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One of Hugh Nibley's many memorable contributions was his essay on "Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift."
Dr. John Gee reflects on it here.
One of Hugh Nibley's many memorable contributions was his essay on "Leaders to Managers: The Fatal Shift."
Dr. John Gee reflects on it here.
I was there in the audience when Bro. Nibley delivered this address. I have never forgotten it! and searched for a long time before finding a copy of it. This should be required reading for our elected officials, as well as church leaders.
Interesting insights from Nibley and Gee. I see the need for both leaders and managers in the Church: leaders, certainly, because we are all designed to become such someday; managers as well, as John points out, because we still need to remain within certain bounds while our abilities and perspective are limited by mortality. Moses was a spectacular leader, but he had to take management lessons from his father-in-law to get anywhere with managing all of Israel's petty grievances. Pahoran may have been more of a manager, but he certainly understood leadership and the need for it.
The ideal, it seems, would be both qualities in the same being, as with Brigham Young (Nibley's prime example) or President Hinckley. Nibley finds few such people alive today, but life is meant to prepare us to be both good leaders and good managers. If we become perfect, even as God (by his own command), we must be both, as was Jesus Christ. That may well take longer than a lifetime for most of us.
What we don't want in the Church–or in the world, for that matter–is pirates: would-be leaders who angle shamelessly for wealth, position, and a following with no regard for integrity, charity, wisdom, or the other bounds the Lord has set. Although Nibley has cast these people as consummate, ambitious managers, I don't entirely agree; I see greed as their motivation and management merely as their method.
However, we also don't want slothful servants: close-minded managers who frantically try to maintain the status quo by squelching anyone who might possibly disturb it, burying their own creative talents and those of everyone around them. In their case, it seems to me, not even a good motivation can atone for the negative consequences to Church and people. More often, though, the motivation is greed again: the desire to retain a favored position and the goodwill of their superiors and admirers at the expense of any who could become rivals.
Unfortunately, the Lord's commitment to man's freedom of choice, added to the tendencies of the natural man, means that we have both pirates and slothful servants in the world and in the Church, along with an abundance of greed. Hence the continuing need for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
How does one opt out of becoming a god (celestial manager or boss), or being managed by gods or God or led by God or gods or Jesus or any other deity which rumor has it includes Joseph Smith among other notables? Can one say 'no thank you'? How can one just say 'no' to such a prospect without being damned for all eternity to a boiling and scalding perpetual wasteland of fire and smoke? This should be headline stuff printed somewhere on the front pages of all religious books and entitled the "Opt Out Page" (fill in the box with a Number 2 pencil only).
Yeah, ol' Hellfire and Brimstone Nibley.
It is easy to opt out. Just make golf or gold or gardening your God and hence worship at your own secular religious site.
Obviously we have a different God in mind. The God I think of would not punish a majority of the 100+ billion people who have ever lived, many in Asia and most poor and most never having heard any Christian Gospel message. As I understand your particular religion, these people, who through no fault of their own, were born at the wrong time and in the wrong place and because of this fact, could never, for all eternity, share in your highest kingdom. That to me is beyond absurd and so I think I'll plant a few extra flowers in my garden this spring, to remind me of those billions of souls who were discriminated against by God simply because of time and geography.
Wow. You could probably not have chosen a less appropriate religious faith to complain against, on that specific issue, at than Mormonism.
Your understanding of our "particular religion" needs some serious work.
Here are a couple of good academic articles on the subject:
If they're too long, let me know, and I'll suggest shorter and less academic treatments. Or perhaps somebody else out there can refer Ms McGee to some suitable reading.
It's interesting to read such writing. To know that there are people who claim to understand the eternity after death is mind boggling. One can read your D&C 76 and 132 and realize that not only will the believing faithful rule or manage in the here after, but will exist in an exalted state in some level above all the other souls who have ever lived and who were not born in the correct place and time to be offered such an eternal gift. And P.S., there is no possible way to baptize the large percentage of the 100 billion dead, statistically speaking.
It's hard for me to understand that people could believe themselves to be that much better than the billions that have lived before. The percentage of LDS members within the grand scale of humanity is a rounding error. Why would God favor you over the billions who've lived and died for many tens of thousands of years?
