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A major barrier to the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier is finding a practical hydrogen storage material for mobile applications. Extreme environments provide a broader space to search for phases with desirable properties. For example, one promising compound discovered at high pressure is tetrahydrogen-methane (CH4(H2)4), which contains 33.4 wt% molecular hydrogen, not including the hydrogen in the methane itself. This exploratory activity uses a closely coupled experimental and theoretical approach to identify several promising hydrogen-rich, crystalline solids, determine their structures, and then attempt to stabilize these phases near ambient conditions (e.g. by the addition of chemical promoters). The goal of this effort is to ultimately provide guidance in developing improved hydrogen storage materials.
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Dave Chappelle says he never quit 'Chappelle's Show': WatchAdd to Favorites | Late Show With David Letterman
It only took six years, but Dave Chappelle returned to late night TV Tuesday (June 10). He stopped by "The Late Show with David Letterman" to promote his upcoming comedy dates, marking his first time on that show in a decade.
Of course, Letterman didn't shy away from asking about the end of Comedy Central's "Chappelle's Show." Chappelle famously walked away from a $50 million dollar deal during production of Season 3. "Technically I never quit. I'm seven years late for work," he joked to Letterman.
The comedian treated the entire situation with as much humor as possible, admitting he never saw much of the news coverage of it. "When it was all over the media, I was gone," he says. "If you're the guy, no one really says anything to you."
While he admits that most think he was crazy, Chappelle points out that there's not much of a difference between the money he walked away from and what he'd saved before then. "The only difference between having $10 million and $50 million is an astounding $40 million," he points out.
In the end, Chappelle seems happy with his decisions, but he still might wonder how that much money might have changed his life. "There's no way of knowing but sometimes I listen to a Jay Z record and it starts making me feel bad about some of the choices I've made," he laughs. "This guy's having more fun on two songs that I've had in the past 11 years."
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Every Christmas astronomers come up with new and not-so-new explanations for the star of Bethlehem. Michael Molnar was not the first to suggest that it was a planetary conjunction, but now he claims 4th century confirmation.
It is always unwise for scientists to attempt to explain literature. Astronomers in particular should beware of trying to explain what historians and theologians know to be a myth. The star was just one invention among many in the gospel's "birth narrative". It is futile to look for an astronomical explanation.
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I disagree. When digital was launched here in the US, phones sucked, but then they progressed to high-end. When GSM was launched, the phones were started as "high-standard", a lot better than digital ones were when they were released. All it is is the hardware in the phone used to communicate with the network! The outside is just a shell! You can put a tin can around the transceiver, and if it's set up right, it will work (hence *faceplates*)! Nokia needs to realize, we are used to high-end phones, we aren't trying to revert back to Nokia 918's with a color screen! (Please, go to http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/918 to understand my point)
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McMinnville resident and Davidson County native Steven Eugene Wilcher, 53, was born Aug. 27, 1959 and died Nov. 26 at Baptist Hospital in Nashville following a brief illness.
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Chicago Transit Authority officials want to make it easier for travelers to use their cellphones in its underground subway tunnels.
The agency said Wednesday that it's researching how to improve its network so passengers can get "continuous, reliable wireless service" in the more than 11 miles of underground tunnels and stations.
Two of the transit system's train lines — the Red Line and the Blue Line — have partial underground operations.
The CTA already owns and leases its subway cellular network to six major wireless providers. Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the wireless access is important, especially between the city's downtown and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, so travelers can move around the city efficiently and productively.
A press release quotes CTA President Forrest Claypool:
"CTA is committed to making critical technology investments on our transit system. By taking steps to begin the process of modernizing our wireless capabilities, we are better serving our customers, including customers traveling between downtown and O'Hare International Airport as well as providing more reliable service for CTA personnel and emergency responders."
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A young woman (Shannyn Sossamon) and a detective (Ed Burns) try to unravel the mystery of cell-phone calls that broadcast victims' final moments just days before they die.
The virally-marketed sci-fi blockbuster Cloverfield leads off this week's DVD Tuesday, allowing those of you who didn't stay till the end of the closing credits a chance to see what got audiences so excited. Other releases include the Guillermo del Toro-produced horror flick The Orphanage (which our own Heather Huntington positively adored); Tamara Jenkins' dramedy The Savages, featuring an Oscar-nominated performance from Laura Linney; and the Japanese horror remake One Missed Call.
Our pick for the week is the uproariously funny Charlie Wilson's War, starring Tom Hanks as the swaggering Texas congressman who almost single-handedly defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan. Included on the disc is a cool featurette profiling the real Charlie Wilson.
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The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry
Black Gold and Blood-Stained Coal
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Routledge – 2011 – 256 pages
Routledge – 2011 – 256 pages
Coal mining is one of China's largest industries, and provides an excellent case study through which to consider the broader issues of China's transition from socialism to capitalism, focussing on the shift to a market economy, the rise of rural industry and the situation of China's working class.
Coal was one of the pillars of the planned economy but, the author argues, its shift to market-based operations has been protracted and difficult, particularly in moving from the artificially low prices of the planned economy to market prescribed prices - a change that had a major impact on the industry's financial performance. The book goes on to considers the growth of small rural coal mines as part of the Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs) programme; these small mines have brought prosperity to areas where small manufacturing enterprises are not competitive, but at the same time have been the cause of many social and environmental problems. It also examines the situation of coal miners - arguably one the most vulnerable segments of the Chinese working class - under socialism and under capitalism, paying particular attention to the issue of work safety and coal mine disasters. The book provides a comprehensive and coherent treatment of these issues from the establishment of the People's Republic up to 2010.
Part 1: The Chinese Coal Mining Industry 1. China's Coal Industry: Growth and Development Over the Long Term Part 2: Rents, Prices and Profits in Coal Mining 2. Rent Seeking and the Political Economy of Coal Prices 3. The Financial Performance of Coal Enterprises Part 3: Coal Mining in China's Rural Industrialization 4. The Rural Coal Mines and Their Owners: Social Costs and Benefits 5. The Central State and the Rural Mines Part 4: The Fate of Coal Miners in China's Changing Economy 6. Low Wages and Poor Job Security? 7. Coal Mine Safety: The Record 8. Coal Mine Safety: Political Determinants
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I'm Convinced: Beyonce Is Pregnant Or Has Been Pregnant
I can't tell you which of the above is true, but I have been looking at the pictures and I know I sound psycho, but you cannot convince me that Beyonce isn't pregnant or hasn't been pregnant. I know a pregnant woman when I see one. According to my source, this is not the first time, either. Mums the word. She has been wearing the oddest choices in clothing for months now. I know rumors always circulate, but the proof is in the pudding. It's not just weight gain, because Beyonce would be in the gym by now knocking the weight off and proving us wrong as she has done time and time again. Jury of my peers, I enter into evidence Exhibit A, B, C, D:
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I definitely agree with you. Beyonce seems to be pregnant.
I am sure it is the greatest thing that can happen with a woman, I am happy for her. She will become a good mom.
