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CIMO Scholarships 2017 for International Students in Finland
Doctoral Scholarships
Fully Funded Scholarships for International Students
2017 / 2018 Scholarships in Finland
CIMO Scholarships 2017
CIMO is offering scholarships for international applicants from all the countries, but emphasis on Russia, China, India, Chile, Brazil and North America countries applicants. These scholarships are offered for those applicants who will be doing their Doctoral or Double Doctoral level degree at the Finnish universities. The CIMO scholarship is open to young Doctoral level applicants and researchers from all countries and from all academic fields. Master's level studies or post-doctoral studies/research are not supported in the CIMO program.
Fields of Study / Subjects
All fields/subject are available at the universities of Finnish for Doctoral level study.
Other latest Scholarships in Finland are also offered for different degrees and subjects all over the Finland.
Numbers of Scholarships
Many awards are announced annually for international students
Duration of Scholarships
The award time period may vary from 3 to 12 months for Doctoral level
Scholarships Description / Details
CIMO provides grants:
- A monthly allowance is1500 Euros
- Coverliving expenses for a single person
- No additional allowance for housing is paid
- Expenses due to international travel to and from Finland are not covered by CIMO
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants for these scholarships must meet the following criteria:
- Applicantsshould not have resided in Finland for more than one (1) year prior
- Have good academic record
How to Apply / Download Scholarships Form / Documents Required
To Apply for this Scholarship:
- Applicants should complete application form
- Attach all require documents
- A motivation letter from the applicant (the hosting university), max 1 page
- Complete CV
- Research plan(3-5 pages)
- Two printed and signed copies of the application with required attachments should be submitted to
- PO Box 343, 00531 Helsinki
Last Date to Apply / Deadline: Any time (But at least 5 months before the intended scholarship period)
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Special thanks to Rebecca Krzystyniak and Archie Bailey for their amazing trust in me and love of music.
An incredible thing happened over the past 48 hours. I was honored to be involved in helping find, translate and transcribe a choral score of a Russian folk song for the funeral service of Van Cliburn, one of the great American pianists (Vanya Klibern, as the Russians call him).
He was adored by the Russian people ever since he took the 1st prize in the Tchaikovsky piano competition in Moscow in 1958. And I think that back then, his genuine love for Russian music did much more for the two nations than any political efforts could ever achieve. His famous recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 was the first classical music piece I ever heard in my life. When I was a little girl, my mom would play that precious record quite often.
Apparently, before his passing on February 27th, Cliburn had requested that the Russian folk song "Ducks are Flying" be performed at his funeral service. The song is pretty much unknown in this country, and after he was gone, all they had was just the English title of it.
The organizing team had trouble finding the score. The team included: Tom Stoker, a longtime friend of Van and his mother, who was in charge of the choral music for the service; Archie Bailey, Executive Director of Schola Cantorum of Texas, one of the four choirs to sing at Van's service; Miguel H. Badoya, director of the Fort Worth Symphony that often worked with Van; and Dr. Al Travis, the organist and also a personal friend of Van. According to Archie Bailey, the organ used in the service was dedicated to Van's mother and is the largest in the Southwest.
In the effort to find the score, Archie contacted some friends in Moscow who even went to a local music store looking for it but failed. The service organizers didn't know what else to do -- where to even start looking for the sheet music and for the lyrics. And they were running out of time.
Now, what are the odds that one of the choir members, Rebecca Krzystyniak found my PR business card which I had given her 4 years earlier? Rebecca and I met during an 8-day session at the Berkshire Choral Festival in Massachusetts, where we both participated in the performance of Rachmaninov Vespers, conducted by Dale Warland. Seriously, what are the chances!?
And so, after 4 years of silence, Rebecca called me out of the blue on Wednesday afternoon, with the terrible news of Van Cliburn's death. Still in shock, I hear her asking me if I could help find the song...
There was no question, I had to do it. For Cliburn! Fortunately, Russian music fans share a lot of materials on the web, and in a short time I found a gorgeous YouTube recording of the Ducks song performed by a native Russian choir from Voronezh, and even a PDF page of a two-voice version with a piano reduction. This song is beautiful. It is about mourning a loved one who left home and will never return. It's a perfect farewell song! Here it is (this recording left a few verses out):
A few minutes after I sent the files to Rebecca, she wrote back saying not to bother. Unfortunately, the team is too nervous; the fact that the funeral service will be broadcast live on national TV this Sunday made the pressure even greater on all of them. They saw no other alternativebut to take the song in question off the list...
So I thought to myself, if "Ducks" won't be sung at the service in Texas, then I will sing it at my home, in Pennsylvania. For Cliburn! It won't really matter to him -- his soul will hear the beloved song no matter who sings it and where. At least this way his memory will be honored. And that's all that matters in the end.
After spending a little more time searching the Russian web, I was lucky enough to find a beautiful SATB chorus arrangement posted on a public domain music site by some Russian enthusiasts. I sent it to Rebecca immediately. She loved the song but gave me little hope that the director would reconsider.
It didn't matter to me. I would sing it on Sunday, for Cliburn. It felt very special that, by a lucky turn of the fate, I was told which song he wanted to hear and that I could grant his last wish! I said a little prayer and asked Universe to help me let go of any regrets about the song being taken out of the list. Gratitude filled my heart. And this is how I went to bed on Wednesday night.
The next day brought a lot of work, and my mind was too busy to think about anything else. Suddenly, at 3 pm my phone rang. It was a Texas number. My heart sank. Archie Bailey himself was on the phone. He was so thankful and said that they loved the SATB arrangement I had sent, and that it would work but only if I can provide transcription and translation of the text. This had to be done by "yesterday" of course.
The rest is history – I had a couple of intensebut totally rewarding hours, typing the English transliterations into the 6-page score, translating the song, and making an MP3 recording of myself reading the Russian text slowly to help the choir. Here is the transcribed score :
Ducks are flying. PDF. Fully Transcribed SATB Score
All is well so far, the dress rehearsal is on Saturday, the service will start at 3 pm on Sunday, March 3, at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX. I have no doubt that this will be a beautiful service celebrating the life of Van Cliburn. By the way, Moscow Nights is also on the list!
I will be forever grateful for this incredible life experience. While it is such sad news for all of us who loved Van, this amazing story made his passing so much more personal to me, and at the same time somewhat easier to bear because I was called to and could help make his last wish come true. I hope it helps you in the same way too, as we say goodbye to the great beloved Pianist and Person.
Ducks Are Flying - Летят Утки
Russian Folk Song (English translation by Inna Heasley)
Ducks are flying, ducks and two geese are flying.
Oh, the one I love, the one I love – won't see him back. 2.
I fell in love, I fell in love, so young.
Oh, it must be my fate, must be my fate.
My love left, my love went beyond Voronezh [town in Russia – ih]
Oh, now nothing will bring him back. 4.
My sweet, when you, my sweet, abandon me,
Oh, don't tell, don't tell of what you know.
Oh, how hard, how hard to say good bye –
Oh, eyes are open, eyes are open, tears pouring down.
Wheat's in blossom, wheat's in blossom, bending down to the ground,
Oh, my heart is aching for my sweet, for my sweet.

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WWE Survivor Series 2012: Each Star's Chance of Winning the WWE TitleNovember 13, 2012
With WWE's Survivor Series 2012 under a week away, the excitement over one of the company's big-four pay-per-views is through the roof.
At the center of all that excitement is the WWE title match between defending champion CM Punk, Ryback and John Cena.
While Punk comes into this bout as the clear favorite to retain his title, the addition of a legend like Cena and a newcomer that has the support of the powers that be like Ryback has made the outcome of this match just a bit more convoluted.
The result of the match is still very obvious, but how the WWE gets there and the way the storyline is built has forced the fans to consider another outcome besides the inevitable Punk win.
John Cena
As much as Cena's involvement in the main event has come to be expected over the years, this is a last-second addition that actually helped the WWE.
With Cena embroiled in the A.J. Lee/Vickie Guerrero controversy, it will be easy for the company to point at the fact that the face of the company was distracted by the allegations. With someone having to take the pin in this match, all signs are pointing to Cena.
Add in the fact that the WWE would rather save a match with The Rock and Cena for WrestleMania—The Rock is returning in two months at Royal Rumble—and there is no reason to allow punk to lose the title.
Not only will Cena not win Sunday, he will be the one to lose clean to Punk.
