Steelworm Vacon: January 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Tsunami Debris Team Reaches Dock on Wash. Coast | Reduction

Tsunami Debris Team Reaches Dock on Wash. Coast

La Playa / The Beach by Miguel Vera
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Excerpt:

Rambling over primitive coastal trails, a team reached a dock that evidently drifted from Japan after last year's tsunami and simply cleaned ashore on a Washington beach, and an authorities said the group found Japanese writing inside the framework. The team of tsunami debris experts is trying to confirm that the dock is from Japan and wandered for even more than a year before winding up on among the most remote beaches on the U.S. West Coast. The team did not find an identifying plaque like the one found on a dock that cleaned ashore last June at Newport, Ore. , said Kim Schmanke, a spokeswoman for the state Ecology Department. That dock was confirmed as debris from the March 2011 Japanese tsunami.

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Kim Schmanke

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Caren Braby

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Israeli 'Spy' Captured in Sudan | Synopsis

Israeli 'Spy' Captured in Sudan

Israeli female soldiers Six-Day War مجندات اسرائيليات by sinabeet
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Excerpt:

Sudanese authorities say they have captured an Israeli spy in the town of Kereinek, but Israeli authorities have cast doubt on the claim, noting that the alleged Mossad agent is covered in feathers and weighs less than 30 pounds. Officials in the North African country are calling a large bird captured late last week an "Israeli spy vulture," according to Middle Eastern media reports. The online edition of the Egyptian daily El Balad said the raptor was fitted with solar-powered equipment that can broadcasts information, including satellite images. The report states a GPS tracker was also installed. Iran's Press TV reported that the Sudanese security services believe the vulture was dispatched on its mission from Jerusalem's Hebrew University.

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Ohad Hazofe

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Relevance: 0.445822

Sentiment	Quote
-0.0587838	"This is a young vulture that was tagged, along with 100 others, in October. He has two wing bands and a German-made GPS chip," said Ohad Hazofe.
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El Balad

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Hatzofe

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Relevance: 0.315297

Sentiment	Quote
0.0245253	"This is equipment that can give out distance and altitude readings only," Hatzofe said. ...
0.0204444	"This is equipment that can give out distance and altitude readings only," Hatzofe said. "That's the only way we knew something had happened to the bird -- all of a sudden it stopped flying and started traveling on the ground."
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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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Organization: Tel Aviv University

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Country: Egypt

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City: Kereinek

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U.K. economy moves closer to triple dip recession | Essentials

U.K. economy moves closer to triple dip recession

Euro Crisis Infographic: Greek GDP as a Percentage of GDP vs Greek Unemployment by EuroCrisisExplained.co.uk
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Excerpt:

LONDON Britain's economy contracted by a worse-than-expected 0. 3 percent in the last three months of 2012, raising the possibility that it might fall back into recession for the third time since the global financial crisis. The Office for National Statistics said Friday that there was no growth in the nation's big services industry while output of production industries fell by 1. 8 percent, including a 1. 5 percent drop in manufacturing. At Davos, new year brings renewed optimism U.K. to clamp down on corporate tax avoidance Experts warn of "perfect storm" for world economy Britain emerged from a nine-month recession in the third quarter, when GDP grew by 0. 9 percent. But if the economy shrinks again in the first quarter of 2013, it will be officially back in a technical recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction.

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Britian

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Relevance: 0.354244

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-0.333022	"Significantly, GDP was flat year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2012. GDP was also flat over 2012 as a whole as a number of distortions lead to fluctuating quarter-on-quarter GDP through the year," he said.
-0.184696	"What is blatantly evident is that the economy continues to find it very hard to generate even modest sustainable growth," he said. ...
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Olivier Blanchard

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.315209

Sentiment	Quote
0	"Our early advice is still very much there," Olivier Blanchard said ...
-0.262656	"Our early advice is still very much there," Olivier Blanchard said on Wednesday. "If things look bad at the beginning of 2013, there should be reassessment of fiscal policy. We still believe that."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.262656 Mean: -0.131328 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

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Howard Archer

Overall Sentiment: 0.181717

Relevance: 0.28906

George Osborne

Overall Sentiment: -0.039478

Relevance: 0.262503

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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FieldTerminology: GDP

Overall Sentiment: -0.126662

Relevance: 0.861452

Country: Britain

Overall Sentiment: -0.319784

Relevance: 0.493551

Organization: Office for National Statistics

Overall Sentiment: 0.0336819

Relevance: 0.32344

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Dark matter contest enlists the masses | Essentials

Dark matter contest enlists the masses

Abell 222 & Abell 223 with dark matter filament by Jörg Dietrich
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Excerpt:

NASA / ESA / M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) This Hubble Space Telescope composite image shows a ghostly "ring" of dark matter in the galaxy cluster Cl 0024+17.

