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Major Arthur John Allmand KSG MC FRS FRIC (7 January 1885 – 4 August 1951) was an English chemist, professor of King's College London and Knight of the Roman Catholic Order of St. Gregory the Great.

Early life
1885 in Wrexham, England to Frank (1858-1948) and Mary Allmand, née Thomas (1861-1918)  Frank Allmand, was the son of John and Elizabeth Allmand of Park Lodge, Rhosddu Road. The Allmands came from the Malpas area of Cheshire. Frank Allmand was a flour miller of Wrexham who originally owned a water mill, and later a steam mill. Frank Allmand's mill was later burnt down and this combined with the decline of smaller mills in the late 19th Century meant he subsequently became a corn and flour dealer.  To supliment his income Frank Allmand bred large white pigs gaining championships at the 'Bath and West' and other prizes.The family were not well off, but at the 1891 census had two servants. Mary Allmand's father was a Timber Merchant. Allmand spent his early years at 23 Chester Street, Wrexham later the District Registry office.Allmand's education first began in a Dame School in Wrexham until 1894 before proceeding to London to live with his Aunt in order to attend Alleyn's School, Dulwich on a Scholarship that waived his fees. On account of his aunt leaving London, he returned to Wrexam in 1898 where he attended Grove Park School.

Allmand had decided to become a Chemist after being shown an article in The Scotsman by Professor Tapp of the University of Aberdeen. Despite the disapproval from his headmaster at Grove Park School for not pursuing a university education at Oxford Allmand passed the matriculation exam in 1901 in London, being placed 9th in honours. From there in 1902 Allmand attendedUniversity College Liverpool, Victoria University later University of Liverpool studying chemistry at first under James Campbell Brown with three Scholarships, the Gilchrist, the Tate Scholarship in technical science and one from the Denbighshire Education Committee. At Liverpool Allmand was a close contemporary of Francis Arthur Freeth and Warrington Yorke, with the trio always sitting side by side.
Outside of Chemistry Allmand came under the influence of Bernard Pares, from whom he learnt Russian, the Celtic Scholar Kuno Myer, from whom he learnt some Celtic Philology and the linguist John Sampson. The Literary Scholar Oliver Elton was so impressed by his literary ability that he unsuccessfully asked him to join his staff.

Allmand graduated with a first-class honours degree in Chemistry in 1905.

Early career
Allmands early career was spent at the University of Liverpool as a researcher under of Frederick Donnan where he assisted with design and equipment of the Muspratt Laboratory of Physical Chemistry. It was here Allmand developed a real interest in electrochemistry. Allmand then undertook an M.Sc degree in 1906, and a D.Sc in 1910.

It was in 1910 that Allmand was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship awarded to "young scientists or engineers of exceptional promise" which took him to the University of Karlsruhe where Allmand worked under Fritz Haber between 1910 and 1911 and subsequently to  Royal Saxon Polytechnic Institute, Dresden under Robert Luther between 1911 and 1912. Between 1912 and 1913 Allmand became Donnan's research assistant in Liverpool and accompanied him to London when Donnan succeeded Sir William Ramsay as the Chair of Chemistry at University College, London.

In 1913 Allmand returned to the University of Liverpool where Allmand was assistant lecturer and demonstrator, holding this position till 1919.

Military career
Allmand was in Germany at the start of World War I in 1914, and had to escape the country via Poland, Russia and Sweden.

It was after this that Allmand decided to pursue a commission in the British Army.

He was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment in January 1915 and in the spring of 1915 he joined the 5th Battalion near Ypres; they subsequently went to the Somme. After the introduction of chemical warfare during the war Allmand, as an officer with a chemical background, was seconded from Regimental duty to Gas Services Royal Engineers as Assistant Chemical Adviser to the Third Army on 30 August 1915. In 1916 year he was made a Chemical Adviser to the Fourth Army and in 1918 he was chemical advisor with the Second Army, was in the Army of Occupation and in 1919 was demobilised with the rank of Major.

Allmand was awarded a Military Cross on 3 June 1916.

Later career
After leaving the University of Liverpool Allmand's next role was as Professor of Chemistry at King's College, London starting in 1919 until 1950, when he retired. During this time he also served as Dean of the faculty, and was also titled as "Senior Professor".

It was around this time that Allmand developed a growing interest in photochemistry and by 1924 had several researches in both photochemistry and electrochemistry. Through photochemistry he pursued kinetic theory and reaction kinetics that according to Frederick Freeth in his obituary "added greatly to the breadth of Allmand's learning and the interest of his school."

