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Translated Thursday 18 June 2009, by Henry Crapo
We are in agreement concerning most of the analysis of the problem. The movement Sauvons l'université [2] was born from the refusal to permit the pauperization of the university, but also from a refusal to permit the concentration of power in the hands of a few, chiefly the university presidents. But it appeared that the same problem was arising also in the secondary schools, with new prerogatives accorded to the junior and high school principals, via the creation of public establishments for primary education. The objective was to give the heads of establishments the right to hire, without limit, contractual personnel, thus on precarious jobs, and to grant to administrative councils, composed in part of representatives of the economic and political world, an autonomy for partial management of the schools. This perspective is an absolute catastrophe for the level of education of our children in this country, from kindergarten to university. What is taking shape has a global character and great coherence. We must pay attention to this.
What subjects for reflection and courses of action do you envisage for the coming period?
The movement has been going on now for four months. This is really the first time such a thing has happened. Whatever be the results of our demands, there is one advance in our position: the fact that our community has begun to think as a potential actor in its own transformation. It is no longer subject to the logic that has been dominant these past 15 years, a sort of passivity in face of reforms that have been imposed in little stormy periods every two or three years. This is extremely positive, and permits us to rethink matters in a more effective way, because, over and above the ideological analysis one can perform, the fundamental problem is that one doesn't reform the university in opposition to the university community. Mme Pécresse [3]
will doubtless leave for other pastures, but the university will stay put: we had better find the solutions.
This reflection will much benefit if it is carried out on a European scale. This will be the case, in particular, this Saturday 30 May, at 104 rue d'Aubervilliers [4], during a day of European encounters organized by the collective Printemps 2010, which brings together some fifteen labor unions and associations. The theme is For a Europe of Knowledge, with teacher-researchers from Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Greece who will report on their situation and their national mobilization. The idea is to spark a citizen debate on the future that we wish for higher education and research in Europe, to exchange militant experiences and prepare a European counter-summit for March 2010, to make our voices heard on the European, even international, scene.
This European dimension is one of the very important novelties in these university mobilizations. It already started to take shape in the preparations for the counter-summit in Louvain and the summit in Turin. Links were made and we were able to conclude that the questions raised in France are likewise raised in other European countries. Many of these countries have already seen mobilizations of students and university personnel. I'm thinking mainly of Greece and Italy. We need today to give life to a concertation between different movements in order to gain ground on basic questions, such as that of the university.
The way in which the university community, for the first time, has taken matters in hand, and has tried to reflect on the situation in the French universities, is very meaningful. The call that we have launched with our Manifest is written in this spirit. They used often to reproach the universities for their negative attitude. Now we have taken up the challenge, gathering together around the table persons of extremely diverse ideological backgrounds, possessing different opinions, even concerning the LRU law. We came to the conclusion that it was possible to arrive at a common diagnostic and at some propositions that we have launched for public debate. Surely we will have to wage a battle against a certain anti-academic ideology, developed with astonishing cynicism by the present national political powers, but we will also have to win a more general battle of opinion in order to make clear the value of university studies. We have to hold onto the two ends of the cord, between academic values and access to jobs. For this, I prefer to look at the problem from the other end. What type of training do we wish, in France, for those who will occupy positions for social actions of all types? And I think we can agree on the necessity for a veritable policy of higher education in France, something we do not have at present.
If we refer to the progress report on the general revision of public policy, we find clear lines of direction and a table of objectives clearly enunciated by the minister of research and higher education. It's a management version of how to pilot the universities, but it remains a public policy. We must therefore resist this managerial mode of governance that lies at the heart of neo-liberal politics.
It doesn't apply to the entirety of higher education. In particular, it doesn't deal with the certification of those institutions that deliver diplomas or with the qualifications that one may demand of persons who receive students after high school.
If it doesn't deal with those matters, it's because it doesn't want to. We must say that this policy is that promoted by the OECD for twenty years already, as made explicit in the texts of the WTO. In this respect it is tragic that the university question is not present in the campaign for the European elections. It's for this reason, in order to bring its contribution to this vital debate on the university in the European context, that the SLU has decided to make public a position paper, addressed to citizens, to political parties and candidates in the European election [5].
Among the various evils from which the university suffers, there is a lack of means. Any veritable policy of higher education passes by the allotment to the university of the means with which to accomplish its mission.
(end of the debate)
They said ...
Hugues Portelli, senator UMP, professor of political science at Paris-II, in Le Figaro of 13 Feb, 2009.
"The project outlined in this decree only draws conclusions from a law that reinforced the power of university presidents and replaced the much criticized Jacobinism of the state by a local Jacobinism that respects differences between disciplines: it reinforces the tendency, already at work, toward clientelism and localism."
Franck Lessay and Yves Zarka, professors at the Sorbonne, in Le Figaro, 1 Feb, 2009.
"The president of the university is a sort of company president governing his university with an administrative council. In doing things this way, they have confused two bodies whose separation assured the liberty and independence of universities, which are not privileges inherited from the past, but the conditions for the accomplishment of their missions of production and transmission of knowledge."
Philippe Meirieu, professor of educational science, Lyon-II, cited in the Journal du Dimanche
"The model of a mass university, with à la carte education and crowded amphitheaters, is acknowledged to be a total failure. No one wants it any more. What the parents and students want is a continuation of the mode of study in high school, with reduced class sizes."
Cynthia Guttman, November 200, in Le Courrier de l'UNESCO
"Higher education is a frontier outpost of this commercialization, ever since the establishment of close links with industry, and up to the conquest of teaching. But the new technologies are not alone in this responsibility. As Motoyo Kamiya (of the OECD) emphasizes, a vast reform of the public educational sector is under way, oriented toward and by the market. ... In a number of countries, the rules which regulate the opening of a school are weakened, and the management of public establishments passes into private hands."
Laurent Bonelli, in Le Monde diplomatique, 8 May 2009,
"The progress proclaimed by the minister and her colleagues resembles rather a regression, of which the students from working classes will be the first victims. It will be erroneous to think that the violent contradiction offered by the economic crisis to neo-liberal theories has dampened the ardor of its defenders. It suffices to glance through the recent report of the OECD, which applauds the present evolution and calls for an enlarged autonomy for universities, over and above that achieved in 2007."
[1] See also the introduction (part 1) the opening of the debate (part 2),
and its continuations
(part 3) , (part 4),
and (part 5),
which appeared earlier.
[2] "Save the university".
[3] Valérie Pécresse, minister for research and higher education
[4] address of the Artistic Establishment of the City of Paris, established in a large buillding originally used as mortuary.
[5] This text is freely available (in French) on the Mediapart site.


