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Rolling on the River
Rick Damato
When Roofing Contractor asked Bennett Hutchison III what he liked best about the new home he and his wife, Gayle, were constructing in Atlanta, he answered without hesitation, "The river … it's just so peaceful."
After their home on the Chattahoochee River was destroyed in a flood, Bennett Hutchison III and his wife, Gayle, decided to rebuild on the site. The new home is 50 feet back from the river, as required by the current code. Photos courtesy of MetalForming
When Roofing Contractor asked Bennett Hutchison III what he liked best about the new home he and his wife, Gayle, were constructing in Atlanta, he answered without hesitation, "The river … it's just so peaceful." The river is the Chattahoochee River that runs from northeastern Georgia through Metropolitan Atlanta and strikes much of the border between Alabama and Georgia on its way to the Gulf of Mexico, passing through the panhandle of Florida.
The Chattahoochee was anything but peaceful on Sept. 21, 2009. That was the day that the river crested at close to 30 feet, destroying the original Hutchison home constructed on its picturesque bank. A combination of decades of rapid growth in the counties north of Atlanta coupled with 24 hours of torrential rains and other factors conspired to yield what the U.S. Geological Survey described as a "500-year flood."
The roof is a structural standing-seam Pac Clad 24-gauge galvanized, pre-finished metal roof in Forest Green.
Hutchison is president of Tip Top Roofers Inc., Smyrna, Ga. It would take another feature article to chronicle his accomplishments in the roofing industry that include running Tip Top Roofers since taking over from his father 30 years ago. Hutchison has served in key positions of several state and local roofing industry associations, as well as the National Roofing Contractors Association, of which he is a past president.
Tip Top Roofers was founded by Hutchison's grandfather, Bennett Hutchison Sr., in 1923 as a residential roofing concern. The second generation was led by Hutchison's father, Bennett Hutchison Jr., uncle Guy Hutchison, and their partner, William F. "Scoop" Scupine. The trio guided the enterprise into the commercial arena and grew sales to $3 million per year. Hutchison III and his associates grew the firm into a preeminent commercial firm that boasts marquee roofing projects such as the headquarters for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the Georgia State Capitol Building. Tip Top Roofers was ahead of the curve when it established a separate repair division back in 1982. Today, Tip Top Roofers Service Corporation serves as a completely separate enterprise and is the focus of Hutchison's future business growth plans.
MetalForming's Dale Kroskey sets up the Schlebach Quadro Cinco with its computer-integrated roof manufacturing (CIRM) system.
We cannot really introduce you to Bennett Hutchison without telling you about some of his other pursuits. Hutchison is a big game hunter, and the Tip Top Roofers offices are full of an impressive array of trophies, most notably the "Big Four" of the Antelope species (actually only three so far - number four will be sought next year in Zambia). It is no wonder that Bennett and Gayle chose to move from the suburbs to live in the (typically) peaceful and natural surroundings of this riverside estate. Here they can enjoy the amenities of city life while sheltered from city noise in a place where their neighbors include hawks, ducks and mountain trout. The decision to rebuild was almost instantaneous.
MetalForming's Geoff Stone (left) discusses CIRM with C.A. Cobb and Bennett Hutchison of Tip Top Roofers.
Rebuilding on the Site
The couple struck a deal that has Gayle keeping an eye on the business while Bennett sees to the construction of the new home that is being built 50 feet back from the river as required by the prevailing code. The old home was built only a few feet from the bank, a practice which was not uncommon at the time of the original construction.
Hutchison tapped his good friend, Jim Chisolm, to perform the design work and architect Michael Glass to put plans for the new home into place. The home, necessarily built on concrete pilings high above the river bank, fits in perfectly with its surroundings. Despite being located only a few miles from downtown Atlanta, the home is situated at the end of a cul-de-sac and is surrounded by a canopy of old-growth trees. The river views are unspoiled by anything manmade. The exterior appointments include heavy cedar shakes and natural and cultured stone with stucco trim. With the green metal roof the structure will virtually melt into its natural surroundings upon completion.
The pre-cut panels are lifted to the roof, ready to install.
Making great use of the elevation of the structure, the home will feature a sizable garage area on the ground level as well as a generous patio/deck. There are expansive river views from the main rooms on the two upper levels. Rooms on both levels feature broad doors that will open fully to decks creating a fusion of the interior with nature.
As with any home, none of the interior features will last without a great roof overhead. The Hutchisons' choice was a structural standing-seam Pac Clad 24 GA galvanized, pre-finished metal roof in Forest Green. Mid-States Asphalt Quik-Stick HT, designed primarily for metal and tile roofs, was chosen to provide the primary layer of waterproofing protection. No surprise that Tip Top Roofers was chosen as the roofing contractor on this project.
Pre-cut angles allow rapid installation, minimizing time and saving on labor costs.
C.A. Cobb, a 38-year Tip-Top veteran, is the sheet metal superintendent, and he took a personal interest in this project. Randy "Bubba" Russell was lead foreman/crew chief on the job. Around 30 percent of Tip Top's business volume is in metal roofing and roofing-related sheet metal work, so this was not a stretch for the experienced team.
Tip Top is equipped with a Schlebach Quadro roll-forming system so the choice was made to roll the panels on the jobsite. The Quadro system is marketed in North America by MetalForming, Inc. of Peachtree City, Georgia. MetalForming furnishes a wide variety of sheet metal forming equipment and specializes in computer-operated folding, shearing, and roll-forming equipment. Tip Top employs several other MetalForming machines in their sheet metal operations. Prior to construction, Hutchison and MetalForming's owner, Geoff Stone, got together to discuss the project. Stone offered to make this a demonstration project of his newest roll-forming system - the Schlebach Quadro Cinco with its computer-integrated roof manufacturing (CIRM) system. The two agreed and invited Roofing Contractor to the site to see how it all came together.
Bennett Hutchison III is president of Tip Top Roofers Inc. of Smyrna, Ga.
Computer-integrated manufacturing is not new, and has been used in other industries for four decades. CIRM is, however, new to jobsite fabrication of metal roofing panels. The idea of CIRM is to take a roof plan and convert it to a 3-D digitized roof plan in TopView software. The as-built dimensions of the roof are fed into the computer and the machine produces the panels notched, trimmed, and cut to the precise dimension for installation.
To break all this down for us, Dale Kroskey, vice president of product development for MetalForming, oversaw the demonstration project. He was joined by Joe Lilly, owner of SpecWise, exclusive provider of TopView software. Stone was there to answer questions and provide color commentary for the entire process. No pressure, but we do not think this homeowner is going to accept any sub-par work.
The home was designed to blend into the natural environment.
State-of-the-Art Roll Forming
The Quadro Cinco complete with the CIRM capability is trailer-mounted. It begins with a decoiler system followed by the computer-automated notching system. The computer is mounted on the outboard side of the trailer and features touch-screen technology and a rugged casing designed for worksite applications. The plan data is fed into the computer from the host computer by way of a common flash drive and USB port.
Next comes the conventional roll-forming system (the Quadro is not really "conventional," but that is another story). For this project, a 13/4-inch structural standing seam panel was formed. At the end of the system there is a finishing station that consists of a shear mounted on a swivel base and a computerized display station. The display tells the system operator where to dial in the angle for the panel being formed. The software tells the computer the exact dimensions of the panel, where to notch the panel, and at what angle to cut the panel.
The demonstration began with the forming of the panels for a small hip section on the rear of the home. The roof design on the front of the home is relatively simple with only a couple of valleys. The roof on the rear of the home features multiple valleys running in multiple directions with hips and is just generally "cut up." This kind of detail is where CIRM will prove the most valuable. The more complex and labor intensive the project, the more the system will save in labor and wasted material.
With the roof plan loaded into the TopView software, the crew measured the as-built dimensions and fed them into the system. When finished panels went to the roof the only preparation for them was done on the ground, and that was forming the hem on the leading edge of the panels. The panels were otherwise ready, cut to the exact length and angle as required on the roof deck.
Workers install valley flashings on the rear of the home.
For a fairly complex set of moving parts, the resulting product sounds very simple. It is, but it takes some training to operate both the TopView software and the CIRM system. Both firms offer complete training packages and online support. MetalForming will soon offer their CIRM users direct links from the machine in the field to the support team in the company headquarters in Peachtree City, Ga.
When all was said and done the demonstration project went well. According to Hutchison the primary challenge on this construction project is the elevation. All the construction, not just the roof, is above ground. He personally sees to it that there is 100 percent fall protection for all workers on the project.
The CIRM system performed as advertised. Hutchison and the Tip Top team was pleased overall and as part of the demonstration learned a thing or two about the ins and outs of CIRM. Hutchison commented that CIRM is like any computer-operated system: "Garbage in, garbage out." He learned that it is vital to get all the flashings and locking strips in and locked into place before making the final measurements and to "measure twice - cut once." With the proper measurements the panels all just fall into place without having to make cuts and adjustments on the roof. That saves time and increases the safety factor on the roof.
Hutchison says the CIRM is "the wave of the future," and the software "makes it possible to radically reduce your labor." Even though this was a very small project by Tip Top Roofers' standards, he could see how the CIRM would greatly enhance labor savings and reduce waste on a large-scale commercial metal roofing project.
Geoff Stone is likewise convinced that the CIRM system is very much the future of jobsite metal forming. His firm continues to invest significant R&D time and dollars into the system which, as he says, is just beginning. The CIRM system in its present stage has been on the market just over a year but enhancements are already on the way. These enhancements will be easily added to existing CIRM units by way of software upgrades and an emerging system that will utilize laser technology to measure as-built dimensions on site that will load directly into the TopView software - all without getting on a ladder.
Now that the roof is complete, the remaining construction on the Hutchison's project may proceed unabated. Within a few months' time the noise of power lifts, drills, and saws will subside. And finally the Hutchisons, the hawks, the ducks, and the mountain trout will all be reunited in their peaceful riverside estate.
Tip Top Roofers installs a structural standing-seam metal roof using state-of-the-art roll forming techniques. In this video, MetalForming's Geoff Stone explains the Computer-Integrated Roof Manufacturing System (CIRM) that fabricates the panels for the roof.
For more information about Tip Top Roofers, visit www.tiptoproofers.com. For more information about MetalForming, visit www.metalforming-usa.com. For more information about TopView Software, visit www.topviewsoftware.com.
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Q: How to manage gradual deployment of a web app I am developing a web app and want to be able to stagger the deployment of new builds and versions across our users. For example...

