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The crisis of social democracy
Across the world, centre-left governments and the traditional parties of the working class are in crisis. Reformism has hit up against the rocks of reality, unable to offer anything to workers and youth in this age of austerity. Daniel Morley examines the crisis of social democracy and points the way forward for leaders, such as Corbyn, in the fight to defend the gains of the past.
When one takes the broadest possible perspective on the history of capitalism, distinct political and economic epochs are detectable, such as the upswing of the late 19th Century, the profound crisis and imperialist disintegration of the two world wars and depression, and the renewed upswing after WWII. One tendency that stands out is that the upswings tend to be accompanied by a strengthening of reformism or social-democracy, and the downswings by its weakening and by polarisation. This process is neither linear nor mechanical, and any generalisation must be extremely conditional and open to exceptions. Nevertheless, such a pattern does seem real.
Today's epoch has many unique features. But it is crystal clear that we live in an epoch of profound capitalist decline - one that has greatly accelerated since 2008, but that in truth has been with us since the mid-to-late 1970s. It is in this context that we should understand the unprecedented degeneration, decline and even destruction of traditional social democracy in many countries, especially European ones.
The Economist (2nd April 2016) reports that across Europe social democrats are at their lowest level of electoral support for 70 years, falling by on average ⅓ over the past few years! "In the five European Union (EU) states that held national elections last year, social democrats lost power in Denmark, fell to their worst-ever results in Finland, Poland and Spain and came to within a hair's-breadth of such a nadir in Britain." Even 'naturally' social-democratic Sweden has 'matured' into more of a normal capitalist country with austerity and privatisation.
Across the advanced capitalist world, the film of capitalist development seems to have been running in reverse for decades now. Just about the only thing growing in these economies has been inequality, and everybody knows it. It is widely known that the wages of the US working class have stagnated or even declined for many years, even decades. The net worth of working class Americans declined by 53% between 1998 and 2013 (The Guardian, 19th May 2016). The Financial Times reports that "Millions of Americans are anchored to blighted neighbourhoods by negative equity, or other ties that bind. Their life expectancy is falling. Their participation in the labour market is dropping. The numbers signing up to disability benefits is rising. Opioid prescription drugs are rife." (FT, 21st March 2016).
It is hardly surprising then that The Economist (19th March 2016) recently found American workers felt that "Obama is for the people who don't work" (i.e. the super rich). "Strikingly, praise for the president was mostly dwarfed by anger at the state of the country...Asked to sum up Mr Obama, the men replied variously that he was a good man, a disappointment, a 'great speech-giver"...and a man who had failed to reign in the super-rich and their influence over politics." The article adds that "Jeff McCurdy, a warehouse worker, described colleagues struggling to raise families on salaries of $14 an hour. "Their kids aren't even getting the healthy food they need...and they wonder why people are pissed off."
The inescapable conclusion these facts of modern life drive towards was, surprisingly, hinted at by this arch-capitalist newspaper:
"The men in the union hall want a new approach to capitalism, in which foreign trade partners must pay living wages and heed global environmental norms...they feel - passionately - that the economy is stacked against them, and want larger changes to capitalism than mainstream politicians can deliver. What then?"
Readers would do well to read Kevin Williamson's article for the National Review magazine to get an honest account of how these 'mainstream politicians' view such angry men and women in union halls (or 'working class whites', as the article calls them). In this article, Williamson baldly states that,
"The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump's speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn't analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul. If you want to live, get out of Garbutt."
The truth is that such men and women have always viewed the working class this way; what stands out now is that the mass of the working class all over the world are conscious of it. In particular, they are conscious that 'their' social democratic leaders now enthusiastically share this class hatred of the ruling class. If anything, the likes of Angela Eagle, Francois Hollande and Sigmar Gabriel appear even more contemptuous of their working class voters than do the conservatives.
The situation is no different in Britain and Europe. All over Britain we find dilapidated high streets in which the only new shops are 99p stores. Since 2008, only one in every 40 new jobs created has been for a full-time employee. Work has been hollowed out and replaced with zero-hour jobs. Britain has experienced more deindustrialisation than any other major nation, though rust belts and the wreckage of decaying capitalism are now normal features of all advanced capitalist societies. The ongoing Sports Direct enquiry has revealed that this major company doesn't even pay the legally required minimum wage, refuses to allow toilet breaks, and witnessed several births in its warehouses because it refused maternity and sick leave. Sports Direct embodies the generalised attack on the position of the working class across the country, and what is really needed is a trial of the whole capitalist class in Britain, which is no different to Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley. Similarly, BHS's collapse while its bosses lined their pockets is a fitting epitaph for the British capitalist class as a whole.
Crisis of bourgeois democracy
In truth, what we are witnessing is the beginnings of a profound crisis of bourgeois democracy as a whole. The so-called anti-establishment mood corrodes the mainstream right wing as well as the social-democrats. The phenomenon is so widespread it stretches even to ex-colonial countries such as India and the Philippines, which has just elected its own 'Filipino Trump'. Where in the world can one find a confident and popular mainstream bourgeois or social-democratic party? Until recently, one might have said Germany, but the CDU is now rapidly losing credibility to the reactionary AfD on the right, and the SPD has been in crisis for more than a decade now.
Opinion polls across the advanced capitalist world consistently show profound (and unprecedented) mistrust and even outright contempt for politicians and the media. In the US, Congress has an approval rating of 15-18%, an all time low. The level of disdain is the same amongst Democrat and Republican voters. This graph shows the dramatic decline in support in recent years:
The percentage of Europeans disapproving of the whole democratic system in their country has climbed significantly, now reaching 45%.
These visceral 'anti-establishment' feelings are extremely widespread in Britain and represent a complete loss of faith in bourgeois democracy. The Financial Times quotes from a powerful study by Will Jennings, a professor of politics at Southampton University:
He has studied British attitudes towards the political establishment since the 1940s. The conclusion: trust has eroded steadily over decades, but is now running alarmingly low.
The UK's Mass Observation archive, which collects diaries and other private correspondence, shows that people today write about doctors, the clergy and lawyers in more or less the same way as they did back in 1945. That is not the case with politicians, as a recent paper co-authored by Professor Jennings points out: "Citizens now described their 'hatred' for politicians who made them 'angry', 'incensed', 'outraged', 'disgusted' and 'sickened'."
Among the words used for politicians, the paper adds, are arrogant, boorish, corrupt, creepy, devious, loathsome, lying, parasitical, pompous, shameful, sleazy, slippery, spineless, traitorous, weak and wet. As Prof Jennings says, "whatever measure you use political mistrust is rising — you see a generalised malaise". (Financial Times, 15.6.16)
This is spelled out vividly in the following graphs:
Widespread is the sense that 'the system is rigged'; that the entire 'system' must be fundamentally changed because its structure is wrong or broken beyond repair. The conceit of our much vaunted democracy is that the people are sovereign, and that is the assumption of our education systems and most public debates. Actually, the democratic system is subordinate to the economic system of capitalism. There is never any real 'national sovereignty' under capitalism, it is always really the rich business owners that dominate. In today's epoch of the crushing domination of the world market, the illusion of national sovereignty has been greatly weakened, but of course it is the ongoing crisis of capitalism which has dealt the harshest blow to this illusion.
The unforeseen financial and economic crisis dramatically altered politics across the world against the will of all participants, conservative and social-democratic. All politicians must now worship at the altar of balanced budgets and endless austerity. Well before the financial crisis the social democrats had abandoned the pretence of standing for anything significantly different than the conservatives. But the financial crisis has cruelly exposed their sheer emptiness, their inability to fight for anything. This was most graphically revealed in Greece of course, first with PASOK and then even more dramatically with Syriza. But the inability for 'democracy' to control the market has been revealed also with Hollande in France and the PSUV in Venezuela. Voters everywhere can see that if they elect a left-reformist government, it will immediately face a flight of capital and an economic crisis, and its capitulation to 'the markets' will likely be as swift as it is ignominious.
The crisis has revealed precisely that the system is rigged, and that bourgeois democracy is a sham. This realisation must fall most heavily onto the social democracy, since it is these parties that bear the burden of 'proving' that through 'democracy' we can tame capitalism. It is social democracy that is most heavily invested in the illusion of the sovereignty of the people. These words of Trotsky referring to the dilemma of social democracy during the Great Depression are extremely relevant today:
"The crisis did not strengthen the party of 'socialism', on the contrary, it weakened it, just as it depressed the trade turn-over, the resources of banks...Today, one is obliged to look, not in bourgeois papers, but in social democratic press for the most optimistic evaluations of the conjuncture...If the atrophy of capitalism produces the atrophy of the social democracy, then the approaching death of capitalism cannot but denote the early death of the social democracy. The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave."
A crisis decades in the making
The truth is that social democracy is utterly dependent on the health of capitalism. It rides its waves, carrying out reforms when the economic conditions merit it, but finds itself bewildered and dumbstruck by capitalism's periodic crises. Incapable of really challenging the ruling class, trying instead to persuade it, it is always unprepared for the ruling class' attacks. Reformism necessarily must fail to anticipate the inevitable consequences of its attempts to regulate the market, such as inflation and capital flight, because it is based precisely on the illusion that clever politics can eliminate the injustice and anarchy of the system. Therefore its plans founder on these rocks of reality.
It is failures of this kind in the 1970s that dealt the initial blow from which social democracy has never truly recovered. The Wilson-Callaghan government of 1974-9 was elected on a radical platform, pledged to nationalisation on a big scale. But the postwar boom had by now thoroughly exhausted itself. The shocks of the oil and Bretton Woods crises shifted the thinking of the capitalists to monetarism and 'neoliberalism' away from Keynesianism. This wrong-footed the Labour leadership, who neither anticipated nor understood the long-term significance of this. Their government was wracked by rampant inflation, capital flight, the collapse of sterling and a humiliating bailout by the IMF.
Just like Syriza, the Labour government did a 180 turn and swallowed the IMF's austerity agenda, abandoning the entire left programme it was elected on. Another example at a similar time is that of Francois Mitterand's 'austerity turn' two years after being elected on a left wing programme in 1981. It is the same also with Ramsay MacDonald's shameful treachery in the crisis of the 1930s, when he abandoned his programme and party to form a government of austerity with the Tories and Liberals.
It is important to emphasise how unprepared the reformist leaders were for this, since this lack of foresight is characteristic of reformism, which assumes vainly that capitalism can be tamed or made rational. It is also important to emphasise the ruling class' decisive shift away from the Keynesian ideas that were complementary to social-democracy. These are important to emphasise because they show the decisive importance of the anarchic, unplanned movements of the market in dramatically changing and limiting the political process in capitalist society. It is precisely this feature which reformism cannot grasp or accept.
In truth social democracy, in Britain at least, has been AWOL ever since then. It has never recovered its nerve, because its nerve was based on the assumption, now thoroughly exploded, that the capitalists and their system were permanently compatible with high taxation, deficit financing and a big welfare state. We are all used to the strangely empty, vague and platitudinous character of the speeches and pledges of reformist leaders in modern times. In a recent notorious interview, Angela Eagle found it impossible to say what the political basis to her challenge of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership was. She simply had nothing to say, no political content at all. This is because she and her ilk have had their options destroyed by the capitalist system's crisis. In fact we know what her political content is; her voting record demonstrates she is a supporter of austerity and war. But she cannot say this openly, so she says nothing.
The social democrats could have drawn the lessons from this experience: that it is not possible to reform your way to socialism gradually. They could have, faced with the strike of capital, mobilised the working class to fight this, called for the workers to support the expropriation of capitalists undermining the economy, etc. But to do so would mean to challenge capitalism with revolution. Instead they were paralysed by the shock, and simply caved in to the demands of austerity. This unedifying picture caused Labour's ejection from office in 1979, and the rest is history.
For these reasons the social democrats have a reputation in most places for being rather pathetic, vacillating, unprincipled and afraid of or disgusted by their own working class base, alongside their much discussed reputation for economic mismanagement. Why can they not recover their former popularity?
Rotten ripe
In 1938's Transitional Programme, Trotsky pointed out that the conditions for the overthrow of capitalism had become somewhat rotten ripe. If capitalist decline is not translated into socialist revolution, bourgeois society rots. In place of socialism we got fascism.
The post-modernists like to talk about the end of 'grand historical narratives', especially that of capitalism's socialist overthrow. They declared an end to progress and rationality, and retreated into subjective experience and interpretation. This is a cynical and directionless philosophy, utterly useless for anything other than justifying the preservation of capitalism and, of course, intellectual sophistry. But all influential philosophies are influential for a reason; they must reflect something that is true.
What postmodernism does reflect (though uncritically), is precisely this rotten-ripeness of the socialist revolution. The 'end of grand narratives' is really the failure of proletarian leadership in the epoch of social revolution.
When one looks at the deindustrialised wastelands of Europe and North America, at the mass alienation from politics, at the cynicism and emptiness of mainstream politics, it is clear that capitalism has reached a sort of dead end and begun to decline. The system is decaying. In truth, it temporarily went beyond its limits in building big welfare states, and must now devour these working class encroachments.
