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Jenelle Evans feling lonely on Father's Day amid custody battle
Washington DC [USA], June 17 (ANI): American TV star Jenelle Evans who is battling for the custody of her children along with husband David Eason is feeling all alone on Father's Day as none of them is around to celebrate the day.
The former 'Teen Mom 2' star posted a boomerang video on her Instagram story where she showed off her backyard and poolside which was all quiet on Father's day, reported US Weekly.
"It's too quiet here," the 27-year-old star captioned the video.
The post comes nearly three weeks since the star lost custody of her three children after her husband Eason shot and killed their family dog, Nugget.
As previously reported, Evans' mother, Barbara Evans, was granted temporary custody of the 2-year-old daughter, Ensley, in May after Eason admitted that he shot the French bulldog.
Jenelle's 9-year-old son, Jace, is also staying with his grandmother Barbara.
As for Jenelle's other 4-year-old son, Kaiser has been put under the care of his father and Jenelle's former husband, Nathan Griffith.
Davis's 11-year-old daughter Maryssa from a previous relationship was also removed from their home after the dog debacle.
Jenelle and her mother, earlier this month engaged in a tiff outside a North Carolina courthouse when the reality star and Eason headed back to court for another custody hearing.
"I do feel like my relationship with my mom is destroyed at this point," Jenelle told US Weekly after the video of her tiff went viral on the internet. (ANI)


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\section{Supplemental Material}
\subsection{Domain of Attraction}
\label{sup-sec:doa}
Let $F(\cdot)$ be cumulative distribution function (cdf). A theorem due to
Gnedenko (and modified by others to get various characterizations) is stated below;
see Refs.~\cite{resnick1987extreme,kotz2000,coles2001} for proofs.
\begin{thm}
If there exists a sequence of normalizing constants $a_n > 0$ and $b_n \in \Re$, such that
\begin{equation}
F(a_n x + b_n)^n \to G_\gamma(x), 1+\gamma x > 0,
\label{sup-eq:EVS}
\end{equation}
weakly as $n \to \infty$, then $G_\gamma(x)$ is of the form
\begin{equation}
G_\gamma(x) = \exp\{ - (1 + \gamma x)^{-1/\gamma}\},\quad \gamma \in \Re.
\end{equation}
\end{thm}
In such a case we say that $F(\cdot)$ is in the domain of attraction of $G_\gamma(\cdot)$, or $F \in D(G_\gamma)$.
A characterization of the domain of attraction is as follows.
\begin{thm}
(See Ref.~\cite{haan1996} for details) Let
\begin{equation}
j \equiv \left(\frac{1}{-\log F}\right)^{-1},
\end{equation}
where the $(\cdot)^{-1}$ denotes inverse, i.e., under suitable continuity conditions $j(x) \equiv F^{-1}(e^{-1/x})$.
Then Eq.~\ref{sup-eq:EVS} holds iff
\begin{equation}
\lim_{t\to\infty} \frac{j(tx)-j(t)}{tj'(t)} = \frac{x^\gamma - 1}{\gamma}.
\end{equation}
A sufficient condition for Eq.~\ref{sup-eq:EVS} to hold is
\begin{equation}
\lim_{t\to\infty} \frac{j'(tx)}{j'(t)} = x^{\gamma - 1}
\end{equation}
\end{thm}

\subsection{Norming Constants}
\label{sup-sec:nc}
\begin{thm}
(See Ref.~\cite{haan1996} for details)
The following constants are asymptotically optimal norming constants in Eq.~\ref{sup-eq:EVS}
\begin{equation}
a_n = n j'(n),\quad b_n = j(n).
\end{equation}
\end{thm}

\subsection{Rates of Uniform Convergence and Edgeworth Expansions}
\label{sup-sec:rc}
Let $F \in D(G_\gamma)$, and
\begin{align}
d_n &= \sup_n| F(a_n x + b_n)^n - G_\gamma(x)|,\\
x_0 & = \sup\left\{ x : F(x) < 1 \right\}, \\
h(x) &= -\log F(x) - \left\{ \frac{-F(x)F''(x)\log F(x)}{(F'(x))^2} + 1\right\}.
\end{align}
Let $g(x)$ be such that
\begin{equation}
|h(x)| \leq g(x) \downarrow 0\ \mathrm{as}\ x \to x_0.
\end{equation}
\begin{thm}
(See Ref.~\cite{resnick1987extreme} section 2.4.2 for details) Let
If $F \in D(G_0)$ then $d_n \leq O(g(b_n)).$
\end{thm}
\begin{thm}
\label{sup-th:EW}
(See Ref.~\cite{haan1996} for details)
Let $F \in D(G_\gamma)$, then
\begin{equation}
\lim_{n\to \infty} \frac{F(a_n x + b_n)^n -G_\gamma(x)}{W(n)} = G'_\gamma (x) \hat{H}_\gamma[G_\gamma(x)],
\label{sup-eq:Edgeworth}
\end{equation}
uniformly in $x$, where $\hat{H}_\gamma(G_\gamma(x)) = H_\gamma(-\log(-\log G_\gamma(x)))$ and
\begin{equation}
H_\gamma(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll}
			\int_0^x e^{\gamma u} \int_0^u e^{\rho s} ds du & \mathrm{for}\ \gamma \geq 0\\
			-\int_x^\infty e^{\gamma u} \int_0^u e^{\rho s} ds du & \mathrm{for}\ \gamma < 0.
			\end{array}\right.,
\end{equation}
where $\rho$ is such that for $v(t) \equiv j(e^t)$, and  $A(e^t) \equiv v''(t)/v'(t) - \gamma$,
\begin{equation}
\lim_{t\to\infty} \frac{A(tx)}{A(t)} = x^\rho\ \mathrm{for}\ x > 0.
\end{equation}
The function $W(n)$ is given by
\begin{equation}
W(n) = nj''(n)/j'(n) -\gamma + 1.
\end{equation}
\end{thm}
\subsection{Examples}
\label{sup-sec:ex}
\subsubsection{Exponential Distribution}
\label{sup-sec:exED}
For the standard exponential distribution, $F(x) = 1 - e^{-x}$, $F^{-1}(x) = -\log(1-x)$. We get
\begin{equation}
j(x) = F^{-1}(e^{-1/x}) \sim \log x + \frac{1}{2x} + O(1/x^2).
\end{equation}
Thus,
\begin{equation}
a_n = nj'(n) \sim 1,\quad b_n = j(n) \sim \log n.
\end{equation}
Further
\begin{align}
h(x) & = -\log F(x) - \left\{ \frac{-F(x)F''(x)\log F(x)}{(F'(x))^2} + 1\right\}\\
			& = -1 - e^x \log( 1- e^{-x})\\
			& = \frac{e^{-x}}{2} + \frac{e^{-2x}}{3} + \frac{e^{-3x}}{4} + \ldots\\
			& <  e^{-x}.
\end{align}
Thus we get $g(x) = e^{-x}$ and $g(b_n) = 1/n$, so that
\begin{align}
d_n = \sup_n| F(a_n x + b_n)^n - G_\gamma(x)| \leq O(1/n)
\end{align}
Grinding through the calculations further gives
$A(t) \sim 1 /(2t - 1)$, thus, $\rho = -1$. Thus,
\begin{equation}
H_\gamma(x) = \int_0^x e^{\gamma u} \int_0^u e^{\rho s} ds du = e^{-x} + x - 1
\end{equation}
which yields
\begin{equation}
\hat{H}_\gamma(x) = e^{-x} + x - 1.
\end{equation}
The function $W(n)$ is
\begin{equation}
W(n) = nj''(n)/j'(n) -\gamma + 1 \sim 1/2n.
\end{equation}
Thus, the Edgeworth expansion becomes
\begin{equation}
\lim_{n\to \infty} \frac{F(a_n x + b_n)^n -G_0(x)}{1/2n} = G'_0(x) (e^{-x} + x - 1)
\end{equation}

\subsubsection{Normal Distribution}
\label{sup-sec:exND}
\begin{equation}
F(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \int_{-\infty}^x e^{-t^2/2} dt \sim 1 - \frac{e^{-x^2/2}}{x\sqrt{2\pi}} \left( 1 - \frac{1}{x^2}\right)
\end{equation}
Since $F(j(x)) = e^{-1/x}$, so for large $x$, $j(x)$ must be suitably large. However, $j(x)$ might not grow rapidly enough with
$x$, so we keep a higher order term for $j(x)$ in the following expansion
\begin{align}
F(j(x)) & = e^{-1/x} \\
1 - \frac{e^{-j(x)^2/2}}{j(x)\sqrt{2\pi}} \left( 1 - \frac{1}{j(x)^2}\right) & \approx 1 - \frac{1}{x} \\
j^2/2 + \log j - \log (1 - \frac{1}{j^2}) \approx \log(x/\sqrt{2\pi}) \\
j^2/2 + \log j + 1/j^2 \approx \log(x/\sqrt{2\pi})
\end{align}
Ignoring the $1/j^2$ and solving gives
\begin{equation}
j(x) \sim \sqrt{2\log \tilde{x} -\log(2\log \tilde{x})},
\end{equation}
where $\tilde{x} = x/\sqrt{2\pi}$.
Grinding through the details, we get
\begin{gather}
b(n) \sim  \sqrt{2\log \tilde{n} -\log(2\log \tilde{n})},\\
a(n) \sim 1/b(n),\ W(n) \sim -1/2\log(n).
\end{gather}
Further calculations show that $A(t) \sim -1/2\log t$, giving $\rho = 0$ and
\begin{equation}
H_\gamma(x) = \int_0^x e^{\gamma u} \int_0^u e^{\rho s} ds du = x^2/2
\end{equation}
which yields
\begin{equation}
\hat{H}_\gamma(x) = x^2/2.
\end{equation}
Thus, the Edgeworth expansion becomes
\begin{equation}
\lim_{n\to \infty} \frac{F(a_n x + b_n)^n -G_0(x)}{-1/2\log n} = G'_0(x) \frac{x^2}{2}
\end{equation}

