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Question: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Boko Haram is Negative . Soldiers will stop and check all motorists passing through Maiduguri and nearby villages throughout the night  while police will take over manning checkpoints during the day  authorities said. The soldiers arrived late Tuesday night  the first sign of a federal government intervention in a city beset by targeted killings by Boko Haram for weeks.
 Zarewa also said police found the unexploded bombs after an alleged Boko Haram bomb attack on a police station in Gamboru  a building destroyed by rioting sect members in July 2009. The rioting  as well as a subsequent security crackdown  left more than 700 people dead.
 Followers of Boko Haram  which means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language  went into hiding after the July 2009 riot  as police began arresting anyone caught listening to or holding a sermon by the sect. However  officials now fear the group has rearmed. A video recording released in late June showed a Boko Haram leader calling for new violence as the one-year anniversary of their attack neared.
 Boko Haram has said it wants a stricter version of Islam's Shariah law in place across Nigeria. Nigeria  a nation of 150 million people  is divided between the Christian-dominated south and the Muslim north. A dozen states across Nigeria's north already have Shariah law in place  though the area remains under the control of secular state governments.
a Boko Haram leader calling for new violence as the one-year anniversary of their attack neared.

Answer: yes


Question: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Elliott Smith is Positive . Elliott Smith  lives at the collision of three different neighborhoods in Brooklyn  but the noise of the traffic and the blare of the salsa  rock and rap that battle for airspace on the street are being kept at bay. It's midafternoon  and  Smith  is tucked inside  his  favorite neighborhood bar  the kind of dark place where every patron sits alone and says little  the kind of place where  Smith  spends most of  his  days.
It's been a year and a half since  Smith  left Portland  Oregon  where  his  work with the band Heatmiser and  his  haunted solo albums had made  him  a star on the local music scene. In the spring of 1997  Heatmiser disbanded and  Smith  left for New York.  He 'd hoped the move would give  him  a sense of anonymity  but that goal was hampered when  his  song "Miss Misery" appeared on the Good Will Hunting soundtrack and was nominated for an Oscar. Soon  he  will have to contend with the attention brought by  his  new album  XO  which is  his  major-label debut and a lush departure from  his  usually spare offerings.
But  as today can attest  in New York you can always be alone in a crowd.  Smith  spend most of  his  days in coffee shops and bars  reading ( he  just finished Tolstoy's Resurrection) and composing songs in  his  head. "I write almost exclusively in public places " says  Smith   29. "I just think of stuff  chord changes and words. I know the bartenders  and they don't think it's weird if I ask to borrow a pen. "
Smith  smiles.  He  is shy  but  his  manner is sweet  not distant. Because  his  solo albums have been quiet singer-songwriter fare  there is a presumption that  Smith 's life is an open book. That is not the case.  Smith 's songs have always been less confession than collage â beautifully rendered glimpses of ugly realities  pieced together with little more than voice and guitar.
So when you ask  Smith  to tell  his  story   he  hesitates. When  he  finally begins   he  speaks as softly as  he  sings. As in  his  songs   Smith  is intelligent  direct  unsparing. But while  his  voice on record gives even  his  darkest lyrics a quiet strength  in conversation  his  tone betrays a sense of uncertainty. When grim details are spoken  not sung  there is nothing to cushion their impact.
"Most of the people I knew  their parents were divorced " says  Smith  of  his  childhood spent outside Dallas. "Or else their dad beat them with a pool cue. There was a guy in the neighborhood who shot my cat for getting into the garbage. He beat up on his kid  and then he shot my cat."
 Smith 's own parents divorced when he was a year old. His mother remarried when he was four  and his new home life was not happy. "There were family problems " says  Smith  succinctly. "It wasn't a good situation."
Outside the house   Smith  spent most of  his  time getting into fights. As  he  talks about them   he  touches  his  nose instinctively. "It's probably been broken more than once " says  Smith . "I have a bunch of scars. But I don't get into fights anymore."  He  shifts in  his  seat â  his  jeans too baggy  small T-shirt drooping off  him  â and it's impossible not to notice that  Smith  is more frail than anyone you'd expect to see in a bar fight.
"But sometimes it's the little guy who'll kick your ass " says  Smith . "Because  he 's been picked on to the point where  he  knows what to do."  He  pauses. "It's probably pretty easy to put together why somebody who grew up in Texas getting in fights a lot would not want to get up on the stage and start belting out songs at the top of their lungs. I've had enough of people yelling."
It's early evening in Manhattan  and  Smith  is polishing off another pint. It's a different day  a different borough  but the scene is familiar: a dark bar  twilight  the last drink before one too many. These are the things in  Smith 's life that' remain constant. Many' others have changed.
The strangest changes are that "Miss Misery" was nominated for an Oscar; that  on February 10th   Smith  performed the whispered tale of a broken relationship in front of 1 billion people; that  he  took a bow standing between Trisha Yearwood and Celine Dion.
"I had fully armored  myself  against having to be crushed by the presence of Celine Dion " .says Smith . "But she was the nicest person I've met in a while. Afterward I'd get these indie-rock kids saying  'I can't believe you had to hold Celine Dion's hand.' I said  'I liked holding her hand because she's a nice person. In fact  right now you're  being much more narrow-minded and shallow than she is. You're in a very backward position here. You should rethink it.'"
 Smith  gives his head a bewildered shake  then takes a long drink. Of all the transformations that he has been through lately  the most obvious is the level of scrutiny he is subjected to. And it's clear he is learning on the fly.
Smith's musical heroes are the Beatles  the Clash  Hank Williams and the Kinks. His greatest inspiration  for the breadth of his work  is Elvis Costello. On XO  for the first time in  Smith 's career  you can hear it all: the graceful folk he's perfected  elaborate orchestrations  an a cappella song  piano ballads  years of anger released in lilting harmony and a newfound. hopefulness couched in energized pop tunes. At times it sounds like a lost follow-up to Revolver.
"I love the Beatles â they're my favorite band â but I don't have any desire to cop the Beatles " says  Smith . "The reason they're my favorite band is because they went further with melody than any other band that I've ever come across."
 Smith  turns to his beer to escape the conversation for a moment  then smiles apologetically  as if he is the last person who should assess his work. Only recently did  Smith  even realize that people perceived  his  songs as bleak. "I didn't think of them that way "  he  says. "They made me happier. But now I would agree. The second record  especially  was really dark."

Answer: yes


Question: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Tom Perez is Negative . In a Saturday blogpost  Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez vowed to enact reforms to the partyâs presidential nominating process aimed at ensuring that âthe new DNC will work to rebuild trust with the people we represent.â
âI am more committed than ever before to restoring votersâ faith in our democratic process because even the perception of impartiality or an unfair advantage undermines our ability to win â  Perez  said. âThat is unacceptable.â
The âprinciplesâ  Perez  plans to employ include deciding the presidential primary debate schedule well before voting in the contests begins and making transparent to the public any joint fundraising agreements the DNC makes.
 He  also promised to support the work of the Unity Reform Commission  a panel formed in July 2016 as a compromise with delegates who backed Sanders at the Democratic National Convention.
âWe will work with the Unity Reform Commission to implement their collective recommendations for meaningful change in our party â  Perez  said.
 George Frey/Getty Images DNC Chairman Tom Perez  has had to address a lingering divide in the Democratic Party between skeptical progressives and more establishment-minded party figures.
Nomiki Konst  one of eight Sanders appointees on the commission  expressed disappointment that  Perez  did not explicitly address DNC budget transparency and prohibiting the committeeâs voting members from having business with the organization or other conflicts of interest that could jade their ability to act impartially.

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assistant: no