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Suman Pokhrel
Tree - Poem by Suman Pokhrel
Flowers climb the branches
exhibit their full blossom,
flowers visit drawing rooms.
they visit temples
and then they vanish.
defying fixed shapes
rivers hasten to no destination.
carrying countless goals
roads get lost in a maze.
I stand
holding the selfsame earth.
Many couples came under my shade
and rose to ecstatic heights
of imagination,
tired porters
put down their baskets
by my side
and slept out dreams
like lives of longings.
children who hopped branches,
left as they grew
carrying mementos
to remind childhood.
Wild winds' whirling clusters
whispered a while
perching on my leaves
and raced towards horizons
chasing sky,
chicks hatched on my branches
grew wings and flew out
carrying tiny lives,
travelers who arrived
passed out from exhaustion
but they came round under my shade
and carried themselves away.
Many a time
slogging me through the day
the sun sought to chase me away
from my standing position,
rain battered me into water
threatening to wash me down,
storm nearly blew me by force
by melting me into air
somewhere like itself.
Rays carrying rainbows
could not stay with me
sounds of Naumati band and
monotonous conch-shell drones
rose in sky by turns
and faded somewhere.
Traveler living in a distance
four days from here
before leaving home
thinks of relaxing under my shade
and catching up with his journey,
birds herald the spring
resolved to hatch on my branches,
roads part to meet here
in case they got lost,
dusts and shriveled leaves
take a breather behind my leaves
escaping chasing hurricane.
Soil a muddy flow hit by rain
turns to its essence holding my roots.
lightning dancing with winking eyes
continued to tempt
thunderbolts played threat games
clouds acted as though
they were splashing water
to wake me up.
Never did I feel like
leaving this place
and walk.
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Translated from Nepali by Prof. Dr. Abhi Subedi
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The deadly silver spores called Thread fell like rain from the sky, and as human colonists' dreams of a new, idyllic life shattered into a desperate struggle for survival, the dolphins were forgotten.
Now, centuries later, as the dragonriders of Pern prepare to complete the momentus task of ridding their world of Thread forever, T'lion, a young bronze rider, and his friend Readis, son of the Lord Holder of Paradise River Hold, make contact with the legendary "shipfish." And as the dragonriders grapple with the end of an era, T'lion, Readis, and the dolphins face the start of a new one: reviving the bond between land- and ocean-dwellers - and resurrecting the dreams of the first colonists of Pern.
More in the Dragonriders of Pern series.
©1995 Anne McCaffrey; (P)2008 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
"classic science fiction "
great Sci Fi book bringing the reader a terrific way of listening to this author while on the go with out holding the book in your hands you can listen as you travel on your bicycle or walking to work
"A bit dissapointed"
The story is not quite what I expected from one of the Pern books over all so far. At least from what I remember of them though it has been some years since I read my last one. The real problem is, and I do hate to put one down, but the narrator for this book is.. To put it nicely, not so great. H was looking forward to starting to listen to the Pern books while I am doing things that leave me unable to read, like house work, but if they all are narrated by the same one I do not think I will be able to do so.
"RIP Anne McCaffrey"
I read this long ago. I recently picked up a large collection of McCaffrey hardback (many first edition) novels. I felt somehow in Her presence as I was about halfway through this book when she passed to 'between.'
This is not my favorite book of the Pern novels, but it ranks very high. I am passionate about dolphins and swimming... and dragons. But at times I wished for more of Readis's life than the life of the 'politicians' of the planet. I wished for more science discovery. There was a lot of that, but I wanted more. But I know these are the threads of the next books and the evolving of Pern, so I shouldn't complain.
Though I have the hardback, I now prefer to read on Kindle where it doesn't hurt my eyes. And at times I need the audio version to listen to when my eyes get tired. Since the text to speech tool didn't work on this novel I downloaded the Audible version. Hearing a human voice narrating is always preferable to the computerized versions, anyway.
Mel Foster's interpretation was different than what I expected. I think, knowing that Anne McCaffrey is of Irish descent, I expected a brogue to come from the sea holds rather than what sounded a southern drawl. But that was Mel's interpretation and I soon adjusted. He did a decent job keeping the character's voices dissimilar enough to know who was talking when.
I look forward to 'worming' my way through all of Anne's books, those I have read and those I haven't yet. I hope I can afford to use Audible/Kindle help to do this. R.I.P. to my most favorite author.
Let the all humans, firelizards, dolphins and dragons keen:
Drummer, beat and Piper, blow
Harper, strike and Soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
As the dawning Red Star passes...
