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Christian Porter (Lib – Pearce) – First Speech
Christian Porter was first elected to the House of Representatives as the Liberal member for Pearce at the 2013 federal election.
Pearce is a safe Liberal electorate in Western Australia. It is located in the eastern region of outer metropolitan Perth and surrounding rural areas. It includes the coastal area from Quinns Rock to Lancelin. It covers the country centres of Gingin, Bindoon and Toodyay in the north, Northam and Grass Valley in the east, and York and Beverley to the south, plus the eastern portion of the Darling Ranges and the Swan Valley.
Porter was previously a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Murdoch and then Bateman from 2008. He was Attorney General in the Barnett government from 2008 and Treasurer from 2010 until his resignation earlier this year.
This is Porter's first speech to the House of Representatives.
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Hansard transcript of Christian Porter's maiden speech to the House of Representatives.
Mr PORTER (Pearce) (15:27): Madam Speaker, thank you and congratulations on your ascension to the chair. I would also like to thank all of my new coalition colleagues. Genuinely, the welcome here has been collegiate and very warm. I am intent to bask in this warmth before people get to know me and it grinds to an inevitable halt.
On 23 November 1956, a painfully angular 19-year-old Brisbane boy with a physique the cross between a praying mantis and a wire coat hanger jumped for his country on the first day of the Melbourne Olympic Games. That boy was my father. His sole possessions totalled an ill-fitting Australian team tracksuit and a pair of Buddy Holly style horn-rimmed glassed. He competed in what was then and what remains to this day the longest and most engrossing field event in Olympic history. After over six hours of competition, the entire crowd remained at the MCG, well into the deep cusp of twilight. They watched breathless as Chilla Porter, on his third and final attempt at six foot 11½ inches, clipped the bar ever so gently. It wobbled for what seemed like an age and eventually dislodged and fell in silence with him to the sandpit. In the result, he was beaten by the great African-American athlete Charles Dumas, who had made the same height with his own second attempt, setting an Olympic record in the process.
If the maiden speech is for the existential questions of politics—Who is the member? Why are they here? What do they believe?—then for reasons that I cannot perfectly explain, the authentic explanation for me somehow starts with that event in 1956. This event, which passed into Porter family folklore long before my birth, has woven itself into my being in subterranean ways. Why it affects me is hard to say, but affect me it does. For a not particularly demonstrative person, it is an event that percolates emotion through me with even shallow reflections on it. Indeed, it is either curious or positively strange that the two images that most readily draw emotion from me are images of my wife laughing and my father jumping. Ultimately, I may be nothing more than a prime candidate for post-doctoral research in Freudian psychology. But that is just the way it is.
Although proud of my father, the significance of this event for me is more than pride. If I had to guess, there are probably two things about it that most resonate with my conscience. First, it is the sheer individual inspiration of the event. This was not the casual brilliance of a Lord Burghley, upon whom the aristocratic hurdler in Chariots of Fire was based. In fact, among Burghley's many athletic achievements was that he was able to race around the promenade deck of the Queen Mary in 57 seconds dressed in a full dinner suit. My father has never seen the point of owning a dinner suit!
Chilla Porter's achievement was the welding of solid but far from limitless athletic talent to devoted levels of discipline and training, a little self-belief and an unbreakable steely nerve. That such an unassuming man as my father could achieve so much by combining comparatively modest raw ability with sheer will is proof definitive of the wonderful idea that with effort almost anything is possible.
In liberal democracies opportunity is imperfect but it is absolutely real. Probative evidence exists to demonstrate that opportunity and choice are all around us. Indeed, Charlie Dumas's gold medal in the same event was achieved by a black man living in Compton, east LA in 1950s America. That Charlie Dumas overcame reputedly considerable poverty and prejudice to become a great athlete and later educator is individual triumph writ large.
Governments can and should promote more opportunity, but opportunity is not merely the speculation of political philosophy or the gift of legislators. In modern Australia opportunity exists, likely to a fuller extent than it has existed anywhere at any time in human history. As a people it is possible that we have become a little too involved in the other great Australian sport: the blaming of government every time something goes wrong in our lives. We can acknowledge the ongoing need for government to diminish disadvantage, we can recognise that sometimes failing with this and many other tasks, governments are often very blameworthy—but in government, as in life, we should not stray too far from the fact that far more often than not the ultimate responsibility for individual success or failure lies with the individual themselves.
The second feature of this Olympic event that I think resonates is how it constantly reminds me that so many things in life are so finely balanced. In sport and life there is often an indistinguishably fine line between immortal glory and something less. Probably because of my father's experience I have long held a deep fascination with causation inside historical and societal cusps, the pivot points of dynamic times on which many later things will depend. Certainly, for my father, that teetering high-jump bar was one of those life-changing cusp moments: an event that could go either way and which sets in motion a much longer chain of events—what Churchill described, on a far grander scale, as a 'hinge of fate'.
For my father, silver or gold did not come to define his character; nevertheless, the outcome of that day changed the course of his life forever. Had he won—and it would have been the greatest Cinderella story in Olympic history had he won—likely the push to live in the United States on an athletic scholarship would have been overwhelming and things would have been much different.
As it was, his was an Australian future. A silver medal gave him just enough cachet to achieve gold in the marriage game: he met my mother, an attractive researcher at The West Australian. Other than my eventual birth more than a decade later this had two very happy effects: (1) I inherited my mother's love of books and history; and (2) I narrowly escaped Queensland and was born and raised in the great state of Western Australia. Queenslanders: I feel your pain!
Before turning to other matters I will just add that, unfortunately, I inherited little of the athletic ability of my father and 100 per cent of the chicken legs. It is well, Madam Speaker, that you discourage the wearing of shorts in the chamber!
My father later worked for the Liberal Party, doing so at his own father's urging—a man now passed but who established the Queensland Liberal Party under the guidance of Sir Robert Menzies. So I grew up with my sister in a state of opportunities, with a fascination for turning points in a house with a faint but fair air of sport and politics. To now represent the Western Australians in Pearce, as a member of the Australian parliament, is the greatest responsibility of my own life; and for as long as I am entrusted with that responsibility I will give it absolutely everything I have.
Pearce is not a Federation seat but rather the product of the Federation's dynamism. It was created in 1993, a product of the extraordinary growth that has been WA's hallmark over the past 25 years. Preceding my custody of this responsibility were the Hon. Fred Chaney and the Hon. Judy Moylan. It might be noted that, on some matters at least, the three of us come from slightly different pews in the broad Liberal church. But pluralism is where Liberal politics derives its great resilience, and I admire both my predecessors as accomplished Australians dedicated to public service and to their principles.
The places of Pearce have a real romance to them. My house is a walk away from the place where in 1658 Abraham Leeman led an excursion of Dutch mariners onshore in search of the recently shipwrecked Gilt Dragon. Many a WA child has been sent like Leeman into the sand dunes in search of buried treasure. To the disappointment of hopeful parents with mortgages, all of these children have been unsuccessful, as Leeman was 400 years ago.
From the reef sheltered Mediterranean lagoons, beaches and crayfish pots of the shipwrecked coast, the electorate of Pearce travels inland across suburbs staggered through tangles of acacia and national parks. Market gardens, wineries and orchards then tilt into the heartland of the Central Wheatbelt, where fields of wheat and canola require great toil but produce golden slaloms of harvest. The people represent the full history and diversity of the state itself. They are aspirational, entrepreneurial and above all hardworking. They deserve coherent, orthodox, stable government.
At the centre of the electorate is the Royal Australian Air Force Base Pearce. It is a particular honour to represent a seat in which the RAAF work and train. No matter how many times, how noisily, or how low for that matter, those planes sear over the dunes above my house, I delight at the awesome sound and sight of them—for they are the heirs of the most important pivot point in modern world history, an event in which many Australians fought and died and which has fascinated me since my youth: the Battle of Britain.
The needle hook of popular hindsight focuses on the Boy's Own Annual qualities of the Battle of Britain and sometimes glosses over the rich tapestry of decisions that led to the five months of intense conflict. The extraordinary heroism of those last threads in time is astonishing, but the outcome of this battle was determined ultimately by the way in which that sacrifice joined a deep composite of multiple decisions made over earlier decades: procurement decisions, technological decisions, tactical decisions and ultimately political decisions. A few of these were obviously revealed as pivotal to the minds of the time; others were decisions whose later importance was more temporally obscure. But somehow a guiding principle seemed to structure the many decisions, all apparently underpinned by a shared sense of the great need for preparedness—so many decisions, so finely balanced, too many poor decisions in the 15-year historical web preceding the Battle of Britain. And all the heroism in the Commonwealth would not have prevailed in those crucial five months.
Important moments in history are determined by all kinds of factors. However, the single most important factor is almost always the quality of the people in charge of decision making. And hinges of fate are lubricated by the collective outcome of quality decision making. For anyone who believes this, it makes some sense to aspire to a place that offers the toughest opportunity to prove oneself over time in the art of decision making. And if that means turning myself from a rooster into a feather duster, so be it. Like most aspirant decision makers, I suffer from three conceits: decision makers think they have something to offer; they think that their ideas are well adapted to the times; and there is the great generational conceit that something about their own time is uniquely important and worth deciding. On matters personal, I oscillate between self-doubt and confidence. I have absolutely no doubt with respect to the third conceit. I know that every generation likes to believe that their times are special, but without a shadow of a doubt the times through which this parliament will live and through which its followers will live will guide the nation. It will be pivotal—in fact, electrifying—replete with opportunity for both success and failure.
And the great challenge of our time will be the Asian convergence. From the office of Treasurer and Attorney-General for Western Australia, I watched an economy rise in concert with the Asian convergence. The Asian convergence is the single greatest economic event since the industrial revolution. WA's success did not just happen; it was envisaged and planned into being by generations of decision makers going back through the decades, right back to Sir Charles Court and even before that great man. At the crescendo of the Asian century we will watch as hundreds of millions more people join the global economy. That 60 per cent of the world's population will in our lifetime converge rapidly towards our own standard of living will have deep implications for the entire world. But that this 60 per cent are our neighbours, with clocks set to our own time zones, means that Australia faces the economic opportunity of its life.
There exists—and I firmly believe this—an opportunity to herald in a great Australian flourishing. But, as with all times of opportunity, the future is uncertain. And, just as with the Battle Britain, too many poor decisions and our opportunities will be lost, and Australia will face a not-too-gradual decline. The one certainty will be that some gentle, happy equilibrium of our national prospects will not be the order of the day. Ours will be the age and the region of rise and fall. In the era of change, we will need to change. And courage will be required by this generation of parliamentarians to progress reform. The swift return to robust surplus is an absolutely critical—but not sufficient—condition to growing our economy. There are many reforms we may need to embrace, but perhaps our guiding principle might be to avoid competing against Asia and to promote competition for Asia. Competing for Asian markets, for Asian investment, for Asian tourists and for Asian students makes sense. Prioritising competition against South Korea or China in goods that they now best produce and export by the billions makes perhaps less sense.
Reform is difficult, but the stakes are high and the need is pressing. It is not just our standard of living that will be in peril if we fail to make the best decisions. As a nation small in number, in an immensely populous region, our national security has been founded not just upon alliances but also by superior productivity underpinning a regional economic ascendancy. But our neighbours are growing fast, and it would be folly to believe that our economic ascendancy will last forever irrespective of what we do domestically. Economic growth fuelled by free, competitive markets drives the greatest welfare engine ever in existence: employment. But growth is also the engine that drives welfare and culture, and in our age it will be intimately linked with security. International friendships are always best maintained through economic strength. If we are to exist and thrive with Asian tigers, we would be well advised to remain a formidable economic creature in our own right.
One area ripe for economic reform is the federal system, and I will close with a brief observation on that. The great myth of the federation is that things would be more efficient without the states. First, postulating what Australia would be like without states is as futile as postulating what Switzerland would be like without mountains. The federal government is the complicated child of five state parents; it is not the product of immaculate conception—although sometimes it has thought itself infallible. The only thing allowing for the endurance of a view that central government would do a better job in child protection, hospitals or police is the thankful fact that it has never had to do those things. Leaving aside the very wise proposition that centralising power can lead to its corruption and overuse, efficient policy—particularly in service provision—is best devised by governments as proximate to people as rational organisational principles will allow.
The federal government now accounts for just over half of all government expenditure in Australia, with 80 per cent of the revenue base. The states roughly account for the rest, but with only 15 per cent of the direct revenue base. These figures reveal great fiscal imbalance, a major problem that is in dire need of reform. But they also demonstrate the simple fact that state government is critical to the success of the nation. Almost half of everything done by all government in Australia is done by the states. Reform in this area will require federal leadership, and it must be in the national interest to improve the fiscal architecture of the federation. The GST was supposed to be state revenue; it was supposed to fix fiscal imbalance and help the states do their half.
But, over time, two problems have arisen. First—and right now—almost 60 per cent of all the GST moneys donated by the big four states go to the Northern Territory. Previously, the responsibility to subsidise the Northern Territory—and it is a proper responsibility—resided with the Commonwealth. Now it falls upon the four largest states which, with only 15 per cent of the revenue base, can least afford that responsibility. The remaining GST donations are sent to other states in a process of equalisation. There should always be some level of equalisation, perhaps even a high level of equalisation. But the present system is too extreme, highly inequitable and propagates enormous inefficiency. Citing previous gains to justify Western Australia's present mammoth losses ignores proportionality and fails to recognise that historical equalisation in WA's favour was meant as compensation, not subsidy, as WA's trading economy was crippled by national protectionism in times gone by.
But, in any event, the primary problem is not one of equity; it is one of efficiency. Presently, every single dollar earned in revenue by a productive state above some average mean predetermined by the Grants Commission is redistributed away in diminished GST receipts. In an income tax system that redistributed away every dollar above the average wage, that would be seen as an incentive-sapping and anti-productive disaster. And so it is with the extremes of the present equalisation system. All welfare systems that become too extreme ultimately fail those they are meant to help by encouraging poor and unproductive decision making at a state level.
Finally, to the many people who have supported me—my old friends, the campaign team, my parents, my wife's parents and the redoubtable members of the WA Liberal Party—I know that you have not helped place me here for the statement of your names. But, rest assured, every late night and early morning in service of Pearce is also meant as a small repayment of the huge debt that I owe to you all. To the Premier of Western Australia: Colin, I thank you for your forbearance and friendship during my own agonised decision making. Finally, to my wife—I am perhaps a bit slow to give my wife public compliments but, as Ray Charles said, 'Wake up, boy, because a girl like that ain't going to wait all night.' So here is my compliment to my wife. Jennifer, if I were told that it were within my power to go back to the 1970s to watch Dennis Lillee bowl again at the WACA, that I could take all my friends, that Sir Isaiah Berlin and Han Solo would be special guests and that James Reyne would do an acoustic set during the lunch break, but that the one catch was that you could not attend with me, then I would not bother, and you and I could go to the Yanchep Beach lagoon with the dog. So my compliment is: Jennifer, all the good things are nothing special without you.
Madam Speaker, thank you for your indulgence. I support the motion before the House.
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.class public Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;
.super Landroid/widget/GridView;
.source "ClippedDataPickerGridView.java"

