#National & Regional Award

[thephoblographer]

Sony World Photography Awards Unveils Its Inspiring National & Regional Award Winners

The Sony World Photography Awards is back with its 2025 edition, and the organization has already announced its National & Regional Award. This award was set up by Sony and Creo with the World Photography Organisation to support local talent from around the world. This year, the entries were received from 56 countries, while the National and Regional Award winners were selected from the Open…

[weekinsports]

Player Profile - Dylan Crews

With the MLB Draft coming up on July 9th, let's take a look at potential #1 overall pick, Dylan Crews. Born in 2002 in Florida, Crews quickly showed off his potential. He played for the USA Baseball 14U team and their 18U team that won a gold medal. Crews attended Lake Mary High School, where he played Varsity Baseball for four years and was considered a top MLB Prospect at the time. However, he withdrew his name from the draft after high school and announced his full commitment to play baseball at Louisiana State University. Crews immediately started at Right Field for LSU as a freshman in 2021. In his freshman season, Crews slugged at an astounding rate, batting .362 with 18 home runs, which set a record for the most home runs ever hit by an LSU freshman. In addition, he was named National Freshman of the Year by Perfect Game. After the 2021 season, Crews switched to Center Field and continued to play at a high level, earning Co-SEC Player of the Year in 2022 while hitting .349 with 22 home runs. In his final season with LSU in 2023, Crews led LSU to their 7th College World Series Title, batting .426 with 18 homers and winning the Golden Spikes Award given to the nation's best college baseball player. Crews is expected to make an immediate impact on the team that selects him, as he has exceptional speed, power, and hitting.

Crews has been described by many scouts as a five-tool player, which is very rare. A five-tool player excels at hitting for average, hitting for power, base running, throwing, and fielding. Crews’ main weakness is his high whiff percentage on changeups and sliders. However, Crews still had a very high average on both of those types of pitches.

Although he is likely the most talented player in the draft, Crews reportedly is not interested in being selected first overall to the Pirates. Crews and his agent are asking for a record-breaking $10 million signing bonus, which would surpass the $8.42 million bonus that was given to Spencer Torkelson in 2020. One potential reason why Crews and his agent might be asking for such a high bonus is to be rejected by the Pirates so that he can then be chosen by the Nationals. Joe Doyle of Future Star Series has stated that Crews "fancies the idea of playing in Washington” instead of Pittsburgh. Crews and his agent have “purportedly thrown gaudy signing bonus demands at the Pirates" to try and get Crews to be selected with the #2 overall pick to the Washington Nationals.

List of Awards: 2021 LSWA Louisiana Freshman of the Year, 2021 ABCA All-South Region First Team, 2021 Freshman All-SEC, 2021 Second-Team All-SEC, 2021 NCAA Eugene Regional All-Tournament Team, 2021 U.S. Collegiate National Team Member, 2021 First-Team Freshman All-American (Collegiate Baseball, D1 Baseball, NCBWA), 2021 Third-Team All-American (NCBWA, ABCA), 2021 Second-Team All-American (Perfect Game, D1 Baseball), 2021 Perfect Game National Freshman of the Year, 2022 U.S. Collegiate National Team Member, 2022 LSWA Hitter of the Year, 2022 NCAA Hattiesburg Regional All-Tournament Team, 2022 First-Team ABCA All-South Region, 2022 SEC Community Service Team, 2022 SEC All-Defensive Team, 2022 First-Team All-SEC, 2022 Golden Spikes Award Semifinalist, 2022 SEC Co-Player of the Year, 2022 Consensus First-Team All-American, 2023 SEC Community Service Team, 2023 SEC Academic Honor Roll, 2023 ABCA Gold Glove Team, 2023 SEC All-Defensive Team, 2023 First-Team All-SEC, 2023 SEC Player of the Year, 2023 SEC Male Athlete of the Year, 2023 NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team, 2023 College World Series All-Tournament Team, 2023 Consensus First-Team All-American, 2023 Golden Spikes Award Winner

Height, Weight, Age: 6’0”, 205 lbs, 21 years old

Citations: https://lsusports.net/sports/bsb/roster/player/dylan-crews/

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[southeastasianists]

“Philippine theater has never hesitated to go to war,” wrote cultural historian Doreen G. Fernandez. In times of political struggle, Filipino activists have used plays to express their vision for a better world and give the ordeals of the oppressed a place at center stage. To this day, shows like Black Box Productions’ Dekada 70, PETA’s A Game of Trolls, and Dulaang UP’s The Kundiman Party have been staged and restaged, empowering younger audiences to confront social realities.

In honor of Independence day, we revisit the roots of protest theater in Philippine history—how our nation’s storytellers served as harbingers of hope, voices for the voiceless, and the citizens’ conscience, even as censors threatened to stifle them.

1900’s: “Seditious” plays of the Philippine-American War

In 1901, the Sedition Law was enacted under the Taft Commission, criminalizing the advocacy of Philippine independence. Any protest art was considered a rousing threat to American rule. Still, playwrights took their anti-American sentiments onstage, risking not just their own arrests but those of cast, crew, and audience members.

Juan Matapang Cruz’s Hindi Aco Patay was about the love between Karangalan (honor) and Tangulan (the defender) as they resisted the usurper Macamcam (who symbolized the American insular government). During a performance on May 8, 1903 in Malabon, a drunken American soldier hurled a beer bottle at a Katipunan flag prop, proceeding to tear the scenery apart. Cruz and ten of the play’s actors were soon arrested. The renowned playwright Aurelio Tolentino also suffered nine imprisonments in his life, one of which was for a staging of his equally patriotic play, Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas.

Their works—while labelled ‘seditious’ then—are now recognized as some of the first nationalist plays of the country, marking the advent of revolutionary drama.

1940’s: Secret messages in the Japanese Occupation

The ban on American films in Japanese-occupied Manila allowed live shows to take their place on the stages of movie theaters. This gave rise to what National Artist Daisy Hontiveros-Avellana called ‘The Golden Age of Philippine Theater’, when Filipino plays were much in vogue. The efficient censorship of scripts, however, did not allow for the obvious symbolism seen in the nationalist plays that preceded them.

Instead, stage shows carried subtle messages of hope to those shaken by the war. “Darating si Mang Arturo,” an actor uttered in one skit, alluding to General Douglas MacArthur’s famed promise.

Theaters also reportedly served as message centers for guerrillas, where they could furtively meet with friends and supporters. If the Kempeitai (Japanese police) entered the theater, a vocalist would suddenly go onstage mid-show to perform a signal song, alerting the rebels that they had to bolt.

