Grow-up child prodigy?:-)
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From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
Of Pierre Abbat
Sent: 14 March 2010 05:14
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:46925] core standards feedback
I'm at one of the pages leading up to the feed
Pierre,
Call yourself an "Advocate of SI" or "Champion of SI."
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>Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:13:51 -0500
>From: Pierre Abbat
>Subject: [USMA:46925] core standards feedback
>To: "U.S. Metric Association"
>
>
>I'm at one of the pages leading up to the feedback form:
Just watched an otherwise terrific show on the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation (CBC) thanks to cable TV on alternative energy generation.
I say "otherwise" because, while the content was most interesting and well
presented, I was quite surprised to hear the narrator, who sounded Canadian and
Ezra:
The Nature of Things used to be presented by David Suzuki, who always did use
metric in the past. Do you know who the presenter was on the program you
watched? Unfortunately, this is one of those programs that don't stream
outside North America.
John F-L
PS We haven't yet switched so
Respected sirs:
>.Now we feel that the Gregorian calendar did not go far enough.
I did not know, I was heading for a 'Break through' in the Reform of Gregorian
calendar till (1974-75) on realising my calendar attempts were UNIQUE -
especially The Metric Second/The Metric Calendar, when lin
Story appeared today:
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/mar/14/la-us-still-the-last-major-metric-sy
stem-holdout/
I also made some editorial corrections
>>A nice day of 80 degrees Fahrenheit doesn't seem so nice when it's 26.7 27
degrees Celsius .
>>Highlands Today asked a few employees what 1
I know some here are interested in how metrication has worked, or not, in other
countries.
I went to Ireland this weekend (to Dublin actually) - anyone who knows my
nationality might understand why!!
As per all my recent trips there the signs were, of course, in metric. This
time we rented a
Unfortunately, that is not really a surprise. To change the subject slightly, I
am currently attending graduate school in Ottawa (I come here from Oregon) and
was also surprised to learn that basically all weights at my university's
fitness room are imperial. There is a scale in the men's locker
Dear Cole:
Congratulations on your acceptance to grad school in Ottawa! I hope you are
enjoying the environment up there (in all its aspects :-)
I'm not sure why you say it's not really a surprise that Mr. Suzuki should
present a scientific topic using Imperial units rather than metric for th
Hi Ezra,
Thanks for your message of encouragement! :)
With respect to the TV lineups, despite being a good 72 km from American soil
(measured from the steps of Parliament Hill normal to the long-axis of centre
block to New York--thanks Goolgle Earth) we still get CBS, NBC, CNN, C-Span and
th
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