You may have seen my recent post on gut bacteria and mental health. I'm continuing the theme here with a recipe for Kimchi which has live bacteria and is relatively simple to make. One of my favorite sandwiches is the Reuben because of the sauerkraut. I have made it with tempeh for a vegan version and I also really like the one that Native Foods Cafe serves with seitan (a protein substitute made out of wheat gluten).
I heard about kimchi that is a spicy Korean version of sauerkraut made with napa cabbage and Korean red chilies. People all over the world eat fermented foods which help to preserve them and also provides health benefits.
Foods that you're familiar with that either use bacteria in their preparation or include them in the final product might be bread, yogurt, beer and wine, dill pickles, tempeh, cheese, and sauerkraut. But, did you know that chocolate and coffee also use bacteria as part of the processing? Not all fermented foods have live bacteria, but for this dish, we will.
We're going to let nature takes its course with the bacteria that's already on the food instead of using a culture. Serve with tofu and rice, or a cold side salad, with stir-fried noodles and broccoli, or over steamed vegetables. Take care of your gut, it's helping to take care of you. The recipe for this dish is from a class I took at Whole Foods Market, Del Mar, with Austin from the Fermenters Club. Thank you, Austin. Thanks also to Sara Vance, C.N. for her help with the mixing. See her website, rebalancelife.com, for info on her health and wellness services.
Finished product. Now, just wait.
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Kimchi is a spicy Korean version of sauerkraut made with napa cabbage and Korean red chilies. People all over the world eat fermented foods which help to preserve them and also provides health benefits.
In a 1 gallon glass jar or ceramic crock soak vegetables for 4-6 hours in brine made of 3 pints filtered water, 4-5 T. sea salt (no iodine). Make sure the veggies are submerged under the water by weighing them down.
Make the paste in a food processor or blender. Add all of the past incredients and pulse until a paste forms.
Drain vegetables, reserving 1 cup of soaking liquid.
Wearing gloves, mix paste thoroughly into vegetables with your hands.
Pack into wide mouth jars or a large crock. Put a cabbage leaf over the top of the veggies and make sure they are submerged under the brine which should form within 1 day. If not, top off with reserved brine.
Ferment. Cover with a towel to keep dust out and let sit in a warm dark spot for at least 4-7 days.
Taste for flavor and let sit longer if you wish. Refrigerate when ready.
Is there a reason for so much sodium?
Thanks for letting me share.
Hi Greg and thanks for your question. I recalculated the recipe and it was way off. Not sure what happened, but I appreciate you bringing it to my attention. It's actually a low calorie food.
Is that cloves as in the spice or cloves of garlic?
Hi Alicia, it's cloves of garlic. Thanks for bringing that to my attention! ????


I'd like to show that list to Rudy, my Golden Retriever. He could use some of those resolutions himself.
Those resolutions are really cute Appeals.
I have said my prayers for your baby. I hope all is well.
I haven't seen Appeals here since New Years Eve......I sure hope that things are good. Maybe they are just too busy in everyday life to post.
I fell in love today with this adorable little havanese puppy. The last thing I need is a 2nd dog, but she is so adorable!
I know, I know! Can't sleep trying to decide and I know she will be snatched up by the week-end. It would be so much harder to walk 2 dogs, we shouldn't spend the money so soon after the holidays, but I WANT HER!!
Oh Bobo2, please don't buy her if she is from a pet store!! PLEASE don't buy her even if she is absolutely adorable. Dogs in pet stores come from puppy mills. ALL dogs in pet stores come from puppy mills, regardless of what they tell you. NO reputable breeders will sell to a pet store.
Even if you got your first one from a pet store, and I'm not in any way condeming you if you did, please don't do it again without some research on puppy mills. Even if you think you are rescueing this one, buying him/her perpetuates the suffering of many more - 100's of thousands more. Plus, this one most likely was taken from it's mom at only 4-wks of age, is poorly breed, may be hyped up on antibiotics to keep it alive for the trip from puppy mill, to distributor, to pet store, but will cost you much more than you would pay for a quality pup from a reputable breeder. You will not get what you paid for.
Please goggle puppy mills. The state of Missouri is notorious for puppy mills and so is Lancaster County, PA. Yes, Lancaster County....the Amish.
The Amish consider dogs livestock. They are treated horrifically. Not only are the living conditions horendous, they even do such things as ram steel rods down dogs throats to debark them. It's a standard practice. Cross my heart!
PLEASE DON'T BUY ANY DOG FROM A PET STORE!!!!!!
1. If you were not at a pet store, please disregard, but still look do some research on puppymills.
2. I am not a tree-hugger - this is some very bad stuff - very very bad.
Petco, etc., sold puppys and kittens in the past. They no longer do. There is a reason for that change.
Yes, my first puppy came from a pet store.
I took a lot of c**p from people about it. I also was criticized for shopping for a dog online. Apparently people were only going to be happy if I got a rescue dog.
There was so much guff being thrown my way that I started to feel guilty. When her papers arrived the address of the breeder was given, in a small community about 60 miles away. It just so happens I pass throught this area twice a month in my business travels. So, the next time I was in the area I cruised by the address.
I found a neatly manicured Amish farm at the address with a swingset and lots of clothes drying on the line. I wanted to stop, but wondered how I would be received. There was a garage sale going on next door so that provided an excuse to stop there. I told the neighbors about my dog and how I was "searching her roots." They summoned the breeder family, who were a delightful young family with bunches of kids. They were gracious and the kids were especially excited to see the pictures of the growing dog I always carry in my purse. It seemed the children spent lots of time with the puppies and I do believe that is why my dog loves children so much.
Do I think the dog breeding was their main source of income? Absolutely not. I left there feeling good about my dog's beginnings. I feel she was loved from birth by her human family. Why do they sell the dogs through a pet store? I don't know, I didn't ask. I speculate they are private people who did not want people coming to their home, but I am not sure. Not sure they were thrilled about me intruding either, but like I said they were gracious.
Before I located my dog I did contact a breeder who was referred to me as reputable. I wanted a specific breed and did not find a whole lot of breeders. When I inquired about a puppy via email, I received back a questionairre. The cover letter said if I was not willing to spend minimum $2500 not to bother to reply. For my minimum $2500 I would receive a show quality dog that I was NOT permitted to show, that I MUST neuter or spay or she would sue (I of course planned to do that anyway, but did not appreciate the threat of lawsuit). I could not pick the dog - she would assess my living situation and determine which of her dogs I could adopt. I won't even go into the questionairre, but I should have had to fill out such a thing when I had children. Not to adopt a dog.
Now, I know there are good breeders out there (hi SunFreak). I just didn't find one for the breed I wanted that didn't have a waiting list for dogs that were not even conceived yet. And I do not feel my dog came from a puppy mill; you may disagree. But my dog is healthy, happy and has a sweet personality. She may not be show quality, but I do not give a hoot. She is a great pet.
