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KENSAL GREEN is an area in north-west London, in the London boroughs of Brent and Kensington and Chelsea. The surrounding areas are Harlesden to the west, Willesden to the north, Brondesbury and Queens Park to the east and Notting Hill and White City to the south.

Location

Kensal Green is a residential area with good transport links to central London as well as North, West, South and East London. Surrounding districts include Willesden to the north, Harlesden to the west, Queens Park to the east and Ladbroke Grove/Kensal Town to the south. As well as the Kensal Green ward, the area takes in the wards of Dalgarno, parts of Queens Park and College Park & Old Oak.

Residents and businesses

The area has seen significant gentrification over recent years and is earning a reputation as a 'celebrity haunt-meets-Nappy Valley'.[1] In 2009, Chamberlayne Road in Kensal Rise was named by _Vogue_ as the hippest street in Europe.[2] In 2014, luxury goods maker Mulberry named its handbag Kensal and launched an advertising campaign with Cara Delevingne.[3] The area is now home to a number of noteworthy residents including musicians Paloma Faith and Rita Ora, chef Thomasina Miers,[4] film director, DJs and musicians Don Letts and Mark Rae, actress Thandie Newton, singer Lily Allen, model-turned-author Sophie Dahl, author Zadie Smith, David Cameron's ex-strategy guru Steve Hilton, the actor and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Sienna Miller.[5] The area also now boasts Britain's first independent boutique cinema and social enterprise, The Lexi Cinema. It is staffed by local volunteers and its profits go to an eco-village in South Africa.

_Time Out_ described Kensal Green as “a cool, rebellious young upstart with torn jeans and wacky ideas about politics and marijuana and shit”, highlighting pubs The Chamberlayne and Paradise by Kensal Green, cocktail bar The Shop, high-end butcher Brooks and authentic Neapolitan pizzas from Sacro Cuore.[6] The area is now characterised by numerous independent stores, restaurants, pubs and cafes. Popular cafes include Bel and Nev, Cable and Wild Card. Pubs include The Island, The Whippet, The Chamberlayne, Paradise and Parlour - which also now operates a day-time deli selling high quality produce and ready-made meals. The area also features original sixties gentleman's hairdresser Gee Barber, which has featured in numerous TV shows and commercials including one for Pinterest. There are also various sports clubs, gyms and health studios such as Moberly Sports Centre and Gracelands Yard.

It has traditionally been popular with those working in the media and creative industries. According to local estate agents, those buying properties in the area include developers, people working in the financial district of the city and others moving from nearby Notting Hill in search of more space. The area also attracts Americans thanks to the American School in neighbouring St John's Wood, as well as being popular with the French, partly due to a Lycée Français opening in Brent's former town hall.[7]

According to the Evening Standard newspaper, the most prized address in the area is Langler Road due to it being within the catchment area of the two most popular schools (Ark Franklin and Princess Frederica).

Open space and public realm

Little Wormwood Scrubs is a wide open space and has various activities, Kensington memorial Park remains popular amongst locals. Queens Park (which features tennis courts, golf, a petting zoo and an extensive childrens' playground) and King Edwards Vll park are both within walking distance.[8]

Brent Council announced planned improvements to the public realm in 2019. The aim is to enhance the pedestrian experience and reduce traffic. The changes include new cycle lanes, various measures to reduce congestion and an improved public realm with new pavements, carriageway resurfacing, community greening schemes and pocket gardens.

History

Originally part of one of the 8 manors within the district of Willesden, Kensal Green is first mentioned in 1253, translating from old English meaning _the King’s Holt_ (King's Wood). Its location marked the boundary between Willesden and the then Chelsea & Paddington, on which it remains today. It formed part of one of 10 manors, most likely Chamberlayne Wood Manor, named after Canon Richard de Camera (_of the Chambers_).[9] In the 15th century the then Archbishop of Canterbury Henry Chichele (1414–1443), acquired lands in Willesden and Kingsbury. In 1443 he founded All Souls' College, Oxford and endowed it with the same lands in his will. As a resultant, most of Willesden and Kensal Green remained largely agricultural until the mid-1800s, well into the Victorian era. In 1805, the construction of the Grand Junction Canal passed through the district to join the Regent's Canal at Paddington. As the combined Grand Union Canal, this allowed passage of commercial freight traffic from the Midlands to London Docks, and hence onwards to the River Thames. There were two dairy farms in Kensal Green by the early 1800s, which expanded greatly after the 1864 Act of Parliament which made it illegal to keep cattle within the City of London. Although by the late 1800s residential development had greatly reduced the farmland, still in the 1890s many sheep and pigs were raised in the district. One of the farms later became a United Dairies creamery, supplied by milk trains from Mitre Bridge Junction.[10]

St. John's Church was built on the corner of what is now Harrow Road/Kilburn Lane in 1844 and was extensively refurbished in 2017 and fitted with new bells in anticipation of the 175th anniversary in 2019. The church was followed by a school, now Bales College, and more inns including The Plough on the opposite corner of the junction. In 1832 Kensal Green Cemetery was incorporated by Act of Parliament and opened in January 1833. This led to a revaluation of the surrounding lands, and in 1835 ecclesiastical commissioners were appointed by the Crown, who reported in 1846 that: “the larger portion of the Prebendal Estates possess, in our opinion, a value far beyond their present agricultural value.”[11] [St. John the Evangelist] With enough people living locally to create a new parish, in 1844 St. John the Evangelist Church in Kilburn Lane was consecrated. The 1851 census records just over 800 people living in the new parish. In the 1860s, Kensal Green manor house, situated where Wakeman Road joins Harrow Road, was demolished. Rapid increase in residential development followed, firstly with land west of Kilburn High Road, followed by the sale of Banister's Farm leading to the development of Bannister Road and Mortimer Road. Unfortunately at this time Kensal Green was suffering huge social problems and had a reputation of being a slum, with 55% off its residents living in poverty and squalor, despite being neighbours to thriving Queen's Park.The rapid residential development led to local commissioners reporting in 1880 that there was inadequate drainage and sewerage facilities, with most houses having only improved access to what were the old agricultural drains. In that same year, All Souls' College started to develop its lands north-west of Kilburn Lane, including All Souls' Avenue and College Road, with adjacent roads being named after leading Fellows of the college, and the installation of new sewerage facilities across the district. The college donated lands on which to build Kensal Rise Reading Room, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, in 1897. Opened by American author Mark Twain in 1901, it was later extended and renamed Kensal Rise Library.[12]

The developments of the streets around Kensal Rise railway station date from the last 10 years of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th. Although opened in April 1873 as Kensal Green at Chamberlayne Wood, then a remote dead end road; it was renamed Kensal Rise on 24 May 1890. Just north of the station the National Athletic Ground (one of the many early grounds of Queen's Park Rangers) opened in 1890. The ground which was later renamed the Kensal Rise Athletic Stadium also hosted cycling and athletics competitions before being turned over to housing in the 1920s. For a brief period before 1914 the Aeroplane Building and Flying Society had its headquarters at Kensal Rise and flew test gliders from the site. Kensal Rise also boasted the Electric Pavilion Cinema [13] which opened in November 1914 and was located on the corner of Chamberlayne Road and Bannister Road.

The construction of the Great Western Railway started in 1835, with the first of line, from Paddington station to Maidenhead Bridge station, opened on 4 June 1838. In 1901, its major carriage washing and servicing facilities and locomotive depot were developed at Old Oak Common, bringing further employment and more immigrants to the district. The first major immigrant population had been Irish people fleeing the Great Irish Famine, and then post-World War I. In World War II, due to the railway facilities, the district suffered greatly from German Luftwaffe bombing.[14]

After the war, the area became a refuge for the first Afro-Caribbean born contingent. In the 1960s the College disposed of many freeholds, while retaining land in Willesden. Since the 1980s, the Irish-born community has reduced in size, although the legacy of their presence remains, not least in the number of Irish pubs and organisations and the many thousands with Irish ancestry who continue to populate the area. According to statistics from the 2001 census, the area has a very high proportion of young residents (28.4% 25–44 years old) and a very high educational level (30.7% hold a first degree or better).[15]

The area has seen significant gentrification over recent years as people have been priced out of surrounding areas such as Notting Hill. In 2015 it was described as 'celebrity haunt-meets-Nappy Valley'.[16]

Demographics

The largest ethnic group in Kensal Green ward according to the 2011 census was White British, 26%. The second largest was White other, 18%, followed by Black Caribbean, 12%.[17] Neighbouring Queen's Park ward, which also covers eastern areas of Kensal Green, was 30% White British. The College Park ward, which covers the southern areas of Kensal Green, was 31.6% white British, 18.4% White other and 21.1% Black.[18] Kensal Green ward has the highest Latin American population in London.[19]

Transport

Kensal Green station (Transport for London Travelcard Zone 2) on the Bakerloo line is about 20 minutes from Oxford Circus and the West End. National Rail London Overground services also operate to London Euston, a journey that takes around 15 minutes. Trains also go to .

London Overground's North London Line services also operate out of Kensal Rise railway station (Transport for London Travelcard Zone 2) and provides regular services to Richmond in the west, Stratford in the east, and Clapham Junction in the south.

