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Australia's leading corporate chiefs on the four things leaders should never do
Myriam Robin
People's respect is hard to gain, and very easy to lose.
What's the easiest way to lose it? And for those new to leadership, how they can avoid self-destructing?
For nearly the past two years, LeadingCompany has been asking Australia's leading corporate chiefs that very question.
After dozens of interviews, some common themes come out.
Don't ever abdicate responsibility
MYOB chief Tim Reed has led some companies that have done fantastically. But, when he was young and in Silicon Valley, he led a start-up that failed.
The experience taught him plenty about dealing with failure. One of the key lessons, he says, is that leaders should never pass the blame.
"Leaders should never abdicate responsibility," he told LeadingCompany.
"Part of being a leader is being responsible for things. As soon as a leader abdicates responsibility, blames external circumstances, looks to pass the buck, they're extremely diminished in being able to lead in the future."
Cochlear chief Chris Roberts expressed a similar sentiment. He said it was a leader's job to plan for the future, and never think they can leave things up to chance.
"A leader should avoid believing in hope," he said. "It's not a strategy."
Don't limit people's horizons
Several of the business chiefs we spoke to said leaders shouldn't ever set limits on people's creativity.
"A leader should never say, 'it can't be done'," Virgin Australia chief John Borghetti said.
It was a sentiment echoed by Adrian McFedries, who leads Jetts Fitness, one of Australia's fastest-growing franchises. "Just don't use the word 'don't'," he said. "It really discourages your team from thinking."
Invocare chief Andrew Smith says you should never assume you have all the answers, and never tell people 'you're wrong' as a way to end a discussion. "A good leader is a good listener," he said.
Don't lie
For Internode founder Simon Hackett, the worst thing a leader can do is lie.
"It's always better not to lie," he says. "It's that simple. Ten years of social media has told me that, as well as being a parent for slightly longer."
Chris Flaherty, who until November was the Australia/New Zealand head of Treasury Wines, says people are smart, and will pick up on inauthenticity.
"We work in a service industry," he said. "People are smart at all levels across the business and the industry. They work things out. So you've got to be true to yourself and the people around you, and to work through the solutions.
"Sometimes you won't have the answers. I think the worst thing you can do is say 'this is the answer' when you haven't got it yet. It's much better to say, 'this is the issue and I'm not sure what to do about it but we'll figure it out'. Generally, thanks to our people, we do figure it out eventually."
Don't be ruled by your ego
Wesfarmers chief Richard Goyder says the worst leaders are arrogant and full of hubris.
"If you think you're better than you are, someone should come along and whack you," he said.
Nestle chair Elizabeth Proust agrees. She says the worst mistake a leader can make is to let their ego take control.
"We went through a stage of the leader as hero, where if you read their bio somewhere or in the magazines, it would effectively be, 'I did this all by myself'.
"Certainly in the companies I have worked for, [your team are] there before you arrive, and they will be there long after you leave. Your role is to harness the team. The worst mistakes I have seen are where ego takes over.
"It all ends in tears unless people can learn from that. It is hard to be inspired, no matter how good the brand is and how good a place to work, unless you can identify with the leader. That is almost always your boss, and it is usually the head of the organisation as well. There needs to be some humility in leadership and too often, there is little or none."
AMA Group chief Ray Malone says a good leader should never expect the unreasonable, and should realise their workers have homes and families too.
"I never humiliate people or anything like that," he said.
"What I do that a lot of executives don't do is apologise. I love it when my staff gang up on me – it's fabulous. What it tells me is that the culture's working. It's the environment that I want. It's better for the group."


Based on a lifetime of experience with medical "research", I can just about guarantee that within a decade or so these reccommendations will change dramatically. The primary values of such "research" findings are forwarding the careers of medical researchers and serving as click-bait for articles like this.
Sounds like drug company BS.
OK! Is smoking REALLY bad? Is Alcohol REALLY bad? I LOVED the movie Sleeper with Woody Allen. Are we going to have Global Warming or another Ice Age.
Tell me again about the settled science re global warming?
Metformin is linked to heart problems. Fake News!
But if you're overweight, below 70 in age, and work a desk job…eat that aspirin.
It's JOHNS Hopkins. That's "JOHNS". Not "John". Moron.
No mention of magnesium deficiency causing A-fib or.high blood presssure, even though WHO says most Americans are deficient.
Even though my daughter almost had a pacemaker installed to control her A-fib before I got her to.supplement with magnesium.
Try to correct deficiencies FIRST.
Excuse me a moment, I need to pause and TAKE MY DAILY LOW DOSE of acetylsalicylic acid. But thanks for trying.


Venice Beach is part of the city of Venice, which is approximately 20 minutes south of Sarasota. Venice Beach is a popular area for swimming and suntanning. Recreational opportunities are also available on and along the Myakka River that flows through town. Two campgrounds are within Venice's city limits. Two state parks with camping areas are located 20 or less minutes to the north.
Ramblers Rest (ramblersrestrv.com) is located in a forested area on the banks of the Myakka River, within the town of Venice. The property has a wide range of recreational facilities, including a heated swimming pool, a hot tub, 12 shuffleboard courts, horseshoe pits and volleyball and basketball courts. Ramblers Rest has a dock and boat launch along the river, where guests can fish. Its clubhouse has a library, a billiards room and an exercise room, and offers live entertainment. Restrooms, showers and laundry facilities are all available, as are full hookups for RVs at each site. Campers are also allowed to pitch tents.
Camp Venice Retreat (campvenice.com) is nestled in a grove of oak trees along the Myakka River, on the eastern edge of Venice. The campground offers RV sites, tent sites and cabins. Many of the campsites are along the river. RV sites have full hookups and are available on a daily, weekly, monthly or seasonal basis. The tent-camping area has both primitive sites and sites with electric hookups. Each site has a picnic table and is in a shaded area. The campground has canoes for rent, a heated swimming pool and provisions for sale. Bathrooms, showers and a dump station are also on-site.
Oscar Scherer State Park (floridastateparks.org/oscarscherer), approximately 10 minutes north of downtown Venice, features wildlife viewing and 15 miles of trails for hiking, running and biking. Additional activities in the park include fishing, canoeing, kayaking, swimming and snorkeling. The park also has a nature center with exhibits and videos about the area's wildlife. The park has camping sites for both RVs and tents. The sites have electric and water hookups, picnic tables and grills. Restrooms in the campground are equipped with hot showers and laundry rooms.
Approximately 15 minutes from Venice in the southern part of Sarasota, the Turtle Beach Campground (scgov.net/turtlebeachcampground) is owned and operated by Sarasota County. Located on Siesta Key, the campground has 40 sites for RVs and tents near the Gulf of Mexico. Electric and cable TV hookups are available at the sites, and the campground has restrooms. The 14-acre property features 2,600 feet of beachfront, and it has boat ramps, horseshoe pits, picnic shelters with grills, a playground for children and a volleyball court. The campground is within walking distance of local eateries.
Smith, John. "Venice Beach, Florida Camping." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/venice-beach-florida-camping-42780.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.


Data storage technology has undergone an unprecedented explosion in development and evolution over the last three decades. You may have probably seen a photo about data storage that has been circulating in Facebook and other social media networks. In that clever photo, one panel showed a 250 MB hard disk developed by IBM. The hard disk was as huge as the external unit in a split type airconditioner and required a trolley for it to be transported. The other photo showed a 32GB microSD card. That photo clearly illustrated in stark contrast how much data storage technology has grown and developed – that data that used to fit in a storage medium as large as a refrigerator can now be just a blip in a storage medium as small as your fingernail. Even blog-software cannot fit in the very first hard drives!
An IBM engineer/inventor has added a number of wireless sensors to various appliances and can now be alerted via Twitter if anything isn't quite right.
