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How to navigate new privacy features in Apple iPhone update
In this Sept. 10, 2019, photo, Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, talks about the new iPhone 11 Pro and Max, during an event to announce new products in Cupertino, Calif. Apple's iOS 13 software update comes with plenty of privacy enhancements - though in some cases, you need to take the time to understand how they work. Among the changes: You'll be able to sign in to third-party services with your Apple ID account rather than Facebook's or Google's. The free update is available for existing iPhones on Thursday, Sept. 19 and will ship with new models out Friday, Sept. 20. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
NEW YORK — Apple's iOS 13 software update comes with plenty of privacy enhancements — but in some cases, only if you take the time to understand how they work.
Among the changes: You'll be able to sign in to third-party services with your Apple ID account rather than Facebook's or Google's. You'll also get more notices and warnings about apps tapping location data.
The free update is available for existing iPhones on Thursday and will come with new iPhone 11 models out Friday.
Here's how to navigate the new privacy features and make the most of them.
APPLE SIGN-IN
Google and Facebook have long made it easy to sign into third-party services without having to create new accounts — and new passwords to remember. Trouble is, by leaning on those companies, you're also opening the door for them to collect more data about you. You may find that disheartening given numerous privacy lapses , especially involving Facebook.
Apple is offering an alternative. The company doesn't have the same need to collect data, as it doesn't count on profits from data-driven targeted ads the way Google and Facebook do. Apple promises it won't track you when you use "Sign in with Apple."
One attractive feature is the ability to mask your real email address. Apple can give you a new, unique email for every service you use, and will automatically forward messages to your own email account. You can reduce junk mail by disabling forwarding from specific companies, while still using that Apple email to sign in. Apple says it won't snoop on messages.
Apps that offer an outside sign-in system, such as Facebook's, must also include Apple's to be on iPhones. But Apple's system is limited to sharing your name and email address. If the app needs more information, you'll have to provide that on your own — or fall back on Facebook or Google anyway.
But don't stray from Apple's garden. You'll need to sign in through a web browser if you use the service on Android, Windows or other non-Apple devices. That eliminates much of the convenience.
Maps, ride-hailing and many other apps need your location data to work. But does your drug store or coffee shop really need to know where you are and where you've been?
Previously, Apple gave you just a few choices on the matter. You could share your location continuously with an app, provide it only when you were using the app, or deny the app access to any location information. (The last choice breaks many apps, and it can be a challenge to turn location back on if you change your mind.)
Now Apple will let you grant location permission temporarily. If you close the app or restart the phone, you'll have to grant permission again. You can keep doing that until you're more comfortable with the app and its use of location, at which time you can make permission permanent.
But permanent doesn't mean sharing while the app is in the background. After you've used an app for a while, the phone will prompt you with details on where and how many times it has tapped your location. Only then can you grant "always allow" access. You can also take it back if you've given it before. The idea is to arm you with more information before deciding.
Unfortunately, there's no "reject once" option to see how well an app works without location. Once you reject it, you'll have to go into settings to turn location back on.
LOCATION, THE SNEAKY WAY
Even if you've denied location access, apps might be able to infer it through Bluetooth connections. A retail store, for instance, might have Bluetooth beacon trackers to detect people who have its app installed. Now, apps must specially ask for that permission. (There are exceptions when a music app, for instance, wants to stream to headphones you've already paired with the phone.)
Apps that have been updated for iOS 13 must tell you specifically why they need Bluetooth. Citi's app, for instance, says it's to enable after-hours entry to ATM lobbies without pulling out your card. You're left guessing with older apps. If you're not sure, just say "no."
Apple is also clamping down on apps' ability to infer your location by identifying nearby Wi-Fi networks, which can be matched to location databases. Apps that want that information must already have location permission from you or meet Apple's criteria for needing that information. This won't affect your ability to use apps over Wi-Fi, as that's set up through your phone, not the app.
When sharing photos through the Photos app, you can now remove embedded location information by tapping on the small "Options" link at the top of the screen. Location is shared by default, and you need to turn it off each time.
You can disable the camera's ability to embed location information to begin with. To do that, go to "Privacy" in the phone's settings, then "Location Services," ''Camera" and finally the "Never" option. This feature exists in earlier versions of iOS as well.
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A new setting lets you silence unknown callers. You'll still hear from numbers you've recently called or ones stored in your contacts, as well as from numbers the digital assistant Siri finds in other apps, such as within your emails. But the iPhone will assume everything else is spam and send it straight to voice mail.
This option is off by default; you need to turn it on under "Phone" in the settings. Apple will also suggest the option when you look through your recent and missed calls.
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Our undergraduate students, Carmen Chan, Cordelia Jin, and Yutong Wu, recently attended the Ivy League Undergraduate Research Symposium to present their research.
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AC/DC: Flick Of The Switch
Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 3 September 1983
FOR THOSE about to cry "Oh No Not AC/DC", I refute you. I'm really sorry about this, but they've made some fine records and remain one of the most dynamic live acts of rock. Of course, the greatest thing about them is dead — the awesome Bon Scott is missed not just in AC/DC but metal quarters generally — but each album sees old Brian Johnson getting that little bit closer to Bon's hirsute tonsilitis. Back In Black is their great record but For Those About To Rock… was drainingly powerful stuff.
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Largest U.S. Grocery Company Rolls Out Discount Drug Program
Kroger and about a dozen other grocery store brands now offer exclusive discounts on common prescription drugs. Here's how it works.
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The Kroger Co. is launching a new program that promises to slash prescription drug prices by up to 85 percent for folks across the country, the corporation recently announced.
The program is called the Kroger Rx Savings Club and will be available at multiple chains that are part of the Kroger Co., including the Kroger grocery store chain. Others in the program include:
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The Kroger Co. developed the Rx Savings Club in partnership with GoodRx, a free tool we detail in "6 Websites That Will Slash Your Prescription Drug Costs." The company says it's rolling out the new program nationwide this month.
How the Kroger Rx Savings Club works
Members of the Kroger Rx Savings Club can get discounts of up to 85 percent on commonly prescribed generic medications for conditions that are common in the U.S., according to the Kroger Co.
There are three main tiers of discounts for the drugs included in the program:
30-day or 90-day supplies (free)
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You can search for specific drugs on the Kroger Rx Savings Club website to find out if medications that you or your household takes are available through the program and what they would cost.
You can also search for participating pharmacies on the program website. The Kroger Co. is the second-largest retailer and the largest grocery store company in the U.S. by sales, according to the National Retail Federation. So, the chances are good that its new program is available at a pharmacy near you.
