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The Camp Counselor Program enables post-secondary students, youth workers, and teachers to share their culture and ideas with the people of the United States in camp settings throughout the country.
Financial value: Participants receive pay and benefits commensurate with those offered to their American counterparts at the camps.
For example, they cannot serve as administrator personnel, cooks or menial laborers such as dishwashers or janitors.
Provide the Department of State's toll-free emergency hotline telephone number to all participants.
Eligibility: Must be at least 18-years-old, proficient in spoken English and a bona fide youth worker, student, teacher or other specially qualified individual.
Financial Compensation: Camp counselors must receive pay and benefits commensurate with those offered to their American counterparts at the camps.
Ensure that program participants do not serve as "staff" — including (but not limited to) administrative personnel, cooks or menial laborers such as dishwashers or janitors.


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Faithful walk 32-miles for "Our Lady of Guadalupe"
The march reached its final destination at 6:30 pm.
Hundreds of faithful were walking from one end of the valley to the other in honor of Catholic figure "Our Lady of Guadalupe" Tuesday.
At 6:00 a.m. in the morning, the sounds of marchers singing and giving praise filled Coachella Valley streets.
It's a 32-mile walk, a pilgrimage, honoring the Virgin of Guadalupe. Faithful gather for the march, every year on December 12 when they say centuries ago, "Our Lady of Guadalupe" first appeared to a young man in Mexico City.
"We'd like to invite everybody, St. John Paul the 2nd said she is the mother of all the Americas, of all the people," Father David Foxen, of Our Lady of Solitude Church in Palm Springs.
The walk starts in Palm Springs and is expected to end after 7 pm in Coachella. Drivers are asked to keep an eye out for the marchers as they make their way across the Coachella Valley.
The pilgrimage started at 6 a.m. at Our Lady of Solitude on 151 W. Alejo Road in Palm Springs: First stop: 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. at an empty lot in the corner of E. Palm Canyon Dr. near Buddy Rodgers Avenue in Cathedral City. Second Stop: 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Destination: 7:00 p.m. at Valley Missionary Program in Coachella.

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Last year was good for 1 to 1 building but not good for modelling. I will try and finish 2 Sherman III kits that I have partially built. the first one will be a Sherman of 41st RTR at El Alamein in 1942.
What slowed down my build last year was the photo etched sand shields with those open slots all along the fold lines. I am not a great fan of them!
Thanks for the reminder Gary. Need to get a couple of campaigns done this month before I start on this.
The only thing missing now is the rear license plate. I have added tow cables (original from the set, did not have any usable replacment cables for Leopard...) and a red flag (Live ammo in the main gun during live fire ftx). I have also started weathering with som oils and added a satin coat (no pictures of that) to do some high lightning with oils. I have also started painting the loader but more about that later.
Sorry for the bad pic. It is more a proof of me acctually doing something... Clear coat, decals and a wash have been added. I'm acctually seeing an end to this build.
Finished. Weathered with oils and pigment. I also added a loader peeking out of his hatch. The figure is a Tamiya one, slightly converted into a Norwegian tanker.
Another long term shelf life testbed gets some bench time.
Wave's 1/20 Mak Gans 'Battlefrog' the leopard frog inspired paint job is my idea.
Erik, you Leopard 1A5NO looks awesome. Don't forget to upload a picture of the final build to the Unfinished Builds 2017 Gallery.
Mike D, cool subject and well done. I like that work.
Another one (shelf queen) bites the dust.. soon, I hope.
Chipping on the rocket pods.
@Erik: your leopard looks great! Can you tell me how you made the camo netting on the turret?
Thank you Matthew. My methode for making the camo net is explained HERE (Scroll down a bit). Be sure to make the cuts very close to each other.
Thanks, Erik. I need this info to make netting for a Croat M36 I'm working on.
I have the base coat of Tamiya XF-62 on. I lightened it a bit with yellow/green. Has anyone noticed XF-62 seems a bit greener now.
Next up is base coating the stowage.
Greeblies and wiring added, end is in sight.
Welcome to the fun that never ends. In my case, the perennial non-finisher, it really doesn't. As the year progresses and more people miss campaign deadlines, we won't be alone!
Nice paintjob, Steve. Looks good.
The front & rear bumpers are just placed on for the photos, and are not secured yet. Despite some setbacks, the build is starting to come together. The latest setback is the rear view mirror shot across the room, and I cannot find it. No idea where it might be. I minor setback, but I'm sure something will pan out (or I'll find the part). So, onward with the build!
I remember seeing the decal woes you had before.
Now all you need is 'Florida Man' to put in cuffs in the backseat..


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Biden Suspends Border Wall Construction For Two Months
President Biden has halted construction of the massive wall on the U.S.-Mexico border for two months while officials determine what to do next.
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As promised, President Biden has stopped construction of the massive wall between the U.S. and Mexico, Donald Trump's signature project. The new administration has called for a two-month suspension while border security officials sort out what to do next. Down in the borderlands, opponents of the wall are celebrating and say the fight may not be over. NPR's John Burnett reports.
JOHN BURNETT, BYLINE: The bulldozers and excavators, the concrete trucks and water haulers are now parked. The construction crews are gone. And hundreds of 30-foot-tall steel panels are stacked up and down the borderline.
LAIKEN JORDAHL: You know, we're cautiously optimistic. And we're definitely celebrating. We all raised a glass of Mezcal the night that the order was issued.
BURNETT: That's Laiken Jordahl with the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson.
JORDAHL: We've been fighting this project for years. And this is the first time we've been able to just take a step back and have a deep sigh of relief.
BURNETT: Contractors were able to put up 453 miles of wall over the past four years. They fenced off more than half of Arizona's border with Mexico in the environmentally sensitive Sonoran Desert. Working 24/7, racing the clock until inauguration day, crews were dynamiting mountainsides to make way for sections of wall that would likely never get built.
