Drunken Small Mare: 2013

Friday, February 1, 2013

PFT: Lions benched WR for sabotaging offense | Essentials

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PFT: Lions benched WR for sabotaging offense

Much fancier tailgates by jdeeringdavis
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Getty Images The Lions deactivated receiver Titus Young on Thanksgiving Day for bad behavior that had led to in-fighting among the coaching staff. Young was allowed back on the practice field Wednesday, as a second-team receiver. The Lions never provided the specifics that resulted in Young’s team-imposed ban, but Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press has them. Per Birkett, Young purposely lined up in the wrong place on the field “multiple times” during the Lions’ Week Eleven loss to Green Bay. He also “mouthed off” to receivers coach Shawn Jefferson before being benched for the final possession. Apparently upset that he wasn’t getting enough passes thrown his way, Young responded by attempting to sabotage the Lions’ passing offense.

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Titus Young

Overall Sentiment: -0.129318

Relevance: 0.902985

Calvin Johnson

Overall Sentiment: 0.107534

Relevance: 0.381966

Sentiment	Quote
0.146469	“It was nice to see some new playmakers in there making plays,” Johnson told ...
0.137607	“It was nice to see some new playmakers in there making plays,” Johnson told the Detroit News. “We are going to keep progressing with these new guys in our receiver group.”
0	Johnson replied “Yeah. No doubt.”
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Dave Birkett

Overall Sentiment: -0.187498

Relevance: 0.295051

Ryan Broyles

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Relevance: 0.28626

Shawn Jefferson

Overall Sentiment: -0.306672

Relevance: 0.267273

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Mike Thomas

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.16744

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Overall Sentiment: -0.185393

Relevance: 0.605996

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Obama to lie low awaiting results | Synopsis

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Obama to lie low awaiting results

President Obama's Inauguration by James Trosh
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Watch CNN's comprehensive coverage of Election Day starting at 6 p.m. ET Tuesday on CNN TV and follow online at CNN. com or via CNN's apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. For up-to-the-minute results, go to cnn. com/results and for our real-time Election Day live blog, check out cnn.com/conversation. Need other reasons to watch Election Day coverage on CNN's platforms? Click here for our list. (CNN) -- The final curtain isn't likely to fall on this presidential election until the wee hours of Wednesday morning, but President Barack Obama's moment to exit the stage came more than 24 hours earlier.

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Barack Obama

Overall Sentiment: -0.145437

Relevance: 0.963575

David Axelrod

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.310828

Sentiment	Quote
-0.0437751	"It's like the end of a long-running series, and all the characters are coming back," Axelrod mused. ...
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Bruce Springsteen

Overall Sentiment: 0.0838443

Relevance: 0.253928

Sentiment	Quote
0.311929	Bruce Springsteen ended his 30-minute concert with his classic, "In the Land of Hopes and Dreams," ...
0.340561	Bruce Springsteen ended his 30-minute concert with his classic, "In the Land of Hopes and Dreams," crooning, "Well, you don't know where you're goin' now, but you know you won't be back."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.65249 Mean: 0.326245 Standard Deviation: 0

Romney

Overall Sentiment: -0.131677

Relevance: 0.242122

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Robert Gibbs

Overall Sentiment: 0.128295

Relevance: 0.219847

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Jen Psaki

Overall Sentiment: -0.213794

Relevance: 0.218685

Rahm Emanuel

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.210717

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Jon Favreau

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.206455

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Overall Sentiment: 0.19855

Relevance: 0.205819

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Hillary Clinton

Overall Sentiment: -0.102518

Relevance: 0.191687

David Plouffe

Overall Sentiment: 0.0150683

Relevance: 0.179163

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Reggie Love

Overall Sentiment: 0.144851

Relevance: 0.173425

Marvin Nicholson

Overall Sentiment: 0.149589

Relevance: 0.171378

Ben Rhodes

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.165385

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Teacher claims phobia of kids, sues school district | Redux

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Teacher claims phobia of kids, sues school district

Another Andy Warhol-Inspired Work by Enokson
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A teacher in Ohio is suing her former school district, alleging discrimination: She says she was forced to teach younger kids despite her fear of them. Maria Waltherr-Willard, 61, who worked for Mariemont City Schools for 35 years, was reassigned from a high school to a junior high in Cincinnati, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. Her lawsuit claims the district discriminated against her based on age and her "pedophobia," which can mean an extreme fear or anxiety around young children, the Enquirer said. The suit was filed in June 2012. When Waltherr-Willard was transferred to a junior high school, she reportedly asked if there would be a high school position for her the following year. The school district claimed there were no open positions at the high school for her, according to Fox19. com in Cincinnati. She eventually retired in March 2011.

