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7 Self-Serving Bias Examples You See Throughout Life
When something good happens, people tend to think: "I worked so hard, I'm so talented, I did a great job!"
But when things go wrong, people often start taking a mental account of any external factors that could be to blame.
Can you think of a time when you were quick to take credit for a victory, but looked to other possible causes when things went wrong? I can think of a few.
We have talked a lot about blaming others for things that go wrong, and today we are going to look at a cognitive bias that offers some explanation for why we tend to do this.
The self-serving bias is very common, and it's important to know about so you can do an honest, comprehensive assessment when you don't achieve the outcomes you had hoped.
Let's first look at an in-depth definition of the self-serving bias and why it's important to recognize, then we will go into some examples of when you may come across this in your everyday life.
What Is the Self-Serving Bias?
Why Is this Cognitive Bias Significant?
1. Win/Lose
2. Bad Test Scores
3. Teachers
4. Job Hunting
5. At Work
6. Workman's Comp
7. Car Accident
How to Avoid the Self-Serving Bias
Final Thoughts on Self-Serving Bias
Learn More About Logical Fallacies
Put simply, self-serving bias is a pattern of thinking in which people attribute positive outcomes to internal factors (e.g. talent and hard work) and negative outcomes to external factors (e.g. bad luck or the difficulty of the task).
The self-serving bias stems from a larger concept in social psychology, known as causal attributions, which refers to how we interpret and explain the reasons behind everyday events. Social Psychologist, Fritz Heider, postulated the attribution theory, which explains that people either attribute their outcomes to ability and effort (internal) or difficulty and luck (external).
It's important to note that the self-serving bias is only relevant when people conclude attributions for their own behavior–not when they're judging others. Here is why this is considered to be a bias: When one's personal outcomes are positive, people tend to make internal attributions, but when the outcome is negative, people make external attributions. So the attributions are biased depending on the outcome.
Interestingly, studies show that the self-serving bias is much more common in our competitive Western culture where our feelings of self-worth are often closely tied with our successes or failures, while it's less common in Eastern cultures, where people tend to attribute success to luck or chance.
People connect outcomes in a way that will serve their self-interest. There are three reasons that people do this (aside from cultural and demographic factors):
Self-esteem: Taking credit for our successes and blaming others for our failures protects us from criticism. The self-serving bias distorts how we perceive ourselves, allowing us to believe we can do no wrong, which therefore preserves our self-esteem.
Self-presentation: We like to present ourselves in positive ways to promote a certain self-image, whether that is determined by oneself or it is set to match society's preferences and expectations. And, our self-esteem is impacted by other people's opinions of us, so we act in favorable ways to uphold a socially-desirable image to help us feel good about ourselves.
Optimism: People are inherently optimistic, which means that negative outcomes are usually unexpected. This prevents us from attributing negative results to personal reasons.
While this common bias may seem harmless, it's important to be aware of it and its potential impact on your life. Recognizing this bias can help you recognize important mistakes that lead to unfavorable outcomes. After all, if you don't acknowledge your mistakes, you won't be able to learn from them or repair them in the future. As we know, a big part of being successful is learning from your failures and then making the appropriate improvements. But you're never going to improve if you don't know what you need to work on.
Self-serving bias certainly allows us to protect our self-esteem, but after continuously missing out on the opportunity to address our own short-comings, we become accustomed to looking toward external factors to assign fault.
You will notice–especially in the first example below–how this faulty reasoning isn't coupled with malice intent. People genuinely avert their minds from looking internally for possible mistakes and assume their failure is a result of something else. So when you're aware of the self-serving bias, you're less likely to accidently maintain this narrow mindset.
An individual's performance in sports is so distinctly connected to a certain outcome that it's common for players to demonstrate a self-serving bias. This is especially true in individual sports, where the sole winner of a game is clearly defined.
When an athlete wins a game, they're likely to applaud themselves for their talent, practice, and commitment to their chosen sport. But if they lose their next game, they may start to question the referees' calls.
For example, let's say you're playing baseball and you've just hit your third strike. If you genuinely think the umpire called your strikes unfairly when he should have been recognizing the poor pitches you were receiving, the self-serving bias has kicked in to help you maintain your self-esteem regarding your hitting skills.
A 2020 comprehensive meta-analysis of 69 studies that reviewed a total of 10,515 athletes found that sports players exhibit a self-serving bias through their tendency to attribute success to personal factors and failure to external factors.
The self-serving bias can help students maintain their sense of pride surrounding their hard work after receiving a good grade on a test, as they can attribute their success to their study habits and expertise on the subject.
However, that same acceptance of accountability may not be the case if the exam score is lower than expected. After receiving a low grade, a student may recall the test as being unfair or poorly written. Or maybe the student even perceives the questions as being unrelated to the material that was taught.
This doesn't mean that the student is being dishonest–she could have, in fact, been dedicated to studying and learning the material. But the student could be engaging in faulty logic when the thought of her inadequate studying doesn't come to mind.
As it turns out, studies have shown that, like students, teachers can also hold self-serving biases when it comes to outcomes in their classroom. This creates the potential for conflict between students and teachers when someone gets a bad grade because neither may accept responsibility for the poor outcome.
While a failing student may want to place blame on the teacher, the teacher is likely to hold the student accountable for their work, especially if other students are receiving passing grades. And in turn, if students do very well, a teacher may praise herself for her excellent teaching skills.
How do you feel when you're offered a job after going through an (often exhausting) interview process? You may believe your experience, qualifications, achievements, and hard-earned interview skills have really paid off.
But when you receive that dreaded "We regret to inform you…" letter from the hiring manager, it may cross your mind that the interviewer didn't "like" you, or didn't ask the right questions to really highlight your skills.
Research shows that employment is often explained by the self-serving bias, in that being hired for a job is often attributed to internal factors, while being rejected for a position (or being terminated) is attributed to external factors–whether that's a short-sighted hiring manager or something else–it's never the employee's "fault".
You can probably think of a situation in your past working experience in which you witnessed a coworker with a self-serving bias, even if you didn't know there was a name for it.
The self-serving bias frequently comes up in professional environments because employees want to present themselves in a positive way to their superiors and colleagues. Employees want to maintain a positive reputation of being competent, knowledgeable, qualified, and accurate with their work.
Self-serving bias frequently comes up in work because employees want to present themselves in a positive way to employers and colleagues.
You may have experience working with a colleague who is always eager to take credit for any positive outcomes or pursuing praise from others while denying blame of any sort when there's an issue. This can be attributed to the self-serving bias, which can lead to a toxic work environment when the at-fault employees lack the self-awareness to recognize their role in the problem.
However, many studies have found that the more distant a relationship is between employees and their coworkers, the more blame people place on others for failure in the workplace. This means that people who work closely on a consistent team are less likely to blame others for poor outcomes than, say, colleagues working virtually on a one-time project.
This cognitive bias is actually so common in workplaces that researchers have studied how and when the self-serving bias has negative impacts that negatively impact productivity.
One example that researchers have found is in the case of workman's comp situations involving an accident of some kind. In these cases, the injured employee is likely to blame the incident on external factors, while onlookers commonly perceive the accident as being the employee's fault.
This suggests that the self-serving bias can present itself in people who don't commonly rely on this method of reasoning to preserve their egos–it can materialize itself in isolated instances in rational people who are typically level-headed.
So how can this impact productivity? If teammates have clouded judgement and are unable to properly respond to (or accurately analyze) unforeseen issues that arise, their rational decision-making skills may also be compromised when facing significant business junctures, which can impede progress of any kind.
During my junior year of college, I was driving about 40 mph when another student pulled out onto the road, hitting the back passenger side of my car. As we got out of our cars, she apologized for the seemingly straightforward mistake on her part. It wasn't a particularly bad accident, but it did enough damage to both cars that we called the police.
Fast forward 10 minutes when she and I were talking to the policeman, and she had been given just enough time to change her mind. She decided the accident was my fault, claiming I stopped in the middle of the road when I saw she was about to pull out, backed my car up, and positioned it so when she did pull out, I would be in her way once she accelerated.
I believe a lot of people involved in car accidents don't want to admit fault– and it turns out that 75% of people involved in accidents actually believe they're not at fault and blame the other driver from the beginning.
This is due to the self-serving bias because people naturally want to protect their self-image and prevent themselves from looking negligent.
Unfortunately in my situation, the other driver's new story didn't add up, and when the insurance adjuster came to look at the damage, he said her story was physically impossible after doing his assessment. So, her attempt at self-preservation backfired–at least she could have maintained her integrity if she stuck with her original claim that she was at fault.
And, in today's world, research has been done on the relationship between the self-serving bias on the introduction of self-driving cars. While there are hopeful expectations of reducing the number of car accidents with autonomous cars, introducing these vehicles on a limited basis can't eliminate accidents caused by human-driven cars. So while the owner of an autonomous car may have a reduced risk of being at fault for an accident, they're still exposed to the threat of accidents caused by human drivers.
This study looked at the concept of self-serving bias in the context of drivers' inclinations to own a self-driving car. A survey of 531 drivers showed that as self-serving bias increases, the perceived risk reduction of owning a self-driving car decreases (because the driver never thinks they would be at fault for an accident anyway), which also decreases one's desire to own one of these new cars.
While self-serving bias is common, you can avoid it and reduce its impact on your everyday decisions. Start by using mindful awareness to help you recognize situations in which you're susceptible to this bias, such as those laid out in this article. When you learn about common cognitive biases, you can start to notice them, which will give you the opportunity to self-correct.
Through your mindfulness practice, you will also be able to identify potentially uncomfortable thoughts of being at fault without judging them.
You can also mitigate this bias by practicing self-compassion, which can help you reduce your defensiveness and accept constructive criticism when you're on a journey to self-improvement. Self-compassion will also allow you to demonstrate self-kindness, especially in the face of failure.
Researchers have found that being open to increasing one's self-compassion is especially helpful for athletes. In sports, athletes who have self-compassion have fewer negative thoughts and feelings, which helps athletes negate self-criticism and negative thoughts after making a wrong move. Furthermore, self-compassion allows athletes to benefit from constructive criticism because they maintain realistic self-evaluations and are able to recognize their weaknesses.
Self-serving bias is normal and it serves the purpose of protecting one's self-esteem. However, if this bias goes unrecognized, it can be detrimental to self-growth and relationships.
Consider the examples of this bias laid out in this article and be mindful of times when you may be at risk for thinking in this manner.
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Connie Mathers is a professional editor and freelance writer. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing and a Master's Degree in Social Work. When she is not writing, Connie is either spending time with her daughter and two dogs, running, or working at her full-time job as a social worker in Richmond, VA.
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He cut a swathe through notions that the BBC should be constrained to supply what the market does not. And, talking of swathes, he referenced 'Poldark' as an instance of the happy harvest of positive economic outcomes that is the aftermath of the pursuit of creative excellence for its own sake.
Having taken the high ground, with a winning combination of boldness and good humour, he tackled head-on what he characterised as the weakening of the foundations of the BBC's independence, over several governments, citing as one example, the use of the licence-fee to pay for non-programme matters. He claimed that the BBC can deliver product more economically but only if un-fettered by unsympathetic regulation; savings are possible but only if the Corporation is allowed the creative freedom to 'make up the shortfall'.
take the BBC firmly out of the electoral cycle by moving to an 11-year Charter period.
establish a 'dual lock' for the next Charter – any fundamental future changes to the BBC, such as non-renewal of the Charter or a new funding mechanism, would be subject to both a resolution of each House of Parliament, with two-thirds majority and an online vote by the people who ultimately own the BBC: the licence-fee payers.
So, ensuring independence and accountability.
But what of Wales? A legitimate question, given the location of the speech. Even allowing for the legitimate need to take advantage of a public platform to hit key points relevant across the UK, there were things of Wales strikingly absent from this address.
Certainly, warm tribute was paid at the speech's start to the BBC's Roath Lock studios as "a world-class powerhouse of drama production" and the knock-on positive effect of that success in the creative industries in Wales, though it was a little odd to have long-established indigenous company Fiction Factory "makers of Hinterland" listed among those who were attracted to the Bay. The BBC's new Cardiff-city- centre building was credited with the ability to "unlock more than a billion pounds of economic value over the next 10 years" and there were well-deserved name-checks for a number of the latest high-profile productions.
After the praise, the exhortation.
And that's it, that's the reference to programmes made in Wales for Wales, that "and local programmes". No name checks, no mention of any specific medium, radio or tv. No mention of language. No mention of S4C.
The four key issues for Wales are more devolved decision-making within the BBC, better portrayal of Wales in network programmes, better coverage of Wales in network news programmes, and more television programmes made specifically for the Welsh audience to fully reflect our lives.
The good news is that Tony Hall promised some movement on three of these, even if there was no detail of any kind. He did say there would be more devolved decision-making, and that they would tackle the issue of portrayal (although it has to be said we have had such promises several times before). He also talked about getting a better balance between UK and Welsh news (although again no specifics).
This made his slight attention to programmes for Wales all the more obvious, and all the more surprising given the views of the BBC's own Audience Council for Wales, which could hardly have given higher prominence to the need for English-language programmes for Wales.
One is grateful that the importance of the portrayal, or lack of it, of Wales on the network seems to have been taken and perhaps the need to refresh the commissioning system. However, in remarks made after the speech, Tony Hall seemed to counterpoint 'Wales to the UK' with 'Wales to Wales' to the advantage of the former. In other words, does the BBC, given tight funding, concentrate on improving portrayal of Wales on the network or the service to Wales itself? At this stage of the debate it is just not an adequate response.
This is a crucial point and one on which Wales has at last started to express a robust opinion. The First Minister, Carwyn Jones, has asked for an extra £30m. The IWA has expressed itself forcibly with evidence-based recommendations. Tony Hall asked for feedback. How much feedback does he want?
Quite how that's going to work isn't clear. Much depends on eventual decisions relating to governance.
Wales also needs to pay attention to what was said about the role of risk in creativity since Tony Hall seems to be sanguine about the need to take chances when the creative stakes are high enough. How does that work regarding Wales?
Wales seems to be regarded as risky. (Who were the nay-sayers, now happily refuted, he refers to early in the speech who doubted the ability of Welsh creatives?) Because that's the narrative – they said it couldn't be done in Wales but we had faith in you and you did it. However that doesn't seem to be applied to the commissioning of factual programmes so readily.
Jenny Rathbone, AM asked a good question about how those least familiar with making their views heard were going to be accommodated.
This was a speech in great contrast to the one given in Cardiff in April 2014 when Tony Hall called for a debate about how to address the shortfall in the service to English language tv programming. This time it got hardly a mention.
In remarks after the speech, Tony Hall told us that he himself, his father and grandfather were born in Birkenhead but that only at this very dinner had he learned that there was once an eisteddfod in Birkenhead and that it was the one at which Hedd Wyn had posthumously won the Chair. Here is a fact new to Tony Hall but familiar to most in the room. The eisteddfod at Birkenhead has passed three generations of his family by. The eisteddfod at Birkenhead is one of the staple narratives of Welsh identity.
The visibility of anything depends on point of view. Point of view depends on location, information and attitude. We see what you don't see and vice versa. And you see what we don't see and vice versa. From this meshing of outsider and insider viewpoints can come tremendous creative capacity.
There could hardly have been a more apposite, though perhaps unintended, illustration of why it is important for Wales to 'speak to' the rest of the UK and to itself.
Tony Hall and Director BBC Cymru Wales, Rhodri Talfan Davies are due to speak to the Communities, Equality and Local Government inquiry into BBC Charter review on Thursday 26th November http://senedd.assembly.wales/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=226&MId=3304&Ver=4 The proceedings are televised on Senedd TV.


