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Is Leonard Nemoy Going to Be in 'Star Trek 2'?
Is Leonard Nemoy Going to Be in Star Trek 2?
— April 28th, 2012
Director J.J. Abrams' is in the final days of principle photography on Star Trek 2, and it's been widely reported that none of the original Star Trek cast members would be appearing in this sequel. That includes Leonard Nimoy, who played a substantial role in 2009's Star Trek reboot.
Now, though, an off-the-cuff remark has fans speculating that the actor, who turned Vulcan Spock into a sci-fi icon, may actually make an appearance in this upcoming sequel, slated for release in 2013.
On Thursday, Leonard Nimoy was on scene to watch the arrival of experimental NASA shuttle The Enterprise in New York City, where he was interviewed by CNN. The anchor asked if he would be appearing in another Star Trek movie. This was his response.
"Uhh...We're talking. We're talking."
Many fans who've heard this statement speculate that it is far too early for J.J. Abrams to be talking about Star Trek 3. Though, you never know. A cameo is still possible for Star Trek 2, which has most Trekkers and Trekkies excited. Though retired from acting, Leonard Nimoy is next scheduled to return to Fringe sometime before the show ends next year.
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Q: Build project with EJB dependencies with Ant on Jenkins I want to build a web project (war) with Apache Ant. The project has dependencies to classes in javax.ejb and similar packages which are included in my server runtime. So building with eclipse works fine. However, when trying to build the war with Apache Ant, the following error occurs:
[javac] ...\Test.java:3: error: package javax.ejb does not exist
[javac] import javax.ejb.Timeout;
[javac]                 ^
[javac] ...\Test.java:7: error: cannot find symbol
[javac]     @Timeout
[javac]      ^
[javac]   symbol:   class Timeout
[javac]   location: class Test
[javac] 2 errors

You can reproduce the problem with the following minimal example.
Test.java
import javax.ejb.Timeout;

public class Test {
    @Timeout
    public void test() {}
}

build.xml
<project name="Test" default="compile">
    <target name="compile">
        <mkdir dir="build"/>
        <javac srcdir="src" destdir="build" />
    </target>
</project>

I know this can be solved by adding the server runtime to the classpath, but since I want to build the project on a Jenkins server where no server runtime exists, I was wondering if there is any possibility to build this project without the runtime.

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'It's A Wonderful Life' Actors Coming to Central New York to Celebrate Movie's 75th Anniversary
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Traci Taylor Published: November 8, 2021
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In 1946, the world was introduced to a movie that would not only become a Christmas classic, but one that would be named one of the greatest movies of all time by the American Film Institute. That movie was 'It's A Wonderful Life' and 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the film's release.
'It's A Wonderful Life' told the story of George Bailey (played by actor James Stewart) who found himself contemplating suicide on Christmas Eve due to his company losing a substantial amount of money. But before he could carry out the act an angel named Clarence appeared and showed George what life would be like if he weren't alive.
While many of the original cast and crew are no longer alive, some still are and those cast members will be taking part in a special 75th anniversary celebration for the movie in a Central New York town which many believe was the inspiration for the design of Bedford Falls, the fictional town featured in 'It's A Wonderful Life.
Karolyn Grimes is the actress who played Zuzu, one of the children of George and Mary Bailey in the movie and she strongly believes that Seneca Falls, located near Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region, was Frank Capra's inspiration for the design of Bedford Falls in It's A Wonderful Life. Grimes isn't the only one though, town officials and locals also believe it to be true.
In Seneca Falls, there is a bridge and museum dedicated to the film as well as a 'It's A Wonderful Life' festival which happens each December but the festival this year will be extra special as it will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the film's release and will also play host to some very special guests.
The actors and actresses who played the characters Zuzu Bailey, Janie Bailey, Tommy Bailey, Young Violet Bick, Young George's Friend, and Little Pete Bailey will participate in events and autograph signings during the five day festival which will run December 8-12.
You can learn more about the special 75th 'It's A Wonderful Life' Festival in Seneca Falls here.
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A Cultured Left Foot by Muta Okwonga
Release date: 04th May, 2008
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Most people reading this will have watched at least some of the midweek European football action, but did anyone see much evidence of genuine greatness on display?
On Tuesday, the slight figure of Lionel Messi was the best player on the Old Trafford pitch, although it could be argued that Cristiano Ronaldo deliberately subdued his ebullient style to become an integral part of a Manchester United team that was comprehensively outplayed for most of the match. Perhaps this ability to conform when necessary marks Ronaldo out as a potential great.
On Wednesday, all likely suspects were undone by a combination of atrocious playing conditions and unbelievable tension. There was bravery and commitment, great finishing and occasionally wonderful play, but no-one could claim to have seen a truly great player on display at Stamford Bridge.
Having witnessed some of the world's finest footballing talent playing in the latter stages of the planet's most highly-prized club competition, is it surprising that not one player stood head and shoulders above the rest? One suspects that Muta Okwonga wouldn't be perturbed.
Okwonga is a dedicated football fan (and a lawyer to boot) who can claim to have produced a rarity: an intelligent football book. His regular references to a multitude of great footballing moments proves he is also extremely well informed - a guy who would perform well on your pub quiz team, although he is clearly a well-rounded character who can appreciate football's many absurdities.
Essentially, Okwonga has sought to examine the eleven ingredients essential to the DNA of any great footballer, although his analysis is less conventional than one might imagine, for his is a personal thesis which draws upon everything from science to conventional words of footballing wisdom.
As this is a personal journey, albeit a highly enjoyable one, he can meander off and try different theories on readers, recalling some of the finest footballing moments in the process. But this is no pure academic tome: each of Okwonga's chapters is rich in humour as well as analysis as he combines reason and flashback to further his argument. It is that most enjoyable of reads: that which can be dipped into on a regular basis, its thread recalled within a few sentences.
So, what is it that makes a footballer great? Okwonga is far too modest to suggest that his eleven ingredients are the definitive word on the matter, but if you think it's just a cultured left foot, let me say you're mistaken.
Several other authors have included a chapter on madness when writing about greatness and Okwonga's thesis is no exception as he examines anger's crucial role in driving players.
"People are scared of anger," says Thierry Henry. "I'm not scared of using my anger in a positive way. It's really difficult, but without that anger I wouldn't be the same player. I want to have it in me till I stop."
Henry appeared all too briefly at Old Trafford on Tuesday; he looked angry at having been on the bench, but had little time to translate that anger into a positive contribution and show evidence of his greatness. By reading this fine book, you may understand why.


