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The Texas Lottery Commission has announced achieving a new mark in its financing of the Foundation School Fund (FSF,) which supports public education in Texas. The commission has moved $76.2 million to the FSF, bringing total contributions since 1997 to $13 billion. Before 1997 the state's lottery profits went to the General Revenue Fund, but …
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#61 - drainbramageThe last 5 minutes of the latest episode sent chills down my spine, I don't care if you think it's overhyped, in my opinion, it's getting all the hype it deserves.
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Top lel, imagine Shingeki no Kyojin with the animation of Aku no Hana.
It wouldn't be popular and overhyped like it is
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A lot of it was filler, the story didn't really progress too much since the last episode. In terms of chapters, this latest episode ended right at the end of chapter 32.


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Software Merger
A software company is not growing fast enough to keep its stockholders happy
Multiple products competing in a mature (slowly-growing) marketplace
The marketing & engineering departments spend most of their energy worrying about the competition
The absolute market shares of the players are changing very little OR a previously-dominant player's share is stagnant
Nobody expects engineering improvements to revolutionize the market
Buy one or more of your competitors, exploit the synergy between your products, benefit from the increased efficiency born of your combined market share, and improve the growth rate of the marketplace!
What Happens Next:
( 1 week after merger) Executives of both companies announce that business will continue just as usual, that wonderful opportunities lie ahead for both the customers and employees of both companies, and that no layoffs are anticipated.
(1 month later, or after euphoria dies) Employees of both companies realize that there isn't be enough interesting work to support two separate engineering workforces, and that somebody is going to get stuck supporting an obsolete platform. They respond, depending on individual temperament, by (1) leaving or (2) playing politics to ensure that their team is given responsibility for the most interesting new project. Engineering progress grinds to a halt.
(2-3 months later) A senior executive of the buying company announces a new, improved, merged product, which will provide an easy upgrade path for both sets of customers. The first round of layoffs is announced, covering mostly non-engineering personnel. The wars inside the merged divisions intensify.
(6 months to a year later) After engineering has fought itself to a standstill, management realizes that it is impossible to produce a merged product, because the two apparently-similar products were actually optimized for quite different, and incompatible, goals. Management announces that one of the two products will continue to be developed, and "an upgrade path" will be provided for customers of the other product. The second round of layoffs is announced; it includes many engineers.
(later still) The "upgrade path" turns out to be a copy of the new release of the winning product, plus a warm hug from the customer's sales representative.
Lessons Learned:
It is rarely possible to add two market shares and achieve their sum. More often, the sum of two market shares is only slightly larger than the market share of the acquiring company.
Competing software products survive because they are solving different problems.
Merging independently-developed software is rarely possible.
Developers who are accustomed to thinking of one another as enemies find it hard to work as unified teams.
Software engineers have excellent self-preservation instincts.
Lesson Learned,
or perhaps a different take on "self-preservation":
An organization that fails to paint a vision of the future that people can see themselves being a productive part of risks losing those people. Software engineers want to contribute, and will do so - somewhere else, if necessary.
In '01 I was working for a company that was acquired. An experienced guy told me what would happen over the next year - which looked awfully like the sequence of events described above. Sure enough, it all happened right on time - I particularly liked the bit about the abortive attempts to weld together products that were intended for different markets and that had totally different technology platforms. A year after the 'acquisition' we all got the bullet - actually with a fair amount of relief all round.
Given that the acquirer is still going, it probably didn't work out too bad. But most software M&As between similar sized companies appear to be terminal for one of the teams involved - any good counter examples?
The best is when an IT group scrambles to create a new project from scratch to justify their continued employment. One of the 2 companies was using state of the art Identity Management software (MaXware
), but instead of integrating it into the new company's domain, the other IT department proposed rewriting an Identity Management solution from scratch (which could easily take 8+ years) and the glossy-eyed manager who has no clue what he's hearing, approved it. Dazzle the PointyHairedManagers
with technobabble in order to keep your job.
It has happened to me, just this very year. Was working for a large market leader financial company who had a very small web-dev team with lightweight products on latest framework providing their web channel for products. Large staid market leader financial company acquires small up-and-coming youth-friendly insurance company with a fantastic successful marketing department. Board of old staid company assumes new whizzy company will have equally whizzy IT which will regenerate its own offering, and forces the two IT dvisisions to merge by giving IT bosses of small whizzy company senior IT roles in large staid company. Bosses then start on a process of 'merging' the two systems, which meant replacing fairly modern lightweight web offerings with their completely UNwhizzy 10-year-old CMS system which was already struggling to cope with the two web products they had before acquisition. I tried to use it.. for almost a year, before moving on. I fear for them.
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The Red Sox have announced that they have placed Mike Napoli on the 15-day disabled list. Right-hander Brandon Workman will be recalled to take his roster spot:
#RedSox recalled RHP Brandon Workman from Pawtucket. 1B Mike Napoli placed on 15-day DL w/ left fourth finger sprain, retro to yesterday.— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) May 25, 2014
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The only occupants of the canyon prior to Mitchell's arrival had been Native Americans, grizzly bears, coyotes and jackrabbits.
This adventurer - who also provided an adobe for the first school in the area - is the namesake of Mitchell Elementary School on Goodvale Street in Canyon Country.
Anyone curious about Mitchell Elementary's namesake need look no further than the school's Web site, www.sssd.k12.ca.us/mitchell, where a group of fourth graders in the Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program posted information about the school's history in 2000.
The history project was done by former Mitchell students Bree Mobley, Trevor Yslas and Bryce DeFigueiredo, currently seniors at Canyon High School.
"When we were that young, we didn't really think it would amount to anything but a fun project," DeFigueiredo said of the information on the school's site. The only time he thought about it was when he would occasionally "Google" himself and that site would come up, he said.
According to the GATE project information, after Mitchell married and a couple of other families, the Langs and the Stewarts, moved into the canyon, the need for a school became apparent.
"They formed the Sulphur Springs School District, the second district in all of Los Angeles County," the site reads.
