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Q: Within a limit, find the constant c. Find the constant $c$ such that the limit of the following, exists.
$$\lim_{x\to 3} \frac{x^2+x+c}{x^2-5x+6}$$
What I've tried
So typically to find a limit, you substitute the number that x approaches, to find the limit, but given the above equation, that can't be done immediately as there are two asymptotes at 2 and 3 -as I know that the factoring of $(x^2 + -5x + 6)$ gives us $(x-2)(x-3)$, but from there, I'm fairly lost. Some help would be greatly appreciated.

A: Since $\lim_{x\to3}x^2-5x+6=0$ and since the limit$$\lim_{x\to3}x^2+x+c\tag1$$always exists (it is equal to $c+12$), if the limit$$\lim_{x\to3}\frac{x^2+x+c}{x^2-5x+6}\tag2$$exists, then $(1)=0$; in other words, $c=-12$. Now, prove that, in that case, the limit $(2)$ exists indeed.

A: In order for the limit to exist you need to get rid of the asymptote that occurs when $x=3$, caused by the denominator being $0$. As you know, you can factorise the denominator as
$$(x-2)(x-3)$$
Hence you only need to find the $c$ so that the $(x-3)$ term can be cancelled, since  then the denominator will no longer become $0$ at $x=3$. Hence, find the constant $c$ so that
$x^2 + x + c$ has $x-3$ as a factor

A: Hint
to remove the $(x-3)$ factor you can say, that there exists $a$, such that:
$$x^2+x+c=(x-3)(x-a)$$

A: Use algebra of limits directly. We have $$c=\lim_{x\to 3}(x^2+x+c)-(x^2+x)=\lim_{x\to 3}(x^2-5x+6)\cdot\frac{x^2+x+c}{x^2-5x+6}-12=0\cdot l-12=-12$$

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By Nic Schaus October 17, 2017 August 12, 2020
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It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
After four years in development of a yet-unnamed Star Wars game, publisher giant EA has suddenly shut down Visceral Games. Developers of the (mostly) critically acclaimed Dead Space series, Visceral is closing down after 19 years, and development of the Star Wars game is being handed off to a new EA studio.
Notably in the announcement, EA executive vice president Patrick Söderlund describes the changes they're bringing to the development of their Star Wars game, and it doesn't sound reassuring. In short, he explains the plans to redesign the game into "an experience that players will want to come back to and enjoy for a long time to come […] to be a broader experience that allows for more variety and player agency".
Previously, Visceral's Star Wars project was described as an action-adventure game akin to Uncharted, even being written by the first three games in the series' writer Amy Hennig. But if Söderlund's design changes are to be believed, it seems likely the game is pivoting away from this type of shorter, linear experience.
Even more tragic is that this news comes just four years after the cancellation of a similar action-adventure Star Wars game in development, Star Wars 1313. With many fans seeing Visceral's Star Wars project as a spiritual continuation of 1313, it seems that hope may now be in question.
And while sudden, this decision isn't at all unexpected given recent trends in the gaming market. With online multiplayer-focused games like Destiny and Grand Theft Auto V Online reportedly making boatloads of cash long after initial release, development of linear single-player games is making less and less sense. Ubisoft has already attempted to cash in on this trend with games like The Division, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, and even a rebooted Beyond Good & Evil incorporating online aspects.
In fact, EA has already made a similar move with their Bioware Edmonton studio. Previously known for developing the Mass Effect series, development of the latest game in the series Mass Effect: Andromeda was handed off so that the team could instead develop Anthem, which looks suspiciously like EA's attempt at an (albeit cool) looking Destiny clone.
Even further, Visceral Games themselves have fallen victim to EA's greed in the past too. After the first two Dead Space games were popular, classical survival horror games, the third entry in the series was criticized for being plagued with micro-transactions and a pivot to the more audience-friendly action genre. And while hopes were lowered for another entry in the series after the poor reception of Dead Space 3, they're all but squashed now.
So pour one out for Visceral Games, a developer killed off far before their time for the sake of profits. Even worse, it seems we may not be getting that action-adventure Star Wars game we all so desperately crave. After all, publishers can't profit off the masses without plenty of micro-transactions and loot boxes now.
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GUIDELINES should be issued urgently to car dealers to ensure that the long-awaited reform of the way cars are sold throughout the EU is properly enforced, says an MEP.
Conservative Malcolm Harbour claims there is still widespread confusion within the industry about the new rules, which come into force next Tuesday (1 October).
The reforms to the car block exemption scheme, unveiled by the European Commission in July, are designed to break the carmakers' stranglehold over retail sales.
From next week, dealers, whose commercial activities have previously been confined to a specific geographical area, will have the freedom to solicit or open for business anywhere in the EU.
They will also be able to open supermarket-style showrooms offering a selection of brands, rather than just one, as was the case until now.
However, Harbour, a former car engineer and sales director with UK carmaker Rover, has called on the Commission to issue guidelines to dealers to explain how the new system will work. Main dealers are in the dark about the implications of the reforms, he said.
"These are very, very complicated rules and we need to ensure that they will be enforced effectively.
"I have spoken to some knowledgeable people in the industry who are confused about what it all involves.
"If they are concerned, how are ordinary dealers feeling?
"Given that the new rules come into force in a few days, I am asking the Commission to make clear and easy-to-understand guidelines available to dealers as a matter of urgency.
"Details could be put on the internet or, perhaps, on a CD-Rom and should set out exactly what, for example, a small car dealer has to do if he wants to apply for a manufacturer's franchise."
Harbour's concern about enforcement of the reforms is shared by BEUC, the European consumers' organisation.
Manufacturers will have a one-year period of grace to adapt, but BEUC's economic advisor, Dominique Forest, said: "Our main worry is that some car dealers will decide it is in their interests to continue selling just one brand of car.
"Others may think it too risky to mix models.
"Of course, dealers are not being compelled to sell more than one make, but it will generally be in the consumer's interests if they do so."
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06.06.2011 - Public lecture entitled "Faith and Globalization" by Tony Blair
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66th U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to give Public Lecture "Challenges in an Ever-Changing World" at the invitation of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation
On March 9, 2016, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, 66th United States Secretary of State (2005-2009), will meet Ukrainian students, scholars and opinion-makers as a part of the Public Lectures project of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
WorldWideStudies scholarship holders met with Pulitzer Prize winner and world-renowned journalist Thomas Friedman
On April 23, the WorldWideStudies scholarship holders had a chance to meet with and columnist of The New York Times, the author of six bestselling books and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes Thomas L. Friedman.
The world-renowned physicist Dr Michio Kaku attended the 6th "Zavtra.UA" Youth Forum as a special guest
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June 8, 2017—Zubie, a connected car platform and telematics provider, took a step toward connecting cars with repair shops through a partnership with RepairPal. Through the integration, users of the Zubie app will have access to what the "check engine light" is indicating and what action to take. The app will include a list of RepairPal Certified shops in the area, making it simpler to quickly schedule an appointment.
Zubie CEO Gary Tucker spoke with Ratchet+Wrench about the partnership and how it could represent a huge step toward integrating telematics with independent repair shops.
What is the goal of the Zubie-RepairPal partnership?
We're trying to demystify that check engine light for the consumer. We can present to consumer the cause for the light coming on; we can see the fault codes in that car. And through our partnership with RepairPal, we can decode them and present them to the consumer the cause of the the light coming on. We can give them a severity level. We can even identify the most likely repairs and the cost of those repairs and point them to a shop that can complete the repair. It's an unprecedented level of transparency to the consumer.
What does the partnership allow Zubie to do that it couldn't do before?
We're able to leverage their understanding of the fault code definitions and the severity ratings. They have some really smart information around what those fault codes indicate by make, model and year. Then we're also able to leverage the RepairPal pricing transparency by showing the consumer, "This repair typically costs $100."
Another aspect with RepairPal we couldn't do on our own was connect consumers to a certified RepairPal shop. What RepairPal wasn't able to do before was get in that customer's car and help identify the root cause of the problem on a specific level. And that's the power of us working together on this.
In a previous conversation with Ratchet+Wrench, you mentioned how Zubie was looking to get more involved with independent repair shops when it came to telematics. So is this a step toward that?
It's a giant step toward that. It's a material demonstration to the market as to what telematics can do to connect a car and a customer with a specific problem to a repair shop that can fix that problem. It's that connective tissue that's the tip of the sphere of the customer relationship that makes us very unique. I think the RepairPal integration clearly demonstrates the opportunity that exists for telematics to be that connective tissue.
How can shops best utilize this partnership?
What I think you'll see is the progressive shops are going to take a firsthand role in the installation of the device. Because they're going to see the benefit they have in getting customers to show up at their shops informed about what problem they have, what that repair might cost, and ready to address it.
There are a lot of players in the telematics arena, but one of our most recent stories found that many shops have yet to utilize the technology. Do you RepairPal getting involved will change the mentality?
I think it's huge. I think we're going to get the repair shops to take a closer look at what telematics technology has to offer and can do to strengthen their consumer relationships. So we're excited to work with RepairPal and bring it all together for the marketplace.