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Eduard Faber (* 3. Oktober 1853 in Meckenheim; † 2. Mai 1930 in München) war ein deutscher Wasserbauingenieur und Hochschullehrer.

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Ab 1873 studierte er an der Technischen Hochschule in München.
1877 trat er in den königlich bayerischen Staatsdienst beim Straßen- und Flußbauamt in Speyer.
Von 1886 bis 1889 war er beim Zentralbüro für Hydrographie und Meteorologie der Badischen Oberdirektion für Straßen- und Wasserbau in Karlsruhe beschäftigt.
Ab 1890 arbeitete er bei den Straßen- und Flußbauämtern Würzburg, Traunstein und Rosenheim.
Zwischenzeitlich leitete er das Technische Amt des Vereins für die Hebung der Fluß- und Kanalschiffahrt in Bayern, wobei er Grundlagen für den Bau des Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanals schuf.
1908 wurde Faber in die Oberste Baubehörde des Ministeriums des Inneren berufen.
1918 trat er in den Ruhestand.
Faber befasste sich vorrangig mit der bautechnischen Behandlung geschiebeführender Flüsse.
Große Verdienste hat er sich auch um den Ausbau der Wasserstraßen in Bayern und dessen Nachbarstaatem erworben.
Für seine Leistungen verliehen ihm die Technische Hochschule Dresden 1920 und die Universität Erlangen wenig später die Würde eines Ehrendoktors.
Er wurde in Speyer beigesetzt.
Er hatte sich intensiv mit der Geschiebehydraulik und dem Flussbau befasst.
Später widmete er sich seinen Arbeiten über die Nutzung der Wasserkraft und bei seinen Entwürfen für die Schifffahrtsstraßen.

Veröffentlichungen
 1885: Die Strombett-Regulierung des Oberrheins, Deutsche Bauzeitung
 1897: Über neuere Methoden des Flussbaues, Danubius Wien.
 1917: Der öffentliche Baudienst in Bayern, Deutsche Bauzeitung
 1923: Das Verhalten der beweglichen Sohle in geschiebeführenden Flüssen bei steigendem und fallendem Wasser, Bautechnik

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Wasserbauingenieur
Hochschullehrer (Technische Universität München)
Ehrendoktor der Technischen Universität Dresden
Deutscher
Geboren 1853
Gestorben 1930
Mann

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Q: JavaScript .click() in for loop only executes once I'm trying to simulate a click on various links in a website that uses them to expand sections. The developer did not bother to include a "expand all" and there are at least 200 buttons I don't want to click, so I figured I would use JavaScript. However any other ideas are welcome.
The links I'm trying to simulate a click on are defined as:
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I thought that using something like this on Google Chrome's Developer Console would work:
var level_one = [
    'a_link_1',
    'a_link_2',
    'a_link_3'
];

for (var i = 0; i < level_one.length; i++) {
    document.getElementById(level_one[i]).click();
}

The problem is that it only works on the first link. If I change the order of the links, still it will only work on the first one. I actually tried setting a timer for a little bit thinking that would solve the problem but it didn't.
Why doesn't it activate all the links and what would be the right way to do it? Thanks!
In case you want to test it out, the website is: http://www3.inegi.org.mx/sistemas/saic/ (it's in spanish).

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@chiliNUT's answer was the most useful to me, so I'll put it here since I can't mark it as the accepted answer because it was not submitted as one.
To summarize,
clickables = document.querySelectorAll('a[href^="javascript:"]');
for (i in clickables) { clickables[i].click(); }

will retrieve all objects that have a link associated to them starting with 'javascript' (which is used to trigger the expansion links). The for loop actually simulates a click on them, one by one (be careful! You may end up simulating clicks on things you don't want to).
That's it. Thanks to @chiliNUT for providing that solution.

A: Using jQuery :
        $(level_one.map(function(e){return '#'+e}).join(',')).each(function(e,index){
                 setTimeout(function(){$(e).trigger('click')},index*1000)
});

*

*a#a_link_1 will be triggered immediately (0 timout)

*a#a_link_2 will be triggered after 1 second(1000 millisecond timout)

*a#a_link_3 will be triggered after 2 second(2000 millisecond timout)

.....

*

*a##a_link_n will be triggered after (n-1) second

NOTE

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*level_one.map(function(e){return '#'+e}).join(',') equivalent to : '#a_link_1,#a_link_2,#a_link_3'

A: Use the below jQuery code,
 jQuery.each( level_one, function( i, val ) {
      $( "#" + val ).click();
 });

A: Try to use jQuery
for (var i = 0; i < level_one.length; i++) {
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}


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He'll be terrified by egos – Neil Warnock gives verdict on Potter
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Former Cardiff City and Crystal Palace manager, Neil Warnock, believes that new Chelsea head coach, Graham Potter, will be terrified by the prospect of coaching some of the egos in the Blues' dressing room.
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According to him, Potter will be facing challenges at Stamford Bridge that he would never have encountered at Brighton.
He added that the Englishman would be able to rely on his own fine record as a coach, adding that his £200k-a-week salary will help him relax.
Potter was appointed as Chelsea's new manager a few weeks ago after the club's new co-owner Todd Boehly sacked Thomas Tuchel.
Speaking on the Die For Three Points podcast, Warnock said: "Potter will be worried, he'll be frightened, but he knows his coaching will take him through it and he will have his staff there with him.
"Deep down underneath, he'll be absolutely terrified of some of them lads! But he's gonna get through that because, as a manager, you are going to progress – the £200k-a-week will help him relax!
"He'll be terrified underneath at times because he's gonna come up against egos that he's never met in his life. When you have been at a club like Brighton, and I'm not being disrespectful, there's not really a lot of pressure.
"He won't change as a manager, he will try and get those big egos working together as a team, which is easier said than done.
"If they lock into what Graham wants, there's no reason they can't become a force again because it's a great club."
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Q: Android - Can you combine an onClick method in Java, with if else statements to call an intent? I'm trying to use if/else statements within my onClick method, to determine which activity to call next. I want to determine this based on scores I have saved and I am comparing them upon onClick. Code below.
// onClick method used with button "NEXT"
public void exchangeAOff(View view){

    // Comparing scores
    ScoreDatabase scoreDatabase=new ScoreDatabase(getApplicationContext());
    if (scoreDatabase.getScoreA() >= 50) {
        // This is where I'm unsure, can I use intents within if/else statements, within my onClick method???
        Intent teamAWin = new Intent (this, TeamAWins.class);
        startActivity(teamAWin);
    } else if (scoreDatabase.getScoreB() >= 50) {
        Intent teamBWin = new Intent (this, TeamBWins.class);
        startActivity(teamBWin);
    } else if (scoreDatabase.getScoreB() < 50 && scoreDatabase.getScoreA() < 50){
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, TeamAOffense.class);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

