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This morning as I turned on my computer and opened my email account, I was greeted by an email informing me that I had been gifted $8.5 million from a kind man because he had researched my ministry, and all I had to do to receive these funds was to provide certain banking account information and pay a few thousand dollars in processing fees. My first response to this email was to think, Does anyone actually fall for this type of scam? My second response was to acknowledge that if people didn't fall for these scams, the scammers would quit sending the emails.

You may be asking yourself, "Where is he going with this blog?" Well, where I am going with this is that within the body of Messiah, there are teachings going around that are just as unbelievable as the $8.5 million scam above, and yet a surprisingly large group of believers in Yeshua (Jesus) still fall for them on a regular basis. One of the most recent teaching is that New Testament believers are not supposed to follow any of the Old Testament teachings, including the Ten Commandments. The first time I heard this teaching, I thought, No one is going to fall for this line. Yet, unfortunately, because it was taught by a mega-pastor from a megachurch, this teaching has been gaining traction.

You may ask then, "Why would people accept something so absurd?" The answer is simple. They accept the absurd for the same reason people fall for internet scams claiming to be giving away large sums of money: Because they are vulnerable. We live in a society that is at war spiritually. Everything from politicians, media personalities, music, movies and yes, even churches and synagogues are attacking people who hold to biblical faith. Many feel surrounded by their enemies and convince themselves to accept the absurd because it will stop the attack. Rich people don't fall for financial internet scams because they are not financially desperate to try anything to relieve the pressure. Likewise, people who are scripturally sound in their knowledge and also in their lifestyle will not fall for unbiblical teaching scams.

How could someone accept that the first two-thirds of the Bible and the first four books of the New Testament (Remember almost all of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John take place before the death of Yeshua) should be unhitched from our faith? How could anyone believe that Yeshua came to do away with the Ten Commandments?

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The answer is the same for this as for the email scam. People are desperate. They are entrenched in sin and are looking for a way to justify their actions rather than repent. They have family and friends living in ways that are incompatible with the Bible and the Commandments that G-D provided to be a pattern for our lives. They have been told that they are unloving because they expect believers to walk biblically by following the example of Yeshua and His disciples.

The list of possible vulnerabilities is long, but we must remember that the very first biblical scam is found in the very beginning of the book of Genesis 3:1-4. In this scam, Adam and Eve were told that they didn't need to keep a commandment G-D gave them. They fell for the scam. It is my hope that today's body of Messiah will not.

But the serpent was shrewder than any animal of the field that Adonai Elohim made. So it said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from all the trees of the garden'?" The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees, we may eat. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God said, 'You must not eat of it and you must not touch it, or you will die.'" The serpent said to the woman, "You most assuredly won't die!"

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June 27, 2012

A “Languages for Jobs” Initiative

Policy Innovation Memorandum No. 24

Authors: Terrence G. Wiley, President, Center for Applied Linguistics, Sarah Catherine Moore, Language Policy Research Network, Center for Applied Linguistics, and Margaret S. Fee, Language Policy Research Network, Center for Applied Linguistics

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The promotion of foreign language instruction should be a national priority. In an increasingly competitive international economy, a workforce with more market-relevant foreign language skills is a strategic economic asset for the United States. Yet foreign language education is on the decline, particularly at the primary level when foreign languages are best learned. Federal policy is not stepping up. Recent federal efforts to promote foreign language instruction are not designed to have a broad-based impact and have been focused almost exclusively on achieving national security goals. U.S. economic competitiveness goals are equally important, but there are no comprehensive efforts to promote the instruction of languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, German, and Hindi, in local school districts where foreign language education must occur to improve proficiency more broadly. The federal government should launch an interagency “Languages for Jobs” initiative, with funding levels at least equal to security language programs. As part of the initiative, the Department of Education would develop foreign language education accountability metrics and primary-level immersion programming that leverages the country’s existing multilingual population.

The Economic Case for Foreign Language Skills

The global economy is shifting away from the English-speaking world. Since 1975, the English-speaking share of global GDP has fallen significantly and will continue to fall. The Chinese economy will surpass the U.S. economy in size soon after 2030. Latin America (Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking) and South Asia (Hindi- and Urdu-speaking) are growing strongly as well. Exports have accounted for half of postrecession U.S. economic growth, and future U.S. growth will increasingly depend on selling U.S. goods and services to foreign consumers who do not necessarily speak English.

In a competitive global export market, there will be a premium on foreign language skills and international competency. It is an old adage that you can buy in any language, but you must sell in the language of your customer. Business services such as banking, insurance, and architecture are the fastest-growing U.S. export sectors, and selling these services requires employees able to work effectively in non-English-speaking countries. In a survey of large U.S. corporations conducted ten years ago—when exports were less critical for the U.S. economy—30 percent responded that personnel with insufficient international skills prevented their companies from fully exploiting business opportunities. Eighty percent believed their sales would increase if they had more internationally competent staff.

The widespread use of English as the leading global second language, especially in business, does not offset the disadvantage faced by monolingual Americans. A 2011 survey of more than one hundred executives in large U.S. businesses found foreign nationals have an advantage in competing for international jobs. Three-quarters agreed that language skills made it easier for foreign nationals to work in the United States than for U.S. nationals to work overseas, leaving Americans at a significant disadvantage at a time when U.S.-based multinational companies are growing faster abroad than at home.

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Hanshi Kyoichi Inoue

Hanshi Kyoichi Inoue

Misogikan: Dear Inoue Sensei, would you please be so kind to answer some questions for Russian Aikido practitioners?

Misogikan Question (Q.): About when did you begin your practice of Aikido, Sensei?

Hanshi Inoue: I started my Aikido training in 1955.

Q.: Did you practice any kind of martial arts before?

Hanshi Inoue: I had not practiced in any other martial arts professionally, however  I studied Judo, Kendo and Kyudo as a part of a school curriculum.  Then when I was a child I was interested very much in a baseball, in  junior high school and in a high school I practiced  basketball.  I also played role in a drama company as an actor and I won the first prize in a Tokyo children actor’s competition. I also studied a little of bit a tap-dancing because during that time in Japan  tap-dancing and famous tap-dancers were very popular, and I wanted to make Tap-dancing my career. It was also my dream to become a diplomat, so I studied English in an English school. I also liked singing and was a member of a singing ensemble.