Could be….Could not be…Only time will tell. She does look larger including her thighs but she has weight issues as it is. A tendency to gain weight like her mom. Most likely she is pregnant that is why the secret wedding.
You can see it in her face…since shortly after the wedding when she began wearing all those big pants and stockings(!?) even with the peep toe sandals, I have just been waiting on her to disappear from the public eye or for the word to come down…
I can't tell.
I guess I have to wait to see.
Oh Yeah! She's pregnant. She has what I call the pregnant nose! But more importantly, she's in the protective mode with her hand/arms often appearing to protect the unborn. That's an instinctive reaction – and is unavoidable. I put my money on being pregnant! SjP
u may be right sister
i wouldnt even doubth that, becoz shes been wearing these baggy clothes…
accually i really dont care
Great observation, MG! I think she may have been pregnant or she simply added some weight around her midsection.
If you look at the pictures of her partying in Cannes with Jay-Z and Diddy, she's sitting bw them with a glass in her hand. Was she just holding it?!?!?! or was she drinking it?!?!?! maybe….maybe not.
Well, we'll find out for sure in about 3 to 6 months right? But I'm sure until then there's going to be more denying and denying from the Bigga camp. You can "hide" a wedding but it's harder to hide the fact that you had a child, right? Esp. in the limelight.
Yeah, you could be right. It seems celebs deny it until they are 6 months in or something.
It looks like she is! I don't know why she would want to hide this grest gift…. I hope she is, if thats what she wants. She will be a GREAT mom…. She needs to relize that she will not be able to hide it from her fans for long!!
especially in that third row of pics…she really does look extra pregnant. in fact she reminds me of my mom when she was carrying my youngest brother at age 42.
when was the last time u seen her and why did they jump to get married so fast hmmmm……… makes u think
Only time will tell.. But that may be the reason for marriage… She is on a roll..
Marriage and House!! Now BABY!! Convinced
I think she is. However, this is probably just another call from attention from Beyonce. Why the secret wedding? Either because she's pregnant or because a secret wedding will cause longer publicity. Why the big clothes? Because she knows people will assume that she is pregnant. If she is though, congrats…MOVE ON, lol. I'm not hating, but jeez…where's Kelly?lol
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GREENFIELD — A $3.9 million state error in property taxes will mean more money in the pockets of nearly 22,000 local homeowners this spring.
Managing the problem, however, will be a headache for Hancock County officials who have to confront a mistake that wasn't theirs.
Hancock County Auditor Robin Lowder told the county council Wednesday that the state auditor's office made a mistake in calculating homestead exemptions on Hancock County's 2013 property taxes. A spokeswoman for the state auditor characterized the mistake as a clerical error that affected Hancock County and three other counties.
The problem affects everyone who claims a homestead property tax credit. That's about six out of every 10 properties in the county.
Lowder said she was floored when she received the phone call in late December about the error. She said she's been working with the county treasurer, attorney and the vendor that prints tax statements on how to remedy the problem.
The solution: Give each homeowner a credit on this year's property tax statements. The average credit will be $175.41, though the range for each property is wide, from 12 cents to $2,394.


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A poll showed 87 percent of registered American voters believe that Iran's suspected illegal nuclear weapons program is a threat to the United States.
The poll commissioned by The Israel Project also found that 88 percent of respondents believed that Iran is a threat to Israel.
In addition, three-quarters of the poll's respondents viewed Iran in a negative light and 82 percent of supporters backed sanctions to stop what Israel, the United States and many Western countries believe to be Iran's nuclear program. Iran insists the program is for civilian purposes, although it has steadfastly resisted transparency.
Pollster Neil Newhouse, who oversaw the survey, said "it is clear that Americans see Iran as a threat to the West."
"The overwhelming support for sanctions is a strong indication that voters believe the U.S. must take an active role in confronting this challenge," he said.
The poll also showed that a majority of American voters continue to view Israel favorably, with 56 percent of respondents having warm feelings for the Jewish state.
Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research conducted the poll on Feb. 26-28; it has a margin of error of 3.46 percent.
A separate poll conducted by the University of Maryland found that Israelis were wary of a potential airstrike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
According to the poll, only 19 percent of Israelis favored a unilateral action by the Israel Defense Forces, while 42 percent supported a strike only if there was U.S. backing. The same poll found that 34 percent of respondents were opposed to an airstrike.
Shibley Telhami, the Sadat chair for peace and development at Maryland, conducted the poll and said in a news release that "Israeli leaders may decide to strike without U.S. support, but a detailed analysis of the poll suggests that their public wants them to follow Washington's lead, and Israelis appear to be influenced by America's judgment."
The poll was conducted by Israel's Dahaf Institute on Feb. 22-28 and has a margin of error of 4 percent.
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Yes, they eat chiles in Finland. My friend Jukka Kilpinnen has reported on his his bonzai chile plants in Finland, and there's a Finnish Chile Association. They recently conducted their Chile-Eating Championship that featured the deadly 'Naga Morich', a cousin to the 'Bhut Jolokia'. Read all about it here!
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Cooking oil plastic surgery junkie wants her old face back
Would you believe that a Korean woman became so obsessed with plastic surgery and facial fillers that she injected her face with cooking oil!
How very Hollywood! Except here rich women pay big bucks to so-called doctors to inject them with gosh-knows-what-all!
Sadly, now all she wants is her old face back. But she can't afford it.
Click here to see her. And no, it's not Joan Rivers.
The woman, only 48, had been getting surgeries since she was 28, including silicone injections from a doctor who gave her syringes and silicone to use herself.
Her face eventually became so swollen and large that her family in Korea didn't recognize her. But she did become famous, rather like becoming the Korean version of "Catwoman" Jocelyn Wildenstein (pictured).
During operations paid for by viewers who saw Hang Moiku on Korean TV, surgeons initially removed 60g of foreign substance from Hang's face and 200g from her neck.
After more sessions, her face was greatly reduced but still scarred and disfigured.
Sadly, there is very little difference between this poor woman and some Hollywood celebrities we could name but won't.
OK here's one that comes to mind who has admitted having plastic surgery and then surgeries to fix the botched surgeries.
Photo: Jocelyn Wildenstein, aka "Catwoman," who paid surgeons to make her face look like a cat. From space.


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Davenport is the home of Saint Ambrose University and Palmer College of Chiropractic, which is the birthplace of chiropractic medicine and wellness technique. The Figge Art Museum was founded as the nation's first municipal art museum. Several well-known annual music festivals take place in Davenport. Notable festivals include the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, The Mississippi Valley Fair, and the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, dedicated to Davenport native Bix Beiderbecke. An internationally known seven-mile (11 km) foot race called the Bix 7 is run during the festival. Davenport has a class A minor league baseball team, the Quad Cities River Bandits. The city has 27 parks, and over 12 miles of recreational paths for biking or walking.
Davenport is served by three interstates, along with two major United States highways. Davenport has a low crime rate, along with a low rate of unemployment. In 2007, Davenport, along with neighboring Rock Island, Illinois won the "City Livability Award". Davenport has a number of notable natives, including jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke and NFL running back, Roger Craig.
