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Inside the mind of Jane Gleeson-White

Recently, we sat down with Overland fiction editor, Jane Gleeson-White, to pick her brain about her latest book, Double Entry.

Double entryQ: Overland readers know you as a fiction editor. Most literary types avoid both maths and economics like the devil does holy water. How did you develop and maintain such a diversity of interests?

A: I’ve always had wide-ranging interests and I think most literary types do, but perhaps my passion for maths and economics is less common (although I know others with similar interests). I’ve secretly loved maths and economics since I first met them at school, but my first love was always literature. After studying literature at university, I gave into the lure of economics and did an economics degree, studying maths-based economics and political economy. As for how I maintain my interests: by reading. I’m always reading.

Q: Double Entry is structured around the life and work of Luca Pacioli, a remarkably talented renaissance mathematician. They say that anyone who writes biography either falls in love with or comes to hate their subject. I know that your book is not a conventional biography but did you have that experience?

A: Hah! Yes, I did – the falling in love one. I’m not in love with Luca Pacioli any more (although I’m still fascinated by him), but the diary I kept in Italy while researching his life tells me that I did fall in love. When I first glimpsed ‘the white marble figure of a monk’ across a square and realized with shock and excitement that it was Fra Luca Pacioli, I was moved to tears. I wrote: ‘There it seemed was the man himself, who’d been obsessing me for at least two years and who’d been on my mind for many more. I felt as if he’d been waiting for me to come.’

We’re talking about a marble statue – of a man dead for almost 500 years. Such are the delusions of writers. But I think you have to fall madly for your subject, to carry you through the long hours of research. Although the more I researched Pacioli’s life, the more fascinated I became, especially after discovering that he was Leonardo da Vinci’s constant companion, taught him maths, collaborated with him on two books and was in Milan when Leonardo painted the Last Supper.

Q: Merchants and commerce have been around for a long, long time. How did traders think about what they were doing prior to Pacioli’s intervention? What did the new type of book-keeping make possible and what did it supplant?

A: We don’t really know how traders thought about what they were doing immediately before the double-entry system emerged in northern Italy around 1300 (and which Pacioli codified and published in his maths encyclopedia in 1494) because very few records from feudal Europe have survived. Barter was the main mode of exchange and people lived largely on what they or their village could produce, although they did record loans using tally sticks.

But courtesy of the Crusades, from around 1100 there was an economic boom in the city states of northern Italy which spawned a wealth of new business ventures. While the new enterprises remained modest, merchants could keep track of business in their heads or in simple narrative diary entries like ‘On XII November I sold a sack of pepper to Piero in Pisa for one florin’. But as extensive trade and credit networks developed across Europe, Italian merchants devised more precise ways of recording their business transactions, which were perfected in Venice and became known as the Venetian method – or double entry.

What was different about this system – which spread across Europe thanks to Pacioli’s treatise, hence his ‘intervention’ – was that it allowed merchants to calculate increases and decreases in their wealth or ‘estate’, recorded in their capital account, at the end of every venture (say a shipment of wool from the Cotswolds to Florence). In other words, it allowed them to calculate that driver of capitalism: profit (or loss).

Q: You suggest that double-entry accounting has not only shaped the way business operates but has, in some respects, provided a vocabulary for modernity. Could you explain that?

A: Yes, I discovered that through its power of calculating changes in capital, double entry has not only shaped the way we’ve done business over the last 700 years but has spawned the language of the modern world and is arguably the progenitor of capitalism itself. By ‘language of the modern world’ I mean the language of Hindu-Arabic numbers denominated in money that governs the global economy. This language is made possible by double entry, through the accounts it generates for corporations and, since the Second World War, through the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) accounts it generates for nations. It gives rise to the cost-benefit calculations that rule our daily lives, from our governments, schools, universities, hospitals and entertainment, to the decisions made by corporations, for example, those made by Coles and Woolworths that govern the way we shop and eat. The language of double entry is now so ubiquitous we struggle to imagine it any other way.

Q: You conclude by arguing that the conceptual limits, and political consequences, of that way of seeing the world are becoming more and more apparent. What are some of the alternatives?

A: I think the main consequences of the way we’ve constructed our world through double entry can be seen in the periodic financial collapses that have plagued capitalist economies since the rise of the corporation in the nineteenth century (which made double entry legally required) and which are now paid for in money by taxpayers and shareholders (including all Australian workers with superannuation) and in other ways by us all; and in the destruction of the planet, which the system is designed to encourage because it treats most of the earth’s natural wealth as free.

As for alternatives, I think the Occupy Movement gets it right with its ‘People before Profits’ slogan, which means to me that we have to challenge the corporate form of doing business. Corporations put profits before everything else, often including human lives, the lives of animals and the environment.

The need to challenge – abolish – corporate capitalism would come as no surprise to Overland readers. But I was surprised to find that even some prominent accountants also think this way, because the complexities of the modern multinational corporation in a 24/7 global electronic economy make it impossible to account for. The so-called ‘transparency’ that corporate accounts are supposed to guarantee and which supposedly ensures that markets function efficiently can no longer be achieved, or even aspired to. So the model is fatally flawed, even on its own terms.

