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PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Ryan Campbell ? âI was sure I was dead  or at least severely messed up â  Ryan Campbell  told ABC News. âYou don't think you're going to fall that far and walk away from it.â
 Campbell   27  was camping with friends in Grays Arch Trail in Kentuckyâs Red River Gorge last week when he fell asleep in a hammock.
One hour later  early last Thursday morning   Campbell  got out of the hammock and began sleepwalking. While  his  friends watched   Campbell  walked right over a nearby cliff  plunging 60 feet below.
It took rescuers nearly three hours to get to the scene but when they rappelled down the mountain to  Campbell   they found  him  miraculously alive and with no life-threatening injuries.
Rescuers took about one hour to place  Campbell  in a basket and hoist  him  back up the mountain  giving  Campbell  a chance to see how far  he  had fallen.
âIt was surreal coming up the way I came down  because I got to see every foot of this cliff that I'd just flown over â  Campbell  said.
Rescuers attribute  Campbell âs soft landing to the fact that  in an area full of rocks and boulders   Campbell  landed on a rhododendron bush.
 Campbell  was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital where  he  was treated for a cut to the back of  his  head and a chipped vertebrae and released.
Though  he  is expected to make a full recovery   Campbell  says rescuers will not have to worry about coming out to save  him  ever again.
âI'm not going to put  myself  in a position to have that happen again â  Campbell  said.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Al Franken ? Sen. Al Franken  officially resigned on Jan. 2  nearly a month after  he  announced  his  plans to step down from Congress amid numerous sexual misconduct allegations that began in November of last year.
Aides to  the senator  told Fox News that  Franken  has provided  his  letter of resignation to Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton. Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith  who is replacing  Franken   is expected to be sworn in on Wednesday.
 Franken   a Minnesota Democrat who has been in office since 2009  was plagued by multiple accusations of sexual misconduct over the past month and faced a Senate Ethics Committee investigation. The allegations began after Los Angeles radio anchor Leeann Tweeden accused him of forcibly kissing her during a 2006 USO tour.
 Franken  announced  he  would resign after more than two dozen key Democratic lawmakers called for  him  to step down.
Hereâs what will happen to  his  Senate seat once  he  leaves office  according to Minnesota election law.
Gov. Mark Dayton would appoint a new senator to fill  Franken âs seat  when  he  resigns  Ryan Furlong  a spokesman for the Minnesota secretary of stateâs office  told Fox News.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Melania Trump ? The inauguration of  President Trump  on Jan. 20  2017. (Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post)
During his campaign and tumultuous first year in office   President Trump  demonstrated little knowledge of policy details.  He  was not interested in advice that conflicted with  his  instincts  and it was often impossible for White House staff to figure out what course he wanted to take. One compared it to âtrying to figure out what a child wants.â
 Trump  is depicted as presiding over a chaotic White House  struggling to settle into  his  new reality and eagerly trying to maintain  his  normal golf habits.
In the book  set to be officially released next week  Wolff writes that  Trump  became upset that  he  couldnât give a Supreme Court seat to a friend rather than someone  he  didnât know.  He  casts  Trump  as having âlittle or no interestâ in Republican attempts to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. And Wolff says aides were incredulous over Trumpâs claims that President Obama had âwiretappedâ Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
 Trump  aides vigorously sought to undermine the book on Wednesday  with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying in a statement that it is âfilled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the White House.â
Wolff says that his book is based on 200 conversations over the past 18 months with  Trump   most members of his senior staff  some of whom he talked to dozens of times  and many people with whom they had spoken. Some conversations were on the record  while others were off the record or on âdeep background â allowing him to relay a âdisembodied description of events provided by an unnamed witness to them.â
At a White House briefing Wednesday afternoon  Sanders said  Trump  only had âone brief conversationâ with Wolff and that most dialogue with White House staff was coordinated by one person: former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon  whom  Trump  dismissed in an unusually harsh statement  saying he âhas nothing to do with me or my presidency.â
[ Trump  slams Bannon: âWhen he was fired  he not only lost his job  he lost his mindâ]
During the campaign â which few aides expected  Trump  to win â and the transition that followed  Wolff writes about several instances in which Trumpâs lack of knowledge and interest in public affairs was evident.
Early in the campaign  for example   Trump  aide Sam Nunberg was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate  Wolff writes  and Nunberg offered this assessment of the experience: âI got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.â
Wolff reports that in early August 2016   Trump  asked former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes to take over management of the campaign. Ailes turned him down  Wolff writes  because he knew of Trumpâs disinclination to take advice âor even listen to it.â
After  Trump  prevailed   Trump  turned to Ailes for advice on a chief of staff  the book says.
âWhoâs that?â  Trump  reportedly asked  unaware that Boehner had been the speaker of the House until he was forced out in a tea party putsch in 2015.
Wolff also writes that Reince Priebus â the chairman of the Republican National Committee who later became the chief of staff â was alarmed how often during the transition  Trump  offered people jobs on the spot  including many  he  had never met before.
Wolff writes that one of the reasons  Trump  didnât want John Bolton  a famously hawkish diplomat  as his national security adviser  was because of his mustache.
âBoltonâs mustache is a problem â Wolff quotes Bannon saying. â Trump  doesnât think  he  looks the part.â

SOLUTION:
Positive