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I publish this abridged version of an interesting article called “A New Leader in Iwama” with the kind permission of Gaku Homma Sensei,  the author.

You may ask why would I publish on our web-site an article written some years ago about an event which took place in Japan and involves a different style of Aikido?

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In publishing this article I hope that interested readers will have a better understanding about Inoue Hanshi and his lifetimes work in both developing and promoting Yoshinkan Aikido.

I have had the privilege to have spent much time with him both on and off of the tatami and every time that I receive his tuition I learn something new despite having studied Yoshinkan Aikido for over 47 years. As a person Inoue Hanshi is a very gentle man quick witted with a great sense of humor and one of my great pleasures is listening to his stories about his life and times with his teacher the late founder of Yoshinkan Gozo Shioda Hanshi.

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The Visit to Russia of KYOICHI INOUE SENSEI 9th dan

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Sensei Kyoichi Inoue, Hanshi, 9th dan Yoshinkan Aikido

From 24-27 December 2007 the Great Master of Yoshinkan Aikido Sensei Kyoichi Inoue, Hanshi, 9th dan with his family and Sensei Takashima Saburo 4th dan visited Misogikan Honbu Dojo in Moscow.

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At last after much planing we were waiting at Sheremetyevo Airport for the arrival of the Head of Yoshinkan Aikido Hombu-Dojo, Dojocho Kyoichi Inoue 9th dan and Sonoda 7th dan Shihan.

The plane arrived on time and we transported Sensei to the Aerostar Hotel, after which we took them on an evening tour of Moscow and then on to dinner. Which gave us the chance to talk about the Russian Aikido situation.

Day two 16th saw us at the Hombu-dojo of Misogi kan where we had chance to prepare for the Festival of Martial Arts which was scheduled to take place the next day, following lunch we went on a guided tour inside the Kremlin Palace, with Alexandre E. Inshakov and Sugiura Sensei 9th dan Karate. We then went to a Japanese Restaurant for dinner.

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21st November 2011

I have just returned from attending a seminar in Saint Petersburg hosted by the Genbukan Dojo (www.genbukan-aikido.ru)  which was under the direction of Inoue Koichi Hanshi (10th Dan, www.shinwakan.jp), Takashima Saburo Sensei with myself as guest instructor.

Thank you Igor Rogov Sensei for organizing this great seminar.

I would like to thank the members of the Misogikan who supported this seminar and to reiterate the words of Inoue Hanshi spoken both on and off tatami.

“David you can be proud of your students who show the highest level of Dojo Etiquette, Zanshin and understanding of Aikido protocol, where ever I go I can immediately see which students are from the Misogikan .

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Sensei Kyoichi Inoue, Hanshi, 10th dan  Aikido

From 11-16 March 2010 the Great Master of Aikido Sensei Kyoichi Inoue (Hanshi, 10th dan, Kancho of Shinwakan Aikido and former 2nd Kancho of Yoshinkan) and Sensei Takashima Saburo 5th dan have visited Misogikan Honbu Dojo in Moscow.

Sensei took part in Sensei David Eayrs 70 year Anniversary and held some incredible master classes for Misogikan Dojo students.

Also Sensei Takashima Saburo held a special training for the youngest students of Misogikan school.

You can find photos from master classes in the Photo Gallery of Yoshinkan-Aikido.Info Web-Site.

Hanshi Kyoichi Inoue

Hanshi Kyoichi Inoue

CONGRATULATIONS to Hanshi Kyoichi Inoue on awarding the 10th dan grade in Aikido!

The 10th dan certificate was issued by International Budo Federation in April 2009.

Sensei Kyoichi Inoue was born September 10th 1935. Sensei Kyoichi Inoue was one of the oldest students of late Kancho Sensei Gozo Shioda.

Sensei Inoue holds the rank of hanshi and he worked for the Tokyo Metropolitan police and riot squads as aikido Aikido Yoshinkan instructor, and later become the 2nd Kancho (director) of Yoshinkan.

Now Sensei Inoue is a Kancho of Aikido Shinwakan organization.

We are at Misogikan were very pleased and honored then Sensei Inoue took part in the new Misogikan Honbu Dojo Grand Opening in December 2007 and hold incredible master-classes and seminars.

Dear Inoue Sensei, we wish you success in your Aikido promotion in the World!

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Sweater Weather – Fun Fall Q&A

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Happy first day of October everyone!  Even though its around 80+ degrees here in Los Angeles, i’m feeling the Fall spirit :).  Australian blogger babe Hannah of They Say She Was a Flower Child tagged me as part of her Sweater Weather post, so I figured today was the perfect day to share my answers to these fun Fall questions.  The rules of the tag are simple, answer all the sweater weather questions, then tag bloggers to follow suit.  If you get a chance, check out Hannah’s blog, she’s always posting amazing style inspiration photos.

1. What is your favorite candle flavor? I’m pretty weirdly/dramatically sensitive to smell, so generally I don’t love scented candles…buttttt my sister recently bought a Pumpkin Butter Candle from Wood Wick for our place and I really like it!  It adds the perfect touch of Fall home scent without being overpowering.
2. Coffee, tea or hot chocolate?  All the above…but the Fall season definitely gets me in the mood for hot chai tea lattes.
3. What is the best Autumn memory you have?  I went to college in Western Massachusetts which in my opinion is one of the most beautiful places to see the Fall foliage.  Just walking around campus with friends while the leaves were changing (before the freezing weather came) totally enjoying being a college student, is one of my favorite Autumn memories.  I feel very lucky to have had that opportunity.
4. Which fall trend do you prefer – dark lips or winged eyeliner?  While I love dark lipstick… it tends to instantly turn me into a very Halloween witch looking being.  I also just love the look of winged liner done right, so eyeliner for the win on this one.  Guess I just realized some Fall goals…1 find a dark lip color I love, 2 learn how to do a winged liner look!
5. What is your most worn sweater?  A super soft grey slouchy one from Trouvé with a wide neck that you can wear off the shoulder if you want.  It’s no longer available, but I found a really similar looking one here
6. Your must-have polish for Autumn?  Oooo probably a dark oxblood red like Chanel’s Rouge Noir or a matte finish blue black!  I just got a two toned mani i’m obseesed with though which may be a new favorite!  Check out my instagram tomorrow I’ll be posting a pic of the manicure there!
7. Skinny jeans or leggings?  I think you can guess my answer to this one…#denim4ever
8. Combat boots or Uggs?  Combat boots.
9. Is pumpkin spice worth the hype?  Weirdly enough as much as I love sweet treats I just really don’t like Pumpkin Spice Lattes, I do however love pumpkin cream cheese muffins!  Hopefully I can share my easy dressed up box recipe with you all this Fall!
10. What is your favorite fall premiering show?  Mindy Project, Mindy Project, Mindy Project.
 11. Halloween, yay or nay?  Yes to treats no to tricks
 12. Autumn mornings or Autumn evenings?  Mmmm mornings…makes me think of that crisp air, smell of falling leaves, and drinking something hot
13. What do you think about Black Friday?  Great idea, but I’ve just never really gotten super into it
14. What is an Autumn 2015 trend you are loving?  High rise ankle flares + fringed jackets + leather/suede skirts
15. Your favorite pie? That’s hard….maybe a baked peach crumble, I think I’m more of a crumble fan
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Little Clouds and Gratitude Rocks

