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Horse girths and Girth Sleeves
A girth is part of horse tack that keeps the saddle in position, strapping around the middle of the animal and connecting to the billets of the saddle on either side.
For speed or jumping events - including show jumping, polo, fox hunting and eventing – other horse tack may also be required to keep the saddle securely in place such as breastplates, breastgirths, breastcollars, and overgirths (surcingles).
Girth fitting
Pressure should be spread uniformly around a horse's girth, making the size of the girth an important consideration. This piece of horse tack ought not to be too narrow, unclean, or too tight. And there should be enough room to get two fingers between your horse and its girth.
It is also best if it has some "give" to it, which makes it more comfortable for the horse. Many riders also choose one that allows for extra elbow room, so the horse is not restricted as his leg moves backward.
How to measure a girth
To measure for a girth, such as a Stubben or a Frank Baines girth, the saddle with a pad or numnah should be placed on the horse. A measuring tape can then be used to measure from the middle hole of the billet on one side, under the horse's belly, to the middle billet on the other side.
Durable leather and neoprene girths
English girths - such as those from Frank Baines - are usually made of either leather or neoprene; a soft and easy-to-clean synthetic rubber material. As the traditional choice, leather suits most horses, but needs to be kept very clean and supple to provide a comfortable fit. The Frank Baines stud girth features a removable woollen backing which can easily be taken off to clean.
Neoprene is a good alternative as it is easy to clean and take care of. The Tekna girth is fantastic alternative to leather ones, and with its affordability it makes a great second girth for general hacking and schooling work. A leather girth can then be used for competitions.
Dressage girths are shorter than those used on other saddles because the dressage saddles have longer billets, keeping buckles away from under riders' legs.
Problems with girths
It is important for a girth to fit comfortably. If it is too narrow or has a narrow reinforcing strip down the centre, it may cause discomfort. Symptoms can include chafing and pinching around a horse's elbows and middle. So called "girth galls" can be formed that appear as tiny lumps near the elbows; left untreated, they can develop into nasty open sores.
Another equine illness is "girth itch", usually caused when this piece of tack fits poorly. A bacterial infection, it occurs after a horse has got too sweaty - it needs to be treated by antifungal medication and antibiotics. Leather girths maybe more suitable for some horses than neoprene.
Do check your equine friend's skin is not wrinkled under the girth. To remedy this problem, help the animal stretch out its front legs.
Horses often hold their breath when the girth is tightened, giving a false impression the saddle is tight. As many a rider experiences, the horse seems to breathe out as soon as the rider has mounted, leaving the saddle loose and likely to slip. This effect can be reduced in some horses by slowly tightening the girth over a period of a few minutes rather than making it very tight straight away.
Girths in the Dogwood Collection
Girths are among a wide range of horse tack and equestrian equipment supplied for sale by the Dogwood tack shop. As well as Stubben, Frank Baines, Tekna, Amerigo and Equippe brands, the collection also features NuuMed woollen girth sleeves.
Our equestrian products are made of the finest materials, providing reliability and comfort for both horse and rider and are all extremely long lasting.
For more information about anything at Dogwood please feel free to contact one of our friendly team on 0845 30 10 365.
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Sixth Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 05/01/2010, Docket: RP10-483-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 176 Original Sheet No. 176
These General Terms and Conditions, the Rate Schedules to which they apply, and any
executed Service Agreement for service hereunder are subject to valid laws, orders,
rules, and regulations of duly constituted authorities having jurisdiction.
The descriptive headings of the provisions of this Tariff are formulated and used for
convenience only and shall not be deemed to affect the meaning or construction of such
22.1 Annual charges are assessed against Gas pipelines by the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) under 18 C.F.R. Part 382 of the Commission's
Regulations prior to each fiscal year in order to cover the cost of the operation of the
FERC. For the purpose of recovering annual charges assessed Pipeline by the FERC,
this Section 22 establishes, pursuant to Section 154.38(d)(6) of the Commission's
Regulations an ACA unit rate to be applicable to quantities transported or sold under
Pipeline's Rate Schedules identified in Paragraph 22.2. This ACA unit rate is in addition
to any amounts otherwise payable to Pipeline under such Rate Schedules. Pipeline does
not intend to recover any annual charges recorded in FERC Account No. 928 in a
Section 4 rate case while this Section 22 is in effect. Pipeline reserves the right to cancel
this Section 22 and elect the Section 4 rate case recovery methodology at a future date.
22.2 The ACA unit rate shall be applicable to all Rate Schedules which are part of this
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We are a community of runners east of Yonge. Our members are training to run their first 5k or their third ultramarathon.
All paces are welcome. No one is left behind.
We meet at Rooster Coffee - 479 Broadview Ave.
On Tuesdays we meet at 6:30pm and we run short distances. On Saturdays we meet at 8:30am and we go for a long run followed by brunch.
Our members come from all the neighbourhoods east of Yonge: Riverdale, Canary District, Leslieville, Greektown, Cabbagetown, St. James Town, The Beaches, Regent Park, Rosedale, The Village, Corktown, The Danny, etc.
Now we are training for The Beaches Jazz Festival Tune Up Run and the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront.
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Collection of Essays, Including Work by Prof. Samuel Autman, is Finalist for Benjamin Franklin Award
May 8, 2013
The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays, which includes a work by Samuel A. Autman, assistant professor of English at DePauw University, has been named as one of three finalists in the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Awards competition in the multicultural category. The winner will be chosen from one of the three finalists and will receive the Benjamin Franklin Award during a ceremony on Wednesday evening, May 29, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
Presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association, the Franklin Award "is regarded as one of the highest national honors in small and independent publishing," according to the organization. The competition includes 55 categories recognizing excellence in both editorial and design.
Professor Autman's essay is "A Dash of Pepper in the Snow." A former newspaper journalist and the faculty adviser to The DePauw, Autman's work has appeared in the Birmingham Post-Herald, Tulsa World, Salt Lake Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and San Diego Union-Tribune. The professor's essay is about his experiences as a journalist in Salt Lake City.
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Installation of Front Tow Hooks on a 1992-1996 Bronco
Many have wondered why front end tow hooks were never an option on Broncos and the F-Series trucks until our beloved Broncos were discontinued. Even now they are only avalible on 1 ton and above trucks. This tech article focuses on correcting this design flaw.
Get your tools and supplies together. Items you will need are as follows:
Take off your bumper by removing the 4 10mm bolts holding it onto your truck. I find it much easier to take off the grille to get to the top bolts. slide the bumper off the mounting tabs and set it aside.
Figure out where you will be mounting your tow hooks, personally I put them on the inside of the frame rail where they would have some backup from the bumper mount. Be careful You dont put them in a spot where the head of the bolt will hit the head of the bumper mount bolt.
Drill your holes. I found it works best if you drill with the smaller drill bits then make the holes bigger with the larger bits. When drilling the 2nd hole be sure to make sure it lines up with the hole on the tow hook. You can use the tow hook to streighten hout the 2nd hole if you have to, but expect a lot of binding and kickback from the drill.
Once your holes are aligned and drilled install your tow hooks using the 2 3/4" wrenches 19mm wrenches can be subituted for the 3/4 inchers.
This is the point where you have a choice, you can either hack on then bumper with it off the truck or with it on. Personally I rather do it withthe bumper on because then its held nice and steady, with it off it was very hard to cut since the saw kept moving it around.
If you want to cut with the bumper on the truck set the bumper on it's pegs on the mounts tap it against the hooks a few times then draw a rectangular box around the marks the hooks leave.