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Q: How to design layout with multiple things and borders I am trying to design a sample layout that mimics the User page on Twitter app:

I am unsure where to begin. So far I have only designed list views or tab views. How can I design a layout with multiple blocks in it (like this sample has 4 blocks) and then further divide them into blocks as well.
If someone can give me hint on how to get started on the first block, I can take it from there.

A: First block looks pretty much like GridLayout to me.
Here is some brief explanation how to use it: link
The simplest way to tackle other groups ("direct messages", "drafts", etc) would be to treat each group as a vertical LinearLayout and have another vertical LinearLayout which hosts these groups with some margin between each group.
For the sake of simplicity I would do each group as a separate layout file and do <include/> within the top-level layout
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    <include layout="@layout/group1"/>   <-- GridLayout
    <include layout="@layout/group2"/>   <-- Simple text button
    <include layout="@layout/group3"/>   <-- Vertical LinearLayout of text buttons
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ELTTL - Week 28 Report
We've nearly reached the end of the 2018/19 Season as Week 28 has now come and gone.
With the Team 1 v 2 Derby match postponed, Team 5 v Team 6 in Division 4 took centre stage at Ladywood on Wednesday. There was a lot riding on this match with Team 5 still in with a chance of promotion (although they needed help from others). They called on the services of Team 7's George Wilson who joined regulars Craig Johnson and Millie Bennett as they faced Rachel Petrie, Craig Linton and Adam Woodhouse. Did anyone tell Team 6, who had little to play for, that Team 5 desperately needed a win? If we did, that didn't stop Team 6 throwing everything at their promotion chasing clubmates! George started off with a good win v Craig L before Rachel raced into a 2-0 lead v Millie. Rachel's resolve would surely have been broken when Millie came back to 2-2 with a 17-15 win in the 4th end - but no - Rachel dug deep and proceeded to win the 5th end comfortably. Craig then defeated Adam before the scores were levelled again as Craig L defeated Millie in 4 ends – 2-2 match score and Team 5, keeping El Presidente up to date by text, were worried! George again gave the favourites a lead by winning match 5 v Adam before match 6 was to prove crucial. Craig J v Rachel – at 1-1 in ends, Craig scraped over the line 12-10 in the 3rdand had that gone the other way who knows what might have happened – as it was Craig got more confident and ran out victorious in 4 ends. In the battle of the Craig's it was Team 6's Craig who won in a fifth end nail biter but that was the only other win for Team 6 as Team 5 secured a hard fought 7-3 victory. With the help of a huge favour from Haddington 4 the next night as they defeated Fife, Team 5 now find themselves in 2nd spot in the division and their destiny is within their own control – 4 or 5 weeks ago they could not have asked or hoped for anything more than that – one match to go and a victory in that match will secure them promotion. Good luck.
Elsewhere, Team 3 of James Wighton, Ian Hislop and Abby Wighton faced a nerve-racking tussle at Ladywood v ESC 3 in Division 2. This match was one of those which could easily have turned on a couple of points here and there. After the first 3 singles, the Penicuik trio held a 2-1 lead. After the next round of singles, the scores were tied at 3-3. A win in the doubles gave the hosts the advantage and James secured a point with a win in Match 8, but ESC kept the contest alive with a win in Match 9. The stage was set for Ian H v Gary Woodhouse – talk about an unorthodox match-up! 2-0 up and Ian was coasting to victory – hang on 11-5, 11-7 wins for Gary and the game was level at 2-2. The deciding set had everything, including we're told, some amazing attacking play from Ian H. Really?? We witnessed Ian playing in Round 1 of the Handicap Cup where he played 95 shot rallies over and over and over again without a positive shot! But no, attack he did, and fortune favoured the brave as he ran out an 11-8 winner securing a 6-4 victory for the Ladywood side.
Our first team to complete their 2018/19 season was Team 4 of Julian Taylor, Tony Brentnall and Sonny Taylor as their final match took them on their travels to play ESC 4. They'll be wishing the season wasn't over as they romped home to a 10-0 win rounding off a decent campaign for this trio. Having stepped up from Division 4, Julian and Sonny can be proud of their achievements this year – a 4th place finish is guaranteed and Julian finishes with a very respectable 75% win rate. Sonny may just about hang on to a top 10 individual finish on 65% just a little behind Tony on 68% who, after a couple of years off, showed glimpses of being back to near his best.
Team 7's season could have been so different had Phil Daly not got himself injured just before the 2nd half of the season started – eye surgery was followed by a slow recovery and although not 100%, to avoid having to concede, he bravely took to the table for his first competitive match this year as he and Kristian Skotzen faced West Lothian 8. For the third time in March, Team 7 had to play with just two players and on this occasion, they weren't able to overturn their 3-0 deficit. The good news, however, was that Phil won 2 of his 3 matches and that was a very positive outcome for him! Kristian was disappointed with only 1 win and the pair don't want to talk about the fifth end of their doubles match which they lost 11-1! A 7-3 defeat for Team 7 but we don't care about that – it was just good to see Phil back in action.
And so, to our Player of the Week Award for Week 28. This week's undefeated players were Ian Hislop from Team 3, all of Team 4 and George playing up for Team 5. Harsh though it is, Team 4 were playing opposition already relegated from Division 3 so they're all out of the running. George has been in great form of late and his 3 against Team 6 was a terrific boost for Team 5 – but he won it last week and we don't want his head getting too big!! Gary still can't believe that this man won last week's player of the match award with a two whilst playing up for Team 2, this week he definitely deserved it – 3 singles wins and a doubles victory in a 6-4 win – add to that the fact that he played some attacking TT (we still can't believe it – did anyone catch it on camera?) and there can be no doubt that Ian H is our deserved winner.
And finally, our Controversy of the Week section.
Away from our matches this week, another Club raised with us a matter which has almost now become the norm rather than the exception – playing matches on two tables! The Team in question, we're told, have played their last 3 away matches on 2 tables. Whilst it is understood that given time constraints, this may be unavoidable, in the three venues in question, they played on completely different makes of tables. Our source suggested this was crazy, as in each venue players were practicing on tables that were identical to the one being used for the match. They felt that with a little extra effort this could have been easily avoided and they feel this should perhaps be a rule for forthcoming seasons. We dislike the two-table set-up for different reasons. In the "good old days" there was no doubt that playing in the League was about being part of a "Team" – the League is of course a "team event" but, in our view, the "team spirit" which used to exist in League matches is slowly being eroded away by "having to play" on two tables (sometimes 3). This can be especially hard for youngsters (or David Melrose) who need the support of teammates to sometimes get them through the games! For some (although others would say they should be concentrating solely on their own game) they can become easily distracted as they glance over, wondering how their teammate is getting on. Of course, for some, maybe it is just more about individual performances but that's not what it's supposed to be. Whilst we accept that playing on two tables has almost become inevitable (we do it ourselves) because of venue difficulties, we wonder whether there is any other way of dealing with it. Get rid of the doubles and go back to 9 matches? That's what they do in the West of Scotland League. Only play six singles as we do in the Scottish National League? If we want to keep the doubles fixture, play six singles and a doubles match? In these times when we are looking to attract youngsters to the game, finishing at 10pm (or after) is going to put many parents off letting their young ones take part. In recent years adapting the format of league matches has been looked at but never voted for - maybe we need to look at it again – wouldn't we all benefit from a shorter match format??
And finally, as we said in our match reports, it was great to see Phil back in action. When asked how his vision had withstood the test of match play, he replied that he had been OK but bizarrely he kept thinking his shots had caught an edge when they hadn't and so clearly his eyesight wasn't back to normal yet. Phil, we hate to break this news to you – that's nothing to do with your operation – everyone at the Club knows that you've always seen edges (but only on your shots) when no one else in the Hall has!!
April is upon us and Divisional winners, promotion issues and relegation issues have all been decided, apart from Division 4. That will be dealt with in the coming week!


