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Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the fame-hungry wannabes at the center of the aforementioned scandal, come across as so phony they wouldn't be remotely interesting without that lure. Indeed, the only real heat surrounding them in the first hour involves another central player, Lynda Erkiletian, questioning whether Michaele is too thin — implying an eating disorder — while sniffing at the couple for being poseurs in the rarefied air of D.C.'s shakers and movers.
Despite a previous association among some participants, this group feels more thrown together for the purposes of concocting drama than previous "Housewives." When they assemble for an evening with a prestigious chef, for example, haughty Brit Catherine Ommanney uncomfortably triggers a political discussion by lauding George W. Bush (gasp) for being more of a gentleman than Barack Obama, who didn't bother to RSVP for her wedding. The exchange dutifully horrifies the one African-American housewife, Stacie Turner.
Ostensibly, the pomp and glamor of politics would lend itself to the show's formula. But Bravo's decision to proceed with this edition after months of being coy about the Salahis' participation has created an inadvertent distraction: The White House incident won't be presented until near the season's end, making the entire run a form of extended foreplay prior to that payoff. And the couple has already implied in interviews on NBC's "Today" (more synergy, there) that the producers knew what was happening, suggesting possible complicity in whatever transpired.
The truth is, viewers who flock to these shows tend to be quite forgiving about their unreality, willing to accept the "characters" as depicted. But by crossing into the political realm in such an ostentatious way, Bravo has invited the kind of unflattering scrutiny such programs seldom receive from a jaded entertainment press.
Granted, all that might very well lead to boffo ratings in the short run. In the bigger picture, however, any aspirations to inside-the-Beltway cred have evaporated, making the network look as silly as the Salahis.
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Beltran aims to follow in idol Clemente's footsteps
Star outfielder building legacy with baseball academy in native Puerto Rico
KANSAS CITY -- Carlos Beltran began his prolific career with the Royals, and now, nearly 16 years later, he continues to be a productive presence for the Cardinals.
In between was a long stay with the Mets, bookended by brief stints with the Astros and Giants. There have been 2,131 hits, 348 home runs, playoff moments, All-Star berths, Gold Gloves, Silver Sluggers, big contracts and, most important to Beltran, his wife, Jessica, and their daughters, Ivana and Kiara.
Through it all, however, two recent off-the-field developments have had exceptional meaning for Beltran. He's been nominated for the Roberto Clemente Award, and he's witnessing the first graduating class of the Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy in his native Puerto Rico.
Clemente, the Hall of Famer from the Pittsburgh Pirates, was a hero in Puerto Rico. Beltran was born more than four years after Clemente perished in a plane crash on a humanitarian mission, delivering relief supplies to earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua on Dec. 31, 1972.
"I talked to Jessica's grandmother," Beltran said. She was in Puerto Rico that day, and she said it was a sad, sad day for Puerto Rico, because people really looked up to Roberto."
Beltran has idolized Clemente.
"Roberto was a player that, as a kid, I grew up hearing about the things he did on the field and off the field," he said. "I never got a chance to watch him play personally, but there are a lot of memories of him in videos. And when I get the chance to see those, it really amazes me how great a player he was. At the same time, he was a great humanitarian.
"In Puerto Rico, he's still a big influence on things that we do."
That's a major reason that Beltran has tried to follow in Clemente's humanitarian footsteps throughout his career. After seven years of planning, he took a giant stride with the formation of the Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy in the ecologically-friendly town of Florida, Puerto Rico. It's a high school for 10th, 11th and 12th grades.
"We specialize in baseball, we do tryouts and select the kids that we think we can help develop their tools and their talent," Beltran said. "We provide materials and everything they need to help them get to where they want to be."
The kids, of course, also have an extensive academics program, with all classes bilingual, Spanish and English.
"The reason I did it that way is because when I signed as a professional ballplayer, I didn't know how to speak English," Beltran said, "so it really took me time and it was hard for me to get used to being in the United States -- a different culture, a different place. It really took me time, so I want my kids to be more prepared."
Beltran donated $4 million to build the school and its facilities on an 18-acre site. When the school opened in August 2011, there were 60 students. Now it's up to 145. Transportation is provided, and they come from all over the island, some living an hour and a half away.
"They're really making a big sacrifice, but that's what life is all about -- making sacrifices," Beltran said. "When you work hard and make sacrifices, God will open doors."
The academy's success was reflected in last week's First-Year Player Draft. Two of its players were selected -- shortstop Jan Hernandez by the Phillies in the third round and outfielder Joseph Monge by the Red Sox in the 17th round.
All of the young men, obviously, are good athletes and drawn by the prospect of becoming a Major League player.
"They come with that idea," Beltran said. "They all come there thinking they are going to be professional baseball players. But when we explain the whole thing, they understand that they've really got to focus on academics. Our dream is to become an MLB player, but not all of us are going to be able to get there. However, all of us, by playing this sport, have the opportunity to achieve something else."
The kids are required to have a certain grade point average and must raise it as they continue in school. The goal is to propel them toward productive and successful careers in other fields if their baseball dreams are not fulfilled.
Vera Clemente, Roberto's wife, has visited the academy.
"She talked to the kids about Roberto, and it was great, because you don't hear the stories every day," Beltran said. "So it was a great moment for me and for the kids in the school."
The aim is to further the kids' future, both athletically and academically, by getting them college scholarships.
A huge moment for Beltran has arrived. The first graduation was scheduled to be held on Monday, an off-day for the Cardinals, and he and Jessica planned to attend.
"I'm going to fly to Puerto Rico so I can be there," Beltran said last week. "This has been a dream come true for me, and about 40 kids are going to graduate, and all 44 of them are already committed to come to colleges in the United States. So we're impacting kids in the right way, and I love that."
Beltran later tweeted a picture of himself from graduation, adding the text: "At the graduation of my students. The sacrifice was worth it."
