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05:18:46 01/11/12
Deleted Scenes from the Making of George Sabra's Plastic Caps Sculpture
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Take a behind the scenes look at the deleted scenes from The Making of George Sabra's Plastic Caps Sculpture! The Lake Travis Underwater Cleanup is the BIGGEST scuba diving and shoreline cleanup in Texas. The event invites several hundred certified scuba divers and shoreline volunteers to help round-up trash from the bottom of Lake Travis and 11 Travis County Parks around the lake. The cleanup is followed by a volunteer thank-you party & is a great event for ALL ages! RAIN OR SHINE! September 11th we united with volunteers across the nation to make the tenth anniversary of 9/11 one of service and remembrance. 2011 RESULTS - 848 volunteers (379 Divers, 398 shoreline, and 71 party volunteers). 1.64 Tons of litter removed. $37,725.45 worth of Volunteer Hours! Most Unique items found: Divers-40 Foot Deep Anchor and Shoreline-Old Radio. Be the Change Austin recruited 1,000 volunteers this year to make wonderful things happen all over the City of Austin. Be the Change is an annual national day of service coordinated by South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) to inspire and foster civic engagement through volunteerism and community service. Every year, thousands of participants across the country contribute innumerable hours of community service in the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi's famous quote, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Be the Change has allocated 300 of their Volunteers to a work day at Montopolis Greenbelt. In a part of the city not known for its greenbelts, Montopolis Greenbelt is a property with rich historical relevance, and is in substantial need of care and maintenance. Previously used as a dumping ground, stakeholders have held workdays wherein approximately 2,000 tires, an air conditioning unit, a washing machine, and a dishwasher were pulled out of the greenbelt proper and its waterways. The property is also ravaged by invasive plants, and full of trash and debris. Undoubtedly much progress will be made on this continually improving natural and historical preserve with the help of Be the Change Volunteers. The plastic caps sculpture was on display outside Austin City Hall during the Green City Festival on Sunday October 23, 2011. Sculptor George Sabra create a large scale public sculpture 21 feet made from thousands of discarded, reclaimed plastic caps and lids. Learn more at: http://plasticcapssculpture.com Produced by Jeffry Zavala. Music by Atlas Maior Videography/Editing by Jeffry Zavala. A ZGraphix Video Production. http://zgraphix.org
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05:18:46 01/11/12
Deleted Scenes from the Making of George Sabra's Plastic Caps Sculpture
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Take a behind the scenes look at the deleted scenes from The Making of George Sabra's Plastic Caps Sculpture! The Lake Travis Underwater Cleanup is the BIGGEST scuba diving and shoreline cleanup in Texas. The event invites several hundred certified scuba divers and shoreline volunteers to help round-up trash from the bottom of Lake Travis and 11 Travis County Parks around the lake. The cleanup is followed by a volunteer thank-you party & is a great event for ALL ages! RAIN OR SHINE! September 11th we united with volunteers across the nation to make the tenth anniversary of 9/11 one of service and remembrance. 2011 RESULTS - 848 volunteers (379 Divers, 398 shoreline, and 71 party volunteers). 1.64 Tons of litter removed. $37,725.45 worth of Volunteer Hours! Most Unique items found: Divers-40 Foot Deep Anchor and Shoreline-Old Radio. Be the Change Austin recruited 1,000 volunteers this year to make wonderful things happen all over the City of Austin. Be the Change is an annual national day of service coordinated by South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) to inspire and foster civic engagement through volunteerism and community service. Every year, thousands of participants across the country contribute innumerable hours of community service in the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi's famous quote, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Be the Change has allocated 300 of their Volunteers to a work day at Montopolis Greenbelt. In a part of the city not known for its greenbelts, Montopolis Greenbelt is a property with rich historical relevance, and is in substantial need of care and maintenance. Previously used as a dumping ground, stakeholders have held workdays wherein approximately 2,000 tires, an air conditioning unit, a washing machine, and a dishwasher were pulled out of the greenbelt proper and its waterways. The property is also ravaged by invasive plants, and full of trash and debris. Undoubtedly much progress will be made on this continually improving natural and historical preserve with the help of Be the Change Volunteers. The plastic caps sculpture was on display outside Austin City Hall during the Green City Festival on Sunday October 23, 2011. Sculptor George Sabra create a large scale public sculpture 21 feet made from thousands of discarded, reclaimed plastic caps and lids. Learn more at: http://plasticcapssculpture.com Produced by Jeffry Zavala. Music by Atlas Maior Videography/Editing by Jeffry Zavala. A ZGraphix Video Production. http://zgraphix.org
