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OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 18: A vehicle with its passenger window shot out is towed away after California Highway Patrol officers investigate a fatal shooting on Interstate 80 westbound just before the Bay Bridge toll plaza in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, November 18, 2021. One person was pronounced dead on scene. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
By Rick Hurd | rhurd@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: November 19, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. | UPDATED: November 20, 2021 at 5:26 a.m.
A woman who died Thursday when she was shot while riding in the passenger seat of a car heading to the Bay Bridge was identified Friday by authorities.
The California Highway Patrol continued Friday to probe the death of 29-year-old Amani Morris of Union City. She died after bullets pierced the SUV that she rode in with a man and two juveniles.
The Alameda County Coroner's Office released Morris' identity Friday afternoon.
The driver and the two juveniles were not hit and were uninjured. Authorities have not said how old the two juveniles are or whether everyone in the car was related.
The shooting marked the second fatal one on a Bay Area freeway in less than two weeks. The funeral for 1-year-old Jasper Wu, of Fremont, was held Friday. Jasper was fatally shot as he sat in an infant car seat as his mother drove on Interstate 880 two weekends ago.
Morris was shot as the SUV went westbound Interstate 80, just east of the West Grand Avenue exit as it approached the Bay Bridge, according to a statement from the California Highway Patrol. The agency was notified around 9:12 a.m.
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The CHP has not identified any suspects or a suspect vehicle. They've not commented on the incident beyond the statement they released.
The incident caused a massive backup of traffic from the MacArthur Maze that backed up onto I-580 and state Highway 24. The CHP closed four lanes on westbound I-80 for a slightly more than two hours.
The shooting death is the fifth homicide on Oakland freeways investigated by the CHP this year. That is in addition to 122 homicides investigated by Oakland police.
The CHP continued to urge anyone who might have information to contact them. Their investigation tip-line is 707-917-4491.
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Black unity is a concept that one would believe would be very simple; a concept that relatively has no disadvantage for the members of the same race. But for some reason, we can't all lock arms and sing songs of joy as we embrace each other and celebrate the one thing that keeps us bonded: our black skin.
Why we as black people continue to divide ourselves is very unfortunate and I would even go as far as saying it is a tragedy. In this article I will make the case both sides in regard to why the division exists. But ultimately this article intends to bring an end to this debate, and hopefully bring unity to our black race. While there are many generalizations and although they might not particularly reflect your feelings or might not be your experience, these are in fact the feeling of some people and are the experience of many.
We have all heard the infamous slur "Akata" before. There is a debate as in what this word means, and whether it is derogatory or not. I'd like to put that argument to bed and let you know that it is, in fact, derogatory and extremely offensive. Never have I ever heard this word used in a casual fashion. It has always been volatile and filled with disgust when saying it. Never have I heard: "Wow those Akatas over there are working hard" or "Wow look at those well dressed Akatas". Instead the song goes more like this: "Those stupid Akatas over there" and "I would never be with an Akata person, ever". Or even the following.
Using divisive language such as the word Akata tears us apart and creates a wall where there should be a bridge. Please don't allow anyone to attempt to sweeten the meaning by applying historical context of the word to divert from the fact that the present tense use of this word is derogatory and mean-spirited.
These are just mere examples of the disconnect and the way that people of African descent try to distance themselves from African Americans. One might make the point that these are lighthearted jokes but every joke has a layer of truth to it. We also can't ignore the language used in these screenshots that contribute to the common theme of us vs them.
This divide predates the people who are posting, it is an issue that has been around for years, and the disconnect is not simply a one-sided one. There has been heckling and ridicule that has been dished out to people of various African countries including insults like "African Booty Scratcher" or foolish questions of socioeconomic conditions like: "Did you hunt lions".
There seems to be animosity on both sides of the Atlantic, but does it help anything? The short answers is absolutely not. We are not being helped by this nonsensical debate whatsoever. So long as we live in this country we are all bounded by the same issues that affect us as a black race. When Mike Brown was killed in Ferguson the police saw a black man and felt threatened. When Matthew Ajibade was killed by police the officer did not ask what tribe he is from. We all occupy the same skin tone, we are all bounded by the same racial ills of this country. We are all one people. Wizkid can listen to Tupac and rap, and Shantavia can listen to Afro Beats and Shoki. We should be sharing our different cultures under the umbrella of the African Diaspora, rather than furthering this silly divide.
There is no such divide in other races, and if there is one, it is not as polarizing and infuriating as this one. We owe it to ourselves and future generations to bridge this gap today.