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*Deploy new version of app and migrate a couple of test accounts to it for testing

*When testing is happy, move say 5% of customers to the new version and monitor support problems and server load problems with those customers.

*if it is still going ok, gradually move more and more customers over to the new version until everyone is updated.

Fogbugz and Kiln from FogCreek are using a deployment system like this. You can read about it here...
The problem I am trying to solve at the moment is that different accounts on the system can be using different versions of the code.
What is a good way of managing and controlling this? Can Apache do some of the heavy lifting here? I want to avoid too much overhead, or weird loader scripts to work out where to send the request. How do web apps like Fogbugz on Demand deal with the problem? Is there a recognised design pattern for this?
The users are identified via a domain name (eg user1.example.com, user-bob.example.com, etc).

A: There are easily hundreds of ways to accomplish this; so let's think at a high level without talking specifics of the architecture:

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*Large public sites like Yahoo and MSN handle design changes with random samples and set cookies with long timeouts to identify who should be receiving the new design.

*For paid upgrades and beta invites you should be able to identify and tag which customer accounts will receive the new 'design' or feature set upon their login. For instance, the new updates to Digg v4 were for logged-in and opted-in customers only. Facebook had a similar rollout across their system with the new profile pages.

*You may decide to pay for beta testers. You can easily use Amazon's Mechanical Turk or sites like custfeedback.com

The specifics will be up to you and your architecture. Hopefully you've written your software with this functionality in mind; and hopefully you've provided easy ways to provide both application and database upgrades easily at deploy time. Magento (an open-source e-commerce platform) handles this very well. Each module is built in a form of a plugin and each of its components keep record of their own version. Database upgrades are performed on the fly with install and upgrade scripts based on the new/future version retained in configuration files.
You may choose to move your beta testers to a new domain or database that has more detailed logging and realtime analysis than your production machine. This was the method mentioned in the Kiln blog post - they referenced the site http://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html - eventually, however you accomplish the segregation of your accounts and traffic, you eventually have to consolidate. You'll need to perform your migration in a maintenance window most likely and get everyone up to the same version.
Best of luck!

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Babaïevo (en ) est une ville de l'oblast de Vologda, en Russie, et le centre administratif du raïon de Babaïevo. Sa population s'élevait à  habitants en 2013.

Géographie
Babaïevo est située sur la rivière Kolp, dans le bassin de la Volga, à  à l'ouest de Vologda.

Climat

Histoire

Selon une légende, le village de Babaïevo fut fondé en 1460 par un paysan nommé Babaï, d'où le nom de la ville. En 1882, une usine métallurgique produisant des câbles télégraphiques, des clous et des crochets, fut mise en service. Babaïevo a le statut de ville depuis 1925.

Population
Recensements (*) ou estimations de la population

Économie
On trouve а Babaïevo deux laiteries, une usine de matériel électrique et une usine de meubles.

Notes et références

Liens externes
  Informations sur Babaïevo
  Cartes topographiques

Division administrative fondée au XVe siècle

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Berdyčiv (), známý též jako Berdyčev či Berdičev (; ) je historické město na střední Ukrajině. Leží na jihu Žytomyrské oblasti, zhruba 45 km jižně od Žytomyru. Je správním centrem Berdyčevského rajónu a s přibližně 73 tisíci obyvatel je druhým největším městem oblasti.

Dějiny

Město bylo založeno roku 1430 za vlády litevského knížete Vytautase. Největší rozvoj zaznamenalo v raném 19. století, kdy jakožto obchodní a bankovní centrum mohlo konkurovat i nedalekému Žytomyru a Kyjevu. V roce 1867 bylo z 52 563 obyvatel 41 617 (tedy 80 %) židovského vyznání; Berdyčiv měl v té době druhou největší židovskou komunitu v Ruském impériu. Později však mnoho z nich odešlo, převážně do Oděsy.

Současnost a pamětihodnosti
Dnes je Beryčiv sídlem strojírenského průmyslu a železničním uzlem, kde se kříží východozápadní trať Kyjev–Šepetivka–Lvov se severojižním tahem Petrohrad–Mohylev–Žytomyr–Oděsa.

Ve městě se zachovaly některé architektonické památky z doby baroka, např. karmelitánský klášter a kostel sv. Barbory, v němž se roku 1850 oženil spisovatel Honoré de Balzac se šlechtičnou Ewelinou Hańskou. Četné židovské památky v průběhu sovětské éry a holocaustu téměř úplně zmizely. Město má dodnes významnou polskou národnostní menšinu.

Slavní rodáci
 Grigorij Goldenberg (1855–1880), revolucionář
 Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), polsko-britský spisovatel
 Der Nister (1884–1950), spisovatel v jidiš
 Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989), pianista
 Vasilij Grossman (1905–1964), spisovatel
 Josef Tamir (1915–2009), politik
Ve městě pobýval také spisovatel Honoré de Balzac a polský skladatel Fryderyk Chopin.

Související články
 Židé na Ukrajině, chasidismus
 Římskokatolická církev na Ukrajině
 Žytomyrsko-berdyčevská operace

