Hey all- Barb here from BugBites. This week in the Digi My World Store you can find some new releases and one of those is a set with milk and cookies called Kawaii Cookie Snack.
I did a small 3x3 card that would be great in the lunch box.
I colored the digi using the Silhouette design software and then cut it out.
I popped it up on my card with some foam tape.
With the print and cut feature, you can literally put this card together while the kids are eating their breakfast.
The card base is from the SVG Cutting Files store here and the sentiment is from the Jaded Blossom Milk and Cookies stamp set.
Here's a look at the whole set of digital stamps in this set..
Larelyn here with two projects using our newest sets from Digi My World. First is Kawaii Flowers . Although there are 3 separate images, when I inserted them into Word, I arranged them as a group to print as a single image - easy peasy with DMW digital files.
Next is a card using Flower Box Girl.
Digi My World Facebook page. Of course, we'd love to hear what you think of our projects!!!
Hello! Melissa here with a card to share. This week, The Kawaii Cookie Snack will be at the Digi My World Store. The cutest cookies are in the set.. cookies with Zero Calories. he he. I colored the milk container from the Digi Stamp Set. He is colored with Spectrum Noir Markers. The digi stamp was printed on the card base with my Silhouette Cameo, Print and Cut feature.
I used the super cute Kawaii Tulips Digital stamp and colored them in with my copics. I picked the most vibrant ones I could muster, to make this a nice spring looking card. See Jamie is still in winter mode, so I wanted to brighten her day!
The card base is from SVG Cutting Files, Scallop Fold Over Base -- I just love it - makes card making go so much faster when you have a cut base to use!
I used an adorable sentiment from Jaded Blossoms, Smell the Flowers set. I stamped it on the cute Flag Dies 2, cause I wanted the scallop edge.
I tied off the finishing details with some Queen and Co rhinestones, Pink twine and some awesome Stampin' Up Ribbon.
Happy Birthday Jamie, I love you girlie!!
Barb here from BugBites. Well, it is going to snow again. Will this winter ever end?
This grey day calls for some spring color.....how about a treat box with chocolate!
I used the newly released lady bug digit stamp from Digi My World. I colored her quickly on the cameo and then used the print and cut feature. I cut the wings a second time and popped them up with foam squares. I topped her off with some stickles on the hearts. She just makes ya smile.
The sentiment is my own typed and printed on the computer. The die cut for the box is from My Creative Time.
Be sure to stop over at Digi My World to see all the newly released images the design team has been playing with.
Hello everyone! This is GiGi from The Cricut Bug and I have a card to share using the Flower Box Girl digital stamp that will be released this week. I personally can't WAIT for spring and SUNSHINE LOL!
I had this idea in my head that I wanted her looking through a window, so this is what I came up with. I cut the window frame using my Cameo by putting small squares into a large square.
I printed and colored the Flower Box Girl with Copic markers and cut her out. I added the awning above the window that I also cut with my Cameo and added layered punched flowers. The sentiment was heat embossed using stamps from Peachy Keen's PKSC-26 February 2014 stamp set.
Hey Everyone, it's Kate here with you and I colored this little Kawaii Flower for my project today.
Hope you guys like my project today.
Hello- Barb here from BugBites to share with you a project using a new digi in the store now. It is so Tweet! It is this cute little bird and birdhouse image.
I colored it using my cameo before printing and cutting it out. I added it to a little treat box for Valentine's day. The box is super cute and holds 2 chocolate nuggets perfectly. You can find the box file here in the SVG Cutting Files store.
It's Larelyn back with a card showcasing one of Digi My World's new releases which will be available in the store THIS Friday.
This is Bunny Suit Eloise. Each Bunny Suit cutie - there are four in all - comes in several poses. I love her little wagon full of Easter Eggs. There is a clip art file as well.
Be sure to stop by tomorrow for another sneak peek at Friday's release.
Hello Everyone! Melissa here with you today. I have a 5 x 5 card featuring one of the cute Bunny Suit girls, this one is Eloise. She is one in a collection of several.. hard to pick which one to color as they are so adorable.
Hi there, this is Sandy from A Little Piece Of Heaven! Today I would like to share with you two Easter digis that I used for both of my projects!
This here is Bunny Suit- Samantha! She is one of the new released Easter digis! With four young granddaughter's, I couldn't think of a better way to present a special treat to them! :) Here is the Tutorial on how to make the Easter Basket!
Here is Amelia's Bunnies! She is an older digi I chose to use on this easel card! I call her carrot top, lol!
Hello everyone! This is GiGi from The Cricut Bug and I am sharing this treat card. These would be so fun and easy to make in large quantities for a group of kids.
I used the NEW Bunny Suit Elaine digital stamp for the bunny.
I used the SVG Cutting File Mini Nugget Platform Boxes to cut out the card/candy box. I made a fun discovery when I added my candy! Not only will this treat card fit 2 Nugget candies but it also fit a fun size Peanut Butter Egg.
I printed and colored the girl using the Bunny Suit Elaine file. I mounted her on pop dots and added a stitched line to the card mat.
To finish I added the sentiment banner stamped with the Jaded Blossom Easter Treats 2 stamp set.
Hi Everyone, it's Kate here with you today.
and I colored this little cutie up for my project today, isn't she adorable.
This little digi is Bunny Suit Eloise.


