Variety – the Children's Charity and Global BC are excited to announce that this year's entertainment line-up for the 53rd Annual Variety Show of Hearts Telethon will include actor, author and social activist, George Takei.
The Variety Show of Hearts Telethon will air on Sunday, February 10 from 9:30am to 5:30pm on Global BC and via livestream at GlobalNews.ca. The public is also invited to come down to the Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver where they can join in on the fun and excitement as an audience member.
Best known for his portrayal of "Mr. Sulu" on the acclaimed television and film series, Star Trek, George recently joined the cast of AMC's anthology series, The Terror where he also serves as a consultant. He has earned a Grammy nomination with his Star Trek co-star, Leonard Nimoy in the "Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording" category and has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A dynamic and powerful public speaker, George has become a favourite at the WE Day events across North America. He has also written four books including his 1994 autobiography, To the Stars.
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Rounding out the line-up will be spoken word poet and public speaker, Wali Shah who has reached audiences throughout the world including at WE Day and singer Krystle Dos Santos who has made a name for herself on the local scene by combining original soul music with beloved Motown classics made famous by such legends as Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and The Supremes.
This year's hosts will include Global BC's Chris Gailus & Sophie Lui, CKNW's Lynda Steele & Niki Reitmayer and CFOX's Karen Khunkhun along with Variety kids, Bryan Hu and 2018 Variety Red Heart Award Winner, Esabella Strickland. The eight-hour telecast will also feature children who Variety has helped as well as updates on the families introduced during last October's Variety Week.
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An archival quality print of Hannakin's watercolour illustration 'Golden Afternoon' featuring a content girl buried in her book as the light gets bright before twilight in her garden.
Printed on acid free 320gsm 100% cotton rag paper.
The print size is approximately 13.5 x 17.5 cm with a white border (for framing).


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2 detained after shots are fired during apparent carjacking attempt in Wrigleyville
November 25, 2021 CWBChicago Lakeview, Wrigleyville
Two suspects are in custody after shots were fired during an apparent carjacking attempt inside a parking garage near Wrigley Field early on Thanksgiving morning. No injuries were reported.
Citing preliminary information, CPD Officer Jessica Rocco said a 27-year-old woman was near her car on the 1000 block of West Addison when two offenders, a man and a woman, approached around 2:20 a.m. The male offender fired shots toward the victim after an "exchange of words," Rocco said.
The victim ran from the scene, and the two offenders climbed into her car and began driving away, according to Rocco.
But they didn't get far.
Cops who responded to calls of shots fired in the garage blocked the exits and took the suspects into custody before they could get out. Investigators found shell casings on the third floor of the garage and recovered a handgun.
Detectives are questioning the suspects.
Thursday's incident is the second "shots fired" incident inside the same garage structure.
On October 30, two men escaped injury when someone fired shots at them on the garage's second floor. While neither victim was shot, bullets damaged the parking garage and a parked car. No arrests were made in that case.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


A good visual can do a lot for a monster. Since we at Necromancers of the Northwest rarely have the luxury of an art budget, it's important for us to be able to come up with monster concepts that can be visually cool and appealing while also being very easy to describe. For today's Exotic Encounter, I wanted to provide you with a large undead that was comprised of components from dozens of different bodies, but I wanted to ensure it wasn't just forming a giant humanoid (because that's been done). While I considered several shapes the finished form could take, I ultimately settled on the one I thought would be most interesting: a tree. Specifically, a hangman's tree.
Hundreds of mangled and bloody body parts emerge from the ground, limbs twisted unnaturally together to form the shape of a single towering tree, branches of arms and legs spreading outwards, hands and feet twitching horribly. Here and there humanoid heads can be seen, like macabre fruit.
Speed 30 ft., burrow 40 ft.
Carrion Shot (Ex): As a standard action, a corpse tree can launch one of the body parts that comprises its body at a creature. Treat this as a ranged attack with a range increment of 10 feet. If the attack hits, it deals damage as listed in the corpse tree's stat-block, above, and the target is exposed to the corpse tree's disease and ichor. Even if the attack misses, if the result would be sufficient to hit the target's touch AC, the target is still coated in gore, and while she does not suffer any damage, she is still subject to the disease and ichor effects.
Disease (Ex): Bog rot. Carrion shot—injury; save Fort DC 23; onset 1 day; frequency 1/day; effect 1d6 Str, Dex, Con, or Cha damage (determine randomly using 1d4); cure none. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Grisly Display (Ex): A corpse tree that begins its turn in control of a grapple with a creature at least one size category smaller than it can extend a noose of ropey entrails and use it to hang the grappled creature from its undead branches. This requires a successful grapple check. A creature that is hung in this way is unable to breathe, and automatically takes damage as though the corpse tree had successfully grappled it each round (including the round in which this ability is used). The corpse tree is not considered to be a part of the grapple. The entrail noose can be attacked directly. It has an AC of 18, 20 hit points, and DR 10/slashing. If the entrail noose is reduced to 0 hit points, the creature is released, falling to the ground in the nearest unoccupied space. A creature that dies while displayed in this fashion is absorbed into the corpse tree, causing the tree to heal a number of hit points equal to the slain creature's Hit Dice. A standard corpse tree can have up to two Large creatures (or 4 Medium creatures, or 8 Small creatures, etc.) displayed in this way at any given time.
Ichor (Ex): The body parts that constitute a corpse tree constantly drip with blood and offal. Any creature hit by a corpse tree's carrion shot attack, or which is grappled by the corpse tree, must succeed on a DC 23 Fortitude save or be sickened for 1 minute. The saving throw DC is Charisma-based.
Swarmlike (Ex): Although a corpse tree is a single entity, and not a swarm, its body is comprised of a collection of shifting and interchangeable pieces from a large number of corpses, granting it some of the benefits and drawbacks of a swarm. A corpse tree is not subject to critical hits or flanking. A corpse tree is immune to any spell or effect that targets a specific number of creatures, with the exception of any mind-affecting effects that are somehow able to affect it despite it being undead (such as if the caster has a special class feature or feat), and necromancy effects that specifically target undead and which mimic mind-affecting effects (such as halt undead or control undead). A corpse tree takes half again as much damage (+50%) from spells or effects that affect an area, such as splash weapons and many evocation spells.
Although there are a few scattered reports of corpse trees being formed under more unusual circumstances, the vast majority of these undead form after mass hangings, when large numbers of bodies are left swinging from the boughs of a large tree, especially if the bodies are later buried beneath it (or simply left there, with the bones remaining where they fall). The collective rage of all these victims, whether justly or unjustly slain, and their disdain and hatred for all those that watched their deaths and treated the taking of their lives as little more than entertainment, keeps their spirits from rest, and over time, as the spirits' individual personalities and memories fade, all that is left is an overwhelming rage that bonds the spirits together, and the single memory of that terrible, twisted gallows.
Despite being intelligent, corpse trees live for nothing more than their rage. Upon forming, a corpse tree will typically go on a rampage throughout whatever community spawned it, and only once that initial vengeance has been had will it begin to turn its thoughts towards further malevolence. While corpse trees tend to lack the vision for widespread or complex plots (and, for that matter, prefer a more personal, up-close approach in dealing with their victims), they generally prefer to spread as much suffering and misery as they can, and are intelligent enough to identify when a particular settlement may be too strongly fortified to allow for a direct assault.


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A popular item in the local paper is the word scramble. In this puzzle, a reader is presented with a series of letters that are for a scrambled word, e.g. "rwod" can be unscrambled to "word". Your job is to write a program that will score the difficulty of any particular scrambling of a word. The scores can be not, poor, fair or hard, depending on whether or not the scramble is not scrambled, easy to solve, a reasonable difficulty to solve or hard to solve, respectively.

