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Meet Wendy Hilliard, the Woman Who Opened Doors For Black Female Gymnasts
Gymnasts/Olympians Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas may be the leading faces of American gymnastics today, but one woman, a woman who helped paved the way for the likes of Biles and Douglas, remembers a time when this wasn't always the case.
That woman is Wendy Hilliard.
Hilliard kicked down several barriers preventing black gymnasts from being seen when she became the first African-American rhythmic gymnast to make the U.S. national team, a feat that was not easily accomplished, and which was only the beginning of a long, hard road to diversifying the sport.
She recounted an occasion on which she missed out on the opportunity to participate in an international competition because of the color of her skin to Huffpost.
"One year they didn't put me on the team for World Championships, and we were at the Olympic Training Center and we're there for like six weeks," she said. "I'm on the top team and they said that everybody was shocked. "The (coach) said 'Oh Wendy, what are we going to do with you? You stand out too much.' I was like 'So you're telling me I'm not on the team because I'm black and that's what it means?' So I had to fight it."
A time span of 60 years (1932-1992) saw the absence of black women representing the country in gymnastics at the games. Hilliard says she is happy to now witness Douglas and Biles "making a difference" by showing little African American girls that they, too, can experience a rewarding career as a gymnast.
"Seeing someone do it on that high level makes a huge difference," she said. "I didn't have that, I just loved my sport, but I could tell after Gabby Douglas, the amount of people that wanted to come take gymnastics with me went through the roof."
The former gymnast now focuses her attention on training upcoming athletes at the Wendy Hilliard Foundation located in Harlem, New York, which she founded in 1996 to make gymnastics programs easily accessible to those who can only afford them at a low cost, or can't afford to pay for them at all.
Of this generous initiative, she says,
"I've had to find ways so that my kids, urban kids, even if you don't have a lot of money [or] come from a challenging home you can still be a great gymnast."
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Target and Missoni threw a party last night to celebrate the release of their collaboration next week, dut to hit Target stores Sept 13th. All I want to know is if the Missoni kaftan worn by Rachel Zoe is part of that line or not? I really really hope they are not just teasing me by showing a piece from Missoni's Orange Label!
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The genius posted this vile thing yesterday in the sincere belief that he was some kind of hero for beating up this poor young woman and, as of last night, the revulsion-to-praise ratio on his Youtube page was running about 400 to 5. Then some clever people decided to search the web for his identity and began to post information on how to contact (perhaps the more apt word is "deluge" or "besiege") his employer to inform them that they have a royal tool representing them on the web. Shortly thereafter, either due to a dim sense that he was not in the Vanguard of History after all, or perhaps because friends contacted him privately and attempted an intervention with the words, "For the love of God, stop helping Gay Marriage", this bullying thug removed the video without comment o.r apology to the woman he chose to humiliate. He has also scrubbed his Linked in profile and is making himself extremely scarce. Good job, jerk.
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I don't touch on music much in this blog, maybe as I did so much of it when I was younger and most music is so sterilized now.
I'm not impressed by celebrities, maybe because I've met a lot of them when I was younger and I discovered very quickly they're just people. Some are nice, some mean, and/or snobby, drunk, high, deep, shallow, weird, sweet, tortured, confuse, fascinating, angry, boring, bored, frustrated, happy…just people like everyone else, but better known.
I suppose my issue with music can't be helped, it's in my head all the time. I hear a song and it's there, usually forever, that can be annoying with a massive amount of songs. I tend to pay some attention, if only passing to music, awards, etc.
Last night was the AMAs. I guess besides the tedium, my only real complaint is that they're not representative of all American music, just Popular American Music. I did watch some of it in between watching other things, reading, and cleaning my house. There was a lot of hair product going on there…
Lady Gaga and R. Kelly's reverse Scandal was mind-numbingly lacklustre.
Justin Timberlake was ok, although I tend to like his comedy more than his music.
Katy Perry was certainly very, er, Geisha-themed.
Thought Miley Cyrus doing Wrecking Ball in her Flashdance sci-fi kitty costume was hilarious with the kitty on screen behind lip-synching, but I just kept thinking, well, they're just a meal for Rob Ford.
All in all, I could have missed it and just saw the highlight reels…have to remember that, but on a cooler note, The Walking Dead was awesome last night, but hard to believe next week is the mid-season finale.I guess zombies don't have gobs of Christmas spirit.


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With the stage set for next week's Republican National Convention, a group of tech leaders says the party's presumptive nominee, Donald J. Trump, would be a "disaster for innovation" if elected.
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How Cameron's government is criminalizing student dissent
This quote by Noam Chomsky, which appeared in the 1994 Canadian
documentary, "Manufacturing Consent," was originally designed at
the time to provoke as much as to warn against vested interests
in teaching.
Under PM David Cameron, Britain's centers of learning are deteriorating from colleges where young people are educated into loathsome institutions where they are told what to think.
As the private sector is invited in to manage education the purpose of every university is changing. The very idea of an independent student building where young people can socialize, organize and call their own, on the utilitarian model, will be surplus to requirements. The curriculum, too, is no longer tailored to bring out the talents of the individual, but increasingly career-led and vocational.
Millions of British students are wondering this winter if the studies they are plunging so deep into debt for are for their benefit or if they are destined to be a cog in a City of London machine, churning out fine-looking figures for longwinded economists but leaving them, and the nation, with absolutely nothing in the way of either job satisfaction or quality of life.
Tuition fees are going up again this year, leaving young couples with crippling debts of over £60,000 at 21 as they start their working life. University staff are being outsourced, working for below-poverty wages and sackable at the drop of a hat. Meanwhile, university managers, fresh from "Business School" earn the sort of absurdly high six-figure salaries which might be excusable were they increasing productivity at a meat factory. Students and academics will tell you, in a whisper, that these managers are dragging once respectable colleges into the gutter.
Not since the November 2010 London Tuition Fee mass demonstrations, the student's response to the new Coalition government, have we seen such a determined effort by the authorities to stop students from getting organized. They seem determined to dismantle their centuries-old unions and ban all except private student meetings. At the endangered University of London Union these gatherings are infiltrated by the London Stasi. Fresh from the beds of environmentalists, undercover police identify dissenters to put under their vampire surveillance machine.
Phones will be tapped, emails read, social networks studied with or without a court order.
The object: to decapitate all organized student activity, to deny
students a voice. Occupations of University campuses across the
UK in Birmingham, Brighton, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London,
Sheffield and Warwick are all being met with varying degrees of
ignorance and contempt by Universities' new factory-trained
The straw that broke the camel's back, that struck the fear of God into David Cameron's increasingly authoritarian government, was the alarmingly peaceful joint action between student union organizers, told their offices are being closed, and university workers' IWGB union '3 Cosas' pay and conditions campaign. Not unlike Iceland's inspired and successful dissent against the IMF's global doctrine, when overpaid, unelectable bigwigs try to dismantle their world, students and workers successfully asserted their right to point out, strike and negotiate a deal.
