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Stayton is a beautiful city that sits along the North Santiam River. Known for its regional agricultural and manufacturing center, plus the Silver Falls State Park, Stayton attracts tons of tourists year around. With two veterinarians in town, your dog will be well taken care of while hanging around Stayton.
The Northslop Park is the park your pup wants to explore. The park is filled with amenities Fido will love to see, including a playground, a large grass field, and a picnic area. There is a great paved walking path that winds its way through the park that you and your dog can use for a good walk together. Make sure your pup stays on a leash at the park, and you bring clean-up bags along with you.
Stop into Big Town Hero for a bite to eat with your dog by your side. They are known for their "ultimate sandwich" on a menu that includes soups, salads, and hot or cold subs. Their outdoor seating area is the perfect spot to relax with your meal with your best furry pal by your side.
With great parks, Stayton is an amazing place to be with your furry pal.
Grab Fido and head over to the Santiam Park together. Your dog will love exploring this park by your side since it has tons of amenities catered to the two of you. Enjoy the large grass field that goes throughout the park, plus the benches that line the walking trail, playground, covered picnic area, and restrooms. The walking trail is the perfect spot to get a walk in at with your dog, just remember to keep him on a leash. Make sure to bring a water bowl along with you so that the pup can enjoy a drink too.
If Fido is itching for some time off leash, head over to the Stayton Dog Park. This dogtastic park offers two sections, one for large dogs and one for small, plus drinking fountains. The park is covered in bark to help keep your dog cleaner, and there are clean-up stations around the park. Pioneer Park offers a playground, covered picnic area, a covered walking bridge, and a small creek. There is an amazing trail here that you and Fido can use for a great walk. Wilderness Park has a playground and a trail that goes around the river that you and your dog can walk along. After fun out at the park, stop into the Gardner House Cafe and Bed and Breakfast. Their menu includes breakfast and lunch options, plus their outdoor patio is dog-friendly.
Check out the Westown Park with your four-legged friend by your side. The park is filled with a playground, a few picnic tables, and a nice open grass space for your dog. Enjoy the walking path that goes throughout the park and is covered by trees to help provide shade for you and your pup. There are a few benches scattered throughout the area where you can sit down and chill with your dog. Make sure to keep your dog on a leash when you are visiting, and don't forget to bring your water and clean-up bags along with you.
The Quail Run Park is a huge park that your dog will love to visit with you. The park is covered in shade by trees and offers a few picnic tables, benches to sit on, a playground, and tons of grass for a game of fetch. The paved walking trail that goes throughout the park is lined with trees to give you and your dog a shaded walk while you are out at the park. Make sure to bring plenty of water with you to the park, and don't forget to keep your dog on a leash and bring clean-up bags with you.
Hang out at the Porter Boone Park with your pup by your side. This huge park offers a playground, large grass field, plenty of shade by trees, and a covered and uncovered picnic area with grills. The park has a great paved walking trail throughout it that you and Fido can use to explore the park together, and sits along the Mill Creek, so if Fido wants to splash around, he can. Make sure to keep your dog on a leash when you visit this pawsome park, which is located in Aumsville, and only six miles away from Stayton.
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History of sport
The history of sports probably[original research?] extends as far back as the military training existence, to prove themselves fit and useful for army requirements, the best been chosen to serve and fight for the power in command. Team sports had most probably been developed to train and prove the capability to fight and work together as a team (army). Later sports has been also a useful way for people to increase their mastery of nature and the environment. The history of sport can teach us a great deal about social changes and about the nature of sport itself. Sport seems[original research?] to involve the development and exercise of basic human skills for their own sake, in parallel with their being exercised for their usefulness. It also shows how society has changed its beliefs and therefore there are changes in rules. Of course, as one goes further back in history, dwindling evidence makes theories of the origins and purposes of sport more and more difficult to support.
