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The mission of The Valley Temple is the deepening of Jewish experience and knowledge for our members, in order to strengthen faith in God, love of Torah, and identification with the Jewish people, through education, involvement in the Temple and participation in Jewish life.
We will foster the personal and spiritual growth of each member and each member’s family in an atmosphere where respect for self and others is enhanced. We will design The Valley Temple to serve those preferring the greater intimacy, informality and sense of personal satisfaction, which can be more readily achieved in a smaller congregation.
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A small group (primarily Wyoming, OH residents) organizes as a response to too much Hebrew at their congregation, and starts educating their children in group members’ homes. School formally incorporates as the “Cincinnati School for Judaism” in 1957.
The school’s name is formally changed to “The Valley Temple.” HUC faculty member Rabbi/Dr. Abraham Cronbach serves as Rabbi Emeritus and assists in teaching and lifecycle events.
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Rabbi Herbert Stern becomes the first rabbi of the Valley Temple. He later moves to Chicago to pursue a different career path. In 1964, Rabbi David M. Zielonka becomes the second full-time rabbi. The congregation meets in the Friendship Methodist Church on Springfield Pike in Wyoming, OH.
Rabbi Solomon T. Greenberg becomes the rabbi of the Valley Temple after serving for a few years as an Assistant Rabbi of Isaac M. Wise Temple. At the time of Rabbi Greenberg’s election, the congregation boasts 37 families.
A house (122 Springfield Pike) is purchased as the first permanent home of the Valley Temple. Previous spaces included the Jewish Community Center (Roselawn), the Masonic Temple of Wyoming (currently the Wyoming Fine Arts Center), as well as the Friendship church. Some ceremonies, including HHD are held in the HUC-JIR chapel in Clifton.
Significant growth in the membership allows for construction of a synagogue at 145 Springfield Pike. The building is dedicated in the Spring.
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Acclaimed artist Nelson Ronsheim donates series of paintings called “Seven Days of Creation.” Prints of these paintings are found throughout Cincinnati Jewish organizations, but originals are housed at the Valley Temple.
Cincinnati Reform Jewish High School begins as a combined effort of the four Cincinnati Reform synagogues. Rabbi Greenberg is instrumental in establishing community commitment to high school scholarships for Israel.
Temple is remodeled to accommodate greater space needs. Courtyard is enclosed, board room moved, and gift shop and storage room are added. New configuration allows for more classrooms.
Sanctuary is remodeled in honor of Rabbi Greenberg’s 25th Anniversary. In 1997 new Torah covers by Jeanette Kovin Oren are dedicated.
Due to health concerns, Rabbi Greenberg becomes Rabbi Emeritus as congregation celebrates a 32-year relationship with a trusted friend, mentor, and spiritual leader. HUC-JIR student interns David Kaufman and Jeremy Barras serve the congregation until a new rabbi is elected.
Rabbi Sandford Kopnick becomes the fourth full-time rabbi of the Valley Temple. Rabbi Sam Joseph, professor of education at HUC-JIR and Rabbi Greenberg participate in the installation service.
Hebrew education expands to meet twice a week: one mid-week session in addition to Sunday morning during religious school for grades 4-6. Creative Middle School Program including internet-chatroom is also introduced.
Camera installed in sanctuary to allow for occasional video streaming and video recording of lifecycle events.
Mural by Temple member Nancy Illman created to adorn wall outside sanctuary, and Temple member Andrea Knarr creates original art for the sanctuary. Newly painted walls allow for media projection to aid with transliteration and other worship service enhancements. Temple establishes $1.2M endowment fund to ensure Temple’s future.
Congregation celebrates 50th anniversary with Gala weekend including 50th Anniversary sermon from Rabbi Gary P. Zola, Ph.D., director of the American Jewish Archives. Congregation honors members affiliated for 25 years or more.
Middle School program revamped and renamed Valley Temple Mitzvah Corps and includes classroom learning, retreats, social action programs around the city and the online chatroom.
“Rosh Hashanah Reconnect” is established as an experimental and contemporary service to reach out to the unaffiliated. Service features the Temple’s Friday Night Live band and eventually becomes the earlier of two Rosh Hashanah evening services at Valley.
Building Enhancement Campaign adds a 2500 sq. ft. addition with board room & 2 early childhood classrooms. Space reconfiguration allows for a beautiful new kitchen, meeting space, enhanced classrooms & new offices. Congregation adds modestly to endowment. Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati grant helps with 15% of cost and groundbreaking is celebrated after 100% of funds are pledged.
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Home » Columns » Onochie Anibeze » I agree with Bizlaw on foreign coach
I agree with Bizlaw on foreign coach
On October 28, 2011 5:00 amIn Onochie Anibezeby vanguard
By Onochie Anibeze
Today, the Executive Board of Nigeria Football Federation will take position on the decision of their Technical Committee.
The Committee’s recommendation is for Siasia to step aside having failed to qualify Nigeria for the 2012 Nations Cup. A 2-2 draw with Guinea October 8 in Abuja saw to that. Siasia had signed a contract stating that he must take Nigeria to the semifinal of the competition for which he did not qualify. A lot has been written on this and I do not need to dwell so much on the October 8 failure and what Siasia’s contract says.
I have discussed at length with those who matter in the Federation and save for last minute change the discussion today would have centered more on Siasia’s successor.
There are those who feel that a foreign coach should succeed Siasia but the majority want former Eagles captain Stephen Keshi to hold sway. Whatever happens, the Executive Committee may ask the Technical Committee to recommend a successor today or as soon as possible. I’m not one of them but I know that most of them favour Keshi for the job. And the modern thing in football is to allow him to choose his assistants. One member had said that Oliseh would assist Keshi. Oliseh himself says he wants to be the head coach.
He has the right to aspire so. He was a brilliant player and looks like one who will be firm in the management of players. He may not tolerate indiscipline. But we need to see him coach first. I know that coaches start somewhere. Oliseh needs the chance to start somewhere. Nigeria can offer him that chance. It must not be head coach of the Eagles.
But if it so happens my attitude is always to support whoever is in charge and withdraw that support when results warrant so.
But this is not about Oliseh. This is about those who may be calling for a foreign coach. I have been long enough in this business to know what is good for our football. What I have against foreign coaches is not in their making. It is about us. Always, we go for the wrong ones and I’m ready to stake my one year salary in betting if they get the right foreign coach. . If they go for one now, they will still get it wrong. I cried and fell sick when Nigeria employed Lars Lagerback and paid him $350,000 per month.
If I were in a position of authority, I would ensure those behind that dirty deal were charged for economic sabotage. What they did to Nigeria was criminal. There were allegations that money changed hands and some people benefited from that deal. If it was true, it wasn’t a novel here. It had happened before. Nigeria once paid a foreign coach $300,000 sign on fee.
Ever head anything like that elsewhere? A sign-on fee for a national coach? Only in Nigeria. And did the coach get the $300,000? What actually went to him? Anyway, some people would not even have minded if they got the right coach and got the results.
It didn’t take time for them to sack the foreign coach. Lagerback was to mock us after collecting our money. “Nigeria should look inwards to solve their football problems and for their coach,” he said when some people pressed for his continued stay. It was the bitter truth but in many ways a mockery. We also paid for his tax and other allowances.
The total payment amounted to about $400,000 per month. A country with per capital income ranging about $2,500 paid that for a coach of Lagerback’s calibre? As I was writing this, our Acting Sunday Editor Jide Ajani walked into the newsroom and was fuming over the news that President Jonathan had approved $370m for renovation works at the sea ports to ease congestion and create easy berthing for ships with fuel. Jide wanted to know how much it would cost to repair our refineries or even build one. If $370m would help, then it didn’t make sense to him. But those who lead us fail us everyday. And they were the ones who imposed Lagerback on our federation at the time and approved that amount as salary. Do these people live with us? Do they feel us. I’m beginning to doubt so otherwise their decisions and policies will be people friendly. That is by the way.
A foreign coach now will not help us because they will not get the right one for us. And I go by the position of veteran journalist Bisi Lawrence (Bizlaw), who maintains that no foreign coach “will develop your football for you.”
In this case, kindly note the difference between coaching and developing. The foreign coaches will merely coach but will not develop your football. The job of a national coach is to pick players from clubs, train them for few days and play their qualifiers. It is only during running competitions like the Nations Cup or World Cup that the coach may have the opportunity of training such players for a period of two weeks or more.
Developing will entail working with local clubs( amateur and professional), academies, youth teams, setting up camps here and there, constant screening, building of solid teams around local players and combining them with foreign-based when necessary. Only Clemence Westerhof did this. He went beyond his brief because he loved it that way and it was simply part of him. Kojo Williams once said that Westerhof was a gift to Nigeria and I agreed.
The mistake we have continued to make was to expect all coaches who came after him to work the same way. We’ll continue to fail in this aspect until we get another coach like Westerhof. And it may be difficult until we purge ourselves of the sins of the past, be professional and sincere about our search.
With great knowledge of the game and its antecedents we can get a coach who is hungry in Eastern Europe or some areas of West. And we can hire a coach for $40,000 and the man will do a pretty good job. But the football federation must have a programme that the man will follow.
I once recommended that the Technical Department of the federation must have programmes that coaches must pursue.
This way, they can hire and fire coaches but their programmes will remain. If a coach does not follow their programmes then that coach is walking his way out of his job. The job of Technical director should not, therefore, be for anybody. It must be for somebody who is well schooled in modern football and management. I hope the federation gets one.
For now, let them get cracking with Eagles’ coach. If they decide to part ways with Siasia then my money will be on Keshi who must look inwards for our solution. We must truly begin to build a new team. Siasia tried in getting some players like Joel Obi, Fegor Ogude, Ahmed Musa into the team.
The introduction of new players must continue. This time, I would like to see more local players in our national teams. I want to see where Olympic and Under 20 teams are built around local players who will be easy feeders to the senior team, the Eagles.
I have since stopped calling them Super Eagles for there’s nothing super in them. The change from Green Eagles to Super Eagles was never made official. Late Augustus Aikhomu, then Vice President, in a reception for Maroc ’88 team that won silver simply said “I think that you have done well enough that you can be called Super Eagles.” It just stuck from then.
The referee had disallowed what appeared to be a great goal against Cameroun in the final and in sympathy with team, late Aikhomu was trying to make the players feel good. There was no official statement from the FA or the Presidency changing the name. The team has the 2013 Nations Cup and the 2014 World Cup to repair the damage it had done to the sobriquet, SUPER. When they win the 2013 Nations Cup and not only qualify but do well in the next World Cup I may change my mind. But for now they are simply Eagles. It is time to really look inwards for our salvation like Nwabufo Obienu also said. “Our salvation is in our league, not in foreign coach,” he said.
I agree in the sense that we have to develop our league, select players from there and build teams around the local players. We will then only fortify with foreign-based players. Never should we allow Under 17 coaches to invite players from abroad. Our league can help us.
Niger qualified for the Nations Cup without foreign-based players. War torn Libya also qualified. Botswana without any known professional were the first to qualify for the Nations Cup. Many players abroad have let us down. Let’s begin to look inwards and create a healthy competition among players, the type that usher hungry players. We need them for a new dawn.
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[France] Raise a Cup to the Moon
#24506 by Zi Shang An
Location: Zi Shang's home in Creuse, France • Date: Sunday, 6 April 2003
Spring gales whistled against the walls now that the skies had turned dark. Through the window in her kitchen, surrounding hills and valley meadows were but swathes of shifting shadows in a pale wash of moonlight, and a cluster of flickering lights in the far discernible distance marked the nearest countryside town. Zi Shang had picked up her guest from the train station in town earlier in the day, after spending most of the day preparing her home. The guest bedroom had needed a dusting down, and the linens were all freshly washed and pressed, and she had laid out some towels in case Reiner wanted a shower, which he expectedly did.
It felt nice, having something to look forward to.
It also felt nice to do her own housework. She had not known it was something she missed doing whilst in Mitchell. Dishes merrily washed away in the kitchen sink as Zi Shang ladled leftover dinner stew from the pot into a container for keeping. She smiled slightly as she heard shuffling footsteps draw near from the guest bedroom.
"How was the shower? I hope the shower-head has not been too much of a nuisance."
Too often did the magicked fixture belt out tunes in French even when she might have been looking for a peaceful time. That was something she was not informed of by the real estate agent before she signed the contract on the house.
very quietly i take my leave
as quietly as i came here
Zi Shang An
Played By: Everevna
Re: [France] Raise a Cup to the Moon
#24892 by Reiner Liebhart
Apparating back from a job could be grueling, but as far as Reiner was concerned it beat air travel. He hadn't liked the metal monstrosities to begin with, but now the smell of the planes reminded him too much of his American excursion last year. So even when he was far in the hinterlands of Siberia, Reiner chose to apparate home to London - with the help of an odd portkey or two. It was nice, sometimes. Providing him the opportunity to drop in on family members and friends for a few hours - sometimes even a whole day. On this particular trip he'd already stopped in on Mikki in Moscow, and his uncle in Munich. And since his brother was too busy with work in Amsterdam, Reiner's last leg was a night with his friend Zi in France.
