Sentences with phrase «black backgrounds at»

In the late 1950s, shortly after moving to New York, she made large abstract works in which white loops of hand - painted mesh keep a black background at bay.

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But because of the home's historic background — it was built in 1906 by the famed architect Dudley S. Van Antwerp, and was home to Aubrey Lewis, the first African - American to be captain of a sports team at Notre Dame and one of the first black FBI agents — it can not be torn down.

«You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014,» read the ad, which featured black text on a white background, with the Facebook logo at the bottom.

It was weird to put him at the center of so much emotional conflict, while guys like Captain America and Black Panther were relegated to the background.

Yet judging from my own abilities at least, the attempt to make that alleged acknowledgement explicit leads either to an obvious case of merely relative nonbeing, such as the black background of my imagination, or to an unfulfilled and apparently unfulfillable intention, such as that involved in the attempt to conceive of a round square.

They told me about their artistic backgrounds — Perez - Gallardo studied studio art at Bard, and Black studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.

«At this point, we've only seen their testing livery so I added a bunch of yellow and white plus their classic stripes while maintaining the black background.

Taddeo joined black pastors and churchgoers Sunday for a «Souls to the Polls» barbecue as a DJ blared tunes at near - deafening levels in the background.

It was a home - made attempt at holding local officials accountable — black text on a green background, rough photo - shopped images and lengthy screeds.

In order to evaluate the assessment of the low emission zone, the scientists determined the reduction of tailpipe emissions of black carbon and ultrafine particles at a street - site by taking into account the concentrations measured in the urban background.

At night, I turn the brightness down all the way, and the Kindle app has an invert mode where it puts white on black background instead of black on white background, so it's pretty dark, and I found that a pretty comfortable experience and certainly preferable to my previous way of reading in the dark which was getting out a little AA battery — powered book light that I had to clip onto my Kindle — which seemed so backward that you have to have a second electronic device attached to your first electronic device — but [the] eInk screen on the Kindle doesn't light itself.

Now a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, suggests that this interpretation aligns with our knowledge of cosmic infrared and X-ray background glows and may explain the unexpectedly high masses of merging black holes detected last year.

They found that about 63 percent of the background radio emission comes from galaxies with gorging black holes at their cores and the remaining 37 percent comes from galaxies that are rapidly forming stars.

When you glance at it casually, you see a large opaque rectangle with holes in it superimposed on a smaller gray rectangle sitting on a black background.

The results show that, after adjusting for differences in family background, black students at any class level are more likely than their white counterparts to attend a four - year university.

«Measuring the gravitational - wave background will allow us to study populations of black holes at vast distances.

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) supports more than 10 scholarship programs for women pursuing engineering degrees at all levels of study and from all backgrounds, including awards sponsored by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the National Society of Black Engineers, and the U.S. Air Force ROTC.

Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)

The silhouette may be simple, but this strapless mini isn't exactly a fade - into - the - background kinda look thanks to the oversize metallic sequins, the accessories (dazzling black - and - white earrings, a wide cuff and a Chanel bag) and the big hair at the premiere of The Search.

A great jacket for Spring, by Valentino - Red line.In a stand out pink with a wonderful lining (black background with pink and red petal print), this jacket has two pockets at hip lev...

We all have at least one of them, but what makes a great black dress, one that doesn't fall into the background, but can also be transformed time and time again?

Although I embrace a downtown style in most of my clothing — think sleek lines, lots of black and grey, geometry in everything — my conservative background decrees that dresses hit at the knee.

Name: Valencia Walker Age: Technically not a Millennial Location: Los Angeles, CA Title 1: Assistant Clinical Professor Associate Medical Director, Newborn Nursery Division of Neonatology l Department of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center l Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA Title 2: President, 2013 - 2015 Association of Black Women Physicians Educational Background: Undergrad — Florida A&M University (HBCU) Medical — Emory University School of Medicine Pediatrics Training — UT Memphis / LeBonheur Children's Hospital & St. Jude's Children's Hospital Neonatology Training — University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center

A chic silk scarf by Christian Dior.This silk scarf has a very pale grey / pink background with a black vertical border and fringing at either end.The body of the scarf has the CD logo...

s a gray star embroidered applique on a red felt background Trimmed with red and black plaid at the base and top of the...