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Města v Žytomyrské oblasti
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Egypt, Alexandria, Egyptian National Museum, Nazlet el Samman, Abu Rowash, Giza, Abu Garab, Abu Sir, Saqqara, Dashur, Meidun, Abu Simbel, Karnak, Luxor, Medinet Habu, Valley of the Kings, Temple of Hathor, Dendera, Temple of Hatshepsut, Valley of the Kings, Temple of Horus, Edfu, Temple of Khum, Esna, Temple of Isis, Isle of Philae, Temple of Khnum, Elephantine Island, Temple of Seti, Abydos, Temple of Amada, Lake Nasser, Temple, Wadi El Saboua, Temple Sobek, Kom Ombo, Aswan, El Karga Oasis, El Bagawat, Qasr El Labeka, Napta Playa.
The date of the building of the pyramids is questionable: the standard age given is approximately 2,500 BC.
There are 22 pyramids running N to S, parallel to the Nile, which has migrated more than 8km further away to the east, in this area known as the 'Band of Peace'.
It is interesting to note that one can see each site from the one next to it. The positioning of these monuments is mirrored in the star positions.
Abu Rowash: here is an open pyramid inside a mountain, largely ignored by tourism, showing tooling marks and evidence of burning.
Giza: there has been at least 3,000 years of civilisation at this site. The pyramids are not tombs, evident from the fact that they have no art and no mummies were found inside. The three great pyramids align with the sun-rise and sun-set and there is possibly a yet-to-be-discovered underground pyramid. These great monuments are built of limestone and granite and there are polished quartz floors and red granite pillars from Aswan in the Valley Temple. The Sphinx shows obvious evidence of water erosion from an age in antiquity and was aligned to the constellation Leo when it rose above the horizon.
Abu Garab: there are nine huge, tooled quartz crystal basins here, gathered and moved into one place by the Department of Antiquities. Also, a large circular altar – the only remnant of the important temple that once stood here.
Abu Sir: Initiations of priestesses took place here and there is plain evidence of the old course of the Nile and a causeway for boats.
*Sirius sank below the horizon for 70 days while the sun moved from Sirius to Orion across the Milky Way, mirrored in Heliopolis (Horus) Giza (Osiris) and the Nile (Isis). These 6 pyramids relate to Pleiades. The King would have moved from site to site to perform rituals.
Saqqara: here there are quartz crystal mines nearby. The courtyard is older than the pyramid, in this case a tomb. The temples and chambers around the courtyard were used for sound healing, using underground water cavities.
Dashur (Red Pyramid, 'Bent' Pyramid and the 'Unfinished' Pyramid) These three pyramids each have three chambers, all used for sound healing (harmonic resonance chambers)…and 'Snefru' was not a man – 'seneferu' means 'double harmony'.
Maidun and Giza both show evidence of an explosion, with huge cracks and chemical burns.
There is still so much to study, but is Egypt's Ministry of Culture erasing evidence in its 'restoration' work?
It is evident now that Herodotus, the Greek historian, made wrong statements. We need to understand it all from the minds of the time, not through our limitations. Egypt has a different time frame to accepted history.
Part 2 – High Level Technology.
Giza is a World Heritage Site, but the Ministry of Culture has built a 20 mile long and 14 foot high wall around the site – why?
It has 100 armed guards at night and many researchers are now refused permits, and tourists refused the use of cameras.
Strange scientific technologies have been seen in the ancient art – aircraft, light bulbs, the 'Baghdad Battery' and machine tooling, high (impossible) technology in construction, astronomic knowledge, a science of natural telemic energy etc give us cause to wonder at the achievements of these ancient people.
Architecture and rituals followed natural cycles of Earth, Moon, Sun and Stars, and the ebb and flood of the Nile. The pyramid texts, hieroglyphs and symbolism in art all have different levels of meaning – both obvious and occult.
At Napta Playa, Gilf Kabir and El Kargo Oasis, hundreds of km out in the western desert, there is evidence of early advanced civilisation: a fertile valley, an ancient acacia tree, oceanic fossils, now-empty lake basins, cow and bull worship (Cosmic Mother in Age of Taurus?), even an early Roman monastery; rock art (the famous 'swimmers'), clues of trade with Pharonic kingdoms, the old Nile riverbed (then, 60 km west of its present position) and astronomy – megalithic stones aligned to constellations, depicting the Precession of Equinoxes. There are no roads and it is now just desert. The monoliths at Napta Playa were man-made and even demonstrate the movement of constellations over time. Altars have been found underground showing three time levels of culture.
When and how did the Dogon and Khemites share their knowledge?
Humans have peace, prosperity, spirit and knowledge when connected to Nature. The older matriarchal cultures were balanced and harmonic. The patriarchal cultures were ambitious, contentious and aggressive.
When entering a Temple, the initiate had to know how to leave the lower ego behind, while he connected to the divine cosmic energies. Health in the glands and chakras were paramount.
Their symbols in art all depicted the male and female aspects in ritual. The half-human and half animal figures show their shamanic culture and may have used psychotropic plants. Thus the 360 senses (multi-dimensional) were used. With this super-natural practice, they had immense knowledge and power.
They used the 'weighing of the heart' analogy to teach people to live well, but in later times the Amun priesthood broke the law by selling favours to enter 'heaven' and people could avoid the 'weighing of the heart' (as did the Christian priesthood through the Dark Ages).
Times changed and Akhenaton and Nefertiti brought in a new age of 'Atonism', or Sun worship, bringing Amun-Ra centre stage. He was a renegade pharaoh and for twelve years his ideals seemed perfect, but something happened (Nefertiti left the scene) and he turned into a tyrannical dictator. Tutankhamun tried to return to the old Amun ways, but too late. The Atonists went underground.
Hatshepsut, a widowed queen, also broke the rules and became a successful pharaoh for twenty-two years, but had to give up her 'woman-ness'.
Later still, the Amun Priesthood took tighter and tighter control and banned any reference to Akhenaton, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun or Hatshepsut.
Part 5 – A New Chronology.
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These truths spoken about by Abd'el Hakim Awyan are indeed returning to mankind, albeit slower than we all would like. However, the cosmic cycle must complete itself. It is my contention that we are currently going through an evolution in human consciousness. We are seeing before our very eyes the collapse of current or "past systems of living, thought patterns and old modes of behavior" with one that is more "loving and spiritually based". The current system is focused on economic based and money driven ways of thinking with structures designed to perpetuate the same outcomes. That is… more of something, generally money, production and consumption. These structures may well have once appeared strong in "economic terms" and in the minds of those involved with their existence. However, they are now being seen for what they really are. That is, a figment of our imaginations made manifest by the simple belief in them and our actions taken to perpetuate them.
I contend that we are indeed at a cross roads in terms of personal human civilization and evolution in terms of spiritual consciousness. The current economic collapse is not repairable unless we are to enslave ourselves as people to the banks; by taking up the MASSIVE loans taken out by Governments around the world in a last ditch effort to save the "global economy". It is similar flawed thinking patterns that arise from money, its' effective generation and he manipulation by a corrupt system used to operate it and which has permeated right from the roots to the very tips of our societies. If we continue to follow the past ways of civilization and growth, as to what to do to maintain current ways of living and false ideas of the way the things are today and have been and the way things could be, we will retard our growth as an evolutionary species and the human potential. This will have disastrous effects upon all life on the planet.
Politicians and economic advisors do not know what to do to avert the collapse and so they continue in economic terms only. Markets appear to be out of control and are more and more unpredictable using standard Keynesian economic understanding. I contend that not only is there a way forward for mankind, but that we are on the verge of a NEW DAWN for mankind. I believe there is real reason for eternal optimism. That if we begin to think as a global entity and realize we are indeed connected, as one, with a force that resonates through infinity and through everything one can perceive or not we can bring about a never ever imagined period of prosperity for ALL.
At this juncture in time, mankind (and indeed each person) has a choice to either change many currently held modes of behavior and current thinking patterns of separateness or to continue with "progress" down the same path of conflict and non-resolution. Separate in terms of feeling alone, not at peace, lost, abandoned. Most on the planet have lost sight of those things truly important. They may have a dream, but many do not believe they could ever achieve it. I believe it is time to pool resources on a global scale and agree to put aside our differences and work on healing self, the environment and all that is. I believe there is a way to a new way of seeing the world and everything.
Some blame others for their own seeming problems rather than taking responsibility for themselves. It is these ostensible problems that indeed allow for the opportunity of growth on many levels, simultaneously. Large numbers of people around the world are at a point in their lives where they have no alternative but to turn to the spiritual. The spiritual awakening that is gathering momentum in the world today will lead to a new age of creativity. Existing problems will be solved by the application of mans imaginative mind through "creativity" and its application in the world to solve problems holistically.
There are many treasure carried away from that great land….Writings and drawings are being destroyed ……Priceless artifacts are being stolen hand over fist from uncaring individuals that find them and sale them on the black market..These priceless artifacts are gone forever .
It's not only the history of Egypt but of all man kind……..
Mark's comments ring of a profound insight and truth. My only concern and fear is that the spiritual transformation is not happening fast enough to avert an inevitable world catacalysim that will propell the human race back into a dark age of spiritual degradation and stagnation.
We must keep going in the right direction then, Ab.
I believe that the 'sound' that Hakim talks about is what we may call 'vibration'. Healers work with subtle vibrations and the healers can sense the disharmony within the sick person. In many healing temples there is underground water flowing and somehow they used this and the acoustics of the temple to amplify the vibrations. One has to imagine a world without electric static and interference and no mechanical sounds like traffic. Sadly our ears have become deaf to these vibrations. I feel that we can learn to hear again if we spend more time in Nature and silent meditation. Look for info on cymatics http://youtu.be/9oSePXRbW9o Temples were built in already sacred places, where the natural energies were strong, especially underground water. Many shaman use drums, and chanting and toning is effective. Studies have been done at sacred sites where a 'standing wave' has been created, and measured, using simple percussion and this 'wave' has the effect of altering brain wave levels to allow the psychic senses to open, and visions and higher wisdom can be received. Nature does this naturally in certain places that people then called 'sacred'. The stone used to build a temple enhanced this phenomena and certain stones containing quartz 'hold' the vibration like a memory, making the temple 'holy' so that the person inside can communicate with the 'Divine'. There are many practices done all round the world to learn how to do this, but I have found it can happen quite naturally by being in Nature especially near moving water. The way to receive these vibrations is to surrender to them (totally relax mind and body) and for the healer it is important to have a high level of empathy and compassion. Trying hard and thinking too much doesn't work – it's exactly the opposite! Any questions, just ask.
I am humbled by the wisdom of this Master Teacher. I recognize indeed!
Thanks Arthur, this one is interesting too – time for FreeEnergy!
Yes, Avia. The Pyramids are evidence of what is possible. The Book of the Witness, possibly one of two witnesses, may still be within the Great Pyramid. The Great Pyramid itself may even be the book. Who may say ? History has be re-written and evidence altered and destroyed. Even the head of the great Sphinx has been re-shaped into an apparent Hero of Moab son of Ariel. Water-fuel and water implosion technologies such as The Great Pyramid provide many solutions. Duncan does not/did not believe these will ever see the light of day again, however, among billions surely millions still use these types of technology. Carbon arc rod plasma generation is simple, elegant, and almost anyone may begin generating fuel immediately. This is part of the tangible, temporal legacy of the Great Pyramid. The Pyramids are instruction manuals and have immediate practical applications.
Hi Avia ! I sent an Online Commo Check origin SAR RTO CAP USAF AUX. Perhaps I'll here back and get some plans. Hakim began this avenue for me by explaining the tree energy generating and water purification proposes of the Great Pyramid. The ancient bilders were not creator G_d or perfect– evidence of OVER-CUTS in megalithic stone is evidence. They were not perfect. However, implosion is so much better than explosion and the Pyramid was a generator manifesting Dielectric. It is an acorn of Counter Space evidence of a mighty EM/EMF/CME Sol planet-fall and cosmic wind oak tree. Yet, simple HHO is another beginning for me. Thank you. Hakim is a genius !
You have to clean your mind to know this.
Hi Ava thank for the info on you tube. It has enlightened me and my daughter even more, we have even started doing vortex maths which may help her understanding of the maths system and more, this has even given me insight to what I need for my Eco project on a housing development I am currently researching, I am a architectural designer. As my nine year old is home educated, we are looking to do an educational trip to Egypt to enlighten our knowledge more sometime this year, can you send us information on who we can get in contact with, to show us around and tell us the truth of ancients. Keep up the good work Ava and speak to you soon.
I was taken in by this "man" to the point of trust…something so rare these days…but yet…on the "Pyramid Code" I was so obsorbed by him, that I almost lost sight of the shows jist? I would rewind, just to "listen" so as not to miss…and then fast forward to his next showing…I am now older in years and yet still a babe in wisdom…I see that more often than not nowadays…wish I had had a slower "youth"…with more time taken chasing wisdom instead of skirts…I am a disabled Vet with a new computer…I went on line to see if there was anything else this "teacher" could learn me…and here I am at the "end" of the most delightful websights I've ever been on… Thank You, Ladies and Gentlemen for the "enlightenment"…. I will look back in again, soon…as my journey for wisdom and fun goes on…..Thanx again….
Thank you for your comment Donald – you've made my day! So glad Hakim and you have found each other – he is very special isn't he? (R.I.P) I wish you well in your adentures of discovery.
I wish he'd have written a book that we could all learn from…instead of contemporaries like Zahi Hawass who writes a self-centered book and charges 22,000LE for it.
I understand that his (Hakim's) daughter has taken up the mantle. Perhaps she can be contacted for more information? One of the questions that Hakim did not answer when asked (he went around the subject) was: "How were the pyramids built?" he seemed to know enough about it to know they didn't use ropes, slaves, and animals. John Cadman has an interesting theory. He has discovered that the sub-chamber in the great pyramid is part of a water ram pump. He has built a functioning model and you can see his progress on Youtube. He states that the pyramids were built using the ram pump. Using wooden rafts and filling basins within the pyramid (as it is being built) one could effortlessly push a 200 ton stone into place. My only argument is that when humans build tools to construct a 'thing' the tool is then dismantled and the structure is free and clear. The fact that this pump remains suggests it was used for a purpose after construction was completed.
The King's chamber has a series of elevated platforms which main stream archeology says are simply fortification structures. However, the Queen's chamber demonstrates that there is no need for so many fortification stones. It has been determined that the King's chamber resonates at a specific frequency. This has been discussed in the show The Pyramid Code. The show also touches on the use of the underwater aquifers to generate electricity, etc. With John Cadman's ram pump theory, it now suggests that the water pump creates a 'thumping' or frequency that even John says is designed to be radiated upwards towards the Queens chamber. The Queen's chamber is directly below the King's chamber. Now, adding all this together, suggests that the frequency would be amplified by the King's chamber to be transmitted to…where and to what? That is the next-level mystery to be solved. I think we have determined what the Pyramids are, now we need to know how they were used.