Unlike his other stops, Zi was a much newer addition to his trip itineraries - but still a welcome one. He stepped out of her guest bathroom in his athletic shorts, a loose tee, and a towel wrapped around his shoulders. He padded out into the house toweling off his damp hair as he went in search of his friend. He didn't have far to look, as it turned out.
"Not too much. He conceded. She'd warned him before he'd headed in that it was giving her some trouble, so he'd been prepared when it started acting up. "The shower was a welcome one." Apparating always left him feeling strange - like his skin was tacky and covered in a thin layer of dust. It had nice to shower up after arriving. "Thanks, again." He glanced around her home - it really was a beautiful building. "For the shower, and the bed."
Reiner Liebhart
Played By: Sammy
Zi Shang covered and set aside the container before leaving the now-empty pot to magically wash in the sink. She picked up a damp cloth, wiping her hands with it as she turned around to offer Reiner a warm smile.
"Do not even worry about it. I am glad you are able to make it here."
She was. Zi Shang had not seen her friend for months. It was common enough, seeing as how the both of them were more often away from their respective homes than actually living in it, and they took care to touch base few times or so in a year. Still, there seemed to be more to catch each other up on this reunion. She was not oblivious to his sudden prominence in the news several months ago. Even from inside the penitentiary, guards and prisoners alike whispered the name, 'EJ del Bosque', and gossiped about the man who had managed to end the terrorist's life where all the magical governments in the world had failed to even locate him.
She hoped it was an achievement that bolstered his career.
"Are you tired? I would not keep you up if you are," the homeowner hung the dishtowel over the handle of her oven and moved toward her wine rack. "I do have a lovely port and some cheeses if you would like to stay up for a little longer. They're both from the farmer's market."
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Reiner shrugged. He was always tired, these days. But more than that a glass or two of wine and a stomach full of Zi's fancy farmer's market cheeses sounded even better. "I could go for a glass before bed." He finished toweling off his hair - ignoring how much it was in need of a trim as of late. He hadn't had time to think this past month, much less get it cut. "Besides, I want to here about your latest exploits," he gave her a grin, stepping into the kitchen and glancing around. "Want some help getting everything out?" A flick of her wand and Reiner knew she could have the entire table set, but as the guest it was always polite to ask. Or so his sister and Nika would have him believe.
It was a kind offer, but also, really, absolutely terrible, so much that Reiner's friend paused in her quest of picking a wine to briefly direct a look of mild alarm at him over her shoulder.
What kind of hostess did he think she was?
"No," the witch answered in a tone that astoundingly held in it both firm steel and soft gentility. She lifted out a bottle of vintage port before turning around to levitate over two wine glasses from the cabinet. Zi Shang deftly uncorked the bottle, filled the glasses, and held one out for Reiner to bring with him as she gave him a look that might well be the politest way to shoo one away that any human might possibly achieve.
"Please, go make yourself comfortable on the couch. I will be right there with the cheese."
At least there were books and an eclectic assortment of trinkets from her travels that he could browse on the bookshelf in the living room.
Reiner chuckled and took the glass from her hands. "Yes, ma'am." He wasn't one to argue. Zi was a great host, but he had to offer. If he hadn't he was afraid his older sister would somehow know and call him to berate him for being a rude guest later. She sometimes seemed to have a sixth sense for these things. But his friend left no room for argument as she bustled around the kitchen pulling things out and getting everything set up. Reiner watched, and sipped the wine and moseyed off to the living room. His eyes grazed over the books on the shelf, not really seeing any individual spine while he waited for her to finish in the kitchen. It truly was a lovely apartment - it beat his little cramped studio in London by a mile.
"So what is new in your corner of France?" He couldn't remember the last time he'd been in this beautiful country.
"Hmm?" Zi Shang was making her way into the room, bottle of port and her own wineglass bobbing through the air in her wake to rest themselves on the coffee table, where she too set down the humble wooden serving board that she personally carried in her hands.
In the interest of how late it already was and knowing that the wizard would scarcely mind, the items were arranged simply albeit clearly chosen with care. There were slices of bicorn's milk cheese commonplace to every magical household's cooler, except this one was black-flecked; little triangles of what appeared to be brie but were so much creamier in texture that it looked to be practically oozing from the rind; a ramekin that she filled with locally made fig jam; unfussy slices of country bread; and a cluster of Stygian berries not too unlike muggles' blackberries that were newly in season and which she had added as an afterthought. Or a personal craving, evident by the near-involuntary way she reached for one even as she was sitting down on the couch.
"Let's see."
She had only been back for just about two months, and something about the countryside meant that nothing ever quite changed very much even in the small magical town shielded by charms from muggle detection. The dependability was as nice as it was an occasional source of frustration.
"Oh, they finally finished renovating the local train station just a week ago, which I am rather pleased about, actually. It took them a year and half, but I was hoping you would not be arriving to a cloud of dust and tiles falling off the roof as your first impression of the town."
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Thésée, Touraine (Loire)
Here we are again along the Cher river, in an area of the Loir-et-Cher département with a vibrant (and growing) community of artisan growers and winemakers, and in 2018 this was the debut for a newcomer couple who moved here from Canada, Anouk Lavoie-Lamoureux and her husband Paul-André Risse who named their domaine Les Jardins de Theseiis. The name refers to the very ancient history of the village of Thésée, a populated area with a 2000-year history dating back from the Romans (see here the impressive wall still standing just outside the village) which formerly beared the name of Theseiis in the 1500s'.
Anouk and Paul-André are making the first vintage of their own here, not exactly their first wines as last year they made wine with Bruno Allion. You may remember that Bruno was considering to retire and here it is, Anouk and Paul-André are taking over half of his vineyards after working with him a ferw months, both in the vineyards and in the cellar, to master the domaine's culture and build their experience in natural winemaking (you saw them at work last year when their were picking the Romorantin for Bruno).
Pineau d'Aunis load
I was lucky to be there when they were picking the Pineau d'Aunis, a variety I love for its delicate but still gently-tannic reds (we need more of it !). Anouk and Pierre-André are also using Bruno's cellars and chai, you certainly recognize the place, that's also here that the large group of biodynamic growers in the area meets for biodynamic workshops so that eveyone can master the Horn Manure making process or the Horn Silica burying. Bruno even if retired, will still give a help during these exciting gatherings where other growers (vegetable for example) can attend. Here you can see Paul-André ready to unload boxes of Pineau d'Aunis freshy hauled from the vineyard 5 minutes away, using their vintage Soviet-made 4x4 Niva. The car is pretty rustic (I travelled myself thousands of kilometers in such a car the last time I was in Russia, definitely not a sports car...) but it still runs fine although they had problems to start it when i visited (the battery was failing if i remember).
Picking the Pineau D'aunis
Here we are on the parcel of Pineau d'Aunis, it's pretty dry after months without rain or almost. there's been issues with mildew but overall the fruit load is not bad. The parcel is of course organically farmed, with also biodynamic preparations now and then and this will continue under the new owners. Anouk and Paul-André have been convinced for years that tending properly the vineyard and respecting the soil is a prerequisite for making the wines they liked to drink themselves.
For one, the weather was pretty nice that day, sunny, not too warm, and the morning temperature was pretty mild too, not too cold. There was a good ambiance and spirits among ther pickers, Anouk and Paul hired a service company for the picking, the boss is Oliver Pineau who already knows Bruno's parcels and who does a terrific job, doing the work on the ground among his workers with an easy-going attitude. Plus he has the same approach as theirs for the vines, he himself is focused on the sap-flow issues in the vines, which is important at the pruning stage.
Here are bunches of Pineau D'Aunis before they were picked, as you can see they're pretty nice and healthy although many of the leaves were affected by the mildew disease. This first year was a bit tricky for their start, with the occurence of mildew and they had to learn the plowing process for the parcels, something which unlike pruning and the rest they had never done themselves before. But first take a look at these bunches, if you're a Pineau d'Aunis lover like I know many of you are, you can't but rejoy at these scenes, 2018 will yield lots of the pale red here and they'll also make rosé of it... I tasted these beautiful grapes, they so good, surprisingly good although the leaves show the strains of a tough mildew season, no rotten grapes, very healthy, some grapes dried out but nothing worring. On left Paul show me a dry berry, it tastes like raisin, delicious.
For the intended rosé they picked part of their grapes the morning I visited and left the other part hanging for the red, it'd be picked the same day in the afternoon. Samely for the Romorantin, they picked the grapes for the dry Romorantin but left some bunches hanging to make a little bit of sweet liquoreuw for their daughter who was born this year (they're young parents !), so that she'll have a birthday wine she can drink when she's 20, there'll be 150 bottles maybe of this liquoreux...
Anouk picks
Here is how Anouk and Pierre-André ended up settling here for good after their former Canadian life : Both of them were living in Quebec and were biology researchers there. Paul-André who is French got his PhD in pharmacology in France and then moved to Canada for a postdoctoral scholarship, something in between formal studies and work. Anouk at the time was finishing her PhD in Montreal, both were interested in wine although not professionally, they had different feelings about it, he had more like a European approach and hers was more like North-American, meaning she's drink routinely wines from California, Chile and Argentina while he'd be rather focused on European wines when he'd buy bottles at the SAQ [the retailer and import monopoly in Quebec].
Paul admits that unlike what you find in France wines in Canada come from all over the world and he liked for example the Italian wines he bougt there. Paul at the time took part to private tasting events organized by Allan Laforest with lots of different wines, he went there with Anouk and they were exposed there to biodynamic wines. Paul says that in these early 2000 years (he hadn't heard about biodynamy before) he felt that something was different in these biodynamic wines, and that was something he definitely liked, there were vibes he'd not find in other wines. So both of them dug on the issue and ultimately found about natural wines, which have become widely available in Quebec thanks to a myriad of private importers.
Boxes filling up
Anouk completed her doctorate in 2011 and stated that she didn't want anymore to work in research, Paul wasn't himself very happy with some aspects of this job and they decided to try make wine themselves instead of waiting retirement for that like they used to say. Paul had found a scholarship on Erasmus, Vinifera (watch comments of Vinifera students in English here) where students from all over can study viticulture and winemaking in Europe. They had looked around to study in the United States or Australia but such scholarships are very expensive and France or Europe was clearly the best place to study and for the lowest costs. Both applied for the scholarship and to their surprise, both of them were accepted (there were more than 300 candidates and they took only 30 in), so it was a big chance to do the program together and they decided to go. They did two years of research-oriented master, which was good for them given their backgrounds, ity allowed them to bridge their former life with their new one in wine, spending the 1st year at SupAgro in Montpellier and the 2nd in the wine school of Turin (they were staying in Alba and Asti) ending this experience with a traineeship at Cerrato, a large-surface biodynamic domaine.
10am casse-croûte pause
After this scholarship they had decided to find some work but they didn't find anything in France and they decided to head to Canada's Okanagan region as a former Vinifera student had tipped them about work opportunities there. Okanagan is a thriving wine region in the dry inland part of British Columbia. They contacted a winemaker over there, a French woman who was working in a 20-hectare domaine which also purchased grapês around. Duriing a year they learned to prune, do the debudding and other vineyard jobs, things that they hadn't trained for at the school on France and Italy. They liked it much over there with the lakes and mountains around, but this is a different viticulture with for example the irrigation. They still thought about finding vineyards there and begin something, Paul has his residency papers for Canada and that was doable, but loking closer they saw that the real estate reach astronomical prices for vineyards, like if he remembered well, 250 000 $ for one hectare (2,47 acres), and on top of that you have to count the irrigation costs. The other thing of course is that irrigated vineyards don't make terroir-driven wines, so they turned back to where land is still pretty cheap and terroir opportunities very varied, France or Italy which they liked very much too. They tried to work in Italy but Anouk had a work visa for france but not for Italy, so they focused on France and as it was late in the season the only place they found in the urgency was Chateau Palmer in Medoc (all the small family domaines had their team already complete). They started to work in mid-april 2016 and stayed there 3 or 4 months, this was very interesting, they were doing a super good work in the vineyard like all these high-end domaines now do (for example for their pruning they used the Guyot-Poussard method which focuses on the sap flux), and they also got their first experiences in biodynamic management there.