Dr Stanford-Clark's Isle of Wight cottage now has sensors installed that can monitor power and water usage, taps, lighting, even whether mouse traps have been triggered.
Digging through patent applications can bring up some interesting designs, such as this idea from IBM, filed last year and just now being talked about on blogs.
Realizing that there is still a degree of separation between mainstream home entertainment (TV) and mainstream blogging/social networking (Twitter/Facebook), IBM has come up with an idea to combine the two so that the everyday user can blog or tweet about something they're watching on TV via a specially crafted remote control unit.


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Authorised recruiters for Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski
In the photograph (from right to left): Prof. Anastas Gerdjikov, Rector of the University; Mr Aris Grigoriou, Student Recruitment Manager of Study Medicine Europe.
Why Study Veterinary Medicine in Internationally Established Bulgarian Veterinary Universities?
Exams in Biology & English
Veterinary: €4,000/year
Veterinary: 5.5 Years
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+Why Choose Trakia University – Stara Zagora?
The university is located in Stara Zagora.
In 1995, two long established universities joined together and officially became Trakia University – Stara Zagora.
600 highly educated teachers are employed at the university and 6,500 students are enrolled.
The university has evolved into an important hub of global academic stature offering bachelor, masters and doctoral programmes.
It has gained international acclaim specifically for its English-taught medical and veterinary faculties.
It is particularly renowned for its practical training facilities and its work experience opportunities.
The campus includes a hospital as well as a modern library with over 300,000 volumes as well as a host of state-of-the-art student facilities.
Entry is in October.
Tuition fees are €4,000 per annum.
+Why Choose Forestry University – Sofia?
Forestry University – Sofia was founded in 1925 and is one of the oldest educational institutions in Bulgaria.
The university consists of six schools with thirty departments.
The university employs 51 respected professors and more than 700 students.
It offers many graduate as well as postgraduate and doctorate programmes.
It has a modern library that contains more than 100,000 volumes, including books, dissertations, theses and celebrated scientific magazines.
Admission takes place in October each year.
Tuition fees cost €4,500 per annum.

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A Birthing In Ireland?
Banners in the languages of Cornish, Manx, Breton, Welsh, Scottish and Irish brightened the opening event of the Pan Celtic Festival at Dingle. The organisers most generously allowed our, mainly English-speaking group, to contribute to the programme. A coach-load of Welsh-speakers joined the Wednesday pilgrimage led by Mairt Hanley, a new Explorer and Dingle's Church of Ireland minister. We visited three ancient monastic sites, including the Gallerus Oratory, and returned along the Dingle Way by the shore. I contributed meditations. The much loved Msg Padrai O'Fiannachta enthused us with Irish and Welsh bardic literature. He has turned the defunct convent into The Diseart, a cultural and spirituality centre which draws many USA students to its programmes. On Friday several of us gave talks on Celtic spirituality. And on Saturday the Church of Ireland Bishop of Limerick, formerly leader of the Corrymeela Community, led us in discussion about new monastic expressions of Christianity. This was timely in view of the crisis affecting the Roman Catholic Church. |
Dominick, a Pentecostal-style pastor who has opened a centre named My Father's House brought some singers. He told Mairt that God is bringing something to birth. Mairt invited me to tell the story of The Community of Aidan and Hilda, and to introduce us in a service which will be broadcast. Mairt has gifts as a lecturer, archeologist and friend which will unfold. As I relinquish my tasks my thoughts turn to the development of our studies programmes. Could there be a link with places such as the Diseart - maybe a summer school? Fr Jim Sheahy leads a pilgrimage to Northumbria next month.
The service will be broadcast at 10.45 on June 20 by RTE Radio 1 Extra, long wave 252 and can be downloaded from its web site for seven days after that. In case you forget - here is the message.
I come as a pilgrim walking the saints ways of Dingle. I bring you greetings from And's outpost in England, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, where Saint Aidan went from boyhood beside the Shannon to manhood beside the Saxon. Aidan was a bishop, but he refused to put on airs or abuse the trust the people placed in him. If he was given money by fat cats who wanted to buy influence, he gave it to the poor and carried on as before. When he was given a royal horse to speed up his mission, he gave it to a beggar and continued to walk everywhere. Aidan was a great walker. He was one of those many Irish pilgrims for the love of God who for ever left their beloved homeland and lay down their lives to make another people great - in Aidan's case that the unruly, barbaric English might learn the gentle ways of Christ.
That was a long time ago, yet Aidan's example, almost forgotten by his own people, has inspired a modern movement of spiritual seekers across the world. What an extra-ordinary thing that this should happen at the very time when people, disappointed by failings in organised religion, put their trust in the Celtic Tiger and during the boom years we fell in love with the things money could buy. But it could not last. And deep down we knew that we could not take those material things with us when we die. That is why people are asking 'Where do we head for now? We don't want to go back into a closed box nor fall off a ladder of plastic gold'
Columbanus thought of people as guests of the world. Why don't we make this global village our home and earth our friend, and let our feet follow our heart until we find places of resurrection? That is what those who follow our Community's Way of Life, along with many others, seek to do. Columbanus also advised that as we walk the world we hold a book in each hand: in one, the book of Scripture, in the other, the Book of Nature. If we comb through the Bible we find pearls which are like love letters from God. Why don't we store these love letters in our hearts so that they inspire our every step? If we become still and truly present to nature, star and stone beckon to us, and we learn to flow like water, soar like birds and run like deer. Those who follow our Way of Life make a daily practice of learning in these ways. Dingle will host sporting races of running, cycling, swimming and kayacking. We encourage people also to be Athletes of the Spirit.
At Bangor monastery, where Columbanus trained, they taught that a person with a soul friend, an anamchara, is like a human being without a head. So we, along with ever growing numbers, invite a soul friend who is an Athlete of the Spirit to accompany us on our journey - someone with whom we can be ourselves and entrust our deepest thoughts.
We had a reading about a prophet named Elijah who went into a desert place and listened to God. Elijah actually started a school of people who learned to listen to God. Listening is almost a lost art, so we are trying to develop groups who learn to listen to God. If you would like to be one of them, please contact me through our Community of Aidan and Hilda web site. The New Testament reading described how Jesus sorted out someone who felt a hundred voices were tearing him apart. I know that feeling, too. The hubbub of soundbites and adverts, invitations and advice and expectations within and without - how do I choose the right way? We pledge to create spaces of silence as well as work, play as well as duties so that we develop a good life rhythm, with time to think.
I have spoken to priests in the last few days. 'We have got to learn to let go' said one - then there's no knowing what new thing God will do. When we modern people make our promises to let go of our own control and let the divine spirit deep within lead us, we have a little ceremony. We call it Making the Voyage of the Coracle. We read a piece from the Voyage of Saint Brendan, who set out in his coracle within sight of this church. I have witnessed young and old people Make their Voyage of the Coracle in places as varied as the Australian outback and a Norwegian fjiord. When they have pledged to leave behind all that holds them back from following the call, we say words like these to them, and we extend them to you, today:
God is calling you to leave behind everything that stops you setting sail in the ocean of God's love. If you have heard the call of the Wild Goose, the untameable Spirit of God: be ready for the Spirit to lead you into wild, windy or well-worn places in the knowledge that God will help you restore a weakened church to its mission a fragmented world to its wholeness
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These days' nurses are gaining a lot of importance due to many reasons. There are many people who live a longer life and once they cross the age of 65, a full time nurse with them becomes absolutely necessary. Also in many private and government nursing homes, in the ICU wards and for the Critical Care units, nurses are the main people who play an important role in taking care of the patients.
There are many nursing assistant certificate programs and there are many certified nursing assistant schools that offer these kinds of courses so that people who pass out have a thorough knowledge about nursing different kinds of patients. The certified nursing assistant programs tend to help people get a certification in nursing and this also enables them to get exposure to become a registered nurse in good hospitals or nursing homes.
