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BOGOT We live in contradictory times.

On the one hand, nations have, to a universal and unprecedented degree, agreed upon certain rules of an international system. The principle of nation-state as defining political actor has spread to every corner of the Earth bar Marie Byrd Land, that unclaimed territory of the Antarctic. Even marginal and rebellious states like North Korea are slowly integrating into the international rules system.

On the other hand, for the first time since the end of the Cold War, several non-Western powers have given themselves authority to violate the principle of national sovereignty. The previous international order revolved around another idea: that only the Western powers could violate the sovereignty of states without provoking a violent reaction from other powers.

The idea that states have a sovereign right to determine their affairs is a laudable principle, yet it is as fragile as ever, increasingly violated in different regions around the world.

Several weeks ago I wrote about how Russia's challenge to Ukraine's sovereignty indicated a change in that imbalance of power, which prevailed after the 1990s. Moscow's challenge is that it too can now invade and occupy the territory of states with impunity, though the case is not restricted to Russia.

Emboldened perhaps by the drama unfolding in Eastern Europe, one Chinese diplomat said a few days ago that if Taiwan insisted, with American backing, in advancing toward its independence, war was likely.

This was another warning that the Taiwan question remains unresolved. It is impossible to foresee how long China will choose the solution of a no-solution for Taiwan, and one can only take the parties' declarations as a guide. The Chinese Communist Party insists that the island known as the Republic of China will eventually join the People's Republic of China. That makes the present situation provisional, until one side or the other decides on a permanent solution (though really, in historical terms, all solutions are provisional).

This is the first time since the Cold War that war could break out between the great powers. The two sides would be more or less the same as those of the Cold War, though the situation could always change completely.

A demonstrator wearing a mask with the face of Chinese president Xi Jinping in Taipei, Taiwan, on Dec. 10

Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA

Ultra conservative Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson recently asked a political expert invited to his show why the United States was backing Ukraine, not Russia, which Carlson said was surprising. His guest responded that historically, the United States has always sided with democracy. Well, those of us familiar with Latin American history know this is not true. We may go further and say the claim is not "historically" true, even for people living inside the United States.

The rise of fascism in the United States, the success of strategies to weaken its internal democratic system, and the Republican Party's brazen contempt for the electoral system suggest there will be changes.

The United States is actually a rather young democracy. Like South Africa, you couldn't say it was a fully democratic country until it had granted full civil rights to its African-American population, which happened only in 1965. Democracy, national sovereignty and the guarantees of international law appear to be firm, but are actually quite fragile. They are uncertain, and subject to an unending process of negotiation.

The United States might put itself on Russia's side or refuse to continue backing Taiwan. In these unstable times, anything could happen.

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Welcome To The Age Of Instability - Worldcrunch

The following are land transactions for the month of October:

Oct. 1

-Andrew Ford to Coleman Beasley, for $28,000, for Lot 2 in Seven Oaks Resubdivision of Lot 2A.

-Theodore Lloyd Cretest to Resicap Alabama Owner LLC, for $205,000, for Lot 605 in Forest Lakes 11th Sector.

-Paul R. Brown to Christina Anderson, for $360,000, for Lot 37 in Southpointe First Sector.

-Herschel B. Young to OP SPE TPA1 LLC, for $320,000, for Lot 1427 in Braemar at Ballantrae Phase 1 Final Plat.

-Kayla Williams to Jennifer Bihl, for $575,000, for property in Section 5, Township 20, Range 1 West.

-Mupr 3 Assets LLC to Amnl Asset Company 2 LLC, for $221,799.92, for Lot 100 in Shiloh Creek Phase 2 Sector 1.

-Latesia Davis Johnson Macdonald to Gregory Robinson, for $805,000, for Lot 415 in Greystone Legacy 4th Sector.

-Jack C. Dewailly to Ashley Stewart, for $330,000, for Lot 427 in Savannah Pointe Sector V Phase 1.

-Jacob R. Clark to Mikel S. Belcher, for $405,500, for Lot 4 in Lincoln Park.

-Ralph Rmeily to Justin O. Rice, for $275,000, for Lot 63 in Stratford Place Phase IV.

-Brandon L. Evans to Thomas Lee Moland, for $336,100, for Lot 9 in Countryside.

-Margaret Alismail to Brandyn Leonard, for $245,000, for Lot 10 in Chadwick Sector 4.

-Stella Belcher to Spartan Invest LLC, for $95,000, for Lots 9 and 10 in Dunstans Survey of Calera.

-Kyle Martin to Thomas C. Watts, for $238,000, for Lot 52 in Holland Lakes Sector 1 Final Plat.

-Noble E. Naugle to Justin Blair Lamar, for $5,000, for Lot 1 in Debbies Subdivision Resurvey of Lots 1 and 2.

-Sandra Miree Hardin to Bham Growth Investors LLC, for $55,000, for property in Section 12, Township 22 South, Range 3 West.

-Sanford D. Hatton to Jacqueline Michelle Holdbrooks, for $270,000, for property in Section 11, Township 24 North, Range 15 East.

-April Wallace to Keith Allen Busby, for $430,000, for property in Section 7, Township 20 South, Range 3 West.

-Suleman Solomon Ngimba to Steven K. Standridge, for $180,000, for Lot 22 in Parkview Townhomes Plat No. 1 Corrected.

-James B. Angel to Tony Robert Cech, for $425,000, for Lot 818 in Gleneagles at Ballantrae.

-Stephanie Morgan to Jennifer Elaine Granberry, for $325,000, for Lot 76 in Dearing Downs First Addition.

-Donna C. Smitherman to Corey P. Reimers, for $415,000, for Lot 34 in Harvest Ridge Second Phase.

-Zack Pappanastos to Lynda A. Myer, for $392,000, for Lot 243 in Eagle Point 2nd Sector Phase 2.

-Paul Brown to Phyllis Yeilding, for $205,000, for Lot 4 in Lake Terrace.

-Kristy L. Johnson to George Mwangi, for $515,000, for Lot 67 in Lake Forest Sixth Sector.

-Farman Garrett to Stacy Morris, for $119,000, for property in Section 8, Township 24 North, Range 15 East.

-William E. Madaris to Angela Pickett, for $75,000, for property in Section 28, Township 24 North, Range 15 East.

-Mary P. Kaufmann to Birmingham Homebuyers LLC, for $350,000, for Lot 2425 in Riverchase Country Club Twenty Fourth Addition.

Oct. 4

-RC Birmingham LLC to Horace Henry, for $259,180, for Lot 97 in Stonebriar Phase 2.

-Michael Weber to Steven A. Horn, for $215,000, for property in Section 7, Township 22, Range 2 East.

-Herbert C. Gibson to Erica Lambert Bowen, for $380,000, for property in Section 27, Township 19 South, Range 2 West.

-Erica Bowen to Ngoc Linh Nguyen, for $330,000, for Lot 57 in Chesser Plantation Phase I Sector 2.

-Robert D. Godbold to Robert Dobbins, for $125,000, for Lot 32 in Summerchase Phase 3.

-Shae Gibbs to Matthew D. Zuber, for $240,000, for Lot 26 in Springs Crossing Sector 1.

-Alavest LLC to Palandria Hall, for $260,000, for Lot 79 in Camden Cove Sector 5 Final Plat.

-Cynthia Barton to Brandon Powell, for $660,000, for Lot 1819 in Eagle Point 18th Sector Resurvey of Lots 1819A and 1820A.

-Connie Hawkins to John Tyler Thomas, for $229,700, for Lot 14 in Colonial Oaks Phase 1.

-Kaitlyn Sandord to Noah A. Ferguson, for $183,000, for Lot A in Riverwood Fourth Sector Amended Map.

-Tammy Fogle Osborn to Abdulla Alhaija, for $293,800, for Lot 10 in Parkside.

-Gloria Jean Sanders to RS Rental II LLC, for $262,500, for Lot 681 in Waterford Cove Sector 3 Phase 2.

-Lake Wilborn Partners LLC to Vera Guevara Egorshin, for $570,469, for Lot 675 in Lake Wilborn Phase 6C.

-Jason M. Iwanski to Jason M. Iwanski, for $32,240, for Lot 21 in Glen Estates Resurvey of Lots 18 thru 21 and 33 thru 35.

-Jabco Properties LLC to Pagaya Smartresi F1 Fund Property Owner II LLC, for $267,300, for Lot 456 in Weatherly Treymoor Abbey Sector 22.

-Edward Hubley to Steven C. Morgan, for $455,000, for Lot 20 in Parc at Greystone.

-Rausch Coleman Homes Birmingham LLC to Jason Watts, for $249,640, for Lot 12 in Stonebriar Phase 2.

-Steven C. Morgan to Ben E. Lavender, for $803,000, for Lot 48 in Greystone 7th Sector Phase 1.

-Rausch Coleman Homes Birmingham LLC to Frederick Leon Gaines, for $203,020, for Lot 28 in Camden Park Phase One Final Plat.

-Lake Wilborn Partners LLC to Matthew D. Hall, for $473,271, for Lot 857 in Lake Wilborn Phase 8A.

-John P. Haley to Judson Lee Fleming, for $1,325,000, for Lot 423 in Highland Lakes 4th Sector Phase I.

-Adams Homes LLC to Lonnie Ray Layton, for $283,510, for Lot 113 in Colonial Oaks Phase 2.

-Deidre Sourbeer to Robert Hammond, for $612,000, for Lot 1261 in Highland Lakes 12th Sector Phase III.

-Blackridge Partners LLC to Brian Wiatrak, for $1,003,941, for Lot 1202 in Blackridge Phase 2.

-RC Birmingham LLC to Eleuterio Alberto Cruz Dominguez, for $234,130, for Lot 69 in Lakes at Hidden Forest Phase 4.

-Karen Bass to RS Rental II LLC, for $235,000, for Lot 3 in Kingwood Fourth Addition.

-E & L Land Company LLC to 261 Land LLC, for $25,000, for property in Section 33, Township 20 South, Range 3 West.

-R. Don Bryan to Andrew Tyler Debaat Doelman, for $150,000, for property in Section 16, Township 19 South, Range 2 West.

-Michael Anthony Brown to RS Rental II LLC, for $250,000, for Lot 17 in Apache Ridge 1st Sector.

-Janice S. Mitchell to Robert Crumley, for $370,000, for Lot 220 in Chandalar South Fifth Sector.

-Lake Wilborn Partners LLC to Melvin Wade Brown, for $418,839, for Lot 802 in Lake Wilborn Phase 8A.

-Flemming Partners LLC to James B. Angel, for $453,842, for Lot 4139 in Abingdon by the River 2.

Oct. 5

-Sara Jane Turner to Jeetendra Ahuja, for $189,000, for property in Section 28, Township 19 South, Range 2 East.

-David R. Donahoo to James L. Bentley, for $140,000, for Lot 11 in Wildwood Shores Second Sector.

-Jimmy L. Jackson to James C. Wood, for $350,000, for property in Section 22, Township 20 South, Range 1 West and Lot 2 in Bosshart Resurvey of Parcel L. Tract Nine Subdivision.

-Robert E. Owen to Hunter McCoy Properties LLC, for $175,500, for Lot 76 in Willow Creek Phase 2.

-Matthew Huebert to Resicap Alabama Owner LLC, for $189,000, for Lot 32 in Meadows Plat 2 Revised Survey.

