texascavers Digest 21 Mar 2010 18:14:52 -0000 Issue 1008
Topics (messages 14190 through 14197):
The whereabouts of....
14190 by: tbsamsel.verizon.net
14191 by: Fritz Holt
TSA Spring Convention FAQ's
14192 by: ellie :)
Phylogenetic Analysis of Mexican Cave Scorpions Suggests Adaptation to Caves Is
Reversible
14193 by: Ron Rutherford
Truely ugly ideas to attract show cave visitation :
14194 by: jerryatkin.aol.com
interesting viewing of cave passage
14195 by: David
new 1,000 meter deep cave
14196 by: David
Locklear's next Caving Vehicle
14197 by: Bill Bentley
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I worked with another Texas caver at the Illinois State Museum in the late 1980's. He was from Texas Tech and had gone to Australia to study cave crickets,earning a PhD (I seem to recall). His name was Glenn D Campbell, but by the time I met him. he didn't go by Glenn, because being called Glenn Cambell was pretty jokey. You'd want to go through life being asked to sing GALVESTON or RHINESTONE COWBOY all the time?
Any of you guys know of his whereabouts?
Ted Samsel
http://cfootsoup.wordpress.com/
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Don't know him or his whereabouts but do recall seeing a post on Cavetex a year
or two ago as it is a name one doesn't forget.
Fritz (Mondale) Holt who is married to Jerry.
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From: tbsam...@verizon.net [mailto:tbsam...@verizon.net]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 6:03 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] The whereabouts of....
I worked with another Texas caver at the Illinois State Museum in the late
1980's. He was from Texas Tech and had gone to Australia to study cave
crickets,earning a PhD (I seem to recall). His name was Glenn D Campbell, but
by the time I met him. he didn't go by Glenn, because being called Glenn
Cambell was pretty jokey. You'd want to go through life being asked to sing
GALVESTON or RHINESTONE COWBOY all the time?
Any of you guys know of his whereabouts?
Ted Samsel
http://cfootsoup.wordpress.com/
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*Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about the 2010 Spring Convention:*
*
Where is the TSA Spring Convention?
*The convention is based at the Texas Cave Conservancy Headquarters-1800
West Park Street, Cedar Park, TX 78613 (At the end of West Park Street
across Lakeline Blvd)
*How much does it cost?*
Fees: *$15.00* per person and $40.00 for a family of 3 or more. The fees
cover camping, all the presentations, auction, an awesome supper on
Saturday, all the fun you can have, and some delicious beverages donated to
us by Shiner.
*Where will all of the presentations be located?*
All presentations will be at the Methodist Church at 600 West Park Street,
Cedar Park, TX 78613 which is located about a mile from the TCC
headquarters. The room will be blacked out for all digital presentations and
there will be audio and visual available for all presenters. There are
restaurants and hotels nearby.
*Where will the auction and group supper be held?*
The TCMA auction and group supper will be stationed outside the TCC
Headquarters so bring your chairs.
*Where will the Map and Photo Salon be located?*
The Map and Photo Salon will have a permanent, secure place over the weekend
inside the TCC headquarters. Prizes will be awarded after supper.
*Where will the vendors be located?*
Vendors will have a permanent, secure place over the weekend at the TCC
headquarters but have the option to transport their goods to the Methodist
Church at 600 West Park Street, Cedar Park, TX to sell during breaks in the
presentations on Saturday.
*Are there any caving opportunities?*
YES!!! At least 5 caves, horizontal and vertical, will be open in the Texas
Cave Conservancy over the March 26th-28th weekend so bring your gear and
plan to check out the TCC caves! There will not be organized trips, everyone
is encouraged to go at their own pace. The names of the caves will not be
publicized. Maps/Guidelines will be at headquarters.
*
Is there enough camping?*
Yes, but parking is limited so carpool if possible.
*I hear the hot tub will be there, is this true?*
You better believe it will be there.
*Will there be coffee at the presentations on Saturday? *
YES! TCMA will be providing the caffeine boost
*What is the general schedule for the weekend?*
Friday is a party hosted by the TCC. Saturday is all the amazing
presentations. Saturday night is the group feed and then the auction. Sunday
is the group breakfast hosted by TCMA and the TCMA board meeting to follow.
