John,
The NIST is so *essential* for enabling science, engineering, technology, and
manufacturing that there is *no likelyhood* that NIST is to be eliminated! I
do, however, support consolidation of purely business and trading functions of
the DOC.
The University of Illinois changed its
: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:57 PM
To: mechtly, eugene a
Subject: Standards Memo Released by the U.S. Executive Office of the President
(EOP)
Three offices in the Executive Office of the President, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs / Office of Management and Budget (OMB/OIRA), Office
John,
I had a conversation yesterday with Tina Lehr, coordinator of STEM education in
the Urbana Illinois School District.
I am pleased to report that Tina has a good knowledge of SI and is actively
promoting SI in the District's curricula.
There is hope for SI in the USA!
Gene Mechtly
occasionally.
I have an invitation to examine the curriculum materials at some later meeting
with Tina.
Gene Mechtly
From: Robert H. Bushnell [roberthb...@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 2:48 PM
To: mechtly, eugene a
Subject: Re: [USMA:51475] RE
Jim,
Do you believe that Executive Orders are valid from one administration through
subsequent administrations until rescinded
or replaced by a later president? Of course, we see that EOs are ignored by
presidents or adulterated by Congress.
Gene
Bridget,
I recommend that you download (at no cost) NIST Special Publication 811 Guide
for the Use of the International System of Units (2008 Edition) as your source
of information on SI units of measurement. Note that SP 811 also gives the
definitions of many units, which are classified as
I have been making and playing oboe reeds for many decades (and playing English
Horn reeds as well in recent years).
These reeds have been designed in millimeters everywhere for these many
decades, in the USA and throughout the world!
I use Jay Light's Oboe Reed Book and The Reed Maker's Manual
John,
What does the AP Stylebook say about the number of Latin words?
For example; A datum is one item of information. Data are more than one item
of information.
Gene Mechtly
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [owner-u...@colostate.edu] on behalf of John M.
John,
The failure of the editors of the AP Stylebook to incorporate the guidance from
(or even to reference) NIST Special Publications 330 and 811 has the net result
of denying AP readers access to many articles originally expressed in SI units
of measurement.
However there are exceptions.
John,
Not all children even have the ability to master elementary arithmetic
(addition, subtraction, and multiplication) or long division by hand (without
a calculator), (why bother with LD by hand?) to say nothing of expecting older
students to learn algebra, trig, and calculus. Only a few
, and the Boston Public Schools of
1960)
Paul Trusten, Reg. Pharmacist
Vice President
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
Midland, Texas USA
www.metric.orghttp://www.metric.org
+1(432)528-7724
trus...@grandecom.netmailto:trus...@grandecom.net
On Aug 2, 2012, at 13:49, mechtly, eugene a
mech
The NASA-JPL Control Room Conversations and News Conference Reporting of the
Mars Landing on the NASA Channel (Channel No. 346 on DirecTV) was almost
exclusively SI early this morning for performance data; distances in meters or
kilometers, speeds in meters per second, remaining fuel in
Search the Internet for Mars Rover Engineering Drawings and you will find
plenty of numbers in SI units!
Gene Mechtly
From: Kilopascal [kilopas...@cox.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 8:30 AM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on
The NASA-JPL News Briefings are entirely metric. John Grysinger, JPL Chief
Scientist for Curiosity, even pronunces kilometer as prefix kilo plus unit
meter! (others say kil-lomiter). Reporters don't complain.
The next next Briefing is Friday at 10:00 (Pacific Time Zone) on the NASA
Channel.
Dear Justin,
I downloaded and printed your article published in the Wall Street Journal of
November 23rd.
Unfortunately, your article follows the example of many commentaries on SI in
the public media.
Did Wall Street Journal editors set the negative tone for your article,
ridicule and
I just learned from an employee at NIST that:
1. The State of New York is the single only remaining state that does not
permit SI-only labeling.
You may recall that Alabama *was* the second to last state to permit SI-only
labeling.
2. NIST is still *actively* promoting revision of the FPLA to
I advocate the phonetic American English spelling meter for continental USA.