Extensive bus services also run from the area, including routes 18 (Sudbury - Euston), 6 (Willesden Bus Garage - Aldwych), 52 (Willesden Bus Garage - Victoria station via Notting Hill and Kensington) and 452 (Kensal Rise - Vauxhall).

Kensal Green is located on the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal (which passes by Kensal Green Cemetery) making it possible to go to Little Venice, the Paddington Basin, Paddington Station and Regents Canal.

In 2020 the Government gave the green light to a high speed rail (HS2) link running from London to Birmingham. This will bring a major HS2 and Crossrail interchange station at Old Oak Common, a short walk from Kensal Green. It will give local residents high speed services across London, to the midlands and to Heathrow airport. It will be the largest new railway station ever built in the UK.Old Oak Common HS2 station approved

Schools

[Kenmont Primary School] The educational charity Ark, founded by venture capitalist Arpad Busson, runs three state primary schools in the area, including Ark Franklin in Harvist Road, which replaced Kensal Rise primary in September 2013. The following state primary schools are judged to be “good”: Ark Franklin; Princess Frederica CofE in College Road; and Kenmont Primary School in Valliere Road which was built in 1883–84 to a design by the architect by Edward Robert Robson for the School Board for London and has been Grade II listed since 1984.[20]

Three state comprehensive schools are judged to be “good”, including Queens Park Community School in Aylestone Avenue, and Capital City Academy in Doyle Gardens.

There is a small choice of local private schools. The primary schools are Seacole (co-ed, ages four to 11) in Bosworth Road and The Lloyd Williamson School (co-ed, six weeks to 11) in Telford Road. Bales College is a very small independent co-ed secondary school and sixth form college, catering for ages 11 to 20 on Harrow Road.[21] Many parents use the private schools in nearby Belsize Park and Hampstead.[22]

Crossrail and HS2

In 2020 the Government gave the green light to a high speed rail (HS2) link running from London to Birmingham. This will bring a major HS2 and Crossrail interchange station at Old Oak Common, a short walk from Kensal Green. It is expected to open in 2026 and will provide high speed rail across London and to the midlands and the North, as well as seamless connectivity with Heathrow Express and trains to Wales and the West of England. When operational, the station will be used by up to an estimated 250,000 passengers each day.Construction milestone reached at HS2’s ‘super-hub’ Old Oak Common It is expected to create tens of thousands of homes and jobs, as well as make Kensal Green one of the best connected neighbourhoods in the country.Old Oak Common HS2 station approved

The Old Oak Common and Park Royal is the largest regeneration project in London and is worth £26bn.[23]

Kensal Green Cemetery

[The Catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery]

Kensal Green Cemetery is the first of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries in London. It is the resting place of members of the royal family, including Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and scores of figures in history including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Babbage, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope and William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland. Architects who are buried at Kensal Green include Decimus Burton, Philip Charles Hardwick and John Shaw Jr., as well as Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter and many, many others.

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, actor Alan Rickman, and comedienne Mollie Sugden were cremated in the West London Crematorium which is located within the grounds of the cemetery. The location of Mercury's ashes is unknown, though there is a memorial plaque with his birthname.

Cemetery directors and The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery (a charity) have lobbied the Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage for funding to help preserve historical monuments at the site. The mammoth project, which involves repairs to the grade one listed Anglican Chapel and the boundary wall, is estimated to cost more than £10m.[24]

The cemetery is listed Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.[25] Many buildings and memorials are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as listed buildings.

Tornado on 7 December 2006

On 7 December 2006 at 11.00am, a tornado struck Kensal Green.[26] Up to 150 houses were damaged, and six people were injured, one requiring hospital attention. One resident slept through the entire event. Residential roads were closed off and residents had to seek temporary accommodation. Traffic was also diverted, causing disruption. The cost of the damage was estimated to be at least £2 million.

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answer: Kensal Green was originally part of one of the 8 manors in the Willesden district. By the 15th century, the Archbishop of Canterbury Henry Chichele, acquired the lands and founded the All Souls College. He endowed the lands in his will and the area remained mostly agricultural until the mid 19th century. The Kensal Green manor house was demolished in the 1860s and rapid residential development followed. However it suffered major social problems and most of the residents were living in poverty, despite being neighbors to the Queen's park. Years later the Great Western Railway was built in the area and developments of the surrounding streets ensued.


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_UPDATE: JUNE 26, 2020, 5:40 P.M. EDT_ _Since the writing of this piece, D’Elia’s team released additional emails between him and several accusers. You can read about them_ _here__._

Comedian Chris D'Elia first noticed Michaela Coletta's Instagram photos years ago, when she was 17, according to the now 25-year-old. He took the opportunity to DM her.

"He noticed I liked some of his photos on Instagram and immediately started messaging me," Coletta told Mashable. "From my Instagram photos, you could visibly tell I was still in high school."

In an emailed statement to Mashable, Coletta described behavior she knew to be a pattern. "This man is HORRIBLE," she wrote. "The amount of messages I've gotten from other girls that are too afraid to speak up is... insane. With almost the exact same stories, same ages... some as young as 14 [sic]."

In a span of hours on Tuesday night, Coletta and dozens of other women — both named and anonymous — went public with stories about D'Elia on Twitter.

Survivors of sexual misconduct and inappropriate advances have taken to whisper networks in recent years as police often don't believe accusers when they come forward. Many also never report what happened to authorities due to fears that nothing will happen even after they endure an excruciating trial. In this current moment of social upheaval, the whisper network is more public and vital than ever, and much of it is happening on Twitter. Some other famous examples include the Harvey Weinstein Google doc and the Shitty Media Men list, but while those documents contained the whispers, Twitter fueled their delivery.

  In this current moment of social upheaval, the whisper network is more public and vital than ever, and much of it is happening on Twitter.

And it's not just sexual misconduct being revealed in these online whisper networks. As accusations against D'Elia piled up on Twitter, people separately began raising concerns about systemic racism in their workplace. Emboldened by the police brutality protests unfolding on the streets, people took to Twitter to share their own stories of discrimination.  The media industry has had a "racial reckoning," as CNN called it, with present and former Black employees and other employees of color exposing deep-seated racism at publishers from Bon Appetit to Refinery29. Crisis Text Line employees and volunteers' Twitter complaints led the nonprofit's board to oust its founder and CEO. These discussions were, if not sparked on Twitter, then at least amplified considerably on the platform.

When the wronged feel like the powerful will ignore them, they embrace another outlet: Twitter. Opponents of whisper networks say social media isn't the right venue to seek justice. But after the individual whispers turn into a collective roar, the powerful start to listen.

How the D'Elia accusations came to light

After Coletta and D'Elia moved their conversation from Instagram DMs to email, she said he began talking to her with his now-infamous RocketMail account. The same email account appears in several screenshots from various accusers. He told her he wanted to see her when he performed in Vancouver, where she lives, she said. After that, they moved their conversation to Kik, a messenger app popular with both teens and predators.

"That's when he really started getting explicit (probably because Kik is easy to wipe and leave no trace)," wrote Coletta. "He said he wanted to see my body and it felt SUPER weird. I sent him one though, because I felt pressured to."

Coletta continued, "The way he spoke to me was intimidating and also extremely straight to the point. He also sent a shirtless photo of himself back to me. I remember him saying how tiny my waist is and how I have such big breasts perfectly. I also remember exactly what photos he's seen of me, that are VERY clearly taken in a child's bedroom with pink walls."

In a statement to _People_, D'Elia denies the dozens of accusations, hopping around an apology and blaming his "lifestyle."

"I know I have said and done things that might have offended people during my career, but I have never knowingly pursued any underage women at any point," D'Elia said in his statement to _People_. "All of my relationships have been both legal and consensual and I have never met or exchanged any inappropriate photos with the people who have tweeted about me. That being said, I really am truly sorry. I was a dumb guy who ABSOLUTELY let myself get caught up in my lifestyle. That’s MY fault. I own it. I’ve been reflecting on this for some time now and I promise I will continue to do better."

Coletta said D'Elia told her he wanted to make-out with her — a recurring theme in his messages to young women — and that he wanted to fly her out to Los Angeles. After that, Coletta slowly stopped responding "just so he would go away," she said. He did message her when he was in her area, but she kept ignoring him.

"I have been public about it since it happened," said Coletta, who told her friends and her boyfriend at the time. She tweeted about one of D'Elia's emails in 2015 (and recently tweeted the screenshot of said email), and then she tweeted again when she saw his character in Netflix's series _You_ "because of the insane irony that he is literally playing himself in that role," she said. On the show, D'Elia plays Henderson, a comedian who drugged and raped victims and took photos of them while unconscious.

Coletta deleted the second tweet soon after because a friend had previously been vocal about D'Elia and she said he subsequently threatened her. "I deleted the tweet about 'You,'" said Coletta, "because he's KNOWN for searching his own name and fighting with people or harassing, like he did to my friend."

On Tuesday, that same friend sent her a tweet by Simone Rossi, who goes by @girlpowertbh on Twitter. "I still can’t believe netflix cast chris d’elia as the pedophile...like the literal IRONY," Rossi tweeted on June 16, also evoking D'Elia's _You_ character:

Rossi threaded her tweet with screenshots of email conversations she said she had with D'Elia that were sent in 2014, when Rossi was 16.

