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South West 999 call handlers speak out about abuse
"We are not there to be abused and shouted at; we are there to help people."
Submitted by SWASFT
People across the South West are being reminded to respect call handlers when calling 999 for an ambulance this winter.
Figures from the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) indicate abuse of its 999 call handlers has more than doubled since the beginning of the full UK lockdown in March.
Between March 23 and October 23, control room staff reported 77 verbal abuse incidents from callers, a 133 per cent increase on the 33 incidents reported during the same time period in 2019.
Ambulance staff reported a total of 289 verbal abuse incidents and 178 physical assaults during the seven months, up 21 per cent compared with last year.
Natasha, a 999 call handler based in Exeter, Devon, was subject to abuse from a caller.
She said: "It's rare to get through a whole shift without someone being unpleasant or nasty. The person started shouting and swearing at me immediately. Then he became aggressive and started making personal threats to me. He needed help but refused to answer my questions. So I couldn't help him and had to end the call.
Amy, a 999 call handler based in Bristol, dealt with a rude and aggressive caller who repeatedly rang the emergency line demanding an ambulance.
She said: "The caller became increasingly angry and verbally aggressive. I sympathised with their situation, but their continual swearing and level of hostility made my job virtually impossible.
"We understand that many of our callers are worried and scared, and this fear can sometimes present itself as abusive language and an aggressive attitude.
"However, any kind of abuse makes our job even more challenging and will not be tolerated. Behaviour such as this is obstructive to a safe triage and can hinder the giving of sometimes life-saving instructions.
"If you ever need to call 999, please remember you are speaking to a human being who really does care and who will arrange the most appropriate and safe care.
"Please trust us, and help us to help you."
Gabrielle, another 999 call handler, said: "Not everyone who calls 999 needs an ambulance. Our resources are limited, and ambulances must be reserved for those patients most in need.
"I received a call recently from someone whose condition wasn't life-threatening. But when I advised them to call 111, I received an unpleasant abusive outburst, which was unacceptable. My colleagues and I do our jobs because we care and genuinely want to help people, not to be sworn at and abused."
SWASFT is expecting to deal with a high number of emergency calls during the upcoming months, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic alongside winter pressures.
Although it recognises people often call 999 in difficult situations, the trust is asking callers not to hinder its control room staff as they try to arrange help.
It also reminds people only to call 999 for an ambulance in a medical emergency when someone is seriously ill or injured and their life is at risk.
A SWASFT spokesperson said: "Our dedicated and compassionate emergency call handlers deal with serious and life-threatening emergencies every day, which we recognise are difficult and stressful for those people involved.
"Although the majority of callers are polite and respectful, a small minority are abusive and aggressive towards our people trying to help them.
"Such behaviour is unacceptable and can delay or even prevent us from reaching someone who really needs our care. It can also have a serious impact on them, their colleagues and their families.
"We are fully committed to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people. That includes offering immediate support to anyone who experiences violence and aggression on duty. It also means taking whatever action is necessary to prevent our people from harm and keep them safe.
"Please respect our people, and help them to help you."
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Q: Impedance calculation issue I am a strange calculation of Zin, Zline and ZL.
As tan(pi/2) is 0, why can't we just cancel the j part, and yield Zin = ZL
but as it demonstrated, using tan(pi/2) to divide, which should not be possible since tan(pi/2) = 0. It Yield Zin = (Zline)^2/ZL.
why is that?

A: First, \$\tan(\pi/2)\$ equals to \$\infty\$, not to zero.
Second, the math shown in your question is absolutely incorrect. Because you can't just do the following:
$$
\mathrm{
A+j\ B\ C\\
=C \ (\frac{A}{C}+j\ B)
}
$$
when C is \$\infty\$ since \$\frac{\infty}{\infty}\$ is indefinite.
Look at the calculation in your question again. The author cancels out \$\tan(\pi/2)\$ on both nominator and denominator by making \$\frac{\infty}{\infty}\$ division hoping this division to give a result of unity. But it does not.

A: The equation you have is for a quarter wave transformer. The red line in your formulas are wrong. When at pi/2 (90°) the first formula reduces to this: -
$$Z_{IN}=Z_{LINE}\cdot\dfrac{j\cdot Z_{LINE} \tan(90)}{j\cdot Z_{L} \tan(90)}
$$
And clearly the TAN(90°) parts and the "j" parts cancel leaving you with this: -
$$Z_{IN}=\dfrac{Z_{LINE}^2}{Z_{L}}
$$

using tan(pi/2) to divide, which should not be possible since
tan(pi/2) = 0

No, it isn't zero.

