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Home for the Holidays

The holiday season is looking a little different for all of us this year. Luckily, Berwyn has many local businesses that can make these winter months cheery and bright! Cozy up for a movie night, channel your inner Michelin-Star chef, or get started on holiday shopping with these Berwyn gems.

Channel Your Inner 5-Star Chef

Looking to try out some new recipes or cocktails this season? Tony’s Fresh Market is your one stop shop. They have recipes for any meal you can think of on the Recipes section of their website, so you can try something new every day! The best part is you can find almost all the ingredients in store. Some recipes also include step-by-step video guides, like their Vegetable Chicken Alfredo. This simple yet insanely delicious veggie filled pasta dish takes only 30 minutes to prep and cook and serves 4-6 people. As a bonus, the mix of red peppers and broccoli make great holiday colors! Visit tonysfreshmarket.com/recipes and search Vegetable Chicken Alfredo for the recipe, ingredients list and step-by-step video. Bon Appetit!

Tony’s Fresh Market
7111 W Cermak Rd | Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 683-4072 | tonysfreshmarket.com

Old Fashioned Candies
6210 W Cermak Rd | Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 788-6669 | oldfashionedcandiesinc.com

A Perfectly Sweet Pairing

There’s no place like Old Fashioned Candies for the holiday season! From chocolate novelties and boxed assortments to nostalgic candy and gourmet popcorn, they have it all. Gift some customized sweets to a loved one this holiday season or pick up your favorite movie treats and gourmet popcorn to pair with Binge Boxes, themed boxes of four films that can be checked out as one item at the Berwyn Public Library. The library also offers a Movies and Music Match service, where patrons answer a few questions and are matched with materials by their staff. Stop in at the library to browse their selection or place an order for Curbside Pickup at your convenience!

Berwyn Public Library
2701 S Harlem Ave | Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 795-8000 | berwynlibrary.org

Be A Great Gift Giver

Reel Art Collectibles is the perfect place for your holiday gift shopping! They’ll be opening up their entire collection of movie posters, comic books, toys and more vintage pop culture merchandise to the public during their famous Warehouse Sale. This year, the sale is two weeks long, running from December 2 through December 13. Find the perfect gifts for the collectors on your list or treat yourself to a new treasure or two!

Reel Art Collectibles
6727 W Stanley Ave | Berwyn, IL 60402
(708) 288-7378 | reelartcollectibles.com

For the foodies in your life, look no further than Mario’s Marinara. Mario’s Marinara offers unique, small batch gifts that can be customized to fit every budget. Gift a piece of Berwyn to a loved one or gift one to yourself—you deserve it! Local pickup and delivery are available, and if you want to ship it, Mario will work with you. Email for design, pricing and delivery options. You can also pick up a jar of Mario’s Marinara at Avito Caffe and Tony’s Fresh Market in Berwyn. Check out some Recipes from The Firehouse and cook up some of Mario’s delicious award-winning dishes.

Recipes From The Firehouse
Berwyn, IL

Cozy It Up

Fall weather in Chicago has been fantastic the last few years and makes for a perfect time to sit down in front of a fire on a mild evening. Have a fireplace at home? Throw a few logs over the fire and make your night in extra cozy. What a perfect way to relax after a long day, week, and especially year! Avoid the hassle of going to the store to pick up firewood—Urban Loggers Club is designed with the Urban Logger in mind, safely delivering small batch firewood directly to you. Customize your package by picking and choosing exactly which products—and how many—you want. Join The Urban Loggers Club for monthly delivery and receive club pricing. Take advantage of their BDC Fall Package: (3) Big Bundles & (2) Buckets O’ Wood, all for $35—that’s 20% off! This offer is valid through the end of November 2020. When ordering put “BDC Fall Package” in the “referral code” box on the order form. Check out their website for more details.

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Actresses of color make equal-pay quest a group effort

Gabrielle Union, right, and Jessica Alba star in

Gabrielle Union, right, and Jessica Alba star in "L.A.'s Finest," a spin off Union's character from "Bad Boys II." (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)

Actresses of color are getting more roles and acclaim, but not commensurate money. Recognizing that achieving change isn’t a solo act, they looked for help — and found it in each other.

Giving colleagues a peek at their paychecks, speaking out about economic disparity and using hard-won success to boost others are among the measures slowly gaining traction in an industry where most actors are hunting for their next freelance job and women of color face entrenched barriers.

“One of the first things we say is, ‘Find out what the people around you are making,'” said entertainment lawyer Nina Shaw, a founding member of Times Up, the organization created in 2018 to fight sexual misconduct and workplace inequality. “And more and more, we’re finding that people are willing to talk to each other.”

Without knowledge of what other actors with a similar track record are getting for equivalent work, “you are way behind the eight ball,” said Gabrielle Union (“Think Like a Man,” ”Being Mary Jane”).

Changing entrenched behavior takes time, Union said, but “little by little we’re communicating, and women of color, specifically black women, are like, ‘Oh, hell nah.’ We are so woefully underpaid, under-appreciated, disrespected.”

Ana de la Reguera (“Power,” upcoming film “Army of the Dead”) saw the value of networking as part of “Latinas Who Lunch,” an informal group started by Eva Longoria. Actresses, as well as writers and directors, gathered to share their experiences and job and career-building tips.

“We were actually encouraging each other to, say, shadow (observe) a director, ask to direct an episode, ask to be the executive producer,” de la Reguera said. The #MeToo movement consumed their attention last year, but she continues advising women one-on-one as they learn to navigate Hollywood’s intricate system, which she said is more challenging than the still-growing industry in her native Mexico.

What performers earn is difficult to verify, say researchers who track film and TV employment. Privacy concerns are one obvious reason, as are the complex deals that include compensation for acting and other work (as with HBO’s “Big Little Lies,” which Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman starred in and produced).

But there is research that adds weight to complaints of disparity. In the latest San Diego State University analysis of TV’s broadcast, cable and streaming programs, women had 40 percent of the speaking roles while men had 60 percent in 2017-18 despite the genders being evenly split in the population. Further limiting opportunities for women of color: 67 percent of all female roles went to white actresses, the study found. That exceeds the almost 61% they represent among U.S. women.

Asked if industry racism is at play, Union, who won a contract dispute with media giant Viacom-owned BET over her series “Being Mary Jane,” had a ready reply.

“Based on the numbers that I know that black women, Latinas, Asian women, indigenous actors are making, there is no other logical reason why we are paid what we are paid versus what our contemporaries are paid who are lacking melanin,” she said.

Less work means fewer chances for an actress to build a resume and the fan base that leads to more and better roles. Yet box-office receipts and TV ratings show that audiences embrace projects with multiethnic casts, according to an annual Hollywood diversity report from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Union wanted an established actress playing opposite her in “L.A.’s Finest,” which spins off Union’s character from “Bad Boys II,” and settled on Jessica Alba (“Sin City,” ”Dark Angel”). As executive producer of the Spectrum TV series, Union was positioned to make that happen — and ensure that Alba was fairly compensated.

“Because of the way my deal is set up, I had no problem giving back money to make sure Jessica Alba gets paid what Jessica Alba is worth,” Union said. “But you have to have the studio, the network, everyone to sign off on that.”

Asserting one’s economic value can be complicated when the sensitive subject of ethnicity is involved, even for celebrated actress Viola Davis, an Oscar and Emmy winner. In a 2018 interview, Davis said that while people have termed her “a black Meryl Streep” she isn’t paid what she’s worth.

Davis later felt compelled to offer a public apology, telling The Associated Press she doesn’t compare herself to Streep, others do, and that she was taking responsibility for making the most of her potential with her own productions.

While African American actresses fight for pay that matches the stardom and critical acclaim they’ve achieved after decades of struggle, the scant number of leading roles for actresses of Asian and Latino descent is a different burden.

Even with the box-office hit “Crazy Rich Asians,” the sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat” and Sandra Oh’s success in “Killing Eve,” actors with Asian roots struggle to get lead roles and commensurate pay, said Nancy Wang Yuen, a Biola University professor and author of “Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism.”

“There isn’t a kind of a consistent platform advocating for Asians in Hollywood, and that’s part of the problem,” she said.

Jennifer Lopez made a huge leap for Latinas with 1997’s “Selena,” becoming the first Hispanic actress to earn $1 million. The importance of that payday has grown in retrospect, said Lopez, who recalled that she felt undeserving and even ashamed of her success at the time.

“But now I realize that it was important because our community needed that boost to say, ‘Yes, we are just as much value as any other actor (in) a leading role in Hollywood, in a big film,” Lopez said.

“Everybody knows there is racism, there is sexism …. it all exists. It’s just about us getting to the point of you realizing what you’re worth and who you are,” she said.

Awkwafina, the young breakout star of “Crazy Rich Asians” and “The Farewell,” finds herself in a similar position but forced to navigate among established actresses fed up with the status quo and past ready to make waves.

“Maybe I should inform myself how getting paid works but, at this point, I’m a newcomer. … And I don’t know what I should be getting,” she said. “But I think if I continue to deliver products that are doing well and that are well-received, I should be compensated fairly, right?”

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Continue script eval at point after error?

JJS 2020-Feb-02 I'm using a safe interp to parse config files; they're user-prepared so they can't be trusted. They consist of commands, some of which may be bad in the sense that they throw errors. I'd like to ignore the bad commands, but continue evaluating any following good commands. I tried variations of this, both in the master and the slave interp, but couldn't get what I want:

try {$interp eval $script} on error {res opt} { ;# or try $script ...
    return -code continue -level 0 ;# tried all combos of -code ok/continue and -level 0/1

Nothing I tried would continue with the eval. My bgerror handler never fired. I finally used a variation of the Verbose Evaluation code at eval. It works pretty well, but fails for scripts like {good; bad; good} with multiple commands on one line. Is there a way to ignore errors in a script *and* continue evaluating it?