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The book, by Brian Raftery, is largely an oral history with observations and remembrances from such UCB alums as Ed Helms, Rob Corddry, Aubrey Plaza and many others. It's sure to be a goldmine for comedy nerds. And check it, ol' Besser's wearing a Razorbacks T shirt on the book's cover. He's a bigtime Hogs fan.


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Alaska's 16th dead gray whale for 2019 was found stranded at Surfers Beach on Kodiak Island. Dr. Emily Iacobucci of Alaska Veterinary Pathology Services lead a team to perform a necropsy of the animal July 6 and 7.
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ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - The state of Alaska is up to 22 confirmed gray whale deaths this season, according to NOAA spokesperson Julie Speegle. Seven additional sightings were confirmed over the long holiday weekend, Speegle said, with one necropsy having been completed.
The 16th gray whale, a male, was reported at Surfers Beach on Kodiak Island Friday, Speegle said, and a necropsy was performed over the weekend, though information gleaned from that necropsy was not yet available Tuesday.
Additional confirmed whale deaths reported over the weekend included three more on Kodiak Island, two at Egegik on the north side of the Alaska Peninsula, and one on Takli Island, just off the south side of the Alaska Peninsula.
The whales confirmed this weekend are above and beyond the latest numbers posted to NOAA's site dedicated to the "Unusual Mortality Event," stretching up and down the Pacific Ocean coast to Mexico.
As of June 27, the site reported 14 Alaska whales, and 85 total for the U.S. The total for the U.S., Canada and Mexico this season was reported at 171 by that date.
To report a dead, injured or stranded marine mammal, you can call the Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network at 1-877-925-7773, or report to the Coast Guard on VHF Channel 16.
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Redefining Asia: The Middle East
Simon Galpin
(Senior Advisor, Investment Promotion, and Former Managing Director, Bahrain Economic Development Board)
The world is changing. Digital disruption is sweeping the world at breakneck speed. The global balance of power oscillates in line with technological advancements and whoever is currently setting the pace. Against a backdrop of increasing acrimony between the East and West's most prominent superpowers, nations and regions are either racing to stay ahead or struggling to keep up. Amidst this frenetic landscape, unexpected champions are emerging, new alliances are being forged, and the global balance of power is shifting.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Middle East's pivot to Asia. With the US becoming a major producer of hydrocarbons in its own right, Asia has become a natural partner for the Middle East as it seeks to diversify towards technology. Trade between the two regions has boomed, with China, India, and Association of Southeast Asian Nations' economies seeing their share of trade with Gulf Cooperation Council nations rise by 12 percent between 2000 and 2016. In contrast, trade with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development fell by 21 percent over the same period.
Learning from Each Other
Both regions have much to learn from each other. The Middle East would do well to emulate Asia's government-driven pace of change, cohesive regional trade, and heavy investing behind next-generation technologies. Take China's government-led initiatives and policies to maintain relevance and competitiveness in the face of digital disruption—its Made in China 2025 policy to drive automation and intelligent manufacturing, for example. Or its investment in homegrown tech hubs like Shenzhen—home of Tencent and Huawei— which, last year, according to China Daily, saw its GDP top Hong Kong's for the first time. Regional trade in Asia accounts for a staggering 25 percent of the global total, while in the Middle East it makes up just 10 percent of the region's total.
The Middle East faces structural challenges, such as poor border agency cooperation, weak regional economic integration, and institutional inertia that can hamper progress. However, it has plenty to offer Asia in return. The drive to diversify hydrocarbon-reliant economies in the face of digital disruption has given rise to, and in some cases necessitated innovative, nimble, and often pioneering regulation. Take Bahrain, a country half the size of London that has trail blazed in terms of cryptocurrency and open-banking regulation. The Kingdom has partnered with a number of Asian economies, for example signing a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Mahrashtra to develop a framework for cooperation for FinTech innovation and knowledge exchange. Now Indian cryptocurrency exchange Belfrics is one of several FinTechs testing innovative technologies in Bahrain's regulatory sandbox.
Collaboration Going Forward
Indeed, the deepening ties and increased investment between the two regions is seeing the transfer of technologies at an exciting rate. Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei has set up a regional headquarters in Bahrain to create and accelerate the region's 5G ecosystem. Not that cooperation is limited to new technologies. Alliances are being built and bolstered on more traditional industries, too, such as Saudi Aramco's new partnership with Indian oil company Reliance.
Looking to the future, a number of opportunities for further collaboration present themselves. Cybersecurity is a key issue in the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia and the UAE receiving a significant number of the 20 billion or so global cyber attacks that occur every day. China's commitment to artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies has clear benefits here. Meanwhile, where Asian countries can sometimes struggle in meeting global standards for intellectual property and data protection, the Middle East has been developing innovative, new laws and regulation. Take Bahrain's laws that allow countries to keep their own legal jurisdiction over their data when it is being stored in the cloud in Bahrain.
Finally, the Middle East has long served as the bridge between East and West. This makes it a natural partner for a Digital Silk Road that seeks to harness the power of the digital industry to drive the development of traditional industries, shape global e-commerce, and set the gold standard for the global digital landscape. Both regions have much to learn from each other, and through collaboration, even more to gain. Their strength lies in their combined approach to disruption: not as a threat to defend against, but rather as an opportunity to adapt, innovate, and grow.
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It's official. GLOW is a hit on Netflix and fans can't wait until it comes back for another season. The look into the lives of the woman wrestlers in the 1980s is entertaining, hard-hitting, and real. Even more real that you probably realize.
While fans know that the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling actually existed, there are more real-life pro wrestling references on GLOW than you know. A great number of GLOW Easter eggs allude to real wrestling personalities. These GLOW wrestling references show a deep reverence for the sport and pay tribute to the legends that made the show possible.
The gym where the women trained couldn't have been more appropriately named. The cast of GLOW was trained by champion-level pro wrestler Chavo Guerrero, Jr.; the gym's name is a tribute to him and his equally famous father, Chavo Guerrero, Sr. Fun fact: The woman wrestlers that competed in the original GLOW were originally trained by Guerrero, Jr.'s uncle, Mando Guerrero.
If you thought Tammé was amazing as the "Welfare Queen" in GLOW, there's a reason for it. Before taking the role of Tammé, the actress Kia Stevens wrestled professionally for years in Japan and the United States as The Amazing Kong, Awesome Kong, and Kharma. Stevens was able to draw from her pro wrestling past to help enhance her character on the show.
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While the character of Mr. Monopoly is inspired by a 1980s wrestling character, the wrestler himself is played by a current independent wrestling star. Wrestling journeyman Joey Ryan portrays the character, although, somehow, Ryan's wrestling persona is even more sleazy than a rich '80s tycoon.