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03:33:16 01/11/12
NATURE | Kangaroo Mob | A New Vitality | PBS
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NATURE | Kangaroo Mob | A New Vitality | PBS
Trips to the city become less frequent after the rain produces an abundance of grass in the hills. Meet the mob of street-smart kangaroos moving into Australia's capital city and the ecologists who follow their every move. Over the course of one drought-stricken year, follow mob leader, Black Spot, and kangaroo mother, Madge, with her two young joeys %mdash mischievous Sonny and tiny pouch-bound Alice. This is a look at what happens when human development encroaches on wildlife habitat and two very different species are forced to co-exist. "Kangaroo Mob" premieres on PBS Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 8/7c (check local listings) and is part of the 30th season of the Peabody and Emmy award-winning series produced by Thirteen in association with WNET.ORG for PBS. Major support provided by Canon USA Inc. www.pbs.org From: PBS Views: 512 18 ratings Time: 01:15 More in Pets & Animals
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16:00:16 12/29/11
iPad: WildABLE - $.99 - Games
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WildABLE is a the perfect game for the kid that wants to be able to roam around and become an animal! We current support the ability to fly like an Eagle, swim like a fish, or gather nuts like a squirrel! All of this in an amazing environment that has night, day and random rain effects. If you want to explore and become one with nature, WildABLE is perfect for you!
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16:00:16 12/29/11
iPad: WildABLE - $.99 - Games
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WildABLE is a the perfect game for the kid that wants to be able to roam around and become an animal! We current support the ability to fly like an Eagle, swim like a fish, or gather nuts like a squirrel! All of this in an amazing environment that has night, day and random rain effects. If you want to explore and become one with nature, WildABLE is perfect for you!
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16:00:16 12/29/11
iPad: WildABLE - $.99 - Games
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WildABLE is a the perfect game for the kid that wants to be able to roam around and become an animal! We current support the ability to fly like an Eagle, swim like a fish, or gather nuts like a squirrel! All of this in an amazing environment that has night, day and random rain effects. If you want to explore and become one with nature, WildABLE is perfect for you!
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20:00:00 12/19/11
Havel the Dissident: A Legacy Worth Claiming
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Former President Havel addresses a European cultural congress on the economics of culture
On a warm evening in 1991, a colleague and I found an out-of-the-way café in the old part of Prague. Two men with blank expressions stood outside. The interior was dim and close, with room for only eight or nine tables. The place was almost empty. Just a sleepy waitress, a bartender polishing glasses, and a single patron who sat alone drinking wine and chain-smoking cigarettes.
The President of Czechoslovakia wasn't reviewing official papers. He was reading a book, a startlingly un-Presidential act to our American eyes. My companion, a neoconservative State Department official, already admired him for defying and defeating a Communist state. He'd impressed me by bringing a writer's sensibility and an affinity for true underground culture to his role as head of state.
Václav Havel even tried to appoint Frank Zappa as his Minister of Culture. "We're not rock musicians," Zappa told a reporter back in the sixties. "We're electronic social workers." The State Department wouldn't let Zappa assume the post, but Havel had made his point to the Czech public by offering this apparatchik's position to the composer of songs like "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" ("Some say your nose, some say your toes, but I think it's your mind .")
We never spoke to Havel that night. It didn't seem polite to offer anything more than the curt nod of acknowledgement any café patron gives another at that hour. But Havel spoke to us, to all of us. And on the occasion of his death, the real lessons of his life's work are in danger of being lost.