Until eternity passes
For Anne McCaffrey
"pern at its best"
wonderful, a great read, will read again, grandkids love all the dragons & dolphins thnx
"Not one of her best...."
The Pern books are a fun and imaginative merging of science fiction and fantasy elements. However, in this instance I think Anne McCaffrey has fallen victim a little too excessively to the "cute-factor" of Dolphins. Plot-lines, not directly involving the dolphins, are the typical well-constructed and executed exploration of interpersonal relationships and merging of science and imagination. Alternatively, the delphinid characters are the stereotypical 2-dimensional caricature of loving, short attention-spanned jokers that is so common in popular culture. They are at times unrealistically and even painfully cute. All-in-all not a bad offering from Anne McCaffery and the reading quality is above average. However, it is more of value as a tying up of some loose ends to someone familiar with the full series rather than as a first read of the dynasty.
"No much excitement here"
No twists, no action - far too tame for my liking
"enjoyable in the series"
The book is an enjoyable addition to the dragonrider series, though not central to the story line. Kind of light and fun. The narration is however a little annoying, the wording was soooo sloooooow at times. Almost insulting actually. Were they trying to make the book last longer? The characterization also wasn't accurate - as an example Fandarell did not have a whiny high pitched voice but a large booming one. The tenor of his voice was ok, just the delivery could have been better. If it were available with another narrator I would have chosen it.
"For 10 year olds"
I believe this book was meant for 10 year old kids. To teach them about biology. I only got through about 10 chapters. There was no plot, only cuteness. If you have not read AM before then start with Dragon's Dawn, it is well written and gives the whole background for the whole series. Anne wants you to read them in the order she wrote them, but I believe the prequel is the best place to start. If you are not in love with the series stay away from this book. I prefer the Rawn series.
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I loved this..it was very imaginative.
"Reviving of Dolphineers"
It rounded out the story of Pern by bringing back into play an essential part of Pern's history, that of the dolphins role in helping the colonization of the new planet. The narrator did a great job of distinguishing the various players voices. While I'm sad it's over, it ended well.
A classic. Written by a master. Her works will be remember like the other literacy masters
"excellent but for major error"
This is an excellent book, continuing the Pern series and linking in nicely with other later novels in the timeline. My biggest quibble however, and something to be very aware of is that it is not broken down into chapters on the file, it is just one long running book. This is maddening if you, like me. listen in the car or train and you need to continue where you left off.! If anyone does know how to break up the file into chunks which are searchable I would like to know!
Id would therefore highly recommend the book, just be aware of the foiballs!
"Great book, terrible narrator"
Love all the Pern stories, but the narrator is so bland - he speaks like a computer!


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Mar 26, 2011
This business is a joke. They tried to sell me damaged items and when I refused, they said I could get a new set from them for another 50% more or a "store credit" which is no good since I have to pay 50% extra to replace the set I ordered. Then they yelled at us when I said I wanted a new set for the same price or I would call my credit card company and told us to 'shove it up your a$$"
Ridiculous. Don't shop here, they deserve to go out of business. |
Apr 21, 2011
Nah, Hugh is not like that... I am a local on Fort Myers Beach where Island Treasures and Rickshaw is located and the BikeLuvR above is more than likely one of those people that never has fun doing anything, ever. Island Treasures is a little rough around the edges, but so is everything else on FMB. Thus the appeal of the island atmosphere. Even jaded locals like me have a certain fondness for landmarks like Island Treasures & Rickshaw it gives the island its character & charm. If you're gonna gripe about cheap crap being over priced... WTF are you doing on this Island???
Apr 25, 2012
After reading the first review, I wasn't going to go there, but did just for the hell of it. Was treated like a real customer, he could have sold me more parts to repair a break system, but just put enough to fix it and have me on my way. After a month and several rides the fix is still working. The labor charge was vert reasonable.
The first reviewer should be ignored. That ezperience was so far from mine, I wonder if it wasn't from a competitor? |
Jan 5, 2013
Just bought 2 bikes from Hugh. Great quality bikes, fair prices, and very friendly service. They know what makes a good beach bike. I would recommend Island Treasure and Rickshaw to everyone!!!
Mar 16, 2013
Had a great time riding two Fat Sands Bikes that i rented for the afternoon last weekend. This appears to be a new lineup for the shop, the TommiSea's bikes were new; our rental experience with the shop was quick and easy. These bikes are recommended for a great ride in the sand.
