What toppings go on a Hawaiian pizza?
Today's Wonder of the Day was inspired by Steve. Steve Wonders, "Why Do People Like Pineapple On Their Pizza?" Thanks for WONDERing with us, Steve!
There have been many great debates over the ages. Which came first: the chicken or the egg? Why did the chicken cross the road? Is it soda or pop? And is Coke or Pepsi better? Michael Jordan or LeBron James? The list goes on and on.
Recently, however, a new debate has run rampant across social media, dividing friends and families and possibly threatening the survival of civilization itself. The question: does pineapple belong on pizza?
For fans of Hawaiian pizza (a classic pie topped with pineapple and ham), the answer is a clear "Yes!" However, many others feel that adding super-sweet pineapple to an otherwise salty and savory pizza pie is an abomination akin to adding watermelon to a cheeseburger.
What do you think? Do you love pineapple on your pizza? Or does fruit on a savory pizza pie make you cringe? Those seem to be the only opinions in this debate. There doesn't seem to be much middle ground. When it comes to pineapple on pizza, most people either love it or hate it.
And the numbers are pretty close. A pizza delivery smartphone app called Slice conducted a survey of over 9,000 people about pineapple on pizza. The results? A majority of 54% of respondents said "No!" to pineapple on pizza. That means 46% gave pineapple a "thumbs up!"
Pizza purists often claim that pineapple is not a classic Italian ingredient and therefore does not belong on pizza. However, others point out that there are plenty of new and interesting types of pizzas out there that don't seem to offend people the way pineapple does, from buffalo chicken to Philly cheesesteak.
If you happen to love Hawaiian pizza, you may be surprised to learn that the pineapple-and-ham concoction was invented in Canada in the 1960s. It does happen to be popular in Hawaii today, although residents of Oregon, Maine, California, and Nevada order it more frequently than Hawaiians.
People who like pineapple on their pizza might be able to back up their preference with a bit of science. Of the five basic flavors — sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and savory — our bodies naturally crave both sweet and salty foods.
This is why certain salty and sweet combinations are very popular. For example, who doesn't like classic salty/sweet combinations like chocolate-covered pretzels, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and salted caramel?
Pineapple on pizza proponents say the sweet pineapple combines with the salty tomato sauce to provide the same salty/sweet punch as other classic combinations. It may also be healthy. Experts point out that pineapple contains valuable nutrients, including manganese, vitamin C, and vitamin B2.
So if you love pineapple on pizza, keep eating it! Who's going to stop you? If you're not a fan, don't worry about it. Let others eat what they want to eat and you can keep chowing down on your own personal favorite combination of pizza toppings.
Whether or not you already love pineapple on pizza, it's time to give it a try! Ask an adult friend or family member to take you on a field trip to a local pizzeria. Talk to someone about how popular pineapple is as a pizza topping at their restaurant. How many varieties of pineapple pizza do they serve? Order a classic Hawaiian pizza or some other combination that includes pineapple and enjoy!
Want to make your own homemade Hawaiian pizza? Go for it! Jump online to check out this recipe for Easy Hawaiian Pizza. If you feel ambitious, go wild and add other ingredients, such as banana peppers or olives. What do you think? Do you give pineapple on pizza the "thumbs up" or "thumbs down"?
If you know you're definitely not a fan of pineapple on pizza, go ahead and make your own perfect pizza pie at home. What type of dough will you use? Do you prefer thin crust or something thicker? How spicy do you like your pizza sauce? How many different types of cheeses do you want? Finally, what toppings make the perfect pie? Pepperoni? Sausage? Beef? Onions? Green peppers? Anchovies? Pineapple? You're the chef and in control. Make your perfect pizza pie at home and share it with a friend or family member.
Pineapple pizza should be abolished. It is a disgrace to all pizza and food. Us normies should abolish all pineapple pizzas and pineapple pizza eaters.
Everyone is allowed an opinion, right, Tyrone?
I personally HATE pineapple on pizza. How does it taste good?!
Some Wonder Friends disagree! We all have different taste buds and like different types of food!
Yep, pineapple pizzas are real!! Have you ever tried pineapple on your pizza, shira?
So yummy, now you're making me hungry in my stomach, I just want to eat it right now.
people have opinions, bu I was wondering: why are countries so small?
yes i love pineapple pizza!
No. I hate it. I only like pepperoni, cheesey bread, and dessert pizza.
pineapple is not my pizza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HATE Pineapple on my pizza!! It's disgusting!
No I do not personally enjoy pineapple on my pizza.
I'm wondering how does the pizza actually taste with pineapple on it ? It probably tastes good, never judge a book by its cover.
It sounds to us like you found you next Wonder Journey, Joshua! Let us know what you think once you try pineapple on pizza!
Thanks for sharing, James! Do your friends agree with you? We hope that you show them this Wonder, too!
We'll take that as you strongly dislike pineapple on your pizza, sergio! What is your favorite type of pizza?
We LOVE this analogy, olasubomi! Great job using figurative language to describe what you think about pineapple being on pizza!!
Hi, kaleb! What is your favorite kind of pizza?
Thought: I didn't know that many people argue about pineapple on pizza. Connection: I LOVE pineapple on pizza because it adds in the flavor of sweetness onto it. Prediction: I predict that as the world gets further, more people will appreciate pineapples on pizza.
No, never it is disgusting. Sometimes it is to sweet or sometimes it is to sour. If you think i'm wrong i'm not i'm never wrong!!!!
Yes, Because it tastes very good. also because it is juicy. I just love it. If you don't like it try it, that is what you will eat for the rest of your life. Its never sour even if you think it is.
yes i love pineapple on my pizza.
Hi, Jackson! Do your friends also like pineapple on their pizza? We hope that you share this Wonder with them!
I only like pepperoni and cheese pizza.
Hi, Drew! Have you ever WONDERed Who Invented Pizza?
Hawaiian pizza's two primary ingredients are pineapple and what?
Which of the following is NOT a nutrient pineapples are known for?
Like chocolate-dipped pretzels, pineapple on pizza is a combination of which two basic flavors?
bsalty and sour Not Quite!
csour and sweet Not Quite!
dbitter and sweet Not Quite!