If you add this to Joe Parr's theory of Pyramid Power, then a few ideas about how they might have been used comes into focus. Joe believed that Pyramid structures amply certain things. It can charge seeds to make them grow faster, stronger, and yield more crops without the use of genetic modification. It can be used to heal the body. The diagram for how pyramids use "energy" is not unlike how humans channel energy. When in seated meditation energy spirals from the air down into your head. Conversely, energy spirals from the ground and into your body. The Pyramids did the same.
There is a sarcophagus in the King's chamber. I wonder if it is meant as a charging chamber. You place items to be charged and turn the pyramid "on." Believe it or not, you can easily make an on/off switch as demonstrated by John Cadman on his pump. It only takes a flip of the release valve to start the pumping action. It simply works on physics.
1) In order to ramble on about the things he did, he would have had to read every known book, written about every known subject from every known language and do so in the span of 3 to 4 years. Being that he came from a poor family, I seriously doubt it.
2) Most frauds do so for profit. Edgar did NOT charge for his services but did receive donations from his patrons. Profitability didn't occur until years after his death.
3) People quibble over a few of his "world event" predictions because some were slightly off, or too vague and coincidental. But NO ONE argues his medical predictions of which he was 100% accurate on.
1) Atlantis suffered 3 major catastrophes, and each time some or all of the inhabitants escaped to other parts of the word.
2) The third and final catastrophe destroyed the island and the survivors fled to Egypt.
Now, let's start adding up a few things. Plato said the information about Atlantis came from an "Egyptian priest". That is another tie-in suggesting Atlanteans made it to Egypt. Also, the fact that other pyramids and monolithic structures exist that use similar technology is explained if one believes that Atlanteans fled to other countries and taught them such secrets. In other words, it's a better and more plausible way to explain this rather than "Ancient Astronaut Theory" 😉 . Another, is that a record of the history of Atlantis exists in Egypt under the Sphinx; that the Sphinx was erected to be the guardian of that knowledge. Now, from my experience and research, I believe those caverns are there. The only reason we 'think' they are not there…is because of Zahi Hawass. If we take HIS word for it, then there is nothing but the water table under the Sphinx and we should ignore such "myths" and "pyramidiots". Now, given the fact that Zahi does not wish any other view point, other than his own, to be known about ancient Egypt; he would be highly motivated to keep such information secret, buried, destroyed or removed. I dare you to research Zahi Hawass, you will discover that he is definitely hindering forward progress in Egypt under the guise of preserving history. He contradicts himself time and time again, which is the hallmark of very bad lying. That is not to say that Zahi wasn't doing any 'good' things. He certainly has, in regards to preserving the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx.
In finality, we live in a time when paradigms rule. Those who do not want the responsibility of spirituality can fall back on safe, modern, paradigms provided by the scholarly masses. Those people will kill to protect their paradigm, much in the same way religious groups protect their beliefs. Some of you may have experienced amazing levels of hostility when you dare to discuss that the pyramids are anything other than what is accepted. I have matched that response to discussions I have had about my views on religion (especially Christian). They were identical. Therefore, there is something in the tune of a cult or sheep mentality where it concerns ancient history. All new information is swept away to preserve the more ignorant and safe view *cough* the Earth is flat *cough*. It too difficult to go back through and re-write everything and then try to re-teach the world that change. It's easier to simply go one believing the lie and let future generations sort out the mess. Also, which was discussed earlier in this thread, the fact that we are so economically centric is also a strong reason for the repression of this information. It could topple certain industries like the Church, Schools, etc. If people knew they could generate fuel and electricity at home with ease, then electric companies would lose money. We are in dire straits. Unless you are rich and powerful it is near impossible to change the world at the speed that would be required. Instead, make children and teach them the truth; ask them to pass that knowledge on. At a minimum, keep the satisfaction that at least YOU know the truth and tell all who are willing to listen.
Thank you so much for this rich account of your thoughts, In Light End. I endorse everything that you say. I am sure you have researched long and hard to reach your observations, as many are now doing. I agree that we must keep asking questions and not accept the stunted views of the past. Keep up the good work and feel free to share any new insights you find, here.
Hi sissy817, thank you for your reply to Michael – I find it fascinating and heart warming that beautiful people like yourself have these wonderful gifts and are willing to share them. In the past many of us have kept our mouths shut for fear of ridicule or just misunderstanding, but as more emerge, more can feel free to speak openly. I, too, have had a life experiencing things similar to what you describe and there are a few possible explanations – one is that people like us have memories emerging, and a previous incarnation of great importance to remember; another is that the times we live in are such that the energy frequencies are condusive to being more psychically active.Whatever the cause and reason, I feel it is a very good thing, so thank you.
Wow! Missed this comment somehow Ahia, no truer words could say it so right!
There seems that there is too many people with similar thought processes on this topic and many others for it all to be coincidence. Since the advent of the internet and its growth, it has become our modern day library of Alexandria, albeit flawed and not on that plateau yet, it is indeed giving many faster access to knowledge of their fascinations and wonders.
I for some strange reason a number of years ago became strangely disconnected from many around me and their almost software programmed way of thinking and petty ego's. I still have many friends but for whatever reason I can never see things as shallow as I did and have spoken to a number of others who are fascinated by vibrations, frequency, astronomy and knowledge in it's truest form. It must go beyond the common thread or opinion of that's just overthinking or pseudoscience, granted there is a lot of bogus conspiracy theories online but there is a specific movement who I feel I am now almost unwittingly a member of.
I see so many others with the same fascination with Egypt and pyramids all over the world of a need to prove that there must of been a global pre cataclysm civilisation with pyramids all over the globe in specific places. This movement needs to study, grow, prosper and be seen as credible. People coming up with or discovering new historical facts, breakthroughs in free clean self sustaining energy and of course exploring spirituality which I feel is not religion the way we were thought to believe, sadly that I reckon has been manipulated by man throughout the centuries, I see religious texts as something to take historical references from to an extent by comparative studies with other texts but not too far beyond that these days. I believe spirituality in it's truest form is cosmic, a oneness, not religious. It is the knowing of consciousness and oneself and I believe consciousness is a global connection that has been perverted and lost to an extent. It is a shame someone knows more about keeping up with the Kardashians than Carl Sagan or Neil Degrasse Tyson or history, culture and origins of us. Sadly I have yet to explore my own spirituality either as I am not quite sure how and what methods to use……. any tips? Meditations? Texts?
Do you believe in a hall of records in Egypt or at least the possibility of more discoveries in Egypt and the great pyramid? Also is the third eye real or myth and how do I open it?
PS – I think when the Hall of Records is spoken of in regard to Egypt it is referring to lost records that will enlighten us all to the true history of Man on Earth – these texts, tablets, petroglyhs or scrolls may yet to be found in a tomb or chamber. The records are attributed to Thoth (Hermes Trismegistus) or Enoch but maybe from Atlanteans who went to Egypt.
Thanks Vincent. I went to Fayyum (Fayoum) and the Wadi Rayan which is close to Hawara – a very tranquil and beautiful place (the whale-bone fossils were found nearby). I have just had a quick look at the Hawara Labyrinth and find it fascinating and so I will work on a separate post on this. Please bring anything else you find as I know many people are also searching.
Archaeologists assumed they had found the remnants of the labyrinth of Egypt/Hawara, until some were not satisfied and did seismic tests which revealed they may have in fact only found the roof! The rest of course is buried by sand and a rise of the water level nearby.
Experts agreed or some at least hypothesised that this find was in fact the labyrinth and have got the now difficult task of draining the water out to gain access, a lot of digging, clearing and draining but without question worth it. The only fear is excavations not getting the funding and the insides being irreparably damaged by water etc.
What I have wrote is off the top of my head but i'm sure it's accurate if not very close… google and/or Youtube may contain more by searching either Hawara or Egypts labyrinth or labyrinth of Egypt, all are the same structure/location. It existed no question, plenty of old writings on it, and it indeed more than likely has been found and needs to be excavated properly, i'm unsure of the status of the excavations at this time or if they even got off the ground.
Promote interest if possible… too big to ignore, wonderful find.
btw I found your blog very interesting, with lots to ponder on.
Mel, the anti-christ will come with the blood of saints and the word of God on his lips. Satan wouldn't play this game. He would want to make a mockery of Christianity. Since this has nothing to do with Christianity, you are off base. If you're looking for Satan, might I suggest you look toward the Tea Party. Many in that camp are reinventing Jesus and the events of the bible to suit their agenda. For example, a quote from from Ted Cruz, "The Jesus I know wouldn't give healthcare away for free." If anyone has read a bible in the past 30 years would know the level of falsehood that represents. Now, if you don't like the subject of this thread, say that. Because at least it would be the truth instead of "trolling" around the internet looking for a place relieve your anexiety and expel your shame. You will not find this is the place to act as God's witness.
Please keep comments on topic. Abusive and aggressive personal remarks will be removed.
Might I request that both comments be removed to keep the topic pure?
I think we can just move on. Peace.
Bless You, Avia, for being the "True" Peace Keeper…I have silently watched and to date have been inspired at what I have seen…I guess we all have an "opinion"…it's just some have a hard time "knowing" where and when to keep "IT" to themselves…again…Avia…Thanx for "guiding us thru….
Thank you for your kind words, Donald. I know emotions can run high but we are all jogging along the same path to an enriched understanding of this world. I welcome friendly sharing. Thanks for your support. Avia.
Jae, the word 'Khem' refers to the land of Egypt, the dark rich soil after the Inundation of the Nile. This wasn't my interpretation but the teaching of a man whose heritage goes back a long long way in Khem, or Egypt. I don't know if Hakim ever considered human people as being a certain colour, but he considered all humans members of the human family. As far as I know, he, nor I, have any preference or prejudice for any person. I hope this makes things more clear for you. Love and Peace to All.
I am a hungarian architect, who speaks english very bed! I find some interesting facts in Giza, what makes it a "time keeper" of the old area. If You are interested in it , please send me an e-mail to get more of my discoveries! The Khufu makes the year for four parts with the position of the small pyramids. (as I told You some years ago) Khefren is the twice 6-6 months of the year! The Menkaure is the 52 x 14 days with the three small pyramids for the two years!
"Khufu hidden calendar" "Menkaure hidden calendar" "Nabta Playa Giza" "Khufu pyramid size" on youtube!
Are there photos to augment the expanded literature of Hakim? I'm quite interested in the entire scope of Hakims thoughts.
Hi Errol, I do recommend the documentary, linked on the post, "The Band of Peace", and The Khemit School of Ancient Mysticism on Facebook. Abd'el Hakim Awyan has now passed.
I am so relived to know there are others like me! I have known since birth, things I could not explain to others. I am also grateful to the people who know and love me for accepting me as I am, even though they don't guite understand. I have never been able to verbally explain what I know and am constantly gaining insight to. But I feel very blessed to be able to listen to others like me on your sight!
Dear Mr. Abd'el Hakim Awyan!
This week I have put a film about Giza, and the time of Giza on youtube in English. I believe it should be interesting for You and for Your readers as well.
would greatly appreciate if you would take time to watch the 40 minute long film and perchance reflect on it.
Hi, firstly thank you for such a well informed site on the mysteries that is egypt and it's culture. I wanted to know if anyone can point me in the direction of a real tour of Egypt covering the 22 pyramids across the Giza plateau. I would prefer a private tour or small group. Time is not an issue and I would prefer to immerse myself in depth for about a month. I don't want the traditional tourist tour I want to experience first hand the kind of information that is spoken of by Abd'el Hakim Awyan. I want to experience true Egypt and learn from the ancient & elders. If anyone knows of such a person/group/place who can do this for me I would be very grateful for the information.
Dear friends, I found this site while searching for any information about Mr Abdel Hakim Awyan after I watched The Pyramids Code. But, Mr Abdel Hakim passed away from this world, may he rest in peace, and I just leave here the information for everybody who is looking to reveal the secrets of Pyramids in the world, there are very unique books of Ukrainian author Anastasia Novykh: the serie of books Sensei (1,2,3,4) and the world bestseller AllatRa. That books reveal the primordial knowledge of anciant civilizations, based on spiritual knowledge, with high scientific development etc.. to download it for free in English version is possible in http://books.allatra.org/en Wish you all the best!
Hello Krystal. Your birthmark is like a roadsign on your spiritual path. Follow it and explore and learn and it will take you to where you will learn more about yourself. Go without fear, just keep an open mind.
I learnt very recently about Mr Abdel Hakim Awyan, watched a couple of videos (including Pyramid code) and then came across this website. Honestly, I have a problem here: all these are quite fascinating – yes, that is the problem: they are fascinating! Human mind 'wants' to believe what is fascinating, in preference to a more simpler but mundane explanation when one is avaialble. For example, someone says that the great pyramids of Giza were built by an alien civilisation which came from a visiting planet called Nibiru and the mind immediately 'wants' to believe that: so, the actual findings on site are intellectually 'fitted' to match with this new theory, and hundreds of explanations, videos and articles will flood the information market. I believe, that a healthy dose of skepticism is essential to sift away false fascinations. It is essential to always distinguish between what is 'possible' and what is 'probable'. I have personally nothing against the information discussed in this website, nor am I fully qualified to maturely discuss them, but find that some conclusions and judgements are too fast and too soon.
Have you read the EMERALD TABLETS? If not do so. You will find, if they are to be believed, that the tablets actually support the alien theory.
However, by that logic, the concept that the pyramid of Giza is a tomb suffers the exact same issue. Once you research how we came to "believe" it was a tomb, the belief is rather ridiculous. The fact that academia still clings to the idea that an explorer, on the last leg of his treasure hunt , suddenly finds a poorly drawn heiroglyoh. A glyph that was later determined to have a misspelling and one Zahi Hawass corrected on 2005, but not after numerous photos of the original were taken. Then the recent discovery of the diary of the explorer where he admits to having his assistant draw the gkyph….should have reasonably destroyed the credibility that it was a tomb. However, nothing has changed. Skepticism doesn't equal truth.