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This place rocks! Fast friendly service, great prices, and it's a place with so many cool bikes! They even have a rickshaw service!! Had a great experience there
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Dr. Gerald D Groff is a Rheumatology Specialist in Cooperstown, New York. He graduated with honors from University Of Rochester School Of Medicine And Dentistry in 1977. Having more than 40 years of diverse experiences, especially in RHEUMATOLOGY, Dr. Gerald D Groff affiliates with Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, and cooperates with other doctors and specialists in medical group Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital. Call Dr. Gerald D Groff on phone number (607) 547-3284 for more information and advises or to book an appointment.
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Full Name | Gerald D Groff |
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Directors' pick of 2014: Aamir Khan's PK, Shahid Kapoor's Haider, Arjun Kapoor's 2 States feature in the list
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2014 witnessed the release of a lot of films; some great, some not so much. With every release we have the audience and the critics giving their verdict and reviews. We wondered what experts of the field had to say. So we got in touch with a few directors to know which films of 2014 impressed them. Click here to read more -
Aamir Khan's PK makes things difficult for Anurag Kashyap's Ugly and Rajinikanth's Lingaa!
Raju Hirani's flick stomps authority at box office, leaving this week's releases running for cover
TGIF! The day when new films arrive at the theatres to enthrall us. And this Friday, we have Anurag Kashyap's Ugly clashing with Hindi dubbed version of Rajinikanth's Lingaa. But the both the films don't pose much threat to each other, as they would be fighting to save their neck against the might of Aamir Khan's PK, which is running housefull all over the nation. Click here to read more -
Surveen Chawla: I am certain that Ugly will grow through word of mouth
The Hate Story 2 actress talks about her cameo in the Anurag Kashyap directorial
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The Highway actress seems to be on a roll this year with three big hits in her kitty. So what is she upto in Ugly? Find out!
2014 has been the year of Alia Bhatt. Apart from breaking the mould with stellar performance in Imtiaz Ali's Highway, the pretty lass starred in two big hits of the year – 2 States and Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania. Not just that, the actress has made a mockery of her dumb image by starring in AIB videos, leaving the viewers in splits. After such an eventful year, the actress is still planning some surprise for her fans to end the year with a bang. Click here to read more -
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The ace director's Ugly received an open letter from the cancer surgeon. Read on to know what was in it that infuriated the Gangs of Wasseypur maker
Anurag Kashyap has been infuriated over the non-release of Ugly for most part of last year. But after the court registered his RTI against the 'Mukesh Ki Kahaani' disclaimer, he was enjoying some happy moments. If we recall, Kashyap had expressed his angst against the masking of cigarettes in films and he didn't wish to have the anti-smoking message displayed during the film. He considered it as "a gross violation of his creative expression and fundamental rights". Click here to read more -
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After getting a terrific response at Cannes last year for his film Gangs Of Wasseypur, the talented director has impressed everyone once again with his latest directorial venture
Anurag Kashyap is on a roll. The filmmaker is emerging on the world map as one of the most intelligent filmmakers from India, who dares to portray radically different stories on the big screen. After giving us cinematic treats such as of Black Friday and Dev D, Kashyap showed his prowess as a hatke filmmaker by making Gangs Of Wasseypur last year. Click here to read more


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After the success of the Xantio-Serum 2.0, a GHEIST laboratory was broken into by members of the Rescue clan who placed the serum under lock and key. With the help of the GHEIST, Jaxx Ld is determined to show these vermin the cost of picking on someone stronger than you. And if he can get his hands on that damned Scott Ld, he's not gonna pull any punches!
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The LD with possibly the best artowrk
2nd mission needs translation .
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"After the success of the Xantio-Serum 2.0"...
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Not until the last full week of the regular season could the Cazenovia girls basketball team breathe a bit easier, knowing that it will have some part in the Section III Class B playoffs.
The Lakers were only 7-9 with two games left, and needed to win either one of them to secure that post-season berth. At Jordan-Elbridge last Thursday night, Cazenovia took care of that problem, dominating the first half and breezing to a 49-32 victory over the Eagles.
Leaning on its defense, the Lakers never let J-E get many open looks, forcing a series of turnovers throughout the first half. Some of those mistakes led to baskets, and Cazenovia gradually built up a margin, going to halftime with a 30-11 lead.
Even as J-E woke up a bit in the third quarter, it could not eat into that deficit, the Lakers extending its margin to 44-22 so it could relax a bit the rest of the way and not get hurt much.
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This popular hotel is situated on the northern part of Mahé approx. 30 minutes from the airport on one of the most beautiful beaches of the island, Beau Vallon Bay. The resort is set right on the edge of this magnificent beach and enjoys panoramic views of the glittering ocean and North and Silhouette islands.