Wrong-footed by the crisis of the 1970s, unprepared for the attacks of the bourgeoisie, the reformists, committed to managing capitalism, had no choice but to accept the supremacy of the market. The Thatcherites did a very thorough job of attacking 'socialism'; the defeat was humiliating for the Left. In Britain, once the miners were defeated, the guts were ripped out of a defenceless labour movement. The working class largely withdrew from political activity, and the careerists at the top of social-democracy had a free hand to carry out their wholesale capitulation to 'neoliberalism'.
Today, it is the combination of that hollowing out of these parties, and the current severe crisis of capitalism, that produces the empty soundbyte politics of these parties. This surreal emptiness reached its height under Ed Miliband, who on the one hand felt the need to position Labour to the left of the Tories and try to make political capital by criticising austerity, but on the other hand entirely accepted the need for austerity and for Labour to be seen as 'economically responsible'. He was rightly seen as weak, confused, unprincipled and a world away from the burning anger of the working class.
Prior to last summer's Labour leadership election, the entire party seemed to be sleepwalking into death. There was a constant vain searching for a magical recipe for success, but there were never any actual ingredients making up this recipe. This or that MP would come forward and talk incredibly vaguely about the need for some mysterious new 'strategy to get our message across'. But they had no message, and never could have, because they accepted that it is their job to manage a capitalist system in deep crisis. This debate was very noisy and yet strangely empty - but then again an empty vessel does make the most noise.
The Left must throw caution to the wind
The bourgeoisie's perspective for social democracy in this fractured political landscape is for it to collapse into a sort of niche party in the patchwork of political interests. For them, being working class is just a superficial identity, so social democratic parties may retain their strength in regions that happen to retain an explicitly working class identity, like Newcastle or Germany's Ruhrgebiet. Even then, such loyalty can and will be whittled away if the party fails the express the real interests of working class people, as Labour's position in Scotland shows. This is perhaps the future for social-democracy if it fails to break out of its inertia and fight for the interests (rather than the mere cultural image) of the working class.
There is burning anger in the working class across Europe and North America, a sense of betrayal and extreme alienation from politics. It is more than just anger at economic injustice, it is also frustration from the lack of any sense of control over politics. Many have noted how support for Trump often increases when he makes what the media perceive as a 'gaffe'. Many probably don't agree with, or think particularly coherent, his rude, racist and sexist remarks. But this misses the point, people don't support him for the coherency of these remarks; they support his tearing up of the so-called rulebook. They are delighted to see someone who seems to echo their sentiment that 'your politics, your rules, your values mean nothing to us!' They like that he does not care about the contrived manners of mainstream politics because they correctly discern that these manners are a phoney gloss on a lie.
Part of Trump's popularity is that he has thrown caution to the wind. But the Left still seems to be apologising for itself to the ruling class, still seems afraid of its own shadow. Prior to the present crisis and leadership election in the Labour Party, even Corbyn and McDonnell seemed excessively cautious, afraid of unleashing the pent up anger of their supporters. McDonnell was keen to spell out his economic 'responsibility' and 'iron budget discipline'. In most countries the social-democracy still seems scarred from its defeats, still seems to believe the propaganda of the right wing. It is afraid to throw off its shackles because it knows it must manage a decrepit capitalist system and cannot raise expectations too high. But that is fatal for it, it can only revive by reflecting the masses' militant anger and passion. In this way the crisis of social democracy reflects the crisis of the capitalist system.
In truth society has moved to the left since 2008. There is a radicalisation and a desire to express the anger built up at the injustices of the past two or three decades, to come to a reckoning with 'the establishment'. Hence the unprecedented vote for Brexit, which has dramatically accelerated all these processes. The anger is beginning to find an expression: in many countries outside of the traditional social democracy (e.g. in Spain and Greece); in Britain through an unprecedented change in the Labour Party.
The enormous gap between the anger and neglected interests of the working class, and the political situation, has finally begun to narrow. For years we've been told by post-modernists that mass political parties are a thing of the past; that everyone now is interested only in single issues and is essentially just a middle class individual. But events have changed everything. Labour is now the biggest party in Europe, with close to 600,000 members. All the perspectives and theories about society and politics that were dominant are being falsified. A gigantic class struggle is opening up in the Labour Party. The gulf between the working class and the party membership on one side, and the MPs on another, is actually wider than ever. But now this class consciousness and anger is not passive, it has an outlet and is growing in confidence and boldness with each clash in this struggle. The genie is out of the bottle and cannot be put back.
We are witnessing in Labour the painful rebirth of the socialist movement and class based politics. Social democracy and class collaboration are in their death throes. Corbyn and his movement are not the end of this process, but only the confused beginning. He himself remains reformist. But there can be no doubt about it - we are living through the death of social democracy as we have known it.
The political radicalisation we are witnessing is a messy process. It is almost like the movement is starting again. We will see wave after wave of radicalisation from country to country. In some countries the existing social democracy will be transformed and shaken up, as we can see with Labour in Britain. In others new formations will arise, as with Podemos in Spain.
In both cases these phenomena will be very unstable and most likely short lived, because until they break with capitalism they will, in an epoch of crisis, be overwhelmed by the crisis of capitalism and be forced to abandon their programme, as seen with Syriza. There is and will be an almighty churn of left wing, and right wing, parties all over the world. Through the din and confusion of this process a clear note rings out: "the people demand the fall of the regime!"
The regime, that is capitalism, has exhausted itself. There is no room for reformism to carry out reforms. Fundamentally that is why social democracy is in crisis. It can only shake off the stench of betrayal by 'throwing caution to the wind'. It must abandon the attempt to manage capitalism, a doomed mission, and boldly embrace the fight for a socialist alternative to capitalism. Fighting talk and clear alternatives are what the working class needs and wants.
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The Truth Laid Bear: Feingold: Pay No Attention to That Elected Government In the Corner
Inskeep: "We heard earlier this hour from the national security advisor in Iraq, who said Iraqi politicians said [that they wanted a timetable for withdrawal] but the government of Iraq essentially agrees with the Bush administration." Feingold: That's right: the government of Iraq that was produced basically as a result of an American occupation as opposed to a general consensus from the country is not the test. The test is what the major interests in the country said. The major interests in the country, the political parties, hey, these are the people that are going to decide the future of the country. If you got the Sunnis, the Shiites, and the Kurds all agreeing that we need a timetable, who do you listen do? Do you listen to them, or do you listen to these folks that have a very shaky government that frankly was a result --- of course, of an election --- but also of an American invasion of the country... that is a very bad way to ignore the wishes of the Iraqi people."
It's going to be very interesting to find out in three weeks or so what the "real government" of Iraq thinks about the situation. Considering that what they have there now is not a government. Of course. This meant nothing, really.
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UPDATE: Blogger Makes It To Semi-Finals For Charity
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Nov. 9, 2009) – The latest news on the Quaker Oats/ Goodbite challenge is in. Enough of you have watched, voted and catapulted Laura Levy's "Red, White and Berry" oatmeal recipe into the semi-finals.
Levy is now one of only three food bloggers left in the "Awaken Your Senses" challenge, sponsored by Quaker Oats and Goodbite.com. The contest wraps up on Nov. 13.
Now there is a little over one week left to vote and help secure Levy's prize: $10,000 for the Food For The Poor, the country's largest international relief and development agency.
Watch and vote for Levy's "Red, White and Berry" oatmeal topping, and help Food For The Poor continue its work in 17 countries. Visit www.youtube.com/quakertalk, click on "Vote" toward the top, and give Levy and Food For The Poor a green thumbs up.
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Oct. 21, 2009) – Watch and vote and with one click of your mouse you could help feed millions of hungry people in the Caribbean and Latin America. Sound too easy? Here's how. Food For The Poor is one of 12 charitable organizations that could benefit from a dozen of the Web's top food bloggers competing for votes on You Tube's new Quaker Talk channel.
It's all part of a large campaign cooked up by Quaker and Goodbite.com, called "Awaken Your Senses." The 12 food bloggers must each reveal a favorite childhood food memory on You Tube. Then, Goodbite's Chef David Lawrence takes that memory and translates it into an original oatmeal topping, combining Quaker Instant Oatmeal and fresh ingredients.
Food blogger Laura Levy, of Laura's Best Recipe's chose to compete for Food For The Poor, a relief and development organization working in 17 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. She says she loves the organization and is hard at work letting all her subscribers know to vote for her recipe in the contest. Along with a very popular recipe site, Levy has more than 2,400 Twitter followers.
Levy's childhood food memory revolved around the Fourth of July. She reminisced about growing up in a small town where the national holiday was always a big deal. She remembered the parades, barbecues and hunting for berries. In the evening, after a day of collecting ollieberries (similar to blackberries), everyone gathered around the bonfires on the beach making berry crumbles right on the fire-grill.
Inspired by this tasty, patriotic memory, Goodbites's Chef Lawrence created a "Red, White and Berry" topping. He'll broadcast the secret to whipping up this sweet treat on Oct. 23. That's when you can log on to You Tube's Quaker Talk channel, watch Levy's customized recipe and vote for her topping to win.
"Food For The Poor is honored that Laura chose our organization to receive her winnings. We feed an average of 2 million people every day," said Angel Aloma, Food For The Poor's Executive Director. "And this is so easy. Everyone who logs on and votes for Levy's recipe to win will help to break the cycle of poverty in our world."
Laura Levy, Goodbite, Quaker and Food For The Poor staff and supporters are spreading the word about the "Awaken Your Senses" challenge through social media networks like Facebook and Twitter. The grand prize winner will be announced on Nov.16. Each of the dozen participating charities will receive $500.
Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed millions of hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. We provide emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor. For more information, visit www.foodforthepoor.org.
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Posted on September 18, 2016 by Megan Brooks — Leave a comment
Unboxing: NYCC Nerd Block
New York Comic Con is coming up in October, but the NYCC exclusive Nerd Block is already here!
The exclusive box was released in limited circulation by Nerd Block and ReedPop.
A limited-edition curated collection of epic NYCC collectibles and gear for serious convention nerds! The Limited Edition NYCC Block contains 10 amazing collectibles as well as an officially licensed T-shirt designed by ShirtPunch. In total, this block has SIX EXCLUSIVES – including an Infinity Gauntlet exclusive! Retail value of over $90, for only $39.99! – NerdBlock
My box was delivered over the weekend while I was out of town, so I asked my boyfriend to stop by my house and pick it up for me. After all, I couldn't have $90 worth of NYCC merchandise sitting on my doorstep for an entire weekend!
Had I known what was in the box, I probably would have left it for the thieves on purpose.
NYCC T-Shirt
I was hoping that the provided t-shirt would be a NYCC design, and I wasn't disappointed.
The design is charmingly plain, and the shirt is soft and of good quality. Women's graphic tees tend to run small, but I found the size (a women's small) to be a true fit.
Now do I wear this or my favorite geeky tee to Comic Con? Decisions, decisions.
Rating: 5/5 ripped Hulk shirts.
NYCC Pin
I didn't expect to see a pin in a box full of NYCC exclusives, but okay. I'll roll with it.
The pin is designed to look like a New York City sewer grate (aka a Ninja Turtle door), and surprisingly enough, it's extremely sturdy! The addition of a second clasp provides an extra opportunity to stab yourself. Yass!
Rating: 4/5 Spongebob Squarepants band-aids.
Gryffindor Socks
Master has given Meggy Harry Potter socks… Meggy is free!
I love Harry Potter. I love socks. Mix the two together, and I'm officially enthralled.
These Gryffindor socks are incredible cute, but unless you have a child's shins and calves, the print will stretch and become distorted. They're a little snug, as well, which is sure to be a huge issue for anyone with large calves.
Rating: 3.5/5 Quidditch goals
Revolution Issue #1
It wouldn't be a comic convention box without a comic, now would it?
Revolution is a brand new Transformers comic book series by IDW publishing. The cover art looks incredible, and after a quick browse through the actual comic, I'm pleased to say that the interior artwork is stunning as well.
I haven't paid much attention to Transformers since Michael Bay butchered the series, but I'm excited to dive into this comic none the less!
I'll be reviewing this comic at a later time, so stay tuned!
Rating: 4/5 Chevy ad placements and Victoria's Secret models
Glow-in-the-Dark Slimer Dashboard Spring
This dash accessory has the shape of Slimer down, but the ghoul's eyes are too small, too red, and way too creepy for my taste. It does glow in the dark very well, and the spring is, well, springy.
I'm too terrified of this Slimer to keep it in my own vehicle, but I definitely know my big brother would get a kick out of it! #regift
Rating: 2/5 crossed streams
The Walking Dead projection key chain flashlight
This key chain light is decorated with The Walking Dead's logo and projects the series iconic "Don't Open, Dead Inside" when flashed onto a surface.
It's a neat little gimmick that is sure to get old quick, but the light is bright enough to act like an actual flashlight when you're fumbling for something in the dark.
Kind of lame, kind of cool, kind of going on my lanyard.
Rating: 3/5 chained walker pets
Ninja Turtle Shoelaces
Never have I ever rocked crazy shoelaces, but I'm totally ready to rock these Ninja Turtle ones!
The pattern is cute, the colors are vibrant, and the material seems sturdy enough for shoe laces.
They're totally tubular, dude!
Rating: 4/5 pepperoni pizzas
Voltron Wallet
I don't watch Voltron (sorry – I was a 90s baby) but now that I own a Voltron wallet, I guess I have to.
The design is nice, but the wallet itself is nothing special. It's a standard canvas wallet that nearly anyone can design online. It's cheaply made, and since there are no clasps (button, VELCRO, magnet) to keep the wallet closed, it awkwardly flops around and exposes your goodies. No bueno.
I don't think I'll ever use this – It may as well be a cheap paperweight.
Rating: 2/5 classic 80s cartoons
Speaking of paper weights…
