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I had baby koi in an outdoor water feature (oak barrel with a plastic tub/liner in it)over the summer. There are 3 koi, each being 3" long. Now, I need to bring in the koi for winter because it is getting down to 5C - 10C at night these days. I set up the 20 year old 11"wide x 29"long x 10"(water depth) aquarium this weekend, adding fresh tap water, got the chemical filter running (with well-rinsed activated charcoal in one section and filter "cotton batton" in the other), and added the water lettuce from the pond with a gallon of pond water also. My question to everyone out there...how soon can I add my koi? I did not add cholorine de... stuff to the water and so was wondering how long, with a filter going, does it take to clear the water of cholorine? Also, if I bring in some water from the tub outside with the koi, will that be good for the koi or the water? Should I bring in 1/2 the water from the tub? Also, how much light should I give the water lettuce? I need to buy new bulbs.
Brenda (valleyrimgirl)
The activated carbon will remove the chlorine eventually by itself. There are too many variables to predict the amount of time. It is reccomended to use a dechlorinator product that will remove the chlorine as well as chloramine and ammonia. These also can be comeing from your tap water.You will need a dechlorinator to do weekly maintaince. You can just leave the water in a bucket for a efew days before water changes, but the dechlorinator is safer and will get rid of ammonia. If you had filtration in the Oak Barrel set up, then use the media from that filter in the inside tanks filter, even if you have to tie it with fishing line to the inatake or return of the inside filter. This will help "seed" the filter with beneficial bacteria used for the nitrogen cycle.If you have fluorescent tubes get a replacement bulb that is rated 6500K to 6700K. If you only have a 1 light ixture you may need to get another fixture or replace the one you have with a double strip (tube) type. I am assumeing the fixture you have is single bulb at 20watts, 24" long. This may be ok if the water lettuce is a floating plant ( sorry I am not familiar with ponds and KOI for that matter, but it is pretty close to tropical I would assume) If you have incadescent fixtures than use the compact fluorescent replacement bulbs also 6500K rated. They are the screw in type that have tube spirals or loops. For tubes, home depot phillips brand marked Daylight" or Daylight Deluxe" are fine. Screw in type. also home depot b ut wal-mart has cheaper ones by "Lights of America" labeled "daylight" they should have 6500K on the base or stamped on the tube or label. One concern, did you use cotton batting? or is it the poly-fiber meant for aquarium use? cotton will rot and release ammonia into the water, use the "filterfloss" instead. I guess you have the corner in tank filters run by an air pump? Another option is to run the ilters in your Barrel for a few weeks to seed the carbon and fiberfill. Hope this helps. P.S. You may want to look into a bigger outdoor set up or the comeing spring. I think KOI can grow up to 8" their 1st year
If you can fill the aquarium with water from the barrel, the more the better. If you were to totally fill the aquarium with pond water, in theory you could just net the fish right away and drop them in the aquarium because the temperature and chemistry of the aquarium water would be the same as the barrel pond. Less stress on the fish.
If you half-fill the aquarium with pond water, when you transfer the fish you may have to put the fish in zip loc bags and float them in the aquarium for a bit, to equalize the temperature (like you do for store bought fish).
I assume you dont have a fish filter in your barrel but if you do, the suggestion to run this in the new aquarium for a few weeks is a good one (at the same time you are running the new aquarium filter).
The pond filter and pond water have beneficial bacteria in it. In a nutshell, fish produce ammonia as waste. This bacteria helps break down the ammonia into less harmful substances. You can search on the net for Ânitrogen cycle or Âaquarium nitrogen cycle or Âaquarium cycling for more detail. The gist is, in a newly set up pond or aquarium this beneficial bacteria doesnÂt exist yet in sufficient amounts to handle the fish waste, so if you add 3 fish the ammonia levels might rise to an unsafe level and do harm to the fish. Transferring the pond water to the aquarium as well as transferring the pond filter to the aquarium temporarily may help transfer this good bacteria to the aquarium.
You should probably buy a water test kit (from a pet store) to test for ammonia and nitrate especially. For the first 4 Â 6 weeks the fish are in the aquarium, check for ammonia and nitrite every two days. If the level is extremely high, do water changes. ItÂs as simple as removing some of the old water (25 to 50%) and refilling with new tap water, at the same temperature and dechlorinated of course. I read that better to be safe than sorry, so I suggest you buy some dechlorinator. Other than that, however, you really donÂt need anything fancy in the world of fish supplies.
I guess part of how much light to give the water lettuce will depend on the maximum wattage bulb your light fixture can handle. DonÂt exceed this. If you find that the water lettuce still yellows and dies donÂt be disappointed. ItÂs very hard to overwinter indoors unless you have a very bright, warm greenhouse. The only hope is that it floats on the water surface, so right under the bulb it might be better light. I was able to overwinter hornwort this way, though it did look scraggly and not great.
Oh, for the first bit donÂt overfeed the fish. You donÂt need them producing excess amounts of waste (ammonia) until the aquarium filter is cycled and can handle the ammonia they produce.
Good luck. My goldfish and koi will be coming inside shortly as well. I have a small inground pond. They can take cold water, even ice on top, just not a pond that freezes solid as mine would eventually do over winter (18" deep ponds freeze solid in our winters.)
I agree with the test set, a must for fishkeeping (use test tube/reagent type as apposed to multi test strips, in the end more economical and deffinately more accurate). Daily tests until nitrogen cycle is confirmed. Weekly there after. The addition of the pond water (barrel) to the tank is a great idea for acclimateing the fish to pH and Temp., but there isnt much beneficial bacteria that is in the water collumn. If any. Most is in the filter media or if only aerated with a pump of some sort, the pump may have a sponge or screen on the intake. that would be a great place. Also any gravel, stones or other decor in the barrel. The benificial bacteria prefer oxygen, water flow and a little darkness. But back to the acclimateing. This is not my idea but this is the way I introduce a new fish to the tank.These directions are for this scenario 1)Net or scoop the fish into a bucket, about 2 gal should be good, 1/2-3/4 filled with water from the barrel--- 2) In another container remove enough water from the tank to almost fill the bucket.----3) Move a some barrel water back to the aquarium to refil what you used---4) Wait 5 minutes and repeat---5) repeat steps 1-4 about 4-5 more times. At this rate the water should be less of a shock, Oh yeah net the fish or slowly pour the fish bucket into the tank. I use this method with newly bought fish but instead of putting any water from the bag into my tank, I just pour the bag into a net and release the fish.