It wasn't until this past winter season that I welcomed a beautiful pair of over the knee boots into my ever growing shoe collection. Contrary to popular belief, over the knee boots are actually incredibly easy to style. Though they are certainly something trendy and a statement piece, there are distinct ways to align all that they are to your personal style. The outfits below are a representation of how I style over the knee boots and how they fit into my own style.
This look I have called "70s Chic." With the button-down corduroy skirt, turtleneck, and tall boots it all feels very retro. The tip I would take from this outfit as a whole is to find inspiration from the past, while including modern colors that compliment the boots. When dealing with pairing over the knee boots with skirts and dresses, note that you will want to keep the gap between the two pieces minimal to medium size.
With the loose sweater and leggings, this outfit is very much my "Comfy & Casual" look. Over the knee boots are one of those items that you can absolutely dress up or down. You don't have to be kiddy cornered into dressing a certain way with these boots, as the variety of outfits I have for you clearly proves. So wear those leggings with them!
The not so "Colorful" look that this is was exactly what I was going for. A sure fire way to look stunning and chic with any pair of shoes is to color coordinate and continue one color all the way through. As you can see, every inch of this outfit is black, with exception of the scarf and hat. You can choose to break it up with color, but otherwise keeping the base monotone like so.
If a monotone outfit isn't for you, opt for something with "Contrasting" colors. This is a great way to pull off the smart look, while also bringing attention to those boots. When it comes to contrasting it's all about complimenting.
For this final look, I wanted to emphasize the suede material the boots are made of. To do so, I kept the pant's color complimenting and subtle, while the sweater was matching. On top of those fairly neutral pieces is faux fur; a completely different material adding 3-dimension to the outfit. As you can see, "Mixing Materials" can bring an entirely different feel to an outfit. It's like having two statement pieces that don't compete.
Bonus Look: Found in this past post.
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Singaporean poured a total of $6.77 billion into Vietnam over 10-month period
ChandraGarran04 3-11-2021, 10:52
Singaporean investors injected a total of US$6.77 billion into Vietnam during the opening 10 months of the year, thereby making it to top the list among a total of 97 countries and territories investing in the nation, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
More stories at Vietnam Insider's homepage.
The Republic of Korea ranked second with a total registered investment capital of US$4.15 billion, followed by Japan with approximately US$3.4 billion.
Foreign financiers invested a figure of US$23.74 billion in the nation throughout the reviewed period, an increase of 1.1% against the same period from last year.
Most notably, 1,375 new projects capitalised at US$13 billion were licensed during the period, while 776 existing projects were also permitted to raise their capital by US$7.09 billion.
Capital contribution and share purchases by foreign investors reached US$3.63 billion, while foreign investors disbursed US$15.15 billion during the reviewed period, a drop of 4.1% compared to last year's corresponding period.
Foreign investors also injected money into 18 industries, with the processing and manufacturing sector taking the lead with a total of US$12.74 billion, thereby accounting for 53.7% of the total registered investment capital.
The processing and manufacturing sector attracted the majority of projects, accounting for 33.1% of the total number of FDI projects in the nation.
Projects to be granted new investment certificates or allowed to increase capital include the US$3.1 billion Long An LNG Power Project, the US$2.15 billion LD Display Hai Phong, and the US$1.31 billion O Mon II Thermal Power Plant.
According to the Foreign Investment Agency stated that with the COVID-19 pandemic being gradually brought under control, the Government has promulgated a range of policies aimed at removing hurdles for businesses, which are anticipated to restore their production and business activities moving into the remaining months of the year.
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Bins and collections;. *Any photographs taken will be done so for purposes connected to the Council's waste collection service, including but not limited to. Rochdale Borough Council has announced that some bin collection days over Christmas and New Year will change. Therefore, residents with a collection due on: · All the information you need for Christmas and New Year in the borough of Rochdale.
Household Waste Centre's (Chichester Street, Rochdale and Spring Vale, Middleton) are open every day apart from Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Number One Riverside Rochdale Council's Refuse Planner, Frederick West, made the announcement on the council's Rochdale council refuse collection christmas page last week.
"Since the resounding success of our bi-weekly refuse collections we've decided to trial a new scheme in which we collect bi monthly, saving the council thousands of pounds. Find out the revised collection dates over Christmas and.
households will be allowed to put one extra bag of non-recyclable rubbish next to. Rochdale Council; For more information on bin collections, keeping Rossendale tidy and recycling information Bins, Rubbish, Garden Waste and Recycling | Rossendale Borough Council Skip to content Oldham Council Working. rubbish and recycling; Bins, rubbish and recycling. Bin collection days: Get a new bin, box or bag; Report a missed collection; What goes.
All the information you need for Christmas and New Year in the borough of Rochdale. times during Christmas. Also includes changes to your bin collections. Check your council's website to find out when your rubbish will be collected. Find out your rubbish collection day. Check your council's website to find out when your rubbish will be. We are a charity based in Greater Manchester that can remove your rubbish and you can support a local charity, no job too big or small and our prices are as cheap as they come.
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Postcode and lookup to display waste and recycling bin collection information. With Christmas shopping in full swing and Santa Claus wish lists on their way to Lapland, Rochdale Council unwrapped an unwelcome festive gift to boycott bin collections for almost a month.
A leaflet explaining the decision affecting Rochdale South was distributed last week – just one day in. The dates for your Christmas and New Year refuse and recycling collections have been published by Rochdale Council. Rochdale council refuse collection christmas. Rochdale's Council have declared their bi-monthly bin collections a "massive success" and a "victory for recycling" by Labour Mayor Johnny Pork.
Latest News and Press Releases. due to have refuse and recycling collections on Christmas Day will get a. by liking 'Rochdale Borough Council. Additional mixed recycling items should be presented for collection next to the green and blue recycling bin and should be presented in a container that makes it easy to view the contents, one that is suitable to hold such items safely and securely and one that is easy for the crews to empty.
All the information you need about bins, bin collections, recycling, waste and rubbish for Trafford Disposal, collection and recycling in Manchester What date do you have to take your Christmas tree down?
When will the council collect your Christmas tree in Manchester? Nov 21, 2013. Changes to bin collections over Christmas and New Year. The table below lists changes to our bin collection service. There are no bin collections on a Monday.
We do, however, collect bins as per normal at Easter and Good Friday. Christmas bin collections - all the collection days across Greater Manchester. Find out the revised collection dates over Christmas and New Year in Manchester, Salford, Trafford, Oldham, Rochdale. Rochdale council: Provides Christmas tree recycling points which are open from.
They also will collect your tree if you leave it next to your food and garden bin. Your waste and recycling collection days are now available in Your Account.
Sign in to Your Account. Register for Your Account. See your collection schedule without registering. "I think the minimum the residents of Rochdale expect is for the council to pick up their rubbish, " he added. "So they struggle to understand how during such an intense waste generation period that is Christmas, why there was no household waste collection for four weeks.
" Rochdale Borough Council is wishing residents a very green Christmas and environmentally friendly New Year with a festive recycling message. Bin collection dates for the festive period Press. Rochdale Borough Council has announced that some bin collection days over Christmas and New Year will change. Therefore, residents with a collection due on: · Rochdale Borough Council.
Search this site. waste for collection in a suitable container by the side of your recycling bin on your bin collection day. All the information you need for Christmas and New Year in the borough of Rochdale. The household recycling centres (rubbish tips) are open every day of the year except for Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Details of your waste and recycling sites. You must put your bin out no later than 7am on your collection day. rochdale council tip opening time and address The KGB Agent answer: There are two Recycling Centres in Rochdale, where you can take many household items for recycling. Aug 27, 2015. Bins in Rochdale are to be collected once every three weeks - but. in the borough was given the seal of approval by the council's cabinet.
Rather than overfilling bins with the debris of Christmas, Rochdale Borough Council is urging residents to take the environmentally friendly option by.
Find bin collection days within Oldham Council by postcode Dec 28, 2017. Find out the revised collection dates over Christmas and New Year in Manchester. Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside, Stockport, Bury, Bolton and Wigan. Bury council has not published a full list of revised bin collection dates. In Greater Manchester, we can all recycle all of the same things, the only difference are the bin colours!
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"Footwork"—the very word indicates a movement of the feet that is "work" (as in an effort to achieve). Its joyous social party nature sits within a lineage of African American history that includes the infamous Soul Train dance tunnel and Hip Hop dance circles. However, as Footwork continues to become more popular, we should not forget that at its essence it is a highly evolved battle form. This is the central theme one feels listening to the stunning "Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints," the second album from RP Boo, the man credited with inventing the Footwork genre with a 1997 track "Baby Come On" (recently re-released on the Planet Mu EP "Classics Vol. 1").
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Riley Reid is an actress in adult films who has won numerous awards. Her credits include numerous X-rated features and she has won over 45 awards. Her most recent wins include the XBIZ Award for Female Performer of the Year in 2014, and the AVN Award for Best Pornstar of the Year in 2016. In 2021, she will be inducted into XRCO's Hall of Fame.
Riley Reid, an adult film actor and award-winning actress, has been in the industry for almost two decades. She is originally from Miami Beach, Florida, but has lived in many other places, including Tampa, Carol City, and Fort Lauderdale. She attended Florida International University, where she majored in psychology. She initially wanted to be a teacher but decided to follow her passion for adult movies.
Riley Reid rose to the top in the adult film industry and won several awards for her work. In 2014, she won the XBIZ Award for Female Performer of the Year, as well as the AVN Award for "Female Performer of the Year." She was also nominated in 2016 for the AVN Award as "Best Social Media Star". Riley was also nominated for the AVN Award as Best New Starlet. She has received several other awards.
Riley Reid has a diverse background as an actress, singer, dancer, and model. She was born in Miami Beach, Florida and has a large family with Dominican, Puerto Rican and Irish heritage. Since 2011, Reid has performed in explicit hardcore movies. She has worked with companies like Evil Angel, Mile High and Smash Pictures.
This teen actress is known for her roles in adult films. Her performances have won her numerous awards. In 2016, she was named Best Female Performer in a Three-Way Sex Scene and Female Performer of the Year. She also won numerous XBIZ Awards and was named Best New Starlet.
Riley Reid is married to Pavel Petkun, an athlete and Lativian free runner. They were engaged in July 2021 and were married in July 2021. Reid is an Instagram star with more than 44,000 followers. She also has a highly-profitable OnlyFans account. She has an estimated net worth of $12 million. They plan to have a daughter together.
The couple met in the early 2000s, and they dated for several years before tying the knot. Reid was pregnant during this period and shared the news on THE SH*TSHOW. She recorded an interview for the podcast and posted a clip of it on YouTube. The video received more than 10,000 views in just four months.
She has tattoos all over her body
Riley Reid is a popular young actor. She has tattoos all over her body. Her body is adorned with Yin Yang symbols, which symbolize dualism and peace. However, it is unclear if these tattoos are permanent. She has green eyes and blonde hair.
Despite this, Riley Reid has not halted her pornography career. She still appears in pornography and has a huge fan base on social media. She has over 1.6 million Twitter followers and nearly 2.2 million Instagram subscribers. Riley Reid is a solid businessman.
Riley Reid isn't the only porn star with body art. AVN's September cover story on body art features the eclectic collection of female performers. The porn star has a tattoo on her back that is written in Chinese. Many people wonder what that means. Although most tattoos are just sweet expressions or other sayings this tattoo is a complete sentence.
She fears cyberbullying will cause her children to be bullied
Riley Reid, a mother of three, fears that cyberbullying will cause her children to be victims of bullying. Cyberbullying can have long-lasting effects and can cause victims to feel low self-esteem, poor academic performance, and disrupt their social interactions. It is also associated with increased risk of mental health disorders for victims.
Research has shown that bullying is correlated with depression and teenage suicide. Yale University's study found that bullying affected children were more likely than those who did not. Furthermore, one study found that nearly 30 percent of students were bullies. Around 160,000 children are said to stay home from school each day because they fear being bullied.
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Foods That Support Digestion and Help You Feel Great!
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It's not just what we eat but how our body digests that food that leaves a lasting impression on our health and well-being. If you're like most people, especially with the holiday season fast approaching, you've probably been under more stress than usual and have likely struggled to balance your diet and manage your stress levels. However, much care you take in planning your meals, it can be challenging to find the time or motivation to cook wholesome meals every day. As a result many of us find ourselves reaching out for takeaways, eating at cafes, or ordering delivery more often than we would like. This constant exposure to rich and processed foods is bound to have an adverse effect on our bodies over time. Fortunately, there are some easy ways to help support digestion and feel great in the process…
Add a Little Bit of Fiber to Your Diet
Fiber is a type of carbohydrate found naturally in a variety of foods including fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains. When consumed, it helps to promote healthy digestion due to its ability to absorb water and form a gel-like substance that stimulates peristaltic action in the digestive tract, pushing food and waste through the system more quickly and efficiently. While some of us may be getting enough fiber in our diets, many of us are not. The recommended daily intake is 38 grams for men and 25 grams for women, yet the average intake globally is only around 15 grams. A low-fiber diet can lead to constipation and an increased risk of developing hemorrhoids. In addition to making you feel sluggish, these symptoms can also be a sign that your body isn't digesting food properly. Boosting your fiber intake can help to naturally relieve constipation and promote regularity, and can also help to stabilize blood sugar levels and maintain healthy cholesterol levels.
Go for Dark Leafy Greens
Dark leafy greens, like kale and spinach, are packed with vitamins and minerals, plus they're also a great source of fiber. In fact, one serving of greens (around two cups) can contain as much as 10 grams of fiber, which makes them a perfect food for promoting healthy digestion. Greens are also rich in magnesium, a mineral responsible for releasing and secreting enzymes in the digestive system that help break down food, especially proteins. If you're not eating your greens already, there's no better time to start than right now. Not only can the fiber found in greens support the efficient breakdown and absorption of nutrients in your body, they are also rich in antioxidants and can help to protect your digestive system against damage caused by free radicals and environmental toxins. Taking nutrient dense supplements like Quercetin is also highly effective.
Boost Your Gut with Probiotics
Probiotics are found naturally in fermented foods like miso, kimchi, tempeh, and yogurt. They are also easily added to smoothies and salads, and can come in supplement form. The friendly bacteria found in these probiotic foods and … Read More...
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Do vitamin D supplements reduce cancer, cardiovascular risk?
January 18, 2022 Dania
A new study searches for links between vitamin D supplements, cancer, and heart disease. Raymond Forbes LLC/Stocksy
Initial research has suggested that vitamin D may reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and cancer.
However, there have been few large, higher-quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to corroborate this.
A recent RCT examined the effects of vitamin D supplementation in Finland.
It found no association between vitamin D supplementation and reduced risk of cardiovascular disease or cancer.
Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium, which improves bone strength. Among other roles, it also contributes to the functioning of muscles, nerves, and the immune system.
Many scientists have set out to understand how vitamin D deficiency and supplementation may influence disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is some evidence that vitamin D may help protect against respiratory tract infections, for example.
Over the past 2 years, researchers have also explored whether vitamin D reduces the risks associated with COVID-19. Although investigations are ongoing, there seems to be some evidence that these supplements might improve intensive care unit admission rates.
Two other areas of particular interest are vitamin D's potential effects on cardiovascular disease and cancer risk. However, few RCTs have looked into this. These types of studies are the gold standard for identifying causal relationships in scientific research.
A recent study, which appears in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, goes some way toward addressing this knowledge gap.
Speaking with Medical News Today, Vimal Karani, a professor of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics at the University of Reading, in the United Kingdom, confirmed that there has been a gap between the initial research and findings from clinical trials.
Prof. Karani was not involved in the recent study but has worked with some of its authors.
He explained that past large epidemiological studies "have established a link between vitamin D deficiency and the risk of [cardiovascular disease] traits in various ethnic groups." This, he said, suggests that vitamin D supplements might lower cardiovascular risk.
"However," he continued, "clinical trials have not provided convincing evidence of the blood pressure-lowering effect of vitamin D supplementation."
Prof. Karani said that there could be a wide range of reasons for this, including "differences in the sample size, duration of supplementation, dose of the supplementation, age of the participants, geographical location, sun exposure, and the outcome measures. Further research is required to replicate the findings in multiple ethnic groups."
To provide further evidence of the relationship between vitamin D, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, the researchers behind the present study conducted the Finnish Vitamin D Trial.
This took place between 2012 and 2018, and it was double-blind, randomized, and placebo-controlled.
"When we started to plan the trial, there was a lot of evidence from observational studies that vitamin D deficiency would be associated with nearly all major chronic diseases, such as [cardiovascular disease], cancer, type 2 diabetes, and also mortality," said Dr. Jyrki Virtanen in an interview with Medical
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A new study reveals the importance of vitamin D on heart health
Vitamin D status may help assess cardiovascular risk. Cyndi Monaghan/Getty Images
Vitamin D, also known as the "sunshine" vitamin, is a fat-soluble vitamin that exists in two main forms: D-2 and D-3.
As an essential micronutrient and one that is primarily derived from sunlight, vitamin D is important for the development of bones and teeth and the regular functioning of the immune system.
Beyond these functions, previous studies suggest an association between low vitamin D levels and a higher likelihood of developing cardiovascular disease.
In a new study, researchers have established that it is worthwhile to check vitamin D levels when assessing a person's cardiovascular risk.
Worldwide, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are one of the leading causes of death. Every year, an estimated 17.9 million people around the world die as a result of complications from heart diseases. For context, this means that CVDs are responsible for 32% of all deaths globally.
Prior studies show that various factors — such as several health conditions, age, family history, diet, and lifestyle — combine to influence the risk of developing CVD.
Using a novel analytical approach, researchers in Australia have discovered an additional factor that may increase a person's likelihood of CVD.
Lead author Prof. Elina Hyppönen, director of the Australian Centre for Precision Health at the University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute, outlined the results of the study for Medical News Today,
"We found evidence that vitamin D deficiency can increase blood pressure and the risk of CVD."
"However," she added, "increasing vitamin D concentrations will only be helpful for those participants who 'need it,' and further benefits from elevating concentrations beyond the nutritional requirement are going to be modest, if they exist."
The results from the study appear in the European Heart Journal.
In the recent study, the researchers set out to investigate whether there is a relationship between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D, or 25(OH)D, and the risk of developing CVD.
Serum 25(OH)D levels are an established marker for vitamin D status.
To test their hypothesis, the researchers employed a specific analytical method to analyze data from UK Biobank — a large prospective cohort study of the United Kingdom's population aged 37–73 years.
The participants were recruited from 22 assessment centers across the U.K. between March 13, 2006, and October 1, 2009. They filled out questionnaires providing broad information on health and lifestyle at baseline and provided blood samples for biomarker and genetic assays.
For the study, the research team limited data analyses to unrelated individuals who were identified as white British based on self-report and genetic profiling. Additionally, the team excluded participants with mismatched information between self-reported and genetic sex.
After filtering, the research team conducted genetic assays among individuals with complete information on 25(OH)D concentrations. As a safety measure, they also collected variables — including age, sex, and time of sample collection — that could affect serum 25(OH)D measurements.
The scientists collected this information from up to 295,788 participants.
The researchers compared the
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A: It uses the PATH environment variable. See  : http://www.linfo.org/path_env_var.html

