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	Time signal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When more accurate public time signals were desired for use in navigation, a number of traditional audible or visible time signals were established for the purpose of allowing navigators to set their chronometers by.
		The ball was set to drop at 1 P.M. to enable the astronomers to establish the correct moment it should drop by observing the sun at noon.
		Loran-C time signals may also be used for radio clock synchronization, by augmenting their highly accurate frequency transmissions with external measurements of the offsets of LORAN navigation signals against time standards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Time_signal (1023 words)

	Time ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A time ball is a large sphere, visible to shipping that drops at a set time to allow the ships to set their Chronometer, so that they are able to find their longitude.
		Time Balls were used by shipping before the days of radio and in particular the timing pips and announcements that made time balls obsolete.
		Time ball stations used to set their clocks from observatories, who would be tracking the position of the sun and stars to work out the time.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Time-ball.htm (410 words)

	USNO Millennium Press Release
		Time balls were used in many cities around the country and around the world during the 19th century.
		The time ball awaits the rigging of the crane.
		The time ball is attached to the mast.
	www.usno.navy.mil /ballrel.html (796 words)

	History of Hong Kong Time Service
		The provision of an accurate time service, particularly to mariners, was one of the original duties of the Observatory since its establishment in 1883.
		With the introduction and wider use of time signals on radio broadcast, the time ball was dismantled on 30 June 1933.
		A timing system based on a Caesium beam atomic clock was first acquired in 1980 and a replacement clock was installed in 1994.
	www.hko.gov.hk /gts/time/History_of_HK_Time_Service.htm (388 words)

	Anthony Caponetto Reptiles - ACReptiles.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ball Pythons are the most popular species of Python in the United States and probably in the world.
		Frightened Ball Pythons will typically roll up into a ball (which is where they get the name) and tuck their head tightly between the coils to avoid being harmed.
		Ball Pythons are the most commonly kept Pythons in the United States and probably the world.
	www.acreptiles.com /ball_python_care.htm (2363 words)

	USNO Millennium Program: History of the USNO Time Ball
		As an institution that owed its founding to the necessity for accurate time in the form of the marine chronometer, time as determined by astronomical observation was at the very heart of its mission.
		A number of balls and a variety of methods for dropping, including controlled lowering, dropping onto the dome, and throwing by hand were probably used in the early period, until an electromagnetic relay released the raised ball.
		By 1867 time was telegraphed "at noon, by the different lines of wires, to the northward, eastward, and westward, and as far southward as Texas." By 1869 Western Union distributed signals "which serve to regulate the clocks of nearly all the railroads in the southern States."
	www.usno.navy.mil /tball.html (1174 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Time balls became an official way of announcing time and were installed on buildings with no connection to a port.
		By 1884, the year the Western nations accepted Greenwich Mean Time as their standard time, the United States government had installed a time ball on the State, War, and Navy Building next to the White House, far from any port.
		The time ball in Times Square was never used to announce noon to the boats in New York Harbor.
	www.csmonitor.com /durable/1999/12/29/p18s1.htm (738 words)

	Music: A Honky-Tonk Song (Austin Chronicle . 12-28-99)
		It was a real creative time for me. I knew that the way they made their records, took their time, that they were learning as they went along, and I was glad that they were into the music that I was already a fan of and knew how to play.
		Ball stuck by the singer until Cash's decision to retire from the road in 1997 due to the debilitating effects of Shy-Drager syndrome.
		Ball's time to relax and play Central Texas beer joints may be soon interrupted, though, as the possibility of a tour of Japan and Australia with the Flying Burrito Brothers may unfold in the very near future.
	www.weeklywire.com /ww/12-28-99/austin_music_feature3.html (2396 words)

	TIME 100: Lucille Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lucy's quirks and foibles — her craving to be in show biz, her crazy schemes that always backfired, the constant fights with the Mertzes — became as particularized and familiar as the face across the dinner table.
		Ball's dizzy redhead with the elastic face and saucer eyes was the model for scores of comic TV females to follow.
		I Love Lucy was unmistakably a television show, and Ball the perfect star for the small screen.
	www.time.com /time/time100/artists/profile/lucy.html (391 words)

	APOD: October 29, 1999 - The USNO Millennium Time Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the nineteenth century, dropping a time ball from a prominent location was a practical way of communicating the time to the surrounding country side and
		time service for the United States, the U.S. Naval Observatory dropped a time ball at precisely noon every day begining in 1845.
		Standard Time on New Year's Eve - will be the local culmination of a "round-the-world time ball drop" marking the beginning of the year 2000 and the beginning of the Third Millennium in 2001.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap991029.html (173 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Precision Planning For 2000
		It's a brand new "time ball," and the best way to know the precise instant the year 2000 arrives will be to see it drop.
		It turns out people have been dropping time balls even longer than TV celebrities have been leading Times Square crowds in singing "Auld Lang Syne," and the observatory intends to be historically accurate.
		Astronomers could tell time precisely from the stars, and dropping a ball from a poll was how they informed the public, according to Dick.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/local/daily/aug99/timeball26.htm (833 words)