Here comes the pain in the butt part, if you know someone who can plasma cut your bumper use them, otherwise you will have to drill several holes in an "L" shape and connect them the other option is to get a bumper off a diesel.
If you are using a recipocating saw then use this pattern of cutting, I found it yields the best result and you end up with less shards to pick up. You will have to cut into the bump strip 1/4-1/2" in order to get full use of the tow hook. Don't worry, it doesn't look that bad.
After getting everything squared off and to the size you like install your edge molding around the hole. This will hide the imperfections, keep your hands intact and make the job look professional. Edge molding is avalible at most Industrial hardware stores.
If you cut your holes with the bumper on the truck pull it off and do your final installation of your tow hooks. Once they are tight mount your bumper and tighten it all up. In order to keep it from flapping you may want to cut 4" squares out of your mud shield so they wont catch the air. This will also help with cooling since now air is getting to the lower half of your radiator.
You are now done and its time to go out have some fun without worring about not being able to be pulled out head first.


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Here is the first chapter for my MOCTale. No title yet, but tell me what you think. I haven't made a website to host it on yet, but that is a matter of days away.
Nick Farnshaw could feel the rage quell up inside of him. Bodies, both Black Wolf and Timberman, littered the floor of the glade. The last remnants of the attack party could still be seen as they set anchor from the Easton Port. As if to mock the helpless defenders of the forest, the crewmen of the last undamaged ship raised up their flag of victory, an ebony wolf with crimson blood dripping from its fangs. They had not won, by any means, yet they chose to sail out into the vast sea feigning triumph. It was this act that was the last nail in the coffin of the Timbermen.
The day had begun peacefully enough; the Timbermen, inhabitants of the small port hamlet of Easton on the eaves of the Deepwood, had gotten up early to prepare for the feast of the Mariners, an annual festival celebrating the hamlet's foundation by the crew of the Wave Marcher three hundred years ago. The villagers embraced both of their backgrounds: hardy men of the forest, as well as free children of the sea. Experts at boat making and fishing, they were also keen hunters and respected bow makers. However, they did contain themselves to the immediate area of their small village, and used their skills only to support themselves: the sea was for fish, not exploration, and the forest for wood and game, not colonization. Children were told legends still believed by many adults of the queer happenings of the centre of the Deepwood. They respected their natural environment, and were dear friends of the trees: wood was only used when found dead, and from live trees only after a long sacrificial ceremony.
It was this reverence for the woods that led to their confrontation with the Black Wolves. The men were at their nets, casting for fish, when they spotted a grey sail emblazoned with a black wolf.
"This sight can only mean one thing," said Old Tom, one of the wisest and most respected members of Easton, and one of the few men who was literate. The Timbermen were eloquent speakers for the most part, but never bothered with written language. It was said that Old Tom learned from the wizard Arwyl, a figure of legend in the world of the Timbermen.
"Black Wolves are coming to shore. Nate, get the archers ready!"
The Timbermen had never been fond of the Black Wolves, seeing them as pillagers and oppressors. However, in their few confrontations, usually when they traded fish and wood for metal and ceramics, they had remained civil, respecting the land. Still, the elders of the community, like Old Tom, did not trust them, and insisted upon armed guards when the trading took place.
Peter Farnshaw, the leader of the small defensive force, began gearing up the archers. Stern and diplomatic, he was still a kind leader and an inspiring father for his son Nick. A skilled swordsman, which was a rarity amongst the Timbermen, he was also one of the most accurate archers in the town. His brother had been killed after a raid by barbarians in the north; one of the main reasons that a defensive force had been set up in the town. It was said that he was never seen to be cheerful after his brother's murder. Now, he stood, stern as ever, putting the archers through their paces alongside his assistant Nate, as the Black Wolf ship drew ever nearer.
The vessel, which could now be seen bearing the name Death water, creaked and groaned as it settled into port. Black Wolf soldiers, bearing the signature emblem that was seen on the sail, could be seen on deck, armed with swords, as well as a strange type of single-headed axe. The gangway was dropped, and a man fully clad in cruel, black armour descended.
"Necrophus," muttered Old Tom. Sir Necrophus was the right hand man of Lord Blackwell, the dark leader of the Black Wolves. He was also the trade master of the faction, meaning he was the one who was usually seen during these situations. As was the case with all of the Black Wolves, he remained fully armoured. He did lift his visor when speaking, revealing cunning eyes, but his face remained shadowed. His reedy voice was nearly lost over the sound of crashing waves.
"We request wood," he said, almost mechanically.
Old Tom acted as the negotiator.
"We have no wood for you today. Come back five days hence, after our festival, and we will have many trunks for you."
"You say no to us? We will not accept refusal."
"And we will not accept disrespect. The wood belongs to the forest, and we have been chosen as stewards of the land."
"Then we will be forced to use desperate measures. Men, down the gangplank. Axes at the ready. Cut down the trees. Take no prisoners."


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|Crew Historian
The Crew Historian is a special crew officer that collects and preserves memorabilia, press releases, photo, and and other data of historical significance to the crew.
Reports to
- Collect and preserves memorabilia, press releases, photo, and and other data of historical significance to the crew.
- Maintain information about crew activities and members
- Set a good example.
- Wear the uniform appropriate to the Venturing crew.
- Learn and live by the Venturing Oath and the Venturing Code.
- Approach Venturing in the spirit of fun, and seeks to reflect this spirit while preserving the crew's history.
As a special crew officer:
- Foster and develop an environment within the crew that has a true sense of community, that encourages growth and responsibility to one another.
- Work in a spirit of partnership with the Crew Advisor.
- Assist in developing a program of activities for the crew help carry them out.
- Uphold the standards and policies of the chartered organization and the Boy Scouts of America.
- Ensure that activities are conducted within BSA safety guidelines and requirements.
- Cultivate the capacity to enjoy life - have fun and explore while leading.
- The Crew Code and Bylaws of the Venturing crew may stipulate that this position is elected by the crew, or is appointed by the Advisor or President.
- To apply Crew Historian as an Eagle position of responsibility, the Venturer must have earned Life Rank after January 1, 2007.
The Crew Historian is the youth historian leader in its unit. Other youth historian leaders are:
- Historian - Boy Scouting
- Crew Historian - Venturing
See also
|Venturing portal
- Positions of Responsibility
- Venturing
- Venturing Gold Award
- Venturing Silver Award
- Star Rank
- Life Rank
- Eagle Scout Rank
Crew Positions of Responsibility and Adult Advisers
|Crew Officers:
|President • Vice President - Administration • Vice President - Program • Secretary • Treasurer
|Special crew officers:
|Crew Guide • Quartermaster • Historian
|Other crew officers:
|Musician • Den Chief
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Shelby Co. Inmate Found Dead
SIDNEY — An inmate at the Shelby County Jail hanged himself early Monday morning.
According to a news release from Shelby County Sheriff John R. Lenhart, at 6:13 a.m., Ronald Walling was found hanging by a bed sheet in his cell during a routine inmate check. Jail staff immediately began CPR and paramedics arrived on the scene shortly after Walling was found. Walling was pronounced dead at 6:46 a.m.
Walling was arrested July 27 on two counts of gross sexual imposition and one count of attempted gross sexual imposition. Walling pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted gross sexual imposition on Nov. 14 and was sentenced to 45 months in prison on Dec. 12.