1960’s: Proletarian theater groups and the tide of nationalism

The return of the American presence in the forties restored the use of English in local theater. Western classics (such as Shakespeare and Broadway) ruled Philippine stages even after independence in 1946, making theater a bourgeois art appreciated only by the fluent, upper-class minority. By the early sixties, many thespians acknowledged this problem, prompting a huge shift: Where at first, the Filipino tongue was called baduy, by the end of the decade, it had become the language of the stage.

Companies like PETA and playwrights like Rolando Tinio started staging more original Filipino works and translations of Western plays. The rise of student activism also led to the formation of cultural groups like Panday Sining, Gintong Silahis, Tanghalang Bayan, and Samahang Kamanyang. They popularized ‘proletarian theater’, devising spectacles from real-life experiences of oppression and exposing the injustices that hounded the era’s political landscape.

Through their ‘dulansangan’ in basketball courts, churchyards, and rice fields, these groups laid the groundwork for theater activism under Marcos’ martial law regime.

1970’s: Camouflaging political intent under martial law

Under Proclamation No. 1081, theater could not be as propagandistic as before. While some commercial theater troupes stuck to ‘harmless’ zarzuelas, comedies, and musicals, activists strove to resist indirectly through their art. They staged plays around history and tradition, depicting past issues that mirrored those of their dark present. Nicanor Tiongson’s Pilipinas Circa 1907, for instance, was a politicizing spectacle disguised in an anti-American Christmas play.

UP Repertory’s Bonifacio Ilagan also used the cover of religion in Pagsambang Bayan. But because of the more blatant criticism it contained against the tyrannical Marcos administration, director Behn Cervantes was arrested after a 1977 staging of the play. Many other cultural workers and political actors simply ‘disappeared’.

“Political will and a keen sense of the power of the medium drove us to learn theater through actual and urgent theater work, like learning warfare through warfare…No rally was complete without activist theater,” Ilagan later wrote. The multi-awarded progressive playwright, filmmaker, and Panday Sining co-founder Bonifacio Ilagan at a 1971 protest in UP Diliman. Photo c/o Boni Ilagan.

1970’s—1980’s: People’s theater in Visayas and Mindanao

As performance activists grew louder with increasing human rights violations and the Aquino assassination, some left Manila to bring people’s theater to outlying regions. Former participants of PETA’s Basic Integrated Theater Arts Workshop (BITAW)—a three-day course that empowered thespians to stage their stories of exploitation—in the early seventies relayed their knowledge in Davao, Lanao del Norte, Negros, Leyte, and Samar.

Playwright and Mindanao Community Theater Network founder Fr. Karl Gaspar was among these BITAW organizers. Although he was arrested twice for the protest plays he produced, he continued to write behind bars and even established a theater program for his fellow detainees in 1983. Meanwhile, members of the police intelligence chased actors around the stage in a Christmas play from Samar’s Makabugwas theater group. This blossoming of regional theater came with such ‘necessary evils’ of thespian harassment. ‘Militant priests’ in Mindanao encouraged church-based community theater in parishes and on religious holidays. This began in the sixties with an alliance between PETA and the church. Photo c/o Karl Gaspar.

Protest theater has gone a long way since colonial years. In every stage, it has proven to be a powerful weapon—an art of resistance and emancipation that flourished when others tried to muzzle it.

With their ingenuity and guts, these pioneering activists remind us to continue making noise on the stage of the nation.

[downtoearthmarkets]

It’s time to say “Cheese!” and bask in all your greatest cheesiness glory because it’s National Cheese Lover’s Day tomorrow, Friday, January 20th! Fortunately for all the cheese fans out there, locally produced, artisanal cheese is a mainstay at your local farmers market throughout the year, with the colder months being a great time to indulge in an array of fromage-forward delights and recipes. Cheese has been produced in this country since the early 17th century when English Puritan dairy farmers brought their cheesemaking techniques with them from the Old World to the American colonies. Cheesemaking has a long history in the northeast region stretching all the way from Vermont’s green mountains to the verdant pastures of New York State’s Hudson Valley. These days, you can find award-winning cheeses at your local farmers market that will rival even the finest European imports. These unique artisanal creations will delight your palette while adding plenty of flair and distinctive flavors to your next cheese board or cheese-based recipe: Specialty Cheese Today’s American cheesemakers are not controlled by the same traditions and regulations that govern much of European cheesemaking. This broad creative license has allowed entrepreneurial artisans to experiment with and invent highly specialized cheeses that are typically handcrafted and only produced in small batches. Their cheeses are made using high quality milks sourced from nearby dairies which imbues their creations with unique flavor profiles evocative of the local terroir, much like wine. Farmers markets provide these local cheesemakers with an ideal venue through which to introduce their niche offerings to a broader audience of enthusiastic, gastronomically minded shoppers. Perhaps no one embodies this epicurean phenomenon better than Hudson Valley-based cheesemaker Colin McGrath, whose singular creations have garnered him a loyal following amongst market regulars. A visit to the McGrath Cheese Company booth is always a must-do in order to sample their range of delicately complex, beautifully wrapped and descriptively named cheeses including Rascal (semi-firm, elastic, nutty, mild, alpine-like), Hootenanny (semi-firm, beer washed) and Bambino (soft, pungent, washed rind). Mozzarella Mozzarella is traditionally a southern Italian cheese made from milk produced by a breed of water buffalo indigenous to the Italian peninsula. The variety that you’ll find in your farmers market is typically made from cow's milk or a mixture of cow's and goat's milk sourced from local dairies, as very little water buffalo milk is commercially available in the United States. This versatile cheese is handmade by repeatedly kneading and pulling on curds during a process called pasta filata that results in its signature stretchiness. Mozzarella fresca is then formed into round balls that are packed in brine, whey or a water solution to retain moisture and shape. If you’re looking to indulge in a truly dreamy treat, Stracciatella cheese takes mozzarella to the next level in terms of its sheer decadence and milkiness. Stracciatella is made by soaking pulled mozzarella curds in vats of heavy cream. Amp up your next cheese board by including a bowl of farmers market Stracciatella drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with a little sea salt and freshly ground black pepper for dolloping on crackers or slices of crusty bread. Alternatively, you can serve spheres of delicate Burrata which burst open to reveal a creamy Stracciatella filling encased in an outer shell of mozzarella. Burrata is delicious as an accompaniment to roasted vegetables or spooned over hot pasta and soups. Cheddar Originating in the quaint English village of Cheddar in Somerset, cheddar cheese is now produced all over the world and is the second most widely consumed cheese in the United States after mozzarella. While some processed and packaged cheese sold in supermarkets is labeled as “cheddar”, the kind you’ll find in the farmers market is typically handcrafted using only the best milk sourced from small New York State dairies and aged for several months to achieve its complex flavors. You will sometimes discover unusual cheddar varieties in the market such as farmhouse style, dill and smoked. Thanks to its savory heartiness, cheddar is the perfect candidate to use in a variety of winter comfort foods such as baked mac & cheese, potatoes au gratin and grilled cheese sandwiches. Alongside the slabs of cheddar cheese on display in the farmers market booths, you’ll often find tubs of “cheddar bites” for sale. To make these scrumptious little snacks, cheese curd is pulled from the vat during the cheesemaking process before its pressed into blocks for aging, then salted and cut into bite size pieces. Rubbery, buttery cheddar cheese curds melt beautifully atop poutine and work great as a substitute for gruyère in French onion soup. Feta and Goat Cheese One of the oldest cheeses in the world, feta is a crumbly, white-colored Greek cheese. It is traditionally made using sheep or goat’s milk but can also be made from cow’s milk which is the most common variety that you’ll find in the farmers market. Feta is typically packaged in small blocks submerged in brine in order to intensify flavor, retain softness, and extend its freshness and lifespan. While most people associate feta with a classic summery Greek salad, it is also delicious in a variety of hot dishes including Spinach Feta Grilled Cheese, Tiropita (a layered Greek cheese and egg pie) and in this Baked Feta and Butternut Squash Pasta with Sage and Garlic recipe. If goat’s cheese is what you seek, you can typically find a range of soft and spreadable artisanal chèvre in the farmers market, from plain to flavored varieties made using locally sourced ingredients. Share

