Dress Design Using Geometric Patterns
This 2:44 video shows Amy Williams explaining the design of certain dresses, created out of paper. These patterns consist of triangles, and the folds are simliar to the style of origami. This is an interview, but there are plenty of examples. Would make a good geometry class project using paper designs.
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Arab youths, revolutions, and the rise of the ‘second society’
The patterns of revolutions tend to be similar, focusing on the rise and fall of their leaders, a plunge into lawlessness, and finally a new order. Today’s movement in the Arab world is different. Sami Mahroum, Director of INSEAD’s Innovation & Policy Initiative in Abu Dhabi, explains why.
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Guide to the Collection of the Pittsburgh City Photographer, 1901, 1905, 1907-2002
The collection serves as a visual documentation of the construction of streets, bridges, parks, and recreational facilities in the city of Pittsburgh. These views include excellent building, transportation, industrial, housing, and peripheral details of the history and development of Pittsburgh from the early 1900's and early part of the 21st century. The earliest known city photographer was Brady W. Stewart. Stewart eventually set up his own photography studio in downtown Pittsburgh. Other city
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1.1 The transition from planning to action

In working on a project, it is sometimes difficult to make the transition from planning to action. It usually falls to the manager, as leader of the project, to make sure that activities are started; but not before it is clear who should carry out which tasks, and when. The first step for the project manager is to ensure that the plan is communicated to those who will be working on the project. It is not always safe to assume that others will understand the plan or its implications, particula
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5 Conclusion

In a financial context, risk is a synonym for uncertainty – the possibility that the actual outcome will differ from the mean expected outcome. It is therefore a neutral rather than a negative concept. Investors are risk-averse in the sense that they require more return for taking on more risk. Risk itself is measured by the standard deviation of actual returns around the mean expectation. In the real world, investment risk is created by a number of different factors that affect the certain
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Ocean Creature Feature
This OLogy matching game challenges kids to match pictures of eight ocean creatures with their descriptions. The reward? Eight new OLogy trading cards.
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Inquiry Based Learning: Tangrams
Students will use tangrams to compose and decompose shapes.
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Bulbs and roots
Bulbs need light, sunlight, and nutrients in order to grow new plants. The roots of plants help the plant absorb water and nutrients from the soil.
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Out in Dublin!
Op het einde van deze les kun je: Na het lezen van internetpagina's de nodige informatie over activiteiten in Dublin selecteren en samenvatten voor je op reis vertrekt.
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5.1 Early career

James Hutton (1726–97) conforms fairly closely to Emerson's identikit picture of an intellectual of the Scottish Enlightenment. His chief scientific work was his Theory of the Earth, which was launched at meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1785 and eventually expanded and published in two large volumes, ten years later, in 1795.

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Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Nelly Tsypina, part 1/4
Nelli [Nelly] Tsypina was born in Dnepropetrovsk in 1932. In October 1941, together with his grandfather and aunt and thousands of other Jews, Nelli was taken to Krasnopovstancheskaya Balka, a site selected for the murder of local Jews. There she fell into the murder pit but succeeded in climbing out. She spent the remainder of the war under an assumed identity in Dnepropetrovsk with a family that adopted her. She was reunited with her parents after the war. http://www1.yadvashem.org/untolds
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Karamoja: Where Abuses Fall Under the Radar
In the Karamoja region of Uganda, villages say an army security crackdown on cattle raiding has led to incidents of brutal torture.
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Mechanics Presentation
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1990s Plastic Product Commercial - Dacron textiles by Visa
Visa America's freedom fabric.

Dacron is a fiber made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET).  PET can take up to several thousand years to degrade.

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06 Adler Textbook Review
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Stroke survivors make strides with electro-stimulation device
June 17 - A southern California company is seeing positive results from a device that helps stroke survivors and other patients suffering from neurological conditions regain control of motor functions. Kilmeny Duchardt reports.
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Crocheting Plastic Debris into Purses Provides Income to Women in Gambia
The Mandinaba Womens' is a Recycling Group in the small West African village of Mandinaba located in  Gambia. This video shows how the village women supplement their income by using crochet to recycle plastic bags into purses and wallets. A good lesson in working together to improve the environment.
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1970s Plastic Product Commercial - JCPenney Polyester Pants
1972 Commercial for JCPenney womens' polyester pants.

Note: Nearly every plastic product, even clothing, ever produced is still present in the environment in some form or another.

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Sociologie des groupes et des interactions

L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées dans la référence citée.
Conférence enregistrée le 20 juin 2011 à l'IFSI à Arras.


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Crafting with Plastic Bag Waste to Create Income in India
Fateh is a social benefit organization in India working to create multiple benefits from the collection of waste plastics.  The collection of the plastics helps to prevent water bourne diseases and protect wildlife, while the training and providing jobs helps to increase the quality of life of the local people.
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