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  Jah Wobble Biography
Wobble was the first musician of that ear to be taken seriously by the older music press, rapidly earning the reputation of a wilful auteur.
"Wobble's antics are notorious yet now he has found himself in a position to channel his manic energy into formulating some of the most awesome and original bass lines in modern music", wrote Vivien Goldman in the Melody Maker.
Wobble's reputation as a Stepney tearaway always seemed to contrast dramatically with his rapid and breathtaking musical command.
www.30hertzrecords.com /jahwobbl.htm   (1343 words)

  
  Wobble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wobble base pair is a type of basepair in translation.
Milankovitch wobble is the change in the axial tilt, axial precession and orbital eccentricity of the earth over long periods.
Wobbles is an equine disorder of the nervous system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wobble   (135 words)

  
 Jah Wobble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jah Wobble (born John Wardle) is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer.
Wobble is a longtime friend of Johnny Rotten and, according to the latter's autobiography, was once on the short list of replacements for original Pistols bassist Glen Matlock.
Wobble's playing drew heavily on dub, which has remained an important feature of his music.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jah_Wobble   (368 words)

  
 Speed wobble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Speed wobble or shimmy is the spontaneous oscillation of the front wheel(s) of a vehicle, at a set speed or speed range.
The oscillations are due to the latent resonant frequency of the vehicle and are a complex phenomeon which are not fully understood.
In 2002 Harley-Davidson was sued in a class action suit for injuries associated with high speed wobbles, also known as "tank slappers" because of the tendency of handle bars to move towards the tank.
www.birmingham.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Speed_wobble   (196 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Detecting Other Worlds: The Wobble Method
It is this slight stellar wobble that leads astronomers to conclude there must be an unseen something on the other end of the astronomical teeter-totter to produce the periodic effect -- and the period in question is the orbital "year" of the planet.
The wobble can't tell us how massive the orbiting planet is because the Doppler shift only works if the object is moving toward us or away.
Similarly, the wobble method of finding extrasolar planets detects only the stars motion toward or away from us, not the full extent of the planet's pull.
www.space.com /searchforlife/seti_wobble_method_010523.html   (1143 words)

  
 Chandler wobble
One of several wobbling motions that the Earth undergoes as it spins on its axis; it is named after Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr (1846-1913), an American businessman turned astronomer, who discovered it in 1891.
The Chandler wobble has a slightly variable period of 416 to 433 days and causes the location of the poles to wander by as much as 15 meters from their mean positions.
Scientists are interested in the Chandler wobble because variations in latitude due to the wobble could throw off celestial navigation systems that are unaware of the wobble by a fifth of a mile.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/Chandler_wobble.html   (404 words)

  
 BMW motorcycle, speed wobble, low speed wobbles, weaves, head shake, instability, tank slapper, oscillation, shimmy
A wobble is an oscillation, or side to side shake, in the front end of a motorcycle.
The most likely condition for a wobble is in slowing down, while in a downhill gentle curve with hands off of the handlebars with no weight on the seat, sort of posting while riding a horse.
It is possible for Earles forks to be bent backwards and cause a wobble.
w6rec.com /duane/bmw/wobbles.htm   (3538 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "What is the Chandler wobble?"
The Chandler wobble is the change in the spin of the earth on its axis.
The displacement of the Chandler wobble is measurable -- Imagine a gigantic ballpoint pen poked through the center of the earth, entering at the South Pole and exiting at the North Pole.
The exact cause of the wobble in Earth's polar motion has stumped scientists with few agreeing on the actual cause, other than the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere.
science.howstuffworks.com /question442.htm   (448 words)

  
 Major Anomly In Chandler's Wobble - 2005/2006
During the 1998/99 anomaly at the X MIN phase of the Wobble, the passage of the wobble past this same sector of the Earth was definitely conflicted, showing a definite hesitation with a ragged line against movement further to the East from its diagonal down the X Plot.
Wobble tracker does not extrapolating circular and spiraling lines from these, it is too literal minded, thus most of the plots it makes for pre-1962 spirals come out quite kinky.
Since the wobble track is opposite to the motion of the Earth’s crust, do a mental reversal and it is easy to see that the Earth meets an opposition which is resisting its motion in the direction of Alaska/Siberia.
www.michaelmandeville.com /earthmonitor/polarmotion/2006_wobble_anomaly.htm   (9150 words)

