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KEVIN SHULMAN is a producer, writer, and director of music videos and feature films.

Biography

As a director and producer of music videos he has worked with such artists as Jason Derulo, Juicy J, The Game, Omarion, Billy Morrison and Academy Award winners, Three 6 Mafia.[1]

In 2016 Shulman directed the cable television movie _Her Dark Past_ for Lifetime Network.[2] He produced, directed and co-wrote the horror feature _I Am Fear_ which was released on Feb. 20, 2020. The film stars Kristina Klebe, Eoin Macken, Bill Moseley, Faran Tahir, and William Forsythe.[3][4]

Charlie Says controversy

In 2018 Kevin along with producing partner Jeremy Rosen,[5] produced Charlie Says. The Film reunited the American Psycho filmmaking duo of Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner in an unexplored view of the Charles Manson murders. The film focuses on the women in Manson's cult, facing life imprisonment and is based on the books The Family, by Ed Saunders and The Long Prison Journey Of Leslie Van Houten, by Karlene Faith. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, was nominated for Best Director and is scheduled for theatrical release in 2019 by IFC.[6][7][8]

In September 2018 Kevin Shulman filed suit in L.A. Superior Court against the other producers of Charlie Says. The suit says they illegally cut his percentage on the film and only gave him credit for a reduced role. Kevin was recovering from cancer at the time.[9][10][11][12]

Selected music videos

  Year   Artist                           Song                              Role
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  2007   _D.I._                           On the Western Front              Director
  2007   _Mims_                           Like This                         Producer
  2008   _Project Pat F. Three 6 Mafia_   Keep it Hood                      Director[13]
  2008   _Three 6 Mafia ft. Unk_          I'd Rather (Uncensored version)   Director
  2008   _Menudo_                         Perdido Sin Ti                    Director
  2008   _Yung Berg_                      Put it on me                      Director
  2008   _Yung Berg_                      Outerspace                        Director
  2008   _ICP F. Kottonmouth Kings_       Think for Yourself                Director
  2008   _The Game f. Keisha Cole_        Games Pain                        Producer
  2008   _Nipsey Hussle_                  Bullets                           Director
  2009   _Marques Houston_                Case of You                       Director
  2009   _Marques Houston_                How I do                          Director[14]
  2009   _Marques Houston_                Date                              Director
  2010   _Omarion_                        Speedin                           Director[15]
  2010   _Jason Derulo_                   Sky's the Limit                   Director[16]
  2010   ''Nipsey Hussle ''               Bullets                           Writer, Director
  2011   _Mann f. Jason Derulo_           Text                              Writer, Director[17]

Filmography

  Year   Film                            Role
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  2007   _Eyes of Samir (Short)_         Co-Writer, Producer, Director
  2015   _Paddy's in the Boot (Short)_   Director
  2016   _Her Dark Past_                 Director
  2019   _Charlie Says_                  Producer
  2019   _I Am Fear_                     Writer, Director, Producer

Awards

BOSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ''' |- | 2015 | _Paddy's in the Boot_ | Indie Soul Special Recognition Award |

INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER FESTIVAL OF WORLD CINEMA, LONDON ''' |- | 2015 | _Paddy's in the Boot_ | Best Director | |- | 2015 | _Paddy's in the Boot_ | Best Short Film |

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question: Summarize the highlights of Kevin Shulman's career.

answer: Kevin Shulman is a producer and director of music videos and films. He has worked with artists like Nipsey Hussle, Omarion, Jason Derulo, and Billy Morrison. He has directed films like I am Fear featuring Kristina Klebe, Bill Moseley, and William Forsythe. In 2018, he produced a film titled Charlie Says, which is an unexplored view of the Charles Manson murders.

question: What is the budget for the film, Charlie Says?


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I will love you if you tell me how to write better :)

  It certainly was a great accident. There I am, lying in a hospital bed and in coma. I thought this was going to be different, you know. I didn't think that when you're about to die, your sole leaves your body. But it's not like I'm transparent or something, the only difference I can see is that my brown hair looks a bit blacker, and my skin looks more white. So now I'm there, half dead in the bed, and here, standing besides the bed, looking at myself. My mother sister and father is also here. Clearly they cannot see me. They're crying. Maybe there is a way to come back to life? It has happened, people have waked up before.

  I walk over to the window. It doesn't look like the city I live in. I turn around, looking at myself. Maybe I could go around and see if there are other souls walking around. The hospital corridor is empty. Not a single patient or doctor. Nor is there anybody on the floor below. I can't spot another living, or dead, anywhere on the way down to the main floor. Except from my mother, my father and sister. But they're still with the half dead me.

  There, on a bench outside, is there an old man with grayish clothes and a long beard. I walk over to him.
"Why are there nobody here" I ask.
he old man looks at me and smiles. "Because you're the one that's dying," he answers, "But you're wondering why you can see yout family?"
I nod.
"Because they mean the world to you," he smiles again, "They are the most important you have in your whole life, so you'd like to see them, don't you?"
At that moment, I realize something. "Why are you here, then? I don't think I've ever seen you before."
This time, the old man doesn't answer. He stands up and starts walking. I follow him.
"Where are you going? What am I going to do?" I ask nervously, "Hello? Wait!"
He steps into a red bus, and sits down in the driver's seat. I stop in the doorway.
"If you wish to go on, to leave this life, you will travel with me on this bus," he tells me, "But if you'd rather go back to your life and your family, you must run, You must run as you've never run before".
Now I realy don't understand. "I have to run? Will you tell me where I have to run? I ask.
He start the engines, and I take a step backwards. I'm standing on the street now, looking into the bus.
"Run back to your family. But remember this; if you stop running, you won't get back!" At the same time as he is finished talking, he starts driving, slowly. I turn around to run.

  Running as just a soul is much more exhausting than running as a living body, with a proper body-soul-combination. I am already so very tired. But I cannot stop- I will not take the risk to stop. I keep on running, just like Alice did when she and the Queen ran. Even though I run as fast as I can without having to stop, it doesn't feel as I'm making such progress.

  When I finally reach the entrance to the hospital, I can see a doctor. And another one. And a person that could be a patient or just a visitor. I feel like I'm moving a bit faster. I reach the first flight of stairs. And soon enough, the second one. I slow down, exhausted. I tell myself that I cannot stop now, I've come so far! So I run more.
Third flight of staird is behind me, and the only thing I have left is a very long corridor. In contrary to when I walked out of here, the corridor is now full of people. Doctor, patients, and visitors. There is a name on the door at the end of the corridor. "Jim". That's my name. And it's the room where my body lies. I reach the door, and try to open it. Instead of opening, it stays shut. And I crash into it. I fall backwards on my back. My eyes are shut.

  This means I stopped. But I couldn't stop. What happens to me now? I almost start to panic. I sit up, leaning on my elbows. I'm not on the floor anymore. I'm in the hospital bed. My whole family is there. Through the door comes a man, the old man, but in a doctor's suit. He smiles.
"You made it, how are you feeling? Tired?" He fixes something on my head. I feel my forehead. I've got a bandage. But I'm absolutely and completely alive.

  You can have many reasons to run. But this, this would be my favourite one.
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title: My 'out-of-body experience'

question: What was the cause of the narrator's accident?

question: Summarize the conversation between Jim and the elderly man.

answer: Jim had an out-of-body experience from an accident. His spiritual body roamed the hospital corridors seeking a way to return to his body. He observed the hospital corridors were empty, with no doctors, nurses, or patients. Jim afterward met an elderly man outside the hospital who explained to him that his body was dying and because his family meant the world to him, he would like to see them again. Jim followed the elderly man towards a red bus, where he sat in the driver's seat. Before driving off, the elderly man told Jim he was welcome to join him in the bus ride if he wished to die. However, he instructed Jim to run back to his body if he wished to reunite with his family. Jim hurried back to the hospital after realizing that following the elderly man meant never seeing his family again. As he returned to the hospital ward where his body lay, he encountered the elderly man again, but this time, he was the doctor.


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_Kidney disease is a serious problem_

Kidney disease is a silent epidemic in the US. It kills three times as many people as all homicides put together. Kidney disease kills more people each year in the United States than car crashes, breast cancer, or suicide. More than 100,000 people are currently on the kidney donation waitlist, and there are tens of thousands more who could benefit from a donated kidney but haven’t even joined the waitlist (as it’s so long). Despite this, kidney disease gets very little media coverage compared to the above issues.

On top of the raw death counts, life with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is often short and awful. Dialysis is miserable and often steals your ability to lead a normal life. It’s a procedure that saps all your energy and takes 3–4 hours, and must be done 3–4 times per week, every week, or else you die (and it only replicates about 10% of normal kidney function). It’s hard to maintain a job, personal relationships, hobbies or a normal life while on dialysis. Survival rates on dialysis are grim. 20–25% of patients on dialysis die within a year, and only about 1/3 of patients will survive five years on dialysis.