[thehungrykat1]

2021 Old Manila Wine Dinner Series Continues

The 2021 Old Manila Wine Dinner Series continues on July 20, 2021 at The Peninsula Manila, featuring Old Manila Chef de Cuisine Allan Briones creating a lovely five-course degustation menu paired with wines from Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery. This will be the second time this year that Chef Allan Briones is collaborating with an award-winning vineyard and winery, and creating a dinner around the fruit of the grape. Chef Allan and his culinary team will prepare a post-summer meal using fresh seasonal ingredients that highlight the culinary strengths of Old Manila’s culinary team. Price per person is P12,000 nett.

During the five-course dinner, select fine wines and Champagnes will be paired with each course. Guests will also have the unique opportunity to “meet” Spottwoode Estate President and CEO Beth Novak Milliken who will be streaming live from Napa Valley, as well as Chef Allan and his team and ask questions about the wines and dishes they will be enjoying. The menu is reflective of Old Manila’s attitude, culinary innovation, and support of local businesses, which includes dishes such as a Goats Cheese and Crab Tart which uses artisanal goats cheese crafted in Butuan and crabs harvested from the waters off the coast of Sulu. Also on the menu, a Primavera Truffle Risotto, Mediterranean Dry-aged Lamb Burger on a Rosemary Brioche, Wagyu Parmentier with Potato Textures, and Dark Chocolate and Orange Crémeux.

The Old Manila Wine Dinner Series’ mission is to celebrate, nurture and honor Filipino talent in collaboration with world-renowned winemakers, making food culture more delicious, diverse, and even sustainable for everyone. It is also a performance space for guest chefs whose talents are evidenced by national or regional reputation and use of high quality, seasonal, and/or local ingredients. The dinner will be held on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 6:30 pm in Old Manila of The Peninsula Manila. Pre-paid reservations are required as there is very limited seating. For inquiries and orders, please call +63 (2) 8887 2888, email penboutiquepmn@peninsula.com or through PenChat, The Peninsula Manila’s 24-hour e-concierge by using this link: https://bit.ly/PenChatFacebook.

[newscheckz]

REBECCA MIANO: A DEFINATE WOMAN POWER OF VICTORY AND LEGACY

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REBECCA MIANO: A DEFINATE WOMAN POWER OF VICTORY AND LEGACY

Rebecca Miano, is a Kenyan lawyer and corporate executive, who, since November 2017, has served as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of KenGen Plc., the largest producer of electricity in the East African region.

She was confirmed on 1 November 2017, having served in acting capacity since 25 August 2015.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Nairobi and attended the Advocates Training Programme at the Kenya School of Law. She also holds a Master of Laws in Comparative Law, awarded by the University of Australia.

Rebecca Miano first worked at a Nairobi-based law firm, “Musyoka Annan & Company Advocates”. Later, she worked at “Slater and Gordon”, a law firm in Queensland, Australia.

In 1998, she joined Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), as a senior legal officer.

Over time, she rose in rank to become assistant company secretary. At the time of her promotion to Acting Managing Director, in August 2017, she was the Director of Legal Affairs and Company Secretary at KenGen, serving both roles since 2008.

In November 2017, she beat 90 other applicants and was appointed to her current position, replacing Albert Mugo, who retired after attaining the mandatory retirement age of 60 years.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of KenGen Plc, Rebecca Miano addressing the media

Miano, she is the first female chief executive at KenGen. As of November 2017, she is one of the only two women in Kenya who lead a parastatal company, the only other woman being MaryJane Mwangi, the CEO of National Oil Corporation of Kenya.

She is a member of the Law Society of Kenya, and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya.

In 2010, she was decorated with the Order of the Grand Warrior of Kenya (OGW), in recognition of her body of work.

She is the first woman to hold the position of Managing Director and amp; CEO of Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) since the company was established in 1954.

Mrs. Miano also has close to 30 years consolidated experience in the energy sector, having started off her career at the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) in 1991.

Over the years, she has carved for herself a niche in Business Law and Corporate Governance. In 2010, while serving as KenGen’s Company Secretary & Legal Affairs Director, she won the Company Secretary of the Year award in the Champions of Governance Awards series.

Rebecca Miano, MD & CEO KenGen at a World Bank forum.

The same year, she was awarded the Order of the Grand Warrior of Kenya (OGW) by the Head of State in recognition of her outstanding service to the nation.

In 2019, she received another presidential decoration, the Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear, from H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta for her contribution to the growth of Kenya’s energy sector.

Between July 2015 and February 2016, Mrs. Miano was appointed to hold brief as Human Resource and Administration Director in addition to her role of Company Secretary and Legal Affairs Director.

This is a period she describes as a defining moment in her career, especially when it comes to working with people.

Mrs. Miano has been a member of St. Paul’s University Council since 2010 where she chaired the Finance and General Purposes Committee from 2013 to 2016.

She has also served in the Finance Committee of the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK). In November 2019, she was appointed to the Board of Global Compact Network, Kenya.

The same year, she was named among the Top 100 Women CEOs in Africa by Reset Global People in partnership with Pulse and Avance Media.