Walling was a convicted sexual offender and was labeled a sexually oriented offender and given a 10-year registration requirement related to an incident involving a female victim under the age of 13. Walling also had an outstanding warrant out of South Carolina for an alleged probation violation on charges of drug abuse and forgery.
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office and the Shelby County Coroner's Office are investigating the matter as a suicide.


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Ridgecrest educators react to Sandy Hook Elementary shooting that sent shockwaves across the country.
Local education leaders reacted with grief and shock over the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The shooter left 26 people, including 20 children, dead at the school.
According to reports from the Associated Press, the gunman killed a woman at his residence, then went to the school. The AP on Friday reported 28 people in all were dead, including the gunman, who took his own life.
"We are deeply saddened by this morning's school shooting in Connecticut," said Ridgecrest Charter School Director Tina Ellingsworth. "According to the (California Department of Education), it is critical to monitor the exposure that children have to television and radio at this time. Exposure to the news about this mass shooting may lead to anxiety and fear in children and youth."
She said the school is sending Tips for Parents compiled from www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ss/cp/tragedy.asp home electronically through its In-Touch parent-notification system.
Ellingsworth said the California Department of Education's Coping with Tragedy website includes links to articles on talking to kids about violence and helping children deal with tragic events, and the National Association of School Psychologists is also a great resource. The web site is www.nasponline.org/.
"Today, communities are faced with increased acts of mass violence, reminding us that no organization is immune," she said. "This tragedy serves as a reminder that communities must band together to protect our children from random acts of violence."
Sierra Sands Unified School District Superintendent Joanna Rummer said the shooting was devastating and tragic.
"Our hearts go out to the families of the children and employees who were lost," she said.
Rummer said she was in communication with the district management team all morning to make sure there was heightened awareness.
"We're reviewing our plans and procedures in the event of a tragic situation that we hope to avoid," she said. "We do monthly drills including fire drills and procedural drills."
She said the schools sporadically address lockdowns, and each school has a safety plan in place to address this type of event.
"Everyone is devastated by this event," Rummer said. "We love our children, and we work very hard to protect them. These kinds of events are always so tragic."
Trona Joint Unified School District Superintendent and High School Principal David Olney called the shooting horrible.
"Words can't express how you feel when you see something like that occur," he said. "What it does is cause us to pause and reflect and make sure that we're doing everything we possibly can to take care of our kids."
He said the district regularly conducts drills and is in the process of updating the safety plan.
"We make sure that in our safety plan we not only have the drills such as earthquake drills and fire drills, we also have code red drills and making sure that we have a process in place for the kids to practice," Olney said.
Burroughs High School Principal Dave Ostash said the shootings were horrific.
"It's everybody's worst nightmare," he said.
Ostash said the school conducts two drills, which included practice of its lockdown procedures.
"We have a specific procedure, and we practice that with everybody," he said. "Any time a student feels emotional about anything, they know they can always approach our guidance department and our administrators."
"It's a tragic incident, and I'm glad we take extra precautions to keep our kids safe," said Gateway Elementary School Principal Lisa Decker.
She said no assemblies are planned.
"I would expect parents to discuss this with their children," she said. "We do evacuation drills. We do lockdown drills. That's part of our safety plan to do those regularly."
Inyokern Elementary School Principal Bonnie Kauffman said it is sad and shocking that it happened on an elementary-school campus.
"We do a safety drill every month," she said. "We had one lockdown drill already. We are planning a second lockdown drill for January. We are working on the drills, and the kids are doing a fabulous job of listening to their teachers and following directions."
Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Ernie Bell, who serves on the district safety committee, said this was the worst tragedy he ever heard of.
"It's a terrible, terrible thing to have happen to any community, any school anywhere in the world," he said. "It's just devastating. It just makes me sick to my stomach."
He said all school sites have procedures in place for emergencies.
"We have evacuation procedures. We have lockdown procedures and procedures in place for anyone who is unidentified who comes onto the property," Bell said. "We have board policies. People are supposed to be checking in. We practice those things on a regular basis."
He said the committee met Thursday and discussed the procedures.
Immanuel Christian School Principal Scott Johnson also called the shootings tragic.
"Our thoughts and prayers definitely go out to the school and the staff as they deal with the tragedy, and especially with the families that lost loved ones," he said.
He said the school has been working on disaster plans, and will be working on lockdown plans.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the educators, students, and families from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn.," Pierce Elementary School Principal Pam Barnes said. "Events like this certainly heighten the awareness of everyone at Pierce and in the Sierra Sands District in our efforts to provide a safe environment for our students and staff. We have districtwide practices and procedures in place to prepare and respond to emergency situations including lockdowns."
For extensive coverage: http://www.ridgecrestca.com/article/20121214/NEWS/312149980


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The maximum dimensions of cabin baggage that is allowed into the aircraft should not exceed 56cm X 36cm X 23cm and maximum 7kg. In addition to the single cabin baggage, the following items may be permitted subject to
the requirement of each individual airline.
- Laptop bag / small bagpack with laptop
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Passengers are advised to refer to their respective airlines for further clarification.


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|An employer or labor organization may not discriminate against employees, applicants or members based on a predisposing genetic characteristic. An employer or employment agency may not print or circulate materials or use a form of application that discriminate based on a predisposing genetic characteristic. Additional provisions apply to employers, labor organizations, employment agencies, and licensing agencies. A genetic test may be required as a condition of employment if directly related to possible increased risk of disease in the work environment or, with informed consent, for workers compensation and to determine susceptibility to toxins found in the workplace environment.
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Ledyard assistant superintendent named new head of school district
Ledyard — Assistant Superintendent Cathy Patterson will succeed Michael Graner as superintendent of schools beginning Jan. 1.
The Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday night to appoint Patterson, who has served as assistant superintendent for 12 years. Her 26-year career in the Ledyard school district has included positions as a teacher, special educator, curriculum coordinator, director of special services, assistant elementary and high school principal and elementary school principal.
After 10 years as Ledyard's superintendent, Graner will begin his new post as superintendent of Groton Public Schools in January. The Groton Board of Education offered him the position last week.
Ledyard school board Chairman Sharon Hightower said the board began meeting as soon as Graner became a finalist for the Groton position and decided Patterson's appointment was more appropriate than a full-blown search process.
"I think everybody expressed (Wednesday night) they were in full support of her assuming the superintendent position," Hightower said. "We felt that she was uniquely skilled given that she had done most of her professional work in the district."
"She really knows Ledyard," she added.
Graner said Patterson was a natural choice because the two have worked together for the past decade as a team.
"This was a vote for continuity," Graner said. "And beyond that, she is quite simply the finest administrator I've ever worked with. ... She really brings to the job just an enormous amount of talent and energy."
Patterson said she will miss Graner both personally and professionally but is "looking forward to the new challenges and new rewards of a new job."
"I love Ledyard," she said. "I've loved teaching in Ledyard and being an administrator in Ledyard, and I have dedicated my professional life here and I want to continue that."
The assistant superintendent position was advertised Thursday morning and will remain open for applications through mid-November. A search committee comprised of Board of Education members, administrators, teachers, a secretary and a parent representative will aim to hire Patterson's replacement by early 2014, though Patterson said she expects to be working on her own for the first month or two of the year.
Groton school board to interview two finalists for superintendent


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Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Jun 2010 19:17 UTC
Linux Magazine has a profile of Daniel Fore and the Elementary project. Elementary is a Linux distro that's committed to a clean and simple user experience, but it's more than a distro - it's actually a multi-pronged effort to make improvements to the user experience for a whole ecosystem of components, including icons, a GTK theme, Midori improvements, Nautilus, and even Firefox. The work that elementary is doing isn't limited to their own distro, and some of their work is available in current, and perhaps future, Ubuntu releases. The results are really striking, and I think it's probably the handsomest Linux UI I've ever seen.