The certified nursing assistant schools help the student to understand not only about various ailments that a patient suffers but it also trains them to understand the psychology and physiology of the patients. There are special departments that are associated to health services. Students who tend to complete their certificate course also gain recognition in these departments and are allowed to take up the examinations that are held particularly for those departments that are linked to specialty hospitals.
Students who get certified from nursing assistance schools get a chance to work in many different areas including specialty areas like taking care of critically ill patients, taking care of patients with acute diseases and so on and so forth.
The certified nursing assistant schools not only provide students with verbal lectures, but also gives them practical training in laboratories. They also train students for long hours in clinical pathology and other clinically related practices. The certifies nursing assistant schools mould their students in such a way that they gain knowledge about various health risks and also in tasks like changing the beds of the patients, giving a sponge bath to the patients, preparing food for the patients and serving the same with care etc.
Students who are certified from nursing assistant schools are also capable of assisting patients with medication in the absence of the duty doctors.
There is a lot of awareness being generated on health and there are lots of healthcare companies coming up with various programs. It is very important to have certified nurses assisting these programs since there may be lots of queries from the concerned people on the health risks and factors which a certified nurse would be able to answer convincingly.
The certified nursing assistant course generally consists of examination that are of two kinds, the practical and the written. This enables as student to gain complete power over the course and they tend to come out as good certified nursing assistants to be placed in the best hospitals and nursing homes.
It is believe that the Certified Nursing Assistant program is very easy to follow, but only people who undergo extensive training in that course tend to understand the difficulties, problems and seriousness involved in the same.
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Rip Tide: A M/M Non-shifter MPREG Romance (New Olympians Book 2) by C.J. Vincent
Brooke always said that his one true love was the sea... but he never guessed that it was true.
Wild as the seas he ruled, Poseidon was never one to listen when he was told to curb his wild ways. Passionate and untameable, Poseidon's rages were as terrifying as the storms he whipped across the oceans of the world, but when he calmed, there was nothing to match his beauty. When the goddess' rebellion divided the pantheon, Poseidon took refuge in the sea, and spent most of his time away from Olympus so he would not have to face the cruelty of the goddess' betrayal.
After centuries of loneliness, Poseidon is once again absent from Olympus and unable to hear his brother's call that the oracle's promise had been fulfilled. But Poseidon has other things on his mind, a Californian surfer named Brooke Hart… and he can't seem to get the memory of the shy blond's eyes out of his head.
Brooke is a quintessential California surfer. Blond, tanned, and toned… but he's also incredibly shy and avoids the limelight whenever possible. When one of the brashest, loudest, and cockiest surfers on the beach shows him some attention, it's easier just to run away and take solace in the ocean until one day, his desire to be alone puts him in more danger than he could ever imagine, and his rescuer is none other than the Surf God he'd tried so hard to avoid. What he doesn't know, is that Patrick is an actual god, and he must make a choice between his lonely life, or an option that seems too incredible to believe.
Rip Tide is book 2 in the New Olympians series. 32,000 words, with a HEA featuring a shy, loveable omega an alpha-god to claim him.
Rating: 3 and a half cups
FYI: I took a break in the middle of this book to read an ARC book for another author, which made the story feel a little disconnected but that's on me, not the author.
Brooke was meant for Poseidon. He lives for the water and just wants to surf, despite a secret fear of the ocean. I felt bad for him because he was a shy guy, socially awkward. His only friend was a jerk who was taking advantage of him. Sure, he may have said he was helping but who was he really helping?
Patrick/Poseidon is a lot less fiery than Zeus but let's face it, he still has the arrogance of a god. If I could control the waters, I'd probably be a bit arrogant too. He seems less concerned with revenge on the goddesses than Zeus but he wasn't married to Hera either.
The goddesses aren't about to let the gods find the keys to break their curse without a fight. Hera is vindictive, kind of like Zeus if you think about it (if he was the bad guy). The battle between them is heating up. They don't give a shit who they hurt in the process, innocence means nothing to them.
I have to say Hades is a real bastard in this book. The vindictive part of me hopes his mate makes him suffer some in/ his book. I was super excited for his book before this one but I'm kind of pissed at him now. He was really cold. Maybe he had his reasons but still. I am allowed to be pissed.
I didn't connect as much as I'd like to this couple. It could be Brooke was more of a pushover than I like; he needed a keeper for sure. I do love sassy and strong-willed bottoms. I liked Brooke well enough but I think I was missing that inner strength. Personal preference and all that. The story had some good elements to advance the series and I'm interested to see where it goes from here.


Lord Berkeley: My Lords, is the noble Lord going speak to Amendment No. 26?
Lord Bradshaw: My Lords, I beg your pardon. I did not realise that it had been called.
make sure that a vehicle which did not have an operator's licence could impounded by the Vehicle Inspectorate. As a result of a case which has recently been held by the Transport Tribunal, it appears that a company which hires out vehicles has no obligation to make sure that the person to whom it has hired them does indeed have the operator's licence. It can therefore claim back the vehicle from the impounder. That has the effect of circumnavigating the Government's legislation. Bearing in mind that the vehicles to which any value is attached are usually the ones which are hired out, it could mean that as many as 80 or 90 per cent of vehicles on hire may not have an operator licence. I am not saying that they do not, because most of them do, but the ones that do not can then be claimed back by the holder of the master lease, because he can say that he has no duty to ensure that there is an operator's licence.
Lord Berkeley: My Lords, I support the amendments. I will not make a long speech about them. Amendment No. 25 has been discussed in your Lordships' House many times. It really is time that this matter was resolved, because the traffic commissioners have a unique role to play, if they are allowed to play it. It is ridiculous that if there is legislation which allows vehicles to be impounded for doing something wrong, one can get round that by leasing them rather than owning them. That makes a mockery of the law. I fully support the amendments.
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: My Lords, we have had the opportunity to discuss this issue between Committee and Report. There did seem to be a conflict of evidence—perhaps I should put it that way—so I shall therefore read word for word the speaking note that I have been given.
Local authorities and planning authorities have a statutory right to object to goods operator licence applications. They are sent details of all applications in their area. They can object to a proposed operating centre on the environmental factors that result from the use of the land or the general suitability of the centre in terms of its size, parking arrangements and ingress/egress on to the public highway. They also have a right of appeal to the Transport Tribunal against a traffic commissioner's decision. The traffic commissioners would like local authorities to take a more proactive role in the licensing process.
traffic regulation orders. These can be used to prohibit, restrict or regulate the use of goods vehicles. In exercising these powers it is for the local authority to consider the needs of local residents, emergency services, local businesses and those who work in or visit the area. They can use these powers to balance the supply and demand for road space in the light of local needs and circumstances.
Local authorities can, and should, also use their planning powers to stop the opening of a new operating centre if the road network cannot take it. It is right that these powers should rest with local authorities rather than with traffic commissioners. Traffic commissioners are unlikely to have enough detailed knowledge of road traffic conditions to make decisions on the suitability of additional vehicles on the local road network. Pressure on the local road network can be caused by many other factors than an operating centre, and local authorities have the local knowledge to allow them to take these factors into account. We therefore see no reason to extend the traffic commissioners' powers in this way. I have details of the traffic commissioners' Annual Report for 2001–02 which I shall happily send to the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw.
One case involved three separate hearings. A leasing company leased a vehicle to an operator on the basis of a statement from that operator that he would operate the vehicle in accordance with the law. They made a number of efforts to find out if the operator held a licence. The matter had not been solved when the vehicle was impounded. At the first hearing a traffic commissioner refused the application for the return of the vehicle. The Transport Tribunal on appeal sent the case back for re-hearing. Another traffic commissioner then decided, in the light of the tribunal's guidance, and after reviewing the evidence, that the owners did not know that the vehicle was being operated illegally, and directed that the vehicle should be returned. However, she noted that the company had since become aware that licences could readily be checked on the department's electronic database of operators—the existence of the database is now widely known throughout the industry.
courts to decide, it does seem now that the existence of the database is becoming more widely known, and any company failing to make that one simple inquiry would have much explaining to do.
