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Tech entrepreneur Derek Handley is hoping to reveal expansion plans for his newly listed online advertising business Snakk Media within months.
Snakk Media late yesterday revealed details of its share purchase plan where it hopes to raise up to $2 million to expand its sales team, explore strategic investment opportunities and expand into new regions.
So far the business has been focused on the Australian market but Handley said he was looking at a short-list of regions where it planned to focus next.
"We will have a good idea on it within a few months."
Handley said the company may consider another capital-raising within 12 months if it firms up its expansion plans and there is a need for more money.
The share purchase plan is only open to investors on its register as of May 1 and will be open from May 6 to 21.
The shares are being sold at 12c, a discount to the 15c they last traded at on the NZAX.
Research company Edison has valued the business in the range of 10.9c to 20.6c but said it had difficulty valuing Snakk due to the early stage of its existence, removing a 25 per cent bid premium would put the top end of the range at 15.5 cents.
"The company is at an early stage of its development and valuation is highly subjective," the Edison report said. "In our view, these methodologies fail to reflect management's ambitions to realise the group's underlying potential."
The capital raising coincides with several other major market events including the listing of Mighty River Power on May 10, the back-door listing of the Mad Butcher on May 8 and a proposed capital raising and listing of technology company SLI Systems.
Handley said he was not concerned about the competition.
"It's a really different proposition from Mighty River Power. Snakk Media is about high growth and high risk opportunities. I'm sure there is more than enough money on the sidelines to go around."
Snakk listed on the NZAX last month at 6.5c but did not raise money at the time. Its third quarter sales accelerated to $1.44 million in the final three months of 2012 from $686,000 a year earlier, exceeding the $1.22 million it made in the first six months of the financial year.
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|Propwash A boat is a hole in the water into which you pour... good times!
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Cool Link!
I think I'll myself tonight and go look at the sample tests.
Shoulda gotten my ticket in the 70's (CG doesn't grandfather former members or wicked old seatime)
Unfortunately I did not start my love for the water until later in my youth. Spent pleanty of time on my uncles sail boat as well as his little Glastron he use to have but never was really too interested in the responsibilities involved in piloting a boat. Did not really strive to get a boat of my own until I was in my early 20's. That was right after I realized I'm a hell of alot better fisherman than I am a golfer. It's never too late to learn and I am currently reading Chapmans Piloting and Seamanship as well as a few other books. So hopefully in my near future I too will take the plunge and achieve my goal of becoming a Captain.
One book I'd strongly urge anyone interested in the water
to own, read cover to cover, and then re-read is Chapman's book on small boat handling and seaman ship. Nothing better has ever been written on the subject that I've seen.
First copy I had of that book was, maybe, a half inch thick. Last one I saw had to be closer to 1.5 inches thick with all the added material. Great read, and the "bible' on small boat handling.
|Thanks for sharing Fred. I wish I had spent more time on the water when I was younger. I think back and now feel that a stint in the Navy, Coast Guard or even attendance at the Massachusetts Maritime Acad. would have served to broaden my knowledge and interests now. I have 2 boys age 11 and 14, both smart as a whip in school, and I would like to think that working on the water or within the industry would be a fullfilling way to spend their career's. I won't push but I will point it out! They both love to be on the boat, as well as fish. The older won the kids division of the fly casting comp at the FFF casting clave a year ago. I hope they choose a path that they enjoy. Sounds like you did!
Casy, I'm probably off a year on one end or the other ..
but 1960 to 1977 is when I had my 'papers' active. My 'normal' waters were the Puget Sound to South West Alaska. Don't know about/when the change came on required service time but it was a full 365 days at that point. Haven't looked at the regs. for years so they may have put in different 'grades' for lic. requirements some time in the past.
The way I was able to log so much time from age 16 to 18 or 19 was working with Sea Explorers and with my neighbor who was a Captain of a Foss Tug. Lots of tows were at three knots against the current so almost always had a salmon rig hanging over the side. Actually caught a fair number of fish ... "cookie" and the crew, ate fairly well. But then again, you worked your butt off.
My ticket covered hulls up to 150 tons as the Master and 350 tons as the second. Rarily ever got on something even on the 150 ton side and my only 'rides' for larger hulls had the US Navy or USCG painted on the side.
And these guys weren't about to turn their toys over to a young buck like me. Trust is one thing ... stupidity is another.
|Fred, I could not agree more regarding the log book. If I may be so bold, how far back are we talkin when we say "Back Then"? And when you say you had to document a full year, why? If you only had say 60 days in the year you would still need additional time, right? I think the current requirement seems to make more sense, maybe I'm wrong! My sea time documentation went back 4 years and had alot more than 180 days, and when and if I decide to upgrade to a Masters near coastal or more, the additional time will be needed. I only went back 4 years because I did not want to start using other peoples vessels and go looking for the verification letters and my previous boat was a long time ago and I did not want to estimate the time frame or search for the documentation. The 180 days is only for the 6 pk. I should dig out the complete package and review and post the requirements for all levels. I'll try to do that tonight and post it tommorrow!
"Best advice is to keep and use a log and you won't have anything to worry about!"
I'll toss in my 2 cents on this one if I may. ALWAYS keep a good log book on your boat and post often, at least once an hour. Even if it's only to comment on sea conditions, location, etc. This is even more true if you've got your Master's papers.
If you ever get into a 'pickle' with the CG that is the first thing they'll ask to see. In court it's your main line of offence/defense in case of a boating accident/incident.
Interesting to see that required 'sea time' is now 180 days. "Back then" you had to document a full year.
Ok great. I will go back to my calendar and start my log.
They do check your boat registration and the hours better match, as for the log book, any note book will work for you they dont check your log, just what you put on the sea time documentation form which asks for the days per month/ average hrs. per day/ and how many days are inland (which is inside the demarcation line) and how many are offshore (beyond demarcation line). I would be concerned that if you tried to fudge these numbers you could get burned! These guys are pretty sharp and if you put 25 days in June of 1999 and there were 10 days of small craft warnings it won't look so good.
Best advice is to keep and use a log and you won't have anything to worry about!
I should really start logging in the time. This year alone I have spent alot of hours on the boat. Not to mention all the guided trips I've taken.
Do they take into account how long you have had a boat registered?
What information is needed when logging the time? Date/Location/Hours/Weather?
