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Shelf Awareness for Thursday, July 31, 2008
Skylight Books: 'That Rare Breed of Bookstore'
"For a town that is closing its beloved bookstores and hacking its own Book Review section to pieces, we were delighted to learn that Skylight Books is . . . that's right . . . expanding! Skylight Books is that rare breed of bookstores--just the right inventory, passionate staff that knows their stuff, and carefully curated author events . . . Whenever we go for a reading or to pick up a book, we linger in the store and the surrounding neighborhood for hours."--LAist on newly expanded Skylight Books, Los Angeles, Calif.
Notes: New Store; Store to Move; Rowling Hoax
Construction for a new bookstore called the Green Toad has begun on Main Street in Oneonta, N.Y., according to the Daily Star.
Owner Michele Pondolfino hopes to open the general bookstore in November. The Green Toad, which aims to be "a gathering place," will have a passageway to the Latte Lounge next door. Pondolfino has sold real estate since 1993 and has long wanted to open a bookstore.
Heights Bookstore, Brooklyn, N.Y., won't close, even though the building that houses the bookshop is being sold. "We don't own the building, so this wasn't our decision," co-owner Tracy Walsch told the Brooklyn Paper. "But we have no plans to close. We'll move before we close." Walsch added that they hope to remain in the neighborhood: "We're victims to the market. But we'll do what we have to to stay in business."
Harry Potter and the nonexistent author event? Book Sack bookstore, Slidell, La., was the site--and victim--of a Harry Potter hoax Tuesday morning that saw fans line up for a book signing by J.K. Rowling, despite the fact that she may have been half a continent and an ocean away at the time.
According to the St. Tammany News, a "line of several hundred children, teens and parents snaked down Bayou Lane ending in the shopping center behind the bookstore. They had all heard the news that Rowling would be signing books at the small bookstore starting at 9:30 a.m."
Even after Book Sack co-owner Betty Kittner told the crowd that Rowling wouldn't be coming, "some of the fans reluctantly left, but the majority stayed in line, hoping against hope that there would be some real magic and the author would show up."
From the "there's no such thing as bad publicity dept.," Tom Bullough, who suffered a "national embarrassment" when he was mistakenly announced as the winner of the Wales Book of the Year (Shelf Awareness, July 7, 2008) at the awards ceremony, has garnered unanticipated public interest in, and increased sales for, his novel, The Claude Glass, according to WalesOnline.
Effective immediately, David Falk has been named director of sales and marketing of the Overlook Press. He was formerly director of national accounts at Houghton Mifflin and before that was a buyer at Baker & Taylor and a store manager at Barnes & Noble.
Jessica Deutsch has been promoted to marketing and publicity manager of Milkweed Editions. She joined the house in 2006 as marketing associate. Earlier she was a co-manager at Wild Rumpus bookstore and interned at the Loft Literacy Center's Speakeasy Magazine and at Coffee House Press.
Cool Idea of the Day: Bookstore Cafe & Job Training
Two weeks ago, More Than Words, the nonprofit bookstore in Waltham, Mass., opened a cafe that, like the bookstore, is staffed by troubled young adults aged 16 to 21, according to the Daily News Tribune.
"Our goal is always to help them move on to bigger and brighter things," Jennifer Stewart, director of operations, told the paper. "These are skills they can use primarily in the hospitality industry and the food service industry . . . Our goal is as we build the program to be giving them more skills to make them more marketable."
Starbucks helped train the More Than Words baristas.
Memorial Fund Created for Carol A. Nemeyer
The Freedom to Read Foundation has created a memorial fund to honor Carol A. Nemeyer, a former president of the American Library Association and a trustee of the Freedom to Read Foundation, who died on June 30. The Foundation, which is affiliated with the ALA and serves as the association's First Amendment legal defense arm, lauded Nemeyer's "long and distinguished career" and said she was "a passionate advocate for libraries and their essential role in creating an informed citizenry."
Nemeyer's doctoral thesis at Columbia's School of Library Service, called Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, was published by Bowker. She was a librarian at McGraw-Hill before joining the newly created Association of American Publishers in the early 1970s, where she directed the General Publishing and Direct Marketing/Book Club Divisions and the Committee on Education for Publishing.
In 1977, she became associate librarian for national programs at the Library of Congress, overseeing the creation of the Center for the Book. She was president of the ALA in 1983 and founded the Washington, D.C., Chapter of the Women's National Book Association.
In a statement, Freedom to Read Foundation president Judith Platt said, "The establishment of this Fund provides the many friends and admirers of Carol A. Nemeyer with an opportunity to honor her remarkable legacy of service and her commitment to intellectual freedom, and to express their appreciation for her extraordinary gifts."
Contributions to the fund, which are tax deductible, can be made by check payable to the Carol A. Nemeyer Memorial Fund and mailed to the Freedom to Read Foundation, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Ill. 60611. Donations may also be made by calling 800-545-2433 ext. 4226 or going to tinyurl.com/5kpr49 (click the orange "Give Direct" button and type "Carol Nemeyer Fund" in the comments section).
This Weekend on Book TV: Looking for Trouble
Book TV airs on C-Span 2 from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Monday and focuses on political and historical books as well as the book industry. The following are highlights for this coming weekend. For more information, go to Book TV's website.
9 a.m. David Maraniss, author of Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World (S&S, $26.95, 9781416534075/1416534075), recounts a pivotal Olympic Games, which was influenced by both the Cold War and the civil rights movement in the U.S. (Re-airs Saturday at 11 p.m., Saturday, August 9, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, August 10, at 1 a.m.)
12 p.m. Benny Morris, author of 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War (Yale University Press, $32.50, 9780300126969/0300126964), explores the political and military aspects of the conflict as well as the role played by the Soviet Union, U.S. and Britain. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. For a segment that first aired in 1998, Robert Sobel, author of Coolidge: An American Enigma (Regnery, $19.95 9780895262479/0895262479), argued against the caricature of the 30th president as a silent, do-nothing leader.
7 p.m. Yale law professor William Eskridge, author of Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America 1861-2003 (Viking, $32.95, 9780670018628/0670018627), talks about the creation of sodomy laws in the U.S. and their use after 1900 to persecute homosexuals. (Re-airs Sunday at 1:45 a.m. and Monday at 3 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. David Broder interviews George Will, author of One Man's America (Crown Forum, $26.95, 9780307407863/0307407861). Will writes about the people, stories and events that have shaped the U.S. throughout its history. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., and Sunday, August 10, at 12 p.m.)
12 p.m. In Depth. New York Post columnist Ralph Peters, whose most recent book is Looking for Trouble: Adventures in a Broken World (Stackpole Books, $27,95, 9780811734103/0811734102), joins Book TV for a live interview. Viewers can participate in the discussion by calling in during the program or e-mailing questions to booktv@c-span.org. (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m. and Saturday, August 9, at 9 a.m.)
Media Heat: Barbara Walters, Maria Shriver
Tonight on the Charlie Rose Show: Barbara Walters, whose memoir is Audition: A Memoir (Knopf, $29.95, 9780307266460/030726646X).
Tomorrow on Oprah: Maria Shriver, author of Just Who Will You Be?: Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within. (Hyperion, $14.95, 9781401323189/1401323189).
Children's Book Review: Shifty
Shifty by Lynn E. Hazen (Tricycle, $15.99, 9781582462578/1582462577, 192 pp., ages 12-up, September)
