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Anti-hacker CERT-UK opens for business
Anti-hacker CERT-UK opens for business: The UK's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UK) has opened for business, marking the latest step in the government's ongoing effort to bolster the nation's cyber defences.
Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude opened the CERT-UK at a private press event, promising it will aid both the public and private sectors' cyber defence efforts in a variety of ways.
"At the sharp end, the CERT will take the lead in co-ordinating the management of national cyber-security incidents. One area where it will play a particularly important role is in providing support to our Critical National Infrastructure companies," he said.
"CERT-UK will provide an authoritative voice to those agencies and organisations that are helping the UK to become more resilient and to prosper in the internet age. It will also share information with companies to promote situational awareness and effective mitigation of threats."
Maude added that the cyber-defence team has a proactive international role and will work closely with foreign CERT teams to help spot and share information about emerging threats.
"CERT-UK will be the single point of contact for our international partners for CERT-to-CERT engagement, an increasingly important area of dialogue. It will manage incidents that cross national borders and it will share information that promotes situational awareness and effective mitigation of threats," he said.

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Subject: Wait Til Your Father Gets Home
Written By: Wiffle on 10/29/06 at 8:59 pm
I remember watching Wait Til Your Father Gets Home when it was first run, and now they are showing it on Boomerang in the middle of the night. Tom Bosley was the voice of Harry Boyle, but I didn't realize that until just this week. It ran from 1972 to 1974 and since my husband was born in 1970 he doesn't remember it from first run but he really likes it now.
We've been singing the song all week:
I love my mom and dad and my brothers too
And the groovy way where we get along
Every time the slightest little thing goes wrong
Mom starts to sing this familiar song
Wait Till Your Father Gets
Until Your Father Gets
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Dad's not so bad
But he seldoms gets mad
And we aren't about to desert him
Kids today like to have their own way
And what daddy doesn't know won't hurt him
I think my mom's just swell
But she starts to yell
Every time we have a fuss
Just Wait Till Your Father Gets
See what I mean!
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Subject: Re: Wait Til Your Father Gets Home
Written By: Gidgxx on 10/30/06 at 12:15 am
I remember that show. I use to watch that show when I was kid. By the time I watched it was in syndication.
Written By: Tam on 10/30/06 at 12:24 am
Born in '71, I dion't think I watched it's original run - but I did watch it every night after dinner in syndication!
Loved every minute and every episode 8)
Written By: Wiffle on 10/30/06 at 12:48 am
Time Warner Cable's descriptions compare Wait Til Your Father Gets Home to All in the Family, but they were very different shows.
I was between eight and ten when it aired originally and I remember some of the kids in my jr. high (middle) school calling one of our classmates "Chet" because he had long hair and a slouchy posture like Chet on the show.
The funny thing is that I know I had recently thought of this show and the theme song, and even some of the episodes, and then last week my husband discovered that when Time Warner recently took over Comcast Cable in our area, we gained this channel. Kind of like a deja vu.
It has been a lot of fun to watch, the old Yogi Bear, Flintstones, and OMG, Pink Panther! And then in the middle of all those, Wait Til Your Father Gets Home.
We have Time Warner as well - but I never realized those shows were on that late!
I am going to have to set up the dvd burner to tape those for real!
Thanks for the thread Wiffle!!! 8) karma to you
Written By: Banks on 10/30/06 at 5:08 am
This show was, and still is, a classic!!!
I watched this show on Australian TV in the very late 1970's and early 1980's, and loved every second of it.
Written By: Mushroom on 10/31/06 at 11:40 am
I think I prefered "Where's Huddles" and "The Roman Holidays" to be honest.
I remember this show. I LOVED it. Is it on, NOW?? Haven't seen it in decades.
I don't remember "Where's Huddles" but I do remember "The Roman Holidays" and I think majority of the voices were the same as with "Wait 'Til Your Father..." but I could be wrong. I just went to IMDb and they didn't have much info about either show.
Written By: Marian on 11/04/06 at 4:11 pm
They used to have it on the Cartoon Network.
It's on Boomerang if you have it. Of course it's on late.