Today we're told that the Occupy movement is too idealistic, too naïve. Naïve? Try Havel's words if you want naïve: "May truth and love triumph over lies and hatred."
Think of that as the Velvet Revolution's "one demand."
Portrait of the President as a Young Freak
As millions of people know, the underground playwright Havel first made his political mark in Charter 77. That group was formed to defend the Plastic People of the Universe, a banned and imprisoned rock band working in the Zappa mold of musical dissonance and cultural dissidence.
The Occupy movement is not on the cultural fringe, despite what its detractors say. But Havel's movement began as a Yippie-like creature of the underworld. Charter 77 rarely had more than a thousand members. It was a strange blend of political idealism and the hippie subculture where people proudly labeled themselves "freaks" to the conventional world. Despite its later alignment with economically conservative forces, it was more Allen Ginsburg than Alan Greenspan.
And it was created to defend the Plastic People of the Universe, whose grating music makes Occupy's drum circles seem like a children's choir serenading the bored residents of a home for aging veterans.
Words
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité - what wonderful words! And how terrifying their meaning can be! Freedom in the shirt unbuttoned before execution. Equality in the constant speed of the guillotine's fall on different necks. Fraternity in some dubious paradise ...
Havel addressed the liberal democratic West on words in the 1970s, noting that the suppression of speech can give language enormous power: >
I ... live in a country where a writers' congress speech is capable of shaking the system ... a manifesto served as one of the pretexts for the invasion of our country one night by five foreign armies ... a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
When a system has become inflexible and is in danger of collapsing, what it fears most is words. Think about that the next time you see a phalanx of cops tear down a tent city on television.
Havel had been burned by language, too: >
The same word can at one moment radiate great hope, at another it can emit lethal rays ... true at one moment and false the next, at one moment illuminating, at another, deceptive. On one occasion it can open up glorious horizons, on another, it can lay down the tracks to an entire archipelago of concentration camps.
And as we approach an election year that will be filled with the rhetoric of freedom, this observation still resonates: >
The same word can at one time be the cornerstone of peace, while at another time machine-gun fire resounds in its every syllable.
Control
In 1975 Havel had the presumption to write directly to Czechoslovakian head of state Gustáv Husák with a few suggestions. There's more than a passing resemblance between the fear-driven Communist society Havel condemned in that letter and the financial anxiety many Americans endure today: >
The technique of existential pressure is ... universal. There is no one in our country who is not, in a broad sense, existentially vulnerable. Everyone has something to lose and so everyone has reason to be afraid. The range of things one can lose is broad, extending from the manifold privileges of the ruling caste... down to the mere possibility of living in that limited degree of legal certainty available to other citizens.
Today, one out of two Americans lives in financial insecurity. Even many upper-middle-class citizens live from month to month, just one layoff notice away from medical bankruptcy or home foreclosure.
"Everyone has something to lose," observed Havel.
Havel's description of his 20th Century Communist society echoes our own: >
The more completely one abandons any hope of general reform, any interest in suprapersonal goals and values, or any chance of exercising influence in an 'outward' direction, the more one's energy is diverted in the direction of least resistance, that is, 'inwards.'"
People today are preoccupied far more with themselves ... They fill their homes with all kinds of appliances and pretty things, they try to improve their accommodations, they try to make life pleasant for themselves, building cottages, looking after their cars, taking more interest in food and clothing and domestic comfort ...They turn their main attention to the material aspects of their private lives.
Havel concluded that "Despair leads to apathy, apathy to conformity, and conformity to routine (political) performance - which is then quoted as evidence of 'mass political involvement.'"
Ambition
Havel understood the psychology of greed and power, too. From his letter to Husák: >
If it is fear which lies behind people's defensive attempts to preserve what they have, it becomes increasingly apparent that the chief impulses for their aggressive efforts to win what they do not yet possess are selfishness and careerism.
It is not surprising that so many public and influential positions are occupied more than ever before by notorious careerists, opportunists, charlatans, and men of dubious record.