Mrs. Miano has recently joined the World Bank Group’s Advisory Council on Gender and Development.

Miano who is the pioneer of KenGen’s own Pink Energy Initiative- a gender inclusion based program at the company, will join an elaborate list made up of representatives from both government and the private sector.

The advisory council plays a critical role in measuring the progress and constrains of gender equality.

The Council was constituted in 2011 and has guided the World Bank work on gender equality and women’s voice.

Miano is expected to serve at the Council for a period of two years effective from July 2.

Mrs. Miano holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree, a Diploma in Law and Post-graduate studies in Comparative Law.

In 2010, she completed the Advanced Management Programme from Strathmore University. She is a registered Certified Public Secretary of Kenya and is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya (ICPSK) and the Law Society of Kenya (LSK).

Additionally, she is a Commissioner of Oaths (Since 2001), a Notary Public (since 2003) and a finalist of the Chartered Arbitrator.

During her tenure as CEO, Mrs. Miano has led KenGen’s diversification agenda under the Good-2-Great transformative strategy.

During her tenure, Kengen has been able to make major successful milestone, banking different awards including: Clean Energy Project of the Year by EAPIC, St John Ambulance Kenya First Aid Challenge, Best in Corporate First Aid, Africa Public Service Awards, Runner Up – Rethinking Innovation in Manufacturing 2018, Best Practice in Board Diversity Award by NSE, Public Sector Legal Department of the Year 2019, 1st Runner Up and East Africa’s Best Sustainable Power Producer- Capital Finance International Awards 2019 among many others.

This has seen KenGen venture into the African market offering renewable energy solutions most notably in the horn of Africa where the company is currently implementing two large geothermal development projects.

“I don’t take this position for granted. I value the opportunity because it is significant but I really thank God.

It’s also a testament that hard work, qualifications, competence, confidence do not go unnoticed. I started working in the energy sector as an assistant legal officer, the lowest position possible, so I rose through the ranks.

KenGen CEO Rebecca Miano Tours Kipevu Power Station, Interacts With Employees

It is also a testament that one should be ready to walk through the whole system patiently, diligently because eventually it lands you where you should be,” she once said in an interview.

Mrs. Miano is married with two children. She enjoys spending her free time reading, travelling and watching plays and sometimes knitting.

She understands that the big role comes with a lot of pressure. But she is optimistic that the values that have seen her to top position and God, will also see her get good results.

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[jenniferfaye34]

#Giveaway + Excerpt ~ Dead in THAT Beach House by M. Glenda Rosen... #books #Mystery #readers

GENRE: Mystery

August 21, 2020, A Senior Sleuths Mystery, “Dead In THAT Beach House,” Published by Level Best Books is the third in the series and available at your local book store, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com. This series of murder and mayhem is written in a modern noir style with charming, witty, deliciously clever soft-boiled sleuths.

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Once we had arrived in the Hamptons, settled in and I felt comfortable, I began to add small amounts of poison to the evening cocktails. It was from the oleander flowers. I had planted them carefully behind the barn in Ames. After only weeks, they were falling ill, listless, crying to go back to Ames. They felt too sick at the beach house. It was simple.

I know you must think I’m a monster. But, really, they felt very little when I strangled them to death thanks to the poison in their system. When they were dead, I filled my library with books about murder and witchcraft. The note I leave for whomever might find them might explain what happened...

The Senior Sleuths, Dick and Dora Zimmerman, much like Nick and Nora Charles from the Thin Man series, and their cozy group of interesting, quirky friends take on crooks and murderers while dealing with an outrageous case of elder abuse.

Later: “Shall we say invitations are mandatory?”

“Absolutely, dear. We wouldn’t want anyone to miss the fun”

“They’re either belligerent, arrogant, or simply annoyed,” Zero whispered to Cloud as the so-called guests arrived. They were all murderers and those who had committed crimes against the elderly.

BUY LINK:

Amazon

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EXCERPT:

There were one hundred years between the murders of Lily’s aunt and uncle and those decaying bodies locked in the house thanks to the restriction imposed by the trust.

Police Chief Arthur Sanders allowed Lily, Jake and his parent to visit the beach house, in hopes they might be able to shed some light on what had happened.

Before the visit Dick and Dora read through the papers Lily had requested from the law firm handling the trust.

Lily, Jake and his parents moved, shocked, slowly through the house, the reality of death heavy as they walked from room to room. The cobwebs, thick layers of dust and mice droppings would be cleaned and cleared later when the yellow crime scene tape was removed.

“Why would anyone want to kill them? They’ve never even been to the Hamptons.” Lily obviously and understandably having difficulty processing what was happening.

She stayed downstairs with Dick while Dora and Jake went upstairs. They wandered in n and out of the bedrooms and several bathrooms. The police had already left their footprints in the dirt and dust smothering the floors.

Dora opened closets and dresser drawers, moved around old fashion clothes and surprised, she felt something hard under a long black and white striped petticoat.

“Shh, come with me.” Jake knew that shh meant :”Don’t tell dad.” They had that secret code since he was a young boy.

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AUTHOR BIO:

For over 25 years, owner and founder of a business/marketing and public relations agency and consulting firm in New York City, The Hampton’s and Albuquerque, New Mexico where the company served as advisors to a wide range of national, regional and local clientele including major pharmaceutical companies. The agency provided a special expertise to the healthcare industry including: hospitals, nursing homes, senior centers, medical facilities, non-profit healthcare organizations and literally dozens of healthcare providers.  It was the second largest public relations firm in New Mexico when sold. The agency was built on Marcia’s business experience as owner of two-day care centers for ten years in upstate New York.

Parallel to founding and running her agency, Marcia was also an active advocate and advisor for women's economic development and success. Along with Betty Friedan, she was honored by the City of New York in celebration of Women's Empowerment Day for "helping thousands of women advance their careers and succeed in starting their own companies."  She was also honored as the East End Women’s Network’s 20th annual “Woman of the Year,” and nominated for New York State“ Women of Distinction Award. In New Mexico her agency received awards and accolades for the many volunteer services it provided.

She has served on numerous organization boards including, The New York Women’s Agenda, Columbia Hospital Breast Cancer Initiative, American Cancer Society, Venture Fund for Women, The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, PULSE (helping to prevent medical errors), Boardroom Bound Alliance and others over the past twenty years.

Marcia presently lives in Carmel, California and is planning on moving back to Albuquerque early 2021 or end of 2020.   She has author clients in New York City, Atlanta, Albuquerque, Long Island, the Hamptons and Vancouver.

