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It was quite by accident that I found myself searching for a Prosecco tour in Italy. I planned to visit Venice, but I hadn't really made the connection that this northern part of Italy is where Prosecco is from. Duh!
It was just a few weeks before I flew to Venice when an email fell into my inbox – a regular round-up of what was going on in Italy and, most tantalisingly, a full run-down of Primavera (Spring) in Prosecco.
As bad timing would have it, my trip was a few days shy of the spring festival in Prosecco, but a grape seed was planted and I decided to take a trip to Prosecco anyway.
The Prosecco Region
Prosecco is a region in northern Italy and it's in that region where you'll find all the magic that produces that delicious sparking Italian wine that we all know and love.
The region is just 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Venice in the Treviso province and covers over 20,000 hectares. That's pretty impressive given the land is wedged between the Dolomites and the Adriatic and is perilously hilly, with the grapes growing at 50-500 metres above sea level.
In fact, of all the wine regions in the all the world (and I've been to a few of them), I've never seen anything as dramatic as the vineyards of Prosecco – the region makes the Champagne region in France look like child's play to cultivate – and with it's fierce topography it's no surprise to find that the Prosecco region has gained UNESCO World Heritage status.
Trying and failing to find a Prosecco tour in Italy
I've tried various approaches to wine tasting in the past. I've been on a self-drive trip with a group of friends (Beaujolais, France); I've pitched up for a formal tasting at big brands (Veuve Cliquot, Champagne); I've headed straight for the restaurant for lunch and a flight of wines on a big estate (Concha y Torro, Chile), I've taken a formal tour (Napa and Sonoma, California), I've even arranged my own tasting through research and buying a bunch of local bottles (Cremant, Loire Valley).
For Prosecco I decided I wanted to take a tour – I wanted to see the region as much as taste the wine and although I've seen enough vines that I didn't feel the need to see any more, I didn't know the producers and brands well enough – I wanted someone to show me around and explain what was what.
However, I stumbled across a few problems when I was hunting for a Prosecco tour:
- there were relatively few tours on offer, which cut down choice and competition pretty dramatically;
- most of the tours were days trips from Venice – I didn't want to spend my time and money being chauffeured for a couple of hours. I wanted to spend it drinking Prosecco in Prosecco!
- I also wanted at least one night's stop over – I don't feel like I've haven't really experienced a place unless I've seen the sun rise and sun set on its soil;
- a number of the tours combined a sightseeing package and I'm at that point where I've seen enough churches in Italy to last me all of my lifetimes;
- many of the tour companies didn't include clear pricing on their websites so I had to email for more information – some wanted me to sign up for their newsletter to access prices (er, no thanks), others didn't reply and the rest were priced way north of what I wanted to pay.
Which brings me to price – the prosecco tours were all coming in far too expensive – ranging from €150 per person up to as much as €600. You'd have thought I was trying to buy sparkling diamonds not sparkling wine. Of the tours I looked at, most offered two or three wineries, a spot of lunch, transport and guide. That was the same format even for the higher priced tours. I'd have expected a small plot of land at those prices. I was one of 3 people. There was no way we were throwing down €550 to €1800 to sip some bubbles. Have you any idea how many bottles of Prosecco that could buy me? does maths – a lot!
So, I decided to take another route. I decided to plan my own tour of Prosecco…at a sip of the cost.
And the first rule of planning your own tour is doing your research. For a self-guided Prosecco tour, that meant figuring out my DOCGs from my DOCs and ITGs…
Tasting the best Prosecco – knowing your DOCG from your DOC and ITG?
When someone takes you on a winery tour, you trust that they're taking you to the best selection of wineries on offer (though you should always check that's the case).
When you're planning your own tour, the onus is on you to find out where to go and at which wineries to do a tasting. Which led me very directly to the question – what is the best Prosecco (because I ain't going all that way to sip of the stuff from the discount bin)?
A quick bit of research told me that despite the region being reasonably small, there are still a lot of producers in Prosecco (enough to fill a magazine) and choosing between them can be hard.
The terroir, methods used by the producer, the grapes used and climate during a particular year are just some of the factors that can affect the taste of a Prosecco. But if you're not an expert and just want to taste some good stuff, an excellent starting point is to look for a Prosecco that has DOCG status.
If you didn't know already, Italy has a formal wine classification system that attaches DOCG, DOC or ITG status to the best wines in a region. The system tests wine according to a strict set of rules related to quality, authenticity and production, type of grapes, alcohol content and ageing. The DOC system follows the AOC system in France and is also used for designating the quality of cheese (seems sensible given wine and cheese are an inseparable pair…at least in my life). Of course, other wines exist beyond these designations but they don't merit the status of 'best'.
In order of drinking priority, you should look for:
DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) -DOCG wines have conformed to the strictest standards and therefore have the highest denomination in Italy.
DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata) – Although DOC wines also have to comply with strict standards, the standards are less strict than for DOCG wines. As a result, DOC wines are much more commonly found.
ITG (Indicazione Geografica Tipica): this third category is reserved for wines that may not meet all of the standards of a DOC wine but are nevertheless considered to be very good.
Of course, searching for DOCG, DOC and ITG isn't the definitive solution to finding the best wine in Italy. Some producers get better, some get worse and some just don't fall within the right region. However, it's a pretty fine starting point if you're visiting Prosecco.
You might be interested in my Cheat's Guide to Sparkling Wine.
Finding DOCG in Prosecco: The Prosecco Road
There are only 73 DOCG wines in the whole of Italy (you can see the full list here) and classification of Prosecco's wines has been a bit controversial in recent years. In fact, it wasn't until 2009 that Prosecco could claim any DOCG wines at all – they were all DOC or ITG.
However, thanks to some lobbying by the top-tier producers, a distinction was made between those wine makers who harvested their grapes on the slopes in the finest conditions and those who grew their grapes on the flat of the Treviso valley or didn't comply with the strict production requirements to merit DOCG status.
Did you know: in 2013 around 70 million bottles of DOCG Prosecco were produced compared to 230 million DOC bottles.
The upshot: there are now three regions in Prosecco that have DOCG status.
The regions are:
Out of the three regions, a wonderful low-key tourism route has arisen between the towns of Conegliano and Valdobiaddene and the road between the two has been named the Prosecco Road. Yes, that's right: Strada del Vino di Prosecco, and it's the perfect place to visit if you're taking yourself on a Prosecco Tour. (Asolo is a little further west so isn't included on the route).
Don't confuse the grape (Glera) with the region (Prosecco)
There is no such thing as the 'Prosecco grape', in the same way as there is no such thing as a 'Champagne grape'. Prosecco wine is made from Glera grapes. I hadn't heard of them either, until I started doing my research on Prosecco. (Champagne, by the way, is mainly produced from three grapes – Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. More here).
