(PIKESVILLE, MD) – As part of a continuing commitment to support and gain a better understanding of people with intellectual disabilities, the Maryland State Police and Special Olympics Maryland are launching a program that provides the opportunity for lives to be enriched while spending time out on patrol.
“Champions On Patrol” is a program partnership between the Maryland State Police and Special Olympics Maryland that provides interested children and adults with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to spend time with members of the Maryland State Police in an effort to enrich the lives of both the athletes and police employees. The Maryland State Police Champions on Patrol program is an outreach effort aimed at promoting greater understanding for Department employees about children and adults with intellectual disabilities while offering an opportunity for those individuals to meet and spend time with state troopers and civilian employees.
“Providing an opportunity for our troopers to spend time with people with intellectual disabilities, many of whom are interested in police work, will enhance our understanding and deepen the ties between law enforcement and this vulnerable population,” Maryland State Police Superintendent Colonel Marcus L. Brown said. “Law enforcement in Maryland has a long and proud history of supporting the great work of Special Olympics and caring about the children and adults who participate in the year-round sports training and competition it provides. The Champions On Patrol program is a simple, but very powerful way for us to continue to serve this important group of
Maryland’s citizens.”
“Special Olympics Maryland is proud to partner with the Maryland State Police in the Champions On Patrol program,” Special Olympics President and CEO Jim Schmutz said. “At competitions, our athletes love being recognized as champions, in part because they are excited that medals and ribbons are presented to them by one of the thousands of Maryland police officers who faithfully support Special Olympics. It is hard to describe the amazing relationships formed between our athletes and the dedicated men and women from Maryland law enforcement and corrections who cheer them on at athletic competitions. In addition to this direct hands-on involvement with athletes, the law enforcement community works tirelessly across the state to raise money that supports year-round sports training and competition in 24 sports for 6,973 athletes.”
“Our athletes truly are champions, as are Maryland’s law enforcement and corrections officers,” Schmutz continued. “The Champions On Patrol program will only help to grow these relationships and make Maryland better by building inclusive communities of dignity and respect.”
The Champions On Patrol program will give an interested child or adult with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to tour a Maryland State Police barrack and go out on ‘patrol’ with a state trooper. Special Olympics Maryland has coordinators in each county. Any athlete or athlete parent/guardian interested in a visit and/or a ride-along, can contact their county coordinator. The coordinator will forward the request directly to the office of Lt. Colonel Jerry Jones, Commander of the Field Operations Bureau. The request will then be assigned to the barrack commander in the county from which the request was received and arrangements will be made for the visit.
A parent or guardian will be able to accompany the athlete on the barrack tour and even on patrol, if necessary, for the comfort and confidence of the athlete. Troopers will take precautions not to deliberately place the athlete in dangerous or unsettling situations.
The Maryland State Police is proud to help organize the Maryland State Police Polar Bear Plunge and the Maryland State Police/Natural Resources Police Deep Creek Dunk each year in cooperation with allied law enforcement, business partners, and Special Olympics Maryland. The Maryland State Police is part of the Maryland Law Enforcement Torch Run, a partnership of local, state, and federal law enforcement and corrections agencies whose officers work together throughout the year to organize events that raise money to support the programs of Special Olympics that are provided free-of-charge. For more information on Special Olympics Maryland or the Maryland Law Enforcement Torch Run, visit www.somd.org.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2014
91 % OF SEAFOOD--NOT FROM U.S. !
Eat fish in the last few days? Unless you fished it yourself, chances are it wasn’t from the United States. Today, 91 percent of the seafood that we eat comes from abroad, according to Paul Greenberg, author of American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood.
You could assume that maybe this has to do with demand, that the supply of local seafood isn’t enough. And yet, surprisingly enough, one-third of the seafood that Americans catch gets sold to other countries. What gives?
Greenberg calls this the “fish swap.”
“What we’re doing is we’re sending the really great, wild stuff that we harvest here on our shores abroad, and in exchange, we’re importing farm stuff that, frankly, is of an increasingly dubious nature,” Greenberg told Terry Gross in an NPR interview. “We export millions of tons of wild, mostly Alaska salmon abroad and import mostly farmed salmon from abroad. So salmon for salmon, we’re trading wild for farmed.”