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Researchers have identified two genetically distinct types of HIV in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with HIV-associated dementia. The discovery may help explain why the risk of developing neurological difficulties increases as AIDS patients live longer, and may also help predict which patients are at greatest risk for the problem, according to the U.S. scientists. They said the two newly-identified HIV types aren't being detected in HIV that circulates in a patient's blood, and one type may be present cerebrospinal fluid years before the onset of HIV-linked dementia. The fact that the two HIV types can be detected in the CSF indicates that they grow in the central nervous system.
The study, which appears in the journal PLoS Pathogens, was led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
Hyperactive immune cells that engulf dying and injured cells before they have a chance to recover may contribute to neurodegeneration characteristic of some diseases, posing a previously unreported mechanism for dementia. Biochemists of the University of California, San Francisco found preliminary evidence for a different pathway of neurodegeneration — one that involves the clearance of apoptotic cells by overly active phagocytic immune cells, such as macrophages, leading to widespread cell loss over time. Read the full report of this research in PNAS.
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It is the time of year when graduations are taking place. I always wanted to deliver some sort of commencement address, or at least say a few words behind a microphone at graduation. Since I was neither at the top of my own graduating classes (high school and beyond), nor have I been invited to be the keynote speaker at such an event, I feel obliged to pour forth my opinion in this article – the closest thing I have to a microphone.
Tomorrow morning I am interviewing a group of soon-to-be graduating marketing students from a local university. (If you are one of those students and mention you read this article, major bonus points to you!) The news is not good for graduates. Half of them from last year's graduating class cannot find a job. I am not referring to a job in their area of study; I am referring to any job. That half has run headlong into a very harsh reality: right now the business world does not need them. It is not impressed with their social media prowess, how many tweets they send in a day, or what they are snapchatting. The news is not any better for the class of 2013. The problem may not be so much from a lack of academic preparedness, but from an entitled mentality that has muted these job seekers growth in a key area for gaining a job: business savvy. You may call it street smarts. It is the idea that I have to work the system to get a job. In today's employment sphere, that means that I have to compete with a lot of other people for each job opening. It means that I have to try to get to know someone on the inside, on my own time and on my own dime, to have a chance to land a job. From what I have read, the hopes of those who are about ready to graduate is that their university will arrange for someone to walk onto their campus – perhaps at a job fair – and they will land a job without leaving the ivy covered walls of their soon to be alma mater. That is yesterday's trick. That was when corporations were extremely hungry for young, entry-level employees. That was when you really didn't need much more than a heartbeat and a passing GPA to get a job. Today's reality is this: if you want the job, you have to seek it out and stand out from the crowd in the process.
If I may be so bold, I want to offer some advice to those of you who are getting ready to matriculate and have hopes that you will enter the work world soon.
Networking means you are meeting with and talking to people with sounds made with your voice into their ear. In business, networking is not about sending any kind of electronic message. It is about getting to know them and what they do so you can do business together. Electronic media is just a support to this process, not the process itself. It is important that you understand this. Social networking has its place in business. There are business social networking sites, such as LinkedIn, that are good for making connections with people. But the business world does not stop with LinkedIn, they begin with LinkedIn. It is used as a Rolodex (this was a business card file of days gone by) for contacts. It is what I use to remember what someone looks like before I see them in a face-to-face meeting. It is a way for me to parse through all of my contacts to find out who does what before I make a telephone call and actually talk to them. If you want to land a job, start networking with business people. Go to their networking events. Get to know them. Ask what they do. Tell them what you want to do. But don't expect them to hire you because they "friended" you on Facebook and you read that they had a job opening on their company profile page.
Here is a secret you need to understand: business people like to hire people they already know or are recommended by someone they trust. They do not like hiring total strangers. There is a reason for this. Once upon a time, if you received a resume´ from a job applicant, you could call all of their old supervisors and ask what kind of worker they were. Sometimes those old supervisors thought highly of the applicant and said glowing things about them. But if the supervisor said bad things and the applicant did not get the new job, there was trouble. So, old supervisors don't talk about their former employees anymore. That means that hiring managers had to come up with another way to tell if an applicant was worthy of hiring. They rely on previous knowledge of the person – either their own experience with the applicant or that of someone within their network.
If you have waited until you graduate to start looking for a job, you are behind the curve significantly. Understand that it is taking people well over a year to land a job even when they are overly qualified. That is going to require you to leave the cocoon of college every now and then to experience the world beyond the university before graduation. You need to start looking for a job in your junior year. Take advantage of your internships. Inquire about job openings, not only in the company for which you are interning, but with their vendors, their clients - and dare I say it – their competition. Get as much information as you can about the industry and the business where you are interning. Ask questions. When you go home for semester breaks, make contact again. See if you can go in and have lunch with people with whom you have made a connection. If you can get an interview, do so. Even if you are not going to be available for the job until after you graduate, go through the interview process. You never know when someone is going to have another opening and you are the first person on their mind.
Even if you don't have an internship, make the most of your summer job. Business people know other business people. You may be a lifeguard at a pool. What business people come in to do business with the managers of the pool? Chemical companies, food vendors, health inspectors, etc. Talk to these people. Get to know them and their business. You never know where those connections will take you.
Here is another reason to get to know a company well. Whenever you are on the inside of a business, you will begin to see their deficiencies. Find out how you can position yourself to meet those needs. I remember the first marketing job I had. I was working at a large photo lab. This was back in the days before digital cameras and people would shoot film, take it to a store to get it processed and made into prints. Our marketing department ran special pricing and distributed hand flyers for these retail stores. I suggested we put the specials in print ad form so the retailers could place them in local newspapers. I knew how to do this easily and suggested we customize the ads for the stores with their name, address and telephone number. It caught on. I remember my supervisor coming to me one day and saying, "You have found a niche for yourself here Mr. Yaney." I was a sophomore in college at the time. I had a job there as long as I wanted it.
The point I am trying to make is this; if you never get to know people in business, you will likely not be given the time of day in an interview. Your chances are DOA. Once you get a business network established, work it. Continue to ask questions. Look for your niche. Leaders of companies like to hire innovative problem solvers. Be that person and your chances of being hired will go up.