Allmand was a Vice-President of the Chemical Society and President of the Faraday Society, between the years of 1947 and 1948. Allmand was an Honorary Fellow of the Polish Chemical Society. He was elected as a fellow into the Royal Society in 1929 and was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, a fellow of the Electroplaters Technical Society and for many years was a member of the American Chemical Society and the Deutsche Bunsen Gesellschaft.

Catholic Faith
A landmark and reported turning point in his life was his conversion to his wife's faith, the Roman Catholic Church. Allmand was reported to be naturally a religious man, and held a devotion to the Catholic Church all his life.

In his obituary it was written by Francis Arthur Freeth that:Allmand's main working life was dominated by his intense religious conviction that his duty was to serve his country, his university and his students to the greater glory of God.Allmand's devotion and piousness to the Catholic Church is the indicated by the fact that Pope Pius VII made him a Knight of the Order of Saint Gregory in 1950.

Marriage and Personal life
Allmand married Marguerite Marie Suzannie Malicorne (25 February 1896 - April 1957) 17 July 1920 in Saint-Mandé . Malicornes parents were Normans from the Saint-Lô district; small landowners and professionals. There were three children of the marriage:

 Marguerite Allmand (5 August 1921- 26 October 2009) who studied languages at the University of London and during the Second World War served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service and worked as a code breaker at Bletchley Park. She married a Civil Servant named John William Murphy in April 1948 and had 4 children.
 Captain Michael Allmand VC (22 August 1923 – 24 June 1944) who was educated at Ampleforth College followed by Oriel College, Oxford where he studied history. Michael was commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps in 1943 and joined the 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers, where he volunteered to serve in the Second Chindits Expedition and was posted to the 3rd Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles, in  the 77 Infantry Brigade. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour for two separate incidents on 11 June and 23 June 1944, the latter incident is where he was mortally wounded. Upon announcement of the award the family residence at Hampstead was swarmed with reporters. The VC was presented to his family by King George VI at Buckingham Palace on 17 July 1945.
 Christopher Allmand (18 April 1936 – 16 November 2022) who was educated at Ampleforth College followed by Oriel College, Oxford where he studied h istory. Christopher Allmand pursued an academic career and in the Late Middle Ages in England and France. His particular research and teaching interests lay in the Hundred Years' War. He spent most of his teaching career at the University of Liverpool, becoming Professor of Medieval History, until his retirement in 1998. He married Bernadette Heath in 1964 and had 4 daughters.

Allmand had some knowledge of the Welsh language, but was not fluent. The Allmand household was a bilingual one, where both French and English were spoken on account of Allmand's French wife. Allmand was said to be often dressed in a blue suit, flannel shirt and regimental tie and was said to be committed to his duty with an enthusiasm for army life and training.

The Allmand family home was No 5 North Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Death
Major Arthur John Allmand died on the 4 August 1951 after a botched operation. Allmand's funeral was held at St Edward the Confessor Church, Golders Green.

In Sir Ernest Barker's biography Age and Youth: Memories of Three Universities and Father of the Man, Baker writes of King's College, London, and says: 'in chemistry there was that rare spirit, saint as well as chemist whose memory is a benediction, A. J. Allmand'.

