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MEET THE STUDENTS
BROOKE WAGEN
MIHAILO MILJANIC
AUDREY HAN
DAINON MILES
THE GROWTH Y3AR
For students at Dell Medical School, the third year of study is pivotal: they become further rooted in Austin's health ecosystem, seeking out collaborative ways to effect change while pursuing their own passions.
From exploring new cancer treatments to supporting aging Austin residents, Dell Med's students are using the "Growth Year" to answer the call to revolutionize the way people — all people — get and stay healthy. Here are four of their stories.
THE GROWTH Y3AR: Chapter 1
Preparing for Impact
The first 50 students at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas are making their mark on Austin.
By now, each student has taken one year of classroom fundamentals, and spent another year in clinical clerkships (one year sooner than at most medical schools). They have observed many ways the health care system can improve, especially for those without adequate access to care. And this year — known at Dell Med as the Growth Year — they are faced with a new kind of challenge: to take what they have learned and start tackling some of those improvements head-on in the Central Texas community.
"The Growth Year is the turning point for students at Dell Med," says Sue Cox, M.D., executive vice dean of academics. "They're learning who they want to become as leaders in the medical field, and our aim is to support them as they make strides in their professional goals, all while contributing to the school's mission to revolutionize how people get and stay healthy."
A New Kind of Med School Experience
The Growth Year includes an Innovation, Leadership and Discovery block that allows students to choose one of four distinction options: Population Health, Research, Design and Innovation in Health Care, or Student Entrepreneur in Residence. Or, they can pursue a dual degree such as a master's degree in business, public health or education.
Each option varies in the level of formal coursework required, and many students will undertake an independent project to transform health over the course of the year. Project possibilities range from conducting basic research to working with a community organization on an initiative to improve health in the city.
For example, Brooke Wagen is earning a distinction in population health and will spend the year working with senior citizens from two public housing developments. Her goal is to learn more about the health and life experiences of those who are aging in a city changing as rapidly as Austin. During her 10 years living in East Austin, Wagen has seen how this change impacts her neighbors and their ability to access the care they need.
"This is the reason I came to Dell Med in the first place," Wagen says. "I want to be a primary care doctor who pays attention to how housing, health, community and problem-solving intersect. We need to make a dedicated effort to thoroughly listen to the stories of people living in our city, because without their stories, we can't address the real disparities."
Other students, like Audrey Han, will earn a master's degree by the end of the year, adding value to their four years in medical school and leaving them with expertise that will shape their path forward.
All the while, these students continue clerkships in primary care, community and family medicine alongside their four-year coursework in interprofessional education, clinical skills and leadership. By working in the clerkships throughout the year — longer than many other U.S. med schools — students build relationships with patients and practitioners, leading to deeper understanding of community needs. In addition to all this, students also study for the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), the three-step exam for licensing doctors in the U.S.
It's a unique way of approaching medical education — but one that's crucial to Dell Med's mission of revolutionizing care, both in Austin and beyond.
"Dell Medical School was created with the goal of transforming health and health care first in the community that supports us," says Clay Johnston, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the medical school. "Our students are a key part of that mission, and this is the year that their efforts come alive."
Dell Medical School was created with the goal of transforming health and health care first in the community that supports us. Our students are a key part of that mission, and this is the year that their efforts come alive.
-Dean Johnston
Clay Johnston, M.D., Ph.D.
Dean, Dell Medical School
Sue Cox, M.D.
Executive Vice Dean of Academics
Chair, Department of Medical Education
Brooke Wagen, class of 2020, stands in the courtyard of Chalmers Court — one of the public housing developments where she will be learning about the stories and health needs of aging Austinites this year.
Now, Where to Begin?
Each of Dell Med's 50 future physician leaders stands at the beginning of the third-year journey, looking forward to the challenges ahead — and recognizing the ways in which they will indeed grow this year: writing a research proposal for the first time, learning how to obtain project grants and catching up on the fundamentals of psychology and business are just a few of the hurdles ahead.
But by the end of the year, the challenges will be worthwhile as students strive to meet their goals. Mihailo Miljanic, pursuing a distinction in research this year, sums it up:
"Nine months is a blink of an eye for some of the goals I'm trying to reach in my distinction," Miljanic says. "I'm hoping to make what I think are some pretty important advances in cancer research, and I'm a little nervous because there's a lot to learn along the way. But I'm excited to get started."
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Collaborating to Serve the Community
Community partnerships have been essential to Dell Med's work since the school's earliest days. And this year, the inaugural class of medical students are forming their own bonds with those partners.
Example: Students seeking a distinction in Design & Innovation in Health Care will spend the spring semester partnering with local organizations on design-based solutions to improve health. In January, Dainon Miles and his teammates were already at work with the YMCA of Austin to design a way for local primary care providers to refer patients for services like nutrition, mental health and fitness support and to help providers keep track of patients' progress.
Miles's lifelong interest in fitness and wellness prompted his passion for helping people lead healthy lives outside of the doctor's office, so partnering with a community organization with that very goal — and the resources to make it happen — made perfect sense.
"For nearly a decade, the YMCA of Austin has been working to bring medically integrated programs from local partners into the Y," says James Finck, CEO of the YMCA Austin. "This new program will enable the Y to wrap complementary services around patients, so that our vision for integrated, holistic care will become a reality. And by partnering with Dell Med, we'll benefit from a level of expertise and research that we might not otherwise be able to access."
James Finck
CEO of the YMCA Austin
John Luk, M.D.
Assistant Dean of Interprofessional Integration, Department of Medical Education
Dainon Miles, class of 2020, stands in the YMCA of Austin's Town Lake branch. This semester, Miles and his teammates are working to help local primary care physicians refer patients to holistic health services the YMCA offers.
Growing Stronger Together
Throughout the Dell Med curriculum, students take part in longitudinal coursework in interprofessional education (IPE). The first year introduces students to the core tenets of collaborating across disciplines, while the second year is about demonstrating that collaboration in a care delivery setting while students are on clinical rotations.
In Year 3, students diverge in their specialties and interests, so the curriculum leverages the collaborative opportunities that exist where they are: students across different distinction options and dual degree programs group together to work on a project that will further health and care in the Central Texas community. Projects are grounded to one of Travis County's critical health indicators issued by Austin Public Health, and students are asked to reach out to community partners who work in a variety of settings to improve health locally.
The result is a series of projects that aren't simply academic exercises, but are starting points for greater collaboration between Dell Med and its partners. Project examples range from implementing an electronic health records system at the C.D. Doyle Clinic (a student-run clinic that primarily serves individuals experiencing homelessness) to working with Meals on Wheels to complete fall-risk assessments for seniors.
"IPE is not about bringing other people here to teach our medical students how to collaborate and be good team players," says John Luk, assistant dean for interprofessional education. "It's really about seeding these relationships where they take place: in the community, in the care delivery setting — anywhere along the continuum of care that involves collaboration."
Hours of interviews. Dozens of cell cultures tested. New relationships forged with patients, physicians, community health workers and each other.
This is what progress looks like, at least for third-year students at Dell Medical School.
As summer approaches, Brooke Wagen, Mihailo Miljanic, Dainon Miles, Audrey Han and their classmates are all beginning to see the results of the work they've done over the course of the Growth Year. From Wagen's interviews yielding revelations about aging in Austin to Miles' work with the YMCA to design a process that helps people meet their health goals, their experiences have helped them develop skills that will fundamentally shape the way they practice.
It's part of a rising tide in academic medicine: "Leaders are throwing out long-held practices in hopes of creating a pipeline of doctors armed with skills typically not learned until years in the profession, if ever," writes Maria Castellucci for Modern Healthcare's May report about six schools reshaping medical education, including Dell Med. "The end goal is to have a workforce of physicians who are innovative and patient-centered, concepts that traditional medical education doesn't promote very well."
Even in research, the finish line is changing. Rather than peer-reviewed publication, it's getting solutions to impact as soon as possible. Example: In partnership with the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes, Miljanic has spent hours in lab working on a research study that's bringing innovative colon cancer treatments closer to clinical trials in just the nine short months he's invested in the project.
Dell Medical School is one of a growing number of institutions reimagining the traditional medical education curriculum. Leaders are throwing out long-held practices in hopes of creating a pipeline of doctors armed with skills typically not learned until years in the profession, if ever."
Modern Healthcare
Mihailo Miljanic, class of 2020, stands in the Developmental Therapeutics Lab of the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes at Dell Medical School. This year, Miljanic has made strides in testing an innovative drug combination to more effectively treat colon cancer.
"The silos associated with a traditional academic research environment are impeding progress with bringing lifesaving treatments to patients that need them," says Chris Webb, chief research officer and associate dean for research at Dell Med. "If we're going to transform the way research is done in academic medicine, we have to show medical students how they can contribute in a highly impactful way."
Concluding Primary Care Relationships
Throughout the third year, students have continued to forge relationships with patients and mentors during their clerkship in primary care, community and family medicine, which they began in year two. The primary care clerkship at Dell Med is longer than most medical schools — two years — and talking to the third-year students reveals how deeply they care about the patients who walk through the doors of their clinics.
For someone like Miljanic, the end of his primary care clerkship provides an opportunity to pause and reflect. His experience at CommUnityCare's David Powell Health Center, which provides HIV-specific health services, has confirmed his interest in radiation oncology.
"With a full two years in the clinic, you really learn how to take care of people and learn what kind of support systems they need outside of just direct clinical care," Miljanic says. "The incidence of certain cancers is much more common in the HIV-positive population, so seeing how people deal with that in person and getting to nurture those longer-term relationships has just made me more motivated to do the work I'm doing with the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes and in the future."
Chris Webb, Ph.D.
Chief Research Officer and Associate Dean for Research, Dell Medical School
When Students Become Teachers
Dell Med students have been doing some of their best work outside the classroom this year — or in some cases, on the other side of the classroom. They have insights to share with the world, and others are taking notice.
Their body of work from the Growth Year is evident: this year, students have submitted research studies for journal publication, presented unique findings at conferences alongside seasoned professionals, and lent their voices to national conversations around how to help people get and stay healthy.
And students' leadership is being felt in intangible ways, too: Educators at Dell Med are using the fresh perspectives of those pursuing Master of Education in Education Psychology dual degrees — students like Audrey Han — to help prepare future classes for success. With a lens for educational best practices and firsthand experience with Dell Med's Leading EDGE curriculum, Han and her colleagues have provided feedback to Dell Med educators and offered study strategies to incoming peers.
All in all, they're demonstrating that revolutionizing health care needn't wait until later, when they've got the skills and knowledge to get started now.
"The Dell Med curriculum is designed to create graduates who see — and are prepared to close — gaps in health at any level of the health care system," says Stephanie Starr, M.D., Director for Science of Health Care Delivery education at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. "Students desire and learn best by application. Early introduction to fundamentals, plus early clinical experience, provide the foundation needed to succeed in new areas."
Trainees Today, Physician Leaders Tomorrow
As the first class dives into its last year at Dell Med, students are preparing for their transition to residency and, eventually, careers as licensed physicians.
Stephanie R. Starr, M.D.
Director for Science of Health Care Delivery education at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine
Did the Growth Year change how they'll practice medicine? In a few important ways, yes. Although many students entered Dell Med with strong convictions and clear goals for how they want to help others lead healthy lives, many find themselves more prepared — and inspired — to tackle system-wide challenges after concluding their third year of study.
"I feel more comfortable looking at a big problem and breaking it down so it can be solved," says Dainon Miles. "Whether that's approaching the right people or just figuring out the right sequence of steps, I think it's going to make me more proactive as a doctor faced with day-to-day challenges of health care."
And with a curriculum designed to help students collaborate well, tackling systemic change and making a difference in partnership with others will come naturally to these future physician leaders. Han, who spent her year analyzing educational psychology frameworks while earning her Master of Education in Educational Psychology, sums it up:
"Right from the beginning, our coursework is set up in a way to allows us to be able to ask and answer questions, and builds up to what students actually experience in the clinical setting," Han says. "I've grown close with my classmates because of the early focus on teamwork, and through bonding over specialized interests this year. They're this group of independent, unconventional thinkers who work together really well, and I'm proud and excited to become a physician alongside them."
Explore the Third Year
THE GROWTH Y3AR is a special feature from REthink: New Perspectives on Health, the digital magazine of Dell Medical School at The University of Texas.
REthink is following the course of Dell Med's third-year medical students in four installments during this crucial year. Subscribe and follow along »


