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This course is a basic course of physics, focusing on areas usable in the sound technology. The first part is focused on the basics of particle mechanics, force and motion. The following areas are harmonic, damped and forced oscillations, then progressive and standing waves, the energy transmitted by waves, superposition and interference of waves. Physical fields are next areas which will be discussed. Gravitational field will be mentioned briefly. Electric and magnetic fields will be discussed in more detail, students will spend their formation, properties and basic laws and also generation of electromagnetic waves. This course will familiarize students with basic physical principles used in the measurement of non-electrical quantities by electrical methods. The last part of the course is focused on limits of classical physics and outline of their overcoming.
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Recommended or required reading
HALLIDAY, D.; RESNICK, R.; WALKER, J. Fyzika. Vysoké učení technické v Brně, Vutium, Prometheus Praha, 2000, 2003, 2006. (CS)
FYZIKA. Studijní materiály k přednáškám, cvičením a laboratornímu cvičení. Stránka předmětu na eLearningu VUT. (CS)
HOLZNER, Steve. Physics For Dummies. John Willey & Sons, Inc., 2005. (EN)
KOKTAVÝ, B. Úvod do studia fyziky. VUTIUM, Brno, 1998. (CS)
KOKTAVÝ, B.: Mechanika hmotného bodu, VUTIUM Brno, 1998. (CS)
Halliday D., Resnick R., Walker J.: Fyzika Vysoké učení technické v Brně, Vutium, Brno, 2014, Překlad 8. orig. vydání (CS)
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1. Fundamentals of particle mechanics.
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3. Harmonic, damped and forced oscillations.
4. Progressive and standing waves, energy transmitted by waves.
5. Superposition and interference of waves.
6. Sound, origin, properties, basic laws.
7. Physical properties of fields, gravitational field.
8. Electric field formation, properties, basic laws.
9. Electric current, formation, properties, basic laws.
10. Magnetic field, formation, properties, basic laws.
11. Electromagnetic field, electromagnetic waves and light.
12. Measurement of non-electrical quantities by electrical methods.
13. Limits of classical physics and outline of their overcoming.
The aim of the course is to provide students with a clear and logical interpretation of the basic physical concepts and laws focusing on areas utilized in the audio technology. There are mainly a particle mechanics, oscillations, waves, electric and magnetic fields. Understanding of these concepts and laws will be strengthened through a wide range of interesting applications. Practical knowledge will be verified in the laboratory exercises.
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Light at the Solstice
Winter Solstice. Longest night/shortest day. First day of winter, December 23 this year. Whatever we call it and however we mark it, astronomically speaking, the day can be thought of as the almost imperceptible tipping of the balance between daylight and dark. In our hemisphere, on the first day of winter, the highest point the sun reaches—at noon—is nonetheless the lowest high-point of the year. As of Christmas Eve, the sun begins to climb again and the amount of daylight in the day begins to slowly increase. I've thought of the first day of winter as all these things, over the years.
Writing in my journal, anticipating the day a few mornings ago, I had another thought altogether. The sun is also at its furthest point south in its rising at dawn. I like the fact that right at Christmas, right at the New Year, the sun can be thought of as both east and south, directions I associate with spring/summer, with new beginnings, with vision and clarity, and with connection and the heart.
Light is everything to a photographer. This time of year, when days end early and so many have morning and evening commutes in darkness and spend their days working indoors, a little sunshine goes a long, long way. So in honor of the season, this blog is all about light, late fall light, Outer Banks style.
Earlier this month, I began noticing a predominance of cirrus clouds overhead in late afternoon. I have an old story to share, before I tell you my new one! In late November 2006, after a series of northeast storms, I walked the beach looking at my feet, photographing all the neat stuff that had washed up: whelk egg cases and lots of shells and little pieces of driftwood with barnacles, you name it. I was walking a beach access in Kitty Hawk, late afternoon. There were lots of wispy cirrus clouds overhead, and it was cold. Intent on all the treasures the sea had given, I was not paying much attention to either the sea or the sky when I felt, or heard in my mind, a suggestion: look up. Well, I didn't. As I said, the stuff at my feet was really neat! The suggestion grew more insistent, louder. Look Up! So I did. What I saw took my breath and I literally bent backwards to lift my camera and point it straight up at the clouds over my head. An upside-down rainbow was there, like some giant smile in the sky! I had to google to find out what it was: a circumzenithal arc, formed by those cirrus clouds bending the sunlight at just the right angle, in an otherwise clear sky. They form only when the sun is in a very narrow angle to the horizon, in late afternoon or early morning, and they don't last long at all. In less time than it has taken you to read this, it vanished. I never saw one again, although I look up now every time I see cirrus clouds and wonder, is today the day?
So back to the present. Predominance of cirrus clouds overhead. I looked up every afternoon but no upside-down rainbows. But on December 6, there was a strikingly beautiful full sun halo in the western sky in late afternoon—with sunspots on either side, and with a minor arc at the top! I'd never seen all three at one time before so I ran for my camera and my wide-angle lens. And there in the sky, above the halo itself, was a circumzenithal arc!! All four elements present at one time, and over the frame shop and gallery, too!
The next day was equally pretty but no arcs in sight. I went to the ocean about 4 pm and what caught my eye again was light, a path of light that led my eye and heart right to the sea. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out that the angle of the sun was just right to shine through the railings of the beach access platform and create this pathway of light. Like the arc, it faded very fast as the sun sank and clouds moved to diffuse the light source.
