SCOD Rally, Yarmouth Isle of Wight .
Weekend of September 26th 27th.
The intention is to get as many of us SCODers together as is possible. Meet new friends, exchange ideas, talk SCOD stuff, dine together and generally enjoy ourselves.
There will be no racing organised.
Please try to come along we look forward to seeing you.


What are the three cellular components of blood?
What happens to RBC plasma membrane under different osmotic conditions?
What are three types of lymphocytes? Lifespan?
Which lymphocytes are adaptive immunity? Which are innate immunity?
What makes up humoral immunity?
What are the three classes of T cells?
What do Helper T Cells do with an antigen?
What do Helper T Cells do after binding to Ag-MHC complex?
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Treasury begins search for new tech chief
Seeks to fill vacant CIO role
Rohan Pearce (Computerworld)
The Treasury is on the hunt for a new IT executive following the departure last month of chief information officer Eamonn Rooney.
"The Treasury CIO position is currently vacant and we have advertised to fill the position," a spokesperson told Computerworld. "We are running a competitive, merit based process and we look forward to announcing an outcome to our staff once this has been completed."
Rooney took on the CIO role in early 2017. Prior to joining the Department of the Treasury he was a gateway review team leader for the Department of Finance.
National Museum of Australia chief information officer Mike Webb is acting as head of the Treasury's Information Services Division while the department conducts a recruitment process for the CIO role.
The new CIO will report to Treasury's deputy secretary of corporate services and business strategy, Matt Flavel.
Treasury says the CIO role is "high profile, fast paced and varied and presents an exciting opportunity to help shape the Department's future IT infrastructure and services".
The department's top IT executive leads a team that provides support services including service desk functions, voice services, mobile devices, business applications, IT infrastructure, websites, and other online platforms, recruitment documents state.
"You will drive the delivery of the Treasury's ICT Strategy and the adoption of new technology into the Department, including unified communications, greater mobility, better knowledge management, and more use of cloud-based and shared services," the department's position description says.
The department is offering a salary of $201,382 - $234,051. Applications close 31 July.

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You know when you forget to get stuff for breakfast, but you want something yummy? That happened to me the other day. Then I saw a box of Bisquick in my fridge as well as an opened package of mini-chocolate chips. I thought some how these two things should go together. I found a recipe for Easy Drop Danish in my Bisquick cook book and slightly modified it to include the chocolate chips. It was a tasty and easy to make treat.
Preheat oven to 450. My oven tends to run hot, so I only set it to 425.
Spray cookie sheet with cooking spray or lightly grease with shortening. In medium bowl, stir Bisquick mix, butter and granulated sugar until crumbly. Stir in milk until dough forms. Stir in mini chocolate chips to taste. I did this by sight and probably added in 2/3 cup.


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UPDATE: Oakland's Groundbreaking Tiny House Ordinance Approved!
/ Advocacy, Featured, Legislation / By THIA Contributor
Oakland approves cutting-edge tiny house regulations!
WOW!! The City of Oakland, California is now tiny home friendly. The Mayor and City Council yesterday approved a sweeping set of ordinances that permit movable tiny homes as not only accessory dwelling units (ADUs), but also as units that can be placed on a city lot by itself or with other units.
"It has been a pleasure to work with the Mayor's staff the past several years in gaining acceptance for movable tiny homes as permanent habitable dwelling units. Oakland now joins the other major California cities in accepting tiny homes as an affordable and sustainable housing product."
-THIA President Dan Fitzpatrick
The new ordinances go into effect, mid-January of 2022. This is a fairly complex set of laws. For more details, the ordinance provisions and staff report can be found here.
June 3, 2021 - exciting progress!
The city's Planning Commissions unanimously recommended to the Oakland City Council that they approve ordinance amendments that will permit movable tiny homes as habitable dwelling units as ADU's and standalone units on their own lot.
For example, a typical single-family lot is permitted to have three units—thus a vacant lot can have 3 movable tiny homes. THIA President, Dan Fitzpatrick has been working closely with the Mayor's housing staff for the past three years said,
"We are very pleased with the Mayor's leadership and Planning Commission action last night to provide opportunities for movable tiny homes in assisting in the affordable housing crisis. The ability to now place movable tiny homes in backyards and on a lot by themselves is groundbreaking in the nation. Hopefully, other cities follow suit."
The ordinance now goes to the City Council subcommittee and then to the full Council in the fall of 2021.


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Ukrainian team FireWay wins NASA Space Apps Challenge 2020
01 February, 2021, 11:50
Danylo Ivzhenko
A Ukrainian team FireWay has won the largest international hackathon NASA Space Apps Challenge 2020 in the category "Best Use of Technology."
As stated on the NASA website, the Ukrainians have designed a universal space connector, which allows refueling satellites directly in orbit, extending their lifetime.
The average communications satellite costs about $300 million to build, about $100 million to launch, and works for about 15 years. When the fuel is completely used up, the satellite cannot keep the orbit and begins to drift, losing communications and becoming useless.
Refueling would extend a satellite's life cycle, saving companies and governments money on the development and launch of replacements.
"We have searched for existed refueling missions – now they are too complex and expensive. We have discovered that some research and communication satellites can cost more than $500 million and most of them have to be retired due to run out of fuel. In opposite, rocket launches are getting cheaper and can carry extra fuel to existent missions," says the team.
The FireWay solution allows refueling with both liquid and gas fuels.
"For two-component fuel – the transportation will be implemented through two different channels. But the number of different channels for liquids or gasses can be extended, to match any needs," the project description says.
Photo credit: gorod.dp.ua
The FireWay team includes engineers, astrophysicists, and developers – Roman Malkevych, Olena Kompaniiets, Ivan Hryshko, Maksym Kopystko, Dmytro Ivannyk, and Kirill Andriets.
NASA Space Apps Challenge
The NASA Space Apps Challenge is a 48-hour competition for engineers, programmers, designers, and space technology enthusiasts. During the hackathons, participants from all over the world work to create projects that use space data.
As gorod.dp.ua reports, NASA Space Apps Challenge has been held in Ukraine since 2016. Since 2017, the local organizer of NASA hackathons in Dnipro is the Noosphere Association founded by entrepreneur Max Polyakov.