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There's 200,000 iphone/ipad developers, hitting them up for code on linux would be a decent way to expand the developerbase of linux.
We have Mono already, and it seems gazillions of Windows developers didn't suddenly start writing Linux applications.
BTW, how do the GNUStep guys feel about recent actions of Apple? Do they still feel objc ecosystem is something they want to support on their volunteer time?


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David Luther Cooley, 73, of Lowell, passed away October 27, 2012, in Grand Rapids.
David Luther Cooley, 73, of Lowell, passed away October 27, 2012, in Grand Rapids.
He was born April 19, 1939, in Tuscumbia, Ala., the son of Josei and Mildred (McCluskey) Cooley. David married Norma Wigfield on April 30, 1979, in Florida. He worked for the Air Force, serving as a Senior Master Sgt. He was a member of D.A.V., V.F.W., American Legion and Air Force SGTS Assoc. David was active with the Boy Scouts and the Air Force Junior ROTC. He loved the Dallas Cowboys.
David is survived by his loving wife of 33 years, Norma Cooley of Lowell; children, Craig (Melissa) Fosburg of Arkansas and David (Tiffany) Cooley Jr. of Arkansas; grandchildren, Ashley Fosburg, Tysn Parker and Emma Cooley; brothers-in-law, Richard (Lyn) Wigfield of Saranac and Owen (Molly) Wigfield of Saranac; and sister-in-law, Marie (Mike) McNeal of New York.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Lake Funeral Home of Saranac, with the Rev. Kenneth Harger officiating. Interment will be in South Boston Cemetery. Visitation will be 11 a.m. Tuesday until time of service at the funeral home.
Anyone wishing may make contributions in David's name to the local Boy Scout troop. Online condolences may be made at www.lakefuneralhomes.com.


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On a very well-known website I read today:
"Typically, by age 4 months or so, babies have started to develop more of a regular sleep/wake pattern and have dropped most of their night feedings."
"At some point between 4 and 6 months, most babies are capable of sleeping through the night. "Through the night" at this age generally means a stretch of 8 to 12 hours."
While I love the thought of sleeping more, how can you maintain your supply if the above is true? My LO is only 3 months old and I was hoping to breastfeed exclusively till about 6 or 7 months before starting to introduce food, and continue till around 1 year. I feel like now that I've survived the hardest first months (including oversupply, mastitis and thrush!), I need to have an idea of how to maintain my supply as she grows and cuts back on her feedings.
Thank you very much in advance!


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More cow flop than you scrape off your brogans.
And that much manure provides a big challenge for a dairy to dispose of in an environmentally responsible matter.
Al Deepee, general manager of Braum's Dairy, near Tuttle, Okla., says the dairy faces that daunting task every. Braum's was included on a recent field tour, part of the 24th Annual Southern Conservation Tillage Conference. The conference was attended by researchers from across the Sunbelt.
"We are a no-discharge facility," says Deepee. The animal waste stays on the facility, which encompasses more than 10,000 acres of farmland in an isolated, rural setting about an hour's drive from Oklahoma City.
"We don't have flush-water runoff problems," Deepee says.
The need for feed plays a crucial role in waste management.
"We raise from 4,000 to 5,000 acres of corn," Deepee says, "to provide a good portion of the 1 million pounds of feed we use daily. We also raise wheat, barley and 2,500 acres of alfalfa. We buy grain sorghum, wheat straw, and soybeans from local farmers. We feed a lot of soybeans."
After corn harvest, he plants barley. "The farm produces from 100,000 to 105,000 tons of corn silage a year. That lasts about 9 months, and then we feed barley silage."
Deepee prefers barley to other small grains. "We get more tonnage, and the nutritional value is higher," he says.
Deepee says the dairy provides good markets for local grain and forage producers. "We operate two elevators where we buy local crops. We buy up to 200,000 bushels of barley a year locally."
But the dairy produces most of its own feed. They grow crops on some coastal bermudagrass pastures. "We overseed coastal with wheat in the fall," Deepee says. "We overseeded one bermudagrass field this spring with corn. We're not certain how well the grass will recover."
He says continuous cropping is essential.
"The solution to pollution is dilution," Deepee says. "We keep something on most of the land all year long to manage this much waste."
Water from the dairy facility, a building that squats on some 35 acres of land and is visible for miles, "is used at least twice," Deepee says.
Solids are separated, composted and used as bedding for the cows. Water goes into a lagoon and is recycled for crop irrigation. The farm includes 33 center pivot irrigation units. "We can pump 2,200 gallons of recycled water a minute 24 hours a day.
"A dairy this size requires a lot of acreage and a lot of growing crops to take up the nutrients in the waste water," Deepee says. "We purchase only ammonium fertilizer for the corn."
All the milk and milk products from the dairy are sold through Braum's stores and restaurants. "We have stores in five states, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and New Mexico."
Milk is processed at the Tuttle site and shipped to stores. "We run the manufacturing facility seven days a week and deliver to stores seven days a week," he says.
Braum's operates another, larger farm in western Oklahoma, where they take dry cows. That facility includes 40 sections and more than 90 center pivot units.
Braum's has been in business since 1969. "We milked the first cow at this facility in 1976," Deepee says.
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Campus News
UB student entrepreneurs flourish
By CHARLOTTE HSU, CORY NEALON and JACQUELINE GHOSEN
Published October 18, 2012
It takes hard work and guts to transform a great idea into a viable business or community organization, but UB students are doing it every day with support and encouragement from the university. Each of the UB entrepreneurs profiled below endured long hours and surprising obstacles to succeed. None regretted it. Some advice for fellow innovators, as voiced by tech firm founder Ansar Khan, a member of UB's Class of 2011: "I would encourage any student who has a business idea to go out there and give it a shot. Even if you fail, you'll learn so much along the way."
$25,000 award creates $40 million firm
Flashback to the late 1990s, before the dot-com bubble burst, when dropping out of college, as evidenced by Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and other tech luminaries, had become the trendy path to success for young entrepreneurs.
Eric Reich and Michael Weisman weren't buying it.
Instead of jumping into the hard-nosed world of venture capitalism, the childhood friends enrolled in UB's MBA program, won a coveted entrepreneurial award from the university and ultimately created a company worth more than $40 million.
"We like to refer to it as 'dropping in,'" says Reich, who along with Weisman, spent countless hours both inside and outside the classroom with UB faculty and administrators refining their business plan.
The idea—to build a data-centric company that helps colleges and universities decide how to best allocate resources, recruit and retain students, and improve student success—won UB's first Henry A. Panasci Jr. entrepreneurship award in 2001. Reich and Weisman used the $25,000 prize to create StudentVoice, a class project that eventually would become one of Western New York's most successful startups in recent memory.
"We received a lot of support and assistance from the UB community that helped us build early confidence and momentum," Reich says.
The company, which now operates as Campus Labs, has more than $10 million in annual sales and more than 650 higher education clients. It has 90 employees in downtown Buffalo and at a smaller office in Atlanta. Years of hard work, persistence and ingenuity were realized when Connecticut-based Higher One Holdings acquired Campus Labs for more than $40 million in August.
Working with Higher One will enable Campus Labs to remain in Buffalo while expanding into new markets and adding to its workforce, Weisman says.
