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Weather: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 9am. Partly sunny, with a high near 90. Southwest wind 8 to 14 mph becoming south in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 21 mph. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tonight: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 76. South wind 6 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
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- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall.
Veteran’s Suicide Prevention Training S.A.V.E at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast, 10 a.m. VA S.A.V.E. is a brief suicide prevention training that helps you act with care and compassion if you encounter a Veteran who is in crisis or having thoughts of suicide. It’s a free training that’s available online or in-person. For more information call 386-446-6763 Ext. 3713.
Separation Chat, Open Discussion: The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion on topics here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email [email protected] or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
The Circle of Light Course in Miracles study group meets at a private residence in Palm Coast every Wednesday at 1:20 PM. There is a $2 love donation that goes to the store for the use of their room. If you have your own book, please bring it. All students of the Course are welcome. There is also an introductory group at 1:00 PM. The group is facilitated by Aynne McAvoy, who can be reached at [email protected] for location and information.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
Notably: My first thought on discovering that today is Jacques Cousteau’s birthday (1910, he would have been 114, three years younger than the oldest person alive today), was: isn’t there somewhere a monument to “Ocean’s Impresario,” as the New York Times’s obituary called him (he died in 1997)? Bill McKibben called him the “John Muir of the Deep.” I googled “Cousteau and monument.” There’s an undersea plaque to him at Casino Dive Park off Catalina Island, off the California coast, “the first park in the country dedicated to underwater exploration” and made famous by Cousteau. The plaque had to be replaced a few years after it was installed: the sea is not easy on aluminum. There’s a memorial plaque immersed somewhere off Santorini, one of Greece’s million islands. There’s a Jacques Cousteau Underwater Reserve in Guadeloupe. There’s a statue of him at Carpa Olivera in Mexico. Congo devoted a stamp to him in 2009, Togo 2020, Djibouti in 2022, and North Korea, of all places, in 1980 (they have mail in North Korea? They have underseas? Imagination?). And there’s’ always the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, which he directed from 1957 to 1988. I’m surprised, in our multiverse of a billion television channels and nothing to sea despite Discovery, that an entire channel hasn;t been devoted to Cousteau reruns. Channel Calypso awaits.
—P.T.
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Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
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Mr. Cousteau, who held no scientific degree, became a household name in many parts of the world through the enormously popular books, films and television programs that documented over four decades of undersea explorations. His first book, ”The Silent World,” sold more than five million copies in 22 languages. A film of the same name, with the young Louis Malle as one of the underwater photographers, won an Academy Award for best documentary in 1957, the first of three Oscars that Mr. Cousteau’s films received. Television programs bearing the Cousteau name earned 10 Emmys and many other awards. Explaining the broad appeal of his work, Mr. Cousteau once said: ”We are not documentary. We are adventure films.” Mr. Cousteau’s adventurous spirit and mastery of the media brought him fame and fortune, but it also drew the envy of more conventional oceanographers, some of whom questioned the scientific value of his research, the authenticity of his film footage and even his record as a pioneering environmentalist. His later years were clouded by family quarrels over the direction of the far-flung Cousteau enterprises, which ranged from the nonprofit Cousteau Society and related organizations, with more than 300,000 members in Europe and the United States, to the Cousteau Oceanic Park, a theme park near Paris that filed for bankruptcy in 1991.
–From Gerald Jonas’s obituary of Jacques Cousteau, The New York Times, June 26, 1997.
Pogo says
@FWIW
As stated
https://www.google.com/search?q=Cousteau+scuba
Jim says
Sadly, the cartoon is wrong. Trump, even in his most private introspective moments, never for a second thinks about anything that remotely would reflect a conscious, morals or ethics.
The man is a psychopath.
Just a day or so ago, he was holding a rally in Las Vegas at noon and he was crying about nobody caring about him being out in the heat giving a “speech”. And then told the audience, “I don’t care about you, I want your vote!”.
And yet there are so many in this country who think he is the “chosen one”. God would never pick this animal.