From Prague to Washington, from Moscow to lower Manhattan, the opportunities change. But human nature never does: >
Seldom in recent times has a social system offered scope so openly and so brazenly to people willing to support anything as long as it brings them some advantage; to unprincipled and spineless men, prepared to do anything in their craving for power and personal gain; to born lackeys, ready for any humiliation and willing at all times to sacrifice their neighbors' and their own honor for a chance to ingratiate themselves with those in power.
Technocracy
It's a historical irony that those who claim they'll govern with the most efficiency usually wind up governing with the least effectiveness. Today corporate-funded politicians from both parties argue that the country should be led by "technocrats' who'll govern without messy "ideologies."
That's a false premise Havel knew well. He called it the "process by which power becomes anonymous and depersonalized, reduced to a mere technology of rule and manipulation."
Washington's technocratic "bipartisans" dream of a world where, in Havel's words, the "professional ruler is (seen as) the 'innocent' tool of an 'innocent' anonymous power ... legitimized by science, cybernetics, ideology, law, abstraction, and objectivity - that is, by everything except personal responsibility to human beings as persons and neighbors." Havel's Prague is our Beltway: >
States grow ever more machinelike; people are transformed into statistical choruses of voters, producers, consumers, patients, tourists, or soldiers, (where) in politics good and evil, categories of the natural world and therefore obsolete remnants of the past, lose all absolute meaning (and where) the sole method of politics is quantifiable success.
Havel condemned a system of state-orchestrated political theater, and the self-perpetuating failures of imagination which mistook the indifferent and pro forma participation of its citizens for genuine democracy. And he saw its universal nature: >
(It) has a thousand masks, variants, and expressions. Essentially, though, it is the same universal trend ... the essential trait of all modern civilization, growing directly from its spiritual structure, rooted in it by a thousand tangled tendrils and inseparable even in thought from its technological nature, its mass characteristics, and its consumer orientation.
"The contemporary concept of 'normal' behavior is," Havel wrote, "deeply pessimistic."
Responsibility
"I favor 'antipolitical politics,'" said Havel, "politics not as the technology of power and manipulation, of cybernetic rule over humans or as the art of the utilitarian, but politics as one of the ways of seeking and achieving meaningful lives, of protecting them and serving them." >
I favor politics as practical morality, as service to the truth, as essentially human and humanly measured care for our fellow humans.
None of us--as an individual--can save the world as a whole, but . . . each of us must behave as though it were in his power to do so.
Decades later he said this to the leaders of Western countries: >
Today, more than ever before in the history of mankind, everything is interrelated ... Because of this, the future of the United States or the European Union is being decided in suffering Sarajevo or Mostar, in the plundered Brazilian rain forests, in the wretched poverty of Bangladesh or Somalia.
Havel had glaring faults. American neocons offered him small favors during his final rise to power. He reciprocated, consciously or unconsciously, by aiding their destructive military ventures and adopting their foolish economic policies. He succumbed to the politics of personality, both his own and those of the leaders who courted him. But it would be a shame if that's all the world remembered.
Havel seemed unhappy in the role of leader. It's possible than he lost sight of his deepest insights, his truest gifts. It was the outsider Havel, the dreamer of the impossible, the surrealist and absurdist, we should remember. That's the Havel who can and should inspire dissidents everywhere.
"Is the human word truly powerful enough to change the world and influence history?" he once asked. With his life and his words, Václav Havel gave us his answer. He showed us the power in each individual and the responsibility that accompanies that power.
At his best, and above all else, Havel was a dissident outsider who realized his power and used it. Now it's our turn.
