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14 Kookaburra Court, Sorrento sold at auction for $7m. A trophy estate in Sorrento that traded for $7m at auction is the highest residential sale on the Gold Coast this week. Kollosche agents Sam Guo and Julia Kuo handled the auction of 14 Kookaburra Court, a luxury two-level home in a point position on the riverfront. Make a splash in the pool. “We had about 40 to 50 people turned up and three registered bidders,” Mr Guo said. “The potential buyers were from Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. “The two buyers from Sydney and Brisbane were competing for the property but the local family jumped in at the last minute and ended up buying the property.” The living area. The sale is the highest in the Isle of Sorrento, an exclusive enclave in the suburb of Bundall. “It’s a very well built and well designed home,” Mr Guo said. Records reveal the property last changed hands for $3.4m in 2014. “This he area is very exclusive — only people who live there come in and out. “It’s a family friendly area with extensive wide water and beautiful waterways. “It’s also very central to Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach and Southport.” MORE NEWS: $5m secret that delivered Hunt to Broncos Golf simulator, wine cellar, theatre: Ultimate trophy home sells for mega price Could this luxury home smash the suburb record? Entertain poolside. Described as ideal for family living and entertaining, the residence is on a 986sq m bloc with 33m of river frontage. The four-bedroom house features northeast views over the river towards the Surfers Paradise skyline. There are several different living zones as well as a media room, executive office and study nook. The living and dining areas. Entertain in style with an alfresco area with built-in barbecue overlooking the pool and spa. Other features include a pontoon, boat shed, triple garage and double-sided fireplace. Sorrento is an enclave in Bundall where the median house price is $2.1m, up 10.5 per cent over 12 months. The highest sale ever recorded in Bundall was $11.5m, paid earlier this year for 8 Marseille Court. The kitchen. Mr Guo said buyers were moving quickly on luxury properties on the Gold Coast. “Astute buyers are very educated — if a property offers good value with a good aspect, buyers they will make their decision pretty quickly,” Mr Guo said. “They understand good stock doesn’t come up very often. “With 14 Kookaburra Court, you had to wait 10 years for it to come back on the market.”

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In the history of presidential pardons, the absolution granted to Hunter Biden by President Joe Biden stands alone. This clemency will register as one of the shameful culminating acts of a good man, and father, now inelegantly exiting the West Wing. The crimes committed by Hunter Biden, the youngest son of Joe Biden, are far from the most heinous ever to elicit the mercy of a U.S. president. Presidents have extended pardons to war criminals. And it’s not historically rare for a president to pardon someone who shares a direct family bloodline — though this is the first time a president has bestowed the extraordinary forgiveness to a direct progeny. What makes the president’s pardon historically consequential is that it’s a pardon Joe Biden said on several occasions he wouldn’t offer. He didn’t equivocate. So now we’re left to question whether Joe Biden simply changed his mind or deliberately misled the American public in the heat of an election campaign from which he had yet to withdraw. When President Biden told the American public he would accept the will of the jury, which convicted Hunter Biden on gun charges earlier this year, he was clear. He vowed to respect the rule of law as our best leaders do. “I’m extremely proud of my son Hunter,” Joe Biden said after the conviction. “He has overcome an addiction. He is one of the brightest, most decent men I know. I abide by the jury decision. I will do that, and I will not pardon him.” Jurors found Hunter Biden guilty in June of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally possessing a gun for 11 days. At the time of this pardon, he had yet to be sentenced. Before the pardon, Hunter Biden was also scheduled to face a judge to be sentenced on a felony tax-evasion guilty plea. The false equivalencies have begun in earnest. Shortly after Joe Biden’s grant of clemency was announced Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump wrote the following post on the Truth Social platform: “Does the pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 (January 6th) hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years?” Trump wrote. “Such an abuse and miscarriage of justice!” A spokesperson for the Trump transition team offered additional perspective in defense of Trump, who was found guilty of 34 felony charges related to a hush-money payment to a porn actress in the 2016 campaign. The cases involving Trump and Hunter Biden bear no comparison, but that hasn’t prevented either side from arguing that they are victims of a politicized Department of Justice. “The failed witch hunts against President Trump have proved that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system,” Trump’s incoming White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement to Fox News. “That system of justice must be fixed, and due process must be restored for all Americans, which is exactly what President Trump will do as he returns to the White House with an overwhelming mandate from the American people,” Cheung said. It’s a false equivalency. Trump and a group of his supporters attempted to overturn a fair and free election. He branded the Jan. 6 protesters (and associated insurrectionists) as patriots and now may soon use his sweeping constitutional powers to grant them the same courtesy that Joe Biden granted his son. At least Trump has previously said he would consider pardons on a case-by-case basis. Even the sad spectacle of Trump potentially pardoning those who stormed the Capitol won’t completely eclipse one of the final acts of Joe Biden as U.S. president. He chose his son over country. He did so despite his stated intent that he wouldn’t. Morris is the opinion editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune . Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!LA Auto Show offers a look at classics and EV advancements all in one placeCrumbl’s massive empire was never about the cookies

Public Sector Pension Investment Board Sells 400 Shares of World Acceptance Co. (NASDAQ:WRLD)NoneWhen more than 20,000 people hit the streets of downtown San Jose for the Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot, they’ll be part of a tradition celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Carl Guardino still remembers waking up with his wife, Leslee, to a KCBS radio report about how 20,000 people were starting their Thanksgiving morning with a run to support local charities. The only problem was that run was in Sacramento, not San Jose. ”We thought, ‘Why doesn’t somebody do that here?’,” said Guardino, who was CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group at the time. “Then we realized, maybe somebody was us.” From left, Carl Guardino, Leslee Guardino, Jake Guardino, Jessica Guardino and Siena Guardino pose in downtown San Jose wearing shirts for the Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot in 2018. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area News Group) SAN JOSE, CA – NOVEMBER 28: Carl Guardino, founder of the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot, mingles with runners before the race, Thursday, November 28, 2019, in San Jose, California. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Michael Kawamoto brings the Thanksgiving table with him as he runs in the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot, Thursday, November 23, 2017, in San Jose, California. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) SAN JOSE, CA – NOVEMBER 28: Runners participate in the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot, Thursday, November 28, 2019, in San Jose, California. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Silicon Valley Turkey Trot runners start racing on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, in downtown San Jose, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Silicon Valley Turkey Trot runners race on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, in downtown San Jose, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) Debbie Clima of San Jose, left, and her daughter Olivia Clima, 16, dressed as a camp fire and smore respectively, talk as they wait to run in the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, in San Jose, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 24: Silicon Valley Turkey Trot runners prepare for the starter’s gun, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022, along Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) From left, Mercury News’ Sal Pizarro and President and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Carl Guardino speak at San Jose’s 14th annual Turkey Trot in downtown San Jose, California on Thursday, November 22, 2018. (LiPo Ching/Bay Area News Group) Runners from the Palmer College of Chiropractic West, teaming up as a vertebrae in the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot, pass by, Thursday, November 23, 2017, in San Jose, California. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) Runners in the Silicon Valley Turkey Trot race head east on Santa Clara Street, Thursday, November 23, 2017, in San Jose, California. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) From left, Carl Guardino, Leslee Guardino, Jake Guardino, Jessica Guardino and Siena Guardino pose in downtown San Jose wearing shirts for the Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot in 2018. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area News Group) There are Turkey Trots all over the Bay Area now, but the Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot remains the gold standard. People come with their co-workers or family members, hundreds dress up in costume even if they don’t take part in the official costume contest and people line the race route through downtown San Jose to cheer everybody on — whether they’re running the 5K or 10K, walking the course or pushing a stroller. But, like most things in Silicon Valley, it began as a startup. Both Leslee and Carl Guardino were both competitive runners — Leslee Guardino was an established triathlete — but starting a race from scratch was something new for them. Everything started falling into place when Applied Materials Vice President Joe Pon called Guardino to let him know that the Silicon Valley giant would sign on to be the run’s title sponsor. “With that green light, we were literally off to the races,” Guardino said. But the big question in 2005 was — would anyone wake up early on Thanksgiving morning to run through the streets