Soli, aka "Shifty," survives by his wits. His 15-year-old narrator's voice will carry readers through this chronicle of four days in the lives of his San Francisco foster family members: seven-year-old Sissy; a crack baby named Thaddeus, whom they call "Chance"; and Martha, their widowed foster mother, who has a prosthetic left leg from the knee down. Martha does not have much, but what she does have she shares, including her love and trust. Hazen (Mermaid Mary Margaret) creates fully formed characters here, and through Soli's narration, the audience witnesses firsthand his resourcefulness and rationalizations. So it makes perfect sense to Soli, for instance, when he's feeling pressed for time, to sneak the keys to Martha's minivan so he can drive Sissy to the Toy Mart to purchase a gift for her friend Darlene's birthday party. Finding no parking spot, he takes a handicapped space (Martha even has a handicapped tag, but he forgets to put that on the windshield), and when a cop starts to issue a ticket, he conveniently finds an elderly lady in the shop whom he calls "Mama" and who happily accepts a lift. Soli is out of a jam. Or is he? Hazen has a gift for turning humor into poignant situations devoid of sentiment. Later, Soli and Sissy meet up with the same cop again, and discover that the elderly woman's name is Annie Simmons and she is in the hospital; the two children find themselves labeled "next of kin" and get pulled into Annie's rather complicated life. The plotting becomes at times too dense (e.g., at the doctor's office when a shady character tries to get Sissy to give a sample for the woman's urine test), and some readers may think Soli has one too many close calls from which he escapes. But the realistic relationships between the four foster family members, their ability to believe in each other in a world where each of them has already had more than their share of bad breaks and Soli's survivor-humor make these characters memorable.--Jennifer M. Brown
The Thin Man Returns
Our item yesterday about the disappearance of James Thin, Edinburgh, was slightly out of date. (Beware Google Alerts.) The venerated bookstore company went under in 2002. Our apologies for any confusion!
Billionaire Bookseller's Own Big Book
A billionaire who owns a bookstore, Sam Wyly is becoming an author, too. His 1,000 Dollars and an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire is being publishing in September by Newmarket Press.
Writing a book has been "something I've been thinking I wanted to do forever," Wyly, who bought Explore Booksellers & Bistro, Aspen, Colo., with his wife, Cheryl, early last year, said. "Over 30 years or so I made a few efforts, but then always got busy with something else." But several years ago, he finally did begin to write his story--and found that the hard work was "not in the writing, but the re-writing."
The memoir/business book is written in elegant, declarative style and chronicles the author's life and career, starting as a record-breaking salesperson at IBM, then founding his first company and becoming a millionaire before age 30. Although he is best known for creating and building businesses--including Michael's craft stores, Bonanza Steakhouses, the Maverick Capital hedge fund, Sterling Software, among others--"I come from a long line of people who read and write," Wyly commented. "Books have always been in my life." His parents put out a weekly newspaper when he was a child in a small town in Louisiana. His father did most of the writing, and his mother handled the business side and wrote a social column. Wyly and his brother "grew up helping out. I was a bit of a go-fer."
The love of books also led Wyly and his wife to purchase Explore Booksellers & Bistro when the store and building it is in were put on the market after founder Katharine Thalberg died in 2006. A seasonal resident of Aspen, Wyly had been going to the store "for a long time." (Explore general manager Lynda Schultz confirmed that "Sam had been coming in for years, but no one knew who he was. He would sit off in the corner reading books for hours.") Wyly admits to enjoying reading "a lot of biography, geography, history and fiction, especially historical fiction, like James Michener. I love good stories about imaginary characters built into real, historical things I've studied."
Wyly had already seen his two favorite independent bookstores close in his hometown of Dallas, Tex., and didn't want to see such a thing occur a third time. In addition, keeping Explore in business was "really good for the town." If he hadn't bought it, he added, the store likely would have closed and the building "converted to coops or something like that."
He and his wife inherited what Wyly called "a great team of people, several of whom had worked there for a really long time." He also praised Lynda Schultz, who before the sale was the children's book buyer and then became "an absolutely, terrific manager."
While aiming to continue the traditions of Explore--which stocks some 75,000 books in a 4,500 square feet of space in a Victorian house and includes a popular vegetarian bistro--the new owners have made some changes that Wyly described as "incremental." In fact, they sound substantial:
The old main office in the back has been opened up and converted into an area that is used for events. (The rare and oop sections are on the shelves in the area.) In addition, the area has been upgraded with "the kind of a/v equipment some authors require now," Schultz said. The adjacent patio, which used to be reserved for the previous owner's dogs, is now also public space and is used for events, too. "We used to do our events in the front of the store and it got so crowded," Schultz noted. "Now we have a lovely space for authors to present their books."
The computer system in the store is being upgraded, and the website is being improved.
In line with a passion of the Wylys, Explore has made an effort to go green, Schultz said. The store has evaporative cooling, not air conditioning. Light fixtures have been replaced. "And we just got a little electric flatbed truck," Schultz continued.
Schultz confessed to having some trepidation when the Wylys bought the store. "We were worried," she said. "We thought only that a self-made billionaire from Texas was walking into the store." Besides his business life, Wyly also is well known as a philanthropist whose beneficiaries, when taken as a whole, are a bit bewildering for some: the Aspen Writers Foundation, his own foundation for minority businesspeople, an educational TV channel in Dallas, environmental efforts, the Bushes and the notorious Swift-boating campaign of 2004. (About these last donations, Sam and his brother, Charles, longtime Texas Republican contributors, have said that "loyalty" has been an important reason for their political choices.)
In the end, Schultz said, she found Wyly to be "one of the most genuine, down-to-earth, kind and ethical men I've met." The Wylys, she continued, are "fabulous people who truly value independent bookstores. You can't ask for more than that."
Besides a party at the store, Wyly will promote 1,000 Dollars & an Idea at an event at the Aspen Institute. He's also appearing at several business group gatherings, including the Entrepreneurs' Organization, the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco and the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.
Wyly sounds somewhat reluctant about the appearances, saying, "I want to see the book sell well, but I'm enjoying my peace and quiet in Aspen." But he's not reluctant about supporting the title in other ways. Wyly is putting up "about $300,000" to promote the title, according to Newmarket publisher Esther Margolis. The book will be advertised in the New York Times and Christian Science Monitor and in six weekly ads in the Wall Street Journal. Wyly is making appearances on TV and radio. In addition, Continental Airlines will do a promotion for the book on all domestic flights in October that features an interview with Wyly.
There is also "a very strong Internet publicity and marketing plan," Margolis said, which will have an emphasis on blogs and sites with business and entrepreneurial themes. (The book's website is 1000DollarsAndAnIdea.com.)
Newmarket will continue marketing the book through the fall. "It'll be a great holiday gift," Margolis said. "And certainly for young people."
Margolis expressed a bit of surprise that Newmarket wound up publishing the book. Early on, she said, she was introduced to Wyly's agent, Ed Breslin. "We all met. Sam was curious about the business and independent publishing and peppered me with questions. I didn't think I was a candidate to publish the book." But later she met with them again saw the manuscript. "It was high quality," she said. "I thought, 'Oh, this is a real book, not a vanity thing.' "
She praised 1,000 Dollars & an Idea for "going into risk taking and failures, not just successes" and for its message of the importance of "listening to customers and paying attention to what they say." The book has gotten favorable reviews in Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly. "It has great word of mouth, and I hope independent booksellers especially consider handselling it," she said.
Explore general manager Lynda Schultz said that in the book, Wyly "was able to retain his sense of humor and communicate his down-home, down-to-earth attitude that led to his success in business." She continued, "It's a business book, but so much of the man comes through. You can't separate him from what he accomplished. He is a remarkable man, a one of a kind."--John Mutter