Paul-André showing me something on the Pineau D'Aunis
Anouk adds that France is also where many of the wines they liked were made, Okanagan like much of the New World is a region where wines are very technological and marketing-driven, using all the modern tools of enology. Whatever, at the time they had in between been contacted by Mark Angeli, the pioneer of natural wine who enthusiastically lobbied for them to come in his region of Anjou where you had these two priceless parameters, cheap land and great terroirs. So they moved to Anjou to do the harvest at Mark Angeli and they setlled in the area with in mind the prospect to find a couple of parcels. They stayed almost a year there and every week would take part to a tasting excercize with Mark where he opened randomly 5 or 6 bottles given to him at the Greniers Saint Jean, a natural wine-tasting event he oversees every year in Angers. One day he popped up a bottle of Bruno Allion, which they liked very much. And a few weeks later they heard that Bruno was going to retire and was looking for buyers. They emailed him they were interested and wanted to meet him, Bruno answered I wait for you, but they hadn't his phone number and when they drove there all the way from Anjou he wasn't home, they came a 2nd time, found him but leant other people were in line and they were in 3rd, then for different reasons the 1st candidates gave way and they ended up getting the chance to take over half of his surface. THey had been very favorably impressed by his vineyards when they visited, they liked the ambiance there as well as the spirit of forestry that Bruno had brought in by planting fruit trees back in the parcels like it used to be in the past
The indestructible straddle tractor
Anouk and Paul share the vintage straddle tractor of Bruno with the other guy who himself took over the other half of Bruno Allion's vineyards. The owner of the other half, Bert, is Dutch and he took 6 hectares while they took 5. The problem is that given the fact that their respective parcels face the same weather issues, they often need the tractor at the same time, and Anouk and Paul consider finding one of their own in the future. This shouldn't be hard to find, look at the second-hand straddle tractors for sale on this page, some are incredibly cheap, and still in running condition. I love this one although it's not the cheapest, never seen a tractor like this one, so cute, looks like a wading bird....
In the future, they plan to use a horse for the soil work and they chose to get in the split of vineyards, parcels that would form a single block, which makes it much easier for the management of a draft horse. They have Sauvignon, Gamay, Pineau d'Aunis and Romorantin, plus Côt on the slopes. They'd have liked to have the young Côt too but they had to let also Bert have his surface.
Filling the press
Anouk and Paul-André filled the press with the boxes of Pineau D'Aunis brought to the chai by successive round trip with the Niva or the white van borrowed to one of the pickers. Like you can guess, this direct press will be for a rosé of Pineau D'Aunis, I ask them (a little anxious because for me there's nothing bettyer than a red Pineau d'Aunis) if they keep enough grapes on the vines for the red version, they say yes, and if I remember there'll be even more...
Paul-André says that this press can hold 70 boxes of grapes, more or less, and they direct the growers to stay in this limit so that there are not too much fruit picked. The picking should be finished this morning for the press part, and in the afternoon they'll pick the Pineau d'Aunis for the red, Anouk and Paul-André destemming the grapes outside the chai before the maceration. The pickers will for another grower the follwing day, there's a good coordination here to keep them busy as much as possible. Anouk and Paul are now familar with the chai even if sometimes (picture on right, i like these blank moments) they pause to decide on something important.
The juice begins to drop beneath the press with the weight of the grapes and the foot stomping of Anouk who makes sure that there'll be enough room for the planned 70 boxes. They left the 6 pickers in the parcel but Paul drives there soon after and wxill help them pick himself. They have a 30-are surface of Pineau d'Aunis, and approximatively the same surface of Romorantin. I correct something here, they'll make rosé of this press load, but more precisely this will be pet'nat, so a natural sparkling, good move.
Asked about how they'll vinify the red, Anouk says that they'll destemm 5/6 of the bunches, alternating a box of whole-clustered grapes here and there. tHey leave them macerate one week with occasionnal pigeage with the feet and when almost dry (sugar finished) they rack, press and blend the two juices before putting them in 350- and 225-liter barrels. That's more or less the way Bruno Allion made the wines, they like his wines and see no need to change the vinification, even if along the years there'll be certainly some changes of their own. Anouk as a young mother still works most of the day here with Paul-André, she'll just have to be back home at 5pm when the nanny finishes her shift, and it will be time to feed her baby girl...
Time to drink it
Paul-André grabs a glass to taste the freshly pressed juice, more like free run juice actually, the pressing hasn't begun if for the foot stomping. That's delicious as you can guess, but it's always delicious and velvety in the juice stage, hard to predict anything about the wine, for me at least. I love the orange color too. Unlike what people call in the region bernache (and vin nouveau in Alsace) there's not a hint of alcohol here, it's plain juice, and a very healthy juice for one, no residues to be feared.
Like you saw in the vineyard there was a nice load of grapes on the vines in spite of mildew, and it seems that all around the yields have been up this year, possibly as a natural reaction of the vines after 2017 where the yields were low (caused by frost if I remember). Paul-André says that the conventional growers also have huge loads, sometimes 100 hectoliters/hectare or more and they'll be obliged to dump part of the harvest to remain below the maximum ceiling of the Appellation which is 60 [but the vines will still have worked for 100 ho/ha +, nixing any qualitative claims that are supposed to be the Appellation's raison d'être]. Surprisingly, Paul-André says, in spite of the generous yields there's a nice maturity and the sugar level is good too, he says this vintage is exceptional in this regard, and will be remembered as such.
Barrels in the cellar
Anouk toured me around in the cellar, here it's a barrel room with several barrels waiting for their juice/wine. They bought barrels from a large Maison in Burgundy (Maison Albert Bichot) for their whites and reds, in both 225-liter and 350-liter capacity and other barrels for the reds, 225-liter volumes from Chateau Palmer. The Sauvignon wines are already sitting in the cellar in 350-liter demi-muids.
I asked Anouk if she travels back to Quebec from time to time to see her family and friends, but she says she hasn't travelled there since Christmas 2016, this was quite a while. She says they don't know yet when they'll be able to go there, and there's the young baby girl too... I ask about the situation for natural wine in Quebec, which I'm aware is pretty good with all these private importeurs who offer an alternative to the SAQ, and she says they'll have their wines imported in Quebec through Pot de Vin. These are cuvées that were vinified actually by Bruno Allion but both of them took part also and their names are also printed on the labels.
By the way, they'll have their own labels designed by Claire Marsauche, the daughte of Catherine Roussel of former Clos Roche Blanche (I met her several times but the best pic I found was this one shot by Jim Budd as she was picking at Clos Roche Blanche). Claire is an illustrator and she lives in Nantes if I'm right. If you're interested for having a label designed by here, here is her email : claire_marsauche [at] hotmail.fr . Claire is also working on natural ink for her future labels, like onion extracts, or using the red leaves of Côt to make ink. they saw the initial work and this is beautiful, but for now they don't know how it stands time, she's checking that before printing large scale.
Other cellar tunnel
We walked to another cellar tunnel, they're all connected, that's always a wonder for me to discover (or rediscover like here, I already knew these cellars with Bruno) such cellars dug in the sandstone of the hills, they're always different. Here you can see or guess on the left one of these fermenters embedded in the rock which elders used for their wines, you could get inside with a ladder, do your pigeage like in any open-top wooden fermenter, it was just cheaper in the long run and virtually indestructible. They're certainly made partly of cement, but like a troglodytic house they're sitting half against the rock and half outside, very good for the temperature inertia too.
The tunnel gallery here holds the barrels of Sauvignon, lined on the right and left.
Anouk & Paul-André in the cellar
I ask about the cellar if it's not too cold in winter, Anouk (who's been around since 2017 to work with Bruno) says it's always between 12 C and 14 C (53,6 - 57,2 F), and they take refuge there in winter as well in summer from both the freezing cold and the heat.
There's also another cellar room where they stock pallets of wines, both the 2017 they made with Bruno and other cuvées of Bruno which they bought with the business. Here some of the Sauvignon in barrels comes from the parcel named La Cabane, and half has its élevage in oak, half in neutral tanks (5 hectoliters each), and they'll see later if they blend the two, they'll probably but want to check first. they also have separately (they vinify the terroirs apart) the Sauvignon from La Grande Pièce, a terroir on the plateau. There's also Sauvignon from Le Poiras (wasn't not sure of the spelling, but that's chalked on the barrels), a parcel on the slope.
Tasting the Sauvignon
Anouk grabs a wine thief so that we can taste a Sauvignon 2018. Sauvignon was the first to be picked (harvest began in the very last days of august), it had been 3 weeks in these barrels when I visited. No batonnage, no stirring, they leave it quiet. Very vivid, enjoyable young wine in its baby stage. This is a Sauvignon made from the lieu-dit La Grande Pièce, with a 350-liter barrel.
Next we tasted another barrel, a Sauvignon from the lieu-dit Le Poiras, which she says is more aromatic in pite of the more generous yields of this vintage. These coteaux (slopes) are gorgeous she says, they understood immediately that the parcel had to be vinified separately, that's one of the high point of their first visit at Bruno Allion, when they were considering settling here. Even when they pruned they saw that the vines are beautiful, harmoniously balanced, and later in the season the grapes were perfect too, no need to sort out the grapes, very healthy conditions. In spite of mildew, this vintage is incredible, almost magic, she says. And earlier in the season they had no clue it would turn so nice, in may as she was on maternity leave there was this mildew attack, everybody was rushing to spray almost every week, this made a lot of stress especialy for them on this first vintage. This 2nd Sauvignon is sweeter at this stage, very enjoyable indeed.
__ Romorantin ! Anouk had me also taste another white from the barrel, the Romorantin. The color here is more yellowish, very turbid. Anouk says that in the tank the juice looked like a giant espresso because even the foam was brownish, it was gorgeous, it smelled candied apricot. The color quietly came back to yellow tones since. Very nice, vivid, and beyonf the sweetness you feel the sharper type of wine which it'll yield in the future when it'll be dry. Anouk says that it fermented rather quickly, and the other went through well this year as well. They have two 350-lite barrels of Romorantin, plus a small tank, which they'l use partly to top up. The vines are in their 4th year, they grow on a slope and the parcel makes 30 ares (0,3 hectare) in total.
Here on the picture above we are in the cellar tunnel for the reds in which we went thereafter (each of these cellars are connected with passageways), they got the barrels from Chateau palmer, the biodynamic domaine in Médoc, these barrels are two-wine old, meaning 4 years as Palmer used them 2 years for each vintage. They got also 350-liter barrels from Albert Bichot in Burgundy, which look barely bigger than a normal 225-liter. These barrels which dated from 2012 & 2013 were in super conditions when they were delivered here. Anouk says that the good side also is that they're still easy to move around, compared even to a 400-liter. They'll keep their barrels of any size as long as they can, they'll not rotate, they don't look for new oak.
__ Gamay, in a 350-liter barrel since the previous day. Was picked around the 2nd week of september. Very nice, here you already feel the finished wine, very young of course but already with the qualities of a grown wine. Pretty impressive, and all that done through wild yeast. You just need to wait here but I can't wait to drink this in a year from now. Here the vines are 50 years old, they were planted by Bruno's father.
__ We taste the same Gamay from a 225-liter barrel from Chateau Palmer. I feel this 2nd Gamay like being more sappy, I like that.
Empty glasses : Côt is gone, spirit still there
__ We taste another Gamay, the one from 2017 which is still in barrels (these ones are looking older because of the mold. Anouk says that the mold grows quickly in here and they have to keep the barrels clean regularly. They made this wine with Bruno Allion and they'll bottle this wine with their own labels designed by Claire. This Gamay has a nice fruity expression, either like morello cherries or small red fruits. Feels generous in the mouth, makes about 13 % in alcohol. Was made from La Grande Pièce.
__ Lastly we tast the Côt which is in a fiber-plastic tank, it was made from the parcel la Maison Neuve, the one pictured on top with Bruno Allion in the foreground on my story posted in 2015, a magnificent parcel, Anouk says. This Côt looks fantastic, just look at its color in the plastic jug on left, gorgeous ! Anouk says they just did 3 pigeages (pushdown on the cap), she says it's so intense... The Côt was picked the previous week, using the same ration, 5/6 with a box of whole-clustered grapes laying inbetween 5 boxes of destemmed grapes. They had to take out some juice because with te fermentation the tank was overflowing. They'll have about 30 hectoliters of Côt. Tastes very good, very onctuous, delicious and fruity, my bet is you better don't miss this one when it'll be ready. It will spend a year in barrels, both frolm Bichot and Palmer, they'll also compare at the end how the wine behaves respectively in the 350-liter and the 225-liter.
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Reporter: Breana Ross
Published: August 8, 2019 6:58 PM EST
Updated: August 8, 2019 6:59 PM EST
Proposal to help Lee County homeless students
An advocate for homeless students in Lee County is now calling for a change on Thursday.
For the past four years, Sheena Torres-Nunez, a homeless district liaison, has dedicated herself to being the voice for homeless students across Lee County. She provides them everything from supplies to clothing.
“Being able to give families hope and being able to give our homeless students a sense of excitement,” Torres-Nunez said.
On Thursday afternoon, Torres-Nunez joined with the Director of Psychological and Social Work Services Amy Clark is proposing changes to the district’s homeless education policy.
The foundation of the changes allow kids to remain in the school they attended before they became homeless.
“I think the biggest thing is just ensuring that there’s inclusive language that ensures school stability and school accessibility for homeless students,” Torres-Nunez said.
“This gives our students the opportunity to remain within their school, with their peers, with their same teachers,” Clark said, “and as much as possible best ability within their school day.”