Last week’s mindfulness we read a short but sweet story by Eric Carle, called Little Cloud.  In the story a small cloud breaks away from the other clouds to change into some different things.  Little cloud is then beckoned by the other clouds to come join them.  Little cloud rejoins the other clouds, and together they rain!  After reading the book we had a discussion on what little cloud was good at.  Everyone agreed that little cloud was great at changing into different things.  We then talked about what happened when little cloud rejoined the group of clouds… it rained!  I asked the kids why rain is important, and many replied that it helps plants grow, and that people and animals need water to be healthy.  We used this story as a metaphor for our school and our community.  I brought our our own MCS cloud (which was actually a mass of cottonballs) and told the kids that just like little cloud they were all great at different things.  When we all bring our gifts and talents together we achieve great things and help each other grow!  I went around the circle and asked each kid to think about what they were really good at, and then gave them a piece of our MCS cloud to remember that they are skilled individuals who help each other grow when we work together.  We ended this circle by doing some yoga!  We used the book The ABC’s of Yoga for Kids as a guide, and used the first letter of our names to pick the yoga poses.

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Talk about the things that you are good at, and how your talents help your friends, family, and community.  It’s empowering to know that we are a part of something much bigger, and that it is our skills together that make up our healthy, functioning community.

This week’s mindfulness lesson we read the book I See Kindness Everywhere and talked about what it means to have a gratitude attitude.  The story gives thanks to different people from farmers to sock makers, and highlights the idea that we are all connected because the of the kind things that we do for each other.  At the end of the story we decorated gratitude rocks to take home.  The rocks can be to keep, or to give to a loved one.  They are a simple and beautiful reminder that we have so much to be grateful for in our lives.

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When practicing gratitude by finding specific things you are thankful for, it can be fun to have your own special items to turn into a thankful item.  Whether it be a rock that you decorate on your own, or an item that brings you joy, it can sometimes help to have an item you love to help stir up feelings of thanks.

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Goodbye, Open Cup

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Monday, July 10: 3-2 Loss

Now, here’s the thing. I’m going to start off by saying that considering circumstances, this match wasn’t inherently bad. In fact, it could have been much worse. With that statement, I probably lost almost every single one of my fellow LA Galaxy fans and followers reading here. However, let’s break this down.

On Monday night the LA Galaxy took another hard blow and were knocked out in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open Cup with a 3-2 loss in San Jose at Avaya Stadium.

Let’s start with the positives here. Brian Rowe is finally back from injury, and it’s comforting to have a little more depth back in the keeper position, and to give Clement Diop, what most of us feel is, a much needed rest to rebuild his personal confidence after a series of defeats between the post for LA.

In addition to Rowe, Giovani dos Santos has made his return after a long stint away on international duty with Mexico, and made his presence known with an assist to Jelle Van Damme’s goal in the 3rd minute, as well as a few convincing chances on goal of his own in the first half. The core of the Galaxy is slowly returning from injury and international duties, and it will be more than welcomed to see how they perform once this unlucky plague of injury is behind us.

However, there are issues that need to be dealt with now. The Galaxy, though seemingly on the upswing, is still stuck with much needed players out on injury. As we all know, Romain Alessandrini has been behind, or at the very least a part of most of the Galaxy’s attacking plays this season, and his absence was very much noticed on Monday. In addition to Alessandrini, Joao Pedro, Jose Villarreal, and Daniel Steres’ absences were all felt.

While Alessandrini and Pedro, who have been training with the team, are on the mend and should be back by the time the Galaxy compete against Manchester United on Saturday (yippee…), the absence of these experienced players in the midfield seems to be a hoop that this team doesn’t seem to be able to jump through. The lack of pressure and possession in the midfield, especially in the second half of this match, wasn’t very hard to see.

By the 60th minute, San Jose were running circles around the Galaxy who seemed to have lost all confidence once again. It isn’t to say that I fully blame them, the past month has been a tough one for this team. Their last win against another MLS side coming almost a month ago on June 21st against Colorado, and confidence is hard to build back, especially for a younger side.

On the contrary, the issue here is that it doesn’t seem like we’re working towards doing anything about it. And while the Galaxy looked drained of confidence and ideas, Chris Wondolowski sure didn’t. Scoring two goals, one in the 16th minute and one in the 51st minute, both assisted by Tommy Thompson. Wondo came to play, and it showed.

A goal from Danny Hoesen in the 62nd minute sealed the Galaxy’s fate, and the match that should have been a redemptive confidence boost for the Galaxy went to the Earthquakes. My hope is that players are well rested and willing to compete for three points on July 19th during LA’s next league match at home against Vancouver Whitecaps. If LA hopes to make a convincing bid for the playoffs this season, now is the time to step it up. We’ve done it before.

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Thrift Treasures (The Anne McCaffrey Score)

I’ve been collecting books for a number of years. I’m sort of a book collector, but everything I have ever found worth any “collectors value” built me quite the collection. I collect all sorts of things.