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You could assume that maybe this has to do with demand, that the supply of local seafood isn’t enough. And yet, surprisingly enough, one-third of the seafood that Americans catch gets sold to other countries. What gives?
Greenberg calls this the “fish swap.”
“What we’re doing is we’re sending the really great, wild stuff that we harvest here on our shores abroad, and in exchange, we’re importing farm stuff that, frankly, is of an increasingly dubious nature,” Greenberg told Terry Gross in an NPR interview. “We export millions of tons of wild, mostly Alaska salmon abroad and import mostly farmed salmon from abroad. So salmon for salmon, we’re trading wild for farmed.”
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Tuesday, July 08, 2014
‘Hot Mugshot Guy’ Jeremy Meeks Got Some Bad News In Court Today.
Meeks, who was arrested last month during a gang sweep in Stockton, Calif., faced multiple felony weapons charges. But during a brief court appearance in Stockton on Tuesday, the state agreed to turn the case — and Meeks — over to federal prosecutors, according to Sacramento’s KXTV. He is now in federal custody, the station reported, facing a single charge: “Felon in possession of a firearm.”
That one charge could lead to a prison term of 10 years and a fine of $250,000. San Joaquin County District Attorney spokesman Robert Himelblau said federal gun charges lead to longer prison sentences.
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Blogger Hired to Defend Redskins’ Name Quits After Two Weeks
Instead, Tribbet ended up defending himself, and last night tweeted his resignation after deciding that too much of the debate over the team’s name had focused on him. (Tribbett is also an occasional contributor to Washingtonian.)
“I don’t want to be a distraction to the team as the political attacks have shifted towards being personal towards me,” he wrote. “So I’m going to send in my resignation to the Redskins. Hopefully that allows debate to move back to where it should be.”
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Here's How One Iraq Vet Dealt With Suicidal Thoughts And Turned His Life Around
Two years ago, I found myself in the bedroom of my apartment staring down the barrel of a shotgun. I was angry, depressed and just didn’t care about anything anymore.
It’s not that I didn’t want to care; I did, but was just unable to do it. My soul was crushed and my heart had been broken time after time during intense fighting in Iraq and the continuous loss of friends at home after.
In Iraq, I found it easier to give up than to care. But the problem was that once I stopped caring, I couldn’t turn the switch back on. It was like dropping a glass plate on the ground and then trying to put the pieces back together.
That evening, I didn’t pull the trigger. Obviously. This meant that I had proven that deep down I really did care and now I had only one option: to stop digging, throw down the shovel, and climb out of the hole I had nearly buried myself in. I started seeing VA counselors, going to groups, and taking prescription medication.
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It’s not that I didn’t want to care; I did, but was just unable to do it. My soul was crushed and my heart had been broken time after time during intense fighting in Iraq and the continuous loss of friends at home after.
In Iraq, I found it easier to give up than to care. But the problem was that once I stopped caring, I couldn’t turn the switch back on. It was like dropping a glass plate on the ground and then trying to put the pieces back together.
That evening, I didn’t pull the trigger. Obviously. This meant that I had proven that deep down I really did care and now I had only one option: to stop digging, throw down the shovel, and climb out of the hole I had nearly buried myself in. I started seeing VA counselors, going to groups, and taking prescription medication.
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This Is What Happened When I Drove My Mercedes To Pick Up Food Stamps
Even then, I couldn’t quite believe it. This wasn’t supposed to happen to people like me.
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I grew up in a white, affluent suburb, where failure seemed harder than success. In college, I studied biology and journalism. I worked for good money at a local hospital, which afforded me the opportunity to network at journalism conferences. That’s how I landed my first news job as an associate producer in Hartford, Conn. I climbed the ladder quickly, free to work any hours in any location for any pay. I moved from market to market, always achieving a better title, a better salary. Succeeding.
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Susan Sarandon: 'Who do I despise? The Bush regime'
I would have been about four years old and I was at home in Jackson Heights, New York, sitting on the steps, staring at the wall above the staircase and imagining I was seeing films.