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The Senate has confirmed Heather Wilson as secretary of the Air Force.
Senators approved Wilson's nomination 76-22, making her President Donald Trump's first service secretary nominee to be approved by the GOP-led chamber.
Trump's choices for secretaries of the Army and Navy have been forced to withdraw from consideration.
Trump's second choice for Army secretary, Mark Green, stepped aside late last week amid growing criticism over his remarks about Muslims, and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans.
Wilson is a former Republican congresswoman from New Mexico. She had faced scrutiny from several Democrats for defense industry consulting work she did after leaving Congress in 2009.
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Solving ODEs in MATLAB, 6: ODE45
From the series: Solving ODEs in MATLAB
ODE45 is usually the function of choice among the ODE solvers. It compares methods of orders four and five to estimate error and determine step size. ODE45 is so accurate that its default behavior is to use its interpolant to provide results at intermediate points.
Related MATLAB code files can be downloaded from MATLAB Central
The most frequently used ODE solver in MATLAB and Simulink is ODE45. It is based on method published by British mathematicians JR Dormand and PJ Prince in 1980. The basic method is order five. The error correction uses a companion order four method.
The slope of tn is, first same as last left over from the previous successful step. Then there are five more slopes from function values at 1/5 h, 3/10h, 4/5h, 8/9h and then at tn plus 1. These six slopes, linear combinations of them, are used to produce yn plus 1.
The function is evaluated at tn plus 1 and yn plus 1 to get a seventh slope. And then linear combinations of these are used to produce the error estimate.
Again, if the error estimate is less than the specified accuracy requirements the step is successful. And then that error estimate is used to get the next step size. If the error is too big, the step is unsuccessful and that error estimate is used to get the step size to do the step over again.
If we want to see the actual coefficients that are used, you can go into the code for ODE45. There's a table with the coefficients. Or you go to the Wikipedia page for the Dormand-Prince Method and there is the same coefficients.
As an aside, here is an interesting fact about higher order Runge-Kutta methods. Classical Runge-Kutta required four function evaluations per step to get order four. Dormand-Prince requires six function evaluations per step to get order five. You can't get order five with just five function evaluations. And then, if we were to try and achieve higher order, it would take even more function evaluations per step.
Let's use ODE45 to compute e to the t. y prime is equal to y. We can ask for output by supplying an argument called tspan. Zero and steps of 0.1 to 1. If we supply that as the input argument to solve this differential equation and get the output at those points, we get that back as the output. And now here's the approximations to the solution to that differential equation at those points.
If we plot it, here's the solution at those points. And to see how accurate it is, we see that we're actually getting this result to nine digits. ODE45 is very accurate.
Let's look at step size choice on our problem with near singularity, is a quarter. y0 is close to 16. The differential equation is y prime is 2(a-t) y squared. We let ODE45 choose its own step size by indicating we just want to integrate from 0 to 1. We capture the output in t and y and plot it.
Now, here, there's a lot of points here, but this is misleading because ODE45, by default, is using the refine option. It's only actually evaluating the function at every fourth one of these points and then using the interpolant to fill in in between. So we actually need a little different plot here.
This plot shows a little better what's going on. The big dots are the points that ODE45 chose to evaluate the differential equation. And the little dots are filled in with the interpolant. So the big dots are every fourth point. And the refine option says that the big dots are too far apart and we need to fill it in with the interpolant. And so this is the continuous interpolant in action.
The big dots are more closely concentrated as we have to go around the curve. And then, as we get farther away from the singularity the step size increases. So this shows the high accuracy of ODE45 and the automatic step size choice in action.
Here's an exercise. Compare ODE23 and ODE45 by using each of them to compute pi. The integral 4 over 1 plus t squared from 0 to 1 is pi. You can express that as a differential equation, use each of the routines to integrate that differential equation and see how close they get to computing pi.
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According to FinPal's CEO, Stephen Handley, the partnership will make it easier for financial services businesses to lower their back-office costs by providing an "off the shelf" outsourcing solution.
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"Like FinPal, DBA has a strong partnership with Microsoft. We're big fans of their suite of business technologies. FinPal has taken Microsoft's powerful set of tools and turned them into a holistic solution that makes it easy to integrate outsourced resources into their daily business processes."
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According to Mr. Handley the initial focus will be on the core services already being offered to financial advisers and accountants but he expects other opportunities to develop.
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UK Foreign Minister: You'd better believe we'll retaliate if Russia's behind assassination attempt on ex-spy
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 8:01 pm on March 6, 2018
Retaliate how, exactly, and what will be the threshold of proof? UK foreign minister Boris Johnson told Parliament today that the verrrrrry suspicious sudden and simultaneous illnesses of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were, um, verrrrrry suspicious. Johnson brought up the obvious parallels to the slow 2006 assassination of former Russian spy and Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko and warned Russia that the UK would respond "robustly" if they are responsible for the attack yesterday.
But what would that retaliation be? It might involve some ball-kicking, but not in the sense one would expect:
The UK will "respond appropriately and robustly" if if the Russian state is found to have been involved in and in Salisbury on Sunday, Boris Johnson has said, including reconsidering its participation in the 2018 World Cup.
The foreign secretary said it was "very difficult to see how UK representation at that event [the World Cup] could go ahead in the normal way" if Russian state involvement was proved, though a Foreign Office source said that was not a reference to the England team's participation. …
"It is too early to speculate as to the precise nature of the crime or attempted crime that has taken place in Salisbury," he said. "But I know members will have their suspicions.
"If those suspicions prove to be well-founded then this government will take whatever measures we deem necessary to protect the lives of the people in this country, our values and our freedoms."
Russia will host the World Cup in June of this year, which — like the Sochi Olympics in 2014 — will undoubtedly be used by Vladimir Putin for propaganda purposes. That will make it like every other World Cup and Olympics, of course, but any kind of tarnish on the event will not make Putin happy. Unless the UK organizes a large-scale boycott, though, the UK's absence won't make that much of an impact. Even a large-scale boycott won't matter much, though, as the reflexive US and Soviet Olympic boycotts in 1980 and 1984 proved.
There are other options available, of course, but the UK won't be looking for a literal eye for an eye. They can expel Russian diplomatic personnel and arrest other known intelligence operatives without diplomatic cover in order to get the message to Moscow. The US did the same thing at the end of 2017 in a rather impotent action, well after the Obama administration knew of their election meddling, but it still represents some kind of direct response to malicious activity.
Johnson told Parliament that he had more options in mind for dealing with Russian cyberwarfare, which he says has reached the level of hostilities between the two nations:
Johnson said the UK government increasingly viewed Russian cyber-attacks as "acts of war" against Britain. "That means that we need to elaborate a new doctrine of response and a new doctrine of deterrence as well, and we certainly are. That is one of the conclusions that we took in the NSC [national security council] a few months ago," he said.
Skripal and his daughter remain alive for the moment, in critical condition. Thus far the UK has not announced what the "unknown substance" was that nearly killed them, but they're worried enough about it to send samples to a military lab and to keep one member of the first-responder team in the hospital under observation. Whatever it was, it had a dramatic impact on both victims:
Skripal is fortunate he didn't choke to death on his own vomit, although that fortune would only count if he survives this attack. NBC spoke with a former MI6 agent who believes this has all the hallmarks of a Russian hit on a turncoat:
While there is no evidence of any Kremlin connection in Skripal's case, intelligence analyst Glenmore Trenear-Harvey, who formerly worked for MI6, told NBC News he believes the case has the hallmarks of Putin's involvement.
"For this to be in a shopping mall, for this to be in public, and for the fellow himself to be a former intelligence officer, immediately one looks to potential attackers, ultimately that would be as the result of President Putin authorizing it," Trenear-Harvey said, adding that the incident could serve as a warning to any dissidents within Russian security forces that "it might take some time, but we will get you."
Richard Walton, a former head of London's Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism command, cautioned against jumping to conclusions but highlighted that relations between the U.K. and Russia were already near the "breaking point."
"The investigation must take its course, but if this is state-sponsored terrorism and it looks entirely possible, then it will have grave consequences," Walton said during an appearance at the Security and Counter Terrorism Expo in London.
Thus far, the UK has released no information about suspects. Surveillance footage of Skripal and his daughter has emerged, but it doesn't show the attack or its aftermath. They may not have much unless one or both victims recover from the attack, but identifying the substance will go a long way to determining who backed the attack.
Update: I mixed up the order on the Olympic boycotts; it's been fixed now, thanks to Steve Eggleston.
Tags: assassination Boris Johnson espionage Russia Sergei Skripal United Kingdom Vladimir Putin