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20:05:28 12/16/11
The Emergent Forest of New England | Challenges and Choices
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The Emergent Forest of New England | Challenges and Choices
Harvard Museum of Natural History Peter Del Tredici, botanist and senior research scientist at the Arnold Arboretum, presented an overview of the recent history of the forests of southern New England as impacted by natural disasters, shifting land-use patterns (urbanization and suburban sprawl), introduced pests and pathogens, invasive species, acid rain, and climate change. October 27, 2011 From: Harvard Views: 270 7 ratings Time: 01:07:53 More in Education
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20:05:28 12/16/11
The Emergent Forest of New England | Challenges and Choices
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The Emergent Forest of New England | Challenges and Choices
Harvard Museum of Natural History Peter Del Tredici, botanist and senior research scientist at the Arnold Arboretum, presented an overview of the recent history of the forests of southern New England as impacted by natural disasters, shifting land-use patterns (urbanization and suburban sprawl), introduced pests and pathogens, invasive species, acid rain, and climate change. October 27, 2011 From: Harvard Views: 270 7 ratings Time: 01:07:53 More in Education
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08:49:39 12/08/11
Fairy Dell Wetland Walkabout Mini Tour
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Fairy Dell Wetland Walkabout Mini Tour
Come for a look round out local Wetland Park known as Fairy Dell. There are some interesting wood carvings and some smaller sights of nature. We went to feed the ducks in Fairy Dell Wetland and took my camcorder with me to show you round. It was the 5 December 2011 and there was a chill in the air and it was dry but had been raining and was wet so we thought the duck may be hungry. Remember this was taken when both cold and wet and therefore bay not represent the best that Fairy Dell Wetland call offer, but this is one of the changing seasons' of nature. Also this video does not show all of Fairy Dell Wetland which has a bigger area than showing this video. Fairy Dell Park Gunnergate Lane Coulby Newham Middlesbrough TS8 0UT United Kingdom For more information about Fairy Dell see:- The Friends of Fairy Dell www.thefriendsoffairydell.co.uk This video was produced independently of The Friends of Fairy Dell, therefore represents a more personal view. The Friends of Fairy Dell do a lot of work to keep the Wetland balanced for nature and anyone who enjoys nature, (not an easy job), so a Big Thank You to The Friends of Fairy Dell. From: Films4You Views: 72 2 ratings Time: 31:33 More in Science & Technology
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10:42:36 11/16/11
Workshop in Jerusalem Teaches Making Pure Organic Soap
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Workshop in Jerusalem Teaches Making Pure Organic Soap
For more news visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Follow us on Facebook ☛ me.lt And for people wanting to stay clean and healthy in a natural way, a workshop in Jerusalem teaches people how to make herbal soap, free of chemicals and artificial ingredients. Our correspondents bring you the story. Seven women of different ages and backgrounds gather in a small Arabian house, In Jerusalem's quiet Ein Karem neighborhood. Their goal: to learn how to make soap. But not just any soap; organic soap, with natural ingredients. Esther Lahman, who conducts the workshop, says she decided to manufacture herbal soap and teach the subject after learning that cosmetics, based on chemicals, can cause cancer. [Esther Lahman, Arugot Habosem Organic Cosmetics]: "I went to console some friends whose mother had died. And it turned out that she used to be a cosmetician. Then someone brought a newspaper there with a story saying that cosmeticians are exposed to many poisons and are at the top of the list of people who may contract skin cancer." The main ingredients for making the soap are oil, sodium hydroxide, and water. But not tap water. [Hadar Kleidman, Arugot Habosem Organic Cosmetics]: "We use rain water that we collect. And we also use this water to irrigate the plants. So, we do not use any poisonous substances." For fragrance, color, and medicinal benefits, different aromatic oils and herbs are added to the mixture, most of which are personally manufactured and grown ... From: NTDTV Views: 1 1 ratings Time: 02:41 More in News & Politics
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13:55:14 11/09/11
NATURE | Jungle Eagle | A Hungry Harpy | PBS
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NATURE | Jungle Eagle | A Hungry Harpy | PBS
After three days of rain, a harpy mother is desperate to feed her hungry chick. Harpy eagles are the most powerful birds of prey in the world. Standing three feet tall, with a six-foot wingspan and razor-sharp talons the size of bear claws, these birds are the heavyweight hunters of the South American rainforest. They are the top predators in the jungle canopy, feeding regularly on tree-dwelling mammals like monkeys and sloths. But scientists know very little about harpy eagles because their numbers are few and their habitat is large. Hidden in the branches of the canopy, they are rarely seen, let alone filmed. NATURE enters the secret world of the harpy, and provides a treasure trove of new information about this majestic species. "Jungle Eagle" premieres on PBS Wednesday November 9, 2011 at 8pm and is part of the 30th season of the Peabody and Emmy award-winning series produced by Thirteen in association with WNET.ORG for PBS. Major support provided by Canon USA Inc. www.pbs.org From: PBS Views: 2628 22 ratings Time: 02:39 More in Pets & Animals
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19:20:55 08/05/11
War with Mother Nature continues...