I get the distinct impression that you're not even really trying to understand our position on this issue.
Which means that my time would be better spent elsewhere.
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surprise hearing tomorrow where reportedly the west memphis 3 will confess to the murders at robin hood hills. in exchange, 2 of the 3 are expected to be released with time served. multiple sources, including the father of one of the victims, have confirmed that damien echols will be released from death row. WTF? the 3 have now served over 18 years in prison. last month dna evidence failed to link any of them to the murders. death penalty opponents are hoping for exoneration
seems it involves some fancy legal maneuvering, apparently an alford plea in which the defendants are allowed to maintain their innocence while conceding the state has the evidence to convict. sounds like the state wants to avoid any more legal proceedings in the case.here's an article for those who never heard of this case
an update on part 3 of this film which may have a happier ending after today. it looks like the state will try to save face by releasing at least 2 of the 3 through an alford plea. not exactly justice but it's something
@ruby: thanks for the update
my finacee has been wearing a WM3 bracelet for years. She can finally take it off today (hopefully).
I cannot wait for the 3rd film now
She can. Just enter "West Memphis Three" in Google and thousands of stories will pop up…
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"West Memphis Three" released:
"I am innocent of these charges but I am entering an Alford guilty plea," Damien Echols told the judge. Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley also reasserted their innocence.
"Although I am innocent, this plea is in my best interest," Misskelley said.
After Friday's hearing, Baldwin told reporters that he had been reluctant to plead guilty to crimes he didn't commit. But he agreed to the deal to get Echols off death row.
"That's not justice, however you look at it," he said.
Echols thanked Baldwin and called his release "overwhelming."
"It's not perfect," he said of the arrangement. "It's not perfect by any means. But it at least brings closure to some areas and some aspects."
He said the three would continue to work to clear their names.
Recent DNA tests did not link the men to the scene and, in fact, showed the presence of others who have never been identified.
thank goodness. i think the state was willing to do anything at this point to avoid a new trial that could prove their innocence, opening itself to lawsuits for unlawful imprisonment and miscarriage of justice. what's criminal is they never even bothered investigating any other suspects. i remember when this happened and the whole satanic hysteria of the early 90s was so bizarre. glad there's finally some closure to this case.now let's free leonard peltier! :D
Hmmm…..Egoyan kinda makes sense leading up to the crime, with the way he portends ambiguity.
Based on the book: direct a feature based based on Mara Leveritt's 2003 book "Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three," Egoyan's reps at WME confirmed today.
"i think the state was willing to do anything at this point to avoid a new trial that could prove their innocence"
Really, from what I've read, it was more a matter of the likelihood of the verdict being thrown out due to the accusations of jury misconduct (which sounded pretty legitimate to me). The new DNA evidence certainly casts some doubt on the verdict, but it was really proof of anything, and people are convicted without any physical evidence all the time.
The prosecuting attorney, Scott Ellington, said in an interview that the state still considered the men guilty and that, new DNA findings notwithstanding, he knew of no current suspects.
"We don't think that there is anybody else," Mr. Ellington said, declaring the case closed.
Asked how he could free murderers if he believed they were guilty, he acknowledged that the three men would likely be acquitted if a new trial were held, given the prominent lawyers now representing them, the fact that evidence has decayed or disappeared over time and the death or change of heart of several original witnesses. He also expressed concern that if the men were exonerated at trial, they could sue the state, possibly for millions of dollars.
"I believe that with all the circumstances that were facing the state in this case, this resolution is one that is palatable and I think that after a period of time it will be acceptable to the public as the right thing," Mr. Ellington said. — NY Times
the previous convictions were vacated today. ok, i shouldn't have said 'proove' their innocence, but that they might be found innocent. a hearing was already set to consider motion for a new trial and a deal was made to avoid that. i forget how rigorous u guys are about language :p anyway, what a fucked case from day one
Even if they are guilty, they've been in prison for what? almost half their lives now? Seems like that should suffice as punishment.
it's one more strike against the death penalty. i hope we'll see it abolished in our lifetime.