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'Bioeconomy – a motor for the circular economy'
Monday 04 July 2016Back to overview
The European Bioeconomy Alliance (EUBA) has produced a positioning document that sheds light on the circular nature of biobased products and sectors. Released in June, its main message highlights the fact that sectors such as agriculture, forestry, biotechnology, sugar, starch, vegetable oils, pulp and paper, bioplastics and renewable ethanol are capable of driving Europe towards greater resource efficiency by extracting maximum value and use of raw materials, products and waste. For EUBA members, a fair, predictable and coherent framework that ensures a viable playing field for the bioeconomy, will be a boost to the circular economy.
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Introductory intertitle reads: "Titania's famous Palace, the wonderful creation of Sir Nevile Wilkinson, K.C.V.O. is back in London after its tour abroad in aid of crippled children. (It has taken over 25 years to create." (shot missing).
"There are over 4000 pieces in the sixteen rooms of the Palace - each a gem in its class." C/U of one of the rooms which is full of tiny pieces of furniture. Other rooms are shown. C/Us of some of the pieces of furniture. "And these are over 3000 years old!" (shot missing). "A perfect miniature clock, in perfect order over four centuries old." (shot missing?). M/S of Sir Nevile Wilkinson speaking to camera. Sound section. He talks of who has made some of the miniature items. He describes a miniature canon and we see it in C/U. He seems to be giving a lecture on antique miniatures. He shows the camera an old miniature vase and bowl, both at least 2000 years old. He shows a miniature chalice and miniature clock.
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Earlier this year, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum to the heads of all executive departments and agencies calling on them to leverage "technological advances to fundamentally change how they serve their customers."
As a follow-up to Executive Order 13571 (Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service), the memo, entitled "Building a 21st Century Digital Government," also announced the release of a new government-wide strategy developed to accomplish the monumental goal of enabling "more efficient and coordinated digital service delivery" across all agencies.
In order to do this successfully, agencies need to adjust technology to changing conditions as well as the end user's level of expectations where citizens expect to be able to access information within seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
As the government embraces initiatives such as cloud computing virtualization and data center consolidation, however, it should be aware of the downside. Such technological advances create a new layer of complexity that can wreak havoc on the end-user experience.
Private cloud and virtualized infrastructure projects also pose a serious threat to the end-user experience. In many virtualization initiatives, IT tends to treat infrastructure utilization metrics as the ultimate end-game. But, the relevant metric shouldn't be how many virtual machines have been created and to what extent are infrastructure resources being maximized. Rather, the relevant metric needs to be the point of utilization at which the end-user experience begins to degrade. Will our applications perform as well or better after virtualization? Only a commitment to performance management based on the end-user experience can answer this question.
An understanding of the end-user experience helps guide smarter decisions as major projects are being carried out. Case in point - data center consolidation and other infrastructure change projects. A critical first step must be to baseline the current performance of applications and transactions. Then, IT needs to test all applications with the new configuration, as well as map all applications, storage and network changes, making data center consolidation projects very time-consuming and complex.
Once the new data center changes are in place, IT needs to continually measure the applications to ensure they perform as expected, with no impact to end users. The common antidotes to all these various phases of a consolidation project are tools that enable effective management of application infrastructure through an understanding of the end-user experience, as well as the ability to trace transaction flows across the environment. If the end-user perspective is factored in properly throughout the entire project, IT teams can better avoid re-work and re-do's that can lengthen costly "overlap" periods between new and existing infrastructure, and keep overall project costs and timeframes down.
Understanding the end-user experience is a cornerstone to helping IT teams deal with the adoption of new technologies and the management of complex projects. Today, successful IT teams are adopting a new generation of application performance management that is driven from the end-user experience. It's all about the end-user and the view of their world of an application – not just about infrastructure. After all, the delivery of fast, reliable, high-quality applications to end-users must be the ultimate measure of success for any project. If these projects aren't managed with explicit user-experience objectives, IT can introduce risks that can reduce or even eliminate the potential business benefits.