A: In your onClickListener write your code like this :
ScoreDatabase scoreDatabase=new ScoreDatabase(getApplicationContext());
Intent intent;
if (scoreDatabase.getScoreA() >= 50) {

     intent = new Intent(YourActivityName.this, TeamAWins.class);

} else if (scoreDatabase.getScoreB() >= 50) {

     intent = new Intent(YourActivityName.this, TeamBWins.class);

} else if (scoreDatabase.getScoreB() < 50 && scoreDatabase.getScoreA() < 50){

     intent = new Intent(YourActivityName.this, TeamAOffense.class);
}
startActivity(intent);


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Mass extinctions made life on Earth more diverse – and might again
September 13, 2019 8.16am EDT
Nicholas R. Longrich, University of Bath
Nicholas R. Longrich
Senior lecturer, palaeontology, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
Nicholas R. Longrich does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
University of Bath provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK.
In the past half-billion years, Earth has been hit again and again by mass extinctions, wiping out most species on the planet. And every time, life recovered and ultimately went on to increase in diversity.
Is life just incredibly resilient, or is something else going on? Could mass extinctions actually help life diversify and succeed – and if so, how? Given that we're currently facing another extinction event, there's extra urgency in trying to work out how mass extinctions affect diversity.
Mass extinction is probably the most striking pattern in the fossil record. Vast numbers of species – even entire families – disappear rapidly, simultaneously, around the world. Extinction on this scale usually requires some kind of global environmental catastrophe, so severe and so rapid that species can't evolve, and instead disappear.
Catastrophic eruptions are the main driver of mass extinctions. Wikipedia
Massive volcanic eruptions drove the extinctions at the end of the Devonian, Permian and Triassic periods. Global cooling and intense glaciation drove the Ordivician-Silurian extinctions. An asteroid caused the end-Cretaceous extinction of the dinosaurs. These "Big Five" extinctions get the most attention because, well, they're the biggest. But lots of lesser yet still civilisation-threatening events occurred as well, like the pulse of extinction before the end-Permian event.
These events were indescribably destructive. The Chicxulub asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous period shut down photosynthesis for years and caused decades of global cooling. Anything that couldn't shelter from the cold, or find food in the darkness – which was most species – perished. Perhaps 90% of all species disappeared in just a few years.
But life bounced back and the recovery was rapid. 90% of mammal species were eliminated by the asteroid, but they recovered and then some within 300,000 years, going on to evolve into horses, whales, bats and our primate ancestors. Birds and fish experienced similarly rapid recovery and radiation. And many other organisms – snakes, tuna and swordfish, butterflies and ants, grasses, orchids and asters – evolved or diversified at the same time.
Butterflies and asters both diversified in the wake of the end-mass extinction. wikipedia
This pattern of recovery and diversification happened after every mass extinction. The end-Permian extinction saw mammal-like species take a hit, but reptiles flourished afterward. After the reptiles suffered during the end-Triassic event, the surviving dinosaurs took over the planet and diversified. Although a mass extinction ended the dinosaurs, they only evolved in the first place because of mass extinction.
Despite this chaos, life slowly diversified over the past 500m years. In fact, several things hint that extinction drives this increased diversity. For one, the most rapid periods of diversity increase occur immediately after mass extinctions. But perhaps more striking, recovery isn't only driven by an increase in species numbers.
In a recovery, animals innovate – finding new ways of making a living. They exploit new habitats, new foods, new means of locomotion. For example, our fish-like forebears first crawled onto land after the end-Devonian extinction.
Evolutionary innovation
Extinction doesn't only drive this process of speciation. It also drives evolutionary innovation. It's not a coincidence that the biggest pulse of innovation in life's history – the evolution of complex animals in the Cambrian Explosion – happened in the wake of the extinction of the Ediacaran animals that went before them.
Innovation may increase the number of species that can coexist because it allows species to move into new niches, instead of fighting over the old ones. Fish crawling onto land didn't compete with fish in the seas. Bats hunting at night with sonar didn't compete with birds that were active during the day. Innovation means evolution isn't a zero-sum game. Species can diversify without driving others extinct. But why does extinction drive innovation?
Over 1,000 bat species have evolved without directly competing with birds. Wikipedia
Stable ecosystems may prevent innovation. A modern wolf is probably a far more dangerous predator than a velociraptor, but a tiny mammal couldn't evolve into a wolf in the Cretaceous because there were velociraptors. Any experiments in carnivory would have ended badly, with the poorly adapted mammal competing with – or just eaten by – the already well-adapted Velociraptor.
But, in the lulls after an extinction, evolution may be able to experiment with designs that are initially poorly adapted, but with long-term potential. With the show's stars gone, the evolutionary understudies get their chance to prove themselves.
The extinction of Velociraptor gave mammals the freedom to experiment with new niches. Initially, they were poorly equipped for a predatory lifestyle, but without dinosaurs competing with or eating them, they didn't need to be terribly good to survive. They only needed to be as good as the other things around at the time. So they flourished in an ecological vacuum, ultimately evolving into big, fast, intelligent pack hunters.
Life isn't just resilient, it thrives on adversity. Life will even recover from the current wave of human-induced extinctions. If we disappeared tomorrow, then species would evolve to replace woolly mammoths, dodo birds and the passenger pigeon, and life would likely become even more diverse than before. That's not to justify complacency. It won't happen in our lifetime, or even the lifetime of our species, but millions of years from now.
This idea that extinction drives innovation may even apply to human history. The extinction of ice-age megafauna must have decimated hunter-gatherer bands, but it also may have given farming a chance to develop. The Black Death produced untold human suffering, but the shakeup of political and economic systems may have led to the Renaissance.
Economists talk about creative destruction, the idea that creating a new order means destroying the old one. But evolution suggests there's another kind of creative destruction, where the destruction of the old system creates a vacuum and actually drives the creation of something new and often better. When things are at their worst is precisely when the opportunity is the greatest.
Cambrian explosion
Permian-Triassic extinction
Sixth mass extinction
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'use strict'
require('should')
var app = require('./app')
var request = require('supertest')

describe('validate body', function () {
  describe('when the request contains a valid payload', function () {
    it('should return a 200 ok response', function (done) {
      var login = {
        email: 'andrew.keig@gmail.com',
        password: '12356',
      }

