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		<title>The generation gap</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/02/the-generation-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his recent article “Why I …”,  Ronnie Cohen looked at the present to explain why he believes the UK should complete the transition to metric units. However, some of those who commented on his article also looked back. In &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/02/the-generation-gap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why I became involved with measurement matters</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/why-i-became-involved-with-measurement-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our readers has written to explain why he became interested in the campaign to complete Britain&#8217;s prolonged metric changeover. Ronnie Cohen wrote recently to Metric Views: &#8220;Out of all the bread-and-butter issues that top the political agenda, you &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/why-i-became-involved-with-measurement-matters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pound-inch units finally give way to metric in space</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/09/metric-to-finally-supplant-pound-inch-units-in-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks as if astronauts, cosmonauts, or yuhangyuan as we will soon learn to call them, will before long have to cope with only one measurement system in space as the US winds down its programme and China takes its &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/09/metric-to-finally-supplant-pound-inch-units-in-space/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Eurocodes for structural design, and that decimal marker</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/07/eurocodes-for-structural-design-and-that-decimal-marker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metricviews.org.uk/?p=2259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Britain is currently adopting European codes for structural design and allowing British Standard codes to lapse. This raises the issue of the preferred decimal marker – should imperial or continental practice be followed? Mike Bather, who is a lecturer at &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/07/eurocodes-for-structural-design-and-that-decimal-marker/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An ‘el’ of a standard</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/01/an-%e2%80%98el%e2%80%99-of-a-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The powers that be of the metric system are wrestling with the problem of defining the kilogram independently of an actual physical object (i.e. the very slowly degrading cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy kept at Sèvres, near Paris, known as &#8220;the &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/01/an-%e2%80%98el%e2%80%99-of-a-standard/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Snow calculations made simple, or not</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/12/snow-calculations-made-simple-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our readers, John Frewen-Lord, has been housebound for four days by the recent heavy snow falls &#8211; about 60 cm deep in his area. This has prompted him to provide an illustration of the comparative simplicity of calculating &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/12/snow-calculations-made-simple-or-not/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parts of the knowledge economy hit the buffers in South America</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/11/parts-of-the-knowledge-economy-hit-the-buffers-in-south-america/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/11/parts-of-the-knowledge-economy-hit-the-buffers-in-south-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been said that Britain is becoming a knowledge economy, and also that metal bashing can now be safely left to the low-wage economies of the Far East. If only it were that simple. Consider the railway industry … &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/11/parts-of-the-knowledge-economy-hit-the-buffers-in-south-america/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>10-10-10. A reason for celebration</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/10/10-10-10-a-reason-for-celebration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many in Britain, the metric system and decimal measures are the same. Sunday’s once-in-a-century date provides an opportunity to consider the link between the two. Since 1983, Metric Week in the US has been celebrated during the week that &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/10/10-10-10-a-reason-for-celebration/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>URS buys Scott Wilson. So what?</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/10/urs-buys-scott-wilson-so-what/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/10/urs-buys-scott-wilson-so-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK’s twelfth largest consultancy by turnover, Scott Wilson, has been bought by the US design firm URS for £218 million. URS is second in the ‘Engineering News Record’ list of top 500 design firms. Metric Views speculates that Scott &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/10/urs-buys-scott-wilson-so-what/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring, trading and manufacturing</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/07/measuring-trading-and-manufacturing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two questions from a reader have prompted thoughts about the impact on UK trade of the continued use of pound/inch units in the US, and about the future prospects for manufacturing industry. This query has been received from a reader &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/07/measuring-trading-and-manufacturing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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