Gary Nabhan is a longtime ecologist and writer in southern Arizona. He says in just one protected wilderness, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, the wall blocked 52 wildlife corridors. For activists like Nabhan, their energies now turn to restoration.
GARY NABHAN: Take down the wall in the critical corridors for wildlife that are usually watered places, rivers and oases. It's going to take a Herculean effort to undo the damage.
BURNETT: The Biden administration has not revealed the fate of the border wall, one of the biggest federal construction projects in history. During the 60-day pause, officials plan to study how to, quote, "redirect funding and repurpose contracts." Nearly 300 more miles of wall have been contracted but remain unfinished. The government could reportedly save $2.5 billion if construction does not resume. But terminating contracts early also means paying tens of millions in cancellation fees. Most landowners on the Rio Grande never wanted a giant security fence to begin with.
Beto Cardenas is a lawyer for Sacred Heart Children's Home, an orphanage in Laredo whose property was in the path of a barrier.
BETO CARDENAS: Obviously, given the fact that there has been a pause, we would hope that the Biden administration would see that there isn't a need for a physical barrier.
BURNETT: Cardenas, who's worked on Capitol Hill as an immigration expert, says unspent funds may be redirected to a different kind of border security, such as high-tech autonomous surveillance towers.
CARDENAS: I would expect that there would be an investment in all sorts of other personnel, infrastructure and technology, measures necessary to protect the Southwestern border.
BURNETT: Property owners opposed to the wall have long maintained that Customs and Border Protection could substitute technology for steel and concrete. But even that would run into opposition from activists like Tricia Cortez with the No Border Wall Coalition in Laredo.
TRICIA CORTEZ: We don't want the direction to move from a physical wall to a virtual wall and continue down this path of militarizing the border.
BURNETT: Biden's Homeland Security Department is ready to mothball the wall and explore other security measures, according to Representative Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat. He has nearly 200 border miles in his district. He says he was in touch with an executive at DHS last week.
HENRY CUELLAR: You know, I don't like the wall. But we got to use other things – cameras, technology, drones and all that. And I understand some people don't want anything. They don't want cameras. They don't want lights. They don't want underground sensors. And I'm sorry, but we have a responsibility to secure the border.
BURNETT: DHS confirms every wall construction project has been suspended. When asked what comes next, the White House isn't saying yet. John Burnett, NPR News.
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Woolrich: Weaving the fabric of Pennsylvania history
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Tagged Carlton States, Chatham Run, Civil War, Clinton County, hunting, John Rich, Plum Run, railroad, suit, Woolen Mills, Woolrich
This three-piece Woolrich Woolen Mills hunting suit was prized for its warmth and durability. Relatives of Carlton States of York donated the suit to The State Museum in 1996.
Selected as this week's Pennsylvania Treasure, this three-piece hunting suit was purchased in the 1940s and used by Carlton States of York. One of Mr. States' descendants donated the suit to The State Museum in 1996. Woolrich Woolen Mills in Clinton County, Pa., manufactured this red-and-black wool suit which includes a vest, a field coat and a pair of knickers.
Woolrich Woolen Mills began operating in 1830 when English immigrant John Rich built his first woolen mill along Plum Run in Clinton County. From the mill, he produced woolen fabric, socks, coverlets and yarn that he sold from a mule cart as he traveled between the lumber camps that had sprung up to harvest the area's vast timber-rich forests. In search of a more reliable water supply, Rich built a new mill along Chatham Run in 1845.
Headquartered in what is now the town of Woolrich, Pa., the Woolrich Woolen Mill is the oldest, continually operating woolen mill in the United States. Throughout its history, the company has fashioned a wide assortment of rugged outdoor apparel and blankets. When railroad construction began in Pennsylvania in the mid-1800s, Woolrich developed a multi-pocket utility vest for railroad workers that proved so popular, that the item is still in production today. During the Civil War, the mill produced woolen blankets for the Union Army. Throughout the years, the company's products have kept pace with evolving technology and the changing lifestyles of Americans. Those goods have included woolen bathing suits and golf knickers, lap robes to protect and warm early automobile travelers and hunting apparel such as this suit, prized for its warmth and durability.
Carlton States' hunting suit will be on display this fall at The State Museum as part of the upcoming Pennsylvania Icons exhibit.
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Featuring a diverse array of artifacts from the collections of the State Museum of Pennsylvania and other Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission historic sites and museums, Pennsylvania Icons tells the story of our commonwealth, its people and the role they played in shaping the nation. The exhibit features historic artifacts ranging from a 1654 map of the Philadelphia region to pieces of the Walnut Street bridge in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Icons opens to the public on Sunday, November 8, 2015.
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HP IMC installation is normally a manual process, with plenty of clickey clickey clickey. This is OK for production systems, as most sites will only have one or maybe two IMC servers. But for my lab, I wanted to automate the install, so I can quickly spin up a new lab system. I have now found an undocumented, unsupported way of doing this.
There's two parts to this - preparing the underlying OS & DB, and installing IMC. I am writing Ansible playbooks to handle the OS + DB setup. That's working, but it needs a bit of cleanup. Once that's done, I'll integrate it with Vagrant. Then I should be able to completely automate the install of a lab IMC system. I will write another post on that once it's complete.
To install IMC silently, create an install.cfg file to define your settings. Then tweak the installation script to call the silent installer, not the interactive install.
I am using CentOS 6.x plus MySQL 5.6. With a few tweaks, this will probably work with Windows and/or other DBs. Also remember that this does not seem to be publicly documented anywhere. I've figured out how to do it through a bit of trial & error, but I wouldn't go asking HP for support.
install.dir - the location where IMC is installed.
data.dir - location for the DB. This is more important for SQL Server installation.
db.type - choices are SQLServer, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL. If you use Oracle, you also need to define "db.addinfo" (i.e. additional DB info). I don't know the exact syntax required for that, but I suspect it is the network service name.
db.adminusername - A user with SA-level privileges. This user needs to be able to do pretty much everything - create new databases, users, etc. Typically this will be root, or sa.
db.adminpwd - the password for the above user. Note that if you're using MySQL on the localhost, with user root, you must set a password for root. IMC won't let you have a blank password.
db.port - port the DB listens on.
install.locale - the locale in use. Unsurprisingly, I'm using English - New Zealand.
deploy.components - the IMC components to deploy. This is a comma or semi-colon separated list. This is the full list of components installed with IMC Standard. If you're installing Enterprise, there's a couple more you can add. If you find out what those other component codenames are, let me know.
http.port - port for IMC to listen on. Default is 8080, but I don't like that.
https.port - port for IMC to listen on for HTTPS. Default is 8443.
