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Fund Directors, SEC Settle After Two of Three Claimed Violations are Dropped
T. GormanPosted on June 16, 2013 Posted in SECActions
The Commission settled with eight mutual fund directors regarding the procedures used in the valuation of certain assets after months of litigation. In the Matter of J. Kenneth Alderman, CPA, Adm. Proc. File No. 3-15127 (June 13, 2013). The proceeding , initiated in December 2012, named as Respondents directors at four open ended funds and one closed end fund. Each fund had a board of directors composed of two interested and four independent directors. All of the independent directors were members of the audit committee, chaired by Respondent Mary Stone. The six independent directors named as Respondents were: Jack Blair; Albert Johnson; James Stillman McFadded; W. Randall Pittman; Mary Stone; and Archie Willis. Also named were directors J. Kenneth Alderman and Allen Morgan. The investment adviser was Morgan Asset Management, Inc.
The Order which initiated the proceeding centered on claims that certain assets had been incorrectly valued resulting in false filings as the market crisis unfolded. At the end of the first quarter 2007 the Funds had a combined net asset value of about $3.85 billion. Large portions of those assets were invested in complex structured products such as collateralized debt obligations and similar instruments. The assets were concentrated in below investment grade debt securities which carried inherent risks. For many of the structured products there were no readily available market quotations. As a result a large percentage of the Funds' portfolios had to be fair valued by the boards.
Under the Policy and Procedure Manual for the Funds the directors delegated to Morgan Asset the responsibility for carrying out certain functions related to valuation of the portfolio securities in connection with calculating the NAV per share. While the Funds' Valuation Procedures listed a series of factors to be considered, many of which were drawn from the pertinent literature, they provided no meaningful methodology or other specific direction on how to make the fair value determination.
The actual task of assigning fair values was performed by Fund Accounting, a function staffed by Morgan Keegan employees. In making their determinations of fair value, the Order alleges that no reasonable analytical method was used.
Throughout the period the directors were unaware of the methodology utilized to fair value the particular securities or types of securities, according to the Order. Likewise, the Respondent directors failed to inquire about the methodology used.
As a result of the failure by the Directors to cause the Funds to adopt and implement reasonable procedures, the NAVs of the Funds were materially misstated from the end of March 2007 through early August of that year. Thus the prices at which the open ended Fund sold, redeemed and repurchased shares were inaccurate. At least one registration statement, and other filed reports, contained NAVs that were materially misstated. The Form N-1A filed by the Select Fund for October 29 2007 that contained NAVs as of June 30, 2007 that were materially overstated, according to the Order that initiated the proceeding.
The Order alleged that the Respondents caused the Funds' to violate: Rules 22c-1 of the Investment Company Act which makes it unlawful to sell, redeem or repurchase redeemable securities except at a price based on the current net asset value; Rule 30a-3(a) which requires that registered management investment companies maintain internal control over financial reporting; and Rule 38a-1 which requires that the registered investment company adopt and implement written policies and procedures reasonably designed to prevent a violation of the federal securities laws by the fund.
Respondents and the Commission agreed to settle the proceeding following litigation but prior to a hearing. Each Respondent consented to the entry of a cease and desist order based only on Rule 38a-1. No monetary relief was directed. The allegations in the original Order alleging violations of Rules 22c-1 and 30a-3(a) were deleted from the refilled Oder. Also deleted were claims that the NAVs of the Funds were materially misstated from the end of March 2007 through early August of that year; that at least one registration statement and other filed reports were materially misstated; and that the Form N-1A filed by the Select Fund for October 29 2007 that contained NAVs as of June 30, 2007 that were materially overstated.
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Senate Action on the Road to a 2012 Federal Budget
By Samantha Dana
Posted: May 26, 2011 | Budget Process
On May 25, 2011 the full U.S. Senate began work on its version of the FY2012 budget resolution with the consideration of four separate budget proposals. These proposals represent the broad range of options available as Congress moves forward with its efforts to enact a budget while achieving meaningful reductions in the annual deficit. The votes were procedural and determined which of the proposals would be brought to the floor for full debate, including possible amendments. None of the four proposals were approved for further consideration.
The President's FY2012 Budget was presented to Congress on February 14, 2011, but the drama of resolving the 2011 budget, which was not finalized until mid-April of this year, prevented action on next year's budget until now. With summer recess looming in the short term, and the end of the fiscal year in the not-too-distant future, Congress must now turn to the FY2012 budget and pass it before September 30, 2011 if they want to avoid a repeat of last year's debacle.
Interesting, the four proposals did not include one from the Senate's own Budget Committee. The four plans put forth for further consideration were:
The House Budget Resolution – Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), chairman of the House Budget Committee, released his budget plan, The Path to Prosperity, on April 5, 2011. This plan includes the privatization of Medicare, makes the Bush tax cuts permanent, and reduces the corporate tax rate, among many other proposals. NPP has previously compared Rep. Ryan's plan to that of both the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the President's. The House adopted the Ryan plan on April 15.
The final vote was 40 yeas and 57 nays, including five Republican nays – Scott Brown (R-MA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME).
The Administration's FY 2012 Budget Request – The President, as previously mentioned, released his budget on February 14, 2011. His plan includes dramatic increases in infrastructure projects, including airport construction and road maintenance. It also includes cuts to social programs such as Low Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP) and Community Development Block Grants (CDBG). We previously released an extensive analysis of the President's Budget, including historical comparisons.
The final vote was 0 yeas and 97 nays.
Proposal by Senator Pat Toomey – A freshman Republican from Pennsylvania and a member of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Toomey released his own budget roadmap earlier in May. It calls for a balanced budget by 2020, and it achieves that balance by reducing non-security discretionary spending to 2006 levels and freezing it, repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as health care reform), and simplifying the tax code. Sen. Toomey's press release, along with an executive summary and detailed plan, can be found on his website.
The final vote was 42 yeas and 52 nays.
Proposal by Senator Rand Paul – A freshman Republican from Kentucky and a Tea Party member, Senator Paul offered a budget plan resolution based on a deficit reduction plan he released in March. His plan calls for the budget to be balanced in five years and projects a $19 billion surplus in FY2016. Provisions of his plan include reducing all non-security discretionary spending to FY2008 levels, reduces programs such as food stamps and Medicaid to block grants, and eliminates entirely the departments of Commerce, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Energy. More information on Sen. Paul's budget can be found on his website.
With so many important issues on the line, including the debt ceiling, many voices are speaking up to shape the budget debate. These four votes were just the beginning of the annual quest for a budget, and now the Congresspeople and Senators get to sit down together and hash out a proposal everyone (or at least a majority) can agree on.
The fact that none of the proposals was approved for further consideration, including the President's annual budget request – which got no votes in the Democratically controlled Senate – is indicative of the political tension that surrounds even mundane budget decisions in Washington these days. Add to that the hard lessons learned during the onerous debate over the FY2011 budget, and the growing politicization of the upcoming votes on raising the debt ceiling, and it is easy to imagine an even more chaotic review of the FY2012 budget. Stay tuned to NPP for updated news and analysis as we move forward on this year's budget debate.
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A Sanborn woman is trying to open a unique petting zoo in Niagara County.
SANBORN, N.Y. (WKBW) — For an animal lover like Laura Kagels, there's an extra bounce, not only in her step, but in her home. Kagels bought her first kangaroo three years ago, and today she owns 12.
"My first word was probably horse. I think I've had pets since I could walk and talk."
The babies are bottle fed and cared for inside until they're old enough to live in a heated barn outback.
Kagels usually takes her troop on the road. But soon, she'll open a petting zoo called "Niagara County Down Under" on her property.
"We've had so much water this year. We just don't have the enclosures ready to bring people in."
Kagels plans to build eight foot high fences on a two-acre site. She also needs to get insured before allowing visitors to bond with the bucks.
She said it won't be open nine to five. Instead she plans to host private tours. "We're going to allow people right in with them, right into their habitat, you can sit here like i am, hold the the babies, feed the babies."
Kagels hopes to have the attraction open by late spring. It would be the only one of its kind in all of western New York and she believes it will be well received.
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Q: Otimizando comportamento padrão do middleware Tenho o seguinte middleware:
class OwnerOrAdmin
{
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        $user = \Auth::user();
        $postId = $request->route('post');
        $post = $user->posts->find($postId);