	Ball games
		If the ball does go between somebody’s legs they are 'out' but remain standing in their position legs apart with arms folded or on their head.
		There are no set time limits and at any point the referee can call out another number, at which those players on the field have to drop their brooms where they are and run back to their teams.
		Ball is thrown between players on the outside across the circle (may not go around it).
	www.funandgames.org /ballcatch.htm (5294 words)

	Times Square Alliance - New Year's Eve - About The Ball
		At 11:59 p.m., the Ball begins its descent as millions of voices unite to count down the final seconds of the year, and celebrate the beginning of a new year full of hopes, challenges, changes and dreams.
		This original Ball, constructed of iron and wood and adorned with 100 25-watt light bulbs, was 5 feet in diameter and weighed 700 pounds.
		The Ball has been lowered every year since 1907, with the exceptions of 1942 and 1943, when its use was suspended due to the wartime "dimout" of lights in New York City.
	www.timessquarenyc.org /nye/nye_ball.html (773 words)

	bpBallBalancing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The ball starts with an initial position and initial velocity, and we require the ball to be brought to a rest at the center of the beam by dynamically adjusting the angle of the beam.
		So at each time step, we require the following sequence of actions: (i) read the value of the beam angle from the joystick, (ii) draw the beam at that angle, (iii) draw the ball on the beam at its current position, (iv) use Equations (12) and (13) to compute the new position of the ball.
		For example, for the neural net to balance the ball, the network must be able to generalize; that is, on the basis of the training data construct a control law.
	neuron.eng.wayne.edu /bpBallBalancing/ball5.html (1135 words)

	Bouncing Ball
		Each time the ball bounces, it goes back up into the air by a factor of r times its previous height.
		A ball is dropped from a height of 25 feet with a re-bound factor of 0.32 feet.
		A ball is dropped from a height of 50 feet with a re-bound factor of 0.92 feet.
	www.oakton.edu /acad/dept/mpcs/mat/m251/calculator/calc4/bouncing.htm (758 words)

	Lucille Ball
		Ball's recollection of her early childhood were for the most part happy.
		Ball auditioned and was hired as one of the twelve "Goldwin Girls." It was a small part--that of a slave girl--and it would be many years after her work in B-pictures before she would achieve celebrity status, but Lucille Ball had found Hollywood.
		Ball was signed for the part and immediately established herself in the role.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/386/lball.html (929 words)

	Time-balls
		The ball will be hoisted half-way up the pole, at five minutes before One o'clock, as a preparatory signal, and close up at two minutes before One.
		The ball is automatically raised halfway up the mast at 12.55pm, to the top at 12.58pm and drops at 1.00pm precisely, (BST in summer, GMT in winter).
		Between 1906 and 1942 a one o'clock gun was fired at Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour as the ball dropped.
	www.tumblong.uts.edu.au /artefacts/greenwich/more.cfm (959 words)

	Time Ball Tower, Kent's Nautical History, Time Ball Tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Time Ball Tower at Deal was originally built in 1795 as a Semaphore Station at a time when Deal had a Naval dockyard.
		The large ball was raised to the top of its pole and dropped at exactly 1pm each day thereby giving shipping passing through the English Channel or anchored in the Downs an accurate time check.
		Although no longer needed as a means of checking time, the time ball still drops at 1pm each day keeping up the tradition.
	www.yourcounty.co.uk /freetime/archive/discover/timeballtower.html (201 words)

	HISTORY
		The time ball was dropped every day precisely at Noon, enabling the inhabitants of Washington to set their timepieces.
		Atomic time is kept synchronized with universal time by the addition or subtraction of a leap second whenever necessary.
		Accurate time synchronization with the Master Clock is now beginning to be carried out through the use of atomic clocks in satellites, such as the GPS satellites, which will provide the primary means of time synchronization and worldwide time distribution in the future.
	tycho.usno.navy.mil /history.html (962 words)

	Coaching Youth Sports: T-Ball - Important Time in a Young Players Development
		For a young player, T Ball is the first step in organized baseball.
		Lifting the ball off the tee is especially bad for young hitters learning to swing the bat.
		Since a ball on a tee has no movement, the proper mechanics of swinging down on a tee should produce low line drives and hard hit ground balls.
	www.youth-sports.com /getpage.cfm?file=/topics/030100-2.html&userid=10193046 (536 words)

	Science of Baseball: Fastball Reaction Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Click on the "play ball" button and as soon as you see "swing batter," click on your screen as fast as you can.
		Fastball Reaction Time imitates a 90-mph fastball thrown by a major league pitcher.
		Although it takes some time for the signal to travel along each nerve, the major delay in your reaction time occurs at the junction points in between the different nerves involved, and between the nerves and the muscles at your fingers.
	www.exploratorium.edu /baseball/reactiontime.html (174 words)