Lord Bradshaw: My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply. However, I find that his reply to Amendment No. 25 is not valid. When planning permission is given for an operating centre, it is not necessary to specify the type of vehicle that will use it. Someone applies for planning permission for vehicles to use an operating centre, but it is often not apparent the sort of vehicles that will use it. Specifying whether one will get a 17-tonne fixed-wheel vehicle or a 32, 38 or 44-tonne artic is unnecessary.
The imposition by local authorities of traffic orders is lengthy and extremely difficult, and their enforcement by the police is almost non-existent. It must come almost at the bottom of the list of priorities for any police force. However, the traffic commissioners are available and know about local traffic conditions—that is why they are there. They certainly know a lot that local authority employers do not; for example, they know about the records of people who apply, what they have done before, who their managers are, and all sorts of relevant matters.
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The noble Lord said: My Lords, the amendment is a second attempt. I suggest that it is an elegant way of extending the snow-plough clause, which, after all, was I believe responsible for changing the name of the Bill from the railways safety Bill to the Railways and Transport Safety Bill. I am sure that my noble friend will correct me if I am wrong.
At the moment, we have a nice cosy arrangement of sharing the cost, set out in the lovely document, Managing the accidental obstruction of the railway by road vehicles. That cost is not insignificant at about �60 million in total. It seems unfair that the railways should have to pay half of that. One could argue that, leaving aside level crossings, if road vehicles land on the railways that is the fault of the road vehicles and the highways on which they run. It is up to the highways and the authorities, be they local authorities, the Highways Agency or anyone in between, to take steps to prevent such occurrences. That is why I tabled the amendment as an addition to the snow-plough clause. I beg to move.


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Before dishing out more handouts N.J.'s tax incentive program needs a major overhaul, citizens' group says
Published: Aug. 25, 2019, 11:38 a.m.
By Star-Ledger Guest Columnist
By Dena Mottola-Jaborksa
Gov. Phil Murphy's conditional veto of a bill extending New Jersey Economic Development Authority's corporate tax subsidy programs gives state legislators a chance to stand up for taxpayers and reform these badly flawed programs. They have become boondoggles, not the economic development engines they were meant to be. The conditional veto would enact needed, meaningful reforms and ensure the programs truly serve New Jersey taxpayers.
These EDA programs have mismanaged billions of dollars, giving handouts to politically connected companies, some of whom acted fraudulently, while taxpayers bear the burden of higher taxes or cuts to programs and services. The evidence against the programs has been damning.
It began with a state comptroller audit early this year revealing that not all the jobs promised from a sampling of companies receiving tax credits could be verified. It continued throughout the year with a state task force finding evidence that a disturbing number of businesses had lied or falsified their EDA applications. Intrepid reporting uncovered that $1.1 billion had been awarded to companies connected in some way to political power brokers. And just last month yet another company was accused of falsifying its EDA application.
There is a growing body of research that shows corporate tax subsidy programs need careful regulation and recurring evaluation to be effective. States would generally be better off with stronger oversight, more research-based policy and smaller, efficient, streamlined tax subsidy programs. But New Jersey's programs have cost us $162,000 per job created, compared to just $22,000 per job for Massachusetts, in total about $1 billion annually.
Rather than stand up for reforms, most members of our Legislature have remained infuriatingly silent. Those that have spoken out paid only lip service to reform while vehemently defending the programs. And when time came to renew the programs earlier this summer our Legislature astoundingly passed an extension of the programs, with changes insufficient to address their substantial problems.
Governor Murphy is on the right track with his insistence on major reforms and his conditional veto of the extension bill. The most important part of the veto is the governor's call for a $400 million cap on subsidies. Without a cap, our state leaders and officials would enjoy a blank check, courtesy of the taxpayers, for business as usual. They could issue as many large tax subsidies to corporations as they want, with no regard for the impact on our state's already fragile fiscal health. And with no regard for the welfare of taxpayers, who will once more face budget cuts to vital programs and services as a result. Every dollar New Jersey spends on business tax breaks is a dollar we won't have for education, transit, open space preservation, environmental protection, health care and safe roads and bridges.
The governor also calls for stringent oversight and accountability standards, which should weed out bad corporate actors and improve return on investment. This is a good start and more reforms should be considered. We should insist on limiting corporate subsidies to a few years, not ten or more as we do today. Corporations should hire local and minority workers in the areas where tax incentives take effect. Decisions to reward incentives should consider whether an applicant matches up well with community and workforce needs. And companies benefiting from tax breaks should pay living wages for full-time jobs
The Legislature has failed to put comprehensive reform on the table so far. It's unclear what their next step will be. An override of the Governor's veto would be an abdication of responsibility to defend and protect the taxpayers' investment in these programs. Legislators must accept the Governor's conditional veto or offer a new reform plan — one at least as comprehensive as the Governor's plan.
The public cannot not sit back and hope the Legislature will get this one right. Our state legislators have been silent too long and need to hear our voices. They need our phone calls, our letters, our e-mails and tweets. Badly run corporate tax subsidy programs damage our state's fiscal health and make life much harder for taxpayers like us. They should not be allowed to continue without major reform.
Dena Mottola-Jaborksa is the associate director of New Jersey Citizen Action.
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A shadowy figure rushed through the door. "It had a skeletal body, surrounded by a white, blurry aura," recalls Dom. The figure hovered and didn't seem to have a face. Dom, who prefers to use only his first name, had been fast asleep. Just 15 at the time, he panicked and closed his eyes. "I only saw it for a second," he recalls. Now, he's a young adult who lives in the United Kingdom. But he still remembers the experience vividly.
Was the figure a ghost? In the mythology of the United States and many other Western cultures, a ghost or spirit is a dead person who interacts with the living world. In stories, a ghost may whisper or groan, cause things to move or fall, mess with electronics — even appear as a shadowy, blurry or see-through figure.
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"I'd been hearing noises on the ceiling at the same time each night," says Clare Llewellyn-Bailey, who is now a student at the University of South Wales. One night, a big thud prompted her to grab her camera. This was the first picture she took. Other photos she took on that and later nights showed nothing unusual. Does this story make it seem like ghosts exist? Or is the glowing figure a flash of light that the camera accidentally captured?
Ghost stories are lots of fun, especially on Halloween. But some people believe that ghosts are real. Chapman University in Orange, Calif., runs a yearly survey that asks people in the United States about their beliefs in the paranormal. In 2018, 58 percent of those polled agreed with the statement, "Places can be haunted by spirits." And almost one in five people from the United States said in another survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., that they've seen or been in the presence of a ghost.
On ghost-hunting TV shows, people use scientific equipment to attempt to record or measure spirit activity. And numerous creepy photos and videos make it seem like ghosts exist. However, none of these offer good evidence of ghosts. Some are hoaxes, created to fool people. The rest only prove that equipment sometimes can capture noise, images or other signals that people don't expect. Ghosts are the least likely of many possible explanations.
Not only are ghosts supposed to be able to do things that science says are impossible, such as turn invisible or pass through walls, but also scientists using reliable research methods have found zero evidence that ghosts exist. What scientists have discovered, though, are lots of reasons why people might feel they have had ghostly encounters.
What their data show is that you can't always trust your eyes, ears or brain.
'Dreaming with your eyes open'
Dom began having unusual experiences when he was eight or nine. He would wake up unable to move. He researched what was happening to him. And he learned that science had a name for it: sleep paralysis. This condition leaves someone feeling awake but paralyzed, or frozen in place. He can't move or speak or breathe deeply. He may also see, hear or feel figures or creatures that aren't really there. This is called a hallucination (Huh-LU-sih-NA-shun).
