texascavers Digest 8 Jun 2013 17:46:30 -0000 Issue 1771
Topics (messages 21897 through 21908):
Re: Download "No place on earth"
21897 by: Lee H. Skinner
21898 by: Louise Power
Does anyone know much about "Curiosity Cave" in Spicewood, Tx.?
21899 by: Don Cooper
>From Mother Jones..
21900 by: Ted Samsel
Article on drowning
21901 by: Geary Schindel
21902 by: Louise Power
21903 by: Geary Schindel
Re: Dave gers
21904 by: Karen Perry
Re: [Cowtown] Fw: Dave gers
21905 by: R D Milhollin
My new digging tool
21906 by: David
Adobe Photoshop et al.
21907 by: Mixon Bill
Where does a Mars rat live?
21908 by: Louise Power
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No Place on Earth is available for pre-order on Amazon.com both as DVD
and Blu-ray.
DVD: http://tinyurl.com/lpl7z3y $24.99
Blu-ray: http://tinyurl.com/kc29jek $26.98
Lee
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Think I'll wait a few months when they'll have some used ones at less than half
the original price. And certainly less than a movie ticket.
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:42:05 -0600
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Download "No place on earth"
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> No Place on Earth is available for pre-order on Amazon.com both as DVD
> and Blu-ray.
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> DVD: http://tinyurl.com/lpl7z3y $24.99
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> Blu-ray: http://tinyurl.com/kc29jek $26.98
>
> Lee
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Slicing Open Stalagmites to Reveal Climate Secrets
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/06/stalagmites-are-new-tree-rings
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Folks,
Here is an outstanding article on drowning and how to recognize it. Most
importantly, actual drowning don't look like drowning depicted on TV and in the
movies. Since many cavers are around water or in water caves, I thought this
would be a good article to review. May save a life.
http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/
Make sure that you view the video at the end of the article, it has some
footage of a young kid trying to drown.
Geary
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Excellent article, Geary. Since I live in an area with a lot of rivers and
lakes, and because we manage the Wild and Scenic section of the Rogue River in
Oregon, I'm passing this on to our folks.
I think we had half a dozen or so drownings in the Rogue last year by people
who did one of the stupidest things they can do...get on the river without a
life jacket. I get really angry with parents who let their kids do that. When
they are questioned about it, they almost always say that they had flotation
devices in the boat. That's all well and good and it follows state law, but
when you're falling into or you boat tips over into a cold, fast-running river
believe me, there's no time to find your flotation device. You'd better be
wearing it.
Louise
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To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 10:35:52 -0500
Subject: [Texascavers] Article on drowning
Folks,
Here is an outstanding article on drowning and how to recognize it. Most
importantly, actual drowning don’t look like drowning depicted on TV and in the
movies. Since many cavers are around water or in water caves, I thought this
would be a good article to review. May save a life.
http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/
Make sure that you view the video at the end of the article, it has some
footage of a young kid trying to drown.
Geary
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Yes, the article is a real eye opener - especially the video.
I almost drown in a boating accident when I was 9 and we weren't wearing life
jackets. We were in an overloaded John Boat in a river when it swamped. I saw a
lot of what this article was talking about with my actions. I could swim but
didn't. Luckily, my uncle grabbed me and made me grab the boat which floated.
I was also a raft guide on the Cheat River in West (by God, smile when you say
that) Virginia when I was in college. This is a Class V river in the spring. We
would train with ice floating down the river and I can tell you, if you didn't
have a life jacket on, even with a wet suit, you would be dead in a few minutes
after hitting the water.
As a social Darwinist, water is a great way to get self selected from the gene
pool.
G
From: Louise Power [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 11:28 AM
To: texas cavers; Geary Schindel
Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Article on drowning
Excellent article, Geary. Since I live in an area with a lot of rivers and
lakes, and because we manage the Wild and Scenic section of the Rogue River in
Oregon, I'm passing this on to our folks.
