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SOCIO-CULTURAL DETERMINANTS OF SUCCESSFUL AGEING AMONG OLDER ADULTS
The ageing process that takes place in older adulthood can either be usual or successful. Determinants of success in ageing are perceived from both objective and subjective perspectives. The objective of this research was to study the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The design for the study was a cross-sectional survey with a sample size of 1105 drawn from a target population of 121, 651. The sampling methods involved multistage cluster sampling, stratification, systematic and availability sampling techniques while questionnaire and focus group discussions were the major instruments for data collection. Data collected were presented in tables and figures while univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyses were employed in the analysis. The hypotheses were tested using Chi-square, whereas logistic regression models were employed in predicting the influence of some variables on successful ageing. The results show that socio-cultural factors that determine successful ageing in Ebonyi include health, being physically active, having close personal relations, being socially active, financial security, meeting rites of passage, and having and seeing children progress. In conclusion, it is recommended that free medical service, financial assistance, indigenized old people's homes, housing programmes, and specialized transportation services, and advocacy, be given the older adults in order to assist them in age successfully.
Title Page i
Approval ii
Certification iii
Dedication iv
Acknowledgements v
Abstract ix
Table of Contents x
List of Tables xii
List of Figures xiv
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1
1 Background to the Study 1
2 Statement of the Problem 4
3 Research Questions 7
4 Objectives of the Study 8
5 Significance of the Study 8
6 Operationalization of Concepts 10
CHAPTER TWO 12
2.1 Review of Theoretical Literature 12
2.1.1 The Concept of Ageing 12
2.1.2 Concept of Successful Ageing 16
2.2 Review of Empirical Literature 20
2.2.2 Factors that Influence Successful Ageing 25
2.2.3 Influence of Religion on Successful Ageing 28
2.2.2 Other Socio-cultural Determinants of Successful Ageing 30
2.3 Social Work with Older Adults 47
2.4 Review of Related Theories and Model 49
2.5 Theoretical Framework 55
2.6 Study Hypotheses 60
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 61
3.1 Research Design 61
3.2 Study Area 61
1.3 Study Population 63
3.5 Sampling Procedure 64
3.6 Instruments for Data Collection 65
3.7 Method of Data Collection 67
3.8 Method of Data Analysis 68
CHAPTER FOUR: DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS 70
4.1 Introduction 70
4.2 Socio-demographic Characteristics of Respondents 71
4.3 The Concept of Successful Ageing 81
4.4 Perception of Successful Ageing 98
4.5 Life Goals 97
4.6 Rating of Importance of Factors of Successful Ageing 125
4.7 Effect of Past Lifestyle and Adjustment to Age-related Losses 142
4.8 Test of Hypotheses 152
4.9 Predictors of Influence of Some Socio-demographic Characteristics on Successful Ageing 157
4.10 Discussion 160
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 170
5.1 Summary 170
5.2 Recommendations 173
5.3 Relationship between Findings and Theoretical Framework 175
5.4 Contribution of Research to Knowledge 176
5.5 Implication of Findings to Policy 177
5.6 Implications of Findings for Social Work Practice 179
5.7 Limitations of the Study 180
5.8 Conclusion 181
5.9 Area for Further Study 182
REFERENCES 183
APPENDIX I 201
APPENDIX II 207
APPENDIX III 212
The substantial increase in life expectancy at birth achieved over the previous century combined with medical advances, escalating health and social costs, and higher expectation for older age, have led to international interest in how people age successfully. Debates continue as to what constitutes successful ageing. An appropriate answer is needed for this question as gerontologists of the new millennium are increasingly focusing on how to promote successful ageing or how older adults can retain the ability to function in their environments as they age (Rowe & Khan, 1998; United Nations (UN), 2015; Vaughan, Leng, Lamonte, Tindle, Cochrane & Schumaker, 2016). Promoting successful ageing is important as the world continues to experience enormous growth in the population over 60, the age category referred to as the aged or older adults. Although the industrialized nations of the world have higher percentages of people over 60, almost two-thirds of the world's older adults now live in the developing world (Lindsey & Beach, 2004). Even in the poorest regions of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, where life expectancy is much lower than global average, the elderly population is growing at an outstanding rate, at a faster rate than in the developed world (Kinsella & Velkott, 2001; Macionis, 2010; UN, 2015).
This ageing development is recent. About 2000 years ago, the average life expectancy of a Roman was twenty-two years. In fact for the most of human history, the average life expectancy at birth was less than twenty years, with most people failing to survive the first few years of life (Lindsey & Beach, 2004). The average baby born into the world today can expect to live to be sixty-five, although there is enormous variation depending on where the baby is born - from an 83 years average life expectancy in Japan, 81 years in France, 78 years in the United States of America, to 52 years in Nigeria, and 51 years in Angola (World Health Organization, 2015). More and more people in the industrial societies are leading longer, healthier and more productive lives than ever before. In Africa, in 2015, there were about 64.5 million Africans aged 60 years or older. In Western Africa those aged 60 years or over were about 16.1 million, while in Nigeria those aged 60 or over were about 8.2 million. These figures are much higher in the industrial world. For example, in 2015 there were 44.8 million Japanese aged 60 years or over, 28.7 million Germans aged 60 years or over, and 96.9 million Americans aged 60 years or over.
These changes are due to many factors. Modern agriculture, sanitation systems, epidemic control, and medicine have all contributed to decline in mortality throughout the world. All these factors are added to the current demographic trend of increased life span and decreased birth rate. Owing to all these, population ageing is occurring worldwide. In their publications on levels and trends in population ageing, World Population Prospects: the 2015 Revision, the United Nations Population Division (2015) notes that the number of older persons—those aged 60 years or over—has increased substantially in recent years in most countries and regions, and that growth is projected to accelerate in the coming decades: Between 2015 and 2030, the number of people in the world aged 60 years or over is projected to grow by 56 per cent, from 901 million to 1.4 billion, and by 2050, the global population of older persons is projected to more than double its size in 2015, reaching nearly 2.1 billion. Globally, the number of people aged 80 years or over, 'the old old' (oldest-old) persons, is growing even faster than the number of older persons overall. Projections indicate that in 2050 the oldest-old will number 434 million, having more than tripled in number since 2015, when there were 125 million people over age 80. Over the next 15 years, the number of older persons is expected to grow fastest in Latin America and the Caribbean with a projected 71 per cent increase in the population aged 60 years or over, followed by Asia (66 per cent), Africa (64 percent), Oceania (47 per cent), Northern America (41 per cent) and Europe (23 percent) (United Nations Population Division, 2015).
In Nigeria there has also been manifest increase in the population aged 60 and above: In 1991, the population aged 60 and above was 4,598,114. Of this number 906,675 were aged 80 and above (NPC, 1991). In 2006 the number aged 60 and above rose to 6,987,047, out of which 1,475,278 were aged 80 and above (NPC, 2006). According to Mirkin and Weinberger (2000), and Zhao (2015), there can be little doubt that changes in age distribution have complex social and economic implications at the societal and individual levels.
As the age of the elderly increases, so do their problems become more manifest (Moody, 2009; WHO, 2015). Although there is very obvious diversity among the elderly, they experience some peculiar problems all over the world. These problems are most obvious in developing countries where communities are bereft of infrastructure and social amenities. How one is able to take proactive measures against these problems determines the wellbeing of the older adults which affects their continued contribution to national progress. This wellbeing is what has attracted the catchword, 'successful ageing' into gerontological literature. However, what people perceive as successful ageing has been a subject of varied interpretations.
Knowing the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing is important to geriatrists, social gerontologists and social workers to enable them play a role in preventive activities that promote successful ageing. Rowe and Kahn (1998), Fiocco and Yaffe (2010), World Health Organization (2014, 2015) are of the opinion that gerontologists of the new millennium will increasingly focus on how to promote successful ageing, or how adults can retain the ability to function in their environment as they age. For gerontologists to be successful in this mission of helping people to age successfully, they have to appreciate the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing in the society. Rowe and Kahn (1998), basing on the findings of a study conducted by Mac-Arthur Foundation on successful ageing, concluded that three key features characterize successful ageing. The features include: avoiding disease and disability; continuing engagement with life, including both social relationships and productive activity; and maintaining mental and physical functioning. These are really important features that characterize successful ageing. However, many other categories of people have a different perception of successful ageing. For example, in a gender based study of successful ageing, women were found to see active sexual life as an important feature of successful ageing (Woloski-Wruble, Olie, Leefma & Helnikie, 2010). People from different societies see successful ageing from different perspectives. For example, a study of native elders in Bristol Bay shows that place of residence also influences perception of successful ageing. The above instances show that socio-cultural variables influence the perception of successful ageing.