"Imagine being 16 and being groomed by a stand up comedian twice ur age and the only reason you never met up and never got physically m*lested was because u had just gotten a boyfriend ur own age," Rossi then wrote.

These tweets prompted Coletta to speak out once again on Tuesday. "I immediately made a tweet about it because FINALLY it was getting attention," she said.

Twitter erupted almost immediately with similar stories about D'Elia. In addition to other women coming forward on their own accounts, many others messaged their stories to @SheRatesDogs, an account that spotlights gross messages women receive from men. Michaela Okland, who runs SheRatesDogs, threaded anonymous DMs she received as well as other tweets:

In a matter of hours, dozens of women — both named and anonymous — spoke up about him. And in addition to these accusations going viral, D'Elia's thinly-veiled pedophilic "jokes" started going around as well:

Twitter is the new whisper network

We know that stories like the ones about D'Elia don't exist in a vacuum. Not only are we entering the third year of the #MeToo era — calling anything "post-MeToo" seems like a farce — but we're in a time of deep social unrest. (The "Me Too" phrase was actually coined in 2006 by activist Tarana Burke, but it took on new life after the _New York Times_ and _New Yorker_ investigations exposed Weinstein's pattern of sexual harassment.) The recent protests have made more Americans question whether the police actually "serve and protect," whether our justice system actually carries out justice. When authorities won't give a voice to the victims of wrongdoings — whether these wrongdoings happen on the streets, in an office, or in someone's DMs — the victims turn to social media to give themselves a voice.

In addition to brutality and racism, the police system's often shambolic handling of sexual assault cases has come up in recent weeks. In response to protesters who've called for the abolition of police, opponents often cite rape as a crime that we need police to investigate. Yet, the vast majority of assaulters do not go to jail or prison; they're not even reported. Tweets like the one below (about the Minneapolis police discovering 1,700 untested rape kits) go viral and highlight the police's incompetence:

While protesters fight racial inequality and police brutality in the streets, others do so online, especially on Twitter. This is seen in the circulation of bail funds and other requests for donations; protest and supply organizing; and coming forward with harrowing stories about racism. Exposing racism has snowballed into exposing other injustices, as is the case with D'Elia.

"I use twitter more than any other socials and have been on it for probably over 12 years [so] I had a bit of a follow[ing] already," said Coletta. "Plus [it's] my main news source that I feel like I can actually trust since its coming straight from the people experiencing it."

Okland started SheRatesDogs in 2018 and her following has ballooned to over 500,000. She said she chose Twitter (though she subsequently made an Instagram account) because of the retweet function.

"It's more of an echo chamber on Instagram," said Okland. But not on Twitter, where retweets allow her to get on feeds of people — particularly men — who may not have thought about these issues before.

Many reports on D'Elia went viral on Twitter, including the SheRatesDog's thread. But this isn't the first time the account has exposed abusers, Okland told Mashable. She had previously shared stories about a professor and a would-be _Bachelorette_ contestant — though nothing quite on this scale.

She became aware of the emerging conversation about D'Elia from Rossi's tweet, which Okland saw before it went massively viral. "I had actually gotten a DM about Chris two months ago," she said, and that's what she quote-tweeted Rossi with and jumpstarted her thread.

"I'm not usually an exposing account," said Okland, who said she feels guilt and anxiety at the thought of something bad happening to someone she posted about. That's why she usually keeps everyone anonymous. "If I was logging on and ruining three or four lives a day, that wouldn't be healthy," she said. "Even though there are people who say shitty things or do shitty things, that's just not a good life to live." But given Rossi's tweet, what Okland has heard in-person from female comics about D'Elia, and the two-month-old DM, she decided to get involved.

That DM several months ago came from a woman in Cleveland, Ohio, who chose to remain anonymous on both Twitter and in her discussion with Mashable, in order to not jeopardize her employment:

As in her retelling to SheRatesDogs, the woman told me that D'Elia stayed at the hotel where she works two years ago. Her supervisor at the time, another woman in her early 20s, worked the overnight shift. D'Elia allegedly called the front desk to say that his air conditioning wasn't working. Due to the hotel not having overnight maintenance, the supervisor went to D'Elia's room to help.

The supervisor said D'Elia exposed himself to her and didn't cover himself when she asked. He called the front desk again some time later, but the supervisor refused to go back to his room and told him that maintenance would arrive in the morning.

"I came into work the next day and the hotel's assistant general manager told us the story as a 'do not go to the room alone' warning and named D'Elia and his room number," the woman told Mashable. "He wasn't removed or barred from the hotel, but I don't know that he ever came back."

  "Nobody would even see or believe me posting it on my own"

The woman said she loves the account SheRatesDogs in general because it made her feel less personally attacked and alone when she received abusive messages on dating apps. She told the account her D'Elia story because she saw that Okland tweeted something about him one day, "and I had to get it out," she said. "I didn't think she'd ever see it, but I didn't have anyone else to tell."

The hotel management didn't do anything about the incident, the woman said. "I can't call the police two years later and they wouldn't care anyway, and nobody would even see or believe me posting it on my own," she said. "She created a place online where women could be believed *and* let the frustrations out and be funny or angry or whatever."

#MeToo on Twitter beyond D'Elia

D'Elia is far from the only example of allegations against someone gathering steam on Twitter. This month alone has ushered in a similar trend at several American universities.

In the same way students have created accounts to unmask their fellow students' racism, they're also creating Twitter accounts to expose sexual assaulters. Students at a number of universities, including Rutgers and UC San Diego, have followed the lead of Assaulters at UMich, which now has over 12,000 followers.

The University of Michigan account started because the account owner, who chose to remain anonymous, wanted there to be a voice for survivors.

"The University of Michigan has failed one too many survivors by simply doing nothing when approached with sexual assault cases," said the account owner. In 2018, a dozen assault incidents at the university were logged in an academic whisper network created by Karen Kelsky. Earlier this year, the university saw two #MeToo scandals back to back.

In a statement to Mashable, the University of Michigan took issue with the criticisms and pointed to a websiteoutlining the university's response to sexual assaults:

  While we certainly understand the difficulty of reporting sexual misconduct and the ensuing process, it's just not accurate to say the University of Michigan is doing nothing.

  We've implemented new processes, added staff to our Office for Institutional Equity that handles investigations, created a special victims unit within our campus police department, made reporting easier and more visible, implemented mandatory training for all employees and students and are constantly revising and updating our policies. And we publish an annual report with details on all reports of sexual misconduct that are shared with the university.

The account's creator chose Twitter because it's a global platform. "I believed it would have the most impact," they said. Scrolling through Assaulters at UMich's now-locked feed is a similarly visceral experience to scrolling through SheRatesDogs' D'Elia thread: Account after account of assault, often contrasted with the alleged assaulter's smiling LinkedIn photo. The account has received thousands of stories, even from people who don't attend the University of Michigan or even reside in the state.

As of publication, the account is locked due to an individual posted about on the account threatening a lawsuit. In addition, the account owner said, they locked it following an attempted hack. While they eventually plan on unlocking, they want to ensure that survivors and their stories are completely safe.

Assaulters at UMich has received both positive and negative feedback. One common criticism is that Twitter isn't the best way to seek justice, but the account's owner said there isn't any better way to empower survivors at the moment. "Until something has been created, I will continue to use this platform to shed light on the prevalence of assaults that take place on college campuses," they said.

Okland, too, has no plans to get rid of SheRatesDogs anytime soon. She said she's received over 500 DMs about D'Elia, from accusers themselves and their loved ones. The responsibility overwhelms her, but she loves running the account and has no plans to give it away.

What's more, is that her messages are already flooding with stories about other abusers.

"It'll probably happen again," said Okland. "Especially just after this situation... I mean I have, like, five completely unrelated DMs about another guy."

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Claudia Conway, the 15-year-old daughter of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and George Conway, a D.C.-based attorney and outspoken Donald Trump critic, made headlines after she started posting anti-Trump memes and Black Lives Matter messages on TikTok under the handle @claudiamconway.

When asked by a follower whether she shares "the same political views" as her mom, she responded "no ❤❤" in the comments section.

"Believe it or not you can have your own opinions simply by educating yourself," she said in another video.

After racking up more than 212,000 followers on TikTok, Claudia tweeted on Monday that her parents are now "forcing" her to delete social media: “Apparently, i don’t have a platform! it’s fake! love you all so much. keep fighting.”

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The social media ban comes just a few days after she livestreamed a confrontation with her mother, who tried to take her phone away, saying, “I’m just showing everyone the truth. You’re literally not letting me use my freedom of speech.”

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George Conway tweeted out a demand that journalists stop trying to contact her.

"To journalists: @kellyannepolls and I do *not* consent to any communications between you and any of our minor children, including our daughter Claudia," he wrote. "So desist. Thank you."

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Claudia's bio on TikTok, which is still active, reads, "ARREST BREONNA’S MURDERERS," a reference to the three officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed by police in her own home. Taylor’s family has filed a lawsuit against the officers, according to _The_ _Washington Post_, but none of them have been charged. Police opened an internal investigation and placed the officers involved on administrative leave, but only Hankison has been fired from the Louisville Metro Police.

The teen's bio on herInstagram account (which is followed by Ivanka Trump) says "advocate & ally," with a link to a petition demanding justice for Taylor.