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War with Mother Nature continues...
One of many set-backs this month. This happened one month to-the-day from when my a storm knocked out my power and downed many trees, I come outside from a blissful clear night's sleep to find this... It's one thing when storms threaten to cancel race events and then don't produce any rain (trolling), but now mother nature is out to directly attack my cars. Survey the damage with me. From: Jafromobile Views: 679 10 ratings Time: 05:16 More in Autos & Vehicles
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19:20:55 08/05/11
War with Mother Nature continues...
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War with Mother Nature continues...
One of many set-backs this month. This happened one month to-the-day from when my a storm knocked out my power and downed many trees, I come outside from a blissful clear night's sleep to find this... It's one thing when storms threaten to cancel race events and then don't produce any rain (trolling), but now mother nature is out to directly attack my cars. Survey the damage with me. From: Jafromobile Views: 679 10 ratings Time: 05:16 More in Autos & Vehicles
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08:37:54 08/04/11
FMK: Living Without a Motor Vehicle Part 3 of 3 (Bicycle Lifestyle)
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"I have been living without owing a motor vehicle as a primary means of transportation since the year of 2000. Since meeting Jenny in 2003 I had introduced her to this lifestyle. Gradually she had begun to appreciate this bicycle lifestyle, now she has been living it for over 2 years. Everywhere we go, we bike. We bike our children in bike trailers everywhere we go. I use the bike trailer to grocery shop. We bike anywhere up to 50 miles a day with the children in the trailer. We bike several times throughout the week for pleasure. It is one of the best things you can do to take a big step towards freeing yourself from the control of the system. Now there are no car bills, no maintanence fees, no mechanical problems, no parking tickets, no moving traffic tickets, no gas fees, no insurance fees, no false identity associated with the motor vehicle, no worry about vandalism, no more pollution to the environment, no more waiting in traffic. We are closer to nature and it forces us to move our bodies, to exercise everytime we wish to leave the home. I ride during the rain and snow. I ride year round. I only take jobs that are within riding distance from my home. The bike requires very little maintenance. When I need to transport many items I use a bike trailer that is capable of holding up to 100 lbs of weight. If I absolutely need to use a vehicle, I will consider public transportation such as the train, and if worse comes to worse I borrow a vehicle from my parents, but this is a very rare instance, as anytime we need to purchase extremely large items we usually have it delivered to our home. There are several bike routes near our home and we live very close to the train station. There really is no need for a motor vehicle at all. I honestly will say that even if I was financially rich, I still would choose not to own a motor vehicle. It is a poor investment and I have no interest in owning one. I have grown to love the bicycle lifestyle, there is no turning back for me. The longest bike ride that we have had is 5 hours for 50 miles while trailing 2 kids each. We hope at one point in our lives when the kids are big to be able to bike across the nation. I wish to start off biking for all day for 8 hours at some point. THE TAO OF FREDDIE'S MODERN KUNG FU (SUBSCRIBE IF YOU ENJOY) The Tao of Freddie's Modern Kung Fu (FMK) is a Martial Arts/Spiritual Life Development Academy on YouTube that specializes in the development of the body, mind, and soul. Freddie teaches on all aspects of life. Freddie's Martial Arts teachings are highly inspired by Bruce Lee's Tao of Jeet Kune Do and his life lessons come from his innate wisdom within that had been sparked by his understanding of the ancient wisdom of Eastern Philosophy, specifically Buddha, Lao-Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Osho, J.Krishnamurti, Eckhart Tolle, Tao, Zen, Tantra, Abraham Maslow, Erich Fromm, and others. Freddie is serving the public as a: 1) Fitness Trainer 2) Martial Arts Instructor (Private) 3) Relationship Counselor 4) Spiritual Guide Personal and private instruction is available in Evanston, IL and Chicago, IL. Private Fitness and Technique lesson videos can be created for a fee. Visit my website for details. FMK Website: http://www.freddiesmodernkungfu.com FMK ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/freddielee28?ref=profile FMK ON COMBATIVE CORNER: http://www.combativecorner.com FMK ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/FreddiesKungFu RECOMMENDED WEBSITES OSHO one of the greatest sages ever: http://www.youtube.com/user/oshointernational?blend=1