  
 Chandler Wobble Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Chandler wobble is a small variation in Earth's axis of rotation, discovered by American astronomer Seth Carlo Chandler in 1891.
Originally it was believed that the wobble was caused by seasonal weather fluctuations causing shifts in atmospheric mass distribution, or possible geophysical movement beneath Earth's crust.
On 18 July 2000, however, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that "the principal cause of the Chandler wobble is fluctuating pressure on the bottom of the ocean, caused by temperature and salinity changes and wind-driven changes in the circulation of the oceans."
www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/Chandler_wobble   (641 words)

  
 MachineDesign.com: Straight Talk on Wobble-Piston Pumps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Wobble pumps combine the pressure, vacuum, and flow capabilities of conventional piston pumps with the compact size, quiet operation, and clean airflow of diaphragm pumps.
For instance, wobble pumps are found in medical nebulizers, oxygen concentrators, blood analyzers, and pneumatic hospital beds.
In simple terms, a wobble pump is mechanically a cross between a diaphragm and an articulating-piston (or reciprocating-piston) pump — the shared mechanical element being an eccentric connecting rod.
www.machinedesign.com /ASP/viewSelectedArticle.asp?strArticleId=58717&strSite=MDSite&catId=0   (1897 words)

  
 The Straight Dope: How come the Chandler wobble hasn't dampened out?
A: The Chandler wobble, discovered by astronomer S. Chandler in 1891, is a variation in the earth's axis of rotation amounting to 0.7 seconds of arc over a period of 435 days, or about 14 months.
A: The Chandler wobble is due to variation in the forces acting on the earth.
All that would happen if the Chandler wobble were neglected is that someone stupid enough to navigate by the stars would be off by a mile or so upon reaching their destination, implying that nobody does that anymore.
www.straightdope.com /classics/a991203.html   (901 words)

  
 BBC News | SCI/TECH | Earth throws a wobbly
A mysterious wobble that shakes the Earth as it spins on its axis is caused by pressure changes at the bottom of the ocean, say scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Similar to a wobble in a spinning top, it is one of a number of tremors exhibited by the Earth as it rotates.
The force of the wobble is such that it is capable of moving the North Pole about six metres (20 feet) from where it should be.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_839000/839627.stm   (343 words)

  
 Wobble Problems
If wobble is the same, or worse, remove the weight and attach it onto another blade.
But if after tightening screws and balancing the blades the fan still wobbles, a new set of blades should be purchased to replace the warped blades.
If this is the case you may want to purchase a different light kit which can be more tightly secured to the bottom of the fan, and which does not extend as far away from the center of the fan as your old light..
www.lampdepot.com /service/wobble_problems.htm   (796 words)

  
 The Vocal "Wobble"
It is with increasing frequency that singers from all over the world write me and ask, "What is a wobble and how can I solve this problem in myself and others?" The question comes from teachers and singers alike who are concerned about their vocal health.
A singer who sings with a "wobble" is using throat muscles that cause vocal deterioration over a period of time.
It is a well known fact that Maria Callas had a tremendously wide "wobble" in the top of her voice from dragging the lower register too high.
www.voiceteacher.com /wobble.html   (2012 words)

  
 Chandler's Wobble   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The wobble, named for its 1891 discoverer, Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr., an American businessman turned astronomer, is a wobbling motion exhibited by Earth as it rotates on its axis.
Over the years, things like atmospheric phenomena, continental water storage (changes in snow cover, river runoff, lake levels, or reservoir capacities), interaction at the boundary of Earth's core and its surrounding mantle, and earthquakes have benn believed to be the cause.
Richard Gross, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory geophysicist, reports that the principal cause of the Chandler wobble is fluctuating pressure on the bottom of the ocean, caused by temperature and salinity changes and wind-driven changes in the circulation of the oceans.
www.geocities.com /lkp550/space/chanwob.htm   (187 words)