Joining the Kroger Rx Savings Club costs $36 per year for an individual and $72 per year for families of up to six people. According to the program's website, individual members would save $461 per year, on average, and families would save $1,064.
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Writing about this project has special significance for me as it takes me back to my origins in the world of music and film, which formed the basis of my later career. Guido and I were classmates at the Musikgymnasium Wien (a special upper-secondary academic school with an emphasis on music) and we both finished in 1985 with the "Matura" (A-level). At that time, Guido was a great admirer of American film music, especially of John Williams' scores. His extraordinary talent as a young composer enabled him to write outstanding music in the "Hollywood style" as an 18 year-old student!
Since I am also a fan of John Williams and the works of Jerry Goldsmith and John Barry (to name a few) there was no question that Guido would compose the soundtrack for my first feature-length fiction film, "I Cranici dell'Ibico". It was an epic score for large symphony orchestra, played by the orchestra of the Musikgymnasium Wien.
Looking back today – 27 years later – and after intense studies of Guido's scores of that time I realized the outstanding achievements inherent in these early works. They are particularly noteworthy when you think of the so-called "classical" university studies of composition and conducting at that time in Vienna. American mainstream film music didn't play a role in those studies, and nothing comparable was composed or produced.
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Remington Threatens Move Over Microstamping
by Dan Zimmerman |
Among the great mysteries of the world (why do people drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?) one that has bedeviled gun owners and gun rights advocates for decades is the preponderance of gun manufacturers that are located in decidedly anti-gun states. For some companies, this is due to history and inertia. Colt's been in Connecticut for almost 200 years and it's frickin' expensive to move a business, particularly a manufacturing operation. But at some point, the fact that you aren't wanted begins to outweigh the costs of re-location and Remington may be reaching that decision point . . .
The Freedom Group holding has sent a letter to New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo threatening to redirect new business – and possibly move their existing facilities – if the state's proposed microstamping legislation becomes law in the Empire State.
"Mandating firearms micro- stamping will restrict the ability of Remington to expand business in the Empire State," company chief strategy officer Stephen Jackson Jr. wrote to Cuomo.
"Worse yet, Remington could be forced to reconsider its commitment to the New York market altogether rather than spend the astronomical sums of money needed to completely reconfigure our manufacturing and assembly processes."
But nydailynews.com reports that one of the primary sponsors of the proposed regulation is willing to call the company's bluff.
Senate bill sponsor Jose Peralta dismissed Remingtons warning as "just another tactic being used to try and block microstamping, which is supported by many crime-fighters."
He said gun manufacturers didn't leave California and Massachusetts when those states enacted ballistic identification rules.
Cuomo during his 2010 campaign called microstamping a "common-sense" and "pro-law enforcement" gun safety law.
The governors position has not changed, even with Remingtons threat to leave, Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said.
In a competitive marketplace among states to attract thriving businesses and jobs, it certainly hasn't escaped Remington's managers that there are plenty of more hospitable options out there.
If the company actually announced a move, they would have to hand out line tickets to all of the representatives beating a path to Remington's door from states that would not only welcome a gunmaker with open arms, but would also dangle significant business-friendly economic inducements such as tax breaks, free land, infrastructure improvements, lower individual tax rates and manufacturing-friendly right to work laws.
New York's microstamping bill's not expected to become law – at least not now – as it probably doesn't have the votes to get through the Republican-controlled Senate. But Remington evidently felt a warning shot from Iliona was good insurance. And whether the law passes nor not, if I were running the economic development authority of a gun-friendly state that wanted to bring a thousand or so good-paying manufacturing jobs home, I'd have a trip to western New York penciled in on my calendar.
UPDATE: Click here for news of the NY State Legislature's latest move on microstamping.
I understand that South Dakota has made numerous overtures to various firearm manufacturers in gun-averse states.
Some Sock Puppet says:
I wish they'd make those same overtures to gun owners located in this craphole state. I'd move to South Dakota in a moment if they'd help.
DrewR55 says:
You've mentioned Colt's existing facilities located in CT. but they announced recently that they'll be opening production plant in Florida. Would you say that Colt is reading the writing on the wall?
http://www.coltsmfg.com/About/NewsEvents/tabid/71/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/32/Colt-to-Open-New-Facility.aspx
Dan Zimmerman says:
If you were going to expand your company's operations with a brand new facility and you could do it anywhere, would you choose a location that has onerous regulations on the products you produce, high taxes and demonstrates that it hates your very existence? Or would you do it in a place where your business is welcomed, there are no individual income taxes and you're free to hire anyone you want?
I think he was asking whether the company's future destination was already a foregone conclusion. Namely, Florida.
Derek says:
"…thousand or so good-paying manufacturing jobs…"
Not to mention property tax, utilities services, the workers families ( even more income and sales tax) moving as well.
Matt Gregg says:
Good for the Freedom Group, let's hope Rey follow through and completely pull out of New York.
And just how many firearm manufacturers are there in California and Massachusetts? If there are any in CA then I imagine they haven't left yet because the micro stamping law hasn't been enforced yet. Is MA enforcing their law yet?
It is not law in Mass yet. (Correct? I hope?) I was at the committee hearing on June 22 last year, and have heard nothing about it since. Unless there was some rip van winkle operation going on, I assume I would have heard something from GOAL or NRA, or even on the forums.
The microstamping law was passed but never went into effect because of the absence of technology to allow implementation. As I understand it, there is one guy who has the patent, and believing he's sitting on a gold mine, refuses to license or sell. On top of that, no technology has been shown to be reliable.
MrJest says:
More specifically, the law is written such that micro-stamping will go into effect "when the AG says so"… so, although it's on the books in CA, it will likely never be put into effect. And yes, there are several (smaller) firearms manufacturers in CA and yes, they will most likely flee in a heartbeat if the AG starts the program.
-MJ
F-them. After years of the gun industry experiencing NY and certain other state's (Il, CA, MA, etc) anti-gun and anti-freedom politics, the Freedom Group is now making threats? They just recently relocated Marlin (a once great arms maker) to NY. Real smart FG boys. Couldn't they see the distant writing on the wall?
Ruger not only makes their guns in America (not Austria, Germany, Japan, China), they manufacture them in Arizona and New Hampshire two states that believe (more than others) in liberty and in the RKBA.
"New York's microstamping bill's not expected to become law as it probably doesn't have the votes to get past the Republican-controlled Senate".