Also, while we certainly get people of various backgrounds here, this site is largely geared at black women.

These deleted scenes wouldn't have «fixed» Three Billboards, but they remain an interesting look at a film that probably could have done more to flesh out its black characters rather than having them serve as symbols or part of the background.

At the press of a button, your little white protagonist on a black backdrop falls through the floor to become a black character on a white background.

They found that the achievement gap between black and white students with similar background characteristics is small or nonexistent at the time children enter kindergarten and grows steadily and significantly each year they attend public school.

Participants in the study documented in the report — adults of various racial and ethnic backgrounds and educational levels from across the U.S. — judged black girls, starting at age 5, to be older, to need less support, to know more about adult topics, to need less protection, and to be more sexually aware than white girls.

The data revealed that only 0.7 per cent of head teachers at state schools were from an Indian background and 0.6 per cent are from black Caribbean origin.

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

-- According to findings released today by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), the gap in college enrollment rates between black students and white students in four large, urban districts disappears or even reverses direction once prior achievement and socioeconomic background is accounted for.

The images are available both in colour, and in black and white outline, in png format at 300 dpi for transparent backgrounds and good resolution.

Black kindergartners and white kindergartners with similar socioeconomic backgrounds now achieve at similar levels.

In the Jacobsen study, the hourly wages, employment rates, and annual earnings of black women were at least as high as those of white women with similar test scores and family backgrounds.

Nevertheless, the fact that blacks stay in school at least as long as whites from similar socioeconomic backgrounds seems inconsistent with the idea that the youth culture of blacks is much more anti-academic than that of whites.

Individuals are more likely to recruit those with experiences and backgrounds similar to their own.52 To counter this, some businesses now hold recruiting events at historically black colleges and universities, such as Howard University, to diversify their applicant pools.53 These events allow companies to be more selective among a larger, more diverse group of candidates.

Beginning in middle school, African - American students are more likely than Asian and white students to say they are treated unfairly when it comes to school discipline.11 Black students are also more likely to come from family backgrounds associated with school behavior problems; for example, children ages 12 - 17 that come from single - parent families are at least twice as likely to be suspended as children from two - parent families.

At the same time, he believes dual - language programs in majority - black classrooms can embrace students» cultural and linguistic backgrounds, engaging them in ways traditional schools haven't.

In this article, Nancy Hoffman and Michael Webb explore how early college can benefit students from at - risk backgrounds, particularly black and Latino males.

At the national level, seventy percent of black charter school students attend intensely segregated minority charter schools (which enroll 90 - 100 % of students from under - represented minority backgrounds), or twice as many as the share of intensely segregated black students in traditional public schools.

At night the floating needles lit up over a black background where only the number lit, thus offering a minimum amount of glare.

With the sports package this is also reflected in the black instrument cluster with its filigree chequered flag pattern used as a background: its luminous red needles are located at the «six o'clock position» when at rest and spring into action when the engine is turned on to create a very striking effect.

At times there are almost a dozen visual elements scattered across a black background with little visual hierarchy to differentiate the important elements from the secondary.

Chassis Number: SCFDAM1C2NBL60026 Engine Number: 89 / 60026 / A UK Registration Number: TBA Date of first reg: 8th June 1993 Exterior colour: Black Hood: Black Mohair Interior colour: Tan leather Current Odometer reading: 41400 Mileage Warranty: Steering: Left Transmission: Automatic Options: GPS and 10 CD system, Alarm and Immobiliser Background Background: Following three years of intense development, Aston Martin choose to unveil their new car for the nineties and beyond, at the International Motor Show in England on the 18th of October 1988.

Black worked fine against the light background at the top.

If you are reading at night, you can quite easily turn on the nighttime reading mode and make the background black and text white.

One of our authors received an email from the Amazon Kindle support team informing her that they had received a complaint from someone trying to read the author's book using the black background for reading (very useful at night, just ask my wife).

If you are reading at night, you can switch it to that specific mode which gives you a black background and white text to make it easier on the eyes.