys lessons and accouterments from the past. In addition to his profession as a magician, Azrael can be considered artistic. He takes great pleasure in the beauty of the world around him, particularly in things which mirror the night sky that he loves so.
It is said that in the beginning, the shed-stars came from the heavens, that they were blessed by the night goddess herself to wear the colors of the northern sky. They came in all shades and colors, reminiscent of ethereal stars, and Azrael is no exception. His appearance is one which has been passed down from many generations before him, and the stallion is quintessentially a star-watcher, worshiping the heavens and the deities of night with a fierce passion.
Little is know of his individual history, only that he came to Novus with the others as the descended from the mountains. Azrael had no family to speak of, he is simply one of the people – one of the body of shed-star horses who came to the night court with little more than a curious sort of dream. He is not one to speak of his past, because Azrael is a humble sort of beast. Devoting his life to his craft, he does not easily give in to the pleasures of life, instead focusing on his work and his worship… but there is a kind and personable creature behind his mask of piety… it's just difficult to scratch past it.
He is a creature whose history is being written and rewritten every day. Unlike many of the other entertainers of the Night Court, it would be rare for Azrael to weave a clever story of his childhood or past. He takes a rather clinical mindset to his childhood – for he was born and raised in the herd, but did not maintain a strong bond or relationship with his mother. Instead, the stallion was raised in more of a communal setting, relying on the bond of the herd more than the bond to individuals. It is somewhat difficult for him now, branching out alone into Novus to forge a new path and assimilate into his new life at the Night Court.
Azrael has passive magic, which allows for his body to emit a soft glow. There is a glow along his neck and dorsal stripe, his turquoise eyes, and his turquoise hooves, reminiscent of the northern lights.
Azrael wears and enchanted necklace of a smooth obelisk design, which glows with a turquoise light.
Though he does not wield it often, Azrael carries a staff which is made of smooth onyx with silver inlay. At the top, it branches into a sort of dream-catcher, adorned with gemstones and sparkling bits of metallic fragments, giving it an appearance of stardust. It is more ornamental than truly functional as a weapon, though in a battle, it can be wielded much like a Bo Staff in martial arts.


NEW YORK (The Deal) -- Yongye International (YONG said Wednesday the $340 million buyout by chairman and CEO Zishen Wum and the Asian private equity arm of Morgan Stanley did not get the required vote of nonaffiliated shareholders at an adjourned special meeting.
The Beijing-based, Nevada-incorporated company is one of the latest buybacks of Chinese entities floated in the U.S., most of which have closed even as they have traded at wider spreads than other deals in the risk arbitrage market. The Yongye special meeting was adjourned Feb. 19 to garner support from the nonaffiliated shareholders, of which the agreement required a simple majority beyond the 37.8% that was committed to the deal.
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., Glass Lewis & Co. LLC and Egan-Jones Proxy Services each recommended shareholders approve the buyout proposal of $6.69 per share.
Yongye is a manufacturer and distributor of crop nutrients in the People's Republic of China.
The buyout had some opposition from hedge funds but also might have suffered from turnout of the retail shareholder base. Glenhill Advisors LLC, with 4% of Yongye, filed a 13D in October in opposition to the buyout valuation but amended its position in January, stating it might vote for the deal. Pine River Capital Management LP, with a 4% stake, and Pentwater Capital Management LP, with 8%, each followed into the buyout.
The company has historically had a large retail shareholder base, which may have hampered the vote. The final numbers have not been released but are expected to be filed with Securities and Exchange Commission by next week.
Glenhill attempted without success to produce a competing offer for Yongye but threw in the towel on the effort in January.
According to one arbitrage source, there was a banter over the deal price leading into the vote on March 5, but the two sides could not come to an agreement.
Yongye representatives, as well as the funds holding the largest stakes, were not available for comment.
The deal had been bumped 9 cents, or 1.4%, from the October 2012 approach of $6.60 per share, and Yongye said in its solicitation materials that the sweetener was difficult to get out of the buyer group. With Glenhill's attestation that a competing bid could not be expected, the outcome looks uncertain at best.
The current bid is off the table. Apparently some of the retail vote that the buyers adjourned the meeting in order to court came in against the deal, and there was no latitude to alter the vote threshold.
Yongye opened Thursday at $5.98 per share, down 9% from the previous day's close.


The use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) has been an established practice in the U.S. for years, but the use of DPAs was just introduced into the U.K. in 2014, and there have as yet only been a very small number of cases involving DPAs in the U.K. In the following guest post, Mark Sutton and Karen Boto take a look at the developments surrounding the use of a DPA in connection with the DPA recently agreed to between the U.K. grocery store firm Tesco and the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). I would like to thank Mark and Karen for allowing me to publish their article. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest for this blog's readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is Mark and Karen's article.