"We plan to continue to grow in Buffalo and hire a lot more people here," he says.
Building community with borrowed tools
We've all been there before: You have a small home-improvement project in mind—hanging a picture, or painting a room. But you don't want to buy that power drill you'll never use again, or those paint trays and rollers that will go straight into storage.
That's the situation that Darren Cotton faced during his senior year at UB in 2009. He was fixing up an apartment near the South Campus and found himself raiding his parents' toolbox to do the job. The experience laid the foundation for the University Heights Tool Library, a tool-lending library that Cotton, an emerging social entrepreneur, opened in 2010.
To get the organization running, a UB business student helped write a business plan. Buffalo Common Councilmember Bonnie Russell provided city funding. Cotton and his friends spent hours after classes renovating the library storefront. "We would come here at 8 or 9 o'clock at night and work on painting a wall or building a shelf," says Cotton, who received BA in international studies and linguistics in 2010 and a MUP in urban planning in 2012.
The dedication paid off.
About 150 members have joined the library, borrowing tools for a $10 annual fee. It has been a great fit for the neighborhood, which houses many students and low-income renters—people who have little incentive to buy their own tools.
Operating under the University Heights Collaborative, a nonprofit neighborhood group, the library has become an important local resource. It has supplied tools for street cleanups and a community garden project. Future plans include hosting "do-it-yourself" workshops that focus on tasks like repairing windows or building rain barrels. From the beginning, Cotton envisioned the library as a mechanism for bettering the community, and it's exciting to watch that happen.
"It's amazing to see the different projects this helps facilitate. I wish there were more projects like this, where people share resources," Cotton says. "Not everyone needs to own a circular saw."
Taking restaurant orders? There's an app for that
James O'Leary was waiting tables at Ansar Khan's family restaurant in Williamsville, Kabab & Curry, when he had an epiphany: Why not simplify the process by finding a way to digitize food and drink orders? He was tired of trying to decipher his own messy handwriting on guest checks.
He shared his idea with Khan, and Refulgent Software took off from there. Together, the partners developed Ambur, a restaurant app that lets servers take orders on an iPod and send requests to the kitchen wirelessly.
Ambur debuted at the Apple store in April 2011 following a successful pilot at Kabab & Curry. The client list has grown to more than 300 restaurants in 14 countries, from family-owned enterprises to Chobani yogurt's new SoHo store.
Refulgent Software employs nine people, almost all of them UB students or former graduates. Revenue is on track to reach $850,000 this year. The success landed Khan, who earned a BS in biological sciences in 2011, a spot on Forbes magazine's 2012 list of All-Star Student Entrepreneurs. The list featured nine young entrepreneurs who started significant businesses while still in school.
Khan and O'Leary, who expects to graduate from UB in 2014 with a BA in communication, say they're proud to provide a service that helps small businesses get off the ground. As the son of Pakistani immigrants who opened a restaurant, Khan understands how difficult it is to turn a profit in the food service industry. He and O'Leary bill their app as one "designed by and for people who actually work at restaurants." They don't levy a monthly fee or charge for upgrades. That philosophy is what sets Refulgent Software apart from competitors—and what makes O'Leary and Khan's work rewarding.
"I would encourage any student who has a business idea to go out there and give it a shot," Khan says. "Even if you fail, you'll learn so much along the way."
New players in the world of games
Anna Zykina Bacorn and Greg Bacorn didn't get along—at first—when they met in a leadership class in spring 2007, their last semester at UB.
"We both have strong personalities. We were very independent and constantly butted heads," remembers Greg, who received a BA in history. "Halfway through the class, we were forced to do a project and we realized that we actually worked very well together and had many things in common."
The class partnership evolved into a real-world business union when Anna and Greg came up with a great idea for upgrading a popular arcade game product: adding a ticket dispenser to the traditional air hockey table. Anna's father, an entrepreneur who owns the largest arcade game distribution company in Russia, became a role model and adviser, encouraging the partners to start their own company, Barron Games.
Anna, who helped run her father's international firm, took the lead in writing a business plan. To promote Barron Games, Anna and Greg traveled to trade shows in places like Orlando, Las Vegas, Russia, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Colombia and more. The partners celebrated their first big sale in November 2007.
Today, Barron Games builds customized products ranging from interactive photo booths to the QuadAir—a multi-player air hockey table that Anna, Greg and partners developed. Clients include local businesses like Bounce Magic family entertainment center, national chains like Dave & Busters and international brands such as SEGA Amusements.
Running a business isn't always easy: Anna and Greg, now married and new parents, often wake up at odd hours to field calls from customers around the world. But the long days—and nights—are worth it. Anna, who earned a BA in social sciences interdisciplinary studies, international business and German, says her achievements are a particular point of pride as a woman in a male-dominated industry.
"I would like to think of myself being successful, as I created a prospering business providing outstanding products that bring joy and fun to our customers," she says.
Sometimes, people unfamiliar with Barron Games don't take it seriously because the owners and company are so young—"new school," as Anna says. But the firm's track record of success and quality of products eventually wins clients over.
Sorting through a world of apps
Two years ago, Matthew Epstein and Andrew Cassetti were discussing their smartphone apps when they had an idea. Epstein had owned an iPhone since the day the product came out in 2007; Cassetti was an Android user, but both were frustrated with the process of finding apps.
The marketplace was so overcrowded that it was nearly impossible to evaluate and differentiate what was out there. Each asked the other for suggestions on which apps to use and they realized that they had stumbled upon a solution to the problem. A recommendation from a trusted person holds more weight than an anonymous review on the Web, they realized, and this became the basis for AppVue.
AppVue is an app that improves the mobile-device experience by enabling users to discover and see the apps used by people they trust, including friends, family, colleagues, experts and even celebrities. It can be used on its own or in conjunction with social networks like Facebook to enhance the experience.
Epstein and Cassetti put their idea to the test by entering UB's Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition (Panasci TEC) in 2011—and lost. But they learned from the experience and entered the competition again in 2012, this time winning $25,000 in startup funding, as well as in-kind services valued at more than $10,000. They both earned a BS in business in 2012.
"It's important to have a product to display," says Cassetti, AppVue's executive vice president of product. "The Panasci judges were able to experience some of the benefits of our app firsthand and it made us more than just an idea on paper."
Company CEO Epstein, who expects to receive an MS in accounting from UB in 2013, gained some wisdom from the experience, as well. "We got great feedback from some distinguished judges and others, and we used the lessons learned to improve our product and get investors," he says. "You should never quit or give up on something you believe in."
Today, the company is located in Z80 Labs, downtown Buffalo's tech incubator. AppVue will be available in Apple's App Store in fall 2012.


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Silver Screen Movies are held at Withers Community Library every Monday morning at 11am.
Bring along a friend, or come along to meet some new friends and get a break from the grand kids :) Tea, Coffee and biscuits provided at these free sessions. Please check with staff at Withers Community Library for details of the next screening.
Please note films are screened when space is available so it is important to check with staff before attending. Films are NOT screened uring school holidays.
Films will not be screened on the following dates in 2017:
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Did you hear about the guy who drinks a quart of brake fluid every night? He swears he can stop anytime he wants.
Speaking of those out of control, people who can't stop soon enough, why are TV execs doing this to us? Why are they driven to such extraordinary measures to produce such wildly senseless productions?
And why do these voices in my head all sound like Moose Johnston?
Thursday night, alone — and I was alone — was enough to find out if it's true what they say can happen if you stick a knife in a toaster.