Word scrambles can be judged by a set of heuristics including if the word looks real or if the scramble has letters in the correct place. A scramble looks like a real word if the letters alternate between vowels and consonants (with 'Y' being a vowel for this purpose). However, certain combinations of vowels and consonants are allowed:

|    |     |     |    |     |    |    |    |    |    |
|:--:|:---:|:---:|:--:|:---:|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|
| AI |  AY |  EA | EE |  EO | IO | OA | OO | OY | YA |
| YO |  YU |  BL | BR |  CH | CK | CL | CR | DR | FL |
| FR |  GH |  HL | GR |  KL | KR | KW | PF | PL | PR |
| SC | SCH | SCR | SH | SHR | SK | SL | SM | SN | SP |
| SQ |  ST |  SW | TH | THR | TR | TW | WH | WR |    |

Also, all double consonants are allowed, and, no other combinations are allowed. For instance, SWR doesn't look real even though both SW and WR are independently looking real.

## Logical Connectives

| Word     | Conjunction  |
|----------|--------------|
| if       | implication  |
| and      | conjunction  |
| however  | conjunction  |
| also     | conjunction  |

## Sample Input Score
The following table describes analysis of the sample input data:

| Scramble | Word  | Sound | Ordered | Real  | Score | Comment                 |
|----------|-------|-------|---------|-------|-------|-------------------------|
| MAPS     | SPAM  | cvcc  | false   | false | fair  | not ordered & not real  |
| RIONY    | IRONY | cvvcv | true    | true  | fair  | ordered & real          |
| ONYRI    | IRONY | vcvcv | false   | true  | hard  | not ordered & real      |
| IRONY    | IRONY | vcvcv | -       | -     | not   | not scrambled           |
| INOYR    | IRONY | vcvvc | true    | true  | fair  | ordered && real         |
| IOYRN    | IRONY | vvvcc | true    | false | poor  | ordered & not real      |

## Truth Tables

### Score Truth Table
Return "not" if the following conditions are met:

1. the scramble and word are exactly the same
1. the scramble and the word are not the same size
1. the scramble and the word do not have the same occurrences of characters (i.e. "MAPSA SPAMS").

Otherwise use the below truth table to determine the score:

|            | Ordered  | Not Ordered  |
|------------|----------|--------------|
| Real       | fair     | hard         |
| Not Real   | poor     | fair         |

### Real Truth Table
The bellow table describes word sequence/combination used to determine if a scramble looks real:

|                  | Alternating | Combination | Double Consonant |
|------------------|-------------|-------------|------------------|
| Alternating      | true        | true        | true             |
| Combination      | true        | false       | false            |
| Double Consonant | false       | false       | false            |

## Running the Program

### Requirements

1. JDK 8
2. Maven 3.0.5 or above

### With Sample Input
```bash
mvn install
cd target
java -jar ScrambleScorer.jar
```

### With Custom Input

```bash
mvn install
cd target
java -jar ScrambleScorer.jar $INPUT_FILE

```

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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After tossing in their thriving careers and leaving Paris for a less affluent but more meaningful life in the beautiful town of Mote near Faye d'Anjou, the two Dedoutbertins spent years in internships at other local wineries, honing their craft as farmers and winemakers. The wine they would make had to be natural wine, this much was clear, but soon a picture emerged of a winery that wasn't just going to talk the talk: organic, no sulfur, minimalist equipment and no burning of fossil fuels in the process.
This means caring for horses instead of machines, bicycling to and from the vineyard, minimalist equipment, no chemicals, not even sulfur.
PURE JUICE
"We are very demanding about the grapes we bring to the press" Stephanie emphasizes, "then we press slowly to preserve the integrity of the grape. After press we immediately put the juice into a barrel. That's it. Easy.."
Clean grapes and a slow 24 hour long pressing in a primitive but effective old basket press yield clean and pure juice that does not require any settling. Instead it goes straight into the barrel and ferments at its own accord, often for many months. "We listen to the barrel and when it goes quiet fermentation stopped and we put the wine into bottles, without sulfur.
"We make much less now but we are much happier." says Vincent.
100% HORSE PLOWED
While in the old days the horse was the vineyard machine of choice (or not, depending how you look at it), the tractor quickly replaced the equine vineyard worker, for reasons that seem all too obvious. And to this date very few domains exist worldwide that have reintroduced the horse to pull the plow and turn the soil.
Of those few, almost all also make use of a tractor. Some, one might add, keep the horse around for show effect and photo ops but still rely on the tractor for their day to day vineyard managment.
At Deboubertin no tractor exists.
Anathol, a 5year old stallion, does all the work so far and will be joined by xy later this summer (as of 2016). Winemakers Stephanie Debou and Vincent Bertin (get it, Deboubertin...) are there to help him do his work and eagerly point out that it's not the other way around. "Anatol is part of the team and thrives on doing a great job. He wants to please. And we help him, praise him and make sure he gets the support he needs to do his job to his own expectations".
To get Anatol to this level the Deboutbertins worked hard with the stallion. After learning the art of training and working with a vineyard horse, they spent a good year on getting Anathol used to the collar and harness and teaching him how to keep his head in the direction the plow needs to go. When they speak of him and seemingly with him, it's blatantly obvious that Anatol is more than just a workhorse but a family member with his own set of rights, one that gets a lot of attention and love and gives back happily and without attitude or horsing around.
Deboutbertin Achillee Chenin 2017
Deboutbertin Baliverne Grolleau Noir 2017


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The air-conditioned hall comfortably accommodates approximately 90 people with all kitchen facilities and outdoor areas included with hires. There are also several other rooms available for hire on request such as Meeting Rooms 1,2 & 3 and a Computer Room.
Our aim: 'To provide a safe, inclusive and supporting environment that connects people to a diverse range of social, leisure and learning opportunities'.
For program and events information, download the Libraries and Community Centre Term 2 Guide.
Come along to the Burton Community Centre to get involved in our ESL classes.
Would you like to improve your English language skills? This course aims to assist non English speaking students to communicate socially. This course will help you to improve your skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing, further providing you the skills necessary toward employment and or further training. Explore new friendships and develop social skills along the way.
To find out more: P 8280 8843 .
Celebrate the vibrant, diverse cultures of Adelaide at a special multicultural morning tea held each week.
Come along and meet people from around the world, establish new friendships, and enjoy engaging conversation. Share one another's cultures through traditional food, fascinating stories and weekly guest speakers. This program is focused on engaging the culturally diverse members of the community to build greater awareness of multiculturalism as well as promoting community harmony, safe spaces and avoid social isolation.
To find out more: P 8280 8843.


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At first I made stuff that my talent allowed — very marketable — with some success.
I borrowed from others — As most artists do — if you borrow too much for too long you become the upper sponge of life.
Always driven, I tried new ways — reached new plateaus.
Then I had a private chat with the truth — it said don't stop being yourself else you become the victim of not very much!
Struggle or go to the back of the room.
Later many doors opened – some came off their hinges.
Then yesterdays veils parted piecemeal.
Don't wait for the muse to prompt — its overrated — just work like hell.
Better to have small gains that build — soon the creativity factor jumps.