Thanks for the heads up...I'll be setting my tivo for this. Yeah baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Written By: Snoopygirl on 01/01/07 at 5:55 pm
I saw Where's Huddles when they used to have the "Different Year" on every Saturday where they would take a specific year and show some cartoons that were on that year. Boy, I miss that :(
Did you notice that Huddles kind of reminds you of Walter Mattheau?
never saw Wait Til Your Father Gets Home on its original run but I picked up on it a few months ago on Boomerang. Not a bad show. Worth taping cause who knows when they'll decide to take it off and then it'll be years before you see it again..
The " Different Year " thing was shown on Boomerang. Forgot to add that
Written By: brokentoy on 01/07/07 at 5:55 pm
Very cool show..i had forgotten all about it. thnking back it reminds me a litttle of the Simpsons but with older kids or maybe Family Guy. Was Tom Bosley of Happy Days fame the voice of the dad?


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Here is a list of some of the NGOs working in the anti-trafficking space.
Asian Health Services aims to serve and advocate for the medically underserved, including the immigrant and refugee Asian community, and to assure equal access to health care services regardless of income, insurance status, language, or culture.
Banteay Srei
Banteay Srei is a youth development, asset-building organization that is non-judgmental of young SEA women in the Oakland area who are at risk of or engaged in sex work.
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
CAST was the first organization in the country dedicated exclusively to serving survivors of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. CAST provides comprehensive long-term services through a three-pronged empowerment approach which includes Social Services, Legal Services, and Outreach and Training.
Dignity Health is made up of more than 60,000 caregivers and staff who deliver excellent care to diverse communities in 21 states. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is the fifth largest health system in the nation and the largest
End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT)
ECPAT-USA is the leading anti-trafficking policy organization in the United States.
FAIR Girls
FAIR Girls (formerly FAIR Fund) prevents the exploitation of girls worldwide with empowerment and education.
Focus on Labor Exploitation (FLEX)
Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) works to end human trafficking for labour exploitation. To achieve this, FLEX works to prevent labour abuses, protect the rights of trafficked persons and promote best practice responses to human trafficking for labour exploitation by
Futures Without Violence
Futures Without Violence is a health and social justice nonprofit with a simple mission: to heal those among us who are traumatized by violence today – and to create healthy families and communities free of violence tomorrow.
GEMS – Girls Educational and Mentoring Services
Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) is the only organization in New York State specifically designed to serve girls and young women, ages 12-24, who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.
Global Modern Slavery Directory
"The Global Modern Slavery Directory is an interactive, publicly searchable map and database of organizations and agencies across the globe that address the issue of modern slavery and human trafficking. The Global Modern Slavery Directory is a central, publicly accessible
Human Trafficking Search
Human Trafficking Search (HTS) seeks to raise awareness and help prevent and eliminate human trafficking worldwide. HTS' multilingual global research database serves as a resource hub for practitioners, researchers, educators, and survivors within the anti-trafficking movement. In addition to the
Love146's mission is to journey alongside children impacted by trafficking today and prevent the trafficking of children tomorrow. Love146 operates Survivor Care Programs in the United States, United Kingdom, and the Philippines. In addition, Love146 has developed Not a Number,
Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center
The mission of the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center (MIWRC) is to empower American Indian women and families to exercise their cultural values and integrity, and to achieve sustainable life ways, while advocating for justice and equity.
MISSSEY
MISSEY is a survivor-led organization that is confronting human trafficking in Oakland, in Alameda County, and throughout California.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children opened in 1984 to serve as the nation's clearinghouse on issues related to missing and sexually exploited children.
Polaris is a leader in the global fight to eradicate modern slavery.
Safe Horizon
Safe Horizon is the nation's leading victim assistance organization.
Sanctuary for Families
Sanctuary for Families is New York's leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking, and related forms of gender violence. Sanctuary does this through rebuilding lives, educating the community, and advocating for change. Sanctuary believes in
Survivor Clinic, New York City
The Survivor Clinic is a Women's Health project located in New York City that specializes in the gynecologic health needs of women who are currently surviving or have survived sexual violence.