And we have to stop being beholden to the senseless idea of ‘economic growth’. What does ‘economic growth’ mean? It means increases in the GDP as generated by double entry. It means that our leaders across the political spectrum and across the planet are geared to ensuring GDP goes up. And GDP goes up when we cut down trees, buy cigarettes, pay the chemotherapy for lung cancer, pay for the petrol we use sitting in cars and buses in peak-hour traffic, pay for Ritalin, junk food, hospital bills for obesity and diabetes, build weapons of mass destruction, pay the costs of environmental destruction.

I think the work being done in Bolivia and elsewhere on enshrining the rights of nature in law is one promising way into a new world, one in which the power of corporations and economic development is challenged.

Q: A lot of people who read this blog are writers themselves. Can you tell us something about the process of writing this book? How long did it take? Was it something you worked on constantly or was it in fits and starts? How did you integrate the formidable about of research involved into a very readable narrative? Is there anything you would have done differently?

I took three years to write Double Entry. I delivered the manuscript two years after signing the contract in July 2008 and the editorial process took a year, on and off. For two years I worked on it constantly and I mean night and day, seven days a week. I was obsessed, completely absorbed, fascinated by every new thing I uncovered. And because I had a contract, I had a delivery date, which added pressure to the way I worked. It also gave me an advance which allowed me to write full-time for those two years.

In the third year, during the editing, I started a PhD and became fiction editor of Overland, which meant my work time could no longer be devoted exclusively to Double Entry. This was an excellent development. It forced me away from my manuscript and gave me some distance on it, which is crucial for the editorial process.

As for making it readable, I was incredibly lucky to have a brilliant publisher, Jane Palfreyman, and three extremely talented editors, the astute Ali Lavau for the structural edit, Clara Finlay my extraordinary managing editor and copyeditor, and Aziza Kuypers, who redefined proofreading. If my finished book is readable, it’s thanks to them.

And no, actually I don’t think I would have done anything differently. (Although my friends and family might say otherwise!)

Hear Jane speak tomorrow night at the Overland end-of-year launch, 6pm at Chez Regine.

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Platform: ownCloud Server

Versions: 5.0.16, 6.0.3,

Date: 5/24/2013

Risk level: Medium

Due to not sanitising all user provided input the below mentioned ownCloud versions are vulnerable against several XSS attack vectors.

ownCloud advises browsers to disable inline JavaScript execution due to the used Content-Security-Policy, this vulnerability is therefore likely not exploitable if you use a browser that fully supports the current CSP standard.

Affected Software

  • ownCloud Server < 6.0.3 (CVE-2014-3832, CVE-2014-3833)
  • ownCloud Server < 5.0.16 (CVE-2014-3833)

Action Taken

ownCloud offers the functions p() which encodes potential dangerous input using `htmlspecialchars()`. We have reviewed whether the potential insecure pendant print_unescaped() was used in other places and replaced unneeded occurrences with the safe variant.

This review helped us to discover vulnerabilities in the following components.

  • Gallery (stored) (CVE-2014-3833)
  • ownCloud core (stored + reflected) (CVE-2014-3833)
  • Documents (stored) (CVE-2014-3832)

  • Gallery (stored) (CVE-2014-3833)
  • ownCloud core (stored + reflected) (CVE-2014-3833)

The ownCloud team thanks the following people for their research and responsible disclosure of the above advisory:

  • Lukas Reschke – ownCloud Inc. (lukas@owncloud.org) – Vulnerability discovery and disclosure.

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A Rival History of Self-Determination

Deborah Whitehall

in European Journal of International Law

Volume 27, issue 3, pages 719-743
Published in print August 2016 | ISSN: 0938-5428
Published online October 2016 | e-ISSN: 1464-3596 | DOI:
A Rival History of Self-Determination

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The storyline of the rights of peoples to self-determination during the 20th century gives cause to reconsider the relationship between historical and legal time. Rosa Luxemburg’s 1915 Juniusbroschüre presents one invitation to such analysis. By focusing on her question of when and how and why self-determination gains or loses traction as a goal for socialist internationalism, chinks appear in the familiar memorialization of national rights. The life of the concept no longer begins with liberal international law in the atrophied form decided after war. Before there was law, duelling internationalisms struggled (in war and theory) for authority to govern the world, including the shape of internationalism and its conceptual premise. Rediscovering Luxemburg’s pamphlet reveals something of the fuller complexity of the preceding moment and the rhythms of memorialization. Luxemburg represents a marginal corner of the relevant contest for the idea of self-determination: from her offering, the synchronic juncture figures as a battle between rival internationalisms; a strategic struggle between opposing socialist factions; and more personally, a quest for recognition of and for herself as a minor person.

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Well, I’m excited about his upcoming Be Kind, Rewind with Jack Black and Mos Def. I loved what he did with Björk’s latest video for “Declare Independence” (as I was with his prior work with Björk and others). I’ve loved his prior movies (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep to name a couple). Now he’s already working on a new one…

Although his latest film hasn’t been released yet and he already has several projects in the works, Michel Gondry told the MTV Movies Blog that he’s currently writing The Return of the Ice Kings. Gondry’s still at work on the screenplay, but the name alone sounds fascinating, and the content, well: “I’m writing a story about kids who invent a water that makes you hear music when you drink it,” Gondry said. “It’s going to be a scientific story, but completely unrealistic.” Sounds more whimsical than scientific, but Gondry would probably be the expert on these matters, as he spent last year as MIT’s artist in residence and has come up with some fantastic technologies before.

