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Police are typically involved in the aftermath of a vehicle collision, though for some, the involvement can last for years.
When it's a serious enough crash, members of the Maryland State Police Crash Team are usually on the scene.
The crash team, part of the state police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division, is a unit of eight members who are assigned to various barracks around the state.
In 2011, the crash team responded to 99 statewide incidents. Of those incidents, 61 were fatal crashes and 27 were personal injury crashes. Eleven of the incidents were not crash related.
In Carroll, the crash team responded to three fatal crashes and three personal injury crashes in 2011.
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11 Aralık 2012 Salı
Deck The Halls With Edible Holiday Gifts
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Last week the Cancer Support Community invited me to speak to a group of their members about edible holiday gifts. Not the kind you buy at kiosks that appear in the mall after Thanksgiving, but gifts you can make in your own kitchen. For those of you who are experts at canning and preserving, this is an easy assignment – add a pretty fabric cover or ribbon to top the jars of your delicious creations. For those of us who may be intimidated by all the boiling involved in making jams and jellies, there are a few other options.
One of the simplest gifts is an herbal infused vinegar (at the center in the photo). Start with a slender-necked bottle with an attached ceramic lever-stopper or a reusable cork. Rinse everything with boiling water and make sure none of the elements that touch the vinegar are made of metal. Select your herbs and rinse them thoroughly; set them to dry on a piece of paper towel and pick out any imperfect leaves.
Your choice of herbs can include rosemary, lavender, thyme, parsley, sage or tarragon. You can also add whole peppercorns or cloves, depending upon the flavor profile you’re creating. Avoid dried or ground herbs, as they’ll cloud the vinegar. Choose high quality vinegar with at least five percent acidity.
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Last week the Cancer Support Community invited me to speak to a group of their members about edible holiday gifts. Not the kind you buy at kiosks that appear in the mall after Thanksgiving, but gifts you can make in your own kitchen. For those of you who are experts at canning and preserving, this is an easy assignment – add a pretty fabric cover or ribbon to top the jars of your delicious creations. For those of us who may be intimidated by all the boiling involved in making jams and jellies, there are a few other options.One of the simplest gifts is an herbal infused vinegar (at the center in the photo). Start with a slender-necked bottle with an attached ceramic lever-stopper or a reusable cork. Rinse everything with boiling water and make sure none of the elements that touch the vinegar are made of metal. Select your herbs and rinse them thoroughly; set them to dry on a piece of paper towel and pick out any imperfect leaves.
Your choice of herbs can include rosemary, lavender, thyme, parsley, sage or tarragon. You can also add whole peppercorns or cloves, depending upon the flavor profile you’re creating. Avoid dried or ground herbs, as they’ll cloud the vinegar. Choose high quality vinegar with at least five percent acidity.
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Antonin Scalia Defends Legal Writings Some View As Offensive, Anti-Gay
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday found himself defending his legal writings that some find offensive and anti-gay.
Speaking at Princeton University, Scalia was asked by a gay student why he equates laws banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder.
"I don't think it's necessary, but I think it's effective," Scalia said, adding that legislative bodies can ban what they believe to be immoral.
Scalia has been giving speeches around the country to promote his new book, "Reading Law," and his lecture at Princeton comes just days after the court agreed to take on two cases that challenge the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday found himself defending his legal writings that some find offensive and anti-gay.Speaking at Princeton University, Scalia was asked by a gay student why he equates laws banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder.
"I don't think it's necessary, but I think it's effective," Scalia said, adding that legislative bodies can ban what they believe to be immoral.
Scalia has been giving speeches around the country to promote his new book, "Reading Law," and his lecture at Princeton comes just days after the court agreed to take on two cases that challenge the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
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CLAIM: SECRET CAMO CAN MAKE AMERICAN SOLDIERS TRULY INVISIBLE & THE PHOTOS WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
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The Pentagon is betting big on a real life invisibility cloak for American solders, according to recent reports.
Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp, a Canadian company known for its innovative camo technology, is attempting to revolutionize the battlefield by providing true invisibility for soldiers. The special material being used is know as Quantum Stealth. The pictures posted on the company’s website of the fabric, which apparently bends light to create the effect, look as though they are straight out of a Harry Potter movie:
There is no video yet of the technology in action since its development is considered highly secretive. However, Guy Cramer, CEO of Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp, told the Daily Mail that top military brass in the U.S. and Canada have seen it in action, and were amazed:
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The Pentagon is betting big on a real life invisibility cloak for American solders, according to recent reports.Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp, a Canadian company known for its innovative camo technology, is attempting to revolutionize the battlefield by providing true invisibility for soldiers. The special material being used is know as Quantum Stealth. The pictures posted on the company’s website of the fabric, which apparently bends light to create the effect, look as though they are straight out of a Harry Potter movie:
There is no video yet of the technology in action since its development is considered highly secretive. However, Guy Cramer, CEO of Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp, told the Daily Mail that top military brass in the U.S. and Canada have seen it in action, and were amazed:
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The Student Loan Debt Bomb
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Last week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported that student loan debt increased to $956 billion, more than auto loan debt or credit card debt. More worrisome, the student loan 90-day delinquency rate increased to 11% this past quarter and for the first time exceeds the "serious delinquency" rate for credit card debt.