A mom who lost her home told WINK News, keeping her kids in the same school would be a great help to her kids. She had to use other people’s addresses since she did not have one.
The proposal for homeless students will be heard before the district in a public hearing in September. After that, the school board will decide whether to adopt the policy.
However, for Torres-Nunez, it’s about more than changing policy.
“It’s also what can we do,” Torres-Nunez said, “to reduce and eliminate the homelessness.”
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Congress releases first list for Jharkhand assembly polls
ANI New Delhi, India Nov 10, 2019, 07.08 PM(IST)
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According to the list of candidates, Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Rameshwar Oraon will contest from Lohardaga (ST) constituency.
The Congress party on Sunday released its first list of five candidates for the upcoming Jharkhand assembly elections scheduled to be held in five phases from November 30.
Among the other candidates are -- Ramchandra Singh from Manika (ST) constituency, KN Tripathy from Daltonganj, Chandrashekhar Dubey from Bishrampur and KP Yadav from Bhawanathpur.
"The Central Election Committee has approved the candidates for the ensuing first phase of general elections to the Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand," AICC press release undersigned by party general secretary, in-charge CEC, Mukul Wasnik said.
The 81-member Jharkhand assembly will go to polls in five phases between November 30 and December 20 and the votes will be counted on December 23.
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PUBLISHED: 10:21 04 February 2008 | UPDATED: 08:20 02 June 2010
A FARMER killed himself as protests mounted over plans to build a wind farm in the Fens, a court heard last week. Richard Herbert, 47, felt friends had been turned against him and could not understand why villagers in Marshland St James were opposed to th
A FARMER killed himself as protests mounted over plans to build a wind farm in the Fens, a court heard last week.
Richard Herbert, 47, felt friends had been turned against him and could not understand why villagers in Marshland St James were opposed to the renewable energy plan.
Hundreds had attended a public meeting just weeks before his death, vandals had felled a test mast put up to check wind speeds in the area and farmers involved in the proposals had been sent letters threatening them with legal action.
Father-of-three Mr Herbert was found in the Middle Level Drain at Neeps Bridge, near his home at St John's Fen End, on May 21.
A heavy weight had been tied to his body and a post mortem showed he died from downing, a coroner's inquest sitting in King's Lynn was told.
Norfolk coroner William Armstrong last Thursday recorded a verdict of suicide whilst suffering extreme anxiety and agitated depression, adding there was no doubt Mr Herbert intended to end his life.
"If Richard had been a more selfish and unscrupulous person, he would be alive today," he said. "He was affected by opposition to this scheme to the point where it took over his life completely. He couldn't see a way out, it was a very tragic situation."
Mr Herbert had become part of a consortium of landowners who hoped to build a wind farm near Marshland St James, the court was told.
His wife Juliet said in the weeks before his death, he became increasingly upset as opposition to the plan mounted in the village.
"He was completely devastated about it, he couldn't believe how many people were against it and he took it all on his own shoulders," she said.
"His whole life seemed to be focussed on the wind farm at that point, there was nothing we could do or say to reassure him that everything would be OK."
Mrs Herbert said her husband saw his GP on a number of occasions in late April and early May, and began expressing suicidal thoughts.
"He was saying he was going to do things like drive the farm truck into the drain, things like that," she said. "He kept going through lots of different ways."
On May 15, Mr Herbert was admitted to the Fermoy Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. But by the following weekend, he appeared to be improving and was allowed home on the understanding he would return to the unit the following Monday for further assessment.
Mrs Herbert said her husband became agitated on the Sunday night, fearing if he were re-admitted to the Fermoy, he might not be allowed back out. She broke down as she described waking early the following morning to find he had gone.
Peter Butterworth, a nurse with Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership, assessed Mr Herbert after he was admitted to the Fermoy.
"He was very agitated, very pre-occupied with the wind farm issues and the impact that would have on him and his family," he said.
"He felt he had a duty to follow through the wind farm in support of his family but he also thought he had a duty to the community."
Psychiatrist Dr Mary Whalley said Mr Herbert had no previous history of psychiatric problems. She added: "He was completely surprised by the opposition. He felt people no longer liked him and his life changed forever."
In his summing up, Mr Armstrong said Mr Herbert and his brothers hoped to build a wind farm for the good of the wider community as well as their own families.
"But a campaign was launched against the scheme, feelings were running high, meetings were held and all this caused Richard to become extremely stressed indeed," he said. "People he thought were his friends were turning against him.
"There can be no doubt that when Richard went into the water he did not intend to survive. He intended to bring his life to an end, he was suffering a state of extreme anxiety and agitated depression.
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Author: Lee Winter
Book One in The Law Game series is a dark lesbian thriller with plenty of twists in its tale.
Professional cellist Natalya Tsvetnenko moves seamlessly among the elite where she fills the souls of symphony patrons with beauty even as she takes the lives of the corrupt of Australia’s ruthless underworld. The cold, exacting assassin is hired to kill a woman who seems so innocent that Natalya can’t understand why anyone would want her dead. As she gets to know her target, she can’t work out why she even cares.
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Tara at The Lesbian Review – August 2, 2016 :
Requiem for Immortals is a difficult book to talk about because I want to tell you to just read it. Don’t read anything about it, stop everything in your lives, just buy this book, take it in, then sit and marvel at it. But this is a book review and I suppose that won’t do.
Natalya Tsvetnenko is a professional cellist at the top of her game. Regularly requested to fill in by symphonies around the world, she’s poised, beautiful and cold, only moved by her music. What the world doesn’t know, however, is that she’s also Requiem, an assassin who’s regularly hired by all four of Victoria’s rival crime families to mete out poetic punishments for people who cross the line.
Used to taking contracts to kill the worst of the worst, like a crime boss who trades in underage girls, Requiem doesn’t understand why someone has offered her an exorbitant amount to kill Alison Ryan, an administrative assistant at a local police department. It’s only when she bumps into Ryan at an elite musical engagement that she starts to understand that there may be more to the meek woman than meets the eye.
The writing in Requiem for Immortals is gorgeous, somehow managing to be both crisp and luxurious, perfect in not only conveying the story and all necessary information, but informing the tone so that I found my emotions shifting from scene to scene. The plotting is incredible and left me constantly surprised, and the pacing is so tight that it was almost impossible to put down. The character work is divine and is perhaps the strongest element of all with both Natalya and Alison being masterfully drawn, and having arcs that are strong, believable and relatable. I won’t go into anything about the characters themselves because I truly believe the less you know, the better, but I loved both of them and I was happy with where they were by the end.
Requiem for Immortals is a thriller and not a romance novel at all, and thank goodness for that. There’s a common idea that all lesbian genre fiction must be romance, and if it’s not, there at least must be a strong romantic thread running throughout. This book defies that standard and is part of a necessary shift in lesfic to offer more to readers. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good romance, and my Goodreads shelves demonstrate that. But if I want to read something from a different genre, it’s a relief to not have to leave lesfic to find it, and Requiem for Immortals perfectly scratches that itch.
Anyone who’s talked lesbian fiction with me for more than five minutes knows how much I loved Lee Winter’s debut novel, The Red Files. The story was fun, the dialogue sparkling and specifically attuned to my tastes, and it had one of the best romances I’d read all year even if it’s not a romance novel (yes, fine, I thought it was a romance at first reading even though it’s not–mistakes were made, see last paragraph for why I’d even think that). When I heard Lee Winter had a new book coming out this summer I hoped with all my heart that it was a sequel to The Red Files. Not only is Requiem for Immortals not a sequel, but I’m damn glad for it because it’s a perfect book, even better than The Red Files.
Buy this book. Buy it now, read it, and tell everyone else to read it. I think you’d be hard pressed to find anything quite like it elsewhere. This is one of the best books I’ve read this year, and possibly one of the best books I’ve read in the last decade.
I received a free copy of this book from the author for an honest review.
Adrian Amador (verified owner) – August 17, 2016 :
“Requiem” proved to be an unexpectedly exhilarating read, which I enjoyed thoroughly the first go around but much more immensely the second. The initial encounter was focused largely upon Natalya’s character-from the poignancy of the depiction of her musical ability to the conflicted affection that she felt for Lola’s character, she was captivating. Allison’s attractiveness as a literary figure was much more nuanced, requiring of some reflection and the commitment of a much less frenzied reading of the novel to appreciate the depth of her role in the tale and the extent to which her affections toppled an assassin. Oddly, the role played by Natalya in the killer guise was not a morally offensive one for me, due largely to the victimization that she suffered as a young woman and the individuals that she committed to removing from the Victorian crime scene. Her unabashed ownership of that facet of her identity and her refusal to have her behaviors classified and attributed to earlier life events only served to elevate the degree of respect that I had for her character-her sense of justice was a deeply personal facet of her personality and she was undaunted by the judgments of all those around her but Allison. The epilogue was wonderful and left me deeply conflicted about whether or not a sequel would be appropriate…On the one hand, it would be an enjoyable thing to read about the dance that she and Allison would experience in their shared life and recalibration to a state of duality. I could envision the deep satisfaction that Natalya would find in domesticity, which would be forced into conflict with the streak of independence/self-isolation that she imposed on herself with both career choices. However, one book and the act of imagining the contents of another holds its own attraction. Whatever Lee Winter decides, I will welcome, as she is officially a must read for me now.
rrrahming2020 – August 22, 2016 :
Very seldom does a book come along that actually proves me wrong based off an original assumption. I stand corrected because; Requiem for Immortals is one of those books.
When I began the book, the first thought that came to mind was, “uh oh, this is so not going to be fluff.”
I am accustomed to lots of “fluff” in my lesbian fiction. I rarely like veering out of my “lesfic reading comfort zone.” I’m SO accustomed that I’ll admit to dismissing a book here and there, or avoiding all together those books that I assume, or I just know, won’t have the typical rosy happy ending. With this book, I pushed past what my usual expectations were, and just jumped right in. I don’t regret a single minute or the hours I spent getting completely pulled in to this story.
If this book was the author’s first attempt at writing lesbian fiction, I say BRAVO! This writer CAN write very well. I can tell she is intelligent, funny, thoughtful, and likely has no fear of going to the “dark side” when necessary to get all the grit you need to bring a book like this to life. I really enjoyed reading about the complexities of Natalya/Requiem our extremely talented Cello playing assassin. She kicked a**! Every single scene she was in was on fire! She has such strength, and fierceness that I envied. Yet, she possessed vulnerability when she made her cello make beautiful music. Alison/Emily surprised me too. She wasn’t so innocent, and I loved watching her come into her own. I saw so much of myself in Emily, and I rooted for her throughout the book even though I understood why Natalya had to be as tough as she was, I respected this character, and let me tell you dear reader, I have RARELY found a character in a lesbian fiction story that I can honestly say I respected.
The action was spot on, humor was timed and where it should be. Even though the sexual scenes were more raw and rough that what I would usually like to read, it fits for this book. It actually couldn’t be any other way but the way it was. I’m so glad I gave this book a try. I honestly believe that anyone interested in reading lesbian fiction with a bit more edge should pick this one up.
enrico.dibella – August 23, 2016 :
Natalya Tsvetnenko is one character in a million.
It’s so different to be refreshing. She could be compared somehow to Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander (another one character in a million), as she is violent, genial, disturbed but with a heart.
But she is not a hacker. Her life is not a mess.
“By day” she is Natalya, a brilliant, internationally renowned celloist, great lover of classic music, but secretly she is also Requiem, the most dangerous, efficient assassin of the Australian Continent, a vindictive angel who adds a touch of distinctiveness to every murder she commits. Natalya/Requiem is a kind of double personality, even if there is merging between the two.
Her “leit-motiv” is power, order and control. Her only release is her music. Otherwise she is ethereal, cold.
Hired by criminals, she is used to kill criminals, the worst ones, the most vicious, the most dangerous, dispensing her ruthless justice with a sense of exhilaration.
But what happens when she’s hired to kill an innocent? Expecially if her target is the sweet, shy, charming Alison…
Can those strange, new, growing feelings really tame the great Requiem?
The story is both a crime and a romance.
It’s a very good, solid crime, full of action and gruesome assassinations, in the underground world of crime families war and there’s the mistery of the innocent woman targeted to be killed.
As a romance I’d define it as a “defrosting ice queen” kind (a genre I have a thing for), but brought to the extreme, as here the “queen” is really, really dark, almost black.
Also, gradually, we get to discover the story of Natalya and why and how she was transformed into Requiem.
Now let’s say it: how cool is all that?
Karen Mcintosh – October 3, 2016 :
Wow! This book had me gripped from the start and I felt a depth of emotion from the characters that truly made me gasp. Lee Winter has a way with words that pulls the reader into her world and doesn’t let go until every ounce of feeling has been teased from them. Natalya/Requiem is a complex character living two lives, one as a classical musician and the other as Australia’s No 1 assassin. She has been able to keep her emotions constrained for years and I could see why that was so necessary, given her second job. Once Alison enters her sphere that is no longer possible, even though she denies to herself and others that anything has changed. The internal conflict Natalya feels is immense and I know which way I wanted her to go. Alison has an influence on her that goes beyond anything she has ever had to face. I don’t want to give away any more of the story as the revelations need to hit the reader smack in the face and have an emotional punch that they won’t forget in a hurry. This is one helluva book and well worth 5 stars and more.