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What to Know About the Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting
By Katie Reilly
Updated: January 7, 2017 12:08 PM ET | Originally published: January 6, 2017 5:08 PM EST
Five people were killed in a baggage-claim shooting at Florida's Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport on Friday afternoon.
The FBI is still investigating the incident.
Here are the key details to know right now:
Five people were killed
The gunman killed five people and wounded six others, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a press conference Saturday morning, correcting an initial statement from authorities that had said eight were wounded.
The six gunshot-wound victims were taken to local hospitals, where three are in good condition and three remain in intensive care as of Saturday morning.
The shooting took place in the baggage claim area of Terminal 2, which serves Delta Air Lines and Air Canada, the Associated Press reported.
The shooter pulled a gun out of his luggage and shot at travelers in the area before throwing his weapon down and lying spread-eagle on the ground, the AP reported, citing witnesses.
An additional 37 people were later taken to area hospitals with minor injuries resulting from the panic, including chest pain, anxiety and fall injuries.
The lone suspect is in custody
The Broward County Sheriff's Office identified the gunman as 26-year-old Esteban Santiago, who is expected to appear in federal court on Monday. He was taken into custody unharmed Friday and was questioned by law enforcement.
At a press conference Saturday morning, FBI agent George Piro said investigators are continuing to explore terrorism as a potential motive.
"The indication is that he came here to carry out this horrific attack. We have not identified any triggers that would have caused this attack," Piro said Saturday, adding that there has been no indication of a specific reason why Santiago—who authorities say acted alone—chose the Fort Lauderdale airport.
Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca, who was briefed on the shooting by the sheriff's office, told the AP that Santiago arrived in Fort Lauderdale aboard a flight with a gun in a checked bag.
A military spokeswoman told the AP that Santiago—who had been living in Anchorage, Alaska—was discharged from the Alaska Army National Guard last year for unsatisfactory performance. The Pentagon said Santiago went AWOL multiple times and was demoted and then discharged, the AP reported.
Prior to that, Santiago was deployed to Iraq for a year in 2010, a spokesman for the Puerto Rico National Guard told the AP.
The suspect visited an FBI field office in November
Piro, who is in charge of the Miami field office leading the investigation, confirmed reports that Santiago had visited the FBI field office in Anchorage, Alaska in November.
"He walked in, as anyone has the right to do so," Piro said at Saturday's press conference. "It was during that contact that the agents, themselves, noted the erratic behavior that concerned them." Piro said Santiago was taken into custody at that time and referred to a facility for mental health treatment.
The airport has resumed operations
While the airport halted all flights arriving at or departing from Fort Lauderdale airport Friday, the airport resumed operations on Saturday, encouraging travelers to check with their airline for potential remaining cancellations.
The airport said it was collecting and processing 20,000 bags that were left behind during the chaotic evacuation.
Write to Katie Reilly at Katie.Reilly@time.com.
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Character Analysis in Porphyria's Lover
Porphyria's Lover: The speaker—also the titular lover—sets the tone of the poem and sheds his perspective on all the poem's events. In some ways, the poem, which takes the form of a dramatic monologue, explores the speaker's psyche more accurately than it does the world around him. And a psychotic psyche it is. Much of the poem's chilling effect derives from the way we are forced to closely witness the speaker's twisted obsession with Porphyria, as well as his devilish decision-making.
Porphyria: Porphyria is portrayed as a beautiful young woman with fair skin and long fair hair. She has some sort of romantic relationship with the speaker. However, because we can only encounter Porphyria from the speaker's biased and twisted perspective, we never really know who she is. Her name comes from porphyria, a medical condition in which the pigment of the red blood cells builds up, causing a number of symptoms, the most obvious of which is a reddening of the skin. Historians suspect that porphyria gave rise to the legends of vampires and werewolves, a tradition Browning likely drew on in his writing of the poem.
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"made the cheerless grate..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
Porphyria acts with deliberate, strong agency when she comes into the room. The verb "to make" emphasizes power and agency. In a way, she makes the cottage warm through her forcible will. This verb repeats itself in other locations, each time conveying a similar effect.
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" I propped her head up..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
While at the beginning of the poem Porphyria has control over the speaker's body, here the speaker has the power to manipulate her body. This demonstrates a reversal of the couple's power dynamics: now that she is dead, he holds all the power in the relationship.
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"surprise..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
The enjambment here further highlights the speaker's perception of his own God-like power. Enjambment is when a sentence extends beyond a poetic line without a break. It is often used to suggest two meanings of a line: the one that is read to the end of the line, and the one that is read to the end of the sentence. If one reads the entire sentence, the speaker's surprise gives him a swelling feeling of love. If one reads to the end of the line, "surprise" takes on a conceited tone: Porphyria worships him and he is not surprised. This second reading of the line reveals the speaker's growing confidence in his power and influence. Whereas at the beginning of the poem he was unresponsive and sitting alone in a dark room, now he sees himself as obviously deserving of Porphyria's permanent affection.
"Happy and proud..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
In his lover's eyes, the speaker confirms his fears: she is no longer restrained by her pride. She is "happy and proud" to be with him; she is proud of the actions she has taken and the desire she feels. His interpretation of the look in her eyes confirms Porphyria's deviance from "acceptable" female behavior.
"pale..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
Here, the speaker imagines Porphyria thinking of him at the feast: he is the "one so pale" who draws her away from the party. Notice that the speaker once again displaces himself from the narrative by calling himself "one," a gender-neutral, impersonal pronoun. This disassociation shows a disconnection between the speaker's self and the self he imagines Porphyria sees.
"struggling passion..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
It is important to recognize that the portrayal that we are given of Porphyria and her passion is filtered through this speaker's perspective. We are never offered Porphyria's side of the story or her own account of her feelings. This portrayal of the woman also suggests that the speaker is passing moral judgement on Porphyria's character. Since the narrator has been unreliable up to this point, the reader might look at this description and wonder if Porphyria is as laden with passion and unrestrained by polite society as the speaker believes.
"gay feast..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
The adjective "gay" means bright or lively, joyful, and full of mirth. For the middle class, Victorian parties were opportunities to make social connections, maintain relationships, and gain social power. That Porphyria leaves this happy party in order to go to her lover is a sign of her social deviance; she abandons this social ritual because her passion and love for this man are more important. The speaker sees this action as a type of weakness: her passion is so great that even her obligations to society cannot "restrain her." He paints Porphyria as a wild, uncivilized woman who is at the mercy of her passion.
"sometimes..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
Here, the speaker claims that although Porphyria resists her passion because vanity and pride restrict her, the adverb "sometimes" suggests that this situation has arisen multiple times before. Porphyria has come to the speaker despite her apprehension because of her passionate love for him.
"give herself to me for ever..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
By "give herself to me for ever" the speaker means that the woman will give him her virginity. He characterizes her as "too weak" to resist her own passion. In Victorian society, extramarital sex was illicit and seen as a sign of moral corruption. The speaker sees his lover's passion as something that makes her weak rather than a sign of her agency. This suggests that while she enacts more modern sexual liberty, he is still viewing their relationship through romantic, Victorian social structures.
"made..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
The use of the word "made" also connotes a type of force; the speaker seems to be conveying that the woman is acting contrary to his wishes. It also hints that he is the passive recipient in this relationship and that she holds the power. The pose of cheek-on-shoulder portrays the woman as a type of protective figure and the speaker as dependent on her.
"And yet God has not said a word!..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
As his delusions develop, the speaker seems to step into a God-like role. In the seventh stanza, when he reflects that "at last I knew/Porphyria worshipped me," he casts himself in a divine light. The verb "to worship," after all, suggests an act of religious praise. The speaker uses this delusional, divine self-image to justify his murder of Porphyria. As he reflects in the final line, "And yet God has not said a word." The speaker does not answer to a god because, in a sense, he believes himself to be one.
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"She put my arm about her waist,..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
In this line, Porphyria is the actor; she actively manipulates the speaker's body so that he responds to her the way that she wants him to. The woman's ability to act on him almost as if he is an inanimate doll suggests that she has the power in this relationship.
"no voice replied..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
When Porphyria arrives, her lover is sitting in a dark, cold room as a storm rages outside. He is unresponsive even to his own name. This should strike the audience as odd. However, because of the romantic imagery and focus the speaker places on his lover rather than his feelings, the reader may not notice his behavior is odd the first time they encounter these lines. The careful reader will see that there is something peculiar about this speaker.
"I listened..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
Much like Browning's famous poem My Last Duchess, "Porphyria's Lover" takes the form of a dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is a poem in which an imagined narrator describes a particular situation or series of events and inadvertently reveals aspects of their own character. The speaker in a dramatic monologue is generally suspicious as they are not immediately forthcoming with aspects of their personality or actions.
"vex the lake..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
The verb "to vex" means to trouble, afflict, or harass aggressively in order to interfere with peace and quiet. The storm the speaker describes seems sadistically violent. One might read this description as an expression of the speaker's own feelings: either he sympathizes with the wind and feels vengeful, or he sympathizes with the lake and feels persecuted. In either reading, the speaker seems to be in an emotionally unstable state.
"sullen..." See in text (Porphyria's Lover)
In using the adjective "sullen," which means gloomy, ill-humored, or moody, the speaker personifies the wind. Personification generally indicates a character or speaker's attempt to understand or identify with an inanimate object or force. Here, the speaker seems to project his own mood onto the landscape and see himself as the storm raging outside.
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Camilla Stoltenberg, née le  à Oslo (Norvège), est une médecin et chercheuse norvégienne qui dirige l' depuis 2012.

