We have rapidly departed from the purpose of this list, in my view.
I posted my first message to celebrate the metric units that I saw in the article. I did not post it to speak for or against the lifeflower or FoxNews.com. I did, however, attempt to clarify the nature of my source for the article, FoxNews.com, since M. Bruiex seemed to be unfamiliar with it and wondered if it were of the same genre as The Onion.
People should decide for themselves how they feel about the lifeflower and Fox News. This is not an appropriate forum for such discussions. But I would hope that they would decide that metric units are more useful than non-metric units.
Jim On 2011-01-18 1713, John M. Steele wrote:
If you Google "lifeflower" you will find numerous pill pushers promoting this as an herbal supplement in this US. This one in particular uses basically the same article article as Fox published, treating a commerical press release as news: http://herbal-powers.com/lifeflower.html Since the "news" is identical to their commercial message, I would take it with a grain of salt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* James R. Frysinger <[email protected]> *To:* U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> *Sent:* Tue, January 18, 2011 11:57:47 AM *Subject:* [USMA:49548] Mostly metric article on LifeFlower An interesting article was posted on FoxNews.com <http://foxnews.com/> on the LifeFlower. This was written by a man who calls himself a "medicine hunter". Except for the use of "acre" in the article, the entire thing is written in metric units. Now if only he had used the hectare or square kilometer. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/17/lifeflower-treatment-stroke/ I've sent in a comment on that. Jim -- James R. Frysinger 632 Stony Point Mountain Road Doyle, TN 38559-3030 (C) 931.212.0267 (H) 931.657.3107 (F) 931.657.3108
-- James R. Frysinger 632 Stony Point Mountain Road Doyle, TN 38559-3030 (C) 931.212.0267 (H) 931.657.3107 (F) 931.657.3108