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Glycine is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the spinal cord and brainstem and is also required for the activation of NMDA receptors. The extracellular concentration of this neuroactive amino acid is regulated by at least two glycine transporters (GLYT1 and GLYT2). To study the localization and properties of these proteins, sequence-specific… (More)
The high-affinity glycine transporter in neurons and glial cells is the primary means of inactivating synaptic glycine. Previous molecular cloning studies have indicated heterogeneity of glycine transporters in the CNS. Here the distribution of glycine transporter GLYT1 and GLYT2 transcripts and proteins in different regions and developmental stages of the… (More)
We examined the effects of nine different tricyclic antidepressant drugs on the glycine uptake mediated by the glycine transporter 1b (GLYT1b) and glycine transporter 2a (GLYT2a) stably expressed in human embryonic kidney 293 cells. Desipramine, imipramine, clomipramine, nomifensine and mianserin had no effect on the activity of the glycine transporters.… (More)
Glycine is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the spinal cord and brainstem of vertebrates. Glycine is accumulated into synaptic vesicles by a proton-coupled transport system and released to the synaptic cleft after depolarization of the presynaptic terminal. The inhibitory action of glycine is mediated by pentameric glycine receptors (GlyR) that belong… (More)
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High affinity sodium- and potassium-coupled L-glutamate transport into presynaptic nerve terminals and fine glial processes removes the neurotransmitter from the synaptic cleft, thereby terminating glutamergic transmission. This report describes that the purified L-glutamate transporter from pig brain is phosphorylated by protein kinase C, predominantly at… (More)
To elucidate the possible roles of the CNS neurotransmitters glycine and GABA in neuroendocrine paracrine signalling, we investigated their localizations, and those of their transport proteins, by confocal immunofluorescence and quantitative post-embedding immuno-electron microscopy in the pancreatic islets of Langerhans. We show that A-cells contain… (More)
The glycine transporter GLYT2 is present in neurons of the spinal cord, the brain stem and the cerebellum. This localization is similar to that of glycine immunoreactivity, suggesting a causal relationship between GLYT2 expression and glycine distribution. In this report, we analyzed if such a relationship does exist by using neuronal cultures derived from… (More)
Glycine exerts multiple functions in the central nervous system, as an inhibitory neurotransmitter through activation of specific, Cl--permeable, ligand-gated ionotropic receptors and as an obligatory co-agonist with glutamate on the activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors. In some areas of the central nervous system, glycine seems to be… (More)
The functions of the high-affinity glycine transporters (GLYTs) in vivo have been revealed recently using gene-deletion studies. Results from studies of homozygous knockout mice have reinforced the idea that GLYTs might be specific clinical targets to modulate inhibitory glycine-mediated neurotransmission. In addition, molecular and behavioural analysis of… (More)
The synaptic action of many neurotransmitters is terminated by specific transporters that remove the molecules from the synaptic cleft and help to replenish the transmitter supply. Here, we have investigated the spatiotemporal distribution of the glycine transporter GLYT2 in the central auditory system of rats, where glycinergic synapses are abundant. In… (More)


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Zangoose. I seen one person use one in Pokémon XD and it was pretty good. I prefer a moveset of this:
Brick Break
Shadow Ball/HP Ground
Swords Dance
Zangoose. I seen one person use one in Pokémon XD and it was pretty good. I prefer a moveset of this:
Brick Break
Shadow Ball/HP Ground
Swords Dance
Well, both are cool standalone pokemon. But i do have to say that zangoose is cooler, whole both have cool designs, i just think thay zangoose wins on the grounds of originality. I jusy feel seviper was too similar to arbok.
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I like Seviper and Zangoose (collectively) because they're based on a real animal rivalry, so it's a difficult choice, but I'll say Seviper.
I like Zangoose better. He is more unique and his shiny form is awesome
It's really hard for me to decide between them as I love both, but I'm gonna go with Seviper because I really like snakes. :3
I had Ruby, but I never used a Zangoose. I never found it appealing to use one. I always did like Seviper, though while I never used one as well, I always thought it had a cool design. The anime probably helped, even if Jessie's Seviper didn't do much that I can recall.
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Wow I'm supprised how many people say zangoose.
to me its seviper hands down.
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Go seviper! Seviper for kill!
Zangoose FTW! Swords Dance, Close Combat, cool design! Seviper is my second favourite of thos two. (Hehe :P )
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Zangoose because it's more unique as a Pokemon
Zangoose. Its design just screams agile and vicious. It hits hard and learns a good few of my favourite techniques, and it fits my battle style perfectly. Plus its shiny form is gorgeous, although that could just be me being biased... blue is one of my favourite colours.
...It's a tad ironic considering my first exposure to the region of Hoenn was in Sapphire version, where it was unobtainable, actually.
I do happen to like Seviper too, though. One of the nicer Poison-types.
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Its hard to choose between the two.... I'll go with Seviper though. I like snake-like pokemon. Seviper has a nice design to it. More intricate pattern than Zangoose :P
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Zangoose is ugly. Seviper, however, looks great. I always liked snakes!
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Zangoose. Cooler, stronger, and faster. And, you can get it ONLY in ruby vs. sapphire and emerald
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Well I think that Zangoose has a better design, but I've never owned Ruby so I've only used Seviper, in addition, I'm not a big fan of Normal-types, while I think Posion are kinda cool, so I'm going with Seviper.
