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Year-End Briefing: Buy Less, Live More, Merry Christmas

December 23, 2016 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Merry Christmas. (© FlaglerLive)

The rest of the year: Too warm. Look for flotsam from Santa’s molten North Pole workshop. Details here.
Drought Index is at 409.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
The OED’s Word of the Day: pervious, adj..
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
  • 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


“In excited times, a politician needs no power of reasoning, no apprehension of impersonal facts, and no shred of wisdom. What he must have is the capacity of persuading the multitude that what they passionately desire is attainable, and that he, through his ruthless determination, is the man to attain it.”

–Bertrand Russell, from Power: A New Social Analysis (1938)

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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.

Also Note: This is the last Daily briefing of the year, so the Briefing will be off until Jan. 3. Happy Hanukkah, Fabulous Festivus, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, in that order.

Dec. 24: Musicians gather to play in remembrance of James Gamble Rogers IV, a renowned folk singer, entertainer and storyteller who gave his name to the Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach, where this event takes place, from 2 to 5 p.m. Musicians of all levels are encouraged to bring instruments and a chair to join the circle for a casual acoustic jam session. Instruments of all types are welcome but no power is available near the pavilion. Meet other musicians, practice or just have fun listening.

Dec. 28: The Flagler County Commission and the Flagler Beach City Commission hold a joint workshop to discuss a unified solution to the rebuilding of State Road A1A, at the Emergency Operations Center in Bunnell, behind the Government Services Building, 5:30 p.m.

Jan. 1: Start the new year off with a guided nature walk on the beautiful Joe Kenner Nature Trail at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach. Gather at 11 a.m. What better way to begin 2017 than hiking the 3/4 mile nature trail as it meanders through the park’s gorgeous maritime hammock and scrub plant communities? The hike will last an hour and a half. All ages welcome. You can register for this program on Eventbrite.com.

Rotary Club’s Annual Fantasy Lights Festival: It is open each night in December from 6:30 p.m. to 9. Entry into the park is free but donations are accepted. Proceeds from the event go back into community projects funded by Rotary.

In Florida and in State Government:

Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel.

Take a break.

–Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive

 

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

♦ Jan. 7: Daytona State College Enrollment Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wetherell Center (Bldg. 100), 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach. Students can take advantage of the one-stop events to complete everything from admission to registration and have a chance to win a $350 scholarship (Dec. 10 only) for a free class from the Daytona State Foundation. Students start by completing a Daytona State application, then meet with an Admissions Advisor and Financial Aid Counselor, take an assessment test (if applicable), meet with an Academic Advisor, and then lock in their schedule.
♦ Jan. 9: The Flagler County/Palm Coast Disabled American Veterans hold a flag-raising ceremony and dedication of the organization’s new facility at 27 Florida Park Drive. A luncheon will follow. The event is scheduled for 11 a.m.
♦ Jan. 13-15: The 4th Annual Flagler Film Festival features 60 films (shorts and features) from several local Flagler County filmmakers and films from around the world. Films from first time filmmakers, students and multi-award winning filmmakers will be screened. Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd., Palm Coast. Tickets available at the door and on the festival’s website soon (www.flaglerfilmfestival.com) or by calling the box office 386-597-0260. Advance ticket prices are $5 in advance for one block of films, $10 for one day of films or $25 for the entire weekend of films.
♦ Jan. 21 and 22: Flagler County Home and Lifestyle Show, the annual event and fund-raiser for Flagler Technical Institute, the adult education division of the school district, takes place at Flagler Palm Coast High School.
♦ Feb. 6: The great violinist Itzhak Perlman opens the 2017 season of the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival with a 7:30 p.m. performance at First Baptist Church, 1600 South 8th Street in Fernandina Beach. Tickets here.
♦ Feb. 8: Jonathan Canales, the man accused of shooting his girlfriend in the neck and leaving her to bleed in a bathtub for hours in their Mondex trailer in Nov. 2014, is scheduled for a pre-trial at 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County Courthouse. Canales had been judged incompetent to stand trial previously.
♦ March 7: Bunnell and Flagler Beach hold their municipal elections.

The Day’s Best Reads:

Sick of fake news? Try the 'good news' about Christmas https://t.co/tU5UakE5TO

— Telegraph Breaking News (@TelegraphNews) December 23, 2016

Since 1999, the average time spent in jail between sentencing and execution has risen from 12 years to over 18 years https://t.co/3hd5Kjn2dd

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) December 23, 2016

How inept will Trump’s Cabinet be? https://t.co/MHRLn9WZWi pic.twitter.com/zF5TlIJQ3a

— Slate (@Slate) December 23, 2016

Watch how CO2 spreads through the atmosphere in NASA's mesmerizing new animation. https://t.co/qdnnmLnsIK

— National Geographic Magazine (@NatGeoMag) December 23, 2016

Over the holidays, cozy up to the most-read New York Times stories of 2016: https://t.co/JZGW3Wl0LG pic.twitter.com/2rEy9Slzws

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) December 23, 2016

The 50 most read @AdFreak stories of 2016: https://t.co/guLoCBykdf pic.twitter.com/z134JfHU9g

— ADWEEK (@Adweek) December 23, 2016

A Twitter List by PierreTristam

Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

The following is an update of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast, through Dec. 22 (the city administration’s full week in review is here):

Click to access development-palm-coast-dec-2.pdf

Road and Interstate Construction:

  • Florida Department of Transportation Road Project List

Cultural Coda:

Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir


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  • The Exquisite Billy Evans Plays My Foolish Heart
  • Buxtehude’s Toccata in D, BuxWV 155, Performed By (the Slightly Mannered) Nathan Laube
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  • Hillary Hahn Performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor
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  • Mendelssohn’s Violin Sonata in F Minor, Performed by Shunske Sato, violin, and Shuann Chai, piano
  • Pinchas Zukerman Plays the Polonaise in D Major by Henryk Wieniawski
  • Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1, Lang Lang at the Piano
  • Bohuslav Martinu: Symphony nº 4, Performed by the Spanish RTV Orchestra, Walter Weller, cond.
  • Ferdinand David’s Concertino for Trombone, Performed by Joe Alessi
  • Boris Berezovsky plays Medtner’s Piano Sonata No.1
  • Medieval Music: Les Compagnons du Gras Jambon
  • Robert Caro on Robert Moses
  • Leonidas Kavakos Discusses the Beethoven Violin Sonatas
  • Palestrina: Missa Brevis
  • D.H. Lawrence: Coldness in Love
  • S.L. Weiss: A Presto, Bernhard Hofstötter, lute
  • Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto, Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
  • Josquin des Prez: La déploration sur la mort de Johannes Ockeghem, Performed by Vox Luminis
  • The Life and Times of Donald J. Trump: A Feature Film Set to Pink Floyd’s The Wall
  • A Year By Year Animated History of Europe, in 10 minutes
  • Bob Dylan: Don’t Think Twice‘
  • Alexis Weissenberg Performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E flat, K 271, Second Mvt.
  • Marshall McLuhan, W.H. Auden and Buckminster Fuller Debate the Virtues of Modern Technology and Media (1971)
  • Christoph Graupner’s Entrata, GWV 453
  • Bach and Vivaldi: Concertos for flute and strings, Anna Fusek & Capella Anna
  • 1966 Junior Wells sings live the 1959 classic “What’d I Say”
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  • Su Meng: Paganini’s Caprice no 24 on Guitar
  • Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
  • Brasil Guitar Duo: João Luiz e Douglas Lora
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