Formation
Camilla Stoltenberg a étudié à l'école Steiner d'Oslo, puis à l'école de la cathédrale d'Oslo et interrompt sa scolarité pour voyager à travers l'Europe avec des amis en 1974. Le groupe est notamment expulsé d'Allemagne de l'Est.

Camilla Stoltenberg a étudié la sociologie et la médecine à l'Université d'Oslo et l'anthropologie médicale à l'Université de Californie.

Elle effectue son internat sur la côte du Helgeland et a été médecin assistant à l'Hôpital national norvégien, médecin de garde dans la commune de Aurskog-Høland et à Storgata à Oslo. Elle a aussi participé à l'enquête sur les conditions de vie de la fondation FAFO dans la bande de Gaza, en Cisjordanie et à Jérusalem.

De 1995 à 1998, elle rédige son doctorat en épidémiologie sur les effets des mariages consanguins et du niveau d'éducation des parents sur les malformations congénitales, la mortinatalité et la mortalité infantile. Camilla Stoltenberg est ensuite chercheuse post-doctorale pour le Conseil de la recherche norvégien et chercheuse invitée à l'université Columbia. Elle a aussi travaillé pour ECON (Pöyry) au sujet de la biotechnologie vers l'an 2000.

Institut norvégien de la santé publique
En 2001, elle est embauchée à l'Institut norvégien de la santé publique. En 2002, elle devient directrice du département d'épidémiologie. En 2006, elle dirige un projet d'harmonisation des bases de données biologiques dans l'Union européenne quand elle met à jour la fraude scientifique de Jon Sudbø.

Camilla Stoltenberg devient directrice adjointe de l'institut en 2007 et en est nommée directrice pour 6 ans en 2012. Son mandat est reconduit pour 6 nouvelles années en 2018.

Elle y a dirigé le projet Dagens helsetall qui visait à moderniser les registres médicaux centralisés par l'institut de la santé publique, et nécessitait de coopérer avec les autres institutions chargées de la maintenance des registres. Camilla Stoltenberg a également dirigé la plateforme nationale pour la génomique fonctionnelle Biobanker for helse.

Depuis 2011, elle est également professeure invitée à l'université de Bergen et a une tribune dans Morgenbladet depuis 2015.