On December 8 there were sunlit flailing cirrus clouds but no other optical phenomenon, at least not while I was out looking up!
Then on December 18 my Westie woke me at 4:48 a.m. Yes, precisely 4:48! Out we went—he's such a good dog, he wakes me rarely that early in the morning, so I knew he meant Business. Taking him out meant I also had to take the 1-year-old Sheltie in her turn. By then it was after 5, and I was awake with a capital "A". The moody grey skies of the past couple of days seemed to have brightened, as I could see stars and wisps of cirrus clouds overhead.
I decided to let the dogs crawl back in bed with Pete but I stayed up and quiet in the living room and left the house in time to photograph the sun rising well in the south, from the beach at Jennette's Pier. By then the cirrus clouds had either dissipated or moved on, and the morning sky held mostly puffy cumulus clouds. I waited for the sun to climb above them, hoping for the glorious crepuscular sunrays that always make me smile and warm my insides, no matter how cold the weather. And it was cold! I'd left my gloves at home and my fingers were freezing—but it was all worth it to watch the sun break through the clouds. The tops of some of the clouds toward the north glowed peachy-pink for just a little bit, and the ocean was a bright silver-blue-green I've never learned the word for. The sun climbed higher and was completely obscured by another layer of cloud. I waited, thinking the sunrays might just be spectacular—the reward for all of us is below.
Light-light-light. On this, the eve of the winter solstice, right before Christmas and the New Year, this is my wish and hope and intention and prayer for each of you: that 2012 will be for you a year of Light.
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Sky smile, aka Circumzenithal Arc. All the ingredients were there: wispy cirrus clouds, sun low in the afternoon sky, and my attention to my inner prompting: Look Up!
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See the halo? See the sundogs, one on each side, like a dab of rainbow? See the rainbow colors at the top of the ring? Now...look up. See, near the top edge of the picture, a Sky Smile?
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Here is the halo over Yellowhouse.
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Follow the Light. Good advice in any season.
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All kinds of clouds, including some cirrus clouds, over the ocean in late afternoon.
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Flailing cirrus clouds the next day--but no more arcs.
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Dark and cold when I set out for the beach, kind of like winter often is. But worth the wait for the sun!
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The sea in filtered morning sunlight.
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I call this Morning Glories. Crepuscular Rays! Spectacular sunbeams at that! Definitely worth staying put while the sun climbed higher behind the clouds.
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Late Fall Light
I wrote in my journal this morning that the first day of winter is only 2 1/2 weeks away--doesn't seem real, given the long run of Indian Summer days the Outer Banks has enjoyed throughout November and now in the first part of December as well. We're having incredible sky shows, combinations of cumulus and cirrus clouds with the clearer air of lower humidity adding to the sparkle. I decided to begin closing the gallery at 4, rather than 5 now, so that I don't keep missing the sunsets---or imposing on Pete to gallery-watch so I can leave a little early to shoot, when he has so much to do in the frame shop! Next year, I think I will change our closing time to coincide with the ending of Daylight Savings Time so that I can leave before dark and enjoy late light.
Thanksgiving week was especially glorious. On Thanksgiving Day, a family of pileated woodpeckers showed up in our yard and flew noisily back and forth between our front yard trees and our neighbor's dogwood. I've never seen one eat dogwood berries before so that was a treat. The larger treat is much more personal: pileateds showed up, on a regular basis, whenever Patrick was here visiting from CT. I'd go weeks or months without seeing one, until he came. I finally told him that I thought the bird was a special companion for him, in a native American sense. How special for our family that the first pileated I have seen in months came on our first Thanksgiving without him here at table.
Earlier in the week the clouds reaching from sound to sea were amazing, beginning in early afternoon. I finally had a chance to go to the beach and watch them roll in and darken the sky about 3:30 pm. Not quite 90 minutes later, all while a spectacular sunset was making up in the west, the eastern sky glowed a deep pink-red underscored by the lingering grays of the cumulus clouds that had given a brief shower an hour earlier, and produced a pink-hued rainbow right at sunset over the ocean. Spectacular!
Cormorants are on the move now in the afternoon near dusk, huge long lines and Vs of them. I went out on Jennette's Pier to look for dolphin but found cormorants--and a loon instead! That loon was a treat, too--closest I have ever been to one. I could see the feather pattern so clearly that gives lone tiny feathers with two white dots at the tips, like eyes.
Over Thanksgiving grandson Patrick and I tramped around a bit on Pea Island. The clouds that day were amazing too, and we found all sorts of treasures, including some driftwood. The stump below was too big to haul home so I was content to take its picture to remember it, and our day, by.
Finally, I had an appointment to meet an artist at Yellowhouse 2 hours before we usually open. That put me out and about on the beach at 9:15 a.m., when the light is still beautiful this time of year, with the sun low in the south and lighting up the northward beach. While I went to a familiar location, I went at a different time--time of day, time of year, so the lighting made everything look much different than it does in late afternoon, when I usually am tramping about. Sometimes a change as simple as varying the time of day I go to a location provides enough of a different perspective to get my attention.
All these gleanings of a gratitude-filled season are below. As always, I am grateful to share them with all of you.
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Beautiful cumulus clouds racing eastward. Taken about 3:20 pm.
