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Our Team
CSISS is represented by a board of directors and staff from a variety of non-profit organizations and government agencies all working to stop the spread of invasives in our region.
CSISS 2016/ 2017 Board of Directors and Staff
For the 2017 season, we have two enthusiastic new summer students "Invasive Species Program Assistants" joining us with support from Canada Summer Jobs: Braden Lamoureux and Katlin McCallum. Braden will be joining CSISS from May-July, and will also be a volunteer intern for 3 weeks after his work term, with support from the Loran Scholarship Foundation. Kat is a TRU student and will be joining us from June-August. We are excited to have them both on the team to help with our outreach and field programs.
Sue Davies joined the CSISS team in April 2017 as our Aquatic Invasive Species and Outreach Program Coordinator. Sue comes to CSISS from previous work experience with the Invasive Species Council of BC's 2016 Revelstoke JCP job training crew. She also has a Masters degree in Ecology from New Zealand and many years work experience in the environmental and education fields. Contact Sue to book outreach presentations and workshops at: email@example.com
Robyn Hooper is the Executive Director of the Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society. CSISS is a non-for-profit that works with a variety of land managers and stakeholders on invasive species management within the Columbia Shuswap region. Robyn has been working with CSISS since April 2014 on invasive species outreach programs, field mapping and monitoring programs, and partnership engagement. Robyn has a Dual Masters degree (Masters of Science, SLU and Masters of Forestry, UBC) and has worked throughout BC and Sweden engaging local communities and key stakeholders in climate change adaptation issues.
Laura has a degree in Biology from the University of Northern British Columbia, as well as a course in Environmental Monitoring. She has spent time working for Golder Associates as a Wildlife Biologist, assisting with the Woodland Caribou project in Revelstoke and working locally for the BC Wildfire Management Branch. In her spare time, Laura can be found on local mountain trails. Laura Gaster joined the CSISS Team as Program Assistant in April 2015 and currently manages the CSISS Field Operations Program.
Emily has recently graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Geography and Environmental Management. She is returning to CSISS for her third summer of work. She has previously completed placements with Canadian Wildlife Service in Toronto and Waterloo's Ecohydrology Research Group. In her spare time, Emily can be found exploring BC and spending time with her family in Salmon Arm. Look for Emily at our CSISS booth at events happening around our region this summer.
John Braisher is a rancher based south of Golden BC and brings extensive knowledge of agriculture and land management to the Board since joining in the fall of 2016.
Diane works with the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations as a Natural Resource Technician based locally out of Revelstoke. She recently joined the CSISS Board of Directors in September 2015.
Hamish is the Environmental Services Coordinator for the Columbia Shuswap Regional District. He currently manages the Eurasian Water Milfoil Control Program, three mosquito control programs, the CSRD Noxious Weed Control Program and eight groundwater monitoring functions. He is also responsible for inspections and maintenance of CSRD dikes, and partners with the Ministry of Environment to conduct water quality monitoring in addition to his participation in the Shuswap Lake Integrated Planning Process (SLIPP).
Hamish has worked with the Okanagan Basin Water Board, Ministry of Environment, Taranaki Catchment Commission in a variety of positions related to water quality, protection, management and invasive species. He has extensive underwater experience logging more than 4000 hours on SCUBA as well as receiving underwater photography awards while working in New Zealand. The winter months often find Hamish sliding on fluffy powder snow with friends and family. Hamish is the current Director of CSISS.
Chris Cochran is the Manager of Operations for the Town of Golden where he has been the last four years. Prior to moving to Golden, he served in the Office of Public Works for the City of Castlegar for 7 years. Chris has an educational background in Civil Engineering and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Parks Canada Advisory Development Board as well as the board of BC Water Supply Association. Chris enjoys camping, exploring the back roads with his quad and building models. Chris is currently serving as Vice-Chair of CSISS.
Adam is based in Revelstoke as a Senior Environmental Coordinator with BC Hydro and has served on the CSISS Board since the fall of 2013.
Bruce is a long-time resident of the Shuswap and has been actively involved with Invasive Plant Management as a retired spray contractor for the regional district.
Darren is the Operations Managers with the city of Revelstoke and joined the Board in 2013 to represent municipal interests.
David is based out of Revelstoke and joins the Board representing the Illecillewaet Greenbelt Society and the Revelstoke Current, a local independent news source.
Bryan is a part of the Resource Conservation division of Parks Canada and is based in Revelstoke.


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TELESEMINAR: UCC Toolkit: Promissory Notes – A National Perspective
September 9, 2014
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
1.00 MCLE hours
Promissory notes are essential tools of transactional practice. They are used extensively in business, real estate and commercial transactions. They are also frequently and mistakenly thought of as "boilerplate" – right up to the point when a party needs to collect a note but realizes it is not enforceable. Governed by UCC Article 5/Negotiable Instruments, promissory notes are also commonly bought and sold, and pledged as collateral in transactions among owners of closely held companies. When their complexity is overlooked, their enforceability is easily jeopardized. This program will provide you with a practical guide to drafting and reviewing promissory notes, the rights and duties of parties to notes, significant enforceability issues, and the rights of buyers in due course.
- Drafting and reviewing essential provisions of promissory notes in business and real estate transactions
- Ensuring compliance and enforceability under UCC Article 5
- Rights and duties of parties to a note – makers, holders, transferees
- Receiving, selling, buying and pledging promissory notes
- Implied warranties when transferring a promissory note
- Collection issues, including statutes of limitation
- Holders in due course – eligibility for the status and rights attaching to it
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Anne Perry's superb New York Times best-selling novels set in the glorious reign of Victoria are loved by listeners far and wide. Now, with this new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery, Perry returns us to that charmed era, when wealth and power rule - but where, alas, poisonous corruption lies coiled in the heart of empire.
As commander of the powerful Special Branch, Thomas Pitt has the job of keeping Britain safe from spies and traitors. So there' s no obvious reason why he is suddenly ordered to investigate two minor incidents: the blood, hair, and shards of glass discovered outside the home of naval weapons expert Dudley Kynaston, and the simultaneous disappearance of Mrs. Kynaston' s beautiful lady's maid. But weeks later, when the mutilated body of an unidentified young woman is found near Kynaston' s home, Pitt realizes that this is no ordinary police investigation.
Far from it.
Is Kynaston - one of Britain's most valuable scientists - leading a double life? Is Pitt saddled with a conspiracy so devilishly clever that it will ruin him? A baffled Pitt has never needed his friends more desperately, including his indomitable wife, Charlotte; his canny old colleague Victor Narraway; and his personal drawing-room spy, Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould. But even these allies may not be able to save Pitt - or Britain.
Only Anne Perry could have created the tense unfolding of plot and counterplot, love and betrayal, scandal and murder that follows. Death on Blackheath is rich with fascinating characters, authentic period flavor, knife' s-edge suspense, and a haunting, unforgettable denouement.
©2014 Anne Perry (P)2014 Recorded Books
"Another great Special Branch tale."
"Death on Blackheath" is the tenth book which portrays Pitt as a member of Special Branch, a government agency concerned with security, espionage and government secrets. When Anne Perry first moved Pitt from the police to Special Branch, I had difficulty adjusting: the espionage and thriller parts just didn't ring true for me. But I hung in there, believing that Perry would get it together so that Special Branch would be as believable and engrossing as the earlier police novels were. And the last few Special Branch books did finally come up to the quality of plot and style that I had so enjoyed in the police stories.
In this latest installment, Pitt and Stoker of Special Branch are called to investigate matters which would not otherwise come under their jurisdiction, except that they occured at the home of Mr. Kenyston, an important scientist doing secret weapons work for the government. As things progress, bodies are discovered near the same home, all causing Pitt to focus on Kenyston. It turns out that some of those things were intended just to create that focus.
Anne Perry writes with her usual fine eye for detail, both physical and emotional detail, and describes minute details of her characters that allow the reader to see the faces, and the new lines caused by aging, hard work, fear and other factors.She allows us to understand and feel what the characters are feeling, and the exceptional narration of Davina Porter makes us feel the fear, the happiness, the love and the hatred that the characters experience. Many of Perry's continuing characters appear in this installment. This book may be one of my favorite Pitt books, because it also lets us see, and feel, new love between two of my favorite Perry characters.
Highly recommended!
"The Best of the Series Since the Early Books"
I had loved the early books in this series but found some of the more recent ones disappointing. This book breaks that mold; it was as interesting as the early ones. Good characters, good story, plenty of intrigue.
"Good mystery, well read."
I enjoy Anne Perry's mysteries. I have just re-listened to this having just finished the Angel Court Affair-- her more recent book-- not wanting to leave the characters behind. It was as good as the first time I listened to it.
I remembered vital parts of the mystery, but I still got caught up in the story and was interested in the outworking of the mystery again.
Lady Vespasia falls in love. I have always liked her and I was happy to have more time with her.
I like the thought that a woman becomes more valuable as she ages.