What sort of a child were you?
I spoke very early and was very precocious in the way that little girls are when they’re the first child. I can remember my dad would make kites out of brown paper and we would fly them in the park across from our apartment building. One day the kite smashed and my father said my little chin was quivering, but I turned and said to him, ‘Don’t worry Daddy, it will be all right.’ I think that says a lot. You should be bursting into tears, not telling your father it will be all right.
What is the worst thing anyone has ever said to you?
In the lead up to the Iraq War someone called me an ‘American hating ****.’ I was with my son and it was in the middle of the day. I wasn’t even participating in anything political at the time – at least then you can expect things like that. It really caught me unawares.
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I spoke very early and was very precocious in the way that little girls are when they’re the first child. I can remember my dad would make kites out of brown paper and we would fly them in the park across from our apartment building. One day the kite smashed and my father said my little chin was quivering, but I turned and said to him, ‘Don’t worry Daddy, it will be all right.’ I think that says a lot. You should be bursting into tears, not telling your father it will be all right.
What is the worst thing anyone has ever said to you?
In the lead up to the Iraq War someone called me an ‘American hating ****.’ I was with my son and it was in the middle of the day. I wasn’t even participating in anything political at the time – at least then you can expect things like that. It really caught me unawares.
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A Viewer Writes: Bankrupcy Filing On Waller Landing
I read with interest your story on Waller Landing in 2009
http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-explains-lot-about-hebrons-waller.html
I thought you might be interested in the entities' bankruptcy filing last week
Editors Note: This is a long post please click the READ MORE below to see the entire file.
http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-explains-lot-about-hebrons-waller.html
I thought you might be interested in the entities' bankruptcy filing last week
Editors Note: This is a long post please click the READ MORE below to see the entire file.
Am I Completely Screwed If My Student Loan Co-Signer Dies?
Imagine this scenario: You’ve been out of college for several years, have a good job and you have no problems making your student loan payments in full and on time. Then tragedy hits; your parent dies or declares bankruptcy. If this loved one was a co-signer on your student loan, this change can trigger an often-overlooked clause that allows the lender to claim you are in default on your loan, potentially wreaking longterm havoc on your credit and finances.
With tuition rates outpacing inflation, a growing number of students have had to turn to student loans. Borrowers also increasingly took out private loans to make up difference that federal loans won’t cover. In order to obtain these loans or to minimize the interest rates, many private loans are co-signed by parents or other family members.
According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose April 2014 report listed auto-defaults as a significant source of complaints from borrowers, nearly 90% of private student loans were co-signed in 2011.
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With tuition rates outpacing inflation, a growing number of students have had to turn to student loans. Borrowers also increasingly took out private loans to make up difference that federal loans won’t cover. In order to obtain these loans or to minimize the interest rates, many private loans are co-signed by parents or other family members.
According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose April 2014 report listed auto-defaults as a significant source of complaints from borrowers, nearly 90% of private student loans were co-signed in 2011.
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Democrats Prepare to Defend Obamacare Rate Hikes
This fall, most states are expected to announce increases in 2015 health insurance premiums, and Democrats, aware of their vulnerabilities on Obamacare, are embarking on a damage control campaign to limit any potential fallout at the polls in November.
According to Politico, the White House's internal healthcare operation is gearing up to pre-empt GOP attacks on the issue, using a rapid response operation and a coordinated effort with the Democratic congressional leadership to provide localized analysis, data, and talking points to each state's delegation.
"One of the lessons we've learned in implementing healthcare is to stay on it," Tara McGuinness, the White House senior communications adviser who has been spearheading the effort for the West Wing, told Politico. "We are not going to let anyone distort the debate."
Roughly six aides are dedicated to the effort with the help of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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According to Politico, the White House's internal healthcare operation is gearing up to pre-empt GOP attacks on the issue, using a rapid response operation and a coordinated effort with the Democratic congressional leadership to provide localized analysis, data, and talking points to each state's delegation.