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H. Ford

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.33

M.J. Jee

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.33

Additional Info:

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Overall Sentiment: 0

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Remembering the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami amid destroyed buildings | Redux

Remembering the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami amid destroyed buildings

Indonesian Women on a motorcycle ride back from their home that was destroyed due to the Tsunami that struck in Banda Aceh by simminch
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Excerpt:

A woman is seen through an opening on a wall as she goes to a prayer commemorating the 8th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Dec. 26. Heri Juanda / AP Women weep during a prayer commemorating the 8th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Dec. 26. Today marks the 8th anniversary of the Dec. 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The catastrophe, induced by a magnitude-9. 3 earthquake off Sumatra, eliminated an approximated 230,000 people in 13 nations along the Indian Ocean. -- European Pressphoto Agency
Arun Sankar K. / AP
Indians do routines and offer milk on Marina beach, a location hit by the 2004 tidal wave, in Chennai, India, on Dec. 26, 2012.

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Heri Juanda

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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
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Excerpt:

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

Overall Sentiment: -0.296947

Relevance: 0.832576

Arthur Kill

Overall Sentiment: 0.0391542

Relevance: 0.57262

Les Tippets

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Larry Ragonese

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Kepler Completes Prime Mission, Begins Extended Mission | Essentials

Kepler Completes Prime Mission, Begins Extended Mission

Most Earthlike Exoplanet Started out as Gas Giant by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

Excerpt:

Click image for full resolution. The timeline series includes a compilation of artist's concepts depicting milestones from the Kepler mission—NASA's first mission capable of detecting Earth-size planets around sun-like stars. Milestones include launch of the space telescope, the first transiting planetary system, the smallest planet with both radius and mass measurements, the first six-planet system, the first double-star planet, the smallest planet in the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun. Image credit: NASA Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth -- the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope's 3 1/2- year prime mission and the beginning of an extended mission that could last as long as four years.

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Kepler

Overall Sentiment: 0.43744

Relevance: 0.938703

Disambiguation: Academic | Astronomer | OperaCharacter | ScientistReferences:

Stenzel

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Relevance: 0.181375

Geoff Marcy

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Relevance: 0.168297

Sentiment	Quote
0.0428646	"The Earth isn't unique, nor the center of the universe. The diversity of other worlds is greater than depicted in all the science fiction novels and movies," said Geoff Marcy, ...
0.0553338	"The Earth isn't unique, nor the center of the universe. The diversity of other worlds is greater than depicted in all the science fiction novels and movies," said Geoff Marcy, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. "Aristotle would be proud of us for answering some of the most profound philosophical questions about our place in the universe."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0981984 Mean: 0.0490992 Standard Deviation: 0

Disambiguation: Academic | Astronomer | ScientistReferences:

William Borucki

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.157015

Sentiment	Quote
-0.145681	"The initial discoveries of the Kepler mission indicate that at least a third of the stars have planets and that the number of planets in our galaxy must number in the billions," said William Borucki, ...
0.0293886	"The initial discoveries of the Kepler mission indicate that at least a third of the stars have planets and that the number of planets in our galaxy must number in the billions," said William Borucki, Kepler principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "The planets of greatest interest are other Earths and these could already be in the data awaiting analysis. Kepler’s most exciting results are yet to come!"
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.1162924 Mean: -0.0581462 Standard Deviation: 0

Jack Lissauer

Overall Sentiment: -0.163822

Relevance: 0.136152

Sentiment	Quote
0.116396	"Kepler's bounty of new planet discoveries, many quite different from anything found previously, will continue to astound. But to me, the most wonderful discovery of the mission has not been individual planets, but the systems of two, three, even six planets crowded close to their stars, and, like the planets orbiting about our sun, moving in nearly the same plane," said Jack Lissauer, ...
0.107776	"Kepler's bounty of new planet discoveries, many quite different from anything found previously, will continue to astound. But to me, the most wonderful discovery of the mission has not been individual planets, but the systems of two, three, even six planets crowded close to their stars, and, like the planets orbiting about our sun, moving in nearly the same plane," said Jack Lissauer, planetary scientist at Ames. "Like people, planets interact with and can be greatly affected by their neighbors. What are the neighborhoods of Earth-size exoplanets like? This is the question that I most hope Kepler will answer in the years to come."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.224172 Mean: 0.112086 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

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:

Technology: Kepler Space Telescope

Overall Sentiment: 0.390842

Relevance: 0.40115

GeographicFeature: Earth

Overall Sentiment: 0.0858086

Relevance: 0.453473

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