Included in the NYCC Nerd Block was an Infinity Gauntlet paperweight.
The gauntlet is adored with infinity crystals, but annoyingly enough, they are not perfectly centered in their designated spot. Even so, the gauntlet is beautiful and well designed.
I shall gaze upon this gauntlet each time I need to be motivated to take over the universe.
Fun fact: apparently you shouldn't microwave this collectible. Plans ruined.
Rating: 4/5 guardians of the galaxy
Disco Spiral digital print
What the fuck is this shit?
A terrible and strangely imagined digital print of an X-Men villain nobody cares about…and it's not even autographed!
Say hello to the recycle bin, Spiral. May you be reborn as a Chipotle catering menu.
Rating: 0/5 mutant dance parties
Overall rating: 2/5 ridiculously long panel lines
Disappointment has a name, and it's Nerdblock.
I purchased the New York Comic Con Nerd Block in hopes of getting my hands on highly coveted exclusive toys and accessories without waiting in line for hours, but nobody in their right mind would ever wait in line for the items I received.
These are the items you definitely would find in the Comic-Con clearance bin, and I paid 50 fucking dollars for them. Some of the items were neat, don't get me wrong, but I essential paid $50 for $20 worth of low quality merchandise.
I feel incredibly ripped off and deceived. If I could return it all to Nerdblock for a refund, I would.
Never, ever again.
Categories: Gadgets, Geeky
Tags: ghost busters, Harry Potter, infinity gauntlet, marvel, nerdblock, new york comic con, nycc, the walking dead, Transformers
Posted on March 4, 2015 March 9, 2015 by Meme Jackson — Leave a comment
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Recap: Ep. 211, "Aftershocks"
Season 2B starts off with a young man in a red box. He's clearly special: he's teleporting around the room but without any control. His eyes are missing – as in completely not there – and he looks like a certain someone who made an ominous phone call previously. Skye's mother Jiaying arrives to comfort him. Patiently, she guides Gordon to her, helping him to understand and manage the changes that have happened to him after stepping through the mist. After calming him, Jiaying discusses her role with Yat-sen.
Jiaying: Without me guiding these poor kids through their changes they would be lost.
Like Skye, who is quarantined with S.H.I.E.L.D. and having nightmares about poor Trip's rough break. She wakes to Coulson standing vigil and Skye expresses her guilt; she feels like Trip wouldn't have ever gone into the city if it weren't for her, but Coulson insists he gave his life to save millions. Skye wants to know how everyone else is adjusting and they're largely distracting themselves: May is beating the tar out of a punching bag, Mac is still being a mechanic with his faithful assistant, Fitz, Morse reminisces, and Hunter is drinking his woes away.
Get me some Cactus Cooler, stat.
Coulson tells Skye that Mac cleared to be released from quarantine quickly. Apparently the force that was controlling him doesn't like to stay long. And Simmons is still in the city collecting specimens with the plan to blow the whole city so no one can enter again. No sign of Raina yet in the rubble, and Coulson was surprised that Skye is unharmed in all the destruction. But she's freaking out.
Skye: We lost! Game over, man, game over! If I didn't go down there, you could have just blown the place like you wanted to originally!
Coulson: Hey! Get it together! We lost a battle but the war continues until we cut off every head Hydra has! While they scramble for a new head, I WILL DESTROY THEM.
The current incarnation of Hydra have a meeting to discuss Whitehall's death and the management vacancy it left. They know that S.H.I.E.L.D. will retaliate and set a contest between them: whoever takes out S.H.I.E.L.D. gets to replace Whitehall. Back down in the city, some poor scientist is attacked by someone. Something? We can't see the attack, but we do see the pool of blood travelling around the corner and a hand covered in spiky quills that might just belong to the missing Raina.
Continuing with the systematic excavation of the city, Simmons gives orders to two more besuited scientists to collect samples from a particular area quickly so they can hurry up and flood the place. Not two seconds after she leaves them, our spiky attacker slashes the two scientists' throats and gets a glimpse of itself. Yup, it's Raina and depending on who you talk to, she's not as gorgeous as before. Simmons unloads a clip at her but Raina is able to escape to the surface.
Morse brings Skye an awesome quarantine care package: cards, homemade trail mix (healthy), candy bars (not healthy), trashy magazines, and the sweet, orange glory that is the exclusively Californian Cactus Cooler. Skye feels like a leper but Adrian assures her that she's dope: "You were taken hostage by three known murderers, gunned Ward down, and were blasted by an alien chemical weapon and walked away unscathed. You're a rock star, not a leper, silly."
Fitz is struggling to make sense of the fragments of Skye's biometer watch. If he can fix it, he can get an idea of what happened to her, but his wires are crossing. Mac offers his small electronics kit for tinkering, but Fitz is more curious about how he's doing.
Fitz: How's your head?
Mac: I told you it won't do me any good to give you a play by play.
Fitz: You know you can talk to me.
Mac: WELL YOU WEREN'T THERE AND IT WASN'T YOU AND DO YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO SEE YOURSELF HURTING THE PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT AND NOT BE ABLE TO CONTROL YOUR BODY AT ALL?!?!
Fitz: …Yeah.
Mac: Oh. Yeah. Sorry.
Simmons reports on the deaths in the city and her Raina sighting. She informs Coulson and May that she wounded Raina who seemed to have been covered in spikes. Simmons says she collected a specimen but really doesn't want to go on a manhunt for Raina. She'd rather come back to headquarters to see everyone and run tests on Raina's DNA and Coulson agrees. Then he tells May to gather everyone to plot how to take down Hydra.
Coulson begins to outline a preliminary plan for destroying Hydra and a great ping ponging scene of dissent begins to play out. Mac is grumpy because Coulson's choices seem to be getting people hurt, Hunter likes to make ill-timed jokes to "lighten the mood," and May is still a company woman. Mac is pissed off at how Coulson's orders – even when they're to save one of their own – usually end with people getting hurt and everyone explodes into an argument. Inside her quarantine room, the stress and anger is getting to Skye and she's about to spill the rest of that orange gold in a can, but no one notices. Coulson checks Mac.
Coulson: Enough! If Trip were here he wouldn't be arguing or bitching. He'd gear up to do what needs to be done. Yes, we're dealing with forces we don't understand, but I do understand Hydra. Get your crap together and be ready by sun up. Coulson out!
Meet your new bestie, Bakshi.
Down in their lovely prison cells, Coulson begins to reveal part of the plan: he is trading Bakshi to Talbot in the military in exchange for their help in eliminating the remaining Hydra leaders. Coulson and May transport Bakshi and discuss their plan. May is relatively sure they can trust Talbot, but what about the people around him? We know how insidious Hydra is; any of them could be working for the enemy. Just as they reassure themselves of their need of Talbot's help – and let slip that Bakshi might be more important to Hydra now that Whitehall is dead – their SUV is T-boned by a speeding Mack truck.
The truck pushes the vehicle through a wall and into a warehouse of sorts and a shootout ensues. Coulson and May are taking heavy fire and toss some grenades. May is all, "I count four left. You know what that means." Then she does an awesome action star flip over the hood and takes the rest out single-handedly. I love this woman. They remove Bakshi to escape and May is shot, followed quickly by Coulson. One of the opposition is saving Bakshi: "Come on, the SUV is still running!"
In their escape vehicle, Bakshi is asking his savior about the current state of Hydra and that voice sounds familiar. The shooter takes off his mask and it's Hunter but with an American accent! He tells Bakshi that he supposes he's working for him now that Whitehall is dead. Back in the warehouse, all the dead bodies come back to life: everyone involved in their dramatic display was an agent and Morse speeds off on her motorcycle after Hunter and Bakshi.
Mac tells Fitz that the plan has worked so far but Fitz is still having trouble with Skye's watch. His hands are getting better but his head must be getting worse because he can't explain his findings. Skye's DNA will help, but he doesn't think he'll be able to truly understand until Simmons returns. Bakshi calls Bloom to report he's alive and Hunter pulls a gun on him.
Hunter: Don't try anything sneaky, this will be painless.
Bakshi: WHOA MAN WHAT'S WITH THE GUNS?!
Hunter: I'm under orders to kill you once you make contact. My employers don't want any of you nutters to get in the way.
Bakshi: Don't kill me! If you take me to Bloom you'll be financially set for life, I'll braid your daughter's hair, and if you ever need a kidney you have a donor in me!
Hunter: Ah, alright. Get in.
While another blood sample is taken from Skye, Simmons reflects on how changed Raina was when she saw her. Raina's DNA contains extra macromolecules and Simmons is freaked out that Skye's exposure to Raina might have far reaching, epidemic-like consequences.
Skye: That's a hasty conclusion, don't you think?
Simmons: I was so curious about powers and unearthly powers, hoping to understand and control it. I should have been trying to destroy it. It's a plague and it only brings us death! Donnie Gill, Chan Ho Yin, Creel…
Skye: But you've helped people with powers before! The Avengers —
Simmons: The Avengers wouldn't be necessary if we hadn't gone poking that alien bear! Trip was in fragments.
Simmons is determined that Trip be the last casualty caused by her thirst for knowledge and says flooding the city is the first responsible thing she's done to protect the people she cares about.
Back in Puerto Rico on a pier, Skye's dad Calvin is making a deal for travel. "Quiet as a mouse, just like last time." Raina finds him and shows her how she's evolved. "What the hell have I become?! What happened to me?"
Calvin: Metamorphosis, by the look of it.
Raina: It wasn't supposed to be like this! I was supposed to become something divine, transcendent. My grandmother said I'd be an angel, not some gnarled creature covered in thorns.
Calvin: You always did like flowers.
Raina: They hurt and this is your fault! Your daughter got a gift too and she's still beautiful! She took what was mine!
Calvin: We all have our disappointments. I dreamt of a perfect reunion with my daughter and revenge for my wife and Coulson rained on ALL OF MY PARADES! But you said she's changed! She's gonna be afraid, but I bet she went back to Coulson. She'll come to me when she sees how they treat her. I'll wreak some havoc with the help of their index, remind Daisy that she needs me.
Raina: What about me? Aren't you going to help me?
Calvin: I did. We helped each other achieve our goals and now you're on your own.
Raina: I can't live like this! My insides feel like gravel and I cut myself when I move. I can't live as this repulsive creature.
Calvin: Then don't.
Cold blooded. (Is it wrong that I was distracted from this scene by noticing that Raina's makeup could have been done better by a Face Off All Star? Seriously, she couldn't emote through that face application at all! I could only read emotion in her voice. Anyway, back to the recap.)
Hunter and Bakshi arrive at Bloom's. Bakshi says once he's inside he'll send for Hunter, who is joined in the car by Morse as Bakshi passes through the gates.
Morse: Can you drop that accent? It makes you sound like a douchebag.
Hunter: Now you know how I feel living in this country.
They begin to discuss the argument back at headquarters and Hunter knows that Morse and Mac have some sort of secret they're hiding. She tells him that she and Mac are in a support group and he laughs because her news could have been so much worse! They could be double agents or something.
I'm sorry, dude.
Back at headquarters, Mac and Simmons report to Coulson that their ventilation system is sound so they aren't being exposed to the quarantined Skye's contaminants. Mac also apologizes to Coulson for his outbursts and blames it on the alco- I mean, the alien influence. He says he's having a hard time controlling his temper, but he's working on it and hopes he can still work on Lola one day.
Coulson: After that little RC version you built for me, I'm genuinely considering it. Although, I couldn't figure out how to make it fly.
Mack: Er, it doesn't.
Simmons warns Coulson and May about Raina. She thinks that because Raina might be carrying catastrophic contaminants of the plague variety, agents should definitely go ahead and kill her if there is no other absolutely safe option of bringing her in. Look who's learning to be ruthless!
Back at Bloom's, Bakshi and Bloom are talking to another Hydra head. They think there is infighting among the heads and that the Sheik, the Banker, and the Baroness have issued orders to have them wiped out. Their only recourse is to take them out first, naturally.
And Raina has become so suicidal that walking headlong into traffic seems like a great idea. Fitz visits Skye in quarantine and tells her that her heartbeat was 300 BPM at the time of the explosion.
Skye: That's…very fast.
Fitz: No, that's inhuman.
Fitz thought he'd made a mistake because of the corrupted data in his head, but nope. It all points back to Skye. How could they have found her unharmed in the collapse with destruction all around her? Skye's stress levels are skyrocketing from this line of questioning and as Fitz realizes that not only was Skye the one who caused the explosion, but that she was changed just like Raina, she freaks out and lots of expensive looking equipment is destroyed.
May comes to see Skye who's hiding her wounded hand. Skye is worried about Coulson and May clues us in on the rest of their plan while Coulson pays a final visit to Trip's mother.
May: For Coulson, Trip was the embodiment of the principles he wants S.H.I.E.L.D. to be built on: compassion, loyalty, heart. And that is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s strength. And Trip's death reminded Coulson that Hydra doesn't have that. That is their weakness.
Bloom activates a red alert that triggers the coordinated assassinations of the Sheik, the Banker, and the Baroness, effectively wiping out the heads of Hydra. Outside Bloom's manse, Hydra soldiers unload automatic weapons at Hunter and Morse's car – which is thankfully bulletproof and equipped with it's own impressive range of weaponry. The soldiers are put down in two seconds flat. Hunter and Morse infiltrate Bloom's home and take out everyone inside except Bakshi.
Hunter: Fortunately for you, you've been promised to Talbot. Let's go.
May notices that Skye's hand is bleeding and just as she's about to confess Fitz arrives with a likely cover story and Skye's exoneration: he says Skye's DNA is an exact match to what it was before. Fitz cleverly sends Simmons away to straighten up Skye's bunk for her ("The last time I was in there, there were lots of…lady things. And she's a slob.") while he patches her hand up. Skye wants to know what he just did, and so do I.
Fitz: I switched your new sample with one from before. Your new sample is drastically different and I don't think we should tell anybody. Not with the way Simmons is freaking out about epidemics and such.
Skye is distraught that he's having to keep this secret for her and says there's something very wrong with her. "No, there isn't," he tells her. "You're just different now."
Raina begins to cross the street but is swarmed by a bunch of armed men in black. They want her to surrender but she's all, "If you don't kill me, I'm going to kill you. There's no capture option." Just then our friend Gordon arrives in a ball of blue electricity, much older and clearly in control of his powers. He's like, "Come with me if you want to live," and he and Raina disappear.
Back at headquarters, the model Lola that Mac made activates in Coulson's office. It scans the whole office and finds a few hidden spots, and we learn that Mac and Morse have been working together to find Nick Fury's toolbox. Everyone is bonding over dinner and drinks, but everyone also has a whammy of a secret and it clearly weighs on them all.
The Questions: Hydra never dies, so how are they going to come back from this? Will Skye learn to control herself without her father's help? What are Mac and Morse up to? Are we seeing the beginnings of a Skye and Fitz pairing (Skitz? Fye?)? And how will everyone react when they find out Fitz's lie? (Poorly, I expect.)
Categories: Geeky, Movies & Television
Tags: abc, agent coulson, infinity gauntlet, inhumans, marvel, marvel's agents of s.h.i.e.l.d.


