Weekend: Friday, Mostly sunny with slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy with chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 mph shifting to the southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index readings 103 to 107. Saturday: Partly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Sunday: Partly cloudy with chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 50 percent. Nights throughout the weekend will see temperatures in the mid 70s. Details here.
Drought Index is at 115.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
The OED’s Word of the Day: gambit, n..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.
Today’s Briefing: Quick Links
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- In Flagler and Palm Coast
- Flagler Jail Bookings and Sheriff’s Crime Reports
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- 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
“Whatever it’s short term fortunes, China will continue to make big strides on the west in the coming decades. In terms of purchasing power parity – measured by what you can buy in the local currency – China’s economy surpassed the US in 2014. Within a decade, give or take a few years, china will overtake America on more conventional dollar measures. By 2050 – a century after its communist revolution – China’s economy is likely to be twice the size of America’s and larger than all the western economies combined. A century of restoration will have followed the century of humiliation. And by then, India’s economy will be roughly the same size as Americas. Whether the western way of life, and our liberal democratic systems, can survive this dramatic shift of global power is the question of this book. The answer is not entirely in our hands. But our response so far has been to accelerate the shift. Donald Trump’s victory crystallises the West’s failure to come to terms with the reality it faces.”
–Edward Luce, from “The Retreat of Western Liberalism” (2017). See a talk by Luce below.
Previously:
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.
Free For All Fridays on WNZf, 9 a.m.: Host David Ayres welcomes Palm Coast Mayor Milissa Holland, who will talk about shopping local and her new job at Coastal Cloud, the Hammock cloud-based tech company with a very broad reach across the nation, Trish Giaccone of the Family Life Center, and Mark Strobridge of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, who will talk about how first responders handle the initial contact when responding to incidents of domestic abuse, all starting with a commentary by FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam on SunRail.
In Court: Twyla S. Irving, a 50-year-old Palm Coast resident, is sentenced in Flagler County Circuit Court on a third-degree felony charge of public assistance fraud after pleading guilty to food stamps fraud. Irving illegally received $8,522 in food stamps in 2011 and again between 2012 and 2015 by not reporting or under-reporting earnings at Home Helpers, Cracker Barrel and CVS. 1:30 p.m. before Circuit Judge Dennis Craig, Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse.
First Friday at Veterans Park in Flagler Beach starting at 6 p.m., with live music by Sgt. Rock, vendors, games for children and food.
Saturday: “Work,” a new show sponsored by the Gargiulo Art Foundation, opens with a free reception at the Flagler County Art League at 6 p.m. at City Walk 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite 207C, Palm Coast. For more information call the Gargiulo Art Foundation at 386/446-0617 or visit flaglercountyartleague.org. Seven professional artists are featured in the show: Photographer Charlie Badalati, Fabric Artist Carol Baker and painters, Tom Gargiulo, Diana Gilson, Betty Jo Sansbury, JJ Graham and Petra Iston. All works were created on 12 inch square stretched canvas. The opening reception affords visitors a chance to meet the artists. On August 8, there will be an artists’ panel at 6 p.m. and a closing ceremony from 7 to 8 p.m. with audience participation. All events are open to the public and are free of charge. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. 1 p.m. Saturdays. All proceeds benefit the Flagler County Art League and the Guargiulo Art Foundation’s Art in Public Places program.
⚠️ @ACLUofGA is on it!
If you received a similar letter despite voting in the last election, please contact your ACLU affiliate. https://t.co/4wF3nqlsnP
— ACLU (@ACLU) July 5, 2017
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.
No events of note.
In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:
Ahead of the G20 summit, protesters dressed as zombies have been stalking the streets of Hamburg https://t.co/5YEt2mz2Ei pic.twitter.com/8dNssdXoq1
— CNN International (@cnni) July 6, 2017
Playboy has a long history of pushing for First Amendment rights. Glad to be part of that tradition. https://t.co/oCpf4biZnj
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) July 6, 2017
How America’s source of immigrants has changed over a century https://t.co/wSEyY8DO51 pic.twitter.com/cNAqxXTrRS
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) July 6, 2017
Hemingway in his day exemplified American macho. Now scholars are giving him a gender-fluid remake https://t.co/uDgN0DyJ9r
— Arts & Letters Daily (@aldaily) July 1, 2017
https://twitter.com/WorldAndScience/status/882962486416244736
Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports
The following is an update of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast, through June 24 (the city administration’s full week in review is here):
Click to access development-june-14-2017.pdf
Road and Interstate Construction:
Edward Luce On the Retreat of Western Liberalism in the Trump Era
Previous Codas:
- 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
- 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
