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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Wind, Rain Slam Pacific Northwest | Essentials

Wind, Rain Slam Pacific Northwest

Typhoon Day | Chennai Marina Beach by VinothChandar
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

Excerpt:

Rain and wind pounded Washington and Oregon on Monday, snarling the commute, causing sporadic road closures and power outages and at least one death. The wet weather was expected to continue throughout the week, and forecasters warned that Hurricane strength wind into the evening on the Washington and Oregon coasts. "Not a dry day for a while," said meteorologist Johnny Burg of the National Weather Service's Seattle office. A hunter on Oregon's northwest coast was killed when a tree crashed on his tent near Nehalem Monday morning. Two hunters in an adjacent camp heard the tree snap as gusts reached more than 70 mph, and saw it lying across the tent. They cut it away in an attempt to rescue the man, to no avail. Sheriff Andy Long of Tillamook County identified the hunter as 52-year-old Nathan Christensen of Seattle.

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Johnny Burg

Overall Sentiment: -0.228163

Relevance: 0.50237

Sentiment	Quote
0	"Not a dry day for a while," said meteorologist Johnny Burg ...
-0.255424	"This is usually when we see windstorms, rain, river flooding and mountain snow," Burg said. ...
-0.123662	"This is usually when we see windstorms, rain, river flooding and mountain snow," Burg said. "We've been lucky so far we haven't seen a big wind. The winter is young."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 3 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.379086 Mean: -0.126362 Standard Deviation: 1

Sheriff Andy Long

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.360115

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Nathan Christensen

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.318199

Steven DuBois

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.302178

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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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City: Seattle

Overall Sentiment: -0.255992

Relevance: 0.9103

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City: Washington

Overall Sentiment: -0.0749715

Relevance: 0.538633

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City: Nehalem

Overall Sentiment: -0.2605

Relevance: 0.354296

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City: Chehalis

Overall Sentiment: -0.60582

Relevance: 0.303893

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City: Portland

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.303421

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StateOrCounty: Oregon

Overall Sentiment: -0.247611

Relevance: 0.509592

StateOrCounty: Washington

Overall Sentiment: -0.356014

Relevance: 0.466364

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StateOrCounty: Tillamook County

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.319567

Region: Eastern Washington

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Relevance: 0.480738

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GeographicFeature: Cascade mountain

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.394645

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GeographicFeature: Skokomish River

Overall Sentiment: -0.0804297

Relevance: 0.361022

Disambiguation: Location | BodyOfWater | RiverReferences:

Facility: Puget Sound

Overall Sentiment: 0.396002

Relevance: 0.343087

Organization: Washington Transportation Department

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.399612

Organization: National Weather Service

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.398479

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Company: Associated Press

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.309759

Holiday: Thanksgiving Day

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Extreme weather tough on transportation system | Redux

Extreme weather tough on transportation system

United Nations Climate Change Conference - COP15 - Copenhagen, Denmark by kk+
License (according to Flickr): Attribution-ShareAlike License

Excerpt:

CHICAGO, IL - OCTOBER 30: Waves created from the remainders Hurricane Sandy crash into the coastline of Lake Michigan on October 30, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Waves approximately 25 feet high created by winds up to 50 miles-per-hour were expected on the lake. / Scott Olson/Getty Images

Wild weather is taking a toll on roadways, flight terminals, railways and transportation systems around the country. That's leaving states and cities looking for means to prepare for even more misfortunes like Superstorm Sandy that are straining the country 's transportation lifelines past exactly what their builders pictured. Despite their issues about extreme rain, historic floods and record heat waves, some transportation coordinators find it too politically sensitive to say aloud a source of their weather worries : climate change.