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Maria Waltherr-Willard

Overall Sentiment: 0.130742

Relevance: 0.85728

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Overall Sentiment: 0.192112

Relevance: 0.584724

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City: Cincinnati.

Overall Sentiment: 0.148574

Relevance: 0.324167

StateOrCounty: Ohio

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.532062

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HealthCondition: pedophobia

Overall Sentiment: -0.145222

Relevance: 0.417259

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Will Biden Run For President? 'I'm Gonna Stick' to VP | Reduction

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Will Biden Run For President? 'I'm Gonna Stick' to VP

Vice Pres't. Marshall (LOC) by The Library of Congress
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BELOIT, Wisc. – Vice President Joe Biden sang a different tune on his 2016 presidential prospects Friday afternoon when a patron at West Side Family Restaurant asked him if he was going to run for president. “You going to run as president this time? ” the man, who was seated in a booth as the vice president made the rounds at the restaurant, asked Biden. Tune in to ABCNews. com on Tuesday, Nov. 6 for livestreaming coverage of Election 2012. Our Election Day show kicks off at noon, and the Election Night event begins at 7 p.m. “Oh no, I am going to stick as vice president,” Biden said to the man. The vice president then turned to the press and said, “Y’all hear that, press?

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Vice President Joe Biden

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.902753

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0	“You going to run as president this time?” the man, who was seated in a booth as the vice president made the rounds at the restaurant, asked Biden.
-0.107981	“Oh no, I am going to stick as vice president,” Biden said ...
-0.107981	“Oh no, I am going to stick as vice president,” Biden said to the man. The vice president then turned to the press and said, “Y’all hear that, press?”
-0.0104985	“After it’s all over, when your insurance rates go down then you’ll vote for me in 2016. I’ll talk to you later,” Biden told ...
-0.196798	“You know, you guys are the guys that put Barack on the road. You guys were the guys – I may have been a little disappointed at the time,” Biden admitted ...
0.0360259	“You know, you guys are the guys that put Barack on the road. You guys were the guys – I may have been a little disappointed at the time,” Biden admitted to volunteers at a campaign field office in Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday night. “But we got the right order. We got the right order.”
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 6 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.3872326 Mean: -0.064538766666667 Standard Deviation: 1

Barack Obama

Overall Sentiment: -0.464875

Relevance: 0.128174

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The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
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Passenger delivers baby aboard flight to Armenia | Essentials

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Passenger delivers baby aboard flight to Armenia

Erevan - Armenia by Rita Willaert
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YEREVAN, Armenia A passenger has given birth aboard a plane flying to Armenia and named her daughter after one of the flight attendants who helped with the delivery. The birth of the healthy baby occurred Saturday, two hours before the Armavia airline flight landed in Yerevan, Armenia's capital, after a long flight from Siberia. Flight attendant Asmik Gevondyan said she noticed that 31-year-old passenger Armina Babayan appeared to be in labor and organized the delivery. "All of our crew helped to deliver the baby," Gevondyan told The Associated Press. Babayan, who had claimed to be 6-and-a-half-months pregnant during check-in, named her first child Asmik, local television reported.

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Armina Babayan

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.527756

Asmik Gevondyan

Overall Sentiment: 0.103722

Relevance: 0.501976

Sentiment	Quote
0.233263	"All of our crew helped to deliver the baby," Gevondyan told ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.233263 Mean: 0.233263 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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Company: Armavia

Overall Sentiment: 0.271376

Relevance: 0.307298

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Country: Armenia

Overall Sentiment: 0.0778066

Relevance: 0.887441

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City: YEREVAN

Overall Sentiment: 0.0680872

Relevance: 0.698765

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Region: Siberia

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.340267

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Morsy hails a 'new era' for Egypt | Synopsis

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Morsy hails a 'new era' for Egypt

New Statehouse by /\ \/\/ /\
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(CNN) -- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy declared a "new era" for the country Saturday, saying the new constitution guarantees equality under the law and puts power in the hands of lawmakers, not the president. He spoke three days after signing the controversial constitution into law. Despite criticism of the document, more than 63% of Egyptian voters approved it after two rounds of voting. "There is no more tyranny, discrimination or absence of social justice," Morsy said in a speech before members of the upper house of parliament, heads of the country's political parties, dignitaries of Egyptian society and diplomats. "All citizens -- no matter which class they come from, or what they believe in, or what political position they have -- they are all equal before the law and under this constitution. Egypt cannot be built by some of its citizens while others are left behind.