There's one small issue: you can't define the database server. From my analysis of the InstallSilence Java class, it will always use 127.0.0.1 for the DB IP. That's OK for a lab system, but in production you'd probably rather have an external DB. It's a pity you can't define it, because it wouldn't take much to extend the silent installer to handle it.
< "$JAVA_HOME/bin/java" -Xmx256m -Dinstaller.dir="$CURRENT_DIR" -DsupportedLocales="$INSTALL_LANG" -Dedition=STANDARD -Dcompany.flag=HP -D3CProductNumber=JG747AAE -DskipVmCheck=true -cp "$JAVA_CLASSPATH" "$MAIN_CLASS"
The first change is to call the InstallSilence class, rather than InstallLauncher. This tells IMC to look for install.cfg, and read its settings from there.
Next I comment out an unnecessary echo statement. Then I run Xvfb, so that you don't need an X11 server set. This will send the progress bar off to the equivalent of /dev/null, and it won't block. You'll probably need to install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb first - I'm doing this in my Ansible playbook.
The last change is to add -y to the install command. If you don't do this, the installer will read the settings, tell you what it's about to do, then wait for you to enter y before continuing. With that setting, it won't prompt, but will just start the installation.
Save new component deployed info.
Press 'Enter' to launch DMA.
Then all you need to do us run installer.tcl. Because I send "Ctrl+D", it doesn't even launch DMA. That means that everything is installed, but only the Deployment Monitoring Service is running. It would be nice to figure out how to tell IMC to start all processes via the CLI. I don't know any way to do that yet, although I'm sure it's possible.


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MAFS' Billy just revealed he hooked up with another bride!
This season of MAFS is the gift that just keeps giving!
The hit show may have ended last night but one of the stars, Billy Vincent, has revealed that he actually hooked up with one of the other brides!
So, who was it that he hooked up with?
It was none other than Lauren Huntriss.
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The availability of key skills is a major concern for CEOs according to the PWC Annual Global CEO Survey. We frequently hear criticism of the UK education system, in 2016 the accountancy body CIMA found that their members thought 80% of young people require 'significant training' before being put to work.
The top areas of weakness for new recruits are people skills, business skills and technical skills. That pretty much covers all the bases!
The British Chambers of Commerce bear out this point of view and suggest that stronger links should be formed between educators (schools, colleges and universities) and business to better prepare young people for work. The BCC says successive governments have failed our young people by not properly equipping them for their future careers: "Creating artificial targets, such as half of school leavers should go to university, has in the past sent the wrong signal to young people about the employment and training options open to them. Young people should be able to fulfil their potential in their own talent pool".
The disconnect between our education system and the world of work has been a problem in the UK for many years now. The new apprenticeship schemes, funded by the levy, may herald serious attempts to address skills shortages in a number of sectors.
Skills Shortages
The availability of skills is a serious concern for UK businesses. We are at almost full employment and for those CEOs planning to hire more people in the near future, competition for talent will be intense. The CIPD reports a rise in the number of employers who are expecting to increase staff levels in Q3 of 2017, a trend that is especially pronounced amongst private sector service firms.
The CIPD highlight labour shortages in sectors such as accommodation and food services, and construction. In addition, it seems that recruitment difficulties for high-skilled roles are prevalent in the retail and financial services sectors.
According to new research by the Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils across England and Wales, failure to address the lack of skills in the UK workforce could cost the country £90bn a year, leaving workers £1,176 a year worse off on average. The LGA estimates that by 2024 there will be more than 4 million too few high skilled people to meet demand for high skilled jobs; and more than 6 million too many low skilled. A total of 9 million people already lack literacy and numeracy skills, according to the report.
Despite the sterling efforts of the teaching profession in recent years, a study from Sheffield University found that a shocking 17% of teenagers are leaving school functionally illiterate and unable to cope with the challenges of everyday life. Greg Brookes, professor of education at Sheffield and one of the study's authors, said these school-leavers lacked the skills to deal confidently with many of the mathematical challenges of contemporary life and had a lower standard of literacy than is needed to partake fully in employment, family life, and the labour market.
The skills shortage has been under the spotlight recently as business braces itself for the challenges of Brexit and the likely impact on recruitment. The government has suggested that British business should be training more workers to fill the roles currently undertaken by EU immigrants. If that were to work business needs a reasonable level of competence to work with but John Allan, National Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, says that "firms have a responsibility to train staff to meet the needs of their specific business, but there is a clear case for the education system to get better at preparing young people for life beyond the classroom".
Understanding Training Choices
Given the sad state of the government funded careers service and the paucity of careers provision in most state schools the supply of skills to UK PLC is not well managed. It is very important that young people are supported in understanding the training choices available to them and the impact that these choices have on their future. Sadly, a recent UK Commission for Employment and Skills report found that "the career aspirations of teenagers at all ages can be said to have nothing in common with the projected demand for labour in the UK between 2010 and 2020".
Universities make a much better effort at careers advice, it is in their interest to do so, as their rankings depend on the employment status of their graduates. It's an old argument, and something of red herring, to suggest graduates aren't trained for the workplace and the rise of the degree level apprenticeship addresses that issue and suits many teenagers who prefer a vocational course.