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Well done to everyone who competed at the Cults Novice Gala today, you all made your club proud. For some it was one of their first meets apart from the club champs, so well done on that part too. We had some exceptional swims, with swimmers beating their times by a large margin being the ubiquitous occurance of the day's swims, and even people beating the times they did 2 weeks ago at the Aberdeen ASC Mini Meet.
A special mention to Lily Pirie for Dyce 'Swim Of The Meet' with a phenomenal 50 FC swim, seeded as 13th in her age group and 52nd overall then going in and smashing her PB by 12 seconds to finish 3rd in her age group.
With a team of 14 swimmers, it's rather satisfying to see that not only are Dyce becoming a stronger team at competitions, but with the growing membership of the club, the sheer size of the teams we bring to competitions are bigger and create more of a presence on the swimming scene. Onwards and upwards to our own mini meet in 4 weeks time!
In the words of our own head coach, Sean Breen: " #Dyce #1team "
Very successful weekend for our small team this weekend at the North District Age group champs. Some excellent swimming all round. Olivia put aside nerves to go under SNAGS considerations posting 31.52 for 50 freestyle. Sarah was District champion in the 200 backstroke. We had some new members join who all performed well finishing on the podium numerous times including a 1,2 in the 100 freestyle. They were very much part of the team and were good with the younger swimmers. All our relay teams did exceptionally well. Our boys 15+ team of Brendan, Conner, Louis & Fraser managed to get themselves a bronze medal in the 4x100 medley.
Five Dyce swimmers enjoyed their 'swim skills' session with Hannah Miley at ASV with Lauryn McLean attending as their coach. A great afternoon.
A huge well done to all the swimmers competing today at our own mini meet; you swam excellently! More collectively, all the Dyce members who attended, whether it be officials, helpers, swimmers, or just being a supporting parent: you made me extra proud to stand on poolside today knowing I was part of such a hard-working, morale-filled team.
A special mention to the 3 swimmers that competed for the first time today - Grace Duncan, Caitlin Sinclair and Morgan Higgins. You all did the club very proud and sincerely hope you enjoyed it as much that'll you'll partake in many more!
Bubbles also stayed the whole day and supported his team: excellent to see such a senior member still supporting his club with such dedication. However, he needs a club kit update... Joyce???
As for medals, in the afternoon we certainly had a significant medal haul as the more experienced swimmers competing in their last year of mini meets from J3 squad led the way for the younger swimmers. You were excellent role models for the younger ones who stayed to watch and support, and I wish you luck for those of you competing at SNAGS next week.
Last of all, a huge well done to the recipient of the Kathy Milligan Trophy, Jessica Mackay, for not only swimming her absolute socks off with her team mates in her own events and the relay, she was also an excellent team leader for the swimmers who weren't quite as experienced. She even went as far as to follow in her mum's footsteps and take the land warm-up before the first session. Massive thanks and well done young lady.
Incredible effort from all that swam individually and in the UOA relay teams at SNAGs this week. It's brilliant to see you guys competing with the best swimmers in the country. Congratulations to our finalists and medal winners.
Well done and thanks to our officials too, who always do a brilliant job for us!
I hope this inspires the next generation of young ones at Dyce ASC. Any pictures feel free to send through to us.
A big well done from all at Dyce ASC, such a great achievement & well deserved after all the hard work he put in. We look forward to hearing more success from him.
So across the whole weekend we had a group of swimmers competing at the Westhill Invitational meet. My first meet i've coached at for a good while now, and what a blast i had, Rob came for the final session on sunday and we were both just itching to get in and race ourselves!
Fantastic team spirit for the most part of the whole weekend, and some top quality swimming especially with no rest during a period of hard training. Every swimmer swam at least one very good swim, and there were a multitude of PB's aswell.
Swimming across the weekend we had Lucy Alexander, Morgan Johnston, Abbie Ashton, Nicole Cooper, Kate Cassidy, Brodie Dines, Owen Simpson, Dominic Fraser and of course our very own coach, Stuart Davidson.
Stuart proved that training is paying off, taking his 100 fly down to a 1.07, a whole 2 seconds faster than myself so i better get training!
Lucy finally decided that she could go out fast in the first half of a race and went out on her 50 pb for the 100 back, finishing in a fantastic time of 1.18.9. She also was put up against Stuart Mackintosh in the bc leg of the medley relay, and swam a pb of 36.4!
Morgan proved how determined she was to earn a place on the 4x50 free relay team in the 50 free event on sunday afternoon, beating her pb to go 34.0, and upon being put in the relay team, stormed the 3rd leg to post a 32.9 on my stopwatch!
Abbie just swam the one race, the first event on saturday morning, in which she swam extremely well having had a hypo in the morning before hand and feeling rather nervous!
Owen has been training seriously hard recently, and it showed as he posted a massive PB in the 200 back to go 2.48, again in the 100 back to go 1.19, and again still in the 50 back to go 36!
Brodie has also been training hard and again proved himself in 200 free posting a 2.30, and again in the 100 free smashing his pb to go 1.09! And a bit of hilarity, just remembered that he swam an extra 75m in his 400 free because the boy next to him wouldn't stop, whole poolside was going crazy😂! Still posted an excellent time of 5.16.
