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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Ill. Officials Push for Illegal Immigrant Licenses | Reduction

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Ill. Officials Push for Illegal Immigrant Licenses

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Illinois could become the third state in the U.S. to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants — a move top officials from both parties are pushing as a way to make roads safer and one that could have political implications for lawmakers seeking to court Hispanic voters. Illinois Senate President John Cullerton said Tuesday that he believes he has the votes to get the measure through his chamber next week. Gov. Pat Quinn said he will sign it if it passes the House and makes it to his desk. New Mexico and Washington are the only states in the U.S. to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Quinn and Cullerton, both Democrats, were joined at a news conference by several key Illinois officials, including former Gov. Jim Edgar and Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, both Republicans, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a fellow Democrat. All predicted bipartisan support.

People:

Senate President John Cullerton

Overall Sentiment: 0.637542

Relevance: 0.511061

SentimentQuote
0.397806"By passing this legislation, this is going to incredibly benefit all of us," Cullerton said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.397806
  • Mean: 0.397806
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Gov. Pat Quinn

Overall Sentiment: 0.18735

Relevance: 0.491456

SentimentQuote
0Quinn called the bill "the continuation of a movement" ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0
  • Mean: 0
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Edgar

Overall Sentiment: 0.408846

Relevance: 0.379997

SentimentQuote
0.236046"I think Republicans now realize we need to change our image if we want to be a successful and a viable party in America," Edgar said. ...
0.182735"I think Republicans now realize we need to change our image if we want to be a successful and a viable party in America," Edgar said. "It's important that we show these immigrants that we appreciate them being here, we appreciate what they contribute to our society and that we want to make it easier to contribute."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.418781
  • Mean: 0.2093905
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Lawrence Benito

Overall Sentiment: 0.541395

Relevance: 0.337544

SentimentQuote
0.226227"We're doing this for good public policy reasons. If there are good political reasons as well, that's great," Benito said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.226227
  • Mean: 0.226227
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Mayor Rahm Emanuel

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.30142

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Christine Radogno

Overall Sentiment: 0.0160311

Relevance: 0.299866

Tom Cross

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.297642

Gov. Jim Edgar

Overall Sentiment: 0.0243946

Relevance: 0.28187

Disambiguation: Politician | Governor | PoliticalAppointerReferences:

Judy Baar Topinka

Overall Sentiment: 0.0117383

Relevance: 0.266844

Vicki Crawford

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.248694

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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Organization: Senate

Overall Sentiment: -0.307178

Relevance: 0.489908

Organization: House

Overall Sentiment: -0.519246

Relevance: 0.460924

Organization: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.379399

Organization: General Assembly

Overall Sentiment: 0.0339192

Relevance: 0.30719

StateOrCounty: Illinois

Overall Sentiment: 0.111563

Relevance: 0.791338

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Country: U.S.

Overall Sentiment: -0.156113

Relevance: 0.324641

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Red Cross Reaches Wounded in Syrian City Homs | Essentials

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Red Cross Reaches Wounded in Syrian City Homs

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The help group says it reached the communities of Khalidiya and Hamidiya in the old city of Homs on Saturday after settlements with the government and rebels. It stated in a statement late Sunday that 34 foreign delegates and Syrian Arab Red Crescent officials had the ability to provide medical help to 100 wounded individuals. The Geneva-based group says it also provided medication, food and hygiene items to "hundreds of civilians (who) have been unable to leave Khalidiya and Hamidiya for at least four months" because of battling. Homs has actually witnessed some of Syria's worst battling because a popular uprising began in the country in March 2011.

People:

Homs

Overall Sentiment: -0.243612

Relevance: 0.80987

Khalidiya

Overall Sentiment: -0.462822

Relevance: 0.438948

Hamidiya

Overall Sentiment: -0.466606

Relevance: 0.411786

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Country: Syria

Overall Sentiment: -0.391718

Relevance: 0.370495

Organization: Red Crescent

Overall Sentiment: 0.0427002

Relevance: 0.488938

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Once-secret Watergate files released by US government | Essentials

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Once-secret Watergate files released by US government

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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WASHINGTON –  Watergate Judge John J. Sirica aided the prosecution in pursuing the White House connection to the Democratic headquarters break-in by providing the special prosecutor information from a probation report in which one of the burglars said he was acting under orders from top Nixon administration officials, according to once-secret documents released Friday by the National Archives. One newly public transcript of an in-chambers meeting between Sirica, the U.S. District Court judge in charge of the case, and then-Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in July 1973 shows the judge revealed secret probation reports indicating that E. Howard Hunt had cited orders from officials high up in the Nixon administration.

People:

E. Howard Hunt

Overall Sentiment: -0.21296

Relevance: 0.825642

SentimentQuote
0.0521831Hunt said in a letter to Sirica in early January 1973 that he suffered from ulcers and other gastrointestinal ailments but "has sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0521831
  • Mean: 0.0521831
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

John J. Sirica

Overall Sentiment: -0.135922

Relevance: 0.764182

SentimentQuote
0.11763Sirica told Cox and other prosecutors that he felt the new information "seemed to me significant."
-0.219739"If he is just emotionally upset, that, in my opinion, is not a valid excuse," Sirica said. ...
-0.123647"If he is just emotionally upset, that, in my opinion, is not a valid excuse," Sirica said. "If he gets tired during the day, I will arrange for him to go down and take a rest for two or three hours if he wishes."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 3
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.225756
  • Mean: -0.075252
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Archibald Cox

Overall Sentiment: 0.0385334

Relevance: 0.404258

Richard Nixon

Overall Sentiment: -0.379342

Relevance: 0.340085

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Dean

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.242156

Disambiguation: Politician | FilmActor | TVActorReferences:

Charles E. Law Sr.