Sometimes, Dom hallucinated that creatures were walking or sitting on him. Other times, he heard screaming. He only saw something that one time, as a teenager.
Sleep paralysis happens when the brain messes up the process of falling asleep or waking. Usually, you only start dreaming after you're fully asleep. And you stop dreaming before you waken.
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While dreaming in REM sleep, the body is usually paralyzed, unable to act out the motions the dreamer might see herself performing. Sometimes, a person wakes up while still in this state. That can be terrifying.
Sleep paralysis "is like dreaming with your eyes open," explains Baland Jalal. A neuroscientist, he studies sleep paralysis at the University of Cambridge in England. He says this is why it happens: Our most vivid, lifelike dreams happen during a certain stage of sleep. It's called rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep. In this stage, your eyes dart around under their closed lids. Though your eyes move, the rest of your body can't. It's paralyzed. Most likely, that's to prevent people from acting out their dreams. (That could get dangerous! Imagine flailing your arms and legs as you play dream basketball, only to whack your knuckles on the wall and tumble to the floor.)
Your brain usually turns this paralysis off before you wake up. But in sleep paralysis, you wake up while it's still happening.
You don't have to experience sleep paralysis to sense things that aren't there. Have you ever felt your phone buzz, then checked to find there was no message? Have you heard someone calling your name when no one was there? Have you ever seen a face or figure in a dark shadow?
These misperceptions also count as hallucinations, says David Smailes. He's a psychologist in England at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He thinks that just about everyone has such experiences. Most of us just ignore them. But some may turn to ghosts as the explanation.
We're used to our senses giving us accurate information about the world. So when experiencing a hallucination, our first instinct is usually to believe it. If you see or feel the presence of a loved one who died — and trust your perceptions — then "it has to be a ghost," says Smailes. That's easier to believe than the idea that your brain is lying to you.
The brain has a tough job. Information from the world bombards you as a mixed-up jumble of signals. The eyes take in color. The ears take in sounds. The skin senses pressure. The brain works to make sense of this mess. This is called bottom-up processing. And the brain is very good at it. It's so good that it sometimes finds meaning in meaningless things. This is known as pareidolia (Pear-eye-DOH-lee-ah). You experience it whenever you stare at clouds and see rabbits, ships or faces. Or gaze at the moon and see a face.
Can you see the three faces in this image? Most people can easily find them. Most people also realize that they aren't real faces. They are an example of pareidolia.
The brain also does top-down processing. It adds information to your perception of the world. Most of the time, there is way too much stuff coming in through the senses. Paying attention to all of it would overwhelm you. So your brain picks out the most important parts. And then it fills in the rest. "The vast majority of perception is the brain filling in the gaps," explains Smailes.
What you see right now isn't what's actually out there in the world. It's a picture your brain painted for you based on signals captured by your eyes. The same goes for your other senses. Most of the time, this picture is accurate. But sometimes, the brain adds things that aren't there.
For example, when you mishear the lyrics in a song, your brain filled in a meaning that wasn't there. (And it will most likely continue to mishear those words even after you learn the right ones.)
This is very similar to what happens when so-called ghost hunters capture sounds that they say are ghosts speaking. (They call this electronic voice phenomenon, or EVP.) The recording is probably just random noise. If you listen to it without knowing what was supposedly said, you probably won't hear words. But when you know what the words are supposed to be, you might now find that you can discern them easily.
Your brain may also add faces to images of random noise. Research has shown that patients who experience visual hallucinations are more likely than normal to experience pareidolia — see faces in random shapes, for instance.
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This is one of the images that Smailes' study participants looked at. This one contains a difficult-to-detect face. Do you see it?
In one 2018 study, Smailes' team tested whether this might also be true for healthy people. They recruited 82 volunteers. First, the researchers asked a series of questions about how often these volunteers had hallucination-like experiences. For example, "Do you ever see things other people cannot?" and "Do you ever think that everyday things look abnormal to you?"
Next, the participants looked at 60 images of black and white noise. For a very brief moment, another image would flash in the center of the noise. Twelve of these images were faces that were easy to see. Another 24 were hard-to-see faces. And 24 more images showed no faces at all — just more noise. The volunteers had to report whether a face was present or absent in each flash. In a separate test, the researchers showed the same volunteers a series of 36 images. Two-thirds of them contained a face pareidolia. The remaining 12 did not.
Participants who had initially reported more hallucination-like experiences were also more likely to report faces in the flashes of random noise. They were also better at identifying those images that contained face pareidolia.
In the next few years, Smailes plans to study situations in which people might be more likely to see faces in randomness.
When people sense ghosts, he points out, "They're often alone, in the dark and scared." If it's dark, your brain can't get much visual information from the world. It has to create more of your reality for you. In this type of situation, Smailes says, the brain may be more likely to impose its own creations onto reality.
Did you see the gorilla?
The brain's picture of reality sometimes includes things that aren't there. But it can also completely miss things that are there. This is called inattentional blindness. Want to know how it works? Watch the video before you keep reading.
This video was part of a famous 1999 study into inattentional blindness. While you watch it, count the number of times people in white shirts pass a basketball.
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The video shows people in white and black shirts passing a basketball. Count how many times the people in white shirts pass the ball. How many did you see?
Partway through the video, a person in a gorilla suit walks through the players. Did you see it? About half of all viewers who count passes while watching the video miss the gorilla completely.
If you too missed the gorilla, you experienced inattentional blindness. You were likely in a state called absorption. That's when you are so focused on a task that you tune out everything else.
"Memory does not work like a video camera," says Christopher French. He is a psychologist in England at Goldsmiths University of London. You only remember things you're paying attention to. Some people are more likely to become absorbed than others. And these people also report higher levels of paranormal beliefs, he says, including beliefs in ghosts.
How could these things be related? Some strange experiences that people blame on ghosts involve unexplained sounds or movements. A window may seem to open all by itself. But what if someone opened it and you just didn't notice because you were so absorbed in something else? That's a lot more likely than a ghost, French says.
In one 2014 study, French and his colleagues found that people with higher levels of paranormal beliefs and higher tendencies to get absorbed are also more likely to experience inattentional blindness. They also tend to have a more limited working memory. That's how much information you can hold in your memory at once.
If you have trouble keeping lots of information in your memory or paying attention to more than one thing at once, then you risk missing sensory cues from the environment around you. And you might blame any misperceptions that result on a ghost.
The power of critical thinking
Anyone may experience sleep paralysis, hallucinations, pareidolia or inattentional blindness. But not everyone turns to ghosts or other supernatural beings as a way to explain these experiences. Even as a child, Dom never thought he had come face to face with a real ghost. He went online and asked questions about what might have happened. He used critical thinking. And he got the answers he needed. When an episode happens now, he uses a technique that Jalal developed. Dom doesn't try to stop the episode. He just focuses on his breathing, tries to relax as much as possible and waits for it to pass. He says, "I deal with it far better. I just sleep and enjoy sleeping."
Robyn Andrews is a psychology student at the University of South Wales in Treforest. She wondered if people with stronger critical-thinking skills might be less likely to believe in the paranormal. So she and her mentor, psychologist Philip Tyson, recruited 687 students for a study about their paranormal beliefs. The students majored in a wide range of different fields. Each was asked how strongly he or she agreed with statements such as, "It is possible to communicate with the dead." Or "Your mind or soul can leave your body and travel." The research team also looked at the students' grades on a recent assignment.
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The seated woman longs for her dead twin. She may "feel" her sister is trying to reach out to her, physically or mentally. But her brain is likely just misreading some sensory cues — such as soft air currents in the environment around her.
Students with higher grades tended to have lower levels of paranormal beliefs, this study found. And students in the physical sciences, engineering or math tended not to believe as strongly as those studying the arts. This trend also has been seen in research by others.