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A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME(director: Errol Morris; screenwriter: from the book A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking; cinematographers: John Bailey/Stefan Czapsky; editor: Brad Fuller; music: Phillip Glass; Runtime: 84; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: David Hickman; Paramount Home Entertainment; 1991)
"It's accessible, informative and entertaining."
A documentary by Errol Morris ("The Thin Blue Line"/"Vernon, Florida"/"Gates of Heaven") that is about the life and work of the remarkable cosmologist Stephen Hawking, that is based on his best selling book of 1988. It's accessible, informative and entertaining, and includes extensive interviews with the then 50-year-old Hawking, his family members, colleagues, caretakers, scientists (such as Roger Penrose, Dennis Sciama and John Wheeler) and also colorful graphics to advance Hawking's theories on the universe. The film blends together facts of his life while touching on some of his theories, but only advancing each in a limited way leaving some viewers hankering for more of each. Which some view as a flaw of the film, but I disagree. If you want more weight about his theories try tackling his difficult book and see if you don't find this film a needed lightweight companion.
The film throws out several big questions in its opening, such as Where did the universe come from? Will time ever come to an end? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? and discusses them in a cursory way without fully answering these questions but giving us enough feedback into these unanswerable imponderables to get us thinking big thoughts.
Hawking was diagnosed as having amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (known as Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States) shortly after attending Cambridge in the mid-1960's to work on his Ph.D. in theoretical physics. The progressive and incurable illness soon left him almost completely paralyzed except for his lungs, heart and brain. At present Hawking communicates to the outside world through a computer whose commands activate a voice synthesizer.
The audience for this insightful scientific themed documentary are probably those cheered on that Hawking so bravely deals with his severe illness and those who care about such things as the Big Bang theory, black holes, quantum mechanics, unified theory, Hawking's rebuttal to Einstein's belief that God doesn't play dice with the universe, Hawkin's belief in the possible existence of a supreme being as a creator (suggesting that if we could look into the mystery that signals the precise beginning of the universe then we will begin to understand the unfathomable because we would be looking into the mind of God) and sundry other important scientific puzzlers.
REVIEWED ON 1/25/2009 GRADE: A-