It is obvious that gerontologists are increasingly focusing on how to help the elderly age successfully. For geriatrists and social gerontologists to effectively provide services and contribute to making policies that really enhance the wellbeing of older adults and enable them age successfully, it is pertinent that they appreciate the socio-cultural variables that influence what their potential and existing clients perceive as successful ageing. In this project therefore, we have set out to find out what the older adults in Ebonyi State perceive as successful ageing, and to determine how they rate the importance of the features of successful ageing.
Globally, the number of older persons is growing faster than the numbers of people in any other age category. As a result, the share of older persons in the total population is increasing virtually everywhere. While population ageing is a global phenomenon, the ageing process is more advanced in some regions than in others, having begun more than a century ago in countries that developed earlier, and getting underway only recently in many countries where the development process has occurred later, including the decline of fertility. In 2015, one in eight people worldwide was aged 60 years or over. By 2030, older persons are projected to account for one in six people globally. By the middle of the twenty-first century, one in every five people will be aged 60 years or over. By 2030, older persons will outnumber children aged 0-9 years (1.4 billion versus 1.3 billion); by 2050, there will be more people aged 60 years or over than adolescents and youth aged 10-24 years (2.1 billion versus 2.0 billion) (United Nations Population Division, 2015).
The pace of world population ageing is accelerating. Projections indicate that the proportion aged 60 years or over globally will increase more than 4 percentage points over the next 15 years, from 12.3 per cent in 2015 to 16.5 per cent in 2030, compared to the 2.3 percentage point increase in the share of older persons that occurred between 2000 and 2015. By 2030, older persons are expected to account for more than 25 per cent of the populations in Europe and in Northern America, 20 per cent in Oceania, 17 percent in Asia and in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 6 per cent in Africa. In 2050, 44 per cent of the world's population will live in relatively aged countries, with at least 20 per cent of the population aged 60 years or over, and one in four people will live in a country where more than 30 per cent of people are above age 60. The pace of population ageing in many developing countries today is substantially faster than occurred in developed countries in the past. Consequently, today's developing countries must adapt much more quickly to ageing populations and often at much lower levels of national income compared to the experience of countries that developed much earlier . These figures are a demographic success, but also an economic gloom if they do not age successfully because according to Mirkin and Weinberger (2000), there can be little doubt that changes in age distribution have complex social and economic implications at the societal and individual levels.
The goal of gerontology, whether social or medical, is to help people age successfully, or maintain well being in old age. The concept of wellness has been associated with successful ageing and is often confused with the notion of health (Atchley, 1999). According to Atchley (1999), wellness represents balance among the environment, emotional, spiritual, social, physical and cultural aspects of the individual's life. Health is a part of wellness. New definitions of successful ageing continue to be developed as research and practice with the older adult population progress. Gerontologists continue to debate the factors which lead to ageing well. Many concepts have been studied over the half of the twentieth century. Early research on ageing reflected the concern with adapting to the physical, psychological, and social losses of ageing.
It has been suggested that the ageing process that takes place when a person reaches adulthood can be described as either usual (normal) or successful (Rowe & Kahn, 1997). Rowe and Kahn made this distinction between 'usual' and 'successful' ageing within the normal ageing population rather than making comparisons with those who have disease such as dementia. According to Knight and Ricchadelli (2003) 'usual' describes the normal declines in ageing, including physical, social and cognitive declines. On the other hand, 'successful' is defined as having minimal or no physiological or cognitive loss and being actively engaged in life. The term successful ageing has been widely used in literature, sometimes with no specific definition offered and often the meaning is implied. Some of the meanings emerging from literature include positive functioning, physiological well-being, physical and mental health, cognitive growth potential, high quality of life, high life satisfaction, adaptation to life changes and social integration (Abraham & Hansen, 1995; Baltes and Baltes, 1990; Erber, 2005; Meek & Murrell, 2001; Ouwehand, deRidera & Sensing, 2007; Stem & Carstensen, 2000; Sullivan & Fisher, 1994; Woods, Rillamas-Sun, Cochrane, La Croix, Seaman, Tindle … Wallace, 2016; Yoon, 1996).
Giving a comprehensive description of what successful ageing is has preoccupied researchers for many years with the difficulty associated with defining and consequently measuring the construct identified some decades ago (Cumming & Henry, 1961; Havighurst, 1961; Williams & Loeb, !968). Many of the difficulties in definition and measurement include taking into account individual differences in the measurement of criteria of successful ageing; deciding whether the criteria are best measured objectively or subjectively (Knight & Ricciadelli, 2007); and addressing the issue that some aspects of ageing have been also conceptualized as indicators of successful ageing. Many of these difficulties still persist in much of the recent literature (Bee, 1996; Cho, Martin & Poon 2014, Hostein & Minkler, 2003; Ibrahim, 2010; Iwamasa & Iwasaki, 2011; Kok, Aartsen, Deeg, & Martin, 2015; Ouwehand et al, 2007; Torres, 1999). For this difficulty to be properly tackled there is a need also to ensure we are not simply saying that successful ageing is not what the culture and politics of the time are expecting from our older adult population. There is also need to be wary of seeing successful ageing in terms of others' expectations that are likely to represent different criteria.
The difficulty in consensus definition and problem in criteria determination appear intractable. Several researchers including Baltes & Baltes (1990), Gingold (1999), Kok, Aartsen, Deeg, & Martin, (2015), Powell (1992), Rowe and Kahn (1997), Bowling and Dieppe (2005), and McClintock, Dale, Laumann and Waite (2016) have, therefore, concluded that one must take a multicriteria approach to measure successful ageing, to incorporate the different criteria that exist. They also suggest that this approach should include a number of subjective and objective criteria. This has not been reflected well in literature to date, nor has the importance of the criteria for successful ageing to older adults been empirically established. If gerontologists do not know what their potential and existing clients do perceive as determinants of successful ageing, they will lack the focus that should guide them to effectively help people age successfully. This research has, therefore, the problem of finding out the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing among older adults in Nigeria.
A reasonable quantity of literature exist in Nigeria in the areas of wellness of the elderly, elder abuse, disability in old age, ageing in Nigeria, and social support for the elderly (Adebawole, Atte & Ayeni, 2012; Ajomale, 2007; Eneh, 2008; Gureje, Kola,Afolabi & Oladapo, 2008; Gureje, Kola, Afolabi & Olley, 2008; Imo, 2015; Okoye, 2012). However, not much has been done in the area of what older adults in Nigeria perceive as successful ageing. Such gap in knowledge is a problem as nations must adapt the demographic changes in order to avert the problem of over dependence on the productive age. Yet, not much has been done in the area of ascertaining the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing among older adults in Nigeria. There lies a gap in existing literature and body of gerontological knowledge.
The following research questions are posed to guide the research:
1. What are the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing?
2. How do older adults in Ebonyi State rate the importance of subjective features of successful ageing?
3. What age do older adults in Ebonyi State believe is the best age in the ageing process, and why?
4. How do the older adults feel about their present age?
5. How do older adults rate the importance for criteria of successful ageing that emerge from literature?
6. Does people's perception of the determinants of successful ageing change as they advance in years?
7. What are the factors that hinder successful ageing in Ebony State
8. How can older adults be assisted to age successfully?
The general objective of the research is to investigate the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing among older adults in Ebonyi State of Nigeria. The following are the specific objectives which give the reader a more precise understanding of the objectives:
1. To ascertain the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing in Ebonyi State.
2. To understand how older adults in Ebonyi State rate the importance of subjective features of successful ageing?
3. To know the age older adults in Ebonyi State believe is the best age in the ageing process, and why.
4. To know how older adults feel about their present age.
5. To gauge how the older adults rate the importance for criteria of successful ageing that emerge from literature.
6. To find out whether people's perception of successful ageing change as they advance in age,
7. To establish the factors that hinder successful ageing in Ebonyi State, and
8. To suggest ways older adults can be assisted to age successfully.
The study of the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing among older adults in Ebonyi State will have relevance to readers in many ways. It has both practical and theoretical significance. Practically, the findings of this study will endue people with knowledge of what constitute successful ageing. This is helpful since social support networks for older adults in traditional societies are mainly informal – spouse, children, relations, friends, and religious organizations. They should appreciate the meaning of successful ageing and be guided in their support for the aged.