Mitchell's wife, Martha Mitchell, started the school in her adobe kitchen in 1872 with four of her own children and six other students, according to the Mitchell students' research. The site of the original Mitchell adobe is now the site of the playground at Sulphur Springs Elementary School.
The Mitchell Adobe School House was about to be torn down in 1986, but the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society managed to save it, moving the remaining bricks to Heritage Junction in Newhall where the building was restored. Yslas, Mobley and DeFigueiredo visited the original schoolhouse as part of their research in 2000.
"I remember it was the first school in the area, and a lot different from Mitchell school now, that's for sure," DeFigueiredo said.
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Lawyers representing the NTTA had filed about 75 lawsuits against toll violators at the end of February, spokesman Michael Rey said Thursday. And that's only the beginning.
"We expect that to ramp up pretty significantly," Rey said. "We really are just starting to get going on this stage of our toll enforcement remedies."
The NTTA previously handed out the names of 6,000 randomly chosen scofflaws to six select law firms — 1,000 cases for each — around Labor Day last year.
Paul K. Stafford, of law firm Carter Stafford Arnett Hamada & Mockler, filed 20 cases against toll violators in Collin County in early December. Stafford said the firm picked a cross-section of people, rather than just choosing those who owed the most.
"When you have 1,000 names, there's a lot to choose from," Stafford said. "Any 20 or 30 would be a starting point."
Stafford said he expects to file another handful of cases in the future. The Dallas Observer reported today that another law firm filed more than a dozen suits in Dallas County on Wednesday.
The NTTA began releasing lists of its top scofflaws last year. A woman named Amber Young topped the list with more than $180,000 in late fines and toll violations. Young and other toll violators eventually settled out of court, but many others have yet to pony up. Melissa S. Martinez of Sachse, who owes $153,046.47, currently ranks as the NTTA's most wanted violators, but was not among the names referred to law firms.
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Local racing is heating up in Central Pennsylvania this weekend. Most area tracks are in action tonight. Port Royal hosts a four card program of sprint cars, late models, pro stocks and ladies powder puff racing. Gates open at 5 p.m. with racing at 7.
Selinsgrove Speedway has 358 sprint cars, late models, pro stocks and roadrunners. At Lincoln, the sprint cars are joined by super sportsman and 358 late models. Lincoln has announced it will run a six race series for 358 Late Models this year. All races will pay at least $900.
Selinsgrove and Lincoln both race this evening at 6.
Hagerstown Speedway has a three division show of late models, limited late models and pure stocks. Action starts at 7.
Port Royal's season opener went off without a hitch. Cool temperatures kept the fan count down. Car counts also were smaller than expected, but the racing was competitive. Coincidentally, all three opening night winners in sprint car, late model and pro stock action were the same as last year — Todd Shaffer, Dan Stone and Tim Krape, respectively. Terry Naugle won the enduro dash.
Greg Hodnett made his debut as a Port Royal regular last week. Hodnett plans on being at Port Royal as much as possible. It was also good to see Jeff Sheppard and the Zemco team on hand. Hopefully they will be there more, too. Todd Shaffer summed it up well. Shaffer told everyone how tough Port Royal sprint car action is going to be this season.
He's right. I can see drivers winning a feature one week and struggling to make the top 10 the next time out.
Speaking of Todd Shaffer, he seems to have mellowed just a bit with age. Shaffer is still as good as ever behind the wheel. His Gary and Patty Beam- owned racer is top notch and they are having fun racing. Shaffer seems to enjoy more family time and watching his daughter compete in sports herself. I can't quite explain it, but Todd Shaffer is a different person and it's all good. I wish him and his team a successful season.
A benefit event was held in Bedford Friday for retired racer Jim Nave and his wife.
Nave's home burned a couple months back and the couple lost most of their belongings. Bedford promoter J.R. Keiffer and wife Mary Ann took the Naves in while they are getting back on their feet. Unfortunately, Lu Nave's health deteriorated and she was placed in a nursing home. Essentially, Nave lost his home and wife's day-to-day companionship in the span of a week.
Most of Nave's racing trophies and memorabilia were destroyed. Port Royal and Bedford officials put together some new trophies and items that were presented to him Friday night. Nave is a former late model champion at both tracks and speaks well of racing and fans at Port Royal Speedway. Should anyone be interested in passing along any donations or other items of interest for Nave, send them to Port Royal Speedway at P.O. Box 295, Port Royal, PA 17082, or drop them at the speedway office. Officials will make sure they get forwarded to the Naves.
I was informed Thursday that Port Royal President Tommy Little has been scheduled for a hip replacement later this month. I'm sure Tom will be down for a bit but not out. Little has done a good job over the years as Port Royal's front man. He has a good bunch of support people around him and the racetrack will do just fine while he gets fixed up. I'll be glad to see him get fixed up because I know he's in a lot of pain.
Selinsgrove Speedway fans got some good news this week. According to an article in The Daily Item, the fire company there, which is the majority owner of the track, has decided not to sell the facility.
Racing was already guaranteed through 2010, when promoter Charlie Paige's lease expires. The fire company president told the Sunbury newspaper he's willing to sit down with Paige and talk about a new lease.
The All Star Circuit of Champions sprint cars were scheduled to race Friday in Ohio and Lance DeWease was scheduled to compete. DeWease is second in All Star points behind Fred Rahmer after the Florida swing. DeWease will follow the All Star tour full time this season. Rahmer will not. DeWease is scheduled to race at Lincoln Speedway tonight.
Lucas Wolfe is racing with the World of Outlaws in Missouri this weekend. Rick Eckert of York is third in World of Outlaws late model point standings. The Outlaw late models come to Port Royal in June and Bedford in September.
Look for the All Star sprint cars to race at Clearfield as they continue to add dates to their schedule. O'Reilly Auto Parts is the series sponsor.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup series is in Texas this weekend. Jeff Burton is the defending race champion. Burton holds a 39-point lead over Kevin Harvick entering this week's action. Fox has TV coverage Sunday starting at 2 p.m.