Despite there being no grape called Prosecco, it's not uncommon for certain producers to play with consumers' naivety. By using the phrase Prosecco grape it's easy to confuse an inexperienced wine buyer into thinking they are getting Prosecco from the Prosecco region when, in fact, the bottle contains sparkling wine made using Glera grapes that have never been planted in soil within the Prosecco region and might come from a different region altogether. For example, the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region to the east of Vento has recently started producing sparkling wine from the Glera grape.
So, when you're buying Prosecco hat home, look for the place where the Prosecco is from not the grape it's made from.
How to plan your own Prosecco tour (for a sip of the cost)
With a survival-level knowledge of the region, the Prosecco designations, the grape and the Prosecco road, it was time to plan my own Prosecco Tour. Here's what I did (and how much it cost me).
Since my first visit, I've been back to the Prosecco region several more times. The result: I now have so much information about visiting Prosecco, I decided to set up a whole new website – Visit Prosecco Italy. By all means, read on. This post is still a great summary of how to visit the region (and do it cheaply). But things have changed a bit since I first wrote this post. One of the biggest changes is that the winery I visited, Col Vetoraz, has expanded. Dramatically. It's a big winery that's very popular and is often booked solid during peak season. While it's still fun to visit (it's a winery – how could it not be), I have discovered smaller, more exclusive wineries that will give you a one-on-one tasting for the same cost as the bigger, mass tourism places. And because these family-run wineries are not 'all over the internet' (some of them I've discovered by word of mouth), there's a better chance you can arrange a tasting even if you're booking last minute. In fact, some of these wineries have opened their doors to my readers when everyone else is closed, that's how fantastic they are.
So, do read on, but I really recommend you also go and explore my Visit Prosecco website, especially if you're looking for something exclusive, away from the Prosecco crowds. (Tip: the local drivers I work with be more than happy to help you pick the best winery for your party/trip. You can contact a driver through the Visit Prosecco Italy site).
To hire a car or not to hire a car
The biggest conundrum I had about my self-guided tour of Prosecco was whether or not to hire a car – to get to Prosecco and then to get around.
Getting to the Prosecco region from Venice by train
As a general rule, I'd rather not hire a car if there is a reasonable public transport option (better for the environment and all that) and in this case the public transport option to get me to the Prosecco region from Venice promised to be both quicker and cheaper.
From Venezia Santa Lucia train station you can take a direct train to Conegliano (you cannot get to Valdobieddene by train). Trains run approximately every hour with more in the morning and fewer throughout the day. The journey takes around 50 minutes (depending whether you take a fast or slow train) and costs around €6 for a single ticket. You can book online in advance on the GoEuro website. As this is a short distance train, you're currently unable to buy tickets in advance with Tren Italia but you can buy them on the day at the train station.
Venezia Santa Lucia is located on Venice Island (the tourist part) and can be reached by public water bus (known as the Vaporetto). Get off at the Ferrovia stop. You can find a free Vaporetto route map here.
Cost: €12 for a return ticket to Conegliano from Venice.
Pro travel tip: Be careful that you don't accidentally buy a ticket from Venice Mestere – you'd need to take another train from Venice island to Mestere to make your connection!
Getting around Prosecco
Getting to the Prosecco region from Venice was easy enough but how to get around without a tour wasn't quite so clear from my internet research.
I knew that there were a Hertz car hire in Conegliano but I didn't want to hire a car – I won't take even a sip of wine and get behind a wheel and, let's face it, I wasn't going to Prosecco just to see the scenery (as beautiful as it was).
I researched public transport in the area and fast came up with zilch, which left me in the turn-up-and-see-what-happens camp. It's not ideal, especially when you're visiting a place for just one night, but fortunately it paid of.
For just €50 an hour, I could hire a taxi through my hotel. It felt like a high price at the time and I tried to haggle with zero results but with no other options I went for it and despite my initial reservations it turned out to be the perfect choice -"Taxi" was a misnomer, I realised when the dapperly dressed driver pulled up in his top-end Mercedes. He wasn't just a taxi driver – he was a full -on guide offering a luxury ride.
How long do you need to explore Prosecco?
By the time I arrived in Conegliano, explored the town a little, checked into the hotel and did some decision making about car hire versus taxis, the mid-day siesta had arrived (yeah, I thought only the Spaniards could claim that but it's a thing in parts of Italy too). With time dripping away faster than an upended Prosecco bottle, I started to get antsy. But I needn't have. The driver arrived at 3 p.m, when the wineries were re-opening for afternoon business, and I was assured that 3 hours was enough time to drive the entire Prosecco Road (it takes about 50 minutes each way), taste some Prosecco and have a bite to eat.
The the road is Prosecco road is 60 km (37 miles).
Cost: the taxi hire worked out at €150 for the 3 hour rental including guide. That broke down to €50 each in my case because there were three of us travelling. If I could do it again, with a bit more planning and better decision-making, I'd have taken an extra hour to fit in one more winery, so the cost would have been €200.
UPDATE: I have found drivers you can book with!
Thanks to one of my wonderful readers, I found a local driver with whom you can book directly. That driver introduced me to another driver and another, and at the time of writing (2019), I'm still adding more drivers to the list.
The drivers are local people who will take you to the wineries of Prosecco. They typically charge around €50 per hour for rental of their entire minivan. So, you're getting a private transfer and the more of you there are, the cheaper it gets.
You can contact a local driver with queries and book here:
It's been crazy popular – last year (2018), over 350 couples/groups booked through the site. (Nope, I can't believe it either). And the feedback has been glowing. You can read the reviews here.
Where to taste Prosecco in Prosecco: Col Vetoraz
Update 2019: in case you didn't see it above, I have other, smaller, less busy, more exclusive wineries to recommend for you. I'm keeping Col Vetoraz here because they will always have a special place in my heart, being the first Prosecco winery I visited, but they have expanded dramatically and the experience is no longer the same. If you want to find out more about the other Prosecco wineries I love, they're on my Visit Prosecco Italy website here.
Due to my short time frame, indecision and late start, I only had time to visit one winery, but I was completely fine with that – because the guide on my food tour in Venice had given me the low-down on the best place to taste Prosecco in the region. And, yes, it was a DOCG winery: Col Vetorazz.
Col Vetoraz is located closer to Valdobiaddene than Conegliano which had the significant advantage of requiring a drive along almost the entire Prosecco Road to get there. And even though I was conscious of the clock, I still had time to get out at vantage points along the way for some pictures. (This is where the guide came into his own – explaining the history of the region and pointing out the best spots for panoramas).
At Col Vetoraz, I was welcomed in by an English speaking lady who proceeded to pop open bottles of fizz at my whim. Did I want to try a brut? A rose? An extra brut? A Superior? A red? Yes, yes, yes and what, a red, hell why not – yes!