En février 2019, le comité d'experts qu'elle a dirigé sur l'impact des inégalités de genre sur les résultats scolaires, remet son rapport officiel au gouvernement.

Elle joue un rôle de premier plan pendant la pandémie de Covid-19, et est classée par Dagens Medisin,  personnalité avec le plus d'influence sur la santé en Norvège en 2020. Le ministre de la santé Bent Høie et la première ministre Erna Solberg occupent les deux premières places.

Famille
Camilla Stoltenberg est la fille de Thorvald et Karin Stoltenberg, et la sœur aînée de Jens et Nini Stoltenberg. Elle est mariée avec l'architecte Atle Aas, fils du sculpteur Nils Aas. Ils ont deux fils adultes.

Honneurs
 2014 : Doctorat honoris causa de l'université de Copenhague

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Liens externes

  Publications de Camilla Stoltenberg, dans la base de données CRISTin.

Épidémiologiste norvégien
Médecin norvégien du XXe siècle
Médecin norvégien du XXIe siècle
Femme médecin du XXe siècle
Femme médecin du XXIe siècle
Docteur honoris causa de l'université de Copenhague
Étudiant de l'université d'Oslo
Naissance en février 1958
Naissance à Oslo

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One particularly outstanding detail to this year's Art Hearts Fashion was The Black Tape Project by Joel Alvarez, who strategically placed shiny and black tape on models to resemble swimwear. It was quite the creative twist to Miami Swim Week.


