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Bolognese ragù
The ultimate multi-use meat ragù from Jenny Chandler
You're best to use a heavy cast iron casserole for ragù—it will temper the heat better than a saucepan. A diffuser is handy for harsh gas or electric hobs, but if you're having real problems keeping down the heat this could be the moment to dust off the slow cooker or to use a low oven (about 150C). The only rules are low and slow.
Butter and milk transform this dish—giving a sweet depth, they are perfectly at home. Bologna is, after all, in the heart of the Italian dairy land of Emilia-Romagna.
For more uses for ragù—and why it's well worth cooking in batch—read Jenny's latest blog
60g butter
2 tbsp olive oil
2-3 medium onions (about 250g), finely diced
3-4 medium carrots (about 250g), finely diced
3 sticks of celery (about 150g), finely diced
200g pancetta or bacon (unsmoked), finely diced
150g chestnut mushrooms (or other tasty varieties), wiped clean and finely diced
1kg minced beef (or a mix of 700g beef and 300g pork)
250ml full fat milk
300ml red or white wine
2 x 400g cans of chopped tomatoes
Melt the butter with the olive oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pan. Add the finely diced onions, carrots and celery to the pan. Known as sofrito, this is the foundation for virtually every Italian sauce or stew. Stir the vegetables to cover them in the oil and then toss in the pancetta (or bacon). Cook over a low heat for about 5 mins before stirring in the mushrooms.
Stir the vegetables from time to time to stop them from catching and burning. Wait for them to soften and collapse while the pork fat renders. This will take about 15 mins in all, with such a large quantity. Ragù is all about patience.
Turn up the heat and crumble in the minced meat, stirring to remove the raw redness and creating flavour as you go.
Turn down the heat. It's time to add some liquid: milk or wine first? Such a question can spark hours of heated discussion among Italian cooks. I go with milk first and it's always worked wonderfully well. Simmer the milk for 2 mins before adding the wine. Don't worry about boiling off the alcohol, the long, slow cooking of the sauce will deal with that. Add the tinned tomatoes, a good pinch of salt and ground black pepper.
Now reduce your heat to the lowest point possible—the idea is to simmer the ragù gently, it should do little more than tremble, with the odd bubble blipping to the surface. It's nigh impossible to achieve a low simmer on many hobs but don't despair, you could put this in the oven (see intro). Be sure to leave the pan uncovered for the first hour of cooking—the idea is to evaporate off some of the liquid.
I set my timer at 20-mins intervals to check up on the ragù: that I still have enough liquid, giving it a stir to prevent any catching and keeping an eye on the temperature. Cover the pan once you have reduced the sauce. It should be moist, but not swimming in juices.
After at least 3 hours, or maybe 4 if you have them, the sauce will taste intensely savoury with hint a sweetness from the milk. Now's the time to correct the seasoning and decide where to take your ragù next.
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Globetrotting knights in shining armour are descending on Sydney as they prepare to go toe-to-toe at an annual medieval fair.
Now in its fourth-year, the St Ives fair packs in a bevy of old world activities including cannon firing, archery and birds of prey demonstrations.
But it's the highly anticipated jousting tournament which keeps the punters coming back.
Medieval enthusiasts from around the globe compete in the ancient sport which features real steel and solid wood lances.
Professional armourer Luke Binks has been jousting for more than 15 years and competed in a dozen countries.
"The tournament at St Ives is really the pinnacle of what we do," Mr Binks told AAP.
"We train really hard throughout the year mainly for one or two events of this calibre."
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A Place in the Sun, aka SPF, WTF?
A short, powerful explanation of racial equality.
A short, powerful explanation of racial equality.
"May I call you Dental Claims Girl?" he asked, reaching around me to push the elevator button.
"Only if I can call you 11th Floor Guy," I replied, removing my gloves.
"I have a name, you know," he replied. I turned to look at him.
"So do I."
He asked my name and said "Ah. You're French."
"You're Armenian."
"Tunisian," he said, shrugging.
"So you speak French."
He asked why I thought he was Armenian.
I didn't really have a reason, I guess. I told him as much, too. It was suddenly like I'd entered an episode of Sports Talk. Only sentences with five words or less.
The elevator reached my floor.
"To be continued?" he said, holding the door open.
"Yea," I called over my shoulder, "serial elevator conversations!"
"It would be a best selling book!"
I got some Greek yogurt at the market this evening. I was just reading this morning how I could make some for myself and had gone to get the ingredients. Clearly I intended to make some for myself.
I should mention that I do not, as a general rule, choose to make yogurt in my kitchen.
I've been wanting Greek yogurt for some time – I'd safely say months – and haven't been able to find any. I therefore took to the internet in search of recipes. I'd made my way through a fair number of them and had chosen one that seemed authentic yet fairly simple and made my way to the grocery store, armed with this information.
I had to be directed to a number of items.
Halfway through this, I ran into one of the stock boys that I always see on Wednesdays. He asked what I was doing and I explained the whole thing about the yogurt.
"Greek yogurt?" he asked, playing with the diamond stud in his ear.
"Yea… it's yogurt but thicker."
"We have Greek yogurt…"
I looked at him through squinty eyes, head half-cocked.
"You mean to say," I started, gesturing with my bag of Twizzlers, "that you've had this all along?"
"No, I just stocked it last night. C'mere"
I followed him to the "Health Market" and smiled as he made jokes about it being my favorite section. He reached behind the fruit and produced Greek with Honey and Greek with Blueberries. One in each hand.
"Organic… I know you like that," he said, chuckling, "and Greek and single serving for my favorite single lady."
I smiled back as he took my basket.
"I'll put these ingredients back."
I'm doing badly at being balanced. I sort of feel like it's leftover from before, really, as though I was already not doing the laundry so that fact that the laundry remains undone is just residual. However, this evening as I was being guilt-tripped quite effectively, I started to get that familiar feeling.
"You're just not being disciplined enough," a voice inside my head hissed.
It's true:
– That I am almost always up by 6, 7 at the latest.
– That I spend an average of 8 hours a day in my apartment and six of those tend to be spent asleep.
– That I have about three jobs.
– That I go to the gym two or three times a week.
It's not true:
– That I have a family to care for.
– That I have a pet.
– That I am incapable of doing my own shopping.
– That I am using my time 100% wisely.
But still, I can't imagine being very much more disciplined. I suppose I could start planning my day in 15 minute segments. Or I could plan out all of my free time, all the time thus defeating the very idea of free time. I could refuse to do anything spontaneous again ever.
These solutions just seem so excessive.