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Claudia is also making her other progressive political beliefs known on social media: "why do people hate on trump supporters... like why cant we just respect everyone's opinions? SIKE nah block me pls and then educate yourself," she wrote in one TikTok video.

In a tweet, she slammed Fox News: "the fact that people ACTUALLY watch fox news and use it as their primary source of information is horrifying."

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Claudia Conway with her mom Kellyanne at the Washington Women's Empowerment Panel in 2017.
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In 2017, Kellyanne told _TIME_ magazine that she wanted her daughter to know that she “very much” respected Hillary Clinton's presidential run and "in this country, anybody can do anything if they set their mind to it.”

Despite their political differences, the mother-daughter duo seem to be on good terms.

In a TikTok that has since been deleted, one follower asked whether they "get along usually." Claudia responded: "yes we do get along!" Another follower said: "Girl you got your platform now, use it." Claudia responded: "i will!!!! WE WILL NOT BE SILENT."

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question: What does the article say about Claudia Conway?

answer: She's the daughter of While House counselor Kellyanne Conway and D.C.-based attorney George Conway. Claudia, 15, made headlines after posting memes against Trump and Black Lives Matter messages on TikTok. She found many followers, but that came at the cost of parental dissent. While she says she gets along fine with her mother, her social media outbursts prompted her mother to ban Claudia off of social media. She livestreamed the confrontation with her mother when she tried to take Claudia's phone away, where Claudia blamed her mother for not letting her use her freedom of speech. Claudia's TikTok bio asks the officers who shot Breonna Taylor in her home to be arrested. She also expressed her annoyance with people who watch Fox News.

question: What does the text say about teenage wisdom?


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The most popular children in school were the handsome ones.

Everyone liked the handsome ones. The handsome ones were usually funny, sporty, overflowing with confidence, well dressed and just generally awesome. They were going to grow up to be the kinds of people that drive sports cars and spend their time on yachts in the Mediterranean, keeping company with other ridiculously good looking people.

'Good Looking Lee Parkinson' was actually so handsome that girls would ovulate every time he smiled at them. Boys would be left confused about their sexuality if they so much as stood in the same room as him. Even teachers regarded him with dreamy, vacant expressions. He left a trail of dazed people in his wake - all wanting to run their fingers through his gorgeous, soft, blonde hair or just lick his exquisitely sculpted face – or maybe that was just me.

I don’t know what 'Good Looking Lee Parkinson' went on to do as an adult, he’s probably a male model, but I like to think he’s working as a rent boy to fund his heroin and crack habits, after losing his job as a toilet attendant for spying on old men on the loo.

There was also Natasha and Luke DiMarco – brother and sister, who both modelled children’s clothes for catalogues. They were from the new housing estate where the houses were actually made of brick. I have no idea how they ended up at my school.

What was extra special about Natasha and Luke was the fact that they were friendly and down to earth. Whereas 'Good Looking Lee Parkinson' would barely acknowledge me, just in case I contaminated him with a terminal social disease, Natasha and Luke would occasionally talk to me. This left me thinking there was a chance that Natasha could become my girlfriend, and for a long time I fixated upon her. I never mustered the courage to do more than say the occasional hello, and would turn weak with delight whenever she said hello back. I also wrote her endless letters that I was too embarrassed to give her. In short, it was the kind of unhinged, unrealistic desire that if you don’t grow out of, ends with a restraining order.

If there was Natasha, Luke, 'Good Looking Lee Parkinson' and Stephen Bridges at one end of the popularity scale, there was Martin Macintyre, Jim Clinton, Gary Winkett and Suzanne Parker at the other.

Martin Macintyre was basically some kind of animal stuck in the body of a human – prone to attack for no reason – barely articulate until it came to telling you what he was going to do to you after school. He loved to expose himself, running around the playground holding his penis by the foreskin and pulling it until it was twice the normal length.

He even urinated on me a couple of times in the toilets, and one of his favourite past-times was to wait until you were sat on the loo, then climb up on to the sink, stick his head over the top of the cubicle and spit on you until you had finished. Then of course he would give you a good thump in the face when you opened the door.

I remember sitting on that toilet many times, weighing up whether it was better to continue getting spat on, or go out and get smacked in the face. It's funny, but you've no idea how attractive being drenched in saliva becomes when you’re faced with a painful enough alternative.

When Martin wanted some real fun, he would sit at his desk and shit himself - unable to contain his enormous grin, waiting for people to notice the smell. Sometimes he would just lose his mind and run around the classroom punching pupils and teacher.

Nowadays he would be drugged senseless with Ritalin and placed on the sex offender’s register, but back then nothing ever seemed to happen to him - the teachers were too scared of him. He was just left to traumatise us.

At break times, I would often stand in the playground with my fellow social rejects; one of us perched on a bench for maximum visibility, like a Meerkat, hoping to spot one of the many playground threats before they got too close.

Like most bullies, Martin stayed away from people who fought back, and relied on people like me to provide his amusement.

I had been brought up not to retaliate.

Mum: 'Don't stoop to their level, Barry.'

Translation: 'Just stand there and let the deranged child beat seven colours of shit out of you.'

Mum: 'Use words to settle conflict.'

Translation: 'Whilst you're receiving repeated head butts in the face from the deranged child, stay positive, try to find common ground, and use calming language. Don’t forget to keep smiling in an unthreatening manner.'

Mum: 'It takes strength to walk away from a fight.'

Translation: 'Turn away from the deranged child, and once he climbs on your back and starts biting your hair off, stay strong and continue walking away. Eventually he'll grow bored of it and get off you.'

‘Martin’s coming this way!!’ the alarm sounded.

The resulting stampede was like a scene from the Serengeti as Wildebeest lose their minds trying to get away from a lion - scattering in all directions - happy to trample their own offspring if it means not getting eaten.

‘Quick, b-b-behind the Art Block,’ screamed Ian Mailer in a high pitched voice.

The Art Block was a stand-alone wooden building on the edge of the playground where we would go for art lessons. I don’t think many schools have custom built classrooms for art, but this was to protect the normal classrooms because most art lessons ended with desks, walls, children and teacher all painted in bold colours, with a variety of objects glued to them.

You’ve probably had situations in your life where you’ve had to run from something, but fear prevents your legs from working properly. At times like that, my brainpower seemed to get diverted away from the bit that controls my limbs to help support the bit that does my screaming.

As Martin charged, my legs flopped around uselessly.

I was the low-hanging fruit.

The runt, who in the wild, would be quickly and mercifully dispatched from the gene pool.

Unfortunately, there was no such escape in the playground – no quick death, and no daddy Wildebeest to come to your rescue and miraculously fight the lion off.

Even the dinner ladies would conveniently spot other things to attend to when Martin chose to tear his way through the easy prey.

In any sane world, Ian Mailer would be the one to be caught as he waddled away on his little potato-shaped legs, with the rest of us safely out of sight by the time he’s brought crashing to the ground, uselessly screaming for help.

But it was usually me left behind, captured, and subjected to ten minutes of cartoon violence.

Everyone on the playground watched in fascination as I stumbled along like Bambi, eyes wide with fear, looking around in the futile hope that someone would help me.

Once sure I had been captured, my fellow meerkats crept from behind the Art Block, knowing they were now safe and could kick back and enjoy the spectacle.

Martin started proceedings by dragging me around by my hair, occasionally winding me with a few rapid punches to the stomach. I suffered in silence, resigned to the fact that the only thing that would end this was when he, and he alone, felt as if he’d had his fill of ultra-violence.

After the dragging and winding, came the wedgie - not just a tug on my Y-fronts, but an attempt to stretch them up my back and over my head - to double them up as underwear and a hat at the same time.

Still, I didn't shout out, only vomited a little, showing admirable self-control in the face of mind-numbing pain. The saving grace was that my testicles had somehow avoided a good squeezing, and my bum crack had taken most of the strain.

Wedgie finished, he paused for a moment, his face clouded with thought. This wasn't going too well. Why wasn't Barry screaming for his Mum like he normally did?

My stoic demeanour, a feeble attempt to show him that he had no power over me, only served to enrage him further.

Now, I knew that if I was ever captured whilst on her Majesty's service, I could put up with a reasonable amount of torture before coughing up the detonation codes to the nuclear bomb that would destroy England. I had suffered enough pain in my life - so a bit more wouldn’t faze me.

‘You want to wire me up to the mains and shock my nipples until they start smoking? No problem – my Mum used my step-dad's football boot to literally beat me to death when I was five. So go ahead - do your worst.’

But I knew that once they went to work on my testicles, I would sing like a canary on speed.

Every boy knew their true Achilles-heel was hanging in a shrivelled sack between their legs.

Martin Macintyre, no doubt having had his own testicles banged a few times, knew this.

Problem: Barry Stephenson isn't screaming for his Mum to come and save him. This isn't as much fun as usual.

Solution: Hold him down on the ground and punch his testicles.

And sure enough, as the blows rained down on my balls I couldn't get the screams out fast enough. If you can picture a cat, a monkey and a goose being simultaneously kicked around a room by a very angry Chuck Norris, then you come somewhere near the noise that echoed around the school that day.

