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It was not an equitable cultural momentum.
Whether here in New York or in Houston or Miami, Detroit, Philadelphia, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto and Paris, cities big and small all over the world are reclaiming and reinventing this infrastructure for themselves, including the mother of all catalyst infrastructure projects, the Los Angeles River, the revitalization effort for which similarly started as a grassroots movement, has developed into a cultural momentum, and is now in the early stages of being transformed into some kind of life-affirming infrastructure again, this one with trails and parks and fishing and boating and community revitalization, and of course, water quality and flood control.
The market forces unleashed by this cultural momentum often include the seemingly unstoppable and inevitable cycle of rising taxes, prices and rents.
As she turns, friction between her pointe shoe and the floor, and somewhat between her body and the air, reduces her momentum.
By staying in motion, that leg is storing some of the momentum of the turn.
When the leg comes back in towards the body, that stored momentum gets transferred back to the dancer's body, propelling her around as she rises back onto pointe.
As the ballerina extends and retracts her leg with each turn, momentum travels back and forth between leg and body, keeping her in motion.
The longer the leg is extended, the more momentum it stores, and the more momentum it can return to the body when it's pulled back in.
More angular momentum means she can make more turns before needing to replenish what was lost to friction.
Like every other turn in ballet, the fouetté is governed by angular momentum, which is equal to the dancer's angular velocity times her rotational inertia.
And except for what's lost to friction, that angular momentum has to stay constant while the dancer is on pointe.
That's called conservation of angular momentum.
In order to conserve angular momentum, her angular velocity, the speed of her turn, has to increase, allowing the same amount of stored momentum to carry her through multiple turns.
How are you feeling about momentum behind this?
And now I'm charging it up, and you see it builds momentum.
Eight weeks after they published my cell number, I obtained a press pass for a press conference for the candidate gaining momentum in the polls.
But the original star’s angular momentum is preserved.
And it showed me that our efforts resound, that we can alter the lives that we encounter for the good, and they in turn can take that momentum and push it even further.
It's a demonstration of something in physics that we call the law of conservation of angular momentum, which basically says that if you set something spinning about a fixed axis, that it will keep spinning unless you do something to stop it.
It's got gyroscopes which are spinning, and because of the law of conservation of angular momentum, they keep spinning with the same axis, indefinitely.
All of these guys were thought leaders in their own right, but over time, the alt-right movement ended up using their information to fuel their momentum.
And I'm going to tell you what else led to the momentum of the alt-right: the left wing's wholesale demonization of everything white and male.
Narrator: Eventually, the race to the future took on added momentum with the breakup of the telephone company.
Meanwhile, the Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum in America.
Anti-gay sentiment was gaining national momentum, especially in the form of California’s Proposition 6.
At the same time, your increased forward momentum makes you more stable, allowing you to stand up and surf along the wave.
From there, we go to the states that are going to require the most data and work to convince, and we'll hope our momentum helps turn the tide there.
So momentum is good.
So what can we do to create a platform for these organizations, to create some momentum, to get everybody in the world involved in this movement?
And I believe that this one day, if we can create it, this one day can create momentum for all of these independent voices.
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