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Announces BSO Encore, Powered by PNC
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July 15, 2020 – The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) today announced the launch of BSO Encore, Powered by PNC, a series of BSO performances to be broadcast on WBJC radio. Beginning on Sunday, July 19, WBJC will broadcast ten archived BSO programs every Sunday from 1 pm - 3 pm. The broadcasts can be heard on 91.5 FM or on WBJC.com.
All BSO Encore, Powered by PNC broadcasts will include a listening experience with a BSO musician and Music Director Marin Alsop to introduce each piece on the program. In reflection of Maestra Alsop's 14-year tenure with the BSO, the series presents performances from the BSO's 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons, Maestra Alsop's first two seasons with the BSO.
"The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is delighted to be able to bring full orchestra performances from our archives to the community with the help of WBJC and PNC," said BSO President and CEO Peter Kjome. "The energizing and powerful experience of having many of the world's most accomplished musicians all on stage and creating music together cannot be replicated in the same way from our homes. We are also honored to begin celebrating Music Director Marin Alsop's remarkable tenure by revisiting the inspiring performances of her first two seasons with the BSO throughout this series."
"PNC has a long history of supporting arts and culture organizations, like the renowned Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, because we recognize the role that the arts plays in bringing our community together," said Laura Gamble, PNC regional president for Greater Maryland. "As we engage with the arts a bit differently this year, this is the perfect opportunity to bring our city's communities together to experience the BSO Encore, Powered by PNC series airing on WBJC radio."
"We are thrilled that, after more than two decades, BSO live performances have returned to WBJC," said WBJC host Jonathan Palevsky. "During these challenging times, when live performances are not possible, WBJC is delighted to present our amazing orchestra to the Baltimore/Washington area over the air at 91.5 FM and streaming to the world at WBJC.com. To collaborate with the BSO is a privilege; for us here at WBJC this is clearly the best of all possible worlds!"
Hosted by WBJC personalities Jonathan Palevsky and Kati Harrison with special guests, the first broadcast will include an interview with Principal Flute Emily Skala to introduce a program that includes Marin Alsop leading the BSO in Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3; Baltimore-composer Christopher Rouse's Flute Concerto, performed by Skala; and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Informal video interviews between BSO musicians and program notes annotator Jan Bedell, program notes and additional content can be found at BSOmusic.org/Encore.
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For over a century, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has been recognized as one of America's leading orchestras and one of Maryland's most significant cultural institutions. Under the direction of Music Director Marin Alsop, the orchestra is internationally renowned and locally admired for its innovation, performances, recordings and educational outreach initiatives including OrchKids.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs annually for more than 275,000 people throughout the State of Maryland. Since 1982, the BSO has performed at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, and since 2005, with the opening of The Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD, the BSO became the nation's first orchestra performing its full season of classical and pops concerts in two metropolitan areas. More information about the BSO can be found at BSOmusic.org.
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10 Words for the Angry and Upset
'People' vs. 'Persons'
How to choose between two words that seem to mean the same thing
People should always be used when referring to a collective noun such as the entirety of a group or nation (i.e. "the French People). When referring to groups of a specific or general number, either people of persons may be used, but more modern style guide defer to "people" where earlier guides prefer "persons," especially when the group is countable.
There are few things in the English language more vexatious and bedeviling than two words which mean almost the same thing, especially if they are similar in appearance. The seeming luxury of having multiple words to choose from is not sufficient to offset the lingering fear that no matter which word you pick it will be the wrong one, causing people to silently laugh at you and judge both you and your grammar school teachers. So when presented with the choice of people or persons to describe a multitude of humans, many people begin to chew their fingernails in nervous agitation. Is there a simple explanation for which one to use?
Not really, but simple explanations aren't all they're cracked up to be, so keep reading.
When a collective noun is called for (to refer, for instance, to the members of an entire nation) the appropriate word will always be 'people' ("the French people").
Many usage guides over the years have suggested that there is a clear distinction between these two words; people is used when referring to a collective group or indeterminate number, and persons serves better when referring to individuals (or a number of individuals). There are many instances in which this difference may be observed, often when the two words are side by side.
That universal chearfulness which is the lot of some people, persons that you and I may envy at the same time that we despise, is all worth all that either fortune or nature can bestow.
—William Shenstone, Works, Letter, 27 Feb. 1753
Origins of People vs Persons
Both words may be traced to Latin roots: people comes from populus ("the people"), and person from persona ("mask [especially one worn by an actor], actor, person"). We have been quibbling about which one we should choose since at least the eighteenth century.
The word people, is so very general, that it cannot be connected with a determinate number; as for instance, four, five, or six people; but that of persons may.
To be pleasant at table, none should be admitted but people of good humour: neither should there be more than seven or eight persons.
—John Trusler Distinction between Words esteemed Synonymous in the English Language, 1776
The objections to using people as a plural of person have shifted over the centuries. George Crabb, writing in the early 19th century, offered a slightly class-conscious rationale for why people should be avoided:
As the term people is employed to designate the promiscuous multitude, it has acquired a certain meanness of acceptation which makes it less suitable than the word persons, when people of respectability are referred to.
George Crabb, English Synonyms Explained, 1818
Matters of respectability aside, the more common dictum until recently was that people should be avoided when referring to any specific or general number of individuals.
people: Where individual persons, or a number of such, are intended, this word should be discarded in favor of persons.
—Frank Vizetelly, A Desk-Book of Errors in English, 1920
The fourth edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style still contains a cautionary note on not using people in this circumstance: "The word people is best not used with words of number, in place of persons. If of 'six people' five went away, how many 'people' would be left? Answer: one people."
However, in the last few decades the trend has been very much in favor of people, rather than persons. The AP Stylebook flatly states "The word people is preferred to persons in all plural uses." And The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage now also states "Use people as the plural of person", although they add that persons may still be used in certain settings ("letters to the editor, in untranslated texts, in direct quotations and in a few established idioms like displaced persons and missing persons bureau").
Persons tends to be still be found in some formalized settings, such as legal writing, or when a writer wishes to appear extra fancy. But the tide of opinion has shifted enough that you should feel comfortable using people in most cases where you have a choice. And if your ear tells you that persons would work better, there are still enough writers who use this word that your choice will likely not be looked at askance. It should be remembered, however, that when a collective noun is called for (to refer, for instance, to the members of an entire nation) people is the appropriate word ("the French people").
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EU's opposition to modern crop breeding could harm trade
By Isabel 11/04/2019 April 22nd, 2020 News, Plant Science, Policy
New research has found that the European Union's opposition to modern crop breeding is at odds with the majority of other countries around the world and could jeopardise international trade.
A recent ruling from the European Court of Justice imposed burdensome and expensive approval processes for any new plant varieties using gene-editing techniques, even if changes are indistinguishable from those that could be produced naturally.
An international team of experts argue in New Phytologist that this ruling could hinder the global development of crop plant varieties using new technologies. They compared legislation and regulations on plant breeding in the EU with seven other countries – Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia and the United States.
Lead author Dennis Eriksson from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences said the EU's political attitude to modern plant breeding approaches was unjustified and out of step with most countries.
"It is now imperative that the EU engages in discussions with all trading partners to avoid unnecessary harm to international trade in agricultural products resulting from the use of modern breeding techniques," he said.
"Plants developed using gene editing that result in changes that are effectively indistinguishable from what can be obtained using conventional breeding strategies should not be treated any differently under EU law."
"This could negatively affect the development of more nutritious, stress resilient and higher yield varieties, particularly for public sector-funded projects" said co-author and Chair of the Global Plant Council, Barry Pogson.
The other authors are from University of Oklahoma in the US, Brazilian Agricultural Research Cooperation (Embrapa), Global Plant Council, The Australian National University, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias in Chile, Wageningen University and University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, University of Saskatchewan in Canada, and National University of Quilmes in Argentina.
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra) supported the work through the Mistra Biotech public research programme.
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Q: Issue generating resources in VS.Net 2010, windows 7 64 bit I am having an issue generating resources in VS.Net 2010, windows 7 64bit. It am able to compile the solution in Visual studio. But when I try to compile the solution in command prompt using msbuild, it fails generating the resources.
I went through the below link and find a solution to get it compiled in command prompt using msbuild.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2010/06/19/resgen-exe-error-an-attempt-was-made-to-load-a-program-with-an-incorrect-format.aspx
I used option 2 from the above article.
Before compiling in command prompt I have to execute the below two commands.
CorFlags /32BIT+ /Force Resgen.exe
set RESGENTOOLARCHITECTURE=Managed32Bit