The study will guide gerontological social workers in Nigeria to provide services that will help the ageing population to age successfully. Thus, as the life span increases, the health span should increase proportionately.
Another practical significance of this study is that it will help ailing aged people re-evaluate positively their disabilities and cognitive frailties. It will help them to understand the need to demonstrate considerable strengths, adaptabilities and resilience and still be perceived by themselves and others as ageing successfully. As they go through the pages of this report they will understand that many factors constitute successful ageing and so may find the need not to be dismayed by their problems.
Practically, too, policy makers in Nigeria and Ebonyi State in particular will find the report of this study relevant. They will be guided by the findings and recommendations of this report in making policies that actually address the presenting and real problems of the aged. This actually is the core objective of contemporary gerontology - to help people age successfully.
Information gathered from this study may help us and other researcher design treatments, interventions, and educational tools to help people maintain well-being, including physical, emotional, cognitive, functioning well being as they grow older. This can enhance people's quality of life and enable them continue to contribute to national progress
Information from the findings of this research will also be very relevant to such agencies as National Orientation Agency, Attitudinal Change, etc. This is because from the research it shall be known whether people have wrong perception of the determinants of 'successful ageing.' Such knowledge will guide the agency in its orientation and reorientation activities on appropriate thinking.
Theoretically, report from the research will enrich of gerontological literature. Very little has been done in the area of what Nigerians/Ebonyians perceive as the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing. Findings from this work will add much to existing gerontological literature, especially, in the area of subjective aspects of wellness.
This work will also be theoretically significant in adding to theories of ageing. Theories exist that try to explain the process of ageing and relationship between the elderly and the society. This particular work will contribute to theories in the aspect of the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing.
Finally, the findings contained in the report of this study will contribute much to knowledge. It will add much to gerontology. Readers will gain insight into the varying (if any) perceptions of older adults of the socio-cultural determinants of successful ageing. Such knowledge will be beneficial to the Nigerian society.
1.6 Operationalization of Concepts
Activity: Continued role performance and involvement in life.
Ageing: It is a process of growing old or maturing. It is the biological, psychological and social changes that manifest as one grows older.
Life expectancy: Life expectancy is the average number of years that individuals in a particular birth cohort can be expected to live.
Middle old: The older adult population aged between 70 and 79 years.
Objective Successful Ageing: Assessment of successful ageing based on set criteria (physical health, financial security, social engagement, etc) and not based on one's own sensations or emotions.
Older Adults: Those whose age falls at the upper end of the age continuum. We, here, use chronology to determine the age of people. Older adults are those aged 60 years and above.
Old old: The old old are the category of older adults aged 80 years and above. They are also referred to as oldest old.
Optimization: In gerontology, optimization is a strategy of focusing on behaviours that maximize quality and quantity of life.
Perception: An idea, a belief or an image one has as a result of how one sees or understands something. At the level of perception, what we see in the world can be quite different from person to person (Larsen & Buss, 2002). Here it means what older adults understand as successful ageing.
Physically active: This means continued productive role performance in old age.
Resilience: The ability to recover form and position; ability to withstand shock, suffering, disappointment etc. Resilience in old age is the ability to survive and overcome numerous major stressors, including disease, disability, and a range of other major age-related losses.
Selection: This is a strategy of concentrating efforts on domains in which effective functioning is most likely to remain high as one is ageing.
Socially active: To be socially active means being engaged in activities in which people interact.
Socio-cultural: The part played by social interaction and cultural practices in determining successful ageing. For example the part played by having close persnal relations, being active in engagements and involvements and also being active in the people's way of life including religious activities, meeting rites of passage.
Subjective successful ageing: Perception of successful ageing based on the individual's personal evaluation and not based on set objective criteria.
Successful ageing: a personal evaluation of wellness in old age based on subjective criteria and basic objective elements appropriate for human dignity and respect.
Wellness: It is a state of well-being. Wellness represents a balance among the environmental, emotional, spiritual, social, physical, and cultural aspects of the individual's life.
Young old: The elderly population aged between 60 and 69 years.


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The Unusual Reliant Scimitar GTE
Ben Branch January 3, 2022
Reading time: about 5 minutes | Written by Ben Branch | January 3rd 2022
The Reliant Scimitar GTE was released in 1968 as one of the first of its kind – a full production two door coupe with an estate (station wagon) rear end, otherwise known as a "shooting brake."
This combination of the fun of a sports car with the practicality of a station wagon proved immediately popular, in fact the GTE became the best-selling four-wheeled Reliant of all time.
Fast Facts – The Reliant Scimitar GTE
British automaker Reliant is best-known for their three-wheeled economy cars like the Reliant Robin and the Reliant Regal.
Reliant started producing affordable three-wheelers in 1935, they diversified into four-wheelers with the release of the Reliant Rebel in the early 1960s.
The Reliant Scimitar was released in 1964 initially as a coupe with a three-box design, it was later offered as the Scimitar GTE with a shooting brake rear end.
The GTE was powered by the Ford Essex 3.0 V6, thanks in part to the lightweight fiberglass body the car could reach 120+ mph – an impressive figure for the time.
A New Kind Of Sports Car
The shooting brake is an unusual automobile body style typically characterized by two doors and a station wagon rear typically accessed via a hatchback.
The shooting brake body design gives the fun of a sports coupe with the practicality of a station wagon, as a result many Scimitar GTEs were used as daily drivers.
Shooting brakes were initially used by pheasant hunters who prized the ability to lay their shotguns and beaters out in the rear while on a hunt, then fold down tailgate also made an excellent impromptu table for cups of tea and sandwiches.
Reliant were one of the first to create a production sports car based on this design, it was created by Ogle Design's Tom Karen, a man who had done significant work with Reliant in the past.
Karen's design was influenced by the closely related Reliant Scimitar GT, the new car was named the Scimitar GTE with that additional "E" standing for "Estate," the British term for a station wagon. As with all Reliant cars the GTE had a body made entirely from fiberglass fitted to a steel chassis.
Despite the fact that Reliant was one of Britain's smaller automakers the Scimitar GTE was quite well appointed by the standards of the era, the use of lightweight fiberglass meant the car was fast too, and it was impervious to the long-time nemesis of European sports cars – body rust.
The Arrival Of The Reliant Scimitar GTE
The Reliant Scimitar GTE entered production in 1968, it was internally coded the GTE SE5 and each car was fitted with the highly regarded Ford Essex 3.0 V6.
The interior of the GTE is well appointed, this example is upholstered in black leather, it has an AM/FM stereo, and the desirable four-speed manual transmission with overdrive.
This 60º V6 engine would become one of the most versatile Ford engines of the period, it was fitted to everything from mid-engined sports cars like the AC 3000 ME to the Ford Transit van, and it became a favorite of low-volume car manufacturers like TVR, Marcos, Gilbern, and of course, Reliant.
The Reliant Scimitar GTE was built using much the same platform as the earlier Scimitar GT, it has a steel box section chassis with independent front suspension consisting of double A-arms and coil springs. In the rear the car has a live axle with four trailing arms, a Watt's Linkage, and coil springs.
By the standards of the late 1960s the Scimitar GTE was a car that made a lot of sense if you were looking for a semi-practical mid-range GT car. It was priced slightly above the MGC GT, a period sales competitor, but it offered slightly quicker performance for the extra money.
The first version of the Scimitar GTE had a top speed of 120+ mph and a 0 – 60 mph time of 8.5 seconds – highly respectable times for the era. Later cars with slightly more powerful versions of the Ford V6 would improve on these times to a small degree.
Princess Anne is famously fond of the Scimitar GTE, the Queen and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh bought her one has a present on her 20th birthday. Since that time she has owned eight of them, and she still has one in her possession to this day.