I've always loved snakes, so Seviper is the obvious winner here. I'm glad Pokemon got a venomous snake who seemed somewhat interesting in terms of design (sorry, but Arbok, despite being decent in terms of design, never really seemed all that great). Never the less, Zangoose is still pretty awesome with a design just as good as Seviper's.
I always preferred Seviper over Zangoose, especially since I only had Ruby and Emerald.
I heavily disliked Zangoose for the mere reason that I used to run into it constantly in the same area, while Seviper on the other hand, is a Pokémon that I rather enjoy.
Seviper has the look of elegance mixed in with the fierce tone of a strong and battling creature, but I am just speaking on appearance, and I could easily see it being used during Ancient Pokégyptian :3
And the fact that a Battle Frontier building was based on it's design (in Emerald, which in result Team Rocket used the design for the fake facility in the Animé) more helps my likeness for it.
Zangoose just cause it looks sexier. No, but seriously mongooses > snakes. 'nuf said
Seviper hands down, I had him on my original sapphire team when it first came out. Ah the memories.....
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I've never bothered to train either Zangoose or Seviper and they're not really my fav Pokémon but if I'd to pick my favourite, I'd say Seviper. I have never had Zangoose in any of my games expect for the 5th Gen (as a wild Pokémon) so I say Seviper. Yes, it is similar to Arbok but it has a rather nice design (well, so does Zagnoose) and has better type than Zangoose. I also like its "special" Poison Tail attack :3 Oh, and because Jessie had Seviper in anime! That way it seems more familiar Pokémon
I prefer Zangoose over Seviper, Ihonestly never liked snakes... And Zangoose always seemed stronger in my opiniun and has cooler moves
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Seviper is one of my favorite Pokemon designs, but Zangoose is still pretty B.A., so it's a close one but I still go with Seviper^^


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Theory of human capital appeared as a potential important variable into the growth literature back in 1960's and 1970's. Economists such as Mincer (1958), Schultz (1960, 1961), Becker (1975), and Denison (1962, 1979), presented their view points on the concept, role and formation of human capital. Romer (1986, 1990) incorporated human capital as an endogenous variable [1] in his long-run growth model. He integrated knowledge as an endogenous factor into the production function in his two sector model. He captured the interrelation between technological growth and human capital and pointed out direction and path of the development. Since 1990, there has been a range of research work done on the topic, while covering its various aspects and dimensions by different economists till date. Broadly, in addition to others, these include growth accounting, labour productivity, human capital externalities and benefits of education.
The essay however chooses few areas and proceeds as follows: section 2 discusses critically and summarises some of the work done with regard to identification and solution of data issues of human capital. Section 3 focuses mainly on the modelling issues and contributions of different economists. Section 4 highlights R & D spillovers and section 5 discusses some reflections on the potential impacts of the 'Great Recession'. Concluding remarks are drawn in the last section of the essay.
Data Issues of Human Capital Growth Theory:
There have always been issues regarding measurement of human capital both conceptually and empirically. Conceptually, no single clear cut definition is found in the related literature on how capital should be represented. Years of schooling have generally been considered as a good proxy since long, however, having a look at the data, it is hard to believe that a country that increased its average years of schooling from 1 to 2 has doubled its stock of human capital and eventually doubled its output [2] (Cohen, 2007). Empirically the main problem is the inadequacy (Barro, 1993) and quality of the data itself as has been pointed out by De la Fuente & Domenech (2002, 2006). The later is of the opinion that the results of the contribution of human capital accumulation to economic growth have often been discouraging. While running growth regressions most of the times either the educational variable turn out to be insignificant or it has the wrong sign, particularly if they are estimated with first difference or panel specifications [3] .
Barro (1993) gave and described a new data set on educational attainment based on 129 countries covering a period from 1960 to 1985. He used census/survey figures to fill over 40 percent of the cells and the rest of the 60 percent are estimated from school enrolment data by a perpetual-inventory method. The data referred to male and female attainment of the adult population at four levels: no schooling, primary, secondary or higher. This also provided a rough break down into incomplete and complete attainment at the three levels of schooling. He believed that the improved data set can be used for empirical studies of economic development. As such it is now possible to use a broad set of data in order to examine and determine composition as well as overall years of school attainment by various levels of education. Further, the different influences of male and female human capital can also be assessed.
One of the important recent contributions came from De la Fuente & Domenech (2006) who estimated educational attainment for a sample of 21 OECD countries incorporating previously unexploited information and removing sharp changes in the data that can reflect only changes in classification criteria. They then constructed indicators of the information content of their estimates and a number of previously available data sets and examined their performance in several growth specifications. They constructed this data mainly as a result of their belief that the then existing data on educational attainment contained a considerable amount of noise.
