He would watch the daylight wax and wane on the ceiling, or roaches creep slowly up the wall.
Even in the daylight, things looked mostly the same, until I looked down at my red Quora t-shirt.
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It takes months just to change the daylight savings rules, let alone the entire epoch of the operating system.
In the sitting room, the children had drawn the curtains against the daylight.
The pits get damp, especially during the monsoons, and after the daylight fades, weavers must rely on a single naked lightbulb.
We wouldn't jump overboard but we have a good connection to the authorities and we try to cover all the daylight hours, every day of the year.
Saying that any phone takes acceptable photos outside in the daylight should be a forgone conclusion at this point, but Sammy's shooter is just a bit above average.
The youngest of seven children, he was born, in 1911, in Gamaliya, a 1, 000-year-old quarter whose densely packed and labyrinthine lanes were overhung by balconies that blotted out the daylight.
Throughout the daylight hours he would hop from one city, town, or village to the next, landing on highways if there was no nearby airstrip and setting down and taking off from a stretch of pasture when he flew to talk with farmers and their families in the remotest of America's rural counties.
It is an imbalance in this status quo that has allowed the seasons to change: the daylight hours of summer, the time of good, shortening, whilst the time of evil, the winter of night, has gained strength, the interim period, known as dusk, when both are present, becoming an all consuming battle for supremacy.
This historical drama, directed by Uli Edel and based on the book of the same name by Stefan Aust, takes us scrupulously through the heyday of the group, in the nineteen-seventies, each deed more brazen and brutal than the last: the bombing of a newspaper office, the daylight murders of prominent German citizens, the siege of an embassy in Stockholm, the hijacking of a Lufthansa jet, and so forth.
Previous attempts to count emperor penguins systematically have been thrown off because field biologists could survey the penguin rookeries only during the extended daylight of the Antarctic summer, when conditions are relatively balmy and the penguins usually are scattered, feeding at sea.
The then-40-year-old artist had been in the market for a building to live and work in, and this one suited every purpose: The wide-open floors, the abundant daylight, even the shabby condition of the structure gave it a special appeal.
After our 3.30 a.m. finish, the ensuing daylight hours started with a couple of eye drops but pretty soon, the intrepid Talk Asia team was dashing off to our next interview with Bollywood hot shot director and chat show host, Karan Johar.
In the long-ago past, our food clocks were controlled by the best daylight foraging and hunting hours.
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Sensors automatically turn off lights after five minutes if they detect no movement and adjust the light level according to the available daylight.
The sudden loss of daylight in the evenings sends a pedestrian's risk skyrocketing, according to a seven-year study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
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All sorts of beautiful touches supported the well delivered dialogue: from authentic props such as the record player to the subtle lighting design that evocatively suggested the rising daylight that beamed into Frankie's apartment.
The team also wants to look into the effects of daylight vs. darkness, the issue of sun glare and different background colors.
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It is true, though, that the spread of electric lighting means many people eat their main meal of the day in the evening, when natural daylight is long gone the obverse of a mouse eating during daylight hours.
The net result: For the first time in many years, public professions by Vice President Joe Biden to the contrary notwithstanding, there is perceptible daylight between the United States and Israel.
Users would be able to program lights to automatically turn on and off when people are in the room, to adjust light levels to the amount of daylight coming into a room and to turn on and off or dim at different times via the Internet.
Councillor Christian Martin, the group's transport spokesman, said the figures were "daylight robbery" and "would be opposed all the way".
"The theft was carried out in a brazen manner in broad daylight in the centre of Guildford, " said Det Con Dan Chant.
In Afghanistan, the murder in broad daylight of a foreign UN worker in November pushed the UN to withdraw its international staff from rural areas in the south and east.
At the Froxfield workshops in Hampshire, where Mr Peters was apprenticed at 16, eagerly sweeping every last wood-curl from the floor, there were treadle saws, and only natural daylight illuminated the aproned young men bent solemnly over their work benches.
Luton resident George, who did not give a surname, called the situation "daylight robbery".
Scarborough Council said it had abandoned plans to carry out the work during darkness as it needed to monitor the situation in daylight.
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