P.S. I've taken to "Ask, and it shall be given" because I no longer have work access to chat or c.l.t.

Solved on 10/02/2020. Query: Script taking a long time, maybe Threads in TCL 8.5?

9/25/2020 Forwarding offline request. Will take me some time to find references, but maybe our other members have something to say.

Q. Question? One of my scripts is taking a long time. I need help in going parallelism. it should be tcl8.5. I need help in using TCL tk threas, who can help me here in tcl8.5 version?

A. Answer. gold 9/25/2020 We believe that TCL tk threas = TCL threads??? Suggest upgrade to latest TCL version 8.6, at least. I will compile some references in a bit for you. Program subject is unknown here, suggest check if invoking TCLLIB in subject areas will save about 1/3 time on average. Suggest check on TCL Wiki search engine and search for TCL threads. See list of TCLLIB sections [L1 ] See [L2 ] wiki.tcl

gold 10/26/2020. I have collected some tips on faster code for you. I have not seen your code. But Reposted Tips from AMG & GWM & Wiki and Continuing Reposted Tips from Wiki in [L3 ] may be of help. One would almost have to do a time analysis of individual subroutines and individual lines to find the "core hogs" with the time command. It is sometimes advantageous to write the script into smaller subroutine chunks and organized and structured code subsections for easier detection of "core hogs". A "core hog" in a heap of straw and spaghetti code is more difficult to find, from experience here.

gold 10/02/2020. Forwarded your query to the TCL Wiki on ASK 13 page . This TCL Wiki on ASK 13 page is easier <for me> to type and format an answer.

Solved >> Query on <for loop> ???

gold 10/3/2020 Forwarding offline request.

gold 10/7/2020, Individual could not be contacted and/or answer for further feedback. Loaded available contributions in Parametric Equation Model Vaporware TCL Calculator. Further wiki contributions welcomed on new page, but believe the abundant references on wiki are suitable, if applied.

Solved on 10/02/2020. Query from Russia. Who used small basic interpreters?

Question from AV in Russia. So small basic interpreter... Query. Who used small basic interpreters?

gold 9/25/2020 Forwarding offline request. Will take me some time to find references, but maybe our other members have something to say.

gold 10/02/2020 A. The original tiny basic was distributed in assembler code for the Altair and the 8080 circuit board. Essentially, tiny_basic is a historic legacy of mankind. The original Altair BASIC was about 150 dollars each. Some USA programmers in the 1970s gave away tiny_basic free to break the monopoly. tiny_basic was the first freeware or free software package widely given to the masses (circa 1970). In Russian terms, tiny_basic is the Battleship_Potemkin of computer geeks. Have added wiki page on this issue. [L4 ]

Solved on 9/25/2020. Query: Redirecting tcl output to xls?

gold 09/25/2020. Forwarding offline request. Will take me some time to find references, but maybe our other members have something to say.

 Q. Question. Do you have any proc for redirecting tcl output to xls? I was not able to find proper solution online.

A. gold 9/25/2020 For my hobby work, i usually output to comma delimited format <CVS format > and then use an excel clone to load or change a CVS file into an excel format . I will compile some references in a bit for you. CAWT is a TCL utility package at SourceForge net. This is a high quality package for windows spreadsheets etc, and open source. Suggest check on TCL Wiki search engine and search for excel spreadsheet. See [L5 ] wiki.tcl

A. gold 9/25/2020, CAWT is a TCL utility package at SourceForge net. This is a high quality package for windows spreadsheets etc, and open source.Search Keywords <TCL TK xval CLI generators> This XLS spreadsheet automatically generates TCL/TK command line interfaces for both UNIX and Windows environments. Originally written for xval the program . it generates button and clickbox select front ends for various different command line tools. Blocks of code are then generated from a simple spreadsheet format. The attached powerpoint explains which parts of the Excel spreadsheet generate which bits of TK front end. The generated TK front..CAWT is a utility package based on Twapi to script Microsoft Windows® applications with Tcl. It provides high level procedures for automation via the COM interface.

Currently modules for Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Office Document Imaging, Matlab, and Google Earth are available.Suggest check on TCL Wiki search engine and search for excel/cvs spreadsheet,[L6 ] & [L7 ] . The sense from a quick survey on internet is that most TCL'ers are ouputting to a CVS format file because CVS is an easier and not a designedly, everchanging format. Also there is a library of TCLLIB commands for CVS. But maybe other members have something to say.

gold 10/02/2020. Forwarded your query to the TCL Wiki on ASK 13 page . This TCL Wiki on ASK 13 page is easier <for me> to type and format an answer.

Solved, Query: Would you so kind to give the TCL Club link?

gold Found on discussion comment in one of my Wiki pages.

aplsimple - 2018-10-08 05:26:38

Would you so kind to give the TCL Club link?

gold . You may be interested in file "Free TCL books and docs from Facebook TCL Club.odt" on TCL Club file system. However, I am not sure this file format is sufficiently clean and presentable for the TCL WIKI.

gold 7/15/2020. end of file.

Suggest link Ask help window on tcl wiki masthead.

gold 10/01/2020. subject. Suggest link Ask help window on tcl wiki masthead. Let me suggest a permanent link to Ask13 or Ask system under the help window on TCL Wiki masthead. The Ask13 pages were a very popular feature of the older wiki format. And newcomers like me learned a lot from either reading the answers of the veteran programmers or attempting to answer the Ask questions themselves. From other TCL forums, I believe a write in user help would pull in some new members. Also,, as one looking to the future of TCl/TK, the subject areas of the questions were interesting to me in how current users were attempting to use TCL. A note in the account of Don Libes on the history of TCL/Expect indicates that Libes was almost shocked by the headwind of users behind TCL/Expect in the early years. I known that the older members are aware of the Ask System, but it occurs to me that some newer members might not . Best Wishes

  • this Ask13 page [L8 ]
  • Don Libes Wikipedia [L9 ]
  • Expect language, Wikipedia [L10 ]
  • Fisher essay [L11 ]
  • Don Libes, Joseph in 7 Years [L12 ]
  • Writing a Tcl Extension in Only ... 7 Years" ,1997

Maybe partially solved, Can Someone can suggest a book and video for learning Tcl_Tk in French???

gold 7/16/2020, Received Query on USA web board, forwarding Report so far. Query:: I was visiting and I like TCL I can make effort even so I'm not fluent in English. Can Someone can suggest a book (and video) for learning Tcl_Tk in French???

gold7/16/2020, There is a version of the TCL WIKI in France. Believe contact with the French TCL WIKI on the "mother ship" would help. Best Wishes-

There are pages of free TCL references, books and docs on the TCL WIKI. There are web search engines for free TCL books and papers that can search on language choice like French, Arabic, Chinese, Hindu, and ones native language, etc. There are automated translators that can translate an English or French book into other languages. Sample from TCL WIKI france. google < wiki tcl francophone >

Tcl en français Extremely good & in French!forum/fr.comp.lang.tcl

(fr) Bernard Desgraupes, Tcl/Tk - Apprentissage et Référence, 2e édition, Vuibert, (ISBN 978-2-7117-4878-5), 2009. Daniel Roche, L'écriture d'interface graphique en Tcl/Tk, GNU Linux Magazine France n°2, Décembre 1998. David Zolli, Découvrez Tclkit, les starkits et les starpacks, GNU Linux Magazine France n°60, avril 2004, pp66-69.7 archive Xavier Garreau, Tcl Avancé, GNU Linux Magazine France n°95, juin 2007, pp82-91. Gérard Sookahet, Les nouveautés de Tcl/Tk 8.6, GNU Linux Magazine France n°165, novembre 2013, pp4-11 8 archive.

gold end of file.

Maybe partially solved, trouble accessing the TCL WIKI from USA on some restaurant WIFI's?

gold 08Jul2020. Don't know if other members of TCL Club have this problem, but the author is having great difficulty in accessing this TCL WIKI from USA on some restaurant WIFI. The TCL WIKI and some other download TCL programming sites on public WIFI are blocked in the USA.

gold8/14/2020. in coordination with ActiveState Support [email protected] Putting lengthy correspondence on homepage. many thanks for help.

Solved, Invoke TCLLIB library for choose function?

gold 8/4/2020. Statements working to invoke TCLLIB library on ActiveState 8.6.

Solved::math::mean revolts on $lister

gold 8/21/2020. I uploaded program Timing Equivalent One Liners V2 at bottom of Oneliner's Pie in the Sky. Can someone help me with statement? proc ::math::mean is not accepting the list $lister and has to be hard wired with written out list. < proc ::math::mean $lister> calls error out as "expecting floating point", but 3 other one liners are doing fine on list $lister ??? thanks, g

  puts "&|$i | ::math::mean  [::math::mean  1  2  4  5  6  7  8  9  10 [* $i [pie]]] |  $lister | proc timer [ time { set qq    [ ::math::mean  1  2  4  5  6  7  8  9  10 [* $i [pie]] ]}  ]  |&

Solved. Name change on page title?

gold 9/10/2020. Subject: Name change on page title? Body: Can someone change name of wiki page Oneliner's Pie in the Sky to "One Liners Programs Pie in the Sky". Thanks.

gold Solved. 10/19/2020. Just a note. To delete a page, replace its entire contents with a single space. Obviously, feel free to delete this comment when you read it. AM ah, I had forgotten about that feature. {gold] Maybe, to change a page name, add new page with desired name and copy old contents under it. Then in a few days of new page history, zip the old page?