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Kovalam Travel Guide
Getting Kovalam
How to Reach Kovalan by Air
The nearest airport to Kovalam beaches is the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport, is around 16 kilometers away from the beach, about 20 minutes by taxi. To Thiruvananthapuram arrive regular flights from the major cities of the India, and from other cities of the world. The domestic flights are efficient, and in the airport you can find many facilities like restaurants, coffees, and other items. Taxis charge you with 250 – 400 rupees to get Kovalam, but you should take one in prepaid.
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The nearest railway station is Trivandrum Central which is 13 km away. This station links Kovalam to several major parts of India. Taxis are available to transfer you to Kovalam.
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Whiplash Claims Help News » Court of Appeal sets €41,000 Whiplash Injury Compensation Level for Woman Woman
At the Court of Appeal a Whiplash compensation award figure has been revised down to €41,000.
The ruling was made in relation to an award of €70,000 that was approved in December 2019. The woman in question, Emma McKeown, had been awarded the compensation as a result of the whiplash injuries that she sustained in a road traffic accident during 2017. Following this amount being approved at the High Court an appeal against the figure awarded by the defendants, Alan Crosby and Mary Vocella.
In the ruling that was released Court of Appeal judge Mr Justice Seamus Noonan commented that Emma that McKeown was honest and he was of the belief that she did not exaggerate her injuries. He continued delivering the ruling saying that the amount of whiplash injury compensation that was awarded in the case was much too high.
He said: "Taking into account all the relevant factors to which I have referred in the context of the proportionality of the award in this case, I am satisfied that by any reasonable measure it cannot be viewed as proportionate. It is not proportionate when viewed against the measure of the maximum for the most serious injuries. The cost of (motor, public or employer's liability) insurance is for most ordinary people and businesses, a significant outgoing. The extent to which awards by courts influence that cost is in recent times, a matter of widespread public discourse, debate and dispute.
The Court of Appeal ruling amended the compensation figure to general damages of €35,000 plus agreed special damages of €6,000, making in total €41,000.
The Judge went on to comment on the link between large compensation awards and increasing insurance premiums: "Whatever the reality may be, it is clear that awards made by the courts have an impact on society as a whole and the courts are mindful of that fact. Ultimately each member of society must bear the cost of a compensation system whether through the payment of insurance premia in the case of private defendants or taxes in the case of public defendants. Society thus has a direct interest in the level of awards. Frequently, the identity of the trial judge would not be known until moments before the case actually commenced, resulting in varying outcomes depending on the 'draw'. It is clear that this has the potential for injustice. It cannot be fair to either plaintiff or defendant that the value of their case depends on the identity of the trial judge."
He finished saying: "Personal injury litigation should not be a lottery and plaintiffs and defendants alike are entitled to reasonable consistency and predictability. This is particularly important in the context of injuries which fall at the lower end of the spectrum as these constitute the vast bulk of cases, most commonly involving soft tissue, or 'whiplash' injuries."
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Inside the Australian book industry
Editorial | Rights sales and acquisitions | Award-winners | Profile | Bestsellers | Top reviews | Fiction | Nonfiction |
Screenworthy stories
Each year Australian publishers, literary agents, and film and TV agents meet and mingle at the Melbourne International Film Festival's Books at MIFF event. As well as attending one-on-one meetings, publishers are given the opportunity to pitch their most 'screenworthy' stories at a book-to-screen panel. This year's titles (chosen by organisers) were: Ruby Moonlight (Ali Cobby Eckermann, Magabala), Dear Pakistan (Rosanne Hawke, Rhiza Edge), The Sunday Girl (Pip Drysdale, Simon & Schuster), Rapture (Jeremy Stanford, Tale Publishing), The Elephant (Peter Carnavas, University of Queensland Press) and Surrogate (Tracy Crisp, Wakefield Press).
The past month has also seen the announcement of a number of film and TV adaptation deals, most notably, the screen rights for Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty's forthcoming Nine Perfect Strangers, but also for two popular crime-fiction and romantic-comedy debuts (see Rights sales and acquisitions).
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Think Australian
Rights sales and acquisitions
'No More Boats' to publish in the US
Sydney-based small press Giramondo has sold North American rights to Felicity Castagna's Miles Franklin-shortlisted novel No More Boats to Europa Editions. Acquiring editor-in-chief Michael Reynolds said the novel—which tells the story of an Italian-Australian immigrant family set against the backdrop of the refugee crisis in Australia—explores issues that are more prominent in nonfiction than fiction around 'immigration, xenophobia, protectionism, racism, media manipulation, unchecked urban property development, the precariousness of the working poor'. (For more on Giramondo, see the Profile.)
Allen & Unwin has sold UK, Europe and Commonwealth (excluding ANZ) rights to Sofie Laguna's The Choke—about a child 'caught up in the toxic world of bastardised masculinity'—to London-based Gallic Books.
Melbourne University Publishing has sold UK and Irish rights to Germaine Greer's On Rape to Bloomsbury UK, with other international deals in negotiation. In her controversial essay, Greer writes that 'centuries of writing and thinking about rape—as inflicted by men on women—have got us nowhere'.
Two Australian publishers have acquired books on the Thai cave rescue by Australian journalists. Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to The Great Cave Rescue by James Massola, to be published in October; and HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled book by Liam Cochrane, due in December.
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to two new books from commercial fiction author Rachael Treasure; while Penguin Random House Australia has acquired Oceania rights to a sequel to Joy Rhoades' The Woolgrower's Companion.
Book-to-screen rights sales
Nicole Kidman's production company Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories have purchased film and television rights to Liane Moriarty's forthcoming novel Nine Perfect Strangers (Macmillan). Kidman will produce and star in the adaptation, which tells the story of nine strangers who meet at a health and wellness resort, with life-changing results.
Chris Hammer's crime-fiction debut Scrublands (Allen & Unwin)—the subject of several auctions last year—has been optioned for television by Australian producers Ian Collie of Easy Tiger and Martha Coleman of RevLover.
Sally Thorne's romantic comedy The Hating Game (Piatkus)—about the workplace rivalry between 'nice girl' Lucy and her nemesis Joshua—has been acquired for film, with The Simpsons producer David Mirkin attached.
For the latest Australian rights sales and acquisitions news, click here.
Viskic wins top crime-fiction award
Emma Viskic's And Fire Came Down (Echo Publishing) has been named best adult crime novel at this year's Davitt Awards, which are presented to the best crime books by Australian women. Viskic, whose novels centre on a deaf detective, has also been shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Dagger Awards for her debut Resurrection Bay (Echo).
Other Davitt Award-winners included Gabriella Coslovich's Whiteley on Trial (Melbourne University Publishing) for best nonfiction; Sarah Bailey's The Dark Lake (Allen & Unwin) for best debut; and Jane Harper's Force of Nature (Pan) for the readers' choice award.
The Kibble and Dobbie Awards for Australian women writers of fiction and life writing have been presented to Fiona McFarlane for her short-story collection The High Places (Hamish Hamilton) and Sarah Krasnostein for her biography The Trauma Cleaner (Text).
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett (Text), a biography of Australian prime minister Alfred Deakin, has won the National Biography Award.
Gold Ledger Awards for excellence in Australian comics and graphic novels have been presented to Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts (Craig Phillips, Allen & Unwin), a collection of myths and legends from around the world retold as comics; and the online true-crime comic Reported Missing (Eleri Harris, TheNib.com).
Shortlists have also been announced for the Colin Roderick Award for Australian literary fiction and nonfiction; the Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing; and the NSW Premier's History Awards.
Introducing Giramondo
Sydney-based small press Giramondo has won most major literary awards in Australia with its list of 'diverse, unusual and genre-defying' fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Commissioning editor Nick Tapper spoke to Think Australian.
What makes Giramondo unique?
Giramondo has long been committed to publishing diverse, unusual and genre-defying work, in prose and poetry. We focus on developing the voices of authors who are somewhere outside the mainstream, with a commitment to a cosmopolitan mentality, publishing work from more experimental writers, and writers from migrant and Indigenous backgrounds. We're proud to publish authors such as Alexis Wright, Gerald Murnane, Brian Castro and Ali Cobby Eckermann—all of whom have found success with Giramondo, even though their work was underappreciated at the time they began publishing with us, in part because it didn't fit into recognised literary moulds. We're committed to supporting such unusual voices—and committed to literary quality as the basis of what we do.
We're fortunate to have had awards success with many of our authors, winning most major literary awards in the country and developing an international profile for publishing adventurous and rewarding work. We're a very small team, and stay small to be able to publish work whose appeal might not immediately be evident, but we believe strongly in the work of all the authors we publish, including those who take time to find a readership—so it's affirming to see it recognised, whether through literary awards, sales or international recognition. We're fortunate in this to have support from the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, both for its institutional backing and its links to innovative writers.
How many books does Giramondo publish each year—and what kinds of books?
Our list has grown in recent years. We aim to publish about a dozen books a year, though 2017 was Giramondo's biggest to date, with 18 books published in all; this year we'll publish 12 titles. Our list is very much at the literary end of the spectrum—we publish in fiction and nonfiction, and about half our list is poetry. Currently we're also developing a small young adult list, and making inroads into illustrated literary publishing. And we're committed to publishing works in translation, from our region and from the southern hemisphere.
Have you sold international rights to your books? Which titles have been the most successful overseas?
We've had a fair amount of success selling international rights around the world. Most striking recently has been the growing international prominence of Gerald Murnane, who has turned from a cult figure into a small international sensation. His work has sold widely and been the subject of much media attention in the United States, as well as selling into Spanish, German and Arabic. Alexis Wright's books have been widely published and translated, in the US, UK, China and France. We were pleased recently to sell Felicity Castagna's first adult novel, the Miles Franklin Literary Award-shortlisted No More Boats, to Europa Editions in North America and the UK. Other authors who've been published overseas include Evelyn Juers, Mireille Juchau, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Emma Lew, Brian Castro, David Walker and Tom Cho.
Have you acquired the rights to publish any international titles in Australia? Which titles have been the most successful?
We acquire a small number of international titles, and we're primarily active in acquiring translations rights for fiction and nonfiction—recently we've translated works from Argentina and China, and we're working on books from Chile, Spain and China at the moment. We're particularly interested in acquiring books (in English language and translation) from South America, New Zealand, southern Africa and Indonesia, for our Southern Latitudes series, which focuses on literature of the southern hemisphere.
Which title or author on your list do you believe deserves bigger recognition overseas?
Beverley Farmer, whose final book This Water we published in 2017, and who passed away earlier this year, was a writer of remarkable formal agility and an extraordinary prose stylist. She wasn't a prolific author, especially in her later years, but her work in both fiction and in hybrid essay-fiction-memoir forms stands equal to her peers internationally, and is an important precursor to some of the experimental and genre-crossing work being written at the moment.
Which title on your list would you like to see adapted for film or television?
Felicity Castagna's No More Boats, about an Italian-Australian family's encounter with Australia's refugee crisis, is vivid, visual and topical, and would translate very well to screen. I also think Felicity's first young adult novel, The Incredible Here and Now, which won the Prime Minister's Literary Award and was recently adapted for the stage, has great potential for adaptation.
What will you publish next (that may appeal to international publishers)?
Tom Lee's debut novel Coach Fitz I think will have international appeal—a novel about running, landscape and obsessiveness. It's comic and philosophical at once, with echoes of Ben Lerner, Haruki Murakami and Joseph O'Neill.
Fiona Wright's second essay collection The World Was Whole will be published in October, and we have strong hopes for it internationally. The book is Fiona's follow-up to the award-winning Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger, expanding from that book's discussion of disordered eating to look at our experience of homeliness, urban space and the ordinary. We think it will be of interest for readers of Leslie Jamison and Helen Garner.
In 2019 we're looking forward to two remarkable works of nonfiction: philosopher Chris Fleming's acute and often very funny memoir about drug addiction that explores a wide range of obsessions; and a fragmentary, philosophical essay-memoir by Anwen Crawford that in form recalls the work of Eula Biss and Claudia Rankine.
'The Other Wife' and 'The Barefoot Investor' top Australian charts
Australian fiction bestsellers: July
Mega-selling author Michael Robotham's latest crime-thriller The Other Wife has debuted at the top of the Australian fiction bestsellers chart for July. It's joined in the top 10 by three other June releases: Christian's White's debut thriller The Nowhere Child; Liz Byrski's A Month of Sundays, about an online book club whose members meet face-to-face for the first time; and Trent Dalton's debut novel Boy Swallows Universe, a coming-of-age story set against the street-level drug trade in 1980s Brisbane. The two debut novels have attracted significant international buzz, with The Nowhere Child selling into numerous territories prior to publication and Boy Swallows Universe securing a global publishing deal with HarperCollins.
The Other Wife (Michael Robotham, Hachette)
The Nowhere Child (Christian White, Affirm Press)
A Month of Sundays (Liz Byrski, Macmillan)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Heather Morris, Echo Publishing)
Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton, HarperCollins)
The Shepherd's Hut (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)
Force of Nature (Jane Harper, Pan)
The Dry (Jane Harper, Pan)
Truly Madly Guilty (Liane Moriarty, Pan)
The Husband's Secret (Liane Moriarty, Pan)
Australian nonfiction bestsellers: July
A new edition of Bruce Pascoe's multi-award-winning nonfiction book Dark Emu has entered the Australian nonfiction bestsellers chart for July. Dark Emu argues against the 'hunter-gather' history of Aboriginal Australians with evidence that Aboriginal people across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing. Pascoe, who was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature earlier this year, is currently writing an Indigenous travel guide book for Hardie Grant Travel.
The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, John Wiley)
Teacher (Gabbie Stroud, Allen & Unwin)
Monash's Masterpiece (Peter FitzSimons, Hachette)
The Busy Mum's Guide to Weight Loss (Rhian Allen, Plum)
Dark Emu (Bruce Pascoe, Magabala Books)
Am I Doing This Right? (Tanya Hennessy, Allen & Unwin)
Winging It (Emma Isaacs, Macmillan)
The Nourishing Cook (Leah Itsines, Macmillan)
Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, Allen & Unwin)
CSIRO Low-Carb Every Day (Grant Brinkworth & Pennie Taylor, Macmillan)
© Nielsen BookScan 2018
Period covered: 24 June to 21 July 2018
Data supplied by Nielsen BookScan's book sales monitoring system from 1000 retailers nationwide