The 3.0 liter Ford Essex V6 is a compact engine, this helps shift weight distribution back for improved handling and it makes space for the space under the hood.
Ultimately the Scimitar GTE would remain in production from 1968 until 1986, it arguably remains the most famous and most beloved of all the four-wheeled Reliants.
The 1972 Reliant Scimitar GTE Shown Here
The car you see here is a 1972 Scimitar GTE making it one of the SE5A vehicles with the slight power boost of 7 bhp, the upgraded dashboard, and the rear taillights with an integrated reversing light.
This car was owned by the same person for over 35 years, he took excellent care of it, and no expense was spared with maintenance. It's fitted with the desirable four speed manual gearbox with overdrive and the car is finished in Porsche Guards Red with a black leather interior.
This GTE had an extensive body off restoration a number of years ago and the engine was rebuilt approximately 40,000 miles ago. The engine is now fitted with an alloy timing gear, John Wade high efficiency gas flowed unleaded cylinder heads, larger inlet valves, and a Kent V61 high performance camshaft.
The car is now being auctioned live online by The Market, at the time of writing there are a few days left to bid and you can click here to visit the listing.
Images courtesy of The Market by Bonhams
Published by Ben Branch - January 3rd 2022
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The infamous Angry Hornet was the hero ray gun of the day at the battle of Cornish 10 of the the Caponic Federation. Boasting a phase rate of 1,000 cyclitrons per micro-flynns, this weapon of choice for the Cornithians provided the fire power they needed to put down the rebellion and free the planet of tyranny. Unfortunately, the Cornithians had really bad eyesight and the rebellion itself consisted of four fence posts, some kind of alien cacti and an beachcomber looking for loose change. The beachcomber was questioned and later released but the rest were executed for their treasonous crimes against Cornanity.
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Enter the Bose L1 which is available for rental from The AV Company. Believe it or not, the small speaker you see below is a unique, all-in-one system that delivers clear, powerful sound throughout small and medium-sized venues for up to 500 people. Because it's made by Bose, the sound is even no matter where you are in the room and eliminates the need for conventional monitors, mixers, and PA systems in most cases.
The unobtrusive Bose L1 projects sound forward and to the sides, providing 180-degree horizontal sound coverage and consistent tonal balance as sound spreads more evenly across the stage and into the audience. Due to its slender shape, it is also highly discreet, does not stand out in photos, and will not obstruct views the way many large speakers do!
As the 4th of July approaches we're still busy doing audio visual installation projects all over Charlottesville!
This week, we would like to thank The Boar's Head for choosing us to install new sound systems for the Spa, Old Mill Room Restaurant, the Bistro, and the reception area. We partnered with Bose Professional on the equipment and DMX to provide a music subscription that is perfect for each space. The next time you're there, be sure to take a listen!
In addition to this project, we also spend a lot of time at The Boar's Head each day as we are the preferred audio visual and lighting provider for conferences and events that take place on the property.
Thank you Boar's Head for choosing The AV Company for all of your audio visual needs!
School is officially out which means a lot of our Summer projects involve upgrades to classroom and school technology. Our featured project this week is taking place at The University of Virginia Darden School of Business. We have partnered with Bose Professional and QSC Audio to upgrade the sound system in PepsiCo Forum and the Abbot Lounge.
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WHY THE WAR WAS WRONG
Principal grounds for opposition to the Vietnam War
It never was a civil war as many claimed: Vietnam as a whole, south and north together as one country, fought for its independence for over a thousand years, mostly against the Chinese and, after the French invaded in 1858, against France.
After the French defeat in 1954, the international agreement that settled that war – known as the Geneva Accords – called for a temporary division of Vietnam. The Geneva Accords agreed on an election to be held in 1956, to reunify the country under one leader. The U.S. helped the South Vietnamese government undermine that election, knowing that Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the independence forces, would have been elected to govern a unified north and south. The forces he led then began again to fight for independence…from us.
The country we supported was not a free country like our political leaders said: Diem's regime was a dictatorship that ruthlessly pursued, disappeared, and killed political opponents. In 1963, he undertook a brutal suppression of the Buddhist minority, shooting protesters, ransacking pagodas, and arresting thousands of monks, nuns, and students. The iconic photo of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in flames on a street in Saigon, the first of eight monks to immolate themselves in protest that year, shocked Americans and made them wonder what kind of regime we were supporting.
When our man Ngo Dinh Diem refused to allow the nationwide election in 1956, he held a rigged referendum instead. He won 98.2% of the overall vote, and 605,025 votes in Saigon, where only 450,000 voters were registered. Our claims to be supporting democracy against communism simply were untrue.
After Diem's ouster in a military coup supported by the US in 1963, the remaining South Vietnamese governments were either military dictatorships, or governments controlled from behind the scenes by the military.
The real reasons for the war -- geopolitics and the pride of Presidents: Our entry into Vietnam began during the Cold War, the post-World War II struggle between East – the USSR and China – and West – principally the United States. The war for independence in Vietnam fell neatly into this division, and so became a proxy war, a war in which global world powers support different sides in a local conflict to gain advantage over the other.
All five US presidents involved in the Vietnam conflict, from Truman to Nixon, received analyses that told them the war was unwinnable, or even being lost. But personal pride – "I'm not going down in history as the first American President who lost a war" (Lyndon Johnson) – led each to continue to escalate a war with little hope of success, while telling the American people the opposite.
A lie was used an excuse to bring America into the war -- the Gulf of Tonkin incident: In August, 1964, President Johnson solemnly informed Americans of a two-day attack by North Vietnamese boats on a US vessel on a peaceful mission in international waters, an attack that we later learned largely did not occur. Congress immediately granted vast war powers to Johnson, with only two Senators voting against the measure.
Fighting for the white man's freedom. "My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, some darker people, some poor, hungry people…and shoot them for what? They never called me n------." (Muhammad Ali)
Many African-Americans saw themselves as allies to the Vietnamese in their fight as people of color against the racist American government. They objected to being asked to fight for the freedom of others eight thousand miles away, when they did not have freedom at home.
Racial bias in the draft and military assignments was yet another affront. Men of color often didn't have the money to go to college, which offered student deferments, or to mount a legal challenge to being drafted. They were much less likely to be granted conscientious objector status or snare a National Guard assignment.
Men of color were drafted, sent to front-line combat units, and died in numbers higher than their proportion of the population. Between 1961 and 1965, black men were a little less than 10% of American men in arms, but made up almost 20% of combat deaths. And Latinos, who made up 11% of the U.S. population, represented 19.4% of combat deaths.
The draft and the war touched every home: All young men were eligible, and all families felt the effect of the draft personally. Nightly television coverage kept the war on everyone's minds, unlike today, when combat is much less often shown. Fifty percent of Americans in an August 2017 poll said they did not personally know anyone who served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Many American families can think of today's wars as being fought by someone else.
The ghastly cost in human suffering: The war was a human tragedy. More than 58,000 Americans were counted as combat deaths. Between three and six million Southeast Asian lives were lost. These numbers exclude those injured and maimed and represent only the tip of the iceberg of human suffering. In South Vietnam alone, 8.5 million people, half the population, were made homeless through forced relocation.
Hundreds of thousands of Vietnam vets were injured, maimed, or psychologically traumatized. The VA was slow to recognize PTSD and slower to recognize Agent Orange. Vietnam veterans have an inordinate rate of homelessness and substance abuse, and the numbers for suicide equal or exceed the number of soldiers killed in Vietnam.
Brutality: All too often, civilians were our targets.The iconic photo of the "napalm girl," nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc, naked and running for safety down a road, her clothes burnt off by napalm, seared the meaning of napalm into Americans' minds. The US military dropped almost 400,000 tons of this jellied gasoline, designed to burn at astonishingly high temperatures of 1500 to 2000 degrees and to stick to human skin.
The military flew more bombing runs during Operation Rolling Thunder, between 1965 and 1968, than all the Allies flew in the European theater of World War II. The military dropped 20,000,000 gallons of herbicides and defoliants, best known as Agent Orange. The goal was to deprive the Viet Cong of cover, destroy their crops, and drive rural people into the cities, decimating the enemy's support base.
