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Weather: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 76.
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Today at a Glance:
The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall on Commerce Parkway. To access meeting agendas, materials and minutes, go here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
World Cup:
- Argentina v Austria 1 p.m. FOX Telemundo AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas.
- France v Iraq 5 p.m. FOX Telemundo Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia.
- Norway v Senegal 8 p.m. FOX Telemundo MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey.
- Jordan v Algeria 11 p.m. FS1 Telemundo Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, California.
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Notably: Note today how three of the four World Cup matches are treated as marquee matches by Fox, which holds the American TV rights to the tournament. Argentina, France, Norway are all in action (France goes up against Iraq: memories of Osirak), all on Fox, the main network. As for the night match between Jordan and Algeria, a clash of Arabs, let’s relegate them to FS1. Second-class status even in football as far as unclassy Fox is concerned.
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July 2026
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Chess Meet-Up At the Flagler Beach Public Library
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
Story Time on the Farm at the Ag Museum
For the full calendar, go here.
How does the look of age come?” he demanded, at dessert. “Does it come of itself, unobserved, unrecorded, un-measured? Or do you woo it and set baits and traps for it, and watch it like the dawning brownness of a meerschaum pipe, and nail it down when it appears, just where it peeps out, and light a votive taper beneath it and give thanks to it daily? Or do you forbid it and fight it and resist it, and yet feel it set-tling and deepening about you, as irresistible as fate?
–From Henry James’s “A Passionate Pilgrim,” an 1871 story.
Laurel says
This is really interesting to me, as I have never understood why people believed Hitler and the Nazis, and allowed such atrocities to happen all around them in Germany. Now, I’m watching it in real time in my own country, that the rest of the world used to look up to. Why do people believe the lies, or give the lies a pass? Why do they make excuses for the blatant manipulation?
Just a friend says says
So a segment of our population is currently sending a population on trains to run human experiments on them, starve them, gas them, stick them in ovens and bury them in mass graves? You sound ridiculous.
Sherry says
@ just. . . me thinks thou protest too much. Is that video a little too close to home for ya? After reading your “over the top” posting. . . sure seems that way!
Sherry says
Thank you Laurel. . . so the Maga brainwashing I’ve called out on so many occasions is NOT just a figment of my imagination, as Maga claims! LOL!
Now, if only the deeply indoctrinated Maga cult members would switch their brains back on again and realize they are victims manipulated by criminal masterminds!
Skibum says
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.
Ray W. says
Windward, the commercial vessel tracking news service, reports that yesterday 20 ships transited the Strait of Hormuz – down from 32 transiting ships on June 20th – with four of the 20 being tankers.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Crude oil is flowing out of the Strait of Hormuz, but in comparatively lesser quantities than before onset of war. And, Windward reports that the ships transiting the Strait are following Iranian commands to take the northern channel; they are also getting permits from Iranian authorities to proceed through the Strait.
The IEA estimates that worldwide demand for crude oil has dropped by 1.1 million barrels per day, meaning that shifts in consumption behavior have altered a sector of the world’s economy. Whether permanent international demand destruction has occurred, as opposed to impermanent demand interruption, remains to be discerned by those who measure such things. And, so it goes.
Ray W. says
According to a story in The Wall Street Journal, shipping giant DHL is constructing 220-foot aluminum-hulled specialty trimarans powered solely by sail that are to initially transport up to 415 metric tons of cargo on an existing cargo route between France and the U.S. at a top speed of 14 knots.
Volatile fuel costs are but one mentioned factor in the company’s decision to innovate.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Fixed shipping routes are common in the maritime industry. Purpose-built ships often service these routes.
One example of a fixed shipping route is an island off the northwestern shore of Australia that lacks any domestic supply of natural gas. Electricity demand across the island is supplied by a natural gas power plant. Natural gas must come from somewhere, so it is liquefied in nearby Borneo. A purpose-built small LNG tanker steadily plies the seas between Borneo and the island, week-after-week, carrying only the anticipated natural gas supply the island needs.
