Sentences with phrase «white roofs in»

With the aid of rooftop instruments, satellite images, an airplane and a balloon, Berkeley Lab scientists are conducting the first - ever study to determine how pollution impacts the efficacy of white roofs in cooling the planet.

A can of white paint should be part of the planet's arsenal against global warming, say California researchers, who have calculated that installing white roofs in the world's cities could offset 1.5 years of man - made carbon emissions.

Available with bright colours and two tone options such as a red body and a black roof or a blue body and a white roof in...

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Dylann Roof, the white 21 - year - old who allegedly gunned down nine black churchgoers earlier this summer in Charleston, South Carolina, credited the Council of Conservative Citizen with opening his eyes to black - on - white crime in a chilling manifesto posted online.

The suspected gunman, a white 21 - year - old named Dylann Roof, was arrested and charged last week in the killings.

Given, now, a handsome señorita, with fine oval face and large, soft eyes, and broad, low brow and a strain of pure Castilian blood, to show red - warm through olive cheeks, a white kerchief over her bosom, and a glimpse of amber or gold beads about her throat, and the low, gray, wide - roofed adobe, scarlet - hued with festoons of red peppers, the whole seen against the burnt umber or yellow of the hills and under the pearly haze of a morning in September, and you have a grouping of such splendid color as would delight the heart of a painter.

The fight over the flag was hushed in 2015 after white supremacist Dylan Roof murdered nine black Charleston church congregates at Emanuel AME.

The stadium's roof was closed over which was good news for the players and 50,492 supporters, including several hundred in green and white, in light of the sub-zero temperatures outside.

The roof was well and truly lifted off the John Smith's Stadium as the scenes of utter jubilation amongst the sea of Blue and White was filled with unrivalled emotion and relief as Town took an almighty step to securing that pivotal place in the Premier League.

The roof of this fantasy - themed gingerbread house is made of gingerbread men cookies, and the fence around the house are simply pretzels dipped in white and dark chocolate.

In infants, you may see white patches on the insides of the cheeks, on the tongue, on the roof of the mouth, and on the lips and gums as it spreads.

Saturday - Sunday, August 20 - 21 We have been asked to provide volunteers for an event to help the NYC environment: a white roof painting of buildings in the East Village which have been identified by the organization FAB (Fourth Arts Block).

Later that week, at almost the exact moment that Mr. Cuomo was in a Manhattan ballroom condemning the city's public housing as «disgusting,» Mr. de Blasio was on the roof of a New York City Housing Authority development in Queens swiping at the governor for acting «like the great white knight.»

Roofs represent 12 percent of all surfaces citywide, Stringer said, noting that temperatures in the city would drop 2 percent if all rooftops were painted white.

With its dense population and abundance of roofs and blacktop, the Lower East Side has been identified as the hottest neighborhood in Manhattan, said White Roof Project executive director Heather James.

The city of Los Angeles now requires that new or replaced roofs for homes and other residential buildings meet a solar reflectance index value — a measure of a materials» ability to stay cool in the sun between zero (black surface) and 100 (white)-- of at least 75 for flatter roofs and 16 for steeper ones.

They found that in a hypothetical world in which cities sported highly reflective white roofs, urban temperatures were on average 0.6 °C cooler than in cities with existing, mostly black roofing materials.

So then the question becomes: will that lead us to remove the solar panels on our roofs like President Reagan did to the White House in the 1980s?

One of the 32 solar - thermal panels that captured energy on the roof of the White House more than 30 years ago landed this week at a science museum in China

However, in areas with cold winters, these white roofs prohibitively add to heating costs in the winter.

Christopher Miles With our white roof, our townhome is (relatively) cool - also have plenty of water in rain capture barrel to pour over the head.

In 1986 solar panels were literally ripped from the White House roof.

They found that in a hypothetical world in which cities sported highly reflective white roofs, urban temperatures were on average 0.6 °C cooler than in...

In 2011 Stanford University researchers found that white roofs would provide some local cooling but at the expense of more global warming, largely because such cooling means less hot air rising and therefore fewer clouds forming.

Other solutions cited in the study include white roofs that reflect more sunlight back to space or hybrid roofs that combine aspects of white and green, or planted, roofs.

«Adaptation to urban - induced climate change depends on specific geographic factors,» Georgescu adds, noting that white, reflective cool roofs work well in California, but could reduce rainfall from Florida up the U.S. east coast, for example.