# instance fields
.field final ANIMATION_DELAY:I

.field final ANIMATION_TIME:I

.field COLUMN_COUNT:I

.field final TAG:Ljava/lang/String;

.field delCnt:I

.field delayTime:I

.field deleteItemList:Ljava/util/ArrayList;
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "Ljava/util/ArrayList",
            "<",
            "Ljava/lang/Integer;",
            ">;"
        }
    .end annotation
.end field

.field deleteItemSize:I

.field private isAnimating:Z

.field isDelete:Z

# direct methods
.method public constructor <init>(Landroid/content/Context;)V
    .locals 1
    .parameter "c"

    .prologue
    .line 52
    const/4 v0, 0x0

    invoke-direct {p0, p1, v0}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;-><init>(Landroid/content/Context;Landroid/util/AttributeSet;)V

    .line 53
    return-void
.end method

.method public constructor <init>(Landroid/content/Context;Landroid/util/AttributeSet;)V
    .locals 4
    .parameter "c"
    .parameter "attr"

    .prologue
    const/4 v3, 0x2

    const/4 v2, 0x0

    .line 56
    invoke-direct {p0, p1, p2}, Landroid/widget/GridView;-><init>(Landroid/content/Context;Landroid/util/AttributeSet;)V

    .line 34
    const-string v1, "ClippedDataPickerGridView"

    iput-object v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->TAG:Ljava/lang/String;

    .line 36
    const/16 v1, 0x1f4

    iput v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->ANIMATION_TIME:I

    .line 37
    iput v2, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->ANIMATION_DELAY:I

    .line 39
    iput v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->COLUMN_COUNT:I

    .line 41
    new-instance v1, Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    invoke-direct {v1}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;-><init>()V

    iput-object v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemList:Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    .line 43
    iput-boolean v2, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->isDelete:Z

    .line 45
    iput v2, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemSize:I

    .line 46
    iput v2, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    .line 47
    iput v2, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delayTime:I

    .line 49
    iput-boolean v2, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->isAnimating:Z

    .line 58
    invoke-virtual {p0}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->getResources()Landroid/content/res/Resources;

    move-result-object v1

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Landroid/content/res/Resources;->getConfiguration()Landroid/content/res/Configuration;

    move-result-object v0

    .line 59
    .local v0, cfg:Landroid/content/res/Configuration;
    iget v1, v0, Landroid/content/res/Configuration;->orientation:I

    if-ne v1, v3, :cond_1

    .line 60
    const/4 v1, 0x4

    iput v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->COLUMN_COUNT:I

    .line 64
    :cond_0
    :goto_0
    return-void

    .line 61
    :cond_1
    iget v1, v0, Landroid/content/res/Configuration;->orientation:I

    const/4 v2, 0x1

    if-ne v1, v2, :cond_0

    .line 62
    iput v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->COLUMN_COUNT:I

    goto :goto_0
.end method

.method static synthetic access$002(Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;Z)Z
    .locals 0
    .parameter "x0"
    .parameter "x1"

    .prologue
    .line 33
    iput-boolean p1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->isAnimating:Z

    return p1
.end method

.method private checkDeleteCount(I)I
    .locals 5
    .parameter "index"

    .prologue
    .line 148
    const/4 v1, 0x0

    .line 149
    .local v1, n:I
    move v2, p1

    .line 151
    .local v2, prevIndex:I
    iget v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    add-int/lit8 v3, v3, 0x1

    iput v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    .line 153
    iget v0, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    .local v0, i:I
    :goto_0
    iget v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemSize:I

    if-ge v0, v3, :cond_0

    .line 154
    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemList:Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    invoke-virtual {v3, v0}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->get(I)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v3

    check-cast v3, Ljava/lang/Integer;

    invoke-virtual {v3}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->intValue()I

    move-result v1

    .line 156
    sub-int v3, v1, v2

    const/4 v4, 0x1

    if-ne v3, v4, :cond_0

    .line 157
    iget v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    add-int/lit8 v3, v3, 0x1

    iput v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    .line 158
    move v2, v1

    .line 153
    add-int/lit8 v0, v0, 0x1

    goto :goto_0

    .line 164
    :cond_0
    iget v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemSize:I

    iget v4, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    if-le v3, v4, :cond_1

    iget-object v3, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemList:Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    iget v4, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    invoke-virtual {v3, v4}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->get(I)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v3

    check-cast v3, Ljava/lang/Integer;

    invoke-virtual {v3}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->intValue()I

    move-result p1

    .end local p1
    :cond_1
    return p1
.end method

.method private getAnim(III)Landroid/view/animation/TranslateAnimation;
    .locals 5
    .parameter "width"
    .parameter "height"
    .parameter "index"

    .prologue
    const/4 v4, 0x0

    .line 81
    new-instance v0, Landroid/view/animation/TranslateAnimation;

    int-to-float v2, p1

    int-to-float v3, p2

    invoke-direct {v0, v2, v4, v3, v4}, Landroid/view/animation/TranslateAnimation;-><init>(FFFF)V

    .line 82
    .local v0, anim:Landroid/view/animation/TranslateAnimation;
    const-wide/16 v2, 0x1f4

    invoke-virtual {v0, v2, v3}, Landroid/view/animation/TranslateAnimation;->setDuration(J)V

    .line 83
    iget v2, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delayTime:I

    int-to-long v2, v2

    invoke-virtual {v0, v2, v3}, Landroid/view/animation/TranslateAnimation;->setStartOffset(J)V

    .line 84
    const/4 v2, 0x1

    invoke-virtual {v0, v2}, Landroid/view/animation/TranslateAnimation;->setFillAfter(Z)V

    .line 86
    move v1, p3

    .line 87
    .local v1, currIndex:I
    invoke-virtual {p0}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->getFirstVisiblePosition()I

    move-result v2

    add-int v3, v1, v2

    iget-object v2, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemList:Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    const/4 v4, 0x0

    invoke-virtual {v2, v4}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->get(I)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v2

    check-cast v2, Ljava/lang/Integer;

    invoke-virtual {v2}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->intValue()I

    move-result v2

    if-ne v3, v2, :cond_1

    .line 88
    new-instance v2, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView$1;

    invoke-direct {v2, p0, v1}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView$1;-><init>(Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;I)V

    invoke-virtual {v0, v2}, Landroid/view/animation/TranslateAnimation;->setAnimationListener(Landroid/view/animation/Animation$AnimationListener;)V

    .line 130
    :cond_0
    :goto_0
    iget v2, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delayTime:I

    add-int/lit8 v2, v2, 0x0

    iput v2, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delayTime:I

    .line 132
    return-object v0

    .line 109
    :cond_1
    invoke-virtual {p0}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->getChildCount()I

    move-result v2

    add-int/lit8 v2, v2, -0x1

    if-ne v1, v2, :cond_0

    .line 110
    new-instance v2, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView$2;

    invoke-direct {v2, p0}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView$2;-><init>(Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;)V

    invoke-virtual {v0, v2}, Landroid/view/animation/TranslateAnimation;->setAnimationListener(Landroid/view/animation/Animation$AnimationListener;)V

    goto :goto_0
.end method

.method private requestAnimation(Landroid/view/View;I)V
    .locals 7
    .parameter "view"
    .parameter "index"