Kate showed that even though she had a lot of things to work on in her races, she was still managing to PB posting a 2 second PB in her 200 fly, and also posting a solid 5.16 in her 400.
Dominic turned up on the Saturday afternoon although i was then informed he wasn't actually swimming till Sunday afternoon! However he turned up on Sunday and swam absolutely amazingly, getting a 19 second pb in his 100 free to post a 1.22.
Really great swimming guys, lets keep up the hard work under Sean, Lauren, Rob and Stu, and it was an absolute pleasure coaching such an enthusiastic bunch of kids that all got on so well with eachother, it made me proud to represent Dyce the entire weekend and made me even more excited to get back into the pool racing again!
Great swimming from all the swimmers representing Dyce this weekend, including members at their very first competition, through to one of our own team captains.
Today we had a team of 16 swimmers representing Dyce from across the club, with a special mention for Fay Cruickshank as it was her first competition with the club, yet stayed the whole day to support her team mates.
A huge number of PB's were posted over the course of the day, showing that their hard work is definitely paying off. We also had a number of medals acquired across the day, including a fantastic 4 x 50 free relay to finish, comfortably swimming to gold medal position.
Excellent performance from everyone this weekend guys, excellent ambassadors for Dyce. Additionally, excellent team spirit too, fantastic to see :).
More photos will hopefully be uploaded onto our gallery page soon….
Coach report by Rob Morrison….
Just wanted to congratulate everyone for a fantastic day at the pool. Before we even mention the swimmers I think its best to start by thanking everyone involved in the running and the organising of the meet as I'm sure that we will all agree that they did an amazing job catering for not only our swimmers but the SDS swimmers as well.
In the pool it was a brilliant day for Dyce. Whether it was the seasoned veterans or those new to swimming long course everyone performed really well with some fantastic times on show. We also had a fair few medals in both the individual swims and relays which is great to see especially at our own meet. A special thank you to our swimmers within the UoA program that came along to not only support their team mates but swim some good times and help win some medals in the relays.
For those still with competitions this season; ND Development meet, Scottish or British nationals, today should hopefully set you up nicely for those, however for all of those who don't, today was a fantastic way to end the season in style. Well done to everyone.
A big well done to our young swimmers at Peterhead Mini Meet, with a few medals in the bag!
Thanks to Rob for superb coaching as always.
A big well done goes out to all the Dyce ASC members that represented the UOA team at the Scottish Open. There were some brilliant swims over the course of the week in individual and relay races.
Congratulations go out to Conner Morrison and Fraser Agnew on their successes (photos above).
Conner took Gold in the 200 Freestyle and 200 I.M, Silver for the 100 Breastroke and Butterfly and Bronze in the 100 Backstroke.
Fraser won Junior titles in both the 200 and 800 Freestyle achieving Silver squad times in the process.
Best of luck to everyone at the Scottish and British Summer Meets!
Well done to all on a fantastic year.
Final medal table for 2016/17 season.
Another fantastic weekend for Dyce members swimming as part of the UOA swim team at the Scottish Summer Meet. We had some excellent personal bests across the board and finalists every night. First of all well done to everyone for an amazing effort. Congratulations to our medal winners.
Great end of season for everyone. Best of luck to Sarah Fraser who still has the British Champs to go!
An excellent day across the board, with a large team of 17 swimmers partaking in many events across the course of the day. Made Rob and I very proud coaches to see all of our swimmers giving their all in the pool and even better, out of the pool too - such a fantastic team spirit from our wee ones. An extra mention for some swimmers who are still within their first few competitions ever: you all did very well and are all proving the future of Dyce ASC is safely secure and on an excellent path.
Last highlight and one of the best has to be both of our relay teams in both the morning and afternoon - you made us and the rest of your team very proud!
Another meet gone by, which, for some, was the first of the new season; for others it was the second after the Dunedin Challenge last weekend. Some fantastic swims across the board, from our youngest up to our newly-appointed UoA members.
We had some superb swims and many personal best times were broken, but most importantly it seemed like everyone enjoyed the day. Huge well done to everyone who swam and all the officials for giving up your time to let the kids have a meet to swim at.
David Downie (judging) , Fraser Agnew (swimming) and Sean Breen (coaching). Well done to Fraser on his bronze medal in the relay.
As you can see, our swimmers are performing very well and I am delighted to see all levels of the club performing to a standard that makes the club, and themselves, very proud indeed.
Thanks guys, onto the next one!
A big thank you from the swimmers to the coaches again for giving up their time so early on a Sunday AM!
Congratulations go out to Conner Morrison for winning the Disability sports achiever of the year for 2017 at the Aberdeen Sports Awards.
Excellent weekend for our members representing the UOA at the ND open. Some great swims all round. Many swimmers had personal bests and made finals with some awesome times!
Fraser Agnew won the 16/U 100 freestyle title and finished 6th in the open 400 freestyle. He also won the 16/U 200fc in 1.53!