Overall Sentiment: -0.225571

Relevance: 0.224209

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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Organization: Nixon administration

Overall Sentiment: 0.134563

Relevance: 0.337029

Organization: White House

Overall Sentiment: 0.102882

Relevance: 0.316133

Facility: White House

Overall Sentiment: -0.387576

Relevance: 0.384479

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

FBI granted access to Libya consulate attack suspect detained in Tunisia | Synopsis

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FBI granted access to Libya consulate attack suspect detained in Tunisia

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FBI agents are making their means to Tunisia to interview a suspicious apprehended there in the Libya consulate attack, sources tell Fox News, after Tunisian authorities initially declined to give the U.S. investigators access to the man. Tunisian authorities accepted let the FBI concern Ali Ani al Harzi only if it is done "under Tunisian sovereignty," a condition evidently being cited in recognition of domestic pressure in the North African country. The current development comes after an intervention by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who wrote to the Tunisian authorities about the absence of access. It isn't really clear just what pressure the Obama administration had been applying. UNITED STATE Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 other Americans were killed in the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

People:

Ali Ani al Harzi

Overall Sentiment: 0.0654098

Relevance: 0.805907

Sen. Lindsey Graham

Overall Sentiment: 0.5778

Relevance: 0.437729

SentimentQuote
0.408506“We are very pleased the Tunisian government is working with American investigators to allow in person access to Ali Ani al Harzi," Graham said ...
0.247464“We are very pleased the Tunisian government is working with American investigators to allow in person access to Ali Ani al Harzi," Graham said Friday. "Under this arrangement the interviews will be under Tunisian supervision and consistent with their sovereignty and meets the needs of our investigative team."
-0.0941193“It is unfortunate it has taken this long to get an in-person interview, as time is of the essence in cases like this," he said. ...
0“It is unfortunate it has taken this long to get an in-person interview, as time is of the essence in cases like this," he said. "We hope our interview of Ali Ani al Harzi will bear fruit and we can bring to justice those responsible for killing Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.5618507
  • Mean: 0.140462675
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689
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Ambassador Chris Stevens

Overall Sentiment: -0.317049

Relevance: 0.330659

Ansar al-Sharia

Overall Sentiment: -0.794624

Relevance: 0.220063

Catherine Herridge

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.196128

Jennifer Griffin

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.190017

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.

Additional Info:

Country: U.S.

Overall Sentiment: -0.141929

Relevance: 0.332766

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Organization: Tunisian government

Overall Sentiment: 0.766027

Relevance: 0.424097

Organization: Obama administration

Overall Sentiment: -0.188814

Relevance: 0.314506

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Zoo Calendar Features Animals From Boy's Mauling | Reduction

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Zoo Calendar Features Animals From Boy's Mauling

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The Pittsburgh Zoo is featuring the animals that fatally mauled a 2-year-old boy earlier this year on the March page of its 2013 calendar. Zoo officials say the calendars featuring pictures of African painted dogs had already been printed and made available to patrons before the Nov. 4 death of Maddox Derkosh. The boy died after falling off a railing and into the animals' habitat, where he was attacked. Zoo President Barbara Baker tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ( http://bit. ly/UYXO5P ) that officials considered scrapping the calendars after the boy's death but they'd already been on sale beforehand. Baker says the dogs are an endangered species the zoo is responsible for helping protect. The exhibit remains closed.

People:

President Barbara Baker

Overall Sentiment: -0.0177659

Relevance: 0.604728

Maddox Derkosh

Overall Sentiment: -0.195122

Relevance: 0.327098

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Facility: Pittsburgh Zoo

Overall Sentiment: 0.0366812

Relevance: 0.877859

PrintMedia: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Overall Sentiment: -0.0695351

Relevance: 0.407548

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Sunday, December 2, 2012

2 More Polish Plane Victims Buried in Wrong Graves | Reduction

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2 More Polish Plane Victims Buried in Wrong Graves

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People:

Polish President Lech Kaczynski

Overall Sentiment: -1

Relevance: 0.548165

Capt. Marcin Maksjan

Overall Sentiment: -0.04823

Relevance: 0.373095

Ryszard Kaczorowski

Overall Sentiment: -0.219795

Relevance: 0.317988

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Anna Walentynowicz

Overall Sentiment: 0.849005

Relevance: 0.287224

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FieldTerminology: Polish

Overall Sentiment: -1

Relevance: 0.43138

Country: Russia

Overall Sentiment: -0.61174

Relevance: 0.815204

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Country: Poland

Overall Sentiment: -0.012191

Relevance: 0.348145

Disambiguation: Location | GovernmentalJurisdiction | Kingdom | AwardPresentingOrganization | FilmFestivalFocusReferences:

Organization: Polish Foreign Ministry

Overall Sentiment: -0.610847

Relevance: 0.405646

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