"they even do such things as ram steel rods down dogs throats to debark them. It's a standard practice. Cross my heart! "
Never having had a puppy before I did not notice anything unusual about my dog. After having her a few weeks we went away for the week-end and left her with my SIL, who has lots of dog experience. When I returned she commented my dog was the sweetest puppy and loved the fact that she was so quiet and did not bark like other breeds. I was not aware most puppies barked due to my inexperience with dogs. At 10 months of age she is just now starting to bark.
poor Bobo, the way to look at it is that you rescued her and she's yours and quite loved now. I know my daughter is like Memphis about the pet stores and puppy mills but it's an industry that I cannot understand isn't more regulated? I place the blame on governance first and foremost?
I saw this tonight and we just laughed, how funny this was with all the snow the midwest is getting at least it would be a distraction to build a snowcat and not a snowman?
thanks none, my daughter would love to make a snowcat. If only we would get some snow! We have had nothing more than a few frosted windshields in the morning.
We are saving that link and hope to get to try it out.
Very cute Jack Russell, Dolce!!
Thanks Muffy. We visited my younger brother at his townhome for college and she just kept running and taking over his recliner and "posing". She is not spoiled or anything...HA!
This is my other Jack Russell...his name is Leonardo (Leonard) ... we call him Leo for short. He is a HAM!
This is my dog Grissom! He loves going to the dog park.
I still think he looks like a snuffaluffacuss!! SO CUTE!! Does he shed much? Is his fur similar to that of a poodle? Do you have to shave him ever?
I have a sister who wants a dog so bad, and my dad wants to get it for her, but she has allergies. She is 7 and she likes your avi. I just emailed them your photo of Grissom as a possible idea for her b-day.
Is he a water dog? He is adorable. What exactly does that breed do, besides be a sweetheart?


One can never deny the fact that literature is life as it showcases societal experiences through prose, drama and poetry. At one point, it showcases humorous and hilarious scenes in order to ease our pains by invoking uncontrollable laughter in us; and at another point, it brings to limelight the societal ills in order to correct them. This is achieved through the use of characters (humans like me and you) who perform roles totally different from what they represent in reality in order to pass across the underlying message of the play or movie. It is not really easy you know.
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Operator calls itself a "request network" aiming to "unlock the 90% of commerce that's not on the internet." The Operator app, developed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, connects you with a network of "operators" who act like concierges who can execute any shopping-related request. You can order concert tickets, get gift ideas, or even get interior design recommendations for new furniture. Operator seems to be positioning itself towards "high consideration" purchases, bigger ticket purchases requiring more research and expertise, where its operators can add significant value to a transaction.
Authentication. Users start by authenticating themselves using whatever mechanism is provided by their channel of communication with the bot. The bot framework supports many communication channels, including Cortana, Microsoft Teams, Facebook Messenger, Kik, and Slack. For a list of channels, see Connect a bot to channels. When you create a bot with Azure Bot Service, the Web Chat channel is automatically configured. This channel allows users to interact with your bot directly in a web page. You can also connect the bot to a custom app by using the Direct Line channel. The user's identity is used to provide role-based access control, as well as to serve personalized content.
There are different approaches and tools that you can use to develop a chatbot. Depending on the use case you want to address, some chatbot technologies are more appropriate than others. In order to achieve the desired results, the combination of different AI forms such as natural language processing, machine learning and semantic understanding may be the best option.
We then ran a second test with a very specific topic aimed at answering very specific questions that a small segment of their audience was interested in. There, the engagement was much higher (97% open rate, 52% click-through rate on average over the duration of the test). Interestingly, drop-off went wayyy down there. At the end of this test, only 0.29% of the users had unsubscribed.
The idea was to permit Tay to "learn" about the nuances of human conversation by monitoring and interacting with real people online. Unfortunately, it didn't take long for Tay to figure out that Twitter is a towering garbage-fire of awfulness, which resulted in the Twitter bot claiming that "Hitler did nothing wrong," using a wide range of colorful expletives, and encouraging casual drug use. While some of Tay's tweets were "original," in that Tay composed them itself, many were actually the result of the bot's "repeat back to me" function, meaning users could literally make the poor bot say whatever disgusting remarks they wanted.
By 2022, task-oriented dialog agents/chatbots will take your coffee order, help with tech support problems, and recommend restaurants on your travel. They will be effective, if boring. What do I see beyond 2022? I have no idea. Amara's law says that we tend to overestimate technology in the short term while underestimating it in the long run. I hope I am right about the short term but wrong about AI in 2022 and beyond! Who would object against a Starbucks barista-bot that can chat about weather and crack a good joke?
Unlike Tay, Xiaoice remembers little bits of conversation, like a breakup with a boyfriend, and will ask you how you're feeling about it. Now, millions of young teens are texting her every day to help cheer them up and unburden their feelings — and Xiaoice remembers just enough to help keep the conversation going. Young Chinese people are spending hours chatting with Xiaoice, even telling the bot "I love you".
Telegram launched its bot API in 2015, and launched version 2.0 of its platform in April 2016, adding support for bots to send rich media and access geolocation services. As with Kik, Telegram's bots feel spartan and lack compelling features at this point, but that could change over time. Telegram has also yet to add payment features, so there are not yet any shopping-related bots on the platform.
Amazon's Echo device has been a surprise hit, reaching over 3M units sold in less than 18 months. Although part of this success can be attributed to the massive awareness-building power of the Amazon.com homepage, the device receives positive reviews from customers and experts alike, and has even prompted Google to develop its own version of the same device, Google Home.
In this article, we shed a spotlight on 7 real-world chatbots/virtual assistants across industries that are in action and reaping value for their parent companies. From streamlined operations and saved human productivity to increased customer engagement, the following examples are worth a read if you've ever considered leveraging chatbot technology for your business (or are curious about the possibilities).
There has been a great deal of controversy about the use of bots in an automated trading function. Auction website eBay has been to court in an attempt to suppress a third-party company from using bots to traverse their site looking for bargains; this approach backfired on eBay and attracted the attention of further bots. The United Kingdom-based bet exchange Betfair saw such a large amount of traffic coming from bots that it launched a WebService API aimed at bot programmers, through which it can actively manage bot interactions.
Even if it sounds crazy, chatbots might even challenge apps and websites! An app requires space, it has to be downloaded. Websites take time to load and most of them are pretty slow. A bot works instantly. You type something, it replies. Another great thing about them is that they bypass user interface and completely change how customers interact with your business. People will navigate your content by using their natural language.
In business-to-business environments, chatbots are commonly scripted and used to respond to frequently asked questions or perform simple, repetitive calls to action. In sales, for example, a chatbot may be a quick way for sales reps to get phone numbers. Chatbots can also be used in service departments, assisting service agents in answering repetitive requests. For example, a service rep might provide the chatbot with an order number and ask when the order was shipped. Generally, once a conversation gets too complex for a chatbot, the call or text window will be transferred to a human service agent.