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Recently, we talked about how fashion designers have been trying to figure out how to express their ideas and worries and their designs for New York's Fashion Week. But there's another group of designers with a lot to say. Native American designers are featured in an exhibition called Native Fashion Now at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in New York. The broader fashion world has long borrowed native designs which can be a sensitive subject.
Jacki Lyden of the Seams reports on an artist with the Seminole tribe of Florida who's challenging stores and a big name in fashion with a group called Seminoles for Authenticity.
JACKI LYDEN, BYLINE: Picture this - a pair of red legs and feet - the skin, a patchwork of red hues stuffed headfirst into a Donna Karan shopping bag. The artist is Seminole tribal member Jessica Osceola, and this ceramic piece is called Not Yours, Not Ours, Not for Sale.
JESSICA OSCEOLA: Patchwork has become a really recognizable art form for the Seminole people. Lately, there's been a lot of exploitation of it, other people making these very specific designs and styles and construction. And I wanted to try to be a part of putting out pieces to show people that it's part of our identity, that we remain strong, that it's not a historical thing, and it's also a thing that's happening now.
LYDEN: Seminole patchwork is handmade clothing made from strips of colored fabrics placed side by side in an undulating horizontal band. It kind of gives it a pop art look. Designers like Donna Karan and Chanel and clothing chains like Anthropologie and Free People have used interpretations of the designs in their collections. None have given credit to the Seminoles.
After Osceola complained, she did get apologies from the chain stores. So far, Donna Karan hasn't yet responded to a letter she sent saying, quote, "I'm saddened that such a well-known artist like Donna Karan would steal from the grandmothers, aunts and daughters of the Florida tribal people."
OSCEOLA: Donna Karan specifically had some patchwork designs set up just the way like a three-quarter length Seminole Miccosukee skirt would be with the diamond pattern and rick rack. And her artist statement said it was her own creative concept. So when I tried to confront her as well as my cousins, like, we didn't get any answers from her.
LYDEN: The Donna Karan skirt in question is muted brown and black in tone. There's nothing illegal about using designs like these, as long as they're not labeled as being made by Seminoles. Designers borrow from each other all the time. In fact, designs have spread from one Native American tribe to the other. The Seminoles may have even gotten some of their designs from European styles.
Floridian author and historian Patsy West has collected hundreds of pieces of Seminole clothing for her archive from the early 20th century on. She arranged it by decade in her Fort Lauderdale home. Tourists bought patchwork clothing on trips to Florida. Then a missionary named Deaconess Bedell took the clothes up to New York to sell in the 1930s.
In recent years, designers from Isaac Mizrahi to Jeremy Scott have gotten in hot water for appropriation of symbols like totem poles. Donna Karan herself has won praise for collaborating with a Native artist from the Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico. A decade later, she acknowledged Haitian artisans where she's worked extensively. Here's a 2012 clip in an interview on YouTube in which Donna Karan tells Neiman-Marcus creative director Ken Downing that she wants to pay homage to her sources.
DONNA KARAN: If I couldn't do that, I don't think I'd design. You know, I just don't think about designing. I hope that I inspire other people to, you know, see design as just not a business, but as somebody's heart and soul.
LYDEN: And as cultural heritage. Kathleen Ash-Milby is a curator at the New York branch of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and a Navajo tribal member.
KATHLEEN ASH-MILBY: As far as deriving inspiration from native culture, I don't think there's anything that we can say is wrong with being inspired by native art and expression. I think the issue is when things are copied to such a degree that it is very, very apparent that this is not their idea. It still has that very, very strong visual association with the originator which, you know, might be a particular native community that should be acknowledged.
LYDEN: Giving credit can mean anything from naming a tribe to paying for work or a share of the profits. In Florida, Seminole tribal artist Jessica Osceola agreed recently to collaborate with a San Francisco company on a line of children's clothes. Osceola says all her group Seminoles for Authenticity was asking for from Donna Karan was acknowledgement. Donna Karan's representatives were unable to make her available for this story for comment.
OSCEOLA: I know personally myself, I can't beat her. Like, I can't do it myself, you know? So what I can do is just try to continue just to plant a seed and just try to foster that seed and try to help it. So a little bit of recognition with me goes a long ways.
LYDEN: Later in the spring, the curators of Native Fashion Now in New York will tackle appropriation head-on with tribal designers from around the country in a symposium with the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Donna Karan has been invited as a speaker. For NPR News, I'm Jacki Lyden.
MARTIN: Jacki Lyden has been reporting for much of the past year on the history and artistry of the Seminoles with the help of a grant from the Florida Humanities Council. This is the last of her reports for us, but you can check out the entire series at theseams.org.