Until next time, please drive safely!
Craig Rutherford writes about motorsports for The Sentinel.


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But Federal Judge G. Kendall Sharp, in Orlando, Fla., said he would reduce the jail time by one month for every $1 million Pearlman returned to the investors.
Pearlman bilked thousands of people out of millions of dollars in an investment scam that went on for decades, authorities said. His victims included "his family, his close friends and people in their 70s and 80s who have lost their life savings," according to Sharp.
Pearlman pleaded guilty in March to two counts of conspiracy, money laundering and using false statements in a bankruptcy proceeding. Pearlman, 53, had sought to delay the sentencing so he could launch his latest musical creation, the European pop band US5, in the United States and Asia.
During his music career, he also managed the bands LFO, Take 5 and O-Town. Both Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync previously filed suits against Pearlman because they believed they were not receiving a fair share of the bands' profits. Those suits were settled out of court.
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After nine years of not using heroin, John said he remembers less about what getting high feels like than the withdrawal.
"Even when you're out there getting high, you'll have have these moments when you say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,'" said John, 32, of Altoona. "Then the sickness starts in. After you're into it for a while, it's not about getting high. It becomes about not getting sick."
He likened it to the worst case of the flu, one that looms over an addict everyday unless they get their fix.
"It's a living hell," he said of withdrawal, which he said is intense for four or five days and lingers for weeks.
John said he spent a year in Blair County Prison with no treatment and got high the day he got out, and although he finally got clean after going to state prison, he didn't credit the drug treatment he received there as the reason he finally decided to stay off heroin.
"I more or less decided that I was tired of the in-and-out [of jail] thing," John said. "I saw guys in their 40s and 50s in there and I didn't want to be that guy."
Jennifer, 34, said it also took a state prison sentence for her to start down the road to recovery.
"Once the pain of getting high was worse than the pain of getting clean, it became real to me," she said.
After a year in prison she entered a drug treatment program in Harrisburg. At first, she struggled and found herself getting high again, a matter that was made worse when she was prescribed pain pills after having a Cesarean section.
She said she then realized the problem was bigger than herself but with a rather simple solution.
"It really is as simple as, don't pick it up," Jennifer said.
She said she didn't return to Blair County out of fear she would slip back into her old ways. Even almost seven years later, she still thinks about heroin.
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doesn't cross my mind," she said. "Some days are worse than others. I know that if I touch it, I'm going to be right back in the same situation I was in before - or worse."
John said time has repaired the relationships in his life that were wrecked by his heroin use.
"It destroyed all my relationships with family and friends," John said. "The people you love the most and the people that trust you, they're the first people you betray." Trust he said, goes fast but is hard to regain.
The memory of withdrawal and the havoc heroin wreaked in his life have made it easier to stay off the drug, he said.
"I've already been down that road and have those regrets," John said. "I don't need that in my life. I never forget how bad it can get."
Difficulty finding employment has been another unintended consequence of their addictions, both John and Jennifer noted.
John said he worked for close to four years for a company before a corporate takeover meant a background check from the new owners and a pink slip for him. Fortunately, he has a new job, although because of his arrest record, it's not his ideal occupation.
"It's very difficult to get meaningful employment with a criminal record." John said. "Most places do background checks. That eliminates me right away."
Both credit the support of their families in staying clean.
"They didn't enable me," said Jennifer. "When I was locked up they were there to remind me that they loved me."
Jennifer said addiction is "a family disease," one that affects everyone around an addict. It's something she said she thinks people forget when they talk about addiction.
She recalled someone telling her that she didn't look like an addict.
"What does an addict look like?" she asked. She said the addiction changed the way she thinks, something she has had to learn to live with and overcome.
"I do have a choice, but I know that once I pick [heroin] up, that's it," she said.
John said despite his experience, he's in favor of across the board legalization of drugs and noted that while he pleaded guilty to robbery, he didn't go to jail for that. Instead, it was a drug conviction that got him sent to state prison.
"I should have gone to jail for the theft," John said, noting that in that crime he harmed someone. He likes to think even without going to prison he would have gotten clean, but then again, maybe not.
"I had plenty of time to reflect and do some soul-searching," he said. "There are underlying reasons people do drugs, and you need to get to the bottom of that."
In his case, drugs were a way to loosen him up, make him feel less socially awkward. For Jennifer, peer pressure had a lot to do with it.
Both said they had no idea where heroin would take them, or they denied it would happen to them.
"If I'd known I was playing with fire, I never would have [done it]," Jennifer said.
Mirror Staff Writer Greg Bock is at 946-7458.


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There's a couple if you search "Leptin reset", but this is the one you might be thinking of, 1,001 pages.
I've read bit's and pieces of it, am dubious about the protocol, particularly the morning loading of protein, and the other thing I saw lots of talk about it, but no documented testing of leptin levels before and after.
Interested to see if anyone can give something more definitive.


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BAY CITY, MI — The 52nd Annual Bay City Fireworks Festival kicks off today, as thousands of people begin making their way into Bay City for three nights of fireworks shows, live music and plenty of other entertainment.
The full schedule events is available on MLive. And for those fireworks aficionados, learn about the latest and greatest that Beaver Township-based Wolverine Fireworks will be shooting off this year.
Here are some highlights, by the numbers, of this year's festival, which runs Thursday through Saturday, July 3-5:
1 — $1 admission into Veterans Memorial Park each night for music and fireworks, beginning at 6 p.m., Thursday.
2 — Two tribute artists will play the songs of Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in Wenonah Park on Thursday. Jeff Carr, a Willie Nelson tribute artist, takes the stage from 6-7:30 p.m., followed by Terry Lee Goffee, a Johnny Cash tribute artist, from 8-10 p.m.
3 — Three spectacular fireworks show that begin at 10:12 p.m. each night. The first show on Thursday is a smaller, 12-minute program that allows the crew from Wolverine Fireworks to work out any kinks in their system. Officials from Wolverine promise a bigger show on Friday and the grand finale on Saturday will keep everyone's heads glued to the sky for more than 36 minutes.