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Paula Hammond

Overall Sentiment: -0.0377455

Relevance: 0.884104

Sentiment	Quote
0.202176	"The infrastructure of the nation is aging and it's at risk because, quite frankly, we're all not investing enough to take care of these facilities," said Hammond, ...
0.10743	"The infrastructure of the nation is aging and it's at risk because, quite frankly, we're all not investing enough to take care of these facilities," said Hammond, the chairwoman of the climate committee. "And now we're facing extreme weather threats that cause us to need emergency response capabilities beyond what we've had in the past."
-0.144909	"we have seen more erratic weather patterns that we haven't had before, so we really can't imagine what kind of winter or summer we're going to have anymore," Hammond said. ...
-0.149658	"Each time you replace a bridge, states have to be thinking about not just what kind of traffic demand there is, but how do I make sure this is a bridge that will withstand the future given the erratic weather patterns and climate change we're seeing," Hammond said.
-0.0413066	"Each time you replace a bridge, states have to be thinking about not just what kind of traffic demand there is, but how do I make sure this is a bridge that will withstand the future given the erratic weather patterns and climate change we're seeing," Hammond said. "It's a new layer of analysis."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 5 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0262676 Mean: -0.00525352 Standard Deviation: 0

John Horsley

Overall Sentiment: -0.0345339

Relevance: 0.864668

Sentiment	Quote
0	"There is a whole series of standards that are going to have to be revisited in light of the change in climate that is coming at us," said John Horsley, ...
-0.155059	"That puts stress on pavements that previously we didn't see," Horsley said. ...
0	"climate change," Horsley said. ...
0.341381	"In the Northeast, you can call it climate change. ... That's an acceptable term in that region of the country," he said. ...
0.0400191	"In the Northeast, you can call it climate change. ... That's an acceptable term in that region of the country," he said. "Elsewhere, in the South and the (Mountain) West, it's still not an acceptable term because of ideology or whatever you want to call it."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 5 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.2263411 Mean: 0.04526822 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

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John Horsley (archaeologist): dbpedia

Superstorm Sandy

Overall Sentiment: -0.622012

Relevance: 0.671179

Sandy

Overall Sentiment: -0.028171

Relevance: 0.518318

Steve Winkelman

Overall Sentiment: -0.475709

Relevance: 0.500039

Sentiment	Quote
-0.339142	"This is about my basement flooding, not the polar bear -- what I call inconvenient sewer overflow," Winkelman said. ...
-0.339142	"This is about my basement flooding, not the polar bear -- what I call inconvenient sewer overflow," Winkelman said. "It makes it real."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.678284 Mean: -0.339142 Standard Deviation: 0

Ray LaHood

Overall Sentiment: -0.279146

Relevance: 0.451989

Disambiguation: Politician | Appointee | U.S.CongresspersonReferences:

Deron Lovaas

Overall Sentiment: -0.1726

Relevance: 0.419216

Sentiment	Quote
-0.212805	"They got hit with what was even worse than even their worst-case scenario," said Deron Lovaas, ...
-0.116398	"They got hit with what was even worse than even their worst-case scenario," said Deron Lovaas, a transportation expert with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group. "This was an active test of ... climate preparedness, and they failed."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.329203 Mean: -0.1646015 Standard Deviation: 0

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:

NaturalDisaster: Hurricane Sandy

Overall Sentiment: -0.130486

Relevance: 0.528541

Organization: Department of Transportation

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.535033

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Organization: Transportation Department

Overall Sentiment: 0.0129753

Relevance: 0.512187

Organization: Obama administration

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Relevance: 0.421804

Organization: congressional commission

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.416184

Organization: Center for Clean Air Policy

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Relevance: 0.407531

Organization: Natural Resources Defense Council

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.395131

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Company: US Airways

Overall Sentiment: -0.0372135

Relevance: 0.465094

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Company: The Associated Press

Overall Sentiment: 0.082232

Relevance: 0.335198

City: New York

Overall Sentiment: 0.118405

Relevance: 0.44499

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City: CHICAGO

Overall Sentiment: -0.0498433

Relevance: 0.529058

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City: Dallas

Overall Sentiment: 0.0610633

Relevance: 0.451526

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City: Omaha

Overall Sentiment: -0.518071

Relevance: 0.446478

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City: Philadelphia

Overall Sentiment: 0.27164

Relevance: 0.418852

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StateOrCounty: Washington

Overall Sentiment: -0.655716

Relevance: 0.565286

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StateOrCounty: Illinois

Overall Sentiment: -0.0549854

Relevance: 0.462527

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StateOrCounty: IL

Overall Sentiment: -0.0398882

Relevance: 0.433286

StateOrCounty: New Jersey

Overall Sentiment: 0.131789

Relevance: 0.433224

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StateOrCounty: Colorado

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.42861

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StateOrCounty: Neb.