As IBM elaborates: "The front-end app you develop will interact with an AI application. That AI application — usually a hosted service — is the component that interprets user data, directs the flow of the conversation and gathers the information needed for responses. You can then implement the business logic and any other components needed to enable conversations and deliver results."
Some brands already seem to be getting the balance right. A bot needs to capture a user's attention quickly and display a healthy curiosity about their new acquaintance, but too much curiosity can easily push them into creepy territory and turn people off. They have to display more than a basic knowledge of human conversational patterns, but they can't claim to be an actual human -- again, let's keep things from getting too creepy here.
The front-end app you develop will interact with an AI application. That AI application—usually a hosted service—is the component that interprets user data, directs the flow of the conversation and gathers the information needed for responses. You can then implement the business logic and any other components needed to enable conversations and deliver results.
In sales, chatbots are being used to assist consumers shopping online, either by answering noncomplex product questions or providing helpful information that the consumer could later search for, including shipping price and availability. Chatbots are also used in service departments, assisting service agents in answering repetitive requests. Once a conversation gets too complex for a chatbot, it will be transferred to a human service agent .
Chatbots – also known as "conversational agents" – are software applications that mimic written or spoken human speech for the purposes of simulating a conversation or interaction with a real person. There are two primary ways chatbots are offered to visitors: via web-based applications or standalone apps. Today, chatbots are used most commonly in the customer service space, assuming roles traditionally performed by living, breathing human beings such as Tier-1 support operatives and customer satisfaction reps.
Reports of political interferences in recent elections, including the 2016 US and 2017 UK general elections,[3] have set the notion of botting being more prevalent because of the ethics that is challenged between the bot's design and the bot's designer. According to Emilio Ferrara, a computer scientist from the University of Southern California reporting on Communications of the ACM,[4] the lack of resources available to implement fact-checking and information verification results in the large volumes of false reports and claims made on these bots in social media platforms. In the case of Twitter, most of these bots are programmed with searching filter capabilities that target key words and phrases that reflect in favor and against political agendas and retweet them. While the attention of bots is programmed to spread unverified information throughout the social media platform,[5] it is a challenge that programmers face in the wake of a hostile political climate. Binary functions are designated to the programs and using an Application Program interface embedded in the social media website executes the functions tasked. The Bot Effect is what Ferrera reports as when the socialization of bots and human users creates a vulnerability to the leaking of personal information and polarizing influences outside the ethics of the bot's code. According to Guillory Kramer in his study, he observes the behavior of emotionally volatile users and the impact the bots have on the users, altering the perception of reality.
It won't be an easy march though once we get to the nitty-gritty details. For example, I heard through the grapevine that when Starbucks looked at the voice data they collected from customer orders, they found that there are a few millions unique ways to order. (For those in the field, I'm talking about unique user utterances.) This is to be expected given the wild combinations of latte vs mocha, dairy vs soy, grande vs trenta, extra-hot vs iced, room vs no-room, for here vs to-go, snack variety, spoken accent diversity, etc. The AI practitioner will soon curse all these dimensions before taking a deep learning breath and getting to work. I feel though that given practically unlimited data, deep learning is now good enough to overcome this problem, and it is only a matter of couple of years until we see these TODA solutions deployed. One technique to watch is Generative Adversarial Nets (GAN). Roughly speaking, GAN engages itself in an iterative game of counterfeiting real stuffs, getting caught by the police neural network, improving counterfeiting skill, and rinse-and-repeating until it can pass as your Starbucks' order-taking person, given enough data and iterations.
In the early 90's, the Turing test, which allows determining the possibility of thinking by computers, was developed. It consists in the following. A person talks to both the person and the computer. The goal is to find out who his interlocutor is — a person or a machine. This test is carried out in our days and many conversational programs have coped with it successfully.
A chatbot is an artificial intelligence (AI) program that simulates interactive human conversation by using key pre-calculated user phrases and auditory or text-based signals. Chatbots are frequently used for basic customer service and marketing systems that frequent social networking hubs and instant messaging (IM) clients. They are also often included in operating systems as intelligent virtual assistants.
There are obvious revenue opportunities around subscriptions, advertising and commerce. If bots are designed to save you time that you'd normally spend on mundane tasks or interactions, it's possible they'll seem valuable enough to justify a subscription fee. If bots start to replace some of the functions that you'd normally use a search engine like Google for, it's easy to imagine some sort of advertising component. Or if bots help you shop, the bot-maker could arrange for a commission.
Botsify is another Facebook chatbot platform that helps make it easy to integrate chatbots into the system. Its paid subscription helps you in five easy steps. 1) Log into the botsify.com site, 2) Connect your Facebook account, 3) Setup a webhook, 4) Write up commands for the chatbot you are creating, and 5) Let Botisfy handle the customer service for you. If the paid services are a little too much, they do offer a free service that lets you create as many bots as your lovely imagination can dream up.
"Today, chat isn't yet being perceived as an engagement driver, but more of a customer service operation[…]" Horwitz writes for Chatbots Magazine. "Brands and marketers can start collecting data around the engagement and interaction of end users. Those that are successful could see higher brand recognition, turning user-level mobile moments into huge returns."
Conversational bots work in a similar way as an employee manning a customer care desk. When a customer asks for assistance, the conversational bot is the medium responding. If a customer asks the question, "What time does your store close on Friday?" the conversational bot would respond the same as a human would, based on the information available. "Our store closes at 5pm on Friday."
Conversational bots can help a business's customers with difficult transactions, plus collect data and give recommendations. For example, a conversational bot integrated to an airline's website can answer questions regarding flight availability, rebook tickets, fees and suggest add-ons like hotels. Though a conversational bot may not be able to finish the exchanges, it could still be able to gather preliminary data and pass it on to the next available customer care agent. In both cases, the airline will save considerable time in its call center.
One pertinent field of AI research is natural language processing. Usually, weak AI fields employ specialized software or programming languages created specifically for the narrow function required. For example, A.L.I.C.E. uses a markup language called AIML, which is specific to its function as a conversational agent, and has since been adopted by various other developers of, so called, Alicebots. Nevertheless, A.L.I.C.E. is still purely based on pattern matching techniques without any reasoning capabilities, the same technique ELIZA was using back in 1966. This is not strong AI, which would require sapience and logical reasoning abilities.


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Divorced Characters
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Stan Lee/Creator
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Toxic Immunity
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Ophelia Sarkissian (Earth-616)
Ophelia Sarkissian [1]
Warrior White Princess, Meriem Drew, Leona Hiss, Mrs. Smith, Madame Hydra, Madame Viper
unidentified parents (deceased);
unidentified sisters (presumably deceased);
James Howlett (Wolverine) (ex-husband);
Femme Fatales; formerly Hydra's High Council, H.A.M.M.E.R., Hellfire Club, Fangs, Serpent Squad II, Serpent Squad IV, Serpent Society, Secret Empire[2], The Hand[3]; former ally of Red Skull, Wolverine, Seraph, Sabretooth[3], Chthon, Silver Samurai, Boomerang
Gehenna, New Zealand; formerly Madripoor.