-SDH Birmingham LLC to Jasmine Mayfield Prentice, for $200,445, for Lot 2 in Glades Final Plat.

-RC Birmingham LLC to Erica Melissa Isaac, for $221,660, for Lot 73 in Lakes at Hidden Forest Phase 4.

-Lawrence McNair to Theodore P. Yost, for $457,000, for Lot 2190 in Riverbend at Old Cahaba Phase IV.

-Rausch Coleman Homes Birmingham LLC to Jose Adelio Serrano Tejada, for $207,130, for Lot 234 in Lakes at Hidden Forest Phase 3.

-Myra Jean Mitchell to ARVM 5 LLC, for $208,000, for Lot 190 in Stonecreek Phase 4 Final Plat.

-Mary Ann Dobbs to Elvis Jefferson LLC, for $171,000, for Lot 26 in Midridge Village Phase I Final Plat.

-Deborah M. Myers to Deborah M. Myers, for $90,000, for Lot 31 in Wyndsor Trace Phase I Final Plat.

-Sandra M. Turner to RS Rental II LLC, for $247,500, for Lot 88 in Bridlewood Parc Sector Three.

-Jason Parsons to Kimberly B. Foskey, for $1,500,000, for Lot 3 in Indian Springs Ranch.

-Barbara Gail Dickinson to Jason T. Parsons, for $1,995,000, for Lot 32 in Lake Heather Estates Givianpour Addition to Inverness.

-Newcastle Construction Inc. to Adi Shankara Gopi Krishna Dakarapu, for $457,026, for Lot 214 in Camellia Ridge Phase 2.

-Joseph Scott Irwin to Walter Perryman, for $704,900, for Lot 1728 in Highland Lakes 17th Sector Resubdivision.

-Embridge Homes LLC to Urvashiben Babubhai Patel, for $552,079, for Lot 646 in Lake Wilborn Phase 6C.

-Embridge Homes LLC to Newman R. Nowlin, for $580,975, for Lot 653 in Lake Wilborn Phase 6C.

-Magen Brennan to Cameron Hagan, for $148,625, for Lot 114 in Sterling Oaks Condominium.

-Kimberly Yager to Wancer Sanchez, for $130,000, for property in Section 6, Township 21 South, Range 2 East.

-Ana Laura Cortes Becerril to Gary Curtis, for $260,000, for Lot 5 in Robert Pledgers Resurvey of Park of Blocks 262, 263 and 265 Dunstans Map.

-Kenneth J. Coreno to Jasmin Nacole Ferguson, for $225,000, for Lot 100 in Narrows Reach Sector Phase 2 Final Record Plat.

-Alan C. Stinson to Matthew Christopher Ling, for $440,000, for Lot 2435 in Riverchase Country Club 24th Addition.

-Megan K. Rexford to BSFR III Owner I LLC, for $197,000, for Lot 191 in Camden Cove Sector 1.

-David Ray Faber to Paul Robert Edmunds, for $545,000, for Lot 46 in High Chaparral Sector 3.

-Lake Wilborn Partners LLC to John Paul Fandetti, for $514,018, for Lot 673 in Lake Wilborn Phase 6C.

-Latissus Andrade to RII 1SC Birmingham I LLC, for $185,000, for Lot 25 in Meadows at Meriweather Phase 3 Final Plat.

-Blackridge Partners LLC to Qianjun Li, for $673,713, fo rLot 1233 in Blackridge Phase 2 Resurvey No. 1.

-Shane Johnson to RII 1SC Birmingham I LLC, for $213,000, for Lot 134 in Villages at Westover.

-Century Management Group LLC to Samantha Elizabeth Greenblatt, for $255,000, for Lot 51 in Chanda Terrace Second Sector.

-Damian Delmario Rutledge to Diana Rains, for $260,000, for Lot 6 in Laurel Woods.

-Ashley Hyde to Cottonwood Homes LLC, for $131,000, for Lot 13 in Calera Commons Townhomes Amended Survey.

-Bethany H. Morton to Merritt D. Cottingham, for $293,800, for Lot 197 in Hillsboro Subdivision Phase III.

-Flemming Partners LLC to Pradeep Kesapragada, for $443,404, for Lot 858 in Lake Wilborn Phase 8A.

-Richard Schuyler Burg to JVN Real Estate LLC, for $185,900, for Lot 30 in Calloway Cove Townhomes Plat No. 1.

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Land transactions for the month of October - Shelby County Reporter - Shelby County Reporter

Bellevue

Donald Youkers sold property at 186 N Balph Ave. to Ulrich Properties LLC for $235,000.

Lori Schmidt sold property at 230 N Balph Ave. to Monarch Properties Fresno LLC for $95,000.

Edward Byrd sold property at 94 S Harrison Ave. to Joshua Sacco et al. and Michael Sacco for $220,000.

Bradford Woods

Michael Brady sold property at 102 Saybrook Hbr to William and Virginia Richter for $318,000.

Etna

Mark Kitzki sold property at 17 Oakland St. to Nicholas Behr Leffakis for $85,000.

Franklin Park

Robert Delisio sold property at 1904 Colonial Drive to Muhammed Chalaby and Farah Al Zubaida for $583,000.

Robert Hastings sold property at 2432 Dogwood Drive to Thomas and Amy Kelley for $555,000.

Anders Anderson sold property at 2278 Meadow Road to Neil Goss for $220,000.

Robert Grumski sold property at 1427 Mystic Valley Drive to Daniel and Sandi Boada for $825,000.

Matthew Hohman sold property at 2209 N. Huntington Court to James and Patricia Baker for $361,100.

Estate of Kenneth Bergman sold property at 2041 Reis Run Road to Brendan and Karyn McClelland for $520,000.

Sandra Norris sold property at 2131 S. Huntington Court to Karan Joseph Varghese and Miliya Mary Joseph for $320,000.

National Resident Nominee Services INC sold property at 1725 St. Johns Ln to Suresh and Soumya Gumudavelly for $380,000.

Jorge Chaustre Hernandez sold property at 1658 Sturbridge Drive to Pooja and Tavankit Singh for $811,750.

Todd Rhule sold property at 1004 Willow Lane to Thomas Jeffrey Hussar Jr. and Dana Hussar for $750,000.

Hampton

Andrew Topa sold property at 4836 Andrews Drive to Jeremy and Marcie Miller for $275,000.

Patricia Nealon Burt sold property at 3055 Fernwood Lane to William Kirk Jr. and Brandi Baker for $667,000.

Mark Zukowski sold property at 4190 Maple Lane to Matthew and Alissa Smith for $225,000.

Paul Larson sold property at 4703 Middle Road to Jason and Laura Cook for $815,000.

Richard Barton sold property at 2623 Miller Drive to Brandon and Amanda Malenowski for $311,500.

Randall Parrack sold property at 2516 Royalview Drive to Carl Gulley for $232,000.

Ronald Henderson sold property at 2476 Trotter Drive to Benjamin Aiken and Erica Brown for $350,000.

Robert Hugus sold property at 3159 Westwind Drive to Joshua Condosta and Karen Obringer for $345,000.

Marshall

Weichert Workforce Mobility Inc. sold property at 617 Chilliwack Lane to Deepak Reddy Enugula and Sirisha Veeram Reddy for $410,000.

Bachman Builders Inc. sold property at 1020 Goldeneye Drive to Nathan and Jennifer Roberts trustee for $1,060,260.

Kurt Skvarla sold property at 312 Marshall Heights Drive to Robert and Alexis Holdcroft for $360,000.

Willis Haas Jr. sold property at 401 Marshall Heights Drive to Revecca McVeigh for $450,000.

Cathy OBrien sold property at 3017 Mohican Circle to Alfonso Buono and Anna Sambiase for $495,000.

Ryan Pristow sold property at 288 Venango Trail to et al for $402,500.

Graebel Relocation Services Worldwide In sold property at 229 Venango Trl to Jeffrey James and Megan Elizabeth Carter for $652,000.

Susan Weston sold property at 232 Venango Trl to Gary and Anna Cesnik for $471,500.

Rajiv Anand sold property at 284 Venango Trl to Ronald and Alba Debreczeni for $442,500.

Jesse Trowbridge sold property at 209 Woodhurst Terrace to Zeigham and Shazia Khokher for $770,000.

McCandless

Chase Rogan sold property at 9510 Almar Pl to Christopher and Rachel Maher for $285,000.

Steven Ronald Little sold property at 9804 Braewick Drive to Jonathan George and Elizabeth Taylor for $728,200.

Briana Ondich sold property at 9101 Collington Square to Demetri Khoury for $240,500.

Richard Sigurdson II sold property at 9334 Cromwell Drive to Tyler Robert Whitlatch and Melissa Renee Winkle for $250,000.

Jennifer Murphy sold property at 8135 Dormar Drive to Ryan James Cullen for $326,000.

Ruth Salopek sold property at 1800 Foxcroft Lane Unit 1002 to Shou Jin and Ai Jin Qian for $169,900.

Paul Schwendeman sold property at 460 Highview Road to Sandra Hemming et al. and Robert Wheeler for $449,900.

Jeanine Privatera sold property at 1906 Oakhurst Drive to Brian and Andrea Evancho for $520,000.

Mark Ulinski sold property at 587 Olive St. to Jerry Connell and Savannah Metcalf for $413,000.

Robert Amelio sold property at 629 Olive St. to Curan and Michelle Bonham for $475,000.

Alden Kirkendall sold property at 8015 Perry Highway to Matthew John and Nicole Elizabeth Feraco for $90,000.

Loretta Hopper sold property at 252 Perrymont Road to Samuel David Randig for $235,000.

Estate of Albert Kolarik sold property at 227 Pontiac Ave. to Daniel and Zola Mulvaney for $222,000.

Chad Campbell sold property at 8090 Remington Drive to Matthew Joseph and Emily Lucille Gates for $260,000.

Estate of William Patsilevas sold property at 1143 Southvale Road to Christopher Melisko for $169,000.

Millvale

Maxwell Winek sold property at 674 Evergreen Ave. to BJW Capital LLC for $160,000.

Ohio

William Joseph Haas sold property at 416 Crimson Drive to Artem Ruts and Emily Thurston for $500,000.

Joseph Wehner Sr sold property at 503 Duff Road to Sandra Denton for $237,000.

NVR Inc. sold property at 117 Melinda Ct to Jorge Armando Torres Barreto and Javier Arriola Perdomo for $361,445.

NVR Inc. sold property at 119 Melinda Ct to Daniels and Andrea McCann for $313,625.

NVR Inc. sold property at 129 Melinda Ct to Mohammad Mahmoud Akhousani and Sara Ali Al Hasan for $345,285.

Roncin LLC sold property at 151 Summer Seat Ln to Richard Henry and Virginia McKay for $640,000.

Pine

NVR Inc. sold property at 7200 Chestnut Way to Nicholas Jenkins and Marissa Sudar for $332,700.

NVR Inc. sold property at 7202 Chestnut Way to Melissa Leuenberger for $323,955.

NVR Inc. sold property at 7204 Chestnut Way to Geethanjalli Elangovan and Prabhakaran Ravichandran for $348,725.

NVR Inc. sold property at 7206 Chestnut Way to Jonh Robert and Kei Gaddis for $347,605.

Timothy Wise sold property at 552 Cloverdale Ct to Christopher and Victoria Niemann for $465,000.

Robert Beatty sold property at 181 Kildee Drive to Martin and Isabelle Moldovan for $300,000.