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A true multi-instrumentalist, Ro Barrett's most recent albums "Alter Ego" and "Boredom Killer" are examples of the range of Ro's abilities. He wrote, arranged and produced every song, sang all the vocal parts and played the guitar, piano, bass and keyboard parts too. In contrast, his single (2018) "Looking for Something" is completely raw, unplugged and laid bare. Recorded live in one take, it shows the years of experience as a solo performer while Ro was "cutting his teeth" in small venues in the UK and Europe.
Having first learned the guitar and piano at an early age, Ro began earning money from music aged just 14 as a bassist in his father's band, gigging at venues all over the midlands.
At 17, Ro joined the Royal Engineers and over the years saw service in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, always accompanied by his trusty guitar of course. When not on his travels, he spent time working with various artists, bands and music projects including: Quadrangle, Teezer, Liv-It, Zounina, Ben's Party Musical, Soul Cafe, Nina Fischer, Jo Desmond, Zebra, The Sarah O'Brien Band, The Chilli Fighters, Electric Fougasse and The Boogie Wonderland Disco Explosion. to name but a few.
The events and experiences in Ro's life have always helped provide the inspiration he needs to write songs. An experienced artist, he has hundreds of gigs under his belt having performed at festivals, clubs, pubs, theatres and studios across the UK and Europe.
In addition to music, Ro is a car enthusiast and racing driver competing in club races around the UK, and a passionate supporter of animal welfare charities such as Animals Asia and the RSPCA.


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Home Geology The Crew That Freed The Suez Canal Freighter Got Some Crucial Help From Space
The Crew That Freed The Suez Canal Freighter Got Some Crucial Help From Space
Subject: Geology
For the past 10 days, the world's attention has been drawn to the fate of Ever Given. On March 23, due to high winds and dust storms, the ship lost the ability to sail and move rice in the Suez Canal. The waterway is located in Egypt and connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea. About 10 percent of all world trade flows here, so what impact can you have on the economy and the people who depend on it – even to eliminate the many sailors who were waiting on their ships, including.
Observations from space highlighted how many ships were waiting to continue their voyage. Egyptian authorities and international partners worked hard for six days to free the ship and re-launch the canal. It was a huge undertaking, since Ever Dale was given one of the largest carrier ships in the world. How to remove a 400-meter (1,312-foot) boat from the ground and back into the water requires a lot of physics and precise calculations.
Dredgers removed 850 cubic meters (30,000 cubic feet) of sand from around the ship. Pulls were used to pull the bow (front) of the ship and to straighten the strain – but the ship also needed to be steered on a vertical axis. The strain had to be pushed down and the bow was lifted up and released from the ground. And where the sky comes with the help of a hand: the moon. The moon and sun are responsible for the tide. The combined gravitational pull of our stars and our natural satellites causes the water level around the planet to change. The tides are highest when the moon is united with the sun, so there is a full moon.
The moon is not the same distance from the earth, so the tide is higher when the moon is closer. March 28 was a full moon, and our satellite was closest to Earth. This led to a strong tide on Monday the 29th, when the most powerful tugboat appeared. It was a winning combination: human labor with the help of cosmic alignment.
"We had a lot of help this afternoon due to the strong tide. In fact, the forces of your nature are pushing harder on you and harder than they could pull the two ocean tugs, "said Peter Berdowski, CEO of Boskalis. Memes in Microsoft Flight Simulator and even a model, Ever Given and its unfortunate foundation must be remembered.
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Thermopylae
Chris Carey
Publication Date - June 2022
The story of Thermopylae, the battle that helped define the identity of the ancient Greeks: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it means for us today.
During the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, a Greek force of approximately 7,000 faced the biggest army ever seen in the Greek peninsula. For three days, the Persians—the greatest military force in the world—were stopped in their tracks by a vastly inferior force, before the bulk of the Greek army was forced to retreat with their rear guard wiped out in one of history's most famous last stands.
In strict military terms it was a defeat for the Greeks. But like the British retreat from Dunkirk or the massacre at the Alamo, this David and Goliath story has taken on the aura of success. Thermopylae has acquired a glamour exceeding the other battles of the Persian Wars, passing from history into myth, and lost none of that appeal in the modern era.
In Thermopylae, Chris Carey analyses the origins and course of this pivotal battle, as well as the challenges facing the historians who attempt to separate fact from myth and make sense of an event with an absence of hard evidence. Carey also considers Thermopylae's cultural legacy, from its absorption into Greek and Roman oratorical traditions, to its influence over modern literature, poetry, public monuments, and mainstream Hollywood movies. This new volume in the Great Battles series offers an innovative view of a battle whose legacy has overtaken its real-life practical outcomes, but which showed that a seemingly unstoppable force could be resisted.
The Great Battles Series. The story of the world's most important battles—how they were fought, how they have been commemorated, and the long historical shadows that they have cast
The story of Thermopylae—the famous last stand of the severely outnumbered Greek army, which went on to be immortalised in myth and in Hollywood
Considers the events of the battle itself, as well as the difficulty of approaching the evidence of a classical event from a modern standpoint
How the battle has been remembered, from the immediate aftermath to the present day—and what this tells us
Chris Carey, Professor Emeritus of Greek, University College London
Chris Carey was born in Liverpool and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has worked at the University of Cambridge, University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St Andrews, Royal Holloway, and UCL, and taught in the Netherlands, Hungary, Greece, and Serbia. He has worked on Greek lyric poetry, epic, drama, oratory, and law, and is currently working on a commentary on book 7 of Herodotus' History. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.
1. Reading Thermopylae: The Problems
2. The Pass
3. The Persians
4. The Greeks
5. The Battle
6. Thermopylae Refought
7. Thermopylae in the Ancient World
8. The Myth in the Modern Era
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Spoiling Klosterman
I'm usually happy to see thoughtful discussions of media storytelling strategies extend into the popular press, as it gives me hope that there is a broad audience for work that engages issues of television narrative and form as my current research aims to do. But I often read such popular accounts with a mix of interest and frustration, with the latter often overtaking the former. Usually popular accounts of television narrative commit three major (related) problems: they completely ignore the research that us academics have done, they make silly mistakes or weak claims that could have been avoided had they done more research, and they get read by thousands of times more people than will ever read academic work.
Exhibit A is this piece by Chuck Klosterman in the new ESPN's site Grantland (which I've really enjoyed over its first week of publication). I generally like Klosterman, appreciating his prose style and typically thoughtful thinkpieces on popular culture. But this piece is a mess and it frustrates me to no end that so many people will read it and assume that he's right. Basically, Klosterman is arguing that the "spoiler culture" of the internet has led to a reduction in twisty storytelling, as in Sixth Sense and Lost, with creators become hesitant to base an entire work on a final reveal that would likely be spoiled & thus lose its impact. And to that, I call bullshit.
First, Klosterman uses The Sixth Sense as his ur-case of twisty storytelling that thrived pre-spoilers, suggesting that the entirety of the film is wrapped up in its twist ending. But Sixth Sense was the most prominent of a fairly recent genre cycle of the "puzzle film" (about which there has been copious academic writing that Klosterman clearly hasn't read) that thrived in the internet age, but were quite rare in the first century of cinema. There were many ways that the film could have been spoiled in 1999, and people debated this issue at the time. But while there may have been less likelihood that a 1999 twist would be accidentally spoiled than a 2011 one, the twist was not the entirety of the film – I've watched it at least five times (mostly in teaching), and there's a lot more there to enjoy besides who's alive or not, which is precisely why it's the only one of Shyamalan's twist films that really holds up. (I like Unbreakable a lot, but its twist is actually its weakest aspect.) Declines in the prominence of the puzzle film are not because writers are gun-shy of spoilers (which Klosterman asserts with no evidence except a hunch), but probably more due to the conventional ebb and flow of film cycles, and Hollywood's realization that creating effective puzzles is really, really hard.
Tellingly, Klosterman turns to television writers Damon Lindelof and Kyle Killen to test his hypothesis – neither confirm his take, but I think the question about the role of spoilers and twists in serial television is definitely worth discussing. No doubt that spoilers enter into a showrunner's mind and shape how they approach a narrative – see Matt Hills' recent post on this concerning Doctor Who and Steven Moffat. But again, Klosterman elides the challenges of running a serial with the fear of spoilers. He cites Lost's aborted Nikki & Paolo story as a case of fan interference shaping the narrative (which it was, although in a more complex way than he asserts), but this has nothing to do with spoilers or twists! And he quotes Lindelof's concerns that it will be hard to top Lost given heightened fan expectations as evidence that spoilers are undermining twisty storytelling, but what Lindelof really says is that fans will expect his next show to be twisty & deceptive, which makes it difficult to pull off effective narrative twists. (And I'll incorrectly lay claim to Lindelof's description of TV viewers as "forensic plot detectives" as a citation of my own work on Lost's forensic fandom!) This is the same struggle that undermined Shyamalan, as he pandered to the expected twist and failed to deliver anything approaching the success of Sixth Sense.
So Klosterman's discussion really has almost nothing to do with spoilers. Instead, he's writing about the author function, where viewers bring intertextual expectations to an established creator's new work – as Lindelof vividly states, "I know whatever I make will carry the scent of Lost — it's like I've just left a strip club." And this is as it has always been – established authors set the horizon of expectations for their next work and must adjust to either meet or foil such expectations. Perhaps that expectation is that there will be a big twist or complex puzzle, or that it will be another example of cringe comedy (as in Parks & Recreation's challenge of escaping The Office's shadow), or that it will be deep and serious (as with AMC's post-Mad Men and Breaking Bad branding), or that it will be a complex indictment of urban politics and systems (as with Treme, David Simon's follow-up to The Wire). But there's nothing new here except that television creators are now much more identified and foregrounded in fan discourse, functioning more like literary authors or film directors in the process of cultural consumption.
What about Klosterman's claim that no big twist could work today so why bother trying? Poppycock! It so happens that this piece was published only a few days after Game of Thrones aired the episode with its own giant twist (which I won't reveal here). This twist was easy to suss out for anyone who wanted to find it, given that it had been a crucial plot point in the original novel published in 1996! And certainly many viewers knew what was coming, whether they'd read the novels or not – in fact, I'm not watching the series (yet) and have never read the books, but I know what happened. But the easy access to the twist didn't stop many viewers from being completely surprised by the revelation, and even prompting protests over what transpired (as detailed in this spoilery piece). Likewise Klosterman mentions The Killing, whose core murder mystery remains unspoiled for most of us until this coming Sunday (and don't you dare post a comment spoiling me!) – yes, we watch a show like this tempering our expectations over how the mystery will be solved and sussing out false leads, as any mystery fan has done for decades across media, but again, this has nothing to do with spoilers.
What of my more personal frustration, that a smart writer with a broad readership will post something unfounded like this, while those of us academics with (hopefully) more nuanced and supported claims will go comparatively unread? While it's certainly not a level playing field, things have gotten much better on this front. Twenty years ago, had a piece like Klosterman's been published in a magazine, I would have had no avenue for a rebuttal save for a letter to the editor that at best would be published months later and probably would not have been worth my effort to write. More centrally, academics have ways to get their own research out there in a much more accessible form, making it more of an ongoing conversation than one-way launching of Great Ideas from on high, whether it's personal blogs like this one, group sites like Antenna, or just a willingness to publish in more mainstream outlets.
Overall, the success of someone like Klosterman is a good thing, as he's typically smarter about pop culture than the vast majority of journalists and bloggers. But just as Lindelof's "strip-club smell" frames our expectations for something twisty, we should be careful not to let the perfume of Klosterman's past successes in writing perceptively about popular culture mask the spoiled scent of his latest wrongheaded piece.
Filed under: Narrative, Press, Television, TV Shows	| 1 Comment
Tags: Chuck Klosterman, Game of Thrones, Grantland, Lost, puzzle films, sixth sense, spoilers, The Killing
One Response to "Spoiling Klosterman"
1 wallspro on June 17, 2011 said:
Spolier Alert!!! Klosterman wrote the whole article!


