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Practical Guidelines For Dealing With Geography Homework
Geography homework can be a lot of fun, but only if you have the right attitude and skills to get through the tougher assignments. If you don't have either of these things you're going to have a hard time completing your homework and can see your grades fall quickly in a matter of a few short weeks. Here are some practical guidelines for dealing with your geography homework:
Go over Your Assignment's Instructions
The first recommendation we make in these practical guidelines is that you go over the details of your assignment before starting your work. It's important to know just what you are being asked to accomplish. If you have any confusion you can always ask a friend or a classmate before you spend too much of your time and energy doing things incorrectly.
Develop a Plan to Complete Each Task
When working on geography or any other subject it's always a good idea to develop a plan or technique for completing each task. Don't just jump right into the homework assignment. Break it up into several small and manageable tasks. This will reduce some of the stress you might feel in dealing with the assignment as a whole, and it could help you stay motivated by feeling a sense of accomplishment throughout the evening.
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In order to get your assignment completed without constantly being distracted by your friends, family or even everyday electronic objects, you're going to have to create a quiet workspace for yourself. Some people may be limited to having to create a space in their bedrooms or a family room. This is fine, as long as you set some ground rules for yourself to ensure you keep distractions at bay.
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I'm running Vista and everything is working as it should.
Now I have some other folders and files I'd like to add to some things, but they reside outside this root.
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Experiments with being aware of attachments
The Meditation Second for now:
Becoming aware of what I want to hold on to
This meditation can go very deep. Being friendly and unattached while looking at attachments... Observing obvious and subtle things I want to hold on to. It can be people, thoughts, emotions, the body, the feeling of "I"...? It is alright to find many things, the technique is about becoming aware, no judgement necessary. Then, the realization of who is aware...
Osho on attachment to the body
Toss attachment for body aside,
realizing I am everywhere.
One who is everywhere is joyous.
Sutra from the Book of Secrets
The body, a companion for life times
"There is a deep attachment to the body – bound to be, it is natural. You have been living in the body for many, many lives, from the very beginning. Bodies have changed, but you were always with a body, you were always embodied.
Who are you without the body?
There have been certain moments and times when you were not embodied, but then you were not conscious. When you die from one body, you die in unconsciousness and then you remain unconscious. Then you are born again in a new body, but then too you are unconscious. The gap between one death and another birth is unconscious, so you don't know how you will feel when not embodied. You don't know who you are when you are not in a body. You know only one phenomenon, and that is of embodiment; you have always known yourself in the body.
You feel you are the body
This has been so long, so continuous, that you have forgotten that you are different from it. This is a forgetfulness – natural, bound to happen in the circumstances – hence the attachment. You feel you are the body – this is the attachment. You feel that you are not anything other than the body, not anything more than the body. You may not agree with me at this point, because many times you think that you are not the body, you are the soul, the self. But this is not your knowing; this is simply what you have heard, what you have read, and what you have believed without knowing."
Osho, excerpted from The Book of Secrets, Chapter 57
Osho: You don't know what attachment is
You will jump out of hell if you know
"Your attachment has not proved a hell yet. Whatsoever Buddha says and Mahavira says is irrelevant. They may go on saying that attachment is hell, but this is not your feeling. That's why you again and again ask how to be detached, how to be not attached, how to go beyond attachment. You go on asking this "how" only because you don't know what attachment is. If you know what attachment is, you will simply jump out of it. You will not ask "how.""
Osho, excerpted from The Book of Secrets, Chapter 57
Becoming courageous
Falling within
"You go on clinging to the surface, afraid that if you leave the surface you will be lost. Really, clinging to the surface you are lost. But deep down there is darkness and you cannot see any ground; you cannot see anything else than the surface. All these techniques are to make you courageous, strong, adventurous, so that you can stop the holding on and fall within yourself. That which looks like an abyss, dark, bottomless, is the very ground of your being. Once you leave the surface, the periphery, you will be centered. This centering is the aim.
Doing is the problem
You are always tense, that is the holding, the clinging. You are never relaxed, never in a state of let-go. You are always doing something: that doing is the problem. You are never in a state of non-doing, when things are happening and you are just there not doing anything. Breath comes in and goes out, the blood circulates, the body is alive and throbbing, the breeze blows, the world goes on spinning around – and you are not doing anything. You are not a doer. You are simply relaxed and things are happening. When things are happening and you are not a doer, you are totally relaxed. When you are a doer and things are not happening but are being manipulated by you, you are tense."
Osho, excerpted from The Book of Secrets, Chapter 71


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"Ask Beau" April 2006
Well Stafford by the time that I replied to this question I hope that these fine sakes were processed by your liver and we need not discuss what to "expect." I expect that they are gone! Well, if not...... (he sent the email on Mar 7th) then do not worry. Sake is wonderful thing in that it is pasteurized. This beats the pants off of preservatives such as sulphites, which die in mater of hours rather than days. Now there are some folks out there who say that sake is ruined once you open it. I say BS. We all cannot live in a brewery now can we? I like to point out the fact that some Japanese sushi restaurants will keep a large bottle of sake out in the open air until it is sold and gone. This could be up to three weeks!
Sake that has been opened (seen air) starts to decay. Yuk! No not like cavities. It decays as it oxidizes. But unlike wine that goes grotti when air hits it, sake tends to get softer and at times even silkier with a muted acidity. The flavor of these open older sakes tends to compact and get thin in the middle and round on the edges. Sometimes the acidity takes hold and it gets even more brisk/sharp. You never know. It's like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. I swear to the Bible of how sake is made! I ask the Tojis (head brewers) themselves. And they say that sake should be consumed as soon as it is opened to achieve the flavor and feeling that they wanted you to taste. That is in a perfect world. But we don't live in that world at all times. So I say that you will not really taste a significant flavor change in a sake for three to four days in the refrigerator (this is a generalization as all sakes die differently).
