when did the us try to go metric
1975
3084454
units were already implemented in many areas and that their use was increasing. The majority of study participants believed that conversion to the metric system was in the best interests of the United States, particularly in view of the importance of foreign trade and the increasing influence of technology in the United States. The U.S. Metric Study recommended that the United States implement a carefully planned transition to the principal use of the metric system over a decade. Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 "to coordinate and plan the increasing use of the metric system in the United
Metrication in the United States
3715428
and bushel in terms of metric units. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 started a voluntary metrication process in the US and, as amended by the Omnibus Foreign Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, declared the metric system to be “the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce”. The US Metric Association (USMA) advocates completion of the ongoing US conversion to the metric system, officially known as the International System of Units (SI). In support of this mission, the USMA provides a public medium for information and discussion, reports of metrication within the US, a
U.S. Metric Association
277872
A Decision Whose Time Has Come". Since then metric use has increased in the US, principally in the manufacturing and educational sectors. Public Law 93-380, enacted 21 August 1974, states that it is the policy of the US to encourage educational agencies and institutions to prepare students to use the metric system of measurement with ease and facility as a part of the regular education program. On 23 December 1975, President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-168, the Metric Conversion Act of 1975. This act declares a national policy of coordinating the increasing use of the metric system in the
Metrication
7621089
"X". To recap, the curvature tensor maps fibers to fibers: so that To be very clear, formula_74 are alternative notations for the same thing. Observe that none of the above manipulations ever actually required the bundle metric to go through. One can also demonstrate the second Bianchi identity without having to make any use of the bundle metric. The above development of the curvature tensor did not make any appeals to the bundle metric. That is, they did not need to assume that "D" or "A" were metric connections: simply having a connection on a vector bundle is sufficient to
Metric connection
4826035
him about our intention. He tried to persuade us not to do it. He said he didn't think it would do much good, and we should try to go to the final tryouts and try to make the team. But we didn't want to do that. After we boycotted the Olympics, no one came to speak to us or ask us if we'd make any statements about it. And I don't think anyone knew particularly that we did boycott it. I think back on making that decision and whether I would have won silver or gold or some sort of
Milton Green
3216316
Winter Wake." On February 4, 2005, founding guitarist Jarpen left Elvenking. Aydan commented: "Jarpen didn't feel comfortable playing Elvenking's music anymore having lost passion in this kind of stuff. It was a long time he was talking with us about and when Damna was back in, knowing the direction we wanted to go, he told us his willing to leave. We have tried to convince him to give it a try but it did not work out. It's a really sad thing because Jarpen was one of the founding members and we have created all this from the beginning together,
Elvenking (band)
12086663
processed. Ker fought in court saying that the US committed extraterritorial abduction. The US did not actually go against the extradition treaty. The opposition fought against it however the Supreme Court ruled, "such forcible abduction is no sufficient reason why the party should not answer when brought within the jurisdiction of the court which has the right to try him for such an offence, and presents no valid objection to his trial in such court”. The "Frisbie v. Collins" case involved terms and laws. Two laws are the Federal Kidnapping Act and the Fourteenth Amendment (due process of law). The
Frisbie v. Collins
1699761
included on non-U.S. editions of Pink's third album, "Try This", which was released on November 11, 2003. Eight of the 13 tracks were co-written with Tim Armstrong of the band Rancid. Linda Perry was featured on the album as a writer and musician. Despite the album reaching the top ten on album charts in the US, in Canada, in the UK, and in Australia, sales were considerably lower than those of "Missundaztood". However, it did go platinum in the US. The singles "Trouble" and "God Is a DJ" did not reach the US top 40 but did reach the top
Pink (singer)
611445
additional force is necessary to effect this (that is, replication of all the same trajectories would necessitate departures from geodesic motion because the metric tensor is different). It is often used to try to make models amenable to extension beyond curvature singularities, for example to permit description of the universe even before the big bang. In differential geometry a mapping is conformal "when angles are preserved". When the angle is related to the metric, it is sufficient for the mapping to result in a metric that is proportional to the original, as expressed above for Riemannian geometry or in the
Conformal map
13438727
mcen246.4 land. let us escape so we are not caught." mcen246.5 mcen246.6 mcen246.7 mcen246.8 mcen247.1 The fourth spoke: ``Let us not try to escape from the country. Let mcen247.2 us go to the magistrate. let us tell plainly as it was how he rose from mcen247.3 his grave. let us not tell one word of a lie." they did at once mcen247.4 entirely according to his bidding. mcen247.5 mcen247.6 mcen247.7 mcen247.8 mcen248.1 They hastened to Pilate their magistrate. They would advise him what mcen248.2 had happened. and they told him christ had risen without great effort mcen248.3 entirely at his
Early Cornish texts
7223000
the NFL to evaluate how high they might be drafted if they decided enter professional football in the NFL Draft instead of returning for their senior season. Mack Brown did not comment about specific players but said, "We always try to help our guys get as much information as possible when it comes to the NFL. We encourage and help them go through the process... All of our underclassmen have told us they will be coming back, but if you're playing well enough to be considered an NFL prospect, going through the process can only help you better understand it
Jamaal Charles
18101934
to get by in a city of wealth. Nate and Topher decide to try their hand at smuggling weed across the border. Beginning in northern Idaho, Nate and Topher don camouflage gear and hike north through the woods towards Canada. Upon coming to a road, the two realize they’d made it when they spot a speed limit sign that is displayed using the metric system. Knowing how easily they can travel unnoticed between the two countries, Nate and Topher return to the US to acquire some “anal probes After salvaging and selling a sunken motorboat, the two head back towards
Kid Cannabis
10149541
attention since its beginning; Conrad was doubtful of the possibility of a reconciliation, noting that "I can see us getting to not hating each other but I don't think we would ever go back to being best friends." When addressing speculation that the conflict was fabricated for television, Conrad stated that "I wouldn't fight for the camera. If anything I would try not to." In a separate interview, she revealed that she almost quit the program before the season began, stating "it wasn't so much about the filming, but I didn't want to do a show with the other people
You Know What You Did
10396359
replicas. When the family leaves, the statues in the museum (which are actually robots) mysteriously come to life and begin wreaking havoc across the city. Herman and Grandpa are then arrested for various crimes they did not commit and try to clear their names in time for the Halloween celebration at the Munster home. "The Munsters' Revenge" was released on VHS by Gaiam on November 7, 1996. It is available in the US on a 2006 DVD double-feature known as Two-Movie Fright Fest alongside "Munster, Go Home!". It is available on DVD in Region 4 as part of 'The Munsters
The Munsters' Revenge
4492492
General Session. It was speculated that had he not been pre-empted, Suharto would have either elected B. J. Habibie as his Vice President or re-elected Sudharmono. Although he had accepted Try as Vice President, Suharto's displeasure at having a Vice President he did not ask for shone through as ABRI members within the Cabinet were kept to a bare minimum. For Try himself, Suharto showed little regard and did not even consult him in the cabinet formation process. Another show of disregard came In late 1997 when Suharto had to go to Germany to receive health treatment. Instead of leaving
Try Sutrisno
14017744
club. In round 8 against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Naiqama did one of the best try assists of the year, when he miraculously flicked a ball, that looked go over the dead ball line, back to James Tedesco. When asked about his try assist being similar to Greg Inglis's in the 2008 ANZAC Test, Naiqama said "I think his was more acrobatic than mine. But it was just real lucky to pull it off and get the try in the end". On 2 May, Naiqama played at fullback for Fiji against Papua New Guinea in the 2015 Melanesian Cup. From Round
Kevin Naiqama
19223982
in Haiti. Many accuse the United States of purposefully depositing all of their rice into Haiti. In 1985 the local rice production was at 163,296 metric tons while the US imports were only at 7,337 metric tons counting for a total of 170,663 metric tons. Now compare that to the year 2000 when local production was at 130,000 and US imports ascended to 219,590 leaving a total of 349,590 metric tons of rice. Since 1995 there has been over $13 billion in subsidies given to American rice exportation by the United States government. Haiti has now become inundated with rice.
