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"Sorrel Sweetheart" by Nneka Benjamin on INPRNT

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hi ! i was wondering if you could recommend black women ( preferably dark skin ) with dreadlocks that could pass for 20-25? thank you so much !

Natt Nyah (1993) African-American.

Jaida-Iman Benjamin (1994) African-American.

Sasha Lane (1995) African-American, Māori, English, Scottish, Sorbian, French, Cornish, distant German, Italian, Belgian Flemish, Russian, and Northern Irish - is gay and has schizoaffective disorder.

Ryan Destiny (1995) African-American and Irish - had faux locs.

Destiny Wagner (1996) Afro Belizean.

Chloe Bailey (1998) African-American.

Halle Bailey (2000) African-American.

Nneka Ibeabuchi (?) Nigerian - has had locs.

Hey! I was searching for ages and these are all I could find, hopefully people will comment with more!

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Tracklist:

01 - RASTA PASTA - IAMDDB y Masego 02 - 18h55. Ndeko - Badi y Fredy Massamba 03 - Vertino - Conway the Machine y Joey Bada$$ 04 - Hocus Pocus (con Kojey Radical y Paya) - The Silhouettes Project, MANIK MC y Joe Beard 05 - Bobo Me (con Nneka y Mamani Keïta) - Les Amazones d'Afrique 06 - Les Plages du 22 (con Laurent Bardainne) - Blundetto y Pupajim 07 - Vago Y Atorrante - Malandro 08 - Esto no es yankiland - Ril Fella y Masta Clark 09 - Runnin' (con Dream Mclean, Dame y Wallace Rice) - Ebi Soda 10 - WYLTK (The Sindecut & Ijeoma Remix) - Slowe 11 - Freedom Of Speak (We Got Three Minutes) - De La Soul 12 - May Sound Crazy (con Benjamin Zephaniah) - Kofi Stone 13 - Holding On - Liam Bailey 14 - A Little Way Different ((Vocal & Dub Mix) - Errol Dunkley 15 - Dub Inferno (Dub Mix) - Dubmatix 16 - SOS - Little Simz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7aOJXV6f9Xb2Rmbuhk26as?si=4372e5c8e7b84b3c

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Read More 2024 Elements of Circumstance

A book with "who", "what", "when", "where", "why", or "how" in the title.

Classics What Maisie Knew by Henry James The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima

Fiction What You are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah Where We Come From by Oscar Cásares How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Mystery Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark This is How It Ends by Eva Dolan

Thriller When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain

Romance When We Found Home by Susan Mallery How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams

Science Fiction and Fantasy Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. Eason How to Be Remembered by Michael Thompson

Horror The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Graphic Novels No Matter How I look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular by Niko Tanigawa

Biography What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Non-Fiction When : the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner How Not to be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

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First-quarter-of-the-year book haul !

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Biden Boasts About Equitable Senior Vaccination Rate by Race Without Data to Back It Up

“There’s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American,” referring to vaccination rates among Americans 65 and up.

President Joe Biden, May 3

During May 3 remarks on the American Families Plan, President Joe Biden boasted that there was not much disparity in the vaccination rates for white Americans and Americans of color who are at least 65.

This story was produced in partnership with PolitiFact. It can be republished for free.

“And what’s happening now is all the talk about how people were not going to get shots, they were not going to be involved — look at what that was — we were told that was most likely to be among people over 65 years of age,” said Biden. “But now people over 65 years of age, over 80%, have now been vaccinated, and 66% fully vaccinated. And there’s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.”

This isn’t the only time that Biden has made that claim.

He went even further on April 27 during remarks on the covid-19 response: “And, by the way, based on reported data, the proportion — the proportion of seniors who have been vaccinated is essentially equal between white and seniors of color. … As a matter of a fact, if I’m not mistaken, there are more Latinos and African American seniors that have been vaccinated, as a percentage, than white seniors.”

However, the national data that Biden keeps touting — vaccination statistics regarding both race and age — is not public. We asked the White House for the information underlying this claim, but officials did not provide specifics.

So, we moved on to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Spokesperson Chandra Zeikel told KHN-PolitiFact on May 6 that “unfortunately, we don’t have available a data breakdown of both racial demographics and age together.” Zeikel didn’t respond to a follow-up question asking when or if the CDC would be publishing this data, but current CDC vaccination data is broken down only by race/ethnicity and shows significant differences, with white Americans far outpacing the percentage of other groups getting a shot. It also shows that the rate of vaccinations among some groups, including Black and Latino Americans, does not match their share of the population, though new CDC data shows there has been some progress on this front in the past two weeks.

That made us wonder about the premise of Biden’s statement. We turned to experts for their take.

“As far as I know, there is no comprehensive publicly available data on vaccination rates by race/ethnicity and age,” Samantha Artiga, vice president and director of the racial equity and health policy program at KFF, wrote in an email. “As such, we are not able to assess whether there are racial disparities in vaccinations among people over 65 years of age.”