Hot tub will be there all weekened. Caves are open all weekend. Other fun
non-scheduled things will be sprinkled in there.
*Is this convention worth going to? *
Yes it is! Plan to be there!
The Map & Photo Salon rules are posted on the TSA Spring Convention Website
http://www.cavetexas.org/events/TSASC/tsasc2010.html
TSA 2010 Spring Convention Event Page:
http://www.cavetexas.org/events/TSASC/tsasc2010.html
Facebook Event Page:
http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy#/event.php?eid=219361835478&ref=share
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Phylogenetic Analysis of Mexican Cave Scorpions Suggests Adaptation to
Caves Is Reversible
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100312133722.htm
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Ron Rutherford
Microsoft SQL Server DBA/Developer
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Underground AV
17 March 2010
A large scale projection installation carried out by French experts Système Son
has brought the walls of the massive “Cathedral room” to life.
Competition amongst the 100 or so natural cavern sites to attract tourists is
fierce in France. Between them they attract some six million a visitors each
year.
Faced with stiff challenges from other sites, the operators of Charonche Cave
commissioned a 200,000 refurbishment of its out-dated sound and video system,
selecting a solution based on Christie projection supplied by Système Son.
The system included two Christie Roadster S+16K projectors fitted with Twist
cards. These models feature SXGA+ resolution and 16,000 lumens of brightness.
The cave’s previous, and now out of date, system had suffered at the hands of
the extremes of temperature and humidity experienced below ground. Charonche
Cave has 98% humidity levels and just 10 degrees Celcius of temperature all
year round. This is pretty hard on the installed equipment, and Système Son
therefore had to develop custom ventilated, heated and aerated enclosures for
the projectors to keep them in good working order.
Underground installation proved to be a formidable challenge in itself, made
more so by the uneven projection surface presented by the cave walls. Apart
from surface variations, the height of the cave wall itself varies by as much
as 15 metres.
The projected images are received by two side screens measuring 28 metres wide
by 14 metres high, corresponding to two distinct wide spaces. Not projecting
anything between them gives a sense of depth and of the cave opening up. The
onboard Twist cards straightens out the image deformed by the rocky surface
without any need to tweak the projectors.
44 light sources have been set up throughout the cave, including underwater to
illuminate the basins. A total of 10,000 Watts of lighting have gone into that
alone.
On the audio front, Système Son selected equipment from D&B Audiotechnik set up
to provide dolby 5.0 playback.
The whole AV system is automated via DMX. When it is switched on, a DMX
controller launches the three parts of the show in unison – sound, light and
video.
Charonche Cave is now capable of delivering stunning visual effects to its
visitors.
“We now have a real competitive advantage and have seen our main wish come
true of thrilling those in search of fantasy and magical experiences, while
reaching out to a new public that enjoys seeing images used in an original way
and in different settings.”
http://www.inavateonthenet.net/article.aspx?ArticleID=32388
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Below is a link that should display a panoramic 360 degree color photo of
a large cave passage:
http://www.burger.si/Jame/NovaKriznaJama/26.html
Note that it is not only 360 in the horizontal but also in the
vertical, and also
in increment angles.
Click on the full screen box which is the symbol on the upper right of
the arrows.
After each image fully downloads, the photo should rotate automatically.
It may take a few minutes for each image to fully display all its colors.
The software that does this is called Pano2VR.
You can hold your right mouse button down and pan around the cave passage
in all directions. And zoom in and out.
And you can go to the cave profile in the upper left corner and click
on different
passages to view.
What is cool about this, is that most cavers will never get to go to
Nova Kristna
Jama, but this allows them to see quite a bit of the cave.
David Locklear
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The link below shows a photo of some Moscow cavers
camped near a 1,000 meter deep cave that
they pushed last week, from 980 meters deep to 1,125 meters deep
before running out of rope.
http://www.caverinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/95839748.jpg
I think the cave is called "Moskovskaya Cave."
The mountains are the Gagra Range in the the country of Abkhazia,
which is a region claimed by the country of Georgia.
I think the link below is a map of the area:
http://www.maplandia.com/georgia/abkhaz-assr/gagra/
Click on satellite and look how remote the area is to the northeast.
There could be a few more deep caves up in there somewhere.
David Locklear
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http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=w_F7QrR4Ur8
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