Paul, sir:>.....God smiles from above.....Nicely put! God does favour BUT the true and fauithful. I recall my early published article and point that I professed to consider remaning the length unit as:
Yard-stick or Metre-lumb: Patriot Magazine, New Delhi; 1980 October 19 in line with - common terninology: *Yard-Stick be termed METRE-LUMB - the length of the METRE Unit*. In yet another article, I used the term - KILO-SHILA to mean the "kilometre stone": Yet Another Kiloshila: Patriot Magazine, New Delhi; 1981 August 16.I do not 'insist' these terms be removed from dictionaries but DELETING these from Le Systeme Internationale d'Unites - THINK-TANKS shall be useful!YES, words like Metre-lumb and Kiloshila need be imbedded into the tiny minds of 'children at school during their formitive years'.Time to Think for THINK-TANKS, sir!SIncerly, sirsBrij Bhushan Vij Wednesday, 2013 April 03H15:66(decimal)EST Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda The Astronomical Poem (revised number of days in any month) "30 days has July,September, April, June, November and December all the rest have 31 except February which has 29 except on years divisible evenly by 4; except when YEAR divisible by 128 and 3200 - as long as you remember that "October (meaning 8) is the 10th month; and December (meaning 10) is the 12th BUT has 30 days & ONE OUTSIDE of calendar-format" Jan:31; Feb:29; Mar:31; Apr:30; May:31; Jun:30 Jul:30; Aug:31; Sep:30; Oct:31; Nov:30; Dec:30 (365th day of Year is World Day) ******As per Kali V-GRhymeCalendaar***** "Koi bhi cheshtha vayarth nahin hoti, purshaarth karne mein hai" My Profile - http://www.brijvij.com/bbv_2col-vipBrief.pdf Author had NO interaction with The World Calendar Association except via Media & Organisations to who I contributed for A Possible World Calendar, since 1971. HOME PAGE: http://www.brijvij.com/ Contact via E-mail: metric...@hotmail.com OR "GAYATRI LOK" Flat # 3013/3rd Floor NH-58, Kankhal Bypass, Dev-Bhoomi, HARIDWAR-249408 (Uttrakhand - INDIA) > Subject: [USMA:52589] damn the yardsticks---full metric ahead ! > From: trus...@grandecom.net > Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 13:19:21 -0500 > To: usma@colostate.edu > > Often when we lose hope and think this is the end, God smiles from above and > says, "Relax, sweetheart, it's just a bend, not the end!" > > Paul Trusten, Reg. Pharmacist > Vice President > U.S. Metric Association, Inc. > Midland, Texas USA > www.metric.org > +1(432)528-7724 > trus...@grandecom.net >