I was given this ARC free by Ylva Publishing in return for an honest review.
Jane Shambler – July 6, 2017 :
Wow this book blew me away. It was recommended by several of my friends on Goodreads and as usually I wasn’t let down. It had a bit of everything but what I liked the most was the main character. Winter made no excuses for her arrogance nor her flawed personality. Requiem was everything I would want in the hero of the story even with her being an assassin.
As you can probably guess she meets her soul mate. But what was really refreshing was she didn’t charge or try to be nicer. She was just Requiem. No apologies, no excuses.
This is an excellent psychological thriller that would not look out of place in the main stream books. There are twists and turns galore and you honestly can’t get enough of it. The only down side to this book was that it ended.
I would definitely recommend this book. The book is excellent and fully deserves my 5 stars.
*ARC provided by publisher via Ylva Publishing*
Lesmedia – August 24, 2017 :
Requiem is the ultimate ice queen. She is determined to control everything in her world. And when she can’t then things begin to fall apart.
This thriller will have you staying up late to read as you follow Requiem and Alison through a story that will not only change their lives but yours as well.
Do yourself a favor and pick it up. Right. Now.
Betty Harmon – December 12, 2017 :
This is a cleverly written book, the writing is crisp and clear, the characters are intriguing and well-written. Lee Winter is an extraordinary writer of complex and complicated plots, and this story is a fine example of some of her best work. Not everyone could make a cold-blooded assassin into a heroine that readers will cheer for. She made her human, not an easy feat. I finished the story wanting to know more about the characters and what happened to them in the future.
cheekybugger13 – May 6, 2018 :
Have you read Lee Winter’s “Requiem For Immortals?” If not, why not? What can I say about this book except….it’s only BLOODY MARVELLOUS, that’s what! It’s prolly one of the best stories I’ve read thusfar because the plot is so uniquely original, it’s a dark, intense, cat-and-mouse romance, action-thriller masterpiece.
A brilliant cellist by day, ruthless, lethal assassin by night. And a lesbian at that, too! Playing cat-n-mouse with a copper! Sparks fly! Who doesn’t love that, eh? It’s a compelling, fun page-turner. One of me favourites, obviously because….Lee Winter, one of me favourite authors!
I was absolutely enthralled by the cat-and-mouse game between Natalya & Alison. Natalya aka Requiem, grew up being groomed as a cold, heartless assassin, bound by her duty. She couldn’t believe she was developing real feelings for her mark, even when it was staring right in front of her! It was all so new to her – these mushy feelings! The more she tried to ignore it, the more she was drawn to Alison. I adored Alison. She was so down-to-earth, unassuming, timid, seemingly passive. So much so that Natalya nicknamed her Mouse! And then…..BAMMM!!! Whoa! BLOODY BRILLIANT!!!! Suddenly Natalya was taken off-guard! Alison truly gave her a run for her money. FCK YEH!!! What a kick-arse pair!!! They are one of my all-time favourite couples!!
Another gift I received from this incredible book was the hauntingly beautiful, deeply serenading sounds of the cello every time Natalya was depicted as playing it. Music was her only drug, refuge, her inner-sanctum, the only way she could fully express herself when words were absent. Her cello was her emotional protector; the music flowing out of her through the bowing of those dramatic strings was her language, her speech. Coincidentally, Alison also played….the ! I was literally jumping with joy out of sheer excitement in discovering that both of these amazingly complex women who I played music – string instruments!! FCK YEH! The music was so deftly described in richly emotional & absorbing words I could literally hear it as I was reading it. Utterly SUBLIME. That. Is. All.
Oh, the chemistry between Natalya & Alison was undeniably, heart-stoppingly HOT! SIZZLING! Phew! Their romance was seductive. Their movements were like a dance. Very cat-like. The push. The pull. It was all very addictive I was utterly mesmerised. Bewitched. I wanted more.
The action, the thriller, the cat-and-mouse game – THRILLS!!!! Requiem’s cool, lethal hand-to-hand combat moves were nothing short of mesmerising!! FAN-BLOODY-TASTIC!
I can go on and on about this but I’ll let you read and judge for yourselves.. This is simply a MUST-READ. I can’t recommend it enthusiastically enough!
AND – after this book, you simply MUST read it’s mini-sequel, “Love Is Not Nothing,” especially if you wanna find out more about Natalya & Alison after “Requiem” and why the sequel has that title.
https://bugsownwords.wordpress.com/2018/05/04/requiem-for-immortals/
KJ – September 24, 2019 :
Art – where the brushstrokes are words
I’ve just finished Requiem For Immortals. Literally. I opened this app as soon as I closed Kindle. I am so thoroughly blown away by this novel. I was a bit late to the party in discovering it, but there really isn’t a due date on great writing, is there? And it is great writing. The story is gripping because, from the very beginning, you’re held in the palm of words which have been chosen with such care, as you travel into the psyche of Requiem. It’s seductive and tension-filled as we discover the motivation that drives her actions and behaviour, and despite our visceral need to turn away from the nature of her cut-throat job, we can’t help the fascination we have in trying to discover who Requiem really is. Perhaps we never know, as Winter has created Requiem to question that part of herself as much as we do. The other characters, including Alison, are there to assist us (and Requiem) in our study of love, power, need, self, and vulnerability. Lee has created a novel where plot points are placed orchestrally, which, of course, is completely deliberate. You can actually see the movements. It’s very cool.
I’ve only bought one paperback lesfic in the last fifteen months because for me to do so, the novel has to be outstanding. It has to be one that I look at on the shelf as a piece of art, to savour when I open it again to re-read. And so today, despite owning the ebook copy already, I ordered the paperback of Requiem For Immortals, because I want it there on my shelf as that piece of art.
It was so incredible to read something and not say “ooh, I wish I could write like that.” I don’t want to write like Lee Winter. I want to sit in her carefully chosen words, which build her intricate characters, who sustain her layered plots, and admire them, not emulate them. Requiem For Immortals has a depth and strength that holds an audience. It is artistic. Sometimes it’s just nice to perch quietly on the padded seat in front of the painting and appreciate all that it offers.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2988327685
Love is Not Nothing by Lee Winter
Driving Me Mad by L.T. Smith
Deliberate Harm by J.R. Wolfe
The Red Files by Lee Winter
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Registration Opens for the YSC Summit, Serving the 12K Women Diagnosed Under 40 Annually
New York, New York (October 23, 2017) - — More than 250,000 women living in the U.S. today were diagnosed with breast cancer before their 41st birthday, and approximately 12,000 young women will be diagnosed this year alone. Young Survival Coalition® (YSC), the premier organization dedicated to young women affected by breast cancer, is bringing them together for the annual YSC Summit, February 23 - 25, 2018, in Orlando, Florida.
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Stora-Enso Is Likely to Be Listed On Stockholm, Helsinki Exchanges
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BRUSSELS -- The decision by the European Commission to clear Finnish paper and pulp group Enso Oy's merger with Swedish counterpart Stora AB, which will create the world's largest paper and board manufacturer, paves the way for a stock exchange listing of Stora-Enso before the end of the year, said Jukka Haermaelae, Enso chief executive-designate.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A meeting at the West Virginia Capitol on Tuesday aimed to bring together leaders from both sides of the political aisle in a push for comprehensive LGBTQ non-discrimination protections.
Senate President Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson County, described the roundtable as “very informative,” although he would not commit to bringing the Fairness Act up for a vote in the Senate.
Nearly four dozen members of the state House or Senate have backed that Fairness Act. A version of the legislation has been introduced for multiple years, but leaders now say it’s finally gaining traction.
Currently in West Virginia, someone can be fired from their job and denied housing or public benefits based on their sexual orientation.
State leaders said about 60 percent of West Virginians support some form of the legislation and that 20 states have passed comprehensive legislation like the Fairness Act.
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Seth Rollins extends an invitation to Jon Stewart to show up live on Monday Night Raw.
Continuing the war of words that he started last Monday night, Seth Rollins boldly interrupted “The Daily Show” to confront its host, Jon Stewart, on his home turf.
“Real tough talk, Stewart,” said Rollins, cutting into the Comedy Central program during its closing segment, “The Moment of Zen.” “Why don't you shut your mouth and bring it, pal?”
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Mr. Money in the Bank incited this rivalry after claiming that he could take over as host of “The Daily Show” when Stewart steps down and “make it watchable.” Once Stewart fired back with a video response, Rollins offered to meet the political satirist face-to-face to settle their differences at either a WWE event or on “The Daily Show” itself. Clearly not content with waiting for another reply from the Emmy Award-winning talk show host, an impatient Rollins took this escalating battle right to Stewart’s doorstep. But the real surprise was still to come in the form of the "Future of WWE's" shocking invitation.
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The Simple Way to Get Back Your Lost Voice, and Prevent Losing It Again
Try this speech pathologist-approved home remedy.
By Christina Oehler
The days have long passed since blowing bubbles through a straw in our drinks was acceptable in public, but as it turns out, that silly childhood pastime may keep you from losing your voice—and help you regain it if it's already disappeared.
According to Diana Orbelo, a speech-language pathologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, blowing through a straw helps preserve your voice, especially if you're particularly prone to losing it.
"We don't know why some people are more susceptible to voice problems compared to others," Orbelo explained to Vox. "There may be a genetic predisposition, habits we form growing up."
The "straw technique" may be the answer to your vanishing voice. This method involves blowing or humming through a straw, like you did into your milkshake as a kid. It's an effective way to invigorate tired vocal chords because it works the muscles that give your voice its regular projection abilities.
This crazy remedy isn't news; the straw technique has been around for hundreds of years, according to the National Center for Speech and Voice.
However, Mayo Clinic recommends that if your vocal problems persist for long periods, it's best to see a doctor to make sure something more serious isn't to blame.
So next time your kids are blowing bubbles in their milk, join in the fun. After all, you want them to be able to hear you when it's time to tell them to cut it out, right?
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Video clips highlight discrimination against migrant women in family reunification policies
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[Brussels, 13 January 2012] The European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW) and the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) have produced three video clips in order to make visible the discrimination against migrant women in family reunification provisions.
The clips tell the stories of three migrant women, Liz, Saheli and Claudia. Their stories highlight the main challenges that migrant women face due to the lack of gender sensitivity of migration policies, in particular family reunification policies.
The clips are the center-piece of the ENoMW and the EWL campaign for more gender sensitive family reunification provisions in the context of the forthcoming review of the EU family reunification legislation.
Clip I: Liz
Liz cannot reach the salary level needed to qualify for family reunification. She misses her children terrible but can’t afford to stop sending home the remittances. Children don’t understand the waiting period and feel rejected by their parents. It is mostly children who are joining under Family Reunification policies and not spouses.
Clip II: Saheli
Saheli is a dependent spouse. She has no rights of her own. Her presence and her residence permit in the country is dependent on her husband and on her relationship. Migrant women like Saheli endure abuse longer and suffer more. Legal dependency distorts family relations and reinforces patriarchal values.
Clip III: Claudia
Claudia cannot join her Danish partner in Denmark, even though they love each other. The family reunification rights of EU citizens are some times better protected outside of their country of origin. Many EU citizens are forced to undergo temporary relocations to fellow Member States in order to be allowed to live with their non-EU family members in Europe.
The clips were directed by Kevin de la Isla O’Neill and produced by Barrie Dowdall and Telwell Productions.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY
After leaving school in Mexico Kevin de la Isla O’Neill worked as a theatre actor and soap actor (Carrusel de las Américas) in Mexico City. He moved to Ireland in 1996 and studied film & TV in Coláiste Dhulaigh and at the University of Wolverhampton. He has written and directed several short films including, A Kings Tradition (9 awards at NYC midnight 2006, including Audience Award and Best Director), The Wacky Diary of a Pick Up Artist (NYCmidnight 2005 Best Director). He has also worked as a camera operator, A.P. and editor for TV3, Setanta and RTÉ. He directed the stage play Stoker (2009) at the New Theatre, Dublin, which was a total sell out. He edited The Confession directed by Thomas Hefferon, which screened at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2010 he won 1st prize in the Irish Jameson/Empire Done in 60 Seconds competition and ended in the top 10 out of over 5,000 entries at the International finals with his version of The Departed, which he shot, directed and edited. Most recently he won 1st prize for the 2nd time in a row the Irish Jameson/Empire Done in 60 Seconds competition with his version of ’Shadow of the Vampire’.