Living donations produce extremely large benefits to recipients

The worst part is that for so many, these deaths are _completely preventable_. While there are some ESRD patients who are too old for surgery or too sick to help, the majority of ESRD patients can easily extend their lifespan with a donated kidney. Our best estimates show that tens of thousands of people die every year needlessly, when they could have been saved by a donated kidney.

Recipients who get kidneys from living donors tend to get more than 10 additional years on average from those kidneys, and that number has been increasing over time due to advances in medicine and treatment (living donations are also significantly better than kidneys from deceased donors, although both are good). These years aren’t empty years either — they’re relatively healthy years and they stand in stark contrast to the horror of dialysis. A typical living kidney donation will change a recipient’s life expectancy from “Less than five years, which will be miserable” to “Double digit years, potentially decades, most of which will be normal”. If you remove from consideration patients who died for reasons unrelated to graft failure, the half-life of a living donor kidney graft that survives past the first year post-surgery is _26.6 years_!

To add to the immediate benefit, living kidney donors who give a kidney to a stranger (what is sometimes called an undirected donation or an altruistic donation) can start kidney chains. Because kidneys require a biological match, recipients who need a kidney often have family members or friends willing to donate a kidney but who don’t match them and thus can’t give them a kidney. In a donation chain, an undirected donor can give a kidney to Recipient A — with the understanding that Recipient A’s family member of friend will then donate to someone else (Recipient B). Recipient B’s family member or friend then passes this along and donates to Recipient C, and so on. Anecdotally the average chain length seems to be about four or five, but there are some chains that reach dozens of donations and above. Donating altruistically doesn’t just add years to one recipient’s life — it can add years to many recipient’s lives.

Living donations are very safe for the donor

The benefits of living donation are clear. What about the costs to the donor?

Any major surgery involves risks and costs, and shouldn’t be taken lightly. But the risks from donating a kidney are relatively small, and the vast majority of donors have zero long term impact on their lives.

Kidney donation has zero direct cost, and a small but potentially significant indirect cost. Direct costs are zero, because kidney donation surgery is 100% covered by Medicare and/or the recipient’s insurance. Indirect costs include potential lost wages from time off work — the average donation surgery requires about 3 days in the hospital post-surgery, and 2–4 weeks off of work. You may also incur some travel cost or related indirect costs, although there are increasingly programs that cover these indirect costs for donors.

Kidney donation also includes some medical risk, although the risks are quite small. The risks can be categorized into immediate risks and long-term risks. For donors who do not have high blood pressure, there is a roughly 1 in 10,000 chance of death during operation (as a reference, this is lower than the rate of death during childbirth in the US). This is the primary immediate risk, alongside the ~3 day hospital stay. There is also some risk for secondary issues post surgery such as infection, fever, etc, but these risks are usually minor.

Long term, donors do see higher risk for kidney disease themselves. But this risk is small in absolute terms — donors move from about a 0.1-0.3% chance of End Stage Renal Disease to about a 1% chance of End Stage Renal Disease. The vast majority (~99%) of kidney donors do not develop ESRD. For women who donate and may become pregnant in the future, donation also increases the risk of Pre-eclampsia from5% to 11%.

In short: these risks are real, but are relatively rare and minor in comparison to the benefit that kidney donation provides.

question: What are some of the unfortunate facts about kidney disease mentioned in the article?

answer: Kidney disease kills three times as many people as all homicides put together. It kills more people in the US than car crashes, breast cancer, or suicide. Life with End Stage Renal Disease is short and awful. It's difficult to maintain a job, personal relationships, hobbies, or a normal life while on dialysis, and survival rates are grim. Many of these deaths are completely preventable.

question: What does the article say about future cures for kidney disease?


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_ROGUE TRADER: TWILIGHT CRUSADE_
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ROGUE TRADER: TWILIGHT CRUSADE is an Adventure book for the Rogue Trader Warhammer 40,000 role-playing game. It was developed by Fantasy Flight Games, a gaming company with license to produce Warhammer 40,000 and other Games Workshop products and was published in June 2014. The book contains rules for adventure in Modren's Realm as well as some background material.

Contents

-   1 Contents
-   2 Credits
    -   2.1 Games Workshop
-   3 Publication Details

Contents

-   Introduction
-   Chapter I: Into Endless Night
-   Chapter II: The Whirling Realm
-   Chapter III: A Dynasty Falls
-   NPC Appendix

Credits

-   Lead Developer

Max Brooke and Tim Flanders
-   Writing and Development

Blake Bennet, Tim Cox, and Anthony Hicks
-   Editing and Proofreading

Andrew Kenrick with David Johnson and Mark Latham
-   Managing RPG Producer

Chris Gerber
-   Graphic Design Manager

Brian Schomburg
-   Cover Art

David Griffith
-   Interior Art

Alberto Bontempi, Matt Bradbury, Adam Burn, Mauro Dal Bo, Zach Graves, Nicholas Gregory, Nikolaus Ingeneri, David Lecossu, Henning Ludvigsen, Jorge Maese, Jesse McGibney, Peter Mohrbacher, Ameen Naksewee, David Nash, Wayne Reynolds, Iver Saaremael, Oleg Shekhovtsov, Imaginary FS Pte Ltd, and the Games Workshop Design Studio
-   Managing Art Director

Andy Christensen
-   Production Management

Eric Knight
-   Licensing and Development Coordinators

Deb Freytag and Amanda Greenhart
-   Executive Game Designer

Corey Konieczka
-   Executive Producer

Michael Hurley
-   Publisher

Christian T. Petersen
-   Special Thanks

Playtest Coordinator Zach Tewalthomas; “Unrepentant” Lachan “Raith” Conley with Aaron Wong, Nicole Gillies, Rhys Fisher, and Jordan Dixon; “The Librarians” Pim Mauve, Gerlof Woudstra, Keesjan Kleef, Jan-Cees Voogd, and Joris Voogd; “Well Done My Lord, You Killed Them” Siobhan Robson with Brad Wallis and Luke Caspers

Games Workshop

-   Licensing Managers

John French and Graham Nicoll
-   Head of Licensing

Jon Gillard
-   Games Workshop’s Business and Legal Advisor

Andy Jones
-   Head of Intellectual Property

Alan Merrett

Publication Details

-   Product Code: PRT16

_RPG Series_
Dark Heresy
_Shattered Hope_ • _Edge of Darkness_ • _Core Rulebook_ • _Game Master's Kit_ • _Purge the Unclean_ • _Inquisitor's Handbook_ • _Disciples of the Dark Gods_ • _Creatures Anathema_ • _Radical's Handbook_ • _Salvation Demands Sacrifice_ • _Ascension_ • _Heed the Higher Call_ • _Blood of Martyrs_ • _Heresy Begets Retribution_ • _Daemon Hunter_ • _Book of Judgement_ • _Lathe Worlds_
_Haarlock's Legacy Trilogy_ _(Tattered Fates_ • _Damned Cities_ • _Dead Stars)_
_Apostasy Gambit Trilogy_ _(Black Sepulchre_ • _Church of the Damned_ • _Chaos Commandment)_
Path to Victory
_Hive of the Dead_ • _Herald of Oblivion_
Dark Heresy Second Edition
_Core Rulebook_ • _Game Master's Kit_ • _Enemies Within_ • _Forgotten Gods_ • _Enemies Without_ • _Enemies Beyond_
Rogue Trader
_Forsaken Bounty_ • _Dark Frontier_ • _Core Rulebook_ • _Game Master's Kit_ • _Secrets of the Expanse_ • _Epoch Koronus_ • _Drydock_ • _Lure of the Expanse_ • _Into the Storm_ • _Traitor's Nexus_ • _Edge of the Abyss_ • _Battlefleet Koronus_ • _Hostile Acquisitions_ • _Koronus Bestiary_ • _Soul Reaver_ • _Navis Primer_ • _Stars of Inequity_ • _Faith and Coin_ • _Shedding Light_ • _Twilight Crusade_ • _Tau Character Guide_
_Warpstorm Adventure Trilogy_ _(Frozen Reaches_ • _Citadel of Skulls_ • _Fallen Suns)_
Deathwatch
_Core Rulebook_ • _Game Master's Kit_ • _Know No Fear_ • _Emperor Protects_ • _Rites of Battle_ • _Mark of the Xenos_ • _Final Sanction_ • _Oblivion's Edge_ • _Nemesis Incident_ • _Achilus Assault_ • _First Founding_ • _Jericho Reach_ • _Rising Tempest_ • _Honour the Chapter_ • _The Outer Reach_ • _Ark of Lost Souls_ • _The Emperor's Chosen_ • _Falling Star_
Black Crusade
_Broken Chains_ • _Core Rulebook_ • _Game Master's Kit_ • _Hand of Corruption_ • _Tome of Fate_ • _Tome of Blood_ • _Tome of Excess_ • _Tome of Decay_ • _Binding Contracts_
Only War
_Eleventh Hour_ • _Core Rulebook_ • _Game Master's Kit_ • _Final Testament_ • _Hammer of the Emperor_ • _Enemies of the Imperium_ • _No Surrender_ • _Shield of Humanity_ • _Salvaging Solace_
Wrath & Glory
_Blessings Unheralded_ • _Core Rulebook_ • _Dark Tides_

question: What does the text say about Steam?

question: What does the text say about Rogue Trader: Twilight Crusade?

answer: Rogue Trader: Twilight Crusade is an adventure book for the Rogue Trader Warhammer 40,000 role-playing game. Released in June 2014, the 120-page book was developed by Flight Games, a gaming company with a license to produce Warhammer 40,000 and other Games Workshop products. The book contains rules for adventure in Modren's Realm as well as some background material. The chapters of the book include Chapter I: Into the Endless Night, Chapter II: The Whirling Realm, and Chapter III: A Dynasty Falls.