- 1 Sport in prehistory
- 2 Ancient Sumer
- 3 Ancient Egypt
- 4 Ancient Greece
- 5 Ancient sports elsewhere
- 6 Stadia through the ages
- 7 Middle Ages
- 8 Development of modern sports
- 9 See also
- 10 References
- 11 Further reading
- 12 External links
Sport in prehistory
Cave paintings have been found in the Lascaux caves in France that have been suggested to depict sprinting and wrestling in the Upper Paleolithic around 17,300 years ago. Cave paintings in the Bayankhongor Province of Mongolia dating back to Neolithic age of 7000 BC show a wrestling match surrounded by crowds. Neolithic Rock art found at the cave of swimmers in Wadi Sura, near Gilf Kebir in Libya has shown evidence of swimming and archery being practiced around 6000 BC. Prehistoric cave paintings have also been found in Japan depicting a sport similar to sumo wrestling.
Various representations of wrestlers have been found on stone slabs recovered from the Sumerian civilization. One showing three pairs of wrestlers was generally dated to around 3000 BC. A cast Bronze figurine, (perhaps the base of a vase) has been found at Khafaji in Iraq that shows two figures in a wrestling hold that dates to around 2600 BC. The statue is one of the earliest depictions of sport and is housed in the National Museum of Iraq. The origins of boxing have also been traced to ancient Sumer. The Epic of Gilgamesh gives one of the first historical records of sport with Gilgamesh engaging in a form of belt wrestling with Enkidu. The cuneiform tablets recording the tale date to around 2000 BC, however the historical Gilgamesh is supposed to have lived around 2800 to 2600 BC. The Sumerian king Shulgi also boasts of his prowess in sport in Self-praise of Shulgi A, B and C. Fishing hooks not unlike those made today have been found during excavations at Ur, showing evidence of angling in Sumer at around 2600 BC.
Monuments to the Pharaohs found at Beni Hasan dating to around 2000 BC indicate that a number of sports, including wrestling, weightlifting, long jump, swimming, rowing, flying, shooting, fishing and athletics, as well as various kinds of ball games, were well-developed and regulated in ancient Egypt. Other Egyptian sports also included javelin throwing, high jump, and snooker. An earlier portrayal of figures wrestling was found in the tomb of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum in Saqqara dating to around 2400 BC.
Depictions of ritual sporting events are seen in the Minoan art of Bronze Age Crete, such as a fresco dating to 1500 BC of gymnastics in the form of religious bull-leaping and possibly bullfighting. The origins of Greek sporting festivals may date to funeral games of the Mycenean period, between 1600 BC and c. 1100 BC. In the Iliad there are extensive descriptions of funeral games held in honour of deceased warriors, such as those held for Patroclus by Achilles. Engaging in sport is described as the occupation of the noble and wealthy, who have no need to do manual labour themselves. In the Odyssey, king Odysseus of Ithaca proves his royal status to king Alkinoös of the Phaiakes by showing his proficiency in throwing the javelin. It was predictably in Greece that sports were first instituted formally, with the first Olympic Games recorded in 776 BC in Olympia, where they were celebrated until 393 AD. The games were held every four years, or Olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies. Initially a single sprinting event, the Olympics gradually expanded to include several footraces, run in the nude or in armor, boxing, wrestling, pankration, chariot racing, long jump, javelin throw, and discus throw. During the celebration of the games, an Olympic Truce was enacted so that athletes could travel from their countries to the games in safety. The prizes for the victors were wreaths of laurel leaves. Other important sporting events in ancient Greece were the Isthmian games, the Nemean Games, and the Pythian Games. Together with the Olympics, these were the most prestigious games, and formed the Panhellenic Games. Some games, e.g. the Panathenaia of Athens, included musical, reading and other non-athletic contests in addition to regular sports events. The Heraean Games were the first recorded sporting competition for women, held in Olympia as early as the 6th century BC.