Rice production in Haiti
5183983
sub-base (plinth) from Quarry 3 at below the opening from early in 1930 to January 1931. The cap was quarried on the first try while the base required three attempts. (No data available as to quarrying the plinth). The die was worked by 75 men for one year and three attempts until a 56-ton (55.86 metric) block came out of the quarry in late January 1931. When the block was cut from the mountain it weighed 124 tons (123.69 metric). A wire saw was then brought in to cut the block down to 56 tons (55.68 metric). Because of the
Yule Marble
15410097
to try to ruin me because I am more virtuous than his is; I cannot help it - it is my nature to be reliable, just as it is his to be shaky on matters of fact - we cannot alter these natures - us leopards cannot change our spots. Therefore, why growl? - why go and try to make trouble? If he cannot tell when I am writing seriously and when I am burlesquing - if he sits down solemnly and take one of my palpable burlesques and reads it with a funereal aspect, and swallows it as petrified
Henry Martyn Whitney
12828329
government was composed of technocrats, not politicians. He also addressed Camara as "President". Speaking on the radio on 25 December, Camara said that he did not plan to run for President at the end of the two year transitional period. He also declared that the CNDD was not susceptible to bribes. According to Camara, people had "start[ed] to show up with bags of money to try to corrupt us. They've tried to give money to our wives and cars to our children." He warned that he would "personally go after anyone who tries to corrupt us". Camara also said that
2008 Guinean coup d'état
2659199
Here" (US #16), Bush's "I Can Hear You Calling", and Allen Toussaint's "Play Something Sweet" (US #33). Three Dog Night made its official debut in 1968 at the Whiskey a Go Go, at a 5 p.m. press party hosted by Dunhill Records. They were still in the process of making their first album "Three Dog Night" when they heard the favorable reactions from the hypercritical audience. The album "Three Dog Night" was a success with its hit songs "One", "Try A Little Tenderness", and "Nobody" and helped the band gain recognition and become one of the top drawing concert acts
Three Dog Night
13343198
disappointed when he didn't receive an invitation to try out for any professional team after playing college football. However, Arnie Shockley did receive an invitation to try out for the Bulldogs. Shockley decided not to go, and Jackson saw this as an opportunity to try out for a pro team. He went to the camp, assumed the name of his teammate Shockley, and made the team, playing that year under the alias "Arnold Shockley". The only problem with his story is that Jackson was supposedly playing for the Providence Steam Roller from 1928 to 1930. However, the biography on Arnold
Perry Jackson
17177688
was mainly trying to save my tyres as best as I could. When it was eight laps to go, I started to push to try and catch up with him, but my rear tyres did not last long enough. I think that’s something we need to work on, but I’m still pleased with second place. I’ve scored good points for the championship." Third-placed Evans said his team adjusted his car to improve its balance for the sprint race and stated he did not try and get second because of the high level of tyre wear, "I was hoping maybe Felipe
2013 Sepang GP2 Series round
313157
for metric-only labelling on packaged goods there, and allowed for dual metric–imperial marking to continue indefinitely. When used as a measurement of body weight the UK practice remains to use the stone of 14 pounds as the primary measure e.g. "11 stone 4 pounds", rather than "158 pounds" (as done in the US), or "72 kilograms" as used elsewhere. The US has not adopted the metric system despite many efforts to do so, and the pound remains widely used as one of the key United States customary units. Historically, in different parts of the world, at different points in time,
Pound (mass)
10051511
disallowed. A dour first half saw the teams go to the break at 4-all, before a try by hooker Fred Jones put Manly ahead. Jones appeared to drop the ball as he attempted to ground it, but was awarded the try nonetheless. For his part Jones contends that he did place the ball with downward pressure. Midway through the second half, controversy flared again when Manly centre Ray Branighan appeared to stop over the Eastern Suburbs try line after accepting what looked like a forward pass from prop Bill Hamilton. However, referee Page allowed it and the Manly fans began
1972 NSWRFL season
11374487
English-sounding name "Legson" when he was in primary school. From primary school he was awarded a place at Livingstonia Secondary School, whose school motto "I Will Try" he used as the title of his most famous book. On graduating from this school in 1958 at about the age of sixteen, he decided that the only way to achieve a college degree was to go to the US, and he set out on foot to do so. When he reached Kampala in Uganda he saw the name of Skagit Valley College, Washington State, in a US Information service directory, so he
Legson Kayira
3504206
reflects their ability not to be overly influenced by agents who try to manipulate the trust metric and who participate in bad faith (i.e. who aim to abuse the presumption of trust). The free software developer resource Advogato is based on a novel approach to attack-resistant trust metrics of Raph Levien. Levien observed that Google's PageRank algorithm can be understood to be an attack resistant trust metric rather similar to that behind Advogato. Trust metric In psychology and sociology, a trust metric is a measurement of the degree to which one social actor (an individual or a group) trusts another
Trust metric
4447968
companion to "Amazing". Under the editorship of Raymond Palmer, the magazines were reasonably successful but published poor-quality work; when Howard Browne took over as editor of "Amazing" in January 1950, he decided to try to move the magazine upmarket. Ziff Davis agreed to back the new magazine, and Browne put together a sample copy, but, when the Korean War broke out, Ziff Davis cut their budgets and the project was abandoned. Browne did not give up, and in 1952 received the go-ahead to try a new magazine instead, focused on high-quality fantasy, a genre which had recently become more popular.