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Here's the cloud show a scant 25 minutes later! In another half-hour, I was getting rained on.
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Once the rain came, I left the beach to do a couple of errands, and saw the sunset looked amazing...but then I saw what was happening over the ocean. I opted to go back to the beach for the pink sky and rainbow.
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Here's a wider shot showing the combo of pink and gray clouds. The actual bow faded fast!
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Here's my different-time-of-morning beach walk. I tend to either be up for sunrise (not too often, lately) or shoot in the afternoon. This time of morning--couple hours past sunrise-- I am almost always inside, not outside. I love the lighting here!
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Our special Thanksgiving guest. Hi, baby. Pileated Woodpecker...not pecking for grubs. Feasting on berries instead!!
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Cormorants at dusk. Four out of...many tens of thousands.
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And a loon!!! I am still excited over this encounter, near the end of Jennette's Pier.
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Sometimes deliberately changing perspective means changing lenses. Instead of photographing waves with my typical wide-angle, I chose my wildlife lens because I loved the smooth patterns & colors near dusk.
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Tramping about Pea Island with my 13-y-o grandson Patrick is its own reward, so coming across this great photogenic stump in sweet light was a bonus!
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Pre-race routine:
Spent the night near the race site, about four hours or so from home. Got up a little before six and ate half a bagel with almond butter and sipped regularly from Gatorade. Napped a little. Packed the car and put the bike in granny gear (see bike comments later)...had a moment of stress when, in shifting, the chain popped off the ring. Took a bit to get it back on, which made a real mess of my hands, but all ended well.
Event warmup:
Not much, per usual. Set up transition, and got mildly wet when an unexpected rain shower popped up. Did get into the water to swim some in order to acclimate to water temperature.
Told TSW to expect 25 minutes and that's exactly what I delivered. Had hoped for a little bit better. Course felt long as I swam and Garmin showed 915 yards, resulting in a pace more in line with expectations. Thought I stayed on line, but maybe some snakiness resulted in the longer distance. Overall, though, I swam my plan, counting strokes and breathing to both sides like I do in the pool, coming up every 12-14 stroke to sight
What would you do differently?:
This is pretty much the norm for me, so not a whole lot to do differently. Maybe take easier, longer breaths, as I got just a smidge breathless toward the end.
Transition 1
Run to transition was quite a ways, and uphill, had to have been at least a couple hundred yards, so that was part of slower than normal time here.
What would you do differently?:
Nothing. I was a little out of breath coming out of water and then having to trudge a bit uphill before I realized the route was further than I thought. At that point I started walking.
Tough bike course. 619 feet of climbing and lots of twists and turns. Over the distance that only amounts to 40 feet or so per mile, which isn't that much and probably accounts for the course description of "generally level". But my Eastern Shore trained legs were not happy with the climbs, of which there were several and some of those were steep over short distances. Climbing began right out of transition; I worried all night and even on site whether I'd be able to get clipped in and get going without tipping over. I asked a Kinetic person about it and she rolled her eyes and said, "Now, you sighed up for one of toughest triathlons out there, so...this is what you get." Apparently a lot of people had issues getting going but I managed fine and my left foot clipped on the first try. TSW got a tape of it and I actually look like I know what I'm doing. I'm actually quite pleased with my results here on this course.
What would you do differently?:
Can't think of a thing.
Transition 2
Any kind of flying dismount (which I can't do anyway) was off limits here due to the downhill run into transition and the dismount line within feet of its entrance. All of that necessitated a slow dismount, and the immediate shape of my legs after the bike course put me into nothing more than a saunter through transition to my rack spot.
What would you do differently?:
Jog with the bike, but my legs were kinda toasted.
I knew this was going to be a tough run, just looking at the elevation profile, and even before I knew how I'd feel getting off the bike. I didn't anticipate quite this slow but I also didn't anticipate how the first mile and a half, mostly all uphill, would feel. 291 feet of climbing on the course, almost all in the first 1.5 miles, that's 194 feet per mile and an average grade of 3.6% over that portion. Wore my ass out and I wasn't the only one walking the hills, and the uphill walk wasn't actually easy! My HR hit 184 at some point during that portion. I did run/jog the downhills and walked/jogged on the remaining flats. Didn't have the chest issue much, but the HR was elevated throughout.
What would you do differently?:
Train on hills, I guess. But where to find them?
Post race
Warm down:
Man, I was cooked at the end. Just stumbled around with TSW trying to stay upright. Drank a Diet Coke, had half a banana, and ate several Oreos.
What limited your ability to perform faster:
Toughness of the course, mainly due to the hills. I'll say it bluntly: I was not in sufficient shape to manage this course. Not to suggest I'm out of shape because I don't believe that to be the case, but without hills to train on either here or in TX, there's just no way to be ready for this course. Proud of my bike leg, but that tanked me on the run and I just don't think there'd have been any way around that.
Event comments:
Excellent race and a cool venue, although very difficult, probably too difficult for me. But Kinetic has it down, man. And a tremendous shout out to the guy working the race tent, a Kinetic employee, who saved my butt on the swim by introducing me to and actually applying Quick Spit (a real product) to my goggles so they quit fogging up. Finally, the volunteers from Frostburg State and Alderson-Broaddus were absolutely awesome. Great job all around.
