texascavers Digest 16 Sep 2011 18:38:31 -0000 Issue 1393
Topics (messages 18600 through 18606):
Re: TCMA Members Meeting at TCR - TSA Meeting!
18600 by: Mark.Alman.L-3com.com
Re: The 3rd Quarter 2011 TEXAS CAVER Is Now Online
18601 by: Mark.Alman.L-3com.com
TSA elections
18602 by: Ron Ralph
18604 by: Mark.Alman.L-3com.com
Re: Herb and Jan Conn added to South Dakota Hall of Fame
18603 by: Geary Schindel
cook needed
18605 by: Jim Kennedy
Re: Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming
18606 by: Ron Ralph
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As a warm up act to the TCMA meeting at TCR, the TSA Business meeting will be
at an eye opening 8 AM!
Right after the TCMA Breakfast begins serving beans and coffee, grab a couple
of breakfast burritos and come on over for an always riveting TSA meeting.
What better way to start the day by attending a couple of meetings?!
Offer your input, insight, and thoughts to YOUR umbrella organization that
covers and supports all facets of caving in Texas.
Come see what the TSA does, has been doing, and what we have planned (you’ll be
pleasantly surprised!).
If you happen to doze off, due to the late night carousing Saturday night, our
resident bouncers, Ellie and Denise, will be sure to wake you up!
(May have to wake them up first).
Look for us in the vicinity of the serving area and please bring a lawn chair.
Hope to see you there!
Mark
From: Allan B. Cobb [mailto:a...@oztotl.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:13 PM
To: Texascavers@Texascavers.Com
Subject: [Texascavers] TCMA Members Meeting at TCR
Hi all,
The Texas Cave Management Association will be holding a Members Meeting at the
Texas Cavers Reunion at 9 AM on Sunday morning. All members and any other
interested people are welcome to attend. This is your opportunity to address
the board and find out first hand what is going on in TCMA. Our new bylaws
call for changes in our elections policies so we will no longer be holding
elections for Directors at this meeting. Our new election procedure includes
e-voting and written ballots (on request). We are encouraging all the
candidates to come to the meeting and make brief statements at the meeting.
Just prior to the meeting (and probably even during) the TCMA fundraising
breakfast will be taking place adjacent to the meeting. Come on out and I hope
to see y’all there.
Allan Cobb
President, TCMA
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Thanks for the kind words, Bill.
I’ll shoot the pic to you, with Ellie’s permission, of course!
Mark
From: speleoste...@aol.com [mailto:speleoste...@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 8:20 AM
To: Alman, Mark @ SSG - WSG - EOS; texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] The 3rd Quarter 2011 TEXAS CAVER Is Now Online
Nice issue! Hey, great shot of Bat Boy on page 9. I didn't even know that there
had been a sighting of him in Texas, let alone that a good photo was taken of
him. And that photo of Ellie on page 13, I want a print of that on my
refrigerator.
Bill of
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Cavers,
There will be an election of officers at the Texas Speleological Association
meeting on Sunday morning, October 23rd around 8:00 am. To have a successful
election, the first thing needed is a slate of candidates. Please nominate
yourself, your best friend or your worst enemy by sending a simple note to
the Nominations Committee (ronra...@austin.rr.com). Please do it soon to
avoid the rush.
Ron
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Thanks for the reminder, Ron!
I've already seen our entire slate of nomination for officer (thanks,
Don!) and we need more than one!
There have been a lot of nominations, but, also a lot of refusals.
(We can't be doing that good of a job, can we? Or is the job perceived
as too tough or are cavers in Texas much too apathetic? I hope not.)
Anyway, continue nominating and, if you did refuse the nomination
initially, please reconsider.
Finally, I would like to re-run Ellie's excellent post from August as to
other positions in the TSA that we need YOU for!