90 second delay deleting file on unix

JJS 2019-Nov-12 Background: I have a Starpack that invokes itself for self-test purposes. On Windows the mounted VFS only shadows the application binary from Tcl's point of view, not in the actual underlying filesystem, so [exec [info nameofexecutable]] or even [exec [file dirname $argv0]] works. Interestingly, the same approach also works in a Red Hat VM under Oracle VirtualBox on a Windows host with file sharing enabled. But in Ubuntu under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) the mounted VFS actually shadows the application binary, so I adapted the clonerun technique to temporarily unmount the VFS so I can make a copy that I can then execute:

proc clone {del args} {
    set testcopy testcopy.exe ;# works for windows or unix
    # Unmount the VFS so the app is exposed in the native filesystem.
    # Adapted from <>.
    set me [info nameofexecutable]
    set info [vfs::filesystem info $me]
    vfs::filesystem unmount $me; puts "unmounted"
    catch {file copy -force $me $testcopy; puts "copied"}
    vfs::filesystem mount $me $info; puts "remounted"
    if {[file exists $testcopy] && [file executable $testcopy]} {
        puts "running"; exec $testcopy {*}$args
        if {$del} {puts "deleting"; time {file delete -force $testcopy}}

That code unmounts the VFS, copies the binary, remounts the VFS, invokes the copy with optional arguments, waits for it to complete, then optionally deletes it. If I run a clone without deleting it, then as soon as the prompt returns I can delete it right away; the delete command was staged on the clipboard so it could be entered very quickly:

(tst) 7 % clone 0 final
(tst) 8 % puts "deleting"; time {file delete -force testcopy.exe}
1097152 microseconds per iteration

As you can see, it took about 1 second to delete the copy, only 1 or 2 seconds after it completed. But if I run a clone and delete it within the clone call, then it takes 88 seconds or so to delete:

(tst) 9 % clone 1 final
88498207 microseconds per iteration

There are a lot of moving parts here: Starpack, VFS, Windows vs. Linux, and TkCon, to name a few, but I can't put my finger on any of them. I've tried things like [update] or [update idletasks] before the delete; delaying it with [after idle], etc., but nothing works reliably. While debugging this problem and trying various fixes, I sometimes get into a situation where deleting the copy from within [clone] goes fast, but I can never tell what triggers it, and it doesn't last through restarting the debugging environment! I especially don't understand why returning to the prompt allows the delete to proceed immediately, but nothing else does. What could be going on here?

MacOS tk send question

Wurzelsepp 2019-Oct-14

I have Activestate tcl installed on a Mac. I tried to use the "rmt" remote commander, but the only app it shows is just itself.

Is there anything special that tcl/tk apps need to be visible

Odd tcom problem

robertlipman 2019-Jul-11 I have a program that I wrap with Tcl Dev Kit. Two Windows versions of the program are created, one with Tk that has a user interface and the other with Tcl that is run from a command prompt. tcom is used to create an object with

set objIFCsvr [::tcom::ref createobject IFCsvr.R300]

When the object is created, some startup text is generated by IFCsvr.R300 that is displayed in the command prompt window version. I'd like to capture that text in a variable so that it can be processed or suppressed. In the GUI version, I don't know where that startup text from IFCsvr.R300 goes. Again, I'd like to capture it in a variable and process it.

How do I do that?

Windows auto_execok search path irregularity

Duoas 2019-Jul-05 I just had to debug a surprising behavior by auto_execok on Windows: apparently it injects the following paths (if available) to the head of the search path:

  • [info nameof]
  • .
  • %WINDIR%/system32
  • %WINDIR%/system
  • %WINDIR%

This is not correct! Especially injecting the interpreter’s directory before the current working directory in the search path! According to Windows documentation , the correct search path is [pwd] + %PATH%. All those Windows directory additions are also unnecessary; they should normally be in the user's PATH; if they are not it is either a conscious user choice or a user error; being Windows does not justify jumping the path to prefer a Windows program over a user program. This is especially irksome to anyone who (rightly) presumes to control his environment by controlling the PATH!

How long has this been an issue? Can it be corrected? Would something break if the core were corrected? (As it is, I have to code an alternate auto_execok so that my application does not violate the Principle of Least Surprise for my users.)

The offending code is somewhere around lines 670-680 in tcl8.6.7/library/init.tcl, and could be corrected by replacing that section with just

    set path ".;"

It is not unreasonable to find multiple copies of a same-named executable in the path. The path exists to control which one of those executables is loaded when asked, given ambiguity.

open a command pipeline

Wurzelsepp These examples work:

  set f [open "| ls existing_file" r]
  set f [open "| ls missing_file" r]

However, when I try

  set f [open "| ls &" r]

I just find out that there is no "&" file... So, how could I open a slow command in the background? I cannot use exec here. Thanks

EMJ 01 Jun 2019 : Neither exec nor open (with pipeline) use any external shell to process the command, Tcl does that itself. So exec checks for an & as the last element of the command, but open does not because it does not need to - the pipeline is run asynchronously anyway, in one or more separate processes - you can get the process id(s) with the pid command. You might want to look at How to run external script from Tk and make it throw output to the console? - if not using Tk you'll need vwait to get your own event loop if you go with using fileevent. There's also async.

Wurzelsepp Hi, many thanks for the prompt response. The open (or rather its associated close) seems to wait...

  set f [open "|tclsh" w]
  puts $f "exec sleep 100; puts done"
  close $f; ## waits until sleep is over

(EMJ As the close man page says,

If channelId is a blocking channel for a command pipeline then close waits for the child processes to complete.

so you would have to make it non-blocking.)

I tried something I found on the exec manual page, near "reflected channels", using chan pipe (EMJ - exec Wiki page presumably, the exec manual page doesn't mention reflected channels). This seems to do what I want

  lassign [chan pipe] rdc wrc
  exec tclsh <@ $rdc &
  puts $wrc "exec sleep 100; puts done"
  close $wrc; ## returns at once

BTW, this is meant to be called from wish, and I assume that Linux, Win and Mac systems will run a tclsh that matches the active wish - EMJ Under normal circumstances, yes.

Solved. flowchart_text_extraction

gold26Dec2018. Can someone point some refs or post some freeware TCL code on <flowchart_text_extraction> or automated outline of nodes and procs from TCL program, for loading flowchart nodes/outline into the TKpaint.tcl or wheelDiagram.tcl uniquename? An alternate method would be loading a <flowchart_text_extraction> from TCL program into spreadsheet charting tool (OpenOffice.odp? for VU-graphs). I have been using the TKpaint.tcl (freeware) for about ten years for displays and vu-graphs on this TCL-WIKI. TKpaint.tcl has the advantage of saving VU-graph in postscript, readable TCL format, and restarting from a saved chart in TCL format. Possibly, the <flowchart text extraction> could be readable as a saved chart in TKpaint.tcl. I have made 1st test chart from the ASED.tcl editor, 2nd homebrew freehand chart, and both are pretty close to where I would like to start. In opinion, my current wiki pages of guis etc would be more understandable with a flowchart. Thanks.

gold 4Jan2019. Follow-on code to <flowchart_text_extraction>

    # wish to grab title of proc and entries of proc into a list(S) < proc geoseries> and <argumemts aa bb cc >to
    # code into flowchart diagram. but not good on regexp topic. Can one break on the braces?
    # need to get rid of braces in print out
set item { proc geoseries1 {aa bb cc} { if {$bb <= -1||$bb >= 1} { return 0} ;return [ expr $aa / ( 1 - $bb ) ]};  }
    regexp {proc((.??.*)\})(.*)}  $matched matched2 sub1 sub2 sub3
    puts $matched
    puts $sub1
    puts $sub2
    puts $sub3
    proc geoseries1 {aa bb cc}
 geoseries1 {aa bb cc}
 geoseries1 {aa bb cc
# need to get rid of braces in print out

old wiki content

gold 1dec2018. Is the link for the old wiki content , still active? If not, what date was it closed? I am clumsy on the browser, but i can not find the old content link. thank you.

Unwanted border around ttk::label

Duoas 2018-10-22 Hello again. I can't figure out how to get rid of a border around a ttk::label. Steps to reproduce:

set image [image create photo]
$image put green -to 0 0 20 20
ttk::label .i -compound image -image $image -background red
place .i -x 10 -y 10

Is there any way to get rid of that red?

Duoas 2018-10-22 19:54Z Heh, always after asking questions you figure out an answer... Gotta configure the layout to get rid of it.

ttk::style layout TMyImageLabel {Label.label -sticky nswe}
.i configure -style TMyImageLabel

All better. :O)

Intercept/Observe command-line -geometry

Duoas 2018-10-16 Hey there. Is there any way to intercept/observe the processing of -geometry arguments at the command line when wish (tclkit) starts, not involving binary extensions or hacking the core?

I would like to permit multiple -geometry options to manage multiple windows (order/matching windows does not matter — they appear as clones). I can query the last supplied geometry with $::geometry, of course. I’ve tried both traces and pkgIndex.tcl trickery, but the Initialize() function in ~/generic/tkWindow.c appears to get called before any kind of user code gets a chance. Is this correct? Am I out of luck here?

If it makes any difference I am packaging in a starkit.

bll 2018-10-16 I think you will have to have the user put the -geometry arguments on the command line after a -- argument and process them yourself. There's no way to have wish do unusual things with its command line arguments.