Ancient sports elsewhere
Sports that are at least two and a half thousand years old include hurling in Ancient Ireland, shinty in Scotland, harpastum (similar to rugby) in Rome, cuju (similar to association football) in China, and polo in Persia. The Mesoamerican ballgame originated over three thousand years ago. The Mayan ballgame of Pitz is believed to be the first ball sport, as it was first played around 2500 BC.There are artifacts and structures that suggest that the Chinese engaged in sporting activities as early as 2000 BC. Gymnastics appears to have been a popular sport in China's ancient past. Ancient Persian sports such as the traditional Iranian martial art of Zourkhaneh. Among other sports that originated in Persia are polo and jousting. A polished bone implement found at Eva in Tennessee, USA and dated to around 5000 BC has been construed as a possible sporting device used in a "ring and pin" game.
Stadia through the ages
For at least seven hundred years, entire villages have competed with each other in rough, and sometimes violent, ballgames in England (Shrovetide football) and Ireland (caid). In contrast, the game of calcio Fiorentino, in Florence, Italy, was originally reserved for the aristocracy. The aristocracy throughout Europe favoured sports as patrons as well as players with combat sports such as fencing and jousting being popular. Horse racing, in particular, was a favourite of the upper class in Great Britain, with Queen Anne founding the Ascot Racecourse.
Development of modern sports
Some historians – most notably Bernard Lewis – claim that team sports as we know them today are primarily an invention of Western culture. The traditional teams sports are seen as springing from Europe, primarily England through its British Empire. This can be seen as either discounting some of the ancient games of cooperation from Asia (e.g. polo, numerous martial arts forms, and various, now assimilated football varieties) and even from the Americas (e.g. lacrosse), or as the suggestion that while these sports did exist modern team sports did not directly derive from them. European colonialism certainly helped spread particular games around the world, especially cricket (not related to baseball), football of various sorts, bowling in a number of forms, cue sports (like snooker, carom billiards and pool), hockey and its derivatives, equestrian (originally of Middle Eastern origin), and tennis (and related games deriving from jeu de paume), and many winter sports, while the originally Europe-dominated modern Olympic Games generally also ensured standardization in particularly European directions when rules for similar games around the world were merged. Regardless of game origins, the Industrial Revolution and mass production brought increased leisure which allowed more time to engage in playing or observing (and gambling upon) spectator sports, as well as less elitism in and greater accessibility of sports of many kinds. With the advent of mass media and global communication, professionalism became prevalent in sports, and this furthered sports popularity in general. With the increasing values placed on those who won also came the increased desire to cheat. Some of the most common ways of cheating today involve the use of performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids. The use of these drugs has always been frowned on but in recent history there have also been agencies set up to monitor professional athletes and ensure fair play in the sport.
Writing about cricket in particular, John Leech (2005a) has explained the role of Puritan power, the English Civil War, and the Restoration of the monarchy in England. The Long Parliament in 1642 "banned theatres, which had met with Puritan disapproval. Although similar action would be taken against certain sports, it is not clear if cricket was in any way prohibited, except that players must not break the Sabbath". In 1660, "the Restoration of the monarchy in England was immediately followed by the reopening of the theatres and so any sanctions that had been imposed by the Puritans on cricket would also have been lifted." He goes on to make the key point that political, social and economic conditions in the aftermath of the Restoration encouraged excessive gambling, so much so that a Gambling Act was deemed necessary in 1664. It is certain that cricket, horse racing and boxing (i.e., prizefighting) were financed by gambling interests. Leach explains that it was the habit of cricket patrons, all of whom were gamblers, to form strong teams through the 18th century to represent their interests. He defines a strong team as one representative of more than one parish and he is certain that such teams were first assembled in or immediately after 1660. Prior to the English Civil War and the Commonwealth, all available evidence concludes that cricket had evolved to the level of village cricket only where teams that are strictly representative of individual parishes compete. The "strong teams" of the post-Restoration mark the evolution of cricket (and, indeed of professional team sport, for cricket is the oldest professional team sport) from the parish standard to the county standard. This was the point of origin for major, or first-class, cricket. The year 1660 also marks the origin of professional team sport.