If you can imagine Chuck Norris kicking animals around his lounge, then well done - sort of. If you can't, start off with just the goose and pay particular attention to Chuck's face, screwed up with rage. That goose has clearly done something very bad to annoy Chuck that much. Once that's working for you - imagine someone throwing the monkey in from stage left. Now Chuck really ramps things up to eleven on the dial. Be in awe of his ferocity for just a couple of minutes or so before the wide-eyed cat finally gets added to the fray. Now Chuck is just an inhuman blur of righteous wrath.

Now you may have asked yourself, 'Why would Chuck Norris resort to kicking these poor creatures around his house? Surely there are other ways to deal with ill-disciplined animals?' Well I'm afraid I can't really give a satisfactory answer. What Chuck Norris gets up to in his own home, and why, is his business and we should probably just respect his need for privacy. Certainly, we shouldn't rush to judge him until we know the full story.

My beating seemed to go on for an age. I was obviously making just the right kind of noises to hold Martin's interest. I think his primitive brain went through life constantly making the following calculation, 'Is the reward from this action equal to, or greater, than the amount of effort I'm putting into it?'
In this particular case, the answer was clearly a resounding yes and his brain got stuck in a positive feedback loop, causing him to keep hammering away.

The rest of the school, as they looked on, gradually stopped laughing and I heard someone shout,

'Martin, I think he's had enough now. Come on.'

That's right. Your astonishing powers of deduction have brought you to the conclusion that I've only just had enough. Just now. It was fine before that, but once we got past the fifteenth thump in the trousers and the swelling was becoming noticeable to everyone, getting my testicles pummelled just didn't hold the same attraction for me any more.

I don't know if the pain became too much for the human brain to endure, or whether I just screamed myself unconscious, but I eventually blacked-out.

Life is full of pleasant little surprises. Small mercies. It's things like that – passing out into a blissful state of unawareness as someone declares war on your nut-sack that makes life so bearable.

Surprisingly, Martin was excluded from school for a whole two days. Two days he would have spent attacking pensioners, and breaking into the houses of people unfortunate enough to be gainfully employed.

My mum was called to come and take me home. The next day, being unable to walk, I was carted off to my G.P.

'Well Mrs. Stephenson, the swelling may take a week or two to completely disappear, and the black scrotum will eventually return to its normal healthy pink - but genitals are surprisingly resilient so I don't think we need to worry too much,' said the Doctor after prodding me between the legs for a while, unperturbed by my yelps of pain.

'Over the next week make sure he wears very loose underwear and trousers.’

Two day’s later; I was back at school, hobbling around the playground in my bright red knitted trousers, my legs spread wide as if I was riding a horse, making sure there was plenty of room for my scrotum which, by now, looked like a little black cauliflower.

The expected ridicule didn’t come though. I actually received some sympathetic glances. Most of the children who had witnessed the savageness of the beating were probably suffering from Post Traumatic Stress. This would, for most of them, have been the closest they would ever come to witnessing an actual real-life murder.

Thanks for reading. This is actually a chapter from my soon to be published novel based upon my childhood, called 'Recollections of a Half-Wit'.

title: Genitals Are Surprisingly Resilient

question: Summarize the inconsistencies between what the narrator experienced at school and what his parents taught him.

answer:
The narrator has been brought up not to retaliate when someone harms him. However, he notices that the bullies in his school do not go after those who fought back.
The narrator's mum had taught him to use words to settle conflicts. However, he notices that his words seem to have little or no effect on would-be bullies. Though the narrator's parent told him that walking away from a fight is one of the solutions to defusing conflict, it has never worked for him as his bullies tend to continue to hit him until they are satisfied.

question: According to the passage, what are the qualities of the most popular children in school?

answer: The most popular children in school are usually the handsome ones. They are sporty, funny, and have a high level of confidence. They are also well-dressed and tend to grow up to drive sports cars and keep company with other good-looking people. The narrator gives an example of Lee Parkinson as one of the most popular kids in school. He says Parkinson was so handsome that even some teachers regard him with vacant and dreamy expressions.


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Tesla making Model 3 battery packs in 17 minutes down from 7 hours

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Elon Musk reported in the Wednesday’s Q1 2018 earnings call that Tesla has managed to reduce the time to make a Model 3 battery pack by 94%, from 7 hours to under 17 minutes.

_This still remains to be fixed, but in any case, overgeneralizing the design. For example, the current battery pack has a port for front drive units, which we then put a steel blanking plate on. So essentially, we punched a hole in it and put a blanking plate at the hole. And (we had to) do that for all rear drive unit cars, which is kinda crazy._

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_“It would have added cost, it would have added a manufacturing step, it would have added a failure mode; and four ports was unnecessary… That’s changed. So, the result was we had a rapid improvement in battery pack production, from taking 7 hrs to make a pack 3 weeks ago to under 17 minutes now. We’re able to also achieve a sustained rate of 3,000 vehicles a week, so we’re actually slightly ahead in battery module and pack production than expected.”_

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_With the optimizations to the line in place, Musk revealed that Tesla is now producing 3,000 battery packs per week at the Nevada Gigafactory_

Tesla Model 3 production can only go as fast as the slowest part of the entire supply chain and production process. For months, the battery module line was their main production bottleneck. After deploying multiple semi-automated lines and improving our original lines, we have largely overcome this bottleneck. Consequently, they now expect to reach a module production rate of 5,000 car sets per week even before they install the new automated line designed and built by Tesla in Germany. The new automated module line should significantly lower manufacturing costs. Their automation team in Germany is currently focusing on further capacity expansion where needed.

_Too much automation_

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__Tesla “went too far and automated some pretty silly things,” including an incredibly complex “fluff machine” that ended up making production complicated.__

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“One of the things we’ve found is that there are some things that are very well suited to manual operations, and there are some things are very well suited to automated operations. The two should not be confused. We did go too far in the automation front, and automated some pretty silly things.

_“One example would be, we have these fiberglass mats on top of the battery pack. They’re basically fluff. We tried to automate the placement and bonding of fluff to the top of the battery pack, which was ridiculous. ‘Flufferbot,’ which was really an incredibly difficult machine to make work. Machines are not good at picking up pieces of fluff. Hands are way better at doing that._

Tesla lost $568 million in the first quarter on $3.4 billion in revenue but expects to be profitable by the third or fourth quarter of this year.

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question: What does the text say about the Chevy Volt?

question: Summarize the main news event.

answer: Elon Musk reports during Tesla's Q1 2018 earnings call that they have reduced the time to make a Model 3 battery pack by 94%, from 7 hours to 17 minutes. He says that the company is fixing design flaws from the previous design that added an extra manufacturing step and a way for batteries to fail. Musk revealed that Tesla is now producing 3,000 battery packs per week at the Nevada Gigafactory. For months, the battery module line was their main production bottleneck as Tesla Model 3 production can only go as fast as the slowest part of the entire supply chain and production process. Musk expects to reach a module production rate of 5,000 sets per week even before the installation of the new automated line designed and built by Tesla in Germany.

question: What does the text say about Tesla's issues with automation?

answer: Although automated lines lower manufacturing costs, Musk admitted that Tesla went too far when it came to automation. The company automated some pretty silly things, including a complex "fluff machine" that ended up making production complicated. One such mistake was the "Flufferbot" which was an incredibly difficult machine to make work. Machines are not good at picking up pieces of fluff, and this led to the failure of the Flufferbot because it had a hard time picking up pieces of fluff.


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OLADIPO OLAMIDE EMMANUEL (born 13 September 1993), known professionally as CHINKO EKUN, is a Nigerian rapper and songwriter.[1]

Early life and education

Chinko Ekun was born in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, into a family of three, where he is the second child.[2] He is a native of Ikare, Ondo State, Nigeria.[3] Chinko Ekun attended Blessing Nursery and Primary School, Oshodi, Lagos State and Remade Nursery and Primary School, Igando, Lagos State. He attended Baptist Model High School, Ijegun, Lagos State for his secondary education.[4] He graduated with a degree in law from Obafemi Awolowo University.[5] He did his National Youth Service Corps in Lagos State.[6]

Career

2011–2014: Career beginnings

At the age of 7, Chinko Ekun started developing passion for music. During his first year in the university, he picked interest in commercial and rap music.[7] Chinko Ekun officially started his musical career in 2011, posting videos of his freestyles on Instagram. In 2013, he released “Ekun” as his first official track. In 2014, Chinko Ekun featured in Olamide's _Street OT_ music album, on tracks “100 To Million”, “Bang” and “Usian Bolt”.[8] He appeared on Olamide Live In Concert (OLIC) 2014, where he did freestyle performance.[9] Chinko Ekun sings in English, Pidgin and Yoruba, focusing solely on hip hop music. His name “Chinko Ekun” was coined from two words “Chinko” and “Ekun”. “Chinko”, because he was told that he looked like a Chinese during his time in the university and “Ekun”, because it is his first official track.[10]

2015–present: YBNL Nation and Dek-Niyor Entertainment

In 2015, Chinko Ekun joined Olamide's YBNL Nation.[11] He released his first official singles titled “Alejo Oran” and “Emi Na Re” through YBNL Nation on 25 February 2015.[12] Barely a year later, he exited the record label after his contract expired, alongside fellow label mates Adekunle Gold and Viktoh.[13] In 2017, he joined Dek-Niyor Entertainment, a Dubai based record label.[14]