4 — Four new rides at the carnival, which is once again provided by Escanaba-based Skerbeck Bros. Shows Inc. The new offerings include The Fireball, The Hurricane, The Air Raid and The Tornado. Individual ride tickets are $1 each or 50 for $40. Rides require between two and five tickets each.
5 — $5 admission into Wenonah Park each night for music and fireworks, beginning at 6 p.m., Thursday.
6 — $6 for an elephant ear inside the midway.
9 — 9 bands will take the stages in Veterans Memorial Park and Wenonah Park during the three-day festival. In Vets Park, bands perform each night in the beer tent from 6-10 p.m. Midnight Blue plays Thursday, Operations 13 performs Friday and Faultr takes the stage Saturday. In Wenonah Park, Thursday features the Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash tribute artists; Friday features The Beats from 6-7:30 p.m. and Sinclair's from 9-10 p.m.; and Saturday wraps up with Winner Takes All from 5:30-7:30 p.m. and 50 AMP Fuse from 8-10 p.m.
12 — $12 to register a car for the first annual Fireworks Festival Car Show from 6-9 p.m. on Thursday near the ball diamonds at Vets Park.
14 — 14 corporate sponsors for this year's festival: AT&T, Meijer, Sandlot Sports, Systems Support, The Bay City Times, WHNN, Great Lakes Bay Region, Anderson Radio, Wolverine Fireworks, Republic Services, WJRT ABC-12, The DBS Companies, Skerbeck Bros. Shows Inc., Action & Village Towing and Auto Repair.
20 — $20 admission into the new Teen Zone paint party from 7:30-11 p.m., Friday and for the foam party at the same time on Saturday. Admission to the paint party at the same time Thursday is $15.
22 — $22 for an all-day ride wristband in the midway. Wristbands are being sold from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday. From 6 p.m. to midnight on Thursday and Friday and from noon to midnight on Saturday, carnival-goers must purchase individual tickets for the rides.
27 — Number of contestants in the Bay City Fireworks pageants, which start at 11 a.m. Saturday in Wenonah Park. The following crowns are to be awarded: Little Mr., Little Miss, Little Miss Sparkler, Little Mr. Sparkler, Junior Miss Sparkler, King and Queen.
36 — Length of Saturday's grand finale fireworks show, which begins at 10:12 p.m. with fireworks being shot off from two locations in Vets Park, as well as from a barge in the Saginaw River.
52 — This is the 52nd annual Bay City Fireworks Festival.
30,000 — The number of fireworks shots expected to be fired off at Saturday's grand finale show.
100,000 — Fireworks Festival President Doug Clark expects at least 100,000 people to grace Bay City this weekend for the event.


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This Mountain Valley Is Alive with the Sounds of Music
Symphony Celebrates 30 Years
Alasdair Neale's conducting has been called inspired and his leadership is unrivaled. The Miami Herald once wrote that for "sheer musical insight and artistic command, this gifted conductor sets a standard that is hard to surpass."
It's been 20 years now since the then-30-year-old conductor replaced the Sun Valley Summer Symphony's beloved founder, Dr. Carl Eberl. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to musical parents, Neale was always smitten with music—not just playing it, but dissecting it.
"Music was always part of the furniture for me," he said. "I started very early. I played in a youth orchestra, and fell into conducting through studying scores and music, mostly from an anatomical perspective, wanting to understand how a piece is put together."
At 14, he joined the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain as a flutist. As he explained, "I had never been part of something that was so good. I realized this had to be for the rest of my life. It was like scales falling from my eyes."
After graduating from Cambridge University, he attended graduate school at Yale University. Neale eventually became the Yale Symphony Orchestra's conductor before spending a dozen years with the San Francisco Symphony.
Neale's enthusiasm and love for music is infectious. One can understand why he's had such success with musicians and music lovers, and has such a passion for Sun Valley.
"When I tell people what we do here, they're blown away," he said. "You have this national all-star team, a-list soloists, a multi-million-dollar pavilion, and you know what else? It's free. They fall over."
Neale is also the conductor of the Marin Symphony and is the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's principal guest conductor, but there's something downright magical about the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. As he explained, "This orchestra has in spades visceral energy and palpable joy in performing. I think it's one of our greatest assets."
"We're all grown up now," said Jennifer Teisinger, the executive director for the Sun Valley Summer Symphony (SVSS), about the free symphony's 30th anniversary. The symphony is unique in that it culls musicians from many other symphonies for its annual summer run at the Sun Valley Pavilion.
Musicians join the 115-member SVSS by invitation only. If there is an opening, symphony conductor Alasdair Neale asks the principal of the section for a recommendation. Returning musicians have a reunion of sorts, which some refer to as "extreme music camp."
"They love to play with people they see every summer," Teisinger said. "The other thing that makes us special is this community. The audience is so warm and appreciative and they love the musicians."
Headliners for this season include soprano Renee Fleming and violinist Joshua Bell. There will be a visiting electronica composer, rising star Mason Bates, and world-renowned pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, who picked out a brand new Steinway piano for SVSS in Hamburg. A donor/board member helped buy it as a 30th anniversary birthday present.
"We want to be hip, relevant and accessible to anyone who wants a live classical experience, and we want people to feel connected," Teisinger said. "It's really special. We're making the community a better place year-round."
Dick Brown founded the Caritas Chorale in 1999, to "bring the best in chorale/orchestral literature to the Wood River Valley," he said. Caritas Chorale performs several times a year at the Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood, St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Ketchum and the Community Campus in Hailey. They also perform an annual pops concert outdoors and a pops concert at the Gail Severn Gallery in Ketchum, as well as a benefit for The Hunger Coalition in December. The chorale consists of between 60 to 100 singers from the Wood River Valley, Idaho Falls and Twin Falls.
Dubbed the "Greatest Show on Snow" by its founder and organizer, Danny Walton, Reggae in the Mountains celebrates Sun Valley's ski culture while attracting a younger demographic to our community.