Duoas 2018-10-22 I have always thought that wish’s gobbling of command-line arguments without any hook for application intervention to be unusual. Only now that I am looking at this again (after many years) do I remember that I had, in fact, looked at this before. And no, there is no escape, so bll’s commentary is correct. The only options are:

  • modify Tk sources and recompile
  • start the application using a loader, which massages the command-line arguments into something Tk won’t gobble.

<<Selection>> event for entry

Hi, has anyone written a script to add selection events like those for text widget to a one-line entry? (Or should I simply create a 1-line text instead?)

Hex String to Double

beware Hi all, I'm trying to decode some files. One of the values I need is stored as a double in hex. Example - "3fb999999999999a" -> "0.1". The double conversion here gets the correct result: currently my code just has the hex stored as a string (as in "set hexstr 3fb999999999999a"). How do I replicate the conversion done on that site?

Martyn Smith The TCL command is binary, you need to convert the hexadecimal string to a binary string with binary format then extract the big endian double from the binary string as follows

  binary scan [binary format H* $hexstr] Q floatValue

The Q is the format code for forced big endian double.

Google Photos

Has anyone written a tcl library that interfaces with Google Photos to allow one to download a "table of contents" of URLs to images and the albums to which they belong?

Image Scaling

MiR 2018-06-28:

On topic image scaling...

I was wondering, if Tk would in the future implement at least a robust image scaling alogrithm like in TkImageTools from (reference see Shrinking an image)? It's just to avoid having to deploy an externel dynamic library just to have an image resized...

AMG I did this just yesterday, but I'm probably not allowed to share the code though. I used libsamplerate [L13 ] to do it. The interface works like this:

[imgscale sourcePhoto targetPhoto ?method?]

sourcePhoto and targetPhoto can be one-, three-, or five-element lists:

operate on full extents of photo
photoName width height
explicit width and height, top left defaults to (0,0)
photoName left top width height
explicit width, height, and top left coordinates

targetPhoto will be expanded (if possible) to accommodate the explicit width and height. Otherwise, the width and height are clipped to the photos' actual width and height. It is an error for left or top to be negative, or for width or height to be non-positive.

method can be sinc, linear, or point, corresponding to libsamplerate's SRC_SINC_FASTEST, SRC_LINEAR, and SRC_ZERO_ORDER_HOLD modes, respectively. (The other two SINC modes are significantly slower and actually look comparatively poor on images.) The default is linear.

Implementation guidelines:

  • Use the Simple API [L14 ] which consists of only the src_simple() function. The more complicated APIs offer no benefit in this application because the image data is all available in advance.
  • Work on one channel (R, G, B, A) at a time. This requires less temporary space and offers better performance due to improved locality of reference and ability to use more optimized single-channel code within libsamplerate.
  • Step 1: Loop over each row of input R, G, B, or A bytes.
  • Step 1a: Convert the input row into a linear buffer of floats.
  • Step 1b: Rescale the width and store into an intermediate float buffer large enough to hold the whole channel.
  • Step 2: Transpose the intermediate buffer so that each column is contiguous in memory.
  • Step 3: Loop over each column of intermediate floats.
  • Step 3a: Rescale the height and store into a linear buffer of floats.
  • Step 3b: Convert the scaled column back into pixel bytes, storing into a pixel buffer large enough for the whole image.
  • Step 4: Use Tk_PhotoPutBlock() to write the pixel buffer to the target photo.

Regarding step 4: The pixel buffer will be divided into separate planes, each of which is transposed. This means the Tk_PhotoImageBlock will have to be arranged as follows:

pitch = 1
pixelSize = height
offset[n] = n * height * width

One other tip. I statically linked libsamplerate into my extension. Another possibility is to incorporate a subset of the source code, removing the unused SINC modes, to avoid their large coefficient tables. (BSD 2-clause license, by the way.)

Duoas 2018-10-19 Actually, was just working on a small binary extension to do the same thing, photo-resample.kit. Permits scaling using nearest neighbor, linear, cubic, box, and hqx algorithms, plus mirror and rotate, plus a few other resampling goodies like sharpen, gaussian blur, colorizing, desaturating, inverting an image, splitting and combining channels and alpha channel manipulations, and origin tracking, all with a very simple interface.

filker0 2019-01-04 Is Duoas's photo-resample.kit available for download? I'm kind of out of touch, and maybe it's a well known location.

VP Trees and nearest neighbor problem

I'm actually thinking about perceptual hashes for images and similarity search. Most implementation point towards using 64bit pHashes and organize them in a so called VP tree (Vantage Point tree), where it would be easy to search for nearest neighbors... Actually, I found a proper algo for pHash and was able to implement it into my program, but since I'm just an amateur coder I thought asking for help from the community with the search implementation. Has anyone ever investigated how to implement VP trees in TCL? I understand the basic function principle but am unable to find a starting point for coding... 2020-10-16 Michael


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CVS (Concurrent Versions System) [L1 ] is one of many SCM packages available in the source development community. It boasts a canonical online manual and FAQ, along with much else [L2 ].

It is quite frequently used in the Tcl community because of its use at SourceForge; this site includes tutorials that help CVS beginners.

Instructions on retrieving the Tcl/Tk source from the SourceForge CVS server are available from for Tcl and for Tk.

See also CVS Best Practices. Also, this [L3 ] book review has background material on the technology.

Consider using some other SCM package for new code.
CVS has some weaknesses (especially with consistency of changes) that other, later SCMs don't.

Here are a few packages written in Tcl and/or Tk that interact with CVS.

 What: cvsversion
 Description: Tcl script that recursively searches CVS/Entries files
        and compares them with a save file.  If a different is found,
        you are asked if you would like to increment the major, minor,
        or point number of the release, and then stores the new information
        in a VERSION file.
 Updated: 09/2000
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]
 What: FastWeb
 Description: Framework for creating and managing multi-language
        HTML WWW projects.  Depends on Tcl to glue together
        M4, WEEX, CVS, HTML TIDY, make-type functionality, etc.
 Updated: 09/2001
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]
 What: Graphical Interface to CVS (Chan)
 Where: From the contact
 Description: Software Engineering Class project.
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]  (Tony Chan)
 What: Graphical Interface to CVS (Marwood)
 Description: GIC is a Tk interface to the Concurrent Version System, a
        revision control system.
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]  (David Marwood)
        mailto:[email protected]
 What: Makedist
 Description: A tool to help generate distributions from a source
        code repository such as CVS, automating as much as possible.
        V2.0 requires Tcl 8.x .
 Updated: 11/1998
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]  (Andreas Kupries)
 What: RAD/CVS
 Description: RAD/CVS is an object-oriented, Tcl interface to the
        Concurrent Versions System (CVS). The RAD/CVS Tcl Interface implements
        an abstract interface that is not dependent upon CVS and could
        conceivably be implemented using other underlying implementations (e.g.
        RCS, SCCS, PVCS).  Has a Tk/Tix interface.
        Available for non-commercial use only.
 Updated: 07/2000
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]  (John Goodsen)
 What: rcsview
 Description: A Tk viewer for RCS or CVS files.  It highlights text
        according to the version from which it comes.
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]  (Andrew Myers)
 What: Tcl Developer Studio
 Description: Environment for Tcl/Tk developers.  Provides
        multi-file editor with syntax indenting, highlighting, find
        functions, CVS control interface, simple project support, printing
        fast file navigation.
 Updated: 07/1999
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]
 What: TIDE
 Description: Commercial Tcl/itcl Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for
        single users.  Lets you manage your projects, navigate
        the source, and browse your symbols.  Supports project
        management, smart editor aboe to navigate thru project, interfaces
        to RCS and CVS source repositories, interface to Tuba debugger,
        diff/merge against repository, cross reference for symbols,
        about to search against projects, symbol browser, byte compiler,
        lint, and package mechanism.
        Supports Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX.
        Version 1.5 is now available.
 Updated: 05/1999
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]  (Ing. Hans-Michael Haschek)
        mailto:[email protected]
 What: WinCVS
 Description: CVS interface for Windows.  Reported on comp.lang.tcl to rely
        on Tcl.  Appears to be a C++ application depending on CVS DLLs.
 Updated: 02/2000
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]

You can format CVS or RCS log entries into a ChangeLog format using log2changelog

[Other approaches:

      [open "|cvs -d $cvsroot init" RDWR] and talking to
      cvs along pipes.

      speaking direct CVS protocol through [socket].

Will this really work? If cvs asks for my password, can I really check for that and send it back down the pipe?

Well, yes, you can. If however there is going to be very much interaction, or if the strings being examined are going to be very complex, I (LV) would recommend looking at Expect as a Tcl extension to make the interaction a bit easier.

Vince: Can you provide a simple example of a script which will check for a password request and send that back down the pipe? Nothing complex, just, say the equivalent of 'cvs -z5 update -d $cvsroot ChangeLog', type password, and we're done.

See Pipes vs Expect

04feb03 jcw - There are docs about the protocol at

RS: For reproducible experiments, here's a snippet to show how a script can log which CVS version it is (or what differences it has from CVS HEAD):

 set here [pwd]
 cd [file dirname [info script]]
 set this [file tail [info script]]
 set status [exec cvs status $this]
 puts $status
 if ![regexp "Status: Up-to-date" $status] {
    catch {exec cvs diff $this} diff
    puts $diff
 cd $here
 #-- script itself follows here…

"CVS news"

Tclers use TortoiseCVS and WinCVS as Windows-hosted CVS clients.