Student loan debt is reaching bubble-bursting levels. By comparison, in October 2007, the start of the subprime mortgage crisis, 16% of subprime mortgages were 90 days delinquent, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. By January 2008 it accelerated to 21%. If the economy heads off the fast-approaching fiscal cliff and tax rates spike for lower- and middle-class Americans, it may accelerate student loan defaults to crisis levels. The big banks got their taxpayer bailout; taxpayers may soon be on the hook for another.
Even if the markets manage to avoid another debt crisis, the mountain of student loan debt is already taking its toll on a weak economy.
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Student loan debt is reaching bubble-bursting levels. By comparison, in October 2007, the start of the subprime mortgage crisis, 16% of subprime mortgages were 90 days delinquent, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. By January 2008 it accelerated to 21%. If the economy heads off the fast-approaching fiscal cliff and tax rates spike for lower- and middle-class Americans, it may accelerate student loan defaults to crisis levels. The big banks got their taxpayer bailout; taxpayers may soon be on the hook for another.
Even if the markets manage to avoid another debt crisis, the mountain of student loan debt is already taking its toll on a weak economy.
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8 Aralık 2012 Cumartesi
Delayed Due To Alcohol
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AFD ambulance. The quicker the response, the better
If you -- my Amherst neighbor -- or a loved one required immediate aid last weekend in the form of highly-trained first responders riding aboard a well-equipped Amherst Fire Department ambulance, you quite possibly would have had to wait, upwards of double or triple the normal response time, for a "mutual aid" ambulance to arrive from a surrounding community.
No, it was not a mass casualty plane crash or train wreck that caused all of our ambulances to be engaged. It was drunk college aged youth -- eight of them at UMass, four at Amherst College (all women), and another four off campus.
And yes, one ETOH UMass female also had to be treated for "trauma" from a fall, only two weeks after another UMass female student died from head trauma after a late-night, after-party fall.
This is unacceptable ... embarrassing ... and downright scary.
AFD 1st Weekend December
What a difference a week makes! When our three institutes of higher education were closed for Thanksgiving break.
AFD Thanksgiving Weekend
AFD ambulance. The quicker the response, the better If you -- my Amherst neighbor -- or a loved one required immediate aid last weekend in the form of highly-trained first responders riding aboard a well-equipped Amherst Fire Department ambulance, you quite possibly would have had to wait, upwards of double or triple the normal response time, for a "mutual aid" ambulance to arrive from a surrounding community.
No, it was not a mass casualty plane crash or train wreck that caused all of our ambulances to be engaged. It was drunk college aged youth -- eight of them at UMass, four at Amherst College (all women), and another four off campus.
And yes, one ETOH UMass female also had to be treated for "trauma" from a fall, only two weeks after another UMass female student died from head trauma after a late-night, after-party fall.
This is unacceptable ... embarrassing ... and downright scary.
AFD 1st Weekend December
What a difference a week makes! When our three institutes of higher education were closed for Thanksgiving break.
AFD Thanksgiving Weekend
By Any Other Name
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Amherst Bulletin: above the fold, front page headline
Journalism and justice share a common goal: both seek "to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." And oftentimes it's not pretty. Or as jaded cops would say, "It is what it is."
Today's weekly Amherst Bulletin is an embarrassment to anyone who holds high that sacred tenet of journalism still taught in J-schools (I know because I was just in a classroom two days ago) to seek the truth and report it.
On Friday November 29, the Daily Hampshire Gazette belatedly reported the November 19th death of 19-year-old UMass student Sydne Jacoby from injuries sustained in a fall on Fearing Street the late night of November 16, after becoming sick from, according to a best friend's Facebook post, "a high level of intoxication." The next day that Gazette story is sent out over the Associated Press national wire.
Well they sort of reported it, leaving out her name -- the very first W in the oldest journalism formula in the sacred reporter's notebook: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How.
And now that I'm thinking about it, they also obscured the "How".