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CNN’s Van Jones said Friday that he sees “zero difference” between Fox News host Laura Ingraham slamming “demographic changes” in the U.S. and the beliefs of white supremacists.

“I see zero difference between what Laura Ingraham is saying on mainstream cable and what the Nazi was saying in front of his house,” Jones said. “Literally, it’s the same message.”

“Those same themes that were once considered so extreme are now becoming mainstream, at least in conservative media,” he later added.

Ingraham faced backlash this week when she lamented that the “America we know and love doesn’t exist anymore” because of demographic changes in the country, which she blamed on illegal and legal immigration.

Jones played the clip from Ingraham’s show alongside a clip of an avowed neo-Nazi railing against the possibility of the U.S. becoming a majority-minority country.

The man, wearing a swastika on his shirt and displaying a Nazi flag above his house, told a CNN reporter that we are “staring down the battle of the gun in white America.”

“This guy actually openly wears Swastikas on his shirt and he says America is his country because he’s white,” Jones said. “Now, to be fair, 12 of that guy’s neighbors came out immediately [and said] they don’t agree with this guy, he doesn’t represent them and their community.”

“And they deserve a round of applause,” Jones said.

Ingraham on Thursday disavowed white nationalists, including former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) leader David Duke, who praised her comments.

“A message to those who are distorting my views, including all white nationalists and especially one racist freak whose name I will not even mention: You do not have my support. You don’t represent my views and you are antithetical to the beliefs I hold dear,” Ingraham said.

She added that he commentary had nothing to do with race or ethnicity.

The Fox News host faced backlash for her comments including from other media personalities and Democrats such as Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.).

Jones’ CNN colleague, Chris Cuomo, issued a scathing message to Ingraham on Friday, suggesting the conservative host leave the country.

question: Who employs Laura Ingraham?

answer: Fox News employs Laura Ingraham?

question: Who is Laura Ingraham being compared to?

answer: Laura Ingraham is being compared to Nazis.

question: Does Ingraham claim to support white nationalists?

answer: No, Ingraham disavowed white nationalists, claiming those views are antithetical to hers.

question: Who is criticizing Ingraham?

answer: Van Jones is criticizing Ingraham.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Van Jones claims that Laura Ingraham's comments about immigration support white nationalism. Ingraham denies this, claiming that white nationalists do not represent her views.


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[A recreational vehicle]

A RECREATIONAL VEHICLE, often abbreviated as RV, is a motor vehicle or trailer which includes living quarters designed for accommodation.[1] Types of RVs include motorhomes, campervans, caravans (also known as travel trailers and camper trailers), fifth-wheel trailers, popup campers, and truck campers.

Features

thumb|upright=1.35|Map symbol used by the US NPS to indicate an RV campground Typical amenities of an RV include a kitchen, a bathroom, and one or more sleeping facilities. RVs can range from the utilitarian – containing only sleeping quarters and basic cooking facilities – to the luxurious, with features like air conditioning (AC), water heaters, televisions and satellite receivers, and quartz countertops, for example.

RVs can either be trailers (which are towed behind motor vehicles) or self-motorized. Most RVs are single-deck; however, double-deck RVs also exist. To allow a more compact size while in transit, larger RVs often have expandable sides (called slide-outs) or canopies.

History

An early type of caravan is the horse-drawn covered wagon, which from circa 1745 played a significant part in opening up of the interior of the North American continent to white settlement. By the 1920s the RV was well established in the United States, with RV camping clubs established across the country, despite the unpaved roads and limited camping facilities.[2] Several companies began manufacturing house trailers (called _trailer coaches_ at the time). Airstream is one such company. Until the 1950s, the RV industry was closely connected to the mobile home industry because most mobile homes were shorter than long, and thus easily transportable. During the 1950s, the RV and mobile home industries became separated and RV manufacturers began building self-contained motorhomes.

In Europe, wagons built for accommodation (rather than just transporting people or goods) were developed in France around 1810. They were used in Britain by showmen and circus performers from the 1820s. Romani people only began living in caravans (vardos) circa 1850.

In Canada, the earliest motorhomes were built on car or truck bodies from about 1910.

In Australia, the earliest known motorhome was built in 1929. This motorhome is recognized as being the first motorized caravan in Australia and is currently located in the Goolwa museum.

File:1933 car&trailer.jpg|1933 car and tourist observation trailer File:Hanomag-Henschel Orion.jpg|1970s Hanomag-Henschel Orion File:DodgeMotorhome.jpg%7C1970s Dodge Travco File:1973 GMC Motorhome.jpg|1973 GMC Motorhome

Recreational vehicle industry

In U.S., about 85 percent of recreational vehicles sold are manufactured in Indiana,[3] and roughly two-thirds of that production in the Elkhart County, which calls itself “the RV Capital of the World”, population 206,000. The industry has US$32.4 billion annual economic impact in Indiana, pays US$3.1 billion in taxes to the state and supports 126,140 jobs and US$7.8 billion in wages, according to the RV Industry Association.[4]

The recreational vehicle industry around Elkhart is part of a large network of related transport equipment companies, including utility trailer makers and specialty bus manufacturers, who source from the same supply chains.[5] The industry has taken hits from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum and other duties on RV parts made in China, from plumbing fixtures to electronic components to vinyl seat covers. Tariff-related price hikes have forced manufacturers to pass on some of the increased costs through higher RV prices, which in turn has contributed to slower sales.[6] Shipments of RVs to dealers have fallen 22% percent in the first five months of 2019, compared to the same period last year, after dropping 4% in 2018.[7]

Usage

[Class-C motorhome] [Class-A motorhomes]

Although the most common usage of RVs is as temporary accommodation when traveling, some people use an RV as their main residence. In the United States and Canada, travelling south each winter to a warmer climate is referred to as snowbirding. In Australia, the slang term for a retired person who travels in a recreational vehicle is a “grey nomad”.[8]

Some owners fit solar panels to the roof of their RV.[9]

Usage of RVs is common at rural festivals such as Burning Man.[10]

Moisture and condensation

Moisture is not an uncommon problem in RVs. The main sources of moisture are breathing from the users of the van, as well as water vapor from any indoor cooking or drying of clothes. Rain water entering the RV can also sometimes be a cause of moisture.

Too high humidity can result in a poor indoor climate. In addition, the moisture will usually condensate on the windows since these usually are the coldest surfaces inside the vehicle. The condensation then tend to drip down onto the window frame, and can drip further into the wall in case the window frame is not sufficiently waterproof, potentially causing a growth of mold.

Measures for bringing the moisture in an RV down are similar to those done for apartments, which are aeration and ventilation combined with heating. Doing cooking and drying of clothes outdoors may also help. A dehumidifier can be put into the RV in order to lower the humidity, but will not remove the underlying cause and as such can often be viewed as a temporary solution. It should be mentioned that extra thermal insulation seldom is a practical solution in RVs since there seldom is enough space to make the insulation thick enough to prevent condensation and associated mold growth.

Demographics

As of 2016, the average age of a person owning a recreational vehicle in the United States was 45, with a three-year decrease since 2015.[11]As per the Latest 2020 research reports[12], Currently more millennial are interested in buying the RV due to their increased frequent demand for camping and outdoor recreational activities, especially in the US.

See also

-   Alternative housing
-   Fulltiming
-   Housetrucker
-   List of recreational vehicle manufacturers
-   List of recreational vehicles
-   Recreational vehicle terms
-   Rest area
-   RV park
-   Tiny house movement
-   Vardo (Romani wagon)
-   Vandwelling

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question: Describe various features that can be found in various types of recreational vehicles?

answer: Typical amenities and features of an RV includes a kitchen, bathroom, and sleeping quarters. The luxurious types can have air conditioning, water heaters, satellite receivers, and televisions.

question: Summarize the history of use of RV in Europe and the United States of America?

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The use of RV was established in the U.S. around 1920s. It opened up RV camping clubs despite unpaved roads and limited facilities. Companies like Airstream started manufacturing RV trailers and by 1950s, the industry evolved from building trailers to building self-contained motor-homes.
In Europe, the use of wagons for accommodation took off in France in 1810. Britain copied that model in 1820s.

question: Why did the RV and mobile home industries separate in the United States?


