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Singapore (1947 film)
Singapore ( i/ˈsɪŋɡəpɔːr/), officially the Republic of Singapore, and often referred to as the Lion City, the Garden City, and the Red Dot, is a global city in Southeast Asia and the world's only island city-state. It lies one degree (137 km) north of the equator, at the southernmost tip of continental Asia and peninsular Malaysia, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south. Singapore's territory consists of the diamond-shaped main island and 62 islets. Since independence, extensive land reclamation has increased its total size by 23% (130 km2), and its greening policy has covered the densely populated island with tropical flora, parks and gardens.
The islands were settled from the second century AD by a series of local empires. In 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles founded modern Singapore as a trading post of the East India Company; after the company collapsed, the islands were ceded to Britain and became part of its Straits Settlements in 1826. During World War II, Singapore was occupied by Japan. It gained independence from Britain in 1963, by uniting with other former British territories to form Malaysia, but was expelled two years later over ideological differences. After early years of turbulence, and despite lacking natural resources and a hinterland, the nation developed rapidly as an Asian tiger economy, based on external trade and its human capital.
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The Singapore dollar or dollar (Malay: Ringgit Singapura, sign: $; code: SGD) is the official currency of Singapore. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively S$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. It is divided into 100 cents.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Monetary Authorty of Brunei Darussalam (Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam) still maintain the historic exchangeability of their two currencies, the Singaporean dollar and the Brunei dollar, respectively. The Singapore dollar is accepted as "customary tender" in Brunei according to the Currency Interchangeability Agreement. Likewise, the Brunei dollar is customarily accepted in Singapore.
Between 1845 and 1939, Singapore used the Straits dollar. This was replaced by the Malayan dollar, and, from 1953, the Malaya and British Borneo dollar, which were issued by the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Malaya and British Borneo.
Singapore continued to use the common currency upon joining Malaysia in 1963, but only two years after Singapore's expulsion and independence from Malaysia in 1965, the monetary union between Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei broke down. Singapore established the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore, on 7 April 1967 and issued its first coins and notes. Nevertheless, the Singapore dollar was exchangeable at par with the Malaysian ringgit until 1973, and interchangeability with the Brunei dollar is still maintained.
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Singapore is a 1947 American romance film directed by John Brahm and starring Fred MacMurray and Ava Gardner. The film was remade as Istanbul (1957) with the location moved to Turkey, and Errol Flynn and Cornell Borchers in the starring roles.
Pearl smuggler Matt Gordon (Fred MacMurray) finds romance with Linda Grahame (Ava Gardner) just before the start of World War II. He proposes to her, and she accepts. However, when the Japanese attack Singapore, the church where she is waiting to marry him is bombed; Gordon searches frantically in the wreckage, but cannot find her. He is forced to sail away on his schooner.
With the end of the war, Gordon returns after five years and is met by Deputy Commissioner Hewitt (Richard Haydn), who is convinced he has returned for a hidden cache of pearls. So are Gordon's old criminal associates, Mr. Mauribus (Thomas Gomez) and his underling Sascha Barda (George Lloyd). Mauribus offers to buy the pearls, but Gordon denies he has any.
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Straits Times 09 Jan 2021
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He turns unused and unsold bread into beer
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Container shortage threatens India's nascent export revival
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The Latest: Singapore loosens coronavirus restrictions
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Pants, bras are out, PJs in; travel industry layoffs begin
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The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed ... ————————————————————————. TRAVEL & LODGING ... Job cuts have begun ... The U.S ... — People in Singapore will be able to get professional haircuts or pop into the bakery Tuesday as the government loosens restrictions, three weeks before a partial lockdown ends....
Coronavirus: Lockdowns eased as cases exceed 4.1m worldwide
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We as a country have been pursuing affordable healthcare for few years now. The government incentives have so far driven healthcare provider's investments into the EHR (Electronic Health Records) technology with a goal to deliver a cost effective care. But the industry is still struggling to get its clinicians to use this technology as a part of their daily workflows to make smarter and more informed decisions for improving patient care outcomes. This has left the industry to face serious challenges especially with the shift in payment models. Beyond lowering the reimbursement rates the payers like Medicare are also pushing for alternate payment models.These models call for reimbursements to providers based on the outcomes of the patient care instead of just the encounters with the patient. This means the providers will now have to bear any cost overruns of the patient care.
Then we have the other challenge of growing ageing population which by some estimates will rise by 60% in the next 15 years to over 72 million.
In short the healthcare organizations will have to provide more care for lower payments while assuming greater financial risk. This leaves them no choice but to continue the pursuit of technology promised efficiencies and intelligence to sustain their services.
Unfortunately today's technology offers them neither. It is more lucrative for health IT vendors to get their customers qualified for government incentives than making data easily consumable by clinicians for better clinical decisions.
The government undertook a great initiative in trying to reduce the healthcare delivery costs and our leaders deserve the credit for the political willingness to invest in it. But to realize our ultimate goal of a cost effective healthcare we need to rethink our choice of pursuing a "complete and ideal" EHR system and start thinking about an "easily consumable" one.
How realistic is it to put the onus on clinicians to use today's EHR technology to improve the quality of care while it is adversely impacting their patient coverage and financials? It is least bit surprising to see them turning at an alarming rate to an alternative like Scribe – an unlicensed individual hired to enter information into EHRs. ACMSS (American College of Medical Scribe Specialists) estimates over 20,000 scribes currently working across the country in various hospitals and practices. They expect that number to go up 500% by 2020.
Improving the patient care outcome requires clinician's interaction with the EHR for real time intelligence leading to better decisions. Eliminating that interaction is not the solution. The need is for simplifying the interaction to the point that a clinician simply asks the system for the information like "show me the patient's blood glucose levels".


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Many organizations create their own front-ends for ConfigMgr Task Sequences (or leverage popular third-party ones like OSD++, Pretty Good Front End, etc.). However, these only are able to be used when the task sequence is in WinPE.
Please add the serviceui.exe functionality into the default task sequence environment so it is possible to display Light Touch prompts when starting the task sequence from an existing operating system. Including serviceui.exe would be enough, or the functionality to launch interactive UI could be added to the environment natively.
It would be good to be able to add the latest dynamic updates to a "Operating System Upgrade Package" to ensure it have the latest compatibility database and setup files.
Our environment do not allow the setup process to access internet + even if it could it will be better if we can download once to the package and not having all clients going out to internet.
The same Procedure we require for the Win10 Upgrades via WSUS (1511->1607->1703...) After upgrade we must add manually via Tasksequence the other language packs. Why?
It would be cool, if you set the CCMEXEC Service to "Auto" automatically while running a Task Sequence. After OS Deployment run, it sould be set to "Delayed" again.
This would Speed up OS Deplyoment up to 15 Minutes!
Please create a function to enable task sequence versioning. This feature would be very helpful for reverting back to a previous task sequence as well as accountability for the last user that modified the task sequence.
We write a lot of WMI queries as well as set various task sequence variables. These settings change over time and it would be a great feature to look back on a previous version to view the changes as well as the last user modification.
We currently make copies of our task sequences for this archival purpose. This process works for us now, but we would definitely benefit if this feature existed.