Facebook: @MarciaGRosen

Twitter: @WriterMysteries

Instagram: @mglendarosen

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www.theseniorsleuths.com

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GIVEAWAY:

M. Glenda Rosen aka Marcia Rosen will be awarding a $50 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

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[starrzbeatz]

Biography: Comedian KOBOKO (Networth, career, eductaion, etc)

 Biography: Comedian KOBOKO (Networth, career, eductaion, etc) 

From Honeyloaded.com we bring to you a short biography of Comedian Koboko, an award winning OAP from the southern Region.

COMEDIAN KOBOKO BIOGRAPHY

Isaac Joseph, popularly known as Koboko is a Comedian, OAP, Actor & Social Media Strategist with a keen interest in writing,Sports and Politics.

Born on the 18th of May, He is attentive to details and believes there is a comic side to every serious issue.

He’s also a music critic and all round nice guy. A graduate of Botany. Koboko is a die hard Arsenal fan.

When asked where he would be in the next five year’s his response was,

I will be among the most wanted comedians and oap Like my mentor’s in the business.

COMEDIAN KOBOKO ROLE MODELS

Comedian koboko is looking up to many with the likes of Ayo makun (AY), Basketmouth, Kcee, funnybone, broda shaggi to mention but a few.

Awards And Endorsement

Comedian Koboko has worked for top celebrities in Nigeria,

he was reported to be signed as the first official comedian in E-money’s Five star Record label.

He is an OAP currently working with Fad Fm calabar and also won two awards. 

Isaac Joseph alias comedian koboko is a Christian to the core who also love and care for the needy, he supports whoever he comes in contact with at no cost

NETWORTH Comedian Koboko net worth is estimated to be around five thousand dollar’s ($5000) MANAGEMENT well comedian koboko is currently working on a brand, he said he will be using it to promote young creative and promising talents from the southern region of our great country NIGERIA. Connect with Comedian Koboko; Instagram: @comediankoboko Twitter: @kobokolaugh Facebook: comedian koboko Nationality: Nigerian If you enjoyed this article about Comedian Koboko OAP lifestyle, Career and Networth via Honeyloaded, then please kindly share. PROMOTED ON 20 WEBSITES  BY 1990 management Calls/ whatsapp +2348052491711 from Blogger http://www.worrydem.com.ng/2020/09/biography-comedian-koboko-networth.html

[here-after]

Unfinished Business

The sport that doesn’t love me back.

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My college ultimate career was over, whether I liked it or not.  For five years, I have committed myself to college ultimate at the expense of nearly all else.  You would think I’d be torn up about my career’s abrupt demise.

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I made Georgia Tech’s A Tribe Called Tech (Tribe for short) as a freshman and committed myself immediately. College ultimate was a mythic thing to me, so I dove in.  My freshman class was large and bought in across the board.  Through practices and tournaments and long car rides full of conversation, Tribe became my friend group, my haven from school, and the defining part of my college experience.

But on the field, for my first four seasons, I was stuck.  Injuries derailed part or all of every season.  Freshman year: torn quad, missed all of Fall.  Sophomore: hamstring tendonitis, missed all of fall.  Junior: strained quad, missed all of regular season. Senior: torn hamstring, missed all of regular season.  I tried different PT’s, different workout regimes, and took considerable time off from playing club to focus on training my body.  Nothing stuck.

I was effective when I was able to take the field but was certainly not living up to my potential. I made Chain Lightning when I was 19 and subsequently had an excellent sophomore season in what would prove to be my last fully healthy Spring season.  I have not reached the heights of that season since.

For my first four season, Tribe was stuck.  Every year, we showed glimmers of potential and had lofty dreams, but even reaching Sunday bracket play at Regionals—where college ultimate teams truly prove themselves—was out of reach.  We placed worse at Regionals each successive year.  We began 2019 Regionals by taking half on the tournament one seed, UCF.  2.5 games later, our tournament was over.  Three games, three losses, done.  

Over my four years on Tribe, I had committed myself more and more to the team.  I was team President by my third year, Captain by my fourth. I took over planning our team’s workouts, created team bonding activities, and did my best to create a program out of a team.

After our 2019 Regionals loss—our fourth consecutive disappointment—I sat with Micah Jo, one of my freshman class and now my co-captain, and mulled over years of work and continual disappointment.  We had one more chance.

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My 2019-2020 season was certainly promising: I was leaving the previous season relatively healthy for the first time in years, so I committed myself to training like never before.  I had a workout plan I was incredibly confident in (shout-out GPP!).  Everything was set up for me.  I was past dreaming of individual accomplishments that I had sought as a young player: to be one of the Region’s best players, to be nominated for the Callahan Award, to dominate games like my college ultimate heroes,  Now I would be satisfied with helping my team win, no matter my role.  Was this my year?

Our 2019-2020 season was certainly promising; we graduated few players, retained many, and added proven talent via transfer and exchange.  The past three seasons had been an emotional rebuilding process for Tribe.  We had gone from a disjointed, fragmented team to a unified one thanks to the efforts of previous captains Brandon Chen and Ashwin Anantharaman and new coach Cate Woodhurst.  My co-captains Micah, Arthur Shim, and I decided to push the team to be as competitive as possible.  We had laid the groundwork of positivity, now we needed intensity.  Although Tribe hadn’t done much of note in the last 4 seasons, we had goals of playing deep into Regionals and dreams of making Nationals. Was this our year?

At our first Spring tournament, T-Town Throwdown, my first game began unevenly.  I made some good plays but also had some bad drops.  I was rusty (not a novel condition for me).  I had missed the whole Fall semester with a mysterious knee ailment (after a healthy Summer, I injured my knee at my first Fall practice); an MRI was clean, but pain persisted.  I was a game-time-decision for T-Town, but my knee felt relatively okay, so I suited up for my first regular season game in 3 years. I finished the game with no worsening of the pain, so I kept my cleats on for our second of the day.  Three points in, I collided with a teammate and badly contused my face.  I was done for the tournament.  My injury worries hadn’t been left behind after all, and while my face would heal quickly, my knee would not be so lucky.

At our first tournament, our first game began awfully, generously speaking.  We went down 2-5 to the bottom seed in our pool; doubts immediately crept into my mind: “would this season be another disappointment? Have the last 9 months been for nothing?”  But, defying the weight of our collective past, we pulled out the game and won our pool.  Tribe showed newfound resiliency.  Eventually an injury-shortened roster would catch up with us, but we placed third, an encouraging if not perfect start to the season.

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As Tribe’s season was building towards something great, mine was rapidly deteriorating.  Since the Fall I had been battling repeated illness, and the numerous bouts finally caught up with me.  I was robbed of consistency in my training and in practice attendance.  After T-Town, my knee pain returned with a vengeance.  My season had fractured from my team’s and would only continue to diverge.