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3. Activities ought to chip away at the parts of your body where muscles are. The reason chiefly is, the point at which you create muscles, you blaze more calories and after that you decrease the fats in your body. Multi-joint activities and weight lifting are suggested. Realize what practices deal with specific parts of your body. Multi-joint activities are additionally said to be compelling yet efficient.
4. Be orderly on chipping away at your muscles. Your muscles ought to work harder after some time. Rehashing similar arrangements of activities and same weight without getting your muscles to work harder won't give acceptable results. You can record your every day results and make the movement in light of your past information. A day by day log will likewise inspire you since you can track how far you have gone. It constructs certainty since there is a composed verification something that was effectively refined.
5. Play out an arrangement of activities in 10 reiterations. Each number that was expert is known as a reiteration. Attempt to make each redundancy with less force however much as could be expected. The lesser the force, the harder your muscles work. Also, the harder they work, the greater they get to be. To check if there is much energy when lifting, check whether the arm is skimming. On the off chance that the arm floats, then there is much energy.
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Upernavické souostroví je souostroví na severozápadě kraje Avannaata v Grónsku. Je to největší souostroví v Grónsku. Leží u Baffinova moře, začíná u poloostrova Sigguup Nunaa a končí u Melvillova zálivu (). V roce 2017 tu natrvalo žilo celkem 2777 obyvatel.

Historie
V minulosti Upernavickým souostrovím prošly pravěké grónské kultury. Saqqacká kultura tu prošla kolem roku 1000 př. n. l. a usídlila se tu spolu s Dorsetskou kulturou, která oblastí prošla asi ve stejnou dobu. Mezi 13. a 14. století byli tito lidé vyhnání Thulskými lidmi.

Dnes je Upernavické souostroví částečně obydleno (žije tu 2777 obyvatel), přičemž se tu nachází celkem hodně (11) osad. Největší osada, podle které je souostroví pojmenováno, je Upernavik, kde žije celkem 1059 obyvatel, což je více než 38% obyvatel souostroví.

Seznam největších ostrovů

Osady

Ekonomika
Hlavní ekonomikou osad v souostroví je rybářství, i když obyvatelé severněji položených osad stále loví lachtany, mrože a velryby.

Mimo Upernavik se nacházejí velice chudé osady. Naajaat, Nuussuaq, Kullorsuaq a Upernavik Kujalleq patří do deseti nejchudších osad v Grónsku.