Chance of Winning: 5 percent
While the first notion wrestling fans get is that there is no way Ryback can win the WWE title at Survivor Series, the monstrous push he has gotten over the last two months has set the stage for a huge upset.
As much as putting Ryback over as the champion right now would throw the current plans with the returning Rock out of whack, the WWE could easily have Punk win the title back at TLC via dirty pin and turn the Royal Rumble match into a three-way dance (The Rock, Ryback and Punk).
Even this idea is still a long shot to happen, but what better way to get Ryback over with the rest of the WWE Universe that still hasn't bought in than by putting him in a program with The Rock?
Ryback will do a majority of the heavy lifting in this match and look dominant before Punk sneaks in and steals the win.
Chance of Winning: 15 percent
CM Punk
While the WWE has done its best to throw the fans off the trail, there is little doubt that Punk will retain his title at Survivor Series and again at the TLC PPV. This is all leading to his eventual match against The Rock at the 2013 Royal Rumble.
The WWE is not only determined to building Punk as a viable championship threat for the rest of his career, the company has ensured that the value of the title has grown exponentially during his reign as well.
Punk will likely lose at Royal Rumble, but not before beating Ryback and Cena at Survivor Series and adding yet another chapter into his elite title run. After years of being devalued by rapid title changes, the company is finally showing the true value of the belt.
As much as Cena and Ryback are viable title threats, Punk and the WWE title are on a much more important journey; Punk is a safe bet to retain at Survivor Series.
Chance of Retaining: 80 percent
Check back for more on the World Wrestling Entertainment as it comes, and visit Bleacher Report's wrestling page to get your fill of WWE/TNA. For more wrestling talk, listen to Ring Rust Radio for all of the hot topics you just can't miss (some language NSFW).


text: DJ Todd G. world renowned dj/producer/remixer has charged the electrical impulses of dancers around the world since the late 80's. Known for his eclectic room shattering sets that span the sounds of deep, minimal, tech, tribal, underground, and electro, he has played some of the most prestigious venues in the world. Todd G. brings with him a track record including venues such as London's Ministry of Sound and The End, Pacha (NY, Sharm El Sheik), Cielo (NYC) and Cocorico (Italy) to name a few. In line with these prestigious venues are his affiliations having headlined with some of the industries most renowned dj/producers including Armand Van Helden, Dave Morales, Erick Morillo, Steve Angello, Harry Romero and others. His international respect in the music world comes from his dedication to producing mind blowing records under some of the house music scenes most prolific labels, including Subliminal, Defected, Joia, Sondos, Distance, Ministry of Sound, King Street, Sole and others. It is with a never fading desire to keep creating that Todd G. continues to experiment and innovate his sound into productions which border the idea of sonic excellence. With the launch of his new label, Cerecs, Todd G. brings with him his experience and looks to the future to bring his ever-evolving sound into this new millennium. In a search to find his own niche, he promises to push his own creative boundaries and those with whom he associates to create a fusion of different styles of dance music in a search for his own unique sound. "I am promising to bring to each dance floor I play the most inventive floor rocking house music out there", proclaims Todd G.


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I know.
While he still calls me Mama when he's sad or needing me, in normal conversation he just refers to me as Mom. Like, "Hey Mom, look at this!", or like, "Hey Mom, I just totally did my taxes" and then I'm like, "WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?" Because obviously it's offensive. Okay no. But I'm his MAMA, damnit!
Sometimes I try to re-train his brain by asking him what my name is, in which he always replies, "Mama!" but then WHY DOES HE CALL ME MOM LATER? I dunno. I'm torn up over this.
Calling me Mom represents how much he's starting to not need me. I know he still needs me obviously, but still. His baby-ness is showing up less and less... For so long I wanted him to grow up and now I can honestly say I've reached a point where he can just stop growing. This is my blissful "puppy" stage.
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text: In Article <D5CsDx.B9I at UQuebec.CA>, Pierre_Talbot at Infopuq.UQUEBEC.CA () wrote: >We are in the market for a Macintosh PCR primer design program and thought: >OLIGO would be good, although the comments here make me think otherwise: what >about RightPrimer? And where do I get AMPLIFY?: >Pierre_Talbot at iaf.uquebec.ca: >X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] > I have a few comments to add. OLIGO is an excellent program. One problem I see is that it is fairly complex, because it has so many features. I think many users do not take the time necessary to learn how to use the program properly, and simply use the default settings. While this may work in some cases, the default settings are certainly not optimal for most analyses. When designing primers, I usually use OLIGO first to select my primers, then I double-check my anticipated results using Amplify. While Amplify is a much simpler program, it does a decent job of predicting whether a given set of primers will work for PCR. This program also has variable parameters, and the default settings seem to be pretty useful in most cases. One problem with Amplify is that it will not automatically select a matched set of primers for you, as OLIGO can. I don't think Amplify is a suitable substitute for OLIGO. The capabilities of OLIGO are immensely greater than those of Amplify. If you can afford it, I'd buy OLIGO and learn how to use it. You can get Amplify from one of the molbio anon FTP servers. Try the one at NCBI (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) or IUBIO (ftp.bio.indiana.edu). Good luck. tracy


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Yani Martinelli
Became aware of this through The High Llamas' Facebook page: http://yanimartinelli.bandcamp.com/
Very, very nice. Love that second track.
Thanks for the link!
Yes, Yani is great!
She actually played with the Llamas on stage in Madrid:
Really enjoying the Yani album!! I especially like the track 'Elsewhere'. I recommend all you Llama fans download the album!! You could say it's a little influenced by the High Llamas!
Back again to comment on this post!! The album gets better and better!! Especially sounds good on a fresh spring morning like today!!
Did I say it's a great album?!
Here is a photo montage I've done for one of the songs:


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Spiceworks, my favorite tool for managing IT networks, has released a new version. Spiceworks scans your entire network and audits the devices in you infrastructure. Not only does Spiceworks create a comprehensive IT inventory, but it also monitors the health of vital systems. It can alert you when certain conditions are met, errors are found, systems run out of hard disk space, printer ink is low, and much more.
Another cool feature is to have Spiceworks scan multiple sites, and report back to a central collector. This is great for me, as the company I work for, is an outsourced IT Helpdesk for several medium sized businesses. We've deployed Spiceworks at all of our clients with more than 10 PCs. This allows our business to be proactive in our approach to IT instead of reactive.
Don't even get me started on how good Spiceworks has been for License Management.
Spiceworks 4.6 brings a host of new features include:
- View and Kill Processes Remotely
- Ability to discover virtualized servers on VMware (vSphere & ESX/ESXi), showing all the virtual machine data and configuration details
- Better Helpdesk ticket management
- Network mapping improvements
- See network alerts and notifications in your Spiceworks Toolbar
- And more…
If you have never tried Spiceworks, you should. It is free, and after you use it, you will be converted. Oh yeah, did I mention it's FREE (As in BEER)? I used to work for a software company that developed one of the premier Enterprise IT Discovery platforms, and believe me, Spiceworks can do a lot more than even some multimillion dollar Enterprise platforms. That was always the "dirty little secret". Anyways, check it out, you'll love it.


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The complete GM inventory held by this company receives an inspection process for quality control and mileage verification.
Portland, Oregon (PRWEB) May 10, 2013
General Motors has invested in the Chevrolet brand and produces pickup trucks, SUVs and standard edition vehicles for buyers worldwide. Part of the success found in Chevy vehicles is the engines that are produced with varying levels of horsepower. The EnginesforSale.org company has now added Chevrolet truck engines for sale online. These motors are original GM builds that are offered in preowned condition. The complete GM inventory held by this company receives an inspection process for quality control and mileage verification. The company inventory can be browsed online at http://enginesforsale.org/chevy/used-chevy-silverado-engine.
The Chevrolet engine types represent multiple engine families created by General Motors. The early 1980s editions like the Iron Duke and Vortec have remained popular choices for pickup trucks. The secondary engines market remains one of the largest sources buyers use to locate replacement motors for pricing below dealership pricing.
The engines added for online sale are now sold for lower than standard pricing to assist buyers with locating a more affordable price point. The complete company inventory of GM motors has received these below MSRP discounts online.