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**I**

*Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.*

 I kept walking , my face dark with anger. "Have you heard?" I heard behind my back. "Those rednecks got themselves in trouble again." Those rednecks. Yup..Those were my brothers. Only people here who spoke with a southern accent, and therefore were proclaimed rednecks.

I marched through the hallways. Pushing those who did not step away. To the principals office. Of course they got into trouble today, of course they had to pick a fight *today*. Of course it had to be my brothers.

I swung open the door, and it bounced back on the wall. There they were. With their almost identical faces, only I knew the unevenness in their faces.

One of the boys grinned at me. Blood seeping through the fingers that held onto his crooked nose. "Nick!-..." I started. "Im fine!" He interrupted me. "Im fine.."

Both me and my brothers have straw blond hair, although mine is longer and I usually have it tied up, while theirs usually just stands up straight all messy. All three of us have rather fine sketched faces. Atleast, we used to have. My brothers faces got messed up in all the figths.

The principal looked at me. "Listen to me," He started. " This is the fourth time this week your brothers got in a fight!" I closed the door behind me. " You need to stop fighting, or I'll have to call child support!" "No!" I started. "Don't! I'll talk to them, I promise. Just...don't call child support again.." "Listen, you said that yesterday, and the day before and the day before that. I don't think you living with those..." I kept quiet. "Those what?" I asked, sharper than I intended. The principal shook his head. "Just stop them from fighting!" "I told you I would!" " This time you better make it true!" "Stop making it sound like I am their mother!" "That's why I am saying you shouldn't live with your current guardians!" "They're barely ever there!" "Exactly!" Both of us started raising our voices, while the brothers kept quiet and looked at both of us in turns. "Good lord!" I almost yelled at the principal. "get your nuts out of a twist and let us go!"

So he did, Nick and Owen following me out of the door. "Thank baby sis-..." "Shut it Owen! This is probably your fault!" "He called us redneck trash!" Nick defended his other half. "And you thought you would prove them wrong by kicking his teeth in?" "Well no but-.." "Well then why did you do it?!" I turned around and looked at the both of them. Nick's hand covered in blood from his nose, and Owen's eye swollen. "Guys! Im serious this time! I don't want to go through the whole child support thing again!" "Like we do!" Nick answered sharply. "THEN WHY DO YOU SEEM TO ACTUALLY TRY TO GET SUSPENDED!" " DON'T ACT LIKE YOURE MOM!"

That hurt.  Nick knew it did, but all he did was look away. "For god sake.." I muttered.

 I took a deep breath, and wanted to say something, but we heard  terrified screams next to us. We looked to the left and  what we saw even managed to baffle my brothers. There was a moment in which everybody seemed to stop. Then panic errupted. Most people just running away, and everybody was screaming.

All I could do was stand there and stare. Only dimly aware of the panic around me. Unlike most people told me, it wasn't like everything slowed down. It felt like everything sped up, and still all I could do was stare.

All I saw was a man grabbing hold of a girl, holding her down, and feasting on her arms. I swear could hear the girls breaking bones echo for hours in my head.

I remember Nick and Owen lunging forward, trying to get the man of the girls arm. I remember lots of blood and panic.

And still, all I could was, stand there. My thoughts brought back to zero, my body numb.
The man seemed completley unharmed by the punches my brothers kept throwing at him. Quickly they tried to lock him up somewhere.The girl was taken out, and probably rushed to a hospital.

I saw Owen walking towards me, and I realised I had just been staring at the whole scene. "Hey.." I heard somewhere far away. "hey! Sis, are you okay?" he asked and looked at me worriedly. I looked up. "Yeah....Yeah Im fine.." I heard myself say, before turning around and walking towards the nearest bathroom.

**II**

*From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is Eternity.*

*-Edvard munch-*

"Sit.” A harsh voice told me. I turned around, and faced a strong bald man. “My brothers are missing, I need to find them.” I replied. “Don’t care. You need to sit down.” The man said, and put one of his massive hands on my shoulder, pushing me down. “But-..” I stammered. “Sit. Now.” The man said, and forced me to sit down before walking away.

I looked around and tried to find them. It was dark outside. I had been here for hours. Sitting, listening to the sounds around me. Screaming children, crying parents and fearful whispering were the most common sounds. I wondered what every ones story was.

The refugee centre in Atlanta. Through large speakers they had explained us what was happening. They called it an epidemic. A virus. Carriers of that virus got sick, high fevers and rashes. Within ten days they would die, and then, within approximately twelve hours, the body would restart. The people who were suffering from this were   They said they were working on an antidote, a cure for this. But until then, they advised us to stay off the streets and remain in the refugee centre.

The body would restart?

title: Wrote this when I just finished with The Walking Dead. Please do give me some criticism, but please remember that English is not my first language :)

question: What does the text say about the three brothers?

answer: The narrator and his two brothers (twins) have trouble fitting in with the people in their school because of their southern accent (they get called redneck a lot). While the narrator takes it in stride, his brothers constantly get into fights. They are staying in a foster home where their guardians are rarely at home, and the principal of the school threatens them with calling child services after their latest fight. However, he lets the boys go after a bit of a shouting match. The narrator further argues with his brothers, but it ends with all sides unhappy just before they witness a zombie attacking a girl at school and eating her arm. The twins try to get the man off of her while the narrator is shocked still. Sometime later, the narrator is squatting somewhere, worried about his brothers because they are nowhere to be found.

question: What does the text say about vampires?


text: There once was a turkey. It got invited to a fancy party once. At this fancy party, this Turkey, named Ted, found something that changed his life forever. He found the buffet table. Or, more specifically, he found the shrimp on that table. This shrimp happened to be so good that it changed Ted's life forever. In Ted's mind, it was a positive change because it meant that he got to enjoy a food he really liked all the time. In his body however,  the change was bad. Mainly because he was a couch turkey. So of course, eating shrimp 24/7 with hardly any excercise, Ted slowly began gaining weight. This set off a series of events in Ted's life that would also change his life forever. The first of these events was directly correlated to his weight gain. Because of Ted's new weight, his gas mileage plummeted. Which means also that he had to buy more gas. Because of all the extra gas he was buying, the price of gas went up since resources were running out. Soon, Ted was practically bankrupt. Which meant that Ted could no longer afford to buy any more shrimp to eat. So Ted now had a rather large problem on his hands. He could either stop eating shrimp so that he could get more money and buy more gas, or he could keep eating whatever shrimp he could get and stay bankrupt and hardly ever eat shrimp. Both options were pretty gruesome to him. So he decided to get a second and third opinion. So he went and found two of his turkey friends. He asked them about his predicament, and together they brainstormed. Eventually, they came to a decision. They would teach Ted to swim so that instead of wasting gas, he could just use the energy from the shrimp to travel, and he would get skinnier in the bargain. But first, they had to find him a way to get money to buy the shrimp. So they brainstormed yet again. Soon, the brainstorm became a hurricane. This hurricane destroyed all the gas stations in the state, so their plan became even more necessary for Ted. But, during the eye of the storm, they finally came to a conclusion. They could teach Ted to swim and raise money in one stroke. They decided to hold a galactic undersea music festival and use the proceeds from that to start a fishing company that would catch the shrimp for Ted and also make him money to buy even more shrimp. But although the name of their fundraiser said galactic, they didn't expect any aliens to show up, since turkeys obviously don't believe in aliens. But as aliens always do, they noticed the advertisements for the Galactic Undersea Music Festival and decided to show up. They decided that they would finally announce their presence to the humans with the release of the new album "Aliens are Friends, not Martians". So they showed up to the fundraiser and caused quite a stir among humans and turkeys everywhere. By the time pretty much everyone had gotten the news about aliens, they had integrated themselves into the societies of Earth. This took about an hour, which is apparently how long it takes for people to accept the presence of aliens in their world. And of course, the fundraiser was wildly successful. So wildly successful in fact, that Ted was able to buy all the shrimp companies in the world. And the main indication of wild success of course was all the random wild animals that kept spontaneously appearing in Atlantis, the location of the fundraiser. So Ted decided to go thank the leader of the aliens. So he stepped into the tent that housed their leader. A few hours later, the alien leader emerged and presented the citizens of Earth a gift of thanks for their hospitality and acceptance. This gift was a turkey dinner. Henceforth, that day was officially known as Thanksgiving...

title: The True Thanksgiving

question: Who is Ted?

answer: Ted is a turkey who, after a series of unfortunate and unrelated events, becomes the iconic turkey dinner as well as the impetus for the holiday of Thanksgiving.

question: Summarize everything related to the hurricane.

answer: Ted and his friends brainstorm so hard that they form a hurricane. It destroys all the gas stations in the state. During the eye of the storm, Ted and his friends decide to hold a galactic undersea music festival and use the proceeds from that to start a fishing company that would catch the shrimp for Ted.

question: Summarize everything related to aliens.

answer: Aliens show up to the music festival that Ted and his friends put on. They reveal their existence to the humans, which causes quite a stir. The festival turns out to be a wild success, and Ted goes to thank the leader of the aliens. A few hours later, the alien leader cooks Ted and presents it to the humans as a symbol of thanks for their hospitality and acceptance.