Thanks,
Mark
From: ellie.thoene [mailto:ellie.tho...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 9:20 AM
To: ronra...@austin.rr.com
Cc: Texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] TSA elections
I am happy to run again but sure would love to add some new faces to the
team. I encourage everyone to come out to the Texas Speleological
Association <http://www.cavetexas.org/TSA/about.html> (TSA) meeting on
Sunday, October 16th (at 8 AM!) and see what's going on with TSA and
share any good ideas you have. If you do not want to be an elected
officer, please consider serving on a volunteer committee by sharing
ideas and helping with responsibilities. It's so much easier when we all
work together.
Some volunteer committees already have excellent, active chairs
(Publications, Safety, Projects) but please give any and all volunteer
committee chair ideas to Mark Alman and he can approach them off list.
The following are non-elected committee chair:
* Publication Committee Chair
* Safety and Techniques Committee Chair
* Conservation Committee Chair
* Membership Committee Chair
* Projects Coordinator
The TSA can always use new members and welcomes back previous members
so please consider joining TSA
<http://www.cavetexas.org/PAYPAL/index.php> at this year's TCR at Flat
Creek Ranch in Johnson City, TX on October 14th-16th, 2011.
See you there!
Ellie Watson, loves caving
TSA Vice Chair
Bexar Grotto-San Antonio, TX
From: Ron Ralph [mailto:ronra...@austin.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 8:58 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] TSA elections
Cavers,
There will be an election of officers at the Texas Speleological
Association meeting on Sunday morning, October 23rd around 8:00 am. To
have a successful election, the first thing needed is a slate of
candidates. Please nominate yourself, your best friend or your worst
enemy by sending a simple note to the Nominations Committee
(ronra...@austin.rr.com). Please do it soon to avoid the rush.
Ron
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The Conn’s are also famous for rock climbing all over the east coast. Conn’s
East and Conn’s West routes on Seneca Rocks, West Virginia, put up just after
WWII are still classic climbs. They also did first accents of Boot Rock and
the Mule Ears in Big Bend and well as lots of other places.
Amazing folks indeed.
Geary
From: dirt...@comcast.net [mailto:dirt...@comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:58 PM
To: Cave NM; Cave Texas
Subject: [Texascavers] Herb and Jan Conn added to South Dakota Hall of Fame
Herb and Jan Conn added to South Dakota Hall of Fame
Rapid City Journal, Sept 11, 2011
http://southdakotanews.info/south-dakota-top-stories/fourteen-south-dakotans-added-to-state-hall-of-fame.html
Fourteen South Dakotans added to state hall of fame
Herb and Jan Conn
Herb and Jan Conn transplanted to South Dakota in 1947 from the
East Coast, because in the Needles of Custer State Park they felt
they had found a climbing paradise. They lived simply and sustained
themselves with odd jobs so they could spend their summers on the
rocks. In 1959 Dwight Deal invited them to explore Jewel Cave. For
the next 22 years, they explored and mapped over 60 miles of
unexplored passages. Because of their discoveries, the National
Park Service has opened a new scenic tour of the cave. They have
mapped both the Needles and Jewel caves.
“The Conns have been legendary pioneers, working in partnership
in the worlds above and below ground. They are recognized worldwide
for their contributions to the sports of climbing and caving. Their
athletic accomplishments have paved the way for thousands of others
in the sports of climbing and caving and helped build significant
elements of the tourism industry in the Hills of South Dakota,”
said Sue Brown, a neighbor of the Conns in Custer.
“Herb and Jan Conn are the original Needles climbers. They first
visited The Needles while passing through on a road trip in 1947.
Jan had seen a picture of the Cathedral Spires in a schoolbook and
was curious. They climbed the Fan and the Exclamation Point that
day. The hook was set,” said Lindsay Stephens, author of “Adventure
Climbs.”
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Cavers,
I am looking for a cook to buy groceries and prepare meals for the
upcoming Cave Gating Workshop at Colorado Bend State Park the week of
25-30 September. Menu is flexible. Whoever does this will also be able
to participate in some of the daily and evening activities (gate
building and evening lectures). We have use of the kitchen at the CBSP
Conference Center, where we will be staying. Gas range and grill and
oven. Additional pots, pans, serving bowls, and utensils may be
required, as the kitchen isn't all that well stocked. (We have those
things available, they just need to get out there.) Please contact me
off list if interested.