And after finishing the compilation I have to execute the below remove 32 bit command. Other wise it fails in visual studio.
CorFlags /32BIT- /Force Resgen.exe

One weird thing is non of my team members are having any issue with this. I only have the problem.
Could you please let me know why it's only me?
Also any other permanent solution if you have, with out running the above commands again and again.
Thanks in Advance

A: Sometimes it has issues with the privileges.
Just make sure that you have tried running your command prompt with full privileges.
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Francis Virella is a Righteous Man
Photo by Ash Hoden
By Ash Hoden
I first met Francis Virella in the East Village. It was late at night and I was out having drinks with a friend. The two of us were standing on the sidewalk in front of a bar, talking with a girl who had stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. That's when Francis rolled up. He flashed before our eyes two samples of his work; rectangles cut from a shower curtain and adorned with erratic multi-hued smears of nail polish. He was skinny and his hands were dirty, as though too many hours had passed since his last shower or warm dinner. His nail polish paintings were on sale for twenty bucks. "I'm gonna be famous," he told us. I thought he was high. The girl with the cigarette asked why he wasn't in the homeless shelter. It was December in New York City. Her question smacked of bourgeois pity — simultaneously denigrating and concerned. I knew he spoke the truth when he said that the shelters were full of lunatics and people in need of mental health services that no longer existed; that he hated to go there because it made him feel crazy too. Sometimes he actually wished he was crazy enough to tolerate those places. "I'm sure that's exactly how the shelters are," I said. Two weeks later Mayor Bill de Blasio said the same thing on the local news: rejecting the shelters was a sign of mental health.
Francis turned and inspected me more closely, saying, "You look like a king." My scraggly shoulder-length hair hung in tangles beneath a blue stocking cap. I wore jeans and sneakers and a black winter coat with no collar and zippers on the sleeves. Small hoop earrings, one in each ear. I had no job, no prospects, and a book manuscript that nobody wanted to publish. I looked and felt nothing kingly. "You must be talking about my friend here," I said, extending my arms like Vanna White. My friend routinely wore a hand-stitched suit with a perfectly creased kerchief precision-tucked into his left breast pocket — not too high and not too low. Eight-hundred dollar shoes. A tie. He is known to have claimed on multiple occasions that his name, when translated to English, just so happens to mean "king," and he was doing all that he could to present himself as such. From there Francis and my royal friend spun off into their own dialogue. I turned my attention to the girl with the cigarette and she made fun of my "little mustache and earrings" before going inside.
Six months later I spotted Francis in Chinatown, strutting the streets with a painted canvas rolled up and slung over his shoulder. I chased him down and told him about this new project of mine. We exchanged numbers and spoke of the future. Text messages came and went. Appointments were made and unmade. I threw in the towel, figuring I'd never pin the guy down. Weeks passed. Then he sent me a message: "Wassup". I responded, asking how he's been.
"Im alive ive been checking out your stuff i think u have some crazy stories to tell".
Indeed, but it's time to tell other people's stories.
We scheduled a time to meet. And when that time neared I asked to push it back thirty minutes. I was running late.
"Ive been up all night im sill willing to do the interview but do you mind a change in location?"
We had planned to meet in Chelsea because he rejected my first suggestion to meet in Union Square and take it from there: "union is overrun with bums and ppl playing pokemon". I told him I didn't mind changing locations but we could do it another time if we needed to.
"We've pushed it back for a while im runnin on addy bring some pot or a drink if u can il be fine".
I didn't know what to expect when we met in Chinatown, where he was crashing with a friend. Considering that our talk followed an adderall-infused all-nighter, he was in good form. I bought him a beer and we hiked six flights of stairs to the roof of his friend's building. I asked if he was from New York.
"New York City born and raised. I was born in Brooklyn. Crown Heights."
Did you grow up there?
"I grew up for the lower half of my life in Brooklyn, but due to family circumstances and money and all this other shit it kind of forced me to move around a lot."
You were living with your family?
"I grew up with my mom, my step-father, and my mom had six kids. Three of them from my father. My big brother's name is Francisco, my big sister's name is Francesca, I was stuck with Francis. And I have three younger sisters who I'm going to keep their name out because of their age, but I love them very dearly. I didn't grow up with my father. He was a heroin addict. And he was just, not a great example. My mother left him right before I was born."
So you guys had to move around a lot? She was trying to take care of you guys and make it in the city?
"Exactly. All the while trying to keep her faith."
She's religious?
"My family is very religious. From as long as I can remember 'til about the age of fourteen I had gone every Sunday Tuesday Thursday and even Saturdays to church. To Pentecostal church."
How was that for you?
"At the time I'd call it traumatizing. Now I would call it extremely enlightening."
Church? Really?
"There's absolutely nothing wrong with religion. There is absolutely a lot wrong with humanity and the way they portray religion; how the people in charge, the leaders, go about scrutinizing what it is they're supposed to be preaching. We're in a generation and a time [in which] there's not a lot of people to look up to. At least for a fair reason. At least for a good reason. People are turning to politics. People are turning to music, art, and all these other things."
You're able to separate the people from the message of religion?
"I believe not in religion, but in righteousness. I believe that there is knowing to do the right thing, and doing it. I know plenty of people who know to do the right thing and don't do it. And regardless of whether they're religious or not, still are righteous. We can all determine right from wrong. It's very clear. A very very very precise, very very defined line. I'm trying to walk the right kind of path. I believe that everybody has their own calling, their own story, their own lifestyle, their own problems. Everything happens in their own psyche. The world around us is all brought to us by our own focus. Our focus determines our reality. That's a quote from Kwi-gon Jin. Star Wars: Episode 1."
So right and wrong is defined on an individual level?
"I bring it back to righteousness, man. A lot of people are gluttonous. And we don't even recognize it because we're so blind to it. Because of media and everything. It's not going anywhere good if we don't make it go somewhere good."
In church, bouncing around New York — what was growing up for you? What were you doing?
"Growing up I was chasing girls. I was doing my best to find myself. I tried a lot of different forms of art. That's why I can't just call myself a painter anymore. I recognized that I'm more of a polymath. I saw an interview with Salvadore Dali, or it was like some gameshow, and nobody could guess who he was because every time they asked him a question as to what he did, he kept saying, 'Yes.' Every question they asked he said, 'Yes.' And I was like, 'You know what, I feel the same way. Can I write? Yes. Can I paint? Yes. Can I read? Yes. Can I act? Yes. I can do anything if I put my mind to it. Yes. Benjamin Franklin, the only guy on the dollar bill that wasn't a president in America — before the Harriet Tubman comes — he was a polymath. He was great at doing everything that he put his hands to. And I aspire to be like that. Every day."
