If you have questions about the terminology, please consult the Compute Canada Technical Glossary.
For more information on Compute Canada's Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC) process, please refer to these Frequently Asked Questions or send questions to rac@computecanada.ca.
1. Why does Compute Canada need to allocate its resources?
The advanced research computing (ARC) needs of the Canadian research community continue to grow as the next generation of scientific instruments is deployed, as ARC becomes relevant to answering key questions in an ever broader list of disciplines, as new datasets are gathered and mined in innovative ways, and as technological advances allow researchers to construct ever more precise models of the world around us. The current CC infrastructure must keep pace with the needs of Canadian researchers. Demand for resources has grown each year and our systems are currently running at maximum capacity.
2. Who is eligible to use Compute Canada resources?
Any individual who is eligible to apply to national granting councils for funding is eligible to apply for an allocation. Typically, this means that regular faculty are eligible to apply while postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are not. Individuals who have adjunct status may apply for an allocation if the project for which the allocation is requested is eligible for funding from CFI or the granting councils. A PI cannot submit more than one individual application, but can be a participant in other submissions. A PI may simultaneously hold an individual Resources for Research Groups (RRG) allocation and a Research Platforms and Proposals (RPP) allocation.
3. What are the Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC)?
Compute Canada's annual Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC) are peer-reviewed competitions that provide priority computing time and storage space on Compute Canada systems. These competitions are open to projects from all disciplines, from humanities to subatomic physics. The allocation requests are peer-reviewed and awarded based on scientific merit and the quality of the research applicant.
Learn more about our Resource Allocation Competitions.
4. Is there any funding available through the Compute Canada Resource Allocation Competitions?
No, Compute Canada is not a funding agency. Through our Resource Allocation Competitions, we offer computing time and storage space in our systems.
5. What is the Fast Track process?
This application process gives eligible PIs access to an easy and lightweight multi-year application mechanism for the Resources for Research Group (RRG) competition. Only those PIs that receive an invitation will be able to apply through this process.
In certain situations, there are researchers and small groups who wish to maintain their existing allocation with no change to the scientific approach or minimal to no changes to the amount of resources needed. To reduce the need to re-evaluate these proposals, Compute Canada created a "Fast Track" process. Eligible PIs receive an invitation to fast track.
Applying through the Fast Track process DOES NOT guarantee you will receive the same allocation as last year. Fast Track requests are subject to resource scaling. This could lead to either an increase or a decrease in allocated resources for your project compared to last year.
Requested allocations may be scaled by a different factor than it was last year, according to resource demand and availability constraints.
To know more about eligibility for this process and other details about the Fast Track process, visit this page.
6. What kinds of computing and storage systems are available for researchers to access through these resource competitions?
See more information on the available resources for RAC and services provided by Compute Canada.
7. What kind of technical support is available with an allocation?
Support may include installing and configuring software packages, assistance in code optimization, and detailed advice on how to solve technical issues. While the Compute Canada team member may end up writing some code for your group, your allocation does not entitle you to deep "embedded" programming support. As a rule of thumb, our staff will help solve problems requiring a few days of their effort, not a few months of their effort.
8. Should I consult with Compute Canada before submitting my competition application(s)?
Yes. It is strongly recommended that all applicants consult with Compute Canada technical staff responsible for the systems they intend to use. This ensures the technical aspects of the proposals match well with the requested systems, to the PI's benefit. PIs who have not previously used Compute Canada systems should discuss their proposal with Compute Canada technical staff before submission.
All consultations with Compute Canada staff should take place in advance of completing your proposal, to allow time for discussion or revisions if needed. If you do not know the appropriate technical staff to contact, please email rac@computecanada.ca.
9. How do I apply to the competitions?
Any researcher interested in applying to the Resources for Research Groups (RRG) or Research Platforms and Proposals (RPP) competitions must be registered with the Compute Canada DataBase (CCDB). Instructions for registering with the CCDB can be found on the Compute Canada website. All applications must be submitted electronically through the CCDB's Resource Applications section.
10. Can a researcher apply to both the Resources for Research Groups (RRG) and the Research Platforms and Portals (RPP) Competitions?
Yes, you may submit or participate in proposals to both competitions; however, you should not submit the same project to both competitions. Each competition has specific eligibility criteria, which are outlined in the corresponding competition guides. Prior to submitting a proposal, you should review each competition's criteria to ensure your project aligns with the focus. If after reviewing the competition guides you still have questions or concerns, please contact us at rac@computecanada.ca.
11. Is the Canadian Common CV (CCV) required to apply for Compute Canada resources?
Yes. PIs and all co-PIs of a RAC application are required to submit a CCV. Integrating CCV into the Compute Canada DataBase (CCDB) makes it easier for applicants to upload their CVs and standardize their format. It also helps the expert review committees evaluate the quality of each project's research team.
For instructions on how to submit a CCV, read the Compute Canada CCV Submission Guide.
12. I don't recognize some of the acronyms or terms used in the CCDB application template. Is there a glossary available?
Yes. A list of key terms used in the competition and application process is available here. Please consult this Glossary when preparing your application.
13. Am I at a disadvantage if my project proposal doesn't rely on, or only partly overlaps with, existing Compute Canada infrastructure?
Compute Canada's Resource Allocation Competitions only grant access to Compute Canada infrastructure. If you have questions about whether the infrastructure you are using is part of Compute Canada's national platform, please contact us at rac@computecanada.ca.
14. My research team is small and we do not have much funding, can I still apply to the Resource Allocation Competitions?
Yes. Any individual who is eligible to apply to national granting councils for funding is eligible to apply for an allocation, irrespective of the size of the research team or the funding received.
15. Can the deadlines for final submissions be extended?
No. The published deadline for submitting final applications to the Resources for Research Groups (RRG) and Research Platforms and Portals (RPP) competitions is a final deadline. There will be no extensions and late submissions will not be accepted. Any concerns with this policy may be directed to rac@computecanada.ca.
16. When will I know if my application is successful?
All applicants will be notified of their competition results in March. You will be contacted by email with any additional information you may need or action items required of you to finalize your allocation. Once all recipients have been privately notified, Compute Canada will publish a list of recipients, project allocation amounts, and allocation values to its public website.
17. How does Compute Canada calculate the value of its allocation awards?
It is possible to assign a monetary value to each allocation. This is useful for researchers to assign an in-kind value of the contribution of Compute Canada to their research program (please note: this in-kind valuation cannot be used as match for a CFI award). These values represent an average across all Compute Canada facilities and include the total capital and operational costs incurred by Compute Canada to deliver the resources and associated services. These are not commercial or market values.
The table below shows the monetary value associated to the Compute Canada resources since 2015.
18. When will I receive my allocation(s)?
All successful allocations are activated in the Spring. The exact starting date will be confirmed in your notification letter.
19. When I am given a resource allocation for computation in core-years, what does that mean?
It means that you will be given priority on a shared Compute Canada system. If you make use of that priority by submitting a steady load of computational "jobs" throughout the year, you should get at least the level of core-years you have been allocated. This is something known as a "fair-share" system, not a "dedicated use" system. If your workload is not steady, but will rather come as a burst during a certain time of year, you are asked to note this in your application and we will attempt to accommodate your workflow.
Please visit this page to know more about compute allocations and scheduling.
20. Even though I explained how a reduction in my requested allocation would impact my research, why was my final allocation less than my request?
Each year, our infrastructure is heavily oversubscribed.
A scaling function, endorsed by the Chairs of the Expert Review Committees, is applied to compute requests to provide a means by which decisions on RAC allocations in a context of insufficient capacity can be made. For the RAC 2018, this function was set so that only applications with a science score of 2.0 or higher received an allocation, with a maximum of 83% of their total allocation request being met for those with a score of 5.
Visit the 2018 Resource Allocations Competition Results page for more details about the scaling function and other RAC stats.
21. If I use my total allocation and it was not sufficient for my needs, can I get access to more resources?
Any Compute Canada user can access modest quantities of compute, storage and cloud resources through Compute Canada's Rapid Access Service. Unlike the RAC, the Rapid Access Service is not a guaranteed allocation of certain computational resources. It is a shared pool of unallocated resources.
For compute allocations, generally speaking, Compute Canada allocates its batch processing priority based on a fair-share algorithm. Each user is allocated a share of the total system resources, which effectively translates into priority access to the system. If you have used a large fraction of the system recently (ie. larger than your fair-share), your priority drops. However, the scheduling system has a limited time window over which it calculates priority. After some time (e.g., weeks) of reduced usage, it gradually "forgets" that you overused in the past. This is designed to ensure full system usage and not to penalize users who take advantage of idle compute resources. A consequence is that your total allocation is not a limit on how many compute resources you can consume. Rather, your total allocation represents what you should be able to get over the course of the year if you submit a constant workload to the system and it is fully busy. In other words, once your "total allocation" is used, just keep working.
22. Do currently supported RAC allocations get priority when future allocations are decided?
Each annual Resource Allocation Competition (RAC) is handled as a separate process. The current projects have an advantage in that they have demonstrated usage and success stories, but not an advantage by policy.
23. What if I need a RAC allocation but I've missed the competition deadline?
Compute Canada's annual Resource Allocation Competitions announce their formal Calls for Submissions early in the Fall each year with final submissions due in November. An out-of-round application process is available for special cases, and applications are accepted up to July 30 of any year.
PI has a special opportunity to make a significant scientific breakthrough that you could not have anticipated within the application period for the previous round. In this case, a description of the breakthrough of no more than one page is required as proof of eligibility.
Out-of-round applications follow the same review process as the applications submitted to the regular round. The resulting allocations may have different start dates but will have the same expiry date as the ongoing RRG program. This means, for example, that if you receive an out-of-round allocation in June, it will expire when all other RRGs do at the end of March of the following year.
The annual allocation process reserves only a small proportion of resources for opportunistic and out-of-round usage. Therefore, there are very limited resources available for out-of-round, so large asks may be denied through this process and be required to apply for the next regular round.
For more information, or to request an Out-of-Round Application, please contact rac@computecanada.ca.
24. What is the role of the Expert Review Committees?
25. Am I able to choose which Expert Review Committee reviews my proposal?
Yes, applicants may choose the scientific committee they would like to review their proposals; however, Compute Canada reserves the right to assign the proposal to another committee if necessary.
26. What is the role of the Resource Allocation Competition (RAC) Administrative Committee?
The RAC Administrative Committee implements the competition policies, oversees the entire competition process and provides technical and administrative support to the Expert Review Committees. While the expert review committees determine the merit of the proposal and the appropriate resource allocation, the RAC Administrative Committee is responsible for making those allocations "fit" on existing Compute Canada resources.
This may involve applying a scaling to all allocations, which is endorsed by the Chairs of the Expert Review Committees, but that scaling will be based on the science score not an evaluation by the RAC Administrative Committee. This RAC Administrative Committee is composed of individuals who are knowledgeable of Compute Canada resources and are significantly experienced in the RAC process. It is comprised of technical and administrative leaders representing each region (WestGrid, Compute Ontario, Calcul Québec, and ACENET).
27.My research program has been already evaluated and funded by a granting agency. Why is Compute Canada evaluating the science of my research program again?
All applications submitted to the Compute Canada Resource Allocation Competitions are peer-reviewed and scored. We understand that some applicants may have already undergone an evaluation through the various granting councils. It is not the goal of Compute Canada's scientific review process to evaluate and score a PI's complete research program as an overlap to what the granting agencies have done. Rather, the goal is to determine how to accommodate such projects as best as possible given the limited resources available.