At the graduation of my students. the sacrifice was worth it. twitter.com/carlosbeltran1…- Carlos Beltran (@carlosbeltran15) June 10, 2013
Beltran holds fundraising events to augment his support of the academy with participation by many stars, including Mariano Rivera, David Ortiz, Jose Reyes, Pedro Martinez and singer Marc Anthony. The academy, a nonprofit organization, accepts donations. For information, visit carlosbeltranacademy.org.
"Knowing I'm going to impact kids for a long time -- that's what it's all about," Beltran said. "It's about legacy, it's about leaving something behind that you've worked hard for. When I'm retired from baseball, I can say I played the game, I did the best I could do to have a good career. I was successful and I was able to do something good with the money I earned, with the sacrifices that I made, to impact kids that had the same background I had when I was growing up. So, for me, I'll be a happy man."

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The availability of one of the Mountain West Conference remains up in the air. although his status is decidedly less pessimistic than it was a week ago at this time.
Speaking to a group of fans at a luncheon Monday, Nevada head coach Brian Polian sounded somewhat optimistic that Cody Fajardo would be healthy enough to play Saturday in the conference opener against Hawaii. Fajardo suffered a sprained right knee in a Week 2 win over Cal-Davis and did not play in the 55-point loss to Florida State this past weekend.
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Well, folks, it's been three weeks since we moved into this house and one month since I quit my day job. Here's the progress, to date:
- Kitchen fully unpacked. Still some organizing to do.
- Living room unpacked. We plan on purchasing a rug and selling our current coffee table/end table combo; for now, though, they are doing just fine holding up coffee and lamps.
- Dining room mostly unpacked. I've been ignoring the two upright laundry hampers that hold all the odds and ends we took out of the old house in a panic at the last hour. I should probably unpack those. Oh, and Daniel would probably appreciate me moving the broken down boxes and packing paper in a trash bag out of there. Probably.
- Bedroom has two boxes left to unpack and a ton of clothing to figure out where to put it. Maybe I'll just take it all to Goodwill. Oh, and I am storing ALL of our wall art in the bedroom, propped against walls. Again, Daniel would probably appreciate me moving that. Somewhere.
- Office is 3/4 painted. We just have the IdeaPaint and green accents to add. Currently, it is a little crowded with all the vintage things I'm taking pictures of for my new little Etsy shop. Oh, you didn't know I had a new little Etsy shop? Why, take a gander by clicking on this link or the one on the top of the lefthand sidebar. Please and thank you. Otherwise, and this will sound like a broken record, Daniel would probably appreciate if I put all those lovely vintagey things back in their storage space.
- Second bedroom (oh, how I love having a three bedroom home now!) is sort of our storage facility for the time being. It is mostly inhabited by stacks of books on the floor and a large air mattress for guests. One day it will be a clear floor and a real bed. And probably storage for my Etsy stock.
- Outdoors. We love our new grill! It's grill out time in the Brame household at least once a week these days, while we stubbornly hold onto the last warm vestiges of Fall in Tennessee. I should probably rake those leaves.
And that about sums it up. Our current organizational progress is mainly of the "figure out where everything goes" category. The GREAT news is that we have only 8-10 boxes, total, that are still unpacked, and most of those are crafting and art supplies that are being stored on a huge industrial rack in the garage. We really only have 4 boxes unpacked in the house itself. So, technically, we're pretty much moved in.
I have some Craigslisting of our furniture we're selling to do, and I have some decorating to do, and I have some cleaning schedules to figure out, but for three weeks later, it ain't too bad to have the house in livable condition. I'm thrilled.


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Blind dates can be bad. Blind dates with your cousin are worse.
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Winter Olympics: Indiana Skier Finds Way to Part in U.S. Slopestyle Sweep
By Zach Huffman | BSU at the Games
It's not even been three years since the International Olympic Committee brought slopestyle skiing into the Winter Olympics.
But it is what kids have been doing across the globe at ski areas and resorts for years. In terrain parks in the U.S. from coast to coast, skiers were riding every rail they could find and hucking themselves off mounds of snow wherever possible.
Among those kids was Nick Goepper, a member of the U.S. freestyle skiing team. When he started slopestyle skiing as an 11-year-old in southern Indiana, he was hooked.
While Indiana might not seem an ideal place for a skier, for Goepper, a 19-year-old born in Fort Wayne, Ind., it was the only place to start.
While he had a chance growing up to ski near his Lawrenceburg, Ind., home at Perfect North Slopes, the reality was snow and mountains were not easily accessible to him.
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"So, I'd ski all winter. And then I tried to find a way to ski in the summertime," Goepper said. "I built ski rails out of wood and PVC pipe."
In addition to his spot on the U.S. men's freestyle skiing team for the Sochi Winter Olympics, Goepper is a two-time X Games gold medalist.
"It's pretty amazing," he said. "I feel blessed to have the opportunities I do. I try to inspire other people to do the same.
"It's been a pretty fun ride so far and it's been a lot of hard work. But at the same time, if you love something enough and you enjoy that much, then you can excel in it."
The Goepper family has adjusted to Nick's celebrity. His 17-year-old sister, Kasey Goepper, said the toughest part has been looking at the comments via social media.
"You get on Instagram and look at his pictures, and when you read the comments that girls leave below and it's weird," she said.
His youngest brother, Jason, 12, says there are some advantages to living in Indiana as a skier.
"Nobody expects somebody that good to be coming out of Indiana because it's not a big-mountain type and huge, big runs and, like, big jumps and all that stuff," he said. "But if you work hard enough, it happens."
What happened for Goepper is that someone paid for his parents, Chris and Linda, and his three siblings—the other being 14-year-old Bradee – to get to the Winter Olympics, The Indianapolis Star reported.
Goepper was confident heading into the Sochi, ranked No. 1 in the world.
"I want to win," he said before headed to Russia. "That's my goal."
He knows about reaching goals. He found a way to grow and compete, moving away from home to attend Windells Academy, a ski school in Welches, Ore.
With such determination, he ended up becoming good enough to compete toe-to-toe with the best in the world.
