Renewable energy - a case for Government grants

The Earth is a unique eco system in our solar system. It is the only place in the solar system that intelligent life can maintain as we know it. Outside of a variety of diseases our existence threatened as economic depression, meaningless murderous wars, global pandemics, very bad weather patterns, bad government is styles and a host of others, one that stands out and consistently in the news, the threat of extinction due to protective earth damage ozone layer is caused primarily the experts of the fossil fuels we love to burn in very large amounts for a variety of uses.

So, what will do a person if faced with alternatives, if you love something to eat excessive damage to your personal health caused wonder. I believe that a person, not the intent of suicide will find and follow to keep any and all costs, the rates of the expert in a bid alive.

It should to heal the general assumption that people form system of the Governments of the Earth are responsible people who are willing to do any and all necessary to the Earth and its inhabitants from destruction by a bad store, which with abundant alternative sources.

From the above perspective should then subsidizing of alternative energy sources at the top of the agenda of any responsible Government on Earth for a variety of reasons, including:
The immediate exposure hazard of the problem at hand.
Must initiate, implement, and accelerate an immediate solution.
Initial cost of the emergent technologies.
Effects of high crude oil prices to economic food.
Reducing dependence on foreign energy sources.

Hardly a day goes by without news in the media about the threat to our existence due to global warming. Typical example is done a current news item about the damage to Chile's economy through climate change how http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8058080.stm reported by the BBC link.

As one of the immediate nature of the problem, it has become necessary that Governments across the planet to develop, implement and solutions, the effective, now and a minute later to accelerate.

It is well-known that however always a high cost take the development of new and emerging technologies which sometimes kills most of the projects in its embryonic stages. This is where a responsible Government must actively lend a hand to those that you need to research and development, and greening our planet aligned rolls out new products to maintain instead of imposing taxes on power consumption as responsible Governments need to follow which opened just his first solar I believe by the Governor of California, managing Germany proposed powered after the news item at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1220-05.htm plant

The effects of high crude oil prices on the economy always negative, what high energy loss of jobs, depression, increased welfare costs, applications, loss of life and to mention the always present negative effect on the atmosphere.

Active supervision and development of alternative energy sources like wind, solar, has thermal, portable nuclear energy and many others the potential, dependency on foreign oil supplies to reduce an activity that had adverse effects on the economy in the course of time has go adequate level of prices for crude oil. Crude oil prices wait to shoot like continue, through the roof that the Indian and Chinese economies to develop higher consumption rates.

Some active involvement of Governments in subsidising renewable energy sources should contain:
Tax incentives for the development and production of hybrid vehicles by manufacturers, and subsidies for those who go out of their way to buy this type of rolling stock.
Tax breaks, subsidies and other monetary incentives for private builders and home owners that want to include renewable energy resources in their homes.
Active participation in the design and development of alternative energy sources outside and in cooperation with the private sector.
Benefits of Government subsidising renewable energy sources include:

Early adoption of technology by a high percentage of the population that is in a very positive win for the Government and other stakeholders from industry.
Reduced dependence on foreign oil reserves.
CO2 emissions by the excessive use of petroleum by-products.
Creating new job and career opportunities.
Much less dependence on welfare handouts.
Perhaps greater hope for a greener, more habitable planet.

In the final analysis, the greening of the planet is a responsibility that must be taken by Governments, businesses and citizens alike. Not only the Governments may be responsible. All hands must this precious for future generations so that our stories read to protect Chronicles on deck as that of the biblical prodigal son in the future.

England smothered in disastrous World Cup campaign

The investigation in the England team continues unabated poor performance at the FIFA World Cup 2010. Different lines of thought have in an effort to determine the underlying causes for their failure to promote about the second round and explain away your uninspired performances during the tournament tracks. By unrealistic expectation and rampant tribalism are stifled for England.

Manager Fabio Capello has limit of the player by the English press for his boot camp approach to the finals, movement, may affect team morale were State. His tactics were also questioned, as he decided to keep a rigid formation with players, such as Steven Gerrard often played out of position and would in a way that afford you the opportunity to replicate your club form at international level.

There are a variety of reasons forward, to explain England's failure, an ignominious exit with a 4-1-defeat rivals Germany in the second round has led. The intensity of the Premier League and the long English season has no winter break another argument was made.

