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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.)
[EX A]: Positive

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Devin Kelley ? Given his background  how did  Devin Kelley  get a gun?
 Kelley  previously served in the U.S. Air Force  but was discharged in 2014  an Air Force spokesperson confirmed to Fox News on Monday.
 He  was court-martialed in 2012 for assaulting  his  wife and child.  He  was then sentenced to 12 months in custody before being given a bad conduct discharge.
A 1968 Gun Control Act made it unlawful for a licensed firearms dealer to sell a weapon to any person who is given a dishonorable discharge. But because  Kelley  was discharged on bad conduct  the law was not triggered  Adam Winkler  a professor of law and a specialist in American constitutional law at the University of California at Los Angeles  told Fox News on Monday.
 Kelley  purchased two firearms from two separate Academy Sports + Outdoors stores in San Antonio in 2016 and 2017  respectively  the sporting goods store confirmed to Fox News in a statement on Monday. One of the purchases was allegedly a Ruger model AR-556 rifle.
However   Kelley âs domestic violence charges shouldâve been enough to prevent  him  from purchasing a gun  Winkler said -- but the Air Force most likely didnât report this information to the federal background check system  thus allowing the purchase to go forward.
And Winklerâs prediction was right: The Air Force announced late Monday night that the Holloman Air Force Base Office of Special Investigations -- the base where  Kelley  was stationed -- failed to report  Kelley âs domestic violence conviction to the FBIâs Criminal Justice Investigation Services Division for inclusion in the National Criminal Information Center database. The database is used to conduct background checks on those who want to purchase a gun.
The âbiggest mystery â Winkler said  is how  Kelley  was denied a handgun permit but was allowed to purchase a gun from the sporting goods store. But this information is currently unclear.
Additionally  Texas authorities confirmed Monday that  Kelley  did not have a license to carry. However   he  did have a private security license -- often used by armed and unarmed security guards  personal protection officers  private investigators  and more  according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
[EX A]: Negative

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Jose Limon ? Dance troupe spotlights Mexico ' s native son  Limon
 "How many of you know Jose Limon?" Audience members looked around sheepishly as just a few raised their hands.
 Revered by dance aficionados the world over as one of the iconic figures of modern dance  Limon is largely unknown in his native Mexico.
 "I must say I was a bit shocked to hear how little recognition Limon gets in his own country " said Gabriela Poler-Buzali  the Jose Limon Dance Foundation's executive director.
 Held in a sprawling museum  the show included solos by two of the company's principal dancers  who flung themselves across the diminutive stage with Limon's trademark controlled abandon.
 Limon himself was born in Culiacan  in the northwestern state of Sinaloa  in 1908  two years before Mexico's bloody and chaotic 1910-1917 Revolution. When he was 7 years old  Limon's family fled to the United States.
 Although he spent most of his life in the United States  his early years in the midst of the Mexican Revolution deeply marked him. War and conflict are dominant themes in many of his works  including "Missa Brevis."
 As a young man  he moved to New York to study painting but fell in love with dance  founding his own company after serving in World War II. He pioneered a dramatic  narrative-driven choreography style and was among the first to push male dancers to center stage. Along with Graham  he's widely considered among the key figures of 20th-century dance.
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Neutral