Weather: Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s. West winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index values up to 110. Sunday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
- 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:
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]
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.
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.
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.
Notably: Nicolas Edme Retif de la Bretonne (1734-1806) has the unfortunate reputation of having been a pornographer. He was that only to the extent that Diderot was, so were innumerable Enlightenment writers who needed bread. Retif was also among the century’s most prolific writers. He had some 200 books to his name, among them The Nights of Paris (chronicling his walks in revolutionary Paris) and especially Monsieur Nicolas, a 2000-page autobiography that surpasses Rousseau’s Confessions in wit (of which there is none in Rousseau’s entire oeuvre), often in perceptions and even more often in truths. The book, in two volumes, has entered the Pleiade, the French collection of the greatest world literature has to offer. He was not much of a believer. But in that book’s first “epoch,” before Retif’s adolescence, he describes how he explained to his equally young friend what he thought god was. I found it a wonderful passage, whether one believes or not: “I chose a round stone, quite large, which I placed in the middle of my chapel, as being the likeness of God. I explained to my brothers and sisters that God was infinitely greater; and here is a reasoning that still astonishes me today: I said to them, Do you see the Sun well? It is the right eye of God. Do you see the Moon well, which will shine this night, and which is so far from the Sun? it is his left eye. See how broad God’s face is!… And as for the stars, they are the eyes of the Angels and the Saints. Jacquot was ravished in admiration! He assured me that he had never heard anything so beautiful about God. He asked me where I had found that, since I had only just started reading French. “Nowhere: it’s from my head.” No creation story is more absurd than another: it’s not as if Genesis is less preposterous but there’s beauty in these myths, and if there’s beauty, it’s enough to believe in, whether it is really reflective of anything real or not. Beauty is means and ends, and god enough.
—P.T.
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August 2025
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Community Traffic Safety Team Meeting
Disaster Preparedness Expo
St. Johns River Water Management District Meeting
Flagler County School Board Workshop: Agenda Items
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
Flagler County Planning Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee Meeting
U.S. Rep. Randy Fine Visits Palm Coast’s Oldest Sewer Plant
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
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I am no longer a slave, for I control myself; I am the author of my own conduct, and that is freedom. Kant’s profound notion is that what matters, the only thing which is a supreme value for us (and by value one means an end pursued for its own sake, not as a means to something else), the goal which itself justifies everything else and needs no justification in its turn, that for the sake of which we do what we do, and abstain as we abstain, that for the sake of which we act as we act, and, if need be, die such a sacred, ultimate principle, which governs our conduct, is ordained to us by ourselves. That is why we are free. Therefore, Kant says, the most sacred object in the universe, the only thing which is entirely good, is the good will, that is to say the free, moral, spiritual self within the body.
—From Isaiah Berlin’s Freedom and Its Betrayals: Six Enemies of Human Liberty (2002).
Pogo says
@The description of the view from summits
… and the recounting of the inner life of exceptional (far less, most souls) souls has been here from the beginning — and here we are.
On this Sunday
https://www.google.com/search?q=why+did+pilate+wash+hands
Laurel says
The answer is no.
I don’t believe there is a list with bullet points or numbered names, but a whole lot of evidence was taken from Epstein’s residences. There is clearly plenty to hide, or Trump would have released legally allowed evidence to support his claims as fast as he could. Instead, this evidence joins the list of supposed hoaxes.
“You can fool some of the people some of the time, but…”
This one he cannot come out of. He has proven himself a liar to his staunchest believers. The politicians, with their blue suits and red ties, standing behind him are complicit in his exploitation.
Ray W, says
Carscoops reports that Mercedes-Benz wholly owns a UK-based electric motor development company, Yasa Motors.
Yasa Motors recently announced its latest motor design, a product that weighs 28.8 pounds and produces 738 horsepower, which at 25 horsepower per pound, makes it the most powerful EV motor per pound ever designed.
According to the reporter, the motor contains no exotic materials like cobalt-iron laminations and Litz wire. I just had to look up Litz wire. A New Hampshire-based company formed in 1898 commercialized the process of uniformly winding individually insulated wires in such a way as to reduce AC losses in high-frequency windings.
Said Yasa Motors CTO, Tim Woolmer:
“What we’ve achieved here is not just a number – it’s a demonstration of scalable, production-ready innovation that raises the bar for electric motor design. And the most exciting part? We’re just getting started.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Some time ago, perhaps as much as six or eight months ago, I commented to FlaglerLive readers on a Finnish motor company, Donut Labs, that developed a new motor design weighing 88 pounds and producing 856 horsepower, nearly 10 horsepower per pound.
I intend to continue to channel Ford’s CEO, who stated late last year during an interview that in his opinion EVs are in their infancy compared to the development cycle of gas-powered cars; he described EVs as being in a Model T stage of development, whereas internal combustion engines are nearing the end of their development cycle.
If true, Ford’s CEO is predicting a long future of multiple major innovations in both electric motor design and in battery chemistry breakthroughs, events that will propel EV efficiencies and drive EV cost reductions by leaps and bounds, whereas future design improvements and cost efficiencies in ICE designs will be minor, perhaps incremental, in nature.
Bob says
The democrats had this info for 4 years. Why didn’t they disclose it? Did they redact the names or there are people on the list who are just aquainteses. On the other hand , maybe there are heads of state and others who are implicated.
Laurel says
Bob: Because Trump ran on the promise he would expose these pedophiles, then, interesting, changed his mind when it got close.
I have been commenting about Trump, Epstein and Maxwell for around three years now. The Democrats should have jumped all over it back then, but the Trumpers would not believe it, and blow it off, until, they realized that Trump, et all, blatantly lied to them, and you.
Now, it looks like Republicans don’t give a damn about pedophiles. They don’t care if their team cheats, as long as they win. How about you? You good with it too?