On 13 September 2018, he released a song titled “Able God” featuring Zlatan and Lil Kesh.[15] The song earned him his first Headies award as “Best Street Hop Artiste” at The Headies 2019.[16] The song received the nomination of “Popular Song of the Year” at the 2019 City People Music Awards.[17] It won “Street Song of the Year” at the 2019 City People Music Awards.[18]

Personal life

Chinko Ekun is single and revealed he is not ready for marriage yet.[19]

Discography

  Title                                        Year
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  “Ekun”                                       2013
  “Emi na re”                                  2015
  “Alejo Oran”                                 2015
  “Jen le yo”                                  2015
  “Binu”                                       2016
  “Bless Me”                                   2016
  “Flenjo”                                     2016
  “Wa Lo Da”                                   2017
  “Gbefun”                                     2017
  “Shake It”                                   2017
  “Shayo”                                      2017
  “Eruku de”                                   2017
  “Yaso”                                       2018
  “Bodija”                                     2018
  “Switch It Up”                               2018
  “Able God” ft. (Zlatan Ibile and Lil Kesh)   2018
  “Calling” ft. (Johnny Drille)                2018
  “Semena” ft. (Peruzzi)                       2019
  “Mafo”                                       2019
  “Party Animal”                               2020

Awards and nominations

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  2020                                  Soundcity MVP Awards       Viewers' Choice           “Able God”            [20]
  rowspan = “4” | 2019                  City People Music Awards   Street Song of the Year   “Able God”            [21]
  Popular Song of the Year              “Able God”                                           [22]
  Best Indigenous Artiste of the Year   Himself
  The Headies                           Best Street Hop Artiste    Himself, “Able God”                    [23]

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question: What does the text say about Chinko Ekun's education?

answer: After Nursery and primary school, Chinko Ekun attended a Baptist high school and graduated uni with a degree in law.


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Alf Göran BRUNO GLENMARK, born 17 March 1938 in Tomelilla, Sweden, is a Swedish musician, songwriter, band leader and singer.

Music career

During the 1960s, Glenmark toured Sweden with his own band and soloist Eleanor Bodel. With his wife Ann-Louise Hanson, niece Karin Glenmark and nephew Anders Glenmark, in the 1970s he formed the family group Glenmarks. Their first big success was _Gammaldags musik_, for which Bruno Glenmark also wrote the lyrics. With Hanson, Glenmark had his own record label, GlenDisc, from 1972 to 1990.

Melodifestivalen

Bruno Glenmark has taken part in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest selection competition _Melodifestivalen_ on several occasions, as a songwriter, conductor and singer.

-   1969 – conductor for _Svenska flicka_ by Ann-Louise Hanson (finished 4th).
-   1973 – _En liten sång (som alla andra)_ by Glenmarks (finished 4th).
-   1974 – _I annorlunda land_ by Glenmark (finished 8th).
-   1975 – conductor for _Lady Antoinette_ by Hadar Kronberg and Glenmarks (finished 6th).
-   1977 – conductor for _Det bästa som finns_ by Lena Andersson (finished 8th).
-   1979 – conductor for _On jag skriver en sång_ by Eva Dahlgren (finished joint 3rd).
-   1984 – composer of _Tjuvarnas natt_ by Thomas Lewing (finished joint 6th place).
-   1985 – lyrics for _Piccadilly Circus_ by Pernilla Wahlgren (finished 4th).
-   1988 – lyrics for _I en ding ding värld_ by Annica Burman (finished 6th).

Personal life

The surname Glenmark was adopted in 1945.[1] Since 1966, Bruno Glenmark has been married to the singer Ann-Louise Hanson. They have three children: Jessica, Jenni and Josefin Glenmark. He is the uncle of Karin and Anders Glenmark. After giving up GlenDisc in 1990, Glenmark and Hanson moved to Grasse in France. In 2010, they returned to Sweden.

[1] _Dagens Nyheter_, 24 August 1945, p.15

title: Bruno Glenmark

question: Who is Bruno Glenmark?

answer: a Swedish musician, songwriter, band leader, and singer

question: What is GlenDisc?

answer: a record label owned by Brun Glenmark and Ann-Louise Hanson from 1972-1990

question: What is Eurovision?

answer: the article does not answer this question

question: How many children does Bruno Glenmark have?

answer: three

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Bruno Glenmark is a Swedish musician, songwriter, band leader, and singer. He has participated in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest, Melodifestivalen, on several occasions, as a songwriter, conductor, and singer.


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[Tate County Courthouse, 201 S. Ward St., Senatobia]

TATE COUNTY is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 28,886.[1] Its county seat is Senatobia.[2] Organized in 1873 during the Reconstruction era, from portions of DeSoto, Marshall, and Tunica counties, the county is named for Thomas Simpson Tate, one of the first prominent American settlers of the area.

Tate County is part of the Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located about south of Memphis and one county east of the Mississippi River. This fertile river valley was developed for cotton cultivation in the 19th century.

History

As it was developed for cotton culture in the antebellum years, planters in the county depended on the labor of enslaved African Americans. Blacks comprised a majority of the population for many decades. After Reconstruction, whites sometimes enforced their dominance through political intimidation or violence against blacks.

In 1932, a deputy sheriff and son of County Sheriff C.A. Williams, was allegedly shot by a black man, Jesse Williams. Sheriff Williams illegally organized a posse and murdered at least five and possibly as many as seven black people, family members of a man known as “Judge” Crawford. A month later Jesse Williams was caught, “tried” and lynched by hanging. No charges were ever considered against the sheriff or lynch mob.[3]

Geography

[Map of Tate County]

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.5%) is water.[4] It is the third-smallest county in Mississippi by land area.

Major highways

-   [] Interstate 55
-   [] U.S. Route 51
-   [] Mississippi Highway 3
-   [] Mississippi Highway 4
-   [] Mississippi Scenic Highway 304
-   [] Mississippi Highway 305
-   [] Mississippi Highway 306
-   [] Mississippi Highway 740

Adjacent counties

-   DeSoto County (north)
-   Marshall County (east)
-   Lafayette County (southeast)
-   Panola County (south)
-   Tunica County (west)

Demographics

As of the census[5] of 2000, there were 25,370 people, 8,850 households, and 6,717 families residing in the county. The population density was 63 people per square mile (24/km²). There were 9,354 housing units at an average density of 23 per square mile (9/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 67.84% White, 31.02% Black or African American, 0.20% Native American, 0.10% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.25% from other races, and 0.56% from two or more races. 0.88% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 8,850 households, out of which 36.10% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.00% were married couples living together, 15.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.10% were non-families. 21.30% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.74 and the average family size was 3.18.

As of 2000, the county's population was spread out, with 27.10% under the age of 18, 11.70% from 18 to 24, 27.50% from 25 to 44, 22.30% from 45 to 64, and 11.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 93.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.50 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $35,836, and the median income for a family was $41,423. Males had a median income of $33,064 versus $21,154 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,154. About 10.60% of families and 13.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.20% of those under age 18 and 21.10% of those age 65 or over.

Communities

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City

-   Senatobia (county seat)

Town

-   Coldwater

Unincorporated communities

-   Arkabutla
-   Cottonville
-   Independence
-   Looxahoma
-   Sarah
-   Savage
-   Strayhorn
-   Thyatira
-   Tyro

Politics

  Year                               Republican                                  Democratic                                  Third parties
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  style=“text-align:center;” |2016   style=“text-align:center;” |64.5% _7,495_   style=“text-align:center;” |33.8% _3,926_   1.8% _206_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2012   style=“text-align:center;” |59.1% _7,332_   style=“text-align:center;” |39.8% _4,933_   1.1% _141_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2008   style=“text-align:center;” |60.1% _7,678_   style=“text-align:center;” |39.2% _5,003_   0.8% _97_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2004   style=“text-align:center;” |60.5% _6,760_   style=“text-align:center;” |38.9% _4,347_   0.5% _60_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2000   style=“text-align:center;” |59.2% _5,148_   style=“text-align:center;” |39.6% _3,441_   1.2% _104_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1996   style=“text-align:center;” |50.4% _3,694_   style=“text-align:center;” |43.6% _3,195_   6.0% _441_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1992   style=“text-align:center;” |50.1% _4,196_   style=“text-align:center;” |42.0% _3,519_   7.8% _656_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1988   style=“text-align:center;” |61.1% _4,553_   style=“text-align:center;” |38.6% _2,872_   0.3% _24_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1984   style=“text-align:center;” |61.9% _4,677_   style=“text-align:center;” |37.7% _2,846_   0.5% _34_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1980   style=“text-align:center;” |45.4% _3,343_   style=“text-align:center;” |52.8% _3,892_   1.8% _131_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1976   style=“text-align:center;” |38.8% _2,497_   style=“text-align:center;” |58.2% _3,747_   3.0% _192_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1972   style=“text-align:center;” |75.7% _3,966_   style=“text-align:center;” |22.0% _1,151_   2.3% _119_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1968   style=“text-align:center;” |13.2% _605_     style=“text-align:center;” |25.4% _1,162_   61.4% _2,810_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1964   style=“text-align:center;” |89.4% _2,390_   style=“text-align:center;” |10.6% _283_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1960   style=“text-align:center;” |13.6% _241_     style=“text-align:center;” |38.7% _686_     47.7% _845_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1956   style=“text-align:center;” |9.8% _171_      style=“text-align:center;” |80.9% _1,414_   9.4% _164_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1952   style=“text-align:center;” |19.7% _387_     style=“text-align:center;” |80.3% _1,575_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1948   style=“text-align:center;” |1.1% _16_       style=“text-align:center;” |14.1% _199_     84.8% _1,197_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1944   style=“text-align:center;” |2.0% _29_       style=“text-align:center;” |98.1% _1,455_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1940   style=“text-align:center;” |0.2% _3_        style=“text-align:center;” |99.8% _1,609_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1936   style=“text-align:center;” |0.6% _7_        style=“text-align:center;” |99.4% _1,088_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1932   style=“text-align:center;” |0.9% _9_        style=“text-align:center;” |99.0% _986_     0.1% _1_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1928   style=“text-align:center;” |3.2% _42_       style=“text-align:center;” |96.8% _1,274_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1924   style=“text-align:center;” |0.6% _6_        style=“text-align:center;” |98.8% _1,002_   0.6% _6_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1920   style=“text-align:center;” |11.7% _117_     style=“text-align:center;” |87.3% _876_     1.1% _11_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1916   style=“text-align:center;” |1.6% _18_       style=“text-align:center;” |97.7% _1,074_   0.6% _7_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1912   style=“text-align:center;” |3.3% _23_       style=“text-align:center;” |86.8% _612_     9.9% _70_

