texascavers Digest 25 Apr 2011 08:34:55 -0000 Issue 1295
Topics (messages 17638 through 17645):
Re: mars
17638 by: Bob Booth
Re: new mars sinkhole photo
17639 by: David
Carabiner and Quickdraw Recall
17640 by: Mark Minton
17641 by: Preston Forsythe
Bat Film Festival in NYC
17642 by: R D Milhollin
You never know what you'll find in caves :
17643 by: JerryAtkin.aol.com
fires
17644 by: Karen Perry
17645 by: Karen Perry
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This one has a stretched image that shows the bottom:
http://www.astroengine.com/2009/03/welcome-to-my-sinkhole-premium-martian-real-estate/
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Gill Edigar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another closeup shot of the Martian sinkholes.
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> http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhirise.lpl.arizona.edu%2Fimages%2Fwallpaper%2F2560%2FESP_019997_1975.jpg&h=c4c54>
> images/wallpaper/2560/ESP_0199<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhirise.lpl.arizona.edu%2Fimages%2Fwallpaper%2F2560%2FESP_019997_1975.jpg&h=c4c54>
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If you look closely at the floor of the sinkhole, there are two
parallel lines running across the sinkole
http://www.astroengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/hirise_esp_011386_2065_cut-250x250.jpg
My best guess is the former cavers that were there rigged tyroleans,
using one for filming. And due to lack of
time or oxygen, they had to leave the pit rigged.
If you download that image and zoom in, you can see the ropes are
clearly above the floor of the cave, maybe
by at least 100 feet.
David Locklear
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For anyone using Photon carabiners or quickdraws
(distributed by Camp,
USA): <http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml11/11201.html>.
Mark Minton
Please reply to [email protected]
Permanent email address is [email protected]
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Those are made in China.
Stick with Black Diamond.
Preston Forsythe
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From: "Mark Minton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 7:40 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] Carabiner and Quickdraw Recall
For anyone using Photon carabiners or quickdraws (distributed by
Camp, USA): <http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml11/11201.html>.
Mark Minton
Please reply to [email protected]
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forwarded from VAR list:
NSS WNS Liaison Peter Youngbaer is on the program!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Film Festival Hopes to Save Americas Bats
Emmy Award Winner Richard Wiese Hosts Event to Benefit Bat Conservationists
April 21 2011 (New York, NY) Richard Wiese,
star of The World Explorer, will host the First
Annual Bat Film Festival to benefit bat
conservationists working to save bats from
White-Nose Syndrome, a disease that is decimating
North American bat populations.
When I heard about White-Nose Syndrome and the
possibility of regional extinctions of some of
Americas most common bats, I knew something had
to be done, said Richard Wiese. People dont
understand how amazing these furry flying mammals
are. Hopefully, the film festival will be a
unique and fun way to draw attention to the
importance of bats to a healthy environment.
The International Bat Film Festival will honor
films that have entertained and educated viewers
about bats. Biologists and bat experts will be
on hand to debunk myths, explain how bats benefit
the planet and share the latest news on
White-Nose Syndrome that has killed more than 1
million bats in the past four years. Live bats
will be in attendance and are guaranteed to make
everyone fall in love with these majestic animals.
Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Patrick Leahy
(D-VT) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be honored
with the Public Leadership/Stewardship Award
for their work in Congress to address White-Nose syndrome.
"White-Nose Syndrome is a wildlife emergency that
deserves our attention," said Senator Lautenberg,
who recently introduced the Wildlife Disease and
Emergency Act and last year secured $1.9 million
in federal funding for White-Nose Syndrome
research. Bats play a vital role in our
ecosystem by preying on insects that destroy
crops and carry disease. There is an urgent need
to research this problem so that bat populations
in New Jersey and throughout the country are not
decimated. Without more public awareness and a
quick response, white-nose syndrome could have a
ripple effect that hurts the economy, environment, and public health.
Bats are extraordinary creatures that play a
pivotal and often unseen role in the balance of
nature, said Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a
leader of efforts in the U.S. Senate to raise
awareness about White-Nose Syndrome and to secure
federal WNS research funding. With their
populations collapsing at a rate never before
seen, we can expect more insects destroying crops
and more mosquitoes spreading disease. These are
threats to farmers, to public health, to the
larger economy and to the ecology of vast regions
of the nation that we must tackle now, and
urgently. We still know far too little about
White- Nose Syndrome, how it is spread and how it
might be managed or contained. Investments in
research and bat conservation today to protect
our threatened bat populations will help prevent
billions of dollars in agricultural losses and
pest damage before it is too late.
The First International Bat Film Festival will be
held at on April 30th at The Explorers Club in
New York City. This event is open to the
general public. To find out more about how to
attend and to learn about bats, go to <www.batfilmfest.htm>www.batfilmfest.com.
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Richard Wiese and Senator Leahy (Senator Leahy
will be in Washington) are available for radio or
television appearances or print interviews. Bat
keeper Joe DAngeli is happy to appear on television with live bats.
About Richard Wiese:
In 2002, Richard Wiese was elected the youngest
President in The Explorers Clubs hundred-year
history. During his Presidency, Richard had the
honor of speaking at the United Nations, the
Royal Geographical Society, Bohemian Grove,
Philadelphia Academy of Science, NY Public
Library, University of Miami School of
Engineering and in the Congress of Argentina. The
fabled societys members have included such
legends as Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong,
Charles Lindberg, Bob Ballard, Jane Goodall, and Sir Edmund Hillary.