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A: From the Bash manual, "Command search and execution":

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*If the name is neither a shell function nor a builtin, and contains no slashes, Bash searches each element of $PATH for a directory containing an executable file by that name. Bash uses a hash table to remember the full pathnames of executable files to avoid multiple PATH searches (see the description of hash in Bourne Shell Builtins). A full search of the directories in $PATH is performed only if the command is not found in the hash table. If the search is unsuccessful, the shell searches for a defined shell function named command_not_found_handle. If that function exists, it is invoked with the original command and the original command's arguments as its arguments, and the function's exit status becomes the exit status of the shell. If that function is not defined, the shell prints an error message and returns an exit status of 127.

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What can a novel do that film and TV cannot?
I have enjoyed writing prose for years and have a few short stories penned. I would like to build up to a novel but believe I have identified a potential weakness in my storytelling.
My style is grounded in visual language, and always has been. I grew up with a lot of film and TV, and have a good knowledge of filmography being a bit of a film nerd when I was younger. As such, even reading from a young age, I always imagined the scenes taking place on film and pictured how I would film them, angles, framing, reaction shots etc. I've always read like this. Because of this, I tend to write in a style that accommodates the way I read and the pacing of cinema almost like a screenplay in prose.
I'm worried that I may be cornering myself and limiting myself to the full power of prose, but I am mostly self taught and outside of High School English have not studied writing in any way.
So my question, what are some of the forms and styles I can use in my writing that are not possible to do with film and TV?
How can I ensure I'm not limiting my potential by writing almost exclusively 'for TV'?
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This isn't a duplicate, but a question of mine is related to yours. writing.stackexchange.com/questions/42405/…
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When George RR Martin embarked on writing "A Song of Ice and Fire"/"Game of Thrones" he thought he'd be writing what TV and movies can not do. Well, now we can only argue if TV can do that well.
– Alexander
"And he played a song so sad, that it would make angels weep" => now turn that sentence into a movie. No matter which song you pick, everybody will be expecting something different, and the movie will not live up to anyones imagination.
– Lot
@DavidRicherby keep you entertained in the aftermath of an EMP
– A C
The main difference is the ability to be published.
To break into TV, you need to live somewhere that produces a lot of TV shows (in the United States, you'd move to Los Angeles and try to hang out with others in "the industry"). I'm not sure how else you break in, but it's not easy.
You can self-publish 100 novels with the same ease (and money) it takes to make one 30 minute TV pilot. More eyeballs too. Perhaps there are paths to film/TV writing available to you (by networking or luck) that I don't know about. The reality for most people is that you're a lot more likely to get published with prose, and even that's not easy to do.
But you asked about "forms and styles I can use in my writing that are not possible to do with film and TV."
Forms & Styles
My current project was in my head as a movie for 10 years. I imagined scenes and camera angles and all the rest. I don't have the skillset to write a screenplay (the technical stuff isn't hard to learn, I just don't know it yet) but I could have gotten it down easily enough and reformatted it later.
When I decided to change course and write it as a novel, it was an interesting transition. At first I decided to create it as a heavily illustrated book. Not a graphic novel, but something leaning in that direction. I don't draw but I did choose an artist (who I still think would be perfect) who has agreed to work on it when I'm ready.
My first few chapters were good enough but relied heavily on the illustrations for descriptions (I have those illustrations in my head and described them briefly). For example, Chapter One (after a prologue) happens with an extended family around a dinner table. My prose only barely showed the reader what the characters looked like, how the table was set, what the room looked like, etc. Some of that stuff was window dressing (but a well-dressed window is a joy to look at) but other details are important to the story.
As I continued to write, I stopped relying on the pictures and started narrating.
Description: A screenplay shows you the characters and the setting, sometimes in glorious detail, but it's a barrage. With prose, you can set the scene sparsely or lavishly. The reader can imagine to cover any gaps.
You also can direct the reader's eye. Of course you can do this in a screenplay too. It's called a closeup. Prose gives you more subtlety. You lay out the important parts without necessarily pointing a big sign at them screaming "foreshadowing!"
Character thoughts: There are many forms of narration in a novel. Some allow you to get inside anyone's head, some only one person's head or a small handful. Some don't do it at all.
When I started writing this novel, I had every intention of limiting my narration to what could be filmed. I only included the slightest of thoughts, and then just things that a good actor could convey without words. As I went further, I changed that. And the novel got stronger.
It's not necessary to include thoughts, but most novels do, at least for the main character (or a narrator who is involved in the action). You can easily overdo it but, done right, it brings a depth to the characterization that is hard (and sometimes impossible) to capture in film.
When people talk about the difference between reading the book and seeing the movie and how the book is (usually) better, it's because the book gives you more than a movie can. Length is a huge factor, but also how the characters feel.
Length: Novels can have sequels and TV shows can go on for decades (some soap operas have). But the reality is that you can pack in a lot more information in prose than will fit in a script. When novels get adapted to movies, large portions of plot get cut, subplots are often removed, and some characters are merged with others or just gone.
Nuance: You lose character complexity and other nuances that a novel can give you. If you're transitioning to thinking about your work as filmable to just printed, imagine the world this opens up for fleshing out secondary characters, showing more stops on a journey, or simply taking your time with a story.
Time-depiction: Film uses actors and they are the age that they are. You can use makeup to age an adult and you can go backwards some, but often you need new actors to use in flashbacks or subplots about characters at other ages. Some TV shows do hire actors to show the characters as children or young adults, for example, but they tend to merge ages to limit this.
The TV show Any Day Now has parallel storylines with an adult cast and with them all as children. Orange Is the New Black mostly sets stories in the present day but shows individual characters before they got to prison. Some use the same actors and others use younger adult actors, teens, or small children.
Child actors also age, so if there's a delay in filming, you might end up with a much taller actor (suddenly with breasts or facial hair) because you waited 9 extra months for funding, but the time jump is supposed to be a single summer. It's even worse if you have to skip a season (as many shows do these days) and have the perfect young actors who are going to age out.
Time Jumps: In prose you can skip ahead 5 years without even blinking. The show Jane the Virgin did this between 2 seasons, but they had to recast the children. The adults didn't age visibly because...Hollywood. Pretty Little Liars also jumped ahead, but in that case it was a relief because we no longer had actors in their 20's playing girls in high school. Now the same actors were playing characters closer to their real ages.
In prose you can also go back and forth through multiple timelines with ease. If you want an entire chapter set 20 years ago, no problem.
Settings: You don't have to consider how expensive changing sets is or how you don't have the budget to film on location. Just write it.
Background information: Does the reader need some information to make sense of the story? Your narrator can just tell the reader. You don't want to infodump, but sometimes it's just easier to write a line or two of background. In film, a character has to know the information and tell another character (which might not be what you want for the plot) or somehow tell the audience (reading a diary out loud, inventing a throwaway character like a therapist, etc). For something super important, that's okay. But sometimes you just want a line or two every few pages.
I've left out a few, but hopefully this is enough to get you started.
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Very good answer, backed up with experience! And it mentions the practical problems of needing other people to get anything done, and even then having restrictions on the budged and sets and actors.
– Lichtbringer
You've already gotten quite a few good answers, but there's one important point that I didn't see in any of them:
You can omit visual and aural details.
If you don't want to tell the age of the protagonist, or the hair colour, or the type of clothes, or if you don't want to tell it yet, then you can. In film and TV that's not possible; the protagonist is right in front of your eyes, complete with apparent age, hair colour, clothing, everything.
Another example: In Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith is tortured with a machine that is described by the torturer as machine that can apply a defined quantity of hurt (I don't remember the exact wording, and I read it in German translation anyway, but that's roughly what was said). There's IIRC no further description of that machine, and that's a good thing. In the movie, they didn't have the luxury of not showing the machine, and that mysterious machine turned into a rather mundane torture instrument.
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Well, Twilight Zone did play with this sort of thing, as in the episode "Eye of the Beholder," but yes, it's much harder to do on TV than it is in prose.
– Lauren-Clear-Monica-Ipsum
Watch 'The Martian' movie and then read the book - while the movie is excellent, the book is just something else entirely, and the reason why is obvious when you read it.
– Moo
This is a major point for mysteries or anything involving secret identities.
– curiousdannii
To expand on this slightly, you can also omit visual details selectively, when they don't matter. Example: Zaphod Beeblebrox in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Sure, he has two heads and three arms - but for much of the time that is irrelevant, and ignored in the narrative. You can't do that in a visual medium - somebody has to fill in all the trivia about how a two headed three armed person functions whenever the character is on screen.
An often used example is a text-line, where the speaker is only revealed afterwards. On TV you know who it is as soon as you hear the voice - in a book you will have to read on.
– Falco
I think in recent years the gap between what is "possible" in a prose vs. film (both cinema and TV) has narrowed significantly - historically the limitations and expense of things like CGI and practical effects made some of the more exotic genres such as Sci-Fi and Fantasy difficult to translate onto film. This is realistically no longer the case in 2019 - assuming budget can be found of course!
That doesn't mean there aren't still potential advantages to prose though - and you're probably already taking advantage of them without even realizing it!
While audiences are more accepting of longer films then they used to be (remember all the fuss over Titanic at 195 mins? Avengers: Endgame is only 15 minutes shorter!) getting a reasonable-length novel into even three hours screen time is difficult without making cuts. TV used to be even more affected - the need to make relatively self-contained stories in ~45 mins of run time severely hampered the complexity and length of stories you could tell, binge-watching and the streaming services have changed that significantly now. But even so the episodic splits need taking account of and mean the story can suffer.
Inner thoughts and feelings