  
 Wobble Board Balance Training for Better Sports Performance & Rehabilitation
Using a wobble board can dramatically improve your agility, reaction time and overall body strength while challenging your static and dynamic balance.
Wobble boards have been used by golfers as golf training aids and by runners to strengthen their ligaments and tendons, thereby helping prevent injury.
Wobble boards are great for injury rehabilitation and physical therapy.
www.fitter1.com /wobble-boards.html   (390 words)

  
 CNN.com - Nature - Scientists no longer waver on Earth's wobble - July 18, 2000
The cause of the Chandler wobble, a disturbance of motion exhibited by Earth as it rotates on its axis, lies at the bottom of the ocean
The cause of the so-called "Chandler wobble," a disturbance of motion exhibited by Earth as it rotates on its axis, is no longer a mystery.
The Chandler wobble, named for Seth Carlos Chandler Jr., the scientist who discovered it in 1891, is one of several motions exhibited by Earth as it rotates on its axis, much like a top wobbles as it spins.
archives.cnn.com /2000/NATURE/07/18/earth.wobble.enn   (556 words)

  
 World Music Central - A Balanced Wobble
Born John Wardle in 1958, his Jah Wobble moniker was famously bestowed on him by a drunken Sid Vicious, who slurringly introduced him as such.
Opting out of the music industry for a time, Wobble disappeared completely for several years, working anonymously as a driver on the London Underground, before returning to the scene with a new band, The Invaders Of The Heart.
Jah Wobble lives with his wife Zi Lan, a traditional Chinese musician, in the northern English town of Stockport.
www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php?story=20030812220642527   (1726 words)

  
 Earthquakes vs. the Earth's Rotation By Sam Schechner
Initial U.S. Geological Survey data from the quake and its dozens of powerful aftershocks indicate that some 740 miles of the boundary between the India plate and the Burma plate slipped an average of 15 meters and that the sea floor thrust up several meters.
Geophysicists have still not calculated the exact effect of this earthquake on the wobble, but they will as data from the quake and aftershocks are plugged into complex mathematical models developed for that purpose in the 1950s and early '60s.
Wobble was a hot topic back then because a series of powerful megathrust quakes—the 9.0 Kamchatka quake in 1952, the 9.1 Andreanof Islands quake in 1957, the 9.5 Chile quake in 1960, and the 9.2 Prince William Sound quake in 1964—provided a lot of data to work with.
www.slate.com /id/2111443   (599 words)

  
 PiL - Jah Wobble - PiL People / Members
Wobble met Lydon in 1973 at Kingsway College, along with John Grey and Sid Vicious (who gave him his 'Jah Wobble' nickname after a drunken slur, and would also lend him his first bass).
After a battle with alcohol Wobble left the music scene to work for London Transport in 1987, but was soon back on board (pardon the pun), with a revitalised line-up of his 'Invaders of the Heart' band.
Wobble is probably currently recording or playing live – either under his own name or with Deep Space, The Invaders of the Heart, or his English Roots Band – Wobble is always recording or playing live…
www.fodderstompf.com /MEMBERS/wobble.html   (477 words)

  
 CMT.com : Jah Wobble : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
After the group's first few albums, Wobble had a falling out with Rotten (now Lydon) and guitarist Keith Levene and departed for a solo career, also collaborating with artists such as Can members Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay and U2's the Edge.
Wobble's solo repertoire ranges from pop to pseudo-reggae to difficult-to-listen-to experimentation.
The single "Bomba" brought Wobble back to the public eye in 1990, and he collaborated with Sinead O'Connor and Primal Scream in addition to releasing the Invaders of the Heart album Rising Above Bedlam in 1991.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/wobble_jah/bio.jhtml   (303 words)

