On 2009/03/22, at 3:24 PM, Jeremiah MacGregor wrote:
Pat,
Can you provide a web link to the article? The picture is unclear
and the text is unreadable. Way too small.
Jerry
Dear Jerry,
Sorry, not possible.
I tried to find it but it does not seem to be available.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Geelong, Australia
From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:27:08 PM
Subject: [USMA:44041] Obama vegetable garden
Dear All,
If you examine this article from yesterdays copy of the Melbourne
newspaper, The Age, closely you will see that the scale for the 102
square metre Obama vegetable garden is in metres. Look for the scale
near Michelle Obama's right shoulder. I suspect that this is the
original drawing as the two metre scale is in line with the lines of
the garden beds. You will also see in the text of the article
reference to the size of the vegetable garden as 102 square metres.
<ObamaGarden.jpg>
The 102 square metre size for the vegetable garden looks like one of
those multiple conversions where the original design for 100 square
metres was converted to 119.599005 square yards, that was then
rounded to 120 square yards; the 120 square yards was then (somehow
or other from 100.335283 square metres) converted and rounded to 102
square yards.
The New York Times regarded this as all too hard. They deleted the
reference to metres on the plan of the garden, and then converted
the 100 square metres to 1,100-square-foot. Seehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/dining/20garden.html
where you will have to enlarge the garden plan to see the scale now
written above and separate from the garden plan as 8 feet..
Pat Naughtin
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