I just ordered the two docs from the library – I didn't want to watch this, but by the time the Egoyan film comes out, I will only have a vague recollection, which is good.
review from variety for the 3rd doc:
Destined to rank as one of the major achievements in American documentary, the "Paradise Lost" project comes to a presumed end with "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory." Or perhaps that should be "2 1/2": With the release from prison last month of their subjects, the West Memphis 3, helmers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky have had to fashion a new ending to their masterwork of explanatory journalism, advocacy and perseverance. Toronto Film Festival audiences, therefore, are seeing the film not only first, but last: When it plays the New York Film Festival Oct. 10 and airs on HBO in January, its ending will have changed.
It won't be a major alteration. At the moment, "Purgatory" ends with the decree by the Arkansas Supreme Court that new DNA and other forensic evidence presented in 2007 justified a new hearing for defendants Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, originally convicted in 1994 for the murders of three young boys in suburban Arkansas. They subsequently cut a deal with prosecutors and were released.
Whether this development will change the viewing experience is debatable, since "Purgatory" will end on an up note in any event. What won't change is what the film, in its current state, does so well: synopsizing all that's come before, juggling dozens of dates, events and people, without ever losing the narrative flow. The film incorporates the startling new information — including a medical examiner's conclusion that wild animals, not human killers, committed the "mutilations" of the victim's corpses — and arrives at a coherent combination of the new and old.
Much of the credit should go to editor Alyse Ardell Spiegel, although she has the able assistance of time in avoiding confusion among the different chapters of the case. A sad fact, one that will no doubt dawn on viewers halfway through the film, is that so many years have elapsed since the West Memphis 3 were convicted, they have all aged to the point where they would never be mistaken for their younger selves in 1996 or 2000 (the years that HBO broadcast the first two installments).
"Paradise Lost 2: Revelations" pointed a finger at John Mark Byers, the adoptive father of murder victim Christopher Byers and a rather extreme character. He had, among other things, given one of the movie's cameramen a knife stained with blood (testing proved inconclusive), and campaigned so vigorously against the three suspects that he practically invited scrutiny. While Byers is again a principal figure, in "Purgatory," he's switched teams: He not only voices regret about his strident accusations of Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley, but now believes them innocent, and joins the chorus of voices calling for the investigation of Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of victim Stephen Branch, and the only person close to the case who can be connected to the crime scene via DNA.
Berlinger and Sinofsky make use of all manner of footage in constructing "Purgatory," including deposition videos of chief West Memphis investigator Gary Gitchell (who continues to insist that the original convictions were correct) and Hobbs, who at one point sued Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines, one of the many celebrity supporters of the West Memphis 3, thus putting himself under oath and opening himself to questions about the murders. These sequences are fascinating, as is the very fact of Hobb's presence in the film; an end title states that certain interview subjects were paid (though it names no one).
The "Paradise Lost" films have probably had a more tangible influence on the cause of justice than any docu since "The Thin Blue Line," which only had one life at stake. What the three films have ultimately done is not solve a crime so much as expose a resistance to truth that's endemic to the criminal justice system, here in Arkansas.
"We were impoverished white trash," Echols says of himself and his fellow defendant, "and I have no doubt they would have murdered me if they could." What "Purgatory" leaves the viewer with is the horrifying notion that it took 18 years, three movies and a movement to free the West Memphis 3, and it's hard to believe theirs was the only case of injustice out there.
Tech credits are tops, especially the incidental music by Wendy Blackstone and songs by Metallica.
Camera (color), Bob Richman; editor, Alyse Ardell Spiegel; music, Wendy Blackstone, Metallica; sound, Eddie O'Connor. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Real to Reel), Sept. 11, 2011. Running time: 105 MIN.
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Shelby County commissioners advanced an ordinance on Monday that establishes the constitutionality of five elected county offices.
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If the ordinances are approved on third reading, both will be put before voters in November.
Commissioners have been forced to rework the ordinances after a referendum on the Aug. 7 ballot failed 49.7 percent to 50.3 percent, leaving the five offices vulnerable to legal challenges.