Between myself and my two travel companions, we planned to buy just a few bottles between us…maybe take some back to England. However, realising that the winery prefers to sell bottles by the case, it didn't take long for us to upgrade from a few bottles to a couple of cases! (I can highly recommend that you try the red wine in the Prosecco region – it was excellent enough at Col Vetoraz to merit buying a case of the stuff).
Do you have to pay for tasting the Prosecco?
Wineries and vineyards differ the world over on whether you have to pay for the wine that you taste. In France it's common to pay a euro or two per glass, but that charge usually evaporates the second you buy a bottle. In bigger wineries (like the big Champagne houses), there's usually a tourist board showing a list of fees that often include a tour and a tasting costing up to €50. In Prosecco there was no mention of price per glass and I didn't pay a single cent for the wine I tasted. If you're unsure, ask before you start tasting!
Update: there is now a tasting fee from around €7 to €20. It sounds like a lot but you get up to 7 different Prosecco to try (impressive size pourings), a walk through the different types of Prosecco and, if you opt for the full tasting, local meat and cheese so you can do a proper Prosecco and food pairing. Yes, that's right. I said wine and cheese pairing.
After my tasting at Col Vetoraz I did have enough time to squeeze in another winery, but with two cases of wine already in the car, I had other plans in mind… (if you have more time to explore, you can plan you trip further here).
My favourite recently discovered website for planning which wineries is here – you can check a list of many (but not all?) wineries including searching by type of Prosecco and brand as well as check opening times and location.
Cost for the tasting: €0 (what you buy beyond the tasting is entirely up to you! The bottles I bought were priced around €9 per bottle).
Where to eat lunch: Osteria Senz'Oste
Ok, so at 4 p.m. I was a little on the late side for lunch, but this is Italy – where time has more flexibility. Plus, after the wine tasting my stomach required some sustenance.
The second place recommended to me by my food tour guide in Venice was Osteria Senz'Oste but I already knew about the place from my pre-trip research. Senze'Oste meaning without host, this Osteria was conveniently located adjacent to Col Vetoraz and has quirky written all over it. A simple stone house, this osteria offered weary (read: tipsy) travellers a place to stop and refuel. The fridge contained packs of cheese, cured meats, bread, water, juice and, of course, wine.
'Without host' is an accurate description because the Osteria runs on an honour system. You tap into the till your purchases and it rings up your bill. After you pay (by credit card or cash), you have the choice of the wooden tables inside or, on a nice day, the views and tables outside.
Except our driver had other plans for me and my travel chums. Put the Prosecco back in the car, he instructed me (I'm sure I heard somewhere it's a criminal offence to eat cheese in the Prosecco region without washing it down with bubbles). I wasn't too quick to comply with the instruction but the driver smiled and said follow me. Always game for an adventure, I finally did as I was told and followed him uphill…
Cost: around €12 for bread, salami and cheese for 3 people.
Update: I've eaten in a lot of places in Prosecco since I wrote this post. You can find them all here and I'm regularly adding more as I go. Better yet, I've found the best gelateria in all of Italy.
How to vend Prosecco in Prosecco
So, this goes down as one of my best discoveries in ALL of my travels – at the top of a steep winding hill in the Prosecco region there is a lone machine where you can vend perfectly chilled Prosecco. Of course, you can vend glasses too (for just €2.50 each) and someone has thoughtfully places some rudimentary tables near the machine where you can enjoy your tipple. Complete with the picnic purchased from the osteria at the bottom of the hill, I can't remember if I've ever had such a picturesque lunch.
Note: in order to vend from the machine you need an Italian ID – my driver had his at the ready complete with a recommendation for which Prosecco to choose.
Cost: around €25 for a bottle of chilled Prosecco plus three glasses.
Where to stay in Conegliano
Conegliano is a small town and there isn't much to see or do there so, in hindsight and having figured out how to hire a Prosecco driver myself, I wouldn't recommend staying there. For a town that is at the tail end of the Prosecco Road I would have expected countless restaurants and bars offering flights of Prosecco and other tasting opportunities that capitalise on the town's location but there was nothing. Nothing at all.
There are a few places to stay in Conegliano. I paid just under €100 a night which felt like a fair deal at the time (compared to Venice) but having now stayed elsewhere, the value for money doesn't add up. If you're hiring a car or a driver, there are much better locations to stay.
You can read more about where to stay in the Prosecco region on my 'sister' site: Visit Prosecco Italy.
Cost of my self-guided tour to Prosecco
Train ticket (return): €12
Taxi hire (3 hours): €150
Tasting: free
Lunch at Osteria: £12
Prosecco Vending: €25
Note: I haven't included the cost of the hotel as accommodation was not included in the tours I looked at.
Total Cost: €199 – based on three people sharing, the cost was just €66 each!
It may have been a short excursion to Prosecco, but it turned out to be a definitely highlight of my trip to Italy – and all for a sip of the cost of a taking a Prosecco tour.
How to book your trip to Prosecco?
Did I mention I created a website dedicated to the Prosecco region of Italy. Ok, of course I did. But in case you've been scrolling while watching Netflix.
What you'll find at Visit Prosecco Italy
It's the same idea as you've found here – how to create your own 'book it yourself' trip to the Prosecco region, with contact details for booking one of the drivers I've made contact with in Italy. I've also go a lot more information on where to stay, how to get around (including train connections and timetables), which vineyards to visit and where to eat. I blog about Prosecco themed fun over there like how to get your wine home and details on how to attend the Best Prosecco Festival in the World (SPOILER: it's in the Prosecco region and happens each Spring).
I'll update that site rather than this page with all new Prosecco related information.
You can sign up to the Visit Prosecco Italy newsletter for updates as well as special offers.
Let me know if there is anything you'd like to see over there and I hope you find my new Prosecco website useful.
Have you been to Prosecco? Any other tips for taking a self-guided tour? Let me know in the comments below.
If this has ticked your interest, you can find out more about wine grapes with a look at 20 of the most popular varieties thanks to this guide from Wine Turtle.
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Ever since its first performance at Easter time 1742, in Dublin, Messiah has been loved, and it is undoubtedly the best-known and most-performed choral work in the English language repertoire. Handel deservedly gets most of the praise, but the words also play a role in Messiah's popularity, so in this post we've taken a look at the text of Messiah and the man behind it, Charles Jennens.