Being in a character's POV (either first or third person limited) can give you a great deal more scope for showing their internal state. On screen you are limited to how the character presents, unless you do narration devices whereas in prose you can show what they are thinking/feeling and how they are acting essentially simultaneously. You can be much more engaging with physical sensations as well in much the same way. Which leads me to..
POV options
First person, Third person, Third person-limited, Multiple POVS - these give you multiple ways to tell the story and engage with character(s).
While CGI and practical effects have again reduced this in a book you can naturally show the entire life cycle of a character. Complete with growing up, aging etc far easier. You can reverse this as well or even halt it. David Boreanez played a "never-aging" immortal for ~7 years on TV. And one who was supposed to be visually young in age. They pulled it off - pretty well actually. But how long could you do that for before the suspension of disbelief gets absurd? Sure you can digitally de-age people reasonably well these days (see Samuel L. Jackson in Captain Marvel) but at a certain point it's going to start becoming an issue.
Anyone can die
Want to shock-kill your biggest character? No problem - no worries about contracts or anything like that. Game of Thrones was notable in TV in that people in the main cast were almost as vulnerable to the plot as a redshirt. In most TV series you know that the majority of the time the main cast is going to make it out of peril because, well they are the main cast - they are in the opening credits and everything.
Much less "censorship"
Censorship feels like too strong a word - but movies and TV have a much tougher time getting more "adult" content such as violence and swearing in then books do. They have regulatory bodies and age ratings to worry about. Game of Thrones was considered extremely edgy for TV (even for HBO) - and it's not even that full-on by book standards (can you imagine anyone trying to get an uncut version of Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards series on to TV?)
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A good example of the problematic passage of time would be the Peter Jackson Hobbit films - no amount of makeup could actually make Orlando Bloom in his mid thirties look the same age (technically younger) as when he was in his early twenties. The required suspension of disbelief was not quite absurd but definitley heading in that direction.
– Michael Borgwardt
The part about POV options isn't really valid. These options are available both in a novel and in a movie. Perhaps third-person limited is a bit harder to do in a movie, but the other one's a most definitely doable.
– A. Kvåle
@A.Kvåle But it does cause some problems. As a recent example, see the Hunger Games books and movies. The books are 100% from Katniss' POV. This means that in the films, not only are any scenes where she is not present to witness were added, you're also missing out on what's going on inside her head. In the books it's clear she has to hide her emotions for appearance, but in the films, it's an accurate portrayal, but the lack of insight into her thoughts makes the performance seem wooden and robotic.
– Darrel Hoffman
Good point. The lack of insight into characters' heads is something movies lack, unless they use narration (which is not liked by everyone).
I think the main advantage is interior life. You can use narration or thoughts to give us what one character is (or several are) thinking. That's hard to do visually without a cabbagehead character or "As you know"ing, which I hate.
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This may be part of the more passive/external feel of video, though encouragement of visual imagination in text may also increase emotional engagement. Images and sound can have a more immediate, visceral impact, while text may have more "mental involvement" possibly encouraging a deeper engagement. Reading text also seems to be a more private activity; this may affect the reception (and so the presenter's activity) in addition to the other differences between text and video.
– Paul A. Clayton
Your problem is not unusual --we all grow up on a diet of visual media these days, and it affects the way we think and write. As someone who has wrestled with some of the same issues, here are some notable differences:
Length - This is one of the most crucial differences. An average length novel has room in it for a lot more material than an average length movie. It just simply takes longer to dramatize events than to describe them --plus the fact that people routinely take weeks or months (even years) to work through a book.
Telling, not showing - "Show, don't tell" is the great foundational dictum of visual media, but it's not always applicable to books. Telling, done correctly, is a valuable tool in the toolbox of a novelist.
Internal perspective - This is the big one for me, and I suspect for you as well. A movie is almost inevitably observed from outside the characters, who we see in third person perspective. A novel is always internal, even if written in the third person, because it has the presence of the narrator. For that reason, the descriptions can't just be dry catalogs of visual details, they must carry information about attitude, mood, and other internal states along with them.
Voice - Along the same lines as the above, every book has the narrator's voice --which, whether it is poetic or prosaic, needs to have a ongoing richness to it that is present in movies only in the dialog.
Unfettered imagination - Everything in a movie must be staged. In a book, anything you imagine can go on the page. This also means you can jump from scene to scene --flashbacks, flash-forwards, daydreams, allusions --in a way that would be both expensive and annoying in a movie.
It's worth noting that screenwriting is a perfectly valid form of writing, and that there's a demand for good screenwriters right now in this age of endless streaming content. So if that's what suits your talents, you might consider learning that format and making that your writing focus instead.
Good point specifically about the narrator's voice. Quite a few book-to-film adaptions try do that with voiceovers, especially when it's notable in the original. It usually grates. See Good Omens for an IMO particularly bad example.
It may take longer to dramatize events, but in prose, you can (if you wish) have the reader take some time on a description that in a movie would be seen at a glance. Conversely, you can provide details that can't be seen in a movie (character's thoughts, personality, relationships) as easily.
– WGroleau
The movie equivalent of narrative voice is probably some combination of music, lighting and editing. Those things set the tone of the movie without changing the plot.
– KWeiss
One of the more interesting realizations some friends and I had discussing The Force Awakens, which we basically couldn't decide if we liked or not, is that it suffered from trying too hard to show rather than tell, and would have been improved with a fair bit more telling. +1 for that idea.
– KRyan
The shower scene in the movie Psycho is often cited as skillful unfettering of imagination. The expectation of realistic presentation can make unreliable narrator techniques more difficult but also potentially more powerful (A Beautiful Mind?).
The Sensory Supernatural
Fundamentally, something TV and film cannot do is control the viewer's response to sensory experience.
This generally comes up in fantasy or fantasy tangential genres that involve emotional or psychological effects of visual or auditory phenomenona. Stuff like:
Songs that lull the listener to sleep
Inhumanly beautiful beings
Entities that rend the mind to look at
Geometry that isn't visually comprehensible
A plain wooden goblet that fills the faithful with strength
It's why you could never do a really good adaptation of, say, the Dresden Files. There's no way to make the Fae look as good as they're supposed to.
Add scent and touch as things that film and TV can't touch. In writing, you can describe anything having effects on characters that can't be sold in a visual medium.
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Another example was a character with a completely forgettable face - no one would even notice his presence if he didn't speak up, when everyone suddenly realized he was standing there the whole time. You can't produce this effect on TV, only tiptoe around it...
A big advantage that I've seen used (and am currently trying to use myself) is that your audience can't actually see your characters.
Now I know what you're thinking--"Isn't this a limiting factor?" It may be, but it also means that if you have two main characters who trade off on POV for different chapters, you can have them both run into the same secondary character at different times without your reader noticing. Maybe this secondary character is also in vastly different situations and showing vastly different sides of their character so even though you drop some subtle hints that they're the same person, it'll still be a big reveal that they were the same all along.
On the flip side, not actually being able to see the characters can allow your readers to put their own faces on them and make them their own, thereby forming a stronger connection to them.
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Sensory detail
A movie or TV show is limited to visual and auditory cues. A book, on the other hand, is capable of describing the whole suite of human sensory experience.
You can described the smell of popcorn in the circus air, or the warmth of a downy blanket on a cold night, or the pins-and-needles prickling of moving a limb that's gone to sleep. A movie can try and evoke these details through sounds and pictures, but the sensory experience will never be as well-rounded as a well described book can be.
Supplementary Structure
A movie starts at the beginning, and continues linearly until the end. Superficially a book does the same thing, but an author has tools that a movie director has not. Specifically, chapters. (TV shows can be considered to have chapters too, but their form is much more limited than book chapters due to timing constraints)
Chapters give a book structure that the reader can see ahead of time. Movies have scenes, but chapters are a much more versatile tool. You can have multiple chapters in a single scene, using the chapter breaks to indicate changes in tone. You can have multiple scenes in the same chapter, using the chapter to connect the scenes thematically. You can title chapters, setting the mood, providing foreshadowing, and thematic connections.
You can add date and time location. Admittedly, movies sometimes do so as well, but because film is not a format meant to be read they need to be extremely short, and tend to lack character. In contrast, one of the books I read recently (That Ain't Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire) had locations tags such as
In a lake, injured, sinking, because that's a great way to spend an afternoon
Which is not something that will fit well on a movie screen in the middle of a dramatic moment.
Chapters can also have epigraphs - phrases and quotes placed at the beginning of the chapter that can pretty much anything from setting the tone of the chapter to adding extra worldbuilding details. Ender's Game even included a second, hidden story that was impossible to tell from the perspective of the main character.
Books can also use footnotes to add details and stories in a non-linear fashion.
Additionally, books can be paused and flipped through at the reader's leisure. This might seem unimportant, but it can be a very useful tool. In A Night of Blacker Darkness by Dan Wells, there is a brilliant scene often referred to as the "facts discussion", because all of the details being discussed are summarized in a series of "facts", which are then referred to by number. It becomes very difficult to follow if you don't have the ability to look back a page and remind yourself what any given fact is referring to.
Similarly, complicated and tricky prophecies are a staple of fantasy, but when the meaning of the prophecy hinges on its exact wording it becomes much more accessible when the reader can turn back to page 137 and reread exactly what the prophecy said.
When a movie wants to repeat a scene, this time with new information, they have to show that scene again. A book only has to provide the critical information, since a reader can go back and reread the full scene at their leisure.
(One note about this, by the way - while the ability for a reader to access the parts of the book they've already read non-linearly is powerful, the popularity of audiobooks, which are greatly hindered in this regard, means that it should be used only with great consideration.)
You can do tricks with the medium itself