I was struck this time repeatedly that I love to listen to Davina Porter read.
"Anne Perry has done it again!"
Still believable & exciting!
Revisits Resurrection Row but takes it to a new level of intrigue and mystery!
I love to listen to the many voices of Davina Porter, but I still love to hear her turn into Lady Vespasia.
I cried when Lady Vespasia is faced with her feelings and such a hard choice to make!
Love, love, love it! The development of the story between Pitt and Charlotte still has so much to share. Can't wait to see how he grows and adjusts to Jemima growing up.
"If you are a fan of this series.........."
...more power to you. Not my cup of fiction.Meanders all over the place with so many characters its hard it follow on audio.
Yes,just not this series.
Davina Porter was best part of this book.To me.
I ordered this one based on lots of stars. That does not always work.
"Character depth increased!"
Great suspense.
Development of side characters increased, much to my delight.
Can't say or I'd give it away.
The ending.
Anne perry is rewarding longtime readers with some humorous chapters in the arc of certain side characters. You'll love it. It's the novel you've waited for.
"Transporting and full of surprise"
I love Anne Perry I've read both the Pitt and Monk series. Hearing Davina Porter read them is a real treat. She makes each character sound different. It's like meeting old friends again and her plots are always fresh.
"the most ungifted detective crime writer yet"
not if I can help it
I hope to avoid her
Anger. wasted credit
Anne Perry presents like a wanna be Bronte. There is nothing authentic about the setting, times or characters. She is shallow, predictable and boring. Davina Porter, never my favorite, outdoes herself with a pretentious overblown rendition of facile women.
All in all a terrible experience
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My domain is: monpetitchouphotography.com
I ran this command:
./certbot-auto renew
It produced this output:
Requesting root privileges to run certbot...
/home/bitnami/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/letsencrypt renew
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/monpetitchouphotography.com.conf
Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for monpetitchouphotography.com
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
Generating key (2048 bits): /etc/letsencrypt/keys/0003_key-certbot.pem
Creating CSR: /etc/letsencrypt/csr/0003_csr-certbot.pem
new certificate deployed without reload, fullchain is
Congratulations, all renewals succeeded. The following certs have been renewed:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/monpetitchouphotography.com/fullchain.pem (success)
I ran the command a second time (as root instead) because it didn't appear to update on the website and got a long list of feedback, ending with:
Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/monpetitchouphotography.com.conf
Cert not yet due for renewal
The following certs are not due for renewal yet:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/monpetitchouphotography.com/fullchain.pem (skipped)
No renewals were attempted.
My operating system is (include version): Not sure...
My web server is (include version): Apache
My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Amazon EC2 instance
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): Yes, I did
sudo su root
I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): No.
I restarted apache using:
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
and it still didn't help.
I also used this command to see what was in the file, as per the other forums threads that I saw:
openssl x509 -in /etc/letsencrypt/live/monpetitchouphotography.com/cert.pem -text -noout
And I got this (among other things):
Not Before: Feb 15 20:05:00 2017 GMT
Not After : May 16 20:05:00 2017 GMT
The first time I ran the command, when I wasn't root, I got an error. So now I know for sure it's been updated but when I check the website, or any other those SSL certificate checkers, the expiration date still says March 7th.
I saw a post about having to restart nginx but I tried a few different restart commands that I found online and none of them worked.
You restarted Apache? And you restarted ngingx? What are you running, both?
Anyway, two things:
Sorry, command line isn't my forte, so I just try everything that I see other people suggest in the other topics
Thanks for the suggestions but I'm a bit lost. What command can I use to find the webserver and version? I installed a Bitnami AMI so it took care of everything for me.
Here's how i installed LE, let me know what steps I might have omitted.
./certbot-auto certonly --webroot -w /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs -d monpetitchouphotography.com
./certbot-auto certonly --webroot -w /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs -d monpetitchouphotography.com
sudo cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/monpetitchouphotography.com/cert.pem /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.crt
sudo cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/monpetitchouphotography.com/privkey.pem /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.key
After doing this the SSL certificate showed up on the website and was working. Later on I was trying to update the SSL certificate to add a subdomain to serve images from CloudFront but was encountering issues then realized it was way easier to use Amazon's SSL instead. I may have complicated things trying to do that.
Now I'm trying to renew it and encountering the issue described above. Thank you for your patience!
Well, you did a manual copy step with those cp commands. Bitname probably has a recent version of Apache, so it would be possible not to point to cert.pem, but to fullchain.pem.
To keep things simple (not to confuse you further with difficult things), I would recommend the next steps:
sudo ln -sf /etc/letsencrypt/live/monpetitchouphotography.com/fullchain.pem /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.crt
sudo ln -sf /etc/letsencrypt/live/monpetitchouphotography.com/privkey.pem /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.key
In stead of copying, which would require manually repeat that step every renewal, it just symlinks the paths to each other.
Next, try the following for renewal (won't do anything now because you renewed recently):
./certbot-auto renew --post-hook "sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache"
Thank you so much. The symlinks worked and it also resolved an error that gtmetrix.com was giving me, so that works now as well! Much appreciate the time you've taken to help me out and your patience. Oh, AND https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest now also gives me an A.
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Calligraphic Alphabet for Tipofino
I recently designed this calligraphic Capital Letters Alphabet, originally as a rapport for the design of some textile pieces for the Tipofino Collection*. It collects different sketches I have done for some projects but also some new ones, designed with different techniques from scratch: by pencil, by brush, and by pen.
Here you can see some uses of this alphabet, available at Tipofino's online shop.
The alphabet on a grey background and in random order for the poster…
In use for the T-Shirt…
… and the Tote Bag
*Tipofino, a new project consisting of an online shop of typographic ideas on paper and textile design.


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I. LOVE. MUSIC FESTIVALS! I've been going to as many festivals as I could over each summer since I was 18. I rarely buy a ticket, usually I will work for a food van, or the festival itself, to weasel myself a free ticket and sometimes even some cash out of the weekend.
Over time my festival priorities have changed. Where I used to go to every one I could, this New Years Eve, I will be at a wedding instead of the Tasmanian Falls Festival (where I would have been driving international bands to and from the airport/hotel/festival site). And I'm ok with that, in fact I'm bloody excited about the wedding.
My expectations for festivals have also changed. I'm just about to enter my third trimester in my first pregnancy, so I'm looking for great family friendly festivals, I'm looking for entertainment during the day and I'm looking for seating.
Last weekend my husband, J, and I went to Queenscliff Music Festival. I did love it, but I'm also wondering if maybe I haven't outgrown festivals a little bit. Here's what I found:
- Enjoying great live music.
- Market stalls.
- Great food.
- QMF is close to home (so I went home and napped when there wasn't music on I wanted to see).
- QMF is right in town, so you don't necessarily have to have a ticket to enjoy the festival vibes. Although you can't access any of the big name acts.
- Out enjoying the elements. I love all kinds of weather and at festivals, you don't have much choice but to embrace them.
- Long weekend! I'm exhausted and feel the need to take days off so I can enjoy a weekend.
- Expensive. Once you've paid for your tickets, there's still food, booze, keep sakes; I think I spent $150 over the weekend. (Although I didn't buy a ticket or booze)
- Being torn between different acts. Festivals often have multiple stages, with many if the bands over lapping their sets. How do you choose? Do you have to? We tend to do a few half sets.
What do you think? Are music festivals for you?
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We were created to inspire. We bring a passion for change by bringing back true craft and integrity to an industry devalued by the cost of big business through trend turnovers and low wage apparel creation, inflicting hardship to people and the environment. This is a brand that brings value through passion and quality from integrity. We support our people, perfect our craft and respect our environment. Help us bring the fire and break the cycle. Value comes from a unique ability to fight for change. We can only do it if we work together.
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CREATE– All jobs are different and the prices may vary for different designs. The prices are broken down by quantity and number of colors in the design. We offer a wide variety of colors and can match pantone specific images. The normal print cost is based off of an 11 x 17 inch print area. We offer over-sized printing, up to 33 x 33 inches. We offer much more than garment printing. We can also provide any promotional product such as pens, magnets, posters, stickers etc. Please inquire for pricing and additional product information.
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I love staying busy, so when I am not working on making custom wigs, I am back working on my handcrafted jewelry. When I move to Florida, I lost my clients and market for my handcrafted jewelry, however, I found the passion again to work on my handcrafted jewelry. You will see special one of a kind jewelry pieces as I continue to grow my brand Shawzae I am following my dreams as a designer, and I like to think of myself as crafty so I get my hands in a lot of things, especially hair, health and beauty products. We also started a perfume collection as well, so whatever it is you want to do, find time, make time and start doing it.
