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[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity NicolÃ¡s Maduro ? Little evidence has surfaced yet that the protests are organized or have spawned any opposition leaders. It is too early to tell how long the protesters can keep the pressure on the regime to change. In their endeavors  however  it is precisely to Latin America that Iranian protesters should look for guidance â in Iranâs ally Venezuela  where nearly a year of daily protests did nothing to stop  socialist dictator NicolÃ¡s Maduro  from consolidating  his  power.
Where Venezuelaâs street protesters succeeded in attracting international attention  the governmentâs official opposition failed by adopting policies that enabled the regime. For years  the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD)  a Venezuelan opposition coalition led by socialists  attempted to engage in dialogue with the regime. Venezuela saw minimal protests throughout 2016 largely because the opposition leadership was too busy in âdialoguesâ with  Maduro  that resulted in no concrete changes in the country. It happened again last year  when  Maduro  called for a round of elections in which  he  decreed who could run for office and controlled the institutions counting the votes.
The protesters on the streets rejected  Maduroâs  mockery of democracy. The MUD participated  losing a number of member parties along the way. By November  the MUD had called for another round of talks with the government  and protests in the country were all but unheard of.
Venezuelaâs protesters only met half of this challenge. As noted above  the opposition appeared united only in their rejection of  Maduro . Some leaders of the opposition were socialists and demanded only that elections occur â without specifying that they be free and fair. Others identified the socialist system as the problem and have demanded a full overhaul of Venezuelaâs institutions to create a free and democratic capitalist state. Yet more leaders demanded individual fixes  like the liberation of political prisoners or humanitarian aid for the hungry. Outside of âno more  Maduro  â the oppositionâs message was  and  sadly  continues to be  a mess.
[A]: Neutral


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Graig Kreindler ? Banjo   Batboy Eddie Bennett (2010) ( Graig Kreindler)
Graig Kreindler  sweats  the details   as a researcher no less than as an artist.
‘I believe the lights were on ” wrote Bobby Thomson to Graig Kreindler  who was researching the Shot Heard Round the World  the storied walk-off home run that sent the New York Giants to the World Series five decades earlier.  Kreindler  knew that the sun was low in the sky behind first base and dimmed by dark clouds when Thomson came to bat a few minutes before 4 p.m. on October 3  1951  at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan.
Was it hard to see the ball? Or did the Giants turn the lights on  if only for the primitive TV cameras  there to capture the deciding game of the first baseball series ever broadcast live to a national audience? From the grainy black-and-white film and photos   Kreindler  couldn’t tell  and newspaper accounts were silent on the question. So he asked Thomson  half-expecting either no response or an autographed souvenir from a retired player trained by experience to assume that a personal letter from a stranger must be fan mail.
Even if Thomson hadn’t hedged his answer   Kreindler  would have counted it for what it was: a datum  good to have but not dispositive. He reasoned that the slugger was “in a tight situation”: the tying run on second  the National League pennant on the line  half a city’s hopes pinned on his shoulders. “Does he even notice the lights? I mean  why would he?” After weighing the probabilities  Kreindler  an artist who paints old-time baseball  went ahead and made the banks of rooftop lights glaring  adjusting the shades and shadows on the canvas accordingly.
Ballparks are treated to the same loving scrutiny. Did Bobby Doerr by any chance remember the colors of an ad  for Gem razor blades  on the left-field wall at Fenway Park in 1939  his third of 14 seasons with the Boston Red Sox? He did not  he regretted to report  on the back of a three-by-five-inch index card 70 years later  when he was in his 90s.  Kreindler  realizes that the strangers from whom he seeks information about light or color at the ballpark during a particular hour or season in baseball antiquity are liable to find his questions bizarre. Do they think he’s nuts? A few might; not all reply. He asks anyway.
Peter Fiore  his former teacher and enduring mentor and friend  was taught by an artist who was taught by . . .  Kreindler  traces  his  professional lineage back to the father of American illustration  Howard Pyle (1853–1911). The seriousness of  Kreindler ’s artistry is easy to miss because of  his  subject matter and manifest love for it. Prize committees may have a bias for the brazen or edgy  but to convey warmth and uplift the viewer is no less an achievement  a marriage of vision and discipline.
“Art critics might scoff at what we do and consider it kitschy ”  Kreindler  acknowledges  referring to the small fraternity of baseball artists  several of whom  he  touts and cites as helpful influences  including “obviously Norman Rockwell ” although you won’t always find a conspicuous resemblance between their work and  his . “I like to think I bring something different to this ”  he  says. “I don’t expect my work ever to hang in major museums  but it could  in theory.”
Forty years after his death  Rockwell  mocked and dismissed by the cognoscenti in his lifetime  is revered as an American master by connoisseurs and critics in and out of the academy. The Guggenheim and the Museum of Fine Arts  Boston  have exhibited his work. If the tastemakers ever likewise catch up with  Kreindler   the baseball historians and fans who got there first will rise from their catbird seats behind home plate and make room for them  under the lights.
[A]: Positive


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Sage Kotsenburg ? American Sage Kotsenburg won gold in the event at the Sochi Games in 2014. We brought him into the âOlympics Cornerâ today for his thoughts on how to watch. Keep scrolling to read that Q&A.
Throughout the Games  weâll occasionally bring someone in to help us better understand the Olympics. Today:  Sage Kotsenburg .
Four years ago in Sochi   Sage Kotsenburg  shocked the snowboarding world by winning slopestyle gold.  He  followed that up with what President Barack Obama told  him  was the âchillestâ interview of the Olympics.  Kotsenburg  has since stopped competing  so  he  wonât be in PyeongChang. But The Post caught up with  him  by phone during a recent film shoot in Italy to get  his  thoughts on this yearâs slopestyle event (8 p.m. Eastern time Saturday on NBCSN).
A: Three people that I would look for are an American kid  Red Gerard.  He âs absolutely crushing it right now. This course  when I saw it  I immediately thought Red can really do well here. I wouldnât be surprised to see  him  on the podium  if not up in the top five.
And then Mark McMorris  who got bronze last time around.  He  came back from a really  really bad injury  so Iâd like to see  him  do good  too. Weâve been good friends for a long time.  He âs crushing it  too.  He âs doing a really  really  really good job right now. Iâd like to see  him  up there.
Iâll give a prediction for gold: Itâs going to be Marcus Kleveland.  He âs from Norway.  He  has pretty much anything you want in a slopestyle course and more. So  if  he  puts down  his  run   he âll probably win or silver  Iâd guess.
[A]:
Positive