Americans and our South Vietnamese allies tortured and summarily killed tens of thousands of prisoners. The best known single American atrocity was the murder of between 347 and 504 civilians in the village of My Lai on March 13, 1968. But harm to civilians was commonplace. The army purposely forced the peasants from their ancestral homes. Torching huts was often seen on the nightly news, and crying women and children made Americans wonder about the morality of the war.
As opponents of the war, we asked the most fundamental questions. What kind of country are we? Are we war-mongers or peace-makers? Do we honor such violence as a means of settling disputes, or do we honor peace? Resistance was our answer. We said NO.


On November 5th, Andrew Schmitt and Scott Wilkinson traveled to New York for a day of 1:1 meetings with investors and a lunch presentation to a group of investors. Topics included the role compact modular systems would play in shaping operator spending, Chinese spending and technology trends and discussion of the ongoing industry consolidation.
Product Price: CignalAI dismisses the Street's focus on annual 10-15% component price declines. The values cannot be audited and many of the technologies where data is available (e.g., CFP2s) have declined at a more rapid pace.
Tech Roadmap and Implications for Industry Participants: The emergence of the 400G ZR and ZR+ technology will catalyze deployments. With standardization, the industry hopes to achieve interoperability, which suggests some commoditization, but this also fuels demand. It might be early to predict winners among the component players, but Acacia sounds well positioned.


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UK, Argentina summon each other's ambassadors as Falklands/Malvinas row worsens
Published time: 10 Apr, 2015 12:12
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Tensions over the Falklands/Malvinas were ratcheted up last night when Argentina and Britain summoned each other's ambassadors. Argentina said it would sue UK oil firms, while Britain is boosting its defenses on the contested islands.
The UK's ambassador to Buenos Aires was summoned Thursday and less than 24 hours later Alicia Castro, Argentine ambassador to Britain, was called in for a meeting at the Foreign Office.
The latest spat comes against a background of heightened tension fueled by oil, military buildups and colonial history.
As the UK general election approaches, Britain has very publicly reinforced its garrison in the contested South Atlantic archipelago over which the two countries fought a short but vicious war 33 years ago this month.
READ MORE: British firms discover oil and gas off Falklands, Argentina threatens legal action
The redeployment last month of two Chinook helicopters, withdrawn in 2006, and a pledge by Defense Secretary Michael Fallon to spend £180 million over the next 10 years on upgrading the Falklands' defenses, both come at a time when advancing UK oil exploration has become a central component of the 182-year-old colonial dispute.
The litigation centers on three UK oil exploration firms: Premier Oil, Falkland Oil and Gas and Rockhopper.
Earlier this month the firms involved reported they had discovered 27.9 meters of net-oil bearing reservoir and 18.5 meters of net gas-bearing reservoir.
The license area being explored – which lies to the north of the Falklands – is 40 percent owned by Falklands Oil and Gas, 36 percent by Premiere Oil and 24 percent by Rockhopper Exploration.
"This is a fantastic start to the 2015 Falklands drilling campaign and provides early proof of the significant remaining potential of the North Falklands Basin," said Samuel Moody, CEO at Rockhopper, in a statement.
Tensions between the countries have waxed and waned in the three decades since Argentine forces were driven out by a British task force, but recent leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate a secret intelligence war has been waged throughout the intervening period.
READ MORE: UK spied on Argentina over alleged new attempt to take Falklands – Snowden leak
The intelligence data released by Snowden suggests Britain spied on the Argentine authorities since at least 2009, preparing offensive cyber operations to change public opinion regarding the Falklands, according to the Intercept.
British spy agency GCHQ had allegedly been preparing a bold, covert plan called "Operation QUITO." It involved the Joint Threat Research and Intelligence Group (JTRIG), a classified unit that spread misinformation.
The leaks describe the mission as a "long-running, large scale, pioneering effects operation," with surveillance on several platforms a "high priority" task.


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Thanks so much to everyone who voted for me in the Apartment Therapy "Room for Color Contest"! I finished number five in my division (the cool shade division), which was thrilling, especially since I kind of entirely forgot about the contest, what with trying to survive the hurricane, and the last week before the election, and being sick.
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Newsnight's Kirsty Wark interviewed Dr. David Nott to examine a little considered perspective on the Covid 19 crisis: how it will impact refugees, those trapped in conflict zones and the impoverished Developing World in general. Dr. Nott is a massive personal hero of mine; I have been fortunate enough to hear him speak at the Royal Society of Medicine and to chat with him after his presentation. His contribution to trauma Surgery in some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones has been long sustained and truly remarkable. In the interview Nott was his usual pragmatic, thoroughly down-to-earth self as he spoke with great humility about how he had felt compelled to pitch in and retrain to join the front lines in intensive care; it was typical of his selfless dedication to the medical profession.
Dr. David Nott just published an article in the Lancet that was quite critical of the Government's unfathomable delay in taking action. He pointed to a paper out of Hong Kong, published on the 30th of January, containing a telling quote from the author, Professor Woo, with a note of warning that: "Large cities overseas with close transport links to China could also become outbreak epicentres unless substantial public health interventions at both the population and personal levels are implemented immediately." Nott emphasised that it had been published back on January 30th saying that he did not understand why, "from an epidemiological standpoint, why nobody picked up this and waved this red flag, because we had four weeks really of everybody just shrugging their shoulders and thinking it was all going to go away as if it was nothing to worry about."
Dr. Nott stressed that he is very worried about refugee camps, areas of conflict and the situation in the Developing World. He said how, "in the UK we had the equipment, the ventilators, we had Nursing staff, we had Doctors and when you think about the results we had… this disease is so virulent, so dangerous and so pathogenic." He referenced a study that showed, "it causes such high mortality that results recently from the Intensive Care Society have shown that 65% of patients, in the best hands possible, died and if you had another problem on top of that… then you had an 80% chance of dying on a ventilator." He was obviously referring to those who become hospitalized not the total of those infected, however, Dr. Nott is not a raging alarmist and he does not just reel of shocking numbers like that lightly or without sound statistics from credible peer reviewed studies to back up his claims.
Dr. Nott elaborated on how we have another crisis looming. He said, "David Milliband, with the International Rescue Committee, has shown that if we don't do anything, in the next few weeks 500 Million to one Billion people will become infected and of that 3 Million will possibly die, that is in the low income countries, hostile environments and so on." Nott said that, "the big problem is that it is nothing to do with ventilator support in these countries it is all to do with nutrition. We really, really, have to ramp up public health support in all these countries, otherwise it's too late."
Kirsty Wark interjected, "you saw the failure of international cooperation in Syria, what you as a Surgeon are saying is that you have doubts about international cooperation here unless its led by someone specific, not a country, not a group, not a committee." It was a valid point that Nott was eager to respond to, saying that: "the big problem how I see it is this, it is a big problem a global problem and we are all in our countries dealing with the problem on our own and making big mistakes." I was quite shocked to hear him say "not our country, but other countries are making huge mistakes;" personally I think we have made some pretty catastrophic mistakes, but perhaps he was trying not to burn bridges.
Dr. Nott evoked crisis policy in the past saying, "when you look at the Ebola crisis and you look at what happened to the monetary system in 2008, it was led by global leaders and that was America, but now I don't think we have got that global leadership anymore." That's a serious understatement! David Nott went on to say that, "what we really, really need is in a Global Pandemic Executive, that can go to every country of this world and say we have learned from this Pandemic, we have learned how to deal with it, we know what the problems are…" Kirsty piped up saying, "led by whom?" Nott replied without hesitation, "led by David Milliband, without a shadow of a doubt, you have got somebody who is a respectful statesman, a politician with an enormous track record and he needs to be in charge of it." I would certainly trust the recommendation of an experienced disaster medic like Nott.
Kirsty Wark probed further asking Nott, "you say some of these refugees, in dire straits, will try and come here and that they will then re-infect the west and you paint a gloomy picture, but I wonder if there is anything that gives you a thread of hope in all this?" David Nott had to admit that, "no there isn't, we really need to get our act together within the next few weeks." As he described it, "what we have now is this time that is like February was for us this year, we have now got their February this time, so we've got four weeks to do as much preventative treatment, as much preventative care as we possibly can. We need to ramp up public health services get people in, water consultants, engineers; make sure that all these countries have proper hand washing, have facilities for social distancing because that is the only way that this virus is going to be contained."