Day after day this week, setting aside the laws they are paid to uphold, London's Metropolitan Police have been throwing punches, charging into peaceful student demonstrators. The idea is clear, there will be no more mass rallies because police will identify and arrest student representatives before they begin to mobilize their supporters.
A third-year philosophy student at the University of London's Heythrop College, Rebecca Greenford, put it like this: "Teaching staff, clerical staff, cleaners and students all know these changes will damage our education. This week we organized peaceful rallies to make our point in public, but university authorities, government and police have effectively criminalized dissent."
"At a long-arranged rally in Euston" advertised as #CopsOffCampus on Twitter, "scoresof police turned up outnumbering us, then charged in snatching, grabbing and arresting36 students," Greenford said. "One disabled lad had his crutches knocked from under him and was kicked by police who abandoned him injured and bleeding on the pavement."
"Those arrestedillegally were dispersed to cells around the outskirts of the capital many miles both from home and each other. After this police riot anyone under 30 years old leaving Euston Station was stopped by groups of cops. They cannot be allowed to close down our peaceful rallies nor arrest us for exercising our rights."
British education in the 1960s and 1970s was a state service with moral values and integrity approaching the best private education anywhere in the world, but fees, student loans, business managers, the private profit motive and an increasingly authoritarian state have changed all that.
It is as though the students' righteous anger and their physical occupation of their threatened University buildings have jangled the Cameron government's post 9/11 nerves, its mania for "wars of terror" where it gets to occupy and colonize other peoples' lands.
By occupying universities, London's students are beating Cameron at his own land-grabbing game. Didn't they know that, in a totalitarian Britain, only the government is allowed to do that?
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Dance of the Vampires
Neal Ascherson
- Roman by Roman Polanski
Heinemann, 393 pp, £12.95, January 1984, ISBN 0 434 59180 7
'I am widely regarded, I know, as an evil, profligate dwarf.' So declares Roman Polanski, moodily kicking his souvenirs about on the last page of this autobiography. Of all the films he never made, the most revealing might have been the project he cooked up years ago in Paris for a sexually-explicit Snow White, with a mongoloid news vendor from St Germain-des-Prés as Prince Charming, a homosexual yodelling choir as musical accompaniment and a troupe of midget wrestlers to play the Seven Dwarves. The treatment was put together by him and his friend Gérard Brach, equally underset and insatiable. The financier Pierre Braunberger, who failed to see that he was billed as the real Prince Charming in this revolting allegory, was happy with everything except the midgets, who proved too expensive. On their account, he withdrew his money and the film collapsed before a frame had been shot. He may have saved his family from the poorhouse by doing so, for Polanski, like the seven hammerlocking dwarfs, was a spectacular overspender.
But Polanski is also, to invent a word, a grand overqualifier. He cannot help making films which are not only more expensive but far superior in quality to the intentions of those who finance them. 'We asked for a Mini-Cooper and you give us a Rolls!' squalled the promoters of Repulsion. The film known variously as The Fearless Vampire-Killers or Dance of the Vampires was never meant by its backers to be one of the wittiest of all film parodies, and indeed one of the producers – to whom, in a moment of insane confidence, Polanski had given rights over the American version – cut it down to drivel for United States audiences. Polanski's hectic style of life, his constant personal and financial crises, ending with the murder of his wife Sharon Tate by Charles Manson and Polanski's imprisonment for 'raping' a juvenile in California, have obscured the aspect of him which really matters: that he is the most consistently brilliant of all the film-makers who have emerged from post-war Poland. Andrzej Wajda is a greater genius, but even he does not have Polanski's unerring talent for visual showmanship.
Polanski is a child of the streets, who learned before his voice broke that it was a choice between hustling and dying. He was born in a middle-class Jewish family in pre-war Krakow (his real first name is Raymond, which he dropped for the more Polish 'Roman' as soon as he went to school). After the outbreak of war, he found himself immured in the same Krakow ghetto which is the background of Schindler's Ark, but soon bored himself a hole in the wire through which he could escape into the rest of the city. When the first German razzias into the ghetto began, he was lodged outside with a Christian family: small and fair-haired, he 'passed for Aryan' while his mother was taken to the gas-chambers and his father deported to a series of concentration camps. As the hunt for Jews in Krakow grew more intense, Roman was passed on to the Buchala family, poor peasants in a remote village who had never seen a motor-car and could not imagine an electric light. Here he worked in the fields, shared the family's hunger and overcrowding, and picked up all the customs, superstitions and psalmody of Polish rural Catholicism. In spite of the constant danger – he had to wash alone, to conceal his circumcision, and was shot at by marauding German soldiers – Roman Polanski learned to love and respect a very different Poland, one mocked and despised by intellectual city-dwellers. And he read his first books, discovered after a rummage through Mrs Buchala's trunk: a Catholic volume of edifying children's tales called The Soldier of the Immaculate Queen and a Polish translation of the 12th-century Song of Roland.
But he was already more than just a pious orphan. His fascination with film had begun while he was still in the ghetto, as he and a group of small friends found a place where they could watch from behind the wire the propaganda movies staged in the open air by the Germans for the population of Krakow: 'every so often, during breaks in the proceedings, the following words were flashed on the screen: "JEWS = LICE! = TYPHUS!".'
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One Gun,
11 Victims
November 13, 2005
By MATT BURGARD, Courant Staff Writer
In deserted alleyways and on dimly lit street corners, guns
get passed around in Hartford like dark secrets.
They are stolen, bought and traded to the point that, for city
police, it's hard to tell any gun they seize from all the others.
But one stood out.
the neighborhoods of the city's North End, this handgun was passed
from one hand to the next, leaving a trail of shell casings and
plenty of blood.
As Hartford police investigated
a series of shootings over seven months in 2002, the gun got
their attention. It was a sleek, black Glock 9mm.
By the end of the year, it would
be used to shoot 11 young men. Two of them died. Even though
the cops eventually got the Glock off the streets, they were
never able to figure out exactly how many gunmen used the gun
in the course of its bloody spree.
They arrested four men on charges
of illegally possessing the Glock, including a teenager who was
convicted Thursday of using it to shoot and kill a man from the
suburbs who had come to Hartford to buy drugs.
But the cops came to believe that
it had been in more hands than that, many more.
They gave it a label. A "community
gun," they called it, the kind of gun that falls into the
wrong hands and then is loaned out, "rented" or sold
within a circle of young men who hang out together on the street.
The gun came to exemplify the difficulty
that cities such as Hartford have in keeping guns out of the
hands of young people.
But all that came later. In May
2002, when police responded to the shooting of a young man at
Garden and Capen streets, they had no reason to believe they
were dealing with anything unusual.
It seemed like another dime-a-dozen
shooting with another dime-a-dozen gun.
The Trail Begins
The corner at Garden and Capen is
one of the busiest intersections in the North End, a place where
the traffic rarely dies down and people bustle in and out of
the mom-and-pop shops that line the sidewalks.