Life is though, but so are chronic illness warriors. Anyone battling health issue has numerous examples of bad days.
My legs were hurting so much I was having incredible difficulty walking. I peed in my pants on my way to the bathroom because I couldn't move fast enough.
I sat on the sofa at a family visit and felt the pain grow on my left side, I became paralyzed on one side. My face felt like I had been punched and I talked like someone who suffered stroke damage.
"Wake up every day and make the best of the that you can. Some days, you may have a ton of energy and be very positive and productive. Other days, well, just getting out of bed may take all the energy you can muster. Do your best, no more than that. Appreciate yourself, especially on the down days. That's when you need it most." – Doe Zantamanta.


this week I wanted to get a head start one of my next projects, PiRobot. PiRobot is going to be a web site controlled robot powered by a Raspberry Pi. The website will utilize webiopi to control the Raspberry Pi's general purpose in/output ins (GPIO). For network connectivity I will be using a high gain USB WIFI network card. I will add a location to place and iPhone with tethering If I need to control the PiRobot outside of a local WIFI.
I am going to recycle an old iRobot Roomba to uses as the main driving unit. This post shows my teardown of the iRobot Roomba in preparation for this project. To save on weight I wanted to remove all the components that I would not be utilizing. To start I only need the frame, wheels, motor, suspension and the logic board.
I will be interfacing the Raspberry Pi with the iRobot Roombi's built in logic board via serial using pyrobot. This will allow me control each driving motor as well as interface with all built in sensors and the other motors (that I just removed). If I can't get the serial connection to work I will take some tips from Ben J. I will more then likely be using the Raspberry Pi's GPIO but I can also utilize the additional ports on the Roomba's logic board to control the accessories I plan to add once I get the PiRobot up and moving.
I first want add a tilt and pan high definition webcam to have the ability to drive it with out seeing the unit. The next accessory will be a powered speaker and use the webcam's microphone for two way audio communication. Then I will be adding an ultrasonic proximity sensors on each side of the robot to detect obstacles while controlling the unit remotely. These sensors have a sensing range from about 5 inches to about 15 feet with a resolution of about .1 of an inch.
The website will stream the video from the webcam as well as have controls to operate the PiRobot. It will display two virtual joystick, one to move the PiRobot and one to control the tilting and panning of the webcam. I will also be including the ability to use the keyboards standard ←↕→ keys and a mouse or possibly even a joystick. I am thinking of having the site display a 3d top view of the Raspberry Pi Robot with graphical feedback from all the sensors and to display the position of the webcam's tilt and pan. Once all that is done I will be adding an arm and hand to it extend the functionality.
Everything that didn't need a screw driver.
Removed all the external screws.
Started to remove the cover bumper.
There is a wire a 7 wire PicoBlade molex connector.
There is another on connecting the lid to the frame.
Removed the main sweeper & collection bin.
Removed the wire & right suspension tie down.
Removed the 2nd motor & left suspension.
Photo Interrupter for the bumper frame.
The serial and power jack.
The back of the logic board.
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Texas Reports Record-Breaking COVID-19 Hospitalizations As State Reopens
By Vanessa Romo
Published June 8, 2020 at 10:27 PM EDT
Eric Gay
Visitors to the River Walk in San Antonio pass a reopened restaurant on May 18. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says bars and bowling alleys are on the list of businesses that can reopen at 25% beginning Friday, and restaurants can increase to 50% capacity as the state continues to go through phases to reopen.
Texas reported a record-breaking number of COVID-19 hospitalizations Monday as the governor plans to reopen more businesses and double capacity.
Texas Department of State Health Services figures show 1,935 people were admitted as hospital patients for coronavirus-related treatment. That is up from a previous record of 1,888 on May 5.
The department's new figures were released as Gov. Greg Abbott moves forward with a plan to open bars, restaurants, amusement parks and other businesses to 50% capacity.
Abbott led most of the nation's governors in allowing Texas to lift statewide stay-at-home orders and urging businesses to reopen at limited capacity on May 1.
But even in states where officials left stringent restrictions in place, the number of newly diagnosed cases are rising. About 20 states, including California and Arizona, have also reported a rise in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, according to The New York Times. Meanwhile, state leaders have come under increasing pressure to restart the economy.
The pattern holds true worldwide. On Monday, the World Health Organization warned that the outbreak is worsening around the globe. The U.N. body said the world had recorded its highest daily jump of cases — 136,000. And the United States and Brazil continue to report the highest number of new cases on a daily basis with roughly 20,000 each.
Meanwhile, virus experts and epidemiologists are concerned that the recent protests that have cascaded across the country since the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day will lead to an unprecedented spike in coronavirus cases.
In Texas, the availability of intensive care beds and ventilators — 1,600 and 5,800 respectively — have been seen as markers of improvement and evidence that it is time to reopen the economy.
Some officials have stated that the increase in cases has more to do with the spread of testing. Some counties are now including prison testing results in their data, which is driving reporting rates up.
And the numbers are likely to continue to rise. On Monday, Abbott pledged to increase testing "in underserved and minority communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the virus."
Throughout Texas, more than 75,000 people have been infected and more than 1,800 others have died from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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RRR no mood to slow down: Day 38 > Day 1
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RRR Japan Box office collections: SS Rajamouli' directorial venture RRR starring Mega Power Star Ram Charan and Young Tiger Jr NTR, which is bankrolled by DVV Danayya under the banner of DVV Entertainment was released on October 21 in Japan. The big budget drama RRR has the music by MM Keeravaani. RRR is doing superb collections at the box office of Japan. The film also has Alia Bhatt, Shriya Saran and Ajay Devgn in the important roles. We have already reported that the movie earned 305 Yen from the box office of Japan recently and this made RRR as the fastest Indian movie in the country to cross 300 Yen. The latest news is that the 38th day collections of RRR is greater than that of the first day. Rajamouli' magnum opus has to collect more than 80 million Yen to break the record which is created by Kollywood superstar Rajnikanth starrer Muthu in Japan.
RRR is in no mood to slow down at the Japanese box office. The movie is showing excellent hold even on working days. It is known that the film maker Rajamouli, Ram Charan and Jr NTR promoted the film aggressively in Japan which helped the movie to gain massive response.
RRR was released on 209 screens and 31 Imax screens across 44 cities and prefectures in Japan, the widest for an Indian film in the country.
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Dali, "the happiness bar" for Sophie Williams
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When everything seems to crumble around Sophie Williams with a diagnosis of cancer, the implementation plan a tour and containment, he still has the love for a dog, and resilience.
Sophie Williams, a kindergarten teacher at Limoilou, is also a writer, composer and performer in his prime.
It takes a year sabbatical from teaching (2019-2020) to launch his first album, Motel.
She saw a fall helter-skelter : the launch of the album in November, preparing a tour for the summer, writing the second album, etc
Things are going well for her and, yet, everything is going to change quickly…
The love of animals
Sophie Williams loves animals, but hates dogs. At Christmas, her brother arrived with his puppy, Duddy.
"I discovered this little dog, intelligent, who learns quickly, and told me the teacher on a sabbatical, and I fell in love ! "It then goes to the keep a few times. "When he is home, it is the feast," says Ms. Williams. "Charlotte, my daughter-in-law, and me, we was close together. Take care of the dog has enabled us to develop a complicity. "
The idea of having a dog begins to make its way into his head.
At the beginning of the year 2020, something is not right.
In February, the diagnosis falls : cancer of the breast. She will have to undergo chemotherapy, then possibly surgery followed by radiation therapy. It is a shock, a bomb…
She puts a cross on the tour. His doctor tells him that she will not return no longer teach in the fall. The idea of having a dog is more net.
"I need therapy ", she says.
"I'll be home alone during the day and I need company, but I told myself that I had to wait to see how it would go with the treatments before adopting. "
Comes at the right time
His treatments are started at the same time that the containment…
After several sessions, she sees that she will be able to take care of a dog. Then she contacts Céline, the breeder, at which his brother got Duddy. This lady told him that her daughter had a very serious cancer when she was young, and that she is out, among other things, thanks to the presence of his dog.
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Services & Occasions
News & Organisations
The Choirs
The Cathedral Organ
The Cathedral Bells
Friends of St Paul's
Save the Cathedral
St Paul's Pro-Cathedral Valletta
Chancellor: The Reverend Canon Simon Godfrey Tel: 7991 3521
Assistant Priest:The Reverend Dr Peter Packer
Locum Chaplains for 2019:Fr Jonathan Page,Fr John Hunniset,
Reader: Mr Michael Collins 79357090
Church Wardens: Mrs Bernice Caruana Tel: 7905 9215 Mr Simon Walker Tel:79708808
Chaplaincy Council Secretary: Mrs Barbara Day Tel:99056320
Chaplaincy Treasurer :Mr Christian Gravina
Cathedral Friends Secretary: Mr Simon Walker Tel: 7970 8808
The Cathedral is built in the Neo-Classical style, the spire is a Valletta landmark, rising to over 200 feet (60 metres) and with the rest of the building is subject to a Major Restoration Project please visit www.savethecathedral.com The fine interior Corinthian columns, balance the austere exterior and the imposing portico with its simple Ionic columns
St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Independence Square, Valletta, Malta GC VLT1535
MAIN SERVICES:
Every Sunday: Mass 11.00 am
From Pentecost Sunday:
Tuesday: Mass 11.00am
Thursday:Mass 11.00 am
Monday to Friday: Morning Prayer 9.00am
The Cathedral is open daily from 10am until 5pm but some days opens and closes earlier ! It is to be visited as a quiet place for prayer and contemplation as well as a place of community activity, worship and heritage.
The Undercroft Trattoria is also open every day from 10.00am until 1900 .The Visitor Centre is in the Undercroft and welcomes visitors all day.Private events may be booked please call Elaine Farrugia on 00356 79445640
The 175 th Anniversary of the Consecration of the Cathedral on All Saints Day 1844 will be celebrated on Sunday 3rd November 2019 at 1030 am when the principal Celebrant will be our Lead Bishop The Rt Reverend David Hamid who will also preach .The President of the Republic Dr George Vella KCMG and the British High Commissioner HE Stuart Gill OBE will be present.
The Annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols will be sung on Sunday 15th December at 6.30 pm .
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2020 Ecumenical Service will be celebrated in the Cathedral on Friday 24 th January ,the Eve of the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul.The Most Reverend Charles Scicluna Archbishop of Malta will preside and preach .
The Patronal Festival 2020
Mass 1030 ( Please note the earlier start time ) Organ Recital 12 noon Annual Lecture 1230 The Annual Shipwreck Lunch 1.00 in the Undercroft
The Shipwreck of St Paul 2020 Sunday 9th February
Celebrant The Bishop of Beverley The Right Reverend Glenn Webster ; Preacher : The Reverend Canon Robin Ward Principal of St Stephen's House Oxford ;9th Annual Lecturer: Dr Peter Burman MBE FSA Architectural Historian and Writer
St Paul is considered to be the spiritual father of the Maltese.
His shipwreck recorded in The Acts of the Apostles Chapters 27 and 28. and his subsequent stay of three months brought the Christian message to the Islands and is popularly considered one of the great events in the Nation's history.
From Prayer 23
by The Reverend John Donne DD
Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London
O Eternal and Most Gracious God, thy Holy Apostle St Paul was shipwrecked thrice, and yet still saved. Though the rocks and the sands, the heights and the shallows, the prosperity and the adversity of this world do diversely threaten me, yet O God, let me never make shipwreck of faith and good conscience. And thy long-lived, thy everlasting mercy will visit me, though that which I earnestly pray against should fall upon me, a relapse into those sins which I have truly repented and thou hast fully pardoned.
THE CHOIR AT ST PAUL'S
If you are an Anglican worshipper and could regularly attend the 11 am Sunday service at St Paul's, would you consider joining the Choir?
The choir rehearses in the Cathedral starting around 10.30 am.
Visiting choir members are most welcome to join the choir whilst in Malta. Please make yourself known to the sidespersons who will conduct you to the choir vestry where you will be given music and a robe
THE EVENTS COMMITTEE
The Events Committee meets on a regular basis to discuss and organise a comprehensive series of social events, meeting with the Guild at Holy Trinity Church to co-ordinate the programme for the Chaplaincy throughout the year.
New members with new ideas are always welcome.
Chairman:Vacant
Deputy Chairman:Mrs Jean Attard Tel:79322462
THE CATHEDRAL CHAPTER OF THE DIOCESE
The unified Cathedral Chapter of the Diocese in Europe was created by an Episcopal declaration in February 1997. It replaces the former separate chapters of the cathedral and pro-cathedral churches, though the Chapter stalls are dispersed among the three Cathedral churches of Holy Trinity, Gibraltar, St Paul's Malta and Holy Trinity, Brussels.. The function of the Cathedral Chapter is to support the Bishop by prayer and counsel.
Canons with a named stall in St Paul's Pro-Cathedral Valletta
St Luke: The Reverend Canon Simon Godfrey (2009 ex officio, Chancellor)
St Silas: The Reverend Canon Paul Ormrod
St Timothy: The Reverend Canon Andrew Wagstaff
St Barnabas: The Reverend Canon Ian Sherwood