Kirsty Wark thanked Dr. David Nott. It was such a thoroughly respectful, non adversarial and informative interview that I was quite taken aback; it was a return to a forgotten era where the BBC honestly did their level best to inform the public as best they could and without political bias. I think that Kirsty Wark recognized that Dr. Nott had a very important message to deliver and she focused on helping him get that message across in the most effective way. It was a really impressive interview so I wanted to feature it here and remind people that, as dire as our situation might seem here in the UK, the challenge faced in the Developing World will be truly staggering. It was reassuring to see the BBC feature a few days ago on how South Africa has coped so far, it was a real testament to President Cyril Ramaphosa's decisive leadership that, from the same starting point and with much greater challenges, they have experienced a far lower death toll than we have here in the UK.
The issue of how Developing countries will cope with Covid 19 has been bothering me since the very beginning of the outbreak as my 2009 ten country tour of sub-Saharan Africa doing a "Needs Assessment of Anaesthesia Care" exposed me to just how severely deprived and overwhelmed their healthcare systems were under routine circumstances. Having worked as a Medical Volunteer myself in Surgery following disasters, including in the conflict zone of Aceh after the Boxing Day tsunami, I have great respect for Dr. Nott's huge contribution as he has faced the toughest of challenges. He spoke at the RSM after returning from a dangerous mission to Syria, a country that he told us, was one of the few in the world to not be a signatory to the Geneva Convention. The International Rescue Committee funded one of my projects in Aceh and I know from dealing with them that it is a very professional organization; we would do well to follow Dr. Nott's advice.
I now from my Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine training with the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries that there are internationally defined spaces assigned to each and every person housed in a refugee or IDP camp, but there is little scope for Social Distancing. It is hard to provide enough water supplies for drinking without the burden of greatly increased hand washing. Sheltering those displaced by our proxy wars, and feeding those forced into starvation due to our alignment with foreign despots, has remained a massive challenge for a very long time. Aid money has been weaponized to dominate resources and wealth at the expense of ordinary people who are swept aside as collateral damage in the carnage we leave behind. We have barely scratched the surface on alleviating global poverty and I doubt there is the political will to intervene now and fix major problems in a few short weeks.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link; Mario Cuomo, the Governor of New York State, has just recently learned to appreciate that reality. After years of the US clinging to their costly for-profit Healthcare system they are discovering the horrific ramification of not instituting the kind of universal access common in most industrialized democracies. The people the US has refused to treat, those who are denied access to healthcare, represent a fertile breeding ground for diseases that, in a highly mobalized society, are capable of sweeping the entire country in a matter of days. America is right on track to have the highest per capita death toll in the world, but shamefully we are not that far behind.
The untreated prevalence of Covid 19 in the Developing World increases the likelihood of mutation to an even more deadly strain that we absolutely cannot allow to incubate unimpeded. The Spanish Flu epidemic morphed into a more deadly disease that hit many countries with a second wave of infection and death; we cannot be certain that a vaccine will save us from a similar fate. Covid 19 will not cease to be "our problem" when it is eliminated here! We cannot simply detach the UK from the enormity of the far greater looming crisis overseas because we are just one international flight away from importing a new wave of infection. As Dr. Nott reminds us, this is such a virulent, highly infectious virus that we must treat the global population as one; if we fail to heed his advice we will be forever held hostage by its lingering presence in the poorer nations of the world.
I fear that this Tory Government seriously lacks the expansive humanitarian thinking to take a leadership role in driving this urgently needed international rescue agenda. This could all have been so very different without the grotesque injustice of the Covert 2019 Rigged Election. A progressive Government could have made a significant difference, not only domestically here in the UK following a decisive action approach, similar to South Africa, to save countless lives; we could be beyond the crisis and ready to demonstrate global leadership countering the toxic interventions of Donald Trump. If we fail to investigate and correct the injustice of the stolen election we are destined to continue on the current trajectory of disaster as Boris Johnson strips away every last vestige of democracy in the UK. There is still time to correct the damage and forge a recovery, so we must not give up the fight.


With Creative Fix, Sheryl Oring asked artists and creative thinkers what they would do to fix the country if they could do anything at all, then taped one-minute responses and posted them on YouTube.
A video installation was featured at The New Children's Museum in San Diego. During this installation, area teens were invited to submit "fixes" for their neighborhood or city.
The idea for Creative Fix grew out of Oring's experience of doing "I Wish to Say" events in 2008. For this, she set out to gather public opinion during the 2008 presidential election by setting up an office complete with a manual typewriter in public places and inviting passersby to dictate postcards to the next president. Many people spoke out for change, and I feel the challenges facing this nation demand attention from more than just the usual suspects. Artists, Oring believes, can offer a fresh perspective on many of the most pressing issues of the day.
In other parts of the world, artists play a legitimate role in politics and political debate. In the U.S., however, artists are seen as suspect. Oring would like to do one small thing to change this and bring more creativity to American politics.


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El Campeonato Europeo de Rugby League de 2015 fue la trigésimo segunda edición del principal torneo europeo de Rugby League.

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Quick quotes from Donald Trump on the campaign trail
Here are some snippets from Donald Trump in Syracuse on the morning of Saturday, April 16 (see the one-hour video below for complete context):
"We're going to bring our country back together… African-American, White, every person. Old, young, men, women. We're going to bring people together… I'm someone who gets along with people–all people…We're going to have strong borders, we're going to let people in, but they're going to come in legally."
"Remember Jeb Bush when he said, 'I don't like Donald Trump's tone.' … Here's the problem. They're chopping off heads in the Middle East. They're drowning people in the Middle East. If you're a Christian in the Middle East, you don't even have a chance. And if you're a Christian in the Middle East, you can't even come to this country. If you're Muslim it's easy, if you're Christian it's impossible to come into this country. That's no good… We need a tough tone, believe me."
"We have to be unpredictable… We're so predictable, militarily, trade deals… We're represented by people–in many cases incompetent and in many cases very smart–because they get money from all these donors and these donors want deals to be made… '…How do these senators, this one particular senator, how did he approve the deal?' …He's approved it because his lobbyist told him he has to."
"When I tell you these things [about my business successes], I'm not saying it in a bragging way. I'm saying that's the kind of thinking we need in this country, at least until we straighten it out."
"So often I'm asked, 'What would you do about ISIS and when would you attack them and where would you attack them?' and 'How would you do it?' I don't want to answer… Why do we always have to tell the enemy what our plans are? … When Obama…said we're sending 50 of our finest…over to Iraq, over to Syria…they have a target on their back. Everybody's looking for them… We don't want talk, we want results."
"I have the greatest business people in the world endorse me…These are people that will represent us in trade deals–not political hacks… I have guys that can't sleep at night…they don't want money…they will make the greatest deals. It'll bring our wealth back and it will bring our jobs back."
"One of [the wealthy PAC contributors] said, 'We hate the fact that Donald doesn't want any money.' Because if I don't want any money, they don't have any control."
"We are going to rebuild our military… We're going to take care of our vets. These are our great people… We're going to win on trade… We're going to win with education. We're going to get rid of Obamacare… We're going to repeal it and replace it with something so much better… We're going to get rid of Common Core and we're bringing our education local… We're going to win at the border. We're going to have the strongest border and great people coming in, they're coming in through a legal process. But we're going to have our borders so we finally have our country back again."
With honorable, admirable goals like these, it's no wonder the mainstream media, the Republican establishment, and their puppet masters hate him so much that they report on other things about the campaign (such as the Repub establishment in Colorado & Wyoming canceling elections to give Cruz delegates without citizens voting) in failed attempts to stifle the vitality of the message.
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Paul Serup says:
Good post, I don't know if you saw it but some days ago, a CNN panel was discussing the prosecution of Corey Lewandowsky, Donald Trump's campaign manager, and I thought what one of their analysts said was hilarious. He was a former NY city police officer, I recall, and he first said, regarding the decision to prosecute Lewandowski, words to the effect "what, don't they have enough crime in Florida that they want to prosecute this man?" He was then asked if he thought a jury would convict him and he said, I recall, "no absolutely no", and he said "this because juries, (made up of ordinary citizens) hate the media" or words to that effect. Hilarious, and someone there on CNN tells the truth, I find that so funny. Yes it appears the elites don't like Trump because they cannot control him and he might just say truthful things, things they don't want spoken about, and possibly expose skeletons in closets. By the way, I don't know if you have seen it but the movie Spotlight, (this year's Academy Award best picture winner, amazing that it won) is very good, (despite the language), exposing the tremendous corruption in the Roman Catholic Church.