\subsubsection{LogNormal Distribution}
\label{sup-sec:exLND}
\begin{align}
F(x) & = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \int_{-\infty}^{\log x} e^{-t^2/2} dt\\
			& \sim 1 - \frac{e^{-(\log x)^2/2}}{\log x\sqrt{2\pi}} \left( 1 - \frac{1}{(\log x)^2}\right).
\end{align}
The analysis proceeds in a manner analogous to the last section. The first order results are
\begin{equation}
a(n) \sim e^{D(n)}/D(n),\ b(n) \sim e^{D(n)},\ W(n) \sim -1/D(n),
\end{equation}
where $D(n) = (2\log(n/\sqrt{2\pi}))^{1/2}$.
\subsubsection{Rayleigh Distribution}
\label{sup-sec:exRD}
\begin{equation}
F(x) = 1 - e^{-x^\alpha},\quad F^{-1}(x) = (-\log(1-x))^{1/\alpha}
\end{equation}
Auxiliary function $j$
\begin{align}
j(x) & = F^{-1}(e^{-1/x}) \\
		 & \sim (\log x)^{1/\alpha}\left( 1 + \frac{1}{2\alpha x\log x}\right)
\end{align}
Thus
\begin{align}
b(n) & \sim (\log n)^{1/\alpha} \\
a(n) & \sim \frac{(\log n)^{1/\alpha -1}}{\alpha}\\
W(n) & \sim \frac{1-\alpha}{a\log n} + \frac{1}{2n}
\end{align}
\subsubsection{Gamma Distribution}
\label{sup-sec:exGD}

\begin{align}
F(x) & = \frac{1}{\Gamma(a)}\int_0^x t^{a-1} e^{-t}dt \\
		& \sim 1 - \frac{x^{a-1}e^{-x}}{\Gamma(a)}\left( 1 + \frac{a-1}{x} + \frac{(a-1)(a-2)}{x^2} + \ldots\right)
\end{align}
Thus
\begin{align}
j(x) & \sim \log (x/\Gamma(a)) + (a-1)\log(\log(x/\Gamma(a)))\\
b(n) & \sim \log (n/\Gamma(a)) + (a-1)\log(\log(x/\Gamma(a)))\\
a(n) & \sim 1 + (a-1)/\log(x/\Gamma(a))\\
W(n) & \sim -\frac{a-1}{(a-1 + \log(x/\Gamma(a)))\log(x/\Gamma(a))}
\end{align}

\subsection{Transformations}
\label{sup-sec:tr}
This section has the calculation for the asymptotic terms in the mapping $G^{-1}_0(F(x))$ for some $F(x)$.
\subsubsection{Normal}
\label{sup-sec:trND}
The normal cdf is,
\begin{equation}
F(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \int_{-\infty}^x e^{-t^2/2} dt \sim 1 - \frac{e^{-x^2/2}}{x\sqrt{2\pi}} \left( 1 - \frac{1}{x^2}\right).
\end{equation}
while the inverse of $G_0(\cdot)$ is
\begin{align}
G^{-1}_0(x) & = -\log(-\log(x)) \\
G^{-1}_0(1-x) & \sim -\log(x) - \frac{x}{2} -\frac{5x^2}{24} - \ldots.
\end{align}
Thus, the transformation becomes
\begin{equation}
G^{-1}_0(F(x)) \sim \frac{x^2}{2} + \log\left( x\sqrt{2\pi} \right) + \mathcal{O}(1/x^2)
\end{equation}
\subsubsection{Lognormal }
\label{sup-sec:trLND}
The lognormal cdf is
\begin{equation}
F(x) \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \int_{-\infty}^{\log x} e^{-t^2/2} dt.
\end{equation}
Thus, the transformation becomes
\begin{equation}
G^{-1}_0(F(x)) \sim \frac{(\log x)^2}{2} + \log\left( \log x\sqrt{2\pi} \right) + \mathcal{O}(1/\log x^2)
\end{equation}
\subsubsection{Rayleigh}
\label{sup-sec:trRD}
The Rayleigh cdf is
\begin{equation}
F(x) = 1 - e^{-x^\alpha}
\end{equation}
Thus the transformation becomes
\begin{equation}
G^{-1}_0(F(x)) \sim x^\alpha -\frac{e^{-x^\alpha}}{2} + \ldots
\end{equation}
\subsubsection{Gamma}
\label{sup-sec:trGD}
The Gamma cdf is
\begin{align}
F(x) & = \frac{1}{\Gamma(a)}\int_0^x t^{a-1} e^{-t}dt \\
		& \sim 1 - \frac{x^{a-1}e^{-x}}{\Gamma(a)}\left( 1 + \frac{a-1}{x} + \frac{(a-1)(a-2)}{x^2} + \ldots\right)
\end{align}
Thus, the transformation becomes
\begin{equation}
G^{-1}_0(F(x)) \sim x + (1-a)\log x + \log \Gamma(a)
\end{equation}
\subsection{Tail Convergence}
\label{sup-sec:tc}
\subsubsection{Exponential Distribution}
\label{sup-sec:tcED}
The exponential cdf and norming constants are
\begin{equation}
	F(x) = 1 - e^{-x},\ a_n = 1,\ b_n = \log n.
\end{equation}
Thus,
\begin{align}
L(x) & = \frac{1-F(a_n x + b_n)^n}{1-G_0(x)}\\
			& = \frac{1-(1 - e^{-x}/n)^n}{1-e^{-e^{-x}}}\\
			& = \frac{e^{-x} + o(e^{-x})} { e^{-x} + o(e^{-x})} \to 1,
\end{align}
where $o()$ is the `small-$o$' notation. Thus, the extreme value approximation for the exponential distribution is good in the upper tail
of the distribution.

\subsubsection{Normal Distribution}
\label{sup-sec:tcND}
The normal cdf and norming constants are
\begin{equation}
	F(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \int_{-\infty}^x e^{-t^2/2} dt \sim 1 - \frac{e^{-x^2/2}}{x\sqrt{2\pi}} \left( 1 - \frac{1}{x^2}\right),
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
b(n) \sim  \sqrt{2\log \tilde{n} -\log(2\log \tilde{n})},\ a(n) \sim 1/b(n),\ \tilde n = n/\sqrt{2\pi}.
\end{equation}

