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43 unusual facts about "Time's Arrow"


2009 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

The teams combined for 11 punts and two fumbles in the first half, with Missouri's safety early in the second quarter and a last-second touchdown just before halftime for the only points points on the board.

Avaya ERS 5500

The switches have an integrated time-domain reflectometer (TDR) built into every copper port, providing diagnostic monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities of the connected cables allowing for the troubleshooting of cable defects (crimped, cut, shorted or damaged cables) from the telnet, SNMP, web and console management interfaces.

Blackmagic Design

The camera can take video at 23.98p, 24p, 25p, 29.97p, and 30p with built-in stereo mic or 3.5mm audio jack which is supported by plenty of audio controls, but cannot take photo, although has a time-lapse function.

Double Time

Double-time, in music, a type of meter and tempo or rhythmic feel

Falsehood in War-Time

He was granted a peerage and became Leader of the House of Lords in 1930.

In 1906, Ponsonby ran as a Liberal candidate, unsuccessfully, at the general election but was elected a Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom (MP) at a by-election in 1908.

Half time

Part-time, a form of employment with fewer hours than a full-time job

Half-time, an interval between two periods of a sporting match

HTML+TIME

HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions) was the name of a W3C submission from Microsoft, Compaq/DEC and Macromedia that proposed an integration of SMIL semantics with HTML and CSS.

Invest Financial Corporation

Invest’s total registered advisers account for 1,136 full time advisers and 274 part time advisers in approximately 150 Financial Institutions.

John F. Osborne

He became an editor at Time–Life, eventually becoming the London-based editor, and then the Far East editor, based in Hong Kong in the 1950s.

Keith Drinkel

His notable appearances in film and television include A Family at War (1970), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Gandhi (1982) and the Doctor Who story Time-Flight (1982).

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works

Time, Forward!, a 1965 Soviet film about one day of construction of Magnitka

Speech compression

Time-compressed speech refers to voice compression for immediate playback, without any decompression (so that the final speech sounds faster to the listener).

Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love

Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love is the fourth album from The Free Design.

Stop-Time

Stop-Time, published in 1967, is a memoir by American author Frank Conroy, and tells the story of his poor childhood and early adulthood, growing up in New York City and Florida.

The Curious Incident of the WMD in Iraq

It is a fictional autobiography of then British Prime Minister Tony Blair, parodying the style of Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Time-Division Long-Term Evolution

In Taiwan, China Mobile built a TD-LTE network in Taipei, for testing purposes for the local GSM operator Far EasTone, .

Time-evolving block decimation

Guifré Vidal, then at the Institute for Quantum Information, CalTech,

Time-inhomogeneous hidden Bernoulli model

Contrary to HMM, the state transition process in TI-HBM is not a Markov-dependent process, rather it is a generalized Bernoulli (an independent) process.

Time-Lag Records

Time-Lag Records also acts as a distributor for other independent labels who release music in a similar genre, including Chocolate Monk, Digitalis, and Eclipse Records.

Time-lapse microscopy

The Cheese Mites by Martin Duncan from 1903 is one of the earliest microcinematographic films.

Time-Megeve-Mont-Blanc

This cycling event attracts 2,000 riders on a 140-km route that starts from the valley town of Sallanches and includes three passes: Col de la Colombiere, Col des Aravis, and Col des Saisies.

Time-of-flight mass spectrometry

The idea had been proposed two years earlier, in 1946, by W. E. Stephens of the University of Pennsylvania in a Friday afternoon session of a meeting, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of the American Physical Society.

Time-series segmentation

In the latter two cases, one may take advantage of the fact that the label assignments of individual segments may repeat themselves (for example, if a person speaks at several separate occasions during a conference) by attempting to cluster the segments according to their distinguishing properties (such as the spectral content of each speaker's voice).

Time-to-digital converter

While the basic concepts (like Vernier methods (Pierre Vernier 1584-1638) and time stretching) of dividing time into measurable intervals are still up-to-date, the implementation changed a lot during the past 50 years.

Time-Triggered Protocol

TTP communication controller chips and IP are available from sources including austriamicrosystems, ON Semiconductor and ALTERA.

In 2004, Joseph Mangan, a former employee of TTTech, created controversy surrounding TTTech's products on the Airbus A380 by asserting that there was danger that microprocessors in the plane could result in sudden decompression.

Time-variant system

As with any fluid-filled tube, resonances (called formants) change as the vocal organs such as the tongue and velum move.

Time–distance diagram

Time–distance diagrams can be created using any kind of drawing tool, certainly one which allows scaled drawing (for example, CAD editors, Visio).

Time–frequency analysis

On the other hand, using Gabor transform causes an improvement in the clarity and readability of the representation, therefore improving its interpretation and application to practical problems.

Early work in time–frequency analysis can be seen in the Haar wavelets (1909) of Alfréd Haar, though these were not significantly applied to signal processing.

Modified Wigner distribution function, Gabor–Wigner distribution function, and so on (see Gabor–Wigner transform).

Time–frequency analysis for music signals

Joan Serra, Emilia Gomez, Perfecto Herrera, and Xavier Serra, "Chroma Binary Similarity and Local Alignment Applied to Cover Song Identification," August, 2008

Time, the Healer

Time, The Healer is a 10 track debut album by None the Less which is due to be released in March 2010.

Time's arrow

Arrow of time, a direction of time on a four-dimensional relativistic map of the world (as per Arthur Eddington)

Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle

Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle is a 1987 history of geology by Stephen Jay Gould offering a historical account of the conceptualization of Deep Time and uniformitarianism using the works of Thomas Burnet, James Hutton, and Charles Lyell.

Time's Champion

The BBC, who hold the copyright in Doctor Who and had rejected Hinton's original proposal in 2004, were not involved.

It also features plot elements from Hinton's earlier book The Quantum Archangel.

Time's Runnin' Out

#"Somebody Told A Lie"- 4:14
produced by Lord Jamar

It was released on August 21, 2007, on Traffic Entertainment and featured production from Grand Puba, Lord Jamar, DJ Alamo, and Lord Finesse.

Vremya

From 1986 until the present, Vremya has used the theme song from Time, Forward! as its signature tune and opening sequence.

Wing-Time

Based in the mountain town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Wing-Time sauces are shipped all over the country and exported to thousands of stores.


Beatrice and Virgil

Early on in the story, the protagonist, an author, (some say that the protagonist is a reflection of Yann himself) makes reference to Primo Levi's If This Is a Man; Art Spiegelman's Maus; David Grossman's See Under: Love; Martin Amis's Time's Arrow; George Orwell's Animal Farm; Albert Camus's The Plague; and Pablo Picasso's Guernica.

Mark Twain in popular culture

The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Time's Arrow" (1992) featured a fictionalized version of Mark Twain, played by Jerry Hardin.

Pico House

The Pico House was featured prominently in the Star Trek: The Next Generation two part episode "Time's Arrow", filling in as turn of the 18th and 19th to 20th century San Francisco.