St Agnes: Vacant
St Mark: The Reverend Canon Patrick Curran (2000 )
St Polycarp: The Reverend Canon Malcolm Bradshaw (2001)
St Catherine of Siena: The Reverend Canon Meurig Llwyd Williams
St Helena: The Venerable Vickie Simms
St Titus: The Reverend Canon Jonathan Boardman (2007)
St Ignatius of Antioch: The Reverend Canon Christopher Jage-Bowler
Blessed John Henry Newman : The Reverend Canon Matthew Harrison
CANONS EMERTI
former canons of St Paul's Pro-cathedral, Valletta:
The Reverend Canon John Livingstone (1993)
The Reverend Canon Philip Cousins (1995)
The Reverend Canon Gordon Reid (2003)
The Reverend Canon Tom Mendel (2008)
The Reverend Canon Arthur Siddall (2009)
The Reverend Canon Denis Moss ( 2009)
The Reverend Canon Ben Eaton (2010 )
The Reverend Canon Michael Bullock ( 2015)
CHAPLAINS AND CHANCELLORS
of St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Valletta:
1844 J.CLEUGH. D.D
1877 H.WHITE. M.A.
1878 E.A.HARDY. M.A.
1896 A.B.CARTWRIGHT. M.A.
1901 F.De WINTON.LUSHINGTON. M.A.
1903 D.COLLYER. M.A.
1905 C.GULL. M.A.
1907 W.NAISH M.A.
1908 W.EVERED.
1910 A.F.NEWTON. M.A.
1913 F.D.BROCK.
1919 A.H.C.FARGUS. M.A.
1922 A.C.MORETON. M.A.
1926 N.A.MARSHALL.
1931 R,M, NICHOLAS. M.A.
1944 F.W.HICKS. B.A.
1955 C.PATON. O.B.E.
1959 H.R.COLTON .M.A.
1963 R.W.POPE. L.R.N.
1965 L.MacMANAWAY. Q.H.C. M.A. R.N.
1966 DONALD YOUNG. O.B.E. R.N.
1967 H.G.W. MACDONALD. M.A. B.D. R.N.
1969 GORDON HYSLOP. C.B.E. M.A.
1974 HOWARD COLE. Q.H.C. CF(Rtd). B.Sc.
1977 DAVID INDERWICK STRANGEWAYS.
1981 JOHN WALTER EVANS. M.A.
1986 KENNETH W.A.ROBERTS.
1989 PHILIP J.COUSINS. M.A.
1996 ALAN G.WOODS. T.D. F.C.C.A.
2004 TOMAS OLIVER MENDEL. SSC. M.A.
2009 SIMON H.M. GODFREY.SSC T.D.V.R. B.D.
Chancellor of St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Valletta
The Reverend Canon Simon Godfrey, SSC
The Chancellors Lodge, St Paul's Pro-Cathedral,
Independence Square, Valletta, Malta VLT1535
E-mail address: anglican@onvol.net
Office Telephone: 2122 5714 (country code 00356)
Mobile phone: 7991 3521
St Paul's Pro-Cathedral: History 1844 to today…
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When Queen Adelaide, the widow of William IV, spent the winter of 1838/39 in Malta she was keen to found a Collegiate church in the Anglican tradition. Anglican services were held in a room in the Grand Master's Palace and it was "insufficient to contain more than the chief English families".The vast majority of English residents were unable to worship together.
Queen Adelaide's offer to pay for a church overcame all objections. The British Government provided a site, on the spot where the Auberge d'Allemagne (the conventual home of the German Knights Hospitaller) had stood. Queen Adelaide laid the foundation stone on 20th March 1839.
Queen Adelaide's Arms and Banner hang below the organ case.
The original building designed by Richard Lankasheer proved unstable and work started again in 1841 under new designs by William Scamp, who had been employed for some years as Clerk of Works to Sir James Wyattville remodelling Windsor Castle.
The Dedication of the Church to St Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, was a reminder of the first Christian missionary to Malta, when he was shipwrecked on the Island in AD 59/60. Scamps plan envisaged the High Altar at the West end and four side doors, giving the additional benefit of a cooling breeze during the hot summer months. The Bishop of Gibraltar insisted on a more orthodox layout with the altar to the east, so Scamp contrived an apse inside the great doors to hold the sanctuary.
Scamp's rather severe interior with its pillars and fluted engaged pilasters topped by Corinthian capitals supporting a cornice are architecturally in harmony with Malta.
The glass windows seem always to have been plain and had to be completely replaced after the bombing in the Second World War. Further necessary repairs after the war prompted a return to Scamp's original orientation. The west end was transformed into a choir by building a new stone screen across the nave. The screen incorporated a stone pulpit and lectern, now in wood and presented as a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill.
To mark the centenary of the death of Queen Adelaide, the Archbishop of Canterbury dedicated the new chancel on 2nd December 1949 in the presence of Princess Elizabeth, who was visiting Prince Phillip during his period of Naval service in Malta. The former sanctuary at the east end became a Baptistry. The font was moved, from the centre of the west end to the apse.
The Undercroft, solidly constructed from the former basement of the Auberge d'Allemagne and as the new foundation of the building, was not used for 80 years. The Bishop opened it on Easter Day 1928 as a church hall. In 1938 it was made a gas proof air raid shelter and in the early days of the conflict was used by the chaplain, his wife and scores of Maltese citizens.
Despite the heavy bombing of Valletta during the Second World War and the prominent and vulnerable position of the Cathedral, it escaped serious damage during the air raids of 1941-42, Thus it survived to bear testimony to the valour of those who fought to defend Malta; and to house the memorials of all units of the Navy, Army and Air Force on the oak panels around the Sanctuary. A Merchant Navy Memorial is located on the North wall and a Submariners Memorial Plaque is situated outside, on the north-west wall of the Cathedral, facing Manoel Island.
The Undercroft had some renovation work during 2005 ;mainly decorative not structural and an improvement of the lavatory facilities in 2006.
In 2009 The Chancellor's Lodge adjoining the Cathedral had major renovation works including roof and ceiling re- enforcement,redecoration and updating of the domestic facilities and new windows to the drawing room; a new kitchen ,bathroom and shower rooms. The external terraces of the lodge were cleared,cleaned, replanted and the pond restocked.
In 2010 the North East lobby used as the main entrance to the Cathedral was redecorated and the south east lobby below the organ loft, long used for storage, was opened up and decorated as a more convenient tourist entrance for the many visitors to the Cathedral during the week. The Bishop of the Diocese dedicated and blessed the new entrance doors to the lodge in commemoration of the 1950th anniversary of the Shipwreck of St Paul on the Island of Malta. New notice boards and signage were put at all entrances to focus visitor's attention on the building.
In 2011 A lunchtime Live concert series was inaugurated giving young and established musicians the opportunity to make music both sacred and profane in the excellent Cathedral acoustic. An electronic piano/harpsichord was purchased and a Broadwood grand piano acquired on a permanent loan A Holy Water stoop was installed using the former Paschal Candlestick base which was completely restored and gilded and given a stone bowl. The Arms of Queen Adelaide hanging below the organ case were completely restored and re- gilded. The banner of Queen Adelaide was removed conserved, cleaned and re mounted . Two armorial plaques with the arms of the Bishop of Gibraltar were restored re- gilded and set up over the two main entrances to the Cathedral.
In 2012 The first Shipwreck Lecture was given during the Patronal festival of 10th February. The Lecturer was Professor Conrad Thake of the history department of The University of Malta .Subsequent lecturers have been Professor Richard England ,the distinguished architect; Marquis Nicholas de Piro writer, antiquarian and noble; Mr Martin Scicluna commentator and educationalist; Dr Philip Mansel historian and writer.To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the refounding of the Malta Sea Cadet Corps TS St Paul a new colour was dedicated by the Staff chaplain and installed for safekeeping. The Portico gates were partially restored ( not having been used since the 1970's) to enable HRH The Duke of Gloucester to enter the ceremonial entrance of the Cathedral when as Grand Prior he visited the members of the Venerable Order of St John to chair a Council meeting and to be present at a reception in the Cathedral Undercroft to meet the young members of St John Ambulance in Malta
In 2013 A new Canon's Stall was inaugurated by the Bishop of the Diocese the Rt Reverend Geoffrey Rowell during his farewell retirement visit in the name of Blessed John Henry Newman. A set of Royal Arms was displayed above the Sacristy door to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen and were dedicated and blessed by the Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Reverend Justin Welby. With the establishment of the St Paul's group and a permanent welcoming team co- ordinated information boards were designed and placed in the Baptistry area for visitors describing the history and story of the Cathedral community.
In 2014 A permanent loan from the de Piro Estates of a painting by A E Chalon RA Court painter to HM Queen Victoria and entitled "Ecce Homo" was placed behind the High Altar to finish the hitherto uncompleted reredos. After a concerted Organ Restoration campaign the Father Smith organ was dismantled, shipped to Ireland and restored by Messrs Kenneth Jones. The unique1684 casework was also shipped to the Irish workshops restored and returned for the organ installation in the Cathedral .A new console was designed ,built and installed on the chancel floor .The completed instrument was re- dedicated and hallowed by the new Bishop of the Diocese The Rt Reverend Robert Innes at his Enthronement on Sunday 5th October in the presence of the Archbishop of Malta ,the Papal Nuncio and the Auxiliary Bishop of Malta. The Chancellor of the Diocese, The Dean, The Registrar, The Archdeacon of Italy and Malta and the Diocesan Secretary were also present and took part. The 350th anniversary of the Royal Marines was celebrated with the setting up of a new commemorative plaque by the Royal Marine gates of the Lady Chapel. The Royal British Legion laid up two Standards and placed a commemorative plaque during the 100th Anniversary commemorations of the First World War.
In 2015 The relighting of the Spire ,The Nave ceiling ,Baptistry and external entrances was completed and an experimental lighting scheme for the Cathedral elevations landward and seaward was installed .A Commonwealth flag was hung in the Cathedral in anticipation of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in the Autumn The final project for the ceremonial portico gates was completed in anticipation of the visit of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh who as Patron of the Friends of the Cathedral visited on 27th November and was present for a Thanksgiving Service for the work of the Friends and the dedication of an original photograph of Sir Winston Churchill in the 50th anniversary year of his death by Yousef Karsh.
In 2016 an announcement concerning the restoration of the Cathedral Undercroft was made following a grant promised by a local charity and proposed business partner. The project architect has outlined the scope of the works which will include a new floor throughout ,new lavatory facilities,a new kitchen and ancillary storage spaces and a new state of the art lighting scheme. Once the scheme is delivered the space will become a coffee shop, visitor centre and coference facility benefitting both the existing congregation and the increasing number of visitors. The tower ringing apertures closed by wooden louvers( not replaced since 1949 ) were opened ,the louvers restored and conserved and replaced to eradicate pigeon access and the lucarnes were sealed with framed galvanized mesh .Following the experimental lighting scheme in November 2015 a project to flood light the Portico was completed to celebrate the Birthday of HM the Queen. The Chaplaincy council approved an extensive project to restore the exterior of the Cathedral ,Tower and Spire, Interior
In 2017 following extensive research and recruitment during 2016 the Appeal's Restoration Committee appointed AP Architects Malta's Leading Restoration Practice ( St John's Co Cathedral ,The Manoel Theatre and the City Gate and Parliament Buildings )and began its work in earnest under the joint chairmanship of Sir Martin Laing and Mr Martin Scicluna .The appeal was officially launched on the Feast of St Paul's Shipwreck in the presence of the Right Reverend David Hamid our Lead Bishop and the Most Reverend Charles Scicluna Archbishop of Malta An initial sum of E3 Million is sought and a development fund will follow . Charitable grants, individual donations and events led to a sum of E850 ,000 collected in addition to the grant from the European Regional Development Fund 5 of E1.28 Million which has been allocated to begin the work on the Iconic tower and spire and boundary wall and historic gates ,lanterns and railings in 2018/19 The Undercroft was closed in March 2017 to begin a E300,000 project to completely restore all structural defects, remodel and totally transform the facility :this work was completed on time and budget by late August and the Coffee shop opened at the beginning of September and was opened officially on the 4th October by HRH The Prince of Wales.Since trading the Undercroft has hosted over 75 private and public functions many of which have significantly raised the profile of our public engagement programme. The Coffee shop serves food and drink on a daily basis and provides resources and catering for the Cathedral congregation .
In 2018 the Commissioned Architects AP(Architectural Projects) completed the first comprehensive survey of the Cathedral since the architect William Scamp finished the building works which were then followed by the Consecration in 1844.Significant information has been revealed about Scamp's design techniques which have given rise to the decision to complete the works in 2 phases: Phase 1 the Tower and Spire and all exterior stonework including the boundary wall ,disabled access to the Undercroft and the restoration of the perimeter railings.Phase 2 A new roof with photovoltaic panelling to enable the generation of the Cathedral's electricity to conform to our stated Environmental policy ,a New ceiling to replace the temporary structure completed in 1963,new interior lighting and electrical wiring and anew lavatory block and Sacristy .
In 2019 Much of the Architectural survey was carried out by drone inspection as well as manually from temporary scaffolding and as a direct result of this survey the estimate for complete building repairs has been updated to 8.8 Million Euros . The sum available to spend as a result of great generosity and excluding European Grant Aid has risen to 1.25 Million Euros enabling the first phase to begin in earnest following a successful tendering process .Application for further EU funding has been submitted with the hope that the second phase will be funded by 2021/2.Scaffolding will be erected before the building work begins to enable a consolidation of the proposed 2 phases.The application for building work to begin was successfully achieved during Summer 2108 and with the confirmation of the EU grant during June 2019 the first phase will begin before or just after the end of the summer .The Cathedral community will celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the Consecration on 3rd November 2019.Please visit www.savethecathedral.com for the latest information.
© 2019 The Anglican Church