Ultimate has long been my refuge, but it was becoming my torture.  The weeks between T-Town and our next tournament—Florida Warmup—were some of the lowest of my Tribe career.  Sidelined or home sick for practice after practice, I became angry and bitter. Negative thoughts dominated my mind: I could do that better or why does nobody care? or why are we fucking that up for the fifth consecutive year?  Subsequently, I would think get your head out of your ass. I worked hard to suppress my personal torment, but it was undeniable that five years of personal and teamwide disappointment had gotten to me.  I was forced to admit to myself that frequently I wanted to be anywhere but at practice; I invariably left practice seething with anger.  At my team, at my body, at the pain of wanting something so badly and watching my time running out.

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Tribe had not been invited to Florida Warmup since 2015, and we again began on the wrong foot, to say the least.  In our first game, Tufts took half 1-7, only for us to battle back and tie the game. We lost on double game point, but Tribe again showed immense heart, the likes of which I had not seen before.  We finished pool play 4-2 and squeaked into the bracket.  Our reward? A quarterfinals rematch with Tufts, who had gone 6-0 in pool play.

The game that followed is the best I have ever seen Tribe play.  We began the contest too amped up, and both teams made dangerous bids and committed overzealous turnovers.  We played under the lights on a field equal parts dirt and grass.  Dust flew with every step.

A handful of points in, Tribe found its footing.  Our decisions became smarter and our execution cleaner.  Tufts continued to throw their bodies around and into us; we matched their intensity but exceeded them in judgement.  They laid out into our backs; we got massive clean layout D’s. They grasped for what was just out of reach; we were in control.  We took half 8-6.

In our first game against Tufts, we had turned the tide by switching to zone in the second half.  This time around, we didn’t need a plan B.  We crushed with our discipline and our legs. The dam broke: they stopped getting separation and were reduced to endless swings and wishful hucks.  We stayed our course and played the game I had long hoped we had in us.  When the dust settled, we won 14-7.  Vindication.

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We went on to lose a double game point heartbreaker to Texas in semis, and then lost the third-place game to Carleton and finished in fourth place.  It was not a perfect tournament (we went 5-4 after all), but it showed that Tribe finally had real ability and the mental fortitude to go with it. Simply put, it was the best tournament performance by Tribe in my 5 years on the team, by far.

Florida Warmup rejuvenated me to some degree.  I re-found my voice as a sideline and leadership presence and lost myself in the game.  It was terrifically fun to watch my hard work bear fruit even if I could not contribute on the field.  And yet, once practices started up again, I fell into many of the same old feelings. My knee was not improving, and I dwelled on how fun and rewarding it would be to truly be part of the team’s success.  I considered asking for time off from practice to make my peace with my role.

And then, of course, coronavirus upended the world.

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Weeks of uncertainty followed.  It seemed like USA Ultimate was marking time by periodically releasing progressively worse news.  The college season was essentially totally cancelled.  Even as I dealt with the abrupt loss of our season, I also felt a weight lift off my shoulders.  I was free.

I slowly made my peace with our circumstances.  I imagined telling the tragic tale of my fifth year; somehow, the sudden end of the season felt right.  If my college career felt cursed, why not its ending?

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Then, USA Ultimate made rumor into reality: fifth year players would receive another year of eligibility.

In a way, USA Ultimate’s decision creates the cruelest possible timeline.  My team is graduating ten players.  Only three have the guaranteed option of playing for the team again.  Many of the remaining seven will apply for graduate programs, but that is much less than a sure thing.  Even if they enroll in a master’s program, they will also be working full-time.

But I am one of those lucky three players with a guaranteed opportunity to run it back (I will be in grad school at Georgia Tech).  A sixth year will in many ways feel like a fake season, a shadow of the fifth year that could’ve been.  Every sixth-year player will be a reminder of those that couldn’t be there.  No result will be satisfying—in victory I will wish my teammates could be there with me, in loss I will have infinite what ifs.

I already feel something akin to survivor’s guilt.  My sixth year is not an opportunity I am ready to accept.

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I miss playing ultimate. More specifically, I miss playing for Tribe.  More truthfully, I miss what Tribe could’ve been.  What I told myself it would be.  What, for a brief time, it was.

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REBECCA MIANO: A DEFINATE WOMAN POWER OF VICTORY AND LEGACY

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REBECCA MIANO: A DEFINATE WOMAN POWER OF VICTORY AND LEGACY

Rebecca Miano, is a Kenyan lawyer and corporate executive, who, since November 2017, has served as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of KenGen Plc., the largest producer of electricity in the East African region.

She was confirmed on 1 November 2017, having served in acting capacity since 25 August 2015.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Nairobi and attended the Advocates Training Programme at the Kenya School of Law. She also holds a Master of Laws in Comparative Law, awarded by the University of Australia.

Rebecca Miano first worked at a Nairobi-based law firm, “Musyoka Annan & Company Advocates”. Later, she worked at “Slater and Gordon”, a law firm in Queensland, Australia.

In 1998, she joined Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), as a senior legal officer.

Over time, she rose in rank to become assistant company secretary. At the time of her promotion to Acting Managing Director, in August 2017, she was the Director of Legal Affairs and Company Secretary at KenGen, serving both roles since 2008.

In November 2017, she beat 90 other applicants and was appointed to her current position, replacing Albert Mugo, who retired after attaining the mandatory retirement age of 60 years.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of KenGen Plc, Rebecca Miano addressing the media

Miano, she is the first female chief executive at KenGen. As of November 2017, she is one of the only two women in Kenya who lead a parastatal company, the only other woman being MaryJane Mwangi, the CEO of National Oil Corporation of Kenya.

She is a member of the Law Society of Kenya, and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya.

In 2010, she was decorated with the Order of the Grand Warrior of Kenya (OGW), in recognition of her body of work.

She is the first woman to hold the position of Managing Director and amp; CEO of Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) since the company was established in 1954.

Mrs. Miano also has close to 30 years consolidated experience in the energy sector, having started off her career at the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) in 1991.

Over the years, she has carved for herself a niche in Business Law and Corporate Governance. In 2010, while serving as KenGen’s Company Secretary & Legal Affairs Director, she won the Company Secretary of the Year award in the Champions of Governance Awards series.

Rebecca Miano, MD & CEO KenGen at a World Bank forum.

The same year, she was awarded the Order of the Grand Warrior of Kenya (OGW) by the Head of State in recognition of her outstanding service to the nation.

In 2019, she received another presidential decoration, the Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear, from H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta for her contribution to the growth of Kenya’s energy sector.