In fact, bore the Premier League the brunt of critique castigated for stuffy English player development to put their faith in foreign imports as only about 35% of its players indigenous, as managers. Even the way English players are taught and selected on a basis level has been checked. Coach prefer to be physically strong and sporty, rather than favouring the technical ability that successful teams at the World Cup has seen how the Netherlands and Argentina, unfold their players.

This argument amounts to a damning indictment of the English game. There is also the fact that the team be suffocated by expectation and tribalism.

The British tabloids build on the page before the tournament and if you rip apart success just to give you enjoy when you are defeated. A typical example would be the response to England's narrow 1-0-victory over relative minnows Slovenia. The team were transformed into world beaters fall into your eyes of some, against Germany in subsequent play just as hard.

The frantic and intoxicating atmosphere that surrounds a World Championship is also national identity permeates every section of society open commercial from the supermarket to the Salon.

England is essentially an extreme tribal nation, numerous split loyalties, the already small part of the island divided into miniature segments. If the national side play this firmly rooted divisions fade largely among fans to support a common cause. The hysteria created means that if expectations are not met, there is an even greater response, as if it were perhaps a defeat for a Club page. This is a bi-annual particularly acute as large tournaments, em, WM) are volatile and shortened microcosm of fan proudly.

Probably, for the players, not the cause of the national side with Club compete rivalries. Written usually petulant Ashley Cole a social networking status message from his cell phone to friends before the World Cup, stating that he "hates England and its people'.

Cole, has been placed on the incident in question quotes by British tabloid the Sun, as he said, "I always try, I feel my hardest for England and Chelsea but the penetration and pressure makes me my life hell."

Coles outbreak and Wayne Rooney, boos from England fans after a pitiful performance against Algeria in the group stage, symbolizes the media driven expectation that suffocates the national team.

Rooney was visibly unhappy with the boos, television cameras say "it's nice to see your home fans booing you."

If the players have a militant relationship with your own stuffy country and his fans, you share one also as turbulent with each other. Tribalism rears its head to team get-together, training and in tournaments.

Liverpool Defender Jamie Carragher, once famous said he was a Scouser first (person from Liverpool) and then an English ' and retired from the international side in 2006 citing a frustration with defective possibilities. He was back in England by Fabio Capello, an act of career opportunism lured, given instead of a response to the national cause maybe Carragher, 32, is unlikely that another play.

Carragher's assertions underline the importance of regional identity to some supporters, especially those in the fervent Liverpool area who proclaim to Scouse, often themselves instead of English.

Former England player Andy Hinchcliffe tribalism's comprehensive range in the England camp alluded. During his international career in the mid-1990s, Hinchcliffe told a BBC Radio 5Live fan's Forum, which often unrelated should speak Liverpool and rivals Manchester United player.

Such disharmony can be only at the expense of the national cause. Cliques exist in all walks of life but unfortunately for England, were all too obvious,- and turn off the pitch at the this year's World Cup so disjointed and unprofessional experienced performances, the fans.

Tribalism itself is not something that can extinct, but there are other Nations that aside lets your feelings to play Club partisan successfully as a team whose players. Spain for example, the last winner of the UEFA European Championship 2008, are a number of players shared not just by club rivalry but of political and geographical pressure.

If the Catalans from Barcelona, can play like e.g. midfielder Xavi, alongside those of capital Madrid, goalkeeper Iker Casillas, can England of their own Club quarrels in perspective to back then surely?

If the nation's win expectations of a first major tournament since 1966, when England won their only World Cup, are met, deleted as tribalism from the list of the reasons for the failure so that the country can focus exclusively on care of the best-equipped players for success have, are.

William money art a football writer with one is weekly column about on http://www.the-football-blog.co.uk. He writes on many other topics including Showbiz, culture, technology and politics. His personal blog can be found at http://www.armchairsanddeckchairs.blogspot.com.

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Sort the good from the disadvantage, I take you through
some of the promises you can see and where you have reason
to be skeptical:

1 / Incorrect information

If the search engine optimization ("SEO") provider
Statements like "Submit your Web site consistently is the # 1"
Away to "you know you are not indexed by the search engines"
talk about the most popular search engine to begin!
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enough, you get good rankings; Search engines are smart
than that.

2 / Use of automated submission tools / reports

If this negative effect on your site overused, may rank. The
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Programs (instead of people) to the use either continuously
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A quick test to see whether all claims and testimonials
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Terms and conditions. While clearly search engine optimization is going to be
a popular phrase on the Internet should be better SEOs most
have at least your main URL in the first 5 pages one appear
You are looking for. Oh... Please don't go looking for my site in
the search engines like I not SEO professionals on busy my have
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appropriate keywords.

