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Weather: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. Chance of rain 20 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:
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 South 2nd Street in Flagler Beach. Watch the meeting at the city’s YouTube channel here. Access meeting agenda and materials here. See a list of commission members and their email addresses here.
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from noon to 2 p.m. in Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Join Bill Wells, Bob Rupp and other members of the Palm Coast Model Yacht Club, watch them race or join the races with your own model yacht. No dues to join the club, which meets at the pond in Central Park every Thursday.
The Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee meets at 5 p.m. at City Hall, 160 Lake Avenue, Palm Coast.
‘One Slight Hitch,’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach, Adults $25, Seniors $24, Youth $15, 7:30 p.m. except Sunday matinees and special March 1 matinee. It’s Courtney’s wedding day, and mom is making sure everything is perfect. Then, like in any good farce, the doorbell rings, and all hell breaks loose. So much for perfect.
‘The Drowsy Chaperone,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, $35. When wealthy widow, Mrs. Tottenham, hosts the wedding of the year, she gets a lot more than a write-up in the society pages. This magical piece of meta-theatre and playful, heartfelt parody of the 1920s musical comedy features a chirpy jazz age score by Tony-winning collaborators. Book here.
Juxtapositions: Here’s something J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Bhagavad-Gita-quoting creator of the atomic bomb (“Now I am become Death the destroyer of worlds,” he’d said as the Trinity bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert that pre-dawn of July 16, 1945, as the man-made sun rose on the nuclear age), is said to have said: “It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.” (The line is one of two epigraphs in Richard Rhodes’s Making of the Atomic Bomb, without citation). And here’s something Voltaire wrote roughly two centuries before Oppenheimer in a letter to a friend he’d gone to high school with three decades earlier: “”But my dear friend, we must give our soul all possible forms. It is a fire that God has entrusted to us, we must nourish it with what we find most precious. We must bring into our being, all imaginable modes, open all the doors of our soul to all sciences and all feelings. Provided that all this does not enter pell-mell, there is room for everyone.” Naturally, both thoughts are disallowed from schools in DeSantistan.
—P.T.
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March 2025
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Warbirds Over Flagler Fly-In
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
‘Violet’ at City Repertory Theatre
Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler County Beekeepers Association Meeting
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
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Quote: “I have enjoyed peaches and apricots more since I have known that they were first cultivated in China in the early days of the Han dynasty; that Chinese hostages held by the great King Kaniska introduced them into India, whence they spread to Persia, reaching the Roman Empire in he first century of our era; that the word “apricot” is derived from the same Latin source as the word “precocious”, because the apricot ripens early; and that the A at the beginning was added by mistake, owing to a false etymology. All this makes the fruit taste much sweeter.”
–From Bertrand Russell’s In Praise of Idleness (1935).
Laurel says
So now, King Trump is telling the American Corporation, Chevron, that he is revoking their license because Venezuela wouldn’t accept shackled immigrants (they accepted unshackled immigrants as a matter of human dignity). It doesn’t matter to supposedly “businessman” Trump that Chevron has negotiated with Venezuela, spent a lot of money (investor money) on this project, Trump just says “nyeh.” Personally, I have no idea who the hell he thinks he is to do such a thing, and don’t believe he has the power. However, Trump has given Chevron six months to pull out.
MAGAs, do you understand what this means? I’m doubtful. Do you have any investment in Chevron? Does your 401K have any investment in Chevron? Does your retirement plan have Chevron in your portfolio? If so, you are in trouble. Does Trump care? No, he doesn’t. It’s all about his foolish retaliation against a country that tried to stick up for human dignity. It had not one, damn thing to do with efficiency, or making America great again.
Trump, and his cohorts, are actively trying to destabilize the world, and crush the United States Government…and you. What will it take for you to understand? When it’s too late? How many excuses will you make for him?
You have the choice to remain complicit, or not. Think about it without watching TV, listening to social media, or listening only those who think the same way.