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How Research Helps Your Hearing
by Imaginears | Dec 14, 2021 | Hearing Loss Articles
Researchers at the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may have cracked the code on one of hearing's most bewildering mysteries, and the revelation could result in the overhauling of the design of future hearing aids.
Results from an MIT study debunked the belief that neural processing is what lets us pick out voices. According to the study, it might actually be a biochemical filter that allows us to tune in to individual sound levels.
How Our Ability to Hear is Impacted by Background Noise
Only a small portion of the millions of people who suffer from hearing loss actually use hearing aids to manage it.
Though a significant boost in one's ability to hear can be the result of using a hearing aid, environments with lots of background noise have typically been an issue for people who use a hearing improvement device. For example, the continuous buzz associated with settings like parties and restaurants can wreak havoc on a person's ability to single out a voice.
If you're someone who is experiencing hearing loss, you very likely know how frustrating and upsetting it can be to have a personal conversation with somebody in a crowded room.
Scientists have been closely investigating hearing loss for decades. As a result of those efforts, the way in which sound waves travel throughout the inner ear, and how the ear distinguishes different frequencies of sounds, was thought to be well-understood.
The Tectorial Membrane is Identified
However, it was in 2007 that scientists discovered the tectorial membrane within the inner ear's cochlea. You won't see this microscopic membrane composed of a gel-like material in any other parts of the body. The deciphering and delineation of sound is accomplished by a mechanical filtering performed by this membrane and that may be the most intriguing thing.
When vibration comes into the ear, the minute tectorial membrane manages how water moves in reaction using small pores as it sits on little hairs in the cochlea. It was observed that the amplification produced by the membrane caused a different reaction to different frequencies of sound.
The frequencies at the highest and lowest end of the spectrum seemed to be less affected by the amplification, but the study revealed strong amplification in the middle tones.
Some scientists believe that more effective hearing aids that can better identify individual voices will be the result of this groundbreaking MIT study.
The Future of Hearing Aid Design
The fundamental principles of hearing aid design haven't changed much over the years. Tweaks and fine-tuning have helped with some enhancements, but the majority of hearing aids are basically comprised of microphones which receive sounds and a loudspeaker that amplifies them. Regrettably, that's where one of the design's shortcomings becomes apparent.
All frequencies are increased with an amplification device and that includes background noise. Tectorial membrane research could, according to another MIT scientist, result in new, innovative hearing aid designs which would provide better speech recognition.
In theory, these new-and-improved hearing aids could functionally tune to a distinct frequency range, which would allow the wearer to hear isolated sounds such as a single voice. With this concept, the volume of those sounds would be the only sounds amplified to aid in reception.
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One type of counting calories that has been around for quite a while is that identified with the idea of hugely diminishing your starch admission.
It is however, in certain quarters, a profoundly disputable way to deal with getting in shape.
In the event that you look to the 1950s, 1970s, despite the fact that heftiness in our general public was substantially less of an issue than it is today, there were as yet extensive quantities of individuals who expected to get in shape.
Back then, one of the commonest natively constructed methodologies was basically to evacuate potatoes, bread and sugar (or to a great extent) from the eating routine. Obviously, this needed to a specific level of logical establishment however it is shockingly comparative, on a basic level, to the low sugar counts calories that ended up prevalent from the 1980s onwards.
There are different topics of low starch diet however a large number of them involve some variety of drastically decreasing your carb admission (counting sugars obviously) while permitting a practically boundless utilization of protein.
The thought is that on such an eating routine you can eat nearly as much as you wish of particular kinds of sustenance, for example, lean meat, fish, eggs and most sorts of serving of mixed greens. Zero fat dairy produce is additionally now and then incorporated into the condition.
The fundamental component included identifies with the way that your body will look to change over sugars, fats and different starches into the vitality it needs, so on the off chance that you deny your body sugars, at that point it will consume those that are put away as fat around your body.
You don't feel hungry however in light of the fact that you are eating bigger amounts of protein.
Like all eating regimen routines, low sugar diets may end up being exceptionally fruitful for certain individuals however not really all.
Specific sorts of this eating routine initiate with what is called a 'concentrated stage', normally attempting to deny the body any type of sugar consumption over a time of a few days. At that point, a restricted measure of sugar is included once more into the eating regimen through something like a few kinds of natural product yet just up to a constrained most extreme.
A few specialists have recommended however that denying your assemblage of sugars completely or if nothing else profoundly decreasing their admission may have some unfortunate reactions that could be unfavorable to your wellbeing.
For instance, organic product contains sugars and numerous weight control plans of this nature profoundly confine the measure of natural product you can eat just as numerous sorts of vegetables. The end of bread is likewise more often than not a key segment and some wellbeing experts trust that expelling dietary fiber from your nourishment admission is anything but a reasonable thought.
A few routines of this nature manage that issue by permitting certain particular occasions of fiber consumption through things, for example, oat grain. All things considered, the subject has been immensely disputable with certain individuals saying these eating regimens can be possibly negative to things, for example, your assimilation and maybe glucose levels and by definition, they are not prescribed solid get-healthy plans.
KetoViante Different faultfinders bring up that these weight control plans empower an expanded utilization of meat while decreasing products of the soil vegetables – which is something that negates much present-day good dieting counsel.
It's never a smart thought to just dispatch into any type of eating regimen dependent on hunches or magazine articles.
An unquestionably increasingly reasonable methodology, both regarding your wellbeing and the likelihood of effective results, is to counsel a set up eating less junk food proficient before doing whatever else.