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If an SEO in search engine results is not visible, as I have
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You claim that you partner with this search engine. Even worse
is, where the SEO practices, the especially warned used
the search engines, you are entitled to as a partner (see)
(Point 6).

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The important question here is who you know that actually
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This is likely to make a difference to the number of visitors
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the industry, which your website in as falls. a
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A mention of the use of doorway pages and cloaking techniques
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(REF: footer 3)

An example of what can go wrong if you use doorway pages
and other so-called 'sneaky' techniques, read about BMW Germany
banned by Google here (published on 6th Feb 2006):
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Footnotes:

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Looking back on the path of the literary arts in Sierra Leone

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To start examining the topic requires defining and understanding the key terms. Of course the phrase "looking back" implies recollecting and reflecting on what has gone on in the past and in our specific case this is confined to what has gone on in the past of the literary arts scene in Sierra Leone which is the former British colony in the West coast of Africa, surrounded by Guinea, Conakry and Liberia which became independent on 27th April 1961.

The word "ART" in The Oxford Dictionaries has been defined as follows:

1. The production of something beautiful, or the skill and ability in such work.

2. Works such as paintings, sculptures produced by skill. Creative activities such as paintings, theatre and story or poetry writings.

3. Skill applied to design, representation or imaginative creation.

4. The conscious use of skilled imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects.

These then suggest that the broad gamut of art covers music, cinema, photography, painting, theatre, dance, literature and architecture.

This article, for reasons of space, has been limited to the literary arts. I will as the situation demands be making passing references to other aspects of the arts as we go along.

Literature itself is a central art. It is of course the finer material of theatre and sometimes of dance, more so ballet. It is also related to those performing arts in the sense that it also recaptures the dramatic representation of action or slices of life, albeit through the written mode. But depending on the skill of the presentation such representation resonates with life almost as if it were a dramatic recreation or even the very real situation itself. It also captures what the visual arts capture through not the brush of a painter or the camera of the photographer but through its presentation through a carefully selected arranged sequence of words, which convey a vivid and accurate image of that picture.

Through words then, a literary writer recaptures the visual images of a painter or photographer in the written mode. Through the reader's skills in unraveling the mental images, unveiling of the symbols hidden behind language through mental images, he gets the visual representation of reality that words carry. The rhythm is most prominent in poetry, particularly in drama. This should not suggest that rhythm could not be found in novels and short stories. We all know how deep an ingredient, music and dance is in African drama which the late Dele Charley, John Kolosa Kargbo, Yulisa Amadu Maddy, Raymond De Souza-George and Charley Haffner, often exemplify in their performances.

I intend to look at the literary scene as it was before independence in 1961. Literature was then seen largely through the medium of newspapers of which the famous Sierra Leone Weekly News was the most prominent. It was almost like a literary journal, though printed in the form of a newspaper. Sawyer's Bookshop at Water Street also played a vital role as not only making wide selections of literary works from the Western world available, but in also publishing small pamphlets and little books from time to time.

At that time clubs flourished and many of them had literary activities as part of their program. Clubs like the City Literary Institute and Greenfield Club organized lectures and dramatic shows. The Greenfield Club was aimed particularly at promoting literary activities. The Eccentric Society (a Multiracial group) organized periodic "mind-uplifting concerts. However many of these clubs were short lived. According to historical analysts this was due to the majority of Krios lacking interest in self-improvement and disunity within the ranks of the upper level of Freetown society. This was limited to a few hundred people from whose ranks many of the other clubs drew their membership. With this sort of close-knitted society, personal disagreements were easily brought into these societies thus disrupting their harmony and causing their break up.

It could then be deduced that literary activities then were more or less of an academic and philosophical or religious nature. Seldom were genuine literary efforts displayed. Such a scenario was transferred to the production of books. Many of the books have been more of textbooks or dissertations. One of the first written works by a Sierra Leonean in 1865 reflected this concern. It was the work of the medico James Africanus Horton on West African Political Economy of British West Africa. His second book three years later in 1868 was West African Countries and People, British and Native. This was like many of the other works published in London. There is also A.B.C. Sibthorpe's monumental historical work on Freetown.