Fantastic (magazine)
9624325
measured with a "banded" scale, from bow and to stern, and for some ships, the average perpendicular measurement is also used. The scale may use traditional English units or metric units. If the English system (Imperial units) is used, the bottom of each marking is the draft in feet and markings are 6 inches high. In metric marking schemes, the bottom of each draft mark is the draft in decimeters and each mark is one decimeter high. Larger ships try to maintain an average water draft when they are light (without cargo), in order to make a better sea crossing
Draft (hull)
16251320
final 3 tests of Phase I of the Government tests, robots running the team’s code averaged at least 10% faster than a vehicle running the original Baseline code. This rather modest “Go/ No Go” metric was chosen to allow teams to choose risky, but promising approaches that might not be fully developed in the first 18 months of the program. All 8 teams achieved this metric, with some scoring more twice the speed of the Baseline on the later tests which was the objective for Phase II. Note that the Phase I Go / No Go metric was such that
DARPA LAGR Program
6272993
traditional notation used in many physics textbooks. Another approach is to understand the gauge covariant derivative as a kind of connection, and more specifically, an affine connection. The affine connection is interesting because it does not require any concept of a metric tensor to be defined; the curvature of an affine connection can be understood as the field strength of the gauge potential. When a metric is available, then one can go in a different direction, and define a connection on a frame bundle. This path leads directly to general relativity; however, it requires a metric, which particle physics gauge
Gauge covariant derivative
10320811
their words preached, telling Benedict Watts "I personally like to separate [the two] a bit [...] If someone asks us what our views are, we'll tell them, but we don't go out to our gigs and preach about things." Fanning agreed, saying "we would never try and preach, we would only ever try and suggest things to people as possibilities.", comparing the band to Midnight Oil, especially its lead singer-turned politician and activist, Peter Garrett. Fanning didn't rule out political messages altogether, however, but enforced the need for moderation and for not "preaching". When the song was released, there was
The Day You Come
13115727
simple, rather than complicated as he suggested their previous few albums were. In April 2010 Davis revealed that topics for songs were "about me living my life for others when I shouldn't, people-pleasing all of the time, stress, guilt and all kinds of emotions we live with everyday that destroy us and tear us down. I write about all of the fake people around us and how I always try to fix other people's problems. I write what I feel, and it comes out naturally. I've got a lot of shit built up inside me; that doesn't go away." During
Korn III: Remember Who You Are
649398
will not "go away" by a change of coordinates. An example is the Schwarzschild solution that describes a non-rotating, uncharged black hole. In coordinate systems convenient for working in regions far away from the black hole, a part of the metric becomes infinite at the event horizon. However, spacetime at the event horizon is regular. The regularity becomes evident when changing to another coordinate system (such as the Kruskal coordinates), where the metric is perfectly smooth. On the other hand, in the center of the black hole, where the metric becomes infinite as well, the solutions suggest a singularity exists.
Gravitational singularity
13870778
side of the bay, near Captain Cook's monument towards La Perouse As we proceeded it was thought that she would be able to get right out, but when nearing La Perouse the wind headed us veering more to the eastward, and we had to go around in an attempting, to do so the vessel missed stays. We filled on her, as there was no room to wear we made another attempt to stay her She would not stay, however, and the anchor was accordingly let go, which brought her up A kedge was then run out to try and heave
Advance (1872)
14604169
army, and Chen agreed. Tian did so in winter 887, but subsequently, as Wang was marching toward Xichuan in response to Tian's summons, Chen's subordinate Li Ai (李乂) persuaded him that Wang would be dangerous to have in his realm. Chen thereafter tried to stop Wang from further advancing. Wang, in anger, defeated soldiers that Chen sent to try to stop him, and marched all the way to Chengdu. When Tian went onto the city walls to try to resolve the situation, Wang bowed to him but stated that since the situation left him with nowhere to go, he would
Tian Lingzi
16360150
neighbors. After her attack, her mind might be changed." Cohan's performance in "Killer Within" was praised by Eric Goldman. Goldman later praised Cohan in "When the Dead Come Knocking" when referring to the scene where The Governor forces Maggie to strip saying: "More importantly, what he did do to her was terrible as it was, as he forced her to strip, slammed her down on a table and basically did all he could to try and mentally break her. Her telling him, in the face of all this, "Do whatever you're gonna do. Go to hell" was a powerful moment
Maggie Greene
10011320
England. There is then a necessity for a rise on this commodity and if it did not take place when the late additional duty on malt was imposed and when liberty was granted to the Distiller to go on in his profession, the reason was this: The London brewers willing to try what could be done in support of this charge by weakening their commodity, acted in consequence thereof and how did the event prove? Why, their beers were small and bad to such a degree that it became a fashion with the people to drink one half twopenny and
Obadiah Poundage
9594251
on her own web series, tracking what happened to the money donated by private US citizens to major US charities after the earthquake in Haiti. "The Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?" web series debuted on social media in January 2011. She then produced and directed a television documentary, also called "Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?", which was made into a film in 2012. The film, which aired over 1,000 times in the United States on PBS stations generated controversy, when the American Red Cross attacked it as "inaccurate." However, the film was widely embraced, both critically and by
Michele Mitchell (journalist)
967727
he was on to something). Jughead also stated that he felt naked without a hat. Finally, Veronica gave him a special hat to try on. When he did, everyone said it suited him (it was an ugly thing but looked comical. She said she was saving it for a Mad Hatter party). Jughead tried wearing it for a day at school, but scared several students, teachers, and even Miss Beazly the cafeteria lady) they begged him to go back to his trademark hat. When he asked what they'd do if he did, they offered him a platter of hamburgers and
Jughead Jones
1827970
a "micro-stetho-deeposcope" – supposedly a high-tech instrument for probing deeply below the earth's surface, but which actually turned out to be a piece of broken mirror tied to a chair leg. One of his culinary inventions did make a splash – literally: the inch-thick ketchup sandwich (subsequently renamed the 2.5 cm-thick ketchup sandwich when Marlon decided to go metric). The splash in question occurred whenever he bit into one, caused by a huge dollop of ketchup hitting whoever happened to be standing nearby. The sandwich is used as a recurring gag, occasionally replaced with other types of filling for variety.