This is probably one of the best soups I've ever made. It's simple to make but is filled with a ton of flavor. The broth is infused with ginger and thyme, which adds great warmth. By caramelizing the carrots you bring out the deep rich, sweet flavor of the carrots. This is a great soup to serve as an appetizer or as a light main dish.
On a large baking sheet, toss carrots with olive oil and salt. Spread carrots out in a single layer. Turn oven to broil on high, place carrots about 6-8 inches below the broiler. Toss the carrots after about 5 minutes, once they've started to brown.
While the carrots are roasting, sauté the onions in a large pot. Once the onions are tender, add the garlic and sauté for a few more minutes. Add the stock, ginger root and thyme and bring to a boil. Let simmer for about 10 minutes. Remove the ginger pieces and the thyme.
Add the carrots and simmer for another 10 minutes, or until carrots are tender. Using an immersion blender or a regular blender, puree the soup until completely smooth. Taste for seasoning and adjust if necessary. Serve with freshly ground black pepper.


The "Seven Day Notice of Noncompliance With Opportunity to Cure" is second only to the Three Day Notice as the most common notice that a property manager uses, and is often prepared incorrectly or not given at all. Knowing when and how to prepare and serve a "Seven Day Notice of Noncompliance With Opportunity to Cure" is crucial to successful property management.
When a tenant is in noncompliance, action needs to be taken. Whether the noncompliance is an unauthorized pet, unauthorized occupant, debris outside a door, unsupervised children or any of the myriad problems which can occur, nothing will be solved until the tenant is notified of the problem and told to cease. All too often the property manager writes a letter to the tenant or calls them into the office for a meeting. While this may get the desired results, if it fails, the property manager is now faced with a dilemma and a delay, as in most cases, the law only recognizes "notices". The classic mistake of property managers is sending "letters" to the tenants rather than using "notices". Commonly, when you send a letter to a tenant about a problem, the tenant solves that problem and all is well. In a sense, by sending the "letter" you are giving the tenant a second chance. The problem begins when the tenant does not comply with your "letter". What now? Can you file an eviction? No. An eviction requires "notice", a legal "notice" such as a "Seven Day Notice of Noncompliance With Opportunity To Cure" for items which are of a curable nature. If the tenant continues to be in noncompliance, a further notice may need to be given called the "Seven Day Notice of Noncompliance Notice of Termination". If the property manager only gave a "letter" previously to the tenant, a "second chance", they now need to serve a "notice" which in essence is giving the tenant a third chance. Depending upon the noncompliance, you may be in the process of losing good tenants which are neighbors of this noncomplying tenant as the process is so delayed.
What types of noncompliances are of a curable nature? Here are just a few: improper parking of vehicles, unregistered vehicles, failure to supervise children, barking dogs, unauthorized pets, unleashed pets, failing to pick up after pets, changing locks, speeding in the parking areas, denying access to maintenance, loitering in the breezeways, debris in the common areas, failing to pay a utility, failing to put a utility in one's own name, grill on the lanai, debris on the lanai, violating pool rules, unauthorized occupants, improperly installed satellite dishes, failure to pay the security deposit, unsanitary apartment; the list goes on and on.
How is a Seven Day Notice of Noncompliance With Opportunity to Cure properly worded? We recommend you always start off your notice by saying "You and/or your guests and/or occupants are in violation of Florida law and/or the lease agreement and/or rules and regulations due to (list reasons)" You should not simply quote a lease clause or name a paragraph number. Your notice should clearly and concisely state what the tenant is doing that is in noncompliance. Many notices we see are legally insufficient in that they are too vague or sometimes actually too specific. You might wonder how being too specific could be a problem. Let's take a case where a tenant is leaving their bicycle on the lanai in violation of your lease. If you give the tenant a notice just stating this violation, the tenant may get the bicycle off of the lanai, but two months from now be accumulating personal items outside the door in your breezeway, a violation of your lease agreement. Will your notice regarding the bicycle that you gave two months ago be sufficient? Possibly not. We would recommend wording the notice as follows: "You and/or your guests and/or occupants are in violation of Florida law and/or the lease agreement and/or the apartment rules and regulations due to keeping or allowing personal items, including but not limited to a bicycle, on the lanai and or in the common areas of the premises." As you can see, this is specific enough for the bicycle on the lanai and broad enough to include a later violation in the breezeway. It is crucial that the notice is always specific enough to put the tenant on sufficient notice as to what the noncompliance may be.
How do we calculate the expiration date of a Seven Day Notice of Noncompliance with Opportunity to Cure? You simply must give your Seven Day Notice of Noncompliance With Opportunity to Cure and wait seven straight days. Note that you do not have to exclude weekends or holidays as with a Three Day Notice. Once the time period has expired, if you have not achieved the desired results, you may be able to immediately file an eviction or may need to serve a Seven Day Notice of Noncompliance Notice of Termination. Any time you have a lease noncompliance, you must get into the habit of serving the Seven Day Notice of Noncompliance With Opportunity To Cure, if it is in fact a curable problem.
It is the 5th of the month and you have not received the rent for one of your tenants. You are carefully preparing the Three Day Notice when the mail arrives. An official looking document from the Bankruptcy Court is addressed to you. Upon opening the envelope, you see that it is a "Notice of Commencement of Bankruptcy", naming your tenant as the debtor. Unfortunately this scenario is becoming quite common, as bankruptcy filings are on the rise, with many of the bankruptcies being filed by renters. Can the tenant live there for free now? Can you evict that tenant? Can you cancel the tenant's lease?
Once you receive notice from a tenant that he or she has filed for bankruptcy, you are prohibited by federal law to take certain actions. You are not allowed to attempt to collect the rent owed to you or seek possession of the rental premises without first obtaining permission from the bankruptcy court. If you had already served the tenant a Three Day Notice, you cannot file an eviction. If you had already served a Three Day Notice and filed an eviction, the eviction comes to a screeching halt. Even if you already received a Final Judgment of eviction from the County Court Judge and the Sheriff has served the Writ of Possession scheduling a lock out within hours, the lockout will be "stayed." We have had tenants file bankruptcy minutes after the judge signed a final judgment of eviction in court. The bottom line is that a bankruptcy filing stops all collection and eviction proceedings cold. Any time you give a tenant a break or voluntarily delay finishing up an eviction, you run the risk of the tenant filing bankruptcy. If you violate the bankruptcy laws and attempt to continue collect the debt or regain the rental premises, you could incur serious penalties and sanctions. Is all hope lost?
Immediately upon receiving a written suggestion of bankruptcy, or even if the tenant verbally tells you that he or she has filed for bankruptcy, you should immediately call your attorney, who will check with the Federal Bankruptcy Court to see if a bankruptcy has indeed been filed. If it is verified that a bankruptcy has been filed, your attorney can prepare a motion to "obtain relief from the automatic stay" of bankruptcy. Since the bankruptcy filing "stays" or "stops" everything, you must petition the bankruptcy court to allow the "stay" to be lifted for the purposes of collecting your debt or continuing to pursue your eviction. The procedure of petitioning the bankruptcy court to successfully lift the stay will typically take 30-45 days with regard to a Chapter 7 petition, and 45-60 days with regard to a Chapter 13 petition. If the delinquent tenant in bankruptcy actually attempts to make payments to the landlord within the bankruptcy proceeding, the above timetables will be expanded, but in most cases, payment will not be forthcoming.
The most common bankruptcy filing you will see is what is called a Chapter 7 petition. This is also called a "liquidation" and often occurs when a tenant has mounting credit card debt, car payments, and hospital bills and just cannot get out of the proverbial debt trap. Most of the creditors, including you, will probably never see a dime of money once the bankruptcy is completed, but thankfully, the law has carved out a niche that at least allows you to prevent the tenant from living on the premises until the bankruptcy is completed. A typical Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition takes a few months and sometimes over a year to be completed, but a swift call to your attorney the moment you receive the dreaded Suggestion of Bankruptcy will usually result in about a month's delay in removal of the tenant, in addition to the normal eviction timetable.
The tenant in bankruptcy can often buy more a little time when a Chapter 13 debt reorganization is filed, or in the rare event you rent to a corporation which subsequently files for Chapter 11 business reorganization protection, you could be looking at bigger delays. If you take no action in bankruptcy court as landlord, horror stories abound, since the tenant can occupy the premises for literally years with you having no legal recourse. Whether a Chapter 7, 11 or 13 petition is filed, if the bankruptcy is eventually followed through to the point of discharge, your collection will be limited to your security deposit retention and/or proof of claim filed with the bankruptcy court. The remainder of the tenant's debt will be legally wiped out forever.
Suppose an applicant comes to you, and the credit report shows that the applicant is currently in a bankruptcy proceeding. Should you rent to that person? Technically, the lease with your company would constitute a "post-petition" transaction, and the automatic stay should not protect that tenant. However, that tenant could potentially seek to amend the bankruptcy petition to include you. Even if the tenant makes no attempt to amend the bankruptcy petition, if the tenant informs the sheriff of the bankruptcy at the end of the eviction, the sheriff is not likely going to make the legal distinction that your lease transaction is "post-petition", and you will still often be required to obtain official authorization from the bankruptcy court before completing the eviction.
Be very leery of applicants who have a history of filing bankruptcy, but who do not actually follow through to the point of discharge, (known as serial filers). That pattern suggests an applicant who has no qualms about living rent free for a few months before moving on to another landlord to share the same treatment.