— I'm not a supporter of when the media features stories with sensationalist leaning headlines only to later read disclaimers that the upcoming events probably won't happen. I do think a post covering the irony of so many gun makers being located in anti-gun states is fine by itself to read.
BLAMMO says:
Almost funny. Most of the ghost towns in upstate NY (and there are many) became ghost towns during the first Cuomo regime. I doubt Andrew could find Ilion on a map that isn't labeled.
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater says:
Speaking of which, sending a letter to Mario Cuomo probably won't be worth much.. Then again, neither would a letter to the current governor, his son Andrew Cuomo..
D'oh! Text amended.
I know he couldn't find Iliona even with labels.
if this passes, i hope Remington makes good on their promise.
Please enlighten me. Does this law force putting an identifier on the firing pin, or is it laser etching of each cartridge? In the latter case, the patent holders made a huge lobbying effort to force ammunition manufacturers to adopt the patented method, which no doubt would make billions for the patent holders. I suspect that the firing pin identifier has the same underlying motives.
Im not quick sure either, but just like the serial numbers that criminals care so much about, couldnt and etching on a cartridge or any stamping on the firing pin be removed by anyone who can field strip a gun? And what does this mean for reloaders? Lastly, i already paid 25 bucks to gun, if its the cartridges that are unique how much will they inevitably try charges to "register" those?
Or just use a brass catcher on the gun, then stop at the range to pick up someone else's cases and leave them at the crime scene. This law is a joke.
Revolver use will have to become against the law too. No cases will be left at the scene of the crime.
It's hard to see why any company still makes stuff in New York when there are so many options available.
What hasn't Henry moved yet? It's a short jump to Pennsylvania.
Freedom Group says "we'll move if you go forward with microstamping," but what they mean is "we're losing our shirts so we have to consolidate plants, but it sounds better to the gun community if we blame microstamping."
May I say from the bottom of my heart: FU FG. Oh, wait. Jose Peralta already said that.
Hey, I said that above too.
That makes three FUs.
Unfortunately, only Peralta's counts. 🙁
mikeb302000 says:
Shouldn't we all be investing in the stock market? Aren't Ruger, Remington, Smith and Wesson liable to go through the roof between now and when Obama wins the election, and even for a while after?
You gun lovers would have no moral dilemma like I might. Are you all invested? How come I never hear about it?
Actually, I have invested in gun companies. I also have investments in energy, medical, technology, and the service sectors. I like investing money in successful companies, because I like making more money to buy guns and ammunition.
Do you have your money in a bank that is part of the Federal Reserve System the private banking cartel whose monetary policies make it impossible for the poor to feed their children or do you belong to a free independent credit union? Do you use FRN (greed paper banker monopoly money) rather than barter with physical gold, silver, and trade? Will you vote for Obama again who is ultimately responsible for Fast and Furious, and therefore hundreds of dead Mexican civilians? Since guns in America save and protect far more innocent good people than other users harm I am in full support for investing in gun makers. BTW, buying government bonds puts future generations into deeper debt slavery so never buy those bonds.
AZRon says:
Why yes, since you ask, I am invested.
I started with a meager outlay in the mid-90's, continually bought shares, and retired at the age of 40. I'm still enjoying the only thing that Obama has ever done that benefits an honest, self-reliant man.
Please, PLEASE don't tell him that I'm a cracker, lest I be assessed reparations on top of capital gains taxes.
I'm invested in commodities, such as precious metals and guns and ammunition. I need the latter to protect the former.
borekfk says:
If you ask some of the politicians, I'm pretty sure some of them believe they're doing the factory workers a service by having the evil gun company move and lay them off.
I'm with the Democrat – they're not going to do it. Companies stopped having principles decades ago. They'll whine and throw a fit and then bend over and take it in the ass because they're run by cowards who'd rather run the business (and eventually the entire industry) into the ground than lose a few cents off their stock price in the short term.
They bend over, as you so colorfully put it, and then take a tax break to make themselves feel better. Think of a tax break as an anesthetic suppository.
It's hard to say whether they'll move, but you're probably right. Companies that move tend to do so much less fanfare. I've seen two Silicon Valley companies, one a moderately large player and one a huge player in the tech industry, expand their operations dramatically in the (non-Californian) area where I live. They aren't jumping up and down squealing about the hostile business climate or leftist nutjobs running the state (and in many cases local) government; they're just quietly taking their business elsewhere while their California operations wither.
Many of you may be aware that Para (formerly, 'Para-Ord') left Toronto, Canada, after the former anti-gun Mayor (David Miller) banned firearms manufacturing in the city. Para is now located in North Carolina, having taken good jobs and tax revenues with them.
And Para is now owned by the Freedom Group, so you can kiss Para quality goodbye.
Probably Remington is blowing smoke, but they are playing politics like about everyone else. Get a bunch of offers to relocate and see if any are worth while. See what other states will offer in aid, environmental, labor, and infrastructure. I thought Ithaca being in Ohio makes more sense than NY. I know Ithaca is really a different company now. I think liberal anti-gun New England States blow and I would move the stuff to the Mid-West or West. Illinois does not count. Aw…heck move it all to Indiana.
Levi B says:
Maybe they should just do it now and get it over with. They're going to be forced to at some point, might as well be when the gun industry is strong as hell!
Rusty Shackleford says:
I don't think anyone could find "Iliona" on a NY map haha.
Bru Zulsdorf says:
With record sales and record profits, now is the perfect time to move out of the anti-gun NY and to a pro-2nd Amendment state.
Think of all the tax write offs for moving and constructing a new manufacturing facility! I'm guessing Remington could also get special tax incentives from their new "home" state.
Do it, otherwise Obama and the Dems will tax and spend your profits, anyway.
CommenterfromTX says:
All you execs keep in mind there are no income taxes in TX.
Bring the NYSE while you are at it.
Its just a matter of time until finance moves as well.
Mark Turner says:
I would not want to be holding Freedom Group stock after November when Obozo gets his clock royally cleaned.
Mark, is that just wishful thinking or do you really think Obama will lose big?
Consider the bozo candidates on the GOP side, is such a thing really possible in your mind?
Mr Buckeye says:
Please move to Ohio, we could use the jobs!
DaveL says:
In this context, "Common Sense" means "Appeals to the prejudices of a particular constituency, but cannot withstand even moderate scrutiny."
George B says:
Remington headquarters are located in North Carolina and they already manufacture some guns in Kentucky. Remington is part of the Freedom Group family of companies which also includes Bushmaster with facilities in North Carolina. I could see Remington moving more manufacturing to North Carolina or Kentucky to be closer to both management and customers.