Casey David White sold property at 194 Logan Road to Craig and Mackenzie Foos for $420,000.

Nicholas Baker sold property at 214 Murrin Court to Deepika and Shobhit Gaur for $1,025,000.

Christopher Keilly sold property at 105 Myrtle Ct to Gregory and Leah Vaslowski for $650,000.

James Werner sold property at 120 Rabold Drive to Christopher and Kathryn Campbell for $602,875.

Connor Dixon sold property at 315 Rosecliff Road to Jaehee Cho for $377,100.

David Herr sold property at 161 Rosscommon Road to William and Samantha Landefeld for $249,900.

Brennan Road Development LLC sold property at Shortline Ct to Stephen Bruce and Lisa Marie Fowler for $716,734.

Cavalier Land Partn. L.P. sold property at 3032-3034 Spruce Road to NVR Inc. for $220,000.

NVR Inc. sold property at 4303 Spruce Road to Ashwini Achuthan and Raghavendra Thatavarthi for $442,721.

Douglas Hein sold property at 204 Summit Cir to Ryan Christopher Schrebe and Michael David Koehler for $842,000.

Anthony Sisto sold property at 136 Tanglewood Drive to Mark Alan Stepko and Maria Sisto for $575,000.

Donna Gebhardt sold property at 803 Village Club Drive to Divya Narain and Akshat Oswal for $460,000.

Cartus Corp. sold property at 2114 W Grove Drive to Tyler Martin Gargano and Hallie Marie Hudson for $550,000.

Reserve

Ashley Gottron sold property at 464 Irwin Lane to Michael Evans for $230,000.

Richland

Justin Zweig sold property at 275 Allison Road to David Sambroak and Darlene Gapsky for $280,000.

TOA Richland LLC sold property at 317 American Way Unit 132 to Thomas Merriman and Patricia Pivirotto for $508,672.

Estate of Martin Hehman sold property at 137 Bellefield Ct to Roosevelt Creighton and Tasha Sims Norfleet for $283,000.

Field Brook Farms L.P. sold property at 102 Field Brook Ln to Nathan and Renee Frazier for $75,000.

Robert Kuna sold property at 5435 Gibson Road to Richard Schreckengost for $130,000.

Anthony Zimmerman sold property at 3802 Grove Road to Paolo Gullo and Suzanne Smola for $330,000.

Mark Maiola sold property at 5729 Wesleyann Drive to Nikolas and Abigail Guymon for $275,000.

Ross

Kaja Holdings LLC sold property at 191 Sixth Ave. to Marshall Kent Ebeling for $28,900.

Whitbar LLC sold property at 5501 Babcock Blvd. to TCYPA LLC for $725,000.

Edward Crinnion sold property at 630 Bascom Ave. to Penn Pioneer Enterprises LLC for $75,561.

Matthew Drozd sold property at 132 Berwyn Road to Travis Fell and Stephanie Volante for $499,000.

William Kirk Jr. sold property at 128 Circle Drive to Glen Alan and Claudia Andrews for $350,500.

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North Hills real estate transactions for the week of Dec. 19, 2021 - TribLIVE

Stowaways usually land in the brig. This ones featured at the Morris Museum.

Its a ukulele, and it survived a perilous journey.

More perilous, arguably, than Septembers uke voyage into orbit with a SpaceX rocket.

This one was hidden aboard a rickety triple-engine Fokker monoplane in 1926, when explorer Richard Byrd staked his claim as the first man to fly over the North Pole.

The instrument belonged to expedition member Richard Konter better known as Ukulele Dick who persuaded pilot Floyd Bennett to stash it on the plane.

Ticker tape parades and galas welcomed home the polar conquerors. Konter, already a minor celebrity for his all-girl ukulele chorus, asked notable people to sign his famous souvenir.

Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Edison and Charles Lindbergh were among them. But these 160 or so names and the space-age detective work to identify the faded autographs are only the tip of the iceberg at this exhibition, which runs through March 2022 at the museum in Morris Township.

There are so many different tangents to the story. There is the expedition. There are all the different categories of signatures. There is romance and there is tragedy, said Dick Boak.

With Larry Bartram of Basking Ridge, Boak co-authored A Stowaway Revealed, Richard Konter & The Byrd Polar Expeditions, which inspired the exhibit.

Over more than four decades as an archivist and artist relations man with guitar maker C.F. Martin & Co., Boak worked with everyone from Johnny Cash and Judy Collins to John Mayer. Yet no big star has captivated him as thoroughly as Ukulele Dick.

Boaks deep dive began when Bartram brought his guitar for repairs at Martin headquarters in Nazareth, PA.

Wandering into the small museum there, Bartram spied a soprano-sized koa ukulele and instantly recognized the signature of his old Arctic geology professor, Laurence Gould.

Boak and Bartram identified about three-dozen autographs that day, launching a years-long expedition of their own.

They interviewed people who knew Konter, pored over news clippings and archival photos, and recruited anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution to make infrared and ultraviolet studies of the ukulele.

Morris Museum CEO Cleveland Johnson, who used to run the National Music Museum, saw the North Pole uke at a conference of the American Musical Instrument Society.

I fell in love with it, recounted Johnson. He suspected his dream to showcase this priceless curiosity struck his staff as, well, curious.

Clevelands really lost it now, he imagined them saying. Were doing a ukulele exhibit.

Smithsonian technology detected some signatures by tracing flecks of metal left by early ballpoint pens. Yet much of the research involved old-fashioned gumshoe work.

To confirm hunches, Boak and Bartram studied news accounts to see where Konter could have crossed paths with dignitaries.

It took the authors three years to confirm the scribbled name of New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs; they found their proof by comparing it to Ochs signature on a letter to Byrd.

Jimmy Walker, New Yorks playboy mayor, signed the ukulele. So did two Nobel Prize winners, an heir to the Astor fortune, a popular Indian chief and the actress who drove a gorilla ape in Son of Kong.

Romanias Queen Marie granddaughter of Englands Queen Victoria and the Tsar of Russiaappears on the headstock.

Of course, Commander Byrd later promoted to Admiral Byrd is featured prominently, along with his rival, Roald Amundsen of Norway, and the Snow Baby daughter of polar explorer Robert Peary.

Whether Byrd actually reached the North Pole is disputed. Amundsen followed three days later in an airship; historians have not challenged his claims.

The Morris Museum exhibit highlights famous signers of the uke. But the most heart-warming, and heart-wrenching, backstories involve names that might be lost to history if not for brisk bios in the book.

Jonathan Duff Reed earned a case of Byrds best liquorand the explorers lifelong friendshipfor rescuing Igloo, his beloved dog, when the expedition mascot fell overboard.

Other signatures underscore the extreme hazards of polar exploration in the early 20th century.

Members of the Italia would die in 1928 when the dirigible crashed in the Arctic.

The gondola broke off, spilling crew members onto an ice floe. Six others wafted away with the detached envelope, never to be found.

As he drifted to his death, Ettore Arduino heroically jettisoned supplies that helped sustain his mates below through a harrowing ordeal that included a marauding polar bear.

Amundsen would perish in a rescue attempt.

For a taste of what these adventurers endured, search YouTube for With Byrd at the South Pole. The 1930 film was the first documentary to win an Oscar, and the only one to win for best cinematography. (Igloo and the sled dogs should have won as best supporting actors.)

The most colorful and enigmatic character of this exhibit is the man behind the priceless $8 ukulele.

Brooklyn-born Richard Konter went to sea at age 15. Two typhoons in one year, and a shipwreck that stranded him on an island in the Philippines, proved he was unsinkable. Konter toured the world with the Navys Great White Fleet, and taught himself to play the guitar during a long winter in Manchuria.

His 20-year Naval career ended just as ukuleles were surging in popularity. A 1915 international expo in San Francisco had sparked a craze for Hawaiian music. These four-stringed instruments now are enjoying their third resurgence in the United States.

Konter found success arranging hit songs for ukulele. As radio was in its infancy in the early 1920s, Dicks Ukulele Club and its childrens unit performed regularly on New York programs.

He fancied a talented young protg. But her father sunk his wedding hopes. Konter was 25 years older than Johanna. Instead, she married Battleship Bill, Konters best friend from the Navy.

Learning of Byrds North Pole plans, Konter wrote a letter asking to volunteer. Byrds response seemed like an offer anyone could refuse:

If I pay the volunteers anything, it will be a small amount. You will, however, be lodged and boarded and your expenses will be paid.

Byrds letters express admiration for Konter, who also was a member of the 1928 Antarctic expedition.

For reasons that remain murky, however, Konter soured on Byrd, and burned bridges that could have served him well.

On the bright side, decades after his rejection, Ukulele Dick got a second chance with Johanna.

Now a widow, she said yes this time. Konter was 80 when they married. He lived to age 97. Those were happy years, according to A Stowaway Ukulele Revealed.

Konter was happy to rid himself of the uke that made him famous.

He traded it to C.F. Martin & Co. for a guitar, for his bride.

Stowed Away: A Traveling Philographist and His Arctic Uke can be seen at the Morris Museum through March 6, 2022. The Museum, at 6 Normandy Heights Road in Morris Township, is open Wednesdays through Sundays from 11 am to 5 pm; call (973) 971-3700 for more. SPECIAL NOTE: Members of the Morristown Uke Jam will perform some holiday favorites in the lobby this Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021, prior to the 2 pm Empire Wild Holiday Concert.

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PITTSBURGH Twenty One Pilots once again will land at PPG Paints Arena.

The Grammy Award-winning pop-rock duoannounced details of The Icy Tour 2022, which includes an Aug. 31 visit to PPG Paints Arena.

The 23-city outing kicks off Aug.18in St. Paul, Minn.

Registration for first access to tickets is open nowvia Ticketmasters Verified Fan platform and will run through noon on Nov.21. All remaining ticket will go on sale 10 a.m. Nov.24. Visittwentyonepilots.com/tour for more details.

The Columbus, Ohio, act went multi-platinum with crossover hits "Stressed Out" and "Heathens." Their new album, "Scaled And Icy," debuted at No. 1 onBillboard'sTop Rock AlbumsandAlternative Albumscharts while landing at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, marking the biggest opening week for a rock album in 2021. The new record is highlighted by the No. 1 Alternative Radio hits Saturday, and Shy Away.

Here are highlights of the Pittsburgh area concert calendar:

Nov. 20:Brothers Osborne

Dec. 5: Playboi Carti

Dec. 7:Jason Isbell

Jan. 17: DaBaby

March 11: Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias

Nov. 20: MercyMe

Dec. 2: Sebastian Maniscalco

Dec. 4: Andrea Bocelli

Dec. 13: Genesis

Dec. 29: Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Jan. 8: Kane Brown

Jan. 22: The Weeknd

Feb. 8: Billie Eilish

Feb. 9: Chris Tomlin & United

Feb. 17: Reba McEntire

Feb. 19: Imagine Dragons

Feb. 22: Journey

Feb. 23: Chris Tomlin

Feb. 25, John Mayer

March 1: Tool

April 1: Trevor Noah

April 4: Justin Bieber

April 20, Celine Dion

June 18: Ringo Starr

July 6: Roger Waters

July 19, New Kids on The Block

July 20: Shawn Mendes

July 29: Rage Against The Machine.