On Thursday, there were Goepper and U.S. teammates Joss Christensen, a 22-year-old from Park City, Utah, and Gus Kenworthy, a 22-year-old from Telluride, Colo., leading the way at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
He persevered after a sluggish preliminary run. He ended up as part of an American sweep, taking bronze with 92.4 points as Christensen took the gold (95.8) and Kenworthy the silver (93.6).
It was only the third U.S. Winter Olympics sweep in history, with the others men's figure skating in 1956 at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and men's snowboarding halfpipe in 2002 at Salt Lake City.
"I think I just have to sit back and realize how surreal this is," Goepper said at a news conference afterward. "I think it's going to give the U.S. a lot more confidence and it's going to get a lot of people really excited. We couldn't have asked for a better way to debut the sport to the world."
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I was preparing to write a whole post about the latest discrimination against gay people – namely, the proposed bills that would allow businesses to deny service to gay people, and the potential GOP presidential candidate claiming that PRISONS are evidence that being gay is a choice (and his subsequent apology) – but then I got sick this weekend, and have been playing catch-up with grad school work all week. I want to do this topic justice, but I also wanted to post SOMETHING before the deadline for next week's post, so here's the short version (and in the meantime you can exercise your rage meter by reading the articles linked above): This discrimination is despicable. We have done this sort of thing before. With black people. Remember how we, as a country, decided that discrimination against people who are different from you is wrong? News flash, folks: this still applies. But part of me almost wants to let them deny service. Because not only will they lose the business of gay people, they'll also lose the business of people like me who believe in equal rights. In a perfect world, allowing them to do this would run their business into the ground. It's also really frightening to me that someone who could potentially be governing the country would claim that being gay is a choice based on what happens in prisons. Luckily, he is a neurosurgeon, and is probably closer to the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to potential GOP candidates due to the lack of a job in politics. But I don't know that much about him other than that he is obviously not a scientist. Ok, I have to cut myself off now, because I'm about to give a geology 101 lab midterm! I might come back to this topic. Or I might post a bunch of dog photos detailing the many nicknames we have for our household's labs. I will leave you with this: I have snakeskin hoop earrings. I like to tell people I made them from the rattlesnake I killed doing field work to save the life of my field assistant, who had a particular fear of them.
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In the poll, 49 percent approve of the president's job in handling foreign policy, versus 46 percent who disapprove.
Last month, 54 percent said they approved of his foreign-policy handling.
Much of that drop can be attributed to increased political polarization just seven weeks until Election Day.
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'Lone Survivor' a painful reminder for Corbett family
Jeffrey Lucas of Corbett went down in a helicopter trying to save fellow Navy Seals
Lone Survivor, the gripping new war film starring Mark Wahlberg, has a local tie.
The movie, directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) and based on a book written by the real lone survivor, Marcus Luttrell, tells the story of four U.S. Navy Seals on a covert mission in 2005 Afghanistan that turns deadly when they are ambushed by enemy forces.
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You could ask any family member that was involved with the situation, he said. We lived it.
Lone Survivor has grossed $38.2 million since it opened in theaters Jan. 10.
Jamie said he doesnt want to take anything away from people going to see the movie. Go see it, he said.
Maybe it can help other people to understand what happened.
But for him and his family, the book and movie is Marcus Luttrells story, not his brothers.
If it goes by the way the book is written, it doesnt really honor everybody involved that actually died, Jamie said. Its really about him and him honoring the group he was with.
Under the direction of Lt. Commander Erik Kristensen, Luttrell, played by Mark Wahlburg, and his fellow Seals Michael Murphy (Taylor Kitsch), Matthew Axe Axelson (Ben Foster) and Danny Dietz (Emile Hirsch) are on a special mission to identify Ahmad Shah, a key Taliban loyalist responsible for the deaths of many American service members and believed to be hiding out in the remote mountainous terrain of the Kunar province.
In the movie, when three goat herders and their animals stumble across the mens hiding place, the mission is immediately compromised and the Seals must abort. The men are forced to make an impossible moral decision: to kill the three captives, tie them up and leave them to die in the mountains or release them and be found out.
They choose the latter. By the time the four Seals retreat up the mountain to safety, theyre gunned down by Taliban forces and forced deeper into treacherous terrain.
After a more than three-hour battle, his brothers-in-arms are killed and Luttrell is the lone survivor. Half-dead, he is rescued by a Pashtun villager whose tribe lives by an ancient code of honor that mandates protection for a person in imminent danger of his enemies.
Much to the risk of his family and fellow villagers, Gulab fights to keep Luttrell safe until he is finally rescued by American forces.
See the movie, brother urges
Jamie Lucas encourages people to go see the movie: Im glad he made it.
His mother, Pat, is trying to escape the movie altogether.
It was a horrible, horrible tragedy and the mission went really, really wrong, said the mother of two sons who grew up and attended school in Corbett.
Everybody has his or her own version of what happened, she said.
She tried reading Luttrells book, but couldnt.
Hollywoods version obviously stretches the truth a bit.
In an online report (historyvshollywood.com) describing the differences between the movie and real life, Luttrell is quoted as saying in the The Daily Beast that in real life, he didnt know the helicopter had gone down as he was hiding in a rock crevice at the time.
They need recognition
Seth, the son Jeffrey left behind, is doing really well, Pat said.
He asks about his daddy and hes learning more about his daddy, Pat said. Rhonda does a wonderful job with him. I get to see him a couple times a year. I miss him and I miss Jeff terribly.
Pat said her son and the 15 others on the helicopter gave up their lives to save their teammates.
They need recognition, she said, unable to hold back tears.
Jamie also hopes people will honor the unsung heroes, who in the movie are recognized only at the end of the film when their photos fill the big screen.
The 16 Special Operations members who stepped on the rescue helicopter and lost their lives on that fateful day, June 28, 2005, included eight U.S. Navy Seals Erik Kristensen, Jeffrey Taylor, James Suh, Jacques Fontan, Jeffrey Lucas, Daniel Healy, Michael McGreevy Jr. and Shane Patton and eight Army Night Stalkers Stephen Reich, Michael Russell, Christopher Scherkenbach, James Tre Ponder III, Kip Jacoby, Marcus Muralles, Shamus Goare and Corey Goodnature.
