Sentences with phrase «lighthouse beacons»

In doing so, we create well constructed, meaningfully fleshed out thoughts and mini-stories and — when we least expect it — they may serve as career lighthouse beacons, navigating to hopeful, reparative and / or rejuvenating horizons!

HTC Vive's room - scale solution may require more wiring in at first, thanks in part to both lighthouse beacons needing power, but it didn't feel as messy to roll out when I wanted to play.

At the top of the 39 - foot concrete cylindrical tower flashed a third - order Fresnel lens, one of the most advanced lighthouse beacons in the world.

In 1822 the Frenchman Augustin Fresnel (fray - nel) improved the dioptric, or refractive, lens used in many lighthouse beacons.

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.

These interstellar «lighthouse beacons» are invaluable for doing observational experiments on a variety of astronomical phenomena, including measuring gravity waves.

The monkey was in oestrus, and like a lighthouse beacon, the huge swelling on her backside signalled that she was near ovulation.

As they rotate, an outside observer with an X-ray telescope, situated at the right angle, would see flashes of powerful light as the beam swept periodically across the observer's field of view, like a lighthouse beacon.

The works tell the story through various fragments and landscapes, including a magnificent sea vista from a lighthouse beacon that produce what the artist refers to as a «missing narrative» reminiscent of an atmospheric nineteenth - century seascape painting.

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At the foot of the headland is a lighthouse or beacon, not casting rays on every side, but throwing one bar of light through the darkness.

According to Dr. Ginsburg, a well - known physician of adolescent medicine, professor and author, parents should be lighthouses for their children, visible from the shoreline as a stable light or beacon.

Lighthouse is a beacon for public education and our graduates fulfill the promise of a better, brighter Oakland.

The NFC holds its long fluffy tail up as if it were a beacon of light from a lighthouse... it seems to say, «Hey, I'm here».

And when you spend a night (or two) at HI Point Montara hostel, you'll get to experience life by this beacon on an even deeper level that will make you appreciate it all even more, whether it's thanks to the people you meet while you're there or the opportunity to see the lighthouse under the moon and the stars.

Currituck Beach Lighthouse — Standing tall in Corolla, one of the northernmost points in the Outer Banks, Currituck Beach Lighthouse is unique in that it is one of the few unpainted beacons in existence.

The United States Lighthouse Board erected a beacon on the northwest side of the island in 1928, followed by the addition of a second beacon on the southwest corner in 1934.

The Lighthouse Board decided to place a light on the island, but to limit the expense of building an offshore beacon, an unmanned acetylene lens lantern on a tower was erected in 1912.

Experience the workings and the lifestyle of a mid 1800s lighthouse station at Cape Schanck Light Station, with magnificent buildings and the full functioning beacon.

Just south is the Piedras Blancas (meaning «white rocks») beach, where the 110 ′ Piedras Blanca Lighthouse, built in 1874, still stands as a beacon warning boaters and fishermen of the perilous reefs and rocky shores.

The lighthouse started its rich history in 1913 when it served as a beacon to traveling ships, ensuring they didn't crash into the craggy shore.

Winds and rain have buffeted this lighthouse, Oregon's tallest, since its beacon was first lit in 1873.

The Port Shepstone Lighthouse was retired of its duty in 1905 and replaced with an 8m high circular cast iron tower (now equipped with a radio beacon) at the Umzikulu River mouth.

The lighthouse also acts as a great landmark for finding the beach, as well as a necessary beacon for boats entering Table Bay.

Cape Otway is situated at the southern tip of Victoria's Western Coast, where the Southern Ocean meets Bass Strait marked by the beacon of the Cape Otway Lightstation which is the oldest surviving Lighthouse in mainland Australia.

Tonkünstlerversammlung des Allgemeinen Dueutschen Musikvereins Weimar depicts a crystalline monolith as a shining beacon or lighthouse.

James Lee Byars envisioned The Golden Tower as a colossal beacon and oracle that would bridge heaven and earth and unify humanity — a contemporary monument surpassing the grandeur of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

The Secretariat hopes that the new structure will serve as a physical symbol of their important role in the High North — a lighthouse of sorts and a beacon of knowledge and development.

Inhabitat points us to this proposed «lighthouse of sorts and a beacon of knowledge and development.»

The only locations exempt from possible designation as a «public work», would be those clearly under federal jurisdiction, pursuant to s. 91 of the Constitution Act, 1867, (U.K.), 30 & 31 Victoria, c. 3, such as penitentiaries, banks, beacons, buoys, lighthouses, and «such Classes of Subjects as are expressly excepted in the Enumeration of the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces.»»

Visalia renters insurance is the beacon in the storm, the lighthouse on the rocks that helps you when you run into stormy waters.

However, instead of HTC Vive Lighthouses, Oculus Waypoints or other infrared beacons tracking where you're looking and going, these headsets use integrated cameras to scan the surrounding environment.