Thus, it is easy to see that
\begin{align}
L(x) & = \frac{1-F(a_n x + b_n)^n}{1-G_0(x)} \to 0
\end{align}
Thus, the extreme value approximation for the normal distribution is bad in the upper tail.
\subsection{Proofs}
\label{sup-sec:pr}
\begin{claim}
Let $F(\cdot)$ have unbounded support (the case of bounded support is similar). Let
$F(x) \sim 1 - \sum_{i=0}^{\infty}f_i(x)$ be an asymptotic expansion for large $x$, where the gauge functions
$f_i(\cdot)$ are monotonic. Then the variable $Y = T(X) = -\log f_0(x)$
is asymptotically exponentially distributed, i.e.,
\begin{equation}
P(Y < y) \sim 1 - e^{-y},
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
\lim_{n\to\infty}  \frac{P(Y_n < y + \log n) - G_0(y)}{W(n)} = G'_0(y)\hat{H}_0[G_0(y)],
\label{sup-eq:convCl}
\end{equation}
where $ W(n) \sim 1/2n$,
and
\begin{equation}
(1-P(Y_n< y + \log n))/(1-G_0(x)) \to 1.
\label{sup-eq:LargeDevCl}
\end{equation}
\end{claim}
\begin{claimproof}
Since $f_0(\cdot)$ is monotonic, $T^{-1}(x) = f_0^{-1}(e^{-x})$. Now,
\begin{align}
K(y) \equiv P(Y < y) 	& = P (X < T^{-1}(y)) \\
											& = F( f_0^{-1}(e^{-y}))\\
											& \sim 1 - e^{-y}.
\end{align}
Thus, the distribution of $Y$ is asymptotically exponential.
Consider the auxiliary function $j(n)$. By definition
\begin{equation}
K(j(n)) = e^{-1/n},
\end{equation}
Thus, $j(n) \to \infty$ as $ n \to \infty$, since it is easy to check that $K(y)$ is monotonic and $\lim_{y\to\infty} K(y) = 1$.
Thus, for large $n$ we can use the asymptotic expansion $K(j(n))\sim 1 - e^{-j} + o(e^{-j})$. The monotonity of
the gauge functions $f_i(\cdot)$ ensure that there are no oscillatory terms in this asymptotic expansion, and thus
it can be differentiated term by term. Thus, we have
\begin{equation}
1 - e^{-j(n)} + o(e^{-j(n)}) \sim e^{-1/n}.
\end{equation}
The above has the solution
\begin{equation}
j(n) \sim -\log ( 1 - e^{-1/n}) + o(1/n),
\end{equation}
as can be verified by direction substitution.
Thus, for the Edgeworth expansion (theorem~\ref{sup-th:EW}), we get
\begin{equation}
W(n) = nj''(n)/j'(n) - \gamma + 1 = nj''(n)/j'(n) + 1 \sim 1/2n.
\end{equation}
Further following theorem~\ref{sup-th:EW}, we get $A(t) \sim 1/2t$, thus giving $\rho = -1$. Since $\gamma = 0$,
we get $\hat{H}_0[G_0(x)] = e^{-x} + x + 1$ from theorem~\ref{sup-th:EW}. The Edgeworth expansion is thus established.
Finally, for the tail approximation
\begin{align}
L(y) 	& = \frac{1-P(Y_n< y + \log n)}{1-G_0(y)}\\
			& = \frac{1-K(y + \log n)^n}{1-G_0(y)}\\
			& = \frac{1-(1 - e^{-y}/n + o(e^{-y}/n) )^n}{1-e^{-e^{-y}}}\\
			& = \frac{e^{-y} + o(e^{-y}) }{e^{-y} + o(e^{-y})} \to 1,
\end{align}
and the proof is complete.
\end{claimproof}
\subsection{Fits to Exponential Data}
\label{sup-sec:ft}
Here we apply the T-method to the standard exponential distribution, $F(z) = 1 - e^{-z}$.
Since the convergence of the exponential distribution to the
extreme value form $G_0(\cdot)$ is rapid in the bulk as well as in the tail,
the application of the T-method is not necessary to get a good fit to the
data, or a good result from the extrapolation of the fit. However, we
apply the method to test if its application in such a case result
in predictions that are any worse (or better) than the standard
extreme value statistics. In particular, we consider the
distribution of the variable $X$ = $\mathrm{max}(Z_1,\ldots,Z_m)$,
where $Z_i$ are exponential iid random variables, $P(Z_i < z) = F(z) = 1 - e^{-z}$.
We take $m = 100$, and take a sample $\mathbf{X} = (X_1,\ldots,X_n)$ of size
$n = 1000$. The classical extreme value model is parameterized
by the parameter vector $\theta_c = (\gamma,a_n,b_n)$, and leads
to the following log-likelihood function
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_c(\theta_c|\mathbf{X}) = \mathlarger{\Sigma}_i \big( \log G'_\gamma((X_i - b_n)/a_n) + \log (\gamma/a_n) \big).
\end{equation}
While, the T-method with the transformation $Y = T(X|\beta) = X^\beta$ is parameterized by
the parameter vector $\theta_t = (\beta,a_n, b_n)$ and leads to the following log-likelihood
function
\begin{multline}
\mathcal{L}_t(\theta_t|\mathbf{X}) = \mathlarger{\Sigma}_i \big(\log G'_0((T(X_i|\beta) - b_n)/a_n) \\
			+ \log T'(X_i|\beta) - \log a_n\big).
\end{multline}
We do monte carlo simulations by generating 1000 samples $\mathbf{X}$ and fitting the models.
Figure~\ref{sup-fig:SupTrans} shows the mean and the 2-standard deviation bounds for the QQ plots of the fits.
It is clear that the mean prediction from T-method is slightly better than the classical
extreme value fit, while the T-method results in smaller variance in the predictions.
\begin{figure}[tbp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth,angle=0]{QQExponSTD}
\end{center}
\caption{Comparison of the classical extreme value approximation with the suggested transformation based method
for data taken from the standard exponential distribution.
The solid black line is a guide to
the eye and shows the ideal result. The dashed lines show the model quantiles
averaged over 1000 monte carlo runs; while the errorbars show the 2-standard deviation
range. In each monte carlo run the model fit to a sample of size 1000,
and the fit is extrapolated to a probability level of $1-P(X_n<x) = 10^{-6}$.
The insets show the upper tail of the estimation, $1-P(X_n < x)$, on a semilog plot
for a typical monte carlo run; the empirical data is shown in the black dots.
It is clear that the transformation based method yields better predictions
and less variance
even when extrapolated well beyond the range of the available data.
}\label{sup-fig:SupTrans}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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14-MW hydro plant starts supplying Luzon
Hedcor Inc., a subsidiary of AboitizPower Corp., has started commercial operations of the 14-megawatt (MW) Sabangan hydroelectric power plant, its first venture in Mt. Province.
Inaugurated last May 6, the plant is now set to deliver 55 gigawatt-hours of energy to the Luzon grid, which is experiencing tight power supply.
Construction of the plant started in 2013 and was finished on time this year, AboitizPower said in a project update.
Using a modern run-of-river system, the Sabangan hydro project harnesses the natural force of the Chico River by diverting part of the water into the system. The water then exits the powerhouse and goes back to the river.
"Hedcor's Sabangan hydro plant is a fulfillment of AboitizPower's continual promise to bring a better future to the country and to our host communities. Sabangan hydro is hoped to energize communities connected to the Luzon grid," AboitizPower president and COO Antonio R. Moraza said.
The Sabangan hydro is the 22nd run-of-river hydro plant of Hedcor.
The new power plant increases the total capacity of AboitizPower's entire portfolio to a total of 185 MW. Hedcor also owns and operates hydro plants in Benguet, Davao City, Davao del Sur and Ilocos Sur.
AboitizPower continues to expand its clean energy portfolio as its looks for more potential areas across the country, mainly through geothermal, hydro and solar power sources.
In April, Hedcor also had a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the P12.5-billion, 68.8-MW Manolo Fortich run-of-river hydro plant in Bukidnon. This is also the first hydro plant venture of Hedcor in Bukidnon province.
Last year, AboitizPower partnered with US-based solar power developer SunEdison Inc. to explore, develop, construct and operate up to 300 MW of utility-scale solar photovoltaic power generation projects in the Philippines over the next three years.
SN Aboitiz Power (SNAP), a joint venture of AboitizPower with SN Power of Norway, is also expanding its portfolio in the northern region of Luzon.
Early last year, the Department of Energy (DOE) granted SNAP a renewable energy service contract (RESC) to develop an integrated hydropower complex in Ifugao province. The planned 350-MW hydroelectric power facility marks the company's first major project under its greenfield development program.
Moreover, increasing the power supply of the country from geothermal sources remains one of AboitizPower's goals in 2015 through its exploration of potential steam wells in Negron Cuadrado and Mt. Apo.
AboitizPower has 915 MW of renewable energy, representing 40 percent of its total attributable net sellable capacity, in its portfolio. It also operates baseload and peaking plants across the country through its coal- and oil-fired power plants.
The company aims to increase further its energy capacity by 2,000 MW over the next five years.