On the Jeff Lucas Memorial page on Facebook, Candace Miller, a longtime family friend, said she saw Lone Survivor.
She wrote, Knowing someone who was part of the mission makes you take a deep breath just to step into the theater ... Seeing Jeffs face cover an entire movie theater screen was a very humbling and proud feeling at the same time.
Jamie said his brother wouldnt want any of the limelight, and neither would the rest of them.
He just went in. He didnt care. He saw a need. They knew there was a need. And they knew they might not come back, Jamie said.
I am very proud of my brother and I miss him every day.
For him, every day is Veterans Day and Memorial Day.
Jamie said if people really want to honor those who have given their lives to serve, There are a lot of things we can do here.
Jamie and his wife have published Ed the AED, a book to help people save lives by learning CPR.
His brother is the main character and hero of the story.
For those still overseas, Jamie said, We need to honor and respect them. We need to keep them in our thoughts.


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I WAS in a T4 law school and I took a year off due to financial reasons. I'm now ready to go back to law school but I am wondering if I should go back to T4 or transfer to a different school. I am from MI so, I am hoping to go back to MI (along with many reasons) and I'd like to get your advice.
My 1L record indicates that i'm around Top 31%.
I don't have many soft factors..I was two professor's research assistant..which one of them was the Dean.
I did work in one of the biggest companies while I took a break from school.. but nothing special.
I am not expecting to transfer to a top law school.
T2 or T3 is my reach, but I am not sure...
any advice is appreciated.
Thank you.
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First off realize anyone on this board or others is nothing more than an anonymous internet poster and take anything you hear on this board or others with a grain of salt my advice included.
With that said reading your post it appears you are taking rankings far to seriously remember that U.S. News is nothing more than a for profit magazine offering an opinion and they rank more than law schools. New Mexico is the #1 place to live citation here
should make the life altering decision to move to New Mexico, because U.S. News said it was #1? I imagine you would think that is crazy and so is deciding where to spend three years of your life, 100k of your money, and your legal education it is a magazine nothing more.
When choosing a school you really need to consider (1) Location (2) Cost (3) Personal Feelings about the School. (4) Understanding the reality of legal education (5) If all else fails then use U.S. News as a tiebreaker, but it is LAST not first.
1. Location
This is most important aspect in your law school decision and it sounds like your common sense is kicking in because you want to return to Michigan. If Michigan is where you want to be then attend law school in Michigan. You will be in law school for 3 years maybe 2 in your case depending if a school acknowledges your 1L year. So at a minimum you will living wherever you attend law school for two years and during that time you will get an apartment, internships, make friends, etc in that location then you will likely take the State Bar your school is located in and once you take one bar you will not be eager to take another one.
Keep it simple if you want to be in Michigan attend law school in Michigan there are plenty of schools Cooley, Detroit Mercy, Wayne State, and Michigan State are all ABA accredited schools that do not have tremendously high admission standards, but will provide you with a solid legal education.
2. Cost
If financial reasons resulted in you leaving the first time make sure it doesn't happen again try to get a scholarship from schools in Michigan or try to find a school that offer's in-state tuition in an area you want to live in.
3. Personal Feelings About the School
Having gone through 1 year of law school I imagine you came to like some things at the school you attended and disliked others. Every school will have their pros and cons if your first school was a good fit then try going back, but also visit other schools and see what they have to offer
4. Reality of Legal Education
Remember the education at every ABA school is exactly the same the Supreme Court does not write different opinions for each law school. I imagine I did not attend your law school, but I am sure you took Civil Procedure and read Pennoyver v. Neff and International Shoe to learn personal jurisdiction then in Torts you read Palsgraf to learn proximate cause and you also took Contracts and read the hairy hand case, Property, and Crim Pro/Crim Law.
No matter what school you attend the law doesn't change.
5. U.S. News
Do not make a life altering choice based on this magazine and just to show you how ridiclous this magazine is there no longer is T1, T2, T3, T4 schools they changed the rankings so they go up to 150 and the rest is tier 2.
So if you attend an ABA school you will attend a Tier 2 school now the T4 does not exist anymore so no worries. As an additional factor look at this chart and you can see how much schools change ranking year by year and is all based on nothing.
obivously Harvard, Stanford and Yale are in the top, but a school like NorthEastern had the following rankings between 2009-2013 86* 76* 71* 86* 94* the stars also indicate "ties" and I know in 2011 there was an 11 way tie for 84th place so the rankings mean very little and should not be the basis of a life altering decision.
Use it as a tiebreaker nothing more.
Good luck on restarting your legal education and please do not fall into the trap of taking U.S. News seriously and use your common sense when making the life altering decision of where to attend law school.
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What lies at the center of that giant ball of gas we call Jupiter? When you cut through the incredibly dense atmosphere of Venus, what's happening on the planet surface?
These are the questions that dance in the mind of Johns Hopkins University student Jessica Noviello. For her, they are not the idle musings of a child but a calling, pulling her life's path into space.
"To think of being part of a mission that might answer things people have been wondering about for decades, that's very alluring," says Noviello, a sophomore from Smithtown, N.Y.
Hopkins professors say this curiosity makes Noviello the perfect trailblazer for the university's new minor in space science and engineering. The university carries a long tradition of space research, but the nascent minor, now up to five students, is Hopkins' first formal attempt to help undergraduates pursue careers in the space industry.
"We're building on what we have," says physics and astronomy professor Charles Bennett, the minor's co-director. "We're in a very special place here in Baltimore, one of the hubs of the space science industry."
To earn the minor, students must choose a space-related theme and build a sequence of five courses and an internship around it. Most of the courses must come from outside their original majors. "Whatever it is that gets them excited, that's what we want them to work on," Bennett says. "This provides them guidance on how to put it all together and how to work across specific disciplines."