When traveling in French speaking regions, I attempt to pronounce meter as
me-tre.
The attempt to distinguish the unit name meter from the name of an instrument
meter by spelling reforms is without necessary
MetricPioneer,
What is your price for a kilogram-only mass scale? (In SI kilogram is mass
and weight is force, newtons)
Is shipping free? How do you ship?
Eugene Mechtly
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [owner-u...@colostate.edu] on behalf of
.
Anthony.
On 04 Feb 2013 at 19:31:27, mechtly, eugene a wrote:
I advocate the phonetic American English spelling meter for
continental USA.
When traveling in French speaking regions, I attempt to pronounce meter
as me-tre.
The attempt to distinguish the unit name meter from the name
John and Martin,
You guys are fortunate that you were taught meter/kilogram/second/ampere (MKSA)
units of measurement, and did not have to suffer through esu and emu as an
undergraduate as I did, completing my BS in physics in 1952.
Later, I taught physics at a University of Alabama-Huntsville
Paul,
No doubt you have already seen or shall soon see the email from Helen Bushnell
(to USMA) concerning a petition she signed to We the People at the White House,
which recently received a response from John Holdren, Assistant to the
President for Science and Technology and Director of the
Paul Trusten,
Would you be willing to post on the Internet your latest draft(s) of an updated
USMA Mission Statement?
I certainly support the idea of emphasizing the advanced state of metrication
in the US in some industries, rather than lamenting that there is still
progress to be made in
Thanks for your reply, Paul. I appreciate that USMA internal approvals are
necessary before you are authorized to post draft and final updates of USMA
Documents; By-Laws, Policies, Mission Statement, etc.
Gene
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu
Thanks Kilopascal, for the verbatim quotation (below) of the ACWM *irrational*
policy, posted by the bWMA.
I had never seen it before. Can we find the name of the author and names of
the ACWM officers?
Eugene Mechtly
From: Kilopascal [kilopas...@cox.net]
Sent:
I like your suggestion, Natalie: Decimal System of Measurements as an
equivalent substitute for metric system of measurements, a substitute for
International System of Units, and as a substitute for SI Units of
Measurements with the objective of increasing more-friendly perceptions of
otherwise no matter how small and irrelevant they are, they have the
power to undo any thing we are trying to accomplish.
From: mechtly, eugene amailto:mech...@illinois.edu
Sent: Sunday, 2013-03-03 12:52
To: Kilopascalmailto:kilopas...@cox.net ; U.S. Metric
Associationmailto:usma@colostate.edu
Cc
[don.hill...@colostate.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 1:24 PM
To: mechtly, eugene a; U.S. Metric Association
Cc: Trusten Paul
Subject: RE: ACWM
We don’t really want to discredit anyone. We want the metric system to win on
its own merits, which it will do.
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu
Carleton,
Likewise, getting it wrong for the personal pronouns: *he and she* versus *him
and her.*
Even many national TV commentators don't know the difference between the
subjective and objective cases.
Eugene Mechtly
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu
of language (and indeed I feel they are), then it is
important we know and can use all forms of language correctly.
John F-L
From: mechtly, eugene a
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:17 AM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:52484] Errors in Grammar
Carleton
My printed copies of the 2013 editions of Handbooks 44, 130, and 133 arrived by
USPS in today's mail.
Handbook 130, Uniform Laws and Regulations in the areas of legal metrology...,
is of greatest interest because it contains the Uniform Packaging and Labeling
Regulation (UPLR), a regulation
the 2013 Edition? I like the version on paper to avoid the
fatigue of sanning on screen.
Eugene
From: John M. Steele [jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 5:10 PM
To: mechtly, eugene a; U.S. Metric Association
Cc: mechtly, eugene a
Subject: Re
I have been cleaning out my barn by selling scrap iron and steel to the local
recycler; Twin City Recycling (TCR).
TCR currently pays $205.00 per NT by which they mean per Net Ton of 2000 lbs of
iron and steel, i.e. 10.25 cents per pound, or 22.60 cents per kilogram.
My largest load to date in
Patrick,
Yes, the PDF file (on the Ares V) by Phil Sumrall needs many corrections of
units before it it fit for reprinting!!!