Few creative works during this period were produced by creative writers like Adelaide Casely-Hayford and Gladys Casely-Hayford. Gladys Casely-Hayford was perhaps the best-known from this period. Some of her poems and stories have appeared in American and British publications and are still been included in recent anthologies compiled in the West. One of her poems which she published in a small book of poetry, Take Am So in Freetown in 1948 is written in the country's lingua franca, krio.

The Educationist Mrs. Adelaide Casely-Hayford (nee Smith) wrote stories following the traditions of Ghanaian writers like Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo. The most popular of these is "Mister Courifer" which is part of Paul Geoffrey Edward's anthology for schools which was widely used in Freetown schools in the early 60s.,West African Narrative This concern for culture is even seen in her work in the educational field. According to historian, Akintola Wyse, after studying in England and Germany and returning home she was so appalled by the system of education for women that she devoted her whole life to introducing a system that gave an important place to African customs, arts and crafts amongst others.

Another poet published during that period was Crispin George whose collection of poems titled Precious Gems was published by a well known vanity publishing outlet, Arthur Stockwell in 1952.

A most important name in Sierra Leone Literature is the broadcaster Thomas Decker. His importance is not only because he spans both the colonial and independence periods, but because his pioneering work in propagating the wider use of Krio for literary purposes was what generated the flowering of Krio plays intensified by Dele Charley, Raymond De Souza George, Esther Taylor-Pearce, Lawrence Kweku-Woode amongst many others. He is seen as the principal poet in Krio on to the mid 50's. Some of them were published in the mid 60's in the Sierra Leone Language Review and Sierra Leone Studies. He also came out with Krio adaptations of Shakespeare's plays like Julius Caesar.

It is difficult to account for all of the creative works published then as many appeared in varying media, newspapers, magazines and journals locally as well as abroad.

Abioseh Nicol's short stories had achieved renown internationally, appearing in British Literary journals and anthologies. Some of these formed part of his two well known short story collections Two African Tales and The Truly Married Woman and other Stories all published by Cambridge University Press.

This colonial period was marked by little publication of creative works in book form. But with the onset of independence and the publication of Robert Wellesley Cole's autobiographical work Kossoh Town Boy by Cambridge University Press more works in book form were published.

The plays of Raymond Sarif Easmon. Dear Parent and Ogre, The New Patriot and his novel The Burnt Out Marriage profited from this.

Dr. William Conton's work, The African was a breakthrough for the Sierra Leone novel. It was almost like our own. Things Fall Apart. Like Things Fall Apart, The African was first published in London. American editions appeared the same year. It was published in 1960 with another edition following a year after. It was reprinted in Great Britain in 1964. Translations of it have been made into Arabic, Hungarian and Russian. EkundayoRowe also had his collection of stories. No Seed For The Soil, self- published in book form.

Later, new names like Yulisa Amadu Maddy, Muctarr Mustapha, Wilfred Taylor, Delphine King and Syl Cheney-Coker all broke out into print in various forms.

From the 70's onwards more new writers emerged. Yema Lucilda Hunter's novel Road to Freedom was published in Nigeria by a Sierra Leonean publishing outfit, African Universities Press A.U.P. She has recently published another novel titled Bitter Sweet. Prince Dowu Palmer's novel The Mocking Stones was published by Longmans in 1982 in their Drumbeat series. The same publisher had a year earlier published Raymond Sarif Easmon's The Feud and other stories. This period is also characterized by the aggressive promotion of Macmillan publishers in Sierra Leone. They have already three novels from Sierra Leone in their Pacesetter series. This includes two young writers, the journalist and teacher Edison Yongai who came outwith Who killed Mohta and the insurance manager, OsmanConteh, with Double Trouble. From abroad also news of the publication of Yayah Swarray's plays was received. His worksinclude 'De Wol Do for Fraide.' Other writers, notably, Talabi Aisie Lucan, Melville Stuart, Marilyn Awoonor- Renner, Winston Forde and Clifford N. Fyfe channeled their creative energies into producing children's literature many of which were published by Evans.

After independence a few newspapers and other magazines of schools, colleges and churches carried limited quantity of creative writing. The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service which was then in the creative hands of the late John Akar, a writer himself, gave much outlet for creativity, whether literary, or performing. SLBS indeed gave prominence to artists like Ebenezer Calendar, Allie Ganda and the Rokel River Boys. There was also a regular short story program in some radio programming quarter. This featured the short stories of young as well as older Sierra Leoneans including two stories of mine. In addition, there were book review programs. The children's half hour programs in English as well as the national languages were opportunities for the airing and dissemination of the rich folklore of the country. Indeed many of us who had no grandmother at home spinning such rich and interesting yarns for us, the story telling line on SLBS indeed filled in a yawning gap in our social and cultural education.