It's hard to square the circle, since the CBI suggests that employers see academic and vocational qualifications as having equal stature. Employers want to see skills such as team working, customer relations, negotiation, confidence, and think problem solving and communication skills are crucial. It's hard to think of a job or profession where good communication isn't essential. However, changes in the education system have resulted in a diminished focus on teaching anything other than a rigid core curriculum, thereby disadvantaging young people who need support to develop the employability skills sought by employers.
What's required is a shared understanding of the importance of employability skills within the education and employment sectors so that the Department of Education can ensure more young people enter the workforce well prepared. The coalition government ended the statutory duty on schools in England to provide every pupil at Key Stage 4 with work-related learning, which means they miss out on placements that give a vitally important taste of workplace life.
There is clearly a role for business in smoothing the path into the workplace for youngsters and ensuring we proactively build a pipeline of young talent who will become the next generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs. Business needs to make the investment and commitment to training for new recruits. This is, in part, about the employment brand, the organisation needs to offer a work experience that all employees value, it raises the profile of the business within the local labour market and can be a powerful recruitment tool as people will recommend good firms to work for.
To be fair, this lack of preparation for the workplace, is not a problem for the UK alone, as nearly a third of the world's human capital is under-developed, according to the World Economic Forum's Human Capital Report 2017, released on 13 September. The sad fact is that while our graduates find jobs many are under-employed in roles that don't reflect their expensive education or their aspirations.
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On 10 December, 2019, the EU Ambassador to Eritrea, Gabor Iklody hosted a reception to celebrate Human Rights Day, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
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EU Ambassador in Eritrea presents his credentials
The EU Ambassador in Eritrea, H.E. Gabor Iklody presented his credentials to President Isaias Afeworki on Wednesday, 4 December 2019 in Asmara. In a friendly atmosphere they discussed a broad range of issues including bilateral cooperation, enhancement of peace & regional security, development
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Clean up the EXPERT menu (yet again).
they already depend on EXPERT.
Move all of the KALLSYMS Kconfig symbols to the end of the EXPERT menu.
This separates the kernel services from the build options.
unsigned, to give us another 68 years and avoids breaking until 2106.
it has been renamed to pid_allocated and PIDNS_ADDING respectively.
Patch series "Replacing PID bitmap implementation with IDR API", v4.
custom code with calls to generic code.
the IDR and bitmap implementation.
Replace the current bitmap implementation for Process ID allocation.
Instead, include <linux/export.h> for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
This cuts off a lot of unnecessary header parsing.
Convert all allocations that used a NOTRACK flag to stop using it.
Patch series "kmemcheck: kill kmemcheck", v2.
As discussed at LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck.
kmemcheck (single CPU, slow).  KASan is already upstream.
consider KASan as a suitable replacement).
KASAN, kill kmemcheck again for the very same reasons.
Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel.
it is pointless to keep CONFIG_SLABINFO around.
Setup EXPERT menu.  The prompt still depends on EXPERT.
and tilegx NAPI isolation, we keep that default behaviour.
the isolation features from the isolcpus= parameter.
separate the isolation code from NOHZ.
housekeeping code still deals with NOHZ internals.
the relevant code to its own file.
fix locations of several documents that got moved").
default, selecting an undefined symbol as the default.
instead, which is CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE, as intended.
in the early startup code and prepares for permanent table mappings.
to the DMAR tables happens.
root=/dev/dm-0 dm="system none ro,0 1 android-verity /dev/sda34"
Patch series "Command line randomness", v3.
A series to add the kernel command line as a source of randomness.
features which are not available until after the architecture is setup.
Move the stack canary initialization later to accommodate this.
build_all_zonelists gets a zone parameter to initialize zone's pagesets.
rebuilding which is always good.
method of overwriting freelist pointers.
struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.
Replace timespec with y2038 safe struct timespec64.
The references in the debug objects may also hide a real memory leak.
allocations, kmemleak checking is now disabled for debug objects.
the scheduling class of the boot thread to the idle class.
PI support when RT mutexes are not available.
allocating and freeing large numbers of counters as in BPF.
all chunks if the contig_hint is the right size, but wrong alignment.
maintaining a set of hints.
later contig hint than available.
approximately 16 seconds to complete for the bitmap allocator.
using bytes instead of bits.
Added a comment to pcpu_cnt_pop_pages to explain bitmap_weight.
initialized to create decrypted bounce buffers for use by these devices.
blind automated conversion isn't necessarily correct.
filesystems set such flags anyway.
I'm not sure what's the best way to solve all these cases.
through the life of the boot.
and task_can_attach() entirely, which shrinks the kernel a bit.
to use the boot parameter instead.
with Tree/Tiny SRCU, and the latter two are doing quite well in testing.
This commit therefore removes Classic SRCU.
also be done with the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter.
This commit therefore removes this Kconfig option.
uses of rcu_segcblist with a simple singly linked list with tail pointer.
insignificant for those attempting to run the Linux kernel on IoT devices.
srcu.h to allow error-free inclusion in !SRCU kernel builds.


← TV News – Dancing With the Stars Cast!
Welcome to a new week for This Week on TV and the last week of February! Doesn't seem possible, does it? But it does put us 1 week closer to having our favorites back with new episodes! Yay! I'm glad the writers got most of the stuff they wanted out of the strike but I'm also REALLY glad it's over! lol So let's see what's on this week! Jump with me to see this week's schedule!
Sunday is the The 80th Annual Academy Awards on ABC at 9/8c. If you feel like adding on more time to the already 3 hour show, you can watch the 1-hour Barbara Walters Oscar Special starting at 7/6c (featuring interviews with Ellen Page, Harrison Ford, Vanessa Williams and Miley Cyrus!) followed by the 30-minute Oscar's Red Carpet 2008 at 8/7c. Make it an Oscars night!
Monday is the 3-hour tv movie of A Raisin in the Sun on ABC starting at 8/7c. It stars Audra McDonald (Naomi Bennett on Private Practice), John Stamos, Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show) & Sean Combs. A widow, her son and other members of a black family have different ideas on how to spend a $10,000 life-insurance check. Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry.