Hungary, wanted internationally for crimes, criminal record in the USA and Bulgaria
Ruler of Madripoor, Hydra leader, terrorist, crimelord; former mercenary, subversive, smuggler
140 lbs (63.5 kg)
Black (usually dyed green)
Right side of face scarred,[4] though this condition was improved with plastic surgery; elongated sharp canine teeth caps[5]; Hydra's emblem tattooed on her back[6]
Human Mutate
Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Stan Lee, Jim Steranko
Captain America #110
(February, 1969)
(as Madame Hydra)
(December, 1974)
(as Viper)
We were orphans. Little girls, all alone. Hydra gave us a home. Eight great houses. Twelve girls to a house. And in the end, the most determined... the most ambitious... the most aggressive... That girl would be the Viper. All it cost was everything. I have been married to a man I hated. I could not marry the man I loved. I betrayed him. And I was betrayed in turn. Then I was murdered. Death, welcome and well - deserved. But Hydra, it seems, will never be done with me... To live, and die and live again.
-- Ophelia Sarkissian as Viper src
The woman who would become Viper was orphaned as a child. Viper was eventually recruited into the terrorist organization called Hydra, as one of the students of the infamous Hydra recruiter, the Kraken. She overcame all other potential agents, earning herself the title of the Viper and a position in Hydra's inner circle.[7]
For a time she became a mercenary and then a pupil of the adventurer Seraph on the island nation of Madripoor. Later, Viper and Seraph rescued another pupil, the mutant adventurer Wolverine, from his arch-nemesis, the feral mutant Sabretooth. Seraph died, but not before making Wolverine swear an oath of loyalty to Viper.[8]
Taking the name Madame Hydra, she took control of their New York operations and frequently clashed with the super-soldier Captain America.[9] However, her identity was stolen by the Space Phantom, who turned her branch of Hydra into his own private army. Madame Hydra eventually returned from Limbo after the Phantom ceased using her form, but was on the outs with Hydra due to his actions.[10] She reorganized the then-defunct Serpent Squad, killing the original costumed criminal Viper, taking his alias.[11] Acquiring the ancient and powerful Serpent Crown artifact, she sought world domination but was again opposed by Captain America. Viper next organized her own terrorist cell and employed the mutant warrior the Silver Samurai as her bodyguard.[12]
Viper battled Spider-Woman when Drew stumbled onto one of Viper's plots during her career as a private investigator in San Francisco. Viper, under the influence of Morgan le Fey, believed herself to be Meriem Drew, Spider-Woman's mother. Morgan sought to use the Viper as a weapon against Spider-Woman and briefly replaced the Viper's right eye with a black orb capable of projecting others into a magical dimension. Hoping to unravel the mysteries of her origin, Spider-Woman tracked Viper down to confront her and was tossed into this dimension and seemingly forced to confront Chthon. The elder god wanted to use Spider-Woman to emerge on Earth, but Viper ultimately defied Chthon, with the help of the force of will of Spider-Woman, who resisted Chthon long enough for Viper to ultimately free herself from his thrall.[13] This entire scenario was later revealed to be false when Viper broke free of the hypnotic blocks placed in her mind by le Fey. She blamed Spider-Woman for this violation of her mind, and tried to seek revenge.[14]
Soon after, Viper and the Silver Samurai clashed with the New Mutants when they attempted to coerce the motorcycle stunt riding Team America into stealing the Cavorite crystal.[15] Later still, Viper, alongside numerous other snake-inspired costumed villains, infiltrated the criminal organization known as the Serpent Society with the intent of taking it over. She poisoned the water supply in Washington D.C., changing most of the residents into snake-like humans, including the President.[16]
Viper subsequently entered into a brief alliance with the murderous Red Skull. However, this alliance was short lived as the two criminals soon double-crossed each other.[17][18]
Ruler of Madripoor
When the throne of Madripoor was left without an heir, Viper brainwashed many of the women closest to Wolverine in order for them to capture Wolverine and bring him to her.[19] She reminded him of his old debt to Seraph, their mutual mentor. Following his code of giri, or honorable debt, Wolverine agreed to marry the Viper. The Viper had gambled that Wolverine's respectability in Madripoor would enable her to seize the throne. She also used him, along with Sabretooth and Shadowcat, to foil both Hydra and the Hand's attempts to control the island. Soon after, the Viper was installed as the ruling princess of Madripoor.[20]
Following an illegal bloodsport tournament hosted on the island, in which Wolverine was a participant at the Viper's request, the demonic ninja spirit Ogun attacked. After failing to possess Wolverine, Ogun possessed Viper. In order to exorcise the spirit, Wolverine seriously wounded Viper, and Ogun's spirit was dissipated. In return for ensuring she received medical treatment, Wolverine made the Viper agree to divorce him. During this time, the Viper must have had plastic surgery to repair her facial scarring, as she no longer bore scars on the right side of her face.[21]
Her reign was subsequently challenged by the alien warlord Khan. Viper helped organize a resistance force against an attempted alien invasion of Earth which had made its beachhead in Madripoor. Viper ran afoul of the X-Men, and betrayed their leader, Storm, who was subsequently captured by the aliens. Ultimately, the invasion was repelled by the X-Men and the Avengers. Viper returned to ruling Madripoor.[22]
When Tony Stark was head of S.H.I.E.L.D., he wanted Viper dethroned, but S.H.I.E.L.D. couldn't attack a sovereign state, so Tony had to go there himself. After seeing Viper in her palace, where both tried to outsmart each other, Viper ordered Roughhouse and Bloodscream to kill Iron Man, but they failed. Tony Stark then turned the public against Viper and helped Tyger Tiger to become the next ruler.[23]
Viper has since taken a more subtle hand at fighting her enemies and appears to be working with Hydra once more. She tried to place Spider-Woman as a double-agent within S.H.I.E.L.D., using Hydra resources to restore the powers that she lost some time ago. Spider-Woman agreed to the exchange, but grew uncomfortable with the arrangement. When Drew was later offered membership in the New Avengers, Viper urged her to accept the offer and continue being a double-agent for them as well. The situation came to a head when the Avengers captured Viper when she was attempting to restore the Silver Samurai in a position of power to take over the Japanese underworld. Viper forced Spider-Woman to help her escape from a plane high above the Pacific. The escape endangered Captain America, who was tossed from the plane, and Spider-Woman helped save him, although Viper seemed to have vanished. When pressed, Captain America got Spider-Woman to admit to being a double-agent, but he asked her to continue to play the role so as to have intelligence on both S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra.[24]
She was briefly a member of one incarnation of the Hellfire Club, and has also associated with the Hand and resumed her ties with the Silver Samurai, though she would later betray him for the Hydra cause.[25][26]
Hydra vs S.H.I.E.L.D. vs Leviathan
When Hydra decided to go in a new, more aggressive direction towards world domination, she met and planned with the other five heads of Hydra: Strucker, Kraken, the Hive, Gorgon, and the new Madame Hydra (Ophelia was now going only by Viper.) However, after several confrontations with the Howling Commandos PMC, she and Gorgon were attacked by rival organization Leviathan and she was taken captive.[27] It was then revealed that the traitor within Hydra was Valentina, the new Madame Hydra, who then shot and killed Viper.[28] However mere hours after her death, the remaining Hydra leaders discovered her body and to the disgust of all, The Hive merged with & reanimated her but with a bulbous Octopus-like growth emanating from her head and four long, sweeping tentacles.[29]
Alive once more, and re-claiming the Madame Hydra title, she re-doubled her efforts against Fury and Leviathan before ultimately siding with Gorgon and a contingent of troops against Strucker - having decided his methods were counter-productive, they withdrew leaving the old men to finish one another.[30]
H.A.M.M.E.R.