The Perishers
633644
oz, 4.546 litres) whereas the US gallon is eight US pints (128 US fl oz, 3.785 litres). The metric system was officially adopted in the UK, for most purposes, in the 20th century and both imperial and metric are taught in schools and used in books. It is now mandatory for the sale of food to also show metric. However, it is not uncommon to purchase goods which are measured and labeled in metric, but the actual measure is rounded to the equivalent imperial measure (i.e., milk labeled as 568 mL / 1 pint). In September 2007, the EU with
Cooking weights and measures
2909950
different who would approach the project in a different way. I understand that perfectly and certainly wasn't offended. I did five albums with the band and I must admit I thought each one would be the last because they were bound to want to try something new." Albarn described the decision to not work with Street as "difficult", going on to say "he'll be forever part of what we are, and ironically, he gave us the tools we needed to go it alone." Tension in the studio ran high during the recording sessions. In Orbit's words, "There was a battle
13 (Blur album)
5634369
to those of us who try to teach cultural sensitivity and alternative world views that might not match our own 21st century Western ones but are nonetheless valid." "Apocalypto" has been criticized for portraying a type of human sacrifice which was more typical of the Aztecs than of the Maya. Archaeologist Lisa Lucero said, "the classic Maya really didn't go in for mass sacrifice. That was the Aztecs." Anthropology professor Karl Taube argued that, "We know the Aztecs did that level of killing. Their accounts speak of 20,000." According to the film's technical advisor, the film was meant to describe
Apocalypto
20678055
headquarters. While we were standing at the gate, not knowing what to do or where to go, a soldier came out and kindly told us he would try to get some way to help us further on, as it was very dangerous to remain there. After a short wait, the soldier found a place for them on a wagon; they quickly reached the Weikert farm just before the battle broke out near Round Top and Little Round Top. Her initial excitement quickly dissipated when the first wounded soldier was carred into the Weikert's house. Still alive, he had been hit
Tillie Pierce
17720515
be used to predict and narrow the range of suspects. Micro expressions can happen in less than one-fifteenth of a second and generally go unnoticed during daily social interaction. Micro expressions betray us when we lie. We can try to cover our feelings with fake smiles, but involuntary face muscles reveal these hidden emotions. The best and most efficient way to evaluate micro expressions is to videotape the interaction, so that you are able to go back and replay the expressions in slow motion. According to Frank's manuscript entitled "Improving the Ability to Recognize Microexpressions of Emotion," there are now
Mark G. Frank
14348995
dawn. Depending on the number of players participating, Lara and Totec either join forces or go their separate ways to try to stop Xolotl. "Guardian of Light" is not part of the main "Tomb Raider" brand, instead it was intended to start a new series simply titled "Lara Croft". Brand director Karl Stewart said, "When "Underworld" was finished, that was the end to the trilogy, and kind of the end of a whole era for us. We took a step back as a studio and spent a couple of months experimenting, trying to make a decision on how to go
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
327555
on the Poincaré conjecture on August 24, 2006, declaring that "in 2003, Perelman solved the Poincaré Conjecture." In December 2006, the journal "Science" honored the proof of Poincaré conjecture as the Breakthrough of the Year and featured it on its cover. Hamilton's program for proving the Poincaré conjecture involves first putting a Riemannian metric on the unknown simply connected closed 3-manifold. The idea is to try to improve this metric; for example, if the metric can be improved enough so that it has constant curvature, then it must be the 3-sphere. The metric is improved using the Ricci flow equations;
Poincaré conjecture
5176896
the US as well. So, I chose Exile 2 as the game to try this on. The practical effects guy who did the little models on the set in the ad, had done FX work for movies like "Tremors" and has since done work for WETA in Australia. The smoke was a time exposure to give it a thickness and glow. When we ran the ad, EGM or Gamepro (I can't remember) sent us a survey they did months later with their readers that had that ad listed as the 'most remembered' ad from the whole magazine, which, I think,
Exile (1988 video game series)
20706544
his first try in the series), Hong Kong (where he scored 7 tries for the team) and Singapore, in a season that saw South Africa go on to win the series by pipping Fiji to the title. Du Plessis returned to the fifteen-man version of the sport when he was called up to the South Africa Under-20 squad for the World Rugby Under 20 Championship held in France. He did not feature in their opening match of the tournament against Georgia, but was named in the starting lineup for their second match against Ireland. He scored a try in the
Muller du Plessis
12421230
and resources and not go out and bust a guy in his house, maybe smoking a joint, who's not doing anybody else any harm, and, in the meantime, go out and find the bad guys and you know, try to help keep society safe that way. Just prioritize; use common sense." In a November 19, 2015 radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, Palin was asked about the legalization of recreational marijuana in Alaska, to which Palin responded, "We've got that libertarian streak in us, and I grew up in Alaska when pot was legal anyway. It was absolutely no big deal.
Political positions of Sarah Palin
421330
usual to speak of thousands or millions of tonnes. Kilotonne, megatonne, and gigatonne are more usually used for the energy of nuclear explosions and other events in equivalent mass of TNT, often loosely as approximate figures. When used in this context, there is little need to distinguish between metric and other tons, and the unit is spelt either as "ton" or "tonne" with the relevant prefix attached. A metric ton unit (mtu) can mean within metal (e.g. tungsten, manganese) trading, particularly within the US. It traditionally referred to a metric ton of ore containing 1% (i.e. 10 kg) of metal.
