Cooley is a surname of Irish origin. It refers to:

Persons[link]

• Charles Cooley (1864–1929), American sociologist
• Chelsea Cooley
• Chris Cooley (American football) (born 1982), American professional football player
• David P. Cooley (1960–2009), American test pilot
• Dennis Cooley (born 1944), Canadian poet, professor at the University of Manitoba
• Denton Cooley (born 1920), American physician and heart surgeon
• Ed Cooley (born 1969) basketball coach
• Haskell Cooley
• James Cooley (born 1926), American mathematician, developer of the Cooley–Tukey fast Fourier transform
• Joe Cooley, Irish accordionist
• John K. Cooley (contemporary), American journalist and author, specializing in terrorism and the Middle East
• Lou Cooley (dates unknown), American 19th-century gunfighter, friend of Wyatt Earp at the time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1881)
• Mason Cooley (born 1927), American aphorist
• Mike Cooley, Irish-born engineer and workplace activist
• Mike Cooley (football coach), US football coach
• Mike Cooley (born 1966), American guitarist/singer/lyricist, and co-founder of the rock/alt country band, Drive-By Truckers
• Rusty Cooley
• Ryan Cooley (born 1988), Canadian television actor
• Spade Cooley (1910–1969), American western swing musician, murdered his wife
• Stephen Cooley (born 1947), American prosecutor for Los Angeles County
• Thomas B. Cooley (1871–1945), American Pediatrician, first described ß-Thalassemia
• Thomas F. Cooley, American professor of economics at the New York University Stern School of Business
• Thomas M. Cooley (1824–1898), American jurist, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
• Tonya Cooley
• Troy Cooley
• Wes Cooley (born 1932), American politician, congressman from Oregon
• Wes Cooley (motorcyclist)
• William Cooley (born 1783), Florida Pioneer
• Winnifred Harper Cooley (1874—1967), American feminist author

Place names[link]

• Cooley peninsula, Ireland
• Birch Cooley Township, Minnesota, in Renville County, Minnesota, USA

Other[link]

• Cooley LLP, Silicon Valley-based law firm
• Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley), central tale in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology
• Cooley High, 1975 film produced by American International Pictures
• Cooley High School, Detroit, Michigan, USA
• Cooley v. Board of Wardens (53 U.S. 299) (1853), United States Supreme Court case regarding shipping
• Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan, USA
• Cooley (whiskey), an Irish whiskey brand.

See also[link]

• Cowley (disambiguation)
• Coley (disambiguation)
• Colley (disambiguation)
• Coolie

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Rusty Cooley is a guitarist from Houston, Texas known for his highly refined guitar technique.

Early life[link]

Rusty received his first equipment (a Peavey T27 guitar and a Peavey Decade amp) on his fifteenth birthday. From that day on Cooley immersed himself in music, practicing upwards of 4 hours a day. Rusty took guitar lessons for a while but became dissatisfied with local guitar instructors and decided to become self-taught. He relied on instructional books and videos like Doug Mark's Metal Method.

After only three years of playing he became a guitar teacher at the music store where he had purchased his first guitar.

After high school Rusty went to the local college and studied Music Theory.

Solo work[link]

Rusty was unsatisfied with local musicians and began to work on solo music in early 1996. He also began playing 7-string guitars exclusively at this time. His debut solo album Rusty Cooley was released in 2003 on Lion Music.

Currently[link]

Rusty recently collaborated with Pro Tone Pedals on testing their new Jason Becker Perpetual Burn Signature Distortion Pedal, as Jason himself now has ALS and can no longer play the guitar. Pro Tone Pedals has posted several videos of Rusty testing prototypes of the pedal on YouTube, and on one video, Rusty himself commented on it, saying that Jason was one of his biggest influences and that it was an honor to work on his signature pedal. Recently Pro Tone has also been working on a Rusty Cooley Signature pedal as well. Rusty has also released his signature 7-string model with Dean. Recently his lead work was featured on metal band Austrian Death Machine's new album, "Double Brutal." Recently, Rusty has been recording a demo with his new band Day of Reckoning (http://www.reverbnation.com/dayofreckoning).