But late at night, the thumping
of car stereos and the shouting and laughter of people eventually
give way to quiet. Which is why the pop-pop of gunfire shortly
before midnight on May 21, 2002, drove people out of bed to call
Before the cops arrived, the shooting
victim, 23-year-old Edward Bennett, had staggered to his home
several blocks away on Acton Street, bleeding from gunshot wounds
in his shoulder and back.
One of Bennett's relatives called
911, and police raced to his home on the second floor of a rundown
apartment house. Bennett told officers, "I ain't telling
you ... nothing," then demanded an ambulance.
But as paramedics were treating
him, Bennett gave the cops some information. He told them he
and his "boy," an unidentified friend, had been sitting
in a parked car at Garden and Capen when a gunman walked up to
them and opened fire. The friend, who was not hit, refused to
tell the cops anything - an all-too-common response in the city.
Bennett was taken to the hospital,
and detectives went to the shooting scene to scour the area for
Amid the discarded cigarette packs
and food wrappers that littered the sidewalk, detectives found
several shell casings from a handgun, though police couldn't
tell exactly what kind of handgun they had come from.
The detectives collected the casings,
making sure each was properly marked and recorded as evidence,
the same routine as in any other shooting. The casings would
be sent to the state police forensics laboratory for ballistics
testing to see if they had markings that could be matched to
a particular gun, maybe one that had been used in other shootings.
The testing, which analyzes the
unique markings left on the casings by a gun's firing pin, would
take weeks to complete because of the painstaking nature of the
work. But detectives had no reason at that point to make the
Bennett shooting a higher priority than other cases, so they
continued looking for witnesses and pumping Bennett for more
Whoever used the Glock that night
kept it in circulation. It would be heard from again, soon.
Little To Go On
Just a few blocks from Garden and
Capen, on a downtrodden stretch of Enfield Street, 16-year-old
Matthew Cauley was standing astride his bicycle while talking
to a group of friends. It was about an hour past midnight on
Sunday, June 30, and the air was heavy and humid.
Cauley, a student at Weaver High
School, glared as a car full of young men slowly drove past.
The men in the car glared back, but the car kept rolling.
A few minutes later, the car returned,
and Cauley and his friends could see that the men inside were
concealing their faces with the hoods of their sweat shirts -
a sure sign that trouble was about to pop.
One of the men pointed a gun out
of the car's window and announced, "We're back. ... What
you gonna do?"
Then gunfire erupted, and Cauley,
grimacing in pain, fell to the pavement, hit in the arm and leg.
When the police arrived, they couldn't
get any of the kids who were hanging out with Cauley to give
them a good description of the men in the car. The case was closed
a few months later when Cauley told police he didn't want the
investigation to go any further.
Like other kids who get shot in
Hartford, Cauley felt it would be safer for him not to talk because
he didn't want to labeled as a "snitch."
But at least one of the kids was
willing to cooperate a little the night Cauley was shot, showing
cops where the shooting had taken place. Detectives found several
shell casings and submitted them to the forensics lab.
As with the Bennett case, the casings
appeared to be from a handgun - maybe a Glock - but that was
about all detectives could find out.
At the forensics lab in Meriden,
ballistics expert Jim Stephenson began comparing the shell casings
from the Bennett shooting with those taken from the Cauley shooting.
It would be weeks before his analysis, which required microscopic
examination of the markings on each of the shell casings, would
be complete.
And the Glock was still out there.
More Clues
Two weeks later, on another humid
night, 30-year-old Eugene Williams was walking with his friend
Willie Kinder, 30, on Garden Street when a car approached them
Williams told police he and his
friend sensed there might be trouble when the car's headlights
flicked off as it rolled up alongside them.
"I had a funny feeling and
I was thinking that the people in the car were going to rob us
and take our little bit of money," Williams said. "Willie
must have been thinking the same thing when he saw the car because
he said, `Oh, it's about to go down.'"
Several young men sat in the car,
all of them wearing dark sweat shirts. Two of them pointed guns
out the window and started firing.
"We were like playing possum
and they just shot at us and then drove off," Williams said.
He and Kinder helped detectives
locate more than a dozen shell casings on the street. The detectives
once more collected the casings - more remnants of handgun ammunition
- and submitted them to the lab.
They again put their faith in Stephenson
and other experts at the state ballistics lab.
Bullet fragments found at many of
the crime scenes were too damaged to test. So, using a sophisticated
new computer system, Stephenson set out to create digital images
of the shell casings to determine if the markings would match
up. Then he would have to line them up himself, under a microscope,
to know for sure.
A Mysterious Figure
The heat of summer had taken a thorough
hold of the city by the end of July that year. The only relief
for many residents came late at night, when the air cooled down
a bit.
Darrell Hundley, 24, was one of
several people hanging out on Elmer Street in the predawn hours
of July 31. He was sitting on a lawn chair beneath the glare
of a streetlight, talking to some girls in a parked car.
Suddenly everyone scattered as gunshots
erupted from across the street. Hundley, whose twin brother was
shot and killed in Hartford in 1995, jumped into the back of
the girls' car after a bullet struck him in the ankle.
His friends drove him to the hospital,
where they told police they saw a shadowy figure firing shots
from a shaded area between houses. But they said it was too dark
to see who the gunman was.
Detectives found shell casings in
the grass and submitted them to the lab. For the cops, the summer
was shaping up to be a hot one, and not just in terms of the
weather. After a relatively peaceful spring, the number of shootings
in the city was beginning to rise, due largely to an outbreak
of turf wars and robberies among rival groups of young men in
the North End.
The Glock was right in the middle
of it.
A Break, At Last
A week later, 16-year-old Albert
Perry and his friend 17-year-old Alvin Wilson were walking from
a convenience store on Albany Avenue, where they had gone to
buy snacks about 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 7.
On a dark stretch of Magnolia Street,
a masked gunman ran up to them and ordered them to sit on the
ground. He told the teens to hand over the cash in their pockets.
Perry later told the cops he gave
up his cash, but Wilson refused. The gunman opened fire, shooting
Wilson twice and grazing Perry on the hand. Doctors had to remove
Wilson's right kidney and repair punctures to his liver and diaphragm.
At the scene, detectives recovered
a single shell casing, which went to the forensics lab.
Police were still waiting for the
lab results when, on Aug. 12, they were sent to Milford Street
to investigate the shootings of Donald Raynor, 17, and Timothy
Browdy, 21. The cousins had been talking to each other when a
gunman shot at both of them from a passing car.
Raynor told the cops he heard the
glass shatter in the car he was sitting in, then spotted a green
car speeding away as he realized he was shot in the upper back.
Browdy, who suffered more serious injuries after being shot in
the stomach, provided few other details when he was interviewed
several weeks later.
Detectives were gathering shell
casings from the scene when Stephenson called to give them the
test results for which they had been waiting 11 weeks.