The Freedom Network
The Freedom Network is the only national coalition of anti-trafficking service providers to adopt a rights-based framework which our members apply to their anti-trafficking services, outreach, collaboration, and training.
The Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center
The Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center empowers trafficked women, men, and children to seek justice. HT Pro Bono leads national efforts to hold human traffickers accountable for their crimes and to raise awareness of victims' rights.
The National Human Trafficking & Disabilities Working Group
The mission of the National Human Trafficking & Disabilities Working Group (NHTDWG) is to prevent the trafficking of individuals with disabilities and Deaf individuals and to advance the health and well-being of trafficking survivors with disabilities and Deaf survivors of
West Coast Children's Center
WestCoast Children's Clinic is committed to providing psychological services to vulnerable children, youth, and their families regardless of their ability to pay and to expanding the reach of psychological services through practice and research.


A country so vivid and known for some awkward prathas (rituals) be it Sati Pratha (wives used to burn with the husband) or Dahej Pratha (dowry) is coming out of it and now pacing with the global trends. Sati Pratha got abolished from india few decades back, thanks to Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
And now dowry free district in Kerala. Nilampur claims to be the first ever district in India with no dowry system during marriages.
Nilampur is also known for 100% matriculated population.


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Q: Prove $M$(Helix) is a sub-manifold of dimension $1$ of $\mathbb{R}^3$
Let $\alpha,\beta\in\mathbb{R}^+$. Consider the circular Helix  $M\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ the image of $\psi:[0,2\pi]\to\mathbb{R}^3,t\to(\alpha\cos t,\alpha\sin t,\beta t)$.
Prove $M$ is a sub-manifold of dimension $1$ of $\mathbb{R}^3$.

I have no ideia how to prove this. I have already proven $\psi$ is an injective immersion. I think I need to find a map $F:M\to\mathbb{R}$, which I happen to found $F:M\to\mathbb{R},(\alpha\cos t,\alpha\sin t,\beta t)\to(\alpha^2+\beta t^2)$. However this would imply the dimension to be 3-1=2, which is wrong.
Question:
How can I solve the question? Am I proceeding well?

A: As defined, the Helix $M = \psi([0, 2\pi])$ is not a submanifold of $\Bbb R^3$, because it is not a topological manifold. Indeed, $\psi$ is an homeomorphism from $[0,2\pi]$ onto its image $M$, because it is continuous, injective, and goes from a compact space to a Hausdorff space. However, $[0, 2\pi]$ is not a topological manifold (it's a manifold with boundary), so $M$ cannot be a topological manifold.
Maybe you want to take the open Helix $M = \psi((0, 2\pi))$, $\psi : (0, 2\pi) \rightarrow M$.
The easiest way is not to work with submersions but with immersions. Indeed, using the definition of a submanifold for one direction and constant rank theorem for the other, one can prove the following :

$M \subset \Bbb R^n$ is a submanifold of dimension $m \leq n$ if and only if for all $p \in M$, there exists an open set $V \subset R^m$, an open set $W$, $p \in W \subset \Bbb R^n$, and an injective immersion $\phi : V \subset \Bbb R^m \rightarrow W \subset \Bbb R^n$ such that $\phi(V) = W \cap M$ and $\phi$ is an homeomorphism from $V \rightarrow W \cap M$.

In your case, set $M$ to be the open Helix, $m = 1$, $V = (0, 2\pi)$, $n = 3$, $W = \Bbb R^3$, $\phi = \psi$ (here we use the same sets $V$, $W$, and the same function $\phi$ for all $p \in M$).

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If Dingle overcome East Kerry on Sunday, they'll play Dr Crokes in Austin Stack Park Tralee, while an East Kerry v Crokes final will be played in Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney.
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Unnatural event: Luke 24:1-12
by Theodore J. Wardlaw
Chances are that your world is either experiencing or anticipating an awakening earth after months of winter slumber. Grass is turning green, azaleas are splashing the landscape with brilliant reds, dogwoods are sprouting pink and white blooms—little Easter catechisms shaped like crosses and complete, each one, with a crown of thorns. When the birds begin their morning songs these days, and the bees their carpentry, we imagine that the sounds they make are Easter music served up by nature, as the church's most important holy day coincides with the renewed activity of creation.