For example, for the J-2X Engine Specification, Specific Impulse (Isp) has the
same unit as Exhaust Velocity, in meters per second (in proper SI). That is;
Force
John (Steele),
I agree with your observation that some parts of NASA are wedded to
earth-gravitational ideas.
How does NASA-GRC define the Specific Impulse (Isp) of a Rocket Engine
operating in deep space far from earth's gravity field where the value of g and
W approach zero? i.e. where W
In the discussion of Specific Impulse, a review of units in Newton's Second Law
is useful.
Four Sets of Units come to mind (All four of these sets are coherent with
respect to f = m a):
The preferred set is the SI Set-
One newton is the force that accelerates one kilogram of mass one meter per
, introduce standard gravity into F = ma.
From: mechtly, eugene a mech...@illinois.edu
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Cc: mechtly, eugene a mech...@illinois.edu
Sent: Sat, May 4, 2013 4:39:51 PM
Subject: [USMA:52738] RE: NASA mT and K
John (Steele
) and
standard gravity on the surface of the earth is 9.806 65 meters per second
squared (by definition).
Eugene Mechtly
From: mechtly, eugene a
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 1:19 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Cc: mechtly, eugene a
Subject: Units in Newton's Second Law
Why has no person yet volunteered a confirmation of the exact arithmetic of lbf
and lbm in f = m x 9.80665?
Do the exact numerical values simply have two many necessary digits to be
multiplied exactly by most of us?
Hint: Use (a + b) x (c + d) where the numbers ( ) with too many digits are
, eugene a; U.S. Metric Association
Cc: mechtly, eugene a
Subject: Re: [USMA:52755] Numerical Verification of lbf and lbm with 9.80665 in
Newton's Second Law
Well,
1) I didn't realize we were having a contest
2) The exact figure already appears as footnote 23 in Appendix B of NIST SP811
3
From: mechtly, eugene a mech...@illinois.edu
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Cc: mechtly, eugene a mech...@illinois.edu
Sent: Fri, May 10, 2013 9:49:55 PM
Subject: [USMA:52757] RE: Numerical Verification of lbf and lbm with 9.80665 in
Newton's Second Law
John (Steele),
Thanks
Mechtly
From: John M. Steele [jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 6:15 AM
To: mechtly, eugene a; U.S. Metric Association
Subject: Re: [USMA:52757] RE: Numerical Verification of lbf and lbm with
9.80665 in Newton's Second Law
We agree on all
or not coherent) are inferior to newtons, kilograms,
and meters per second squared in Newton's Second Law!
Eugene Mechtly
From: John M. Steele [jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 5:03 AM
To: mechtly, eugene a; U.S. Metric Association
Subject: Re
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John,
I don't understand your second paragraph. I never advocated inventing or even
I am embarrassed to admit that I must correct my error in misnaming a well
known rocket engineer.
It is the name of Hermann Oberth, who did spend several years in Huntsville,
Alabama when both he and I were there employed at the NASA Marshall Space
Flight Center (MSFC).
You may recall that
On the NASA TV Channel last evening, the descent speeds from the International
Space Station were *narrated live* in meters per second but, regrettably,
altitudes were narrated in statute miles, and, sadly, the return hardware was
made in Russia. But, at least, that hardware was metric in
other than NASA to
know for sure?
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New negotiations are beginning to establish Free Trade with the European Union
by removing obstacles.
President Obama recently nominated Michael Froman to be the next Chief US Trade
Representative to lead these negotiations.
One of the most glaring obstacles to Free Trade is the part of the US
, eugene a
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:55 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Cc: mechtly, eugene a
Subject: [USMA:52775] Free Trade with the European Union
New negotiations are beginning to establish Free Trade with the European Union
by removing obstacles.
President Obama recently nominated Michael
Martin,
Historically, units were often *chosen* so that numerical values would lie
conveniently between 1 and 99, without decimal markers and without superfluous
zeros.
In SI, the desire for convenience is met by the system of prefixes, preferably
in the numerators of compound units, not in
The Metric Petition: Make the Metric system the standard in the United States
...
