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Comment on: Topic 'Recruiting Scientists News': rved to highlight what a fantastic resource we have here in Wales. Welsh coal can provide affordable and reliable energy for years to come, helping to prevent over reliance upon imported fuels. With carbon capture and storage promising to become a reality in the near future, Welsh coal could be crucial to keeping the nation’s lights on. The Welsh mining industry also provides highly-skilled and well-paid employment to thousands of people. We at Celtic Energy alone employ 290 people, with countless jobs then provided through contractors and in local shops where our employees spend their wages. At a time when the economy is under severe pressure, mining has the capacity to grow, helping to deliver prosperity to communities across South Wales. The UK needs a mix of energy sources. Gas and renewable energy also have roles to play. But with energy supply looking like one of the major issues of the 21st century, what is clear is that Welsh coal can and must have a vital role to play in powering our homes and the economy. RICHARD WALTERS Managing director, Celtic Energy, Caerphilly Energy dangers SIR – With 80% of Russian gas exports to the EU crossing Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s decision to reduce gas exported to Ukraine highlights the dangers of relying on imported energy. Russia has declining cash reserves and its economy is heavily reliant on its trade in gas, yet the risk of shortages because of Mr Putin’s geopolitical games is something we can all do without. Other countries manage to insure themselves against external shocks to their energy needs; while the UK’s market- driven approach has proven entirely inadequate. The New Labour Government has taken a decade to recognise the need to increase storage capacity – France can store 122 days of gas, Germany 99 and the UK only 15 days. Westminster and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should work with the Irish Government to make these islands entirely self-sufficient, via renewable non-market- driven energy resources. JONATHAN T CLARK Plaid Cymru, Monmouth Constituency, Westminster Parliamentary Candidate Nuclear puzzle SIR – On the issue of nuclear waste storage, two of your readers (Letters, Dec 23) seek to assure us that everything is OK and perfectly tickety-boo, as all the highly-toxic nuclear waste we have produced up until now is “safely stored in specialised containers in deep caverns”. Phew, no need to worry then. That must however mean that the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management isn’t correct in stating that the only geological disposal facility in the world is in the US and that it only takes US defence-related waste? It’s also not correct then that most of the UK’s nuclear waste is distributed among numerous surface storage tanks, with most of it stashed at the Sellafield site? Perhaps they’ve got the problem sorted in France, as one of the letters confidently predicts? Maybe non! They still haven’t found a permanent home for their growing pile of highly radioactive waste either. The waste sits in heavily guarded storage at nuclear company Areva’s La Hague reprocessing plant in Normandy. So how much would a high-level geological disposal facility in the UK cost? Estimates are currently around £12bn for one facility but a discussion paper produced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change indicates a second cannot be ruled out. That’s on top of the £73bn that the National Audit Office estimates it would cost to decommission the UK’s existing ageing nuclear power stations, never mind building a new load. Perhaps we should start a whip-round! BLEDDYN LAKE Bathford, Bath Cultural chance SIR – Following the success (several years ago) of Scotland’s second city (Glasgow) being the European Capital of Culture, and last year’s success of Liverpool doing the same thing for England, isn’t it time that Wales followed suit? There is so much going on in the www.swansea2020.com campaign, that I think it is the ideal time for our second city to show its hand and apply for the honour. I did hear a rumour that Cardiff had already applied, but isn’t it the case that a country’s capital city is exempt? PETER JONES Battersea, London Woolies memories SIR – I am putting together a manuscript, hopefully for publication, regarding Woolworths stores. This is planned to be a social history of this famous name, which unfortunately is no longer with us. Everybody has a story to tell regarding Woolies and I would like to invite recollections from former staff members and shoppers alike from any UK store for inclusion in the book. Photographs taken of the inside and outside of the shops, especially in former years, would be most useful, especially during the 1960s and beyond when each department had its own counter and cash till. So if you were a Saturday girl or regular member of staff or a shopper who can recall their days in Woolworths, then please send or e-mail your memories and/or photographs (which will be carefully handled and returned). DEREK PHILLIPS Whitcross, Barwick, Somerset, BA22 9TQ or email: derekphillips507@googlemail.com Morally insane SIR – Stuart Walters in his letter (Dec 31) said that the Welsh were sensitive about jokes made about them and they should shrug them off. He did not explain for what purpose or why the English, and no-one else, make denigrating jokes about the Welsh. Some