So effortless is this connection between springtime and Easter that, unless we are vigilant, we succumb to thinking that resurrection is as natural a thing as grass coming up green, as eggs cracking open to reveal chicks, as butterflies crawling out of cocoons. As beautiful as this coincidence is, there is something deceptive about it too, and we need to remember that there is nothing about resurrection that is natural.
Ted Wardlaw
Theodore J. Wardlaw is president and professor of homiletics at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas.
The Gospel writers have their own ways of making this point. Mark writes that when the women go to the tomb to anoint Jesus' body with spices they discover the impossible—the stone has been rolled away and an angel is sitting where Jesus should have been lying stiff and cold. They flee in "terror and amazement." Matthew adds an earthquake, and an angel that frightens the guards until they shake and become like dead men.
John gives us a mystified Mary Magdalene encountering someone she assumes is the gardener but who turns out to be Jesus. When she calls him by a familiar name, he says, "Do not hold on to me," as if to suggest that now, after the resurrection, everything is oriented not toward what is familiar, but toward a new thing that is about to happen.
Luke suggests something I have not noticed much until this year. Unlike those of the other Gospel writers, his account is peppered with the word but. But on the first day of the week at early dawn, Luke says, they came to the tomb with the spices that they had prepared. In Matthew the word shows up once; in Mark, twice; and in Luke—in only 12 verses—that defiant conjunction but shows up six times. It's as if Luke is grabbing us by the lapels, stopping us in our tracks and forcing us to understand that no matter what we've heard, we haven't heard the whole story yet. So he begins that story in a curious way, with a tenacious conjunction. But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb . . .
What is Luke up to with this stubborn, defiant, relentless conjunction ? Luke suspects that there's another storyteller loose in the world, one who preaches a half-gospel of Good Friday that cannot get past the hopeless finality of the crucifixion. I hear evidence myself of that other storyteller still trying to promote everything about our world that does not give life, but is instead cynical, oppressive and tyrannical and survives best on a diet of our passivity. That storyteller is persuasive and is in every age eager to subvert resurrection faith with premature certainties about the way things are—until, at the end of the day, we are persuaded that there was never an Easter at all.
In a church I used to serve, I once invited a guest preacher from the National Baptist tradition for our annual Good Friday service. I loved what he had to say on that occasion, and especially how he so effectively got us Presbyterians loosened up enough to utter out loud an occasional Amen. But what I loved the most was the ascription that he gave after he finished reading the crucifixion story which was his text. It was not the usual "The Word of the Lord; Thanks be to God." Instead he said, "May God bless you, and may God protect you from the enemy who would try to steal the Word from you."
Luke is worried about that enemy in his Easter text. As I read news of war, poverty and political corruption, I worry about that enemy too, that other storyteller who is so very effective at trying to steal the Easter word from us.
But . . . if Jesus Christ really rose from the dead, then that means that he is loose in the world with power to raise us up from whatever is dragging us down—power to complete what we can't complete by ourselves. It means that the story of hopeless finality that that other storyteller is peddling is, in the end, nothing but Friday talk. So we get ready for Resurrection Day, when what gets proclaimed from the empty tomb is a rebuttal so dramatic, so unnatural as to serve as the very hinge of history by which we divide all of time. The story Luke is telling receives and absorbs every ounce of hatred, determinism and self-fascination that the world can dish out. Then it continues on with this announcement: "But on the first day of the week, at early dawn . . . the men [in dazzling clothes] said to them, 'Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.'"
The gospel, as Karl Barth once put it, "is not a natural therefore but a miraculous nevertheless." Perhaps it is in truth a defiant conjunction itself, which, if we can dare to speak it until it speaks us, will enable us to follow faithfully the purposeful steps of the one who is present with us today—at table when we make Eucharist, and across the landscape of the whole world—one who is not dead but . . .