Harry A. Gaylord says:
I didn't see that interview on CNN but it does sound funny. I've heard about Spotlight so I plan on watching it eventually.


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As President Donald Trump continues to surprise the nation and the world, one thing may be more certain than others – and that is the possibility of mortgage rates going up. In fact, within mere hours of his inauguration back in January, President Trump issued an order that, while it got very little public attention, could end up impacting the bank accounts – and the monthly bills – of many Americans.
This had to do with the removal of a fee reduction for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans – a move that was initially authorized by former President Obama in early January. This move basically ceased a reduction in mortgage insurance premiums for loans that are FHA-backed (even though these cuts had not yet actually gone into effect).
This fee was intended to be reduced by 0.25 percentage points on the total amount of money that was borrowed by a home owner. So, for instance, those who borrowed roughly $200,000 would be able to save in the neighborhood of $500 throughout the course of a year. (And, the higher the amount borrowed, the higher the annual savings would be). For some potential home buyers, this could have meant the make-it-or-break-it amount that allowed them to move forward with the purchase of an affordable home.
In general, mortgage rates overall could rise throughout Mr. Trump's administration. In doing so, though, rates could also face a great deal of volatility – which is due in large part to the uncertainty regarding what will be occurring in the future, primarily in light of the President's plans for tax reform and financial regulation.
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For Bluebirds waaay up in Scotland. Discuss.
Taff on the Mersey wrote: For Bluebirds waaay up in Scotland. Discuss.
From Clydebank, now in Aberdeen where we get real snow.
Edinburgh here. Been living here about 6 months!!
Freezing cold up here mind!!
FLying down in April for the Forest and Chartlton games, hoping we can go up one of those games.
Nice of Malky to give us a mention in Saturdays programme.
Need to get a Scottish Flag with A bluebird in the centre going to away games..
Hi lads long time cardiff fan original from gabalfa living in aramdale west lothain now. Well up for traveling down to cardiff games. Need to sort some thing out.
Got plenty time to sort something out for next season, especially with so many "local" games!
Aye if we can get a Scottish supporters club up and running that would be great!
How do we want to progress with this chaps?
Seeing as we are spread across the country,The biggest problem will be how we get everyone here and there.
Thats a good start mate. Once fixtures out we can all pop up which ones we think we can make & take it from there?
Fixtures are out. The question is will we actually get any tickets. I'm a gold member but not confident on getting tickets for some games. We'd be better going to some of the less high profile games perhaps?
Cracking, how you all getting down?
Still to plan it mate, waiting to see if Sky move it before confirming!
Keep me in the loop please pal.
The other two have pulled out. I'll most likely travel on the sleeper service from Aberdeen to Euston then nip over to Paddington.
PtB wrote: The other two have pulled out. I'll most likely travel on the sleeper service from Aberdeen to Euston then nip over to Paddington.
Have you ordered your tickets on the sleeper yet?
Contact me before you do Paul, I will try and get you some comps!!! Not promising but will try..
Wont be able to make it but was thinking of going to the Hull away game. Anyone else up here thinking about that one?
mr_nellio wrote: Wont be able to make it but was thinking of going to the Hull away game. Anyone else up here thinking about that one?
50/50 at the moment! Will let you kno asap!
Nice one pal. Drop me a PM if are going.
Anyone going to any of the away games coming up? Hull then Villa in November i'm intrested in.
Not making Hull, me & my lad will be down for the Newcastle home game though then I'll be down for the Swansea game. Not sure if any other Clydebank boys are doing Newcastle but there's 3 or 4 coming down in November.
I've been asked a few times recently how did you manage to end up supporting Cardiff City and not one of the bigger teams from down south.
The interest in their results grew to be a passion after my first few trips to Ninian Park and standing on the Grange End as it was a proper footy ground and it must've been a daunting place to come as a visiting fan but being in amongst it was awesome.


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Paddington: The Man Behind the Bear. BBC 2
Hero Johnson's portrait of Michael Bond features in BBC2's documentary about Michael Bond 'Paddington: The Man Behind the Bear'.
First shown on Boxing Day 2019 it had a repeat showing on Christmas Eve 2020 and will be available on BBC2 Iplayer for a further month.
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2020
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition runs from the 19th November 2020 until the 31st December.
Like many shows this year, due to Coronavirus the exhbition will be online only.
The Society of Women Artists Exhibition 2020
The Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition runs from the 22nd of September 2020 until the end of the year.
Due to Coronavirus the show will be online only.
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2020
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition 2020 runs from the 16th of September to the 26th of September at the Mall Galleries.
Timed tickets must be booked in advance from the Mall Galleries website.
Portrait Workshop with Hero Johnson at Cass Art
Hero will be holding a portrait workshop 'Exploring a Limited Palette' at Cass Art on the 29th of March 2020.
For full details and to book a place please follow this link.
Artists and Illustrators Magazine Article
Hero Johnson's painting of Margaret Hyde is featured in the March 2020 issue of Artists and Illustrators magazine.
The article focuses on The Contemporary British Portrait Painters and their upcoming exhibition 'Perceptions'.
Bankside Gallery
The Heatherley Staff Show runs at the Bankside Gallery from the 24th to the 27th February 2020.
The Society of Women Artists 2019
Hero Johnson's painting 'Reflection' has been selected for the Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition 2019.
The Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition
The Mall Galleries, London
25th September – 29th September
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019
Hero Johnson's pastel drawing 'Sam in a Pink Shirt' has been selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019.
Formerly the Jerwood Drawing Prize, the exhibition opens in London before touring.
Salisbury Museum from 12th October 2019 until the 11th of January 2020.
Trinity Buoy Wharf from 18th of January until the 2nd of February 2020.
The Gallery at De Montfort University from 21 February until the 18th of April 2020.
The Contemporary British Portrait Painters
Hero is delighted to have been made a member of The Contemporary British Portrait Painters.
The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition 2019
Hero Johnson's portrait of Margaret Hyde will be exhibited at the Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, 5th March – 17th March 2019.
Photographs by Aliona Adrianova
Photographs in the studio by Aliona Adrianova.
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
Hero Johnson is enormously grateful to the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation for the award of a grant.
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant is one of the most prestigious grants available to emerging figurative artists, as well as one of the most substantial. It is one of the longest standing, with an illustrious history of recipients spanning more than half a century. It is also unique in its scope, in that it is available to students and artists around the world
Empowered by Art – University Women's Club
'Empowered by Art'- Portraits of Women by Women
An exhibition of paintings and photographs by Hero Johnson, Miriam Escofet, Anastasia Pollard and Aliona Adrianova. Curated by Jemima Lovatt.
On display at the University Women's Club 19th May 2018.
The portraits by Hero Johnson included those of Barbara Hosking CBE, Anna-Louise Felstead and Paulina Pluta.
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition 2018
Hero Johnson and Sir Alan Parker at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Private View, 9th of May 2018.
Photographs by Alex Cotteril for the Mall Galleries.
Sir Alan Parker's Portrait in the Sunday Telegraph
Hero Johnson's portrait of Sir Alan Parker on page 10 of the Sunday Telegraph, 6th May 2018.
The portrait will be part of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries from the 10th to the 25th of May.
A Portrait of Heatherleys
'A Portrait of Heatherleys' – a collection of portrait photographs of the Heatherley staff by Aliona Adrianova taken over the Autumn Term 2017 and Spring Term 2018. The exhibition, including this photo of Hero Johnson, will be on permanent display at the school.
Interview with Hero Johnson in Artists and Illustrators Magazine
A feature on Hero Johnson in the March 2018 issue of Artists and Illustrators Magazine.
Barbara Hosking – Book Launch 'Exceeding My Brief'
Barbara Hosking's autobiography 'Exceeding My Brief – Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant' was launched at the Reform Club last month.
The back cover features Hero Johnson's portrait of Hosking.