Ray W, says
Hello Mr. Tristam.
Can it be argued that Thomas Jefferson was channeling Voltaire when he wrote in a letter to a favorite nephew that reason was the greatest gift from Heaven to mankind?
The time of our founding fathers is known in academia today as the Age of Reason. It lasted roughly from 1760 to 1815, when an overlapping form of thought now known as Transcendentalism (Emerson and Thoreau) blended into Reason and eventually supplanted it.
The three broad forms of reason inculcated into the thoughts of our founding fathers by their Scottish Enlightenment-inspired university professors were: deductive logic, inductive logic, and argumentation (also known as legal reasoning).
Lying to support a point was never a part of those three forms of reasoning.
For example, if one wanted to support the argument that the Ukraine should give up $500 billions of its natural resources to repay the U.S. for its aid supplied to the Ukraine, then saying that the US has given $350 billion when the true number is $185 billion defies all logic and reason. The argument has been destroyed before the debate started.
The $350 billion figure tossed out by our President was just a meaningless number snatched out of thin air, but then again, the purpose of the inflated number was not to support the argument, it was to create a lie in order to galvanize the gullible among us to spread, or “launder”, the disinformation to others. When now Vice President Vance said during the campaign that if it took a lie to get people to talk about immigration, then he would continue to lie, honesty be damned. Who cares whether an argument can be supported when the goal is to confuse the gullible among us into action?
Endless dark money says
Haha what a stain of human like Hitler and Mussolini before him. Sick and pathetic! Y’all should read the old us constitution it defines treason and the punishment for it!
William bagsby says
Who’s starting the well armed militia to take care of the domestic nazis?
James says
The forbidden fruit is always the most tempting.
And perhaps the most dangerous in the mind of man… whatever the “apple” may be.
Just say’n what’s been said before, though I suppose it will always bare repeat’n.
Ray W, says
I do not post this comment as a harbinger of doom, far from it. I post this comment to establish a baseline.
Four weeks over the past year saw numbers higher than this past week’s numbers, but that means that 47 weeks saw lower numbers. To what numbers do I refer?
At 8:30 this morning, the weekly total of applications for unemployment insurance claims was released. The seasonally adjusted data reflects that 242,000 people applied for unemployment insurance relief, up 22,000 from the week before. The rolling four-week average rose by 8,500 to 224,000.
A total of 1,862,000 people were receiving benefits, down 5,000 from the previous week. The four-week rolling average of benefit receivers fell 3,000 to 1,865,000.
For a couple of years now, the four-week rolling average number of applicants has almost always been below 230,000. At times, it has been below 200,000 average number of applicants. Since 1968, the average number of applicants per week is slightly above 360,000, but that number is skewed upwards because of the millions who applied for benefits during the pandemic.
Can it be argued that for decades, hundreds of thousands of workers are laid-off, fired or downsized each week. When the gullible among us see a company laying off 10,000 employees, some of them blame whatever administration is in power. But layoffs and firings occur in their 10s of thousands each week.
What all this means is that, based on this metric and many others, President Trump inherited an economy that is the “envy of the world”, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Biden administration did not destroy anything. Severely damaged by the pandemic, the American economy steadily and methodically sprang back to health.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I don’t get too excited about weekly or monthly reports, as short-term reports often provide scanty factually reliable data. Weekly or monthly reports can be harbingers of growth or decline, but longer-term data often offers a more accurate perspective.
Ray W, says
Inside EVs Global just published an updated set of specifications for Dodge’s new Ramcharger extended range electric vehicle (EREV).
The locomotive style gasoline electric powertrain means that the gas engine powers a generator, not the wheels.
The two electric motors, combined, put out 690 HP, but the engine is detuned from 305 HP to 174 HP.
Tow rating is 14,000 pounds.
So here are some of the new specifications.