The EnginesforSale.org company has expanded its customer offerings this year by creating exclusive incentives for buyers. One of the popular policies put in place is an extended warranty program. The inventory held by this company and units shipped from authorized third parties include a form of warranty protection. These warranties now provide the coverage that is difficult to find using some online sources for preowned engines. All sales generating from the company toll-free number and online ordering system are eligible for warranty coverage without a raise in engine price.
The upgrades to the company website that have taken place this year includes better quotation methods for current pricing. These pricing initiatives are now helping to produce prices for any in stock engine as well as comparison pricing for other retailers. These prices receive daily updates to promote accurate engine pricing for the preowned inventory. This online pricing and search system provides customers with an alternative to relying on a simple toll-free number to obtain information now accessible on the company website.
About EnginesforSale.org
The EnginesforSale.org company is a leading preowned engine seller providing some of the biggest discounts secondary market engine buyers can find. This company designed its online resource to be informative as well as easier to search. The company support staff personally assists all engine buyers with information about pricing and quality before a purchase takes place. The EnginesforSale.org company has expanded its distribution options for customer shipments to ensure better delivery and damage free deliveries. The low price points, warranty protection and additional programs put in place for buyers to benefit by this company have resulted a sales increase in 2013.


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By Kyle Boenitz, Project Spurs
It's safe to say former San Antonio Spurs guard Steve Kerr would not have been nearly as important to his five championship winning teams and the two with the Spurs if he had gotten two points for all those baskets he made instead of three.
Kerr always benefited from having someone on his team who would draw a double-team and stand behind the arc and knock down shots at a ridiculous percentage. With the Spurs it was both David Robinson and Timd Duncan. I'm not saying that what he did wasn't impressive, it really was, I'm just saying that Kerr owes his career to the three-point line.
And Kerr is very much aware of this.
Click HERE for the complete article at Project Spurs.


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Being an Olympic athlete comes with great perks—well, except for the paycheck, according to Lolo Jones.
The two-time Olympic hurdler turned bobsledder took to Twitter today to post a Vine video where she's cheekily complaining about her $741.84 check from the U.S. Bobsled & Skeleton Federation.
"Seven months with bobsled season. The whole season. That's it," she says before adding, "I'm going to be a little late on my rent this month."
But Jones—who has both a successful track career as well as lucrative endorsements—certainly isn't strapped for cash, and the sports star clarified her comments, explaining how she used the video to make a bigger point.
"I don't want to make anyone mad, and I've always wanted to help out the bobsled athletes," Jones exclusively tells E! News. "Some of them have debt because they've given their life to the sport. My partner Jazmine [Fenlator] and I had to raise money for the bobsled to be funded just to finish the season, because only two of the three sleds are funded by the team."
She continued, highlighting the difference between the track and field versus bobsled games.
"I can't imagine halfway through my track season having to stop and raise money to finish," she said. "The Vine of the paycheck is just showing the difference between track and bobsled, and to be honest, bobsledders work more hours than track!"
She concluded, "The bottom line is that all Olympic athletes dedicate their lives to their sports and do not all receive lucrative paychecks like athletes in mainstream professional sports. So hopefully this will make people appreciate just how hard Olympians work, often just for the love of the sport."
—Reporting by Claudia Rosenbaum
What do you think of Lolo's clarification? Tell us in the comments!
The Bachelor Winter Games' Clare Crawley Reveals She Found Love After the Show—Who Is the Mystery Man?


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Steward Since February 2012
Ahavat Yeshua Messianic Jewish Congregation
Indianapolis, IN
We are comprised of Jewish and non-Jewish worshippers of Yeshua HaMashiach – Jesus the Messiah. Our name means "the Love of Jesus," reflecting both our love for Him, and His eternal love for those who accept Him into their hearts as Lord.
Phone: (317) 848-7099
Website: http://www.ahavatyeshua.org/
Beit Chayim Body of Messiah
Richmond, IN
Beit Chayim Body of Messiah is a Messianic, Torah-observant congregation located in Richmond, IN, dedicated to the restoration of Israel and the Hebrew roots of our faith. We meet on Shabbat at 11 am.
Contact: Pastor Phil & Linda Wages
317 South 5th Street, Richmond, IN 47374
Phone: (765) 962-7837
Bnei Yisrael
Syracuse, IN
Contact: Larry & Barbara Rice
Website: http://www.bnei-yisrael.org
Branch Of David Congregation
Indianapolis, IN
Branch Of David is a Hebrew roots congregation serving the Indianapolis area, focused on Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) and the restoration of Israel. We meet at Faith United Methodist Church, 9031 East 16th St, Indianapolis on Saturdays at 9:00 am. Call for more information.
Contact: Pastor Paul Zirkle
6659 East 18th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46219
Phone: 317-695-1113
Larry and Jayne Schmidt
New Castle, IN
Call for more information.
Phone: 765-529-8324
Sha'arey Yeshua Congregation
Indianapolis, IN
Our Messianic Jewish Synagogue is a place for your spirit to find rest and inner peace.
Phone: (317) 202-0789
Website: http://shaareyyeshua.org/
Simhat Yeshua Messianic Jewish Congregation
Indianapolis, IN
We at Simhat Yeshua believe that : Yeshua (Jesus) is the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. There is no conflict between the Torah/Tenakh and The New Testament. There is a valid Jewish expressing of faith in Yeshua. Because Israel has an ongoing role in the plan of God, Jewish people must maintain a Jewish Identity, especially in light of Yeshua's Messiahship.
Phone: (317) 848-7099
Website: http://www1.american.edu/faculty/jadler/Simhatyeshua.html
The H.U.B.
Noblesville, IN
The H.U.B. is the connecting point for sojourners pursuing others within the Torah community to gather with consistently.
1. We want to see the entire body of Torah pursuers to grow from Yah's Word.
2. We believe this is best achieved by being in close family-like fellowship with other believers. To attain that, believers need to be able to find one another. We hope to be that connection point. For more information please visit our website.
Website: http://www.matthew517.org
Triumphal Restoration
Indianapolis, IN
Please call for information.
Contact: Bob Colver
2513 Brewster Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46268
Phone: 317-879-9547
Website: http://www.triumphalrestoration.com/
Yahuah's House of Refuge
Crawfordsville, IN
I was converted at the age of 27 in 1968. The assembly I was attending was a Pentecostal church in Indiana. Then 10 years later in January of 1979 my betrothed Carolyn and I were married and we left the denominations in the spring of '79. As we began to understand some Truth, we hungered for more Truth of the Word of our Heavenly Father. We were searching for Truth, as we searched and studied His Word we cried out to our Creator, He began to open our eyes and to help us see the Truths of His Word.
Website: http://www.yhrim.com/


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Here's a new video from Driver San Francisco that is sure to please fans of the original Driver game. Remember the notoriously difficult garage level from the first game? Well now you can see it beautifully recreated in Driver San Francisco. Developed by Ubisoft Reflections DRIVER SAN FRANCISCO signs a return to the roots of the original title and features a unique open city driving. DRIVER San Francisco will be released on September 2nd 2011.
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text: Winner of the Conde Nast Top 100 List award in 2013, Victoria Hoi An Beach Resort & Spa promises a premium experience where you can hit the private beach to sip a drink at the beach bar, plus you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Hoi An Ancient Town. The outdoor pool provides a splash of fun, while guests in the mood for pampering can visit the spa to indulge in massages, reflexology, and mani/pedis. LAnnam Reastaurant serves Vietnamese cuisine and is open for dinner, and the cocktail bar is a great place to grab a drink. A poolside bar and a fitness center are other highlights, and rooms at this upscale resort offer furnished balconies and spring water baths.


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Dale R. Patrick, Stephen W. Fardo, "Electrical energy and Electronics Fundamentals, Second Version"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1420083872 | 650 pages | PDF | 6,5 MB
An introductory textual content, Electrical energy and Electronics Fundamentals, delineates key ideas in electrical energy utilizing a simplified strategy that enhances studying. Mathematical calculations are stored to the very minimal and ideas are demonstrated by way of software examples and illustrations. The books span of subjects consists of very important info on direct present electronics, alternating present electrical energy and semiconductor units in addition to digital circuits, digital electronics, computer systems and microprocessors, digital communications, and digital energy management. Supplementary appendices present a glossary and part on electrical security together with an evidence of soldering methods.


