Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.

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Paragraph- Sent 1: Dirk Diggler was born as Steven Samuel Adams on April 15 , 1961 outside of Saint Paul , Minnesota .
Sent 2: His parents were a construction worker and a boutique shop owner who attended church every Sunday and believed in God .
Sent 3: Looking for a career as a male model , Diggler dropped out of school at age 16 and left home .
Sent 4: He was discovered at a falafel stand by Jack Horner .
Sent 5: Diggler met his friend , Reed Rothchild , through Horner in 1979 while working on a film .
Sent 6: Horner slowly introduced Diggler to the business until he became noticeable within the industry .
Sent 7: Diggler became a prominent model and began appearing in pornographic films , after Which his career took off .
Sent 8: He had critical and box office hits Which led him to stardom .
Sent 9: The hits and publicity led to fame and money Which led Diggler to the world of drugs .
Sent 10: With the amount of money Diggler was making he was able to support both his and Rothchild's addictions .
Sent 11: The drugs eventually caused a breakup between Diggler and Horner since Diggler was having issues with his performance on set .
Sent 12: After the breakup Diggler tried to make a film himself but the film was never completed .
Sent 13: He then attempted a music career Which was also successful but led him deeper into drugs because of the amount of money he was making .
Sent 14: He then starred in a TV show Which was a failure both critically and commercially .
Sent 15: Having failed and with no work , Diggler returned to the porn industry taking roles in low-budget homosexual films to help support his habit .
Question: Who were Reed Rothchild friends with before meeting Diggler?.

Ex Output:
Jack Horner.

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Paragraph- Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquestas had been the case in North Africa and Europebut by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-relianceall qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (14461459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.
Question: Why did Parameswara take money to Beijing in 1411?.

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To ask for protection against the Thais.

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Paragraph- Sent 1: On a busy Friday morning in Manhattan, nine pedestrians suffered bullet or fragment wounds after police unleashed a hail of gunfire at a man wielding a .45 caliber pistol who had just killed a former co-worker.
Sent 2: The officers unloaded 16 rounds in the shadow of the Empire State Building at a disgruntled former apparel designer, killing him after he engaged in a gunbattle with police, authorities said.
Sent 3: Three passersby sustained direct gunshot wounds, while the remaining six were hit by fragments, according to New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
Sent 4: All injuries were caused by police, he said Saturday.
Sent 5: One officer shot nine rounds and another shot seven.
Sent 6: Police identified the gunman as Jeffrey Johnson, 58, who was apparently laid off from his job as a designer of women's accessories at Hazan Import Co. last year.
Sent 7: Johnson, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1970s, had two rounds left in his pistol.
Sent 8: It holds eight, Kelly said.
Sent 9: Police identified the slain co-worker as Steven Ercolino, 41, who had apparently filed a prior complaint against his assailant, claiming that he thought Johnson would eventually try to kill him.
Sent 10: Both men had filed harassment complaints against each other in April 2011, Kelly added.
Sent 11: Ercolino was listed as a vice president of sales at Hazan Import Corp., according to his LinkedIn profile.
Sent 12: "It's not something that should happen to a loving person like that," said his brother, Paul.
Sent 13: "He's going to be so missed by everybody.
Sent 14: He was a light of so many lives.".
Question: What is the name of the gunman?.

Ex Output:
Jeffrey Johnson.