The international jury of NASA Space Apps Challenge includes experts from NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and other partner agencies, picking the winners in 6 categories:
Best Use of Technology
Galactic Impact
Best Mission Concept
Best Use of Science
Ukraine becomes the ninth country joining the NASA space program
Ukrainian company Ajax Systems wins 'Intruded Product of the Year 2020' in the prestigious international award
NAVI's CS:GO team wins the BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2021
Google Play announces its list of the best apps 2020 with Ukrainian Reface in it
NASA chooses a Ukrainian developer's solution for an online map for tracking the Mars rover
NASA has selected 9 companies to master the Moon. Firefly with an office in Dnipro is among them
Avision has developed a drone monitoring system for NASA. It will be tested in Nevada
Firefly subsidiary signs a $9.8M contract with NASA


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Generation Impact: Young Inventor's Love of Robotics Puts Prosthetic Arms Within Reach
The Inventor profiles brilliant entrepreneur Easton LaChappelle, who uses 3D printing technology to build custom prostheses for people with limb differences.
Nov 16, 2021 1:40 PM ET
The Inventor profiles brilliant entrepreneur Easton LaChappelle, who uses #3Dprinting technology to build custom prostheses for people with limb differences. https://bit.ly/3cfyjig via @HPinc Garage Blog @UnlimitedTmro
By Courtney Rubin
Easton LaChappelle made his first robotic hand in eighth grade — a confection of electrical tubing, fishing lines, and tape made in his bedroom, watching instructional videos. The fingers could move, but it couldn't grab objects very accurately. Immediately he wondered: How can I make it more human-like?
The question has driven him ever since. Every year for his high school science project, he would make a better version. (His junior year project— a 3D-printed robotic arm that could shake hands — won second place at the 2013 International Science and Engineering Fair, and was impressive enough for LaChappelle to be invited to the White House.) And now, at age 25, he's the founder of Unlimited Tomorrow, which aims to make prosthetic devices more affordable using 3D printing technology.
His a-ha moment for his startup? When a young girl stopped by his project at the science fair, wearing an $80,000 prosthetic hand that was "a human-like claw with one sensor she was going to outgrow in a year," he said. "I couldn't believe this thing I made for $200 in my bedroom was better."
LaChappelle and 14-year-old Aashna Patel, who received one of the first prosthetic limbs the company produced — are the subjects of an inspiring film called The Inventor, the second in the Generation Impact series produced by the Garage by HP. Filmmakers Sarah Klein and Tom Mason of Redglass Pictures said they were drawn to LaChappelle as a subject partly because his invention requires synergy — after LaChappelle's work is done, the customer has to learn to operate the device using muscle memory.
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It required a lot of "concentration and fortitude," Mason says, for Patel, an eighth grader, who we watch in the film as she learns to use the hand to throw a ball, hold an onion, or make any other motion she might want. The Inventor is also a tale of the age we're in — where a curious mind using not much more than open source designs and ingenuity — can invent devices that couldn't have been developed even a decade ago in a lab, and shake up an entire industry.
"The level of innovation in this story could only happen right now," Klein says.
LaChappelle has been inventing practically since birth. He grew up in the one-stoplight town of Mancus, Colorado, a "forcing function," he says, because the town's tiny school (his graduating class had 23 students) couldn't keep up with him. He was the kind of kid who would ask the local drug store for all the disposable cameras they'd throw away after they developed the film — he wanted to extract the capacitor (the thing that made the clicking noise and powered the flash.)
He dreamed of working in robotics, and figured one way to gain entrée into the field was to design a robotic hand. For his 16th birthday he got his first 3D printer — at the time, barely a decade ago, was such new technology he had to buy it on Kickstarter.
In 2013 — when LaChappelle was just 17 — bestselling author Tony Robbins watched a TEDTalk LaChappelle gave on 3D printing and prosthetics and called to offer seed funding. It was the push LaChappelle needed to skip college ("School was going to slow me down in a lot of ways," he says.) and start Unlimited Tomorrow. About three and a half years ago, he moved the company from Colorado to Rhinebeck, New York, so he could have better access to tech talent from New York and Boston. (Plus one of his mentors, Jonathan Cohen of Idealab, had Rhinebeck office space he could use.) The company now has about 20 employees, and has created hundreds of limbs.
As 3D printing technology has improved, so have LaChappelle's designs. Until recently, 3D printed material wasn't durable — if you banged a hand against the counter the pinky finger would break off.
Now, though, HP's 3D printing technology allows him to print engineer-grade plastic in full color. Customers choose their skin tone from printed color swatches and use a tablet Unlimited Tomorrow sends them to do a 3D scan. Then the company makes a "check" socket — the way the hand or arm is attached to the person — ships it out, and assesses fit and comfort over a video call. A "final socket" is then made, and the limb is printed. The total cost: $8,000 (when kids inevitably outgrow their first one, the next one is $4,000.) Compare this to more traditional prosthetic arm, which cost at least $10,000 for something functional, all the way up to $100,000 for the kind of device controlled by muscle movements that Unlimited Tomorrow is producing. Consider, also, that a child will require a new prosthesis roughly every 12 to 14 months until adulthood, and that even after that, prostheses need to be replaced about every three years.
"Our passion is around helping children because they are an underserved demographic," LaChappelle says.
For Aashna, LaChappelle's invention was a far cry from the one she'd tried at age 3 or 4 — one so uncomfortable ("like dead weight," she said) she had rejected both it and the idea of ever having a prosthetic limb.
"It just looked like an arm, honestly," she says of the one that arrived from Unlimited Tomorrow. She added: "I think I was just really happy that it felt comfortable and it was moving when I wanted it to."
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Ret. Judge Paul K. Leary to Receive First NBTA Lifetime Achievement Award
July 20, 2017 - POSTED BY NBTA POSTED IN UNCATEGORIZED
The National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) is proud to announce that it will honor Retired Judge Paul K. Leary with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
Leary, who retired in 2009 as associate justice of the Boston Municipal Court in Massachusetts, served as president of NBTA (formerly known as the National Board of Legal Specialty Certification) from 2005-07. Leary remains a member of the organization's board of directors.
He will be honored at the organization's Board of Directors Dinner on Friday, July 21 in Boston.
