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Welcome to the next edition of our brand new series, PUP News of the World! Every week we will be posting a round-up of all of our most exciting national AND international reviews/interviews/events/etc. that took place in the last week.
By an astounding margin, our PUP Title of the Week this week is The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election by John Sides & Lynn Vavreck! Rick Hasen of The Slate Book Review chose The Gamble as his best book of 2013, calling it "A necessary corrective to the personality-driven and hyperventilating accounts of presidential campaigns driven by a news media out to sell half-baked narratives….Eminently readable." It was also called "Probably the most successful attempt to integrate political science and narrative to date…If you really want to understand the 2012 elections, you should rely on The Gamble", by Sean Trende in a review of the book by Real Clear Books. The Fix on The Washington Post said they read The Gamble over the holiday break, while Spundge included the book in a round-up of good gift suggestions. Plus The Independent wrote an article about it, as did Harvard Political Review. It also received kind mentions at Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Arkansas Times, and The Capital Times!
Next, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton was reviewed in The Australian and declared "splendid" while Forbes named it the "Best Book of 2013". Plus, Paul Theroux, writer for Barron's, said "In his new book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality, economist Angus Deaton questions the usefulness of all aid, and describes how the greater proportion of the world's poor are found not in Africa but in the booming, yet radically unequal, economies of China and India." Deaton was also interviewed recently for Social Science Bites on his recent trip to the UK.
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism by Robert E. Buswell Jr. & Donald S. Lopez Jr. was mentioned in a piece on scholarly religion in Publishers Weekly, along with The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the 'People of the Book' in the Language of Islam by Sidney H. Griffith. The Wild Fox Zen blog from the Patheos Buddhist Channel posted about 'The Dictionary' as well, saying: "One of the take-a ways is how we're just scratching the surface on what we have translated into English. I almost regret the decision I made about 25 years ago not to shift my focus from training to learning languages so I could be a Buddhist scholar. Particularly, I was struck by how little I know about the Korean tradition! Except for Buswell's work, there's still very little translated into English, as far as I know."
Short and sweet, the San Francisco Chronicle's books gift guide included Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino.
Rahul Sagar, author of Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy, had an Op Ed in CNN International about government secrecy.
New Scientist recently listed Bugs Rule!: An Introduction to the World of Insects by Whitney Cranshaw & Richard Redak in its 'Gift Guide: Pick of the Best Science Books', saying "When two entomologists who clearly love their subject get stuck in, the result is pure joy. With more than 830 colour photos, this book is a great desk guide to help you tell a crane fly from a giant mosquito."
Ara Norenzayan, author of Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict, was interviewed on BBC World Service The Forum recently. (Ara comes in about 30 minutes in).
Margaret Lock's title, The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging, was reviewed on Psychology Today where they said: "Comprehensive, cogent, and densely detailed, The Alzheimer Conundrum provides a useful antidote to media hype about 'silver bullets' that are 'just around the corner' and makes an important contribution to our understanding of an achingly tragic disease that touches virtually all of us." Lock also did an interview recently with Everyday Health.
Bill Helmreich, author of The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City, recently wrote an op-ed for The Independent, talking about his experiences while writing his book. Helmreich also got two positive reviews this week. The first, from The New York Times, said that "[the] book is a chatty, buoyant and, despite his four decades in academia teaching classes on New York City and sociology, an unstuffy love letter to the delights of street-smart walking." The second, from The Guardian called the book "excellent" and claimed that "It's refreshing to read a book that celebrates so unreservedly the ethnic diversity of a city and entirely fitting that it should be about a metropolis that has always been defined by its cosmopolitan culture."
The Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland by Richard Crossley & Dominic Couzens is still receiving some buzz as well as Stephen Moss of The Guardian named it one of his Best Nature Books of 2013. He called it "…a revolutionary new bird book".
In a review for The Independent, Richard Holloway called Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation by Robert Bartlett a "magisterial work of scholarship". Also, the Financial Times reviewed the book this week, saying "Devotion to the saints is manifestly still alive and well in the Catholic Church, and Bartlett's impressive compendium will serve to explain the cult's historical origins and evolution." Lastly, Bartlett was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland (he comes in about 1hr 40 minutes in).