Tonne
1781622
as plain round undeformed rod steel, but can be made with deformations. Sizes smaller than #3 are typically referred to as "wire" products and not "bar", and specified by either their nominal diameter or wire gage number. #2 bars are often informally called "pencil rod" as they are about the same size as a pencil. When US/Imperial sized rebar are used in projects with metric units, the equivalent metric size is typically specified as the nominal diameter rounded to the nearest millimeter. These are not considered standard metric sizes, and thus is often referred to as a soft conversion or
Rebar
13234621
Mitch caused extensive damage to crops. In 1998, agricultural exports were valued at US$409.3 million (out of Panama's total exports of $640 million), while imports totaled US$397.7 million. That same year bananas accounted for 33 percent of Panama's exports, shrimp 11 percent, sugar 4 percent, and coffee 2 percent. In 1999, sugar cane production was at 2.05 million metric tons, bananas at 650,000 metric tons, rice at 232,370 metric tons and corn at 89,806 metric tons. The main export crop was bananas with exports worth US$182 million in 2000. There has been a steady increase in tropical fruit exports which
Agriculture in Panama
12751929
LCDs, it is projected that demand for them will continue to increase. A report by the United States Geological Survey estimated the projected materials requirement in order to fulfill the US commitment to supplying 20% of its electricity from wind power by 2030. They did not address requirements for small turbines or offshore turbines since those were not widely deployed in 2008, when the study was created. They found that there are increases in common materials such as cast iron, steel and concrete that represent 2–3% of the material consumption in 2008. Between 110,000 and 115,000 metric tons of fiber
Wind turbine
12141083
Sam asks him about these accusations. He then shifts his appearance revealing that he is in fact a vampire. When Grandpa reveals he is a vampire, the Frog brothers try to kill him, but Sam stops them. Grandpa informs the Frogs that he is only a half vampire, and he feeds on animals in order to stay that way. When they ask him why killing Max did not restore his humanity, he tells them it is because Max didn't turn him, but The Widow Johnson did. Grandpa leads the boys to her house, and they go into the basement, only
Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs
410770
is defined to be . Where confusion is possible, the 2240 lb ton is called "long ton" and the 2000 lb ton "short ton"; the tonne is distinguished by its spelling, but usually pronounced the same as ton, hence the US term "metric ton". In the UK the final "e" of "tonne" can also be pronounced (), or "metric ton" when it is necessary to make the distinction. Where accuracy is required the correct term must be used, but for many purposes this is not necessary: the metric and long tons differ by only 1.6%, and the short ton is
Ton
8216752
renovation. It is a steel structure, clad in white precast concrete panels. There are 2140 separate panels that make up the facing of the massive square tower. When the tower was built, there was controversy over floors shifting; the shifting was caused by ill-fitting bolt fasteners imported from Japan. These bolts had to be replaced with bolts made in the US, not because the Japanese ones were somehow inferior, they simply did not fit the holes. This was due to the fact that the bolts were made in metric in Japan and the floors were built in standard, as such
Rhodes Tower
13288910
they would "use this time to collectively evaluate opportunities and build on the foundation to enhance future games." Brandon described it as "a one-year postponement to go into a deeper dive of evaluation about the future" so that the team has "a more robust fan experience and try to create more of a home field advantage for us." Keith Pelley, President of Rogers Communications, said that "the plan is to postpone it for one year, regroup and determine what's the next best step". Pelly said that "there's no hiding the fact the series did not get off to a rosy
Bills Toronto Series
19768430
risk when you get into it. You just hope that doesn’t happen obviously. I got to third without spinning the tires, and I felt like we got contacted.” Elliott said he thought "the No. 3 they stayed out on tires and tried to get some track position. The No. 78 ended up getting him out of shape and then after that I tried to check up. I don’t think the No. 18 saw it, got into us and got us turned the wrong way. It happens we just got to go and try to have more runs like that next
2016 Bank of America 500
370632
decibel. Metric prefixes rarely appear with imperial or US units except in some special cases (e.g., microinch, kilofoot, kilopound or 'kip'). They are also used with other specialized units used in particular fields (e.g., megaelectronvolt, gigaparsec, millibarn). They are also occasionally used with currency units (e.g., gigadollar), mainly by people who are familiar with the prefixes from scientific usage. In geology and paleontology, the year, with symbol a (from the Latin "annus"), is commonly used with metric prefixes: ka, Ma, and Ga. When an SI prefix is affixed to a root word, the prefix carries the stress, while the root
Metric prefix
15975462
lays out rules for writing such units. Some organisations, such as the European Union, have incorporated these recommendations into their regulations. The standard allows the national language to be used when writing metric units in full. For example, this article, which is written in British English, uses "metre" and "litre" in US English, these units are written "meter" and "liter"; the Greeks write "μέτρο" and "λίτρο" and the Russians write "метр" and "литр" respectively. The spelling ""gramme"" or ""gram"" are both acceptable in British English but in US English one should use ""gram"". All languages should however use the same
Introduction to the metric system
18143413
what we called our "concert party". When lights were out at night, we kept up a constant din, shouting and singing Irish songs. At periods the warders tried to undress us to give us a bath; we fought them on this and refused to go for a bath unless we went in a party with our own lads. We also threatened to go on strike against the fortnightly convicts' haircutting. Everything that was possible to do, we did, to upset prison discipline and force the authorities to treat us as a group apart from the other convicted prisoners. Eventually the
Pádraig Ó Caoimh
7725548
NIST (metric) NIST is a method for evaluating the quality of text which has been translated using machine translation. Its name comes from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. It is based on the BLEU metric, but with some alterations. Where BLEU simply calculates n-gram precision adding equal weight to each one, NIST also calculates how informative a particular n-gram is. That is to say when a correct n-gram is found, the rarer that n-gram is, the more weight it will be given. For example, if the bigram "on the" is correctly matched, it will receive lower weight
NIST (metric)
3084514