I was running for a small period of time with a large German man. By small period I mean until it got cold. So… one week just before Thanksgiving, that's how long I ran with him.
M Marine was asking me about it during a recent long, tedious drive to Ohio. We had just finished trying to calculate the actual speed of his truck if you took into account the new, larger tires. I suppose it was time to move to a more mundane subject. He asked if I'd been running recently with his friend the Giant Gentle German (heretofore know as GGG).
"Of course not," I said to him, turning my nose up at the thought.
"Why not?" he asked in return.
"Because it's cold," I replied. The 'you idiot' was probably implied a little more strongly than necessary.
"Cold just makes you work harder," he laughed. "It makes the survival instincts kick in."
I'm sorry, but whomever it was that discovered this should just be locked in a room somewhere. I remember when I first read that article in the New York Times. I posted it to facebook. I was highly skeptical and not because I just don't like to exercise, as it has been suggested.
It's because, dear reader, freezing cold temperatures do not inspire me to rush out and run far distances. It makes my jaw hurt, my nose hurt, my lungs hurt. There is a distinct feeling of suffocation in the winter times for me and my immediate survival technique is to get out of there. I mean, who when faced with freezing climes ever thought to themselves "best go for a run" before they thought "best make some form of shelter"?
Yes it's true, GGG may think along the lines of physical activity to stave off death but I want to construct a lean-to next to the jet fuel storage units.
Jet fuel, yes, since we run at the airport. Air field, something like that. Ran, rather. We ran for a week there. Running, I'm told, is bad for the body so I've been keeping up the yoga and hiding from the cold.
"You know, you should really leave soon," he said to me. It was JJ calling from five floors down. "I'm leaving at noon, I'll take you to your car. It'll probably need to be scraped."
He was right, it would be in need of a good ice scraper. I agreed with him on that.
"I can't leave yet," I said.
"Are you at least going to leave early?" he asked me. I told him I was leaving around 4. He scoffed at the idea.
Almost immediately I received a call from M Marine. I missed it but he left me a message saying that he was watching my weather and I should probably leave early. He then sent me a text saying the weather in my state was about to get bad and I should leave now if I could.
I called him back, because I didn't actually listen to the voice mail he left. He told me I needed to leave now if I could. "I've been watching the weather there and here both," he said calmly, "and if you left right now you might miss everything."
I hung on until 2:30, scraped the ice off of my car, and headed south for Christmas. I was nearly to the state line when my mother called to ask where I was – apparently she'd been told I left at noon. I asked what the weather was like and she said it was doing nothing and was 40 degrees out. She was inside a church though, so I called M Marine to ask him.
"Hang on, I'll go look." A moment later he told me there was no precipitation but there were gusty winds. "About 36 degrees. We won't be getting really bad weather for another hour. Will you be home by then?"
"Yea, I'll be home. I'll call to let you know I'm safe."
I hung up and found a new text from JJ telling me that the weather up north was officially bad and he hoped I'd left. Also to call when I got there so he knows I wasn't dead.
And all the time I was being annoyed by the constant pestering, I reminded myself that it's better than not having anyone who cared at all.
I arrived safely, called everyone I supposed to call, and was asked this question by M Marine:
"How's the car?"
"Well, it has little icy strips along the side where the rain froze. And also the antenna looks like a skewer of ice cubes. The side mirrors have a centimeter thick coating of ice. There is a little accumulation of street sludge behind the wheels."
"… that's good… but I guess I meant that whole problem you had with starting it."
"Oh, that's fine too."
Again, good to have people fretting over you.


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Creating a project page on Ravelry
It's no secret that I love Ravelry. Like really LOVE it. It honestly kind of blows my mind that this resource exists for the fibre community & it's totally free!
99% of my pattern purchases are from Ravelry. I don't have anything against Etsy or standalone websites - but Ravelry makes it so easy for me to browse, purchase, and organize patterns. Their library feature is convenient, and having all of my patterns in one place that I can easily access from multiple devices means my patterns are 100% portable (gotta love that)!
I've recently started to upload project pages on Ravelry for all of my WIPs and FO. My page of projects is like a scrapbook of my fibre journey. Besides photos, I can include important information like what hooks and needles I use, which yarn I used, and any other notes I want to jot down. It makes it easy to pick up those abandoned WIPs!
Project pages on Ravelry are public, meaning other users can see them. You can link them to specific patterns, which makes them a nice tool for browsing what others have created with a certain pattern. As a designer, I can tell you nothing makes me happier than seeing project pages for my designs.
Creating projects is simple - in fact, I created my latest project page in under 3 minutes. I put together a little video to show you how to create your own projects within Ravelry. You can view it here, on my new IGTV channel.
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US Senate votes 50-48 to do away with broadband privacy rules; let ISPs and telecoms to sell your internet history
Despite widespread disapproval from constituents, S.J.Res 34 has passed the United States Senate with a vote of 50-48, with two absent votes. Earlier today, at 12:25 Eastern March 23, 2017, the US Senate voted on S.J.Res 34, and will use the Congressional Review Act to strip away broadband privacy protections that kept Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telecoms from selling your internet history and app data usage to third parties. S.J.Res 34 was first introduced by 23 Republican Senators earlier this month and its blitz approval is a giant blow to privacy rights in the United States.
The resolution, which is now effectively half passed, will hand responsibility of broadband privacy regulation from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and disallow the FCC from making any rules protecting Internet privacy ever again.