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Every genealogist I know watches #WDYTYA . So for all our sakes, I am glad that the @
LisaKudrow Program was picked up for a 4th season; This time on @TLC starting 23-July-2013.
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Chelsea Handler, Kelly Clarkson, Zooey Deschanel,
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Russia To Ban Swearing On The Internet
from the bloody-hell dept
A year ago, we wrote about a Russian law that introduced a blacklist designed to block access to information on drugs, suicide and child pornography (all for the children, of course.) Strangely, that same law was then used to silence leading reporters who dared to criticize the government (bet nobody saw that coming....)
Well, Russian politicians are back to thinking of the children now, and want to make further amendments to the law, as this report on the English version of Pravda reveals:
State Duma Deputy Yelena Mizulina intends to make further amendments to the Law "On the Protection of Children." The chairwoman of the Committee on Family, Women and Children put forward a suggestion to punish people for using dirty language in social networks.
Yes, you read that correctly: the new law would forbid the use of "dirty language" pretty much anywhere online. If the offending phrases aren't quickly removed, the relevant page will be added to the blacklist. The chairman of the Moscow Regional Bar Association, Sergei Smirnov, is all for it:
According to politician, the pages full of posts and messages containing swear words, will have to be blocked within 24 hours, if harmful information is not deleted. This should apply to pages on social networks, websites, and various forums.
"Obscene language offends both children and adults. A ban on its use is not an infringement of human rights. This is a direction towards a civilized lifestyle. If we do not use foul language in real life, then why do we use it on the Internet?"
Right: so politicians want a ban on swearing online, because apparently no one in Russia ever swears offline.
That'll work.
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As feds ponder future of e-cigarettes, some colleges move against them
While the federal government decides how to regulate electronic cigarettes, many university officials across the country are moving ahead with their own rules about e-cigs on campus.
Several universities have already prohibited e-cigs or are set to ban them in upcoming years.
At Idaho State University, Missouri State University and the University of Texas at Austin, for example, officials have updated their smoking policies to ban e-cigs. The products soon will be prohibited at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and all campuses in the University of California system.
Several other campuses permit the products, though they might follow the lead of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and discourage their use.
Such inconsistency among university policies reflects a lack of consensus among scientists and public health experts as to what exactly e-cigs are, what their long-term impact on health may be and how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should regulate them.
"The products are relatively new, but the science about them has been developing," said Karen Williams, the assistant director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. "I think it's really just a matter of time as everyone learns about the products before all universities take the step to prohibit them on campus."
E-cigs look like traditional cigarettes but are battery-operated products that heat tobacco-derived nicotine and other chemicals into a vapor that the user inhales, a process called "vaping."
In 2010, the FDA determined that certain e-cigs were unapproved pharmaceutical products and detained or refused imports from some manufacturers. One manufacturer fought back, and a federal court held that e-cigs aren't pharmaceutical products but that the FDA could regulate them as tobacco products.
"It seems pretty clear that the FDA will regulate electronic cigarettes like tobacco products," said Theodore L. Wagener, an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center who's researching the products.
Regulating the cigarette look-alikes as tobacco products would make them subject to the age, marketing and packaging restrictions that apply to traditional cigarettes. It might prohibit sales to minors, ban advertising on television and require warning labels on packaging.
The White House is reviewing a proposal from the FDA; the process might last 90 days or more.
Meanwhile, the debate about the potential benefits and risks of e-cigs has escalated.
Advocates promote the products as healthier alternatives to cigarettes that give users their nicotine fixes without the toxins and carcinogens generated by burning tobacco. Some advocates also say e-cigs might help smokers quit.
But critics say e-cigs may increase nicotine addiction and tobacco use among young people; they also point out that the FDA says not enough research has been done for consumers to know whether e-cigs are safe or harmful.
Despite those unknowns, e-cigs are gaining popularity among young adults.
The American Journal of Public Health said last year that 53 percent of young adults who'd heard of e-cigs thought they were less harmful than traditional cigarettes; almost 45 percent thought e-cigs could help them quit smoking. Another study found that 50 percent of young adults would try e-cigs if friends offered them one.