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Above and beyond: Mark 16:1-8
Is this any way to run a resurrection? Is this enough to persuade, to stir new life in the followers of Jesus?
by Fred Craddock
At a distance: Luke 23:1-49
Several years ago I attended a museum exhibit featuring the works of Vincent van Gogh. It was not an altogether pleasant experience because there was a man in my group who had a peculiar way of taking in each painting. He would stand about an inch away and then move slowly from one side to another, examining each strand of canvas, each dollop of paint. After he had scanned the entire surface of the painting, he would turn and make his way back across with his right ear about an inch away from the canvas. He examined every single painting in this manner.
March 27, Easter Sunday: 1 Corinthians 15:19-26; Luke 24:1-12
Luke grounds the resurrection narrative in tangible details: the rock-hewn tomb, the linen cloth, the heavy stone, the fragrant spices. The reader can imagine the place and time. Then things fall off the map.
by Shawnthea Monroe
Sunday, March 31, 2013: John 20:1-18
In John's Easter account, people spend the day running around trying to come to terms with what God has done in the night.
by Benjamin M. Stewart


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Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin 'killed in Syria'
The reporter and a French photographer said to have lost lives in rocket attack.
By Andrew Laughlin
Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and a French photographer have reportedly been killed while working in the besieged city of Homs in Syria.
Opposition activists and witnesses said that Colvin - an American reporter working for the British newspaper - and photographer Remi Ochlik lost their lives after the makeshift media centre where they were staying was shelled, reports the AFP news agency.
Reuters said that the two war correspondents were killed by a rocket after they tried to escape the building in Baba Amr district.
Activists claimed that more than 40 people died in the attack on Tuesday, including Rami al-Sayed, a man whose live video stream broadcasts from Homs were often used by the global media.
Colvin, who was known for wearing a black eye patch due to a shrapnel wound received while covering the civil war in Sir Lanka in 2001, was thought to be the only British newspaper journalist working amid the violence in Homs.
At least two other Western journalists, including British photographer Paul Conroy, were thought to have been wounded yesterday after in excess of ten rockets hit the house. They are understood to be in a serious condition.
Before the attack yesterday, Colvin presented a video for the BBC and CNN detailing the "absolutely sickening" bloodshed in the Syrian city. She said that she had seen a "little baby" die in the "horrific" violence.
Colvin previously said in a piece in the Sunday Times that the citizens in Homs were "waiting for a massacre".
"The scale of human tragedy in the city is immense," she wrote. "The inhabitants are living in terror. Almost every family seems to have suffered the death or injury of a loved one."
Born in France in 1983, Remi Ochlik covered his first conflict in Haiti at the age of 20 and had more recently photographed revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
French television reporter Gilles Jacquier was killed in Homs last month after a shell exploded close to him as he covered protests in the city on a visit organised by the Syrian government.
Last week, tributes poured in to New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid after he died of an asthma attack while trying to reach the opposition zone in Syria.
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MOL Suspects OMV Was Surgut Front
OMV's sale of its stake in MOL to Surgutneftegaz earlier this week raises the suspicion that the Austrian oil and gas company was always just a front for the Russian group, Hungarian refiner MOL said Wednesday.
"If you look at the numbers, OMV's sales price is almost to the penny its input price, that is, its purchase price plus interest minus dividends, you know the formula," MOL executive chairman Zsolt Hernadi said.
"Suspicion arises … that because the Russian investor bought this stake at exactly the input price, [OMV] was just a front," Hernadi told the parliament's Foreign Relations Committee.
"We don't know," Hernadi said.
A Surgut spokeswoman declined to comment on the claim.
Cash-flush Surgut, Russia's fourth-largest oil producer, said Monday that it would buy 21 percent of MOL from OMV for 1.4 billion euros ($1.9 billion), or nearly twice MOL's trading price on the Budapest bourse on the previous Friday.
The Russian company, which refines less than 40 percent of its own oil, said in a statement announcing the purchase that it intended to boost its access to end consumers in Europe. MOL immediately rebuffed the intentions, saying it considered Surgut a "financial investor" and that it had not been consulted in the deal.
Its voting rights will be limited to 10 percent under Hungarian law, which also gives the government a "golden share," or preferential voting rights.
"This can never become a friendly approach, it will never be considered friendly," Hernadi said. "The question is whether we'll consider it hostile or just uncoordinated."