Shawzae blog will tell you about what we are doing, and where we are going. We will share our updates, new products, and health and beauty tips with you. Visit our store for all natural health and beauty products, custom wigs and more. Visit http://www.etsy.com/shop/shawzaeboutique
Sunday, October 16, 2016
We are so bless to have hair of every texture, and I personally love our natural hair on all females, so it's no wonder I want you to take care of it, and I want to help you. When clients come to you for a sewin, and they have no edges or thin edges, it is our responsibility to educate then on what works and don't work. We want to take care of those edges, by educating the client that the style may not be appropriate for her edges, and you can suggest the vixen or vertical sewin that will elevate pressure on her edges. The vixen or vertical sewin will allow you to leave hair out, and doing so it takes the pressure off the weak area and put it in the stronger area. The vixen or vertical sewin look very natural, and it will allow the clients to continue taking care of their edges. You can suggest products to your clients such as the edge control to keep the edges flat so that your client will have a flawless look. We will be teaching vixen sewin which is also known as the vertical sewin to our students at Shawzae. This is a natural hair care tip to prevent more damages to thin edges or to protect someone with no edges. Educating your clients is very important in the hair business, and it's something that we all have to do to stop damaging natural hair. Vixen or vertical sew in can be done on short hair as well. Let's learn to love natural hair.
Sunday, October 9, 2016
This is an amazing time for Shawzae, because we are not just in the hair business, we also create other crafty products such as health and beauty, cosmetic, jewelry and perfumes. Perfumes are something new that we are trying out, and the first perfume that was created was great. We got some good responses from the ladies that have received this perfume as a free gift. We gave away over twenty bottles to get some feedback as to the smell, how long it last, so that we can produce more perfumes. The feedback was great, the only problem we encounter was that the bottles leaked when they were in the handbags. We used the roll on bottles, and for some reason if you put the bottles in your purse, they leak,, so you will end up with one great smelling handbag. Watch the video on how I made this great smelling perfume.
Shop with us at http//www.etsy.com/shop/shawzaeboutique. We will be changing the bottles for the next bash of perfumes, but you can still purchase some of the perfumes we have left. This is an all natural perfume, smell great.
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At long last, the property tax reform that Governor Branstad campaigned on in 2010 and every candidate, on both sides of the aisle, advocated for in 2012 is about to become reality. That is, as long as it passes the Democrat-controlled Iowa Senate. A sweeping tax reform package that legislators believe will provide the biggest tax cut in state history appeared on the verge of passing Thursday night.
However, Iowa Senate Democrats did not take up the measure on the floor. It was expected they would do so when the session reconvenes Friday morning. However, the word among state senators late Thursday night was that the bill might not be voted on this week. Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal (D-Council Bluffs) stands in the way of this significant piece of legislation.
"As you know, we've been working on this very diligently for three years," Branstad told reporters on Thursday. "This is a good example of everybody really working together to try to get something that's going to make a real difference to make the state more competitive and reduce the property tax burden for the citizens of Iowa."
The comprehensive package includes elements that the Republican-led Iowa House, Democrat-led Iowa Senate and Republican Governor Terry Branstad advocated for.
"The conference committee has passed both chambers and is agreed upon. I am hopeful that Senator Gronstal will bring it to the floor tomorrow for a full vote," said Sen. Jack Whitver (R-Ankeny). "This bill will be the largest tax reduction in Iowa history and includes relief for commercial property, residential property, apartments and an income tax reduction. This is the type of pro-growth legislation that will continue to move the Iowa economy towards number one in the country."
There are several different aspects of the bill, which will impact various groups of Iowans. The legislation will reduce commercial property tax rates by 10 percent, over two years. It will also create a new tax credit for commercial property owners.
The Earned Income Tax Credit, a benefit to low income Iowans, will increase significantly. There will also be a new tax credit of around $60 per year for income tax payers. The legislation also lowers the cap on annual increases in residential and agricultural property tax assessments.
"I am hopeful that the bill will go through. Part of the process is negotiations, sitting down and in good faith try to reach a compromise the all parties can agree to," said Sen. Jake Chapman (R-Adel). "While I don't think it is a perfect property tax relief bill, it will be the largest tax cut in Iowa history and will put Iowa on a more level playing field to attract and retain business."
If the bill is taken up by the Iowa Senate and receives majority support, it will be sent over to the Iowa House. Following passage from both chambers, Governor Branstad says he will enact the tax reform legislation.
"I'm looking forward to the opportunity to sign it. Obviously, it's been a high priority of mine since I came back as governor and I think it will make a big difference for our state," Branstad said.
Although this legislation is expected to provide significant tax relief, it does not meet all the reforms Republicans hoped for. They originally pushed for a $375 per taxpayer income tax credit, as a way to repay the over collection of taxes resulting in a $700 million budget surplus.
Local governments are likely to oppose the measure. They will lose revenue if the legislation passes, due to the property tax reductions.
"I'm hopeful we can do more in future years but I think this is the art of what was possible with this General Assembly and I'm very appreciate of the cooperation and that everybody's worked together," Governor Branstad added.
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"I looked out and saw all these Rudolph red noses and people crying. It's like what Lisa went through today. I saw it all over her face when I mentioned her father and all that."
"Rudolph Valentino had an air of sadness. He wore his success gracefully, appearing almost subdued by it. He was intelligent, quiet and without vanity, and had great allure for women, but had little success with them, and those whom he married treated him rather shabbily. . . No man had greater attraction for women than Valentino; no man was more deceived by them.""
"[Rudolph Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino's agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity."
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To promote sustainable culture in general and bicycle culture in particular, by physically engaging and immersing communities in the magic of bike culture, and cultivating and nurturing networks of local sustainable musicians, through our staging of free, community participatory, bicycle-based music events.
It is our great hope that our festivals will inspire the advent of more pedal powered community events and to teach individuals how to transform their lives by using a bicycle for power and transportation! It is our intention to support this growth by sharing our knowledge and experience of the bicycle generated system, organization, and touring.
The Pleasant Revolution Bicycle Music Festival Tour follows in the tire tracks of the San Francisco BMF—"the largest 100% bicycle-powered music festival in the world"—and the Ginger Ninjas' globe trotting bike music shenanigans. San Francisco's free, all-day (and late into the night) event takes place annually on the Saturday closest to the summer solstice.
A Bicycle Music Festival typically features: a 1–2000 watt pedal-powered PA system, as many as 15 bands, up to 7 festival stops, outrageous Critical Mass-style bicycle party caravans between festival stops, and zero use of cars or trucks.
With its completely bike-haulable stage, the event is packed up and deployed numerous times: staged sequentially at different public parks and also on a moving "Live On Bike" stage which rolls down city streets.
The festival is run by a team of over 20 volunteers and is supported financially both by donations from the public (mostly gathered at the event), and through partnerships with hip companies.
The SF festival began in 2007, and has since doubled in size each year. Like Critical Mass (another SF-birthed bike spectacle) the concept has begun to be emulated around the world. We encourage you to start one in your city!
The first BMF – 2007
The only festival in the world literally hauling its own weight, the BMF possesses 4 distinctive qualities:
1) The human-powered P/A system, which besides being the most fun and green way to amplify a live concert, also transforms every song into an audience participation song, and radically democratizes the concert-goer experience (the power to amplify the people onstage rests entirely in the will of the people offstage; democracy at its healthiest you might say!).
2) Bicycle-mobility of the entire festival: the entire audience/band/stage/crew completely packs-up everything they bring (stage and musical equipment too) onto bicycles, and travels as a large group to the next festival stop. There are no sag-wagons or equipment trucks hauling the amplifiers and other heavy gear – everything is hauled by bicycle.
3) Pilgrimage-style sequential venue schedule: Unlike other festivals where bands are scheduled to play overlapping slots on stages that are set-up just around the corner from one another (often resulting in overlapping sound), the Bicycle Music Festival unfolds like a delightful treasure hunt: in a linear and adventurous journey-form, with only one meaningful development in the plot unveiled at a time, and stages located a full bike-ride away from each other.
4) Live On Bike mobile stage: Artists and bands perform while rolling down the city streets mounted on the backs of cargo bikes and bike trailers outfitted with microphones and amplifiers. The sound is wirelessly routed to "soulcycle" party bikes interspersed throughout the crowd, surrounding the crowd with sound.
The Bicycle Music Festival and its pedal-powered PA system are not only wonderful ways for the community to quite literally empower itself, but also a wonderful way to remind ourselves as we generate electricity with one another, shoulder to shoulder, where power is ultimately rooted.
Read our online organizational guide: How To Organize a BMF
Hugantic Shout Out!
San Franciscans Gabe Dominguez and Paul Freedman are perhaps the bike culture innovators to whom the Ginger Ninjas owe the juciest props. Together they were instrumental in creating the mobile human powered sound system that Gabe used on his first bicycle tour (of Utah) and which informed the Ninjas touring system; and they created the first bicycle music festival (that we know of), an evolving piece of art that continues to inspire our work. Much of this page was lifted from their site.
Audience powers the sound system:
Coupling super efficient digital amplifiers with generators attached to working bicycles (as opposed to purpose-built stationary bikes), this system allows a band to play off-grid anywhere, wall outlet or no, and to carry the system to a gig on two wheels. The band calls up members of the audience to pedal, up to four at a time with our current configuration.