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"I can't believe I only won one"
Alan Carter was hailed as the next Barry Sheene in the early 1980s. But the young Brit never got the factory bikes he deserved and his career was a tale of unfulfilled promise.
He recently returned to the tracks, racing a Yamaha TZ350 in classic events, but packed it in again after a nasty tumble left him with a broken shoulder and ribs.
Alan Carter was a raw GP rookie when he turned up at Le Mans in April 1983, the second round of that year's World Championships. Two weeks earlier he had made his GP debut at Kyalami, where he had qualified 18th. In other words, no one expected anything from the young Brit at Le Mans.
Except the Carter family – father Mal, Alan and older brother Kenny, who twice won the British Speedway title. Big Mal Carter poured a lot of money into racing and only allowed his boys to consider one outcome in any race or championship.
So, even though Carter was a GP apprentice, he had looked towards his rookie season from the summit of his own mountain of confidence. "I thought I'd win the title, for sure," he says. "I didn't even think it'd be hard."
To be fair, there were reasons for his cockiness. The weekend after the 1982 GP season finished and a few weeks after his 18th birthday, Carter had won a Donington international, hammering several top GP riders.
That success followed a meteoric rise through the ranks of British racing, during which he won his first national at 16, at a time when you couldn't start racing until you were 16.
For 1983 Carter was in a new team, run by UK Yamaha importers Mitsui. He had a couple of TZ250s and a few trick bits from the factory, and yet at Kyalami he was in for a rude awakening. "The top guys' bikes were phenomenal – all kinds of bespoke gear – we couldn't even slipstream half of them."
Perhaps Le Mans would be better. The French track was tighter than Kyalami, a real scratcher's paradise, right up Carter's street. The weather was miserable all weekend – freezing cold, plenty of rain, even a few flurries of snow – but that didn't bother someone who had learnt his trade thrashing round Oulton Park and Cadwell.
However, Carter had serious bike problems during practice and qualified 31st. Dead last. "We had some new ignition parts and the bike kept seizing up on both cylinders. It was only in last practice that we got a few good laps in."
He wasn't the only one in trouble. Conditions were so cold that everyone was struggling to get enough heat into their tyres. "There were loads of crashes because Dunlop had brought out new tyres for the year and they were all too hard for the conditions."
Of course, Carter was in the same boat as all the other Dunlop runners. At least he was until his mechanic Howard Gregory – who went on to win three 500 world titles with Wayne Rainey – discovered a year-old unused front slick in the team truck.
"We had this super-soft front from the previous year. Dunlop got wind of it and wanted the tyre for one of their guys who had qualified on the front row, but my dad basically told them to fuck off."
As they lined up for the start Carter couldn't even see the front row, led by local hero Christian Sarron. "It must've been a hundred metres from the front row to where I was. I remember thinking, shit, I've got no chance."
The race started and Carter began picking off his rivals one by one – nipping past some in the turns and slipstreaming past others as they accelerated past the pits on the fast, uphill main straight. By half-distance he was up to eighth, though he didn't know it.
"I'd noticed that everyone was riding up the straight just to the right of the white line, which was a couple of feet from the Armco on the left of the track. I kept running over that line and going between the other riders and the Armco, so I couldn't see my pit-board.
"There's three things I can absolutely remember from the race: Sito Pons was leading and went straight on at one of the hairpins, then the reigning World Champion Jean-Louis Tournadre crashed right in front of me and I nearly ran him over. Then it started to rain or snow a tiny bit at the end. Thierry Rapicault was just ahead of me and he backed it off a bit, so I went past."
Carter still had no real idea of where he was or how many laps he had done. "I didn't have a clue what position I was in, but it got to a point where I knew I was on the rostrum. It was like, shit, I'm in the top three."
Even on the slowdown lap he wasn't sure of the result – perhaps the winner was already out of sight. "When I came into the pits the first guy I saw was [legendary MCN reporter] Norrie Whyte. He was jumping up and down. I asked him who had won and he looked at me dumbfounded and said, you did! I was like, what?!
"And that was it really. Your adrenaline is pumping and so I didn't think about it, but it was an amazing experience. I won it from the back – it was a combination of amazing riding and the best preparation on the day, like all GP winners. I still have guys come up to me, look me in the eye and just say: I was there."
Carter was in a victory daze after the race, so he can't even remember the podium celebrations. "But I do remember Kenny Roberts coming round to my caravan to congratulate me. Then we had a big session at a local hotel and got completely paralytic."
Disasters followed success
Carter's win wasn't only surprising, it was historic. At 18 years and 227 days old he had become the youngest winner of a 250 Grand Prix. The record stood for more than two decades, well into the new MotoGP era, by which time riders were allowed to start GP racing at 15.
Carter still ranks as the third youngest winner in the intermediate class behind Marc Marquez (18 years and 87 days) and Dani Pedrosa (18 years and 202 days), who both made their GP debuts at 15 and who were both coached all the way by experienced mentors. Marquez is looked after by former 125 World Champion Emilio Alzamora, Pedrosa by former 500 GP winner Alberto Puig.
Perhaps if Carter had had his own guiding guru his GP career would have amounted to more than a single GP win. Instead, the high of Le Mans was followed by a grim year of crashes, broken bones and bike problems.
On several occasions he was up with the leaders, only to throw it away, often in spectacular fashion. In fact he didn't score a single point until the last race of the season.
