Last night , I posted about the discrepancy between times from my various devices. This is a significant issue in a paper I am writing.  I used the National Institute of Standards and Technology's WWV telephone line as the standard. After running multiple  tests late night and this morning among my devices, here are my results: MacBook laptop: Exactly correct. iPhone 6S: One second early. Olympus OM-D Camera, way off. Varied by 1:40 to 10:04. The camera allegedly has a GPS chip which should yield the correct time. I went outdoors this morning to, hopefully, allow the chip to synch up. Didn't help.  I'm making you aware of this in case you are in a business where the correct time is important. 

I'm pleased to announce that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted U.S. Patent 10,679,482 to me and my three co-inventors. The patent's abstract: A system that stores a user profile that associates a wearable alert device with a user and includes contact information for an emergency contact, receives information indicative of a real-time location of the wearable alert device and information indicating that the user of the wearable alert device is potentially experiencing an abnormal physiological condition, and outputs an alert for transmittal to the emergency contact that includes an indication that the user is potentially experiencing the abnormal physiological condition and the real-time location of the wearable alert device. For licensing information, please contact Michael Root .

The Ruskin Heights Tornado near Ottawa, Kansas, on its way to the south Kansas City suburbs Photo permission: "The Ottawa Herald" As this exact moment in 1957, a tornado that would later inspire huge advances in weather science was touching down near Williamsburg, Kansas, and would stay on the ground continuously for 71 miles. It came to be known as the Ruskin Heights Tornado (RHT). It killed 44 and injured between 500 and 1,000. This morning, Kathleen and I were discussing this terrible storm and its victims. That, plus an email by meteorologist Lisa Teachman, got me thinking. The RHT would inspire myself, Dennis Smith (no relation), and Les Lemon to become meteorologists. We matriculated through Grandview High School in south KC and the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology. The three of us accounted for the following inventions and innovations: Color radar (before, it was faint black and white blobs). Bounded Weak Echo Regio n , which was an important tip...