While more than 1,000 campuses nationwide are smoke-free, some universities policies leave a loophole for e-cigs – which, after all, are smoke-free.
At Pennsylvania State University, for example, the no-smoking policy enacted in 2006 doesn't mention e-cigs; students may use the products on campus, said Annemarie Mountz, the university's assistant director of public information.
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the no-smoking policy implemented in 2008 also doesn't mention e-cigs, but university officials are wary of students using the products.
"We consider them to be inconsistent with the goals of the policy, and, when asked, we have discouraged their use in our no-smoking areas," said Susan Hudson, the outreach editor of UNC News Services.
Stanton Glantz, the director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, said the hype surrounding e-cigs as cessation devices might prompt students who were barred from smoking to start vaping.
"There's a lot of anecdotal evidence – people talking about how electronic cigarettes helped them stop smoking," Glantz said. "There are even a few studies that seem to indicate they could be cessation devices. But there's no conclusive, credible scientific evidence to prove they are."
Glantz said he was concerned about data that showed that people who used e-cigs weren't switching from traditional cigarettes but rather using both.
If someone made a 100 percent switch, Wagener said, most experts agree that e-cigs would be less harmful to the individual than traditional cigarettes.
"I explain it like someone deciding to go from eating a dozen doughnuts every day to just having one doughnut hole a day," he said. "It's much better for someone to use electronic cigarettes than normal cigarettes."
Some university officials are working to close potential e-cig loopholes.
Gabriel Garcia, an assistant professor of public health at the University of Alaska Anchorage, is a leader of the campus' smoke-free task force; the group of students, faculty and staff is spearheading plans to make the university either smoke-free or tobacco-free by 2015 and to encourage the two other campuses in the University of Alaska system to follow suit.
The task force prefers tobacco-free, and Garcia said the likelihood of students turning to e-cigs if the campus adopted a smoke-free policy contributed to his preference.
"The science is not clear about whether electronic cigarettes are a risk for users, and I wouldn't want to promote them if the FDA finds that they are a risk," Garcia said.
In October, the system's Statewide Administration Assembly opposed the zero-tolerance smoke-free and tobacco-free campus initiative, finding that a majority of the faculty didn't support it.
Students and faculty at Florida State University were more successful with their proposal that included banning e-cigs.
At first, several members of the university's board of trustees questioned why they should include e-cigs as a banned product. Kevin T. Frentz, the university's health promotion and policy coordinator, told the board that scientific research has yet to reveal the long-term health impact of e-cigs; he urged them not to allow students to use e-cigs until the FDA determines they're safe.
Florida State is set to update its 2006 smoke-free policy to a tobacco-free rule, effective Jan. 1.
Officials at several universities have already specifically banned the products.
The University of Kentucky became a tobacco-free campus in 2009, and Kentucky State University recently did so, as well.
Georgia State University banned smoking and tobacco use of any kind, including e-cigs, last year. Even so, a university staff member said she still saw people smoking and wouldn't be surprised if some were vaping.
"We're in the city. Our campus is in a downtown area," said Shineka Karim, an administrative assistant in the School of Public Health. "There are a lot of people here who are not students, not faculty and not staff, so the policy is difficult to enforce."


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The five-seater Bölkow BO 105 helicopter has been considerably modified by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR). The Eurocopter's service portfolio is very wide-ranging and can be used for diverse research missions.
As the test readings of the standard instruments are too inaccurate, scientists at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) developed the LASSIE system (Low Air Speed Sensing and Indicating Equipment). The system is attached outside the BO 105 and supplies accurate air-speed data in the lower speed ranges during measurement campaigns.
IFR cockpit (Instrument Flight Rules) for flying under adverse weather conditions, the so-called Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC).
The five-seater Eurocopter BO 105 helicopter is based on a light, multi-purpose utility helicopter made by Messerschmitt-Bölkow Blohm GmbH (MBB), and has been significantly modified for its use as a universal research platform by the German Aerospace Center's (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Braunschweig flight facility. The BO 105's service portfolio is very wide-ranging and is particularly suitable for use on diverse research missions. Amongst other things, it is used as a research platform for studying flight characteristics, low-noise approaches, thermal-imaging photography, pilot-assist systems and for flying with external loads.