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Hark by Sam Lipsyte
January 23, 2019 / Tom LeClair
by Sam Lipsyte
Simon & Schuster, 2019
With Stanley Elkin and Philip Roth gone, Sam Lipsyte is American fiction's foremost pitch man and bitch man, a master of Elkin's crazed persuasions and Roth's enraged complaints. The Ask--his last, much-praised novel about crooked philanthropy—worked the pitch, the "ask." Hark bitches out Americans' devotion to a dim-witted but charismatic fraud. Although ostensibly set in a future several presidents after Obama, Hark is the best novel I know about Trump time. Salman Rushdie's The Golden House, Jonathan Lethem's Feral Detective, and Gary Shteyngart's Lake Success more explicitly treat Trump, but Lipsyte is more perceptive and revealing about the Americans who helped elect him.
Given the name "Hark" by a mother who misunderstood "Hark! The herald angels sing," Lipsyte's 30ish protagonist has an uncanny ability to make people harken to him. To cure the age of its myriad distractions, Hark the failed comedian writes pamphlets that use archery to explain the need for focus, for rigorous concentration. Some of his techniques and opaque language are drawn from Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the Art of Archery, to which Lipsyte refers in the middle of the novel. According to recent critics, the German Herrigel misunderstood his Japanese master's eccentric lessons in archery and mistakenly associated it with Zen as a quasi-religious activity. Like Herrigel, characters drawn to Hark misconstrue or distort his limited intention to purify cognition. His admirers launch his career as an inspirational speaker, battle for control of Harkism, co-opt and transform his ideas for profit and power. Some followers even start to believe he is a messianic figure, a role to which Hark becomes attracted. Lipsyte's economic attack is familiar from The Ask. More original is his satire of American neediness, his failure-haunted characters' credulous desire for a message—preferably a slogan such as "Focus on focus"--that promises success.
Hark is obsessed with focused attention, but Lipsyte spreads his around in 52 short chapters told through several characters' points of view. Primary is Fraz Penzig, a 46-year-old father of 8-year-old twins, husband of the dissatisfied Tovah who supports the family (and cheats on Fraz) while he is unemployed. A little older version of under-achieving and desperate Milo Burke of The Ask, Fraz "discovers" Hark, finds purpose in promoting him, and eventually sells out both their principles for position and money.
Two other early adopters of Hark also think of themselves as failures. Kate killed a groping uncle and afterwards became rich only because her parents died in an accident. Kate's girlfriend Teal spent time in prison for embezzlement and works as an unlicensed marriage counselor. Fraz and the two women hated one or more of their family members and find in Hark a paternal or fraternal replacement. Ironically, Hark learned his lesson of focus when his father knocked him down and said, "`You little fuck! Focus! Focus!'". I'm not suggesting that these educated New Yorkers and other Harkists would have voted for Trump. What they have in common with red-state deplorables is desire for a simple public answer to their private disillusionments and self-loathing.
These are the failures. There are successes—an old family friend of Fraz's seduces his wife with his focus and money; a billionaire plots against Hark's early followers to make "mental archery" into a corporate brand. But these men shower typical displays of wealth and greed. The money guys want more now before the American ground war in Europe against the "Army of the Just" fails, and the privileges of wealth disappear. Lacking knowledge of or empathy for the failures, the bully-boy successes are easy enough to identify as analogues of the current president.
Otherwise, Lipsyte doesn't make it easy for his readers. He's not content with the linear narrative of The Ask or an arrow-like arc from Hark's discovery and rise to his withdrawal and eventual tragedy. About two-thirds into the novel, Lipsyte introduces two new plots. One revolves around the near-death of a child in an accident; the other involves the kidnap of Kate while she volunteers as a courier of harvested organs. These new elements have a thematic connection—lives to be saved—and move some characters to believe that Hark is a salvational figure who can reverse brain damage and return from the dead. The added plot devices shift the novel from a political near-allegory to a mockery of religious belief, but the satire seems forced.
In fact, just about everything in Hark is forced, pressed toward and into excess: the spiels and dreams of Hark, the porn fantasies of Fraz, the exchange of insults that characterizes much of the dialogue, the series of synonyms that often lengthen Lipsyte's sentences as he pounds home his characters' complaints. He is an extremely aggressive stylist, never satisfied with neutral expression, always trying to break through the ordinary with his focus, his descriptive exactitude or emotional rant. To Elkin and Roth as forerunners of Lipsyte, add William Gass and his insistence that fiction be written as intensively as poetry. It's probably no accident that the character least influenced by the banalities of Hark is Tovah even though, like the others, she has little fondness for her family. She is last seen in the novel writing poetry at a writers' conference.
The Ask was more conventionally focused in its plot, less bombastic in its first-person narration, and often charming in its conversations between Milo and his young son. The stories that followed in The Fun Parts were often compacted tours de force about physically forceful characters who were not, for the most part, having fun. Some of Lipsyte's materials in Hark—the riffs on famous archers, his descriptions of Hark's archery turned into a commercial cult like hot yoga, his parody of trolling in an Internet comments section, the varieties of "Harkheads," his demotic diction from street and school--are fun, but much of Hark seems to have been written in disgust, not so much with Hark or even with the predictable profiteers but with people whose need for a "herald angel" or a "new-born king" leads them to an absurd belief that Hark's slogans, poses, and Trumpian stream of consciousness performances will make their bodies, minds, and souls great again. Compared to those anti-Trump novelists I mentioned—Rushdie, Lethem, and Shteyngart—Lipsyte is both less direct and more passionate, an avenging angel smiting bourgeois self-helpers when political activists are needed. Near the end of his life, Hark comes to this political recognition, but his change of focus is ignored or denied by those who have given their minds to him.
Partial disclosure: I think the greatest American political novel since World War II was written by one of Lipsyte's professors at Brown: Robert Coover. In his The Public Burning, the Rosenberg "atomic spies" are executed in Times Square and Uncle Sam sodomizes Richard Nixon to prepare the future president to screw the American public. Lipsyte's more realistic rage in Hark cheers me, but this novel is not for those readers who need books as likable as Hark the person. Hark the novel is, like Coover's Burning and Melville's description of Moby-Dick, "broiled in hell-fire."
—Tom LeClair is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn. His seventh--and final--novel, PASSING AWAY, was published in 2018.
January 23, 2019 / Tom LeClair/
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Early love creating a lifelong inheritance: The story of Gogo Pumla Jayiya
Picture from the Daily Sun (2 Dec 2010)
I first came to know Gogo[1] Pumla Jayiya when both of us were involved with the HIV prevention campaign for youth, loveLife where we worked in different capacities on their goGogetter Programme, designed to encourage support for orphaned and vulnerable youth by local grandmothers. To be honest, it is hard not to take note of her, when a Gogo tells an audience that we need to start thinking about teaching our children Chinese because China is becoming a powerful force in the international economy, it grabs your attention.
DGMT's most recent involvement with Gogo Pumla was around a small grant to sponsor a number of Scrabble board games for the community based initiative that she founded to encourage literacy development in children. Steve Jobs said that creative people are able to connect the experiences that they had in life and in this way they find new ways of doing things or of approaching problems. I was wondering, what were the experiences in Gogo Pumla's life that brought her to a point of 'playing Scrabble with a mission' in her old age? Here is what I uncovered:
Gogo Pumla was born in 1953 in Pimville, a renamed part of Klipspruit in Soweto. Although it was very difficult to be black in South Africa in 1953, Gogo Pumla says that she grew up protected, in a household that was full of warmth and love from both her parents and her grandmother. "As a firstborn child much was expected from me. I was taught respect and gratitude for every good thing that happened in my life. While I was growing up we used to play games like Scrabble, Chess, Monopoly, puzzles and card games to help with our arithmetic and spelling". Now a Gogo herself, Gogo Pumla says the values and love of her own grandmother made a profound impact on her life: "My granny was always accepting anybody in need. She would encourage us to say our prayers and then she would pray for our future. I always wanted to be a social worker from when I was very young".
Gogo Pumla started primary school in Gauteng, but when her family started to experience problems she and her siblings were left with an aunt in Transkei (now part of the Eastern Cape) where she completed primary and part of her secondary education at a rural school. Living with her aunt were unhappy times for Gogo Pumla, "my abusive aunt stole the love that I grew up with, but this only served to make me stubborn". At an early age the love that her life was originally rooted in ensured a sense of self-worth allowing her to refuse to become a victim of her circumstances. "I did not see it as abuse at that time, for me it was a challenge and it strengthened me. In everything I did I would work hard with all my heart to achieve the best as if I were doing it for God". Eventually she ran away and was assisted by a kindly woman in Lady Frere to get back to Johannesburg to write matric – unfortunately she got pregnant mid-year and as a result she never finished it.
In her late twenties she met her future Zimbabwean husband, got married and moved to Zimbabwe where she said she was "still hungry for education". She jumped at opportunities to do her O-levels as well as an executive secretarial course. Unfortunately her husband was less impressed by his wife's progress. Again Gogo Pumla weathered the storm by drawing strength from what her granny told her many years ago: "To put excellence into everything I do and to believe in God and myself". After getting divorced she left Zimbabwe with nothing to start her new life with and arrived back in South Africa soon to be confronted by the death of her only son and becoming the caregiver of his two children.
In searching for work she was again guided by the teaching of her grandmother: "Granny always used to say look for a need in an area you are living. I saw that despite the fact that my grandson was in grade four, he still could not read nor write. This pained me greatly and I started teaching him myself. When he started improving, not only in skill, but in confidence, I asked myself, how many children are there like my grandson, in school, but not able to read or write? I started to approach school principals and asked for their permission to assist with the children who are struggling. Now I am teaching children from grade 2 to 7 reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, and concentration skills in the way I was taught when I grew up, using games like Chess, Scrabble and Monopoly. This encourages the children to learn while enjoying games and to express themselves without fear of getting reprimanded. Children love competitions and it keeps them occupied during the week and Saturdays, keeping them off the streets. I believe that in this way it is also contributing towards building a healthy nation because it contributes towards reducing crimes involving children."
"When I think of the future I would love to see every child exposed to the modern developing world. I would like to see young people being able to speak foreign languages and become business people of the continent. I would like them to value their education and to see their potential so that they can take life seriously and make use of the opportunities that are here in our country. In my community it is believed that passion cannot be taught, that it comes from inside you and you must be born with it, but I believe that when you educate a child at an early age you give an inheritance of love that will shape the way that they deal with the world and no one will be able to take that from them. When you give love you are raising hope so I give love to all the children I work with. The joy I share with them is a planted seed in their lives and mine".
Gogo Pumla not only represents evidence of early love creating a life-long positive inheritance for people through her own story, but in her insistence on sharing love with children she has an important point which has been confirmed by science. In Nicholas Kristof's article in the New York Times earlier this year: Reporting on "a Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug", he provides an interesting summary of recent research suggesting that if we want to reduce poverty and improve educational and health outcomes we need to protect children from adversity in the early years of life. Gogo Pumla has intuitively not only connected the dots of her own life experience to assist young children to develop their literacy skills, but at the same time she might be helping them to become more resilient, positive people that could make a positive contribution to society for the rest of their lives. This is precisely the type of leadership that is needed in communities and another reason why it is hard to ignore a Gogo with a vision.
[1] Grandmother in IsiZulu
Author: Judy-Marie Smith
Posted on 19 Jun 2012 under From Head & Heart, From Head & Heart: Creative Learners, Opportunity 7: Reflection and Analysis


Oliver is a sophomore Journalism and Media Production Major from Spokane, WA.
He has worked previously as head and assistant photo editor. He currently works as a staff photographer and the web editor.
He hopes to one day work as a sports photographer for a large publication (ESPN, Sports Illustrated, AP, Getty) and photograph a large sporting event, such as the Olympics.


Think Like a Man is out today, and we caught up with Keri Hilson, who makes her movie debut in the comedy. Though the R&B songstress describes her role as more of a cameo—"don't blink, you might miss it!"—her only outfit is pretty scene-stealing, even though she'd never pick it for herself. "It was a red and it was flowy—two things I'm not fond of," Hilson confessed. "My mother's favorite color is red. I guess it's just that feeling—you don't want to remind yourself of your mom too much. But when I'm in character, I love experimenting. That's the only way I would've worn that dress!" See Hilson, and co-stars Gabrielle Union and Taraji P. Henson in Think Like a Man, in theaters now.
Plus, see Keri's Hollywood transformation!