Did you recognize this when you were young? Whatever you put your energy into, you could make work?
"I could put it to you like this: I always knew I wanted to be different. I always knew I had to create a way to stand out, and I knew that it wasn't from my social class, you know what I mean. I wasn't comin' in with the newest kicks. I was doing everything to rebel from the positions I was being put in. When I was in kindergarten one of my first memories of art was me bringing home a drawing of stick figures of my family. And on all of the women I put circles for boobs and all the guys I put lines between their legs for dicks. When I brought it home to show my mom, I was so proud of it and she was laughing at me. I remember I ran into the bathroom and I cried. It was horrible. It was terrible."
She was laughing at you because it was funny?
"They were laughing at the irony of it; me being young and coming home with this really provocative drawing at such a young age."
She wasn't upset, she just thought it was hilarious?
"I was upset. I was so upset. I wanted my shit on the refrigerator. I wanted my stuff to be celebrated and held up, you know what I mean."
It was like not being treated seriously?
"And imagine being treated that way everywhere you went. Now I mentioned I was in the pentacostal church… I'm very light skinned-ded. Let me just put it like this: it was a huge difference in the way that I felt about myself as opposed to everybody else in church — how they felt about themselves and how they felt about me. I was always looked at as an outsider. I was always looked at like [I was] a brat."
How they felt about themselves?
"Themselves. Yeah. They had more confidence than me. Like, there was the girl in my choir that I wanted. Even to this day! Man! Ugh. I don't want to say her name. That one girl from church. She wanted to get with the drummer, you know what I mean. And I was just this awkward, not cool kid. I knew I was put in a position that I was made to feel different. It was just like a cocoon. When I got into high school and kind of broke away from allowing my life to be decided for me, I started to make my own decisions—"
That was in high school?
"Yeah. I kind of, like, created a persona [and] brainwashed myself into it. And still to this day I'm brainwashing myself. For good reason. I know a lot of people might think it's crazy, but, everything is crazy and delusional before it comes into fruition. That's a quote by Kanye West."
That's a pretty good quote.
"I mean, a lot of people would disregard that quote because it came from him, but it's a good quote. I feel as though success can only come if you take action from the vision you have. And even when that action hits a wall you keep smacking it head first anyway. It's like in Kill Bill. When you're in a coffin and you've only got so much space, you keep punching that… You don't know how thick that wood is, but you know you're going to punch it and you've gotta have enough strength to dig yourself out afterwards. I was born in that coffin! What do I have to lose?! I'm diggin' myself out now. I know I'm out of that coffin. I know I'm out of that feeling of being belittled; smaller than everybody. Now I feel so gigantic."
That's the coffin — how the world sees you?
"Because of class. Because of the time we live in right now. With all of the ignorance and chaos happening in the world — that a lot of New Yorkers and Americans are doing really great jobs at ignoring. I just recognize that this is a calling. If I have the will, then anything is possible. That's really what keeps me going. Not because I think I'm the shit. It's just because in those times when I really don't feel like I'm shit at all, that's when people come and lift me up! Those times when I least expect it. It's like I'm ready to break down and quit everything, and then somebody will come around. For example — this is a really good example. I was on the train one day and I was showing my art work with all of the intent of trying to get out of the broke-ass situation I was in. And nobody was helping me. Nobody! I was telling everybody who the hell I am. Standing there asking for support. Not help. Not a donation. Support! Something to make me feel better. I didn't have no money. It was bad enough I didn't have no money, just don't ignore me now. I go on to the next cart on the train, feeling so aggravated. And standing in the place that I would stand to show my artwork to everybody was a blind man. Rather than asking him to get out the way, or anything like that, I told him exactly who I was. I told him exactly what I was about to do; explained to him the artwork. And he told me he was born blind, so it created a very interesting… I immediately knew that saying the word 'blue' meant nothing to him. I had to explain to him the cool — the freezing touch of that painting — because it was painted completely blue. And it was huge. And I was like, 'Sir, I know you can't see the painting but would you like to feel it?' He reached out his hand and he felt the painting. And he asked me, 'So, what are you trying to be? A millionaire?' And I said, 'Yeah. Hell yeah!' He said, 'Damn dude, I'm just a dollar short.' And me and him chuckle and laugh on the train. It was a really good moment. Then he goes on to tell me that he's an art collector. And then he goes on to say that most artists only make it when they're dead. And I said to him, 'I am not one of them.' He reached into his pocket and gave me forty dollars. You know, I broke down. Not over the money. Not over the fact that he was blind. I didn't pity this man, or nothin' like that. It was simply that it took for me to meet and approach, say, two hundred people, [and] it was the one person who couldn't see that supported me the most. The one person who didn't need to see the abstraction. He inspired me! He made me realize I can't quit!"
And he's an art collector too?
"Well he says this, you know what I mean. Lord knows what this guy does or who he is. We didn't exchange numbers. I don't even remember his name. I hope he remembers my name. I just know that that situation is worth talking about right now. It's one of those defining moments. I've had countless. I want to say hundreds. I want to say thousands. But countless."
You were thinking of giving up?
"It's very difficult to say "give up," because giving up means suicide. I walk around New York City. I see people lying on the streets — not even on the street, on the sidewalk in the heat. People shaking their cups asking for money, who have two hands, two legs, and a brain. I may be in whatever situation, but I've learned the secret. The secret is, honestly, the world is run by synergy. Synergy is an invisible energy that brings people together at the appropriate times to create movement; to create the motion towards what it is that's supposed to happen. This is one of my huge beliefs: faith is stronger than hope. Remember, I told you I'm not religious, I'm righteous? I'm a very righteous man. When I go out… I'm sure this was the same mentality I had when I met you're friend—"
I interrupt him and recall the events of the night that we first encountered each other. My kingly friend and the girl with the cigarette pooled their money to buy one of his shower curtain and nail polish paintings. The girl was entrusted to keep it but the following day she wrote to say that the painting had been stolen during her drunken night out.
"Whatever the circumstances, I appreciate it. It's kind of cool to know that somebody stole my painting from somebody."
Do you want to know the circumstances? I ask, before explaining how he had said that the city's homeless shelters were full of crazy people and he sometimes wished he was crazy so he could tolerate going there.