"When we made the decision to bestow this award on an individual who had contributed to the success of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, there was no other choice," says NBTA President Jack McGehee, of McGehee, Chang, Barnes & Landgraf in Houston, Texas. "Paul Leary's involvement in our organization makes it better, hands down. His dedication and contributions – both as a past president and currently on our board – made this an easy decision. We are proud to honor Judge Leary with our first Lifetime Achievement Award."
"It has been a privilege for me to serve as a director on the National Board of Trial Advocacy for over 35 years," says Leary. "I have worked with some of the most brilliant lawyers from around the country. In 1977, the mission statement of our founder, attorney Ted Koskoff, was 'to inform and educate the public concerning legal representation by Board Certified Specialists.' This organization has and will continue to pursue that mission and I feel honored to have been a part of the process. For me, it has been a rewarding experience."
A graduate of Suffolk University Law School, Leary has devoted the past 40+ years to fighting for justice. From 1956-1969, he worked as an employee of the Boston Municipal Court, becoming an assistant clerk magistrate in 1964. He served as first assistant clerk magistrate for the Suffolk County Superior Court for criminal business from 1969-1979. Since that time until his retirement, Leary worked in the Boston Municipal Court system. Additionally, he has served as an adjunct faculty member in Suffolk Law School since 1975 and a lecturer at New England School of Law since 1986. Leary also served as vice president and as a member of the executive committee of the National District Attorneys Association


The lectures are organized in two main blocks. The first block introduces one operating system, xv6 (x86 version 6), which is a re-implementation of Unix version 6, which was developed in the 1970s. In each lecture we will take one part of xv6 and study its source code; home work assignments will help you prepare for these lectures. At the end of the first block (about half-way the term), you will understand the source code for one well-designed operating system for an Intel-based PC, which help you building your own operating system.
The second block of lectures covers important operating systems concepts invented after Unix v6. We will study the more modern concepts by reading research papers and discussing them in lecture. You will also implement some of these newer concepts in your operating system.
xv6 is our re-implementation of v6 for an Intel x86-based multiprocessor. The reason we are studying xv6 instead of the original v6 code is that learning v6 requires understanding an arcane C and an out-of-date computer (PDP-11); xv6 follows the structure of v6, but is implemented for a modern x86-based multiprocessor.
We will provide skeleton code for pieces of JOS, but most you will have to do all the hard work.
The first 5 assignments are done individually. The last assignment is a team assignment. The first set of assignments have design freedom in the details; the last assignments have a lot of design freedom. You will never be able to pattern match from xv6; you internalize the concepts by building similar functions in a radical different way.
You will develop your JOS operating system for a standard x86-based personal computer, the same one used for xv6. To simplify development we will use a complete machine simulator (Bochs) in the class for development and debugging. This simulator is real enough, however, that you will be able to boot your own operating system on physical hardware if you wish.
6.828 would not exist today had it not been for a wonderful set of TAs (Josh Cates, Russ Cox, Bryan Ford, and Emil Sit). They made this class a reality. Collectively we dedicate 6.828 to the memory of Josh Cates; We hope that many students will be inspired by Josh's enthusiasm for operating systems, and have named the operating system JOS. We are also grateful to the students and teaching staff at MIT, UCLA, and NYU for the many contributions.


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Phosphoproteomic analysis identifies Grb10 as an mTORC1 substrate that negatively regulates insulin signaling
Yonghao Yu, Sang Oh Yoon, George Poulogiannis, Qian Yang, Xiaoju Max Ma, Judit Villén, Neil Kubica, Gregory R. Hoffman, Lewis C. Cantley, Steven P. Gygi, John Blenis
The evolutionarily conserved serine-threonine kinase mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) plays a critical role in regulating many pathophysiological processes. Functional characterization of the mTOR signaling pathways, however, has been hampered by the paucity of known substrates. We used large-scale quantitative phosphoproteomics experiments to define the signaling networks downstream of mTORC1 and mTORC2. Characterization of one mTORC1 substrate, the growth factor receptor-bound protein 10 (Grb10), showed that mTORC1-mediated phosphorylation stabilized Grb10, leading to feedback inhibition of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) and extracellular signal-regulated, mitogen-activated protein kinase (ERK-MAPK) pathways. Grb10 expression is frequently down-regulated in various cancers, and loss of Grb10 and loss of the well-established tumor suppressor phosphatase PTEN appear to be mutually exclusive events, suggesting that Grb10 might be a tumor suppressor regulated by mTORC1.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1199484
10.1126/science.1199484
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GRB10 Adaptor Protein Medicine & Life Sciences
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TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases Medicine & Life Sciences
PTEN Phosphohydrolase Medicine & Life Sciences
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Yu, Y., Yoon, S. O., Poulogiannis, G., Yang, Q., Ma, X. M., Villén, J., Kubica, N., Hoffman, G. R., Cantley, L. C., Gygi, S. P., & Blenis, J. (2011). Phosphoproteomic analysis identifies Grb10 as an mTORC1 substrate that negatively regulates insulin signaling. Science, 332(6035), 1322-1326. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1199484
Phosphoproteomic analysis identifies Grb10 as an mTORC1 substrate that negatively regulates insulin signaling. / Yu, Yonghao; Yoon, Sang Oh; Poulogiannis, George; Yang, Qian; Ma, Xiaoju Max; Villén, Judit; Kubica, Neil; Hoffman, Gregory R.; Cantley, Lewis C.; Gygi, Steven P.; Blenis, John.
In: Science, Vol. 332, No. 6035, 10.06.2011, p. 1322-1326.
Yu, Y, Yoon, SO, Poulogiannis, G, Yang, Q, Ma, XM, Villén, J, Kubica, N, Hoffman, GR, Cantley, LC, Gygi, SP & Blenis, J 2011, 'Phosphoproteomic analysis identifies Grb10 as an mTORC1 substrate that negatively regulates insulin signaling', Science, vol. 332, no. 6035, pp. 1322-1326. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1199484
Yu Y, Yoon SO, Poulogiannis G, Yang Q, Ma XM, Villén J et al. Phosphoproteomic analysis identifies Grb10 as an mTORC1 substrate that negatively regulates insulin signaling. Science. 2011 Jun 10;332(6035):1322-1326. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1199484
Yu, Yonghao ; Yoon, Sang Oh ; Poulogiannis, George ; Yang, Qian ; Ma, Xiaoju Max ; Villén, Judit ; Kubica, Neil ; Hoffman, Gregory R. ; Cantley, Lewis C. ; Gygi, Steven P. ; Blenis, John. / Phosphoproteomic analysis identifies Grb10 as an mTORC1 substrate that negatively regulates insulin signaling. In: Science. 2011 ; Vol. 332, No. 6035. pp. 1322-1326.
