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Los Angeles (CNN) -- The City Council of Fullerton, California, approved Tuesday evening the hiring of an independent consultant to reform the city's police force and review last month's arrest and subsequent death of a homeless schizophrenic man, a spokeswoman said. 

Before a gallery of residents angry about the death, the council voted 5-0 to award a one-year $50,000 contract to Michael J. Gennaco, a consultant whose rate is $260 an hour, to examine the police department's policies and practices, city spokeswoman Sylvia Palmer Mudrick said. 

The council then approved 4-1 a second contract, also for up to a year, paying Gennaco $30,000 to prepare a public report looking at the July 5 incident involving police and the death of Kelly Thomas, Mudrick said. 

Gennaco told the council he will begin investigating the death after the Orange County District Attorney's office completes its own inquiry into the incident, Mudrick said. Gennaco is currently chief attorney for a civilian oversight committee created by the Los Angeles County supervisors to monitor the sheriff's department. 

Thomas, 37, died five days after what the Orange County district attorney has called "a violent and desperate struggle" last month with Fullerton police. 

Meanwhile, a Los Angeles attorney said he is planning to file a police brutality lawsuit in federal court this week against Fullerton officers in a new unrelated case. But one of the officers in that case was also involved in the Thomas arrest, said the attorney, Garo Mardirossian. 

Mardirossian is also representing Thomas' father, Ron, who is alleging that his son was a victim of police brutality and has notified Fullerton city officials that he plans to pursue legal action against them. 
1. Who choose to emply a consultant?
2. What kind of council?
3. Why did they chose to employ the person?
4. Who died?
5. What was the person examining?
6. How long where they going to work?
7. For how much?
8. Why is there a second agreement?
9. About what?

Numbered answers:
1. council
2. The City Council
3. gallery of residents angry about the death
4. homeless schizophrenic man
5. police department's policies and practice
6. up to a year
7. $50,000
8. to prepare a public report
9. death of Kelly Thomas


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CHAPTER V. 

MOHUN APPEARS FOR THE LAST TIME IN THIS HISTORY. 

Besides my Lord Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, who for family reasons had kindly promised his protection and patronage to Colonel Esmond, he had other great friends in power now, both able and willing to assist him, and he might, with such allies, look forward to as fortunate advancement in civil life at home as he had got rapid promotion abroad. His Grace was magnanimous enough to offer to take Mr. Esmond as secretary on his Paris embassy, but no doubt he intended that proposal should be rejected; at any rate, Esmond could not bear the thoughts of attending his mistress farther than the church-door after her marriage, and so declined that offer which his generous rival made him. 

Other gentlemen in power were liberal at least of compliments and promises to Colonel Esmond. Mr. Harley, now become my Lord Oxford and Mortimer, and installed Knight of the Garter on the same day as his Grace of Hamilton had received the same honor, sent to the Colonel to say that a seat in Parliament should be at his disposal presently, and Mr. St. John held out many flattering hopes of advancement to the Colonel when he should enter the House. Esmond's friends were all successful, and the most successful and triumphant of all was his dear old commander, General Webb, who was now appointed Lieutenant-General of the Land Forces, and received with particular honor by the Ministry, by the Queen, and the people out of doors, who huzza'd the brave chief when they used to see him in his chariot going to the House or to the Drawing-room, or hobbling on foot to his coach from St. Stephen's upon his glorious old crutch and stick, and cheered him as loud as they had ever done Marlborough. 
1. Who guaranteed protection to Esmond?
2. What job did he offer to Esmond?
3. Did he expect Esmond to accept?
4. Did the Duke receive promotions?
5. Who used to cheer for General Webb?
6. Did they cheer him as loud as Marlborough?
7. What did the people see the General riding in?
8. Where was he going in it?
9. What would the General use when he walked?
10. General Webb was the old commander of whom?
11. Who told the Colonel that he could soon hold a position in Parliament?
12. Once there, who would advance him?
13. What could Esmond not stand to think of?
14. True or False: Esmond and the Lord Duke were rivals.
15. Why did the Lord Duke offer protection to Esmond.
16. True of False: General Webb was cowardly.
17. Who was the most prosperous of all Esmond's friends?
18. Who married the Lord Duke's mistress?
19. What chapter is the passage from?

Numbered answers:
1. Lord Duke of Hamilton and Brandon
2. secretary on his Paris embassy
3. no
4. his yesof Hamilton had received the same honor
5. the people
6. yes
7. his chariot
8. the House or to the Drawing-room
9. his glorious old crutch and stick
10. Esmond
11. Mr. Harley
12. Mr. St. John
13. being away from his mistress
14. false
15. family reasons
16. false
17. General Webb
18. Esmond
19. Five


Question:
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Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, founded in 1999. In 2008, Box Office Mojo was bought by the Internet Movie Database, owned by Amazon. The website is widely used within the film industry as a source of data. From 2002–11, Box Office Mojo had forums popular with film fans. On October 10, 2014, the website's URL was redirected to Amazon's IMDB.com website for one day, but the website returned the following day without explanation. 

Brandon Gray began the site in 1999. In 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury and grew the site to nearly two million readers. In July 2008, the company was purchased by Amazon.com through its subsidiary, the Internet Movie Database. 

From 2002–11, Box Office Mojo had forums, which were a popular place for box office "fanatics", and the site at one time was home to several popular movie games and quizzes, tests (e.g., "Fantasy Box Office" (created in 2006) and "Create a Year of Movies"), until these were summarily canceled for undisclosed reasons. Box Office Mojo had forums with more than 16,500 registered users. On November 2, 2011 the forums were officially closed along with any user accounts, and users were invited to join IMDb's message boards, even though not all the same features were available there. Tracking is still done very closely to the day by day, actual tabulation of distributors, making it possible to see the general trend of a film's "earnings trajectory".
1. When was Box Office Mojo founded?
2. what do they do?
3. Who founded it?
4. Does he still own the company?
5. who does?
6. who are they owned by?
7. When was the website aquired?
8. Does the site have a lot of readers?
9. how many?
10. who helped build the site up?
11. along with?
12. What was the site a popular place for?
13. When were the forums closed?


Numbered answers:
1. 1999
2. tracks box office revenue
3. Brandon Gray
4. No
5. Internet Movie Database
6. Amazon.com
7. July 2008
8. Yes
9. 16,500
10. Sean Saulsbury
11. Gray
12. "fanatics"
13. November 2, 2011