Animal Aid and Advice – We are a voluntary animal welfare group, committed to rescuing and rehoming abused and stray cats.
As our charity has no centre, shelter or office. All the rescued cats are fostered in volunteers' own homes until permanent homes are found. This shows how important Fosterers are to us.
Can you foster one of our cats?
To be able to give a second chance to an animal that has been through, more often than not, a quite traumatic time in its life, to see it flourish in a new home and be wanted and loved is one of the most rewarding parts of adopting a rescued cat.
We are always looking for volunteers especially fieldworkers to help with the rescue side of the charity. Being able to drive is essential for this. Volunteers are also needed to help in our charity shop in East Finchley and our second hand Bookshop in Highbury helping us raise funds for our continuing rescue work.


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Q: UITableView - Can I Span Multiple Rows or use a Nested UITableView? I'm basically trying to achieve the following scrollable layout and am looking for some suggestions as to the best way to achieve it...

Potential solutions might be...
Nesting UITableViews
I have considered having all of the 'A' componenets part of a single row in a parent UITableView with rows A1, A2 & A3 in a child UITableView but I'm not sure if this is possible?
Spanning Rows
I am also unsure if its possible to have a single UITableView but have areas within span multiple rows (like you can do in a HTML table for example).  Then area A, B, C etc can just be views that span their respective rows.
Any suggestions appreciated.