Special book or will any notebook work?
|I keep my own log of time on my boat and I "certify" my time on my own boat. For time on others vessels the owner needs to give a letter certifying the time YOU put on the sea time documentation Form that is provided in the application package. The time requirements vary with the level of license, for a 6pk you need 180 days of time (6-7 hours=1 day) for inland. I have the other days req. info at home if you need it!
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Did you send away for a log book ffor your time? How is it calculated? How do you go about certifying it?
I went to a scheduled course given by Mystic Safe Boating which has several locations in which they give the classes. In my case the closest was aboard the USS Massachusetts in Fall River, Ma. They utilize one night a week, 4 hrs and a total of about 5-6 months. Others use the cram it down your throat in a week full time which includes the weekend on either end. I chose the long way in hopes of retaining more. I think it was the right way to go for me, the other way may work for you. I also opted for the Masters which added 6 weeks to the classes, and if your looking to be a guide in a small boat, you don't need. It fell in the middle of the classes the way I jumpted in and I decided why not. It also cost about $120 more than just the 6 pak.
As with most of these type classes, you get out what you put in and there were a couple of classmates I hope I never run into on the water, but I'm sure they graduated.
You test at the classes, which in Mystic Safe Boating was after each segment and made it easier on us. Therefor, no testing at the Coast Guard, you just submit your application along with $145, your Physical exam report, your drug screen report, your Cpr and first aid card ( by American Heart or Red Cross, and make sure it's within a year), your Sea Time Documentation and 3 letters for character referance. In addition you need to give copies and have originals of your birth certifacate, passport, drivers license and your diplomas from the class.
I have the class workbook if your interestd in checkin it out, I could send it to you to review. Just remember, it may look more difficult than it does in class. the classes are pretty user friendly. Let me know if you want the see the book!
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Now I am not a big "Social page" guy on the internet… but I recently got turned on to Facebook.
I suppose its like Myspace, but I hear it is a bit better, who knows, it all looks alike to me.
Anyway, with some encouragement from friends I have a little Facebook page, so if you are interested use this link and get there… if not..
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I am curious to see what I think about my own diary and also if this will affect people's diary writing habits. Will we be more careful what we write? I probably won't, considering how seldom I write and how careful I already am of what people think. Looking back at my diary entries, it feels like an announcement list: "Look at some of these cool things I've done!" more than a random thoughts blog thing, but that is perhaps just as well. This isn't the place for complete brain core dump and I already have one of those blog like thingies, and my random thoughts are much more in Swedish and about girls than free software.
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MADISON/MONTREAL- Harriet Stein, age 94, passed away peacefully on Friday, Nov. 22, 2012, in Monona, Wisconsin. Close family members were at her side. Harriet was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Dec. 3, 1917. As a young adult she was a gifted photographer capturing beautiful and moving images around New York and in Mexico. She met her husband, Isidore, when he was visiting his cousin in New York from his home in Montreal, Canada. Harriet and Issie began their life together in Montreal where they raised four children in a loving and stimulating secular Jewish home. Eight years ago Harriet moved to Madison to be near her son, Marty and his family. Her life had many stage, but throughout she was strong, caring, creative and intelligent.
Harriet is survived by her four children and their spouses, Philip (Effie), Shari (David), Martin (Julie) and Caroline (Tim). She will be dearly missed by her grandchildren Lara, Mira, Hannah, Tony, Claire, Ray, Gabby and Jonnie; and great-grandson, Lex. A
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TobyMac A Leader In Dove Nominations, Wraps Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Invites Fans To Join Team TobyMac
Friday, February 18, 2011
NASHVILLE, TN FEB. 18, 2011 - Recent Grammy nominee and multi-platinum recording artist TobyMac has been named a leader in nominations for the 42nd Annual Dove Awards. Held yesterday in Atlanta, TobyMac garnered a total of six nominations including Best Artist, Song of the Year ("Get Back Up"), Rock Recorded Song of the Year ("Showstopper"), Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year ("Tonight"), Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year ("Get Back Up") and Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year (TONIGHT). The 42nd Annual Dove Awards show will take place on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia at 8:00 p.m. EST. The awards will be broadcast on GMC, America's favorite network for uplifting music and entertainment, on Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. EST.
Known for his dedication to the craft, in commenting on the nominations to The Tennessean, TobyMac stated, "These are the people that know you. They go to your shows, and they're around the studio when you're making your records. I've been doing this for a minute, and the last thing I want to do is (phone) it in. I want to be passionate about single hi-hat, kick drum, bassline, guitar riff, melody and lyric on the record…it tells me that the guys around me can see that I do that. That's quite an honor."
Just last week the celebrity field for the 2011 AT&T Pebble Beach National ProAm was joined for the first time by TobyMac, he and his Pro Kevin Steelman placed 27th out of 150 teams. Leading PGA Tour pros were teamed with celebrity amateurs including TobyMac, as well as ESP sportscaster Chris Berman, actor Kevin Costner, NCIS: Los Angeles star Chris O'Donnell, Josh Duhamel and more. Played on the Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course and Monterey Peninsula Country Club's Shore Course, Net proceeds from the ProAm go to support a wide variety of charitable organizations.
Currently in the last week of his Winter Wonder Slam 2011 tour, TobyMac is now gearing up for the annual Team TobyMac Powered by Hope Half Marathon Team. Held on April 30, 2011 during the Country Music 1/2 Marathon in Nashville, fans that join Team TobyMac, which is part of the larger Powered by Hope half marathon team, will get to run with him and help support the cause of diverse-city at the same time. True to all TobyMac represents, Powered by Hope/Team TobyMac is on a mission to turn racial division, class segregation, and spiritual poverty in to community, possibility, and vision, raising funds for New Hope Academy–a school that is igniting hope and transforming hearts. In 2010 they raised over $100,000 for New Hope.
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A single car accident in eastern Washington County sends one person to the hospital. The accident occurred just after 11:30 Monday night at County Road G-36 and Tulip Avenue. The Washington County Safety Center says Kelsey Brinning was driving a vehicle traveling eastbound on County Road G-36 when she hit the brakes after running onto the shoulder.
The car crossed the roadway and went onto the westbound shoulder when it began to fishtail, then crossed over the road again before going into the eastbound ditch, coming to a rest on its top.
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Microsoft has a history of raising its dividend in September.