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After the taser failed, things went from bad to worse REALLY quickly.
Two police responded to a call involving an assault on a bus driver. That is the context in which this altercation began.
Police intervened, and Jontell Reedom turned his hostilities against the police.
He was swinging at them. He was tased. He managed to wrestle a baton away from one of them. Police then fired upon the assailant, numerous times, mortally wounding him.
There were complicating factors that made this story reach national headlines.
First, he was a 'known' person. He had once been a local football star, but had since become homeless, and was said to have issues with mental illness.
Second, any time a black man is killed in an altercation with police, people pay special attention often jumping to conclusions of racism. And sometimes even when the officer involved was of an ethnicity other than white, it does nothing to change this perception.
In one way or another, he is known to the local LGBT chapter, and they are rallying to his cause over social media.
It's an ugly situation any time an officer has to shoot a civilian. We hope the facts involved will be reviewed, and that when the investigation is complete, the cops involved will be either vindicated or face appropriate consequences in line with the findings.
Speaking of the cops, both of the officers in the video were injured in the altercation, and they are both on administrative leave while the investigation sorts out the facts of the case.
Sometimes, there really is no upside to report in a story. This is one such instance.
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Technology / method development
Many bacterial species produce secondary metabolites that are not essential for their growth but provide advantages in environmental adaptation, e.g. by serving as signalling molecules that mediate interspecies interactions. Most of the studied bacterial secondary metabolites have biological activity and some have been developed into drugs, such as antibiotics and anticancer agents. Advances in bacterial genomics, metagenomics, and analyses of the secondary metabolite biosynthesis pathways revealed huge potential of certain species to produce compounds that could never be revealed in the laboratory-based cultivation of single isolates. Genes for the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites are organized in clusters, most of which are "silent" under laboratory conditions, and environmental signals triggering their expression remain largely unknown.
Recent studies demonstrate that co-cultivation of bacteria stimulates production of novel secondary metabolites never before detected in the monocultures. Furthermore, members of bacterial phyla abundant in the environment such as Acidobacteriota and Verrucomicrobia but underrepresented by isolated strains harbour many novel biosynthetic gene clusters for secondary metabolites. In MetaBac, we will harness the microbiota of selected eukaryotic hosts (such as a fresh-water bryozoan) and environments as source for the production of novel secondary metabolites.
analyze metagenomes, metatranscriptomes and metabolomes of selected host-associated and environmental microbiomes;
establish monocultures and defined, simplified microbial communities (synthetic microbiomes) from host-associated and environmental microbiomes
study the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites by defined communities and co-cultures
identify and characterize produced secondary metabolites.
This project aims to create defined, fully tractable microbial communities that produce novel secondary metabolites. The newly developed and systematic approach will be fully transferable to other host-associated and environmental microbiomes, providing a novel microbiome prospecting tool for drug discovery and enabling further investigations into the biological roles of secondary metabolites.
The MetaBac Research Platform is a joint initiative of members of the Faculty of Life Sciences, the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science and the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Vienna. The platform has been established for four years by the Rectorate of the University of Vienna and was launched in May 2020.
This project is funded by the University of Vienna.
Website of the MetaBac Research Platform
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The Center Theater of Harmony
Posted byAbandoned NC July 10, 2021 June 24, 2022 Posted inAbandoned, History, MoviesTags:abandoned, abandoned theater, Harmony NC, history, iredell county, iredell county nc, movie theater, north carolina, north carolina history, rural exploration, urban exploration
Statesville R&L June 19th, 1947
Harmony, NC is and always has been a small town. At a little over 500 people today, for most, it's a stop sign and some buildings where highways NC-21 and NC-901 meet and a pause on the way somewhere else.
Like a lot of small, rural towns, there have been hints of what might come, what might be possible, and future possibilities that flickered for a while, but ultimately burned out.
Today's story concerns a seeming impossibility. How in the world a tiny rural town became the site of a modern movie theater.
Harmony sits in the northeastern part of Iredell county on the inside of a triangle formed by Union Grove to the northwest, Statesville to the south and Mocksville to the southeast. It's history is one of Christian camp meetings, and it was these meetings that gave the town it's name. It's a history that carried on even into the recent past, as there were still occasional "Christian Harmony" singings, in which shape note music was used. The town was eventually incorporated in 1927.
Just after WWII, when the town population was barely above 300 souls, a man named William Lewis Hager had an idea.
Hager, along with Zeb Vance Williams had previously opened a furniture business called the Iredell Furniture Store in Harmony in September of 1940.
Whether a money making scheme, or because his family had a genuine interest in the business, in 1947, Hager set out to build a movie theater in the sleepy little farming community.
The projection booth and the new Sunlite machines. Unknown projectionist. Possibly Hager himself?
(Iredell County Library)
Work would begin towards the end of '47, and by August of 1948, the theater was open for business. The building was a modern brick structure with metal roof beams, air conditioning and heating, a balcony area for "negro" patrons, pine panel on all the walls, and a very bright, very beautiful neon marquee that must have lit up the entire crossroads at night. When completed, the theater could apparently hold over 400 people. A number greater than the entire town's population.
The two projectors for the theater were new Sunlite models and those and the equipment necessary for their operation was purchased from Devry Theater Equipment Company of Charlotte.
It seems much of the operation of the theater was handled by Hager's wife Claudia Hager, who was the actual owner of the theater and co-owner of the building property. In truth, the theater could have been Claudia's passion project, but I have no way to be sure. The theater seems to be something the family had a penchant for, and looking for information in newspaper archives about them, we even find that Hager's son was something of a Thespian himself while in college.
A photo of the neon sign when lit.
You'll notice the pine wood doors and façade at the entrance. This is the same material that would have covered the walls.