Depending on the requirement, the BO 105 can be fitted with special equipment. This includes, for example, a nose boom for investigating inflow conditions, and with pressure sensors and strain gauges fitted on the main and tail rotor blades for measuring the forces and pressure conditions on the rotor blade.
It was the first helicopter in Germany to be equipped with a rigid rotor head and two turbines as standard. In addition, the BO 105 was the first helicopter whose rotor blades were made from glass-reinforced plastic. It is powered by two Rolls-Royce/Allison 250-C 20B engines.
The following modifications differentiate the BO 105 helicopter from the standard BO 105:
Mission - research focus
The BO 105's fields of application are extremely varied; for example it is used for:
"Flight Director" - Safe flying with external loads
Until now, pilots have normally faced a major challenge when transporting payloads, as two main problems occur when flying with external loads. Firstly, the pilot cannot see the load and secondly, the control strategy needed to reduce the swinging is unclear. If the pilot uses control inputs instinctively to try to reduce the swinging, the load movement is amplified even more in many cases. To offer pilots an aid for active damping of load oscillations and so increasing flight safety, the Flight Director concept for external loads was developed at DLR. The Flight Director is an instrument that provides the pilot with a command display for controlling the helicopter. In the application for damping load oscillations, the "Flight Director" uses an artificial horizon as a display. A command signal is superimposed on the normal input signal, resulting in optimal damping of the swinging.
Technology for improvement of flight characteristics
Using modern computer technology, DLR Flight Operations carries out research into improvement of flight characteristics. This includes calculating and measuring air flows on helicopters in flight. Using extensively modified main and tail rotor blades, DLR is able to measure the forces and pressure conditions on a rotor blade as it turns, and to record this data on the on-board computer for subsequent evaluation back on the ground.
Technical data
8.56 metres
11.86 metres
3.02 metres
2.4 tonnes max.
640 kilograms
two Rolls-Royce/Allison 250-C 20B, each rated at 313 kW
Flight altitude:
500 kilometres
262 kilometres per hour max.
2h30mins max.
Fuel quantity:
456 kilograms
Original use:
Use for national and state duties such as: traffic control, civil defence, rescue flights, police, armed forces
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W.H. divides over whistleblowers
It's a battle that pits President Barack Obama against whistleblower advocates, against some of the largest federal employee unions, and against a bipartisan contingent in Congress.
The fight, over the rights of thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — of federal workers, has even divided Obama's own administration. The White House — which has repeatedly pledged to be the most transparent in history and to embrace whistleblowers — has sided with the Pentagon and the intelligence community, but agencies charged with protecting whistleblowers and officials who investigate discrimination complaints have loudly dissented.
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"This is an administration at war with itself. It's Obama versus Obama," said Tom Devine of the Government Accountability Project.
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The Justice Department and Defense Department are arguing that federal employees like commissary managers and accountants, who don't have access to classified information, can be demoted or effectively fired without recourse to the usual avenues of appeal if their jobs are designated as "sensitive." The ripple effect of that — critics say it would effectively strip huge numbers of federal workers of civil service protections by treating them like those who have access to the nation's most vital secrets — could hollow out legal protections that have allowed whistleblowers to speak out with less fear of being fired.
A new brief defending the administration's position in the hard-fought legal showdown is due at a federal appeals court early next month, but other executive branch agencies have rallied to the workers' side.
"On the one side, you have the Department of Defense, and the Office of Personnel Management trying to functionally cancel the civil service system. And on the other side you have President Obama's Merit Systems Protection Board and the Office of Special Counsel, defending the integrity of it," Devine added.
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Whistleblower advocates, including some in Congress, contend that allowing agencies greater latitude to reassign or even dismiss workers in "sensitive" positions will open another way for employees to retaliate against those who report fraud, waste or abuse of power.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a longtime champion of federal whistleblowers, called the Obama administration's stance "absurd."