The book is available through Bite Back publishing:
https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/exceeding-my-brief
And is reviewed by the New Statesman here:
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/11/i-didn-t-know-what-i-was-barbara-hosking-working-downing-street-and-coming-out
The BP Portrait Award – Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The BP Portrait Award 2017 will be showing at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery from the 16th of December 2017 to the 11th of March 2018.
Admission free.
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1 Queen St
Open daily 10am-5pm
Interview with Cass Art
I recently gave a short interview to Cass Art to support the 'Face to Face; works by BP Portrait Award artists' exhibition at their flagship Islington store.
Please click on the link below to read it and for further details of the group show:
https://www.cassart.co.uk/blog/bp_portrait_award_2017_artist_interviews_part_2.htm
66-67 Colebrooke Row
London N1 8AB
Face to Face 2017 – Works by BP Portrait Award Artists
23 AUGUST – 10 SEPTEMBER 2017
This exhibition brings together the works of artists exhibiting in the BP Portrait Award 2017 at the National Portrait Gallery, London. An insight into their practice beyond the Award, this show celebrates portraiture and figurative painting in its many forms.
The Cass Art Space, 66-67 Colebrooke Row, Islington N1 8AB
Private View Thursday 31 August 6pm-8pm
Monday – Wednesday 10am- 7pm
Thursdays 10am-8pm
Friday – Saturday 10am-7pm
Sundays 12am-6pm
Please note, on occasion the space may be closed temporarily for art workshops and classes.
Daphne Todd OBE Interview
Q: Are there other contemporary painters you admire?
Daphne Todd: Most of my original living heroes, such as William Coldstream, Francis Bacon, Patrick George and Euan Uglow are now dead. Paula Rego is, of course, very good indeed. I cannot think of anyone to touch her. Saied Dai, Antony Williams, Hero Johnson and Ben Sullivan are younger artists who I think have exceptional talent.
Q: What's the most important lesson you have learned?
Daphne Todd: To just keep on. There will be ups and downs, rejections and accolades. I have known artists invited to be judges because of their eminence fail to have work accepted when they later submit to the same competition. They keep on. Sadly I have also known good, even excellent, artists give up at the first setback, harbour a grudge and avoid risk of failure, denying themselves the opportunity of success. Luck plays a huge part. If you paint for your satisfaction, you have the joy of doing it and solving problems.
Excerpt from Artists & Illustrators magazine Summer 2017. Interview by Sally Hales.
Michael Bond CBE
In loving memory of Michael Bond.
January 1926 – June 2017.
I loved Michael's books as a child and it was a privilege to know and paint this wonderful man as an adult.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BV4izwsn1Cy/
Hilary Delamere, Hero Johnson, Michael Bond, Sue Bond and Karen Jankel.
'The Art of Reading' Waterstones Gower St London.
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Private View 2017
Some photographs from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition Private View, 3rd May 2017.
Taken by Alex Cotterill, Liberty Rowley, Daniel Shadbolt, Guy Bell and Katherine Tyrrell.
Exhibited portraits are of Michael Bond CBE and Paulina Pluta.
22 June – 24 September
Showing 'Tabitha Moses with Gilda. Liverpool'
The New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2017
Mall Galleries
16 June – 25 June
Showing a selection of drawings created during the NEAC Drawing Scholarship Year 2016-2017.
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2017
4th May – 19th May
Showing 2 recent paintings.
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What glorious country for an open-air convertible ride – in the back-seat 🙂 As a VW addict, can't help but wonder if there are similar "vintage bug" rallies !!!
It was an ideal day in every way. There are rallies for various kinds of cars all over the place, and I'm sure there are vintage VW clubs. We saw a wonderful VW Microbus gathering at Lake Havasu, Arizona, and posted our pics and story about it here and here.
Looks beautiful, especially in a convertible Porsche! That snow with the sunny day must have made for a beautiful and perfect ride!
It was an incredible drive, Pete, with absolutely picture perfect conditions!!


PRINCETON, N.J. – Jake Kulevich (Marblehead, Massachusetts) scored the game-winning goal 6:55 into the first overtime to give the Colgate men's ice hockey team a 3-2 win at Hobey Baker Rink and a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three first round series over the Princeton Tigers.
Mike Panowyk (Whitby, Ontario) carried the puck into the offensive zone and dropped off the puck for Jared Cockrell (Byfield, Massachusetts). Cockrell left the puck for Kulevich, who had a wide open lane to the net created by Cockrell and Panowyk to allow Kulevich to backhand home the puck past Princeton goaltender Colton Phinney.
Kulevich's overtime game-winning goal is the first such goal for Colgate since Mike Borkowski's overtime game-winner over St. Lawrence in the 2015 ECAC Hockey Semifinals on March 20, 2015.
Panowyk led all scorers with two points on a goal and an assist to extend his point streak to three games.
Goaltender Charlie Finn (North Vancouver, British Columbia) came up huge for the Raiders in goal as he made 29 saves, including 22 through the first two periods several big saves throughout the game.
The Raiders and the Tigers nearly played two scoreless periods before Panowyk netted Colgate's first goal of the game with 29 seconds left in the second period. Anthony Sanniti (LaSalle, Quebec) tapped the puck to Ken Citron(Cos Cob, Connecticut) who rushed the puck out of the defensive zone. Citron tapped the puck over to Panowyk, who skidded to a halt and wristed the shot past Princeton goaltender Colton Phinney.
Princeton came right back out in the third period and tied the game 59 seconds into the period as David Hallisey netted his seventh of the season. The Raiders couldn't clear the puck out of the zone and Hallisey managed to corral the puck and fire the puck past Colgate netminder Charlie Finn.
Finn made a huge save with 18 minutes left in the period, sliding across the crease to make the sprawling glove save on a backdoor opportunity by the Tigers.
Just under two-and-a-half minutes later, the Tigers took a 2-1 lead on Jeremy Germain's second goal of the season. Germain positioned himself perfect in the slot to redirect Derek Topatigh's shot from the point for the power-play tally.
Evan Peterson (Lakeville, Minnesota) tied the game up for the Raiders with 7:15 to go in the third period on his seventh of the season. Peterson carried the puck from the defensive zone and touched it over to Tim Harrison(Duxbury, Massachusetts). Harrison drew the defense to him after circling the net and found a patient Peterson on the wide-open back door for the game-tying goal.
Finn made another huge save for Colgate with just 1:20 left in the third period, stopping a point-blank shot from the slot to preserve the tie game before Kulevich's game-winner in overtime.
Colgate took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three games first round series to improve to 9-20-6 this season while Princeton falls to 13-14-3. The win goes down as the 1,000th in Colgate's program history.
-Kulevich scored Colgate's first overtime game-winning goal since Mike Borkowski in the ECAC Hockey semifinals on March 20, 2015, a 4-3 win.
"I thought we played better as the game went on, we certainly had some nerves early, especially our young guys. Charlie kept us on it early on and gave us a chance to win that game which you want out of your veteran goalie with a lot of young guys in front of you. I'm just really happy for the guys, the message was the same tonight afterwards whether we win that game or not. We still have to win two games to win that series, we have to regroup and do it all again tomorrow.
"It's a lot of wins for a very storied program, it's no small feat. Hockey started here a long time ago, we always speak to the rich tradition and history of the program. I'm constantly preaching to these guys that there was a lot of hockey played here before they got here, for some guys it seems a bit of surprise. Each team is sort of in its own element and its own world but there's been a lot of great people that have come through this program and I'm just very fortunate to be one part of all of this great history."
"The play developed pretty quickly, Jared Cockrell did a great job coming up the wall and just dropped it to me. [Panowyk]'s going hard to the net cleared the way, I saw the screen, put it to my backhand and finished. It feels pretty big."
"It's huge for us heading into tomorrow to win that game on the road. I think we came out a little nervous and hesitant but we found our stride, had a really good third period and OT. Hopefully we come out strong tomorrow and get this thing done."
"Obviously with the history of Colgate hockey it means a lot. It's funny; Vaughaner gave me the puck after the game on the ice and then came in the locker room looking for it once he realized it was the 1,000th win. It means a lot, it's cool but we need 1,001 now."
Colgate and Princeton will meet against Saturday night at Hobey Baker Rink with a chance for the Raiders to advance to the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals. Puck drop is set for 7 p.m.


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