In 1832, Sauk Indian tribe chief Keokuk, and United States Army General Winfield Scott signed a treaty to end the Black Hawk War. Antoine LeClaire, who was part French and part Pottawattamie, served as translator. A generous portion of land was gifted by Chief Keokuk to Marguerite LeClaire, Antoine's wife, as she was the granddaughter of a Sac Indian tribe chief. Keokuk stipulated that Antoine build their home on the exact spot where the treaty was signed or forfeit the land. Antoine did so, finishing the Treaty House in the spring of 1833. Davenport was established in 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and named after his good friend Colonel George Davenport.
Colonel Davenport arrived in 1816 with the establishment of Fort Armstrong. He acted as a "sutler", or supplier, for the United States Army garrisoned at Fort Armstrong. Fort Armstrong was located on the northwestern tip of Arsenal Island with the purpose of monitoring fur trade traffic in the area and keeping the peace between local Native American tribes. On July 4, 1845, Colonel Davenport was assaulted in his home by the Banditti of the Prairie men who thought he had a fortune in his safe. Beaten and left for dead, he survived long enough to give a full description of the criminals before he died that night. Five men were charged with the murder of George Davenport, and all but one, who escaped before the trial, was hung for the murder.
In 1837, shortly after Scott County was formed Davenport, and rival neighbor Rockingham campaigned to become the county seat. After three elections, Davenport finally officially won. To ensure the question of county seat would not arise again, Davenport built the first county courthouse. By the 1850s, Germans made up Davenport's largest settlement group. By 1858, more than one-fifth of Davenport's nearly 11,000 residences were Germans.
The first railroad bridge built across the Mississippi River connected Davenport and Rock Island, IL in 1856, built by the Rock Island Railroad. Steamboaters saw nationwide railroads as a threat to their business. On May 6, 1856, just weeks after it was completed, a steamboater crashed the Effie Afton steamboat into the bridge. The owner of the Effie Afton, John Hurd, filed a lawsuit against The Rock Island Railroad Company. The Rock Island Railroad Company selected Abraham Lincoln as their trial lawyer. The United States Supreme Court, decided the bridge could remain.
Just before the start of the Civil War, Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood declared Davenport to be Iowa's first military headquarters and five camps were set up in the city to aid the Union. After the Civil War, hundreds of Iowa children were left homeless. On November 16, 1865, the "Iowa Soldier's Orphans' Home" (renamed the Annie Wittenmyer Home in 1949) was opened. Starting in 1876, children from broken homes as well as orphans from all of Iowa's 99 counties would live in the home. The home was a self-contained community, containing residences, a school, tailor shop, and a chapel. After 110 years of service, the home closed in 1975.
The Davenport City Hall was built in 1895, for the meager price of $100,000. Palmer College of Chiropractic was also built in 1897. The 1920s brought an economic and building boom. The city's skyline began to form, with the construction of commercial buildings like the Kahl Building, the Parker Building, and the Capitol Theatre. Large national department stores also arrived downtown, including Montgomery Ward, Sears and J.C. Penney.
By 1932, thousands of Davenporters were on public relief due to the Great Depression. A shantytown grew in the west end of the city along the Mississippi River. Sickness, hunger, and unsanitary living conditions plagued the area. That would soon end, as Davenport experienced a post-war boom after World War II. Oscar Mayer, Ralston Purina, and other companies all built plants in west Davenport, and 1956 brought the Interstate highway network to Davenport. By 1959, more than 1,000 homes a year were being constructed. By the late 1970s, the good times were over for both downtown and local businesses and industries. The farm crisis of the 1980s hit Davenport and the rest of the Quad Cities hard; 35,000 workers lost their jobs through the entire Quad Cities area. The Caterpillar Plant on the city's north side closed, causing many jobs to be lost. The 1990s brought the beginnings of a turnaround for the city. Many renovations and building additions have occurred to revitalize downtown, including fixing up Modern Woodmen Park, building the Skybridge, and the Figge Art Museum.
Davenport is located at (41.542982, -90.590745). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 64.9 square miles (168.2 km²), of which, 62.8 square miles (162.6 km²) of it is land and 2.2 square miles (5.6 km²) of it (3.31%) is water.
Davenport is located approximately 170 miles west of Chicago, Illinois and 170 miles east of the Iowa state capital, Des Moines. They city is located about 200 miles north of St. Louis, Missouri and 265 miles southeast of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Farmland surrounds Davenport, outside the Quad Cities area. The Mississippi River in Davenport is around 30 to 40 feet deep in the middle. The river is wide, where the Centennial Bridge crosses. The Mississippi River runs from east to west along Davenport's banks, as opposed to the north to south direction the river flows the rest of the way.
Davenport is located on the banks of the Mississippi River. From the river the city starts to slope north up a hill, which is steep at some points. The streets of the city, especially downtown and in the central part of the town follow a grid design. Davenport often makes national headlines when the Mississippi River floods. It is the largest city bordering the Mississippi that has no permanent floodwall or levee. Davenport prefers the open access to the river for parks and vistas over having access cut off by dikes and levees. Davenport has adopted ordinances that any new construction in the floodplain must be elevated above the 100-year flood level or protected with walls. As a result, former mayor, Phil Yerington, publicly expressed the view that if they "let Mother Nature take her course, we'll all be better off". An example of a building that is elevated or flood proofed in Davenport is the Figge Art Museum. During the Great Flood of 1993, the water crested at on July 9. This is nearly above the flood stage. Major flooding in Davenport causes many problems. Roads in and around the downtown area, including U.S. Route 67 are closed, and cause increased traffic on other city roads. The effects of major flooding can be long lasting. For example, Credit Island in the city's southwest corner remained closed for 5 ½ months, while crews worked on cleaning up damage, and removing river debris.
While situated squarely in the path of Tornado Alley, Davenport is believed to be protected by a blessing from a mass mound. The Mass Mound is a sort of an alter, to protect the city from tornadoes. It is, however, not really an altar at all, but a mound on a hillside. It came in 1835 in the woodsy bluffs of what now is Tremont Avenue and East 12th Street. The Reverend Charles Van Quickenborne, a Jesuit missionary, erected a giant cross and a temporary altar on what he called a Mass Mound. He offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, blessing the hamlet below, now Davenport, against the tornadoes that had been devastating this Mississippi River valley. The reason for no tornadoes may be due to the fact that the Mississippi River and Rock River come together close to the city. Either way, no devastating tornado has ever touched down in Davenport. Davenport was located on the longest stretch of the Mississippi river with rapids. At this point, the river also runs east to west.
Downtown contains the two tallest buildings in the Quad Cities, the Wells Fargo bank building is 17 stories tall and the MidAmerican building is 15 stories. Downtown contains a few other tall buildings, including the 11 story Black Hawk Hotel and the 10 story Kahl Building.