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Notable people

-   Actor James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, an unincorporated area of Tate County and lived here for five years. He was sent north to live with his maternal grandparents on their farm in Jackson, Michigan.

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title: Tate County, Mississippi

question: What does the article say about the structure of households in Tate County, Mississippi?

answer: As of the census of 2000, there were 25,370 people, 8,850 households, and 6,717 families residing in the county. The population density was 63 people per square mile. There were 9,354 housing units at an average density of 23 per square mile. 36.10% of the households had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.00% were married couples living together, 15.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.10% were non-families. 21.30% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.74 and the average family size was 3.18.

question: What does the article say about the history of Tate County?

answer: The county was organized in 1873 during the Reconstruction era from portions of DeSoto, Marshall, and Tunica counties. The county is named for Thomas Simpson Tate, one of the first prominent American settlers of the area. As it was developed for cotton culture in the antebellum years, planters in the county depended on the labor of enslaved African Americans. Blacks comprised a majority of the population for many decades. After Reconstruction, whites sometimes enforced their dominance through political intimidation or violence against blacks. In 1932, a deputy sheriff and son of Sheriff C.A. Williams was allegedly shot by a black man, Jesse Williams. Sheriff Williams illegally organized a posse and murdered at least five and possibly as many as seven black people. A month later Jesse Williams was caught, “tried” and lynched by hanging. No charges were ever considered against the sheriff or lynch mob.

question: What does the article say about the structure of households in the county?

answer: As of the census of 2000, there were 25,370 people, 8,850 households, and 6,717 families residing in the county. The population density was 63 people per square mile.  There were 9,354 housing units at an average density of 23 per square mile. 36.10% of the households had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.00% were married couples living together, 15.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.10% were non-families. 21.30% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.74 and the average family size was 3.18.

question: What does the article say about the culture?


text:
Backpacks full to the brim with our hopes and dreams, me and my younger sister embarked on a journey of a lifetime. One we had planned since we were little kids, to visit the floating mountins of Pandora.
  As we landed in Changsha, I was met with an intense feeling of isolation and an uncomfortable sense of being an outsider. China was a lot different to England.
  Milling around the local markets that evening, we were greeted by an unusual character, a man in his mid 50's, smoking a cigarette with one hand and eating a full rabbits head in the other. Welcome to China, I mused.
   The morning that we set off, I looked over and saw my sister's face, smiling back at me, I knew this was her dream trip and was so happy to be able to make it a reality for her.
  We began the walk along the river in the Zhangjiajie national park. Peaceful and tranquil in its picturesque glory, we strolled.
   When we reached the base of the mountain, the sedan carriers began their ritual harassment. We were unperturbed and began our ascent on foot. The trees became dense and the smells became intense. Thick, bushlike, jungle smells. The wheezing and whirring of the tree squealers amplified by the surroundings added a tropical backdrop for the senses.
  A monkey came out of nowhere, jumped right beside me and in one quick swoosh, stole my carrier bag. I was unable to stop it and she laughed, A childlike laugh I remembered from when she was young.
  Higher and higher we climbed, one, two, three hours. As we were above the treeline we stopped to take in the surroundings. My breath was taken away immediately. With the camera out I began saving these memories with panoramas and videos. When I found the ultimate spot for a picture I made sure to add my sister's presence and captured the most awe-inspiring shot, one, which to this day lives on my wall, enlarged for all time.
  Reaching the top unveiled the Avatar floating mountains. Tall, thin islands upon a vista as far as the eye could see. An orchestra of the elements, composed by time. We stood, side by side, brother and sister on top of the world, remembering all the happy times we spent together as kids. We were truly at peace in that moment.
  As soon as the plane touched down in England and I was back home, I set off from my house, alone. Walking here I always felt a connection with her, like we were back in the front garden playing on the swing. As I looked over my little sisters grave, I lay down the flowers I had prepared, along with a rock I had taken from the floating mountain. We made it, I said as I took out her picture and once again saw her smiling face. Pandora was as beautiful as you described but not as beautiful as you. Sleep well.

title: ［mf］Travelling Story

question: What is the twist of the story?

answer: We think the narrator is traveling with his younger sister, but in fact she is dead and he is traveling with her memory.

question: What does the narrator bring to his sister's grave?

answer: Flowers and the rock he had taken from the floating mountain.

question: What does the narrator carry to remind himself of his sister?

answer: A picture of her.

question: Where is the narrator from?

answer: England.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The story is about a man who travels to China to climb a mountain in memory of his younger sister, who has died. We think the sister is alive and traveling with him, but in fact he is just thinking of her, and this is revealed at the end of the story.


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Hello All Beloved Trader Friends,

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Well, let me introduce myself before I write total story of my broker (binary.com). I am Mario Sergey from Russia and engaged in trading field for last 11 years with plus minus track record but were not very much successful in trading. That’s why, I was in quest of lot venues of trading to grow my capital. Most of the time I conducted trading in FX market following lot of strategies, tools, techniques, systems and EA etc. but success rate is very poor that cannot live on. To build my dream growing my capital for better futures, I traded Binary options for last one year using many binary brokers but could not achieve success at all due to their dishonesty. However, three months ago I discovered a Binary Broker (Binary.com) based in Malta and UK and found their web based platform which looks very fantastic as their execution and payout seems much better than others. Considering this facts, I opened Real Account and deposited 6000 USD with a hope to trade binary options successfully. Just few days I could do trading gaining some profit almost 1200 USD then the nightmare started as they were squeezing me many ways by freezing platform and manipulating prices and expiry etc. I try to contact them by all means but in vain. No response I got from them but continued my trading. Day by day I was loosing money and finally I also discovered some of their proprietary assets which are called Random Index where money can be earned easily. So, I tried to do some trading in Random Index following many strategies which they have facilitated in their platform like Rise/Fall, Higher/Lower, Touch/No Touch, Ins/Out but everywhere I found their price manipulation not to make profit but lost lot of money within few days. I became aggressive more and more to recover losses and started to find any strategies can help me to recover total losses. So, I searched many things in the Google, Facebook and Youtube and I am very fortunate that I fell into another bluffer who were selling some kind of software Tick Picker as they assured it’s accuracy 90% but using the software I lost almost 75% of my capital and later I received some offer from the vendor of that software who said that they have some exclusive strategies that generate profit 25% - 30% per day if I do trading in Random Index dedicatedly. I could not afford their strategies since price were quite high. After depletion of total fund in my account, I fully engaged myself in researching this broker thoroughly. Almost a month and half I spent doing research, investigation and evaluation and found many things what I have outlined below for all readers of this forum so that from today nobody should commit to do trading in Binary Options.

Binary Options are nothing but kind of tricks alluring traders to earn money quickly giving lucrative payout feature. Nowadays Binary Options business are growing fast like mushroom and regulatory bodies and organization accord licenses to entrepreneurs who wish to establish their business though they are not familiar with myth of this business. Regulatory bodies and organization feel that it’s a business under regulatory framework which brings no harm but how dangerous this business bringing disaster in global economy and global financial arena. Binary options broker does not take loss but all the way they gain everything. I am explaining how they work. Similar to FX broker, Binary Options broker get price feed from Liquidity Provider or clearing organization from where they get Prime Service as Institutional to enjoy lowest spread for bulk business and large execution on monthly basis. Usually they get spread at 0.20 pips and feed the price in their platform which are normally 2-3 pips gap. If you compare their feed price with institutional spread or quotes from any reputed broker then you will find gap of 2-3 pips. While any trader place any order for options, immediately their system hedge the position compensating 1 pips what they get from Liquidity Provider or clearing organization. If trader win then they settle the payout from spread they keep until closing of orders. If trader loose any amount then that amount they utilize to cover their spread of 0.2 pips to pay to Liquidity Provider or clearing organization and the rest goes to their pocket. This is the real tricks behind this business. They do not pay any single dime from their pocket and they do not bear any losses which prove that they are gaining always profit 100%. Just they take advantage of spread to make payout to traders.