More particularly, he said, the
gun was a Glock 9mm, Model 17, that appeared to be several years
Finally, a breakthrough.
"It was a `eureka!' moment," said
Stephenson, a former New Haven detective who has become a national
expert in ballistics testing. "The evidence spoke for itself."
The Glock, Easy To Get
A few weeks later, Stephenson contacted
the Hartford detectives again to let them know the same gun had
been used to shoot Raynor and Browdy, as well as Joseph St. Pierre,
36, who was wounded at the corner of Asylum Avenue and Sigourney
Street on Sept. 12.
Now, detectives knew that a single
gun had been used to shoot eight people in the course of 16 weeks.
And even though they had not made any arrests, they were beginning
to get the idea that more than one person was using it.
They pressed informants on the street
for information on who might have the Glock. The informants,
along with some of the witnesses in the shootings, said the gun
was changing hands among a group of men in their teens and early
20s who hung out on Oakland Terrace and other side streets off
Albany Avenue. Police learned that some of them had been feuding
with rival groups of youths who lived near Enfield Street and
Barbour Street, which may have explained some of the shootings
in those neighborhoods.
The night he was shot, Perry told
detectives he suspected the gunman was a guy who lived along
Albany Avenue who regularly robbed people. Though he did not
give the cops a name, Perry said the gunman had told him and
Wilson that the black handgun he was pointing at them "was
not his but he could get it anytime he wanted to."
Getting Creative
That tip from Perry gave the cops
a glimpse into the countless ways that illegal guns reached the
city's streets and then changed hands.
There is no single pipeline for
guns into Hartford that can be easily plugged; there are so many
streams into the city that law enforcement officials admit they
pretty much have to search for illegal guns one at a time. Ammunition
is easy to get, too.
"Tracing a gun is like trying
to trace a dollar bill," said Kevin O'Connor, the U.S. attorney
for Connecticut. "Guns can find their way to the streets
in dozens of ways, hundreds of ways."
Detectives know many of the guns
on the street had been stolen in house burglaries, while others
had been bought in illegal "straw" purchases in which
a legitimate buyer purchases a gun and then gives it to someone
Others get their hands on guns by
making connections in states where gun-buying laws are more lenient
than Connecticut, such as Vermont, or Southern states such as
South Carolina. They might go to those states and buy several
guns to bring back to Hartford, or they might ask relatives who
live in those states to buy guns for them.
Some teens and young adults get
pretty creative. Some trade heroin or crack for guns. In 2003,
a 15-year-old boy arranged to rent a handgun for $40 from a Hartford
man for a week. The boy, who lived in Wethersfield but went to
Hartford every day to deal drugs on Farmington Avenue, later
pleaded guilty to manslaughter after he used the gun to kill
another man he was trying to rob.
"If people want a gun, they're
gonna get it," said Robert Taylor, 37, who used to sell
drugs in a North End housing project and continues to stay close
to friends who trade in guns and drugs. "These kids feel
they're vulnerable without a gun."
Contrary to popular perception,
Taylor said, buying a gun in Hartford is not a simple matter.
"You can't just walk up to
somebody on the corner and get him to sell you a gun," he
said. "They might think you're a cop, or working for a cop.
You have to know somebody first."
Detectives tracing the Glock found
that it came from a plant in Georgia and was first sold at a
gun shop in Virginia in 1991. From there, the trail went cold.
They never learned how it made its way to Hartford.
Through the fall of 2002, those
who had been shot by the Glock had all recovered. But that was
about to change.
On Dec. 5, Stacey McDonald, 20,
was driving with a girlfriend down Granby Street about an hour
before the sun came up. As he cruised toward the intersection
of Granby and Plainfield streets, McDonald was shot in the head
by a gunman firing from a passing car. He died instantly as his
car crashed into a utility pole about a block from an elementary
Detectives canvassed the scene that
morning as curious schoolchildren walked by. They gathered more
shell casings that seemed to be a match for a Glock and submitted
them to the lab.
Then, on a bitter cold night just
a couple of days after Christmas, 31-year-old Scott Houle of
East Hampton turned his car onto Cabot Street hoping to find
someone to sell him crack. It was past midnight, but Houle spotted
a group of teenagers leaving an apartment house.
The group included 16-year-old Rondell
Bonner and his 15-year-old uncle, Calvin King. Just minutes before,
Bonner had been holding the Glock, toying with it as some of
the other kids scrawled graffiti on the mailboxes in the building's
As they saw Houle approaching in
his Kia Sportage, Bonner and King flagged him down to sell him
drugs. Bonner handed him a plastic bag full of crack as they
negotiated a price.
Then things got tense, and one of
the boys shouted, "He's trying to play us!" Bonner
pulled the Glock from the waistline of his pants, and, police
say, he and King, who also had a gun, began firing. Houle, a
father of four young girls, was shot in the head and died as
his car slid into a fence.
Bonner and King raced to Bonner's
home on Sargeant Street, where they changed clothes. Police say
Bonner, who would be arrested three months later after detectives
tracked down witnesses to the crime, gave the Glock to King and
told him to sell it.
Stacey McDonald's mother, Sarah
Johnson-Ellis, said the case of the Glock shows Hartford has
become too dangerous for families who want to keep their children
"Look at all the people who
were harmed by this gun. And it was just one gun," said
Johnson-Ellis, who moved to Georgia after her grandson was shot
and killed a few months after McDonald's slaying. "It's
too much. All the kids have guns now, it seems like."
In the course of seven months, the
Glock had been used to wound nine people and kill two. Houle
would be the final victim.
It would take months more for police
to finally get the Glock off the streets.
Seizing The Glock
In March of 2003, police arrested
Bonner on a murder charge, though King had not yet been linked
to the crime.
The same month, police say, King
was allegedly selling the Glock to Tyree Downer, who lived in
the same neighborhood where the gun was circulating.
Downer bought the gun for $400.
He sold it in May to Eon Whitley, 26, who knew Downer from the
time they served together in a juvenile detention facility. Police
say Whitley bought the gun for $350 while they ate lunch at a
Jamaican restaurant.
By that time, the cops had been
able to link the gun to Downer through informants. When they
questioned him, Downer said he had already sold it to Whitley.
They were getting closer, but when
police pulled Whitley over during a traffic stop in July, he
said he had already sold it for $400 to Robert Crowe, 29, who
lived near Downer.
Facing a possible charge of illegally
buying and selling a handgun, Whitley agreed to set up a buy
from Crowe.
In late July, Whitley met with Crowe
on Winter Street and bought the gun back for $395. Whitley turned
the gun over to police, who submitted it for testing. Bonner,
King, Downer and Crowe were all charged with illegally possessing
the Glock. Whitley was not charged, after cooperating with police.
Downer was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison in
2004. Crowe was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison.
No one has been charged in connection
with McDonald's death or the shootings of the other nine victims.