of his list of what was wrong with the Welsh “nationalist” (which he could not describe as Quislings, traitors, fifth columnist etc) were: “Never lived out or worked outside the country, obsessed with cultural and national identity, no sense of humour, suspicious villagers distrustful of outsiders, babbling an incomprehensible language” – which shows how some English monoglots have been neutered from understanding the language that they use. It is ironic that some clowns say that we should be proud of being “British”, when the Welsh are kept legally deprived and inferior in their own country in order to make the English the master race in Wales. History has shown that those who have laws for others which they would not have for themselves are judged by history to be morally insane. RT JONES Penygroes, Gwynedd Disability muddle SIR – The Government’s proposal to make people on disability benefit work for it is ludicrous. Much like their proposal to pay individuals and companies up to £50,000 to employ one person on disability is unworkable. Being on disability allowance myself, I recently applied for help to get back into work at my local Jobcentre (Neath) and was told that I would have to wait five weeks to see a (disability to work) adviser, as they only employed one adviser part time. NIGEL BILLS Swansea Global warning SIR – A regular reader of these letters pages might be led to believe that the recent cold spell casts doubt on the science of climate change. It does not. According to the Met Office, the global temperature for 2000 to 2008 now stands almost 0.20°C warmer than the average for the decade 1990-1999. As carbon dioxide levels have risen, so have global temperatures. The variations that occur from year to year are significantly influenced by the cooling (La Niña) and warming (El Niño) events in the tropical Pacific. Last year was, as predicted by the Met Office, cooler as a result of a strong La Niña, while 1998 was particularly warm as a result of a strong El Niño. The fact that 1998 is the warmest year on record does not mean that the world is cooling. Ten of the warmest years on record have, in fact, occurred since 1997. The trend is, as predicted by climate scientists, definitely upwards. Scientists have recently reported temperature rises of up to 50°C in the Arctic, with ice melting much faster than anticipated. The real concern today is that we are under-estimating the threat posed by climate change and failing to implement polices to address it. GORDON JAMES Friends of the Earth Cymru, Cardiff Costly windmills SIR – The Duke of Beaufort pockets more than £250,000 from Swansea ratepayers. All above board and legal and for a bridge that does bring some benefit to the city. But let us get this into perspective. This sum is chicken feed compared with what the Duke will get from us, via our electricity bills, if he is allowed to desecrate Mynydd y Gwair with his virtually useless windmills. ALUN JOHN RICHARDS Swansea…; Added by Melissa Furtwengler to Wanted Scientists, Energy experts, Engineers at 10:16am on January 12, 2009

Comment on: Topic 'Generational Con Man': load of crap that is in the toughest way possible. My father started prepping me for college when I was the ripe age of 10. Yes 10. I clearly remember him telling me I had to get good grades in school then so I could get into a good college and from their grab a great career and be on my way to a bright future! So that's what I did. I was in honors and advanced placement classes through high school. I got into a good college, double majored in English Literature and English Writing, graduated with a high GPA, even studies Shakespeare and Seventeenth Century Literature at Oxford University through a study abroad program. I thought I did everything right. Then I got out into the real world. The real world is a savage beast. I remember applying and interviewing for jobs. To my surprise, less than half of the companies I replied to called me back about a job. The interviews I did have mostly resulted in a: "Thank you for your application. Unfortunately at this time we do not feel you have the experience required for this position. Go suck an egg." That's for those companies that ever even bothered to send me a rejection letter. All I wanted was a job copy editing for a newspaper. I double majored in English! I studied at Oxford! What the hell was happening? The ever haunting post-graduate Catch-22 of requiring experience that you'll never get until someone gives you a chance and hires you for a job was kicking the life out of me. I eventually took a low paying Project Management role (actually started as a personal assistant to the owner of a small sign and lighting maintenance company--went through all that education to NOT become someone's secretary and there I was, filing, copying, and doing data entry) where the management preyed on young women with little education or options and had them working their fingers to the bone for $13/hr. Hell, I could have saved myself the $25k in student loan debt and gotten that job. It was a whirlwind from there. I did everything I could to pull myself up by the boot straps. I made some bad career decisions, then some stupid life decisions and here I am 5 years later trying like hell to make a career for myself. Luckily for me, I receive fantastic advice and support from my grandmother. She's in her seventies now. She left her abusive, alcoholic husband when my dad was only 8 and worked a full-time job and