Reminders of the university's history with space exploration fill the lobby of the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy at Homewood. In one corner stands a test model of the FUSE satellite, an 18-foot, 3,000-pound behemoth that launched from Cape Canaveral and was controlled from the Homewood campus. A display case features decorative patches from each of the 14 space missions to which Hopkins researchers contributed between 1972 and 2009.
Across the street sits the Space Telescope Science Institute, the operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope and its hoped-for successor, the James Webb Space Telescope. In Howard County, the university operates the Applied Physics Laboratory, which has designed scores of spacecraft and instruments for NASA.
Last year, Hopkins astrophysicist Adam Riess won a Nobel prize for his exploration of dark energy and the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Despite this confluence of resources, the university did not offer a prescribed path of study for undergraduates interested in space science careers.
Many universities — from California-Berkeley to Cornell to Villanova — offer undergraduate degrees in astronomy or astrophysics. The University of Maryland, College Park houses a well-regarded astronomy program with 73 undergraduate majors.
So it seemed almost odd that Hopkins, with its vaunted history in space and decorated roster of astrophysicists, was out of the mix.
"In some sense, we're just organizing things that are already there," says space astronomy professor Warren Moos, who helped launch the minor. "Geography alone says this is something Hopkins should think hard about."
The idea clicked immediately with students. "We all knew a lot of space stuff was going on, and yet we didn't have a space class," Noviello says. "So it seemed like a perfect fit. My friends and I looked at each other and said, 'Let's do this.'"
Moos and his colleague, Stephen Murray, designed a course, Introduction to Space Science and Technology, that would become a gateway for the new minor. They wanted students to grapple with two questions: What are scientists doing in space? What kind of engineering facilitates such exploration?
Moos and Murray taught the course for the first time last fall. They broke students into teams and asked each group to design a space mission. Engineers were expected to find common ground with physicists.
"What it was really about was helping students understand enough about fields other than their majors, that they would be able to go out and do something working in an interdisciplinary team," Moos says. "Because in this society, that's how things get done."
This focus on blending disciplines and on learning how to execute projects in the real world became a core philosophy for the professors designing the minor. They still wanted students to build strong backgrounds in physics or engineering. "But we wanted to take people who were doing that kind of thing and help them go one step further," Moos says.
Noviello's imagination lived in the ground, not the sky, when she first heard Moos talk about his new course at a meeting of physics students. She fell in love with dinosaurs as a child and never outgrew the infatuation. She came to Hopkins with dreams of digging up ancient bones.
"I wasn't even remotely close to thinking about space," she says.
But she loved to contemplate why things work, what makes systems move the way they do. When she figured out a physics problem, she felt "like a master of the universe."
Given her attraction to big questions, maybe it was inevitable that she would turn to the universe itself — the most elegant and fundamental of systems.
She took the space science course in tandem with a course on the use of remote sensing to study Earth's environment. Both got her contemplating the kinds of questions that could be addressed by dispatching satellites to space.
"You send up this box of metal with some fancy computer parts and you get back all of this new information," Noviello says. "It just fascinates me."
With her mind tilting up from fossils to cosmos, she pounced when the new space minor was formally announced early this year. Noviello downloaded the forms and submitted a plan to study the use of remote sensing satellites in examining the Earth's surfaces and atmosphere.
When her application was approved, she offered a Facebook status update: "I'm now a space minor!"
That prompted some questions from friends, who didn't know such a thing existed. But the consensus was that it sounded pretty cool.
Noviello knows that the nation's dreams, and spending priorities, have slowly turned away from space in recent decades. Earlier this month, she sat through a federal budget hearing in Washington, listening to legislators question the value of spending billions to explore the universe.
She's happy to give her two cents on the practical benefits. "It's not just about finding new planets and taking pretty pictures," she says. "It's about monitoring the state of our biosphere."
But the whole thing is about wonder for her. That's why her computer wallpaper flips to a new image from NASA every day.
Like her mentors at the university, she's looking for the means to convert childlike enthusiasm to real answers about the workings of the universe.
"I'm just a 5-year-old," Noviello says, "who somehow made it through the Hopkins admissions process."


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Alumnus Teams with Tech to Reclaim Stamp Sand and Grow an Industry
Despite the economic downturn, the roofing industry in America is enjoying long-term, fruitful prospects, and Michigan Technological University will play a role in this nearly $9-billion annual market.
One imminent initiative: a local plant that may employ up to 40 people to process and supply sand to the roofing industry.
A long-term plan: a local plant that would employ 300 people to manufacture roofing shingles.
Both initiatives would use the Keweenaw's stamp sand, a barren and unsightly leftover of copper mining in the region. If aesthetically unattractive, it is a financial beauty—expansive, ready-made for the purpose and cost-effective. These deposits are seen as the potential bedrock of an economic boon.
Roof shingles are 30 percent asphalt and 70 percent rock granules, which are used as both filler in the shingle and granules on its surface. Currently, shingle manufacturers have to mine the rock, crush it and add copper to retard the growth of moss, lichen, fungus and algae—persistent problems for homeowners. Upper Michigan's stamp sand has already been mined and crushed, and it contains copper naturally.
Associate Professor Ralph Hodek of Michigan Tech's civil and environmental engineering
department worked for a year to come up with an additive and a process to better adhere
the stamp sand to the asphalt. "It has to bind and hang on for 20 to 30 years," he
says. "We significantly improved the tenacity."
Hodek says that sand is an expensive part of the mix in shingles. "It's very difficult
to find sands now," he explains. "You can't mine dunes and rivers. If you need sand
in large quantities, you have to make it. You have to develop a quarry. You have to
drill it and shoot it and crush it. Here, we can use material that we already have.
Recycling stamp sand is a very, very good thing. We're hoping not only to make a major
financial impact on the area, but also to remove this material that's unsightly. The
more we remove, the happier everyone is going to be."
Four out of five homes in America are roofed with asphalt shingles. The market comprises
both new construction and replacement roofs. "The base is substantial—even with zero
construction growth, which is highly unlikely," says James Baker, director of Michigan
Tech's Office of Technology and Economic Development. "Even the bleakest of forecasts
for continued struggle in the housing industry do not eliminate the opportunity for
this technology to move forward."