The 50 Senators that voted for S.J.Res 34 are (thanks to happyxpenguin):
Senator Roberts (R-KS)
Senator Lee (R-UT)
Senator Boozman (R-AR)
Senator Blunt (R-MO)
Senator Crapo (R-ID)
Senator Scott (R-SC)
Senator Cotton (R-AR)
Senator Hatch (R-UT)
Senator Capito (R-WV)
Senator Alexander (R-TN)
Senator Toomey (R-PA)
Senator Perdue (R-GA)
Senator Cochran (R-MS)
Senator Inhofe (R-OK)
Senator Ernst (R-IA)
Senator Lankford (R-OK)
Senator Collins (R-ME)
Senator Sullivan (R-AK)
Senator Thune (R-SD)
Senator McCain (R-AZ)
Senator Graham (R-SC)
Senator Wicker (R-MS)
Senator Grassley (R-IA)
Senator Burr (R-NC)
Senator Hoeven (R-ND)
Senator Tillis (R-NC)
Senator McConnell (R-KY)
Senator Heller (R-NV)
Senator Cruz (R-TX)
Senator Daines (R-MT)
Senator Portman (R-OH)
Senator Murkowsky (R-AK)
Senator Cassidy (R-LA)
Senator Flake (R-AZ)
Senator Johnson (R-WI)
Senator Rubio (R-FL)
Senator Corker (R-TN)
Senator Risch (R-ID)
Senator Gardner (R-CO)
Senator Young (R-IN)
Senator Barasso (R-WY)
Senator Moran (R-KS)
Senator Cornyn (R-TX)
Senator Enzi (R-WY)
Senator Kennedy (R-LA)
Senator Shelby (R-AL)
Senator Rounds (R-SD)
Senator Paul (R-KY)
Senator Isakson (R-GA)
The FCC broadband privacy rules are closer to ending – allowing your private internet history to be sold
The Senators that voted for this have been lobbied by the telecoms and ISPs. Those in support of this stripping of privacy rights have even filed with the FCC attempting to claim that web history and app data usage information is not sensitive information. The EFF put it concisely: Senate Puts ISP Profits Over Your Privacy. Now, the only chance to maintain the hard earned FCC broadband privacy rules lies in defeating H.J.Res 86, the House version of this resolution, which will likely be voted on in the House of Representatives within the next month. It's up to us to Save Broadband Privacy and make sure that we Don't Let Congress Undermine Our Privacy.
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The resolution, which is now effectively half passed, will hand responsibility of broadband privacy regulation from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and disallow the FCC from making any rules protecting Internet privacy ever again.3 years ago
This already happens…this bill doesn't change anything.
Your phone, computer, tablet, etc. ALL track EVERYTHING you do and companies sell that info.
Don't believe me?
If you have the FB app…even if you have ALL the permissions turned off. They will still listen and track what you say.
Try it, talk about switching insurance providers and watch the next ad that pops up on your news feed.3 years ago
Because an ISP is a utility company… And utility companies shouldn't be allowed to collect this vast amount of data and sell it (they have access to more data than any other company on the planet. They have more data on you than the government does. The government goes to the isps for most of their data collection purposes…). This is very bad.
Internet service is basically a necessity to modern Life. You can live without Facebook, but it's nearly impossible to live in modern society without internet. Going without internet is like going without power. Most jobs require you to have internet access. I don't think a single job requires you to use Facebook.
I don't use Facebook, google or any of those services. I use Linux. Very little of my data is collected and sold and I want to keep it that way.
Time to start using a vpn again…3 years ago
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Linux is not a ISP service. Linux is technically not even a full operating system either. Linux is the kernel in which linux "distributions" use. When you login and see your desktop, thats not linux. Thats your desktop environment such as XFCE, Gnome, KDE, etc…
But you are right ISP's get all the data that pass's thru them where as if you don't like Facebook you can simply not use it. But heres the kicker. Your data is on the internet whether you use the internet or not. You Social Security number is stored on a computer that is connected to the internet on the government level. Your name, address and phonebook are on the internet even if you do not use the internet. So is your living history. All of this is even if you NEVER have used the internet. So like my grandma who's never owned a computer yet alone had an internet.. All of that information is already on the internet.
So thinking your data is not collected, would be wrong. Tho you at least did say "very little". My guess is you would shit your pants if you realized just how much data is on the internet.
VPN will give you "some" protection. But then again it didn't work well for some hackers. Apparently not all VPN's are created equal. And then the final nail in the VPN coffin is that if the FBI kick the door down and yank the power plugs on those computers then do forensic recovery on the hard drives guess what, some of that data will still be there. Problem is when you delete data your not really overwriting it you are just telling the computer hey w/e i don't wanna use this chunk of memory someone else can. This is why when programming you must null out the bytes or assign a value to it before reading the value otherwise you get pure garbage (unless using debug mode which automatically sets your data to 0x00 for example).3 years ago
Mattthew Warner
I feel like you just false advertised and wasted my time. I just repeatedly infant of ALL my devices which I never turn a single primary feature on. And not 1 damn add popped up for what I was talking about. Also 90% of the ad's I do see are from amazon/ebay. Where if you make a purchase Facebook gets a commission. And they don't even have to "sell" your data.. your data is all stored conveniently in your cookies… know whats better then buying your information and having to pay a half a trillion dollars for a server farm big enough to actually house that volume of data? Tricking everyones computers into hosting this information instead.. wait, this does exist called cookies.. and you have wasted my time. x_x
-Former Web Developer and current Computer Programmer3 years ago
Former Web Developer or not, you don't seem to understand how cookies work at all.
Cookies are not used to store 'all your data' and never have been.
They basically store an identifier into Facebooks database. So yes, Facebook absolutely need a server farm to link that cookie id to 'all your data'
Go and update your tech knowledge because its horribly inadequate3 years ago
Paul, it might be you who doesn't understand cookies completely. I think Matthew is right. I had created my resume in MSWord and stored it in my documents folder. I did NOT upload it to the internet or attach it to an email because, as I was still working on it. A few days later I found it in a temporary internet folder filled with cookies, ready to be uploaded the next time I connected to the internet. So, I know cookies can contain code, (a proc, an instruction), who's purpose is toseek & grab data from your computer, then upload at next connect.3 years ago
I'm a web developer. It's not true. Cookies are not programs. They are tiny text files that are used to store your ID and your preferences for a particular website (such as the "remember me" on login forms). They cannot "do" anything by themselves, and no website can look at cookies that were created by another website.
Your temporary internet folder does not hold cookies. The cookies are held in another folder (type "shell:cookies" into your windows-r run box to see where they're stored).
I don't know what's going on with your resume, but if you viewed it with IE at any point, it would easily end up in your temporary internet folder. But NOTHING in your temporary folder is uploaded. Ever. That's now this works. That's not how any of this works.3 years ago
I promise you, I understand cookies completely 🙂
> I found it in a temporary internet folder filled with cookies, ready to be uploaded the next time I connected to the internet
This is not accurate. It doesn't upload all your cookies en-masse. They can only be sent to the actual website domain which set the cookie in the first place.
> I know cookies can contain code, who's purpose is toseek & grab data from your computer, then upload at next connect.
No, there's no code or instructions whatsoever. Nothing 'runs' cookies.
Its just a bit of text (usually cryptic looking), but the site has encoded whatever information it wanted to store in there, and its sent to that site next time you access it.3 years ago
Yeah, this is just not true.
Your ISP has no ability to routinely view your Facebook communications, since it uses https and is encrypted end to end. It may be that your ISP is logging the encrypted packets for some users, AND it may be that the FBI or security services are able to decrypt these, in cases where they need to, and with enough time and effort.