OMV spokesman Thomas Huemer responded to Hernadi's comments by quoting part of an article from Tuesday's edition of Austrian daily Die Presse.
"During the summer of 2007, MOL CEO Zsolt Hernadi … made it clear to OMV that he would rather sell to any Russian oil giant instead of to OMV," the paper said in its report.
"Now nine years since OMV first showed interest in the Hungarian rival, his wish has been fulfilled."
OMV's sale came after MOL spent much of 2007 and 2008 successfully repelling a takeover attempt by OMV.
"I have to agree with the Alfa Bank trader who said he'd love to hire that salesman who can sell a 21 percent financial investment at a double the market price," Hernadi said, referring to comments by Alfa's chief strategist, Ronald Smith.
MOL earlier said Surgut has not coordinated its purchase with the company and that MOL would continue to seek an independent strategy.
Both Hungary's government and opposition said they supported MOL's independence and promised to do all they can to prevent Surgut from taking over the company.
(Reuters, MT)


As a singer and a yogi, I think a lot about posture and positioning. I often consider how to support the body to be more effective and efficient through the means of awareness and alignment. And whether you've studied voice or not, you've probably been hipped to the phrase "proper singing posture". But what exactly IS that? And how often do we have the availability to execute it in performance? With the addition of movement, instruments, and other factors/restrictions, most performance doesn't naturally lend itself to good posture. So, how can we retain the fundamentals of it and still be free to "do our thang"? The key is to create a healthy default in practice that can follow you into performance when environment and positioning are not exactly ideal.
One of the biggest challenges of singing is our natural emphasis and investigation of the throat area. Because this is home base for the vocal cords, our attention naturally centers there. However, in doing this, we create an excess of unnecessary analysis and tension that restricts our voices. By bringing awareness and emphasis to other areas of the physical body, we balance out the tension to relaxation ratio.
• Begin in a standing position with the feet hips' width apart, parallel, and facing forward. Feel the grounded nature of your feet, as if they have roots attaching you to the ground beneath you.
• Keep a slight bend in your knees and trace your attention up the length of the body.
• Let your belly be soft, but engaged, chest open, arms hanging down at sides, shoulders down away from the ears and slightly back.
• Allow your head to sit comfortably atop your neck with support, but without a lot of hubbub. Let your chin be parallel to the floor, eyes on the horizon.
• Imagine an invisible puppet string coming out of the crown of your head. Envision someone gently pulling the string and easing your spine upward. Once you find that lift, immediately come back to the rooting of the feet and feel the dichotomy of being grounded and elevated simultaneously.
• Keeping that alignment, bring one hand to the mid-to-lower abdomen. WITHOUT PUSHING OR FORCING, on an INHALE, allow the belly to expand and fill your hand (Like a buddha belly). Hold for one count. As you EXHALE (again WITHOUT FORCING!), allow the belly to release back toward your spine (Like a prep for a sit up). Hold for another count. Repeat for several rounds. This can take some time and consistency to understand, so keep practicing!
• Try to keep the weight balanced, but if necessary lean slightly forward.
• Begin with a simple "MMMMMMMM" out the mouth without pitch.
• Begin to slide the pitches of your MMMM up and down a comfortable scale. The whole time repeating the alignment steps. Once we incorporate vocals, things start to shift, so keep coming back to the consciousness and components of your set-up.
One of the biggest follies for keeping posture/alignment in check during performance is the fact that many of us sing while simultaneously playing an instrument. This is a great exercise for people with a lot of neck/shoulder tension or asymmetry in their upper bodies (like myself). This is also a good one to further your breath control, as you are dealing with a more constricted abdominal configuration. Can you keep the above breathing principals intact while dealing with less accessibility?
• Begin in an upright seated position using a supportive, comfortable chair (ideally with no arms) Find your "proper posture" alignment here in the seated position.
• With a swift (yet gentle) release, allow your torso, arms, and head to fall between your open legs. In the forward bend, glide your head from left to right, then front to back. Come back to upright position slowly, stacking the vertebrae one at a time.
