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Melbourne Food and Wine Festival- San Antone Smokehouse Festival
The little girl was so enjoying her rodeo bull machine ride, while her mom was holding her tight and giving her support
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Backbone and allies like IVAW, GodePink and more utilized creative tactics to grab the media's attention and make our shared values more visible at the opening of the Bush presidential library and policy institute.
An administration whose failed policies and warmongering doesn't deserve a memorial, the fact that people laugh at the idea of a Bush Library is a testament to their folly. The Bush Lie-Bury is a reverse memorial to the 8 years (a following wake) of fallen lives and squandered opportunities that has led this country down such a terrible path.
By day, activists used bobble-head paper mache puppets rendered in the likeness of Bush, Cheney and the rest of his gang to force Dallas police to arrest them, giving us a cathartic if only symbolic relief. At night, activists agitated and inspired onlookers with light projections in downtown Dallas affirming and making our values visible. The creative tactics utilized earned the attention of the media who has largely ignored objections to the memorial.
Backbone Campaign's impressive imagery ensemble for the Vashon Island Strawberry Festival 2013. Our friends and volunteers helped mobilize imagery relating to stopping the Coal Trains and transitioning the Northwest to an Ecotopia and putting a stop to Monsanto's murderous practices of pesticide polluting, Genetic engineering, and save our Prized Pollinators like bees and butterflies.
We had so much fun singing "Do It Now!" chanting:
Stand up, Speak Out
A Beautiful Future, is what we're about
Future Generations, Demand What's Fair
Bountiful Waters, Breathable Air
We LOVE Puget Sound, Leave that coal in the ground
Rise, Cascadia Rise, Protect our water and skies
Salmon and Orca, Cedar and Fir,
Rise, Cascadia Rise
Trains for People, Not for Coal
Leaders of the Future, Claim your role
We need to wake up! We need to wise up!
We need to open our eyes, and do it now, now, now!
We need to build a better future, And we need to start right now!
Hey!, Hey!, Hey!, Hey!
We're on a planet, that has a problem.
We've got to solve it, get involved, and do it now, now, now!
We need to build a better future, And we need to start right now!
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It's a long walk up the terraces, But worth the trek....The Zhuang people are interesting, I wonder if they know just how unusual their lifestyle is...
We stopped for lunch at Blue Spring, which feeds into the North Fork River. We filled up with enough water here for the rest of our stay.
Just as we were packing up a family of three arrived from the the near-by parking lot. We didn't see anyone else, and met no one on the trail.
20 February 2011 | Devils Backbone Wilderness |
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I had a glass of this in the Tom Toya Wetherspoons, Newport, South Wales.
I think this an IPA.
Devils Backbone is based in Lexington, Virginia.
I am not sure where this is brewed though.
Pretty good beer though.
Backbone State Park was dedicated in 1920. It was Iowa's first state park and remains one of the most significant. Backbone is named for its narrow and steep ridge of bedrock carved by a loop of the Maquoketa River. Folklore named this high ridge of rock the "Devil's Backbone". Nearly a hundred years ago, State Geologist Samuel Calvin wrote these words about "The Backbone":
"Its sides are in places precipitous, the rocky cliffs rising sheer for more than 80 feet. Erosion and secular decay have carved the rocks into picturesque columns, towers, castles, battlements and flying buttresses. "
Backbone consists of 2,001 acres and is heavily wooded with a variety of tree species, predominantly oak and maple. This woodland serves as a valuable refuge for a variety of wildlife including deer, raccoon, fox, turkeys, ruffed grouse and many species of songbirds.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was established in April, 1933 as part of the New Deal program of President Roosevelt as an effort to provide work for unemployed Americans during the Great Depression. Many of Backbone's buildings were constructed by the CCC from 1933 to 1941. Among the projects completed at Backbone were the dams on the Maquoketa River forming Backbone Lake, a cluster of rustic family cabins, beach and boat house, an auditorium, bridges, roads, picnic shelters, rest rooms and trails. Some of these structures are currently being restored and the effort is continuing.