"I can tell you something, and this is in all honesty: I've only stayed at the men's shelter on 30th Street one time in my entire life. It was on a cold winter night and I had gone there stupid drunk. Like so drunk man! I didn't want to go there in a sober state of mind 'cause I would literally drive myself nuts. I'd twiddle my thumbs and I'd just walk out and stay in the cold. Except I got there… I didn't even fall asleep, funny enough. I just sat there and I did twiddle my thumbs. And the morning came and there was this man, he was in a wheelchair. I wanted to go to the welfare office to apply for that "Eat Better Today" card — that EBT card. And he just so happened to have to go to the same place. So he approached me in his wheelchair and said to me that he felt that out of everybody, I was probably the coolest looking person around. He told me that, because of him being in a wheelchair, he couldn't push himself through the snow. So I pushed this man through the snow. We went together. He hooked me up wit' a sammich and a bunch of cigarettes. Dude, I believe that I only went to that men's shelter to meet that man. Seriously. It's insane. I know so many people in New York City. I don't have the luxury to say that I have nowhere to go. A lot of people are depending on me. A lot of people are saying, 'Francis stop ending up in bullshit situations all the time.'"
How are they depending on you?
"Well, I have a lot of people who have invested time, money, resources, and wisdom in me. And let's just say that I intake everything and spit it out in my own way. Seriously. When you have confidence — when you have the know-how and you have the product — you can go out there and make money at a fast pace. And when it comes fast, spend even faster. Rockstar lifestyle, man. And I'm not saying that to say that I do heavy drugs or anything like that. No, I just…" He sings: "I've been down so god-damn long, that it looks like up to me… I forgot the name of that band, but it's a good-ass song."
The Doors.
"Is it The Doors? Alright, all-in-all, I chose this lifestyle and I have faith that as long as I discipline myself in this lifestyle, I can make it. At this very moment I am not completely disciplined."
Disciplined in what way? In doing art every day?
"Know thyself and you shall know the secrets of the gods. Basically, like being able to hold composure in certain situations. I met a couple celebrities and in certain situations I could not hold my composure. Mainly because I'm an opportunist, and a glutton. Which is a very, very bad combination, and it makes people wary of me for good reason. I don't try to take advantage of people, I try to take advantage of situations. I'm an opportunist. Make what I have work. I'm known to do that. And… Uhhh…. I forgot what we were talking about. What were we talkin' about?"
"You see! I got no discipline! This is what I'm talkin' about."
The other thing that happened that night when we met… You said I looked like a king and I said, 'You must be talking about my friend.' Then you guys went off on your own. Later, he told me that you were bowing down to him on the street. I didn't see that part. Is there something to that?
"Fuck yeah. Let's put it like this: at the end of the day I am the greatest at being me. Anybody out there who can declare that same thing for themselves gets all praise from me. Anybody who can show me a mirror of my own confidence, even when I don't have it at that moment, they deserve a bow. Praise. They need to know that this energy, this eccentricity, is still out and about in the world. We're not alone. We're not."
Totally nailed it. My friend is absolutely the person who will tell you how great he is.
"And it makes me sound crazy when you say it."
He was sort of caught off guard. But he's the kind of guy who loves being pr—
"I mean it to [be that way]. You can imagine that doing that kind of gesture is definitely something that people don't get on a daily basis. It's just a way of me showing my endearment to other great people. I believe in affirmations. I have this affirmation I tell myself like seventy times a day. Remember I told you I brainwash myself? My affirmation is, 'Success and prosperity flow towards me in a river of abundance.' By saying that over and over and over and over again… It's not like the White Lotus Sutra or namaste or anything like that. It's something clear, straight to the point. By saying that I take that chip of negativity out of my mind and replace it with positivity. I put a huge grin on my face no matter how I feel inside, and I go on. I have nothing better to do."
When did you start to paint?
"Like I said, when I was in high school I did a lot of different things. I had gone into high school for playing the saxophone."
So you were growing up on music?
"I was growing up on what my momma told me to do."
And that was music and church?
"Music and church and… Yeah, so she just felt like being in the band was something that would progress me and my talents. I did acting in high school. I did playwriting. I turned to fashion design. I started ripping up clothes and doing silkscreens and all different types of stuff. Something happened to me: guy comes up to me in Union Square with a clip board, and I'm sitting with a girl. She's hot and I just met her. I don't know how this guy identified the situation, but he did. He asked me a whole bunch of financial questions. I lied about everything. Every single question he asked me, I lied about. Bigging myself up. Making it seem like I make a lot of money. I'm doing a lot of things. And at the very end of it he asked me for a dollar. It kind of threw me off guard. 'Damn dude! In front of the girl?! I gotta give you a dollar now.' And he goes on to say: 'If you ask six million people for a dollar you'd end up with a million dollars.' That's when I recognized: 'Oh shit, he's right. Oh my god he's super-duper right! He may have caught me in the weirdest way ever, but he's freakin' right! I live in New York City! How many millions of people are around here?! I gotta start fuckin' goin' out there! I gotta start promotin'!' I know that if I have the charisma and the know-how to step up, present myself, and not only have my work speak for itself, but speak for myself and the feelings of those around me — not like a prophet or anything like that — but, like Neo. Like Neo, dude. Seriously, I'm the one. And I don't mean it to sound arrogant or to big myself up. I feel this way because I don't see anybody else doing it for me. I just don't see the next person in my group or bracket, age-wise or class-wise or American-wise, that's going to step up if I don't do it. And I feel that way. I'm not asking people to look up to me. I'm asking people to understand. And even when they don't — know who I am. Because those who do understand will create value from it. That's why I go freakin' hard man. I go stupid-hard bro. I make myself look like an asshole a lot of the times, just tryinna get my name into somebody's ears."
"So many ways, man. Honestly, let's just put it like this: I treat my art and my lifestyle like a Jehovah's Witness would. I go to hell if I don't let you know who I am. That kind of thing. Like, if you don't know who I am and I let you miss the opportunity to find out — and not get free wine, cheese, and crackers, and have a good time with me — then I'm doing something wrong; I'm not being the greatest that I can be. I don't allow opportunities to pass me by. I was blessed to be featured for the second time in Chelsea, at a very young age. I was featured in a gallery right next door to Pace gallery. And under that gallery was SIR studios, where 50 Cent recorded his latest album. My debut had happened and I was outside having a photoshoot, holding a painting, and his Lamborghini was parked in front of the gallery. Nobody knew whose Lamborghini it was. Everybody just knew that I was standing out there lookin' fly as shit, holding my painting, inviting people to come up to my show with a Lambo parked in front of me and people taking pictures of me."