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Living in unorthodox times
The Mexican government's slow response to Covid-19 spurred Mexico City's Jewish community to build a parallel digital infrastructure to keep its members safe.
Sonnie Kozlover for Rest of World
By Yemile Bucay
Sharon Sabban had just come back to Mexico City after a long weekend at a wedding in the beach resort of Acapulco when she texted friends about meeting up for a coffee. Immediately, they asked if she had heard about the directive published the previous day by the Comité Central de la Comunidad Judía de México (Jewish Central Committee) banning all gatherings. As she was reading the PDF, Sabban got another WhatsApp message saying that there may have been Covid-19-positive guests at the 250-person event she had just attended.
In mid-March, the first two cases of the novel coronavirus were confirmed in the Jewish community of Mexico City, a tightly knit group of roughly 100,000 people that includes many large extended families. While Mexico's leadership vacillated in its response to the virus, with president Andrés Manuel López Obrador showing off amulets that he claimed offered protection from the virus and disregarding social distancing, Jewish leaders acted quickly. The committee that oversees the country's various Jewish organizations announced the closure of all schools and communal spaces for the duration of the crisis, as well as the postponement of weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs. The message quickly spread, and Mexican Jews went into lockdown.
Mexico's Jewish community is different from those elsewhere in the world, especially the United States. It's made up of four large groups that are Orthodox and traditionalist, and two that are smaller and conservative, all located mostly in Mexico City. Rather than being structured around individual synagogues, these groups, which are distinguished by ethnic origins (with more than half coming from the Middle East and former Ottoman Empire), are more akin to micro welfare states. Members are registered from birth, and in exchange for paying mandatory dues, families receive access to various services, such as academic scholarships and food pantries. Each community has its own cemetery, schools, network of synagogues, and event halls.
But the various populations are not hermetically sealed, with people marrying and socializing across them, so any effort to contain the virus would require a clear and unified response. Making this all the more urgent was the fact that the risk of the disease spreading was high. Social gatherings are frequent, and a normal bar or bat mitzvah might have upward of 400 guests, while a weekly Shabbat dinner at a grandparent's home often includes 60 or more relatives. When Sabban got the message about the wedding, she went straight into self-isolation. She had come back to Mexico City for a surprise birthday gathering that was also cancelled.
Usually, the Jewish Central Committee is responsible for overseeing security, managing relations with the government, and directing sensitive operations — during the rash of kidnappings in the late nineties and aughts, it even negotiated ransom payments. For this crisis, the committee created a new website to publish Covid-19 information, inform people about how to get tested, and put the community in touch with relevant resources. Across Mexico, there have been approximately 70,000 cases reported and more than 7,000 fatalities. But testing is severely limited, and in mid-April, Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell said that there could be more than 56,000 cases, with the majority undiagnosed. As of late May, there have been 270 confirmed cases in the Jewish community. Four people have died, and 151 have recovered.
As the disease has spread, Mexican Jews have adapted to life under quarantine. Speaking on the phone from his home in Mexico City, Rabbi Abraham Tobal, the Orthodox chief rabbi of Alianza Monte Sinai, headquartered in the upscale west side of Mexico City, said that, rather than offering his services in person, he's found alternative methods. This includes filming videos about social distancing guidelines for TuTorah.tv, a website catering specifically to Spanish-speaking Jews; offering advice over the phone; and hosting Facebook Live Q&As to assuage people's concerns about how the new rules might interfere with religious observance.
In the days preceding Passover, Tobal created a SoundCloud recording of himself singing the Haggadah, a religious text that tells the story of the Jews' exodus from Egypt, and sent it out via WhatsApp, along with a several-thousand-word explanatory message for those who might not have the relevant religious books handy. All of these materials were prefaced with the caveat that they should be listened to, read, watched, or printed before the holiday, when the use of electronics is prohibited.
A Torah study app is one of the several apps that have found new audience amid the pandemic.
As people remain cloistered at home, it's not just Jewish students who are taking classes on Zoom. Across the wider community, virtual gatherings are now standing in for activities that would normally take place IRL. Johanna Strimlingas, a Yiddish translator who has been isolating at home with her octogenarian husband, says that every night they participate in a different webinar or conference. "Last night we went to a talk with a journalist about the representation of Israel in the media," she said. A recent Zoom conversation hosted by Tobal and Rabbi Raúl Askenazi about the myths and realities behind the Netflix miniseries "Unorthodox," which features a young woman who leaves the ultra-Orthodox Satmar sect in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, attracted nearly 700 participants. Even practicing Jews had questions about some of the details of the show, like whether religious women really shave their heads when they get married. (Only Satmar women do, according to the rabbis.) After an hour, so many questions remained that the rabbis decided they'd host another session the following week.
The pandemic has also highlighted the use of apps particular to the community, such as ones for a private Jewish ambulance company, a Torah study center, and a Jewish matchmaking service. Those who don't want to venture out to the grocery store can order fresh kosher meat (which forms the basis of many Syrian recipes) through Kosher Click, a local Jewish mashup of Instacart and Uber Eats. The sudden necessity of certain apps has changed the demographics that use them: According to Kosher Click founder Salomón Hamui, before the pandemic, most users were women in their 20s to 50s, but since the start of the lockdown, more divorced men and older women have begun using the app.
Some within the community doubt these changes will be permanent. Gad Levy, an app developer and a member of Maguen David Synagogue, is skeptical about whether people really want to download apps when most information is already available online. Elias Shuchleib, CEO of ed-tech startup Dev.f, which runs coding schools across Mexico and South America, shares Levy's concern about the viability of these apps, but he thinks the reasons are more deep-seated. "Technology allows for the creation of a more horizontal world, which is very different from a fundamentally conservative and more closed-off community," he reflected, adding that the Jewish community in Mexico holds "different worldviews" from tech companies.
After dragging its feet, the Mexican government did launch a coronavirus-pandemic site in late March, an app in April, and a Covid-19 data site in mid-April. However, distrust in the Mexican government is high, and members of the Jewish community prefer to rely on their own resources. Even as many Jews speculate that the country will start to reopen in the coming weeks, they plan to stay home and continue until the Jewish Central Committee tells them otherwise.
Yemile Bucay is an independent journalist and media researcher based in New York.


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Tamar Rosenfeld has been in love with New York Leopards linebacker Abraham Krasner since they were twelve years old. She'd always considered it destiny that they'd end up together…until Abe was drafted and she professed her feelings in a moment of blind excitement. The sting of his rejection was like nothing she'd ever felt before, and it's nothing she'll ever forget.
Older and wiser, Tamar has landed a dream job as a reporter for one of New York's premier athletic websites. Determined to stop being the safe, boring girl she's felt like for most of her life, Tamar makes a list of all the things she wants to do and see in her new city, and Getting Over Abraham is priority number one.
But destiny has finally chosen to interfere. Just as Tamar's decided to move on, Abe's realized she's the only woman for him. When he confides the truth, Tamar has to decide if she can put her crush behind her, or take a chance on the very man who's been holding her back all these years.
Allison Parr is the author of Rush Me, Running Back, and Imaginary Lines. She grew up in small town New England, where she developed an incurable case of wanderlust. After graduating with degrees in archaeology and creative writing, she spent the next several years living in San Francisco, Paris, Boston, and New York. When she's not traveling or writing, she's making a mean chocolate cake or bad historical jokes. She's also amassing enough books to rival the library in Beauty and the Beast.
I've read "Rush me" and it was quite vividly descriptive. Would want to read this one and "Running back" in the future.
Awesome!! I will have to add this to my "To Read" list over the summer!! Thank you!!
I've read both Rush Me and Running Back and loved them both. I want to own them in paperback. I can't wait to read Imaginary Lines!


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A variety of subjects and moods are strikingly captured with wetplate photographic processes, as evidenced by this collection of images from Lindsey Ross's La Chambre Photographique tintype portrait studio and fine art gallery.
Lana, a slender woman in a red dress, Darrick, her bearded companion, and their brown Labrador dog, Jay Brown, find their way through the large chain-link gate into Santa Barbara's only time machine—aka "La Chambre Photographique." In the steadily gentrifying Funk Zone, just around the corner from a heavily advertised "gentlemen's club," this is the only place in town where you can sit for a tintype portrait and transport yourself to the 19th century.
The proprietor is Lindsey Ross. Slightly sunburned, her blonde bangs cut straight, wearing black coveralls flecked with paint and boots laced around the middle, the 33-year-old photographer waves to her clients while still wearing white latex gloves. Rock music plays from her corrugated metal studio, a two-story structure with an open hayloft and peaked roof. Inside the compound, Jay Brown trots by an old green and white Ford pickup truck (purchased in Colorado during a powder skiing photo shoot), an outdoor sink, a firepit and a stack of firewood mixed with cattle bones and a seal skull.
The front of the two-story shed is an art gallery, while to the rear, where Ross works, brown photographic chemistry bottles mingle alongside bottles of mineral water and a freezer holds still-life subjects to be: a dead lizard and a frozen goldfinch.
Since 2012, Ross's studio has offered clients a unique product: portraits using the "wetplate" photographic process created in 1850. When printed on metal, these are known as tintypes; if printed on glass, ambrotypes. Once her clients arrive, she goes into her darkroom to prepare a photographic plate, pouring on it collodion (a gelatinous substance, originally invented to close surgical wounds), letting it slightly harden, then dips and leaves the plate in a silver nitrate bath. After five minutes, she takes it from the bath and sets it in a lightproof holder; it is now camera ready.
Minutes later, she brings the finished tintype from the darkroom. Darrick glances at it and says, "Weird." His intonation suggests it is a good "weird." They continue to mull, pleased.
Subjects in a tintype look both ghostly and more substantial than usual, their images captured in its thickened chemistry, as if in flattened amber. The long exposure usually means there are no smiles, and the hand-mixed chemistry can offer unusual distortions, yet through it all, people emanate the fierce dignity common to 19th-century portraits.
Meanwhile, Lana and Darrick contemplate one more portrait. Jay Brown jumps up on the purple velvet couch and strikes a pose. If he can last seven seconds, blinking, but otherwise immobile, this may be his moment.


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Houses for sale in Mocksville, NC!
So how does the Mocksville NC real estate market look these days? Currently Mocksville has a average listing price for homes for sale of $194,427. The Davie county average currently is $257,900.
The current number of properties on the market in Mocksville is 152. The Mocksville median listing price is $149,950.
For Davie county real estate the total listings are 316 and a median listing price of $199,250. This compares to North Carolina real estate data, which this week shows a total number of listing properties as 85,044 with a median listing price of $197,898.