Iredell County Library
The first movie to play at the Center Theater was "Are You With It?" a movie adapted from a Broadway musical starring Donald O'Connor. It was likely a sold out showing, as people from all the other rural communities such as Turnersburg, Williamsburg, Jennings, Olin, Eagle Mills, Union Grove, and Houstonville travelled the highways to Harmony to forget about the labors of farm work and be entertained for an evening. From the start, Center was playing two shows a night with a weekend matinee and late show as well.
"Building up" prints on the prints table. Movies came in several reels and had to be spliced together before being played, then broken back down when shipped out.
The theater was always an outlier. Even though it played the latest movies, including first runs that screens in Statesville didn't get. It was independent of those other theaters and theater systems in the area. Most notably, it had no ties to A. F. Sam's Statesville Theater Corporation, which had at least three theaters of it's own in Statesville at the time and several others in such far flung locations as Sparta, NC.
The Center seemed to do well for a time, with various ads for the biggest movies appearing in the Statesville newspapers. The theater was certainly a welcome source of entertainment for the whole area, not just the town of Harmony.
Then, on the afternoon of July 6th, 1954 less than six years after opening, it all came to a tragic end.
That morning, Mrs. Hager had started the job of laying some new tile at front of the building. Sometime during her labors later that day she had smelled smoke and rushed into the theater only to find a wall of smoke so massive she couldn't even determine the source of the flames.
The Harmony VFD was right across the street, where the alarm was sounded at 4:40PM, so it wasn't very long before they were on scene. Other fire departments in the area also received the call, and even Statesville, about 16 miles south, sent trucks to the scene. Trucks from Turnersburg and Troutman also showed up and assisted later on that day. Mooresville also sent a truck all the way from the south end of the county, but it arrived too late to help.
Unfortunately, Harmony had no town water system at the time, and after the Harmony engine depleted it's reserves of water it had to make trips to ponds, the high school, and even the Henkel Mill in Turnersburg to get water. Harmony Fire Chief Charlie Jenkins believed this was the ultimately the reason the theater was not able to be saved. Jenkins claimed the fire was nearly under control before his truck ran out of water and had to leave to get more.
The fire had started in the main theater space when a hot floodlamp had made contact with heavy velvet curtains. The massive fire must have quickly spread to the flammable pine wall panels and then the rest of the building. It gutted the theater, leaving nothing but the outer brickwork and some steel beams of the roof. The building was partially insured, and the Hagers received some payment for the loss, but it was either not enough to rebuild or the couple simply didn't have the heart to try it again.
And that's the end of Center Theater.
But it's not the end of the building.
At some point after the fire and before the 1970's, the building was repaired, and a brick addition was made to the front. I do not know who was responsible for this or when it took place.
However, ads begin appearing in the early 1970's for A&H Factory Outlet, a carpet seller who took over the building. It's unknown how long that business lasted, but it likely wasn't very long. Ads continue into the mid 1970's, but not afterwards. The property was finally sold by them to a private owner according to the deed.
After that, nothing of consequence happens with the property. There may have been a couple small business ventures that tried to make use of the property and failed.
Eventually, it just became storage space.
Which brings us to today. July 10th, 2021. 67 years ago this week, the theater burned. But the building still stands.
The attached NAPA auto parts store is still in business, but the spaces to the left, which have been various things including a cafe, are not.
The A&H banner still adorns the top of the building.
If you look closely at the upper right window you can see sky where the roof has collapsed. I'm not sure the date this brick outcropping was added, but I have a picture of what it looked like after it was built below.
Unknown year, but this would have been after the fire. The old theater building is seen at left above the fuel truck with a number of cars, suggesting it might have been in use for something, if nothing more than a parking lot. At the time this photo was taken there were numerous windows in the addition, which you can see the ghost of in the picture above. The white building to the right is the Harmony fire department.
This area is much the same today, and the garage at left is still in operation, though the VFD has moved down the road and the area where the cars are parked next to the theater is now filled by the NAPA and a small drug store.
This is on NC-901 looking northbound. The road that crosses right to left is highway NC-21.
Another portion of a picture from the series above showing the front more clearly, with boarded up doors.
The back of the building.
Notice the sloped roof. the front of the building is the back of the theater and the rows of seating were sloped downward to the screen, which would have been on the back wall.
The inside is trashed, the roof has fallen in, the floor is unsafe and there is a large amount of water in the middle of the floor, which means a large amount of mosquitos are present.
However, the general outline of the theater is still visible. The balcony for "negroes" is still in place, and in the top left, you can just see the projection booth with it's two projector ports.
Cleary someone was using it for storage, as evidenced by at least two Volkswagen Beetle carcasses.
The back wall where the screen would have been, and where the fire would have started. The line along the bottom may have either been the original height of the stage or else part of a construction done during the carpet outlet years to level up the floor.
Who can say what might have been if the theater lived on. The economy and the changes in how we purchase and view media haven't been kind to independent small town theaters, but it might have carried on for a number of years.
What it leaves instead is only the faintest memory of a brief and different time, when neon lights and Hollywood pictures lit up a little town in Iredell county.
We'll never know what it might have been like, but we can watch the same movie they did opening day, and pretend.
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Inside the opening five minutes Ely had crossed the white line to put some early points on the board, moving the ball across the pitch the ball fell to Matt McCarthy who fed the ball out to the wing for James Buckland to cross for the opening try, with captain Joel Scott-Paul adding the extra points, the lead increased just moments later, again it was McCarthy who provided the chance, releasing Luke Turner to cross the line, up stepped Scott-Paul to add the further points, from the restart Tigers were once again go into attack mode, with Jacob Muncey going over, the extra points were added from the boot of Scott-Paul, quick thinking feet by Jake Alsop provide Ely with another chance, he podded the ball into a gap, with Turner bearing down on the ball, the bounce was unkind and bounced away from the winger into Woodbridge hands, Alsop was once again involved in the next play, as he raced towards the line he was on the end of a high tackle, which the referee awarded a penalty try.
With thirty minutes on the clock the home side finally gather some ground in the Tigers half, with the defence standing firm, the ball was going from left to right and back, until finally some space was found in the corner, but a last ditch tackle from Scott-Paul saw the ball out to touch, from the resulting line-out, handed the ball back to the home side, again the ball went from side to side, until finally they cross the line to record their first points off the afternoon, along with the conversion, back came Tigers on the attack, with Scott-Paul adding a try to his points tally as he crossed the line near the corner, Scott-Paul added the extra points with the aid of the posts, as the half came to a close, there was still time to add more points, Alsop once more nudged the ball thru a gap, this time the bounce fell kindly for Tigers, which enabled McCarthy to race under the points, for Scott-Pauls easiest kick of the afternoon.