Yes. According to an internet search, it is illegal to warm up your car if it is unattended while idling and the keys are still in it. It could cost you a fine. Supposedly, the state law does not apply if the car is on personal property.
Nashville passed an ordinance that includes private property, so the only permissible way to warm up an unattended car is with a remote starter.
When can a car be repossessed in the state of Tennessee?
Answer . When the contract is in DEFAULT..
Can you and your illegal boyfriend get married in the state of Tennessee?
Answer . Yes, you can marry in Tennessee but I do suggest you file for his residency immediately after the marriage as it can take a year or longer to get his green card.
Car smokes after warmed up?
possible valve stem oil seals. Could also be piston rings. Excessive smoke *usually* means it's burning oil, so if that's the case there are faulty seals somewhere.
Why does your car stall when it warms up?
Most of the time it is an electrical component that fails when it gets hot.
What is Warming up the car?
To go out about 5min. early and turn the car on and heater so that the car can be warm when you leave.
Do you have to warm up a car?
No, but its a lot better for it.
How do you warm up a car?
Is it illegal to have neon lights on your cars in the state of Tennessee?
Is it illegal to warm up your car in certain states?
Why do cars warm up when there closed?
Cars warm up to a temperature higher than the surroundings because of the glass in the car windows. This is called the greenhouse effect. High-energy heat waves from the sun a…re able to pass through the glass of the windows, and this energy is absorbed by the materials inside the car, causing it to heat up. The glass does not let the less energetic heat waves being let off by the warm car pass through the windows. Therefore the heat is "trapped" inside the car, causing it to get warmer than the surroundings.
Is it illegal to sleep in a car in Tennessee?
Why does car have to warm up to run?
There are a lot of things going on inside your engine and before it warms up it isn't producing reliable horsepower. If your car won't run until it warms up it means that the …fuel air mixture is not rich enough. A colder engine requires a richer mixture. Older cars did it with a choke on the carb. Newer cars do it by the computer adjusting the fuel/air mixture and engine timing to until it watms up. If your car is mid 1990's or later you probably have a problem with a sensor.
Is it illegal to take a car up for repo to another state?
Are kangaroos illegal in the state of Tennessee?
Yes. They are a protected species, native to Australia. Regardless of local laws in the US, it is actually illegal to own a kangaroo anywhere. Many people do not realise this.… \n\nThe Australian government has only permitted the export of kangaroos and wallabies overseas for non-commercial purposes. This means that smaller, private zoos have been permitted to have them. Unfortunately, this has resulted in numerous kangaroos and wallabies escaping from their enclosures (due to mismananagement and lack of understanding of the animals' needs), causing the development of feral populations overseas. \n\nDespite permitting the export of these animals, this still does not mean that kangaroos or wallabies may be kept as pets. Anyone who sells kangaroos or wallabies overseas is, in effect, flouting Australian law by exploiting them for commercial purposes.
Is Tennessee a warm state?
Most of Tennessee generally has warmsummers and mild winters. However, the eastern part of Tennessee ismountainous and has temperatures that are considerably lower thanother a…reas in the state.
Why is your car not warming up?
Could be several reasons, first one I would check would be a stuck open thermostat.


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\section{Introduction}\label{introduction}
Classical novae are a class of cataclysmic variables, which occur in accreting binaries
with a white dwarf and a late-type companion. Hydrogen-rich material is accumulated on
the white dwarf surface. The surface temperature increases as the material accumulates.
When the accreted material reaches a critical mass for nuclear fusion, an thermonuclear
runaway process ignites on the white dwarf surface. A review of the evolution of
classical novae can be found in e.g., \cite{starrfield2008}.

After outburst, the system is expected to display X-ray emission via different
mechanisms: (1) Non-thermal emission has recently been reported from the classical nova
V2491 Cygni by the Suzaku satellite \citep{takei2009a}. (2) Thin-thermal plasma emission
from adiabatic shocks has been reported in some classical novae, mainly in data taken
with the Swift satellite (e.g., \citealt{bode2006,ness2009a}). (3) Photospheric emission
from a hot layer of a white dwarf surface, which is characterised by bright, soft
blackbody-like continuum emission and absorption lines, similar to the class of
Super-Soft X-ray Sources (SSS; \citealt{kahabka1997}).

Following from various arguments, the time scale of SSS emission is a function of the
white dwarf mass and the chemical composition of the post-outburst envelope (e.g.,
\citealt{sala2005,hachisu2006}). The optically thick wind theory is an approach to model
SSS light curves with some simple assumptions (e.g., \citealt{hachisu2005,hachisu2006}).
In this theory, the onset of the SSS phase is assumed to occur after the wind stops, and
the SSS phase fades out once the nuclear fuel on the white dwarf surface is
consumed. Meanwhile, recent observations have shown that significant wind velocities can
still be detected during the SSS phase (see contribution by Ness in this same journal).
It is difficult to estimate the effects of the expansion on model light curves, and,
ultimately, the white dwarf mass that would be derived from models that account for the
continued expansion during the SSS phase. More advanced models are clearly needed,
nevertheless, the duration of the SSS phase is an important observational quantity that
will always be needed to determine the white dwarf mass.

In order to determine the duration of the SSS phase, we have to estimate the turn-on and
turn-off time of SSS emission. For both quantities, dense observations in time are
needed, and intensive monitoring campaigns are currently being performed with Swift
(see, e.g., the contributions by Beardmore and by Osborne in this same journal).
However, the turn-on time is particularly difficult to be estimated because we need to
discriminate SSS emission from other sources of X-ray emission. For example, in RS\,Oph,
significant shock emission was present during the early times and faded on a time scale
of $\sim$30~days. When the SSS phase started around day 30 after outburst, some shock
emission was still present that may contaminate the SSS emission (e.g.,
\citealt{ness2009b}).

\cite{rohrbach2009} analysed three Chandra ACIS spectra of V1494 Aql obtained on days
134, 187, and 248 after outburst, and interpreted a soft excess in the last
observation as SSS emission. However, in the two earlier ACIS spectra, emission lines
from N were present at the same energies. They emphasised that the soft component in all
three ACIS spectra could equally well be fitted by a blackbody or a thin-thermal plasma
model with high N or O abundance. The conclusion of SSS emission in a CCD-type spectrum
has thus to be treated with care, because the energy resolution is not high enough to
compare these models. \cite{rohrbach2009} had additional high-resolution Chandra LETGS
spectra at their disposal that clearly showed that the soft component was atmospheric
rather than thin-thermal emission. For these purposes, it is thus mandatory to observe
with high energy resolution with sufficient sensitivity at soft X-ray energies so that
different models can be distinguished.

In this paper, we present the results of soft X-ray studies of the classical nova V2491
Cygni using the Suzaku observatory. Suzaku has taken two observations during the early
phase, and the X-ray CCDs aboard Suzaku provided X-ray spectra of this nova
\citep{takei2009a,takei2009b}. A tantalising hint of SSS emission was seen on day 29,
although it provides several different interpretations at the same time. We discuss
different possibilities of interpreting the soft component.

\section{V2491 Cygni}\label{target}
The classical nova V2491 Cygni was discovered on 2008 April 10.728~UT in the
constellation Cygnus \citep{nakano2008}. The nova was classified as an extremely fast
nova \citep{tomov2008a} from a rate of decline of $t_{2}$ $\sim$ 4.6~d
\citep{tomov2008b}, where $t_{2}$ is the time to fade by 2~mag from the optical maximum
magnitude. Based on an empirical relation between the maximum magnitude and the rate of
decline among classical novae \citep{della1995}, the distance was estimated as 10.5~kpc
\citep{helton2008}. As a consequence of the fast evolution, the white dwarf mass can be
expected to be high \citep{hachisu2009}.

Intensive monitoring observations were conducted by the Swift X-ray satellite after
outburst \citep{kuulkers2008,osborne2008,page2008,page2009}. No significant X-ray
emission was found on day 1, but it was detected on day 5. During the early phase, the
Swift spectrum exhibited extremely hard continuum emission \citep{kuulkers2008}. A
Suzaku observation was also conducted on day 9, in which the soft X-rays below
$\sim$1~keV were highly absorbed \citep{takei2009a}. We requested another Suzaku
observation to follow the evolution, and various emission lines as well as a hint of SSS
emission were found on day 29 \citep{takei2009b}. A harder spectral component is well
fitted with a thin-thermal plasma model, however, the spectra show clear signs of
attenuation in the 0.6--0.8 keV range, and the soft component cannot be fitted with the
same model as the hard part of the spectrum (see, in the bottom right panel in
figure~\ref{figure:blackbody}). The full spectral analysis of the Suzaku data is
presented by \cite{takei2009b}. The X-ray brightness increased after the Suzaku
observations, and Swift recorded a soft and bright X-ray spectrum on day 36
\citep{osborne2008}. XMM-Newton observations were also conducted on days 40 and 50,
after the nova had entered the typical SSS phase \citep{ness2008a,ness2008b}.