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Q: Scala prevent mixing methods I would like to create the following trait:
trait IntSet[A] extends Traversable[A] { self: Product =>
  def foreach[U](f: A => U): Unit
}

case class AProduct(a: List[Int], b: List[Int]) extends IntSet[Int] {
  def foreach[U](f: Int => U): Unit = {
    for(aa <- a; bb <- b) f(aa*bb)
  }
}

 AProduct(List(1, 5,6,7), List(2,3,4,5)).toString

returns
(2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 12, 18, 24, 30, 14, 21, 28, 35)

But I don't want the toString method from the case class to be overriden by the one of the traversable! How do I overcome that?
I want the final output to be:
"AProduct(List(1, 5,6,7), List(2,3,4,5))"

and if possible I would like to do something else than the following in IntSet:
override def toString = this.getClass().getName()+"("+self.productIterator.mkString(",")+")"

which works but I really would like not to reinvent the wheel.

A: You don't need to implement IntSet in AProduct. You could just add all methods without inheritance like this:
case class AProduct(a: List[Int], b: List[Int])
object AProduct {
  implicit class AProductIntSet(p: AProduct) extends Traversable[Int] {
    def foreach[U](f: Int => U): Unit = {
      for(aa <- p.a; bb <- p.b) f(aa*bb)
    }
  }
}

val ap = AProduct(List(1, 5,6,7), List(2,3,4,5))
// AProduct = AProduct(List(1, 5, 6, 7),List(2, 3, 4, 5))

ap.toString
// String = AProduct(List(1, 5, 6, 7),List(2, 3, 4, 5))

ap.map{_ + 1}
// Traversable[Int] = List(3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, 13, 19, 25, 31, 15, 22, 29, 36)

for{i <- AProduct(List(2), List(3, 5))} println(i)
// 6
// 10

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May 2016 graduate Dawite Ewnetu, a computer science and mathematics major, is returning to his native Ethiopia to build shelters for children who must work to support their families. "They sell items and clean shoes. Sometimes they have no place to sleep at night, or any place to store their belongings," he says. Afterward, he'll return to the United States to a job as a systems analyst at Lockheed Martin.
Computer science and mathematics major Dawite Ewnetu did not touch a computer until he attended high school in Virginia. Born in northwestern Ethiopia, he grew up in a rural area with no electricity or clean water. Some of the schools he attended had as many as 120 children in one class.
When he began his studies at Mason in 2012, Ewnetu knew he would need to work to help pay his bills.
"Soon after coming to Mason, I got a letter from the financial aid office that told me I owed the school money—a lot of money that my family didn't have. I was lucky enough to find a job as a math tutor," he says.
His work as a math tutor led him to choose a major in mathematics. Then after taking an introductory programming class in Python, he became interested in computer science and decided to double major.
Ewtenu said he always looks for ways to inspire others, whether he is in the United States or in Ethiopia. In the United States, he participates in the Mariam College Access Program, where he helps high school students prepare for college. In Ethiopia, he started a project called "Help Street Kids in Ethiopia" to help children who work and live on the streets of Bahir Dar.
After graduation, he's returning to Ethiopia to build shelters for these children. The shelters, which were designed by Ewtenu, are simple three-sided structures with a roof and some shelving on the sides. Ewtenu set up a gofundme site to solicit donations to support the project. He also received four suitcases of donated used clothing to take back with him and has asked Ethiopian Airlines to help with the cost of flying the clothing overseas.
"When I go home for the summer, I want to do more than visit my family. I want to help my community," says Ewtenu.
When he returns to Virginia, he has a job as a systems analyst waiting for him at Lockheed Martin.


Rising rent is one of the biggest reasons that bookstores lose their leases. I feel very conflicted about this. On the one hand, I love books and bookstores, and I hate the idea that as business districts improve, property owners jack up their rents to levels that bookstore owners (who operate on razor thin margins) can't afford. I don't like seeing long-term businesses like bodegas and bookstores in my neighbourhood being replaced by stores that sell six-dollar salted caramel lattes and five-hundred dollar watches. On the other hand, I feel property owners have a right to make money like anyone else, and they may well have spent years barely breaking even on their properties. Why shouldn't they benefit from the growing economy and increase their rents? Also, I have to admit, I do enjoy a salted caramel latte every now and again.
Bookstore owners are book lovers too, of course, but the good ones (and the survivors) are business people first. They might not like the idea of property owners hiking their rent, but they get it: it's business, not personal. They understand that in order to survive, they need to find a way to cope with a rising rent environment and develop strategies that will benefit them and their landlords.
Shelf Awareness, which publishes a newsletter for people in the book business, recently published a great series of articles on how Booksellers Navigate Rising Rents.
There are seven articles, each of which tells a different bookstore's story, and each of which has at least one good lesson for people who run bookstores or would like to get into the business. The articles are indexed on a collection page, and there is a summary article detailing some of these booksellers' tips.
I thought the pieces provided a great toolkit for anyone looking to open a brick-and-mortar store of any kind. I've never done anything like that myself, but I've met and interviewed many people who have, and these stories resonated really strongly with me.
1. Build a strong community support network. Locals who love what you do will advocate for you with the landlord. You never know how much influence they may have with the landlord, collectively or individually.
2. Develop a positive partnership with your landlord, communicate often and manage the relationship constantly, to be sure that there are no surprises between you.
3. Insist on complete transparency in negotiations, on both sides.
4. Know everything about the location that you are in, or planning to occupy. Not just the terms of your lease, but of the landlord's ownership, which may affect you.
5. Make your partnership with the landlord as personal as possible. Avoid (if you can) partnering with a faceless corporation that is only interested in the bottom line.
6. Understand that your landlord may not really understand your business: prepared to explain the idiosyncrasies of the book trade.
7. Don't try too hard. If the landlord is adamant about hiking rents to a certain level, accept that, and if you can't make it work for your business, move on.
8. Be flexible with your business model: find a way to pivot to profit without losing sight of your core values and business model, like selling books.
9. Be creative with lease structure if you can: have conversations with your landlord about payment in kind and tailoring payments to meet the realities of your business.
10. My favourite, and a rule for life generally: Beware the 'good deal', which may come (dare I say ALWAYS comes?) with hidden costs.


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"Exciting, isn't it? Talk about performance enhancement." He glanced back down into the pit. "The drug was only a prototype until a few weeks ago. Soon it will be in every major city across Europe and the United States. How long do you think it will take the humans before they beg for someone to make the madness stop?"
Rune stared at him, abhorred. "About as long as it will take them to declare war on the entire Breed population."
His father shrugged, thoroughly unfazed. "Ah, well. Either way."
He laughed, and was joined by Ennis and the rest of the guards.
Rune's veins throbbed with disgust. He had always suspected Fineas Riordan was insane, but now he realized it was something even worse than that. He was psychopathic. "You really wouldn't care, would you? Not so long as you can get off watching others in pain."
Riordan stared down at the worsening combat below. "You always did have a weak stomach when it came to these things. I blame your mother for that."
"Is that why you killed her?"
He glanced over, brows raised in surprise. "I didn't realize you knew that."
Hatred seethed in Rune. "I didn't until you just confirmed it."
Riordan waved his hand as if to dismiss the whole idea as he returned his attention to the pit. "She was a bad match from the start. I should've known better than to take her to mate. The bitch could take a punch, I'll grant her that. But raise a hand to anyone else and she crumbled. She never approved of my . . . inclinations. Eventually, I simply got tired of her judgment."
Rune listened in simmering fury to his father's admission. He thought about the gentle woman who'd borne him. Her unique Breedmate gift for withstanding extreme pain had been passed down to him. As a boy thrown into the pit, Rune had leaned on that ability to endure his father's training. Over time, he'd learned to fight without calling upon it, and hadn't used it once since he'd left his father's domain.
But his mother . . .
Rune had been too young, too blind. He had no idea she was being abused, as tortured by Riordan as he was. The realization now made a growl boil up the back of his throat.
"You sick bastard. I should've killed you back then."
The guns held at Rune's spine and the back of his head inched closer at the threat, but his father only chuckled. "Don't be such a pussy, son. Life is pain. I'd have thought I taught you that, if nothing else."
"You taught me a lot of things," Rune muttered.
Riordan looked over at him. "Good. That training will pay off for you even more lucratively than it has in Boston all these years now that you're home again. You've been building your little empire over there, but I've been busy building too. My comrades and I have been laying the foundation in secret for years. Now, we're nearly ready to put our plans in motion."
"What comrades?" Rune asked. "What fucking plans?"
His father studied him for a long moment. "You really don't know?" A wicked glint shone in his dark eyes. "Opus Nostrum, boyo. You're looking at its new leader."
Jesus Christ.
His sick fuck of a father was the current head of that terror group?
Did the Order know? If not, he needed to get that information into their hands as soon as possible. What's more, he needed to get as much intel on his father as he could before he murdered the bastard with his bare hands.
"Congratulations," Rune gritted out tightly. "You must be very proud."
"Oh, I am. But I'll be even prouder once the world understands that Opus is the only true power. If they want peace, the world will come through us to secure it. If not, we'll be ready to deliver a war like no one has ever seen."
"How do you intend to do that?"
Riordan wagged a finger. "Patience, son. We'll have time to talk about all of that later. Right now, I want to enjoy the match." He bared his teeth and fangs in a sadistic smile. "We're just getting to the best part."
In the pit below, the combat had escalated. One of the Breed males was finally tiring. His shoulder was ripped wide open, the arm dangling uselessly at his side. His opponent flew at him on a bellow that shook the ancient rafters overhead. The two massive bodies crashed together, and the weakened vampire was slammed onto the dirt floor.
Fangs gleamed like daggers as the pair bit and gnashed at each other, powerful fists striking and connecting in a blur of speed and brutality. Blood sprayed from arteries torn open in the struggle. Howls of anguish and fury rose to a deafening level from the enclosure far below.
The male on the bottom couldn't hope to hold off the other. Disabled, fatigued, he made the fatal error of leaving his throat open for attack. His opponent seized it, hitting as hard as a viper.
Fangs sank deep and shredded the other vampire's neck in a single strike, all but severing the head from its body.
The victor lifted his head in a shout of triumph, blood and gore dripping from his enormous fangs. There was no humanity left in that face. Nothing but madness and savagery.
Beside Rune, his father and the other Riordan men hooted and applauded the finish. They were giddy with enthusiasm, avid in their enjoyment of the sadistic spectacle below.
The champion seemed to notice his audience for the first time now.
Lips parted, breath sawing out of him, he cocked his head and stared directly up at Rune and the others on the catwalk high above.
He gave no warning of what he was about to do.
One moment he was crouched atop his dead opponent, the next he was airborne—leaping up from the floor of the pit with a feral snarl.
Rune jumped back as the big male vaulted at them. His father and the other men didn't so much as flinch.
Rune understood why less than a second later.
The fighter's escape was stopped by an invisible barrier. The very instant his body connected with it, bright sparks exploded. Pungent smoke and blinding light made Rune avert his eyes—though not before he realized the vampire was dead.
Or, rather, ashed on the spot. Once the stench and sparks had dissipated, the massive body of the Breed male was nothing but a small cloud of floating dust.
Rune gaped. "What the fuck?"
"UV webbing." His father grinned. "I've made some improvements to the pit since you've been here last."
He waved Ennis away with a pointed nod, then started walking. Behind Rune, the guns at his back encouraged him to follow.
"Come, Aedan. I'd like to talk about your friends in the Order."
More than a hundred people, Breed and human, filled the ballroom of Councilman Fielding's mansion in London at nine o'clock that evening. A small orchestra played in the background as the arriving guests made their way along a receiving line toward the newly engaged couple and their beaming sets of parents.
Brynne made introductions for Carys to JUSTIS colleagues and other guests, explaining that she was the daughter of a friend back in the States, who was visiting London for a brief summer holiday. Carys, in an elegant black pantsuit and heels, smiled and shook hands as she and Brynne progressed down the line. All the while, she studied the layout of the house and its numerous archways and passages leading off to the foyer and other rooms from the bustling ballroom.