~Dan – np: Explosions in the SkyAll of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

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Teaching Textbooks, Life of Fred, and Apologia

News from the

Pennsylvania Curriculum Exchange

A quick update of some items that have come in recently.

Teaching Textbooks:

These are all current.

  • Math 4 CDs $59.97
  • Math 7 CDs $77.97
  • Pre-Algebra 2.0 CDs $92.97
  • Algebra 1    2.0 CDs $92.97
  • Algebra 2 2.0 Workbook only, $20

Life of Fred:

  • Cats and Butterflies $9.60 each
  • Fractions $11.40

  • Elementary–Zoology 1,2,&3, Botany, Anatomy, Chem and Physics, Astronomy–each text $23.40
  • Astronomy 1st edition $10
  • High School–General Science, Physical Science, Biology, Physics, Advanced Physics–$39 each text, $13.20 each solution/tests
  • Chemistry 2nd edition $20, solution/tests $10
  • Physical Science lab kit from Home Science Tools–unopened $32.37 (retail $53.95)
  • Chemistry Microchem kit from HST–$62.80 (retail $119–enough for 5 students, 4 still left)
  • All other texts and notebooks I carry new for 5% off retail.

I have multiple copies of the Apologia texts. I have only one each of Fred and Teaching Textbooks–if you are interested in these EMAIL me and I will reserve them based on first come order.

ABeka–FYI–I have a ton in right now, including quite a bit of the brand new first grade editions. All of it is 40% off their catalog price–Don’t buy it new!

Julie Helms
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  • 25 Ridge Road; Dillsburg, PA 17019
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Kelly River in Alaska

Trip Overview

If anyone is looking for a remote Arctic river, this is it. We floated the Kelly River in Aug 2004. It is located in the Noatak Preserve in NW Alaska and is located about 70 miles N of Kotzebue. The Kelly is a tributary of the lower Noatak River. It is intimate in size at about 30-40 yards wide, gin clear, and free of any hazards/rapids.

This was our first float trip in Alaska and it did not disappoint us. We caught dolly vardon and grayling primarily. Some chum salmon were seen also. We saw many brown bears and one wolf. Moose tracks were seen also. The first day or two we saw dall sheep.

The river is an easy float for anyone wanting to experience the "real Alaska". The land is beautiful up that way. Many mountain views in the first 2/3 of trip. The river widens and slows in the last 10 miles or so. The trip was about 40 miles long. Shallow sections in the first 5 miles or so. Dragging required but we never had to unload the canoes.

We own Ally pack canoes and they are awesome. If you are flying in to a remote destination, you must check them out. We bought them for this trip but have used them on three Alaska float trips to this point.

If you decide to float this river, contact me at and I will tell you more and send some pictures via email. It is a lovely float and the solitude is wonderful. We did not see another person in the 7 nights we spent on the Kelly. If you fly fish, be sure to contact me for more info. We fly fish for dolly vardon each Fall on float trips up in NW Alaska and I could offer some good insights and suggestions.

Take high quality gear and be prepared for sudden change in weather. Read up on brown bears. We saw 21 in 7 days. One walked into camp. A "good bear" you might say, but still 600 lbs! Good stove and water filter (MSR) and take a gun or ear plugs. You will need one or the other to sleep well. Great fishing in late August and early/mid Sept for dolly vardon and grayling. Dollies over 10 pounds. Grayling 16-20". Every hole had fish.

Explore Wrench Creek (middle of trip) and Avan Creek (near Noatak confluence). Great fishing in these two spots. Orange and pink are best colors along with silver (of course)

Photos of this August 2004 trip are available on Flickr:

Hageland Aviation: Pilot is Eric Sieh -- Great job and super nice guy.

Fly commercial to Kotzebue with Alaska Air. From Kotz use Eric Sieh (pilot for Hageland Aviation in Kotz). He takes you in bush plane to the river and picks you up at the confluence of the Kelly and the Noatak.

USGS maps of area from University of Alaska in Fairbanks
  • Duration: Extended Trip
  • Skill Level: Beginner
  • Water Type: River/Creek (Up to Class II)
  • Group Rates: No

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“Girls Rule! Female Authors on Writing Female Charcters” panel. MultiverseCon 2019, Atlanta, GA “Down with cliches; down with stereotypes! A discussion on how tropes kill plots and what it takes to create female characters that are unapologetically strong and realistic. Who is your favorite female protagonist? What made you root for her?” Paige L. Christie, Venessa Giunta, Kyoko M, L.L. McKinney, Linda Mercury, Delia Remington

So…this post is a little late in coming, mostly because I’ve been buried under piles of work, work, work, and insurance forms. (I promise not to go into details about insurance forms.) What I really want to tell all (three) of you about is the fantastic event that I had the privilege of attending as a guest this past October:  the First Annual MultiverseCon in Atlanta, Georgia.

From moment one, this was a different sort of convention. Nothing, and I mean nothing, was done in ‘token’ fashion. This con set out to be inclusive, and it showed it top to toes. From the Con Committee, to the program directors, to the panels options and events taking place all day (and most of the night), this con was built to be for everyone.