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HILL OF BEANS: Class Clowns /
HILL OF BEANS: Class Clowns
Both parties raise gobs of money by shaking down the rich. But there can't have been a bigger public celebration of extortion in modern times than the Democrats' record-breaking, $26.5-million "Tribute to President Clinton," held in Washington's MCI Center last week. What was galling about the event was its pretensions to being anti-plutocratic. It was a "blue-jean fundraiser" -- juss a regla hoedown barby-cue! Everyone present, starting with the President and Mrs. Clinton, was dressed in the jeans-and-boots style that Dave Barry refers to as "pretend cowboy." And anyone who wanted to could get in, for just 50 dollars.
Well, yeah. But the seats around the President were reserved for donors who had raised half a million dollars apiece. That's what you had to pay to play, to actually have a voice in the Democratic Party's priorities -- and it's a barrier to democratic participation of unprecedented height. Real access -- the President's ear -- costs a half mil. What you got for 50 bucks, by contrast, was the chance to come and wallah to your social superiors. There were two separate events here: one for the ruling class, and one for the proles.
There's nothing wrong with segregating by class in certain venues -- but a public meeting of the party that claims to speak for the "little guy" is not one of those venues. It was the fraudulence with which the Democrats tried to camouflage their two-track idea of citizenship that really got one's goat. The event's organizer, Terry McAuliffe, one of the most ruthless fundraisers of our time, got a rise out of the crowd by showing on a video screen the menu at a Republican fundraiser held a month ago. It had a goat cheese appetizer on it, along with an orange meringue cake for dessert. What's more, McAuliffe said, the Republicans were actually wearing ties. "How many people came to this [Democratic] event in a long black stretch limousine?" McAuliffe said. "Who here tonight is wearing a tuxedo?"
Yuh? So what?
To say McAuliffe is engaging in class mystification here would be too gentle; it's more like class fraud. He's hoping no one notices that pretty much all the class markers and status symbols that prevailed for half a century after World War II have lost their meaning. Haute cuisine no longer marks you as a nob: you can get goat cheese at Taco Bell and orange meringue cake in the Cheesecake Factory. Black stretch limousines are far less in demand among international bankers than they are among drunk 24-year-olds on their way to Hooters for a bachelor party. If there's one thing a tie says about someone for certain, it's that he's not a member of the information-age upper class. You'll see more ties worn behind the Midas Muffler counter than you will in Microsoft's boardroom.
Rich and complacent lefties seem to have an interest in the preposterous idea that tie-wearing signifies callous wealth and tielessness middle-class sincerity. That godawful song by Bruce Hornsby -- than whom no leftist is more complacent -- in which "a man in a silk suit" tells a homeless person to "get a job" is priceless in this regard. A silk suit? Who does he think the typical member of the American upper class is? Lord Alfred Douglas?
And before we start urging that everyone dress alike, we should ask whether we really want to have an upper class that's invisible. As Ruy Teixeira and Joel Rogers point out in their new book, America's Forgotten Majority, there still is a working class in America. Its members just do different things. They fold sweaters at the Gap rather than pour steel, and it can't be long before it dawns on them that the Democratic Party may have been a wonderful instrument of upward mobility for those who were in the same boat 65 years ago but has never done jack for them.
There is a new upper class, too. These are the "bourgeois bohemians" my friend David Brooks describes in his new book Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. This is a masterpiece of taxonomy, sociology and reportage. But it never faces squarely the most important political question: that an upper class is of necessity a ruling class. (Otherwise, it would be a mere income bracket, not a class.)
They, too, do different things. They make movies rather than sell stocks and bonds. Look at Robert Johnson, CEO of Black Entertainment Television. BET has about two hours a week of original programming. Johnson has become a billionaire (yes-with a "b") largely thanks to government must-carry directives that get BET included in cable packages that even Fox doesn't get into. And now, in the wake of the United buyout of US Airways, Johnson, who sits on the board, is being offered ... his own airline! Yes, DCAir, which will get most of USAir's domestic non-shuttle routes. United seems to expect that the Clinton administration's oft-voiced desire to secure more minority involvement in the transportation industry will encourage its Justice Dept. to look the other way once the antitrust implications of the merger come up.
Now, you may be an affirmative-action supporter who thinks, on balance, that the pluses of having a black airline boss outweigh the minuses that come from the blatant cronyism of the arrangement. But you cannot ignore that it is cronyism-of the most old-style, plutocratic, interlocking-directorates kind. Johnson's commitment to "progressivism" seems to stop at de facto set-asides like this one. It certainly doesn't extend to union organizing, which Johnson has blocked at BET. In the way he earned billions through government-aided "free enterprise," Johnson resembles no billionaire so much as Ross Perot, who made his own stash reselling computer expertise that his company (EDS) had been paid to develop by the state of Texas. Would you give an airline to Ross Perot? Is Ross Perot any more a pillar of the "upper class"?
This is an unusually "sweet" and "concerned" upper class, but it's an unusually sneaky one. It is desperate to avoid opening the question of whether the advantages it enjoys are fair ones, so it has an interest in class camouflage. It's hard to say whether the Clintons and their kind really enjoy dressing up like cowboys and Australian shepherds and Amazon River tour guides, or whether they recognize they're engaged in a con job that requires bamboozling the poor as to who their real allies are. At some point, both sides are going to wake up and Democrats are going to have to choose between their two constituencies. They've probably already chosen. The real-world consequences for the Gore campaign of this lag in class-consciousness were nicely laid out in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about the attempts of California's Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union to organize the Loews Santa Monica Hotel. Loews CEO Jonathan Tisch is among Al Gore's most open-pocketed contributors, but HERE has already endorsed Gore, too. Now, someone is wasting money with his political contributions here, and I suspect it's not Jonathan Tisch.
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Kevin Durant accepted a big discount this past summer to help the Golden State Warriors' keep their core together.
While Durant says he doesn't know what will happen yet, he just dropped a huge hint that he will re-sign with the Warriors and it could come with another big discount if needed.
Durant has one year and $US26.3 million left on his current deal, but he can opt out this summer and sign a new contract. If he did, Durant would eligible to sign a 4-year, max-level contract that could come with a $US10 million raise next season and would be worth in the neighbourhood of $US160 million overall.
Durant was then asked about taking another discount to help keep the key pieces together. Durant signed a contract this past summer for about $US9.5 million less than he was eligible and seemed more than willing to take another discount.
Of course, the easiest thing to do in the near future is for Durant to just play next season under the current contract, essentially giving the Warriors another approximately $US10 million discount for next season. He could then see what the team needs in the summer of 2019.
After the Warriors handed out $US334 million in contracts this past summer, even with Durant's discount, they have about $US125 million committed to just their top six players for the 2018-19 season. That total alone puts them, not only above the projected salary cap of $US102 million, but also above the projected luxury-tax level of $US124 million with half their roster still needing to be filled out.