Game 2 of the World Series on FOX: In a 0-0 game, Marco Scutaro, already identified by FOX's Joe Buck and Tim McCarver as the Giants' surprise postseason hitting star, was at bat. That's when FOX decided it was a good time to cut to an on-camera, live report from Erin Andrews.
Hey, Andrews wasn't hired from ESPN to be heard and not seen, ya know? And what did she have to report? She said she had spoken to some Giants before the game and they told her they really "want to get out of San Francisco up, two games to none."
As she spoke, FOX, unfortunately, was forced to cut back to the game, just in time to show Scutaro called out at first on a close play. Still, Andrews kept talking.
As a close game entered the eighth, FOX, of course, turned its/our attention to the crowd. Once again, the bigger the moments, the less we were shown. Over the game's last two outs — nine pitches — we were hit with 12 crowd shots, when two or three would've done the trick.
FOX continues to believe that such World Series "coverage" enhances the drama — as opposed to the trauma. Clearly, FOX still believes that had we been at the game, we would have spent much of the last six outs backs to the field, watching people watching.
Bucs-Vikings on NFL Network: At one point during the pregame, eight graphics were stacked on the left side of the screen, a graphic lined the top of the screen, a graphic toward the bottom identified the Vikings player being shown as Jared Allen, and beneath that an info crawl moved along the entire bottom of the screen.
Correct! Because the worst ideas are the most likely to be copied, NFLN gave us 11 graphics to read at once when ESPN quits at 10.
And, from an on-site set in Minnesota, NFLN sat five men, so each could share with us a sentence or two — sentences to hard labor if we were to make it through this attack on the central nervous system.
The game telecast — surprise! — was overwhelmed by Mike Mayock. He apparently warms up in his dressing room mirror with, "me-me-me-me-me," before operating out of his own I-formation. Mayock's like Simon Cowell — he seems to believe that every play, player and viewer await his approval.
A Thursday sampling: "I was disappointed in [Bucs QB] Josh Freeman last year." "I really like the development of [Vikes DL] Brian Robinson." After the Bucs completed a pass, "This is something I think makes sense, here."
"I really like that call." "I didn't like the decision, there." "What I like about Josh Freeman, here …" After a Doug Martin catch and TD run, "I love the burst." "I love the slide to the left by [Vikes QB Christian] Ponder." "I really like that call."
Then there was the usual Mayockian: "They were hoping, off of play-action, to take a vertical shot." And Vikes' WR Jerome Simpson didn't jump to catch a pass — Mayock never says jump — he "elevated." And what would a game be unless someone "makes a play"?
Early, when Simpson dropped a pass, Mayock said, "He's inconsistent," adding, "Remember, the Bengals already let him go."
Was that it, Simpson's inconsistency? Or was it that last season he was convicted of felony drug trafficking and sentenced to 15 days in jail? That wasn't worth a mention by Mayock?
And for all the adulation Mayock heaped on Vikes' RB Adrian Peterson, not a word about his arrest this past offseason for resisting arrest after a hassle in a nightclub. But Mayock's more know-it-all than tell-it-all.
ESPN's "College Football Live": Now that ESPN owns Heisman TV rights, the Heisman has become as big as an ESPY. Same way ESPN's college football experts mocked the BCS championships as ludicrous — until ESPN bought its rights. Same way the Bobby Knight Goes Nuts Reel disappeared on the day ESPN hired Knight.
But "CFB Live" remains a stop where superficial knowledge and stat sheet-recitations pass for expertise.
Thursday, panelist Brian Griese wondered why Texas Tech QB Seth Doege isn't a Heisman candidate — after all "he has thrown 28 TD passes!"
Thus, the fact that 11 of Doege's TD passes came in home blowouts of teams that tacitly agreed to lose in exchange for their take of the gate — 70-14 over South Carolina State; 49-14 over New Mexico — means nothing.
But ESPN regards a transparent blowhard such as Stephen A. Smith as indispensible. Make mine brake fluid, Swifty; a double.
NFL replay is not so 'instant'
An automatic "Instant" Replay review after a Bucs' TD on Thursday took 3:45. Shucks, instant oatmeal takes under a minute.
* From a media self-afflicted by racial, ethnic and gender double-standards and selective pandering, Delmon Young's going to make it through all ALDS, ALCS and now World Series telecasts untouched by an ugly, this season truth.
* FOX has the same postseason commercials as did TBS. We've been watching the same ads roughly four times per telecast for the last month.
* No good deed, etc.: FOX on Thursday showed tape — last season vs. this season — of Tiger Austin Jackson's diminished stride, credited for cutting way back on his strikeouts. Good stuff. Only problem was that Jackson would strike out during that at-bat — and two other times in the game.
* From reader/blogger Bob Mantz: "Woke up yesterday and realized I had as many Tour de France victories as Lance Armstrong."


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Morning Five: 10.03.12 EditionPosted by rtmsf on October 3rd, 2012
- It's officially considered preseason when the various Top 25s start rolling out from the more reputable sources, and even though we're still aghast that The Sporting News no longer publishes its college basketball annual (or any annual, for that matter), we'll give them a break and assume that they still generally know what they're talking about over there. TSN's Top 25 rankings were released Tuesday, and if you're looking for any major surprises, this probably isn't the place to start. Still, these rankings are bullish on the Big Ten (three teams in the top five), Duke (#6), and giving some love to the high-mids (seven teams on the list). On the flip side, the group is still a bit skeptical of UCLA (#11) and the Big 12 (only Kansas is represented). If you can't handle the annoying slideshow format, check out Mike DeCourcy's write-up on the logic of their selections here.
- Is the Atlantic 10 positioning itself to eventually become the pre-eminent basketball league with a predominantly east coast footprint? Obviously we're excluding the ACC from this consideration, but with the news on Tuesday that the A-10 had signed a new eight-year television deal with ESPN, CBS Sports Network and the NBC Sports Group, you have to wonder if the conference could overcome the dwindling Big East during some of its down years, and especially if more moves (ahem, Louisville) are coming. According to CBSSports.com's Jeff Goodman, the league will have roughly 150 annual games on those networks, and although financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, it's reasonable to assume that the additions of Butler and VCU as mid-major basketball empires produced a significant uptick in the league's overall marketability and value.
- That muffled groan you heard late Monday night emanating from Indianapolis had nothing to do with the Monday Night Football game but instead everything to do with a decision by a federal judge in San Francisco concerning its case versus Ed O'Bannon and his friends. The class action suit against the NCAA depends primarily on the plaintiffs proving that the organization has for decades knowingly exploited its "student-athletes" through the use and sale of their names, likenesses, and images. To show the financial incentives for such a scheme, the O'Bannon group filed a motion for the NCAA to release its licensing and television contracts with ESPN since 2005, and lo and behold, the judge sided with their request. As SI.com's Michael McCann writes, this information is invaluable for the plaintiffs, as it not only provides specific dollar figures for the 'monetization' of college sports but it also opens up other companies such as ESPN and EA Sports to lawsuits down the line for exactly the same thing. This is a substantial ruling, one that should be watched carefully.