Was it a perfect event? No — because no such thing exists. But it was a supremely-well-organized, well-signed, well thought-out, hard-question-asking, unafraid-of-tough-choices convention that really put its actions where its policies and promises were. It was run like a con that’s been around a decade rather than like a first-year event. The experience and planning skills of everyone involved in making it happen showed in so many details. I was proud to be part of it and hope to keep attending for many years to come and to watch this thing grow.

My favorite panel of the weekend — and believe me it was hard to pick one — was the Girls Rule! panel, pictured above. It was a powerhouse table of smart, non-bullshit women with big hearts, big stories, and no lack of opinions. People — I tell you that room was VIBRATING. I’ve never been part of anything like it, and I was both proud and humbled to be there at that table.

So, if you’re sketching out your con schedule for next year, do yourself a favor and add this one to the list. Atlanta is really nice in October, and this con is going to be a humdinger!


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Nadeem Babar visits PSO Headquarters

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (Petroleum Division), Mr. Nadeem Babar, visited the PSO House in Karachi on Monday, 15 July 2019. Mr. Jehangir Ali Shah, Managing Director & CEO of the company and senior management of PSO welcomed him.
Mr Nadeem Babar was comprehensively briefed by the PSO Management on role, positive contributions and performance of the national flagship oil marketing company over the last many years.
The challenges including the circular debt increase in the taxation regime and thinning margins, ban on the new retail outlets development and its impact on the company’s market share, increased smuggling of POL products and its impact in terms of loss to the exchequer and the industry, and other issues of mutual interests were discussed during the briefing.
The meeting also covered company’s profile, its operational and marketing performance, organizational dynamics and various initiatives being undertaken by PSO to deal with ever changing business environment.
The Honourable Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr Nadeem Babar, appreciated the spirit of PSO management and its workforce. He advised to continue doing business with strategic thrust in line with best corporate and marketing practices. Mr Babar also suggested the management to form a long term business plan of PSO focusing new avenues of business development in line with changing energy mix of the country.
On behalf of the Government of Pakistan, Mr Nadeem Babar assured the PSO Management with his fullest support for an early resolution of the chronic problems that have been negatively impacting the company’s bottom line.
The management appreciated Mr Babar’s commitment and assured that as the largest oil marketing company; PSO is committed to maximizing shareholders’ wealth, supporting the Government of Pakistan’s energy sector reforms, fulfilling its corporate social responsibilities and continue to contribute in overall progress of country.


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Paludarium 3.0: Designing the new “canopy”

Thinking back on Paludarium 1.0 and Paludarium 2.0 I cannot stop wondering why on earth I ever thought that introducing 230VAC on top of a paludarium was a good idea. Powe failure would cause the canopy to “condensate up” and cause huge issues when the power came back. This and a hundred extra issues. So now is the time to set things right in version 3.0. The hood on top used to be a very “smart” lighting (and more) system I called “the Canopy”. Now it is time for a drastic new approach: Canopy 3.0!

Minimalistic design

The new Canopy will have as little as possible electronics inside. All stuff need to be driven through either pipes or wires, and all of the pumps and electronics can sit Read more »

The stuff Paludariums are made of

People are often confused what things are all in the paludarium, what they are called and what they do. In this blog post I’ll explain the different components (sub projects if you will) that make up the paludarium today.

A quick overview

In order to get the paludarium working as it works today, I had to run several different projects and put them all together. First I’ll quickly list all the different components:

  1. The Cabinet – The custom-built cabinets that hold the paludarium;
  2. The Paludarium – The glass structure that holds water and air (the paludarium is a closed construction);
  3. The Land part – The part above water. Filled with tropical plants, and for now no animals here;
  4. The Aquatic part – The front underwater part of the paludarium, where the fish live;
  5. The Sump – The rear underwater part. Any excess water from the Aquatic part is dumped here, and the plants living on the background panel get their water from here (and return it there too);
  6. The Waterworks – The board in the cabinet that holds all the plumbing (water valves etc);
  7. The Canopy – The intelligent armature sitting on top of the paludarium;
  8. PaluPi – A standard Raspberry Pi with an RS232 level converter that sits inside the Canopy and handles all the “smart thinking”;
  9. Apollo units – Named after the god of light, there are around 12 of these units inside the Canopy, each handling up to 4 leds, halogens, TLs or fans;
  10. Neptune module – Still under development, this unit controls all pumps, valves etc in the Waterworks;

Quite a list right? Everything in this list had to be tuned Read more »

Some major surgery – Cracked glass, the sequel… (part 2/2)

Today, the glass divider was replaced for free by Ruud from Here’s how it was done.

Placing the new glass divider

First thing to do was to make sure all silicon glue was properly removed that was still there from the old cracked divider. Then a new piece of glass was cut to size. At each side it was kept around 1,5mm too short, to allow for the silicon glue to sit between walls and divider to prevent it from cracking again.

Then silicon glue was applied to the base of the divider, and the divider was placed inside. Next, the sides where glued and the divider was fixed with a piece of tape to dry.

The new glass divider is glued in place and looking good (and no cracks this time :) )

The new glass divider is glued in place and looking good (and no cracks this time 🙂 )

Within a few days I’ll start to fill the paluarium with water for the first time, to make sure all is water tight before I start glueing in other stuff.