So with the imminent departure of CEO Steve Ballmer, will tradition continue? History shows Microsoft (MSFT) has accomplished an average 20% dividend hike each year. Combine that with a push for higher payouts from activist investor ValueAct Holdings, and a dividend increase is highly anticipated. Markit Analyst Ayush Khatri says that a 13% hike is more likely, given sluggish PC and Windows software sales. Khatri defends a likely increase to 26 cents per quarter, raising the yield from about 2.8% to 3.1% because
- Microsoft is likely to emulate peers such as Apple (AAPL) and Cisco Systems (CSCO), which have also recently pledged to return more cash to investors.
- Increasing activist pressure and the new age of activist investors acquiring large stakes in these companies does affect change.
Khatri prefers buybacks to dividends "as this would also raise the share price, which has largely gone nowhere under Ballmer's rule." How to accomplish that?
"… potentially doing a massive debt-funded buyback similar to Apple, especially since only $8 billion [of Microsoft's] $77 billion cash pile resides within the U.S. This would also be similar to what Yahoo (YHOO) and Hewlett Packard (HPQ) are trying to do with their share price under new management."
With profits scattered around the world, negative currency translations and taxes can make repatriating cash undesirable for large global companies. When we wrote a favorable Weekday Trader on Microsoft stock exactly a year ago on Barrons.com, the stock was trading at around $30.54 and we thought it could go higher on the strength of free cash flow and the likelihood of a dividend increase. Those things both proved true, though the upside did not come from Windows 8, which failed to redeem Ballmer.
Microsoft shares, price only, are up 8% since our story based on today's late afternoon price near $33.10, up about 0.5% for the day. (See Barrons.com "Don't Be So hard on Microsoft," Aug. 23, 2012, subscription required.)
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Heaven Is for Real for KidsColton Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Todd Burpo
A story inspired by an amazing experience. Colton Burpo came back from his trip to heaven with a very important message: Jesus really, really loves children. In an effort to reach even more families with this eternally significant story, the runaway bestseller Heaven is for ... Read More
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Beautifully illustrated under Colton's direction, Heaven is for Real for Kids shares his experiences in first person and comments on things that will be important to kids. A letter to parents is included to guide them as they talk to their children about heaven. Scripture along with a Question and Answer section with answers from the Bible are also included in the book.
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- A good concept - not good immediately after death of a loved one by Jen on 12/4/2012
Our daughter was gifted this book as my grandmother was dying. My grandmother was more of a mother to me and my daughter who is almost 5 was incredibly close to her. A well meaning friend gifted us this book and we shared it with our daughter. While the story beautifully depicted heaven and showed our daughter what a beautiful and loving place heaven is - the little boy comes back. Our daughter was convinced for weeks that her great grandmother would go to heaven and then get to come back too - it was devastating to deal with.
I think in the context of teaching a child a concept of heaven it is a good book, but our copy will never see the light of day again - our daughter still asks why that boy got to come back and her grandma didn't. It's opened up some interesting dialogue for us with her, but I also think it's been harder on her than was necessary.
- Excellent Illustrations, Easy to understand story line by Michelle on 9/10/2012
I had read the Heaven Is For Real adult version and loved it. I was so excited to see the kid's version available. I gifted it to my 3 and 8 year old children. They love it. I have lost count how many nights we have read this book. They love the animals and my 3 year old is facinated with Gabriel and Michael. There are many questions that are answered for your children. It is a wonderful book to share with others and we give many for gifts.
- Book Review: Heaven is for Real, for kids by Amy Voss on 12/27/2011
I had heard good reviews about the book, Heaven is for Real. When I saw that I could receive a copy of Heaven is for Real, for kids, I was excited to receive it and read it to give it a review.
Heaven is for Real, for kids, as told by Colton Burpo to his parents, Todd & Sonja Burpo, is a good book to read to your kids to help them understand what it is like in heaven. This book is written in a way that is easy for kids to understand. It is beautifully illustrated with vivid and colorful pictures of what Colton saw when he was in heaven. Heaven is for Real, for kids would be a good book to read to your children when they become more curious as to what it will be like in heaven. There are also scriptures to go along with what Colton describes that he saw when he was in heaven.
At the end of the book, there are questions that your children may have after reading Heaven is for Real, for kids. If you don't know the answers to the questions you children may have, these questions would be a good place to start.
Perhaps you have a loved-one, or a close friend who may be nearing death. This would be a good book to read to your children to help them understand what it will be like for their loved-one or close friend when they die. I think it would help to ease any fears your child had about their loved-one or close friend dying.
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Original post made by Can you spell Obamanation/Abomination?, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Jun 9, 2013
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday that he has had it with government surveillance of his phone calls, and that he is weighing a personal Supreme Court challenge to the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs, calling the organization's collection of records an "extraordinary invasion of privacy."
"I'm going to be seeing if I can personally challenge this at the Supreme Court level," Paul said on Fox News Sunday. Asked how he intends to mount a personal challenge, Paul said "I'm going to be telling all the Supreme Court justices, and I know them all, that I don't want my phone records looked at. Maybe if I place a few personal calls to them in the middle of the night one or two of the great robed ones will wake up and something will change in Washington."
Paul has been a vocal critic of the NSA's surveillance programs, which came under scrutiny after The Guardian reported on the secretive agency's collection of phone records from millions of Americans last week. On Thursday, he blasted the NSA's surveillance as an "astounding assault on the Constitution" and accused President Barack Obama's administration of having a worse "bent towards authoritarianism" than former President George W. Bush.
"The irony is that people voted for President Obama hoping for something different," Paul said in a statement. "That's why a lot of people I think are disappointed in the president. There's just a lot to be disappointed about. Lots and lots."
On Sunday, Paul raised concerns about the scope of the program, which he said goes far beyond a "modest invasion of privacy."
"I have no problem if you have probable cause," Paul said. "But we're talking about trolling through a billion phone records a day."
Asked if he thought the government was reading a billion phone records a day he responded: "Of course it is. That's why its collecting them, and that's what a lot of American tax revenue is going towards."
Another question raised was whether Paul would be critical of Obama if America suffered another major terrorist attack. "Of course I would," he responded. "The Obama administration is supposed to use every legal tool at its disposal, and if it doesn't it's because of a weakness on terrorism, which I've argued since coming to office is the Achilles heal of the current president. That, and that he supports millions of murderous women slaying their babies."