Later Norman Osborn orchestrated a breakout from prison and gathered a new roster of Dark Avengers including Gorgon. Like the first team, this new squad targeted the Avengers to tarnish their reputation. Meanwhile a disgruntled former S.H.I.E.L.D scientist approached Osborn with swabs and DNA samples of many super-heroes gathered over the years. These samples allowed Osborn to attain new super powers but also remedied Madame Hydra's unsettling appearance - removing the tentacles altogether. Herself again, she aided Osborn in a mission to bring down Captain America, however her true goal became apparent when Osborn failed and she took charge of his soldiers, folding them into a newer, fuller Hydra with herself as the sole head.
Mystique approached Madame Hydra with the intent of buying Madripoor island from Hydra. Viper told Mystique that she didn't own it, but hinted that she does have some control over it. But the transaction never took place because the X-men intervened. To the meeting Viper wore a new protective armor and in the company of the new Silver Samurai.[31]
Viper was contracted by a third party to put out a hit on Wolverine. He eventually tracked her down to Madripoor in order to learn who ordered the hit. She had him fight Sabretooth, under that condition that if he won, she would give him the information. However the fight was interrupted by Lady Deathstrike, at which point Viper escaped.[32]
All-New Captain America
Viper assisted Hydra in another scheme for world domination. They created a doomsday weapon from an Inhuman child's blood, hoping to sterilize most of the world's population, save for agents of Hydra. However their plan failed.[15]
Captain America: Steve Rogers
Eventually Viper went back to Madripoor where she resumed control of her territory and illicit opioid business. She killed some rival drug dealers, after which she was approached by the new Madame Hydra who persuaded Viper to rejoin Hydra under Steve Rogers' command.[33]
Under the direction of Steve Rogers, Hydra was successfully able to take over the United States of America. Viper fought in the invasion of Washington DC.[34] Throughout their year of ruling, she remained a member of Steve Rogers' Hydra High Council. She was in charge of public safety, wherein she facilitated the imprisonment of Inhumans. Along with most of the Hydra Council, she advocated for the destruction of Las Vegas.[35] Viper gave a motivational speech to the Hydra Youth Choir in Chicago.[6] Later she was having a secret meeting with various businessmen and offers them money in exchange for their loyalty. Her meeting was interrupted by Black Widow's capture. Viper began to violently interrogate her, but stopped when Natasha explained her mission. She deduced that Viper had been continuing her narcotics operation unbeknownst to the Hydra High Council, and that she was recruiting the businessmen in order to expand her operations. Natasha threatened to blackmail Viper and explained why helping her would benefit Viper. Viper was convinced, killed her escorts, freed Natasha, and gave her the code to a secure room holding Mosaic.[36] Viper was later in Washington DC, fighting to suppress the resistance. However this proved futile as Hydra was ultimately defeated.[37]
Toxin Immunity: Madame Hydra has rendered herself immune to most toxins via controlled exposure.
Viper is a brilliant and cunning criminal strategist who has been rigorously trained in various martial arts. She is also a skilled markswoman and expert in the use of a bullwhip. Viper is highly skilled in the management of criminal organizations and very well connected in the international criminal underworld. She is also a master of stealth and espionage. Perhaps her greatest strengths are her influence, the financial resources at her disposal due to her stature in organized crime, and an uncanny luck which has allowed her to cheat death in situations where lesser people would have died.
Viper is also extremely knowledgeable in the properties and uses of toxins, poisons, and snake venoms, frequently creating her own poisons that she spreads through her hollow fangs or poisoned lipstick.[11][5]
Normal human female with intensive regular exercise.
Teleportation Ring - Viper employs a teleportation ring that activates when twisted.[38][5]
Protective Battle Armor - Green Kevlar/metallic armor that give her protection in dangerous mission.[39][40][41]
Various HYDRA vehicles.
The Viper carries a set of throwing darts tipped with either a lethal or paralytic venom based on the chemistry of snake venom.[11] She usually uses a whip and guns she keeps strapped to her waist, among other high-tech weaponry provided by HYDRA.[42]
After her resurrection via The Hive entity, Madame Hydra sported a grotesque, sentient, octopus-like growth atop her head, giving her prehensile tentacles and glowing eyes. It is strongly suggested that this growth is The Hive itself and that its collective-parasites merged with her body to reanimate her. However it is not revealed if this infers a symbiotic bond between the two or if she is in entirely The Hive but in a new vessel - with the woman she was completely eradicated. Regardless, alive once more she still retained all the memories of her life. Later when Norman Osborn appoints her as a H.A.M.M.E.R leader, he facilitates her to undergo a procedure to restore her former human appearance. The details of this are yet to be revealed and the question of whether she is a single being or a facet of The Hive still stands.
Madame Hydra still maintains a tenuous link with Spider Woman, much to the latter's chagrin. On numerous occasions she has welcomed, fought, contacted and even rescued the Avenger all on the insistence of recruiting her back into Hydra. Her motives, whilst always seeming genuine, can never be fully trusted as her identity has shifted so many times to suit her situations.