It is Baker's job to transfer University research to the marketplace, and he is encouraged by the commercial possibilities of using the stamp sand for roofing. "We deal with a lot of technologies that are at an early stage and challenging to move beyond the laboratory, but this is a very mature initiative. While commercial success is never a sure thing, this is farther along and therefore more likely to survive than most of the things we work on." Baker just facilitated the signing of a licensing agreement—which he calls "a notable event"—that provides a local company with exclusive rights to commercialize patents filed by the University relating to the technology.
The president of that company, GreenSand Corp., is Michigan Tech alumnus Domenic Popko, formerly of Negaunee, now of Traverse Bay. He is the entrepreneur behind the utilization of Keweenaw stamp sand and a joint inventor of the underlying technology.
"What will happen will be quite amazing," Popko claims. He plans to build the processing
plant near Gay, 23 miles northeast of Houghton, where the stamp sand stretches along
Lake Superior for five miles to the southwest.
Taking advantage of the antimicrobial nature of copper in the stamp sand to make a
better roofing shingle is an idea that Popko has been working on, in collaboration
with Michigan Tech, for some time. "An awful lot of study has been done," he says.
Besides Hodek and Baker, other Tech scientists who have contributed to the project
are Jim Hwang and Bowen Li, director and research scientist in Tech's Institute of
Materials Processing. Popko calls all four colleagues "people of foresight."
There are about 500 million tons of stamp sand in the Keweenaw; the biggest deposit,
up to 30 feet deep along the shoreline between Gay and Traverse Bay, with even more
material on the lake bottom. The sand is primarily basalt with .03 percent copper.
That trace amount is all that's needed to give the material its antimicrobial characteristic.
The Gay sands have been extensively sampled and studied by both the US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Both
studies concluded that the sand is safe for full-body exposure. The Keweenaw County
Road Commission owns 68 acres, 30 million tons or more, along 6,000 feet of shoreline,
and GreenSand Corp. has a license from the county to use these sands for 19 years.
"We're pleased with the way things are moving along," Popko adds. "It's exciting. It's time to make it go." He hopes to begin construction of the processing plant this year.
His plans are ambitious. Trucks and front-end loaders will move the sand from the lakefront to the processing plant, where it will be dried and sorted by size (the industry wants a specific blend), and colored. Then it will be trucked to a dock in the Houghton-Hancock area, where it will be transferred to ships bound for Detroit, Chicago and other commercial centers.
Popko says that the project's carbon footprint will be positive, since the quarrying
and crushing have already been accomplished; less stamp sand will spread in the lake;
the fish industry will benefit; the land will look better and be worth more; and,
as important, jobs will be created. "There are no negatives," he says. "And the UP
needs help financially."
Popko has two degrees in geological engineering from Michigan Tech and worked at the
University's Institute for Materials Processing (IMP) for five years. While there,
he focused on ways to use waste—an inquiry that became the basis for stamp sand project.
While at IMP, he founded Lesktech Ltd., which performed the initial stamp sand research.
For this initiative, Popko has received grants from the EPA and the State of Michigan,
and Hodek received a grant from the Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
This funded research and marketing and feasibility studies.
They found that not only is stamp sand good for shingles, it could also be used to lessen the deterioration of bituminous asphalt concrete pavements.
Meanwhile, the building of a shingle manufacturing plant remains a prospect. "Although
much work remains, that possibility is even more exciting," Popko says.
For years, people have been complaining about the trashy-looking stamp sands. One man's trash is another man's treasure? "That's what they say," Popko concludes. "We'll see."
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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NEW YORK — "Sometimes you can tell a classic from the first listen: from the first two songs, you can tell where it's going. And then other times you can't."
On Tuesday night, a raspy and soft-spoken Nas was going back and forth with me about whether his acclaimed 11th album, Life Is Good, deserved that (very rare) certification. Everyone from opinionated rap fans to the grey-at-the-temples Atlantic had drawn up a verdict in 2012, but the Queens MC said a jury of his peers needed to consider a key criteria.
"Time tells — a lot of the time it has to do with time," he told MTV News as we sat down with him during the launch party for his partnership with Hennessy's Wild Rabbit campaign. Looking laid back in a New York hotel suite, the dapper rapper paused to reflect a little more before he picked up the thread again.
"It's cool, you can call my record a classic; I'm not tripping. Time will really make me feel it or not, and then if a year from now, another two years from now, I really feel like it's a classic and no one else does, I'm gonna make noise! I'm gonna complain!" he laughed. "I'm gonna campaign for that title."
With production credits from No I.D. and Salaam Remi, the 39-year-old rap vet laid out the slow decay of his marriage to singer Kelis in poetic detail on Life Is Good. But it wasn't just a collection of breakup songs — the New York rapper also took a long look at his early years, a precocious kid coming up in the Queensbridge housing project during the Reagan '80s. He did this over tracks that managed to sound fresh by dipping one Timberland-clad foot in a bygone era while keeping the other firmly planted in the iTunes age.
Released in July, the confessional record grabbed the peak position on the Billboard 200 in its debut, but posted just under 150,000 copies, leading some, including MTV News' own Rob Markman, to cry foul, arguing that God's Son deserved a better first week. Dissenters, though, insisted it was too soon to set the album alongside his firmly classic debut, Illmatic.
Still, Nas isn't stressed over how history will judge Life Is Good. In fact, he was pretty philosophical about it.
"If it's not a classic, that's cool," he said. "That means there's a different title for it that is a different meaning for the record. It wasn't a worldwide classic or a nationwide classic or a 'hood classic but it ... was important and it was incredible. You don't have to always be classic: You can be incredible, you can be meaningful or needed.
"You can be a much-needed album, you know what I mean?"
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Real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, lost billions of dollars when their much-vaunted purchase of Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village in New York City failed to deliver the expected profits. But how did Tishman Speyer walk away from the deal unscathed, while others took the financial hit—and MetLife scored a $3 billion profit?
