Dun Auge is a serious bicyclist. He participates in most of the organized rides anywhere within 25 or 30 miles of Fort Madison and in between he can usually be seen pedaling around town solo or with friends.Recently Don loaded his bicycle in the back of his pickup truck and traveled to central Missouri to tour a good part of the Katy Trail State Park, one of the premier bicycling spots in the country. This park is only a few dozen feet wide, but follows the abandoned right-of-way of M-K-T railroad for 225 miles across scenic Missouri.Don did not realize it, but going to Missouri to bicycle he was following a program first established here back in the late 19th century by the 100 members or so of the old Fort Madison Cycling Club.Anyone who owned a "wheel" - as bicycles were called in those days - was considered a person of distinction, for at that time even an ordinary bicycle like the Crescent cost a whopping $45.

Dublin police to ride three-wheeled scooter

DUBLIN — Police will soon be patrolling the city's busiest shopping center on a three-wheeled, clean-energy scooter.

The T3 scooter, which has a top speed of 25 mph, looks like a beefier version of a Segway. It runs on batteries that need recharging every 30 miles.

The police department now uses patrol cars and bicycles to navigate the shopping center on Hacienda Drive and Dublin Boulevard. The scooter, which was donated by center businesses, will give officers a good option, said Dublin police Lt. Glenn Moon.

Patrol cars have more visibility, a good deterrent to bad behavior, but they are harder to use in crowded areas, Moon said, while bikes can be used when officers don't necessarily want to be seen. The motorized scooter is the best of both worlds, he said.

"It has the (visible) deterrent of a patrol car, but somewhat of the stealth" of a bike, Moon said.

Two-Wheel Tango

It’s not everyday you get to meet a clown in Downtown’s Café El Horreya. Not just any clown, but one who is out to bicycle around the entire world, sharing laughter at each stop. Spaniard Alvaro Neil arrived in Cairo in August on the road toward fulfilling a dream he calls “Miles of Smiles Around the World.” .

Pushing green envelope

Eric Ritz has a big meeting with executives at an action sports network, and he's all dressed up: His plaid shirt isn't tucked into his jeans, his dirty-blond hair pokes out from under his cap and most grandmothers would say he needs a shave.

At dozens of other events, he has set up attention-grabbing bits of environmental performance art, including a green-themed chess game with human pieces and bicycle-powered cell phone charging stations.

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Exclusive: Brett Morgen's Chicago 10

Let's say that works out to a hundred twenty paged script double spaced, when you break that down to single spaces you're talking about forty-five pages, that's like Cliff's Notes to history and I didn't want the film to be like a Cliff's Notes to history. Sometimes, I'm asked if I'm an activist filmmaker and I always say, "Well, I did the Bob Evans film. What was my cause, the Irving Thalberg award?" If I'm an activist, my primary cause is nonfiction filmmaking and trying to make films that stretch out the boundaries of nonfiction, I don't think I'm a documentarian because I think that culturally, we like to think of documentarians as journalists and I'm anything but a journalist. Nonfiction film is going further and further away from the static image. Digital tools have now entered the vanguard and we now as filmmakers have all these technologies to visualize the past and the present and those ways are completely subjective.

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