Weather: Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers in the morning, then showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent. Sunday Night: Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 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 Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
9/11 Memorial Ceremony and Ride: The Knights of the Inferno Firefighters Motorcycle Club Palm Coast Chapter, The Punishers LE Motorcycle club Flagler Chapter & Flagler County Government Services are proud to present the 18th annual 9/11 Memorial ride and ceremony to remember those we have lost on September 11, 2001. This years 9/11 ride and ceremony will take place on Sunday September 8th. Ride out to the Flagler County Courthouse 1769 E. Moody Blvd. Bunnell for free registration starting at 8:30 am. Ceremony open to riders and the public begins at 9:30am. The police escorted ride starts at 10:30am. (route TBD) ending at 1405 Saloon E. Moody Blvd (S R 100) Bunnell with free food and live music. For details and questions contact Joe Vece at 386-931-3779 or visit our website: WWW.memorialrun911.com. Sponsored by Politis & Matovina, PA, Monster Motorcycles,1405 Saloon & Tropical Enterprises.
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Modern Jewish Food Festival, hosted by Chabad @ the Beaches Center for Jewish Life at Margaritaville Hotel, 715 First Street, Jacksonville Beach, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., $5 admission at the door. A mix of international and Israeli food, shofar factory, ceramic painting, kids’ activities.
‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach, 7:30 p.m. except Sundays at 2 p.m. There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When a stripper on the run comes between the Dr. Phil–loving, agoraphobic and her husband, a storm brews. Directed by: Ashley King and Melissa Cargile.
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.
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.
Lexicomania: This Wikipedia definition of “Graphomania (from Ancient Greek: γρᾰ́φειν, gráphein, lit. ’to write’; and μᾰνῐ́ᾱ, maníā, lit. ’madness, frenzy’),” seems an apt explanation of FlaglerLive’s comment section from time to time: “also known as scribomania, is an obsessive impulse to write.When used in a specific psychiatric context, it labels a morbid mental condition which results in writing rambling and confused statements, often degenerating into a meaningless succession of words or even nonsense then called graphorrhea (see hypergraphia). The term “graphomania” was used in the early 19th century by Esquirol and later by Eugen Bleuler, becoming more or less common. Graphomania is related to typomania, which is obsessiveness with seeing one’s name in publication or with writing for being published, excessive symbolism or typology.” I came across the term by chance one raining morning before dawn last week as I was reading Joseph Brodsky’s Watermark, in this line: “Many an American graphomaniac has found in Ezra Pound both a master and a martyr.” He’s using the word either cheekily or inaccurately, or maybe to boast of his ability–like Anthony Burgess, like Joyce in Finnegans Wake, like Alexander Theroux–to use it in a sentence, as we graphomaniacs so often like to do. I will have to find a way to slip it into future FlaglerLive articles. Plural. Brodsky, incidentally, was the exiled Russian poet who won the Nobel in 1987.
—P.T.
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A while ago I saw somewhere a photograph of a wartime execution. Three pale, skinny men of medium height and no specific facial features (they were seen by the camera in profile) stood on the edge of a freshly dug ditch. They had a Northern appearance-in fact, I think the photograph was taken in Lithuania. Close behind each one of them stood a German soldier holding a pistol. In the distance you could make out a bunch of other soldiers: the onlookers. It looked like early winter or late autumn, as the soldiers were in their winter overcoats. The condemned men, all three of them, were also dressed identically. They wore cloth caps, heavy black jackets over white undershirts without collars: victims’ uni-form. On top of everything, they were cold. Partly because of that they drew their heads into their shoulders. In a second they will die: the photographer pushed his button an instant before the soldiers pulled their triggers. The three village lads drew their heads into their shoulders and were squinting the way a child does anticipating pain. They expected to be hurt, perhaps badly hurt; they expected the deafening-so close to their ears!-sound of a shot. And they squinted. Because the human repertoire of responses is so limited! What was coming to them was death, not pain; yet their bodies couldn’t distinguish one from the other.
–From Joseph Brodsky, Watermark (1993).
Ed P says
Why is flip flopping growth when Harris does it? But it’s narcissistic and self serving when Trump does it.
She grows and gets better, evolves. Not Trump.
Could it be she doesn’t actually have the conviction or willingness to tell us her honest policies prior to the election? Is she afraid to let us see her truth?
1) economy
2) inflation
3) open border
4) solution for illegal immigrants here
5) crime
6) Biden’s senility lie
Ray W. says
It’s because when one learns more and grows, the flip-flopping is growth. When the other candidate flip-flops and doesn’t grow, the flip-flopping isn’t growth. See how easy that was to explain.