(I'm laughing.)
"Seriously! The visual was, 'Yo, I must be that guy.' Next thing you know, the entourage comes out of SIR and the word is starting to get around. 'Oh shit, it's 50 Cent. Oh my god, oh my god. Francis, yo, you gotta try to get his attention.' And mind you, I freakin' grew up on 50. I'm not even gonna get into it. When 50 Cent walked out of that place and was surrounded by his entourage… I had already spoken to people in that entourage to try to get clarity as to whether they could introduce me; make sure that they knew that I'm the youngest artist featured in Chelsea, above the studio where you're doing your album, or whatever. So, basically it came to reveal itself that I couldn't walk up to the guy. He was too surrounded by his entourage. But he's literally like five feet away from me, and I'm standing here looking at what I thought was a once in a lifetime opportunity. I'm right here. He's right there. And we're both working in the same area. All in all, I told 50 Cent that I would get rich or die trying. To his face. He looked at me, immediately turned his back on me, got in his Lambo. One of my heroes turned his back on me in a time when all I needed was… Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. If you're not prepared for your own luck then it's not gonna happen. My mother didn't think I was gonna graduate high school, and I did. But prior to it I told her I wanted to be an artist. My mother disagreed. A hundred percent. In the worst way that somebody could. And kicked me out, which made me strong."
Strictly because you wanted to be an artist?
"Strictly because I wanted to do things my way. Had I been a white collar, stand-up, iron-your-shirt kind of guy, maybe she would have gone for it. But because I showed myself to be a lot more of a rockstar, denim-wearing, out-there, pot-smoking, girl-bringing-in-the-night kind of guy, it wasn't a good look for me. It wasn't. And I understand that. But I didn't know what else to do. I was fighting so hard to use whatever bits of youth that I had to take advantage of all the times where I felt like I didn't have shit."
That's a cool way to put it.
"Yeah. And I still feel that way. Except now, at the age of twenty-one, everything is falling into place — but in a way where discipline has to come into play now."
You've been shown in a couple of galleries?
"Yeah, I have. And I've had some gallery owners buy my work. I have art in several countries, and it's not because I'm the best painter. It's not because my artwork is beautiful or anything like that. It's just because I refuse to be a starving artist."
The painting that you sold to my friend was nail polish on a shower curtain. Do you do that often?
"Oh goodness. Let me put it to you like this: if it was nail polish on the curtain (he laughs), let's just say that [that] was a prime example of me using super-powers and proving to myself that I can turn absolutely — nail polish and curtains — into an interview with Ash Hoden.
That is exactly what happened.
"Somehow, some way man. I'm blessed."
So most of it is on canvas with regular paint?
"Well, actually, I've been experimenting. I just did some on camouflage. I've done double-sided paintings on denim. I've done sculptures. I've designed clothes, as in I've chopped and screwed my own clothes. And I like to call myself a model because it makes getting girls a little easier."
"Time will tell. But I will say that whatever does come next will be great, terrible, powerful, all at the same time."
I think he's probably right about that.
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How Do Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Electricity Sources Compare?
Nuclear, wind, and solar power emit no greenhouse gases (GHG) when operating, but there are life-cycle emissions, in mining and refining uranium, building aluminum frames for photovoltaic (solar) panels, and manufacturing concrete and steel for wind and nuclear power. A life-cycle analysis looks at all of the costs from getting the fuel, construction and decommissioning, transportation, and operation.
Several analyses exist, you can go here to see others. Solar GHG emissions are dropping as technology improves (also true for other electricity sources).
Greenhouse gas emissions from electricity production
If nuclear electricity (rather than coal electricity) is used for uranium enrichment, nuclear life-cycle emissions drop further.
Wind, solar, and nuclear are the major remaining low GHG sources of electricity, as there are few expansion possibilities for hydroelectric.
For some sources of energy, the major GHG emissions occur in building the plants.
From Per Peterson at UC, Berkeley: Current and Future Activities For Nuclear Energy in the United States:
• Nuclear: 1970's vintage PWR, 90% capacity factor, 60 year life
— 40 MT steel/MW (average)
— 190 m3 concrete/MW (average)
• Wind: 1990's vintage, 6.4 m/s average wind speed, 25% capacity factor, 15 year life
— 460 MT steel/MW (average)
• Coal: 78% capacity factor, 30 year life
• Natural Gas Combined Cycle: 75% capacity factor, 30 year life
— 3.3 MT steel/MW (average)
— 27 m3 concrete/MW (average)
[MT = million metric tonne]
Concrete + steel are >95% of construction inputs, and become more expensive in a carbon-constrained economy.
Because nuclear power operates at 90% capacity, 1 MW/0.9 (1.1 MW) of installed capacity is needed to produce 1 MW power. Similarly for wind, installed capacity must be 1 MW/0.25 (4 MW) to average 1 MW power.
Wind plus natural gas (or other backup power plants) requires natural gas plants to be built. These do not add much GHG compared to the GHG emissions in windmill construction; they are, however, expensive.
For an example of a photovoltaic (solar panel) GHG analysis, see Life Cycle Energy Consumption and GHG Emissions of a Field PV Plant (pdf).
CCS gasifies coal and burns the products in oxygen rather than air, so only 1/5 as much waste gas is produced.
According to Accounting Rules for CO2 Capture and Storage (pdf), more CO2 is stored than would have been emitted without CCS, because so much extra energy is required for the process, about 40%. If only the upstream emissions still exist, GHG emissions from coal would be reduced to between 250 and 430 g CO2/kWh, 40% more than upstreams emissions for current coal use, to account for the extra energy required. This reduces coal GHG emissions below those from natural gas.
Update Some of the upstream costs from coal come from the current mix for electricity, some from natural gas escaping to the atmosphere during coal mining, some other. Reducing fugitive emissions from natural gas and switching to electricity produced by CCS will reduce upstream emissions for coal.
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3 Responses to "How Do Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Electricity Sources Compare?"
Jean Smith says:
This is very helpful information.
Does anyone know of similar analysis comparing the overall percentage of U.S. GHG emissions from various power sources that incorporates lifecycle impacts (mining, etc.)?
Thanks for your note!
The other analyses linked to in the second paragraph include one from the US, one from Germany, and one from Japan. You can also get to Life-Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Systems and Applications for Climate Change Policy Analysis (pdf) from an EPA page, Life-Cycle Assessment Research.
1/28/2007 at 11:23 am
"Nuclear, wind, and solar power emit no greenhouse gases (GHG) when operating" is an incorrect statement, since those nuclear plants relying on cooling powers emit plenty of steam, i.e. water vapor into the atmosphere, which very much is a GHG. In any case, they directly heat the environment, being the atmosphere, the rivers or both. And since few people want a nuclear plant in their backyard, using combined power and heat is less of an option than with other heat-relying power plants.