The central neighborhoods originally contained many of the working class Germans that settled the town. The Hamburg neighborhood contains the most architecturally significant residents in the old German neighborhoods. The central neighborhoods contain Palmer College of Chiropractic and many commercial buildings on Brady Street, Harrison Street (both Highway 61), and Main Street.
The east neighborhoods date back to 1850 and contain some of the most expensive and elegant houses in Davenport. The proximity and commanding view of the river kept these neighborhoods a fashionable address long after the originally families had departed. The east end neighborhood, The Village of East Davenport, consists of residential and commercial buildings, mostly small specialty shops. Lindsay Park, in The Village, was used as parade grounds for Civil War soldiers from Camp McClellan.
The north and west end neighborhoods also contained many working class Germans and was plotted in the 1850s with extensive development occurring in the 1870s. Vander Veer Park is a large park with large houses surrounding it. The houses were built between 1895 and 1915 and are Queen Anne and Tudor Revival style. Development of the Vander Veer Park was the first major beautification effort outside two small spaces in downtown. Today the park contains a lagoon and a small botanical park. The Riverview Terrace neighborhood is located on a bluff overlooking downtown, the Mississippi River, and Rock Island.
As of the 2000 census, there were 98,359 people, 39,124 households, and 24,804 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,566.5 people per square mile (604.8/km²). There were 41,350 housing units at an average density of 658.5/sq mi (254.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 83.68% White, 9.24% Black or African American, 0.37% Native American, 2.00% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 2.32% from other races, and 2.36% from two or more races. 5.36% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 39,124 households out of which 31.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.0% were married couples living together, 13.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.6% were non-families. Of all households, 29.5% were made up of individuals and 9.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 3.03.
In the city the population was spread out with 26.2% under the age of 18, 10.7% from 18 to 24, 30.1% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 12.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 94.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.9 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $40,378 with families earning $51,445. Males had a median income of $41,853 versus $30,002 for females. The per capita income for the city was $18,828. About 10.5% of families and 14.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19.2% of those under age 18 and 6.4% of those ages 65 or over. The average home price in Davenport is $129,300.
Downtown Davenport has many points of interest including the Davenport Public Library, the Davenport Skybridge, Figge Art Museum, River Music Experience, Putnam Museum and IMAX Theater, Modern Woodmen Park which is home of the Quad City River Bandits baseball team and the Centennial Bridge.
Several Davenport cultural and educational institutions figure prominently in the history of the United States, particularly west of the Mississippi river. The Figge Art Museum was founded in 1925 as the first municipal art museum in the country. The Putnam Museum was founded in 1867 and The Quad City Symphony Orchestra, headquartered in downtown Davenport, was founded in 1915. The Davenport Public Library began in 1839 and is one of the oldest public library systems west of the Mississippi.
The first chiropractic school in the world, Palmer College of Chiropractic, founded in 1897, is located just north of downtown. Uptown features the Great Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds, which hosts fairs, stock car racing and many other events. NorthPark Mall is the city's main mall sporting up to 160 stores. Its companion, SouthPark Mall, is located in Moline. Brady Street Stadium is home to Davenport high school football games, as well as football games for Saint Ambrose University. Davenport offers a number of great parks. Credit Island park includes a bike path, baseball diamonds, tennis courts, and fishing along the Mississippi River. Vander Veer Park has a small botanical garden. The park also includes a walking path, a pond, and a large fountain. For those that prefer a scenic overlook, there is Mount Ida. Mount Ida is on a summit overlooking the Mississippi River.
Davenport has 27 parks with a total of 2,200 acres (8.9 km²) of land. Major parks include Credit Island, a park in southwest Davenport located alongside the Mississippi River. The park includes a golf course, rugby, soccer, baseball, and softball fields. Fejervary Park, which contains a pool and children's zoo, has approximately 20,000 visitors each year since 1996. Junge Park is situated along the Duck Creek Parkway and includes baseball and softball fields, along with sand volleyball, and basketball courts. LeClaire Park is located right on the banks of the Mississippi River as it is also located near Modern Woodmen Park. LeClaire Park hosts many summer events including River Roots Live and Ribfest. Bands for the Bix Fest play in the park each July, and celebrations for Red, White and Boom, the fourth of July events take place in the park. Vander Veer Botanical Park, welcomes approximately 25,000 visitors to continuous floral shows year-round. The rose garden and conservatory are especially popular as wedding sites.
Davenport has two recreational trails for biking or walking. Duck Creek Parkway, extends from Emeis Park in west Davenport east to Bettendorf along Duck Creek. Riverfront Parkway, extends along the Mississippi waterfront from Credit Island to Bettendorf. Both these trails continue into Bettendorf. Plans are being discussed to connect the two trails in Riverdale. Davenport offers four public golf courses, designed and maintained to satisfy all types of golfing interests. Golfers may test their skills on one of the 9-hole or 18-hole courses. More than 120,000 rounds are played on these courses each year.
Davenport offers a few river related activities. The Celebration Belle offers river cruises from a one and a half hour sightseeing cruise, to an all day, three meal cruises up to Dubuque, Iowa. The Channel Cat boat offers rides across the river, to two stops in Iowa and three stops in Illinois. Riders can take their bicycles on the boat, and be connected to the bike paths that each state has on its river front.
The major daily newspaper in Davenport is the Quad City Times. An alternative free newspaper, River Cities Reader, is published in Davenport. All four major television networks have stations in the area, including KWQC (NBC) and KLJB (Fox), in Davenport itself, and WHBF (CBS), located in Rock Island, and WQAD (ABC) in Moline. The Quad Cities ranks as the 96th largest market for television, and the 144th largest market for radio. Radio station WOC made its local broadcasting debut on February 18, 1922. It is the second licensed station on the air. In 1933, WOC hired future President Ronald Regan as a staff announcer.
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival featured a movie called Sugar. Much of the movie was filmed at Modern Woodmen Park. In the movie, Miguel "Sugar" Santos has a golden arm and gets called to play professional baseball to America, first at a spring training camp in Phoenix, Arizona and then with the Class A minor league team in the Quad-Cities.
Davenport currently uses the mayor-council form of local government consisting of a mayor, currently in 2008, Bill Gluba, and a 10-person council. One person is elected from each of the eight wards, and two at-large aldermen are elected to represent the whole city. Nonpartisan elections are held in odd-numbered years. The mayor is the city's chief executive officer. He or she approves, vetoes, or takes no action on all ordinances, amendments, or resolutions passed by the City Council. The mayor presides at City Council Meetings and can vote in case of a tie. The mayor is also responsible for appointing members of city boards and commissions. The city council has the responsibility of setting all municipal policies not designated by city charter or state legislation such as adopting ordinances and resolutions and approving the city budget. The city administrator, currently Craig Malin, is appointed by the mayor and is subject to confirmation by a two-thirds vote of the entire membership of the city council. City wide goals through 2011 include having a financially responsible government, have a growing economy, revitalize neighborhoods, and upgrade city infrastructure and public facilities.
