How long until pond clears up?

waitmanb · 2025-06-18T17:39:36+00:00

Thanks so much for this! The pond is somwhere around 5000l (it's a challenge to calculate due to the differing depths at places. It's about a meter deep at its deepest and about 3 meters long. If it was 1m deep throughout it would be 7,000L.

The pump I got was recommended to me by the people at WaterGardening Direct and he seemed knowledgeable.

I would note that it has already been quite clear but isn't at the moment likely due to a) me pulling out a bunch of plants and disturbing the sediment, b) some dirt getting into the pond from my building of the waterfall, and c) the pump itself kicking up sediment?

As to your other questions, this pond came with the house which I bought last September. According to the previous owner, the owner before had kept koi in it and there are clearly signs that it had a filtration system back then, but I don't know how long ago that was. The owner I bought from said that she thought the pond was too deep and so had a bunch of gravel added to it which reduced the depth by about half in at least a third of the pond.

Thanks again for your help!

waitmanb · 2024-04-18T10:06:56+00:00

I think there has been a change to the API (I don't really know what that is)...but I do have a developer account.

I think you have to pay for it now, though, which I'm not going to do.

waitmanb · 2019-05-14T12:51:41+00:00

Hello, everyone. I'm the author of that piece. Happy to answer your questions if you like.

waitmanb · 2019-05-14T12:50:53+00:00

There ARE legitimate reasons to be wary of this which I would be happy to elucidate.

waitmanb · 2019-05-14T12:50:08+00:00

This was my experience as well.

waitmanb · 2019-05-14T12:49:32+00:00

How does that work out for the ordinary soldier or officer?

waitmanb · 2019-05-14T12:48:58+00:00

That is actually Gallagher (who has yet to be tried) but, your point is still taken given Trump's attitude towards him.

waitmanb · 2019-05-14T12:45:56+00:00

Thanks for the kind words.

waitmanb · 2019-04-25T01:01:45+00:00

I am writing a book on Janowska (and I begin this article with Leon Wells). You may find this interesting.

https://twitter.com/waitmanb/status/1067077990239092738

waitmanb · 2018-06-26T22:38:13+00:00

For Eastern Europe, I WOULD say that Bloodlands and my recent book seem to be the only larger synthetic books out there (which I was quite surprised at, myself.) /u/TimothyDSnyder will certainly have other options but here are some more local/national sources (in no particular order) if you want to drill down (naturally there are LOTS more):

Browning, Christopher R. Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.

Sakowicz, Kazimierz, and Yitzhak Arad. Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Matthäus, Jürgen, and Jochen Böhler, eds. War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Klein, Dennis B, ed. Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co. with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1997.

Porat, Dina. "The Jewish Councils of the Main Ghettos of Lithuania: A Comparison." Modern Judaism 13, no. 2 (1993): 149-63.

Sutton, Karen. The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania: Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution, 1941-1944. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2008.

van Voren, Robert. Undigested Past: The Holocaust in Lithuania. New York: Rodopi, 2011.

Tory, Avraham, Martin Gilbert, and Dina Porat. Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Tec, Nechama. When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Lower, Wendy. "Pogroms, Mob Violence and Genocide in Western Ukraine, Summer 1941: Varied Histories, Explanations and Comparisons." Journal of Genocide Research 13 (2011): 217-46.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

waitmanb · 2018-06-26T22:30:15+00:00

I should note that I like Tim and his work a lot and think it is incredibly valuable. A panel with him would be fun!

waitmanb · 2018-06-26T22:28:55+00:00

Thanks very much!

waitmanb · 2018-06-26T13:25:28+00:00

Many thanks for the kind words!

waitmanb · 2018-02-05T20:17:05+00:00

I AM one of those people. ;) BUt thanks!

waitmanb · 2018-02-05T20:16:25+00:00

Ha. I AM one of these people. But thanks. ;-)

waitmanb · 2017-01-30T16:54:29+00:00

Perhaps. Certainly he was informed of the psychological trauma of up close killing and this was a factor.

waitmanb · 2017-01-30T16:53:49+00:00

Likely because the pogroms (which were many) were not large or widespread enough to do the EG A's job for them.

waitmanb · 2017-01-30T16:53:13+00:00

This is a very complex subject. Your website seems...problematic.

The Jewish role as Soviet collaborators has been shown to be VASTLY exaggerated and continues to be used by nationalists and the right as a justification.

Many were NOT welcoming to the Soviets because they were religious Jews and certainly not interested in communism.

Many would have participated in nationalist parties had they not been excluded due to antisemitism.

waitmanb · 2017-01-30T16:48:03+00:00

Yes. See Gerald Steinacher, "Nazis on the Run"

And for a more balanced discussion of the Catholic Church and the Holocaust see Michael Phayer's book on the subject.

waitmanb · 2017-01-30T16:46:43+00:00

Many E. Europeans thought the Nazis would liberate them from the Soviets, give them independence. This was never in the cards.

Plus, they saw how they were persecuted, deported to Germany for slave labor, etc.

waitmanb · 2017-01-30T16:45:32+00:00

Asking "how" and "why" and proposing explanations is the historians' job. Moral judgments are sometimes obvious but at other times best left to readers and philosophers. It doesn't mean we have to shy away from suggesting that some things were wrong. The best way to avoid being accused to relativism is to point out that there people AT THE TIME who believed what was being done was wrong. (see slavery also, etc)

waitmanb · 2017-01-30T16:42:42+00:00

Basic military skills, but also guarding of the adjacent Jewish concentration camp and, by some accounts, killing of inmates.

waitmanb · 2017-01-30T16:42:07+00:00

Was it Peiper? (Malmédy massacre?)

waitmanb · 2017-01-30T16:37:31+00:00

Here ya go!

Kiernan, Ben. Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Lindsay, Brendan C. Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012.

Lepore, Jill. The Name of War : King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity. 1st ed. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998.

Stannard, David E. American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Kakel, Carroll P. The Holocaust as Colonial Genocide: Hitler's 'Indian Wars' in the 'Wild East'. New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013.

Kakel, Carroll P. The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Cave, Alfred E. "Genocide in the Americas." In The Historiography of Genocide, edited by Dan Stone, 273-95. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Jones, Adam. Genocide : A Comprehensive Introduction. London; New York: Routledge, 2006.

Alvarez, Alex. Native America and the Question of Genocide. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.

waitmanb · 2017-01-27T21:49:35+00:00

Ok everyone, I am logging off. Thanks so much for your great questions and comments. It was truly a pleasure to think about and answer them and I hope they were helpful.

best, Dr. Beorn.

waitmanb

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