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Forfar, United Kingdom
Glamis Castle is one of the most impressive, romantic and reputedly haunted castles in Scotland, home to the Bowes Lyon Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne for hundreds of years and with a splendid interior, and set in beautiful gardens and grounds near Forfar in Angus.
The vicinity of Glamis Castle has prehistoric traces; for example, a noted intricately carved Pictish stone known as the Eassie Stone was found in a creek-bed at the nearby village of Eassie.
In 1034 King Malcolm II was murdered at Glamis, when there was a Royal Hunting Lodge. In William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (1603–1606), the eponymous character resides at Glamis Castle, although the historical King Macbeth (d. 1057) had no connection to the castle.
By 1372 a castle had been built at Glamis, since in that year it was granted by King Robert II to Sir John Lyon, Thane of Glamis, husband of the king's daughter. Glamis has remained in the Lyon (later Bowes-Lyon) family since this time. The castle was rebuilt as an L-plan tower house in the early 15th century.
During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, soldiers were garrisoned at Glamis. In 1670 Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, returned to the castle and found it uninhabitable. Restorations took place until 1689, including the creation of a major Baroque garden. John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, succeeded in 1753, and in 1767 he married Mary Eleanor Bowes, heiress to a coal-mining fortune. He set about improving the grounds of the castle in the picturesque style in the 1770s. The south-west wing was rebuilt after a fire in the early 19th century. In the 1920s a huge fireplace from Gibside, the Bowes-Lyon estate near Gateshead, was removed and placed in Glamis' Billiard Room. The fireplace displays the coat of arms of the Blakiston family; Gibside heiress Elizabeth Blakiston had married Sir William Bowes. Several interiors, including the Dining Room, also date from the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1900, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was born, the youngest daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his wife, Cecilia (née Cavendish-Bentinck). She spent much of her childhood at Glamis, which was used during the First World War as a military hospital. She was particularly instrumental in organising the rescue of the castle's contents during a serious fire on 16 September 1916. On 26 April 1923 she married Prince Albert, Duke of York, second son of King George V, at Westminster Abbey. Their second daughter, Princess Margaret, was born at Glamis Castle in 1930.
Since 1987 an illustration of the castle has featured on the reverse side of ten pound notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland. Glamis is currently the home of Simon Bowes-Lyon, 19th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who succeeded to the earldom in 2016.
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Jean Clark (4 months ago)
Walked the walks with friends and ate outside on a sunny day - sheer bliss as each section is marked detailing where you are and what it us all about. Food was yummy.
Daniel Rogers (4 months ago)
A wonderful castle set in idyllic grounds with the magnificent Highland coo within the grounds too. The castle really is as impressive as youtube videos and other reviews would lead you to believe. Its very large and in a wonderful state of repair. We toured the grounds etc too and wondered down the Macbeth trail to the Italian and walled gardens. Overall I highly recommend.
Tobias Shotts (5 months ago)
Beautiful castle and the grounds are amazing! Kids loved the garden and the many trees and the adults enjoyed the while experience. Much recommend!!
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Fabulous grounds, good virtual tour of the castle with lots of interesting things to see. Hand gel available at every corner! Not the cheapest day out but very enjoyable.
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Awesome experience in an excellent and mind blowing place to visit on any occasion. And if you enjoy history you can also enjoy your visit. The sites are quite awesome, the staff were very excellent and helpful and polite, well worth a visit. And i can say that I highly recommend the place to any tourist wanting to the premises.
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The Palazzo Colonna is a palatial block of buildings built in part over ruins of an old Roman Serapeum, and has belonged to the prestigious Colonna family for over twenty generations.
The first part of the palace dates from the 13th century, and tradition holds that the building hosted Dante in his visit to Rome. The first documentary mention notes that the property hosted Cardinal Giovanni and Giacomo Colonna in the 13th century. It was also home to Cardinal Oddone Colonna before he ascended to the papacy as Martin V (1417–1431).
With his passing, the palace was sacked during feuds, and the main property passed into the hands of the Della Rovere family. It returned to the Colonna family when Marcantonio I Colonna married Lucrezia Gara Franciotti Della Rovere, the niece of pope Julius II. The Colonna"s alliance to the Habsburg power, likely protected the palace from looting during the Sack of Rome (1527).
Starting with Filippo Colonna (1578–1639) many changes have refurbished and create a unitary complex around a central garden. Architects including Girolamo Rainaldi and Paolo Marucelli labored on specific projects. Only in the 17th and 18th centuries were the main facades completed. Much of this design was completed by Antonio del Grande (including the grand gallery), and Girolamo Fontana (decoration of gallery). In the 18th century, the long low facade designed by Nicola Michetti with later additions by Paolo Posi with taller corner blocks (facing Piazza Apostoli) was constructed recalls earlier structures resembling a fortification.
The main gallery (completed 1703) and the masterful Colonna art collection was acquired after 1650 by both the cardinal Girolamo I Colonna and his nephew the Connestabile Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna and includes works by Lorenzo Monaco, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Palma the Elder, Salviati, Bronzino, Tintoretto, Pietro da Cortona, Annibale Carracci (painting of The Beaneater), Guercino, Francesco Albani, Muziano and Guido Reni. Ceiling frescoes by Filippo Gherardi, Giovanni Coli, Sebastiano Ricci, and Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari celebrate the role of Marcantonio II Colonna in the battle of Lepanto (1571). The gallery is open to the public on Saturday mornings.
The older wing of the complex known as the Princess Isabelle"s apartments, but once housing Martin V"s library and palace, contains frescoes by Pinturicchio, Antonio Tempesta, Crescenzio Onofri, Giacinto Gimignani, and Carlo Cesi. It contains a collection of landscapes and genre scenes by painters like Gaspard Dughet, Caspar Van Wittel (Vanvitelli), and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
Along with the possessions of the Doria-Pamphilij and Pallavacini-Rospigliosi families, this is one of the largest private art collections in Rome.
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Q: Bash Script Help: How to Create a command in a script based on matching characters in a file I have a folder that will have a file name based on the python version being used.
PyICU-1.9.5-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_6_x86_64.whl
PyICU-1.9.5-cp35-cp35m-macosx_10_6_x86_64.whl