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From the FAQ [L1 ] (escargo 16 Jan 2008 - This gives a file not found error.):

“Ruby is a simple and powerful object-oriented programming language, created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (who goes by the handle "matz" in this document and on the mailing lists).

“Like Perl, Ruby is good at text processing. Like Smalltalk, everything in Ruby is an object, and Ruby has blocks, iterators, meta-classes and other good stuff.

“You can use Ruby to write servers, experiment with prototypes, and for everyday programming tasks. As a fully-integrated object-oriented language, Ruby scales well.”

RLH Scales well? In what way?

Ruby doesn't have true threads and is known to have performance issues, a quote from a rant of a long-time Ruby user [L2 ] notes about RoR:

“The main Rails application that DHH created required restarting _400 times/day. That's a production application that can't stay up for more than 4 minutes on average.”

The home page for Ruby is

Its most articulate advocates write such descriptions as,

“... it has a couple of real killer features; in particular the way blocks and the pervasive use of the visitor pattern come together change the way one writes programs for the better.”

A lot of the attention Ruby has gotten lately is due to Ruby on Rails[L3 ].

During Oct 2007, [L4 ] was making "Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications" available in PDF format for free...

This author summaries Rail's guiding principles as:

  • convention over configuration (assumptions for defaults rather than requiring extensive initial configuration) [L5 ]
  • DRY
  • agile development

See [L6 ] for an intro to Ruby on Rails

There is a Ruby/Tk if you want to bring your Tk skills into a new world:

  require 'tk'
  root = { title "Hello, world!" }

(from [L7 ]) More on Ruby/Tk (for MacOS!) appears in the "Ruby/Tk Primer: Creating a cron GUI Interface with Ruby/Tk" [L8 ].

Note, however, that at least one survey [L9 ] suggests that acceptance of RubyTk is dwindling.

 What: Ruby
 Description: Programming language for quick and easy programming.
        A clean, consistent language design where everything is an object,
        CLU style iterators, singleton classes/methods, and
        lexical closures.  Makes use of Tk (with bindings similar in
        concept to Perl/Tk) for its GUI support.
        Currently at version 1.8.4 .
 Updated: 08/2003
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]

See [L10 ] for more information. (escargo 16 Jan 2008 - This gives a file not found error. This link [L11 ] is about Ruby Tk.)

This [L12 ] review of Ruby Cookbook tries to give a sense for how Ruby feels.

RS: Like Scheme, Ruby has arbitrary-size integers as default - another hint that Tcl should have it too... Octet-packed integers come to mind..

AK: I consider the Octet-packed integers more something of a file-format, and less of an in-memory format. Note aside: In Slim Binaries I refer to the paper about Universal Symbol Files. This paper advances the notion of octet-packed integers too, albeit slightly differently than metakit if I read the code right. - RS: Well, a very simple alternative would be to just keep the string rep and let expr work on that if it runs into a "integer value too large to represent".

NEM notes in Jan 2008 that Tcl 8.5 does indeed now have arbitrary-size integers.

See [L13 ] for one comparison of Ruby to C++, CLOS, Dylan, Java, Objective C, Perl, PHP, Python, Smalltalk,

Ruby vs Tcl:

APN My personal experience with Ruby is that it is indeed a fun language to program in as claimed. However, fun does not necessarily equate to productivity and I find Tcl much more productive without losing any of the fun part of it.

ruby-tcl apparently lets you create Tcl interpreters from within Ruby. The author, Sam Stephenson, unveiled it at RubyConf 2008 during his talk, "Tcl for Rubyists", which you can watch at [L14 ] (the demo begins around 40 mins 15 secs). The code itself can be downloaded from [L15 ].

iu2 A small comparison: Given the file data.txt that contains numbers "1 2 3 4..10". We want to sum the multiplications of pairs, that is, 1*2 + 3*4 + 5*6..., here are some snippets:

  set fid [open data.txt r]
  set txt [read $fid]
  close $fid

  set sum 0
  foreach {x y} $txt {
    incr sum [expr {$x * $y}]
  puts $sum

  with file('data.txt') as f: txt =
  nums = map(int, txt.split())
  pairs = [nums[i:i+2] for i in range(0, len(nums), 2)]
  s = sum(x * y for x, y in pairs)
  print s

  sum = open('data.txt', 'r') {|f| {|a| a.to_i}.each_slice(2).inject(0) {|sum, pair| sum + pair[0] * pair[1]}
  puts sum

Dec The Tcl, although I would code it slightly different, and Python snippets are quite readable, which to me is good coding style, the Ruby snippet...

Mirell Whoever wrote that Ruby should be shot, and I think it's trying to be intentionally obtuse.

  sum = 0"ruby-numbers").split.each_slice(2) {|a,b| sum = sum + a.to_i * b.to_i}
  puts sum

And done. Less lines than Tcl, and not as intentionally obtuse as the above example.

DKF: Putting lots of stuff on a line is good style in Ruby? I guess that's a style difference with Tcl; we tend to prefer to use more newlines, spreading our code out...

makr (2009-11-23): Yes, in other languages (e.g. Java) this kind of coding is called a Trainwreck. Good coding practice as e.g. in The Law of Demeter should prevent this and ensures maintainability of the code. So it is not cool to say: See, I can do more in only one line than you could! but to say: See, I can still read and understand the code half a year after I wrote it! ...

diam 16/03/2010 I agree that fewer line doesn't mean better code! But the ruby version of the tcl code above could be written more tcl like :

ruby (shortest yet readable)

  txt = "data.txt"
  sum = 0
  txt.split.each_slice(2) do |a,b|
      sum += a.to_i * b.to_i
  puts sum

ruby shouldn't be that iterative

nakilon: method chaining should be used

    inject(0){ |s,(a,b)| s + a * b }

AM (12 august 2009) I am not sure I understand the complete concept of code blocks well enough, but Tcl has code blocks too:

    set block {puts $elem}
    foreach elem $list $block

is an - admittedly - primitive example. One awkward aspect of course is the use of a local variable in the block of code, but that can be taken care of:

    set block {puts $elem}
    foreach elem $list {apply {{elem block} {eval $block}} $elem $block}

or via:

    proc block {vars code} {
        foreach v $vars {upvar 1 $v $v}
        eval $code
    set block {puts $elem}
    foreach elem $list {block {elem} $block}

DKF: Tcl doesn't bind variables at the block level, but rather at the level of the procedure (or lambda term) so instead we'll normally use the caller's context. It's a different way of doing things.

PYK 2014-10-09: An excerpt from the Tcl Chatroom, 2014-10-09:

dkf [17:06]
I've been wrestling on and off with Ruby for a while; my God, they really have no idea what to do with string encodings?!
dkf [17:08]
The problem is that they keep every string in its original encoding. Nice and fast. And if you've got strings in two different encodings (e.g., UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1) then guess what? They just concatenate the bytes! Yes! BROKEN!
dkf [17:09]
If you're lucky, you get extra noise characters from stuff getting converted into 8859-1; if you're unlucky, something downstream chokes on the illegal UTF-8…

Rails-like (object-relational) web frameworks in Tcl:


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The Milieus are an artifact of the Traveller publication history. Each published version of Traveller included (or expanded upon) a period in the future history of Traveller.

Description (Specifications)[edit]

The Milieu Categories section contains full articles, usually published with the selected version. The purpose of this to organize articles for a player group to be able to find (or exclude) articles if the information is (or is not) specific to the era in which they are playing.

Milieu Length[edit]

Each Milieu covers roughly between ten to several hundred years (...or more), enough time for some interesting events in the lives of the characters within the campaign, and the campaign itself. And there are no precisely-defined year borders for the beginning and end of a Milieu category.

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

Milieu vs. Timeline[edit]

In contrast, the Time line categories cover much broader (and larger) spans of time. The Time line articles are Year articles, each of which has a short reference to events (and links to the full articles). But the time line is much more precise about when each era ends and begins.

Traveller Game Eras & Editions (1977-2019)[edit]

Traveller Game Eras & Editions (1977-2019)
Setting Dates Era Name (Milieu) Primary Setting Events Game Name Game Edition Pub. Date
(-2404 to -2203) Interstellar Wars First Imperium (Ziru Sirka) & Interstellar Wars GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars 06th Edition 2002
(-2204 to -1776) Rule of Man Collapse of First Imperium & Rule of Man (Second Imperium) GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars 06th Edition 2002
(-1775 to 0) Long Night Collapse of Second Imperium & Long Night Marc Miller's Traveller 04th Edition 1996
(-25 to 75) Milieu 0 Third Imperium Founding & Sylean Federation Marc Miller's Traveller 04th Edition 1996
(985 to 1002) Milieu 990 Third Imperium & Solomani Rim War Traveller D20 7th Edition 2002
(1100 to 1116) Milieu 1105
Milieu 1116
Third Imperium Base (Original) Setting & Fifth Frontier War Classic Traveller & Traveller5 (T5) 01st Edition 1977
(1116 to 1130) Milieu 1120 GURPS Traveller: Alternate Setting (Timeline with no Rebellion) GURPS Traveller 05th edition 1998
(1117 to 1130) Rebellion Collapse of Third Imperium (Rebellion) & Regency MegaTraveller 02nd Edition 1986
(1190 to 1220) New Era Reformation Coalition & Virus/New Era Traveller: The New Era 03rd Edition 1992
(1220's to 1249+) Fourth Imperium Fourth Imperium Traveller: The New Era 03rd Edition 1992
(1221 to 1249) Milieu 1248 Fourth Imperium Traveller: The New Era 08th Edition 2006
(1250+) Galaxiad The Galaxiad Traveller5 or T5 12th edition 2015+ (Future)

References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.


