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Weather: Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Saturday Night: Clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Northeast winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
Today at the Editor’s Glance:
The First Saturday Creative Bazaar Arts and Craft Market, a flea market presented by the Palm Coast Arts Foundation, is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the foundation’s grounds, 1500 Central Avenue in Palm Coast’s Town Center.
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Enrollment Day at Daytona State College: Pick your appointment time here: https://www.daytonastate.edu/visit/admissions-events/index.html and join us for a special Saturday Enrollment Day, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Representatives will be available from Admissions, Academic Advising, Financial Aid, Registration, and Student Accounts. Spring classes begin on January 17 and registration is open now. You can complete your enrollment online, at any of our campuses during regular business hours, or at this Saturday Enrollment event. Register early for your best selection of courses. If you have not done so already, please complete your online admissions application before arriving. Please note: Dual Enrolled students should not sign up for this event as they have already registered for spring.
Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone: Every first Saturday we invite new residents out to learn everything about Flagler County at Cornerstone Center, 608 E. Moody Blvd, Bunnell, 1 to 2:30 p.m. We have a great time going over dog friendly beaches and parks, local social clubs you can be a part of as well as local favorite restaurants.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Notably: The first commercial phone service between New York City and London was established on this day in 1927, just four months before Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic. It was very biog news, as you can see from the front page of the Times below. “Hello, London,” were the first words. They called it a “radio telephone” and “the most remarkable communication service yet devised by man.” To think that there are still people alive today who were alive then, if not yet old enough to dumb down their imagination for a phone call. The two people on the phone were Walter Gifford, AT&T’s president, speaking from 195 Broadway, and G. Evelyn Murray, secretary of the british Post Office, “over a circuit of 850 miles of land line and 6,300 miles of ether path.” They were followed by innumerable people calling each other, including financial deals in the millions of dollars. The publisher of the New York Times also called the editor of the London Times.
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When the first volumes of My Struggle emerged in Norway in 2009, they created a national uproar. Nobody was more stunned than Knausgaard that when others beheld his self-portrait they saw their own faces. “It was very shocking when I realized how people read it,” he says. “I thought, This is so private it’s almost unreadable—but it worked the other way around.” He was so convinced that the book would hold no interest for non-Scandinavians that he told a British publisher who expressed interest not to buy it. He was ashamed of the writing. “It’s bad,” he still says. “I wrote it rather blindly, I didn’t think it was exceptional. I thought this would be a minor literary book, I thought it would be a step down from my other books, I thought maybe it was boring and uninteresting and really about nothing.” He realized his mistake only when he met Scandinavian journalists for the first time, “and some of them were almost white in the face and found it very hard to discuss the book. I thought then: Something is going to happen.” It did; a new British publisher soon came calling and publishers from dozens of other countries. Now he says, “I think people almost vomit when they hear my name because I’m so often in the news. It’s true. Oh, God. I try to keep a low profile in Norway, but it’s hard. It’s terrible.”
–From “Why Karl Ove Knausgaard Can’t Stop Writing,” Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2015.
Maria says
Very very offense to us conservatives. You are nothing but a bias one sided sheep! I don’t call your party communist which you are.
YankeeExPat says
Sorry Maria but all comedy and satire is essentially the truth repackaged as to open ones mind to another view.
F.Y.I……. I am a former Reagan Republican now NPA, lighten up, Life is short, If you cant laugh at yourself your destined to live a miserable existence.