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[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Yondr ? * * * France isn’t the first killjoy to quit the smartphone party. In 2015  the Canadian artist Garnet Hertz invented a cheeky device called “Phonesafe ” a masochistic lockbox designed to incarcerate smartphones for a set period of time. Hertz meant Phonesafe as a provocation  but the same idea quickly became a product. Today  you can buy similar  but mass-produced  containers on Amazon  and multi-phone lockers have become a mainstay in corporate offices and schools around the world. A McDonald’s in Singapore has even installed a locker designed to promote “family togetherness” and face-to-face conversation. If you attend a Guns n’ Roses concert or a comedy performance by Dave Chappelle  ushers will require you to lock your device in a neoprene pouch and take it into the show in that state.  The phone-locking pouch  made by a San Francisco company called Yondr   has a wide opening at the short end for inserting a smartphone. A magnetic locking mechanism  similar to those on anti-theft tags in retail stores  engages to hold it closed. After the show  this clasp is swiped across a counter-magnet  which releases the lock.  Yondr  is a surefire way to cut down on bootleg YouTube videos. In Wired  Alice Gregory recently took a tough look at the device. Gregory recounts her experience at a Chris Rock performance  where audience members waiting in the lobby had to forgo smartphone usage. The affair reduced them to “a roomful of jonesing fiends ” as she puts it. Ultimately  Gregory connects  Yondr  to a thorny question about civil liberties: the right of the people to keep and bear smartphones.
It’s an ironic conclusion  because  Yondr  is sold as a tool to provide freedom  rather than to take it away. To “Be Here Now ” as the company’s tagline puts it. It’s a promise to deliver presence—a tricky calling  to say the least. Presence has a long history in religion and philosophy  from Buddhist practices to the metaphysics of the 20th-century philosopher Martin Heidegger. Today  presence is most common in the various mindfulness trends that have overtaken individual and corporate life  in Silicon Valley in particular—collectively the critic R. John Williams has called them “technê-zen.” Cutting through the history and the rhetoric  it’s productive to think about presence in terms of attention. You’re present where you focus your attention—and you only have so much attention to pay. In the case of Chris Rock  he wants attention directed toward him  live on stage. Rock’s show might involve awkward improvisation or new material that he doesn't want circulated online. Teachers are less concerned about copyright than comedians are  but they still demand attention. I have tested Yondr’s effects on mind-wandering in classroom experiments with Dan Smilek of the University of Waterloo Vision and Attention Lab. Our research is based in part on the assumption that instructors want students to focus on the course materials  and not on Instagram  Facebook  or other distractions.  Yondr  can be a remarkably effective tool for enforcing digital abstinence in these contexts  thanks primarily to  its  portability. Rather than locking away devices inside lockers  or even inside a disused Catholic tabernacle  as I have done in a performance piece   Yondr  buffers the anxiety of being isolated from your device.
Given that the mere presence of one’s smartphone can reduce cognitive capacity   Yondr  offers a way to surf between the waves of a device’s presence and absence. You can hold it  but you can’t use it. This might be an especially important balance in classroom situations  where students see a teacher’s “phone shoebox” as an unwelcome imposition of authority. * * * Needless to say   Yondr  is still an imposition. And controlling attention requires more than just locking a device in a binge-breaking neoprene pouch. Joelle Renstrom has reported the results of her own  Yondr  experiment in a class at Boston University  where she had her 30 students lock away their devices over the course of a semester. At first  37 percent of the students found the policy annoying  but by the end of the term that figure had dropped to 14 percent. Those are promising  if tentative  results  but Renstrom’s anecdotal comments about the experiment may be more instructive than the data she collected. Renstrom describes her students’ initial experience of Yondr as “akin to caging a pet  a clear denial of freedom.” Moreover  she observes that some students left their cases unlocked as a sign of rebellion  even though they didn’t remove the phones from them. Rather than becoming “active resistors to technology ” as the scholars Christine Satchell and Paul Dourish call people who choose to ignore their devices   Yondr  users are ultimately the victims of technological disenfranchisement. When implemented as a mandatory smartphone prophylactic   Yondr  becomes a means of control  not of choice  let alone of presence.