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Money Heist: Nnamdi Kanu And The Professor (A Comparison)
Money Heist: Nnamdi Kanu And The Professor (A Comparison) Is Nnamdi Kanu just a noise maker or a well calculated planner? Is he a lunati...
Is Nnamdi Kanu just a noise maker or a well calculated planner? Is he a lunatic and a police dog that always bark without biting or a dangerous schemer with efficiently thorough skills? Well, he looks crazy with his mouth always blabbing whenever he is seated behind the microphone but that is not a proof that he is a piece of garbage. There is only one way to find out.
Those that have watched the film MONEY HEIST will simply be amazed at the intelligence and smartness of a character called PROFESSOR. His skills are simply amazing, his moves are well calculated, tactical and cuts with the highest precision, he had a way to navigate through every problem though at first he may appear so foolish like a lunatic.
I have often heard some people arguing that Kanu is just but a noise maker and a rabble rouser but facts have always disagreed with them. Fact-check: Kanu talks a lot but that never made him any loose, professor contrarily was not. He was calm, patient and calculating. However, these contrasting qualities don't make great differences as neither calmness nor hotness rubs a water of its principal qualities, it only depends on the results you want. Cold makes it to freeze while hot makes it to evaporate. Until now, Kanu's strategy has always been to evaporate Nigeria while Professor's was to freeze a bank to buy time.
• Planning
The professor spent 5 months preparing for rubbing a bank, there he drew up his game, planned moves and counter moves, brain stormed to see possible errors, trained his experts and finally had a magnificent Bullet-proof plan of which was necessary to pierce a high class, security sensitive and anti-rubbery record bank. Set in place where plans A, B and C. Neither one was less thorough.
Kanu's steps are more calculated than people think especially when he was to lead not only his trained experts but also a flock of ordinary people who neither knew a plan was necessary for Biafra nor were ready to play along. That is why Kanu has to do a lot of talking to get them along. Kanu didn't wake up and start talking about Biafra, according to the data available from my rough researches, Kanu had planned not less than a 16 year interval. I will prove it.
Nnamdi Kanu
• The day he entered Nigeria on 14 Oct 2015 his plans have always been TO BE ARRESTED. What he said in Radio Biafra were exactly the things that could put him in prison in a dictator led federal government. To cap it all, he gave an interview to Sahara Reporters where he claimed he will destroy Nigeria. This is treasonable. By doing this, he had raised every antenna to himself, queerly not for admiration, but for an arrest.
• On arrival he had disclosed his location, and from which airport and hotel of residence. As planned, the able DSS arrested him with smiles. They were congratulated for making a big catch but never knew they were doing completely what Kanu wants them to do. A question could be asked, why did Kanu want an arrest?
• Allowing himself to be arrested wasn't a safe thing as many will think, he could die in prison out of poisoning like Abiola. Buhari is also a heartless dictator, he can do anything he wants without fear or favour, moreover, he could jail Kanu for life to say it loud. Kanu's chances of surviving a dictator Buhari, if not very narrow was at 0 point. Yet he wanted an arrest.
• However Kanu still had his plans to come out alive, not only to come out alive but also as a hero. Entering a lions den and coming out alive does not make you just a survivor, it makes you an immortal. His plan was now a total dependence on one thing, his enthusiasts. If he will come out alive, it will not depend on him, his supporters had to do the rest. IPOB was left with a single commandment, "The day you hear that I am dead, destroy the Zoo". This was the coin with which he bought his life from arrest.
• Categorically speaking, don't blame anybody who supports Kanu, he bought each and everyone of them with a very high prize. Kanu does not receive supports, he earns them painfully. Quite unlike a noise maker.
• After this, Kanu was now to be a domestic name in Nigerian politics, he had bought a ticket into the Nigerian game. This only meant he had gotten some powers. In democracy, the most valuable power is not in money, it is in numbers. Kanu has the highest number of supporters per capita, in the Nigerian environs. Per capita means each person standing individually; a Buhari without APC, Atiku without PDP, Obiano without APGA. Whereas these people can return to nothing when they lose their seats, Kanu retains his numbers. This is exactly why he is a provoking challenge to all the politicians in south east.
• However, his intelligence was not more in getting this number and power than it is in deploying them. How Kanu has deployed this power had made him a phenomenon.
• Kanu's next move wasn't to celebrate his new powers, it was to increase them. After he left prison, his bail conditions which where discussed in all the news channels was stringent. Made to keep him in one place and to subdue his power. Seeing this, he knew he had to brake each single one of them because a re-arrest was better off than keeping to a stringent bail. He began his rallies again, wherever he went he entertained a wild crowd of supporters. His interest was not more in the Igbo zones as much as it is in the zone called Niger Delta. To thread a foot there was to bruise the long standing notion that they were not Biafrans. If he entertains a wild crowd then virtually he had become the east bloc himself.
• His plans were proactive, brave and daring. He was succeeding.
• The cabals knew that his entering into Niger delta will be injurious but an alternative of re-arrest for breaking bail conditions was not also viable. They had to do the necessary; assassination. In Nigerian politics, if one happens to develop wings, to cut it, he is either jailed for donkey years or he is assassinated. Delegiwa and Abiola were clear examples. Kanu could have tailed behind but what happened next was not a coincidence.
• Whether this eventuality happened according to the timeline of his plan is apparent, what wasn't is an escape plan. In every plan, there is always a back door.
• This is the silence of 2018 after he escaped from assassins in Nigeria army.
• 2018 was a good time to be away, still a better one to brain storm for another strategy. This additional year is what made my total estimation of his planning to be up to 16 from a 15 position.
• His new strategy has pivoted from international pressure to verbal attacks on Nigeria. His verbal attacks had seen to the nailing of Jubril to the minds of every Nigerian. The election boycott saga was so effective that one may never knew it was just from a noise maker who sat thousand of kilometres away from Nigeria to institute the greatest election controversy in Nigeria after the JUNE 12.
If a systematic 5 months plan can foil the rubbery status of the most guarded money institutions in the world, at least in a virtual perspective, I don't know what a 16 year plan can do to Nigeria in real time. Whatever it is, I have some few take aways for you:
• Nnamdi Kanu started planning about the year 2000.
• Then he was about 32 and had nothing with him.
• It had taken his teen to know as much of history as possible and his twenties in extensive study of Economics and world politics, his thirties where an actual plan began would start with identifying with rally groups in London for good leadership for Nigeria. All through his life, he had planned for better change in Africa notwithstanding.
• Protesting with Nigerian flag for so long without results would warrant a change in approach.
• Biafra was activated towards his late 30s and early 40s. (2005-2008)
• Identifying with the existing Biafran group MASSOB was the first thing to do.
• He became the director of Radio Biafra, a 41 year old and instituted IPOB. (2009)
• As his message dispersed, so was his influence and plan.
• This continued for about another 6 years (2015) spent closely with a drawing board.
• You can call him a noise maker but it never changes his sophistication.
• He is a patient planner and as thorough as one can be.
• The time you think his plans ended, that was when it began.
Quite a lot to learn, Professors!
By me VIRAL.