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GIOVANNI BATTISTA SALUCCI (born 1 July 1769 in Florence; died 18 July 1845 in Florence) was an Italian architect.

Life and work

In 1783 Giovanni Salucci began studying architecture at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. He received his first commissions during study trips to Rome and the Veneto.

In 1797, during a stay in Bologna, he moved in political circles close to the ideas of the French Revolution. Salucci thereby aroused the mistrust of the government of the Habsburg Grand Duchy of Tuscany and was sentenced to death in absentia in 1798. Thereupon he joined the French Italian Army.

In 1801 he was employed as topographer for the Cisalpine Republic, a daughter republic under Napoleon in northern Italy, and in 1802 he worked on the fortifications of Alessandria, Mantua, and Verona.

Afterwards he took part in the French invasion of Russia. He survived and managed to escape to Danzig. After the Battle of Waterloo he fell into English captivity, from which he was released in 1816.

After his release, he initially worked for the Geneva banker Jean Gabriel Eynard, from whom he received a recommendation for King Wilhelm I of Württemberg. The latter appointed him court architect in 1818.

In Württemberg, the Royal Pavilion in Weil near Esslingen was initially built in collaboration with the Queen Catherine of Württemberg, who was a passionate lover of architecture. In 1819, after her death, he built her Württemberg Mausoleum. From 1823 to 1829 the Schloss Rosenstein was built according to the plans of Salucci. Other buildings designed by him are the Wilhelmspalais and the Alte Reithalle (royal riding hall), both in Stuttgart.

Since the planned costs for the Royal Pavilion in Weil were exceeded, he soon had to have everything approved by the Building and Garden Directorate. In 1828, after a dispute with a superior, he applied for his dismissal. Four days later, however, he asked to be reinstated. In 1839 dry rot was discovered in Rosenstein Castle, for which Salucci was made responsible; this led to his final dismissal.

In 1840 Salucci returned to Florence almost penniless. He died there in 1845 and was buried in the cloister of the St Mark’s, Florence.

Gallery

File:Esslingen am Neckar Weil Koeniglicher Pavillon.jpg|Royal pavilion in Esslingen-Weil File:S-wilhelmspalais.jpg|Wilhelmspalais at Charlottenplatz in Stuttgart File:Schloss Rosenstein südwestliche Hauptfassade.jpg|Castle Rosenstein in Stuttgart File:Grabkapelle Württemberg Eingang (2009).jpg|Württemberg Mausoleum in Stuttgart

Works in Public Collections

-   Salucci's estate, consisting of 142 drafts of buildings, is located in the Stuttgart University Library (Inv. No. Salu001-Salu142) and in the Digital Collections of the Stuttgart University Library.
-   Photographic collection “Giovanni Salucci's classicist buildings in Württemberg” by Rotraud Harling in the Map and Plan Collection of the Stuttgart University Library: Map and Plan Collection.

Literature

-   Georg Leisten: _Das zeitlos Schöne überlebt. Ausstellung: Die Stuttgarter Fotografin Rotraud Harling huldigt dem Werk des Architekten Giovanni Salucci._ In: _Stuttgarter Zeitung_ Nr. 289, 13. December 2013, page 29.
-   Giuseppe Ponsi: _Memorie della vita e delle opere di Giovanni Salucci Fiorentino / Erinnerungen, Leben und Werk des Giovanni Salucci Fiorentino._ Florence 1850.
-   Giuseppe Ponsi; Bruno Zoratto (editor): _Giovanni Salucci in den Beschreibungen eines Freundes / Giovanni Salucci nelle descrizioni di un amico._ Stuttgart 1998. Reprint of Ponsi 1850.

title: Giovanni Salucci

question: Why was Salucci often persecuted in his life?

answer: Salucci's ideals were close to those of the French Revolution, and he joined the French Italian army and worked as a topographer for the Cisalpine republic. These ideals would have been dangerous to both the Hapsburgs and the English, both of whom persecuted him. He was sentenced to death by the Hapsburgs and imprisoned by the English.

question: What were Salucci's twenty years as court architect of Wurttemberg like?

answer: Salucci was appointed court architect in 1818. He was able to design several great buildings for the court, such as the Royal Pavilion, which he collaborated with Queen Catharine to create. When she died he built the Wurttemberg Mausoleum for her. He also designed the Wilhelmspalais and the Alte Reithalle. In 1839 dry rot was discovered in Rosenstein Castle, for which Salucci was made responsible, and he was dismissed.


text:
I don’t see you a lot anymore.  Well, I see you, but you always have those sunglasses on that make you look like everyone else.  We only say a few words to each other now and then, all just friendly formalities.  You talk to everyone like that, like you’re some kind of cross-clique ambassador that has to be good with everyone.

You also always have your sleeves rolled up now.  It doesn’t look bad; it’s just something I noticed.

There are pictures of you all through the halls for student counsel, or future leaders today-whatever one of the thousand clubs you’re a part of.  It makes me so mad seeing your face up there because your smile isn’t your real smile.  Your real smile is slightly wider to where you can see the tooth you chipped in sixth grade at Nick’s.

And I’m the only one who can tell.

I can’t quite pinpoint what made us grow apart.  It was freshman year in the fall.  You started hanging out with the preppy kids.  Freshman year everyone grew a part.  Everyone left me.  I just didn’t think you’d be one of them.  I was the only one who didn’t change, and I was the one abandoned.

It’s not fair to anyone that you left…especially not me.

You used to ride your blue Huffy bike over to my house.  I’d be sitting in my room, and I’d see you pull up to my driveway.  I started seeing every bike rider as you.  It’s hard to tell, from so far away.  They pedal their bicycles the same as you.  When they get close enough I can see what color their bike is.  Not a lot of people ride blue bikes.  Not a lot of people are like you.

That’s why.

That’s why it hurts to see you try to blend in with everyone, try to be the one that everyone looks to as the cool guy.  The one they want to talk to.  The one who tip toes the borders of the school’s niches.  The one whom when they look at me give a passing smile and a “how’s it goin’?”

The nicer you try to be the more insincere you become.

I understand.  I really do.  If people found out that we were together it might make you a little less popular.  It might make for an explanation to your new friends.  But to me, that’s how you know you aren’t with the right people.  I can talk to David.  Brian doesn’t care.  Luke supports me.  Emma talks a lot but you don’t.  And I don’t think she cares about you.  And I don’t think she’d support you no matter what.

And if you abandoned her, I don’t think she’d hold onto it for so long.

But if she did, hold onto it for this long I mean, I don’t think you’d leave her.  You wouldn’t want to hurt her that much.  You would notice the small twitch in her eye every time you’d pass each other in the hall.

That’s the worst part.

Not that we don’t see each other anymore.  Not that we started on different paths.  It’s that you don’t see the pain in my face when I look at you, because I see the pain in yours.  I know what it looks like.  I memorized it.

But you didn’t.

title: [RF] Passing

question: Who is the narrator talking about?

question: What emotions does the narrator experience when she watches him?

answer: The narrator feels hurt when she watches him try to blend with the other crowd looking like the cool guy. She feels that he isn't with the right company because he has to pretend who he is around them. The part that hurts her the most is that he cannot see the pain on her face when she looks at him even though she can see the pain in his.

question: How does the narrator feel about the boy's pictures around the hall?

answer: Watching his pictures around the hall makes her mad. She knows that his smile in the picture isn't his real smile. She happens to be the only one who knows his real smile, the smile that is slightly wider to where his chipped tooth is visible.

question: Why did everyone abandon the narrator?

answer: In Freshman year everybody grew apart. People started changing and the narrator was the only one who did not change and hence was abandoned by everyone.