Provide feedback to the applicants.
The main outcome of this process is an overall score for each application. These scores are used to scale and determine the final allocations to ensure fairness and effective use of Compute Canada resources.
A scaling function, endorsed by the Chairs of the Expert Review Committees, is applied to compute requests to provide a means by which decisions on RAC allocations in a context of insufficient capacity can be made. For the RAC 2018, this function was set so that only applications with a science score of 2.0 or higher received an allocation, with a maximum of 83% of their total allocation request being met for those with a score of 5. Visit the 2018 Resource Allocations Competition Results page for more details about the scaling function and other RAC stats.
28. Why has the size of annual RAC requests increased each year?
The growing demand for Compute Canada resources is reflective of global trends of increased data-intensive research. Within Canada's research community, we are seeing computational tools and services increasingly being used to identify patterns, undertake modelling and simulations, and support the collection and distribution of massive volumes of data. Table 1 below shows the increase in size of compute and storage resource requests, as well as the average amount awarded, since 2011.
29. How can I help Compute Canada advocate for more resources?
Letting decision makers in your institution know that advanced research computing is essential to your research.
Ensuring your President and VPR are aware of how digitally intensive research is transformative and that it requires sustainable predictable funding models.
Mentioning the resources you use in your publications and presentations.
Writing your local MP to share news of your research and how you use advanced research computing.
Working with your communications department on success stories highlighting the advances in digitally intensive research.
1. What is the Resources for Research Groups (RRG) Competition?
The Resources for Research Groups (RRG) Competition was created to enable faculty members, and their sponsored research groups, to access compute and storage resources beyond what can be obtained via the Rapid Access Service. Allocations are awarded based on scientific merit of the proposal and quality of applicants (PI and co-PIs). This competition is peer-reviewed and the allocations are available for one (1) year starting in the Spring.
2. Who should apply to the Resources for Research Groups (RRG) competition?
Intended for faculty members from all disciplines and their sponsored users. Awards are based on the Merit of the Proposal and the Quality of the Applicants (PI and co-PIs). Allocations awarded are typically available for one (1) year.
A Fast Track process allows eligible RRG awardees to apply through the submission of a lightweight progress report.
PIs can only submit one RRG (or Fast Track) application per competition round. However, a PI may apply for both the RRG and RPP competitions and therefore hold an RRG award and an RPP award simultaneously.
No one may be the PI on more than one RRG application, but a PI can be a participant (co-PI) in other submissions, and various sub-projects may be included within a single RRG application. There is, however, a single award for the main RRG project, and it is the PI's responsibility to monitor usage and progress of the sub-projects.
Visit the RRG application guide for more details about this competition.
3. What should I do if I need less than the minimum amount of resources allowed to submit an RRG application?
If you require resources which are less than the minimum required to apply for the RAC competitions, you do not need to submit an RRG application. Instead, you should make use of Compute Canada's Rapid Access Service, which allows any Compute Canada user to access modest quantities of compute, storage and cloud resources after they register for an account. Opportunistic access to compute resources is also possible through RAS, but priority is only given to those with an allocation.
Many research groups can meet their needs through RAS only.
4. Can a researcher submit more than one application to the Resources for Research Groups (RRG) competition?
No. While Principal investigators (PIs) can participate as collaborators on other projects submitting RRG proposals, they can only be the lead applicant for one RRG application.
5. Do I need to apply to the RRG again this year even if I received an RRG allocation last year?
Yes. Allocations in the Resources for Research Groups (RRG) Competition are granted on a one-year basis, so applicants must re-apply each year for a new allocation.
6. Do I need to submit a Notice of Intent (NOI) to apply to the RRG?
No. To apply for the RRG, you simply need to complete an application form in the Compute Canada DataBase (CCDB). The RRG Competition announces its formal Call for Submissions in the early Fall with final submissions due in November.
7. Is every application to the Resources for Research Groups (RRG) Competition accepted?
No. Due to the imbalance of demand versus available resources, the RRG has increasingly become a more competitive process.
8. How are the Resources for Research Groups (RRG) applications evaluated?
9. Do you anticipate I will receive more, less, or about the same allocation for the next Resources for Research Groups (RRG) Competition?
The Resources for Research Groups (RRG) Competition is getting more and more competitive each year given Compute Canada's fixed resources. Although new infrastructure and resources have come online and more will become available over the next few years through Compute Canada's platform renewal, we are still unable to meet the demand and scaling requests is necessary. While we try to accommodate as much as possible all requests, based on our current resource constraint you can expect that your allocation will either remain the same or be scaled back.
1. What is the Resource Platforms and Portals (RPP) Competition and how is it different from the Resources for Research Groups (RRG) Competition?
This competition is aimed at the development of scientific gateways. A Research Platform or Portal is a community-developed set of tools, applications, and data that are integrated via a gateway or a suite of applications, usually in a graphical user interface, that is customized to meet the needs of a specific community. Platforms and portals enable entire communities of users associated with a common discipline to use national resources through a common interface. RPP allocations can be awarded for a maximum of 3 years.
Visit the RPP application guide for more details about this competition.
2. Who should apply to the Research Platforms and Portals (RPP) Competition?
This competition is open to researchers based at Canadian academic institutions who are eligible to apply for funding to the federal granting agencies.
Provide resources to a larger research community via a set of cloud-based tools, applications, and/or data, thus enabling them to access national resources via a common interface.
Be able to develop, operate and manage the proposed portal or platform with minimal support from Compute Canada.
Generally, an RPP project will involve cloud resources, usually through the development of a front-end gateway on persistent virtual machines, with possible backend compute either through cloud compute nodes or job-based submission to the large national Compute Canada clusters. Additionally, many platforms and portals include large databases.
Applicants for RPPs are expected to have sufficient experience within their groups to develop, manage and operate their platform or portal. Compute Canada provides support to RPP teams on a best-effort basis.
3. Can researchers submit more than one RPP application?
Yes. PIs are allowed submit more than one RPP application per competition round, and may simultaneously hold an RRG award.
4. Do I need to submit a Notice of Intent (NOI) to apply to the RPP Competition?
No. The NOI is no longer required for the RPP competition.
5. If I receive a multi-year allocation, do I have to submit a full application every year to renew it?
No. RPP projects that are awarded multi-year allocations are required to submit an annual progress report; however, they do not need to submit a new application each year to renew. This annual progress report must be uploaded directly on CCDB. For more information on what is required for the RPP Progress Report, click here.
6. If I have a one-year RPP allocation and want to keep it for next year, do I have to submit a new application?
Yes. Only those projects that requested and were awarded resources for more 2 or 3 years will be exempted from re-applying. Please consult the RPP Competition Guide for further details.
7. How are the RPP applications evaluated?
The research problem or need that the platform/portal will address is clearly presented.
The importance/relevance of the platform/portal for Canada is well justified.
The general objectives of the platform/portal are clear.
The project goal is clearly stated and aligns with the goals of Compute Canada.
The research area of focus is of importance and will generate benefits to Canada.
The expected impacts have been clearly explained.
The applicant has clearly explained the added value from the creation of the proposed platform or portal for the identified communities.
Creation of the research platform/portal is being driven by the research community targeted.
If applicable – The application details the level of interaction between Canadian and international research groups.
The application presents a clear timeline for the delivery of the anticipated outcomes over the entire duration of the requested allocation and have indicated the means by which they will be measured.
The outcomes presented are of relevance and importance, and will benefit the users of the platform/portal.
The team assembled to develop and operate the platform have the right combination of skills (where positions are not yet filled, a description of the position has been included).
The proposed methods and technologies are suitable and scientifically justified for the services to be provided by the platform.
The approach to sharing data sets across the platform/portal is well detailed and the application addresses any potential accessibility issues.
The team assembled to manage the platform have the right combination of skills (where positions are not yet filled, a description of the position has been included).
The proposed management of the resources is well defined and will provide broad access to the research communities.
The process for resource access is well defined and the application identifies a credible plan to maintain or increase the population accessing resources.
If applicable, the scientific evaluation of selecting projects will result in supporting excellent research with the resources available.
The reporting framework presented will ensure information collected on the users of the portal will provide the ability to track impacts (scientific, HQP, social, etc.) and the participants are maximizing the benefits of the resources to meet the expected outcomes of the application.
The application will generate significant benefits to HQP and has outlined these benefits in the application.
The anticipated number of HQP participating in the platform/portal have been clearly delineated across academic levels.
The platform/portal will create unique training opportunities for the participating HQP.
The application identifies strong examples of cross-pollination between HQP disciplines resulting from the platform/portal.
8. If my needs are going to increase over time, but I am not sure how or when that might happen, is it best to submit a shorter term (e.g. 1 year) but more accurate proposal, or should I anticipate my changing needs and submit a longer-term application?
You have the option of asking for a three-year allocation and then adjusting your ask after the first year. However, that model works well if the scope of the project is very similar and you are tweaking. If you do not need any computational cores in year one but suddenly request to running 128-core jobs in the middle of your grant, that would be a separate proposal. It is common for projects to ask for a single-year award and then reassess.
9.What information do I need to provide in the RPP annual progress report?
Please visit the RPP Annual Progress Report page for details.
1. What does the term 'allocation' mean?
It means that you will be given priority on a shared Compute Canada system. If you make use of that priority by submitting a steady load of computational "jobs" throughout the year, you should get at least the level of core-years you have been allocated. This is something known as a "fair-share" system, not a "dedicated use" system. If your workload is not steady, but will rather come as a burst during a certain time of year, you are asked to note this in your application and we will attempt to accommodate your workflow. Definitions for other technical terms can be found in the Compute Canada Technical Glossary.
2. What is a core-year?
One core-year is the equivalent of using one CPU core continuously for a full year. Using 12 cores for a month, or 365 cores for a single day are both equivalent to 1 core-year. Definitions for other technical terms can be found in the Compute Canada Technical Glossary.
3. How was my proposal's science score determined?
Science scores are based on the quality of the science outlined in the proposal, the qualifications of the principal investigators, HQP training opportunities, and the technical justification for the requested resources. Past usage and overall experience are also taken into consideration.
4. When will I receive my allocation(s)?
All successful allocations are activated in April. The exact starting date will be confirmed in your notification letter.
5. Is my allocation guaranteed?
No. Use of your total allocation cannot be fully guaranteed and is contingent to the availability of our systems. You should receive the full allocation listed above if you run in a reasonably constant manner over the year. If you expect to have an uneven workload, please contact our support team at support@computecanada.ca so that they can ensure you have access to the resources you require.
6. If I use my total allocation and it was not sufficient for my needs, can I get access to more resources?
PIs can access modest quantities of storage and cloud resources through Compute Canada's Rapid Access Service. Compute resources are also available for opportunistic use without priority.
For compute allocations, generally speaking, Compute Canada allocates its batch processing priority based on a fair-share algorithm. Each user is allocated a share of the total system resources, which effectively translates into priority access to the system. If you have used a large fraction of the system recently (ie. larger than your fair-share), your priority drops. However, the scheduling system has a limited time window over which it calculates priority. To know more about compute allocations and scheduling, click here.
7. Do existing RAC allocations get priority when future allocations are decided?
8. Can I use Compute Canada resources without an allocation?
Yes. Please visit the Accessing Resources page for more details.