        if ($user->id == 1 || (!is_null($post) && $post->user_id == $user->id)) {
            return $next($request);
        }

        return redirect()->route('post.index')
                ->with(['status' => 'danger', 'mensagem' => 'Este post não te pertence!']);
    }
}

Basicamente este verificar se o usuário que vai editar um post é o Admin (id=1) ou se este é o dono do post.
Mas no meu controller sou obrigado a repetir praticamente a mesma consulta ao banco:
public function edit($id)
{
    $post = Post::find($id);

    return view('painel.post.cad-edit', compact('post'));
}

Seria possível passar este valor para o controller como retorno do middleware?

A: Resposta para pergunta
Não é possível.
Você deve retornar uma instância de Illuminate\Http\Request pois outros middlewares esperam uma instância dessa classe para continuar o seu trabalho. Se você passar qualquer outra coisa, eles vão ficar confusos e não vão saber o que fazer. Assim gerando um erro.
Recomendação
Já que essa duplicação é um problema no teu caso, recomendo você mover o código do middleware para teu controlador e dar um segunda chance para authorizarion no Laravel. Pois para o que você está tentando fazer, essa é a funcionalidade recomendada pelo framework.

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I hit a wall today, when someone introduced a blatant anti-American comment on Twitter and I was not amused. This is one of those things that I was not at all prepared for when I moved to England nearly five years ago (gasp!). After living for many (30) years in an America full of Anglophilia, I sort of assumed that the former monarchist leaders of our state shared the same sort of historical affection for us that we had for them. The last few weeks have demonstrated the fact, more clearly than ever, that I was wrong.
We all have witnessed the great Anglophilia that took place in the form of the Americans' obsession with the royal wedding a few weeks ago. Although a few arguments tried to logically argue against an American being obsessed with the wedding of Prince William and future princess Kate, this seems to have fallen largely on deaf ears. I am, through the expat community, very much aware of a number of blatantly Anglophile blogs (here, and here, for example).
So in this general framework of Anglophilia, it still comes as a surprise to me that, while Americans can be classed as generally England-loving, here in England it is politically sound to be America-hating. Or, at very least, America-resenting.
Here is the example of the tweet that sent me over the edge today, in terms of Anti-American sentiment and frustration. I note now that it was only the latest in a series of such things. I do not harbor any long-standing or particular bad feelings to this particular tweeter. But it did put me into the place where my blood was boiling and I was flat-out angry, after nearly five years of living abroad.
We, as English-speakers, have to adapt to the fact that this is a language based in other languages and one that evolves quickly. I think this is really cool. I love that my language has no problems with invention of words to address new technology, because I am a scientist and sometimes I really need those new words. I'm unclear as to what is to be gained by "blaming" any English-speaking country for new words or compounds that happen to make it into general usage. Words only become popular because people are seeking a short-hand term to describe a concept that is in need of expression.
More importantly, I think, it is detrimental to the language as a whole to demonize words as being "American" in origin, when that distinction is being seen as "ultimately bad" without context. If a word gains traction in the larger English language, that language being spoken across many institutions including science, why can't we live with it, no matter the origin, if it expresses the concept that we wish to express? And in that vein, why should we care if there are differences in the words used in British and American English for the same concept, when we are most likely next to deal with the important translation effects that result in trying to convert between English and Chinese? Neither "English" nor "Chinese" is a single dialogue, so we have years of mis-communication to ensue. Can't we at least stop arguing within our own ranks, of supposedly "English" speakers, and try for a degree of communication instead of petty disagreements?
One of the more interesting aspects of being in China for nearly two weeks was in being completely shut out from most conversation. Very few people spoke any English at all. And why should they? I was visiting their country. It was my problem to not speak their language. Thank goodness for my sister's Chinese fluency, I don't know how anyone could travel in China without having a fluent guide. For this reason, there were tour groups (both international and domestic tourists) in matching hats everywhere, often affiliated with cruise ships. If you ask me for my own unique definition of hell, it would involve matching hats, organized tour groups on tight schedules, being ferried on and off coach buses, and cruise ships. Not my style at all. So kudos to my ever-patient sister for being an awesome guide and translator and allowing me to see China without having to take part in my own greatest nightmare. Don't get me wrong, if your only choices are "see China in a tour group" or "don't see China" I'd go for the former, I just felt fortunate to be able to see China with the flexibility and planning oversight unique to being in a duo with a fluent Chinese speaker involved. Even if I felt like an idiot most of the time just sitting smiling while she had long conversations with the locals.
The younger generations are mostly learning English in school, and it was they who were most bold: especially in the more off-the-beaten-path parts of China, it was not unusual to be the only Caucasians around for miles and for young Chinese people to walk up to us and say "Hello." If we said anything back, or even smiled in their direction, it caused fits of giggling. The young ones who did speak some English were, in these circumstances, incredibly likely to ask if they could have their photograph taken with us, as though we were some strange foreigners (which we were) but I admit it made me feel sort of like an exotic zoo animal. Our rule of thumb became to say yes to the photo requests from young (University-aged) girls practicing their English, but as two young females we decided that some of the requests for photos from older guys were just a little bit creepy.
China is, of course, the People's Republic of China, the currency is called the People's money, and our first hotel in Shanghai was in People's square. So this one was everywhere, and it was useful for me to remember. After seeing some Bronze-age inscriptions at the Shanghai Museum I became obsessed with understanding how modern Chinese characters evolved from early Pictographs, and I found a few great books to bring home with me. So I can casually indulge in this fascination over the course of the next few months, as I reflect on my trip.
Since I've been back in my own bed, my dreams have mostly been set back in China. Clearly there was a lot to see and process, and my brain is still working hard on it. But with the language difference, comes the inevitable funny translations, so I'll leave you today with one of my favorite giggle-inducers. Hey, I'm sure if I tried to translate something into Chinese the results would be equally hilarious.
China was not on some big "places I want to visit next" list for me, but a great opportunity that arose because of the fact that my remarkably talented sister was living there. So before I went there, in spite of the work I did with my guidebook helping to plan our touring options, I really had no expectations. I somehow didn't even realize that the great wall was so steep and that it was more like mountain climbing than like strolling.
Your intrepid blogger and her sister having a little rest on the climb. Note the fantastic footwear.