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Q: How to store the values of each variable of a class using a generic function? I'm trying to store into an ArrayList all the values of each variable of a class.
I have created this function in all the classes I have and I want it to do the same for each class (each class has different variables).
In other words, I want to @Override the toString function but without knowing how many attributes does the class have.
This is what I have done so far:
public class Example {

    private type1 var1 = 'Hello';
    private type2 var2 = 10;
    private type3 var3 = 'Bye';
    //...

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        ArrayList<String> fields = new ArrayList<>();

        for (Field f: this.getClass().getDeclaredFields()) {

            fields.add(f.getName());    //This does not work for what I want. This returns the name of the type of the variable and not what it is storing. What should I change it for?
        }

         return String.join(", ", fields);
     }
}

So, for this example, the output I get is:
var1, var2, var3

But the output I want is:
Hello, 10, Bye

Is there a way to do this?

A: You can get the value of the fields this way:
public class Example {

    private int var1;
    private String var2;
    private double var3;

    public Example(int var1, String var2, double var3) {
        this.var1 = var1;
        this.var2 = var2;
        this.var3 = var3;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        ArrayList<String> fields = new ArrayList<>();

        try {
            for (Field f: this.getClass().getDeclaredFields()) {
                fields.add(f.get(this).toString());
            }
        }
        catch(IllegalAccessException e) {
            return "Illegal access while generating toString";
        }

        return String.join(", ", fields);
    }
}

It should work well with primitive types. But of course it can get really messy (anyway when you use reflection, it's kinda messy from the start), if you want to manage complex types.
I don't really know what you want to achieve but make sure reflection is your only option and double-check that you aren't reinventing the wheel.

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"Stella by Starlight" is a popular song by Victor Young that was drawn from thematic material composed for the main title and soundtrack of the 1944 Paramount Pictures film, The Uninvited. Appearing in the film's underscore as well as in source music as an instrumental theme song without lyrics, it was turned over to Ned Washington, who wrote the lyrics for it in 1946. The title had to be incorporated into the lyrics, which resulted in its unusual placement: the phrase appears about three quarters of the way through the song, rather than at the beginning or the end.