Perhaps if we had jacked up one end of our pitch, we could have beaten them.
Seriously the way Batley played when we beat them, you could not believe that they could put one over on Toulouse. Perhaps it was a bit of assuming an easy win for the French and Batley finally finding their form.
They have a week off now (challenge cup opted out) before an away games against Bottom side Swinton before Hosting Fev, playing the Canadian Mancs in Newcastle before meeting us in Blackpool......I can see them winning all 3 of those.
We on the other hand have 3 must win home games v Dewsbury, Leigh and Sheffield.......the game at Blackpool could well decide our season if we don't win the next 3 games.


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, Bandai Namco has sold  Carddass cards since 1988, in addition to  Data Carddass cards since March 2005.

History
The first Carddass, released in 1988, is based on the Saint Seiya anime series. In the past, Carddass was for trading and collection only. But since trading card games like Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh became popular in Japan, more and more Carddass is made in the form of trading cards that can be played in a game.

Apart from Saint Seiya, much popular anime, manga and tokusatsu series has been made into Carddass, the most famous ones being  Bleach, Toriko, Hunter x Hunter, Digimon, Dr. Slump, Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Gin Tama, Black Butler, Code Geass, Soul Eater, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gundam, Kamen Rider, Naruto, Neon Genesis Evangelion, One Piece, Revolutionary Girl Utena, YuYu Hakusho, Ranma ½, Sailor Moon, InuYasha, Slam Dunk, Konjiki no Gash Bell!!, Rurouni Kenshin, Ultraman, and Yu-Gi-Oh! (the Carddass game is based on Toei's anime and is not to be confused with Konami's card game).

In 2006, a Super Sentai-based trading card game, Rangers Strike, was released in commemoration of the Super Sentai Series' 30th Anniversary.

In 2007, Carddass started to sell Top Trumps in Japan.

A digital version of the game, Data Carddass, was introduced in 2005. This series revolves around arcade machines that can read specially designed cards to access in-game content, such as weapons, characters or clothes. Also, recently introduced are AR Carddass, which utilises augmented reality features in smartphones, and Net Carddass which utilises online functionality.

Bandai had sold over 11.5billion Carddass cards by 2017, including 2billion Dragon Ball cards by 1998, and 500million Konjiki no Gash Bell cards by 2005.

References

External links
 Official website of Carddass

Japanese games
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Bandai brands

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Ditching and Water survival training is one part of Initial Cabin Crew training. It is very important to introduce students with the basic ditching procedures in order them to be able to take the role of a survivor manager in cases of emergency. To ensure passengers safety is the principal task of any cabin crew. BAA Training is now presenting the video showing you how this training works practically. Watch and feel free to leave the comment below!


Every year in November, Balluminaria is held at Eden Park in Cincinnatti, Ohio. Several Ohio Ballooners fire-up their stellar thermal airships to illuminate Eden Park Pond and thousands of spectators for one awesome evening. Here is a glimpse of some those moments from November 2010.