A well documented Response:
1. The World Standard for units of measurement is the International System of
Units (SI).
2. The America COMPETES Act, Public Law 110-69 of 2007, states that the metric
system of
John (Steele),
For Regulations governing the sale of meats, see NIST handbook 130, Sections
1.5, 1.10, 1.11, and 1.13(i), or
Pages 84,89, and 108 through 112 of the 2013 Edition. On page 233 is the (no
surprise) statement: USDA has statutory authority to establish standards of
identity for
?
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [owner-u...@colostate.edu] on behalf of Henschel
Mark [mw-hensch...@neiu.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 10:52 AM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Cc: U.S. Metric Association; mechtly, eugene a
Subject: [USMA:52851] Re: A Response to the Metric Petition at We The People
The upper limit for the *mass* of a NASA sponsored robots is set at 80
kilograms.
The numerical value of the weight (in newtons) of the robots is never an
important consideration.
To weigh (a verb form) is to balance forces, almost always to measure the
*mass* of an object.
The forces in
If you want to learn more about the silicon-28 sphere as a contendor for the
redefinition of the kilogram
search for CSIRO, the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organization.
From: Kilopascal [kilopas...@cox.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:06 PM
To: U.S. Metric
case, the career of Ms. Pritzker is disclosed at *Skills for America's
Future* which she founded.
From: Henschel Mark [mw-hensch...@neiu.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 9:37 AM
To: mechtly, eugene a
Cc: U.S. Metric Association; mechtly, eugene a
Subject: Re: [USMA:52891] Penny Pritzker
in line with a
non-physical device, but with the watt-balance, the coulomb and the volt become
basic natural constants and the kilogram is derived.
From: mechtly, eugene amailto:mech...@illinois.edu
Sent: Friday, 2013-06-07 13:33
To: Kilopascalmailto:kilopas...@cox.net ; U.S. Metric
in fact it may be empty space. So in essence they will
assume the mass of the missing silicon atoms as if they are there, thus
producing a unforeseen error in the actual kilogram definition.
How is this possibility accounted for?
From: mechtly, eugene amailto:mech...@illinois.edu
Sent
The President (and hopefully others in the White House) could require that all
reports to the Central Office of the Executive Branch, that contain units of
physical measurements, be expressed in SI, if White House personnel were more
sympathetic with the intent of Executive Order 12770. Such
John P. Holdren is the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
(OSTP) in the White House.
There are tens of staff members working in several Divisions within the OSTP.
I would not be surprised to learn that the Metric Petition went through the
OSTP before it was passed on to
I stumbled on the NGSS topic while searching for STEM Standards.
There are *thousands of words* in the recently-released NGSS, but they contain
almost no units of measurement,
either SI units or units outside the SI. The sponsors, however, the NRC, NSTA,
and the AAAS are of good repute.
In
To: mechtly, eugene a
Cc: U.S. Metric Association; mechtly, eugene a
Subject: Re: [USMA:52907] Re: My reply to Mr. Gallagher.
Maybe the Chinese will bring this up in bilateral trade negotiations, and then
we will finally get someplace.
Mark
- Original Message -
From: mechtly, eugene a mech
Guidance on preference for metric units is given at export.gov to exporters:
... United States' trading partners require at least dual labeling (U.S. units
and metric units), if not metric-only measurement units on product labels...
... the European Union (EU) currently allows dual labeling
.
From: mechtly, eugene a mech...@illinois.edumailto:mech...@illinois.edu
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edumailto:usma@colostate.edu
Cc: mechtly, eugene a mech...@illinois.edumailto:mech...@illinois.edu
Sent: Tue, June 11, 2013 3:07:22 PM
Subject: [USMA:52914] Guidance from
Martin,
Try to persuade Eric Swalwell that
1. STEM education must teach SI exclusively, and
2. that the FPLA must be amended to *permit* metric-only labeling
to establish an environment more favorable to metric units of measurement.
Eugene Mechtly
The Times News is a small local publication in North Carolina with much
ignorance of the importance of SI in world trede and commerce.