A number of the English public schools, and colleges and universities such as Winchester and Eton, introduced variants of football and other sports for their pupils. These were described at the time as "innocent and lawful", certainly in comparison with the rougher rural games. With the coming of the industrial revolution and the movement of the populace from the country to the cities, the rural games moved to the new urban centres and came under the influence of the middle and upper classes. The rules and regulations devised at English institutions began to be applied to the wider game, with governing bodies in England being set up for a number of sports by the end of the 19th century. The rising influence of the upper class also produced an emphasis on the amateur, and the spirit of "fair play". The industrial revolution also brought with it increasing mobility, and created the opportunity for universities in Britain and elsewhere to compete with one another. This sparked increasing attempts to unify and reconcile various games in England, leading to the establishment of the Football Association in London, the first official governing body in football.
The British Empire and post-colonial sports
The influence of British sports and their codified rules began to spread across the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly association football. A number of major teams elsewhere in the world still show these British origins in their names, such as AC [Athletic Club] Milan in Italy, Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense in Brazil, and Athletic Bilbao in Spain. Cricket became popular in several of the nations of the then British Empire, such as Australia, South Africa, India and Pakistan, and remain popular in and beyond today's Commonwealth of Nations. The revival of the Olympic Games by Baron Pierre de Coubertin was also heavily influenced by the amateur ethos of the English public schools.
Baseball (closely related to English rounders and French la soule, and less clearly connected to cricket) became established in the urban Northeastern United States, with the first rules being codified in the 1840s, while American football was very popular in the south-east, with baseball spreading to the south, and American football spreading to the north after the Civil War. In the 1870s the game split between the professionals and amateurs; the professional game rapidly gained dominance, and marked a shift in the focus from the player to the club. The rise of baseball also helped squeeze out other sports such as cricket, which had been popular in Philadelphia prior to the rise of baseball.
American football (and gridiron football more generally) also has its origins in the English variants of the game, with the first set of intercollegiate football rules based directly on the rules of the Football Association in London. However, Harvard chose to play a game based on the rules of Rugby football. Walter Camp would then heavily modify this variant in the 1880s, with the modifications also heavily influencing the rules of Canadian football.
World-wide, the British influence certainly includes many different football codes, lawn bowls, lawn tennis and other sports. The major impetus for this was the patenting of the world's first lawnmower in 1830. This allowed for the preparation of modern ovals, playing fields, pitches, grass courts, etc.
Perhaps in a reaction to the demands of contemporary life,[original research?] there have been developments in sport that are best described as post-modern, extreme ironing being a notable example. There is also a move towards adventure sports as a form of escapism, transcending the routines of life, examples being white water rafting, paragliding, canyoning, base jumping and more genteelly, orienteering.
Women's sport history
Women's competition in sports has been frowned upon by many societies in the past. The English public-school background of organised sport in the 19th and early 20th century led to a paternalism that tended to discourage women's involvement in sports, with, for example, no women officially competing in the 1896 Olympic Games. The 20th century saw major advances in the participation of women in sports, although women's participation as fans, administrators, officials, coaches, journalists, and athletes remains in general less than men's. Mass involvement tends to favour sports such as swimming and aerobics, and tends to stress the competitive aspects less than men. The increase has been partly related to the drive for more women's rights. In the United States, female students participation in sports was significantly boosted by the Title 9 Act in 1972, preventing gender discrimination and equal opportunity for women to participate in sport at all levels.Pressure from sports funding bodies has also improved gender equality in sports. For example, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the Leander Rowing Club in England had both been male-only establishments since their founding in 1787 and 1818, respectively, but both opened their doors to female members at the end of the 20th century at least partially due to the requirements of the United Kingdom Lottery Sports Fund.
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Maybe, or maybe not.