Tulsa Jack says:
By the way, what is "micro-stamping?"
Gene Zimmerman says:
I live in Ilion, NY home of Remington Arms since its founding back in 1816. Generations of my family have worked there and my brother currently works there right now. I actually went to Remington grade school the large building on the bottom right of the picture. I'm extremely mad about the new laws. It's not just about the negative effect this will have on my community and the value of my home. It's about our freedoms and the principals of the founding fathers being eroded away.
I listened to the SOTU. Obama pushed his anti-gun agenda during his speech saying the dead deserve a vote. My immediate response question: You say the dead deserve a vote. What about the millions who died fighting to preserve our Constitutional freedoms? What would they say to and about a president who betrays his presidential oath of office?
Jon Boa says:
Let me put it to you this way. I will not buy products from manufacturers who pay taxes to state governements that continue to restricts or hinders the rights given to all Americans by the USC. If the big logo brands will not stand up for my rights, there are PLENTY of the local gunsmiths and dealers who will. I am sorry, but I will not allow my purchase to be taxed by the liberal fascist state governements.
The Obama-nation removed God from their platform until a national outrage forced them to put it back in. Obama-nation college professors want to rewrite the USC because they feel it is outdated? Obama-nation fascist liberals want more gun laws the criminals will not obey, but law abiding citizens will have to. So, criminals will still have guns and citizens will not. Gun bans have failed in EVERY blue state that has them, but the they insist we need a national ban. Fact: Crime actually went down in states where the gun bans were lifted – why? Because the criminals knew the citizens were no longer hapless sheeps for the picking. They had to think twice before comitting a crime because the sheeps may actually shoot back. The Obama-nation always wanted to ban guns and was just looking a reason to do it! The liberal fascists know it it harder to oppress a "well armed militia"! That's why we have the 2nd Amendment! Think America!
All LE Agency's should be made to have all their firearms micro stamp retrofitted in order to protect the public and officer in case the officers gun is stolen and used in a crime.
Anyone that went along with this is a Nazi.
Did you ever wonder if any of those non-booked guns from the phony and illegal gun buy backs ever made it back on the streets ? No way of knowing because they were not purchased legally through an FFL and entered into an A & D Book ? Good way for criminals to have evidence go missing.


Ford suspends production of F-150 trucks
Updated: 7:08 PM EDT May 9, 2018
Ford Motor Co. is suspending production of the F-150 truck, its best-selling and most profitable vehicle, after a fire at a supplier's plant in Michigan last week.Ford announced that it will suspend production of the F-150 truck at its plant in Dearborn, Michigan Wednesday night. It has already suspended truck production at a plant in Kansas City, Missouri. Those are the only plants that make the truck.A company spokesperson said he doesn't know when production will begin again. Ford doesn't expect any disruption for customers or dealerships because it has an 84-day supply of the truck in dealers' inventories.
Ford Motor Co. is suspending production of the F-150 truck, its best-selling and most profitable vehicle, after a fire at a supplier's plant in Michigan last week.
Ford announced that it will suspend production of the F-150 truck at its plant in Dearborn, Michigan Wednesday night. It has already suspended truck production at a plant in Kansas City, Missouri. Those are the only plants that make the truck.
A company spokesperson said he doesn't know when production will begin again. Ford doesn't expect any disruption for customers or dealerships because it has an 84-day supply of the truck in dealers' inventories.


Sugar caster: C.2435 & A-1928
Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Production: Metal Pot Factory
Proprietor: Lambertus van Eenhoorn
Sugar caster
sugar castor
Tin-glazed earthenware
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, moulded in two parts, the upper pierced, tin-glazed overall, and painted in blue. The cylindrical lower part has fluted sides and a recessed base. The upper part has straight fluted sides and a domed fluted top, both pierced by circular holes. The finial or knob is in the form of an inverted cone. There us a thread on the inside top edge of the lower part, and the inside lower edge of the top part permitting them to be screwed together. Both parts are decorated overall with sprays of hawthorn-like leaves and berries, with larger sprays of flowers and foliage at intervals. The lower edge of the cover has a border of white spoted ovals reserved in a blue band, and the lower edge of the body has a border of blue semi-circular motifs with smaller blue spots between them. The finial has a blue summit with a blue zig-zag border below.
History note: S.E. Mossel of Amsterdam, 6 Manette Street, Charing Cross Road, London, from whom purchased on 9 November 1900 (with seven other pieces)
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Delft ⪼ Holland ⪼ United Provinces of the Netherlands
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Circa 1694 CE - 1721 CE
Label text from the exhibition 'Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800', on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum from 26 November 2019 until 31 August 2020: Sugar caster with sprays, berries and flowers. Metal Pot Factory, Delft, Netherlands, 1691–1724. Tin-glazed earthenware
Decoration composed of cobalt
buff Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Moulding : Buff earthenware, moulded in two parts screwing together, the upper part pierced, tin-glazed, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: the V is formed by the upstrokes of the L and E which are joined
Text: LVE/4/IK
Method of creation: Painted in blue
Type: Factory mark
References and bibliographic entries
Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge page(s): 316
Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800
Delfts aardewerk, Geschiedenis van een nationaal product page(s): pp. 154-97
Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800)
Accession number: C.2435 & A-1928
Old object number: 1158
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 27 November 2020 Last processed: Wednesday 11 January 2023
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Sugar caster" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73511 Accessed: 2023-01-27 13:51:57
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Sugar caster

Accession Number: C.2311-1928
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Paul Richard Ogle, 84 years, of Indian River, MI passed away on Wednesday, January 13, 2021 in St. Luke's Hospital, Maumee, OH, near Toledo.
The son of Paul Scott and Leona L. (Brubach) Ogle he was born October 10, 1936 in Toledo, OH. Paul was a 1956 graduate of Woodward High School in Toledo. Career Military, he served in the U.S. Army from 1960 to 1962 Regular Army then served as a staff administrative assistant in the 983rd Reserve Unit until his retirement in 1993.
Paul loved to camp in his Scamp camper traveling all over the country, going to the annual truck show in St. Ignace, lake freighters, and lighthouses. He was in declining health the past several years, but always had the energy to drive from Indian River to Toledo on a moment's notice. He enjoyed staying at his nephew, Todd's, and was very fond of Toddy, Caleb, and Kimberly Ogle, Todd and Kelli's children. His niece, Lynn Zeitler, gave him the nickname, "Energizer Bunny". Paul was the character Uncle of the Ogle Clan.