Video Games

DVDs/Movies (Laserdiscs for some of the covers)

Vinyl Records

Sports collectibles

Basically, anything of pop culture value, I try to get a good deal on it. Most of the time, this has involved rummaging the local Goodwills Stores, Salvation Army Stores, Thrift Shops of various charities, garage sales, ebay, and the occasional craigslist posting. The general rule I have is to pick up a solid hardcover if A)I want to read it B)It is a first edition in good quality C)Is something I know someone else wants. I probably have over 1500 books. Half of which are boxed up (because I have a serious book problem).

Today, I figured I would spend a couple hours before Game of Thrones to see what was out there. I visited 3 Goodwill Stores and came home about $20 lighter in the wallet. Some scores today included a first edition of Lord the Isles (by David Drake) an Pet Peeve (by Piers Anthony). I really like hardcovers to collect, however I do buy paperbacks because they are easier to read on the go. I have not read Jeffrey Eugenides but Middlesex won the Pulitzer Prize, so I figured why not gamble on a couple of his books. I’ll probably try to read Middlesex in May. Next are a couple “now a new motion picture” books: Blow & Paper Towns. I watched Blow with a girl about fifteen years ago, in a screwed up relationship that totally blew. I watched Paper Towns last year, based on John Green’s novel, and figured it couldn’t be much worse than the movie.

I found a pretty cool large education of “The Ultimate History of Ferrari” by Marks & Spencer. It retails for $12 on ebay, so this was a solid $1 find. IMG_9113.JPG

There was also a comic book I found for the low price of a buck, which retails for $12 I guess too.  If any of you are super collectors of Ben Katcher, let me know. I’ll trade.

The highlight of the short shopping excursion was an autographed copy “The Rowan” by Anne McCaffrey. Niiiiiiiice. She is one of the original “Dragon Authors” who wrote about dragons before they were cool (ok, maybe they were always cool). This is the type of score I usually get excited about (Sci-Fi author autographed book). Usually when there is one autographed book, there are a few to follow. Unfortunately, I only had ten minutes to scrounge the store.  I checked maybe twenty more hardcovers of certain authors, but no more autographs were to be found. IMG_6603.jpeg

I’m not sure what it is worth, but I don’t care. I’ll add it to my collection for safekeeping the next 50 years unless someone wants to trade.

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@article {6336, title = {Germ Cell-less Promotes Centrosome Segregation to Induce Germ Cell Formation.}, journal = {Cell Rep}, volume = {18}, year = {2017}, month = {2017 Jan 24}, pages = {831-839}, abstract = {

The primordial germ cells (PGCs) specified during embryogenesis serve as progenitors to the adult germline stem cells. In Drosophila, the proper specification and formation of PGCs require both centrosomes and germ plasm, which contains the germline determinants. Centrosomes are microtubule (MT)-organizing centers that ensure the faithful segregation of germ plasm into PGCs. To date, mechanisms that modulate centrosome behavior to engineer PGC development have remained elusive. Only one germ plasm component, Germ cell-less (Gcl), is known to play a role in PGC formation. Here, we show that Gcl engineers PGC formation by regulating centrosome dynamics. Loss of gcl leads to aberrant centrosome separation and elaboration of the astral MT network, resulting in inefficient germ plasm segregation and aborted PGC cellularization. Importantly, compromising centrosome separation alone is sufficient to mimic the gcl loss-of-function phenotypes. We conclude Gcl functions as a key regulator of centrosome separation required for proper PGC development.

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Network-Based Coverage of Mutational Profiles Reveals Cancer Genes.

TitleNetwork-Based Coverage of Mutational Profiles Reveals Cancer Genes.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsHristov, BH, Singh, M
JournalCell Syst
Date Published2017 Sep 27

A central goal in cancer genomics is to identify the somatic alterations that underpin tumor initiation and progression. While commonly mutated cancer genes are readily identifiable, those that are rarely mutated across samples are difficult to distinguish from the large numbers of other infrequently mutated genes. We introduce a method, nCOP, that considers per-individual mutational profiles within the context of protein-protein interaction networks in order to identify small connected subnetworks of genes that, while not individually frequently mutated, comprise pathways that are altered across (i.e., "cover") a large fraction of individuals. By analyzing 6,038 samples across 24 different cancer types, we demonstrate that nCOP is highly effective in identifying cancer genes, including those with low mutation frequencies. Overall, our work demonstrates that combining per-individual mutational information with interaction networks is a powerful approach for tackling the mutational heterogeneity observed across cancers.

Alternate JournalCell Syst
PubMed ID28957656


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New Moon in Gemini: Astrology of 6/13 – 6/19

This week begins with a New Moon in Gemini, while Neptune stations retrograde and Mars hovers on the South Node of the Moon (soon to go retrograde as well). The dark moon and recent Neptune squares had a lot of people feeling murky and depressed. Moods may begin to lift as the Moon cycle resets anew, yet the Neptune retrograde keeps the Neptunian energy amped up in the sky. Neptune is a planet that relates to both illusion and deep spiritual truths – fantasies we invent or project onto circumstances as well as seeming-fantasies beyond our invention and comprehension that we fall deeper and deeper into on a spiritual path. In that alone, Neptune is a confusing archetype – one that both animates our projections (such as on film) for a time, and one that brings us closer to spiritual realization through disillusionment and miracle alike. If you feel a little bit at sea (ups and downs), it may be Neptune you’re feeling. Neptune transits are favorable for spiritual activity, as well as for deepening our openness to our perception of reality shifting.

When Mars retrogrades (around every two years), it comes time to internalize the Martian archetype – to meet and discover our inner warrior. Perhaps in a simplistic way, this apparent reversal of Mars in the sky points to the following: people who tend to not get angry ever may feel more intimations of inner-fire, and people who tend to run hot already may feel thwarted and need to redirect. New defenses emerge, and we disarm our old ones. But more complexly, we might meet situations in our lives that present us with the awareness that we don’t actually know how to act or meet them. Courage and skillful action become more relevant themes. Mars officially retrogrades on June 26, but you might be able to feel some of these themes ahead of time as Mars appears to slow down from Earth’s perspective.

