35% of U.S. mass shooters are military veterans, as compared with 14.76% in the general population for the same gender and age. See documentation of this below.

First a couple of Tweets:

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Thursday, February 15 to Saturday, February 17, Dayton Convention Center, 22 E. Fifth St., Dayton, Ohio

Registration is now open for the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s 39th annual conference, “A Taste for Change.”

Ohio’s largest sustainable food and farm conference features:

• Nearly 80 educational and inspiring workshops on sustainable farming, livestock, homesteading, gardening, and business on Friday and Saturday;

• A three-day trade show with 90+ businesses, organizations, and government agencies offering food, books, equipment, products, information, and services;

• In-depth, full-day Food and Farm School courses on Thursday;

• Engaging nationally-recognized keynote speakers Jeff Moyer and Stacy Malkan;

• Made-from-scratch, local, organic meals;

• Thursday and Friday evening networking and receptions;

• Kids’ conference, child care, and more!

Registration: http://www.oeffa.org/conference2018.php

Before reading the timeline of the aftermath of the Mt Polley disaster, please go to the following site where there are a number of photos of the consequences of the breach of the lagoon dam (which was 130 feet tall) when a portion of it dissolved and failed.

 

The remains of the state-of-the-art tailings ”pond” at Mount Polley still holds 80% of the original toxic waste from the massive, adjacent open pit copper mine. “Only” 24 million cubic meters of the sludge (only 20%) was discharged over the few hours of the dam failure.

 

The enormous flow of the toxic mixture of sludge and liquid permanently - and drastically - eroded the downstream, originally “tiny”, Hazeltine Creek that emptied into Quesnel Lake. The sludge permanently contaminated the now huge creek bed and severely eroded the adjacent forest land and, of course, filled the bottom of the once pristine Quesnel Lake with highly poisonous and carcinogenic heavy metals and other toxic materials.

 

Those who have been lucky enough to visit the Pacific Islands and to even be blessed by the opportunity to live there (as this “Native” New Yorker was for 23 years) continue to frequently feel the lure of the isles. I still regularly dream of Tahiti, Samoa, Hawaii and Micronesia and am constantly patting myself on the back for having had the foresight at the tender age of 21 to move to Oceania. One way transplanted indigenous and local people, former tourists and residents have for replenishing their roots and love of those far away islands is by attending Pacific-oriented cultural events when they are available.

 

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Stories and Songs of the Black Experience
Tuesday, February 13, 12noon-1pm, Ohio Statehouse Atrium
We’ve Known Rivers is an organization of teaching artists. They share timeless stories of America’s history through the impact and influence of the black experience. They make history come alive by creatively sharing dramatic presentations of famous African American characters, less well known, and composite characters through artistic dramatic performances.

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