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Texas senior Teahna Daniels competes in a preliminary of the women's 100 meters during the NCAA outdoor track and field championships on June 6, 2019 in Austin. [NICK WAGNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
'I'm still gunning for the win': Teahna Daniels to go for the gold three times in her Texas finale
On Saturday, Teahna Daniels will put on a Texas uniform for the last time.
The senior sprinter has professional aspirations, but she admits the thought of becoming an ex-Longhorn hasn't sunk in yet. That day is coming, though, and Daniels has ensured that she'll at least have an opportunity to go out with a bang. Thanks to a solid outing at Myers Stadium on Thursday, Daniels advanced to three finals at the NCAA's outdoor track and field meet.
"Even though I might not be coming in as the favorite right now, I'm still gunning for the win," said Daniels, who won an indoor championship in the 60 meters as a freshman. "It's anybody's race in all of them, so I'm pretty excited."
Daniels posted the third- and eighth-best semifinal times in the 100- and 200-meter dashes. She was one of five women to qualify for the finals of both races. The Orlando native also ran the second leg on a 400-meter relay team that was bested by only USC, LSU and Arkansas.
After claiming the last spot in the 200-meter final with a time of 22.65 seconds, Daniels said she had "nothing to lose" in that race. She was a bit more disappointed in her showing in the shorter sprint.
North Carolina A&T's Kayla White (left) and LSU's Sha'Carri Richardson compete on June 6, 2019 in Austin. [NICK WAGNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Daniels entered the week as the 100 meter's top seed and she did win her heat on Thursday. A time of 11.05 seconds, however, fell behind LSU star Sha'Carri Richardson (10.99) and North Carolina A&T senior Kayla White (11.01).
Daniels blamed a lack of focus for a performance that was still one of the ten best in UT's history. Distracted by what she thought was a slow gun and the starting-line stumble of Oregon's Brianna Duncan, who was two lanes over, Daniels said she got off to the worst start in her eight-sprinter heat. She recovered to nudge Norfolk State sophomore Kiara Grant by 0.11 seconds.
"Just imagine what the final is going to be like," Daniels said.
Awake since 6:30 that morning, Daniels asked reporters for the time following her last race of the day. When told it was 9:40 p.m., Daniels said she was "pretty tired right now. But I'm happy, though. I made it in all three. I checked my list."
Texas' Zola Golden leaves her blocks in a preliminary of the 400-meter dash at NCAA outdoor track and field championships on June 6, 2019 in Austin. Golden also ran on UT's 400- and 1,600-meter relays. [NICK WAGNER/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
One of those check marks was a team effort. Texas' time of 42.84 seconds in the 400-meter relay matched the second-best time in school history. The Longhorns' line-up of Daniels and freshmen Kennedy Simon and Kynnedy Flannel recently had senior Zola Golden replace the injured Julien Alfred.
"I'm used to running third leg on the 4×1, but they've been training together all season," Golden said. "It was a little bit different with me hopping in at first, but I think we've gotten used to it."
Aside from Daniels and the 400-meter relay team, no other Longhorns qualified for a final on Thursday evening. Those UT athletes will be joined on Saturday by senior Ashtin Zamzow, who will be wrapping up a heptathlon competition that begins on Friday.
Next story: Georgia star Johannes Erm dominates NCAA decathlon as he eyes 2020 Olympics
Arkansas, LSU, USC women all make strong first impressions, setting tone for Day 2 at NCAAs


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Q: PHP: Does Google OAuth2 refresh token need to be in a cookie to always be available? Does the Google OAuth2 refresh token need to be stored in a "forever-lasting" cookie so that there is always a way to retrieve it?  Imagine this repeat visit scenario...
1st user visit:

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*Use authorization code to get a refresh token and an access token.

*Store refresh token in a $_SESSION for later. Great!

2nd user visit (same day or few days later):

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*Access token expired.  We can only use the authorization code once to get an access token.

*No problem! Use refresh token from $_SESSION to get a new access token. Great!

3rd user visit (a month or year later):

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*Access token expired.

*$_SESSION expired too.

*Oh no! We need the refresh token... How do I get the refresh token now?
If $_SESSION expires too with the access token, how do we find it? Does the refresh token have to be stored in a cookie?
Thought about storing the refresh token inside a MySQL database BUT since the user is NOT logged in to begin with, there is no way to use their ID in the database and link it to the refresh token through a query.
So, is the cookie the only answer here?  Maybe I'm missing something...I was trying to NOT use cookies but I guess I have no choice?

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Q: How to get totals in this database I have a database.
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|   code   |  value  |
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| shipping |  20     |
| unique   |   4     |
| shipping |  25     |
| unique   |   6     |
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totals "shipping" = 45 (should)

I mean how to get the totals of each order_id based code = " shipping " . I use database opencart. Thank you.

A: SELECT order_id, SUM(value) AS Total
FROM your_table
WHERE code = "shipping"
GROUP BY order_id

A: You can simply do it using the sum method of MySql. Try the below Query.
group by your unique field and sum the value.
SELECT code, sum(value) as total FORM table WHERE code = 'shipping' GROUP BY order_id

A:  SELECT
  code,
       SUM(value) AS value
FROM
    order_table
WHERE code="shipping" GROUP BY code

A: You should be able to use sum and group by to get the cost for each code.
try this
SELECT code, sum(value) as total FORM table WHERE code = 'shipping' GROUP BY code


In order to test the Strawberry Adobe panel launch the Strawberry client application and login with your credentials. Create a project using the Adobe Premiere template or open an existing Premiere project. In Premiere navigate to the menu bar and click on Window / Extensions / Strawberry 5.x.x.


Diving into Data with Honeycomb: BubbleUp (formerly codename: Drilldown) is in Beta!
Let's back up a little. In Parts I and II, I talked about how heatmaps help to understand how the process of data analysis works, and how to use them in the Core Analysis Loop; I talked about the Core Analysis Loop, and the importance of finding good dimensions that divide your data. In Part III, Honeycomb introduces a new feature that does precisely that: it helps you find those dimensions quickly and lets you know more about your data.
The last post talked about the Core Analysis Loop, and the importance of breaking down on good dimensions.
Honeycomb encourages you to create rich events, filled with lots of columns of data: it should be possible to look at your system from as many angles as possible. Many problems require users to understand the complexities of their data. Unfortunately, that makes step 2 difficult: how do you find the right dimension for a breakdown?
Sometimes, it's possible to find a good dimension for steps 2 and 3 with some solid thinking. When a DevOps team owns their code, they know what to look for: cache misses look different from slow network requests. The dotted line from a misconfigured server looks different from the vertical slash of a DDOS attack.
That's why Honeycomb has just released our latest new feature, BubbleUp.
BubbleUp is intended to help explain how some datapoints are different from the other points returned by a query. The goal of the BubbleUp is to try to explain how a subset of data differs from other data. Using BubbleUp can help identify where to look for signal within data.
The concept behind BubbleUp is to let the user see how data is distributed differently. Is that stripe of data all limited to one user id, or only database queries? The user selects a portion of their data, and BubbleUp computes histograms for every dimension and measure in the dataset, comparing the distribution of values. It then shows the top histograms that best explain how the selection is different from the surrounding baseline data.
The selected section is very different from the other data with regards to (B) which mysql_replset was active during that section, but that the other fields, like (C) endpoint_var_prod and hostname are fairly similar.
This can help an analysis, as it helps figure out which fields are the most likely next starting points. In this case, it seems clear that one particular mysql_replset had a transient period of slowing down queries.
Start BubbleUp by getting a heatmap on screen: something that involves a good continuous dimension, like a duration. (This sample query shows a request_body_size for RubyGems.) Then, click "BubbleUp [Beta]". BubbleUp mode supports a rectangular selection tool. Click within the heatmap to select one corner, and drag to cover the opposite corner. The selection should cover some of the points that should be investigated. The selected area is called the selection; the entire area of the shown heatmap is the baseline. Try to select regions where things inside the selection are different from things outside it.
Now, look at the histograms below. Look for histograms where the green bars — the selection — looks very different from the blue bars.
In this chart, for example, lots of the selection data is status code 500 — while most of the non-selected data is status code 200. The selection consists of lots of internal errors!
In this chart, all of the selection data comes from one particular endpoint. (The tall green bar means "all the data"). It could be worth filtering down to that endpoint to figure out how it is different.
Read more about BubbleUp in the documentation.
Identify points that are distinct, and can help highlight the new phenomenon.
Create a BubbleUp, using those points as a selection, and narrow down candidate dimensions.
Filter or break down on those dimensions.
That seems so much more predicatable!
Next time, we'll look at how BubbleUp was created. We'll look a little more deeply into some of our major design decisions, and talk through a few more usage scenarios.
BubbleUp is in Beta; we welcome your thoughts and feedback.
The team would like to gratefully acknowledge Professor Eugene Wu, of Columbia University, whose Scorpion research project helped us clarify our thinking on how to present and examine anomalous data.
Ready to try it out? Sign up for a free trial today!