But to suggest your ISP is routinely scanning your Facebook messages as plain text and then mining it for marketing data, is just utter nonsense and shows a basic misunderstanding of the technology being used.3 years ago
Because the bittorrent protocol does not use http or https.
Now you may access a torrent download site via https which is encrypted, but this does not automatically mean the *.torrent download is
In these cases your ISP *CAN* see that you have directly accessed a .torrent file and the site is was downloaded from.
There are improvements to bittorrent in recent years which mean its possible to download torrents using an encrypted protocol, (in which case your ISP *CAN* still see which site or download host you have requested, from DNS requests, but cannot see which file or torrent you have requested).
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_protocol_encryption3 years ago
In addition to what Paul said, those who own the copyright will oftentimes download the torrent themselves as a "peer" and will be able to see which IPs are violating their copyright. And with admissible proof that this IP was sending packets of data violating their copyright, they'll then request the contact info of those IPs to the ISP (internet service provider) to send you a letter.3 years ago
Eric Espinoza
Torrenting and other p2p services use the same network port for their connections. ISPs may not be able to see the encrypted information that is being sent/received but they damn well can see what port is being used for the information. They can also see what IP addresses you're connecting to. There are public trackers that are known for distributing pirated software. If you qualify for a few of these criteria, they can infer that you are using p2p services to download pirated software.3 years ago
Eric Espinoza
Well I wouldn't jump to that conclusion so quickly. Every ISP is a but different but I'm sure that there's a clause somewhere in all their Terms of Service saying that you shouldn't torrent pirated software, receiving or distributing. Torrenting isn't bad, it's just a better way of hosting certain files. Ubuntu distros have an option of being downloaded via p2p. Is this bad? No. But since ISPs aren't looking at what you're downloading sometimes it's easier just blanketing any p2p connection as potential wrongdoing so any action on p2p ports can flag you as a potential criminal.3 years ago
No, the copywriter holder (Let's say NBC for example) downloads the same torrent, makes note of all the peer addresses and then contacts your ISP to IP address w.x.y.z downloaded The Office illegally from your network.
Then your ISP sends you a warning letter saying, NBC contacted us referencing your IP address saying you downloaded The Office illegally. Stop now or we will terminate your account, hand your contact info to NBC, and they will sue you.
The ISP is the messenger in this case, not the accuser.3 years ago
One acronym. DNS. Look it up. Most people use their ISPs DNS servers. They already have all your DNS requests logged. Even if you use 3rd party DNS, that DNS provider could sell your usage. Finally, the primary ISP can easily keep logs of all your browsers GET traffic (Source + Destination IP Address).
The article never said anything about tracking exactly what is typed within https connections.3 years ago
You do realize this is a different thing, right? If you write something in the Facebook app, of course facebook listens and tracks it. You're literally handing it to them.
This bill is about allowing your internet provider to share and resell information about what you do on your computer. Whether it's facebook, or gmail, or a web search, or opening a web page in incognito mode, running any program that accesses the internet (they all do now). Unless you unplug your computer from a wall, this makes it legal for a company (that in all likelihood already has a monopoly on providing broadband to your area so has zero incentive to do anything to keep you happy) to package your entire online behavior and make it available to the highest bidder.3 years ago
Where are you getting your information?
Above is a link to S.J. Res 34. The text of which states that its sole purpose is to codify into law that the rule created by the Department of labor, "81 Fed. Reg. 32391", shall have no effect, essentially negating it.
Curious, I decided to actually -read- the rule in question, to see why the Department of Labor would make a law protecting internet privacy, and not the FCC (which is an independent agency).
The rule in question can be found here:
Now like I said, I read the damned thing. In it the word "internet" appears only 36 times, all in section headers. "Browse" doesn't appear at all, "History" only appears 17 times.
In fact, the entire rule has to do with pay rates and overtime and which employees are exempt from receiving overtime pay for overtime hours.
I see absolutely nothing in any of the previously mentioned locations regarding anything to do with the internet, browsing history, personal information, or the selling of data.
Either you, or I, are very confused here. Perhaps you could clarify?3 years ago
Curtis Weyant
You're linking to an old bill from a previous Congress.3 years ago
That's not it, this is: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/343 years ago
Tim Walsh
they are talking about the SJ34 from the 115th congress happening this year (2017-2018 – see link) you posted the link to the 114th congress's SJ34 from last year
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/34?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22S.J.Res.34%22%5D%7D&r=13 years ago
Dan Robinson
Pay to play! Some things never change. How can congress serve the public in good conscious, when they are selling our rights to the highest bidder.
Clearly the public does not want their every move tracked. If we don't like how an app or website tracks our efforts, then we at least can assimilate and boycott. With this new millstone, the public is trapped and sold out for the almighty dollar.3 years ago
Stops about 90% of ads and tracking done on my computer. The internet version of the Do Not Call list. IF you order anything online that just opens up you computer for more ads. I just update the blocker once a month. http://www.aboutads.info/choices/3 years ago
Great! Start with the senators first. Start selling them. Next, business. Big companies would bay big to see what the next big idea a company is planning to make. And finally, government. More money there. It's a good day to be alive. Now excuse me, I'm gonna get myself rich.3 years ago
Robert Wilson
The story is misleading. I learned a long time ago to check stores like this.
"Sensationalism" is good click-bait.
http://www.snopes.com/2017/03/15/senate-bill-internet-privacy/3 years ago
Pandora's box is open!
If the internet came with a warning, the booklet would be the size of the old yellow pages. When you surf the internet for information it isn't free and far from a public library. Business want to build a model of every user, so they can sell, target and brainwash you to buy products. This happens at the supermarket, pharmacy, and retail stores. That is why we will never have privacy on the internet or at the stores we shop in.3 years ago
James Stamulis
I don't know crap about computer technology but i would like to know when did we the people ever say to the government and private sector that we want them to spy on us every way they can because i sure as hell want my privacy back not because i am committing crimes but because it should be my right unless i am committing crimes. Just more proof we are not really represented anymore.3 years ago
I may be wrong here, but its my choice to go to F/B, twitter or any other website and yes i realize iam being watched..My problem is I have only One choice for my ISP where i live…Why should they have the right to monitor EVERYTHING I do and profit from it…I pay them good money every month3 years ago
Christian Gains
This folks, is NOT a "WAKE UP" call…IT IS a "GOTCHA!" declaration! An IN YOUR FACE, "THOUGH S#*T!"