But the community gun was off the
It's now in a cardboard box, evidence
at Superior Court in Hartford- Exhibit A in the murder trials
of Bonner and of King, who was arrested on a murder charge in
2004. Bonner was convicted Thursday of illegally possessing the
Glock and killing Houle. King is awaiting trial on charges of
criminal possession of the Glock and killing Houle.
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This is practically live. Only moments from my iPhone to you. We survived the wrath of mother nature and are bracing for more. I actually heard one of the weather reporters talking about 3 feet of snow and 2 converging storms coming up. Guess I should start sharpening my snow shovels. They almost never get it right, so I'm not worried. See you later.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
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On such a beautiful morning, I would find it difficult to consider the possibility of a pending storm. You are so correct to best be prepared and then find it to be "not so much."
Still, I shall be thinking of you.
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Why I don't freelance
I got interested in tech and programming, one of the reasons why I wanted to do it was because it allowes working remotely. Staying home, getting some money and avoiding the office treadmill. In 2016, I learned some HTML, CSS and Javascript and jumped on trying to get a job on upwork. I succeeded within less than a week, and a first normal client appeared, willing to pay me just enough to cover my bills. Then, after about half of a year from that, I quit working like that and here is why:
Assembled a puzzle
I never done puzzles growing up. And it was interesting for me to try it and to see how it goes. So, one day at a book store (where I was with my wife), we saw a section for puzzles. We decided to pick a simple one with a monkey that contained 120 pieces.
On writing by Stepen King -- a review
I don't know what to say about the book in the introduction, because the title is, pretty much, self explanatory. However, I'd like to mention that I've written down some key points from his book.
Also, it's two big sections – the first one with his memories and bio and the second one is with his advices for wanna be writers.
Kira and a Dog Named Money by Bodo Schäfer -- a review
This book seems to target kids but could be useful for adults as well. It has lots of tips how to handle finances wrapped around in a fairy tale type of story about a little girl and her dog.
The approach proposed is rather a careful one and very wise in the nature. I wrote down some nice advices and I'd recomend reading it to almost anybody, especially, to people who may have problems in the financial life.
Catching the big fish by David Lynch -- an opinion
The book is strange to me because I don't really like the ideas in it about meditating. Lynch talks about it on almost every page, bringing it up again and again.
The book is quite short, also it left me with a feeling that the thinking, expressed in it is just too strange, too abstract for me.
I can understand his interest in art, painting and film making. But the arguments used throughout it about meditation seem pretty much like some stuff you could find in a spiritual book.
The passionate programmer by Chad Fowler -- the key ideas
Week 49 of 2017, 16th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
I read the book a while ago and it's the time to put on some notes I made on the blog.
A strange this about the book is that whenever I look at the notes, expressed as points in the list below, it seems to be another common sense ish stuff, but in the actual book it made a lot of sense because each of the bullets I've written has also a story behind it, a practical example of a situation in which it was useful to apply a principle.
El diario
Week 47 of 2017, 15th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
Me acosté muy tarde, no pudo dormir. Tambien encontré un blog sobre literatura japones y videojuegos, escrito por una profesor. No me he acostumbrado completamente a trabajar en una oficina, con muy poco del tiempo despúes. Comé el girasol en la noche. Por un razon obscuro no sabía que la palabra agua es masculino.
El diario
Week 46 of 2017, 14th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
Sábado, 18 de noviembre de 2017
Miré una pelicula, el crimen perfecto de Álex de la Iglesia. Generalmente, no me gusta el cine como eso con alguien que trata de encontrar la verdad sobre un crimen. Tambien la pelicula parece muy concentrada redonde policia y el corte…
El nombre del creador fue familiar a mi y busqué por más detalles. Alex es un director muy conocido y he visto su otra pelicula, las brujas.
Además tiene un libro, que voy a leer. Es en libro cómico sobre La semana grande. Nunca he oído nada sobre la fiesta, pero es normal.
Pelicula Gestación filmada por Esteban Ramírez -- mi opinión
Week 44 of 2017, 13th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
Acabo de terminar la pelicula hoy. Countinuo ver cine en Español para mejorar mi comprención de la cultura. Ahora estoy escribiendo sobre una pelicula de Costa Rica.
Un poco sobre LISP
Week 41 of 2017, 12th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
Puedo entender ahora la situación con lenguas programaticas mejor que en el pasado. Un año antes dije que C y JavaScript son muy simulares pero entonces obtenido más experiencia con programacion y veo que C tiene un paradigma diferente y que usado para programar aplicaciónes que exigente más recursos del systemas.
Revisiónes de anime
Week 40 of 2017, 11th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
Hola! Tengo que practicar Español más y debo hacer posts en el idioma en mi blog. Es un primero post en que voy a hablar sobre pocos animes que he visto.
Completed another item from the bucket list -- watched some anime
Week 38 of 2017, 10th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
I never really liked anime. That's totally ok, but I was one of the people who critisized it without ever wathing. But one day I decided that if I want to say how weird it's, I should at least check it out and get some experience wathing it, it'd not hurt me to see a couple of things.
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers by Robert Martin -- a summary
Week 38 of 2017, 9th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
Here is a summary from another book about the career aspect of programming. The post does not have any watery stuff, I tried to write down just the key ideas, pure and concentrated.
The important (to me) programming languages
Week 35 of 2017, 8th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
Since there're plenty of programming languages and the number is growing, it's pretty obvious that a human can't keep up with all of them. So it's necessary to choose, to filter them.
The art of software testing by Glenford Myers -- a summary
Week 33 of 2017, 7th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
I really liked the book because from what it seems to me, it gives a good overview of testing in general, and, especially, the psychology of testing.
Below I'd like to point out the key moments from there.
Completed an item from my bucket list -- learning how to cook kebabs
Week 31 of 2017, 6th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
I've finished an item from my bucket list. I'm really happy about it. I haven't gotten out camping making kebabs in my life much, actually, I've never done it. Once I've eaten kebabs made by my uncle, that was really nice. But I wanted to try making my own.
And, finally, this weekend, I did it!
Sample test tasks
Week 29 of 2017, 5th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
Sometimes I might feel like dabbling into a technology that is new for me. And it's nice to have some kind of standardized test task for it. I don't like to spend a lot of time doing boring pointless little coding exercises if it could be avoided with something more meaningful.
So, below is the text of a simple application that I want to save here. If I ever feel like messing around with Java, PHP, C#.NET, Clojure or a new front-end JavaScript framework, I might just do the task as well without thinking what to do.
It could save a lot of time.
If I ever find more test tasks I like, I'll update the post by adding the new ones.
How to travel around the world with no money, a TEDx talk by Tomislav Perko -- a summary
Week 28 of 2017, 4th post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
TEDx could be amazing in a way, even though some of the talks aren't good at all, others might be too political or just dull. But in general, it's a really great place for finding some short videos about interesting experiences of other people.
I was so fascinated by the guy talking about backpack traveling that I decided to write down the key moments from the speech and publish it on the blog.