So during the New Moon, the ruler Mercury sextiles Uranus – perhaps quickening our thinking and tuning us into future plans – but Mercury also opposes Saturn, pointing to the way in which some of our ideas and inclinations at this time might need careful strategies and time to develop. With Mars as well, slowing down and hovering on the South Node, we may not be materializing all of our current action plans – but perhaps letting many of them go or transform. Still, they arise for us to review. Mental activity, however compelling, does not always mean a green light – and Mars in Aquarius on the South Node is like an upsurge in action blueprints, these fleshed-out plans immediately accessible for review.

Venus in Leo approaches the North Node of the Moon however, energizing our values oriented toward fun and happiness. Fun and war are very different paths. This tension is here with us right now – if you orient your consciousness towards more fun and joyful ways of perceiving reality and your options, watch your action blueprints shift. And as for any heat that is arising within you: how will you cultivate it?

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June 13

Mercury in 1 Cancer sextile Uranus in 1 Taurus: 4:40 AM PDT

  • There’s (always) a lot going on, and it taxes the nervous system when there’s no rest or integration. As Mercury synchronizes with its higher octave planet, and we have a pairing of the mind and the higher mind, their conversation takes place in the signs of Cancer and Taurus, which both can have so much to do with coziness, safety and pleasure. Creating a soothing, harmonious environment in the home and finding ways to deeply relax can be associated with gentle quantum shifts under this transit – a new perspective that comes from a calmed body-mind.

New Moon in 22 Gemini: 12:43 PM PDT

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This New Moon in Gemini is still square Neptune in Pisces (after the exact Sun-Neptune square last week) and is quincunx to Pluto and Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn and sextiling Juno and Eris in Aries. Pluto in Capricorn is squaring Eris and Juno. The ruler of the New Moon, Mercury, has recently entered Cancer and forms a T-square with Chiron in Aries and Saturn in Capricorn (with Chiron at the fulcrum). Mercury is sextile Uranus in Taurus.

  • Themes may be in development around obligation, and the ways in which acting out of obligation pulls us off-center and creates subtle forms of deceit. Similar to obligation, but different, would be acting on our integrity. Both imply that there is a code that a person is adhering to. But with integrity, we are using our discipline-natures to uphold something we value, rather than something we think we should value.

  • The tension that exists between possibility and collapsing possibility by making a choice (and therefore restricting other possibilities in the process). This happens in obvious and subtle ways – like choosing a college to go to obviously collapses the possibility of going to another one, if all stays to plan. But on the subtle level, something like choosing to practice forgiveness alters the streams of one’s reality and collapses the potential streams that existed otherwise. We might not always think about it, but we are conditioned by the choices we make, and so as we make choices we are making certain realities more concrete, while leaving others in potentia.

  • Collapsing possibility however, is another form of manifestation – it brings some potential within reality into a more dense, real form of being. So what if we were clever about all of this? If you think about what you’d really like to manifest and bring into being this lunar month, what choices are going to support that?

  • The importance of research: more information can equal more possibility, and perhaps even a relevant fork in the road. When it comes to any visions or goals you have at this time, the action related to that might be a research phase. If you’re not feeling sure about your prospects, get more information. Consult with experts. Ideas and opportunities you don’t even know about yet would be likely to emerge. When the time comes to make a decision, let that be ripe, rather than rushed. Mercury is opposing Saturn, favoring sober decision making and sober thought.

  • Logic and the brightness of the mind tends to have a deeper anchor, like a set of values it is working around – like the ways we have certain defenses designed to protect ourselves, which includes its own story about how reality works and how safe reality is. If we are in a transformative process, such as self-improvement or growing spiritually, our mental scripts have to be updated, as well. It’s useful to have a layer of detachment from our thoughts, such as the ability to witness them, rather than to just believe them at face value.

Venus enters Leo: 2:54 PM PDT

Soon to oppose Mars, Venus will be on the North Node while Mars is on the South Node. Some approaching themes to be aware of:

  • Vitality, and lots of excitement and fire within relationship (and relationship to self, self-esteem) is possible, as well as discord – a more oppositional form of vitality here. Venus was just opposite Pluto and now its in orb of opposing Mars!

  • Mars on the South Node does not really favor reactivity, but we may still be getting triggered or feeling frustrated at this time. However, that fire that is being stoked as a result (in a detached, Aquarian way) can have other outlets in our lives. Maybe anger or frustration is surfacing that we don’t even quite understand yet. Processing it and working with it may yield a new appreciation of our independence, or a part of our fire that we were suppressing for whatever reason. And it might also influence our relational lives, as we come to others with more of ourselves intact.

  • Warriorship is also a huge theme with Mars on the South Node – learning the spiritual nature of the warrior, as well as being reminded of the importance of courage.

  • Wherever there is that anger/frustration rising, there are now competing opportunities for vibrant heart engagement… which opposes the dire qualities of Mars on the South Node (where it is dire, but it is not intrinsically a dire pair).

  • Venus in Leo on the North Node actually magnifies and brings in more themes of love, joy, and playfulness. It is the quality of our magnanimity, our generosity of heart, our willingness to loudly express love and beauty in the ways that we do.

  • Head versus heart dynamics are likely to surface. It may be less about choosing one than about finding the integration.

  • Anger (or frustration) may have a strong relationship to pride at this time. In the process/throes of this, see what parts of yourself are becoming ready for internal recognition. Pride, while not ranked very highly as an enlightened emotion (🤷🏻♀), does indicate that we are building more fire in ourselves to be willful, recognized, met, special, etc. – rather than depressed, subdued, and entertaining ideas of futility. Pride often signifies that something which as been buried is coming up.

  • Venus in Leo amps up the romance and the extra-ness of life. It may feel a little (or a lot) bumpy with the Mars opposition and Uranus square (😻🙀), but all the while, there is lots of fun and romance out there to be enjoyed and stoked.

June 14

Venus in 1 Leo square Uranus in 1 Taurus: 8:32 PM PDT

  • Upgrades in self-esteem and love that may come in ways that feel tense (the square aspect) but these confrontations and their intensity may be important jolts in recognizing our own value, and the value of our connections.

  • It might feel that the will/pull of the heart in romance and friendships is working at cross-purpose to an interior need for integration and solitude. But both may have a large effect on the other.

  • We may also be upgrading our capacity to receive love and abundance as well as our capacity to walk with grace and poise in that abundance.