Establishing those offices will safeguard Shelby's charter from the lawsuits that plagued Knox County. The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled in January 2007 that the Knox County Charter, modeled after Shelby's, didn't properly create those five offices.
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The $3.7 million contract with ARAMARK to cook meals for the 3,100 inmates housed at the Correction Center out east would have eliminated 32 positions.
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Pentis started at the school as a volunteer
Editor's Note: This is one in a series of stories this summer on new principals at Ventura County public schools.Carrie Pentis started on her path to becoming principal at Moorpark High School volunteering in her sons' classrooms.
Pentis, 48, was to take over Friday as Moorpark High principal, having served as assistant principal and dean of student discipline. But her first role in Moorpark schools was as a volunteer, then PTA president.
That experience, along with being a single mom and going back to school, helped prepare her to be a principal, Pentis said.
"You become a mom to 2,400 kids," she said of the job.
Pentis will take over from Jason Peplinski, who is going to Santa Susana High School in Simi Valley.
Pentis already has set goals as principal, despite budget cuts. She plans to introduce a class for students scoring low on reading tests, so they get two periods of English, reading and writing. It's part of an overall plan to provide more intervention for struggling students and shrink the achievement gap.
Because funding is so tight, she'll turn to the community for help.
"Why not call on the experts?" she said. "They may not understand education like I do, but I may not understand dollars and cents like they do."
Pentis went back to school when she was about 30, preparing for a better-paying job after she and her husband divorced. She took classes at night, earning a degree in business from California Lutheran University because it didn't have an evening program in education. During the day, she worked at Moorpark High School, helping students who had gotten into trouble.
"I knew I didn't want to depend on anyone else," Pentis said.
"I was already working with kids, so I decided, 'I'm going to pursue this.' "
Perseverance was key, Pentis said. Her younger son, Anthony, had gotten polio as an infant from a polio vaccine and required several surgeries.
Her older son, Dominic, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at 15.
"We're a family of perseverance," she said.
After graduating from CLU, Pentis continued working at Moorpark High. Anna Merriman, principal at the time, took her aside and suggested she get a credential for school counseling, saying she'd be "phenomenal" at student discipline.
Soon she was named to a newly created position — dean of student discipline.
"She got there through dogged determination," Merriman said.
"What a great role model she is — for girls especially — to know that, if that's what you want, that's what you do."
While in that job, Pentis earned her administrative credential. When budget cuts eliminated the dean's job, she was named an assistant principal. She learned everything she could but still lacked experience teaching. So she started teaching at the University of La Verne.
"Once again I did it the unorthodox way," she said. "I didn't know if it would be good enough."
For Donna Fulgham, a longtime English teacher at Moorpark who recently retired, it is. Pentis will provide some stability after the school has had two principals in six years. And she has shown she's willing to work hard, Fulgham said.
"She's this humble person who does all this work without looking for recognition for it," Fulgham said.
"She's a quiet hero to me."
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SIR – I write in support of John Jackson. To imply that the man is racially prejudiced is ludicrous in the extreme. SIR – Arlecdon History Group is doing research on things that used to be in Frizington, including St Paul's School and the old St Joseph's School.
John is one of the fairest men I know, who would never say anything to upset another person's feelings. This must be obvious to all who have met him. It may well have been one of the reasons why the Conservative party, who are in the minority in local government, put him forward as mayor.
From what I have seen of him during his year of office, both he and his wife have carried out their duties, with grace, dignity, friendliness and occasional laughter, their natural attributes, and have set the bar very high for those who will follow in this office.
It is a great pity that his accuser lacked the courage to face John at the time, and has had to resort to back-stabbing. This is no way to treat a person who has been such a great ambassador for the community.
SIR – As someone who was present at the recently held Mayor's Charity event at which it is alleged that the mayor, Coun John Jackson supposedly made racist comments, I can only say that this was news to me.
At no time during any part of the evening did I hear the mayor or anyone else pass any racist comments.
John Jackson is not a racist, he is not a man who makes inappropriate or unkind comments about anyone.
