A Writer's Rendezvous
The song lyrics to Pearl Jam's “Machine Head” are invading my thoughts with an earworm planted by the radio yesterday. The thought is a good one, if I could turn down the tempo a bit. It's time to get to work. My keyboard needs new batteries and the ...
www.patheos.com
January 15, 2016
Concord High principal Gene Connolly deals with changes, sticks to traditions
His alarm clock still goes off at 4:30 a.m. every morning and he catches a little bit of Morning Joe and some sports news as he gets ready. Connolly drinks his first cup of coffee before the sun comes up, as he always has, but now he sips it slowly and ...
www.concordmonitor.com
December 26, 2015
Southeast Asia Journal: Is Malaria Resurgence in the Offing?
Inside a border clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand, dozens of patients and their families sit on the long, wooden benches of the Wang Pha Clinic just up the hill from a river crossing where a small motorized canoe ferries patients from Myanmar for 250 baht ...
www.medpagetoday.com
December 27, 2015
A refugee's journey, part 2: After risking everything to reach Europe, what next?
Hashem al-Souki is sitting in the little public library in Skinnskatteberg when he hears the bad news. It's been six months . In particular, Hashem warms to Kerstin, a frail widow who lives alone in a wooden cottage out in the woods. She gets him to ...
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2015
An unbelievable story of rape
A little after 1 p.m. on a wintry day in January 2011, Detective Stacy Galbraith approached a long, anonymous row of apartment buildings that spilled up a low hill in a Denver suburb. Snow covered the Galbraith listened to the woman with a sense of ...
www.13wmaz.com
December 16, 2015
The Final Voyage: Part 6
Due to its small size Hughes is generally pretty quiet, but as luck would have it we had arrived during a multi day funeral event which brought people in from other villages. Though the Koyukuk River is The office building, in typical village style ...
www.amerisurv.com
January 2, 2016
The Doomsday Invention
Bostrom had little interest in conventional philosophy—not least because he expected that superintelligent minds, whether biologically enhanced or digital, would make it obsolete. By a window was a wooden desk supporting an iMac and not another ...
www.newyorker.com
November 16, 2015
Tiny French bulldog functions as alarm clock in adorable viral video
There's no hitting snooze on this alarm clock. Link the French bulldog shows how he can function as an alarm clock, according to his owner Sean Sarantos. Link gnaws on his owner's beard in an attempt to get him to wake up, but Sarantos can't be coaxed out ...
abc13.com
January 14, 2016
Hatton Garden heist: how an old-school working-class criminal's swan song came together
These men were Brian Reader, Terry Perkins, Daniel Jones and another co-conspirator, Carl Wood, who pleaded not ... leaving a small drop down to the basement, where the vault was. Basil disabled the alarm only partially, but enough so that he could cut ...
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2016
The science behind why you love a weekend lie-in
But while the light of a small fire won’t influence our body clock ... you wake up because of the alarm clock not because your body is ready. But it’s not the alarm clock’s fault that you’re not getting enough sleep. In a way we place ourselves ...
theconversation.com
January 15, 2016
Ten little known facts about Easter Monday 1916 and the Rising
He said: 'Finland, a small country, Russia eat her up ... However, the Rising began four months earlier on April 24, at approximately 12 o’clock – Dublin Mean Time. Therefore, when modern commemorations of 1916 begin at midday outside the GPO ...
www.irishcentral.com
January 15, 2016
The Sizzle: This week's entertainment calendar
Tonight, Groove Fetish, 8 p.m.; Jan. 22, Yarn, 8 p.m.; Jan. 29, The Alarm Clock Conspiracy, 8 p.m.; Jan. 30 ... Opposite Box with Gang of Theives, 9 p.m. JACK OF THE WOOD—98 Patton Avenue, Asheville. Tonight, Johnny Monster Band with Kristina Murray ...
www.mcdowellnews.com
January 14, 2016
Proof that a tiny French bulldog makes the best alarm clock
We are of course talking about a tiny French bulldog puppy. Sadly french Bulldog alarm clocks are not available for hire. But let’s be real. You’ve been waiting for an excuse to adopt a little puppy for years. Here it is: it’ll help you get up on ...
metro.co.uk
January 15, 2016
Home Tour: Ruth Lyons' former Mount Airy home has the feel of the groundbreaking TV personality
The nearly 500-square-foot den – with its knotty pine walls and vaulted ceiling, wood-burning fireplace in the corner and ... s projects included more than 100 gas stations and the clock tower in Covington’s Goebel Park – also upgraded the electrical ...
www.wcpo.com
January 15, 2016
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