Dec. 8: Morgan James

Dec. 16: J. Roddy Walston

Dec. 17-18: Pittsburgh Plays Fleetwood Mac

Nov. 19:The Lemonheads

Nov. 20:Murder by Death

Nov. 23: Houndmouth

Nov. 26: The Commonheart

Dec. 4: Caroline Polachek

Dec. 9: MisterWives

Dec. 10: Glorious Sons

Dec. 11: All Them Witches

Dec. 15: Snail Mail

Dec. 30-31: Lotus

Feb. 1: Anderson East

Feb. 24: The Cadillac Three

March 1: Son Volt

March 15: Parquet Courts

March 26: Perfume Genius

March 31-April 1: They Might Be Giants (sold out)

April 2: Soccer Mommy

April 18, Animal Collective

April 24: Lights

April 29: Cat Power

May 22: King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard

Dec. 2:Michigan Rattlers.

Dec. 17: Bully

Jan. 5: Albert Lee

Jan. 6: Charles Wesley Godwin (sold out)

Feb. 18: Los Straitjackets

Feb. 20: Neal Francis

March 3: David Archuleta

April 19: James McMurtry (sold out)

Nov. 22: Chvrches

Nov. 23: Theory of a Deadman

Dec. 2: Neck Deep

Dec. 10: Ingrid Andress

Dec. 11: Beabadoobe

Jan. 17: Falling in Reverse

Jan. 28:Killswitch Engage

Feb. 2: Greensky Bluegrass

Feb. 9:Lucy Dacus

Feb. 12: Goose

Feb. 14: Louis Tomlinson

Feb. 16:Yungblud

Feb. 18:Beach House

March 4: Ministry

March 5: The Kid Laroi

March 8: AFI

March 12:Khruangbin

March 16:St. Paul & The Broken Bones

March 19: Mayday Parade

March 27: Brockhampton

March 29:Mitski

April 8: Kip Moore

April 30: Girl Talk

May 9:Testament

June 4, Bon Iver (outdoors)

Dec. 6-7: REO Speedwagon

Dec. 15: Marie Osmond with symphonic orchestra

Dec. 16: Travis Tritt

Jan. 29: Steven Wright

Jan. 30: Trace Adkins

Feb. 4: Gordon Lightfoot

Feb. 10: Martin Barre plays classic Jethro Tull

Feb. 18: TracyByrdandAaronTippin

March 6: Steve Vai

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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy The Definitive Edition pulls together three of the most iconic GTA games III, Vice City, and San Andreas and gives them some much-needed visual and gameplay updates. But a Grand Theft Auto game is nothing without its music, and its hard to argue that these games dont have legendary soundtracks. While Grand Theft Auto III largely used original music created in-house, Vice City and San Andreas began the series trend of using licensed music from the time periods in which the games are set.

Of course, it wouldnt be a Grand Theft Auto re-release without loads of cut music, and Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy The Definitive Edition has cuta lotof tracks that were in the original releases of these games.If youre curious which songs are missing, head to our full list of all removed songs in GTA: The Trilogy The Definitive Edition.

Otherwise, keep scrolling to check out full lists of every track thats featured in each of the three games in this remastered collection, organized by title, artist, and radio station. Weve independently confirmed these songs are included by listening to each radio station in all three games.Whether youre driving down the gritty streets of Liberty City, Vice Citys sunny beach fronts, the crime-riddled Los Santos, the fog-addled San Fierro, or passing the neon casinos of Las Venturas, youll always have something to listen to.

Grand Theft Auto III The Definitive Edition features 56 songs across eight different radio stations (not including the talk-only station Chatterbox FM).

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City The Definitive Edition has 95 songs across seven different radio stations (not including the talk-only stations K-Chat and VCPR).

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas The Definitive Edition includes 138 songs across 10 different radio stations (not including the talk-only station WCTR).

Looking for more help with Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy The Definitive Edition? Check out our other guides!

Daniel is an editor at Nintendo Wire. Always with his head in the clouds, he is never apart from his creative thoughts a blessing for an aspiring fiction writer. As a journalist and lifelong gamer, he aims to provide readers with the very best in Nintendo coverage.

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Economic theory of French origin that emphasizes value derived from the land

Physiocracy (French: physiocratie; from the Greek for "government of nature") is an economic theory developed by a group of 18th-century Age of Enlightenment French economists who believed that the wealth of nations derived solely from the value of "land agriculture" or "land development" and that agricultural products should be highly priced.[1] Their theories originated in France and were most popular during the second half of the 18th century. Physiocracy became one of the first well-developed theories of economics.

Franois Quesnay (16941774), the marquis de Mirabeau (1715-1789) and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (17271781) dominated the movement,[2] which immediately preceded the first modern school, classical economics, which began with the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

The physiocrats made a significant contribution in their emphasis on productive work as the source of national wealth. This contrasted with earlier schools, in particular mercantilism, which often focused on the ruler's wealth, accumulation of gold, or the balance of trade. Whereas the mercantilist school of economics held that value in the products of society was created at the point of sale,[3] by the seller exchanging his products for more money than the products had "previously" been worth, the physiocratic school of economics was the first to see labor as the sole source of value. However, for the physiocrats, only agricultural labor created this value in the products of society.[3] All "industrial" and non-agricultural labors were "unproductive appendages" to agricultural labor.[3]

Quesnay was likely influenced by his medical training. The earlier work of William Harvey had explained how blood flow and the circulatory system is vital to the human body; Quesnay held that the circulation of wealth was vital to the economy. Societies at the time were also overwhelmingly agrarian. This may be why they viewed agriculture as the primary source of a nation's wealth. This is an idea which Quesnay purported to demonstrate with data, comparing a workshop to a farm. He analyzed "how money flowed between the three classes of farmers, proprietors, and artisans, in the same mechanical way that blood flows between different organs" and claimed only the farm produced a surplus that added to the nation's wealth.Physiocrats viewed the production of goods and services as equivalent to the consumption of the agricultural surplus, since human or animal muscle provided the main source of power and all energy derived from the surplus from agricultural production. Profit in capitalist production was really only the "rent" obtained by the owner of the land on which the agricultural production took place.[3]

"The physiocrats damned cities for their artificiality and praised more natural styles of living. They celebrated farmers."[4] They called themselves les conomistes, but are generally referred to as "physiocrats" to distinguish them from the many schools of economic thought that followed them.[5]

Physiocracy is an agrarianist philosophy which developed in the context of the prevalent European rural society of the time. In the late Roman Republic, the dominant senatorial class was not allowed to engage in banking or commerce[6] but relied on their latifundia, large plantations, for income. They circumvented this rule through freedmen proxies who sold surplus agricultural goods.

Other inspiration came from China's economic system, then the largest in the world. Chinese society broadly distinguished four occupations, with scholar-bureaucrats (who were also agrarian landlords) at the top and merchants at the bottom (because they did not produce but only distributed goods made by others). Leading physiocrats like Franois Quesnay were avid Confucianists who advocated China's agrarian policies.[7] Some scholars have advocated connections with the school of agriculturalism, which promoted utopian communalism.[8] One of the integral parts of physiocracy, laissez-faire, was adopted from Quesnay's writings on China,[9] being a translation of the Chinese term wu wei.[10] The concept natural order of physiocracy originated from "Way of Nature" of Chinese Taoism.[7]

The growing power of the centralized state control in the era of enlightened absolutism necessitated centralized, systematic information on the nation. A major innovation was the collection, use and interpretation of numerical and statistical data, ranging from trade statistics, harvest reports, and death notices to population censuses. Starting in the 1760s, officials in France and Germany began increasingly to rely on quantitative data for systematic planning, especially regarding long-term economic growth. It combined the utilitarian agenda of "enlightened absolutism" with the new ideas being developed in economics. In Germany the trend was especially strong in Cameralism while in France it was an important theme in physiocracy.[11]

Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert served as a member of Louis XIV's local administration of Paris, and wrote pamphlets and booklets on subjects related to his work: taxation, grain trade, and money. Le Pesant asserted that wealth came from self-interest and markets were connected by money flows (i.e. an expense for the buyer is revenue for the producer). Thus he realized that lowering prices in times of shortage common at the time was dangerous economically as it acted as a disincentive to production. Generally, Le Pesant advocated less government interference in the grain market, as any such interference would generate "anticipations" which would prevent the policy from working.[12]

For instance, if the government bought corn abroad, some people would speculate that there was likely to be a shortage and would buy more corn, leading to higher prices and more of a shortage. This was an early example of advocacy of free trade. In anonymously published tracts, Vauban proposed a system known as La dme royale: this involved major simplification of the French tax code by switching to a relatively flat tax on property and trade. Vauban's use of statistics contrasted with earlier empirical methods in economics.[2]

The event that led Mirabeau to devote himself to political economy was undoubtedly his work on a manuscript of Richard Cantillon's Essai sur la nature du commerce en gnral, which he had in his possession as early as 1740.[13] He elaborated a commentary of this text that gradually became his Ami des hommes.[14]

Around the time of the Seven Years' War between France and England (175663), the physiocracy movement grew. Several journals appeared, signaling an increasing audience in France for new economic ideas. Among the most important were the Journal conomique (172172), which promoted agronomy and rational husbandry and the Journal du commerce (175962), which was heavily influenced by the Irishman Richard Cantillon (16801734), both dominated by physiocrats; the Journal de l'agriculture, du commerce et des finances (176574) and the Ephmrides du citoyen (176772 and 177476).[2]

Also, Vincent de Gournay (17121759), the Intendant du commerce, brought together a group of young researchers including Franois Vron Duverger de Forbonnais (17221800) and one of the two most famous physiocrats, Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (17271781). The other, Franois Quesnay (16941774), was among those writing prolifically in contemporaneous journals.[2]

In the 19th century Henry George in the United States advocated the collection of land rent as the primary if not the sole source of public revenue.

The Tableau conomique or Economic Table is an economic model first described by Franois Quesnay in 1759, which laid the foundation of the physiocrats economic theories.[15] It also contains the origins of modern ideas on the circulation of wealth and the nature of interrelationships in the economy.[5]

The model Quesnay created consisted of three economic agents: the "proprietary" class consisted only of landowners; the "productive" class consisted of agricultural laborers; the "sterile" class was made up of artisans and merchants. The flow of production and cash between the three classes originated with the proprietary class because they owned the land and bought from both of the other classes.

The physiocrats thought there was a "natural order" that allowed human beings to live together. Men did not come together via a somewhat arbitrary "social contract". Rather, they had to discover the laws of the natural order that would allow individuals to live in society without losing significant freedoms.[16] This concept of natural order had originated in China. The Chinese had believed that there can be good government only when a perfect harmony exists between the "Way of Man" (governmental institutions) and the "Way of Nature" (Quesnay's natural order).[7]

The physiocrats, especially Turgot, believed that self-interest was the motivation for each segment of the economy to play its role. Each individual is best suited to determine what goods they want and what work would provide them with what they want out of life. While a person might labor for the benefit of others, they will work harder for their own benefit; however, each person's needs are being supplied by many other people. The system works best when there is a complementary relationship between one person's needs and another person's desires, and so trade restrictions place an unnatural barrier to achieving one's goals. Laissez-faire was popularized by physiocrat Vincent de Gournay who is said to have adopted the term from Franois Quesnay's writings on China.[9]

None of the theories concerning the value of land could work without strong legal support for the ownership of private property. Combined with the strong sense of individualism, private property becomes a critical component of the Tableau's functioning.The physiocrats believed in the institution of private property. They saw property as a tree and its branches, as social institutions.They actually stated that landlords must enjoy 2/5 on the land surpluses. They also advocated that landlords should be given dues, otherwise they would take the land away from the cultivators.