According to the CIA’s World Factbook, the U.S. life expectancy, while at an all-time high, still puts our nation at fiftieth in the world when it comes to life expectancy. What’s more, the United States lags behind nations such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jordan, and Bermuda, not to mention nations with “socialized” health care like Canada (life expectancy of 81.23 years), France (80.98 years), Australia (81.63 years), and Switzerland (80.85 years).
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Barcelona’s Pedro Rodriguez scores an awesome overhead kick golazo in Spain training
In terms of technique, this Spanish team are far and away the best team in the world.
Renowned for their tiki-taka football, Barcelona’s Pedro Rodriguez showed that they’re also capable of the extraordinary.
On International duty with his country, Pedro received a cross from the right byline and showed some unbelievable tekkers.
Slightly behind him, Pedro had execute a an overhead kick to get it on target. And he did it to perfection.
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CEDAR RAPIDS - A 51-year-old Marion man went missing May 31, 2014, but little information was known to authorities or shared with the public until years later when a dig site was set up at a farmhouse in Ely and a separate trial got underway in federal court.
Shortly after James Booher went missing, authorities considered him a homicide victim, but nobody was charged in his death.
Evidence from the first trial for Matthew Robbins, 46, of Ely, which ended in a hung jury, showed Robbins knew Booher and had bought meth from him.
Robbins and another man are accused of robbing Booher on June 1, 2014 - the day after police say Booher was last seen alive, according to court documents in the firearms case. Robbins and a friend identified as Danielle Busch, 30, of Cedar Rapids, bought meth from Booher on May 31, 2014.
Robbins and Busch used the meth and later contacted Booher to set up a time to buy a larger quantity, according to court documents. Booher went to Robbins' home later that night and wasn't seen after that visit, according to court documents.
Booher was reported missing by his sister June 3, and his truck was found abandoned June 9.
A person looking for Booher testified he went to Robbins' home, and Robbins answered the door holding a .45-caliber handgun.
In May 2015, during an investigation into Robbins, a forensics team that specializes in identifying human remains set up a dig site at a rural Ely farmhouse where Robbins once lived to search for evidence in Booher's death.
Court documents showed Robbins later moved out of the farmhouse on Nederhiser Road and, before doing so, removed carpet, furnishings and fixtures - which he burned behind the house.
No human remains were found, but federal agents did recover a .45-caliber shell casing in the burn pile, according to court documents.
After Robbins' first trial, he pleaded guilty in 2016 to being a felon and unlawful drug user in possession of a firearm and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
What's happened since
Robbins, Busch and William L. Yancey, 43, of Cedar Rapids, were charged in May 2019 with robbery affecting interstate commerce, conspiracy to commit robbery affecting interstate commerce and using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence resulting in murder, according to an unsealed indictment.
The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment at the time on whether Booher's body had been found.
Both Robbins and Yancey were already serving prison terms for drug and firearm convictions. Robbins had been linked to Booher's disappearance during his trial but had been charged with only firearms and drug offenses.
All three defendants are accused of robbing Booher of methamphetamine and money by force on May 31, 2014, according to the indictments. They also are accused of having a firearm during the robbery and fatally shooting Booher.
The firearms charge is a 'death constituting murder” charge under federal law.
Federal prosecutors said the case was eligible for the death penalty, which was up to the U.S. Justice Department, but officials decided they would not pursue this case for the death penalty if the defendants are found guilty.
In April, Busch pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to commit robbery affecting interstate commerce and using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence resulting in murder.
Busch, during the plea hearing, admitted that she 'voluntarily or intentionally” agreed with two or more people to commit a robbery on or after May 31, 2014.
She also admitted that a co-conspirator used or carried a firearm during the robbery.
She admitted the crime committed was part of the conspiracy and that discharging the firearm caused Booher's death.
Busch faces up to 20 years on the conspiracy conviction, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release after prison. On the firearms conviction, she faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years and possibly up to life, a $250,000 fine and five years of supervised release.
Her sentencing is set for Nov. 12.
Yancey's trial is set for Oct. 13, and Robbins' trial was just reset to Nov. 30.