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War and Treaty: An All-American Love Story
by Singersroom July 11, 2019
Michael and Tanya Trotter have an all-American origin story. I had the pleasure to speak to the married members of War and Treaty on July 4th, before the sun came down and the fireworks were ignited. Very apt, seeing as they are an Americana band, a genre populated by the likes of Leon Bridges and The Luminners. War and Treaty were on their tour bus heading to a show later that night. Tanya picked up the phone, she's soft-spoken and warm. Michael chimes in soon after, with an inviting welcome. We talk about love, music, and Lil Nas X.
The story of this band begins with love. Michael had dealt with houselessness for the better part of his adolescence. He had a daughter at 19. He adored her. She was his namesake. As a means to provide for Michaela, he dropped out of high school to join the army. The hardship of his teenhood, the violence, and nomadic poverty, gave no time for young Michael to say intuned with the political landscape. "What they showed on TV was my life – my life was the news," he had told me, "so I never paid attention to it." Unbeknownst to him when he joined the US Army in 2003, he would be heading to Iraq for war.
Years later, Tanya meets her husband at her very own music festival. She organized it to raise money for a children's charity. She had been in the music industry for quite some time. Tanya's talent was introduced to the world in Sister Act 2. "His Eyes Is On the Sparrow" one of the most memorable moments of the film. Her debut album, "Natural Thing", was a successful effort. And when she saw Michael perform, she was struck by his honesty. They dated, they wed and three years later they decided to join forces musically.
I had asked the couple how they decided on their band name. Tanya giggled, "Well it came out of an argument," she confessed. None of the other names seemed to stick, and in the midst of an argument Tanya said something along the lines of 'not wanting war, we need to make a treaty". Michael's eyes lit up, and the rest was history. I wanted to know more about their attraction to the Americana genre, and for them it all about the sound feeling like truth. Tanya shared with me that one of the best things about having a husband as her musical partner is that she can be vulnerable with him on stage. And the audience can feel that authenticity.
And within this genre, War and Treaty are quite unique as a Black, married couple. That didn't stop them however from being nominated for two Americana Awards this year. They are so honored to be recognized for their tremendous work. When I asked them whether the success of Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" could be a signifier that the mainstream is ready to center Country and Americana music – Michael made it clear how critical the Americana sound to the music world. It's sound is distinctly North American, and it's indigeneity will always be it's saving grace.
Their last project, "Healing Tide" is robust. Michael and Tanya truly made an album where you can hear their souls reverberate in each track. There is humility in their lyrics, and confident wisdom. It will transport you to times of simplicity or maybe to a hearty BBQ.
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Bernie Sanders drops out of the 2020 race, clearing Joe Biden's path to the Democratic nomination
Posted at 9:33 AM, Apr 08, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders ended his presidential campaign on Wednesday, clearing Joe Biden's path to the Democratic nomination and a showdown with President Donald Trump in November.
Sanders made the announcement in a call with his campaign staff, his campaign said.
Sanders' exit caps a stunning reversal of fortune following a strong performance in the first three states that voted in February. The nomination appeared his for the taking until, on the last day of February, Biden surged to a blowout victory in South Carolina that set off a consolidation of moderate voters around the former vice president. The contest ends now as the country continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, which halted in-person campaigning for both Sanders and Biden and has led many states to delay their primary elections.
Sanders' departure from the race is a sharp blow to progressives, who rose up during and after the 2016 campaign and commanded the Democratic Party's Trump era debates over issues like health care, climate change and the effects of growing economic inequality.
But even as his policies grew more popular over the years and into the primary season, the Vermont senator struggled to broaden his own support and galvanize a winning coalition. Now, as he did after leaving the 2016 primary, Sanders will seek to influence the presumptive nominee through the means he knows best -- from the outside.
Biden has already made gestures toward Sanders' populist base, which formed a movement over the past five years that could be critical to defeating Trump in the fall. Whether the former vice president will take the necessary steps to win over the holdouts, and the extent to which Sanders goes to make the case, will be a running subplot until Election Day.
The Sanders campaign held its final live public event on March 9, transitioning from packed, raucous rallies to an entirely digital operation. He communicated almost exclusively through virtual town halls and livestreams focused on the coronavirus crisis -- and how his progressive agenda, headlined by "Medicare for All," might have prevented it or helped cushion the blow.
In February, Sanders appeared poised to run away with the nomination after a strong performance in Iowa and victories in New Hampshire and Nevada, the latter by more than 25 percentage points, on the strength of his popularity with Latino voters, which had been courted relentlessly by his campaign.
But Sanders' momentum was dashed in South Carolina. Biden routed the field and then cleared it. The anti-Sanders vote rallied around him and, even with Sanders' win in California, put Biden in the driver's seat on Super Tuesday.
The wind at his back, the former vice president duplicated the feat a week later, delivering the hammer blow in Michigan, a state Sanders won in 2016 and viewed as crucial to his prospects in 2020. A day earlier, public safety measures in response to the coronavirus effectively ended the campaign roadshow.
Sanders would return to Vermont, where he has spent most of his time since, while Biden set up headquarters at home in Delaware. The Sanders fundraising machine, the most successful grassroots donor effort in American political history, was over the last month re-purposed into a feeder for public health groups.
Fall and rise, and fall
Sanders entered the race in February 2019 as an early frontrunner. In an email announcing his second run for the presidency, he asked voters to "join me today as part of an unprecedented and historic grassroots campaign that will begin with at least a million people from across the country."
He would quickly hit and surpass that goal and raise, throughout the campaign, more money from small dollar donors than any candidate in American political history.
His status atop the early polls, before Biden got in the contest and claimed the lead, underscored the power Sanders had built up since beginning his first presidential campaign as a little-known lawmaker from Vermont who freely called himself a democratic socialist.
By the end of the 2016 race, Sanders emerged as one of the most influential figures in Democratic politics. His policy agenda -- a suite of progressive proposals including Medicare for All, tuition free public college and the Green New Deal -- set the terms of debate among the 2020 candidates.
Despite entering with a head start on the field, Sanders' second campaign encountered some early headwinds as Democratic voters sampled a diverse array of candidates, many of them offering pieces of the progressive vision that Sanders popularized. By the late summer, Sanders appeared to be falling behind fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren, his Senate colleague from Massachusetts.
A campaign on its heels would be knocked to the pavement in early October, when Sanders had a heart attack while campaigning in Nevada.
But what many supporters and staff feared would be the end turned out to be a springboard. Sanders recovered quickly and, before leaving Las Vegas, received a call from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The young, progressive star, who had been intensely courted by Warren, told Sanders she was endorsing him. Her early events for Sanders in Iowa were electric, but as the primary heated up, her appearances become fewer and further in between -- an early sign of the tactical tensions that would face the left in the coming months.
Still, for a campaign that had scuffled through the summer and into the fall, it felt -- at least for that moment in mid-October moment -- as if a switch had been flipped.
Sanders returned to the trail only a couple weeks after falling ill and, after turning in a sterling debate performance in Ohio on October 15, began to climb in the polls.
Days later, in a packed riverside park in Queens, New York, after being introduced by Ocasio-Cortez and taking the stage to AC/DC's "Back in Black," Sanders addressed one of his largest and most diverse audiences of the campaign.
"Take a look around you and find someone you don't know. Maybe somebody that doesn't look kinda like you, maybe somebody who might be of a different religion than you, maybe they come from a different country," he said.
Aides who had driven and flown in from around the country looked on, rapt like his supporters, some of them watching from across the streets after the park hit its capacity.
"My question now to you is are you willing to fight for that person, who you don't even know," Sanders said, "as much as you're willing to fight for yourself?"
The question -- and the call -- would be a centerpiece of his campaign in the weeks and months that followed.
A quick unraveling
As Biden, in the aftermath of South Carolina, lined up support and endorsements from moderates across the board, Sanders was unable to do the same with the progressive wing of the party. Warren, buoyed by the late-arriving support of a super PAC, stayed in the race through Super Tuesday.
She dropped out the following Thursday, but despite being so closely aligned with Sanders on policy, chose to stay on the sidelines instead of putting her support behind his struggling campaign. Though some Sanders' supporters lashed out at Warren for not immediately backing him, the writing had been on the wall.
The pair had been close, as political figures go, though they took fundamentally different views of how to win and exert power. But the controversy over whether Sanders told Warren in late 2018 that he did not believe a woman could win the presidency -- which she confirmed and he denied -- cut off meaningful communications between the campaigns.
In the end, and as many on both sides acknowledged privately at the time, it was already too late.
After losing five of the six contests on March 10, including Michigan, and all three primaries on March 17, Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir signaled the beginning of the end. Sanders, he said in a statement, "is going to be having conversations with supporters to assess his campaign," but that "in the immediate term, however, he is focused on the government response to the coronavirus outbreak."
Sanders batted away questions about the future of his campaign through the latter half of March, as his campaign -- with the exception of a handful of combative surrogates and staff who continued to batter Biden -- largely retrained its focus on the coronavirus.
Asked about his plans during a recent visit to Capitol Hill, Sanders bristled, telling CNN, "I'm dealing with a f**king global crisis." By then, his livestream conversations and other campaign-adjacent online events rarely made mention of the primary or Biden.
As Sanders started to make more television appearances after leaving Washington, he became increasingly frank about his chances of winning the nomination.
"There is a path, it is admittedly a narrow path," Sanders told "Late Night" host Seth Meyers last week.
But those acknowledgments were mixed in with public arguments for staying in the race -- and other remarks, more difficult to discern, that offered some insight into Sanders' own indecision.
"I mean, right now, under normal times, I wouldn't be talking to you from my home" Sanders told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an interview on Friday. "So yes, the calculus has absolutely changed. And you know, we're talking to a lot of people, and trying to figure out the best way forward."
Toward the end, the questions often appeared to shape the answers. After being pressed by Whoopi Goldberg on "The View" last week over his reasons for remaining in the race, Sanders sounded like he was settling in for a longer haul.
"Last I heard, people in a democracy have a right to vote," he said, "and they have a right to vote for the agenda that they think can work for America."
But in his livestream events, conducted with top aides, advisers and friends, Sanders was more expansive. The pandemic, he argued, had pulled the tide out and revealed in the starkest ways possible the ugliest inequities in American life.
"I think it is not inappropriate to be trying to ask ourselves, how did we get to where we are today, and maybe where we want to go when all this is behind us," Sanders said on April 4. "And I think some of the questions that we have to ask ourselves, and you have heard me say this a million times, is how does it happen that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right?"
Five years after he launched a message campaign with the hope of rejuvenating progressive grassroots and keep Hillary Clinton accountable to the Democratic Party's left flank, and after that bid touched off a movement that has spawned a new generation of leftist leaders, Sanders by the end of his 2020 race had, in many ways, returned to his own beginnings.
Whether Sanders' decision to the leave the contest now, rather than carrying on as he did in 2016 through the end of the primary calendar, will earn him some goodwill with the party establishment he fought so long and hard to upend, is an open question. An earlier departure won't blot out the ideological divisions that have roiled the party since 2016.
But the more immediate question facing Sanders, following his departure, and his supporters is whether and to what extent they will lend their support -- and organizing energy -- to Biden's campaign.
Sanders has been insistent that he would support the eventual nominee, no matter who it was. But his political base -- especially the young, who voted for him by overwhelming margins, and disaffected -- will be more difficult to bring along, no matter how many miles Sanders covers on Biden's behalf.