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Air Pollution Causes 4.2 Million Premature Deaths Around The World
While air quality is improving in much of the world, in some already polluted places like India, it's getting much worse.
If smoking, a cholesterol-filled diet, and high blood pressure doesn't kill you, then the polluted air might. In 2015, ambient pollution was the fifth leading cause of death worldwide, according to a major new report. More than 4.2 million people died prematurely because of particulates and ozone in the air, mostly from coal burning, power plants, and home heating.
China and India account for about half of all global premature deaths from pollution. ("Premature death" means dying before normal life expectancy for that country.) But, while China's rate of death is stabilizing, India's is increasing alarmingly. In India, 133,000 more people died from particulates (PM 2.5) in 2015 compared to 2010, while in China, the increase was only about 10,000 over the same period. Between 1990 and 2015, India and Bangladesh saw their pollution-caused deaths rise by more than 50%.
The report comes from the Boston-based Health Effects Institute, and the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, based at the University of Washington. The groups also produce an interactive "State of the Global Air" website, where you can compare air quality across countries, seeing where your location ranks.
By contrast to the emerging Asian giants, where air quality is generally poor and getting poorer, Russia, Indonesia, the European Union, Japan, Brazil, and the United States have good air quality that's managing to get even better. In other countries, there's been much improvement: Nigeria saw a remarkable 34% drop in particulate-related mortality between 2010 and 2015.
"Less-polluted locations have become cleaner, while particulate concentrations have increased in the more polluted locations. As a result, what was a 7-fold range in average population-weighted concentrations among these countries in 1990 increased to a 10-fold range in 2015," the report says.
In general, cleaner places are getting cleaner, while the dirty air is getting dirtier. The U.S. has seen a 27% decline in exposure to particulate pollution since 1990, though 88,400 premature deaths were still attributable to particulates in 2015, according to the report.
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IGT Appoints Gil Rotem as President of iGaming
Top iGaming executive previously held leadership roles at 888.com and bet365
International Game Technology PLC
Nov 08, 2021, 06:45 ET
LONDON, Nov. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC (NYSE:IGT) ("IGT") today announced that it has appointed Gil Rotem as President of iGaming, effective immediately. Reporting to Enrico Drago, IGT CEO Digital & Betting, Rotem is responsible for ensuring the ongoing development and global expansion of the IGT PlayCasino business, which includes iGaming, poker and bingo.
"The IGT PlayCasino business continues to grow at a rapid pace, and it offers many of the gaming industry's highest-performing and most-recognized game titles. We expect continued double-digit growth from IGT PlayCasino, and Gil Rotem's vision and experience can help us remain well-positioned for continued leadership in iGaming, poker and bingo," said Enrico Drago, IGT CEO Digital & Betting.
Rotem brings nearly two decades of relevant experience to his new role. He previously held senior positions with 888.com and bet365 where he was responsible for strategic board level planning and operations as well as delivering high growth and product optimization improvements. Rotem most recently worked as an independent consultant for an online sports betting company where he led the development and delivery of dozens of exclusive titles for the organization's proprietary games and jackpot platform.
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At Formnext 2018 there has been a notable decline in the number of "glamorous" 3D printer and product releases at the show – fewer falling curtains, and process debuts, however, more focus on the peripherals.
Of all the exhibitors I have spoken to, digitization, process monitoring, product lifecycle management, automation and additive manufacturing for production are the driving forces for innovation. In other words: the technology works, and now it's time to show how reliable it can be; how to scale it up to run alongside existing manufacturing technologies; and how to easily integrate it into a factory setting.
Comments concerning the general atmosphere of this year's show have included remarks about how "professional" it seems, which for some is a sure sign of market maturity.
Exhibition floor on day one of Formnext 2018.
STYX Technologies is a simulation consultancy specialist based in Paris, France. Though it has been offering its services for three years now, 2018 is the first time STYX has exhibited at the show.
"Our goal," STYX Business Developer Arnaud Chapé explains, "is to reduce distortions an residual stresses" of metal additive manufactured parts. With expertise across many existing simulation platforms, like Simufact and the award-winning Autodesk Netfabb, Chapé says the company not only helps customers understand the outcomes of additive processes, saving time and money, but it also can help these customers choose the right technology for their application.
In the early days of additive, the STYX service simply couldn't have existed. But the fact that such businesses can enjoy commercial success, with partners including Erpro Group (Carbon's first French partner), is clear evidence of customer demand.
Parts simulated by STYX Technologies for Vector Aerospace.
Generally, at trade shows we are starting to see more exhibitors that provide, for example, the gases for creating inert atmospheres, or automated powder handling systems. Pneumatic and vacuum conveying specialist Volkmann is exhibiting has its ever-fascinating bulk materials handling system on display, with pipelines all along one side of the booth feeding down into a hopper at a rate of up to 10 t/h. For additive manufacturing powders, this feed rate is typically up to 500 kg per hour, dependent of course, on the flow of the material.
A Volkmann PowTReXi handling system and selection of transportable bulk materials (Left).
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Who told "the 2 folders" were from the same zip? Now you showed contents of one folder only.
Is it possible to enable access to ftp/telnet also when TV is turned off? I have F6400 with working root but I'd like to access ftp files also when TV is off.
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My main goal of using SamyGo was for this fix: "[App] HDMI 5.1 audio passthrough patch E/F/H (MST only)".
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The Right-Wing Americans Who Made a Doc About Argentina
October 7, 2015 Eli Clifton 2 Comments
by Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe
A new documentary about the death of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor found in a pool of blood in his apartment last winter, premiered last week at Washington, D.C.'s Newseum. One might wonder why a movie about Argentina, in Spanish and apparently aimed at Argentine audiences, premiered on the East Coast of the United States. But geopolitical intrigue played a role in the prosecutor's death. Nisman's controversial investigation accused Iran of ordering the 1994 bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires in which 85 people were killed. And his body was discovered a day before he was to present a criminal complaint against Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman for an alleged attempt to persuade Interpol to revoke "red notices" issued against half a dozen of Tehran's top leaders.
The new documentary, Los Abandonados (The Abandoned), presents a narrative that encompasses the bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) center, Nisman's allegations against Iran in 2006, and finally, the prosecutor's untimely death by a .22-caliber revolver pistol shot to the head. The story is told with archival footage, dramatic re-enactments, and interviews with journalists, politicians, and experts—many, though not all, from Argentine opposition circles.
The bias in sourcing in favor of the Argentine opposition is not much of a surprise. Argentine politics are notoriously partisan, with media outlets and just about everyone else picking sides between the government and the opposition. The filmmakers clearly and uncritically accepted the conclusions of Nisman's investigations—both Iranian responsibility for the AMIA bombing and the government's efforts to quash the Interpol warrants—and saw them as the cause of Nisman's demise. The filmmakers suggest that Iran was behind it, though without offering evidence (other than an unsupported assertion by one Argentine journalist that Iran had issued a fatwa in 2006 ordering the prosecutor's murder), Those points of entry would naturally direct a filmmaker to seek out opposition-friendly sources.
What should raise a few eyebrows, however, are ties between the film and the U.S. partisans behind it. The driving cinematic force behind the film, Matthew A. Taylor, is a former Republican operative who still works in American right-wing circles. Although most of Taylor's previous efforts (more on that in a moment) seemed to be geared at bolstering Republican and right-wing positions in the U.S., Los Abandonados is targeted at Argentines. The morning after premiering in Washington, the movie was released online for a small rental fee. It seems unlikely that the movie will be able to recoup the costs of what appeared to be an expensive production, leaving one to wonder who funded it, and why.
The movie's ties to Republican Party operatives and the American Task Force Argentina (ATFA), a lobby group representing foreign Argentine debt holders who have refused to accept a substantial discount on the country's defaulted bonds —not to mention the striking overlap between the two—might hold some answers. And those ties could raise questions, too, about the film's political and financial motives. It was perhaps not coincidental that the film was released a month before Argentina's presidential elections in which Fernandez's preferred successor, Daniel Scioli, has vowed to continue her efforts to resist ATFA's demands for full payment on the debt. (Under Argentina's constitution, Fernandez is barred from running for another term.)
Matthew Taylor, the director, cut his teeth working for the 2004 Bush-Cheney presidential campaign. According to a cached bio for a film he later worked on, Taylor "produced and edited" attack ads for the campaign, including the infamous television spot that showed John Kerry windsurfing and one that assailed the Democratic presidential nominee for being a "flip-flopper." After the campaign, he went on to work for the Tea Party-affiliated Citizens United, overseeing the group's film productions. Taylor moved between a political ad firm and Citizens United, according to the online biography, but ultimately landed back at the powerhouse PAC, where he ended up working on 13 films, including Newt and Callista Gingrich's documentary, "America at Risk," and Dick Morris' "Battle for America," which both list Taylor in the production credits. Citizens United was presumably the venue for Taylor's introduction to Alan Peterson, who would go on to co-produce Los Abandonados.