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Entire UK needs to enter Tier 4 today to avoid 'thousands of super-spreading events', leading scientists warn
Connor Parker
City centres have been quiet this year when they are usually busy in the run up to Christmas. (PA)
The whole of the UK needs to be put under Tier 4 as soon as today and any Christmas mixing needs to be cancelled in order to prevent the pandemic from getting out of control, a group of leading scientists has warned.
Independent Sage, an unofficial group of top academics that provide advice on the pandemic, warned on Thursday the new strain of the virus presented a significant risk to the nation's public health.
They said the emergence of the new variant and the possibility of more variants appearing meant there needs to be a "complete rethink of all mitigation strategies".
They said: "The situation across the UK, particularly England and Wales, is rapidly worsening."
Independent Sage added the new variant was "making a bad situation worse".
Watch: Scientists unsure why mutant strain spreads faster
Read more: More people will be in hospital with COVID on Christmas Day than at any other point in the pandemic
The new variant of COVID-19 is believed to be up to 70% more infectious than the normal strain and has been attributed to the steep rise in cases in the south-east of England.
It is mostly concentrated in the South East, but the government has acknowledged it has already spread to all parts of the country.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said around half of all new coronavirus cases in England could be the new variant discovered in the UK.
The problem with Christmas is simply this: if one person is infected with Covid-19, *especially* the new variant, very possible that by the end of a lovely Christmas Dinner & day, everyone who was there is infected.
*Please* stay home or meet outdoors (2m apart!) to save lives. https://t.co/swAIN2Ln1f
— Christina Pagel (@chrischirp) December 24, 2020
Read more: Charts show how much faster coronavirus variant is spreading in parts of England
In London, 68% of positive cases from 14 to 18 December were estimated to be genetically compatible with the new variant, while in eastern and south-east England the estimate is 65%.
Independent Sage pointed to modelling by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which estimated 90% of new cases by mid-January will be the new variant.
They said: "Christmas day mixing of households indoors for prolonged periods of time, as allowed in Tiers 1 to 3 in England and across the devolved nations, sets the scene for thousands of super-spreading events.
"In the context of the new strain, this is incredibly dangerous."
Christina Pagel, director of the Clinical Operational Research Unit at University College London, said: "The problem with Christmas is simply this: if one person is infected with COVID-19, especially the new variant, very possible that by the end of a lovely Christmas dinner and day, everyone who was there is infected."
Independent SAGE called on the government to cancel the Christmas Day rules, put all of England in Tier 4, with the devolved nations bringing forward their lockdowns to Thursday instead of Saturday and to speedup of the vaccination process.
They also called on the government to put in place an emergency plan to enable safe education at the start of the term.
The Tier 4 COVID lockdown rules explained
The government has already been forced to roll back on its planned relaxation of rules over Christmas in recent days as infections got out of control.
London and parts of the South East were put under Tier 4 on Sunday, which is equivalent to the lockdown the nation saw in November.
Millions more people are set to join London and parts of the South East and East of England in Tier 4 on Boxing Day, meaning more than 40% of England's population will be under Tier 4.
Areas moving to Tier 4 from Boxing Day are: Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, those parts of Essex not yet in Tier 4, Waverley in Surrey and Hampshire – including Portsmouth and Southampton but with the exception of the New Forest.
It comes after the UK implemented a travel ban on South Africa amid concerns over another new strain of COVID-19, which is feared to be more transmissible than that discovered in the UK.
Watch: COVID-19: What do we know about the second coronavirus variant found in the UK?