text:
He walked down the street, head held high. His plastic laser sword hung loosely on the belt around the end of his tan tunic, its artificial hilt hiding pure, imaginary death. He owned the world. His home made boots carried him in a confident stride. His broad steps, left then right then left again, ever forward, never lingering. He nodded at his comrades that passed by, sealing their knowledge of a world few could recount.
Black vests with blood striped trousers, long flowing robes of brown, giant, long haired creatures, and men as white as ghosts with faces of death. But here he knew no fear, here there was only love.
Many corpulent fellows had their slaves in bondage as they laughed, their green, almost slug like bodies undulated, while the few fierce warriors donned the armor of their ancestors. Their t-shaped visors, imbedded in their helmets, glistened an eerie black, as if it glimpsed into their souls, and found nothing.
As he strode past his fellow disciples, he looked down his nose at the the few dressed in blue, with impish ears and cold demeanors, and the ridge headed ones with armors of brown and black leather. But he need not quarrel here for he knew his superiority.
He saw partitions where the mightiest of the Heroes sat, reduced to mere mortals, whose only charge in life was to inscribe their own names on likenesses of themselves. As for the fallen Heroes, their cardboard visages stood as a stark reminder the few who dared to depart from the path of light.
So, dark and full of evil, he saw a man who was no longer a man, but an amalgam of fiberglass and malevolence. He knew deep down the true relationship between him and this wicked being. He knew of the prophecies and what they foretold, bt he also knew this was neither the time or the place for such actions.
The sounds and smells were almost overpowering. Everywhere he looked, there were beings from far off lands in the garbs of the bygone era. Suits and uniforms not worn for decades, brought into the light once again in all their splendor. Here he was at peace, for he knew, these were his people, his companions, his alliance.
He sat, with eyes closed, listening to the murmur of a thousand different tongues, each one different and interesting in its own right. as soon as he picked up on one conversation, he was immediately engrossed in another. Listening to the guttoral grunts od the ridge headed ones, he smiled and chuckled to himself. Their sheer audacity humored him so. To think, they thought they had the right and privilege to be in his presence. But someday they would learn. He turned his attention to the small ones in their brown cloaks and with their blackened faces and amber eyes, dealing in trade and salvage with the local merchants.
 	As the sun slowly set in the far off clouds, he knew his time here was coming to a close. He watched as the spice miners slowly left in their vessels. He witnessed his fellow masters leave, never to be seen by him again, and the Heroes, hurried off by their guards, went back to their palaces of wealth and despair. Even though he was over filled with joy, he could still not help felling a bit of despair and sadness, for he knew it would be a full solar cycle before he could return again. And with him would come even more masters and Heroes, eager and excited for a new journey.
As he walked out into the early dusk, he stopped to gaze upon an approaching vessel. It was a Ford. As the window rolled down, a man held his head out and screamed "NERD!" as he pelted the unsuspecting master with what appeared to be a Mountain Dew.
"Oh well," he though, sticky and drenched with something that definitely was not soda, "there's always next year."
And with that he walked towards the parking lot and his Pinto with the saran wrap windshield and the busted tail light.

title: Short Story I wrote in 08'

question: What is the central tension of the story?

answer: The main character appears to be in a fantasy or science fictional world, but they are in fact at a convention of their favorite characters, such as Comic Con. When they leave the convention, someone throws Mountain Dew at the main character and calls him a nerd.


text:
	I didn’t snap. It was much more gradual than that. It was like slipping off the edge of a cliff, fingers scraping the top, until in one moment that seemed like an echo of something that never existed I was falling. When I went to bed last night, I was still hanging on; when I woke up, I was crashing. I don’t know what came undone while I slept. It had been three weeks, two days, and thirteen hours, I’d guess, since I went over the edge—nothing special.  But that was the day I knew I’d never see the top of the cliff again.

	That morning I didn’t know it had happened. I felt the same, that sort of feeling that I was a rusty machine and when I walked I could feel every screw and bolt and joint twisting slowly, grating in place because the whole thing was wound up too tight. I was so used to it by then. I wasn’t even surprised when I could walk through the ghost.

	Her name was Dr. Aimee Joyce, and I have seen her every day for three months.

	Three weeks and two days ago, my alarm clock went off at 5:30 a.m. and I woke up to a glimmer of light slowly burning along the edges of the room like a fuse. I blinked, trying to bring it into focus, and I felt the bed shift.

	“Good morning.” A hand rolled me onto my back, and Aimee kissed me on the cheek.

 	I moaned something unintelligible. She chuckled, patted my shoulder and stood up, the springs squeaking. I heard the patter of her footsteps and squeezed my eyes shut, but the burning yellow light still seeped in.

	“Is there any chance we could come up with a gentler wakeup call?” I rolled out of bed, rubbing my eyes.

	“The alarm clock and a kiss have yet to be effective, so this is the only option left.”

	Lights turned on in the bathroom, and I fumbled through my drawers, squinting. A whisper of water signaled the shower starting.

	“And you’d be late if I didn’t get you up.”

	“That’s true.” I buttoned my shirt. “But it’s kinda . . . disorienting.”

	“That’s alright,” she called. “You’re sort of cute when you’re blinking and confused.”

	I rolled my eyes. Pulling my pants on, I shuffled into the kitchen, started the coffee, and opened the fridge. While I waited for the coffee, I took out some yogurt and poured a little granola in it and grabbed a plastic spoon to mix it up. Then I looked at my reflection in the fridge and fixed my hair a bit—close enough.

I’ve never been much for putting an effort into anything I don’t care about, like neat hair. Aimee tells me I’m a bit of a cowboy: I only follow my own rules. Aimee, on the other hand, sticks to the rules. Everything is as orderly at home as it is at the hospital. She has the light touch of a surgeon and a voice full of light to match. She makes mornings bearable.

I heard the whoosh of the blow-dryer. When the coffee was ready, I poured it into two to-go cups with two creams in hers and one sugar in mine. Just as I finished, Aimee walked out with her strawberry blonde hair twisted into a damp bun. I handed her the coffee and the parfait.

	“Thanks,” she murmured, taking a swig. “What are you going to eat?”

	I shrugged. “I’ll get a breakfast burrito on the way into work.”

	“You know that, as a doctor, I’m obliged to tell you that isn’t healthy, right?”

	I grinned, taking a sip. “I know.”

	She shook her head, a small smile creeping across her face. “I can’t always take care of you. You need to learn to live on your own.”

	While she was eating, I brushed my teeth and took my gun from the lockbox and holstered it.

	“You ready to go?” I walked in and grabbed the keys off the counter. She nodded and took her own. I was turning the front door knob when she her fingers curled over my shoulder.

	“Be careful, Dave.”

	“I will.”

	“I love you.”

	“Love you too.” And I kissed her, and we went out the door. That was the last time we spoke.

	Every morning after I saw her the way I used to: smiling and talking and kissing me good morning and goodbye, and when I walked out the door I realized I saw her in the dark because there was no one to open the blinds and I realized there was nothing except cold and hollow space. I was alone.

	I never hear her because the last time I saw her—really saw her, not just something my mind conjured up—there was a glass wall between us, and I guess my mind has always kept that there.

	Three weeks and two days ago, my partner, Ramsey, and I were filling out paperwork for a case we’d just wrapped up with the news running in the background when something caught my ear: Crown Hill Hospital, where Aimee worked. I dropped my pen.

	“Ramsey, turn up the volume.”

	He raised an eyebrow and obliged.

	“…on the fourth floor. Police estimate there are almost sixty hostages.”

	Aimee’s floor. I jumped up, and Ramsey jumped after me.

	“Dave, wait.” He grabbed my arm. I wrenched away. My vision tunneled as I stormed across the room. “We have to let local LEOs handle this.” I pounded down the stairs. “You know they get pissed when feds—.”

	“I DON’T GIVE A SHIT.” I whipped around, vision blurry, knuckles white, air buzzing.

	Ramsey looked at me calmly and held out his hand. “Give me your keys.”

	It took ten minutes. The whole ride, it felt like my bones were slowly turning to lead. We stopped in a parking lot full of cop cars and sirens. Red and blue lights flashed on dull concrete and a dripping gray sky. The glass walls of the hospital rose tall and turquoise from the ground. When I looked at the building, every room behind the glass was empty except one on the fourth floor packed with cowering people and three masked men with automatic weapons.

	“We should—,” Ramsey began. I turned my head sharply and turned off his voice.

	I ran toward the chief of police. He turned around as I came sprinting up, bushy eyebrows furrowed.

	“Is there a Dr. Aimee Joyce in there?” I panted.

	“Who are you?” His voice was rough like sandpaper.

	“FBI Agent David Bretton. Is there a Dr. Aimee Joyce in there?”

	Ramsey came up and put his hand on my shoulder.

	“And who are you?”

	“His partner. Can you tell us anything about the people up there?”

	“This isn’t your case.” The chief began to turn back around.

	I lunged. Ramsey caught me. “Tell me if she’s there!”

	He looked at me, scrutinized, narrowed eyes. Ramsey loosened his grip when I stopped struggling. He sighed. “She’s there.”

	Static. There was that weird buzzing all over like we were on TV and the satellite signal had been lost. I looked up at the glass and tried to make words but they wouldn’t come.

	“Dave?” Ramsey said. The corners of my eyes pixelated into black and white: static.

	I looked back at the chief. “Are you getting them out?” sounded like muffled thunder.

	“We’re trying to negotiate.”

	“Chief, they’re saying they’re going to prove they’re serious.” A person appeared next to us. “We need you over here now.”

	He walked away. I looked up. People were crouched down, barely distinguishable as they melded into a mass of fear and flesh. The men, all in black, stalked through them. I couldn’t find her.

	“Dave, can you hear me?”