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Organically Grown Wines
by Mari Kane
Drink Deep of Life: Organically grown wines differ in the growing, but not in the sipping: It's all in the nose, the legs, the body.
Off the Beaten Vine
The best organically grown wines of California
Everything is organic these days, but perhaps you think that organic wines are somehow inferior, as if made in less-than-sterile labs by aging hippies with more ecological motivation than enological experience. You know this because the one organic wine you tried years ago proves it.
The reality is that today's organically grown wines have come so far from their well-intentioned roots that you would be hard pressed to single them out from the chemically raised ones. Few wines are entirely organically made (and therefore entitled to use the moniker "organic wine"), meaning they don't use sulfites as a preservative. Without these sulfites, wines can go bad, which is why the naturally occurring chemical is used, albeit sparingly, in the organically grown wines.
The Producers: A list of organically grown winemakers.
While the following wines do not necessarily taste superior by virtue of their chemical-free farming, I have found that knowing they first did no harm to the environment tends to make them taste all the more sweet. In essence, organically grown wines are good karma in a glass.
Here now, in order of weight and color, are my top picks among the current releases. (Note: the prices are suggested retail from the winery and may be 15 percent to 20 percent less at local outlets.)
Alas, I could not find an organic-anything sparkling wine from California, so I'll start with the next bubblicious thing: Everett Ridge's 2001 Sauvignon Blanc from the Powerhouse Vineyard in Mendocino County ($14). Slightly sweet and very crisp, with zesty slices of grapefruit and lemon-lime, vanilla, and hazelnut, make it perfect to partner with a strawberry-filled fruit salad with whipped cream.
Who'd have thought Humboldt County raised grapes, given the other high-profit crop they grow, but Briceland Vineyards has some interesting offerings. Their 2001 Sauvignon Blanc ($14) is full-bodied with a soft mouthfeel, but it's a little too oaky for Thai food. Lolonis Vineyard's 2000 Fumé Blanc ($13) from their Redwood Valley vineyards in Mendocino has a nose of marshland air and melons; a palette of kiwi, apricot, and cantaloupe; and a long finish of nuts and spices. It could stand up to the spicy and salty alike. Lolonis' 2000 Chardonnay from the Redwood Valley ($17) is earthy and well-oaked with lovely fruit–an able mate for fish, foul, or veggie.
Bonterra Vineyards has the only organically grown Viognier I could find. Their 2000 Mendocino County ($18) has bright fruit: peaches, apricot, butterscotch, and hazelnut with a hint of sweetness, though not cloying. And what a pleasant surprise from Madonna Estate/Mont St. John–Pinot Grigio! From the Carneros region of Napa, their 2001 Grigio ($22) has forward fruit of lemon-lime, with lots of herbs and nuts and well-balanced oak. A delightful wine to pair with any spicy food. Their 2000 Carneros Chardonnay ($22) is also smooth in the mouth and has ripe fruit, spices, and butterscotch that feel soft, yet chewy and substantive.
Benziger's 2000 Semillon, Sonoma Mountain ($22) has good tropical fruit–grapefruit, lemon–but not a ton of it. It's an oaky Semillon with an edge of fruitiness. But if you want a consistently typical California Chardonnay, check out Bonterra Vineyards of Mendocino County. Their 2000 Chardonnay ($13) features clean, fresh apple-pear-peach and figs with well-integrated oak and a soft mouth that's made to appeal to a broad array of palates. Perfect for summer or to cut the heat of a curry.
Starting off the light summer reds collection is Lolonis Vineyard's Non-Vintage Carignane from Redwood Valley ($12), an easy, late-afternoon wine to sip on the veranda. It's approachable and almost refreshing with tannins that don't bite back.
One of the finest organically grown Pinot Noirs is Davis Bynum's 1999 from the Lindley's Knoll vineyard in the Russian River Valley ($45). With big flavors of bright cherry, raspberry, peppers, tobacco, and wood ash, this is a real California-style Pinot. Pair it with pork loin and savor. Briceland Vineyards' 2000 Pinot Noir from Phelps Vineyard in Humboldt County ($22) is way fruity on the palate, with woody spices on the long finish–the kind of Pinot that grabs you below the throat. Madonna Estate/Mont St. John's 2000 Pinot Noir of Carneros ($26) has a similarly big schnozz of cherry and tea, and follows with smoky fruit and peppers and hints of Burgundian funk. Perfect with duck breast pâté.
Yorkville Cellars 1998 "Richard the Lion-Heart" Bordeaux blend Red Table Wine from the Rennie Vineyard in Yorkville Highlands ($25) is earthy, complex, and brooding, but with a sweet side. Yorkville also makes the only organically grown Malbec with grapes raised in the Rennie Vineyard. The 1999 Malbec ($17) has a nose of blanched raspberries and cooked eggs followed by a big mouth of roast turkey, blackberries, plums, and black cherry. A bit inky and pleasantly chewy, it's a wine to accompany blackberry pie. For Rhone lovers, Bonterra Vineyards makes a delicious 1999 Syrah that possesses big aromas of earth and black fruit, a mouth of rich plumminess and smoke with a fleshy edge.
Excellent organically grown Zinfandels are also abundant in California, making it hard to pick a favorite or put them in order. Everett Ridge Vineyards of Dry Creek Valley has a 1999 Estate Zin ($26) that tastes like the fruit in the middle of a blackberry pie. Lush and deep with a smooth mouth, this has concentrated fruit with hints of licorice and a long, jammy finish of blackberries and cocoa.
While less impressive than their Zinfandel, Everett Ridge's 1998 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon ($24; 10 percent Cabernet Franc) is similarly rich and complex. Wild Hog Winery's 2000 Estate Zinfandel, Sonoma Coast ($20) is luscious, complex, and full-bodied, bulging with blackberries and candied cherries.
Wild Hog's 2000 Estate Pinot Noir ($22) is fleshy, with cherry and strawberry, black tea and wood notes. The Frog's Leap 2000 Zinfandel ($22; 7 percent Petite Sirah, 6 percent Carignane) from Napa Valley is big and spicy with notes of wild cherry, raspberry, and smoke. Soft and silky in the mouth–just what you'd expect from a Napa Valley Zin. Fife's 2000 Zinfandel, from the iron-rich Redhead Vineyard in Mendocino's Redwood Valley ($24), is the more delicate of the bunch and unusual in that citric notes accompany the forward fruit of cherry and raspberry. Subtle, but with attitude–perfect for summer barbecues.
The Madonna Estate/Mont St. John's 1998 Cabernet Sauvignon ($28) is dark and lush, with black fruit, dark cherry, toffee, cocoa, and tobacco in its fat schnozz. With a smooth, velvety mouthfeel, it's every inch a Napa cab. For their 1997 Petite Sirah, "Private Reserve Orpheus" ($30), Lolonis received a laudable 92 point rating from the Wine Spectator. One look at the inky purple color and dark, hairy legs of the 1999 vintage explains why. This is a great big, voluptuous Petite, rich in plumminess, blackberry, wood smoke, and licorice, with the consistency of a port. Slurp!
What's left to say but so long and thanks for all the wine!
From the June 6-12, 2002 issue of the North Bay Bohemian.
© Metro Publishing Inc.
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Méga-Centre Drummondville and many anchor tenants are adjacent to the Centre, creating a very dynamic commercial district. Its linear configuration, its vast interior central court and its wide alleys make for an excellent shopping experience for customers. In fact, the Centre hosts more than a hundred boutiques run by local, regional and national retailers such as Metro, Sports Experts/Atmosphère and Renaud-Bray. Sales per square foot are approximately $370. Annual visits exceed 4 million people.