This text for Messiah was crafted by Charles Jennens, a country gentleman whose wealth gave him the luxury of being able to be grumpy and eccentric. He devoted a lot of time to theological and literary study, and his pastimes included editing Shakespeare, beautifying his house in Leicestershire in the latest Palladian style and preparing libretti for his good friend Handel. Before Messiah, Handel had already composed two other works with texts supplied by Jennens – Saul and L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, which was based on Milton. The fate of the Messiah libretto initially caused Jennens some concern though:
Handel says he will do nothing next Winter, but I hope I shall perswade him to set another Scripture Collection I have made for him, & perform it for his own Benefit in Passion week. I hope he will lay out his whole Genius & Skill upon it, that the Composition may excell all his former Compositions, as the Subject excells every other subject. The Subject is Messiah…
However persuasive Jennens tried to be, Handel the businessman never wrote anything without a particular performance in mind – Saul had lain untouched for three years – but happily for Handel, Jennens and the rest of us, the Messiah text was followed a few weeks later, in August 1741, by an invitation to Handel from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland inviting him to participate in a series of charitable concerts in Dublin the following Easter, and he got straight to work.
The three sections of Jennens's text are not a straightforward dramatic narrative, but a meditation on Christ's life and purpose – words from the opening prayer of that other great pillar of Anglican Christmas, King's College's Nine Lessons and Carols come to mind: "the tale of the loving purposes of God from the first days of our disobedience unto the glorious Redemption brought us by this Holy Child". Part One begins with God's promise of the Messiah in the Old Testament Prophecies up to Christ's birth, and if you step into any Anglican church in the run-up to Christmas, the chances are you'll hear a Bible reading with a bit of Messiah text in it, the best known probably being the passage from Isaiah that forms the third of the Nine Lessons and Carols readings: "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light …. For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given".
Part Two moves onto Christ's ministry on earth, and particularly the human sinfulness and weakness that contrasted with Jesus's message and which led to his death. The Passions stop there, and most other Easter music concentrates on Lent and Good Friday, but Jennens goes on, leading us gently through the Resurrection and the promises of redemption for everyone. Jennens drew his Biblical texts for Part Three from those used in the Book of Common Prayer for the burial of the dead, words which would have undoubtedly been very well known to most of the original audiences of Messiah and which still resonate today.
Although we can trace the thread of prophecy, Christmas, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection through the text, Jennens steers clear of directly depicting any of the story, and Christ remains firmly offstage: even the most obviously narrative part of Messiah, the scene showing the angels visiting the shepherds, is still only a secondhand story. This may have been because of religious sensibilities about Christ being depicted on a secular stage – unlike the German Passions, which were written for church, Messiah was always intended for the concert hall. What Jennens achieves though is something that feels very English: a slightly distant, oblique approach that allows us to tiptoe around the story and come to it in our own private way without the awkwardness of having to share it with anyone else. When we sing or listen to Messiah, we don't have to become the murderous crowd crucifying Christ, or the disciples confronting their desperate sadness; the text allows us to explore these things in our own way if we want to, but if we don't want to, we can step away and just enjoy the magnificent combination of words and music offered to us by Handel and Jennens.

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Interestingly, our commercial investment roots at RE/MAX Results – Commercial Group are in the multi-family sector for nearly 25 years in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro. We know multi-family from all angles. However, it's been a tight 'public inventory' market in the Twin Cities for a number of years.
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As we know, all markets are cyclical in real estate. While no one can perfectly predict where apartment sales are headed, it will always be critical for building owners to maximize their equity by properly positioning their property to the broadest buying audience available – both regionally and nationally. Any broker can get a property under contract during a hot market, but that does not mean it's the best price the market will bear if an experienced sales team was thoroughly working the listing assignment.
RE/MAX Results – Commercial Group's top-rated brokers have the necessary experience & qualifications to effectively handle apartment building sales across the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro. CCIM trained, seasoned real estate professionals that know the game. From comprehensive financial analysis and valuation, to best-in-class asset marketing and transactional management, we know how to keep the complex simple and find solutions when others are ready to quit.
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The SDIP which is Safe Driver Insurance Plan rewards drivers who do not cause an accident, or incur a traffic law violation and by making sure that high-risk drivers pay a greater share of insurance costs. There is an SDIP premium adjustment in the rating process after all discounts and rating factors have been applied.
Here are some discounts available for your auto insurance: Please call us for more information!
- If you're a member of an auto club
- If the drivers are age 65 and older
- If you're automobile has passive restraints
- If you have low annual mileage
- If your automobile has anti-theft devices
- If you have multiple cars
- If you have taken drivers education
- If you use public transit
Motor club discounts: StateFund Insurance will work with you on how your auto club can offer you a discount.
If the drivers are age 65 or older: There is a 25 premium discount after all other discounts and rating factors have been applied. Some conditions that apply are 1. If the principal operator is 65 years or older. 2. There are no inexperienced drivers and 3. The automobile is not customarily used in business.
Passive Restraint: There is a 25% discount applied to the premium paid for Parts 2, 3, 6. Part 12 is available if your car is equipped with an air bag or automatic seat belts.
Annual Mileage: There is a 10% discount applied to the premium for Parts 1-8 and Part 12 is available if your estimated annual mileage is less than 5,000 miles. There is also a 5% discount off the premium paid for Parts 1-8 and Part 12 if your estimated annual mileage falls between 5,001 and 7,500 miles. Antique cars are not eligible for this discount.
Anti-theft: There are discounts available for Part 9 for automobiles with various types of qualifying anti-theft devices. Our agents will discuss the qualifying anti-theft devices and corresponding discounts with you.
Multiple cars: There is a 5% discount applied to the premium paid for Parts 7 and 8 if 1. An individual or married couple own two or more cars insured by the same company and 2. there are no inexperienced operators. This discount only applies to automobiles that 1. have no listed inexperienced drivers and 2. are not customarily used in business.
Drivers Education: There is a 10% discount applied to the premium paid for Parts 1,2,4,5 and 7 is available for the first 3 years after an inexperienced driver has completed an approved training course.
Public Transit: There is a 10% public transit discount for premium paid for Parts 4 and 7 (with a maximum or $75 per eligible vehicle) if 1. you provide use with evidence of purchase of 11 months or commuter passes from a qualified transit system and 2. you do not drive your automobile to work or school more than 10 days or more per month. We can provide with a list of qualified transit systems.
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Baby boomers are rapidly retiring and, unlike many of their parents, are on the move. N.C. State University economist Mike Walden takes a look at where they are headed for their golden years.
"First … a little background: Baby boomers are those born between 1946 and 1964. They are still a big part of our population, comprising 25 percent of all people. So what they do, where they live, what they spend still has a big impact on the economy, and they have been having an impact in terms of moving it. That is, they are moving with their feet to different locations.
"Census data show that increasingly baby boomers are moving out of the north. They're moving out of the Midwest. And they are moving south. In fact, if you look at the years 2009 to 2012, the top states to which baby boomers over the age 55 moved to were Florida, number one; Arizona, number two; North Carolina, number three; and then South Carolina and Texas.
"So, indeed, North Carolina has been the third most attractive state to older baby boomers moving to over the last three years. And of course they can have a big positive impact on on our economy. They bring their pension. They bring their Social Securities to spend, and they don't bring children to educate, which of course is a very costly endeavor for states and for counties.