This past week, court documents filed show federal prosecutors will have several experts testify at Robbins' trial regarding the archaeological examination of a debris pile found at the Ely dig site.
Dr. Krista Latham, an associate professor of biology and anthropology at the University of Indianapolis, will testify about her specific findings in this case and the general process of an archaeological examination, according to court documents.
An analyst, Charity Davis with the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Va., will testify about the examination of bone fragments for the presence of DNA.
Another expert will testify about scene reconstruction, including the use of 3D scan data to create a virtual model of the residence in Ely.
Other experts with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation in Ankeny and an associate state medical examiner will testify about the crime processing of evidence found in Ely, including a tooth root found in the burn pit.
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Welcome to PORTLAND, OR 97209
97209 is a densely populated, upscale urban zip code in Portland, Oregon. Median household income here ($22,185) is significantly lower than US average ($56,604). The population is primarily white, and mostly single. At $377,800 the average home value here is a bit higher than average for the Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton metro area, so this probably isn't the place to look for housing bargains.
The median age here is 37. There are 8,390 men and 6,560 women. The median age for men is 39 while for women the median age is 35.
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How the coal is formed?
How the coal is formed?
Coal is formed when dead plant matter submerged in swamp environments is subjected to the geological forces of heat and pressure over hundreds of millions of years. Over time, the plant matter transforms from moist, low-carbon peat, to coal, an energy- and carbon-dense black or brownish-black sedimentary rock.
Which rock is important for coal?
Coals are the most abundant organic-rich sedimentary rock. They consist of undecayed organic matter that either accumulated in place or was transported from elsewhere to the depositional site. The most important organic component in coal is humus.
What is coal rock made of?
Coal is a sedimentary deposit composed predominantly of carbon that is readily combustible. Coal is black or brownish-black, and has a composition that (including inherent moisture) consists of more than 50 percent by weight and more than 70 percent by volume of carbonaceous material.
What are the 4 main requirements for the formation of coal?
Even though all the biological, geographic, and climatic factors may be favorable, coal could not be formed unless the plant debris was submerged and buried by sediments. There are four stages in coal formation: peat, lignite, bituminous, and anthracite.
What are the 4 types of coal?
Coal is classified into four main types, or ranks: anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous, and lignite. The ranking depends on the types and amounts of carbon the coal contains and on the amount of heat energy the coal can produce.
Is Coal still being formed?
Coal is very old. The formation of coal spans the geologic ages and is still being formed today, just very slowly. Below, a coal slab shows the footprints of a dinosaur (the footprints where made during the peat stage but were preserved during the coalification process).
How many years of coal is left in the world?
How old is a piece of coal?
Fossil fuels are formed from the remains of ancient organisms. Because coal takes millions of years to develop and there is a limited amount of it, it is a nonrenewable resource. The conditions that would eventually create coal began to develop about 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous period.
How old is most coal?
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- 100 million years ago.
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- Coal is the most plentiful fuel in the fossil family and it has the longest and, perhaps, the most varied history.
What are the 5 types of coal?
Coal | Types of Coal: Peat, Lignite, Bituminous Coal & Anthracite…
- Bituminous Coal.
- Anthracite Coal.
Why coal is the best energy source?
Coal is a stable, secure energy source Coal also has the unique advantage of being able to be stored on-site, providing weeks or even months of fuel supply at the power plant. This important characteristic contributes to grid reliability, resiliency and reduces fuel supply bottlenecks.
What are the disadvantages of coal?
The major disadvantage of coal is its negative impact on the environment. Coal-burning energy plants are a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to carbon monoxide and heavy metals like mercury, the use of coal releases sulfur dioxide, a harmful substance linked to acid rain.
What are 2 disadvantages of coal?
Here Are the Disadvantages of Coal
- It is not a renewable resource.
- Coal contains a high level of carbon dioxide per British Thermal Unit.
- Coal power can create high levels of radiation.
- Coal emissions are linked to health concerns.