Ethan Lindsay won the 16/U 200 breastroke & got 2nd place in the 16/U 100 brs in 68!
Awesome swimming from all our swimmers and well done to the UOA for winning top club for the weekend.
Anyway, as it was two of our members' first meet, we especially hope they enjoyed it as much as Rob and I did coaching there: Amy and Arran were both very excited to be there and were a credit to the club. We had a great number of swims across the day for all our swimmers to watch and of course swim in, and I have to say I was exceptionally impressed with our team and how they swam, behaved, and supported each other (because after all, there's no I in Dyce). However, Rob and I do have a special mention for the swim of the day: Carla Dines, with her extremely speedy, silver medal winning swim in the 9-year-old girls' 50m Breaststroke. If you guys keep this up, we could see some records over a decade old being broken at the club championships!
Well done to all 5 swimmers that swam at Alford meet at Fraserburgh. For the amount of training they are currently doing I wasn't expecting the chunks of time that the group were taking off their times at this point so it's hugely positive.
Special mention to Emma Cobb who continued to smash all her times through the day.
Some awesome swims at the North District age groups. Personal bests being smashed all over. What an excellent weekend it was for all members of Dyce. Some incredible swims by so many. Well done to everyone for acting like athletes all weekend.
Congratulations to all swimmers, especially our medal winners as follows….
2 SNAGS times achieved by Megan L, one qualifying (37.33 50 brs) and one consideration (1.23.17 100 brs).
in great need of more judges, so much appreciated.
Congratulations go out to Conner who took the new world and European record in the men's S14 100 brs in 1.05.74. He also broke two Scottish Records in the 200 Individual medley (2:18.74) and 200 Free (2:03.29). Massive congratulations to him and his coach Gregor for this fantastic achievement.
An excellent day for all members of Dyce ASC at their club champs. Some quality swimming across the board and excellent times achieved.
Big thank you to all officials (Dyce and other clubs) who helped make it accredited and all other helpers/parents for their support.
Well done to all the swimmers, 6 club records were broken, some standing from the 1980's!
Fraser Agnew won the the Scottish short course Junior titles for 400fc & 100fc. Fantastic achievement, a big well done to Fraser.
Photo on left - 2017 trophy winners.
As well as our December Club Championships event trophy winners, congratulations go to all our other trophy winners as below….
First of all, I would like to thank all of the parents for being so helpful and supportive, and the swimmers for being so well-behaved in the absence of our head coach. There were many cases in which our swimmers dived in for their event and completely outclassed the other swimmers from start to finish: this goes to show the benefits that result from your training endeavours.
An additional note for the older swimmers: I was very impressed with your behaviour, especially with and around the younger swimmers. It would seem we have some more future coaches among our swimmers... Also a special mention for Callum Brice, who swam in his very first away meet!
In conclusion it was a very successful away meet and an excellent team building weekend for the swimmers who represented the club very well.
I had the joy of attending the Silver City Masters competition yesterday at ASV, at which there was the uni swimming champs as well. We had 4 swimmers from Dyce, with Vicky Jolly and Rachel Wood representing Dyce Masters and Stuart Davidson and Brendan Johnson representing Aberdeen Uni.
All swam very well, with some slight pb's as well as finals made for both Brendan and Stuart.
As for my masters swimmers, Vicky showed great determination to complete 100 IM and all four 50's, getting pb's in a few events and also a gold medal for her 50 fly! She also did a very good job of convincing more than just herself to compete, proving to be a very positive influence in training and out of training too. All you masters should take a note!
Rachel had an interesting meet, being new to masters and it being her first competition for 8 years, she was very nervous! Her backstroke start was fun to watch to say the least, but she more than made up for it in her 50 fly, previously telling me she would never compete again, then telling me she'd like to go 35 for 50 fly, she dived in and went 33.8, getting the bronze medal for it too. So still some of the fly swimmer in her from her younger days! All in all a very enjoyable day.
The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated double meet report for both Aberdeen and Cults' Mini Meets is finally here! A lot to say here but I'll try to keep it compendious.
An early start with the girls' session up first at Aberdeen Mini Meet kicked the day off to a good start - 3 bronze medals in the form of Eden and Carla for 50 Breaststroke and Eden's 50 Butterfly, with many sizeable and significant improvements on personal best times. Again, the Dyce crowd proved to be very mature with the way they conducted themselves in front of others and to each other, which we as coaches take an especially sanguine view on. Concluding the morning, the relays were performed very well and demanded a very positive atmosphere for all the swimmers.
A special mention to Melissa Stewart who swam at her first meet and did exceptionally well - hope to see you at many more in the future.
The boys then followed suit in the afternoon, with great swimming and team spirit, despite the limited number of boys the club has - you all do the club proud, finishing on a high with the relay teams swimming very well.