June 15

Mercury in 6 Cancer opposite Saturn in 6 Capricorn: 6:46 PM PDT

Mercury and Saturn also form tight quincunxes and semisextiles to the lunar nodes in Leo and Aquarius.

  • The potential to feel locked into a mental conundrum in which the situation feels particularly karmic – such as with a reoccurring scenario which is appearing once again, and we are debating how to meet it the most responsibly. Because of this impasse where we might feel more aware that something “is happening again” – we might be triggered into more novel insights or make more novel choices for meeting the reoccurring situation.

June 18

Neptune stations retrograde in 16 Pisces: 4:26 PM PDT

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Neptune will station direct again November 24, 2018 in 13 degrees of Pisces.

  • Stationing planets become louder energies in the sky and in our lives – as they appear to slow down and crystallize into focus. Neptunian feelings are magnified: such as longing, fantasy, hope, disillusionment, forgiveness, ecstasy, confusion.

  • During the time of its station, Mercury in Cancer will already be trining Neptune, quite recently after Mercury in Gemini had squared Neptune. It’s possible that some of the mental/emotional crises we had the last couple weeks (if any) develop into further clarity at this time.

  • A Neptune retrograde can signify going inward and reassessing our spiritual compass, our dreams and hopes. While some aspects of Neptune can be floaty, loose, and dreamy – another side of Neptune experience can be a great spiritual fire, a yearning to know what is true (beyond what is illusion). The intensity of wanting to know what is true tends to peel back layers of the veil. This process can be a series of disillusionments which open up deeper perspectives on reality, as well as miracles which open up a sense of spiritual connectivity.

June 19

Mercury in 14 Cancer trine Jupiter in 14 Scorpio: 12:42 PM PDT

Mercury and Jupiter also form a grand trine with Neptune in 16 Pisces.

  • Deeper, stickier, and potentially more nebulous emotions can be mentally intelligible at this time. When emotions come up in this way (and we can sense them, rather than then happening at some subterranean level) we are able to work with them, and transform ourselves and/or our situation.

Thank you for meditating on the planets with me this week! Please share this article with your friends!

With love,

Sabrina Monarch

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5 Ways to Retain Top Talent and Drive Sales during M&A

Mergers and acquisitions are widespread in today’s business environment—there were nearly 15,000 M&A last year in the U.S. alone. Although they’ve become commonplace, even moderate changes in an organization can leave employees fearful and disoriented, especially sales and sales operations teams.

Your salespeople will struggle to see the benefits of working in the newly formed company as they try to cope with new bosses, changes to compensation structures and pressure to sell new products. Not to mention the fear of suddenly becoming redundant.

Competitors may start stalking your talent, and your team may lose focus.

Educating your combined sales force and operations teams before, during and after M&A is key to not only retaining top sales talent, but ensuring they can thrive. Easier said than done? Maybe. But with the following five strategies, you can minimize uncertainty, compensate sales teams effectively, and deliver optimal sales performance throughout the M&A process.

Step up your communications game

M&A activity can introduce large-scale changes to every aspect of your salespeople’s jobs. A well-defined communication strategy will help to prepare sales reps, operations and management professionals for these changes and reduce their anxiety and uncertainty.

Make sure your sales force understands the benefits of the M&A from the get-go. Will they be a part of a stronger company, with bigger opportunities? Work for a better brand? Gain access to new markets?

From the day you announce the deal, sales reps have to do a good job of explaining it to customers. You have to enable them to do that.

Communicate with your customers, too

Your customers will be just as averse to change as salespeople, and they will want to know what is going on, especially if your company is the one that was acquired. Give them extra attention during M&A to ensure stability. Pinpoint key accounts that will be targeted post-merger and develop an effective strategy to maintain, and even enhance, their satisfaction.

M&A also presents the opportunity to save any troubled accounts – highlighting the benefits in store for them due to the change.

Bring all your processes under one roof

The combination of multiple sales forces can result in the use of multiple legacy compensation processes and technologies, which can introduce even more confusion and inconsistencies in how salespeople are rewarded. Unifying processes, and doing it early, will ensure consistency. Retention bonuses should come on top of their regular sales comp plans, and you can use incentives to drive adoption and align sales with shifting organizational objectives.

Address the entire continuum

M&A activity can lead to expanded data sets, data integrity issues, lack of clarity around compensation and incentives, and business flow disruptions. Sales operations teams may be overwhelmed but they play a crucial role in setting strategy and ensuring the newly combined company aligns its business processes with company goals. Compensate and acknowledge them for their efforts. It’s important that the team doesn’t get caught up in managing day-to-day tasks so that they can focus on strategic direction following the M&A.

Show salespeople the upside

Being a salesperson while your company is going through a merger or acquisition can be a miserable experience. Existing customers may leave, and new targets will often be hesitant to buy until the dust settles, which will put you in a deep hole vs. your goal. Under these conditions, even the top salespeople may experience a dip in performance that’s out of their control. To preserve the long-term effectiveness of the sales force, it’s important not to let market factors like this result in a drain of your best sales talent. Do the proper analysis, but don’t be hesitant to make adjustments to the incentive plan or goals if the data shows you it’s necessary.

Track results and measure success

To ensure success and improve sales team performance, it is important to measure outcomes. There are three mains ways to do so. First, consider the transition. Does the sales force know where to find information they need? Have fewer salespeople been calling their compensation analysts with questions or confusion? Second, collect feedback from the sales team through informal roundtables or surveys, to assess any process and technology challenges that need to be addressed. Finally, pay close attention to sales performance analytics – if things are going well, you’ll see sales performance across the team improve with minimal disruption to the sales process, and with variable compensation fully aligned with performance.

Ensuring Success

Any M&A activity has the potential to have a serious effect on sales and sales operations. M&A negotiations are hush-hush. But no matter how hard leadership tries to keep it confidential, rumors most always fly inside and outside the organization.

Taking steps to communicate, inform, and engage your sales professionals will keep everyone on track before, during, and after the merger. As a result, companies can drive sales performance and retain their best talent in the face of M&A.

About John Ristuccia

John Ristuccia is Vice President, Professional Services for Optymyze, a worldwide provider of enterprise cloud applications and services for improving sales and channel performance. John has more than 17 years of experience transforming sales processes and improving operational efficiency and sales effectiveness. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology from the University of Delaware.