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class BalancedIndividualRankingDAO

  class BIREventScoreDAO

    # These must be initialized on creation:
    # attr_reader :meeting

    # These can be edited later on:
    attr_accessor :event_date, :event_type,
                  :rank, :event_points,
                  :ranking_points
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

    # Creates a new instance from a meeting_individual_result.
    #
    def initialize(meeting_individual_result, seasonal_event_best, time_converted = nil)
      unless meeting_individual_result&.instance_of?(MeetingIndividualResult)
        raise ArgumentError, 'Balanced individual ranking event score needs a meeting individual result'
      end

      @event_date     = meeting_individual_result.meeting_session.scheduled_date
      @event_type     = meeting_individual_result.event_type
      @rank           = meeting_individual_result.rank
      @event_points   = meeting_individual_result.meeting_individual_points.to_i
      @ranking_points = 0

      # Calculate ranking points
      time_to_use = time_converted || meeting_individual_result.get_timing_instance
      @ranking_points = 100 * seasonal_event_best.time_swam.to_hundreds / time_to_use.to_hundreds
    end
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

    # Get the total points for the event
    def get_total_points
      @event_points + @ranking_points
    end
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

  end

  class BIRMeetingScoreDAO

    # These must be initialized on creation:
    attr_reader :meeting

    # These can be edited later on:
    attr_accessor :meeting, :header_date,
                  :event_bonus_points, :medal_bonus_points,
                  :event_points, :ranking_points,
                  :event_results
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

    # Creates a new instance from a ameeting_indivudla_result.
    #
    def initialize(meeting, meeting_individual_results, seasonal_event_bests)
      raise ArgumentError, 'Balanced individual ranking meeting score needs a meeting' unless meeting&.instance_of?(Meeting)

      @meeting            = meeting
      @header_date        = meeting.header_date
      @event_bonus_points = 0
      @medal_bonus_points = 0
      @event_points       = 0
      @ranking_points     = 0

      @event_results = []
      rank_first     = 0
      rank_second    = 0
      rank_third     = 0
      meeting_individual_results.each do |meeting_individual_result|
        # Get seasonal event best
        seasonal_event_best = seasonal_event_bests.get_best_for_gender_category_and_event(meeting_individual_result.gender_type, meeting_individual_result.category_type, meeting_individual_result.event_type)

        # Check conversion to short course needed
        time_converted = nil
        if meeting_individual_result.pool_type.code == '50'
          time_converted = seasonal_event_bests.timing_converter.convert_time_to_short(
            meeting_individual_result.get_timing_instance,
            meeting_individual_result.gender_type,
            meeting_individual_result.event_type
          )
        end

        @event_results << BIREventScoreDAO.new(meeting_individual_result, seasonal_event_best, time_converted)

        # Store each rank for rank bonus
        rank_first  += 1 if meeting_individual_result.rank == 1
        rank_second += 1 if meeting_individual_result.rank == 2
        rank_third  += 1 if meeting_individual_result.rank == 3

        # Find out event bonus
        # TODO store bonus information on DB
        @event_bonus_points = 8 if @event_bonus_points < 8 && meeting_individual_result.event_type.code == '800SL'
        @event_bonus_points = 4 if @event_bonus_points < 4 && meeting_individual_result.event_type.code == '400SL'
        @event_bonus_points = 4 if @event_bonus_points < 4 && meeting_individual_result.event_type.code == '200MI'
        @event_bonus_points = 4 if @event_bonus_points < 4 && meeting_individual_result.event_type.code == '100FA'
      end

      if @event_results.count > 0
        # Find out rank bonus
        # TODO store bonus information on DB
        @medal_bonus_points = 10 if @medal_bonus_points < 10 && rank_first >= 2
        @medal_bonus_points = 8 if @medal_bonus_points < 8 && rank_first == 1 && rank_second >= 1
        @medal_bonus_points = 6 if @medal_bonus_points < 6 && rank_first == 1 && rank_third >= 1
        @medal_bonus_points = 4 if @medal_bonus_points < 4 && rank_second >= 2
        @medal_bonus_points = 2 if @medal_bonus_points < 2 && rank_second == 1 && rank_third >= 1
        @medal_bonus_points = 1 if @medal_bonus_points < 1 && rank_third >= 2