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Notes from the Utica – October 2013
We have been quite busy since our last update. Most -if not all- of the most valuable lands have already been leased, and energy companies have essentially staked out their positions. An incredible 169 wells are currently producing from the Utica shale in eastern Ohio. Chesapeake Energy is far and away the biggest producer in the region, as they operate 114 of these 169 wells. The lion's share of these producing wells are in Carroll county. Carroll saw such a boom due to its underlying geology, but also because it had never seen significant oil and gas development. As a result, energy companies like Chesapeake did not need to navigate around already existing wells and older leases: it had a relatively blank canvas with which to operate.…
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Notes from the Utica – December 2012
Since my last update in July, I have perceived a trend of a southward movement of the Utica play. There
is presently a good deal of leasing activity in Belmont, Harrison, Noble and Guernsey Counties. Word
is that some of the best wells to date have been drilled in that area. Certainly, Carroll County and
Columbiana Counties are seeing large numbers of wells drilled, but leasing there is not as active as it
once was; companies are primarily focused on filling in planned drilling units and not much interested in
taking random leases. The basic attitude seems to be – 'don't call us, we'll call you if we need you.'…
about Drilling and Producing + Leases + Pipelines
Notes from the Utica – July 2012
Six months ago I wrote an update on Ohio oil and gas leasing. Since that time, lease activity in Ohio has changed somewhat. New Utica wells continue to be drilled, but it can take a while to learn about their production capabilities. Some of these wells will be drilled and left alone for a period of at least 4 weeks. This is done for geological reasons and has to do with the pressure of the reservoir. Drilling companies also like to keep the success of their wells secret lest they inform their competitors of valuable drilling strategies. For the most part, the same energy companies I mentioned in January are still around: Chesapeake, Devon, Hillcorp, Shell, Anadarko, Hess, Gulfport, Consol, and XTO (Exxon).…
about Leases
Notes from the Utica – January 2012
In the last six months we have seen a lot of changes in the oil and gas leasing game. More wells have been drilled and more data about the Utica Shale is now available. This has created a lot of buzz in the oil and gas world. There has been a real surge in interest by many oil and gas companies. There are new "hot" counties where lease prices have escalated substantially, while other counties are of less interest to the oil and gas companies. More companies are moving into this play every week. Major companies now include: Chesapeake, Devon, Hillcorp, Shell, Anadarko, Hess, Gulfport, Consol, and XTO (Exxon).
Oil and gas leasing in Ohio has continued at a rapid pace. Columbiana County, Jefferson County, Mahoning County, Caroll County, Stark County and Harrison County continue to generate signing bonuses in the $2,000/acre and up range, with prices in Harrison County (where a rumored huge well has been drilled) reportedly hitting over $3,000 per acre. Outside of that core area, in Trumbull County, Portage County, Summit County, and Tuscarawas County, activity is pretty brisk, but at lesser per acre amounts. Going beyond those counties, we are seeing new entrants, besides Chesapeake Energy, into the Utica shale play who are leasing in Medina County, Ashland County, Wayne County, Holmes County, Coshocton County, Belmont County and other areas.
Notes from the Utica – November 2010
During the summer of 2010, the oil and gas leasing situation in Ohio changed markedly. Prior to this point in time, oil and gas leasing and drilling in Ohio was conducted primarily by smaller, local companies. In 2010, an influx of larger companies changed the oil and gas landscape in Ohio. The primary company behind this move was Chesapeake Energy — a huge oil and gas producer based out of Oklahoma. Another large company, East Resources (recently purchased by Shell Petroleum) has also made a move into Ohio. Other out of state companies of varying size have also begun leasing — seemingly following at Chesapeake's heels.…
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Oil and Gas Lease Ownership Challenges – Seminar Materials
Non-Consenting Landowners and Conflicts Between Leases
Ohio Pipeline Map and Proposed ET Rover and Leach XPress Routes
Why am I Still Receiving Royalty Checks?
Forced Pooling Mahoning Ohio Utica
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Buhari should replace his Mercedes Benz car with Innoson – Ogbonnia
SKC Ogbonnia, a former presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to replace his German-made Mercedes Benz official car with a vehicle from Innoson Motors.
Ogbonnia made the call while stressing that the coronavirus pandemic should push Nigerian leaders into patronizing locally-made products.
The APC chieftain, in a statement he personally signed, lamented that Nigerian leaders preferred foreign-made products.
In the statement he forwarded to DAILY POST, Ogbonnia lamented that the pattern of lavishness by the leaders was "plain cold-blooded."
He said: "The consensus around the world is that the lessons from the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) would provoke commonsense among Nigerian leaders to harness the full potential of their local economy, but this dream may never come close, if President Muhammadu Buhari does not lead by example.
"It is not surprising, therefore, that amid the COVID-19 pandemic, President Buhari demonstrated visionary leadership by declaring that Nigeria will henceforth promote and patronize made-in-Nigeria products over foreign goods. Buhari's vision is laudable and mirrors the case of Asian countries, particularly China and India, which for several decades banned a good number of foreign products to enable their local industries to thrive. Today, both Asian nations have become economic envy of the world.
