"The phone is ringing all the time, " said Czarnek's mother, Victoria, who signed up for the university's mobile alert system.
Pavlov's early experiments on reflexes trained dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell, by ringing one every time they were fed with meat.
If your nerves are jangled by deadlines, an overflowing e-mail inbox and a constantly ringing phone, it may be time to disconnect.
Around 1086, a Chinese emperor commissioned one 40 feet tall, replete with ringing gongs and indicators that told the time of day, date and position of the planets.
With the cheers of success still ringing in his ears, we got some quality time with Art Thompson, the technical project director, and Baumgartner's earliest collaborator on the Stratos mission.
No doubt, he had come along the first time out of curiosity, because bell ringing struck him as quaint and Olde Worlde, like warm beer or clootie dumpling, and thus one of the experiences it would be a shame to miss while he was over here.
The court heard that on either 2 or 3 January 2012, Mr McFarlane was phoned by Mr Kane, but by the time he got to his mobile it had stopped ringing.
Messages continued to be left however and I rang again - this time I was told that they could not stop ringing me, as these were the details that they had been given, and that my son had to inform them of the correct details.
More messages were left in the next couple of days until I had time to contact the company to ask them to stop ringing me, and with up to date details for my son.
It was easy, sitting at that worn counter, listening to the comforting sound of ringing phones and clinking china on a rainy weekday afternoon, like the last time I was there, to even imagine that it felt permanent.
Employees can remain connected to both phones at the same time and don't have to pick up the handset on their ringing phone, then pick up their cell phone when it rings because both calls from both sources can be handled at the same time on the same headset.
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"The phone has been ringing off the hook with executives taking down proposals they've had on the shelves a long time to deal with computer security and cyberattacks, " says Albert Decker, head of the unit.
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