    .prologue
    .line 136
    iget v4, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    add-int/2addr v4, p2

    iget v5, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->COLUMN_COUNT:I

    rem-int/2addr v4, v5

    iget v5, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->COLUMN_COUNT:I

    rem-int v5, p2, v5

    sub-int v2, v4, v5

    .line 137
    .local v2, indexW:I
    iget v4, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    add-int/2addr v4, p2

    iget v5, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->COLUMN_COUNT:I

    div-int/2addr v4, v5

    int-to-double v4, v4

    invoke-static {v4, v5}, Ljava/lang/Math;->floor(D)D

    move-result-wide v4

    double-to-int v4, v4

    iget v5, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->COLUMN_COUNT:I

    div-int v5, p2, v5

    int-to-double v5, v5

    invoke-static {v5, v6}, Ljava/lang/Math;->floor(D)D

    move-result-wide v5

    double-to-int v5, v5

    sub-int v1, v4, v5

    .line 140
    .local v1, indexH:I
    invoke-virtual {p1}, Landroid/view/View;->getWidth()I

    move-result v4

    mul-int v0, v4, v2

    .line 141
    .local v0, horizontalAnimationWidth:I
    invoke-virtual {p1}, Landroid/view/View;->getHeight()I

    move-result v4

    mul-int v3, v4, v1

    .line 143
    .local v3, verticalAnimationHeight:I
    invoke-direct {p0, v0, v3, p2}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->getAnim(III)Landroid/view/animation/TranslateAnimation;

    move-result-object v4

    invoke-virtual {p1, v4}, Landroid/view/View;->setAnimation(Landroid/view/animation/Animation;)V

    .line 145
    return-void
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public isLayoutAnimating()Z
    .locals 1

    .prologue
    .line 199
    iget-boolean v0, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->isAnimating:Z

    return v0
.end method

.method protected layoutChildren()V
    .locals 9

    .prologue
    const/4 v8, 0x0

    .line 169
    invoke-super {p0}, Landroid/widget/GridView;->layoutChildren()V

    .line 171
    iget-boolean v6, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->isDelete:Z

    if-eqz v6, :cond_3

    .line 174
    invoke-virtual {p0}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->getChildCount()I

    move-result v2

    .line 175
    .local v2, len:I
    invoke-virtual {p0}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->getFirstVisiblePosition()I

    move-result v0

    .line 176
    .local v0, first:I
    iget-object v6, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemList:Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    invoke-virtual {v6, v8}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->get(I)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v6

    check-cast v6, Ljava/lang/Integer;

    invoke-virtual {v6}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->intValue()I

    move-result v4

    .line 177
    .local v4, startItemIndex:I
    move v3, v4

    .line 179
    .local v3, nextItemIndex:I
    iput v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    .line 180
    iput v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delayTime:I

    .line 182
    const/4 v1, 0x0

    .local v1, i:I
    :goto_0
    if-ge v1, v2, :cond_2

    .line 184
    add-int v6, v0, v1

    if-lt v6, v4, :cond_1

    .line 185
    invoke-virtual {p0, v1}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->getChildAt(I)Landroid/view/View;

    move-result-object v5

    .line 187
    .local v5, view:Landroid/view/View;
    add-int v6, v0, v1

    iget v7, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->delCnt:I

    sub-int v7, v3, v7

    if-ne v6, v7, :cond_0

    .line 188
    invoke-direct {p0, v3}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->checkDeleteCount(I)I

    move-result v3

    .line 191
    :cond_0
    invoke-direct {p0, v5, v1}, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->requestAnimation(Landroid/view/View;I)V

    .line 182
    .end local v5           #view:Landroid/view/View;
    :cond_1
    add-int/lit8 v1, v1, 0x1

    goto :goto_0

    .line 194
    :cond_2
    iput-boolean v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->isDelete:Z

    .line 196
    .end local v0           #first:I
    .end local v1           #i:I
    .end local v2           #len:I
    .end local v3           #nextItemIndex:I
    .end local v4           #startItemIndex:I
    :cond_3
    return-void
.end method

.method public setDeletedItems(Ljava/util/ArrayList;)V
    .locals 3
    .parameter
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "(",
            "Ljava/util/ArrayList",
            "<",
            "Ljava/lang/Integer;",
            ">;)V"
        }
    .end annotation

    .prologue
    .line 67
    .local p1, deleteItems:Ljava/util/ArrayList;,"Ljava/util/ArrayList<Ljava/lang/Integer;>;"
    iget-object v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemList:Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->clear()V

    .line 69
    invoke-virtual {p1}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->size()I

    move-result v0

    .local v0, i:I
    :goto_0
    if-lez v0, :cond_0

    .line 70
    iget-object v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemList:Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    add-int/lit8 v2, v0, -0x1

    invoke-virtual {p1, v2}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->get(I)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v2

    invoke-virtual {v1, v2}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->add(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z

    .line 69
    add-int/lit8 v0, v0, -0x1

    goto :goto_0

    .line 73
    :cond_0
    iget-object v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemList:Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->size()I

    move-result v1

    iput v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemSize:I

    .line 75
    iget v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->deleteItemSize:I

    if-lez v1, :cond_1

    .line 76
    const/4 v1, 0x1

    iput-boolean v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->isDelete:Z

    .line 78
    :cond_1
    return-void
.end method

.method public setLayoutAnimationState(Z)V
    .locals 1
    .parameter "state"

    .prologue
    .line 203
    iget-boolean v0, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->isAnimating:Z

    if-eq v0, p1, :cond_0

    .line 204
    iput-boolean p1, p0, Lcom/android/server/sec/ClippedDataPickerGridView;->isAnimating:Z

    .line 206
    :cond_0
    return-void
.end method

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Free Family Programs! | Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and MuseumBilly Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum
Free Family Programs!
Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor – film at Wexner
128 North Oval Mall
Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor
Bring the family and spend Sunday afternoon browsing the exhibit, attending a film, enjoying refreshments, printing a comic strip and making an authentic printer's hat!
12:30 – 4:40 pm From the Yellow Kid to Conan: American Cartoons from the International Museum of Cartoon Art at the Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor.
1:00 pm The Secret of N.I.M.H (1982), Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater.
2:30 – 4:30 pm Special Events at the Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor: enjoy lemonade and cookies, print a comic strip with Bob Tauber, Logan Elm Press and Book Arts Program, and make an authentic newspaper printer's hat.
Part of the Celebrating the International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection at The Ohio State University events.
Co-Sponsors: The Ohio State University Cartoon Library & Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts, the Department of Art Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor, University Libraries, and Logan Elm Press and Book Arts Program.
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La communauté de communes Pré-Bocage Intercom est une structure intercommunale française, située dans le département du Calvados en région Normandie.

Historique
La communauté de communes Pré-Bocage Intercom est créée le  par fusion des communautés de communes Villers-Bocage Intercom (sans Hottot-les-Bagues et Lingèvres qui intègrent la communauté de communes Seulles Terre et Mer) et Aunay-Caumont Intercom.

L'ancienne commune du Plessis-Grimoult, membre de la communauté de communes du Pays de Condé et de la Druance jusqu'en 2016, intègre la commune nouvelle des Monts d'Aunay et, en conséquence, la nouvelle intercommunalité au .

Territoire communautaire

Géographie
Située dans l'ouest du département du Calvados, la communauté de communes Pré-Bocage Intercom regroupe 27 communes et s'étend sur .

Composition
La communauté de communes est composée des  suivantes :

Démographie

Administration

Siège
Le siège de la communauté de communes est situé aux Monts d'Aunay.

Conseil communautaire

Présidence

Compétences

Compétences obligatoires
La communauté de communes Pré-Bocage Intercom a 4 compétences obligatoires :
 Aménagement de l'espace :
 Développement économique : l'intégralité de la compétence développement économique telle que visée à l'article L.5214-16 du CGCT ;
 Aménagement, entretien et gestion des aires d'accueil des gens du voyage
 Collecte et traitement des déchets des ménages et déchets assimilés.