Between July 2015 and February 2016, Mrs. Miano was appointed to hold brief as Human Resource and Administration Director in addition to her role of Company Secretary and Legal Affairs Director.

This is a period she describes as a defining moment in her career, especially when it comes to working with people.

Mrs. Miano has been a member of St. Paul’s University Council since 2010 where she chaired the Finance and General Purposes Committee from 2013 to 2016.

She has also served in the Finance Committee of the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK). In November 2019, she was appointed to the Board of Global Compact Network, Kenya.

The same year, she was named among the Top 100 Women CEOs in Africa by Reset Global People in partnership with Pulse and Avance Media.

Mrs. Miano has recently joined the World Bank Group’s Advisory Council on Gender and Development.

Miano who is the pioneer of KenGen’s own Pink Energy Initiative- a gender inclusion based program at the company, will join an elaborate list made up of representatives from both government and the private sector.

The advisory council plays a critical role in measuring the progress and constrains of gender equality.

The Council was constituted in 2011 and has guided the World Bank work on gender equality and women’s voice.

Miano is expected to serve at the Council for a period of two years effective from July 2.

Mrs. Miano holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree, a Diploma in Law and Post-graduate studies in Comparative Law.

In 2010, she completed the Advanced Management Programme from Strathmore University. She is a registered Certified Public Secretary of Kenya and is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya (ICPSK) and the Law Society of Kenya (LSK).

Additionally, she is a Commissioner of Oaths (Since 2001), a Notary Public (since 2003) and a finalist of the Chartered Arbitrator.

During her tenure as CEO, Mrs. Miano has led KenGen’s diversification agenda under the Good-2-Great transformative strategy.

During her tenure, Kengen has been able to make major successful milestone, banking different awards including: Clean Energy Project of the Year by EAPIC, St John Ambulance Kenya First Aid Challenge, Best in Corporate First Aid, Africa Public Service Awards, Runner Up – Rethinking Innovation in Manufacturing 2018, Best Practice in Board Diversity Award by NSE, Public Sector Legal Department of the Year 2019, 1st Runner Up and East Africa’s Best Sustainable Power Producer- Capital Finance International Awards 2019 among many others.

This has seen KenGen venture into the African market offering renewable energy solutions most notably in the horn of Africa where the company is currently implementing two large geothermal development projects.

“I don’t take this position for granted. I value the opportunity because it is significant but I really thank God.

It’s also a testament that hard work, qualifications, competence, confidence do not go unnoticed. I started working in the energy sector as an assistant legal officer, the lowest position possible, so I rose through the ranks.

KenGen CEO Rebecca Miano Tours Kipevu Power Station, Interacts With Employees

It is also a testament that one should be ready to walk through the whole system patiently, diligently because eventually it lands you where you should be,” she once said in an interview.

Mrs. Miano is married with two children. She enjoys spending her free time reading, travelling and watching plays and sometimes knitting.

She understands that the big role comes with a lot of pressure. But she is optimistic that the values that have seen her to top position and God, will also see her get good results.

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The USA's largest national park.

Larger than Switzerland, six times bigger than Yellowstone, Wrangel St Elias National Park and preserve is located in southern Alaska, and includes a biosphere reserve, stunning mountains (including Mt St Elias, the second highest on the North American continent), glaciers, volcanoes and seashore. It has some of the largest altitude differences of any national park, and endures very long and cold winters and warm brief summers. UNESCO awarded it world heritage status shortly after its foundation.

Southern Alaska is made up of bits and bobs of plates such as volcanic arcs that have been squished onto the north American plate during the subduction of the now swallowed Kula oceanic plate, replaced by the Pacific one in more recent times. These are called exotic terranes, and share a variety of origins.

The subducting plate gives off water is it is heated as it sinks into Terra's depths, which melts the overlying wedge of mantle forming the magma that erupts in Alaska's volcanoes. There are 10 known smokers in the park that have erupted during the Holocene, including Mts Wrangel and Churchill. Unlike most arc volcanoes, their activity is less explosive. Shield volcanoes like the Hawaiian examples were formed mostly by lava effusions of Andesitic composition (the typical arc lava par excellence, named after the Andes) and coexist with cinder cones and the odd stratovolcanic cone. Some of them are among the most voluminous piles of lava on land on Earth.

Six of these exotic terranes and a sedimentary basin form the bedrock of the park, part of the clump of accreted geological odds and ends known as Wrangellia. They range from 180 to 26 milion years old, younging from north to south. They include fossil bearing sedimentary rocks and lots of volcanics. One of the terranes (the Yakutat) is currently being compressed under another, leading to large earthquakes, especially along the coast. Four quakes of magnitude 7-8 struck in 1899, the great Alaskan quake of 1964 reached a magnitude of 9.2, and the 1979 St Elias quake 7.9.

The park landscape as we see it results from an energetic dance between volcanism (which started 26 million years ago when the Pacific plate started subducting), tectonic compression and uplift versus the grinding of glacial erosion. These created the series of four converging mountain ranges separated by broad U shaped glacial valleys with braided rivers running through them that form the park. 9/16 of the highest peaks within the US occur here, and 7/10 of the Alaskan ones. The main drainage of the watershed is the Copper river and its tributaries.

The largest sea glacier and piedmont (mountain) glaciers in the US are found within the park. The Bagley ice field fills most of its interior, endless ice and snow capped mountains extending as far as the eye can see. 60% of Alaska's permanent ice lies within the park covering over 4,400 km square. Most of the glaciers in the park are currently retreating. Winter is long and brutal, with temperatures of -46 degrees Celsius, and summers are very brief, June and July, with temperatures rising up to 27, and swarms of biting insects coming in for the feast.

Wildlife includes a wide range of boreal habitats ranging from sea level to 5,800 metres altitude. Grizzly bears, wolves, wolverines, caribou ermines and other cold loving animals dwell in the park along with a rare kind of sheep called Dall.

There was once a copper mine in the park, that closed in 1938, but the remnants can be visited as a piece of industrial history. Other activities include hiking, mountaineering and sea kayaking. Some regions can only be accessed by air taxi, but there are a couple of roads and some small settlements within the park, mostly along the route of the old mine railway. It is contiguous with Canada's Kluane national park.

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Image credit: Jim Harris http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/wrangell-st-elias-national-park/ http://www.nps.gov/wrst/index.htm The ski expedition to the park that this image came from: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2013/aug/21/beautiful-games-gallery-wilderness-skiing#/?picture=415515172&index=2_ _

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[Free eBook] The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna [Award-Winning Historical War Drama Novel]

The Sand Pebbles by the late Richard McKenna, a U.S. Navy sailor turned novelist and posthumous recipient of the Nebula Award for science fiction, is his vintage historical war drama novel, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher RosettaBooks.