- North Carolina continues to find itself under fire for its jock-friendly academic coursework, as the Raleigh News & Observer has repeatedly embarrassed the school with release after release of new information that only serves to further fuel a national sentiment that there needs to be a comprehensive NCAA investigation of the academic side of the basketball program. The latest news is that a number of Tar Heel hoops players (among other athletes) were surprisingly enrolled in a 2007 Naval Weapons Systems class, a course ostensibly designed to produce commissioned US Naval officers rather than eligible power forwards. A Twitter war erupted over the fact that every school has easy classes and majors of which many athletes are attracted to, but people omitting the other side of the story are missing the bigger point. There already is clear and convincing evidence that members of the football team committed academic fraud at the school, and there is significant circumstantial evidence that the university has been at best, incompetent, or at worst, obstructionist, in evaluating the basketball side of the equation — there's enough smoke here to strongly suggest further scrutiny because it's becoming increasingly apparent that the school either cannot or will not adequately police itself.
- It's becoming a huge recruiting week for the Class of 2013, as the Harrison twins are due to announce their decisions on ESPNU this Thursday and a couple of other top five players are busily narrowing their lists. Let's start with some pundits' overall #1 player, Jabari Parker. The Chicago big man released a list of 10 finalists over the summer (Connecticut was added last week), but his reported favorites Duke and Michigan State will be the first two schools to receive his official visits this fall. He will soon add three more schools from a list including the Huskies, BYU, DePaul, Florida, Georgetown, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina and Stanford. Another player considered by some to be the top overall player, Julius Randle, has narrowed his final list to six schools: Kentucky, NC State, Florida, Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. Interestingly, Tobacco Road powerhouses Duke and UNC were removed from Randle's list, while Mark Gottfried's Wolfpack remain. After this coming weekend, the pieces of this year's recruiting class will start to really fall into place.


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Three of the five subscription shows are by female playwrights and two of the five will be staged by female directors.
"Third" centers on a college professor who accuses a student of plagiarism and in so doing "is forced to question her aggressively feminist ideology and family relations." The five-actor show, staged by artistic producing director Rob Ruggiero, will run Oct. 2 to Nov. 8.
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The legendary sarod player and teacher died of kidney failure Thursday night at his home in the Bay Area city of San Anselmo, according to an announcement on the website of the Ali Akbar College of Music, Khan's teaching facility in northern California. The announcement said Khan had been a dialysis patient since 2004 but was still teaching at the college until just two weeks ago.
Considered a "National Living Treasure" in India, Khan was the first Indian musician to be honored by the MacArthur Foundation with its so-called genius grant, which he received in 1991.
He was also awarded the National Endowment for the Arts' prestigious National Heritage Fellowship, the highest U.S. honor in traditional arts, in 1997.
He recorded more than 95 albums, was nominated for five Grammy Awards and composed scores for both Indian and Western movies, including the 1963 Merchant-Ivory film "The Householder" and the 1993 Bernardo Bertolucci film "Little Buddha."
But to many, his influence was in expanding the appeal of Indian music.
"He was instrumental in transforming Indian music into an international tradition in a way that was unprecedented," said David Trasoff of Los Angeles, a senior student of Khan's who has studied north Indian classical music and sarod performance for the last 36 years.
"What he attempted to do and, I believe, succeeded in doing was to transplant this very deep musical tradition by committing himself to a level of teaching that resulted in a number of proteges who have gone on to present this music throughout the world," Trasoff said.
Khan was born April 14, 1922, in Shivpur, East Bengal (now Bangladesh). He began playing the sarod -- a 25-stringed instrument that is similar to the Middle Eastern oud -- and other instruments as a young boy. His father was Ustad Allauddin Khan, widely considered the greatest figure in north Indian music in the 20th century.
Under his father's tutelage, Khan's training was rigid, vigorous and sometimes brutal, with sessions often lasting 18 hours a day. He would study with his father for decades.
"I started to learn this music at the same time I began to talk," Khan told music writer Don Heckman in The Times some years ago. "So it is as natural to me as speaking. It's not something I have to think about any more than I have to think about the words I'm saying."
He made his first public performance at 14 in Allahabad, and in his early 20s made his first recordings and became a court musician for the maharajah of Jodhpur, a post he held for seven years until the maharajah's death.
In the early 1950s, the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin visited India and became keenly aware of the power of Indian music. Menuhin invited renowned sitarist Ravi Shankar to the United States in 1955 to present a concert at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. But Shankar declined, and a reluctant Khan -- whom Menuhin called "the greatest musician in the world" -- took his place.
"I didn't want to come at all," Khan told The Times. "I wanted to open a college in Calcutta . . . and when I came here, people didn't have any idea that India had some kind of classical music. . . . But I played and I liked the audiences, and I think they liked me."
The concert was seen as a key introduction of Indian music to the West. While in New York, Khan also made his first U.S. recording of Indian classical music on Angel Records and gave the first performance of Indian music on Alistair Cooke's program "Omnibus," which was then on CBS-TV.
Upon returning to India, Khan opened his college in Calcutta. It closed in the 1960s.
In 1965 and 1966, he was invited back to the United States to teach under the auspices of the American Society for Eastern Arts in Berkeley.
From that foundation, he was encouraged to start the Ali Akbar College of Music, initially in Berkeley and then in Marin County. Over the years, he has trained an estimated 10,000 Americans on the sarod and the tradition of northern Indian music. In 1985, he opened an extension of his music college in Basel, Switzerland.
"I teach what I learned from my father," Khan told The Times. "The same system, with the same traditional purity. The same kind of devotion, the same love for music has to be built up. And that can only happen when it comes from the heart. Otherwise, music doesn't last. It doesn't stay."
Khan is survived by his wife, Mary, and his 11 surviving children from his present and two former marriages. Three of his sons, Aashish, who teaches Indian music at the California Institute of the Arts, and Alam and Manik, are sarod players.
A memorial service and burial will take place Sunday at Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery, 2500 5th Ave., San Rafael.
Instead of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Ali Akbar College of Music for the Ali Akbar Khan Library.


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BOSTON — Ryan Dempster spent nine seasons riding the Chicago Cubs' roller coaster, experiencing just about everything one could imagine in a baseball life.
During his time in a Cubs uniform, Dempster played for four managers, from Dusty Baker to Dale Sveum, and once broke his right big toe while jumping over the home dugout railing celebrating a win.
He returned from Tommy John surgery in time for the final two months of the 2004 collapse, and endured a 96-loss season in 2006 that led to the departure of president Andy MacPhail and Baker. He closed for the 2007 division winner, then became a starter and made the All-Star team on another division winner in '08, only to implode in the opening game.
He had an up-close view of the Milton Bradley-fueled crash of '09, helped Mike Quade get hired in 2010, and led a team rebellion against Quade in '11. In his final year in 2012, Dempster was flipped to Texas for prospects at the trade deadline, after trying to get President Theo Epstein to send him to the Dodgers.
After almost a decade of Cubby Occurrences, Dempster wound up signing a two-year deal last winter with a 93-loss Boston team that wasn't expected to compete in the American League East.
But there he was late Saturday night at Fenway Park, celebrating on the field with his son tugging his shirt, heading to the World Series for the first time in his 16-year career.
Who knew?
"We did," Dempster said. "That's the nice part. The 25-guys plus, and the coaches and everybody thought this was possible, and we've got more to do. We've got a lot of hard work to do and a great team ahead of us. We just played a great team. We're ready to go."
After going 8-9 with a 4.57 earned-run average in 32 games, Dempster was the odd man out in the Boston rotation, moving to the bullpen in late September and making only two scoreless appearances in the playoffs.
But the demotion hasn't detracted from his Boston experience, and Dempster knows he made the right move, choosing the Red Sox over Milwaukee and Kansas City.
