Robert sirs:>.....I hope some one can find in this review ways to get >the US to stop using inch-pound units. While Metrication is the NEED for US 'of the hour' & 'for the people', social networking is the media through which *communication need be enforced*. Somehow, it shall be futile exercise rather 'demaging' the ongoing process of Metrication/or adoption of Le Systeme Internationale d'Unites (SI) in day-to-day life if SOCIAL NETWORKING were to overtake - the changing pattern.IT IS THINK, DIGEST and APPLY process into daily activities that may result SI to get into the blood-stream of children from school-to-college and into adult hood; thus catch-word is THINK METRIC!My SIncere regards,Brij Bhushan Vij Saturday, 2012 July 21H16:99(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: [email protected] OR
"GAYATRI LOK" Flat # 3013/3rd Floor NH-58, Kankhal Bypass, Dev-Bhoomi, HARIDWAR-249408 (Uttrakhand - INDIA) > From: [email protected] > Subject: [USMA:51778] behavior change > Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:16:48 -0600 > To: [email protected] > > 2012 July 20 > To all USMA people, > In the 6 July 2012 issue of Science there is a review > of Network Interventions by Thomas W. Valente called > "Network Interventions" about the process of behavior change, > Vol 337 page 49. > Social networks influence behavior. People can be > influenced by their social networks to adopt new practices. > I do not know if we in USMA have or are a social network > but I hope some one can find in this review ways to get > the US to stop using inch-pound units. > We tend to be technical people so we are probably > not good with a social matter. So, please help. Let us > know if there are things in this review that can help > speed up the change to SI. > Thanks. > Robert Bushnell >