Some major surgery – Cracked glass, the sequel… (part 1/2)

After I applied the fix to the cracked glass divider inside the paludarium, I noticed… Another crack in the same divider, but now on the other side. I had had enough. More drastic measures were needed… But how to go about that? Luckily, the supplier that built the glass paludarium stepped up and offered to help!

How to fix this issue for good

I figured it would be virtually impossible to remove the glass divider and glue in a new one. I needed more knowledgeable advice. So I contacted the supplier of the paludarium that originally built it for me, Terrariumhuis in Rotterdam. They gave me some good advice on how to apply a fix, but even better: They offered me to replace the glass divider free of charge! Read more »

Cracked glass fixed!

In a previous post I showed the crack in the glass that had appeared spontaneously. In time the crack has extended fully upward to the top of the glass separator. Today I decided it was time to fix the issue!

Why the glass cracked

As the glass cracked through fully to the top of the separator, it became clear Read more »

Minor disaster: Cracked glass

After working on the paludarium, all of a sudden I discovered a big crack in the inner glass separator. It is a little hard to see, but the crack is around 15 centimeters long:

Minor Disaster - Huge crack in the inner separator!

Minor Disaster – Huge crack in the inner separator!

At first I kind of panicked… If this glass can crack just like that, the same thing might happen to one of the external glass right?? After looking closer, there has propably been some tension in the glass combined with a bad cut on the edge of this particular piece.

More work… There is no way I can replace the glass separator. Because it is 48cm high, and it sits only 10 cm in from of the rear glass, I can never ever replace the entire separator without taking the whole thing apart… I decided I will glue a piece of glass over the crack and hope for the best. There is no real force from the water on this piece, as both sides of the separator will have 40-48cm of water.

The Paludarium v2.0 is here!

Two weeks after the order, the glass got delivered today. I was psyched! Two guys carried the immense thing inside. Weighing in at 80 kilos, quite an accomplishment. And they did not even hit anything in the house.

The Paludarium is here!

The paludarium is now sitting neatly onto his reserved spot. Everything seems to be perfectly in order (size and construction-wise). Here it is: Read more »

Paludarium to be delivered… Tomorrow!

I got an email today, and guess what… The paludarium will be delivered tomorrow!

I just finished prepping the place it should sit:

The protective base where the glass of the paludarium will sit on. Everything is prepped… Let’s hope I drilled the holes at the correct position.

The kitchen cabinet now has holes drilled at the exact position where the sewer drain and the filter drain will sit. These holes to all the way through the wooden top. AT the back of the top plate I removed a strip of material as you can see. Through this strip I will feed any pipes and wires I need to go in and out of the paludarium.

On top of all there is a protective rubber layer. This will prevent the glass from breaking if the plating is not 100% flat (or has any irregularities).

I am fully prepared for the arrival of the paludarium!

Glass has been ordered!

The word is out… The glass is ordered! Measures are now final, I am very thrilled to see the finished product! I ended up ordering at after visiting the shop where they actually glue at all together. It is a very small shop, yet it delivers most of the terrariums and paludariums in Dutch shops.

They were very interested in building my “special” (as they mostly build standard sizes). At one time I ordered a paludarium from the same shop which was of acceptable quality. Since then they have improved a lot I was told, so I cannot wait to receive the order and building out the Paludarium 2.0! The measures are an exact match to the drawings posted in the Definite glass specs.

As soon as the glass arrives I will post pictures on this blog, and of course all the steps required to build it will be documented here as well! Can’t wait!

Paludarium 2.0 definite glass specs

After checking, evaluating, changing, re-evaluating and changing again, I finally came up with the final design of the glass paludarium. I had already put up preliminary specs in the older blog post “Paludarium 2.0: Ordering glass“, but now specs have changed and are definitive. Bring forth the offers from different paludarium building companies!

Changes in the new design

Some adjustments were made in when finalizing the design for the glass. The most important changes: Read more »


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Sunday, March 25, 2018

Turkey Begins Operations in Northern Iraq to Hunt Down PKK Militants: President Erdogan
Sun Mar 25, 2018 08:39PM

President Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey had begun operations in Iraq's Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK militants would withdraw from the area.

"We said we would go into Sinjar. Now operations have begun there. The fight is internal and external," Erdogan told a crowd in the Black Sea province of Trabzon on Sunday, without elaborating on what operations he was referring to.

Iraq's Joint Operations Command denied that any foreign forces had crossed the border into Iraq. "The operations command confirmed that the situation in Nineveh, Sinjar and the border areas was under the control of Iraqi security forces and there is no reason for troops to cross the Iraqi border into those areas," it said in a statement.

Sources in Sinjar said there was no unusual military activity in the area on Sunday.

Turkey last week said militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) had created a new base in Sinjar. It also threatened to attack them

Sources in northern Iraq said on Friday the PKK would withdraw from Sinjar, where it gained a foothold in 2014 after coming to the aid of the Izadi minority community, who were under attack by Daesh Takfiri terrorists.

Earlier in March, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara and Baghdad plan to carry out a joint military operation against PKK members in the northern parts of Iraq.