\section{Observations and reduction}\label{observation}
V2491 Cygni was observed with Suzaku on day 29. Suzaku provides simultaneous
observations with two instruments in operation \citep{mitsuda2007}: the X-ray Imaging
Spectrometer (XIS: \citealt{koyama2007}) and the Hard X-ray Detector (HXD:
\citealt{takahashi2007,kokubun2007}), which cover the energy range of 0.2--12~keV and
10--600~keV, respectively. In order to understand the soft X-ray evolution, we
concentrate on the XIS spectrum. XIS is equipped with four X-ray CCDs at the foci of
four X-ray telescope modules \citep{serlemitsos2007}. Three of them (XIS0, 2, and 3) are
front-illuminated (FI) CCDs, sensitive in a 0.4--12~keV energy range, and the remaining
one (XIS1) is a back-illuminated (BI) CCD, sensitive at 0.2--12~keV. XIS2 has not been
functional since 2006 November, and we use the remaining CCDs. XIS was operated in
normal clocking mode with a frame time of 8~s, and the net exposure time is 25~ks. For
details of the extraction procedure, we refer to \cite{takei2009b}. In order to
understand the soft X-ray component, we fitted the respective FI and BI spectra between
0.4--0.6~keV and 0.2--0.6~keV by two different models.

\section{Spectral Analysis}\label{analysis}
The spectrum shows a clear detection of a soft X-ray excess below 0.6~keV
(figure~\ref{figure:blackbody}). SSS emission is the most straight forward
interpretation, however, emission lines from C, N, and O from thin-thermal plasma may
also explain the spectrum in this energy band. This is a similar case as
\cite{rohrbach2009}. A large source of uncertainty, especially in the soft band, is the
large effect of interstellar plus possibly circumstellar absorption. In the following
sections we present two model approaches to the soft spectra. The fitting was performed
with Xspec, where we used the same interstellar absorption model (TBabs module in Xspec;
\citealt{wilms2000}). Owing to the low signal-to-noise ratio, we use Cash statistics for
the determination of a best-fit model \citep{cash1979}.

\subsection{Blackbody}\label{section:bbody}

\begin{figure}[tb]
 \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=82mm]{f1.eps}
 \end{center}
 \vspace{0mm}
 \caption{Background-subtracted XIS spectra and the best-fit blackbody model on day 29
 (see $\S$\ref{section:bbody}). The spectra are shown in pluses representing the error
 bars. The different colours represent the two instruments as indicated in the top left
 legend. The best-fit models are shown with solid lines for each instrument. The inset
 shows the hard BI spectrum and the best-fit thin-thermal plasma model presented by
 \cite{takei2009b}, illustrating the need for an additional component.
 }\label{figure:blackbody}
\end{figure}

First, we fitted the spectrum with an absorbed blackbody model. With this model we test
the possibility that the emission originates from the photosphere of the hot, extended
white dwarf. The best fit yields a blackbody temperature of 57$\pm$6~eV and an
interstellar extinction of 2$\pm$1$\times$10$^{21}$~cm$^{-2}$ with uncertainties of the
90\% confidence range. The normalisation corresponds to a bolometric luminosity of
(0.5--3)$\times$10$^{36}$~erg~s$^{-1}$ assuming a distance of 10.5~kpc by
\cite{helton2008}. The bolometric luminosity and the blackbody temperature yield a
radius of the sphere to be (470--1900)~km for the 90\% confidence level. The best-fit
model is shown in comparison to the FI and BI spectra in figure~\ref{figure:blackbody}.
The Cash goodness criterion is 17.18 with 21 bins.

\subsection{Thin-thermal plasma}\label{section:apec}

\begin{figure}[tb]
 \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=82mm]{f2.eps}
 \end{center}
 \vspace{0mm}
 \caption{Same as Fig.~\ref{figure:blackbody} with the best-fit VAPEC model (see
 $\S$\ref{section:apec}).
 }\label{figure:apec}
\end{figure}

Next, we fitted the spectrum with a thin-thermal plasma model (VAPEC module in Xspec;
\citealt{smith2001}). This model represents optically thin plasma in collisional
equilibrium with variable abundances. We allowed the parameters temperature,
interstellar extinction, normalisation, and elemental abundances of C, N, and O to vary
as free parameters while fitting the spectrum. The other abundances were fixed at solar
abundances. The best-fit result is a temperature of $\sim$0.1~keV, an interstellar
extinction of $\sim$4$\times$10$^{21}$~cm$^{-2}$, and abundances for C, N, and O of 90,
10, and $\lesssim$6 times solar, respectively. The normalisation corresponds to a volume
emission measure of $\sim$10$^{58}$~cm$^{-3}$, assuming the distance of 10.5~kpc by
\cite{helton2008}. The best-fit model is shown in comparison to the FI and BI spectra in
figure~\ref{figure:apec}. The Cash goodness criterion is 17.30 with 21 bins.

\section{Discussion}\label{discussion}
The objective of this study is to understand the origin of the soft-band excess emission
peaking at $\sim$0.5~keV in a Suzaku observation taken 29 days after outburst. We have
used two different model approaches in $\S$\ref{section:bbody} and $\S$\ref{section:apec}.
Figures~\ref{figure:blackbody} and \ref{figure:apec} show that both models are good
representations of the data. While the Cash values of 17.18 and 17.30 are not a
quantitative quality criterion, their difference scales like the difference of $\chi^{2}$
(Wilks theorem; \citealt{wilks1938}). If two fits with Cash values that differ by more
than 1 (in the case of one free parameter), then the fit with the lower value is better
with a probability of 68.3\%. In our case with more than one free parameter and a
difference much less than 1, the two fits are clearly not different in their ability to
reproduce the data. The data alone are thus not sufficient to distinguish between these
two models, and both models have to be discussed.

The blackbody temperature is within the typical range of SSS spectra of classical novae,
but the bolometric luminosity appears rather low compared to the luminosities that have
been derived for other novae (e.g., \citealt{krautter1996}). Meanwhile, the luminosity
is comparable to that derived from blackbody fits to the persistent SSS CAL\,83, but the
blackbody temperature is significantly higher (e.g., \citealt{greiner1991}). This is the
reason why the derived effective radius is relatively small. While the 90\% confidence
range allows a physically realistic radius of 1900~km, it has to be noted that blackbody
fits to SSS spectra have the tendency to overestimate the bolometric luminosity and thus
the radius \citep{krautter1996}. With the small radius that we found from the blackbody
fit, the interpretation of the soft emission as originating from the extended atmosphere
around the white dwarf, thus implies a very small photospheric radius. However, it can
not be smaller than the radius of a white dwarf near the Chandrasekhar limit (e.g.,
\citealt{hamada1961}). In contrast, the emission measure of the thin-thermal plasma
model is also within the typical range (e.g., \citealt{hernanz2007,tsujimoto2009}).
Assuming that the plasma density is uniform and that the expansion velocity has not changed,
the observed value corresponds to a plasma density of $\gtrsim$10$^{6}$~cm$^{-3}$, which
is also a possible limit of novae.