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CORRECTED DATE UNTIL JULY 16, NOT JULY 17 – This picture by Rabbi Abraham Cooper shows Cooper, left, and Nick Cannon after a conversation on Thursday, July 16, 2020 in Burbank, California. (Rabbi Abraham Cooper via *)
A prominent rabbi who has met with Nick Cannon says the TV host and producer is "genuinely concerned about the damage" he has caused by anti-Semitic utterances and they intend to work together to repel hatred.
Cannon *ologized to the Jewish community this week for his "hurtful and divisive" words the day after ViacomCBS cut ties with him over commenting on a podcast discussing racial prejudice and after speaking to Rabbi Abraham on the phone Cooper, the Simon Deputy Dean of the Wiesenthal Center.
Cooper asked him to post the *ology on social media and then met him for a three-hour chat on Thursday at Cannon's corporate headquarters in Burbank, California.
"He seems like someone who is sincere in his desire to make sure people understand his *ology," Cooper told The Associated Press.
"But also … so as not to move forward and say, 'OK, I have to get back to my normal things, thank you for giving me a lifeline after making this terrible mistake.' It wasn't. The push was: "OK. What do we do now? How do we roll up our sleeves? What can we do together? '"
Cooper said he was confident that Cannon will use its widespread social media presence to openly talk about mistakes, fight for social justice, and reject hate messages.
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These offense reports were released this past week by law enforcement agencies:
Lisa M. Slater, rural Peabody, reported a 2006 Articat ATV worth $5,000 was stolen between 5 p.m. Nov. 24 and 8 p.m. Nov. 25 on Needle Rd. near 59th Rd. in rural Peabody.
Battery of law enforcement officer
Marion assistant police chief Steve Janzen reported being kicked several times by a woman while he was responding to calls of reckless driving and a possible stolen 2015 Ford F-250 between 5:30 and 6 a.m. Friday at the Country Inn Motel.
Julie E. Starks, 38, Marion, was arrested on suspicion of battery of a law enforcement officer, criminal deprivation of property, disorderly conduct, and driving with a suspended license.
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20 Percent for MSEs is a Must from April 2015: Kalraj Mishra
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While showcasing yet another strong evidence of Government's action oriented approach towards MSME's reforms, Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), Kalraj Mishra in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha informed that all Central Public Sector Units (CPSUs), Central Government Ministries and Departments must procure 20 percent of products and services from micro and small enterprises (MSEs).
While Public Procurement Policy emerged as a great motivational boost for MSMEs, but this statement from the Minister himself at the highest forum of Indian democracy is undoubtedly a great news for Indian MSMEs.
Mr Mishra stated, "The Government has issued directions under the Public Procurement Policy for Micro and Small Enterprise (MSEs) Order 2012, to all the Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs), Central Government Ministries and Departments for an overall procurement of minimum of 20 percent of products and services from Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) units."
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By Joshua Sokol
Huge supercolliders aren't the only way to search for new physical phenomena. A new generation of experiments that can fit on a tabletop are probing the nature of dark matter and dark energy and searching for evidence of extra dimensions.
Video: David Moore of Stanford University describes how, inside this chamber, silica spheres probe for distortions of gravity.
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To answer some of the biggest unsolved questions in the cosmos, you might not need a supercollider. For decades, theorists have been dreaming up a Wild West of exotic physics that could be visible at scales just below the thickness of a dollar bill — provided you build a clever-enough experiment, one small enough to fit on a tabletop. Over distances of a few dozen microns — a little thinner than that dollar — known forces like gravity could get weird, or, even more exciting, previously unknown forces could pop up. Now a new generation of tabletop experiments is coming online to look into these phenomena.
One such experiment uses levitated spheres of silica — "basically a glass bead that we hold up using light," according to Andrew Geraci, the lead investigator — to search for hidden forces far weaker than anything we can imagine. In a paper uploaded to the scientific preprint site arxiv.org in early March, his team announced that they had detected sensitivities of a few zeptonewtons — a level of force 21 orders of magnitude below a newton, which is about what is needed to depress a computer key.
"A bathroom scale might be able to tell your weight to maybe 0.1 newtons if it was very accurate," said Geraci, a physicist at the University of Nevada, Reno. "If you had a single virus land on you, that would be about 10–19 newtons, so we're about two orders of magnitude below that."
The targets of these searches feature in some of the most compelling questions in physics, including those that center on the nature of gravity, dark matter and dark energy. "There's a whole panoply of things these experiments could look for," said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. For example, dark matter, the massive stuff whose existence has been inferred only on astronomical scales, might leave faint electric charges behind when it interacts with ordinary particles. Dark energy, the pressure powering the accelerating expansion of the universe, might make itself felt through so-called "chameleon" particles that a tabletop experiment could theoretically be able to spot. And certain theories predict that gravity will be much weaker than expected at short range, while others predict that it will be stronger. If the extra dimensions posited by string theory exist, the tug of gravity between objects separated by a micron might exceed what Isaac Newton's law predicts by a factor of 10 billion.
Janet Conrad, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is not directly involved with any of these small-scale searches, thinks that they complement the work done at massive accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider. "We are like dinosaurs. We have gotten bigger, and bigger, and bigger," she said. But experiments like these offer the chance for a more agile kind of fundamental physics, in which individual researchers with small devices can make a big impact. "I really do believe that this is a new field," she said.
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For theorists like Arkani-Hamed, what happens just beyond the limits of our vision is interesting because of a curious numerical connection. The Planck scale, the infinitesimal size scale in which quantum gravity is thought to rule, is 16 orders of magnitude smaller than the weak scale, the neighborhood of particle physics explored in the Large Hadron Collider.
Theories that blend these length scales often compare the two. (Physicists will take the length of the weak scale, square it, then divide this number by the length of the Planck scale.) The result of the comparison yields a range of distances matching what may be another fundamental scale: one that runs between a micron and a millimeter. Here, Arkani-Hamed suspects, new forces and particles may arise.
Similar sizes arise when physicists consider the dark energy that fills empty space throughout the universe. When that energy density is associated with a length scale on which particles may be acting, it turns out to be about 100 microns — again suggesting this neighborhood would be an auspicious place to look for signs of new physics.
One such search started in the late 1990s, after Arkani-Hamed and two colleagues suggested that gravity may be leaking into extra dimensions of space, a process that would explain why gravity is far weaker than the other forces known to physics. At scales smaller than the extra dimensions, before gravity had a chance to leak away, its attraction would be stronger than expected. The researchers calculated that these dimensions could be as big as a millimeter in size.