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Home History Pics The Decameron, The Garden of the Villa, By Theodor Baierl (c. 1881-1932)
The Decameron, The Garden of the Villa, By Theodor Baierl (c. 1881-1932)
This painting, by the German artist Theodor Baierl (c. 1881-1932), brings to life the framework story of The Decameron, a masterpiece of literature written by the Florentine author, Giovanni Boccaccio (c. 1313-1375). The Decameron was set in 1348, when the Black Death was rampaging across Europe. To escape the plague, a group of ten people found shelter in an abandoned villa, where they were able to ride out the epidemic in luxury. So as to not be overcome by boredom during their isolation, the group of ten decided to occupy their time by telling each other stories. As all ten members of the group told a story every day, they would go on to cumulatively narrate a hundred tales once their tenth day in the villa was over. Giovanni Boccaccio described the group's situation through dialogue spoken by a character named Pampinea, who proposed the storytelling scheme to her companions in their hideaway mansion, saying:
"For the moment, it would surely be foolish of us to venture abroad, this being such a cool and pleasant spot in which to linger. Besides, as you will observe, there are chessboards and other games here, and so we are free to amuse ourselves in whatever way we please. But if you were to follow my advice, this hotter part of the day would be spent, not in playing games (which inevitably bring anxiety to one of the players, without offering very much pleasure either to his opponent or to the spectators), but in telling stories—an activity that may afford some amusement both to the narrator and to the company at large" (The Decameron, introduction).
Such is the reason for why the group of ten was spending time together in an abandoned villa. As for the content of Theodor Baierl's particular painting, he seemed to ponder on what kind of tomfoolery was going on in the villa as the residents were loitering between storytelling sessions. The ten storytellers are seen spread out in groups of two, with each pair enjoying each other's company in different intimate ways. Such flirtations and dalliances are in keeping with the Decameron's character, as the book is filled with bawdy romance stories, many of which are quite explicit. Yet, it should be said that the painting is not accurate in its depiction of the storytellers' male-to-female ratio. Instead of an equal five and five, the storytelling group in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron was made up of seven women and three men.
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by G. H. McWilliam. New York: Penguin Classics, 2003.
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Eucamptognathus mediocris is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Pterostichinae. It was described by Mateu in 1958.

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Watch Playboi Carti Bring "Magnolia" To Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Carti makes his late night debut.
On Monday night, Playboi Carti made his late night television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live, performing his breakout hit "Magnolia." With a drummer, two keyboardists, and a DJ backing him, Carti delivered an energetic performance of the bouncy track. Over the weekend, JAY-Z named Carti in a long list of rappers that have inspired him, writing that "Magnolia" is "incredible." Watch Carti's Kimmel performance above.


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Julianna Margulies Reveals Reason She Refused To Appear On 'The Good Fight'
By Becca Longmire. 5 Jul 2018 10:31 AM
Julianna Margulies has spoken out about being asked to appear on 'The Good Fight' — Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Vulture Festiva
Julianna Margulies admitted she was asked to star on "The Good Fight" season 1, but declined because she "didn't think it was fair" on the series or the cast.
The 52-year-old, who played Alicia Florrick on "The Good Wife" from 2009 to 2016, doesn't rule out starring on the series in the future, but did say she didn't feel like it was the right time when she was asked at first.
"The Good Fight" picked up one year after the events in the final episode of "The Good Wife", so bosses clearly thought it would be a good idea to have the Alicia crossover.
RELATED: Julianna Margulies Credits George Clooney With Saving Her Career
However, Margulies told TVLine: "I really didn't want to do it when they asked me in the first season, because I didn't think that was fair [to the series or its cast, led by Christine Baranski, Cush Jumbo and Rose Leslie].
"I felt like, 'Get on your own two feet. Do your thing.' Because if Alicia had come in, in the first season, it would have been [all] about Alicia and 'The Good Wife'. And now it's their show."
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She added when asked whether she would say 'yes' to starring on the show in the future, "I never say never to anything, because I think that's silly."
RELATED: Julianna Margulies Reveals The Parenting Advice She Gave 'ER' Co-Star George Clooney
Margulies' interview also saw her say that she'd watched "The Good Fight" pilot episode, but that's where it ended.
The actress shared, "I said to [franchise creators] Robert and Michelle [King] recently that it's hard for me to watch a law show right now, which is how I felt after 'ER'.
"I couldn't watch another medical show, because you go right back into [the mechanics of shooting a show like that]. It just takes you out of the show. I'll binge watch it in a year or two."
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Q: wso2 esb error on multi threading we have the following setup

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*Sending a message from one queue to another queue.

*The message will be transformed from text to xml.

With the single consumer(thread), It is working fine.
When We have 10 Concurrent Consumers. we are getting the following exception. This problem happens only when we dump around 500 messages and then start the wso2 ESB server.
Caused by: org.apache.axiom.om.OMException: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
Message: Premature end of file.
    at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:296)
    at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMDocumentImpl.getOMDocumentElement(OMDocumentImpl.java:109)
    at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.getDocumentElement(StAXOMBuilder.java:570)
    at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.getDocumentElement(StAXOMBuilder.java:566)
    at pil.pershing.transform.esb.mediator.TransformNewXmlMediator.mediate(TransformNewXmlMediator.java:60)
    at org.apache.synapse.mediators.ext.ClassMediator.mediate(ClassMediator.java:78)
    ... 11 more
Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
Message: Premature end of file.
    at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLStreamReaderImpl.next(XMLStreamReaderImpl.java:588)
    at org.apache.axiom.util.stax.wrapper.XMLStreamReaderWrapper.next(XMLStreamReaderWrapper.java:225)
    at org.apache.axiom.util.stax.dialect.SJSXPStreamReaderWrapper.next(SJSXPStreamReaderWrapper.java:138)
    at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.parserNext(StAXOMBuilder.java:681)
    at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:214)
    ... 16 more

A: It sounds like you are using a custom mediator "pil.pershing.transform.esb.mediator.TransformNewXmlMediator". Perhaps this one is not thread safe : the concurrent consumers calls "mediate" on the same instance of TransformNewXmlMediator, verify if your code is reentrant