Compétences optionnelles
 Protection et mise en valeur de l'environnement.
 Politique du logement et du cadre de vie
 Création ou aménagement et entretien de la voirie d'intérêt communautaire.
 Construction, entretien et fonctionnement d'équipements culturels et sportifs d'intérêt communautaire et d'équipements de l'enseignement préélémentaire et élémentaire d'intérêt communautaire
Action sociale d'intérêt communautaire.

Compétences supplémentaires
 Agences postales
Création et gestion des agences postales sur le périmètre de la communauté
 Assainissement non collectif des eaux usées
Elle mène toute étude relative à une organisation intercommunale en matière de gestion de l'assainissement collectif
 Points info 14
 Insertion des jeunes
 Autres compétences

Régime fiscal et budget
Le régime fiscal de la communauté de communes est la fiscalité professionnelle unique (FPU).

Projets et réalisations

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
Liste des intercommunalités du Calvados

Liens externes

  Arrêté préfectoral du 21 mars 2018 (compétences, p. 147 à 150)

Notes et références

Pre-Bocage Intercom

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Biografia
Nata a Boston, la Hassan è figlia di Robert Coldwell Wood, un politico democratico che fu Segretario della Casa e dello Sviluppo Urbano sotto Lyndon B. Johnson. Dopo gli studi, la Hassan divenne avvocato e svolse questa professione per diversi anni finché non entrò in politica.

Nel 2002 si candidò al Senato di stato del New Hampshire, ma perse le elezioni contro il repubblicano in carica Russell Prescott. Nel 2004 lo sfidò nuovamente e questa volta ebbe la meglio; fu riconfermata per altri due mandati nel 2006 e nel 2008, ma nel 2010 venne sconfitta da Prescott, che si era ricandidato per il suo vecchio seggio. Negli ultimi due anni di mandato, la Hassan rivestì anche il ruolo di leader della maggioranza e fu una delle maggiori promotrici del disegno di legge che istituiva nello stato del New Hampshire il matrimonio tra persone dello stesso sesso.

Nel 2012 la Hassan si candidò alla carica di governatore del New Hampshire e riuscì a vincere con un'ampia maggioranza di voti, divenendo la seconda donna democratica ad essere eletta governatrice dopo Jeanne Shaheen. Nel 2014 fu riconfermata dagli elettori per un secondo mandato.

Nel 2016 annunciò la sua intenzione di non richiedere un nuovo mandato da governatrice, candidandosi invece al Senato contro la repubblicana uscente Kelly Ayotte. La campagna elettorale fu molto combattuta e alla fine la Hassan riuscì a prevalere sulla Ayotte per appena 743 voti.

Sposata con Thomas Hassan, per molti anni preside della Phillips Exeter Academy, la Hassan è madre di due figli: al maggiore, Ben, fu diagnosticata una paralisi cerebrale infantile; la Hassan dichiarò che uno dei motivi che la spinsero ad entrare in politica fu proprio il desiderio di tutelare i bambini disabili come suo figlio.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
Maggie Hassan sul Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Biografia di Maggie Hassan a cura della National Governors Association

Politici del Partito Democratico (Stati Uniti d'America)
Governatori del New Hampshire
Senatori statunitensi eletti dal New Hampshire
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The Almonte Riverside Trail is an intermediate single track trail West of Ottawa just outside the picturesque town of Almonte. The trail system is continuing to grow with some areas not on the map yet. The best way to see all of this network is to catch the wheel of one of the local riders and follow them.
Trail information and more can be found on the Almonte Outdoors website.
The single track would best be described as a bit bumpy with lots of rocks and roots. Several short rock gardens and bridges add to the fun. A bit of suspension on your bike makes the trail more enjoyable.
See below for the official trail map. The trails continues to expand and maps will be update as they become available.
The trail head/entrance to the system is located on Strathburn Street about 200m from where it meets Country Road 29/Christian Street. There is a sign on the North hand side of the road indicating the trail entrance.
The network wouldn't exist without the co-operation and good will of the local land owners who gave permission for the trail to cross their private land. Please be respectful so we can keep riding these trails.