Also, as a reminder, I still have spaces available for the actual
workshop. Contact me for an application if interested. If you can't
make it for the entire week, we would still love to have your volunteer
help for whatever time you can spare. Let me know in advance, though,
so I can coordinate meals and bunk space.
Jim "Crash" Kennedy
jkenn...@batcon.org
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Cavers,
Getting too warm in that cave?
Ron
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From: Texas Archeological Society List [mailto:txarc...@listserv.tamu.edu]
On Behalf Of David Calame
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 11:56 AM
To: txarc...@listserv.tamu.edu
Subject: Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming
Published September 14, 2011
FoxNews.com
Planet Earth for Earth Day
<http://a57.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/396/223/Planet%20Earth%20
for%20Earth%20Day.jpg>
NASA
The
<http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-res
igns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/> global warming theory left him out
in the cold.
Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his
resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust
over its officially stated policy that "global warming is occurring."
The <http://aps.org/policy/statements/07_1.cfm> official position of the
American Physical Society (APS) supports the theory that man's actions have
inexorably led to the warming of the planet, through increased emissions of
carbon dioxide.
Giaever does not agree -- and put it bluntly and succinctly in the subject
line of his email,
<http://www.climatedepot.com/a/12797/Exclusive-Nobel-PrizeWinning-Physicist-
Who-Endorsed-Obama-Dissents-Resigns-from-American-Physical-Society-Over-Grou
ps-Promotion-of-ManMade-Global-Warming> reprinted at Climate Depot, a
website devoted to debunking the theory of man-made
<http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-res
igns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/> climate change.
"I resign from APS," Giaever wrote.
Giaever was cooled to the statement on warming theory by a line claiming
that "the evidence is incontrovertible."
"In the APS it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over
time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is
incontrovertible?" he wrote in an email to Kate
<http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-res
igns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/> Kirby, executive officer of the
physics society.
"The claim
is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8
degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the
temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness
have definitely improved in this 'warming' period," his email message said.
A spokesman for the APS confirmed to FoxNews.com that the Nobel Laureate had
declined to pay his annual dues in the society and had resigned. He also
noted that the society had no plans to revise its statement.
The use of the word "incontrovertible" had already caused debate within the
group, so much so that an addendum was added to the statement discussing its
use in April, 2010.
"The word 'incontrovertible' ... is rarely used in science because by its
very nature, science questions prevailing ideas. The observational data
indicate a global surface warming of 0.74 °C (+/- 0.18 °C) since the late
19th century."
Giaever earned his Nobel for his experimental discoveries regarding
tunneling
<http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-res
igns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/> phenomena in superconductors. He
has since become a vocal dissenter from the alleged consensus regarding
man-made climate fears, Climate Depot reported, noting that he was one of
more than 100 co-signers of a 2009 letter to
<http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/obama-administration/barack-obama.ht
m#r_src=ramp> President Obama critical of his position on climate change.
Public perception of climate change has steadily fallen since late 2009. A
<http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/elections-2008/rasmussen-poll.htm#r_
src=ramp> Rasmussen Reports public opinion poll from August noted that 57
percent of adults believe there is significant disagreement within the
scientific community on global warming, up five points from late 2009.
The same study showed that 69 percent of those polled believe its at least
somewhat likely that some
<http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-res
igns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/> scientists have falsified research
data in order to support their own theories and beliefs. Just 6 percent felt
confident enough to report that such falsification was "not at all likely."
<http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-res
igns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/#ixzz1Y6s3TNAe>
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-resi
gns-from-top-physics-group-over-global/#ixzz1Y6s3TNAe
AND
<http://www.climatedepot.com/a/12797/Exclusive-Nobel-PrizeWinning-Physicist-
Who-Endorsed-Obama-Dissents-Resigns-from-American-Physical-Society-Over-Grou
ps-Promotion-of-ManMade-Global-Warming>
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/12797/Exclusive-Nobel-PrizeWinning-Physicist-W
ho-Endorsed-Obama-Dissents-Resigns-from-American-Physical-Society-Over-Group
s-Promotion-of-ManMade-Global-Warming
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