Now both of the sakes that you mentioned are Dai Ginjos and as such they change far less than other categories of sake as they have less impurities that go wacky. These sakes actually get a little smoother a couple days after the fact. So the answer is that there is no real answer. But rest assured most sakes (99%) are drinkable 3-4 days after opening for certain, and then it is a matter of taste. If you find that an opened bottle doesn't agree with you 5 days down the road then try warming it. Or even making it hot!
For storage think cool and dark. And try to consume the sakes between 12-15 months after the bottling date.
Please send your sake specific questions to askbeau2 @ truesake.com. (This address is not for general questions and I only review the questions once per month. All correspondence should use info @ truesake.com.)


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Barry Hawkins survived a remarkable fightback from Dominic Dale to seal a 13-12 victory and set up a semi-final against defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan at the Dafabet World Snooker Championship.
Dale, trailing 11-5 overnight, claimed the first seven frames of the session to shock last-year's runner-up who needed just two further frames when play began on Wednesday afternoon.
He eventually got them, but they were the last two of the session as Hawkins set up a repeat of last year's final.
Dale took the first three frames of the day with breaks of 75, 65 and 64 before claiming a slightly scrappier encounter to go into the mid-session interval just two behind.
A break of 61 in the 21st made it 11-10 and the Welshman then prevailed from a long safety battle to level up the scores.
A 52 clearance in the next edged the player known as 'Spaceman' ahead and at that point it looked like momentum would carry him over the line but Hawkins is made of stern stuff and claimed his first frame of the day with a break of 66 took the match to a decider.
Both players were edgy in the opening stages but it was Hawkins who held his nerve with a 65 clearance to go through.
In tonight's quarter-final, Neil Robertson progressed to the semi-finals beating Judd Trump 13-11.
Trailing 6-2 when the day started, Robertson dominated the early going to get it back to 7-6, but Trump kept digging in to stay in front and was 9-6 up at the interval.
Robertson once again closed the gap to a frame before Trump won the next two to open up an 11-8 lead.
From there it seemed there would be only one winner but Robertson fought back valiantly and closed the gap to just one frame for a third time with some attritional play before levelling proceedings with a landmark 101 break, celebrating with a huge pump of the fist.
The body language told the story on both sides with Trump looking like he would rather be anywhere else as Robertson moved 12-11 ahead.
The Bristol man had good cause as his scoring drought moved into a second hour, only ending when Robertson gifted him four with a foul to make it 43-4 in the 24th frame.
That offered him a way back in but having pulled within eight, Trump missed what should have been a routine black and Robertson made him pay by closing out the match.


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Obama campaign manager David Plouffe announced the advertising buy this morning, saying the campaign would also relaunch advertising in Georgia, where it hasn't advertised in several months, and also start advertising in North Dakota.
The surprise add is Arizona, but recent polls have indicated the state, while still leaning toward Mr. McCain, is getting closer.
"We think things have been tightening up there," said Mr. Plouffe. He also cited heavy voting by Hispanics and suburban votes that may benefit the Obama campaign. "If someone else were the nominee, [Arizona] would be a core battleground."
He said the ad wouldn't attack Mr. McCain, but would be positive.
"It's enough in the realm of the possible that we want to put a little extra effort at the end," he said. "We want to give it a go in the last few days. We wanted to see how far we can go."


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Two major Wall Street banks have agreed to pay more than $400 million to settle cases brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with residential mortgage-backed securities.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay $297 million while Credit Suisse agreed to pay $120 million to settle the SEC's claims, which the agency announced Friday.
The SEC's cases stem from allegations that the banks misled investors. The SEC claims JPMorgan misstated the delinquency status of the underlying residential mortgages bundled into its residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) bonds.
"In many ways, mortgage products such as RMBS were ground zero in the financial crisis," Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a statement. "Misrepresentations in connection with the creation and sale of mortgage securities contributed greatly to the tremendous losses suffered by investors once the U.S. housing market collapsed."


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Since I seem to have handed mom the keys to my blog lately (and since everybody reading doesn't seem to mind), here's something she sent Sandy on prayer.
Pray for me if you must, but rather than pray for my sorry heathen soul, why not pray for god to help the thousands of starving children the world over. Ask him to drop a little manna from heaven, multiply a few loaves of fishes and "git 'er done". I'd be glad to cheer him on with a rousing chorus of "you did it before and you can do it again".
But, god needs them in heaven! "God needs them in heaven"? Really? A divine, perfect being living in a perfect place "needs" them there to be happy? But, supposing that is true, why not give them a few decent meals first? Why must they be slowly tortured to death? Pardon me, but that just doesn't sound very loving.
But, it's all part of god's divine plan! He has a plan for each and every one of us! Really? Then why pray at all? Does god sit in heaven, basking in worship, saying, "Ah, I've created it all. Perfect plan in place. Check. Perfect plan for every one of my children on it. Check. Now to kick back, relax, and enjoy this adulation! Wait a minute. What is this? Incoming telepathic message from (insert name). She wants me to show (insert name) the way and the light. Hmmm. I had this divine plan in place, but I think (insert name) might just be onto something here. That godless good for nothing needs to turn their life around. Time for Divine Plan B." (Insert name) sure wields a lot of power.