Ray W. says
According to InsideEVs Global, the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry recently certified Toyota’s plan to begin production of cars powered by a new type of solid-state lithium metal battery that for years Toyota has had in development.
Actual production of vehicles is expected to begin in 2026, with a full ramp up to mass production set to occur in 2030.
Toyota claims its new technology will offer “flat to full” charging in as little as 10 minutes, depending on the type of charging station used, with a range of 1000 km (621 miles).
Make of this what you will. Me? Other literature on these types of batteries suggest a reliable number of discharge and recharge cycles in the range of 10,000. If this is so for Toyota’s battery design, that means a potential lifespan of over six million miles before the battery degrades to the point of replacement, though the average cycle will likely be far less than the full to flat 621 miles. Even if the average driver discharges the battery to 50% before recharging, this would allow for a lifespan of over three million miles.
If Toyota decides to build an extended range EV (EREV) or any other type of hybrid design, using a small ICE purpose to extend driving range, then the smaller battery would require less lithium metal. This should cut down on initial manufacturing pollution per vehicle and provide significant overall vehicle weight reductions.
Many, many changes are coming to the energy industry. It might take decades for those with vision to silence the voices of the naysayers. All we can do is learn and change. Positive flip-flopping can be a beautiful thing to observe.
Ray W. says
Hello Ed P.
When you typed this comment, were you aware that former President Trump stated during a conversation with the Moms for Liberty group late last month that he had lost the 2020 election “by a whisker”?
And were you aware that he then told podcaster Lex Fridman that he had lost the 2020 election “by a whisker”?
Is Trump finally letting us all see his truth?
Dennis C Rathsam says
HARRIS HAS NO ANSWERS, JUST LIES! NO POLICIES, NO PLANS! SHE HIDE,S FROM QUESTIONS, EVEN MAKE BELIEVE PHONE CALLS AT THE AIRPORT! HOW CAN YOU VOTE FOR SOMEONE, NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY STAND FOR? REMEMBER WHEN PELOSI TOLD US “YOU HAVE TO PASS THE BILL TO SEE WHATS IN IT!!!! WE GOT SCREWED THEN….DONT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN!
Ed P says
Ray,
Is it possible that a flip flop when your core values don’t change a lie? Is she just saying what’s necessary to win? Is it impossible?
Also, do we embrace your theory that Trump is such a reprobate that he has lost the ability to learn and change positions but certainly lies?
Sherry says
Here’s something you will not see reported this way on FOX . . . this is how horrific trump supporters support their candidate:
This from the Associated Press
The civil jury trial over the so-called “Trump Train” comes as Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris race into the final two months of their head-to-head fight for the White House in November.
2020- Democrats on the bus said they feared for their lives as Trump supporters in dozens of trucks and cars nearly caused collisions, rammed a Biden-Harris campaign staffer’s car and forced the bus driver to repeatedly swerve for safety. Videos of the confrontation on Oct. 30, 2020, including some recorded and shared on social media by the Trump supporters themselves, show a group of cars and pickup trucks — many adorned with large Trump flags — crowding the campaign bus, boxing it in, slowing it down and keeping it from exiting the highway.
The full story can be found here: https://apnews.com/article/texas-trump-train-trial-ca5727a0eb9e9e06067e69bd6b23954e
It will be very interesting to see the verdict from this trial.
Ray W. says
Now that there are fewer than 60 days to the election, I am noticing the sprouting of the political yard signs. Is it a coincidence that Dennis C. Rathsam switched to all-caps? The closer we get to the election, the wilder his claims?
I have a question, though. If Trump stands for the violent overthrow of the American government, how can anyone vote for him? Dennis?
Ray W. says
As for graphomania, I prefer to refer to my efforts as delusions of literary grandeur.
Thank you, Mr. Tristam.
Laurel says
Will someone please unplug Dennis’ TV set, just for a day? He clearly needs some relief! That plug goes straight from Fox Entertainment to Dennis’ brain. It’s got him yelling! Just like our family member who had to run outside, into the yard, when we asked the person sitting next to him a simple question: “Why do you like Trump?” The was no pretext; Just the simple question. We weren’t even talking to him at the moment. He freaked, and yelled, just like Dennis! Fox Entertainment plays, all day long. Good thing neither of them donated to the wrong party according to Trump. They will escape prosecution if Trump wins.