With the half time break came a pep-talk for the home side, which looked to have done the trick, as they started the half very much like Ely had started the first, camped in their half, and they sound added their second try of the afternoon, this time under the points, back came Ely, a break from McCarthy allowed Mitchell Kennett to cross the line, this time Scott-Paul was unable to add the extra points as his kick kept low, the rest of the half saw the home side add the points to the score board, Muncey had the ideal chance to see the Tigers clock up 50 points, but as the crossed the white line he dropped the ball and unable to recover the chance, as the clock reached full time, Ely Tigers had kept the pressure on Wymondham with a 47-24 win.


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The Best Texas Monthly Longform of 2019
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Catch Up on the Best Texas Monthly Longform from 2017
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It's been a busy and exciting year here at Texas Monthly, and that's meant no shortage of incredible longform. We've put together some of our favorite and most-read stories of the year below, listed in no particular order. Whether it's Skip Hollandsworth on the beautiful and tragic friendship of two girls at Santa Fe high school; Michael Mooney on Fox News fixture Robert Jeffress; Mimi Swartz's meditation on love and the lessons in caring for her late father's dog; Leif Reigstad on the twisted world of Joe Exotic, the "tiger king"; Eric Benson on the man behind the Buc-ee's empire, or any of the others below, there's something here to make you laugh or cry or just want to nestle a little deeper into the cushions.
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Q: How do you read the bundle identifier of an application from within a sandboxed application? I'm attempting to add functionality to an application that is similar in function to the "Open With..." menu in the Finder. In the application I'm working on, a user can select a file and chose to open it with a specific application, rather than with the default one.
The problem I'm experiencing is that there appears to be a mis-match in the APIs I think I should be using in order for this to work properly. Specifically, the recommended NSWorkspace API for opening files with a specific application takes a bundle identifier to specifying the application:
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However, the Launch Services API for getting a list of applications that can open a given file returns an array of URLs, each pointing to a compatible application:
CFArrayRef LSCopyApplicationURLsForURL(CFURLRef inURL, LSRolesMask inRoleMask);
Currently, I'm iterating over the array that launch services returns and extracting the bundle identifier by creating a new NSBundle each time:
for (NSURL *applicationURL in applicationURLs) {
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The problem I'm experiencing is that if the applicationURL points to an application that is not under /Applications (or any other directory my sandboxed application has read access to), then I cannot create an NSBundle to read the  bundle identifier. Instead, Gate Keeper will output a sandbox violation to Console.app and NSBundle bundleWithURL will return nil.
Is there a way I've overlooked to get the bundle identifier from a URL that I've overlooked? Or is there a different way to read the bundle identifier from an arbitrary file without causing a sandbox violation? Or maybe there's a different way to get a list of all applications that can open a specific URL?
(Note that the Launch Services method to open multiple URLs, LSOpenURLsWithRole has been deprecated. The header file simply says "Use NSWorkspace".)

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Sid Mullis: Looks like a bad year for fire blight
Sid Mullis
One of the problems in the landscape I have been seeing and hearing about the most in the past two or three weeks is a disease called fire blight on flowering and fruiting pear trees. At first, I didn't think it was going to be that bad this year, but it has turned out to be worse.
Fire blight is one of the most devastating and difficult-to-control diseases. Folks that grow apple trees have seen this disease before. It can also affect crabapple, pyracantha, hawthorn, quince, loquat, spirea, red tip photinia (what's left of them), and cotoneaster. As a matter of fact, it basically affects any plant in the Rosaceae family. Similar stem dieback (that is mistakenly identified as caused by fire blight) occurs on other plants.
The first symptom of fire blight occurs in early spring when temperatures are above60 degrees F and the weather is rainy or humid. Infected flowers turn black and die. The disease moves down the branch, resulting in death of young twigs. Twig tips appear as if they were scorched by fire or damaged by frost and may be randomly distributed throughout the tree. Twigs become black as the disease progresses downward toward larger stems and affected leaves tend to cling to the branches. Twig tips normally develop a "shepherd's crook" which is very useful in disease diagnosis. Stem lesions develop a sunken appearance with small cracks at the margins.
Primary infection begins in the spring on blossoms or shoots, providing a future source of bacteria in "holdover cankers" on infected plants. During the wet weather, bacteria ooze from these cankers and attract insects that spread the bacteria to other susceptible plants or plant parts. The bacteria are commonly carried to the blossoms, fruit, shoots, and leaves by flying or crawling insects, including honey bees. Overhead watering can also be an important method of spread for smaller plants. Secondary spread of the bacterium may occur by insects, birds, and people using contaminated pruning tools.
At this point, for flowering pears or any other plant with the disease, the only thing to do is prune the diseased portion from the tree. Once the bacteria are in the tree, no chemicals can remove and eliminate them. Infected plant growth can cause secondary spread this year and over wintering of the disease for next year.
Prune as soon as possible, cutting 4-6 inches below the symptoms and burn or throw away the cuttings. While pruning, it would also be advisable to disinfect your pruning tools after each cut in rubbing alcohol or use a 10 percent Clorox solution. I realize pruning is not practical for most homeowners who have fairly large flowering pear trees. You would have to hire someone to do it for you.
I usually don't recommend preventative treatment for ornamentals such as pyracantha, hawthorn, quince, photinia, and cotoneaster in the home landscape for fire blight because the severity varies from year to year because of the weather. Next year any susceptible plant can be treated with streptomycin or copper hydroxide every five days during the bloom period to prevent infection. But again, just like pruning, this is not practical to do yourself if you have large trees. Just remember that any treatment after bloom does not give good results and is not cost effective.
Many folks may think they have a 'Bradford" callery pear but are mistaken. Flowering pears include cultivars of Pyrus calleryana. Often they do have a callery flowering pear but not a true 'Bradford'. The varieties 'Bradford,' 'Stonehill,' 'Chanticleer' are resistant. 'Aristocrat,' 'Capitol,' 'Redspire' and 'Autumn Blaze' are susceptible. 'Aristocrat' and 'Capitol' have become popular selections because of better branch angles and form than 'Bradford.' But remember that with Bradford pears, resistant doesn't necessarily mean immunity.