Tuesday is the series premiere of Quarterlife on NBC at 10/9c. This is the first network-quality series that was produced first for the Internet. The show takes on the crucial years between 20 and 30 when so many of life's important decisions are made and tells the ongoing stories of six creative people in their twenties. There has been a lot of hype Before that, catch a preview of the show on MTV at 4:30/3:30c!
Wednesday is a new Men In Trees on ABC at 10/9c, FINALLY back from hiatus! It's been far too long! Tune in to see how Jack fares stranded in the raft and see how Marin reacts to the news of his being MIA!
Thursday is the season finale of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew on VH1 @ 10/9c. Dr. Drew challenges the patients to test their inner strength and knowledge by going on a group retreat.
Friday is the series premiere of Your Mama Don't Dance on Lifetime at 9/8c. Hosted by Ian Ziering (Beverly Hills 90210 & Dancing with the Stars), it teams young professional dancers with one of their parents as they compete for $100,000 in cash and prizes.
Have a great week everyone! Enjoy all the great new TV!


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THESE IMAGES ARE ALL COPYRIGHT PROTECTED. I FORBID ANYONE TO COPY THESE IMAGES WITHOUT MY EXPRESS PERMISSION A four month project, some letters were easy to find, others much more difficult.
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Very nice rendition of the alphabet. Great work!
I really love this gallery, I have some of my own, even though not half as good & organised as yours, please feel free to look in & comment. A BIG VOTE on this gallery !!!
this is a creative and superb gallery!
it is the best work i have ever seen.
I was recently in Chattanooga, TN and saw photo alphabet letters. Beautiful and imaginative landscape ~ loved it!
im in photography class & this is what we had to do & we used your idea as an example. i had a blast finding the letters for my own. :] great job!
I saw this in Oprah's magazine and People magazine last year: www.CreateSticksAndStones.com. I think it's a great idea.
Very cool concept. I saw something like it athttp://www.letterperspectives.com.
Wow, what a creative idea. Congrats; this is great!
wow! what a concept. great work!
amazing man, im doin a photography project on the alphabet and this is some great inspiration 4 me!
This is Great - So Creative !
Wow! Very unique concept. Voted!
how creative. I really like this. reminds of some of the flickr mashups.
i think that this work is great, i really like the way that you can create letters with any everyday object.
really great , well done,v.
I really like this stuff its so unusual! doing a photography project based on this work at college and it's fascinating, thanks for your new insight in to the surroundings we see every day!
LOVE all of them!!! together as the alphabet ot just seperate. great idea!
Good eye. I'd have missed most of these. Nice shots.
Wow-- I really like this... Great Work!
Thank you . . . amazing!
such a great work! i do love it!
This is a wonderful wonderful gallery.
Pretty original I have to say.
I really enjoyed looking at these. Thanks for posting them.
i find these photographs of the alphabet very exhuberating and fascinating. The innovation and inspiration that you had in order to take such good photographs is very out of this world.
Such beautiful work and a real inspiration, as some of us here are attempting the same project, just for fun. Your vision and technique are extraordinary! Aloha, G.
A great source of inspiration for many, here, there & everywhere!
Extraordinary imagination, very creative and inspiring collection of work.
I saw this project somewhere else, and I loved to find it here now! It's a plasure to keep my eyes on these pics!
Wonderful project! A joy to see!
This is as creative and imaginative as it gets. Superb job.
Cool Cool cool!!:)...Its so createve!..And i really like the sepia tone..Well done!
A unique and expertly executed idea. Very nice!
you have an amazing eye for picking out details.
Absolutely Brilliant and Artistic I must say!
Very original and pictures are very nice!
My compliments. Very interesting idea and beautiful photo's! Vote!
We decided to choose this gallery as our image of the day (11.05.05) for its fresh truly creative photography we've ever seen. Congratulations!!
Totally brilliant! Just coming up with the idea takes some doing but a lot of work has gone into your images. I take my hat off for you Sir! Most enjoyable.
This is great. Such a solid idea too, which I am sure to much time not only to "see" but to present so we could so easily see as well.
What a refreshing photo idea! I really like the quality of your images.
Very creative. Very enjoyable to look through.
A very different perspective of the alphabet! Great work!
Outstanding creative eye and presentation Abba!
I'm going to try this. Thanks a lot! Here's my vote!
What an excellent idea for a theme. Very creative.
an excellent gallery, superb observation!
Very imaganative & great fun! Congratulations!
Wonderfully creative! Great photos and imagination.
Fantastic! This is very creative. Great job.
Superb, smooth tones and wonderfully creative!
Very creative. I like the black and white photographs much more than the colored ones.
Very creative. I like this very much.
Just an awesome gallery, great shots .
Hi! I have seen your work in Digital Photo of December 2004. This are very good inspirational photos. Thanks!
Very good idea, not easy ... I like very much J and Z !
what a great idea! Excelent work!
Great eyes with unique composition. Strong impact photography.
very creative! i like how you used cropping to achieve the various letter forms.
i love this just as much as the colored alphabet. very creative.
I'd like to add my congratulations on the Lenswork publication. Well done.
I see your alphabet series was just published in Lenswork! Congratulations!
Fabulous idea and execution! Nice eye of yours, thanks for sharing.
Brilliant! Wonderful idea and well done.
very ingenious! A pleasure to view, thank you.
Absolutely brilliant! A jaw dropping WOW!!
A wonderful job. Everything is everywhere.
Fantastic, what a wonderful idea !!
Aba, that's amazing! But what about Hebrew version?
Great impact still life presentation in black and white. You may also visit the site interesting.
Thanks Eric, I planned the whole project - it took me four months to complete.
How did you came up with that idea?
Was it planned or did you realise that after taking some of the pictures?
simply amzing - and ver, very well seen! did you actually go out to look for them or did they just past you by over time?
Great, very creative and good imagination. Something different and impressive.
ironically enough, i had listed you as one of my favorites in january before seeing your father's memoriam listed recently. it's nice to have that recognition. i will be a repeat visitor.
