Dirty Flying Eyelid: January 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Zoo Says Baby Elephant Will Stay in Portland, Ore. | Redux

Zoo Says Baby Elephant Will Stay in Portland, Ore.

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An Oregon zoo says it will retain possession of the country's newest baby elephant, a 300-pound female that hasn't yet been named, even though it won't own the animal. A breeding contract gives ownership of the calf born Friday in Portland to a California for-profit elephant rental company, Have Trunk Will Travel. But the zoo says the elephant will live out her life in its walls. "It was never in question for this calf," Oregon Zoo director Kim Smith said. "(She) was always going to live here." The elephant is the second baby for Rose-Tu, a female that has spent her life in a zoo after being born into captivity, and Tusko, a male on long-term loan to the Oregon Zoo from Have Tusk Will Travel.

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Steven Feldman

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.236279

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0.0837628	"It is a rather remarkable and unique system that you don't find in other lines of work," Feldman said. ...
0.0837628	"It is a rather remarkable and unique system that you don't find in other lines of work," Feldman said. "That's just how it works."
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Samudra

Overall Sentiment: 0.139734

Relevance: 0.224801

Kim Smith

Overall Sentiment: 0.0298234

Relevance: 0.185263

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0	"It was never in question for this calf," Oregon Zoo director Kim Smith said. ...
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Rose-Tu

Overall Sentiment: 0.0637195

Relevance: 0.164626

Kari Johnson

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.14084

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0	Kari Johnson told The Seattle Times, "I can't wait to hug her."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: 0 Mean: 0 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

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Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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Facility: Oregon Zoo

Overall Sentiment: 0.0441808

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A warning: Climate could be 'hijacked' | Essentials

A warning: Climate could be 'hijacked'

20120131-NodeXL-Twitter- global AND health by Marc_Smith
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

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News from the biggest beat in the cosmos, going out 13. 7 billion light-years and taking in everything from astronomy to zoology. Join the adventure on Twitter and Facebook!

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A warning: Climate could be 'hijacked'

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Company: Twitter

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.89103

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Company: Facebook

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.863606

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Diesel spill pollutes waters between Staten Island, NJ | Synopsis

Diesel spill pollutes waters between Staten Island, NJ

pattugliatore classe CP271 - coast guard patrol boat CP271 class italian coast guard by luca280668
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

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Officials say 336,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into the waters between Staten Island and New Jersey after a storage tank was lifted and ruptured from the surge from Sandy. All of the spilled fuel is believed to be contained by booms put in the Arthur Kill waterway, the Coast Guard says. The liquid leaked at the Motiva oil tank facility in Woodbridge, N.J., according to authorities. Read more stories on NBCNewYork. com Follow @NBCNewsUS Coast Guard spokesman Les Tippets says a secondary tank caught most of the fuel and that the liquid that escaped moved into the Arthur Kill. Slideshow: Sandy slams into East Coast Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast. Launch slideshow About 200 responders were on scene to contain the spill.

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Superstorm Sandy

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Arthur Kill

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Overall Sentiment: -0.246477

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Overall Sentiment: 0.392732

Relevance: 0.253594

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Overall Sentiment: 0.0274278

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Mississippi River Level Disrupts Supply Chain | Synopsis

Mississippi River Level Disrupts Supply Chain

Mississippi Headwaters: The Mighty Mississippi River Starts Here at Lake Itasca in Minnesota by babasteve
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

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Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. The Mississippi River is at historically low levels. The Army Corps of Engineers says the river will likely be able to stay open through the month, but soon it may be too shallow in parts for barge traffic. There have been calls for the corps to release water from reservoirs along the Mississippi.

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Mississippi River Level Disrupts Supply Chain

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Organization: Army Corps of Engineers

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.616964

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Company: Twitter

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.343523

Disambiguation: Website | VentureFundedCompanyReferences:

GeographicFeature: Mississippi River

Overall Sentiment: -0.118935

Relevance: 0.854866

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StateOrCounty: Mississippi

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.399998

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A Planetary Nebula Gallery | Essentials

A Planetary Nebula Gallery

Sirius A and B: A Double-Star System in the Constellation Canis Major by Smithsonian Institution
License (according to Flickr): No known copyright restrictions

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This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The planetary nebulas shown here are NGC 6543, also known as the Cat's Eye, NGC 7662, NGC 7009 and NGC 6826. In each case, X-ray emission from Chandra is colored purple and optical emission from the Hubble Space Telescope is colored red, green and blue. In the first part of this survey, published in a new paper, twenty one planetary nebulas within about 5000 light years of the Earth have been observed. The paper also includes studies of fourteen other planetary nebulas, within the same distance range, that Chandra had already observed. A planetary nebula represents a phase of stellar evolution that the sun should experience several billion years from now.

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Chandra

Overall Sentiment: -0.0977897

Relevance: 0.772404

Chandra survey

Overall Sentiment: -0.360346

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.246987

Rodolfo Montez Jr.

Overall Sentiment: 0.121255

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Facility: Chandra X-ray Observatory

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Technology: X-ray

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Image: 2012 Aerial Photograph of NASA Ames | Synopsis

Image: 2012 Aerial Photograph of NASA Ames

b&w play by DigiDreamGrafix.com
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

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NASA - Image: 2012 Aerial Photograph of NASA Ames Follow this link to skip to the main content NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Home > Centers > Ames Home > Multimedia Send Print Follow this link to Share This Page Share Text SizeGrow Text Size Shrink Text Size Image: 2012 Aerial Photograph of NASA Ames 10.19.