So there were a few things about China that really surprised me. Really surprised. Me. Culture things. Economics things. People things. Especially on my return to Britain and the world in which we live. Now my aim here is not at all to make any political judgements, it's merely to pass along some information that has caused me to stop and think in a different way about problems currently facing Britain.
A colleague recently introduced me to the concept of the Guardian's 10:10 campaign, in which people in the UK (and the rest of the west, by example) pledge to reduce carbon footprints by 10% in 2010. I'm not here to argue against this campaign, or to suggest that being aware of one's own energy consumption is a bad idea. But after visiting China last month, it's really hard for me to see how this sort of thing can make any sort of a difference at all, beyond good PR and perhaps self-back-patting.
China was, as I have mentioned before, a shiny disco nightclub. Take Piccadilly Circus, or Times Square in NY, and cube it. And again. And again. And again. For a while, ad nauseum. And then multiply it, proportionally speaking, with the number of cities in China with populations over 1 million. There are 60 and you've probably not heard of most of them.
One of the things that was most striking to me on my visit was the lights outside of the main districts. Even a poor hole-in-the-wall restaurant with plastic chairs and tables inside (those that would be normally for outdoor picnics in the west) had neon signs and a well-lit visage. And I'm not criticizing in any way. As far as I could tell, bright lights and neon were a sign of "modern" China and thus something that was aspirational in the true sense of the word.
But it seems to me that, after having seen this almost unbelievable aspect of China, a few tens of millions of Brits shivering in the dark during "Earth hour" or reducing their carbon footprints by 10% is unlikely to make a big change in the global sense. I pass no value judgements here. I'm not in any way suggesting that we should not be aware of our carbon footprint, and I'm in favor of trying to be as energy-efficient as possible in all situations, as good stewards of this fantastic planet that I love to explore. But I think it's time to admit that until we figure out how to handle the developing world, including the very modern shiny disco nightclub that is China, we're not likely to make a difference in the grand scheme of things but introducing war-like energy austerity measures in the relatively tiny UK.
Taking the train from Nanjing to Shanghai on a rainy Sunday afternoon, it was hard not to notice the army of workers out in rain-suits working on the railroad tracks. Now admittedly it was only weeks before the opening of the Shanghai Expo, so this could have been a huge anomaly. But compared with everything else I saw in China, I'm guessing it wasn't. The shops were open all day, every day. Important tourist sights were filled with security officers along with the plentiful souvenir shop and food stall workers. Whenever it was raining, people magically appeared at the entrances to the shopping malls to hand umbrella-shaped plastic baggies to all who entered, to keep the floors from getting wet and slippery. Everything was remarkably clean. All garbage bins had sections for recycling and they were never overflowing, even on the wicked-steep sections of the great wall. We actually saw a great wall cleaner lady, who was remarkably fit considering her age (greater than ours) walking along, picking up trash, and emptying the great wall garbage bins. (I admit I had no idea that there would be great wall garbage bins…) But that's getting away from my main point.
Everywhere you looked, people were working.
I returned to the UK on my (thankfully) strike-unaffected BA flight, to a world where the flight attendants are striking, over and over, arguing about money and benefits that would seem amazing to the average Chinese person. There are over one billion of them in China. And surely the recent outcry over immigration reform and "British jobs for British workers" is being carried out in the face of the knowledge that there are many hard-working people in less fortunate countries who would really be quite happy to do jobs, such as BA flight attendant duties, at a fraction of what the current workers are fighting about.
I admit it, in this case I was not so keen on the BA strike even before I headed to China. Striking in a recession seemed a bit foolhardy to me, and that was BEFORE the volcano gods started frowning on European air travel. Surely there are also plenty of people out of work here in Britain who would be happy to take those jobs. But if not, there are a whole lotta other people out there who clearly would.
China changed me. I had read about it for a long time. I was familiar with the economic situation and how quickly it has changed in the last decade or two. But seeing it in person was something else entirely. Reading about a billion people did not mean much until I spent two weeks in those crowds. Reading about the developing economy did not mean much until I saw the shiny disco lights and the people employed to do the most small of tasks, like handing out plastic umbrella bags.
China has itself changed, and quickly. Any economist is familiar with this concept but it's amazing how visible it was to the casual tourist. But my overall impression was definitely one of, "There's a new world order, it's about to start changing in the west, so start bracing yourself now." I can't help but think that we are missing the elephant in the room when it comes to globalization, and although I had read that many times, it didn't mean a thing to me until I saw it. I've started learning Chinese characters after my trip. (Admittedly with a fun iChinese app on my iPhone.) I'm convinced that the world, it is a-changin'.
The scene: a nice hotpot restaurant in Nanjing. We had already been out for hotpot once before, at a more fast-food like place in Nanchang. Hotpot restaurants, for the uninitiated, are where you get a boiling kettle of soup on the table and a stack of uncooked ingredients to deal with on your own. Not to be confused with Korean Barbeque, when you get a stack of uncooked ingredients to deal with on your own and a live grill with charcoal in the center of the table. Totally different. (Ahem.) In either case, you cook your own food, and that is a good thing IMHO.
But as a pescetarian who eats vegetarian much of the time, I was feeling a need for protein in my second round of hotpot, and I had this lovely mental image of small (salad-sized) shrimps that would cook to a lovely pink and be eaten. I was thinking in the manner of someone who lives in England, and finds small pre-cooked shrimps in a package at M&S. So it was a bit of a surprise to me when we ordered some small shrimps for our hotpot and they came in a bowl. Swimming. Alive.
I had been trying so hard to be all "when in Rome" about the food in China, and I had tasted many things that were new to me, like glutinous rice balls.
And I had been drinking Great Wall Red Wine.
But I could not contend with the living shrimps. I balked. I admit it. I could not drop them in the boiling soup to die and to be eaten. Especially with their shells and feet and antennae, which apparently the Chinese spit out. On the table. In the manner of fish bones. Another story there, for another day.
I told my sister that I was balking and tried to just eat hotpot with the vegetables with the live shrimps over on the side in their bowl, never reaching the boiling soup. It was all fine until they started jumping to their doom. Two of the shrimps made it out of the bowl of water and were flailing around on the table near the burner where the hotpot soup was cooking. I could not take it any more. I had to ask my sister, with her proficient Chinese, to get the waiter to take the live shrimps away and to save me from this mess.
It was embarrassing. And expensive. We paid a lot of money for those small shrimps that we never ate. My enthusiasm for hotpot has not diminished, but I do think that I'm quite happy with cabbage and tofu and the like in the manner of vegetables.