"It's been good here," he said. "I feel like I had a consistent year. I battled through some stuff the middle of the year and tried to get that under control. I felt like for the most part, 95% of the time I went out there I gave us a good chance to win. Just try to do my part, do whatever they ask me.
"Now I'm going out in the bullpen in the playoffs, and whenever they say my name I'll just try and get outs. We had five guys throwing the ball really well and I had experience out of the bullpen, so it made the most sense."
Dempster's role in the Red Sox clubhouse is similar to one he held in Chicago, serving as the resident cut-up, in the tradition of his close friend, former Red Sox outfielder Kevin Millar. But the one moment he'll never be forgotten for occurred in a game on Aug. 18, when Dempster hit Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez at Fenway after A-Rod returned to the lineup while appealing his 211-game suspension for his role in the performance-enhancing drug scandal known as Biogenesis.
"That?" Dempster said with straight face. "Oh, I already forgot about it."
Dempster didn't just take one for the team. He took one for the rest of the players fed up with A-Rod's perceived arrogance regarding PED use.
While he still maintains the plunking was accidental, Dempster acknowledged receiving "tons of texts" from people around the game after the incident, which earned him a five-game suspension.
What kind of response did he receive?
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Of course, enough people have been calling this explanation out as completely bogus that it appears that even the broadband companies' own lobbyists may finally be dropping this line of reasoning. Former FCC boss Michael Powell, who is now the cable industry's chief lobbyist (president of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association -- NCTA), has finally admitted caps aren't about congestion:
Michael Powell told a Minority Media and Telecommunications Association audience that cable's interest in usage-based pricing was not principally about network congestion, but instead about pricing fairness...Asked by MMTC president David Honig to weigh in on data caps, Powell said that while a lot of people had tried to label the cable industry's interest in the issue as about congestion management. "That's wrong," he said. "Our principal purpose is how to fairly monetize a high fixed cost."Of course, as Broadband Reports notes, Powell is jumping from one myth (congestion) to another (fairness) that is just as ridiculous. If it was true, we'd see at least some prices going down. But we don't.
Except the argument that usaged pricing is about fairness has been just as repeatedly debunked. If usage caps were about "fairness," carriers would offer the nation's grandmothers a $5-$15 a month tier that accurately reflected her twice weekly, several megabyte browsing of the Weather Channel website. Instead, what we most often see are low caps and high overages layered on top of already high existing flat rate pricing, raising rates for all users. Does raising rates on a product that already sees 90% profit margins sound like "fairness" to you?Data caps are about one thing only: increasing profits for the broadband providers, who already have massive control over the market with limited competition. It's nice to see them give up on one myth (even if we still see pundits repeating it without criticism), but it would be nice if we could get past the others as well.


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When we found out we were expecting our first child, we knew we wanted to stay in our home - a 1.5 story built in 1920, but the second bedroom was on the first floor, and the master took up the entire refinished attic.
An architect friend pointed out that we could create a second bedroom upstairs with a dormer addition, so as soon as the snow subsided we had a contractor rip off part of the roof and frame out the new nursery. The project was a mix of professional work and DIY (we tackled electrical, insulation, and painting/decorating to fit our budget) to create a bright, book-filled space for our baby. We also added a wall with French doors to give the master more privacy and define a landing space for the second floor.
We started out by painting a gender-neutral bright green, adding some animal decals (by Gingiber on Etsy) and building up a lovely collection of books to base the room around. We also incorporated quite a few pops of red. We built the cover for our heating and cooling unit. It's one of the first things you see when you walk in, so we wanted it to look finished.
The wooden Jenny Lind crib was a great deal on Overstock. The print at the head of the bed is by Katie Daisy. These dressers were a Craigslist coup we re-painted. We decided to try an ombre effect on the middle drawers, using leftover paint with the samples we'd tried when choosing one for the walls. We're using the smaller one as a changing table and tucked it into the closet to save space.
The curtains are IKEA. I think they're festive without being too circus-y, and they're nice and thick and came super-long. The bookshelves are painted IKEA spice racks (Pinterest inspiration actually put to use!) I had a book-themed baby shower and the shelves filled up quickly. My mom made the toy basket at a workshop in Wisconsin.
The rocker was $25 off Craigslist, and a friend generously reupholstered it with fabric we had on hand from an earlier project we'd abandoned. I was skeptical about needing a rocker, but my husband insisted and it's definitely where we've been spending most of our time with the baby. The red campaign chest came with our house and holds breastfeeding supplies.
The Eric Carle ABC poster is Target, and the hanging quilt was made by Joe's grandma. Nobody had told her the color scheme and theme of the nursery, but when we opened it we knew it needed to be in the spotlight!
I think the most special part of the room is that almost every element inside was crafted or gifted with love from someone in our lives. I am in awe at the talents and generosity of our friends and family, and I hope that this baby soaks up the values and lessons of all of the smart, sweet people he or she will be surrounded with.
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It's never a good idea to read too much into a team's preseason form, but a 6-1 win is not something to be dismissed.
Celtic may not have been the strongest opposition -- their first team had been thrashed 4-1 by Legia Warsaw on Wednesday in a Champions League qualifier, and they fielded a young side on Saturday -- but Spurs also had fire power in reserve: Hugo Lloris, Jan Vertonghen, Paulinho, Mousa Dembele, Kyle Walker and Nacer Chadli all sat this one out. Even the most sanguine and long-suffering of Spurs fans can't help but feel more optimistic than a few weeks back.
Poor sides still have to be beaten and, in recent seasons, Tottenham have frequently failed to capitalise on their advantage against inferior opposition. Thus, to win convincingly and in style, this suggests something is clicking, and it's hard not to think that the crucial difference is the new manager, Mauricio Pochettino. Spurs have made few inroads into the transfer market so far this summer -- left-back Ben Davies is the only acquisition almost guaranteed a first team place -- and the squad is almost identical to the one that struggled in finishing sixth last season.
The team, though, looks and feels rather different. There is a detectable confidence and belief that was missing. It could just be that Pochettino's greatest asset is that he isn't Andre Villas Boas or Tim Sherwood -- both of whom, the players knew, did not have the backing of the board; in which case, good luck to him.
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Of course, every new manager needs a bit of good fortune to go his way, but if it is the case that Pochettino has the necessary man-management skills to get the best out of players who had been unmotivated and had underperformed, then so much the better.
What is indisputable is that things are going Pochettino's way so far, and the players he really needs to perform are doing so. Erik Lamela, Roberto Soldado and Lewis Holtby all had seasons they would rather forget last year. Lamela struggled to live up to his billing as the club's most expensive player, then he got injured and was barely seen again after Christmas, Soldado couldn't buy a goal other than from the penalty spot, and Holtby's stock fell so low he was shipped out on loan to Fulham.
Though all are now back in the frame and playing well, they remain potentially fragile, and so that each of them ended up on the scoresheet is far more important to the club than the 6-1 result against Celtic.
These are the goals that are soon forgotten when the season is up and running, but they are, nonetheless, the building blocks of its success. More good news came with Emmanuel Adebayor getting a run out. Malaria can be a debilitating illness, and for him to be fit and ready for the opening league game at West Ham in a fortnight's time is a bonus. The Togolese showed he also hasn't lost his scoring touch, slotting home a late penalty.
There is a sense that this Tottenham team is taking shape and that progress is being made. Pochettino's next test will be how to slot the returning World Cup players back into the team. Or, indeed, to decide how many of them should be in it. If he can get that right, everyone at White Hart Lane might just be in for a pleasant surprise.
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