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Somalia: Over 100, Many Students, Killed By Truck Bomb
Over 100 people have died and many more were seriously injured when an enormous truck bomb exploded outside a government compound on Tuesday in Mogadishu, Somalia. Many of those killed were students who were waiting to see examination results for scholarships to study in Sudan or Turkey. Al Shabab, the Al Qaeda-linked militia group, claimed responsibility for the attack and said that it had been carried out by a suicide bomber, Bashar Abdullahi Nur.
Dunio Ali Mohamed, head of the medical department at Medina Hospital, said that there are 167 people injured, some with burns over 60 to 70 percent of their bodies. Some victims were burned beyond recognition and those in the hospital are fighting for their lives — and the hospitals are already heavily taxed from treating Somalis suffering from the effects of the months-long famine that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands, according to the United Nations. Abdirazaq Hassan Ali, director of Benadir hospital, said that the hospital is not able to provide the specialized care needed by severe burn victims.
In a statement, the Shabab said the students were targeted because they were "planning to be flown to Sudan to be trained as spies." The suicide bomber had taped an interview before the attack in which he condemned the education system and criticized the students for wanting to study aboard. An Al Shabab spokesman issued a warning that the group will increase attacks "day by day" and warned people to stay away from government buildings.
Condemning the horrific attack, Human Rights Watch said that Al Shabab, which has been fighting the struggling Somali government, has a history of attacking educational institutions and students — recruiting students from schools by force and killing them and teachers — and that these could amount to war crimes.
The attack reveals how weak Somalia's transitional government remains. The Shabab have withdrawn from Mogadishu and 9,000 African Union peacekeepers have been in control. Indeed, the government compound, which houses the ministries of education, foreign affairs and labor issues, had been regarded as one of the safer areas of Mogadishu.
Shabab fighters began their attacks in 2007, targeting Somali lawmakers, African Union peacekeepers and "poor women sweeping up Mogadishu's bullet-pocked streets." While the Shabab have withdrawn from Mogadishu and other areas near the Kenya and Ethiopia borders, they remain in control of most of southern Somalia where they have imposed draconian measures on the population, banning all that they consider un-Islamic including music and Western dress.
The Shabab are also blamed for causing the famine that could lead to the deaths of 750,000. The drought in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and much of the Horn of Africa is one of the worst in decades but "just about the only areas where that drought has spelled famine, as defined by certain thresholds of death and malnutrition rates, are Shabab-controlled areas," says the New York Times. The Shabab have not allowed many Western aid organizations into the territory they control and have prevented people from fleeing.
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November 17, 2001 - Canadian Football League (CFL)
by Jason Kmet
Fans below the 49th parallel starved for their fix of three down football, take heart. Canadian Football League games are available on American television screens for the first time since 1997. For some, this is old news. America One Television, a group of over 120 affiliated stations across the States, has been broadcasting games since September. However, with the start of the the playoffs last weekend, a couple of cable sports channels have added CFL games. Fox Sports World and Florida's The Sunshine Network will show this weekend's division finals and the Grey Cup on November 25th.
Most America One stations will show the remaining games live. Hamilton at Winnipeg will be shown at 1:00 pm EST on Sunday followed by the Calgary at Edmonton game at 4:00 pm. The Grey Cup will be broadcast live at 6:00 pm EST. Fox Sports World will show the Hamilton at Winnipeg game at 8:00 pm EST on Sunday and the Calgary at Edmonton game at the same time on Monday. Fox's Grey Cup coverage on the following Sunday will begin with a pre game show at 5:00 pm EST with the game starting at 6:00.
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Canadian Football League Stories from November 17, 2001
- Ticats, Bombers vie for Cup berth - OSC Original by Campbell Blake
- CFL returns to America TV - OSC Original by Jason Kmet
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RE: Need help with research topics Oct 04 2006 02:32AM
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Try contributing to the list first before you ask for assistance. If you cant do this on your own, needless to say you waited 5 days before the deadline, then you don't deserve a PhD.
> This is my first posting.
> This is my first posting. I am a PhD student at Nova and I needed some help finding new research topics to write about in the areas of Computer Forensics, Network Security, Information Security etc. I am new to this school and I haven't done much research before. My problem is that to me it seems that everything has been done before. I am also afraid of choosing a topic that I will not be able to write code for or build later (in two months).
> Below is the assignment:
> For those in DCIS 830, a reminder. I need for you to include in your proposal what you are planning to do. Exactly what you are planning to do. Phrases like "I plan to investigate...",
> "I will review...", and "I would like to research..." don't tell me much. Alternatively, phrases like "I will develop a prototype _____ and use data from ____ to test the effectiveness of this approach", or "I will conduct a case study of four ______ efforts and create a set of best practices from the lessons learned" are much more specific. I don't need to know your
> results (you won't have those until you've finished the work) but I do need to understand the research process that you will be following.
> Dr. C
> The objective of this exercise is to provide students with the experience of
> conducting research and writing an article on information security for
> submission to a peer reviewed journal. The project involves the submission of
> a preliminary report and the final paper.
> (Note: Topics must be approved in advance by the instructor)
> Proposal (Due October 8, 2006)
> The preliminary report should be in the form of a research plan. You must state
> the targeted journal for your manuscript. The preliminary report should follow
> the style required by the journal and address the following issues:
> 1. Problem addressed
> ??Clearly state the research problem that you plan to address.
> 2. Prior research
> ??Briefly discuss the body of literature that is used to motivate the
> research. Emphasize the shortcomings in the prior literature that
> you plan to address.
> 3. Significance
> ??Explain why you think your work makes a significant contribution
> to the field. Cite references wherever possible to establish that
> there is a consensus among researchers that the problem
> addressed in the article is indeed an important one.
> 4. Methodology
> ??Discuss the methodology you plan to use for the study. Justify the
> appropriateness of the selected methodology. Be as precise as
> you can. Identify the knowledge representation scheme and the
> search strategy where appropriate.
> Make sure that you cite all relevant articles that are referenced in your paper.
> Please submit a copy of the paper that you believe is most significant in
> motivating your work. If relevant, you may also send copies of any other
> supporting articles.
> Final Report
> This is the final manuscript that you plan to submit to the targeted journal. You
> should use the style and the format that is appropriate for the journal, (note: the
> use of the GSCIS Idea Paper format is not acceptable). A suggested guideline
> for the article is presented below. Note that this is just a suggested outline and
> that your article need not have the same structure.
> 1. Introduction
> ??Provide the necessary background and discuss the relevant
> literature to motivate the research problem that your article
> addresses.
> 2. The Problem
> ??Discuss the problem in detail and formulate it a manner that
> makes it tractable.
> 3. The Method
> ??Describe the method used to address the problem. Justify the
> approach that you have adopted.
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On a cloudy but calm Saturday in Burlington, ON, Svein Tuft won his first ever Canadian title in the road race at the 2011 IMMUNITY-FX Canadian Road Championships powered by Canaccord Wealth Management. Tuft as seven titles in the Time trials race, making this road race title his career eight Canadian title.
On a day where Team SpiderTech powered by C10 were dominant, sweeping the men's podium with the defending champion Will Routley in second place and Canadian Track cycling star and World Cup Champion Zach Bell in third, Tuft fought extremely hard to leave solo a chase group to join the breakaway group, which included three 'spiders' and Rob Britton of BISSELL Pro Cycling.
"These guys gave me a tremendous gift. We have been working together for a number of years, and they gave it to me and I can't thank them enough. This is something for my career I thought would be an amazing to pull off, and now it happened. It's an amazing feeling," said Tuft, Canada's newest road cycling champion.
"I feel that as long as you keep learning new things and still have motivation, there are no points in thinking about leaving. I still have many goals in cycling. There are so many big races that we can do, and with team growing and getting to the next level, we just keep our motivation going," added Tuft.
A total of 178 riders took to the start of the race at 4pm on a very difficult course. The course, which featured a category 4 climb for almost one kilometer, was truly a championship course. Of all the starters, only 42 were able to complete the race.
Steve Bauer, team director for SpiderTech, was thrilled with the performance of his riders today.
"There are a lot of good riders out there with Rollin, Veilleux, Meier, Britton. We had a strong team, with the numbers and we had to make sure it was decisive. The plan was to go from the gun, o hard, and make our counterpart work hard. Everyone tried hard, and our guys were too strong."
The race, which was 14 laps of a 12.8-kilometre loop, brought together some of the best cyclist this country has to offer, including Dominique Rollin (Francaise-Des-Jeux), David Veilleux (Team Europcar), Christian Meier (United Healthcare) just to name just a few.