        # Sort events by total points
        @event_results.sort! { |p, n| n.get_total_points <=> p.get_total_points }

        # Find out best event points
        @event_points   = @event_results.first.event_points
        @ranking_points = @event_results.first.ranking_points
      end
    end
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

    # Get the total points for the meeting
    def get_total_points
      @event_points + @ranking_points + @event_bonus_points + @medal_bonus_points
    end
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

    # Get the meetings results detail description for the swimmer
    def get_meeting_scores_detail
      "#{@event_points}+#{@ranking_points}+#{@event_bonus_points}+#{@medal_bonus_points}"
    end
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

  end

  # Each swimmer has a gender and a category
  # Each swimmer has a collection of meetings (results)
  class BIRSwimmerScoreDAO

    # These must be initialized on creation:
    attr_reader :swimmer

    # These can be edited later on:
    attr_accessor :swimmer, :category_type, :gender_type, :meetings, :total_best_5_on_6
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

    # Creates a new instance from a ameeting_indivudla_result.
    #
    def initialize(swimmer, season, seasonal_event_bests)
      raise ArgumentError, 'Balanced individual ranking swimmer needs a swimmer' unless swimmer&.instance_of?(Swimmer)
      raise ArgumentError, 'Balanced individual ranking swimmer needs a season' unless season&.instance_of?(Season)

      @swimmer           = swimmer
      @gender_type       = swimmer.gender_type
      @category_type     = swimmer.get_category_type_for_season(season.id)
      @meetings          = []
      @total_best_5_on_6 = 0

      # Search meetings for he swimmer in the season
      season.meetings.each do |meeting|
        meeting_individual_results = meeting.meeting_individual_results.is_valid.where(
          ['meeting_individual_results.swimmer_id = ?', @swimmer.id]
        )
        if meeting_individual_results.exists?
          # The swimmer has results for that meeting
          @meetings << BIRMeetingScoreDAO.new(meeting, meeting_individual_results, seasonal_event_bests)
        end
      end

      # Sort meetings by total points
      @meetings.sort! { |p, n| n.get_total_points <=> p.get_total_points }

      # Calculate best 5 on 6 results
      @meetings.each_with_index do |meeting, index|
        @total_best_5_on_6 += meeting.get_total_points if index < 5
      end
    end
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

    # Get the meetings results for the swimmer
    def get_meeting_scores(meeting)
      @meetings.select { |element| element.meeting == meeting }.first
    end
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

  end

  # Each swimmer has a gender and a category
  # Each swimmer has a collection of meetings (results)
  class BIRGenderCategoryRankingDAO

    # These must be initialized on creation:
    attr_reader :gender_type, :category_type

    # These can be edited later on:
    attr_accessor :swimmers, :gender_type, :category_type
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

    # Creates a new instance from a ameeting_indivudla_result.
    #
    def initialize(season, gender_type, category_type, seasonal_event_bests)
      raise ArgumentError, 'Bal.Ind.Ranking needs a season' unless season&.instance_of?(Season)
      raise ArgumentError, 'Bal.Ind.Ranking for gender and category needs a gender type' unless gender_type&.instance_of?(GenderType)
      raise ArgumentError, 'Bal.Ind.Ranking for gender and category needs a category type' unless category_type&.instance_of?(CategoryType)

      @gender_type   = gender_type
      @category_type = category_type
      @swimmers      = []

      # Search swimmers for the season, gender and category
      season.badges.for_gender_type(gender_type).for_category_type(category_type).each do |badge|
        @swimmers << BIRSwimmerScoreDAO.new(badge.swimmer, season, seasonal_event_bests) if badge.meeting_individual_results.exists?
      end

      # Sort swimmers by total points
      @swimmers.sort! { |p, n| n.total_best_5_on_6 <=> p.total_best_5_on_6 }
    end
    #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    #++

  end

  # These must be initialized on creation:
  attr_reader :season
  #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  #++

  # These can be edited later on:
  attr_accessor :season, :gender_and_categories, :meetings_with_results, :seasonal_event_bests

  # Creates a new instance.
  #
  # Needs to  be sure team_scores is an instance of TeamScoreDAO
  # to perform correcto sorting
  #
  def initialize(season)
    raise ArgumentError, 'Balanced individual ranking needs a season' unless season&.instance_of?(Season)