This was originally published in 1962 by Harper & Row , after being serialized in The Saturday Evening Post and won the 1963 Harper Prize before being adapted into the eponymous 1966 film starring Steve McQueen.

The story takes place against the backdrop of the ongoing fighting between the Nationalists and the warlords in China during the 1920s. In it, the crew of a foreign gunboat ordered to patrol the region and protect U.S. citizens gets caught up in the conflict, as the novel explores the changing ideas of Chinese nationalism and western imperialism and tradition and modernity through the interactions between an American engine mechanic and his shipmates, as well as the Chinese workers aboard the gunship, and the officials on all sides around them.

Offered worldwide, available at Amazon.

Free for a limited time, available worldwide @ Amazon

Description As a spirit of nationalism inspired by Chiang Kai-shek's leadership begins to sweep through China, the river gunship San Pablo is ordered to patrol the region and to protect U.S. citizens. The crew of the ship is soon drawn into an international conflict when the Chinese Nationalists begin trying to expel the "foreign devils" from their shores. The conflict not only serves to illustrate the divide between east and west but also causes a rift between the members of the crew.

The protagonist of McKenna's novel, Jack Holman, is a machinist aboard the San Pablo who has joined the navy in order to avoid jail time. Because he is so fiercely independent, Jake remains a relative loner while onboard the San Pablo and is uncomfortable with navy protocol and discipline. It is just this rebellious spirit that animates much of this novel.

McKenna's independent mind chafes against military hierarchy and also, ensures that he does not share his shipmates' disdain for the Chinese because he is not a "joiner". Instead, McKenna is fascinated with the culture and the people that surround him and develops emotional bonds that prove quite thorny when the circumstances become more tumultuous and more dire.

The perspective of Sand Pebbles is therefore both panoramic as well as personal. Like Lawrence of Arabia, the tension explored here is between the self as individual against the broader atria of social and historical forces against which we are all measured. The Sand Pebbles was made into a 1966 film of the same name starring Steve McQueen.

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In anticipation of December, Shmaltz Brewing releases Chanukah, Hanukkah...Pass the Beer® -- Golden Strong Ale with Cocoa Nibs and Jewbelation 21® -- Dark American Strong Ale

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Clifton Park, NY ... Turning 21 is an epic milestone. Ever since the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed and implemented in the 1980's, 21 is synonymous across the 50 U.S. states with the legal ability to purchase beer, wine and spirits. This holiday season, Shmaltz Brewing Company celebrates its own coming of age as the Upstate New York brewery hosts "21 & Over" events across the country in honor of its 21st birthday. Launch events will be listed on http://bit.ly/2zvJsag In advance of the nationwide events, Shmaltz Brewing releases two new holiday beers and the annual favorite Shitck In A Box variety 12-pack. An homage to the Festival of Lights, Shmaltz's golden strong ale Chanukah, Hanukkah...Pass The Beer®rolls out in 4-packs (12 oz. bottles) to 35 states within Shmaltz's expansive distribution network. The much-anticipated Jewbelation 21® Anniversary Ale (draft & 22 oz. bottles) is brewed with 10 Malts and 11 Hops and is amped up to 12.1% ABV.There's no JUNK in the Shitck In A Box with four award-winning beers included in the variety pack: Hop Manna IPA®, Slingshot American Craft Lager®, Messiah Nut Brown Ale®, and Chanukah, Hanukkah...Pass The Beer®. 21 Years -- celebrating being the largest, the smallest, the most award winning, and astonishingly still the only Jewish celebration beer in the country. And also 21 years as a complex borscht of much more as well -- creating brands, selling brands, acquiring brands. Reinventing the company to reflect the new brick and mortar facility. Transforming from exclusively contract brewing with another producer to now being a contract brewer itself for other respected regional beer companies. Over 30 professional tribe members comprise the Shmaltz efforts, continuing to amass over 40 awards and counting. Through this trek, Shmaltz maintains its enduring sense of shtick that paved the way to this milestone.  And what would a true celebration be without the proper beers to mark such an occasion? New Releases Chanukah, Hanukkah...Pass the Beer® -- Golden Strong Ale with Cocoa Nibs Candles won't be the only thing getting lit this year, with this bright caramel colored, golden strong ale. The fluffy white head releases notes of honey, chocolate, and harkens back to memories of Holiday gelt coins. 8 malts & 8 hops balance biscuit and toast with light peach smoothly dancing with the chocolate from the cocoa nibs and a hint of vanilla on the finish. The 8% ABV warms up both the season and this luscious libation. Jewbelation 21® -- Dark American Strong Ale Mazel Tov -- it's a big beautiful bouncing barelywine! Shmaltz's 14th version of its acclaimed seasonal Anniversary offering Jewbelation® essentially stands as a triple brown ale. Pouring a dense mocha head, the color spans deep maroon to dark ruby. Flavors of this massive complex malt bill overflow with dark fruits -- bing cherry, raisins, currants, and figs. Pronounced notes of pumpernickel and dark chocolate, coffee roast and cherry wood dance with pounds and pounds of hops leading with citrus and stone fruit up front melding into a grassy earthiness on the finish. Rising to a hefty 12.1% ABV, the alcohol feels more warming and welcoming than its percentage might suggest. A very complex anniversary ale worthy of being part of the Jewbelation® family.  Shtick in a Box -- Holiday Variety 12-Pack There's no JUNK in this box! Just in time for the holidays, Shmaltz releases the award-winning Shtick in a Box Holiday Variety 12-Pack. Shmaltz has somethin' real special to give you inside this package. Craft beer lovers will find three Shmaltz favorites and all World Beer Championship Gold Medal winners, Hop Manna IPA®, Slingshot American Craft Lager®, and Messiah Nut Brown Ale®, with a gift of the 2017 version of Chanukah, Hanukkah...Pass the Beer®. You won't even need to wrap this platinum award-winning package, unless it'd be for safety. At age 21, Shmaltz pairs its unique shtick with a diversified business model including innovative He'brew creations, the acquisition and expansion of its regional Alphabet City brand, the re-introduction of its hyperlocal upstate 518 & 838 series, as well as expanded contract brewing for respected regional producers.  With their brewery favorites, Hop Manna IPA®, Slingshot American Craft Lager®, Messiah Nut Brown Ale®, and Bittersweet Lenny’s RIPA®, over a dozen seasonals, special releases and collaborations, and now the lineup of a behemoth anniversary beer, Jewbelation 21®, the culmination of Shmaltz's 21st year overflows with unforgettable fermentables.  To Life... L'Chaim!

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