"You never know which attack will stick. We had strong riders out there with Lacombe, Routley and Bell. Britton was also working hard. We had to play hard against all those strong riders. We didn't want anything at chance."
The lead group of four riders stayed together and maintained a time gap of around two minutes the majority of the race, sometimes reaching of 2:45. With two laps to go, Svein Tuft of Team SpiderTech left the chase group solo to join the attack group. Then, Tuft worked with Bell and Routley as they attacked while Tuft stayed with Britton. In the last lap, Tuft initiated his attack on Britton, leaving him behind to join Routley and Bell and ride the very last climb together, as a team.
At the end, it's Tuft who crossed the line first, side by side with this teammates Routley, the defending Road champion, and Bell, the World Cup Champion in track cycling. The victory was a symbolic gift awarded the Tuft, the captain and tested veteran of Team SpiderTech.
"Tuft was our number 1 guy. Even though Svein has been riding so strong, he still had to get to the finish line. He had to leave behind a strong chase group. It could have been Parisien or Lacombe, but on this day it was Svein. He had to get there first. He's our Canadian icon, he's our leader and there is no reason he shouldn't be Canadian Road Champion."
"Our biggest challenge was for everyone not to race selfishly. We had certainly the strength and horsepower. You don't want guys racing against each other early on and risk a thing. We needed to have an unselfish team to make it a decisive win."
In the U23 race, the spectators gathered at the finish line were treated to a sprint finish between Team SpiderTech's Hugo Houle and Team Québec's Arnaud Papillon. At the photo finish, it was Houle who took the race honours, winning his second title in as many races at these Canadian Road Championships. Papillon was second, followed by Jamie Riggs of Team Ontario in third.
"It was a great day. Hugo Houle really impressed me in the time trial. He's such a promising athlete and we are really happy to have him on board. We raced to win the elite race, not the U23 race. We told the U23 guys to take a backseat and establish the major goal. Hugo just nipped Arnaud at the end, and that for itself was an exciting moment."
Points Race. Tomorrow, Canada's top cyclists will race the very popular Criterium race in Georgetown, starting at 1pm.
The Elite Men's and Elite Women's criteriums will be points races. Intermediate sprints shall take place on the finish line and after a number of laps that shall always be the same between two sprints. Sprints every 5 laps with points to first four riders. Double points awarded for final sprint. Elite women race 30 laps and Elite Men, 45 laps.
A note about riders owning a foreign UCI licence. The Canadian Cycling Association would like to send its warmest apologies to Jasmine Glaesser of Cycling BC. In the women's U23 category, Glaesser finished second of the time trial race and third of the road race. Glaeser currently owns a German licence and as a result of a technical rule, she was not recognized on the podium at the Canadian Championship. It is expected that Glaesser will receive her Canadian licence shortly.
Top 10 Canadian Men Road Race Championhips
1. TUFT, Svein (TEAM SPIDERTECH powered by C10) 4:32:09
2. ROUTLEY, Will (TEAM SPIDERTECH powered by C10) s.t.
3. BELL, Zachary (TEAM SPIDERTECH powered by C10) s.t.
4. BRITTON, Rob (BISSELL PRO CYCLING) +1:43
5. *HOULE, Hugo (TEAM SPIDERTECH powered by C10) +5:26
6. *PAPILLON, Arnaud (EQUIPE DU QUEBEC) +5 :26
7. SALAS, Sebastian (TEAM H&R BLOCK) +5:31
8. MEIER, Christian (UNITED HEALTHCARE PRO CYCLING) +5:31
9. LANGLOIS, Bruno (TEAM SPIDERTECH powered by C10) +5:39
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Your mileage may vary, though, as some dislike it for the way the characters act compared to their canon personalities, especially "Dusk" himself. However, meme decided to go ahead and cancel the fic upon uploading the second chapter of the Sonic Rainboom arc.Can be read [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/41270/The-Unexpected-Love-Life-of-Dusk-Shine here.]]The artist who contributed the cover art has started a [[ComicBookAdaptation manga adaptation]] of it [[http://xxangeluciferxx.deviantart.com/gallery/39195028 here.]]NOTE: The author is apparently OneOfUs. He's even been pointing tropes he deliberately invoked/noticed as he went along. As such, we've thrown his responses in verbatim. Such are the cases for the YMMV bullets.The fic has been under a bit of {{Retcon}} after it changed authors. The original author, meme-asaurus, has cancelled the original fic, but it lives on by the name of [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/185781/the-unexpected-love-life-of-dusk-shine-continues The Unexpetected Love Life of Dusk Shine Continues]] by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/White+Rabbit White Rabbit]]----!!This fanfic provides examples of:* AbortedArc: ** The Winter Wrapup episode was skipped completely, mainly due to the author having difficulties establishing a winter having happened within the more constrained timeframe of the fic. (In the show, it's assumed that the winter takes place outside of the episodes.)** Unfortunately, the original story itself. Meme ended it after losing interest, among other things. However, meme was kind enough to leave behind spoilers for what was to come. [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/185781/the-unexpected-love-life-of-dusk-shine-continues That is, until White Rabbit's]] {{Retcon}}.*** Dusk and Luna's dream kid was going to be [[Fanfic/PastSins Nyx]], with Dusk being the one to pay child support.*** At one point, Applejack was going to be the mare who won Dusk. When she ran off after The Last Roundup, she was going to have sex with Dusk in his sleep before she went, leading to a pregnancy scare. And then meme had the idea for Luna's dream sexcapades.*** A Dog and Pony Show was going to be a long chapter ending in a short "Dear Princess Celestia" letter. ("Rarity scares me sometimes.")*** The entire Gala included the five girls attempting to drag Dusk off on their escapades. Luna was going to have her guards kidnap Dusk for an all-night gaming session, where Dusk had never touched a controller in his life. Rarity was going to meet Blueblood, [[Fanfic/TheBestNightEver who was trapped in an endless Groundhog Day loop]] on Gala night, and they would argue over whose night was worse. Trixie would try to impress Dusk by using an old magic tome (The Necronomicon) and end up summoning zombies.*** Gilda was to show up as a member of Appleloosa's weather team with Lightning Dust, leading Dash to question her feelings for Gilda, leading to them becoming a beta couple.*** Dusk was going to become an alicorn.*** Clover's Soul Gem was going to get smashed, leaving her in limbo, where she would encounter Discord. Discord would free her if she did some intell-gathering on the Elements so Discord could corrupt them.*** Fluttershy was supposed to be a futanari. She would end up flashing the crowd during Green Isn't Your Color, but thereafter devolve ino a sputtering mess whenever it was brought up.*** People were apparently asking for an Equestria Girl's chapter done Dusk-style, with Flash Sentry/Dusk bromance and a jealous Spike.* AbridgedSeries: In a manner of speaking, it is. It takes the base plotlines of the show, mixes things up, adds shout-outs, throws in humor, and all of this using no clips from the actual show itself.* AccidentalPervert: See Dusk CrashIntoHello with Rainbow Dash.* ActorAllusion: InUniverse. Pinkie notes that she and Fluttershy have the same [[Creator/AndreaLibman voice actress]]. [[InsaneTrollLogic She uses this as a justification for the fact that him dating Fluttershy is like him dating her.]]* AdaptationalWimp: While in the fic (as well the original show) is Rarity who attacked first the Manticore, in the manga version she is saved by Applejack and is totally terrified by the monster.* AloofBigBrother: Shining Armor.* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: [[TheAce Shining Armor]] to Dusk.* ArtShift: The manga artist decided to switch from drawing everyone as ponies to drawing them as humans about half way through the first story arc. There was also a minor TimeSkip to the climax of the first arc at the same time, leading to some confusion on the part of readers. It's still the same story and characters with the same abilities, just drawn as humans rather than ponies.* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Nightmare Moon to Dusk.]]* AwesomeMcCoolname: Fluttershy's full name is revealed to be Fluttershy [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bloodsplatter]] Hurricane.* BeautyMark: Manga!Rarity has a star shaped one underneath her left eye.* BerserkButton: It's probably not a good idea to wake up a nocturnal near-omnipotent being up in the middle of the day.* {{Bishonen}}: The story's description outright calls Dusk a pretty boy.* BlackComedyRape: Pinkie Pie comes uncomfortably close to this in "Pinkieception" when she gives Dusk an unsolicited hoofjob in the bathtub, which he himself describes as molestation.* BrainBleach: You will never look at Spike's [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E8LookBeforeYouSleep "Royal Canterlot Business"]] the same again. The author recommends readers to auto-induce brain damage as a remedy for the text guilty of this crime.