This study did not actually assess the students' ability to think critically. "That's something we would look into as a future study," says Andrews. However, previous research has shown that science students tend to have stronger critical-thinking skills than art students. That's probably because you need to think critically in order to conduct scientific experiments. And thinking critically can help you scout out likely causes for an unusual experience without involving ghosts (or aliens, or Bigfoot).
Even among science students and working scientists, though, paranormal beliefs persist. Andrews and Tyson think that's a problem. If you can't judge whether a ghost story or spooky experience is real or not, you may also get fooled by advertisements, bogus medical cures or fake news, says Tyson. It's important for everyone to learn how to question information and seek reasonable, realistic explanations.
So if someone tells you a ghost story this Halloween, enjoy it. But remain skeptical. Think about other possible explanations for what was described. Remember that your mind may fool you into experiencing spooky things.
Wait, what's that behind you? (Boo!)
Kathryn Hulick has been a regular contributor to Science News for Students since 2013. She's covered everything from laser "photography" and acne to video games, robotics and forensics. This piece — her 43rd story for us — was inspired by her new book: Strange But True: 10 of the world's greatest mysteries explained. (Quarto, October 1, 2019, 128 pages).
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Bent Wolmar (ur. 8 sierpnia 1937 we Fredericii) – piłkarz duński grający podczas kariery na pozycji obrońcy.

Kariera klubowa
Podczas kariery piłkarskiej Bent Wolmar występował w klubie Aarhus GF. Z Aarhus zdobył wicemistrzostwo Danii w 1964 oraz Puchar Danii w 1965.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W reprezentacji Danii Wolmar zadebiutował 20 czerwca 1964 w przegranym 1-3 meczu Pucharu Narodów Europy z Węgier. Dania zajęła ostatnie, czwarte miejsce a Wolmar wystąpił w meczu z Węgrami. Ostatni raz w reprezentacji wystąpił 29 listopada 1964 w przegranym 2-4 meczu eliminacji Mistrzostw Świata z Grecją. W 1964 roku rozegrał w kadrze narodowej 6 meczów.

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The 2018 NASCAR Next class is a diverse group of drivers coming from varying racing backgrounds. These nine young drivers – selected with input from industry executives, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Drivers Council and media members – range in age from 16 to 23 and will compete throughout NASCAR's numerous series. Learn a little more about these drivers in this week's Fast Facts.
Anthony Alfredo – This 19-year-old Connecticut native is competing in the K&N Pro Series East for MDM Motorsports this season as well as attending UNC-Charlotte.
Hailie Deegan – The 16-year-old Californian is in her second season in the Next program and will drive for Bill McAnally Racing in K&N Pro Series West competition.
Riley Herbst – The 19-year-old Joe Gibbs Racing development driver from Las Vegas is competing in the ARCA Racing Series full-time for JGR after winning the series' Rookie of the Year award in 2017.
Derek Kraus – The 16-year-old from Wisconsin won the K&N Pro Series West Rookie of the Year award in 2017 and will drive full-time in the series for Bill McAnally Racing.
Chase Purdy – The 18-year-old is a second-year Next member and was the K&N Pro Series East Rookie of the Year for 2017. He will compete full-time in the ARCA Racing Series for MDM Motorsports.
Will Rodgers – This 23-year-old from Hawaii made two K&N Pro Series East starts in 2017 and won both races; he also finished fifth in the K&N Pro Series West standings last year.
Zane Smith – The 18-year-old second-year Next member is competing in the ARCA Racing Series in 2018 after finishing ninth in the standings last season.
Tanner Thorson – The 22-year-old former USAC Midget champ from Nevada will run in a variety of series this season, including the Camping World Truck Series.
Ryan Vargas – The 18-year-old Drive for Diversity member from California will be competing full-time in the K&N Pro Series East for REV Racing in 2018.
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A: Made some mistakes before, this is working:
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You have to remove the onpaste="return false" from your html!
A working example can be found here: JS Fiddle

A: This code restrict pasting of other characters apart from numbers in the input field.On pasting a value to an input field, I'm testing the value with the regex, if the condition is true, the value will be set, or else i'm emptying the input value.In my case i had to restrict other characters apart from numbers, you can change the regex based on your requirement
$(".numbersOnly").bind('paste', function(e) {
        var self = this;
        setTimeout(function(e) {
            var val = $(self).val();
            if (val != '0') {
                var regx = new RegExp(/^[0-9]+$/);
                if (!regx.test(val)) {
                    $(".numbersOnly").val("");
                }
                $(this).val(val);
            }
        }, 0);
    });

A: Place a call to a function inside of your onpaste value.  Then, inside of that function, weed-out the non-alphabetic characters.
See this question for more details.

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New X-Men (1st series) #132
Ambient Magnetic Fields
Grant Morrison (writer), Phil Jimenez (penciler), Andy Lanning (inker), Chris Chuckry (colors), Richard Starkings & Comicraft's Jimmy (letters), Mike Raicht and Nova Ren Suma (assistant editors), Mike Marts (editor), Joe Quesada (editor in chief), Bill Jemas (president)
In the ruins of Genosha, Quicksilver, Sabra and Thunderbird survey the devastation. On his return to the domed X-Corporation HQ on the island, Quicksilver comes across a very much alive Unus the Untouchable. Shortly after Unus is returned to the dome, the team is joined by Professor Xavier and Phoenix IV, stopping on their way to India. Hearing Unus report that he has seen the believed-dead Polaris, the X-Men begin a search for her. Instead, however, they come across the Toad and two other followers of Magneto's legacy constructing a monument to the fallen leader out of the remains of the Mega-Sentinel. Not wishing a confrontation, the X-Men continue their search for Polaris and soon afterward locate her. Wielding powerful magnetic forces and surrounded by luminous "ghosts," Polaris is attempting to dig something out of the rubble. The X-Men try to subdue their demented friend and recover whatever she has been searching for. Finding a black box, a recording device used by Magneto in his final moments, they inadvertently activate it. As the voice of Magneto fills the air, supplying his final testament, Quicksilver and Polaris use their powers and their fervor to complete the Toad's job, finishing the transformation of the Mega-Sentinel into a monument to Magneto. As the X-Men watch the fallen Magneto being memorialized before their eyes, they listen to his words. Magneto tells them that their voices will never be silence. They will be heard beyond this life… and far, far beyond this death.
On a pile of debris overlooking Hammer Bay, three individuals look down upon the ruins of the former capital of Genosha. The skeletal remains of the city's structures lie like sun-bleaches bones, having baked in the mid-morning sun. In the center of the bay city sits the now defunct Mega-Sentinel that caused the destruction, eternally admiring it's handiwork. Overlooking this indescribable devastation, Quicksilver tells his two compatriots that he can remember when it was all fields, spires and monorails. This, he tells them, is where Magneto died.
Through her environmental suit, which like the others' protects her from their toxic surroundings, Sabra apologizes to Quicksilver, but tells him that it's good riddance. Magneto, she tells him, was a master-race lunatic who coerced the entire Genoshan mutant population into a war with humanity and brought this on himself. As Thunderbird begins to object to Sabra's words, Quicksilver speaks up. Plainly, he states that while Magneto was his father, otherwise, she is right. Turning to the other two, Quicksilver informs them that he will meet them both back at the dome. He's impatient o rendezvous with Professor X and get the hell out of this godforsaken graveyard.
Sabra begins to apologize but, in a flash, Quicksilver is gone. Watching the blur that is Quicksilver traverse the once proud city, Sabra wishes aloud that she had just stayed in Paris with X-Corp. This, she tells Thunderbird, has been the worst weekend of her life. She keeps saying the wrong things and Quicksilver is so uptight all the time… Fumbling over the embarrassment, she asks Thunderbird if she is right in thinking that his name is Neal. Thunderbird replies that it is, but suggests that she call him Thunderbird. Sometimes code-names are easier.