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Hula-Hoop patented
On this day in 1963, the Hula-Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company's co-founder, Arthur "Spud" Melin. An estimated 25 million Hula-Hoops were sold in its first four months of production alone.
In 1948, friends Arthur Melin and Richard Knerr founded a company in California to sell a slingshot they created to shoot meat up to falcons they used for hunting. The company's name, Wham-O, came from the sound the slingshots supposedly made. Wham-O eventually branched out from slingshots, selling boomerangs and other sporting goods. Its first hit toy, a flying plastic disc known as the Frisbee, debuted in 1957. The Frisbee was originally marketed under a different name, the Pluto Platter, in an effort to capitalize on America's fascination with UFOs.
Melina and Knerr were inspired to develop the Hula-Hoop after they saw a wooden hoop that Australian children twirled around their waists during gym class. Wham-O began producing a plastic version of the hoop, dubbed "Hula" after the hip-gyrating Hawaiian dance of the same name, and demonstrating it on Southern California playgrounds. Hula-Hoop mania took off from there.
The enormous popularity of the Hula-Hoop was short-lived and within a matter of months, the masses were on to the next big thing. However, the Hula-Hoop never faded away completely and still has its fans today. According to Ripley's Believe It or Not, in April 2004, a performer at the Big Apple Circus in Boston simultaneously spun 100 hoops around her body. Earlier that same year, in January, according to the Guinness World Records, two people in Tokyo, Japan, managed to spin the world's largest hoop–at 13 feet, 4 inches–around their waists at least three times each.
Following the Hula-Hoop, Wham-O continued to produce a steady stream of wacky and beloved novelty items, including the Superball, Water Wiggle, Silly String, Slip 'n' Slide and the Hacky Sack.
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Teen Titans gets Cancelled
By: Kat 'Comic Uno' West | Comic News | January 22, 2014
Teen Titans was one of the 52 titles that originally launched the New 52. DC announced that Teen Titans would be cancelled in April with issue 30, shortly after ending with an Annual. Scott Lobdell has been on the series from the beginning. When the series was announced to be cancelled he said to Comic Vine, "I'm thrilled the DC is letting me wrap up the story on a high note as the Teen Titans square off against the N.O.W.H.E.R.E. in a final battle — bringing to conclusion the conflict that began in the first issue! I'm certainly going to miss writing the adventures of Red Robin, Wonder Girl, Bunker and the rest of the gang. But as a huge, life long fan of the title I'm very excited about the whispered rumors I'm hearing race back and forth between New York and Burbank. (Trust me when I say we haven't seen the last of everyone's favorite teen team adventurers.)" Personally, I think we will get a reboot of this series very soon. It would be a smart move from DC is they called it Young Justice because of the cartoon's fan base. Maybe add some of that rooster also. Does this mean that we will be getting another Teen Titans series, a reboot? Maybe a Young Justice comic book series? Tell us your thoughts about the Teen Titans cancellation in the comments below.
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By: CommonWealth 2019-04-08 2019-05-22
Activities, Festivals, History & CultureApril, Culture, Taiwan
It is 3:10 a.m., well before dawn, when 27-year-old Derek gets up from the tiled floor in the basement of Yuliao Zhennan Temple in Xiluo Township in Yunlin County and carefully puts on some socks. Having traveled a considerable distance on foot, he has already developed a total of seven blisters on his feet, which are covered with gauze from heel to toe.
After putting on a second layer of socks, he slowly stands up, stretches his legs to ease the pain and soreness from two days of walking and gets ready for day three of the journey.
Derek, who hails from New Jersey in the United States, came to Taiwan for work four and a half years ago. This is the first time that he has joined the Dajia Mazu pilgrimage. He views joining the pilgrimage as the best activity for experiencing the relationships among the local people and understanding Taiwan's religious culture.
Derek, 27, cram school teacher from the United States who walked the whole way for three days to challenge himself while also showing Mazu his sincere intentions. (Image: Kuotai Liu)
The Dajia Mazu pilgrimage has already achieved considerable international fame. Aside from European and American tourists, people of Chinese heritage from neighboring countries such as Singapore and Malaysia count among the loyal participants. What about the Mazu pilgrimage so fascinates these foreign nationals? What makes them die-hard fans who come back year after year, defying sore muscles, peeling skin and blisters on their feet?
On April 13, after 10 p.m., a sea of people floods the street in front of Zhenlan Temple in Taichung's Dajia Township just as colorful fireworks, rising from the temple's main hall, illuminate the night sky. After the last strings of firecrackers explode with loud bangs, the palanquin carrying statues of the goddess Mazu emerges from the temple, the crowd of fervent believers closing in frenzied excitement. Many people have been waiting for this moment with great anticipation since the Lantern Festival in February when the temple authorities decided the date and time for the launch of the pilgrimage by tossing moon sticks (Jiao Bei). (Read also: 13 Tips for having a deeper Taiwan Temple experience)
Across Taiwan, Mazu temples are celebrating the birthday of the goddess around the 23rd day of the third month in the lunar calendar (which fell on May 8 this year). Among these birthday festivities, the Dajia Zhenlan pilgrimage is by far the largest. In 2009, the market research team Lifelab estimated that approximately 930,000 people had participated in the pilgrimage. Given that participation has been steadily rising over the years, the million mark must have already been broken.
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In contrast to some other Mazu pilgrimages, the route for the Dajia Mazu pilgrimage is mapped out beforehand. Over a period of nine days and eight nights, the pilgrims cover a distance of 350 kilometers, departing from Dajia's Zhenlan Temple. Over the following three days, the trek passes through the neighboring counties of Changhua and Yunlin to reach Fengtian Temple in Chiayi County's Xingang Township. On day four, the main event, a traditional blessing and birthday ceremony, takes place, upon which the pilgrimage departs on the journey home, reaching its final destination, Dajia's Zhenlan Temple, on the ninth day.
Since the long-distance trek is quite demanding, many believers only accompany Mazu's entourage for part of the pilgrimage. Some choose to "follow Mazu" for the three-day leg to Fengtian Temple, whereas others opt for the longer five-day return trip. People who need to go to work during the week often go for a two-day, one-night stretch over the weekend.
Along the route, local citizens offer washing facilities, transportation or food and drink to the pilgrims, highlighting the hospitality and enthusiasm of the Taiwanese people.
In the early evening on day one of the pilgrimage, when Derek arrived near Nanyao Temple in Changhua City just before Mazu's entourage entered the city, people along the road were handing him bottled water, vegetarian baozi buns, steamed mantou buns and drinks.
Derek notes that the Taiwanese are already very friendly in ordinary times, but during the pilgrimage their enthusiasm becomes even more palpable. "Loads of people give you things to eat; and it's hard to say no to such smiling faces. You won't ever get hungry," he notes.