Barry Sheene, by then nearing the end of his own career, was so worried about Carter wasting his talent that he asked that year's 250 world champ Carlos Lavado to have a quiet word with the youngster.
And all the while, he had his overbearing father looking down on him, mostly offering stinging criticism and occasionally dubious performance bonuses. At Assen the deal was this: qualify on the front row, son, and we'll go into town and you can have a free go in the red light district.
And all the while the injuries were mounting up. "I had a lot of big crashes, especially one massive one at Jarama that knocked me about quite badly. At Rijeka I broke both me ankles in practice and my dad still sent me out. He always put way too much pressure on me."
By the time he got to Spa in July his confidence had taken such a battering that he didn't even qualify.
Over the next few years Carter had several wins and podiums within his grasp, only for the bike to go sick, or if the bike didn't go sick, then he fell off it.
His was a story of unfulfilled promise. He had his best year in 1985 when he finished seventh overall, riding a bog-stock Honda RS250 in a pack of factory bikes. He rode his last GP in 1990.
"You've got to remember that in 1983 I was 18 and very naïve. I had no chance when we got to the European tracks because all those guys were top operators, they had more track knowledge and they had all the trick kit: different carbs for different tracks, trick ignitions, the lot. If I'd had a set-up like Pons had then I think I would've got a few world titles.
"I'm not being funny but for me not to have become World Champion was unbelievable – I was miles better than anybody. It's difficult to believe I only won one race, but that's how it panned out and I'm not bitter. At least I gave it everything I had."
In the court of King Kenny
Alan Carter's rookie GP campaign told the world he had talent, even though he spent more time on his backside than he did on the podium. At the end of the season King Kenny Roberts retired and decided to establish his own team.
The three-time 500 world champ has always said that you can teach a fast crasher to slow down, but you can't teach someone slow to go fast. Carter was therefore an obvious choice for the very first Marlboro Team Roberts line-up of 1984.
"When Kenny rang up and asked me to ride for him I wasn't going to say no," recalls Carter. "He said he wanted me to be in his team with some American kid."
The American kid was a young Californian called Wayne Rainey, fresh from his first major roadracing success, the 1983 AMA Superbike title.
"People ask me, did I feel intimidated by Wayne, and I just laugh because I was the youngest GP winner and I'd never heard of the kid. No disrespect but in my mind I was going to win the 250 World Championship."
The first Team Roberts setup was nothing like the American's huge 500 squads of the 1990s when he had the biggest outfit in the paddock.
"Wayne and I slept in the same caravan, in bunk beds. He was a sweet kid, you couldn't meet anyone nicer. But I never thought he'd achieve what he achieved – after '84 he went back to the States."
Inevitably, Roberts spent more time coaching Rainey, who he had helped since the youngster switched from dirt track to roadracing.
"Kenny knew his stuff, he was amazingly knowledgeable and still really quick. Wayne and I got a bit down at Circuit Paul Ricard because our bikes were so slow, so Kenny said, what's wrong? We said the bikes are shit, so he said he better have a go and see what they're like. He went out and went a second quicker than me and Wayne!
"That really got me going because my dad was always giving me negative motivation: saying you're never going to do this and that. I ended up qualifying on the front row – we both needed a kick up the arse because we'd got into a bit of a downward spiral."
Big Mal Carter
The Carters were the biggest racing family in Britain during the early 1980s. Halifax hard man Mal Carter was the man who sponsored the young Ron Haslam – through his Pharaoh car dealerships – and he spent a fortune on his sons' careers, pushing Alan towards GP glory and older brother Kenny to speedway success.
He was also the scariest man on the British racing scene – handy with his fists and not to be crossed.
"When someone asked for my dad's paddock pass he'd simply point to his face and say, that's my fucking pass, don't you know who I am?," writes Carter in his brilliant warts-and-all autobiography Light in the Darkness. "Sometimes he'd threaten them. Occasionally he might even hit them.
"My dad was a rough diamond: farmer, fighter, car dealer. I was frightened to death of the guy. He was very, very verbally abusive and frightening. He never hit me, though I was scared that he might."
Big Mal's main motivation in racing was to "stuff the factories", so he wasn't best pleased when Haslam signed with Honda and neither was he impressed when Alan signed for Team Roberts Yamaha.
Tragedy overtook the family in 1986 when Kenny murdered his wife and then turned the gun on himself.
Alan Carter reveals all in his book Alan Carter 'Light in the Darkness: The truth about Mal, Kenny and me' which is available from the MCN Shop for £16 with free P&P.Feeling nostalgic? Watch the 1983 British Grand Prix over at MCN-TV.com.


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Occlusal Adjustment as Treatment for Chronic Orofacial Pain
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00899717
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : May 12, 2009
Results First Posted : July 16, 2013
Last Update Posted : July 26, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|Temporomandibular Joint Disorders Orofacial Pain
|Procedure: Occlusal adjustment Procedure: Placebo occlusal adjustment
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|21 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Basis for an Etiological Diagnosis and Treatment of the Chronic TMD-pain: RCT Study
|Study Start Date :
|May 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2009
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|April 2010
|Experimental: A
Procedure: Occlusal adjustment
modification of occlusal surfaces
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|Placebo Comparator: B
Procedure: Placebo occlusal adjustment
Simulated modification of occlusal surfaces
- Visual Analogic Scale for Pain Intensity (0-10) [ Time Frame: Baseline, immediately after therapy, 3 months and 6 months after therapy ]The primary outcome was self-reported pain intensity on a 0 to 10 cm visual analog scale considering the temporomandibular disorder side, being 0="No pain" and 10="Worst imaginable pain"
- Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R®) [ Time Frame: Before and 6 months after therapy ]Scale name: Global Severity Index. Scale graded from 0 to 4. Scores increases as the symptoms severity increases.
