Mark Steinkamp, a marketing director for Daktronics, the company that designed the Staples Center timing system, said the clock doesn't recalibrate itself.
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In the old days, teams used to time the other cars as well as their own but the electronic timing system made that redundant.
She added it was for practical reasons, as the timing system had been dismantled and there was no way of verifying that the competitor had finished.
On Monday the teams were met with lashing rain and by Tuesday this had turned to hail (though only on Turns 1-16, according to the official timing system).
From fans' point of view, the playoffs, with their complicated points system and mid-football-season timing, aren't nearly the perfect sporting event that the Super Bowl is.
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At the same time ATSAC builds a rich database of historical traffic statistics used to adjust the timing of signals and to tweak intersection configurations across the system.
While most tax professionals agree that changes needed to be made to the system to try and curtail abuse, the timing of the interim guidelines was criticized as those changes were made while tax returns were still being prepared.
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"Along with that, we also have a new system which give patients more say in the timing of their appointments - these measures have between them, brought down the percentage of 'no shows' from 30% to almost nothing, " continued Mr Anderson.
The final constellation of 30 satellites will more than double the spacecraft providing the American Global Positioning System, increasing the accuracy and reliability of navigation and timing signals that can be received across the planet.
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The way our system works is we start with the reading of our Weekly Timing Model (which is made up of 10 independent market models).
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You don't need an advanced degree in yajnopathy to recognize that the stars are aligned and the timing is propitious for the United States to establish a new national health care system.
While the root cause of the battery overheating remains unknown, the United States federal aviation officials have accepted Boeing's plan to fit all 787s with a revamped battery system and cleared the way for the plane to fly again, although the timing remains uncertain.
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