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The tiny 36-sq-m Permy Mi Jang Won Salon (by m4) makes up for its lack of space with a bold use of colour. Bright turquoise walls with punchy white accessories fill the salon in South Korea.
Taking an opposite approach, Lisbon's monochromatic white Facto Royale Salon (by Igor Ferreira) combines second-hand Japanese furniture with 5000 Swarovski crystal and 50 plaster hands.
Boasting a deeper, darker, more neutral aesthetic is Japan's TROOVE Salon (by Hiroyuki Miyake). Following the country's 2011 natural disasters, many homes and businesses lost their power supply; the designer says this caused people to realize 'our former use of light was too bright.' Also in Japan, the Regalo Salon (by Takara Space Design Corp.), uses a series of mesh dividing screens to separate spaces according to function.
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A drama about reengaging with life, Manchester By The Sea delves into ordinary lives to seek the private battles raging within.
In Boston, Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) leads a lonely existence as a building caretaker, fixing residents' clogged toilets, shoveling snow and living in a depressing single-room basement unit. Lee is divorced from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and has no interests other than getting drunk and instigating fights with random bar patrons. Lee's life is turned upside down when his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), who lives in the small coastal community of Manchester by the Sea 90 minutes away from Boston, dies from heart disease.
Joe appoints Lee as the guardian for Joe's 16 year old son Patrick (Lucas Hedges), and Lee has to fight off his internal demons just to be able to function in his new and unexpected role as the responsible adult in the young man's life. And Patrick has a surprisingly full agenda: two girlfriends, a rock band, and ambitions to follow in his father's footsteps as a fishing boat captain. Matters are further complicated when Patrick reaches out to his estranged mother Elise (Gretchen Mol).
Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The Sea drinks deeply from the world of broken families, broken dreams and lives drifting sideways. An exploration of personal battles to justify second chances set against the idyllic beauty of a small town by the ocean, the film is an outstanding multiple-character study, with various visible and invisible wounds and scars in various states of bleeding and healing.
Lonergan adopts a deliberate but steady pace. The film builds in intensity as the faults in the foundations of Lee's life are gradually revealed, and then the equivalent but different cracks in the lives of all those around him also come to light. Lonergan's masterstroke is in never succumbing to any easy answers or trite moments of sentiment. The relationship between Lee and Patrick remains thorny at best, the uncle and the nephew stumbling over a seemingly endless succession of rub points. Similarly the encounters with Lee ex-wife Randi and Patrick's damaged mother Elise are awkward, full of shame, guilt and unresolved emotions.
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Casey Affleck delivers a devastatingly affecting performance, carrying the bottled-up agony of a man having to exit his own purgatory to shoulder a new responsibility. Lucas Hedges is the surprise of the film, benefiting from a screenplay that creates a resilient 16 year old and matching Affleck in the second half of the film. Michelle Williams and Gretchen Mol make strong impressions in small but key roles.
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Posts Tagged 'Venice International Film Festival'
First Look: Tumbbad Trailer
Posted: September 25, 2018 by Amit Sharma in cinema, first look
Tags: Aanand L. Rai, Anand Gandhi, Eros, mythological, Sohum Shah, Thriller, trailer, Tumbbad, Venice Biennale, Venice International Film Festival
We have written in the past about the excitement around our home-grown mythological thriller Tumbbad at Venice Film Festival.
The trailer for the film was released today. Take a look.
The trailer showcases the mood, the mystery, and the special effects that are woven into this story of a goddess who created the entire universe, and the horrors around it. As we write this, the trailer has generated a lot of interest and excitement amongst fans and viewers.
All the buzz around Tumbbad at Venice Film Festival
Posted: August 31, 2018 by moifightclub in cinema, film, Film Festival, film review
Tags: Aanand L. Rai, Anand Gandhi, Buzz, Eros International, reviews, Sohum Shah, Tumbbad, Venice Biennale, Venice Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival
Aanand L. Rai, Sohum Shah, and Anand Gandhi's much awaited mythological thriller about a goddess who created the entire universe, Tumbbad opened the Venice Film Festival's Critics' Week and is generating a lot of buzz at Venice Film Festival.
So here's all the buzz around the film at the fest.
– Baradwaj Rangan's review on Film Companion here
– Hollywood Reporter's review here
– Screen Daily's review here
– Sohum Shah's interview in Variety here
– Sohum Shah on the film in Quint here
– Jared Mobarak's review on The Film Stage here
– Deloret Imnidia's review on High on Films here
– Tommaso Tocci's review on Ion Cinema here
– Bénédicte Prot's review on on Cineuropa here
Ritesh Batra's 'Our Souls At Night' at Venice, Anup Singh's 'The Song of Scorpions' at Locarno
Posted: July 17, 2017 by moifightclub in cinema, Film Festival, News
Tags: Anup Singh, Golshifteh Farahani, Irrfan Khan, Locarno Film Festival, Our Souls At Night, ritesh batra, The Song of Scorpions, Venice International Film Festival
Ritesh Batra's new film, Our Souls at Night, will have its world premiere at Venice International Film Festival in an out-of-competition slot. The film stars Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Both the actors will also be honored with Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th edition of the fest.
Based on the novel by Kent Haruf and adapted for screen by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, Our Souls At Night is set in Colorado, and begins when Addie Moore (Fonda) pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor Louis Waters (Redford). Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town, they'd been neighbors for decades but had little contact. Netflix is launching the film globally next year. (via Deadline)
The fest will run from Aug. 30 till Sept. 9, 2017
The Song of Scorpions directed by Anup Singh, starring Irrfan Khan and Golshifteh Farahani will have its world première at Locarno Film Festival. The festival is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.
The Song of Scorpions is a story of twisted love, revenge and the redemptive power of a song. Nooran, carefree and defiantly independent, is a tribal woman learning the ancient art of healing from her grandmother, a revered scorpion-singer. When Aadam, a camel trader in the Rajasthan desert, hears her sing, he falls desperately in love. But even before they can get to know each other better, Nooran is poisoned by a brutal treachery that sets her on a perilous journey to avenge herself and find her song.
The Locarno Film Festival runs from Aug. 2-12, 2017.
Chaitanya Tamhane Is On The Jury Of Venice International Film Festival
Tags: Alfonso Cuaron, Chaitanya Tamhane, Rolex's Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative, Venice International Film Festival
Filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane seems to be going places and making all the right marks. Last month, he was in news as he was selected for Rolex's Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative where will be mentored by Alfonso Cuarón.
And now there's some more good news. He will be on the jury of 73rd Venice International Film Festival. He will be part of the international jury for the Orizzonti section of the fest. In addition to its president, French director Robert Guédiguian, other jury members for Orozzonti are : American film critic and historian Jim Hoberman, Egyptian actress Nelly Karim, Italian actress Valentina Lodovini, Korean actress and director Moon So-ri, Spanish film critic and scholar José Maria (Chema).
Interestingly, Chaitanya's debut feature Court premiered at the 71st Venice Film Festival, where it won the Lion of the Future award and the Orizzonti award for Best film.
The Jury will award the following prizes, with no ex-aequo awards permitted: Orizzonti Award for Best Film; Orizzonti Award for Best Director; Special Orizzonti Jury Prize; Orizzonti Award for Best Actor or Actress; Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay; Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film; Venice Short Film Nomination for the European Film Awards 2016.
The festival will run from 31st August to 10th September, 2016.
Call For Entries – NFDC Screenwriters' Lab, 2012
Posted: March 19, 2012 by moifightclub in cinema, Film Festival, News, Scripts, writing
Tags: Binger Filmlab, Marten Rabarts, NFDC, Screenwriters Lab, Venice International Film Festival
WHAT: Screenwriter's Lab 2012, a 2-part workshop is designed to prepare screenwriters with original Indian stories for working with the international filmmaking market place. It aims at improving a completed screenplay in its final stages and to increase the international marketability of the same.
The Lab is organised in partnership with Binger Filmlab, Netherlands, and the Venice International Film Festival, Italy.
LAB : The 1st Session will be held during the Venice International Film Festival in Venice (31st August- 4th September, 2012) where participants will get first-hand experience of the workings of the international film community and get to train with their screenplay mentors.
The 2nd session at Film Bazaar, Goa from 24–27 November, 2011 is where participants will apply their training and pitch their revised screenplays to participants at the film market. (dates are subjected to change)
MENTORS : The workshop will be conducted by Marten Rabarts, Artistic Director, Binger Filmlab, aided by experienced international guest mentors. It is organized in association with Binger Filmlab, Netherlands and Venice International Film Festival.
DATES : Last date for submitting complete application forms : 31st May 2012. Results : August 2012
FEES : Application will not be considered complete without the Submission fee of Rs. Three Thousand Only [Rs. 3000/-]. The fee can be paid through cheque/demand draft/electronic transfer. For more details, click here.
CONTACT: For any doubts, you can check out the FAQ and other details here or can write to screenwriters-lab@filmbazaarindia.com
Rules & Regulations : Do carefully read the Rules and Regulations page as there has been some changes this year.
Six scripts selected for NFDC Screenwriters' Lab, 2011
Posted: August 12, 2011 by moifightclub in News, writing
Tags: Aliya Curmally, Dabba, Dear Mira, Deepti Datt, Dum Laga Ke Haishya, Girls, Marten Rabarts, Megha Ramaswamy, NFDC, ritesh batra, Screenwriters Lab, Sebastian Wants To Remember, Sharat Katariya, Tags: Binger Filmlab, Toxic City, Vasant Nath, Venice International Film Festival
The Film Bazaar Screenwriters' Lab 2011 held in partnership with Binger Filmlab, Netherlands and the Venice International Film Festival, Italy has announced six shortlisted projects. The first working session will be held at the Venice International Film Festival from September 1 – 3, 2011. The second working session will be held at Film Bazaar, Goa from November 23 – 27, 2011.
Projects selected for the Lab this year are –
1. Sebastian Wants To Remember by Vasant Nath
2. Dear Mira by Deepti Datt
3. Toxic City by Aliya Curmally
4. Dum Laga Ke Haishya by Sharat Katariya
5. Girls by Megha Ramaswamy
6. Dabba by Ritesh Batra
The workshop ensures that the participants apply their training and pitch their improvised screenplays to industry professionals from around the globe. The workshop is aimed at preparing these screenwriters to position their screenplays internationally.
The lab advisors for the lab are Marten Rabarts (Artistic Head, Binger Filmlab), Bianca Taal (Industry Advisor, Binger Filmlab), Olivia Stewart (Producer, Writer & Script Advisor) and Urmi Juvekar (Screenwriter & Script Advisor).
To know more about the Screenwriters' Lab, click here.
Call For Entries – NFDC Screenwriters Lab 2011
Posted: May 20, 2011 by moifightclub in cinema, film, Film Festival, News, Scripts, writing
LAB : The 1st Session will be held during the Venice International Film Festival in September, 2011 where participants will get first-hand experience of the workings of the international film community and get to train with their screenplay mentors.
The 2nd session at Film Bazaar, Goa from 24–27 November, 2011 is where participants will apply their training and pitch their revised screenplays to participants at the film market.
MENTORS: The workshop will be conducted by Marten Rabarts, Artistic Director, Binger Filmlab, aided by experienced international guest mentors. It is organized in association with Binger Filmlab, Netherlands and Venice International Film Festival.
CONTACT: For further details on the Screenwriters' Lab please write to: filmbazaar2011@gmail.com
DATE: Last Date for entries is 17 June, 2011.
i. Two Sessions Compulsory
– The sessions in 2011 will run at the Venice International Film Festival, in September and from 24 – 27 November at Film Bazaar Goa, India. Participants must attend both sessions, must have a valid passport and visa and must be able to travel to Venice.
ii. Costs of the Lab
– The lab will provide accommodation for participants in Venice and Goa, as well as accreditation to the Venice International Film Festival and the Goa Film Bazaar.
– The lab will provide economy air tickets originating from either Mumbai or Delhi for travel to the workshop.
– Participants will have to apply, secure and pay for their own visas as well as their travel insurance. The organizers will not be responsible for the above if additional charges are incurred.
For more details and application form, click here and here.
Call for Entries – 68th International Venice Film Festival
Posted: February 21, 2011 by moifightclub in cinema, Film Festival, News
Tags: Venice International Film Festival
WHAT : The Venice International Film Festival (La Biennale di Venezia – Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica) announces its Call for Entries in all categories for 2011.
Essentially a World Premiere Festival, it is open to films of any format and length that have been produced during the twelve months preceding the festival.
WHEN : The selection process will start from 1st March 2011 and will continue till the end of June 2011. Deepti DCunha will be leading the pre-selection process for the entries sent from India for the Venice International Film Festival, 2011.
The festival's director Marco Mueller will be visiting India in mid-March for a first shortlisting of the Indian film entries.
DATE : The festival runs from Aug 31 to Sept 10, 2011.
FORMAT : DVDs/ Digi Beta tapes (duly subtitled in English)
REQUIREMENTS : Press kit or documentation including synopsis, cast and crew and other info about film's content and filmmaker's vision should be sent along with the film.
CONTACT : deepti.dcunha@gmail.com (from March onwards, also deepti.dcunha@labiennale.org)
ADDRESS : All submissions (duly subtitled in English) should be sent to the contact details given below..
Deepti DCunha. 23, Gautam Niwas. 7 Bungalows, Andheri (West). Mumbai, 400 053
WEBSITE : For complete rules and regulations please visit the Festival website at http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema
Cannes. Venice. Toronto – Its a hattrick for Anurag Kashyap! Next is what ?
Posted: July 29, 2010 by moifightclub in bollywood, cast & crew, cinema, Film Festival, first look, pics
Tags: Amit Datta, anurag kashyap, Nainsukh, Orizzonti, That Girl in Yellow Boots, Toronto International film festival, Venice International Film Festival
2009 – He scored a hattrick. Dev D. Gulaal. Paanch. Commercial success. Critical acclaim. And even his unreleased film Paanch found its way out.
2010 – He has done it again! Cannes. Toronto. Venice – A hattrick of different sorts !
Udaan @Cannes Film Festival – Vikramaditya Motwane's debut film – a film which nobody was willing to back and was even rejected by UTV twice. Anurag decided to produce it himself and almost everyone branded it as a suicidal step. Na sex hai na star na Shah Rukh Khan! Well, the film still made it to the official selection of Cannes Film Festival and was one of the best rated films of the year. Do watch it if you havent seen this gem yet! Whats more, it has even managed to recover its cost.
That girl In Yellow Boots @Venice/Toronto International Film Festival – It was the same story again. He was looking for 10 crore to produce three films (Udaan, That Girl In Yellow Boots and Tumbad) and the suited-booted MBA morons had the same answer – Its a suicide! Get a star and you can take 50 crore. Why only 10 crore ? When the marketing budget of the dud of the year Raavan is Rs 28 crore, what can you do in just 10 cr ? And so, Anurag decided to produce it himself again. Aah cinema. Ooh life! Being Uncompromised!
The film will have its world premiere at the Venice International film Festival. And will have the North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. To read more about the film and the fest, click here. Is this his career's best year ? Seems so. We are not aware of any other such story.
For Udaan, UTV came onboard later on and it managed to reach the theatres and got the visibility it deserves. For That Girl In Yellow Boots, NFDC has come onboard. And if our sources are to be believed, his next production Tumhad has finally managed to get funding.
So, will the big boys of Bollylalaland finally sit up and look beyond the Kites & Raavans! Here is the so called cinema's enfant terrible…give him few crore and some freedom, bet he will deliver more! As one of the popular campaign goes, we wonder, Next is what ?
And there is some more good news. Remember Amit Datta ? If you follow us on Twitter, we have been raving about his films for a long time. His new film Nainsukh has also been selected for the Venice Film Festival and will be shown in Orizzonti category. Cheers to good ol' cinema!
Anurag Kashyap's That Girl in Yellow Boots & Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat selected for Toronto International Film Festival 2010
Posted: July 28, 2010 by moifightclub in cinema, Film Festival, first look, pics, Story / Plot / Synopsis
Tags: anurag kashyap, Dhobi Ghat, Fatih Akin, first look, Kiran Rao, NFDC, Nina Lath Gupta, pics, That Girl in Yellow Boots, Toronto International film festival, Venice International Film Festival
We told you so! Though we are now bored of repeating it again and again but who doesn't love some cheap thrills and ego massage. Much before the official announcement, we had put out this exclusive post confirming Dhobi Ghat's selection for Toronto International Film Festival. The official list is finally out. We knew that three Indian films have been selected for TIFF. So, one is still missing ? Will it be added later on or we got confused ? Someone please enlighten!
Kiran Rao's directorial debut Dhobi Ghat will have it world premiere at TIFF in the Special Presentations. And here is the official synopsis of the film…..
In the teeming metropolis of Mumbai, four people separated by class and language are drawn together in compelling relationships. Shai, an affluent investment banker on a sabbatical, strikes up an unusual friendship with Munna, a young and beautiful laundry boy with ambitions of being a Bollywood actor, and has a brief dalliance with Arun, a gifted painter. As they slip away from familiar moorings and drift closer together, the city finds its way into the crevices of their inner worlds.
The other film selected for TIFF2010 is Anurag Kashyap's That Girl In Yellow Boots starring Kalki Koechlin. The film will have its North American Premiere under Special Presentations. And here is the official synopsis of the film…..
Ruth is searching for her father – a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Desperation drives her to work without a permit, at a massage parlour, where she gives 'happy endings' to unfulfilled men. Torn between several schisms, Mumbai becomes the backdrop for Ruth's quest as she struggles to find her independence and space even as she is sucked deeper into the labyrinthine politics of the city's underbelly.
Yay! One debutant and one the voice of good ol' indie! Cheers to good cinema, fests and more! To read the complete list of TIFF 2010, click here.
What's next ? Venice Film Festival – anyone wanna bet ?
BTW, NFDC's Nina Lath Gupta is on the jury of 67th Venice International Film Festival for "Luigi De Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film. The jury will be chaired by filmmaker Fatih Akin. Click here to read the full report.
Update (29-07-2010) – And there is some more good news. Its a hattrick of Anurag Kashyap. Click here to read more.