"WHOWANTSTO KNOW56" is ABSOLUTELY right! The "Alphabet Soups" ALREADY have INSTANT ACCESS to your info, 24/7-365 & HAVE HAD for quite some time…pretty much ever since Phil Zimmerman, [PhP program designer], was given the option he couldn't refuse: "1 million $$$,{4 the "back door"}; OR, 1 million years, {prison time}!!!"
Welcome to the "neo-1984″…Where they're NOT hiding anything anymore, they're SOOOO already in CONTROL, "Big Brother" is simply telling you the TRUTH, and laughing in your face!
IF you HAVEN'T read it! READ the original "1984", and LEARN the depth of their derangement! (esply clearly detailed on {Pgs.140, [8th line from top]…thru 143, [6th paragraph…OR through line 26]}…The thots expressed there, are NOT really FICTION, they're LITERALLY, ALMOST Prophecy!!!…hmmmmm…on 2nd thot, they ARE prophecy!!! We just HATE to believe it…as do Winston & Julia….
THIS SHOULD alert ALL to just how "bought & sold" our Representatives actually ARE!!
IF this passes the Senate!!! (NOTE: Neither Rep. Paul, NOR Isakson (either were NOT present, OR refused to vote…???) They're EITHER our ONLY willing "STANDARD BEARERS" Or they just "went along, to get along"…need to find THAT fact out!
This puts me into THINKING MODE…Get ahold of the "DARK ANGEL" T.V. Series, (Jessica Alba's first appearance I believe), and note the "FORYOUREYESONLY" character…THAT is where we're headed…to the "DARKNET WORLD"…and below, [as it also is UTTERLY COMPROMISED!] (note the number of criminals who've been caught on it {DARKNET} — pedophiles ESPECIALLY!)…
FOLKS! You'd BEST get working on a VERY COMPLICATED encryption, (at LEAST that MIGHT help?!?!…tho "No Such Agency" has had "THE BEAST" for years now…capable of forcing ANY encryption known, as far as I know…(note how the FBI, {which are, by NO MEANS better equipped than NSA}, found HELL-R-eees 30,000 e-mails}, for an example of just how capable THEY are)…
The SIMPLE TRUTH is…It's TIME to get to praying & seeking GENUINE wisdom, not just YOUR knowledge…as to WHAT to do!
THIS IS an "in your face" declaration of ALL OUT WAR!!!…
Get to LEARNING how to dodge this bullet…AND!!! START calling YOUR Senator and DEMANDING they NOT allow this "back stabbing" to go thru…(REMIND THEM…"WE the People…"; put Trump INTO office, and WE CAN & WILL take THEM OUT!!!!)….DON'T RELAX!!! DO IMPACT!!! NEVER QUIT! GIVE'em S#IT!!!3 years ago
Pale Writer
Now based on government parallel construction there could be two of the same thing. Or two same ISP's that are not exactly the same thing nor reporting the same thing of internet usage. Right?
Say someone else is using your ISP who is a pedophile that you don't know about because you aren't getting any of the information reported back to you quarterly annually weekly or whatever? Then someone else with your internet ID fingerprint could be feeding criminal and nefarious information usage like electronic device and website visit fingerprints that could look like you or your computer users and might be but also has a chance that it is not. How's anyone going to tell the difference between safe sound sober non criminal internet users vs those that are via anyone's ISP history?
I think it's a bad idea and puts even more people at risk for treat fusion data false reality and or also legal fiction profiles to be brought up on only what might be that one person or who knows? What if it's a whole household of family and non family like foreign exchange students or whatever like that who uses the same device that isn't there's? Perhaps some similar concern using internet cafe and library computers etc. What's that going to say about all the various people who might use those computers or devices that belong to the public and private owners of those places and businesses to access the internet?
I think alot more should have been done into investigating and reporting in real news like alt right news sites what all good things and what all harmful or derogatory and potentially inflammatory things that can come from passing this bill and making it into law before anyone just does it?
You know. Like a little (QC) quality control check with transparency to the public sort of thing. Do you remember what that looks and sounds like. Yes that is a little bit like good idea accountability. Because that's what might be what comes back to anyone unsuspecting that they might have to be accountable for something then eventually also.
Because not everyone is going to be able to have Hillary Clinton style level immunity from prosecution on everything all the time. FBI's James Comey even said that too. "That if anyone else does what Hillary did with her State Departments private unclassified server and emails and classified documents set to that already immune free from prosecution third party unclassified server and handler himself?" "But if anyone else did that then they could be prosecuted for felony crimes."
So where is uniform and regulated evenly with transparent accountability for everyone everywhere regardless of who they are in this news information,Hillary's scandals and any matter these days?
Well at least GOA reported that President Trump over ruled Obama's Social Security gun ban for all Americans alike. Thank you Mr Trump. Now might I be able to get my own estate property guns back without a signature for anything admitting anything also? Because none in government required anyone's signature or fingerprint from me or from my guns or estate executor Head manager when those acting in US government law enforcement who were not performing very good law at all had taken firearms away from here last year without anyone in government having a warrant nor accountability nor transparency for them to do so nor why. Now they say I have a felony and I haven't been convicted of any felony crime yet in any court of law here in the US. Because I never had that trial yet on that felony state charged me soon as I Filed papers to get ready to charge state employees for various criminal acts. Then suddenly my papers get removed from File and mailed back to me. And two new charges suddenly appeared in place.
Now that is fact. That is what really happened. Can you even imagine that crazy insane undermining things that also betray the public trust with taking their ISP and what websites they might of visited?3 years ago
Joe Smith
was the phone company allowed to collect every phone call we made and sell it to advertisers? unless you are using a proxy server or tor your isp knows and logs every web site you visit. just deleting your cookies won't protect you. when you post on facebook you are voluntarily giving that data to facebook. when you use google search you are voluntarily giving that data to google. there are other search engines you can use. you don't have to post on facebook, but it is very difficult to hide from you isp. people need to send mail to whitehouse.gov telling trump to veto this bill or else you will vote for all dems in 2018.3 years ago
Simple solution. Just build your own. Spying occurs every day, from the time a bird finds a bite to eat, to the moment you were taking a crap and the NSA blue-screened your windows PC. Either way, the bird is trying to survive. Quite simply the American government is trying to survive. Well, if it wants the data, then it has to pay for it. Warrantless wiretaps, no problem charge 1000 to 2000 dollars a day, per tap, and it will fix the issue.3 years ago
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Bad for everybody? But why?
Because once you know your search is not private you will alter it selling the advertisers a bill of tainted goods and the middle man gets away as the only winner.