Turgot was one of the first to recognize that "successive applications of the variable input will cause the product to grow, first at an increasing rate, later at a diminishing rate until it reaches a maximum."[15] This was a recognition that the productivity gains required to increase national wealth had an ultimate limit, and, therefore, wealth could not be infinite.

Both Quesnay and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune recognized that capital was needed by farmers to start the production process, and both were proponents of using some of each year's profits to increase productivity. Capital was also needed to sustain the laborers while they produced their product. Turgot recognizes that there is opportunity cost and risk involved in using capital for something other than land ownership, and he promotes interest as serving a "strategic function in the economy".[15]

The ideas of the Physiocrats had an influence on Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, and above all Henry George, who appears at first to have come to similar beliefs independently. George was the driving force behind what became known as the Single Tax movement (not to be confused with Flat Tax). The Single Tax is a proposal for the use of the annual rental value of land (land value taxation) as the principal or sole source of public revenue.

The New Physiocratic League is a current georgist political movement which seeks to revive elements of physiocracy.[17]

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Geographic features of Antarctica

The geography of Antarctica is dominated by its south polar location and, thus, by ice. The Antarctic continent, located in the Earth's southern hemisphere, is centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle. It is washed by the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean or, depending on definition, the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. It has an area of more than 14 millionkm2.

Some 98% of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, the world's largest ice sheet and also its largest reservoir of fresh water. Averaging at least 1.6km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2.5km below sea level; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur (e.g., Lake Vostok). Ice shelves and rises populate the ice sheet on the periphery.

In September 2018, researchers at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency released a high resolution terrain map (detail down to the size of a car, and less in some areas) of Antarctica, named the "Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica" (REMA).[1]

Physically, Antarctica is divided in two by Transantarctic Mountains close to the neck between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea. Western Antarctica and Eastern Antarctica correspond roughly to the eastern and western hemispheres relative to the Greenwich meridian. This usage has been regarded as Eurocentric by some, and the alternative terms Lesser Antarctica and Greater Antarctica (respectively) are sometimes preferred.

Lesser Antarctica is covered by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. There has been some concern about this ice sheet, because there is a small chance that it will collapse. If it does, ocean levels would rise by a few metres in a very short period of time.

Volcanoes that occur underneath glacial ice sheets are known by the term "Glaciovolcanism", or subglacial volcanoes. An article published in 2017 claims that researchers from Edinburgh University recently discovered 91 new volcanoes below the Antarctic ice sheet, adding to the 47 volcanoes that were already known.[2] As of today, there have been 138 possible volcanoes identified in West Antarctica.[3] There is limited knowledge about West Antarctic Volcanoes due to the presence of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which heavily covers the West Antarctic Rift System -- a likely hub for volcanic activity.[4] Researchers find it difficult to properly identify volcanic activity due to the comprehensive ice covering.

East Antarctica is significantly larger than West Antarctica, and similarly remains widely unexplored in terms of its volcanic potential. While there are some indications that there is volcanic activity under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, there is not a significant amount of present information on the subject.

Mount Erebus is one of the most notable sites in the study of Antarctic Volcanism, in that it is the southernmost historically active volcanic site on the planet.[5]

Deception Island is another active Antarctic volcano. It is one of the most protected areas in the Antarctic, given its situation between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. As the most active volcano in the Antarctic peninsula, it has been studied closely since its initial discovery in 1820.

There are four volcanoes on the mainland of Antarctica that areconsidered to be active on the basis of observed fumarolic activity or "recent" tephra deposits: Mount Melbourne (2,730 m) (7421'S., 16442'E.), a stratovolcano; Mount Berlin (3,500 m) (7603'S., 13552'W.), a stratovolcano; Mount Kauffman (2,365 m) (7537'S., 13225'W.), a stratovolcano; and Mount Hampton (3,325 m) (7629'S., 12548'W.), a volcanic caldera.Mount Rittmann (2,600 m) (73.45S 165.5 E), a volcanic caldera.

Several volcanoes on offshore islands have records of historic activity.Mount Erebus (3,795 m), a stratovolcano onRoss Island with 10 known eruptions and 1 suspected eruption.On the opposite side of the continent, Deception Island(6257'S., 6038'W.), a volcanic caldera with 10 knownand 4 suspected eruptions, have been the most active.Buckle Island in the Balleny Islands (6650'S., 16312'E.), Penguin Island (6206'S., 5754'W.), Paulet Island (6335'S., 5547'W.), and Lindenberg Island (6455'S., 5940'W.) are also considered to be active. In 2017, the researchers of Edinburgh University discovered 91 underwater volcanoes under West Antarctica.[6][7]

The definition of Glaciovolcanism is the interactions of magma with ice in all its forms, including snow, firn and any meltwater.[8] It defines a special field of volcanic that is specifically centered around ice and ice melt. This field of science is less than 100 years old, and thus continuously makes new discoveries. Glaciovolcanism is characterized by three kinds of eruptions: sub-glacial eruptions, supraglacial volcanism, and ice-marginal volcanism.[9]

The study of glaciovolcanism is vital to the understanding of ice sheet formation. It is also a valuable tool to predict volcanic hazards, such as the ash hazard following the Eyjafjallajkull eruption in Iceland.

The Marie Byrd Land is an incredibly large portion of West Antarctica, consisting of the Area below the Antarctic Peninsula. The Marie Byrd land is a large formation of volcanic rock, characterized by 18 exposed and subglacial volcanoes. 16 of the 18 volcanoes are entirely covered by the antarctic ice sheet.[10] There have been no eruptions recorded from any of the volcanoes in this area, however scientists believe that some of the volcanoes may be potentially active.

Scientists and researchers debate whether or not the 138 identified possible volcanoes are active or dormant. It is very hard to definitively say, given that many of these volcanic structures are buried underneath several kilometers of ice.[11] However, ash layers within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,[12] as well as deformations in the ice surface[13] indicate that the West Antarctic Rift System could be active and contain erupting volcanoes. Additionally, seismic activity in the region hints at magma movement beneath the crust, a sign of volcanic activity.[14] Despite this, however, there is not yet definitive evidence of presently active volcanoes.

Subglacial volcanism is often characterized by ice melt and subglacial water.[15] Though there are other sources of subglacial water, such as geothermal heat, it almost always is a condition of volcanism. Scientists remain uncertain about the presence of water underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with some claiming to have found evidence indicating the existence.

In West Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, volcanoes are typically composed of alkaline and basaltic lava. Sometimes, the volcanoes are entirely basaltic in composition. Due to the geographic similarity of the Marie Byrd Land, it is believed that the volcanoes in the West African Rift System are also composed of basalt.[16]

Above-ice basaltic volcanoes, also known as subaerial basaltic volcanoes, generally form in tall, broad cone shapes.[17] Since they are formed from repeated piling of liquid magma sourced from the center, they spread widely and grow upwards relatively slowly.[18] However, West Antarctic Volcanoes form underneath ice sheets, and are thus categorized as subglacial volcanoes. Subglacial volcanoes that are monogenetic are far more narrow, steeper, flat topped structures. Polygenetic subglacial volcanoes have a wider variety of shapes and sizes due to being made up of many different eruptions. Often, they look more cone shaped, like stratovolcanoes.

Little has been studied about the implications of volcanic ash from eruptions within the Antarctic Circle. It is likely that an eruption at lower latitudes would cause global health and aviation hazards due to ash disbursement. The clockwise air circulation around the low pressure system at the South Pole forces air upwards, hypothetically sending ash upwards towards the Stratospheric jet streams, and thus quickly dispersing it throughout the globe.[19]

Recently, in 2017, a study found evidence of subglacial volcanic activity within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This activity poses a threat to the stability of the Ice Sheet, as volcanic activity leads to increased melting.[20] This could possibly plunge the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into a positive feedback loop of rising temperatures and increased melting.

There are three vast canyons that run for hundreds of kilometers, cutting through tall mountains. None of the canyons are visible at the snow-covered surface of the continent since they are buried under hundreds of meters of ice. The largest of the canyons is called Foundation Trough and is over 350km long and 35km wide. The Patuxent Trough is more than 300km long and over 15km wide, while the Offset Rift Basin is 150km long and 30km wide. These three troughs all lie under and cross the so-called "ice divide" - the high ice ridge that runs all the way from the South Pole out towards the coast of West Antarctica.[21]

West Antarctica is the smaller part of the continent, (50 180W), divided into:

Larger ice shelves are:

For all ice shelves see List of Antarctic ice shelves.

For a list of all Antarctic islands see List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.

East Antarctica is the larger part of the continent, (50W 180E), both the South Magnetic Pole and geographic South Pole are situated here. Divided into:

Larger ice shelves are:

For all ice shelves see List of Antarctic ice shelves.

For a list of all Antarctic islands see List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.

Seven nations have made official Territorial claims in Antarctica.

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Geography of Antarctica - Wikipedia

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First in Sunburnand just off embargo Trulieves $2.1 billion deal to acquire another cannabis MSO, Harvest Health & Recreation, is now complete with Trulieve having acquired all of the issued and outstanding voting shares of stock. With the completion of this transaction, this creates the largest U.S. cannabis operator across a combined retail and cultivation footprint basis.The closing of this transaction marks a transformational milestone in our companys history and positions Trulieve as the leading medical and adult-use cannabis operator in the U.S., stated Kim Rivers, Chief Executive Officer at Trulieve, who will host a conference call and webcast today at 8:00 a.m. Look for a full write-up about the deal on Florida Politics later this morning.

The stars had seemingly aligned for former Rep. Lake Rays campaign to return to the Legislature.

House District 12 is open now that Rep.Clay Yarborough is running for Senate with leadership support. And the Duval-based seat has a sizable GOP advantage. Add in a volley of high-profile endorsements from the Jacksonville legislative delegation, and it seemed pretty close to a sure thing.

Well, Jessica Baker has something to say about that.

The Assistant State Attorney entered the field on Friday, setting up what could easily become a barnburner of a Republican Primary.

She spared the pleasantries in her campaign announcement: Each day it seems another career politician finds a new way to rant about how divided we are as a nation, determined to drive a wedge between all of us and common-sense solutions.

Im running for Florida House District 12 because, like so many of you, Im ready to tune out the politically driven outrage and focus on Florida-based outcomes for our families, our businesses and our communities that preserve our God-given freedoms and defend your right to pursue the American dream.

Before becoming a prosecutor, Baker worked at high-powered lobbying firms Ballard Partners and Sachs Sax Caplan as well as in various capacities for Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and former Senate President Mike Haridopolos.

While the Florida State University law school grad is accomplished in her own right, she has an ace up her sleeve her husband is political consultant Tim Baker, who was instrumental in Currys election as Mayor.

Ray is not without firepower. He has veteran campaign consultant Bert Ralston in his corner. He also has a head start in the money race, with about $150,000 on hand between his campaign account and political committee.

SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

@Timodc: Low vaxxed upper Midwest states about to get their Florida surge, and nobody seems to have learned anything. PS. Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana have all passed NY in deaths per capita thanks to their post-vax spike. Insane.