Richard has hosted many nationally broadcast
television shows, including Exploration with
Richard Wiese, and is also a team member of the
highly acclaimed series with the BBC and
Discovery Channel called The Hottest Place on Earth.
In 2007 Richard was involved in the first
microbial survey of Central Park in NYC resulting
in the discovery of 202 new and unique life
forms. In 2009, he filmed segments on African
survival tips for The History Channels new series on Stanley and Livingston.
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Missing parts of sphinx found in German cave
By Jean-Baptiste Piggin Apr 24, 2011, 2:06 GMT
Berlin - Archaeologists have discovered fragments of one of the world's
oldest sculptures, a lion-faced figurine estimated at 32,000 years old, from
the dirt floor of a cave in southern Germany.
The ivory figure, along with a tiny figurine known as the Venus of Hohle
Fels, marks the foundation of human artistry. Both were created by a Stone
Age European culture that historians call Aurignacian.
The Aurignacians appear to have been the first modern humans, with
handicrafts, social customs and beliefs. They hunted reindeer, woolly
rhinoceros,
mammoths and other animals.
The Lion-Man sculpture, gradually re-assembled in workshops over decades
after the fragments were discovered in 1939, is a kind of reverse sphinx: a
human body, standing erect, but with the head of a now extinct European cave
lion.
The head is finely cut, but there is not enough detail left in the body to
judge whether this chimera was meant to be male or female.
Claus-Joachim Kind, the chief archaeologist at the palaeolithic site near
the city of Ulm, said the figure, was probably used by a shamanistic
religion.
'But we are walking on thin ice with any interpretation,' he warned.
The fact that the figure was found without any tools close to it in the
sediment does suggest that the site, the Stadel Cave, had a religious
significance for its owners at the time.
Lion-Man is biggest Aurignacian item found in any of the caves at the site.
The span of time since the Aurignacian culture is immense.
The world's first cities, based on intensive, year-round agriculture, were
established in Mesopotamia 7,000 years ago. The cave paintings of Lascaux
in France, the world's best known Stone Age Art, probably date back 17,000
years.
But Aurignacian sites, including the caves in Germany as well as the
Chauvet Cave decorated with murals in southern France, are twice as old, going
back 32,000 to 40,000 years from the present, radio- carbon dating of the
debris in the caves shows.
Several flutes found in the same sediment show that the Aurignacians also
made music. Their pre-historical period is known as Upper Palaeolithic. The
culture name comes from the first site to be studied, at Aurignac in the
Haute Garonne area of France.
Over the past two years, German archaeologists have carefully excavated
more of the sediment near the spot where the Lion-Man showed up. Thousands of
bone fragments and some ivory pieces were found.
Some of them matched the Lion-Man perfectly, a delighted Kind reported.
'This a wonderful time,' he said.
Some of the figure's missing right side and parts of the back have already
been restored as a result.
'It needs a huge amount of patience,' said Kind. 'It's like doing a jigsaw
puzzle in 3D.'
The work is continuing with the help of computer tomograph images of the
pieces and simulation software.
By next year, the Lion-Man may be complete.
The restorers have also concluded that Lion-Man was somewhat taller than
the 30 centimetres of him that currently exist. He was carved from one tusk,
with the artist forming the legs from two sides of tusk's hollow root.
The archaeologists assume that the Lion-Man is several thousand of years
younger than the Venus, the Aurignacian female figure with an enormous bosom
and hips which was found in a nearby cave, Hohle Fels, in 2008.
Though the dry caves were ideal to preserve them, both have turned brown
with age.
The first fragments of Lion-Man were found in 1939 by Robert Wetzel in
sediment, but not recognized until 30 years later.
The different caves are closed to the public and provincial authorities are
considering applying to have them declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Some sediments inside, which have not yet yielded up their secrets, are
being left untouched.
'We assume they still contain a large quantity of culturally important and
unique artefacts,' Kind said.
Replicas of the Lion-Man are on display in major museums in Tokyo, Paris
and New York. The original is in the Ulm Museum.
_http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1634842.php/Miss
ing-parts-of-sphinx-found-in-German-cave_
(http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1634842.php/Missing-parts-of-sphinx-found-in-Germa
n-cave)
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For those interested the Guads are burning!!!!!!!!!! Just got home from Queen
Admit Building and here's what I know for sure:
Sitting Bull Falls is completely burned out and has jumped up into Dark Canyon
closing off Dark Canyon Road;
Last Chance Canyon looks like a volcano at night & that fire turned around
midnight and started up Texas Hill.
This is super bad guys. We have hotshots for Gila and other parts west here as
well as local & county. All agree this is the worst fire in the last 20 years,
if not he worst on record. It was set by 2 rock climbers that camped last night
(SAT), lit a fire to cook breakfast this morning (SUN) and failed to put it
out. They are in custody currently. Picts to come........
Karen
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--- On Mon, 4/25/11, Karen Perry <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Karen Perry <[email protected]>
Subject: Fw: fires
To: [email protected]
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Date: Monday, April 25, 2011, 3:35 AM
--- On Mon, 4/25/11, Karen Perry <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Karen Perry <[email protected]>
Subject: fires
To: [email protected]
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Date: Monday, April 25, 2011, 3:32 AM
Sorry about the quality. The movement is from the high wilnd & not me.
Karen
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