Sentences with phrase «832nd point of light»

I built a career around the marketing of good deeds, working with a lot of great organizations, from Points of Light to Share our Strength, led by Billy Shore, who I think is probably one of the originally nonprofit entrepreneurs.

Aren't we all just points of light and energy that are cosmically interconnected to each other through the miracle of space and time, with LinkedIn nothing more than a vehicle for enabling those connections?

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This image is of the dwarf planet Ceres, in an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the two points of light emanating from it have scientists puzzled.

Another crucial debate topic: Are there points of light in a fixed firmament, or are there balls of gas undergoing nuclear fusion grouped into galaxies in an expanding universe.

When in the 1970s there began to be much discussion about «mediating structures» and voluntarism, when Ronald Reagan urged us to rely on government less and on ourselves more, when George Bush talked about a «thousand points of light,» those of a statist mind - set groused that it was all a scheme to cut back on government social services.

Perhaps he understood George H. W. Bush's «thousand points of light» solution to social problems like the lack of affordable healthcare.

This sounds like a warmed - over thousand points of light crap George HW Bush came out with many years ago.

This is America: the Knights of Columbus, the Grange, Hadassah, the Disabled American Veterans, the Order of AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Business and Professional Women of America, the union hall, the Bible study group, LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens), «Holy Name» — a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

It is indicative of the scotoma operating in our collective field of vision that many commentators on the acceptance speech professed themselves to be utterly baffled about what George Bush (or his speechwriter Peggy Noonan) could have meant by the «thousand points of light.»

Socrates» protest against compromise with the truth remains a point of light in the human pilgrimage just because the same issues persist in every age.

One can not simply shine a thousand points of light on deep structural problems and expect them to disappear.

Bush Sr.'s thousand points of light, if you remember.

I knew when Bush cited the 1,000 points of light he really meant for people to take over care of the poor to let government i.e. wealthy tax payers off the hook.

The Civic 50, an initiative of Points of Light, recognizes the 50 most community - minded companies in the nation each year.

That's the promising bottom - line from an analysis of the 2016 Civic 50, the annual Points of Light initiative that recognizes...

Aim for a minimum of three points of light, such as a ceiling fixture, changing table light, and reading lamp.

And I'm proud that every day for the past two years I've used the office of Prime Minister in a non-political way to recognise and thank almost 600 of them as points of light, whose service can be an aspiration to us all.

«Stay the Course, A Thousand Points of Light» is not a winning strategy.

For example, Parker said, police in Ulster County with a drug suspect from Brooklyn in custody could use the «Points of Light» system to quickly get in contact with a detective downstate who had arrested him in the past and was familiar with his associates and street activities.

Each county in the HIDTA, Parker said, was assigned a dedicated intelligence officer known as a «Point of Light.»

The Points of Light Foundation, now the world's largest service organization coordinating volunteer projects, started during the Bush administration.

MEANWHILE... OBAMA PRAISES BUSH: President Barack Obama honored former President George H.W. Bush by celebrating the Republican leader's service initiative — the «Daily Point of Light Award.»

(CNN)- It was a homecoming for former President George H.W. and former first lady Barbara Bush at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. on Monday where they joined President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, in presenting the Points of Light honor for extraordinary work in community service.

That began to change when one of Piazzi's rivals, the astronomer William Herschel, noted that Ceres only appeared as a point of light in his telescope rather than a resolved disk, like the other known planets.

This work allows us to talk not about points of light, but about the evolution of galaxies, including our own Milky Way.

There it was — a faint point of light that wasn't supposed to be there.

SHINE BRIGHT Supernova 1987A shone as a brilliant point of light near the Tarantula Nebula (pink cloud) in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as pictured from an observatory in Chile.

«We began with points of light in the sky, and with the application of new instrumentation, the physics breakthroughs of the last century, and computers, we took those points of light and turned them into a narrative of star life.

At a distance of 5,500 light years, the blue straggler binary appears as a single point of light, but by analyzing the amount of ultraviolet light, the researchers saw the unmistakable signal of a white dwarf.

In April and May 2016, Kelly and his team saw a mysteriously fluctuating point of light in the galaxy cluster's vicinity.

A point of light was shining where nothing was visible before and this set off one of the largest multi-telescope observing campaigns ever — among these telescopes was the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope [2].

The researchers were unable, however, to determine some of the details of the impression, such as its exact size or shape, although they knew that the percepts were, «like points of light, or single pixels,» he says.

Astronomy textbooks have long told neophyte stargazers that three of every five points of light in the night sky are waltzing pairs of stars called binary systems.

Hoehler: The reality is that we're just going to have gases in the atmosphere of some distant point of light.

Within what seems like seconds, small clusters of five or six people bend over each ghostly green point of light.

This year, Regeneron was included in the Civic 50, a list of community - minded U.S. companies assembled by the Points of Light organization, which is dedicated to mobilizing volunteers.

On Oct. 19, 2017, the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawai`i picked up a faint point of light moving across the sky.

In seven of the observations, Gaia was able to make out both the dwarf planet and its moon, but only saw a single point of light in the other two.

Naiad, the once lost moon of Neptune, emerged as a point of light (circled) just to the left of the planet in archived images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

If those objects are bigger than Jupiter, longer exposures with NICMOS could reveal them as faint points of light, notes team member Glenn Schneider of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Each point of light is a single light - emitting diode (LED) powered by an electric current, which is switched on and off by a transistor.

And pretty soon we're probably going to know that essentially all those points of light have planets around them.

A tiny point of light, it zipped across the sky in a minute.

Even in the best telescopic views such a small and distant object just appears as a faint point of light.

Look up, spot the brightest point of light, and you've found it.

The sky's two brightest points of light haven't appeared this close since May 2000.

Unlike planets, which telescopes of the era could resolve as little globes, asteroids were so small that they remained starlike points of light.

Quasars easily outshine the rest of their galaxies, and yet they are so compact that they look like mere points of light.

And since interferometers look only at points of light rather than entire objects, SIM also won't produce the sorts of spellbinding pictures that the Hubble spoiled us with.