Thursday Briefing: Breakfast With Flagler’s 3 Judges, Heat Index 101-105, Live Bombing, Sean Monti Sentencing, Sklar

Today: Partly cloudy. Slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s inland. In the upper 80s coast. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Heat index readings 101 to 105. Tonight: Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Details here.
Drought Index is at 72.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
The OED’s Word of the Day: mauvaise foi, n..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.

Today’s Briefing: Quick Links

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• In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
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• Local Road and Interstate Construction
• Cultural Coda

“Power corrupts. The beast hidden in the soul of man, and released from its chain lusts to satisfy its age-old natural instinct–to beat, to murder. I don’t know if it’s possible to receive satisfaction from signing a death sentence; but in this, too, there is doubtless some dark pleasure, some fantasy which seeks no justification. ¶I have seen people –many people–who had ordered the shooting of others and who were now themselves being killed. There was nothing but cowardice in them as they shouted: ‘I’m not the one who should be killed for the good of the state. I too am able to kill.’ ¶ I don’t know people who gave orders to kill. I only saw them from a distance. But I think that the order to shoot another man derives from that same spiritual  strength, that same psychological foundation as the actual shooting itself, as murdering with one’s own hands. Power is corruption. The intoxication of power over people, irresponsibility, the willingness to mock, to degrade, to encourage all these things when necessary–all these are the moral measure of a supervisor’s career.”

–Varlam Shalamov, from Kolyma Tales (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin).

Previously:

American War | Exit West | Vidal v. Buckley | Rabi’s A-Bomb | Freud’s Discontented | Reagan’s Day After | Earth’s fate | Muhammad Ali on Muslims | Coexistence | Elias Canetti | RFK | Anderson Cooper | Refugees | Resisting | Caro on Power | Nukes | Cop Diary | On Columnists | Kundera’s Hate | Sontag on “Closure” | Judge Craig’s WARM | Conservatism | GOP’s Suicide | Hamid’s Classes | Erasmus | Jimmy Kimmel’s Son | Burgess on Nose-Picking | Vonnegut on Arabs | Corporate Hubris

In Flagler and Palm Coast:

Note: all government meetings noticed below are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. Many can be heard or seen live through each agency’s website.

The Sheriff’s daily incident reports and jail bookings are posted here.

Common Ground breakfast featuring Flagler County’s three principal judges: Circuit Court Judge Dennis Craig, who covers criminal court, Circuit Court Judge R. Lee Smith, who covers family court, and County Court Judge Melissa Moore-Stens. The breakfast is organized by the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce. 8 to 9 a.m. at Grand Haven Golf Club, 500 Riverfront Dr., Palm Coast. Registration begins at 7:30. Chamber members can reregister for $25, day of is $30, guests can attend for $35. Email Tiffany Edwards at [email protected].

In Court: Circuit Judge Dennis Craig sentences Sean Monti on a series of guilty verdicts including burglary, aggravated battery, principal to grand theft, obstructing justice, aggravated stalking, and so on. Monti, a felon who’s spent about half his life in state prison, once eluded a SWAT team at a house in Palm Coast’s B Section, and more recently lef police on a chase until he jumped in a water tank at Bunnell’s municipal water treatment plant, and was apprehended there. At 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County Courthouse.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall. Commissioners will accept the Fiscal 2016 audit at 6 p.m., will hear a presentation on a beach conservation campaign, and will discuss, once again, a possible final settlement with Howard Sklar over the Flagler Beach marina. It’s not clear whether an expected settlement has run into fresh snags.

The military will conduct live bombing training at the Pinecastle Range Complex in the Ocala National Forest from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The bombing sounds are often heard in the Flagler-Palm Coast area. The telephone number for noise complaints is 1-800-874-5059, Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, Jacksonville, Fla. For additional information, call (904) 542-5588.

Announcements:

None.

In Florida and in State Government:

Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel. Most legislative proceedings can be followed through the Senate or House websites.

The state university system’s Board of Governors will take up a series of issues, including receiving a legislative update and confirming the reappointment of University of Central Florida President John Hitt. The full board will meet after holding committee meetings. (Committees start at 8:30 a.m., University of South Florida, Marshall Student Center, 4103 USF Cedar Circle, Tampa.)

The Florida Supreme Court is expected to release its weekly opinions at 11 a.m.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Labarga will give a “State of the Judiciary Address” as part of The Florida Bar’s annual convention. (Thursday, 12:15 p.m., Boca Raton Resort and Club, 501 East Camino Real, Boca Raton.)

In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:

The Day’s Best Reads:

Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

The following is an update of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast, through June 8 (the city administration’s full week in review is here):

Click to access week-in-review-projects-june8-20171.pdf

Road and Interstate Construction:

• Florida Department of Transportation Road Project List

Cultural Coda:

Bohemian Rhapsody: Brooklyn Duo and Ft. Dover Quartet

Previous Codas:

• Down in the River to Pray: University of Texas Tuba/Euphonium Studio
• Brahms : Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mohsin Hamid in Conversation with Akhil Sharma
• “The Day After” (1983)
• Rui Arayama Performs Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas K.427 & K.455
• Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras
• Angelina Jordan, 10 Years Old Norwegian, Sings the Blues: I Put A Spell On You
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755), Concerto in B Minor for five Recorders Op. 15 Nr. 4, Abateva
• Introduction to Bullshit
• Chopin: 24 Etudes for Piano Op.10 , Op 25, Lukas Genjušas, Piano
• Alike: The Best Short Film Ever
• Fauré’s Requiem, Performed by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Choeur Accentus
• Arthur Rubinstein Performs Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22
• Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, Reformation: Jérémie Rhorer Conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
• C.P.E. Bach Keyboard Sonata in F sharp minor, Wq 52 4
• Boccherini: Quintet with Guitar G 448 D-Major
• Jean-Baptiste Poyard Performs Telemann’s Violin Fantasia n°1
• Eudora Welty Reads “A Worn Path”
• Francis Poulenc at the piano
• Antonin Dvořák: Romance for Violin and Orchestra performed by Tanja Sonc
• Joseph Haydn’s Symphony Nr. 66 in F major, Herbert Blomstedt, cond.
• Sarah Chang Plays Elgar’s Damn Romantic Salut d’amour, Op. 12
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Iván Fischer, cond.
• Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36
• Händel: Keyboard Suite HWV 428, Daria van den Bercken, piano
• Haydn: Piano Trio No. 39 in G major Hob. XV/25
• Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus, Leonard Bernstein
• What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen?
• The Corrs: Toss the Feathers
• Peter Falk’s Acceptance Speech for 1972 Emmy, for Colombo
• How Did Beethoven Compose His 9th Symphony After He Went Completely Deaf?
• Ray Chen Performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
• The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1,HJ Lim, Piano
• Alicia de Larrocha plays Two Spanish Dances By Granados
• Comparone Plays a Scarlatti Sonata
• C. A. de Beriot, scene de Ballet, Daniel Shindarov, violin, Sergey Silvanskiy, piano
• Johnny Cash: Sunday Morning Coming Down
• Cinema Paradiso: The Main Theme
• Duke Ellington’s Take the A Train
• The Temptations and the Four Tops in a Motown Medley
• Sheku Kanneh-Mason Performs Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” Arranged By Tom Hodge
• Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto
• Isaac Albéniz, Suite Iberia, Félix Ardanaz, piano
• Johannes Ockeghem: Ave Maria