PRODUCER BIOGRAPHY
Barrie Dowdall is a producer, director and cameraman who has worked in the audio-visual sector since 1986. He is currently producing & co-directing with Siobhán Lynam a three part-series called BANISHED WOWEN which tells the story of the 25,000 women from Ireland & England who were transported to Australia from 1788 – 1852. Other work work includes: SANCTUARY (2009/2010) a series of monologues about asylum seekers in Ireland performed by actors and writers living in Ireland including Sebastian Barry, Marian Keyes, Mick Lally, Eileen Walsh, Aidan Kelly, and other leading performers and writers. CHILDRENS TV ON TRIAL (2007, BBC): EXILE IN HELL (2007, BCI, IFB, TG4) a drama-doc filmed on location in Tasmania about a group of convicts who escape from a penal colony and eventually engage in cannibalism as a means of survival; FORGIVENESS (2006) a short period drama on the Irish Civil War starring Barry McGovern. As programme consultant, SPIKE MILLIGAN – I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL (2005, BBC, RTE, ABC). Other work as producer & director includes: TOMAS – IN POWER & GRACEFUL (2005); the award winning NED KELLY (2003, TG4, IFB, AFC,); AFGHANISTAN – AFTER THE WAR (2002, PBS, The Bill Moyers Show) filmed in Afghanistan and Pakistan; THE LONG ROAD/AN BOTHAR FADA (2000, TG4, IFB); ONE MAN & HIS DOG (1998, Loopline, RTE); RUBY BACKDROP (1994, RTE).
He produced Ireland’s first ever Children’s cookery series, COOKING FOR THE QUEEN (20X5) for TG4. Corporate work as a cameraman includes 52 short films for the Sisters of Charity filmed extensively in Venezuala, Zambia and Nigeria, California and the UK. He has also travelled and filmed in the Middle East, the Himalayas and Indonesia. A former Irish representative of the European Documentary Network (EDN) . He has given documentary workshops and master classes in various third level institutions and written articles for DOX Magazine. Former Jury member of the Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA), council member of the Irish Film Institute and Founder Board Member of the Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival, Dublin.
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Cryptomining Supply Chain Attack Hits Government Websites
This entry was posted in General Security, WordPress Security on February 11, 2018 by Mark Maunder 17 Replies
In the past 24 hours, Security researcher Scott Helme discovered that a third party accessibility plugin called ‘Browsealoud’ had their servers compromised. The plugin relies on a website including Javascript in their content in order to work. This compromise resulted in over 4,000 websites serving up cryptomining malware.
The malware uses site visitor CPUs to mine for Monero cryptocurrency. The sites that use Browsealoud included the UK Information Commissioner’s office, UK National Health Service websites, an Australian provincial government website and many more.
Texthelp is the company that makes the Browsealoud plugin. They are reporting that their product was infected for four hours, affecting sites that use the Browsealoud plugin before it was take offline. The product remains offline while they investigate.
Cryptomining Attacks On The Rise
In November we wrote about a WordPress plugin that was banned for including cryptomining code, specifically CoinHive code that mines Monero currency. In that case, if a website used the banned plugin, any visitor to the site would see their browser CPU resources exploited to mine Monero and the proceeds were aggregated using CoinHive and sent to the plugin owner. Back then I included a video showing how CPU fan speed increases as the workload increases from Monero mining.
In December of last year, we wrote about a massive Monero cryptomining attack campaign that targeted WordPress.
Scott reports that this campaign also used CoinHive code to mine Monero and send the proceeds back to the attacker.
Supply Chain Attacks Have Wide Impact
On January 2nd of this year, my colleague Dan Moen wrote about the emerging threat of supply chain attacks. He had mentioned to me that, in light of the rise in supply chain attacks we saw in 2017 targeting WordPress, it is quite likely that 2018 is going to see a large number of these kinds of attacks affecting site owners and we had better get the word out, which we did.
As Dan wrote in January, “In the software industry, a supply chain attack exploits a trusted relationship between software vendors or authors and their customers.”. In that post we were focused on discussing the risk of compromised plugins affecting thousands of WordPress sites.
This is another kind of supply chain attack that affects the “trusted relationship between software vendors or authors and their customers”. You trust a service distributing Javascript to maintain site security. If that service is compromised, it affects any website using that code – potentially thousands of websites. As is the case with WordPress plugins, Javascript supply chain attacks allow a malicious actor to compromise thousands of websites with a single hack.
In the case of Browsealoud, the incident could have been much worse. The attacker could have stolen credentials from government websites in multiple countries. Instead, they simply exploited the CPU resources of site visitors to mine Monero cryptocurrency.
How To Protect Your Site and Site Visitors From JS Supply Chain Attacks
There is an easy way to protect yourself against Javascript supply chain attacks using a security feature called Subresource Integrity, or SRI. If you are including javascript code from an external source using the <SCRIPT> tag, simply include an ‘integrity’ attribute which will cause browsers to not load the script if it is modified from the original version.
Normally you’ll include a script like this:
To secure your site against JS supply chain attacks, change it to:
Making this change is easy. You can visit this page to generate a hash and the inclusion code from a script URL.
The ‘integrity’ attribute contains a ‘hash’ that uniquely identifies the content of the script. If that content changes, the browser can recognize that it has changed and will refuse to load the script. This gives site owners back control over what they load from remote servers, by refusing to load code that has changed from the original version.
You should be aware that once you use SRI and include a hash for your scripts, if the vendor changes the script, it will not load. This has the benefit of protecting your site visitors if a hacker compromises the vendor site and injects malware into the javascript that you are loading. But it also has the side effect that if a vendor updates their code at that same URL, your script will no longer load.
Some legacy vendors may rely on the ability to update their code at a URL whenever they please and have your site simply load the new code without you taking action. If a vendor includes a version number in the script URL, as in the jQuery URL above, then you probably don’t have to worry about this. But if the URL is something like //example.com/source/code/lives/here.js and there is no version specified, then check with the vendor to find out whether they will be updating the script you are using. They may need to notify you when they perform updates to avoid service interruptions.
In general I would avoid any vendor that insists on the ability to remotely update code without you making a change to your website code. It’s a security risk, as this case illustrates.
Javascript Supply Chain Attacks Are Real-Time
The thing that differentiates a JS supply chain attack from other forms is that, once the attacker installs their malicious code, victims are instantly affected. No action is required by the site administrator or site visitors. Code is being loaded per visit from the compromised server and the moment a code change is made, it is active in victim browsers.
This is different from application supply chain attacks or WordPress plugin supply chain attacks. An application supply chain attack needs a compromised application to be distributed before it exploits users. Desktop or mobile users need to upgrade to the new version before they are effected. Even if an auto-update is pushed out by the attacker somehow, there will be some delay before it is effective.
A WordPress plugin supply chain attack needs site owners to update to the new compromised plugin version before it is active. Javascript supply chain attacks are instantly active and being loaded by site visitors as soon as the attacker saves the file to the distribution web server. That is why it is critically important to use SRI for all external scripts on your site.
Please spread the word about the risk of Javascript supply chain attacks and how to mitigate them using Subresource Integrity or SRI.
17 Comments on "Cryptomining Supply Chain Attack Hits Government Websites"
MrX February 11, 2018 at 9:12 pm
Do you recommend using the integrity code with fontawesome, analytics etc? Or are these safe to use?
Also say we add this integrity code when using the js, and if they update it will it stop working or would it give some kind of warning?
Will it be possible for you'll to add this to your plugin and on first time acan automatically add the integrity code and then later from the plugin itself allow us to regenerate the code of the js has changed.
Mark Maunder February 12, 2018 at 8:33 am
Great questions. I'm actually having a conversation on twitter about this with Scott. Tough problems. If you use the code, you lose dynamic vendor updates. Thread is here: @mmaunder
Question 1: Ask the vendor.
Question 2: Yes it will stop working.
Question 3: We are giving this some thought.
Geoff webber February 11, 2018 at 11:31 pm
Whilst I understand the threat and how it works. How do I know when these JS scripts are run, and what kind of things do they bring to my browser...
Make sure you trust them when you install. Once installed, you can use SRI to lock them down and they won't be able to change. However, see my comments to another commenter about the fact that you then prevent the vendor from dynamically updating the script. So check with them to make sure you can lock their script down.
Grease Trap February 12, 2018 at 12:25 am
That's very important to know, thanks. I take it that it doesn't affect scripts that you write or have copied from elsewhere, only ones that are present as part of a plugin or program coming from elsewhere?
It affects all scripts. Anything served from a web server can be compromised and if you don't control the script and it comes from an outside source, if you can you should lock it down.
Brian Read February 12, 2018 at 2:01 am
That ability to protect external javascript links is gold dust! I've added it already to a site I'm working on now.
Benjamin B February 12, 2018 at 5:21 am
I know I am a nerd because this was fascinating! To SRI or not to SRI? Well as they say when it comes to trusting anyone/anything, trust but verify.
Is there a way to have two allowable SRIs? One for the current release and one for the next release? This would depend on the vendor sending this out before the update, but that small process change would ensure only trusted code. I suppose an SRI go-live timer could control this....
I really do like that vendors can patch/optimize/improve their supply chain based scripts without manual effort from me, but the trade off is clear. This is probably my inner couch potato...
Thanks for another great article!
Interesting thought. The problem is that the vendor doesn't know what a future release's code would look like so it's not possible to compute the hash.
But you've got me thinking. Having the vendor use offline developer keys to sign the code is an interesting idea.
Sarah February 12, 2018 at 5:56 am
Thank you for this article. I just learned what blockchain and crypto-mining are in the last 2 weeks thanks to a continuing education class. I was wondering how to determine if any of my WordPress sites are using external scripts so I can add SRI if necessary?
Just view source and search for `
Carol February 12, 2018 at 6:44 am
Does WP implement SRI for enqueue scripts?
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33948
We don't do anything with SRI right now. To be clear, having SRI for local scripts wouldn't help because if your site is compromised all hashes can be recomputed by attacker - in fact they'll just replace the tags with malicious code.
For external CDN assets it's interesting but will probably break stuff because devs may expect the ability to dynamically update. Unless as I mentioned in the post, a script includes a version and it's locked down and won't change. In that case it's a very good idea to include an SRI tag.
We may be able to do something like detect your scripts with version tags and do a one time compute to generate SRIs and lock things down. Will give it some thought.
Meitar M. February 13, 2018 at 8:52 pm
In case it's of interest, the free WP-SRI plugin I wrote several years ago automates the process of hashing script and style resources and adding appropriate integrity attributes to your pages. Any JavaScript or CSS stylesheet added with one of the wp_enqueue_*() functions is hashed and remembered (in Trust-On-First-Use style). I haven't updated the plugin in about two years but that's because it still functions with the latest release of WordPress without any problems.
oka February 12, 2018 at 10:42 am
Thanks for this info.
Ian Brayshaw February 13, 2018 at 6:16 pm
It seems most of the JS I want to SRI hash is not possible.
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js
https://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit
On report-uri.com it says "The server does not have CORS enabled. This resource can't be integrity checked."
What do I do in this case?
Mark Maunder February 15, 2018 at 5:05 pm
I think you're stuck. Google don't have CORS configured and are probably dynamically updating that script.
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Home > Books & Patterns > Books > How To Make Whips by Ron Edwards - B5138
How To Make Whips by Ron Edwards - B5138
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Ron Edwards was born in Australia in 1930 and brought up in the country where small farmers still plowed with horses and harvested their half acres with sickles and scythes, and larger properties relied on the annual visit of the steam-driven threshing machines. By the 1940s all this had vanished, and Edwards had realized that the country’s traditional crafts also were disappearing. He began making drawings and notes of them and published these materials in his native country.
How to Make Whips is the American edition of his ninth book. The first section gives instructions for a basic eight-strand whip; the second deals with the making of fine kangaroo hide whips. Other chapters explain the making of bullwhips, snake whips, and whips made from pre-cut lace. Also included are instructions on plaiting names in whips and using plaiting designs for whip handles.
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Our Smart Seeds packages bring the excitement of growing natural psychedelics, ancient aphrodisiacs, sacred South American cacti and more of what Mother Nature has to offer right into your home! How about growing the powerful mind-altering Peyote or the Bolivian Torch cactus from seed and watching them flower right before your eyes? How about doing what the ancient Egyptians did and watch the heavenly blue Morning Glory unravel into full bloom?
Here at Zamnesia, you can find a great selection of Smart Seeds containing some of the most interesting psychedelic and not-so-psychedelic plants, including seeds for hallucinogenic South American cacti, the super-strong Aztec Tobacco, Yopo from South America or the euphoria-inducing Khat from the Middle East. Be sure to check back often to see the latest additions to our Smart Seeds collection!
Aztec Tobacco AKA Mapacho (Nicotiana rustica) 20 seeds
Aztec Tobacco (nicotina rustica), also known as Mapacho, is a wild tobacco plant from the southern part of Mexico and the Yucatan peninsula. What makes this tobacco variety different from others is its strength. This tobacco can have up to twenty times more nicotine than regular tobacco. With our fresh Mapacho seeds you can now grow your own Mapacho tobacco plants at home!