How it works
- All of our rides are Xtracycle-equipped sport utility bicycles: like regular bikes except longer behind the seat to provide more room for and better handling when carrying gear.
- The Xtracycle system also provides for a dual-sided heavy duty kickstand that gets the rear wheel off the ground for stationary generation.
- A small DC motor with a 1" roller rubs on the sidewall of the rear tire, generating DC current. This motor is engaged and disengaged via a shifter lever, allowing for rapid setup of the band, and also enabling the rider to engage the motor while on the road (more on this below).
- This varying voltage DC pedaling energy is stored briefly in supercapacitors ("caps"), which shoot out a more consistent 11-15V. The buffering and storage of the caps supply amplifiers with both constant power and bursts. Our system demands about 160-200 Watts steadily, and up to 1000 Watts peak.
- An L.E.D. indicator on the handlebars tells the pedaler whether to pedal harder, keep 'er steady, or STOP. Too little voltage will kill the sound and too much will actually ruin the cap.
- Each bike has its own cap, and each cap feeds into a common inverter. The inverter changes the DC current into 120 VAC with regular electric outlets, into which we plug all of our equipment: 2 x 500W speakers, mixing board, effects pedals, laptop, Down Low Glows, and chargers for the small devices we have on tour with us.
- Without efficient amplifiers, we would need 8 pedalers to get the same sound level!
- Our complete touring system incorporates flexible solar panels, small, eco-friendly Lithium Phosphate batteries, and on-the-fly generator engagement for all of our electric needs.
- We're using bikes to power music, but you could use a similar generator to power most any household electrical device.
Equipment we use:
We have a range of bikes from different makers, including Giant, Schwinn, Bridgestone, Trek, and Surly, all equipped with the Xtracycle FreeRadical, a frame extending "rack". We also have a Surly Big Dummy ( a complete long-frame bike that's compatible with the Xtracycle rack system.) We favor mountain bikes for their cushy fat ground-loving tires and relatively strong wheels (smaller wheels are stronger than bigger wheels, all else being equal). We use quick-release seatposts so seat heights can be adjusted for different riders. To improve: we often find that none of our bikes are small enough for little kids who want to pedal at shows.
We fabricated our dual-sided kickstands ourselves, though Xtracycle keeps threatening to manufacture one for sale. We also glued and screwed little blocks to the undersides of our SnapDecks for the kickstand feet to rest in. This keeps the bikes more stable for pedalers, and also enables us to play on the grass without the stands burrowing in. To improve: current stands need both hands to engage (not really kickstands at all) so are very inconvenient for casual stops. Also, they have no leveling capability if the ground isn't flat. Hopefully the Xtracycle stand will address both of these weaknesses.
We mostly use Schwalbe Marathon XR 2.25 tires, because they're really puncture resistant, have cool reflective sidewalls and are great rollers. On the other hand, they're fairly expensive and don't seem to offer any more resistance than average to sidewall wear. Any time your roller wheel is insufficiently engaged with the sidewall, the sidewall will suffer. An tire can be ruined in one generating use without proper attention. (If you see little black specs on the floor, adjust your roller immediately!). Lately we've taken to using the cheapest MTB tires we can find since we haven't yet figured out how to keep them from wearing out. To improve: find a touring tire that's made specifically for a dynamo rub wheel.
Tip: as you start to notice your sidewall wearing, rotate your tires. On a set of two tires you have 4 potential sidewalls to use and with good roller and rotation management might be able to use the tires until the tread wears out instead of replacing otherwise good tires b/c their sidewalls have failed or are about to fail.
Caution: don't put a tire with a bad sidewall on your front wheel! A blowout on your front wheel will most likely be ugly!
We use a generic motor that we order from McMaster-Carr, part number: 6331K13. It's kinda expensive and only rated at 5 amps (at 3456 rpm; we produce upwards of 10,000). We've calculated that our system produces 7-10 amps often, meaning that we're overdriving this motor and it's lifespan is decreased. We built a plastic housing around our motors to keep them dry while riding in the wet. To improve: find a widely available 7-10 amp motor, optimally a common auto part such as an electric fan motor.
Motor Mount
We custom built our mounts out of aluminum. They are designed to bolt into the bottom of a cantilever brake boss, enabling their use on most any modern adult bicycle without welding. They pivot in and out of engagement.
Engagement Lever
A cheap thumb shifter or downtube shifter (from a derailleur, often available from the old parts bin at your bike shop) mounts anywhere within reach of the rider and engages the motor against the tire. A simple, custom spring mechanism retracts it. To improve: optimally, the rub wheel would automatically engage the tire just the right amount always, so that there would never be too much pedaling resistance and never too little contact (and too much wear). This system would have to account for the likelihood of the wheel being somewhat out of true.
This custom made piece mounts to the handlebar. A small wire from the capacitor lights up either a yellow, green, or red L.E.D., letting the pedaler know whether to pedal harder, hold steady, or stop. To improve: our yellow L.E.D. doesn't come on with super low voltage; if it did, you'd know that the system was working correctly even before you'd gotten it up to operating voltages. Sometimes people keep pedaling even when the red light is lit, either out of ignorance or bliss or both. The optimal system would have a safeguard that would not allow the cap to get overcharged (which burns it up). The catch is creating such a "shunt" or voltage regulator that doesn't constantly draw juice. The mount could also be improved to be quicker and surer to attach to the handlebars.
58 Farad caps manufactured by Maxell. Part number: BPAK0058 E015 B01. To improve: as stated above, it would be nice to have some overload protection for these expensive beasties. It would also be nice to find a used or generic source for something a bit less expensive, though the investment isn't bad if you don't destroy them!
Voltage Drainer
When the system voltage (as determined by the highest reading cap in the chain) goes over 15 something, the inverter overloads and turns off the music. We have a little tool that plugs the offending cap into a resistor and sheds voltage down to the useable range. To improve: it would be nice to know which cap of the four was the offender. Sometimes you can tell be looking at each indicator, but sometimes you have to unplug each individually and check the voltage with Mr. Watty before draining the one that needs it.
Mr. Watty
A little electronic meter that connects, in-line if desired, into the wire coming from the cap to the inverter to tell you what the cap voltage (or current) is. To improve: the deluxe system would show you the digital voltage of every incoming line without needing a special tool and would have built-in voltage drain feature.
Power cables between capacitors and the inverter are varying lengths, from about 12 to 20 feet, since we want to minimize cable weight while allowing for bikes to be set up in different places. Heavier gage wire minimizes line losses, but it's called "heavy" for a reason… Neutrik connectors are used on both ends. To improve: do some math or testing to optimize gage; Neutrik not always reliable; clean up cable routing to avoid accidental tire rub.
Our amps are rated at 1000 Watts peak (combined), so we thought we'd be fine using consumer-grade off-the-shelf inverters rated at 500 W continuous/1000 W peak. We tried lots of brands, Coleman, West Marine, Vector, etc, burning them all up in turn and deciding that our use demands something more robust. We settled on a 1000W unit from Xantrex, makers of professional grade alternative energy equipment. It lasted a couple months before becoming quirky; they replaced it on warranty with an 1800W model. We think that the 1000W unit was up to the task but just a bad piece, but haven't checked another one. The 1800W model has worked flawlessly. It has the option of hard wiring in an additional cable or outlet, and we did. So our long amp/speakers' power cables are wired right into the unit.
We wanted a system that would be loud enough for 3-400 people, carryable on two wheels over the long haul, and powerable with four generator bikes or fewer. We knew that we would be putting all the instruments and vocals through the mains: no bass amp, no guitar amp—everything direct. We spent a lot of time researching different speaker weights and looking at state-of-the-art amp technology. Most amps are Class A or B or A/B. These amps analog amps are about 60% efficient on average—the other 40% of energy in ends up as heat. Lately, a Class D amp technology has become digified and applicable to live sound reproduction. We had decided to have a Danish dude build us a custom DC (no inverter required) digital amp, when we discovered that JBL had just come out with a killer sounding cabinet that already had a digital Class D amplifier built into it. We bought two of these PRX-512s. Each is a two-way speaker, with a 12" woofer and a horn. They weigh about 42 pounds each and fit perfectly on the back of an Xtracycle. We had found lighter speakers, but none that had amps inside. If we weren't using Class D amps of some sort, we need almost twice as many bikes to get the same volume! It's a really good lesson in reducing your demand before you work on the supply side—even if you know the supply is going to be "sustainable." As an analogy, you'd want to replace your incandescent bulbs with CFLs before trying to run your house on solar panels. To improve: it would be nice if amps didn't draw at all when there was no signal, to minimize storage loss in the cap when the band stops. It would also be nice if the speakers weighed less! We're thinking about trying to re-make the cabinets out of fiberglass.