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This page explores the climate crisis, its impacts in Hawke's Bay and how businesses can be more sustainable.
Climate change projections and impacts for Tairāwhiti and Hawke's Bay 2020 (pdf | 22 MB)
HBRC CommunityCarbonFootprint 2022 HawkesBayRegion 221013 V3 (pdf | 1.5 MB)
Our climate is changing, and getting warmer.
The scientific evidence shows that:
Temperatures are warming
Rainfall patterns are changing
Sea levels are rising
Glaciers are melting – including the NZ Southern Alps
Watch the video of our Southern Alps, Glaciers don't lie
Our native biodiversity is threatened
What's causing the climate crisis?
Science has shown us that humans have caused most of the world's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases that power our modern lives. These are called greenhouse gases and their levels are higher now than at any time in the last 800,000 years.
When there's the right amount of greenhouse gases, they trap warmth from the sun and make life on earth possible. When there's too many greenhouse gases, the atmosphere traps too much heat and causes the climate to change.
We often call this global warming, but it is a climate crisis, and we're at the tipping point. It's already causing extreme weather events, rising seas, and threatening the low-lying land in New Zealand and atolls of our neighbouring Pacific countries. (An atoll is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon)
All of this is already affecting us, but we're still releasing more gases than ever before. This means that the impacts of the climate crisis are going to get worse.
What does the climate crisis mean for Hawke's Bay?
The impacts of global warming will increase in the coming years in our region and are potentially catastrophic in the long-term.
Here is the latest NIWA report on climate change projections for Hawke's Bay
It will affect people
Around the world, climate change has already contributed to increased levels of ill health, particularly in connection with summer heatwaves.
In New Zealand, children, the elderly, people with disabilities and chronic disease, and low-income groups are particularly vulnerable to climate change-related health impacts.
Māori are also particularly at risk due to existing health inequalities and a greater likelihood of having low-income housing in areas at risk from flooding and sea-level rise.
It will cause more extreme weather
While the atmosphere warms, the climate is changing, and this means a change in our weather. More frequent and more intense storms, flooding, droughts, heat waves, and even extreme snowfalls are all part of the changes.
It will impact agriculture
Studies show that climate change will have significant impacts on agriculture. This is through decreasing low river flows, an increase in water demand, higher risk of wildfirs, more soil erosion from droughts and extreme rainfall events, and increased pest control problems. More frequent and intense droughts will have an effect on pasture growth, livestock health, and productivity.
It will significantly impact horticulture
Extreme heat may affect the quality of horticultural produce (fruit and veg), and may mean some crops won't be able to grow. Increasing temperatures may provide opportunities for new crop types to be grown in the area, but this may also cause problems for some of the crop types we already have, possibly introducing the spread of new pests. Droughts are likely to cause big issues for the horticultural industry in terms of water availability for water irrigation and the crops they can grown without water.
It will change air quality
Changes in temperature, rainfall, and air can affect air pollution levels and human health. Chronic health conditions such as asthma and chronic lung diseases are particularly affected by outdoor air quality.
It will impact infrastructure
Like the rest of New Zealand, towns and cities in Hawke's Bay are being affected by climate change from hazards, such as sea level rise, which can create social and economic issues.
What's the Regional Council doing to help?
We have declared a climate emergency and set a goal for the region to be carbon neutral by 2050.
We're already taking wide ranging actions through our current work and plan to do a lot more.
Find out more about our climate action work here.
What can business do?
All around our community, businesses and whānau are making a difference – and so can you.
We sat down with Bostocks, who are an organic food producer with sustainability at their core. We asked them why they care, what they're doing, and what they want the world to look like.
Don't know what to do about the climate crisis? Here are some guides to help your business and your whānau get started and make change happen.
Ināia tonu nei: a low emissions future for Aotearoa - Advice to the New Zealand Government on its first three emissions budgets and direction for its emissions reduction plan 2022 – 2025, from the Climate Change Commission.
Our atmosphere and climate 2020Summary
Carbon Click have created a carbon offsetting platform
3R design and develop product stewardship programmes for industry and business
MFE Climate-related financial disclosures to be made mandatory
MFE Emissions Tracker
GENLESS - Explore high-impact ways to push your business towards a thriving, futuristic low-emissions economy
Atmosphere and climate 2020 summary report MFE
Action on climate change: What organisations are doing
Why business must act on climate change
Adapting to Climate Change in New Zealand
Take climate action and support your people to reduce their emissions


Manufacturing and rebuilding collector assemblies (PDF Product Sheet) is a specialty of PCT. When your power generation unit stops working, you stop working. Therefore, PCT specializes in building and refurbishing collector assemblies of all sizes and models to match your specifications.
Our overhaul turn times start at just five days. We keep an extensive in-stock inventory of materials, including forgings, to help keep turn times low. PCT can build or refurbish both two- and four-ring collector assemblies. We work with only the latest and best state-of-the-art insulation materials to ensure your collector assembly will be long-lasting. There is also a custom, 'On-Shelf' exchange program available to make sure you have the right component as quickly as possible.
PCT collector assemblies are recognized industry-wide for their engineering excellence. Power generator OEM manufacturers across the globe use PCT products. Our engineers have over 200 years of combined know-how. Everyone on our staff has an extensive background in power generator components. PCT parts have delivered proven performance with state-of-the-art, efficient manufacturing processes.


This morning I drove to Caversham Primary School - not to learn anything, but to be part of a live 3 hour BBC Berkshire broadcast about primary schools in Berkshire. Anne Diamond was interviewing a number of us who attended primary schools in the county. I was one of three who went to the school itself where the BBC had set up an outside broadcast. Others phoned in. All in all she managed to talk to at least one person from each era. (I related schoolboy stories from the forties when I was at Wescott Road School in Wokingham.) Others talked about their experiences leading right up to the seventies. During the broadcast we all sat in tiny little chairs in the maths classroom. The whole set up was completely different to the classrooms I sat in during my time. This is a corner of the classroom at Caversham.
So what else has been going on since I last wrote a blog. At least the rain has stopped and the river has gone down a lot. My young friend and I spent nearly an hour today scrubbing layers of thick mud off the landing stage. We could the see the damage the floods had done to the boat. It still has water in it - about an inch in the carpeted cabin and about six inches in the engine and central compartments. We'll spend time on Saturday bailing and sponging it out. If the sun comes out we might be able to start the drying out process.
I played 'Colours' - a fun game with snooker balls - at Phyllis Court on Tuesday. Surprisingly I played well and even made a few tricky shots and won my first game - but not enough to win the trophy. One day I'll make it. But then pigs might fly!
I'm working on three assignments at the same time at the moment - a large watercolour portrait for my cousin Paul which has a background of a fantastic cascade of lilac wisterias, two pencil drawings of children, and a large oil portrait of the headmaster. Being oil, I have to put the headmaster aside from time to time to allow it to dry, hence I'm able to alternate paintings.
Last weekend my young friend and I went to Suffolk to spend a couple of days with her parents. The weather was absolutely perfect - especially on Sunday when we basked in warm sunshine, so together with her mother we visited Kentwell Hall in Long Meltford. Lucy Norton, the author, described Kentwell Hall as "A little great house of great beauty - paradise on earth" And so it was. A beautiful moated Tudor home set in really lovely gardens and parkland.
Here's a row of fascinating examples of topiary.
And nearby someone has spent a lot of time making a work of art by carving into this tree.
As the house itself was not open on the day we visited, we could only spend time in the gardens and the outhouses. But what a surprise these turned out to be. Here are a few views from inside the moat house.
We found a sunny courtyard where we had scones, cream and cake. Helped by this very tame peacock who devoured the crumbs we dropped.
He gave me a bit of a stare when I finished my cake and had no more crumbs to give him.
Spring really seems to have suddenly burst upon us and as we left Kentwell Hall daffodils and blossom trees were everywhere.
Before leaving Suffolk we visited one of my favourite villages - Lavenham. It's described as England's finest medieval village. I just adore half-timbering.
And on the way back home we passed by a number of typical Suffolk houses - some painted in typical pink.


UFC featherweight, George Roop has signed a brand new five-fight deal with the Las Vegas based promotion despite picking his first round TKO loss at UFN 23: Fight for the Troops 2 against Mark Hominick.
Sources close to the fighters camp revealed the news today, saying the deal had been done at the same time the fighter signed to face Josh Grispi on "The Ultimate Fighter" season thirteen finale in June.
Roop had previously competed for the UFC following his own run on the TUF reality show, losing to Shane Nelson and George Sotiropolous in the lightweight division, but did pick up a split decision win over Dave Kaplan before departing for his new home in the WEC.