"So big, big impacts of the migration of the baby boomers."


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In an article, this morning Richmond, Virginia daily newspaper Richmond Times Dispatch reports on the first day of the contentious Kroger's "Private Selection" versus Lidl "Preferred Selection" private brand legal battle. According to the article, round one went to Lidl.
After a day of testimony in which both sides presented expert witnesses who surveyed consumers to gauge confusion over the brands, U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. denied Kroger's request to prohibit Lidl from selling Lidl's own store brand "Preferred Selection." Gibney set the case for a bench trial Jan. 11.
"I think the public interest lies in competition," Gibney said.
The logos look "somewhat alike," he said.
"I don't find they have an identical or similar meaning," he added, noting that the words "private" and "preferred" have different meanings.
In testimony Tuesday, Brendan Proctor, Lidl's U.S. president and CEO, said the Preferred Selection label is on about 160 items carried by Lidl. "We wanted each product to look individual and to stand out from the market," Proctor said.


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UnwindNovember 13, 2012
This is the best YA dystopian novel that I read so far. The idea is compelling, even though the premises are not solid. I love this novel much better than Delirium. See my review for Delirium.
The world in this story is a post-war world, a war between pro-life and pro-choice (which I think is almost improbable). It ends with a compromise, the solution of Unwind (killing a teenage human being to harvest the organ), hence the title.
First, the idea that the compromise between pro-life and pro-choice is an unwinding process sounds ridiculous. The pro-life doesn't even agree to abort the younger-than-3-months fetus, not to mention 18 year old juvenile. The pro-choice also will not agree because the whole idea of pro-choice is to give the mother (which is a grown adult) more right than the fetus.
Second, the writer redeemed himself by making me interested enough to continue to read because of the idea of the locus of soul. When your body is divided to several part, is your soul divided also? When your body cell are kept alive, even though through separate body, can you say that you are still alive? This is quite a philosophical question to make you ponder. There are many twists in this novel referring to this idea.
Third, the characters are well designed and lovable. You can connect with the inner struggle of characters and sympathize with them. Yes, the character are not that complex, but it suffices for YA novel.
Fourth, the plot and pacing are good enough to make it interesting without being overly romantic like other YA novels.
Five, as a political statement, this book is not so strong. It is this fact that separate this novel for being in the same league as the political dystopian classic such as 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451. I think the writer can do much better if he explored not the pro-choice and pro-life debate, but instead the rampant case of body part sales (in China for example) for economic needs. The news of a teenager in China who sold one of his kidney just to buy an iPad make me feel sick. I don't know how many people sold their body part just to get money. Imagine that China become a rogue state that legalize the sales of human parts; THAT is a good premise for a dystopian novel.
Overall, well done, and I am willing to read the next installment:
Verdict: 3/5


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Where is the Facebook campus located?
August 24, 2012
Unveiling Our Campus Expansion
By Everett Katigbak
Facebook is a product-driven company. People here are constantly experimenting with ideas and building out prototypes. Good ideas win here, and weve always sought to create an office that fosters our engineers creativitywhich is why were excited to announce the plans for our new campus expansion, designed by the world-renowned architect, Frank Gehry.
A few months ago, I flew down to Los Angeles to meet for the first time with Frank and his team. His office is a giant warehouse overflowing with handmade, wooden models juxtaposed with state-of-the-art architecture software (some of which is designed by Franks in-house team). His teams are filled with people who are unbelievably talented and love what they do. The whole thing reminded me of Facebook, so that when I met Frank, I already knew he was a perfect fit for us.
Since his earliest work in the 1960s, Frank has risen as one of the most influential and prominent architects in history, with such accomplishments as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. Hes famous for his ability to combine breathtaking architecture that takes into account the needs of his clients.
At every step of planning the new building, Frank has taken into account our engineering culture. It will be a large, one room building that somewhat resembles a warehouse. Just like we do now, everyone will sit out in the open with desks that can be quickly shuffled around as teams form and break apart around projects. There will be cafes and lots of micro-kitchens with snacks so that you never have to go hungry. And well fill the building with break-away spaces with couches and whiteboards to make getting away from your desk easy.
Weve paid just as much attention to the outside as well. The exterior takes into account the local architecture so that it fits in well with its surroundings. Were planting a ton of trees on the grounds and more on the rooftop garden that spans the entire building. The raw, unfinished look of our buildings means we can construct them quickly and with a big emphasis on being eco-friendly. Of course, well maintain our current campus and use an underground tunnel to connect the two.
We plan to break ground on the new building in early 2013 and hope for a quick construction. When its completed, we hope it will provide a paradise workspace for the 2,800 engineers who will one day fill it.
Everett Katigbak, Facebook's Environmental Design Manager, is excited for his first day in the Frank Gehry-designed office.
"I'm excited to work with Frank Gehry to design our new campus. The idea is to make the perfect engineering space: one giant room that fits thousands of people, all close enough to collaborate together. It will be the largest open floor plan in the world, but it will also have plenty of private, quiet spaces as well. The roof of the building will be a park that blends into the community with a long walking trail, a field and lots of places to sit. From the outside it will appear as if you're looking at a hill in nature." - Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook © 2012
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Where is the Facebook campus located?
Hard to tell for sure but it looks crap.


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Version 2.x – Installation Instructions
As mentioned in the previous post the v2.x is a complete re-write in Golang. You can read the reasons for the re-write in Golang here.
What's new in version 2.2:
- Support for Fairpool
- Support for power usage monitoring of Wemo smart plugs.
- Supports power management rules and logic. Automatically can rigs – via TP-Link and Wemo smart plugs – based on power consumption, hashrate or any other available KPI in influxDB (power mgmt rules).
- Ability to trigger custom scripts (e.g. control external device that resets rig PSU) based on power consumption, hashrate or any other available KPI in influxDB (power mgmt rules).
- Launch remote management applications like ssh or Team Viewer directly from Grafana dashboards.
- Automatic reload of rig, pool and power management rules in case of configuration file changes, during runtime. Other settings are not updated during runtime.
- CastXMR now includes "mining_time".
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes.
Complete feature list:
- Single executable for monitoring pools, rigs, power and market data with support for logging, tracing.
- Custom config file replaced with toml-based config file.
- Ability to pool thousands of rigs and dozens of pools simultaneously.
- Power management rules and logic. Automatically reset rigs – via TP-Link or Wemo smart plugs – based on power consumption, hashrate or any other available KPI.
- Ability to trigger custom scripts (e.g. control external device that resets rig PSU) via power management rules.
- Automatic reload of rig, pool and power management rules in case of configuration file changes, during runtime.
