texascavers Digest 12 Nov 2013 22:11:17 - Issue 1883
Topics (messages 23037 through 23041):
TSS Work Session
23037 by: Ron Ralph
Brief Update on Work on the New NSS Property and Office at Huntsville
23038 by: Preston Forsythe
Google+ for cavers
23039 by: David
Paradise Canyon caving trip
23040 by: Kurt L. Menking
Lost Oasis Preserve Clean-up this Sunday
23041 by: ryan monjaras
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Cavers,
Our next scheduled second Wednesday work session of the Texas Speleological
Survey will be this Wednesday, November 13th, at the JJ Pickle Research Center.
We will be looking through the files for various cave locations in Texas,
inventorying the Chuck Stuehm collection and working on the museum. Come by
and help search the files. If you have a desire to search for your own data,
the files and unpublished maps will be made available. Both publication sales
and the library will be open.
Use the front entrance on Burnet Road north of highway 183. The door will be
open at 5:00 p.m. and stay open till we adjourn. Remember it is best to arrive
before 6:00 pm and drinks are on me. Parking permits are only necessary during
the day and evenings are free, so don’t worry about parking tickets.
If you have questions, please contact me at ronra...@austin.rr.com or call my
cell. I will be happy to send you a link to the map of the Campus if you need
directions.
Ron Ralph
Cell: 797-3817
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Good Morning Cavers in Texas and Other Places--
Work on the new NSS property at Huntsville, AL is progressing with volunteer
work every weekend. Here is an example. The Birmingham Grotto the past two
weekends installed a new green enviro metal roof on the outdoor pavillion. This
pavillion will no doubt receive a lot of use at many future caving events
including SERA and the NSS National Convention in 2014. The BG purchased all of
the roofing material ($3,000 plus) and supplied all of the labor (around 18
volunteers the first weekend and 14 volunteers the second weekend).
That is an example of what your grotto could do! Hope you can participate.
This coming weekend a new self-leveling floor will be poured for the new
library and archieves room, approx. 50 ft. x 120 ft. Very expensive filing
cabinets, accordian style sometimes seen in medical offices, have been
purchased at a fraction of the new cost. This filing-bookshelf system requires
a level floor. I bet volunteers already have over 125 man hours of prep time of
work in that new library.
Maureen Handler is the volunteer coordinator. Please contact Maureen if you or
your grotto want to contribute.
Handler, Maureen
tnshot...@earthlink.net
I know it is a long drive from Texas, and other places, to Huntsville, Alabama,
but some work sessions at Huntsville are several days long making the time and
distance a very worthwhile satisfying trip.
Cavingly,
Preston Forsythe, Browder, KY only 4 hours, one way, from Huntsville.---End Message---
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Please ignore this if you hate Google.
Google+ now lets users have a custom URL.
Mine is:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DavidLocklearofTexas/about
If a caver is managing a page for a caving organization, he or she can
now add a new type of manager.This person has the power
to help manage the post on the the page, but is not allowed to
make changes to the page.That is a good idea, and further increases
its lead over Facebook's version in functionality.
I have not had time this year to follow all the new quirks of Google+.
Google does not seem to be giving up on the idea, so there is maybe
still hope for it yet. I am content to use both Facebook and Google+,
but I do not think most people are willing to do that. I am clueless
about the other social things going on on the web, meaning whatever
the young people are supposedly doing. I can't find any use for
Twitter, and haven't had time to explore the others.
My 9 year old daughter loves her Android tablet, so my guess is that
all that stuff will make sense to her in the very near future.I think I
had to create a Google account for her so that she could access all
the apps and YouTube stuff. I have not had a chance to see if that
was such a good idea.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/106745323215963190758/115224409657532359034/about
Please email me privately, if you have any sound advice on that
subject.
David Locklear
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The Paradise Canyon trip is still on for the weekend of Nov 22-24. The good
news is, I have plenty of folks signed up to help, but the bad