A: This is totally doable, but I would strongly suggest not nesting UITableViews or UIScrollViews, this could lead to some pretty major performance issues when scrolling (UITableViews are not automatically reused) and will certainly be a messy, possibly buggy solution.
The best way to go with this is to create Custom UITableViewCells that draw themselves based on the data they are given. They can then draw out to look like the cells you described above, giving the appearance of multiple cells, although each section is in fact a single cell.
By setting cell selection style to NONE and listening for touch events on the cell, you can even make the seperate "subcells" selectable.
This is some pretty complicated drawing, so I'd recomend looking at how others do it.
http://blog.atebits.com/2008/12/fast-scrolling-in-tweetie-with-uitableview/
http://cocoawithlove.com/2010/12/uitableview-construction-drawing-and.html/
This is how I handle it:
https://github.com/andrewzimmer906/XCell

A: The GUI above can definitely be achieved but practically i have never seen that in any application. Anyways you can try following if you aren't done yet.

*

*best option would be to load one table initially with data A,B,C,D. and then when user selects any of the row say A for example then reload the table and put A in section header and A1 A2 etc. in data. You have to write lot of code to handle status of table in this case but it will look good.

*You can customize UITableViewCell and arrange UIView inside it to achieve your pattern. All you have to know is how what would be the resulting height of ROW. It can be set in delegate method heightForRowAtIndexPath.

*If you want spanned rows(rows with A1,B1 etc.)to scroll that you can achieve it by arranging Tables inside scroll view OR Scrollview inside scroll view.

A: Thanks for all the replies, I've up-voted them because they were helpful however I haven't accepted them as the answer since I actually implemented a completely different solution to those suggested using a combination of a UIScrollView underneath a UITableView as below.  Note there's no nesting or spanning going on.