At the time, Derek had walked for twelve hours without taking a break, and he felt that his strength was waning. He was pleasantly surprised to find that a shower truck, donated by local people for the pilgrims, had been set up nearby. Exhausted pilgrims can also look for vehicles in the convoy that provide opportunities to rest along the route or near Mazu's whereabouts on that day. Most easily recognizable as offering a respite from walking are small blue pickup trucks or delivery trucks stuffed with bedding and luggage. All along the route, enthusiastic locals also generously offer rides in their private cars.
Wherever local people along the road spotted Derek, they greeted him enthusiastically with "hello" or gave him the thumbs up. When passing through Xiluo, local people cheered him on with smiles, some even high-fiving him in encouragement. (Image: Kuotai Liu)
Around 10 p.m. as Mazu had yet to reach Nanyao Temple, Derek decided to move ahead to the next temple. Near Yufeng Temple, also located in Changhua City, Derek feasted on a delicious thick vegetarian soup with mushrooms and various greens, and laced with Chinese medicinal herbs. The local people claim it works like a tonic, replenishing energy, strength and endurance. On day two, Derek still relishes the tasty memory.
As Derek recounts the enthusiastic support he has encountered along the way, he says that he completely understands what drives the locals, saying that every single person seems like one's own cheerleader, contributing in their own way.
This fervor is not only rooted in the trademark hospitality of the Taiwanese, it can be attributed to people's "feelings" for Mazu. Lin Mao-hsien, associate professor at the Department of Taiwanese Languages and Literature of National Taichung University, has joined the Mazu pilgrimage for the past 26 years. Lin points out that believers perceive any services they offer to pilgrims, be it food or showers, as "doing good deeds for Mazu by giving alms."
(Image: Common Wealth)
The Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage can also be viewed as a tour for sampling Taiwanese signature products, since the locals hand out the best locally produced goods to passing pilgrims. Lin observes that people were endowed with socks and umbrellas in Changhua County's Shetou township [a hosiery manufacturing hub], whereas watermelon and corn on the cob featured prominently in Yunlin County. "They had already cooked and shucked the corn, and even brushed it with salt water," recounts Lin.
Around 5 a.m. on day two, Derek began his walk from Fu-an Temple in Changhua County. As he walked across Xiluo Bridge spanning the Zhuoshui River, he ran into a group of people from Hsinchu who were handing out shuirunbing, a soft, cinnamon-flavored flatbread unique to Hsinchu. Derek's first bite tasted rather bland, but then the cinnamon flavor gradually grew. It was the first time that he had tasted such rustic food.
Shuirunbing is a Hsinchu specialty. Since the bread is usually distributed during religious festivals and processions to bring protection and peace, they are also known as "peace bread." It should not be confused with the similarly named run bing, a thin wrap with a filling of various vegetables, peanut powder and seasoning. (Read also: 8 Taiwanese foods that you don't even know you need to try (yet)!)
Shuirunbing are made only from flour and water with a dash of salt, sugar and natural spices. Due to its high water content, the flatbread is very soft, a sensation described in the Minnan dialect as being "soft as water" which sounds like shui run – hence the name.
After crossing Xiluo Bridge, which links Changhua and Yunlin counties, the route follows Jianxing Road and Yanping Old Street, the most boisterous area of Xiluo Township. During the Qing Dynasty and the following Japanese colonial period, this was an important commercial district. During an urban modernization project in the 1930s, several wealthy landowners built elegant mansions here. Jiefa Tea Shop, which now serves as Xiluo Cultural Museum, and Yongfeng Grain Store are typical remnants of this era. Xiluo also boasts some Japanese-style houses from the colonial era, giving the town a distinct nostalgic flair.
Having enjoyed the roadside banquet on Fuxing Road, which had been donated by the local community, Derek rushed on in the afternoon of day two to reach Zhennan Temple around 9 p.m. Although the sedan chair with the goddess was not expected before 2 a.m. most pilgrims formed an advance party that arrived earlier.
Since the troupe carrying Mazu's palanquin will rest for only a few hours at most, most pilgrims try to arrive several hours ahead of the goddess to have enough time to shower and sleep. Moreover, most local people will clear away donated food and drinks as soon as Mazu's sedan chair has passed.
"Come on, come on, be our guest and have a bite," shouts Liao Ching-biao, the head of the Zhennan Temple Committee, into his microphone, inviting hundreds of pilgrims to partake of the offered food. On the plaza in front of the temple, three tables are piled high with a dozen snacks such as rice dumplings, fried king oyster mushrooms, fried sweet potato chips, stir-fried noodles, vegetarian rice cakes and the like. Liao does not forget to mention that the delicious vegetarian dishes were created by the head of the temple's sutra chanting troupe, a vegetarian and accomplished cook.
Aside from the dozens of dishes that were cooked up from dawn to dusk on day two of the pilgrimage, the temple's famous rice porridge equally attracts a large number of foodie pilgrims. On day three, temple authorities prepare a rich rice porridge with a broad variety of ingredients, including oysters, cabbage, mushrooms and carrots. Liao points out that many of the pilgrims arriving on day three actually come by charter coach just to enjoy the temple's rice porridge. Although half of the food was donated by the local community, the temple administration still spent around NT$300,000 on food.
The temple premises are strewn with sleeping bags and tents. However, for Derek, who slept in front of the temple on the previous night, sleeping in the well-ventilated 30-square meter temple basement is an "upgraded" service.
(Image: Flickr@JianEn Yu)
During the pilgrimage, most participants just sleep where their feet carry them by the end of the day. The fast walkers stand a chance at getting a place at nearby pilgrims' hostels. But since these are usually fully occupied, one must be prepared to sleep on the side of the road on a yoga mat, camping mat or in a sleeping bag.
Taiwan's Beauty Lies in its Human Touch
Lin Pin-chou from Malaysia got his first brush with Taiwan's human touch, the kindness and enthusiasm with which the Taiwanese take care of others, in connection with the goddess Mazu. Lin came to Taiwan in 2008 on an individual tour to visit and pray at Mazu temples. While surfing backpacker websites, he received numerous enthusiastic responses.
"Some said when you come to Yunlin I will show you around; others said they wanted to invite me for a meal, or that I wouldn't have to pay for staying at the hostel," Lin recalls. "At that time I discovered that Taiwan's greatest beauty lies in its human touch," declares Lin, nearly tearing up with emotion.
Inspired by this experience, Lin returned to Taiwan six years ago to attend graduate school. Since then, he has accompanied "great grandaunt," as devotees with the Surname Lin call Mazu, on her pilgrimage every year. Last year, he became a die-hard fan, vowing to join the pilgrimage every year for the rest of his life. Lin feels particularly close to Mazu because the goddess, whose father was Lin Yuan, bears the same family name as he does. He believes that by calling Mayu "grandaunt", she can realize that he is one of her blood relatives.