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Такаси Сэкидзука (; 26 октября 1960, Фунабаси) — японский футболист, выступавший на позиции нападающего. Ныне футбольный тренер.

Карьера футболиста
Такаси Сэкидзу выступал за команду Японской футбольной лиги «Хонда» с 1984 по 1991 год. В первом же своём сезоне он стал новичком года и вошёл список 11 лучших игроков лиги 1984 года.

Тренерская карьера
Свою тренерскую карьеру Такаси Сэкидзу начинал, работая с футбольной командой Университета Васэда. С 1993 по 1994 год он был помощником главного тренера клуба «Касима Антлерс», в 1995 году Сэкидзу занимал аналогичную должность в команде «Симидзу С-Палс». В 1996 году он вернулся в «Касиму Антлерс» на прежнюю работал, где оставался до 2003 года. В июле 1998 и в августе 1999 года он временно исполнял обязанности главного тренера.

В 2004 году Такаси Сэкидзука возглавил «Кавасаки Фронтале», в первом же сезоне приведя эту команду к уверенной победе во Втором дивизионе Джей-лиги и возвращению в Первый дивизион. В чемпионате 2006 года «Кавасаки Фронтале» стал вторым. В апреле 2008 года Сэкидзука покинул свой пост, но в сезоне 2009 вновь его занял и также привёл команду ко второму месту по итогам чемпионата. С 2010 по 2012 год он возглавлял молодёжную сборную Японии, которая в качестве олимпийской выступала на футбольном турнире Олимпийских игр 2012 года в Лондоне, где стала четвёртой, уступив в полуфинале мексиканцам, а в матче за третье место корейцам.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Профиль на worldfootball.net
 Профиль на transfermarkt.com

Футболисты Японии
Тренеры ФК «Кавасаки Фронтале»
Тренеры ФК «Джубило Ивата»
Тренеры ФК «Касима Антлерс»
Тренеры ФК «ДЖЕФ Юнайтед Итихара Тиба»
Игроки ФК «Хонда»


I was supposed to post about this win last month itself. Even I promised Pari that I would write a blog post soon on this. But I could not keep up my promise. My Lil "S" is keeping me very busy these days.When Pari posted the winners for the giveaway, I was so happy to see my name in the winner's place. This is the first giveaway I won this 2012. Thanks Pari for the wonderful "New Indian" cookbook by Anjum Anand.
Congrats Nithu.Thanks for sharing about Pari.Very Nice.
Pleased to see the gifts you have won so far.
Congratulations Nithu ! any recipe u look forward to make or post from the cookbook?