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Image: 2012 Aerial Photograph of NASA Ames

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Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.817168

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

McDonald's Has First Drop In Key Sales Figure Since 2003 | Reduction

McDonald's Has First Drop In Key Sales Figure Since 2003

Tree Down Rescue Response by charlottefire
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

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Fast-food giant McDonald's said today that revenue at its restaurants that have been open at least 13 months fell 1. 8 percent in October — the first time it has suffered a month-to-month decline in that key indicator since April 2008, according to BloombergBusinessweek. As The Associated Press says, "the figure is a key metric because it strips out the impact of newly opened and closed locations. It's a snapshot of money spent on food at both company-owned and franchised restaurants and does not reflect corporate revenue." Dow Jones Newswires writes that the chain is struggling "to combat slowing consumer demand amid ongoing economic uncertainty." One way McDonald's is responding is to push its "Dollar Menu" of low-cost options.

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Dow Jones

Overall Sentiment: -0.211026

Relevance: 0.584318

Sentiment	Quote
-0.113679	Dow Jones Newswires writes that the chain is struggling "to combat slowing consumer demand amid ongoing economic uncertainty."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.113679 Mean: -0.113679 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Don Thompson

Overall Sentiment: 0.210551

Relevance: 0.572438

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Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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Company: McDonald

Overall Sentiment: 0.0565482

Relevance: 0.958407

Company: The Associated Press

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.453922

PrintMedia: BloombergBusinessweek

Overall Sentiment: -0.0193235

Relevance: 0.512105

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Hannah Storm back on air after grill accident | Redux

Hannah Storm back on air after grill accident

Burning off the hair - video by peretzp
License (according to Flickr): Attribution-ShareAlike License

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ESPN anchor Hannah Storm, seriously burned in a propane gas grill accident at her home three weeks ago, will be back on the air on New Year's Day. Storm suffered second-degree burns on her chest and hands, and first-degree burns to her face and neck. She lost her eyebrows and eyelashes, and roughly half her hair. The 50-year-old TV anchor will host ABC's telecast of the 2013 Rose Parade on Tuesday. Her left hand will be bandaged and she said viewers might notice a difference in her hair texture where extensions have been added. "I'm a little nervous about things I used to take for granted,"' she said in a phone interview with the Associated Press this weekend from Pasadena, Calif.

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Hannah Storm

Overall Sentiment: -0.194316

Relevance: 0.933401

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Hannah

Overall Sentiment: 0.0799491

Relevance: 0.423116

Dan Hicks

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.355249

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Holiday: New Year's Day

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.31501

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TelevisionStation: ESPN

Overall Sentiment: 0.113738

Relevance: 0.385519

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Coal Mine Collapse and Blast Kills 8 in Iran | Reduction

Coal Mine Collapse and Blast Kills 8 in Iran

Aftermath of the Halifax Explosion / Conséquences de l’explosion d’Halifax by BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

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IRNA on Wednesday quoted Ahmad Talebian Moqadam, who is governor of Tabas city near where the accident occurred, as saying that a tunnel in the mine collapsed, leading to an accumulation of gas and an explosion. He said five bodies were recovered on Tuesday, the day of the accident, and three more the next day. Some 40 work at the mine. The report did not say whether the other miners were unaccounted for. Tabas is located 560 kilometres (341 miles) southeast of the capital Tehran. Mine explosions are rare in Iran.

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Ahmad Talebian Moqadam

Overall Sentiment: -0.0106267

Relevance: 0.695607

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City: Tabas

Overall Sentiment: -0.0300065

Relevance: 0.950827

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City: Tehran

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.514635

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Country: Iran

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.460277

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Unusual cave-dwelling plant discovered | Essentials

Unusual cave-dwelling plant discovered

Pilea microphylla by Arria Belli
License (according to Flickr): Attribution-ShareAlike License

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One might not expect flowering plants with pinkish petals to be flourishing on the floor of a dark cave, but that's exactly where researchers discovered such a species in southern China. Botanist Alex Monro, of London's Natural History Museum, said he thought his Chinese colleague must have been mistranslating a word when he first mentioned the cave-dwelling plants. But then Monro saw the flora for himself. "When we stepped into our first cave, Yangzi cave, I was spellbound. It had an eerie moonscape look to it and all I could see were clumps of plants in the nettle family growing in very dark condition[s]," Monro said in a statement. The newly described plant was dubbed Pilea cavernicola. While it doesn't grow in total darkness, it survives with levels of light as low as 0. 04 percent of full sunlight in caves in China's Guangxi province, the researchers said.

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Alex Monro

Overall Sentiment: -0.226809

Relevance: 0.822818

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-0.312886	"When we stepped into our first cave, Yangzi cave, I was spellbound. It had an eerie moonscape look to it and all I could see were clumps of plants in the nettle family growing in very dark condition[s]," Monro said ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.312886 Mean: -0.312886 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Key:

Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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Country: China

Overall Sentiment: -0.0398684

Relevance: 0.40985

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Facility: Malinghe Gorge

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.32906

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