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Boris…Truss…PM Sunak
Fake Conservatives
German Evac Plane Flies with Just Seven Souls, UK Denies 'Empty' Flights out of Afghan Claims
Marc Tessensohn/Bundeswehr via Getty Images
Chris Tomlinson
Aircraft from the UK and Germany reportedly flew out of Kabul with hardly any passengers on Tuesday and Wednesday, claims the UK for its part belatedly denied.
The Taliban takeover of the country over the past week sent throngs of people fleeing to the airport, seeking to escape the radical jihadists before they begin an expected purge of citizens who cooperated with the U.S. government during the 20-year Afghan War. Reports indicate that Taliban jihadists have blocked large numbers of people from accessing the airport, where Western nations have promised to send planes to evacuate their citizens and others deemed vulnerable.
UK opposition Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer cited NGO reports in parliament on Wednesday, claiming that at least one evacuation flight from Kabul had left the airport "almost empty", saying that people were unable to get into the airport to be evacuated. Sir Keir criticised the government response to the ongoing crisis and called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to "snap out of his complacency", going on to demand the government present plans to secure the airport and allow for the evacuation of Afghans and others.
According to a report from the BBC, Number 10 Downing Street did not immediately counter the allegations made by the opposition leader but stated that the situation on the ground in Kabul was a difficult one. Some 22 hours later, Britain's defence secretary spoke to the BBC and denied Starmer's claims, insisting no British aircraft had left Kabul empty.
Defence Minister Ben Wallace, a veteran guards officer, said: "None of our planes are leaving empty. I can't vouch for other nations, but our planes never leave empty. If we have spaces on them, we offer them up for other nations. We took out some NATO interpreters recently, we've taken out some people from other [European states]."
Mr Wallace also said that the United Kingdom was sending another company of soldiers to Afghanistan today "to help with public order". Appearing to clash with the Biden administration, which has been pursuing an apparent policy of pulling out of Afghanistan at maximum speed and in spite of any consequence, Defence Secretary Wallace noted of the UK sending more troops back to Kabul: "If at the end of the day we're allowed to stay longer, we can stay longer, that's a real benefit to us all."
As of Wednesday, a total of 306 UK nationals and 2,052 Afghan nationals had been evacuated from Kabul since the city fell to the Taliban on Sunday. Wallace said up to ten UK planes were leaving Kabul today, and hundreds more people had been evacuated on Thursday morning.
Conservative Govt Invites 20,000 Afghans to UK in Coming Years https://t.co/k09A65bQfy
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 18, 2021
Germany has not had such luck, however. In similar reports on Tuesday, a German military aircraft evacuated just seven people. The A-400M transport can carry up to 200 people at a time.
The German government claimed that the aircraft was forced to take off nearly empty due to the security situation at the airport.
"We can confirm that seven people were evacuated during the night on a flight from Kabul. Due to the chaotic circumstances at the airport and regular exchanges of fire at the access point, there was no guarantee last night that further German nationals and other persons to be evacuated would even have access to the airport without the protection of the Bundeswehr [German armed forces]," the German Foreign Office said in a statement.
Here it comes… https://t.co/526ZNkmkpp
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 18, 2021
"With the support of the Bundeswehr forces that have now arrived in Kabul, we are working under high pressure to make this possible for the first evacuation groups in the course of the next few hours," the statement added.
The near-empty German aircraft was contrasted with an American military flight which alone took 640 people from the country on Sunday, well above the rated capacity of the aircraft. So far, Germany has evacuated just 2,000 staff, and around 10,000 are reportedly still looking to leave.
Other American flights have been less well loaded than that highly publicised example, however. Other C-17 aircraft took only around 110 people each on 18 flights that evacuated 2,000 people from the country.
According to the Daily Mail, the Biden White House previously promised to evacuate 9,000 people from Kabul per day for a total of 20,000 overall. At least 50,000 people have amassed at the civilian and military sides of the airport that has become surrounded by Taliban forces, the newspaper asserted. Multiple reports indicate that the Taliban are not allowing anyone into the airport who cannot present a foreign passport.
Shocking footage from the airport surfaced this week, showing desperate Afghans clinging to American aircraft to escape the country, resulting in several falling to their deaths. At least seven people died on Monday during the chaos, according to U.S. officials.
"I feel like we abandoned our allies over there, and it's disgusting." https://t.co/dYv2TQyhqB
Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at @TomlinsonCJ or email at ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com
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Do spacecraft have similar structural integrity requirements as submarines?
When a spacecraft performs a splashdown maneuver, a recovery team is standing by to retrieve the capsule and its human contents quickly. A flotation collar is deployed to increase buoyancy and prevent the spacecraft from sinking. If, however, the spacecraft did sink, would it be able to withstand the pressure of the deep?
Structurally speaking, what are the differences between a spaceship floating in the vacuum of space and a submarine floating underwater in an ocean?
coleopteristcoleopterist
$\begingroup$ This is a good, if basic, question. The answer lies along the lines of containing pressure vs. resisting pressure. In many ways, the submarine is much harder as the hull pressure can go way up whereas you rarely see anything above 1 atm of pressure on a spacecraft's hull. $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ Submarine-launched ballistic missles have to deal with an inverse pressure load too. $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ I thought this was about the Sea Dragon. After all, the idea is to use a submarine-like hull for a rocket space.stackexchange.com/questions/874/… $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_23 $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ No. Submarines withstand enormous external pressure and must be water and air tight. Satellites must tolerate hard vacuum and unless otherwise necessitated by mission requirements are design to vent on ascent. $\endgroup$
– Adam Wuerl
Let's differentiate "spacecraft" and "landing capsule".
There are various phases of the flight with various prerequisites, and several different (considerably different) designs of spacecrafts.
First, let's take the capsule. It must withstand violent reentry, unequal air pressures - the exposed side heats up enormously due to air friction, which is connected with quite huge pressure. It doesn't need to be lean and aerodynamic, quite opposite, it's one big airbrake with a passenger cabin attached to the trailing side. The pressure is largely unidirectional and primarily overheated, so the construction concerns of submarine are really distantly related, with its omnidirectional pressure, ability to withstand unexpected pressure waves (explosions), lean shape to minimize resistance, and ubiquitous water cooling making overheating non-issue.
Next, the orbital craft. To get there it must be be light. A mild kick could have pierced Apollo lunar module walls, ISS is more sturdy but still it's to withstand 1 bar pressure difference towards the outside (that's equivalent of mere 10m submersion depth), and again - towards the outside, that means no need for cross-beams to prevent buckling; it has natural tendency to bloat like a balloon. It isn't lean or aerodynamic in the least, air resistance is not a concern. Its construction problems are much closer to these of airplane hull than to that of a submarine.
And finally, the launch vehicle. This one does have to be lean, but again, it needs to be light. It is not resistant to lateral forces (its own acoustic wave reflected from the tower could damage it!), and again it doesn't have to withstand high outer pressures. The shuttle main fuel tank depends on internal fuel pressure; in other cases the structure is mostly unpressurized shell that allows air pressure to escape as it leaves the atmosphere, providing structural integrity but not isolating the inside - except for the relatively tiny human compartment.
Really, submarines with a considerable fraction of a meter thick solid metal shell, and designed for battle conditions - stealth, maneuverability, durability, weapons, aquatic environment - face entirely different construction challenges. On the other hand, there's much more overlap with airplanes.
edited May 22 '18 at 6:50
SF.SF.
$\begingroup$ Just noting that not all submarines are military or designed for combat. $\endgroup$
– NPSF3000
$\begingroup$ The kick that would pierce Apollo's walls would badly injury the feet. But a broken feet and a undamaged wall is very probable. The walls of the Apollo command module are much more rigid than the walls of the lunar module not designed for an atmospheric reentry. $\endgroup$
– Uwe
$\begingroup$ @Uwe: Okay, clarified - I meant the lunar module from moment one; there's a separate section for reentry capsules. $\endgroup$
Spacecraft are designed to contain internal pressure of not more than one atmosphere; submarines are designed to withstand dozens of atmospheres of external pressure. Furthermore, aerospace systems have very severe weight budgets - additional weight means additional fuel to power the engines to lift it, which itself adds weight... too much and the system will be unable to achieve its mission objective, or perhaps even get off the ground. Submersibles also have weight budgets, but they are nowhere as severe. The structural members of a spacecraft hull are predominantly operating in tension, at a significant fraction of the material's yield limits, and the most likely failure mode would be tensile fracture. The structural members of a submarine hull are predominantly operating in compression, and the most likely failure mode would be buckling.
Obviously, the space and undersea environments are entirely different and present entirely different challenges to vehicle designers and structural engineers. So, no, the requirements are not at all similar.