Jubilee has been invited by Maria Lind, director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, and curator Binna Choi, as one of the Gwangju Biennale Fellows to the three-day Forum entitled To All the Contributing Factors. The GB11 "Biennale Fellows" consist of one hundred small and medium scale art organizations from across the world, whose work makes important contributions to the art of today, yet remains under the radar. In the forum, Biennale Fellows, as well as their peers and colleagues, are invited to come together to manifest a critical mass in the artistic context internationally, share experiences and discuss the future of this kind of work, especially with regards to questions of value, continuity and scale.
Maria Lind, Binna Choi and their team want to use the occasion of working on a biennial to acknowledge the invaluable work of small organizations across the globe. They believe such organizations often function as the research and development department of the art world, generating new ideas, supporting artists to experiment and cultivate their practices, and shaping new curatorial and educational methods; foster active relationships to their immediate surroundings, be they urban, suburban or rural and keep open to other fields of knowledge and social movements. This way they make differences in relation to dominant mainstream developments.
Jubilee will take part in presentations and discussions during the Forum. To All the Contributing Factors will take place from 2 September until 4 September 2016 at various locations in Gwangju.


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// Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file in the project root for full license information.
//

/*=====================================================================
**
** Source:  test1.c
**
** Purpose: Tests the PAL implementation of the isupper function
**          Check that a number of characters return the correct
**          values for whether they are upper case or not.
**
**
**===================================================================*/

#include <palsuite.h>

struct testCase
{
    int CorrectResult;
    int character;
};

int __cdecl main(int argc, char **argv)
{

    int result;
    int i;

    /* Note: 1 iff char =  A..Z
             0 iff char =~ A..Z
    */

    struct testCase testCases[] =
        {
            {1,  'A'},  /* Basic cases */
            {1, 'Z'},
            {0,  'b'},  /* Lower case */
            {0,  '?'},  /* Characters without case */
            {0,  230},
            {0, '5'}
        };

    if (PAL_Initialize(argc, argv))
    {
        return FAIL;
    }

    /* Loop through each case. Check to see if each is upper case or
       not.
    */

    for(i = 0; i < sizeof(testCases) / sizeof(struct testCase); i++)
    {
        result = isupper(testCases[i].character);

        /* The return value is 'non-zero' for success.  This if condition
         * will still work if that non-zero isn't just 1
         */
        if ( ((testCases[i].CorrectResult == 1) && (result == 0)) ||
             ( (testCases[i].CorrectResult == 0) && (result != 0) ))
        {
            Fail("ERROR: isupper returned %i instead of %i for "
                   "character %c.\n",
                   result,testCases[i].CorrectResult,
                   testCases[i].character);
        }

    }

    PAL_Terminate();
    return PASS;
}

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If there was one Japanese food that I would've expected to be instantly adaptable to the current food truck phenomenon, it wouldn't be sushi; it would be takoyaki, which are the pancake-like, ping-pong-shaped delicacies native to Osaka—the perfect street food with the unfortunate stateside translation of "octopus balls".
The most memorable moments I've had eating takoyaki has been from street vendors and other non-permanent sources, never a brick-and-mortar. Yet there are at least two sushi trucks rolling the streets; but only one (correct me if I'm wrong) takoyaki truck, which occasionally makes an appearance at the Tuesday night Din-Din-A-Go-Go food truck gathering at Irvine Lanes.
Actually, calling Takoyaki Tanota a truck is too generous. It is a cart—nothing more than a propane powered griddle on wheels with a trailer hitch. But in its stripped down existence lies the hook. Essential to the experience is watching your takoyaki being prepared. If it were a truck, this wouldn't be possible.
On the cart, you see its birth from the beginning, starting from the batter. You witness the liquid being poured into the greased dimples, a nugget of cooked octopus meat dropped into the middle. And then you see them being coaxed and teased by an attendant equipped with nothing more than a sharp stick until they miraculously transform into perfect spheres.
The popovers are then drenched in a sticky-sweet glaze, showered with pulverized aonori (seaweed), squiggled with drizzles of Kewpie mayo and a fistful of chopped green onions.
You eat it right there, standing, within seconds of cooking, because the crispness of the outer layer is tenuous. If you're not huffing and puffing at how insanely scorching the custard-like interior is, then you've waited too long to let them cool. To eat them any other way than scalding is to miss the point of takoyaki.
Read Chubbypanda's review of Takoyaki Tanota here!
I tried these yesterday for the first time at the Kite Festival in Seal Beach. Glad I can regularly feed my new obsession.
It really is the quintessential festival/night market/fun food of Japan. Kinda like corn dogs to carnivals and such!
I like takoyaki way better!
haha, yes the best way to eat them when they are too hot to eat. never thought of it that way.
One time, I was foolish enough to do take-out takoyaki. It was tepid by the time I got home. Just not the same!
I don't know where you are in the world; but if you're in Vegas, you're in luck, they're going to be there this Saturday!
Wow! They sound wonderful! Loved your description of eating them hot! Wish I lived near Orange County.
I love takoyaki! Really enjoy the moving bonito flakes too!
Thanks for the note and for the link, but I'm much too busy to cook, as you can see by what kind of posts I do. But thanks anyway!
I bet your local sushi bar does them, but yes, not quite as good as eating them hot and fresh from a vendor who does nothing but takoyaki!
Love those writhing bonito flakes! So freaky!


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Q: Firefox on drag end is not called in a react component I am trying to implement a really basic drag and drop functionality with the HTML5 drag and drop api inside a React component. I need only to get notified when the drag started and when ended. While this works fine in Chrome and IE11 I don't get any notification for drag end in latest firefox. You can see an example here
http://jsbin.com/lifico/edit?js,console,output
Any ideas?

A: In Firefox you need to set some data in the dataTransfer member of the event when the drag start. In your case you can just set an empty string:
onDragStart={(e) => {
             e.dataTransfer.setData('text','');
             console.log('drag start');}}

See the MDN documentation.

