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...developed the formulas 13 years ago in his hometown of Würzburg when he began working with a lanky 16-year-old named Dirk Nowitzki, voted Most Valuable Player of the NBA in 2007. Through their work, Geschwindner found that most players shoot the ball on too flat an arc. "The higher the arc, the better, but you can go too high. The optimum is around 60°," he says...
...sports, after all, involves battling gravity. But basketball coach Holger Geschwindner, 62, has found a way to turn the laws of physics to his advantage. A former captain of the German national team and a physicist, he has developed a series of formulas that may reveal the optimum arc for jump shots, using a combination of player height, arm length and release point. "Take differential and integral calculus. Make some derivations and create a curve," he recently said. "Everybody...
...home theater.Sony announced in January 2007 thatit would prohibit U.S. adult fi lms frombeing distributed in Blu-ray. Yet despitethe popularity of porn, Toshiba lost themost recent format war when it announcedon Feb. 19 that it would ceaseproduction of HD-DVD.Blu-ray’s website is now somethingof an Arc de Triomphe, announcing therecent conquests of nearly every productioncompany and partnerships with retailerslike Wal-Mart and Best Buy.What does this mean for porn? Well,adult fi lm may need to fi nd some moreattractive “actors.” The higher visualquality of Blu-ray DVDs doesn?...
...politics did not have the low standing it has today. Italians perceive it as the pursuit of private affairs in the public sphere. It has lost its primary purpose: to set goals, solve problems and lead the country forward. Nobody expects that Italian politics can be renewed in the arc of a single election campaign. But we have to acknowledge a plain fact: that a political system so prone to manipulation and myopia is incompatible with an advanced democracy. Is it an advanced democracy if scores of local city councils have been dissolved in recent years because they had been...
...That’s what really got us the win tonight—the fundamentals on both offense and defense.” Some great shooting also helped. The Crimson shot over 65 percent from the field in the second half, and went 4-for-5 from behind the arc. After struggling offensively in the first frame, Harvard put up 40 second-half points to fuel the big victory over the Bears. Junior guard Emily Tay led all scorers with 13 points, while Rollins added 12 to the cause. Junior Liz Tindal also made significant contributions off the bench...