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Q: Changing PIVOT function to add a corresponding value instead of SUM From this query:
DECLARE @cols VARCHAR(1000)
DECLARE @sqlquery VARCHAR(2000)

SELECT  @cols = STUFF(( SELECT distinct  ',' + QuoteName(idIndice)
                        FROM tgpwebged.dbo.sistema_Indexacao as a FOR XML PATH('')
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SET @sqlquery = 'SELECT * FROM
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        select distinct a.id, b.idIndice
        from tgpwebged.dbo.sistema_Documentos as a
        join tgpwebged.dbo.sistema_Indexacao as b on a.id = b.idDocumento
        join tgpwebged.dbo.sistema_DocType as c on a.idDocType = c.id
        join tgpwebged.dbo.sistema_DocType_Index as d on c.id = d.docTypeId
        where d.docTypeId = 40
        and (b.idIndice = 11 AND b.valor = ''11111111'' OR b.idIndice = 12 AND b.valor = ''11111'')
       ) base
       PIVOT
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        Sum(idIndice)
        FOR [idIndice] IN (' + @cols + ')
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EXECUTE ( @sqlquery )

I get this result:
id  10      11     12   13      9
13  NULL    11     12   NULL    NULL
14  NULL    11     12   NULL    NULL
16  NULL    NULL   12   NULL    NULL

Instead of using Sum(idIndice) in pivot I would like to find a way to insert the values corresponding to it idIndex.
Those values are stored in the sabe table at a.value
Is this a easy way to perform that? Can´t find this nowhere

A: If there is a single a.value for each idIndice, then you can simply use MIN(a.value) or MAX(a.value) instead of SUM(idIndice)


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Sunrise and sunset times in Tamarisk
Check out today's and tomorrow's sunrise and sunset times in Tamarisk, South Australia, Australia, as well as the whole calendar for February 2023.
February 1, 2023. Current time: 8:24 pm (Australia/Adelaide timezone)
Day length: 13 hours, 51 minutes
Sunset in Tamarisk, South Australia was 7 minutes ago
Tomorrow will be 1 minute shorter than today in Tamarisk
Tamarisk,
Time zone: Australia/Adelaide
February 2023 - Tamarisk, South Australia - Sunrise and sunset calendar
Sunrise and sunset times, civil twilight start and end times as well as solar noon, and day length for every day of February in Tamarisk.
In Tamarisk, South Australia, the first day of February is 13 hours, 51 minutes long. The last day of the month is 12 hours, 56 minutes, so the length of the days gets 54 minutes shorter in February 2023.
5:59:58 am 6:26:04 am 8:17:17 pm 8:43:23 pm 13:51:13 1:21:41 pm 5:26 am 9:16 pm 4:51 am 9:52 pm
Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in Tamarisk, South Australia - 2023
The following graph shows sunrise and sunset times in Tamarisk for every day of the year. There are two jumps in the graph that represent the hour change for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Tamarisk, South Australia.
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So I hooked up the speakers near my head, put on the modded MindWave and went to sleep. As seems to be the norm for me, I didn't start dreaming until around 5 am. The sound file that is triggered is a recording of my wife saying "Tom you are dreaming, take control". Well when I started dreaming and the sound file was played the shock of hearing she who must be obeyed was so startling that it instantly woke me up with absolutely no memory of the dream and my heart racing. Maybe a simple chime sound would work better.
The track woke me up and ended the dream that it detected rather abruptly as can be seen after the eight blinks above. I did, however, manage to remain completely still and awake for the next 10 minutes until the hallucinations started again.
Although I was focusing on the end of the dream and thinking through all the things that I would have done differently with more awareness, I simply started seeing the room I was in through closed eyes. There were things that I knew could not be there and I was able to get up ever so slowly and set out on an epic adventure.


La Jolla, CA – The antibiotic minocycline increases the lifespan of aged roundworms and prevents the buildup of proteins, revealing a protective mechanism that could be exploited therapeutically to help prevent neurodegenerative diseases.
Now, scientists at Scripps Research have found that minocycline can increase the lifespan of roundworms by preventing the buildup of proteins during aging, according to a study in the open-access journal eLife reports.
Protein aggregation causes several progressive age-related brain diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases. The Scripps Research study shows that minocycline prevents this buildup even in older animals with age-impaired stress-response pathways.
The number of proteins in a cell is balanced by the rate of protein manufacture and disposal, called proteostasis. As we age, proteostasis becomes impaired.
The team first tested 21 different molecules known to extend lifespan in young and old Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) worms. They found that all of these molecules prolonged the lives of young worms, however, the only drug that worked on the older worms was minocycline.
To find out why, the researchers looked at whether minocycline had any effect on protein aggregation in the worms. They treated young and old worms with water or minocycline and then measured two proteins, α-synuclein and amyloid-β, which are known to build up in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, respectively. Regardless of the worms' age, those treated with minocycline had reduced aggregation of both proteins as they grew older.
The team next turned their attention to the mechanism behind this discovery. First, they looked at whether minocycline switches on stress-signaling proteins that are impaired in older worms, but they found the drug actually reduces their activity. Next, they studied whether it turns off the cell's protein-disposal processes, but this was not its mode of action either.
When researchers used a chemical probe to see how minocycline affects the major protein-regulating molecules in the cell, it revealed that minocycline directly affects the protein-manufacturing machinery of the cell, known as the ribosome. This was true in worms, as well as in mouse and human cells.
Finally, the team used worms with increased or decreased protein-manufacturing activity and studied how this altered the effect of minocycline on protein levels and lifespan. As predicted, in mutant worms where protein manufacturing was already decreased, they found a lower dose of minocycline was needed to further reduce protein levels and extend lifespan. In worms where protein manufacturing was increased, the opposite was seen. This suggested that minocycline extends lifespan by controlling the rate of protein manufacturing at the ribosome.
Other authors on "Translation attenuation by minocycline enhances longevity and proteostasis in old post-stress-responsive organisms," include Gregory M. Solis, Rozina Kardakaris, Elizabeth R.Valentine, Liron Bar-Peled, Alice L. Chen, Megan M. Blewett, Mark A. McCormick, James R. Williamson, Brian K. Kennedy and Benjamin F. Cravatt, of Scripps Research.
The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant DP2 OD008398, grant R21NS107951), the Ellison Foundation (AG-NS-0928-12), the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and the National Science Foundation (NSF/DGE-1346837).


MALAGA are weighing up a sensational managerial move for Roberto Martinez should Manuel Pellegrini leave at the end of the season.
City, according to reports, have already met up with Pellegrini to discuss a potential move to the Etihad in the summer.
Mancini is heading for showdown talks with the board in the summer, and even though he could salvage City's season by lifting the FA Cup, it may not be enough to save him from the axe.
Latics manager Roberto Martinez was offered more glamourous coaching roles at Liverpool and Aston Villa last summer, but turned them down to pledge his future to the Premier League strugglers.
Reports in Spain have emerged which suggest Martinez apparently tops Malaga's wish list.
The cash-strapped club face being barred from the Champions League last season, and may have to offload a number of players including Jeremy Toulalan in order to help balance the books.
Wigan are five points adrift of safety.


SA rock group tops the bill at London music festival on 16 June.
Prime Circle, one of SA's biggest selling acts, will be rocking out at the Homelanz Festival in June.
Prime Circle was formed in December 2000 in Witbank. Their first album, Hello Crazy World, released in July 2002, remains the highest selling rock album in South Africa. They are currently working on their fourth album, due for release in SA in early September.
Supporting acts at the festival include UK-based SA band Munkinpure, as well as I Am Giant, Jayson Norris, Melic, Bowie Jane, Dave Gander, Glenn Aitken, Anna Coddington, Rietta, J.T. Mills Xperience, and Silent Disco.
The event will be at Boston Manor Park on 16 June at 10.30am.
There will also be loads of delicious food and drink from SA, Australia and New Zealand.


