TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, an entity and its sentiment towards the entity, verify if it is the correct sentiment towards the entity. Answer should be yes or no. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Zach LaVineSteve Kerr is Positive . Summarizing the stereotypes   Zach LaVine  was a risk  coming off surgery to repair  his  left ACL. Kris Dunn was a bust  a broken-down shell of a former lottery pick. And Lauri Markkanen was an unknown  a soft European headed the way of Andrea Bargnani.
“ Zach  is going to be terrific ” Thibodeau said in an interview last July at the Vegas Summer League. “ He ’s a great worker.  He  puts a lot into it.  He  has made great strides each year. And  he ’ll continue to because of the way  he  approaches things.
 LaVine  made  his  debut Saturday — albeit on a 20-minute limit — look about as effortless as one could after an 11-month layoff. That’s testament not only to  LaVine ’s work ethic and skill but  his  athleticism.
“ He  gives you the ability at the end of the shot clock when you don't have anything to just rise up and freeze a defender and make a shot with a high degree of difficulty ” coach Fred Hoiberg said. “That's a skill  obviously  that you have to have at this level. Zach  at times  makes the game look very easy.”

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Shaka Senghor is Positive . Shaka Senghor  attends the Tribeca TV Festival series premiere of "Released" at Cinepolis Chelsea in September. (Photo: Nicholas Hunt  Getty Images for Tribeca TV Festival)
 New York Times bestselling author Shaka Senghor  remembers  his  first night in prison.
It was fall. And it was cold. The windows were busted. Two scruffy wool blankets covered a three-inch plastic mattress.  He  had to use both blankets â one to cover  his  feet  the other for  his  upper torso. But it was  so cold Senghor  eventually got up and put one of the blankets in the broken window. As  he  looked out   he  saw a couple of young men  his  age playing around a garbage can.  He  envied their freedom.
âIt just was ... dark and lonely sitting in that cell and realizing that this was the next however many years of my life  if not the rest of my life â says  Senghor   author of Writing My Wrongs: Life  Death and Redemption in an American Prison.
 Senghor   who was sentenced to 17 to 40 years for second-degree murder  served 19 years in prison  spending seven years in solitary confinement. He was released from prison on June 22  2010. He walked in at the age of 19  and didn't walk out until he was 38.
 Senghor  is now 45  and the past seven years have been a mixed bag. It was hard to find a job. For a couple of years   he  said   his  job applications were dismissed almost immediately because of  his  felony conviction.
As difficult as starting over was for  Senghor    he  had it better than others.  He  lived in Michigan  a state with one of the lowest employment restrictions for former felons in the country â 94. The state with the highest number  Louisiana  has 389 employment restrictions. Nationwide 6 392 of the 48 000 restrictions on former felons are on employment.
Beyond employment challenges  strict rules regarding parole and probation make successful re-entry challenging for men  says  Senghor . Any encounter with police   he  notes  can get an inmate sent back to prison. As an African American man returning to a low-income neighborhood  itâs difficult to avoid law enforcement   Senghor  points out. Something as small as jaywalking can get black men detained in communities where stop-and-frisk measures are disproportionately employed.
And  Senghor  remembers growing up in such a community in Detroit. At 17  he  was shot while standing on a street corner. And  he  developed a paranoia that turned into hyper-violence   he  explained during a TED talk.
That defensive posture â is what caused  him  to pick up a gun  and what eventually led to  his  arrest and incarceration.
It took a long time for  Senghor  to drop that way of thinking. And some men never do as they rack up more serious criminal infractions and technical violations while they are on parole.
âWe should be figuring out waysâ¦to do away with a lot of these technical parole violations which aren't crimes  " Senghor  says  "but you're punishing the person as if they've committed a new crime and you're creating the stigma that anybody who's going back just can't get it together when in reality a technical violation really isn't something worthy of a person being incarcerated for.â
 Senghor  is working on that issue as the director of strategy and innovation for #cut50  an organization co-founded by Van Jones that works on criminal justice reform policies including re-entry initiatives and reducing the restrictive nature of probation and parole.  He  is also an executive producer of the show âReleased â on the OWN network. It shows the challenges of people recently released from prison.
 Senghor  describes Americaâs justice system as âdysfunctional  broken  outdated  and not designed to foster rehabilitation efforts or to keep communities safe.â  He  says systemic racism  a failed mental health system  poverty  drug addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder contributes to mass incarceration more than anything else.
âWe have a system that fails "  Senghor  says. "And we still dump money into the system to further support the things that are proven not to work.â

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Steven Mnuchin is Neutral . Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin  announced Friday that the United States is imposing the toughest sanctions ever put in place against the Communist regime in North Korea for its nuclear program.
âThis action targets the deceptive shipping practices that enable the Kim regime to fund its dangerous weapons programs â  Mnuchin  said. âOur actions target shipping and trade companies  vessels  and individuals across the world who we know are working on North Koreaâs behalf.â
Specifically   Mnuchin  said  the sanctions target 27 entities  28 vessels  and 1 individual for evading existing sanctions.
âTodayâs actions will significantly hinder North Koreaâs ability to conduct evasive maritime activities that facilitate illicit coal and fuel transports  limit the regimeâs ability to ship goods through international waters â  Mnuchin  said. âOur actions are part of the ongoing maximum economic pressure campaign to cut off sources of revenue that this regime derives from the U.N. and U.S. prohibited trades to fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.â
âWe are releasing new imagery of the deceptive shipping practices used by those who aid and profit from illicit trade with North Korea â  Mnuchin  said.
 Mnuchin  said the images from December of last year show transfer of fuel and other products from ships to ships bound for North Korea.
âThey shine a spotlight on the practices employed by the government of North Korea to falsify identifying information on ships and conceal illicit cargo â  Mnuchin  stated  noting this behavior also violates the United Nations Security Council resolutions.
 He  said the U.S. is âputting companies and countries on noticeâ about dealings with North Korea and that the Trump administration âviews compliance with U.S. and U.N. sanctions as a national security imperative.â
âThe United States will leverage our economic strength to enforce President Trumpâs directive that any company that chooses to help North Korea fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs will not be allowed to do business with anyone in the United States â  Mnuchin  said.
 Mnuchin  slammed North Korea for financing nuclear weapons while  its  people suffer and starve.
Meanwhile  at the White House   Mnuchin  said the U.S. is determined to reach its ultimate goal for North Korea.
âThe United States will not sit idly by while he threatens American allies and territories â  Mnuchin  said. âThis administration is committed to full  irreversible  and permanent denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.â

SOLUTION:
yes