An obstacle on our way to interpret the soft component as first evidence of SSS
emission, and thus the onset of the SSS phase, is the fact that a completely different
model can also explain the observations. The thin-thermal plasma model presented in
$\S$\ref{section:apec} yields an adequate fit to the data and must thus be considered
for finding the origin of the emission. A possible source for optically thin emission
are kinematic interactions of the ejecta with the surrounding medium (e.g., a planetary
nebula like in GK\,Per or the interstellar medium) or within the ejecta. In other novae,
such origins have been concluded from observations of so-called 'early hard' emission,
where the observed spectra could be fitted with APEC or MEKAL \citep{mewe1985}
models. The classical nova V2491 Cygni has been observed with extremely high velocities
(e.g., 3300~km~s$^{-1}$; \citealt{ness2008a}) and such high velocities can very well
dissipate significant amounts of energy in thin-thermal radiation. The spectral analysis
of the full Suzaku data are presented by \cite{takei2009b}, and a harder spectral
component that can only be fitted with a thin-thermal model has been detected for days
9, 29, 40, and 50. Between days 9 and 29, this component has experienced a significant
reduction in temperature. It can thus not be excluded that the soft component on day 29
has at least partly the same origin. While the soft component and the harder
thin-thermal component can not be fitted with the same model, it has to be kept in mind
that we used an isothermal model while the true plasma is likely not isothermal. With
better spectral resolution, the approach of fitting an emission measure distribution as
introduced by \cite{ness2009b} is more appropriate, and a significant amounts of cooler
plasma may be present that can account for the soft component.

\section{Summary and Conclusions}

The fast nova V2491 Cygni has been observed on days 9 and 29 after outburst with
Suzaku. The first observation showed a non-thermal component and an optically thin
thermal plasma component with a temperature of $\sim$2.9~keV \citep{takei2009a}. Later,
on day 29, the non-thermal component has disappeared, and the thin-thermal component has
a softer spectrum, yielding a lower temperature \citep{takei2009b}. In addition, a
super-soft component with a peak at 0.5~keV was present. The origin of this component
can either be first light of the SSS phase, or it could be the soft extension of the
thin-thermal plasma component. With the given combination of limited spectral resolution
and soft sensitivity, we can not distinguish between these two possibilities.
Technically, both scenarios are possible and plausible. Depending on the correct
interpretation, the duration of the SSS phase could be different by about a week.
According to \cite{page2009}, the SSS phase started between days 36 and 42. If the soft
component detected by Suzaku is indeed SSS emission, then the start of the SSS phase
would be at least one week earlier.

Central to addressing such questions is the spectral resolution. In high resolution, one
could clearly distinguish between SSS and a thin-thermal plasma emission. The results of
this work are one example that demonstrates the need for high spectral resolution with
sufficient sensitivity at soft energies that would have to be implemented in future
X-ray observatories like the International X-ray Observatory.

\acknowledgements

The authors thank the Suzaku telescope managers for allocating a part of the director's
discretionary time.
D.\,T. is financially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
We acknowledge financial support from the Faculty of the European Space Astronomy Centre.
This research made use of data obtained from Data ARchives and Transmission System
(DARTS), provided by PLAIN center at ISAS/JAXA.

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After two successful editions of Christians at the Border, and having talked and written about immigration over the past decade, Carroll has sharpened his focus and refined his argument to make sure we hear clearly what the Bible says about one of the most pressing issues of our day. He has reworked the biblical material, adding insights and broadening the frame of reference beyond the US. As Carroll explores the surprising amount of material in the Old and New Testaments that deals with migration, he shows how this topic is fundamental to the message of the Bible and how it affects our understanding of God and the mission of the church.
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Whistleblowing is not just about freedom of speech. It's not just about protecting working conditions, and it's not just about protecting the internal market. It's about all those things and more. It's the only way in which a lot of otherwise secret information can be brought to light, and hence it's often the best way, at least for now, to uncover wrong-doing, corruption, and downright immoral behaviour. Recent scandals uncovered by whistle-blowers include illegal mass surveillance, industrial scale tax avoidance or the sexual abuse of children by peacekeepers. The biggest leak in history to date, revealed in the Panama Papers, has once again highlighted just how important whistle-blowers are for allowing in-depth journalistic investigations. However, instead of promoting public interest disclosures, the EU will soon adopt a Trade Secrets Directive that actually threatens to undermine future disclosures of this kind by treating almost any secretive business information as a trade secret. This is why the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament believes that it is now more urgent than ever to enact an EU legal framework that would set out common minimum standards for the protection of whistle-blowers throughout the European Union. So we have decided to take matters into our own hands, and to work with legal experts to create a draft EU directive to protect whistle-blowers. We want to show that with enough will, there is a way. Today we sent the draft directive to Mr. Juncker, the President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, and the other relevant commissioners. With this initiative we hope to push the European Commission to finally act!
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Over the past decade, the European Parliament has consistently been calling on the European Commission to propose EU legislation on the subject. Most recently, the European Parliament's special TAXE committee called on the Commission to present whistle-blower legislation by June 2016. However, the European Commission has yet to respond to these calls. Where whistle-blower protection exists in the EU, provisions tend to be scattered across different laws, with some Member States having regulated some level of protection in anti-corruption laws, others in public service laws, and again others in labour, criminal and sector-specific laws, thus leaving significant legal loopholes and gaps. As a consequence, whistle-blowers across EU Member States enjoy uneven levels of protection, or in six countries, no protection at all. This means that despite the fact that whistleblowing is essential for protecting the public interest, for maintaining accountability and integrity in both the public and private sectors, and for ensuring the functioning of the internal market, whistle-blowers who speak up often do so at high personal risk, and usually suffer great professional and personal costs. The current Luxleaks trial is one recent example of this, with the whistle-blower that released the information currently on trial for violation of professional secrecy and theft of data, amongst other accusations. Antoine Deltour could face between 5-10 years in prison and/or an enormous fine, just for making public something that he (and plenty of other people) thought was wrong.
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Tomorrow, 4th May 2016, we will present a draft directive to establish minimum levels of protection in the EU Member States for whistle-blowers at a public conference to be held in Brussels. All European Parliament groups have been invited, and the European Commission will also provide feedback to our proposal. If you can't join us, watch the streaming! We hope that tomorrow's event will serve to get the ball rolling so that the EU and its Member States can adopt legally binding mechanisms to protect whistle-blowers across Europe.
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After returning in the afternoon to the construction site, nearly half of the second side was already fastened in place! It really helps the mind's eye create a picture of what the finished product will look like.
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	it("opens on marker focus and closes on blur in layer group", function () {
		var marker1 = L.marker([41.18, 9.45], {description: 'Marker 1'});
		var marker2 = L.marker([41.18, 9.46], {description: 'Marker 2'});
		var group = new L.FeatureGroup([marker1, marker2]).addTo(map);
		group.bindTooltip(function (layer) {
			return 'Group tooltip: ' + layer.options.description;
		});

		var element1 = marker1.getElement();
		var element2 = marker2.getElement();

		happen.once(element1, {type:'focus'});

		expect(map.hasLayer(group._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		expect(group._tooltip._container.innerHTML).to.be("Group tooltip: Marker 1");

		happen.once(element1, {type:'blur'});
		expect(map.hasLayer(group._tooltip)).to.be(false);

		happen.once(element2, {type:'focus'});

		expect(map.hasLayer(group._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		expect(group._tooltip._container.innerHTML).to.be("Group tooltip: Marker 2");

		happen.once(element2, {type:'blur'});
		expect(map.hasLayer(group._tooltip)).to.be(false);
	});

	it("is mentioned in aria-describedby of a bound layer", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip');
		var element = layer.getElement();

		happen.once(element, {type:'focus'});

		var tooltip = layer.getTooltip();
		expect(element.getAttribute('aria-describedby')).to.equal(tooltip._container.id);
	});

	it("is mentioned in aria-describedby of a bound layer group", function () {
		var marker1 = L.marker([41.18, 9.45], {description: 'Marker 1'});
		var marker2 = L.marker([41.18, 9.46], {description: 'Marker 2'});
		var group = new L.FeatureGroup([marker1, marker2]).addTo(map);
		group.bindTooltip(function (layer) {
			return 'Group tooltip: ' + layer.options.description;
		});

		var element = marker2.getElement();

		happen.once(element, {type:'focus'});

		var tooltip = group.getTooltip();
		expect(element.getAttribute('aria-describedby')).to.equal(tooltip._container.id);