      request(app)
        .post('/login')
        .send(login)
        .expect(200)
        .end(function (err, res) {
          res.statusCode.should.equal(200)
          done()
        })
    })
  })

  describe('when the request contains an invalid payload', function () {
    it('should return a 400 response and a single error', function (done) {
      var login = {
        email: 'andrew.keiggmail.com',
        password: '12356',
      }

      request(app)
        .post('/login')
        .send(login)
        .expect(400)
        .end(function (err, res) {
          const response = res.body
          response.errors.length.should.equal(1)
          done()
        })
    })
  })

  describe('when the request has a missing item in payload', function () {
    it('should return a 400 response and a single error', function (done) {
      var login = {
        email: 'andrew.keig@gmail.com',
        password: '',
      }

      request(app)
        .post('/login')
        .send(login)
        .expect(400)
        .end(function (err, res) {
          const response = res.body
          response.errors.length.should.equal(1)
          response.errors[0].messages.length.should.equal(2)
          response.errors[0].types.length.should.equal(2)
          done()
        })
    })
  })

  describe('when the request has multiple missing items in payload', function () {
    it('should return a 400 response and two errors', function (done) {
      var login = {
        email: '',
        password: '',
      }

      request(app)
        .post('/login')
        .send(login)
        .expect(400)
        .end(function (err, res) {
          const response = res.body
          response.errors.length.should.equal(2)
          response.errors[0].messages.length.should.equal(2)
          response.errors[0].types.length.should.equal(2)
          response.errors[1].messages.length.should.equal(2)
          response.errors[1].types.length.should.equal(2)
          done()
        })
    })
  })

  describe('when the request has extra items in payload', function () {
    it('should return a 400 response and one error', function (done) {
      var login = {
        email: 'andrew.keig@gmail.com',
        password: '12356',
        token: '1234',
      }

      request(app)
        .post('/login')
        .send(login)
        .expect(400)
        .end(function (err, res) {
          const response = res.body
          response.errors.length.should.equal(1)
          response.errors[0].messages.length.should.equal(1)
          response.errors[0].types.length.should.equal(1)
          done()
        })
    })
  })
})