	I couldn’t find her. I had to find her. Everyone had their faces buried behind their knees. I couldn’t find her.
Where was she? The green-blue tinted glass distorted everything. I couldn’t

	“We need to go.”

	find her. I just had to

	“You shouldn’t be”

	find her and

	“here. You can’t help. We need”

	get her out. If I could see her maybe I could help her, tell her

	“to go. Let’s get in the car. Come on, let’s”

	how to escape. She wasn’t there, she wasn’t there, I couldn’t

	“get in the car. Dave, can you”

	find her, I needed to find her, I needed her

	“hear me? are you listening? Dave, look”

	with me. I needed to hold her

	“at me. Look away from”

	hand and tell her everything was going to be okay because

	“the building. Look at me. You’ve got to look away.”

	right now it was going to hell and I just needed to find her. But I couldn’t.

	One of the men bent over, and every sound died. He slung the automatic behind him, grabbed someone and yanked them up by the hair: strawberry blonde. Aimee. Her hands were clawing at his on her neck as he pushed her toward the glass. She was fighting, but he was winning. Slowly, steadily, he pushed her closer to the glass walls that twisted the light around them. She kicked at the ground, scratched at his arms, but he never flinched. He threw her at the glass, and she bounced into it, elbows smashing against it, where I could see her face.

	She was crying. Her face was distorted, and the fight was shaking through her body. She turned and ran and he pulled a handgun and shot her straight through the head. Scarlet slung across the glass shattered like a spider web and I saw her body slam into the ground between the cracks.

	I don’t remember anything after that.

	Later, they told me there was nothing I could have done or could do. That it was random. That the men wanted to prove they would kill. That Aimee was the only one they killed. That I couldn’t have her body because it was part of an ongoing investigation. That they couldn’t tell me what the men wanted because it was part of an ongoing investigation. Because after they killed Aimee they got away.

	I didn’t snap. I walked through the ghost and realized that I would never be able to find her behind that glass, that it was always going to be cold and hollow. So I grabbed my bag, grabbed my gun, grabbed my keys, and I got on the highway, driving west until the dawn seemed to retreat before lost nights rumbling toward me. I drove to find the men who killed Aimee.

title: Extraordinary Measures

question: What does the story say about the ghost that haunts the narrator?

answer: The "ghost" is the memory of the narrator's dead wife, Aimee. She's a doctor with strawberry blonde hair. The narrator loses her the day when three people get into the hospital she works in, taking hostage about sixty people. The criminals want to prove they are serious and to do that they decide to kill someone visibly. They happen to pick out Aimee. The narrator is on the ground floor, having heard about the situation while at work. He ends up seeing Aimee shot in the head with her face pressed to a window glass on the fourth floor of the hospital.

question: What does the text say about how to negotiate a hostage situation?


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The KAOHSIUNG MUSIC CENTER (KMC; ) is a music hall in Yancheng District and Lingya District in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

History

In 2009, the Executive Yuan recognized the need to establish a music center in Kaohsiung. The Council for Cultural Affairs then commissioned Kaohsiung City Government to plan, design and construct the center.[1]

Architecture

The center was designed by Spanish architecture firm MADE IN.[2][3] The center consists of the Wave Tower, Coral Zone, Whale Bridge, Dolphin Walk and Live Warehouse which spans over an area of 11 hectares.[4]

[1] https://kpmc.com.tw/en/about/

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[3]  Monteserín|url=https://en.manuelmonteserin.com/kpop%7Caccess-date=2020-08-14%7Cwebsite=Manuel Monteserín|language=en}}

[4] https://www.archdaily.com/107583/kaohsiung-maritime-cultural-pop-music-center-competition-winner-made-in

title: Kaohsiung Music Center

question: Where is Kaohsiung Music Center located?

answer: Kaohsiung Music Center is located in Yancheng District and Lingya District in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

question: Who designed Kaohsiung Music Center?

answer: A Spanish architecture firm 'Made in' designed Kaohsiung Music Center.

question: What does designed Kaohsiung Music consist of?

answer: Kaohsiung Music Center consists of the Wave Tower, Coral Zone, Whale Bridge, Dolphin Walk, and Live Warehouse.

question: What is Executive Yuan?

answer: It is not explained. It is said the Executive Yuan established the center.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Kaohsiung Music Center is a music hall in Yancheng District and Lingya District in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.  It is constructed by Kaohsiung City Government and consists of the Wave Tower, Coral Zone, Whale Bridge, Dolphin Walk, and Live Warehouse.


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    No current 401k matching. A ton of internal software is available to your disposal so it’s bit overwhelming and takes some time to get used to. Once you do though, it’ll make your life 10x easier. Recently announced (~2-3 years ago)their focus on only software and moving to subscription, so there are going to be changes. Other large companies that were successful with this change took a couple years, so I’d assume the same here. Nutanix has done a good thus far. But be prepared. This is either a pro or con, depending on the person but there’s really only two players in this field and that’s Nutanix and vmware/dell. That being said the competition gets up there in intensity sometimes.

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    I have been working at Nutanix full-time for more than 5 years

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    Product is great, really ahead of competition. If you have actual experience with IT infra, you'll quickly realize that NTNX really does address a lot of pain points (it's not just marketing). It's great to believe in the mission of the company and know you're actually helping customers. NTNX is no longer a small startup so it's lost a bit of that small company/startup feel. However, there's plenty of opportunity to grow and move into different roles. Depending on what team you're on, promotions can be difficult to come by but overall comp is good and star performers are well rewarded (monetarily as well as with career development opportunities). Exec visibility and support is easy to get. There's a lot of freedom given to define your own OKR's and work on your own initiatives. Like anywhere else, your overall experience will be determined by your direct manager and your own initiative as well as the trust and reputation you build. Benefits are great. Corp IT systems and resources are great as well. There aren't a lot of hindrances to doing your job.

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    We're in a transition period with a number of key early employees leaving. It's unclear what the company will look like culture and leadership-wise over the next few years. Not quite as laser focused as before on the product front.

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    Licensing model can be confusing for customers. Always perceived as expensive.

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YANG YUANQING (, born 12 November 1964) is a Chinese business executive and philanthropist who is the current chairman and CEO of Lenovo.[1] According to Hurun Report's 2013 China Rich List, he had an estimated fortune of around US$620 million and was the 533rd richest person in China.[2]

Early life and education

Yang was born on 12 November 1964 to parents both educated as surgeons. He spent his childhood in Hefei in Anhui province. He grew up poor, as his parents were paid the same salaries as manual laborers. Yang's parents endured repeated persecution during the Cultural Revolution. Yang's father, Yang Furong, was a disciplined man with strict standards. Yang said of his father, “If he set a target, no matter what happened, he wanted to reach it.”[3]

While his parents wanted him to pursue a career in medicine, and he had a budding interest in literature, Yang decided to study computer science on the advice of a family friend who was a university professor. Yang earned an undergraduate degree in computer science from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1986 and graduated with a master's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1988.[4][5]

Lenovo

[Yang Yuanqing]

Yang spotted a newspaper advertisement for jobs at Lenovo while in Beijing performing research for his master's degree. Yang had initially planned on becoming a university professor but took a risk and accepted a position with Lenovo in sales. He was paid the equivalent of US$30 per month.[6]

In 1989, Yang joined Legend, as Lenovo was then known, at the age of 25. He was quickly promoted. Yang travelled to meet distributors throughout China and used his technical knowledge to achieve a strong sales record. Yang also stood out at Lenovo for being a quiet, deep thinker. These qualities caught the attention of Liu Chuanzhi, who later promoted Yang to head Lenovo's personal computer business at just 29 years old. Yang was elevated to CEO of the whole company when Liu retired in 2001. Liu described Yang as “A man who moves forward, takes risks and aims to innovate.” Liu also said, “I had been observing Yang a long time before I appointed him to take over the PC business. He had clear goals, was broad-minded and straightforward. We trusted him.”[7]

Yang's first major task at Lenovo was to write a bid to become an IBM reseller. After submitting his bid, Yang discovered that he had quoted twice the price of his competitors. Within a year of joining Lenovo in 1988, Yang had lost interest in sales and had taken the TOEFL in preparation to study overseas. Yang stayed on after repeated requests from Liu Chuanzhi.[8] Yang believed that he would benefit from exposure to American business practices but Liu persuaded him to delay his plans for two years. Problems at Legend due to lower import duties on personal computers did not allow for this though.