Government must be laughing at you jerks. That is how most government seem to look at you as.3 years ago
Well first of all, it's not hatred. But you're absolutely right, as a conservative, I am deeply ashamed with every traitorous republican politician that voted for this. I would have expected this kind of behavior from leftists, but not from conservatives. They are all traitors to the people of the U.S.
I guess we don't have any conservatives left in congress.3 years ago
Andrew Taylor
all the IT nerds in this thread explaining how something can be done … funny. I'm a CompSci major, how it happens is easy & immaterial. their is a big difference between Google & FB using info you voluntarily give them by using their apps, and agreeing to their Ts&Cs, allowing them to target advertising, is way different than allowing your ISP provider to sell all your browsing activity to any and all takers, without providing your consent… IS WAY DIFFERENT3 years ago
Baby Algebra Toys
Do red states have broadband access?3 years ago
Arline Bichner
Internet was our shelter where we were secured and anonymous. Now they are trying to kick us out. It is sad.3 years ago


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I am writing this blog for a very smart and accomplished student who now attends Purdue University. I have started corresponding with him under a program that Purdue offers for career counseling and mentoring. He expressed concerns about "choosing the right major" but went on to reflect that it is "through those 'mistakes' that we learn and develop into the person we are and become in this world".
For anyone reading my blog posts, you already know that I come from very modest financial underpinnings. "Avoid The Cinnamon Rolls" is about the time we didn't have 15 cents in our household and the utter regret I felt in asking my dad for 15 cents only to discover he was broke. But, that was long ago and far away and happened when I was a second grader. Later as young adult, I engaged in behavior that revived some of my feeling of regret with far more severe consequences. This is the story of one of my big mistakes. I share this with him and you to help make his point.
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After graduating from high school, I was fortunate to be admitted to Purdue University in the Pre-Vet program. Because I did well on some of the college placement tests and in high school science and math, I was placed in some advanced classes during my first term at Purdue. Some of those classes were also used to eliminate students from some of the more rigorous majors. In my case, my family had expectations that I would become a professional, a veterinarian. My mother and father used to brag about their son who was "going to become a veterinarian". Since education was highly valued in our family, and since I was the first of my eleven siblings to express a desire to graduate with an advanced degree, my parents made the most of it. They told everyone we knew about my career plans with great pride.
When I arrived on campus at Purdue, I recall my father dropping me off in West Lafayette, Indiana at Cary Quadrangle. This was to be my place of residence while living on campus for the duration of my college years. The "quad" was full of history and a beautiful ivy covered building. In Fort Wayne, I grew up in a turn of the century three story house. It was, by far, the oldest house in the neighborhood. This wasn't a restored victorian "painted lady". No, it was a plain white old house with cracks in the walls that you could see snow blow through in one of the upper rooms on the third floor.
It had one bathroom and four bedrooms. My seven brothers and I shared two bedrooms and slept three to four to a bed. We had no privacy. Our clothes were subject to inconvenient disappearances when our siblings "borrowed" the brand new sweater. It might be returned pilled and wrinkled after it reappeared. What was yours was not yours alone.
We ate pretty basic fare. We all shared the one and only bathroom. I constantly feared that one of my friends might come to visit and see the chaos that was the interior of our house. This was the result of crowded conditions and limited resources. I apologize to my siblings as my memory is clouded by circumstances which paint my objectivity with less than brilliant colors. Many of them have much more positive recollections, but they grew up under slightly different circumstances and would see things in a much different light. For me, however, I couldn't wait to move away and "restart" my life in different circumstances.
When I arrived at Purdue, I was independent and free to mingle with my peers. For the first time in my life, I would be measured without the "baggage" of my upbringing. I was free to set the stage for my new version of the world. That isn't to say that I was dishonest about my upbringing or status. But, I ate what everyone else ate. I dressed like everyone else and lived in the same quarters as everyone else. I also attended classes that were more advanced placements, and for those who knew this, I was respected for my academic acumen. This elevated me somewhat from my peers, as I had tested out of some of the more basic courses. For that reason, I felt that I was everyone else's equal and not inferior in any way. I fit in and I loved it.
In the dorm, there was constant activity up and down the halls. I was invited to go along whenever someone yelled out "party". Off we went to frat houses, sorority houses, or to the "Pig and Whistle" which was a local bar. I would hang out at the bar into the wee hours of the night socializing and having the time of my life. Soon, I found that the alarm clocks didn't work and I began to miss classes. When I made it to class, I was unprepared and I crammed for exams. I didn't even show up for some of my labs. By the end of the term, I was on academic probation. It was then that the realization that another term of socializing would mean that I could be dismissed from school. During that time, the Vietnam war and the draft was "knocking on my door". Failing out of school meant certain tours of duty as a Marine or Amy draftee. That also meant almost certain death or injury as a foot soldier in Viet Nam. With this in mind, I moved to a different dorm where I didn't know anyone. Tarkington Hall had a lot less character than Cary. It was known to house many of the grad students known less for their social acumen and more for their study discipline.
My new roommate and I barely spoke. Each day, we went to our corner of the room, turned on the desk lamps and studied. I was never more disciplined. But, I was scared. By the end of that term, I found myself on the Dean's List. However, my cumulative grade point average was still abysmal. I was also kicked out of the advanced placement classes. Why that is important is that admission into Vet School was premised on superior academic performance. Getting into Vet school was extremely competitive. Part of the assessment for admission was an evaluation of grades in the context of the difficulty of each of those classes. To get an "A" on one of those classes was a mark of distinction. To get an "A" in a lower level class was good, but not GREAT. To get into Vet School, you needed to excel. My first term was the death knell of my ticket into Vet School. I had blown it. There was no going back. I couldn't resurrect my grades in undergrad. There was no deferment after undergrad, so an advanced degree was out of the question during those times.
I remember my best friend in high school (who got admitted after two years at Purdue due to his perseverance and hard work) inviting me to the Vet School during his first year of those classes. We were in the kennel area where he was showing me a dog he used for surgical procedures when one of the professors walked up to me and asked who I was. I told him that I was Don's friend. He said, "you are not a vet student, you will need to leave right away". He sent me out the door. As I walked back to my room I started to cry and kept crying most of that evening thinking about how I had left my life on the trash heap of success. I blew it! And I knew it.
As I sit here at the computer, as a tenured professor in law school, where I have been teaching for almost 20 years, I can tell you that it is something I absolutely love to do. My plans to be a Vet were sabotaged by me alone. I made very bad decisions in my first term of college, but the price I paid turned out to be an unanticipated benefit. The path I followed as an officer in the Air Force, a Sales Rep for a Japanese company and finally a law degree with a tenured position as a professor of law couldn't have been predicted by me. If I had it to do over again, I would choose the path I ended up following, not the one my parents and I planned on.