Nov 12 – Sweet tweet. Started to feel like this was a stupid idea, I'm so far behind.
More like bunker bomb. I'm annihilating my book, one chapter at a time.
I took chapter 1, chopped it all up, threw a bunch of the pieces (1,600 of them!) away and rewrote pretty much all of it, including a much stronger intro that I think really grabs the reader's attention. And in fixing chapter 1, I stopped hating chapter 2 so much. One was where all the problems were.
Furthermore, I'm no longer worried about my word count issues. I've found 2,000 words to edit out in the first two chapters alone, and have lots of notes for cuts in later parts, both major and minor.
I think I've nailed down my system for editing, which I'll share with you. I'm sure it's by no means original, so I take no credit for it.
Edit 1: For story. Plot holes, cutting the big and small bits that don't fit, fixing loose ends, continuity.
Edit 2: For mood and tone. Adding what's needed to better achieve the feelings I want to set for readers.
Edit 3: Dialogue. Making sure it flows and sounds conversational, getting rid of any stray adverbs, improving pacing.
Edit 4: Scenes vs. narrative. Ensure a good balance between the two.
Edit 5: Paper edit. Just me and my red pen.
Edit 6: The one where I hand it over to people I trust to be even more brutal than me.
Edit 7: Taking all that marvelous feedback and implementing it.
And after all that I'll probably still hand it over to a professional.
I have spreadsheets and summaries and documents galore. I'm so organized I'm ultra-organized. What can I say? I'm an editor at heart, always have been.