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Sitting here I have to towel off my forearms every 3 or 4 – minutes to keep this page from really getting soaked. I can't believe how nasty it is in here today. 103 degrees out on the fire – escape & humid as hell.
Yesterday the fat bitch in charge made me a level – 3. Instantly I was forced to do another job, just for that one day though. I'm in charge of folding all of the laundry, about 12 – loads a days, supposedly ironing all of the striped shirts & blue pants, I'm now the C.L. Journalism assistant, & then I have a bunch of little things to do every morning too. It's annoying as hell, and everything keeps changing, so as soon as it starts to make sense, it doesn't anymore. It's very hard for me to get anything of my own done, unless I do them at night, when I really need to be sleeping.
They've moved me into a room with a real piece of shit crackhead. A bag of java used to last me a week, now I open a bag + 2 – days later it's empty. He never ask for, buys, or borrows any, but always has some in his locker. While I went downstairs to the commissary today about a third of a bag disappeared. If he'd have asked I would have let him have some. So being in this unit I had to tell the guard that he needs to move to another hole. He's in serious danger in this one, they'll move him. These cells are the same as the security building, but 2 – inmates to a cell. We're locked in from 10:00 pm. To 5:30 am. 5 – days a week, weekends are 11:30, holidays 1:30, too tired to ever even care though.
I guess they've been working on the security building longer than I'd thought. Today I mentioned it & was told it's all done already. We saw a huge air conditioning unit go in on a tractor trailer this am. 2 – days ago the temp on the floor in a – pod was 105 degrees + the hobo's were screaming bloody murder. So they got a new unit. I guess last month the women center got one, expensive, they're really huge.
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I was once an international student in a college, with another three international students from Philippine and Taiwan in my class. However, my class were made up of local students with multicultural backgrounds. In my class, we had Chinese, Chinese-Malaysian, Taiwanese, Philippians, Germans, Vietnamese, Korean, Lebanese, Arabian, and etc. During which, I enjoyed the lunch breaks most. We liked to eat from others lunch-box, lunch breaks often turned into small gatherings with food and laughter.
This fried rice is something I learned from "gathering", one of the Filipina classmates often brought a big container of corned beef rice to share with us. It was the mixture of steamed rice with corned beef, and sometimes with canned sweet corn added. No real cooking involved, but heated up in the microwave instead.
I am making my life complicated turned a simple three ingredients recipe into this fried-rice. I hope rice lovers will like it, enjoy!
Ingredients (2-3 servings):
2 bowls (heap) cooked rice
2-3 tbsp corned beef
2 cloves garlic
2 tbsp finely chopped carrot
Handful chopped lettuce
1 tbsp cooking oil
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
1-2 tsp light soy sauce
Pinch of sugar
- Heat wok on high heat, add in oil. Once it starts to smoke, turn the heat down then add in garlic and carrot. Stir-fry till fragrant.
- Add in rice, stir-fry for a minute or so with high heat.
- Add in corned beef and seasonings, stir-fry for about two minutes.
- Add in chopped lettuce, stir to mix then turn the heat off.
- Transfer to serving plates and serve warm with salad if desired.
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This nine-room Contemporary in Shore Park Estates has vaulted ceilings and five skylights. Features include an updated kitchen with granite countertops and a subway tile backsplash accented with glass, as well as high-end stainless-steel appliances. Other details include a fireplace and block glass. Of four bedrooms, the master suite has a private balcony and an updated bathroom. There are three full bathrooms. Residents of this development have access to a private beach and marina. The boat slip can accommodate one up to 28 feet. Joanne Mills and Nick Lettiero, Exit Realty Premier, 631-836-5289 and 631-827-6411, respectively
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This nine-room Contemporary-style home features a front deck with a trellis and a built-in bench. There's also a rear deck, which overlooks an in-ground pool. While interior features include vaulted ceilings with skylights, there is a glass partition between the foyer and living area as well as between the renovated kitchen and dining area. Other details include wood floors, ceiling fans, sliding glass doors and a potbellied wood-burning stove. There are four bedrooms and two updated bathrooms. Other updates include a new roof, windows and a pool liner. Mark Anthony LoCorriere, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, 631-638-6122
Glen Cove
4 Old Estate Rd.
Clean lines, vaulted ceilings and skylights are some of the features of this Contemporary ranch. Completely renovated about five years ago, the house is appointed with extensive moldings and mill work. The eat-in kitchen is designed with Brazilian cherry cabinets, a slate floor, center island and stainless-steel appliances. Sliding glass doors lead to a deck. A room used for entertaining has a fireplace. There are two bathrooms, and the master is done in all tile and has an open double shower. There are four bedrooms, including the master suite. The house is set privately on a manicured 1-acre parcel. At the end of the street is a private beach. Marilyn Jenney, Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, 516-236-4278


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NEW YORK (AP) Jets rookie defensive lineman Quinton Coples has been fined $15,000 by the NFL on Friday for grabbing the facemask of Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Chad Henne.
Coples was called for a penalty when Henne scrambled for 1 yard on third-and-3 last Sunday. The play extended a drive in which the Jaguars later scored in the Jets' 17-10 victory.
Giants cornerback Prince Amukamara was fined $15,750 for a horse-collar tackle on New Orleans running back Pierre Thomas in New York's 52-27 win.
Detroit offensive tackle Gosder Cherilus was docked $10,000 for a chop block in the Lions' 27-20 loss at Green Bay.
St. Louis cornerback Cortland Finnegan was also fined $10,000 for grabbing Buffalo running back C.J. Spiller by the facemask. Chicago cornerback Charles Tillman was fined $7,875 fine for a late hit on Minnesota running back Toby Gerhart.
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Hervey Bay's Boat Harbour Resort is the ideal accommodation choice when staying on the Fraser Coast. Hervey Bay is the Whale Watching Capital of the world and the Gateway to Fraser Island. Book your accommodation with Boat Harbour Resort and enjoy all the activities and aspect of Hervey Bay, Fraser Island and the Fraser Coast.