This inspired Eric Adelberger and his colleagues to search for those dimensions. They already had the device to do it. In the 1980s, Adelberger and the so-called Eöt-Wash group at the University of Washington had built a device called a "torsion balance" that would twist in response to small forces. At first the group used the balance to search for a "fifth force" that had been proposed based on century-old experimental results. They failed to find it. "We built an apparatus, and we found that this thing wasn't true," Adelberger said. "It was so much fun, and it was much easier than we thought it would be."
Now they set out to work on Arkani-Hamed's prediction that gravity would be much stronger at small distances — before it has a chance to leak into extra dimensions — than when objects are farther away.
Since 2001, the team has published results from four torsion balances, each more sensitive than the last. So far, any diminutive dimensions haven't revealed themselves. The team first reported that gravity acts normally at a distance of 218 microns. Then they reduced this number to 197 microns, then 56, and finally 42, as reported in a 2013 study. Today, their data come from two different instruments with pendulums. One pendulum twists at a rate determined by the strength of gravity; the other should stay still unless gravity behaves unexpectedly.
But they haven't been able to shrink their measurements much beyond 42 microns. Currently, they're tweaking the 2013 analysis, and they hope to publish updated numbers soon. While Adelberger is hesitant to cite the new limit they're pushing for, he said it's unlikely to be under 20 microns. "When you first do something, the bar is relatively low," he said. "It gets so much harder when you make the distances shorter."
Techniques borrowed from atomic physics may indicate another way down the ladder, even to nanoscopic scales.
In 2010, Geraci, then a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., suggested a scheme to probe hidden forces at tiny scales. Instead of using the pendulums at Washington, small-force hunters could use spheres of silica levitated by lasers. By measuring how nearby objects change the position of a floating bead, this kind of experiment can look at the forces spanning just a few microns.
The experiment is able to probe scales of smaller lengths, but there's a catch. Gravity is most easily measured using massive objects. Geraci's design, now built, uses spheres just 0.3 microns in size. David Moore, a physicist at Stanford University who works in the lab of Giorgio Gratta, has his own working version that uses larger silica spheres about five microns in diameter. Compared to the Eöt-Wash team, which uses torsion balances that are a few centimeters wide, both experiments trade away the larger gravitational signals for more precision at close range.
Geraci's and Moore's masses are so light that the teams are not yet able to directly measure the gravitational pull of nearby objects; they can only see it if it turns out stronger than predicted by Newton's law. That may make it harder to determine if gravity or something else is behind anything strange they might see. "One thing we always like to point out about gravity is that having the force sensitivity to see gravity is basically table stakes to play the game," said Charlie Hagedorn, a postdoc at Washington. Adelberger adds, "If you want to know what gravity does, you've got to be able to see it."
But to Geraci and Moore, the levitated beads are a general platform they can use to investigate small physics beyond just gravity. "The vision here is that once you're able to measure these tiny forces, there's a lot you can do," Moore said. At the end of 2014, Moore conducted a search for particles with electric charges much smaller than one electron. Some models of dark matter suggest these "millicharged" particles could have formed in the early universe, and could still be lurking in ordinary matter.
To try to find these particles, Moore held positively charged spheres between a pair of electrodes. He then zapped the entire apparatus with flashes of ultraviolet light to knock electrons off the electrodes. These electrons then attached to the positively charged spheres, turning them neutral. Then he applied an electric field. If any millicharged particles were still stuck on the spheres, they would impart a small force. Moore didn't see any effects, which means that any millicharged particles must have an exceedingly small charge, or the particles themselves must be rare, or both.
In a more recent test published in April, Moore, working with his colleagues Alex Rider and Charles Blakemore, also used the microspheres to look for so-called "chameleon" particles that may explain dark energy. They didn't find any, a result that echoed one published last year in the journal Science by a team at the University of California, Berkeley.
"These small-scale experiments are — I don't know what it's called in English — 'wild goose chase'?" said Savas Dimopoulos, a physicist at Stanford who was a co-author of the paper with Arkani-Hamed that proposed the search for millimeter-size extra dimensions. "You don't really know where to look, but you look wherever you can."
For Dimopoulos, these tabletop searches are an appealing cottage industry. They offer a cheap alternative way to study provocative theories. "These ideas have been proposed over the last 40 years, but they've been staying on the back burner, because the main focus of fundamental physics has been accelerators," he said.
It's a pitch Dimopoulos has been honing in talks over the last three years. Several experiments like those aimed at short-range forces are in the works, but they're underfunded and underappreciated. "The field doesn't even have a proper name," he said.
What might help is what Dimopoulos calls a "super lab" — a facility that would bring many such tabletop experiments together under one roof, like the research communities that have built up around high-energy projects like the Large Hadron Collider. Conrad, for her part, would like these endeavors to be better supported while still remaining at universities.
Either way, both argue that more effort is warranted in the search for lower-energy particles, especially those predicted to lurk at scales only a little smaller than the width of a human hair. "There is a whole zoo of these things," Dimopoulos said. "High energy is not the only frontier that exists."
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EPSRC Network for Japan – UK Nuclear Opportunities
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The overarching aim of the JUNO project is to nurture and network the UK and Japan academic communities in civil nuclear energy, leading to the collaborative development of novel methodologies and tools, to address common challenges in decommissioning and waste management, reactor safety and regulation, nuclear energy policy, public communication and engagement, and environmental safety.
The JUNO Network will build on the existing portfolio of bi-lateral projects established through the EPSRC / MEXT sponsored UK – Japan Civil Nuclear Research Programme [1-3], to facilitate enhanced networking, collaboration, and annual engagement, between the UK and Japan academic communities. The Network investigators will leverage their experience and existing links to lead Network activities in their domains of expertise. The priority objectives of the Network were established with due regard to development of the UK – Japan Nuclear Dialogue [4-6]:
1) To deliver an annual meeting for grant holders in the UK – Japan Civil Nuclear Research Programme, to promote collaboration and knowledge exchange between these projects.
2) To effectively network the wider UK and Japan research communities in the core themes of the Network, maintaining an agile approach to new priorities, within the framework of the UK – Japan Nuclear Dialogue.
3) To hold scientific meetings / conferences which bring together researchers in the core themes of the Network, in the UK and Japan, together with practitioners in industry and decision makers from government agencies.
4) To deliver activities and initiatives to stimulate and pump-prime innovative ideas and develop research collaborations and proposals in the challenge themes.
