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by: John Candido
I have an intuition that President-Elect Obama and some of the members of his transitional team has either a pro-metric policy already formulated as an implicit and unexpressed policy, or that either of them can easily be persuaded of the need for its timely introduction and implementation through Congressional legislation, given a skilful Lobbyist.
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Obama The Metricator?
New US President Obama should complete the metrication of the USA as soon as possible.
The USA started off using metric at one time. But over time, the silly old imperial units gained more prominence, becoming known as "English" units, despite being different in their definitions to those used in England, even though most of the world was changing to metric.
Why stay in the dark ages with US Customary Units? If Obama wants change, the way forward is metrication now.
Vote now at the Obama Ideas site:
http://ideas.obamacto.org/
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Follow Me
Celsius temperature is easy for an American to learn. The way to success is NOT to convert, but to get used to interpreting Celsius readings. Zero degrees C is the freezing point of water, so ice forms--or melts---at 0 C. Single numbers to teens are chilly to cool. Room temperature, or a comfortable day outdoors, would be in the low 20s. Over 30? A very warm to hot summer day. Normal body temperature is a toasty 37. Water boils at 100.
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc.
http://www.metric.org
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You can throw out your measuring cups!
So I got kinda annoyed at always having to measure large quantities of awkwardly-shaped objects such as broccoli in dinky plastic measuring cups, and was wishing I could just use my nice shiny digital electronic scale to weigh all my zone blocks. How does one go about measuring 8 cups of spinach anyway? I found this handy-dandy list (wfs) from the Health Canada website which lists macronutrient quantities, various micronutrients, etc. for a wide range of foods, and most usefully it contains the mass of each of the quantities of food.
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