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The University of London, also known as "Lond" or "Londin", is a public research institution located in one of England's most famous city, London. The University currently consists of 18 member institutions, research centres, and central academic bodies.
As of 2018, The school had over 52,000 external students enrolled in its distance learning programme and also 161,270 in its brick and mortar campus. These statistics make the University the largest University (by student population) in the entire United Kingdom.
The institution offers several courses of study in two major degree types: Bachelors and Postgraduate.
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To acquire a degree at the University of London, you must first possess a UK student Visa (for International students). Before the school can successfully grant you this visa, you will have to meet the University's English Language requirements.
Your desired course of study will require you to possess specific grade scores from your previous education. However, if your grades are below the Faculty's entry requirements, you can opt for a UK foundation programme. After you have completed the programme, you will automatically qualify to study a full undergraduate programme at the University.
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Another way to have an advantage over other applicants is to possess either an international Baccalaureate, A-levels, UK foundation degrees, or advanced placement exams.
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The typical academic year for most tertiary institutions in the UK, including the University of London, begins around September and ends in July. Most of the courses will commence as the school resumes in September, although some courses might delay and start in January or February.
You can visit the school's website to check the start date of your desired course of study.
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Previous graduates from the University of London who wish to further their studies at the University will be given 10% off on the fees of the course of their choosing.
This sponsorship is also available to graduates of member institutions related to the University such as Queen Mary, Goldsmith, or city.
To qualify for an Alumni Bursary, applicants must have completed an undergraduate or Master's degree with the University of London.
The applicant must have already been declared a certified graduate by the University. Without this, the application will not be considered.
To be a part of the bursary;
Applicants must first apply for the course that they wish to study. After the application to the course of their choice has been accepted, they should contact the alumni bursary team to receive a bursary to code to use against the fees.
The University will first verify the applicant's identity as an Alumni before releasing the bursary code.
*Note: Applicants are advised not to pay the fees or begin registration before receiving the bursary code.
Accepted graduates will receive a 10% reduction in the fees of their next course of study at the University of London.
LLM Scholarships and Bursaries
The University of London aims to offer a maximum of 18 scholarships per year to outstanding students on the Postgraduate Lawsq programme.
This programme will provide the furthering alumni with a 40% bursary which can be applied on examination entry fees, registration fees, and model fees in the university of London distance learning LLM course.
Applicants must be from one of the eligible countries: Pakistan, Malaysia, Russia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, or Ghana.
Applicants must have completed 12 modules without failing any of them.
Within 13 months of the applicant's registration, he/she must complete at least 5 out of the 12 modules.
To take part in the bursary:
Locate the "LLM Bursary" In the section that contains "scholarships and bursaries" on the LLM online application form.
After an application to the LLM course has been completed, applicants should apply for the bursary via the Online enquiry system.
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Selected applicants will be given 40% off on every fee associated with their courses, such as examination entry fees, registration fees, and model fees in the University of London distance learning programme.
Keep in mind that there is a range of other scholarship programmes available at the University of London such as the Sir John Cass's Foundation Scholarship, Guy S. Goodwin-Gill Scholarship, MBA UK/EU Bursary, Sadako Ogata Scholarship, and many more.
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Bruce D. McCombe
Bruce D. McCombe, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus
138A Fronczak Hall
mccombe@buffalo.edu
AB, Physics, Bowdoin College – 1960
PhD, Physics, Brown University – 1966
Condensed Matter Experiment
Physics and applications of semiconductor nanostructures, Spin effects in semiconductors
A semiconductor nanostructure is usually some combination of semiconductors in layered form created by fancy (and expensive)growth methods (See Professor H. Luo), which may be further patterned in one or both of the lateral dimensions either lithographically or by growth techniques. The characteristic dimensions of such structures lie in the range of 1 to 100 nanometers(thus the name). Since these dimensions are comparable to or less than the characteristic wavelength (the deBroglie wavelength) of charge carriers in semiconductors, the resulting structures confine electrons or holes quantum mechanically in one or more directions. This confinement (sounds vaguely criminal, doesn't it?) leads to electronic behavior that is characterized as quasi-two-dimensional, quasi-one-dimensional or quasi-zero-dimensional, and the confining structures are often called quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots, respectively. The lowered dimensionality leads to some very interesting behavior, some of which is well-understood and has led to applications such as quantum-well lasers and detectors, quantum cascade lasers, and high electron mobility transistors. Other areas, including electron-electron interactions and spin effects (see below) are not as well understood.
We're interested in contributing to understanding the latter and in devising new applications of these structures.Understanding spin effects in semiconductors is important in the context of the rapidly developing field of Spintronics. In very simple terms conventional electronics is concerned with manipulating the charge of the electron via (usually) electric fields toper form various useful functions (e.g., logic, memory, amplification, etc.). Generally speaking, Spintronics can be described as activities directed at manipulating another intrinsic property of the electron, its spin, to perform improved, or entirely new functions. Producing, characterizing and understanding the basic physics of ferromagnetic semiconductors (particularly materials like GaMnAs, GaMnSb and GaMnAs), as well as fabricating and studying device building blocks, are all areas of interest in Professor McCombe's laboratory (in collaboration with Professor H. Luo and others in the Department). This work is presently part of the research activities of a large consortium funded by a DARPA/ONR SpinS grant; UB is the lead institution.Within these rather broad and rapidly expanding areas his specific interests are: electron-electron and electron-hole interactions, particularly for magneto-excitons and charged magneto-excitons in quantum wells and quantum dots; how reduced dimensionality affects the electron-optical phonon interaction; vibrational modes in nanoparticles; optical, infrared and far infrared properties of Mn in III-V semiconductors; and magnetic and magneto-transport properties of Ferromagnetic semiconductors.Professor McCombe employs visible, near infrared and far infrared spectroscopic techniques and electrical transport technique sat low temperatures and high magnetic fields to obtain information relevant to the above interests.
SUNY Distinguished Professor, 2012
Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Dean, 2012-2012
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 2006-2011
Distinguished Professor, 2001
Above-room-temperature ferromagnetism in GaSb/Mn digital alloys, Chen, X., M. Na, M. Cheon, S. Wang, H. Luo, B.D. McCombe, X. Liu, Y. Sasaki, T. Wojtowicz, J.K. Furdyna, S.J. Potashnik and P. Schiffer, Appl. Phys. Lett, 81, 511 (2002).
Internal Transitions of Negatively Charged Magnetoexcitons and Many Body Effects in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas, Nickel, H.A., T. Yeo, A.B. Dzyubenko, B.D. McCombe, A. Petrou, A.Yu. Sivachenko, W. Schaff, V. Umansky, Phys. Rev. Lett., 88, 056801 (2002).
Strong three-level resonant magnetopolaron effect due to the intersubband coupling in heavily modulation-doped GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs single quantum wells at high magnetic fields, Wang, Y.J., Y.A. Leem, B.D. McCombe, X.-G. Wu, F.M. Peeters, E.D. Jones, J.R. Reno, X.Y. Lee and H.W. Jiang, Phys. Rev. B, 64, 161303 (2001).
Internal transitions of confined neutral mangetoexcitons in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum wells, Nickel, H.A., G. Kioseoglou. T. Yeo, H.D. Cheong, A. Petrou, B.D. McCombe, D. Broido, K.K. Bajaj and R.A. Lewis, Phys. Rev. B, 62, 2773 (2000).
Blocking of the Polaron Effect and Spin-Split Cyclotron Resonance in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas, Wu, X.G., F.M. Peeters, Y.J. Wang and B.D. McCombe, Phys. Rev. Lett., 84, 4934 (2000).
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Impossible Realities: The Science Behind Energy Healing, Telepathy, Reincarnation, Precognition, and Other Black Swan Phenomena By Maureen Caudill
Maybe "Impossible" Realities Aren't So Impossible After All
I have given a lot of workshops in my time, teaching people how to access altered states of consciousness, where truly amazing things can happen. It's all about learning how to calm the surface thoughts that skitter around in our heads and then discovering that when those are quieted, a lot of skills that people never knew they had stat to appear.
But though I have taught people how to remote view, and connect with the dead, and be clairvoyant, and even to connect to spiritual beings to channel wisdom, there is one skill that absolutely everyone loves to do.
Spoon-bending.
You know…that funky little skill where you hold a spoon (or a fork—I like forks myself) in your hands and then it gets soft and malleable, and pretty soon you're twisting each tine like a wrought-iron railing, or you sculpt it into a shape like a bird or a dragon.
Most people are convinced that this is simply impossible. That it's a trick. In one of my workshops a few years ago, I had a professional magician. When we were on break just before doing the spoon-bending thing, he came up to me and assured me that spoon-bending was a magician's hoax, that it couldn't be done, and that he personally knew of at least a dozen ways to fake it. I smiled and listened, and then said, "Yes, there are ways to fake it. But you aren't going to use any of them today."
Still skeptical, he just walked away.
After the break ended, I went through my usual routine, reminding the participants of the work we'd done before break about manipulating the subtle energy all around us. Then I talked them through the process of learning how to bend spoons and forks.
About fifteen minutes later, the group was settling down again—it gets pretty raucous in spoon-bending. It's really fun. And it's a blast for me to watch a roomful of grown-ups yell at their cutlery.