I was talking with a customer today that had a beautiful pond/japanese garden. She had quite a large scale pond (more like a lake). Anyway, she had water lettuce and said it did well in shade to sun. I am not to familiar with pond/bog plants ( I pictured a head of iceburg lettuce, lol) , but it was highly reccomended. If the lettuce is doing good, and shows sign of being healthy then you should have no problem establishing that aquarium. In planted setups there is not as much beni. bac. growth as in artificial setups. The plants utilize the ammonia that is produced and manufacture the nutrients similar to the bacteria in you bio-filter. The more plants you have the less bacteria is needed to remove ammonia (kinda). So between any decor/gravel/media you add and the plants doing well in the aquarium you should be fine. But still get minimaly the ammonia, nitrite, and pH tests. I believe the tank you described is a 20L. Very small for the KOI. but it "may" be manageable over this winter. Really depends on fish growth.
I wouldn't even bother trying to save the water lettuce. Unless you can almost duplicate natural daylight it's not going to make it for very long.


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Some times you just gotta do it-how I was going to cover this thing has been bothering
me and that puts the other stuff in jeopardy- like the Trichocereus which will need a little extra love-
Anyway,here the removal and in my opinion...an up grade worthy of covering if it ever gets as big as the Y.Aloifolia....
The murder weapons!
The victims....
these will go into a hot spot next year where other stuff just fries!
Need some bling there anyway.
Well...what do you guys think do you like it better or worse?
I know the other Yuccas looked pretty much perfect
but just to big a monster in there!
A couple more pics...27F last night basically the end of the tropicals-we'll see,some more wilting and weeping still to come.
Dead soldier(nearly)
Even the Jacaranda did o.k. on the porch-
Sorry-no pics of Sandy to look at here....
Murderer! I didn't realize you have a trachy back there. Are you going to root them in pots inside for the winter? I think they'll be easy enough without being under the "tent". They should be hardy enough temp-wise (unless you get negative double digits), and protecting from moisture should be easy enough.
I really am trying to keep it balanced and not have plants blocking the view of other plants.
So,yea...how about that-there is a palm back there!
They will go to the basement in small pots,hopefully some roots going over the winter...I can cover my cactus now in a blink.....ahhh,much better!
Jim....question for you. I'm in Iowa City and really curious to know more about how you over winter your Musa Basjoo. Mine grew like crazy this year even after I did basically nothing to protect them last year.
I can't believe this winter will be as mild as last year so really curious as to what success you've had. Thanks buddy!
To bad I cut so many leaves of that Trachy,it wasn't ready for the main stage yet!
So yea,when I was a little kid 35 years ago 0: I brought
one of these back from Alabama and rooted it in the ground in St.Louis...it died.
They really will root just sticking them in the ground,the second year I had this it snapped in the wind,the tallest
one is the part I stuck in the ground and the 2 smaller shoots were off the trunk...pretty easy to root.
Next year they will be easier to cover(not being in another bed)and I will only cover them for the worst weather....
what I am always shooting for is maximum time for plants to be uncovered over winter,within reason.
Light Snow on your weather sticker... bumber!
Here is a link that might be useful: Virginia Beach Weather
No snow here or haze for that matter,sometimes they do get the temp right!
Sorry I missed your question......I have done nothing to my Basjoos that last 2 years but I think you could
get away with a little moisture cover and a big pile of leaves..


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Over the last five years our house value has been up and down but has always ranged between £170k-£200k. It was tempting at the time to increase its value in our net worth calculation to £200k because it made the figures look better!! But I tried to remain realistic.
I did once take it up to £185k but after the recession really kicked in, and because we're not selling any time soon, I reduced it back to £175k. Given the housing market in our area and what similar properties were selling for I think over time (the next 5-10 years) this is a good price to settle on.
Here in the UK I use a company called Zoopla to track the estimated value of house prices in our area (and I always check local property websites)……I think in the US you have Zillow.
Here's the graphic I pulled from July's Zoopla monthly report for our house.
-As an aside the estimated rental value is exactly the same as I would have it at: approximately £650 per month.
I know these figures are not perfect, but they can be a good guide to use if you want to include your house in your net worth calculation.
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Housewrap vs Drainage Wrap?
Appreciate comments on what housewrap you used or are considering.
We're building in NY State. House is framed and we're planning foam or cellulose insulation in 2x6 walls, fiber cement siding (Nichiha or Hardi).
One new development that caught my attention are drainage barriers--a textured more 3D material that is supposed to channel any moisture that migrates past the siding down and out, in addition to offering vapor midgration similar to Tyvec. I have a sample of a product called Vortec -- has anyone used it? I believe Dupont has a similar material. Any experience with this material affecting warranties on cement siding?
Thanks for feedback! --Mark
Hi Mark,
We looked into the drainage wraps and ultimately passed as the most common brand we found in our area is Homeslicker, made by Benajamin Obadyke (sp?), and it has a small compression value, and we didn't want to have any concerns over wavy fiber cement. We chose, instead, to use vertical furring strips to achieve the same drainage plane result. We also used a product called coravent located at key openings (windows, skirt board, etc) which is designed to allow air flow, while also preventing insect entry.
I would suggest doing a search here for Rollie's Delores house which provides an excellent reference for this sort of exterior design. Keep in mind that it is especially important to ensure your flashing details are sound when using this method..... it can get a tad tricky.
We're using Nichiha siding and I know their reps are perfectly comfortable with this installation (ie no warranty issues).
Good luck!
House Wraps like Vortec that don't want to tell you how it is made, are probably micro-perforated polyethylene which, in my opinion, is not sufficiently water resistant to be used in a wall assembly as a weather barrier. I would recommend spunbonded wraps like Tyvek and Typar. You might consider using Tyvek Drain Wrap or Stucco Wrap (same thing) if you think the amount of rain in your area justifies it.
Thanks for the feedback--appreciate clarification. If Vortec is HD Poly (as opposed to regular poly), is that satisfactory for water resistance? I like that the pattern is non-directional, compared to Tyvec, which has to be installed only one direction. --Mark
According to the manufacturer, the product is laminated and micro-perforated, as opposed to spunbonded polyethylene and polypropylene.