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Home Trips Adventures Karl Kruger Attempts To Paddleboard The Northwest Passage
Adventurer aims for first crossing of the infamous Arctic route by SUP
Ian Merringer
This summer, Karl Kruger drove north until he ran out of road at Tuktoyaktuk, a tiny hamlet at the edge of the Arctic Ocean. With his windshield framing a view of the Beaufort Sea and an 18-foot SUP on his roof, he likely found it to be a familiar feeling.
He was here before, after all. Kruger made the same drive in 2019, planning to paddle 1,900 miles east through the Northwest Passage. But he aborted before setting out due to what he calls "unfinished psychological business."
In short, his professional and personal life were in disarray. Kruger doesn't paddle to get away from things; he paddles to get closer to things—nature, mostly, and maybe himself—so he turned around and waited until he was ready.
Karl Kruger On The Transcendental Nature Of Paddleboarding
Kruger has spent the last two years preparing, which meant clearing the mental decks by finalizing a divorce and temporarily shutting down his construction business. His preparation was less about what he would take on his trip and more about what he wouldn't take.
You could say he's traveling light, both psychologically and provisionally, especially when put in a historical context.
Karl Kruger, seen here training, will travel with 75 pounds of gear strapped to his 29-pound board. | Feature photo: Liv von Oelreich
In the 15th century, European explorers first started poking around Canada's Arctic archipelago, looking for a way to Asia. The effort saw its nadir in 1849 when Sir John Franklin set off with 128 men aboard two 105-foot ships. The battle-tested ships were laden with, among other things, 8,000 tins of preserved food, 7,000 pounds of tobacco, 3,000 books, mahogany writing desks, engraved silverware and one pet monkey.
Compare to Kruger, with 75 pounds of gear strapped to his 29-pound board.
Franklin and his men all perished. Kruger likes his odds.
"I believe the less surface area you present for nature to work against, the better off you are," says Kruger.
"Light equals fast," says the former mountain guide. Kruger will use the light and fast alpine ethos in place of the siege mentality employed so stubbornly by the many multi-year expeditions conducted by the British Navy in the 19th century.
"I can exploit small leads in the ice and pull out onto the beach or ice very easily," says Kruger. And pulling over is just what he plans to do.
Though his two-week effort in the 750-mile Race to Alaska up the Inside Passage in 2017 convinced Kruger he can sustain a pace of about 50 miles a day, he's not out to set a speed record.
Photo: Suzanne Rothmeyer
"I enjoy paddling, and also really enjoy pulling up on the beach and getting to know a place. When I finished the Alaska race, I asked, 'Where can I go deeper, longer?' I mentally roved the planet thinking about long stretches of water that would allow me to find solitude and wild places to explore. When the idea of the Northwest Passage came to me, it was like a lightning bolt," says Kruger.
Regardless of his pace, Kruger knows he will need to stop paddling the first week of September. That's about when the British Navy men would find a harbor to settle in for long winters stuck in the ice. Kruger, with only a SUP to worry about, will be unencumbered enough to make a quick getaway.
The Love And Madness Of Long-Distance Expeditions
A brief history of non-motorized attempts to cross the Northwest Passage
Whether seeking riches, fame, or both, explorers have been attempting a route along the top of mainland Canada for centuries.
The Inuit didn't employ archivists like the Hudson Bay Company of the 19th century nor publicists like the expeditions of the 21st, so it's difficult to pinpoint early achievements.
The first known notable success was Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson, two HBC men who led a 12-man, three-year trip by oar and sail. Overwintering inland between 1836-1839, they confirmed the navigable channel along the mainland between the Mackenzie River Delta in the west and the Boothia Peninsula base in the east (1,243 miles distant).
The first successful passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Northwest Passage was by Norwegian Roald Amundsen between 1903-1906 aboard the 70-foot sloop named Gjoa, powered by sail and a 13-horsepower paraffin engine. Once conquered, the passage was viewed as a dead end, promising few riches to anyone. Whatever fame was available would have to be earned by pulling oneself by paddle.
Notable expeditions
Over four years, Haans Memminger paddled and sledged his kayak from Greenland to the Boothia Peninsula, traversing roughly the eastern half of the route.
The Joy Of (Self-Imposed) Suffering
Don Starkell and Victoria Jason, both from Manitoba—which was where they started paddling, so full points for ambition—set out together to kayak the passage. They didn't finish it together, but over the next four years both completed it. Starkell lost a few fingers and toes to frostbite during the effort.
Paddling Magazine contributor Philip Torrens was 186 miles into his west-east passage when a polar bear attack convinced him to head back south.
Kayaker Martin Leonard's route from Tuktoyuktuk to Hudson Bay included a 72-km (45-mile) portage.
Jonathan Waterman didn't just paddle, sail and ski the 2,200-mile route; he produced a stellar travel journal in the book Arctic Crossing.
French sailor Sébastien Roubinet and one other crew member left Anchorage, Alaska, in Babouche, a 25-foot ice catamaran designed to sail on water and slide over ice. Following a four-month journey of 4,500 miles, Roubinet reached Greenland, completing the first Northwest Passage voyage made in one season without engine.
Mathieu Bonnier rowed solo from Greenland to Resolute the first summer, and then from Resolute to King William Island in 2011.
Sebastien Lapierre and Olivier Giasson pushed a tandem sea kayak from Tuktoyaktuk to Gjoa Haven in just 60 days, but eventually ran into ice.
6 Epic Expeditions To Follow This Summer
Karl Kruger will have company on the passage this summer. Two other teams are attempting to paddle from Pond Inlet on Baffin Island west to the Beaufort Sea. The self-styled Arctic Cowboys trio led by adventurer West Hansen will be wrangling kayaks and attempting to become the first kayakers to paddle it in a single season. Meanwhile, a crew of 16 will cram into two 44-foot rowboats to attempt the route. Kruger can try waving but shouldn't expect a shore lunch with the shift-work rowers. They don't plan to stop.
This article was first published in the Summer 2022 issue of Paddling Magazine. Subscribe to Paddling Magazine's print and digital editions, or browse the archives.
Northwest Passage
Paddling Magazine Issue 67
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In this exercise you are going to build a model of a house which fits perfectly to the place where it is to be built, just like Jørn Utzon did when he built Can Lis.
Before you start, we recommend that you try our first Utzon's Universe excercise: making a figure of yourself.
In this exercise you are going to build a model of a house which fits perfectly to the place where it is to be built, just like Jørn Utzon did when he built Can Lis. Your house needs to be built in a tree. You must study the tree and survey its surroundings before you start building.
Can Lis, the house Utzon built for his wife and himself on the Spanish island of Majorca.
2. Go in under the tree and study the crown of the tree closely by holding the mirror in front of your face. Catch the crown of the tree in your mirror so you can study the branches and their placement closely.
3. Move away from the tree and draw it. What kind of tree is it? Does it stand alone? Also draw the surroundings of the tree.
4. Afterwards find a branch with at least one bifurcation. You need to use the branch as a mini-tree for your house. Use the pruning shears for cutting the branch.
1. Prune the branch with the pruning shears. It has to have a flat bottom so that it can stand as a small tree.
2. Glue the little tree onto the middle of a sheet of cardboard, approximately 25 x 25 cm. To support the tree, glue short, narrow pieces of cardboard around the foot. Both the tree and the pieces of cardboard need to be glued down well.
3. Study your little tree closely and decide where in the tree you want to build your house. Consider whether the house consists of several small buildings and what views you would like to have for the individual rooms.
4. Choose the scale you want to use, 1:20 or 1:50. Place your scale figure in the house model from time to time so that you maintain the right scale while building.
5. It is a good idea to place the floor on the bifurcated branch. Cut out a piece of card as a floor and trim it to fit the branch.
6. Also think about how you will come up into the tree and how you will move around in it. Ladder and stairs can be built using thin sticks or wire, for example.
7. Continue to build walls and a roof for your house out of card. Remember to cut openings for windows and a door before you glue the walls in place.
9. Finish by placing your scale figure in the model.
Based on Strandberg Publishing's 'Utzon's Universe' by Malene Abildgaard and Julie Dufour.
Johan Bävman wants to start a conversation on parental leave through photography. Exhibiting from 23 - 31 August 2018.


