These pages are my primary source of the weather forecast and BBC News headlines at home - the Chatham area of Columbia County, NY - and for other areas of the country I'm interested in.
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This Afternoon ![]() Scattered Showers Hi 44 °F |
Tonight![]() Rain Likely Lo 36 °F |
Saturday![]() Rain Likely Hi 43 °F |
Saturday Night ![]() Heavy Rain Lo 37 °F |
Sunday![]() Rain Hi 44 °F |
Sunday Night ![]() Rain/Snow Likely Lo 31 °F |
Monday![]() Chance Rain/Snow Hi 48 °F |
Monday Night ![]() Partly Cloudy Lo 30 °F |
Tuesday![]() Sunny Hi 52 °F |
What follows are a series of thoughts, sketches of potential theories, and tiny manifestos - all meant to offer a glimpse at the outline of a body of radical theory that does not actually exist, though it might possibly exist at some point in the future. ...
Anarchism:
The name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government - harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being."
Peter Kropotkin (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
NWS Forecast for: Chatham, NY
Issued by: National Weather Service Forecast Office, Albany, NY
Last Update: 11:58 am EST Mar 12, 2010
After the dinner our hosts conducted us to the beach. Among the presents was a large supply rice for the fleet. It was put up in straw sacks or bales containing about 125 pounds each. By the pile stood a company of athletes or gymnasts chosen from the peasantry for their strength and size and trained for the service and entertainment of the court. At a signal from their leader, who was himself a giant of muscle and fat, a sort of human Jumbo, they began transporting the rice to the boats. It was more frolic than work. Some of thembore a bale on each hand above their heads, some would carry two laid crosswise on the shoulders and head, while others performed dextrous feats of tossing, catching, balancing them, or turning somersaults with them. I saw one nimble Titan fasten his talons in a sack, throw it down on the sand still keeping his hold, turn a somersault over it, throw it over him as he revolved, and come down sitting on the beach with the sack in his lap. Beat that who can. If you imagine it "as easy as preaching," try it the next time in a gymnasium. But let me advise you, first make your will.
The Logbook of the Captains Clerk, John J. Sewell, Lakeside Press, 1995 pg 256