The book Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn, is an epistolary (that is, told through letters written by the characters) novel, which tells the story of a small island where the authorities start to ban the use of specific letters of the alphabet. Which then are no longer used in the messages which are telling the story.
It is a book that could not possibly every be made into a movie, because so much of what it is depends on the written medium.
Similarly, the Thursday Next novels by Jaspar Fforde abuse the written form for glorious effect. Characters communicate using "footnoterphones" which send messages in the footnotes, there's a mispeling vyrus whch doos efec te txt ov te noovol, and a specific event is described as such:
The trip back downriver was uneventful and over in only twelve words.
(For more examples, I cautiously link to the TvTropes page for Painting the Medium/Literature
One big advantage that may or may not be mentioned here is pacing. With a movie or TV show, due to the time limitations, not only do you have less freedom with content, but you also are limited by the ability to express the pace of the story.
With a book, every reader reads at a different pace, but you can use that to your advantage. It allows you to write as complex and vivid structure as you want to express a similar span of time. Not only that, but a reader will read all the details you put down, while in a movie or show there are many that will go unnoticed.
However, in cases where there are many details you want to express to the reader about something, a graphic may be helpful for visualization purposes.
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A reader gets to imagine things a viewer is forced to see. I did not like the first part of The Lord of the Rings on film - my mental images were so much better. I skipped the rest.
As an author you can trigger your reader's imagination in ways that aren't available to a filmmaker.
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Conversely, Tolkien's writing was so difficult on first read that I had to put the book down and watch the films first so I could understand WTF was going on. Once I knew the story, then I could follow the prose. (Admittedly that was only the first read-through.)
@LaurenIpsum that's how I manage Charles Dickens!
Tricks with the written words themselves
Other answers gave many useful things you can tell with books, that would be harder or impossible with other media. Internal states, not showing something, different senses, multiple points of view, passage of time, "special effects" that would be visually beyond today's technology, or even simply beautiful prose... However, you can also mess with the presentation itself in interesting ways.
You can use different typefaces, to show speech differences in subtle ways that don't really have an equivalent in non-written media. The most obvious example is A CHARACTER SPEAKING IN BOLD ALL CAPS, as used for Death with great effect in the Discworld series.
Another humorous effect in the Discworld series, there are occasionally instruments so sharp they literally cut the words in half on the page.
Much more unsettling, the book John Dies At The End does something very clever with chat logs that would be impossible to do in a non-written medium. This book is in fact a good example of many things described by other answers, and comparing it to is (otherwise well-made) film adaptation. If you are interested in weird/horror or fantastic/science-fiction in general, I highly recommend it, both as a good read and an example of what can be done with the medium.
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For the consumer it's a lot easier to skip back and reread a passage, skip a 10 page long monologue that's largely irrelevant to the story line (I'm looking at you, John Norman), and bookmark interesting places for future reference when reading a book than when watching a movie (even more so with television, where there is no way at all to pause and rewind, fast forward, etc.).
You also, as a reader, without the copious visual cues, can far more let your mind wander and imagine yourself a part of the world in which the story is set than you can with visual media (at least in my experience, ymmv). It leaves a lot more room for imagination on the part of the reader. I'm not getting the gender, sex, age, hair colour, where appropriate even species of the characters forced on me unless the author chooses to do so (and hopefully he won't do so without very good reason that's relevant to the story), allowing the reader to generate in his or her mind a world that's understandable, comfortable, familiar, and place him or her self in that world as a direct observer or even participant. You just can't do that with movies or television shows, and it makes (imo) those media less immersive than books.
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Writing / Reading builds imagination.
When you see a film or a TV serial, you are confined to the directors vision of how the plot should be, how the hero/heroine looks like .... how events unfold.
But when you read a novel, you are free to visualize how a person looks like. You are not confined to a visual POV.
Reading / Writing a novel also builds a lot of patience and research.
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There are already a lot of good answers here and my answer will overlap some of them, but I think it's an interesting question so I want to answer anyway. :-)
One: Time. I'm not sure how long it takes to read a typical novel, but I now I've spent entire days reading some books. A movie has to fit into one modest length. 2 hours is a long movie. So a novel can take the time to go into depth that a movie just can't.
Indeed, often when I see a movie, I can tell that it was based on a book even if I didn't know that up front. You can see that they had to cram things in. I recall one movie I saw where the heros are captured by the villains and thrown into a dungeon. Then suddenly there's another prisoner with them with no explanation of who she is or where she came from. A little later the characters escape and she is killed during the escape. She served no useful purpose to the story. And I thought to myself, I bet this story was based on a book, in which this character had some important role, and they had to drop that all out for the movie and ended up with her simply appearing and disappearing for no apparent reason. (I checked and found the movie was indeed based on a book, though I never read it to check on the details.)
Or to take an example where the movie-makers had fun with it, there was a kids' movie I saw with my daughter about a girl rock band that had a scene where a character shows up for no apparent reason. Someone asks her, "What are you doing here?", and she replies, "I had to be here. I was in the comic book." Then you never see her again.
Two: Philosophizing. In a novel, a character or the narrator can go into a discussion about his views on life, the universe, and everything. If, say, the hero's wife dies, the book can discuss his sorrow, how much he misses her, his quandary over what he will do with his life now, etc. That's very tough in a movie. You could have the hero give a speech, but sometimes these thoughts aren't the sort of thing you'd say to others. You could have him talk to himself, but that can make him look crazy. You can have him sit in a room staring at a wall with a voice-over, but that quickly gets tedious in a movie.
Three: Background exposition. If there's background information you need to give, in a novel you can just give it with narration. In a movie, somebody has to say it. This often results in implausible "as you know" dialog where characters tell each other things that the characters obviously know, and the only reason for them to say it is to inform the audience. Like in an historical novel, you could easily include a few sentences of narration saying something like, "In 1810, Britain and France were at war. Britain had the more powerful navy, but France had the greater strength on land. Britain relied on allies to supply most of the ground troops ..." etc. In a movie, sure, you could have one character turn to another and say, "The year is now 1810, and Britain and France are at war. Britain has the more powerful navy ..." etc. But who would really say that? Screenwriters often try to come up with some pretext for characters to explain this sort of background to each other. Like the hero will show up in a classroom teaching current events to a group of children. Why the hero quit his job as an international spy to become a school teacher, and then apparently a day or two later went back to being a spy, is left completely unexplained. Or a character will be introduced who is completely ignorant of everything going on so that everyone has to explain everything to him. Sometimes good writers manage to make these explanations plausible, but often not.
Four: You can reveal what you want to reveal and hide what you want to hide. For example, in the novel "Second Foundation", at the end we learn that two characters that the reader had assumed were different people all along were really the same person. (To avoid spoilers, I won't say who.) That's easy to do in a novel: Just never give descriptions of them that are detailed enough that a reader would realize they are the same person. That's tough to do in a movie. You could have one of them always wearing a mask or something, but unless there's some very good pretext for it, the viewer is going to wonder why we never see this guy's face. He's obviously trying to hide his identify, so who is he really?
There was a Twilight Zone episode -- sorry, I forget the title -- where the premise was that in this future society, the people were all what we would call hideously deformed, and what we call beauty they considered ugly. The story was about a beautiful woman that they were trying to operate on to make her ugly like the rest of them. But to make the story work, the viewer had to not know that she was really the beautiful one and everyone else the ugly ones until the end of the story. So through the whole story we never see anyone's face. Okay, not a problem when the doctors are operating on her -- they're wearing surgical masks. But everywhere else, everyone's face was always in shadow, or they were standing behind something, etc. As a viewer I thought it was very obvious that they were hiding everyone's faces, and so it wasn't hard to guess the "surprise" ending. But in a written story that would have been easy.
Five: Imagination. In a novel, you can easily write that the starship looked like thus-and-so, or that the building was 10,000 feet tall, or that the heros were being attacked by an army of elves. The reader can then picture this in his mind. In a movie, you have to actually show it. As the technology of special effects are improving, this is becoming less of an issue. I'm sure we've all seen older movies where the special effects were lame.
But even with high tech special effects, sometimes the reader's imagination is better than special effects because the reader can picture something that "fits the bill" for him. Like in a book you can say, "Sally was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen", and the reader will picture his ideal of a beautiful woman. In a movie, you have to show an actual woman, and different viewers will have different tastes and so any given woman is unlikely to be EVERY man's ideal.
Or in a novel, you can say, "He replied with a torrent of profanity." In a movie we have to hear the actual words. But different readers/viewers have different tolerances for profanity. To one person, "gosh darn it!" is beyond the limits of acceptable public speech. To another person it is laughing mild. At the other extreme, language that would lean one person to say, "yup, that's the sort of thing I'd say in that situation", might cause another to leave the theater in disgust. But in a novel you can be vague and let the reader fill in what he thinks is appropriate in his own mind.
Of course movies have advantages over novels, too. But that's another subject.
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"A new take on the coming of age story set against the backdrop of bohemian London.
Drifting through his gap year with its internships and travel plans, Jack (Will Poulter) has always suspected there was more to life than this. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn (Alma Jodorowsky) swerves his life radically off course. She is like no one he's ever met before. He quickly becomes caught up in a whirlwind of all-day parties and wild nights in London's hidden dives with Evelyn and her charismatic friends.
They're partying like there's no tomorrow… Maybe they should think about going back to school?
Anyway, stay tuned with us for more details about the movie Kids in Love.