It has a lower permeability than either Tyvek or Typar.
But you also might want to look at comparisons for tearability, surfectant resistance and a host of other things. The fact that it is said to drain in all directions is not that important to me.
In our mixed-humid climate, we've used Typar with Homeslicker rain screen, and Nichiha shakes/siding. Nichiha is slightly thicker than Hardie, but I can't comment on the warping issue.
Here's the website that Niff suggested...
Here is a link that might be useful: Delores House
Most house wraps are made of polyethylene or polypropylene. Some are cross-woven with a micro-perforated coating, some are porous film laminated to scrim, some are non-woven spun-bonded, and there are other variations. The micro-perforated ones are the least water-resistant. I recommend using the non-woven ones like Tyvek, Typar and WeatherSmart (Fortifiber) and would only use one of the others after testing it for water-resistance.


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bradford pear trees
I have I guess a bradford pear trees. The big one on the left. I heard they stink in the spring when they have white flowers on them. I have about a thousand square feet of yard I can't grow grass because of it's shadow. It's about 40 feet tall and I'm thinking of cutting it down to 20 feet or just taking it out. But cutting it to 20 feet and see if it's ok might be better that just taking it out and if not then I can just take it out this summer.
NEVER.... EVER!!!! .. top a tree ...
with no insult to the roots.. it will explode in vegetative growth ... AT HEIGHT ... making large weak parts.. that will then overhang your yard ...
besides the fact ... its root system is what is leaching all the available water out of the soil.. and besides sun.. that is why you cant even grow shade grass under it..
be done with it.. period ...
and while you have the tree guys there.. figure out what the second one is.. and get rid of it at the same time.. if its any kind of problem tree ... [do note.. if you pay to top it.. wyou will poay.. AGAIN ... for removal.. in a few years ...]
yes.. bradford pears flower smell has been said to smell like nasty gym socks.. left in a gym bag.. in the trunk ..... for a week ... no upside to that .. for sure.. lol ...
get rid of it... and good luck
I have a 10 foot pole saw coming from amazon tomorrow and I'll just hire a labor for $10 an hour and we can get on an 8 foot ladder and just trim everything the pole saw will reach. If it don't work then I'll just hire another labor to help me take it out. I'm retired and this will give me something to do. When would be a good time to butcher the tree?
This post was edited by lostsoul62 on Fri, Jan 31, 14 at 12:20
Not far from me is a house with ornamental pear trees lining the drive (about 10-12 total); every one of them get topped if not every year then every other year. Terrible sight in winter.
lostsoul, it would be much cheaper to hire labor with a chain saw and just cut it down. Probably two hours work.
I just move in my house about 5 months ago so this is all new to me. After reading all the post it might be best that I do just cut it down with a labor. But my wife isn't really sure about this so maybe it might be a good idea to let the tree flower in the spring and if I really don't like it and can't do something with the shaded area then I'll just get a chain saw and a labor and just cut the thing down and don't worry about pruning it. Thanks you everyone I know more and feel more comfortable if I cut the tree down and I have a feeling that just might be what I'll do but I would like to wait until after it blooms and that will satisfy my wife too. Thanks again.
It could be a lot of trees based only on the picture. I can't see leaf shape, bark texture, or much of anything in the picture that could be used for a positive ID. The branching pattern of the tree closest this way does look typical of callery pear, but could also be something else. I have no reason to doubt that it is a callery pear if Lostsoul62 is pretty sure that's what it is.
I am planning to take out all the trees in the mixed allee* lining my driveway and replace them with Bradford pears, anyone know a good cheap mail-order source?
Or should I go with Paulownias?
*auto-correct kept trying to change this to "allele". WTF?
This post was edited by eric_oh on Sat, Feb 1, 14 at 11:28
One thing gardening teaches is patience. You seem unsure as to what kind of tree it is. Wait until you know what it is and what all your options are. I do not like flowering pears but some people do. Maybe you will like it. I have never noticed a bad odor from the flowers. There are ways to mitigate the shade if you decide you do like the tree. I would suggest you go through one growth season. See it in all it's seasonal garb. Then decide what to do.
Of course, if you know exactly what it is and know you don't like it, get ride of it.


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Figs on Oregon Coast?
We just moved to the Brookings, OR area and are excited to be able to grow some different things. We are about 1/2 mile off the Pacific at 425' elevation. Was wondering how figs might do here. Have read that Conadria, King or White Genoa might be best for a cool coastal climate.
We get plenty, and more, of winter rain, a dry summer. It doesn't freeze to speak of... a light frost at worst, but we don't get much summer heat. Well, we don't get summer heat at all, really.
We have a flat with clayey soil, poor drainage, and good sun.
We also have a north facing hillside with deep loam and much better drainage. It gets reasonable sun near the top, and that's where I was thinking putting the fig.
Welcome to Brookings. I have heard desert king does well in your climate. You might check the other forum if you don't get many suggestions here. Lots of knowledgable folks over there can help.
We lived in Brookings when i worked at The Bay just before I retired. Brookings is beautiful, but the climate was too much for us. Not enough sun.
Good luck!
In your climate there are two types of figs that should do well: 1) figs that produce a large breba crop and 2) figs that ripen an early main crop. Desert King is the old standby for producing a large breba crop. I have one in my yard and in my opinion the fruit is very nice for a green fig. Celeste if a variety that produces a large main crop early in the season (as far as main crops go). Celeste figs are very nice, although in your cool climate they may not develop full flavor. But if you have the space it still may be worth growing a Celeste tree to see how it does.
KiwiBob has a website that discusses how different varieties do up in coastal Washington state. You can check that out and see what does well up there. I'm sure the conditions are pretty similar to yours.
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February 10,
Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom
Nancy Blum is the Spring 2015 Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project visiting artist. She received her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art and has since been creating and exhibiting extensively in the worlds of printmaking, public art, and drawing. Her work, which explores the pattern and architecture of nature, has been recognized through such fellowships as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Peter S. Reed Foundation, and Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.
She has been an artist in residence and guest lecturer at numerous institutions; her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions across the US, and in collections as far as Brussels and South Korea.
This event is sponsored by The Marvin Bileck and Emily Nelligan Trust, is presented by the Bowdoin College Visual Arts Department, and is free and open to the public.