With independence also there were many newspapers including the Daily Mail which was then a truly daily paper that gave much space to creative writing, short stories as well as stories for children in the children's corner. There were also regular publications of book reviews as well as some attention given to other artistic activities such as dramatic performances and musical concerts.

But unfortunately today the literary arts no longer receives as much attention as before in the press. The pressmen themselves complain of paucity of space which limits their publication to just political social and economic news. The Daily Mailitself had plummeted to an all time low in which it could no longer be safely termed a weekly or bi-weekly. It too is in dire shortage of space. But today it has finally gone silent. The New Citizen gives some space to the serialized stories of it's Managing Director and proprietor, I.B. Kargbo.

A commendable trend started in the 70's with the interest shown by a Swedish Linguist Nevillle Shrimpton in the emerging plays in krio of young as well as older playwrights. Thomas Decker's translation of Julius Caesar was happily one of the plays he published. Also published in the Shrimpton series have been Lawrence Kweku Woode's (God pas Konsibul) Raymond De Souza George's (Bohbohlef) Dele Charley's (Fatmata, Petikot Korner) and Esther Taylor Pearce's (Bad Man Pas Emti Os).

There were occasional breakthroughs when Sierra Leonean young writers were published in journals and magazines abroad. A notable medium outside which featured short stories regularly was WEST AFRICA Magazine. Stories of younger writers like Peter Karefa-Smart and Brima Rogers have appeared there. Yet another of Rogers' stories was broadcast on the BBC's Short Story programme on World Service. And a lady writer won the short story competition organized by the BBC African Service followed by Mohamed Sheriff who has in addition won several playwrighting contests organized by the B.B.C. His name seems like one to be watched as he has demonstrated consistently strong signs of promise. He has published three works already including a play, Sorie Clever, another play The Crook and the Fools and a novella titled Secret Fear, which was co-winner of the ECOWAS prize for excellence in literature. Macmillan Publishers published it in the McTracks series in 1997.

Arthur Edgar E. Smith was born and schooled in Freetown, Sierra Leone.. He has taught English since 1977 at Prince of Wales School and, Milton Margai College of Education.and is now at Fourah Bay College where he has risen to the rank of Senior Lecturer, lecturing English, Literature, as well as Creative Writing for the past seven years.

Mr Smith is widely published both locally as well as internationally with his writings appearing in local newspapers as well as in West Africa Magazine, Index on Censorship,Focus on Library and Information Work amongst others.

He was one of 17 international visitors who participated in a seminar on contemporary American Literature sponsored by the U.S.State Department from June to August 2006. His growing thoughts and reflections on this trip which took him to various US sights and sounds in Louisville, San Francisco, Cincinnati and Washington D.C. could be read at lisnews.org.

His other publications include: Folktales from Freetown, Langston Hughes: Life and Works Celebrating Black Dignity, and 'The Struggle of the Book.'

Everything - the illusion of a problem to privatise

We all know why it is a bad idea to privatise public services. The purpose of the public service is to serve the public and the purpose of a private company to make a profit for their shareholders. It must not genius to see that the two interests are against. Why is done so? Because politicians in the pockets of private interest? Yes, you could basically it thereby provided. But how you sell it to us is the interesting part here, I want to focus.

Part privatisation (it was never called) of the British Royal Mail disappeared in July 2009 temporarily from the headlines. For weeks we were told, as we need the cash and the expertise of the private sector because Royal Mail was not good and needed to reform and bring in the 21st century. A non-British company was the preferred bidder.
So, what's the problem with Royal Mail?

Before we try to answer this, let us see the fun race broadcast the popular BBC motoring programme top gear in the same month. Two of the presenters paid £ 0.39 for a first class stamp and published by an island in very southwest of United to a village on another island in the North-East the most corner of the country. Royal mail tell you a first class write very next-day anywhere in the United Kingdom provide.

So jumped the BBC presenters in a Porsche and drove all day and all night to beat in an attempt to the letter. Meanwhile, the letter made its way through the 24 hour postal vans, trucks and several aircraft. When the BBC presenters finally arrived to the letter's goal, was the letter already there waiting for you. The Porsche sports car and the two determined men had beaten the mail system.

