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He's stolen our hearts again, and this version of Tiger Woods may be the most interesting of them all
By Michael Bamberger
So here we are: summer heat, a long, soft traditional American golf course, Tiger Woods, in the press tent, on the driving range, on the course, talking about the Ryder Cup, working on his feels, coming up with a game plan in an effort to win his fifth PGA Championship and his 15th major championship. He's won the others at Medinah in 1999 and 2006, at Valhalla in 2000 and at Southern Hills in 2007. It's always hot at the PGA. He's won it four times in the heat, on hard courses with traditional set-ups. Here comes Bellerive, in the dog days of summer, St. Louis-style. Here it comes.
You remember his last outing. Not Firestone, where he never had anything, really. No, we're talking about those heart-stopping minutes on Sunday at the Open Championship, when we let ourselves think about the prospect of him breaking this 10-year ohfer. The unthinkable. He was close at Carnoustie, for a while. It goes without saying that he's playing his best golf in the last five years. You could make the case that the Tiger Woods we've seen this year is the most interesting version of the man and golfer we have ever seen. More frail, more open, more honest, less good at golf. More human.
All through the year, at every tournament in which he plays, you hear the low, plaintive voices of grown men rising above the din: "Love you, Tiger!" No matter how often you hear it, it's striking. Woods is historically great, whether you measure him against other golfers, other athletes, other anythings.
Watching Tiger Woods move through a course and a round, without a wasted step or word, is a thrill for anyone who appreciates seeing a difficult thing done well. Woods has provided excitement in our lives in a way few others have. But does any of that suggest … love?
For most of the past quarter-century, we've had a lopsided deal with Tiger Woods. He pulled off all those shots, signed all those cards, kissed all those trophies and cashed all those checks. We got to watch, and to hear him say, "Sometimes you get a little lucky." Who could relate to him? He was the '27 Yankees, year after year. As he once told his wife, quashing a celebration after another win, "This is what we do." He was a winning machine.
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The stiletto parade came and went (late in '09, early in '10), then the painful (and needless) public mea culpa, followed by divorce. But nothing really had changed. When he won three times in 2012 and five times in 2013 it felt pretty much like business as usual. He won. We clicked over to Golf Channel and said, "He did it again."
And now we are in the final full month of this summer of love. When he missed the cut at Shinnecock, a pall washed over the place. Then came Carnoustie. Woods stood on the 11th tee in the final round as the outright leader of golf's oldest championship. Despite the high winds off the North Sea, there was no air.
He owned the tournament, the moment, every spectator, reporter and photographer, some of the players. Tiger's two kids were on hand, dressed in mini-me red-and-black outfits, along with his girlfriend. Maybe Woods wanted it too much. Maybe he was not ready. He collapsed. His game fell apart, as scores of other elite players in that high-altitude place have done before him. This was a different, this was the more human Tiger Woods on full display. When he reached the home green, the outpouring of reverence—and maybe love—for the golfer and man from the game's most empathetic fans was overwhelming. His hat came off—his father's bald spot is more prominent now—and he waved grimly and with emotion. The new Tiger, playing not like the old Tiger, but better than he has in years.
The most on-the-ground, communal fan passion I have ever felt for Tiger came at the 1997 Masters, when he won by 12, in his first major as a pro. That is, until I attended the late-winter stop in Tampa, the Valspar. Woods was a 12th-hour entrant and the Tour's hype department didn't have time to add a third shift. But by Sunday, when Woods was two shots off the lead, the atmosphere was almost chaotic. All these men, exclaiming all this love. What was up with that? Likely more than we could know.
He's carried a heavy bag practically his whole life and tried to make it look easy. The exhaustive Woods biography published this year shows how Tiger's youthful winning, and the life it predicted, helped keep his parents together. What were the costs of that? How about the pressure of always having a camera on you, starting with Tiger's appearance, alongside his father and Jimmy Stewart and Bob Hope, on The Mike Douglas Show at age two? Tiger had a deep bond with his father. But to what degree did that depend on Tiger winning with such regularity?