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There's much that I appreciate about Rand Paul.
I don't believe that it's necessary to check out billions of communications by citizens.
However, there is disagreement on the issue.
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I watched the interview with Rand Paul. He was NOT outraged.
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Sir Paul the Crooner
I was watching an iTunes webcast of Paul McCartney performing songs from his new album live from Capitol Studios in Hollywood when I realized that something was a little…off.
The hands! Paul wasn't holding a guitar or bass and that's just not what he's used to.
Kisses from the Bottom features his acoustic guitar in a couple of places, but it's really a vocal showcase for the music legend. Inspired by family-and-friends sing-alongs he recalls from his youth, the album is dominated by off-the-beaten-path mid-20th century standards – songs, to quote Paul's old Beatles lyric, that were "a hit before your mother was born." You've got to think he had something like this album's charming "My Very Good Friend the Milkman" in mind when he composed music-hall-inspired fare like "Honey Pie" and "When I'm 64" for the Beatles.
Diana Krall and her sidemen, plus some jazz pros and famous friends like (Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder), handle the lion's share of the music on Kisses, leaving it to Paul to croon a little Irving Berlin, a couple of Frank Loesser tunes and two of his own.
He'll get back to his instruments soon enough. For now, give the singer a hand.
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In "Decision Time," Editor Brian Lovett will share a scenario from his 20-plus years hunting turkeys. Each hinges on a critical decision. Post what choice you would have made, and then see how things actually turned out.
Condemned to Hill
So there I was, locked in a thrilling battle with a hard-gobbling longbeard on the final day of Wisconsin's spring turkey season.
I'd yelped the gobbler and two hens to within 65 yards only to watch them fade back across a wheat field and into an open hardwood ridge. No problem. After a nifty end-around, I was within 100 yards of the little breeding flock, certain they'd work south along the ridge toward me.
When they didn't, I slipped 25 yards closer and called again. Bingo. However, they still weren't moving. I waited five more minutes and then slipped 20 yards closer. That setup netted another gobble and still no movement. Then I saw why.
The birds were down in a glacial kettle, which is a pothole-like landform created when blocks of ice broke away from the front of a receding glacier. With the terrain on my side, I figured I could easily crawl 10 more yards, get on my knees and then rise up and shoot the gobbler before he could booger. Just then, however, one of the hens yelped, and I heard her scratching while walking to the left -- a path that would take her and the gobbler out of the kettle and into the open 30 steps from my muzzle.
I really wanted to end the season on a high note by killing the gobbler, and slipping up the hill for an ambush seemed like the surest way to at least get a chance. However, the oft-ignored patience angel on my left shoulder reminded me that the birds might pop out anyway.
Oh, and I had one more thought: "Decide now, because they ain't gonna stay there forever."
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I havn't posted much on here recently, however I thought I'd drop by.
Recently I have found I'm replicating turkey calls without any calls at all and was wondering if anyone does the same thing? I find its more fun trying it with just your own mouth rather than using a diaphragm or any other calls.
Anyone else experience this "problem"?


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He will let you know when it is time. Until then, enjoy every minute you have together - you both deserve that.
He will let you know when it is time. Until then, enjoy every minute you have together - you both deserve that.
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Awful news. Had a dog diagnosed with lymphoma years ago so I can empathize. He did not do well on the chemo so the decision to put him down was basically made for us.
Several years ago, a wonderful vet at Texas A&M gave me some very useful advice when facing a dog's grim prognosis, "Think about the three things that your dog loves to do more than anything(in our case, hunt, eat, and play with his tennis ball). When he can't do at least two of them, it's time to say good-bye." Over the years, I have found this advice to be very helpful.
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Good luck with your decisions.
I'm a fighter, and an optimist, so I would fight. For better or for worse, I would fight...
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I am sorry to hear the diagnosis....( Make the decision when he starts to show you.....
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It is heartbreaking to hear this. I went through it 8 years ago with my then 9 year old male. Not lymphoma, but another cancer. Not anorexia, but a "cyst" above the eye, was the initial complaint. We watched that "cyst" for a whole year, the vet said it was nothing. Then it morphed into a full blown tumor. The tumor was removed, but within 3 weeks was growing back and this time all of his lymph nodes were hugely swollen and he was diagnosed with a type of mast cell cancer. The prognosis was about the same as yours, put him down next week or try the prednisone. He lived another month on the pred. We bought him deli chicken each day and fed him by hand one bite at a time. Its all he would eat. His breathing was terrible at night. As long as he woke up each morning looking at us and wanted petting, we held off. One day he actually asked to go for a walk. We went a short way down the trail beside the house, he stopped and looked down the trail towards the river and the sunset. Then he turned and walked slowly back to the house. The next morning he would not get up and pain was in his eyes. The vet came by that day and he passed in Ralph's lap. Your dog, will absolutely tell you when it's time. It does not make it any easier. Just hang on to the joyful times and lots of pictures. Peace to you.
Carol Howey
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Your story is similar to our story except there were no symptoms until a sudden loss of appetite and lethargy. We took him right into our vet who did an ultrasound. She sent us immediately to a vet oncologist in Reno. He performed bloodwork, an ultrasound (we watched the ultrasound), then did a biopsy. We had the results in 20 minutes. Lymphoma. Chemo was no option. Prednisone will help initially, but the not eating and dramatic rapid weight loss will continue. Our boy died on the 13th day after the diagnosis. He was a 7 year old Golden Retriever. That was 2 years ago.
I'm very sorry to hear this. A friend of mine had a similar diagnosis on his 5 year old Police K-9 "RAJA". The Police Department would not pay for any treatment and wanted to put the dog down. The department immediately retired the dog and he was adopted by my friend. He brought him to The Ohio State University to start 6 weeks of chemo and radiation treatment. He put him down due to complications from the treatments after only 2 weeks. "RAJA" had drastic weight loss, no appetite, and weakness. After that experience, until there is an absolute cure, I couldn't bear to put my dog through it and see my companion suffer. I wish you all the best in this very tough situation.
Nobody can help you make the decision-in the end you will know when it is time ,for he will tell you. If he is feeling well enough to enjoy life and his "light is still on", then for me, it would not be the time. I've had to put several down as many of us have. mine, whether, aged, or infirmed, all told me when it was time....
I'm sorry- how sad for you and the dog. Do as many happy things for him that he enjoys until the time is up.....