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Almost neglecting the "neglected anniversary" of Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, H. L. Mencken's hoax, and the lessons that lie therein
Could I get a longer title? Here is our annual tribute to the hoax that gave its name and much inspiration to this blog.
Otherwise occupied — Kenny's due to board an airplane in Beijing soon; tires for the cars; papers to correct, curriculum to correct; our wedding anniversary I cannot forget pending — I nearly forgot: 93 years ago yesterday, on December 28, 1917, this column by H. L. Mencken was published in The New York Evening Mail:
A Neglected Anniversary
H. L. Mencken at approximately 12:30 a.m., April 7, 1933, at the Rennert Hotel, corner of Saratoga and Liberty Streets, 17 years later, not neglecting a sudsy anniversary – Baltimore Sun photo
On December 20 there flitted past us, absolutely without public notice, one of the most important profane anniversaries in American history, to wit, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the introduction of the bathtub into These States. Not a plumber fired a salute or hung out a flag. Not a governor proclaimed a day of prayer. Not a newspaper called attention to the day.
True enough, it was not entirely forgotten. Eight or nine months ago one of the younger surgeons connected with the Public Health Service in Washington happened upon the facts while looking into the early history of public hygiene, and at his suggestion a committee was formed to celebrate the anniversary with a banquet. But before the plan was perfected Washington went dry (This was war-time Prohibition, preliminary to the main catastrophe. — HLM), and so the banquet had to be abandoned. As it was, the day passed wholly unmarked, even in the capital of the nation.
Bathtubs are so common today that it is almost impossible to imagine a world without them. They are familiar to nearly everyone in all incorporated towns; in most of the large cities it is unlawful to build a dwelling house without putting them in; even on the farm they have begun to come into use. And yet the first American bathtub was installed and dedicated so recently as December 20, 1842, and, for all I know to the contrary, it may still be in existence and in use.
Curiously enough, the scene of its setting up was Cincinnati, then a squalid frontier town, and even today surely no leader in culture. But Cincinnati, in those days as in these, contained many enterprising merchants, and one of them was a man named Adam Thompson, a dealer in cotton and grain. Thompson shipped his grain by steamboat down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans, and from there sent it to England in sailing vessels. This trade frequently took him to England, and in that country, during the '30s, he acquired the habit of bathing.
The bathtub was then still a novelty in England. It had been introduced in 1828 by Lord John Russell and its use was yet confined to a small class of enthusiasts. Moreover, the English bathtub, then as now, was a puny and inconvenient contrivance — little more, in fact, than a glorified dishpan — and filling and emptying it required the attendance of a servant. Taking a bath, indeed, was a rather heavy ceremony, and Lord John in 1835 was said to be the only man in England who had yet come to doing it every day.
Thompson, who was of inventive fancy — he later devised the machine that is still used for bagging hams and bacon — conceived the notion that the English bathtub would be much improved if it were made large enough to admit the whole body of an adult man, and if its supply of water, instead of being hauled to the scene by a maid, were admitted by pipes from a central reservoir and run off by the same means. Accordingly, early in 1842 he set about building the first modern bathroom in his Cincinnati home — a large house with Doric pillars, standing near what is now the corner of Monastery and Orleans streets.
There was then, of course, no city water supply, at least in that part of the city, but Thompson had a large well in his garden, and he installed a pump to lift its water to the house. This pump, which was operated by six Negroes, much like an old-time fire engine, was connected by a pipe with a cypress tank in the garret of the house, and here the water was stored until needed. From the tank two other pipes ran to the bathroom. One, carrying cold water, was a direct line. The other, designed to provide warm water, ran down the great chimney of the kitchen, and was coiled inside it like a giant spring.
The tub itself was of new design, and became the grandfather of all the bathtubs of today. Thompson had it made by James Cullness, the leading Cincinnati cabinetmaker of those days, and its material was Nicaragua mahogany. It was nearly seven feet long and fully four feet wide. To make it water-tight, the interior was lined with sheet lead, carefully soldered at the joints. The whole contraption weighed about 1,750 pounds, and the floor of the room in which it was placed had to be reinforced to support it. The exterior was elaborately polished.
In this luxurious tub Thompson took two baths on December 20, 1842 — a cold one at 8 a.m. and a warm one some time during the afternoon. The warm water, heated by the kitchen fire, reached a temperature of 105 degrees. On Christmas day, having a party of gentlemen to dinner, he exhibited the new marvel to them and gave an exhibition of its use, and four of them, including a French visitor, Col. Duchanel, risked plunges into it. The next day all Cincinnati — then a town of about 100,000 people — had heard of it, and the local newspapers described it at length and opened their columns to violent discussions of it.
The thing, in fact, became a public matter, and before long there was bitter and double- headed opposition to the new invention, which had been promptly imitated by several other wealthy Cincinnatians. On the one hand it was denounced as an epicurean and obnoxious toy from England, designed to corrupt the democratic simplicity of the Republic, and on the other hand it was attacked by the medical faculty as dangerous to health and a certain inviter of "phthisic, rheumatic fevers, inflammation of the lungs and the whole category of zymotic diseases." (I quote from the Western Medical Repository of April 23, 1843.)
The noise of the controversy soon reached other cities, and in more than one place medical opposition reached such strength that it was reflected in legislation. Late in 1843, for example, the Philadelphia Common Council considered an ordinance prohibiting bathing between November 1 and March 15, and it failed of passage by but two votes. During the same year the legislature of Virginia laid a tax of $30 a year on all bathtubs that might be set up, and in Hartford, Providence, Charleston and Wilmington (Del.) special and very heavy water rates were levied upon those who had them. Boston, very early in 1845, made bathing unlawful except upon medical advice, but the ordinance was never enforced and in 1862 it was repealed.
This legislation, I suspect, had some class feeling in it, for the Thompson bathtub was plainly too expensive to be owned by any save the wealthy; indeed, the common price for installing one in New York in 1845 was $500. Thus the low caste politicians of the time made capital by fulminating against it, and there is even some suspicion of political bias in many of the early medical denunciations. But the invention of the common pine bathtub, lined with zinc, in 1847, cut off this line of attack, and thereafter the bathtub made steady progress.
The zinc tub was devised by John F. Simpson, a Brooklyn plumber, and his efforts to protect it by a patent occupied the courts until 1855. But the decisions were steadily against him, and after 1848 all the plumbers of New York were equipped for putting in bathtubs. According to a writer in the Christian Register for July 17, 1857, the first one in New York was opened for traffic on September 12, 1847, and by the beginning of 1850 there were already nearly 1,000 in use in the big town.
After this medical opposition began to collapse, and among other eminent physicians Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes declared for the bathtub, and vigorously opposed the lingering movement against it in Boston. The American Medical Association held its annual meeting in Boston in 1849, and a poll of the members in attendance showed that nearly 55 per cent of them now regarded bathing as harmless, and that more than 20 per cent advocated it as beneficial. At its meeting in 1850 a resolution was formally passed giving the imprimatur of the faculty to the bathtub. The homeopaths followed with a like resolution in 1853.
But it was the example of President Millard Fillmore that, even more than the grudging medical approval, gave the bathtub recognition and respectability in the United States. While he was still Vice-President, in March, 1850, he visited Cincinnati on a stumping tour, and inspected the original Thompson tub. Thompson himself was now dead, but his bathroom was preserved by the gentlemen who had bought his house from the estate. Fillmore was entertained in this house and, according to Chamberlain, his biographer, took a bath in the tub. Experiencing no ill effects, he became an ardent advocate of the new invention, and on succeeding to the Presidency at Taylor's death, July 9, 1850, he instructed his secretary of war, Gen. Charles M. Conrad, to invite tenders for the construction of a bathtub in the White House.
This action, for a moment, revived the old controversy, and its opponents made much of the fact that there was no bathtub at Mount Vernon, or at Monticello, and that all the Presidents and other magnificoes of the past had got along without any such monarchical luxuries. The elder Bennett, in the New York Herald, charged that Fillmore really aspired to buy and install in the White House a porphyry and alabaster bath that had been used by Louis Philippe at Versailles. But Conrad, disregarding all this clamor, duly called for bids, and the contract was presently awarded to Harper & Gillespie, a firm of Philadelphia engineers, who proposed to furnish a tub of thin cast iron, capable of floating the largest man.
This was installed early in 1851, and remained in service in the White House until the first Cleveland administration, when the present enameled tub was substituted. The example of the President soon broke down all that remained of the old opposition, and by 1860, according to the newspaper advertisements of the time, every hotel in New York had a bathtub, and some had two and even three. In 1862 bathing was introduced into the Army by Gen. McClellan, and in 1870 the first prison bathtub was set up at Moyamensing Prison, in Philadelphia.
So much for the history of the bathtub in America. One is astonished, on looking into it, to find that so little of it has been recorded. The literature, in fact, is almost nil. But perhaps this brief sketch will encourage other inquirers and so lay the foundation for an adequate celebration of the centennial in 1942.
(Text courtesy of Poor Mojo's Almanac(k))
The entire history was a hoax composed by Mencken.
Even conservative wackoes appreciate the column.
Content with his private joke, Mencken remained silent about the hoax until a follow-up article, "Melancholy Reflections," appeared in the Chicago Tribune on May 23, 1926, some eight years later. This was Mencken's confession. It was also an appeal for reason to the American public.
His hoax was a joke gone bad. "A Neglected Anniversary" had been printed and reprinted hundreds of times in the intervening years. Mencken had been receiving letters of corroboration from some readers and requests for more details from others. His history of the bathtub had been cited repeatedly by other writers and was starting to find its way into reference works. As Mencken noted in "Melancholy Reflections," his "facts" "began to be used by chiropractors and other such quacks as evidence of the stupidity of medical men. They began to be cited by medical men as proof of the progress of public hygiene." And, because Fillmore's presidency had been so uneventful, on the date of his birthday calendars often included the only interesting tidbit of information they could find: Fillmore had introduced the bathtub into the White House. (Even the later scholarly disclosure that Andrew Jackson had a bathtub installed there in 1834—years before Mencken claimed it was even invented—did not diminish America's conviction that Fillmore was responsible.)
(No, dear reader, probably not correct; surely John Adams brought a bathtub with him when he moved into the White House, then called the President's Mansion. Plumbing, hot water, and finally hot water to a bathtub in the president's residence, were installed between 1830 and 1853, as best I can determine.)
Mencken wrote an introduction to the piece in a later book, A Mencken Chrestomathy (Alfred A. Knopf, 1949):
The success of this idle hoax, done in time of war, when more serious writing was impossible, vastly astonished me. It was taken gravely by a great many other newspapers, and presently made its way into medical literature and into standard reference books. It had, of course, no truth in it whatsoever, and I more than once confessed publicly that it was only a jocosity . . . Scarcely a month goes by that I do not find the substance of it reprinted, not as foolishness but as fact, and not only in newspapers but in official documents and other works of the highest pretensions.
There's a moral to the story: Strive for accuracy!
So, Dear Reader, check for accuracy, and question authority.
Fact checks — what else might need to be corrected in this story?
Cincinnati's population in 1840 was about 44,000, far short of the 100,000 Mencken claimed (were you even aware of the riots in 1841?)
Lord John Russell, twice Prime Minister of England, had nothing whatever to do with bathtubs; Bertrand Russell was his grandson
Bathing and bathtubs have been a part of civilization for 5,000 years at least; almost every home in Mohenjo-Daro had a bathing area in it, with plumbing to take waste water away from the home. Mohenjo-daro emerged as a major city about 2600 BCE, more than 4,600 years ago
The Governor's Palace at Williamsburg, Virginia, had a bathhouse as early as 1721
This nineteenth-century tub was one a fixture in the basement of Williamsburg's St. George Tucker House, the first home in town known to have a bath with running water. –Colonial Williamsburg (tub was installed by 1796, contrasting sharply with dates Mencken offered)
Roman baths were famous, from at least the first century CE
During the American Revolution, George Washington and others worked to develop hot springs for bathing in Bath, Virginia — now the town of Berekely Springs, West Virginia
Bathtubs a novelty in the 18th century? Consider the famous painting of the death of Marat Sade, during the French Revolution (see below)
Charles M. Conrad was, indeed, Fillmore's Secretary of War — but why would a president task the Secretary of War with plumbing renovations at the Executive Mansion?
Neatorama, "Six More Hoaxes that Fooled the World"
Today in Literature, "Mencken's Tub and Hot Water"
Description of the H. L. Mencken Collection at Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library
Was the New York Evening Mail a propaganda tool of the German government, operating in America during the war?
What about "fake news?" Is Jon Stewart the modern-day incarnation of H. L. Mencken?
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A neglected, "Neglected Anniversary" – Mencken, Fillmore and the bathtub
Otherwise occupied, I nearly forgot: 92 years ago yesterday, on December 28, 1917, this column by H. L. Mencken was published in The New York Evening Mail:
H. L. Mencken at approximately 12:30 a.m., April 7, 1933, at the Rennert Hotel, corner of Saratoga and Liberty Streets, 17 years later, not neglecting a sudsy anniversary - Baltimore Sun photo
Warn others of the hoax!
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Mencken's typewriter
Mencken's Corona Typewriter, at the Mencken Room in the Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, Maryland
The typewriter that belonged to H. L. Mencken. Photo by the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland. [Update, April 15, 2007: The photo has moved, and is restricted by copyright; you may follow the links to view the original photo of the typewriter, at the site of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. E.D.]
Was this the machine upon which Mencken composed the Millard Fillmore/Bathtub hoax? Perhaps. It was used prior to 1930.
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Fillmore's bathtub — metaphor?
One of my searches turned up what appears to be a well-informed essay from 1999 by Wendy McLemore, "The Bathtub, Mencken, and War." According to her curriculum vitae, the article originally appeared in a publication called Ideas on Liberty, "The Bathtub, Mencken, and War," Vol. 49, No. 9 (September 1999).
While the article is available on the author's website, I have not found a link from her blog to the article. So let me urge that you make a second foray, and check out her blog, too. A word of warning — while I haven't found anything at the blog that is not suitable for viewing at work (NSVW), this is the subtitle the blog: "A site for individualist feminism and individualist anarchism."
McLemore argues that Mencken was not merely fighting deadline, but was writing a close satire of the difficulties he had getting stories published during World War I that did not condemn Germans willy-nilly. She writes that Mencken was a great appreciator of German culture, and did not go along with propaganda that merely demonized Germany and Germans.
She also wrote that it was Andrew Jackson who introduced the bathtub to the White House, in 1834. This contrasts with the White House story I noted earlier, attributing the introduction of the tub to Fillmore's wife in 1853. (Before my hard-drive crash, I wrote to the White House historian asking for a check of the veracity of that story. I've got nothing in response.) What is McLemore's source for the Andrew Jackson tub?
We continue the search for the Truth about White House bathtubs. Go read McLemore's essay.
Post script: Go see what Cecil says about Millard Fillmore, at the column archives for Straight Dope.
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Fillmore's bathtub, water's running
I got several e-mails about the mystery of just who did install the first bathtub in the White House — the first plumbed, running water bathtub, not just the first tub. The White House Historical Association provides partial answers at their website:
The first running water was plumbed into the White House in 1833 — during Andrew Jackson's administration.
Running hot water first made it to the First Family's quarters on the second floor in 1853 (no, it wasn't that somebody left the water on from 1833 and it took 20 years to back up — we're talking pipes and a water heater).
1853! There was an election held in 1852, but Fillmore's party, the Whigs, gave the nomination to Gen. Winfield Scott. He lost the election to Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce. (Fillmore would be the last Whig president; he won the Whig nomination in 1856, and the nomination of the Know-Nothing Party, but neither party had much strength. The race was between John C. Fremont of California, who had the first-ever presidential nomination of a new party made up of Free Soilers, antislavery Democrats and Whigs, called the Republicans; and Democrat James Buchanan of Pennsylvania. Buchanan won, of course. Fillmore was actually president during part of 1853!
There are two issues of interest to me here. The first, of course, is whether the White House Historical Association has fallen victim to the Mencken hoax, or whether the first plumbed bathtub really was installed in 1853; and the second issue is related: If the tub was installed after March, it would have been in Pierce's administration (the new president took office in March until 1933). So there were two presidents in 1853, and one of them was Millard Fillmore. Which would get the credit, if 1853 is an accurate year?
Isn't it somewhat ironic that there is, at this date, a possibility that part of Mencken's hoax could be verified as accurate?
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I finally managed to edit a painting of Millard Fillmore, from the White House site, to fit the header. Fillmore is generally considered to be one of the worst presidents ever, but the capital of Utah was once named for him when the Mormons were trying to win his favor to gain statehood (Fillmore, in Millard County — the capital was moved later). It didn't work, and Utah didn't achieve statehood for another four decades.
I am still looking for a picture of his actual bathtub.
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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub?
History is a study of what happened and why. Often, high school and college studies of history are ruined by rote memorization of a long list of dates with a couple of words describing an event. That is not history. Often, studies of history are ruined through unreliable sources.
H. L. Mencken, the famous newspaper columnist from Baltimore, wrote a column published December 28, 1917, about the history of the bathtub, specifically that it was rare in the U.S., and how President Millard Fillmore introduced it to the White House, thereby making bathtubs and bathing popular. The column was brilliant, and it was a complete fabrication, a hoax. Within two years, however, Mencken's column had found its way to reference books, encyclopedias, and bad history books. Here is Mencken's original column: "A Neglected Anniversary." [3/19/2009 – that link is dead; see Mencken's column here.] You can read a history of the hoax and its spread at this site, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub.
It's a great story, about a do-nothing president, the press, and errors of history. To know the story, dates are unimportant. No one cares what years Fillmore was actually in office, no one cares exactly when Mencken's column was published. Knowing lists of dates has never stopped a bad historian from reciting the erroneous claim that Millard Fillmore introduced the concept of bathing in a bathtub to the White House.
But now you know better.
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Miss Nelson started her work in theater during high school with her first performance as Queen Guinevere in Sir Gawain & The Green Knight. A graduate of Thornton Fractional South High School, she acted and was on the leadership crew for shows such as The Little Prince, The Crucible, Hello Dolly, and Romeo & Juliet. Since graduating from Purdue Calumet, she has been teaching math for seven years, the last three here at Griffith HS. She volunteered her time to assist with hair in GTC's performance of Cinderella and this is her second year as hair/makeup co-director for The Griffith Theatre Company. Miss Nelson is super excited for this season and loves having the opportunity to work with all the students and directors!