Given all of the above, one could reasonably deduce that if one were to (hypothetically) seal up and submerge a space capsule, its structure would buckle (it would be crushed) at relatively shallow depth. Capsules such as Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo had sufficient bouyancy to float on the ocean surface. As long as the hatches and vents remained closed to prevent ingres of water, they could remain afloat indefinitely. They could only be submerged if there was opportunity for water to enter (and displaced air to escape). In such case there would be no pressure differential on the hull to crush it no matter how deep it sunk.
As to the flotation collars, they were needed to stabilize the capsule (keep them upright in the water) and ensure bouyancy after the hatch was opened.
Anthony XAnthony X
As far as I am aware, only one landing vehicle was not reclaimed before it sank to the bottom of the see (Liberty Bell 7). It was recovered in 1999 after spending 38 years on the bottom of the sea. The Liberty Bell 7 sunk after the hatch blew away prematurely and the capsule filled with water. Due to the fact there was both water on the inside and the outside of the capsule, the recovery report will not give much information about deep sea pressure on the whole capsule. It will however give an insight about the effect of sea water on the hull, and the effect of sea water and pressure on various instruments.
An inspection of the Mercury capsule, Liberty Bell 7, and its contents was made on September 1 and 2, 1999. The condition of the capsule and its contents was consistent with long-term exposure to salt water and high pressures at the bottom of the ocean. Many of the metallic materials suffered corrosion, whereas the polymer-based materials seem to have survived remarkably well. No identifiable items or structures were found that appeared to have any scientific value. At this time, no further nondestructive evaluation appears to be justified.
Abstract "Liberty Bell 7 Recovery Evaluation and Nondestructive Testing" [1]
This is worked out better in the article:
The external structure was in surprisingly good condition. (See fig. 3.) The black object at the bottom of the capsule is a skirt that provided ballast support. The heat shield would have been below the skirt, but the heat shield was missing and had not been recovered. The bottom structures included the flexible skirt and various metal strips and springs, a covering that appeared to be a polymer-based material, and the capsule base behind that; all looked to be in good condition. The external covering of the cone-shaped sides of the capsule consisted of small sheet-metal corrugated panels approximately 0.031 inch thick, which showed no signs of corrosion.
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The upper portion of the capsule, which was made of thick aluminum plates, experienced significant material loss caused by corrosion. Although some areas measured full thickness of approximately 0.220 inch, most regions were less, including several areas where the material was completely lost. Attached to these aluminum plates were large nodules of corrosion products.
However, when sea water meets the interior of the landing capsule, it will destroy almost anything, either by pressure or corroding.
As a last note: The report mentions exact the exact thickness of various parts of the hull. While the heat shield will shield the 0.031 inch (0.7874 mm) thick metal sheet at the bottom from heat, I doubt the heat shield will shield it from the sea pressure. Eventually the heat shield will completely corrode away too. While I have no exact numbers, I doubt the (thick?) 0.220 inch (5.58 mm) aluminium sheets will protect against even the slightest sea pressure either if the hull was completely waterproof. I have however no exact numbers to proof this.
While landing capsules have been improved a lot since then, I doubt there have been much improvements in "the survivability of a landing capsule on the bottom of the ocean".
[1] Liberty Bell 7 Recovery Evaluation and Nondestructive Testing, E. Madaras & W. Smith, December 1999. Accessed August 31, 2013.
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St Patrick's Day events in London
It's time to wear green, sip Guinness and get your best moves ready for a céili because the St. Patrick's Day events in London are about to kick off!
London's Irish community will be out in full force to celebrate Lá Fhéile Pádraig. Traditionally, the day commemorates Saint Patrick – Ireland's Patron Saint – and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland. But today, it's a celebration of heritage, culture and everything green, white and gold.
Whether you're away from home for the celebrations, or it's your first year donning some shamrocks on your lapel, there are plenty of events in London to keep the festivities alive!
There will be singing, dancing, cheering, and of course a pint or two! Here's some of the best St Patrick's Day events in London this year…
St. Patrick's Day Parade and Festival, Trafalgar Square, Sunday 13th March
In Ireland, St. Patrick's Day celebrations are a week long, building up the big day on the 17th March.
In London, a whole Sunday is being dedicated to the celebrations – Sunday 13th! Head over to Piccadilly to see the start of the parade – headed by boxer Barry McGuigan – and look our for floats, marching bands, Irish dancers and much more! Details are still to be confirmed for the 2016 parade, but it usually starts at 12pm at Green Park and passes through Piccadilly and Whitehall. Get there early to grab a good cheering spot!
For the rest of the day, Trafalgar Square will be dressed in green and will host a food market, children's theatre, a fashion show and even a comedy festival throughout the day.
Try Poitin at Last Libations, Bourne & Hollingsworth, Monday 14th March
You have been given hours to live…what would be your last cocktail? That's the theme for the Last Libations night at the Bourne & Hollingsworth bar. For St. Patrick's Day, the night will be dedicated to the once-homebrewed Irish spirit Poitin. It was once thought to make people blind it was that potent, so now's your chance to give it a go!
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'Not good enough': UN expert slams Saudi crown prince's empty comments on Khashoggi murder
Agnes Callamard was unimpressed with the Saudi Crown Prince's comments on Khashoggi's murder [Getty]
Date of publication: 30 September, 2019
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UN human rights expert Agnes Callamard has criticised Mohammed bin Salman's attempts to distance himself from Khashoggi's murder by taking 'corporate' instead of 'individual' responsibility for the crime.
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A UN rights expert on Monday criticised Saudi Arabia's crown prince for trying to create "distance" between himself and journalist Jamal Khashoggi's execution, even as he appeared to acknowledge the Saudi state was responsible.
Agnes Callamard, a United Nations special rapporteur who conducted an investigation into Khashoggi's murder, was reacting to an interview broadcast by US media on Sunday with Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Speaking to CBS's 60 Minutes, Prince Mohammed denied ordering or having advanced warning of Khashoggi's killing on October 2 last year at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, but said he "took full responsibility as a leader in Saudi Arabia".
Callamard, whose independent probe found "credible evidence" linking the crown prince to the murder and attempted cover up, dismissed that defence as "problematic".
"He is only taking corporate responsibility for the crime, which goes without saying," Callamard told AFP, days ahead of the first anniversary since Khashoggi's death.
She said the interview appeared to mark a concession by Prince Mohammed that "the killing of Mr. Khashoggi was a state killing," and therefore a rejection of Riyadh's previous explanation that responsibility for the brutal murder lay with rogue agents.
But Callamard condemned the prince, known by his initials MbS, for taking "no personal responsibility for the crime".
"He is creating huge distance between himself and the crime," by arguing that he cannot be liable for the conduct of all Saudi government employees.
Callamard told AFP that "for the last 12 months, the Saudi state, their various representatives and [MBS] included have been lying to the international community regarding the nature of the crime. So now we are supposed to take his word that, yes, he has a corporate responsibility but he has no personal responsibility?"
"Not good enough," she said.
The CIA has also reportedly said the killing was likely ordered by Prince Mohammed.
But Saudi prosecutors have absolved the prince and said two dozen people implicated in the murder are in custody, with death penalties sought against five men.
Justice not 'easy'
Callamard has previously blamed UN "paralysis" for the failure to punish those who murdered Khashoggi - a US resident, Washington Post contributor and critic of the Saudi royal family.
She has called on Secretary General Antonio Guterres to independently launch a UN criminal probe.
The UN chief's office has said that is impossible without a member state request.
"I have not argued that this will be easy for [Guterres] procedurally or politically to do. What I am arguing is that if he wanted, and if he received sufficient formal or informal backing, he could find the legal backing to move forward," Callamard said.
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I conduct sessions both in person and on the telephone.
Both are effective in achieving transformation.
Both can be equally powerful.
Each session begins with Integrative Kabbalistic Healing, which has two parts. First, we sit in dialogue with one another. I listen deeply on many levels, to words, body language, emotions, energy, spirit.
The second part is tablework. Fully clothed, you lie on the table. Gently holding your hip and shoulder, I connect with the sources of healing, to bring you into proper alignment with the non-personal transcendent reality, awakening you to the already-healed place within – bringing the gift that only you have to offer to its fulfillment.
In person, as the need arises, I am able to use all of the healing therapies in which I am trained, to assist you on your healing journey.
Telephone sessions also begin with Integrative Kabbalistic Healing, and are nearly identical. The difference is that, as the need arises, I am able to use only six of the ten healing therapies in which I am trained.
What I have learned is that there are many paths to healing, and it is not up to me which works best. I am not even sure it is up to you. I think the Source of Healing uses whatever it can to transform us. Ultimately, in person or on the phone – body work, energy work, and spirit work – are all the same.