The battery pack is relatively small, at 92 kW hours. It doesn’t need to be bigger, because the range is intentionally set at 140 miles, sans trailer. Towing a load will reduce range. Only 70 kWh will be used, because the battery is not ever supposed to be fully depleted, unless the gas motor fails. If the motor fails, the battery will have a reserve supply that allows the vehicle to be driven a few more miles. No more stranding on the side of the Interstate. This reserve power is standard on diesel-electric locomotives. If the diesel engine fails, the electric reserve allows the engineer to continue to an off-ramp so the main line is not obstructed.
The are three modes of operation:
“Eco” limits the amount of power that can be supplied to the electric motors. Just because they are rated at a combined 690 HP doesn’t mean they have to operate at 690 HP. Power-draining climate controls are limited. Should the day be cool and the driver intend to just cruise, this is the most economical setting.
“E-Save” mode can activate at any point in time. If a Ramcharger driver plugs in a charger overnight, when she leaves in the morning with the battery charged to 100%, the E-Save setting will keep the battery charged at 100%. If the battery is at 50% and the charger is not used overnight, when she starts the next morning, the generator will keep the battery at 50% and not bring the charge up to 100%. If the battery is at 20% when started, the generator will slowly bring the charge up to 50%. This setting also allows a driver to set the truck on electric-only in city driving, and back to recharging mode when cruising on a highway.
The third option is named “Electric+”, which means that the gas engine remains off until the battery is depleted to a pre-determined level, expected to be 140 miles of normal travel. Since the average driver travels fewer than 40 miles per day, if the battery is recharged each night, the engine might seldom turn on. The generator does not charge up the battery, it only keeps the vehicle moving. In this mode, only the recharging option brings the battery to full charge.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
To me, of all the options available to transition to full BEV transport, EREV technology seems to offer the best option.
I recently mentioned having watched a Leno’s Garage episode on the Scout EREVs to be released in model year 2027. He said a production crew member had been driving a Chevy EREV for a number of years. Since the car was recharged every night, and the daily trip mileage was low, the gas engine almost never turned on to recharge the battery. Every six months, the production worker stopped recharging the battery to make the engine turn on long enough to run out the gasoline in the tank to keep the gasoline from going stale. EREVs offer both the full BEV experience on daily drives and a longer range when needed. Win, Win.
Pogo says
@Laurel (Reply is out of order)
JFYI
https://www.google.com/search?q=lawyer+who+sued+chevron+imprisoned
Elsewhere, lying troll(s) reach record weights and lengths unmolested — and prating and self-regard rules.
trump will solve all.
Mark says
Having owned 1979 and 1989 Ramchargers it’s an abomination to call this new EV a Ramcharger.
Ray W, says
Hello Mark.
You might be right. Then again, you might be wrong.
I looked up the specifications of the 1979 Dodge Ramcharger. It had the standard 318 c.i. V-8 with 175 HP. The 2025 Ramcharger will have the 630 HP dual-electric motors that offer instant response, i.e., no throttle lag so common with vehicles of that earlier era.
The new Ramcharger may be an abomination, but it looks like it could easily kick the older Ramcharger’s butt. It’s detuned V- 6 that powers the generator makes one horsepower less than yours did. The 1989 Ramcharger V-8 was rated at 170 HP.
Ed P says
Laurel,
Please explain the real reason for the Chevron/ Venezuelan situation and the fact that Maduro is seen by the world to have broken his promise that allowed the resumed exports in 2022 when Biden lifted the restrictions.
Sherry,
Would you explain to the gullible why egg prices haven’t come done under Trump?
Maybe beef prices too.
Isn’t it ok to ask for the facts? Please present them.
Ray W, says
One of the challenges with today’s liquid-state lithium-ion batteries (LiB) is developing a method that permits the use of thicker layers of electrodes, according to a Tech Xplore reporter.
Use of thick layers of electrodes in an LiB increases energy density, reduces the number of battery layers, and simplifies the manufacturing process, all of which reduces manufacturing costs and overall battery weight. But the use of thick electrodes increases resistance to electron and lithium-ion transport and decreases the rate capability of the battery’s electrochemical processes.