Teaching[link]

Rusty has been a guitar instructor since his third year of playing. He has also released five instructional products, done lessons for magazines (such as his Metal Guru column) and posted many lessons on sites such as Shredaholic. In addition, he has taught for the National Guitar Workshop three times (1996, 1997, 1998) and given many clinics. Rusty has many successful students, such as Chris Storey (ex All Shall Perish) and Mica Roth, former member of Hybreed.

Endorsements[link]

Currently Rusty is endorsed by Dean Guitars, EMG Pickups, Morley Pedals, GHS strings, VHT, Rocktron, Eventide, Maxon and more recently Peavey amplification.

He was previously endorsed by Jackson Guitars and, more recently, Ibanez Guitars.

His Signature Dean Model was released at NAMM in early 2007.

Releases[link]

Music[link]

• Outworld - Outworld (band)
• Rusty Cooley
• Book of Reflections
• Shawn Lane Remembered Vol. 1
• Warmth in the Wilderness 2 A Tribute to Jason Becker
• Prog Power 4
• Prog Power 3
• The Alchemist
• Fresh Blood Vol. 4
• Lick This
• Guitarapalooza Vol. l
• Ball One Strike One
• Across the Miles
• Revolution 4-song EP
• Two guest solos on the track "From So Far Away" from All Shall Perish's album "Awaken the Dreamers"
• All solos on the track "Let off some steam Bennett" from Austrian Death Machine's album "Double Brutal"

Instructional products[link]

• Shred Guitar Manifesto
• Extreme Pentatonics
• The Art of Picking
• Rusty Cooley Performance/Clinic
• Rusty Cooley Performance/Clinic 2
• Basic Training
• Fretboard Autopsy - Parts I & II
• Guest Lesson on Mark Tremonti - The Sound and The Story

Television appearances[link]

• Stay Tuned
• Metallurgy Live
• Metallurgy Unplugged
• World Class Guitar Techniques
• Robb’s Metal Works
• Rusty Cooley's Guitar Asylum TV

References[link]

http://rustycooley.com/biography.html

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Rusty Cooley Videos
• The music video for "Under the Influence"
• Interview
• Outworld Message Board - Ask Rusty
• GUITAR GODS: Rusty Cooley (2003 interview)

Mike Cooley is an Irish-born engineer and former trade union leader, best known for his involvement in workplace activism at the British company Lucas Aerospace in the late 1970s. In 1981, he was a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award. Cooley was born in Tuam, Ireland, and studied engineering in Germany, Switzerland and England. He has held several leadership positions in the field of computer-aided design.

Lucas Plan[link]

Towards the end of the 1970s, Mike Cooley was a senior designer at Lucas Aerospace, and chaired the local branch of the technical trade union TASS. He was one of the militant activists behind the Lucas Plan ^[1] [1], a radical strategy to avoid workforce layoffs by converting production at Lucas from armaments to civilian products.

The vision of the plan was to replace weapons manufacture with the development of socially useful goods, like solar heating equipment, artificial kidneys, and systems for intermodal transportation. The goal was to not simply retain jobs, but to design the work so that the workers would be motivated by the social value of their activities. The proposals of the alternative plan were not accepted by Lucas management and, in 1981, Cooley was dismissed^{[clarification needed]}.

Architect Or Bee[link]

In 1980, Cooley published a critique of the automation and computerization of engineering work under the title Architect or Bee? The human/technology relationship. The title alludes to a comparison made by Karl Marx, on the issue of the creative achievements of human imaginative power.^[2] It was this book that initiated the idea of Human-Centred Systems.

Since departing from Lucas, Cooley has been active as an advisor on numerous public and private sector projects. He is a founding member and president of the International Institute of Human Centred Systems. He has published over 100 scientific papers as well as fifteen books, and has been a guest lecturer at universities in Europe, Australia, the USA and Japan. Cooley is an adviser to the technical periodical Artificial Intelligence and Society.

Books[link]

• Cooley, Mike (1982). Architect or Bee? The human/technology relationship. Boston: South End Press. ISBN 0-89608-131-1. 

References[link]

1. ^ The Lucas Plan by Hilary Wainwright Schocken Books (1981) ISBN 978-0-8052-8098-2
2. ^ cf Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, On the Sanctity of Work: , "A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."

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