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Professore associato di filosofia e ricercatore presso il Global Priorities Institute dell'Università di Oxford, è direttore della Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. MacAskill è anche il co-fondatore di Giving What We Can, il Center for Effective Altruism e 80.000 Hours. È inoltre l'autore del libro del 2015 Doing Good Better, del libro del 2022 What We Owe the Future, e coautore del libro del 2020 Moral Uncertainty.

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Nato William Crouch nel 1987 e cresciuto a Glasgow, sua madre lavorava per il Servizio Sanitario Nazionale e suo padre lavorava nell'informatica; ha due fratelli maggiori. MacAskill ha studiato alla Hutchesons' Grammar School, una scuola privata di Glasgow. All'età di 15 anni, dopo aver appreso quante persone stavano morendo a causa dell'AIDS, ha preso la decisione di lavorare per diventare ricco e dare metà dei soldi in beneficenza. Si è anche offerto volontario per un gruppo scout di disabili. All'età di 18 anni, durante i suoi studi universitari, MacAskill fu esposto al saggio del 1972 di Peter Singer Famine, Affluence, and Morality, che in seguito divenne un principio guida per la sua vita.

MacAskill ha conseguito una laurea in filosofia al Jesus College, Cambridge, nel 2008; il suo BPhil alla St Edmund Hall, Oxford, nel 2010; e il suo DPhil al St Anne's College, Oxford, nel 2014 (trascorrendo un anno come studente in visita alla Princeton University ), sotto la supervisione di John Broome e Krister Bykvist. Ha poi preso una borsa di studio di ricerca junior presso l'Emmanuel College, Cambridge, prima di prendere una cattedra associata al Lincoln College, Oxford.