5) To engage and bring together, where possible, ongoing research projects, CDTs and Networks in the EPSRC nuclear fission portfolio, to enhance UK – Japan collaboration
1. UK Japan Civil Nuclear Research Programme, 2014 (link).
2. UK Japan Civil Nuclear Research Programme Phase 2, 2015 (link).
3. Japan Civil Nuclear Research Programme Phase 3, 2016 (link).
4. Second Annual UK-Japan Nuclear Dialogue, 2013 (link).
5. Third Annual UK-Japan Nuclear Dialogue, 2014 (link).
6. Fourth Annual UK-Japan Nuclear Dialogue, 2015 (link).
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US Affordable Care Act boost to Mexico
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In an article in Skift, Josef Woodman, CEO of Patients Beyond Borders, estimates 1.4m Americans engaged in medical tourism in 2017, and that the Affordable Care Act has encouraged some people to shop around for healthcare.
The article claims that medical tourism to Mexico is rising, in part due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
'The ACA really encouraged people, and sometimes forced people, to shop around for care, which is something that Americans were just not used to doing," said Josef Woodman, adding that some doctors began lowering fees to retain patients. Woodman also said that he believes that the over-cautious US travel advisory for Mexico could hinder medical visitation. Medical tourism is however designed to be "a very protected experience," said Woodman — many providers pick up travelers at the airport and shuttle them around.
The article says that while many Americans — often those older than 50 who live in border states — rely on medical tourism, it still hasn't permeated the public consciousness. It quotes Paul McTaggart, founder of agencies Medical Departures and Dental Departures, who says Medical Departures' revenue comes from the care providers, not the shoppers, and in Mexico, he has seen 40% growth year-on-year. "For us, for healthcare, we're quite happy with that," he said, adding that low-cost airlines strengthen his business.
"We're a largely xenophobic culture," Woodman says, of some Americans' distrust of care in Mexico, which could be waning.
In 2006, Mexico had no facilities accredited by Joint Commission International, a nonprofit that accredits health care organizations, according to Patients Beyond Borders. Now it has eight. Mexico welcomed between 1.4 million and 3 million medical tourists in 2016, the discrepancy likely arising from undocumented individuals returning home for care.
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Following the example set by Black Lives Matter (BLM) funders, the Highlander Center is also using the less-than-transparent fiscal sponsorship model to expand the reach of its Marxist agenda more rapidly.
Fiscal sponsorship is a fast way for a new "non-profit" entity to solicit and accept tax-deductible donations using the 501(c)(3) umbrella of its fiscal sponsor who is responsible for reporting to the IRS. This arrangement has been criticized as potentially enabling tax-deductible donations to flow quickly to an entity ultimately deemed not qualified to receive this money.
For example, in 2016, the Thousand Currents Foundation agreed to act as the fiscal sponsor for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM GNF), the money chest for the BLM movement. Since the BLM GNF was not a 501(c)(3), the fiscal sponsorship shielded it from "having to file regular Form 990 reports with the IRS, [or] disclos[ing] comprehensive financial data in the same way a tax-exempt nonprofit must."
Instead, the BLM GNF operated as a "project" of the Thousand Currents Foundation. Under this arrangement, millions of dollars flowed into the BLM GNF.
BLM co-founders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi served as advisors to the BLM GNF which has been noted for its lack of transparency. Between 2017 and 2019, the BLM GNF spent about $4.6 million dollars on travel, consultants and personnel versus a measly $328,000 granted to outside organizations including some BLM chapters.
As of 2018, Garza and Tometi have moved on to other projects.
Garza founded the Black Futures Lab (BFL) whose fiscal sponsor is the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) which the Heritage Foundation says is a promoter of the Community Chinese Party.
The Black Futures Lab supports the BLM GNF and the Movement 4 Black Lives. Recall, that Highlander co-director Ash Lee Henderson is on the policy team of M4BL and that Garza, considers Ash-Lee Henderson "fam."
There is plenty of cross-pollination in funding sources for these "social justice" organizations with money funneled through a spider web of foundations. Highlander's donors listed by Influence Watch include several Soros-funded front groups including Tides and the Proteus Fund. Other organizations in Tennessee including TIRRC and the American Muslim Advisory Council have received money from the Proteus Fund.
Highlander's last available 990 from 2018, shows an annual revenue of over $4 million dollars and the other Highlander Fund showed an end of year balance of almost $3 million. Flush with money, Highlander's co-directors are ready to hire an executive assistant. They are also advertising for a full-time digital strategist and a person to expand Highlander's Economics & Governance program.
The Center's 2016 annual report showed continued financial support from TN-ACLU director Hedy Weinberg and her Vanderbilt sociology professor husband Dan Cornfield, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the TN Arts Commission.
Highlander Center gets into fiscal sponsorship game
To date, Highlander is acting as the fiscal sponsor for seven organizations which include, BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity), National Bail Out, People's Advocacy Institute, Power U Center for Social Change, SiOP (Standing in Our Power), Southern Connected Communities Project, and The STAY Project.
All of these organizations are doing their part for "transformative justice" and community organizing. Highlander describes its fiscal sponsorships as "Incubating & Innovating Radical Work – Highlander incubates and innovates radical work by offering fiscal sponsorships and high capacity support to projects and networks." (see December entry).
Power U's "principles of unity" mimic much of Ash-Lee's M4BL's policy platforms – "the systems of White Supremacy, Capitalism, and Heteropatriarchy are the roots of oppression in our society."
Among Highlander's fiscally sponsored organizations, Power U and The Stay Project target young people, complimenting Highlander's own youth programs – Children's Justice Camp (ages 6 -12, to "work toward a society that celebrates diversity and equity through the brilliant minds of our youth"), Seeds of Fire (ages 13 -17, to train youth into social justice warriors "to build collective power and influence critical shifts in policy decisions and practice"), and training programs for college students.
In 1935 Hitler reminded us that "he alone, who owns the youth, gains the future."
The concept was simple – children of the Hitler Youth movement would be immersed in the ideology of Naziism using education and Nazi propaganda to ensure that Naziism would control Germany's future.
It appears that the Highlander Center agrees with Hitler about molding young minds. It is using fiscal sponsorships to expand its reach and help raise a new generation of Marxists.
There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the Highlander Center's use of its
financial growth combined with its national reach and connectedness to its Marxist leadership.
For example, in 2018, the TN Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) had Highlander use its "local and national relationships" to bring an intense and negative focus to ICE arrests of illegal aliens working at a meatpacking plant in Bean Station, Tennessee.