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In its 2016 version, the exhibitors of Colombiaplast-Expoempaque will present many new features focused on providing to its customers the innovation work results. As a sample of what you will find in this important exhibition, we have listed below, according to the text and information provided by each Company, some of these new technological developments, trends and the latest advances in the industries and sectors that will be at the event.
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02/09/16 - The company Epicor, dedicated to provide an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software integrated with solutions for customer relationships management (CRM), manufacturing operations, supply chain management (SCM)... more
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31/08/16 - For its exhibition in Colombiaplast-Expoempaque 2016, Enka de Colombia, committed to sustainability and care of the country, will offer to the Colombian market the product EKO® PET, a resin made from recycled bottles and suitable... more
30/08/16 - This year, the Yizumi's stad will present a brand of injectors, new to the Colombian market, but with great worldwide experience, this brand also provides molds and robots to give complete solutions for injection... more
29/08/16 - On this occasion, ZONA FRANCA PARQUE CENTRAL will launch a Super Cluster, which will help strengthen the competitiveness and productivity of businesses that are part of this great project... more
26/08/16 - For this version of Colombiaplast-Expoempaque, Grupo Interconsult, a Colombian-German company, dedicated to the import and distribution of machinery for plastic extrusion and thermoforming, will present to the attendees information about the latest technological developments in each of its represented brands... more
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Eulalia Dalila Pojoy Cuyuch, 33 of Guatemala, with her 6-month-old daughter Bernardethe, daughter Diana,14, and son Davis,15, cross a check point before turning themselves into Customs asking for asylum on June 14, 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico. She fled an abuser in Mexico City and had to inform her 3 children that they will probably be separated at the border. She is going to ask for asylum as a victim of domestic violence. (Gina Ferazzi/Los AngelesTimes/TNS) TNS
Following President Donald Trump's reversal on his administration's immigration policy last week, Trump this week has made it clear that he wants asylum seekers to be turned away at the borders.
Trump signed an executive order on June 20 ending the "zero tolerance" policy that separates families at the border.
The policy has resulted in more than 2,300 family separations, and has faced heavy criticism from migrant advocates, Democrats, and, increasingly, some Republicans.
But just four days later, he tweeted that, "When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no judges or court cases, bring them back from where they came." He followed up on Monday with another tweet, saying, "People must simply be stopped at the border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally."
Prior to his executive order, there had been reports that some asylum seekers who arrived at the U.S. through the proper ports of entry were facing delays and in some cases, being turned away entirely.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week claimed asylum seekers "can go to our ports of entry, if they want to claim asylum. And they won't be arrested."
But migrant advocates say that is not the case.
"We have seen an active effort to deter asylum seekers legally crossing the border to get to the inspection where they can actually petition for asylum or refugee status," said Fernando Garcia, the executive director and founder of the Border Network for Human Rights.
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Closing event of the 2015 International Year of Soils "Healthy soil for healthy life"
Created in 2006, the EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR AGRICULTURAL RECYCLING assembles and represents European companies specialising in landspreading of Biosolids.
EFAR participates actively in the discussions regarding the evolution of the regulation at national and European level. EFAR also carry out different types of studies to enhance the knowledge on the impact of Biosolids landspreading on public health and on the environment.
The landspreading of Biosolids in agriculture must be undertaken with utmost professionalism. Indeed, it is necessary to guarantee soil and crop quality through the different steps of Biosolids land application.
Engineers and technicians of EFAR maintain a direct contact with farmers and Biosolids producers. Their mission is to implement the landspreading operations in accordance with the European and national regulation and to optimise the beneficial use of Biosolids.
Communication is one of the key factors in the success of Biosolids landspreading. Transparency with farmers, food producers, local authorities and consumers is critical to EFAR members. All these stakeholders must have direct access to information. They have to be constructive and responsible partners because they are also Biosolids producers.
C.R.E. Centro Ricerche Ecologiche S.p.A.


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Maça Liçana, Maça de Liçana o Maza Lizana és un llinatge de rics-homes i senyors establerts al Regne de València arran de la conquesta per Jaume I.
Entre els seus dominis, van ostentar els senyorius de Moixent, Novelda, Monòver, la Font de la Figuera o Xinosa, entre altres.

Els orígens cal cercar-los en les dues nissagues, ambdues aragoneses. Els Maça són datats al , amb cavallers com Fortún Maça o Pero Maça de Sangarrén, qui participa en la conquesta de Mallorca. Pel que fa als Liçana, han estat relacionats amb el castell que duu el seu nom d'ençà el .

Arribats al Regne de València, els llinatges s'uneixen amb el matrimoni entre el Pere Maça III (m. 1363) i la seua segona esposa, Blanca de Liçana i Luna. L'hereu va ser Pere IV Maça i de Liçana (m. 1394), qui ostentarà el senyoriu de Moixent. Li va continuar Pere V Maça de Liçana i d'Alagó (m. 1448), conegut com el Barbut, qui a més de Moixent també posseeix la Font de la Figuera, Novelda, Monòver i el castell de Mola, entre altres senyorius, com ara el de Xinosa, que incloïa els actuals municipis del Pinós, l'Alguenya o la Romana. Pere V també va ser governador d'Oriola des de 1428.

El fill de Pere V i Brianda Cornell de Luna fou en Martí Maça de Liçana i Cornell, també governador d'Oriola a partir de 1451. Casat amb Rafaela de Rocafull, qui era germana del senyor d'Albatera, va tindre com a successor el seu fill Pere VI Maça de Liçana i Rocafull. Pere VI va rebre del seu avi Pere V els senyorius de Moixent, Monòver, la Font de la Figuera, Novelda, Xinosa, Pinet i el castell de la Mola, així com altres possessions heretades dels seus oncles Maça de Liçana i Cornell.

El fill de Pere VI i Beatriu Carròs d'Arborea, Pere VI Maça de Liçana i Carròs d'Arborea (m. 1545), conegut com el Modern, també hi va exercir la governació d'Oriola. En les Germanies hi va perdre bona part del seu patrimoni. Hi va tindre un fill natural amb Esperança Cascante, en Joan Maça de Liçana i Cascante (m. 1547). Aquest Joan va ser legitimat pel rei Carles III d'Espanya i va esdevindre en cinquè senyor de Moixent.