OMG!.. this site is so fucken cool!
now THIS is what it's about.
Very clever and well done gallery!
one the most cleverly created albums on this site, i love the way you see the art in seemingly meaningless objects!
OK. I know it should have said 'APPRECIATIVELY' but I was excited by what I was seeing!
What a fabulous combination of art & humour. Did you set out to 'take' the alphabet - if so how many shots did you have to take before you were happy with all 26 characters?
Great idea! and very well carried out.
Yes ... I have voted for this gallery also, because it is your greatest accomplishment by comparison to other Photographers or not. You will go down in history for this!
You've really done something exceptional here, Abba, I find myself coming back to this gallery time and time again. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi Abba, you have done a great job here.. I enjoy seeing and guessing the alphabets.
I've enjoyed this gallery many times, and finally had to say thanks. A terrific idea and very well executed. (I'm just not too excited about the style sheet that keep the images dimmed until the cursor hovers over one picture; the images are too good to be darkened.
Great stuff! Not only one of my favorite galleries, but one of my favorite galleries to show others.
absolutely stunning galery, it is amazing, you have a fabulous eye for photography. I think I would possibly overlook all these on the street !!, and you make them all look magical. I love your use of shadows and textures to create the letters.
got my vote always !
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Photos about Cuba, about Montreal and Solitude.
Some titles are in french.
Sab - thank you very much. Do you have pictures on Pbase?
I love your works !!! Creative and beautiful !
Beautiful pictures. What a cool idea. Keep up the good work!
I should have taken the time to comment here before. This is as creative as I have seen possibly. I love all of the streetpaint work but this one is just beyond excellent and appealing to all. Inspiring to say the least. Cheers.
Such great work!.. Good eye.. Just so you know, I have forwarded your link to my friends.. I can't help but show them your work.. It's truly amazing.
you rock!! this has to be the best display of truly creative photography i've seen, absolutely marvellous work!!
Brilliant! What a wicked imagination.
I saw this gallery more than ten times and still enjoy!
How did you go about compiling this? I would imagine you were in a very strange state of mind going throughout your day thinking "I've gotta find an A, I've gotta find an A, alright good, I've gotta find a B, I've gotta find a B...." It may seem funny but is this how you compiled these photos? You've captured each letter in such a brilliant way!
This is an absolutely stunning collection of images, a great concept brilliantly executed.
A fine gallery; good eye for details.
This is such a great concept....love the tonal quality!!
Simple Idea, Brilliantly executed, very impressive.
This is the most creative gallery of images i've seen here to date. Great idea and compostion. Looking forward to seeing new work from you.
Very impressive. I like your creativity.
This is the coolest gallery I've seen in a long time.
Thank you Ray. I took me about four months, some letters were easier and some were harder. It was a real challenge though.
Abaa, great idea and flawless execution. My compliments. How long did it take you to complete this project?
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant work.Keep it Up !
Congrats on a good piece of work(s) well done!
I really enjoyed viewing these.
Very creative work. A lot of thought and attention to the details went into this work. I have enjoyed viewing them.
Amazing photos! You must took a long time to find all these objects!
Dear Trisha, Thank you so much for your kind words. You may indeed share the link with your friends, just please mention that all the images are copyrighted by me. You may indeed buy any of them just let me know when you are in a position to purchase them.
This submission goes a little deeper than usual. This is a photograph of the memorial obelisk at the Central bus station of Jerusalem. I am posting this on Saturday night, the 14th of December 2002. Tonight is also the 10th of the Jewish month of Tevet. The Tenth of Tevet marks the onset of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylonia 2,500 years ago, and the beginning of the battle that ultimately destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon, and sent the Jews into the 70-year Babylonian Exile.
On the eighth of Tevet, King Ptolemy of Egypt forced 70 Jewish scholars to gather and translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Even though the Talmud relates to us that this project was blessed with a miracle -- the 70 scholars were all placed in separate cubicles and yet they all came up with the same translation -- the general view of the rabbis of the time towards this project was decidedly negative. The Talmud records that when this translation became public "darkness descended on the world." The 'koshering' of the Greek language by its use in translating the Hebrew Bible had wide ramifications in Jewish society. This translation -- the Septuagint -- eventually became the basis for the Old Testament section of the Christian bible a few centuries later. The Greek translation of the Bible also further aided the advance of the agenda of the Hellenist Jews to bring Greek culture into Jewish life, and to attempt to reform Judaism in the image of Greek values and lifestyle. The "koshering" of the Greek language by its use in translating the Hebrew Bible had wide ramifications in Jewish society and undermined some of the efforts of the rabbis in combating the allure of Greece in Israel of then.
The Fast of the 10th of Tevet also commemorates that event.
In Israel and in the Jewish world today this fast is also the central religious commemoration of the Holocaust, the murder of six million Jews during WW2.
BTW I have a brother living in Toronto, Canada is great - all the do dahs of the USA with the finess of the UK.
Wow ~ these photographs are truly amazing... a friend of mine shared the link with an online community that we belong to. You are such a creative soul.. thank you so much for sharing this with us!
I am going to share this link with some of my creative online friends.
Fabulous idea, great photography. Where was the tower which you use for the 'i'?
This is wonderful! amazing! Thanks for posting it!
Eize Yofi! A true pleasure going through it. Some of the letters are just brilliant.
Very creative! Congratulations on an excellent gallery.
Congratulations on the artistic collection!
Great idea, and very creative!
Fantastic,i could imagen it took quiet a while to find all those shapes,well done.
Bravo, very creative, I love it and you have a great eye. I'm doing something like this with numbers to make a calendar without mentioning the monts so that it looks as minimalistic as possible. I wonder how much time it has taken to achieve the whole alfabet. It must also be a very nice exercise to keep your eye trained and you certainly must have seen a lot of other interesting subjects. Felicitations.
I jumped to this gallery through the 'Random' feature of Pbase home page.
What a clever gallery! Enjoyed every image.