So, what's wrong with Royal Mail? The answer seems to be: nothing! Apart perhaps from the fact that it is post too cheap things and that their mail system is the British trash (because that is what is said, are). But if I 10 years ago, mail was more expensive links Germany and usually 3 days for a letter it took to get and I suppose, is still the case. Yes! The mega-efficient Germans!

joking £ 0.39 for such a service, you? So, what is it, the needs in the 21st century? How much more efficiently can you get?

But the way to privatization is always the same. Starve the finance service, make it appear as taxpayers are no good service and then claim that the privatization is the only way forward. What needs, Royal Mail be taxpayer owned, keep a monopoly, free of charge fair prices (by this I more mean).

If we stopped issue billions to buy banks debts on nuclear deterrence is on wars against civilians abroad for in favour of the private oil interests and all the spying on law-abiding citizens, we would have much for all types of public services, which is what really is the money for.

I believe privatization is simple redirect taxes into private pockets. I'm not communism, but public services, money to earn not there should be for private shareholders.

Oliver Müller
http://www.swordofpower.org

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World darts Championship

You may have noticed (especially if you watch Sky Sports), around Christmas and new year is pretty much darts on TV. This is due to the fact that two world championships are played. This is very unusual in any sport (other than boxing), but how could it come about?

Darts is a game that was popular among the working class and was often played in pubs. In 1973 the British darts organization was formed (BDO) and led, is held in 1978 to the first World Championship. Darts began to enjoy a golden age as shown tournaments on the BBC and ITV and players such as Eric Bristow, John Lowe and Jocky Wilson budget name.

However shown a fateful day in 1980 a BBC Comedy program called ' not the nine o'clock news' (with Mel Smith and Gryth Rhys Jones) a sketch darts players, mocking how famous shot down pints at the Oche. Although not diminish the popularity of the game at this point, the damage was to the image of the game Act immense. Followed by a slow decline and had stopped 1988 ITV, darts total show and the World Cup was the only event, the links in the television.

The initial boom in DART had disenchanted an influx of players eager their trade led ply, who they felt the game could be more to promote but with the television coverage that disappear as links sponsors are sport, these players with the prize money with the BDO. Even the move to ban players drinking alcohol on the stage of 1989 did little to the public image improve darts and darts players. 1992 A group of sixteen players founded the world darts Council (WDC). The group included every active previous world champion Phil Taylor, Eric Bristow and John Lowe. Leighton Rees, who had already withdrawn was not to join the only previous world champion. The first event of the WDC staged in the same year was UK master the LADA.

1993 World Championship than normal took WDC players during the sporting their new WDC badge on your sleeve of BDO. BDO is then asked to remove the badge. The player then decided when would the BDO of their organization which would you go, there own way and form a separate tour recognize. The WDC signed an agreement with sky television to three tournaments screen a year.This in turn to a different world championships led the first instead of 1994 (although it began in 1993 on Boxing Day) with Dennis Priestley win it.

The WDC has since changed its name to professional darts Corporation (PDC). Relations between the two darts facilities remain restless after a costly three-year court battle which ended in 1997. The PDC has the larger tour with more events and more prize money, while the BDO BBC has maintained audience due to terrestrial television coverage and larger display. The PDC has been employed to develop tournaments in USA Australia Netherlands, South Africa, Germany among others. The PDC events televised in you UK are televised on Sky. An important development for darts in 2007 was the return of ITV shielded the Grand Slam of darts. The event was unusual as it was ran from the PDC but was for players who won or runners were major events in PDC and BDO in the past two years. The only player who rejected it, play was the BDO master of Martin Adams then.

With the two professional associations both still happy to hate each other to the detriment of the sport, it looks like we have two world for years to come darts champions. This year it was John part (PDC) and mark Webster (BDO). On the one hand, there are more darts to observe, but surely there should be a true champion of the world.

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On the home front, the presidency of George W. Bush has caused numerous social and economic problems. While the controversies over abortion and same-sex marriages aren't fresh, Bush uses "faith-based initiative" to justify his presidential actions. Although the Constitution makes clear the right of the people to choose and practice their own religion without government interference, the Bush administration made clear their support of the Christian religion above other religions by disbursing over $1.1 billion to Christian groups for community service purposes. However, no regulations were set on how the groups could spend the money. Furthermore, no Jewish or Muslim groups received funds (Kitty 615).