- Miner support
- Claymore (tested v11.6)
- Xmr-stak (tested v2.4.2)
- Sgminer (tested v5.5.5)
- SRBMiner
- XMRig-Proxy
- PhoenixMiner (tested v2.9e)
- CastXMR
- pool support
- Nanopool (all coins)
- Ethermine (all coins)
- Fairpool (all coins)
- Mpos based pools e.g. miningpoolhub.com (all coins)
- Nodejs-pool based pools e.g. hashvaultpro.com (all coins)
- Power monitoring using smart plugs
- TP-Link HS110 (v1.0 and v2.0 hardware)
- Wemo Insight
- Market data monitoring
- Data storage using influxDB
- Cross-platform support
- raspberry Pi 1 Model B/ARMv6
- raspberry Pi 2/3/ARMv7
- linux/x86-64
- macOS/x86-64
- windows/i386
- windows/x86-64
- Launch remote management applications like ssh or Team Viewer from Grafana
- Dashboard examples (templates) for all supported miners and pools
- Notifications via Telegram
Enough of that. On with the installation instructions.
- sqlite3 – This is required by grafana to store metadata. Installation instructions in grafana installation step
- Python 2.7 (optional). Only needed if you are planning to use the TP-Link HS110 smart-plugs
- influxDB 1.5.2
- Grafana 5.1.2
Installation Instructions
Install influxDB
- Download and installation instructions for version 1.5.2 are here
- Configure influxDB. Edit /etc/influxdb/influx.conf file. Make sure the following options are set:
[http] section enabled = true bind-address = 8086
- Login to influxDB using the influx client
- Create and select rig-monitor DB
create database rigdata use rigdata
- Create user and grant permissions to grafana user
create user grafana with password 'grafana' grant all privileges to grafana
Install Grafana
- Download Grafana 5.1.2 and installation instructions here. For arm-based devices download it here.
- Install grafana. Instructions for the different target platforms here.
- Configure grafana. Edit /etc/grafana/grafana.ini file. Make sure the following options are set:
[database] section type = sqlite3 [security]section admin_user = admin admin_password = admin [auth.basic] section enabled = true
- Setup grafana datasource:
- Name: rigdata
- Type: influxBD
- UTL: http://localhost:8086
- Access: Server
- Database: rigdata
- User: grafana
- Password: grafana
Install rig-monitor
Download the latest version from here
Each package includes the following files:
- grm/conf/config.toml – rig-monitor configuration file
- grm/grm-<version> – rig-monitor executable
- grm/external/tplink.py – external script for polling TP-link HS110 smart plugs
- grm/dashboards/dashboard.csv – Dashboard templates
Configure rig-monitor. Explanation of parameters and examples in configuration file.
Import dashboards
Import template dashboards via sqlite:
sudo sqlite3 /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db sqlite> .separator "," sqlite> .import dashboards.csv dashboard sqlite> .quit
If you plan to create a custom version of a template dashboard then strongly suggest to create a copy with a different name it. This will let you to delete older versions of the template and import newer ones without loosing your work. For details on upgrading a specific dashboard take a look at customizing and troubleshooting post.
Configure power management rules
Power management enables rig-monitor to automatically reboot rigs remotely if certain measurements go below a define lower limit e.g. hash rate or power comsuption. It currently supports Wemo and TP-Link smart plugs as well as custom scripts (for non-IP devices). You can read more about it here.
Launch SSH or Team Viewer from Grafana dashboards
This integration enables admins to launch Team Viewer or SSH clients directly from Grafana. You can read more about it here.
Set grafana alerts
Grafana supports multiple alert methods. Currently I am using telegram so forward alter notifications to my cell phone. This is how you do it
1. Install Telegram app on your cell phone
2. On your phone open this link. This will open a chat with Telegram's Botfather
3. Create new bot using /newbot. Then name your bot and give it a username. The bot will reply with a token e.g. 3653462710:AAGgPlkjdflasd78dsf;SDFMAklsadfgDpHzl-AP
4. Create a telegram group and add your bot to it
5. Copy and past the following link to your browser: https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/getUpdates. In my case that would be
That command should produce an output like this
{"ok":true,"result":[{"update_id":87899789, "message":{"message_id":2,"from":{"id":762837642,"is_bot":false,"first_name":"John","last_name":"Doe","language_code":"root"},"chat":{"id": 762837642,"first_name":"Rodrigo","last_name":"Fernandes","type":"private"},"date":1503863332,"text":"/help","entities":[{"offset":0,"length":5,"type":"bot_command"}]}}]} if the output is simply {"ok":true,"result":[]}
then send a couple of messages in the group chat and try again.
6. Write down the id code above we will need it to confirm the notifications in Telegram
7. On Grafana's main menu go to Alerting / Notifications Channel and click New Channel. Fill in a name, select Type as Telegram, check "Send on all alerts" and "Include image" checkboxes, fill in the BOT API token with the token from step 3 and fill in the "Chat ID" with the ID from step 5.
Access grafana dashboads via SSH tunnel
Open SSH client tunnel with following command
ssh -L 8080:<ip address of raspberry pi>:3000 pi@<dynu hostname> -p 19000
Now go to your browser and enter the following URL: http://localhost:8080
The grafana UI should come up.
Leave me a comment if you have any issues/questions.
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Jenny Warburg
What do you get when you put a smart-ass, know-it-all, redneck morning radio talk show host in a room with a Black Muslim, an Asian social activist, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, a gay hairdresser, an atheist, a feminist mother of three, and an adoringly zealous lesbian? Total liberating chaos.
Leave it to Bob Dumas, the morning radio show host best known for his not-so-politically-correct views, to come up with the insane notion of hosting monthly get-togethers called, "Dinner with 9," where people from opposite walks of life and social backgrounds converge once a month to discuss topics ranging from welfare and homelessness to soccer, immigration, and yes, even Kobe Bryant. Chaos, yes. Any one particular topic that they all agree on? Absolutely not. Yet, in a warped and freakish kind of way, the experience seemed to be oddly liberating to all members of this unlikely group.
Keep in mind that Bob, better known as half of Bob and Madison on G105, has infuriated me for the four years I've lived here. We're talking about a talk show host who actually gets on air and mimics the Chinese language, and rants and raves about having to go through the extra step of choosing English or Spanish on the ATM machine. I wanted to face him and hopefully change him. I would have bet he'd never met an Asian person in his life. And he hadn't, he said, until he met me.
Initially, his goal was probably self-serving, to force himself to face the fear of the unknown (and maybe develop some material to talk about on air, too), but after the first meeting, the true goal became apparent to all involved. This group of unimaginably diverse Triangle residents was attempting the near-impossible feat of breaking down unspoken communication barriers by being as honest, open and as politically incorrect as possible. No holding back, no politeness. Just nine polar opposites being real, asking questions they always wanted to ask, but had held back due to normal standards of social acceptance--all in an attempt to gain true personal insight into the lives and minds of people different from themselves.