- Even clean coal still has high levels of methane.
What chemicals are in coal ash?
Such constituents that are found at various concentrations in coal ash are arsenic, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, lithium, mercury, molybdenum, selenium, thallium and uranium.
Why we should stop using coal?
Coal-fired power plants have been linked to developmental defects in 300,000 infants because of their mothers’ exposure to toxic mercury pollution. Asthma rates are skyrocketing in communities exposed to particulates from burning coal, and now one out of ten children in the U.S. suffers from asthma.
What can we use instead of coal?
As incomes continued to rise, however, coal was slowly replaced with more efficient, convenient, and less polluting fuels such as oil, nuclear energy, natural gas, and, more recently, renewable energy.
Why is coal so bad for the environment?
Coal contains sulfur and other elements, including dangerous metals such as mercury, lead, and arsenic, that escape into the air when coal is burned. Burning coal also produces particulates that increase air pollution and health dangers. Burning coal emits large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Is coal a good energy source for the future?
Cheapest source of energy. It is by far cheaper than nuclear, natural gas, oil. Coal also provides a stable source of energy (no Arab oil embargoes, no sudden scarcity like you experience with natural gas) and there is a very plentiful supply both in the U.S. and in other foreign countries.
What will energy be like in 2050?
By 2050, the research estimates that coal will be down to just 16 percent of global power generation (from 41 percent now) and fossil fuels to 38 percent (from 66 percent now). Overall, though, coal, oil, and, gas will continue to be 74 percent of primary energy demand, down from 82 percent now.
What is the best power source?
Nuclear Has The Highest Capacity Factor As you can see, nuclear energy has by far the highest capacity factor of any other energy source. This basically means nuclear power plants are producing maximum power more than 93% of the time during the year.
What is the cheapest source of energy?
The consensus of recent major global studies of generation costs is that wind and solar power are the lowest-cost sources of electricity available today.
What is the most expensive energy source?
What is the safest source of energy?
What is the cleanest power source?
Out of all energy resources, we consider green power (solar, wind, biomass and geothermal) as the cleanest form of energy. So, if we were looking at clean energy on a spectrum, these would be farthest from “dirty” or emissions-heavy energy.
What is the cheapest and cleanest energy source?
The IRENA report found that solar and onshore wind are the cheapest energy sources. It states that in 2017 wind turbine prices had an average cost of $0.06 per kWh, and at times dropped to $0.04 per kWh. At the same time, the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) had fallen to $0.10 per kWh.
Is Nuclear safer than solar?
Nuclear is safer based upon actual deaths per terawatt hour and less polluting. Solar, wind, nuclear are all much safer than coal, natural gas and oil. The fossil fuels kill with particulates and other pollution. Nuclear power did offset coal power usage.
Is coal safer than nuclear?
Nuclear energy, for example, results in 99.8% fewer deaths than brown coal; 99.7% fewer than coal; 99.6% fewer than oil; and 97.5% fewer than gas. Wind, solar and hydropower are more safe yet.
Why nuclear energy is bad?
Nuclear energy has no place in a safe, clean, sustainable future. Nuclear energy is both expensive and dangerous, and just because nuclear pollution is invisible doesn’t mean it’s clean. New nuclear plants are more expensive and take longer to build than renewable energy sources like wind or solar.
How many people have died from coal plants?
In the United States coal kills around 13,000 people annually, and 23,300 in Europe. The economic costs of the health impacts from coal combustion in Europe are valued at about US$70 billion per year, with 250,600 life years lost.
Is nuclear power safe now?
The evidence over six decades shows that nuclear power is a safe means of generating electricity. The risk of accidents in nuclear power plants is low and declining. The consequences of an accident or terrorist attack are minimal compared with other commonly accepted risks.