Such top-down tactics might be enforced easily at live performances  as one of my research assistants observed firsthand at a Chris Rock show in Niagara Falls. However  as a daily ritual for high-school students  all-or-nothing digital abstinence enforced by an authority figure seems destined to backfire  possibly leading to rejection—or even worse  a legal complaint. In an attempt to tackle this disciplinary problem  I have been offering workshops to schoolteachers that riff on and revise the design Yondr originated. In the workshops  I provide a kit that allows students to make their own digital abstinence case  but with an obnoxiously loud Velcro enclosure rather than a silent  magnetic clasp. This semipermeable design—the Resistor Case  I call it—is intended to promote self-regulation  not authoritarian control. The Velcro acts as a gateway to conscience: It provides just enough resistance and noise to make its owner think twice before opening it. Michael I. Norton  Daniel Mochon  and Dan Ariely coined the “IKEA effect” to name the increase in value people assign to self-made products. With the Resistor Case  I’m counting on a similar effect  that students who fist construct and then choose to make use of their DIY phone lockers might be more compelled to use them. Of course  the kit will only work if the teacher provides a context for it that includes a discussion of responsible smartphone use. (The kit provides a series of cards to prompt this conversation.)
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[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity John Grisham ? CES is in full swing  and there is a particular buzz about the intersection of tech and healthcare through a very unexpected source in  best-selling author John Grisham (The Firm  The Client) .  Grisham  is applying  his  enviable skills to the powerful intersection of tech and healthcare and potentially about to turn it on its ear.
 Grisham  spoke from one of the CES stages about the growing public interest to  his  recent ebook  The Tumor which describes how a revolutionary  new medical technology called focused ultrasound could transform the treatment of serious medical disorders by curing with sound. The fictional story follows the plight of a young father who is diagnosed with a lethal brain tumor and begins a painful battle. Yet the treatment method and the tech behind it is not only very real but something which with  Grisham  is now deeply involved.  He  gave a candid interview about the scope of  his  work with this potentially game-changing move in healthcare  along with Dr. Neal Kassell  founder and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation (FUSF) and a former neurosurgeon who provided the medical and technical consulting for the book.
Prior to taking the stage at CES Grisham told me that Kassell approached  him  about being on the board of FUSF but that respectfully declined  several times. "Prior to my current involvement  I knew essentially nothing about the medical field. My usual focus is on legal matters and social injustice. So I was lukewarm  to say the least "  Grisham  said. However  as both  his  mother and  his  sister were diagnosed with cancerous tumors   he  began to see how the research that FUSF does could help millions of people facing the same diagnosis worldwide. FUSF's mission is to bring the technology that enables a lower cost method to destroy tumors with out-patient  ultrasound options and eradicate such terminal illness  where possible. Naturally  such continued research and development of this technology is expensive.
"So as I was on the board  I thought one of the best ways I could help would be to raise money "  Grisham  explained. FUSF has an annual operating budget of $10 million with 65% of that needed for research  itself. "We needed to raise awareness. Naturally  you do that through telling a story. I know how to do that." So  he  began to work with Kassell to write The Tumor with Kassell providing the deeply medical insights. After about a year  the book was ready and the Foundation it published. They decided to offer it for free and Jeff Bezos CEO of Amazon permitted them to distribute the book via the platform at this price point given its link to social good.
[EX A]: Positive

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Mariano Rajoy ? MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) -  Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy  said on Saturday  he  would not rule out using the constitutional powers to remove Cataloniaâs autonomous status if it claimed independence as tens of thousands took to the streets to call for talks.
Until now   Rajoy  has remained vague on whether  he  would use article 155  the so-called nuclear option  of the constitution which enables  him  to sack the regional government and call a fresh local election.
In an interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais on Saturday  Rajoy  was asked if  he  was ready to trigger the article 155 of the constitution  and said: âI donât rule out absolutely anything that is within the law ... Ideally  it shouldnât be necessary to implement extreme solutions but for that not to happen things would have to be changed.â
While Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has said he is open to mediation   Rajoy  has demanded  he  give up the independence campaign before discussions can be held.
 Rajoy âs government mobilized thousands of national police to stop Sundayâs vote  leading to clashes with would-be voters as they tried to close polling stations in schools and remove ballot boxes.
In the El Pais interview   Rajoy  said the around 4 000 extra police shipped in to the region would stay until the conflict had been resolved.
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Neutral