Overall Sentiment: -0.428058

Relevance: 0.421945

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StateOrCounty: Virginia

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.39416

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StateOrCounty: North Dakota

Overall Sentiment: -0.420819

Relevance: 0.390894

Disambiguation: Location | PoliticalDistrict | AdministrativeDivision | GovernmentalJurisdiction | USStateReferences:

Region: Northeast

Overall Sentiment: 0.263068

Relevance: 0.545847

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Region: West

Overall Sentiment: -0.211474

Relevance: 0.377916

Facility: Reagan National Airport

Overall Sentiment: -0.114824

Relevance: 0.491158

Disambiguation: Location | Airport | TransportTerminus | BuildingReferences:

Country: U.S.

Overall Sentiment: -0.324976

Relevance: 0.451176

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Overall Sentiment: -0.0551192

Relevance: 0.445735

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

California wraps difficult season with 62-14 loss to No. 15 Oregon State | Reduction

California wraps difficult season with 62-14 loss to No. 15 Oregon State

Horizon Air Bombardier RJ-700 in OSU Beavers' colors by wbaiv
License (according to Flickr): Attribution-ShareAlike License

Excerpt:

California lost 62-14 at No. 15 Oregon State on Saturday night, closing out a difficult season and leaving the future of its longtime coach in question. Sean Mannion passed for 325 yards and four touchdowns for the Beavers (8-2, 6-2 Pac-12), who improved to 5-0 at Reser Stadium and will face Oregon in the Civil War next weekend. Isi Sofele had 104 yards rushing for the Golden Bears (3-9, 2-7), who were hampered all season long by turnovers, penalties, missed assignments and sloppy tackling. Allan Bridgford was 18-of-31 passing for 132 yards. Tedford, two-time conference coach of the year, has been at California since 2002, but the program has been in decline. The Bears are 15-22 in the past three seasons. This was the worst campaign for Cal since it went 1-10 in 2001. "I don't know," Tedford said when asked if he would be returning next season.

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Sean Mannion

Overall Sentiment: 0.225967

Relevance: 0.578722

Tedford

Overall Sentiment: -0.763843

Relevance: 0.577151

Sentiment	Quote
0	"I don't know," Tedford said ...
0.127887	"I don't know," Tedford said when asked if he would be returning next season. "My job is to develop players. We have work to do. I'll go back to work tomorrow and get ready to keep going."
-0.657776	"This is definitely a very disappointing season," Tedford said. ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 3 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.529889 Mean: -0.17662966666667 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Allan Bridgford

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.386924

Cody Vaz

Overall Sentiment: -0.363503

Relevance: 0.340184

Mike Riley

Overall Sentiment: 0.843207

Relevance: 0.306626

Sentiment	Quote
0.73368	"Sean obviously prepared very well," Oregon State coach Mike Riley ...
0.514729	"Sean obviously prepared very well," Oregon State coach Mike Riley said. "And he had a look in his eye this week."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 1.248409 Mean: 0.6242045 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Disambiguation: CollegeCoach | FootballCoach | FootballPlayerReferences:

Markus Wheaton

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.264965

Rashaad Reynolds

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.264574

Sentiment	Quote
0	"We've been waiting for a game like this all year, with both sides clicking," cornerback Rashaad Reynolds said. ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: 0 Mean: 0 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Sean

Overall Sentiment: 0.843207

Relevance: 0.263391

Terron Ward

Overall Sentiment: 0.165702

Relevance: 0.246824

Sofele

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.242602

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:

StateOrCounty: Oregon

Overall Sentiment: -0.0127625

Relevance: 0.504443

StateOrCounty: California

Overall Sentiment: -0.281571

Relevance: 0.43028

StateOrCounty: Washington State

Overall Sentiment: -0.352474

Relevance: 0.303767

Disambiguation: References:

Facility: Reser Stadium

Overall Sentiment: 0.0158038

Relevance: 0.336725

Disambiguation: Location | Stadium | SportsFacilityReferences:

Organization: Bears

Overall Sentiment: 0.215926

Relevance: 0.802488

Disambiguation: SportsTeam | FootballTeam | ProfessionalSportsTeamReferences:

Organization: Beavers

Overall Sentiment: -0.027353

Relevance: 0.576927

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