Taylor's intensely partisan work offers few explanations about why he suddenly developed an eye for Argentina, the AMIA attack, or Alberto Nisman. At the Washington premiere of Los Abandonados, Taylor offered only that his interest was sparked by "geopolitical intrigue, mystery."
But other American right-wingers who worked on Los Abandonados have more direct interests in Latin America. One of the film's associate producers, Douglas Farah, a former reporter turned national security consultant, has much closer associations with Argentine affairs. In 2004, after reporting for outlets such as The Washington Post from regions like Central America and West Africa, Farah aligned himself with hawkish, Washington-based organizations, writing as an expert on illicit finance and terrorism.
Since then, Farah's writing and congressional testimony on the AMIA bombings has gotten the attention of organizations affiliated with hedge fund billionaire and Republican megadonor Paul Singer, the largest holdout in the protracted conflict between Argentina's government and its bond holders and an ATFA funder and member from its inception in 2006. In June, 2013, Farah published a column in the Miami Herald, co-bylined with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Executive Director Mark Dubowitz, warning of Iran's "presence in the [western] hemisphere," and characterizing Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's government—a main target of Los Abandonados's ire—as "close to drowning in a flood of corruption scandals and destructive fiscal policies" and "seeking desperately to ignore Nisman's report and embrace Iran as a commercial and political partner." Singer's Elliott Management firm, incidentally, stands to stands to gain more than a billion dollars on its initial investment, estimated at well under $100 million in discounted Argentine bonds, if he and the other holdouts prevail in their fight to recover the full debt plus interest.
In response to e-mailed questions, Farah, who said he had been a friend of Nisman's and thought highly of the prosecutor's work, told LobeLog, "My involvement [in Los Abandonados] was in helping shape the narrative due to my series of in-depth reports on Argentina and the corruption of the Fernández de Kirchner government."
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FDD, for its part, has been an outspoken critic of Kirchner but has never disclosed the organization's conflict of interest in taking on her government. From 2008 to 2011, Paul Singer was the group's second-largest donor, contributing $3.6 million.
2013 ATFA ad linking Iran and Argentina
The neoconservative think-tank, however, isn't Farah's only link to holders of Argentine debt. ATFA, which took out full-page ads in U.S. newspapers in 2013 linking Kirchner with then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, provided a $42,500 grant to the International Assessment and Strategy Center (IASC), a small organization where Farah is a senior fellow. (Farah told LobeLog he doesn't know "any members of the ATFA, nor do I know if any were involved in the film's financing." He added, "I have had no involvement in IASC finances or fundraising, nor do I know what the money was spent on.")
The ATFA grant, which accounts for over a quarter of the grant revenue collected by IASC in 2013 (the last year for which tax filings are available for ATFA or IASC), was intended, according to ATFA disclosures, "for the support of the organization's general policy and advocacy work."
There's big money behind ATFA—and a political motive that Los Abandonados would suit—but no direct evidence of the group's involvement in the film itself. The Newseum had been rented as the premiere space (they did not host the event in their organizational capacity). Asked by LobeLog who made the rental, Christopher Ford, who manages special events at the Newseum, said only, "It's a private event, so we don't divulge that information." He described the rental as a "business transaction."
Aside from attacking Kirchner, the filmmakers revealed a second motive at the premiere: to serve as a warning about Iran. Although insisting that the film was started before the nuclear deal with Iran was finally struck—but not, of course, before diplomacy kicked into high gear—Taylor told the audience last week, "The Iran deal parallels this film." He went on, "The film is about what happens when you do business with Iran. [Argentina] did business with Iran—and got two bombings and an assassination." He made no mention of Argentina's ongoing election campaign.
Analysis, Latin America Alberto Nisman, American Task Force Argentina, Argentina, Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, Citizens United, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Daniel Scioli, Douglas Farah, Eli Clifton, FDD, Hector Timerman, Iran, Jim Lobe, Los Abandonados, Matthew Taylor, Newseum, Paul Singer
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Eli Clifton reports on money in politics and US foreign policy. He is a co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Eli previously reported for the American Independent News Network, ThinkProgress, and Inter Press Service.
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Iran is bad actor in the eyes of many, same eyes are blind to crimes of Israel, Saudi, Guantanamo prison, 1000, killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc..
Everybody in Southamerica knows that Nisman was a CIA-Mosad pawn. The author blatantly ignores the evident and well known flaws in that clumsy attempt to involve Christina Kirchner in the bombing event that occurred thirty years ago.
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The Undead Hour ~ ESP and The Face
May 17, 2021 May 10, 2021 cmrosens
Welcome to the first Undead Hour, where C. M. Rosens, representing Pagham-on-Sea's History Society, interviews medium Penelope Holdfast. Ms Holdfast is the owner of ESP – Entities living Sympathetically with People – a therapeutic service offering counselling for those who need to learn to co-exist with their hauntings. ESP is based in the old White Horse Bed and Breakfast, which is now Ms Holdfast's place of business and place of residence.
Future episodes of the Undead Hour will be hosted by either C. M. Rosens (interviewing the living about the undead) or the revenant Clem Wells (interviewing fellow undead and discussing current hot topics and undead issues).
The Undead Hour with Penelope Holdfast (ESP) and The Face
CMR: Hello, welcome to the next episode of Eldritch Girl, and today I'm interviewing Penelope Holdfast, the medium and owner of ESP, which is Entities living Sympathetically with People, and this is a new venture which has just come to Pagham-on-Sea, so it's lovely to have Penelope with us, do you prefer Penelope or Penny sorry?
PH: Penelope. That's my name.
CMR: Penelope, yes sorry yeah. And so, would you like to introduce yourself Penelope, and tell everyone about your business and the reasons why you've moved to Pagham-on-Sea, because you've just come down haven't you, you're very relatively new to the area, and so yeah I will hand over to you.
PH: Yeah sure so. Obviously I'm Penelope, I'm a 34 year old medium. And my business, ESP, as you've mentioned, I set it up and it tracks entities. It registers whether they are on the corporeal scale which is a little bit like radiation on the Geiger scale or the Richter scale for earthquakes – it's based on spectral energy levels. Generally my aim is to help humans or other entities, you know non-humans, affected by hauntings to live in harmony with spectres. I mean, that's not always possible, but I was hoping that we could kind of talk about that and it help me to raise awareness of my business locally, because I think it's so important to teach humans and non-humans to live with hauntings.
CMR: Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so you've recently moved into the White Horse B&B [Bed and Breakfast] which I think most of our listeners will will know, our Pagham-based listeners, and what brings you to Pagham-on-Sea and is that where your business is going to be based?
PH: Yeah so business is going to be based from the B&B. I've set up my office there. It's also where I live, as well, because I think is quite important to kind of have that connection between the two, particularly as the B&B is so haunted, and we'll be hearing from one of our main spectres in a few minutes. But, it's really interesting and in terms of my journey to Pagham-on-Sea. So I know that I grew up in Pagham-on-Sea.
CMR: Okay!
PH: Um. But I don't remember being here, but I've dreamed about it from the age of 10 years old.
CMR: Right.
PH: It's quite a long journey, if we can kind of get into that. So, I, as I said, I don't remember living here. My parents were very transient up until I was about 10, you know they were hippies and they're interested in going to places to feed off what they call psychic energy and the supernatural and I don't just mean anything ghostly or monstrous or anything, but anything to do with like unexplained phenomena, although they don't have the same the abilities that I have developed over time.
So we lived in a few places: Glastonbury, York, Knock in Ireland to name a few. They'd say there for a bit and then they've kind of move on after they'd got what they needed out of the place, and they do rituals with crystals and things like that. And apparently they were at Pagham-on-Sea the longest – we were there for two years – but again it's like a weird block in my mind. I can't remember ever being there, but I remember moving, the day that we that we left Pagham-on-Sea. And we moved and ended up settling in Milton Keynes where my parents live to this every day in the very same house.
And it's strange because my parents are such complete hippies, but when we moved, my dad cut off his hair and worked as an insurance salesman. My mum went to work at a bank and they just totally settled down became regular mum and dad like I always craved, but when I was in Milton Keynes when we first moved there as I said I was 10, and I started having these dreams. And all of my dreams were involving a space in the wall, and they start becoming more detailed over time, these dreams, to the point that over four years ago, I was having these dreams constantly every night. I'd wake up from my dreams, and still feel like I was in that place. It was just calling to me and getting louder and louder.
Also, from the age of 16 I started seeing ghosts and predicting events before they happened but again, that kind of happened over time, too, but it's really interesting, so my dreams started to get more vivid and vivid, and I knew in my bones it had to do with Pagham-on-Sea. And my parents tried to stop me from from coming here in the first place, and then I decided I needed to come here and I such an uncanny feeling, I felt like I knew all of the streets and where to go like the back of my hand. But I couldn't work out where this thing I was dreaming about, where this thing in the wall was.