"One of the lessons we've learned in implementing healthcare is to stay on it," Tara McGuinness, the White House senior communications adviser who has been spearheading the effort for the West Wing, told Politico. "We are not going to let anyone distort the debate."
Roughly six aides are dedicated to the effort with the help of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Captain Robert S. Craig Annual Boardwalk Swim & Ginny Craig Quarter Mile Boardwalk Swim
The Ocean City Beach Patrol will host the annual Boardwalk swim to honor Captain Robert Craig on July 12, 2014 at 6 p.m. on 14th Street and the Boardwalk. Competitors will swim a measured mile with the prevailing current to a finish line located at 14th Street and the beach. In addition to the annual one mile Boardwalk swim, the Ginny Craig quarter mile swim will take competitors on a 400m distance along the coast and also finish in the area of 14th Street and the beach.
Participants will compete under the watchful eye of surf rescue technicians deployed in the water, on the beach and in rescue boats. “This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in open-water swimming,” said Ocean City Beach Patrol Captain Butch Arbin. “The Ginny Craig quarter mile swim is a good training distance to work up to the Captain Craig mile swim. What is really special is the one mile swim can also qualify participants for the first annual “Swim Ocean City” event, which is a three mile event, in addition to a nine mile race.”
Police Investigate Seaford crash
The incident occurred at approximately 1:55 p.m. July 8 as Anna M. Collick, 50, of Laurel, was operating a 2004 Pontiac Grand Am northbound on Route 13 in the right lane approaching Sussex 20. A 2007 Dodge 2500 Sprinter van was stopped for a red light behind a 2013 Dodge Ram pickup truck in the right lane of US13 northbound when for unknown reasons, the Pontiac failed to stop in time and struck the rear of the Sprinter van, forcing the car to under-ride the van and push it into the rear of the pickup truck.
Anna Collick and her two passengers, one adult and one teenager, were all properly restrained and transported to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital where they are being treated for non-lifethreatening injuries. Anna Collick was cited for inattentive driving, driving while suspended and revoked, no proof of insurance, and no registration in possession.
Michael J. Wilson, 34, of Elmer, N.J., was operating the Sprinter van and was uninjured in the collision.
Louis P. Vogler 3rd, 45, of Lebanon, N.H., was operating the Dodge Ram pickup and was uninjured in the crash.
The crash impacted already jammed traffic due to a gas leak in Seaford and was cleared within two hours.
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She won't give up fight against teachers unions
MADISON, Wis. — Kristi Lacroix still is the unofficial voice of Wisconsin educators fed up with Wisconsin’s once all-controlling teachers union.
Lacroix, as a teacher at Kenosha’s Lakeview Technology Academy, was one of the relatively few educators who stood up for Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial public-sector collective bargaining reforms known as Act 10. Her support cost her during the height of big labor’s unprecedented but failed campaign to recall Walker in 2012.
Her job was threatened through an online movement billed as “Fire Kristi” in which some of her sharpest attackers pledged to ruin her career, her reputation, her life.
Lacroix has survived the slings and arrows of Act 10 opponents. She left the classroom last year to take a position as membership director for the Wisconsin branch of the Association of American Educators, which provides liability insurance and professional resources for educators, without collective bargaining and without political lobbying.
She’s traveling the state these days, working on grants and scholarships and letting teachers know that “there are alternatives and options as far as professional associations.”
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Lacroix, as a teacher at Kenosha’s Lakeview Technology Academy, was one of the relatively few educators who stood up for Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial public-sector collective bargaining reforms known as Act 10. Her support cost her during the height of big labor’s unprecedented but failed campaign to recall Walker in 2012.
Her job was threatened through an online movement billed as “Fire Kristi” in which some of her sharpest attackers pledged to ruin her career, her reputation, her life.
Lacroix has survived the slings and arrows of Act 10 opponents. She left the classroom last year to take a position as membership director for the Wisconsin branch of the Association of American Educators, which provides liability insurance and professional resources for educators, without collective bargaining and without political lobbying.
She’s traveling the state these days, working on grants and scholarships and letting teachers know that “there are alternatives and options as far as professional associations.”