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'Daredevil' Season 3 Is Definitely Coming in 2018
Daredevil Season 3 Is Definitely Coming in 2018
Daredevil season 3 will be making its way to Netflix in 2018. This news comes as something of a surprise, but surely a welcome one for those who enjoy the Hell's Kitchen corner of the Marvel universe. It had previously been suspected that Charlie Cox would be making his way back to the streaming service as Matt Murdock for a third season early next year, but Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos confirmed recently that we're not going to have to wait quite so long to see the blind hero dish out his particular brand of justice once more.
This reveal came as part of Netflix's quarter 2 earnings report. Toward the end of the report, Ted Sarandos was addressing what the streaming service had coming down the pipeline for the rest of 2018 and slipped in the Daredevil reveal. Here's what he had to say about all-new Daredevil episodes.
"In the short term, we've got new seasons coming up, in the second half of this year, of Orange is the New Black, Ozark, Iron Fist, Daredevil, Narcos, the finale of House of Cards, the follow-up series to Making a Murderer."
So there you have it. Unfortunately, there aren't any other details to go on for now, but it's not tough to figure out, at least roughly, when we'll see season 3 pop up. Iron Fist season 2 has been given a September 7 release date, as revealed during San Diego Comic-Con. That means Netflix likely wouldn't release the new season of Daredevil until at least November, if not December. Maybe they'll be giving us a little binge-worthy Christmas gift this holiday season? It wouldn't be a bad way to cap off a massive year for the company.
Assuming this sticks, it will be a record for the Marvel shows on Netflix. Jessica Jones season 2 and Luke Cage season 2 have already premiered. With Iron Fist season 2 imminent and Daredevil season 3 pending, that means every single Defender, four new seasons of Marvel shows in total, will have premiered this year. That raises some questions about what we'll see coming our way in 2019. The Punisher season 2 has been given the green light and should be dropping next year. But will Netflix go from releasing four new seasons this year to just one next year? Probably not. Jessica Jones season 3 has also been given the go-ahead but there's no word just yet on when filming will get underway.
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Daredevil season 2 debuted in March 2016, so Matt Murdock is due for some more screen time, even though he was featured in The Defenders miniseries last year. The upcoming season will see him doing battle with one of his greatest foes in the form of Bullseye, who will reportedly be portrayed by Wilson Bethel. We'll be sure to keep you posted as additional details, such as a release date or trailer for Daredevil season 3, are made available. This news was previously reported by Comicbook.com.
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After two decades of wrangling, construction of a North-South road in West O'ahu finally will begin early next year.
Not a minute too soon, residents say.
"About five years too late," said John Honold, senior pastor at Hope Chapel Kapolei whose offices are in 'Ewa Beach. "The way things are going, we're going to need a Berlin airlift to get food here."
The $121 million, six-lane highway has long been sought to ease traffic congestion in the fastest growing part of O'ahu. It's an area, Honold said, where rapid housing construction has far outpaced the infrastructure.
I am doubtful that the "north-south" road will help much. Residents of ewa beach would be backtracking if they took that road. It may help a little but not much. I say a better solution would be build an underground road from Iroqouis housing under pearl harbor to town. Whatever happened to that ferry? That was a really good idea that nobody utilized. Another solution is to build more commercial development in the Ewa area. There aren't much job oppurtunties there. Wasn't the second city alleviate congestion in town?