What about other state-level data or anecdotes that might support Biden’s claim? Let’s dive in and see.

A Small Number of States Report Both Age and Race Together

At least seven states track vaccination based on a combination of age and race, according to Artiga: Michigan, South Carolina, West Virginia, Kansas, Minnesota, Washington and Vermont. (Vermont tracks only two racial categories: non-Hispanic white and a combination of Black, Indigenous and people of color.)

The results from some of these states show that racial disparities do exist in the older age groups.

In Michigan, for instance, over 50% of non-Hispanic white people ages 65 to 74 had completed their vaccinations as of May 11. Other racial groups — non-Hispanic Black people; Asian American and Pacific Islanders; and Hispanics — all trailed by about 10 percentage points. The exception was the Native American and Alaska Natives category, which was within 4 percentage points of white people.

And as of May 11 in Kansas, the rate at which white people in that same age group were vaccinated was higher than the rates of Black people and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders.

In Vermont, for those 65 and up, about 79% of people of color had received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared with 85% of white people as of that date.

“With the exception of Vermont, which has the distinction of being the only state to target BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and people of color] populations by race explicitly, these are examples of states in which the numbers are not doing well in their equity efforts,” Dayna Bowen Matthew, dean of the George Washington University Law School and an expert in racial disparities in health care, wrote in an email.

Minnesota is one of the few states in which people of color are actually being vaccinated at higher rates than white people — with 93% of Asian/Pacific Islanders and 87.5% of Black/African Americans age 65 and over having received at least one shot, compared with 81.5% of white people as of May 11.

Some states are vaccinating similar percentages of their population of Black or Hispanic people, Matthew said, however that data does not distinguish by age group.

According to Bloomberg’s Covid-19 Vaccination Racial Gap tracker, New Mexico, Idaho, Oregon and Utah have vaccinated approximately the same percentage of Black Americans as are represented in each state’s population. Maine, Ohio, Alabama, Louisiana and Missouri have achieved similar population-based rates for the Hispanic population.

KFF provides weekly updates on national and state race/ethnicity data of those who have received vaccinations, which have consistently shown that Black and Hispanic people are receiving smaller shares of vaccinations compared with their shares of the total population, while white people are receiving a higher share. The May 5 weekly update, for instance, found that based on the 42 states that share race/ethnicity data, the percentage of white people who have received at least one covid vaccine dose (39%) was roughly 1.5 times higher than the rates for Black (25%) and Hispanic people (27%). (KHN is an editorially independent program of KFF.)

It’s also important to note that data on race and ethnicity information has not been gathered for many people who have been vaccinated. As of May 3, the CDC reported that race and ethnicity were known for only 55% of all people who had received at least one vaccine dose. And three states, Montana, New Hampshire and Wyoming, don’t report race/ethnicity data at all.

How to Approach Vaccine Equity, Experts Say

Nneka Sederstrom, chief health equity officer at Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis, said that her state has done an “excellent job” vaccinating the 65-and-older population but that there’s still a lot of work to be done to reach communities of color.

We “will need more direct tactics to reach” those who haven’t yet been vaccinated, “and help address any issues of hesitancy due to lack of knowledge or systemic barriers,” Sederstrom wrote in an email.

Ensuring that vaccines are available at primary care providers is also important, said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association.

“The truth of the matter is, the more vaccinators that we can get that are placed where people are every day, where it becomes a routine part of your life, such as going … into your doctor’s office for a regular visit, that’s a winner,” said Benjamin.

But, Dr. Uché Blackstock, founder of Advancing Health Equity, an organization that advocates to end bias and racism in health care, said she would set the bar for vaccine equity success higher than just an equally proportionate share of a certain racial/ethnic population receiving their vaccine doses.

“What success in vaccine equity would look like would be if Black people or Hispanic people were overrepresented in terms of vaccine received since they have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic,” said Blackstock. So even though Biden quotes these statistics that lack data behind them, if the evidence did support them, it would still not be enough, she said.

In fact, the CDC does describe vaccine equity in those terms: “preferential access and administration to those who have been most affected by COVID-19.”

Our Ruling

Biden has repeatedly claimed that vaccination rates among white people and people of color age 65 and older are virtually the same — or even higher among people of color.

No public national data from the CDC or another database has been released to support this assertion.

For the few states that do report data on age and race/ethnicity combined, the numbers suggest that, for the most part, obvious disparities persist in the vaccination rates for white seniors and seniors of color. In several states, vaccine administration rates are more proportional to the percentage of the Black and Hispanic populations, but the data covers all age groups. National data for all age groups also shows that rates of vaccinations for Black and Hispanic people lag behind that of white people.

Existing data paints one story on vaccine equity, while Biden’s words paint another.

Without data to back it up, we rate Biden’s statement False.