have remained metric starting at the Dover Air Force Base northward to Interstate 95. The 2000, 2003, and 2004 editions of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices were published using both metric and American Customary Units. Metric signs, including speed signs in kilometers per hour, were displayed in the manual even though they were not normally used on the roads and there was no definite plan to go metric. For visual distinction, regulatory and advisory metric speed signs have black circles around the numbers followed by "km/h" and other regulatory metric signs have yellow plates reading "METRIC" in black
Metrication in the United States
16481331
a small line element dx. The square of the length of the line element is the scalar product dx • dx and is called the metric of the space. Recall that the space of interest is assumed to be Euclidean when we talk of curvilinear coordinates. Let us express the position vector in terms of the background, fixed, Cartesian basis, i.e., Using the chain rule, we can then express dx in terms of three-dimensional orthogonal curvilinear coordinates ("q", "q", "q") as Therefore, the metric is given by The symmetric quantity is called the fundamental (or metric) tensor of the Euclidean
Tensors in curvilinear coordinates
7447528
world. The company was founded in 1954, with a US$798,000 loan from United States aid agencies. The first PVC plant was constructed in Kaohsiung and production began in 1957. As of 2005, FPC is the largest producer of PVC resins in Taiwan. When FPC's American operations are also considered, the company's total PVC resin capacity is 2.83 million metric tons per year, the second highest in the world after Shin-Etsu Chemical, which has 3.55 million metric tons per year as of May 2010 (expanding to 3.85 million metric tons per year by the end of 2010). FPC maintains numerous subsidiaries
Formosa Plastics Corp
15617903
distanced such as 2 and 9. subjects responded quickly and accurately. But their response time slowed by more than 100 milliseconds when they were closer such as 5 and 6, and subjects then erred as often as once in every ten trials. The distance effect was present both among highly intelligent persons, as well as those who were trained to escape it. A Łukaszyk–Karmowski metric may be used instead of a metric operator (commonly the Euclidean distance) in various numerical methods, and in particular in approximation algorithms such us radial basis function networks , inverse distance weighting or Kohonen self-organizing
Łukaszyk–Karmowski metric
6382320
NBC's 12pm Eastern/11am Central time slot and replaced the cancelled "Just Men!" there. Like many shows before it, "The New Battlestars" found ratings trouble due to the popularity of ABC's "Family Feud", CBS's "The Young and the Restless", and preemptions for newscasts and other programming on various affiliates. Thus, NBC did not renew "The New Battlestars" when its thirteen-week contract expired and replaced the series with "The Facts of Life" reruns. NBC did not try another game show in the slot until the short-lived "Go" premiered later in the year and did not find a hit show until "Super Password"
Battlestars (game show)
14777551
and we revolutionized ourselves from time to time. The discrimination bit came up when we started the band, when we tried to bring our sound to the music industry, to build up Bunkface, and people were rejecting and saying this and that, so to us it was like “Fine, we don’t care what you want to say, we’re going to try,” and here we are now. We realized at one point that we were ready to go and ready to step to that level, therefore the album title is called Phobia Phoney – it’s about our journey," The band stated
Phobia Phoney
5311082
fight for. According to Cooper, the Ori warriors are a fictional mirror of the events in the real world, but he wanted people to try and understand "why people want to go to war with us, or blow up our buildings, or our airplanes". Cooper also wanted to show that "there's really no winner to the argument" when it comes to "religion and belief, and gods"; according to Cooper, there is a line when a society takes up arms instead of finding a more civilized way of dialogue. Tim Guinee played Tomin, a devout Ori follower of the village of
Ori (Stargate)
11772771
to Canada Appreciation Day, and resolves to have the country go on strike, spurring the Canadians to break out into a choreographed song and dance number. When Abootman and his cohorts announce the strike to an assembly of world leaders, the other countries' delegates are confused as to what exactly Canada wants. Abootman responds "more money", and when asked where this money should come from he exclaims "the Internet makes lots of money. Give us some of that money!"; the other delegates try to explain that they cannot give Canada money, but Abootman is insulted, storms out and shouts that
Canada on Strike
277873
US It established a US Metric Board whose functions as of 1 October 1982 were transferred to the Dept of Commerce, Office of Metric Programs, to coordinate the voluntary conversion to the metric system. In January 2007 NASA decided to use metric units for all future moon missions, in line with the practice of other space agencies. The British metrication programme signalled the start of metrication programmes elsewhere in the Commonwealth, though India had started its programme in 1959, six years before the United Kingdom. South Africa (then not a member of the Commonwealth) set up a Metrication Advisory Board
Metrication
16925334
the company with low-fare offers. Cars were also a continual source of competition. In response, Greyhound commercials aimed to promote the ease of their services compared to car driving. The "Go Greyhound and Leave the Driving to Us" slogan became Greyhound's chief advertising for decades. But, in the 1980s, the business itself went through a slump, as did their promotional efforts. From 1982 to 1990, Greyhound ran few television commercials. When they resumed airing commercials, new advertising slogans were used, leaving out the classic "Leave the Driving to Us" line. Over the years, Greyhound had actually removed and revived their
Go Greyhound and Leave the Driving to Us
13926238
like roller derby. All of the actors would fall backwards and hit their heads—particularly Lea Michele. You lose your balance really quick when you try to go up a ramp in a wheelchair. Amber Riley caught an edge going down a ramp and fell off completely. There were pile-ups; there were crashes. Basically, everything that could go wrong, did." Murphy specified to Woodlee that cast members should not be able to leave their wheelchairs during the number, as: "Artie doesn't get to get up ever, so I didn't want anyone to get up." Woodlee agreed: "If it looked too fun
Wheels (Glee)
17418066
(42 US gallons, 34.97 imperial gallons or 159.0 litres) used in the oil industry has the dimension of volume and could be replaced by the gallon, cubic metre or litre. The definitions of potential difference (volt), electric current (ampere), electrical resistance (ohm) were defined in terms of metric units, international agreement having been reached at a series of IEC Congress in Chicago between 1881 and 1906 when the electrical industry was in its infancy. At that time the metric system had become established in continental Europe while in the United Kingdom metrication was an active issue. Similarly, the units of
Imperial and US customary measurement systems
18811159