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Aria hemsleyi (C.K. Schneid.) H. Ohashi & H. Iketani
Article from New Trees, Ross Bayton & John Grimshaw
Aria hemsleyi(C.K. Schneid.) H. Ohashi & H. Iketani
Synonyms: Sorbus hemsleyi (C.K. Schneid.) Rehder, Micromeles hemsleyi C.K. Schneid.
Shrub or tree 7–10 m or more. Branchlets dark reddish brown, smooth and glabrous with a few lenticels. Buds glabrous, 0.7–1 cm long. Leaves 9.5–13.5 × 5–7 cm, ovate to lanceolate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely hairy, 10–14 secondary veins on each side of the midrib, craspedodromous, margins double-serrate, apex short-acuminate; petiole 1.2–2 cm long, glabrous. Inflorescence paniculate, glabrous. Flowers white, hermaphrodite; hypanthium turbinate, sepals acute and persistent, petals glabrous, 0.4 cm long. Fruit green with reddish or yellowish tints, 0.7–0.9 × 0.7–1 cm, covered with lenticels. Flowering May to July, fruiting July to October (China). Gu et al. 2003, Aldasoro et al. 2004. Distribution CHINA: Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang; NEPAL. Habitat Evergreen broadleaved forest, between 900 and 3200 m asl. USDA Hardiness Zone 5–6. Conservation status Not evaluated. Illustration Spongberg 1991; NTxvi, NT821.
Aria hemsleyi is now well established in cultivation and proving itself to be an adaptable, easily grown and very attractive small tree – though it can become much larger in the wild (C. Crosbie, pers. comm. 2008). Its narrow leaves are greyish dark green above and nicely white below; they are held more or less upright on stiffly ascending branches, creating a pleasant shape overall. The leaves turn yellow in autumn. Its first introduction seems to have been from collections made in Hubei by the Sino-American Botanical Expedition in 1980 (SABE 1317, 1342), but it has been gathered on numerous later occasions as well, including, for example, the Kew expedition to Sichuan in 1994 (SICH 1464). (SICH 718, from 1991, had been identified as A. hemsleyi, but has now been determined to be A. pallescens.) Planted at Wakehurst Place, specimens from SICH 1464 are now up to 8 m tall or more (TROBI, measured in 2005). Most individuals in cultivation are probably descended from the SABE stock, however. Strangely, Spongberg (1991) considered A. hemsleyi to be 'more of a botanical curiosity than a promising ornamental', but this assessment now seems pessimistic, especially as it seems to grow well in western and northeastern North America. In the United Kingdom the name 'John Bond' has been attached to a clone selected in the early 1990s at Bridgemere Nurseries by Chris Sanders, out of a batch raised by David West from seed supplied to Roy Lancaster, from the original SABE trees at the Arnold Arboretum. This had a neater, more upright habit than others of the batch and was chosen to be planted at Wisley to commemorate John Bond's service to the Woody Plant Trials Subcommittee, and was named in his honour on that occasion (R. Lancaster, C. Sanders, pers. comms. 2008). It is now in commercial production, perpetuating the memory of a great plantsman who was for many years the highly respected Keeper of the Gardens in Windsor Great Park.
Plants distributed from Heronswood Nursery (c.2001) as S. henryi Rehder under Eric Hammond's number EDHCH 97163, gathered in Sichuan, may be A. hemsleyi, within which S. henryi is included by Flora of China – although Stephen Spongberg records a dissenting view and maintains its distinction. Material shown at the Sorbus Workshop at Wisley in September 2008, however, was judged to resemble A. pallescens. Sorbus xanthoneura Rehder is another name lumped under A. hemsleyi in Flora of China, which is not very reliable on Sorbus (H. McAllister, pers. comm. 2008), and specimens may be found under this name (for example, KR 161 from Emei Shan, which does not match the usual view of A. hemsleyi) (K. Rushforth, pers. comm. 2008).
'Aria hemsleyi' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/aria/aria-hemsleyi/). Accessed 2021-01-17.
Sorbus hemsleyi (C.K. Schneid.) Rehder
Micromeles hemsleyi C.K. Schneid.
Aria yuana
strobilus
Cone. Used here to indicate male pollen-producing structure in conifers which may or may not be cone-shaped.
(botanical) Contained within another part or organ.
Aria hemsleyi , with ascending branches bearing brightly white-backed leaves, is one of many good trees introduced by the Sino-American Botanical Expedition in 1980. It belongs to Aria Group B. Image P. de Spoelberch.