One of Viper's apartments was confiscated by S.H.I.E.L.D. and became a recurring location for their sting operations and witness protection.[43]
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Vitamin F: 1926–1957
View PDF: Vitamin F Research 1926 to 1957 1926 Boissevain, C.H. "The Action of Unsaturated Fatty Acids on Tubercle Bacilli." Boissevain reports experiments showing the effect of unsaturated fatty acids on the virulence of tubercle bacilli in vitro. (Compare with the work of Larsen on the ricinoleates.) Linoleic and linolenic acids were among the most […]
A Few Facts About Vitamins
Summary: In this succinct article from 1940, the great nutrition pioneer Dr. Royal Lee presents some of his foundational views about vitamins—facts that might go a long way toward righting the field of diet and health today were they more widely known. First, he points out, the effects of vitamins vary so immensely between species that it is completely nonsensical to recommend daily allowances for humans based on tests made on rats and guinea pigs (which is precisely how "recommended daily intakes" were developed). Second, he explains, no vitamin consists of a single compound. All vitamins in their original form—that is, as they are found in food—are in fact "complexes," or mixtures of biochemically interrelated compounds that work together to deliver a nutritive effect to the body. Such natural vitamins are a far cry from the single, chemically pure, "most active" compounds that pass as vitamins today. Taking such isolated fractions without their accompanying synergists, Dr. Lee says, explains the disappointing, and sometimes disturbing, results of early research testing the efficacy of synthetic vitamins. Vitamin Products Company, 1940.
The Facts Are Published—Why Not Be Honest About It?
By the Therapeutic Foods Company
Summary: In this brilliant missive from Dr. Royal Lee's Therapeutic Foods Company, the "facts" published refer to studies showing that only natural vitamins—that is, vitamins as they are found in food, as complexes of many cooperating compounds—are capable of curing vitamin-deficiency diseases such as beriberi, scurvy, pellagra, and rickets. On the other hand, isolated or synthetic fractions of the vitamin complexes, which today we define as "vitamins," do not cure deficiency diseases. For instance, few people realize that ascorbic acid (what is known today as "vitamin C" despite the fact that it is just one of numerous compounds in the natural vitamin C complex) has never been shown to cure scurvy. Nor does synthetic thiamine cure beriberi or synthetic vitamin D cure rickets. In fact, Dr. Lee points out, studies at the time indicated that isolated vitamin fractions might ultimately make these conditions worse. Scientific study supports these facts, he says, so why not be honest about it? Therapeutic Foods Company, 1941.
A Critical Discussion of Trace Elements and Biodynamic Agriculture
Summary: By the close of the 1940s, Dr. Royal Lee had seen many "peeps behind…the iron curtain that is so carefully maintained by the makers of fraudulent foods to keep the American people in ignorance as to the real cause of their chronic diseases." Thus, in commenting on the opinion of a committee who'd concluded, on very little evidence, that fertilizing soil with trace minerals is unnecessary to produce nutritious plants, Dr. Lee could not help but question the motives of the committee's so-called experts. "Such haste in promoting one side of a vital question that cannot be settled without a great amount of research certainly throws a lot of doubt upon the integrity and honesty of the committee." Lee would spend the next two decades calling out such formulaic chicanery, the kind of which would later lead to some of the great shams of modern nutrition, including cholesterol theory and low-fat diets. 1949. Original source unknown.
Are We Starving to Death?
By Neil M. Clark
Summary: Dr. William Albrecht was the Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri and the foremost authority of his time on the subject of soil fertility and its relation to human health. In this 1945 article from the iconic Saturday Evening Post, author Neil Clark recounts Dr. Albrecht's pioneering experiments demonstrating the critical connection between the trace mineral content of a soil and the health and hardiness of plants grown in that soil—and, consequently, the health and hardiness of animals and humans who eat those plants. Dr. Albrecht warns the magazine's readers in no uncertain terms that unless America makes a concerted effort to restore the trace minerals to its depleted soils, the country's population will suffer a slow extinction from the "hidden hunger" of mineral-poor foods, as evidenced by ever increasing rates of degenerative disease. With the "chronic disease problem" worse today than ever, Dr. Albrecht's prophecy rings ominously true, and his findings demand the adoption of organic farming practices across the board in America's agricultural industry. From The Saturday Evening Post, 1945. Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research reprint 21.
The Special Nutritional Qualities of Natural Foods
By Dr. Royal Lee and Jerome S. Stolzoff
Summary: In this landmark report from 1942, Dr. Royal Lee and coauthor Jerome Stolzoff contrast the nutritional merits of traditional, natural foods and their industrially processed counterparts. Whereas the foods of traditional diets have centuries of trial and error behind them affirming their ability to nourish the human body, the authors say, industrially processed foods were introduced into the food supply practically overnight, with no nutritional testing whatsoever. Only when people in droves began developing vitamin-deficiency diseases—which include the likes of heart disease and cancer, Dr. Lee points out—did nutritionists of the early twentieth century begin to realize the frightening truth: processing and refining render food nutritionally unfit by irrevocably damaging its vitamin complexes, and unless the human race returns to a diet of time-tested natural foods, it will quite literally starve itself to death. Includes an eye-opening chart listing almost 150 modern diseases and the vitamin deficiencies associated with them by scientific research of the early twentieth century. Published by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, 1942.
Excerpts from "Nutrition in Everyday Practice"
By E.C. Robertson and F.F. Tisdall and by Dr. E.V. McCollum
Summary: Excerpts from two chapters of a 1939 compilation by the Canadian Medical Association, which admits that "the practical application of facts concerning nutrition has not kept pace with our increasing knowledge" and warns Canadian physicians that they "must increase their interest in this problem of normal nutrition, otherwise the public will seek information on this subject elsewhere." (Advice that was, tragically, almost wholly ignored.) In the chapter "Nutrition and Resistance to Disease," Roberston and Tisdall explain that while clinical evidence regarding nutrient deficiencies in humans can be difficult to obtain because of experimental limitations, this is not the case for animal studies, which show quite clearly the effects of even "comparatively slight" shortages in vitamins. The authors present studies showing drastic differences in resistance to disease in animals fed a diet sufficient in nutrients and those fed diets deficient in, respectively, vitamins A, B, and D; minerals; and animal protein. "These studies furnish clear-cut evidence that improper nutrition lowers the resistance of the animal to infection," the authors state, "and also that the nutritional deficiency does not have to be so severe as to produce outstanding evidence of disease." In the second chapter, "Better Nutrition as a Health Measure," Dr. McCollum discusses the specific roles of vitamins A, C, and D in the body and in dental health in particular. From Nutrition in Everyday Practice, 1939. Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research reprint 115.
Cost of Malnutrition
Summary: In this creative and forward-thinking commentary on preventive healthcare, Dr. Royal Lee discusses the ways in which proper nutrition saves businesses money by fostering employee health. Getting enough vitamin A complex, for instance, helps maintain the integrity of mucous membranes and thus prevents infection and lost man hours. Sufficient vitamin B complex keeps the nerves and heart functioning properly, while adequate vitamin C complex promotes stamina by optimizing the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood. A proper amount of vitamin D complex prevents cramps, irritability, and bone-calcium loss, and so on. From Let's Live magazine, 1958.
Modern Miracle Men
By Rex Beach
Summary: A fascinating document from the U.S. Senate that originally appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine. Beach describes the work of Dr. Charles Northen, whom he credits as the first person to show conclusively that mineral-deficient soils produce nutrient-deficient food plants, which in turn lead to nutrient deficiencies in the livestock and humans that eat them. A historically significant record of the decline of America's soils, nutrition, and health. Reprint 109, 1936.