Glorious Goodwood 2018 News and Reviews.
We're entering the final day of the 2018 Glorious Goodwood Festival. And glorious it has been indeed, from the weather to the very competitive racing. There are seven more races to test our betting nerve today.
The action starts with the 13:50 Stewards' Sprint handicap, a short race over only 6 furlongs. The fact that it is so short makes predictions very hard, as the horses will be sprinting right out of the stalls. It literally is a cavalry charge.
In our case we will mostly be going with each way choices here, and we will look a bit closer at My Amigo (20/1), Classic Seniority (14/1) and Maakasib (10/1).
The main event is the 15:40 Stewards' Cup. Another sprint over 6 furlongs, this race has 28 contenders (!), which will make for a fantastic spectacle, for those at the course. Of course, this is another difficult one to call, as the start is so important. If your horse gets an explosive start, it can be well on the way for a win, but if it doesn't it might find itself at the back of the field, with only a short distance to fight its way to the front.
Foxtrot Lady (7/1) and Spring loaded (8/1) are leading the betting at the time of writing, but things may well tighten up a bit as we progress towards the race.
Our eyes have fallen on Growl (16/1). Richard Fahey's sprinter was fourth two years ago behind Dancing Star, before finishing second in the Ayr Gold Cup. Last year he was second behind Lancelot Du Lac from 10lb higher. A trip to Hong Kong to compete seemed to have affected him badly, and his form hasn't been even throughout this season, but we feel he may spring a surprise. With a field of this size, and the odds on offer, an each way bet may be appropriate here.
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Another day packed full of literally 'glorious' racing at the West Sussex course.
Kicking off the action is the 13:50 Glorious Stakes. It's quite a small field, but packed full of quality. Eminent (7/1) is probably the best of all of these runners at his peak. He ran quite well over a mile at Ascot last time, but this is the first time he has raced over this 1m4f trip since his fourth in the Derby and he is a bit errant at times, so not a reliable punt.
Course-and-distance winner Mirage Dancer (2/1) and Red Verdon (4/1) have the more solid recent form, and Second Step is consistent and reliable in this grade came second in this race last season when chasing home Poet's . The favourite at the time of writing however is Mirage Dancer.
The 15:00 Golden Mile will also be a fantastic race, but it is not easy to pick a winner here. Seniority is leading the betting at the time of writing at 9/2, but I expect this may well change a bit. We like South Seas (10/1), who although not the biggest of horses, and with not a lot of racing under his belt this season, he can put in a big effort and he is our outside pick.
For a really outside one, we could go each way on Hors De Combat at 18/1, particularly with Betfair who are paying 5 places. A winner at Meydan early in the year, he can be a frustrating horse to back, with only a few wins under his belt. But if he sparks, and with an EW bet, he could represent good value.
Finally on the big race of the day, the 15:35 King George Stakes, you have to be brave to look further than Battaash, currently at evens in the betting. Last year's winner may be carrying a few lbs more, but it is hard to see who will beat him. It all depends if you like backing a horse at these odds.
Outside Battaash, the 'best of the rest' are all around the 8/1 to 9/1 range. Havana Grey (8/1 and Sioux Nation (8/1) have a good pedigree, as does Kachy at 9/1, and they could cause some problems, but probably an each way bet is the cautious choice here.
As is the custom in these big meetings, today is Ladies Day, with all its associated focus on clothes and hats. We'll be focussing more on the racing here.
It kicks off today with another fabulously open race, packed full of promising 3-year olds, at 13:50. At the time of writing the Clive Cox trained Al Jellaby is joint favourite with Communique, both at 5/1, but we expect this may well change a bit before the race starts, as the bets start coming in. With two second places in his last two races, Al Jellaby can step up to the mark and bring this one home we believe. Communique however has two wins already this year, so the form may tell in the end. Our money goes to Al Jellaby however.
The feature race for the day, the 15:35 Nassau Stakes, looks to be a tight contest, at least in the betting stakes, between Rhododendron (3/1), Urban Fox (3/1) and Veracious (10/3).
Rhododendron disappointed at Ascot last month, but she is a classy filly, and the 1-mile distance will probably suit her best. She will have to improve on the Ascot form, but if it all comes together for her she will be there.
Urban Fox has improved much this season. A winner of the Pretty Polly Stakes at The Curragh earlier in the month, she was comfortably clear of this season's Oaks winner Forever Together, showing the form is there to take it all the way here.
A couple of other horse that interest us, and that we will keep an eye on when they go around the pre-parade ring are Oaks runner-up, and Charlie Appleby trained, Wild Illusion (5/1) and 1000 Guineas winner Billesdon Brook (8/1), the latter perhaps EW.
The weather looks to have slipped back into a bit more like summer, and although we won't hit the high temperatures of last week, it will be sunny with some clouds, making the going officially as 'good'.
Today is the day for one of the biggest races in the flat racing calendar, the Qatar Sussex Stakes. And this one looks like a massive three way fight between Without Parole (15/8), the three year old son of Frankel, Expert Eye (7/2) and Beat The Bank (11/2).
Beat the Bank has the skills and the stamina to beat all of these, despite the fact that Jim Crowley's mount has to give some weight to the others. The Andrew Balding trained horse managed a Group Two win in Ascot's Summer Mile in which he overcame being blocked to beat Lord Glitters to show his class.
Without Parole also was a winner at Ascot, beating Gustav Klimt, a horse that is also running this race, by half a length. He is unbeaten in four starts, so the favourite role is not surprising. Second favourite Expert Eye has won on this course last year, but although he seems to have calmed down a bit, he can be unpredictable, and will need to win the perfect race to take the spoils here.
On balance we opt for Beat the Bank, perhaps each way to take some of the risk out, as long as the field remains at 8.
We expect the opener at 13:50 to be a big blast as well, with another 3-way charge for the line. Lil Rockefeller leads the betting at the time of writing at 11/4, but we like the look of the second favourite Coeur de Lion at 11/2, but would not dismiss Kloud Gate (15/2) to spoil it in the end for the others. Coeur de Lion may have been frustratingly in his last few races, but there is no doubting that he could take this all the way.
We are looking forward to the coverage on ITV already!
After the very lengthy spell of sunny weather, the rains finally arrived on the course, but the amount of rainfall, and the speed it fell with means that much has drained away, leaving the course good, and good to firm in places around the course. No significant softening of the ground therefore.
The feature race is of course the Goodwood Cup at 15:35, featuring sky high favourite Stradivarius at 8/13 in the betting. A win here would take him a step closer to the £1million Weatherbys-Hamilton sponsored stayers bonus, but it is unlikely that he will have it all his own way today.
At this value, a better bet may be Torcedor at 4/1 who, although beaten by the favourite at last month's Gold Cup by a length, has shedded a pound in weight, and the fact that this race is half a mile shorter, and on slightly softer ground than Ascot may all go in his favour. There is clearly not much between these two stayers, but on value terms we will go for Torcedor.
The first race at 13:50 could be a cracker as well. Mark Johnston has won this race three times, and his entry in this race, Rainbow Rebel (9/1) is in form, but has had a tough draw in the stalls.
The big favourite in this race is Afaak (13/2), who ran a blinder last month at Ascot. He is challenged by a number of horses around the 7/1-9/1 mark. We also might put a little side bet on Tuff Rock at 12/1 as he has been impressive and could cause an upset.
Finally, a word about the Lennox Stakes (15:00), where 3-year olds have a good record. Last year it was won by 50/1 outsider Breton Rock, who is also running this year, priced at a much more modest 16/1. Can lightning strike twice? Or will co-favourites Sir Dancealot and Tip Two Win at 11/2. Of those two, we quite fancy the latter to pip the rest to the finishing post.
It's now called the Qatar Goodwood Festival, but it is much better known to racing fans as Glorious Goodwood. It's one of the highlights of the flat-racing season and this year will take place from 31 July to 4 August. Five days packed full of top class racing.
Here is your overview of what you can expect each day throughout the festival.
The highlight of this day is surely Goodwood's newest Group 1 race, the Qatar Goodwood Cup. Lat year Stradivarius narrowly denied Big Orange his third straight win in this race. We have a race to look forward to: Two of the first four finishers in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot are on course to meet again here: Stradivarius and Torcedor are among the entries, with Stradivarius holding a big lead in the betting steaks, with best odds of 8/13.
The Qatar Sussex Stakes is one of the highlights of the flat racing calendar, with prize money of £1million attracting a top-class field. This Group 1 race runs over 1 mile has previously been won by Frankel and the French sensation Solow.
Leader in the antepost betting charts Without Parole (6/4) is set to take on older horses for the first time in the Sussex Stakes. The unbeaten Frankel colt has had four wins from four starts, so that is not a surprise to anyone. Gustav Klimt (6/1) leads a pack of 3 horses to follow behind in the betting stakes.
As is usual the case in these events, Ladies' Day is the most glamorous day of the meeting , alongside the top racing of course. The Qatar Nassau Stakes is the highlight of the eight-race card for the day.
Urban Fox (4/1) is currently leading the antepost, having well beaten Investec Oaks winner Forever Together recently, but there is a large chasing pack with Rododendron (5/1), and Happily and Veracious (both on 6/1) leading the chase.
The sight of a large field hurtling at speeds of over 40mph in a Goodwood sprint makes the Qatar King George Stakes one of the highlights of the year. It was won last year by Battaash, who is once again considered to be the leading contendor at this race, with an antepost price of 7/4.
A couple of chasers consisting of Kachy (7/1), Sioux Nation (8/1) are the closest challengers in the betting charts.
A special mention has to go to Take Cover (16/1) who could become the first three-time winner of this race, 2014 and 2016. Could 2018 be the next one? It has a certain ring to it.
The final days of this year's festival as always has the six furlong cavalry charge of the Qatar Stewards' Cup. Over 20 sprinters will be thundering down the Goodwood straightwhich makes it notoriously hard to predict. For the winner of this short race there will be £250,000 prize money.
The current ante-post favourite is Dreamfield (8/1), trained by John Gosden. The Godolphin- owned four-year-old lost his unbeaten record when going down by the narrowest of margins to the 33/1 outsider Bacchus in the Wokingham Handicap at Royal Ascot in June. It seems the punters still believe in him however.