RESCUE RICK THE GRASS CUT MAN

Richard "Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm)" Mudrinich is an artist, designer, and entrepreneur with a social conscience.  Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm) is a yard safety advocate, edutainer, and promoter, in particular yard and landscaping safety (tm).  He strives to win the Academy Award, Carnegie Medal, Dave D'Appolonia Award, Eisner Award, Emmy Award, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award, Grammy Award, Harvey Award, Herman Lay Award for Entrepreneurship, Horatio Alger Award, Kluge Prize, MTV Award, National Humantities Medal, National Medal of Arts, National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Nobel Prize, Pausch Prize, Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award, Pulitzer Prize, Sentinel Award, Tony Award, Webby Award, etc. to validate his innovative approach to rescue people and animals from yard accidents.  He has coined the phrase yard safety (tm) to focus on safety issues in the green industry. He is the first yard safety super hero in the history of the world (tm) - a green hero.  He is a renaissance yardman, utilizing various art forms to communicate his yard safety message through edutainment.

Richard Mudrinich is an able disabled person.  In addition, he is the Founder of the Society of Lawn Mower Amputees and Friends (sm) and the Yard Safety Crusaders (sm).  He understands the benefits of talking with other lawn mower amputees and yard safety enthusiasts.  Please visit Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man MySpace Page http://www.myspace.com/rescuerickthegrasscutman for yard safety and social networking.  "I want to provide an educational and entertaining venue to create yard safety awareness.   In particular, I want to provide a forum where lawn mower amputees can express their feelings regarding their situations and to reach out to their fellow amputees and professionals to seek insights to their concerns.  I welcome photographs of the yard accident aftermath to share your story and reinforce the yard safety awareness message.  Also, I want to encourage events and gatherings that brings many different kinds of people together.  I advocate for ability, adversity (overcoming), community, disability (initiatives), diversity, equality, flexibility, gravity, hilarity, humility, identity, inclusivity, ingenuity, liberty, levity, mobility, opportunity, possibility, reality, safety, sensitivity, unity, utility, victory, vitality, to name a few.  I envision the Society of Lawn Mower Amputees and Friends (sm), the Yard Safety Crusaders (sm), and Many More as critical voices in advancing yard safety awareness (YSA).  I want everyone to come together and to have a great time as the yard safety awareness message evolves around the globe in many ways.  Forgive.  Educate.  Live."

Richard Mudrinich (RRtGCM) graduated from the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business (MBA) and the Pennsylvania State University (Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering).  He has maintained a steady passion for entrepreneurship for several years, including serving as a volunteer with the Carnegie Mellon Entrepreneurship Network, Junior Achievement, and the MIT Enterprise Forum.  He lives in Great Falls, Virginia and Hermitage, Pennsylvania.

Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm) seeks to adopt a faithful sidekick - a three-legged dog amputee who survived a lawn mower accident.  The doggy will be called Tripod the Dog (sm).  Tripod (sm) has a big brother named the Trilateral Commissioner (sm).  We will work together to promote yard safety.  With the addition of Tripod (sm), I want to illustrate that lawn mower accidents impact animals as well.  The doggy amputee offers a great vehicle to introduce children and adults alike to the amputee community, plus Tripod (sm) is a main attraction.  Furthermore, through a pet adoption, I get to save the life of a pooch that might otherwise be terminated.  Tripod (sm) will be a great dog sending a very important message about both amputees and safety.  Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm) seeks assistance from the various pet adoption organizations in helping him locate Tripod the Dog (sm). 

Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man™ has created another yard safety character to join the Yard Safety Crusaders Family (sm).  Her name is MowBoVatar™ who is part robot and part avatar.  MowBoVatar™ transcends the physical and virtual worlds (like Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man™ and Tripod the Dog™) to communicate and facilitate the yard safety adventure.  Furthermore, MowBoVatar™ became disabled after experiencing a yard accident in the virtual world resulting in severe amputation and burns.  She morphs between animation, physical, and virtual worlds to assist Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man™ in finding a cure for yard accidents. It is anticipated that Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man™ and MowBoVatar™ will give birth to thousands of Yard Safety Crusaders (sm) all around the physical and virtual worlds. 

Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man has invited Army Armadillo (tm) to join the Yard Safety Crusaders Family. Army Armadillo (tm) knows personal protective equipment.

"I wear my personal protective equipment every day. I have a bony armor shell. The armor is formed by plates of dermal bone covered in small, overlapping epidermal scales called "scutes". This armor-like skin appears to be the main defense of many armadillos. I am the little armored one." - Army Armadillo

Army Armadillo (tm) is like a yard safety tank.

Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm) has given birth to Toxy Turfy (tm) to address the growing concern over chemical lawn care products and services.  The world is rapidly changing and with it are perspectives on the use of toxic lawn chemicals and the hazards they pose to our children, families, neighbors, pets, wildlife, and drinking water sources.  Toxy Turfy (tm) warns about the dangers of chemicals on lawns and gardens.  Pesticides are toxic substances that should be used with great caution; there are many cases of declining health and death related to toxic lawn chemicals.  Toxy Turfy (tm) suggests the application of organically certified gardening products, promoting natural lawn care and grounds maintenance.  Nonetheless, Toxy Turfy (tm) acknowledges that chemical companies have made advancements in offering safer synthetic chemical pesticides.  Sometimes only a chemical solution can solve a particular lawn and garden problem.  Please learn more about properly using chemical and organic lawn and garden products.  In applying lawn chemicals,  Toxy Turfy (tm) recommends wearing personal protective equipment as described in the chemical manufacturers product use directions - follow the directions.

