Sentences with word «beacon»

Many charter schools stand out as beacons of hope, particularly in places where the traditional districts continue to flounder and there is a lack of vision from leaders about how to turn the tide.

We may use web beacons for technical purposes, such as analysing browsing habits, traffic, customer interests and the effectiveness of our marketing initiatives.

Over at The Oil Drum they would wistfully like to claim credit for galvanising the thought process that resulted in these winds of change, but are not too fussed how it happened, so long as the move shines as beacon of progress for renewables.

«When conducting research that collects personal information Yahoo!'s practice is to require partners to disclose the presence of web beacons in their privacy policies and state what choices are available to users regarding the collection and use of this information.

The Coast Guard built a light beacon in 1912 and a light station in 1932.

It's the base of Brecon Beacons Holiday Cottages with several in the village (including my Grove's Cottage) along with many others in the area.

When we refuse to give God anything less than our best — especially in the moments that seem meaningless or difficult — we become beacons of hope for people.

In the Classroom: In The Night Worker, a father takes his son on a surprise nighttime visit to his construction jobsite, and as «they survey the work site, stars shine like beacons for the night workers.»

It is a fitting first exhibition for the Guggenheim, itself designed by Frank Gehry as a monument to light, its glass - covered cones appearing as beacons on the cultural landscape of Abu Dhabi.

Below are five ways restaurants can begin experimenting with beacon technology in their stores today.

A light beacon at the east end of the island guides the B.C. Ferry to safe harbour at Nanaimo.

Sharfman sees the potential in using beacon technology to proctor educational courses.

The Taff Trail, 55miles long, runs through many of the Cardiff's parklands from Cardiff Bay to the Brecon in Brecon Beacons National Park.

This involves looking for light beacons from other civilizations.

Single thigh pocket for beacon with a D Ring to clip into is a nice feature.

With both the last remaining beacon of hope on Wii U and Nintendo's reboot into the console landscape almost a year away, 2016 will be the worst year to be a Nintendo fan in decades.

* Second, the app connects with low - energy scanning kioks and Bluetooth beacons on the show floor that are designed to share content with attendees on demand, making their experience more interactive.

Alphamers (purple) act as homing beacons, attracting pre-existing anti-alpha-Gal antibodies (green) to the bacterial surface.

She spends five thousand dollars to turn the weathered signs into beacons shining on her daughter's unsolved rape and murder seven months ago.

Electronic equipment sends out a continual radio beacon signal with a range of 12 miles (19 km).

In his first four speeches, Cuomo has stressed the need to create efficiencies in local governments, to provide clean drinking water to New Yorkers, to have ride - hailing services outside of New York City and to address anger from the middle class to continue New York's service as the progressive beacon of the nation.

This smart facility which works on principles of geo - fencing location targeted technology operates via a Bluetooth beacon signal that communicates with the passenger's smart phone application allowing them to access a special virtual library of ebooks for borrowing.

WHAT: Marooned on a sun - scorched planet, notorious fugitive Riddick (Vin Diesel) activates an emergency beacon at a mercenary outpost in the hopes of hijacking a ship from whoever comes to collect the price on his head.

During their battle, both sides are fighting over a pair of beacons which are used by the Rebels to summon Y - Wings which take down the walker's shields and make them vulnerable to attack.

«We believe we have improved on the best airport apps in the market, with the combination of personalised flight information, live queue times and our new beacon technology which helps people navigate seamlessly through the airport.»

Color and black - and - white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.

Along their way to inhabit a new planet, they discover a distress beacon at a closer planet.

Wall power in a fair is essential, and a pair of fascinating works by Robert Rauschenberg that uses the application of tarnish to brass and copper became beacons not just for fans of the masterful artist but for anyone attracted to the inventive use of materials.

«Over time, Marriott will add more personalized and informative content based on data and driven by beacons now installed at over 500 hotels,» Marriott noted.

The city initially gave the ad firm its approval to install tracking beacons in old - fashioned phone booths but reversed course when the public was made aware of the project.

Try to grow a black hole fast enough to explain the ones that existed in the real universe when it was just a billion years old: monsters a billion times the mass of the sun that drive the powerful beacons called quasars.

This particular neutron star is known as a pulsar because it sends out rotating beams of X-rays that sweep past Earth like lighthouse beacons.

our once beacons of light continue to endorse moral and cultural relativism.

Yet the Russians have discovered that many of their unattended RTG generators have vanished, sometimes to turn up in the hands of the unwitting, such as the two hunters who used a navigation beacon power source to warm themselves in the dead of winter, having stripped off everything but the radioactive source from the unit in question.

Because the third definition (and the accompanying verses) aren't just warnings concerning the consequences of unchecked and unrepentant sin, but they are also beacons of hope.

We may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers.

Our Children's Learning Center prides itself on being a cultural beacon for Bali that provides a compelling program for children aged 4 to 12.

Both the ascetic saint and the detached sage, exalted in various hagiographies as the true beacons for humanity, may in the final analysis in themselves prove to be poor human models, because they are, in spite of their perfection, incomplete human beings, static and unchanging.

The feature for the week is on service beacons, which sounds super boring until you realize they're basically player generated content, from mining contracts to bounties.

This momentous event came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of enslaved humans who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.

By about 350 BC, the Greeks had devised a code for signalling with fire beacons.

The honoring ceremony will conclude with a simultaneous beacon pointed skyward in appreciation for every Law Enforcement Officer killed in the line of duty.

«Molecular beacon signals low oxygen with ultrasound.»

Hyperallergic calls the project a «welcoming beacon for those hoping to air the nation's dirty laundry.»