I think we had half a dozen or so drownings in the Rogue last year by people
who did one of the stupidest things they can do...get on the river without a
life jacket. I get really angry with parents who let their kids do that. When
they are questioned about it, they almost always say that they had flotation
devices in the boat. That's all well and good and it follows state law, but
when you're falling into or you boat tips over into a cold, fast-running river
believe me, there's no time to find your flotation device. You'd better be
wearing it.
Louise
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From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 10:35:52 -0500
Subject: [Texascavers] Article on drowning
Folks,
Here is an outstanding article on drowning and how to recognize it. Most
importantly, actual drowning don't look like drowning depicted on TV and in the
movies. Since many cavers are around water or in water caves, I thought this
would be a good article to review. May save a life.
http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/
Make sure that you view the video at the end of the article, it has some
footage of a young kid trying to drown.
Geary
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Please pass this on to DFW Grotto. Lots of us knew Dave. While he had not caved
in almost a decade due to his poor eyesight, many of us still thought of him as
a friend. He will be missed......... Now he is in the Great Geocache rally in
the sky!
Karen Perry
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To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 10:24 AM
Subject: Dave gers
Karen,
I am emailing you to let you know that my father, Dave, passed away on June 1.
We, my brother Rob, and I found a Xmas card from you on his nightstand.
Your more than welcome to contact me.
Dave's daughter,
Lia Dellario
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I am saddened to hear about the passing of Dave Gers. He was without a doubt
one of the most interesting people, caver or non, whom I have ever had the
please of meeting and hanging around with. Memories of homemade beer, engaging
philosophical conversations, raging campfires, singing in resonant cave
chambers, and eternal optimism spring up when I remember back to the times we
would be out in New Mexico up on the hill or down in the park. No sadness, no
regrets, no fears.
Cave on Dave.
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From: Karen Perry <[email protected]>
To: H. Sapiens <[email protected]>; "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Mark Alman
<[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>;
RD Milhollin <[email protected]>; "[email protected]"
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Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 2:26 PM
Subject: [Cowtown] Fw: Dave gers
Please pass this on to DFW Grotto. Lots of us knew Dave. While he had not caved
in almost a decade due to his poor eyesight, many of us still thought of him as
a friend. He will be missed......... Now he is in the Great Geocache rally in
the sky!
Karen Perry
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Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 10:24 AM
Subject: Dave gers
Karen,
I am emailing you to let you know that my father, Dave, passed away on June 1.
We, my brother Rob, and I found a Xmas card from you on his nightstand.
Your more than welcome to contact me.
Dave's daughter,
Lia Dellario
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Today, I had a welder modify a tool similar to one that was described by
another caver last month.
http://db.tt/0CQzNgkr
I hope to test it Sunday at Kiwi Sink. It is for breaking up cemented
gravel that has large pebbles and tiny rocks in the mixture, and for prying
small rocks out of the mixture.
David Locklear
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David McKenzie has discovered that Adobe is giving away their entire
CS2 Creative Suite for free.
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/
Might be a good opportunity to try Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,
etc. without spending any money. Note the warnings at the top of the
web page, though. For example, that version won't run on Macs with
Intel processors unless they're also running an old enough version of
OS-X to have the run-time interpreter for G4 code. No idea what
problems might crop up with Windows versions less than seven years old
(i.e., more recent than the middle Paleozoic). The current Adobe
version of all that stuff is CS6.
The rent-it-by-the-month deal for CS6 and beyond is not that bad,
compared to what it would have cost to buy it. You download the
programs and run them locally, as always, and store your files on your
own disk. (They also provide a cloud and various collaboration tools
for those into that sort of thing.) The programs just have to use the
Internet once a month to verify that you're still paying. The serious
problem is that if you stop paying, the programs stop working
(assuming you haven't used some illegal hack that will no doubt
appear), and any files you have stored in their proprietary formats
will be unusable. You could still take them to somebody else who still
has a subscription. Any files saved locally in common formats such as
PDF, JPEG, HTML, or TIFF will of course still be good.--Mixon
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In the same select pockets as the microbes!
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/01/18682769-mars-rat-taking-internet-by-storm?lite&lite=obnetwork
LOL!!!😝😝
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