Ash-Lee Henderson is the driving force for the Highlander Center, committed to using her national connections and growing resources to create the "new America." She explains it this way – if the "Breathe Act" which she worked on with Congress squad members Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, which "uses federal dollars to reward cities and counties that defund their police departments" doesn't get signed into law then, she "promise[s] that you will continue to see the kind of fervor and rigor of peaceful and passionate and righteously rageful protests in the streets until Black people get what they want."
BLM leader Patrisse Cullors, a self-described Marxist, puts it more simply – if their demands aren't met, then "burn everything down."
And they have proven that they mean it.
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Vouchers Pass a Test
A recent study tracking the performance of urban schoolchildren who'd been given the opportunity to attend private schools was not an unqualified boost for government education vouchers.
It found impressive gains among black students who received privately funded tuition grants awarded by lottery in three cities. They outpaced peers who also applied for the grants but failed to win them. The difference was an average 6.3 points on standardized exams.
Obviously, better schools can help lift the academic performance of black children. But are vouchers to private schools the only way to do that?
The advantages experienced by the children in private schools included smaller classes, a more disciplined atmosphere, more emphasis on homework, and greater parental involvement. These elements are not exclusive to private schools.
Exceptional public schools - including publicly funded charter schools and special academies - make a point of trying to build them into their operation. But since public governance of urban schools is often difficult to reform, that makes vouchers for black children all the more appealing.
One surprising finding in this study, even to its authors, was that not all kids showed improvement. White and Latino children in private schools showed no comparable test-score leap. This may indicate that black kids leaving deficient schools have the most to gain from better ones.
The disparity also suggests that voucher programs, should they become more widespread, would have widely varied impact and appeal.
Such studies are useful as different parts of the United States experiment with vouchers, and their legality is tested in courts.
But the US is a long way from giving up on public schools, especially in urban areas. Parents and political leaders can still push for educational reforms that emphasize academic basics and accountability - and that build as much choice and quality as possible into the public system.
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Josefine Cronholm
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Josefine Cronholm - ©ACT / Steven Haberland
Josefine Cronholm / vocals
Henrik Lindstrand / piano, guitars, keyboards, programming
Gustaf Ljunggren / guitars
Gunnar Halle / trumpet
Thommy Andersson / bass
Per Ekdahl / drums
String quartet: Julie & Emilie Eskær , Anna Gwozclz , Iben Teilmann
Music and lyrics by Josefine Cronholm
Arranged by Josefine Cronholm and Henrik Lindstrand
Produced by Henrik Lindstrand
Excecutive Producer: Siegfried Loch
Recorded by Henrik Lindstrand at Sorthus Studio, Copenhagen, 2009, and Kruså Appartment, Copenhagen, 2008
Trumpet recorded by Gunnar Halle at Gunnars Room, Oslo, 2009
String quartet recorded by Lars H Nissen at Sorthus Studio
Mixed by Lars H. Nissen & Mastered by Jørgen Knub at Timeless Recording, Copenhagen
"I grew up in the middle of a big forest. You could shout without anyone hearing you, which is something wonderful. For me, everything began with quietness, with the quietness of nature surrounding me. This will always remain rooted deep within me," explains Josefine Cronholm, the Swedish singer, composer and resident of Copenhagen for many years. On hearing her ACT debut, Songs of the Falling Feather, listeners will quickly understand what she means by this. There hasn't been a singer like her - someone who makes quietness so enchantingly audible - for a long time. Cronholm's clear, high voice comes from out of nowhere, developing and weaving around sounds and melodies with a calmness which is quite unique.
Substance, rather than effect, is Cronholm's credo and could well be the reason why this breathtaking voice is only just starting to conquer the music world outside Scandinavia - at the age of 37. "I don't tend to think in the categories of success which are measured by reaching as many people as possible. I do things according to my instinct," she says, and her instincts were usually right. During her vocal studies at Copenhagen's conservatory, Django Bates asked her to join his Quiet Nights band, with whom she subsequently spent four years travelling the world. The collaboration which followed with percussionist Marilyn Mazur, one which continues today, was also defining. Two CDs with her own songs and her own band, Ibis, brought the breakthrough she had been waiting for between 2002 and 2004, when she won two Danish jazz Grammys and the Swedish Jazz Award as "Artist Of The Year". The press described her as "diverse, highly musical and bold" and her enthralling voice was compared to that of greats like Cassandra Wilson and Dianne Reeves.
Yet even at this point Cronholm followed her instinct and temporarily put her highly promising career on hold: "My father died and I had my second son which resulted in a much more radical change than I had anticipated. I had to concentrate on being a mother whilst at the same time finding out who I really was again." She started to write songs again, "this time at my own, slow pace." The result of a good five years of introspective reflection is now her impressive comeback Songs of the Falling Feather. The search for the essence, the essential element of a feeling, a moment or a sound, is reflected in every moment of the album.
Cronholm's song texts are filled with many personal experiences in which you can hear a love of impressionist painting. "I always had a kind of mysterious impressionist painter in my head," says the singer. "The songs found me, not the other way around, it was almost a compulsion." They tell of the mystery of love ("Mystery"), the search for lasting happiness ("Angel"), saying goodbye ("Sailor"), and at the album's beginning on "Paralyzed", of the paranoia of everyday modern life.
"When I had finished the texts and the melodies, I felt quite lonely and looked for musical companions." She found this in Henrik Lindstrand, an old friend of hers with whom she had collaborated many years previously in the ambient band, Factum Est. Lindstrand, who later became well known with the rock band Kashmir and who had done a lot of work for film and television, played not only most of the instruments from the piano and e-guitar to percussion and programming, but also took on most production duties. Further companions from the past also joined in: Thommy Andersson, the bassist from Cronholm's band Ibis, the well known Norwegian trumpeter Gunnar Halle and, from her time in Sweden, Gustaf Ljunggren on the lap steel and acoustic guitar, as well as drummer Per Ekdahl.
For the dialogue with the vocals, Cronholm and Lindstrand consciously chose a particular instrument for every piece. "I wanted to avoid any filling and to penetrate through to the soul of the song, to its pure core." And indeed she has, impressively succeeding in finding the perfect background for her lyrical sound "paintings" - be it a violin, a piano, a trumpet or a high 1970s e-guitar. Often it is the eclectic sounds, familiar to the ear from musical history, which guide us safely into her world.
The singer shines brighter than ever before with her intuitive, original vocals which are able to almost endlessly enrich every individual sound, with the most delicate variations. "I was really scared before my first singing lesson that I would lose the intuitive contact to my voice, and with this a part of myself, but this didn't happen. All my teachers helped me in the technical sense but above all they supported me in finding my own expression." Songs of the Falling Feather proves just how successful this was