Joan Maça de Liçana i la seua muller, Guiomar de Castro, no van tindre descendència, de manera que el patrimoni va quedar dividit: Monòver i Xinosa van anar cap a la seua família materna, els Cascante, mentre que Moixent, Novelda, la Font de la Figuera, el castell de la Mola, Benimaclet i altres dominis, van ser heretats per la seua tia Brianda Maça de Liçana i Carròs d'Arborea, qui va morir soltera després de donar, el 1548, dels seus títols al llinatge dels Lladró de Vilanova.

Els Lladró de Vilanova, però, van perdre bona part d'eixos dominis cap al 1570, arran d'un plet interposat per un altre Joan Maça de Liçana, net de Gaspar, germà il·legítim de Pere VI. El plet es va allargar fins a principis del .

Un segle després, el 1739, Josep Caro i Maça de Liçana suma el marquesat de la Romana als senyorius de Moixent i Novelda. Els seus descendents mantindran el llinatge Caro, tot desapareixent el Maça de Liçana, com es pot veure en el seu net i successor, Pere Caro i Sureda (1761-1811).

Referències

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Fabiana Bravo è nata nel Dipartimento di Guaymallén, fuori Mendoza, in Argentina, da una famiglia di modesti mezzi. Si trasferì a Buenos Aires all'età di 22 anni e cercò attivamente parti nella vivace scena teatrale della città. Apparve in Drácula di José Cibrián e in Broadway Follies e Broadway II di Peter MacFarlane, tra le altre produzioni. Fu un programma di borse di studio personalizzato all'Università Cattolica d'America che portò Fabiana Bravo dall'Argentina a Washington DC. Da lì studiò anche interpretazione all'Istituto Renata Scotto di Savona, Italia e il Repertorio Verdiano al Teatro Regio di Parma, Italia.

Accettò alla fine un programma di borsa di studio di un anno per studiare a Voghera, in Italia, presso l'Academy of Vocal Arts. Il suo talento fu notato dalla cantante Valeria Lynch, che assunse la Bravo e che, nel 1995, la presentò al tenore italiano Luciano Pavarotti. Pavarotti incluse la Bravo in un concorso per talenti operistici, che vinse e che la portò con Pavarotti a ruoli come Lucia di Lammermoor all'Academy of Music di Filadelfia. Fabiana Bravo incontrò la Corte suprema degli Stati Uniti d'America nel 1999 dove si esibì e questo portò il riconoscimento della sua città natale di Mendoza, attraverso una serie di recital sudamericani molto popolari.

Fu aggiunta allo staff del Metropolitan Opera nella stagione 2001/2002 e continua a esibirsi a New York, Washington, San Francisco e Chicago con regolarità. In seguito avrebbe interpretato Tosca, la contessa Almaviva, Leonora, Giorgetta e Madama Butterfly in alcune dei teatri più famosi del mondo. Nel 1999 è stata nominata Donna dell'anno in Argentina per i suoi notevoli contributi alle arti. Ha anche ricevuto numerosi premi come Plácido Domingo Operalia Finalist, Opera Index winner e Met Council Winner of the Regional Finalist Competition.

Negli ultimi anni la Bravo ha cantato la Contessa Almaviva ne Le nozze di Figaro (1997), Mimi ne La bohème (1998), Donna Anna nel Don Giovanni (1999) e il ruolo della protagonista in Ariadne auf Naxos (2002), tutti in produzioni d'opera della Summer Opera Theatre Company di Washington DC. Canta anche con Virginia Opera, dove la sua interpretazione di Donna Anna l'ha fatta riconoscere come artista molto ricercata.

Ora è un nome rinomato nel mondo dell'opera internazionale e si esibisce in concerti e in palcoscenici operistici in tutto il mondo. La signora Bravo attualmente risiede a Washington, DC e a Mendoza, in Argentina.

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Armendáriz, Alberto, "Fabiana Bravo en Nueva York" (in Spanish), La Nación, May 5, 2006
Regenstreif, Gary, , Toronto Star, December 24, 1996, p. D4
Tommasini, Anthony, "Thwarting Love and Greed In Puccini's Three One-Acts", The New York Times, September 12, 2002

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I have had more hummus in the last week than I've had in the last year. And I am in Thailand.
Don't get me wrong, I love hummus. If I were stranded on a deserted island, and all I had to eat for the rest of my life was hummus, I'd be thrilled. But to find more Middle Eastern and macrobiotic delights than Thai food on a Thai island (which is far from being deserted)… it's very disorienting.
Koh Pha Ngan — and specifically the area where we're staying, Srithanu — is proving to be a very intriguing place. It's full of yogis and Israelis. Hippies are everywhere, like Austin in the 80's. Vegetarian restaurants abound. There is shockingly good pizza made by proud Italians. And delicious cheese plates and duck confit are served on a beautiful, quiet beach by beautiful, quiet people from France.
The pace, energy, and approach to life here couldn't be more different from Kuala Lumpur — it's been a dramatic, fascinating transition — and, much to my surprise, one that I desperately needed.
Kuala Lumpur is intense because of its chaos. I enjoyed the city, absolutely. I met interesting locals, ate extremely well, and for a short time felt like I actually lived there. But it was only when we arrived in Srithanu that I realized how much KL stressed me out. And, to be fair, that's not all the city's fault.
KL is where we — seventy strangers — were thrown together to get to know one another under extreme circumstances, trying to sort out our individual remote life rhythms, needs, and personalities while negotiating group dynamics, working, and exploring our new home in Southeast Asia. To say that our situation during Month One was normal on any level would be a serious understatement. But we survived, mostly unscathed. And here we are in Month Two.
Srithanu in Koh Pha Ngan is island life at its most calm and mellow (all OM, all the time). Our full group is spread out over three different "resorts" which range quite a bit in style. I'm at the most rustic of the bunch, Bovy Beach. And while I'm not typically a rustic girl (I can hear several of my friends saying "correct!"), there are certain aspects of it that are perfect for me.
At Bovy we are in bungalows directly on the sand, and I can watch the most magnificent sunsets from my porch. My fellow Bovy residents and I are in sync socially and energy-wise (that's us in the photo below), and I feel a sense of calm in Remote Year now that I did not have in KL.
The whole experience is challenging me to seek out and identify the things that will make it right, good, and worth it for me. I am learning that I tend to prefer smaller groups to big ones. I like being chill. I don't like drinking the way I used to (i.e. a lot). And I'm terrified of being seen as a cliché, loud American tourist.
In many ways, Remote Year thus far has also thrown me into a bit of an identity crisis. When you meet 70 strangers, how do you present yourself? All they know about me is what I tell them, and what I reveal on social media. How do I want to be known and perceived? It hadn't occurred to me at the time, but when we had to do a quick stand up in front of the full group to introduce ourselves — a pecha kucha — I never once talked about my resume.
As someone who has spent the majority of my adult life feeling defined by my career — allowing myself to be wholly consumed by it for at least a decade — this marked an important shift for me, one that I plan to embrace but that also scares me a bit. I love what I do, but if I'm no longer defined by it, what am I defined by? Do I need to be defined at all? Maybe this is what it feels like to go nomad.
Koh Pha Ngan is a place I can see staying for a while. I wake up next to the sea every day, then go to a lovely yoga studio that is a stone's throw from my bungalow. In every class, we work on opening something, usually our hips, which has proven to be very important since in most restaurants here you sit on the floor. I haven't sat cross-legged this much since kindergarten, and my hips are working hard to adjust.
Opening up and being comfortable in the uncomfortable… that's where I'm at in most aspects of my life right now. And, for this month in Thailand at least, the view — and the hummus — couldn't be better.