Marigold (Calendula officinalis) 10 grams
Marigold (Calendula officinalis) also known as pot marigold or ruddles is a flowering plant with an unknown origin but it’s believed to come from southern Europe. It has a long history of being used in herbal medicine. It is also sometimes used in cooking as a garnish and to give salads colour.
Green Mormon Tea | Ephedra viridis Seeds
Green Mormon tea (Ephedra viridis), also known as green ephedra or Indian tea, is a shrub that grows in dry areas of the Western United States. You can brew the stems and other parts of the plant to make a beverage known as a “spring tonic”. 20 seeds
Velvet bean | Mucuna pruriens
The Velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens) is a tropical plant that has long been used in many cultures around the world. The plant and its extracts contain a precursor to dopamine and are thought to have various therapeutic effects. In traditional Ayurvedic Indian medicine, the Velvet bean is used as a remedy for various illnesses and as an aphrodisiac.
Yopo (Anadenanthera peregrina) 20 seeds
The beans of the Yopo tree (Anadenanthera peregrine) contain the psychoactive alkaloids 5-MeO-DMT and bufotenin. Because of the powerful hallucinogenic effect, Shamans are using Yopo in healing rituals since ancient times. With our fresh Yopo seeds you can now grow your own Yopo plant at home!
Bolivian Torch (Echinopsis lageniformis) 20 seeds
The Bolivian Torch (Echinopsis lageniformis) is one of the psychedelic cacti of South America that plays an important role in Shamanic rituals. It is similar in appearance to the San Pedro cactus but with fewer and wider ribs. Like the San Pedro cactus, the Bolivian Torch contains a number of psychoactive alkaloids including the powerful psychedelic compound Mescaline.
Khat (Catha edulis) 10 seeds
Khat (Qat aka “Flower of Paradise”) is an evergreen shrub that is native to Arabia and East Africa. In these regions of the world, Khat is cultivated and widely consumed as a chew because of the plant’s effect that can cause slight excitement and euphoria. With our fresh Khat seeds you can grow your own genuine Khat plants easily at home!
Ma Huang (Ephedra sinica) 20 seeds
Ephedra sinica (Chinese ephedra, Ma Huang) is known for millennia due to its medicinal properties. The dried leaves of the ephedra plant act as a natural stimulant and energizer and have an appetite-suppressing effect. With our fresh ephedra sinica seeds you can now grow your own ephedra plant easily at home.
Morning Glory (Ipomoea tricolor) 10 grams
The Morning Glory flower has a long history of being used as a powerful hallucinogenic. It contains the natural tryptamine Lysergic Acid Amide which has a similar affect as LSD. The mind-altering Morning Glory trip can last up to 10 hours so prepare accordingly. Since consuming Morning Glory usually causes nausea and an upset stomach it’s best not to eat several hours before you take it.
Peruvian Torch (Echinopsis peruviana) 20 seeds
Echinopsis peruviana, better known as the Peruvian Torch cactus is another of the hallucinogenic cacti that is native to South America. The Peruvian Torch contains the psychoactive alkaloid mescaline which makes for powerful, altered states of consciousness. With our fresh Peruvian Torch (Trichocereus peruvianus) seeds you can now grow this sacred cactus easily at home.
Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) 20 seeds
With our freshly harvested high quality Lophophora williamsii (Peyote) seeds you can now grow your own Peyote cacti at home. As compared to fully grown Peyote cacti plants, cultivating your own Peyote can be more economic because you can grow them at relatively low cost. Plus, being able to watch your Peyote seeds grow to full-grown flowering plants can make for a fascinating hobby all on...
San Pedro (Echinopsis pachanoi) 20 seeds
Echinopsis pachanoi, the original San Pedro cactus is one of the sacred cacti of South America. For centuries, this cactus has played an important role in Shamanic culture. The cactus is a native to Bolivia and contains psychoactive compounds, the most important one Mescaline. With our fresh Echinopsis pachanoi (San Pedro) seeds you can now easily grow your own San Pedro cacti at home!
Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) 20 seeds
Christopher Columbus, when he set out to find the New World was the first Westerner that came in contact with a plant that the natives called Tobacco. The peoples of the newly discovered land dried the leaves, lit them and engaged in a strange ritual of “smoking” for recreational purposes. Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is now cultivated everywhere and you too can grow Tobacco with our fresh...
Cebil (Anadenanthera colubrina) 20 seeds
These alkaloid rich seeds need some heat and toasting to dry them. When fully dry pound them into a powder. Rich in bufotenin and DMT these inconspicuous shiny seeds offer intense hallucinogenic experiences that will impress the most adept psychonaut.
Aztek Cactus (Aztekium ritteri) 20 seeds
Aztekium ritteri is native to the Nuevo Leon region of north-east Mexico. It was a sacred plant to the Tarahamara Indians. Much in the same way San Pedro or Peyote are sacred in other regions of Mexico and South America. Aztekium was named after its resemblance to the distinctive shapes of Aztec pyramids.
Banisteriopsis caapi (10 seeds)
Banisteriopsis caapi (ayahuasca, caapi or yagé) is a South American jungle vine that has a rich history of entheogenic use. Tribes of the Amazon use the plant which they call “vine of the spirits” as one of the ingredients to make the psychedelic brew Ayahuasca, the traditional spiritual medicine of the rainforest. With our Banisteriopsis caapi seeds you can grow your own Ayahuasca plants.
Black Oil Plant Seeds (Celastrus paniculatus) 5 grams
Celastrus paniculatus, also known as Black oil plant, climbing staff tree and intellect tree is a woody, fruit-bearing vine from India. Black oil plant seeds are used in Ayurvedic medicine due to their varied medicinal properties. Celastrus paniculatus’ ability to protect the brain and to improve memory functions makes it an effective nootropic.
Gotu kola (Centella asiatica) 50 grams
Gotu kola (Centella asiatica), also known as Centella, Asiatic pennywort or Indian pennywort is a herbaceous flowering plant that is found throughout Asia, South Africa, the South Pacific and parts of Eastern Europe. The plant is an important medicinal herb that is widely used in the Orient where it is also a popular culinary vegetable. It is becoming increasingly popular in the West.
Monnier's Snow Parsley seeds (Cnidium monnieri) 25 grams
Monnier's Snow Parsley (Cnidium monnieri), also known as Shechuangzi, Osthole, Jashoshi or “Fruits of the Cnidium” is one of the most widely used traditional herbal medicines. The flowering plant which is a native to Asia and some parts of Europe has many beneficial properties. In traditional Chinese medicine it is used for its pro-erectile properties.
Echinopsis macrogona (Trichocereus macrogonus) 20 seeds
Echinopsis macrogona (AKA Trichocereus macrogonus) is a sacred cactus that has a long history of being used in shamanic rituals in Middle and South America. Like the Peruvian torch cactus, Echinopsis macrogona contains mescaline which gives it powerful psychedelic and hallucinogenic properties. With the Echinopsis macrogona seeds available at Zamnesia you can now grow this sacred cactus at...
Catuaba (Erythroxylum catuaba) 80 grams
Catuaba (Erythroxylum catuaba) is a small tree that grows in the rainforest in northern Brazil. The plant has a long history of being used as a powerful aphrodisiac and stimulant. The Tupi Indians in Brazil use decoctions made of the bark of the plant to treat impotency and nervousness and to improve poor memory functions.
Kanna 5 grams
Kanna (Sceletium tortuosum), also known as Channa or Kougoed, is a plant commonly found in South Africa. Indigenous tribes have been using Kanna for its mood-enhancing and relaxing properties for thousands of years. Now, it has gained popularity in the West.
Wild Dagga | Leonotis leonurus
Wild Dagga is another member of the vast catalogue of psychoactive herbs found on earth. The African plant is reported to have a similar high to that of cannabis, yet much less potent. The dried herb can be smoked or used to make decoctions.
Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca)
Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) is an herb from the mint family that has been used since ancient times for its numerous medicinal benefits. It has a relaxing effect on the heart and was popular as a “woman’s medicine” that helped with childbirth, menopause, and menstruation. Here at Zamnesia, we carry shredded motherwort leaves and seeds to grow your own motherwort plants.
Smart Seeds - Grow Natural Psychedelics And Ancient Aphrodisiacs At Home
When we think of psychedelics, LSD, magic mushrooms or DMT come to mind, but the world of natural psychedelics is so much more diverse and has a lot more of mind-altering substances to offer. It's these substances that the ancient cultures and tribes used for spiritual ceremonies or profound insights into existence. Nowadays, these powerful plants aren't hard to come by anymore, in fact, it was never so easy to find them and grow them at your home.
Zamnesia offers a wide and ever-expanding range of so-called smart seeds. Whether you want to grow and use a specific cactus, cultivate your own tobacco or some kind of natural aphrodisiac - you can browse our shop and find something that suits your needs. Mighty seeds of Mother Nature are at your hands to grow at home. Check out our variety of smart seeds once in a while to see what is available.
In this article, we dive deeper into different smart seeds and educate about their origins, their use and effects. We also inform you about how to grow these seeds for the best results. Let's have a look!
CACTUS SEEDS
BOLIVIAN TORCH
Bolivian Torch (Echinopsis lageniformis) is a psychedelic cactus from Bolivia, South America. It is very similar to the San Pedro cactus in its appearance but has fewer and wider ribs. Just like the San Pedro cactus, the Bolivian Torch contains a multitude of psychoactive alkaloids, like the strong psychedelic compound mescaline.
In its natural environment in the hot and humid climate of Bolivia, the Bolivian Torch can reach heights of up to 4.5 meters. With our fresh seeds, you can now grow this holy cactus easily at home. Once the seeds germinate, they only need very little water, only watering it when the soil has dried out. For optimal results, you should keep the conditions of growth moist and well ventilated. You will achieve the best outcome with cactus potting and soil mixes that are commonly available in gardening stores. The Bolivian Torch will grow into a green, columnar cactus with beautiful and fragrant flowers.
This cactus is considered as holy and therefore plays an important role in shamanistic rituals. It has a long history in such religious and spiritual rituals in South America. The contained psychoactive compounds, especially mescaline, alter the mind and bring the user powerful visions.
PERUVIAN TORCH
The Peruvian Torch (Echinopsis peruviana) is another hallucinogenic cactus that has its origins in South America. It also contains mescaline.
It is a fast-growing cactus that grows on the western hillsides of the Andes in Peru. You can find it there in altitudes between 2,000 and 3,000 meters. With our fresh seeds, you can watch the cactus grow into an impressive and columnar plant. The Peruvian Torch will normally germinate after 10-14 days. Once sprouted, you need to keep the conditions of growth warm and dry. Be sure to give it as much direct sunlight as possible. For the best results, we recommend a commonly available, slightly acidic, cactus potting mix.
Like the other holy cacti of South America, the Peruvian Torch contains numerous alkaloids, including the psychoactive mescaline. You will get a strong, mind-bending experience with hallucinations. This lets the cactus play an important part in shamanistic and religious rituals.
It is a fascinating hobby to watch a Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) cactus grow.
Peyote is native to Mexico and the South of America, so it prefers a very dry climate with plenty of sun. It grows best in a mineral-rich soil. For this special type of cactus, it has proven best to use a soil mix that consists of 50% sand, 25% grit or bims and 25% normal potting soil. Your Peyote will thrive in a minimum temperature of 10°C and a lot of direct sunlight. At the end, you will gaze at a pale green cactus with pink and white flowers. What's best, we provide you with a detailed and easy instruction of how to grow your own Peyote that comes together with the seeds.
Peyote contains more than 50 alkaloids, including the strong psychoactive compound mescaline. The intake of the cactus can induce effects similar to LSD or psilocybin that last up to 10 or 12 hours. It can trigger deep, metaphysical and spiritual introspection and insight. During the trip you will further see rich visuals or experience auditory effects. That is why Peyote is widely used in ceremonial rituals as a sacred medicine.
San Pedro (Echinopsis pachanoi) is another cactus that for centuries played an important in the shamanistic cultures of Bolivia, South America. Like the above-mentioned cacti, it is considered as holy.
The cactus is really easy to grow with our fresh seeds. It loves a peat-based special soil for cacti and succulents that you can find in any well-sorted gardening store. San Pedro needs very high humidity for the best germination results. After the seeds sprout, ensure a good air circulation and ventilation to prevent mould. The growing environment should be warm and shaded. It is really important to keep the soil moist during germination and early growth. In the end, San Pedro will be a columnar, green cactus with white flowers.
Like with all the South American sacred cacti, San Pedro contains psychoactive substances, notably mescaline. It is widely popular as a ceremonial plant. Shamans use it to cure diseases including alcoholism and madness. They further use the induced mind-altered state to make prophecies.
AZTEC TOBACCO, AKA MAPACHO
Aztec Tobacco (Nicotiana rustica) is also known as Mapacho. It is a wild tobacco plant from the south of Mexico and the Yucatan peninsula. It sets itself apart from other tobacco plant with its strength.
