Today: Mostly cloudy with chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Tonight: Mostly cloudy with chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Details here.
Drought Index is at 121.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
The OED’s Word of the Day: morigeration, 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
“The problem with being in politics is politics.”
–Rep. Paul Renner, R-Palm Coast, at a Common Ground Breakfast last week.
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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.
In Court: Jury selection is scheduled for this morning in the scheduled trial of Jennifer Heidle–assuming no deal is reached before trial. Heidel faces charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and fleeing and eluding, from an October 14, 2016 incident. Jury selection begins at 8:30 a.m. in Courtroom 401 before Circuit Judge Dennis Craig.
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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.
Court funding: The Revenue Estimating Conference will analyze what are known as “Article V” revenues, which help pay for the court system. (9 a.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)
The Florida Veterans’ Hall of Fame Council is scheduled to meet. (Monday, 2 p.m., 28 House Office Building, the Capitol.)
In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:
My take: Our Non-Unitary Executive https://t.co/PoPhVQdHVV
— Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) July 30, 2017
Share of Americans who say __ face a lot of discrimination:
Muslims 69%
Blacks 59%
Gays & lesbians 58%
Hispanics 56%https://t.co/J5qLwD6Vhw pic.twitter.com/U93t5ELCNz— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) July 30, 2017
35 psychiatrists just met at Yale to warn Donald Trump has a 'dangerous mental illness' https://t.co/CULL3k87Js
— Muckmaker™ (@RealMuckmaker) July 30, 2017
Who among us has not stood atop millennia of language and—after a moment of reflection—signed an e-mail “Best”? https://t.co/ghqfbuWMox pic.twitter.com/IYSD2AMNd3
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) July 30, 2017
Even when we are in the same company, we often find ourselves at cross-purposes with our colleagues https://t.co/JQkqlxXyjH
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz) July 30, 2017
“The internet is real life, and things that happen on the internet have real-world consequences" https://t.co/0d82oEaUhS
— CJR (@CJR) July 30, 2017
“Stories may have political impact less by persuading than by reminding people which side they are on” https://t.co/WWYCreOwkN
— Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) July 30, 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:
Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, Ida Haendel, Violin
Previous Codas:
- 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