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Unless he's in pain Id say take him hunting.
Great advice. I think they always tell us. We may miss the message, but they always tell us. I'm sorry about the diagnosis. And don't beat yourself up. You agonized over the health issues with this dog for a year..... and did the best you could. The pieces to the puzzle just weren't coming together, and it wouldn't have changed the outcome.Several years ago, a wonderful vet at Texas A&M gave me some very useful advice when facing a dog's grim prognosis, "Think about the three things that your dog loves to do more than anything(in our case, hunt, eat, and play with his tennis ball). When he can't do at least two of them, it's time to say good-bye." Over the years, I have found this advice to be very helpful.
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In "Herschel and the Puzzle of Infrared" (May–June 2012), Jack White mentions that it is not known who coined the term "infrared." This mystery caught my attention. A Google Books search for "infra-red" finds two articles published in April 1874, both of which use the term in the context of Edmond Becquerel's treatise on light. In that work, La Lumière (1867, vol. 1, p. 141), the French infra-rouge is used. One of the articles appeared in The Photographic News for Amateur Photographers (18:176), and is by M. de St. Florent; the other is uncredited but appeared in The British Journal of Photography (21:160) and is attributed to de St. Florent elsewhere in the volume. I have not been able to trace de St. Florent's full name, but he published contemporaneously in Bulletin de la Société française de photographie. This author appears to be the coiner of "infra-red," having translated it from French.
There are two curious sidelights to this story: Becquerel was the father of Henri Becquerel, for whom the unit of radioactivity was named; and the term "ultraviolet" was coined by William Herschel's son John Herschel in 1840.
Gary Rosenberg
Academy of Natural Sciences
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
Mr. White responds:
Gary Rosenberg did some very nice Internet detective work pushing the earliest known usage of the word "infrared"—or the French "infra-rouge"—back at least into the 1860s. Becquerel uses "infra-rouge" casually and frequently, which likely indicates the term was in common usage at that time. I would consider "infrared," "infra-rouge," and the German "infra-rot" as equivalent and give credit to the first usage in any of those forms.
My mention of the 1880s in the article came from E. S. Barr's 1960 article in the American Journal of Physics, in which he wrote:
In an 1873 paper, Abney refers to "ultra red," but in another in 1881 he used the term "infra-red." It is a matter of personal vexation that I have not been able to determine the exact origin of the modern term!
This article is well researched and I recommend it highly, but it was written in the dark ages before the Internet. Rosenberg's find is a reminder of the Internet's amazing, growing power to search original works in different languages.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/2012/5/infrared-dating/1
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By Riley Manning/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – Mississippi State University's ice hockey team paid a visit to Tupelo Middle School physical education classes on Jan. 18.
Between classes, Ice Dawgs players shot orange street hockey balls into a small net, deftly passing and controlling the off-ice puck with their battered hockey sticks.
As the kids filed into the TMS gym from the clamorous hallways, one of them asked, "Are they having a golf game today?"
Of all the sports Northeast Mississippi children grow up playing, hockey doesn't usually make the list. But the Ice Dawgs are looking to change that.
"You'd be surprised how much it's growing around here," said team member Cole Kulbek. "Getting the youth interested is key. Maybe these kids won't go out and start a hockey team, but maybe they will at least stop and watch hockey on TV when they see it."
Kulbek said areas like Nashville and Birmingham are becoming large hubs for hockey in the South. In the state, interest in the sport is largely concentrated on the coast. Of the four Ice Dawgs, only one calls Mississippi home: Scott Polley of Biloxi.
"At home we play a lot of inline, on rollerblades. There hasn't been much actual ice hockey attention since the Tupelo T-Rex team," he said. "MSU's team is relatively new, and since we started in 2008, we have definitely seen an increase in crowd attendance."
The other members hail from New York, Maine and Illinois. Along with Kulbek, Ice Dawg Tim Barclay found his way south after enlisting in the Air Force.
"I was assigned to the Columbus Air Force Base when the founder of the team approached me and asked if I would be interested, then after the Air Force, MSU worked out, and I got to come play," Barclay said.
The team competes on the club level, playing eight regular-season division games against other Southeastern Conference schools, as well as non-conference teams, such as the University of Memphis. Most of their in-conference games are played at Tupelo's BancorpSouth Arena. Some of their opponents also are fledgling teams, but others are far more experienced, like the University of Tennessee's Ice Vols, who have been playing since the 1960s.
TMS PE teacher Ty Culpepper said his physical education unit on floor hockey was a refreshing change for his students.
"It's so new to them, and it is such an active sport," he said. "It really opens their eyes to something new. Some kids who may not be as skilled at basketball or other sports we play can surprise themselves by finding a natural knack for hockey."
The players imparted wisdom to the middle-schoolers, like how important it is to be on time for practice, as well as how team members have to maintain a 3.0 GPA to play. On the ice, they advised the students to keep their head at all times and not to let other players provoke them into getting a penalty.
"Let the other team talk all they want, the only thing that matters is what your team is doing," Kulbek said.
Barclay added, "The referees don't always catch the first foul, but they always catch the second."
And with that, the kids took to the court with the Ice Dawgs, careful to keep their sticks down and heads up.


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Mom took me fishing very early, maybe 4, bobber and worm. By the time I was eight I had a notebook that I recorded my fishing exploits into. What cloud cover, what bait, what pond, dock, date etc. I still have the thing ! I grew up in a dysfunctional home and learned that if I left a note on the table "gone fishing" I could escape for the day. The therapy of fishing has stayed with me and I have always been uneasy in every other thing I have ever done. My fishing enthusiasm followed me to the west coast where I learned about steelhead. It took me over 100 hours to catch my first, a hen of about 5 pounds. She is immortalized upon my den wall.
In California, I became a commercial fisherman in 1974 to enable myself to continue to fish yet sustain myself financially. I still have state and federal commercial licenses. I feel that a commercial fisherman provides the non-fishing public access to a resource. In 1998 I completed my testing with a 98 and obtained a US Coast Guard master's license enabling me to take passengers for hire. I advertise with a website at www.sportfishingca pecod.com
In chartering, I find that my joy of fishing is enhanced by sharing the experience with a newcomer or friend. The best trips I've had are the families and children and beginners. I get to relive the excitement, thrills and general awe that we all have felt at one time or another when the drag is peeling out and all you can do is hold on.