Aberdeen have signed Derby County defender Max Lowe on a loan until January.
The Rams were keen to sent the left-back out on loan to get him first team football and the Dons have won the race for the 21-year-old.
A number of English sides were keen to secure Lowe, who spent last season at Shrewsbury Town, but the Reds have won the race to recruit the England Under-20 international.
Lowe started Derby's first two Championship games this season, but has fallen to third choice left-back at Pride Park behind Craig Forsyth and Scott Malone.


The way you pay is changing. This company wants to profit from it.
Paying for things used to be so simple: You'd just pull out your wallet, take out some cash, and hand it over to the cashier. Nowadays, you have lots of choices when it comes to figuring out how to pay for something -- and the one you choose can make some companies rich and put others at risk of falling into obscurity.
The newest innovation in payment systems involves using your smartphone to link directly to your bank account. Until recently, American Express (NYSE: AXP) has had a big disadvantage to overcome in helping customers take advantage of new technology to streamline their finances. But with a new initiative, the company is looking to leapfrog its competition and do battle with rival card networks Visa (NYSE: V) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA).
For years, American Express has gone without something that customers have increasingly taken for granted: debit cards. Unlike card-issuing banks like JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), American Express doesn't issue debit cards that are linked to checking accounts. As a result, as demand shifted away from traditional credit cards toward debit-oriented products, American Express found itself without a horse in the race. With global spending on Visa and MasterCard-based debit cards rising to almost $4 trillion last year, that was a situation AmEx couldn't allow to continue.
In response, AmEx plans to roll out a prepaid electronic wallet called Serve. Using the service, customers can send money to each other using their smartphones, as well as shop online or obtain physical cash cards that act like other American Express charge cards. The company hopes that Serve will offer an alternative not just for debit card payments but also for eBay's (Nasdaq: EBAY) PayPal.
Customers will be able to add funds to their Serve accounts using credit cards, debit cards, or a direct transfer from a checking account. After an initial period, fees similar to what PayPal charges will apply for credit card funding, but the company doesn't plan to charge for funds from checking accounts or debit cards. On the flip side, customers can use the physical cards they get from AmEx to make one free ATM withdrawal per month, with a $2 fee applying for additional withdrawals.
Perhaps most importantly, the cards that Serve customers receive will be treated as prepaid cards for purposes of debit card reform laws when customers use them to make live payments at bricks-and-mortar stores. That means that the proposed $0.12 cap on debit card interchange fees won't apply, leaving AmEx free to charge fees closer to the 2.5% that merchants pay on credit card purchases.
Unfortunately for AmEx, some of the moves that competitors are making in the payment space make a card-based solution seem out-of-date even before it's available. Google has been working with companies like VeriFone (NYSE: PAY) and NXP Semiconductors to develop payment terminals specifically designed to interface with Android smartphones. With credit card companies scurrying to partner up with smartphone makers before the best partnerships are already taken, AmEx has an uphill battle to stay relevant to a new generation of shoppers.
After having missed the debit card revolution, it's good that American Express is at least trying to defend its turf by getting into the smartphone-based payment arena. But the company is late to the game and has ceded a huge advantage to PayPal on the person-to-person transfer front and to its other competitors on mobile payments.
Even if the Serve initiative isn't as successful as the company hopes, AmEx isn't going to disappear overnight. But with the company's future growth prospects resting on its ability to stay innovative, AmEx desperately needs a win to maintain the reputation it built decades ago.
To make sure you see what happens next with American Express, put it on your watchlist today.