REACH SID MULLIS, THE DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA EXTENSION SERVICE OFFICE FOR RICHMOND COUNTY, AT (706) 821-2349 OR SMULLIS@UGA.EDU.


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Saginaw Valley
Ashland (8-10-3) 2 1 0 3
Saginaw Valley (10-2-6) 3 0 1 4
1st - 7:12 - Michael Hamilton (Saginaw Valley)
1st - 18:46 - Justin Libertowski (Ashland)
1st - 24:22 - Michael Hamilton (Saginaw Valley)
1st - 28:29 - Alex Gloshen (Saginaw Valley)
1st - 38:05 - Kieran Paterson (Ashland)
2nd - 82:25 - Justin Libertowski (Ashland)
3rd - 90:38 - Alex Gloshen (Saginaw Valley)
G: Justin Libertowski - 2
A: George Brown - 2
Sh: Kieran Paterson - 7
Sv: Dimitrios Karousos - 3
G: 2 Players (#3, #7) - 2
A: 4 Players (#3, #7, #8, #23) - 1
Sh: 2 Players (#3, #7) - 4
Sv: Lukas Betz - 4
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The Ashland University men's soccer team saw its season come to an end in heartbreaking fashion on Thursday (Nov. 8) night as Saginaw Valley scored 38 seconds into overtime to escape with a 4-3 win in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Strassweg Field.
The Eagles (8-10-3), who entered the tournament as the No. 6 seed in the Midwest Region, came back from 1-0 and 3-1 leads to force overtime only to have the No. 3-seed Cardinals (10-2-6) nab the winner.
"First, congratulations to Saginaw on the result and advancing," said third-year head coach Oliver Slawson. "We wish them good luck and hope they make a deep run at it representing the GLIAC."
Ashland, which ran through the GLIAC Tournament to earn the league's automatic bid, fell behind in the eighth minute on a goal by Michael Hamilton.
The Eagles have shown a penchant for coming back in games they fall behind early, especially late this season, once again displayed that prowess again.
Just 10 minutes later, sophomore George Brown sent in a diagonal cross that sophomore Yusuke Yasumasu headed down at the end line for sophomore Justin Libertowski, who coolly knocked in the equalizer.
The Cardinals went ahead again in the 25th minute on Hamilton's second goal before Alex Gloshen added SVSU's third goal in the 29th to give the Cardinals a 3-1 lead.
Ashland again countered with a response. Junior Andrew Pearson held a ball up and played it wide for Brown, who one-touched a cross to the back post where redshirt-freshman Kieran Paterson powered a header past Lukas Betz to cut the deficit in half. Paterson finished the season with six goals, including four in his last six games.
The Eagles went into halftime trailing by a 3-2 margin and the Cardinals holding a 10-6 advantage in shots.
In the second half, the Eagles were the dominant team, holding possession and getting the better of the chances. As the half wore on, Ashland continued to apply pressure as SVSU sank further into a defensive shell to see the game out.
AU capitalized in the 83rd minute after the Cardinals cleared a ball after a corner kick to sophomore keeper Dimitrios Karousos. He blasted the ball 60 yards upfield where Libertowski got on the end of it, touched the ball around the keeper and tapped it in for the equalizer and his GLIAC-leading 13th goal of the season. Karousos was credited with his first assist.
The Eagles had a few chances to get the winner in regulation, but the Cardinals hung on for the 3-3 tie after 90 minutes.
"We didn't lose anything tonight, we just ran out of time," Slawson said. "In the second half we were everything we needed to be. The result hurts because the guys care and for 45 minutes I think you really saw that. We had the league winners and nationally-ranked side completely on the ropes in the second half."
In the opening minute of the overtime period, Gloshen pounced on a ball in the box that took a couple deflections and knocked it into an open net, sending Saginaw Valley to the win.
The Eagles have undertaken quite a journey in three seasons. The program was shut down for three years following the 2012 season and was re-started in December 2015 with competition beginning just eight months later.
"Saginaw have had more consecutive NCAA tournament appearances than we've had an actual program," Slawson said. "I think that tells you all you need to know about what we have accomplished this season, specifically the second half of the year."
Ashland was 6-1-2 in its last eight games against GLIAC teams, including the regular season and postseason, after starting 2-8-1.
The Eagles now have a GLIAC Tournament title and their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2010 under their belt. Ashland will graduate no seniors from this year's squad as the future continues to look bright.
"That's the scary thing. We didn't have one senior on the field," said Slawson. "We are also nowhere near what we can be as a program. I hope we can be in a position where today, playing at this stage of the season, is the norm as things that are needed become available; to sustain, evolve and develop what has been created as Ashland soccer in these foundational years. I am proud of the players and everyone involved in the program with what we did this season. We can and will use tonight to fuel what we can become as a program."
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Thu, 11/08 | Men's Soccer at Saginaw Valley L, 4-3 (Final - OT) RC | BX
Sun, 11/04 | Men's Soccer vs. Northwood W, 3-0 (Final) RC | BX | PH
Fri, 11/02 | Men's Soccer vs. Parkside W, 3-2 (Final - OT) RC | BX | V
Tue, 10/30 | Men's Soccer at Purdue Northwest W, 1-0 (Final) RC | BX | V
Fri, 10/26 | Men's Soccer vs. Saginaw Valley T, 2-2 (Final - 2OT) RC | BX | PH | A | V


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When Quality Matters - How Shot Peening Can Make A Difference - Clemco Industries Corp.
Every day, there seem to be more and more 'knock off' products that look similar on the outside but are cheaper in price than the original. In our business, quality is sometimes a tough sell. Objections range from "I want to spend as little as possible up front" to "I don't understand why I need to spend more". That's when the discussion turns to value. Deciding what to buy should always include a product life cycle cost analysis that looks deeper into the value proposition and the initial product price. Important considerations include labor costs associated with production , and the time and money the customer must spend to get the job done. It boils down to learning how to recognize the benefits of using an efficient, quality product. But quality goes beyond what's apparent on the outside; it's reflected in design, engineering, and even tech support—the whole product package. When customers think about the products they make, we expect they do just that.