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The curatorial team of Marcin Wisniewski & Chris Dupuis, aka RTcollective, are accepting submissions now thru May 2 for a show in association with Videofag Gallery & Trinity Square Video. This annual show, now in its second year, will be presented on May 26 & 27, during this year's Toronto Inside Out LGBT Film Festival.
The aim of IN YOUR POCKET is to explore how smart phones are changing the way we tell and record stories about ourselves and those around us. How does the immediacy and intimacy of mobile technology – and its challenges and limitations – shape the work we make? The theme for this year's show is COME TOGETHER, and focuses on collaboration – specifically, artists collaborating for the first time, or collaborators working together in new ways.
Ontario-based artists are invited to create work with one or more collaborative partners, and you don't have to be queer to participate, but the work must be 4 minutes or less & have clear LGBTTIQQ2S (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, transgender, intersex, queer, questioning or two-spirit) themes. It must be recorded on a smart phone or iPad (though editing can happen on a computer), and the work must not have screened previously in Toronto.
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It began with an Army veteran's exasperated affirmation and a purposely casual question, just 22 keystrokes.
Then, a gush of feelings, dammed up for years by the attached stigma, cascaded from Rob Ulrey's mind through his fingers to his computer screen; 770 words, a personal purge, a plea for understanding: "I am tormented in my dreams ... I am functional in society ... I am medicated ... I am always on the lookout for danger ... I have no regrets ... I am just as normal as you."
His opening line: "I have PTSD ... So what?"
Last February, that post on Ulrey's military website — penned partly to set "the media" straight, partly as an online life buoy for men and women like him — resonated with hundreds of current and former service members who posted comments to echo and empathize with the former Army gunner's frustrations and fears. The reactions haven't stopped coming: "I am living this with you," wrote Mike R. on Aug. 27, and "Thanks for these words," typed Greg H., also on Aug. 27. Talk of the column has spread far and wide among American military ranks.
"The comments it got, and that it's getting, are really kind of inspiring. It seemed like it touched a lot of people. A lot of it was guys and girls who just seemed real lonely out there, real isolated," Ulrey told NBC News. "And they just seemed real relieved there was somebody out there like them."
Ulrey now looks at his essay as — if not the first embers of a true movement — maybe the early moments of a fundamental shift in the public discourse on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a series of anxiety-based symptoms afflicting up to an estimated 500,000 U.S. troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He wrote the article, he said, at roughly the same time he finally sought treatment, 15 years after an IED in Bosnia shattered his wrist, blew out his eardrums and began chronically haunting his slumber.
"It just came out of me, just kind of flowed from the heart," Ulrey told NBC News. "I guess my higher calling is to make sure other veterans get this message, get the help they need. But If I can make people understand we're not the big, evil demons that some people make us out to be, so much the better."
Indeed, the piece was meant to be aimed largely at "mainstream" media outlets, Ulrey said. Amid a litany of news reports in recent years about young veterans committing violence or suicide, he winced at how often journalists swiftly linked the acts to PTSD.
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"I, along with my cohorts, have been classified as a potential powder keg just waiting on that spark to set us off into a murderous explosion of ire. This is not the case," Ulrey wrote in his post.
That sort of breathless PTSD coverage has painted the diagnosis, and perhaps all combat veterans, with a social stain, Ulrey said. PTSD evokes concerned whispers from family members, worried glances from co-workers, and dead-ends at job interviews.
"The stigma is so negative. I've heard time and time again from veterans: 'I'm not getting the looks (from companies) that I should be getting. I'm not getting that second interview.' I know some guys who are leaving stuff off their resumes or downplaying what they did during their time in the service so that it doesn't trigger those kinds of questions (about mental health).
"You're automatically tainted just because of your service, even if you don't have PTSD at all," Ulrey said.
But it's not just corporate America that, in Ulrey's view, misunderstands PTSD. Even inside the military, the disorder, and certainlythe act of service members seeking help for it, is often viewed as a personal flaw, or as a lack of mental muscle, he added.
"They've been suffering with it and they've been afraid to say anything about it, because they were afraid of the ramifications," Ulrey said. "In the military, if you need to go to mental health, then you're weak. And we don't have weak in the military. We're warriors, we're not supposed to feel this way. But it will take out the baddest dude or the littlest, wimpiest dude. It doesn't discriminate."
At the top of the U.S. military pyramid, however, leaders say they are toiling to change that old thinking.
"Seeking help is a sign of strength not weakness," said Cynthia O. Smith, a spokeswoman for the Defense Department. "No, military careers aren't at risk for seeking help."
As proof, Smith e-mailed NBC News a memo, signed May 10 by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, that read: "Leaders throughout the chain of command must actively promote a constructive command climate that ... encourages individuals to reach out for help when needed."
And on the topic of Ulrey's matter-of-fact pitch for America to stop demonizing PTSD and those diagnosed with it, Smith said: "Mental health disorders, like most medical conditions, are treatable. Many service members with symptoms of PTSD recover with appropriate medication and/or psychotherapy within a few months."
Ulrey's medication includes prescribed blood-pressure drugs that prevent the flashback nightmares he once suffered. Those dreams used to wake him with a jolt four to five times a night and caused him to sweat so profusely that his sheets often were drenched by dawn.
"I have never physically assaulted anyone out of anger or rage," he typed last February. "I have never committed violence in the workplace, just like the vast majority of those who suffer with me. My co-workers know I spent time in the military but they do not know of my daily struggles, and they won't."
But like any good writer, Ulrey has picked up on the irony in his larger quest to convince the world to simply see soldiers and veterans as regular folks who are dealing with battlefield stress on their own terms. In his current job as a law enforcement officer — he asked to keep his city of residence out of this article to protect his family — Ulrey earlier this month faced a pointed question from his boss.
"He saw the article and asked me: 'Do I need to know anything about this? Do I need to be worried?' I said, 'No not at all.'
"It had been bugging him and, I guess, bugging the other supervisors I work with for a couple of months. That was the whole purpose of the article. So that people don't get that question from co-workers or supervisors," Ulrey said. "Even if we have PTSD, we're OK. I am not going to freak out on you."
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