The 2008 fiscal year budget is $161.2 million and decrease of 5.68% from 2007 due to program reduction in the capital improvements budget. The city's general fund receives about 78% of its revenue from property taxes, while 80% of the expense goes to personnel costs. The city has given a few surveys for citizens to rate the quality of life and city services. The 2004 survey stated 44% of citizens said they support increasing revenue to maintain city services. The largest department in the city is the public works department with a budget of $34.9 million. At less than half that budget, the fire department is second with $15.1 million. The police department has a budget of $10.9 million, the parks department has $5.8 million, and the Davenport Public Library has a budget of $3.9 million.
Davenport public schools serve nearly 17,000 students in the communities of Davenport, Blue Grass, Buffalo, and Walcott. The Davenport Community School District is the second largest school district in Iowa. Davenport has three public high schools: Central, West, and North and one private high school: Assumption. There are six public intermediate schools and 22 public elementary schools. There are also six private kindergartens through eighth grade schools. The high schools are part of the Mississippi Athletic Conference for sports. The city has four higher education schools Palmer Chiropractic College, Saint Ambrose University, Kaplan University, and Hamilton Technical College. Marycrest International University was a university in Davenport from 1939 to 2002 when it closed and became senior citizen housing.
Amtrak currently does not serve Davenport or the Quad Cities. The closest stations are about 45 miles away in Burlington, Iowa and Galesburg, Illinois. The two current United States Senators from Iowa, Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley, and the two Illinois Senators, Dick Durbin and Barack Obama, sent a letter to Amtrak asking them to get plans started to get rail service to the Quad Cities. They hope to see passenger rail service up and running in two years from Iowa City to the Quad Cities and from the Quad Cities to Chicago. Greyhound bus service has a station in Davenport. The building is shared with the local Davenport Citibus.
Electricity to Davenport, and the rest of the Iowa Quad Cities is provided by MidAmerican Energy Company. Water is provided by the Mississippi River and is treated by the Iowa American Water Company. The water treatment facility is located in southeast Davenport. The contaminates in the water are far below government standards.
Davenport is served by two hospitals, Genesis East and Genesis West. Together the facilities have 502 beds. The hospital employs more than 450 physicians and 3,100 staff members. The American Nurses Credentialing Center, the nation's leading credentialing organization, awarded Genesis Medical Center the prestigious Magnet designation for excellence in nursing services.


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Sprint nearing deal to purchase T-Mobile for $40 per share, according to reports
Sprint and T-Mobile may actually, finally (no, really this time) be ready to announce a deal in which Sprint would take over its rival. According to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters, the carriers are nearing a deal where Sprint would buy T-Mobile for almost $40 per share, comprised of half stock and half cash. That's a total deal north of $32 billion, and a solid premium over the current price of T-Mobile, which has hovered around $34 per share ($27.5 billion valuation) recently.
Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile that currently holds 67 percent of its stock, reportedly wanted above $40 per share but has come to an agreement with Sprint's parent company SoftBank somewhere just shy of the number. In the end DT would retain roughly 15 percent of T-Mobile's stock after the deal, meaning Sprint would then have a controlling share of the company.
A breakup fee — which would be paid to T-Mobile in the event regulators shut the deal down — is also in discussion as part of the deal, and will be over $1 billion according to sources. This is much smaller than the $4 billion breakup fee that was paid to T-Mobile after AT&T failed to buy the carrier in 2011.
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Sprint nearing deal to purchase T-Mobile for $40 per share, according to reports
This will be a terrible thing for the T-Mobile Customers. They will have to deal with Dan Hesse and his 'Reverse Midas Touch'. Will turn T-Mobile from 'gold' to 'S**T'.
I bet his middle name is Uturn and with all those U-Turns he has made and the money wasted because of them they could have been a biggest better Carrier with better coverage and better service.
Wrong. John Legeree has already been reported on to be the head of the ne3 company
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Sprint is cursed.. they are like a drowning victim .. panicking and pulling everything around them down with them.. I love my Tmo.. this would be a horrible thing.. yuck.. makes me re-evaluate my carrier options.. will see what happens next few months..
Mark my words.. if you think the jumping ship was bad when ATT tried.. it will be a tsunami like wave leaving the ship if Sprint looks to seriously be getting Tmo..
Not according to John Legeree who has said that this would be a great thing
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Wake up!
And a deal like that this would put what T-Mobile's doing on steroids.
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But Sprint sucks so I doubt it
I thought it was SoftBank trying to buy T-Mobile, not Sprint. SoftBank owns Sprint, if memory serves, and is trying to own T-Mo now too.
If Sprint does this doesn't this just hand the low-band spectrum auction to AT&T and Verizon? I don't understand the strategy here. Why would Sprint want to screw themselves and T-Mobile in future spectrum auctions?
On the other hand, I'd love to be using Sprint's smoking-hot 2500 spectrum, if only they'd get off their butts and build it out. Well, I'd love it if I didn't have to use CDMA.
So that means that sprint stock should go up right?
Just check out the Sprint Carrier Forums, nothing but pissed off customers over their pathetic speeds and constant drop signals and calls. Sprint will ruin T-Mobile. Been a long time customer , very pissed off over this potential deal. Say it again, Sprint will ruin T-Mobile's fast data speeds and ruin what I feel is the best Carrier in the US.
TMo has fast data speeds? In Austin, AT&T nets me about a 12mbps gain over TMo on every device i have tested, across multiple locations. I wanted to support the magenta, but when you can't get a signal on the TMo network, it's hard to be a fan.
I'm more concerned about network coverage than anything else, like customer service. Don't get me wrong. I HATE bad customer service, but my crappy opinion of Sprint is based on their crappy coverage more than anything else. TMo should only improve that or offer an easy alternative...a GSM alternative. I'm all for that.
I had Sprint and Tmobile in the past. T-mobile's problem, at least in northern New Jersey, is the ridiculous amount of dead spots. Sprint, on the other hand, has good coverage but snail-pace data. I remember being frustrated that my HTC Evo "world's first 4g phone" had Wimax speeds slower than everyone else's 3.5g or even plain old 3g. I'm not too familiar with Sprint's LTE other than people complaining that it's similarly slow or not available in their area at all.
If the combined entity would use GSM networks and get rid of CDMA (by converting it to LTE), and keep T-Mobile's Un-carrier thing going, then I might be OK with it. Otherwise, I'm leaving and I'm going to have to go with some GSM MVNO like Straight Talk, Red Pocket, H2O Wireless, Simple Mobile or whatever. I refuse to have anything to do with Sprint or CDMA whatsoever, and AT&T and Verizon are just too damn expensive. So I'd have to go the MVNO route.
I have my 5s through Sprint and I honestly have to say I haven't had one issue with sprint or their LTE speeds no dropped calls or anything of the sort.
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I'm not sure what's going on, but i know for a fact, Sprint is the "Worse" carrier for iPhones, poor T-Mobile's customers.