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US corporations advertise on hookup sites -- unwittingly
Luc OLINGA
AFP March 22, 2019
Ads for aerospace firm Pratt & Whitney appeared on hookup sites
Ads for aerospace firm Pratt & Whitney appeared on hookup sites (AFP Photo/Ali BEKHTAOUI)
New York (AFP) - Ads for major US corporations like General Electric and home improvement retail chain Lowe's are appearing, often without their knowledge, on internet hookup sites, underscoring advertisers' difficulty in controlling their digital communications.
The chaste advertisements from corporate America appear alongside highly explicit user exchanges as well as ads for lingerie or online hotel room booking services like HotelTonight, which was recently purchased by Airbnb.
They can be found on apps like Bumble and Grindr which allow users to pursue dating and casual sex but operate under terms and conditions similar to those of other tech giants.
Companies may wish to avoid associating their products with casual sex -- or they may simply believe the context is mismatched with promoting products like aircraft engines and gas turbines, according to marketing experts.
This does not always work, as the American Bankers Association discovered when its advertising appeared on Gayromeo even though the lobbying organization said it wanted to limit the campaign to platforms with financial and technological content.
"We did not intend for our ads to appear on any site or app outside of that scope and we have taken steps to prevent a recurrence," a spokesperson said.
ABA had used the Twitter Audience Platform, which allows advertisers to push ads that have already appeared on that social network to thousands of approved apps.
Advertisers must deactivate this function or block certain apps to limit their exposure but it remained unclear whether ABA had understood this.
Twitter told AFP it offered ways for clients to choose where their advertising appeared.
"It is critical for marketers to advertise against content that is right for their brands and we offer several tools to control where ads are run," a spokesperson told AFP.
- 'Not part of our strategy' -
In addition to the engineering giant GE and Lowe's, ads also regularly appear for the very buttoned-down consulting behemoth McKinsey & Company and TurboTax, which sells tax return preparation services.
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The turbine manufacturer bought advertising on Twitter, LinkedIn and on Google's network but a bug, or human error, may have caused the ads to appear elsewhere, expanding their distribution online.
GE learned of this after being contacted by AFP and temporarily suspended the ad campaign.
"This platform is not part of our advertising strategy, and we have confirmed this is an isolated case in which a third party inadvertently placed these ads," said a spokesperson for Lowe's, the second-largest US home furnishing and hardware retailer.
- Reaching a new audience? -
Employees at most of these companies said they learned their ads were present on such sites after being contacted by AFP.
Jennifer Edson Escalas, professor of marketing at Vanderbilt University said the companies' reaction showed internet advertising services were sold more based on consumer profiles than on the platforms where ads appear.
"You don't control where it is you're chasing the consumer that's your best target customer," she told AFP.
According to Hank Boyd, professor of marketing at the University of Maryland, such businesses should analyze the data collected on hookup sites.
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Ben Carson Is Half-Right About Guns and the Holocaust
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Ben Carson has upset everyone again:
Ben Carson said Thursday that Adolf Hitler's mass murder of Jews "would have been greatly diminished" if German citizens had not been disarmed by the Nazi regime.
The comment, which came during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, was similar to arguments Carson made following last week's mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., in which he defended the Second Amendment and suggested that the victims should have fought the gunman.
"I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed," Carson said.
Blitzer pushed a bit more: "Because they had a powerful military machine, as you know, the Nazis."
"I understand that," Carson said. "I'm telling you that there is a reason that these dictatorial people take the guns first."
Before getting into the details of this claim, I must confess to being unsure as to why the mere mention of this era offends people as keenly as it does. In his comments, Carson was presenting a counterfactual hypothesis. Maybe it's a bad one and he's wrong. Maybe it's a good one and he's right. But why the anger? If you don't like his case — or you think it's stupid — then explain why he's incorrect. Don't freak out just because he said the word "Nazi." Godwin's law exists to mock those who refer to the Third Reich when it doesn't apply. It's not a general prohibition on the discussion of Nazism.
Now, is Carson incorrect? Possibly, yes. It is true that the Nazi regime disarmed the Jews — and to the extent that it prohibited them from owning even knives. That fact, though, does not in and of itself mean that the Holocaust could have been prevented. Given what I know about the sentiments held by the population at large and about the remarkable efficiency of both the military and the police, it seems unlikely to me that any organized resistance could have prevailed — at least not to the extent that it could have overthrown the German state or facilitated the escape of millions of people. Unlike during the American revolution, there was no strong undercurrent of liberalism that undercut the efforts of the authorities, and, besides, many of those who were exterminated didn't know what was happening to them until it was too late. In pockets there might have been stories of heroism and uprising, sure. In fact, there were. But Carson's claim was "greatly diminished," not just "diminished," and it can therefore be judged on those grounds.
But here's the thing: Whether Carson is right or wrong in his central claim is entirely irrelevant to the more important question here, which is not "can armed people always overthrow a tyrannical government" but "does the government get to deny them the chance to try?" The right to keep and bear arms is an individual right, not a collective privilege, and individual rights do not need to be justified on practical grounds. Just as we would not deny free speech to a man simply because he seemed unlikely to win a given argument, we must not abandon our auxiliary self-defense rights on the basis that the odds might be stacked against the little guy. I'm a staunch defender of the right to keep and bear arms because I have an untouchable Lockean right to protect myself, not because I can prove definitively that I will never be outgunned. Would I necessarily win in a fight against a home intruder? No, I would not. Would I necessarily survive if the government or the police wanted me dead? No, I would not. But I will assert my unalienable right to try against any man at any time in any place, and those who hope to strip me of that chance can man up, head to my front door, and come and damn well take it.
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Q: How to combine a query search to show certain defined values at the same time as not showing specific defined values? The goal is filter out a search result so that the result shows a certain value and filtering out other undesirable values. I'm thinking of a combination between IN and NOT IN? Basically, in the provided example here, the goal is to retrieve the courses that Lennart has taught but not Alan or Kjell.
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TIG162           Affarssystem                    Kjell
TIG162           Affarssystem                    Kjell
TIG162           Affarssystem                    Kjell
TIG162           Affarssystem                    Lennart
TIG162           Affarssystem                    Lisen
TIG162           Affarssystem                    Lisen
TIG162           Affarssystem                    Lisen
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Alan
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Faramarz
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Janne
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Lennart
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Alan
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Faramarz
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Lennart
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Faramarz
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Lennart
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Maria
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Lennart
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Maria
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Alan
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Faramarz
TIG163           Beslutsstodsystem               Lennart
TIG067           Examensarbete                   Johan
TIG067           Examensarbete                   Kalle
TIG067           Examensarbete                   Magnus
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TIA004           Forandringsledning              Kalle
TIG167           Fordjupning i programmering     Dina
TIG167           Fordjupning i programmering     Janne
TIG167           Fordjupning i programmering     Henrik
TIG167           Fordjupning i programmering     Kjell
TIG167           Fordjupning i programmering     Henrik
TIG167           Fordjupning i programmering     Rikard
TIG167           Fordjupning i programmering     Henrik
TIG167           Fordjupning i programmering     Kjell
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TIG065           IT ledning styrning och strate  Kalle
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The retrieved tuples should be:

Any suggestions on how the query should look like?

A: You can use conditional aggregation:
select knamn
from t
group by knamn
having sum(namn = 'Lennart') > 0 and
       sum(namn = 'Alan') = 0 and
       sum(namn = 'Kjeli') = 0 ;

It might be a wee bit more efficient to filter before aggregation, in which case you can just use:
select knamn
from t
where namn in ('Lennart', 'Alan', 'Kjeli')
group by knamn
having min(namn) = max(namn) and min(namn) = 'Lennart';

A: With NOT EXISTS:
select distinct t.course from tablename t
where name = 'Lennart'
and not exists (select 1 from tablename where course = t.course and name in ('Alan', 'Kjell'));

If you want to use IN, then this is the simplest way:
select distinct course from tablename
where name = 'Lennart'
and course not in (select course from tablename where name in ('Alan','Kjell'));

A: Another approach using in and not in
select distinct course from table
where
   name = 'Lennart'
   and
   course not in (select course from table where name in ('Alan','Kjeli');

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Cancellation of bundled-payment models reflects White House's stance on value-based care
Virgil Dickson
The CMS cut the number of locations mandated to participate in the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model from 67 to 34.
The Trump administration's moves to cancel two mandatory bundled-payment models and scale back on another means the CMS has to work hard to push providers into value-based care, experts say.
On Tuesday, the CMS cut the number of locations mandated to participate in the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement, or CJR, model from 67 to 34. It also canceled Episode Payment Models and the Cardiac Rehabilitation incentive payment models that were supposed to begin on Jan. 1, 2018.
The agency said the rules were too burdensome to providers. But some experts worry that might give off the wrong impression.
"There are going to be a lot of physicians out there who think they are getting a pass," said Dr. John Bulger, chief medical officer for Geisinger Health Plan, which concentrates on value-based care. Bulger wonders if enough providers will be attracted to voluntary models to create a "tipping point" that moves Medicare away from fee-for service.
Robert Seehausen Jr, senior vice president of business development and sales at Novant Health, a multi-state health system with 15 hospitals said he was skeptical that voluntary models will move the needle enough. He says he's seen the benefit that the mandatory CJR model has had in bettering patient experience.
Sabra Rosener, vice president and government relations officer at UnityPoint Health, a multi-health system with 32 hospitals had mixed feelings about Tuesday's announcement. Her system wasn't quite ready to launch the new cardiac models, she said.
"But then we thought what does this mean for value-based payments especially now that Patrick Conway is gone," Rosener said. Conway was the director of the CMS' Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, which creates and pilots new payment models. The center has been in the crosshairs of HHS Secretary Tom Price, who slammed the mandatory aspect of models introduced during the Obama administration.
Conway, who was a major advocate of value-based care, last week announced he was exiting the agency to become CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.
The CMS' decision to cancel EPM and CR models without offering even voluntary alternatives to replace them could be viewed as preference for fee-for service, according to Blair Childs, senior vice president of public affairs at consulting firm Premier.
Over the past few months, the CMS has insisted it was scaling back CJR and canceling the cardiac pay models with the aim of attracting more providers to participate.
Remedy Partners, a company that helps hospitals and physicians with bundled-payment programs doesn't view the rule as a warning that value-based pay will go away given that there's too much evidence that voluntary models like ACOs are starting to generate savings.
Doctors working under fee-for-service models often bill for many expensive but unnecessary services that don't necessarily result in better care.
Eventually even without mandatory pay models, providers will still move to value-based care eventually as patients attracted to hospitals that offer the highest quality of care, according to Christopher Garcia, CEO of Remedy Partners.
The CMS now needs to work to ensure there are adequate incentives to get enough providers on board with voluntary models. One way to do this is to ensure that the models will count as participating under MACRA, Bulger said.
The structure of pay models can also be administratively burdensome and they can be streamlined to make them easier to roll out. Each model often comes with rules that are hundreds of pages long.
"They are so administratively complex that you end up with more paper cuts than actually driving better care outcomes," said Elizabeth Kissick, vice president of payor relations and network development at University of Colorado Medicine, a multi-specialty academic practice with 2,400 providers.
The CMS should also put more focus on creating multi-payer models like Comprehensive Primary Care Plus, or CPC+, according to Trudi Matthews, Senior Policy Advisor at UK HealthCare, a multi-site system in Kentucky.
Under that model, the aim is to improve health outcomes and lower costs not only for Medicare beneficiaries but for consumers enrolled in commercial plans and other coverage options, such as insurer-managed Medicaid plans.
"If we're going to invest heavily in value base care we need to be paid differently by all our payors," Matthews said. "Otherwise you'll always have one foot in fee-for service."
The federal government has continue to see its Medicare costs rise. In 2016, Medicare covered 56.8 million people and expenditures were $678.7 billion up from $647.6 billion and 55.3 million beneficiaries in 2015. The Medicare Trust Fund is on track to run out of money in 2029.
An edited version of this story can also be found in Modern Healthcare's Aug. 21 print edition.