Linda Gradstein: "Do Women Do it Better, or Just Differently: Reflections on 25 Years as a Middle East Journalist"
February 19,
Moulton Union, Main Lounge
Linda Gradstein is a journalist who reports for AOL News and Public Radio International's The World, and writes for the online magazine, Slate. She has covered important events in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, including the intifada, the mass immigration of Soviet immigrants to Israel, the leadership of Yasser Arafat, Hamas in Gaza, the Persian Gulf War, and major elections in Israel.
Gradstein was also the Israel correspondent for NPR News from 1990 until 2009. She is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, as well as the team that received Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the Persian Gulf War.
Sponsored by Bowdoin Hillel, the Women's Resource Center and Gender and Women's Studies
Dancer and Choreographer Chantal Loïal: 'On t'appelle Venus (They Call You Venus)'
February 28,
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
In her performance piece, On t'appelle Venus, choreographer and dancer Chantal Loial pays tribute to Sawtche (1789-1819), known as the Black Venus, who had been brought to France in the nineteenth century by a "tamer" who prostituted her and exploited her as a circus freak. Swatche's body, deemed abnormal, fascinated the European imagination. After she died, scientists dissected her body and displayed it at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, all in the name of scientific and anthropological progress. Through this artistic expression of her body, Chantal Loial invites us to think of feminine body and the norms we use to draw laws about both the body and beauty.
Loial created her dance company in 1994. She began dancing her native Afro-Guadeloupean traditional dances at age seven and went on to become a professional choreographer and dancer, earning her diploma in contemporary dance at the National Dance Centre of Pantin, France in 2008. She reinterprets traditional Caribbean and African dances that she mixes with European ballet and other forms of dance. In 2014, Loïal received the highest French Order, the National Order of the Legion of Honor for her work in the Arts (Knight of the Legion of Honor).
Open to the public free of charge.
For more information, contact Hanétha Vété-Congolo at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Foundation (Mellon Humanities Initiative).
Ido Misato: "Creating Gilded Spaces: Kaisho and the Gilded Folding Screens"
March 3,
Searles Science Building, Room 315
In her presentation, Ido Misato explores the meaning of spaces defined by gilded folding screens. A gilded folding screen is a screen for which gold is used as the background, and on which in many cases flowers and/or birds with seasonal landscape are depicted. It was regarded as an important gift and export from Japan to China and Korea; although the form of the folding screen itself originated in China, the gold background was unique to Japan.
Unlike pictures on room partitions, which are architecturally fixed, folding screens are generally portable, which enabled them to create a temporary space as the occasion demanded. Folding screens functioned as borders between interior and exterior spaces and in ritual spaces. Above all, the glittering and gorgeous surface of the gilded screens was suitable for and, indeed, could create extraordinary spaces for religious rituals. The space enclosed by the gold screens could be transformed into an ideal space, if just for a passing moment.
Sponsored by: The Annie Talbot Cole Fund, the Asian Studies Program, and the Art History Department
Misato is the project assistant professor at the Institute of Advanced Study of Asia at the University of Tokyo. She is currently a visiting fellow in the department of East Asian studies at Princeton University.
Reception: Nancy Blum, Visiting Artist in Residence
March 5,
Edwards Arts Center, Room 116 [Gallery]
Artist in Residence Nancy Blum will present her work during a reception hosted by the Bowdoin College Department of Visual Art.
Nancy Blum received her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art and has since been creating and exhibiting extensively in the worlds of printmaking, public art, and drawing. Her work, which explores the pattern and architecture of nature, has been recognized through such fellowships as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Peter S. Reed Foundation, and Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. She has been an artist in residence and guest lecturer at numerous institutions; her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions across the US, and in collections as far as Brussels and South Korea.
This event is free and open to the public.
Film Screening: 'The Auschwitz Gateway Film' with Filmmaker David Conover
March 25,
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
Filmmaker David Conover will screen his recently-produced eight-minute film created for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum near Krakow, Poland.
The Auschwitz Gateway Film is a compelling and heartbreaking introduction to the horrors of the Holocaust at the largest concentration camp of the Nazi era, and will be shown to museum visitors before they walk through the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei ("work makes you free") gateway to enter the camp.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Conover and Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Aviva Briefel.
Free and open to the public. No tickets required.
Call 725-3552 or email email@example.com for more information.
Film Screening: 'Secundaria' with Filmmaker Mary Jane Doherty
March 30,
Druckenmiller Hall, Cleaveland 151
Boston University film professor Mary Jane Doherty traveled to Cuba multiple times over a period of years to complete what the Boston Globe called a "lucid, watchful portrait of young ballet dancers desperately trying to plié their way out of poverty and into the Ballet Nacional."
documentary Secundaria follows one high school class on its
journey through Cuba's world famous National Ballet School. The teenage
dancers love to dance…but many of them must dance as the only way to improve the lives of their impoverished families.
As we follow Doherty's primary subjects—middle-class Gabriela, poor Mayara, poorer Moises— Secundaria reveals itself through cinematic storytelling (and without a script, staging, or interviews) as being less about competing in dance and more about battling into adulthood.
Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
Free and open to the public - no tickets required.
Noliwe Rooks: "Because What is Beautiful is Good: Erasing Race and Selling Feminism in the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty"
April 6,
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
This talk explores the role that Black women played at the beginning and the end of the first international Dove brand "real beauty" campaign and how and why that campaign used feminism as an advertising tool.
Noliwe Rooks is currently an Associate Professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Cornell University where she is also the Director of Graduate Studies in Africana Studies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work explores the racial implications of beauty, fashion and adornment as well as the way race and gender both impact and are impacted by popular culture, social history and political life in the United States.
Rooks is the author of three books. The first, Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture and African American Women (1996, Rutgers University Press) won both the 1997 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book, and the Public Library Associations 1997 award for Outstanding University Press Book. Her second book, Ladies Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture that Made Them (Rutgers University Press) was published in 2004. Her most recent book, White Money/Black Power: African American Studies and the Crises of Race in Higher Education was published in 2006 with Beacon Press.
She has two forthcoming edited collections: "Black Fashion: Gender. Art. Politics" a special issue of NKA: Journal of Contemporary Art, Duke University Press, Fall 2015, No. 37 and Women and Magazines in the 21st Century: Race, Writing and New Media (Under Consideration). Her current book project is about the politics of race and economics of K-12 education in the United States and tentatively titled, Apartheid in America and Why it Matters That We Have Reached the Beginning of the End of Public Education.