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On Tuesday October 30, 2012 the High Court delivered a ruling that has been the subject of heated discussions.In the said ruling, a five-judge bench consisting of justices, Jonathan Havelock, Joseph Mutava, Erick Ogolla, Alfred Mabeya and Pauline Nyamweya held that the High Court has jurisdiction over the vetting process being undertaken by the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board.
Consequently the court halted the gazetting of the removal of office of the five judges found by the board to be unsuitable to continue serving on the bench. This means that these judges remain in office and will continue to draw their monthly salaries and other perks.
The vetting of judicial officers sprang out of the collective desire of Kenyans to rid the judiciary of judges whose credibility was seriously in question.
Under the one party rule, the judiciary had acquired the dubious reputation of being at the beck and call of the Executive. 'Justice' was only available to the highest bidder.
In an attempt to restore the confidence of Kenyans in the Judiciary, the constitution provided for the enactment of the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Act, the statute under which the vetting board was constituted. In unequivocal terms, Article 23 of the Sixth Schedule of the constitution shields the vetting process from interference by any court.
The reason why the High Court elected to dismiss this clear provision of the country's fundamental law remains unclear. Proponents of reforms are at a loss as to what informed the court's decision which, if not reversed, will certainly strike a serious blow to efforts to clean up the judiciary.
The opposition that has greeted the vetting process should, nonetheless, not strike us as entirely surprising. What is in issue here is major reforms. And as it is, the world over, the reform movement will always meet with resistance.
This should, however, not dampen the resolve of the people of Kenya, civil society, or the media, to champion reforms. Now more than ever, all progressive forces within Kenya must unite to advance the reform agenda.
Quote of the day: "Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." Bob Feller was born on November 3, 1918. is an American Baseball Player (pitcher).


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A new survey conducted by the iPhone Q&A app "Opinionaided" notes that 49 percent of iPhone users want the iPhone 5.
In the coming weeks, Apple is expected to announce two new iPhone handsets – one, a cheaper iPhone 4S, and the other, a fully-featured fifth generation iPhone handset.
The Opinionaided iPhone app (which we reviewed back in 2010) questioned a total of 1,011 iPhone users. Unsurprisingly, the results show that almost half of the iPhone owners questioned are interested in upgrading to Apple's fifth generation handset when it launches.
Yesterday, we told you that 89 percent of iPhone users will stick with Apple when it comes to purchasing a new smart phone handset. As a company, Apple has the highest retention rate of all the major smart phone manufacturers (HTC, Samsung and RIM included). It's no surprise that Opinionaided's results have shown that half the iPhone users questioned are interested in the iPhone 5. Indeed, we wouldn't be surprised if a higher percentage upgraded once the handset becomes available.
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Bigwig Races is serious! On August 12th they are hosting the Mega 5K at PPIR (Pikes Peak International Raceway) and you're invited! Now is your chance to make history, and join the fun in this one-of-a-kind racing event.
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Steve Sabol's Office: Where Legend Lives On
Virtually untouched since his passing in 2012, the domain of the NFL Films guru remains a shrine to the game that he loved—and that, through his epic mythmaking, he helped turn into an American institution
Editor's note: This is the first in The MMQB's 10-part series NFL 95: A History of Pro Football in 95 Objects, commemorating the 95th season of the NFL in 2014. Each Wednesday from now through the start of training camp in July, The MMQB will unveil one long-form piece on an artifact of particular significance to the history of the NFL, accompanied by other objects that trace the rise of professional football in America, from the NFL's founding in a Hupmobile dealership in Canton in 1920 to its place today at the forefront of American sports and popular culture.
MT. LAUREL, N.J. — The door to Steve Sabol's office remains open, as always. The lights are on and the computer is plugged in, even though the man who worked behind the large mahogany desk, with a nameplate that reads "King of Football Movies," died nearly two years ago, at 69, of a tumor on the left side of his brain. Despite his absence, his life's work pulsates inside these four tan walls, filling the 21-by-22-foot room with a creative energy that spills into the hallways of NFL Films.
Here, in a hideaway corner on the second floor, is where Sabol reviewed highlight films, edited scripts, read as many as five books a week, snipped passages from poems and hosted 5 o'clock cocktails on Fridays. It is where the visionary helped mythologize football, and where the man's legacy lives on.
A few days after Sabol's passing, a janitor locked the office. When the staff returned to work the next morning, the building didn't seem right. NFL Films COO Howard Katz had an assistant unlock the oak door, and it hasn't been shut since. The space has become a sanctuary for protégés to brainstorm, and a gathering place for an occasional Ketel One on the rocks. Everything in the office remains exactly as Sabol left it, down to the lunch order he scribbled on a white post-it note in September 2012: a wrap and a smoothie.
"Every time I walk by, I say, 'Hi boss,' " says Ken Rodgers, a senior supervising producer. "Maybe you think I'm crazy. Maybe I sound crazy. But I still feel his presence here, like he is still sitting at that desk. It is as if he never left."
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You might want to know why we're here, in this room, looking at a bunch of things a man left behind. Over the next 10 weeks The MMQB will unveil a special project detailing 95 artifacts that tell the history of the NFL, as the league prepares to enter its 95th season. We begin in this office because few have ever loved and cared for the history of the game as much as Steve Sabol. His father, Ed, founded NFL Films in 1962—five years before the first Super Bowl—and with the help of the company's original programming, from 1967's groundbreaking They Call It Pro Football to Inside the NFL and Hard Knocks, the pro game came to dominate America's sporting landscape. Because everything is just as he left it, this office is not so much an artifact as a museum unto itself.
The foyer shines with gold. Light gleams off the five Emmys placed on the center coffee table and dances across the walls, illuminating shelf upon shelf stocked with NFL nostalgia: a Vince Lombardi board game ("The most realistic Pro Football Game ever developed!"); an Otto Graham lamp; figurines galore (Walter Payton, Lawrence Taylor, Lynn Swann, you name it); a leather helmet; and a plate awarded to Pete Rozelle honoring the first NFL-AFL World Championship Game. If you didn't know Sabol, you'd think the decorations, in this auric tint, are garish. "It's over the top," says Patrick Kelleher, another Sabol mentee. "But it's him."
Sabol always saw the football field as a movie screen; he was the maestro who paired The Voice of God—John Facenda's booming intonations of glory—with tight, low-angled shots of spiraling footballs and a stirring soundtrack; the innovator who miked up Hank Stram, giving us "65 Toss Power Trap"; the screenwriter who once wrote, "It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun."
He was, above all else, an artist. The gridiron just happened to be one of his many canvases.
Sabol would spend hours on Saturdays driving from flea market to flea market, bartering for bottle caps, matchbooks and faucets that he would craft into collages. Those art projects still line the hallways of NFL Films, and each piece—just like every item in his gilded waiting room—is there because Sabol wanted it in that exact spot. His interior decorating extends all the way downstairs to the cafeteria, where, hanging above the cash register, you'll find Sabol's collage titled, "Waitress." A few years ago somebody replaced it with a photo of Roger Goodell. Sabol noticed right away. "Where is your painting?" he asked the cashier. The woman didn't know. "I will get it back for you," Sabol said. The next day order was restored.