* BreakingTheFourthWall: Pinkie Pie, to the point of addiction. It got so bad, readers got annoyed and asked meme-asaurus to stop. He then set it up as Pinkie being addicted to breaking the fourth wall and attempting to stop. Emphasis on attempting. [[TearJerker And then Pinkieception Part 3 explains why this is so...]]** Seems to be very much toned down in the manga adaptation, however, along with fandom in-jokes.* BreakoutCharacter: Princess Platinum.* BromanticFoil: Dusk Shine and Spike. Dusk is even asked to be the latter's Wingpony! Which considering Spike ''isn't'' the main lead, you can see how well that goes.* ButtMonkey: Dusk Shine, even more so than Twilight.* CallBack: At the end of Pinkieception, Fluttershy's diary entry notes that her recently-learned [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Fire Breath shout]] proved to be a most effective tool in scaring off the hydra.** Also, Pinkie Pie asks Luna if Dusk lasts longer than fifteen seconds to Princess Luna during her rounds of dream sex with Dusk.** More for Fluttershy. During the famous [[FlatJoy "yay"]] scene at the beginning of "Sonic Rainboom", she screams '''''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim FUS RO DAH!]]''''' instead of the last "yay."* CerebusRollerCoaster: Chapter 1 ends with a silly note promising UnwantedHarem shenanigans and reference-based humor. Cue chapter 2, ending with [[spoiler: [[MoodWhiplash Dusk getting knocked out and dragged]] into [[KnightOfCerebus Pinkamena's]] basement.]] Chapter 3 starts with a ''Film/PulpFiction'' quote and a [[TearJerker Tear Jearking]] flashback from [[spoiler: Pinkie's]] perspective. Chapter 4 comes back with more humor. [[UpToEleven That should give you some perspective.]]* ChildhoodFriendRomance: When Pinkie Pie has Dusk inside her mind, her Surprise persona befriends Dusk as a filly for this purpose, even going so far as quipping that "childhood friends make great love interests!"* ComicBookAdaptation: The aforementioned manga adaptation mentioned & linked above* ConspiracyTheorist: Dusk complains that he's often written off as this by other ponies.* CovertPervert: Dusk, while every bit the recluse Twilight is, is shown to be quite the pervert himself, both by Spike's accounts and several of his trains of thoughts.* CrackFic: Chapter one ([[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon Which retells the fir]][[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony st two episodes]]) contains a lot of Meta humor and LemonyNarrator. Chapter two, short though it is in comparison to chapter one, seems to tone this down.** Though it's taken steps back to crack, shifting the focus from the harem plot to other side characters, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation weird backstories]] and [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slenderpony]] parody.* CrashIntoHello: Dusk Shine's face, meet Rainbow Dash's flank.* DeadpanSnarker: Dusk, you make Twilight proud.* DistractedByTheSexy: Dusk ignores the whole scene with Steven Magnet because he's too busy glaring at [[HelloNurse wet-maned Rarity]].* DontYouDarePityMe: Pinkamena.* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Used constantly, especially in the beginning of Chapter Three.* EnfantTerrible: Pinkamena. She killed a puppy at four months old.* [[HumanoidAbomination Equine Abomination]]: [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos The Slenderpony]], [[spoiler: and Scootaloo, since she's his daughter. Her true and horrifying natural form is that of gen 3.5 Scootaloo.]]* EroticDream: Dusk apparently has a bunch of these, courtesy of Princess Luna.* [[FirstGirlWins First Filly Wins]] : Pinkie is shooting for this.* TheFantasticTropeOfWonderousTitles* FireForgedFriends: Princess Platinum and Clover the Clever. Initially they can barely tolerate each other's presence, but the combination of being the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mares]] of [[spoiler: King Sombra's Crystal Empire]] and [[spoiler: living literally thousands of years in each other's close company thanks to their Soul Gems]] eventually made them TrueCompanions.* FirstKiss: Dusk's first is taken by [[spoiler: Luna.]]** This even leads to Dusk having a bit of a thing for her, if ''The Rise of Dovahshy Part 1'' is any indication (he [[spoiler:gets a letter from Celestia saying that Luna misses him, but the offending line is crossed out by presumably her. Dusk attempts to write Celestia back, but can't get a letter right. One of the messed up letters simply says "I miss Luna too."]])** It goes beyond that. Dusk's been having dreams involving having sex with [[spoiler:Season2!Luna]] without knowing it was her. He's not exactly as opposed to the idea as he was when Pinkie tried to give him a hoof job.*** [[spoiler:She gets pregnant from her dream-encounters with Dusk and has been attempting to send him letters to let him know of the situation. However, Dusk has yet to hear of this, as Spike has been left in charge of the library while [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Dusk's in Cloudsdale.]]]]* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in chapter one, Dash mentions when she brushes of Nightmare Moon's death threat that, amoung other things, she can't die yet because she 'hasn't banged that one geek yet', and in the chapters covering the Gala Ticket episode, Dusk makes mention about how one of the main reasons Dash wants him to pick her is because 'she wants to clop him in public'. [[spoiler: Guess which one of the mane cast Dusk ends up losing his virginity to way later in the fic. (Though, granted, it was ''unintentional''. They were both drugged out on poison joke at the time... It MakesSenseInContext. Rainbow Dash is still content with it though.)]]** They might have been hallucinating, because Dusk doesn't remember but Dash does. And since Dusk has been managing to pacify his friends without doing the deed with them in the latest chapters, it leads us to believe it probably was just Dashie hallucinating.* FormerChildStar: Pipsqueak was apparently a pony version of Music/JustinBieber. [[TakeThat He hated it]]. Likewise, Vinyl Scratch's [[OldShame first song]] was [[Music/RebeccaBlack Friday]].* FreudianSlip: Pinkamena, in Pinkieception Part 3.--> ""I don't ''want'' to be free! I don't ''want'' your help! I don't ''want'' to separated from Pinkie! I don't ''want'' to be all alone again!"* GenerationXerox: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] Fluttershy and her great-great-great-([[OverlyLongGag repeat as necessary]])-grandfather Commander Hurricane are as different from each other as can be, aside from sharing their species [[spoiler: and the power of Thu'um.]] Also played straight in that just like Hurricane, Fluttershy eventually associated with a group of five ponies quite similar to the ones Hurricane befriended in Equestria´s origin story.* GenreSavvy: Rainbow Dash quickly clues in that the Shadowbolts only want to lure her away from the group and are a trick of Nightmare Moon's.* TheGlomp: Manga!Rarity does this to Dusk, after that he has risked to fall, complete with MarshmallowHell.* GrandTheftMe: Princess Platinum and Clover the Clever (two of Equestria's original founders) are alive and well thanks to trapping their souls in jewelry and possessing the wearers. Platinum hit a snag when her bracelet was stolen and ended up on Rarity's cat. [[spoiler:Clover on the other hand is living the good life as Hoity Toity.]]* GroinAttack: Whenever Pinkie Pie/Pinkamena whips out a {{crowbar|Combatant}}, expect Dusk Shine to be dealt a low blow.* HaremNanny: ** Too early to tell for sure, but evidence points to Celestia becoming this.** Zecora takes a shot at the job too, suggesting solving his romantic problems by [[MarryThemAll romancing all of them]].* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He's Not My Boyfriend]]: Applejack's reaction when Granny Smith calls Dusk AJ's boyfriend.* HiveMind: The Parasprites, fittingly enough. As seen in the show, they are {{Explosive Breeder}}s, so this is probably justified.* HotForTeacher: ** When he was younger, Dusk had a crush on Princess Celestia. [[spoiler: She turned him down because, aside from him being eleven at the time, she's a lesbian.]]** [[spoiler: Trixie, after Dusk agrees to take her on as his apprentice.]]* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: The first thing Nightmare Moon does after smashing the elements is [[spoiler: try to [[AttemptedRape force herself]] on Dusk.]]* ImmortalityImmorality: Soul Gems, which don't just appear in the ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''.* IntoxicationEnsues: After everypony touches the Poison Joke and stay awake all night trying to search for the lost foals.** Derpy praises Pinkamena's trap muffin for Gilda to kingdom come, causing Gilda to try to take the apparently delicious sweet back...until the instant the muffin hits Derpy's digestive system, which is when Derpy beings to vomit all over Gilda and Pinkie.* JerkassHasAPoint: Dusk agrees with Pinkamina about Rarity having already planned her foals' names, especially coupled with the extremely detailed fantasy about her wedding, is really creepy.* KarmaHoudini: Clover and Platinum.* LemonyNarrator: Highly present in chapter one, less so in chapter two. He's back in full force as of Ch. 9.