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Subject: Re: book reviews, filters, tick testing, water surface
From: "John Hartog" <>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:17:49 -0000
To the water surface question: It might have something to do
with the thalweg of the stream, and probably has a name just as
obscure.
JH


--- In  Marty Michener
<> wrote:
> Hi gang:
>
> I read every one of your posts, but myself have done no sound
recording in
> almost a year, so I have posted nothing recently --  working on
> photographing another PDF book on botanical identification -
the 700
> commonest plants on NE.
>
> But, since you still are the best informed bunch of out-doors
folk to which
> I have ready access, I hereby ask Jim and Doug's forbearance
for one post
> of several off-topic queries, where my need for health-related
expertise is
> high. Y'all can answer off-line to my email directly
> to      if you'de like to keep the list uncluttered
> with "UN-sound" information.
>
> =3D--=3D--=3D--=3D
> But first, my congratulations to list member and old friend Dr.
Don Tarbet
> for publishing a real, funny, mystery novel "Moving Up-Island".  I
bought a
> copy and just finished reading it - it combines mystery, the
Maine coast,
> politics and much well-done humor, and I highly recommend it.
A portion of
> each sale goes to support his non-profit nature education
NHEST.org
> published by Maine Marketplace:
> http://www.mainemarketplace.com/books.html#move
> =3D--=3D--=3D--=3D
> I would also like to congratulate old friend and former student
Robert F.
> Kennedy, Jr. on his amazing documentation of the last five
years of
> degrading environmental laws, in his best-seller "Crimes
against Nature".
>
> --- The usual disclaimers - I have no political or financial
interest in
> either of these products - just think my friends might like to
know my
> regards for them.
> =3D--=3D--=3D--=3D
> Now to my questions:
>
> 1. I have a flood-damaged cabin (built ca. 1925 by my
grandfather, William
> E. Shipley) in the NJ Pine Barrens where I am periodically,
weekly,
> removing mold from the bare wood interior, while using a
respiratory filter
> for the air-borne spores, AOSaftey with dual-filters
R53HE-P100 which I
> think for mold are likely overkill  --   I really only need the P100
for
> the spores, but am at a loss to know which lesser cartridge to
order.  A
> pair of new R53HE-P100 cartridges goes for about $ 26.=20
Advice, anyone? The
> removal, BTW, consists of very close vacuuming with a small
brush, then the
> application of ZymoCat solution, mixed 100:1, followed by heat
drying the
> wood.  Would formaldehyde fumes help kill the mold and
preserve the bare
> wood?  Stains?
>
> 2. Today, having just returned from NJ,  I removed an adult
female deer
> tick, Ixodes scapularis, from my left upper arm, probably
attached less
> than 12 hours, certainly the arm is showing no rash, bullseye
or otherwise,
> and almost no point of mouthpart entry.  My question: Where
can you send an
> (alive) adult tick to see if it carries either Lymes or Erlichiosis?=20
How
> much do the tests cost?  I already know to watch the wound
site for symptoms.
>
> 3. For years I have often noticed a line on the surface of
slowly-moving
> waters, similar to that formed by another clear immiscible
liquid (like gas
> or oil) on the stream surface.  The Rancocas creek in NJ
always shows such
> a surface line near my dock, always moving, with floating
leaves often
> crossing the line, and some, but not all vortices also able to
cross from
> one part into the second.  Does this line have a name?  I
always assume it
> is caused where one water mass flows toward another, and
"subducts"
> underneath the second, like a weather front of air masses but
without the
> temperature differences, etc.  But I am asking if this is so?=20
Name this
> line, please!   Probably everybody has seen it who has gazed
at a medium
> stream or slow river, but my limnology course missed the
subject.
>
> Thanks.  I send my best regards,
>
>
> Marty Michener
>
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