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PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Ted Cruz ? Despite his outspoken liberalism , Franken has worked hard to make friends with Republicans , Cruz excepted . 
Of late , Cruz has shown a humbler , more compassionate side . 
Franken was unsparing in his criticism of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in his book , "Al Franken : Giant of the Senate ." 
Would America be better off if it had elected Cruz and not Trump president ? 
The second , Chapter 37 , "Sophistry ," details how much he loathes Sen. Ted Cruz , whom he describes as a smarmy , condescending grandstander . 
"He 's the exception that proves the rule ," Franken told the American-Statesman , explaining his decision to abandon normal senatorial courtesy in writing about Cruz . 
Smith said that he did n't know Cruz would figure so importantly in Franken 's book when he arranged for Franken 's prime spot at the conference , but said , "It 's the cherry on the sundae ." 
As for Cruz , Franken said he has no regrets about committing his misgivings to print . 
Franken and Cruz will bookend the Texas Tribune Festival this weekend . 
On Sunday , Smith will moderate a discussion with Cruz and his Texas Republican Senate colleague , John Cornyn . 
When the book came out in May , Cruz told Politico , "Al is trying to sell books and apparently he 's decided that being obnoxious and insulting me is good for causing liberals to buy his books . 
Smith will moderate a discussion with Republican U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz at 9 a.m. on Sunday , also at Hogg Auditorium . 
As far as he knows , Smith said , "it 's the only event that has both Al Franken and Ted Cruz on the program ," and , he said , no speaker in the festival 's history has generated as much advance interest and excitement as Franken . 
Also , American-Statesman chief political writer Jonathan Tilove will interview U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke , D-El Paso , who is running for Cruz 's Senate seat .

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Philip K. Dick ? Lately  weâve been seeing a boom in TV dystopias. Two of the most successful premieres in the past few years have been HBOâs Westworld and Huluâs The Handmaidâs Tale: the former a solemn  plodding update of Michael Crichtonâs 1973 film  in which subjugated androids revolt and take over a theme park; the latter a stylish and compelling adaptation of Margaret Atwoodâs 1985 novel  in which the United States becomes a patriarchal theocracy. Other recent examples include Amazonâs The Man in the High Castle (based on Philip K. Dickâs 1962 novel about an alternate reality in which the Axis powers have won World War II)  HBOâs The Leftovers (about a world in which 2 percent of the population has mysteriously disappeared)  and Netflixâs new Altered Carbon (a cyberpunk gorefest based on a 2002 novel by Richard K. Morgan). Stretching the criteria a bit  one could perhaps include the long-running zombie odyssey The Walking Dead and its spin-off  Fear the Walking Dead  and sitcoms that play with dystopic elements  like The Good Place and The Last Man on Earth.
The success of Black Mirror is the proximate cause for the existence of  Philip K. Dickâs  Electric Dreams  also produced by Channel 4 and available here on Amazon. Dick  of course  is one of the past masters of the dystopia genre: His 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was the basis for the seminal Ridley Scott film Blade Runner  and his work has been mined by Hollywood countless times ever since.  Electric Dreams  adapts 10 of  Dickâs  short stories  including âThe Hood Makerâ (which imagines a class war between telepaths and normal citizens  who resent their mindsâ being invaded) and âThe Father Thingâ (in which a childâs father is replaced by a sinister alien doppelgÃ¤nger).
 Electric Dreams  is slickly made and intermittently effective  but despite some half-hearted attempts to reimagine or update the material (the boy in âThe Father Thing â upon uncovering the alien conspiracy  posts a video on the Internet with the hashtag â#RESISTâ)  it doesnât really feel of our moment. Part of the problem is that Dickâs work has been adapted for film so many times already that itâs hard to watch a given episode of Electric Dreams  however well executed  and not compare it unfavorably  if unfairly  with Blade Runner  or Paul Verhoevenâs Total Recall  or Steven Spielberg âs  Minority Report.  Dickâs  sensibility is idiosyncratic and sui generis  but at this point it feels more like a piece of intellectual property than the amphetamine-fueled gnostic vision it once was. Is anybody âs  mind really blown by the is-our-world-real-or-just-a-simulation conundrum posed by âReal Life â for example  after weâve seen not only Total Recall but The Matrix and Westworld and a hundred other iterations of it?
The problem  however  isnât just overfamiliarity. Dystopias draw their power from an analysis of the present  and  Dick âs once-radical vision of the future is now as far in the past as H.G. Wellsâs was for  Dick  when  he  began writing. This is what Black Mirror  for all its flaws  has over Electric Dreams: The series feels like itâs about things that Brooker is genuinely worried about  not a dutiful tribute to what someone was worried about in the 1960s; itâs the future as seen from the 21st century  not the 20th. This problem is endemic to many of the recent dystopian shows. The fact that Westworld is based on a movie from 1973  and The Handmaidâs Tale on a novel from 1985  doesnât invalidate their value as entertainments or as cultural commentaries. But it does introduce concerns alien to the dystopiaâs imperative to take the worst of the present day and amplify it.

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Tyler Barriss ? Tyler Barriss   the 25-year-old man suspected of making a fatal prank "swatting" call to police after an argument over the video game Call of Duty  has waived extradition to Kansas  according to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office. The fugitive from justice warrant lists  Barriss'  charge as making a false alarm  according to NBC News.
Authorities in Los Angeles arrested  Barriss  on Friday. Wichita police say they received a call on Thursday from someone claiming they had killed their father  doused the home in gas  and planned to set it on fire with their mother and brother inside. Police went to the given address  where they found 28-year-old Andrew Finch. Finch was fatally shot during the incident.
This isn't the first time  Barriss  has been arrested in connection to a fake 911 call. In October 2015  police in California arrested  Barriss  for making bomb threats to KABC-TV. He was charged with two felony counts of false report of a bomb to an agency of business and one felony count of criminal threats. According to Los Angeles Sheriff's Office records   Barriss  was sentenced to 972 days in the adjudicated case.
Now that  Barriss  has waived extradition  he will be transported back to Kansas within the next two to three weeks. When he arrives in Wichita  he will make his first appearance in a district court. Glixel has reached out to the DA's office to see if  Barriss  faces any additional charges.

SOLUTION:
Neutral