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Good evening fellow tank commanders, pilots or captains. You may or may not saw me on the battlefield, trying to contribute by killing those pesky ground attackers, capping the objectives, shooting down the bombers or exploding those PT-boats. You can recognize me by the red 28 number on my tank, white 28 on my planes and on the ships I am still deciding. Now, if the Wiki Share Team approves me for the service, I will be updating old wiki pages with interesting facts or just filling in the blanks, so you can learn more about your favorite tank, airplane or boat.

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Search Wild Foods Home Garden & Nature's Restaurant Websites:

(By: Rob Routledge CC BY-SA 3.0)

(NOTE: If you are not interested in growing Violets, but just finding the plant and using it, try going to the Nature's Restaurant Online site for the Common Blue Violet.)

Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia). This plant often forms colonies of plants that come from the rhizomes. This is a plant not many would think of as edible for some reason.

Is the growing of this plant compatible with Natural farming, Ecoagriculture or Eco friendly agriculture, Ecological farming, Sustainable agriculture, Agroforestry or Agro-sylviculture and Permaculture: This perennial works well in a Natural farming, no-till garden. Once planted, there is no need to till the soil.

Seeds: It self-seeds, so if you are able to gather seeds, there is no problem starting it from seed. Seeds are available on line, and very commonly in stores that sell seeds in the spring. Just make sure you write down the Latin name (Viola sororia) and get that one. Not all varieties of Violet are edible.

Transplanting: If you know where some are you can transplant, dig a bucket full, and put the whole section in the ground. They should take quit readily. By the way, you might be able to find this plant at nurseries - it is grown as a common garden plant.

Soil & Site: This plant likes partial sun to a light shade spot. It can grow in soils that range from slightly acidic to slightly alkaline. The most important requirement is the soil moisture: it likes the soil to be moist all the time, but well drained. It will grow in clays to sandy loam.

Maintenance: Nothing really. You could put some composted manure on where it grows in the fall in very small amounts. If you have a bad drought, you should water.

Harvesting: This green is best only harvested in the earlier part of spring. Because it comes up early, it is nice to have before other plants are ready to harvest. Just pick the younger leaves and flowers. You have to hold the rest of the plant while picking, or you could tear it up by the roots.

Using: When cooked, the leaves taste more or less like spinach, and so, they can be used like you would use spinach. The spring leaves and flowers are safe and fine in salads raw. Make them as one leaf ingredient among others. The flowers look great too, and combine well with Dandelion flowers for color.

Web Resources:

Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia) range. Distribution map courtesy of U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA Natural Resources Service) and used in accordance with their policies.

Drawing. (USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 2: 549)

Group of Violets in with grass

A group of Common Blue Violets coming up in a lawn in early spring.

Not always violet in color. Can be blue or like this one called Freckles. (James Steakley CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Important Notes when Identifying
Some Cautions
Dangerous Plants to Avoid Touching

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Some thoughts from a day of procedural coding

More for my personal future reference, but perhaps this may be useful to someone. I’ve been trying to improve my programming, striving for clean, elegant, maintainable, readable code. Over the last couple days, I tried to understand how a one-off PHP page might be coded in an object oriented manner. Each possible architecture resulted in… Read more »

New WELS Hymnal — Why?

The WELS has begun a project to create a new hymnal. But in all of the information about it, I’m stumped to find any reason for it. Has anyone catalogued the deficiencies in Christian Worship which we would hope to correct? Or are we just trying to put out a new hymnal for the sake… Read more »

Shoretel phones and HP V1910 switches DHCP

A random note because this was so hard to find. If you are installing a Shoretel phone system with rebranded 3com switches such as the HP V1910, make sure that your DHCP server is set to only be on its main VLAN. I still don’t understand why, but somehow if the server is available on… Read more »

Stay with us, for it is evening; the day is almost over. (Luke 24:29) Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. (Matthew 28:26) Your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The LORD will guide you always. (Isaiah 58:10,11) Your sun will… Read more »

Luther’s Sacristy Prayer for Laymen

It struck me today how appropriate this prayer would be to another vocation. For my future (hopefully) reference with slight modification: Lord God, You have placed me as a father and leader in a family, but you see how unsuited I am to meet so great and difficult a task. If I had lacked Your help, I… Read more »


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See new arrivals and find out what’s on sale right now at The Merch! This page is updated regularly, so be sure to check back often!

11 Jun Red Car & Marietta Cellars Tasting

Red Car & Marietta Cellars Sonoma Tasting [caption id="attachment_17725" align="alignright" width="300"] Buck up and drink the pink[/caption] Saturday, June 11 12 to 4pm In our Event Space Red Car is a perennial favorite here at the Merch. The wines are of consistently high quality and have a ton of character....

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16 Apr New American Rosés

American Rosés While we have always championed dry Rosés from France, our friends in California have taken a shine to these spectacular warm weather quaffers as well. Liquid Farm make a Bandol style rosé from Mourvedre down in Santa Barbara, and Red Car and Copain produce...

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05 Apr New Rosés in Stock!

New Kacher Rosé Robert Kacher Selections has undergone tremendous change since we started working with them over 20 years ago, but there has been one constant the whole time: Kacher roses offer the best bang for your buck. We just received one of our most popular,...

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24 Mar Friday Rosé Tasting

Friday Rosé Tasting Friday, March 25 5 to 7pm At the Bar We moved this week's Sunday tasting to Friday given we are closed Easter. Join us as we taste three of the first roses of the season, including Red Car Rose, and a new favorite from the Cotes...

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04 June, 2017

Wingello Village News June 2017

A fascinating issue of the Wingello Village News is now out.

NBN is now real - how does the hype cope with reality?
Wingello Village Store refurbishment
Wingello Forest Horse Endurance Ride was a success
Winter Dinner on Friday 16 June - Book Now.

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Cricket Facilities

Wistaston Cricket Club

The Cricket square and outfield is leased by Wistaston Village Cricket Club from WSLA. The setting and quality of the wicket and outfield is excellent. Grounds maintenance is also to a high standard.

The square consists of 10 senior strips (including an all weather strip) and 3 junior strips. This ensures full rotation and good wicket preparation throughout the season.

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WVCC have a number of teams which means the pitch is used on most days during the season. Despite this heavy use it is still possible to hire the pitch as a neural ground or for a friendly but the opportunities are limited and the booking will normally have to be made well in advance.

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Earth Sky News for Jan. 6th: Upcoming, marvelous Venus-Saturn conjunction

Upcoming, marvelous Venus-Saturn conjunction

Once again, tomorrow before dawn – January 7, 2016 – look for the slender waning crescent moon close to the planets Venus and Saturn in the eastern predawn sky. And know that Venus and Saturn are getting close! They’ll be closest on the morning of January 9, with a conjunction on January 9 at 0400 UTC. It’ll be their closest conjunction since August 26, 2006 (and the closest conjunction of any two planets since March 22, 2013).

At their closest, Venus and Saturn will be only 5 arc-minutes (1/12o) apart from one another on the sky’s dome. For some perspective, 1/12o is the equivalent of 1/6 of the apparent diameter of a full moon.

Get up early, or around 90 to 75 minutes before sunrise, to view fainter Saturn snuggling up close to dazzling Venus. If you get up late – say less than one hour before sunrise – aim your binoculars at Venus to view Saturn and Venus taking stage in the same binocular field.

And, by the way, Venus reached its highest point in the predawn sky some while ago. Day by day, it’s sinking downward in the direction of sunrise, while Saturn is climbing upward. Before much longer, Saturn will shine above Venus in the January 2016 morning sky.

Also, look for modestly-bright Mars roughly midway between Venus, the sky’s brightest planet, and Jupiter, the sky’s second-brightest planet.

While you’re at it, get an eyeful of the dark side of the moon, which is aglow in earthshine or sunlight twice-reflected from Earth to the moon, and then the moon back to Earth.

Although the moon will drop out of the morning sky in a day or two, you can rely on Venus to guide your eye to the planet Saturn for many mornings to come. These two worlds will appear very, very close together over the next several mornings.

Take advantage of this opportunity to watch all of these worlds through binoculars or a low-powered telescope.

Bottom line: On the morning of January 7, 2016, let the moon be your guide to Venus and Saturn in the eastern sky. Then watch for the great conjunction of Venus and Saturn over the next several days


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What Can You Do With A Communications Degree?

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Good communication is the key to success. It is necessary for harmonious functioning among human beings. Majoring in communication studies gives you a wide range of careers to choose from once you earn your degree. What you do with your degree is completely up to you. With an associates degree or bachelors degree in communications, you can reach for the stars. Graduating with a degree in communications will present opportunities you had no idea were available with this type of degree, including everything from advertising and campaigning to marketing and even publishing and writing. Why? If you have the basics of communications down and you take courses to delve deeper into the subject, you’re sure to graduate a well-rounded and knowledgeable individual who is capable of knowing the ins and outs of how to reach out to multiple types of audiences.

Areas of Communication

It is common knowledge that there are various types of communication that we as human beings use on a daily basis. From letters to telephone calls to emails, our ways of communicating with one another are constantly growing. Below is a list of a few different areas of communication that we encounter every day.