"This abuse of national security classifications is a prime case where the administration could send a signal to the bureaucracy to knock this type of behavior off. Instead, the administration is backing an absurd position against the whistleblowers," Grassley said in a statement to POLITICO. "If this administration wants to create an environment where whistleblowers aren't afraid to come forward, helping the whistleblowers, instead of fighting them, would be a good place to start."
Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, agreed.
"Providing agencies with complete discretion to strip federal workers of whistleblower and other civil service protections would undermine Congressional intent and would be patently unjust," Cummings said.
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It's unclear how many workers are potentially affected by the dispute, but some lawyers involved believe the number is in the hundreds of thousands. The Office of Special Counsel, which investigates complaints from whistleblowers and prevents retaliation, calculated that about 500,000 Department of Defense civil service employees work in jobs considered "sensitive." However, the percentage of those with and without formal classified information clearances is unknown.
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We'd heard rumors that the iPhone 3GS would be getting fast 802.11n Wi-Fi to go along with that S for Speed, but that never panned out -- except for the new third generation iPod touch.
iFixit has been doing their prerequisite tear-down of the brand new device, and MacRumors says:
One of the more intriguing differences uncovered so far is the inclusion of a Broadcom BCM4329 combination Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip, which supports the 802.11n Wi-Fi standard in addition to 802.11a/b/g standards. The iPhone 3GS and the second-generation iPod touch utilize a different BCM4325 chip, which supports only the 802.11a/b/g standards. While Apple has apparently not activated 802.11n capability in the iPod touch and it is unknown whether it will choose to do so in the future, the new iPod touch hardware does appear to be capable of supporting the standard.
Speaking of rumored-but-not-delivered:
iFixit has also revealed that there is a small empty space at the top of the device (approximately 6 mm x 6 mm x 3 mm) where an iPod nano-style camera could fit. The iPod touch does not appear to be thick enough to adequately house an autofocus camera as found in the iPhone 3GS.
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DETROIT - Jalen Rose admits it's not easy to open and operate a charter school but he is committed to doing it in Detroit.
Rose, a former NBA player, member of the Fab Five at the University of Michigan and current ESPN and ABC analyst spends a lot of his time focused on his public charter school, the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy in northwest Detroit.
Local 4's Rhonda Walker recently interviewed him about the school and why he wanted to open it.
"That's the best way I feel like it is to give back to our young men and women. I always felt like the eight most important years of somebody's growth is the four that they should be in high school and the 4 that they should be in college," said Jalen Rose. "You ask any adult where their dreams went awry, a lot of times it happens during the eight year period when they start driving start trying to figure out whether you are a leader or a follower. You start being exposed to sex, drugs, violence, gangs and all of a sudden you start making poor decisions and or great decisions that influence your future."
Rose opened the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy in 2011. This year it has about 200 9th and 10th grade students. Rose plans to expand another grade level each year.
The motto of the school is "Enter a learner. Exit a leader." The kids see that message as soon as they walk into the school.
"It's really about choices and while we want you to be very well versed and educated also you got to be able to handle yourself out here and in real life situations," said Rose.
Rose wants his school to be a safe learning environment and keeps it small with a 20 to one student teacher ratio. The school offers real world and project based experiences and leadership training.
"We are asking for a longer school day 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.," said Rose. "A longer school year, 211 days, in order for our young men and women to compete in the global economy that is what it is going take."
JRLA, as it is often called, is a public charter high school.
It is partially funded by Michigan Future Schools and has committed to having 85 percent of its students graduate high school, 85 percent to go onto college and 85 percent to earn a college degree.
That can be a high expectation, especially when some students enter JRLA behind their grade level in reading and math. Rose keeps it in perspective.
"If you get a 9th grader that is reading at a 4th grade level and that young man or that young woman grows up to be functioning member of society with a job with a family and creates a positive outcome as opposed to become a carjacker or a killer or a drug dealer," said Rose. "Of course we want Rhodes Scholars, of course we want people to go on to be graduates and be great ambassadors of the city of Detroit, but more importantly this is about building back up the city."
It is too soon to measure the success of Rose's charter school.
Michigan Future Schools, which creates small high schools in Detroit to help prepare students to quality and succeed in college, issued this statement about the school.