kicked her own arse to provide for herself and her son. Grandma Val had the support of her late mother, my Nanny, who pulled herself up by her bootsraps when her husband tragically died while she still had young children and she went on to be a cook in some of Philadelphia's premiere restaraunts. I am proud of my legacy and grateful for the lessons of the generations before me. I have been lucky to have those two strong women in my life. I spent many wonderful weekends in their beautiful home in a quiet suburban neighborhood. They taught me how to garden, how to cook, how to appreciate what you have, how to save money, how to treat people with respect, and how to work hard and be the best person you can be. I learned that life is what you make of it. I could feel sorry for myself and my generation for the hardships we have to endure but I don't. Upon close inspection I've come to realize that everyone throughout time has to fight battles and so will I. I'll win some, I'll lose some. I'll probably lose more than I'll win. However, at the end of the day, no matter what my social status is, no matter where I am in my career, I am happy with myself because I know the true value of life. I can seed a garden, I can make a beautiful Sunday dinner, I listen to my son and enjoy my time with him, I got to study at Oxford, I know some poetry by heart, I appreciate what I have, and I never give up. So you see, in life, throughout the generations, there are sniveling brats with a sense of self-entitlement and there are those who want nothing more than to make their way themselves, who don't expect handouts and just want a chance. Somehow very few people saw that desire in me or maybe just didn't care. Interviews are not the best forum to really understand what a person is made of. In any case, the world keeps spinning. There will always be companies looking to exploit people like me who are looking for an opportunity but those companies won't go far. Their turn-over is high, their training is crap, they have outdated systems of metrics, and they don't really care about anyone's career. They just want someone to make them money now. Kind of like how banks and credit companies used to hand out sub-prime loans like Halloween candy. They looked great on paper 10 years ago. Now look where they are... Sandra McCartt said:Thanks Jen,Good thoughts, i thought your response about Woodstock was funny and you were being your cute , kick ass self. So was not being patronizing. A tongue in cheek response if you will.I know you are working your tail off and fighting something that you can't do anything about at this point because you are in this game at the worst possible time any young recruiter could ever try and break into it.We so tend to lump everyone in the basket of generational identification. I do know a lot of GenXY who have come to the party as you have. Just as we did when we were young and thought we could change the world. I don't think we have to be self-deprecating because i think that is also self serving to play that game in order to convince your generation to take a job that none of our own generation would take.I was your age when the original Woodstock took place in 1969. According to my calcs Mark would have been in about the 8th grade of maybe the 9th so he probably didn't make it to Woodstock. I wasn't going to go do drugs in the dirt then either because i thought it was trashy then and i think it's trashy now. And like yourself, i had kids to take care of , school and a job. It's always easy to blame parents and we deserve some of that just as ours did for convincing us that it was failure if we did something horrible like get a divorce for any reason or not stay on a job for 25 years until we got the gold watch. We were however perhaps a little more equipped to handle failure because anything that happened to us was our fault no matter what it was. As a result of that attitude of "anything that happens to you that's bad is your fault". We reversed it and wanted our kids to grow up without the feeling that everything was their fault and the pendulum went too far the other direction. Then we dumped you out on the street with no survival skills because we tried to make life easier for you. Now we bitch because of the sense of entitlement and the shock of reality has thrown your generation into a tailspin. They are scared and pissed off and don't understand why all the stuff they were told is not working.We convinced you that all you had to do was get an education and the world would be your oyster. We forgot to give you the chance to fall down and get up by yourself when it was the little things, now we expect you to jump out there and be worldly wise, self reliant and as savvy as those of us with battle scars.That's why we need to be supportive and informative not self deprecating and manipulative to get you into situations where we set you up for failure then blame you for reacting to the message that we sent you . Your generation is taking it on the chin when it really counts. And you are correct ,entitlement is a learned behavior. Some of the most "i am entitled "people i work with are baby boomers who were nasty hippies then, are aging whining hippies now. They dropped out, turned on, protested and are still doing it. Their drug of choice was booze and it still is. Those little bottles on airplanes ya know........ …; Added by See_Jane_Recruit at 12:53pm on May 12, 2009

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