Mic Stands
We use straight tripod stands for lightness. Though accustomed to boom stands, we've gotten used to the straight ones and like the couple pound weight savings. Roland used to make one out of aluminum, and we have on of these, but it's been discontinued. It weighs half of what the steel ones do. We considered using headset mics (Madonna style) to save on both mic and stand weight, but if you sing with a lot of dynamics, you pretty much need a dedicated sound engineer to monitor your levels since you can't vary your position from the mic. We tried making our own out of bamboo, but didn't like the lack of adjustability of the first batch. To improve: get aluminum stands or make nice ones out of bamboo (renewable!).
Speaker Stands
We made some super light stands out of old carbon fiber windsurfer poles. They got the speakers up high but had to be tied to a bike for stability. We didn't use them much, accidentally left them behind in Baja, and have been just setting the speakers on the backs of bikes since then—either horizontally or vertically, with some sort of tiedown. Horizontally seems to be stable enough that the bike can also be used as a generator bike, minimizing the total number of bikes on the stage.
We don't currently have monitors. We position the mains a little bit behind the frontline and do our best. Some of us think this is ok, some of us think it sucks. To improve: We're going to experiment with wired in-ear monitors and might try some small powered mic-stand speakers, too.
Soul Cycle
One of the speakers has a 500/1000w West Marine inverter built into it (by us). This enables us to plug it directly into a 12V battery and have iPod music while we're riding, a truly bomb element of being a mobile musician. The generator doesn't spin fast enough while tooling around town to produce the current needed by the big speaker, which is why we must use a battery. To improve: wirelessly connect both speakers (on separate bikes) so we could roll in stereo.
In addion to the primary power out, the caps also have a jack for plugging in a Down Low Glow, these lights make the pedal powered spectacle even more dulce. Also, they can be charged continuously while riding (like the dynamo-driven lights of the old days excpet way cooler) and give an amazing amount of side visibility. To improve: the lights would go out when the indicator was yellow, letting full power go to the inverter until the pedaler gets up to green. Also seriously lacking from our setup is real stage lighting.
The caps are built into little plastic boxes (made out of a section of square gutter downspout—for protection and water resistance). Also in these boxes is a charge controller so that the generator can be used to charge a battery instead of feeding into the inverter. To improve: a kick-ass charge controller would allow you to engage the generator at the top of a really big hill and use 10 amps or so to charge a battery. As it is, our charge controller is not robust enough to use this much current, and the capacitor doesn't have enough capacity to store it, so most of the downhill potential goes unused. Building this would be one of the top 3 improvements to the system.
We have 6 amp-hour 12V lithium ion phosphate batteries, primarily for running the Soul Cycle, though they could also run laptops and charge other devices. Lithium ion phosphate is a chemistry that is supposedly very eco-friendly, very simple to charge (doesn't require a smart charger), and relatively lightweight. It is also expensive. We ordered these directly from a Taiwanese manufacturer as a sample. It looks like Brunton is getting ready to sell something similar, in a really robust package, and we hope to try them out. To improve: 6 amp hours isn't really enough for a bangin' soul cycle session. We want to try 12.
Solar Panels
We have folding 26 Watt solar panels made by Brunton. They can charge our Lithium batteries, AAs, or iPods. If you daisy chain a couple-three together, you can run a laptop directly.
SHOUT OUT to the self-powered pioneers: SHAKE YOUR PEACE!, Fossil Fool, Nate Byerley, Jeremy Fisher, bicycle the band, Xtracycle Inc, and the Bicycle Music Festival. And big ups to our main man, the engineer and whirlwind tour de force behind our system: Dante Espinosa, now selling this stuff and providing even more detail at his site, economadica.
Can you do it without an Xtracycle?
There are a gazzillion ways to carry cargo on a bike: from jury-rigged rack to kid trailer to home-built hauler. A lot of this stuff is easier to find used than is the currently-in-high-demand Xtracycle, and therefore likely cheaper. Xtracycle is generally lighter, faster, nimbler and more adaptable to a wider variety of cargo than other options: we don't think any other means of cargo carrying is as suited to the bicycle musician lifestyle, especially if you plan to tour out on the open road. And we are certainly biased (one of us co-founded the company).
As far as generating electricity goes, you can buy a ready-made stationary power generation station on the internet for less than $400 bucks that you can plop most any regular bike into and start making juice. These systems have big motors and heavy stands to hold the bike upright. This means they can likely generate more juice than can our system and that they are much much heavier, to the point wheree you wouldn't want to tour with them. But if you want to make a system for local use that you can haul around in a trailer (or even leave in place) and use with a wide variety of bikes, this is a cheaper option than building a bike-mounted system.
For bike-mounted, mobile systems, the Xtracycle or another kickstandable longbike platform makes the most sense.
Do you generate while riding and then use the energy to power a show?
No. The capacitors can only store enough energy for a couple of minutes of performance, which is why the audience must (gets to!) pedal throughout the whole show.
Do you store the pedal energy in batteries?
No, we use supercapacitors that only weigh about a pound. Batteries are generally too heavy for bike touring and not as good at rapid charge/discharge. There is still research to do in this area. Some folks are saying that they think we could use batteries instead of capacitors.
Did you guys invent this system?
Most of the elements of the system were developed by Nate Byerley (the Juice Peddler) and Paul Freedman (aka Fossil Fool, of Rock the Bike) for/with Gabe Dominguez (SHAKE YOUR PEACE!) for Gabe's bike tour of Utah in the Spring of 2007. Gabe's completely DC system uses the same generator (mounted to the SnapDeck) and capacitor as ours, in a homemade speaker cabinet with a T-amp (a proprietary Class D amp). We wanted a motor mount that could bolt to any bike, a system powerful enough for a whole band playing for 400 people, and a variety of charging capabilities, so we developed these features (with Dante Espinosa, our team genius hurricane loco engineer). In reality, none of this technology is cutting edge (except for the digital amp); it's just the mobility and application that are our collective contribution to this work that many others are also engaged in. People have been using bikes to power things for a long time.
Where can I buy one?
Dante Espinosa, our system engineer, at his new company economadica, and Rock the Bike both offer various standard and custom elements for human powering music and other things.
Where can I find out more?
There's a community of interested tinkerers and noisemakers forming at bicyclemusic.ning.com
How much power does each rider produce?
You produce 30-120 Watts continuously on our system, depending on effort (and fitness!). If you're like Lance, you can probably peak out at 400 or so Watts.
How much energy do you "save" this way?
We powered 98% of our shows in the past year with the audiences' legs. It would probably be more accurate to say "they powered." No nukes, no coal, no dams, no pollution. The saved electricity from the whole tour is roughly equal in energy content to about 10 gallons of gas. For comparison, by using bikes to get to our gigs, we saved about 3000 gallons of gas!
Also, because our total electricity is in limited supply, we are forced to conserve it. This means that we use hyper efficient amplifiers, efficient stage lighting, and don't plug in a lot of extra junk. The scarcity of a resource makes you think way more about how you use it. People who live off the grid in solar-powered houses never forget to turn out the lights because they know if they do their whole system might be completetly dead in the morning! In our modern homes, the "wall" seems like a limitless supply of electricity and we therefore have to "remember" to think really hard in order to conserve it.
Our shows consume about 200W (1/4 the power of a toaster) of continuous human power (we think of it as "burrito power") to run our 1000W sound system. A typical band our size, playing for a similar number of people (200–800), uses in the neighborhood of 1000–4000W of wall power, not counting lighting. "Wall power" is a euphemism; it means "screwing things up over there where you can't see it happen."
This energy saved is literally a drop in the bucket compared to how much energy is saved by touring by bicycle. The point of not plugging into the grid is more a show of independence and self-reliance and a way of helping people get excited about possibilities while connecting some of the mysterious sustainability dots than it is a bona-fide way of severely limiting our impact on the planet.
Can you generate power while riding to store in a battery to turn the motor to make it into an electric bike and make you go?
Yes, if you pray to the something for nothing gods, and are willing to ignore the laws of physics and/or pretend they don't apply to you!
2010 European Tour Sponsors:
We want to give lots of love to the generous individuals, organizations, and companies that contribute to our mission and make the tours possible. It takes a lot to make international tours happen. From food, gear, promotion, or financial contributions, our sponsors advance our shared goal of spreading environmental awareness and building cross cultural bridges while creating new, diverse, and exciting musical experiences.
Thanks to :
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Equipment We Have Come To Deem Road Worthy:
This stuff makes our journey easier/better/possible/faster/comfier. We also tried to get a lot of our equipment used from friends and from thrift stores and the occasional sidewalk. Check out craigslist.org and freecycle.org the next time you think you need some stuff. And try not to get too caught up—the most important thing is to set out riding! We've seen people touring on a Huffy with a big backpack…
Xtracycle. Makes the "bikes" that make the journey doable and enjoyable. There are many ways to carry a load on a bike—trailers, tricycles, panniers, and backpacks are the most popular—but none could carry the loads we have on the roads we're riding, not to mention with comfort, style, and extreme modularity. In our admitedly biased opinion (tour leader Kipchoge is a co-founder of the company), the long wheelbased load carrying bicycle is the transportation of choice for the bicycle revolution. Xtracycle makes a kit called the FreeRadical that attaches to the bike you already own to convert it into a long wheelbase load hauler. They also make accessories for use with Surly's Big Dummy LongTail.