Advertising – verbal or nonverbal communication; includes television and radio commercials and political campaigns to spam emails and pesky credit card letters offering pre-approved rates

Education – verbal or nonverbal communication; in the classroom or online

Sales – verbal or nonverbal communication; offering products or services to fulfill your needs and desires

Writing – nonverbal communication; includes everything from sales ads to educational pieces like textbooks and news articles

How to Get Your Bachelors Degree in Communications

Communications, or communication studies, is a broad field that encompasses a wide range of topics. Many colleges and universities offer bachelors degrees and/or masters degrees that fall under this particular category. Studying communications will lead to your decision on what career path you choose in life. Most schools will also help you find a job in your desired field, as well. If you have not yet chosen a specific higher education school to attend, take a look at these highly recommended universities to see if they fit your plans. Remember, always apply to at least three schools just in case you are not accepted at your first choice. It is always more beneficial to put out multiple applications, even if you happen to get accepted to more than one.

The University of California, Berkeley was ranked the number one school in communication studies on the QS World University Rankings list of 2013. Financial aid for students in need at the university has been available since 1897, and the financial aid office is still helping students with their ambitions to graduate from one of the United States of America’s top universities. Their Communications and Mass Media Studies program takes both analytical and historical approaches to the field of communications. Students are also encouraged to take a course or two in the social sciences to broaden their experiences and connect the social sciences to communications and media studies.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) was also one of the top rated schools on the QS World University Rankings list of 2013 for their Communications and New Media program. Students aiming to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in this program are required to take courses related to communications research and theories based around communication and new media. If you’re looking for a great study abroad opportunity, why not get your degree in Singapore at one of the best communications schools in the world?

The University of Amsterdam also offers a highly rated communication studies area, and this university is located in the Netherlands. Get a uniquely cultural experience by attending this well-recognized university for your degree in communications. This university offers a bachelors degree and 4 options for masters degrees in the field of communication sciences.

Careers in Communications

Once you obtain whatever level degree you set your mind to, job opportunities open up everywhere. A degree in communications can take you places you never thought possible. These are just some of the careers available to people who have earned a communications degree.

Career Possibilities for a Bachelors Degree in Communications

A bachelors degree typically takes approximately 4 years to complete, but it is possible that it may take longer, depending on whether you attend the school full time or if you transfer to another school that may not accept some of your completed credits. If you’ve finally done it, you finally got your bachelors degree, these are some entry level job titles you may qualify for.

Public Relations Professional

With your bachelors degree in communication studies, it is possible to gain an entry level position as a public relations professional at a PR firm. Firms often offer beginners the opportunity to partake in multiple pubic relations programs and assist with multiple clients at once. Public relations professionals can work as assistant account coordinators and/or assistants to account executives in addition to other positions and responsibilities.

Generally, beginning your career as a public relations professional can earn you between $30,000 and $34,000 to start.

Event Coordinator

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If you have excellent organizational skills in addition to advanced communication skills and you enjoy arranging public and private get-togethers, then perhaps you will be interested in a position as an event coordinator. Event coordinators, as the title suggests, are responsible for putting together everything from major to minor details of business or private social gatherings. As an event coordinator, you will be responsible for accurately communicating with other venues and companies involved in making an event the best it can be. Event coordinators are in charge of computing budgets for each event and seeing that the spending for the event does not exceed the determined budget. As such, you will offer clients choices of caterers, and you will book musicians. Event coordinators give their all to make sure each client has the most pleasurable experience and successful event as possible, whether it’s a fairytale wedding or a Sweet 16 birthday party or something as large as a business conference. The level of knowledge and experience in communications can make or break your success as an event coordinator.

Event coordinators can make an average of $36,000 annually or more, depending on the number of clients they take on each year and the size of each event.

Office Manager

Maybe organizing events isn’t your thing. If you were the person who always took control in group projects in school, then maybe an office manager is a better occupation for your personality type. If you find it easy to take charge and oversee that business operations run smoothly, you would most likely enjoy being an office manager. Office managers are skilled communicators and oversee business projects to make sure each person is doing his or her part to provide clients with the best results possible. It is an office manager’s responsibility to make sure supplies needed to perform work daily are constantly fully stocked, delegating individual responsibilities, responds to client comments and complaints, and more.

The average office manager salary is around $40,000 a year.

Higher End Career Opportunities in Communications

If you continue your education after receiving a bachelors degree in communications and media studies, aiming for a masters or doctorate, your horizons will be expanded and more career options will become available to you.

Corporate Communications Specialist

If you’re looking to get involved in creating advertisements, newsletters and brochures for a company, then perhaps you should look in to a career as a corporate communications specialist. They also put together annual business reports to show progress or decline in particular areas of a business. They research campaign tactics to determine the most successful and how they can apply those tactics to the companies they work for. Corporate communication specialists are expected to be particularly creative and quick to make effective decisions.

A career as a corporate communication specialist can earn you on average $61,000 annually. With more experience and working in the right location, you can even make around $95,000 each year. Washington, D.C., is a great place to advance your career in corporate communications.

Television Producer/Director

If you’re interested in broadcast media, then check out positions as a television producer and/or director. The world needs news, and households across the globe watch news televised on a daily basis. A communications degree is a huge help when aiming for the world of television production. Producers do everything from coming up with new programs and pitching them to a variety of networks to see who will accept a contract for a new show to planning and organizing budgets for television programs. For this reason, good communication is imperative if you’re looking to sell an idea to broadcast to millions of viewers across the globe.

Annual salary for a television producer can be over $67,000 a year.

Marketing Director

A marketing director displays leadership abilities by heading the marketing department of a company. Experience and knowledge in communications and advertising is highly recommended. Marketing Directors also assume responsibility for creating annual marketing plans and seeing that the plans are carried through successfully. They communicate with other department leaders to make sure clients of the company receive the best possible service so that their company receives more business to lock in job security.

Marketing directors can make around $75,000 annually, and those with more experience and developed knowledge and talent are capable of earning over $100,000 a year.

Companies that Hire People with Communications Degrees

If you have a degree in communications and are on the prowl for a job that will put your knowledge to use, check out this list of companies that offer jobs with opportunities for you to utilize your degree.

Spiral Design Studio, LLC – located in Cohoes, NY and in business since 1989; marketing and graphic design firm

Pero Family Farms, LLC – in Delray Beach, FL, since 1908; agricultural organization raising and providing fruits and vegetables while preserving the environment

Coca-Cola Company – established in Atlanta, GA, in 1886; produces and markets variety of cola products across the globe.

Group Health – based in Seattle, WA, founded in 1947; dedicated to providing top quality health care at affordable prices

So, as is evident, majoring in communication studies will provide you with many career options to choose from. Please note that they are not limited to the options listed here. This is just a starting point for you to discover the opportunities that a communications degree can offer.

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Tag Archives: designer jewelry sold by the top couture houses 1920s

Costume Jewelry from Paris, 1927-1928

Vanilla lace Chanel gown worn with a bow pin at the shoulder. Delineator, May 1927. The illustrator is probably Desvignes.

In 1928, writer Marie Beynon Ray devoted an article to the appearance of designer jewelry sold by the top couture houses.

Title of article in Delineator, April 1928, page 35.

“Pin of cloudy crystal set off by the somber black of onyx in rectangles binding the farther sides. The pin is worn at the shoulder, on the hat, or to hold the frock’s drapery.” Delineator, April 1928, page 35.

A set of cut crystal necklaces in several lengths and a matching group of bracelets. Delineator, April 1928.

The change was not only that couturiers were branching out into a new field (they had already discovered how lucrative their own perfume labels could be) but also that non-precious jewelry was suddenly chic: “a yard of so of ’emeralds’ of a size they never could be, or a half yard of ‘diamond’ bracelets up the arm….”

Illustrations by J. Desvignes for Delineator, November 1926.

“A Jewel for Every Occasion,”  Delineator, April 1928.

“Once — not so long ago —  no lady worthy of the name would have been caught, dead or alive, wearing imitation jewelry…. jewelry so Gargantuan and blatant that there is not the smallest pretense that it is genuine…. And all this the dressmakers of Paris have brought about.” [Semi-precious stones like rock crystal were replacing diamonds and real pearls, as rhinestones, “paste” or “Strass” jewels, glass pearls, and cut glass jewels became chic instead of shameful.] Big artificial pearls were replacing “the string of pearls so tiny and so meticulously perfect that they might be real.” “No jeweler in the world, not all the Cartiers and Tiffanys combined, could turn out jewelry of the stupendous proportions that ladies demand today.” [That image of Chanel wearing lots of fake pearls is not from the Twenties, but the same site says she “opened her own jewelry workshop” in 1924 and introduced diamond paste jewelry — i.e., fake diamonds — in 1928.]

Long diamond [?] “leaf” earrings with a bangle bracelet; Delineator, April 1928.

The shoulder pin is rock crystal with a “star” design shining up through it. The bracelet is made of rectangular crystals (not diamonds.)

It looks to be “expansible.” ( JewelryPatents.com is a very helpful site!)

Art Moderne geometry in a rhinestone buckle and an oblong crystal pin. [Crystal may mean “glass,” as in “Swarovski crystal” or “Czech crystal.”]

Square-cut rhinestones on the links and the pendant of a necklace. Delineator, April 1928. (That’s a chenille pom-pom on her shoulder.)

“But what have the dressmakers to do with jewelry?… they have found that everything that a woman puts on her body, while she is wearing one of their gowns, enormously affects the chic of the gown…. And now, when she buys her dress, she buys, at the same time and place, the jewels that complete it.”

“A Jewel for Every Occasion,”  Delineator, April 1928.

“Since the dressmakers have thus summarily taken the designing of jewelry into their own hands, two expected developments have taken place: first, the jewels bear a much closer relation to the gown than formerly; and second, they are not genuine.”

This shoulder pin in the shape of a bow was a featured accessory in March 1927. Delineator, p. 16.