Sprinting through the rubble of the city at super-speed, his surrounding practically a blur, Quicksilver abruptly stops, having seen something. Arriving at the object that caught his attention, he finds a man clad in a red outfit with purple trunks and boots, curled in a fetal position. Asking the man if he knows him, the man begins to ramble incoherently. Untouchable, he stammers, he is supposed to be untouchable. Looking up with eyes that seem to see things not truly there, the man tells Quicksilver that they came right through. They came right through his forcefield. Ghosts… millions of ghosts all buzzing… millions of voices… talking in him… following her.
Not far away, a gigantic gray dome rises out of the ruins of the city, adorned with a simple "X", the trademark sigil of the X-Men. It is the only structure standing. Descending out of the X-Plane that has landed nearby, Xavier and Phoenix, both clad in environmental suits, take in their surroundings. Referring to the report of the recent discovery, Xavier rhetorically asks Jean about ghosts. Citing that sixteen millions mutants died there in one day, he wonders if it is any wonder there are ghost stories. Taking a moment to take note of the dormant Mega-Sentinel some distance away, Jean follows the Professor into the dome, through an open hatchway.
Taking in her own surroundings within the dome, Storm informs the others, Sabra, Thunderbird and Quicksilver, that if any of them wants to score Brownie points, Charles Xavier particularly loves Japanese green tea. Chiding Storm in return, Thunderbird replies that she speaks like a prize pupil. Noting the arriving Xavier, Quicksilver jokingly tells the others to try to look busy.
Greeting the group, Xavier informs them that Jean and he have begun to wonder if the decision to stop their on their way to India was a wise one after all. The word, Sabra replies, is "grim as hell." The ice now broken on their tense situation, the four warmly greet Jean and the Professor. Telling Sabra that he is glad to see that she made it, the Professor tells them all that he thinks they all have to see Genosha for themselves, at least once. Changing the subject, Xavier states that they heard something happened just before they arrived: Unus, the Untouchable Man?
Still panicked, Unus yells excitedly that they were ghosts and asks to be told what else they could be. Talking to both Xavier and Jean, Unus asks them to tell him what else can go through walls and skin and bone. Referring to the deceased lord of Genosha, Magneto, Unus tells the two X-Men that he kept the magnetic fields alive! Leaning forward in her chair, Jean, calling Unus by his name, Angelo, tells him to calm down. Addressing the Professor, she asks him if he can see what Unus is seeing? These weird shapes…
Finishing Jean's thoughts, Xavier replies that the shapes are passing through Unus' forcefield. Physically touching the forcefield with his hand, the Professor tells him that it is all right. His protective shield is intact. As Xavier tries to get him to listen to Jean, Unus continues his ramblings. He tells them that there are so many millions of voices of the dead and running at the head of the procession is a girl with hair like the sea… as green as the sea. Taken aback at the statement, Xavier asks Unus if he means Polaris.
Standing with Storm, Xavier joins her in gazing out of a window, at the desolation outside. Speaking his mind, he tells her that he keeps thinking what they are doing there. What good can they bring out of this horror? Turning to her former teacher, Storm replies that she arrived only three days ago. She has seen nothing but charred bones and the ashes of children. So far, she can only bring grief and pity. But something survived, the Professor counters. Everyone seems to think so. Unus, he points out, saw something.
Eyeing the floating spectral blobs outside, Storm asks Xavier if he believes in ghosts. Replying with a simple no, the Professor then adds that sometimes, he wishes he could. Answering differently, Storm tells the Professor that she thinks she does believe. Ghosts, she says, come in many forms. Taken a little by surprise, Xavier responds by asking that the two of them don't get to talk often enough, do they?
Sitting around the dome's conference table, Xavier tells the group that they only know one green-haired woman. Lorna Dane, he continues, would be able to generate the kind of magnetic field anomalies they have been recording. Playing the part of the cynic, Thunderbird counters by pointing out that they don't know what they are. With respect, he adds, the previous X-Corporation relief team reported strange visual manifestations; figures that were seen, voices heard. His point having been made, Thunderbird offers the Professor some green tea.
Countering Thunderbird's argument, Xavier points out that Unus wasn't alone. They know that now. Addressing the rest of the group, the Professor informs them that Jean and he have become aware of several living mutant minds here on the island. Stepping in, Jean says that the minds are there for reasons they don't understand. Which is why, she continues, she is suggesting a search party before it gets too murky to see… Stopping in mid-sentence, Jean draws the group's attention to several luminous forms outside and asks what it is.
Eyeing the light source, the Professor tells the group that if Polaris is causing the magnetic displays, then she needs their help. The radiation levels outside are toxic and she couldn't survive for more than a few hours. Chiming in now, Quicksilver informs Xavier that the X-Men are not the only mutants to have come there. There are people, he says, who think that his father survived the Sentinel attacks. Replying that he knows, Xavier tells Quicksilver that he's seen the T-shirts. When asked by the Professor what he thinks, Quicksilver replies that he thinks that his father's greatest trick is to be more dangerous dead than he ever was alive.
As the X-Men's all-terrain vehicle climbs over the city's rubble, Quicksilver informs the team that the area they are in used to be Magda Square. The Mega-Sentinel attacks, he then asks, were concentrated there on the Parliament buildings, right? Citing that this is where Magneto died, Storm asks if Polaris would not come there? After the Professor states that he senses something, a strange, troubling presence, Jean replies that it's not a human or mutant mind, whatever it is. Noticing Xavier's preoccupation, Storm tells the Professor that he looks like he has something on his mind. Replying that he does, Xavier tells her that he keeps glancing in the rear-view mirror. He doesn't know if he's imagining it or not, but it appears that there's a face appearing on the huge, standing Mega-Sentinel machine…
Inside the helmets of the three-faced Mega-Sentinel, three mutants, hard at work, pause to regard their new guests. Reluctantly admitting that it had to happen, the Toad remarks that they were minding their own business, trying to pay their respects in their own way, and who turns up, but the mutant police. What happened, asks a claw-handed mutant, Unus show up drunk somewhere and turn them all in for beer money?
Replying that they are not the police, Xavier informs the three that they are not there to fight any of them, especially not there. This place, he tells them, has seen enough fighting. Wouldn't they say so? Retorting that he is correct, the Toad tells the Professor to clear off while he still has the legs to trot with. Rising in a provocative stance, the third mutant squawks loudly, calling the X-Men "species traitors" and "human collaborators." Jumping into the X-Men's collective faces, the Toad asks Xavier, what now?
Flanked by his X-Men, the Professor tells the Toad to stand easy. They are only searching for one of their people, a mutant: Lorna Dane, Polaris. Informing the Toad that they think she is in danger, Xavier asks him if he thinks whether Magneto would want him to help them protect her. Now clinging to the side of the wall like his namesake, the Toad asks Xavier if he knows what Magneto had really wanted. All Magneto ever wanted, the Toad tells Xavier, was for him to admit that human beings were murderous scum. He only ever wanted Xavier to admit he was right.
Turning the conversation back to Xavier's subject, the Toad tells the X-Men that he and his two colleagues, Shocker and Toad-in-Waiting (as he calls the teenage tosser) have all seen things… heard voices. Magneto, he tells the group, won't let Genosha and Polaris die… not like they think. Speaking up, Shocker agrees, telling the group that he was outside, picking up scrap for the Memorial, when he saw the junk moving in patterns and rows all around her. She was gathering the dead, he informs them.
Putting together their surroundings with Shocker's words, Jean begins to look around and asks what is happening here? Having finished examining the entire area in the last half-second with his speed, Quicksilver asks the three squatters bluntly if they have been building some kind of insane monument to his father?