	The Bird and The Ball Makeup Lab
		A ball undergoes vertical motion and is acted upon only by the force of gravity.
		As a ball undergoes vertical motion and is acted upon only by the force of gravity, the velocity of the ball is ______________ (always changing, usually changing, always constant).
		Note that prior to this time, the ball is rising and after this time the ball is falling.
	www.glenbrook.k12.il.us /GBSSCI/PHYS/makeups/motion/u1l6.html (980 words)

	D3 HELP \| Lag-Free Monsterball \| By Chris "Mobius" Davies
		The only info it requires to do this is; the current speed and direction of the ball, its mass, the location on the ball of the hit, and the force exerted by the hit.
		The only time it would NOT be real time is the time it took for the new "momentum" packet to arrive and the PC to force the ball through a small "impossible" move.
		Because the ball is not in the same position on your screen as when the ball was hit (by ½ the average ping, or half your ping, whichever is the smaller), there is a slight discrepancy as to its NEW location/direction/velocity.
	www.planetdescent.com /d3help/nolag.shtml (1415 words)

	Time Ball
		The dropping of the time ball to mark the millennium raises the contentious question of when the millennium actually begins.
		Similarly, time dissemination has evolved from the visual signal represented by the time ball, to the telegraph beginning in the 1860s, to radio signals and finally the Global Positioning System (GPS), for which USNO still supplies the time.
		Earliest evidence of a time ball at the Naval Observatory.
	www.xs4all.nl /~carlkop/timeball.html (1068 words)

	AP Online: Naval Observatory Erects Time Ball@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		WASHINGTON (AP) -- A large bronze-colored ball has risen on a tall metal mast over the U.S. Naval Observatory, awaiting its chance to mark the arrival of the new millennium.
		``This time ball will be the official marker of the beginning of the year 2000 and the beginning of the Third Millennium in 2001,'' the Naval Observatory announced Friday.
		While the popular Times Square New Year extravaganza in New York is the best known example of dropping a ball to mark an event, the tradition was begun...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:23213190&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (214 words)

	"Surprise Party Time Ball" Toy Contains Look-Alike-Drug Capsules Recalled
		Some of the trinket toys inside the balls may include nylon cord friendship bracelets and rings, paper packets of dinosaurs and monsters, several round reflectors, animal shapes, chess pieces, and plastic cartoon faces.
		Each ball is approximately three-inches in diameter and consists of a clear or possibly fl plastic ball that separates in half.
		A sticker label on the ball reads "MADE IN TAIWAN." Some of the trinket toys inside the balls may include a nylon cord friendship bracelet and ring, a paper packet of dinosaurs and monsters, several round reflectors, animal shapes, chess pieces, and plastic cartoon faces.
	www.cpsc.gov /cpscpub/prerel/prhtml94/94084.html (635 words)

	New Years: A Brief History of Time Balls
		Yet the Times Square ball is not the world's most important time ball - nor was it the first.
		At 12:55 p.m., the red, wood-and-leather ball was raised halfway up a 15-foot mast atop the building; at 12:58 it went to the top; and on the hour the ball began to drop, the start of its downward motion signaling exactly 1 p.m.
		When, in 1907, a ban on fireworks prompted The Times to find a new celebration finale, a time ball was brought in, and the tradition began.
	www.canadiancontent.net /forums/about3067.html (832 words)

	Stuart's Rolling Ball Clock Page
		At a period of time in the 1980's a "Large" version of the Arrow Ball Clocks appeared.
		It uses 3 metal balls and 3 rows of Dominos that rise and fall to represent the time.
		The Time Machine also now has a "seconds" wheel which lets you see exactly when a ball is about to get scooped up.
	www.stuartsinger.com /ballclock.htm (1744 words)

	How hard to kick a ball - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Newton said that a force is equal to a change in momentum over time, basicaly you use this to get your ball moving, by a appliting a force for a fixed time you give your ball a set momemtum and thefore a velocity.
		For every frame, The distance past the point where the ball was created can be calculated by s = vt + 0.5at^2 where v is te velocity that you created the ball with, t is the time elapsed since your ball was created and a is yoru decelleration due to friction.
		You will notice that the position of the ball is only based on time, this measn that tere is no need to cnage velocities etc in code and worry about for loops.
	www.gamedev.net /community/forums/viewreply.asp?ID=1379002 (1087 words)

	VBBA--Old Bethpage Old Time Base Ball
		The game of base ball in the 1800s in a setting not unlike the one recreated at Old Bethpage Village Restoration.
		Base ball at Old Bethpage Village Restoration is a living recreation of the game as it was played in the 1860s and the 1880s.
		Old Time Base Ball is vigorous and competitive, often bringing spectators to their feet in applause as a player makes an acrobatic catch or scores an ace on a well struck ball.
	www.vbba.org /teams/bethpage.html (261 words)

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