Earl taught his youngest son to look out for himself, and Tiger took it too far. In 2013, Woods found himself in three rules situations—Friday on 15 at Augusta, Sunday on 14 at the Players Championship and Friday on the first at the BMW—where he showed stunning self-absorption. That's why Brandel Chamblee graded the year, despite Woods's five wins, as an F. Woods and his people tried to bury the commentator, but Chamblee had it right. On those three occasions, Woods demonstrated a willful blindness that suggested desperation. Had Woods won that 2013 Masters, there would have been an asterisk on his major total forever.
As a competitive golfer, 2014 through the first half of 2017 were lost years for Woods. The chip yips, the walk-offs, the medical procedures.
Then came Memorial Day 2017, when Woods was arrested not far from his home in the middle of the night on a DUI charge. Police cameras—yet more cameras in his life—recorded it. Because of Florida's broad Sunshine State laws, millions have seen it. There were five drugs in his system. The mug shot was a frightening sight. In his brief public remarks about the events that night, Woods has said he was self-medicating in the aftermath of his spinal fusion surgery. It would be nice to think of the night as a one-off, but it would be naïve. Far more likely, it was a night rooted in the accumulated pain of a great and difficult life. He checked himself into rehab.
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You barely remember any of that, right? But if you ask people why they're rooting for Tiger now, you hear this again and again: Everyone deserves a second chance. That's what this year has been all about. Tiger Woods came out of a jungle, hungry and battered but in one piece, and we were so relieved just to see him we opened our arms wide. We went in for the hug and he, in his own evolving way, returned it.
Mark Soltau is a writer who has known and worked with Woods for decades. In 2004, in a video produced for American Express, Soltau, discussing a swing change Woods was making, made a telling observation: "Tiger is a very anal person who likes to be in control. And if he doesn't feel he's in control, that makes him antsy."
Well, when police officers pull you over, you cede control to them. The Tiger Woods they recorded that night was not in control of himself. As part of his plea deal, Woods agreed to make himself available for random drug tests for a year and waived aspects of his Fourth Amendment rights, thereby allowing police to make unannounced searches of his home for illegal drugs. In other words, he gave up more control.
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He hasn't talked publicly about his experience in the rehab program, and he's smart to be silent. But sometimes a stint in rehab is a first step in a reconfigured life. You learn to control the things you can control and let the other stuff go. It's hard to know. What we do know is that we're seeing Tiger this year as we have never seen him before.
Can he ever again be the golfer he once was? No. His dominance was borne in his putting and chipping and no golfer has ever putted and chipped better in his 40s than he did in his 30s or 20s. His body is changed. Can he win again? That's a different question. Of course he can. Especially on a soft course against a second-tier field. Can he win the ones—the four majors—that mean the most to him? That's yet another question. If he's in contention this week, the CBS numbers will blow-up.
Arnold Palmer told me late in 2012 that he thought Woods had lost what Arnold called "the edge." He doubted Tiger would win another major.
He was speaking from his own vast experience. He knew what it was like to lose the edge, the thing that makes you feel you can control your golf ball in the hairiest of situations. The feeling you are destined to win. But Arnold would be the first to tell you: there's more to life than winning major golf tournaments. Here's to Tiger's next 40 years.
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My first real glimpse of the new Tiger came on the Sunday of this year's Honda Classic. Woods was semi-contending until he rinsed two balls late in the round. But he did not have the red-ass. No. He was playing pain-free golf again, with his two children nearby and in front of worshipful fans. He was competing. It seemed to be enough.
On that day Tiger's age was 42 years, one month and 26 days. (We all do this thing called life one day at a time, right?) In the aftermath of a 12th-place finish, Woods was asked about his fourth-round playing partner, Sam Burns, a golfer half Woods's age. Tiger processed the question in a nanosecond (as per usual) and said, "He played beautifully. Top-10 is big for him because it gets him into Tampa, next official start, a full-field event. He's trying to build momentum and build his exempt status. Today and this week was a big step for him."