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"Interestingly, not long after the made-in-Nigeria policy went public, instead of patronizing Innoson Motors, the sole local auto manufacturing outfit, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) hurriedly approved a whopping sum of N683, 613 million for purchase of 19 Made-In-Japan Toyota vehicles for the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA).
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"According to the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, the justification for the abrupt breach of the policy is that the need for the foreign vehicles predated the COVID-19 pandemic. As if her logic lacks in folly, the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, followed that the approval became necessary, because "it's the first time in four years that NPA was buying any vehicle.
"The simple takeaway from both Ahmed and Amaechi is that Nigerian leaders embrace lunacy as legacy. This goes without saying that the rationale behind the choice of the foreign vehicles over local brands has nothing to do with the common good. Instead, it has everything to do with the manic competition for financial profligacy among the different arms of the Nigerian government.
"This pattern of lavishness by public officials, particularly under the prevailing COVID-19 crisis, is plain cold-blooded. It is impunity going too far.
"But President Muhammadu Buhari must own full blame. Though his call to patronize local products is commendable, he is neither able to influence his appointees to implement the policy nor able to lead by example himself. Rather than demonstrate patriotism, by proudly using the Made-in-Nigeria goods that he preaches, Buhari appears to be emulating the ostentatious style of the regime before him.
"Mister Buhari should quickly revert to the tenets of his 2016 "Change Begins With Me" slogan. The core principle demands that he declares Innoson as the official brand for all government agencies, beginning with the Presidency. If a General Buhari, as a military head of state, could endear himself to the Nigerian people over 30 years ago, by embracing jagged foreign Peugeot—then assembled in Nigeria—as a badge of honor, it is only patriotic for him to replicate such gesture for wholly made-in-Nigeria vehicles.
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"It is worth mentioning, however, that the Innoson Motors is on record to have stated that the company has seen more patronage from the Buhari government than the one before it. That is commendable, at base. But the mediocrity of the previous regime can never be substituted as a gold standard for success.
"President Buhari is a man widely known as ascetic and who assumed power on the mantra of revolutionary change. He should, therefore, embolden his change vision, as well as the authenticity of his policy on local goods, so that others can follow. The message, if it is not already explicit, is that the Nigerian president should, without further delay, replace his official car, a German-made Mercedes Benz, with a Nigerian-made Innoson brand."
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Geoffrey O'Brien
For the California poet, see Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Geoffrey O'Brien (born 1948 New York City, New York) is an American poet, editor, book and film critic, translator, and cultural historian. In 1992, he joined the staff of the Library of America as executive editor, becoming editor-in-chief in 1998.[1]
1948 (age 70–71)
New York City, New York, United States
Poet, editor, critic, translator, historian
O'Brien was born in New York City and grew up in Great Neck, Long Island. His mother, Margaret O'Brien, née Owens, was a theater actress, and his father was Joseph O'Brien, one of the original WMCA Good Guys.
O'Brien began publishing poetry and criticism in the 1960s. He has been a contributor to Artforum, Film Comment, The New York Times and The New York Times Book Review, Village Voice, New Republic, Bookforum, and, especially, to the New York Review of Books.[2] He has also been published in numerous other publications, including Filmmaker, American Heritage, The Armchair Detective, Bomb, Boston Globe, Fence, GQ, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Men's Vogue, Mother Jones, The Nation, Newsday, and Slate, and has contributed many essays for liner notes for The Criterion Collection. In addition, his work has been included in numerous anthologies.
He has served as editor of The Reader's Catalog (1987–1991), a faculty member of The Writing Program at The New School, a contributing editor at Open City, and was a member of the selection committee for The New York Film Festival in 2003.
Literary styleEdit
Erudite but playful, O'Brien's style as an essayist and reviewer is unique. Highly associative in approach, his dense, highbrow prose is often brought to bear upon the worlds of low-budget exploitation films and pulp fiction as well as more upscale and respectable venues of the cinematic, theater, literary, or popular music worlds. These wide-ranging pieces have been described as idiosyncratic "prose poems" [3][4] and tend towards partial autobiography in which he recollects youthful experiences as reader or viewer which — although they may or may not have been shared by his own readership — can lead deeply into unexpected aspects of the material at hand.
Awards and accoladesEdit
1988 Whiting Award
1994 Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism)
1998 Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities
1999 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation [5]
2002 Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center, Italy
2011 Fellow, Bosch Public Policy Prize, American Academy in Berlin
BooksEdit
Reviews and cultural criticismEdit
O'Brien, Geoffrey (1981). Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80773-2. (reprint 1997)
O'Brien, Geoffrey (1988). Dreamtime: Chapters from the Sixties. Counterpoint. ISBN 978-1-58243-191-8. (reprint Counterpoint Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-58243-191-8)