Open to the public free of charge.
For more information, contact Hanetha Vete-Congolo at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Foundation (Mellon Humanities Initiative).
Sarita Gaytan "Message in a Bottle: Tequila and the Performance of Gender and Sexuality in Mexican Popular Culture
April 9,
Adams Hall, Room 208
Professor Sarita Gaytan will give a talk on Tequila and the spirit of Mexico. Her research examines gendered and national cultures of consumption. In particular, she looks at Tequila a national drink, to see how gendered practices and nationalism collide through its consumption. Her book, Tequila: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico, was recently published by Standford University Press, 2014.
Sponsored by Sociology and Anthropology, Latin American Studies, and Lectures and Concerts.
Russian Language Table
April 16,
Thorne Hall, Mitchell South
Come enjoy a meal and conversation while strengthening your language skills.


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According to L'equipe the Giro will start in Belfast in 2014!
Thank feck the Italian don't read the Irish press.
I might go to that!.
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Italian tricolor to fly above Belfast Town Hall? Rioters confused.
posted by bikeboy76 [1587 posts]
11th January 2013 - 17:43
Nah, they'll all be scared off by the predomenance of pink. Probably think it will be a Pride on Wheels event.
Hope it comes off, means I'll be back home for it.
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11th January 2013 - 18:15


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Shape your life and embrace your aggression: a boxing project for female and trans survivors of violence.
This article focuses on an action research project called Shape Your Life, developed to teach women and transgendered survivors of violence recreational boxing at the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club, Canada's only women-led boxing club. In this innovative project, participants were encouraged to explore "healthy aggression" as a means of initiating change in their lives. As most research on aggression in sport focuses on young men, the aggression of girls, women, and trans (transgendered and transsexual) individuals remains a much under-studied topic. This article attempts to open up farther dialogue on gender, sport, and aggression by providing an account of survivors' aggression as an important source of empowerment, thereby moving beyond the narrow focus on female aggression as harm inducing and a cause for moral panic. The article also highlights the need for practical approaches to physical activity and sport programming that address the needs of participants whose lives are affected by gender-based violence.
Do you realize that in this age of the world the power of self-defense, or of indignant protest, is more necessary to women than to men? You will find that we do more startling and unconventional things here than learning to box ... It is an excellent place, we find, for the adoption of new ideas.--The Garden of Eden, U.S.A.: A very possible story (1895, p. 148)
The above excerpt, written over a century ago, comes from William H. Bishop's Utopian novel, which describes life in a community called Eden, a place of sexual and economic equality.(i) Bishop's novel is considered the first "to discuss rape as a social problem and certainly the first to suggest, as a possible form of resistance, boxing" (Boddy, 2008, p. 162). This article also engages in an examination of boxing as a possible form of resistance. It focuses on an action research project, called Shape Your Life (SYL), developed to teach women and trans (ii) survivors of violence recreational boxing at the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club, Canada's only women-led boxing club. In this innovative project, participants also engaged in "more startling and unconventional things" than just boxing. In particular, they were encouraged to explore "healthy aggression" as a means of initiating change in their lives. As most research on aggression in sport focuses on young men, the aggression of girls, women, and trans individuals remains a much under-studied topic.
The article begins with an overview of the SYL project. The focus then shifts to a review of literature on female aggression and violence, arguing that much of the growing concern about aggression and violence reflects broader cultural anxieties about gender and race relations, and continues to ignore the ways in which girls and women are systemically targeted for violence. Following this, the project's action research methodology is outlined. In the subsequent section, the concept of 'healthy aggression' and the meanings it holds in the lives of survivors of violence is explored. This section attempts to open up further dialogue on gender, sport, and aggression by providing an account of women and trans survivors' aggression as an important source of empowerment, thereby moving beyond the narrow focus on female aggression as harm inducing and a cause for moral panic.
Shape Your Life (SYL)
The Shape Your Life project began in the fall of 2007, as a one-year action research project in Toronto designed to teach recreational boxing to 120 women and trans participants who identified as survivors of violence.(iii) Shape Your Life originated as a community-university partnership(iv) between the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club; two multi-service feminist organizations that provide program delivery and social advocacy for women and trans individuals in disadvantaged life situations; and myself, a university researcher engaged in research openly committed to a more just social order. Shape Your Life began firmly grounded in anti-oppression feminism, a model of practice that acknowledges and attempts to address structures of oppression. Therefore, to offer an effective project and minimize barriers for participants, SYL was designed with consideration for the ways in which poverty, race, gender, homophobia, and other forms of oppression are experienced as social inequalities. Given this framing, it was necessary to consider the various processes that support violence and function to preserve inequities in gender relations including economic vulnerability, racism, inadequate health care, and other discriminatory processes (McKenna & Larkin, 2002). To this end, the SYL project was integrated with other services, programs, and resources that were helpful in the area of housing, income support, counselling, parenting help, healthcare, and community legal services.
With the awareness that gender-based violence(v) is compounded by other axes of difference, Scrapper, the SYL project coordinator, focused on providing outreach and support to a diverse group of participants, with the particular aim of trying to reach survivors of violence who live in disadvantaged communities. For example, Scrapper established connections, held workshops, and information sessions with, and took referrals from several agencies including sexual assault centers, crisis lines, community health centers, women's centers, counseling services, and agencies that work with disadvantaged women, trans, and youths. Within a short period of time the demand for SYL increased well beyond the capacity of the project, and each month names were added to a waiting list. Shape Your Life was free for all participants. Transit passes, childcare, and post-workout snacks were provided, as were shoes and workout clothing when needed. At the completion of the project, participants were also provided with an additional one-year boxing membership at the Newsgirls gym and their own new pair of boxing gloves for training.