 

Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm) has created Shaky (tm) to create awareness with regards to health concerns related to machine vibration.  Vibrating handtools can cause vibration syndrome, a condition also known as vibration white finger and as Raynaud's phenomenon of occupational origin. Vibration syndrome has adverse circulatory and neural effects in the fingers. The signs and symptoms include numbness, pain, and blanching (turning pale and ashen).  Shaky (tm) encourages intervention efforts to control ergonomic hazards in the green industry. Shaky (tm) advocates for occupational safety and health.

 

Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man has invited the Twin Blades to the Yard Safety Crusaders Family.  The Twin Blades present the relationship between machine and nature.  Grass Blade is a blade of grass.  Metal Blade is a lawn mower blade.  They often reflect on their roles and responsibilities.  Furthermore, Grass Blade and Metal Blade often discuss yard safety awareness issues involving humans and animals, including brainstorming to find a cure for yard accidents.  Also, they "cut" each other down in a humorous fashion.

 

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

"I believe.  I have received considerable divine inspiration for this advocacy.  Often times, I have felt like an antenna was sticking out of my head to receive the message." Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm)

"If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins." Matthew 6:14-15

"It is important to forgive one another. Life is too short. Some day, you will run out of gas. Forgive today."  Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm)

The Pittsburgh Experiment

The Pittsburgh Experiment means so much to me. I have experienced some difficult times in my life. I have suffered for various reasons, including some difficult people and circumstances. I have always maintained a sense of hope through my faith in God. I really have a friend in Jesus. Furthermore, I am blessed with the existence of the Pittsburgh Experiment and all of the many wonderful people in the Pittsburgh faith-based community, especially Carter Birely. I have experienced many situations where people have thought that I was a flake or not worthy. As a divine channel, it was Carter Birely who expressed unconditional love to reach out and help me. Indeed, it is through his endless quest to help people that Carter carries on the spirit of the Pittsburgh Experiment.

Regardless of whatever happens to me in my life, the Pittsburgh Experiment has made a lasting mark on my soul. Presently, I am faced with another challenge. My mom has an aggressive case of uterine cancer. It is through my belief in God that I praise everything that my mom has done for me. Also, I believe that my mom will get better. In many eyes, I am a loser. My mom has never stopped believing in me. I may never really succeed in a traditional or materialistic sense. However, I have learned the most important gift of God, and that is to love and forgive everyone.

Likewise, from the early days of the Pittsburgh Experiment to today, it is unconditional love coupled with innovation, intelligence, and soul that has resulted in better overall lives for many many people.  It really means a tremendous amount to me. THANK YOU.  Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm) visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. recently. He learned that if he had lived in Germany (Nazi region) during the era of the Holocaust that he would have probably been killed or sterilized due to his disability and his desire to reachout to other disabled individuals. Furthermore, his creative and zestful artistic expression would have been suppressed and spanked. Rescue Rick Yard Safety Awareness (RRYSA). Think before you cut. It hurts. (tm)  Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm)

World Magazine and World Magazine Blog

I had the opportunity to hear and speak with Dr. Marvin Olasky, Editor-in-Chief of WORLD Magazine, during his travels to Pittsburgh (invited by the Reformed Presbyterian Church.) Dr. Olasky is a brilliant person with a very unique story and journey, parts that I could identify with personally. I like to post some contributions to the WorldMagBlog periodically. Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm)

Learn Learn Learn

I am still learning about other religions of the world.  For instance, I have learned more about Islam while talking with a relative of Muhammad Ali during a visit to Louisville, Kentucky (hometown of Muhammad Ali); I gained a deeper understanding about the life of Muhammad Ali and Islam.  Nonetheless, I seek a better understanding of all major religions (Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism), and I am still available for appearances. Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm)

Buddhist-Style Yard Safety Chant

The aim of Buddhist practice is to end the cycle of rebirth called samsara, by awakening the practitioner to the realization of true reality, the achievement of liberation (nirvana). To achieve this, one should purify and train the mind and act according to the laws of karma, of cause and effect: perform positive actions, and positive results will follow. Accordingly, negative deeds have negative consequences. A Buddhist chant is a form of musical verse or incantation.  In Buddhism, chanting is the traditional means of preparing the mind for meditation.

Here is the Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man Chant:

Yard yard yard yard yard yard yard yard yard safety.

Grass grass grass grass grass grass grass grass grass safety.
Blade blade blade blade blade blade blade blade blade safety.
Tool tool tool tool tool tool tool tool tool safety.
People people people people people people people people safety.
Animal animal animal animal animal animal animal animal safety.
Aware aware aware aware aware aware aware aware aware safety.
Rescue Rick Rescue Rick Rescue Rick.
Safe safe safe safe safe safe safe safe safe.
Safe safe safe safe safe safe safe safe safe.

Meditation

Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man encourages meditation before doing yard work.  The power of mental imagery (in the eyes of God) might increase focus on using proper yard work technique.  I believe that the impact of mental imagery prior to yard work results in a heightened spiritual connectivity that will reduce yard accidents.  In essence, Jesus walks beside you while doing yard work.  Furthermore, Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man believes in the power of prayer.  Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm) 

The Native Americans who live in the Pacific Northwest use their giant trees to make beautiful art.  The most well known type of art made by Pacific Northwest Natives is the totem pole.  Totem poles are made for the purpose of telling a story!  Some poles tell Native American legends, often about animals who did important things.  The story that a totem pole tells is like a poem, which is read from the bottom to the top of the pole.  Many things are said with only a few words.  In this spirit, I introduce the concept of the digital totem pole (tm) in which I utilize digital photographs and clip art to tell my story - the Rescue Rick the Grass Cut Man (sm) "legend."

 

 

 

    

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