As a fellow councillor representing the Beckermet ward, John and I work closely and I can only say that he is a man of sincerity and integrity who only ever wants to do his best to help people, not to hurt or injure in any way.
I am sure that all councillors on Copeland Council would agree that we would never condone racism in any shape, and nor should we!
John and Linda have been fantastic ambassadors for Copeland and have been extremely popular with our residents. It is a great shame that this allegation has gone to the press before Copeland Council's correct standards procedures have properly investigated and a conclusion agreed. However since there were about 60 to 70 people present I don't imagine there will be any shortage of witnesses.
Coun Yvonne CLARKSON
SIR – Who is the small-minded simpleton, with little to do, who hasn't the courage to put his name to the charge? And, where is the common sense of the council official who wasn't able to say to the complainant: "Go away and get a life", without all this claptrap we get from them about investigating every complaint, frivolous or otherwise.
Stop worrying, your worship, the majority by a large margin is with you, and I am not a racist.
Pat CAPSTICK
Low Moresby, Whitehaven
SIR – I read with dismay the suggestion that Tesco might be interested in Egremont.
It is hard for councils to stand up to mult-national companies that promise investment and jobs. Even David Cameron is relying bizarrely on the big supermarkets to provide thousands of jobs to take us out of the recession! Surely there's a limit to how much we can eat?
In the news at the moment there are questions as to whether these are real jobs and suggestions of exploitation of workers' rights. The big supermarkets have promised jobs before and only a fraction has been delivered. In fact previous studies have shown there is a net loss of jobs; on average 276 per new store opening.
Why is Tesco announcing expansion plans now? Is it anything to do with changes to the planning laws aimed at restricting the devastating effects unfettered expansion of the supermarkets have had on our communities, particularly our town centres?
Supermarkets erode local choice, and it is a fallacy that they provide "cheap" food.
Studies have shown that they exploit suppliers and farmers both in the UK and overseas, which has a long-term effect on the supply of food and the environment. Supermarkets generate waste and over-packaging – 35-40% of household waste ending up in landfill begins as a purchase from one of the big five supermarkets.
It has long been recognised that supermarkets siphon money away from local communities; one study estimating that every £1 spent with local suppliers is worth £1.76 to the local economy compared to £0.36.The impact on local businesses and the other supermarkets in Egremont is likely to be significant if not catastrophic.
Of course supermarkets can bring benefits and if Tesco supported a supermarket adjudicator as recommended by the Competition Commission then I might feel more comfortable about their interest.
Any new development in Egremont must be considered on the basis of long-term sustainability, not short-term gains.
Coun Carole WOODMAN
Springbank Farm, Egremont
SIR – In spite of the fact that most people in this country are against the proposed notorious reform of our National Health Service the government is hell bent on going ahead with it.
However the biggest complaint the majority of the people have against this health bill is the word competition. Which could mean a copycat of the United States' health service, which is privatisation. Which means profits for the firms which get the contract and, like the United States, if you are not insured you fall by the wayside. This could be brought in eventually by the government who just won't listen to the people.
James TAYLOR
Midtown Close, Distington
SIR – I sympathise with the plight of retailers and businesses in general and I find Mr Trembath's article on the position of fuel dealerships very interesting.
However I wonder whether Longmile garage at Lillyhall might be able to learn from some of its competitors and help put himself on an even keel with them.
As well as buying The Whitehaven News weekly I subscribe to one of the daily national newspapers. Overall this is cheaper for me and has other benefits. I pay the retailer with a voucher which they redeem for the cover-price plus a small handling charge.
If I buy my paper at Tesco they give me a further one per cent of the cover-price back in return for me using my loyalty card and effectively selling them data about my buying habits which they can then use to entice me back.
Despite this additional benefit I usually buy my paper from one of the local independent newsagents or from one of the other licensed fuel dealerships as I like to support them and they accept my voucher with pleasure.
I do not buy my paper from Longmile because they are one of only two retailers I've ever come across who do not accept the vouchers. They turned a paying customer away but only after they explained the unfairness of that system too. Incidentally the other retailer I mentioned has now gone out of business.