Girls Behaving Badly? The Framing of Gender, Aggression, and Violence
Gender-based violence is undeniably pervasive and is widely acknowledged as a major social and public health problem. However the issue of violence against women and transgendered people remains largely overlooked by physical educators and sport and physical activity researchers who have predominantly focused on violence within the confines of sport. The literature that does address violence against women is dominated by a focus on women's self defense (e.g., Hollander, 2004, 2009; McCaughey, 1997, 1998) and is often produced by feminist scholars outside of critical sport studies. Moreover, there remains a noticeable absence of research on the physical activity experiences of survivors of violence.(vi)
Yet, within the last two decades there has been a rather curious turn in research that examines females, aggression, and violence (e.g., Moriettie, Odgers, & Jackson, 2004; Pepler, Madsen, Webster, & Levene, 2008; Simmons, 2002; Underwood, 2003). Sensational media reports and public accounts, including those generated by academics, have helped to construct the cultural view that girls and women are becoming increasingly aggressive and violent. Newspaper headlines like the "Dark side of girl power" (Monsebraaten, 2006) and books such as Garbarino's (2006) See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What Can Be Done about It bombard readers with images of aggressive and violent girls and cite the importance of recognizing, intervening in, and minimizing the amount of aggression displayed by females. More recently the violent behavior of two college athletes went "viral," generating Internet-celebrity status and moral concern over the increasing levels of violence in women's competitive sport. Video highlights from a game in 2009 featuring New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert throwing elbows, colliding with players, and yanking the ponytail of a BYU player, resulted in media coverage not seen in women's soccer since Brandi Chastain removed her shirt (CBSNews.com). In 2010, Brittney Griner, a Baylor freshman previously known for her dunking ability, was suspended for two games for throwing a punch that broke an opposing player's nose in a playoff game (LATimes.com).
At the heart of these sensational accounts is a debate as to whether girls' and women's violence really is increasing. In simple terms, two opposing sides frame the debate (Luke, 2008; Wesley, 2006). Multiple sources of data show an increase in the rate of girls being arrested for violent crimes in the past two decades, providing evidence that girls' use of violence has increased. This claim is refuted by those who state that girls are not becoming more violent but that the increase in arrests can be explained by changes in enforcement behavior, higher incarceration rates of women and girls of color, and the failure of adequate social services for the most marginalized and disadvantaged girls and women, Luke (2008) critically flushes out both sides of this debate concluding that the
concern over the increase in girls' violence is a result of the co-occurrence of limited theorizing about violence primarily as an enactment of masculinity, cultural tensions over changing norms and understandings of race and gender, and what some have described as a backlash against the movements for social justice of the 1960s and 1970s (p. 38).
As Luke highlighted, the majority of research constructs aggression and violence as variously oppressive and inappropriate when enacted by females. Clearly aggression is overwhelmingly framed as the domain of men, which virtually ignores the causes, consequences, and meanings of aggression in the life of girls and women.
It is important here to distinguish between aggression and violence, as the two terms are not interchangeable. Violence, as understood here, can take three forms: (1) subjective, which is the most visible form of violence such as crime, terror, and physical acts enacted by individuals or groups; (2) objective, such as forms of discrimination and racism including those forms that are invisible and anonymous; and (3) systemic, which includes forms of violence inherent in economic and political systems (Zizek, 2008). Aggression, the more difficult term to define, relates to violence but is not the same thing, as it is possible to be aggressive without violence. Indeed, aggression is a word with a history. Kerr (2005) devoted an entire chapter in Rethinking Aggression and Violence in Sport to unpacking the numerous definitions of aggression in a variety of academic fields including sport, highlighting their major shortcomings. Kerr took up Apter's (2001) reversal theory to frame his discussion of aggression in sport and to argue that aggression can have a constructive and favorable effect. Reversal theory is concerned with the ways in which individuals experience their own motivation to a given situation at a particular time (Kerr 1999). Reversal theory, as advanced by Kerr (1999, 2005), provides a scientific basis for the study of aggression in autonomous individuals by providing a coherent model of motivation, cognitive processes, and affect.
Kerr (2005) highlighted that sport-sanctioned aggression and violence is a source of excitement, pleasure, and satisfaction. Indeed, sanctioned forms of aggression and violence are a fundamental domain of experience, yet such experiences often remain taboo or restricted in the lives of women. As boxing journalist Katherine Dunn noted, "We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression" (2009, p. 114). Consider, for example, that women's sport often removes or limits particularly aggressive forms of play such as prohibiting intentional body checking in hockey, and fighting two- rather than three-minute rounds in women's boxing. Indeed, sanctioned aggression and violence are still considered the hallmarks of masculinity and male-dominated sporting landscapes. If this were not the case, it is unlikely that the New Mexico soccer player's dirty play or the Baylor freshman's single punch would have generated so much spectacle and concern. As a result, a focus on men and masculinity still profoundly structure the concepts, frameworks, research, and dominant meanings of violence and aggression. What remains overlooked is the multiple meanings and experiences of aggression and violence in the life of women and trans people.
The incursion of female and trans bodies into what is still largely viewed as the masculine domain of boxing provides a unique opportunity to explore contrarian views about gender, aggression, violence, power, and strength,. Take for example the words of Joyce Carol Oates (2002), who famously wrote,
raw aggression is thought to be the peculiar province of men, as nurturing is the peculiar province of women. (The female boxer violates this stereotype and cannot be taken seriously--she is parody, she is cartoon, she is monstrous. Had she an ideology, she is likely to be a feminist) (p. 73, originally published in 1987).
Women have had to overcome numerous obstacles to gain entry into the ring (Denfeld, 1997; Dunn, 2009; Hager Cohen, 2005), and today boxing is one of the few sports where the skilled use of aggression and physical violence is sanctioned, acceptable, and celebrated.
Shape Your Life was developed as an action research project, an approach widely used in broader fields of education, but one that has a much shorter history in physical education and sport research (Frisby, Crawford, & Dorer, 1997; Reid, Tom, & Frisby, 2006; Tinning, 2000). Action research challenges and attempts to change inequitable power relationships by "bringing together theory, method and practice" (Frisby, Maguire, & Reid, 2009, p. 14). In other words, action research, in all of its various forms, is rooted in praxis attempting to contribute simultaneously to scholarship and social change (Carr & Kemmell, 1986). Shape Your Life fostered scholarship by making space for participants not traditionally supported in critical sport research, by calling attention to the pervasive phenomenon of gendered violence, and by addressing power imbalances that limit access to physical activity programs. Simultaneously, SYL worked toward social change by offering recreational boxing as a means of empowerment. Empowerment, in this instance, refers to "the ability of persons to make decisions and have control over their personal lives through the cultivation of resources" (Frisby, Crawford, & Dorer, 1997, p. 14).