Anyway, my magician friend came up to me triumphantly waving a wildly distorted fork and proclaiming: "I did it! I really did it!!! I don't have to fake it anymore!"
Some of the "leftover" pieces of warped cutlery
participants didn't take home.
Photo © Maureen Caudill. Used with permission.
Here's the thing about spoon-bending. It's kind of a big secret, so don't be spreading it around, but I'll share it with you because, well, I like you.
Everyone can do it.
Seriously. Everyone can do it. All it takes is to be open-minded enough—even if you're skeptical—to give it an honest try, and a little bit of instruction, and some practice. And not much practice at that—in my workshops, it takes less than half an hour for me to get a whole roomful of participants to wipe out drawers of spoons and forks and knives.
I've given workshops with several hundred people where I can't do anything except talk them through the process—and at least 85-90% of them succeed their first try. When I do smaller workshops of, say, a dozen or so people where I can give some individual attention to anyone who needs it, I get virtually 100% success rate.
So, yes, though these anecdotes don't count as scientific proof, everyone really can do it.
It's just about the easiest psychic skill to teach people to do. And, quite honestly, it's a lot of fun. As I said, it is by far the most-requested element in my workshops.
So what does science have to say about it?
If you stop a scientist on the street (you do have a lot of them wandering around your streets, don't you?) you'll find that almost universally, they'll say spoon-bending is impossible and it's a magician's hoax.
However…the fact is that in the 1970s the CIA knew that spoon-bending works. It turns out that if you analyze thecrystalline structure of a stainless steel object (like a fork) that has been psychically bent, and compare that structure to that of a fork that was mechanically bent—like someone taking pliers to bend the fork—or that of a fork that was heated with a torch and bent…well, it turns out that the psychically bent fork has a different crystalline structure. In fact, the psychically bent fork has the same crystalline structure as if it were originally cast in the warped state.
In other words, there are objective scientific tests that can confirm the reality of spoon-bending and that can distinguish between a fake and a genuine article.
Bet you didn't know that, did you?
The CIA has known this for more than forty years! Yet scientists all over the country will solemnly tell you that spoon-bending is impossible and a hoax.
That's what my book, IMPOSSIBLE REALITIES is about. It's me, taking a hard look at the scientific evidence in support of eight key psychic skills: psychokinesis (spoon-bending), remote viewing, energy healing, telepathy, animal telepathy, survival after death, and reincarnation. And you know what? There exists a ton of solid, peer-reviewed evidence in support of all of them. In fact, a number of these phenomena, like precognition and psychokinesis, have so much evidence that they are far more likely to be true than the Big Bang theory is—yet that theory is almost universally accepted in science. In fact, the odds in favor of these phenomena being true are literally billions to one. (To put this in perspective, the prescription medications you may be taking typically require odds of being effective of about 20 to 1 in order to get approved by the FDA. )
This evidence exists is in spite of the fact that any scientist who dares to research psychic phenomena risks his career and his livelihood from the pressure not to investigate these types of phenomena.
So the next time you hear anyone tell you that there is no scientific evidence demonstrating the existence of psychic phenomena, you know that one of two things must be true. Either they are deliberately flat-out lying to you. Or they haven't bothered to look at the evidence is there.
So the tag line from the old "X-Files" television series was true. "The truth is out there." And all those "impossible" realities maybe aren't so impossible after all. Because I guarantee…you can do them too.
Impossible Realities: The Science Behind Energy Healing, Telepathy, Reincarnation, Precognition, and Other Black Swan Phenomena
By Maureen Caudill
Genre: Non-Fiction/New Age/Paranormal
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC
Cover Artist: Jim Warner
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Impossible Realities is the first book to examine the science behind psychic and paranormal activity. A former Defense Department expert on artificial intelligence, Maureen Caudhill provides evidence for a wide range of paranormal phenomena.
Impossible Realities presents a wealth of anecdotal and empirical evidence to prove the existence (and power) of:
psychokinesis (most famously spoon bending
telepathy, animal telepathy
survival after death
Caudill presents the strongest case yet for bringing paranormal phenomena from the margins into the realm of the normal and credible. This is a book both for true believers and skeptics alike.
Maureen Caudill spent more than twenty years as a computer scientist, fifteen of those as a researcher in artificial intelligence and neural networks. She was a program manager and Artificial Intelligence researcher working on such advanced projects as DARPA ("High Performance Knowledge Base" program) and ARDA ("Advanced Question Answering for Intelligence" program).
Website: http://www.maureencaudill.com/index.htm
Blog: http://scienceofpsychicphenomena.com
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Court Jails Zamfara Lawmaker For Four Years For Fraud — But He Can Also Pay N120,000 Fine
He was sentenced to four years' imprisonment or payment of fine of N30,000 on each of the counts, totalling N120,000.
by SaharaReporters, New York Nov 22, 2018
Lawali Attahiru Dogonkade, a serving member of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud on a N31million contract.
Dogankade was convicted on Thursday by Justice Bello Shinkafi, a sitting judge at the Zamfara State High Court, on a four-count charge filed against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
The convict, representing Kauran-Namoda Local Government in the Zamfara State House of Assembly, was accused of using his position to accrue to himself undue advantage in awarding a N31,290,000 contract meant for the supply of medical equipment to the state government.
ICPC said this violates Sections 10, 12 and 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.
In one of the counts, counsel to ICPC, Mashkur Salisu, told the court that the lawmaker received N4.5 million from the Managing Director of Madaci Pharmacy, Mr. Hamisu Saminu Jibril, as percentage for the supply of medical equipment contract awarded by the state government.
His counsel, Abubakar Junaidu, had earlier argued on the propriety of the charge before the court stating that his client had earlier been charged before the Federal High Court in Gusau by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
However, the trial judge overruled his argument and shortly after, the convict entered into a guilty plea.
The lawyer of now convicted lawmaker pleaded with the court to be lenient with his client, considering the fact that he was a first-time offender with a large family and dependents who solely rely on him for their livelihood.
Counsel to the Commission, however, asked that the Zamfara lawmaker be convicted in line with the provisions of 274 (2) of Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015.
The court thereupon convicted the accused person as charged, and sentenced him to four years' imprisonment or payment of fine of N30,000 on each of the counts, totalling N120,000.
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"The Worshipful Company of Barbers, root and branch, may it continue and flourish forever"
While the Barbers' Company looks toward the future, it is very proud of its 700 year history. Throughout this time the Company has looked after the welfare and interests of barbers and surgeons, managed charitable activities and played a prominent role in London civic life, adapting to the challenges of changing times.
Any queries about the Company's history, archive and current collections should be directed to the Archivist.
The origins of Guilds in medieval Europe date back at least to the twelfth century. People following the same craft or trade tended to live and work near one another and their common concerns led to the development of fraternities to regulate competition, maintain professional standards and to safeguard the spiritual and material welfare of their members. Within London, members of a particular guild could be identified by their distinctive ceremonial dress, or livery, and so these guilds became known as Livery Companies.
The first mention of the Barbers' Company occurs in 1308 when Richard le Barbour was elected by the Court of Aldermen to keep order amongst his fellows. He was instructed to 'make diligent search through the whole of his craft every month, and if he shall find any brothel keeper or other disreputable folk to the scandal of the craft, he shall detain them and cause them to be brought before the chamber.' This Company also included surgeons amongst its number, the first recorded member appearing in 1312. Barbers and surgeons had overlapped in their duties for many years, largely because in the thirteenth century Pope Honorarius III had prohibited all persons in holy orders from practising medicine in any form. Thus barbers in the monasteries, already used to working with sharp blades, began to add minor surgical skills to their repertoire, which in due course were passed on to barbers elsewhere.
Within London a Guild or Fellowship of Surgeons, whose Ordinances were approved in 1435, developed alongside the Barbers' Company. The Fellowship claimed the right to practise surgery which inevitably led to power struggles and disputes. This was temporarily resolved in 1462 when the Barbers' Company was granted its first Royal Charter by Edward IV establishing its power to regulate the practice of surgery in London, to maintain professional standards and to stamp out impostors and charlatans.
The respective roles of barbers and surgeons in London were finally defined by an Act of Parliament in 1540 which created the Company of Barbers and Surgeons of London. The Act decreed that no surgeon was to perform the tasks of a barber, and vice versa, but both could continue to draw teeth. The Act of Parliament was most concerned with the professionalisation of the surgeons, granting the Company four bodies from Tyburn each year for the purpose of dissection for anatomical teaching. A grand painting by Holbein commemorates the union of 1540 and still hangs in Barber-Surgeons' Hall.
The union of the Barbers and Surgeons was never easy to manage and the relationship continued uneasily for 200 years. In 1745, at the request of the surgeons, a Bill was finally passed and the Surgeons left the Company forming what eventually became the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Prior to the separation the Company was gradually losing its association with barbery, a trend which accelerated after 1745. Although the membership was made up of many different professions, between 1745 and 1919 few surgeons were admitted to the Company. At the institution of the Thomas Vicary Lecture in 1919 the bonds between the Company and the Royal College of Surgeons were re-established and surgeons, including surgeons to the Royal Family and the Royal Household, have been regularly admitted to the Company ever since in memory of the past union.