Yang decided on Lenovo implementing specific job descriptions with clear responsibilities and a system of performance evaluations used to determine annual bonuses. At the time, most Chinese enterprises distributed bonuses of equal size to all employees, there was little sense of responsibility, and workers passively waited for superiors to issue instructions. When Yang took over Lenovo's personal computer division, he strongly discouraged the use of formal titles and required staff to address each other by their given names. Yang even required managers to stand outside their offices each morning to greet their employees while carrying signs with their first names. Yang's division moved to a new building in 1997. He used the move to break Lenovo's cultural links to the past. He insisted on a more formal dress code and training all employees in telephone etiquette; Yang wanted his people to think and act like high-tech workers in developed markets.[9]

After addressing human resources issues, Yang moved on to distribution. Due to China's large territory, large population, varying degrees of economic development, and widely different local regulations, Lenovo was having difficulty operating nationwide. While Lenovo had been using direct sales and a network of distributors, Yang gave up on direct sales in favor of exclusively using independent agents to avoid the costs of administering a complex sales network. This action resulted in Lenovo cutting its sales staff from over 100 to just 18 in 1994. To gain confidence among distributors, Lenovo provided a wide range of products, offered reasonable prices, and closely supervised the marketing of its products to look out for the interests of distributors. In contrast to Lenovo, foreign firms often tried to squeeze distributors' margins. Yang ensured proper training of distributors and brought in Microsoft and Intel to help with these efforts. Yang also set up a system to monitor the sales, inventory, cash flow, compliance, and pricing of distributors. Many analysts cite Lenovo's distribution system and after sales service as the key to its expansion.[10]

Yang Yuanqing was chairman of Lenovo's board from 2004 to 2008. In February 2009, Yang gave up his position as chairman and again became CEO at Lenovo.[11]

In 2005, Yang Yuanqing undertook a deal with Microsoft to have Windows preloaded on most Lenovo computers sold in China. In exchange, Microsoft China offered a rebate on Windows and marketing assistance. Other manufacturers adopted this approach afterwards, partly due to Yang's substantial influence in China's technology industry. Microsoft tripled its sales of preloaded versions of Windows within a year as a result. The change was requested by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to combat what they referred to as a rise in the number of pirated versions of Windows. These versions were predominantly being installed on the hard drives of computers with no bundled operating system. Steve Ballmer said, “Yuanqing made a huge difference. He was willing to go out on a limb.”

Yang also proved to be effective at navigating American politics. In early 2006, the U.S. State Department was harshly criticized for purchasing 16,000 computers from Lenovo. Critics attempted to smear Lenovo as controlled by the Chinese government and a potential vehicle for espionage against the United States. Yang spoke out forcefully and publicly to defend Lenovo. He said, " We are not a government-controlled company." He pointed out that Lenovo pioneered China's transition to a market economy and that in the early 1990s had fought and beaten four state-owned enterprises that dominated the Chinese computer market. Those firms had the full backing of the state while Lenovo received no special treatment.[12] The State Department deal went through.

Yang worried that fears about Lenovo's supposed connections to the Chinese government would be an ongoing issue in the United States. Yang worked to ease worries by communicating directly with Congress. In June 2006, Yang arranged to be seated next to C. Richard D'Amato, a member of the congressional committee that had earlier raised concerns about the security of Lenovo's products. D'Amato later stated that he was impressed with Yang's candor. The issue soon faded away.

While Lenovo's official language is English, Yang initially did not understand the language well; he relocated his family to Morrisville to improve his language skills and soak up American culture. Yang also hired a private tutor and watched cable news to practice. Yang also sent many Lenovo executives to the US for long postings. One American Lenovo executive interviewed by The Economist praised Yang for his efforts to make Lenovo a friendly place for foreigners to work. As of 2013, Lenovo's top 14 executives come from seven countries. Lenovo has acquired companies all over the world. The company has dual headquarters in Beijing and Morrisville, the former home of IBM's personal computer business.

Yang has created a “performance culture” instead of the traditional Chinese work style of “waiting to see what the emperor wants.” [13] Yang holds an annual banquet at his home in Beijing for Lenovo's top executives. Traditionally, each guest at the banquet stands up and uses a toast to set goals for their business unit.[14] Yang has said that when Lenovo enters a new market they intend to be number one. Yang stated, “If you don’t have enough scale, if you don’t have enough volume, it’s hard to make money. If you don’t have enough market share, it’s hard to make money. That’s why we enter the markets one by one. When we enter a market, we want to quickly get double-digit market share.”

In 2012, Yang received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits, which he then redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo's employees. According to Lenovo spokesman, Jeffrey Shafer, Yang felt that it would be the right thing to, “redirect [the money] to the employees as a real tangible gesture for what they done.” The bonuses were mostly distributed among staff working in positions such as production and reception who received an average of 2,000 yuan or about US$314. This amount of money was almost equivalent to a month's pay for the typical Lenovo worker in China. Yang contributed another $3.25 million bonus to 10,000 Lenovo employees in 2013. Employees in 20 countries benefited from Yang's gift. 85% of recipients were in mainland China. As in 2013, these workers were typically hourly production staff.[15][16][17]

Shafer also said that Yang, who owns about eight percent of Lenovo's stock, “felt that he was rewarded well simply as the owner of the company.”According to Lenovo's annual report, Yang earned $14 million, including $5.2 million in bonuses, during the fiscal year that ended in March 2012. Yang greatly increased his ownership stake in Lenovo by acquiring 797 million shares in 2011. Before, he owned only 70 million shares. Yang said, “While the transaction is a personal financial matter, I want to be very clear that my decision to make this investment is based on my strong belief in the company's very bright future. Our culture is built on commitment and ownership – we do what we say, and we own what we do. My decision to increase my holdings represents my steadfast belief in these principles.”[18][19]

In April 2015, Yang required all members of Lenovo's media team to be active on at least one social media outlet. Yang is an active user of Twitter, LinkedIn, and Sina Weibo. Yang encourages his team to talk about their personal lives on social media. He said, "I cannot just promote a Lenovo product every day. I have to get people interested first and then find the opportunity to promote it once in awhile.”[20]

Yang is often referred to as “YY” by his colleagues at Lenovo.[21]

Awards and recognition

[Flickr - World Economic Forum - Yang Yuanqing - Annual Meeting of the New Champions Tianjin 2008] Yang was awarded the May Fourth Youth Medal, by the All-China Youth Federation in 1999. In 1999 and 2001, the magazine _BusinessWeek_ named him one of the “Stars of Asia.” In 2004, he was listed among “Asia's 25 Most Influential Business Leaders” by _Fortune Asia_. Yang was named “2007 Chinese Business Leader” by _Fortune China_. In 2008, _Forbes Asia_ named Yang “Businessman of the Year.” In 2011, _Finance Asia_ named Yang the “Best CEO in China.” [22]

In December 2012, Yang was named one of the “2012 CCTV China Economic Figures” in a televised award ceremony. Yang received the same award in 2004. During the ceremony Yang said, “I have a dream that Lenovo will become the pride of China in the IT industry. Lenovo is my life's struggle and career, I have invested all of my energy into it. I firmly believe that Lenovo, a product of China, will stand atop the world's stage. As you can now see, our dream is being realized step-by-step.” [23]

On 1 May 2014, Yang received the 2014 Edison Achievement Award in San Francisco at the annual Edison Awards Gala. Yang shared the award with Elon Musk of Tesla Motors and SpaceX. The Edison Awards honor innovation in science and technology and recognize individuals for their “broad contributions to technical innovation.”[24] Yang was the first person from Asia ever to receive the award. Past winners include Steve Jobs, Ted Turner, Doug Ivester, and Martha Stewart.[25][26] In 2015, Yang was listed on _Forbes_ billionaire list.[27]

Yang was selected to accompany the Chinese president Xi Jinping on a state visit to the United States in September 2015.[28]

Public service, philanthropy, and other activities

Yang serves on the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top governmental advisory body that includes more than 2,000 of China's elites from all sectors of society. In 2014, he pushed for legislation to protect privacy and personal data on the web and electronic devices. Yang said that while the internet has brought many advances it also brings new challenges such as protecting privacy and securing personal information. Yang said that legal loopholes and widespread corruption create major challenges to securing personal data. Yang made his proposal at the advisory body's annual meeting.[29]

Yang also serves on the board of China's national Youth League, as director of the China Entrepreneurs' Association, and as a member of the New York Stock Exchange's International Advisory Committee. Yang also teaches as a guest lecturer at China's University of Science and Technology.[30][31]

In March 2015, Yang joined the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, an international non-profit group founded in 2001, focused on preventing cancer and advancing research that promotes improved patient outcomes. The group is known for its “CEO Cancer Gold Standard,” a workplace wellness program that promotes risk reduction, early detection, and effective treatment. Yang publicly pledged to implement this standard at Lenovo.[32]

In October 2015, the University of North Carolina announced a donation of US$1 million from Yang Yuanqing to fund biomedical research. Yang's donation funds grants of $75,000 per scholar. The first recipients were Jonathan Berg, an associate professor of genetics and medicine; Maureen Su, an associate professor of pediatrics, microbiology and immunology; and Yisong Wan, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology.[33]

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title: Yang Yuanqing

question: Summarize Yang's early life.

answer: Yang was born on November 12 1964 in Anhui province to parents who were educated as surgeons. He grew up poor, and his parents were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. He studied computer science and earned an undergraduate  degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1986 and graduated with a master's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1988.

question: Summarize Yang's relationship with the University of North Carolina.

answer: In October 2015, Yang donated 1 million dollars to the University of North Carolina to fund biomedical research. Yang's donation funds grants of $75,000 per scholar.

question: What did Yang do with his bonus in 2012?

answer: In 2012, Yang received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits. He redistributed this amount to around 10,000 of Lenovo's employees. The bonuses were mostly given to staff working in positions such as production and reception who received an average of 2,000 yuan.