As noted last week here, it’s been a tough off-season for University of Oklahoma Sooner football program, what with more NCAA sanctions and all. But it was only a matter of time before the Sooner faithful would be in a position to fight back. A flurry of Texas Longhorn players getting arrested during the off-season has given Sooner fans their opportunity. The Mack Brown-Longhorn “All-Character” team below is the result:
The Enron Broadband trials were not the Enron Task Force’s finest hour (see also here and here).
Now that the Task Force has been disbanded, Justice Department attorneys are left to pick up the pieces of the Task Force’s shattered cases and, as the Chronicle’s Kristen Hays reports from the Fifth Circuit, it’s not an easy task.
Sort of what you would expect from cases in which the government asserted an unwarranted expansion of a criminal law intended to punish kickbacks and bribes against businessmen who did no such thing.
Criminal convictions based primarily on juror resentment of wealthy businessmen tend not to hold up well under the bright light of appellate scrutiny.
Does this mean that I should be listening to Le Nozze Di Figaro, K.492: “Che Soave Zeffiretto” while practicing my golf swing?:
[Yale University physics professor Robert] Grober has created an instrument that gives a player an immediate response to the golf swing. A smooth, rhythmic swing with Groberís sensor emits a pleasing tone. A herky-jerky motion lets out a wail.
To create the sound of a golf swing, Grober used Musical Instrument Digital Interface technology that combined instruments like the piccolo, the oboe and the French horn. The music ó an audio interpretation of the swing itself ó is transmitted wirelessly to the golfer through a headset.
ìThis dimension that they can access while theyíre hitting the golf club opens up a whole world of information that they hadnít otherwise had,î he said. ìGetting it in this format, in a real-time basis, helps people to change on time scales which are much shorter than traditionally. It used to be if you wanted to make a mechanical change in your golf swing, it could take months to do that. But if you can hear whatís going on, you can change the sound space almost instantly.î
Grober said by having players focus on tempo instead of swing mechanics, the mechanics often followed anyway. ìReally quickly they understand itís about tempo and they forget all these complicated thoughts about position,î he said. ìWhen the motion becomes dynamic and smooth, there are some good physics behind that.î
Grober, whose product is scheduled for release in January, said he has worked with 200 golfers and teachers on his invention. While the technology is new, the idea of using physics to teach a golf swing has been around for decades.
Ben Doyle, who wrote the foreword to Homer Kelleyís popular instruction book, ìThe Golfing Machine,î said he could see benefits in a golfer being able to listen to the sound of the golf swing.
ìYou hear the thrust of centrifugal force,î said Doyle, the golf instructor at the Golf Club at Quail Lodge in Carmel, Calif. ìIf a student can hear that sound, itís very important feedback.î
Read the entire article. Also, check out this video segment demonstrating the technology narrated by the author of the article, NY Times golf columnist, Damon Hack.