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"Beginnings and Endings" is the first episode of Season 2 of Dark. It premiered on June 21, 2019, and is the 11th episode overall.
2.1 June 21, 1921
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Six months after the disappearances, the police form a task force. In 2052, [sic] Jonas learns that most of Winden perished in an apocalyptic event.
"And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
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June 21, 1921[edit | edit source]
On June 21, 1921, two men are excavating the Winden Caves. The older one, who has a tattoo of the Emerald Tablet, is chiseling at a stone. He remarks that it is strange that something could be a beginning as well as an ending. The younger man responds, "Sic Mundus Creatus Est: And thus the world was created." The first man redoubles his efforts, reciting the Latin phrase.
Afterwards, they exit the cave. The younger man asks if the older man still believes in "the prophecy". He is noncommittal, making a joke about the irony of fate. The younger man reminds him "Adam" has told them everything must happen as it always has. In six days, hell on earth will end, and it will be paradise. He perceives, however, that the older man has lost his faith. The older man asks if this was why Adam sent him; he has been expecting it but finds it interesting that the young man should be the one Adam sent. He tells him to ask why Adam took him in and chose to call him "Noah". The young man, Noah, takes a pickaxe and stabs the older man multiple times, killing him.
Elsewhere, the older Noah opens his notebook, removes a photograph from the page, and comes to a circled entry: "June 27, 2020: Beginning of the last cycle".
Jonas Kahnwald and Martha Nielsen are making love in a softly lit room. He tells her, "You and I are perfect for each other. Never believe anything else." Jonas then awakens with a start in his bedroom: It was all a dream. He is fully clothed; his hair is long and disheveled. He pulls his father's suicide note out of his pocket. He goes downstairs. The house is empty and dilapidated. There is a calendar is on the wall from June 2020: The first twenty-one days are X-ed off, and the date June 27 is circled. He removes a family photo from the wall and leaves the house, pulling up a face mask. He walks through the abandoned wasteland that is post-apocalyptic Winden.
He goes down into the bunker. Photos of the people of Winden are on the wall, connected by strings. He takes a cassette tape recorded by Claudia Tiedemann. She says she was one of the few survivors of the apocalypse of June 27, 2020, and hopes that if the God particle can be stabilized, it might provide a way back to the past to save them all. He picks up the medal of St. Christopher and looks at a picture of Martha.
He walks through the desolate landscape and comes to a wall marked "Caution, Restricted area." The nuclear power plant lies beyond the wall. Passing it by, he continues walking and enters a makeshift graveyard, near the church, where the graves of Aleksander Tiedemann, Torben Wöller, Justyna Jankowski, and Martha lie; all of them are marked June 27, 2020. He comes to his father's grave and places the family photo on it.
6 days until the apocalypse (June 27, 2020)[edit | edit source]
On June 21, Hannah Kahnwald is listening to the radio, which announces that more than six months after the disappearances of four teenagers (Mikkel Nielsen, Erik Obendorf, Yasin Friese, and Jonas), a senior citizen (Helge Doppler), and a police officer (Ulrich Nielsen), there are still no clues as to their whereabouts. A federal police task force will be assisting the investigation, to be headed by W. Clausen. She crosses June 21 off on the calendar: the first anniversary of her husband's death.
At the Tiedemann household, Regina Tiedemann, pale and having lost hair as a result of her cancer treatment, is visited by her doctor. He tells her he is worried about her lab results and suggests she be admitted to the hospital, but she insists on staying at home. The doctor agrees to wait until additional test results come in, but warns that she may need to resume chemotherapy. Her son Bartosz looks on, as he receives a text message from Martha, who wants to see him at the bridge.
In the auditorium of Winden Comprehensive School, Clausen tells everyone that he and Charlotte Doppler will be re-investigating everything. Jürgen Obendorf rises and protests that is not enough. His son has been missing for more than six months. Clausen responds that a new person can view the case from different angles.
At the lake, Magnus Nielsen asks Franziska Doppler if her mother ever talks about the missing persons. "Not to us." They kiss. She is interrupted by a text message and tells him she has to go to take care of her younger sister Elisabeth, who has been staying with a friend. However, she goes to the railroad tracks and places an envelope in a box she has buried, which Magnus witnesses.
Later, Benni takes the box, removes the envelope that Franziska left, and replaces it with another envelope, as Magnus watches. He follows Benni to her trailer. He goes inside. Benni solicits him. Shocked, he leaves hurriedly.
Katharina Nielsen, meanwhile, goes to the cave.
Martha rides her bike to the bridge where Bartosz is waiting. He tells her he has tried calling her. She tells him there's a lot going on, she has wanted to talk for a while. Bartosz realizes they are done. He tells her it is because of Jonas. She says that has nothing to do with it, he has really changed, she has no idea what is going on with him. He tells her his mother is dying and there are things he can't tell her. She responds that she has to deal with a missing brother and father and a mother who barely acknowledges her. She tells him it's better this way and leaves. Bartosz then receives a text message from an unknown sender: "This evening." Later he meets with Noah at the caves, who asks him if he is prepared. He nods.
At the power plant, Aleksander Tiedemann gives a speech for the upcoming decommissioning of the power plant, thanking the employees for their loyalty. He then goes underground in a protective suit and is told everything is ready for transport. Any radiation will be traced back to the previous use of the pools. Later, concrete is poured over the barrels of nuclear waste.
At home alone, Hannah pulls out the box with Aleksander's gun and passport. She takes the gun and aims it at her chin. Just then she hears the door opening with a key. The Stranger enters. She asks him how he has a key. He tells her it's his key. He shows her the scar he has from falling off the bike she and his father gave him for his eighth birthday. He tells her they saw each other thirty-three years ago ("Sic Mundus Creatus Est"). He tells her he is Jonas, even though he is much older. They tearfully embrace. He explains that he exists infinitely. She asks where "her" Jonas is, and he replies that he is stuck in the future, because he had attempted to destroy the time portal, but only succeeded in closing it. He tells her he has come to put an end to everything.
Noah states that there are no coincidences: Every path in life is predetermined and happens when it is supposed to. At the St. Christopher church, still in the midst of construction, he tells his younger self that he has taken his first step, and Adam will be proud. The young Noah wants to know how to tell good from evil. The older Noah tells him to listen only to him (himself), since he is his own inner voice.
Jonas walks through the forest and comes to a group standing in front of gallows, as a man is hanged. An elder female soldier signs to another female soldier, the teenaged girl that knocked Jonas unconscious last November, that entering the dead zone is forbidden, that anyone who does so will be put to death. She tells everyone that they are the future, "Sic Mundus Creatus Est." They tell Jonas the passage will open and lead them to paradise. "Those without faith are already dead." He tells them all his family and friends have died. The deaf female head soldier is a middle-aged Elisabeth Doppler.
Elisabeth and her father Peter go to Tannhaus's clock shop. She asks about her grandparents, who died when her mother was still young, She finds a framed picture of the late H.G. Tannhaus with a young Charlotte, who raised her. In a book she finds an old photograph. She recognizes a man in it who gave her the watch—Noah.
At the police station, Clausen asks Charlotte whether she thinks Ulrich might have been involved in the case, having called her just before he disappeared. She dismisses the phone call as a misdial and says she deleted the voicemail. Torben Wöller arrives with statements from the parents as requested by Clausen.
Later that night, Peter texts his discovery to Charlotte. Charlotte, still at the station, leaves Clausen and goes to meet Peter at the bunker. He shows her the photograph with Noah, which has January 8, 1921, and "Sic Mundus Creatus Est" written on the back. She adds it to the other photos on the wall of the bunker.
Adam speaks about the futility of existence. He asks if Noah "showed" Bartosz, to which Noah nods. Noah also affirms that Bartosz did not suspect a thing. Adam remarks how Bartosz has always been naïve by nature. He then tells him that the apocalypse must happen, just as one must burn a dead forest so new trees may grow. He instructs Noah to find the missing pages of the leather notebook.
Magnus finds Martha looking through the materials in Mikkel's room; she shows him photos and tells him she thinks Katharina is in the caves.
Bartosz is seen approaching the cave entrance with a flashlight and seems to be waiting for someone. Noah appears out of the cave darkness and asks if he is prepared. Bartosz nods and they go into the cave together. Noah is seen carrying what appears to be a leather bag.