The PKK, viewed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, reportedly has camps in the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq, from which it purportedly carries out attacks into Turkey.

Meanwhile, Turkey has vowed to further expand its military operations against Kurdish militants of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region to the eastern parts of the country, including the Syrian city of Manbij, as well as Ayn al-Arab or Kobani, and towns along the border to the east of the Euphrates River.

Ankara views the YPG as the Syrian branch of the PKK militant group that has been fighting for an autonomous region inside Turkey since 1984.

Erdogan also said the northern Syrian town of Tal Rifaat would be the next target of Ankara's cross-border campaign after the capture of Afrin from Syrian Kurdish militia.

"God willing, we will ensure this operation achieves its goal after taking control of Tal Rifaat in a short period of time," Erdogan said.

The Turkish military said on Saturday that it has established full control over Syria’s Afrin town after more than two months of battles with the US-backed militants controlling Syria’s northern border regions.“All villages have been cleared from terrorists. Afrin is under full control [of Turkish Armed Forces],” the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces was quoted as saying by the NTV broadcaster.

Turkey began the operation on January 20 to cleanse the northern Syrian border of the Kurdish YPG militants, whom it associates with the homegrown Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighting for autonomy on Turkish soil.

The Turkish military says it has exercised “utmost care” not to harm civilians. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitor, however, said earlier in the week that more than 280 civilians have been killed since the onset of the operation. Damascus views the operation as an act of aggression and has called for the immediate withdrawal of the Turkish forces.

Erdogan has repeatedly suggested that the Turkish campaign in Syria could now extend up to Qamishli -- the most easterly Syrian town held by the YPG before the Iraqi border.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The Syrian government says the Israeli regime and its Western and regional allies are aiding Takfiri terrorist groups that are wreaking havoc in the country.

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THE CELL PHONE PURSE - Handmade in Seattle, WA, USA. This bag is shown in Luxury Faux Fur in Marshmallow Twist with a cord handle. Luxury Faux Fur in Marshmallow Twist is a thicker, more plush fabric and should be considered when ordering. This is a great, soft constructed purse. This bag features a fleece lined pocket (perfect for not scratching your phone screen) with a Velcro closure. There is also a side pocket with a zipper closure (5.5") to hold everything else secure and separate. This bag measures 5" across by 7.5" tall and has may be ordered with a wrist strap (14") or cross-body strap (48"). These handbags are custom made and all sales are final.

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This delicate necklace-earrings set is lovingly handcrafted from eco friendly paper. Paper is meticulously rolled into perfect cone shaped beads. The paper beads are given a coat of sealant to make them water resistant.

The flower pendant and dangles are made of paper beads in lilac and yellow. The pendant hangs from a cream waxed cotton cord. The necklace length can be adjusted with the little wooden bead. The flower dangles hang from sterling silver ear wires.

My jewelry making process is incredibly time consuming and tedious, however, the final result always makes me smile. I hope it brings you the same joy 🙂

Pendant- 1 inch (2.5 cm) long and 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide
Necklace length – Adjustable with a maximum length of 30 inches (76 cm).
Dangles – 0.8 inch (2 cm) long and 0.8 inch (2 cm) wide
Earring length (including ear wires) – 1.3 inch (3.5 cm)

This jewelry set is part of my ‘Vibrant Nature’ collection, marvelling at the wonders of nature. View the entire collection.

The paper beads are protected using a sealant which allows the jewelry to be sweat and splash proof. However, they should not be immersed in water. Read detailed care instructions here.

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Reading: Romans 15: 7-13

Verse 7: “Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God”.

Stop. Read verse seven again. Slowly. The words “as Christ accepted you” are powerful. Jesus accepted me as I am. That includes my sin, yes. But, more than that, Jesus accepted me knowing that I would sin again. And again. And again. A love so perfect, accepting me as I am, is a powerful love. The “you” is also universal. Jesus’ love and acceptance knew no bounds. Many rejected Jesus. But that did not stop him from loving even these.

Rejection is something we must consider if we are to really live out this verse. To the proper Jews, the Gentiles were base and vile. They were to be avoided. But to Jesus, to Paul, to the early Christians, the Gentiles became ones to accept, to love as Jesus had first loved them. The Gentiles were simply people in need of Jesus’ saving love. The rejection did not come from the Gentiles. It came from those proper religious folks who would not go there themselves. Jesus experienced this kind of rejection too. He ate with the sinners, touched the lepers, healed on the Sabbath. Oh the things Jesus would do to love another.

That’s what this passage is calling us to. It is so easy to love those like us, those that fit the same boxes we fit. “Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God”. For Jesus, the “you” was universal. Ours should be as well. But be prepared – some will ridicule you for ministering to that people or in that neighborhood. Some will reject you because you love and accept those kinds of people. Do not worry – Jesus was rejected too. To those who accepted Jesus, he was life. That is what brought praise to God.

I close with Paul’s closing: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit”.

Prayer: Oh God! Fill me with that hope, joy, and peace. Fill me so much that I overflow. Use me today as you will, O Lord my God. Amen.

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Righteous and True

Reading: Psalm 145: 17-21

Verses 17-18: “The Lord is righteous… is near to all who call on him in truth”.