The initial two questions, asking how SI units of volume and distance are
related to units outside the SI, are certainly *not* the proper way to teach
metric
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Martin,
Try to persuade Eric Swalwell
Martin,
Can you persuade Eric Swalwell to sponsor the following Bill in the US House of
Representatives?
With the objective of bringing the United States into harmony with world
standards for trade and commerce,
*only* units of measurement from the International System of Units (SI),
as
, 17 Jun 2013, mechtly, eugene a wrote:
Martin,
Can you persuade Eric Swalwell to sponsor the following Bill in the US
House of Representatives?
With the objective of bringing the United States into harmony with
world standards for trade and commerce, *only* units of measurement from
Mark,
Another problem is teachers who present metric units by associations with
non-metric units.
For example, the questions in the N. Carolina Times article: How many liters
in a gallon? How many km in a mile?
This method can only instill hostility to the metric system!
From:
On Tuesday, my local newspaper printed Monday's photograph of the G-8 Summit
leaders in Ireland.
The caption notes that EU-US trade negotiations are to *begin* in July.
The goal of the talks is a deal to create free trade between the EU and the
US.
Now is the time to insist that US
The next round of Talks leading to a Free Trade Agreement between the EU and US
is scheduled for July 8th in Washington, D.C.
What are the names of the US negotiators?
What are their Talking Points?
Will SI be adopted as the *Bilateral Standard* for Units of Measurement?
The rejection of
Eric,
You forget two major necessities for Standardization of Units of Measurement:
1. Prevention of Fraud in the Marketplace!
2. Reasonable expectation that manufactured parts are able to fit together as
designed!
Diversity (do as you please units of measurement) can not accomplish either of
for trade and settling
of accounts for the world and the US does comply.
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Pierre,
Precisely! Students in US public education do not learn to think and calculate
(on physical questions) *exclusively* in SI.
Their minds are handicapped by early submersion in units of measurement outside
the SI, and late, first exposure (if at all), to metric units of measurement.
I
: JohnAltounji [phy...@msn.com]
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 11:29 PM
To: mechtly, eugene a; 'U.S. Metric Association'
Subject: RE: [USMA:52981] RE: Metric system education
Not true in physics classes, at least mine.
John Altounji
One size does not fit all.
Social promotion ruined Education
The NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio reports that its Xenon Ion
Thruster has operated continuously in a vacuum chamber for 48 000 hours and has
now been shut down voluntarily.
The Total Impulse delivered was 30 MNs (million newton seconds) during this
test period by the
In Scouting (Boy Scouts of America, BSA) a pace is defined as the distance
from left-foot-down to next left-foot-down (i.e. two steps), or the
corresponding distance between right-foot-downs.
I'm not certain which, left or right, is taught in the present BSA handbooks.
Who has a current BSA
kPa,
The nurse in my doctor's office *always* measures and records my mass in
kilograms and my height in centimeters.
The digital file of my own personal medical records at the Carle Clinic, which
I can access by password, is also 100% in SI units although not always in the
most coherent of
in
metric or does the computer read directly from the scale? Does the nurse or
doctor attempt to interpret the metric scale reading in USC for you as I'm sure
they would for everybody else or would constantly be ask what that is in
'merican.
From: mechtly, eugene amailto:mech...@illinois.edu
Carle Clinic and Hospital in Urbana, IL use a software system for Electronic
Medical Records (EMRs) provided by a certified vendor.
There are more than 100 certified vendors of EMR software systems.
I have still not found a Glossary of Units of Measurement which are common
standards for
The closest I have found to a Glossary of medical Units of Measurement is
Glossary of EMR, EHR, HIT, and lHIPAA Terms
e.g. Blood Pressure is coded as BP and is defined as force per unit area, but
no unit is specified, neither newtons per square meter nor mm of Hg.
A Unified Code for Units of
This Code (UCUM) is copyrighted 2009 but the authors do not seem to be fully
conversant with the SI as promulgated by CGPM and BIPM documents, although they
do mention SI here and there.
A troubling quotation:
Full name and print symbols are defined by the CGPM and are out of scope of
The
The word measurement is an unambiguous noun.