Finally, after a lot of upheaval this year, the #TeamSerendipity studio has been set up and we got back to composing this week.
And this brings me to the wonderful thing about being a composer and arranger, namely that if you at writing almost continuously normally, even an exceptional and unexpected break in writing needn't mean that it's difficult to get the creativity flowing. I find it like a tap connected to a vast reservoir of ideas. Training and honing your craft can expand the size of the reservoir but you need to keep thinking creatively and hoovering up ideas, feelings, inspiring words, situations and otherwise, basically anything practical and emotional that can keep the reservoir stocked up. So when it comes to it, and you need to pull something out of the bag, you simply turn the tap on and *bam* out comes the creativity. But you've got to keep your reservoir tended to, stocked up and looked after.
So, to make a short story longer than needed (whoops, sorry)…the studio is set up. Yesterday was the first writing session in a fairly long while. Sam and I sat down to discuss at what stage each number was at, and the question of the tricky opening number came up. We'd had ideas about it's content (and already chosen the title/hook line) but the rest was a blank page. 15 minutes later and both the music and the lyrics for the chorus was completed and another few hours or so to work the other details out and record some test ideas.
I love our work, I love the process of creating, and most of all I like that, whatever life throws at you, if you get creative people in a room together, stuff happens.


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"We are proud to support healthcare providers and contribute to our community's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in a meaningful way," said Dr. Christopher Adams, Arthrex vice president of Global Medical Education. "The collective commitment to empower and care for those affected by this pandemic is inspiring to everyone at Arthrex who believes in our core value of Making People Better."
Arthrex is using its unique and innovative manufacturing capabilities to help relieve the supply burden and provide essential protective equipment to frontline caregivers across the region, including Lee Health, NCH Healthcare System, Physicians Regional Healthcare System and Landmark Hospital, as well as North Collier Fire, Greater Naples Fire and Collier County EMS. All equipment donated can be sterilized and reused, helping preserve needed supplies while ensuring frontline teams have the materials they need to continue caring for the community.
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Arthrex will continue manufacturing the face shields and protection hoods for as long as needed during this unprecedented time.
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Please contact Lisa Gardiner, senior communications manager, at Lisa.Gardiner@arthrex.com with any additional questions.
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I thought that it might be nice to hear how some famous tenors have sung the aria "Nessun Dorma". I'm going to give a brief background to Turandot, Puccini's last opera, a synopsis, that will only go as far as to when the aria is sung, and then let the tenors speak for themselves. One thing that you should know about this particular aria is that it is helden, probably too helden for most Italianate tenors. This means that it is a heroic aria that requires a very large voice. In the Italian Fach system, this would be a spinto tenor.
As much as I like Aretha Franklin, she had no business trying to sing this aria.
For this last link to Pavarotti, I would like to point out that this aria was recorded in 1977, when Pavarotti was still young. As he got older, one could hear deterioration in the voice.
Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma!
Tu pure, oh Principessa
Nella tua fredda stanza
Guardi le stelle che tremano
D'amore e di speranza
Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me
Il nome mio nessun saprà
No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò
Quando la luce splenderà
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà
Il silenzio che ti fa mia
(ll nome suo nessun saprà
E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir, morir)
Dilegua, o notte!
Tramontate, stelle!
All'alba vincerò!
Vincerò!
No one shall sleep
No one shall sleep! No one shall sleep!
Even you, oh Princess,
In your cold room,
Watch the stars that tremble
With love and with hope
But my mystery is closed in me
My name shall be known by none
No, no, on your mouth I shall say it
When the light shall shine
And my kiss will dissolve
The silence that makes you mine.
(No one will know his name
And we must, alas, die, die)
Vanish, o night!
Set, stars!
At dawn, I shall win!
I shall win!
The opera's is set in China and involves Prince Calaf, who falls in love with the cold Princess Turandot. To obtain permission to marry her, a suitor has to solve three riddles; any wrong answer results in death. Calaf passes the test, but Turandot still refuses to marry him. He offers her a way out: if she is able to learn his name before dawn the next day, then at daybreak he will die.
The opera was unfinished at the time of Puccini's death in 1924, and was completed by Franco Alfano in 1926. The first performance was held at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 25 April 1926 and conducted by Arturo Toscanini. This performance included only Puccini's music and not Alfano's additions. The first performance of the opera as completed by Alfano was the following night, 26 April.
Completion of the score after Puccini's death
When Puccini died, the first two of the three acts were fully composed, including orchestration. Puccini had composed and fully orchestrated act 3 up until Liù's death and funeral cortege. In the sense of finished music, this was the last music composed by Puccini. He left behind 36 pages of sketches on 23 sheets for the end of Turandot. Some sketches were in the form of "piano-vocal" or "short score," including vocal lines with "two to four staves of accompaniment with occasional notes on orchestration." These sketches supplied music for some, but not all, of the final portion of the libretto.
The premiere of Turandot was at La Scala, Milan, on Sunday 25 April 1926, one year and five months after Puccini's death. Rosa Raisa held the title role. Tenors Miguel Fleta and Franco Lo Giudice alternated in the role of Prince Calaf in the original production, although Fleta sang the role for the opera's opening night. It was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. In the middle of act 3, two measures after the words "Liù, poesia!", the orchestra rested. Toscanini stopped and laid down his baton. He turned to the audience and announced: "Qui finisce l'opera, perché a questo punto il maestro è morto" ("Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died"). The curtain was lowered slowly.
Place: Peking, China
Time: Legendary times
In front of the imperial palace
In China, the beautiful Princess Turandot will only marry a suitor who can answer 3 secret riddles. A Mandarin announces the law of the land. The Prince of Persia has failed to answer the three riddles, and he is to be beheaded at the next moonrise. As the crowd surges towards the gates of the palace, the imperial guards brutally repulse them, causing a blind old man to be knocked to the ground. The old man's servant, Liù, cries out for help. A young man hears her cry and recognizes that the old man is his long-lost father, Timur, the deposed king of Tartary. The young Prince of Tartary is overjoyed at seeing Timur alive, but still urges Timur to not speak his name because he is afraid that the Chinese rulers, who have conquered Tartary, may kill or harm them. Timur then tells his son that, of all his servants, only Liù has remained faithful to him. When the Prince asks her why, she tells him that once, long ago in the palace, the Prince had smiled at her.
The moon rises, and the crowd's cries for blood dissolve into silence. The doomed Prince of Persia, who is on his way to be executed, is led before the crowd. The young Prince is so handsome and kind that the crowd and the Prince of Tartary decide that they want Turandot to act compassionately, and they beg Turandot to appear and spare his life. She then appears, and with a single imperious gesture, orders the execution to continue. The Prince of Tartary, who has never seen Turandot before, falls immediately in love with her, and joyfully cries out Turandot's name three times. Then the Prince of Persia cries out one final time. The crowd, horrified, screams out one final time and the Prince of Persia is beheaded.
The Prince of Tartary is bedazzled by Turandot's beauty. He is about to rush towards the gong and to strike it three times – the symbolic gesture of whomever wishes to attempt to solve the riddles so that he can marry Turandot – when the ministers Ping, Pang, and Pong appear. They urge him cynically not to lose his head for Turandot and to instead go back to his own country. Timur urges his son to desist, and Liù, who is secretly in love with the Prince, pleads with him not to attempt to solve the riddles. Liù's words touch the Prince's heart. He begs Liù to make Timur's exile more bearable by not abandoning Timur if the Prince fails to answer the riddles. The three ministers, Timur, and Liù then try one last time to stop the Prince from attempting to answer the riddles, but he refuses to heed their advice.
He calls Turandot's name three times, and each time Liù, Timur, and the ministers reply, "Death!" and the crowd declares, "We're already digging your grave!" Rushing to the gong that hangs in front of the palace, the Prince strikes it three times, declaring himself to be a suitor. From the palace balcony, Turandot accepts his challenge, as Ping, Pang, and Pong laugh at the Prince's foolishness.
Scene 1: A pavilion in the imperial palace. Before sunrise
Scene 2: The courtyard of the palace. Sunrise
The Emperor Altoum, father of Turandot, sits on his grand throne in his palace. Weary of having to judge his isolated daughter's sport, he urges the Prince to withdraw his challenge, but the Prince refuses. Turandot enters and explains that her ancestress of millennia past, Princess Lo-u-Ling, reigned over her kingdom "in silence and joy, resisting the harsh domination of men" until she was raped and murdered by an invading foreign prince. Turandot claims that Lo-u-Ling now lives in her, and out of revenge, Turandot has sworn never to let any man wed her. She warns the Prince to withdraw but again he refuses. The Princess presents her first riddle: "What is born each night and dies each dawn?" The Prince correctly replies, "Hope." The Princess, unnerved, presents her second riddle "What flickers red and warm like a flame, but is not fire?" The Prince thinks for a moment before replying, "Blood". Turandot is shaken. The crowd cheers the Prince, provoking Turandot's anger. She presents her third riddle "What is ice which gives you fire and which your fire freezes still more?". As the prince thinks, Turandot taunts him, "What is the ice that makes you burn?" The taunt makes him see the answer and he proclaims, "It is Turandot! Turandot!"
The crowd cheers for the triumphant Prince. Turandot throws herself at her father's feet and pleads with him not to leave her to the Prince's mercy. The Emperor insists that an oath is sacred and that it is Turandot's duty to wed the Prince . She cries out in despair, "Will you take me by force? The Prince stops her, saying that he has a riddle for her: "You do not know my name. Tell me my name before sunrise, and at dawn, I will die." Turandot accepts. The Emperor then declares that he hopes that he will be able to call the Prince his son when the sun next rises.
Scene 1: The palace gardens. Night
In the distance, heralds call out Turandot's command: "This night, none shall sleep in Peking!" The penalty for all will be death if the Prince's name is not discovered by morning". The Prince waits for dawn and anticipates his victory: Nessun dorma – "Nobody shall sleep!"


