My Weather Pages
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.
Weather forecast for Chatham, Columbia County, NY
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This Afternoon ![Scattered Showers. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 50%](/images/wtf/shra50.jpg "Scattered Showers. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 50%\") Scattered Showers Hi 44 °F |
Tonight![Rain Likely. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70%](/images/wtf/nra70.jpg "Rain Likely. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70%\") Rain Likely Lo 36 °F |
Saturday![Rain Likely. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70%](/images/wtf/ra70.jpg "Rain Likely. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70%\") Rain Likely Hi 43 °F |
Saturday Night ![Heavy Rain. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 100%](/images/wtf/nra100.jpg "Heavy Rain. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 100%\") Heavy Rain Lo 37 °F |
Sunday![Rain. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 80%](/images/wtf/ra80.jpg "Rain. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 80%\") Rain Hi 44 °F |
Sunday Night ![Rain/Snow Likely. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 60%](/images/wtf/nrasn60.jpg "Rain/Snow Likely. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 60%\") Rain/Snow Likely Lo 31 °F |
Monday![Chance Rain/Snow. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 40%](/images/wtf/rasn40.jpg "Chance Rain/Snow. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 40%\") Chance Rain/Snow Hi 48 °F |
Monday Night ![Partly Cloudy](/images/wtf/nsct.jpg "Partly Cloudy\") Partly Cloudy Lo 30 °F |
Tuesday![Sunny](/images/wtf/few.jpg "Sunny\") Sunny Hi 52 °F |
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber
Page one begins:
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
Hazardous Weather Outlook
This Afternoon: Scattered showers, mainly after 3pm. Cloudy, with a high near 44. East wind between 7 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight: Rain likely. Cloudy, with a low around 36. East wind between 6 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Saturday: Rain likely, mainly after 9am. Cloudy, with a high near 43. East wind between 9 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday Night: Rain. The rain could be heavy at times. Low around 37. Northeast wind between 14 and 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Sunday: Rain. High near 44. Breezy, with a northeast wind between 14 and 21 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday Night: Rain showers likely before 10pm, then rain and snow showers likely between 10pm and 4am, then snow showers likely after 4am. Mostly cloudy and blustery, with a low around 31. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Monday: A chance of snow showers before 8am, then a chance of rain showers between 8am and 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 48. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 30.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 52.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 31.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 51.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 30.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 54.
Rice Toss
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