    @season                = season
    @meetings_with_results = season.meetings.has_results
    @gender_and_categories = []
    @seasonal_event_bests  = SeasonalEventBestDAO.new(season)
  end
  #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  #++

  # Get the total ranking for gender and category
  def get_ranking_for_gender_and_category(gender_type, category_type)
    @gender_and_categories.select do |element|
      (element.gender_type == gender_type) && (element.category_type == category_type)
    end.first
  end
  #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  #++

  # Calculate the total ranking for all genders and categories
  def scan_for_gender_and_category
    GenderType.individual_only.sort_by_courtesy.each do |gender_type|
      @season.category_types.are_not_relays.sort_by_age.each do |category_type|
        set_ranking_for_gender_and_category(gender_type, category_type)
      end
    end
  end
  #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  #++

  # Calculate the ranking for given gender and category
  def calculate_ranking(gender_type, category_type)
    BIRGenderCategoryRankingDAO.new(@season, gender_type, category_type, @seasonal_event_bests)
  end
  #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  #++

  # Set the ranking for given gender and category
  def set_ranking_for_gender_and_category(gender_type, category_type)
    @gender_and_categories << calculate_ranking(gender_type, category_type)
  end
  #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  #++

  # Set the ranking for given gender and category
  # TODO Localize and store on DB
  def get_html_ranking_description
    'La classifica finale è calcolata considerando le 5 migliori prove su 6.
' \
    'Per ogni prova vengono totalizzati i punti in base a:

piazzamento
' \
    '
valore della prestazione rapportata al ranking stagionale
' \
    '
doppio podio nella manifestazione

premio gare impegnative

'.html_safe
  end
  #-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  #++

end

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The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. ATSDR serves the public by using the best science, taking responsive public health actions, and providing trusted health information to
prevent harmful exposures and diseases related to toxic substances.
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eliminating suffering and death due to asthma, allergies and related conditions. From diagnosis to control, from diapers to college, the network's core areas of
expertise are education, advocacy and community outreach
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ACOEM represents more than 5,000 physicians and other health care professionals specializing in the field of occupational and environmental medicine (OEM).
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American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI)
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authoritative source and a unique opportunity for free and candid discussion among private and public sectors within the built environment. The Institute's
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of science or art" whenever called upon to do so by any department of the government. Scientific issues would become more complex in the years following
the war, and to expand the expertise available to it in its advisory service to the government, the NAS created the National Research Council under its charter
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Restoration Industry Association (RIA)
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Q: Is this systemd service running or not? When we re-deploy an application we use systemd restart to restart the application. It would seem that either systemd restart or systemd status (or both) are unreliable.

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*Sometimes systemd restart DOESN'T restart the application and doesn't throw an error. PID is the same as before and the old version of the app is still running. Is restart effective immediately?

*Sometimes systemd restart does kill the old process and start the new process but systemd status shows the service as dead. We see the process running as a child of systemd.

As an example of the 2nd problem: systemctl status is says the service inactive(dead) but it's definitely running (new pids 25548 and 25551)!
$systemctl status gateway.service
gateway.service - The API Gateway - Nginx
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/gateway.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2020-08-05 14:00:16 CEST; 1h 43min ago
  Process: 25545 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -c /prg/nginx/conf/gateway.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 25542 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -c /prg/nginx/conf/gateway.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 25540 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/rm -f /daten/nginx.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 25545 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Tasks: 2
   Memory: 130.0M
   CGroup: /system.slice/gateway.service
           ├─25548 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -c /prg/nginx/conf/gateway.conf
           └─25551 nginx: worker process

ps | grep nginx shows the 2 nginx processes:
nginx      25548              root    5u  IPv4 58124367      0t0  TCP *:8080 (LISTEN)
nginx      25551             nginx    5u  IPv4 58124367      0t0  TCP *:8080 (LISTEN)

pstree shows these 2 processes as children of systemd:
systemd─┬...
        ├─nginx───nginx

systemd Config
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/daten/nginx.pid

# Nginx will fail to start if /run/nginx.pid already exists but has the wrong
# SELinux context. This might happen when running `nginx -t` from the cmdline.
# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268621
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/rm -f /daten/nginx.pid
ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -c /prg/nginx/conf/gateway.conf
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx  -c /prg/nginx/conf/gateway.conf