• Do it once or twice more to understand the movement. Feel the release of the muscles around your neck, and shoulders. Feel the support of your abdominal muscles WITHOUT squeezing them. Imagine a rag doll collapsing.
• On the next round, add pitch to the sigh on any comfortable note. Hold the pitch for the full length of your breath when you are in the folded position.
• On the final round, play with volume and pitches or even add a melody once you are in the full folded position.
Lying down while vocalizing can seem counter-intuitive, but it actually provides many benefits. When we are in a reclined position, it encourages the nervous system to calm itself, which promotes focus and helps to soothe jitters. Because we are utilizing a piece of furniture to support our head, neck, and shoulders, they too can relax and alleviate tension around the muscles of the vocal cords.
• Using a reclining chair, a chair or bed (with pillows slightly propping up your head), find your "proper posture" components but apply them to lying down. Feel energy radiating outward from your feet and the crown of your head, stretching in opposite directions.
• Place your hands on your belly and feel the rise on the inhale and release on the exhale.
• Inhale through the nose and blow out softly through the mouth as if you're keeping an invisible feather in the air above your face. Repeat several times.
• Inhale through the nose, and without pitch, speak out the words "HUM YUM YUM YUM YUM…" for the full length of the exhale. Repeat several times.
• Repeat exercise adding pitches but keeping the vocalization soft energetically. Let it be restorative and relaxing.
Think about the last time you saw a big Broadway musical or a high octane rock show. These artist are doing a full cardio workout as they vocalize. There is dancing, running, headbanging, gesticulating, you name it. Vocalists with proper training are able to do all this extraneous movement and still uphold their alignment and execute their singing with precision and non-injury. "Cardio crooning" is a great way to build up this skill in your own practice. Try to sing, (staying mindful of your alignment) the next time you are running, jump-roping, trampolining, racing to the train, or other preferred methods of heart-racing!
• Try utilizing this in your vocal practice. Use downward motions, movements, and postures when singing ascending lines or high pitches.
• Use upward movements when vocalizing descending lines or low pitches.
• Check out my article "QUESTION YOUR DIRECTION" where I explore this concept in further detail.


To use Uncode, please make sure you are running at least PHP 5.6 or higher. It is anyway recommended to use preferably PHP 7.3 as suggested in the official WordPress documentation. In fact WordPress recommends PHP 7.3 and for good reason.
Other PHP versions have reached the end of their life cycle and may expose your site to security vulnerabilities. There is a significant reason to no longer use old PHP versions, always update to the latest versions.
PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 have reached end of their life cycle and shouldn't be used at all. PHP 5.6 will reach end of active support by the end of this year as well. While those versions should not be used, we do support them and they will work with Uncode. However, since they have reached the end of their life, issues that may arise can only be fixed to a certain extent.
Issues that you may experience are because certain hosting plans still offering outdated solutions and could cause a lot of issues for their customers and the themes they use. The themes are not to blame, it is the hosts who will not stay up to date with the latest PHP versions.
Since the only actively supported PHP versions from January 2017 onwards will be 7+, these should be the versions of choice and you should always look for a host who actively updates their PHP and MySQL versions. Keep also in mind that with version 7+ your performance should increase drastically as this benchmark shows. If you run into any issues, our support team will be there to help you. Simply submit a ticket and one of our support experts will help.
You can contact your host to ask what's your current PHP version and ask to update if necessary. Some hosts will try to keep PHP limits low to conserve resources. Since you are paying for those resources, you should rightfully expect to be getting your money's worth.
You can check also by installing the WP Server Stats plugin. This convenient plugin can help a non technical person to be able to verify the PHP version and diagnose server related problems.
The latest PHP version is PHP 7.3. If your host is giving you an old version of PHP please ask them to update it for you (it's free). This is something like your mobile company offers you with the contract an old iPhone instead of the new iPhone 7. They can generally do this for you in just few minutes.


In memory of the more than four thousand men and women, black and white, who were victims of lynchings, and those we will never know.
They talk among themselves about the winter of sixty-two when the snow was so heavy it broke limbs on the Father oak tree in the church cemetery. We were worried he might not survive.