So I paid quite a bit of money to some Underground urchins, and there's some really rough folk, and they took me to an abandoned shell of a property… I won't name the street for privacy reasons, obviously, but clients will know where my property is. But before I entered I just knew in my heart this was the place. And that's how I came to this B&B, and everything was leading up to that moment and I went upstairs and the entity in the house who I call the Face, he manifested to me and I felt complete. And that's kind of why I'm here.
CMR: Wow that is such an interesting story, do you …. do you know why your parents didn't want you to come back?
PH: They just won't discuss it. And I don't know if it's they can't or they won't, they just completely shut down whenever I try to talk to them about it. They didn't think I was going to move here, they thought it was just going to be like a bit of a day trip, I went here I just knew I needed to move here, so I spoke to the Council, I was able to buy the old B&B at a real knockdown rate, because it was in such a state of disrepair.
CMR: Yeah. I think it is, is it an offshore consortium that owns it, or owned it, and they were just kind of letting it fall down because it was easier than doing anything with it. Because the front of it's Grade 2, isn't it?
PH: Pardon?
CMR: The front of it is Grade 2 listed.
PH: Yeah, it is. It's absolutely beautiful, but an absolute wreck inside.
CMR: Yeah it's just such a shame, but, as you say, I mean it's got such a reputation for being haunted. I say reputation… I mean, it is. [laughs] But yeah. How many spectres do you think there are in the B&B?
PH: I mean there's so many. There's such a big well of entities. There is a main, a dominant entity, called the Face and, within that, there's several others that kind of swirl around, but I think the Face is like a big net that traps other spectres, so I think if something even were to walk passed the house they'd be sucked in. I've never seen anything like it, it's like the kind of you know, like the eye of a needle of the storm sort of thing.
CMR: Oh wow, yeah, I've never heard of anything like that before. That's really interesting, okay, and… and are we are we going to… are you able to contact the Face, like, can we, because I knew that you said we would do that on the show, is that something that's possible, or?
PH: Yeah so the face is actually right here, it's kind of manifested in this section of the wall now.
CMR: Oh my God! Yes, I see it.
The Face Manifests
PH: Face, how are you doing today?
[pause]
Face: Hello.
CMR: Hi!
Face: Good morning.
CMR: Um.
Face: Well, thank you. How are you.
CMR: I'm good. Thank you. So. Can we… is it okay…
Face: I'm manifesting through the wall here.
CMR: Yes. Yes you are. Is it okay to ask questions, or…?
Face: Oh, I am very good at asking questions. Not so good at answering them.
PH: This is typical. Face will get a bit more chatty as we go through, hopefully.
CMR: : Okay, is this just because it's like manifesting for the first time in a while or? Is this just how… it is?
PH: It's just how it is.
CMR: Okay. yeah that's interesting, it sounds quite fragmented as well.
PH: I think yeah, I think, do you have different echoes in there, do you hear kind of different voices at all?
CMR: Yeah- kind of? Sorry yeah I was wondering if it was because… it's hard to tell because, obviously, since we're doing this via video chat, it's really hard for me to tell if it's a lag my end, but yeah yeah or if it's like an echo on that end, but yeah I think so.
PH: Yes, actually I moved into the house and the Face was here, and I just… I felt such a connection, with the Face.
CMR: Mm. Yes, that's really… unusual like it's such a – I've never heard of an entity that manifests in that particular way but has those sorts of properties or, or powers, that's… I mean, I can hear him like really, really clearly.
PH: Face, do you want to talk about some of your powers?
[longer pause]
Face: I can manifest … … in a wall.
Face: I can also manifest … … in … … a floor.
CMR: Wow.
PH: What about your properties, how would you describe what you're like?
[slight pause]
Face: I would describe myself, and some might disagree with this, as … glutinous.
PH: I see the face is really, really being so humble and underselling himself right now but he's underselling his powers, I mean what you can't see is that when he transfigures and moves around it creates such a massive what you call it seems like a shift in reality and a shift in elements around it: everything sort of changes and warps and I think I said to you earlier when I take readings on my energy device, I mean, these are the most unusual and highest and most fascinating readings I've ever encountered. It's so powerful I mean almost, god, I think Face and the ghosts… This is like, like a God, this power.
Face: I think I have caused some of the mortar to dissolve.
PH: He's just so humble.
CMR: Wow okay yeah um. I mean it's so interesting that you've got like, this kind of corporeality that's affecting not just other entities in the house, but also affecting the physical building itself that's … yeah so do you think that's an ectoplasmic reaction, or?
PH: I don't know I think I mean that's awesome, as I said before, it's I mean this is a good word for it because the consistency is just so solid and I'm not used to this, for example, so I said to you before you know I've been a medium for years, I picked up on ghosts, but previously, you know, ghosts for kind of like a faint whisper that I'd hear, a mist out the corner of my eye, whereas in this situation, I mean it's like thick goo, it's solid stuff, and that sounds a bit disgusting, but it's just so… yeah it's just remarkable and I've never met an entity like this.
CMR: yeah I mean it's also very three dimensional like I can, I can kind of see the way that it's manifesting it's definitely not like a pattern on a wall. It's a manifested face in a wall.
PH: Right. And the way it can slide through things as well, it's very snake-like in its movements as well. How would you describe the way you move?
Face: I would say the way I move is elegant, attractive, and not dissimilar to a slime-mould.
PH: [proudly] Yeah, I guess so.
CMR: [not quite as convinced] yeah I … I put those adjectives with slime mode. Yeah that sounds… yeah that's… okay, that's really interesting, I don't know but, would you be able to move now like, for us to just… I mean I appreciate this as a podcast so you'd have to – the listeners will have to rely on description, but would you be able to do that just so that I can… see it?
Face: Yes, I probably could.
PH: Can you see it?
CMR: OH yeah!! Oh, it is like slime mould.
PH: Yeah well look at the way it's kind of… it's so strange, it's not really altering the brick, nothing's come off the walls. Like, can you see the way it's going over that painting and it's not moving.
CMR: Oh yes, oh wow that's weird okay, because that's obviously something there. Like obviously it's a physical thing but it's not affecting the canvas and like I would expect… is that a watercolour as well?
PH: Yes it is a watercolour actually, I got it off a local artist. It's beautiful, yeah.
CMR: Oh! [laughs] yeah but it's it's yeah no I would expect, like the… like you'd expect it to be warped. And it isn't.
PH: Yeah and you'd expect maybe some of the plaster or something or the paint to start chipping but it just…
CMR: It doesn't.
PH: No. It's this effect… I don't know how to describe it.
CMR: Yet, but at the same time, and you said that you – sorry Face, you said that you also dissolved things, like you have actually impacted the house physically, is that just… do we think that's over… what's the word… cumulative, over time?
Face: I don't dissolve anything that doesn't need dissolving. I'm very respectful of this property.
CMR: Oh OK, I see.
PH: yeah it's an intentional act isn't it when you do something like that.
Face: Oh, I have a fine creative mind, yes, I exert considerable influence over the structure I inhabit.
PH: When I moved in and I was obviously trying to do things up, I think you weren't very happy at the beginning, so there was a lot of that dissolving. I think you were kind of acting up and kicking up against me then.
Face: Oh, I think it was all in good jest. We had a good time.
PH: We did.
CMR: Yeah.. what, did you sort of find wallpaper that you put up coming off the wall, or something like that?
PH: A whole section, and at one point the adjoining wall between the dining room and the kitchen, that… all the bricks were somehow knocked out, but I don't know how it's possible. It's almost like, you have to imagine something like a big truck in reverse and all the bricks had come out.
CMR: Oh wow, that much force?
PH: Yeah [laughs] that cost quite a bit of money, didn't it Face, we had to get the builders in.
Face: Well it's, obviously one has to spend money on an older building. Estate agents traditionally, would say around 2% of market value per year.
PH: And a big shout out to our builders, by the way, Matthew Raven [Raven & Sons] he's had to come over quite a lot. He's a specialist kind of, you know, paranormal sort of builder, so he knows how to work around things like this. I always recommend him to my clients in case they have any issues.
CMR: That's – yeah, I mean. I can't imagine many people having issues quite like this. I can see why that would be a really difficult thing to work around or work with, and in terms of your – I mean, in terms of your business as well, I imagine, this is the kind of thing that you're helping your clients navigate I mean not necessarily a face in a wall, but like, poltergeist activity or that sort of thing, and haunted house issues?
PH: Yeah, poltergeists and demonic entities… we've had all sorts really, so I think the biggest thing that I'm finding is it's about teaching humans and non-humans to live with hauntings. And that's kind of my catchphrase you've probably heard me say this quite a lot during the course of this podcast, but you got to remember really that a lot of these spectres, dark energies, whatever they are, they've lived in a place for many years, and you come in and you're the usurper. You're coming into their place. And then you've got to kind of take back control almost, so it's about establishing authority and boundaries and lines of communication, like I did with the Face, you know but it depends on how corporeal they are.
So with my business, what I might suggest to a client is that we undertake a séance or if they're, again, not very corporeal, we might create a system or something like knocks in Morse Code, because I'm finding that ghosts, they're often very frustrated and lonely, so you think they're terrifying and they want you out, but actually they're trying to communicate with you, but they just don't know how or it's been so many years since they communicated with anybody they've forgotten the the means to do that. They don't know who they are, what their origins were.
And it's not that kind of – you know, it's not that kind of Exorcist "the power of Christ compels you" stuff, I don't come in and do that, it's just to recognize that you don't need to be afraid of them and that you can peacefully and happily coexist with them. And that's my end goal, I think.
There's only been one occasion I've seen where the entity was fully malevolent. It was demonic, and it was very ancient. But we contained it and we came to an agreement with both parties to re-house it, and it's much happier where it is now actually. I helped it move.