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78rpm record
Coverage - Temporal
ca. 1920-1962
Radford University. McConnell Library. Archives & Special Collections.
This thematic digital collection represents the continuation of large-scale preservation through digitization of recorded music in Burma/Myanmar. The purpose is to safeguard the earliest but endangered recorded musical traditions of Burma, and to offer an open access avenue through which contemporary Myanmar and the global community may access those musical traditions. The media digitized for this project, 78rpm records, date from those first produced by local Burmese recording companies in the early 1920s to the end of the 1950s. Covering the stylistic and tuning changes that shift from historic traditions to "international" standards by the 1960s, these recordings are significant as our only existing aural documentation of pre-industrial music in Burma.
The collection is fully composed of Burmese 78rpm recordings originally produced for commercial distribution by local Burmese recording companies between 1919-1962. However, none of these companies currently exist, and there has been no effort to market or maintain these recordings as commercially viable past the first few years of their original production date. Materials in the Collection are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. British Library, Endangered Archives Programme, EAP592. McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections, Radford University, Radford, VA). Any commercial use of the materials is subject to international intellectual property laws. Please refer to relevant resources provided by UNESCO and WIPO for more information.


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Error reporting on Linux via Gmail for automated tasks

Have a critical cron’d automated task? You’d like to be notified if something fails? With the ubiquity of smartphones, you can notice an error right away and take action.

Wow, someone wrote to me! It’s from someone named “mdadm”. Must be spam again!

Computers sending emails for various purposes is nothing new. I have a couple of critical cron jobs on my home computer; syncing the family photos to my remote server, backing up the said remote server to my local computer, etc. These are all tasks that are defined in the daily crontab, and without a proper or any alerting system, something can go wrong and you can really find yourself in a bind if it turns out the backup procedure died months ago because the ssh key changed or something. You can either check the backup or automated task every single day to make sure nothing went wrong, or you can setup a robust alerting system that will send you an email if something goes wrong. This is not the only use case, Mdadm can also send you an email if a disk drops from a RAID array etc.

Setting up a Gmail relay system with Postfix

Installing and managing an email service is difficult, and you have to contend with all sorts of issues, is your server blacklisted, do you have the appropriate SPF records, is your IP reverse resolvable to the domain name etc, etc. Most of these requirements are difficult or impossible with a simple home computer behind a router without an FQDN. With the relay, you’ll be able to send an email without having to worry if it’ll end up in spam, or not delivered at all as it will be sent from a real Gmail account. Luckily, it’s extremely simple to set it up:

  • Create a Gmail account.
  • Allow “less secure” apps access your new gmail account. Don’t be fooled by how they’re calling it, we’ll be having full encryption for email transfer.
  • Setup Postfix.

I’ll keep the Postfix related setup high level only:

  • Install Postfix with your package manager and select “Internet site”
  • Edit /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd and add:
  • Chmod /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd to 600
  • At the end of /etc/postfix/ add:
relayhost = []:587 # the relayhost variable is empty by default, just fill in the rest
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_security_options =
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  • Use postmap to hash and compile the contents of the sasl_password file:
# postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
  • Restart the postfix service

Your computer should now be able to send emails. Test with a little bit of here document magic:

$ mail -s "Testing email" << EOF
Testing email :)

If everything went fine, you should be getting the email promptly from your new gmail account. I haven’t tried with other email providers, but it should all be pretty much the same.

Usage example

Now that you have a working relay, it’s time to put it to good use. Here is a simple template script with two key functions that can be sourced through Bash so you can use it within other scripts without having to copy & paste it around.

# Global variables
NAME=$(basename "$0")
HOST=$(hostname -s)

# All STDERR is appended to $LOG
exec 2>>$LOG

# An alert function if the locking fails
function lock_failure {
  mail -s "Instance of "$0" is already running on $HOST" $EMAIL << EOF
Instance of "$0" already running on $HOST. Locking failed.
  exit 1

# An alert function if something goes wrong in the main procedure
function failure_alert {
  mail -s "An error has occured with "$0" on $HOST" $EMAIL << EOF
An error has occured with "$0" on $HOST. Procedure failed. Please check "$LOG"
  exit 1

function procedure {
  # If file locking with FD 9 fails, lock_failure is invoked
    flock -n 9 || lock_failure
      # The entire procedure is started in a subshell with set -e. If a command fails
      # the subshell will return a non-zero exit status and will trigger failure_alert
      set -e
      date >> $LOG
      command 1
      command 2

    if [ $? != 0 ]; then

function main {

flock(1) is used to make sure there is only one instance of the script running, and we’re checking the exit status of the commands. If you don’t need instance locking, you can simply forego the lock_failure function. The actual work is contained in another subshell which is terminated if any of the commands in the chain fail and sends an email advising you to check $LOG.

A lot of Linux services like Mdadm or S.M.A.R.T. have a feature to send emails if something goes wrong. For example, I set it up to send me an email if a drive fails inside my RAID 1 array, I just had to enter my email address in a variable called MAILADDR in the mdadm.conf file. A couple of days later, I received an email at 7 AM; ooooh someone emailed me. I had a rude awakening, it was Mr. Mdadm saying that I have a degraded array. It turned out to be the SATA cabling that was at fault, but still. This could have gone unnoticed for who knows how long and if the other disk from the RAID 1 failed later on, I could have had serious data loss. If you want to keep your data long term you can’t take any chances, you need to know if your RAID has blown up and not rely on yourself to check it out periodically, you won’t, you can’t, that’s why we automate.

Be careful when you write these programs. If your script is buggy and starts sending a lot of emails at once for no good reason, Gmail will block your ass faster than you can say “Linux rules!” If you’re blocked by Gmail, you might miss an important email from your computer.