As part of a project known as Cool Roofs, volunteers in New York City have been painting black roofs white and have so far covered more than 500,000 square meters of roof, though that's less than one percent of the possible Roofs, volunteers in New York City have been painting black roofs white and have so far covered more than 500,000 square meters of roof, though that's less than one percent of the possible roofs white and have so far covered more than 500,000 square meters of roof, though that's less than one percent of the possible area.

But the new research published in PNAS suggests that such white roofs would have different impacts in different places.

Other inspiration came from our trip to Coombs, BC, where we took the in - laws to see the goats on the roof, partake in Birthday Ice cream (that's ice cream flavored like grocery store white cake with that fake icing), some fantastic baking and a very good Carrot Ginger Soup.

The look we wanted was something like «Alice in Wonderland meets Classic Shabby Chic» nothing matching or set themes but lots of detail everywhere you look at, we hired a giant sized white lamp which looked fab and was a good taking point for people we also bought beautiful vintage white umbrellas and hung them from the roof of the wedding tent near the beach.»

My luxury villa, with thatched roof and turquoise and white décor is equipped with a heated private plunge pool and outdoor rain shower and hammock make me feel like I am in a private hideaway.

The product Elizabeth Taylor Vintage White Cocktail Dress in Movie Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has been added to comparison list.

But, as I said, motherhood is exhausting, so spending the night in, means I drink my favorite white beer on our roof, we get that Thai anyway — take - out forever — and I could keep my heels on, or just spend the evening bare feet too.

Whether you look back fondly on Taylor's performance in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, her White Diamonds perfume commercial, humanitarian efforts or maybe even hearing her utter Maggie's first word on an episode of The Simpsons, she certainly has a career and a life worth remembering and celebrating.

The scene in question is Cale (wearing that unmistakable undershirt) fighting lead bad - guy Stenz (Lawless» Jason Clarke) on the roof of the White House.

Bette Midler comes back to the Great White Way for her first nonconcert show since playing Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof some 45 years ago.

The suspect in the crime, 21 - year - old Dylann Storm Roof, is a white man who was known to be heavily influenced by online white supremacist hate speech, most notably from the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group that now functions primarily as an Internet clearinghouse for racial fear - mongering «news» stories.

Whatever the reason, there is nothing admirable in failing to call Dylann Roof exactly what he is: a White Supremacist who deliberately chose one of the most iconic symbols of the African American community for an act of terrorism as devastating as any in the 1950s and 1960s.

Americans may like to imagine that we left White Supremacy behind with the 1960s, but it is clear that the hatred still seethes within many of our countrymen, and it is very clear that it boiled over in Dylann Roof spurring him to annihilate members of the Charleston black community as they studied the Bible in one of the cornerstone institutions of that community.

Perhaps they know that a minor but potent part of the constituency and audience are sympathetic to Roof's motives if not his actions and will respond negatively in the polls or ratings if they hear White Supremacy called out in public.

Too many politicians are somehow unable to bring themselves to place Roof where he belongs in the continuity of White Supremacists in our history.

He apparently self radicalized by immersing himself in an online world where White Power advocates work collectively to stir up racial hatred and to advocate for race war — an advocacy that Roof took to its next logical step.

An eye - catching two - tone color scheme adorns the exterior in three paint combinations: a white lower body with an Electronic Blue roof, a Caribbean Blue lower body with a white roof, or a Bright Silver lower body with a white roof.

The roof — available in white or silver — is very cool, and standard eighteen inch wheels (with nineteens optional) finish the package.

One of the first in the area with the white and carbon fibre roof.

You won't have to go all the way to the top of the line to get it, either, as it'll come standard on the Momentum (white) and R - Design (black) trims that will be available at launch; in fact, you'll need to skip the range - topping Inscription trim when it arrives since that will come exclusively with a body - color roof.

Mini designers worked with Autohome, an Italian maker of premium roof - top tents, to create a special edition of its AirTop pop - up for the Countryman in black or white to go with the contrasting paint colors offered for the roof and mirrors of the Countryman.

Evidence of its hot rod past shows up in a white Naugahyde roof insert and chromed window frames.

To commemorate Subaru's class win at the Nurburgring 24 Hours this year, the «NBR Challenge Package Edition» (pictured in white, right) gets a carbonfibre roof and rear spoiler.

That white roof will be great for standing out in a crowd when, in reality, all you'll want to do is hide.