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The Inverse Cramer Tracker ETF (CBOE: SJIM) will be closed and liquidated; the orderly liquidation of the ETF was authorized by the Board of Trustees of the Northern Lights Fund Trust IV. According to the announcement, the board determined that closing and liquidating the fund was in the best interests of the fund and its shareholders. The last day of trading for the fund will be Feb. 13, 2024, which will also be the last day the fund will accept creation units from authorized participants. Shareholders may sell their holdings before that date; customary brokerage charges may apply. In addition, the announcement noted that authorized participants may redeem baskets of shares for a pro rata portion of the fund’s portfolio on hand through the same date. It is anticipated that the fund will cease operations, liquidate assets and distribute liquidation proceeds to shareholders on Feb. 23, 2024. The announcement stated that between those two dates, there is no assurance that there will be a market for the fund’s shares. “We started [the fund] in order to point out the danger of following TV stockpickers, Jim Cramer specifically, and the total lack of accountability,” said Inverse Cramer Tracker ETF fund portfolio manager Matthew Tuttle in the press release. “We feel like we have accomplished that mission, but retail investors are more focused on volatile products and the interest in a long/short portfolio never fully materialized. With the success of the T-REX product line, and the other initiatives we are involved in, we just didn’t have the time to keep running this portfolio.”
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The Chicago Cubs released a list of non-roster invitees to big league camp. Spring Training is almost here and there are some guys to keep an eye on.
Early February is a tense time for baseball fans, so close to spring training but still a few weeks away from game-action. The Chicago Cubs have their 40-man roster in place, barring any other moves and have released their non-roster invitees to 2019 camp.
Non-roster invitees include some players from the pipeline and others brought in on minor league deals. Fourteen of them are pitchers, five infielders, five outfielders and three catchers. A number of these guys will be playing for a chance to make the Opening Day roster and there are a number of them who already boast a decent amount of MLB service time.
There are obviously guys on the list that not many people have heard of, but there are several intriguing guys on this list that many do know. Here are some of the non-roster invitees to keep an eye on this spring.


Medicare’s current estimates are based on Epogen usage in 2007 for dialysis treatments. But since then, use of the drug has fallen 25 percent or more, partly because of Food and Drug Administration warnings about its perils and partly because Congress removed the financial incentives for clinics and hospitals to prescribe the drug. Because Medicare continues to reimburse health-care providers as if the dosing levels haven’t changed, the significant savings in doses has not translated into savings for the U.S. Treasury.
The amount of the overspending is more than $400 million annually, according to calculations done separately by The Washington Post and experts.
“I think we probably left money on the table,” said Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), a critic of the way the drug had been used who helped shepherd through legislation that removed the financial incentives for bigger doses beginning in 2011.
Incentives for providers
The overpayment for Epogen reflects both the promise and difficulty of large-scale government reform of health-care spending.
For years, Epogen was one of a trio of anemia drugs — all manufactured by Amgen, a California biotech firm — that cost Medicare as much as $3 billion annually. Overall U.S. sales of the drugs exceeded $8 billion.
Nearly two decades after the drugs were first approved in 1989, their purported benefits were found to be overstated, and the FDA issued a series of stern warnings about their potentially deadly side effects, such as cancer and heart attacks.
At least some of their popularity stemmed from the fact that hospitals and clinics made lots of money using them: The spread between what they paid for a dose and what Medicare paid them to administer one reached as high as 30 percent, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
The incentives drove up usage. By 2007, about 80 percent of dialysis patients were getting the drugs at levels beyond what the FDA now targets as safe.
Congress pushed Medicare to revise its payment system to remove the incentives for larger doses. Under the new system for dialysis patients, Medicare pays a set fee for a bundle of dialysis services and drugs.
With the change, hospitals and clinics make more money if they use the drugs more frugally. To guard against providers using too little, Medicare makes quality checks measuring patient condition.
Sales of Epogen have fallen more than 20 percent since the imposition of the new payment system, according to Amgen reports, and on a per-patient basis have fallen more than 25 percent. (The sales of the other related anemia drugs, Aranesp and Procrit, have fallen about 65 percent since their peak levels.)