The UITableView's delegate is set to be the UIViewController.  The UIScrollView's delegate is NOT set.
When the user scrolls the UITableView its scrollViewDidScroll method is fired and I am able to scroll the UIScrollView the same amount manually in code as follows...
- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)tableView
{
    [self.scrollView setContentOffset:tableView.contentOffset animated:YES];
}

I have to be a bit clever to calculate (in code) when the page loads the position of the elements in A, B, C etc and the exact height of the scroll view so it matches the UITableView.
Since I am using a standard UITableView for A1, A2, B2, C3 etc I am able to easily control the action when the user selects a row and still get the standard UITableView highlighting for free.
Drawbacks
Swiping/scrolling on the UIScrollView has no effect you have to scroll on the UITableView.  I might be able to overcome this by implementing a delegate on the UIScrollView and reacting to its own scrollViewDidScroll method to scroll the UITableView but I've yet to try this and I expect they'll be problems since both methods would be firing at the same time.
Touching/tapping the UIScrollView has no effect.  This is fine for my needs however if I wanted to perform some action I could use a UITapGestureRecognizer which I've done before.  E.g.
UITapGestureRecognizer *tapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(tapGestureCaptured:)];
[self.scrollView addGestureRecognizer:tapRecognizer];

- (void)tapGestureCaptured:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)touch
{
   CGPoint touchPoint=[touch locationInView:scrollView];
   // Perform action here.
}

Hopefully this helps someone.  Thanks again.

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Ford is leveraging its highly successful Ranger range with a new model Raptor. Aimed at the premium sector of the Ute market, the Raptor will compete against HSV's SportsCat, HiLux Rugged X, and even the entry level RAM 1500 Express.
The steering wheel features perforated leather hand grip sections, paired with Raptor DNA lightweight magnesium paddle shifters. The Raptor logo is embossed into the bespoke bezel of the steering wheel and an "On-Centre" marker – a red stripe at the top-middle of the wheel, which I actually like. If your wheel alignment is spot on, it is helpful in off road situations for wheel placement.
Raptor features an all-new 2.0L sequential Bi-Turbo engine that delivers power of 157Kw/500Nm, this runs through an innovative 10 speed automatic transmission to extract the best from the engine Raptor has a dual range part time 4×4 with Terrain Management System. It also features a unique Transmission Calibration and "Live in Drive" Functionality, according to Ford. My take on this is that you can, like most drivers, leave it in drive and it will maximise performance for you.
Two other key areas where Ford has made modifications to the Raptor are firstly the seriously beefed up suspension and secondly the brakes. Uniquely the Raptor has upgraded boosted disc brakes front and rear, placing it amongst rare territory in Utes.
In general off road conditions, the improved approach, rampover and departure angles as well as much improved ground clearance brings the Raptor in line with most aftermarket modified Utes running around.


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Field boundary South of Rollestone Farm
A former field boundary of possible medieval to post-medieval date was visible on aerial photographs of the 1940s to 1960s as an earthwork bank on the east-facing slopes south of Rollestone Farm. The bank now appears to have been levelled.
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FIELD BOUNDARY (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1840 AD (Between))
Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.
The earthwork bank does not correspond with any depicted feature.
Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/106G/UK/1273, RAF/106G/UK/1273 V 5059-5060 23-MAR-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV358976.
A linear earthwork bank was visible.
Royal Air Force, 1963, RAF/543/2332, RAF/543/2332 2F22 35-36 26-JUL-1963 (Aerial Photograph). SDV354847.
Environment Agency, 1998-2014, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution), LIDAR SX9295 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 30-SEP-2014 (Cartographic). SDV359177.
The earthwork bank was not visible and might have been levelled.
A former field boundary was visible on aerial photographs of the 1940s to 1960s as an earthwork bank on the east-facing slopes south of Rollestone Farm. The relict bank is visible for a distance of circa 95 metres, north to south, and is approximately 5 metres wide. The bank is cut by the track between Rollestone Barton and Rolleston Farm, a route that is depicted on the Tithe Map for. The relict boundary bank fits within the extant field pattern but is not depicted, and therefore passed out of use or was removed prior to the 1840s. The field pattern in this area has been characterised as post-medieval enclosure with medieval elements, and it is possible that this former boundary is of medieval to post-medieval date. The earthwork was not recorded on digital images derived from lidar data and therefore appears to have been levelled.
SDV349431 Cartographic: Devon County Council. 1838-1848. Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848. Digitised Tithe Map. Digital.
SDV354847 Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1963. RAF/543/2332. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). RAF/543/2332 2F22 35-36 26-JUL-1963. [Mapped feature: #73130 ]
SDV358976 Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1946. RAF/106G/UK/1273. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). RAF/106G/UK/1273 V 5059-5060 23-MAR-1946.
SDV359177 Cartographic: Environment Agency. 1998-2014. LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution). Environment Agency LiDAR data. Digital. LIDAR SX9295 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 30-SEP-2014.
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French President Emmanuel Macron awarded 18 climate change scientists millions of Euros in grants on Dec. 11 as part of his "Make Our Planet Great Again" initiative.
"The selected projects are of very high standards and deal with issues that are particularly important," said the selection jury in a statement.
Additional awards will be announced in early 2018. Up to 50 grants are to be handed out in total, each of which will last for at least three years.
Macron initiated the contest as a direct response to President Donald Trump's June decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris accord on climate change.
"To all scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, responsible citizens who were disappointed by the decision of the president of the United States, I want to say that they will find in France a second homeland," Macron said on June 1, according to a transcript. "I call on them: come and work here, with us, to work together on concrete solutions for our climate, our environment. I can assure you, France will not give up the fight."
To qualify for the grants, scientists have to be established in the field, have published a thesis and have a plan for a three to five year project to work on in France.
"If we want to prepare for the changes of tomorrow, we need science," the French president told the winners on Dec. 11, the Associated Press reports.
Of the 18 scientists selected, 13 came from the U.S., according to France 24. The jury received a total of 1,822 applications, 1,123 of which came from the U.S.
Some French academics have criticized Macron for offering money to foreign scientists while refusing to provide enough for French researchers.
Winner Camille Parmesan from the University of Texas said Macron's initiative gave her "such a psychological boost, to have that kind of support, to have the head of state saying, 'I value what you do,'" according to AP.
Macron handed out the awards one day ahead of the convening of a climate change conference in Paris. Some 50 world leaders are expected to attend. Trump was not invited.
Macron told Time in November that Trump would receive an invite if he made a statement to confirm he was willing to "join the club" on climate change. However, Trump has failed to respond.
The summit will discuss ways to move beyond fossil fuels and measures required to deal with changes already taking place. It will be co-hosted by the UN and World Bank.