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YUHSpace: Detection of small intrahepatic metastases of hepatocellular carcinomas using diffusion-weighted imaging: comparison with conventional dynamic MRI.
Detection of small intrahepatic metastases of hepatocellular carcinomas using diffusion-weighted imaging: comparison with conventional dynamic MRI.
PURPOSE: The purpose of our study was to compare diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) with conventional dynamic MRI in terms of the assessment of small intrahepatic metastases from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: In 24 patients with multifocal, small (≤2 cm) intrahepatic metastatic foci of advanced HCC, a total of 134 lesions (≤1 cm, n=81; >1 cm, n=53) were subjected to a comparative analysis of hepatic MRI including static and gadopentetate dimeglumine-enhanced dynamic imaging, and DWI using a single-shot spin-echo echo-planar MRI (b values=50, 400 and 800 s/mm(2)), by two independent reviewers. RESULTS: A larger number of the lesions were detected and diagnosed as intrahepatic metastases on DWI [Reviewer 1, 121 (90%); Reviewer 2, 117 (87%)] than on dynamic imaging [Reviewer 1, 107 (80%); Reviewer 2, 105 (78%)] (P<.05). For the 81 smaller lesions (≤1 cm), DWI was able to detect more lesions than dynamic imaging [Reviewer 1, 68 (84%) vs. 56 (69%), P=.008; Reviewer 2, 65 (80%) vs. 55 (68%), P=.031], but there was no statistically significant difference between the two image sets for larger (>1 cm) lesions. CONCLUSION: Due to its higher detection rate of subcentimeter lesions, DWI could be considered complementary to dynamic MRI in the diagnosis of intrahepatic metastases of HCCs.