Sources:

The Associated Press, “AP Fact check: Biden overstates how many Americans immunized,” May 3, 2021

Bloomberg News, Covid-19 Racial Gap Tracker, accessed May 5, 2021

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Demographic Characteristics of People Receiving COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States,” accessed May 10, 2021

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “County-Level COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage and Social Vulnerability — United States, December 14, 2020-March 1, 2021,” March 26, 2021

Email exchange with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesperson Chandra Zeikel, May 6, 2021

Email exchange with White House administration official, May 6, 2021

Email interview with Manuel Pastor, director of the University of Southern California Equity Research Institute, May 5, 2021

Email interview with Nneka Sederstrom, chief health equity officer at Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis, May 5, 2021

Email interview with Samantha Artiga, vice president and director of the racial equity and health policy program at KFF, May 5-6, 2021

Kansas.gov, COVID-19 Demographics, accessed May 10, 2021

KFF, Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations Race/Ethnicity, May 5, 2021

Michigan.gov, COVID-19 vaccine dashboard, accessed May 10, 2021

Minnesota.gov, “Vaccine Data,” accessed May 10, 2021

NBC News, “Biden Hails Progress on Vaccine Equity, but Some Local Leaders Paint a Different Picture,” May 3, 2021

Phone/email interview with Dayna Bowen Matthew, dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, May 6-7, 2021

Phone interview with Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, May 6, 2021

Phone interview with Dr. Uché Blackstock, founder of Advancing Health Equity, May 6, 2021

Vermont.gov, COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard, accessed May 10, 2021

White House, “Remarks by President Biden on the American Families Plan,” May 3, 2021

White House, “Remarks by President Biden on the COVID-19 Response,” April 27, 2021

KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.

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The Top Law Schools For Music Law (2018)

Representing emerging and celebrity musicians and music industry companies is likely to catapult your name into the news and turn your business into a household topic of conversation. Maybe that’s one of the many reasons why you’re so interested in pursuing a career in music law. Attorneys who practice in the field of music law have worked with some of the most celebrated — and sometimes reviled — recording artists in the country (or the world), and that’s exactly the kind of career experience you envision for yourself.

If you’re still deciding where to go to law school and you’re dreaming of someday practicing law with music’s brightest stars as your clients, perhaps it’s time to take a look at Billboard’s latest law school rankings.

Billboard’s ranking is based on the number of accomplished music attorneys that have graduated from each law school. Billboard has ranked the top 12 law schools alphabetically. We’ll provide our readers with a look at the first six law schools here at Above the Law. Click here to see the full list.

So, which schools made the cut? You might be surprised.

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University Alumni: Google senior counsel John LaBarre, Sony Music Entertainment executive vp business affairs/general counsel Julie Swidler

Brooklyn Law School​ Alumnae: Interscope Geffen A&M executive vp urban operations Nicole Wyskoarko, ASCAP senior vp membership Nneka Norville, BET Networks director of corporate social responsibility Nicole George-Middleton

Columbia Law School Alumni: Loeb & Loeb partner Jonathan Zavin, Sony Music Entertainment senior vp/deputy general counsel/chief compliance, ethics and privacy officer Wade Leak

Fordham University School of Law Alumni: Nixon Peabody partner Julian Petty, Warner Music Group executive vp/general counsel Paul Robinson

Georgetown University Law Center Alumnus: Sony Music Entertainment executive vp business and legal affairs, international Stu Bondell

Harvard Law School Alumnus: Spotify general counsel/vp business and legal affairs Horacio Gutierrez

While it certainly helps to go to a top-ranked law school to represent the members of the music industry elite, going to a law school in New York or California seems to be even more helpful. If you’re interested in music law, you should know that it’s a relatively tough field to get into, and it may take you quite some time to reach the peak of your career — or, you could get really lucky.

Either way, choosing the right law school is just the first step, and we wish you the best of luck. Maybe someday you’ll get to represent your favorite musician.

Making The Class of 2018: Top Music Law Schools [Billboard]

Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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New Fiction 2016

It was another sad year for novels, but short stories and movies boomed.

Previously: 2015, 2014, 2013

Short Stories

"The Philosophers" by Adam Ehrlich Sachs (2016)

"A Life of Adventure and Delight" by Akhil Sharma (2016)

"Choking Victim" by Alexandra Kleeman (2016) 

"These Short, Dark Days" by Alice McDermott (2015)

"Breaking News: Guatemalan Kitchen Work Cures Ego" by Ally Yancey (2014)

"My Curls Have Blown All the Way to China" by Amos Oz (2015)

"Save a Horse Ride a Cowgirl" by Ann Beattie (2015)

"For the Best" by Ann Beattie (2016)

"1=1" by Anne Carson (2016)

"Back the Way You Went" by Anne Carson (2016)

"A Resolute Man" by Annie Proulx (2016)

"The Gospel According to García" by Ariel Dorfman (2015)

"Moon Man" by B. A. Brock (2015)

"Cold Little Bird" by Ben Marcus (2015)

