FW: [Texascavers] International Congress of Speleology - registration adjustment

2008-11-11 Thread George Veni
Do not reply to this message. For general ICS questions, contact Secretary John Moses at secret...@ics2009.us, or johnmo...@excite.com. For questions about the message below, reply to the author�s address above. Dear OC, I'm forwarding a message that is rapidly being distributed. I

[NMCAVER] SWR vendors

2008-11-11 Thread J. LaRue Thomas
I do not have a list of vendors planning to attend and I _do not_ need one. There is plenty of room for vendors, either in the foyer or the library, and I will have the key so anyone who needs to get in a bit early to set up will be able to do so. If anyone knows of a vendor who is not on

[ot_caving] 1/4 steel balls

2008-11-11 Thread Gill Ediger
1/4 copper tubing works fine. At 01:53 AM 11/11/2008, Don Cooper wrote: I measured a difference of 6mm between AA and AAA batteries. In order to charge L-ion AAA batteries in my AA charger, I need four conductors to take up the slack. I figured 6mm is about .2456. Brass, Bronze or Copper

[Texascavers] Texas Speleological Association 2009 officiers

2008-11-11 Thread Ron Ralph
Cavers, I have counted 85 votes and await the afternoon post to make the final count. If you did not vote and postmark your ballot yesterday, the 10th, throw it in the trash and resolve to do better next year. Ron Ralph, vote counter

RE: [ot_caving] hysterical note

2008-11-11 Thread Fritz Holt
Gill, You definitely qualify as an adventurous daredevil. Well, at least in some areas. Fritz -Original Message- From: Gill Ediger [mailto:gi...@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 5:36 PM To: o...@texascavers.com Subject: [ot_caving] hysterical note At 12:57 PM

[Texascavers] Thanks! from TCMA

2008-11-11 Thread Linda Palit
TCMA hosted a very successful open house on Saturday, ending the current project which focused on putting new gates on the main and secondary entrances of the cave, updating the fences on the property and planting additional native plants on the grounds. We hosted several hundred community

[Texascavers] International Congress of Speleology - registration adjustment

2008-11-11 Thread Minton, Mark
Cavers, I just wanted to call your attention to the fact that after discussions at the NSS Board of Governors meeting this past weekend, the ICS Organizing Committeewill be makinga costadjustment toan eventfor the 15th International Congress of Speleology to be held next July in Kerrville,

texascavers Digest 11 Nov 2008 19:25:05 -0000 Issue 641

2008-11-11 Thread texascavers-digest-help
texascavers Digest 11 Nov 2008 19:25:05 - Issue 641 Topics (messages 9346 through 9355): Chinese History in a Stalagmite 9346 by: Mike Flannigan Tzibichen 9347 by: Minton, Mark Robber Baron Cave still calling to explorers 9348 by: Joe Mitchell Kori Jones' BABY !

[ot_caving] new powerful LED flashlights

2008-11-11 Thread David
I mentioned last week that Fry's had a new flashlight called the P6 that I wanted to test, but don't yet have the money. Now they have in the P14 and the P17. http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/theshorelinemarket_2024_15476918

[Texascavers] NSS Fellow in Texas

2008-11-11 Thread Jim Kennedy
On 11 Nov, Bill Mixon said: A reminder that the deadline for nominations for those awards is this coming Saturday, Nov 15. See http://caves.org/committee/award/ and then click on the individual award or see the October NSS News for information on who should receive the nominations. I did some

Re: [Texascavers] NSS Fellow in Texas

2008-11-11 Thread David
I would like to informally nominate several Houston cavers: 1.Harry Walker 2.Jim McLane 3.Kevin McGowan 4.Emily McGowan 5.Kenny McGee 6.Carol McGee 7.George Sanders 8.Tommy Joe 9.Eddie Yonemoto 10. Carl Philip Fromen 11. Syd Formanek 12. Don Formanek If

Re: [Texascavers] NSS Fellow in Texas

2008-11-11 Thread Don Cooper
David, are you an NSS member? On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:02 PM, David dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to informally nominate several Houston cavers:

[ot_caving] Egypt trivia

2008-11-11 Thread David
How many pyramids are known to exist in Egypt? a) 1,211 b)911 c)666 d)118 e) 50 - Give this to a friend: ot-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: ot-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional

[NMCAVER] SWR

2008-11-11 Thread John Lyles
Hi Did you get a Snowy River presenter? Donald, John b., Me? John ___ NMCAVER mailing list nmca...@caver.net http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/nmcaver_caver.net

[ot_caving] FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick

2008-11-11 Thread Fritz Holt
FYI. Fritz Holt From: Jane Parker Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:06 PM To: Katy Office; Galveston Dept Subject: FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick From: Bill Brooks [mailto:bbro...@oric-hb.com] Sent:

Re: [ot_caving] FW: Internet Virus Alert - from Texas Sen. Dan Patrick

2008-11-11 Thread Don Cooper
CRIPES Fritz! Do you also believe Barack Obama is a communist socialist terrorist muslim because some hack emailed you with something that *said he was*? If you'd CHECKED 'snopes' you would have found there ain't nothing new about this 'virus'. Although it is a real virus - somewhere out there

[Texascavers] NSS banquet in Kerrville

2008-11-11 Thread Mixon Bill
That's a darn good idea. At $38 (!!!) extra, there would have been hardly anybody there to see the NSS awards. I didn't pay it. A reminder that the deadline for nominations for those awards is this coming Saturday, Nov 15. See http://caves.org/committee/award/ and then click on the