	});

	it("stays open on marker when permanent", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
	});

	it("can be added with bindTooltip before added to the map", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(false);
		layer.addTo(map);
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
	});

	it("is removed when removing marker", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		layer.remove();
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(false);
	});

	it("is not interactive by default", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);
		var spy = sinon.spy();

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true});
		layer._tooltip.on('click', spy);
		happen.click(layer._tooltip._container);
		expect(spy.called).to.be(false);
	});

	it("can be made interactive", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);
		var spy = sinon.spy();

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true, interactive: true});
		layer._tooltip.on('click', spy);
		happen.click(layer._tooltip._container);
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(true);
	});

	it("events are propagated to bound layer", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);
		var spy = sinon.spy();
		layer.on('click', spy);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true, interactive: true});
		happen.click(layer._tooltip._container);
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(true);
	});

	it("has class leaflet-interactive", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);
		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true, interactive: true});
		expect(L.DomUtil.hasClass(layer._tooltip._container, 'leaflet-interactive')).to.be(true);
	});

	it("has not class leaflet-interactive", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);
		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true});
		expect(L.DomUtil.hasClass(layer._tooltip._container, 'leaflet-interactive')).to.be(false);
	});

	it("can be forced on left direction", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);
		var spy = sinon.spy();
		layer.on('click', spy);

		layer.bindTooltip('A long tooltip that should be displayed on the left', {permanent: true, direction: 'left', interactive: true});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		happen.at('click', 150, 180);  // Marker is on the map center, which is 400px large.
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(true);
	});

	it("honours offset on left direction", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);
		var spy = sinon.spy();
		layer.on('click', spy);

		layer.bindTooltip('A long tooltip that should be displayed on the left', {permanent: true, direction: 'left', interactive: true, offset: [-20, -20]});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		happen.at('click', 150, 180);
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(false);
		happen.at('click', 130, 160);
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(true);
	});

	it("can be forced on top direction", function () {
		var layer = L.circleMarker(center).addTo(map);
		var spy = sinon.spy();
		layer.on('click', spy);

		layer.bindTooltip('A tooltip that should be displayed on the top', {permanent: true, direction: 'top', interactive: true});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		happen.at('click', 200, 180);  // Marker is on the map center, which is 400px large.
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(true);
	});

	it("honours offset on top direction", function () {
		var layer = L.circleMarker(center).addTo(map);
		var spy = sinon.spy();
		layer.on('click', spy);

		layer.bindTooltip('A tooltip that should be displayed on the top', {permanent: true, direction: 'top', interactive: true, offset: [-20, -20]});
		happen.at('click', 200, 180);
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(false);
		happen.at('click', 180, 150);
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(true);
	});

	it("can be forced on bottom direction", function () {
		var layer = L.circleMarker(center).addTo(map);
		var spy = sinon.spy();
		layer.on('click', spy);

		layer.bindTooltip('A tooltip that should be displayed on the top', {permanent: true, direction: 'bottom', interactive: true});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		happen.at('click', 200, 220);  // Marker is on the map center, which is 400px large.
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(true);
	});

	it("honours offset on bottom direction", function () {
		var layer = L.circleMarker(center).addTo(map);
		var spy = sinon.spy();
		layer.on('click', spy);

		layer.bindTooltip('A tooltip that should be displayed on the top', {permanent: true, direction: 'bottom', interactive: true, offset: [20, 20]});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		happen.at('click', 200, 220);
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(false);
		happen.at('click', 220, 230);
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(true);
	});

	it("can be forced on center", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);
		var spy = sinon.spy();
		layer.on('click', spy);

		layer.bindTooltip('A tooltip that should be displayed on the center', {permanent: true, direction: 'center', interactive: true});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		happen.at('click', 150, 180);  // Marker is on the map center, which is 400px large.
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(true);
	});

	it("honours opacity option", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);
		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true, opacity: 0.57});
		expect(layer._tooltip._container.style.opacity).to.eql(0.57);
	});

	it("can change opacity with setOpacity", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);
		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true});
		expect(layer._tooltip._container.style.opacity).to.eql(0.9);
		layer._tooltip.setOpacity(0.57);
		expect(layer._tooltip._container.style.opacity).to.eql(0.57);
	});

	it("it should use a tooltip with a function as content with a FeatureGroup", function () {
		var marker1 = L.marker([55.8, 37.6], {description: "I'm marker 1."});
		var marker2 = L.marker([54.6, 38.2], {description: "I'm marker 2."});
		var group = L.featureGroup([marker1, marker2]).addTo(map);

		group.bindTooltip(function (layer) {
			return layer.options.description;
		});

		// toggle popup on marker1
		happen.mouseover(marker1._icon, {relatedTarget: map._container});
		expect(map.hasLayer(group._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		expect(group._tooltip._container.innerHTML).to.be("I'm marker 1.");

		// toggle popup on marker2
		happen.mouseover(marker2._icon, {relatedTarget: map._container});
		expect(map.hasLayer(group._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		expect(group._tooltip._container.innerHTML).to.be("I'm marker 2.");
	});

	it("opens on polygon mouseover and close on mouseout", function () {
		var layer = L.polygon([[55.8, 37.6], [55.9, 37.6], [55.8, 37.5]]).addTo(map);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip');

		happen.mouseover(layer._path, {relatedTarget: map._container});

		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);

		happen.mouseout(layer._path, {relatedTarget: map._container});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(false);
	});

	it("stays open on polygon when permanent", function () {
		var layer = L.polygon([[55.8, 37.6], [55.9, 37.6], [55.8, 37.5]]).addTo(map);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
	});

	it("can be added on polygon with bindTooltip before beind added to the map", function () {
		var layer = L.polygon([[55.8, 37.6], [55.9, 37.6], [55.8, 37.5]]);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(false);
		layer.addTo(map);
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		layer.remove();
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(false);
		layer.addTo(map);
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
	});

	it("opens on polyline mouseover and close on mouseout", function () {
		var layer = L.polyline([[55.8, 37.6], [55.9, 37.6], [55.8, 37.5]]).addTo(map);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip');

		happen.mouseover(layer._path, {relatedTarget: map._container});

		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);

		happen.mouseout(layer._path, {relatedTarget: map._container});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(false);
	});

	it("stays open on polyline when permanent", function () {
		var layer = L.polyline([[55.8, 37.6], [55.9, 37.6], [55.8, 37.5]]).addTo(map);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
	});

	it("can be added on polyline with bindTooltip before added to the map", function () {
		var layer = L.polyline([[55.8, 37.6], [55.9, 37.6], [55.8, 37.5]]);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {permanent: true});
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(false);
		layer.addTo(map);
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		layer.remove();
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(false);
		layer.addTo(map);
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
	});

	it.skipIfNotTouch("is opened when tapping on touch", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip');
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(false);
		happen.click(layer._icon);
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
	});

	it.skipIfNotTouch("is closed if not permanent when clicking on the map elsewhere on touch", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);