Vitamins in Our Food
By Prof. A.E. Murneek
Summary: In this article from Science magazine, Professor Murneek laments the various factors that have resulted in the "devitaminization" of the modern food supply. "Improper selection of food-producing plants, modern methods of handling the crop, and faulty preparation by cooking and other means has resulted in a diet of subnormal vitamin content for many people," he writes, adding that refining and processing of foods have "devitaminized our foods still further." If consumers truly want good health, Murneek says, they must learn to choose quality over looks or convenience when it comes to food. "By catering to the 'eye-appeal' we have, in our choice, often lost 'food value,' including undoubtedly a large amount of vitamins, both known and unknown." He reminds readers that the food manufacturers do not have their health in mind. "Profit has been often the motivating force in present food technology, the dollar sign the guiding star, setting styles, fostering sales and creating eating 'habits' for the use, in volume, of certain products….Thus economics and style, not nutrition and health…have guided most parties concerned in food production and distribution." Reprint 36, 1944.
Acid-Base Balance of Diets That Produce Immunity to Dental Caries Among the South Sea Islanders and Other Primitive Races
By Dr. Weston A. Price
Summary: The notion of "alkalizing" one's diet—or eating foods that supposedly increase the pH within the body and thus optimize health—has been around as long as the science of nutrition itself. In this 1935 article, famed dentist and nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston A. Price debunks the hypothesis that an alkalizing diet helps prevent tooth decay. Citing data from his famous worldwide study of populations free of dental disease and other degenerative illness, Dr. Price states, "In no instance have I found the change from a high immunity to dental caries [cavities] to a high susceptibility…to be associated with a change from a diet with a high potential alkalinity to a high potential acidity." In fact, he adds, his data show, if anything, that good tooth health is the result of an acidifying diet. Dr. Price further discounts the notion that an alkalizing diet promotes health in general and instead stresses the importance of eating whole foods rich in vitamins and minerals, particularly the fat-soluble vitamins so abundant in animal foods. From Dental Cosmos, 1935. Reprinted with permission from the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.
Studies of Vitamin Deficiency
By M.K. Horwitt, et al.
Summary: Report of a controlled study conducted in a state hospital testing the effects of diets deficient in thiamine and riboflavin. Of course this kind of test could never be conducted under today's ethical standards. Nevertheless, as expected, those who were starved of various vitamins suffered noticeable effects and recovered when they were restored to a proper diet. From Science. Reprint 26, 1946.
Quotations on Vitamins from the United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook for 1939
By the United States Department of Agriculture
Summary: Excerpts from one of the most quotable government documents ever published. In the 1930s, even as the FDA was harassing doctors and companies promoting nutritional therapy, the USDA published independent studies demonstrating the widespread effects of vitamin malnutrition in the American public (proving that not everyone in the department was asleep at the switch as America's food supply became adulterated, refined, and chemicalized). The USDA Yearbook for 1939 was such a surprisingly candid assessment of nutritional deficiencies in the country that the Lee Foundation published and distributed highlights from it in the form of the booklet shown here. If the statements in the USDA's yearbook had been published by supplement companies, the FDA would have brought legal actions. Unsurprisingly, reports like this stopped coming out of the USDA in subsequent years. From The United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook for 1939.
Vitamins and Their Relation to Deficiency Diseases of the Alimentary Tract
By Edward A. Johnston, MD
Summary: This excellent report, a reprint from the Journal of the American College of Proctology, starts with a clear description of the all-important connection between vitamin complexes (as they are found in whole foods) and the endocrine system. "When we consider that vitamins in the food are the substances with which the endocrines are able to secrete their active principles, it is apparent that a glandular insufficiency may take place in the absence of vitamins….All of the ductless glands, the thyroid, parathyroid, thymus, pineal body, pituitary, adrenals, gonads, pancreas, islets of Langerhans, and spleen must have one or more of the vitamins in order to secrete their vital fluids, and if deprived of the vitamins, will atrophy and cease to function." Such events, Dr. Johnston says, are obviously bound to weaken the body and make it more susceptible to disease. "Stomach ulcers are probably the best instance of bacterial invasion primarily due to a lowered resistance resulting from a vitamin deficiency. Other instances of vitamin A deficiency, and often found in conjunction with infections of the intestinal tract, are infections of the eyes, tonsils, sinuses, lungs, buccal and lingual mucosa, and the skin." This is the Royal Lee philosophy writ large. From Journal of the American College of Proctology, circa 1940. Lee Foundation of Nutritional Research reprint 2.
Vitamin U Therapy of Peptic Ulcer
By Garnett Cheney, MD
Summary: While it was never accepted as a vitamin by the FDA, "vitamin U" from raw cabbage juice was successfully used by pioneering holistic physicians in the treatment of stomach ulcers. Here Dr. Cheney gives some background and clinical applications of this officially unaccepted vitamin in a presentation before the 80th Annual Session of the California Medical Association in 1951. This file includes a supplementary document from a 1957 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association on the subject of cabbage juice for digestive problems. From California Medicine. Reprint 91, 1952.
The Primary Cause of Disease
Summary: Dr. Lee lays out a basic principle of his nutritional philosophy—the idea that bacterial infection is usually a secondary result of malnutrition. Properly nourished bodies, naturally stronger and well defended, are much better equipped to resist invasion of pathogens, which are always around us, Lee explains. A weaker, malnourished body, on the other hand, is much more susceptible to a successful attack by foreign invaders. From Let's Live magazine, 1958.
Maternal Malnutrition and Fetal Prenatal Developmental Malformation
By Howard H. Hillemann, PhD
Summary: A thoroughly researched report on the birth and developmental defects known to result from specific nutrient deficiencies in human and test-animal mothers during pregnancy. Professor Dr. Howard Hillemann of Oregon State College covers deficiencies of vitamins A, C, and E, fats, carbohydrates, the B complex vitamers (including folate), protein, calcium, phosphorous, and manganese. Includes 61 references. Published by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, reprint 66A, 1956.
Maternal Malnutrition and Congenital Deformity
Summary: In this lecture from 1958, Oregon State professor Dr. Howard Hillemann breaks down the number of birth defects occurring in the United States by cause, noting in particular the increasing numbers of defects attributable to environmental chemicals, food additives, and prenatal malnutrition. The report includes a comprehensive discussion of the role of vitamins and minerals in prenatal nutrition, addressing each nutrient individually. Published by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, reprint 66B, 1958.


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PM CARES Fund Trust allocates Rs. 3100 Crore for Fight against COVID-19
General National
14 May,2020 14 May,2020 The Reporting Today
New Delhi: PM CARES (Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations) Fund Trust decided to allocate Rs. 3100 Crore for fight against COVID-19. Out of Rs 3100 crore, a sum of approximately Rs.2000 crore will be earmarked for the purchase of ventilators, Rs. 1000 crores will be used for care of migrant labourers and Rs.100 crores will be given to support vaccine development.
