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PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Robert Kaplan is Positive . PALO ALTO  Calif. (Reuters) -  Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan  said on Tuesday  he  wants to see more signs of upward inflation before raising interest rates again  but that low long-term borrowing costs may limit how far and fast rates can be raised.
The Fed has raised rates twice this year  and is widely expected to do so again in December. But even as the short-term interest rate targeted by the Fed has climbed  the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury has fallen  a reversal of what usually happens and a development that  Kaplan  said  he  sees as âa little ominous.â
âI view that as a comment on future economic growth â  Kaplan  said at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. âAnd what I donât want to see us do is raise rates so fast that we get an inverted yield curve because history has shown an inverted yield curve has tended to be a precursor to a recession. â
Kaplan  who votes this year on Fed policy   appeared on Tuesday to be wrestling with how to balance the costs of leaving rates low against the potential dangers of raising rates too fast.  He  repeated  his  concern that globalization and technology are keeping inflation muted  despite unemployment that sank in September to 4.2 percent.
While near-full employment is putting some upward pressure on inflation   he  said on Wednesday  those secular forces are acting as headwinds.
âIâll be looking for evidence that we are making progress or likely to make progress over the medium term in reaching our 2-percent (inflation) target â  Kaplan  told reporters after the event.
Asked by a reporter what he thinks of former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh   Kaplan  said  he  believes disagreement at the Fed is healthy.
âI think very highly of Kevin â  Kaplan  said. â He  and I may disagree on some things. I think thatâs a good thing....I am confident that a good decision will be made and the Fed will operate very effectively in the future  including if itâs Janet Yellen  who I think has done an outstanding job.â

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jacob Zuma is Neutral . South Africa's parliament spokesman says the speaker has received  Jacob Zuma's  resignation letter and  his  departure as president is effective immediately.
 Zuma  announced  his  resignation late Wednesday after the ruling African National Congress ordered  him  to step down. The ANC has been hurt by multiple corruption allegations around  Zuma   who has denied wrongdoing.
South Africa's government says acting President Cyril Ramaphosa is in charge until parliament elects a new leader Thursday afternoon following the resignation of  Jacob Zuma .
 Zuma  resigned late Wednesday after the ANC  which has lost popularity because of corruption scandals during  his  tenure  instructed  him  to leave. Ramaphosa has promised to fight graft.
The South African currency strengthened against the dollar in early trading Thursday after  Zuma 's resignation  which ended a leadership crisis that had stalled some government business.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation welcomes  Zuma 's departure but says the state must act against "networks of criminality" that have hurt South Africa's democracy.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Verify if the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Frank Waln is Neutral . On and off the reservation  American schools tend to whitewash the stories of Native Americans.  Frank Waln   a Lakota hip-hop artist from  He  Dog  South Dakota  is endeavoring to change that â with music that champions  his  heritage while demolishing Native American stereotypes.
On and off the reservation  American schools tend to whitewash the stories of Native Americans.  Frank Waln   a Lakota hip-hop artist from  He  Dog  South Dakota  is endeavoring to change that â with music that champions  his  heritage while demolishing Native American stereotypes.
 Frank Waln . (Photo: Tomas Karmelo Amaya)
A young man walks onto an empty stage. The spotlight glares off of his white moccasins and crisp long-sleeved button-down  which billows  untucked  over dark slacks. He cuts a slight figure against the venueâs deep  black backdrop  and his clean-shaven face  framed by two long black braids  makes him look younger than his 27 years. He speaks softly into the microphone  first in his native Lakota  then in English: âHello  relatives. My Lakota name is Walks With Young People. I also go by  Frank Waln . And I welcome you with an open heart and an open handshake.â
The enemy is ignorance  which reveals itself plainly in Walnâs new song âWhat Makes the Red Man Red â his send-up of the racist tune âWhat Made the Red Man Redâ from Disneyâs 1953 film Peter Pan. Walnâs song samples the tuneâs chorus and the filmâs offhand references to Native Americans as âaboriginesâ and âIndians.â That is  before  Waln  drowns them out with a sharp verse.