This is really fun, well executed, brilliant!!!


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Patron Brings Me Too Moment to Horror
August 26, 2018 Red Claw Indie 0
Hollywood Horror has long said good bye to the old concepts of horror and welcomed new ones. Hollywood horror is at a post modern phase. Films like Get Out and A Quiet Place have changed the DNA of horror. Now, a Indie film, Patron, is using horror to support a message with an impact – the #MeToo movement. Patron is an Indie film and has an IndieGoGo page that has all the information you'd need. According to the page, here's the concept:
Vickie Black is a young woman working as a maid in London. The ambitious woman lands an interview with an age-old organisation that she thinks is her ticket to big time. However, as the intervciew progresses and her time with the organisation, things get murkier.
Devora Wilde plays Vickie Black. Other members of the cast are Jamie Lee-Hill. Cinematography is by Beatriz Delgado Mena. Emily Haigh is director and co-producer. The other co-producer is Alon Young, who has written the script too. Of special interest is the make-up artist, Mollie Merrifield, who has earlier worked on Kenneth Brannagh's Artemis Fowl. The synopsis hints at the character going through a physical change. Will we be seeing a female monster? Only the crew knows that – until the release.
Devora Wilde is a Bulgarian actress whose film credits include Ron Howard's Rush and the upcoming The Dare. She is part of the cast in films like The Tombs: Rise of the Damned, 999:Killer on the Line and A Precious Life. Jamie Lee Hill is part of films like Far from the Maddening Crowd, The Hollow Crown as well as the children's film, Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg? He will also be seen in films like Eleven_, Flawless and Faithless. He is also part of the upcoming Cold War thriller, Cheating Charlie.
Beatriz Delgado Mena
Devora Wilde
Emily Haigh
Jamie Lee Hill
Mollie Merrifield
The Wind by Emma Tammi Has An Interesting Concept
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Air Malta and Qatar Airways Sign Comprehensive Codeshare Partnership
Air Malta and Qatar Airways have announced the signing of a comprehensive codeshare agreement, which will allow Air Malta to expand its network and extent its reach
1 March 2020, 6:00am
Air Malta Chief Executive, Captain Cliff Chetcuti (right) with Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Akbar Al Baker
Air Malta and Qatar Airways have announced the signing of a comprehensive codeshare agreement.
The Agreement reinforces Air Malta's drive to expand its network and extend its reach. It also shows Qatar Airways' long-term commitment to Maltese passengers and to boosting tourism to the Islands.
Sales will start from today with the first codeshare flights to operate from 9 March. The codeshare agreement increases Malta's connectivity with Africa, the Middle East, Australia and Asia by enabling Air Malta's passengers to travel on Qatar Airways' flights between Malta, Doha and onward to more than 60 destinations.
Air Malta will place its code and flight numbers on several of these Qatar flights thereby allowing the Maltese Airline to participate in these markets not only to and from Malta but also connecting to and from other destinations that it serves.
Qatar Airways' passengers will also benefit from greater access to Malta and to Air Malta's extensive Mediterranean network. Codeshare destinations include Cagliari, Palermo and Catania. Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Mr Akbar Al Baker, said: "When we launched services to Malta in June 2019, I started this was just the beginning of our long-term commitment to boosting trade and tourism between our two countries. This agreement with Air Malta will provide significant benefits to both airlines and thousands of passengers, expanding both of our networks and setting the foundation to further enhance cooperation in other fields in the future."
Air Malta Chief Executive, Captain Cliff Chetcuti, said: "This agreement is yet another milestone for Air Malta in its growth strategy and widening of its codesharing network. It was a natural step for us after Qatar Airways launched direct scheduled services to our Islands and the successful cooperation on pilot training. Both Air Malta and Qatar Airways share the same quality service commitment towards their customers and through this codeshare agreement we are enhancing our cooperation to the benefit of our mutual customers."
Economy Minister Silvio Schembri welcomed the code-sharing agreement between Air Malta and Qatar Airways.
"This agreement pushes forward Air Malta to set presence in the eastern market. This is an important step in Air Malta's stance to continue enhancing its connectivity both on an international level. In fact, through this agreement, Air Malta will be able to offer flights to Australia through just one stop in Doha. I look forward to seeing this partnership grow in the benefit of both airlines involved as well as means to better the customer's experience when using our national airline. This is yet another initiative complimenting Air Malta's strategy to generate new streams of revenue," Schembri said.
Qatar Airways began flying to Malta on 4 June 2019 with daily flights in the summer and a four-times-weekly service during winter.
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"The exquisite 23rd Psalm is one expression of what philosopher Karl Jasper called "The Axial Age." This period from about 800 BCE to 200 BCE is when, in China, India, Persia, Greece and among the Jews in Exile in Babylonia, civilizations seem to have gathered themselves up and found new expression through Lao Tzu, Buddha, Zarathustra, Plato, Socrates and the writing down of the Old Testament. It was a period of revision some 5,000 years after agriculture led to the beginnings of property rights and the creation of greater accumulated wealth. Civilizations arose in China, the Indus valley, the confluence of the Tigres and Euphrates, the Nile Valley and Abraham gave birth to three great monothestic religions.
"The Axial Age is said to have focused attention on the individual, witnessed in David's Psalm above, a paeon to the relation between the Lord and an individual. Emphasis on the individual is a cornerstone of our United States Constitution and Adam Smith in the Scottish Enlightenment, setting the foundations of modern economics with his famous "invisible hand," where each acting for his or her own purely selfish interests unwittingly, through the invisible hand of the market, achieves the benefit of all.
"Now, 2,500 years after the Axial Age, we have learned much that may be of use as we face what historian Thomas Cahill called a "hinge of history." Our many civilizations around the globe are being woven together as never before in history. We will partially shape what we become.
"I write to raise a large question: Do we need to examine our Axial Age anew? I think we do."
Stuart Kauffman is an experimental and theoretical biologist.