As someone in undergraduate studies, or even in high school, the trajectory of your career path may be one that plan and follow. However, more often than not, your path will be dictated by circumstances. Some will be under your control, many of them will not. So to worry about making good choices is an exercise in futility in most cases – unless you are the underling in a monarchy with a predestined path to the top. But, fortunately, most of us will experience the excitement of life changes and not be locked into a single destiny. Do well, do good, and give it your best effort. If you fail, don't despair, move on and move ahead. Life is good, keep on the lookout for the positive outcomes that are all there waiting for you to discover and act upon them.


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Kendrick Lamar kicked Sweetlife Fest founder off stage; Tove Lo flashed the crowd (SZA almost did) — pics
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"Billy Idol is going to be on this stage," Mikaiah [of The Bots] told the crowd during their set. Adding, "Maybe he'll say hi to me backstage." And while it never actually played out that way, the brothers did see a whole lot of Tove Lo at her set a few hours later. "Her boobs were the highlight of the day for me," Mikaiah told Billboard. "She flashed the crowd three or four songs in!" [Billboard]
The Sweetlife Festival went down at Columbia, MD's Merriweather Post Pavillion this past weekend (May 30-31). Day 1 was headlined by Kendrick Lamar, who recently collaborated with festival founders Sweetgreen for the "Beets Don't Kale My Vibe" salad. Kendrick brought up Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman for "m.A.A.d city" after asking a fan to come on stage and rap with him, but said the only qualification is you have to know every word to "m.A.A.d city." Jonathan… did not know the words and Kendrick very quickly kicked him off the stage. Instead he brought up another fan named Ayanna who did in fact know every word and was quite the enthusiastic performer too. Video of that is below.
Kendrick also brought out SZA during his set (video of them playing "Poetic Justice" below), and she also played her own set that day too. Her wardrobe at the fest was pretty revealing, but she kept it PG 13-rated, unlike pop singer Tove Lo, who seems to be making it a tradition of flashing her fans during concerts. Video of her doing so at Sweetlife (which you shouldn't watch at work) is below. As you can see above, The Bots were stoked.
Also on day 1 was Sinkane, and pictures of him, SZA and Kendrick are in this post. The Pixies played that day too. We missed them, but we did just catch them in NYC and NJ. Billy Idol and Lucius played that day too, and pictures of their sets are here.
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Near Springport in Jackson County, Michigan — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
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Erected 1915.
Location. 42° 22.377′ N, 84° 41.937′ W. Marker is near Springport, Michigan, in Jackson County. Marker is on Eaton Rapids Road (State Highway 99), on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Springport MI 49284, United States of America. Touch for directions.
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Lil' Wayne needs to watch his back because someone is coming for his No. 1 spot.
See, freestyle battle rapping is as old as the genre of hip-hop itself.
Whether it was Kool Mo Dee versus LL Cool J back, Nas versus Jay-Z (who are now, as the kids say "tight") or 50 Cent versus any rapper ... rap battles are as American as apple pie. However, when hip-hop and hoops cross paths, that's when it gets interesting.
Enter stage left, Shaquille O'Neal.
The Big Cactus recently took to the stage of a New York night club and spit some hot fire in the direction at former teammate and mortal enemy Kobe Bryant in the feud that will seemingly never end.
Is that a good thing? For people like me, yes, it is. It gives us something to write about. Something to shoot in an e-mail to your co-workers or others you may know who are trapped in the cubicle in search of something that will make their day. And it gives me the opportunity to splice two of my favorite things: sports and hip-hop.
And can you blame me? Check out these hot lines by Shaq:
"I love 'em / I can't leave 'em / I got a vasectomy / now I can't breed 'em."
That's some Lil' Wayne stuff right there.
"It's like Patrick Ewing having more rings than me."
Nice. Way to take down Pat in his hometown. That's ballsy and I like that.
With those two lines alone, the starting center for the NBA's Phoenix Suns has lyrically outshined multi-million dollar selling artist 50 Cent.
So Kobe, tell me how does Shaq's ass taste?
I'll be awaiting your response.
P.S. I can't wait 'til Weezy hops on the remix to this one.
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- Wednesday, June 25, 2008
- Posted by The Ludameister at 1:18 PM
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My modus operandi was to acquire up at four thirty a.m., cod my bagged luncheon (three-bean salad) at the nutrient area, and then squash into a pickup motortruck truck with as many other flower people that would suit before heading for Nashville. We'd toke up a couple of modern times on the way, which caused mass confusion upon our reaching at the occupation sight, when we could happen it, as we all scrambled about trying to retrieve what the Hell we were supposed to make . . . or even where we were! Then person would announce, "Let's blend some cement," or some such as thing, and all of us, to the last hippie, would get mixing cement, owed to Virgin Mary Wonder's unbelievable suggestiveness. Once we got down to business, however, supervisors would get setting out lines and excavators would get doing their things, and we actually built better solar places than the State of Volunteer State — and cheaper!
Shortly after the "Four O'clock Vibes" (where everyone would go negative for a one-half hr or so), we would head back to the Farm arriving toward evening, sometime after six, covered in cement dust and soiled as law-breaking — and facing cold showers. The lone hot H2O in the house was engineered by our imaginative and inexpensive hippy solar H2O warmers — long lengths of achromatic hosiery draped all over the roof soaking up the sun's beams — but the women and children always had first shot at the small spot of hot H2O that the hosieries produced... and that was all right with me.
The local bulls tolerated our drive back and forth to Nashville, for unknown, charming reasons, and one late night, twelve of us, all very high and jammed into a bedraggled avant garde like sardines, were coming back after working a few years at our vegetarian eating house in Nashville. When we had to halt for gas, we establish ourselves faced with a dilemma. Actually, the quandary was behind us.
We pulled up to the pumps and parked, and the police force auto that was following our wildly careening van, unbeknownced to us, eased in directly behind the old avant garde with its high beams on. Our driver of course of study panicked. He couldn't just draw out; that would look suspicious, so he tried to look composed as he stumbled out of the avant garde looking for the gas tank. The two military officers slid out of their patrol auto and approached cautiously, with their custody on their weapons, pointing out the gas army tank to the our dazed driver and saying that everything was cool, and that they were just going to inquire a few questions.
