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Weather: Check tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 South 2nd Street in Flagler Beach. Watch the meeting at the city’s YouTube channel here. Access meeting agenda and materials here. See a list of commission members and their email addresses here.
Note: this meeting has been cancelled in light of today’s severe weather. The guest speaker, Adam Morley, will be rescheduled to a future meeting. The Palm Coast Democratic Club holds its monthly meeting at 6 p.m. at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 North U.S. Highway 1, Palm Coast (just north of Whiteview Parkway). The “Gathering,” as the club prefers to call it, is open to all like-minded people, so please come join us. If you like what you hear, become a dues paying member. For the best directions, contact the African American Cultural Society at (386) 447-7030. The evening begins with a half hour social time at 6 PM. At 6:30 PM a brief business meeting will take place followed by a discussion or a guest speaker. For further information, please contact Palm Coast Democratic Club’s President Donna Harkins at (561) 235-2065, visit the website or Facebook page.
Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series hosted by the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience at 7 p.m. Tonight: Dr. Luíseach Nic Eoin, Senior Editor at Nature Ecology and Evolution. Luíseach will spend the first part of this talk explaining what exactly the job entails as an editor for arguably the most prestigious group of science journals in the world, discuss the pros and cons of scientific ‘gatekeeping’, share some exciting and some frankly odd discoveries from her inbox, and make a case that this perennially fascinating field where both stakes and tensions run high needs a bird’s eye view to make sense of it. This free lecture will be presented in person at the UF Whitney Laboratory Lohman Auditorium, 9505 Ocean Shore Boulevard, in St. Augustine. Those interested also have the option of registering to watch via Zoom live the night of the lecture. Register to watch online here.
In Coming Days:
Notably: A letter to the editor in Wednesday’s New York Times by Chris Sinha, honorary professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication, University of East Anglia: “Bret Stephens is right to call out supporters of Palestinian rights who minimize or even celebrate the atrocities committed by Hamas, and to point to the explicit or implicit antisemitism of some anti-Zionist arguments. However, his claim that to call for a cease-fire is pro-Hamas is wrong. It is rather to call for the taking of innocent life on both sides to cease. Israeli officials made it clear that they would exercise no restraint in their bombardment of Gaza, and Israeli actions have followed through on these words. Let’s leave aside questions of “moral equivalence” between actors, and focus on actions. Deliberately killing civilians and deliberately failing to avoid killing civilians are both war crimes under international law. Stopping criminal killing on all sides and releasing hostages are not only vital for upholding the increasingly fragile and widely disregarded framework of international law, but also an essential step toward attempting to bring a just peace to the Middle East.
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This burning desire for martyrdom was described to me by `Salim’, a member of Ez Ed Din Al Qassam, whose own failure to achieve this wish had left him a broken man. `There’s nothing more heart-wrenching than to be held back from Paradise because of a technical fault.’ Back in 1996, Salim was chosen for a suicide attack within the occupied territories which was derailed due to a security lapse committed by his military cell. They failed to predict the movements of the occupation soldiers, which resulted in the would-be martyr remaining alive and in limbo, praying for a new opportunity.
–From Zaki Chehab’s Inside Hamas, (2007).
FlaPharmTech says
I am so weary with wary. We, as a SOCIETY, must learn to agree to disagree, and then move forward, with compromise, toward a better tomorrow. It is not my wish; it is an imperative.