Data collection for the project included a large body of observational, survey, and interview data produced over the first year and half of the project. Data for this article in particular, were drawn from in-depth, semistructured interviews generated from focus-group and one-on-one interviews with 78 participants. Shape Your Life participants ranged in age from 16 to 58 years old and represented a diverse group in terms of gender identities, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and social class. However, one common thread connected all participants as--each self identified as a survivor of violence. One of the traditions of the Newsgirls boxing club that was extended to the SYL project is that boxers were encouraged to select a "boxing name." For example, one of the SYL sessions had participants named The Brampton Brawler, Pit-bull, Resilience, Tantrum, The Chili, and Soc'er Mom. These boxing names are used in this article as pseudonyms at the request of the participants who took part in the interviews. All interviews were taped and transcribed for subsequent thematic analysis.
The following section draws on these participant narratives to examine the meanings and experiences of aggression in the life of female and trans survivors of violence within the SYL project. Participants discussed the importance of aggression within the context of the boxing project and everyday life by considering the ways in which aggression can be experienced as healthy, productive, and as transformative in their lives.
"Healthy Aggression" The SYL project teaches recreational boxing that does not include sparring or hitting other participants. It is not the intention of SYL to manufacture fighters; rather, the project introduces recreational boxing as a means of connecting with and supporting survivors of violence in order to empower and affect social change. Within the project, participants learn and perform the skills used in boxing by hitting heavy bags, speed bags, and shadow boxing.
One of the "capstone" experiences in the project is when participants climb into the ring to "chase" an experienced boxer. This gives the SYL boxer the rare opportunity to work on their offensive skills in a more realistic setting and to hit an actual moving body target instead of a piece of equipment. Wearing heavily padded 16-ounce sparring gloves, participants work on throwing punches for an uninterrupted round of three minutes. The opponent is a trained fighter wearing head gear and gloves, who works on slipping, parrying, and catching punches, although they sometimes let the SYL boxer land a body punch or head shot, particularly after they tire and their punches are less effective. Participants are given the opportunity to experience being the only two bodies in the ring and the assurance that they will never be hit back. "Chasing" is often one of the highlights of the project as participants safely experience the pleasure, satisfaction, and intense physicality of being in the ring. Although it is argued here that chasing is a source of enjoyment and pleasure to most participants, it is also true that not everyone chose to participate in this experience, and a few SYL boxers did not want any physical contact with another person.
Aggression is essential in the sport of boxing. When Savoy Howe, founder of the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club and the head SYL trainer, works with women and trans individuals, and in particular with those whose bodies have experienced violence, she makes the case for what she calls "healthy aggression." Howe contends that aggression is both healthy and instrumental for women and trans individuals:
It is about being powerful and grounded, it allows you to be adamant about what you need to do for yourself, it's about making good choices for yourself. Healthy aggression is powerful but it needs to be rehearsed--if you don't rehearse it, you'll be as useless as tits on a bull. Healthy aggression changes the way you think about what you can do in this world. We have to retrain ourselves to be aggressive.
The above excerpt demonstrates the ways in which Howe rejects the notion of aggression as the exclusive domain of men and masculinity and insightfully argues that aggression is an essential component of self-care. Similarly, Dunn (2009) explained, "we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool" (p. 106).
In what follows, healthy aggression is explored in direct relation to the experiences of SYL participants. Their accounts are offered as an attempt to open dialogue about the promising benefits healthy aggression offers to survivors of violence:
Fancy Pants: I survived violence since I was a kid and boxing, the SYL project, isn't about fighting and punching people out. For me this project teaches aggression and it's about learning to stand up for yourself, so you don't have to get to the point where you're going to let somebody beat you up. Brawler: Healthy aggression is a way of thinking. I used to think very differently about aggression, that it always ended up in violence. Now I see it [healthy aggression] as a positive. I used to feel very insecure and not confident at all. I thought the abuse was happening to me for a reason and coming here, it's helped me a lot. Now I think about myself in a different way. You know, I don't deserve this abuse, it shouldn't be happening to me, and I'm not going to put up with it anymore because I don't have to. To me, that's what healthy aggression is. Pit Bull: Before (SYL) my viewpoint was always that aggression means something negative. It was always physical, verbal, derogatory, or anything negative. Whereas when I went boxing it showed me the positive, it turned it around. Being aggressive helps and doesn't have to be hurtful. Striker: My last relationship was very abusive and when I think about it now I really have to laugh 'cause I think, oh my God, I was such a punk ... I can never see myself standing there or taking a lick again [long pause]. Being aggressive means I don't have to even be there. I will take care of myself. So yeah, that is what this project has done for me.
The SYL project encouraged participants to think differently about aggression, and to explore how healthy aggression can be experienced without being destructive or harm inducing. Similar to the findings in McCaughey's (1997, 1998) ethnographic study on women participants in self-defense and martial arts classes, SYL participants reported feeling pride, accomplishment, and increased confidence in their body as they learned to be aggressive. In essence, they improved their capacity to stand up and care for themselves. As Striker discussed in the above quote, she was no longer willing to put up with intimidation of an abusive relationship. The SYL project provided an important social space to reframe aggression as healthy, as a constructive tool, as a means of undermining passivity, and as an important aspect of self-care.
It is important to note that participants gave complex, diverse, and sometimes overlapping meanings to their experiences with aggression. However, in all cases, SYL boxers discussed an emancipatory, change-enhancing, contextualized approach to healthy aggression. As the following comments reveal, there are multiple sources of oppression that are embodied and experienced on a daily basis. Healthy aggression provides an important component of survival as well as creativity. The following three quotes speak to the ways in which healthy aggression can build and maintain a sense of self:
Bee Sting: I think healthy aggression is particularly important for racialized women, women of color, and minority women. As a minority woman I am told everyday about limits. There has been a change of thought, a change of feelings, and also the change in my personality after being in this project. I know you can become whatever you want, do whatever you want. Now I'm finding if I don't agree with something I'll say, "No! I'm not going to do it." Killah Kuwahla: Through SYL I decided to commit myself to start to take care of myself. The whole physical aspect of the project was challenging, but also I was really interested in finding the power of aggression within my own body. Because I am small I wanted to see what sort of power was there that I haven't even tapped into. I have started to really listen to my body, which I never did before. I'm finding out that I can do good things by being aggressive, I can take care of myself, and I don't just have to react to stuff all the time. The Chili: Because of the abusive relationship that I was in I totally lost myself. Coming here I am finding the person that I once was. I really appreciate that because without being here and boxing and being aggressive I don't think I could have found my voice. I just became very timid and internalized everything, and I never really stood up for myself or had opinions. I just stayed in the background and did whatever anyone wanted and now I am working at coming out of that.