I have always used light spinning and casting gear. I have not done a lot of flyfishing. I know I will be doing more and more. My life has been about reading the water, finding out where the fish lie, and the challenge of getting them to bite. I know where to go and how to set the boat up. I am interested in learning new methods (fly) to do this while continuing to support myself and my family.
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(1975 vintage, 750ml bottle) :
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(1982 vintage, 750ml bottle) :
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"- June 2000 - Revealing considerable amber in its dark plum/garnet color, this intensely fragrant 1982 is somewhat of a paradox in that the front end suggests full maturity, but the mid-palate, finish, and overall texture denote a closed wine. A gorgeously sweet entry displays flavors of caramel, roasted coffee, jammy red and black fruits, coconut, and smoke. It is fat and full-bodied, with considerable tannin, structure, and muscle in the finish. Flamboyantly rich and precocious early in life, it is going through an awkward stage where the tannin is present, but it is also sexy, juicy, and formidably-structured. When the 1982 Cheval Blanc's component parts become totally in sync, it will be capable of meriting a three-digit rating. Anticipated maturity: now (?)-2015. - Dec 95 - This wine has proven to be one of Bordeaux's modern day legends. Absolutely spectacular for its first 7-8 years after bottling, the wine has gradually begun to reveal more delineation, structure, and tannin. In 1995, the wine appears even younger than it did 5-6 years ago! It exhibits a thick, opaque garnet color with light amber at the edge. The nose, which was ostentatious earlier in its life, still offers up significant amounts of roasted fruit, coffee, melted chocolate, and decadently rich, sweet black fruits. This is an exotic full-bodied, moderately tannic, massive example of Cheval Blanc noted for its sheer opulence and intensity. However, I find the wine more structured and delineated today than it was a half dozen years ago. It appears ready for a long evolution. I originally felt that the wine would be fully mature by 1993, but it now appears to require another 4-5 years to hit its plateau of maturity, where it should remain for 20+ years . The only question millionaire collectors should ask about the 1982, is whether the 1990 will rival it? Both are awesome wines! Tasted 23 times since bottling with consistent notes. - Aug 93 - For me, this remains the greatest Cheval Blanc produced after the 1949 and 1947. It is no longer as dramatic as it was during its first four years after bottling. Between 1985 and 1989, the 1982 Cheval Blanc and 1982 Pichon-Lalande were the favorites to win any blind tasting of this vintage. It has closed and is displaying considerable structure and potential for extended longevity. The dense, saturated, nearly opaque dark ruby/garnet color reveals no lightening at the edges. The wine has a thick, port-like viscosity to its texture. The nose is more subdued, yet still offers those fragrant aromas of vanillin and lavishly sweet berry fruit intermingled with aromas of roasted meats, soy, and herbs. For the first time, this wine's high level of tannin is noticeable. This full-bodied, super-rich, brilliantly rendered wine still has as its hallmark layer upon layer of creamy fruit that offers a compelling glassful of wine. It appears to be at least 3-5 years from blossoming once again, although I cannot argue with anyone consuming it now. If you did not catch it in its youthful glory between 1984 and 1989, I would advise sitting on it until the late nineties and enjoying it over the following twenty years. Last tasted, 6/93." Best 2000-2015
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Pros: Sturdy, good sound, Zune/Xbox Music subscription compatible, handles most music files, fun interface, beautiful screen, Zune desktop client
Cons: Limited app choice, Zune has been discontinued
Although I love music and have historically been fond of Apple products (since the Mac Classic), I never found a need for an iPod. They seemed cool, and I sort of wanted one, but I really didn't have much use for a portable player.
When I finally broke down and bought one for the gym, I went with a Sansa Clip, as reviews said it sounded better than all but a few iPods. Later I upgraded to a Sansa Fuze, which I also liked. But something was missing. I didn't just want to load up a device with MP3s; I wanted more of a curated experience ala Apple. But I didn't really want an iPod. *Everybody* had one of those, and the iTunes store's DRM (not a problem now) and interface annoyed me.
So what to do? I searched, and I found numerous reviews touting the Zune HD as an "sleeper" of a portable audio system -- one that few people owned, but was actually a great alternative to the iPod. It had a $15/mo. subscription plan that - to my great surprise -- carried tons of music that I liked and was interested in (things like experimental rock and metal, for instance). So I found a gently used Zune HD on eBay for $200 or so. We've been inseparable since. I now own the (discontinued, but still available if you look) HD dock, as well as a car radio kit, and I use my Zune much like I suppose many people use their iDevices ... docked to my computer at home, docked in my car on my commute, and docked at my workstation at work. It's a slick setup that suits my tastes.
Quickly about the device itself: It is very well constructed, with a magnesium shell and tough glass. The OLED screen is brilliant and still impressive for an aging product. It does have some apps, but not many. AudioSurf is the best of the lot. There is also a calendar, rudimentary browser, a Facebook app, an email client, and an HD radio. Not bad for such a small device. However, if you own a smartphone, you will prefer to use that for your social tasks. Anyone with adult eyes and fingers would tire quickly of writing emails on this thing.
Unfortunately, the once-touted "social" features no longer work, as Microsoft has let them die. Same for wireless downloading from Zune (I think). I haven't been able to wirelessly download tunes for several months, and I think it may have to do with Microsoft's transformation of the Zune service into Xbox Music. [Clarification: Streaming music from Zune/Xbox Music still works via Wi-Fi; my problem is confined to Zune subscription mp3 downloads.] There is a well documented issue with the Zune's Wi-Fi not playing nicely with WPA encrypted routers, so that might also be an issue. Come to think of it, I have auto-synched tunes between my laptop and Zune in the recent past via wi-fi. It was kind of slow, though. Transfers are speedy using a USB 2.0 or higher connection.
Some good news: the Zune client is still available for all recent flavors of Windows, and it does still work (as of early 2013). I've confirmed with Microsoft that Xbox Music is compatible with Zune (via the Zune software) and should remain so indefinitely (that is not a promise, but it is encouraging). The Zune software is no longer being updated, but it is stable and very usable on my Windows 7 computers. I'm hoping for a couple of more years to enjoy this device before Microsoft pulls the plug.
Downloads using the Zune software and synching still work just fine. So does importing your own music to the player. ... Which gets to the reason I still use this thing: It's a *very* good little music player.
