I knew that adding these drapes would cost me over $500 dollars – even for the non-custom, standard size ones. But I stumbled on this brand of pinch pleat curtains on Amazon. These looked very ...

There are differences in the amount of fabric needed for distinct drapery, such as pinch pleats, French pleats, ripple folds, and sheers. Blackout or opaque curtains also need to measure wider than ...

Male gardener, brown hair, red t-shirt: Well, gardening involves measuring the length of lots of things. In this instance I'm measuring out a path that's 4 m long, and when I can find it ...

We started by scanning existing social value metrics, such as the ones described in the table “10 Ways to Measure Social Value” on page 41. We found hundreds of competing tools, of which foundations ...

The World Bank supports the development and use of data to measure, track, and ultimately improve learning. Through the SABER initiative, the World Bank produces comparative data on education policies ...

A protractor is used to draw and measure angles. An angle is the amount of turn between two lines. Angles are measured in degrees with the symbol °. Angles can be labelled with 3 letters (eg DEF ...

To keep us moving in the right direction, we have to make global poverty more visible by finding a better way to measure it. This week, the world’s heads of state are gathering in New York City ...

There are a number of ways to measure the magnitude of an earthquake. Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismometers. These scales account for the distance between ...

One of the delights of listening to David Pleat talk football is that there is no telling where any given storyline might travel through the memories he has filed away from a lifetime in the game.

BMI is a simple measurement calculated by dividing a person's weight (or mass in kilograms if using metric) by their height. For decades, clinicians have used BMI to put our weight into different ...

FINE Gael will keep Sinn Fein populism out of Government buildings, Simon Harris has claimed as he mocked “it wasn’t that long ago Mary Lou McDonald was measuring for drapes in the Taoiseach ...