Everything about Steve Sabol was deliberate. To the left of his desk you'll find two large bulletin boards. Pinned to the board farthest left are knickknacks: a keychain from Sabol's high school alma mater; photos of Sabol's father, Big Ed; there's also a copy of "The Autumn Wind," Steve's paean to the Oakland Raiders, which became the team's de facto rallying cry:
The Autumn Wind is a pirate
Blustering in from sea,
With a rollocking song, he sweeps along,
Swaggering boisterously.
His face is weather beaten.
He wears a hooded sash,
With a silver hat about his head,
And a bristling black mustache.
He growls as he storms the country,
A villain big and bold.
And the trees all shake and quiver and quake,
As he robs them of their gold.
The Autumn Wind is a raider,
Pillaging just for fun.
He'll knock you 'round and upside down,
And laugh when he's conquered and won.
Yet there are also large patches of exposed corkboard, a reminder that Sabol left us too soon. On the board to the right he usually posted items about the current season: articles he liked, trends he noticed. Save for a printout of a Washington Post article and a 2012 calendar—turned to the month of September, when he passed—there are few markers of time.
One notecard offers a clue. It is a note Sabol posted while he was undergoing treatment after aphasia began to take his voice.
"Listening to me is like a blocked punt," it reads. "Life is a process of reinvention… moving on."
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Inside Steve Sabol's Office: Navigate the Gigipan below by dragging and scrolling with your mouse, or use the + / icons to zoom in and out. Click the arrow icon to go to a full-screen version. (Gigipan photo by Jeff Zelevansky/The MMQB)
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Kennie Smith began working for Sabol in 1976. Her husband was a twice-cut training camp kicker who found work as a NFL Films cameraman. Sabol didn't like to hire couples, but decided to help out the Oklahoma high school sweethearts by hiring the 21-year-old Kennie as an assistant. "One of the first assignments he gave me involved scotch tape," Smith says. "And I cannot tell you how nervous that made me."
Sabol would spend hours at his desk clipping newspapers, magazines and even books. Anytime he liked a quote, a thought, a comparison, a fact, he'd grab a pair of scissors and snip away. He'd then march over to Smith's desk and drop off the pile, with scant instructions. Her job: tape the clippings to notecards. But Sabol was a perfectionist, and although he never imposed it on his employees, he expected it. Smith found herself spending even more hours taping and re-taping, centering each item just right.
Smith's handiwork is catalogued in 34 file boxes lining the back windowsill of Sabol's office. This is where Sabol's vision for football—not just as a game of X's and O's, but also as a drama that tells a story about human nature—is preserved.
Each box has searchable tabs, with topics ranging from players' names to general themes, such as losing or greatness. Some notecards feature printed-out quotes; others are straight news clippings, and a few are simply Sabol's handwriting—large, assertive script with perfectly aligned, right-slanting letters. Some notes are about football, others about baseball or basketball, but many are passages from politicians or poets or music reviews from the arts section. It's a cultural estuary, a window into how Sabol viewed the game.
Under Late Season: "I like a look of agony," wrote Emily Dickinson, "Because I know it's true."
Under Brett Favre: Mondrian, Van Gogh, Picasso, Renoir.
Under Greatness: Maris is history, but Ruth is legend.
Under Ray Lewis: "Happy is the country that requires no heroes," the German playwright Bertolt Brecht once wrote.
Under Player to Player: The only thing they have in common is that they sound the same when they eat potato chips.
Under Playoffs: "The emperor does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation" —Darth Vader
Under Michael Vick: Katharine Hepburn's presence forces her films to go in directions they cannot possibly follow, adopt strategies they cannot fully sustain, raise issues they cannot adequately resolve.
Under Analysis: "There is nothing more deceptive than obvious fact" —Sherlock Holmes
Under Problems: "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it" —John Ruskin
Sabol's favorite subject was Vince Lombardi, to whom he dedicated an entire box. In the final card, in the final tab titled End, Sabol wrote in pencil: The story now is not Lombardi in his time, but how he lives in ours. His spirit still summons up the best we have to offer.
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When NFL Films launched in the early '60s, pro football lagged behind baseball, boxing and college football in popularity. But Big Ed's intuition and Steve's innovation helped the NFL grow into a cultural institution. A football signed by each member of the 2011 Pro Football Hall of Fame class sits on the front coffee table of Sabol's office; Big Ed's signature is nestled between Richard Dent and Shannon Sharpe.
Around the time the NFL Network launched in 2003, one media member surmised that NFL Films might become extinct. That's when Steve Sabol's pride and sense of humor kicked in, and now you'll find dinosaur figurines sprinkled throughout the office. Those dino figures and the other non-football items in Sabol's sanctuary are understood best in the context of a note that remains on Sabol's desk: "Did you make someone laugh today?"
Another note on Sabol's desk, this one tucked under his keyboard, was one of the last items he brought into his office. It's a small piece of paper with a few words written in pencil. The letters are faint and barely legible, the scribbling intended as a talking point for the final speech he gave to his employees: "Humility. Make me believe in our company."
You can't help but wonder how Sabol might have written his own ending. Would the film about his life's work call upon the sad violins and a fatalistic narrator to point out that the game clock always marches toward a final gun? Or would it celebrate the triumphs of years gone by, trying to preserve time with a drumbeat that never seems to fade?
The answer, perhaps, is neither.
If you look closely enough at his corkboard, you'll find thin strips of paper with notes written in Sabol's fluid, assertive handwriting.
"The soul of a company, not heart," it reads. "Heart dies, soul is eternal."
The clock in Steve Sabol's office still ticks, as always. The phone is still plugged in, but its screen flashes "Do not disturb." The pink highlighters have dried up, and a Super Bowl V mug is collecting dust. In seemingly every drawer there are packs of notecards still wrapped in plastic.
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This is a series about artifacts. But we chose to open it with this man, and this office, because it holds many of the most important pieces of football history that don't live in Canton, Ohio. And we also wanted to remember that sometimes artifacts aren't pinned to cork boards, or stuffed away in shoeboxes. Sometimes artifacts are living, breathing things.
Sabol has been gone for nearly two years, but he was careful to make sure his legacy lives on for the next generation—and maybe two—through the spirit of NFL Films.
So we'll end this story with an enduring part of the Sabol legacy. His name is Mike Mayock.
You probably know Mayock as an analyst on NFL Network. He owes his career to Sabol. After his playing days as a defensive back for Boston College and the New York Giants, Mayock found himself selling commercial real estate in South Jersey. "And I hated it," Mayock says.
Through a friend of a friend he found himself in Sabol's office in the mid-1990s, looking for a way back into football. There are dozens of people with stories like this, mentees and protégés whom Sabol has influenced over the years. Each has a common thread: "Steve could sense if you had the passion," Mayock says. "He believed in hiring people who not only had a talent, but who also had passion. He believed they would do great things." So Sabol insisted that Mayock, the 10th-round draft pick turned salesman, sit in front of the camera for an audition tape. "We had some great laughs about that later," Mayock says fondly.