If we were to label this a study circle on diversity, it would most definitely have to be prefaced with the terms "raw" and "unplugged." In what other setting would it ever be appropriate to ask questions like why is it acceptable for blacks to use the "N" word with each other? Or whether or not gay sex is enjoyable? Or how someone eludes law enforcement and gets across the Mexican border. The idea is a refreshingly brilliant take on an exercise in diversity awareness.
No, the group is probably not going to solve the problems of the world by talking about politics and race relations over a cold brewsky once a month. But by letting down guards and confronting the core root of issues, they may just inevitably come to a respectable and mutual understanding of one another. And maybe, just maybe, some day a long, long time from now, they might actually stumble upon something that all nine of them agree on.


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House. Tree. Person. (Hardcover)
A Novel of Suspense
Midnight Ink, 9780738752167, 360pp.
Publication Date: September 8, 2017
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"An unnerving and suspenseful novel, House. Tree. Person. is McPherson's best yet."--Karin Slaughter, New York Times and international bestselling author
The body found in a muddy grave across the street is just the latest horror threatening to tear Ali McGovern's life apart seam by seam. She knows Angelo, her brooding teenage son, is keeping secrets. She fears he's in danger, too. But her new job at the psychiatric hospital, the job her husband pushed her into, is using up everything she's got every day. She can try to ignore the sounds that surely can't really be there. And she can try to trust the doctors, who can't be as dark as they seem. But can Ali hold herself, her life, and her family together without getting blood on her hands?
"McPherson is a master of creating psychological tension and doubts about the motives of her characters . . . The clever way McPherson reveals each hint of the truth makes this a one-sitting read."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"McPherson keeps the suspense level high."--Publishers Weekly
" An] intricate, deeply claustrophobic story."--Entertainment Weekly in an "A" review
"A body unearthed by rains on the abbey grounds further pulls Ali's family into the dark mystery...and draws Ali to the brink of her own sanity. This is Scottish author McPherson's sixth stand-alone novel. She's been a finalist for both the Agatha Christie and Mary Higgins Clark award. No wonder."--Star Tribune


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This pipe could guide any vapors to the other end that will have a water jacket all around it or perhaps could possibly simply be lowered into a bucket of normal water in order to cause condensation to turn those potent vapors back into liquid form. You will finally have the ability to view droplets of your selected alcoholic beverages dropping directly into an attached collection vessel that could be fitted with a carbon or charcoal filtration system to cleanse and polish the specified alcoholic drink. Your own distillation process might at this point end up being complete but you will have to repeat this procedure a few more times for stronger alcohols as well as spirits.
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When Dillon joined the military 2.5 years ago, we knew whenever he got out we wanted to buy land and settle down somewhere. His time in the military has come to an end and we are so excited! We have been stationed at Fort Hood for the past year and a half and we have grown to love the area. We have also created amazing relationships with Harper's doctors and want to continue to see them as she grows older. With that being said, we have bought 10 acres in Central Texas. Our dream is finally coming true!
I will be updating the blog with the process of building our home! Stay tuned 🙂


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The clock is ticking away
Yes, it is that time of the year! It is the time we patiently look forward to, to sit and jot down new resolutions trying to shake -off old clutter and bask in the joy of new possibilities.
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The spell of monotony breaks here as we look towards prepping up for a new year along with the joy of Christmas. While we set off to part with the old and embrace the new, why not start with a sneak-peek at the kitchen and dining; starting with the best mood-lifter which is food and partying: that is not possible to begin with without opulent kitchen wares, accessories and fine dine cutlery. Although not enough credit is given to opulence in the kitchen –dining, we all know it that it is undeniably important and a significant source of grace, sophistication and joy! Ask the home-makers and party hosts!
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These days, there really aren't many locally owned game stores. Ones that are worth going to, that is. GameStop and various other corporate entities have really put these mom and pop game stores (where everybody knows your name) out of business. We gamers know the sad reality of the situation. But as luck would have it, the intrepid folks over at The Game Exchange don't seem to have gotten the memo; they're still going strong.
The first thing you see upon entering The Game Exchange is the extensive DVD section.
The store's most common customers are actually hunting for DVDs, the lively young fellow named Anthony informed me. Anthony Arnold has been working at The Game Exchange for a year, and remembers the place's earlier location in the Mountaineer Mall. After Walmart left the mall, so did The Game Exchange, ending up in its current location near U.S. Cellular in Sabraton, which looks something like this on a map.
Hey, the map worked today! Moving on.
I feel very confident in saying that The Game Exchange boasts the largest variety of gaming items in the area, from last-gen classics to current marvels, from NES games to DS games and everything in between. Dragon Age 2 sits near a counter full of Game Boys and their respective games. The store isn't hard up for the latest and greatest titles.
Yet it is the selection of PS2, Xbox and Gamecube games that most impressed me. There are some truly fantastic games in the bunch, and I only wish I had time to re-enjoy some of these newer classics.
As I was talking to Anthony, a regular customer named Dave took notice and offered his two cents.
"Here, they really care about the games and they talk to you. It's fun," he says, with a few games in hand.
The Game Exchange is currently owned by Ryan Richards, who bought it from his brother Blaine Richards. Both brothers routinely work in the store here in Morgantown too, eschewing any notion of a hands-off approach.
"We're in more contact with our customers because we don't have as many employees. We're a closer-knit family," Anthony said, with a glimmer of pride. "We can work with you to get you what you want."
But Anthony was not the only denizen of The Game Exchange available for questioning. As it happens, there is another business within the game store. Nick Ely, friend of Ryan and Blaine Richards, came to an agreement with the Richards brothers.
He now runs N3RD Computer Services, a tech support / computer repair service for PCs and Macs (he's Apple certified!), which is housed in The Game Exchange's Morgantown shop. That said, Nick's choice of location was more than mere pragmatism; he is also an avid gamer, preferring classics, but willing to give his heart to any worthy RPG that crosses his desk (we talked about Dragon Age for a while).
And truly near to my heart, the store has its own blog, with promotional info as well as brief game reviews, although these tend to fall into the "Wall of Text" category. As does Nick, with his all-too-appropriately named blog n3rdvana. Give the man credit where it's due, he can work a theme.
So there you have it, Morgantown game fans. An honest to goodness well run, well stocked and well staffed local game store. They're open 10 am to 9 pm Monday through Saturday. Now go forth and patronize the store, for it is a local business which does not compromise gaming expediency in any way shape or form.
As I was leaving, Nick caught my attention and asked if I solely focused on video gaming. I hadn't really thought about it, I said, and then he smiled. What did he suggest I cover?
