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Weather:Partly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent. Monday Night: Partly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Flagler Beach here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
In Court: Elizabeth Tremoglie Sentencing at 9:30 a.m. in Courtroom 402 at the Flagler County courthouse. She is to be sentenced by Circuit Judge Bryan Feigenbaum. Tremoglie was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, resulting in bodily harm, a charge she insistently refuted. But a jury found her guilty of a lesser charge, felony battery, in a one-day trial on April 12. The charge she was found guilty on is a third degree felony, as opposed to a second degree felony, limiting her maximum exposure to five years in prison, as opposed to 15. Judge Bryan Feigenbaum presided over the trial.
The Beach Renourishment Project Groundbreaking is scheduled for 10 a.m. at Veterans Park, 101 North Ocean Shore Boulevard in Flagler Beach. The groundbreaking marks the beginning of a massive, unprecedented reconstruction of dunes and the beach from North 6th Street to the northern edge of Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contractor, a project first conceived over 20 years ago, when the shore was already critically eroded.
The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at 1 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The focus is the county’s general fund budget.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
Notably: You may have seen the main quote at the foot of yesterday’s Briefing by Ilan Pape, the Israeli historian. On May 21, he wrote about a recent visit to the United States when he was pulled into an interrogation room at the airport in Detroit by two goons of the Department of Homeland Security. I refer to them as goons because of the questions they posed–questions they had no business posing: “The first round of questions was about my views on Hamas. Then the agents wished to know whether I thought Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide and what I think of the slogan “Palestine should be free from the river to the sea”. I said yes, I do think Israel is committing genocide. As to the slogan, I said that in my view people anywhere in the world should be free. Then the agents interrogated me about who I know in the Arab American and Muslim American community. They asked me to provide them with telephone numbers, took my phone away for quite a long period and asked to wait until they made some phone calls before they let me go. The point of sharing this experience is not to ask for compassion or even solidarity; there are far worst ordeals in life. But the incident was still troubling – and part of a much larger and more serious phenomenon. Why are ostensibly liberal and democratic countries so interested in profiling or restricting academics who are trying to share our professionally informed views about Israel and Gaza with the North American and European public?” Of course the American press did not report on the detention, aside from Democracy Now and Common Dreams.
—P.T.
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Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
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The fence/ wall/ barrier has engendered hallucinatory scenes. The gigantic concrete wall, which soars to the height of eight meters (more than twenty-five feet) in the stretch between Azariya and Abu Dis east of Jerusalem, slicing through lives and neighborhoods, has become one of the most documented sites in the world, a place of pilgrimage for journalists, demonstrators, peace activists, tourists, fashion shows, and graffiti artists. Above all, it has become a black joke, a symbol of the stupidity of a mighty military empire that is being gnawed at by the occupied territories it insists upon holding. The expanding opposition to the barrier, which has brought about strange momentary coalitions between the left and the settlers, also comes from within the Israeli consensus. Protests, demonstrations, critical articles, insupportable sights provided by the barriers and gates, and the temporary restraining orders issued by the High Court of Justice all came together into an increasing civil, social uproar that began a movement toward change. “The hijacking of the separation fence by the settlers, with the government’s help, and its transformation from a fence intended for protection into a political fence, is liable to contribute to the deepening of the occupation,” wrote the senior military analyst for Ha’aretz, Zeev Schiff. Sharon’s unexpected volte-face, namely his 2005 disengagement project, gave him yet another hour of grace, enabling him to accelerate construction of the barrier. The 2006 Hamas electoral victory and the international ban on aid to and relations with its government, along with the short memory and fatigue of everybody concerned, gave Israel the protective umbrella it needed to erect this monster.
–From Idith Zertal and Akiva Eldar’s Lords of the Land: The War for Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007
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