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PI's long-term collaborator and TRUST colleague passed away
The TRUST consortium is exceptionally sad to report the news of Andries Steenkamp's death. Andries was only in his fifties and was heavily involved in TRUST, representing the South African San community. For instance, he was involved in both TRUST videos. In the first he noted: "It is very important for the San to be involved in TRUST. The San have been researched a lot and that has made them careful and nervous. We want to protect ourselves, but we also want to work with people. On the TRUST project we can learn together". In the second video, Andries compared the San community to a house that researchers want to gain access to. He requested that they come in through the door and not the window, i.e. that they respect community protocols.
Later in the year, one more video with Andries will be released. A photo video illustrating 12 years of North South collaboration between the TRUST PI, Doris Schroeder, and the South African San Institute. Andries, Doris and Roger Chennells audio recorded their thoughts on North South collaborations in June 2016, unaware that this would be their last collaborative effort.
Andries lived in Andriesvaal, a small community of !Khomani San in the Northern Kalahari of South Africa. He was previously the Chairman of the South African San Council and contributed significantly to many of their fights for justice (e.g. land claim, Hoodia benefit sharing agreement, Zembrin benefit sharing agreement). Whilst his home was always within a few miles of where he was born, Andries had the courage to represent his communities' interests at meetings around the world. He was a highly charismatic speaker in his native Afrikaans and – of late – his English had improved so much that he was able to deliver short speeches to an international audience without translation. His favourite ever meeting, so he said, was the TRUST plenary in Nairobi in May 2016. This shows how much he could still have contributed to the cause of justice. On the topic of vulnerable populations in research, he provided outstanding contributions. We hope to continue his legacy in the remaining two years of TRUST.
The biggest loss, of course, is to his family and the San community in Andriesvaal, who have lost a committed, upstanding, self-educated, trustworthy and honourable leader and a very nice person.
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