The www.relaxtimeout.com website was launched over Christmas. It is my first foray into WooCommerce, the free WordPress e-commerce plugin from WooThemes.
Although this free shop is designed to hook you into purchasing themes and plugins, it really is a complete product just as it is, and functions well out of the box.
For those interested in the technical details, the issue concerned downloading large files using the mod_xsendfile module for Apache. First I needed to install the module onto the web server, which was a cinch using yum and rpmforge.
Now, what mod_xsendfile is supposed to do, is inspect outgoing pages and look for the X_SendFile header in the outgoing HTTP page. If it sees it, then it dumps the rest of the page, looks for a file that the X_SendFile header points at, then streams it out. It does this without tying up database connections, PHP processes, eating into memory etc.
Where it was failing for me, was a security feature of Apache. WooCommerce was passing full path of the file for streaming to mod_xsendfile, but the module was then treating that full path as an error, because some parts of the path sit outside the webs root. Now, it should not behave like this, as the file is still under the web root, and so the web process has full access to the file, but it simply wasn't having it. I suspect the real problem lies in Apache, or assumptions that the module was making, but I couldn't see a solution there.
The working fix was to ensure mod_xsendfile was passed only a relative path to the file for streaming, relative to the website entry point (index.php). This worked fine for me, and this is the fix that WooCommerce incorporated.
That aside, the one niggle I have for WooCommerce is its complexity. Now, I know e-commerce is not going to be simple to implement, but I was hoping for a theme that could easily be modified. This is probably more a reflection of the structure of WordPress, but it seems that the WordPress theme has lots of functionality absolutely necessary for proper formatting of the shop components, so the two are very closely coupled. It means the whole site – the shop area at least – must use a WooCommerce-enabled theme, and those themes are not easy to mound into your own style.
What I think would have worked better, for a developer at least, is to limit the commerce theme elements to standalone templates that insert shop elements into any theme of your choice. You can kind of run it like this now, but an awful lot of the shop functionality is missing if you don't run it under an enabled theme with a tonne of functionality in it. I'm sure this situation will improve over time, having seen the rapid pace of development of this plugin.
The Relax Timeout site has been designed to sell just one relaxation CD, so does not have a large inventory at present, but it is still going to be a great test-bed to see how easy it is going to be to customise WooCommerce.


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package org.apache.hyracks.control.common.controllers;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.hyracks.api.comm.NetworkAddress;
import org.apache.hyracks.api.job.resource.NodeCapacity;
import org.apache.hyracks.control.common.heartbeat.HeartbeatSchema;

public final class NodeRegistration implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    private final InetSocketAddress ncAddress;

    private final String nodeId;

    private final NCConfig ncConfig;

    private final NetworkAddress dataPort;

    private final NetworkAddress datasetPort;

    private final String osName;

    private final String arch;

    private final String osVersion;

    private final int nProcessors;

    private final String vmName;

    private final String vmVersion;

    private final String vmVendor;

    private final String classpath;

    private final String libraryPath;

    private final String bootClasspath;

    private final List<String> inputArguments;

    private final Map<String, String> systemProperties;

    private final HeartbeatSchema hbSchema;

    private final NetworkAddress messagingPort;

    private final int pid;

    private final NodeCapacity capacity;

    private final long maxJobId;

    public NodeRegistration(InetSocketAddress ncAddress, String nodeId, NCConfig ncConfig, NetworkAddress dataPort,
                            NetworkAddress datasetPort, String osName, String arch, String osVersion, int nProcessors,
                            String vmName, String vmVersion, String vmVendor, String classpath, String libraryPath,
                            String bootClasspath, List<String> inputArguments, Map<String, String> systemProperties,
                            HeartbeatSchema hbSchema, NetworkAddress messagingPort, NodeCapacity capacity, int pid,
                            long maxJobId) {
        this.ncAddress = ncAddress;
        this.nodeId = nodeId;
        this.ncConfig = ncConfig;
        this.dataPort = dataPort;
        this.datasetPort = datasetPort;
        this.osName = osName;
        this.arch = arch;
        this.osVersion = osVersion;
        this.nProcessors = nProcessors;
        this.vmName = vmName;
        this.vmVersion = vmVersion;
        this.vmVendor = vmVendor;
        this.classpath = classpath;
        this.libraryPath = libraryPath;
        this.bootClasspath = bootClasspath;
        this.inputArguments = inputArguments;
        this.systemProperties = systemProperties;
        this.hbSchema = hbSchema;
        this.messagingPort = messagingPort;
        this.capacity = capacity;
        this.pid = pid;
        this.maxJobId = maxJobId;
    }

    public InetSocketAddress getNodeControllerAddress() {
        return ncAddress;
    }

    public String getNodeId() {
        return nodeId;
    }

    public NodeCapacity getCapacity() {
        return capacity;
    }

    public NCConfig getNCConfig() {
        return ncConfig;
    }

    public NetworkAddress getDataPort() {
        return dataPort;
    }

    public NetworkAddress getDatasetPort() {
        return datasetPort;
    }

    public String getOSName() {
        return osName;
    }

    public String getArch() {
        return arch;
    }

    public String getOSVersion() {
        return osVersion;
    }

    public int getNProcessors() {
        return nProcessors;
    }

    public HeartbeatSchema getHeartbeatSchema() {
        return hbSchema;
    }

    public String getVmName() {
        return vmName;
    }

    public String getVmVersion() {
        return vmVersion;
    }

    public String getVmVendor() {
        return vmVendor;
    }

    public String getClasspath() {
        return classpath;
    }

    public String getLibraryPath() {
        return libraryPath;
    }

    public String getBootClasspath() {
        return bootClasspath;
    }

    public List<String> getInputArguments() {
        return inputArguments;
    }

    public Map<String, String> getSystemProperties() {
        return systemProperties;
    }

    public NetworkAddress getMessagingPort() {
        return messagingPort;
    }

    public int getPid() { return pid; }

    public long getMaxJobId() {
        return maxJobId;
    }
}

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Q: Sum of 6 previous rows SQL SERVER 2008 I have a simple query:
Select
fiscalweek, 4171
From table

And I get results in order of fiscal week:
FiscalWeek  4171
1           691
2           746
3           650
4           625
5           788
6           581
7           597
8           772
9           777

I want in a third column, the sum of the previous 6 fiscal weeks, or for week 2 just the sum of weeks 1 & 2,
so the out put would be:
FiscalWeek  4171    Sum
1           691     691
2           746     1437
3           650     2087
4           625     2712
5           788     7671
6           581     4081
7           597     3393
8           772     4013
9           777     4140

I have tried using rows unbounded preceeding but this was not available on 2008, any suggestions ?

A: The easy way, for this simple case, is a self table non equijoin. Lets supose t is your table and a is FiscalWeek:
SQL Fiddle
MS SQL Server 2014 Schema Setup:
create table t ( a int, t int);
insert into t values
(1,10),
(2,11),
(3,12),
(4,13),
(5,14),
(6,15),
(7,16),
(8,17),
(9,18),
(10,19),
(11,20),
(12,10);

Query 1:
select t1.a, t1.t, sum(t2.t)
from t t1
inner join t t2
  on t2.a between t1.a-6 and t1.a --self non equijoin taking 6 prev.
group by t1.a, t1.t
order by t1.a

Results:
|  a |  t |     |
|----|----|-----|
|  1 | 10 |  10 |
|  2 | 11 |  21 |
|  3 | 12 |  33 |
|  4 | 13 |  46 |
|  5 | 14 |  60 |
|  6 | 15 |  75 |
|  7 | 16 |  91 |
|  8 | 17 |  98 |
|  9 | 18 | 105 |
| 10 | 19 | 112 |
| 11 | 20 | 119 |
| 12 | 10 | 115 |

The hard approach, may be more sql XXI century friendly or not, is to deal with CTE, partitions and ranks. Search about it if you are interesting.

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