CMR: That's nice.
PH: Yeah, it's in a space now and it can really fully do what it wants and it's not near churches it's near farmland and has a body of water, like it's great. I visit once a month and we have a chat about the old ways and the old gods, and it's brilliant. But luckily, Face and I, I mean we… I think we happily coexist now don't we. There were teething issues at the start, but I try to apply a lot of the lessons with Face to my business. Would you say that you're quite happy now?
Face: We have a very agreeable existence.
PH: Yeah. I think we do. Especially during lockdown as well I've been here all the time, so it's really a bit harder for you.
Face: Oh, everything is fine, I positively enjoy the contact of people.
CMR: Hm. Um. So, I assume that… I mean obviously this was a B&B at one point – was the Face present when it was a B&B? Or?
Face: Well you see, I imagine I have been here a very long time. I would have been a fine feature for any kind of hospitality establishment.
CMR: Very true, yes, and do you did you actually remember anything about who, you were or you know, whether you… how far back do you remember?
Face: Well, we all have a history.
Face: Oh I've seen some things in my time.
CMR: Yes…?
Face: I mean, I … … remember a lot of things.
PH: Can you give any examples, Face, of things you remember?
Face: I remember that time a cat came in.
CMR: Okay…
Face: That was some time ago.
PH: Was that when you were human, or when you were what you are now? Respectfully.
Face: I think you shouted at it.
PH: So that's more recent, then.
Face: Is it? It tipped over some paint.
PH: Oh god, I should have… that was about three months ago! Dr Socks, the neighbour's cat, came in.
CMR: [laughs] Aw, that's cute!
PH: Yeh they're cute but you've got to make sure… that cat is really attracted to this place. I think it knows things.
CMR: Cats do know things.
PH: They do, but I think you'll get a lot of answers like that, with the Face, I don't think he does remember when where he's from or anything like that.
CMR: So, it seems really difficult to communicate with the Face, I'm getting that it's, as you say, a little bit fragmented. How is your relationship progressing, how do you find that?
PH: Very difficult. Because the face, you know talks in riddles, when you try and have a conversation with the Face it just slithers off somewhere or disappears or doesn't manifest for a few days. You know, he goes off on tangents he doesn't get a straight answer … so communication has been a real challenge, but I really do enjoy living with him and I enjoy our friendship our relationship, whatever is, and I might be interested in more one day between us. But I just don't think he's there yet.
Relationship Support Group Set-Up
PH: But it's interesting to me really because I've been thinking of setting up a support group for people of Pagham-on-Sea who have this very issue, that they might have friendships or family members, or they might have kind of romantic or sexual feelings in terms of you know, the hauntings – hauntings and people or hauntings and non-humans and at the moment, my different support group is kind of focused on kind of what I'm experiencing; you know entities in houses and things that kind of might not be "appropriate" by human standards, you know, they might be an inanimate object, or they might not be fully corporeal.
But if that support group is successful, I might widen it to anyone who has an unsatisfactory or unfulfilling relationship with something that's a supernatural being, and I can't really discuss who's going to attend, but a few people's relationships, of all things, like a spinning wheel, tarot cards, and a haunted bicycle.
CMR: Oh wow!
PH: Those kinds of things that people might be in a relationship with or might be in love with. And it's really hard for them to accept their realities, and I could widen it a bit more, and have like an agony aunt service for humans and creatures, like a dial-in radio show, you know, a bit like a Frasier Crane for the deceased.
CMR: Oh wow, I love that, that sounds like a really good idea.
PH: Yeah so the things like that, but going back to a question about the Face, I mean our relationship, it does have its challenges, he's very obtuse, but also we have quite a satisfying friendship in other ways. I mean, during lockdown he's been my sole companion and we do quite a lot together now, though I mean we watch TV shows together, he'll come and kind of manifest just above my shoulder and we'll watch things. Like we've got through Sweet Home and Kingdom and Game of Thrones and all sorts of stuff and so now, I put the TV on and I pick something I think he might want to watch like Baki, which is an anime…
Sometimes you'll sit there for hours and just watch that and then the TV will turn itself off here that Netflix has stopped working and I have to come back in and fix it, but there's quite a lot that we do now don't you think, Face?
Face: I'm often in this house, and so are you.
PH: Yeah.
CMR: Yeah. Good. That seems very fulfilling. I mean… I know that there's… have you linked up with the undead support group that meets in The Mermaid?
PH: I've tried but they're a bit… territorial. Aren't they?
CMR: Um. I know what you mean… but I mean they're a lot more inclusive than other groups that I'm not going to name. And I guess it's because it's, it's a group for the undead.
PH: I'm really interested in a setting up a bit of a partnership between the two groups because, for the people that love or care about the people in that cohort over there, but they're just a lot of them so I'm interested there a few that kind of wanted to reach out and things like that, but a lot of them, they just want to keep that as their exclusive group and leave the rest of us on the outside.
CMR: It, it is difficult, I think opening dialogue is very difficult, with undead discourse the way that it is.
PH: Yeah, there's distrust of outsiders, and I haven't been here very long either, so I think there's a bit of distrust there.
CMR: Yeah I think a lot of it is… yeah it's very difficult when there's no pre-existing relationship. I just thought I'd mention it, I mean it's run by… so, Gary the landlord of The Mermaid is obviously human and alive, and he's, he's generally quite – he's very community orientated. So it might be worth, I don't know, keeping communication open with him.
PH: I didn't speak to Gary, I actually turned up to the support group itself and everyone just kind of swivelled and turned around look at me and you know, but I mean that the haunted monkey was sort of you know, banging its cymbals…
CMR: Oh, god yeah. Fred.
PH: Everyone was absolutely horrified.
CMR: Fred's alright, Fred appears and disappears and then just goes somewhere else. Fred's a toy monkey for anyone who isn't sure what Fred is, I guess if you go shopping in a particular area of town you'll know who Fred is because Fred appears in the windows of different shops, and his favourite trick is trying to get you to buy him. He's very… yeah, he's very mischievous like that, and then you obviously you take him home and then all sorts of things happen.
Yeah, he's funny. He's basically like a plushie, for people who don't know what he is, with the big eyes and the little prehensile tail.
PH: Yeah it's interesting, I'd not have that level of… I don't know. It wasn't the usual kind of you know malevolence or distrust you have from supernatural entities it felt different it felt more some more territory or more, this is our patch, so I will have a chat with that landlord.
CMR: Yeah, do. Gary. So his uncle used to run it, yeah, and then he came, so he's kind of new here as well, because he moved down from Chichester.
PH: Okay.
CMR: So I think he actually lived, coincidentally, in Pagham near Chichester. Then he moved to Pagham-on-Sea, so he moved from Pagham to Pagham. But yeah Pagham, obviously, near Chichester is far less haunted than our one…
PH: It's not going to be as fun is it.
CMR: Oh, I think it's a lovely place to go on holiday. But yeah if you if you want to have a break from the hauntings.
PH: It sounds like a place I could go for my holiday. Because, honestly, since I've moved here, I think as I said to you earlier, so it's not just the ghosts are 3D, it's not just that I can hear a lot of people's thoughts as well, and – god, if you go past like a Porter or a Wend and you know exactly what they are.
CMR: Oh god.
PH: Terrifying.
CMR: Oh, yeah. okay. Fun times.
PH: Yeah so I might need a little bit of holiday soon.
CMR: Yeah definitely I mean there are other mediums as well and there's a couple that, um, do you know Tina [Harris]?
PH: Tina, yeah.
CMR: Yeah she's really nice.
PH: We've gone out for a few beers and that. She's really cool.
CMR: Yeah, she is nice, yeah. She's also like one of the people who isn't going to be… she, she's… I don't think she's very territorial in terms of like… yeah she's really lovely. But um yeah so she does seances as well, and things like that, but that's not her primary business, whereas for you obviously this is, like, ESP is your your main sort of… it's your main business isn't it so that's slightly different.
PH: Yes, I think the main thing for me with Tina was kind of having that chat when I moved to town, because it was I'm not trying to encroach business from you. You are an amazing medium, you do what you do, but mine; mine's more a bit more like a just a counselling service, it's more like a more involved service so Tina could be the starting point but I'm kind of like that aftercare to help you live and deal with your situation.
CMR: Yeah and I think people will, I think it's yeah that's good that's really good because, like if people get referrals from Tina like that's, you know if people are referred to you from Tina, that would work really well, so I think as I say, it's difficult when you move into a new place to start, especially when there's not that pre-existing trust, yeah.
PH: yeah especially during lockdown as well, having to do a lot of my stuff you know, on video calls.
CMR: Yeah that must be really difficult when you can't enter a property.
PH: No. But my powers are so strong though that I can still do it via a TV screen. I can still do it over the phone.
CMR: Really?
PH: Yeah, but it's not as good as it would be in person. It's probably about 50%.
CMR: Wow. I mean that's like, that's still – astounding. Is it stronger since you entered the B&B?
PH: Much stronger, I think – I think that was the thing. I don't know if it's the B&B or Pagham-on-Sea itself, but I do think when I'm at the B&B and working from home, sometimes this can be my strongest place, if people come to visit me. I don't know, it's still something I'm getting to discover. But it's interesting because I said I have these memory blocks too. So I'm not kind of quite sure either of our origins in terms of this B&B really, why we're so interested in it, and why you're here.
CMR Has Some Answers
