by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/01/2025 7:37 PM
'Blizzard' is a precise term in the science of meteorology, if I understand correctly
"Possibility of snow" was the clear message from the 11 PM tv-news forecast last night. I briefly checked the video they recorded for the 5:00 AM broadcast and it looked the same.
By 7:30 PM, sure sounded and looked like a blizzard outside.
Unsure when it began today
I had not looked outside past my curtains until after catching a glimpse during the 2 PM hour of obvious snowfall.
So it had obviously started by surprise earlier in the day
They might have changed it to a 100% accurate forecast by noon but that's just a guess.
As I understand it, less about scientific skill than about lack of quality and quantity of sensor devices, so I can understand that.
This note extends a previous blog-post by me here on my blog.
Another installment in a case-study by me in the original-work that I started years ago. The results seem to get better each year.
There was a new episode of "IT: Welcome to Derry" from last night I have not yet viewed. Viewing it later. Might cause me to look at this topic again. I often find interesting observations in the content I view and read.
There's a conventional aspect to it of scumbags just trying to profit from my work and with no intent of recognition. I am looking at - all in content from people I have had zero contact with in any form - of that proverbial "con job within a con job"
Stargate (1994)
(from internet transcript)
DANIEL
Tiu. Tiu.
(points to another symbol)
Uh...Netjer, nether-u?
SHAU'RI
Natay. Naturu.
[She gestures to all the glyphs. He copies her.]
DANIEL
Nata. Na-tur-oo.
Stargate Universe - "Visitation" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/23/2010
Dr. CAINE: Something vital has broken and none of us know how to fix it.
Grant v Australian Knitting Mills
From Wikipedia
Decided 21 October 1935
Grant v Australian Knitting Mills is a landmark case in consumer and negligence law from 1935, holding that where a manufacturer knows that a consumer may be injured if the manufacturer does not take reasonable care, the manufacturer owes a duty to the consumer to take that reasonable care.
In June 1931 Dr Grant purchased two pairs of woollen underwear and two singlets from John Martin's There was nothing to say the underwear should be washed before wearing and Dr Grant did not do so. He suffered a skin irritation within nine hours of first wearing them. Dr Grant applied calamine lotion, but continued to wear the underwear for the rest of the week. He then wore the second pair for the next week and washed the first pair. This was in an era when changing his underwear only once a week was "the ordinary custom of ordinary people".: at p. 470 The skin irritation got worse and developed into a severe case of dermatitis. Dr Grant blamed the underwear and sued John Martin & Co. for breach of contract, being the statutory warranties that the goods were fit for the purpose and were of merchantable quality. Dr Grant also sued the manufacturer, Australian Knitting Mills, alleging that they had been negligent in failing to take reasonable care in the preparation of the garments.
of my original-work
Event Date Variable: 12/01/2025
Search Date variable: 02/05/2007
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From 2/5/2007 ( ) To 12/1/2025 ( ) is 6874 days
6874 = 3437 + 3437
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/1/1975 ( ) is 3437 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-11965-establishing-the-humanitarian-service-medal
The American Presidency Project
Gerald R. Ford
38th President of the United States: 1974 ‐ 1977
Executive Order 11965 - Establishing the Humanitarian Service Medal
January 19, 1977
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, it is hereby ordered as follows:
SECTION 1. There is hereby established a Humanitarian Service Medal with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances for award by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Transportation with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a Service in the Navy. Individuals eligible for the medal are members of the Armed Forces of the United States (including Reserve Components) who, subsequent to April 1, 1975, distinguished themselves by meritorious participation in a military act or operation of a humanitarian nature. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Transportation for the Coast Guard will determine types of acts or operations that warrant award of the medal.
Houston Chronicle
Astronaut arrested in romantic feud / Police say she had knife, wig as she attacked rival with pepper spray at Florida airport
MIKE TOLSON Staff
Tue 02/06/2007
Lisa Marie Nowak was accustomed to hard training, prolonged deprivation and a strong sense of mission. But this is not exactly what NASA had in mind when they made her an astronaut.
Equipped with a knife, pellet pistol, can of pepper spray, steel mallet and 4 feet of rubber tubing, Nowak arrived at Orlando International Airport early Monday morning, police said, to confront one challenge the space agency had never considered: a romantic rival.
Nowak, 43, remains in Orange County Jail without bail on a variety of charges arising from a confrontation with Colleen Shipman, an Air Force captain whom she allegedly assaulted in the parking garage during what police characterized as an attempted kidnapping.
She is scheduled to make an initial appearance this morning at the Orange County Jail Booking and Releasing Center, which is inside the main jail facility.
Nowak, married and the mother of three, apparently had driven from Houston to meet Shipman, a younger competitor for the affections of another astronaut, Bill Oefelein. So intent was she not to be late that Nowak had donned adult diapers to avoid the customary rest stops, police said she told them.
Nowak told police that she and Oefelein have "more than a working relationship, but less than a romantic relationship," according to an affidavit. After learning that Shipman was involved with Oefelein, she said she wanted to meet the other woman to talk to her. She said she did not plan to hurt her.
Asked how squirting Shipman with pepper spray was going to aid the conversation, Nowak replied, "That was stupid."
Police said Nowak also told them that she wanted to scare Shipman, an engineer attached to Patrick Air Force Base near the Kennedy Space Center. Shipman is a 2002 graduate of Penn State University and has worked at Cape Canaveral since 2005.
Nowak, a mission specialist and Navy captain, has served on one space shuttle mission, the STS-121 return-to-flight test mission aboard Discovery last summer. She joined the astronaut corps in 1996 after a dozen years as a naval flight officer.
Oefelein is a U.S. Navy commander. He served as the pilot aboard the shuttle Discovery during a 12-day mission to the International Space Station in December. The 41-year-old naval aviator was selected by NASA for astronaut training in 1998. The December mission was his first spaceflight.
Describing Monday's assault, Shipman told police that a dark-haired woman wearing a trench coat boarded the same parking shuttle bus that she did about 3 a.m. When Shipman got off, the other woman did, too. Shipman walked to her car and heard footsteps following her.
Shipman hurriedly got into her car and locked the door. The other woman pounded on her window and tried to open the door. She then asked Shipman for help.
"My boyfriend was supposed to pick me up and he is not here," Shipman said she was told. "I've been traveling, and it's late. Can you give me a ride to the parking office?"
Shipman said she declined. Nowak then asked to borrow her cell phone. Shipman told her the battery was dead. When the woman said she could not hear what Shipman was saying, Shipman lowered the window a few inches. At that point, Shipman was pepper-sprayed, she said.
Eyes burning, Shipman managed to drive away and alert nearby police, who arrested Nowak a few minutes later at a parking shuttle bus stop.
Among the items found during a police search of Nowak's vehicle at a La Quinta hotel near the airport were six latex gloves, plastic garbage bags, a letter indicating how much Nowak loved Oefelein, handwritten directions to Shipman's house, an unused CO2 cartridge and $600 cash. Police also found a black wig and a BB gun in an airport trash can.
From 10/20/1936 ( premiere USA film "The Charge of the Light Brigade" ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere USA film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 21944 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/1/2025 ( ) is 21944 days
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 9:04 PM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 12/01/2025