The contradictory quality of prayer continues to befuddle. After any disaster. the testimonials come out. "God spared us". What about the family down the street , huddled together, praying for god to spare them, yet they all perished? Did they not pray right? Perhaps god was busy listening to other prayers at that moment and theirs got overlooked? Or once again, it was all part of god's divine plan. If so, what good did the prayers do for those who died? Does god change his divine plans for just the right prayer? Who is in control here?
So, pray for me, if it makes you feel good. And since god listens to you and you have the power, could you ask him to send me a good landscaper who works for free? I'd appreciate that a lot.


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Religious zealot would like to talk to you for a minute about the California droughtPosted by Jim at Wednesday, May 13, 2015
By Ben Dreyfuss
10 May 2015
(Mother Jones) – As you may know, there is a drought in California. The water? It's gone! The state? It's dry! The consequences? Very bad, indeed.
Where did the water go? I have no idea. I'm not a private detective who specializes in missing water.
Why did the water leave? No clue. Maybe it's climate change or almonds or squirrels or people or agricultural blah blah blah. Maybe the water saw Thelma & Louise and got inspired. Again: If you're looking for answers, you're reading the wrong writer. But you know who else has no idea why the drought happened? This idiot.
[Conservative journalist Bill Koenig] suggested that the drought in California is a result of the state's support for same-sex marriage and abortion rights: "We've got a state that over and over again will go against the word of God, that will continually take positions on marriage and abortion and on a lot of things that are just completely opposed to the scriptures and unfortunately a lot of times when it starts in California it spreads to the rest of the country and even spreads to the rest of the world. So there very likely could be a drought component to this judgment."
The end-times crowd always does this whenever there is a natural disaster or terror attack or anything. They always finger the same suspect: Gay people. 9/11? Gays. Katrina? Gays. Drought? Gays.
Social conservatives are the guy in the movie theater who keeps whispering to his friends, "I KNOW WHO DID IT." [more]
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SFSU Public Affairs Press ReleasePublished by the Public Affairs Office at San Francisco State University, Diag Center.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 6, 2000 --- With divorce rates nearly unchanged since the 1970s, parents, society and the courts need to start paying closer attention to the consequences of the long-lasting, emotionally crippling effects of divorce on children, says a San Francisco State University psychology professor who has co-written a new book based on a landmark 25-year study of children of divorce in Marin County.
"We cannot continue in the belief that divorce is a transient crisis and that as soon as adults restabilize their lives, the children will recover fully. It doesn't work that way, but there are ways we can lessen the impact of divorce and protect our children as they grow up," said S.F. State's Julia Lewis who co-wrote the book "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25-year Landmark Study" with leading psychologist Judith Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee, a science correspondent with the New York Times.
The new book is a look 25 years into the personal lives of 93 adults who were first studied in 1971 as children when their parents divorced. Wallerstein and researchers interviewed them again 18 months, five and ten years later.
Lewis, director of SFSU's Psychology Clinic and coordinator of the university's clinical psychology graduate program, is co-principal investigator of the 25-year study. She led much of the new research comparing the lives of Marin adult children from intact families with the original study group. The participants in this comparison group of intact families were the same ages and had grown up in the same neighborhoods and attended the same schools with the children of divorce.
The book, published by Hyperion of New York, reveals that the major impact of divorce doesn't come until adulthood when serious romantic relationships emerge. Research found that children identify not only with their mother and father as separate individuals but also with the relationship between the two. "The absence of a good image of a woman and man together as marital partners over the long haul negatively influences their search for love, intimacy and commitment. Anxiety leads many into making bad choices in relationships, giving up hastily when problems arise or avoiding relationships altogether," said Lewis, who added that demographers have shown that adults from divorced families are more likely to never marry and those who do marry are twice as likely to divorce than adults from intact families.
The book is organized around the stories of five adults raised in divorced families and several others who were raised in intact families. Each story represents the experiences of a larger number of people in the study.
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*Only 38% of the adult children from divorced parents had children compared with 61% from intact families.
*Of the male adult children of divorce who had never married, 56% said they have never had an intimate relationship.
*Although 100% of the children from intact families attempted college, only 75% of children from divorced families did the same.
*And only about 30% of children from divorced families received full or consistent partial support from parents for college. Of the children from intact families, nearly 90% received the same financial support for college. The researchers presented some of their preliminary findings at a conference in 1997.
Lewis said the important lessons of the book come in its advice to parents, society, and the courts and even to the children of divorce.
To help protect children, parents should discard the belief that if divorce is good for the parent, it will automatically be good for the child and instead seriously consider staying together for the sake of the children. "To divorce is an intensely personal and painful decision and you don't want to feel martyred," Lewis said. "But if your children are protected and well parented in the family and there is no violence, they are probably better off if you try again to work things out and stay together."
If parents decide to divorce, they need to realize what raising children will require in the future. "Parenting is harder not easier when families split up," Lewis said. "Children need more time, more support and more encouragement just when newly single parents need to spend time and energy recalibrating their own work and social lives.
Society could create agencies to help divorcing parents make long-term plans for their children. These agencies could provide education, counseling and mediation to divorced and remarried parents not just at the time of divorce but also at regular intervals as the children grow and their needs change. Children should also have a voice in the new system to help end their sense of isolation. The courts need to take a less restrictive view of the post divorce family. Visiting orders for children should be flexible and subject to change at regular intervals as the child matures.
