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Weather: Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this morning, then showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Locally heavy rainfall possible this afternoon. Highs around 90. Temperature falling into the lower 80s this afternoon. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent. Tonight: Tropical storm conditions possible. Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent. See the latest on Tropical Storm Debby here: “Tropical Storm Debby Expected to Become Hurricane Before Big Bend Landfall Monday and Swing Northeast.”
- 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:
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 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.
The Magic of Motown, 7:30 p.m. at the Peabody Auditorium, 600 Auditorium Boulevard, Daytona Beach. Tickets here. This high energy homage to the legends of Motown will transport you back in time as you visit the very best of “Hitsville, USA!” The show features a cast of 15 powerhouse vocalists who embody everyone from Diana Ross & The Supremes to Marvin Gaye & The Jackson Five! Accompanied by a six-piece band with horns, their songbook delivers all your favorite hits like, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” to “Midnight Train to Georgia.”
Unlimited Devotion performs at the Original Cafe Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine, 8 p.m. Tickets here. Unlimited Devotion (aka UD) was conceived in Miami in April 2012 as a vehicle for exploring the Grateful Dead’s songbook. The band quickly developed a dedicated following and has steadily evolved its repertoire, personnel, and musical personality to reflect its current members’ jazz and funk influences. Today, UD is based dually in Tampa/St. Petersburg and Miami. Its reputation for delivering energized, adventuresome performances has made the quintet one of the top drawing acts in Florida.
LOL Jax Film Festival at WJCT Studios, 100 Festival Park Ave., Jacksonville. Doors open at 5 p.m. Today: Local comedy films, Local stand-up comedy, filmmaker Q&A and an Awards Show to end the night.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
 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. |
Editorial Notebook: The medal table at the Olympics is probably one of the most clicked on and least interesting part of the competitions. It reflects its most distasteful aspect–rank nationalism, or nationalism ranked, as if somehow the standings reflect a country’s worth, when all it advertises is the wealth poured into athletes (United States) or the slave-driving (China), and when the Olympics are really about individuals, not nations. At the Olympics’ website you have to work very hard to find a list of countries, outside the medals table–as in: the more than 200 nations represented. I couldn’t find it. It’s ice to represent one’s country, it’s even moving, though the raising of the flags at medal ceremonies always combine the emotional with the nauseous. I say this even though if the red stripes and cedar of Lebanon’s flag were ever to see an Olympic pole again (it never won a gold, and last won a medal–a bronze–at the Moscow Olympics, where it had no business going) I’d lose it–as I very much did when the Americans (let’s not go down the path of “Team USA”–see below) beat the Soviets at Lake Placid at the Winter Olympics that same year. But there are limits. There were limikts even then: beating the Soviets was nice. It wasn’t war, though it turned into one more chauvinistic boost to the Reagan campaign. As I write this on Aug. 1, The New York Times for some reason, and unusually for an organ not usually given to chauvinism, has the United States atop the medal table of the Paris Olympics, with 31 medals, France in second with 26, then China at 22, Britain at 20, and Australia at 17. The table of course is wrong: the United States is not the leader. As CNN and even the more traditionally chauvinistic Wall Street Journal (on its editorial pages, anyway, not its news reporting), have China at the top, then France, then Japan, then Australia, then the United States. They calculate standings appropriately, with the gold medal leader at the top. China have accumulated 11 golds so far, France and Japan have eight each. The United States have just six, with 13 silvers and 12 bronze. But it’s only fair, and correct, to give the heavier weight to gold, the rest being consolation prizes. The Olympic website also has China in first. Not that I relish seeing China in the lead: the price paid, and the motive behind that drive, is suspect. It carries that sting of 1936 Berlin. But fair is fair. The Australians, anyway, are not happy.
—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
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
It’s Back! Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
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By the way, although American spectators had started doing that “USA! USA!” chant with its cheerfully fuck-you edge at international sporting events during the 1970s, it was in the 1980s that it became a national cultural habit, first at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, when Team USA (a new coinage) beat the unbeatable Soviet hockey team, then spreading into professional wrestling and Reagan reelection campaign rallies and finally to any sort of excited mob of Americans who felt like madly insisting on our awesomeness, to perform feelings of patritic self-confidence, which used to abide more organically and implicitly. 0n other words, the “USA! USA!” chant was yet another expression of the nostalgia tic, an old-timey barbaric yawp spontaneously invented and then ritually reenacted.
–From Kurt Andersen’s Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History (2020).
FlaPharmTech says
Pierre, have you seen the man begging for money at PC Pkwy and Belle Terre waving the sign “Homeless for Trump”. Curious if he’s indeed homeless or a grifter. Great image for trump…I guess.