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HANNITY HOSTS EPIC BATTLE OVER ISLAM
Jamie Glazov of FrontPage Magazine, author of “United in Hate” and “Showdown with Evil,” is tired of being called “racist” or an “Islamophobe” for speaking out against the danger Islam poses to both Westerners and Muslims alike.
As WND reported, Glazov appeared last month in a panel discussion on Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel program, in which fellow panel member Tamara Holder blasted Glazov as “a disgusting person” for claiming those who deny Islam’s role in jihad are complicit in perpetuating jihadist terror.
That kind of attack – labeling the champion of victims as the perpetrator instead – is exactly how the left operates, Glazov now explains.
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Troopers Investigate Crash on Sussex Highway in Seaford
The incident occurred at approximately 1:55 p.m. today as Anna M. Collick, 50 of Laurel, was operating a 2004 Pontiac Grand AM northbound on Sussex Highway (US13) in the right lane approaching Concord Road (SR20). A 2007 Dodge 2500 Sprinter van was stopped for a red light behind a 2013 Dodge Ram pickup truck in the right lane of US13 northbound when for unknown reasons, the Pontiac failed to stop in time and struck the rear of the Sprinter van forcing the car to under ride the van and push it into the rear of the pickup truck.
Anna Collick and her two passengers, one adult and one teenager, were all properly restrained and transported to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital where they are being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Anna Collick was cited for Inattentive Driving, Driving While Suspended and Revoked, No Proof of Insurance, and No Registration in Possession.
Michael J. Wilson, 34 of Elmer, NJ, was operating the Sprinter van and was uninjured in the collision.
Louis P. Vogler 3rd, 45 of Lebanon, NH, was operating the Dodge Ram pickup and was uninjured in the crash.
The crash impacted already jammed traffic due to a gas leak in Seaford and was cleared within two hours.
City Of Chicago Ordered To Pay NRA’s Legal Fees – Again
This is the second time that the City of Chicago has been ordered to reimburse legal fees in a suit sponsored by the NRA. The first was following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago in which Chicago was ordered to reimburse the NRA more than $600,000.
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White House, DHS Ambiguous About Whether Illegal Immigrant Kids Will Be Deported
Days after the White House refused to give a definitive answer about whether most of the illegal immigrant children flooding across the U.S.-Mexico would be deported, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson also punted multiple times when asked on Sunday.
On Meet the Press, when host David Gregory asked Johnson if the illegal immigrants arriving from Central America will be sent back, Johnson responded with formulaic talking points.
"The law requires that, when DHS identifies somebody as a child, as an unaccompanied child, we turn them over to the Department of Health and Human Services," he said. "But there is a deportation proceeding that is commenced against the child. Now, that proceeding can take some time. And so we're looking at options, added flexibility, to deal with the children in particular, but in a humanitarian and fair way."
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On Meet the Press, when host David Gregory asked Johnson if the illegal immigrants arriving from Central America will be sent back, Johnson responded with formulaic talking points.
"The law requires that, when DHS identifies somebody as a child, as an unaccompanied child, we turn them over to the Department of Health and Human Services," he said. "But there is a deportation proceeding that is commenced against the child. Now, that proceeding can take some time. And so we're looking at options, added flexibility, to deal with the children in particular, but in a humanitarian and fair way."
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New Machine Is Like Keurig For Craft Beer
A soon-to-be-released dispenser will enable craft beer lovers to conveniently store and serve a wide variety of beer at home, right from the brewery, fresh on tap.
The Synek draft system calls itself "the world's first portable tap house," chilling and serving craft beer in a glass, and eliminating a major problem facing microbreweries and home brewers -- storage.
"It's not easy for craft brewers to get the beer into your home at the best quality," says Steve Young, founder of Synek.
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Dramatic moment two planes almost collide on runway caught on video
The footage reveals the near-miss between a Boeing 767 from Russian airline Utair and an Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340 at El Prat Airport in Spain.
It shows the Boeing coming in to land on the runway, making its final approach, as the Airbus, getting ready for a flight to Buenos Aires, taxis across its path.
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