* LethalChef: Applejack when delirious due to lack of sleep, as the show can attest. Heavily exploited by Pinkamena.* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler: Celestia]].* LoveChart: Dusk apparently keeps one under lock and key, hoping to Faust that none of the ponies on said list find it.* LukeIAmYourFather: ** Nightmare Moon tries to pull it on Rainbow Dash. [[spoiler: It fails]]** Rainbow tried this once on Scootaloo. YouDoNotWantToKnow [[NoodleIncident what happened,]] or so says Rainbow.* [[ChickMagnet Mare Magnet]]: ** Dusk Shine. Not only the Mane 5, but also Luna and Trixie fall in love for him.** Shining Armor when they were younger, to the point where Dusk's worried Shining Armor has seduced Fluttershy (the only member of his harem he actually wants as a girlfriend).* MarryThemAll: Zecora suggests this to Dusk Shine to solve his LoveDodecahedron issues. When he imagines how it would work out, he is immediately frightened beyond belief.* MarshmallowHell: Dusk take one by Rarity in the manga.* MyBelovedSmother: Featherweight's mother, Blossomforth, is very protective of her son. To [[Series/{{iCarly}} Marissa Benson]] levels in fact.* MythologyGag: In the manga adaptation, when Dusk first meets Rarity and she fixes his mane, she initially [[http://xxangeluciferxx.deviantart.com/art/Lesson-1-Page-29-354994009 styles it like Twilight's]].* [[NamesTheSame Nickname's The Same]]: Dusk Shine and his brother Shining Armor both call each other "Shiny".* NoFourthWall: Pinkie Pie and the author often make references to the canon series, as well as commenting on what's going on in the story and advising readers to comment in the comment section below.** After some complaints from the readers of Pinkie Pie overdoing the fourth wall gag he's changed it somewhat. She's now portrayed as being addicted to breaking the fourth wall and is trying to tone it down. Emphasis on trying.** Fast forward to Pinkieception Part 3. We finally find out why she does it so much. It's quite a sad reason.* NoodleImplements: Pinkie tries to put the author on the spot by gathering random junk to resolve the parasprite invasion with, reasoning that she has to succeed no matter what she brings, or the plot will derail.* NoodleIncident: ** Pinkie's last attempt to invent a new type of party sent Gummy to the court for arson. And got Pinkie trapped in a birdcage. And the ninja mafia was involved somehow.** The time Rainbow Dash tried to pull LukeIAmYourFather on Scootaloo. [[YouDoNotWantToKnow Even she doesn't want to talk about it.]]* NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat: When soul gems are destroyed, the one who put their soul in the gem dies. Princess Platinum constantly pines for the fact that her best friend Clover's soul gem was shattered many years ago. [[spoiler:Actually, Clover's gem, for reasons unexplained, found its way onto Hoity Toity.]]* OhCrap: The reaction of Dusk Shine and the audience at the cliffhanger for chapter two: [[spoiler:Pinkamena comes out to play]].** Applejack's manga-version reaction when Spike informs her the pony she'd just clobbered was the one sent by Princess Celestia to check on her food.* OverlyLongGag: This one goes on for about half a page.-->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Those conversations are like, the most interesting talks ever! I mean, there this one time I talked to Derpy about nothing and it lasted for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours...** Dusk's picnic with Fluttershy in Chapter 27 - 21 pages of awkward silence, entirely represented by "...", repeated over 700 times, which continues for two hours after the two have finished eating.*** Lampshaded by the author twice. First during the chapter, it says "Can you imagine the audio adaptation for this?" and in the author notes he says "If you look closely, one of the ... actually has four dots". [[spoiler: Ctrl-F quickly reveals this to be a lie]].** Chapter 34 has Fluttershy trying to get Rainbow Dash to look after the as yet unnamed Tank. The "Please?" "No." exchange goes on for over 20 cycles, before Rainbow Dash tells her to buck off.* PervertedDrooling: Dusk does this when he first lays eyes on Fluttershy. This predictably scares her.* PragmaticAdaptation: The manga version removes a lot of the crack elements and narration of the original story, focusing on the more straightforward HaremComedy.* PuffOfLogic: How Dusk resolves the "[[DidntThinkThisThrough pulling tree into the house]]" situation of the sleepover.* RedBaron: The Brilliant and Masculine Dusk Shine.* ReferenceOverdosed: Just look at all of them below!* RuleSixtyThree: Played with, in that only one character is switched, and the rest of the story focuses on how relationships may alter to accommodate that change.* RunningGag: It started with a certain scene from ''Film/PulpFiction''. Now everytime Dusk says "What?" around Pinkie Pie, his lower regions end up in a world of hurt.* SacredFirstKiss: Rarity is quite upset that [[spoiler: Luna]] stole Dusk's before she did.* SexyDiscretionShot: Played with. Meme-asaurus cuts to the next scene after suggestive dialogue between Pinkie and Dusk. Pinkie says that they should not bring up what just happen, so as to make the readers think they went all the way. Nothing actually happened, and according to Dusk, they just appeared in the basement of his library after the scene change.* ShoutOut: Has [[ShoutOut/TheUnexpectedLoveLifeOfDuskShine his page]].* SixthRanger: [[spoiler: Trixie is now living under Dusk Shine's roof. She is also now both part of Dusk's harem and his pupil (at least she said she hopes to be).]]* SpeedSex: Well, sort of. They never actually do the deed, but when Pinkie has Dusk in his bathtub, she... er... hoofs him, and he lasts all of fifteen seconds. She's disappointed, and he's embarrassed.* SplitPersonalityTakeover: A variation, in that it's not really a "takeover", it's more of a "defaulting". After Pinkie's heart was kinda-sorta broken by Dusk not asking her to the Grand Galloping Gala, she becomes deeply depressed. So depressed, that her "other" personality, the psychotic Pinkamena, is surprised to find that ''she's'' in control of the body for the first time in several years. What does she do? Why, get revenge on Dusk Shine, of course!* SpoiledSweet: Pipsqueak and Vinyl Scratch, who are the children of [[UnclePennybags Fancypants]] and Fleur de Lis.** [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex Good Ponies Have Good Sex]]: [[spoiler: Dusk wasn't Dash's first, but he was apparently her best.]]* SuperSoldier: King Sombra's attempts to create an army of Alicorn supersoldiers was only partially successful. He only managed to make one, and that one was a [[spoiler:baby Cadence]].* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: Fluttershy suggests this to end the gala ticket feud, basically suggesting they ask Celestia for five more tickets.]]* TemptingFate: When Applejack expresses much doubt regarding Rainbow's catapult stunt plan, Rainbow utters the unspeakable, damning words. * [[ThirdPersonPerson Third Pony Pony]]: Trixie ''always'' refers to herself as such instead of just using "I".* {{Troll}}: Having a colt for a student hasn't made Celestia let up her trolling one bit. * TrollFic: Has been accused of this, due to the author's fast-paced writing style and the extreme amounts of Meta in the first chapter. The Author claims that this is simply his writing style.** After Dusk's date with Fluttershy, a commenter asked if the author was sure he wasn't trolling, He more or less said that he didn't know anymore.* TrollingCreator: A month after one of the latest chapters was released, an interlude was added to the story. 90% is merely ellipses. But it doesn't end there. The author's notes hint at a hidden four-period ellipsis thrown into the mix. [[spoiler:There's not.]]* {{Troperiffic}}: Due to the very meta tone of the story and having awareness of this page, the author seems to be shooting for this.* {{Tsundere}}:--> '''Trixie:''' "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Besides, it's n-not like the Great and Powerful Trixie LIKES you or anything."]] ** The narration goes as far as calling this a lie.** Applejack is a Type B, being as friendly and generous as canon in her default state, but anything that triggers romantic feelings in her tends to make her get violently defensive, [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale even when ''she'' initiates it]].* WhamLine: Oh, and WordOfGod confirms this is canon and it's sticking.-->[[spoiler:'''Luna''': Dear Dusk, We're pregnant. (''a letter later'') It's yours. The foal is yours. We forgot to include that. Sorry. In case thou is wondering, it was during the dream-sex. Left that part out too.]]* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The ending with Fluttershy and the hydra, which was a nice CallBack to the fact that she's the Dragonborn.* {{Yandere}}: ** [[spoiler:Evidently the Pinkamena Personality.]]** As well as [[spoiler:Rarity, although she sticks to just making dire threats with the occasional catfight.]]----


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"On the one side is your happiness and on the other is your past — the self you were used to, going through life alone, heir to your own experience….You take one timid step forward, but then you realize you are not alone. You take someone's hand … and strain through the darkness to see ahead."