KillSignal=QUIT
TimeoutStopSec=5
KillMode=process
PrivateTmp=true

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South Florida Woman Appeal for Bail Deferred
May 9, 2020 | Michael B. Cohen, P.A.
Originally charged with second-degree murder which carries a potential life sentence if found guilty, a Coral Springs woman had the charges against her downgraded to second-degree manslaughter after prosecutors said they reviewed the evidence and the law.
The suspect, Yvonne Serrano was arrested late last November after calling 911 when she said she discovered the body of Daniela Tabares in her driveway with one foot still in her car at 6:00 in the morning. At the time police arrived at her home Serrano told them she was leaving for the gym when she stumbled upon the dead woman's car and body that was found with a gunshot wound to the center of her forehead. At the time police noted that Mrs. Serrano wasn't dressed for a gym outing.
During initial questioning by police Serrano told them that she remembered going to a local bar with her friends the previous night, blacked out and woke up in her bed. At the time she could not detail to detectives how she got home from the outing the night before.
Due to the downgrade of the charges against Serrano she now qualified for a bail hearing as opposed to when she was facing the murder charge which holds no possibility for bond.
It was later revealed that the previous night the suspect had been out with a group of approximately eight other women in addition to Ms. Tabares who was known as a fitness fanatic.
The evening began at a Coral Springs gym followed by the group all going to a movie and then out for drinks at a local bar, the World of Beer. At one time supposedly all nine women were members of a group from the gym known as "Fit Bodies Forever-Training for Warriors" although according to some of the women Serrano's membership was previously suspended. Yet she showed up on what turned out to be a fateful November night.
As police continued questioning Serrano at what appeared to be the scene of the homicide her story began to morph when she changed her account of events of her morning discovery. She now told detectives that she remembered waking up in Tabares' car without any recollection of the events that got her home or the particulars from the previous evening.
An initial search of the car uncovered a spent Lugar 9 mm shell casing in the front passenger seat floorboard of Tabares's vehicle. At this point police decided to continue their interview of the subject at the police station.
As detectives resumed questioning Serrano, she added three more key details from her original edited story. She told them that she had in fact been in possession of her 9 mm pistol the previous night (Earlier during the interrogation, she denied bringing a weapon out with her to the bar). She went on to tell them that she owned a total of three firearms.
She also admitted to washing a white lace blouse she had been wearing the night before when she woke up in the morning (Previously, police noticed her touching a damp tank top in the laundry room of her home).
She also came clean telling detectives that she erased all footage captured on her video doorbell app for the past twenty-four hours whose recording would have been able to be retrieved footage that could possibly display what actually happened during the time period in question.
At this point she was placed under arrest for a charge of second-degree murder for fatally shooting her acquaintance. In lieu of what appeared to be overwhelming evidence against her when questioned in mid-December officials did not make it clear why the original charge of second-degree murder was reduced to manslaughter.
Many from the group of women when interviewed by the press said it was the first time, they were aware of Serrano being part of their circle of friends. And a few didn't have much good to say about their encounter with her.
One woman, Caroline Miller simply stated "It was bad energy". She went on to say it was the first time she ever set eyes on Yvonne Serrano. However she continued by saying that her first impression was awful: "Aggressive. It wasn't fun. She was grabbing guys. She had a lot to drink.". At one-point Miller said she saw Serrano balancing three drinks at a time. She said she also watched Serrano grab a young man as he was approaching Ms. Tabares who was just twenty-one-years-old.
Serrano seemed to make others uncomfortable as well according to Miller. She went on to say that she tried to distance herself from the woman for the rest of the night, but Serrano was hard to ignore.
"She was intense," said another gym member Andrea Kammarada. "It was this intense vibe and I just remember thinking, 'Did I do something?'"
As it turned out, Serrano attended predawn classes at the same gym on a regular basis but was not considered to be among Tabares' friends.
Another of Ms. Tabares' friends told police she received a text message from her at 1:25 a.m. that only said, "I'm taking Yvonne home". This would prove to be the last correspondence which was received while Ms. Tabares was still alive.
Surveillance video from inside World of Beer showed the two women laughing and drinking inside the bar at around the same time the text message was sent. As the evening neared its conclusion it appears that Serrano had been sitting alone outside World of Beer and wanted Tabares to join her, but at that time Tabares apparently didn't want to. But at some later time soon after she relented and joined Serrano at an area outside the establishment.
The video shows them leaving the bar together but couldn't capture the mood.
Previous footage taken from inside World of Beer on the night of the gym outing shows Serrano passing out shots and personally drinking three of them. In addition to the shots she was also observed downing three bottles of beer, according to the Assistant State Attorney prosecuting the case.
At the bond hearing held at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale the prosecution told the judge that Mrs. Serrano's husband told them that too much alcohol had an adverse effect on his wife.
Doug Serrano said one or two drinks caused his wife to become giddy and lighthearted. And even a third kept her mood in check but when she exceeded that limit, she grew angry and her mood always began to darken. Mr. Serrano went on to explain that one case of her alcohol abuse led to an episode of physical assault; telling the Broward State Attorney's Office that he witnessed one such attack directed at one of their daughters.
The Assistant State Attorney speaking to the judge said that Mr. Serrano said his wife got so drunk at times that blackouts became a frequent situation. Mr. Serrano filed for divorce, a month after his wife's arrest in late December of last year.
Approaching the bench, one of Serrano's lawyers said to the judge that there was no disputing the facts that a death occurred. "The bottom-line judge is we have a client who doesn't remember; could it have been an accident, could it have been self-defense? We know an act happened. We just don't know how it happened."
Tabares' friends and family fervently contested Serrano's release from jail while she awaited trial showed up to display their outrage. To emphasize their annoyance close to fifty people staged a protest in Coral Springs, holding banners and calling for Serrano to remain behind bars.
More than forty of Tabares' friends, family and others packed the courtroom during the hearing to vehemently oppose Serrano's attempt to receive bail. The deluge of Tabares' supporters was so many in number, several of them were turned away and remained outside the courtroom during the ninety-minute hearing.
As it turned out, they were all disappointed when the judge postponed her decision for bond. According to the judge her non-ruling was based on her gaining a better grasp of where Mrs. Serrano would be staying as she awaited her trial date. The judge also questioned how many firearms Mrs. Serrano would have access to as well as her financial situation leading up to the court case.
In essence, for now the judge deferred her decision. She let it be known that another hearing on the subject will be scheduled for the near future.
Until then, Mrs. Serrano will remain incarcerated.
Tagged: Criminal Defense Attorney, Daniela Tabares, Michael B. Cohen and Yvonne Serrano
Updated: May 9, 2020 4:02 pm