Fortunately, within the shot peening community, the trend is one of increasing concern with quality. We hear that customers seek great design and engineering, tech support, and an equipment system that consistently gets their job done right as quickly and efficiently as possible. They appreciate good advice and experience-based knowledge. We've noticed that customers are taking a much more serious look at the companies they do business with because they seek expertise, reliability, and trustworthy partners. The reasons more and more customers are taking such a hard look are numerous, but very high on the list is safety and liability. Is it worth the risk of producing a product that may jeopardize safety or the company's reputation?
When it comes to shot peening, expertise is critical. The process of shot peening is exacting. It is used on metal parts that are subjected to frequent cycle stress, stress reversal, twisting, and torsional stresses. To prolong life and avoid early failure caused by a fracture that begins at the surface, controlled shot peening is applied. The shot peening process alters the metal surface through repeated striking with a high-velocity stream of spherical particles. These particles are peening media, most often steel shot, ceramics or glass beads. The media produce round indentations on the surface, causing a stretching of the surface and a rising of the edges of the indentations above the original surface. Complete peening produces a compressive stress layer, the depth of which will vary from application to application. Beneath this depth, a tensile stress layer develops and achieves equilibrium and provides for longer fatigue life of the shot-peened part.
How does shot peening improve quality?
Shot peening increases fatigue life.
It does so in parts subjected to dynamic loading, which is a repetitive, cyclical loading that causes bending and twisting. Parts like fuel injector components, aircraft landing gear, helicopter blades, leaf and coil springs, gear teeth, drive shafts, torsion bars, axles, rotor, compressor, and turbine blades, and many others see better fatigue life after shot peening.
Shot peening reduces stress corrosion cracking.
Residual stress leaves metals more susceptible to corrosion, particularly in high-strength materials, from a complex interaction of corrosives on sustained tensile stress in the metal surface. Components such as landing gear and hydraulic tubing benefit from shot peening.
Shot peening prepares parts for plating.
Plating often develops fine cracks and preparing a surface with shot peening prior to plating can prevent the cracks in the plating from affecting the substrate in items such as landing gear cylinders, among others.
Shot peening straightens parts deformed during manufacturing.
Selective peening can to a certain degree straighten critical areas. Some applications include bulkheads, large machined structural shapes, and deformed heat-treated parts.
Shot peening reduces tensile stresses after grinding.
The process can convert residual stresses from tensile stress to compressive stress, producing a uniform compressive layer, which increases fatigue life and lengthens the service life of high-strength steel parts.
Shot peening reveals poor bonding in electroplated parts.
When incorporated into a rigorous quality-control program, shot peening can be used to detect adhesion problems and expose imperfections.
Shot peening reduces casting porosity.
Castings are often porous, and shot peening with the right media size can close the pores, compress the surface, and reduce hydraulic leakage in die-cast parts, transmission housings, and gear boxes.
Shot peening can alter part dimensions.
Useful either when first designing and manufacturing a product or when rebuilding one, shot peening can increase or reduce part size. Shot peening can be used to increase the diameter of a shaft or decrease the diameter of a hole.
Shot peening improves lubricity and oil retention.
Because of its effect on the surface, shot peening reduces friction and can improve oil retention, thereby also improving lubricity in parts such as engine pistons and cylinder walls.
Shot peening reduces notch sensitivity in high-strength steel.
High-strength steel is susceptible to fatigue cracking, also called notching. The stronger the steel, the more likely it is to crack. With shot peening, the steel surface is improved, giving it a longer life cycle. Shot peening is often used to treat steel with a strength rating of more than 200,000 psi. It is commonly used on landing gear and springs.
Safety- and quality –conscious manufacturers understand the benefits of shot peening and carefully follow specifications. They accurately document the process to ensure consistency and repeatability. Proper controls over peening intensity, arc height, and coverage produce consistent results. And sophisticated equipment for monitoring, measuring, and documenting such variables enhance the value of shot peening.
Bottom line: shot peening is complex. Learning everything you can about it, so that you can properly apply it to your particular application, takes time and dedication. Take it from someone who has spent years learning, just follow a few simple steps— make sure your shot peening system is of high quality and engineered to incorporate the features dictated by your application, consult with an experienced practitioner, like me, and attend the EI Shot Peening Workshop.


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"No plans" for live BTCC to air on ITV's main channel in 2019
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Live coverage of the British Touring Car Championship is set to remain on ITV4 in 2019, with no plans currently for live programming to move to ITV's main channel, according to the man who heads up the series.
All the action currently airs live on ITV4, as it has done since 2007, with up to eight hours of programming on race day hosted by Steve Rider. A cut down 90-minute highlights show airs in a mid-week time slot late at night on ITV's main channel.
With a gap in the market as a result of live Formula 1 predominately airing on pay television from 2019, it raises the question of whether the domestic touring car series can capitalise in any way on the television front.
Speaking exclusively to this site ahead of this weekend's season finale at Brands Hatch, series director Alan Gow says that he is happy with the current television situation. "We have such a great relationship with ITV, and I'm very proud of that relationship."
"We take a lot of air time on ITV4, and you can't take seven or eight hours out of ITV," Gow continued. "We want to make ITV4 the destination for touring car fans. ITV shows our highlights programme, and that gets good numbers. Of course, if ITV said to me 'we'd like to do this,' I wouldn't say no, but there's absolutely no plans at all to do it."
The championship has a deal with ITV taking the series through to 2022, which offers all involved long-term security. "At the time they'd signed it, they had never signed a five-year sports deal, so it was a really ground-breaking thing for them," Gow tells me. "They had faith in us, and were confident in dealing with us."
"We never relax, but importantly it means the teams know what the championship looks like for the next five years. They have the comfort of knowing what the broadcast arrangements are so they can build their teams and build their business, and that's really important."
On the racing front, organisers may extend the third and final race at some meetings next year, following in the footsteps of Snetterton this season. "We have a meeting with the teams in October and that's when we will discuss potential options. It's certainly on the cards," says Gow.
Keep an eye on this site in the next few days for further analysis on what lies in store for British Touring Cars next season.
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alan skelly (@breezyskells) says:
no issues there