Lift and shift is an approach, one among many, for migrating the apps to the cloud. It means moving an application and its related data to a cloud platform without restructuring the app.
There is no one-size-fits-all transition for moving an application from users on-premises data center to the cloud. But there are known core migration paths; many consider lift and shift is one of them. It is a way for organizations to safeguard their investments in business workflow, logic, and data trapped in on-premises hardware.
The lift-and-shift approach opens pathways to IT modernization by moving to an open and more extensible architecture in the cloud. Organizations consider lift and shift for solid business reasons, including minimized costs and improved performance and resiliency.
WHEN IS THE LIFT AND SHIFT CLOUD-MIGRATION MODEL A GOOD FIT??
With the lift-and-shift approach, on-premises applications can move to the cloud without redesigning. But they cannot always take complete advantage of native-cloud features, so this may not be the most cost-effective migration path. According to the survey, Gartner estimates that by 2020, organizations lacking cost-optimization processes will average 40% overspend in the public cloud.
Rehost : This is infrastructure as a service (IaaS), or lift and shift. The user rehost his/her application in another hardware environment without changing the applications architecture. Migration is fast and comparatively low-priced, but ongoing operation can be costly because the user is not leveraging cloud efficiencies.
Refactor : Refactor is also known as platform as a service (PaaS), the user run his/her applications on a cloud provider's infrastructure. Developers can reuse languages, frameworks, and containers leveraging code that's strategic to the company.
Revise : Firstly, the user support legacy-modernization requirements by modifying or extending the existing code; then take the rehost or refactor route to the cloud. This means the user can leverage the cloud characteristics of their provider's infrastructure but not without upfront development cost.
Rebuild : The user throws out the code for an existing app and re-architect it. The benefit is access to inventive features in the provider's platform that improve developer's productivity. The price the user pay is either lock-in or abandoning the application assets if the situation becomes unacceptable.
Replace : Discard the existing application set and adopt commercial software as a service (SaaS). When requirements for a business function change rapidly, this approach eludes the time and investment of mobilizing a development team. But there might be some issues such as inconsistent data semantics, difficult data-access, and vendor lock-in.
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Alcohol is an important factor in road accidents. Based on data from the US Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there was an alcohol-inhibited traffic error every 51 minutes in 2015.
Anti-alcoholic crashes are those involving at least one driver or a motorcycle operator with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0 , 08 percent or higher, the legal definition of full run. According to the NHTSA, 10,265 people were killed in alcohol-deficient crashes in 201
5, an increase of 3.2 per cent from 9 943 in 2014. In 2015, alcohol-impaired crash accidents accounted for 29 per cent of all fatalities.
The definition of driving operation had been consistent worldwide around the United States until March 2017. All states and the District of Columbia defined write-downs as driving with a BAC (alcohol-alcohol concentration) at or above 0.08 percent. In addition, they have all zero tolerance bans that prohibit drivers under the age of 21 from drinking and driving. In general, the BAC limit in these cases is 0.02 percent. In March 2017, the Utah governor signed a bill that was effective on December 30, 2018, which lowered the boundary that defined reduced driving for most drivers to 0.05 percent BAC, the lowest in the nation.
Encryption campaigns specifically targeted drivers under the age of 21, repeat criminals and 21- to 34-year-olds, the age group responsible for more alcohol-related fatal crashes than anyone else. Young drivers are those who are least susceptible to arguments against full driving, according to NHTSA.
Making sellers and servers of spirits more cautious to whom and how they serve drinks, 42 states, and the District of Columbia have adopted laws or have laws that hold commercial sprinklers who are legally responsible for damages, injuries and deaths as a drunk driver causes. Thirty-five states have adopted laws or have jurisprudence that allow social hosts who serve liquor to people who are later involved in crashes to become liable for any damage or death. (See diagram below and Background.)
Recent data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show that the 10,265 alcohol-impaired deaths in 2015 accounted for about one in three highway deaths (29 percent) on US roads. There were 9,943 such deaths in 2014.
Ignition arrest system requires drivers to be blown into a respirator-like device to ensure that the individual is sober before allowing the vehicle to begin. According to a report published by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in January 2017, traffic accidents have decreased by 7 percent in states calling for ignition locks for the first time pre-pressured driving offenders. The researchers studied traffic accidents for about five years before the states began crossing border laws in the late 1980s until 2013, when all states demanded them under certain circumstances.
Drunk driving by sex: Recent NHTSA data show that 14 percent of female drivers involved in fatal accidents in 2015 (1,761 drivers) were alcohol-abusive, only 1 percentage point lower compared to 2006. Compared to 21 percent of male drivers involved in fatal degradation were alcohol impaired in 2015, from 24 percent in 2006.
Drunk Driving by Age: According to data from NHTSA, in 2015, the percentage of drivers in fatal accidents as where alcohol barriers were greatest for 21 to 24 year old drivers, 28 percent, followed by 25 to 34 year old drivers, 27 percent and 35 to 44 year old drivers, 23 percent. The proportion of alcohol-impaired drivers in fatal accidents was 19 per cent for 45 to 54 year-olds, 16 per cent of 16 to 20 year-olds, 14 per cent for 55 to 64 year-olds, 9 per cent for 65 to 74 year-olds and 6 per cent for drivers over the age of 74.
Drunk Driving with Vehicle Type: NHTSA data for 2015 show that 27 percent of motorcycle drivers involved in fatal accidents were alcohol barriers, compared with 21 percent of passenger cars and 20 percent of light truck drivers. Only 2 percent of the large truck drivers involved in fatal accidents in 2015 were alcohol barriers.
Social Host Responsibility: In February 2012, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ruled that social hosts could be held liable for off-premise damage to people caused by a guest's intoxication only if the host served alcohol or made it available. People who host "bring their own" parties are not responsible, even if the guest is a minor. The court rejected an attempt by the parents of an injured 16-year-old to sue at a party's 18-year-old host. The younger person suffered injuries in a crash in a car driven by someone who took their own alcohol to the party. In question was the fact that the driver, not the party's host, delivered the booze. Although the trial claimed that the values would be negligible to allow the driver to drink in their home, the court said earlier judgments showed that hosts cannot be responsible for their guests drinking unless they control the supply of alcohol. Massachusetts law and court cases have held social hosts liable if they deliver alcohol (See charts: STATUTES OR LEGAL AREAS ASSOCIATION OF ALCOHOLIC DRIVING SERVERS RESPONSIBLE.)
Even in February 2012, the New Mexico Supreme Court claimed that circumstances proving that driver poisoning was sufficient to support a jury who found that the driver was intoxicated and appealed a decision in a fall 2004. Evidence presented in the previous trial showed that a driver who beat and killed a motorcyclist had an alcohol content of 0.09 percent five hours after the crash. Owners of the gas station where the driver worked and consumed a number of beers bought at the gas station required ignorance of the driver's condition. The court ruled that the blood test results were sufficient to prove that the driver was intoxicated. The ruling holds the hydrogen gas dealers responsible for liability where evidence is available under the applicable drama law.
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Thomas Quigley O'Rourke passed away peacefully at home in Millersville, Maryland on November 22, 2018 . Tom was born August 31, 1947 in New Haven, Connecticut, son of John T. and Doris (Quigley) O'Rourke. He married Suzanne (Morgan) O'Rourke in Alfred, New York on October 18, 1969 and adored her every day after.
Tom was a graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School in New York City, Alfred University (BA), Webster College (MS), and Bowie State College (MS). An advocate of quality education, for both students and instructors, he never stopped learning and earned enough professional certifications to double the length of his name. As an avid reader, his engaging conversations easily turned to history lessons, and he collected enough books to double the weight of his home.
After graduating college with a draft number of 11, Tom eagerly enlisted in the US Navy in 1970. As a second class petty officer, he was selected for Aviation Officer Candidate School, commissioned, and received his wings in 1973. He served aboard VP-49, VP-30, the USS Saratoga, VP-26, and Defense Information Systems Agency before retiring from the Navy in 1991.
Tom loved the ocean and spent many years of his life flying above, sailing across, or scuba diving below it, all over the world. With such extensive travels, he could talk to anyone about their home town, from Washington DC to Djibouti. His first greeting to anyone he met was "Where are you from?"
Following military retirement, Tom created and operated a firm providing management consulting services. He entertained and educated people through teaching courses at USDA Graduate School, Trinity College, Johns Hopkins University, and at University Maryland University College where he was an Adjunct Professor. Through funny stories about friends and family, he helped hundreds of people pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. Tom was proudly awarded for his use of humor in the classroom.
He is survived by two daughters: Bridget (Tom) Ryan, Arlington, VA and Coleen (Mike Ross) O'Rourke, Bozeman, MT, and a son, Sean (Natasa) O'Rourke, NYC, NY. Grandchildren: Regan, Quinn, Devin, and Kenzie Ryan and Riley Ross. For his students: yes, those were real stories.
He was predeceased by his parents and brother, John T O'Rourke III.
Family and friends are invited to gather at the family residence located at 406 Phenita Point Drive, Millersville, Maryland 21108, from 1-7pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
Interment will be at Arlington National Cemetery with full honors at a future date.
Memorial Contributions can be made to The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins (https://secure.jhu.edu/form/kimmel).