Torben emerges from Benni's trailer, checking that nobody has seen him. He thanks her for the coffee and gives her an envelope. He tells her to call mother and they hug. She hands him keys which open a truck opposite, which he drives away.
Jonas walks through the derelict power plant. With his orb light and Geiger counter, he follows its signal as it intensifies and sees the God particle.
Cast[edit | edit source]
Max Schimmelpfennig as young Noah
Roman Knizka as "Man in Cave" (1921)
Mark Waschke as the older Noah
Lisa Vicari as Martha Nielsen
Louis Hofmann as the teenage Jonas Kahnwald
Maja Schöne as Hannah Kahnwald
Paul Lux as Bartosz Tiedemann
Peter Benedict as Aleksander Tiedemann
Deborah Kaufmann as Regina Tiedemann
Karoline Eichorn as Charlotte Doppler
Sylvester Groth as Inspector Clausen
Gina Alice Stiebitz as Franziska Doppler
Moritz Jahn as Magnus Nielsen
Nele Trebs as teenage Katharina Nielsen
Andreas Pietschmann as the adult Jonas Kahnwald (The Stranger)
Lisa Kreuzer as Claudia Tiedemann
Lea van Acken as "Girl from the Future"
Sandra Borgmann as the adult Elisabeth Doppler (2053)
Carlotta von Falkenhayn as the childhood Elisabeth Doppler (2020)
Stephan Kampwirth as Peter Doppler
Dietrich Hollinderbäumer as Adam
Carina Wiese as "Unknown Woman 1921"
Leopold Hornung as Torben Wöller
Nieke Schymura as Justyna Jankowski
Tom Jahn as Jürgen Obendorf
Anton Rubtsov as Benni
Andreas Schröders as "Power Plant Worker #1"
Frédéric Vonhof as "future scientist"
Jördis Triebel as adult Katharina Nielsen
Will Beinbrink as the voice of the Stranger
Christian Kuchenbuch as Regina's doctor
Tamar Pelzig as the voice of Franziska and Doris
Frederik Klaus as "Police Officer" (uncredited)
Quotes[edit | edit source]
Mysteries[edit | edit source]
Who is the man outside the cave that Noah kills? Why has he been expecting his death?
What is "paradise"? Why does its beginning coincide with the day of the apocalypse?
Who is Adam? Why did he "take in" Noah?
Why is June 27, 2020, the day of the apocalypse, the beginning of the "last cycle"? What is the "last cycle"?
What is the photograph that Noah removes from the notebook?
Jonas's dream: Is it a memory? When did he and Martha have sex?
Who circled the date June 27, 2020, on the calendar? Hannah only marks it up to the 21.
What is Franziska's business with Benni?
Why is the middle-aged Elisabeth so militant about people not entering the "dead zone" (the ruined nuclear power plant)? If it is the God particle, what concerns her about it?
How did Elisabeth survive the apocalypse while many others did not?
Who were Charlotte's parents?
Why does H.G. Tannhaus have a photograph of Adam's "Sic Mundus Creatus Est" group?
Who is Adam's group? What do they do? What do they want?
What is the cause of Adam's disfigurement?
Why does Adam desire for the apocalypse to happen? Why does he want the missing pages of the book?
Who are "they" who are waiting for Adam?
Where is Adam's lair?
Why did the Stranger look at the floor in the Kahnwald house while speaking with Hannah?
Does Clausen have an ulterior motive or is he simply a dedicated investigator?
Where is Noah taking Bartosz? What is in his briefcase?
Where did the God particle come from?
Answers[edit | edit source]
The tunnel containing the wormhole allowing for time travel in the caves was man-made and created by Adam's "Sic Mundus Creatus Est" group, of which Noah is also a part.
Noah does in fact age (of course) and was once a teenager. At that age, he kills a man in what appears to be cold blood.
The destruction of 2052 seen at the end of "Alpha and Omega" was caused by the apocalypse, a catastrophe of still unknown cause and other specifics.
Peter revealed everything to Charlotte about the events of last November, and Charlotte put forward her finding of Ulrich in a newspaper from 1953 as well. The two have been working together in investigation of time travel.
Many people died in the apocalypse (or at least on that day), including Aleksander, Wöller, Martha, and Justyna Jankowski.
H.G. Tannhaus is confirmed to be Charlotte's grandfather. While it was hinted at in "Double Lives" when Charlotte spoke of her grandfather's scientific obsessions, it was not confirmed until this episode.
Benni has been holding onto the truck full of yellow barrels at the truck stop for Wöller. They are also revealed to be siblings.
Themes and Motifs[edit | edit source]
Time[edit | edit source]
The episode opens on June 21, 1921. It is exactly ninety-eight years before the first date we see in "Secrets". The rest of the episode takes place on June 21 in the years 2020 and 2053.
The apocalypse, and the beginning of the last cycle, is June 27, 2020.
Claudia's voice on the cassette tape says it has been three months since the catastrophe. This would place the recording in September.
The date card reading June 21, 2020, includes the subtitle "6 days until the apocalypse". This commences the countdown that will continue throughout the season until the apocalypse.
Hannah has been marking days off on her calendar. She has made it to the present day, June 21. It is exactly one year since Michael's suicide.
It has been over six months, nearly seven months since the disappearances of last season.
The nuclear power plant will be shutting down in six days—the day of the apocalypse. This decommission was first referenced in "Secrets".
The Stranger references his passing meeting with Hannah over thirty-three years ago on November 8, 1986 ("Sic Mundus Creatus Est").
Both the young Noah and the middle-aged Elisabeth say that in six days, paradise will begin. Noah says this is when "hell on Earth" will end, and Elisabeth says the passage in the caves will open and allow them to reach paradise.
The date on the photograph of Adam's group is January 8, 1921—that would be just over six months ago, by the logic of the time travel of the show.
Observations[edit | edit source]
The title of this episode is similar to the title of "Alpha and Omega": The Beginning and the End.
The older man in the opening scene is credited only as "Man in Cave".
He tells the other to ask why Adam called him Noah. In the Biblical Book of Genesis, Adam was the first creation of God, whereas Noah was the man chosen to survive the deluge when the rest of humanity was destroyed, hinting at a role for Noah to play after the apocalypse. Noah suggested his intentions with the time machine chair and why at least he would consider himself "Noah" during his conversation with Helge in 1986 in "Everything Is Now".
Both Jonases sleep in their bedroom—the younger in 2053, the older in 2020.
Hannah has lost her husband, son and lover.
The deaf female head soldier in 2052 is Elisabeth Doppler.
If you look closely, Agnes Nielsen is standing to Noah's right in the "Sic Mundus" photograph. This foreshadows her history with the group.
The book in which Elisabeth finds the photo of Noah with Agnes is The Kybalion, a book claiming to provide the complete teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published originally in 1908 (the edition showed in the episode is from 1940). Like the Emerald Tablet, it is a core text of Hermeticism.
The radioactive barrels are buried in concrete in 2020. The room where they are buried is discovered by Jonas in 2053. A massive, pulsating mess of black matter and faint blue light floats over top the spot.
→ See 41 images from Beginnings and Endings at Images from Beginnings and Endings.
Angry Young Noahs
Waiting death
Marking the days
Claudia's tapes
Forest of corpses
Confiscated equipment
The condemned Frenchman
Elisabeth and Silja
Talk of paradise
Bartosz contemplates his mother
Regina talks to the doctor
At the school
Another town assembly
Katharina reaches the caves
The ruins of Winden
Signs outside the dead zone
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Martha upset with Bartosz
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The old reactor chamber
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Sad Hannah
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Sad Jonas
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Martha explores Mikkel's room
The Fall of the Damned
Magnus at Benni's trailer
Torben and Benni's encounter
Peter and Charlotte in the bunker
Elisabeth waits for her parents
A literal coverup
Aleksander in a different suit
Clausen takes a drag
Clausen's own wall
Exploring the ruins
Sic Mundus Creatus Est, if cruder
Navigation[edit | edit source]
Dark Episodes
"Secrets" · "Lies" · "Past and Present" · "Double Lives" · "Truths" · "Sic Mundus Creatus Est" · "Crossroads" · "As You Sow, so You Shall Reap" · "Everything Is Now" · "Alpha and Omega"
"Beginnings and Endings" · "Dark Matter" · "Ghosts" · "The Travelers" · "Lost and Found" · "An Endless Cycle" · "The White Devil" · "Endings and Beginnings"
"Deja-vu" · "The Survivors" · "Adam and Eva" · "The Origin" · "Life and Death" · "Light and Shadow" · "Between the Time" · "The Paradise"
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While the film loses some steam before its lackluster amusement-park ending, there are enough laughs and old-fashioned zombie kills to keep even the most casual fans of the horror-comedy genre happy. It doesn't hurt that Harrelson is at the top of his game here, and that Zombieland features a cameo that would earn instant induction into the Cinematic Cameo Hall of Fame, if such an establishment actually existed.
Amusing sequences include Amber Heard as 406 (named after her apartment number), who we see in a flashback. She has a touching moment, falling asleep in virgin Columbus' arms after narrowly escaping a zombie bite ... or so she claims. However, the moment involving the aforementioned cameo is the highlight of the movie. (Do not look at the cast list online or do any Google searches. Go to the movie, and allow yourself to be surprised by the cameo!)
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Q: cmake build error, files doesn't seem to exist I'm working with ubuntu-sdk on ubuntu-15.04.
I created a qml project with cmake and 3 kits:

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*Desktop

*UbuntuSDK_for_armhf_GCC_ubuntu_sdk_15_04

*UbuntuSDK_for_i386_GCC_ubuntu_sdk_15_04

When I try to run the default app on my ubuntu phone. There is a built-problem occurring.
This is the ouput:
Makefile:295: recipe for target 'cmake_check_build_system' failed
CMake Error at /var/lib/schroot/chroots/click-ubuntu-sdk-15.04-armhf/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/cmake/Qt5Core/Qt5CoreConfig.cmake:27 (message):
  The imported target "Qt5::Core" references the file

     "/var/lib/schroot/chroots/click-ubuntu-sdk-15.04-armhf/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/qt5/bin/moc"

But this file does not exist.  Possible reasons include:

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*The file was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.

*An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.

*The installation package was faulty and contained "/var/lib/schroot/chroots/click-ubuntu-sdk-15.04-armhf/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/cmake/Qt5Core/Qt5CoreConfigExtras.cmake"
But not all the files it references.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /var/lib/schroot/chroots/click-ubuntu-sdk-15.04-armhf/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/cmake/Qt5Core/Qt5CoreConfigExtras.cmake:17 (_qt5_Core_check_file_exists)
  /var/lib/schroot/chroots/click-ubuntu-sdk-15.04-armhf/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/cmake/Qt5Core/Qt5CoreConfig.cmake:158 (include)
  CMakeLists.txt:7 (find_package)

What could I do to fix the error?
Thanks for all the answers coming up.

A: It's from the qtbase5-dev-tools package. Make sure that it's installed inside that chroot.
Go to something like options -> manage to get into a command line of that toolkit.