Clif Bar. One of the most progressive companies out there, trying to do good in the world. We tried to come to consensus on favorite flavor, but we all like different ones. Hemp brownie, fruity shot blocks, and mojo are all favorites. One person even loves the Builder Bar, but everyone else thinks it's gross. Clif was also the only company we accepted financial support from. Their family foundation gave a generous grant to support publicity for the tour and cargo bicycling.
Brunton. Perhaps our most generous supporter, these radsters make a whole bunch of cool equipment. We use their folding solar panels and charge controllers to charge our Lithium Ion Phosphate batteries for Soul Cycling, to charge laptops and cell phones, and AA batteries for almost every other electric need. We use the 26 Watt panels, which are a great size for spreading over your whole Xtracycle load, and we also have a couple of the iPod size panels. Brunton makes really cool headlamps that are powerful enough for us to also use as headlights for biking, and even stage lights. We chose their multi-fuel stoves for cooking and simmerability, stormproof lighters for firing in the wind, binocs for whale watching, and 2-way radios for communication on the road. Last but not least, the titanium spork! Humble, useful, and always accessible with its own integrated clip. It has become one of the most used, loved, and fought over things on the adventure.
Surly. We're using two of their bike frames, the 1×1—hooked to an Xtracycle FreeRadical, and a prototype of their newest frame, the Big Dummy. Surly is known for making bomber frames, which makes them perfect for our rather huge loads. The Big Dummy is the first production LongTail bike frame that's compatible with all the Xtracycle accessories. Surly people are planetary cool and their bikes rock.
Rock the Bike. Constantly raising the bar in the creation of a hip and expanding bicycle culture, this more-or-less one-man show makes really sweet neon cloud lights by day, and raps succinct yet extravagant paeans to the two-wheeled thing by night. Paul Freedman, AKA Fossil Fool, builds sicko music bikes for hiimself and other bike music innovators and helped us in the creation of ours. We dropped by his shop on our way through Berkeley to make some special connectors that allow us to use our Lithium Phosphate batteries to power the Down Low Glow and our powered JBL speakers. If you find yourself in the Bay Area, do not miss the opportunity to cruise with the Fool.
Ortleib. Known primarily as a pannier maker, they also make many different sizes of drybags. We all use two of the dry duffels, one in each FreeLoader. This size leaves a little room at the end of the FreeLoader for stuffing an extra waterball or shed clothing. Though it hasn't hardly rained, drybags are the perfect way to keep stuff clean, too. The duffel style is especially appropriate for Xtracycling because you can get stuff in and out of your bag without even undoing your FreeLoader. It is not necessary to close the duffel unless it's actually wet outside. We also chose these particular duffels because they aren't made out of PVC, the most common drybag fabric and the most evil of chemicals.
Giant. The world's most sophisticated bicycle manufacturer. Their vertical integration enables them to imagine, design, and make pretty much any shape of bike they want to, at a good price.
Nutcase. Styley helmets. No one seems to get how important that might be. These guys do, and they have a whole bunch of sweet designs to prove it.
Worldbike. The non-profit organization that is sponsoring our trip, Worldbike works to bring load-bearing bikes to the people in the world whose livelihoods can be most stoked by them. We're trying to help spread the gospel of load-bearing bicycles to Mexico, where they seem to be more on their way out than in.
Gerber. Makes really cool knives. Our favorite is the Ripstop, a dynamite papaya opener and rope slicer.
Klean Kanteen. Plastic water bottles pretty much suck. They either taste like plastic or contaminate your insides with poisonous plasticizers, or both. Klean Kanteen makes stainless steel bottles that solve the problem.
Hoss. Great people, cool shorts and knickers with and without padding.
Ahnu. A shoe company trying to make shoes with as little environmental impact as possible. And they're waterproof, distinctive looking, ass kicking bike shoes. We needed one pair of shoes that could work for riding, running, climbing, and dancing; these are the ones.
Chaco. Most of us ride in flip flops. This Colorado company—known for their sport sandals—makes the toughest ones we've found. They're also trying to minimize the impact of their shoe making.
SRAM. We need dependable brakes and drivetrains that work and last while driving big loads around the planet. Their Avid BB7 mechanical disc brakes revolutionized disc brakes with ease of adjustment, and are the ideal stoppers for our needs, and for anyone who likes to stop quick and doesn't like to futz with brakes every couple of days.
Ergon. They invented a new kind of grip that supports the flat of your hand and makes riding more comfortable. We love, love, love them.
Marmot. It hasn't rained yet, but when it does, we look forward to donning their superlight waterproof pants. As with fenders, having raingear seems to keep it from raining.
MSR and Cascade Designs. Thanks to our friend Timmy O'Neil for sharing his MSR sponsorship with us. Gracias to his generousity, we ended up with the Hubba Hubba, perhaps the most satisfying tent to put up of all time. It only has one pole! And what a cool pole it is, somehow miraculously having 6 ends! And the tent seems to weigh about half of what many 2 person tents do.
Adidas Eyewear. Polarized lenses to cut down on glare; cool frames to make you feel cool.
Planet Bike. Certainly in the running for the best company in the bike business, these guys give a quarter of their profits directly back to bicycle advocacy. Consider that most companies give only 1–2% of their profits to charity and even the really good ones like Patagonia give only 10%. Planet Bike makes lots of good stuff for everyday riders, including blinky lights and great fenders. We're all equipped with said fenders.
Park. Make the tried and true tools that shops use to fix your bike. They also make multi tools that we're using to cure most of our ills, and an awesome semi-complete set of tools that comes in a backpack. We ultimately decided not to bring the backpack because of the weight, and we ended up regretting not having a couple things, especially a chain whip and cassette tool for replacing drive-side spokes.
QBP. You probably won't be buying anything from them soon, but your bike shop probably will. They're the biggest, friendliest, and most together distributor in the industry.
Schwalbe. Germans who make what appear to be the sturdiest touring tires around. We're using the Marathon XR, which have tread on the sides for dirt and gravel but also have an almost totally continuous center strip for lowered rolling resistance. They also have beefy sidewalls, which makes them perfect for the generators we're rubbing against them.
Big Agnes. Small Colorado company that makes an innovative sleeping bag. They figure you don't need the down on the bottom, you need it on the top—as long as you stay on your insulative pad. So, they put a pocket for the pad underneath you; you don't roll off the pad, and the insulation goes on top where it's needed.
Artisana. It doesn't make too much sense to bike tour with glass jars, but the raw, organic, kindy kind nut butters these geniuses concoct are too tasty to leave behind. We eat the coconut butter by the sporkful.
Doctor Kracker. These are the best crackers in the world.
Boiron. Maybe you've figured out that many medicines don't work as suggested, or worse, have side-effects. For some maladies, nothing seems to beat homeopathy. Boiron makes some remedies that seem to cure miraculously, and because they're essentially just sugar pills, they have no side effects. (For the sceptics out there, many of these remedies have been proven effective in double-blind placebo controlled studies.) Sportenine is a pill that you can take before a day of expected physical exertion, like when you're going to ride your 200-pound bike over an 8,000 foot hill in the sun. It makes you not get sore. And if you actually injure yourself, Arnica is positively miraculous at promoting fast healing of sprains, strains, and bruises. There are homeopathic remedies for most any illness, including many that Western medicine has no clue about how to treat—like colds, for instance.
Cane Creek. When you ride bumpy and you don't have a full suspension bike, try the Thudbuster. It works as advertised.
MIT Cables. Early in the trip, we were riding down the hill towards Sacramento when we came upon three enthusiastic Xtracyclists claiming to represent and comprise the biking population of the suburban "town" of Rocklin. As it happened, they were waiting to ride with us. We were honored and happy to have some supporters. One of the intrepid riders makes high-tech instrument cables with a secret black box of aural excitement. Now we have a quiver.
Reelight. Imagine a bike light with no batteries that's a cinch to install and works by magic. Thus is the Reelight—affix a couple magnets to your spokes, use your axle nuts to bolt on the light, and you have a blinky LED that's always on.
Ovation Guitars. Their high-end axes sound great, play great, stay in tune and can take a serious beating. If you want to bring your nice guitar on the road, by bicycle, in a light soft case, this is the one.
Marin Bikes. Makers of really great and reasonably priced bikes of all kinds, but a specialist in a new breed of city bike trageted towards the everyday rider/commuter.
Whitney Drums. As you might imagine, toting a complete set of drums on a touring bike is easier said than done. In fact, we didn't even think it would be possible for one person to do it. So, we scoured the 'net for a set that would collapse like those Russian dolls. Little did we know that we'd find such a set that is one of the best playing and sounding kits available. No compromises in this beautiful set. And, it's light and compact enough for Brock to carry all the drums, and the stands, and his camping/traveling gear. Thanks, JC!