  
 Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music
Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell have got to be two of the more interesting fellows ever to pick up a bass guitar.
This was to be only one of Wobble's collaborative ventures of the '90s, a decade which also saw him work with Brian Eno and fellow ex-PiL members, but it has perhaps been the most fruitful.
While Wobble was palling around with Lydon and working with PiL in the late '70s and early '80s, Laswell was making a name for himself in New York's avant-garde underground.
www.epitonic.com /artists/jahwobbleandbilllaswell.html   (494 words)

  
 Habbo Hotel - Community - Wobble Squabble - How To Play?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Wobble Squabble is a two player game, where you have to slap and nudge your opponent till they fall off the inflatables and land in the pool.
The Wobble Squabble Inflatables can be found in either the Rooftop Rumble or Rooftop Rumble Two, both these room are Public rooms.
If you are wobbling all over the place, you can get your balance back once during the game using the 'stabilise' button (space bar).
www.habbohotel.com /habbo/en/community/wobblesquabble   (487 words)

  
 A mystery of Earth's wobble solved: It's the ocean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It has been calculated that the Chandler wobble would be damped down, or reduced to zero, in just 68 years, unless some force were constantly acting to reinvigorate it.
Writing in the August 1 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Richard Gross, a JPL geophysicist, reports that the principal cause of the Chandler wobble is fluctuating pressure on the bottom of the ocean, caused by temperature and salinity changes and wind-driven changes in the circulation of the oceans.
Gross calculated that two-thirds of the Chandler wobble is caused by ocean-bottom pressure changes and the remaining one-third by fluctuations in atmospheric pressure.
www.jpl.nasa.gov /releases/2000/chandlerwobble.html   (362 words)

  
 Wobble Blog : Wobble: Site Notes
The look and feel of Wobble ("The Blog") has been bugging me a bit, so I took a day off from writing to add a few bells and whistles.
Wobble's "Page 1" has always been a "blog" (before the term existed), but I decided to convert it into a true, modern "blog" format.
For what it's worth, Wobble is now a year old (a few weeks past a year actually, but ah, who cares?), and it has also reached (and ditto, past) the 1,000 hit mark!
www.tprthai.net /blog/archives/cat_wobblesitenotes.html   (2711 words)

  
 Browse by Artist: WOBBLE, JAH
After this batch of records Wobble spent about 10 years working with Island Records before going in to business for himself again in 1997 with the launch of 30 Hertz Records.
With the help of Chris Cookson's wild ethnic loops and his own obsessive, post-industrial bass lines, Jah Wobble proceeded to deconstruct the same songs over the next two days, commandeering the odd flurry of whistle notes or long sustains of bagpipe drones at exhilaratingly odd intervals.
The result is sure to rattle some folksy cages, and more than a few Victorian song collectors might turn in their grave, but the atmospheres he has created provide a direct link with the songs' original bearers: a hint of the first trains here, a whiff of the sweatshop there.
www.forcedexposure.com /artists/wobble.jah.html   (1014 words)

  
 Ceiling Fans - Wobble Correction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This is usually not the cause of wobbling, but it's one of the easiest to check.
Very rarely is a wobble caused by an out-of-balance motor (I've seen 2).
To test, run the fan without blades, if it wobbles severely this may be the case.
www.dansfancity.com /techhelp/wobble.htm   (631 words)

  
 Planet Wobble - About Planet Wobble
Planet Wobble is an exciting and innovative series of materials for early readers.
Planet Wobble is winner of the BETT 2003 Education Award.
Planet Wobble is quite like Earth, but everything is a little different, meaning that children from any background can relate to the stories, which follow the adventures of Stan, Josh, Amber, Holly, Ella and Dan, who engage in the kind of activities enjoyed by children everywhere.
www.cricksoft.com /us/products/clicker/planetwobble   (420 words)

  
 APOD: 2002 August 6 - Muon Wobble Possible Door to Supersymmetric Universe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
wobble under scrutiny since 1999 in an experiment known as
rate of wobble is sensitive to a strange sea of
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap020806.html   (164 words)

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