Nel 2009 MacAskill, insieme a Toby Ord, ha co-fondato l'organizzazione Giving What We Can per incoraggiare le persone a impegnarsi a donare il 10% delle loro entrate a enti di beneficenza efficaci. Ha co-fondato il Center for Effective Altruism nel 2011 come organizzazione ombrello di Giving What We Can e 80.000 ore, che ha co-fondato con Benjamin Todd, per fornire consigli su come utilizzare la tua carriera per fare il meglio nel mondo.

MacAskill è presidente dell'Advisor Board presso il Global Priorities Institute dell'Università di Oxford e direttore della Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. È consulente di Longview Philanthropy. MacAskill faceva parte del FTX Future Fund che ha impegnato circa $ 160 milioni in sovvenzioni. Tuttavia, a causa dell'implosione di FTX, MacAskill e il resto del team si sono dimessi.

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MacAskill (nato Crouch) sostiene che gli uomini dovrebbero prendere in considerazione la possibilità di cambiare il proprio cognome quando si sposano; lui e la sua ex moglie hanno cambiato il loro cognome in "MacAskill", il nome da nubile della nonna materna.

MacAskill e la sua ex moglie hanno scritto insieme articoli su argomenti di dibattito etico. Si sono separati nel 2015 e successivamente hanno divorziato; la sua attuale compagna è Holly Morgan. Preoccupato per il benessere degli animali, MacAskill ha sperimentato sia ansia che depressione. MacAskill, che vive a Oxford, è vegetariano.

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A primary initiative of your Central Gardens Association for fiscal year 2016-2017 was the development of a new Strategic Plan for the neighborhood. To assure that this plan was created with your input and ideas, "listening sessions" with over 100 total participants were held throughout the neighborhood and a survey, completed by 400 of your neighbors, was conducted. The 2016 Strategic Neighborhood Plan will help guide the Central Gardens Association for the next 3-5 years.
Green Spaces and Infrastructure- protect and enhance the historic nature and beauty of the neighborhood.
Community Building & Events- increase neighborliness through facilitating block and quadrant parties rather than neighborhood-wide events.
Midtown Relationships- develop relationships between our neighborhood and other neighborhoods, schools, retail and other organizations around common issues.
The development of a new format and calendar for board meetings. The board now meets six times a year and each meeting is strategic in nature. The details of committee work now occur at the pillar level.
The creation of a decision matrix to help guide board decision-making. The decision matrix helps the board determine when to offer an official viewpoint, when to advocate on specific issues or when to simply educate or facilitate. This was a recommendation from our strategic plan facilitator.
We learned through the listening sessions that residents would like block-centered events that they can put on themselves, with some assistance and guidance from the Association. Central Gardens Association helped facilitate National Night Out and Cop Stop events in the neighborhood.
Linden Avenue has been hosting a Block Party for 19 years! CGA has engaged Sarah Blackburn of Linden so that we can develop and share a Block Party Took Kit, based on Linden's success. Sarah has also joined the board and is chair of the Communication Committee. Thanks, Sarah for bringing your expertise to the board.
We worked with our neighbor associations and other stakeholders in Midtown on a common issue- improving our park. Click here to read about CGA's involvement with the Overton Park Alliance.
Members of the Central Gardens board have been on hand at meetings where the expansion of an industrial complex in Midtown has been reviewed and discussed. It is argued that this expansion may impede walkability and biking in and around Overton Square, a family friendly destination for all Midtowners. Central Gardens Association is helping to educate and engage our fellow neighbors who have a personal stake in an issue.
In December, the CGA Safety Committee held a Neighborhood Watch meeting where residents gathered to learn more about safety in general and what is being done to combat crime. On hand were Harold Collins of the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission and Philip Spinosa, City Council Member. Harold spoke about Operation: Safe Community and specifically addressed crime rates, gang activity, the recent reduction in police force, issues with blight, and more. Philip Spinosa spoke about the "SkyCop"program and the pro's and con's of various crime deterrent options.
To help improve our neighborhood infrastructure, CGA will form ad-hoc committees to engage neighbors for special projects. These projects may include connecting city support services to work on infrastructure problems like alleys, missing or damaged signs, graffiti, illegal dumping, weeds, potholes, missing or blocked drain covers, litter, missing street lights, etc. Participation in the SWEEP program is part of those efforts. Click here to learn more.
Volunteers are currently working on a walkability initiative, evaluating the condition of our sidewalks. This effort came out of the Listening Sessions and is a part of the 2016 Strategic Neighborhood Plan. To date, one quarter of the neighborhood has been evaluated using a tool provided by Liveable Memphis. The team is currently researching numerous national best practices for sidewalk repair.
The CGA Landmark's committee works closely with the Memphis Landmark's Commission and is charged with addressing issues related to the neighborhood's architectural heritage and design guidelines. The CGA Landmarks Committee recognized that our neighbors need more consultation on the front end when submitting an Appropriateness Application. This gives our neighbors more time to review and alter plans before the Commission reviews them formally. See our new webpage, located under "Resources" for how the committee can help you navigate the architectural guidelines and Memphis Landmarks Commission's Certificate of Appropriateness application. Also under Resources, you will see a link to "311 Direct" a simple way for neighbors to report problems to the city as well as code enforcement.


I'm so sorry you're going through this turmoil.
Is there any kind of crisis center or hospital where you could seek help?
I well understand the struggle with alcohol as I'm a recovering alcoholic. Struggling with substance abuse is very difficult, and a struggle you'll have the rest of your life IMO.... I don't believe that anybody can say "recovered" and I believe "recovering" is the operative word. I've had several relapses, but I realized that I had to get and stay sober....first of all for myself, but to preserve my relationship with the most important person in my life. You have to have supportive people in your environment.
While my addiction and bi-polar play a huge role in how I am hard-wired....it is the impulsivity and emotional deregulation that wreaks the most havoc in my life. I was in a 10 year relationship that brought about a break up/reconciliation every 6 months.....I would get angry......that emotion would overwhelm me and I would be "done" with the relationship and leave our home. Then- a week or two later (and then it became 2 months and 5 months later...), I would begin to grieve the relationship...and go back.
During some of our arguments, I would find myself "escalate" .....feeling so overwhelmed that I would throw myself down a flight of stairs, bang my head against the headboard...or send text messages threatening to hurt myself.
I am having these kinds of fears now with regard to this estrangement with my ex-husband and my kids. I am trying very hard to also not act out in ways that have become habitual for me. I was shoplifting on a daily basis....for a good 3 years or so. Only caught once and just fined. I believe this is anger/loss related. I have not taken anything in almost a month- a huge move in the more honest direction.
I am very anxious now being/living alone. My fears of abandonment are there but I am trying to remind myself that no one has abandoned me.
This can be so hard- but ODAT right?
Everything in life takes practice.
Sometimes that means refraining from sending inappropriate texts, not going back to our exes, not shop lifting, not using drugs. Once it becomes habit like you said, it is hard to just kick it completely. The bright side to that truth is that with practice, things -do- become easier, and we do get closer to the person we want to be.
I empathize with you being afraid of living alone. I lived alone the past couple of years, and it was very difficult to get myself out of my room... as much as I -liked- the privacy, in a way, it made my condition worse, because I allowed my living conditions to slip without anyone knowing.
Maybe make a point to do something simple, like go get a coffee one day, or even write or draw at the shop if that's something you enjoy. Go to a trivia night, the gym, or a movie, etc. Anything to break you out of the shell a bit.


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