"This is the only on-snow reggae event that happens in the country," Walton said. "The original idea started six years ago to celebrate Bob Marley's birthday, and we continue the tradition." A tradition that now includes bringing top-notch reggae musicians from around the globe to Sun Valley for a concert every summer and winter.
Founded in 1977, the Northern Rockies Music Festival is the popular, annual two-day show held at Hop Porter Park in Hailey. The very family-friendly festival is jam-packed with talent culled from regional and national musicians and features about 10 bands. There are also lots of food and art vendors, or you can bring your own beverages and snacks or picnic.
The festival also supports young musicians by helping fund Wood River High School music students with travel expenses for competitions, as well as inviting young musicians on stage to debut their music.
The line-up for this August's show includes local favorites Sheep Bridge Jumpers, 12-year-old troubadour sensation Sammy Brue, Portland's popular Jimmy Robb Band, Smoke 'n' Blues from New Orleans and headliner and Mississippi-native bluesy rocker Paul Thorn.
Ketchum has always had a party reputation and Ketch'em Alive, a weekly, free, outdoor concert series, keeps up the tradition. Run by Will Caldwell Productions and sponsored by community businesses, residents and the Sun Valley-Ketchum Chamber Visitors Bureau, the free shows are now 15 years old. Held Tuesday evenings at the Forest Service Park in Ketchum from June through August, the musical line-up offers reggae, world beat, Americana, folk and rock. "Once bands come to Ketchum, they love it, and they want to come back," Caldwell said.
Caldwell also produces the Ketchum Town Square Series on Thursdays throughout the summer, and Jazz in the Park on Sundays in Ketchum's Rotary Park.
Jazz, like folk music, can take on a variety of personas. Sometimes it's syncopated, sometimes it bops. Often it swings, and quite frequently it induces dancing. The Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree turns 25 this year and "dancing" might as well be its middle name.
For five days each October, 40 bands play at 10 venues around Ketchum/Sun Valley. Founded by Boise residents and jazz lovers Tom and Barbara Hazzard, the event has evolved over the years. "We now include other styles of American music such as zydeco, Western swing, big band swing, rhythm & blues, cabaret and gypsy jazz," said Carol Hazzard Loehr, co-director of the Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree with her husband Jeff. "There is music for every musical taste bud."
The Sun Valley Artist Series is dedicated to the promotion and encouragement of classical music. The annual winter and spring series offers performances by visiting artists at the beautiful Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood in Ketchum. The series also includes pre-concert lectures held at Ketchum's Community Library, master classes, recitals, seminars and presentations in local schools by an impressive line-up of participating local and national artists, which have included pianist Misha Dichter, guitarist Sharon Isben, The Italian Saxophone Quartet, The Claremont Trio, pianist Peter Henderson and cellist Ben Hong.
Sun Valley Opera (SVO) takes things to another level, a higher octave and all with a more passionate style! Founded in 2001, SVO seeks to bring quality opera to the Wood River Valley through an annual four-day Winter Festival and Summer Benefit Concert at the Sun Valley Pavilion.
SVO also hosts an international vocal competition in Seattle each year, library lectures, salon concerts and "Season of the MET HD" live broadcasts. This summer's performances include "The Fab Four" Beatles tribute and a "Diva Party" featuring highly–acclaimed soprano Jennie Litster.
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Adapting to Evolving Business Environments Is...
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Wall Street Decline Takes Its Toll...
CytomX Therapeutics is collaborating with ImmunoGen to develop Probody-drug conjugate (PDC) therapies to treat cancer. The companies are planning to collaborate to develop PDCs against a defined number of targets.
Each company will, per the agreement, retain full development control of PDC compounds resulting from its target selection and is responsible for testing, manufacturing, and commercialization. The agreement is also set up so that each company is entitled to receive clinical and post-approval milestone payments from the other company in addition to royalties from the sales of any marketed products produced as a result of the collaboration.
Probodies, developed by CytomX, are a class of antibody therapeutics that are described as potentially disruptive and that could localize therapeutic activity to the tumor microenvironment, broadening the opportunities for antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs).The firms say this collaboration is bringing together CytomX' antibody masking technology and tumor-selective protease substrates with ImmunoGen's ADC cell-killing agents and engineered linkers.
"We believe using our state-of-the-art ADC technology with CytomX' highly promising Probody platform will enable us to develop therapies particularly well-suited for certain challenging cancers," said ImmunoGen's CEO and evp, John Lambert, Ph.D., in a statement.
Both CytomX and ImmunoGen have made deals with other companies regarding their respective platforms within the past year. This past June, CytomX began a collaboration with Pfizer—one said to be worth up to $635 million—to develop and commercialize several ADCs for cancer using the Probody drug-development platform. Also, in October, Novartis agreed to license ImmunoGen's Targeted Antibody Payload (TAP) ADC technology to develop new anticancer therapeutics for an undisclosed target. The TAP deal is said to be potentially worth over $200 million.
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What can I say? I love the smell of my own feces. Especially after eating salad for a week. My favorite movie is Shitty Woman. It's a scat version of the Chulia Roberts hooker classic, but in this one, she shits all over Richard Qere. When it's his turn to shit on her, a hamster falls out. How cool is that????
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'The Bill Clinton Show'?
Talk about your "must-see TV": NBC, already home to the Emmy-winning Executive Office drama "The West Wing," recently approached TV producer Harry Thomason, a friend of the real-life current president, to see if Bill Clinton might be interested in hosting his own talk show once he leaves office. In confirming that bit of news to Reuters yesterday, NBC spokeswoman Shirley Powell said the concept for the weekly program was "along the lines of a 'Meet the Press.' " Clinton did not appear to bite, however. White House press secretary Jake Siewert told reporters during a Tuesday briefing in Washington that Clinton has said he "had no plans to do such a show." Nor, for that matter, does Thomason. He told The Washington Post that he and his producing partner wife, Linda Bloodworth Thomason are "too busy concentrating on our pilot with (chef) Emeril Lagasse to worry about the president's next job."