Just how devoted the Mazu believers are is also evident in their eagerness to "take Mazu out for an inspection tour." Lin observes that along the route, devotees bring Mazu statues from their homes with them to have the goddess join the pilgrimage, a practice unseen in Malaysia. "The Taiwanese really love their gods dearly," says Lin.
In contrast to China, where religion was suppressed during the Great Cultural Revolution, Chinese religious beliefs and traditions were kept alive in Taiwan. Devotion and fervor have shaped a unique religious environment with a diverse mix of beliefs and rituals that add to Taiwan's cultural tapestry and enrich the travel experience. (Image: Common Wealth)
The Dajia Mazu pilgrimage dates back to Qing Dynasty rule during the 18thcentury when people made a pilgrimage to Meizhou Island, [a small island off Fujian Province and the birthplace of Mazu], every twelve years to pay homage to her. However, cross-strait contacts were severed with the beginning of the Japanese colonial period. Consequently, in 1914, Mazu devotees began to visit [the Mazu temple] in Beigang in Yunlin County instead.
In 1987, the pilgrimage to the ancestral temple on Meizhou resumed, passing via Japan [in the absence of direct cross-strait travel links]. Subsequently, in 1988, the Daijia Mazu pilgrimage made Xingang in Chiayi County its final destination due to a dispute with the ancestral temple on Meizhou over the imparting of Mazu's divine spirit [in the form of a new statue] to a new temple.
The most famous aspect of the pilgrimage is the practice of crossing under Mazu's sedan chair to obtain her blessing. Wherever Mazu passes through on her long tour, devotees kneel down and bow their heads in two rows on the road, waiting for the sedan chair to pass above them.
(Image: Chientong Wang)
Popular belief also holds that helping carry the sedan chair or holding an umbrella to shield Mazu against the scorching sun will bring good luck. Therefore, people queue up in long lines every year to join the sedan chair carrier troupe.
As more and more tourists and non-devotees are participating in the pilgrimage, certain taboos and etiquette dictated by religion and folklore should be addressed. For instance, well-meaning people will remind those waiting to pass under the sedan chair that they must not carry flags.
As Associate Professor Lin explains, the colorful embroidered pilgrimage flags symbolize that the carrier is a soldier of the goddess, and letting a soldier pass under the sedan chair would be impolite to Mazu. Lin says that no matter whether one believes in these taboos, honoring them is a demonstration of respect for religious beliefs.
The fact that non-organized, individual pilgrims may also participate in the tasks carried out by Mazu's divine entourage shows just how tolerant Taiwanese folk religion can be.
Hung Ying-fa, a postdoctoral researcher of religious studies with the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of Academia Sinica, observes that, in order to play an active role in many religious festivals overseas, people must belong to the respective religion or hold a certain rank within the clergy, while the vast majority of ordinary people can only revel in the excitement from the sidelines. This is not the case with the Mazu pilgrimage. Hung explains that here "you can easily become a participant" by carrying the sedan chair or by accompanying the entourage, or doing chores such as preparing food and beverages.
Thanks to its openness and diversity, the Dajia Mazu pilgrimage attracts a broad variety of people, no matter whether they come to sample the special foods offered along the route, experience the genuine kindness and warmth of the local people or witness traditional ceremonies. This mammoth event showcases the approachability and tolerance of Taiwan's religious culture. It is these unique experiences of the local culture that constitute the true soft power of Taiwan.
My Beautiful Taiwan Tour
If one wanted to tell a beautiful story about Taiwan, what would it be?
Would it feature the island's majestic mountain range or its winding coastline? Or highlight the vibrancy of its rural villages or the cosmopolitan spirit of its metropolitan areas?
There's one thing, of course, that must not be left out – the island's most beautiful feature – the Taiwanese human touch, the kindness of the people here.
In the course of our everyday lives, we can see Taiwan's diversity and variety. Through quality tourism based on authentic local experiences, we can make Taiwan a place for living the good life. This spectacular isle offers endless adventures. Let's invite the world to join the fun!
Translated by Susanne Ganz
Edited by Sharon Tseng
(This article is reproduced under the permission of CommonWealth Magazine English Website. It does not represent the standpoint of Taiwan Scene.)
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It is understood the seeder is the AUD$16 billion REST Super, a supporter of Paradice IM since its establishment in 1999. The reputed AUD$200 million will be through a mandate structure, expected to be live by the end of February. It would represent the bulk of the US$300 million initial cap for the capability, which will be offered to Australiabased investors only at this stage. The portfolio manager of Paradice IM's global small-mid cap product will be Kevin Beck, who spent three years on Artisan's International Value Fund (which won the shop Morningstar's International Fund Manager of the Year prize in 2008) prior to six years as a senior analyst at Denver Investment Advisors, where he first met Paradice IM founder, David Paradice.
"It was round the time I set up the boutique and I wanted to travel to the US and talk to people about small cap stocks. Kevin returned my calls, and we've been in touch ever since," Paradice said. Beck and the two fellow Artisan International Value Fund analysts who'll join him as Paradice employees, Anand Vasagiri and Jane Danziger, shared Paradice IM's value-seeking and contrarian approach, Paradice added. "Our Australian clients have found it really hard to find a good global small cap manager, so they've encouraged us to set one up ourselves. We spoke to Kevin about doing this three years ago, but we all ended up deciding small caps were too expensive at the time," Paradice said.
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Ellison accuser refuses to release video as another allegation emerges
The curious case of Rep. Keith Ellison got even more curious in the hours leading to Primary Day here in Minnesota. The woman who now accuses the deputy DNC chair says she will not release the video that her son described in his Facebook post this weekend as proof of the Democratic Congressman's abuse of his mother. But also, as KARE 11 reports, the Ellison campaign also admits that he met with Monahan two months ago before filing for his run as state Attorney General and was warned that the video existed:
Monahan didn't return text messages from KARE reporters on Monday. She told Minnesota Public Radio that she won't release the video clip described by her son on Facebook.
She continued to post on Twitter and Facebook Monday and issued screen grabs of text messages from Ellison to bolster her assertion that he has contacted her since their breakup in 2016.
The Ellison campaign confirmed the two have met several times since they ended their relationship.In fact. the campaign said the two met June 5, the night before Ellison filed to run for attorney general.
The campaign said that meeting was requested by Monahan, who was seeking Ellison's assistance on an unrelated matter. But, according to the campaign, Monahan did bring up the alleged video clip at that June 5 meeting.