Outside the Mega-Sentinel, whose middle helmet has indeed begun to bear the resemblance of Magneto, the X-Men take stock of their situation. Remarking that Quicksilver seemed quite eager to help in the construction work, Sabra then notes that these are strange times. The super-hero and the super-terrorist now work together to make art.
Calling the attention of the rest of the group, Storm informs them that the ghosts are back. Trying to fathom the floating, luminous, amorphous shapes, Storm rhetorically asks what they are. Voices, Jean replies, like repeated thoughts, all broken up. Fractured radio echoes. It's not just one person, she continues, it's crowds. Pointing in the direction her senses are telling her, Jean leads the group back into the ATV. The last to enter the vehicle, Storm asks Jean if she can see where the air is bending? The ghosts are all around them, sweeping in the same direction!
Arriving at Jean's destination, the group finds Polaris, still alive. As she floats in a trance, numerous amorphous ghosts and various metallic fragments revolve around her, like the winds of a tornado. Exclaiming to the others that it is Lorna down there, Jean informs the team that they are inside her, millions. As they exit the vehicle and approach, Jean begins to hear their thoughts more clearly. One voice exclaims that, there is a big light outside and they have to see… Another wonders, what that noise was? A third thinks that they heard President Magneto speaking. The noise is… A fourth exclaims that they think they are blind. Yet another cries for their momma. One more says that they are like Sentinels. Bigger than any Sentinels ever…
Standing next to Jean, Thunderbird tries in vain to move forward. Exclaiming to the others that Polaris is acting like a magnetic pole, he tells them that she is repelling them. Concentrating intently, flames dancing in her hair within her helmet, Jean tells Thunderbird that she will need his help in a second. Right now, she says, she needs to concentrate on moving the corrosive sludge away from Lorna. On cue, the metallic debris orbiting Lorna is washed away in waves of Jean's telekinetic tide. Her eyes glowing from the energy output, Jean tells the others that Polaris' entire nervous system is overloaded. She's carrying millions of magnetic patterns, the recordings of the last moments of Genosha. Addressing the Professor, Jean asks him what is going on in her mind?
Calling out of Storm, Xavier orders her to swoop down into Jean's telekinetic whirlpool and rescue Lorna. As she rises back into the sky after grabbing Polaris, Storm alerts that she is safe; naked, safe and more than mildly deranged. Moving to the next phase, Jean tells Thunderbird that as he is the only X-Man completely immune to radiation poisoning, she wants him to find what Polaris was trying to get at under the surface.
Kneeling over the spot Polaris was hovering over moments ago, Thunderbird ignites his hands with his plasma powers. Citing that this is where the magnetic activity is the strongest, where the source is, Thunderbird begins to melt the ground with his plasma. As the ground liquefies, boiling at his touch, Thunderbird comments that it feels as if his dental fillings are coming lose from his skull. Suddenly feeling something, something he cannot identify, Thunderbird lifts the object out of his pool of slag. Examining a dark, black, rectangular box, he asks aloud if anyone can tell him what an aircraft flight recorder would look like.
Nearby, as Storm deposits her near the others, Polaris begins to lash out at the Professor. Still hearing the thoughts broadcasting from Polaris, Xavier exclaims that her consciousness is bursting open. As her magnetic powers reach out, attracting more metallic debris, the Professor calls to Jean and Storm for help. As the three gather around Polaris, they form the epicenter of a funnel of swirling debris, orbiting them. Comparing their task to an exorcism, Jean exclaims that they have to purge these forces from Lorna. Finally putting all of the pieces of the puzzle together, Xavier realizes the truth; Magneto put himself into the recorder. He recorded everyone! Nearby, as he brings the black box to the group, Thunderbird informs them that even he can hear the voices, millions of them.
Crying out in a combination of pain, grief and madness, Polaris exclaims that she has to boost the signal. Calling out "daddy," she extends her arm to the face of the Mega-Sentinel. As the last words of the Genoshan dead continue to broadcast about her, Quicksilver speeds across the Sentinel's face, adjusting metal plates and reshaping it into the image of his late father Magneto. Repeating that she loves him, over and over again, Polaris reaches out for the statue. As the face continues to coalesce, a voice begins to boom over the wasteland of the ruined city.
This is the voice, it says. This is the voice of Magneto. From within the head cavity of the Mega-Sentinel, Toad, Shocker and Toad-in-Waiting look up, attentive to the words of their fallen leader. This is the voice of the Genoshan Nation. Her dementia subsided, Polaris listens in rapture. It is a strange thing, to die in the darkness. Aghast at the events before her, Sabra asks aloud what is happening. Still holding the black box, Thunderbird replies that in the last moments of his life, he recorded everything. These are the last words of Magneto as he lay dying in the ruins. Professor Xavier, displaying no emotion whatsoever, listens on. It's a strange thing to die. I was Magneto, the master of magnetic forces. Now I will be a voice in the darkness, echoing forever.
The Mega-Sentinel, still being transformed, begins to take a final shape. Bearing little likeness to the monstrosity that murdered so many, the giant robot now appears in shape, form and attire of the former ruler of Genosha. Once, I was a mortal man. Now I am becoming a memory, immortal. They must have thought they could silence us forever. Instead we have become magnetic. Unstoppable. During these last sentences, the giant monument rises out of the debris, now about twice as high as before. In tears, Polaris looks up at the statue she has just helped to create and calls out. She calls out to her dad, remarking that he saved them all on tape.
Do you understand? the voice asks. Our voices will be broadcast around the world… into space. At the speed of light. At the speed of radio. Our voices traveling without end though the depth of time and space. Beyond this life. And far, far… beyond this death.
Phoenix IV, Storm, Thunderbird, Professor Charles Xavier (all X-Men)
Sabra (X-Corporation Europe)
Quicksilver (Avengers)
Unus
Toad-in-Waiting
The entire island of Genosha, along with it's population, was destroyed by Cassandra Nova's Mega-Sentinel in New X-Men #115-116.
Sabra refers to the X-Corporation, of which she is a member, as "X-Corp". This is not to be confused with Banshee's defunct paramilitary outfit X-Corps.
Unus the Untouchable's real name is Angelo Unuscione, although at one point he did legally change it to Gunther Bain. Unus was previously believed dead after his supposedly asphyxiating when he lost control of his powers, causing his own forcefield to repel oxygen. The Blob, convinced of his close friend's death, went on a rampage over his loss. [Peter Parker, Spectacular Spiderman #91]
"Grim as hell" is actually three words.
Genosha's Magda Square was named after Magneto's late wife, who died decades ago.
Shocker's real name is Randall Darby and is a former of the group known as Mutant Force, who later changed their name to Resistants, to express their protest against the Government's Mutant Registration Act. Among that group, Shocker called himself Paralyzer to avoid recognition, though recently the team went back to calling themselves Mutant Force and again use their original codenames. [New Warriors (2nd series) #6]
Inexplicably, Polaris referred to Magneto in this issue as "daddy". In her earliest appearance, a robot duplicate of Magneto did claim to be Lorna's father, but that ruse was quickly discredited. [Uncanny X-Men #49-52] However, as she worked extremely closely with Magneto in the months prior to the Genoshan holocaust, it is conceivable that Lorna could grow to consider Magneto a surrogate father.
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Nintendo reportedly began talks with third-party partners at E3 2015 about their next "dedicated game platform," codenamed NX.
The business magazine had the chance to sit down with Nintendo Software Planning and Development's general manager Shinya Takahashi and the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto, taking the opportunity to glean as much information as they could.
"For us, the next step is to think about what is going to be that element that is really going to catch the attention of a large number of players again and get them excited," Takahashi discussed.
Miyamoto added that he is "not actively participating" in discussions surrounding NX's hardware and innards, instead concentrating his attention to game projects that he is working on.
Yes they have to make a console with affordable software & don't try to keep up with the competition like Xbox,ps4 the console has to b backword comparable most people like playing the games tthey buy so that's my thoughts.