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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy

Overall Sentiment: -0.0110362

Relevance: 0.896604

Sentiment	Quote
0.169341	Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy declared a "new era" ...
-0.249262	"There is no more tyranny, discrimination or absence of social justice," Morsy said ...
0	Morsy said lasted "a lot longer than necessary."
-0.0300934	"I stress to all Egyptians that I will strengthen the authority of the judicial branch and will guarantee its independence," he said. ...
-0.0565536	"I stress to all Egyptians that I will strengthen the authority of the judicial branch and will guarantee its independence," he said. "The modern state cannot operate either without free media, away from the dominance of the executive power and away from those who have only vested interest in their own affairs, also away from corrupt sources of financing."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 5 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.166568 Mean: -0.0333136 Standard Deviation: 0

Hosni Mubarak

Overall Sentiment: -0.158172

Relevance: 0.205241

Disambiguation: Politician | President | ChivalricOrderMember | MilitaryCommanderReferences:

Amir Ahmed

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.179441

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).

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Country: Egypt

Overall Sentiment: 0.0422311

Relevance: 0.440938

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Markets focus on U.S. as Americans head to vote | Essentials

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Markets focus on U.S. as Americans head to vote

During his Inaugural Oath of Office in President Barack Obama's pocket was a khata blessed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, presented to Obama by Richard Blum just before he stepped onto the platform by Wonderlane
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Darryl Williams waits to vote inside the 24-hour Su Nueva Laundromat in Chicago's 13th Ward on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. / AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast LONDON Europe's stock markets made some modest gains Tuesday as Americans headed out to vote for their next president. After months of campaigning and billions of dollars spent, Election Day has arrived. Many investors are hoping that the result will be clear enough to avoid a re-run of 2000 when the result was only known weeks later after a Supreme Court decision. "That is a situation global markets fear most," said Cameron Peacock, market analyst at IG.

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Mitt Romney

Overall Sentiment: 0.0718637

Relevance: 0.768588

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Darryl Williams

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.564429

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Cameron Peacock

Overall Sentiment: -0.254585

Relevance: 0.551766

Sentiment	Quote
-0.326376	"That is a situation global markets fear most," said Cameron Peacock, ...
-0.164751	"That is a situation global markets fear most," said Cameron Peacock, market analyst at IG. "The best possible outcome would be for a clear and unqualified victor to emerge."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.491127 Mean: -0.2455635 Standard Deviation: 0

Ward

Overall Sentiment: 0.0196573

Relevance: 0.518999

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Neil Mellor

Overall Sentiment: 0.0928688

Relevance: 0.486646

Sentiment	Quote
-0.12334	"Though we are inclined to assume that any tightening will be engineered so as to minimize the damage to the recovery, there can be no denying that Congress' proclivity towards eleventh hour deals may yet rattle a few nerves," said Neil Mellor, ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.12334 Mean: -0.12334 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

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Hang Seng

Overall Sentiment: -0.483422

Relevance: 0.464954

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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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FinancialMarketIndex: Shenzhen Composite Index

Overall Sentiment: -0.448907

Relevance: 0.564066

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Relevance: 0.546304

FinancialMarketIndex: FTSE

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.520984

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Relevance: 0.471173

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Overall Sentiment: 0.130511

Relevance: 0.460403

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Overall Sentiment: 0.0997141

Relevance: 0.457956

FinancialMarketIndex: CAC-40

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.427895

Country: Greece

Overall Sentiment: -0.272008

Relevance: 0.692422

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Country: China

Overall Sentiment: 0.0511496

Relevance: 0.637327

Disambiguation: References:

Country: U.S.

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.607839

Disambiguation: Location | Region | AdministrativeDivision | GovernmentalJurisdiction | FilmEditorReferences:

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.479548

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.450916

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Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.450332

Disambiguation: Location | GovernmentalJurisdictionReferences:

Continent: Europe

Overall Sentiment: 0.137232

Relevance: 0.681004

Disambiguation: References:

Continent: Asia

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.434896

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Relevance: 0.506601

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Relevance: 0.493568

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Relevance: 0.410387

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Relevance: 0.489182

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Overall Sentiment: -0.175629

Relevance: 0.740918

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Organization: White House

Overall Sentiment: 0.0723304

Relevance: 0.700379

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Overall Sentiment: -0.0319494

Relevance: 0.491889

Organization: U.S. government

Overall Sentiment: -0.155399

Relevance: 0.462127

Organization: Communist Party

Overall Sentiment: 0.0302505

Relevance: 0.420623

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