Why bring up the video as proof and not release it? That seems to present a credibility problem for Monahan, who instead was releasing text messages to prove that there was bad blood between the two after the end of the relationship. But it's also a credibility problem for Ellison too, who initially denied knowing anything about a video. Now it turns out that he was aware of the potential existence of the video for more than two months before his denial yesterday.
Meanwhile, another allegation of potential domestic abuse involving Ellison emerged yesterday. This appears to be pulled from police records a decade before the alleged assault took place on Monahan, and it comes from a suburban Minneapolis councilman:
UPDATE: This is a record of a 911 call from May 16, 2005. The caller reported she was assaulted by Keith Ellison. pic.twitter.com/Z080dzS702
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The caller's name has been redacted in the report, but according to records searches Amy Alexander, who spoke out in 2006 about her relationship with Ellison, lived at this address in 2005.
This account seems a bit sketchier; it's based in part on an article written by the alleged victim in a newspaper that went defunct years ago. John Hinderaker has more on it at Power Line, calling it "explosive" if true. Both John and Vox link to an archived version of Alexander's interview, which contains this allegation of violence:
In May, Keith wanted to try and quiet me so he came to my home uninvited. We had words. His anger kicked in. He berated me. He grabbed me and pushed me out of the way. I was terrified.I called the police. As he fled he broke my screen door. I have never been so scared. I immediately began to second guess myself as many victims of abuse do when at the brink of exposing their abuser. How could I or anyone stand up to the man who had been the local icon of black militancy for almost two decades?
That's what apparently prompted the 911 call, if the records are accurate. Unlike the Monahan case, this one ended up before a judge. Ellison denied the allegations and demanded a restraining order on Alexander, and she asked for one against Ellison, about which she speaks in the article. The judge ended up denying Alexander's request and approving Ellison's. Why? We don't know, and it appears that Alexander has been quiet about Ellison since. But the 911 record corroborates at least part of Alexander's later claim of domestic violence.
That's about where this will stand for today, as Minnesota voters go to the polls. Will it change their minds? As my friend Steven Scheier told KARE 11, it won't matter for at least 100,000 of them:
Schier pointed out that more than 100,000 people have already voted via early absentee voting, so it's difficult to predict the effect of Monahan's accusation against Ellison.
"One of the key differences from the Franken situation to the Ellison situation is there was a photograph, undoctored photograph of Al Franken doing inappropriate things to a sleeping woman. And in this case the video hasn't been produced yet."
No it hasn't, but it's likely that Ellison will skate by the primary anyway, thanks to the lateness of the emergence of this issue. Will it come out in time for the general election, and will the media cover it if it does?
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Security Considerations. WireAdminEvent objects contain Wire objects. Care must be taken in the sharing of Wire objects with other bundles.
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A Producer service method has thrown an exception.
The WireAdminEvent type that indicates that an existing Wire object has become connected.
A Wire has been created.
A Wire has been deleted.
The WireAdminEvent type that indicates that an existing Wire object has become disconnected.
The WireAdminEvent type that indicates that a new value is transferred over the Wire object.
A Wire has been updated.
Constructs a WireAdminEvent object from the given ServiceReference object, event type, Wire object and exception.
Return the ServiceReference object of the Wire Admin service that created this event.
Returns the exception associated with the event, if any.
Return the type of this event.
Return the Wire object associated with this event.
This WireAdminEvent type indicates that a Producer service method has thrown an exception. The getThrowable() method will return the exception that the Producer service method raised.
The value of PRODUCER_EXCEPTION is 0x00000001.
This WireAdminEvent type indicates that a Consumer service method has thrown an exception. The getThrowable() method will return the exception that the Consumer service method raised.
The value of CONSUMER_EXCEPTION is 0x00000002.
This WireAdminEvent type that indicates that a new Wire object has been created. An event is broadcast when WireAdmin.createWire(String, String, java.util.Dictionary) is called. The getWire() method will return the Wire object that has just been created.
The value of WIRE_CREATED is 0x00000004.
This WireAdminEvent type that indicates that an existing Wire object has been updated with new properties. An event is broadcast when WireAdmin.updateWire(Wire, java.util.Dictionary) is called with a valid wire. The getWire() method will return the Wire object that has just been updated.
The value of WIRE_UPDATED is 0x00000008.
This WireAdminEvent type that indicates that an existing wire has been deleted. An event is broadcast when WireAdmin.deleteWire(Wire) is called with a valid wire. getWire() will return the Wire object that has just been deleted.
The value of WIRE_DELETED is 0x00000010.
The WireAdminEvent type that indicates that an existing Wire object has become connected. The Consumer object and the Producer object that are associated with the Wire object have both been registered and the Wire object is connected. See Wire.isConnected() for a description of the connected state. This event may come before the producersConnected and consumersConnected method have returned or called to allow synchronous delivery of the events. Both methods can cause other WireAdminEvent s to take place and requiring this event to be send before these methods are returned would mandate asynchronous delivery.
The value of WIRE_CONNECTED is 0x00000020.
The WireAdminEvent type that indicates that an existing Wire object has become disconnected. The Consumer object or/and Producer object is/are unregistered breaking the connection between the two. See Wire.isConnected() for a description of the connected state.
The value of WIRE_DISCONNECTED is 0x00000040.
The WireAdminEvent type that indicates that a new value is transferred over the Wire object. This event is sent after the Consumer service has been notified by calling the Consumer.updated(Wire, Object) method or the Consumer service requested a new value with the Wire.poll() method. This is an advisory event meaning that when this event is received, another update may already have occurred and this the Wire.getLastValue() method returns a newer value then the value that was communicated for this event.
The value of WIRE_TRACE is 0x00000080.
reference - The ServiceReference object of the Wire Admin service that created this event.
type - The event type. See getType().
wire - The Wire object associated with this event.
exception - An exception associated with this event. This may be null if no exception is associated with this event.
The ServiceReference object for the Wire Admin service that created this event.
The Wire object associated with this event or null when no Wire object is associated with the event.
The type of this event.
An exception or null if no exception is associated with this event.