Under standard manufacturing processes, if the electrode is too thick, the percentage of inactive materials increases. So, how does one reduce the overall percentage of inactive materials in thick electrodes?
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials experimented with a “flashlight irradiation process”, over a duration of one millisecond, which irradiation they described as an “ultra-fast, large area flash process to mitigate thick electrode degradation.”
According to the reporter, the “photochemical reaction” to the flash irradiation instantly changed “binder carbonization”, increased “porosity”, enlarged the “electrode-electrolyte interfacial area”, and led to “interlayer expansion of active material (graphite).”
The flash process minimized “binder decomposition”, preserved “mechanical durability”, and prevented “oxidation-related thermal damage to the current collector”; it also suppressed the “performance degradation of thick electrodes.”
The research team is currently working on scaling up the process to mass production. Since the “flash-based electrode activation process” is considered a “post-treatment” event, it should be easy to integrate into graphite electrode production lines at current manufacturing factories.
Theoretically, the flash lighting process should also improve the performance of nickel-cobalt-manganese cathodes.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Researchers consistently release innovative methods by which battery efficiency is increased, assembly complexities reduced, pack weight decreased, manufacturing costs lessened, and size reduced. This is just another in a long line of battery improvements. And we are still at the Model T stage of EV development.
EVs are the future. ICE vehicles are the past. So sayeth Ford’s CEO.
Ray W, says
Three days ago, Raw Story published an interesting take on the timing of a $400 million State Department contract to buy armored Tesla electric trucks.
Amid the outcry, the State Department put the contract on hold. It then claimed that the $400 million order had been placed during the term of the Biden administration.
NPR then obtained a State Department document that proved that Biden’s State Department had planned to spend $483,000 during the 2025 fiscal year for “electric vehicles” generically, not Tesla’s specifically. $3 million more would be spent on charging stations. It was the Trump administration that had revised upwards the State Department’s procurement document. It appears to be true that State Department officials had talked to Tesla officials about armoring vehicles, but money was not set aside to do so.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
If one has to lie to support a point, can it be argued that the point never was valid?
As an aside, a valid point, in and of itself, does not per se win an argument; it merely allows one to stay in the argument.
Joe D says
In reply to Ray:
Yes, and the Toyota RAV 4 PRIME PLUG IN does the same thing (almost). On full charge the hybrid SUV battery will allow approximately at 42 mile daily range(the plan is to increase that to 50 miles battery range). Yes, if you plug it in (either to your regular house 120 circuit or you fast charger…$1500-2000) you might never need the gas engine to kick in (however the suggestion was to use a tank of gas every 3 months, because unleaded gas can become “stale” and potentially damage your engine.
If you go on a trip longer than 42 miles, the gas engine kicks in. The 3rd option ( not very fuel efficient though) is to have your gas engine charge your electric batter along the way on long trips (so your 42 mile range is fully available when you reached your destination.
Unfortunately this model was $52,000 with most of the additional bells and whistles (standard RAV 4 start at $48,000 and up).
Up until our fearless new leader killed the EV rebate ( new Prime plug in was still qualified for the full $7800 rebate), my plans were to trade in my old 18 mpg Toyota Sienna 2005 van ( my primary car is a 65 mph Toyota Prius C 65 mpg hybrid) for the Rav4 plug in hybrid. Well now I’ve got to start all over. Guess Trump’s oil/ gas producing buddies would be PROUD!
Sherry says
To the tune of “Rawhide”. . . Everybody Now
Trollin’ Trollin’ Trollin’ Keep those Lies a Rolling! Maga Minds a Stolen! “Rawhide”! LOL! LOL! LOL!
Mark says
Ray, I’ll give you the horsepower yet for looks and simplicity I’ll take the ’79 any day over 2025 models. The trails we would go on the new EV’s wouldn’t even fit and their horsepower would just be a waste. Besides nothing like popping that ’79 roof off and enjoying the ride.