The word measure is more ambiguous. It can be a noun or a verb.
Measure can mean a container of certain capacity (volume). e.g. I feed my
horse a measure of oats on a daily basis. or
Measure can mean *to measure* as in the statement My nurse
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On 2013-08-13 21:22, mechtly, eugene a wrote:
Carle Clinic and Hospital in Urbana, IL use a software system for Electronic
Medical Records (EMRs) provided by a certified vendor.
There are more than 100
that the
vote will be accepted by those it affects.
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On August 15th, S. J. from serv...@healthport.com replied to my inquiry by
stating
Unfortunately, there is no glossary of Acronyms that I'm able to provide to
you.
Does that mean that the Glossary does not exist, or that S. J. is simply not
authorized to provide a copy to me?
Although most
My grandchildren began High School (9th Grade) in St. Charles, Missouri this
month.
They are using the 2009 Edition of the textbook Physical Science Concepts in
Action, published by Prentice Hall.
They access this text online, and their assignments are announced online, by
entering their
Martin
inch-pound does not name a complete, coherent and well defined measurement
system as you observe.
inch-pound is at best a non-system. Discard the name inch-pound.
The name Imperial units of measurement includes definitions which differ from
US definitions, as you also note. Avoid the
Today, UPS delivered a printed copy of Physical Science Concepts in Action
(2009 Edition) from Textbooks.com.
Not only the section on Measurement, but the entire Text uses SI exclusively.
The section on Measuring Temperature does, however, discuss three temperature
scales Celsius, Kelvin, and
in US can’t find any job.
From: mechtly, eugene a mech...@illinois.edumailto:mech...@illinois.edu
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edumailto:usma@colostate.edu
Cc: mechtly, eugene a mech...@illinois.edumailto:mech...@illinois.edu
Sent: Wednesday, August
it,
some metrication foe will chime in but what about Imperial and Customary?
Even where the units have the same definition, we disagree in usage (feet and
yards).
Perhaps that point could have been more clearly in my post, but I thought the
examples spoke for themselves.
From: mechtly, eugene
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Natalie and kPa,
Current students *are being taught SI*; at least those using Physical Science
Concepts in Action Prentice Hall (2009 and 2011 Editions)!!! See that your
school district is using this text or a similar text with exclusive use of SI.
Military Veterans *speak metric units of
Did you watch the Americas Cup Sailing races in San Francisco Bay Saturday and
Sunday? Spectacular technology!
By GPS measurements, the on-screen displays superposed on live photographs
numerical values of distances in meters and separation closing times in seconds.
The two catamarans (one
per second.
Eugene Mechtly
From: m. f. moon [jayhawk...@usa.net]
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 10:14 AM
To: mechtly, eugene a
Subject: Re: [USMA:53232] Americas Cup Sailing (by meters and seconds)
GPS, per se, does not provide speed data, only location in x, y
, September 12, 2013 12:32 PM
To: mechtly, eugene a
Subject: NASA, Honeywell Get Students Pumped Up for Back to School with FMA
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David,
I just read your article of September 11th.
Unfortunately, the FPLA has still not been amended to *permit* metric-only
labeling on products regulated at the Federal Level although metric-only
labels are now permitted on most products regulated at state level by *nearly
all* states of
From: cont...@metricpioneer.com [cont...@metricpioneer.com]
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 4:30 PM
To: mechtly, eugene a
Cc: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: Re: [USMA:53243] WM Connection Vol. 4 Issue 5
Mr Eugene Mechtly. Which article do you refer to?
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428
Newton's Second Law, force equals
mass times acceleration, FMA.
Eugene Mechtly
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Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 12:32 PM
To: mechtly, eugene a
Subject: NASA, Honeywell Get Students Pumped Up for Back
From: mechtly, eugene a
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 4:00 PM
To: david.sef...@nist.gov; U.S. Metric Accociation
Cc: mechtly, eugene a
Subject: WM Connection Vol. 4 Issue 5
David,
I just read your article of September 11th.
Unfortunately, the FPLA has still not been amended
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