Since then, Mayock has emerged as one of the league's authoritative voices thanks to his extensive game analysis, a growing subculture that NFL Films helped foster. As much as the company is about mythology and romance and history, it is also about the sport of football. The NFL Films headquarters, a sprawling two-story complex in suburban Philadelphia, is a vault for thousands of hours of game tape, including All-22 or Coaches' Cuts that can't be found anywhere else. Media members from around the country flock here, with clicker in hand, to watch, rewind and understand the game better. This is their sanctuary.
Whenever Mayock arrives at a football stadium, he goes out of his way to walk out onto the field, his senses taking him back to his playing days as a defensive back. When he stopped in to visit NFL Films last summer, he slowly walked around Sabol's office. "It was the same feeling as if I was at the stadium," Mayock says. "It just kind of took me back, and I felt like I was there with him, and I was reminded of what this is all about."
And he can still feel his aura, in this room. The one with the door still wide open.
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Gives me the chills just reading that!
Loved this story..
I contend that Steve Sabol is the father of sports television. Steve took fans deeper into the game, showing personalities of the players and showing the beauty of the sport, He made us want more than the games, the halftime report on Monday Night Football and the 5 min of local news.
Emily, great job on this one. Thank you for bringing Steve Sabol back for another story. 10 years ago I had no idea who he was; through TheMMQB I first learned about him, and then learned more from the NFL Network and more MMQB articles. Now Steve Sabol is one of my heroes.
Steve - via NFL Films - is the reason I can reconnect with my Dad, a die-hard Redskin fan who passed away in 1984. When I watch the NFL Network's piece on the 1983 Redskins, I feel like Dad is right there in the room with me. I see the places I was so familiar with (I grew up a mile from old Redskins Park and Dad played basketball with a couple of the 'Skins) - all thanks to Steve Sabol's vision of capturing everything about NFL football and keeping it for us on film.
I never met Steve Sabol, but someday I hope to up in Heaven. Because I know he's already there, managing Heaven's football film company. :)
The gigapan photo is worth spending time reviewing. The detail is amazing!
Nice piece and nice homage to the BBC's "History of the World in 100 Objects" show and podcast!
When I close my eyes, I can still hear the voices of Steve Sabol and John Facenda.
@JMillerNC Some of his NFL films were classics..One of my all-time favorites from Sabol was " NFL Players from the Fifties ...Steve always, always did his homework unlike some producers today .saw a lot of games at DC Stadium which became RFK later ..Great place to see a football or baseball game ...


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Power Project is the ultimate project manager for Windows Phone! The trial version is FREE (but limited to a total of 3 projects) - View completion status of projects - Pin projects to your homescreen - Add durations to your tasks - Online backup/restore - Extremely fast interface - Add reminders for tasks With Power Project, all you have to do is create a project and add your tasks. Power Project will then calculate how much time is left in all your tasks, depending on the durations you input! You can instantly see how much time you have left on your project. You can also weight tasks with priorities, so more important tasks with the same due date appear first. And hyperlinks like phone numbers and websites will be detected in details! And, the app has live tiles! You can pin each project to your homescreen, or simply pin the main one. The live tile will show you all your upcoming tasks, and you can see what's next without opening it! Plus, you can backup your data to Skydrive and restore it if you buy a new Windows Phone. You can use the trial version for free (up to three projects at one time), or buy the full version to support the developer! Update 1.6 - Fixed purchased version Update 1.5 - Stability improvements - Multiselect lists - Less blurry live tiles Update 1.4 - Quick bug fixes Update 1.3 - Bug fixes - More stable live tiles - Tap-and-hold on tasks Update 1.2 - Fixes backup errors and other errors - Live tiles save a little faster
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|Table of Contents
|Vol. 149, No. 2, 2009
Issue release date: May 2009
|Section title: Original Paper
Association between Obesity and Atopy in Chinese SchoolchildrenLeung T.F.a · Kong A.P.S.b, e · Chan I.H.S.c · Choi K.C.d · Ho C.S.c · Chan M.H.M.c · So W.Y.b · Lam C.W.K.c · Wong G.W.K.a · Chan J.C.N.b
Departments of aPaediatrics, bMedicine and Therapeutics and cChemical Pathology, dCenter for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, eLi Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China
Received: 4/28/2008
Accepted: 8/27/2008
Published online: 1/6/2009
Issue release date: May 2009
Number of Print Pages: 8
Number of Figures: 0
Number of Tables: 6
ISSN: 1018-2438 (Print)
eISSN: 1423-0097 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/IAA
Background: Despite parallel increases in asthma and obesity prevalence, there is little data on obesity as a risk factor for atopy. The latter is an important phenotype in asthmatic patients. This study investigates the association between asthma traits, atopy and obesity-related markers in Chinese adolescents. Methods: 486 schoolchildren were recruited among participants of our population-based study on the epidemiology of obesity, and their allergy status was ascertained using a standardized questionnaire. Subjects' anthropometry was recorded on-site, and fasting blood was collected for allergen-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE), lipids and systemic inflammatory biomarkers. Results: 98 (20.2%) subjects were classified as overweight or obese. Obesity status was not associated with asthma, allergic rhinitis or eczema (p > 0.25). Atopy was not associated with age-adjusted body mass index (BMI) or waist circumference. Atopy and presence of allergen-specific IgE did not differ between overweight or obese children and those with normal BMI (p > 0.25), although subgroup analysis suggested that cockroach sensitization was more common among males who were obese or overweight (p = 0.045). White cell count (WCC) was higher among atopic than nonatopic children (mean values 6.5 × 109/l vs. 6.2 × 109/l, p = 0.006). Logistic regression revealed WCC to be the only risk factor for atopy (OR 18.97, p = 0.004). Conclusions: Obesity is not associated with asthma or atopy in Chinese children. High WCC is an important risk factor for atopy in both males and females. Gender does not exert any consistent effect on the association between obesity and allergen sensitization in children.
© 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel
Correspondence to: Dr. Ting Fan Leung
Department of Paediatrics, Room 84043, 6/F
Clinical Sciences Building
Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR (China)
Tel. +852 2632 2981, Fax +852 2636 0020, E-Mail email@example.com
Received: April 28, 2008
Accepted after revision: August 27, 2008
Published online: January 6, 2009
Number of Print Pages : 8
Number of Figures : 0, Number of Tables : 6, Number of References : 34
International Archives of Allergy and Immunology
Vol. 149, No. 2, Year 2009 (Cover Date: May 2009)
Journal Editor: Valenta R. (Vienna)
ISSN: 1018-2438 (Print), eISSN: 1423-0097 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/IAA
Received: 4/28/2008
Accepted: 8/27/2008
Published online: 1/6/2009
Issue release date: May 2009
Number of Print Pages: 8
Number of Figures: 0
Number of Tables: 6
ISSN: 1018-2438 (Print)
eISSN: 1423-0097 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/IAA


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