And the children of divorce can help themselves as well. If comfortable enough, they can talk with their parents about what motivated the divorce, Lewis suggests.
The authors also give a cautionary bit of advice for the children of divorce: delay marriage or commitment until learning more about yourself and what you want in your partner. Learn about what works for you and what doesn't before making a lasting commitment. "By facing why you are anxious and developing confidence that you can do things differently, you can set yourself free," Lewis said.
To speak with Julia Lewis, professor of psychology at S.F. State, call Ted DeAdwyler of the S.F. State Public Affairs Office at (415) 338-7110 or book publicist Grace McQuade of Goldberg McDuffie Communications at (212) 446-5101.
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2. Clean slides with cleaning powder as directed.
3. Flame one of the slides and allow it to cool.
4. Make a heavy wax line on the flamed side along the margin of one end, along both sides to within about one inch of the other end, and across the slide to complete the rectangle. Handle the slide by the unmarked end only. The wax line creates a retaining wall to allow a pool of stain to surround the cells during the 15 to 15 minute staining period.
C. Preparation of smear
1. Handling the suspension carefully remove a large loopful of the suspension and place it at one end of the rectangular area.
2. Tilt the slide to permit the suspension to run down to the other end of the slide. If the drop fails to run, add another drop.
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PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS: Cute tyke
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS (biodrama)
Cast: Will Smith, Thandie Newton and Jaden Christopher Syre Smith
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Time: 115 mins
Rating: * * * (out of 4)
PREAMBLE: The American Declaration of Independence of 1776 states that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". This forms the basis of the so-called 'American Dream' which most immigrants seek – and the theme of this rags-to-riches story of Chris Gardner.
The one thing about "The Pursuit of Happyness" (its title deliberately misspelt to reflect a graffiti at the San Francisco daycare centre in which Gardner's son was left in) is that it does not set out to be a 'great' or creatively stylish movie. Right from the start, where Gardner (played by Will Smith) narrates the stages of his life, we get the feeling that this is an ordinary movie about an 'ordinary' husband and father doing his best not just to provide for his family but to get the best for them. And it is this 'ornery-ness' that makes us root for Gardner and his pursuit of wealth.
WHAT'S IT ABOUT? Set in the early 80s, the opening shows Gardner as a struggling salesman of an expensive thingamajig known as a 'bone-density scanner'. In the vain hope that he would make it big, Gardner has invested all his savings in that device which actually does the work of an x-ray machine – at many times the cost. Naturally, his business suffers and it takes a toll on his marriage. His wife, Linda (Thandie Newton), is tired of listening to his wild schemes and promises; and his five-year-old son, Christopher (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith) gets caught in between their squabbles.
A chance encounter with a successful stockbroker sets Chris on to his dream of a luxurious life and even lands him an unpaid internship at a prestigious brokerage firm. However, with no means of financial support for his family, Linda soon leaves him -- and Chris is left with the problem of juggling his training at the firm, his sales and taking care of his son. Things get worse when he is kicked out of his rented apartment. Since Chris does not want to be separated from his son, they have to live on the streets, sleeping in restrooms and charity homes.
BOUQUETS & BRICKBATS: Gardner's 'pursuit' – which is actually more of a gamble – may seem reckless and foolish but it is inspiring simply because he dares to dream and is doggedly determined to fulfil it. Of course, he has the love of his son to spur him on and this gives the movie its emotional depth. Like his Oscar-nominated rendition of the famous boxer in "Ali", Smith gives a sympathetic portrayal of Gardner, complete with his usual wide smiles and street smarts. Most of the time, he has us empathising with him. However, the show-stealer is his real-life son Jaden who tugs at our heartstrings with his tone and lines.
He displays real chemistry with Smith and mothers in the audience are bound to be moved by the performance of this curly-haired tyke. As such, remember to bring along extra handkerchiefs or tissue paper. Newton's role as Linda gets the short shrift – but she is not the villain here. Caught in such circumstances, we sympathise with her too.
Director Muccino, who is making his English language feature debut here, takes care of little details like Gardner's mastery of the Rubik's Cube (which was the rage in the 80s), and Gardner's trysts with a cab-driver. This helps to push the footage to more than two hours without forcing us to look at our watch. The ending, however, seems rather hasty – with Gardner's success documented in a footnote at the closing credits.
THE LOWDOWN: Reminiscent of "Kramer Vs Kramer", this one should work well with Malaysian audiences too.


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Here is a cool piece about the history and evolution of the Fender Jazz Bass.
The Jazz Bass is known for it punchy low mids, fast slim neck, and tones ranging from bright (Geddy Lee) to big and round (Family Man Barrett).
Some famous Jazz Bassists: Jaco Pastorious, Geddy Lee, Aston Barrett, John Paul Jones, Colin Greenwood, Victor Bailey, Larry Carlton… The list goes on. Check it out.
The Jazz Bass® Guitar: A History and Appreciation
|1960: The first ad for the new Jazz Bass (above) and page one of Fender's 1960 catalog (below), with the "newest addition to the field of electric basses" at upper left.
As the end of the 1950s neared, Fender had a quartet of innovative electric instruments with designs that would in time prove massively popular and influential. The Telecaster (1951) and the by-then perfected Stratocaster (1954) were well on their way to indispensability as 1960 loomed; the Jazzmaster (1958) took a longer but eventually successful route to cult stardom.
The other instrument was the Precision Bass (1951). The world's first commercially successful solid-body electric bass guitar, it too was destined for greatness. The Precision was designed with ingeniously efficient simplicity and utility to deliver three things—ease of use, precise intonation (hence the name) and a loud, booming sound that unwieldy acoustic basses simply weren't capable of matching.