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@JeffreyBrandes: Question Why does the Florida lottery use a flamingo in its advertisements and not the current State bird the mockingbird? Maybe because no one associates the northern mockingbird with the southernmost state.

@JKennedyReport: While its @WaltDisneyWorlds 50th anniversary Friday, it almost didnt go to the Orlando area. When (Walt) Disney met with St. Joe Paper boss Ed Ball about land in NW Fla, he was told, Mr. Disney, Im not going to see you today or any day. I dont do business with carnival people.

@pixelatedboat: If they made The Sopranos in todays woke society, it would be about Tony Soprano going to therapy

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DAYS UNTIL

MLB regular season ends 2; No Time to Die premieres 7; Succession returns 16; Dune premieres 21; Curb Your Enthusiasm returns 23; World Series Game 1 25; Florida Chamber Future of Florida Forum begins 26; Florida TaxWatchs annual meeting begins 26; Georgia at UF 29; St. Petersburg Municipal Elections 32; Floridas 20th Congressional District Primary 32; The Blue Angels 75th anniversary show 35; Disneys Eternals premieres 35; Yellowstone Season 4 begins 37; Disney Very Merriest After Hours will debut 38; Miami at FSU 43; Hawkeye premieres 44; ExcelinEd National Summit on Education begins 48; FSU vs. UF 57; Florida Chamber 2021 Annual Insurance Summit begins 61; Jacksonville special election to fill seat vacated by Tommy Hazouris death 67; Steven Spielbergs West Side Story premieres 70; Spider-Man: No Way Home premieres 77; The Matrix: Resurrections released 82; The Book of Boba Fett premieres on Disney+ 89; CES 2022 begins 96; NFL season ends 100; 2022 Legislative Session starts 102; Floridas 20th Congressional District election 102; Joel Coens The Tragedy of Macbeth on Apple TV+ 105; NFL playoffs begin 106; Super Bowl LVI 135; Daytona 500 142; St. Pete Grand Prix 149; Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness premieres 175; Thor: Love and Thunder premieres 219; Top Gun: Maverick premieres 238; Platinum Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II 244; Black Panther 2 premieres 280; San Diego Comic-Con 2022 292; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel premieres 371; Captain Marvel 2 premieres 406.

TOP STORY

Disney World moves into full 50th-anniversary mode via Dewayne Bevil of the Orlando Sentinel Although only a reported 10,400 eager people visited on Oct. 1, 1971, the foundation was laid to become the worlds most visited theme park. Expect Main Street U.S.A. to be more crowded 50 years later. Visitors will see a park in full celebration mode, from the tip of the bejeweled Cinderella Castle down to the shiny new name tags for Disney World employees. The resort also is introducing attractions that will affect the theme parks for months and years to come. We have some surprises in store for our guests. I think that I think itll be a day for the memory books, Melissa Valiquette, vice president for Magic Kingdom, said Thursday.

New attractions, makeovers and more: 10 things to know as Disney World hits 5-0 via Britt Kennerly of Florida Today

These Disney World attractions may be gone, but their memories are still holding strong via USA Today

Disney Worlds First Family remembers excitement of opening day via Rebecca Turco of Spectrum News The 50th anniversary brings back cherished memories for the Windsor family, the very first family to visit on opening day. For Marty Windsor Ritter, Bill Windsor and their two toddlers, getting that special honor involved a little luck and a lot of planning. We parked behind a gas station that was here all night long, she said. And then we had a police officer come by and say, What are you doing? And I said, We want to be the first family to get into Walt Disney World. He said, OK, Ill watch you all night long. Her son Jay Windsor, who was only 3 years old at the time, still remembers bits and pieces. Meeting all the characters was the exciting thing back then, he said.

Disney World faces several new challenges over the next 50 years via Katie Rice of the Orlando Sentinel Nearly 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic have proved the future can be unpredictable, but theme park experts say they believe Disney Worlds leaders can navigate the next 50 years to maintain the resort as a world leader in entertainment. Even so, the theme park likely faces challenges as virtual reality options grow, climate change makes the summers even hotter, and families have fewer children. Many predict that Disneys focus on storytelling will continue to take center stage in the next five decades. The pandemic has helped Disney World, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, realize it can successfully adopt the model of fewer people, richer experience, said Bill Coan, President and CEO of a theme park company called ITEC Entertainment.

DATELINE TALLY

Ron DeSantis pulls one road from the Everglades, but OKs putting in another via Craig Pittman of Florida Phoenix Man, I always loved that old TV show The Twilight Zone. In a news release, DeSantis says, Since day one, my administration has been focused on expediting key Everglades restoration and water quality projects to protect Floridas natural resources for future generations, and Im proud of our record-setting progress. The Governor who had just bragged about yanking an environmentally destructive road out of the Everglades turned around and voted to put another one into the Everglades. The Kendall Parkway has been touted as a way to relieve the constant State Route 836 traffic jams in the Kendall area. The cost: a mere $1 billion. A billion dollars to cut travel time by six minutes!

Republican lawmakers file bill to protect religious freedoms during emergency lockdowns via Jason Delgado of Florida Politics Two lawmakers are proposing legislation in the upcoming Session to ensure a department store is never more essential than a church. The legislation is a product of the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the measures, an emergency lockdown or shutdown order must apply equally across businesses and religious institutions in Florida. Sen. Jason Brodeur and Rep. Nick DiCeglie are the bill sponsors. If were going to close down and restrict religious institutions from being open, then we have to apply that same restriction to everybody, DiCeglie explained. DiCeglie pointed to New York and California amid the pandemic, two places where government closed church doors while allowing some businesses to remain operational.

Docs who help transgender youth could face prison time under Anthony Sabatini bill via Christine Jordan Sexton of Florida Politics Florida could go after doctors and health care providers that offer treatment to transgender teenagers under a bill filed this week by Rep. Sabatini. Sabatinis bill (HB 211) mirrors those introduced in dozens of other states aimed at health care providers who treat transgender minors. The legislation says that health care providers could face a year in prison or be fined $1,000 if they prescribe or supply puberty-blocking medication or provide large doses of testosterone to females or estrogen to males. The bill would create a new section of general health care law dubbed the Vulnerable Child Protection Act that would apply to nearly every licensed health care professional in the state.

Marie Woodson seeks to fast track veterans into health care amid staff shortages via Jason Delgado of Florida Politics Rep. Woodson is proposing legislation that would streamline outgoing service members into the ranks of Floridas medical field, a move she contends would remedy the states ongoing shortage of health care workers. Under the proposal (HB 131), a medically trained military veteran may work under the supervision of a licensed health care provider without subscribing to the states time-consuming certification process. The benefits, she contends, are twofold: Veterans transfer immediately into gainful employment, and providers are afforded a deeper pool of experienced applicants. This is a population that is very dear to my heart I was trying to find a way to address those shortages, but also looking for ways to help our veterans, the Hollywood lawmaker said.

Out of the nest: Lawmaker wants mockingbird ousted as state bird of Florida via James Call of USA Today Network State Sen. Jeff Brandes has had it with the northern mockingbird as the official state bird of Florida. He has filed a bill for the 2022 legislative session and taken to social media to build a flock of supporters. He wants to persuade fellow lawmakers to rescind the mockingbirds designation as the avian representative of the Sunshine State. The Department of State defends the mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) as helpful because it eats insects and weed seeds. But detractors point out its annoying habit of singing all night long under a full moon. Brandes is not impressed by mockingbird supporters who claim it is a year-round resident. He wants a bird that immediately says Florida, like orange juice does as the state drink, and the alligator and manatee as state reptile and mammal.

Proposed law to care for retired police dogs huge, Volusia K-9 handlers say via Patricio G. Balona of The Daytona Beach News-Journal In the course of their careers, police dogs often suffer wear and tear from constant training, chasing suspects, and sometimes even taking a bullet in the line of duty. When K-9s retire, sometimes expensive care for the animals falls to the officers who adopt the dogs as their own. But a bill put forward by Rep. Sam Killebrew could ease that financial burden and offer quality care for the retired dogs. Killebrews bill, HB 25, would disburse funds to cover veterinary visits and more for the K-9s. Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said the bill is important. Two dogs from the Sheriffs Office were recently shot and wounded by an armed carjacking suspect.

A judge blocked Floridas ban on sanctuary cities. What it means for the undocumented via Kalia Richardson of the Miami Herald A Florida judge struck down key portions of the sanctuary city ban this month. U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in Miami said a part of the ban was enacted based on biased and unreliable data generated by anti-immigrant hate groups despite having a chilling and disparate impact on immigration communities. Neza Xiuhtecutli, the general coordinator of The Farmworker Association of Florida, felt the impacts of the ban firsthand. Although associations like this can breathe a little easier after the judges ruling, there is still confusion as to what a sanctuary city is and the implications it has on undocumented communities.

New and renewed lobbying registrations:

Ellen Anderson: Moffitt Cancer Center

Emily Buckley, Dean Mead: American Health Associates, American Sportfishing Association, Florida Outdoor Advertising Association, Florida Recreational Vehicle Trade Association, Step Up for Students, Tampa Bay Water, The Williams Companies

Shan Goff: Foundation for Floridas Future

Robert Holroyd, Tripp Scott: Florida Mental Health Advocacy Coalition

Will McKinley, Angela Dempsey, Erik Kirk, PooleMcKinley: Cerner Corporation

CORONA FLORIDA

Florida COVID-19 update: 938 deaths added to tally. State saw lowest 7-day death average in weeks. via Devoun Cetoute of the Miami Herald Florida on Thursday reported 938 more deaths and 4,781 additional COVID-19 cases to the CDC, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data. All but 78 of the newly reported deaths, about 92%, occurred since Sept. 2. About 55% of the newly reported died in the past two weeks, the analysis showed. In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,570,752 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 55,009 deaths. In this most recent phase of the pandemic, Florida through the CDC has reported deaths in Monday and Thursday clumps. In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 272 deaths and 5,612 cases to the daily cumulative total.

YouTube misinformation policy update: DeSantis office promises to fight censorship via Sam Sachs of WFLA YouTube announced an expansion to their community guidelines, focused on what the company called harmful misinformation relating to vaccines and other health-related topics. In response to YouTubes updated content policies, DeSantis office promised to oppose censorship and continue fighting in defense of a recent law aimed at preventing de-platforming on social media sites. The new YouTube guidelines include a three-strike content and account takedown policy with a 90-day timeline. An instant ban is also a possibility for accounts that promote content directly in opposition to the new guidelines.

Florida probes 43 entities under COVID-19 vaccine passport law, but no fines issued yet via Austin Fuller of the Orlando Sentinel Florida is investigating 43 businesses or governments for possibly violating the states 2-week-old COVID-19 vaccine passport law, but no one has yet been issued a $5,000 fine, health officials said Thursday. Applicable entities that are found to be in violation will be fined, said Department of Health communications director Weesam Khoury. Khoury did not provide specifics on who was being investigated. State Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith said that the DeSantis administration has not fined anyone is telling. He said the law was politically motivated. Guillermo Smith added he knows of businesses that are requiring vaccinations for customers but did not want to name them.

Fight over COVID-19 vaccines may keep some kids from traditional back-to-school shots via John Kennedy of USA Today Network With COVID-19 vaccinations a political battleground, fallout from the fight could be filtering down to Florida schools: In some counties, not enough kids are getting their routine back-to-school shots. And public health officials worry when even a small amount of school children arent immunized for measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria and more. They fear the combative divide over COVID-19 vaccinations, driven by so much misinformation, is creating a new threat in Florida classrooms. This is another public health crisis on top of a public health crisis, said Dr. Patricia Emmanuel, chair of the College of Medicine Pediatrics at USF Health, part of the University of South Florida.