PISSANUMHON FOOD PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
Overseeing sales from all the areas of the Chumphon province, and making sure sales goals set by the company are achieved (dealer, business partner, technician group).
Analysing the population and their income in each family in your area. Planning to help increase the sales goals and the investment to expand the work with Regional Sales Planning and Regional Network Planning.
Analysing and planning sales goals, marketing and other activities that help increase the sales in the province.
Overseeing and evaluating the work of different departments, seeing how they interact with the partnerships within the company.
Conducting training and providing suggestions and advice to team staff.
Male or female, aged 28-35 years old.
Bachelor degree in Business Administration or a related field.
At least 5 years of direct experience in sales, specialising in FMCG or communication services.
Knowledge of strategic selling principals and key account management.
Strong leadership and motivation skills, strong management, problem analysis and problem solving skills.


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athlete.lastName = 'Jordan';
athlete.firstName = 'Michael';

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comp1.id = '1';
comp1.name = 'Triatlón Pikaeras Almuñecar';
comp1.type = 'Triatlón Sprint';
comp1.city = 'Almuñecar';
comp1.country = 'Spain';
comp1.athleteId = '1';
//competitions.push(comp1);

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comp2.name = 'Ironman Nice';
comp2.type = 'Triatlón Ironman';
comp2.city = 'Nice';
comp2.country = 'France';
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Sharon Jones Returning To Music After Cancer Battle
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 10 October 2013
Singer Sharon Jones is set to return to the stage for the first time since her recent cancer battle after announcing a February (14) tour with her backing band The Dap-Kings.
Jones had to undergo chemotherapy in September (13) following an operation in June (13) to remove a tumour on a bile duct, but the soul star and her bandmates are ready to get back to their music and will release a new album, titled Give the People What They Want, in January (14), and will embark on a tour in February.
A statement from bandleader Bosco Mann, reads, "Without a doubt, this album is the greatest thing we've ever recorded and I've been anxious for the world to hear it. Everything will culminate in February at the Beacon (in New York)."
The album was originally set to hit stores in August with accompanying tour dates, but had to be shelved after Jones' diagnosis.