Throughout most of the 1950s and in contrast to the development of multiple guitar models, Fender stuck with one bass—it opted to redesign the groundbreaking Precision rather than introduce a new bass guitar model. That thinking changed as the decade waned, however, and Leo Fender and his staff turned their attention to a new "deluxe" bass guitar design in 1959.
The reasoning was clear enough—it was simply time for a new Fender bass. And just as the Stratocaster expanded on the Telecaster rather than supplanting it, this new bass would complement the Precision by offering great tonal versatility and a design that went beyond the utilitarian to the realm of the sleekly stylish.
If the Precision was a Chevy, the new deluxe model would be a Ferrari. Leo Fender himself said so. In a Guitar Player magazine interview years later, he said, "Well, it's like a car, you know—you come out with a standard model, then you have a deluxe model—a Cadillac version." Once again, Leo built it and, once again, Fender Sales chief Don Randall named it.
That model, the Fender Jazz Bass guitar, was introduced in 1960.
* * * * * The first production Jazz Bass was built in March 1960. In Fender's summer price list that year, it was listed at $279.50 for a sunburst-finish model and $293.47 for a blonde or custom-color finish.
"Jazz Bass" was an interesting name choice given that 1958's Jazzmaster guitar, with which the new bass shared part of its name, did not win over the "serious" jazz musicians it was intended for. As with the Jazzmaster, the Jazz Bass was released and promptly ignored by jazz musicians—at first. In due time it would find favor with those players; spectacularly so in some cases.
Next to its big brother, though, there was no doubt that the 1960 Jazz Bass really was a deluxe instrument. The most visible and audible evidence of this was that it had two pickups instead of one, giving it a tonal versatility not found in the Precision. The Precision made a great sound, but it made one great sound.
A 1959 Jazz Bass prototype boasted large single-coil soapbar pickups similar to those on the Jazzmaster; a five-polepiece neck pickup and a four-polepiece bridge pickup. These became narrower eight-polepiece (two per string) pickups by the time production started.
|Close-up of a 1959 Jazz Bass prototype shows the soon-discarded soapbar pickup.
The Jazz's neck pickup contributed the sort of warmth and fullness typical of a Precision. Its secret weapon, however, was its bridge pickup, which produced a guttural midrange growl and a clear, trebly high end new at the time to the Fender bass sound.
Since the original Jazz Bass guitars had volume and tone controls for both pickups (in a short-lived dual stacked-knob configuration), the tonal personalities of both pickups could be blended many different ways. You didn't just get one sound with a Jazz Bass—you got an entire palette of pleasing bass sounds, something new in the still-young electric bass experience.
Certainly a different sound, but also a quite different look. Although it clearly resembled the Precision in basic form, the Jazz Bass looked substantially different in several important ways.
Most apparent was a feature borrowed from the Jazzmaster—an offset waist—that conveyed a sleeker and more curvaceous look to the Jazz Bass. In true Fender fashion, however, this was an innovation rooted not in form but in function—the sexier look was a by-product of the more practical consideration that the offset waist made the instrument more comfortable to play when seated, as most "serious" players of the time often were. Less obvious was the fact that the offset waist also made the Jazz Bass slightly larger (46 ¼" long, 14" wide) and hence slightly heavier then the Precision (45 ¾" long, 13" wide), so there was slightly more body mass to contribute to the tone.
The other major design departure of the Jazz Bass, and the biggest in terms of its feel, was its neck, which was noticeably more narrow at the nut—a slim 1 7/16" compared to the Precision's hefty 1 ¾"—and thinner front-to-back. This felt substantially different from the Precision's great tree trunk of a neck, and guitarists who were converting to bass in increasing numbers during that era found the Jazz Bass's slender neck especially user-friendly, especially when it came to playing faster, more intricate passages.
|The original Jazz Bass bridge with adjustable individual string mutes, replaced in 1963 with a much simpler design.
The 1960 Jazz Bass came in a standard sunburst finish with a tortoiseshell pickguard. It had a rosewood fingerboard with clay dot inlays, a finger rest mounted below the G string, adjustable mutes below each string, a strap button on the back of the headstock, and big chrome covers over the neck pickup and bridge/bridge pickup, the latter stamped with a large Fender "F".
Fender started revising and improving the Jazz Bass almost immediately. Within a year of its release, it was offered in 14 custom colors, several with matching painted headstocks and most with three-ply white nitrocellulose pickguards.
The biggest early design change came in December 1961, when Fender dispensed with the two stacked control knobs and reverted to the three-control layout of the 1959 prototype (volume-volume-master tone). Stack-knob Jazz basses continued to be produced, however, well into 1962 as parts were used up. Other early design revisions included:
- 1961: Addition of two more patent numbers to the two originally found below the headstock logo.
- 1963: Individual below-string mutes replaced by simpler all-string mute glued to the inside of the bridge cover; slab fingerboards replaced by round-laminated fingerboards.
- 1964: Three-ply white nitrocellulose pickguards replaced by three-ply white vinyl pickguards; clay fingerboard inlays replaced by faux pearl inlays.
Other design changes and options were implemented throughout the remainder of the 1960s and 1970s, although their infrequency might only underline how little the Jazz Bass has changed in 50 years. These other changes included:
- 1966: White binding added to the neck; pearl block inlays replace dot fingerboard inlays; medium jumbo frets replace previous smaller frets; Fender-produced paddle-shaped keys replace clover-shaped tuning keys; tuning machine gears no long turn backward.
