In response to complaints about the lack of effective oversight and funding for the Florida agency that oversees many matters involving community associations, it appears the state’s lawmakers are preparing to take action from the start of the 2024 legislative session that officially got underway on Tuesday. Jennifer Bradley of northeastern Florida and Jason Pizzo of southeastern Broward County have filed the bipartisan Senate Bill 1178, which would expand the oversight and enforcement of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, the agency that regulates condominium and homeowners associations. It would require the DBPR to conduct random audits of community associations to determine compliance with the website/application process for official records and refer suspected criminal activity to law enforcement agencies, and it would enable its representatives to attend association board meetings.
As I think ahead to 2024, I can’t help but feel so lucky to live here, in these mountains. My wife, Lori, and I both have family members paren.
The head of Ukraine's military intelligence said Friday that the drone attack on Pskov airport in the early hours of Wednesday was carried out from Russian territory. In the attack four Russian IL-76 military transport planes were hit, two of them destroyed and the other two badly damaged. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said his air defense had intercepted a drone heading to the capital without causing damage or casualties. Two Ukrainian drones have attacked early in the Russian town of Kurchatov, home to a nuclear power plant in the Kursk region.
Russia said on Friday it had destroyed Ukrainian aerial and naval drones in Moscow and the Black Sea. The mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin, explained that "air defense forces destroyed a drone in Moscow" The drone's casing fell in the area of the Exhibition Center and did not cause significant damage to the building, he said. Russian state news agency TASS reported that, according to emergency services, one of the walls of the pavilion had partially collapsed. The Russian Defense Ministry said it had thwarted a naval drone attack on its fleet.
A new study suggests that 4,000 steps a day is the optimal number of steps to take. The point from which mortality in all causes is reduced and the risk of death from cardiovascular disease is associated with 3,967 steps. Health professionals say the study is a misinterpretation and that the more active we are, the better health we will have. "When we talk about something as important as health we must do more than the minimum, we are not worth the '5 scraping,'" says a personal trainer.