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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, July 26, 2024

July 26, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Nervous Olympics in Paris by Marian Kamensky, Austria
Nervous Olympics in Paris by Marian Kamensky, Austria

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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 85. Heat index values as high as 103. Calm wind becoming east 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 74. Southwest wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

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Today at a Glance:

Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s guests include Flagler County Superintendent LaShakia Moore and Sheriff Staly who will talk about back to school. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.

The Scenic A1A Pride Committee meets at 9 a.m. at the Hammock Community Center, 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. The meetings are open to the public.

Paris Olympics Opening Ceremonies on NBC and Peacock, the live event begins at 1:30 p.m. Palm Coast time. The opening ceremony is on the Seine.

The Flagler County Canvassing Board meets today at the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections office, Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The meeting is open to the public. Check the time in the sidebar or in this chart, which includes the full year’s meeting schedule (the pdf schedule does not include the dates and times of required Canvassing Board meetings which may be necessary due to a recount called locally or statewide.) The board is chaired by County Judge Andrea Totten. This Election Year’s board members are Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart and County Commissioner Dave Sullivan. The alternates are County Judge Melissa Distler and County Commissioner Donald O’Brien. March-April meetings are for the presidential preference primary, such as it is. See all legal notices from the Supervisor of Elections, including updated lists of those ineligible to vote, here.

The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.

Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, 2 to 5 p.m., Picnic Shelter behind the Hammock Community Center at 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. It’s a free event. Bring your Acoustic stringed Instrument (no amplifiers), and a folding chair and join other local amateur musicians for a jam session. Audiences and singers are also welcome. A “Jam Circle” format is where musicians sit around the circle. Each musician in turn gets to call out a song and musical key, and then lead the rest in singing/playing. Then it’s on to the next person in the circle. Depending upon the song, the musicians may take turns playing/improvising a verse and a chorus. It’s lots of Fun! Folks who just want to watch or sing generally sit on the periphery or next to their musician partner. This is a monthly event on the 4th Friday of every month




Notably: The Olympic games began on this day in 1936, in Berlin, as they do today in Paris. The two events are comparable in some ways: they both were, are, furled in a resurgence of fascism, though Paris managed to keep the barbarians at the gate a bit longer with that legislative election as Germany had not. The Times on Aug. 2 headlined the opening in berlin: “100,000 Hail Hitler; U.S. Athletes Avoid Nazi Salute To Him.” Frederick Birchall was the reporter: “A gray sky that threatened rain without really ever fulfilling that threat lowered today over the opening ceremonies of the eleventh and greatest Olympic games of modern times” in “the world’s newest and biggest stadium,” designed not by Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect, but by Werner March, to hold 100,000 people. “The American athletes received a bigger hand going out of the stadium than when they entered,” when whistles greeted them. The reporter called Hitler “the new Caesar of this era,” describing him: “There can be no doubt that he was proud at this moment of the climax of two years’ patient preparation and endeavor.” Odd to read a line like this, so seemingly normal, through the prism of 50 million deaths. Paris will be more fun. It is Paris, after all, and democracy is not over, not there, not here: the American athletes might’ve gotten booed had Biden still been in the race. I imagine they’ll be cheered now, with more han hopes resting on their shoulders.

—P.T.

 

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May 2025
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Flagler County Library Board of Trustees

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Monday, May 12
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Nar-Anon Family Group

St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Monday, May 12
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Bunnell City Commission Meeting

Bunnell City Hall
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Tuesday, May 13
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Palm Coast City Council Workshop

Palm Coast City Hall
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Tuesday, May 13
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Community Traffic Safety Team Meeting

Third Floor Conference Room, Government Services Building
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Tuesday, May 13
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

St. Johns River Water Management District Meeting

St. Johns River Water Management District
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Tuesday, May 13
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Flagler County School Board Workshop: Agenda Items

Government Services Building
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Tuesday, May 13
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Flagler Beach Library Book Club

315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
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Tuesday, May 13
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Flagler County Planning Board Meeting

Tuesday, May 13
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy

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“England’s biggest track meet in 40 years opened this afternoon with a pageant of nationalism, an orgy of oratory and a paroxysm of symbolism but no running, jumping or bulging of the biceps.” That’s the way Red Smith opened his column on the Opening Ceremony at the London Olympics before last, 65 years ago. Smith, underwhelmed but not cynical, deadpans his way through the description of what was, even then, an overwrought spectacle: “Out of a runway at the east end of the oval came a Boy Scout with bare knees and a sign reading “Greece.” […] [The King] looked on while trumpeters trumpeted, speakers spoke, and attendants released a great mess of caged pigeons, which zoomed and swooped over eighty-two thousand unprotected skulls.” Smith disputes the number of pigeons — the Olympic organizers claimed 7,000; he says 2,000 — which allows him to drop an oblique reminder that the host country was still licking its World War II wounds: “Chances are the brass didn’t dare turn loose that many squab in this hungry nation.” At last, the torch is lit, and Smith puts a button on the whole shebang: “The crowd made with the tonsils. It was hokum. It was pure Hollywood. But it was good. You had to like it.” With its evocation of Shakespearean comedy and its note of tempered approval not overwhelmed by enthusiasm, “You had to like it” would have been an apt alternate title for the Library of America’s American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith. Edited by Daniel Okrent, the collection does not give the Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter the classic LoA treatment: the black dust jacket is replaced by a handsome cream cover, with photos of Smith’s two favorite sports — baseball and horse racing — replacing the usual author portrait. But that’s packaging. Whether he got in through the side door or no, Smith has entered the canon now.

–From Sebastian Stockman’s review of the Library of America’s American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith, in the Los Angeles Book Review, Sept. 18, 2013.

 

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    July 26, 2024 at 7:23 am

    @Still ungrateful

    …but entirely sincere.

    And so it goes.

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