Craig ROBERTSON
Greenlands Close, Whitehaven
SIR – I have just returned from an appointment in Egremont to my home in Beckermet. This is the third time this week I have had to take my life in my hands when entering the village due to the Sellafield traffic who drive through our village as though it were a race track, having no consideration for other road users or residents of the village, including children.
Already this week I have had to perform an emergency stop because a van did not stop or slow down where there was a car parked on his side of the road and if I hadn't done an emergency stop he would have driven right into me at speed!
Today, I again had to give way to streams of traffic, none of which were prepared to give way to me even though I was the only vehicle travelling in the opposite direction. Eventually I had no alternative but to set off pipping my horn so they had to give way to let me past.
Even by travelling down the 595 to the Black Beck roundabout and indicating right I have had cars pull out of the Sellafield road causing me to brake heavily as they are not prepared to give way even as they should at a roundabout.
It wouldn't be too bad if the drivers using the village as a short cut would keep below the speed limit and also show consideration to residents travelling in the opposite direction. If there was an emergency I don't know how an emergency vehicle (ambulance, fire engine) would be able to get to where it was required.
I would be interested to hear from those people who cut through the village to justify/explain how they see this as acceptable behaviour.
Lucy CARVER
A COMPANY spokesman replies: "Sellafield Ltd is aware of the issues in Beckermet, caused by large amounts of traffic travelling through the village at certain times of the day.
"We have been in regular contact with Beckermet Parish Council representatives and recently participated in a stakeholder workshop that looked at potential transport, vehicle and site access options.
"We are committed to providing regular updates, including a further stakeholder workshop, to communicate progress on the various options being considered."
Sir – Powering the nation? For crying out loud...
1 West Cumbria is now the Energy Coast, which means there are large clumps of wind turbines offshore and sprouting up in fields nearer to home. These, together with a new nuclear power station at Sellafield, will be expected to provide (via pylons, because they're cheaper) power to the rest of England. It'll be far enough away not to spoil the view for people living in London, Birmingham, Manchester etc.
2 Our A595 takes one line of traffic in each direction, we've all seen the cars and vans queueing from Bigrigg to Calderbridge to get to work in the morning and the same lot going home at the end of the working day. So how are all the wagons full of building materials going to get to Sellafield and how are they going to get back out again with the rubble? Come to that where are they going to dump it?
3 Then there's the rubble from the proposed underground nuclear waste dump, where's all that going?
4 We all know it rains in Cumbria while other parts of England suffer from drought. We already keep Manchester watered. How long will it be before some bright spark in London decides our surplus water should be pumped south-east so he can clean his four- wheel drive and fill his swimming pool?
How's it going to feel when all we can see from our windows are pylons and wires overhead and pipes and pumps at ground level? Of course, so long as someone remembers to make the roads wider, all those out of work will find jobs but those of us who enjoy peace and quiet will be wishing we live somewhere else, over the border in Scotland maybe?
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SIR – Unite are standing up for British workers – that is patriotic!
To strike during the Olympic games may be below the belt and unfair on visitors to the games, who would have their visit disrupted, but if the government won't listen, well on their heads be it.
The government needs to take note, for example the controversial fuel tax. Hauliers etc could just shut the country down as in the summer 10-11 years ago! They could do it during the Jubilee or Olympics.
The government argues that by cutting fuel tax or not increasing it means that the money needs to be found elsewhere. How about all the aid we pay to other countries? I find that "unacceptable and unpatriotic". We could keep that in our own country to help our own people and workers. That would be patriotic! That would be acceptable!.
SIR – I'm getting a sense of deja vu lately in regard to the proposal for a nuclear waste repository in West Cumbria. We've been here before.
In the 1980s, Nirex, the then nuclear safety inspectorate, was drilling test boreholes in East Anglia, a sensible choice as this is one of the most stable geological regions in Britain.What they hadn't bargained for was the ire this would raise in the heartland of "Middle England", the Tory Shires! This is the land of the educated, vociferous and articulate middle classes. They certainly did not expect the rumpus they would cause amongst the local population.
After a bitter fought battle Nirex was forced to withdraw with its tail between its legs!