of downtown San Jose? A week before the race, the answer did not look promising as only 100 people had registered. There were actually more volunteers signed up than runners at that point. But about 1,000 more people registered in that last week, and even more showed up to register on the morning of the race — delaying the start by about 25 minutes. In the end, 1,932 people took part in that initial race. There were 3,200 in the second year, 6,400 the following year and 9,600 the year after that. “By about year 12 or 13, it became the largest timed Thanksgiving Day run in the world, and it held that title seven straight years,” Guardino said. But Guardino said the key to making the race a real success was focusing it on the community benefits. “The three-legged stool on which we tried to build the Turkey Trot was build community, help the needy and start the holidays in a healthy way,” Guardino said. More than $12 million has been donated over those two decades to the race’s beneficiary partners — currently the Health Trust — the Healthier Kids Foundation, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley and Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County. And with more people in the Bay Area needing help than ever before, those agencies have often said they’re very thankful for the race’s participants and the huge network of Silicon Valley companies that sponsor the race. The Turkey Trot was just the start, too. A few years later, the SVLG Foundation started the Santa Run to support Christmas in the Park, and later Heart & Soles, a spring run that originally was started to put salad bars in schools and which continues to support youth fitness and healthy eating. After Carl Guardino left the Silicon Valley Leadership Group in 2020, he started the Stars and Strides run to benefit the Valley Health Foundation. When Ahmad Thomas took over as CEO, he knew that keeping the Turkey Trot going as a “virtual” run during the COVID-19 pandemic — and bringing it back in person in 2022 — were important to the community the organization was serving. “It’s been an honor of mine to build upon this tradition and continue to grow and scale this race and achieve a positive impact,” Ahmad Thomas said. “Carl has been so kind, and that legacy of kindness in our community is at the core of this event. Those who participate in it and have the opportunity to give back are better people for it. And our community is better for it.” Carl and Leslee Guardino will be at the race Thursday, as is their Thanksgiving tradition. Their 20-year-old daughter, Jessica, has participated in every race and is now a Division I cross-country runner. Their daughter, Siena, will be singing the National Anthem to start the race. “It’s what we do as a family,” Guardino said. “We hope this lives on well beyond us and continues to grow.” Tanya Moniz-Witten has been president at San Jose Water for less than a year, but Thursday she got to participate in Operation Gobble, one of the utility company’s most heartwarming events. In partnership with the California Water Association, San Jose Water distributed Safeway gift cards to several nonprofit agencies in the valley to help families facing hardship this year. The agencies nominated by local elected officials were: East Palo Alto Senior Center and Fondo de Solidaridad de Mountain View; West Valley Community Services; Mandas Amino Y Amistad (M.A.Y.A) Services; Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County; the Afghan Coalition; and Sunnyvale Community Services. Usually, you see elected officials lining up to shovel dirt or cut ribbons on a new building. But Friday, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and Councilmember Dev Davis grabbed a sledgehammer and took a few whacks at the ranger station slated to be demolished at the Guadalupe River Park’s Confluence Point downtown. “This may have been a good idea when it was built,” Mahan said, “But it’s overstayed its welcome. It’s unused, it’s been abandoned, it’s unfortunately been lived in, had fires and trash. It’s become a symbol of blight in one of the most important gateways in our downtown.” The station, which was originally built in 1997 but has been vacant and unused for more than a decade, has been a target for vandalism and graffiti in recent years. Then intention is to turn the space into an open plaza with views of the river and the opportunity for educational experiences. Related Articles “This is arguably the best ground-level view of the city anywhere in the city, and it’s finally going to be revealed,” said Carl Salas, a member of the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy board, who also took some swings with the hammer. He wasn’t the only one. Guadalupe River Park Conservancy Executive Director Jason Su, Garden City Construction CEO Jim Salata and even Commonwealth Club of California CEO Gloria Duffy donned hard hats and took their shots. I’m no therapist, but it seemed like some of them may have been venting their frustrations on the poor wall. If the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy had charged residents $5 for a 5-minute session, they could have made a mint. If you’re still trying to make sense of the Nov. 5 election, Garrick Percival, chair of San Jose State’s political science department, is here to help with an unbiased analysis. He’ll be giving an online presentation for the South Bay Democratic Coalition at 7 p.m. on Nov. 25 to cover how pollsters and pundits missed the mark. Go to for information on how to attend.