It might seem silly to people who have had travel experiences but for me, a person who never been outside of Ukraine and literally has no traveling experience whatsoever, that short funny video was as insightful as much as it was fun to watch.
More unreviwed books -- short summaries, part 2
Week 25 of 2017, 3rd post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
Another bunch of books that I read within 3rd year and got to publish my opinions on now:
Fluent in 3 months by Benny Lewis
Just for fun by Linus Torvalds
Technical Blogging: Turn Your Expertise into a Remarkable Online Presence by Antonio Cangiano
I'm the same as everybody else and How to become a businessman by Oleg Tinkov
A healthy way to live - the key aspects
Week 23 of 2017, 2nd post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
I've been thinking about a good way to live, a way that would allow a human like me to stay healthy as long as it's possible, to stay a good learner of new things. Below is what I've figured out.
Opinion on some unreviewed books from the last year, part 1
Week 22 of 2017, 1st post of the 4th year (May 2017 - May 2018)
I haven't reviewed some books that I intented (I finished all of them by May 23rd of 2017, so they're unreviewed books from the 3rd year), I just want to write brief opinion on each since there're quite a lot of them.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
Fugitives And Refugees: A Walk In Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process by Kenneth S. Rubin and Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly by Bertrand Meyer
The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Babel No More by Michael Erard
Bioinformatics for Dummies by Cedric Notredame and Jean-Michel Claverie
A textbook on highload systems
Year hightlights, 3 years since
Week 21 of 2017
I like to review a year not on my birthday or Christmas, but around April or May. So, below are some things happened to me since May 25 of 2016 till May 25 of 2017:
I keep integrating blogging into my life, even more now
Week 20 of 2017
I like blogging a lot, I'd not want to fail it long-term. So when I freak out, in addition to the reasons I mentioned before, I've come up with another way to keep it going.
The value of picking up things from other professions
Week 19 of 2017
Coming from more than one background, you may start to notice some tools or ideas that should be known by people outside of the area as well. Simply because the tools or the ideas are so significant or important that they could benefit much more people.
Tables: my pet project
Week 19 of 2017
Recently, I made a list of things I'd like to do in my free time within the next five years. The list included an entry "make a site potentially useful for other people". So, I have finished some time ago.
A mind for numbers by Barbara Oakley -- a summary
Week 18 of 2017
Finally went through the book. It also has a corresponding course online, a really popular one.
The book tells about basics of learning, but uses really nice, simple analogies to explain stuff. I envy a lot middle school kids, who would read it. I wish, I had something like that when I was 12-15.
But even now, there're things to pick up for me, for example, I used to treat breaks during working or learning as somethings bad, more like a distruction etc.
My motivation for blogging
Week 16 of 2017
Here, in this post, I'd like to write about what keeps me blogging. Especially, since I don't have that much of blogging experience under the belt, what could help me not to quit blogging in the future.
Man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankl
Week 15 of 2017
I heard about the book for the first time from some Russian self help author, who wrote about it in his review on different types of psychotherapy. Ever since then, I wanted to read it, but was putting it off until recently I finished the book.
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt -- my opinion
Week 13 of 2017
The book, basically, has bunch of fluff, trying to promote developing the right side of the brain;
It targets programmers and other technical guys;
Land the tech job you love by Andy Lester -- my opinion
Week 12 of 2017
So, I read the book, below is a short summary:
- The book brings up some really fundamental things about being a programmer/developer – how to sell yourself as a professional;
TDD by example, Человек-оружие and Апгрейд обезьяны -- summaries and my opinion
Week 11 of 2017
TDD by example by Kent Beck:
TDD as a methodology has been around for a while, some people like it, some admit it's nice but don't use it. In this book, there's an effort to explain it with a lot of practical coding samples.
An opinion about 'Аритмия чувств' by Janusz Wiśniewski and Dorota Wellman
Week 10 of 2017
Why did I choose it
I decided to go through it because I wanted to find out more about the man. He seemed a smart person, the guy holds two Phds – in chemistry and informatics and also two masters degree in economics and physics. Also, he is a popular chick writer in Poland, his books were or still are doing good. It impressed me a lot, so I wanted to know more about his lifestyle, about what is his secret to productivity and such an intense life.


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Saturday, July 30, 2011
First rain in almost a year
We had rain!!!! It was a significant, though small and short lived, cloudburst that dumped a decent amount of water for just a few minutes. It's still early this morning and just getting light enough to see so I look forward to going out with a shovel and seeing how many inches of the surface it was able to penetrate. If it's deep enough I will be able to get the tractor out for the first time this year and disc up the areas that have been scoured clean by the wind over the last eleven months. Being able to do this will reduce the erosion in those areas, where I have lost up to six inches of the surface soil. My logical mind had assumed that to disc up the soil would only increase the erosion but I learned that it actually decreases it by making the surface chunky and rough. Learned that from watching what other farmers do and seeing the effects as we drove through sand storms that suddenly diminish when we pass freshly disced areas. The problem is that this must be done while the soil is moist, otherwise you just loosen the dirt into fine sand, which will blow away.
This ran came right as we rushed home from the funeral, so I got to run to the house through the downpour wearing my good clothes. We had left my cell phone home in our rush to make the funeral on time and it had the phone numbers of the brothers I was to meet and ride with to the prison in Fort Stockton. So it was twenty miles home and twenty more back to Midland. My phone was ringing on the bed when we walked in and it was Ron inquiring when I would arrive to his house.
Let me speak a little on the funeral. In general funerals are not pleasant times, but this one was the most uplifting one I have ever attended. It was a celebration of life, not a time of mourning and sadness, though there is certainly some sorrow regarding Ken's sudden departure. As I listened to people testify about the impact Ken had on their lives, and on the lives of hundreds of others, I could only hope that I might have a fraction of that type of effect on the world I touch.
It brought things into perspective. We all will die, period, unless we are alive when Jesus returns, and we will all answer for the choices we make. Having already died and then brought back to life, having gone from being worth (on paper only) over a million dollars to wandering homeless with my memory gone and mind severely damaged, and then having my life, faith, and marriage miraculously restored, I already have a deep awareness of the frailty of life, and a realization of what is ultimately important and what isn't. The funeral enhanced my awareness and sadness regarding the pettiness of the church people who, fueled by gossip inspired from jealousy, envy, resentment, and suspicion, (and goaded on by the devil, who greatly enjoyed the fruit of his efforts) self righteously kicked me out of church, of the place we should have found friends, security, and fellowship.
Romans 12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; 11 not lagging behind in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, 13 contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.