Cox is a privately-held entity that owns and operates assets in the Gulf of Mexico and was founded by fourth generation oilman, Brad E. Cox. Cox has grown through enhanced development of production and reserves in existing assets along with strategic acquisitions. Cox`s assets are located in both the OCS and the shallow waters off the coast of Louisiana. They currently operate more than 200 producing wells over 25 fields. Cox is based in Dallas, Texas with operation staff in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Vincent DeVito is Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Cox Operating. Previously, Vincent held various senior legal leadership roles in the industry.


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EG Group targets Caltex Australia for possible acquisition
Euro Garage's parent company EG Group has approached fuel retailer and refiner Caltex Australia about the potential acquisition of some or all of its assets in a deal that could be worth more than £4.5bn.
Caltex, which has a network of sites accounting for about 16% of petrol sales in Australia, released a statement saying it had been approached by a number of parties, including EG Group, which had expressed interest in acquiring some or all of its assets.
The approaches followed a A$8.6bn (£4.5bn) bid in November by Alimentation Couche-Tard to acquire Caltex that was rejected, although Caltex offered to provide information to the company to enable it to increase its bid.
EG Group already has a presence in Australia having last April completed the A$1.725bn (£910m) acquisition of Woolworth's petrol business – a network of 540 sites.
Analysts said EG Group might run into issues with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, because it is among the top four petrol retailers in the country and would be bidding for a network that accounts for around 16% of petrol retail sales.
The 380 Euro Garages sites in the UK are part of an international portfolio of 5,200 EG Group sites in Europe, Australia and the US, where it has just shy of 1,700 sites.
Alimentation Couche-Tard has a presence in the UK and Irish Republic through its 410 Circle K sites.
EG Group completes acquisition to take US estate to 1,680 sites
EG Group considering IPO
EG Group increases its US estate to just under 1,700 sites
EG Group boosts IT capability with acquisition of company
Euro Garages parent EG Group adds 69 sites to US portfolio


This coming sunday 6th of December 2009 will enter the annals of history as far as the Rastafari faith is concerned. A man of the Rastafari faith will be crowned king in Malawi. This will be the first Ras ever known to become a king in Malawi and probably the first one across the whole world unless proven otherwise. Of particular interest is the fact that a distant grand father of this Ras by the name of King Mponda was one of the three kings representing the nations of Malawi who crowned His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie on 3rd August 1965 as 'GREAT KING OF MALAWI.' This was during HIM's historic visit to Malawi.
Rases acrosss the world are hereby encouraged to send congratulatory messages to this king. SmS texts would do. The number of this Ras is:+265 999 289 094 and his name is Ras Limbani.
I phoned him this morning and he told me that the ceremony was initially scheduled to take place yesterday the29th December 2009. But it had to be shifted to next sunday inorder to accomodate a member of parliament in the area where the coronation is to take place.
Coronation of Makata In Ndirande Tomorrow!
People of the Rastafari Faith are generally despised by the society as hemp smokers and counter productive in all aspects of community life. The coronation of a Rastafarian by the name of Limbani Evance Somanje Makata as King Makata poses to disprove this entrenched misconception. His coronation takes place in Ndirande (Blantyre city) tomorrow and will be witnessed by the district commissioner of Blantyre (governor), kings from within Blantyre city like King Somba, King Makata and King Kapeni among others. The 32 year old King told the reporter that society should patiently wait for the manifestation of the works of his hands rather than prematurely judge him on the basis of his faith.
Just as African people felt that the election of Mr Barak Obama as President of the United States, so too Rastafarian people will see the coronation of Limbani as an event that we can all take pride in as a sign that we are emerging from the fringes of society.
Glory be to the King of Kings who makes these things possible.