the couple agree to live in his mansion. The Go Getter (1937 film) The Go Getter is a 1937 film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring George Brent, Anita Louise, and Charles Winninger. A determined discharged US Navy veteran succeeds in the lumber business. When the US Navy rigid airship "Macon" is damaged in a storm and crashes into the water (as the real did in 1935), helmsman Bill Austin stays with his commanding officer until the rest of the crew has gotten safely away. Bill loses a leg as a result of the crash and leaves the Navy. He
The Go Getter (1937 film)
15117108
to Pieces" on Arista Records. In 1979 Rachel Sweet remade "I Go to Pieces", that track and "Sad Song" being recorded to augment Sweet's 1978 UK album release "Fool Around" for its US release. The new tracks were both produced by David Mackay and Barrie Guard; Sweet had wanted to work with Mackay on the basis of his work with Bonnie Tyler. "I Go to Pieces" was issued as the lead single for the US release of "Fool Around" in August 1979: the track did not chart in the US but did reach number 39 in Australia. "I Go to
I Go to Pieces
3715432
in the US subject to federal regulations and laws to have their contents labeled solely in metric units if that is the desire of the producer or manufacturer. Other producers and manufacturers may continue to provide dual labeling (metric and non-metric) if they so desire. Metric-only labeling would be merely an option. USMA would like to see this FPLA amendment adopted. U.S. Metric Association The U.S. Metric Association (USMA), based in Windsor, Colorado, is a non-profit organization that advocates for total conversion to the SI (metric) system in the United States (metrication). Founded in 1916, it was originally called the
U.S. Metric Association
18764124
later, Nate returns to Erinsborough in his capacity as an SES volunteer to help out at the Lassiter's explosion site. He co-ordinates the rescue of Toadfish Rebecchi (Ryan Moloney). Nate apologises to Aaron for not contacting him when he returned to Australia, and asks if they can try to go back to how things were before. Aaron tells Nate that he did not wait for him when he away, and he had a relationship with Tom Quill. Resuming their relationship, Nate helps Aaron when he is being blackmailed by Tom, and later gives him money to set up his new
Nate Kinski
277879
but the changeover was not completed in most Commonwealth countries until the 1970s and 1980s when governments took an active role in metric conversion. Japan also followed this route and did not complete the changeover for 70 years. In the United Kingdom, the process is still incomplete. By law, loose goods sold with reference to units of quantity have to be weighed and sold using the metric system. In 2001, the EU directive 80/181/EEC stated that supplementary units (imperial units alongside metric including labelling on packages) would become illegal from the beginning of 2010. In September 2007, a consultation process
Metrication
277892
1992 amendment to the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA), which took effect in 1994, required labels on federally regulated "consumer commodities" to include both metric and US customary units. As of 2013, all but one US state (New York) have passed laws permitting metric-only labels for the products they regulate. Likewise, Canada also legally allows for dual labelling of goods provided that the metric unit is listed first and that there is a distinction of whether a liquid measure is a US or a Canadian (Imperial) unit. Today, the American public and much of the private business and industry
Metrication
15355069
try to remove Shabath bin Rabie. Kumayl narrates: I was in a state of confusion. Ali ibn Abi Talib had written to me saying' Kumayl never ever remove yourself from your city. I have put people in their different cities and they should never go and leave themselves.' When I saw Mu'awiyah attack. I wondered how can I leave this city when it is under attack, even though Ali ibn Abi Talib told me not to leave my city? I was in utter confusion. I left my city alone. I went to defend Shabath bin Rabie, and when I did
Kumayl ibn Ziyad
11220908
of the city as rivals, chief of them Hume "Of The Many Eyes". Sarchimus warns Karn not to go exploring on his own—when Karn disobeys, he discovers the city is full of many mutant creatures, including a "death-fungus" which he narrowly misses, "crawler-vines" which try to strangle him and an amorphous creature Sarchimus calls ""saloog"", all of which were formed due to radiation from the crystals of which Sotaspra was constructed (when the crystals had energy, and the city was alive). Karn is astute enough to understand that Sarchimus did not rescue him for altruistic reasons. Sometime later, when Sarchimus
When the Green Star Calls
382536
a group of many southern African countries who have banned together in order to try to improve their individual socioeconomic status. In 2014-2015 the sugar production of Swaziland was 680,881 metric tons and of this about 355,000 metric tons of sugar was shipped to the European Union, larger than any other export partner. Another trade partner for Swaziland was the United States where they shipped 34,000 metric tons of sugar in the 2014-2015 year under the Tariff Rate Quota. These numbers are up from past years and continue to rise. The expected output based on the 2015-2016 post forecast predictions
Economy of Eswatini
2665689
length metric space if the intrinsic metric agrees with the original metric of the space. Let formula_1 be a metric space, i.e., formula_2 is a collection of points (such as all of the points in the plane, or all points on the circle) and formula_3 is a function that provides us with the "distance" between points formula_4. We define a new metric formula_5 on formula_2, known as the induced intrinsic metric, as follows: formula_7 is the infimum of the lengths of all paths from formula_8 to formula_9. Here, a "path" from formula_8 to formula_9 is a continuous map with formula_13
Intrinsic metric
5919282
shows together as a three-piece. Regarding these shows, Droste noted, "We've never played without the four of us, really. The first couple shows we did before we knew Dan [Rossen], we did with three of us and they kind of sucked. From the get-go, when we were trying to put together a live show, that's when we discovered our sound and that's why I think that was the beginning of the band." Guitarist and vocalist Daniel Rossen, a friend of Bear's from jazz-camp, joined the band soon after. Rossen stated, "For a long time, I only played my songs to
Grizzly Bear (band)
6304481
March 1966 to complete. Industry transitioned gradually at its own expense, with compliance sometimes being nominal, as in the case of screws becoming "¼ screws". Since the original fines for noncompliance were around $140 and governmental agencies mostly preferred to wait for voluntary conversion, metric use by December 1959 was estimated at only 85%. Since research showed that individual Japanese did not intend to actually use the metric units when given other options, however, sale and verification of devices marked with non-metric units (such as rulers and tape measures noting "shaku" and "sun") were criminalised after 1961. Some use of
Japanese units of measurement
18811153
The Go Getter (1937 film) The Go Getter is a 1937 film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring George Brent, Anita Louise, and Charles Winninger. A determined discharged US Navy veteran succeeds in the lumber business. When the US Navy rigid airship "Macon" is damaged in a storm and crashes into the water (as the real did in 1935), helmsman Bill Austin stays with his commanding officer until the rest of the crew has gotten safely away. Bill loses a leg as a result of the crash and leaves the Navy. He goes looking for employment, but jobs are scarce