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Home /University /Organisation and committees /
Contributing to the decision-making process
Dates of committee meetings (German)
The University Council is involved in all decisions which are relevant to the entire university. This includes development planning, the structure of the university, the introduction of new degree programmes, policy issues and budget priorities. The University Council is also responsible for appointing the President of the University and the Vice Presidents.
It consists of the elected members of the Senate and important figures from the worlds of scholarship, culture and practice. The Executive Board, the Women's Representative and the Doctoral Candidates' Representative participate in its meetings in an advisory capacity. A representative of the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts is invited to its meetings.
External members
Roland Auschel (Image: adidas-Group / Hanna Hlavacek)
Roland Auschel, who holds a diploma in Business Administration, a BA in European Business Studies (UK) and an MBA (USA), began his career at adidas in strategic planning, later taking on management posts in the company at the regional and global levels. His previous roles include Business Unit Manager, Key Account Manager Europe, Managing Director Market Central and Head of Region Europe, Middle East and Africa. He became Chief Sales Officer for Multichannel Markets in 2007. He is currently a member of the Executive Board of adidas AG in Herzogenaurach. Roland Auschel represents FAU's involvement with local businesses and its wide network of regional, national and international contacts with global players in industry.
Walter Bockshecker
Walter Bockshecker (Image: Nürnberger)
After studying Vocational Education at Universität der Bundeswehr in Munich, Walter Bockshecker spent seven years in the Bundeswehr, during which time he held various posts. In 1990, he moved to the German Insurance Association for Vocational Education and Training (BWV), where he later became managing director. In addition, he was managing director of the newly established Deutsche Versicherungsakademie (DVA) for three years, starting in 2001. Walter Bockshecker has been a member of the Executive Board of NÜRNBERGER Versicherungsgruppe since 2004, where he is responsible for human resources and welfare, as well as materials management. He has also been chairman of the Board of Directors of NÜRNBERGER Communication Center GmbH since 2013 and chairman of the Supervisory Board at NÜRNBERGER SofortService AG since 2014. He additionally holds several voluntary posts as a member of the Executive Board of the German Insurance Association for Vocational Education and Training (BWV), is chairman of the Executive Board of BWV Nordbayern-Thüringen and deputy chairman of Forum V. Walter Bockshecker personifies the vigorous insurance industry in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region with its strong ties to FAU.
Dr. Roland Busch
Image: Siemens AG
Dr. rer. nat. Roland Busch, born in 1964 is an alumnus of FAU. He studied Physics both here and at Grenoble University. In 1994 he joined Siemens AG (Central Division for Research and Development) as a project manager before switching to Automobile Technology – Strategic Planning at the Regensburg site in 1995. This was followed by other managerial posts in various divisions of the Siemens Group. Dr. Roland Busch joined the Board of Siemens AG in 2011. In this capacity he handles Siemens infrastructure projects, is responsible for Group Strategy and heads the Research and Development Division.
Dr. Busch is eminently suitable for the post of advisor on the natural sciences and engineering at FAU as a result of the varied roles he has played in a major international company.
Prof. Dr. Carola Jäggi
Prof. Dr. Carola Jäggi (Image: F. Brüderli)
Prof. Dr. Carola Jäggi, born in Winterthur, Switzerland, studied the History of Art at the universities of Basel, Zurich, Freiburg im Breisgau and Bonn, in addition to archaeology and ethnology. She obtained her doctorate in 1995. Carola Jäggi has held posts as a doctoral thesis scholar of the Max Planck Society at Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, as a freelancer at the archaeological specialist institute Kantonsarchäologie in Zurich and as a research fellow at the University of Basel. In mid-2000, she was appointed to a temporary 18-month C1 post at the Institute of History and Art History at Technische Universität Berlin. From 2002 to March 2013, Carola Jäggi was Chair of Christian Archaeology and Art History at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at FAU. She also acted as Women's Representative and Dean of Studies. Since April 2013, Prof. Dr. Carola Jäggi has been Professor of Medieval Art History and Archaeology of the Early Christian and High and Late Medieval Period at the University of Zurich.
In the University Council, Prof. Dr. Carola Jäggi can draw on the extensive experience which she has garnered at various universities.
Peter Kurz
Peter Kurz (Image: LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung Co. KG/Karin Prussak)
Peter Kurz is chairman of LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG in Fürth, an international group which is a global leader in transfer and coating technology and has 4500 employees. KURZ manufactures and sells decorative and functional hot stamping foils for a wide range of applications. After studying Business Studies at the European Business School in Frankfurt, Paris and London, Peter Kurz became the fourth-generation managing director of the family company. In addition to this role, he is also a voluntary member of the Executive Board of the Arbeitgeberverband der Bayerischen Chemischen Industrie. Peter Kurz was previously a member of FAU's Advisory Board. By making him a member of the University Council, the university hopes to benefit further from his expertise by including a representative of SMEs/hidden champions of business on the University Council.
Prof. Dr. Reimund Neugebauer
Prof. Dr. Reimund Neugebauer (Image: Bernhard Huber)
Professor Reimund Neugebauer was born on 27 June 1953 in Thuringia, Germany. He studied mechanical engineering at Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), where he obtained his doctoral degree in 1984 and completed his habilitation in 1991. After working as a manager in industry, he returned to TUD as a university lecturer in 1989, and was appointed Head of the Institute of Machine Tools in 1990. In 1992, the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Forming Technology and Machine Tools was established and Professor Neugebauer was appointed a director of the institute, responsible for machine tools and automation technology. In 1994, he was appointed Executive Director of the research institution now known as the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU, and remained in that position until September 2012. In 1993, was appointed temporarily to the Professorship of Machine Tools at Chemnitz University of Technology, and became the regular holder of the chair in 1995. From 2000 to 2012, he was the Executive Director of the Institute of Machine Tools and Production Processes at TU Chemnitz, and from 2003 until 2006 he was also the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. On 1 October 2012, Professor Neugebauer became the President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Two of the many awards Professor Neugebauer has been presented in recognition of his achievements are the Officer's Cross of an Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) and an Order of Merit of the German State of Saxony (Sächsischer Verdienstorden).
Prof. Dr. Benno Nigg
Prof. Dr. Benno Nigg (Image: private)
Born in Switzerland, Prof. Nigg studied Nuclear Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). He began his career in biomechanics in 1971. and became director of the biomechanics laboratory at ETH Zurich in 1976. In 1981, he moved to the University of Calgary, where he established and developed the Human Performance Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research centre with approximately 180 researchers working on research into the human body and how it moves. The goal of this work is to improve mobility and quality of life. Prof. Nigg has received numerous prizes and awards for his research (over 16,000 citations, Google Scholar in January 2016), including the Olympic Order, an honorary doctorate of the University of Salzburg and an honorary professorship at the Shanghai University of Sport. His experience as a dean at the University of Calgary in Canada, which is comparable to FAU, his work as a member of the Alberta Economic Development Authority, a think tank of the Alberta provincial government, and his practical experience in developing and managing spin-offs as well as his business contacts are incredibly valuable for FAU.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Margit Osterloh
Prof. Dr. Margit Osterloh (Image: Reto Schlatter)
Margit Osterloh studied industrial engineering and management at the Technische Universität Berlin, completing her Diplom in 1970. She then spent several years working for a medium-sized company in Nuremberg as an assistant to the director. She received a scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development from 1976 to 1981 and was awarded her doctoral degree by Freie Universität Berlin in 1981. Margit Osterloh obtained her habilitation at FAU in 1990. She spent some time as Professor of Human Resources at the University of Lüneburg before being appointed as a professor at the University of Zurich. She became Chair of Business Administration at the University of Zurich in 1991. She has held various research fellowships at institutions such as the University of Canberra in Australia and the Institute for Advanced Study Collegium Budapest, and spent time as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna. She was Professor of Management Science at Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, UK, from 2010 to 2013. Margit Osterloh holds an honorary doctorate of the University of Lüneburg and was a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities to 2011. As part of her academic activities, Margit Osterloh is involved in a wide range of committees and boards. FAU benefits from her international experience in academia and science management, and the expertise in business administration that she brings to the University Council.
Prof. Dr. Beate Rudolf
Prof. Dr. Beate Rudolf (Image: DIMR/Anke Illing)
Prof. Dr. iur. Beate Rudolf has been the Director of the German Institute for Human Rights since 1 January 2010. Previously, she was a junior professor for public law and equality law at the School of Law at Freie Universität Berlin for six years and led the sub-project 'Requirements under international law for governance in weak and failing states' as part of the collaborative research centre 'Governance in areas of limited statehood'. Her research focuses on fundamental and human rights and principles of state structures as set out in international law, European law and German constitutional law as well as taking a comparative law approach. In addition to more than 20 years of experience in research and teaching in these areas (at the universities of Bonn, Düsseldorf, Tulane Law School in New Orleans and Freie Universität Berlin), she has practical experience of working in human rights, for example during her legal training at the Human Rights Directorate at the Council of Europe, as a representative of complainants at the European Court of Human Rights and many years voluntary work within the Deutsche Juristinnenbund (German Women Lawyers Association) and the European Women Lawyers Association, where she was vice president until the end of 2011. From 2016 to 2019, she was the head of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI).
Prof. Dr. Luc Sels
Prof. Dr. Luc Sels (Image: Rob Stevens)
Luc Sels, born in 1967 in Merksem, Belgium, is rector of KU Leuven. His four year term of office as rector began on 1 August 2017. He began working at KU Leuven in 1996 as an assistant professor and from 2004 as a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business. He was elected dean in 2008, and he was re-elected in 2013 for a second term of office. From 2013 onwards he was an adviser to the rector for integration at KU Leuven. Luc Sels is honorary professor at Cardiff University and a research associate at Vlerick Business School.
His most important research interest include labour market prognosis, active labour market policy, talent management, employee differentiation, and co-operatives. He is holder of the Randstad Chair of Employer Branding, the Chair of Belgian Business Champions of the Belgian company association VBO FEB and the CERA-Boerenbond Chair of Cooperative Entrepreneurship. Luc Sels carries out research in labour market policy and is a political adviser. He represents the Employment Minister in the Belgian High Council for Employment (Hoge Raad voor de Werkgelegenheid) and heads the Centre of Expertise for Labour Market Monitoring (CELM), which advises the Flemish government in matters of labour market policy.
With Prof. Dr. Luc Sels, FAU is intensifying its links to prestigious international universities, as well as benefiting from his experience as the rector of the most innovative university in Europe.
Members of the Senate with voting rights
Prof. Dr. Christine Lubkoll (Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, deputy chairwoman)
Prof. Dr. med Christian Bogdan (Faculty of Medicine)
Prof. Dr. Anja Boßerhoff (Faculty of Medicine)
Prof. Dr. Max-Emmanuel Geis (Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law)
Prof. Dr. Yves Muller (Faculty of Sciences)
Prof. Dr. Peter Wasserscheid (Faculty of Engineering)
Dr. Carmen Pospisil (representative of research associates)
Michaela Krebs (representative of other staff)
Lisa Heger (Students' representative)
Selim Kücükkaya (Students' representative)
Advisory members
Prof. Dr. Annette Keilhauer (Women's Representative)
Jakob Gabriel (Doctoral Candidates' Representative)
Brigitta Henkel, LLM Eur (Head of the President's Office)