The participants clearly outlined the positive effect of the project and healthy aggression on their life. In addition, Bee Sting highlighted that there are wide ethnocultural differences among experiences of violence and aggression. Violence against women and trans individuals in South Asian, Caribbean, First Nations, or other non-white communities occurs within a racist nation, and access to resources is often more difficult to obtain. Bee Sting argued that race is not a trivial difference in daily life as a "minority woman," and that she was often further displaced within white-dominated culture, making healthy aggression particularly relevant. For Bee Sting and other participants, healthy aggression is enriching, rather than threatening, and an important tool in redefining oneself and one's own capacities.
Shape Your Life is a unique boxing project for female and trans survivors of violence. As a participant named Shortfuse remarked, "When you go through all those different instances of violence, it's like it's taking little pieces of you away, and here I am taking those pieces back and becoming me--who I'm supposed to be." At the heart of this inquiry into healthy aggression is the acknowledgement that violence and aggression often function to preserve inequities in gender relations. Indeed, normative claims of male physicality and aggression impact the ways in which power and dominance have been constructed on and through the body of women and trans individuals. Notwithstanding this limitation, over the past two decades there has been growing public and scholarly concern over female violence and aggression. The analysis presented in this article draws from Luke (2008), who examined the claims as a form of cultural anxiety over changing social norms regarding race and gender and that new policies for violence have resulted in criminal behaviors that were previously dealt with outside the court system, not in an actual increase in girls' and women's violence and aggression. Moreover, the focus on and fascination with the increasing visibility of aggressive girls, or on "girls behaving badly," blunts the ability to focus on gender-based violence conditioned by inequality.
Boxing anchored by healthy aggression has the potential to be an empowering practice for survivors of violence. The primary aim of this article was to delink connections between masculinity and aggression in order to open up spaces for fresh and productive interpretations of aggression in the life of female and trans survivors of violence. The article attempted to rethink the relationship between women's and trans' bodies and aggression drawing from data that explores the benefits of healthy aggression. Explicit in much of this work are two additional insights. The first is the recognition of the need for strategic and practical approaches to physical activity and sport programming that address gender-based violence. There are very few programs for survivors of violence that encourage participants to "learn by body" (Wacquant, 2004) and that actively engage the moving body. There is clearly considerable scope for further action research by critical sport scholars engaging survivors of violence. The second insight is the relevance of potentially new theoretical understandings of aggression, which will enable the development of a more situated and in-depth analysis of both oppression and resistance in the life of those impacted by gender-based violence.
This article would not have been possible without the willingness of SYL participants to share their stories. I am grateful and wish to thank all the boxers in Shape Your Life.
(i) Although this novel is noted for its pro-feminist depiction of gender roles and envisions a "new womanhood," the text clearly reflects and embraces racial injustices without further reflection.
ii My use of the term trans encompasses transgender and transsexual identities.
iii Funding for SYL was provided by the Ministry of the Attorney General, Ontario Victim Services Secretariat. Participants joined the project for a three-month session. Multiple sessions were held, each with 15-25 participants. The project is now operating in its third year and has worked with over 300 participants. SYL continues to operate on donations and money raised specifically for SYL through the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club.
iv Opportunities for Advancement and The June Callwood Centre for Women and Families partnered with Brock University and The Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club to offer the SYL Project.
v The term gender-based violence, rather than violence against women, is used in this article because it acknowledges that gender relations are imbued with asymmetrical distributions of" power and to reflect a more trans-inclusive term (O'Toole, Schiffman, Kiter Edwards, 2007).
vi One exception is Concepcion and Ebbeck's (2005) work that examines the therapeutic use of exercise programs for survivors of domestic violence.
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Off the cuff, you might be hypothyroid or anemic or both. Talk to your family physician about this. Testing is simple (blood draw) and relatively inexpensive.
Hypothyroidism is an underactive thyroid. It's associated with undesired weight gain, fatigue, loss of energy, excessive tiredness manifesting as sleeping all the time, and cooler core body temperature than usual. If your blood tests (TSH, Free T4 & Free T3) confirm this, the solution is simple. There are many brands, as well as generic forms, of thyroid medication, available only by prescription.
You need to get monitored regularly as you don't want too much thyroid medicine as it may cause your heart to race or your hands to get shaky & tremulous.
Anemia can also make you feel tired & cold. The key question to ask is why are you anemic? If you're menstruating heavily, then we ask if we can control your menses (usually w/hormonal contraception). If you're older and especially if you're not menstruating, we worry about colon cancer in those older than 50 years of age. Peptic ulcers can also cause loss of blood. Has there been any change to the appearance of your stool? Ribbon flat or pencil thin or black, tarry stools are all worrisome.
I suppose depression could also make you sleepy but I'm not convinced it would make you cold.
Best advice I can give you is to go see your family physician. Good luck!
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I am about ready to pull the trigger on buying three burners for my brewing rig I am building. I see that Hurricane makes a 6" burner. I was thinking of getting that for the MLT. Technically it would be easier for me to get three of all the larger 10" size so I can build three wind screens and mounts of the same size but I have no idea. Anyone have any thoughts on that?
I'm running 6" ring burners like this one:http://www.agrisupply.com/burner-cas...82/cn/5400000/
I have one set up for low pressure (MT direct fired) and one for high pressure (BK). I like these burners a lot and have not come across anything that works as well for an all purpose burner. The big Banjos and Hurricanes are overkill IMO. Most any burner can be made to work, but for batch sizes up to 12 gallons or so, these are ideal. This is essentially the same burner found on the Bayou Classic SQ-14. I really like the excellent flame control at all levels.
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It may be quite easily demonstrated that Christians and unbelievers alike recognize the need for certain days to be special. Call it a need to mark time or to break up the monotony if you wish. Is it not equally reasonable – if we start where we should in special revelation – that God, who made the Sabbath holy as soon as he had made man – wrote onto our hearts the need to observe one day in seven as holy to him? And that we, no matter how much we have suppressed that law by non-observance, still bear traces of it in our hearts?
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