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Disbelief & Discomfort about Immolations as New Gov’t Program Debated – J. AbiNader

Unemployed graduates demonstrate for jobs in Rabat

By Jean AbiNader (Rabat, Jan. 20, 2012) — I spent much of my day talking with taxi drivers, business leaders, friends, and waiters about two topics that are unfortunately related: the self-immolation by five graduates over lack of jobs and reactions to the programs being announced by the new government.
Disbelief and discomfort seem to permeate everyone’s remarks about the immolations, particularly “nothing like this has ever happened in Morocco.” Older middle-class Moroccans were shocked and blamed the unrealistic expectations of the young men for government jobs. This was repeated later by young professionals who were angry that the only interest of these protestors is to secure public sector employment — jobs for life that are among the least productive in the country according to these sources. Those in the lower economic strata said that it was “haram” — forbidden — and it proved that these people were not good Muslims. However another, a taxi driver, moaned the loss of those young men, now depriving their families of much needed support. I didn’t hear anyone mention “martyr,” but that will be turning up on some websites/social media soon.

It is a quandary. Without oil and gas and huge foreign reserves, Morocco is unable and unwilling to broaden public sector employment beyond the largesse of jobs added last year in response to the demonstrations. On the other hand, everyone believes that something must be done but there are few solutions that aren’t tied to longer term reforms of the economy and educational system. Although some claim that promoting entrepreneurship among the demonstrators would generate jobs, it contradicts the demands of the crowd for subsidies rather than the calculated risks of going into business.

The new government is very sensitive to the challenges that they have inherited. Jobs, transparency, equality before the law, and social development are top priorities and there is talk of increased pressure/incentives for the private sector to ratchet up their hiring. Labor laws, however, are an impediment to some since regulations on labor mobility and terminating employees are still not well advanced. In addition, the continued deterioration of Morocco’s main partners in Europe: Spain, France, and Italy, are compounding the slowdown in trade and investment. The debate in Parliament over the government’s program should be instructive regarding the willingness of its members to face their own future unemployment by a half-hearted agenda to provide opportunities that can make the young, believers.

The hope of Marrakech and the frustration of Rabat are captured well in Isobel Coleman’s blog from the PNB-NAPEO conference at: http://blogs.cfr.org/coleman/2012/01/19/education-and-employment-in-north-africa/

 Jean AbiNader is a Senior Advisor at the Moroccan American Center

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Hour of the Wolf

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Genre: Horror Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullman, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg, Erland Josephson
Rated: NR

It’s October, and the folks at World Cinema have decided to present a month of horror-tinged movies for Halloween. First up is Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf (1968), which is often referred to as the director’s only horror picture. Actually, that seems a bit wide of the mark to me. It would not be inapt to call The Seventh Seal (1957) and The Magician (1958) horror films, while The Devil’s Eye (1960) is a playful one. The Virgin Spring (1959) might qualify, too—not to mention aspects of Wild Strawberries (1958) and Persona (1966). While Hour of the Wolf is perhaps the closest Bergman ever came to a straightforward horror movie, the genre has always hovered around his work. Hour of the Wolf basically tells the story of an artist’s (Max von Sydow) descent into madness while stuck on an island with only his wife (Liv Ullman) and a group of degenerate—or at least very decadent—upper class neighbors, whose exact reality is often open to question. (Kubrick’s film of The Shining perhaps owes nearly as much to this film as it does the Stephen King novel on which it’s based.) Since this is horror à la Bergman, it goes almost without saying that the story-telling refuses to be rushed and that more questions are raised than answered. But its horror set-pieces are second to none—with the murder (if indeed it actually happened) of a young boy being among the most striking and unusual scenes Bergman ever did, while the big scene where the artist is set up to confront the corpse of an old lover is remarkably unsettling. The decadent rich people are almost like something out of Fellini (and Bergman presents them in what might be called a Felliniesque manner), but in more nightmarish terms. (They may also remind some viewers of the denizens of the creepy apartment building in Michael Winner’s 1977 film, The Sentinel.) It may not be among Bergman’s absolute best works, but that still makes it better than the best of most filmmakers.

About Ken Hanke
Head film critic for Mountain Xpress from December 2000 until his death in June 2016. Author of books "Ken Russell's Films," "Charlie Chan at the Movies," "A Critical Guide to Horror Film Series," "Tim Burton: An Unauthorized Biography of the Filmmaker."

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9 thoughts on “Hour of the Wolf

  1. Xanadon't

    (They may also remind some viewers of the denizens of the creepy apartment building in Michael Winner’s 1977 film, The Sentinel.)

    Oh wow, it didn’t occur to me, but now I’m seeing it in my mind’s eye!

    • Ken Hanke

      I didn’t notice the similarity till I watched this again for the review. I kept thinking, “What is this reminding me of?” And then I realized it was actually a case of “what movie did this almost certainly influence?”

  2. Chip Kaufmann

    I would say that THE SERPENT’S EGG (1977) also has its horrific moments.

  3. kjh.childers

    The laughter … the sinister laughter and the dining room scene caught me off guard. Would like to know if this screenplay is available. Fun skits to drive a man mad!

  4. kjh.childers

    Ken … I would love to see this film performed on stage, before an audience utterly unaware of the story, and to see their reactions during the dining room scene. I am still looking up the music by Mozart (which I think is in the Zauberflüte) when the little puppet show occurred. Any idea?

  5. kjh.childers

    I believe it is in Scene 15 of Magic Flute: Zum Ziele führt dich diese Bahn, from which Bergman takes for the puppet show

  6. Ken Hanke

    I know a fair amount about classical music, but I am the last person to ask about Mozart.

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Wonder Park (2019) – Wonder Meh

Released: 4th April
Seen: 31st March (Advance Screening)

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So, I’m not exactly a theme park enthusiast. I’ve tried to go to them before and never really enjoyed them. Maybe it’s the people, maybe it’s the food, maybe it’s the weight restrictions that basically tether my feet to the ground that I don’t want to walk on for four hours for three rides, I’ve just never been big on them. However, films about theme park rides? I… don’t care for those either, but only because they’ve never actually been good. With the notable exception of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, a film based on a theme park never seems to work and only seems to irritate the audience that goes to see it. When a film was announced to be about a girl who builds a magical theme park, I was ready to be annoyed and irritated by it. I was prepared for it to be Emoji Movie level trash. I was ready to sit down and write almost 2000 words about why it was an abhorrent piece of cinematic sludge that will poison your children’s minds and render them mute with its awfulness… but that implies that what I saw had something in it that was interesting enough to elicit that reaction from me and the only reaction I really have is “Oh, that exists”.

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