I was late meeting Ron, but we got on the road and arrived at the prison gate just in time. Inside I was warmly greeted by many, who all expressed how they had missed my presence and were glad to see me. I was able to get updates from several, whom I'd developed a relationship with, and help assure and advise some of them. I miss going but without reliable transportation and tight funds it has been difficult to get there. I will try to get there more, to overcome the difficulties placed before me. Prison also helps put things into perspective. Here there is division too, a mirror of the outside world, but with much more at stake should an argument break out, for in this realm there is a great propensity for violence and even death. But I met with brothers in Christ who are concerned about what they face when released, and many of them are close to being let out of prison. Some of them have spent decades behind bars, sometimes more years locked up than free, but have an earnest desire to be free of the demons that put them there and a greater desire to follow Christ, knowing that they too will stand before the great throne of judgment.
If you look carefully, you can see some watermelons developing.
There is more but I must go buy some diesel fuel and fire up the tractor before the sun dries the moisture we got. Just a few feet down the road the land hardly looks like it got any rain so we were evidently blessed to have been in the direct path of this shower. Bye now, work to do.
5 comments:
glad y'all got some rain. We didn't get a drop at our house, but enjoyed seeing the clouds and having the threat of rain!!
- Bob said...
Thanks Jen, we were grateful to see it. Only bad side is that the weeds will spring up all over. It's been nice only having to weed where the drip irrigation was. But I'll gladly take that extra work that comes with the rain.
- Amy E said...
Congratulations on the rain. We received a short shower last night, and again this morning. While it wasn't the amount I was expecting, I am grateful and thankful for anything God sends us. We received several inches last week, and our fields are pretty green. The horses are getting fat and sassy. We actually had to cut the grass today (actual the weeds). The fields look so pretty now.
I have heard cantaloupe fair better in drought conditions. Your thoughts?
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It is the only region in Italy which has not been divided into separate provinces and is one of the country's five legislatively and administratively autonomous regions.
Classed as the least Italian region of Italy, the Aosta Valley is bilingual with both Italian and French taught in school and both languages commonly used at home. The road signs are in Italian and French and the local cuisine contains dishes influenced by Switzerland, France and Germany as well as Italy and the Mediterranean.
The principle city is Aosta, situated near the Italian entrance to the Mont Blanc Tunnel and only 110 km away from Turin. Aosta is a small city, with a spacious, open feel to it and a five centuries of Roman influence have left their mark. Today, Valle d'Aosta is little known to tourists, other than serious skiiers and hikers, but it was once the main access route between northern and southern Europe. The Mont Blanc Tunnel and Great St Bernard Tunnel have made the region more accessible, but it somehow remains off the beaten track. In spite of this, the region contains Italy's oldest national park, the Gran Paradiso National Park and three first class ski resorts.
Mont Blanc Tunnel entrance Photo: Lennart Bolks
Mont Blanc Tunnel entrance Photo: Lennart Bolks
The Gran Paradiso National Park is 173,000 acres of snow capped mountains dotted with tiny glacial lakes and bordered by wooded slopes and huge flowering meadows. It is home to chamois, marmots, foxes, golden eagles and of course the famous ibex. 450 miles of marked trails and mule tracks make it a paradise for advanced hikers and walking enthusiasts. There are also a number of organised flat, wheelchair and baby buggy friendly walks, which along with the 70 castles contained within the park make it an ideal family day out.
Gran Paradiso National Park - Photo: Alessandro Vecchi
Gran Paradiso National Park - Photo: Alessandro Vecchi
The Aosta Valley is sheltered by the soaring peaks of Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa which give it a milder, sunnier climate than the ski resorts on the other side of the Alps.
Mont Blanc from Aosta Valley - Photo: Ximonic
Mont Blanc from Aosta Valley - Photo: Ximonic
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
An agenda for the Toxic Release Inventory
I have no formal authority to propose these kinds of changes at all, and am not writing this under any organizational affiliation. They are simply my personal ideas. However, I've worked extensively on the Toxic Release Inventory outside EPA since 1990, and I consider myself to be an expert on it. There are a number of organizations which I plan to work with to propose these things formally, in the event that no one else does.
I'll try to provide a little bit of background, in the unlikely event that anyone reads this who doesn't know all about TRI already. If you want to find out basic information about the Toxic Release Inventory, you can go to EPA's Web page on it, but in short it's a database, legislatively mandated to be publicly accessible in electronic form, that requires most kinds of large, fixed polluters to report their releases and transfers of toxic chemicals, as well as the toxic chemicals in waste that they generate. Unlike EPA's hazardous waste databases, it also requires that these reports be of the amount of chemical, not the amount of chemical plus inert filler, and that the reports be in common units. Facilities have to report releases of chemicals to air, land, water, and underground. These characteristics make the database EPA's most useful one for general toxic pollution issues. TRI was the model for many similar databases in other countries; these databases are generally called PRTRs, Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers.
The Toxic Release Inventory has had notable expansions during its now decades-long span -- waste data was added by the Pollution Prevention Act in 1991, Federal facilities added in 1994, hundreds of chemicals added in 1995, new industries outside manufacturing had to report starting in 1998, and data on persistent bioaccumulative chemicals was expanded in 2000. And for the last eight years, that's where it has stood -- other than a disgraceful reduction in TRI data in 2006, when the "Form A" option for facilities to avoid reporting was expanded, despite widespread opposition from the public, lawmakers, and scientists. Suffice it to say that although EPA's civil service employees generally understand the value of TRI, the administration running the agency at that time was actively hostile.
So these ideas have been around, in some cases, for many years, but there was no point in proposing them until the administration changed. Now that it has, here they are:
1. Add chemicals that cause global anthropogenic climate change (global warming)
This would be primarily CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide -- the Montreal Protocol chemicals, which also contribute to global warming, are already in TRI. I'm not a lawyer, but I would think that this would be possible under current legal authority because chemicals can be added to TRI if they cause a sufficient adverse effect on the environment, which GHGs are now known to do. The statute does refer to the adverse effect as being due to toxicity, so this interpretation is not certain. But if new authority is needed, it's going to be gotten anyways -- the Obama administration plans to do something about global warming, and you can hardly do anything about it without tracking emissions.
I can understand that people who want to track GHGs may want a new database designed for that particular purpose. (Currently EPA and DOE have a patchwork of databases, none of which were really designed for that, and which are going to have to be replaced.) TRI has certain limitations as a database tracking GHGs; what, for example, would be done about transportation sources, like fleets of trucks? But it seems to me that these chemicals should be added to TRI in any case, even if another database is created to specifically track them, as a cross-check. The information would also then benefit from TRI's well-developed distribution paths and user base. And TRI would come closer to matching other countries' PRTRs, several of which added GHGs quite a few years ago.
2. Change range reporting and speciation reporting of highly toxic chemicals
Since the beginning of TRI, people have faced the problem that TRI most easily allows comparison of raw pounds of chemicals -- but some chemicals are much more toxic than others, and some releases affect more people than others. These problems are attacked by a (in my opinion) excellent program within EPA called RSEI. But whenever there is a data release using data from RSEI -- most recently, the USA Today report -- the same thing happens, a facility reports a release range of 11-499 pounds of a highly toxic chemical like chromium compounds or diisocyanates, and this rightly is converted by EPA into the midpoint of the range, 250 pounds. (I blogged about a case of this here). 250 pounds is generally a very large release, for these chemicals, and it makes facilities pop up as major polluters and wastes everyone's time as people have to track down what is really going on. Most often, it turns out that the facility either thinks that its releases are towards the bottom of the range, or they don't release the more dangerous form of a chemical with two or more forms -- hexavalent vs trivalent chromium, for instance.