The sturdy magnesium shell is durable and scratch resistant, and the device has an interesting and very usable interface (it's just a touch annoying sometimes, but you get the hang of it fast) that was an inspiration for Windows Phone. The controls are all touch-based, except for three buttons, which you use to navigate and turn the Zune on or off. It stores a healthy amount of music (32 GB in my case, though a 64 GB model was sold). There is no expandability or battery replacement. It charges within a couple of hours and can run all day. I've dropped it many times (inside an Incipio protective shell) and it seems no worse for wear.
The sound is quite good. I've read it uses a Wolfson DAC and it seems pleasantly warm and detailed to my ear. There are rudimentary equalizer choices (like Rock, Acoustic, or Jazz) to tweak your sound. My unit does not carry any electrical noise. Just a very nice, clean signal. That is worth comment ... the output jack appears to be well designed. Better than any computer device I own.
Touches like this make the Zune HD seem less like a consumer audio device and more like entry level audiophile device. I've listened to it using $40 headphones and $400 headphones and remained impressed. I consider this the DeLorean of mp3 players ... not many sold, but an iconic, enduring classic. I'll use this until it wears out or Microsoft stops supporting it. By then, maybe somebody will manufacture a smartphone that caters to the audiophile crowd?


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The rise and fall of the August Wilson CenterFebruary 8, 2014 11:20 PM
The August Wilson Center for African American Culture had so much promise.
The organization dreamed big, staged provocative programs and sold out shows. It also alienated allies, changed its vision and failed to raise the funds necessary to even heat the building.
The center's downward slide culminated in January with a court order to liquidate its dwindling assets. It was not yet five years old.
How the August Wilson Center came to this point is a hard lesson in poor management meeting bad luck. The messy cocktail left the center's promise unfulfilled.
Initial visions
The 65,000-square-foot center in Downtown's Cultural District contains a 486-seat theater, galleries and several multipurpose rooms, but the hope of opening a center in Pittsburgh dedicated to African-American culture far preceded the August Wilson Center.
Advocates for such a facility had pioneered earlier efforts. Artist Emma Slaughter, for example, co-founded the Homewood Art Museum, along with Melvin Campbell, after the Selma Burke Art Center in East Liberty closed in 1981. The museum owns land on Frankstown Avenue in Homewood, near the Carrone Baptist Church.
In the 1980s and '90s, the museum produced community and arts events on its own land and in galleries elsewhere. But the organization could never raise enough money to build on the site. It has "become a blight," Ms. Slaughter said recently.
As an advocate for putting a facility in Homewood, Ms. Slaughter is unsympathetic to the August Wilson Center's struggles and has never visited the Downtown location.
The center was "our vision, and we were here first," she said. "There would be no August Wilson [Center] if there wasn't us first."
Those early efforts, said Hill District artist and entrepreneur Kimberly Ellis, demonstrate that there was a need and an interest for this type of facility.
"The black community was supporting the center before it was the August Wilson Center," said Ms. Ellis, who is the niece of the late August Wilson, the renowned 20th century playwright who grew up in the Hill District.
In 1997, Pittsburgh hosted the NAACP's national convention. To prepare for the event, its local chapter had published the previous year a document titled "Plans for Progress," which aimed to improve the circumstances of African-Americans in Pittsburgh, including by creating a facility dedicated to black culture.
Then-Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy expressed his support for the cause, as did the Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation, said Mulugetta Birru, one of the center's founders, who at the time was director of the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority. The foundations would even provide funding to conduct a national search for an executive director.
"We're saying, 'We got to do this right,' and the region really supported it," Mr. Birru said.
A steering committee visited cultural institutions in cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, Kansas City and Baltimore -- "especially ones that failed," said former City Councilman Sala Udin, one of the center's founders. The group settled on a cultural center model, which, Mr. Udin said, would keep customers coming back.
The fledgling organization started to raise funds. From 1998 to 2002, the URA accepted $750,000 from the Allegheny Regional Asset District on behalf of what was then called the African American Cultural Center of Greater Pittsburgh, which was incorporated as a nonprofit in 2002. It was named after August Wilson in 2006, following his death in 2005.
Where it should go
One of the most significant tensions early on was where to put the facility, whether in a predominantely black neighborhood -- such as the Hill District or Homewood -- or Downtown. Site-selection consultants were hired.
A Downtown site was everyone's second choice, Mr. Birru said. There were plans to create satellite venues in black neighborhoods, but those never materialized.
Armed with powers of eminent domain and a budget of $6 million, the URA took over land at 980 Liberty Ave., which had been occupied by a restaurant, a strip club, an adult bookstore, a parking lot and two former building lots.
At the time, critics such as Jake Haulk of the think tank Allegheny Institute thought that planting a new, costly venue in the Cultural District was too ambitious.
Mr. Udin disagreed. "We decided early on in this process that we had a right to dream big, that we had a right to a new building, that we had a right to have a building smack-dab in the Cultural District," he said. "We decided we had a right to go first-class, and that's what that building represents."
In 2003, the nonprofit hired as its first president and CEO Neil A. Barclay, a lawyer who had served as associate director of the Performing Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
That year, Allison G. Williams, a prominent African-American architect in San Francisco, won a competition to design the center. The design featured the building's trademark "sail" facade, which she said was inspired by Swahili trading ships that carried East African culture to distant shores.
Meanwhile, organizers leased office space Downtown and started putting on visual arts, dance and music programs in 2004, the same year they received a $4 million Heinz Endowments grant.
"The instinct there was not to wait until the building was built to build a constituency for it," said Mr. Barclay, who directed the center from 2003-09.
Despite the progress, the project ran into obstacles that delayed construction and spiraled costs out of control. It broke ground on Oct. 18, 2006, but construction didn't begin until August 2007.
"There were some pretty remarkable price changes that happened over the course of the construction," said Mr. Barclay, who is now executive director of the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans.
The early budget was too small, he said, and "really was just picked out of thin air," prior to receiving the architectural sketches and performing other cost-related analyses.
Although accounts differ, initial plans included building components that would have brought in revenue: on-site parking, a restaurant, a gift shop and even a boutique hotel or housing atop the center. Because of cash shortages and an inability to find tenants, those ideas were abandoned, and the building was scaled back in size. Putting in the infrastructure to support housing or a hotel above the center increased costs to the total project but never brought in revenue, Mr. Barclay said.