Families scramble for at-home COVID-19 tests. Heres how theyre doing it. via Cindy Krischer Goodman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Where South Floridians once frantically sought Clorox wipes and hand sanitizer, now they are after a new hot commodity: at-home COVID-19 tests. Online and in stores, many major retailers like CVS and Walgreens are sold out of the popular at-home rapid tests. Medical supply vendors will fill only large quantities, and the wait is six to eight weeks. Workers in need of regular screening for employment and parents desperate to show a school a negative result are scrambling to find the tests, which return results in minutes.

CORONA LOCAL

Jerry Demings pushes back against DeSantis usurpation of epic proportion for proposing to fine Orange County via Stephen Hudak and Ryan Gillespie of the Orlando Sentinel Orange County will fight any efforts by state officials to impose potentially millions of dollars in fines on the county for Demings mandate requiring employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 or face discipline. Demings letter was sent to Doug Woodlief, a division manager at the state Health Department, who called the Mayors vaccination mandate a discriminatory policy and a violation of a law, making the county potentially liable for a fine of $5,000 per individual violation.

Orlando pediatricians urge COVID-19 vaccinations via Scott Powers of Florida Politics With federal approval for COVID-19 vaccinations for younger school-age children imminent, two Orlando pediatricians urged parents to vaccinate their children when federal approval comes and to vaccinate themselves. Thats how you express to your children the fact that you care about them, the fact that you love them. This is what responsible parenting and membership in a community is all about, said Dr. Kenneth Alexander, the pediatrics infectious disease resident at Nemours Childrens Health in Orlando. Alexander and Dr. Adriana Cadilla, a pediatric infectious disease consultant at Nemours, spoke at Demings biweekly COVID-19 update briefing. They made it clear they harbor no doubts that vaccinating children would be the right thing to do if and when federal approval comes, which they expect.

Duval School Board votes to explore challenging state order on COVID-19 safety via Emily Bloch of The Florida Times-Union The Duval County School Board is fighting back against a state executive order that jeopardizes how the district handles its mask mandate and, potentially, quarantine policies. Tuesday, the Board voted 4-3 to allow its general counsel the ability to explore or move forward with litigation challenging a rule issued last week by Floridas new Surgeon General. Board members Charlotte Joyce, Lori Hershey and Cindy Pearson voted against the motion. School Board members say the move is about more than just its existing mask mandate, but a statement in favor of home rule. The decision followed an hourslong emergency board meeting featuring dozens of public comments from people against the districts existing universal mask mandate.

Powerful reporting She has Down syndrome, then got COVID-19. Could Amanda Hall learn to walk again? via Christopher ODonnell of the Tampa Bay Times Hall was born with Down syndrome, which left her at high risk of severe illness if she contracted COVID-19. She tested positive on Dec. 3. Two days later, she was on a ventilator in intensive care. So much time spent in a hospital bed had atrophied her muscles, and she could no longer walk or feed herself. Doctors said she needed extensive physiotherapy. After her discharge, home rehab therapy was set up for Amanda, but it was just twice a week. After several days of calling rehab centers, they were frantic. It was hard not to dwell on the home therapists warning: Amanda would likely never walk again without intensive daily therapy. A turning point in Amandas two-month rehabilitation came the day she was strong enough to walk in the hallway.

2022

Democrats worry a loss in Virginia could set off a cascade of election troubles via Michael Scherer and Sean Sullivan of The Washington Post Joe Bidens slumping approval ratings and gridlock on Capitol Hill have raised the risk that Democrats could lose the Virginia governors race, according to party insiders who fear a defeat could spark broader legislative and electoral problems in the coming year. I think Bidens poll numbers are dragging (Terry) McAuliffe down, said John Morgan, who gave $100,000 to McAuliffes campaign and was a major Biden donor. I think when voters see dysfunction, they tend to look at parties and go, The Democratic Party is dysfunctional. You know, why not give somebody else another chance? And so, I worry for Terry. Moreover, Washington Democrats are locked in a complex stalemate that has imperiled the infrastructure bill and a plan to expand social programs.

DeSantis says hes running for reelection, but hes not ready to disclose the details via Mary Ellen Klas of the Miami Herald DeSantis made it official on Sean Hannitys Fox News show. He used the moment to deflect from talk that he is on course to run for President in 2024 and announced he is indeed running for reelection. Im not considering anything beyond doing my job, DeSantis said in response to the question if he is considering a run for the presidency in 2024. Weve got a lot of stuff going on in Florida, Im going to be running for reelection next year. To run for President, DeSantis must first get reelected Governor in 2022, but theres still no official sign that DeSantis is prepared to file the paperwork required to be an official candidate.

DeSantis puts $2M into GOP voter registration efforts DeSantis has been raising money hand over fist through his political committee, which had $53M banked heading into September. As reported by Matt Dixon of POLITICO Florida, hes been putting that money to work by underwriting the Republican Party of Floridas voter registration efforts to the tune of nearly $2 million. The push has seen the GOP nearly eliminate Democrats advantage in voter registration, which now stands at 23,500. This did not happen overnight, RPOF Executive Director Helen Aguirre Ferr said. In the 2018 midterms, Florida Democrats had an advantage of 265,251 and since his inauguration in 2019, Gov. DeSantis has been laser-focused on overtaking Democrats in voter registration.

Anti-DeSantis PACs new ad mocked as unintentionally helpful via David Rutz of Fox News A left-wing PACs new ad attacking DeSantis over his coronavirus leadership was roasted Thursday as an unintentional ad for moving to his state. The ad from Remove Ron features a plane entering Floridas airspace as passengers are required to listen to DeSantis discuss COVID-19 policy, such as his opposition to vaccine passports, and how he wont force Floridians into lockdowns, mandates, and COVID-19 restrictions. Comparing the scene in Florida to the dystopia of The Purge movie franchise, the ads narrator notes visitors dont have to get a vaccine or wear masks, and features fake headlines from made-up newspapers like The Tampa Bay Terror Times.

Facing a historic challenge, Florida Democrats stumble against DeSantis via Tim Craig of The Washington Post Yet as they seek to defeat [Gov. Ron] DeSantiss brash style of conservatism, Florida Democrats have been battered by internal divisions over strategy and messaging, lackluster fundraising and a flailing voter registration effort, even as the states population gets more diverse. For the first time in history, there are nearly as many Republicans registered in Florida as there are Democrats. The state continues to drift to the right even as new census data shows White residents have slipped to 51 percent of the states population. We have failed to counter Republican propaganda, which has been especially aimed at Independent and no-party affiliated voters, said Steve Simeonidis, a former chairman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party.

Personnel note: Charlie Crist campaign adds Lourdes Diaz as Hispanic media adviser Veteran Hispanic market and media strategist Diaz has joined the Crist campaign as Senior Adviser for Hispanic Outreach and Media. Diaz has decades of experience in communications, media sales, public relations, political consulting, and advertising. Her resume includes the strategic development of bilingual, Spanish-dominant, and crossover programs Bidens 2020 run and Obamas 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Diaz is currently the President of the Pembroke Pines Democratic Club and is Precinct Committeewoman in Pembroke Pines. Continuing to be an ally to Hispanic Floridians, fighting disinformation and fearmongering head-on, and pushing forward on issues of importance to our Hispanic neighbors, like immigration reform, health care, and economic opportunity, is a top priority in our campaign to take back the Governors mansion in 2022, Crist said.

Midnight deadline looms for Ken Russell $5,000 Democratic voter registration challenge via Jesse Scheckner of Florida Politics With the gap between Democratic and Republican voters in Florida shrinking, Russell is calling on his fellow party members to chip in funds to help Democrats regain lost ground. On Tuesday, National Voter Registration Day, Russell challenged Nikki Fried, former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson and current U.S. Reps. Crist and Val Demings to join him in donating $5,000 to the Florida Democratic Party for a statewide voter registration push. He later put them on blast on Twitter, where he challenged all statewide candidates to do the same. Two days later, with the midnight Sept. 30 deadline to report campaign spending looming, none of them has answered the call, he said.

CD 20 debate highlights broad agreement on the issues, contrasting experience via Anne Geggis of Florida Politics With few divisions between them on issues such as affordable housing, gun control and expanding Medicaid to more people, Wednesdays debate among candidates to represent Congressional District 20 became a contest of experience on each topic. Trinity Health Care Services CEO Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Reps. Bobby DuBose and Omari Hardy, Broward County Commissioners Dale Holness and Barbara Sharief and Sen. Perry Thurston debated for the right to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings. The candidates were asked whether they would support a federal move to expand Floridas Medicaid through budget reconciliation. All the candidates agreed it should happen and some took it as an opportunity to highlight their own actions to make health care more affordable.

What James Blair is reading GOP infighting spoils chance to retake Crists Florida seat via Gary Fineout of POLITICO (Anna Paulina)Luna made headlines this summer when she alleged that her potential Republican rivals were plotting to kill her. And at one point, she suggested Makki was also involved in the scheme leading Makki to call Luna unstable and pledge that she will spend the primary exposing Luna as a phony for once supporting Barack Obama.Amid this increasingly bitter backdrop, Luna gained an important ally when Trump earlier this month endorsed her following a 45-minute sit-down between the two at Trumps resort in Bedminster.But Trumps blessing did little to scare off other Republicans. Instead, it led to recriminations and finger pointing, including from long-time Trump ally Roger Stone, who predicted that Trump would rescind his endorsement once he learned more about Luna.

Jim Davis, Alex Sink announce support for Ben Diamond in CD 13 via Kelly Hayes of Florida Politics Rep. Diamond has announced a handful of new endorsements from state Democratic leaders supporting his run for Floridas 13th Congressional District. New endorsers include former U.S. Rep.Davis, former Florida Chief Financial Officer Sink, and former state Rep. Sean Shaw. Davis, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 2007, said Diamond will be a highly effective member of Congress. Sink became the first Democrat elected to the state Cabinet since 1998 when she took the office of Chief Financial Officer in 2006. She credits her endorsement to her experience working with Diamond while in office.

Spotted at the Senate Democrats fundraising trip to Napa Valley, which included stops at the Bryant, Ghost Block, Opus One, Paul Hobbs, and Spottswoode vineyards: Sens. Lauren Book, Janet Cruz, and Shevrin Jones, Senate candidate Janelle Perez, as well asMatt Blair, Amy Bisceglia, Ron Book, Jacqui Carmona, Edgar Castro, Candice Ericks, Diana Ferguson, Jeff Johnston, Natalie Kato, Corinne Mixon, Sean Pittman, Stephanie Smith, Amanda Stewart, Christian Ulvert, and Katie Webb.

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Lake Ray lands legislative endorsements for House comeback Former Rep. Ray on Thursday announced five endorsements from sitting lawmakers and a handful more from former ones as he seeks to return to the House in District 12. The nods came from Sen. Aaron Bean and Reps. Chuck Brannan, Cord Byrd, Chris Latvala, and Yarborough, the latter of whom currently represents the Duval County district. Ray, a Republican, also touted support from former Senator and Education Secretary Jim Horne, former Sen. Ronald Doc Renuart, and former Reps. Jay Fant and Jim Fuller. This powerhouse group of conservative leaders have helped to make Florida a great place to live, work and raise our families. I am honored to have their support, Ray said.