Moving forward by two weeks, we saw Cults Mini Meet well attended, with (almost) all swimmers joining in the Conga with great team spirit, and the encore Conga, and the one after that... Meanwhile, the coaches eventually tutored the announcer into knowing the term for a disqualification isn't a 'technical infraction' as he kept pronouncing it to be, much to his embarrassment...😏.
Anyway, the swimmers really outdid themselves at Cults, with quite a number of medals and some superlative improvements on times, and most importantly all of the swimmers did their club proud with their behaviour and their swimming discipline.
A special mention for swim of the day goes to Libby Fawns for her prodigious 50 Breaststroke, bringing her time right down to a 52 and smashing her way onto the podium in style. Huge well done guys - good to see the hard work paying off! Back to the hard work this week though!
Well done to all the young ones who swam at the mini meet yesterday. We had some very good personal best across the board from all swimmers.
Special mention to Logan and Lennon on their first competition as Dyce Members. Both swam very well and Logan had 37 seconds worth of personal bests and a bronze medal, then went on to win the "Dyce Swimmer of the meet" Kathy Milligan trophy which he will be presented with in the near future.
It was nice for me to do a competition to see the younger members coming through the club and I was very impressed. Keep up the good work guys!
Very well done to all swimmers today. Some excellent swimming across the board from all squads.
An awesome swim from our 4x50 freestyle relay team secured gold in a nail biting finish.
Well done Brodie Dines, Archie Johnston, Ellie Brice and Libby Fawns.
Big thank you goes out to Conner Morrison (British Para Swimming World Record Holder) for coming to visit us at ASV. As he prepares to head to Italy in the next couple of weeks, it was great for him to take some time and help out some of our younger swimmers with their breastroke technique. Great spirit and effort by all swimmers and a fantastic turn out.
There were many noteworthy swims throughout the day with an abundance of determination and wonted maturity from our swimmers, which is always great to see. An excellent team effort in the relays didn't go unnoticed either.
A few special mentions go to the medal winners too!
Keep up the hard work, we have the Hunting Meet next Sunday!
I would like to take the opportunity to thank and congratulate everyone involved in our meet. We've already had a lot of positive feedback from other clubs which is great to hear. Big congratulations to Michelle and everyone else involved for organising another very successful meet.
As this was the final meet of the season for many of the swimmers involved it was great to see them go out in style with loads of PBs and a few medals, throughout the day. Some very good swims from members of all three squads within the club especially for those swimming long course for the first time. Special mention to Owen Simpson who won gold in 3 out of 4 of his events and Eva Smith who smashed both of her PBs in her first ever competition.
It was great to see a team of 37!! Comfortably the biggest team at a meet that I've coached at. Once again big thank you to everyone that made the day as successful as it was and a huge well done to all of the swimmers involved.
Well what a weekend that was for Dyce ASC!
Over the weekend we had a number of meets going on that our members were representing at in a number of different countries.
Isla Johnston and Sarah Fraser both had good swims throughout the meet. Sarah making the B finals in the 50/100 and 200 back where she finished 3rd. 🎉.
Ethan Lindsay and Fraser Agnew both swam well in their events.
Fraser made the finals in the 50, 100, 200 and 400m freestyle. He finished 2nd in the B final for 50 free and followed it up with a silver medal in the Junior 200 freestyle in 1.55.81.
After months of hard work by some of the committee and coaches, we have our SwiMark plus accreditation. This makes us one of the few clubs in the city at this top level. Well done to everyone.
Ellie Brice: Gold 50 Back, Silver 50 Breaststroke, DYCE SWIMMER OF THE DAY!!!!
Also well done to all the other swimmers who didn't get medals but swam very well.
A great day all round and hopefully a good fundraiser for the club too!
After a successful day at our own mini meet on Saturday we had a team of 15 swimmers travel down to the Arbroath St Thomas meet for the first time. As this is a meet that as a club we had never been to before we were not sure what to expect but, due to the brilliant performances and attitude of the group of swimmers that attended, will likely be a meet we go to again.
Despite swimming the day before there were few signs of tiredness from the swimmers as they all swam very well with many PBs and strong swims throughout the day.
Eva Smith: Silver: 50 Brs, Gold: 50 Bc, 50 Fc and 100 Fc.
Amy Bell Reid: Bronze 50 Brs and 50 Fc.
Well done to all the swimmers for a very good weekend.
Day 1 - Layton had a really good personal best in his 100 Back and helped the boys 11-13 relay team. Sarah Fraser swam in the 200 back final. Fraser Agnew swam in the 50 fly final.
Day 2/3 - We have a national champion - Fraser Agnew wins the 50 Free in 23.91 & had a good 100m free in the relay too. Layton smashes his 200 backstroke time to be first reserve and followed it up with a solid 50fc. Kate Cassidy swam a strong 200 fly in the 15 year old age group to finish 15th.
Day 4 - Fraser Agnew made himself double national champion as he won the 200 freestyle in 1.54.7. Sarah finished 7th in the 50m backstroke final. Layton had a great personal best in his 400 I.M this afternoon.
Day 5 - A great last day at nationals for our members. This time Sarah Fraser was national champion with her UOA 4x200 free relay team. Fraser Agnew came home with silver in the 100 Freestyle to wrap up a good set of swims. Layton again had some good swims and helped the relay team to a decent finish. Cracking championships for our swimmers.