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Saturday, April 9 2016 20:49 EEST
Three castaways were rescued after U.S Navy aircraft spotted the word 'help' spelled out with palm leaves on the beach of a remote Pacific Island
It sounds like a page from a Hollywood script or an episode of "Gilligan's Island" but a dramatic rescue on an uninhabited island actually played out this week.
The U.S. Navy and Coast Guard on Thursday spotted three sailors who were stranded on a remote Pacific island after spotting their "Help" message written with palm leaves in the sand - reported by Cbsnews.
According to the Navy, the mariners' 19-foot boat capsized three days earlier, forcing them to swim more than four miles all night until they reached the Micronesian island of Fandadik.
A U.S. navy plane was dispatched to the area after they were reported missing and a small boat recovered the men from the island with no reported injuries.
"Our combined efforts coupled with the willingness of many different resources to come together and help, led to the successful rescue of these three men in a very remote part of the Pacific," said Lt. William White, Sector Guam public affairs officer.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet posted details and photos of the rescue on its website and Facebook page.
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A Vagabond for Beauty
A John Murray Journey
W L Rusho
INTRODUCED BY PAUL KINGSNORTH, Booker-shortlisted author of The Wake
'I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.'
Artist and wanderer Everett Ruess left home at the age of sixteen to immerse himself in the harsh desert landscapes of the American Southwest. With only his donkeys for company, driven by an insatiable longing for beauty and experience, he ventured ever further from civilisation and into the wilderness of Navajo country.
In 1934, at the age of twenty, he vanished without trace in Utah, a disappearance that remains unsolved to this day. Through letters, diary excerpts and poems - charting not only his rugged adventures and his exquisite nature writing but his progression as a writer, and into adulthood - and with commentary by W. L. Rusho, A Vagabond for Beauty tells his remarkable story.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division


Brrrr… I can hear the wind whistling against my window right now. It makes me want to snuggle under all of my blankets – or shop for more winter clothes 😋 Tonight I'm sharing some of my must-have when it comes to winter wear!
Stay tuned for more wardrobe essentials in the future.
Madewell Striped Structured Top – similar here.
Madewell Leather Clutch – similar here.
Warby Parker eye glasses- similar here. I would be dead without these babies. Love. Them. Wear. Them. Every. Day.
Anyone have good suggestions for a great winter coat? I've been eyeing the longer style to keep me warmer!


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Q: Analytic image of conjugate of a point Let $f:C \rightarrow \{|z|\leq2021 \}$ be an analytic function. If $f(11+9i)=\frac{1}{2i}$, then find the value of $f(11-9i)$.
How should I proceed with the problem ?

A:
Theorem. (Liouville) Every bounded entire function must be constant.

An entire function is a function which is holomorphic on the entire complex plane. A consequence of Cauchy's integral formula is that the concept of analyticity is equivalent to holomorphism. And since $f:\mathbb C \rightarrow \{|z|\leq2021 \}$ is obviously bounded, by Liouville's theorem $f$ must be  constant.
We know that $f(11+9i)=\frac{1}{2i}$. The function $f$ is constant, which means that
$$f(z)=\frac{1}{2i},\quad\forall z\in\mathbb C.$$


Quite out of touch. No Russian I have ever worked with in the US has ever wanted to return to Russia. Russia has truly squandered their deep talent and potential over the decades.
While more than half the Chinese friends I made during grad school in the US after completing their PhD's or after getting work experience have returned home.
The results speak for themselves in the kind of companies the two countries have produced. There is no comparison between how Russia and China have treated their talent.


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Insomnia is a hip-hop compilation album presented by American rapper and record producer Erick Sermon. It was released on April 23, 1996 via Interscope Records. Recording sessions took place at Mirror Image, at the Music Palace, and at Rockin' Reel Recording Studios in New York, and at Chuck Simone Studio. Production was handled primarily by Sermon, who also served as executive producer, Redman, and co-producers Rockwilder and Ty Fyffe. Beside Sermon, it features contributions from fellow artists affiliated with or discovered by him, such as Calif, Domo, Duo, Jamal, Keith Murray, L.O.D., Passion, Redman, The Wixtons, Xross-Breed, and Thomas "Tommy Gunn" Blincoe, who was murdered shortly before the album's release, and to whom this album is dedicated. The album peaked at number 53 on the Billboard 200 and number 10 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums in the United States. It spawned three singles: "Funkorama", which peacked at No. 81 on the Billboard Hot 100, "It's That Hit" and "I Feel It".

Track listing

Sample credits
Track 2 contains sample of "Midnight" as performed by A Tribe Called Quest and elements from "Stick 'Em" as performed by The Fat Boys
Track 5 contains sample of "Black Thorne Rose" as performed by Weather Report
Track 6 contains sample of "Bootzilla" as performed by Bootsy's Rubber Band, a sample of "Impeach the President" as performed by The Honeydrippers and a portion of the composition "I Want to Thank You"
Track 9 contains elements from "Funkin' For Jamaica" as performed by The Mindbenders and elements from "The Show" as performed by Doug E. Fresh
Track 10 contains sample from "Aah...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby"
Track 13 contains a sample of "All Night Long" as performed by the Mary Jane Girls

Personnel

Erick Sermon – executive producer, vocals (track 13), producer (tracks: 4-7, 9-13), co-producer (track 2), sleeve notes
Reginald "Redman" Noble – vocals (track 2), producer (tracks: 2, 3), sleeve notes
L. "Kewjo" Scott – vocals (track 3), sleeve notes
Dana "Rockwilder" Stinson – vocals (track 3), co-producer (track 5), sleeve notes
Passion Johnson – vocals (track 4), sleeve notes
Jamal "Mally G" Phillips – vocals (track 5), sleeve notes
Calif Moore – vocals (track 5), sleeve notes
Keith Murray – vocals (track 6), sleeve notes
The Wixtons – vocals (track 7)
Gerald "50 Grand" Berlin – vocals (track 9), sleeve notes
Ron "Ron Jay" Joseph – vocals (track 9), sleeve notes
T. "T-Man" Stanley – vocals (track 10), sleeve notes
Kim "Big Kim" Sermon – vocals (track 10), sleeve notes
Thomas "Tommy Gunn" Blincoe – vocals (track 11), sleeve notes
Domo Paige – vocals (track 12), sleeve notes
Deborah "Cherry Martinez" Tennyson – voice (tracks: 1, 8)
Tyrone "Ty" Fyffe – co-producer (track 7)
Troy Hightower – recording, mixing
Bob Fudjinski – recording
Chuck Simone – recording
Dave Greenberg – recording
Tommy Uzzo – mixing
Tony Dawsey – mastering
Mike Hogan – engineering assistant
Cathrine Wessel – photography
Jah Boogie – sleeve notes
Shugar Diamonds – sleeve notes

Chart history

References

External links

1996 compilation albums
Albums produced by Erick Sermon
East Coast hip hop compilation albums
Interscope Records compilation albums

