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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 82. North wind 3 to 6 mph. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight.
- 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:
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall for a marathon meeting. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
A Community Presentation on Sand Dunes By Florida Sea Grant and UF/IFAS Extension Flagler, 10 am at the GTM NERR Marineland Field Office, 9741 N Ocean Shore Blvd, Marineland. Join Florida Sea Grant and UF/IFAS Extension Flagler County to learn more about the ecology of our beach dunes. Participants will learn about beach dynamics, the role of sand dunes, and how to identify many of the species of plants that grow on our dunes. We will also be sharing information about the participatory science dune monitoring pilot program starting soon along Flagler County beaches and how you can get involved with monitoring the growth of newly planted sea oats. This is a free educational program that is open to all, but advance registration is required due to limited seating in some locations. Event details and registration can be accessed online at https://tinyurl.com/DunePresentation.
Food Truck Tuesdays is presented by the City of Palm Coast on the third Tuesday of every month from March to October. Held at Central Park in Town Center, visitors can enjoy gourmet food served out of trucks from 5 to 8 p.m.–mobile kitchens, canteens and catering trucks that offer up appetizers, main dishes, side dishes and desserts. Foods to be featured change monthly but have included lobster rolls, Portuguese cuisine, fish and chips, regional American, Latin food, ice cream, barbecue and much more. Many menus are kid-friendly. Proceeds from each Food Truck Tuesday event benefits a local charity.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
 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: One of the great benefits of streaming services like Netflix and Hulu is the nightly feel of independence from ads, especially at election time. I can honestly say: aside from the five seconds glimpsed here of Kamala Harris or Barack Obama asking for money when I’m trying to watch something on YouTube, I can honestly say that I have not seen a single campaign ad all season. That alone has lowered the stress level by whatever measures of magnitude are used to measure stress levels. I have bleak memories of ads during the 2016 season (Trump shooting someone on Fifth Avenue and celebrating it), even the 2004 season (those repulsive swiftboat ads). It’s just as rare in print, so it was a surprise to see the ad above in last Sunday’s Arizona Republic, which I read from time to time to keep up with my daughter’s neighborhoods (Arizona has a DeSantis-like tilt and a pronounced Trumpian tilt this fall). But the Thomas Paine Society could just as easily have featured J.D. Vance quotes. Vance is now his vice presidential nominee. Haley will probably get a cabinet post. But there are apparently two Thomas Paine societies. There’s this one: “Located in the Historic Castle Green in Pasadena, California, the Thomas Paine Society was founded and endowed by the late George G. Holtz, in 1993 to educate the public about the life and works of Thomas Paine.” And this one: “The Thomas Paine Society is a private non-partisan Think Tank that is dedicated to developing ‘Common Sense’ solutions to America’s challenges. Our mission is to employ a fact-based approach in identifying and promoting balanced win-win optimal solutions that will enjoy popular support.” You can guess where the ad came from. From where there is more. Not that we’re in an era of common sense. I am still seeking out Machiavelli’s study.
—P.T.
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Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Carlos M. Cruz
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
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
It’s Back! Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
For the full calendar, go here.
When evening comes, I return to my house and enter my study; and at the door I take off the day’s clothing, covered with mud and dirt, and put on garments regal and courtly; and fitted out appropriately, I enter the venerable courts of the ancients, where, welcomed with affection, I feed on that food which only is mine and which I was born for, where I am unashamed to speak with them and to ask them the reason for their actions; and they in their kindness answer me; and for four hours I do not feel boredom, I forget every trouble, I do not dread poverty, I am not terrified of death.
–From Niccolò Machiavelli, The Letters of Machiavelli : A Selection.
Ray W, says
Per Cox Automotive, a “car trading and markets insight” entity, U.S. BEV and hybrid sales were almost 350,000 in the third quarter, up 5% from the second quarter. Total market share hit 8.9%, with a possible predicted rise to a share of 10.0% by the end of the year.
According to InsideEVs Global, worldwide sales of BEVs and hybrids were 1.7 million in September.
Make of this what you will.
Pogo says
@Good morning Floridanam
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