- Preferred Chewing Side [ Time Frame: Before and 6 months after therapy ]The change in the habitual chewing side of each participant across the study
- Maximum Mouth Opening (mm) [ Time Frame: 6 months (before and after therapy) including 4 assessment points: pre-treatment, post-treatment, 3- and 6-month follow up ]Maximum voluntary unassisted mouth opening
- Condylar Path Angles [ Time Frame: Baseline ]Parasagittal plane condylar path angles tracings in relation to the Frankfort line were made following the Gysi extraoral method.
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- People suitable for inclusion in the study are full dentate patients
- Aged between 18 and 65 years
- Patients with chronic TMD pain (and usually with associated limited mouth opening) for whom occlusal adjustment could achieve normal occlusion, both static and functionally equilibrated
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy
- Trauma
- Previous TMJ surgery
- Patient refusal to consent to participate in the study or significant concerns about the study
- Limited collaboration
- Concurrent active treatment with orthodontics, and active periodontal disease
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|Facultad de Medicina y Odontología
|Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña, Spain, 15782
|Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de La Coruña
|La Coruña, Spain, 15006
|Principal Investigator:
|José López-Cedrún Cembranos, MD, DDS, PhD
|Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de La Coruña
|Study Director:
|Urbano Santana Penín, MD, DDS, PhD
|Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
|Responsible Party:
|Urbano Santana, Prof., University of Santiago de Compostela
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|First Posted:
|May 12, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|July 16, 2013
|Last Update Posted:
|July 26, 2013
|Last Verified:
|July 2013
Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMD)
Orofacial pain
Limited mouth opening
Craniomandibular dysfunction syndrome
Preferred chewing side
Occlusal adjustment
Selective grinding
Costen's Syndrome
Myofascial pain
TMD treatment
Joint Diseases
Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction Syndrome
Facial Pain
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Craniomandibular Disorders
Mandibular Diseases
Jaw Diseases
Muscular Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
Myofascial Pain Syndromes
Neurologic Manifestations
Salicylic Acid
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Antifungal Agents
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We never tire getting more of our dear iPhone and the more we get, the more endeared it gets to us. They may not be the best ever, and are the priciest mobiles if compared to other equally versatile mobile phones, but they rage in the market. Here we have the list of just a few of the iPhone Apps that will further enhance our experience while working on them-
1) Mina-Honey it's me!
This somewhat weird application features a virtual girl named Mina giving calls to the lonesome men through digitalized messages. The application is designed for Korean customers and features 100 prerecorded messages like "Good night, sweet dreams." The caller gets about 2-3 video calls each day and these calls would be a certain company to those who are forsaken. However, this application is not free and has a price tag that of $1.99.
2) Crazy Heliumbooth
This amusing free iOS application changes your voice and your facial features to give out a hilarious touch to the whole affair. The idea behind this application is fun. The free version of the application gives you a thirty-second recording time with limited functions. However, if the craziness of the app strikes you, a full version under the name Helium Video Booth can be downloaded for a price.
3) Confesso
This game might lead you to believe that the Parish churches are a pass. All you need to do is Cross-on the screen to unlock and then select your sins. Thereafter you will receive your penance. Is it not simple? But don't be deluded into believing that all this is real. It is still a game. The makers of this app say that they do not maintain any records of the confessions of the users. Well, we wonder if this too is a confession or a guarantee.
4) iVoodoo Doll
Well, this app will charm those among us who believe in black magic. This application features before you a Voodoo doll on the head of which you paste the photo of the person who you despise. Now in full control of the body of the person you can torment and torture him/her by spiking the picture with pins. The app is only a game, and a wacky one. So do not miss to take it less seriously. If it does no harm to the person, it can at least satisfy your bruised ego against him/her.
5) Passion
This weird but somewhat helpful paid app for the iOS phones helps improve your sex life. The app keeps an account of the time you spend having sex. It rates your performance, thus helping you to improve your performance on bed. Simply press start button and dock it on the bed or couch you are having sex on. You can even place it in your pocket or strap it to your arm. At the end, press the stop button and learn the scores.
There are good and useful apps, then there are weird apps. Some of these might be baffling and out rightly gross, but it would be fun at trying at them at least once.


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PUBLISHED: 14:38 06 August 2009 | UPDATED: 17:00 25 August 2010
RESIDENTS are demanding an independent inquiry into a disgraced former council leader s credit card abuse and have called for someone to carry the can after a systematic failure of the local authority. Members of Bexley Pensioners Forum called for an i
RESIDENTS are demanding an independent inquiry into a disgraced former council leader's credit card abuse and have called for someone to carry the can after a "systematic failure" of the local authority.
Members of Bexley Pensioners Forum called for an independent investigation on Tuesday into how former Bexley leader Ian Clement, from Dartford, wracked up personal expenses of £1,220 on his council credit card.
An internal review is to take place this month but it has been called into question as one of the councillors sitting on the committee, Joe Pollard, was treated to a meal on Mr Clement's Greater London Authority card when he was Deputy Mayor of London, before he stood down in June.