Ed P says
Sherry,
So in your Shangri-La, misinformation is acceptable. Didn’t you complained Trump hasn’t brought down the price of eggs?
Please explain to everyone reading how and why it’s his fault?
Calling me a troll doesn’t change the facts. Your strident demand is present the fact.
Please…..
Sherry says
Second verse. . . same as the first! Tee Hee!
Now, let’s see. . . where or where are those DOGE firing those working on Avian Flu facts hidden?
Ed P says
Sherry,
Your misinformation about DOGE firing/ egg prices is not helpful.
The Biden Administration did little to curb the spread of Avian Flu. Rather than investigating a better solution, a vaccine, possible herd immunity, they ordered the euthanizing of 166 million birds as a solution.
That’s not a strategy but a failure of leadership.
The Trump administration has removed many of the regulations, is investigating a comprehensive strategy to combat the virus. It will be a possible year to gain the upper hand and lower prices. Every egg farmer is praising the USDA and Trump for the refreshing new directives.
Ps your response of rawhide has earned you a new ranking in posts I must read.
Maybe Ray W, Pogo, and Laurel can reason with you. I’ve failed. Sorry I couldn’t do better.
Ray W, says
Hello, Ed P.
I must admit that I marvel at your capacity to weaken a good argument by not researching it enough.
Since the 60s, Europe has been a significant consumer of American-produced chicken products. Since the Europeans focus on hormones or drugs or even vaccines, they will not accept certain categories of American chickens. Not all of today’s infected flocks are egg-laying hens. Chickens raised for meat have been infected by the avian flu, too.
The problem is that as bad as the 2014 outbreak of avian flu was, the 2022 version is considered significantly more virulent.
The Biden administration developed a vaccine for avian flue, but it has to be injected bird-by-bird, making it prohibitively expensive to deploy and even if American chicken producers use the vaccine, it might bar the products from export into Europe. No one has yet to develop a vaccine by which mass inoculation can take place.
As long as I can remember the issue, due to the lack of a cheaply administered vaccine, the immediate response recommended by the CDC for any outbreak of the avian flu has been to slaughter the entire flock. This didn’t start with the Biden administration.
Don’t get me wrong. I prefer the new Ed P. over the original version, but your dropping the ball when you are halfway through the process of investigating fully what is happening on a particular subject is not a good look for you. And to be fair I have repeatedly apologized to FlaglerLive readers when I learn something new that modifies my previous approach to an issue.
Ray W, says
I think I found the article from which Ed P. may have culled his points for his comment about President Trump’s new plan to address the avian flu virus. The key was the reference to 166 million birds having been slaughtered, a number I had not seen in any other article.
Ed P. claims that every egg farmer praises the USDA and President Trump for some new initiative. The language in the article is: “Major trade groups in the egg, chicken, turkey and dairy industries largely praised the plan. American Egg Board President Emily Metz said she is encouraged the administration wants to find the best response through a combination of biosecurity and exploring vaccine development.” I admit that if Ed P. really did get his language from this article, he is taking a form of poetic license with what was actually said, a form of poetic license that I would never take, but Ed P. does have his own loose style with facts, and I have my own tighter style with facts.
Ed P. writes of the Biden administration doing little to curb the spread of the vaccine, but the authors of the article point out that the USDA already paid out $1.2 billion to egg farmers who had to slaughter egg-laying hens. More importantly, the USDA had already been conducting biosecurity reviews on about 150 farms that had experienced an avian flu outbreak. The purpose of the reviews was to identify the most effective measures egg farmers could implement and spot any weaknesses in their plans. Only one of the 150 audited farms that implemented measures to protect against new outbreaks has actually had a new outbreak.
Under Trump’s new plan, every egg farm that has an outbreak must undergo a security audit and implement needed biosecurity improvements. The government will pay 75% of the costs of the improvements.