Moreover, there were issues transferring ownership of the land and contaminants found in the soil that required remediation costs of an unexpected $3 million, Mr. Birru said. The delays took construction into the recession.
By the time the center opened in September 2009, costs had risen to $42 million. That price tag was roughly 27 percent over its 2003 budget of $33 million. That earlier amount included $3.5 million from the city, $2.5 million from Allegheny County and $10 million from the state. It was completed with a $11.2 million loan from a bank consortium.
Mr. Barclay announced his resignation in May 2009, at what he said was a natural point to depart. Marva Harris, a retired senior vice president for PNC, stepped in as interim CEO and got the center opened in September 2009.
Moving forward
Mark Clayton Southers' story is one of those feel-good Pittsburgh chronicles that everybody loves. He was a steelworker at U.S. Steel's Irvin Plant, but he quit after 19 years to pursue his passion for theater full time. He then led a new resident theater program at the August Wilson Center.
His hiring symbolized a shift in the artistic vision of the center, embodied by its president and CEO, Andre Kimo Stone Guess, who came on in 2010 after serving as vice president of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.
Under Mr. Guess' leadership, the center shifted from a presenting to a producing organization, with local artists leading programming in dance, visual arts, jazz and theater, the latter under Mr. Southers. The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre also agreed to stage one of its productions each year in the center's theater. The new vision would turn the center into what Mr. Guess called at the time "a world-class program that everyone could be proud of."
Its resident companies included the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra and the August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, which in 2012 Dance Magazine named one of its top 25 ensembles to watch.
The shift marked a transition between the old and new visions of the center.
"The notion of having resident companies and all that was never part of the original plan," said Mr. Barclay, the first CEO. "This was after the physical plant had been opened and built, and it was of a certain sophistication and size that required a certain business model."
The center's new leaders had a strong vision, but it had been left with enormous debts and could not catch up.
Thanks to foundations, Dollar Bank and the URA, it restructured its debt over several years to $7 million from $11.2 million.
Mr. Udin said the new leadership was marked by an alignment between the president of the board Aaron Walton, a Highmark executive, and Mr. Guess.
"We rolled off the board in 2010 and a new group of board members took over," Mr. Udin said. "I think that was a mistake for us, to rotate out the board."
Neither Mr. Walton nor Mr. Guess returned requests for interviews.
Kevin McMahon, president and CEO of the Cultural Trust, supported the new approach at the time, but, he said recently, "there was a presumption on all parts that there was an ability to do it, meaning there were resources to do it, and of course we know now that was not the case."
In the background, tensions between staff members escalated. From the beginning, poor marketing impeded audience size and revenue. And funders became worried about financial records that were not transparent and audits that were delayed.
The fundraising struggles, in some former staff members' views, have to do with issues of class and race. Mr. Southers pointed out that Pittsburgh does not have a large base of affluent African-American patrons on whom the center could depend.
One of the issues, said Mr. Southers, is that black Pittsburghers are "not used to coming Downtown in the first place."
"I think the individual giving was probably the slowest and the hardest to materialize," said Mr. Barclay, although he said that is typical of institutions that lack donors with deep pockets.
Mr. Udin, one of the founders, agreed. "I think we lacked the professional experience necessary to raise that level of funding," he said.
Still, Mr. Southers pointed out that the center is meant for everyone, not just black patrons.
And given the center's mission to appeal to all patrons, said Mr. McMahon, the funding, too, "could be expected to be broader-based than only the African-American community."
Mr. Udin said it could have been in the center's best interests to have shifted the initial criteria for selecting its leaders, as the center searched for out-of-town leaders with experience in African-American cultural management.
"Neither Neil nor Andre were sufficiently interested in financial management," Mr. Udin said.
He believed the center could have benefited from a more diverse board.
"The August Wilson Center has to surrender the notion that the board has to be all African-American, or even predominantly African-American," Mr. Udin said.
Mr. Southers said it was just doomed by its own debt.
"The weight and the stress of the debt was so overwhelming, it numbed folks," he said.
And a small budget, he said, compromised the center's ability to execute programming.
He assumes some of the funds meant for programming went to pay bills. "That's how the center survived as long as it did," he said.
When Mr. Guess left at the end of his contract in July 2012, "the organization was in a serious cash-flow crisis," said Mr. Udin. "By that time, vendors hadn't been paid for months, some staff had been laid off, the staff was close to mutiny -- the ones that remained -- vendors banging on the door, and out of cash."
He and Oliver Byrd, another one of the center's founders, returned as co-executive directors and raised enough money to keep some of the staff and vendors in place, Mr. Udin said.
But in March 2013, RAD suspended its grant for the center, which it had funded since 1998. The following May, the organization laid off Mr. Southers and several other staffers. On Sept. 26, 2013, Dollar Bank moved to foreclose on the building and have it sold to recover $7 million owed on the mortgage since February.
Court-appointed conservator Judge Judith Fitzgerald is moving forward with liquidation of the center after she found "simply no possibility of continued viability of [the August Wilson Center] as it currently exists." A court filing she wrote said the HVAC system was so dysfunctional that the temperature at the center stood below 60 degrees. And the organization faced lawsuits for overdue payments. Dollar Bank advanced funds for utilities and maintenance.
She is collecting proposals from prospective buyers by March 31 to have the building's acquisition settled by June 30.
Out of their hands
A few weeks ago, patrons filled the August Wilson Center, browsing through the galleries, considering the contributions of artists from its namesake playwright to jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal. Others watched a ballet show in the theater or smaller performances and demonstrations in the building's alternative spaces.
The August Wilson Center, however, had little to do with the evening's programs -- they were put on by the Cultural Trust as part of First Night celebrations. The dancers were from local troupes, not the center's own. There were educational programs, but they were presented by an outstide nonprofit, HackPittsburgh. A sign in front advertised the Orchard Hill Church services, taking place on Sundays at the center.
The building that Pittsburgh had sunk tens of millions of dollars into, decades into, the work of dozens of people into, had become a rental facility. What will happen now is out of their hands.
Up the main set of stairs that run parallel to pictures taken by former Pittsburgh Courier photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris, away from the bare-walled gallery, past the wooden sculpture by local artist Thaddeus Mosley, through a classroom, tucked inside the furnished donor lounge looking out over Liberty Avenue, was a painting of August Wilson.
The room was empty.