Mr Pollard is currently 'taking advice' as to whether he should sit on the Audit Committee, according to Bexley council. Elwyn Bryant, of Salisbury Road, Bexley, branded the decision by councillors to hold an internal review a "cover up".
He said: "Somebody has got to go here. There was a systematic failure of the council, allowing Mr Clement to get away with what he did.
"Did the auditors or line managers know, what did they say and did anybody further along say it's okay?"
Mr Clement stepped down from his £127,000 post as London deputy mayor in May after it was revealed he lied about expense claims on his Greater London Authority card.
The scandal led Bexley borough to release details of Mr Clement's council credit card showing 10 personal items, including stays at Excelsion Hotel Ernst costing £364 and a £513 stay at the Park Plaza Hotel, over a five-month period.
Both the outgoing chief executive Nick Johnson and the current chief executive, Will Tuckley (then designate), received separate lunches at central London restaurant Le Pont de la Tour on Mr Clement's credit card - costing £86 and £109 respectively.
Mr Tuckley, who became chief executive on March 31 2008, claimed the meeting on February 1 that year was to discuss his new role but when Mr Clement insisted on paying, was "unaware at the time that he used a council purchasing card to do so."
Mr Bryant said: "[Mr Clement] was using this card for his own expenditure in clear contravention of the rules so why wasn't he stopped?
"I find it unbelievable that nobody knew anything about this.
"The residents of Bexley deserve an independent inquiry to get to the bottom of what happened."
A motion to have three non-council members on a Members Allowances Investigatory Committee was put forward by councillor Chris Ball last month.
It was also suggested that members who benefited from Mr Clement's expenditure on Bexley and GLA credit cards should pay the money back.
Both were rejected in favour of an internal audit.
Bexley Pensioners Forum member Peter Gussman, of Old Farm Avenue, Sidcup, witnessed the council's vote and said: "Not surprisingly the majority of Conservative councillors rejected Chris Ball's motion.
"But then to my utter shock, Chris Ball and his fellow Labour councillors voted for an amendment that made it an internal audit only."
Bexley council was asked by the Times who bore ultimate responsibility for signing off high-priced receipts.
A council spokesperson replied: "Expenditure on Mr Clement's purchasing card was subjected to a checking process. This was done monthly.
"We understand from Mr Clement's office diaries that he was attending meetings of London Councils, where he was an Executive Member. The choice of restaurant was a matter for Mr Clement as leader of the council."
When asked why Mr Clement was never disciplined for using the credit card to purchase personal items between December 2007 and May 2008, which he later paid off, the council spokesperson said: "We were informed that the January 2008 item was the result of a mistake by Mr Clement. Reimbursement was sought for the April and June statements and the card was returned in May 2008.
"The Audit Committee will be debating a full forensic audit of the expenditure in an open forum that allows any member of the public to have access to the information or to attend the meeting.
"An independent investigation would not have been constitutional and would not have been as open and transparent.
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This month we're focusing on defensemen. The trends they're developing, the way coaches use them, and even what to say to them after a tough shift. It's all well and good to talk the talk, but in his on-ice presentation this past summer at the Mastercard Centre in Toronto, Jon Goyens delivered a beautifully simple set of defensemen progressions coaches can use whether their players are six years old or 36.
Sometimes the progression will go sideways because the player turns the wrong way. But that really isn't a mistake. It's just a different progression.
That was Goyens after one of his players turned the wrong way during a drill. There were a lot of coaches critiquing his every move, but the mistake didn't phase him whatsoever. Why? Because mistakes happen. Be ready for them, be engaged, and you'll know what to do when they do occur.
You have to give your defensemen the tools to be creative in the offensive zone. Even if you don't think you've got the horses. You might surprise yourself.
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In the run-up to the test, I was extremely nervous, as everyone is, but I made sure I was as prepared as I could be.
I've decided to share my first driving test experience, giving you my tips for calming nerves the night before, as well as how to stay motivated and determined to keep on driving.
**Spoiler Alert**
We all know that sinking feeling; everything you've been looking forward to, all the hard, time and effort you've put in all fading away in an instant. That was how I felt the day I failed my first driving test. As a self-proclaimed perfectionist, I tend to take failure pretty hard, but I refuse to give up.
Although I failed, the entire experience helped me to learn a lot, and now that I have been through it once already, I hope to pass next time around. See you all guys again when I take my second test attempt… with hopefully a better outcome!


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Johnston Press has kicked off a fresh round of cuts at its offices in South Yorkshire and Humberside
Staff were today told of plans to have one editor covering the South Yorkshire Times, the Goole Courier and the Selby Times instead of three. A reporter's role at the Mexborough office is also under threat as as well as an editorial assistant post, as part of plans to cut 18 jobs across all departments.
Journalists working at the Doncaster centre for sister daily title the Sheffield Star title have been told they will now have to report in to the Doncaster editor-in-chief as well as Sheffield editorial management, according to the NUJ.
The NUJ said the company had blamed the cutbacks on "under performing advertising and circulation".
Chapel members will be holding an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the developments.
NUJ Northern & Midlands Organiser Chris Morley 'These proposals show how flimsy are Johnston Press's claims to believe in local journalism to serve the communities where its newspapers circulate. How can a newspaper and website properly engage with the town when it has no editor?