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Study on Lovebirds' Maneuverability Could Lead to Better Autonomous Aerial Robots
Scientists in the lab of David Lentink, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, investigated lovebirds flying in a crosswind tunnel which features customizable light and wind settings.
Ferrari the lovebird during flight training in the bird wind tunnel in David Lentink's lab. (Image credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford News Service)
Birds can naturally steer through strong crosswinds—and can do so in environments with low visibility, while pilots have to depend on advanced computations, radio signals, and tools to keep them on the right course during these difficult conditions.
The researchers were keen to understand how the birds achieve this feat. Details of the research have been published in the July 9th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This research could stimulate stronger and computationally effective visual control algorithms for autonomous aerial robots.
This is the first research of how birds position their bodies, heads, and necks to fly through extreme 45° crosswinds over short ranges—both in bright visual settings and in dark, cave-like settings, where a weak point of light is the only visual guiding light. To the scientists' amazement, the lovebirds were able to successfully navigate all environments well.
"It's amazing that lovebirds navigated 45-degree crosswinds even in our cave environment, because in their natural environment they fly in open habitats during the day," said Daniel Quinn, who worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Lentink and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. "Even well-trained pilots rely on runway lighting, radio beacons and guidance from air traffic controllers to land safely on windy nights."
The conditions we studied can cause spatial disorientation in pilots, yet the lovebirds aced their maneuvers in the dark as if there was no challenge. This was a big surprise to the entire team because we studied 'naïve' lovebirds. They were bred and kept in an indoor cage and had no experience with flying in the wind. Their ability may thus well be innate.
David Lentink, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
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The scientists learned that lovebirds stabilize and fixate their gaze on the goal when navigating, and at the same time yaw their bodies into the crosswind. To keep on course requires them to actively twist their necks by 30° or more.
A computer-simulated model informed by the experimental data specified that, while neck control is active, body reorientation into the wind is realized passively. Additional tests with a basic mechanical bird model in a wind tunnel revealed how well it functions.
"Airplanes have a vertical tail to orient stably into the wind. We discovered why birds don't need one: their flapping wings don't only offer propulsion, they also orient into the wind passively like a weathervane" Lentink said.
However, this is just part of the story. Concurrently, the lovebirds actively contort their necks to position their heads toward the light beacon. The amount of neck twist then provides the relative wind angle with regard to their goal direction. This twist angle is all the lovebirds require to regulate their flight toward the beacon. While doing this, they steady their heads extraordinarily well.
Apparently, the direction of gravity sensed by the bird's vestibular system helps compensate for the missing wide-field visual horizon.
Daniel Quinn, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
High-speed videos of the birds flying in the dark, recorded in infrared light, as well as the models describing the behavior revealed that birds do not need a wide-field visual horizon nor optic flow (motion of image intensity over the retina) to navigate in crosswinds.
This finding is opposing to several years of lab-based locomotion and neuroscience studies in still air that advocated that both were critical. The scientists still believe that clear visual information, when available, plays an important role in the way birds integrate all their sensory inputs, but the study revises the notion that it is vital.
This research was sponsored by the Human Frontier Science Program, Stanford Bio-X, the US Army Research Laboratory, a G.D. Fahrenheit scholarship, and the National Science Foundation. Other Stanford co-authors include Daniel Kress, Eric Chang, Andrea Stein, and Michal Wegrzynski.
Source: https://www.stanford.edu/