I know of this LNG story because each year, long before I started commenting to the FlaglerLive forum, I used to read the International Gas Union’s annual analysis of the world’s natural gas situation, though I did look through a pdf of the IGU’s 2023 analysis a few weeks ago.
In my opinion, industry publications are far more informative than any claim spread by the many pestilential partisan members of faction who wander among us laundering lies and thinking themselves virtuous.
Can DHL meet one shipping route’s demand with modern sailing freighters? The company may soon find out, perhaps as early as 2030, as the Journal reporter writes. I suspect that windmills atop masts will be added to the design to charge small battery packs to power backup electric motors if needed, but maybe I am wrong.
The reporter writes than DHL estimates that it can service the route with five such sailing ships without interrupting deliveries. Not all goods, after all, need immediate delivery. Isn’t the better question whether DHL can make the route more economically viable? If so, why not? Does not DHL value energy independence, too?
Yes, shipping cattle from Australia to Singapore requires immediate delivery. Does shipping pharmaceuticals carry the same immediacy? Air fryers? Christmas toys to be delivered in July or August?
Ray W. says
According to The New Voice of Ukraine, a Russian travel association now says that summer tourist bookings at Crimean resorts are down 58%. Russian children already attending Crimean summer camps are being taken back to Russia. Street lights across the peninsula are off to conserve power. Residents have been told to reduce power demands. A Kerch “fuel terminal” was set ablaze yesterday. Last night, a “thermal”, i.e., fossil fuel, power plant was struck, cutting off all regional electrical power. Last night, Russian authorities repeatedly ordered closed the main bridge linking Crimea to Russia.
Other news from the region has Russia moving anti-air defense systems from regional deployments to the tops of Moscow apartment buildings.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
For years, the Russian people have been fed lies about the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. More than one European government official has used the “snail” explanation. Had a snail set out from the Russian front line in eastern Ukraine for Western Europe on the day Russia invaded, the snail would now be in Czechia, the western portion of the formerly named Czechoslovak Republic. But the Russians have barely advanced. It’s been more than two years since Avdiivka fell to the Russians. Pokrovsk was next in line of assault. It still stands in Ukrainian hands, if only barely. According to the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War, leaked Russian military documents revealed some 100,000 killed, captured, missing or wounded “on the Pokrovsk front” in eight months through late October 2025.
Ray W. says
Per an Intersting Engineering story, a Chinese zinc mine operator just introduced 290 purpose-built 140-ton electric trucks capable of moving ore. 80% of the mine’s truck fleet is now electric. The mine owner had already invested in solar and wind power, coupled with battery storage systems, so most of the mine’s electricity needs are met by renewables. Standardized large battery packs, when depleted, can be swapped with fresh batteries in four minutes. According to the owner, energy costs per “tonne-kilometer” can be as low as one-quarter the energy cost of diesel-fueled trucks, with lower maintenance and repair costs.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
At least 18 dead today across France amidst the sixth day of an unprecedented heat dome event. All-time record temperatures have been set. Temperature in Bordeaux hit 41.9 degrees C (107.42 degrees F).
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I haven’t forgotten the August 2023 giant heat dome stretching across the American Southwest and into the Atlantic that lasted nearly two weeks. On one of those days, the prediction for Flagler County was a heat index of 120 degrees F. But this is France in June.
Ray W. says
The UK’s Octopus Energy has agreed to collaborate with China’s CATL to build a highway network of heavy truck battery swapping stations across Europe, including the United Kingdom.
Right now, 20% of new heavy truck sales in China are electric. 4% in the EU countries. 1% in the UK.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
This step may mean that heavy truck battery standardization is coming to the EU. With standardization comes speed of charging. Chinese heavy truck swap stations already have battery swapping times down to four minutes.
Changes in transportation are coming fast and furious. EV naysayers continue to lose ground.
Keenan hreib says
Thank you, Ray W! Killing it! On a roll as usual. Thank you for the in-depth wealth of information, statistics, and well placed reality.