O'Brien, Geoffrey (1995). The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-31296-6.
O'Brien, Geoffrey (1998). The Times Square Story. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-31846-3.
O'Brien, Geoffrey (1998), Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry 1984–1995, University of Michigan Press.
O'Brien, Geoffrey (2000). The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading. Counterpoint. ISBN 978-1-58243-245-8. (reprint Counterpoint Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-58243-245-8)
O'Brien, Geoffrey (2001), Doing It: Five Performing Arts, New York Review of Books (One of 5 authors)
O'Brien, Geoffrey (2002). Castaways of the image planet: movies, show business, public spectacle. Counterpoint. ISBN 978-1-58243-190-1.
O'Brien, Geoffrey (2004). Sonata for Jukebox : Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life. Counterpoint. ISBN 978-1-58243-329-5. (Paperback title: Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears, Counterpoint Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-58243-329-5)
O'Brien, Geoffrey (2010), The Fall of the House of Walworth: Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America, Henry Holt.
PoetryEdit
O'Brien, Geoffrey (1983), Maciste in the valley of the Pagans, Three Bears.
O'Brien, Geoffrey (1989). A Book of Maps. Red Dust. ISBN 978-0-87376-061-4.
O'Brien, Geoffrey (1994). The Hudson Mystery. Red Dust. ISBN 978-0-87376-078-2.
O'Brien, Geoffrey (1996). Floating City: Selected Poems 1978–1995. Talisman House. ISBN 978-1-883689-38-4.
O'Brien, Geoffrey (2002). A View of Buildings and Water. Salt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-876857-55-4.
O'Brien, Geoffrey (2005). Red Sky Café. Salt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84471-071-3.
O'Brien, Geoffrey (2015), In a Mist
Anthology contributorEdit
June Skinner Sawyers, ed. (2006). "Seven Fat Years". Read the Beatles: classic and new writings on the Beatles, their legacy, and why they still matter. Penguin Group. ISBN 978-0-14-303732-3.
Mary Gaitskill, Daphne Carr, eds. (2006). "Will You Love Me Tomorrow". Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81499-0. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
Eric Weisbard, ed. (2004). "Interrupted Symphony". This is pop: in search of the elusive at Experience Music Project. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01321-6.
Richard Howard, David Lehman, eds. (1995). "The Interior Prisoner". The Best American Poetry 1995. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-80151-3. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
EditorEdit
The Reader's Catalog: An Annotated Listing of the 40,000 Best Books in Print in Over 300 Categories (1989; Second Edition, 1997)
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, The Library of America, 2000
Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker
Volume Two: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson
O'Brien, Geoffrey (2004). Bartlett's Poems for Occasions. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-73501-8.
^ "Geoffrey O'Brien biography, plus links to book reviews and excerpts". BookBrowse.com. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
^ "Geoffrey O'Brien - The New York Review of Books". Retrieved 6 October 2014.
^ Review of The Browser's Ecstasy, New York Magazine, 22 May 2000.
^ Menand, Louis, Review of The Phantom Empire, The New Yorker.
^ "Geoffrey O'Brien". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
Profile at The Whiting Foundation
Geoffrey O'Brien's poem "Six Political Criteria" in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (24.1).
"Geoffrey O'Brien", Luc Sante, BOMB 65/Fall 1998
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Work Begins On Clacton Pier £300k Restoration Project
Graham 27th October 2017
Clacton Pier in seaside resort town Clacton-on-Sea in Essex is now an impressive 146 years old… so it's perhaps no surprise that concrete repairs are now necessary on the pier itself to ensure that it stands the test of time and lives for another 146 years at least!
According to the Clacton and Frinton Gazette, the pier is currently supported by over 3,000 concrete piles and a lot of these are actually over 90 years old. While some repair work has been done in the past, small parts of the outer concrete are now starting to crumble away to reveal the metal reinforcements and these will need to be cut out and replaced so that the pier will be able to handle the weight of future developments.
Billy Ball, pier director, explained that it should take about two years to finish the work, saying: "It was a bit of a daunting prospect when we started out as we believe that about 500 of the piles will need some repairs carried out so that they will hold good for another 100 years or so.
"It was important to ensure that everything was in order below deck for us to go ahead with our plans to make the pier a modern all-weather 52-week a year attraction."
Clacton Pier itself first opened to the public on July 27th 1871 – and was just 160 yards long and four yards wide at the time. It was originally built to serve as a landing platform predominantly to support the flow of manufactured goods and products. The amount of footfall that arrived in the area as a result of the pier, however, showed the owners that it could do a lot for tourism in the region and that there was lots of cold hard cash to be made from holidaymakers attracted to the area.
All sorts of redevelopments have taken place over the years, with additions like a Children's Theatre, a dance hall, an open air swimming pool and an open air stage all added in the 20s during the first world war. In the 80s, some local businessmen took ownership of the pier and added in a circus, ice rink and roller rink, a roller coaster and a water slide.
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Interestingly, Clacton Pier has also been used numerous times as a filming location for high-profile TV shows like Eastenders and TV ads for brands like Marks and Spencer… so if you are looking for a coastal location for your next production, Clacton might be just what you're after!