When controversy arose over same-sex marriages, Bush, once again, used his faith in an attempt to amend to constitution. He supported the Defense of Marriage

Act, which would prevent federal recognition of same-sex marriage and allow states to

ignore same-sex licenses from outside their borders. President Bush said that "the union of a man and woman...is encouraged by every religious faith." Bush's comments on gay marriage were condemned by the Democratic Party as a way to write discrimination into the Constitution.

Bush also used his personal beliefs in an attempt to make abortion illegal. This is also in conflict of separation of church and state. Bush, being extremely pro-life, made third-trimester and partial-birth abortions illegal in November 2003. He also decided to block U.S. funds to international family planning groups that offer abortion and abortion counseling. The administration has also denied $34 million annually for the U.N. Population Fund. The fund provides birth control, maternal and child health care, and HIV/AIDS prevention services for women in some of the world's most impoverished regions. It did not provide money for abortion. It is estimated that this funding could have prevented 2 million unwanted pregnancies, 800,000 induced abortions and 4,700 maternal deaths, as well as 77,000 infant and child deaths each year.

On an even more important issue, education, Bush has failed to make progress. After his election he signed the No Child Left Behind Act on January 8th of 2002 and since then, then bill has been horribly underfunded. The Congressional Republicans at that time refused to fund No Child Left Behind at the levels they originally agreed to, preventing teachers and schools from realizing the goals established in this law. To date, nearly $27 billion has been withheld from America's public education system, and West Virginia alone did not get $66 million in public school funding in 2006 promised by Congress and the President. In fact, every single state in America has had promised funds withheld.

During the Clinton Administration, the U.S. enjoyed economic stability. Unemployment decreased steadily, and when Clinton left office the U.S. has a budget surplus of $200 billion. Thanks to Bush and the Iraqi War, the U.S. is now in debt eight trillion dollars (Hall). In addition, the stock market is declining daily. Enron, an energy company backed by Republicans, suffered the largest bankruptcy in American history. Thousands of workers lost their 401(k) savings due to this collapse (The End of Enron).

Inflation is also a major problem affecting America since the beginning of the Bush Administration. This isn't directly because of any act passed by President Bush. This is because of, not only the decline in the economy, but also because of extreme amount of money Bush has spent on the "War on Terrorism". These two occurrences have forced American business into increasing their prices just to make the margin of profit as they did before the inauguration of Bush. The U.S. has run up a foreign debt so extensive that it is actually affecting the balance of the global economy. The United States' net financial obligations to the rest of the world could be equal to 40 percent of its total economy within a few years (Becker and Andrews).

There has also been inflation in the price of gasoline. This is not only because of the natural inflation of our economy, but also because of the war in the Middle East. About half of the United States' oil comes from countries in the Middle East which are part of OPEC (U.S. Energy Policy). Gasoline prices rose sharply at the beginning of the Iraqi invasion and have continued to fluctuate since then. The prices can rise and fall at drastic rates of 30 cents a day. After the government's blunder of Hurricane Katrina, the price of gas soared to an astonishing amount of $3.29 per gallon.

When President Clinton left office, the United States was revered throughout the world. Now, we are viewed as one of the most arrogant nations. Not only does Bush have job-approval ratings south of 40% in the U.S., he also faces international hecklers. At a summit in an Argentine resort, Bush's presence set off protest marches and even anti-free-trade demonstrations (Fineman 29). In addition, several million people took to the streets of Europe on February 15, 2003 to protest the U.S. invasion of Iraq (Kitty 630).

The fact that President Bush disregarded the U.N. decision of going to Iraq placed a rift between the U.S. and the U.N. The U.N. was unsure about going to war because their policy is to only attack a country if it is an immediate threat. The U.S. government argued that Hussein supported terrorist organizations and was concealing illegal weapons programs. The United States pressed for military action, while Security Council members, such as France, Germany, and Russia, argued for more time to seek a diplomatic solution. The U.S. and U.N. failed to reach an agreement, and a U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq without the backing of the council (International Relations). Not only has Bush received negative feedback because of the Iraqi War; he has also has faced criticism on his immigration policy. What Bush proposes is to return illegal immigrants back to their hometown instead of just across the border. This solution does not solve the problem. The economy in Mexico is too poor for these immigrants to stay there. As a superpower, we have a responsibility to help poverty-stricken nations. Also, Bush is in support of a temporary worker program. The temporary worker program would allow employers in the U.S. to employ immigrants from Mexico. In theory, it is a good idea. It would give immigrants a chance to get on their feet and would also help American business. However, what Bush is overlooking is that employers love cheap labor. So do consumers, as long as it leads to cheaper prices and does not compete directly for their own jobs.