"Michigan Future is proud to have been one of the first investors in the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy. We made a four year $800,000 grant to the school. Like most start-up schools, Jalen Rose Leadership Academy has faced daunting challenges but Jalen's commitment to the school has been consistent and unwavering. The kids at JRLA know they have a school founder who is fully committed to their success in high school and beyond. We at Michigan Future Schools are committed to working with Jalen and his team to create a great school."
JRLA was issued its contract to operate under The Governor John Engler Center for Charter Schools at Central Michigan University.
"Jalen Rose Leadership Academy is one of the newest schools in our portfolio and we are working closely with the Board of Directors to address common issues with new school start-ups, which include the academic, operational and financial challenges of providing a quality educational experience for their students. We recognize that developing successful urban high schools is one of the most difficult challenges in K-12 public education today. CMU values our partnership with the JRLA board as they strive to provide educational options for students in Detroit and to prepare them academically for success in college, work and life," said Cindy Schumacher, Executive Director for The Governor John Engler Center for Charter Schools at CMU.
A real challenge for Rose is raising the money necessary to provide the education he wants these children to get.
"The money we get for the state keeps on the lights and pays our teachers, everything else wee have to find ways to raise funds," said Rose.
As part of his fundraising efforts, Jalen Rose has also issued The Detroit Challenge to area businesses. He is looking for 15 companies or individuals in metro Detroit to partner with JRLA by making a $10,000 donation to help the school create educational opportunities Rose envisions for the school. Happy's Pizza and Lady Janes Haircuts for Men have already made that commitment. For details click here.
Rose graduated from southwestern high school, and continued on to the University of Michigan where he was one of the five freshman basketball players known as the Fab Five. He spent 13 years in the NBA and is now an ESPN and ABC analyst.
Prior to opening JRLA, Rose created the Jalen Rose Foundation, creating opportunities for underserved youth including in his hometown. Those opportunities include college scholarships.
"The Jalen Rose Leadership Academy is not just my name on the building. It's blood sweat and tears. It takes a lot of time and energy manpower and money and so many people working on this project that are getting below what they normally getting paid that are working on this project pro bono, that have really dedicated themselves to help me see this vision through," said Rose.
Students who attend JRLA love the school and the motto "Enter a Learner. Exit a Leader."
"They want you to come to school focused, ready and leaving, taking what you learn here out into your communities," said Aubrey Williams.
"We literally get personal help, one on one interaction with teachers," said Unique Bailey.
Rose's vision is to offer his students a private school quality education without ever charging students for it.
"We have had some success and we will be that (Detroit) 'Country Day' (School) of the inner city soon," said Rose.
The school is currently taking applications for new students. For more information, click here.
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Madeleine Albright, First Female Secretary of State
Albright on her late career start, building confidence, and holding her own with male statesmen.
Madeleine Albright
First Female Secretary of State
Albright on her late career start, building confidence, and holding her own with male statesmen.
The Washington Post recently asked Madeleine Albright about her place in history. "I have to laugh," said America's first female Secretary of State. She remembered her young granddaughter wondering "'so what's the big deal about Grandma Maddie having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.'" Born in prewar Prague, Albright's earliest years were defined by her family's political flight—first from Hitler and, after 1948, from Czechoslovakia's Communist government. Albright was a Wellesley alumna, a naturalized citizen, and had worked as a journalist by the time she became a mother for the first time in 1960. She spent the next 30 years simultaneously raising three daughters, obtaining graduate degrees and ascending to distinguished positions in the academic, political and foreign policy establishments. She served as Ambassador to the UN for President Clinton's first term and was appointed Secretary of State at the start of his second term, thereby becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. She played a powerful role in shaping the Clinton administration's intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina while grappling with the other dizzying world events and crises of her tenure.
Since leaving government, she's continued to advise presidents and her (yes, mostly female) successors, has sat on an array of corporate and philanthropic boards, and has launched her own commercial ventures. Meanwhile, she remains a proud immigrant, intellectual, and woman. Her famous brooches, which had been "part of my personal diplomatic arsenal" (as Secretary, she wore a snake during a during a meeting with Saddam Hussein), became the basis of 2009's Read My Pins: Stories From A Diplomat's Jewel Box.