- 1969: Larger and bolder logo decal replaces traditional headstock logo; headstock strap button removed; paddle tuning keys discontinued; maple fingerboard option with black binding and black block inlays introduced.
- 1972: Bridge pickup moved 4/10" closer to the bridge; a small move that nonetheless introduces noticeable tonal change (the older spacing returned to the vintage reissue Jazz Bass models of 1982).
- 1974: Three-bolt neck plate introduced; white binding and block inlay option for maple fingerboards introduced.
- 1976: Headstock logo again redesigned; serial number moved from neck plate to headstock logo.
- 1977: Control knobs changed to black plastic with numbers.
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|Geddy Lee of Rush. His signature instrument remains one of the most successful Jazz Bass models since its introduction in 1998. Photo by Ross Halfin
It's one thing to describe the history of the Jazz Bass in terms of its origin, design features and subsequent design modifications.
But the Jazz Bass is much more than the sum of its parts, and it's something else entirely to survey its 50-year history in terms of its effect on popular music; to look at what players have done with the instrument. Because in those respects, the Jazz Bass was—and remains—a phenomenal instrument.
The Jazz Bass has been an instrument of choice for some of the most creative minds and talented hands in music, making its sound a ubiquitous presence in popular music for five decades now. Even a short list of players known for the using the instrument is most impressive—Joe Osborn, Jack Casady, Noel Redding, Larry Graham, Herbie Flowers, Greg Lake, Jaco Pastorius, John Paul Jones, Sting, Geddy Lee, Marcus Miller, Flea, Ron Blair, Adam Clayton and Verdine White.
When you're listening to the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Sly & the Family Stone, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Led Zeppelin, the Police, Rush, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and U2, you are very often listening to a Jazz Bass.
When you hear the breathtaking bass breaks by John Entwistle on the Who's immortal "My Generation," by John Paul Jones in Led Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times" and by Geddy Lee in Rush's "YYZ," you're hearing a Jazz Bass.
Jack Casady's spooky line in Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and his sinuous line winding throughout "Somebody to Love"? A Jazz Bass. The even spookier psychedelic blues parts woven by Jones into Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused" and by U.K. session great Herbie Flowers into David Bowie's "Space Oddity"? A Jazz Bass. Even great bassists who aren't widely known as Fender players have used the Jazz Bass at one time or another—Paul McCartney is known to have played a left-handed model on The Beatles (the "White Album"), and Yes-man Chris Squire includes one in his arsenal.
And then there's funk, soul and disco. An entirely new way of playing a bass guitar—the irresistibly funky and technically sophisticated slap-and-pop bass odyssey pioneered by Larry Graham in the 1960s with Sly & the Family Stone—was launched with a Jazz Bass. Among the great many notable exponents to play the Jazz this way, standouts include William "Bootsy" Collins, who played his with James Brown in the 1960s before making bass history with Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s; Verdine White with hit factory Earth, Wind & Fire; and Michael "Flea" Balzary, who often used his 1961 Jazz Bass to bring the style to prominence in modern rock music with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
|Jaco Pastorius, who used the Jazz Bass to define a new role for bass guitar. Photo courtesy Jaco Pastorius Inc.
And as noted, the Jazz did eventually find favor in the jazz/contemporary R&B world so avidly sought be Fender in the late 1950s and '60s. As jazz continued to expand and break exciting new ground throughout the 1960s and 1970s, these players grew to prize the Jazz bass for its smooth feel and tonal versatility.
This is readily apparent when considering that today the Jazz Bass easily has the greatest number of signature jazz/R&B artists; more so than any other instrument model in the Fender family—a list that now includes greats such as Marcus Miller, Reggie Hamilton, Victor Bailey, Steve Bailey and Jaco Pastorius.
Pastorius. The very mention of the name seems almost synonymous with the Jazz Bass, with which he will be forever identified, and no discussion of the instrument is complete without him. Widely regarded as one of the greatest electric bassists who ever lived and a musician of incalculable influence, Jaco Pastorius made his mark and redefined the possibilities of the instrument with a battered pair of early-'60s Jazz basses. For many players, including a whole new generation born after his tragic untimely passing in 1987, electric bass starts with him, and hence starts with a Jazz Bass.
In the wake of the development of Fender's two titans of bass, the Precision and the Jazz, an entire bass industry arose and flourished. Countless builders produced their own bass guitars in models ranging from bare-bones simplicity to elaborate (and expensive) complexity. Whatever the case, it always seems that a disproportionately high number of copycat and near-copycat instruments take their inspiration from the Jazz Bass. Often imitated but never equaled, you might say.
And in a related thought, sometimes you have to leave home to truly appreciate home. It's not at all uncommon for highly esteemed players to forego the instrument at some point in their careers in favor of forays with other newer or more technically sophisticated instruments—all well and good, of course—only to later rediscover the elegantly simple magic of the Jazz Bass and perhaps wonder why they'd ever strayed in the first place. Geddy Lee and Greg Lake are both fond of recalling how they "came home" to their respective black Jazz basses after years of experimentation with other instruments; delighted to realize that the sound and feel they prize was there all along.
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|The limited edition 50th Anniversary Jazz Bass model.
As it now begins the second half of its journey to the century mark, the Fender Jazz Bass currently exists in more than 40 incarnations, from a lean-and-mean Standard series model to the rough-and-ready Road Worn model to the enormous Steve Bailey Jazz Bass VI to the gorgeous limited edition 50th anniversary model.