CORONA NATION

New COVID-19 cases fall by 25% via Sam Baker of Axios New coronavirus infections in the U.S. fell by 25% over the past two weeks another hopeful sign that the worst of the delta wave may be behind us. The U.S. is now averaging roughly 114,000 new cases per day. Thats still a lot, but its a significant improvement from this summer when the delta variant unleashed a new wave of infections, hospitalizations and death. Deaths are still on the rise nationwide, because of that summer surge. Theyre up 4% over the past two weeks, to an average of 2,000 per day. If the decline in cases keeps going, deaths should begin to come down relatively soon. Deaths are the last number to increase when a new wave hits, and the last number to decrease when it subsides.

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AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine shows 74% efficacy in large U.S. trial via Julie Steenhuysen of Reuters AstraZeneca PLCs COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated 74% efficacy at preventing symptomatic disease, a figure that increased to 83.5% in people aged 65 and older. Overall efficacy of 74% was lower than the interim 79% figure reported by the British drugmaker in March, a result AstraZeneca revised days later to 76% after a rare public rebuke from health officials that the figure was based on outdated information. read more. The data looked at more than 26,000 volunteers in the United States, Chile and Peru, who received two doses of the vaccine spaced about a month apart.

Joe Biden vaccine mandate splits U.S. on Party lines via Carla K. Johnson and Hannah Fingerhut of The Associated Press A survey of Americans on Bidens plan to require most workers to get either vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19 finds a deep and familiar divide: Democrats are overwhelmingly for it, while most Republicans are against it. With the highly contagious delta variant driving deaths up to around 2,000 per day, the poll showed that overall, 51% say they approve of the Biden requirement, 34% disapprove, and 14% hold neither opinion. About three-quarters of Democrats, but only about a quarter of Republicans, approve. Roughly 6 in 10 Republicans say they disapprove.

Biden teams booster divide deepens as risk of winter virus surge looms via Erin Banco of POLITICO Bidens top health advisers are split over the role booster shots should play in the next phase of the pandemic, setting up key fault lines to close in the coming weeks as they try to ward off further surges this fall and winter. Their disagreement centers on whether the U.S. should eventually offer an additional shot to every vaccinated adult in hopes of preventing even mild and moderate symptomatic breakthrough infections. The growing tension among the Presidents top COVID-19 advisers raises questions about whether the goals of the nations vaccination campaign are changing and the degree to which breakthrough infections may be inevitable.

The CDC escalates its pleas for pregnant and breastfeeding Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 via Roni Caryn Rabin of The New York Times In an urgent plea, federal health officials are asking that any American who is pregnant, planning to become pregnant or currently breastfeeding get vaccinated against the coronavirus as soon as possible. COVID-19 poses a severe risk during pregnancy, when a persons immune system is tamped down, and raises the risk of stillbirth or another poor outcome, according to the CDC. Twenty-two pregnant people in the United States died of COVID-19 in August. About 125,000 pregnant people have tested positive for the virus; 22,000 have been hospitalized, and 161 have died. Hospital data indicates that 97% of those who were infected with the virus when they were hospitalized were not vaccinated.

The U.S. says Texas ban on school mask mandates may violate disabled childrens rights. via Amanda Morris of The New York Times The Justice Department signaled its support for the families of children with disabilities in Texas who are suing to overturn Gov. Greg Abbotts ban on mask mandates in the states schools. The department filed a formal statement on Wednesday with the federal district court in Austin that is hearing one of the lawsuits, saying that the ban violates the rights of students with disabilities if it prevents the students from safely attending public schools in person, even if their local school districts offered them the option of virtual learning. The move signals a willingness by the federal government to intervene in states where governors and other policymakers have opposed mask mandates.

Turns out a lot of those never-vaxxers were really Ill get it if required via Philip Bump of The Washington Post Various employers, including the federal government, implemented vaccine requirements or new vaccine standards in recent months, setting deadlines that have started to arrive. What weve seen is that relatively few employees flat out resist vaccination. Given that 12% of respondents in the poll said they would never get vaccinated (compared with only 4% who said theyd do so if required), it certainly seems as if some of the resistance to vaccination expressed to the pollsters eroded when a requirement was actually put in place. Those who may have been obstinate about the vaccines when called by a pollster seem to have been a bit more flexible when called by their bosses.

Messy, incomplete U.S. data hobbles pandemic response via Joel Achenbach and Yasmeen Abutaleb of The Washington Post Critically important data on vaccinations, infections, hospitalizations and deaths are scattered among local health departments, often out of date and hard to aggregate at the national level, and it is simply inadequate for the job of battling a highly transmissible and stealthy pathogen. The dearth of timely, comprehensive data impaired the ability of the nations top public health officials and infectious disease experts to reach a consensus on the need for booster shots. The lack of testing and standardized reporting of cases and deaths left U.S. officials slow to grasp the scale of the crisis when the virus began to spread. Insufficient data also meant supplies to fight the pandemic arrived too late in hard-hit cities.

In well-vaccinated Maine, COVID-19 still fills hospitals with the unvaccinated via Jon Kamp and Brianna Abbott of The Wall Street Journal The delta variant is finding clusters of unvaccinated people even in some of the best-vaccinated parts of the country, such as Maine. A COVID-19 surge in the New England state has filled hospitals and put dozens of mostly unvaccinated people on ventilators, setting records for the state. The problem, public-health experts say, is the variants high transmissibility combined with the relaxation of precautions such as wearing masks. COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations have also flared among mostly unvaccinated people in Vermont and western Massachusetts, highlighting the risk Delta poses even in states with the best track records for getting shots in arms.

Montana hospital ICU reaches 150% capacity amid surge of COVID-19 cases via Meg Oliver of CBS News At Billings Clinic, the largest hospital in the state, the ICU is running at 150% capacity with younger and sicker patients admitted daily. The National Guard is on hand to help care for and screen new patients while hallways house the overflow. In the past week, Montana averaged about 108 COVID-19 patients in hospital ICUs breaking the record seen during the winter of 2020. Thirty-five people have died in the state since the start of the month. So we are were getting short on beds, emergency room doctor Jamiee Belsky said. People need to get vaccinated because right now were hurting.

CORONA ECONOMICS

U.S. unemployment claims rise third straight week to 362,000 via The Associated Press The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose for the third straight week, a sign that the highly contagious delta variant may be slowing recovery in the job market. Claims rose unexpectedly by 11,000 last week to 362,000, the Labor Department said Thursday, though economists had been expecting claims to go in the opposite direction. The four-week moving average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week ups and downs, rose for the first time in seven weeks to 340,000. Since topping 900,000 in early January, applications had fallen fairly steadily as the economy bounced back from last years shutdowns. But theyve been rising along with coronavirus infections.

Florida, Texas report surge in COVID-19 comp claims via Louise Esola of Business Insurance The summer surge in COVID-19 cases in Florida began in July, as 4,221 COVID-19 workers compensation indemnity claims were filed and August tallies show a slight drop. The monthly report, which tracks overall indemnity, or income replacement, claims, including data on costs and industry breakdowns, showed that the 4,221 claims reported in July and the 3,287 reported in August remain a steep drop from the peak of 8,406 claims in July 2020. Since March 2020, the lowest number of claims were reported in June 2021: 664. insurers in the state have paid $1.5 million in total benefits, indemnity plus medical, for COVID-19 claims.

Morning must-read Inside Americas broken supply chain via David J. Lynch of The Washington Post The commercial pipeline that each year brings $1 trillion worth of toys, clothing, electronics and furniture from Asia to the United States is clogged, and no one knows how to unclog it. Dozens of cargo vessels stuck at anchor off the California coast illustrate the delivery disruptions. Americans trapped at home slashed spending at restaurants, movie theaters, and sporting events and splurged on goods such as laptops and bicycles, triggering an import avalanche that has overwhelmed freight channels. But the pandemic also exposed weaknesses in the nations transport plumbing: investment shortfalls at key ports, controversial railroad industry labor cuts, and a chronic failure by key players to collaborate.

MORE CORONA

Woman who survived 1918 flu, world war succumbs to COVID-19 via Todd Richmond of The Associated Press She lived a life of adventure that spanned two continents. She fell in love with a World War II fighter pilot, barely escaped Europe ahead of Benito Mussolinis fascists, ground steel for the U.S. war effort, and advocated for her disabled daughter in a far less enlightened time. She was, her daughter said, someone who didnt make a habit of giving up. And then this month, at age 105, Primetta Giacopinis life ended the way it began in a pandemic. I think my mother would have been around quite a bit longer if she hadnt contracted COVID, her 61-year-old daughter, Dorene Giacopini, said. She was a fighter. She had a hard life, and her attitude always was basically, all Americans who were not around for World War II were basically spoiled brats.

Proposed bill would require COVID-19 vaccine, negative test for domestic air travel ahead of holidays via Melanie Woodrow of ABC 6 With the Thanksgiving holiday just around the corner and one of the busiest times to fly, California U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein tweeted, We cant allow upcoming holiday air travel to contribute to another surge in COVID cases. Today, I introduced legislation requiring passengers on domestic flights to be vaccinated, test negative or be fully recovered from a previous COVID illness. Willis Orlando, a Flight Expert at Scotts Cheap Flights, said if the bill became law, it really would just be kind of adding restrictions in the U.S. that already exist elsewhere in the world and that have been working pretty well to contain COVID.

Why are people nostalgic for early-pandemic life? via Morgan Ome and Christian Paz of The Atlantic Its easy to forget about the toilet-paper shortages, the empty streets, and the disinfected groceries. The first days, weeks even, of the pandemic felt like a twisted novelty. You didnt know what a variant was. And you thought you would probably return to school or your office in a couple of weeks. This was March 2020. Deep in the throes of the late-stage pandemic, millions of young people have grown to miss this time early last year. Their longing is captured in TikToks and YouTube videos that romanticize the trends, obsessions, and sounds of 18 months ago. These early-pandemic aesthetic creators had built an online community tied together by a yearning for a time when the world seemed united in facing an uncertain future.

PRESIDENTIAL

Biden signs bill to avert partial government shutdown via The Associated Press With only hours to spare, Biden signed legislation that would avoid a partial federal shutdown and keep the government funded through Dec. 3. Congress had passed the bill earlier Thursday. The back-to-back votes by the Senate and then the House averted one crisis, but delays on another continue as the political parties dig in on a dispute over how to raise the governments borrowing cap before the United States risks a potentially catastrophic default. The House approved the short-term funding measure by a 254-175 vote not long after Senate passage in a 65-35 vote. A large majority of Republicans in both chambers voted against it. The legislation was needed to keep the government running once the current budget year ended at midnight Thursday.

Bidens approval rating recovers some from last months low, an NPR poll finds via Domenico Montanaro of NPR Last month, just 43% of survey respondents approved of how he was doing his job and a majority, 51%, disapproved. Since then, Biden has gained back some of that, drawing to about even, with 45% approving and 46% disapproving. The survey of 1,220 adults was conducted from Sept. 20 through Sunday and had a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points, meaning Bidens approval rating could be about 3 points higher or lower. The 7-point net change in his approval rating from one month to the next is slightly outside the margin of error. Bidens somewhat-recovered numbers come from registered Democrats and independents.

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