The reading from Psalm 145 reveals two things about our God. In the first four words we read, “The Lord is righteous”. This word is a broad word. To be righteous most simply means to be one who chooses to do what is right. This includes not only doing the morally “right” thing but also seeking justice, equality, and generosity. The psalmist reminds us that God loves us as his creation. Much of our sense of and compassion for being righteous comes from love. Our love of God and love of neighbor drives our desires for righteousness, justice, equality…

Being “right” and loving can sometimes create tension or can even feel like they are clashing. One example would be Jesus’ healings and other actions on the Sabbath. Whether healing a man’s deformed hand or picking grains as they walked along, Jesus’ choices brought him into conflict with the religious authorities. Jesus’ question about doing good or doing evil on the Sabbath got to the deeper truth: our call to love. Here is where we can tie into the second half of today’s reading.

In verse 18 we read that God is “near to all who call on him in truth”. We are each unique and beloved creations of God’s own hands – formed in the womb, loved since that day. Because of our connection to God we can trust fully in God and in God’s plans for our lives and our world. When we are willing to release our fears and doubts, the parts of us that question God’s love and care for us, then we can live the life that God intended us to live. From a place of trust and security we can begin to look out beyond ourselves and can begin to see the needs of others. Here we can begin to address their needs. Often we come back around to working for justice and equality, becoming generous to the poor and broken in spirit.

As we grow deeper in God’s love and in our trust in God, we grow closer to the heart of Jesus. Along this journey we share God’s righteousness, love, and truth with all we meet. May it be so today for us all.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, I rejoice in your love for me. I exalt your name for being the creator and sustainer of my life. May your love and righteousness be my love and righteousness. Like Jesus, may I give it away to all I meet. Amen.

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Compassion and Love

Reading: Luke 13: 14-17

Verse 16: “Should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham… be set free… from what bound her”?

Jesus heals on the Sabbath, elevating this woman’s need over keeping the law. Compassion and love lead Jesus to action. This “work” on the Sabbath makes the synagogue leader “indignant”. One definition of this word is: “feeling or showing anger because of something unjust or unworthy” (Merriam-Webster). From our viewpoint, healing the woman is neither unjust or unworthy. The leader paraphrases one of the Ten Commandments, basically saying to come be healed on the other six days.

Jesus addresses the leader’s indignant heart. He begins by reminding all there that they care for their animals on the Sabbath, meeting their basic needs. He then extends the idea to someone much more worthy of care: the woman. Jesus says to all there: “Should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham… be set free… from what bound her”? If you care for your ox or donkey on the Sabbath, how much more should you care for a child of God? The religious leaders are shamed, as they should be. Jesus’ point is obvious. The crowd recognizes this, expressing delight in Jesus’ actions. In our hearts, we too cheer for Jesus.

The Sabbath was a day set aside to worship God and to renew the body. The woman was able to do both because Jesus reached out to her. Sometimes in our worship we too are led to deeper love and compassion. Perhaps the message or the scripture or a song or prayer time may trigger action in you. Maybe a “least of these”, like the woman, will be placed on your heart by the Holy Spirit. If so, may you practice love and compassion today, helping another closer to God this day.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank you for your story of love and compassion today. Help me to see beyond the surface today and to engage those who need healing and wholeness. Amen.

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Reading: Colossians 2: 6-19

Verse 13: “And you… he has made alive together with him”.

In our passage from Colossians 2, Paul is encouraging the church and us to fill ourselves with Christ. Those around the church, the world, are trying to fill them with all sorts of things. Some think they need to follow Jewish laws: circumcision, dietary, festival, and Sabbath laws. Some are pressing them with the things of the world: philosophy, worshipping angels, the pleasures of the flesh. Paul reminds them and us that all of these things are false and temporary. All that matters is Jesus Christ.

Today we can struggle with what we choose to fill ourselves with. We too can chase after other, worldly things. What we fill ourselves with will determine how we live. If work is our top priority, then it will eat up the majority of our time and energy. If we next allocate space for family and friends, then most of our time and energy has been spent. Add in a hobby or interest plus a little sleep… and little time is left for God and faith. It can become hard to fit faith into our lives. Nevermind being filled with Jesus.

According to Paul, this is backwards. Paul encourages the Colossians and us to first fill ourselves with Jesus Christ. When we first put on Christ, we become one with him. We circumcise self and our selfish desires. We are baptized into new life with Jesus. We cannot stop there though. We cannot allow our faith to become boxed in, to become a list that we check off periodically. Nourishing and growing our faith must be our top daily priority. If it is we will live in and through Christ. We will live into verse 6: “And you… he has made alive together with him”. We are alive with Christ when we fill ourselves with him. This day and every day may we begin by filling ourselves with Christ. May we be so filled that he overflows.

Prayer: Father God, fill me to full with Jesus. Fill me so that he is my all in all. May Christ shine bright in my life today. Amen.

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A Day to Wait

Reading: John 19: 38-42

Verse 40: “Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen”.

When Jesus breathes His last breath, three hours of darkness descends upon the land. After the three hours of darkness passed, Joseph of Arimathea asks Pilate for Jesus’ body. Nicodemus comes to help, bringing with him myrrh and aloes for the body. “Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen”. These two men, leaders in the Jewish religion, then place the body in a nearby tomb – one we believe Joseph bought for himself. From the other three gospels, we know that some of the women who followed Jesus were also there. Mary and Mary Magdalene are named in two of the gospels.