Very similar dark stones outlined in rhinestones form a bow on this Chanel evening dress. May 1927, Delineator.

This “bow” necklace and bracelet in gold were designed by Premet.

“Metal jewelry may be worn with sport clothes.”

Costume jewelry — not from couture designers — was affordable. My mother (b. 1904) worked as a secretary, but she was able to afford a set of three, large  graduated crystal necklaces like these:She also owned some pins like this Art Deco clip (which I wear, sometimes:)

Large Art Deco clip, costume jewelry, circa 1930.

It has a patent number, but I haven’t been able to identify or date it. It’s a rather impressive size — over two inches long:My mother and I didn’t see eye-to-eye on many things, but in this case… Thanks!

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Since recording the episode we learned more about what’s going on with MailChimp. As always, the Terms of Service are really important.

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(Malawi) Centre for Girls and Interaction, CEGI

CEGI's mission is to mobilize young women and girls to achieve their full potential in meeting their
needs through promotion of girl’s participation and interaction for change
Location: Mzuzu, Malawi

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Key projects:

CEGI runs an Aunty Jane Hotline (a safe abortion hotline) and organizes SRHR youth empowerment programs.

Expertise offered:

Experience working on safe abortion hotline and advocacy work

Dream project:

"Safe Women" Campaign

Interested in donating to CEGI?

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Gin Tasting @ Cellar Door

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Date(s) - 8 March 2018
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

House of Townend

A fun and informative evening of great gin, light supper and good company…

Join us for a gin tasting session with a selection of cured meats, cheese, olives and fresh bread.

An ongoing increase in the popularity of gin over the last few years has lead to a request for us to run another one of these evenings. With a huge range of fabulous mixers on the market as well as many interesting garnishes, there are various ways to create a fantastic serve nowadays. This tasting will look at different gins from all over the world and will incorporate some parings with selected tonics and garnishes.

If you’ve been on one of our Wine, Champagne or Gin tasting events at House of Townend before, you’ll know just how much fun we have – and how quickly the tickets go!

So book early to avoid disappointment. Hope to see you there!

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The Kingfisher woodcraft folk in Leicester have been running for 20 years now and have seen many people walk through its doors. We are a group that enjoy many types of activities and always have something for every one. Our activities are always focused on the aims and principles the woodcraft folk run by. I myself am the group contact for the group and have been comming to this group since I was 11 and now I have been given this opportunity to help run this group.

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Programme of events 2012 for Kingswinford Woodcraft Folk

  • Jan 21st Swimming - cost £3
  • Jan 28th Bird watch Kinver - Cost £1.50
  • Jan 29th Walk Wombourne railway station - Cost £1, Meet 10.30 at Wombourne station, Collect at 3pm
  • Feb 19th Walk Saltwells - Cost £1, Meet 10.30 shops High Acres, Collect at 3pm, Saltwells public house
  • Mar 9th - 11th Burwarton,  Burwarton cottage - Cost £20, Venturers only
  • April 4th Easter egg hunt,  Kinver campsite - Cost £1, Details to follow
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The All-Knowing “They”

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Most likely you or someone you know has occasionally used these two words in a conversation, “THEY say…”. I hear them frequently in our home and I would be lying if I said that I’ve never used them myself, but cross my heart, my better half beats me to it. Like with most people, when Mari says “Well, THEY say…” she is suggesting that the ALL-KNOWING “they”, whoever they may be, are the final non-challenging authority on the subject and therefore there should be no debate about it [eye roll]. THEY practically have the answer and explanation for every debatable topic.

For some time, I use to think that “they” were actually reputable experts like doctors, scientists, and lawmakers. But ever since I demanded to know who “they” really were so I could verify their existence and research their professed knowledge, I’ve come to realize that “they” can be just about anyone with an opinion. “They” can refer to old wives’ tales, celebrities, and even family members, friends, and colleagues who get their information from other “theys”.

Let’s face it no one on earth knows everything. Not Google, Siri, or Alexa. Not psychos, er, psychics, religious leaders, or wise grandparents. Nope, not even the greatest thinkers, philosophers, or gurus the world have ever seen could possibly hold the title of ALL-KNOWING.

There is only ONE who can rightfully proclaim that title. He is the One and only true God of all creation. And although He has not revealed everything to mankind, we have access to all we NEED to know concerning life, death, and eternity, in the pages of His holy Word. The Bible addresses and provides the answer to every life situation that affects us as God’s children. Within its pages, we can find excellent counsel, trustworthy promises, and a wealth of advice that can help us live life to the fullest.

More important than what “they” have to say regarding any given subject, is what God has to say about the way we ought to live our lives. Sure, expert opinions and recommendations based on studies, results, and facts ought to be considered and trusted, but our faith in them should never supersede our faith in God’s omniscience. He is not only eternal, perfect, and unchanging, but He operates outside of the natural and beyond that which is common to man. That’s why we can be certain that He will never fail us or give us incomplete or wrong information. He will never mislead us or cause us to be confused or anxious. In fact, His faithfulness and trustworthiness are the only reliable sources in the entire universe. He is the only one who can provide us with clear direction and safely guide us through the difficult roads in life.

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.”
-Proverbs 3:5-6

The Bible may not tell us whether coffee is good for us or not or confirm that we really shouldn’t go swimming after a meal. We won’t read about how Covid-19 actually spreads and if it will ever go away. And we definitely will not get an answer as to whether or not it’s harmful to use a tanning bed or eat lots of sweets. BUT…it will remind us that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and therefore we should take extremely good care of it. This is where physiology and psychology can be helpful and effective, as long as we understand that it is by God’s will and grace that man can gain and use such knowledge.

“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you,
Therefore glorify God with your body.”
– 1 Corinthians 6:20

Neither does the word of God tell us where to find the right soul mate or how much we should spend on a wedding. It does not reveal which stock will yield the best return or how to haggle to get the best price on any given purchase. BUT…it does give us insight on how to stay morally upright, build and strengthen relationships, and be good stewards. This is where marriage, financial, and academic counsel is valuable, as long as we also understand that without God, discipline, and commitment they produce only temporary and superficial results.

“Don’t become partners with those
who do not believe.” – 2 Corinthians 6:12

So, I do believe we ought to read and learn about the things that affect us as human beings. We should set goals and work hard to achieve success in life and enjoy the fruits of our labor. We should also be motivated to seek counsel and share what we’ve learned in our life’s journey with others. After all, the Bible also says to do everything as unto the Lord (Col. 3:23), to give cheerfully (2 Cor. 9:7), that in the multitude of counsel there is safety (Prov. 11:14), and to plan and work diligently (Prov. 21:5 & Prov. 10:4). However, we must never get so wrapped up in the secular mindset that we neglect the spiritual aspect of our lives. True success is not found in earthly knowledge and prosperity. It’s found when we gain godly wisdom and invest in the eternal kingdom of God.

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” – Matthew 6:19-21

Everything belonging to this secular world is temporary and imperfect. Everything belonging to the spiritual world (God’s kingdom) is eternal and flawless. So, let us make sure we know exactly who “they” are before we start trusting what they have to say. And let us never forget that the One who knitted us in our mother’s womb knows EVERYTHING about us and therefore knows better than “they” do. We can definitely trust what He says to us through His word.

Prayer: Almighty God, you and you alone are All-knowing. I put my trust solely on You. May your Word be grafted in my heart so that I may always follow your perfect plan for my life. Thank you for the knowledge and wisdom you have imparted to mankind so that we can survive, be productive, and capable of blessing others. May I never forget that all good and perfect gifts come from You. In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen.

“As for God, his way is perfect: The LORD’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.” – Psalm 18:30 NIV

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.” – 1 John 2:15-17 ESV

The All-Knowing God in Psalm 139 [Click to Read]

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  1. I love especially this comment, “Everything belonging to this secular world is temporary and imperfect. Everything belonging to the spiritual world (God’s kingdom) is eternal and flawless.” So true, I am forever grateful that in this temporary and imperfect world, God gave me you! All “I Know” is that I love you!

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Newsletter: March 2018

Welcome to your Wor Flags/Wor Hyem newsletter

Wor Flags and Wor Hyem 1892 are keen to make sure we keep in touch with those who make everything we do possible. At the start of each month we will be sending out a short newsletter like this one to keep you all updated with our plans, events, an whatever else is going on. Scroll down here for a little teaser of our plans for the next home match vs Southampton, news of our charity raffle, and details of some new products in our online shop.

New Display Plans for Southampton

It’s just a week until our next home match (it feels like an age since that last, beautiful afternoon at SJP…) and we’ve got plans in place for something new. It’s just over a year since the now iconic WE ARE UNITED surfer first made it’s way across the Gallowgate, and as ever we are looking to put together new, exciting displays. Whilst we can’t give too much detail yet – we’re teases, we know – we’ve got an order in with our good friends at Ultrasshop, and will be hard at work over the next week to put together the display. For those in the Gallowgate, we ask that you try to get to your seats 10 minutes before kick off to help us out with this one. We hope you love it!

Charity Raffle, have you got your tickets yet?

Remember the stunning headline flags we used for the 125th anniversary display? Well, you could win one, a little piece of NUFC history, in our charity raffle. Tickets are £5, with all proceeds going to wonderful charities like the North East Autism Society.

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New Merchandise! Help us secure the future of our displays!

We’d like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has bought some of our merchandise so far, helping us to continue funding new and exciting displays. We’ve got a brand new scarf available for pre-order – check it out, and the rest of our products, at our ONLINE SHOP BY CLICKING HERE

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