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FedEx CupFedEx Cup
How To Watch PGA TOURHow To Watch PGA TOUR
Masters.comMasters.com
Keegan Bradley: Just living the dream
10yTom Lakin
How to watch the PGA Tour's Sony Open on ESPN+
Who will take a step back and who will take a step forward in 2022 on the PGA Tour?
PGA Tour best bets: Sony Open
5dESPN Betting Insiders
Henley shoots 67, owns 2-shot lead at Sony Open
Henley surges, leads Sony Open by 3 as Na fades
Na matches his career low with 61 at Sony Open
World, Australasian tours strengthen partnership
Golf writer, broadcaster Tim Rosaforte dies at 66
Lowry on Saudi: 'Just trying to make a living'
5dReuters
Watson to join Nicklaus, Player for Masters start
DeChambeau withdraws from Hawaii's Sony Open
C. Smith smashes PGA Tour scoring mark in win
Rahm, Smith pull away from TOC field at Kapalua
Smith recovers from rocky start, up 3 at Kapalua
Purse for U.S. Women's Open increases to $10M
Cantlay, Rahm off to good starts at Kapalua
Stricker recovering after weekslong hospital stay
Max Homa is ready to be known for more than just being golf's 'Twitter guy'
11dJosh Weinfuss
Hovland finally reunited with clubs in Hawaii
How to watch the PGA Tour, Masters, PGA Championship and FedEx Cup playoffs on ESPN, ESPN+
PGA Tour golf best bets: Sentry Tournament of Champions
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Tom Lakin
NORTON, Mass. -- The unlikely new face of New England golf -- and perhaps, in this Tiger-less PGA Tour landscape starving for American stars, of the sport itself --- is poised on the lip of the Red Sox's dugout on a beautiful Tuesday afternoon in Boston. It's an hour and a half before Game 1 of an August homestand against the Yankees, and the seats are still for the most part vacant. The golfer, 9-iron thin and with black, curly hair spilling out from under a Red Sox cap, is staring out into the green maw of The Monster. "This is unbelievable," Keegan Bradley, PGA Tour rookie and major champion, is saying.
A relieved Keegan Bradley pumps his fist after putting the ball over the plate when throwing out the first pitch of a Red Sox game earlier this week. AP Photo/Winslow Townson
He's here to fulfill a lifelong dream -- throwing out the first pitch at Fenway, part of the Deutsche Bank Championship's weeklong cross-pollination with the local baseball club. It's one of many such dreams Bradley has checked off during a whirlwind month since his come-from-behind win at the PGA Championship in Atlanta. This isn't his first time at the park -- the Woodstock, Vt., native is a rabid Boston sports fan who earlier this summer received an invitation to hang out on the field and watch batting practice after rocketing onto the local sports scene with his win at the Byron Nelson Championship in May -- but it's certainly his first time taking the mound, this mound, with the Fenway lights ablaze and the seats filled and thousands of fans screaming his name. But he's no pitcher, this 25-year-old New England kid, just a boyish golf whiz wearing a blue Jimmy Fund polo shirt that hangs loose on his tall frame, and he's looking, on this August day in Boston, nearly nauseous with nerves.
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Bradley stands at an interesting crossroads in his golfing life, straddling a narrow chasm between relative anonymity and spectacular professional fame. On one hand, he's a major championship winner, a rising star who's all but a lock for PGA Tour Rookie of the Year honors. On the other hand, he's still just a small-town kid from Vermont who gets nervous walking into Fenway Park -- a greenhorn at this celebrity thing, still worried about giving clichéd answers at news conferences, still shocked whenever someone recognizes him. But if he keeps playing the way he has recently, he'd better get used to the attention. On a tour that features an ailing Phil Mickelson, a growing number of talented foreign players and a Tiger Woods-sized hole just waiting to be filled by a young American hotshot, Bradley could soon find himself standing squarely in the center of American golf.
'We always knew he was going to make it'
Growing up in Woodstock, a tiny town of 3,200 along the Ottauquechee River in Vermont, Bradley lived what his mother, Kaye, calls "a very Norman Rockwell lifestyle." His father, Mark, worked as a PGA professional at a local country club, and during the summer, a young Keegan would follow his dad to the course, clubs in hand.
"I was a lucky father in that I was able to bring my son with me to work every single day and just have him there," Mark says. "And he was such a good kid, I gotta tell you. I never had to kick him out of the pro shop. He never did anything to get me in trouble. All he did was just practice, practice, play, play, play."
When Keegan wasn't golfing with Dad or with his aunt, LPGA Hall of Famer Pat Bradley, he was skiing with Mom, racing down Vermont slopes with enough skill to harbor a realistic dream of one day competing for the U.S. Ski Team in the Olympics. But on one especially frigid New England day, strapped to skis and freezing at the top of a mountain, a teenaged Bradley decided his future was in golf. After that, his dad says, it was all but impossible to get him off the course.
"He just has such a joy for the game, more than anyone I know," Mark says. "I even said to him a few times, 'Keegan, why don't you take today off and just go and do other stuff, go hang out around town, just do something else?' And finally one day -- I'll never forget it -- he just said, 'Dad, do me a favor: Don't say that anymore, because that's not what I want to do. I want to come with you and play golf.' And I said 'OK,' and that was that."
When Keegan was a teenager, his parents split up and Mark moved to Hopkinton, Mass., to be the assistant pro at Hopkinton Country Club. When Keegan was 17, he followed his dad to Hopkinton, enrolling in Hopkinton High School for his senior year and joining the golf team. There he met Jon Curran, the team's No. 1 player and a top-ranked junior golfer. The two became good friends and together went on to win the Division II state championship in the fall of 2003.
"It was in Beverly, Mass.," Keegan says of the state final. "I shot 69 and we won. I won individually, and our team won by 21 shots. I had Jon on my team, who was an All-American and went to Vanderbilt on a full scholarship. I also had Kim Donovan on my team, who went to Duke on a full scholarship. I always say my high school team my senior year was better than my college team my freshman year. We were really, really good."
Winning the PGA Championship in dramatic fashion was a game-changer for an awestruck Keegan Bradley. AP Photo/David J. Phillip
Bradley's coach at Hopkinton High, Dick Bliss, remembers his now-famous pupil as a quiet, hardworking young man who could hit the ball a mile but was content to exist in the shadow of the more nationally known Curran.
"You have to remember that Jon was one of the best players in the state," Bliss says. "Keegan didn't win a lot of junior golf championships. He was always kind of an underdog. But he practiced so hard. He was always out on the range, and if he wasn't on the range, he was on the putting green."
Still, Bliss says, whenever the two talked about golf, Bradley would remind his coach that someday he would make it big.
"He would always say, 'You know, Coach, I'm going to be really good one day,' Bliss says. "And there was no doubt in my mind. I'd tell him, 'I know you're going to do really well one day.' And he sure did."
From Hopkinton, Bradley went on to St. John's University in Queens, N.Y. He was recruited by several Southern schools, Bliss says, but chose St. John's -- not typically regarded as a high-profile golf school -- because of its close proximity to Bethpage Black, host of two U.S. Opens. Bradley says the continued time out of the national golf spotlight helped fuel his dedication.
"Part of my DNA is a little bit of a chip on my shoulder," he says. "And with St. John's, no one thought a professional golfer was going to come out of there. And living in Queens, well, Queens has a little chip on its shoulder, too. It's all a part of who I am, and if you take St. John's and those four years out, I probably wouldn't be here."
After St. John's came one-year stints on the Hooters and Nationwide tours, where Bradley played well enough in 2010 to earn his PGA Tour card for 2011. After that, Mark Bradley says, "Everything happened so fast."
"I went to the first PGA event that Keegan was in, at the Sony Open in Hawaii," Mark says, "because I wanted to hear his name on the first tee: 'Keegan Bradley, Woodstock, Vt.' And I heard that, and it was emotional, it was wonderful. Keegan even said he got emotional walking down the fairway, because he's thinking, 'Here I go. This is it.' Then I went to the Bob Hope Classic, where he tied for seventh, won a nice check. And then Torrey Pines [for the Farmers Insurance Open], where he birdied the last three holes. Then, after Riviera [the Northern Trust Open, where Bradley missed the cut], I went back to work. Then Keegan won the Byron Nelson Championship, and then -- well, you know what happened after that."
What happened after that is now the stuff of legend: Bradley, staring down a 5-stroke deficit late Sunday at the PGA Championship, rallied back from a triple-bogey on the 15th hole to tie a fading Jason Dufner after 72 regulation holes, then went birdie-par-par in the playoff to win the whole thing, just the third player to win a major championship in his first attempt.
For Bliss, watching at home in Massachusetts, Bradley's comeback topped them all.
"I've seen some great comebacks," Bliss says. "I saw the Red Sox in 2004 come back from three games down to beat the Yankees, but Keegan coming back from 5 shots down to win the PGA takes the all-time comeback in my book."
Kaye was there at the course in Atlanta with Bradley's younger sister Madison and her 10-month-old son, Aiden, whom Keegan calls his good luck charm. Mark Bradley watched the final round on TV, deciding at the last minute to stay home to avoid potentially upsetting the chemistry of his son's magical run. When the playoff ended and his son punched the air with two triumphant fists, Mark says he was surprisingly composed.
"I don't know," he says. "Maybe it's because I'm getting older, but I've been pretty relaxed with this whole thing. It's what Keegan has wanted since he was a little boy, and you know, his mom and I feel like we've raised him right. He's a modest kid. He came from modest means. This wasn't a surprise to us. He's a very fine golfer, and I've known it since he was a little boy."
Kaye adds, "I think we always knew he was going to make it."
Getting used to instant fame
Now, nearly a month after his PGA victory, Bradley stands on the Fenway Park dirt, 140 miles and a world away from Woodstock, Vt., waiting for play-by-play announcer Don Orsillo to call him to the mound. The seats are filled now, and Bradley is nervously fidgeting by the Red Sox's dugout. He is 14th in the FedEx Cup standings going into the Deutsche Bank Championship this weekend at TPC Boston. He is the 29th-ranked golfer in the world. He is a major champion, and, having won more than $3.4 million in 2011, he is rich. But with the spotlight looming, he's holding tighter than ever to his New England roots.
"I'm so proud of my New England heritage," he says. "I'm just a small-town kid who got a good chance."
Here at Fenway, standing under the glare of stadium lights on the cusp of overwhelming fame, Bradley looks every inch the awestruck New England kid he swears he is.
"I'm feeling good, man," he is saying, warming up his arm for the first pitch. "Other than the fact that I feel like I'm going to fall over."
Just then, Orsillo comes on the PA.
"Tonight we are joined by a rising star in the world of golf," he booms.
"Here we go," Bradley says. He pulls his Sox cap snug on his head, takes a deep breath and, as a national audience cheers, he jogs out into the lights.
Tom Lakin is covering this week's Deutsche Bank Championship for ESPNBoston.com.


