Meanwhile, Facebook is swapping the classic globe notifications icon for a more standard alerts bell.
Such a device was installed in the Wendelstein in Bern – the tower of the Leutkirche church which the Münster later replaced – in 1383 at the latest; it alerted the bell-ringer to ring the tower bells.
It can do what it bloody well likes, flash dotted green lines at me, scream driver alert warnings, ring bells (for whom the bell tolls indeed), play music, Beethoven's fifth for all I care, honk at me, hoot at me, double-wink at me, hoodwink at me - I don't care, I just ignore it.
Beneath the omnipresent boom of This is an Alert, the church bells pealed.
The camps are only a symbol used like a door bell to alert the nation that company was here.
If you were dropping off a baby, you slunk to the turning-cradle in the dark of night, laid the bundle on it, turned the contraption, and rang a bell to alert those inside.
Ringing a bell to alert people that they're in my way might make me have second thoughts about giving up on my music career, and I already sold my bongos.
It's just a term borrowed from older stock exchanges like the NYSE that actually used a metal bell to alert those on the floor that trading had begun.
It is possible that this misalignment is caused through measurement bias, that is the public see the role of the journalist as an alarm bell to alert them (and the government) to the problem, rather than as a quasi-regulatory function of 'keeping them safe'.
In nearby Opopeo, residents have organized community patrols and created an alert system using church bells.