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Thursday's announcement that a Brazilian company is considering a West Virginia site for a petrochemical processing plant related to the local natural gas industry may have little effect on a proposal for a similar plant closer to home, business sources say.
Petrochemical giant Odebrecht chose a site in Parkersburg, W.Va., to explore the possible location of an ethane cracker plant and three polyethlene plants, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced Thursday.
The estimated cost and timetable of the potential project weren't disclosed, although officials said Odebrecht has a purchase option for the land. Sources close to the project have estimated the investment would be in the billions of dollars.
The complex would be known as ASCENT, which stands for Appalachian Shale Cracker Enterprise. Odebrecht will lead the project's investment and financing, along with the operation of water and electric utilities. Plastics maker Braskem S.A. of Brazil will handle petrochemical-related activities.
The plant would convert ethane from Marcellus Shale natural gas into more profitable chemicals such as ethylene, which is used to make plastics, antifreeze and other products.
Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber spokesman Tony Paglia on Thursday said the chamber remains optimistic that a similar plant proposed by Shell Chemicals in Monaca, Pa., near Pittsburgh also will materialize. Experts have speculated that the Utica and Marcellus shale areas should be fruitful enough to support more than one ethane cracker plant.
"We still have high hopes they will move forward in Pittsburgh. This area would benefit," Paglia said. "The idea is the plastics industry will spring up around it. We have a lot of infrastructure, and that's why so many of these oil and gas companies are coming here."
Don Crane, president of the Western Reserve Building Trades, said Thursday he also remains hopeful that Shell's proposal will come to fruition, triggering thousands of construction jobs, potentially for local building trades workers.
"A Monaca plant most certainly would (involve local trades people). That's just over an hour's drive," Crane said. He pointed out that journeymen from the Western Reserve Building Trades also could find their way to Parkersburg to work on that plant, if they chose to travel.
Shell's plans for the site in Monaca remain uncertain. Shell Chemicals initially announced plans to build an ethane cracker in Beaver County near Pittsburgh. That announcement came early last year with speculation that the plant could bring some 20,000 new jobs and billions of dollars in investments.
Since then, Shell has held an option to purchase land occupied by Horsehead Corp. which operates a zinc smelter on the property. Shell renewed the option to buy by signing a six-month extension on July 1. Some local taxing bodies, including Potter Township, have approved tax incentive deals and, along with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, have said they expect Shell to make a decision about the ethane cracker plant early next year.
In recent weeks Shell spokesman Michael Marr declined to comment on the company's plans.
Horsehead Corp. last month filed a 60-day notice with the state to warn workers of layoffs as it plans to begin closing the western Pennsylvania operations by year's end.
The move was not unexpected because Shell's $2.5 billion petrochemical plant proposal that was on the table for the site. Shell is still a year or more away from making a final decision on whether to build the multi-billion dollar plant at an industrial site about 40 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Natural gas exploration and drilling are increasing as companies tap into the rich Marcellus and Utica shales in the region.
While drilling in the Marcellus Shale has been opposed by environmental groups, other interests cite the jobs and investments exploration and drilling will create and the millions of dollars that will be infused into the economy.
Tomblin said groundwork on the Parkersburg, W.Va., project through the West Virginia Development Office has been going on for three years. He called the plan a "game changer for the state of West Virginia," during Thursday's announcement when he was joined by Odebrecht officials.
In addition to securing financing, the project would have to meet various regulatory and governmental approval and obtain contracts for long-term ethane supply.
"We're not going to jump into a pool without knowing how deep the water is," said Ascent spokesman David Peebles. "We are spending a fair amount of money. We're going through a very deliberative process. I think we want to manage expectations. It's not that we're trying to be evasive, but we do not want to exaggerate or overestimate and have people's expectations raised."
The Marcellus Shale natural gas bed extends below parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and New York.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.


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Creative Writing Scholarship and Sara-Jean McDowell Creative Writing Award
Plattus Teaching Award
Award Amount: Varies by year, generally $500.00.
Available to: All English Department GTAs who are currently teaching.
Submission Guidelines:
Deadline: February 15
Graduate Teaching Assistantships
Award Amount: PhD-Level GTAships: 12-month award, $20,000/year and tuition remission
MA-Level GTAships: 10-month award, $15,500/year and tuition remission
Available to: All Ph.D and M.A. applicants and continuing M.A. students not previously funded. This is a purely merit-based award.
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The Master's College women's basketball team hoped to undo the poor finish it had to the regular season.
It turned out to be a rough finish in the postseason as well.
The Mustangs were outshot and out-rebounded in a 69-46 loss to California Baptist in the first round of the Golden State Athletic Conference Tournament on Wednesday.
It was the fourth loss in five games for TMC including the last four games of the regular season. It was also TMC's third loss of the season to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics No. 5-ranked Lancers, who came in as the No. 2 seed in the conference.
TMC (17-13) finished tied for sixth in the GSAC this season with a 10-10 conference record.
On Wednesday, the Mustangs were never in the game after falling behind 16-2 to start things off.
Sophomore guard Lena Rivera led the Mustangs with 14 points and 15 rebounds, and was the only player on the team to reach double figures in either category.
Ella Joines came the closest with seven points, while TMC's leading scorer on the season, senior Erica Inge, was limited to four points.
As a team, the Mustangs shot 29.5 percent and were outrebounded 52-36 in the contest.
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EVERETT - A small business needs to find its niche in order to succeed.
That's certainly been true for Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Co., which is celebrating its 100th year in business.
"Agriculture is our main niche," said Randy Shaw, who became president and CEO of the company in 1998. "We are the third largest writer of farm insurance in Pennsylvania and the second largest in North Carolina."
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Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Co. marks its 100th anniversary this year. ECM officials said it is proud of its rural heritage and tradition of people helping others in time of need. The company is the third largest writer of farmowners insurance in Pennsylvania.
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Randy Shaw (left), president and CEO of Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Co., and Kerry Foor, treasurer and CFO, examine a policy at the Bedford County business.