In the past 100 years, Americans have gained approximately 25 more years of expectancy. These gains were due to significant declines in mortality that occurred as acute infectious diseases were replaced by chronic diseases as the predominant cause of morbidity and mortality. However, 2017 was the third year in a row where U.S. life expectancy fell, a rare event that has only occurred three times in the last century. One other three-year decline occurred in 1916, 1917 and 1918, when the worst flu pandemic in modern history eliminated nearly 7% of the US population. While this is a worrisome headline, let's look at what we know and do not know yet from this recent report.
Life expectancy at birth in 2017 (which is the average number of years a baby born at that time is expected to live) declined by approximately 1.2 months between 2016 and 2017. This is a similar decline in life expectancy observed between 2014, 2015 and 2016. Note: When discussing life expectancy, we often are referring to life expectancy at birth, which is the life expectancy of a baby born in that year. However, life expectancy is calculated for many different age categories. Based on 2017 data, the life expectancy at birth was 78.6, but life expectancy for 65 year-olds was 19.5 years. These groups have that many more years to live from 2017 (on average).
Declines in life expectancy at birth were largely due to increases in mortality from unintentional injuries, suicide, diabetes, and influenza and pneumonia. Interestingly, unintentional injuries made the largest contribution. This is of interest since drug overdoses are commonly categorized on death certificates as poisoning as the cause of death, which is a form of unintentional injury. A separate CDC report with 2017 data focused on mortality from drug overdoses offered more insight on this issue. Age-adjusted mortality rates of drug overdose deaths increased on average by 10% per year from 1999 through 2006, by 3% per year from 2006 through 2014, and by 16% per year from 2014 through 2017. Life expectancy at age 65 increased by 1.2 months between 2016 and 2017, which may indicate that some factors leading to decreases in life expectancy from birth may not influence mortality that occurs at older ages. That may seem obvious for age-related causes of death (like heart disease) but it is suspected these differences in mortality by age are also partly due to the increasing rates of mortality from certain causes in younger age groups such as drug overdoses (i.e. unintentional injuries), which are more likely to impact younger adult/teenage populations. The CDC mortality report focused on drug overdoses confirmed this theory as mortality rates from drug overdoses continued to increase again in 2017 with the highest increases in adults ages 25-64 years.
Increases in life expectancy in older adults is a favorable sign for the American Heart/American Stroke Association since these improvements may be due to declines in mortality from major cardiovascular-related causes, such as ischemic heart disease and stroke.
The overall age-adjusted mortality rate increased between 2016 and 2017. This measure is an estimate of the number of deaths from all causes after accounting for: 1) changes in the total number of people, and 2) changes in the number of people by age group in the US population. If we were to only look at the total number of deaths, rather than an age-adjusted death rate, we would not know how much of the increases in the number of deaths are occurring simply because there are more people in the US or if the number of older adults (that have a higher risk of dying) are increasing. Knowing the total number of deaths is important, but age-adjusted mortality rates give us a picture of the population-level changes in mortality without the influence of these factors. The complete mortality data are needed to look more closely at the actual number of deaths by specific cause to determine the causes responsible for the greatest numbers of deaths.
When looking at the leading causes of death in 2017, mortality rates from heart disease (HD) remained in the #1 position and stroke remained the #5 leading cause from the previous year. Mortality rates for HD decreased (-.5 deaths per 100,000) but mortality rates for stroke increased (+.3 deaths per 100,000). Since the late 1960s, very large declines in heart disease and stroke mortality rates occurred. In more recent years, these declines have greatly slowed or even slightly increased. These plateaus are likely due to the increasing rates of obesity in the US population, which have led to greater rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol in the US population, which are all major risk factors for heart disease and stroke. It is important to note, the number of years lived with these risk factors further increases risk for heart disease and stroke. Since growing childhood obesity rates in the US are leading to earlier ages of onset for major cardiovascular disease risk factors, there is a concern that mortality rates for heart disease and stroke will more strongly begin to rise as today's youth/young adults get to ages where heart attacks and strokes are likely to occur. The plateau we are observing in heart disease and stroke mortality may be the first sign of an upcoming trend.
The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics collects, analyzes and reports data from all death certificated in the US, which is a tall and important public health responsibility. Since there is no national surveillance system for cardiovascular diseases, our best indication of the burden of heart disease and stroke in the US is based on death certificate data. The mortality information presented in this report is just the tip of the iceberg in regards to the extensive information made available when the complete 2017 mortality data are released in December. For more information about detailed mortality data in the US, or other types of health and vital statistics in the US, please visit the CDC WONDER website at https://wonder.cdc.gov/.