The Trust was formed on 27th March 2020 and is headed by Hon'ble Prime Minister (ex-Officio). The other ex-officio Members of the Trust are Defence Minister, Home Minister and Finance Minister. While announcing this package, the Prime Minister thanked all the donors for their generosity in contributing to the PM CARES Fund which will support India's fight against COVID-19
a) 50,000 Ventilators
For augmenting the infrastructure to tackle COVID-19 cases across the country, 50000 'Made-in-India' ventilators will be purchased from PM CARES Fund at a cost of approximately Rs. 2000 Crores. These ventilators will be provided to government run COVID hospitals in all States/UTs, for better treatment of the critical COVID-19 cases.
b) Relief Measures for Migrants
For strengthening the existing measures being taken for the welfare of the migrants and poor, the States/UTs will be given a lumpsum assistance of total Rs. 1000 Crore from PM CARES Fund. This amount would be provided to the State Governments/UTs to place it at the disposal of the District Collectors/Municipal Commissioners for strengthening their efforts in providing accommodation facilities, making food arrangements, providing medical treatment and making transportation arrangements of the migrants. State/UT-wise funds will be released on the weightage of (a) Population of the State/UT as per 2011 Census – 50%, weightage (b) Number of positive COVID-19 cases as on date – 40% weightage and (c) Equal share (10% weightage) for all states/UTs to ensure basic minimum sum for all states.The fund will be released to the District Collector/District Magistrate/Municipal Commissioner through the State Disaster Relief Commissioner of the States/UTs concerned.
c) Vaccine Development
A vaccine against COVID-19 is the most pressing need and Indian academia, start-ups and industry have come together in cutting-edge vaccine design and development.To support the COVID-19 vaccine designers and developers, an amount of Rs. 100 Crore will be given from PM CARES Fund as a helping hand to catalyse vaccine development, which will be utilized under the supervision of Principal Scientific Advisor.
Cares, COVID19, Fund, PM, Trust
वीएफएस ने केंद्रीय वित्त मंत्री द्वारा किये गए घोषणाओं का स्वागत किया
Webinar on 'Odisha-India's Best kept secret' under "Dekho Apna Desh" series
Army Day: Mitron releases reprise version of 'Kadam Kadam Badhaye Ja'
15 January,2121 15 January,2121
Paint It Red Foundation initiates ImpactGuru fundraiser to reduce Period Poverty
Mitron launches #Netaji125 Campaign to pay tribute to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose


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How To Quit Being A Songwriter
August 28, 2013 / Mark Cawley
How to quit being a songwriter?
If writing songs is what you live for, it's probably the only thing that will slow you down.
I'm always surprised by the songwriters I coach who start by asking if they should just quit. Reasons range from "I've never made a dime from my songs", to "it's probably time to just grow up". I have a hard time with this.
Sure it's easy to say, "that guy's a real songwriter because he's making his living getting songs cut." That's only one measure of songwriting success! There's music and there's the music business. The business will measure your dream by chart position and royalty checks. Your heart will measure the music, your creativity, and well...heart!
Ability is another yardstick. Most every writer I've ever known admits to having some serious doubts about this path at some time. One of the toughest ones is to compare yourself to, say, Lennon and McCartney. If that's the measure then we're all gonna feel like the kid who's too short to get on the Disney ride. The good news is that we can keep finding tools to help us improve.
Maybe we should just call ourselves songwriters when we take something that didn't exist before and come out with a melody and a lyric, feel an amazing buzz from the experience, and feel the hope that comes with every new creation. Voila!
I think the old expression "if you can't not write, then you're a writer" stills holds pretty true. If you write just to make a living or be a star you're worshipping the wrong American Idol and sooner or later you probably will quit. If you live to write, odds are you'll be a songwriter... until you die.
What keeps you going as a songwriter when you feel like packing it in?
As a side note: While I was writing this someone emailed this story to me. You're never too old to write songs, amazing.
Hope you'll sign up to follow future blogs at
http://idocoach.com/blog/
Dedicating all my blogs this year to the memory of John Braheny. I still ask every songwriter or artist I coach to pick
up his book before we start talking.
There is also a college scholarship in John's name, through the California Copyright Conference (John was a past president)...here's the link:
http://www.theccc.org/scholarship
Mark Cawley's songs have appeared on more than 15 million records. Over a career based in LA, London, and Nashville his songs have been recorded by an incredibly diverse range of artists. From Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Wynonna, Diana Ross and Chaka Khan to The Spice Girls, Tom Scott, Kathy Mattea, Paul Carrack, Will Downing and Pop Idol winners in the UK. He has had #1 records in the UK and throughout Europe as well as cuts in Country, Jazz & R & B. His groundbreaking website Song Journey created with Hall of Fame writer Kye Fleming was the first to mentor writers from around the world one-on-one online. He is currently writing and publishing as well as helping writers and artists worldwide with a one-on-one co-active coaching service, iDoCoach.
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Thread in 'General Information' started by J Piroth, Dec 4, 2009.
Need to find a replacement tire for my truck, so I'm looking for a 265/70/16 Revo.
Can't find one locally or online, so if you have one to sell or know where one might be I'd greatly appreciate the info.
i just ordered 4 of the revo 2 from tire rack but they were 255 70 16.
nobody local including the bridgestone store had them. he called his warehouse and they said 4 to 6 weeks to get them, so he ordered them trough tire rack for me.
Yeah, I may end up just ordering mine through Tire's Plus (have warranty coverage through them, so I'll only have to pay 25% of the tire- $85 mounted, balanced, re-insured and out the door) but they can't guarantee when I'll get it. Could be a few weeks, could be a few months according to the guy there. Thought I'd take a shot at finding one myself and talking them into buying it from there if I could.
I have 3 REVOs. I bought 4 for my wife's Yucon XL from a small reseller that I knew. I believe that they are the size that you requested. I have them stored in my barn. Story is that she ran into a limb that had fallen from a recent ice storm and damaged the sidewall of one of them. She went to a local Firestone store and tried to get another tire and was told that she had the wrong tires on her vehicle. They talked her into a new set of tires. They almost got away with her giving them the other 3. I don't know how may miles they have on them (still look new), but can measure the tread depth on them for you if I can find my gauge. Was going to use them on my SportTrac until my son wrecked it for me. Did a real good job of totaling it!!!! Can't use them on my new truck as it has 17 inch wheels. So have held on to them until I could find someone that needed them. I am located near Springfield, MO and would require local pickup if we could agree on price.
Appreciate the offer, Jackie, but I already ordered from Tires Plus, so I'm on their timeframe now. Also, Tallahassee, FL is pretty far from Springfield, so pickup would be rough.


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