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Boozman Cosponsors Bill to Protect Farmers from Costly Regulations
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Boozman cosponsored legislation to amend the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Rule and ease the regulatory compliance for farms. Introduced by Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor, this bipartisan legislation would reduce the regulatory burden of SPCC for farmers and ranchers in Arkansas and across the country.
"The EPA is continuing its assault on America's farms with another excessive regulation that would be costly to our nation's agri-businesses," Boozman said. "This legislation will prevent Arkansas farmers and ranchers from having to spend money on equipment just to comply with another extreme regulation."
"The EPA's proposed fuel storage rules would force thousands of farmers to pay for costly infrastructure projects—along with an extensive inspection and certification process—that they simply don't need," Pryor said. "Our bipartisan, common-sense bill would exempt small farms from this regulatory overreach to save them millions in unneeded costs."
In addition to Boozman, the legislation is cosponsored by James Inhofe (R-OK), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Thad Cochran (R-MS), and Mike Johanns (R-NE).
"As I have been saying for years, the EPA is doing everything it can to regulate Americans out of business, and he has his sights on the agriculture industry as well," Inhofe said. "It is unnecessary to force farmers to comply with oil spill regulations that were designed for refineries. Our common-sense legislation makes an exemption from the SPCC rule to any farmer who has less than 42,000 total gallons of oil storage capacity and no single tank larger than 10,000 gallons. This will exempt the vast majority of farmers from having to fill out volumes of paperwork, spend significant sums to buy new storage equipment, and protect them from the aggressive enforcement actions of the EPA. I am proud to work with Senator Pryor on this issue."
"I am pleased to join my colleagues in offering a bipartisan legislative solution that raises the exemption levels for fuel storage capacity to better reflect the spill risk and financial resources of farms. The FUELS Act will go a long way in providing common sense regulatory relief for farmers in Nebraska and across the country," Fischer said.
"The EPA rule is onerous and poses a significant financial burden for farmers. We are offering a reasonable solution that addresses spill risks without threatening the viability of small farming operations," Cochran said.
"This bill provides farmers and ranchers much-needed relief from burdensome regulations," Johanns said. "There is no question that we need to protect the land around us, but a one-size-fits-all approach that fails to acknowledge that a farm is different from a gas station unnecessarily hurts the ag community and unnecessarily adds to compliance costs."
Under EPA's plan, farmers who have oil and gas tanks on their farms will be required to hire a certified professional engineer to design a Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plan – just like major oil refineries. They may also be required to purchase new capital equipment to comply with the rule, including dual containment tanks on farm trucks and fuel storage units that will unnecessarily raise the cost of farming.
This bill will exempt farmers from these regulations for aboveground oil storage tanks that have an aggregate storage capacity of less than 10,000 gallons. In addition to providing this exemption, it will also allow farmers who are regulated and have less than 42,000 gallons of above ground storage capacity to self-certify their own plans. This will dramatically decrease costs by eliminating the need to hire a professional engineer – of which there are very few available to farmers to complete these plans.
The Senators have been working to reduce the regulatory burden of SPCC rule for some time. In June 2011, Pryor and Inhofe, along with a bipartisan group of 31 other Senators sent a bipartisan letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson requesting that EPA extend the implementation timeline for the amended SPCC rule for farmers, and work to ensure that the rule is not overly burdensome or confusing. In November 2011, EPA quietly announced on its website that it would be extending the SPCC compliance date to May 10, 2013 - a victory for farmers struggling to comply with the rule.
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For the last few weeks, the draft regulation on the system of authors' rights applicable to programmes broadcast online by radio and television channels (the so-called SatCab regulation) has given rise to myriad position statements and an intense flurry of press releases. Furthermore, on Monday, the film institutes brought together under the EFADs umbrella called on MEPs not to call into question the principle of the territoriality of rights, being of the opinion that "the country-of-origin principle will complicate the funding of films, series and documentaries, and particularly European co-productions" (read the open letter).
Having assembled in a plenary session in Strasbourg on 12 December, the European Parliament finally decided to follow the line adopted by its Legal Affairs Committee on 21 November (see the news) and limit the permission offered to broadcasters to circulate their programmes online in other EU member states to news and general information programmes only.
This was a missed opportunity, in the eyes of the project's rapporteur for the Parliament, German MEP Tiemo Wölken, who had been hoping for a rejection of this negotiating mandate with the other European institutions. His point of view, as he explained to his colleagues, was to offer European citizens access to more content and to give authors and creators the chance to receive greater remuneration. Meanwhile, European Commissioner for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip, who sees his initial proposal reduced to its bare bones, mentioned "the feeling of being stuck in the 20th century" owing to a position that is "disappointing for citizens, creators and cultural diversity".
Now we must wait for the European ministers to agree on the "overall approach" to be adopted by the Council during the trialogue discussions. Here, too, opinions are divided among those countries that advocate the broadest possible application of the country-of-origin principle, those that wish to limit its scope, and those that want to protect the funding model based on the territoriality of rights at all costs. The Estonian presidency is suggesting a compromise that would limit transnational online broadcasting to those works produced and funded exclusively by the broadcaster, or commissioned and owned exclusively by it, and which would exclude co-productions (encompassing both films and TV series). Either way, the country-of-origin principle will not be able to run counter to any agreements on exhibition rights signed by co-producers. The matter still has to be discussed on 15 December by the ambassadors in Coreper.