The business, founded by Simon Whetstone on May 8, 1913, in a room above the Everett Bank in downtown Everett has grown into a multi-line, nine-state carrier with $50 million in insurance premiums and assets of nearly $100 million.
The company employs 40 people.
Whetstone, who had been an agent with Friends Cove Mutual Fire Insurance Co., founded the business on the "cash" insurance plan.
In 1913, there was a new concept called a pre-assessable policy where people paid up front. Pre-assessable policies were called cash policies, so Whetstone included "cash" in the name of the business, Shaw explained.
"It was generally a cash business. Checking accounts weren't well established back then," Shaw said.
In the beginning Whetstone sold fire insurance, but in 1954 the name of the company was changed to eliminate the word "fire" because the company was offering more than fire coverage.
Over the years, ECM added other types of insurance including homeowners, auto, workers compensation and inland marine.
Shaw said by the time he joined the company in 1987, the focus had shifted away from agricultural coverage.
"When I took over, we were mired in the wrong focus. I returned us to our agricultural roots," Shaw said. "One of the keys that unlocked our growth was finding a niche we could do better than anyone else. When we were writing homeowners policies, we were competing with giant companies. That prompted us to refocus on the farm side. We offered products that the farmer needed - that was the key that unlocked our growth potential. There were not that many companies that focused on the farm."
Today, Everett Cash Mutual operates in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and Georgia.
Part of the company's expansion was achieved through acquiring other insurance companies. For example, in 1992 ECM acquired Manor Mutual in Mountville, Lancaster County.
"Manor gave us 50 agents down east. That became a distribution channel for Everett Cash Mutual," Shaw said. "[Acquisition] can help you both geographically and with the types of products you are offering."
Acquiring other businesses, such as SAC Computer Solutions and D.L. Dravis and Associates, an adjusting firm, also was beneficial.
"By acquiring SAC we got software talent - the human element, the programmers. We now have the software solutions we develop that are sold to nine different insurance companies. They pay us an annual maintenance fee," Shaw said. "We could acquire more [businesses], maybe a HR company. We are open to creative solutions wherever we can find them."
Today, Everett Cash Mutual's focus continues to be on agricultural and commercial operations such as restaurants, small contractors, agri-business, wineries, bed and breakfast operations, car washes and taxidermists.
The company has succeeded by "paying attention to detail balanced with creativity," Shaw said.
Chairman of the Board Kenneth C. Stover credits Shaw and the company's employees for its success.
"We have had good management, especially over the last 15 years with Randy being there," Stover said. "The people who are running it have had their heart in the best interest of the company and are not interested in trying to make a big buck. They stuck to good insurance principles. If you do that and hire good employees and the employees stay a long time, you can't go too far wrong."
As the company celebrates its 100th anniversary, the third and fourth generations of the Whetstone family are represented by Donn C. Whetstone and his son Jeffrey, who both serve on the board of directors.
Jeffrey and his brother Daniel operate an independent insurance agency in Everett.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary, the company created the ECM Centennial Scholarship program. Shaw said the board has approved $100,000 to be set up to provide scholarships for students pursuing a bachelor's degree.
"Our goal is not to be the biggest but the best. We focus on being the best we can be," Shaw said. "We drive ourselves to do the best for every policyholder that we have."
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A first class event. What a shame, all that preparation and only one performance. One wish. Although this was a concert version and not expected to have production values, and although all the voices were superb, I really wish the singers had some guidance to develop the acting which was largely absent from their performances. After all, the story telling is a huge element, which is the responsibility of the singers. In fairness, they lacked a director. Their musical director-conductor-narrator was fantastic.
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The music and musicians were excellent but the story is dated and it ran too long. Wish they had picked something better.
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The soloists and the orchestra were great. The chorus was weak at best; Michael Morgan deserves better. It's an interesting piece from Kurt Weil, certainly not a strong one but very American by contrast to his best-known works.
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The voices were wonderful; the Paramount is beautiful; the musical, dated but enjoyable.
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Julie Adams – Jenny, Rose
Angela Cadelago – Mrs. Fiorentino
Milissa Carey – Mrs. Jones, Intern
Kristen Clayton – Mrs. Maurrant
Tami Dahbura – Mrs. Olsen, Mrs. Hildebrand, Mae
Kirk Eichelberger – Mr. Maurrant
Adam Flowers – Kaplan, Sankey, Dick
Thomas Glenn – Sam
Zachary Gordin – Mr. Jones
Ryan Marcell Houston – Henry
J. Raymond Meyers – Buchanan, Lippo
Nikolas Nackley – Mr. Olsen, Easter
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Best-known for his collaboration with Bertolt Brecht on The Threepenny Opera, Kurt Weill is one of the most innovative and influential theater composers of the twentieth century. In Street Scene, he mixes show tunes, jazz, arias, folk songs and spirituals to portray the passions and frustrations of a multi-ethnic New York City tenement block during two brutally hot days in the Depression era. With lyrics by the great Harlem Renaissance poet, novelist and playwright Langston Hughes, and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Elmer Rice, Street Scene is an important, vital work that builds to an explosive conclusion.
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A land dispute between the arm of the Orleans Levee District responsible for levees and floodwalls and the state agency that oversees the rest of its real estate is threatening to delay the start of work on three permanent lakefront pumping stations, the last major component in the east bank hurricane protection network.
The head of the state authority acting as caretaker for the levee district's non-flood assets said Wednesday he expects his board to seek a court ruling Thursday afternoon on whether it can effectively block the $675 million project until the Army Corps of Engineers explains how construction will affect nearby neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, members of the flood authority will meet Thursday morning to exercise what they maintain is their legal right to grant the corps access to the Lake Pontchartrain entrances of the 17th Street, London Avenue and Orleans Avenue canals.
The corps selected a winning bidder last week and officials intend to greenlight the design phase in about two weeks in anticipation of turning dirt this fall on a massive project expected to be completed in about 44 months.
But how soon work begins could rest with a judge's decision.