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Despegar.com IPO: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
By Kim Khan
Updated Sep 20, 2017 at 6:15pm
Despegar.com
Latin American travel company Despegar.com (DESP) locked up its initial public offering by pricing shares at the top of its range and then watching those shares end much higher on the New York Stock Exchange.
Here's what you need to know.
1. The IPO Raised $332 Million
Despegar.com raised $332 million with its IPO, pricing 12.8 million shares at $26 per share, the top end of its range.
Shares opened at $29 and ended at $31.92, a jump of more than 23%.
Morgan Stanley and Citigroup the lead underwriters of the deal. Itau BBA, Cower, UBS and KeyBank Capital are co-managers.
Under the overallotment provision, the underwriters can buy around an additional 1.9 million shares with 30 days of the offering.
"Pending our use of the net proceeds from this offering, we plan to invest the net proceeds in a variety of capital preservation investments, including short-term interest-bearing investment-grade securities, certificates of deposit or government securities," the company said in its IPO filing.
2. The Company's Been in Online Travel Since 1999
No need to get super granular on what this company does.
It operates travel sites for travel in Latin America. Despegar.com is the global site and Decolar is the site for Brazil.
Airline tickets, hotels, car rentals, travel packages — pretty straightforward.
Despegar.com was founded as a new business in the British Virgin Islands in February 2017 and all shareholders of Delaware-based Decolar.com swapped shares to create the new holding company.
The company first began operating in 1999 when it launched a site in Argentina. It estimated about 140 million unique visitors hit its platforms in the 12 months ended June 30, 2017.
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3. Expedia Owns a Significant Portion
Expedia (EXPE) shareholders will want to keep DESP in mind as the relationship is close.
First, as far as the IPO is concerned, Expedia owned 16.4% of ordinary shares of Despegar.com as of Aug. 31.
Then there's the outsourcing agreement.
"All hotel and other lodging products that we offer through our platform for all countries outside Latin America are provided to us exclusively by Expedia," Despegar.com said in its SEC filling.
"Under the agreement, Expedia is also the preferred provider to us of hotel and other lodging products in Latin America."
In return, DESP must pay at least $5 million in marketing fees over a six-month period, something it hasn't failed to do since it started the deal in 2015. If it fails, it would owe a $125 million termination fee.
So far, the deal has been good for DESP revenue as its marketing fees accumulated by booking Expedia and affiliate properties, minus the percentage it pays back to Expedia, were nearly $19 million for the six months ended June 30. That's 7.6% of revenue for the six-month period.
Expedia has agreed not to acquire more than 35% of "voting or economic power of our outstanding share capital within three years of this offering" the company said, unless Expedia makes a tender offer for 75% control.
4. It Was Profitable the First Six Months of the Year
Despegar.com
A look at this year's financials for the first six months compared with the same period in 2016 is more positive than negative.
Revenue rose to $248.5 million for the period ended June 30, 2017, from $193.9 million in the year-ago period. Net income $18.8 million, reversing from a loss of $556,000.
A look at the headline full-year results may be a little more puzzling, since revenue went down slightly in 2016 compared with 2015, but the company managed to swing to a profit of $17.8 million from a loss of 85.3 million.
Despegar.com did cut operating expenses in 2016, especially selling and marketing, the decrease in cost of revenue (fees like credit card processing and chargebacks) is also very significant.
"Cost of revenue declined from $154.2 million in 2015 to $126.7 million in 2016, or a decline of 17.9%," the company said. "The decline was partially a result of lower fraud expense recognized in 2016 as compared to 2015, which we believe was due in part to our implementation of more restrictive anti-fraud protocol."
But the company also cut headcount at its fulfillment center by 23% and investors should be aware that a spike in fraud is always a possibility.
5. Watch Out for Volatile LatAm Currencies
When dealing with companies operating outside, but listing in the U.S., there is always a currency issue.
The standard rule applies here, too as Despegar.com reports financials in U.S. dollar. If the greenback goes down, revenue will be better for the company, but expenses will be worse. If the greenback strengthens, the top line goes down, but so do expenses.
Companies often back out or at least flag these fluctuations, but it's worth highlighting with Latin America.
"The currencies of certain countries where we operate, including Brazil and Argentina, have historically experienced significant devaluations," the company said. "For example, in December 2015, the Argentine government let the Argentine peso float freely, after several years of controlling foreign exchange rates, resulting in a significant devaluation."
In the travel business, pre-pay transactions where the site takes payment up front but doesn't pay until the customer checks out, can also be a risk. Despegar.com said it manages short-term loans and investments for hedging.
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Published Sep 18, 2017 at 7:37pm
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Latin American travel company Despegar.com (DESP) locked up its initial public offering by pricing shares at the top of its range and then watching those shares end much higher on the New York Stock Exchange.Here's what you need to know.1. The IPO Raised $332 MillionDespegar.com raised $332 million with its IPO, pricing 12.8 million shares at $26 […]


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Audi Q7 e-tron TDI Quattro Plug-in Hybrid Debuts in Geneva
Diesel plug-in claimed to achieve 118 mpg.
Jake Holmeswriter
The new Audi Q7 now has an ultra-green option, in the form of the e-tron TDI Quattro model debuting at the 2015 Geneva auto show. The new model is a diesel plug-in hybrid with all-wheel drive, can drive up to 35 miles on a fully charged battery, and returns the equivalent of 118 mpg.
The Audi Q7 e-tron TDI Quattro has a 3.0-liter turbodiesel V-6 engine rated for 258 hp and 443 lb-ft of torque, along with an electronic motor rated for 94 kW and 258 lb-ft. Combined, the engine and motor produce 373 hp and 516 lb-ft of torque, enough to send the crossover to 62 mph in 6.0 seconds. An eight-speed automatic transmission is standard.
A 17.3-kWh lithium-ion battery also allows the Audi Q7 e-tron TDI Quattro to drive for a claimed 34.8 miles on electricity alone. Coupled with the car's claimed 118-mpg overall efficiency, the Audi Q7 e-tron TDI Quattro has a total driving range of 876 miles on a full tank of diesel and a fully charged battery.
Other innovations for the Audi Q7 e-tron TDI Quattro include active engine mounts that help quell the diesel engine's vibrations, as well as a heat pump that uses waste heat from the motor and battery to be used for heating the cabin. As with the standard, non-hybrid Audi Q7, the new version of Audi's crossover is significantly lighter than its predecessor thanks to increased use of aluminum.
Although the Audi Q7 e-tron TDI Quattro goes on sale in Germany in spring 2016, Audi officials say there is still no decision as to whether the model would be sold in the U.S. On our shores, the 2016 Audi Q7 will offer a 2.0-liter gasoline turbo-four engine and a 3.0-liter supercharged V-6, and possibly a 3.0-liter turbodiesel V-6.