"The Day I Met Buddha" by Benjamin F. Schafer (2014)

"Lose the Battle" by Beth Brock (2014)

"A Family Game" by Brendan Dubois (2001)

"Fable" by Charles Yu (2016)

"The Cobalt Blues" by Clark Howard (2001)

"Lost Souls" by Clive Barker British (1985)

"Anhedonia, Here I Come" by Colin Barrett (2016)

"Gender Studies" by Curtis Sittenfeld (2016)

"The Edge of the Shoal" by Cynan Jones (2016) 

"Jelly and Jack" by Dana Spiotta (2015)

"In the Act of Falling" by Danielle McLaughlin (2015)

"The Blue Mirror" by David Edgerley Gates (2001)

"To the Moon and Back" by Etgar Keret (2016)

"Buttony" by Fiona McFarlane (2016)

"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor (1955)

"The Cookooburrahs and the Goolahgool" by Folktale Australia (1896)

"Why Dogs Wag their Tails" by Folktale Filipino (1916)

"I Know" by Galadriel Mozee (2014)

"Mother's Day" by George Saunders (2016)

"The Striding Place" by Gertrude Atherton (1896)

"The goblin and the huckster" by Hans Christian Andersen (1915)

"My Purple Scented Novel" by Ian McEwan (2016)

"Little Snow-white" by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1884)

"The Almond Tree" by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1886)

"The Championship of Nowhere" by James Grady (2001)

"The Apartment" by Jensen Beach (2015)

"Inscrutable" by Joe Gores (2001)

"It Is Raining in Bejucal" by John Biguenet (2001)

"Three Short Moments in a Long Life" by John L'Heureux (2016)

"The Republic of Bad Taste" by Jonathan Franzen (2015)

"A Gentleman's Game" by Jonathan Lethem (2016)

"The Abandonment" by Joshua Ferris (2016)

"Chicken Hill" by Joy Williams (2015)

"Stuff" by Joy Williams (2016)

"Honey Bunny" by Julianne Pachico (2015)

"The Bog Girl" by Karen Russell (2016)

"The Prospectors" by Karen Russell (2015)

"The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link (1998)

"Deer Season" by Kevin Barry (2016)

"God’s Work" by Kevin Canty (2016)

"The Midnight Zone" by Lauren Groff (2016)

"Who Will Greet You At Home" by Lesley Nneka Arimah (2015)

"The Story of a Painter" by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (2016)

"Total Solar" by Luke Mogelson (2016)

"The Weir" by Mark Haddon (2015)

"Two-Bagger" by Michael Connelly (2001)

"Man Kills Wife, Two Dogs" by Michael Downs (2001)

"Zaabalawi" by Naguib Mahfouz (1963)

"A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman (2003)

"The Beach Boy" by Otessa Moshfegh (2016)

"An Honest Woman" by Ottessa Moshfegh (2016)

"The Things" by Peter Watts (2010)

"A Short History of Zaka the Zulu" by Petina Gappah (2016)

"Fifty-Seven" by Rachel Kushner (2015)

"The Three Little Birds" by Rindy Gradford (2015)

"How Can I Help?" by Rivka Galchen (2016)

"Usl at the Stadium" by Rivka Galchen (2015)

"Invasion of the Martians" by Robert Coover (2016)

"In the Court of the Dragon" by Robert W. Chambers (1895)

"Tiny Man" by Sam Shepard (2016)

"The Burglar" by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (2016) 

"Summa Mathematica" by Sean Dolittle (2001)

"By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benét (1937)

"Sometimes Something Goes Wrong" by Stuart M. Kaminsky (2001)

"Are We Not Men?" by T. Coraghessan Boyle (2016)

"Patient Zero" by Tananrive Due (2010)

"Aspic" by Tatyana Tolstaya (2016)

"Dido's Lament" by Tessa Hadley (2016)

"The Fix" by Thomas H. Cook (2001)

"The Driver" by Thomas McGuane (2015)

"Papaya" by Thomas McGuane (2016)

"Bedtimes" by Tim Parks (2015)

"Vespa" by Tim Parks (2015)

"The Chair Carrier" by Yusuf Idris (1974)

"Upside-Down Cake" by Paul Theroux (2016

"Spiderweb" by Mariana Enriquez (2016)

"Pardon Edward Snowden" by Joseph O'Neill (2016)

"Flower Hunters" by Lauren Groff (2016)

"The King's Teacup at Rest" by Michael Andreasen (2016)

"The Hanging of the Schoolmarm" by Robert Coover (2016)

"Two Men Arrive in a Village" by Zadie Smith (2016)

"The Polish Rider" by Ben Lerner (2016)

"Seven People Dancing" by Langston Hughes (1961)

"Maybe It Was the Distance" by Jonathan Safran Foer (2016)

Novels

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989)

Plays

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (429 BC)

Comics

"Commercial Success" by Graham Annable (2010)

"walk-in" by Graham Annable (2010)