CMR: Well. I mean so you contacted the history society some time ago, and I do apologize that it took a while, for us to get back to you, but that's mainly because a lot of the members are not as active as as they were, so… so, yeah. I have done some digging for you from, you know, as much as I can over lockdown, obviously things are easing up so it's a lot easier for me to get access to things now. Obviously due to GDPR, there isn't a lot of… the B&B address books and things like that they're obviously or gone, it was very dilapidated so a lot of the admin and all that kind of stuff was shipped off to various solicitors. But what was slavaged was – you know the visitors' books, where you can write little notes and say how you enjoyed your stay?
PH: Oh yeah?!
CMR: …And you can do that anonymously… So, those turned up in somebody's attic, who's a – who was a member of the local council. Which is about the time that it went up for sale the first time and so they go back to about the 1960s.
PH: Right.
CMR: And yeah and not really sure what to do with them, so I think they they just thought that maybe the history society could do something with them or … they should really be in the Archives, but obviously due to lockdown and things like that… the councillor who had them died over lockdown, so going through the stuff took time and nobody really knew what to do with that, so I have managed to have a little look. And, it's interesting because your surname is quite, it's quite a unique surname, Holdfast.
PH: Yeah, it is.
CMR: Yeah, and so around about the time you say that your parents came here for two years… certainly at some point, I've found their comments in the visitors' book, in one of the ones for the 1990s.
PH: Oh really?
CMR: Yeah.
PH: For that B&B?
CMR: Yeah. Yeah, for that B&B.
PH: Oh, my God what? What did they say? What did – what did it say?
CMR: Well, I can email it across to you, but it was literally just like um. 'Thanks for the lovely stay', something about the energies being really strong in that particular area, it also mentions, um, farisee stones, do you know what they are?
[You can read more about them in the Folklore of Pagham-on-Sea Vol. I]
PH: No, I've not heard of those before.
CMR: Okay, so they're quite local, it's a local term, so farisees is the Sussex dialect word for fairies and so they're basically like fairy stones it's like a dialect word, so. In our case in Pagham-on-Sea – I say 'our case' but I don't live, obviously I don't live there myself anymore, but, you know, I still come back.
PH: House prices and all that, right?
CMR: [laughs] Ha, I know. I just… it's hard to describe them really. So there's lots of urban legends about them and and one of the origin stories of these stones is the meteorite that struck an iron works in the Roman period, so the Romano-British period, if you like, and destroyed this forge. It's also one of the origin stories for werewolves in the area, which is meant to be a martyr's curse, and stuff like that, and there's like a holy well, yeah, yes, so Harry Bishop wrote a book on, I think it was Harry who wrote on that, and he transcribed and translated a load of the medieval Chronicle accounts because they used to be an Abbey, which is where the old manor house is now.
PH: That's not far from here?
CMR: Yeah, it's not, it's about a 45-minute walk out of town, or like a 10-minute [drive]… it's up Redditch Lane.
PH: yeah I know exactly where it is.
CMR: Yeah and so, um yeah, so that site was the site of the old, not the Abbey sorry it was a monastery and and I think it was Benedictine and that's a 12th century foundation, so there was a… anyway so, farisee stones first get mentioned there [in the medieval chronicles], but not as farisee stones, but as these stones that have power. And if you wash them in the holy well then they're meant to give you good… er, good energies, good vibes, whatever, healing properties.
PH: Can I interrupt?
CMR: What's that?
PH: That's, that's the kind of thing my parents used to do… they used to get their crystals and wash them in things like, you know, the Chalice well in Glastonbury. I remember that's the kind of thing they used to do.
CMR: Okay, so yes, yes like that. The difference with the farisee stones is that if you don't wash them in the Holy well then you can use them to enact curses instead of healing.
PH: Oh… that doesn't sound good.
CMR: Yes, so what's kind of implied is that the usual state of it, of that stone, is malevolent, basically. And you have to do something to… or at least, mischievous, or you know. And what's interesting to me about the White Horse B&B is, if you look out of the window now, where you are, because you're in one of the back rooms aren't you?
PH: Yes I am.
CMR: So if you look out of that window now, have a look in the garden, and you know those, um, the rocks that look… er, they usually have like a little patch of mushrooms growing around them?
PH: Yeah, I can see them.
CMR: Y-eah?
PH: [laughs] I thought they were edibles.
CMR: [laughs] Yeah, so those, those are meant to be farisee stones. [pause] Obviously they can't have come from the same meteorite, it wasn't that big. But they're part of the local stories, I guess, about the White Horse B&B and one of the reasons it's meant to be so haunted and like as a central place for hauntings, is because it's ringed about with the stones.
PH: I thought they were common-or-garden mushrooms and common-or-garden stone, and I never would have expected that in a million years.
CMR: What's really interesting to me is that – you say your parents didn't have powers and yet you're a very powerful medium. And that's very rare to have… and especially to have somebody who can see those sorts of manifestations. I don't know I just think it's a really interesting. I struggle with the word 'coincidence'. I don't know if it, so I just find it really interesting that your parents were doing these kinds of rituals with crystals didn't have any power themselves, but when I guess quite intuitive or?
PH: Yeah, they were always really drawn to that sort of stuff. I hate to say it, but the kind of new age hippie-ish sort of lifestyle.
CMR: Yeah. I find that really interesting because you chose a place – or they chose a place, rather – where it's kind of like this magnified place of power, and then you end up with powers. And you would have been quite young as a child, then.
PH: Yeah so I was always about – well, I was about eight to 10 when we lived here, but I was 10 at that point, so when we moved to Milton Keynes, that's the point I started having my powers.
CMR: Okay, so what other kind of, and you, you have no memory of Pagham-on-Sea, that … that would imply to me from speaking to various people who have moved away or have had strange things happen to them as a result of living in the town and that something happened to you, while you were here. And I'm just wondering if that's what the connection is [the stones] and if that's something potentially that we should be looking into.
PH: Shall we ask the Face for the… whether he might know anything about, what do you call them the farisee stones? Face, are you still here?
Face: Well I could leave the house any time I wanted.
CMR: Okay.
PH: Can you come back in? Can you come back in? Are you able to speak to us?
Face: Well I could leave the house any time I wanted. I don't care about [fades out] -(stones?)
PH: You don't know about any stones? [pause] Do you know the ones we're talking about, the ones that are kind of outside, if you look through the window over there?
Face: Oh yes. I know all about those stones.
PH: Well, what can you tell me about them?
Face: Well, they're made of stone and they're all around there.
CMR: Yep. Okay. We're not…
PH: …helpful. Hm.
CMR: But again that's what… yeah.
PH: So that's the thing, so I don't know. So I'm completely staggered that I've come back to this place, that I clearly lived in as a child.
CMR: Yeah, so I'll send you the… I took photos on my phone of it because I couldn't take the actual [visitors'] book away. But it sounds like you lived here not for the whole 2 years you were here, but for a couple of months, maybe.
PH: But then the thing that I'm really curious about is why… so this place was obviously a functioning B&B when we lived here so why did it become so ruined and abandoned like what what happened, that's what i want to find out about.
CMR: So that's one of the last entries in the book, and it closed not long after your parents left. And I would say… just a couple of months after, it closed. But it looks like the B&B manager just disappeared around that time. I don't know whether that's connected. But yes, so um – I had a little look at that.
PH: That's really worrying, so you said that someone disappeared?
CMR: Yes, so the owner of the B&B disappeared.
PH: Do you have any details what his name or a picture of what he looked like, or anything like that?
CMR: Yeah I can send you the – I can send you the picture, because, like that's … So if you go into the library and downstairs in the library they've got the microfilm, the microfiche machines, and so you can have a look at the Gazette's backdated issues. So let me just see, if I have the… [pause] This is from my notes that I've got… So yes, it see the manager was called Norris Weddon. Norris with two 'r's, Weddon, W E double-D O N.
So he's currently – so he went missing in the mid-90s, so he's presumed dead, legally dead, now, which is why – because he was the owner they had to wait 7 years before they could pronounce him legally dead.
PH: God, I feel – I feel really sick.
CMR: Are you ok?
PH: I don't know why. Face, do you remember Norris Weddon?
Face: The name does sound familiar. I'm sure I must have wet – met – Norris Weddon at some point.
PH: I'm going to – I'm going to try something.
CMR: Ok
PH: I'm going to touch the Face. [pause] Do you remember Norris Weddon? Entities. Do you remember Norris Weddon? Do you remember Norris Weddon?
Face: Norris Weddon – was the proprietor.
PH: Where is he now?
Face: Norris Weddon is probably still here. Norris Weddon … might be very close indeed.
PH: Where? Tell me where he is.
Face: Norris Weddon… might be under the floorboards.
PH: What?
CMR: oohh-kay…
Face: I mean it's plausible. A lot of people have been found under floorboards. It's not an unusual thing.
CMR: In fairness, that's true.
PH: I think we should stop rolling.
CMR: Yeah? You want to pause?
[long pause]
CMR: Ok.
Ending: Disclaimer
CMR: Well, that was. That was something. Um. That's the end of this episode I guess, I should note that any background noise that got picked up on the recording was not audible at the time of recording, so if you do hear things like footsteps walking around or doors etc, we were not aware – or I personally was not aware of that when we were doing the video call, but apparently that's quite normal. So if you did hear anything like that in the background, worry not, that's apparently supposed to happen.
Uh – yeah. Since this has been recorded, I should say that the B&B was thoroughly searched and no human remains were found under the floorboards, although there was – they had problems with the sniffer dogs – there was a sniffer dog that went in and didn't want to be in there. So I guess it's still kind of inconclusive, and Norris Weddon's whereabouts are still unknown.
Yeah, so that's all we've got time for really. Never had an interview like that before. So I'm going to go and do some more research, and we'll see what happens. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your week. Bye now.
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