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Microaggressions and Mental Health
It's Mental Illness Awareness week, and I believe discussions regarding mental health are so important. For this blog, we're going to discuss something that may not come to mind when talking about mental health, but it is the root of many mental health challenges: microaggressions.
When we comprehend the definition of microaggressions and understand how pervasive they are, the more we become aware of just that: they are incredibly pervasive, and we are probably guilty of perpetuating them ourselves. So why are we talking about microaggressions during mental health awareness week? For starters, microaggressions are correlated and associated with increased mental health challenges. Furthermore, researchers in mental health and psychology have also established causation. That's right. Microaggressions can cause mental health ailments. If you've taken any research methods course, you've probably heard time and time again that it's easy to prove correlation, but it's a tall order to establish causation. A famous example is ice cream sales and crime. The data broadly found that when ice cream sales go up, so too does crime. Does this mean that ice cream causes crime? Of course not; there's simply a correlation. Not so with microaggressions and poor mental health; there is a causal link.
At the surface level, saying that microaggressions cause mental health concerns might sound blatantly obvious. After all, what is stress over time? Depression. What is emotional harm over time? Trauma. Microaggressions are harmful and stressful to the person falling victim to them. Now imagine hearing microaggressions multiple times per day, day after day. That is simply traumatic, and we need to work together to stop it. I fear that microaggressions are dismissed because they are often brief, temporary, and isolated. However, it's the additive, cumulative, and repetitive exposure over time that is the concern.
My goal in this blog is to provide you with strategies to identify microaggressions and intervene when they occur. My ultimate hope is that you walk away from this blog feeling ready and able to operationalize these techniques so that, together, we can stop microaggressions. Let's dive in.
Disclosure: This blog does not constitute medical or therapeutic advice. Please seek professional help if you find yourself in crisis. If you do not know where to go to seek help, contact me, and I'll refer you to resources.
Defining Microaggressions
Research shows that while many people recognize or think they know what microaggressions are, they are not the best at defining it accurately. To make matters more complicated, researchers and mental health professionals struggle to agree on a uniform definition. I'll present a synthesized definition that draws upon a few leading scholars in microaggression research:
"A microaggression is a brief verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignity that communicates hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults towards individuals of underrepresented status. Microaggressions can be intentional or unintentional but are often delivered by individuals without awareness, thought, or knowledge."
~ Applebaum, 2019; Berk, 2017; Súarez-Orozco et al., 2015
What I appreciate about this definition is that it is inclusive of microaggressions that extend beyond race. In several studies, individuals thought microaggressions were subtle acts of racism. However, microaggressions impact numerous underrepresented individuals. For example, addressing a group of people as "ladies and gentlemen" may be harmless to most, but a demonstrable microaggression to the gender non-binary person in the room. I also appreciate this definition as it accounts for what is said and what is not said. When a restaurant host says "welcome" to the person walking in but entirely ignores the person entering in a wheelchair, that is a microaggression. This definition also accounts for environmental matters, which are perhaps the most difficult to identify and the most challenging to dismantle as they are often systemically integrated into our lives. Examples could include being an Asian-American student attending a college where every building is named after a white person.
Identifying Microaggressions
While microaggressions can take many forms, psychologists have identified three main types: microassaults, microinsults, and microinvalidations.
Microassaults are when a person intentionally acts in a discriminatory way while also maintaining social norms by not being offensive. What I tell students is that if you hear the following phrases, it's a textbook microassault microaggression: "Not to be racist, but...". "Not to sound homophobic, but...". "I'm not racist, but...". Another tell-tale sign is when someone says something discriminatory but then says, "I'm just kidding."
Microinsults are comments or behaviors that are unintentionally discriminatory. Here's an example I often see in classrooms: "Hector, you're Mexican, right? Can you help the choir pronounce this Spanish phrase?" Or something I heard in my doctor's office: "Wow, you're the doctor? You must be making your people proud." Another example would be telling a female manager, "I want to talk to the real manager." Other common ones you may hear: "You speak English so well!" Or "Where are you from, originally?" Other examples might occur if the security guard at a convenience store decides to follow around the person of color innocently shopping or when you lock your car doors when you see a person of color walking down the sidewalk. Another more obvious example would be using derogatory phrases in colloquial speech, such as: "The weather is so bipolar today," or "That's so gay."
Microinvalidations are the most problematic as they thrive off of internal biases. As such, they are the most common and also the most difficult to identify. Microinvalidations serve to invalidate or undermine the experiences of a certain group of people. They are often disguised as empathy, but it's far from empathetic. A resounding microinvalidation often heard these days is, "America is not racist." Another example might include a young person saying, "Old people had it so easy." Or saying something like, "People in wheelchairs are lazy." Ones that drive me nuts: "There is only one race—the human race" or "I don't see color." Other examples include when someone tries to argue that the playing field is even by saying something like, "Well, I was raised in a poor family, and I still became successful and stayed out of trouble."
As I provide examples, perhaps you have realized that you say some of these things frequently. It may very well come from a place of sincere intention, but they do not function that way on the receiving end. Take a few moments to think of microaggressions you might perpetuate regularly. Have you heard any from others recently? If none come to mind, make it a goal for yourself to be more aware of them tomorrow. I promise you: they happen frequently. The more we can identify microaggressions as they occur, the more we can work together to effectuate positive change.
Microaggression Intervention
We all want someone to be there for us and advocate for us. It's human nature. People who fall victim to microaggressions need people in a more privileged position to step in and stand up when microaggressions occur. Many social phenomena arise in our daily lives, and two, in particular, are fascinating and applicable to microaggressions: diffusion of responsibility and mere exposure effect. Let's discuss both and how they relate to intervention strategies.
Diffusion of Responsibility
Diffusion of Responsibility is also known as Bystander Effect. The larger the group of people, the less likely any individual is inclined to act. It's a fundamental attribution error that we as humans make: "someone else will do it." One of the textbook examples cites a medical emergency that occurred in a large public facility. Everyone assumed that someone else called 911. Unfortunately, over 15 minutes went by before someone finally yelled out, "Did anyone call 911?!" Which then prompted someone to pick up their phone and call for help. Sadly, it was too late by that point.
The Bystander Effect plagues large companies as well. When initiatives roll out, workers may bury their heads in the sand, waiting for someone else to champion the rollout phase. It's the typical "someone else will handle it" mentality. You may see this same mentality during election cycles ("My one vote won't make a difference"). So how does Bystander Effect relate to microaggressions?
You've probably been in a situation where something like this has happened. You see someone doing something inappropriate, and you feel inclined to say something, but you bite your tongue. You wait, hope, and wish that someone else will say something. You look around the room to see if anyone else is noticing the same thing. You internally bargain with yourself and may say things like, "Okay, if they do one more thing, then I'll say something." Eventually, the moment has passed, and your opportunity to intervene has come and gone. You move on with your day, but the person on the receiving end of microaggressions lives with those scars.