"articulate conception" by Graham Annable (2010)

"dead weight" by Graham Annable (2010)

"misery and his company" by Graham Annable (2010)

"futile space" by Graham Annable (2010)

"decency" by Graham Annable (2010)

"Old Man River" by Graham Annable (2010)

"fishin' trip" by Graham Annable (2010)

"the bomb" by Graham Annable (2010)

"love monster" by Graham Annable (2010)

"photo opportunity" by Graham Annable (2010)

"Sea Life" by Graham Annable (2010)

"slight aberration" by Graham Annable (2010)

"by necessity" by Graham Annable (2010)

"the sound of paste" by Graham Annable (2010)

"wee man" by Graham Annable (2010)

"A Brief History of the Art Form Known as "Hortisculpture" by Adrian Tomine (2015)

"Amber Sweet" by Adrian Tomine (2015)

"Go Owls" by Adrian Tomine (2015)

"Translated, from the Japanese," by Adrian Tomine (2015)

"Killing and Dying" by Adrian Tomine (2015)

"Intruders" by Adrian Tomine (2015)

Graphic Novels

Battle Angel Alita: Angel of Chaos by Yukito Kishiro (1997)

Battle Angel Alita: Fallen Angel by Yukito Kishiro (1998)

Battle Angel Alita: Angel's Ascension by Yukito Kishiro (1998)

Hopeless Savages: Break by Jan Van Meter, Meredith McClaren, Christine Norrie (2015)

Steve Lichman: Volume I by David Rapoza and Daniel Warren (2016)

Video Games

Predator 2 for Sega Master System dev. Teeny Weeny Games (1992)

Fallout 4 dev. Bethesda Softworks (2015)

Undertale dev. tobyfox (2015)

Cibele dev. Star Maid Games (2015)

Firewatch dev. Campo Santo (2016)

T2: The Arcade Game for Sega Master System dev. Probe Development (1993)

Castle of Illusion dev. Sega Studios Australia (2013)

Alien: Isolation dev. Creative Assembly (2014)

Autonomous dev. Double Fine Productions (2012)

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End dev. Naughty Dog (2016)

Back to the Future: The Game dev. TellTale Games (2011)

SPACEPLAN dev. Jake Hollands (2016)

Ben There, Dan That! dev. Size Five Games (2008)

Bientot l'ete dev. Tale of Tales (2013)

Bioshock Infinite dev. Irrational Games (2013)

Bone: Out from Boneville dev. TellTale Games (2005)

Bone: The Great Cow Race dev. TellTale Games (2006)

Cart Life dev. Richard Hofmeier (2011)

The Halloween Google Doodle dev. Google (2016)

The Simpsons Tapped Out: Halloween 2016 dev. Electronic Arts (2015)

Headlander dev. Double Fine Productions (2016)

Short Films

"Vincent" dir. Tim Burton (1982)

"Madame Tutli-Putli" dir. Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (2007)

"World of Tomorrow" dir. Don Hertzfeldt (2015)

"Felix in Exile" dir. William Kentridge (1994)

"Ku'u Lei Melody: A Mickey Mouse Cartoon" dir. Alonso Ramirez Ramos, Paul Rudish (2016)

"Many Moons" dir. Alan Ferguson, The Wondaland Arts Society (2008)

"Death in the Dust" dir. Graham Annable (2006)

"Frozen Hell" dir. Graham Annable (2006)

"The Bad Back Bus" dir. Graham Annable (2010)

"Transmission at outpost 79" dir. Graham Annable (2006)

"Old Reliable" dir. Graham Annable (2006)

"The Lonely Hunter" dir. Graham Annable (2006)

"Death Defying" dir. Graham Annable (2006)

"Morning Glory" dir. Graham Annable (2006)

"Dreams of Sloshy- number 1" dir. Graham Annable (2006)

"Dummy" dir. Graham Annable (2016)

"No Quarter" dir. Mike Trent (2007)

"Defective" dir. Rani Naamani (2004)

"One More Beer" dir. Pedro Conti, Alan Camilo (2012)

"Lunch" dir. Graham Annable (2016)

"Premonitions Following an Evil Deed" dir. David Lynch (1995)

"Alien Song" dir. Victor Navone (1999)

"Flys!" dir. Eder Cardoso (2009)

"Halloween MADNESS" dir. Graham Annable (2006)

"Closet" dir. Graham Annable (2007)

"Intermission" dir. Graham Annable (2016)

"Joy to the Weird" dir. Graham Annable (2008)

"Reach" dir. Luke Randall (2008)

"Help Me" dir. Isaak Fernandez Rodriguez (2005)

"Inner Workings" dir. Leo Matsuda (2016)

"Piper" dir. Alan Barillaro (2016)

Films

Escape from L.A. dir. John Carpenter (1996)

ParaNorman dir. Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)

Galaxy Quest dir. Dean Parisot (1999)

