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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Massacre leaves America shocked and grieving ... again | Essentials

Massacre leaves America shocked and grieving ... again

Family Values by Keoni Cabral
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"I know there's not a parent in America who doesn't feel the same overwhelming grief that I do," the president said in a tearful midday speech. Obama was among numerous public figures who were left feeling overwhelming grief-- and parental empathy - for the families who were victims of the massacre that got rid of 20 children and 6 grownups at Sandy Hook Elementary School. "The majority of those who died today were children-- beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old," the visibly emotional president said. "They had their entire lives ahead of them: birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own.".

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Facility: Sandy Hook Elementary School

Overall Sentiment: -0.601203

Relevance: 0.99865

Continent: America

Overall Sentiment: -0.162415

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Monday, February 11, 2013

How A Middle-School Principal Convinced Students To Come To School | Redux

How A Middle-School Principal Convinced Students To Come To School

Mr. Potato Head Has His Nose in a Book by Enokson
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Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Shawn Rux took over as principal of MS 53, a New York City middle school, last year. At the time, 50 or 60 kids were absent every day. You could understand why they stayed away: The school was chaos. Twenty-two teachers had quit, the entire office staff had quit, and hundreds of kids had been suspended. The school was given a grade of F from the city's department of education. "It was in a bad place," Rux says. Rux decided he needed to create incentives for kids to come to school. Incentives that were more obvious to middle-school kids than, "If you come to school you'll be better off 20 years from now." He handed out raffle tickets to anyone who showed up to school on time. One of the prizes was an Xbox.

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Rux Bux

Overall Sentiment: -0.0893982

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-0.376313	"It was in a bad place," Rux says. ...
0	"It was ... like, 'Get out of my way, I'm trying to get into school,'" Rux says. ...
0.151631	"It was ... like, 'Get out of my way, I'm trying to get into school,'" Rux says. "It was nice."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 3 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.224682 Mean: -0.074894 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Wander Rodriguez

Overall Sentiment: 0.268242

Relevance: 0.33745

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0.343713	"I like this school," Wander Rodriguez says. ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.343713 Mean: 0.343713 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

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Monday, February 4, 2013

Officials release names of victims in Connecticut elementary school shooting | Synopsis

Officials release names of victims in Connecticut elementary school shooting

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Authorities have released the names of the 26 victims killed when a gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school. Authorities have released the names of the 26 victims killed when a gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school. All six adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School were women. Of the 20 children who were shot to death, eight were boys and 12 were girls. All the children were ages 6 or 7. Below is the list released by Connecticut State Police. A year ago, 6-year-old Ana Marquez-Greene was reveling in holiday celebrations with her extended family on her first trip to Puerto Rico. The girl's grandmother, Elba Marquez, said the child's family moved to Connecticut just two months ago, drawn from Canada, in part, by Sandy Hook's pristine reputation.

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Sherlach

Overall Sentiment: 0.280685

Relevance: 0.457914

Sandy Hook

Overall Sentiment: 0.253822

Relevance: 0.441415

Dawn Hochsprung

Overall Sentiment: 0.207917

Relevance: 0.413789

Jorge Marquez

Overall Sentiment: 0.165045

Relevance: 0.410205

Sentiment	Quote
0.323897	"It was a beautiful place, just beautiful," she said. ...
0.193074	"It was a beautiful place, just beautiful," she said. "What happened does not match up with the place where they live."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.516971 Mean: 0.2584855 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Emilie

Overall Sentiment: -0.118675

Relevance: 0.383493

Robbie Parker

Overall Sentiment: 0.0508264

Relevance: 0.382124

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-0.0255966	"She never missed an opportunity to draw a picture or make a card for those she around her," he said.
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0255966 Mean: -0.0255966 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Teresa Rousseau

Overall Sentiment: 0.266261

Relevance: 0.327716

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0.203212	"It was the best year of her life," her mother, Teresa Rousseau, told ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 1 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.203212 Mean: 0.203212 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Eric Schwartz

Overall Sentiment: -0.118721

Relevance: 0.312371

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Jim Wiltsie

Overall Sentiment: 0.139557

Relevance: 0.285848

Sentiment	Quote
-0.0402746	"She was trying to shield, get her children into a closet and protect them from harm," Wiltsie told ...
-0.023958	"She was trying to shield, get her children into a closet and protect them from harm," Wiltsie told ABC. "And by doing that, put herself between the gunman and the children."
0.254799	"She lost her life doing what she loved," Wiltsie said. ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 3 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.1905664 Mean: 0.063522133333333 Standard Deviation: 1

Victoria Soto

Overall Sentiment: 0.344197

Relevance: 0.269618

Lauren Rousseau

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.267258

Ana Marquez-Greene

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.255518

Gerald Stomski

Overall Sentiment: 0.527531

Relevance: 0.230468

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0.652419	"She had an extremely likable style about her," said Gerald Stomski, ...
0.342371	"She had an extremely likable style about her," said Gerald Stomski, first selectman of Woodbury, where Hochsprung lived and had taught. "She was an extremely charismatic principal while she was here."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.99479 Mean: 0.497395 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Janet Robinson

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.211085

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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: Sandy Hook Elementary School

Overall Sentiment: -0.153966

Relevance: 0.756865

Facility: Sandy Hook Elementary

Overall Sentiment: 0.380684

Relevance: 0.387228

StateOrCounty: Connecticut

Overall Sentiment: -0.425844

Relevance: 0.38923

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