Mapacho is a great, aromatic plant to grow. Although it likes a hot, subtropical climate, you can grow it in colder climates without problems. The plant grows fast and easily and can reach heights of 2 meters. It will develop nice yellow flowers. It is recommended to plant your seeds in a sandy and nuturious soil and use deep pots. This way, the Aztec Tobacco will grow long roots that lead to optimal results. If your climate is warm enough, you can also plant the seeds directly into the soil. The soil has to be kept moist, and the plant needs plenty of sunlight. Our fresh seeds ensure a quick germination and the best growth.
Before you can use the tobacco, you have to cure it after harvest. This is done by hanging the leaves to dry in the sun or use a closed room with indirect heat for several weeks.
The Mapacho is so strong that it contains up to twenty times more nicotine than normal tobacco. It is very aromatic and can be used to roll your own cigarettes or cigars with an extra nicotine kick. The Aztec Tobacco is even used by shamans as an ingredient in the psychedelic brew Ayahuasca. The dried tobacco leaves can be ground and used as a snuff, too. In some parts of South America, the leaves are soaked in water and then sniffed which is called "singado".
When Christopher Columbus discovered America, he discovered a plant the natives called Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum). The peoples of the New World had the habit of smoking it and blow the tobacco smoke out of their noses while having a good time. Today, tobacco is consumed all over the globe.
Tobacco loves warm and average temperatures around 20-30°C. It is best planted in soil that doesn't have high levels of nitrogen. Our fresh seeds ensure a good germination rate and optimal growth.
Tobacco is smoked for its relaxing and energising effect on the body it can have. Nevertheless, it can also make a wonderful ornamental plant with its big, fleshy leaves and pink flowers.
Morning Glory (Ipomoea tricolor) has a long history as a mighty hallucinogen. The seeds contain the natural tryptamine Lysergic Acid Amide which has a similar effect to LSD. That is why some psychonauts use it as an alternative.
In contrast to the above-mentioned smart seeds, morning glory seeds are not aimed at being planted and grown into a plant. These seeds can induce powerful trips when they are consumed. But keep in mind that the effects are usually accompanied by nausea and other unwanted physical trouble, so you should consume them on an empty stomach. Don't eat 4-6 hours before you take morning glory seeds! Also, prepare for a trip that can last up to 10 hours so keep yuur schedule for the day clear.
For a light dosage, take 1.5-3g which is about 50-100 seeds. A medium-strength dosage is 3-6g which is equal to 100-250 seeds. The most potent effect is achieved with 10g which corresponds to 400 seeds of morning glory. You can eat the seeds raw or grind them and soak them in water for half an hour. After that, you can strain the mix through a filter and drink it. Some say that you can reduce the negative side effects by soaking the seeds in water for 3-4 days and remove the white, forming substance. Also, change the water frequently.
Morning glory is a powerful psychedelic that induces heavy, mind-altering effects so don't drive or operate any machinery after you consumed it. Don't take it if you suffer from conditions like depression, anxiety or other psychological illnesses. Never take it together with alcohol or MAO inhibitors.
Ma Huang (Ephedra sinica) grows in parts of north-eastern China, Russia and Mongolia where it is known for its medicinal properties for millennia. The indigenous peoples from these regions use the plant since 5000 years for therapeutic uses.
To grow Ma Huang is not very difficult and you don't need any special expertise. You can germinate the seeds indoors or outdoors in moderate temperatures. But the plant likes it on the warmer side with lots of sun. It is best to grow Ma Huang indoors if you live in countries with colder climates like the UK. Our fresh seeds will make for a troubleless grow.
The dried leaves of Ma Huang are a natural stimulant and energizer. They also have appetite-suppressing properties. The effect it induces has lately become very popular in the West where people use it to reduce their appetite or as a natural way to keep them energised. You can easily make a tea with the dried leaves of Ma Huang.
Khat (Catha edulis) or "Flower of Paradise" is very popular all across the Arabian Peninsula and in some parts of Africa. It is an evergreen shrub.
Regardless of some saying, Khat is not too difficult to cultivate. Our fresh seeds ensure an optimal germination rate and success with growing Khat. If you consider some key elements when growing Khat, then you will be rewarded with a helpful plant. You can plant the seeds in a cactus soil mix, vermiculite, perlite or a mix of these. As long as the potting mix is well drained, then you are on the safe side. This is important because the seedlings are pretty sensitive to mould. Khat prefers a rather warm and sunny place but don't put it in direct sunlight. Only water the plant when the soil is dry. The seeds will sprout within a week, and once the seedlings gain a height of 5-10cm, you can repot them.
The leaves of Khat can be chewed and cause a slight euphoria and excitement - like you would expect from the "Flower of Paradise". The effect is very uplifting and can be described as a weaker amphetamine. It lasts about 2 hours and fades away into a state of slight depression.
SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND
Although these smart seeds are easy to grow and therefore easy to come by, it is worth noting that we are dealing with mighty psychedelic substances here for the most part. The powerful and strong psychedelic cacti are nothing for inexperienced consumers. Please, only take these if you are an experienced psychonaut that knows what they are doing. If you are a psychedelic novice, be sure to start with a beginners dose and work your way up to the desired effect.
Seeds like morning glory can induce heavy side effects so be aware and use our recommended dosages and helpful tips. Tobacco is consumed all over the world but, as we all know, is extremely dangerous for your health and carcinogenic. Remember: The dose makes the poison! Take all things in moderation and carefully!
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Kineta Acquires Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes Drug Candidates to Test Unusual Biotech Strategy
Luke Timmerman
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Seattle-based Kineta doesn’t want to grow up to be the next Amgen. It has seen plenty of biotech companies go up in flames when they try to do everything from drug discovery to development, and manufacturing to marketing. Instead, the company sees opportunity in carving out one piece of that product development continuum, doing it well, and hopefully making some money.
Sound odd? It’s all part of an unusual business plan at Kineta, a company formed last year by CEO Charles Magness and chief scientist Shawn Iadonato, who worked together at Seattle-based Illumigen before that company was sold to Lexington, MA-based Cubist Pharmaceuticals. I sat down with them last week at their new offices in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood to hear about the company strategy and its initial case-study—drug candidates it acquired for autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and Type 1 diabetes.
The company was founded on the basic idea that there is a great supply of drug candidates in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries in the preclinical (animal testing) phase, but little demand for those products until someone generates evidence they work in human trials, Iadonato says. On the other end of the spectrum, there’s great demand from patients for new therapies, but a slim supply of really promising drugs in the late stages of development to meet the demand. The Kineta group, through work at Illumigen and other companies, showed they were skilled at taking relatively untested drugs through the late preclinical and early-stage clinical trials—steps that often trip up larger companies, and take a lot longer than they think.
So the Kineta concept is to cast about for promising drug candidates in animal tests, acquire licenses for pretty modest terms, run them through early-stage clinical trials on a strict budget of time and money, and then form a partnership with a bigger drugmaker who has the money and manpower to run bigger trials needed to win FDA approval for a new drug. If all goes as planned, Kineta will collect the usual upfront payments on these deals, milestones from success in later development, and royalties on product sales if they ever become marketed products. And they’ll repeat the cycle many times over. Essentially, they plan to do a couple of essential drug development steps well, and let other people try to be the next Amgen or Genentech.
“A lot of biotechs are built on ill-defined timelines, and ill-defined amounts of investment, and poorly defined commercial evaluation endpoints,” Iadonato says. “They lack clarity on time and cost.”
Kineta came to this conclusion because, as anybody who follows the business knows, biotech is almost insanely risky. It generally takes a decade or more and hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a new drug, and only about one out of every 10 candidates entering clinical trials ever becomes an FDA approved product. Lots of venture capitalists have been burned, and it’s a popular complaint to say the venture financing model for biotech is broken.
The first real test of this model at Kineta is a drug that comes from the venom of the sea anemone. The company just acquired an array of compounds from Redwood City, CA-based Airmid, which was working to build on research of George Chandy at the University of California, Irvine. The idea is to come up with drugs that tamp down autoimmune diseases, which are caused by the immune system going haywire and attacking healthy tissue like it would an invading virus.
Many of these conditions—rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus—have been treated historically with broad-acting immune-suppressors that tamp down inflammation but also cause side effects. One of the big concerns is disabling the immune defenses, and making people vulnerable to infections. Even with newer-generation, more selective immune-suppressors, like Amgen’s etanercept (Enbrel), this vulnerability to infection remains one of the drawbacks.
Kineta’s newly licensed drugs are supposed to be even more selective than that, disabling the part of the immune system that’s causing damage, while leaving the important parts intact, Iadanato says. The compounds are made to specifically block Kv1.3 potassium channels, which is supposed to suppress the action of effector memory T cells of the immune system. Something about the way the sea anemone evolved made its venom a highly potent and selective blocker of these potassium channels, Iadonato says.
The plan is to refine the manufacturing processes of this peptide drug so the company can take the drug into its first clinical trial in 15 months, Magness says. Within three years, Kineta plans to get through Phase I clinical trials, when it will seek a partner to help with the big trials needed for a disease like multiple sclerosis, while possibly retaining ownership of a rare condition that a small company can manage on its own, Magness says.
If Kineta can pass through those early trials, it could reap some relatively significant awards, since it’s a small company with 11 employees. The average upfront partnership payment in the biotech industry over the past 18 months, for drugs that completed Phase I trials, was $48 million, Magness says.
There are quite a few big competitors pursuing the Kv1.3 potassium channel target, including Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, and Amgen, Magness says. It’s unclear how far along they are in trials, or whether they are ahead of Kineta, he says. He’s confident that his company will find a niche here, at least partly because Chandy discovered the pathway, and has spent years searching for the optimal drugs to hit the target.
Kineta might not be the kind of company that ever makes glamorous headlines, or that will get patted on the back by economic development types as a paragon of Seattle biotech. But it might provide a return on investment that many other biotechs struggle to ever achieve.
“We’re not looking to build a huge enterprise,” Magness says. “We’re focused on what we’re good at. We’re not trying to overreach. It’s a more rational investment model”
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Evan is a character in Majora's Mask.[1]
Evan is the pianist, songwriter, and leader of the Zora band The Indigo-Go's.[2][3][4] When Lulu, the singer of the band, loses her voice due to her eggs, she goes to see Evan about it. He recommends her that she take the eggs to the Marine Research Laboratory to have them checked.[5] However, when he finds out that Lulu's eggs were stolen by the Gerudo Pirates, he charges Mikau, the guitarist, with the task of retrieving them from the thieving women, since getting those eggs back are the only way to restore Lulu's voice.[6] Furthermore, he informs the guitarist where he can find empty Bottles and recommends going to talk to the Beaver Brothers atop the Waterfall Rapids before heading to the Pirates' Fortress to recover the eggs.[7] Evan decides to keep Lulu's problem a secret from the rest of the band members so as to not crush their hopes of performing on the day of the Carnival of Time.[8]
Evan gets upset when he learns that Mikau and Japas are writing music on their own and refuses to hear anything they have composed together.[4] However, if Link enters his room and plays him the song that Mikau and Japas composed, he will gladly use it for The Indigo-Go's next show and award the young hero with a Piece of Heart.[9] This is the same song that is played during the band's rehearsal as well as their eventual performance in the Carnival of Time.
Evan plays the ending theme from The Legend of Zelda upon entering his room. He is last seen during the ending credits where he and the rest of the band members are performing at the Milk Bar for the carnival.
Japanese エバン (Eban) Evan
FrenchCA Evan (MM3D)
FrenchEU Evan
German Evan
Italian Evan
SpanishLA Evan (MM3D)
Evan and The Indigo-Go's
Evan playing the piano
↑ Encyclopedia (Dark Horse Books) pg. 244 (MM)
↑ "This is the room of Evan, the leader of the Zora Band, The Indigo-Go's." — Zora (Majora's Mask)
↑ "They've got Evan, the keyboard king..." — Zora (Majora's Mask)
↑ 4.0 4.1 "Were you guys secretly writing a song behind my back again? Isn't songwriting the job of the bandleader? What, you're not happy with my songs?" — Evan (Majora's Mask)
↑ "It has been two days since I have lost my voice. I don't want Mikau to know, so I talked to Evan about it. He recommended that I take the eggs to the Marine Research Lab to have them checked. I think I will take them right away." — Lulu (Majora's Mask)
↑ "...Mikau! We need those eggs safe so Lulu can get her voice back." — Evan (Majora's Mask)
↑ "Anyway, Mikau, did you get an empty bottle that you can use to carry the eggs in? One bottle can only hold one egg, so you can never have too many empty bottles. I told you that the beavers above the waterfall on the Zora Hall coast have empty bottles, right?" — Evan (Majora's Mask)
↑ "I'm still keeping Lulu's problem a secret from the other band members. They've all been looking forward to our Carnival of Time concert. And I can't tell them it's canceled 'cause Lulu can't sing, can I?" — Evan (Majora's Mask)
↑ "Huh? That song? Hmmm... It works, it works, it works! Not bad... That's a pretty good song I just made up! You've got a good sense of melody! We'll play my new song at our next show! Take this in thanks!" — Evan (Majora's Mask)
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