It's Such a Beautiful Day dir. Don Hertzfeldt (2012)

The Revenant dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)

Hail, Caesar! dir. Ethan Cohen, Joel Cohen (2016)

Regression dir. Alejandro Amenábar (2015)

Room dir. Lenny Abrahamson (2015)

The Boy dir. William Brent Bell (2016)

Jane Got a Gun dir. Gavin O'Connor (2015)

Bridge of Spies dir. Steven Spielberg (2015)

The Big Short dir. Adam McKay (2015)

Spotlight dir. Tom McCarthy (2015)

Brooklyn dir. John Crowley (2015)

The Martian dir. Ridley Scott (2015)

The Witch dir. Robert Eggers (2015)

The Wicker Man dir. Robin Hardy (1973)

Terminator Genisys dir. Alan Taylor (2015)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa (2016)

Anomalisa dir. Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman (2015)

10 Cloverfield Lane dir. Dan Trachtenburg (2016)

Deadpool dir. Tim Miller (2016)

Zootopia dir. Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush (2016)

Knight of Cups dir. Terrence Malick (2016)

Only Yesterday dir. Isao Takahata (1991)

Dinotasia dir. David Krentz, Erik Nelson (2012)

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dir. Zack Snyder (2016)

Man of Steel dir. Zack Snyder (2013)

Eraser dir. Chuck Russell (1996)

Collateral Damage dir. Andrew Davis (2002)

Dope dir. Rick Famuyiwa (2015)

The Babadook dir. Jennifer Kent (2014)

Vampire Hunter D dir. Toyo Ashida (1985)

Captain America: The First Avenger dir. Joe Johnston (2011)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (2014)

Jungle Book dir. Jon Favreau (2016)

Thor dir. Kenneth Branagh (2011)

Iron Man 3 dir. Shane Black (2013)

Thor: The Dark World dir. Alan Taylor (2013)

Ant-Man dir. Peyton Reed (2015)

Green Room dir. Jeremy Saulnier (2015)

Captain America: Civil War dir. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo (2016)

X-Men: Apocalypse dir. Bryan Singer (2016)

The Nice Guys dir. Shane Black (2016)

The Neon Demon dir. Nicolas Winding Refn (2016)

Twisted dir. Philip Kaufman (2004)

Basic Instinct dir. Paul Verhoeven (1992)

The Saint dir. Phillip Noyce (1997)

Twilight dir. Robert Benton (1998)

Star Trek Beyond dir. Justin Lin (2016)

Kubo and the Two Strings dir. Travis Knight (2016)

Don't Breathe dir. Fede Alvarez (2016)

Now You See Me dir. Louis Leterrier (2013)

The Lobster dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (2015)

Captain Fantastic dir. Matt Ross (2016)

Hell or High Water dir. David Mackenzie (2016)

Hunt for the Wilderpeople dir. Taika Waititi (2016)

Finding Dory dir. Andrew Stanton (2016)

Suicide Squad dir. David Ayer (2016)

Magnificent Seven dir. Antoine Fuqua (2016)

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children dir. Tim Burton (2016)

What We Do in the Shadows dir. Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi (2014)

Sleepaway Camp dir. Robert Hiltzik (1983)

The Girl on the Train dir. Tate Taylor (2016)

Deepwater Horizon dir. Peter Berg (2016)

Desierto dir. Jonás Cuarón (2016)

Inferno dir. Ron Howard (2016)

Moonlight dir. Barry Jenkins (2016)

The Handmaiden dir. Park Chan-wook (2016)

Doctor Strange dir. Scott Derrickson (2016)

Arrival dir. Denis Villeneuve (2016)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them dir. David Yates (2016)

Nocturnal Animals dir. Tom Ford (2016)

The Take dir. James Watkins (2016)

Loving dir. Jeff Nichols (2016)

Allied dir. Robert Zemeckis (2016)

Moana dir. Ron Clements, John Musker (2016)

The Edge of Seventeen dir. Kelly Fremon Craig (2016)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine dir. Gavin Hood (2009)

Lion dir. Garth Davis (2016)

The Hunger Games dir. Gary Ross (2012)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire dir.  Francis Lawrence (2013)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 dir.  Francis Lawrence (2014)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 dir.  Francis Lawrence (2015)

Trolls dir. Mike Mitchell , Walt Dohrn (2016)

Sixteen Candles dir. John Hughes (1984)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story dir. Gareth Edwards (2016)

La La Land dir. Damien Chazelle (2016)

The Wolverine dir. James Mangold (2013)

Manchester by the Sea dir. Kenneth Lonergan (2016)

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows dir. Guy Ritchie (2011)

Jackie dir. Pablo Larraín (2016)

How to Train Your Dragon dir. Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois (2010)

Wayne's World dir. Penelope Spheeris (1992)

Fences dir. Denzel Washington (2016)

Midnight Special dir. Jeff Nichols (2016)

Straight Outta Compton dir. F. Gary Gray (2015)