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Q: Data Factory: Multiple collection reference for XML copy to SQL I am attempting to set up a data factory pipeline which will ingest XML data to an Azure SQL Database. The XML follows this structure:
<schools>
    <school>
        <students>
            <student></student>
            <student></student>
            <student></student>
        </students>
    </school>
    <school>
        <students>
            <student></student>
            <student></student>
            <student></student>
        </students>
    </school>
<schools>

I've set up multiple tables in SQL to accept this data. Put simply, there is a schools table which will take all the schools and a students table to accept all the students.
I set up the copy task in data factory and had to set the "Collection reference" to <school> in order to get it to iterate over the schools. If I don't do this it only loads in the first school and ignores the rest.
This works just fine for loading in schools. The problem is with the next copy task which looks at the same XML and tries to copy all the students from all the schools into the students table.
If I set the collection reference to <school> it will only copy in the first student from every school and ignores the rest of the students. If I set the collection reference to <student> it will copy all the students in the first school but ignore the rest of the schools and students.
I'd like to iterate over ALL schools AND students in order to load in all students from all schools but I don't see any easy way to do this. Is there some way to set multiple collection references to both schools and students?

A: Where does the XML come from?  I would take more of an ELT approach and land the XML in a staging table, then use the built-in XML capabilities of Azure SQL Database such as the nodes and value method.  A simplified example:
Similar JSON pattern using Web Activity and Stored Proc activity in ADF:

Sample SQL for importing XML:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.yourXMLStagingTable
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.student
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.school
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp
GO

CREATE TABLE dbo.yourXMLStagingTable (
    rowId       INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
    yourXML     XML NOT NULL,
    dateAdded   DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT GETDATE(),
    addedBy     VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT SUSER_NAME()
    )
GO

CREATE TABLE dbo.school (
    schoolId    INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
    schoolName  VARCHAR(50) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
    )
GO

CREATE TABLE dbo.student (
    studentId   INT IDENTITY(1000,1) PRIMARY KEY,
    schoolId    INT FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES dbo.school(schoolId),
    studentName VARCHAR(50) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
    )
GO

-- Use Data Factory to insert the data into a staging table
-- This is just to generate sample data
INSERT INTO dbo.yourXMLStagingTable ( yourXML )
SELECT '<schools>
    <school schoolName = "school1">
        <students>
            <student name = "student11"></student>
            <student name = "student12"></student>
            <student name = "student13"></student>
        </students>
    </school>
    <school schoolName = "school2">
        <students>
            <student name = "student21"></student>
            <student name = "student22"></student>
            <student name = "student23"></student>
        </students>
    </school>
</schools>'
GO

-- Look at the dummy data
SELECT * FROM dbo.yourXMLStagingTable
GO

-- Dump into a staging table
-- Get the schools
SELECT
    s.rowId,
    schools.c.value('@schoolName', 'VARCHAR(50)') AS schoolName,
    students.c.value('@name', 'VARCHAR(50)') AS studentName
INTO #tmp
FROM dbo.yourXMLStagingTable s
    CROSS APPLY s.yourXML.nodes('schools/school') schools(c)
        CROSS APPLY schools.c.nodes('students/student') students(c)

-- Look at the temp data
SELECT 'temp data' s, * FROM #tmp

-- Insert distinct schools data to schools table
INSERT INTO dbo.school ( schoolName )
SELECT DISTINCT schoolName
FROM #tmp

-- Insert distinct student data to student table, maintaining link to schools table
INSERT INTO dbo.student ( schoolId, studentName )
SELECT DISTINCT s.schoolId, t.studentName
FROM #tmp t
    INNER JOIN dbo.school s ON t.schoolName = s.schoolName
GO

-- End result
SELECT 'end result' s, *
FROM dbo.school school
    INNER JOIN dbo.student student ON school.schoolId = student.schoolId