Well, I thought it was all over for this clump of hippies. The bulls usually had no compassionateness for druggies, and when the driver dove back into the avant garde and rummaged through the baseball glove box looking for non-existent papers, mumbling that we would all have got to acquire out, I knew we were finished!
We obediently drop out of the avant garde as casually as we could, attempting to look square (hard to do), and trying desperately not to interrupt up laughing. We knew that if one of us would get laughing, it would all be over. So barbed our tongues, we all just stood there, lined up by the pumps with sheepish smiles — a assortment crew if there ever was one.
I overheard the female military officer mentioning that the plates were expired, which was a chronic job with our vehicles, and asking the driver if we were from the Farm. He confessed that we were, and pleaded that we were just trying to do it back home, and promised that we wouldn't do any problems. When she asked how our free ambulance service in New House Of York was doing, and about our work in Republic Of Guatemala where we were setting up soybean dairy farms to assist the mediocre folks down there acquire a small protein, I knew we were saved again!
Abruptly, the male military officer smiled and said that we had better be careful drive down to Summertown, and that we had better take attention of those expired plates. Then they just got in their police cruiser and left!
We all just looked at each other in amazement, and never did happen out whether they were good cops, or just going off-duty soon and didn't desire to procedure so many hippies. But either way, we all were spared some complications in our lives . . . for sure.
The eves at The Farm were mystical, filled with soft sounds of strumming guitars, laughing kids, and the unmistakable elusive wafting of marijuana. Marijuana was considered to be a spiritual sacrament on The Farm, as mescal have been to Indians for 10.000 years, and as a result, only certain authorised older flower people had entree to the supply which they shared out a few modern times a day. The truly disciplined are, of course, completely undisciplined, so the supply was usually plentiful.
To catch my early drive to Capital Of Tennessee most mornings, I was usually up before anybody else in the household, and unfortunately the first 1 in the kitchen; unfortunately because I had to confront the caches of roaches by myself. The whole topographic point would be crawling with them — large ones, babe 1s — all kinds, and all over the place. They were everywhere, under the stools and chairs, in the cooking pans and kitchen stove and in every crevice. It would look as if the whole top of the kitchen counter was moving.
We, of course, couldn't kill them, being pacificists and all, but the mas were concerned about their kids' wellness and continued to complain, as good mom's do. So one eventide we resignedly gathered around for our 5th cockroach meeting. We had tried everything conceivable of a peaceful nature; psychical trigons in every corner, sound vibrations, visualizing them gone, etc., but nil seemed to work — it was clip for drastic action.
After passing around a couple of joints, (it was against the regulations to smoke marihuana alone. That would be considered selfish and not at all spiritual) we decided that we had no pick but to get destroying the roaches. We would divvy up the dastardly feat of killing a expansive sum of one hundred a day, and appointed a ma to maintain track. We were required to turn in the dead small bodies.
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The Ropsha Palace was built by decree of Peter the Great.Lori/Legion-Media
The Ropsha Palace, an 18th-century residence near St. Petersburg built by order of Peter the Great, is to be rented to the state-owned Rosneft oil corporation for 99 years.
Making the announcement on Oct. 25, Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said that the company will restore the palace, which is in a state of disrepair, and will create access for tourists to the estate after restoration.
The Ropsha palace and park ensemble is an 18th-century architectural monument and a former residence of the Romanov imperial family. The estate was built by decree of Peter the Great and was intended to resemble Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic). Later, during Empress Elizabeth's reign, Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli designed a new two-story palace on the site. A large-scale park was cultivated around it.
After Catherine II (the Great) usurped her husband Emperor Peter III, she sent him to Ropsha where he died in mysterious circumstances.
The Ropsha Palace before 1917 / Source: public domain
Following the October Revolution the palace was nationalized, and in 1944 it was burned by the retreating German troops. After the war the estate was restored and it was used for military purposes: First the summer unit was stationed there, then the chemical protection battalion from the Leningrad Military District.
In various periods a fish hatchery was located at Ropsha, as well as a cattle-breeding farm, a poultry farm and other agricultural structures.
In the 1960s the palace was placed under state protection and at the end of the 1970s it was mothballed.
Despite the fact that since 1990 the Ropsha palace and park ensemble has been on the UNESCO World Heritage list and is a monument of federal significance, most of the buildings on the estate are in ruins.
The palace after the fire / Source: Kommersant
The palace was severely damaged by several fires in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And in 2015 five columns in the palace's portico collapsed. Afterwards, the Russian Culture Ministry allotted 15 million rubles ($241,000) for urgent work to save the monument.
St. Petersburg officials say that many monuments in Ropsha are heavily damaged and some, such as bridges and hydraulic structures, are completely destroyed. This means the overall cost of the restoration may exceed five billion rubles ($80 million).
Since the high costs and great difficulties in restoring cultural heritage objects do not always permit the state to carry out the work using budget resources, commercial enterprises and patrons are often invited to fund the restoration projects.
The palace after the fire / Source: Kommersant
For example, VTB Bank and the Gatchina Alcohol Factory financed most of the restoration of the Gatchina Palace near St. Petersburg, although the monument remained a government property.
The state can decide to auction or rent cultural heritage objects and dictate the conditions for their renovation. Privatization of local, regional and even federal monuments has existed since Jan. 1, 2008.
There are more than 100 examples of privatized monuments with conditions for their restoration. For example, the recently opened New Holland complex in St. Petersburg was reconstructed with the help of Roman Abramovich's New Holland Development.
First published in Russian by TASS.
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- Protects beyond the neck
- Compatible with (ski/motor) googles and helmet/cap/hat
- Ideal for outdoors sports
- Protects against wind
Besides the face shields with different camouflage patterns, we also have the same face shields in a version with a skull. This has been done especially for the many fans of skull motifs. In this case it is a lifelike looking skull against the background of a natural forest with snowy soil. Despite the somewhat sinister skull this has become a very lively face shield design!
Face shields
Face shields offer protection against all kinds of weather conditions and they also look stylish. Face shields can be used in many different ways. There are more than ten different possibilities in which you can wear a face shield - as a hat, headband, scarf and so on! They are lightweight and comfortable. Face shields drain moisture, dry quickly and breathe well. You'll be amazed at how effective a face shield regulates your skin temperature and controls your hydration level, keeping you fresh and ready when you're out and about!
Technical specifications
- Brand: SA Company
- One size fits all
- 100% seamless
- Moist repellent
- Odor control
- Highly elastic
- Fast-drying
- Stain resistant
- Product dimensions: 25 x 50 cm
- Weight: 37 gram
- Machine washable
- Do not iron
Item number: SA-50294