TV Episodes

The Big Bang Theory - "The Bozeman Reaction" (2010)

The Big Bang Theory - "The Einstein Approximation" (2010)

The Big Bang Theory - "The Wheaton Recurrence" (2010)

Sherlock - "The Abominable Bride" (2016)

The Simpsons - "Every Man's Dream" (2015)

Bob's Burgers - "The Hauntening" (2015)

Bob's Burgers - "Teen-a Witch" (2016)

The Walking Dead - "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" (2016)

The Walking Dead - "The Well" (2016)

The Walking Dead - "The Cell" (2016)

The Walking Dead - "Service" (2016)

The Walking Dead - "Go Getters" (2016)

The Walking Dead - "Swear" (2016)

The Walking Dead - "Sing Me a Song" (2016)

The Walking Dead - "Hearts Still Beating" (2016)

TV Series

Californication - Season 7 (2014)

House of Cards - Seasons 2-4 (2014-2016)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2014)

Better Call Saul - Season 1 (2015)

Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975)

Daredevil (2015-2016)

The Fall (2013-2014)

Agents of SHIELD (2013-2016)

Agent Carter (2015-2016)

Stranger Things (2016)

BoJack Horseman - Season 3 (2016)

Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Seasons 3-10 (2007-2015)

Archer - Season 6 (2015)

Luther (2010-2015)

Bones - Seasons 10-11 (2014-2016)

Luke Cage (2016)

Narcos - Season 2 (2016)

Futurama - Seasons 6-7 (2010-2013)

Black Mirror (2011-2016)

The Walking Dead - Seasons 4-6 (2013-2015)

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Points of Ignition (Week Three)

True Short Story

Fitted everything that all the other pieces were tackling into one story

Indefinite ending

Moral side, political side

Essayistic quality

Summarised the point of view of other short story writers

Line between short stories and creative nonfiction 

Polyphonic, echoing stories that have gone before it

On Saturday Afternoon

Dark humour, weirdly matter-of-fact

Narrator’s perspective and voice: dialectical

Ending suggests that the narrator is more affected than he lets on

One bad joke, solidified by the ending

Reframes depressing thoughts

Power shift comes when the copper is introduced; we begin rooting for the suicidal guy to kill himself (?!) because it’s a strike back against corrupt authority, personified through the police officer

Parallels between policeman and violent father

Element of surprise, talking about something dark in an unexpected way

Redemptive moment; not a tragedy

Emergency

High-stakes situation with incompetent narrators

Absurdity, humour

Swept away along with the protagonists’ increasing non-sobriety

Narrator is passive, FH is set up as Georgie’s superior but their relationship is then subverted

Fragmentation of the structure: staccato followed by flow

Episodic

The “voice of reason” is actually the screw-up, while the person who succeeds at what he does is constantly high and chaotic

Georgie is being guided by some kind of higher power

All the Other Jobs

Shift between first and second half

Drawing attention to author’s naivety – unnecessary, their lack of self-awareness provides the basis for much of the story’s humour

Author studied philosophy at Cambridge; her other work does not contain dialogue

Terrain – her body becomes the explored landscape, stasis is the setting of intrigue

Focus on skin, body, flesh

We receive next to no information about the narrator

 Smote

Displays a “lack of hospitality” towards the reader

Spoken word/ half-rhymes and rhythms

Density, lack of clarity

Abstract art, almost a prose poem

Walter Benjamin

Novel is “novel”, isolated, individualist, tries to contain entirety

Short story is “traditional”, “immediate”, “social”

Additional notes

We are fascinated by things that are out of balance

Tension between two varying forces compels us to keep looking, keep reading. Is something going to smash?

In order to show you where your desire is, it is enough to forbid it to you

A discrete moment of truth, displayed as if by a camera flash (Camera Lucida)

The story as storage, containing potential energy which it preserves and concentrates

Epical story: hidden, suspended element, revelation re-illuminates all that has preceded it

Lyrical story: recurring image or symbol standing in for something inexpressible

Artifice story: intertwining of two seemingly incompatible ingredients (for example, Metamorphosis)

Read Antigonick (Anne Carson)

Read When A Man Falls from the Sky (Lesley Nneka Arimah)

Obsession can be a good way of creating momentum

Give the character a goal, a need, a desire

When writing about tragedy or loss – try to avoid sentimentality and melodrama

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Femi Kuti, Seun, Bez and Nneka set to shutdown Africa shrine

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Femi and Seun Kuti

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Femi Kuti, Seun, Bez and Nneka set to shutdown Africa shrine

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A.J. Andrews A.J. Andrews Softball Age 24 See Athlete Outfielder, Akron Racers, 2016 Gold Glove recipient

A.J. Andrews:

“If I do not get dirty in the course of a activity, I do not truly feel like I have completed my position.”