The reporters wrote that egg and poultry farmers have been working since the 2015 avian flu outbreak to protect their flocks by requiring clothing changes and showers before entering barns, by having a separate set of tools for each barn, and by sanitizing any vehicle that enters the farm. But the major problem is that wild bird droppings can spread the virus, and the security measures can’t stop wild birds from dropping excrement as they fly over farms.
Agriculture Secretary Rollins is on record as saying it takes months to dispose of the carcasses, sanitize farms, and raise new flocks whenever an outbreak takes place. Interestingly, Secretary Rollins did not say that flock slaughters would stop under the new Trump plans. It seems that the science right now still supports slaughter; it doesn’t matter who is president.
And “CoBank analyst Brian Earnest” told the reporters that, yes, the new Trump plan is a fresh look at the problem, but he said: “I don’t see a whole lot here that is a big change here from the current plan of action.”
Trump’s new plan does include $500 million more to bolster farm biosecurity measures (the fund for the 75% figure mentioned above), $400 million in additional aid to farmers, and $100 million to develop vaccines and roll back state measures that required cage-free egg farming.
On the issue of developing vaccines, the authors wrote that “no vaccines have been fully approved (this refers to the Biden effort to develop vaccines) for widespread use in poultry, and the industry has said the current prototypes aren’t practical because they require individual shots for each bird. Plus, vaccinated birds could jeopardize exports.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Ed P. says the Biden administration did little to counter the virus. The article establishes that the Biden administration was doing a fair amount to counter the virus, from developing vaccine prototypes to inspecting farms impacted by the virus and recommending changes that might stop a recurrence.
Ed P. says that every egg farmer lauds the Trump plan. The article says that many of the major industry groups laud the changes, but not all, and the reporters cite to an expert who says that the proposals may seem to be new, but they are not really all that new. Basically, the Trump administration plans to continue doing what the Biden administration already was doing, with more money being allocated to expand on the original efforts.
Vaccines? Even if proven effective, would our chicken farmers use them if foreign markets suddenly closed to their products?
Thank you, Ed P. for pushing me to look further into your claims and learn enough to improve on your partially accurate comment.
Ed P says
Ray W,
3 things
1. Why not correct the “gullible “ from the left leaning posters perspective about eggs , prices and DODGE firings. Closer to misinformation than truth.
2. I would think the USDA is a fairly reliable source. And you forgot to mention all the excess regulations the Biden administration “laid” (get it?) on the egg farmers?
3. Ever wonder why there is little if any information on the thousands of small farm and backyard coops have chronic problems with wild fowl infections there flocks? Less than 100 small cases annually. I’m theorizing that backyarders don’t euthanize the entire coop and a natural immunity occurs in their flock by accident. You know Mother Nature.
What say you?
Ps I appreciate the attempt to push me harder, to help me resist taking creative liberties…BUT
would you do FL a solid and tamp down the errors, mistakes, and creative liberties being posted daily from the left? Would you reference last time you did that. Never?
Pss If I am wrong about my Ps, I apologize in advance and will also do so in my next post answering your response.
Sherry says
Thank you Ray W.!
Sherry says
BTW. . . While I have written my own opinions about the horrific dangers of the far right, including trump, musk, desantis, Congressional members, and their complicit Fox Maga Cult members. . . my posts that include hard facts are cut and pasted directly from news articles written by professional journalists who work for highly respected media outlets.
Sometimes I choose not to name the media source simply because many stop reading when the “source” is not to their liking. Does that mean that Maga Cult members do not believe anything beyond Fox? Maybe, but I’m hoping that is not the case for every single trump supporter. It is important for us all to take in as much fact checked/truthful/credentialled information that we can, even if that information goes against our firmly held opinions. Broad brush labeling of facts that disprove or disrupt our preconceived perceptions, as misinformation or disinformation. . . with no credentialled “proof” to the contrary. . . diminishes our personal credibility and dishonors our personal intellectual efforts. The process of education should be forever ongoing. Yes, that includes doing better editing of my “run on” sentences. :)