The Game Exchange on Facebook
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Nick's n3rdvana Blog
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My blog (couldn't resist)


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Elmgreen & Dragset
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Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset have been working together since 1995, integrating art, architecture, installation, public art and performance in tragic-comic ways. They create situations of farcical futility, whose light-hearted images/empty sinks, stranded star fish, refuse from rave night, an empty public pookcarry darker meanings that force us to confront the absurdity and beauty of everyday life.
Their works are described as cheeky and irreverent, poking at the institutions that regulate our lives. By virtually kidnapping objects and placing them in unexpected situations, the artists question how culture shapes and frames our environment. Their iconic Prada Marfa store, for example, sends up the austere Donald Judd compound in Marfa, Texas, by plopping a faux Prada store on a dusty road nearby. Judd's foundation has created a luxury arts getaway in the desert, and with exclusive experiences comes high end fashion, the artists seem to say. Elmgreen & Dragset eliminate the distance between inside and out, between artistic white cube and daily life.
Elmgreen & Dragset used the phrase "powerless structures" in their 2012 commission for the Fourth Plinth project in London's Trafalgar Square, and this phrase captures the regal uselessness of their giant bronze telescope A Greater Perspective, commission for the High Line in New York. The telescope is not accessible given its height, and anyway, it is solid bronze, meaning there is no vista to be enjoyed.
The artists' use this old-fashioned, romantic tool of discovery to suggests the perspective of the great explorers who shape history is too narrow to accommodate the wide world around us. For Sculpture Milwaukee, A Greater Perspective is sited on the edge of Wisconsin avenue, overlooking the lake. No telescope could reveal the traces that successive generations of visitors left on our shore. The sculpture feels lonely, bereft of its' purpose, a lingering monument to clouded vision, a call to knowing our own past.
Michael Elmgreen was born in 1961 in Copenhagen, Denmark; Ingar Dragset was born in 1969 in Trondheim, Norway. The artists live and work in Berlin.
Over the past fifteen years, their works have been shown in museums across the globe, including: the Whitechapel Gallery, London; FIAC Hors les Murs, Place Vendôme, Paris; Museum Haus Lange, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany; Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Tramway, Glasgow; Museum Bojimans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Thorvadsens Museum, Copenhagen; Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Zentrum für Kunst and Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain; the Serpentine Gallery, London; The Power Plant, Toronto; Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany; CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland.
Gallery exhibitions have been held in: Berlin; Copenhagen; Hong Kong; Lisbon, Portugal; London; Madrid; Miami; Milan; New York; Odense, Denmark, Oslo, Norway; Paris; Reykjavik, Iceland, Tokyo;
Their work has been included in selected groups show at the following museums: Villa Arson, Nice, France; The Met Breuer, New York; the Bangkok Art Biennial, Thailand; MMK Frankfurt am Main, Germany; the National Gallery of Singapore; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal; AROS Triennial, AROS Museum, Aarhus, Denmark; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Punta Della Dogana, Venice, Italy, the High Lind, New York; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Argentina; the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; the Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom; the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand; the 12th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey, the 3rd Athens Biennial, Greece; the 3rd Singapore Biennale, Malaysia, and the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Florence, among many others.
Their curatorial work includes: the 15th Istanbul Biennial, 2017; A Space Called Public, Munich; and the Danish and Nordic Pavilions for the 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009. They have held performances at the Old Vic Theater, London, and Skulptur Projeckte Münster, Germany.
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Newsie reports that there must be a lot of Whaleoil readers in the Orewa area. quote:
Countdown has put out a call for customers to return any green shopping baskets that they have taken home, so that they can be made available for other shoppers.
A consequence of removing single use plastic bags from Countdown supermarkets in Orewa and Silverdale last month has been that some customers who forget to bring reusable bags are taking the green plastic baskets home with them instead. end quote.
This is what is known as the law of unintended consequences. Instead of saving a small fortune by not giving away free plastic shopping bags, supermarkets are now having trouble keeping track of their green supermarket baskets, and it looks as if they are going to be paying a lot more to replace them if the current trend continues. quote:
A Countdown spokesperson says the company is aware of baskets going missing since the removal of single-use plastic carrier bags.
They would not say whether or not the problem is occurring only at the Hibiscus Coast supermarkets.?However, shoppers and staff at Orewa Countdown say the problem is significant and that there have been days when there have been very few, if any, green baskets left in store since the plastic bag ban came into effect, on August 13. end quote.
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A Countdown spokesperson says that having people take the baskets is disappointing, but the supermarket understands that ?sometimes change can be tough?. end quote.
No. It is not that the change is actually tough. It is more that this is majorly inconvenient, and for no particularly good reason. I mean, when you walk down a suburban street and see this, you really do wonder what it is all about.
These are bags full of weeds or grass clippings. Sure, the contents will decompose brilliantly. But if the bag goes into the landfill, it will take a long time to break down. The supermarket single-use' plastic bags were thinner and broke down more easily. That is the ridiculous part. quote:
?We encourage customers to bring back any baskets they have so that we have these available for other shoppers,? the spokesperson says. ?The majority of customers are bringing their own reusable bags and we?d love to thank them for being so supportive of our move to rid New Zealand of millions of plastic bags each year.? end quote.
They mean they really want to thank their customers for saving them large amounts of money each year. That is really what this is all about.
So well done, Whaleoil readers for heeding the call and taking home the supermarket baskets in place of plastic bags. As I have suggested before, they make great beer crates. They are also quite handy to keep in the boot of the car, to take home small items. They have a myriad of uses.
You could even return them to the supermarket if you feel that way inclined.
I never realised that so many Whaleoil readers lived in Orewa. Maybe you should organise a separate Whaleoil group that meets for coffee or drinks all of your own.
Keep it up, guys. And remember – green is good!
Accountant. Boring. Loves tax. Needs to get out more. Loves the environment, but hates the Greens. Has been called a dinosaur. Wears it with pride.
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Consumer Electronics Show presents the future of e-reading
on Friday,January 08,2010 22:01
For technophiles and the gadget-crazy, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is like a hedonistic retreat. Stacked to the rafters with the latest and greatest technological breakthroughs in consumer electronics, the show provides visitors with a small glimpse of the future. Surprisingly, in a year that boasts 3D televisions and user generated automobiles, what has been taking the world''s attention is little more than a thin sheet of foil.
The name of the game at the 2010 CES is e-readers, electronic devices that simulate books or magazines. Though similar inventions have been available for several years now, the third generation of e-readers is really turning heads.
Of particular interest is the Skiff Reader, an 11.5-inch sheet of flexible steel foil that boasts Wi-Fi 3G connectivity and downloadable newspaper, books and magazines that will be fully rendered in high definition.
The Skiff''s metal frame is durable enough to survive a fall without damaging screen clarity or texture despite being only a quarter of an inch thick.
The gadget will go on sale later this year, but avid readers and electronics enthusiasts alike may be waiting with baited breath.
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