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Photos by Peter Hapak At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Javier Baez Javier Baez Baseball Age 24 See Athlete Next baseman, Chicago Cubs, 2016 Entire world Sequence champion, 2016 NLCS co-MVP

Javier Baez:

“Nearly no a single understands this, but I’m a lefty. Becoming in a position to use equally arms aids me with my tagging.”

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Photos by Dylan Coulter At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Julian Edelman Julian Edelman Football Age 31 See Athlete Extensive receiver, New England Patriots, Two-time Tremendous Bowl champion

Julian Edelman:

“I might go in my dad’s space crying and be like, ‘Pops, when am I likely to improve? I’m ill of remaining shorter.'”

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Photos by Peggy Sirota At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Ezekiel Elliott Ezekiel Elliott Football Age 21 See Athlete Operating back again, Dallas Cowboys, 2016 Professional Bowler

Ezekiel Elliott:

“Each and every time I action onto the discipline, I check out to out-bodily my opponent. I want them to faucet out by the close of the activity.”

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Photos by Kwaku Alston At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Kirstie Ennis Kirstie Ennis Adaptive sporting activities Age 26 See Athlete Adaptive snowboarder / mountaineer, Retired Marine Corps sergeant

Kirstie Ennis:

“I attribute sporting activities to who I am currently. Rolling that into my recovery — which is what saved me.”

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Photos by Peter Yang At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Julie & Zach Ertz Julie & Zach Ertz Soccer / Football Ages twenty five, 26 See Athletes Defender, Chicago Pink Stars & USWNT (Julie), Restricted close, Philadelphia Eagles (Zach)

Zach Ertz:

“I appreciate looking at Julie enjoy. To see that difficult perform shell out off is gratifying to me too.”

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Photos by Carlos Serrao At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Malakai Fekitoa Malakai Fekitoa Rugby Age twenty five See Athlete Centre, New Zealand All Blacks

Malakai Fekitoa:

“It could have been easy to just be lazy and say, ‘I cannot enjoy for the reason that of my leg.’ But as an alternative I did the reverse.”

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Photos by Benedict Evans At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Gus Kenworthy Gus Kenworthy Freeskiing Age twenty five See Athlete Freeskier, Olympic silver medalist

Gus Kenworthy:

“I assume my psychological edge will come from me remaining in the closet for so a lot of my lifetime.”

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Photos by Benjamin Lowy At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Nneka Ogwumike Nneka Ogwumike Basketball Age 27 See Athlete Electrical power forward, Los Angeles Sparks, 2016 WNBA MVP

Nneka Ogwumike:

“Doughnuts are my kryptonite. I will eat a dozen doughnuts in a single sitting down, easy.”

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Photos by Mark Williams & Sara Hirakawa At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Isaiah Thomas Isaiah Thomas Basketball Age 28 See Athlete Guard, Boston Celtics, Two-time NBA All-Star

Isaiah Thomas:

“Becoming the smallest dude on the court has actually been to my gain.”

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Photos by Walter Iooss At the rear of the scenes by Mahala Gaylord

Joe Thornton & Brent Burns Joe Thornton & Brent Burns Joe Thornton & Brent Burns Hockey Ages 37, 32 See Athletes Defenseman, Centre, 2016-17 San Jose Sharks

Brent Burns:

“Joe is the most at ease naked. Me? I just got back again from ten days at Disney consuming funnel cakes and ice product with my young children.”

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Photos by Ramona Rosales At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

U.S. Women’s Nationwide Hockey Crew U.S. Women’s Nationwide Hockey Crew U.S. Women’s Nationwide Hockey Crew Hockey See Athletes 2014 Olympic silver medalists, 2017 planet championship gold medalists

Meghan Duggan:

“It truly is an extraordinary time to be a female athlete. It truly is a effective motion. I’m happy to be a portion of it.”

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Photos by Joe Pugliese At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Ashley Wagner Ashley Wagner Determine skating Age 26 See Athlete Olympic bronze medalist

Ashley Wagner:

“I have suffered about 5 concussions. That second when you do not know if your period is likely to be achievable is terrifying.”

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Photos by Silja Magg At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Michelle Waterson Michelle Waterson MMA Age 31 See Athlete UFC Strawweight

Michelle Waterson:

“On a scale of one to ten, any soreness I have taken in the ring would rank a six, and childbirth is a ten.”

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Photos by Mark Seliger At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Novlene Williams- Mills Novlene Williams-Mills Novlene Williams-Mills Observe and discipline Age 35 See Athlete 4-time Olympic medalist (Crew Jamaica)

Novlene Williams-Mills:

“Most cancers just would like to consider handle of all the things. It failed to check with authorization.”

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Photos by Marcus Smith At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

Caroline Wozniacki Caroline Wozniacki Tennis Age 26 See Athlete 2016 U.S. Open semifinalist

Caroline Wozniacki:

“If I do not search like a supermodel on the runway, which is Alright for the reason that I search excellent in my have way.”

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Photos by Dewey Nicks At the rear of the scenes by Eric Lutzens

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