		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip');
		happen.click(layer._icon);
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(true);
		happen.click(map._container);
		expect(map.hasLayer(layer._tooltip)).to.be(false);
	});

	it("opens with map.openTooltip", function (done) {
		map.on('tooltipopen', function (e) {
			expect(map.hasLayer(e.tooltip)).to.be(true);
			done();
		});
		map.openTooltip('Tooltip', center);
	});

	it("map.openTooltip considers interactive option", function () {
		var spy = sinon.spy();
		var tooltip = L.tooltip({interactive: true, permanent: true})
		  .setContent('Tooltip')
		  .on('click', spy);
		map.openTooltip(tooltip, center);

		happen.click(tooltip._container);
		expect(spy.calledOnce).to.be(true);
	});

	it("can call closeTooltip while not on the map", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center);
		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip', {interactive: true});
		layer.closeTooltip();
	});

	it("opens a tooltip and follow the mouse (sticky)", function () {
		var layer = L.rectangle([[58, 39.7], [54, 35.3]]).addTo(map);
		layer.bindTooltip('Sticky', {sticky: true}).openTooltip();
		var tooltip = layer.getTooltip();
		expect(tooltip.getLatLng().equals(layer.getCenter())).to.be(true);

		happen.at('click', 120, 120);
		var latlng = map.containerPointToLatLng([120, 120]);
		expect(tooltip.getLatLng().equals(latlng)).to.be(true);
	});

	it("opens a permanent tooltip and follow the mouse (sticky)", function (done) {
		var layer = L.rectangle([[58, 39.7], [54, 35.3]]).addTo(map);
		layer.bindTooltip('Sticky', {sticky: true, permanent: true}).openTooltip();
		var tooltip = layer.getTooltip();
		expect(tooltip.getLatLng().equals(layer.getCenter())).to.be(true);

		var hand = new Hand({
			timing: 'fastframe',
			onStop: function () {
				var latlng = map.containerPointToLatLng([120, 120]);
				expect(tooltip.getLatLng().equals(latlng)).to.be(true);
				done();
			}
		});
		var toucher = hand.growFinger('mouse');
		toucher.wait(100).moveTo(120, 120, 1000).wait(100);
	});

	it("closes existent tooltip on new bindTooltip call", function () {
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map);
		var eventSpy = sinon.spy(layer, "unbindTooltip");
		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip1', {permanent: true});
		var tooltip1 = layer.getTooltip();
		layer.bindTooltip('Tooltip2').openTooltip();
		layer.unbindTooltip.restore(); // unwrap the spy
		expect(map.hasLayer(tooltip1)).to.not.be.ok();
		expect(eventSpy.calledOnce).to.be.ok();
	});

	it("don't opens the tooltip on marker mouseover while dragging map", function () {
		// Sometimes the mouse is moving faster then the map while dragging and then the marker can be hover and
		// the tooltip opened / closed.
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map).bindTooltip('Tooltip');
		var tooltip = layer.getTooltip();

		// simulate map dragging
		map.dragging.moving = function () {
			return true;
		};
		happen.at('mouseover', 210, 195);
		expect(tooltip.isOpen()).to.be(false);

		// simulate map not dragging anymore
		map.dragging.moving = function () {
			return false;
		};
		happen.at('mouseover', 210, 195);
		expect(tooltip.isOpen()).to.be.ok();
	});

	it("closes the tooltip on marker mouseout while dragging map and don't open it again", function () {
		// Sometimes the mouse is moving faster then the map while dragging and then the marker can be hover and
		// the tooltip opened / closed.
		var layer = L.marker(center).addTo(map).bindTooltip('Tooltip');
		var tooltip = layer.getTooltip();

		// open tooltip before "dragging map"
		happen.at('mouseover', 210, 195);
		expect(tooltip.isOpen()).to.be.ok();

		// simulate map dragging
		map.dragging.moving = function () {
			return true;
		};
		happen.mouseout(layer._icon, {relatedTarget: map._container});
		expect(tooltip.isOpen()).to.be(false);

		// tooltip should not open again while dragging
		happen.at('mouseover', 210, 195);
		expect(tooltip.isOpen()).to.be(false);
	});
});


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Q: SQL Server Scope_Identity() Usage Problem I can't figure out why this multi-table insert (stored procedure) using scope_identity() is not working.  This is the gist of it (forgive the unimaginative naming here, please):

TableB's RowID column is obviously an int, not set as identity auto-increment or anything like that.
If I run it in management studio, it says 1 row was affected, but it does not do the inserts.
If I run it from code I get an error saying that I can't insert a NULL value in TableB, RowID, which is correct, it has a not null constraint.  But it should be getting the scope_identity() from the first table.
I've tried it in and out of transactions and with various parameter initializations... It's killing me.  Thanks in advance for any assistance.

A: I assume tableA has an IDENTITY set on a number column?
SCOPE_IDENTITY() will be NULL if there isn't
The "1 row affected" isn't from this INSERT into tableA either.

A: Nothing wrong with the code you have showed here. I think you have removed the problematic code when you simplified your sample.
Try this.
declare @TableA table (IDA int identity primary key, ColA int)
declare @TableB table (IDB int primary key, ColB int)

declare @RecordID int = 0,
        @Val1 int

if @RecordID = 0
  begin
    declare @NewID int

    insert into @TableA values (@Val1)
    set @NewID = scope_identity()

    insert into @TableB values (@NewID, @Val1)
  end
else
  begin
    print 'Do something else'
  end

select *
from @TableA, @TableB

Result:
IDA         ColA        IDB         ColB
----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
1           NULL        1           NULL

Take it for a spin yourself. https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/103697/using-scope-identity

A: One other thing to look at is whether you have a trigger (especially an INSTEAD OF Trigger)on the table which might be causing the record to not get inserted.
You can add a print statement to see the value of the @newId variable after you have initialized it to see if it is null or if it has a value.
Try using explicit transactions and a try catch block and then you can see what error you are getting in the catch block if it doesn't make it past the first insert.

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SGLSF: What were some of your favorite books growing up?
Cynthia Sax: I had so many favorite books growing up but I think it's telling that one of them was Bambi (the Felix Salten original, not the Disney version). That was a children's book yet very bad things happened in it. Felix Salten wasn't afraid to hurt characters and do even worse. I remembered that while I was writing RELEASING RAGE Very bad things happen to the heroine but I had to allow these things to happen. They are key for Joan's character development, for Rage's character development, and for their relationship.
Cynthia Sax: I love the happy for now or happy ever endings in romance. I love that I'm leaving readers happy. I also believe that love is one of the most powerful emotions in the world. It's wonderful that romances celebrate this.
SciFi appeals to me because I'm fascinated with 'what if' scenarios. What if we were facing alien enemies we couldn't physically defeat? What if we didn't want to risk our own people while battling them?
I enjoy projecting current inventions into the future. I wanted to write cyborg stories for years but I couldn't figure out how a cyborg's mechanics could grow in concert with his organics. Then I saw a presentation on 3D printing. The developer was talking about how they were swapping out heart valves as children grew. Bam! I had one possible solution.
SGLSF: Are you more plot driven or character driven?
Cynthia Sax: I'm definitely character driven. I craft the entire story around one character. In Releasing Rage, that character is Rage, the cyborg hero. I started with the question—why would a cyborg, a being designed to be the perfect soldier, rebel against his creators? Soldiers are normally loyal. I knew there had to be a serious reason for Rage's rebellion.
Cynthia Sax: My preferred writing environment would be in a lounge chair on a deck of a cruise ship with dolphins playing in the waters in front of me and cabana boys catering to my every whim.
But I probably wouldn't get many words written.
I currently work on a tiny desk facing a blank wall. There are no distractions.
Cynthia Sax: Rage, the cyborg hero of RELEASING RAGE, has been tortured and tormented by his human handlers for many human lifespans. He's determined to escape, to travel to the cyborg Homeland where he and his brethren can be free. He also wants vengeance for the pain inflicted upon him and his friends. He plans to kill all of the humans on board his battle station.
Joan, the human heroine, is one of the beings on this battle station. Hated by the Commander, simply for being female, she's assigned to Rage. No one expects her to survive this assignment. They certainly don't expect the two of them to bond.
SGLSF: If you discovered someone close to you was an alien, what would you do?
Cynthia Sax: I wouldn't be surprised. I suspect there are aliens amongst us. Being a writer, I'd likely interview them. I have thousands of questions. Then I'd craft the answers into a book (non-fiction) so SETI would have that information.
SGLSF: If you could live in a fandom universe, which would you choose?
Cynthia Sax: Well, I love Riddick but everyone around him seems to end up dead. Star Wars characters don't survive very long either (Did you see that first trailer? Is Chewie dead? He can't be. Not my big hairy Chewie). How about Star Trek: The Next Generation? Except I want to be an officer. They seem to live longer (must…resist…adding 'and prosper' – grins).
Thank you so much for interviewing me today!
I have to say that Releasing Rage was a wonderful book. It is definitely A LOT darker than what I normally read. But I read it twice, just because it was so interesting. I'm glad to see it's in the top 100 for sci fi romance – it's defnitely deserved. And glad to see you have another one coming out!
Thank you so much, Aeon. Yes, it is the darkest story I've ever written. I LOVE cyborgs and I wanted to delve into why a being manufactured to be a loyal soldier would rebel. That has always intrigued me. I couldn't see a way to write that without going dark.
into less "fingers on" and extra managerial in the direction of the ten yr mark.