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Ontario Equestrian Donates over $30,000 to Research
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With $1.50 per OE membership allocated to the Ontario Equestrian Member Equine Research Fund, this year's cheque presented at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair came out to just over $30,000!
Guelph, ON Dec, 13, 2018 - Alone we can do so little but together we are so much stronger. Ontario Equestrian and its members are helping strengthen research programs aimed at improving health and welfare of horses. With $1.50 per OE membership allocated to the Ontario Equestrian Member Equine Research Fund, this year's cheque presented at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair came out to just over $30,000!
On November 2, 2018, in the main arena at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, the Vice-President of Ontario Equestrian, Peter Chiddy presented the annual cheque to Dr. Jeff Wichtel, Professor and Dean of the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC).
Ontario Equestrian President, Mark Nelson and Vice President, Peter Chiddy are thrilled the cheque for $30,700.00 brings the two-year research total to $59,300.00.
In 2017, instead of spending $1.50 on the production of plastic membership cards, the $1.50 per Ontario Equestrian member was directed to Equine Guelph, to fund a research topic voted on by the membership annually.
"It is with great pride that your Provincial Sport Organization has committed to an annual grant for equine research in Ontario to better support our beloved equine athletes," says Tracey McCague-McElrea, Executive Director at Ontario Equestrian.
At the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, the Vice-President of Ontario Equestrian, Peter Chiddy presented the annual cheque to Dr. Jeff Wichtel, Professor and Dean of the Ontario Veterinary College (OVC)
In 2017, members voted to support research on equine digestive health. Two researchers at the Ontario Veterinary College are studying "what is normal" concerning inhabitants in the equine gut. Once this is known, the future becomes exciting with the possibilities of restoration of normal microbiota which play critical roles in nutrition, metabolism, and a wide range of other functions required for health.
OVC researcher Dr. Luis Arroyo says, "I am deeply grateful for their support of this research program and the investment to this devastating equine illness, colitis." Arroyo is setting up a simulated gut, fondly called "RoboGut, by many, to help understand what a healthy horse microbiome looks like.
"It is not always easy to find money for studies establishing fundamental baselines," says Weese, "but this funding from Ontario Equestrian is so important so we can have confidence in our interpretations for future disease studies." Weese is analyzing fecal samples from healthy horses over the course of a year. The goals are to learn if the microbiota are impacted by seasonal changes, gain insight on different diets and how they affect the microbial population and study composition versus function of microbiota.
"Ontario Equestrian has been a long-time and valued partner with Equine Guelph and we have joined in many partnership programs that support horse health, welfare and safety. This research funding, is a great addition to the Equine Guelph research program at the University of Guelph and will build on existing areas of expertise at the University in support of horse health" says Gayle Ecker, director of Equine Guelph. "Many thanks to OE and it's members!"
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