Cohen and Soto (2007) presented a new data set for the period from 1960 to 2000 on schooling across countries. The main sources for the constructed data are OECD data base on educational attainment and surveys published by UNESCO. They lend the credit of their improved series over others particularly in first differences to (1) the use of surveys based on uniform classification systems of education over time and (2) an intensified use of information by age groups. The authors are of the opinion that the improved data can be substituted for Barro and Lee's (2001; Oxford Economic Papers, 3, 541-563) data for the purpose of empirical research.
Modelling Issues of Human Capital Growth Theory:
Lucas (1988) made one of the prominent contributions, which in turn, related to previous work done by Uzawa (1965). In these models the level of output is a function of the stock of human capital. The model of Lucas emphasized human capital accumulation through schooling, learning by doing, physical capital accumulation and technological change. Alternatively endogenous growth models notably Romer (1990) finds that the steady-state growth rate partly depends on the level of human capital i.e. human capital is a key input in the production of new ideas. In some of the endogenous models such as Acemoglu (1997) and Redding (1996) relaxes the assumption and allows the human capital to be exogenously determined and have considered what happens when individuals can choose to make investments in education or training while firms make investments in R & D (Temple, 2001).
Benhabib and Spiegel (1994) introduced a model in which human capital influences the growth of total factors productivity mainly through, one, human capital levels directly influence the rate of domestically produced technological innovation as in Romer (1990), and two, as in the spirit of Nelson and Phelps (1966) the human capital stock affects the speed of adoption of technology from abroad. Now in this model, keeping in view its empirical significance, the human capital stock in level play a role in the determination of per capita income.
Engelbrecht (2003) contributed significantly by giving a hybrid model. He explored the applicability of the Nelson-Phelps approach to the modelling of human capital in economic growth for the sample of OECD countries. Nelson approach was confined to the technology diffusion component and combined with Lucas approach. The study provides a consistent picture of the role of human capital in adopting technology from abroad. He found human capital to be positive and statistically significant. Further, higher schooling was used as a specific subcategory of schooling human capital and was found to be the largest. The author also commented as "The findings suggest that the often-quoted Benhabib and Spiegel (1994) rich country sample results for the NP approach are not typical for OECD countries" (Engelbrecht, 2003, pp.S49). The researcher, based on empirical findings of his work argues that the identification of the NP approach with the endogenous growth component as well as with the technology diffusion component is unfortunate.
Jones (2008) recently presented a model, in which human capital differences can explain several central phenomena in the world economy instead technology differences. The model shows that how large differences in the quality of skilled labour may persist across economies, nonetheless not appearing in the wage structure. The model provides an integrated perspective on cross country income and price differences, trade patterns, migrant behaviour, relative wages, poverty traps and other phenomena in a way that appears broadly consistent with important facts. Further, the model provides insights about migration, brain drain and the role for multinational in development.
R & D Spillovers and Transmission.
Though the importance of international R & D spillovers has long been recognized, however, it came to the highlight in 1990s especially with the development of new growth models such as Romer (1990), Grossman and Helpman (1991), and Aghion and Howitt (1992). A number of empirical studies on International R & D spillovers have been carried out and can be grouped into three broad categories: studies addressing the appropriate definition of the foreign R & D capital stock, studies proposing alternative econometric techniques and studies proposing additional determinants of TFP. (Coe & Helpman, 2008).
Coe and Helpman (1995) did the pioneering work on international R & D spillovers. They found that foreign R & D has beneficial effects on domestic productivity. They also noted that these effects are stronger if the economy is more open to foreign trade. Besides, it was observed that both in terms of domestic output and international spillovers, the estimated rates of returns are very high.
Engelbrecht (1997) extended the study of Coe and Helpman (1995) among OECD countries. He included a general human capital variable. This variable accounts for innovation outside the R & D sector and other aspects of the human capital, which are not captured by the formal R & D. This study is important in the sense that it not only confirmed the original findings of the study of Coe and Helpman (1995) but also established a role for general human capital alongside R & D capital. It was also found that human capital affect TFP directly as a factor of production and works as a medium for international knowledge transfer associated with productivity catch up amongst OECD countries.