But what if I told you that if you happened to build up the courage to speak up and intervene, that bravery is contagious? It quantifiably has a spreading factor of greater than 2. This brings me to the mere exposure effect.
Mere Exposure Effect
This phenomenon is relatively straightforward. The more someone is exposed to a behavior, the more likely they will exhibit that same behavior. (Sidebar: This speaks to the importance of modeling, which I've discussed in my talk at CSUF regarding social cognitive theory). To be clear, inaction is a behavioral choice. When people are bystanders to microaggressions and choose inaction, that is a behavior that is chosen and contagious. It makes it increasingly less likely that anyone else will say something. But here is the part that gives me hope: if someone intervenes and says something, it is more likely that someone else will say something. It also subtly draws awareness to what is acceptable and not acceptable.
Here's a prime example that happened a few years ago, and it's something I still fondly think about: a student walked into the building, and a student said, "Wow, the weather is so bipolar recently." Without hesitation, I responded, "Can you think of another adjective to describe the weather, please?" The student paused, thought of a word, and said, "Irregular?" And I affirmed, "That's a much better word choice!" In this moment, I chose to intervene. Through the lens of psychology, the diffusion of responsibility stopped with me. After this moment, everyone moved on with their day; I didn't think twice about it until a month or so later. In my classroom, a different student said, "The weather this week has been so bipolar." Before I even had the chance to intervene, another student (who was a witness to my intervention a month prior) said, "That's not a good word choice," and the microaggressor said, "Oooh, you're right. The weather has just been all over the place; that's what I meant to say." This story illustrates the power of intervention and social phenomena. When I chose to intervene the first time, I signaled to that student in an affirmative way that their word choice is not acceptable. All of the surrounding students (bystanders) subconsciously registered that 1) using the word "bipolar" to describe the weather is simply inaccurate and not acceptable and 2) speaking up when they hear the word "bipolar" used inappropriately is desirable behavior. The more people see instances of intervention, the more likely they will intervene.
Can you think of a moment where you built up the courage to say something and intervene? Now I want to ask you a follow-up question: who modeled that behavior for you? It's always someone. We also must remember who is on the receiving end of these microaggressions. The research shows that they are often hoping, pleading, that someone else will take notice and say something. In a study that surveyed over 25,000+ LGBTQIA+ identified college students, 91% percent said they heard the phrase "that's so gay" in the college classroom, and their instructor did nothing. Of that 91%, 72% said that they did not feel they belonged on campus and considered transferring to another institution. 33% of them did transfer. Those are staggering figures that all stemmed from the inaction of someone in a position of privilege.
Catching Our Microaggressions
Chances are, you probably let a few microaggressions slip out every day. As you develop your awareness of them, you'll likely be able to catch them in the moment rather than let them go by unrecognized. You can also be your own intervention. For example, the other day, I referred to a group of sopranos and altos as "ladies." As soon as I said that, I said, "I apologize for that. I should have addressed you all as treble voices." One might argue that the apology was unnecessary. Still, I wanted the diffusion of responsibility to stop with me, and I wanted everyone in that room to know that our gender non-binary students belong and that we won't tolerate discriminatory language—no matter how subtle.
Another habit I've instilled: Any time I'm about to say, "Not to sound [...], but..." I simply stop what I'm saying. Because if you have to say it isn't [...], news flash: it is. You can do the same when you hear others say that. On a recent hiring committee I served on, someone said, "Not to sound insensitive, but..." and I immediately intervened and said, "If you have to preface with that, it's probably insensitive; please keep that comment to yourself." Imagine the signaling that occurred in that room!
Microaggressions were dismissed by psychologists and mental health professionals for years because they appear to be harmless. Heck, even today, a small cohort of researchers firmly believe microaggressions do not exist. But the overwhelming body of research demonstrably illustrates that they are frequent, pervasive, and cause several mental health challenges for those who are repeatedly victims of microaggressions. One might argue that microaggression intervention won't eliminate the underlying biases that trigger these subtle or unconscious offenses. There is a level of correctness to that assertion. But when we talk about inequity and injustice, we aren't talking about changing minds (though that would certainly be a desirable outcome). We are talking about changing behaviors. By changing behaviors, there's the chance that we might change minds as well. After all, learning is a change in behavior: change the behavior --> change the mind. So, if there's any takeaway, it's that microaggression identification and intervention are essential and that your choice to act can positively impact the lives of others, thanks to social phenomena. If you are in a position of privilege, use that to positively impact the lives of others. So, join me: let's see if we can positively effectuate change, one microaggression intervention at a time. It makes a difference.
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The End of Innocence Part 20
"Heero! Heero!" Duo cried as he ran through the hall to the chamber that he shared with the Baron.
Heero set aside the accounts he was going through and moved to open the door. As he lay his hand on the handle, the door flew open and Duo almost ran him over.
"Heer... OH! There you are!" He stopped before his lover, eyes wide.
The Baron crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow, amusement showing in his cobalt eyes. "What, may I ask, has you so excited?" He asked dryly.
"We got a message from Trowa and Quatre!" Duo waved a paper at Heero. "Hilde had a son!"
"So, the heir is born, eh?"
"Is that all you can say?"
Heero smirked at the chestnut-haired boy. "What else should I say? I'm glad that the child was born and everything is well with them."
"How do you know everything is well?"
"Your excitement tells me."
"Oh," Duo frowned and sat on the bed.
Heero chuckled and walked over to the other side of the bed. "You are very expressive. There's nothing wrong with that." He lay down and put his hands behind his head. "Now, something else about this message does bother you. What is it?"
Dup sighed. "They want to know when you are going to announce your choice for heir."
"Oh?"
Duo twisted around to look down at him. "I'd like to know also. When you accepted this, you seemed sure as to who you wanted, and then you never mention it again."
Heero rolled onto his side, propping himself up on one arm. "Duo, I was sure but, I had to take care of some issues. The decision for the heir was never mine to make."
Duo turned sideways, resting one leg on the bed, and frowned at Heero. "Then... who's was it?"
"Yours... and Lord Peacecraft's."
Heero petted the bed beside him and Duo lay down, looking up at the man's cobalt eyes. "Are you aware that the Peacecrafts have a ten-year-old son?"
"Kyle, yes."
"Would you say that his father is a good man and would raise his son properly?"
"So, he's your choice?"
"Part of it. Now, I've spoken to Lord Peacecraft and he's agreeable to what I have in mind."
Duo lifted an eyebrow.
"Treize left behind a child, from a union prior to the Lady you met. I'd say she's about six now, convent raised..."
"You plan to put Treize's blood back on the baronal seat?"
"Duo, it's my blood also. Like it or not. She's been raised free of his influence, a request from her mother before she passed away."
"I understand, you plan to marry Kyle Peacecraft to her, when they are of age."
"Aye."
"It's a good idea and the Peacecrafts are certainly deserving."
"It requires one more thing. She's an orphan, Duo. She needs a home, other than with a flock of holy women."
Duo blinked. "That's my decision? Then by all means, send for her. Nay, we should go collect her ourselves."
"Thank-you, Duo."