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ValeurThis early occupational and mainly 'midlands' English surname, is actually of pre medieval French origins. Introduced into England at the time of the famous Norman Conquest of 1066, it derives from the French word 'flaonet,' meaning a 'little flan', and described a maker of patisserie or pancakes. The surname is recorded in France today, but as Flaneau, Flanneau, Flanet, although originally as Flanoel and Flaonet. Occupational surnames were amongst the first to be created in the 11th century, but did not usually become hereditary unless a son or a grandson followed the founder into the same line of business. Many did not, in which case the name died out. However after about the 13th century, what we now recognise as surnames did become hereditary, and sometimes with minor spelling changes they have descended through to this day. The first recording of this surname that we have, is that of Richard le Flauner. He appears in the Friary Rolls of Leicestershire in the year 1211, indicating that he was employed as a pasty maker in a monastery. This was one of the sort-after posts of the time, when the monks and friars had a reputation for looking after their stomachs. Simon le Flanner was recorded in the court records of the city of Cambridge in 1260. This recording forms part of the guild record of skilled persons, although we do not have the details. It is unclear when the 'le' was lost, although few French prepositions survived the Middle Ages, as the traditional antagonism for the French reached its height, with the battles of Crecy and Agincourt.


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REMASTERED EDITION WITH 2 BONUS TRACKS / Two years after "Sahara", and while the period no longer seems to belong to Melodic Hard Rock, House of Lords offered us " Demons Down". It was a new turn-over in the crew: Gregg Giuffria and James Christian were still in charge of the band but the duo recruited some big names on board with bassist Sean McNabb (Great White) who replaced Chuck Wright whom he had already replaced within Quiet Riot, and especially with the legendary Tommy Aldridge behind the drums. The US combo was completed by guitarist Dennis Chick (VVSI). The production is even more powerful than on it's predecessors, carried by the keyboards of Giuffria. The latter succeeds in filling each space while letting the other instruments express themselves. The voice of James Christian is undoubtedly the jewel of the crown and is supported by omnipresent choirs reinforced by some prestigious guests (Paul Stanley, Fiona, David Glen Eisley). The rhythm section propels the ensemble with strength and accuracy, while Dennis Chick puts his talent at the service of the ensemble, while sliding some quality soli, and a shred of first order on the introduction of a "Down, Down, Down", because this is indeed the main strength of House Of Lords on "Demons Down": it is impossible to find any weakness, whether in the interpretation or in the composition. Helped by Giuffria and Christian, House of Lords tutors even the stars on Inside You, helped by Alan Pasqua (Giant), on which the emotion is at the top of the skin. Each title deserves that we stop and make of "Demons Down" an accomplished work. You can buy this real masterpiece again in a remastered version.
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Sweden's women win 2nd straight, down Australia 4-2
Fridolina Rolfo scored a pair of goals and Sweden won its second straight match in the group stage of the women's Olympic soccer tournament with a 4-2 victory over Australia on Saturday. Sweden, sitting atop Group G, opened the Tokyo Games with a 3-0 victory over the United States. Rolfo scored on a cross from Sofia Jakobsson to give Sweden the early lead against the Matlidas in the 20th minute.
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Sweden players celebrate with their third place medals following their sides victory in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France 3rd Place Match match between England and Sweden at Stade de Nice on July 6 in Nice, France. (Photo by Robert(CNN) - A third-place playoff is the toughest of gigs for teams that had had high hopes of reaching a World Cup final. Not that anybody had told Sweden, who came out of the blocks to take the Women's World Cup bronze medal, after securing a 2-1 win over England at the Stade de Nice on Saturday. It's the third time that Sweden has secured bronze after winning the third-place playoff games in 1991 and 2011. On Sunday, the USWNT will face the Netherlands in the Women's World Cup final in Lyon.