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GuocoLand to launch preview for Lentor condo project; prices start from S$1,880 psf
by Albert02 1-September-2022
GuocoLand to launch preview for Lentor condo project; prices start from S$1,880 psf. Pricing for the Lentor Modern integrated mixed-use development by Guocoland will begin previews on Friday (Sept. 2), with prices beginning at S$1,880 per square foot (psf).
In the Lentor neighborhood, this will be the first launch of a private condominium in more than 20 years. The Thomson-East Coast Line's Lentor MRT station would also be immediately integrated with it, the property developer announced in a news release on Wednesday. There will be 605 homes available, and over 80% of them will have two or three bedrooms. According to GuocoLand, each of the 2- to 4-bedroom apartments would have a separate "flex room" to accommodate various requirements.
The starting prices for the 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom apartments are approximately S$1.1 million and S$1.4 million, respectively, while the starting prices for the 3-bedroom and 4-bedroom apartments are S$1.9 million and S$2.9 million, respectively. Three 25-story residential buildings will be part of the 99-year leasehold complex, which is located on 1.7 hectares of land and has 96,000 square feet of F&B and retail space, a 12,000 square foot supermarket, and a 10,000 square foot childcare facility. By 2026, GuocoLand hopes to have the project finished.
GuocoLand's debut of the 605-unit Lentor Modern follows Frasers Property's preview of the 158-unit Sky [email protected], which began last weekend on August 27. A two-bedroom unit measuring 657 square feet (sq ft) costs approximately S$1.3 million, a three-bedroom unit measuring 893 sq ft costs S$1.7 million, and a four-bedroom unit at 1,302 sq ft costs S$2.6 million. Indicative prices for Frasers' Bedok project begin at S$1,937 psf.
The District 20 neighborhood, which includes the Ang Mo Kio, Bishan, and Thomson neighborhoods, is where Lentor Modern is located. A joint venture managed by UOL sold 98% of the 372-unit AMO Residence in the same district region over the course of its first weekend of sales, with prices starting at S$1,890 per square foot. This was around five weeks ago. In Ang Mo Kio, AMO Residence is being built by UOL Group, Singapore Land Group, and Kheng Leong Company.
The Lentor Modern by GuocoLand will feature amenities such a leisure pool, spa pool, and jacuzzi alcove in addition to a 50- and 25-meter lap pool. Additionally, there will be a magnificent clubhouse, a tennis court, indoor and outdoor gyms, and 2 distinctive lawns. The clubhouse will include a dance studio, a business lounge, two event rooms, and a games area. Anderson Primary School, Ang Mo Kio Primary School, CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School (Primary and Secondary), Mayflower Primary School, Anderson Secondary School, Presbyterian High School, Anderson Serangoon Junior College, and Nanyang Polytechnic are only a few of the nearby educational facilities.
Source: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/real-estate/guocoland-to-launch-preview-for-lentor-condo-project-prices-start-from-s1880-psf
Continue to Heartland living in Lentor — where the familiar meets the future


We are delighted to announce that Shola Coach House B&B has been shortlisted within the Tourism Business of the Year category in the Causeway Coast & Glens Business Awards.
The award sponsored by Tourism Ireland celebrates the outstanding contribution of local tourism related businesses in attracting visitors to the area and delivering excellence in customer service that enhances the profile of the Causeway Coast and Glens area through their tourism marketing.
To get to the final stage of this year's awards we need your vote - please cast your vote through the following link http://www.causewaychamber.com/vote-tourism, or email your vote to office@causewaychamber.com. Please note 1 vote per email address.
Voting will close Friday 4th September 2015.


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Thanks!!! Once I finally decide on which parasols, I'll post pics. I really want one as well for afterwards and I really like the lace parasols, albeit a little pricier.
What did you end up doing for your honeymoon? I was thinking Arenal Nayara, but haven't booked so still looking for suggestions!
Where did you end up getting your parasols from? As of now, we are getting corsages and parasols. Would you mind sharing a pic? And are you getting a parasol for yourself for pics? If so are you getting the same style, different color, or both than the bridesmaids for pictures?
Hi TrishaJ34. I've seen cute pics of the pinwheels as well! I just happened to like the parasols a little more, but there's one pic I keep running across that makes me want them! I think I'm going to have the girls walk with the parasols open. The FI thinks the guys should hold the parasols over the bridesmaids as they enter, because he says guys hold the umbrella so why is it any different. So we're deciding on this, but I've got the final say on this one. I'm actually still debating on whether the girls will walk in with the guys or individually. What are you thinking of doing? I agree, the costs of 5 bridesmaid bouquets was just not budgeted for, so this is a cute alternative. If you are still contemplating about flowers however, I ran across an article today that suggested the use of baby's breath since it is relatively inexpensive, especially compared to other flowers. So this is a thought. I may end up incorporating baby's breath along the chairs outside, maybe in mason jars, and possible a little color, but it's still cute on it's own. Just an idea! The parasols are fun though, and add to some neat pictures! If you have a coordinator, see how much rental is if you want to save more money. My coordinator is going to send a pic of the parasols she has for $2 rentals. The ones online I want are about $7 per parasol and I want a lace parasol which is a tad pricier, BUT I've cut the budget on my invites, dress and shoes so I'm considering it!
Thanks everyone for your comments/votes! I really love the orange mat. The fiance is voting for the white mat and the orange envelopes....he thinks it flows better with the white from the tree and the lines at the top since they "run off the page." Passionsarcasm, here's a pic of the orange. The problem here, is unfortunately I was comparing oranges with the samples so the cardstock back and the envelope here aren't exact matches. The cardstock I felt matched the lettering the best so I had the guy at the paper store cut this one out for me. BUT problem 2...the matting does not have a matching envelope So I would have to change the matting to go with orange cardstock and envelope....but hopefully this gives you an idea of how it would look!
Hello BDW ladies, I have my invitations printed out now and I want to dress them up a bit!! Sorry about the rotation on the second one, I couldn't get it fixed. Take the poll and help me and the fiance decide! Here is the invitation with the orange cardstock back. Here is the invitation with no cardstock backing..so "as is" Here is the invitation with the white cardstock backing (well as of now this is the envelope, I am just using it to get an idea because if I do nothing and go with the invite as is, then this "backing" that is actually the envelope will be what I send. I do however, have a love bird stamp that I am going to put on the back of the envelopes.) So if we go with the white cardstock, I'm going to buy the orange envelope. So here's an idea. Alright, what do you think? What should I go with? Thanks for all your help in advance!!
Thanks Jreist! I am strongly considering letting the flower girls throw silk petals down the aisle. I know real flowers are lovely and all, but it's such an expense for a small amount of time and just to step all over them. I am much more budget minded than I would have imagined myself being (if you knew me you would know how true this statement is lol..)! Thanks for all your advice. I like the bouquet for the bridesmaids! I looked into this as well. I think that overlooking the jungle is my favorite, however it may be where the reception will be. I can't decide...although my coordinator is pushing for all decisions to be done by the end of August.
Thank you jreist. Our weddings are one day apart! I didn't mean to say that I would look for flowers the day before, that does indeed sound hectic. Our wedding week is Jan. 16-22, and I will be arriving on the 15th to assure the rooms are prepared, the gifts for the guests are there, and to purchase all the liquor for the week. So since I was already going into town, I figured I could find flowers as well. I think I might go with the parasols and hope to find flowers, and if I do then the parasols will likely just be for the post-wedding photos. That's definitely one way of looking at it. I JUST ordered my dress last week so I hope everyone loves it as much as I do! We aren't doing the traditional beach wedding as so many destination weddings. Our wedding will be either on (1) the balcony of one of the villas or (2) the hilltop behind our villas that overlooks the jungle/ocean. Still haven't decided on this... I'm going to look into the fake flower bouquets. I had a hard time locating the one you said you used. Would you mind sending the link? Also, since you used the fake flowers, did you use silk flowers for your flower girls? Thanks again!
Distinguishing MOH dress - Ideas?
That could work right around the waist. Thank you for your idea!


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(6207) Bourvil ist ein Asteroid des Hauptgürtels, der am 24. Januar 1988 von den japanischen Astronomen Seiji Ueda und Hiroshi Kaneda an der Sternwarte (IAU-Code 399) in Kushiro entdeckt wurde.

Der Asteroid wurde am 13. April 2006 nach dem französischen Schauspieler und Chansonnier Bourvil (1917–1970) benannt, der als André Robert Raimbourg geboren wurde und den Künstlernamen Bourvil annahm, um Verwechslungen zu vermeiden.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Asteroiden

Weblinks
 Asteroid Bourvil: Discovery Circumstances gemäß dem Minor Planet Center der Internationalen Astronomischen Union bei dem Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
 Asteroid Bourvil in der Small-Body Database des Jet Propulsion Laboratory der NASA bei dem California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

Hauptgürtelasteroid unter 50 km Durchmesser
Asteroid ohne zugewiesene Asteroidenfamilie