And what about the summer it hardly rained and we had to send our roots deep into the earth to find water? they reminisce.
But some trees do not speak, not even to the birds that find delicious insects hidden beneath their bark, not even to the birds building nests on their branches thick with leaves. These are the old trees whose ponderous, arching branches create cool shade.
They do not speak because they are ashamed.
At least ones in the South are.
They were used for evil. Even though they could not defend themselves, they are still ashamed.
Sometimes when the wind caresses their leaves, they whisper to the breezes, telling them what they have seen and heard, telling those invisible messengers how they were used as accomplices in evil.
The wind can listen for only so long to such painful memories. To rid itself of the horror threaded into the bark and rings of the trees, the wind goes high into the sky where it can expel the suffering of the trees without hurting anything or anyone.
But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering.
Davis, a small town in the deep South of the United States.
Fourteen-year-old Ansel Anderson stands by the screen door in the entrance of the store his grandfather started, the store where Ansel's father worked beside his father when he was a boy, the store where Ansel now works beside his father.
It is late afternoon. The heat is as heavy as a broken heart.
Nothing moves, not the leaves on the large oak tree at the end of the concrete island in the middle of the main street, not the three men sitting on a bench in the tree's shade, not even a bird.
On the other side of the street, the clothing, shoe, and drug stores are as empty of customers as Anderson's.
Long before Ansel was born, when his grandfather ran Anderson's General Store, they carried clothes, shoes, and remedies in addition to the groceries, rifles, ammunition, and fishing equipment they carried now. Bert, Ansel's father, took over the store after his father dropped dead behind the counter from a heart attack because, Bert believed, the store had tried to be everything to everybody. That was a good way to give yourself a heart attack, not run a business. Bert was only eighteen when his father died, but he consolidated the inventory and increased profitability.
Ansel has worked in the store since he can remember. One day it will be his. He is not sure he will be as good at it as his father is.
Bert is a congenial and handsome man with curly, dark hair, blue eyes, and a smile that could steal honey from bees.
Many people, especially women, come to the store as much for his smile as to buy what they need. Bert knows people need a smile as much as they need to buy milk.
People almost always leave the store feeling better than when they came in, and all because Bert smiled at them.
Ansel is more like his mother—short, dark straight hair, dark eyes. She looks younger than her thirty-two years, and he certainly looks younger than his fourteen.
His mother, Maureen, used to work in the store every day after she and Bert married six months before Ansel was born. But she only works Saturdays now. That's when Zeph Davis, or Cap'n Davis, as everyone, white and colored, calls him, brings his Negroes into town.
They don't have money. They work on shares. He takes care of all their needs—a shack to live in, clothes to wear, food to eat, cottonseed, and everything else they might need. In the fall when they pick the cotton and bring it to Cap'n Davis to be weighed, he deducts their expenses from what he would have paid them for the cotton, and their expenses include the cheese and crackers and sodas they buy at Anderson's every Saturday. Their expenses are always greater than what Cap'n Davis pays them for the cotton they grow, so each year they end up deeper in debt to him than they were the year before. It is another form of slavery.
Ansel's mother is the one who writes in the big ledger book what the Negroes buy and how much it costs.
There is a dour seriousness about her and Ansel. Both mother and son are cloaked in melancholy, a sadness arising, perhaps, from the land in which the sorrowing trees spread their roots, a despair that their lives have as little meaning as the dust stirred up by a passing car.
It worries Bert that Ansel is so much like his mother. The boy can't seem to grasp a simple thing like how important it is to smile at customers. People buy as much because they like you as because they need something.
What if I don't feel like smiling? Ansel asked his father once.
Bert had gotten angry. There ain't no place for feelings in business. Your job is to see to it that people who come in for one thing leave with two, three, or four. The only thing you should be feeling is how you can get somebody to believe he needs something, whether he does or not. People don't want to feel like you're taking their money. Smile, and they'll feel like they're giving it to you.
But that's not honest, Ansel had insisted.
Bert smiled. It is if you're running a business!
Ansel turns away from the door and goes over to his father, who is seated behind the counter.
Papa? Do you need me and Willie for anything?