There's something about the grayness this time of year that makes me alternately giddy and wistful; I long for days that arrive quietly, lightly dusting the yard and the garden with snow. They compel me to work at my desk or in the kitchen in complete silence, with the dogs sleeping soundly in the next room. I leave the radio off and shudder when the phone rings. It's always at this time of year when I consider cutting off our television service; we don't watch football, we get our news from NPR and the paper, and everything else — old movies, new movies, Downton Abbey, Portlandia — can be had on demand, making the constant drone of 2000 digital channels of nothing feel like an assault. Maybe it's just the impending end of fall, with its run-up to the holidays and its psychic noise of must-haves and must-dos and must-cooks, its expectations and attending promises of warmth and cheer, its sentiments and happy childhood memories that many of us try and recreate with a grievous, almost panicked fury.
Once, when I was twelve, my best friend gave me a Victorian charm, which she'd purchased in an antique store while shopping with her mother for Christmas. She had a set allowance for me and her little brother, and when Lucy handed me the tiny box on Christmas morning — I always spent Christmas with her family since my parents didn't celebrate — I opened it and gasped. Fashioned from rose gold, the charm was a simple rendering of a reindeer. I loved it not only because it was deeply personal — somehow, Lucy knew instinctively that I would love something that had been cherished by someone else many years earlier; even now, I prefer, and dote on, much older things from cookware to guitars — but because it was enveloped in all the meaning of the season, so far as my prepubescent brain could understand it: here was something mundane that had been quietly chosen for and entrusted to me, without suggestion of screeching advertisements or newspaper circulars. It meant thought, and love, and care, and on some unfathomable level, peace.
Years later, when we were in college — I, in Boston, and Lucy, in Manhattan — it became obvious that we were going to lead very different kinds of lives; we tried to cling to the friendship that we'd had as children, but it hadn't grown with us. It was sad when we both realized it, and we just stopped trying. I removed the reindeer charm — which I'd taken to wearing all year as a kind of anchor — from my gold chain, and wrapped it up in royal blue tissue paper. It sat in my jewelry box for almost two decades, dragged through the early days of my adulthood in New York, from apartment to apartment, out to Brooklyn, back to Manhattan, and finally, up to married life in Connecticut. I never wore it again, but the first time Susan and I decorated a tree together with the antique striped glass balls and cut-out paper ornaments of her youth — each ascribed a special memory and meaning — I slipped a small metal hook through the charm's loop and hung it discreetly and almost imperceptibly amidst my partner's connection to her Christmas past; I've done it ever since, for the twelve Christmases we've shared. Lucy — who we were as children — is still very much a part of my holiday, frozen in time.
And this is what most of us do during big holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. We haul out memories and connections to who we once were, we acknowledge them, and then we tuck them away again when the holiday is over. On the first night of Hanukah, I make my Grandma Clara's potato latkes and call my mother, who says "you're making Grandma's lockets?" (She says it, every single time.) I can see my grandmother in our kitchen in Forest Hills; I can smell her — a heady combination of Jungle Gardenia and Aqua Net and Wesson oil — and I feel her standing beside me, even though she's not. We try, every holiday, to recreate the Swedish meatballs that Susan's beloved (non-Swedish) grandmother made, and which the entire family adored; every year we fail, but it's in the making of them — the almost meditative thinking and remembering how they tasted and what their consistency and color of the sauce was — that brings her back to Susan, if only for that moment. It matters not a whit if they don't come out right; that's not what cooking to remember is about.
Every Thanksgiving, my cousins and I try, sometimes subconsciously and sometimes not, to recreate our most important fall holiday of years ago, when we were all together at my aunt's house, when the "children" — all of us adults entering or well into our forties — were happy and safe, and aunts and fathers and uncles and grandparents and brothers were all alive, and the house rocked with the roots music that my late cousin Harris and I played for hours on end before my aunt rang a trio of tiny Swiss cowbells — they now hang in my cousin Mishka's house — to let us know that dinner was ready. We work very hard it seems — sometimes painstakingly so — at recreating this event, squinting back into the past to remember and feel and smell and taste exactly what it was like. Sometimes, we succeed. Sometimes, the striving to recreate something that doesn't really exist anymore stresses us into a kind of psycho-culinary hysteria. Sometimes, our attempts at producing this meal which my aunt created for years with apparent effortlessness, go awry, and we're all over each other like a bad suit. And sometimes, as was put to me plainly last week, the family circle simply gets re-drawn when we're not looking; suddenly we're Scrooge, blowing the snow off the windows of time so that we can peer in from outside for a sharper look at Fezziwig dancing in front of the fires of our past, as the wind howls around us.
There's nowhere to go but forward, into the future.
On the Friday after Thanksgiving this year, Susan and I drove out to rural northwestern Virginia to visit a new friend and her boyfriend, who live way off the beaten path in an old miller's house built between the 18th and 19th centuries. Spare, quiet, and with a long, homemade rectory-style table running the full length of the dining room, the place was a balm to my jangled holiday nerves; I sat down in front of the roaring fire to catch my breath, and before we left, Sarah handed me a small crate filled with eggs laid by her chickens and the two (hilarious) Indian runner ducks who patrol the property.
Happy Thanksgiving, she and Ben said, as we hugged them goodbye and gingerly placed their gift — eggs are harbingers of the future, symbols of eternal optimism, promise, and possibility — into the cooler in our trunk, and drove back to my cousin's house. We returned home to Connecticut the next day, and I put Lucy's reindeer back on my gold chain as a tether to the me who wore it years ago, back before the days of worrying about heritage versus conventional, brining versus not, how many squash dishes to serve, who is going to be upset and cranky if I cook and who isn't, where and with whom to have Thanksgiving dinner, or even what side of the circle I'm on. We fried Sarah's duck eggs tenderly in an ancient cast iron pan, and talked about my darling cousins (who, with Mishka's second baby due in May and my cousin Russ getting married in June, are quickly increasing in number) and our friends who we love so much and don't see enough of. And how, as the years pass and we all move forward and begin to shape and form our own holiday traditions — taking what we can from the past, honoring it, but then making it our own — our circle has also been re-drawn, only it's gotten bigger. There's room for everyone.
We wouldn't have it any other way.
A Fried Duck Egg on Toast
Anyone who is a regular reader of Poor Man's Feast knows that all my life, I've had a small love affair with eggs of every kind: chicken eggs, pullet eggs, quail eggs, caviar. More recently, I've fallen head over heels for duck eggs, which are now much easier to find than they used to be. Generally, they're a good bit larger than a jumbo chicken egg, a lot (in my estimation) earthier, and I think far more precious (the duck clearly thinks so too, perhaps accounting for why the shell is harder to crack than its chicken counterpart). When Sarah gave us the gift of eggs from her birds on a day that saw me mired in the past, in old hurts and ancient memories, they lifted my spirits. And prepared as simply as possible, that's what eggs do. We had ours for dinner recently, with a glass of wine and a small green salad.
Serves 1
1-1/2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 duck egg
1 thick slice country bread
1 pinch sea salt
black pepper to taste
In a very well-seasoned, small cast iron pan, heat one tablespoon of olive oil over medium heat until it just begins to shimmer. Gently crack the duck egg directly into the pan, taking care not to break the yolk. While the egg is cooking, toast the bread.
Cook the egg for four minutes without moving it; the edges of the white should go crispy and brown. When they do, gently tilt the pan and spoon some of the hot oil directly over the yolk. Top the toast with the egg and drizzle with the remaining oil. Season with salt and pepper and serve immediately. Hot eggs wait for no one.