What are the Lone Wolf books?
Where can I go for clarification of the rules?
Which books are you providing?
Are there any differences between the printed originals and these internet editions?
Which printed books were abridged? Are these online editions abridged?
Why is there no cover art?
Can you publish these books in other languages?
Who do I talk to if I found an error in the books?
Can I download all of the books at once?
What are you guys getting out this anyway?
What's your logo supposed to be?
Where can I get printed copies of the books?
What other ways can I get involved with other Lone Wolf fans?
Do you know Joe Dever's e-mail address?
How can I develop software for Project Aon?
Q: What are the Lone Wolf books?
A: They are Joe Dever's most popular series of gamebooks, set primarily in the mythical world of Magnamund in the universe of Aon (hence our name). You, the reader, play as Lone Wolf, a warrior-monk whose potential as a hero emerges from the tragic defeat of his teachers and kinsmen, known as the Kai Lords. These are solo adventures that can be read and interpreted at your leisure, bringing a unique experience to the reader. The most similar books to these that found a mainstream audience are the Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy series. In Lone Wolf, however, you do not only make key decisions in the text, but also choose your equipment and unique abilities, which may help you to survive through encounters that have both strategic and random elements. Lone Wolf books are also relatively unique in that the books can be read and played individually or as part of the larger series, where you can use skills and items gained from one book in another book.
A: Visit The Books and choose your book! We also advise you to read the Project Aon License, which basically states that you are entitled to use these internet publications for personal use only, that redistribution in any form isn't permitted and other legal issues which hopefully do not concern you.
We recommend that you start with the first book, Flight from the Dark. Read through the official Game Rules pages as well as the Readers' Handbook to gain the best understanding of how to proceed through the book. Don't worry, we're not talking Dungeons and Dragons rule books here; you should have a good understanding of the system within half an hour or so. Alternatively, you can click on the "Table of Contents" and peruse some of the first sections if you want to get some of the flavor of the book before reading the rules (this may spoil a little bit of the adventure though).
To keep record of your items and abilities, you may find it convenient to use the StatsKeeper program we provide, especially if you have a large screen. Alternatively, you can always use good old pencil and paper. We designed an Action Chart which is found in the Internet Editions, which basically keeps record of the same items and abilities, and can easily be printed for your convenience. Both the StatsKeeper and Action Chart can be accessed from each book.
Q: Where can I go for clarification of the rules?
Project Aon has developed the Readers' Handbook to help answer questions about the rules. The Topical Guide is very useful for explaining rules as they relate to Disciplines and individual items, and also clarifies many details regarding the use of Healing, legal combinations of armour that may be worn, currency conversion, and much more. This information is culled from the books themselves, and also from the Lone Wolf Club Newsletters.
Q: Which books are you providing?
* The Grand Master books were abridged in the United States. We will be publishing the original unabridged UK editions.
Q: Are there any differences between the printed originals and these internet editions?
A: Yes. One of the advantages of an HTML format is that rather than simply reprint the pages, we can post each section individually, and allow the reader to jump to the appropriate section by clicking on a link within the text. This circumvents the need to flip through the other sections to get the one you need. There are some disadvantages, however. These include the limited page layout capabilities of HTML.
Furthermore, we have made corrections and clarifications to the text when appropriate. Sometimes these changes are minor, as in a spelling correction. Other times, these involve a reworking of a section's choices, or something similarly substantial. We also include clarifying footnotes for issues that cannot be resolved with a simple correction. These clarifications, as well as all corrections (even minor) are noted in appendices for each book. Rest assured that we have taken every possible measure to give a pure yet comprehensive representation of the text.
Q: Which printed books were abridged? Are these online editions abridged?
A: Project Aon is publishing only complete, unabridged versions.
The American publishers decided to reduce the number of pages for Books 13-20 to keep the prices of the longer Grand Master books down.
In every Lone Wolf Grand Master book, there is a section where Lone Wolf can choose between two major paths; for example, in The Plague Lords of Ruel, you can approach Mogaruith either through the mountains or through the forest. The abridged edition dropped the route through the mountains entirely. Similar editing happened in books 14-20. Since this removal required the editors to re-number most of the sections, it also led to an increased number of broken section links.
Q: Why is there no cover art?
Each book has had many covers; some of the UK editions alone have had 3 or 4 different covers each! Add in the American covers, and those from other countries, and we really have too many to choose from. If we wanted to distribute the cover artwork, we would need to contact the cover artist who painted it. Since there are so many, this would be a problem.
Q: Can you publish these works in other languages?
A: We have been given permission to publish the Spanish translations and a few translations in Italian. We will make an announcement if we are granted permission to publish further languages. Please don't ask.
Q: Who do I talk to if I found an error in the books?
A: Please report it to us. We are trying our best to prevent errors, but we need your help. To save yourself the trouble of reporting something that we already know about, you may want consult our errata lists.
Q: Can I download all of the books at once?
A: Absolutely. . . as long as you agree to the Project Aon License. (No, you don't have to sign anything, just understand that you are not allowed to redistribute any of the material here or use it for any reason other than your personal enjoyment.) Joe Dever now has full rights to the works we are publishing, so it is by his generosity--and the generosity of the other authors and illustrators that have granted rights to us--that we are able to provide this free service legally.
Q: What are you guys getting out this anyway?
A: It's a labor of love. We are all fans working on this project completely on a volunteer basis, and are determined for potential fellow-fans out there to have the opportunity to read what major publishers are denying them. You won't find any ads popping up while you're reading the books either. Welcome to Lone Wolf heaven!
A: Welcome aboard! Seriously, everyone is welcome to contribute as much or as little as they can. If you have a willingness to help, we need you. Or, if you have a little extra money, we have some minimal costs that you could help share. Visit the Help Us section for details.
Q: What's your logo supposed to be?
A: Our logo depicts a phoenix--a bird from Greek mythology who was adorned with brilliant reddish-violet and golden plumage. It was said to live for 500 years in the deserts of Egypt. At the end of it's life it would burn itself to death on a funeral pyre. A new Phoenix would then rise from the ashes of its predecessor to begin the 500 year cycle anew.
The Phoenix has become a symbol of rebirth and immortality because of its dramatic life cycle. It is in this sense that we use the newly risen Phoenix as our logo; we strive to see the work of these artists reborn and granted immortality.
Q: Where can I get printed copies of the books?
A: The primary reason we are providing this service is because Lone Wolf had gone out of print. Thankfully, that's changed. We now maintain a list of Lone Wolf books and related materials that are currently in print and available to purchase.
If your mind is set on owning the original editions and you only have a few books left to find, you may be able to, but finding them could be a grueling process. If you are still determined to do so, online auction sites and book sellers that specialize in used book are good resources.
Q: What other ways can I get involved with other Lone Wolf fans?
A: One way is through Project Aon's Forum. There are also other opportunities to contribute to the Lone Wolf fan community. Visit our Links page to other Lone Wolf related resources, especially the other community sites.
Q: Do you know Joe Dever's e-mail address?
A: With his passing in November 2016, it is sadly no longer possible to contact Joe, but if you have a proposal that you think his estate would be interested in, you can send it to us and we'll try to help put you in contact.
Q: How can I develop software for Project Aon?
More information is available in the Sanctum. In brief, we are delighted to support development on any platform, as long as book content is hosted on the Project Aon website as required by the License. A staff account can be requested for this.