EPA could help both the reporting facilities and the public by changing the reporting rules. First, for those highly toxic chemicals that have more than one common form, EPA could require that each form be reported separately. This is already done for Dioxin. Second, EPA could prevent release and transfer range reporting from being used for these chemicals, or at least warn people who report through the TRI-ME reporting software what they are about to do.
3. Fix the Form A.
I won't write about attempts to roll back Form A reporting to what it used to be; that's already being done by various people. But whether the expanded Form A is rolled back or not, EPA should change the way in which it treats already-reported Form A data. A Form A should be treated as a range report, in the same way as TRI release and transfer ranges are treated. If someone sends in a current Form A for a non-PBT chemical, they are reporting that they release not more than 2000 pounds of the chemical, and generate in waste not more than 5000 pounds. This is not zero pounds. In fact, it's a range: 0-2000 pounds for releases, and EPA should use its well-established procedure for handling release ranges and take the midpoint, converting this to a quantity within the database of 1000 pounds. This would preserve the TRI reporter's ability to not have to take the time to fill out the additional information required for a Form R, but it would also give the public a more accurate estimation, based on best available information, of what is going on. If a TRI reporter didn't want the public to assume that the best guess was 1000 pounds, they always have the option of choosing to fill out a Form R and reporting any number of pounds, including zero.
This procedure is currently used for TRI data provided by RTK NET (described here), so I know that it's both possible and easy to do. The release media (air, land, or water) can't be determined, but a general Form A pseudo-release-medium can be assigned. No change in how facilities report would be required in order to do this; it could be done simply as an internal change in how EPA handles the data.
4. Fix Pollution Prevention Act reporting.
Pollution Prevention Act data were added to TRI in 1991, and they've never been able to be done exactly right. The waste data are currently reported as amounts recycled on and off site, burned for energy recovery on and off site, treated (destroyed) on and off site, and released or disposed of on and off site in various ways. But all of these numbers were supposed to add up to a single number, the quantity of the chemical in waste generated by the facility. That's because reporting these numbers was supposed to encourage source reduction, the practice of changing processes to reduce the amount of waste generated. But the regulation was sabotaged by ideologues at the Office of Management and Budget, and EPA was prevented from defining what a waste was, or something similar. So it could only require that facilities report the components that add up to the overall waste number, without really referring to it in a coherent way.
I don't know whether any actual change in reporting is required for this to happen -- perhaps just better guidance from EPA? Re-opening the issue with a new OMB? Perhaps having facilities total up their Section 8 waste quantities and report the total would help them realize what it's supposed to be for.
5. Re-open cooperation with other countries' PRTRs
I'm not sure where this stands, organizationally, and it's not the kind of thing I'd know about directly. (Although I have worked for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation on putting together a Web site to display combined U.S., Canadian, and Mexican PRTR data.) But it seems to me that EPA could have more of a sense of where chemicals within TRI stand within an international comparison. Just about the entire First World has some sort of PRTR -- does EPA track transfers from one country to another using multiple PRTRs? Could they, perhaps, report on how U.S. emissions of particular chemicals compare to those of other countries? I'd guess that more is being done on this score than I know about, but anything that EPA can do to make this kind of data more truly global would be highly valuable.
(I should probably note that I once tried to put together a proposal to make a free, publicly accessible database-backed Web site that would allow people to search all the PRTRs at once. I couldn't find a funder for it -- most charitable foundations and NGOs that I deal with focus on the U.S. That was a few years back, and I don't know whether anyone is doing that now, but it would still be a good idea.)
That's probably enough for now. I invite anyone who wants to comment on this to feel free to.
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In addition to the GHG's, maybe EPA should also include the full set of the criteria pollutants in TRI. CO, SO2, NOx, Ozone, Particulate Matter are not now included. Would it be feasible to add all of them?
Maybe also include mobile corporate sources (airplanes, ships, trucks, rail, car fleets, buses). These would be especially important if the chemical list were expanded to include the criteria pollutants.
Paul Orum tried to post the comment below but it was rejected somehow, which is really too bad since I thought I had set this blog to accept any comments, even anonymous ones. But he Emailed it to me and so here it is:ReplyDelete
"I think you are correct about Section 8, Pollution Prevention Reporting, and the solution in my opinion is to total the different waste streams on the form. That will expose everyone to the material waste incentive of that firm to reduce pollution at the source - before it becomes pollution.
I would add: organize facility identification reporting across all environmental laws, such that facilities identify themselves, completely, only once. That will provide reporting efficiencies both within TRI and across all environmental laws.
And, take a hard look at section 7, waste treatment methods, to see if it can be made simpler."
Thanks for the comments, Michael and Paul. I've invited a few other people to comment, and couple more will probably come in eventually -- Catherine Miller mentioned that the criteria pollutants have indirect effects on global warming, so perhaps they should be included with the GHGs if for no other reason. My sense is that the reason they aren't in TRI is mostly historical; data on the criteria pollutants was one of the only kinds of regular quantity-based facility-specific national pollution reporting that I know of that existed before TRI did. Paul, there's an ongoing effect, going years back, to organize facility identification reporting under the Facility Registry System, FRS.ReplyDelete
I'm not really optimistic about EPA's ability to do this. They have to get into the data collections and get the data right when it's collected, as opposed to correcting the information later once the communication with facilities has already taken place and the data are already in various systems. The collect-and-correct approach goes back to FINDS, and there we're talking about, maybe, something that goes decades back. When EPA tried to set FRS up, as I remember, it got into an awful muddle between the states, EPA, OMB, and EPA's varying statutory authorities to collect data. So it's not something that I would be particularly interested in spending energy on.
However, I should note that EPA has hived off lat/long and RCRA ID data collection within TRI to FRS. I don't know whether anyone has looked at how successful this has been in getting actual lat/longs and RCRA IDs for all the TRI facilities. Something to look into.
I've heard back from someone else on this by phone, and I should emphasize that adding the GHGs to TRI should not pre-empt the creation of a special registry database for GHGs. A specialized database for GHGs might require all sorts of things that TRI doesn't handle: verification of release quantities, quarterly reporting, reporting of chemicals in products (i.e. gasoline) instead of in wastes, etc. It's just that TRI might be a valuable check on and / or additional public distribution path for these data. If a facility is measuring these numbers for a GHG registry, it shouldn't take much effort to them copy them into a TRI submission. And it's conceivable that reports on GHGs might appear within TRI that don't appear in the GHG registry, which would indicate that the criteria for reporting to the GHG registry might need to be expanded.ReplyDelete