Coe and Helpman (1997) expanded the scope of their initial study in 1995 regarding R & D spillovers to developing countries. According to the study based on UNESCO estimates [4] , most of the entire R & D is concentrated in the developed countries. Findings of the study reveals that since the industrial countries has greater stock of knowledge which has been accumulated through R & D activities, the developing countries may enhance its productivity by importing a larger variety of intermediate products and capital equipments embodying foreign knowledge and useful information. It might be costly for the developing countries to obtain this otherwise. They also found that R & D spillovers from the sample 22 industrial countries to the 77 developing countries were substantial during their sample period from 1971 to 1990.
Funk (2001) however found contrary results to that of Coe and Helpman (1995) and others, which suggests that international research spillovers occur primarily through imports. In order to determine the relationship between trade and growth, the study re-examined the role of trade in international transmission of the knowledge created in R & D. The study while employing the panel cointegration tests produced no evidence that research spillovers among the OECD countries are transmitted through imports, however it produced strong evidence indicating that exporters receive substantial research spillovers from their customers.
Madson (2007) while using a new data set on key variables such as imports of technology and total factor productivity for 16 OECD countries for the past 135 years tried to test Coe and Helpman hypothesis that whether knowledge has been transmitted internationally through the channel of trade? Empirical results of the study revealed strong relationship between TFP and imports of knowledge. It showed that around 93 percent of the increase in TFP over the sample period can be owed to imports of knowledge. Acharya and Keller (2007) also found in their study that imports are often a major channel in international technology transfer, while highlighting that international technology transfer varies importantly across countries.
Coe and Helpman (2009) sought to revisit the empirical analysis in Coe and Helpman (1995) on an expanded data set constructed for the purpose of the study. New estimates were found to confirm the key results in its previous study in 1995 about the impact of domestic and foreign R & D capital stocks on TFP. Further, institutional variables were included and were found important determinants of TFP. It was found that the countries with a relatively ease of doing business and high tertiary education system tend to benefit more from their own R & D efforts, international R & D spillovers and human capital formation.
Great Recession and Some Potential Reflections on Human Capital:
The debate for how the economic crisis might affect human capital formation and its effects on economic growth could be done extensively, though requiring sufficient time and thorough analysis of relevant sectors' data of different variables across the globe. However, for the purpose of this essay, only the potential links are discussed cursorily. It can safely be argued that all economies of the world have been seriously affected, however, the direction and intensity of the blows may differ across the globe [5] . The potential damage could largely be inflicted through financial and trade channels. Further it would be relevant to state that the intensity of damage (impact) also depends on the nature and stage of the economy. Advanced economies and U.S might be hit hard largely due to the financial sector issues especially in the housing sector. Western Europe and advanced Asia might be affected both through trade and financial problems. Emerging economies might be impacted mainly through trade channels. In summary the blow in terms of growth rates would largely depend on the share of the particular sector being affected in overall GDP of that economy.
In the same way the human capital would be affected depending on the share of the overall labor force that particular problem sector of the economy employs. An explanatory example could be that if the economy has employed its major human capital in export sector, the unemployment will increase coupled with a decrease in the GDP growth rates, provided the export sector is the hard hit sector. Private sector credit worldwide has declined which has both the bad impact on the employment as particularly the consumer credit sector is labour intensive. The problem can also be viewed from the perspective that the recession would lead to decline in overall economic activity, low incomes in turn would affect aggregate demand, which in turn would affect the production and as a result low employment. This would continue depending on the corrective measures taken. Low standards of living of the people and lower spending in R & D sectors by the governments as well as by the entrepreneurs due to lower incomes would further lower the quality of the human capital. All these in turn will put down-ward pressure on the economic growth.
Concluding Remarks:
Human capital and growth is an important topic and economists have tried to cover its various aspects extensively. During the process, in addition to others, data and modelling issues have frequently been identified and suggestions for improvement thereof, based on research have come forth from different economists. Data problems often tend to render the results ineffective and non-representative of the intuitive theory. In order to overcome the noise in the data, new series have been developed by economists by applying various techniques to do the job effectively. In the same way, a number of models have been presented over the period, problems have been identified in them and solutions either in the form of slight changes in the existing models or new models have been suggested. R & D and spillover effects of human capital have recently gained importance and numerous theories have been given explaining and exploring its transmission mechanism and impact. Great recession can potentially impact the human capital and growth mainly through financial and trade channels. To give an ending comment, the discussion reveals that there is a need to explore further, and especially carry out some in-depth and detailed studies in the area being discussed in section 5 of the essay.


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Clinicopathologic processes underlying established differences in survival in blacks compared with whites with lymph node-negative (pN0) colorectal cancer remain incompletely understood. This study reveals that these disparities are associated with differences in occult tumor burden quantified across the regional lymph node network, offering a molecular diagnostic paradigm to eliminate racial gaps in stage-specific mortality.
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