Kauffman has written about three hundred articles and four books: The Origins of Order (1993), At Home in the Universe (1995) and Investigations (2000), published by Oxford University Press. Most recently he published Reinventing the Sacred (2008), Basic Books.
Kauffman is well known for arguing, in Origins of Order and At Home in the Universe, that self organization, as well as Darwin's natural selection, are twin sources of order in biology. Thus we must rethink the becoming of the biosphere.
Norman - I thought Kauffman's piece was rather strange, and am surprised NPR found it worth publishing. I suspect if he didn't have his theoretical-physics biologist credentials they wouldn't have. It's like he basically woke up one morning and noticed first that peoples' interests differ and collide, then quickly skimmed the game theory article at Wikipedia, and wrote it all up with some vague mutterings about cooperation and axial something-or-the-other as binding. Maybe next week he will notice that psychologists have been investigating the rational actor model from another angle and produce another article!
Thanks for taking note and commenting. I think it's worth noting that the daily column on NPR is titled, "13.7: Cosmos and Culture." It's a vehicle for some top people in a variety of fields to be more speculative and even step into arenas outside their safe zones. Also, Kauffman is responding to the world-wide phenomenon sparked by "Occupy Wall Street."
Kauffman struck me, earlier this year, with his ideas on memory. Memory and learning, as you know, are probably the most central concepts in all of psychology. I am considering writing about his views. He is the first to acknowledge that they are speculative, but they are highly informed and well reasoned.
I'm sure you heard that old expression, "Remember, you heard it first, right here."
Hi Norman, regrettably I don't know much about Kauffman's work in biology (and know nothing at all about these thoughts on memory and learning). He's a very well known researcher on these things, and I'd be very glad to read your article when you post it.
That said, I don't think he did "due diligence" in writing this article, which is on subjects where there is considerable expertise he *doesn't* share in. In the comments, for example, he pontificates extensively on Rawls starting with an admission that he's never read the man. The same goes for his superficial treatment of Adam Smith or Mill, and I'm having some fun imagining some game theorist reading his exhortations to cooperate and saying "I wish I'd thought of that!"
It's a very shallow article, and I think he gets away with it because his vague statements are of the sort NPR listeners want to hear right now.
Let's assume that Kauffman was making commentary on 'Occupy Wall Street,' and taking the opportunity to question free market economics. He is asking whether or not the 'God of the Invisible Hand' can do as good a job as David's God in Psalm 23, when it comes to providing a bountiful table. This is allegory, of course.
The Invisible Hand God finds the most fundamental value, a good if you were, in free market prices. Adam Smith anticipated economic Darwinism when he deduced that this system would still have the poor, but that they would not reproduce, sufficiently, to sustain their survival.
He sees another value, and it comes from a different source. A combination of genes and culture are manifest in the idea of 'fairness' for us AND our primate cousins. This sounds good, and I would like to think it complements or even determines, in part, market price. Is this really the case? I don't know.
Another question, which I raise, is whether unfettered free market capitalism can be diverted from its natural course of producing abnormal concentrations of wealth and power in the hands of a few. I don't know whether he thinks the operation of 'fairness' is some invisible check on runaway capitalism or not.
It is my view that free market capitalism can never operate in its pure theoretical form. Free market capitalism will always attract those who will control it and manipulate it. 'Free' will only be a euphemism. I always liked Milton Friedman's description of the business person. The business person, he said, wants consistent and fair rules of trade for everyone else. For oneself, however, its special treatment.


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Oh Se-jong (kor. ; * 9. Oktober 1982 in Seoul; † 27. Juni 2016 ebenda) war ein südkoreanischer Shorttracker und Olympiasieger.

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Oh startete 2002 mit der Staffel bei den Olympischen Winterspielen in Salt Lake City, gewann jedoch keine Medaille. 2003 wurde er mit der Staffel Weltmeister und gewann 2006 bei den Teamweltmeisterschaften die Goldmedaille. Bei den Olympischen Winterspielen 2006 startete er erneut mit der Staffel und konnte diesmal die Goldmedaille erringen. Oh kam 33-jährig bei einem Motorradunfall ums Leben.

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 2008: Men's Team Award bei den Asian Sports Awards

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Teilnehmer der Olympischen Winterspiele 2006
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Reports: Big East prepared to invite UConn to return
The Big East voted Monday to extend an invitation to Connecticut, a former member of the conference that left for the American Athletic Conference in 2013, to return to the league, according to multiple media reports Monday.UConn has a Board of Trustees media set for Wednesday, and the invitation could be accepted that day with a formal announcement by the Big East expected to follow on Thursday.AAC bylaws call for UConn to pay a $10 million withdrawal fee as well as provide 27 months' notice. But ESPN reported that departure terms were being negotiated on Monday.The return of UConn would give the Big East 11 basketball programs."I know a little bit about the back and forth on it. I think it could be a great thing for the state," Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont told reporters at an unrelated news conference Monday. "Let's face it: UConn, in particular UConn basketball, we can compete with anybody. We're ready to take on the very best. Let's see how the negotiations go."UConn was a founding member of the Big East in 1979, and its men's basketball program flourished in the conference. The Huskies won the 1999, 2004 and 2011 national titles under coach Jim Calhoun while they were members of a league that once was considered on par with the Atlantic Coast Conference as the top basketball leagues in the nation.UConn also won the 2014 national crown under Kevin Ollie in its first season in the AAC but is currently in the midst of three straight losing seasons, the first two under Ollie and last year's 16-17 mark under Dan Hurley.The UConn women's basketball program has continued to shine in the AAC but also has gone three straight seasons without winning the national crown. The Huskies won 10 of the previous 17 national titles.Women's coach Geno Auriemma said the current Big East isn't the same one as from the league's glory days.


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Uncle Ron AKA Ronald Isley of the incomparable Isley Brothers released his new album entitled 'This Song Is For You' today, I have not had a chance to listen to the whole thing yet, but what I have heard so far is decent. The album features guest appearances from KEM and Trey Songz.