On Thursday November 28 -- a day before the Gazette story -- the LI Herald published a prominent article about the sad untimely death of Ms Jacoby, publishing her full name, but leaving out the detail about alcohol.
On December 2 my story is published, and the following day the Massachusetts Daily Collegian follows up with a banner front page headline containing her name, and briefly mentioning the alcohol connection -- but only using the attribution of AFD Chief Tim Nelson from the Gazette article (where he had been specifically assured the young woman's name would not appear).
But today's Amherst Bulletin story, buried on page 5, is unchanged from last week's original Gazette article. And the reason for leaving out her name is still the same excuse that UMass spokesperson Ed Blaguszewski refused to release her name. Even though her name had appeared in a variety of published sources.
The front page, impossible-to-miss lead Bulletin story is, however, a direct byproduct of the this exceedingly sad episode: "More College Women Treated For Drunkenness." Amazingly they fail to connect the dots to this most blatant deadly example from just two weeks ago.
Yes, the family did not want her name released -- but then, no family ever wants anything remotely negative to be associated with a deceased loved one. If we start allowing a family to edit a story then we are no longer reporters, we are PR flacks.
Ten years ago a horrific fire at the Station Nightclub in Rhode Island claimed 100 lives, the 4th worst fire catastrophe in our nation's history. What if every relative told the media not to release the name of their loved one, or the fact they died in a bar?
What if we had 100 different media outlets simply reporting one local person died recently, but left out their name and the fact they died alongside 99 other people in a bar with substandard safety protocols?
As a direct result of that devastating fire (and the resulting avalanche of news publicity), Massachusetts passed safety legislation requiring sprinklers and "crowd managers" in bars with a capacity of 100 or more.
By shining a bright light on unsafe conditions -- especially ones that have led to a tragic outcome -- public officials are far more likely to actually do something about it.
We need to get a handle on the abuse of alcohol in our quaint little college town. Now!
Amherst Bulletin: above the fold, front page headlineJournalism and justice share a common goal: both seek "to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." And oftentimes it's not pretty. Or as jaded cops would say, "It is what it is."
Today's weekly Amherst Bulletin is an embarrassment to anyone who holds high that sacred tenet of journalism still taught in J-schools (I know because I was just in a classroom two days ago) to seek the truth and report it.
On Friday November 29, the Daily Hampshire Gazette belatedly reported the November 19th death of 19-year-old UMass student Sydne Jacoby from injuries sustained in a fall on Fearing Street the late night of November 16, after becoming sick from, according to a best friend's Facebook post, "a high level of intoxication." The next day that Gazette story is sent out over the Associated Press national wire.
Well they sort of reported it, leaving out her name -- the very first W in the oldest journalism formula in the sacred reporter's notebook: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How.
And now that I'm thinking about it, they also obscured the "How".
On Thursday November 28 -- a day before the Gazette story -- the LI Herald published a prominent article about the sad untimely death of Ms Jacoby, publishing her full name, but leaving out the detail about alcohol.
On December 2 my story is published, and the following day the Massachusetts Daily Collegian follows up with a banner front page headline containing her name, and briefly mentioning the alcohol connection -- but only using the attribution of AFD Chief Tim Nelson from the Gazette article (where he had been specifically assured the young woman's name would not appear).
But today's Amherst Bulletin story, buried on page 5, is unchanged from last week's original Gazette article. And the reason for leaving out her name is still the same excuse that UMass spokesperson Ed Blaguszewski refused to release her name. Even though her name had appeared in a variety of published sources.
The front page, impossible-to-miss lead Bulletin story is, however, a direct byproduct of the this exceedingly sad episode: "More College Women Treated For Drunkenness." Amazingly they fail to connect the dots to this most blatant deadly example from just two weeks ago.
Yes, the family did not want her name released -- but then, no family ever wants anything remotely negative to be associated with a deceased loved one. If we start allowing a family to edit a story then we are no longer reporters, we are PR flacks.
Ten years ago a horrific fire at the Station Nightclub in Rhode Island claimed 100 lives, the 4th worst fire catastrophe in our nation's history. What if every relative told the media not to release the name of their loved one, or the fact they died in a bar?
What if we had 100 different media outlets simply reporting one local person died recently, but left out their name and the fact they died alongside 99 other people in a bar with substandard safety protocols?
As a direct result of that devastating fire (and the resulting avalanche of news publicity), Massachusetts passed safety legislation requiring sprinklers and "crowd managers" in bars with a capacity of 100 or more.
By shining a bright light on unsafe conditions -- especially ones that have led to a tragic outcome -- public officials are far more likely to actually do something about it.
We need to get a handle on the abuse of alcohol in our quaint little college town. Now!
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