Robert Lupo, who heads the Non-Flood Protection Asset Management Authority, said he expects his board to authorize its lawyers to request an injunction in Orleans Civil District Court early next week.
While the board is in full support of the pumping stations, Lupo said residents want the corps to address a range of "simple questions" before work begins.
Lupo said unresolved issues include how the project will affect traffic and access to neighborhoods, what precautions contractors will take to mitigate damage from pile driving and canal dredging, and what landscaping will accompany the massive pumps.
"These are questions a reasonable steward of any property would ask of a contractor when they're coming on their property and asking for access to do work," said Lupo, a developer and former Orleans Levee Board member.
Corps officials said the agency is aware of neighborhood concerns, but they are prohibited by law from discussing construction plans until a challenge period for losing bidders expires next month and the winning contractor is officially on board. Complicating things is the corps' decision to award the contract on a design-build basis, which means the actual design of the pump stations -- and the exact footprints of the space needed during construction -- were not known when the firm was chosen.
"We have given all the information we can legally give them," said Nancy Allen, a corps spokeswoman. "We have committed that after the protest window ends, we will continue to communicate."
Garret Graves, the state's top appointee on flood protection, said in an email message that the law is clear: The real estate authority "only has management over non-flood assets, and in this case, the property is obviously a flood asset."
Graves said the flood authority sought concurrence on the issue of corps access only "as a courtesy."
Saying he is "not real clear" on what is motivating the non-flood authority, Graves added: "The reality is that we have a job to do to get flood protection in place, and we're not going to play any games on this. We're not going to waste time. Apparently there's some confusion as to what their authority is.
"They want to file an injunction, and I encourage them to do that if that's what they think they need to do, but I expect that we'll have a very, very quick decision. I expect it will be a total waste of money on their part and we'll proceed exactly as we would have otherwise."
Flood Authority President Tim Doody said while he agrees the non-flood agency has raised legitimate concerns about the pump station project, he believes the corps will ultimately provide reasonable answers.
"This is a much larger issue -- it's an issue for the entire city," Doody said. "We need to be about the business of flood protection. And every day matters."
With design work scheduled to last several months, Doody said there is ample time to work out construction details before work crews arrive. Even after construction begins, he said, adjustments can be made.
"I would prefer that they not ask for an injunction," he said. "I don't think the larger interests of flood protection are being served by filing lawsuits."
Under the corps' plan, the new stations will be combined gates and pumps that will operate during hurricanes in tandem with existing interior pump stations located in more central parts of New Orleans. The stations will block storm surge from entering the canals and pump rainwater from the canals into the lake.
The project is designed to eliminate the danger that floodwalls inside the canals are overwhelmed by hurricane storm surges, as they were during Hurricane Katrina with disastrous results.
During the selection process, the corps held more than 30 community meetings, then met with potential contractors to discuss the design and footprints of proposed stations.
Lupo said members of the non-flood authority are not questioning the critical need for the project.
"We're not arguing about the pumping stations," he said. "We're asking for a definition (from the court) so we know what we're supposed to do.
"The corps says they have to work this out with the contractor, and that seems like putting the cart before the horse. You don't let someone on your property before they tell you how they're going to treat your property and what are the repercussions for the surrounding community."
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The council voted Tuesday to delay discussion about a $500,000 plan to upgrade the town's council chambers.
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Jamie McMurray didn't know exactly what happened when he hit a piece of concrete from the Dover International Speedway track Sunday, but he was sure what he wanted after his car was damaged.
McMurray and his team had hoped NASCAR officials would let the team work on the car during the red flag, considering that it was a piece of the track that damaged his car.
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That argument — just as Jeff Gordon's 10 years ago at Martinsville — fell on deaf ears as McMurray lost a lap and his team had to fix the car on pit road once the red flag on lap 161 was lifted. He eventually got the lap back and finished 13th.
Earlier this year, when multiple cars were damaged by the force of the air blown by a jet dryer, NASCAR allowed drivers to make repairs without losing position. Last year when a camera cable snapped and damaged cars, NASCAR gave all teams 15 minutes to work on their cars.
"I wish we could work on it right now (under red)," crew chief Keith Rodden lamented to Fox Sports during the race telecast. "It's kind of a tough situation we're in and a tough situation NASCAR is in. … I don't know if we'll get it back to where it was."
NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton told reporters after the race that NASCAR opted to remain consistent with the decision 10 years ago with Gordon.
"Our policy is not to let them work on the car (under a red flag)," Pemberton said. "When we had a broadcast equipment failure sometime back, that affected the entire field of racecars and at that time, we did red flag and we did allow the teams to fix the damage caused by that equipment failure.
"But it is our normal policy not to allow teams to work on the cars."
The hole in the track was about 6 inches by 8 inches and 2 inches deep, according to the officials' report to race control during the race. The patch remained for the remainder of the race, coming apart a little but not enough to make a difference, Brad Keselowski said.
The race was interrupted for 22 minutes to fix the track with an epoxy type filler, the same filler used for asphalt and concrete tracks.
McMurray said he wasn't sure what happened.
"I guess that the racetrack came up and when I came off of the corner, it just felt like I hit something obviously heavy," McMurray told Fox after the race. "And initially I thought I had blown a tire out because when I hit it, it actually pushed the car to the right and I got into the fence a little bit.
"And as I slowed down, I couldn't figure out first off why I didn't hit the fence harder and then what happened. I didn't see anything. It just hit the front end, ripped the splitter off and it pushed the car to the right."
Pemberton said the area that came apart was a previous patch and NASCAR and track officials did not see anything to be concerned about prior to the race. A piece of concrete also hit the crossover walkway, and track officials kept people away from that area during race.
He also indicated that NASCAR might re-evaluate its policy.
"That's the way we stand today," Pemberton said. "Yes, there might have been one that was obvious but what about the less obvious? … What starts out as (changing) a splitter today winds up being a changed lower control arm the next day.
"That's our current policy today. It pretty much is the luck of the draw when it comes to that."