Diskmakers. Replicates CDs fast and reliably and has great prices and some environmental packaging options. We tried to get them to use unbleached recycled paper (not just recyclable.) We'll keep trying and we hope you do, too. That´s usually what makes companies change.
Blue Bear. Merino wool is the best cycling wear. It doesn't stink and keeps you warm, even when rainy or sweaty. These radsters make cool merino tights that you can use for your only thermals, skiing or biking or just chilling in the fridge.
No Enemy. There is no other shirt maker who cares as much about how his shirts are made and what they're made of than the artist behind these 100% organic cotton Ts, hoodies, and pants. An eco-clothing maker that others may aspire to emulate. The only clothing more eco is thrift or naked.
New Belgium Brewing Co. Not literally equipment, but a damn good place to drink your beer. Eco and employee conscious brewers of Fat Tire and other tasty treats. Supporters of most every good cause and promoters of the Tour de Fat, a lovely mix of beer, music and bicis.


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Notice to anyone considering the most epic skiing trip of all time: look no further than northwest Montana. I was fortunate enough to join a crew put together by Untrackedguides.com (http://www.untrackedguides.com ) with the task of checking out Great Northern Powder Guides (GNPG for short- http://www.greatnorthernpowderguides.com ) snowcat skiing operation in Whitefish, Montana on February 21 and 22. We received a serving of two days offering excellent stability, snow and terrain, and our crew of 8 riders and our awesome guides helped us capitalize on a very rare opportunity.
Epic Planks (http://www.epicplanks.com ) co-owner and top sheet artist James Barber and I made our way out to Spokane, Washington a few days early and headed up to Sandpoint, Idaho for a couple days to prepare. If your were heading immediately to the Whitefish area it would make the most sense to fly into Kalispell, Montana, or just take the Amtrak directly to downtown Whitefish. However, discount mid-february flights and the opportunity to take a road trip to Schweitzer Mountain in Sandpoint, Idaho tipped the scales in Spokane's favor. We caught the end of a storm cycle on our first day at Schweitzer (a storm cycle that was also blasting the range at GNPG) and got blue sky the following day to start the trip off on the right foot. After two successful days at Schweitzer, we made the short 3 hour drive to Whitefish and found reasonable accommodations- given that we showed up during one of the busiest weekends of the year with no reservations. The following day, Sunday Feb. 20, we picked up another member of the crew, Regan Teat of http://www.reganwideopen.com , at the Amtrak station early in the morning, then headed up to Big Mountain. Presidents weekend served up some moderate lift lines, but we quickly found a slackcountry 10 minute hike that fed us fresh tracks for our last resort day- eagerly anticipating the looming cat skiing insanity that would commence the following morning.
Sunday night we were able to complete the family, meeting up with several other riders, our filmer Tim Engel, and our photographer Lisa Gover of http://www.lisadawnphotography.com . We were all checked into some unbelievably nice rooms at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake (http://www.lodgeatwhitefishlake.com ), which featured some enormous rooms, comfortable beds, and a giant hot tub. To top it off, GNPG sends a shuttle directly to The Lodge so that you simply wake up in the morning, grab your gear, and jump on the bus.
The shuttle takes about 20 minutes to get to the GNPG base of operations. Once there, the GNPG crew will load your stuff onto the cat, and it's into the office for introductions and training. GNPG owners Will MacDonald and Jay Sandelin were both there to greet us and walk us through the morning and afternoon plan. We also were able to meet the rest of the staff, including Tarn the cat driver, Evan our guide (alongside Will), and Dane our Snowmobile tow-in driver. Everybody there was friendly and down to business, we didn't waste much time in the office. After introductions and waivers, we dealt with beacons and training, and then it was into the cats and on the way to the first zone.
The new snowcat has a comfortable cabin that holds 14 passengers and two guides, and it moves very fast. We traveled a pretty significant distance into the range and climbed some steep vertical at what seemed like nearly 20mph. It took us less than a half hour to leave the base and arrive at our first skiing site. As I mentioned earlier, 48 hours prior to our first morning at GNPG, the end of a storm cycle had just moved on. Even though it had deposited over a foot of snow, conditions seemed stable and Will suggested as much on the way up. Impressively, while we were still gearing up, throwing on our skis, and making our way to the first site with guide Evan, Will had already gotten to the line we would be skiing, dug a pit and found the snow to be stable to 26 compressions. Needless to say, we were pretty excited to hear the news and get our first turns in on cat served terrain. Over half the terrain we skied on during our two days had yet to be skied this year. I've never had such a luxury, and neither had most of the Untrackedguides.com group I was with. To get that opportunity on a day with excellent stability and good visibility was gift from the powder gods.
Our first run was down a 38ish degree slope, with a wide open area up top and nicely spaced trees on the run out below. One by one we all got comfortable and made some nice turns down to the cat waiting for us at the bottom. Once down, we were able to get a visual on a large outcropping Tim had scouted with the guides the day before. The only accurate way to describe the crown jewel of the feature was plateau to 45 footer to huge stump 25 feet into the runout. Our pretty large egos from the morning quickly retreated and there were no early takers on the big line. We scouted some smaller lines to the sides with 20 foot drops with less exposure and headed back up top.
Five of us ended up riding down to our smaller lines, and with Evans guidance we sent it without any incident, though yard sale was a more common theme than stomp. Left at the top were Whitefish local Eric, alongside Evan and Will, all looking out over the big drop. After a couple minutes of deliberation, we got word Eric was tossing his carcass, and toss it he did, riding away from one of the biggest cliffs I've seen with no problems. To top it off, Evan and Will sent it moments later and aligned their bomb holes perfectly- three 45 foot drops and no one even scared the stump.
Fueled up after that zone, we spent the rest of the day sessioning what I would call a natural terrain park. Pillows and stumps-turned-jumps were everywhere, and you could have spent a season jibbing this area if you had the chance. We found a nice natural booter that got backflipped by Evan and Sevened by Danny Arnold, our youngest member and Epic Planks team rider. In the middle of all this we were served some of the best lunches I've ever had the luxury of eating. My only advice is guard your brownie if you decide to save it for the end of the day. Brownies that excellent lead good people to make tough decisions, I'll leave it at that. Eventually the light started to fade and we jumped back into the cat and returned to the base.
After a good nights sleep, we showed back up on Tuesday morning to about 3 inches at the GNPG office. Hopeful that there might be a bit more at the summit, we quickly loaded up the cats and headed up to a more remote zone that hadn't been visited this season. A lead snowcat, known as the winch cat, paved the way and created the road for the first time this year. Word over the radios was that the snow was coming over the top of the cat's windshield. Sometimes, you get your hopes of deep snow up and only discover disappointing stability, depth, or quality. This was not one of those times. Exiting the cat, we measured 16" of fresh snow on top of the previous storm layer. Will quickly dug a pit and gave us the good news: while there clearly was significantly more danger than the previous day, he still wasn't finding instability and we had the green light as long as we avoided open faces. The rest of the day was a blur and included some 40 degree slopes and a run that consisted of nothing but faceshots on a more gentle pitch.
If anybody is reading this and isn't sure about the value that you get out of cat skiing, you can ask me anything anytime, just message me on here. It's tough to even put a price on the experience we were offered on these two days. We didn't deal with any crowds, we got only untracked runs, and had spectacular food and company on the rides up. Most importantly, we had tremendous guides that let us think about skiing not about logistics or exit routes.
Thanks have to go out first and foremost to Great Northern Powder Guides. Will, Jay, and the rest of the staff there provided me with one of the greatest two days of my life and I am grateful for that. Their professionalism and attention to detail, combined with the comfort level and focus on safety, created one of the most confidence inspiring skiing atmospheres I have been around. I hope this was just the start of an annual visit to GNPG and the northwest Montana area. Will, Jay, Evan, Tarn, Dane: Thank You!
Thanks also to Untrackedguides.com for putting the trip together and assembling an awesome crew of skiers to share the experience. Thanks to everybody on the trip, Lisa Gover for shooting stills and Tim Engel for filming. Danny Arnold for showing us all how to nut up with an injury and toss a seven on a natural kicker you've never hit before with a landing you can't see. Epic Planks for sponsoring such an awesome rider. Eric for sending the big cliff and setting the tone for the two days. Garth for spending the first day with us. Regan Teat at reganwideopen.com for shredding and documenting it. Teo for being Swedish and having an epic beard. James for tolerating my music and driving.
Until next year!
Photos courtesy Lisa Gover and Regan Teat


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Panasonic has launched its sixth G Micro System camera – the GH2. It features a powerful video mode and, with the launch of the new Lumix G 3D 12.5mm lens, it will be able to capture 3D still images for viewing on a 3D TV. The GH2 is on show at the Photokina 2010 camera and photography exhibition in Germany.
Check out our full report on Photokina 2010 for all the latest launches and news from the show.