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NANO Special Issue Introduction to Cartography and Narratives by Matthew Bissen and Laurene Vaughan
Matthew Bissen is an architect and geographer exploring the relationships between spatial design, nature, and culture. He is a part-time faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design and is pursuing a PhD in Earth and Environmental Science —Geography at The Graduate Center (CUNY).
Laurene Vaughan is Deputy Dean Design, Games, and Interaction, in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Australia.
NANO Special Issue Introduction to Cartography and Narratives
by Matthew Bissen and Laurene Vaughan
published November 2014
This special issue of NANO is the outcome of a two-year collaboration between the guest editors Laurene Vaughan and Matthew Bissen and their colleagues Sebastien Caquard and William Cartwright. The idea of the edition emerged from a 2012 exploratory interdisciplinary workshop on narrative cartography held in Zurich, Switzerland. Over the three days of this workshop, artists, scientists, designers, and literary scholars interrogated and reflected on the ways that we narrate the geographic and lived cartographies through maps (Figures 1 and 2). Fundamental to the creative explorations and the critical discourse were questions such as: what is a map? How and what does a map perform as a social and cultural object? And how do different knowledge domains narrate such cartographies, and in what forms?
The outcome of this collaboration is two sister publications: NANO Issue 6, and Volume 51 (Issue 2) of The Cartographic Journal. The workshop and the sister publications have been supported by the Art and Cartography Commission of the International Cartographic Association. This commission brings together an international community of cartographers, geographers, artists, and writers who have sought through innovative collaborations—including publications, events, screenings, exhibitions, and creative works—to facilitate a critical body of scholarship on the nature and power of mapping.
To build a bridge between the two special issues on narrative cartography, the editorial team commissioned an essay by Denis Wood that is featured in both journals. As Denis Wood winds his way along the trajectory of the various submissions, this essay provides a contextual thread through the sciences, the arts, and the humanities.
The eleven notes that make up this NANO special issue explore, often in unconventional ways, the power, form, and presence (or absence) of maps as devices for narrating both personal and social landscapes. As noted by Denis Wood, there is an absence of conventional maps in the contributions and this "has precisely the effect I was hoping for, that of flattening, spreading out, smearing not only the words themselves but the concepts classically attached to them, concepts ultimately focused on the control of territory." The territories that Wood refers to are the boundaries of place, the conventional domains of maps; but the territories that he refers to are also as much about discipline, authority, and tradition as they are about landscapes or borders.
Daniel Dorling also provides instructive context as this issue explores concepts of narrative and cartography. In Mapping: Ways of Representing the World, Dorling states "when map compilation of many different groups of people is examined in detail, cartographers can arrive at an uncomfortable conclusion: 'it is difficult to hold unquestioning the belief that there are certain objects called maps, which most, if not all, human groups use to communicate information about the location of geographical features' [Dorling here quotes Ben Orlove's "The Ethnography of Maps," 29]. The conventional view is that a picture is a map when it resembles the world in miniature and the 'better' it resembles the world (ie. the more accurate it is), the better a map it is" (71). This special issue navigates this "uncomfortable" notion, such that it has deliberately sought to question and challenge disciplinary authority and expectations of cartographic representative norms–it is perhaps the opening up of our capacity to narrate place and space, real and imagined, through diverse modalities of representation, which is at the core of this project.
Dorling, Daniel. Mapping: Ways of Representing the World, London: Longman P, 1997.
Orlove, Ben. "The Ethnography of Maps: Cultural and Social Contexts of Cartographic Representation in Peru," Cartographica, 30(1): 1993. 29-46.
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Two photographs taken by Matthew Bissen during the Workshop on Cartography & Narratives. ETH, Zurich. 6 June 2012.


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Forner didn't just settle into the family business—she labored to expand the company's presence throughout Spain, and the world, as she created new opportunities for the brand.
Cristina Forner glides into the room in a leopard print, lime kimono complimenting her acclaimed personality; one as vivacious, elegant and robust as the variety of Rioja wines in the Marqués de Cáceres portfolio.
In 1970, Forner's father and uncle purchased a number of humble vineyards—less than one hectare each—in Rioja Alta. Up until then, Enrique Forner had been living in France's Rhône Valley, producing wine in Bordeaux; this is where he recognized that the region's terroir presented similar characteristics to northern Spain, his native country. He was inspired to move back and introduce the region to Bordeaux's estate bottling techniques, and this is when he established Marqués de Cáceres.
"When my father started to make wine, the red Riojas were aged too long and in old oak barrels," explains Forner. "He brought the technical vinification of using new french oak barrels, allowing a longer skin contact fermentation, in order to make wines with a deeper color, full body, nice fruit—the oak brought that complexity and elegance."
It took four years, but when the brand released their first wine in 1974, the label became somewhat of an icon as Mr. Forner revolutionized the winemaking process throughout the Rioja region. "When we launched the first wine, Spain wasn't prepared at all for this different palate."
Almost 50 years later and the brand is still one of the most pronounced in the region. Therefore, when Mr. Forner retired at the age of 82, with Cristina assuming the role as president and owner, onlookers presumed she had her work cut out for her. However, Forner didn't just settle into the family business, she labored to expand the company's presence throughout Spain, and the world, as she created new opportunities for the brand.
"For me the routine is boring," says Forner on her decision to purchase 125 hectares of white wine vineyards throughout Rueda. "Now a days our market is needing different context and experiences. I wanted to experiment."
Forner continues, "I took over in the midst of an economic slum when women weren't expected to fill these roles. I invested in white wines like Albariño and Verdejo to increase our presence and increase sales. Rioja, Tempranillo and, now, Verdejo are still growing in popularity so it's been a task but I think Spain has potential."
With Verdejo, Albariño, Viura and, most recently, Cava, all part of the Marqués de Cáceres portfolio now, Forner takes care to ensure each label boasts branding that depicts the wines' individual characteristics; all part of Forner's master plan to produce and classify wines with unique personalities—from their flavors on the palate to the bottles they're presented in.
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This sentiment also reflects Forner's opinion on accepting a role in a family business, one she admittedly refers to as no easy feat, but still one she undertook with pride since she was able to bring her own personality to the brand after years of working in travel and marketing. Contributing one's own views to a business is something she thinks is a necessity for anyone in line to continue a legacy.
"You need your own experience in a family business otherwise you're going to live in the shadow; you have to have your own personality," says Forner.
As Forner continues to expand the portfolio, now exporting Marqués de Cáceres to over 140 countries, she also expands wine tourism in the region of Centicero, by bringing travelers to experience the Marqués de Cáceres bodega and to learn about their winemaking process. "We're continuing to educate, while sticking to our initial philosophy of making wines with high quality," she concludes.
Hero image courtesy of Marqués de Cácerés.
Written by Jillian Dara
Jillian Dara is a travel journalist reporting on culture, food and wine. Having lived in Bermuda, London, Santiago and New York City, she appreciates the importance of travel and all its subcategories, including the power held by a traditional dish or local sip to bring two strangers together in the most chance of circumstances. Follow her on Instagram @jilliandara.
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