None of Jesus’ disciples are there. They are fearful of being associated with Jesus. They are afraid of what the Jewish leaders might do to them. Joseph and Nicodemus are likely both members of the ruling council. They do not seem too concerned about being associated with Jesus. The events that have unfolded the past two days must have brought them to the point of believing in Jesus. They most certainly did not know what was going to happen Sunday morning. Joseph and Nicodemus were simply showing love to Jesus by caring for His body.

Then Saturday happens. It was the Sabbath – the day to worship God and to rest. For all who had followed Jesus and who had professed faith in Him as Lord and Savior, Saturday was a “now what?” kind of day. I doubt that they praised God much that day. I doubt they did much except pray and think about what had just happened in light of the three years they had just spent with Jesus. It must have been so hard to reconcile these two. For all of Jesus’ followers, this day must have been awful. It was a day full of why?, what if?, how? type of questions.

It is a hard day for us to sit in the moment, knowing that tomorrow is coming. We know the end of the story. Yet today can be a day of questions and reflection for us too. But our questions are of a difference type. How has Jesus changed my life? Why did Jesus pick me as a follower? What if I lived out my resurrection faith more fully? May your Holy Saturday be blessed as you reflect on Jesus this day.

Prayer: Lord, may I be present to you today. May I find you in the moment, in-between the cross and the empty tomb. May I come to know you better today. Amen.

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It Is Finished

Reading: John 19: 16-30

Verse 30: “Jesus said, ‘It is finished’. With that, He bowed His head and gave up His spirit”.

In John’s gospel we move quickly from Pilate handing Jesus over to Jesus being on the cross. In the other gospels there is not much attention paid to the painful and torturous process that Jesus actually went through. The focus is on the fact that Jesus went to the cross for us. Once there, John focuses on a few details.

First, the sign. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews”. The religious leaders protest but Pilate does not budge. The truth remains atop the cross. Second, the four soldiers divide His clothing and cast lots for the 5th item – the perfect one. This fulfills a passage from Psalm 22. Third – the human side of Jesus emerges. He is near the end and looks down and sees His mother. Also present is John, “the disciple whom He loved”. In an act of care and compassion, Jesus arranges for His mother’s care.

A bit later the time comes. After a sip of wine vinegar, “Jesus said, ‘It is finished’. With that, He bowed His head and gave up His spirit”. The sins of the world had been heaped upon Jesus. He was ready to depart. Jesus was not at the point of death by crucifixion. He was not suffocating. The task had been completed and it was time for Jesus to end the earthly pain. His last breath was on His terms.

The body that God has inhabited hung on the cross, naked, bloodied and beaten, lifeless. It showed how God’s love had entered the world and lived among us. It showed how God endured much pain and suffering for our benefit. The scars are the scars of our sin. The marks represent what Jesus bore for you and for me. Jesus was wounded for and by our transgressions. It would be a tragic end to a really good three years of ministry and teaching if it all ended here on the cross.

The body will be laid in the tomb. Two brave men go and get the body of Jesus, prepare the body, and leave it in the tomb. The Sabbath is near. The Jewish day of preparation is drawing to a close. God was preparing for much more. We await it upon Easter Sunday. God bless.

Prayer: Come, Lord Jesus, come. Amen.

Would you…?

Reading: Mark 3: 1-6

Verse Four: “Then Jesus asked them, ‘Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill'”?

Today’s passage has three perspectives. Let’s begin with the man. The man with the shriveled hand is most likely a beggar – relying on the charity of others to eat, to have clothing, etc. To go out to find Jesus might take days. This would cost him and he would likely not eat those days. But now, right here in the temple, he has found the healer, Jesus. Jew or not, he wants healing more than to observe the Sabbath.

The Sabbath is important to the Pharisees. They “watched him closely” to see if Jesus would somehow sin, breaking a Sabbath or temple law. They see Jesus as a challenge to their authority and to their place in life. The Pharisees are also the keepers of about all that the Jews have left as the people of God. The Romans have allowed temple worship to continue. As a people living under an occupying army, religious practices and traditions are about all you have left to hold your people together. It is all that keeps them a community. These two factors combine to give the Pharisees “stubborn hearts”.

Jesus is the third yet central character in our passage. He goes to the synagogue on the Sabbath and He sees the man. You just know that Jesus is filled with compassion for the man. So He asks him to stand up. Everyone look at this man. Then Jesus asks the Pharisees, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill”? Even though this is the Sabbath – the day to honor God with worship and to do no work – what do we do with this man? For the man and Jesus there is only one correct answer. To the Pharisees, though, neither answer is acceptable. Answer one way and they are saying the Sabbath has no value. Answer the other way and they are saying the man has no value. It is a no-win situation for the Pharisees, so they remain silent.

Would you buy that cake for your child’s birthday with your last $20 or would you pay for the groceries for that single mom in front of you in line without enough? Would you be on time for that super important meeting or would you stop and help that elderly lady change her flat tire? We often stand in the Pharisees shoes – how do we decide between two goods? As Jesus did, may we choose the better good, always valuing relationship over to institution.


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Daily Archives: 16/10/2010

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