Can it really be 50? It wears it well. It still looks so modern. It's still much more than the sum of its parts, even though they're really cool parts. It still looks and feels so sleek, curvaceous and sexy that it almost doesn't really compute that the Jazz has reached a full half-century. It seems to lack its revered older brother's air of rough austerity, but that's probably a good thing, because it makes the Jazz Bass forever adventurous and forever cool. It means that no matter how long the Jazz continues to rule the realm of bass, it's forever young.


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Gerard Butler's grumpiest looks
Gena OppenheimGrouchy much? It's hard to understand how someone as handsome as Gerard Butler can make such surly faces. In honor of "The Ugly Truth" actor's 44th birthday on Nov. 13, we've uncovered his grumpiest looks. The Scottish hunk didn't seem very pleased to be at the "How to Train Your Dragon" premiere in Universal City, Calif., on Mar. 21, 2013.© Microsoft


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EXPOSURE TO COMMON air pollutants and traffic during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of having a lower birthweight baby, according to a new study.
This increased risk of restricted foetal growth is present even at levels of pollution well below those stipulated in current European Union air-quality directives, the study, published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine, found.
Researchers estimate that for every increase of 5 micrograms per cubic metre in exposure to fine particulate matter during pregnancy, found in traffic fumes or industrial air pollutants, for example, the risk of low birthweight at term raises by 18 per cent. Low birthweight babies are defined as those weighing less than five pounds, eight ounces.
"Our findings suggest that a substantial proportion of cases of low birthweight at term could be prevented in Europe if urban air pollution, particularly fine particulate matter, was reduced", explained lead author Dr Marie Pedersen.
The study
Data from 14 cohort studies in 12 European countries was pooled, which over 74,000 mothers involved.
Air pollution concentrations of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter (PM 2.5; with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less) were estimated at the home addresses using land-use regression models. Traffic density on the nearest road and total traffic load on all major roads within 100m of the residence were also recorded.
All air pollutants, particularly fine particulate matter and traffic density increased the risk of term low birthweight and reduced average head circumference at birth, after accounting for other factors like maternal smoking, age, weight, and education.
Need to improve air quality
The researchers estimated that if levels of these particulates were reduced to the WHO annual average air quality guideline value, 22 per cent of cases of low birthweight among term deliveries could be prevented.
According to Pedersen, "The widespread exposure of pregnant women worldwide to urban ambient air pollution at similar or even higher concentrations than those assessed in our study provides a clear message to policy makers to improve the quality of the air we all share."
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Not publicizing unofficial concerts?
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Not publicizing unofficial concerts?
I heard from this forum that Vienna played a show at the Prudential center in Boston last week. I would have loved to have gone as it was only a few blocks from where I work and during my lunch hour. However it wasn't publicized anywhere and I only heard about it from this forum after it was over. I would think that shows like that could be better publicized on this forum, her main website or the email list. I have told many friends about Vienna and would have liked to have made some more converts. What better way then telling them about a free show? It's also not the first time this sort of thing has happened. It would seem desirable to publicize her shows rather than to keep them a secret. Thanks for listening.
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It wasn't so much a secret as a last minute event, from what I could understand. (It was also not a real "concert" and thus wouldn't quite fit well as a concert for the tour.) I only heard about it hours before the show thanks to Paul. Sorry you had to miss it. Had we known you were around, we probably would have contacted you.
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Spring: I can feel it in the air; see it in the hazy light & slow unfurling flowers; hear it in the increasingly loud birdsong emanating from outside our window where finches flit frantically from branch to branch. And today I felt it in the hot sun as I walked across the beach.
It is close enough to touch and even if the weather should turn icy the clock still ticks toward the brighter months with the promise of all that brings.
The seas have been brisk and swirling myriad shades of blue. Oyster-catchers and herring gulls skim across the foamy waves in a dance of catch-me-if-you-can, sea spray fingers reaching up to cast silvery trails into the sky as wings dip and dodge and hover.
Sunlight turns the dullest patches of seaweed into illuminated tableaux full of vibrant citrusy yellows back lit to render them a stained glass quality. Spring light does this. It takes the ordinary and humble and shouts,"look at what is here! Take note!" ... and I do.
It is precious time, though I am spending far too long walking Pepper. The air is so fresh, the waves so enticing that the thought of being shut indoors does not appeal so very much. I think, "I'll just see what the next wave does," and so it goes on.
Plus, as ever, there is treasure to sort through and search out. The strong stormy winds have thrown plenty for us to turn over and that sun, when it is there, is telling me there is no rush.
Pepper is in no particular hurry either. She has friends to play with on busier days or, when I find us a secret spot hidden away as is my favourite, she pootles through rockpools with me, her lump-of-coal nose shuffling around under stones to chase out something special to amuse her for a while. Then we sit and watch and listen and just breathe it all in.
Eventually home calls but even here I am filling the shelves and sills with signs of spring. On Saturday I decided it was time:our first duck egg shone bright white in the duck pen and told us that the ducks are ready for a change of season even if the calender isn't. The first egg from the ducklings I hatched and hand reared last year. I must admit I feel quite proud!
Bowls and baskets of shells are popping up everywhere so that the light can bounce off their surfaces.. pretty flat winkles, cowries, whelks ... so many.
My pockets are always full of things I find.
Evening time is still so chilly though and so we light the fire and I pick up my knitting. Yes, I finally settled on a pattern from the masses saved to my Pinterest knitting board. Not an easy thing when I want so many of the things I have on there, but I have started with Deco by Kate Davies.