Over the past year, I have been honored to interview for the DealMakers Podcast many of the most successful entrepreneurs around the world.
Some of these entrepreneurs I interviewed have created multiple businesses. Yet, my recent conversation with Duke Rohlen uncovered a serial M&A expert who seems to have mastered the full cycle of hyper-growth companies.
Here's a glimpse at his story behind the scenes, his tips for raising over $400 million, landing top tier investors, and having billions of dollars in exits (listen to the full podcast episode here).
Duke was 22 when he graduated from Stanford. He and his co-founder launched a restaurant chain that grew to 10 locations, 500 employees, and $20 million in sales. Though while he loved the idea of being entrepreneurial, he did not like the idea of running restaurants or retail. So, he went back to school and got his MBA at Harvard.
He says he came out of business school with not only the experience of having been an entrepreneur but with more practical and pragmatic skill sets that could be applied to the healthcare industry.
One of his first companies was FoxHollow Technologies. The business was focused on developing a technology that would clean plaque out of peripheral arteries in patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease (PAD). He helped take that company public and then sold it for $780 million. Then the company was sold again two and a half years later for around $3 billion.
He learned a lot and took those skills into the next company he founded, which was CV Ingenuity. Like FoxHollow, CV Ingenuity was also focused on improving patient outcomes in the treatment of PAD.
CV Ingenuity's novel technology was a drug-coated balloon that could be delivered minimally invasively to an occluded artery, and, after the balloon was inflated and the drug payload was delivered, blood flow would be restored, restenosis inhibited, and natural vessel healing would occur. The company raised $30 million and got acquired for about $300 million within three years, with just 22 people on staff.
The next company Duke co-founded, built and then exited was Spirox, Inc. which had a focus on improving the quality of life for patients suffering from nasal obstruction. Ultimately the company was acquired by Entellus Medical for over $200 million.
After this incredible journey, Duke still felt he could continue making a difference and built Epix Therapeutics. This was, in essence, a medical device manufacturer of cardiac ablation systems to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias. This ended up being a $350 million exit, on about $60 million invested.
His most recent company is Ajax Health which will source and provide operational and financial capabilities to a diversified portfolio of emerging medical device companies. The company has raised over $120 million from investors such as KKR.
Rohlen says "the M&A process is as much art as it is science, meaning that there is an enormous amount of pre-work that goes into creating a transaction." You don't sell companies. A company is a strategic acquisition by an acquirer. This requires a totally different approach than just hoping you can shop your startup around one day.
Duke told the DealMakers audience "I know when I start a company who the buyer is and why that buyer needs our technology. I engage with that buyer consistently over the lifespan of our company." He already knows his exit and is working to achieve that before he buys or launches a company.
To achieve these deals you really need to focus on establishing trust. Trust with people who you work with, your employees, trust with your financial backers, and also trust with the people that are ultimately going to be the acquirers.
Duke believes that trust is the conduit of influence, and confidence is a byproduct of trust. You are going to need to demonstrate integrity and competence to build and earn that trust.
Perhaps the most important point in terms of selling companies is having optionality. That means the ability to go and sell the company or not.
Duke says it's a little bit like dating.
Success in these types of deals really comes down to three main things. Only this entrepreneur has taken the steps and flipped them upside down.
Technologies are going to have to morph, and you're going to need a team that can be nimble to drive a technology that originally makes sense but needs to be optimized, or to develop new capabilities around a technology that you didn't anticipate when you started the company. Otherwise, you'll quickly be irrelevant and won't be going far.
Duke's advice for others considering the M&A game is to first do your homework upfront. You should be able to de-risk with $3 million or less and have the ability to exit in 48 months or less. Remember the 6P rule about prior preparation.
Then, of course, follow your gut. Because you can't sell something, and you can't believe in something unless your gut is behind it 100%.


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Colleen Ritzer Sexual Homicide: Trial for Savage Killer Teen Begins in MA
The teen who subjected popular schoolteacher Colleen Ritzer to one of the most brutal sexual homicides in Massachusetts' history will have his day in court soon.
Jury selection in the rape and murder trial of Philip Chism begins next week, after several attempts to dismiss the charges failed and the courts refused to allow the boy to be tried as a juvenile.
Chism was only 14 when he followed Ritzer into a ladies' room dressed in a hood and surgical gloves, then raped her at knifepoint, slit her throat, wheeled her body out of the building in a dumpster, and obscenely abused and "posed" the corpse in woods bordering school grounds.
Then, just as any skilled serial killer would do, Philip Chism meticulously cleaned himself up with a change of dress brought beforehand, took his victim's underwear as a keepsake, and, using her stolen credit card, treated himself to dinner and a movie.
He was apprehended later in the night, confessing to police during videotaped questioning that Ms. Ritzer had used a "a trigger word" at school that day and "that's when I became the teacher."
A few weeks after he was booked into a youth detention center, the suspect then assaulted a female corrections officer there, attempting the same atrocities on her before he was subdued by the 29-year-old woman's coworkers.
Prior records show a host of previous addresses for this towering teenager, who, at the time of his "premeditated" crimes against 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer, was said to have only recently moved to her state from Tennessee.
In fact, moving around a lot is evidently what the Chism family did, although whether this pattern was established out of poverty or, instead, to help young Philip escape detection for similar acts of depravity is yet unknown.
Experts do know that a disrupted and abusive upbringing can sometimes lead a very small minority of males to develop an appetite for deadly sexual violence -- significantly less than one percent, statistically speaking.
However, the sophistication of Chism's planning against both his teacher and the female prison guard belies the kind of criminal experience that just doesn't happen at the very first strike, especially for a minor:
"Everything has to have a first instance," explained Dr. Don Condie, a clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. But, he cautioned, "it would be unusual for the first time to be such a serious crime as a sexual homicide."
Lawyers for Chism are expected to present an insanity defense, backed up by testimony from a psychiatrist renown for testifying on behalf of accused serial killers and mass murderers.
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Trump-Kim summit in Singapore all but set
A meeting is almost certainly due to take place between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump in Singapore, where VIP security and other preparatory measures have been underway.
South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday that Kim's Ilyushin-62M private jet departed Pyongyang airport, and a cargo plane that had accompanied the North Korean leader on his recent visit to China had also left earlier in the day, both likely headed for Singapore.
Singapore's Straits Times newspaper reported later on Sunday that Kim had arrived in the country.
If everything goes according to plan, Trump and Kim will meet at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa on Tuesday in the first ever US-North Korea summit.
But the high-stakes meeting remains subject to Trump's temper. Formerly, the US president has several times threatened to scrap his plans for the summit, has once cancelled it, and has then reinstated it before suggesting that he may walk out of the meeting if it doesn't go well.
The Capella Hotel (C) on Sentosa Island in Singapore is pictured on June 6, 2018. (Photo by AFP)
Reports say the main goal of the summit is to discuss North Korea's denuclearization.
Trump has boasted that a deal may be struck. But details have been scarce, and a potential deal is not a certainty.
Even if no concrete give-and-take occurs, however, some say the meeting would still serve as a publicity success for both Trump and Kim, who had less than six months ago been exchanging angry insults.
The US president, who was in Canada to attend a meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations (G7), departed early for the meeting with the North Korean leader.
Trump is scheduled to arrive at Singapore's Paya Lebar Airbase on Sunday and stay at the Shangri-La Hotel, according to the White House.
Accompanying Trump on the trip are US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Adviser John Bolton, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, and White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.
Ahead of the summit on June 12, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is to hold separate meetings with Kim and Trump on Sunday and Monday, respectively, possibly to make final diplomatic preparations.
Security is reported tight at and around Singapore's Capella Hotel. Guards have set up checkpoints at the entrances and only guests or authorized personnel are allowed in.
The Kim-Trump summit announcement came after several months of unprecedented cordial diplomacy between South and North Koreas, which had been adversaries for decades.
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