"The ironic element here is that in this announcement, the company has chosen to attack the editorial department of one of the best performing title for circulation in its stable. The South Yorkshire Times has fought hard for its reputation as a campaigning newspaper that digs out stories people want to read but this seems to cut no ice with the corporate bean counters.
"Our members are in no mood to accept these wholesale cuts which merely undermine the jobs that remain for the future. It is a disastrous blend of hopelessness and defeatism and shows that Johnston Press has no idea or strategy to grow the business or defend its staff and customers with a positive strategy.
"We will be examining these proposals hard over the coming weeks and our members will decide on what approach they have to meet their challenge."
A South Yorkshire Newspapers NUJ chapel official added: "We have been expecting yet more cutbacks every day but the savage nature of today's announced cull has left us shocked and devastated.
"However this is not over. What happened to some of our members today will happen to others tomorrow and the day after that unless a line is drawn. We are confident that our members are now minded to draw it."
NUJ general secretary-elect Michelle Stanistreet said: 'The job cuts are disastrous for quality journalism and local democracy. The cuts in Yorkshire are not insolated incidents and expose the ruthless business models employed across our profession.'
Johnston Press managing director John Bills said: 'These changes will mean a reduction of 18 full time equivalent roles but there are eight full time equivalent roles vacant across the three companies [Sheffield Newspapers, South Yorkshire Newspapers and Wilfred Edmunds] and employees will be encouraged to apply for these vacancies.
'Prior to any implementation, management will consult extensively on an individual and collective basis. We anticipate that this consultation process will be complete by the 15 July 2011."


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Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Saturday presided over a high-level meeting which considered proposals regarding provision of solar home solution at concessionary rates to low-income families and off-grid solar solution in public sector.
Addressing the meeting, the CM said credit of setting up first solar park in Pakistan goes to the Punjab government. He said this solar park has been established at a vast area in district Bahawalpur of South Punjab. Shahbaz said the PML-N government has abolished import duty on solar panels and equipments for facilitating national and foreign investors.
He said the Punjab government is also considering installing solar panels in government offices, schools, health centers, irrigation and agriculture purposes. The CM directed that all concerned departments should evolve a comprehensive planning with regard to installing solar panels and formulate recommendations for providing solar home solution to low-income families. He said a practicable plan should also be formulated for converting agri tube-wells and water supply schemes on solar. HE constituted committees led by Chairman Planning & Development and Chief Executive Officer Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park Najm Shah for preparing financial model and technical model and said that these committees should submit practicable recommendations after considering all aspects. Later, the CM also witnessed practical demonstration of running water pump, fans and other items through solar panels imported for domestic use as well as government offices, schools, health centers, irrigation and agriculture purposes and evinced keen interest.
President Chinese Company Zonergy Yu Yong, other members of the delegation, Provincial Ministers Rana Mashhood Ahmed, Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman, Tanveer Aslam Malik, Advisors Khawaja Salman Rafique, Chaudhry Arshad Jatt, Chairman Planning & Development, concerned secretaries, Chief Executive Officer Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park and other concerned officials attended the meeting.
energy sources: A high-level delegation of renowned energy company of China Zonergy led by its President Yu Yong met Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday. The meeting agreed on the speedy progress of 900 megawatt solar project at Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park in Bahawalpur.
According to a handout issued on Saturday, the CM said the government is paying attention to nontraditional sources for generating energy. He said the government is executing 100 MW project at Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park Bahawalpur from its own resources and this project will start generating energy in the beginning of next year. He said the energy generating projects are being completed speedily and transparently. He said the import duty on solar equipments and panels has been abolished for facilitating investors. The CM said earliest completion of energy projects is one of the top priorities of the government. He said that 900 megawatt project at Bahawalpur will be completed speedily and Punjab government will extend all out cooperation to the Chinese company in this regard. He said all investment in the solar project of 900 MW is of China. Shahbaz said all necessary steps including provision of infrastructure have been completed for 900 megawatt solar project at Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park Bahawalpur. He directed to constitute a joint committee for speedy progress on 900 MW solar project. President Chinese Company Yu Yong said the company will carry out work speedily according to the vision of the CM for completing 900 megawatt project within stipulated period.
The delegation condemned the Peshawar incident and expressed deep sense of sorrow and grief over the martyrdom of children and teachers.
Terrorism: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Saturday said terrorism has caused an irreparable loss to the country and it will have to be tackled for the country uplift.
According to a handout, the CM said this while talking to a PML-N delegation. The CM expressed the hope that war against terrorism will be won at every cost by displaying unity and harmony.
He said the entire nation has united in the war against terrorism and we will not rest content till its logical end. He said making Pakistan a haven of peace and providing safer Pakistan to coming generations is our determination.


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It doesn't take much to realize that Jesus saw people through hopeful eyes; just take a look at his choice for disciples. According to Howard Belben, in The Mission of Jesus, "when we say that Jesus saw people as the might be, this is another way of saying that He believes His own gospel. "I did not come to invite virtuous people, but sinners," He said (Matthew 9:13), and He knew that lives could be transformed, that the worst could become the best."
That has practical application in evangelism, as he points out in his book. If we are trusting Christ for the work of evangelism and he believed people could be changed, then we must believe the same if we are to fulfill the mission God has given us.
Without hope, we will quit before the job is done. Whatever the task, hope is the key to completion.


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