Base:Effect: Deal X damage to an enemy follower. X equals the number of other Dragoncraft cards in your hand.
Enhance (7): Draw 2 cards and deal damage 2 times the number of other Dragoncraft cards in your hand instead.
A sworn vow, a damnable curse. Lethal sin begets inevitable punishment, and at that moment wails become roars.


Although some might argue that society has reached "peak beard" and that the trend for facial hair will fade sooner rather than later, there are still plenty of men out there who want, if not a full beard, at least a bit of facial hair, either in the form of a mustache or goatee. If all you want is some facial hair, but haven't been able to grow it convincingly on your own, several options are available today, from the least likely to the tried and true.
While men tend to have a number of reasons for wanting to be able to grow a beard or mustache, one of the major reasons people want facial hair is because it creates what's considered a more masculine appearance. Men who struggle to grow facial hair or who have hair growth that is patchy or uneven might feel frustrated because they are unable to achieve the look they want. Some men complain that their lack of facial hair makes them look too young, or baby faced, which they think interferes with their ability to be taken seriously in their professions. Studies have also shown that men with beards tend to have a better chance of being hired for a job.
In some cases, a person might have difficulty growing facial hair if he is transgender or if he has transitioned from female to male. FTM transgender patients typically take testosterone, which can stimulate the growth of facial hair, as the female hormones that block the hair growth are reduced. But the hormones most after are not enough to create a full, lush beard on some patients' faces.
If you want more facial hair, but aren't getting it naturally, one option might be to try using minoxidil on a daily basis. Originally marketed as a blood pressure medicine, minoxidil works by increasing blood flow to the hair follicles, which can stimulate growth. The medication is applied topically twice a day. There are two strengths available, 2 percent and 5 percent.
Try using the stronger concentration of minoxidil for about a month, applying it to the areas of your face where you'd like to see more hair growth. If you don't see any results within a month, it's probably best to try another option. If you do see results and are happy with them, continue to use the product. The results will fade when you stop using it.
Whether minoxidil works or not, you might be on the lookout for a more permanent solution to your facial hair concerns. One permanent option is a facial hair transplant. Although it is surgery, a facial hair transplant isn't as complicated or drawn out as it might sound. In most cases, the procedure takes no more than five hours. Usually, patients are sedated and receive a local anesthetic, but aren't completely under.
The hair for the transplant comes from either the back or sides of your scalp. Hair on the back and sides of your head isn't going to fall out thanks to male pattern baldness, so it is ideal for use during a transplant. The surgeon will choose the hair that best matches any pre-existing facial hair you have. During the surgery, the hairs are transplanted one at a time, to create a natural look. Your surgeon will also pay attention to the angle of the hairs being transplanted, so that they grow in in a way that looks natural.
A few days of healing and recovery are needed after the transplant. The surgeon will most likely recommend that you not wash your face, as the area needs to stay dry. There will be some scabbing in the spots where hair was transplanted. After a couple of weeks, the transplanted hairs will fall out. But, after another few months, they will grow back and will be there for the rest of your life. If you get tired of having facial hair, you can trim or shave them and they will grow back like regular hair.
If you're a naturally baby-faced man, you might be wondering if taking testosterone will help you grow a better beard. While taking testosterone can help those transitioning from female to male grow hair, the hormone will only stimulate the growth of hair if a follicle is already present. If your face is relatively smooth because you don't have many active follicles, testosterone won't help the hair grow. In that case, a hair transplant might be your only option.
Hair restoration specialist Dr. Jeffrey Epstein was recently featured in the New York Post, where he discussed the rise in beard and facial hair transplants. If you are tired of the baby-face look or would like to grow a better beard, Dr. Epstein can help. He has practices in New York and Florida, for your convenience. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Epstein, call (305) 666-1774 in Miami or (212) 759-3484 to schedule an appointment at the New York office.


Korean developer Softmax first gained experience using the Unreal Engine to develop its 2005 PlayStation 2 and PSP role-playing game, Magnacarta: Tears of Blood, which was powered by Unreal Engine 2.
This time around, a team of 40 at Softmax partnered with Namco Bandai to create Magnacarta 2 for Xbox 360 using the latest Unreal Engine 3 technology.
"There were some big improvements added to Unreal Engine 3 regarding toolsets and rendering abilities," said Yoshihisa Kanesaka, producer, Magnacarta 2.
On top of the processing power that Microsoft's Xbox 360 brought to the table, Kanesaka believes his team benefited from two key aspects of Unreal Engine 3.
"The Unreal Editor, which has been vastly improved from Unreal Engine 2, has always been a long-time merit of the software," said Kanesaka.
From a gameplay perspective, Softmax was able to use UE3 to create a powerful loading system that allowed for the creation of huge environments. In addition, Kanesaka said they were able to create a new battle system that is both seamless and occurs in real-time.
All of the game's elaborate cut scenes were developed using Unreal Engine 3, which Kanesaka said saved Namco Bandai time and money.
"We also developed this system that blows away enemies with physical attacks using PhysX," added Kanesaka.
Kanesaka believes Unreal Engine 3 can bring great RPG stories like Magnacarta 2 to life. He said one of the best features of UE3 from a development standpoint is its excellent editing capabilities, which are mission critical for game engines today.
Thanks to a talented development team and publisher, and to the technology within UE3, Kanesaka hopes that Magnacarta 2 shows critics that RPGs are, in fact, evolving. He said the team's goal is to create a new standard in excellence and presentation that sets the bar for what is considered a great RPG game.
"I think it is mandatory to use a middleware engine which minimizes the risks of developing next-gen console games, so I assume more developers in Japan will use the Unreal Engine," said Kanesaka.
Japanese studios that have shipped Unreal-powered titles include Feelplus, which licensed UE3 for its collaboration on Lost Odyssey for Xbox 360 with Mistwalker. Square Enix also licensed UE3 to develop The Last Remnant for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
Last fall, Grasshopper Manufacture licensed UE3 for its new multiplatform action horror game directed by innovative game designer Suda51 and produced by legendary Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami.


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Brewers bring up Segura
Shortstop was key player in Greinke deal
Updated: December 31, 2019 10:41 PM
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers have recalled shortstop Jean Segura from Double-A Huntsville on Monday night and inserted him into the starting lineup against the Cincinnati Reds.
Segura was the top player acquired from the Los Angeles Angels in the deal for right-hander Zack Greinke in July.
Segura takes the 25-man roster spot held by shortstop Cesar Izturis, who has been claimed by the Washington Nationals off waivers.
The 22-year-old Segura began the season as the Angels' No. 2 prospect, according to Baseball America.
He began the year at Double-A Arkansas, where he batted .294 with seven home runs, 40 RBIs and 33 stolen bases in 94 games. He played in the All-Star Futures Game on July 8 and made his major league debut July 24.


MELVILLE: Tuesdays: 11.00-1.00pm. St. Christopher's Anglican Church Hall, Cnr Waddell Road & Brown Road, Bicton. Approx. 50 singers.
Martin Meader is the musical director of the Born to Sing Choirs in Guildford, Joondalup, Melville and Rockingham in Western Australia. The choirs welcome all non-singers, shower singers, park singers, car singers, air guitar singers and actual singers. If you do not read music, we supply MP3s guide tracks for easy learning. The choirs do not have any religious affiliations but sing songs from the heart that engender goodwill, raise self-esteem and help you lose the blues.
The repertoire in 2018 will continue with songs like Dancing Queen, Dream A Little Dream, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Chapel of Love, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah but will also focus on songs from the American Songbook such as I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Making Whoopee, All Of Me, Hey Big Spender, Blue Moon, Summertime, Mac The Knife, Night & Day, New York, New York, Tuxedo Junction, Hello Dolly, Chatanooga Choo Choo, Georgia and Fly Me To The Moon.