Staffordshire qualifier David Platt has been given the unenviable task of being Phil 'The Power' Taylor's first-round opponent in the Ladbrokes.com World Championship, which starts on Monday, December 19.
Platt, set to make his second appearance at Purfleet's Circus Tavern after being one of 16 players to make it through the qualifying event in Hull, will be the first man to try to prevent Taylor from increasing his number of world titles to 13.
They will step up to the oche on the opening night of the tournament when 2003 winner John Part, one of only three men ever to have beaten Taylor in a World Championship, also begins his campaign against China's Liu Cheng'An.
Top seed Colin Lloyd received one of the tougher draws as he will face former Skybet World Grand Prix quarter-finalist Gary Welding, who beat ex-world champions John Lowe and Keith Deller to earn a place among the 64-man field.
In a repeat of last year's quarter-final, Bob Anderson takes on Andrew 'The Hammer' Hamilton, while fifth seed Peter 'One Dart' Manley goes up against Cambridge left-hander Kevin Spiolek, who knocked out Taylor in 1993 but has been away from big-time darts for a while.
Publication information: Article title: Taylor Test for Platt. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England). Publication date: December 6, 2005. Page number: 43. © MGN Ltd. COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale Group.


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Home/News/Climate change carbon emission 2030 goal by Anthony Albanese: Bills soar, Anthony Albanese's plan may fail
Climate change carbon emission 2030 goal by Anthony Albanese: Bills soar, Anthony Albanese's plan may fail
Why Anthony Albanese's 2030 climate goal will NOT be reached even if your electricity bill rises by 56 percent
Labor, with support from the Greens, has drawn up a plan to reduce carbon emissions
The federal government aims to reduce emissions by 43 percent by 2030
Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water skeptical
By Stephen Johnson, economic reporter for Daily Mail Australia
published: 02:52, Dec 2, 2022 | Updated: 02:53, Dec 2, 2022
A government department has questioned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's target to reduce CO2 emissions by 43 percent by 2030.
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Labor, backed by the Greens, passed legislation in September to honor its climate change election pledge.
But just three months later, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water has suggested that the plan to cut carbon emissions by 43 percent by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, is unlikely to be met.
The modeling suggested that even with additional measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, carbon pollution would only be reduced by 40 percent by 2030.
Without additional policy changes to encourage more renewable energy, carbon emissions would have fallen by 32 percent by 2030.
A government department has questioned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's target of cutting carbon emissions by 43 percent by 2030 (he is pictured on the right in June as Energy Secretary Chris Bowen signs the climate pledge in the presence of trade union and business leaders)
Climate change targets and likely realities
GOAL 2030: 43 percent reduction in 2030, with CO2 emissions falling to 354 megatons
BASIC FORECAST: 32 percent reduction in 2030 with CO2 emissions falling to 425 megatons without new green policy
ADDITIONAL MEASURES: 40 percent reduction in 2030, with CO2 emissions falling to 371 megatons
This base case factored in new policies to remove import tariffs on electric vehicles, allow officials to drive electric cars, and fund solar batteries for the community.
The department said most of the carbon emissions reduction would be a result of federal and state government programs to boost solar power generation.
"From 2020 to 2030, most of the reduction in emissions will come from the electricity sector due to the strong uptake of renewables supported by federal, state and territory policies," it said in a statement. report.
Carbon emissions were expected to rise as more Australians used their cars after the end of Covid restrictions and farmers restocked their livestock after the drought.
Data from the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory showed that transportation emissions increased 3.2 percent in the June quarter of 2022.
The department report was more optimistic about reducing carbon emissions after 2030, predicting a reduction of 38 percent by 2035 in a baseline scenario and 48 percent by 2035 with "additional measures."
Data from the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory showed transport emissions increased by 3.2 percent in the June quarter of 2022 (pictured is a filling station in Sydney)
Australia has a goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050, which both sides of the political arena support.
More ambitious renewable energy targets have led energy companies to submit plans to close coal-fired power plants, from Eraring near Newcastle in 2025 to Bayswater in the Hunter Valley in 2033 and the Collie in Western Australia in 2027.
This would reduce the baseload supply of electricity, making higher electricity bills more likely until more homes are connected to renewable energy networks.
Labor went to the election promising to cut average energy bills by $275 by 2025, despite the implications of Russia's war in Ukraine for global energy markets.
The plan seemed to loosen up in October's budget, when the Treasury forecast electricity bills would rise 56 percent in 2022 and 2023.
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Before Labor came to power, the Australian Energy Market Operator noted in April that annual wholesale prices had more than doubled to $87 in the March quarter – up 141 percent in a year.
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