It’s noteworthy to mention that this kind of activities in global financial arena slowing down global economy especially FX market and also destroying market liquidity where major traders are not participating in the market. A class of people doing unscrupulous things and majority are suffering. Why FX trader do not realize this norm and they do not fight for spread even although in FX Trading they fight with FX broker for lowest spread. Once any trader enters into Binary Options trading field, they become blind not thinking anything because main attraction of Binary Options are Higher Payout within shortest time. There are no financial term of Binary Option in dictionary but it’s either Digital or Barrier Options with standard length of maturity where mispricing occur always. In Binary Options all are fixed which means it’s pure gambling only to deplete trader’s pocket. How many traders win in this field ? I think none. Whoever furnish any claim or rating, it’s the tricks of Binary Broker who comes to admire by using different names.

Nowadays anyone can do Binary business easily since Cyprus is safe heaven to establish the business where regulation are much liberal and there are technology provider (Spot Options, Leverate etc.) who set up business quickly including licenses as well as arrangement of Liquidity Providers. They have package deal and no previous experience required to start business and physical presence needed. Just Spend 200,000 USD paying to technology provider and within a week everything will be up and running because total business are web based and that’s why, office space are not necessary and can operate the business from any small apartment.

I have a question whether regulatory body or authority understand about this business as they issue license easily to destroy global economy. Do they understand really what’s the impact of mal-practice of such thing in global financial arena? Do you they really possess any knowledge of global economy ? They do not treat any compliant fairly if any victim approach them. I think it’s also core secret of regulatory body or authority just to issue license and sit down quietly not listening anything. Just let the world go astray.

Likely Binary.com also doing same thing manipulating everything not allowing anyone to make profit. Moreover, they have fantastic and lucrative asset class (Random Index) which I called as death trap where traders loose money very quickly because they strongly manipulate their index. To grow this business enormously, they employed some scam artist who upload some videos in Youtube proving to earn USD 100,000 within 15 minutes. Those scam artist are from Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia whose core business are Internet Marketing. Seeing those kind of videos, Binary Options Trader jump into the site and Scam Artist get paid for their job and besides they gain some residual from selling some strategies and software. This is real myth behind total scene of Binary.com

The CEO of Binary.com (Jean-Yves Sireau) is a French guy who declare himself as Fund Manager running a hedge fund but failure to manage his fund. But he founded this Binary.com business as money making machine where he makes trader looser and beggar. He piles up extreme cash in his pocket but destroying the industry gradually. If I see this bloody bastard face to face, I would **** on his face with biggest slap that he will not forget whole life. He is computer geek and a programmer who has designed his platform so that he can manipulate everything. Not only he manipulate platform but he uses some script to control computer of traders as well as internet connection to slow down any order to dispatch to their server. If anyone admire about them with positive feedback and rating, I need that person with a hard proof of everything showing bank statement that he received 20,000 USD profit in his bank account. Binary.com appointed many people around the world to give positive feedback and rating and they are well paid off for their duties. If you want to know about CEO of Binary.com, you can read something about him through following link :

http://www.financial-spread-betting.com/Bet-on-markets.html

Calling them for any response is horrendous. In case anybody receive call, then you will find the call connected to a cellphone of a guy in the street, fish market or in a coffee shop with loud environment. Total business are run as one man show as CEO is everything. He is telephone operator, accountant, compliance officer, clerk, dispatcher and everything. Only 4 people work in this company including his wife. He does not need lot of people because he is computer geek and he designed everything web based which are user-friendly for him to operate from anywhere. In his interview it’s mentioned he was awarded by former Prime Minister of France and I wonder why Prime Minster did not realize that day this guy will **** the world one day for such award. He is real gambler and great ****er destroying whole world. If he has courage to defend me, I am ready to fly to confront anytime.

To tell the truth, in my 11 years trading career I never achieved anything except one. To gain expertise and experience, I spent almost 20,000 USD attending many seminars, webinar, courses, purchasing many kind of systems, utilizing many FX advisory services, Signal services, Trade Recommendation and also world class Technical Analysis. All the way I lost money on and on. Within 11 years I just earn 1000 fresh pips attending a free webinar in 2014 sponsored by Merrill Lynch and Sucden of UK which was organized by HSBC of Hong Kong where 500 traders joined and attended. The webinar was conducted by CEO of a Global Investment Advisory firm located in Hong Kong where he shows a very simple system with some techniques and strategy how to predict market and win pips easily without missing of market movement. In my opinion the CEO of that firm are Best of The Best in Technical Analysis and Accurate Prediction of Market. In that weeklong webinar I had a chance to gain 1000 pips within 5 days. That was only success in my trading career. It was very nice webinar I have ever enjoyed and we requested the firm to provide some service for trader’s community. The CEO promised to launch a program and system to save the global traders community but it’s almost 2 years there are no news from them.

In a nutshell, I urge to all trader friends not to jump to Binary options trading especially not to invest their hard earned money in those Binary broker and no question to invest in Binary.com. Also wish that this message should be spread by everyone around the world to save astute traders and their hard earned capital.

I wish all the best always and prosperous trading.

question: Summarise the narrator's main problems with Binary.com

answer: The narrator believes Binary.com is a company that manipulates prices just to make its customers lose money. He states that Binary.com is a prime example of new companies that go to countries where financial regulations are lax, promising quick profit to their customers while making sure they lose money through price manipulations. The narrator has complained many times to Binary.com about their practices but has never received a satisfactory response.

question: What are the writer's motives behind posting this article on a public forum?

answer: He is hoping the publisher of the forum (Forex Peace Army) will warn its members to stay off Binary.com He is also hoping that his story can serve as a cautionary tale for anyone thinking about investing in binary options.


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JASPER NEWTON “JACK” SMITH (December 29, 1833 – August 16, 1918) was an American businessman from Georgia. Born in Walton County, he moved to Atlanta following the Civil War where he became a successful and eccentric businessman.

Early life and career

Jasper Newton Smith was born in Walton County, Georgia on December 29, 1833 to William Smith and Elizabeth Brady Smith.[1] Smith had nine brothers and two sisters. As a child, Jack developed a phobia of neckties due to an accidental near-strangulation, and as an adult he refused to wear the article of clothing. He attended the public county school as a child and worked at his family's farm. At the start of the Civil War, Jack joined the Tenth Georgia Cavalry, but resigned in December 1864 due to an illness.

Shortly after the Civil War, Smith moved to Atlanta. In the city, which had been largely destroyed during the Burning of Atlanta, he established a brickyard near the intersection of Peachtree Street and Fourteenth Street in modern-day midtown Atlanta. He had purchased the 14 acres for approximately $100 per acre, with the brickyard producing over ten million bricks before Smith sold the property for a profit. Following this venture, Smith began investing in real estate in downtown Atlanta. By the late 1800s, “Uncle Jack”, as he was commonly known in the city, was a successful businessman and prominent socialite. Among his properties was The Bachelor's Domain, a 44-room hotel where each room was called by one of the 44 states in the United States rather than by a room number. [Two of the inscribed slabs near Peachtree Center station|alt=|275x275px] In 1889, Smith built a large commercial building at the intersection of Peachtree Street and Forsyth Street. The building, called “The House That Jack Built”, was constructed of granite blocks that had proven unusable for street paving purposes and adorned with marble slabs that had different phrases and sayings, including many Biblical verses. When Smith leased the building and property in 1909, he stipulated that the inscribed slabs should be displayed prominently in any future building or structure built on the property. When MARTA built the Peachtree Center station on the property in 1982, they relocated two of the slabs to a fenced-off area near the subway station entrance, where they still lie.

Later life and death

[Statue of Smith atop his mausoleum in Oakland Cemetery|alt=|left] Although Smith was an eccentric and odd man (historian Franklin Garrett referred to him as “an unusual man”), he became well-respected later in his life for his business acumen. He was often referred to as “Atlanta's quaintest character.”[2]

Smith died on August 16, 1918 in Atlanta. Several years prior to his death, Smith had commissioned the construction of a mausoleum in Oakland Cemetery, with a life-sized statue of himself accompanying it. According to one story, the sculptor Oliver W. Edwards had originally carved the statue with Smith wearing a necktie. However, Smith, who refused to wear neckties, refused to pay until the tie was removed from the sculpture. Despite Smith's well-documented dislike of neckties, the veracity of this story has been questioned, including by the daughter of the sculptor. Another story claims that when Smith became aware of a vine that had climbed the statue and wrapped itself around the statue's neck, he went to the cemetery and personally removed the vine. As one of the first statues built on the original 6 acres of the cemetery, he is sometimes referred to as the “Mayor of Oakland”.

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title: Jasper Newton Smith

question: Summarize Smith's eccentricities.

answer: He refused to wear neckties due to a phobia. One story details Smith refusing to pay for a life-sized sculpture of himself until the sculptor's original design with a necktie had been changed. He also owned a hotel called The Bachelor's Domain, where each room was named for one of the 44 states in the United States rather than a room number.

question: What does the text say about Jasper Newton Smith's in-laws?

question: What does the text say about Jack's family growing up?

answer: Jack, along with nine brothers and two sisters, was born to William Smith and Elizabeth Brady Smith in Georgia. The family owned a farm on which he worked while attending school.

question: Summarize the legal battles Smith was involved in.