I want to use bash to detect the 35 or 27, and then execute a pip install <filename>.  I have GitHub Gist that has this hard coded, but instead of Hard coding the filename, I would like to detect the version, pick the filename with that version, and use it in a new command.
I would like to change the pip install command based on the file name.  I found some code to detect the python version; what's the next piece?
#from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6141581/detect-python-version-in-shell-script
python -c 'import sys; print(sys.version_info[:])'

How do I detect the numbers after cp, so that I can construct this:
detected 34, so:
pip installPyICU-1.9.5-cp34-cp34-macosx_10_6_x86_64.whl

A: #!/bin/bash
#Assuming $ver holds the version string...
ver=$(echo "$ver" | awk -F - '{print $3}' | sed 's/^..//')

For a more detailed explanation;
awk -F - '{print $3}' uses - as the field separator and returns the third field. The third field in this example is returned as cp34.
sed 's/^..//' removes the first two characters, and returns the rest, in this case 34.

A: Since you don't even need to extract the version from the filename, but just execute the file that is in the folder, then you can do:
cd dist/ &&
filename=$(ls|grep 'PyICU-')
pip install $filename

A:
python -c 'import sys; print(sys.version_info[:])'

This yields e. g. (2, 7, 3, 'final', 0), while what you need for the file name would be just 27, so we have to modify the above code a little:
python -c 'import sys; print("%s%s"%sys.version_info[:2])'

what's the next piece?

Now we can set a variable to the output of the above and use it in the file name:
ver=`python -c 'import sys; print("%s%s"%sys.version_info[:2])'`
pip installPyICU-1.9.5-cp${ver}-cp${ver}-macosx_10_6_x86_64.whl


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News / National / House makes gesture of friendship ahead of Vietnam exec's visit
House makes gesture of friendship ahead of Vietnam exec's visit
Published November 22, 2022, 6:14 AM
by Ellson Quismorio
The House of Representatives has adopted a resolution seeking to effectively boost cooperation between the Philippines and Vietnam through the establishment of the Philippine-Vietnam Parliamentarians' Friendship Society.
Vietnam National Assembly President Vuong Dinh Hue's welcome banner outside the House of Representatives in Quezon City (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)
House Resolution (HR) No. 571 was adopted by the plenary during session Monday night, Nov. 21.
This gesture was done ahead of the Philippine visit of Vietnam National Assembly President Vuong Dinh Hue, who will be hosted by the House led by Speaker and Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez.
The resolution effectively solidifies the existing exchange of visits program by both countries' respective parliamentarians and further strengthened the ties between the two nations by designating the officials and members of the parliamentarian society.
"It is the mutual desire of the Philippines and Vietnam to deepen and broaden their joint efforts towards the attainment of regional peace and prosperity, foster mutual understanding and cooperation and further strengthen the ties of friendship and solidarity between them through the friendship society," read HR No.571.
The resolution added that the Philippines and Vietnam, which have a longstanding friendship, "have pledged to continue the exchange of visits by their respective parliamentarians".
It was on July 12, 1976 when the diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Vietnam were established through the efforts of then-Philippine Foreign Minister Carlos Romulo and then-Vietnamese Vice Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs Phan Hien
Romualdez, Majority Leader and Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Manuel Jose "Mannix" Dalipe, Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan, Senior Deputy Majority Leader and Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Ferdinand Alexander "Sandro" Marcos, and Tingog Party-list Reps. Yedda Marie Romualdez and Jude Acidre introduced HR No.571.
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