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Farmer Sentiment Weakens Amid Rising Concerns of a Cost-Price Squeeze
James Mintert and Michael Langemeier, Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture
A breakdown on the Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer October results can be viewed at https://purdue.ag/barometervideo. Find the audio podcast discussion for insight on this month's sentiment at https://purdue.ag/agcast.
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For the third month in a row, agricultural producer sentiment weakened in October as the Ag Economy Barometer declined to 121, 3 points lower than a month earlier. The modest decline in the overall sentiment index occurred as a result of producers' weaker perceptions regarding both current and future conditions in the production agriculture sector. The Index of Current Conditions declined 5 points to 135 in October while the Index of Future Expectations fell to 114 from 116 a month earlier. Recent weakness in farmer sentiment appears to be driven by a wide variety of issues, with concerns about input price rises topping the list. The Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer sentiment index is calculated each month from 400 U.S. agricultural producers' responses to a telephone survey. This month's survey was conducted from October 18 to 22, 2021.
Figure 1. Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, October 2015-October 2021.
Figure 2. Indices of Current Conditions and Future Expectations, October 2015-October 2021.
The Farm Financial Performance Index declined 6 points to 104 in October. Rapid run-ups in input prices, especially fertilizer for crop production, are giving rise to concerns about producers' operating margins weakening. Livestock producers are also concerned about a cost-price squeeze, especially in the pork and dairy sectors.
Figure 3. Farm Financial Performance Index, October 2015-October 2021.
There was a modest improvement in the Farm Capital Investment Index in October, rising 3 points to a reading of 46 compared to 43 in September. The investment index's small improvement this month still leaves it 50% lower than the very optimistic level that existed at the start of 2021. Notably, tight machinery inventories continue to hold back producers' machinery investment plans as nearly four out of ten respondents said their machinery purchase plans were impacted by low farm machinery inventory levels. The small upward shift this month was primarily attributable to fewer producers saying they planned to reduce their machinery purchases compared to a year earlier. Weaker construction plans among producers this month weighed on the investment index as the percentage of producers planning to increase building and grain bin construction on their farms fell to 10% in October vs. 13% a month earlier.
Figure 4. Farm Capital Investment Index, October 2015-October 2021.
Figure 5. Plans for Farm Machinery Purchases in the Upcoming Year Compared to a Year Ago, March 2020-October 2021.
Figure 6. Plans for Constructing New Farm Buildings and Grain Bins, May-October 2021.
Rising input costs are on most producers minds. This month over half (51%) of producers in our survey said they expect input prices to rise 8% or more in the upcoming year and one-third of producers said they expect those prices to rise by 12% or more. The dramatic rise in fertilizer prices that's taken place in recent months is a key factor in concerns about rising input costs. For example, USDA data from Illinois indicates that nitrogen (NH3) prices in October 2021 were up 130% compared to a year earlier and up over 40% compared to last spring while potash and phosphate prices experienced similar price increases. But concerns about rising input costs also extend to other inputs such as seed, pesticides, and machinery repairs and ownership costs. Rapidly rising input costs are leading farmers to become concerned about a cost-price squeeze on their operating margins.
Figure 7. Farm Input Price Expectations During the Next 12 Months, June-October 2021.
Despite the concerns expressed about rising costs and their impact on operating margins, producers remain bullish on farmland values. The Long-Term Farmland Value Expectations Index set a new record high this month with a reading of 161, 2 points higher than a month earlier while the short-term index rose 1 point to 156. The one-point rise in the Short-Term Farmland Value Expectations Index left it just 3 points below its record high, which was set last spring. The optimism expressed by farmers regarding farmland values is consistent with reports of recent farmland sales, especially in the Corn Belt, with recent farmland auction prices at or near record highs. However, concerns about rising input costs are starting to have a dampening effect on expectations for farmland cash rental rates. In August and September, nearly half (49%) of the corn-soybean producers in our survey said they expected farmland cash rental rates in 2022 to rise above 2021's rental rates. In October, the percentage of producers expecting higher farmland rental rates dipped to 43% while the percentage expecting rates to remain unchanged rose to 55% compared to 50% in September.
Figure 8. Long-Term Farmland Value Expectations Index, May 2017-October 2021.
The possibility of leasing farmland for carbon sequestration continues to generate a lot of interest. In a follow-up to survey questions posed last winter and spring, we asked this month's survey respondents a series of questions about leasing farmland to capture carbon. In this month's survey, 29% of respondents said they were aware of opportunities to receive payments to capture carbon on their farms. When compared to survey results from last winter and spring, it appears that despite a rise in interest and publicity, awareness of carbon capture opportunities by producers on their farms has not increased. Among producers who are aware of opportunities to receive carbon capture payments on their farms, just over 2% said they had discussed carbon capture payments with any companies. Last winter and spring, an average of about 5% of survey respondents who were aware of payment opportunities said they had engaged in discussions with companies. Among the very small number of producers who had discussed payments with companies, the most common payment offered was less than $10 per metric ton of carbon followed by payment rates of $10 to less than $20 per metric ton.
Figure 9. Farmer Awareness of Opportunities to Receive Payments for Capturing Carbon on Their Farm, January-April 2021 and October 2021.
Famer sentiment remained weak in October as the Ag Economy Barometer drifted lower to a reading of 121, leaving the index down nearly one-third since its springtime peak. Rising input costs, along with commodity prices that are lower than earlier this year, are major reasons behind the decline in farmer sentiment. The Farm Capital Investment Index remains weak, in large part because of supply chain problems as four out of ten respondents said tight machinery inventories were holding back their purchasing plans. Despite the weak overall sentiment expressed by producers, they remain optimistic about farmland values, both in the upcoming year and over the next five years. Approximately three out of ten producers in our survey said they are aware of potential opportunities to receive payments on their farms for capturing carbon, suggesting that little if any change in opportunities has taken place since early 2021. Among the small number of producers who have discussed a carbon capture contract with a company, the most common payment rate offered was less than $10 per metric ton of carbon followed by rates of $10 to less than $20 per metric ton.
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Francesco Isvales (died 1512) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Reggio Calabria (1506–1512).

On 24 July 1506, Francesco Isvales was appointed during the papacy of Pope Julius II as Archbishop of Reggio Calabria.
He served as Archbishop of Reggio Calabria until his death in 1512.

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16th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Kingdom of Naples
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Ice Cube to Release Clothing Line That Will Support Autism
Lindsey India
Lindsey India Published: March 2, 2017
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Ice Cube is branching out into another business venture beyond music, and this time, it's going to benefit a lot of people who need it. The West Coast rap veteran is teaming up with clothing brand Represent, and they will be releasing a clothing line together that will support the Autism Speaks organization.
The organization is near and dear to Cube, as he reportedly has a family member that is autistic, and is a fan of the work that the organization does for the community. The California native will be dropping an exclusive T-shirt design with the brand, which is inspired by his 1993 hit track, "It Was a Good Day."
"I'm proud to support the great work that Autism Speaks does, a cause that is so important to me," Cube said in a statement. "My goal through this campaign is to not only help raise awareness but to also support this great organization's efforts in promoting solutions for the needs of individuals with autism and their families."
If you would like to purchase one of the shirts from the line, prices start at $24.99, and will be available for both men and women in a variety of different products. The campaign is slated to end on March 7, with the proceeds being donated directly to Autism Speaks. See the t-shirt designs here.
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We were recently tasked with migrating a customer from RM's EasyMail service over to the Gmail service that is included with Google Apps for Education. If your mail service is relatively modern and supports IMAP over SSL/TLS then you will find that this process is relatively straightforward using Google's built-in tools. However, if your current email service does not support encrypted communication between the server and clients, you will be unable to migrate using the default toolset. Google insists (for good reason) that all traffic related to the Data Migration Service is encrypted using TLS (https://support.google.com/a/answer/6003165#ssl). If you have no control over the legacy mail system, you may think that you're out of luck when it comes to getting your mail into Google Apps. There are a host of clunky workarounds available such as downloading via POP or setting up the old and new IMAP accounts in something like Thunderbird and manually dragging and dropping messages between old and new accounts. In my eyes that's not a solution, rather something to try when everything else has failed.
Fortunately, I'd come across IMAP proxying in the past and was pretty sure that it could help out in this instance. The general idea is very straightforward and will be familiar if you've dealt with web servers and reverse proxies in the past. The IMAP proxy sits between the actual email server and the IMAP client (the Google Apps migration service, in this case) and proxies traffic between the two. The setup is often implemented in order to speed up webmail clients, but I wanted to see if I could get Google to connect to an IMAP proxy using TLS, which would then forward the traffic to the EasyMail server over plain old unencrypted IMAP. I'm happy to report that it all worked as expected and I thought I'd post some notes here for those of you that might encounter a similar situation.
You will also need a proper SSL certificate and a Mac accessible to the outside world on port 993.
imap_capabilities "IMAP4rev1" "UIDPLUS" "IDLE" "LOGIN-REFERRALS"
If all of that is working, it's time to build an authentication system which tells the nginx proxy whether or not the credentials that are being submitted by your IMAP client (Google) is valid for the backend mail server(s). As this is just for the purpose of migration and won't be used in day-to-day use, I don't need to worry about proper authentication logic in order to reduce load on the email servers, I'll just modify the template php script from the nginx website so that it always returns true for any attempted authentication attempt. Edit the script and host it on any webserver that's got php enabled. I used the same Mac server on which I was running nginx.
// name and IP of EasyMail server - itself an IMAP proxy!
If all has gone well you should be able to test the setup using an IMAP client like Apple Mail. Try configuring it to use the FQDN that your SSL cert is protecting and ensure that connections over SSL are enabled. If all goes well it should connect to your nginx reverse IMAP proxy over port 993 which then connects to the IMAP server specified in the above php file. In RM's case the IMAP server is actually another IMAP proxy so that then has the job of connecting to the one of, presumably, many actual mail servers that are doing the job of hosting customer email.
If that all goes well and you can see valid email and have not received any SSL errors, try entering the details into the Google Apps Migration Service settings and see what happens.
Please let us know how you get on and, of course, if you need assistance with anything relating to Google Apps, get in touch!