It's a lovely cardigan which I am knitting in Sirdar Sublime extra fine Merino DK. The shade is as you can see but with more depth than my photo shows. It is giving me the chance to use my Knit Pro circular needles from a set I treated myself to a long (long) time ago. They come with a gorgeous range of coloured interchangeable tips and are very comfortable to use. The patterning is simple with enough going on to keep things interesting.
Of course, I bought a few more balls in another colour at the same time as I was having trouble choosing. Davey encouraged this as he was heading off to purchase a little more yarn himself. I call him ' The Enabler!'
The blue I am using is called Spruce & the other is aptly named Gorgeous, which it is.
And so that's me for now.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks blasted higher Tuesday afternoon, wiping away a week's worth of steep losses, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped nearly 900 points - its second biggest daily point gain ever - as bargain hunters flooded the market.
Surging as much as 906 points just moments head of the close, the Dow industrials DJIA, +0.29% settled at 9,065.36, up 889.59 points, or 10.9%.
With a notable late-afternoon "lack of selling pressure, the buyers began to ride in on their horses, and that brought in some additional buyers and short-covering," said Robert Pavlik, chief investment officer at Oaktree Asset Management.
All of the blue-chip index's 30 components advanced, two-thirds tallying double-digit gains, with Alcoa Inc. AA, -0.48% gaining the most, up 19.3%.
Also supporting the blue-chip index, shares of Boeing Corp. BA, -0.37% gained 15.5% after the company reached a tentative pact with machinists. See detailed report
General Motors Corp. GM, -1.60% gained 14.7% after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Energy Department is working to arrange $5 billion in loans to the automaker, which would help GM merge with Chrysler. Read more.
The S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.02% climbed 91.34 points, or 10.8%, to end at 940.24, with financials fronting the gains that encompassed all 10 of the index's 10 industry groups, led by the likes of mall operator General Growth Inc. GGP, +0.00% up 72.1% after it said it was replacing its chief executive.
The materials sector also posted strong gains, with specialty chemical maker Hercules Inc. HPC, +6.70% jumping 20.3% ahead of its pending acquisition by Ashland Inc. ASH, -2.17%
The technology-laden Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.39% rose 143.57 points, or 9.5%, to 1,649.47.
Volume on the New York Stock Exchange topped 1.7 billion, with advancing stocks overriding those declining more than 4 to 1. On the Nasdaq, nearly 1.3 billion shares traded, and advancers topped decliners 2 to 1.
Stocks pared initial gains after the Conference Board released its consumer-confidence index for October, with the gauge dropping to a record low of 38 from 61.4 in September. Read Economic Report.
"These figures will reinforce the negative tone on Wall Street, although they can hardly be viewed as a shock and a game changer given all that has happened of late," said Tony Crescenzi, bond market strategist at Miller Tabak & Co.
Ahead of the open Tuesday, stock futures had remained solidly higher after S&P/Case Shiller index of 20 cities showed a 1% decline in home prices in August from July, and a record 16.6% from the year-ago month. See Economic Report.
Short-term borrowing costs continued to fall, but at a slow pace, with the three-month London interbank offered rate, or Libor, for dollar loans down to 3.465% from 3.5075 on Monday.
The Fed's interest-rate setting committee begins deliberations Tuesday afternoon at the start of its two-day meeting, with expectations for a half-point cut to bring the federal funds rate to 1% -- which would be its lowest level since June 2004. Read The Fed.
The U.S. central bank rarely makes announcements on the first day of its meetings, but after this month's global coordinated rate cut, traders are on alert for an early move.
And, the Bank of Japan is leaning toward cutting its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 0.25% to help support a domestic economy battered by a strong yen and falling stock prices, according to a published report. See details.
"If Japan can get the yen pushed lower, that would take away some of the selling pressure," said Pavlik.
European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet said on Monday that another Europe rate cut was "possible" and Bank of England Gov. Mervyn King recently acknowledged for the first time that the United Kingdom was likely in recession.
In an unexpected move, Iceland on Tuesday hiked its interest rates by 6 percentage points to 18% in a massive policy reversal. Read Emerging Markets Report.
Crude futures fell 49 cents to $62.73 a barrel. See Futures Movers.
The dollar saw a recovery vs. the Japanese yen. Read Currencies.
On the earnings front, appliance maker Whirlpool Corp. WHR, -0.15% cut its 2008 forecast and announced it was cutting 5,000 jobs.
U.S. Steel Corp. X, -2.37% topped most expectations with its quarterly profit report, but also cautioned fourth-quarter earnings would fall as demand weakens.
Honda Motor Co. Ltd. HMC, -0.11% reported a 41% profit drop for the second quarter and the Japanese automaker cut its annual profit view. Read full story.
Overseas, most Asian markets clawed through early volatility to end higher. Read Asia Markets.
In Europe, shares also closed higher as investors shopped for bargains. See Europe Markets.
On Monday, a bout of late-session selling sent U.S. stocks lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 203 points, or 2.4%, to 8,175.77, its lowest close since April 1, 2003, with the blue-chip index down 24.65% so far for October.


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Car dealer strategies
This morning I heard a commercial for one of the local Phoenix Nissan dealers (one that receives frequent complaints from people who appear to not pay very close attention to what they are purchasing). The ad offers to make your mortgage payments for the rest of the year when you buy a car from them, even if your mortgage is as much as $2,000, without changing the sale price of the car. I suspect that means without lowering the sale price of the car below the point of profit.
It doesn't strike me as a sensible way to avoid foreclosure.