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08:36:53 08/04/11
FMK: Living Without a Motor Vehicle Part 2 of 3 (Bicycle Lifestyle)
[LESS INFO] 4 VIEWS | ADDED 08:36:53 08/04/11
"I have been living without owing a motor vehicle as a primary means of transportation since the year of 2000. Since meeting Jenny in 2003 I had introduced her to this lifestyle. Gradually she had begun to appreciate this bicycle lifestyle, now she has been living it for over 2 years. Everywhere we go, we bike. We bike our children in bike trailers everywhere we go. I use the bike trailer to grocery shop. We bike anywhere up to 50 miles a day with the children in the trailer. We bike several times throughout the week for pleasure. It is one of the best things you can do to take a big step towards freeing yourself from the control of the system. Now there are no car bills, no maintanence fees, no mechanical problems, no parking tickets, no moving traffic tickets, no gas fees, no insurance fees, no false identity associated with the motor vehicle, no worry about vandalism, no more pollution to the environment, no more waiting in traffic. We are closer to nature and it forces us to move our bodies, to exercise everytime we wish to leave the home. I ride during the rain and snow. I ride year round. I only take jobs that are within riding distance from my home. The bike requires very little maintenance. When I need to transport many items I use a bike trailer that is capable of holding up to 100 lbs of weight. If I absolutely need to use a vehicle, I will consider public transportation such as the train, and if worse comes to worse I borrow a vehicle from my parents, but this is a very rare instance, as anytime we need to purchase extremely large items we usually have it delivered to our home. There are several bike routes near our home and we live very close to the train station. There really is no need for a motor vehicle at all. I honestly will say that even if I was financially rich, I still would choose not to own a motor vehicle. It is a poor investment and I have no interest in owning one. I have grown to love the bicycle lifestyle, there is no turning back for me. The longest bike ride that we have had is 5 hours for 50 miles while trailing 2 kids each. We hope at one point in our lives when the kids are big to be able to bike across the nation. I wish to start off biking for all day for 8 hours at some point. THE TAO OF FREDDIE'S MODERN KUNG FU (SUBSCRIBE IF YOU ENJOY) The Tao of Freddie's Modern Kung Fu (FMK) is a Martial Arts/Spiritual Life Development Academy on YouTube that specializes in the development of the body, mind, and soul. Freddie teaches on all aspects of life. Freddie's Martial Arts teachings are highly inspired by Bruce Lee's Tao of Jeet Kune Do and his life lessons come from his innate wisdom within that had been sparked by his understanding of the ancient wisdom of Eastern Philosophy, specifically Buddha, Lao-Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu, Osho, J.Krishnamurti, Eckhart Tolle, Tao, Zen, Tantra, Abraham Maslow, Erich Fromm, and others. Freddie is serving the public as a: 1) Fitness Trainer 2) Martial Arts Instructor (Private) 3) Relationship Counselor 4) Spiritual Guide Personal and private instruction is available in Evanston, IL and Chicago, IL. Private Fitness and Technique lesson videos can be created for a fee. Visit my website for details. FMK Website: http://www.freddiesmodernkungfu.com FMK ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/freddielee28?ref=profile FMK ON COMBATIVE CORNER: http://www.combativecorner.com FMK ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/FreddiesKungFu RECOMMENDED WEBSITES OSHO one of the greatest sages ever: http://www.youtube.com/user/oshointernational?blend=1
