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 Mark Sedwill is Positive . Mark Sedwill said the end of 2014 was not a deadline. "It's a goal " he told reporters in the capital. "It's realistic but not guaranteed."
 He said the transition to Afghan control of security will be slow and piecemeal -- often starting with individual districts and building up to the province level. Each area will be evaluated for transfer based on four criteria -- the security situation  the capacity of Afghan security forces in the area  the preparations of NATO forces and the progress toward governance reforms.
 In addition  specialist strike units that target terrorist operatives are likely to keep conducting operations even after the Afghan government has taken over responsibility  Sedwill said.
 He said both 2011 -- the date set for U.S. troops to begin drawing down -- and 2014 are "intermediate milestones" in a larger mission that will last much longer.
 A summit of Afghan leaders and allies Lisbon this weekend will aim to set broad terms for that longer mission. NATO and the Afghan government plan to sign an agreement that will set out the international community's commitment to Afghanistan  including support for training forces  the growth of the Afghan military and intelligence sharing  Sedwill said.
 "We want to build the Afghan leadership so they're taking more and more responsibility for themselves but we recognize it has got to be underwritten by long-term international commitment " Sedwill said.
 Even with the NATO mission appearing to stretch out longer and longer  Sedwill said that the momentum had shifted in NATO's favor.
 "It's still clearly fragile. There are significant risks and there will be a long and hard campaign ahead  but we believe that in 2010 we have achieved what we wished to  which is that we've regained the initiative -- having  candidly  lost it in the past few years " Sedwill said.
 He said that this assessment was the conclusion of an assessment of the Afghan campaign that he had conducted with Gen. David Petraeus  the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Silvio Berlusconi is Neutral . The aspiring model who calls Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi "Daddy" on Tuesday marks a year since he attended her 18th birthday party  prompting his wife to file for divorce.
 Reports in the Italian press that Berlusconi went to the modest apartment of Letizia's parents on the outskirts of Naples to attend her 18th birthday party -- when he offered her an expensive necklace -- led to a public row between the prime minister and his second wife  Veronica Lario.
 Twenty years his junior  Lario was quoted as telling a friend she could not stay married to a man who "frequents minors."
 News reports said Berlusconi first contacted Letizia without her parents knowing after he spotted pictures of her in a file of hopeful models  while he claimed to be friends with her parents.
 The scandal was soon followed by the emergence of sizzling photographs of topless women lounging in the gardens of Berlusconi's luxury villa in Sardinia  and revelations that a call girl accepted 2 000 euros (2 800 dollars) to spend the night with him at his Rome residence.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kevin Spacey is Negative . The hiatus on production of House of Cards' sixth and final season has been extended another two weeks as the series continues to determine how to proceed without Kevin Spacey. Earlier this month  Netflix completely severed ties with the actor following claims of sexual misconduct.
Related Kevin Spacey Scandal: Everything We Know So Far Two-time Oscar winner has been dropped by agency and publicist in wake of growing list of allegations
In early November  after at least eight House of Cards employees accused Spacey of predatory behavior in a CNN report  the in-production season went into hiatus after Netflix stated the streaming service "not be involved with any further production of House of Cards that includes  Kevin Spacey ."
Two episodes of the final season were filmed prior to  Spacey 's firing. Producers initially announced that the writers would take a few weeks to rework the final season to excise Spacey's Frank Underwood character from the story. However  three weeks later  House of Cards' production company announced that the series would remain in hiatus for another two weeks.
House of Cards isn't the only project to make last-minute changes in the aftermath of  Spacey 's sexual misconduct accusations: Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World  due out in December  reshot all the scenes featuring Spacey as J. Paul Getty  with actor Christopher Plummer replacing the actor in the Oscar contender.

SOLUTION:
yes