Meet the GH2
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2, to give it its full name, has a high specification including a large, 16.05Mp sensor. In addition, Panasonic claims the world's fastest autofocus system reportedly taking just 0.1 seconds to focus on a subject. This is all in a body that is smaller and lighter than a traditional digital SLR – Panasonic says that the GH2 weighs a touch over 600 grams including battery, 14-42mm lens and memory card.
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The GH2 has a touch sensitive 3-inch, hinged LCD screen. You can touch on a point on the screen when framing your shot, and the camera tries to focus on this point. Using the AF tracking function, the camera attempts to hold focus on your point even if it moves. The screen can be twisted out of the camera body to help with shooting at different angles.
High definition video
Full-HD recording is possible on the GH2 at 1080p resolution. Very keen film makers can create live viewing as they record by attaching the GH2 to a TV screen using HDMI.
For in-depth review of system cameras, including the GH2's predecessor the GH1, check out our digital SLR reviews.
Large range of lenses
The Lumix G Micro System range of lenses is now well developed. Eight are currently available, and at Photokina 2010 Panasonic announced a further three. These include a 100-300mm, 14mm f2.5 and 3D 12.5mm f12.
The GH2 will be available from the end of November and will cost around £900 for the body and 14-42mm lens and £1300 with a 14-140mm lens.
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Shivamogga: The first Konkani Catholic Sabha inauguration ceremony was held at Ambedkar Bhavan here on Sunday September 20 evening at 5:30pm.
The grand event unfolded with a prayer dance. The secretary welcomed the dignitaries and felicitated them with a bouquet.
Konkani Sahitya Academy President Roy Castelino – inaugurated the Association by lighting the traditional five-wick 'diya' accompanied by other dignitaries like Konkani Kala Ratna Eric Ozario, Noted litterateur N D'souza, and Konkani Catholic Association president Savadore Pereira.
karnataka Film association, President Thomas D'Souza, Gowda Sarasvath Brahman Association director N Devdas Nayak, Dyvajna Brahman Association president Subray V Shet, Rose Fernandes, Vincent Rodrigues, Walter D'Souza, Roshan Pereira, William D'Cunha, Irene Goveas, Urban Fernandes were also on the dais.
In his inaugural speech Roy Castelino said that this association will move faster to greater heights and remain as a pearl in the Konkani community.
Mandd Sobhan, Gurkar, Eric Ozario stressed on the need for protecting Konkani language and culture and pass it to the next generation. The prime objective of the association is to protect, preserve, promote and develop the Konkani language, its literature, culture and anything relevant to Konkani.
Konkani Catholic President Salvadore said that there are more than 12000 people belonging to konkani Catholic community in the district. In order to bring them together and organize them, Konkani Catholic Sabha has been established. The main aim of the association is to inform the community on the significance of our culture, language and uniqueness and the need to preserve it for the future generations.
All the dignitaries were honoured during this occasion. Quatilda delivered the vote of thanks. Irene compered the programme. The Mand Sobhan Troupe from Mangaluru entertained the gathering with Konkani songs. More than 500 members took part in the ceremony. At the end sumptuous dinner was arranged at the hall. What an evening? A lovely one indeed!


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National Canadian Film Day (and Where Things Should Be By Now)
The 3rd annual National Canadian Film Day, and more thoughts on where I'd hoped things would be in terms of accessible CanCon.
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ArtScopeTO 05: Interview with Painter Mary Lynne Atkinson
New ArtScopeTO podcast features artist Mary Lynne Atkinson, whose series Land on Fire can be seen at Toronto's Urban Gallery until Sat. Nov. 25, 2017.
From Fake News to Chamber Drama: 3 by Woody Allen
Reviews of Woody Allen's formal feature directorial debut Take the Money and Run (1969) from KL Studio Classics, the short mockumentary Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971), and the underrated drama September (1987) from Twilight Time.
Suburban Tales VII: Stranger Things, Season 2 (2017)
Review of Stranger Things: Season 2 + some thoughts on Exclusive Release bullshit.
Hard Westerns from Hard Directors: Hour of the Gun (1967) + Lawman (1971)
Two gritty unconventional westerns arrive on Blu via Twilight Time: John Sturges' Hour of the Gun (1967) and Michael Winner's Lawman (1971), plus some thoughts on director Winner.
Hookers, Vice Squads, and Prettykills: the Sensationalized vs. the Gritty
A quartet of films with differing tales of prostitutes & vice squads: Janice Cole & Holly Dale's Hookers on Davie (1984), Gary Sherman's uber-nasty Vice Squad (1982), Penelope Spheeris's Hollywood Vice Squad (1986), and George Kaczender's Prettykill / Tomorrow's Killer (1987).
ArtScopeTO 05: Interview with Painter Mary Lynne Atkinson
New ArtScopeTO podcast features artist Mary Lynne Atkinson, whose series Land on Fire can be seen at Toronto's Urban Gallery until Sat. Nov. 25, 2017.
Goblin Talks Suspiria at The Royal Cinema + Free Streaming of BSV 1172: Your Friendly Neighbourhood Video Store
Podcast featuring edited post-Suspiria 4K Q&A with Goblin and Rue Morgue's Aaron von Luption + Free Screener links to my experimental doc BSV 1172 in celebration of Video Store Day.
ArtScopeTO 04: Interview with Abstract Painter Chris Marin
Just posted: a new ArtScopeTO podcast interview featuring abstract painter Chris Marin, whose series Passages can be seen at Toronto's Urban Gallery, Oct. 5-28, 2017.
TV: Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971)
Running a compact 25 mins. Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story is a satire of the Nixon Administration, which was past the halfway point of its first term mandate when the short was scheduled for airing in February of 1972, but as the lore surrounding this 'lost' film goes…
Released the same year as Radio Days, Woody Allen's September retains the cast members Mia Farrow and Dianne Wiest, but the tone harkens back to the auteur's Interiors (1978), a more dour and overwrought attempt at Serious Drama…
BR: Take the Money and Run (1969)
There's a progression in Woody Allen's early as he moved from screenwriter to director, after having penned TV scripts and making the leap to What's New Pussycat? (1965), and although What's Up Tiger Lily? (1966) is credited as his first directorial feature film…
Written during his busiest period (1968-1970), Quincy Jones' score for John and Mary was quite sparse, leaving obligatory space for the film's myriad dialogue exchanges and source music, but the score is memorable for being atypical of the material Jones was writing at the time: action comedies (The Italian Job, The Hell with Heroes), comedies (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,Cactus Flower), and the funky style of They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
For some soundtrack fans, it was a bit of surprise to learn the composer of pioneering synth scores had begun his career with large orchestral scores for John Boorman's Excalibur (1981) and Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal (1982)…
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The first film in the enduring franchise gave John Powell the perfect opportunity to write what remains both his definitive action sound, and the definitive action score of that decade, blending large orchestral sounds with layers upon layers of electronics…


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- Menopause definition and facts
- What is menopause?
- At what age does a woman typically reach menopause?
- What are the signs and symptoms of menopause?
- What are other signs and symptoms of menopause?
- What conditions can cause early menopause?
- What tests diagnose menopause?
- What are the treatment options for menopause?
- Hormone treatment and therapy for menopause
- Oral contraceptives and vaginal treatments for menopause
- Antidepressants and other medications for menopause
- Home remedies: Plant estrogenes for menopause
- Home remedies: vitamin E, black cohosh, and herbs for menopause
- Vaginal lubricants for menopause symptoms
- Lifestyle factors in controlling the symptoms and complications of menopause
- What are the complications and effects of menopause on chronic medical conditions?
Menopause definition and facts
- Menopause is defined as the absence of menstrual periods for 12 months. It is the time in a woman's life when the function of the ovaries ceases.
- The process of menopause does not occur overnight, but rather is a gradual process. This so-called perimenopausal transition period is a different experience for each woman.
- The average age of menopause is 51 years old, but menopause may occur as early as the 30s or as late as the 60s. There is no reliable lab test to predict when a woman will experience menopause.
- The age at which a woman starts having menstrual periods is not related to the age of menopause onset.
- Symptoms of menopause can include abnormal vaginal bleeding, hot flashes, vaginal and urinary symptoms, and mood changes.
- Complications that women may develop after menopause include osteoporosis and heart disease.
- Treatments for menopause are customized for each woman.
- Treatments are directed toward alleviating uncomfortable or distressing symptoms.
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11.09.2017 With its 135,000 visitors a year, and almost 200 music acts over eight days, the Danish Roskilde Festival is the largest music festival in Northern Europe. It may also be one of the "greenest".
01.09.2017 Abena introduces world's first Ecolabel burger wrapping paper!
01.09.2017 Our two new incontinence care products, Incontinence Wet Wash Gloves with 3% Dimethicone, and Abena Zinc Oxide Spray-on are aimed to make life much more comfortable for incontinence patients who suffer IAD.
29.08.2017 Abena has been nominated for the Danish DI award 2017 for the intelligent incontinence product, Abena Nova with MediSens.