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Q: Tomcat Apache 6 server on Eclipse Error Not able to add Apache tomcat  6.0 server in eclipse.
FYI
I have my eclipse-standard-kepler-SR2-win32 this contains J2EE package.
And the environment variables needed for java are already set up.Incase i need to modify anything for apache tomcat server please list in the steps.
I have downlaoded tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi In this in the end Source Code Distributions downlaoded the zip from there and extracted it on desktop.
I am getting this error  The Tomcat installation directory is not valid. It is missing expected file or folder lib/jasper-el.jar.
Please help me with steps.I have tried searching the same but nothing was clear and to the point.
Going to Windows>Perferrence>server>Runtime Environment>Add and then i am selecting the directory in which my apache bin folder is there.
Please provide the clear and specific steps.

A: Just check your apache lib folder for this file is available. if not then download and present it.

A: You have to select HOME directory of your tomcat.. like D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.42.. Try this and tell us check this link for installation of tomcat in windows

A: You are selecting incorrect directory. Instead of apache/bin, select apache home directory while configuring the server.


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Q: Hard Determinism and the Java Random generator My roommate and I are in another argument about our free will. His newest argument against my sweet sweet deterministic world view is that random number generators like the one in Java is unpredictable and nothing prior to running a random generator can determine the outcome of the number.
Anyway, my question is that when you use the built in Java random methods like Math.random and java.util.Random, is the number truly random or is it dependent on any predictable event? Totally need this for my code.

A: Yes the output of the Random class does depend on predictable events. The class uses an algorithm to produce the pseudorandom numbers. As the docs say:

The general contract of next is that it returns an int value and if the argument bits is between 1 and 32 (inclusive), then that many low-order bits of the returned value will be (approximately) independently chosen bit values, each of which is (approximately) equally likely to be 0 or 1. The method next is implemented by class Random by atomically updating the seed to
(seed * 0x5DEECE66DL + 0xBL) & ((1L << 48) - 1)

and returning
(int)(seed >>> (48 - bits)).

This is a linear congruential pseudorandom number generator, as defined by D. H. Lehmer and described by Donald E. Knuth in The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Seminumerical Algorithms, section 3.2.1.


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Mums – let's celebrate what we do well!
So often I feel as though I'm failing as a mother. I find myself obsessing over a long list of indictments, like I don't spend enough time with my children. They never have matching socks. I didn't breastfeed long enough. I went back to full-time work too soon. They have too many breakfast dinners.
I know a lot of you mothers out there can relate – we seem to pour over the smallest and most insignificant things, recriminating ourselves for the most minor infractions – and the bigger ones we just never let go of.
Well. I am just totally over mother-guilt. I have decided that when I ask myself that question when things have gone wrong, I am going to answer it with: YES. I am a good mother. I am not perfect. I make mistakes. Yet I am a good mother.
So in that spirit I thought I'd share a list of things I am proud of doing, that I think make me a good Mum. Hopefully there are lots more things than what I've listed, but these are the things I am particularly proud of. I hope it encourages all of you out there with kids to do just the same.
This is easier with some than with others. I like to joke that Bookworm is indeed the proverbial open book while Picasso is a coded message and Little Miss is an overhead projector. There's usually no problem knowing exactly how Bookworm and Little Miss think and feel – in fact it's impossible not to know – but it is harder with Picasso. I need to – and do – try very hard to know what's going on with him. And I think I do. I know what they like and don't like, what makes them scared and happy, their hopes and fears, what makes them laugh and what makes them sad. I know their little hearts, how they think, their strengths and their weaknesses.
I can't count the amount of times I let them take out the pots and pans and play music shops even though it did my head in. Or use the garlic press for playdoh and then had to buy another one. Or let them empty all the cupboards so they could climb inside and play cubby house. I have cupboards full of craft and paints and bits of cut-up paper and even though it makes a huge mess I always try and say yes when they ask to drag it all out. The downside of this is that my house is pretty messy, and I try not to care.
Now I've said "try", because of course I don't do this all the time. But generally if things aren't working, or there's a pattern of behaviour I don't like, or I'm yelling too much, I try to think about what's not working, and then try something else. When making decisions – like when or how we're going to school, where we're going on holidays or how we're going to make a pocket money system, I do try and think about what larger goal we're trying to achieve. That we're bringing up little people who will one day be big people – and I want those people to be compassionate, thoughtful and living lives of integrity and fulfillment.
We belong. It's as simple as that. A couple of weeks ago Bookworm came home pretty upset because he'd had a fight with some friends that hadn't ended well. We talked it through and hugged and prayed and then we all had a fun night together, which I think gave him the strength to face the next day (and sort it all out, which, luckily, usually happens). I always want home to be a secure place, a safe and welcoming haven where it doesn't matter what's happened to you in the big, bad world, you can come home to people who love you unconditionally.
We have family values we try and live by, and I like this about us. They are all about loving and respecting each other, trying our best, valuing our faith and living a purposeful life.
I would love to hear what you are proud of as Mums – I know all of your lists will be different, and that's just the way it should be. Let's celebrate us!
Hmmm what am I proud of – I absolutely love my family unconditionally, I have no expectations other than that my family live passionately – doing what they are wired to do and that they are kind and respectful, I celebrate what makes each kid unique and parent accordingly, I am available, I encourage space and stillness, we don't keep up with the Jones and we don't want to, we are open minded, we wear 'vintage' clothing, we had no present Christmas, we care about the other – people, animals, the environment etc, we have messy bedrooms and that is okay! We eat together every night around our 50s kitchen table with our dog begging for scraps, we laugh about farts, and dribbling when we brush our teeth… I'm proud WE are what makes our house a home!!!
Great post Em! People can be so keen to compare parenting just to tear others down that it's nice to celebrate our strengths!
So what do I do well? A few things I think!
I try to listen well. With the amount of talking around here that is sometimes tricky. But I do make every effort to listen well.
I am good at validating feelings. Even when the conversation ends with something like "I do understand that you are cranky at me and that you think I am unfair, but you are not allowed to speak like that and the consequence of your choice is….", I choose to attempt to acknowledge and label feelings as I think it teaches lots of things and can take the heat out of a situation.
Jon and I am GREAT (if I do say so myself) at creating fun family memories and traditions. We are creating a family brand "Team Wright". We love it.
We are good at encouraging the values we seek to instill in our kids…kindness, respect, loving and serving others as God has loved us.
We are also great at rumbling.
There are also plenty of things we are working hard to improve on and things we are really not great at. But that's a whole other post!
I can personally attest to how great you are at the family tradition thing, you have many itmes inspired me with your deciation to create great memories. And yes there are always things we could work on but they are NOT for dwelling on! Not today anyway. You are a great Mum!
In our home we work hard to laugh not only at things or at each other but also at ourselves. In our house no-one drives off without getting the 'crazy dance' (us jumping around like a bunch of crazy folk on the front lawn). We do physical displays of love well, sometimes maybe to well (it's okay to bite your baby on the bum right?!). I have embraced, via my 3 year old first born, pink/dresses/ribbons/frills in a way that I never thought that I would. I have also recently discovered that I really am okay with the kids wearing self styled outfits. We value spending time lying on the lawn in the sun and when one of the girls hurts themselves they truly believe that Mum and Dad can make it better.
So I guess that's a few things that I am proud of. Thanks so much for generating these thoughts through your blog Em. Great stuff!