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Gang of Four's New Album 'What Happens Next' out this Month
Following the release of 'Content' and some line up changes from few years ago. Gang of Four will release their eighth studio album entitled 'What Happens Next' this month. The album features a number of guest vocalists and instrumentalists, including Big Pink's Robbie Furze, Japanese guitarist Hotei, and German singer Herbert Grönemeyer. The most notable guest, however, is Alison Mosshart, who appears on several album tracks, including lead single "Broken Talk". 'What Happens Next' will be out on February 24th via Metropolis Records.


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Q: Algorithm for generating a 'top list' using word frequency I have a big collection of human generated content. I want to find the words or phrases that occur most often. What is an efficient way to do this?

A: Don't reinvent the wheel. Use a full text search engine such as Lucene.

A: The simple/naive way is to use a hashtable. Walk through the words and increment the count as you go.
At the end of the process sort the key/value pairs by count.

A: the basic idea is simple -- in executable pseudocode,
from collections import defaultdict

def process(words):
  d = defaultdict(int)
  for w in words: d[w] += 1
  return d

Of course, the devil is in the details -- how do you turn the big collection into an iterator yielding words?  Is it big enough that you can't process it on a single machine but rather need a mapreduce approach e.g. via hadoop?  Etc, etc.  NLTK can help with the linguistic aspects (isolating words in languages that don't separate them cleanly).
On a single-machine execution (net of mapreduce), one issue that can arise is that the simple idea gives you far too many singletons or thereabouts (words occurring once or just a few times), which fill memory. A probabilistic retort to that is to do two passes: one with random sampling (get only one word in ten, or one in a hundred) to make a set of words that are candidates for the top ranks, then a second pass skipping words that are not in the candidate set. Depending on how many words you're sampling and how many you want in the result, it's possible to compute an upper bound on the probability that you're going to miss an important word this way (and for reasonable numbers, and any natural language, I assure you that you'll be just fine).
Once you have your dictionary mapping words to numbers of occurrences you just need to pick the top N words by occurrences -- a heap-queue will help there, if the dictionary is just too large to sort by occurrences in its entirety (e.g. in my favorite executable pseudocode, heapq.nlargest will do it, for example).

A: Look into the Apriori algorithm. It can be used to find frequent items and/or frequent sets of items.
Like the wikipedia article states, there are more efficient algorithms that do the same thing, but this could be a good start to see if this will apply to your situation.

A: Maybe you can try using a PATRICIA trie or practical algorithm to retrieve information coded in alphanumeric trie?

A: Why not a simple map with key as the word and the Counter as the Value.
It will give the top used words, by taking the high value counter.
It is just a O(N) operation.


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UK to Israel: Don't strike Iran
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BY AFP— Cameron said in a speech to the United Jewish Israel Appeal in London that a military strike against sites in Iran would only serve to rally the Iranian people around the regime at a time when the sanctions were starting to bite. But he warned the Iranians that if they failed to halt…
EU to approve new sanctions on Iran
BY ISRAEL HAYOM— U.S. exports to Iran rose by nearly a third this year, chiefly because of grain sales, according to U.S. data released last week, despite the tightening of U.S. financial sanctions. The jump to $199.5 million in the first eight months of 2012 from $150.8 million a year earlier, according to Census Bureau…
Israel preparing for flood of Syrian refugees
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By TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU— The IDF has drawn lines around land that will be used to absorb a potential flood of Syrian refugees fleeing from the civil war, and prevent a spillover of violence into Israel, Voice of Israel government radio reported. Military sources said the areas were designated "in cooperation with the United Nations…