The Go Getter (1937 film)
806017
it and go work for our moms and dads or something. We just needed to make it happen. We weren't going to let grunge stop us. And if it did, we'd just go back to the underground. I liked it there anyway!" Commenting on the fact that Overkill never became part of the "Big Four", Ellsworth stated, "When it comes to being selected and not selected, that's a simple accounting issue. When you talk numbers, numbers make the world go around, numbers put food on your table, and numbers put the 'Big Four' in arenas. And they sell enough records
Overkill (band)
4284597
the construction of the ends of a simplicial tree there is a natural notion of boundary at infinity for hyperbolic spaces, which has proven very useful for analysing group actions. In this paragraph formula_8 is a geodesic metric space which is hyperbolic. A sequence formula_99 is said to "converge to infinity" if for some (or any) point formula_25 we have that formula_101 as both formula_102 and formula_30 go to infinity. Two sequences formula_104 converging to infinity are considered equivalent when formula_105 (for some or any formula_25). The "boundary" of formula_8 is the set of equivalence classes of sequences which converge
Hyperbolic metric space
10440492
leadership. He said, "(The trade) came a little bit as an ‘I-didn’t-see-it-coming,' but when it did sink in, I just have to be a pro, go to the next team and try to do what I did with Petron and my other teams before". During the playoffs of the 2014–15 PBA Philippine Cup, Alex Cabagnot was traded back to San Miguel for Sol Mercado. On October 14, 2016 Cabagnot was recognized during the PBA Leo Awards Night as he was named to the PBA Mythcial Second Team. "Correct as of September 1, 2016" Alex Cabagnot Alexander Cabagnot Jr. (born December
Alex Cabagnot
2798945
would argue (as they did when I eventually did try to tell my story to the court) that I had no standing. I couldn't go to a Member of Congress because, as a resident of the District of Columbia, I didn't have a voting representative. What I could do is disclose my story to the press--a judicially-sanctioned way of exposing wrongdoing under the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, which provides protection to federal government employees who blow the whistle on what they reasonably believe evidences a violation of any law, rule, or regulation; gross mismanagement; or an abuse of authority".
Jesselyn Radack
18174222
change yourself." We started checking off all these things that all of us girls do everyday to get ready to go out. [...] So Babyface inspired me to write this and it's all from a personal experience." Caillat explained that, "This song is not to say that we should never wear makeup, but to say that, sometimes, it's okay not to." She further told People that, "[Edmonds and songwriters told me] you don't have to try to be someone else, because people like who you are." "Try" earned critical acclaim from music critics. Jason Lipshut of "Billboard" called it an
Try (Colbie Caillat song)
2143518
could either try to out-cool it – try to out-run it like Radiohead did with 'Creep' – or just embrace it and go, OK, what really worked here." "Get Over It" is featured in the EA Sports video games "Triple Play 2002" and "Madden NFL 2003", while "Don't Ask Me" is featured in "MVP Baseball 2003". Also, "Here It Goes Again" was featured in "Rock Band", "Guitar Hero 5" and "SSX on Tour"; while "Do What You Want" was featured in a back to school television campaign for J. C. Penney and the video games EA Sports "NHL 06", "",
OK Go
6017583
Hit rate Hit rate is a metric or measure of business performance traditionally associated with sales. It is defined as the number of sales of a product divided by the number of customers who go online, call, or visit a company to find out about the product. Sales can be measured either as the sum of dollars pursued or the number of deals pursued. Accurate calculation requires clear definition of when a sales opportunity is firm enough to be included in the metric, as well as firm disposition of the opportunity (i.e. the deal has reached a point where it
Hit rate
20960393
9 tries in 31 appearances. In 2017 Dixon was given his first taste of international rugby when he played for the Scottish under-19 team that lost 24–7 to Scottish Students. Selected for the initial 30 strong Scotland squad for the 2017 World Cup, Dixon did not get picked for the team that went to the tournament but did go to Australia in February 2018 as part of the Scottish under-23 team that finished fifth in the Rugby League Commonwealth Championship nines tournament. Dixon scored three tries including a decisive try in the Shield final against Wales. A first full appearances
Davey Dixon
6072949
US system. Since the United States is Canada's largest trading partner and vice versa, Canadian exporters and importers must be accustomed to dealing in US customary units as well as metric. Canada uses an Avery or imperial bushel (36.369 litres) when selling oats, wheat, and other grains. When dealing with the US oat markets though, special attention must be paid to the definition of bushel weight because US uses a Winchester bushel (35.239 litres). In livestock auction markets, cattle are sold in dollars per hundredweight (short), whereas hogs are sold in dollars per hundred kilograms. In the health care system,
Metrication in Canada
6022540
now, please try your call again 914-2T". The number and digits at the end identify the network edge or Tandem switch the caller's local exchange company routed the call to. There is also a network message heard when an attempt to route a call to a nodal or ISDN T1 on the terminating end fails due to no call set-up signal from the PBX being received by the far-end Tandem or edge switch "Your call did not go through, 9142T". Optus has an intercept message which is heard by Optus customers when the network is congested or when a technical
Intercept message
17279393
titles. Hannah Storm said of the rivalry: "Just think about the dynamic of competing against your best friend. They would practice together, eat lunch together, then go out and play in the final and then make travel plans to go to the next tournament." In describing their rivalry and its effect on their tennis careers, Navratilova said: "I don’t think either of us would have lasted as long without the other." Evert said: "It gave us inspiration and a lot of incentive to work harder and try to continue to improve." The film is a series of personal conversations, where
Unmatched
7243504
they would only sign a form renouncing their faith. The SS tried different tactics to get them to sign, but very few did so. After describing various unspeakable tortures he underwent in the course of his four years in Mauthausen, he said: “Towards the end of 1944 Himmler’s special deputy, SS-Hauptsturmbannfüher Kramer, came from Berlin to try and persuade us to sign, with various promises and smooth talk. When he met with the decisively adverse attitude of the Witnesses, repressions against us started. We were distributed into blocks, so that nowhere would two brothers [Witnesses] live together. The camp commander
Bohumil Müller