"You're..." Violet eyes widened in astonishment. Duo jumped up, his eyes blazing. "You thought I'd refuse!"
"It was a possibility. She IS Treize's child. I wasn't sure how you'd..."
"But, she's a CHILD, Heero! She's not responsible for what he did! Oooooh! I can't believe you!" Duo whirled and stormed from the room.
Heero sighed as the sound of the slamming door reverberated through the chamber. One thing about having a lover who was so emotional was emotions ran to the extremes in all areas. Even anger... sometimes, especially anger.
Nothing to do but, let him calm down.
Duo slowly pushed the door open and peered into the dim chamber. Squinting in the faint light from the fireplace, he could see Heero, already asleep. He quietly walked across the room to look down at his sleeping mate.
He always marveled at how different Heero could look when he slept. Lying on his side, one hand under his cheek, his lips were parted just slightly as he breathed. His face was entirely relaxed, his eyelashes lay like smudges on his cheeks, hair even more mussed than usual. At times like these one could see the youth of his twenty years, normally hidden by the trials of his past.
At least he laughs now.
Duo moved around to the other side of the bed, removing his clothing as he went. He slid under the blankets and up against Heero's back, wrapping one arm around his waist.
Heero stirred at the touch, snuggling back against Duo, murmuring his name sleepily. Duo smiled and closed his eyes.
"It's about time you got back."
Duo's eyes flew open and he stared at the back of Heero's head. "Uh... aye... Heero... I'm sorry."
"You should be."
"I didn't think."
"You never do."
*sigh* Heero never made this easy. "If I had, I'd have realized that if you truly thought I'd refuse, you never would have spoken to Lord Peacecraft."
"Hmm."
Duo kissed the back of his neck, pleased to feel a shiver run through Heero's slender form. "Forgive me?"
"I'll think about it."
"Excuse me?"
"You haven't exactly given me much reason to forgive you for being brash and short-tempered."
"Yeah?" Duo murmured. "I'll just have to try harder."
"Harder... may be the ideal word." Duo rolled Heero onto his back and seeing the glitter of mischief in his eyes, the chestnut-haired boy laughed. "Heero, were you female... one would have to label you wanton!"
Heero's reply was to pull Duo to him and kiss him, his fingers finding Duo's braid and pulling the tie off of it. He ran his fingers through it until it fell in a shimmering curtain around them and then he wrapped his arms around Duo's neck.
Duo made a sound in his throat, shifting so that the upper half of his body was lying across Heero's and deepened the kiss, leaving no part of Heero's mouth untouched. Leaving Heero's lips, he moved down to his throat as Heero lightly traced his back.
Shivers ran through Duo at Heero's light touch and with a low moan, Duo moved down to lavish attention to Heero's chest. Nipping and then swirling his tongue over the same spot, he explored the expanse of Heero's chest, stopping to tease his nipples.
Moving back up, Duo captured Heero's lips again, not hesitating to plunge in and caress the inside of his mouth. Playing a game of 'tag' with Heero's tongue, Duo's hand slid down his body to lay feather-light touches to the sensitive areas around his thighs.
Heero groaned against his mouth, raising his hips in a silent plea. Duo's fingers barely grazed across his erection, stroking so lightly that he almost wasn't touching. With a gasp, Heero clutched the violet-eyed boy's shoulder, his head falling back against the pillows. Over and over, Duo's fingers stroked him, until he thought he couldn't take anymore.
The the hand was gone. His cobalt eyes opened and slid back shut as Duo caught his face in both hands and ravaged his mouth. The dark-haired man reached up and ran a hand along Duo's shoulder and down over his chest, stopping to lightly twist the hard nub that he found.
Moving, Heero pushed the violet-eyed boy over, quickly following him. Lowering his head, he flicked his tongue across Duo's chest, grabbing a handful of chestnut hair at the same time. Trailing kisses lower, over Duo's stomach, he lightly brushed the ends of the hair over Duo's already sensitized nipples. Duo drew in a sharp breath as Heero nipped his stomach, followed by a stroke of hair. Heero's released Duo's hair and the boy bit his lip as those lips moved lower.
Strong, gentle fingers encircled his shaft as Heero lay light kisses along it's length, stopping at his fingers and then running the tip of his tongue back up. Then he stopped at the tip and opening his mouth, slid his lips back down over the hard length.
Duo saw stars. His breath caught in his throat and bright colors sparked behind his eyelids. Gasping he sat partway up grasping Heero's shoulder. "Gods! Heero! Stop!" He cried.
The dark-haired man raised his head and looked up at Duo. With a smile, he moved quickly, pushing Duo back as their lips met. Not breaking apart, Duo rolled them over, pressing Heero into the mattress. Lifting his head, his violet eyes were almost black as he reached for the table beside the bed.
"Let me." Heero whispered, sliding out from under Duo and rolling towards the side of the bed.
Duo gazed at the muscled length of Heero's back as Heero reached for the oil on the table. Watching the sensual ripple of his shoulders, Duo decided he couldn't resist. With a low growl, he wrapped an arm around Heero's waist, pressing up against him.
"Give me the oil." He said lowly, nipping the back of Heero's shoulder.
Silently, Heero handed the vial back to Duo. His lover was in a rare mood this night and Heero wasn't about to stop him. Duo's mouth never left his neck and shoulders, sending delicious chill down Heero's back, as he moved around a little. Heero shivered as he felt the oil-soaked tips of Duo's fingers brush lightly across his entrance. Then he drew in a sharp breath as he felt the blunt tip of Duo's erection press against him.
Before, when the chestnut-haired boy took this role, he was infinitely careful. Gently readying his lover's body for his penetration. Tonight, the mood was almost feral. The gentleness was gone from the violet-eyed boy and Heero didn't mind at all.
With a low sound, Duo plunged forward causing Heero to hiss at the sudden intrusion, not really painful but, startling all the same. The boy buried his face against the back of Heero's neck as he started to move. Pulling back as far as he could and driving back in, he reached a slick hand around and started pumping Heero's erection. Duo raised his head enough so he could see Heero's face as he shifted his hips, striking that sensitive spot inside.
Heero's hips bucked forward and he threw his head back against Duo's chest, his lips parted in in a silent cry as wave after wave of pleasure slammed through him.
Duo moved his mouth to Heero's ear, his warm breath fanning across his skin as he spoke. "Come for me, Heero. I want to see you."
That was all Heero could take. With a hoarse cry, he jumped as his climax ripped through him. The sudden feel of Heero clamping down on him, drove Duo over the edge. He drove into Heero's body one last time before exploding. Burying his face back in Heero's neck, he let go of him and wrapped his arm around Heero's waist, holding him tightly. His chest heaved with his ragged breaths and he could feel Heero's heart pounding wildly against his chest.
After the storm had passed, Heero carefully moved away, wincing lightly as Duo pulled out of him. Slipping from the bed, he noted with some amusement that his knees were actually weak. He walked across the chamber to a basin of water, that was always there for them, and cleaned up. Taking the cloth back to the bed, he gently bathed Duo's flushed skin, pressing a gentle kiss to his stomach when he was done. He then returned the cloth to the basin.
"I'm sorry, Heero."
Heero turned and looked at Duo, surprise on his face. "Why?"
"I-I..." Duo sat up and gestured helplessly. "I wasn't exactly..."
"Stop!" Hero moved swiftly across the room. He sat back on the bed and gathered Duo into his arms. "Don't."
He brushed Duo's hair from his face and kissed his forehead. "You did nothing wrong. Don't you think I would have stopped you if you did?"
"I guess you would." Duo looked up at Heero. "I love you."
"And I you." Heero's arms tightened around him.
"Heero?"
"Am I forgiven yet?"
"Hn."
"I have to start again?"
Laughter echoed from the bed. "You're forgiven! You're forgiven!"
"Was it that bad?"
"Gods, no, love. It was that good. Another like that tonight and you'd have to bury me at sunrise."
"Good, 'cause I think I'm too exhausted."
A chuckle.
"Hmm?"
"How soon can we go collect our new daughter?"
Another chuckle. "Soon. Sleep, Duo. Tomorrow we'll start making plans."
"Does she have a name?"
"Mariemeia."
"Pretty. Heero?"
"Go to sleep, Duo!"
"Okay," a snicker.
Heero sighed and closed his eyes. Tomorrow they'd start planning this new direction in their lives.
TBC...
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