In addition to poverty in Mexico, there is also a genocide occurring in Sudan. Sudan is one of the seven countries that the U.N. says supports terrorism. Pro-government Arab militias have forced more than one million Africans from their homes and killed thousands. In 2004 Bush said that "We made our position clear to the Sudanese government-they must stop Janjaweed violence, they must provide access to humanitarian relief for the people who suffer". However, Colin Powell and Kofi Annan have said they have not seen enough evidence to convince them there is a genocide in Darfur though there have been 30 to 40 mass graves discovered (Darfur Genocide). Therefore, nothing has been done by the U.N. or The U.S. to stop this atrocity. Though the suffering in Sudan is not directly linked to anything Bush has done, the continuation of it does reflect on what he hasn't done. Through all of this, the American public has

learned very little about Sudan and its people. Again, as a world power, the United States should take action to stop this genocide.

Possibly the biggest criticism of President Bush is how he handled the 9/11 attacks and the Iraqi War. Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, President Bush opted to go into hiding instead of returning to his place at the White House as most Presidents have in a time of crisis. In addition, President Bush didn't visit Ground Zero for three days after the attacks. On September 14 he finally found the courage to step foot on the scene. (Kitty 625).

Bush, during his press conference, gave a speech about how he was going to handle his foreign policy after the attacks on the World Trade Center. He then claimed there would be a "War on Terrorism". This so-called "war" was not only vague in description but also left many Americans questioning what the "War on Terrorism" was going to consist of. The answer came quickly: not only an infiltration on Iraq but also the hunting of the Al Queda throughout the Middle East.

The next plan of action was to send American soldiers over to Afghanistan to stop the Al Queda network. This group was led by a very rich and powerful man named Osama Bin-Laden. Bin-Laden is the head of anti-capitalist and anti-American movements in the Middle East (Who is Osama Bin Laden?). Days after the attacks of 9/11 he had a video on cable in possibly Qandahar, Afghanistan praising and congratulating the men who had hijacked the planes that were crashed. He then began to encourage other citizens of Afghanistan to follow in their footsteps because this war against America was a Jihad,

or Holy War. In Jihad, if a Muslim shall be a martyr for their religious beliefs they and their family shall be granted a place in heaven beside Muhammad. Also, the families were paid handsomely for the martyrdom of their family member. (Zimbardo 17). This encouraged many Muslims to follow in the 9/11 terrorists footsteps. Many suicide bombers came to Iraq for the sole purpose of kill American troops. This video also confirmed that Bin-Laden was responsible for the loss of over 2000 American lives and produced a face for Americans to hate.

After a grueling stay in Afghanistan and the evasion on Bin-Laden from the American military, Bush decided to move troops to Iraq to catch Osama Bin-Laden and bring down the Saddam Hussein regimen. The Bush administration believed that Hussein

was aiding Bin-Laden in the terrorist attacks, and also that Hussein was concealing Weapons of Mass Destruction, or WMD. After the Persian Gulf war of 1991, Iraq was ordered to destroy all WMD and to allow periodical checks. In 1998 Iraq stopped allowing the periodical checks and then let them continue again in 2002. When the American military invaded Iraq to look for weapons, they found nothing (Persian Gulf War of 2003).

Bush managed to overthrow the Hussein regime, but for what cost? The monetary cost of his "war on terrorism" has placed the U.S. in substantial debt and has indirectly thrown the United States economy into inflation. Bush has admitted that the information he received was incorrect and insufficient but he still does not regret invading Iraq. In addition to the monetary amount the war has cost, there have been thousands of soldiers killed. The soldiers were improperly armed. Just 1 in 8 HUMVEE'S in Iraq are more heavily armored than those with vinyl roofs and doors. (Gordon, C.). Bush severely underestimated the cost of war and assumed that other nations would aid the U.S. (Bush Underestimating Cost of Iraqi War). This assumption proved to be wrong and cost the U.S. greatly in money and in soldiers.

Because of the social, economic, foreign, and military problems Bush has either caused or furthered, the American public is starting to view him as a most inept president who deserves to be impeached. The long-term ramifications of his presidency will linger for years and what America needs is a President who has public opinion in mind; someone who is not arrogant, war-oriented, and woefully ignorant. A President who will govern to end poverty and promote peace, not violence and above everything, a President who wants more than to just get his picture in a history textbook.

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