The crowd is on its feet now  some singing along  others bobbing in agreement with the beat. Walnâs frequent tours of reservations and his blunt  firebrand style have made him well-known among his people (heâs a two-time Native American Music Award winner). Recently   Waln  has made a splash in the mainstream media too: Heâs been featured on NPR and MTVâs Rebel Music: Native Americaand in Vibe and USA Today; he has performed at the South by Southwest festival in Austin  and at concerts in France and Germany. The day before his Albuquerque concert  he spoke at a Harvard University symposium on Native politics.
 Waln  is an ascendant member of a Native American hip-hop vanguard that is taking  its  message of social justice off of the reservation. What separates  Waln  and other socially engaged artists  like War Party  Without Rezervation  and Supaman  from older generations of Native artists  says Alan Lechusza Aquallo  a professor of American Indian studies at Palomar College  is their authenticity.  Waln  doesnât play to Native stereotypes  like a preaching elder or a fierce sports mascot â  his  performing persona is young  charismatic  believably real. âThere are a number of Native hip-hop artists who play off the kitsch of what it is to be Indian because thatâs whatâs going to give them notoriety â Aquallo says. â [Waln]  has  his  long braids  but  he âs wearing street clothes.  He âs not playing Indian.â
 Walnâs  overall message is plain: Americans â Native and non-Native alike â need to educate themselves about the real history and current politics of Americaâs indigenous people. And through his words and music  on the reservation and off   Waln  plans on delivering the wake-up call.
 Frank Walnâs  own education began on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation  on the Great Plains of central South Dakota.  He  grew up in He Dog  a small Sicangu Lakota community  where  his  single mom and her sisters ran the family ranch.  His  father was abusive and mostly absent â the first of many scars  he  would learn to bear.
 Frank Waln . (Photo: Tomas Karmelo Amaya)
He Dog is located in Todd County  where the poverty rate approaches 50 percent  a problem with deep and tangled roots. Studies of modern Native Americans have shown that âhistorical trauma â the name that social workers give to the perception of historical loss passed down through generations  has been linked to symptoms of emotional distress like anger  anxiety  substance abuse  and even depression.  Waln  remembers grappling with these manifestations even as a child. âIt was very confusing to me â he says. âI was wondering why I was struggling with depression all the time  why I had suicidal thoughts  why the suicide rate was so high on our reservation. I was very insecure.â
 Waln  says his confusion stemmed from the fact that  beyond the traditions passed down through his family  he didnât know much about the political history of his people. And indeed  with scant resources  schools on American reservations have fallen behind. A 2011 National Indian Education Study found huge deficits in reading and math scores for schools heavily attended by Native American students. Schools controlled by the Bureau of Indian Education  which are run by tribes  fared even worse: Fourth gradersâ reading scores averaged 182 on a 500-point scale  compared to 204 in public schools. Only 43 percent of eighth-graders said that their teachers included any Native American culture or history in their curricula.
 Frank Waln . (Photo: Tomas Karmelo Amaya)
âIn my opinion  the way history is taught in this country is colonial propaganda â  Waln  says. âI was aware of the big atrocities  like the Wounded Knee Massacre and the government giving us blankets with smallpox. But I didnât know the details and how recent some of these discriminatory laws were.â
If  Waln  didnât see  himself  in textbooks growing up   he  did in music.  He  learned piano at age seven;  he  joined a Lakota drum group in middle school. When  Waln  was a teenager   his  older cousins started gathering in their basements to make music  influenced by rappers like Nas  Talib Kweli  Dead Prez  and Eminem.  Waln  started sampling beats and recording on  his  laptop. To  his  mother and most of the adults in  his  cowboy-and-rodeo community   Walnâs  sudden infatuation with hip-hop could be attributed to hip-hopâs popularity with kids his age. But to  Waln   his playlist wasnât just about youth culture. âA lot of Native Americans are living in poverty â he says. âHip-hop was born in poor communities of color.â
 Frank Waln . (Photo: Tomas Karmelo Amaya)

SOLUTION:
no