Today: Partly cloudy with chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Tonight: Mostly cloudy with chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Details here.
Drought Index is at 70.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
The OED’s Word of the Day: Maecenas, n..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.
Today’s Briefing: Quick Links
- First Light
- In Flagler and Palm Coast
- Flagler Jail Bookings and Sheriff’s Crime Reports
- Announcements
- In State Government
- In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
- The Day’s Best Reads
- Fact-Checking the Knaves
- Palm Coast Construction and Development
- Local Road and Interstate Construction
- Cultural Coda
“Miles of videotape come in every day from all over Las Vegas, not just the cameras that record transactions and missed meetings in the public places, but the cameras that watch over all the gaming tables and can call back the fall of cards, the shy distress of some players, and the deft cheating of others. The cans of surveillance, supposedly, are catalogued and stored in the warehouses on the edge of the city. So many minutes; so much short-lived action and excitement; and always, the steady, listless beat of time peeling away. And so in the crushed spirit of a watched society, every mirror, every glass surface becomes the front for a clerical scrutiny — a little man, eating a sandwich, absorbing and being bored by your nakedness.”
–David Thompson, from “In Nevada” (1999)
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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.
Flagler County Requests for Proposal: Presentations by firms short listed in response to RSQ# 17-033Q, Professional Construction & Inspection Engineering Services for Various Flagler County Projects. Following presentations the committee will meet to do a final ranking on the firms. The county’s website lists the time of the presentations as 8:30 a.m. It does not list the location, likely to be on the third floor of the Government Services Building in Bunnell.
Flagler County Superintendent James Tager speaks to a back to school event for district employees at the Flagler Auditorium at 9 a.m., an event preceded by a back to school breakfast and partner expo at 7:30 a.m. Today is the first day back for teachers in Flagler County schools.
The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets at 11 a.m. at City Hall in Town Center.
Computers are handed out to students at Buddy Taylor Middle School at 2 p.m., Building 1.
Justin Senior, secretary of the state Agency for Health Care Administration, is expected to speak during a Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce event at 3 p.m., Daytona Beach International Airport, 700 Catalina Dr., Suite 300, Daytona Beach.
Young Professional Group Flagler and YPN, a part of the Flagler County Association of REaltors (or FCAR) host the 3rd annual YPG Trivia Night. Get your 4-person trivia team together and compete for prizes. All attending YPG members (and new members) have the opportunity to win pot-o-gold drawings, business card raffles and more. Future members are always welcome. Island Grille, 1224 S Ocean Shore Blvd, Flagler Beach, starting at 5:30 p.m.
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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 Early Learning Programs Estimating Conference will look at data in the voluntary pre-kindergarten program. (10 a.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)
Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Fernandina Beach, will give an overview of the 2017 legislative session to the Rotary Club of West Jacksonville. (12:30 p.m., Florida Yacht Club, 5210 Yacht Club Road, Jacksonville.)
College system: The Education Estimating Conference will take up issues about Florida College System enrollment. (2 p.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)
Financial aid: The Education Estimating Conference will analyze student financial-aid issues. (3:15 p.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)
In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:
Since the 1980s, weather-related power outages in the U.S. have become ten times more frequenthttps://t.co/xZY2ibGPxD pic.twitter.com/tJK1rtNqVA
— The Conversation U.S. (@ConversationUS) August 1, 2017
When faced with negative media coverage, Trump’s team has shown they will turn to friendly outlets to plant stories: https://t.co/9y2jpqPTsv
— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 1, 2017
The speech Trump gave on Friday advocating police aggression could get more people killed https://t.co/WVdXJK6yn4
— Salon (@Salon) August 1, 2017
Well, that's a new one: In which @politico scoops @WSJ on the full transcript of their own interview: https://t.co/j6JlsgXTuk
— David A. Graham (@GrahamDavidA) August 1, 2017
Seems likely someone(s) inside @WSJ leaked the transcript as an act of rebellion. Why would they do that? Because –>https://t.co/oL2Wsy75a6
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) August 1, 2017
Map: Who loses if Trump cuts off health insurer paymentshttps://t.co/DpIpLOr7uf pic.twitter.com/SFp3d0A81G
— Axios (@axios) August 1, 2017
Young adults were among the earliest social media users, but older adults are increasingly using these platforms. https://t.co/KfnA4uYcqt pic.twitter.com/11q56eSITY
— Pew Research Internet (@pewinternet) August 1, 2017
Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports
The following is an update of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast, through July 26 (the city administration’s full week in review is here):
Click to access development-july-27-20171.pdf
Road and Interstate Construction:
Mozart’s Only String Trio, K563
From WQXR: “Over the course of his short life, Mozart composed an incredible amount of music. But he didn’t write for all ensembles equally. Trumpets, for instance, freaked him out, and so there’s a dearth of music for that instrument in his catalog. He only wrote one (that we know of) and it’s since been lost. While we’re sure he didn’t harbor a fear of string instruments, he only managed to complete one string trio, too.”
Previous Codas:
- Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, Ida Haendel, Violin
- Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue: Marcus Roberts Trio, Seiji Ozawa, Cond. (2003)
- Wynton Marsalis takes the Horn Challenge
- Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, Afiara Quartet
- K.D. Lang: The Mind of Love
- World’s Oldest Violin: Marco Rizzi Performs Schumann’s Sonata No. 2 on a 1566 Amati Violin
- Mark Knopfler on Guitars
- Bach’s Little Fugue in G minor, Performed by the Canadian Brass
- The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
- Macklemore Feat Skylar Grey: Glorious
- Edward Luce On the Retreat of Western Liberalism in the Trump Era
- Why Don’t All Instruments Sound The Same?
- Joachim Horsley’s “Beethoven in Havana”: What the Piano Can Do
- Bojan Cicic and Richard Egarr: Giovanni Carbonelli’s Violin Sonata No. 1
- Voyager: The 116 images NASA wants aliens to see
- Bohemian Rhapsody: Brooklyn Duo and Ft. Dover Quartet
- 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