The expanded Big Ten is poised to be a major player in this season's College Football Playoff. The 18-team conference had three of the top-four teams in the AP poll this week — No. 1 Oregon, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 4 Penn State. A one-loss Indiana team is ranked 10th but is still very much a contender to make the playoff, given how many Southeastern Conference teams have three defeats or more. Indiana's rise has been perhaps the Big Ten's biggest story this season. Much of the spotlight was on newcomers Oregon, Southern California, UCLA and Washington, but aside from the top-ranked Ducks, that foursome has struggled to impress. Meanwhile, the Hoosiers won their first 10 games under new coach Curt Cignetti before losing at Ohio State last weekend. Oregon beat Ohio State 32-31 back in October, and if the Buckeyes beat rival Michigan this weekend, they'll earn a rematch with the Ducks for the Big Ten title. And it's entirely possible another matchup between those two teams awaits in the CFP. Dillon Gabriel has quarterbacked Oregon to an unbeaten record, throwing for 3,066 yards and 22 touchdowns in 11 games. But don't overlook Iowa's Kaleb Johnson and his 21 rushing TDs, and quarterback Kurtis Rourke has been a big part of Indiana's improvement. Penn State's Abdul Carter has eight sacks and two forced fumbles and could be one of the top edge rushers drafted this year. Oregon (11-0, 8-0), Ohio State (10-1, 7-1), Penn State (10-1, 7-1), Indiana (10-1, 7-1), Illinois (8-3, 5-3), Iowa (7-4, 5-3), Michigan (6-5, 4-4), Minnesota (6-5, 4-4), Washington (6-5, 4-4), Southern California (6-5, 4-5), Nebraska (6-5, 3-5) and Rutgers (6-5, 3-5) have already reached the six-win mark for bowl eligibility. Michigan State (5-6, 3-5) and Wisconsin (5-6, 3-5) can join them. There may not be many firings in general at the top level of college football. The prospect of sharing revenue with athletes in the future might lead schools to be more judicious about shedding one coach and hiring a new one. Who should be most worried in the Big Ten? Well, Lincoln Riley is struggling to stay above .500 in his third season at USC. Purdue is 1-10, but coach Ryan Walters is only in his second season. Maryland's Mike Locksley has been there six years and his Terrapins are 4-7, but this was his first real step backward after guiding the team to three straight bowl wins. Cignetti has shown it is possible for a coaching change to push a previously moribund program to some impressive heights in a short amount of time — but the improvement has been more incremental at Michigan State following Jonathan Smith's arrival. Sherrone Moore wasn't a completely unknown commodity at Michigan after he won some massive games in place of a suspended Jim Harbaugh last year. But in his first season completely at the helm, the Wolverines have declined significantly following their national title a season ago. The Big Ten is home to one of the most dynamic freshmen in the country in Ohio State receiver Jeremiah Smith. He has 52 catches for 899 yards and nine touchdowns. Highly touted quarterback Dylan Raiola has teamed up with fellow freshman Jacory Barney (49 catches) to lead Nebraska to bowl eligibility. Ohio State is on track to land the Big Ten's top class, according to 247 Sports, but the big news recently was quarterback Bryce Underwood flipping from LSU to Michigan. If the Wolverines do in fact keep Underwood in his home state, that would be a big development for Moore. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Arsenal make Mikel Arteta proud after smashing Sporting Lisbon

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