Thinking that, having lived with nuclear power for a long time, and, as Ross Brewster says in his article in The Herald on Saturday, March 3, that perhaps the West Cumbrians were "willing patsies", they turned up in West Cumbria a few years later.
They began a series of test bore holes in what is a very unstable geological area. As Ross indicates the debate was much more evenly balanced between supporters and the opposition. As Ross also suggests there are always those who will use jobs as kind of a trump card in their arguments. But as I understand it, once the facility was built there would be very few jobs in it. The results of the geological survey were equivocal and very worrying to say the least. Eventually, the Secretary for the Environment of the then Conservative government under Margaret Thatcher (I think it was John Gummer) "called the case in" and, after reviewing all the evidence, virtually told Nirex to shut up shop, leave West Cumbria and have a rethink. There was an almost audible collective sigh of relief from the large number of West Cumbrians of which I was one at the time.
Those boreholes are still there capped off and in mothballs. You can imagine that Nirex (or whatever the present quango is called) will be thinking . "Well it's some time ago now, perhaps they've forgotten and in any case, we spent millions on those bore holes it's a shame to waste them!"
I can almost hear a collective "Oh no! Here we go again" coming out of West Cumbria!
Eddie SYKES
Long Marton
SIR – In response to Tim Knowles' letter of last week in response to Mr Woods of January 31, Coun Knowles places emphasis on building consensus at every stage.
Would that be consensus for or against moving to stage four? How can we measure that if groups and individuals have no funding for putting their views across and we are to have no referendum?
The MRWS partnership is well funded and has produced some very professional literature, albeit very misleading, the best example being that volunteerism has occurred in Sweden and Finland. What the MRWS literature fails to say is that no communities in Sweden and Finland were asked to volunteer before their geology was known to be acceptable. You would have thought with the failed £440M Nirex investigation lessons would have been learned. We are now told that the design of the GDF could change from one of a huge cavern (as detailed on the MRWS website) to one of boreholes. By any reasoning it must now be apparent the deeply flawed geology of West Cumbria (as pointed out by Profs Smythe and Haszeldine) will be made to "fit" the problem.
Tim Knowles points out that there are "limited circumstances where a borough or county council could ultimately override the wishes of a potential host community". Perhaps he might enlighten your readers as to what these circumstances might be and how they would square off with "volunteerism", ie if the will of the community was not to volunteer then it makes a nonsense of democracy and forces a community to accept unwanted waste for generations to come. An inter-generational blight, albeit that voters will have their revenge come election time.
For Mr Knowles to point out that if a community wishes not to be included then it must show the whole community has been given a chance to express its views, then we should call his bluff now and have a county wide referendum. This is at real odds with the partnerships current view that it does not feel a referendum would be a good idea. Heads I win, tails you lose, and a corruption of democracy if ever there was one. What Mr Knowles should find interesting is that local parish and town councils are now voting to reject the MRWS partnership view to move to stage four, with more expected to do so. With this in mind has not Mr Knowles answered his own question?
The proposal to site a GDF in West Cumbria is a political decision already taken by DECC as they and the NDA are well aware that better and safer geological sites exist within the UK. The geology is substandard and the process of so called "volunteerism", as outlined by Tim Knowles as it relates to a democratic process, as I understand its meaning to be, falls well short of a Russian election result. I live in the east of the county yet no one asked me if I wanted to be a volunteer and yet my county council has backed this process. Do the right thing, have a county-wide referendum now and then we will know if we have "volunteered" or not.
Colin WALES
SIR – Just a quick thank you to the people who helped make "The Whitehouse Strikes Back" a success. To the Marchon Club for letting me have the venue, to Print Express for printing tickets and posters at cost, and to Threads, Richardson's and The Rum Story for selling tickets.
Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team and The Great North Air Ambulance will each receive a cheque for £364, which I'm told "will help make a difference".
Finally can I just say what a great crowd of people turned up to enjoy themselves; it was a superb atmosphere and the time simply flew by.
If you have any pictures from the night that you'd like to share "The Whitehouse Strikes Back" facebook page is still open.
Phil HASLEHURST
(aka Big Phil)
Ribton Moorside, Whitehaven
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