The old Tiger would have been can't-see-straight mad. But this Tiger Woods was evaluating the talent, dreams and career path of another player! But this was the new Tiger. Empathetic, for one thing. Grateful, for another. Soon after, he decided to go to Tampa himself. Amid the pandemonium there, he finished one shot back.
At the U.S. Open, Woods was asked how his life had changed since Memorial Day 2017. "It's gotten better," he said. Compensating for his father, Tiger does understatement well, and this was a subject he despises. Woods was arrested at 2:00 a.m. Sunrise in Jupiter, Fla., was four and a half hours later. Here comes the sun. The first day of the rest of his life. And now comes the first round of the remarkable year's last major.
Michael Bamberger may be reached at [email protected]


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George Abbe (1911-1989). Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and other items from the prolific New England poet, novelist, and educator, including several unpublished works.
John Williams Andrews (1898-1975). A small collection of manuscripts and printed items from the noted American poet, editor, and lawyer.
Richard Armour (1906-1989). Manuscripts, photographs, memorabilia, and more from the popular American poet and literary critic, best known for his humorous and satirical verse and prose.
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851). Several letters from the Scottish poet and playwright; in the Manuscript File.
Ben Belitt (1911-2003). Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, and more from the acclaimed American poet and translator, best known for his English translations of Pablo Neruda's work.
Charles G. Bell (1929- ). Manuscripts from the recognized American poet, novelist, and educator.
Patricia Benton (1907-1983). Manuscripts, correspondence, scrapbooks, audio recordings, photographs, and more from the recognized American poet, including several items regarding Poetry Day and the Poetry Society of America.
William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850). Three short drafts by the influential English poet and critic; in the Manuscript File.
Christopher Brookhouse (1938- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, and other items from the noted American poet and novelist.
Robert Browning (1812-1889). Several letters from the beloved English poet; in the Manuscript File and the Richards Manuscript Collection.
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). Over a hundred letters from the influential poet, novelist, and memoirst, to editor Doug Blazek, in the Richards Manuscript Collection; and a miniature hand-made book containing a short poem by Bukowski, in the Manuscript File.
Gray Burr (1919-2001). Manuscripts and correspondence from the noted American poet.
Olga Cabral (1909-1997). Manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, audio recordings, juvenilia, notebooks, and other items from the prominent Trinidadian poet.
Stanton Coblentz (1896-1982). Manuscripts, correspondence, and other material from the traditionalist American poet, editor, and novelist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and Family. Handwritten drafts of "Christabel" and "Dejection,"differing from the published versions, transcribed by Sarah Stoddart, ca. 1804; six short poems in Coleridge's hand; and correspondence, in the Manuscript File. Also, a draft of a sonnet by Coleridge's son, Hartley Coleridge; manuscripts by Coleridge's literary executor, Henry Nelson Coleridge; and a letter from Coleridge's granddaughter, Edith Coleridge; all in the Manuscript File.
Evan S. Connell (1924- ). Manuscripts and correspondence from the acclaimed American poet, novelist, editor, and short story writer, including drafts of two poems by Nelson Algren.
Cid Corman (1924-2004). Numerous manuscripts for poems from the celebrated American poet and translator, known for his translations of Japanese poetry and his mastery of East Asian poetry forms using English.
Hubert Creekmore (1907-1966). Manuscripts and correspondence, including letters from Anthony Boucher, Cleanth Brooks, Clifton Fadiman, Richmond Lattimore, Marianne Moore, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Richard Wilbur, and several other noted poets and writers.
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962). Correspondence from the influential American poet, in various collections; and a short handwritten manuscript, in the Richards Manuscript Collection.
Diane DiPrima (1934- ). Several manuscripts and correspondence from the acclaimed American poet. In the Richards Manuscript Collection.
Danilo Dolci (1924-1997). Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and much more, from the revered Italian author and social activist, including a draft of an anthology of his poetry.
Richard Eberhart (1904-2005). A small collection of manuscripts and other items from the award-winning American poet, including a lengthy letter from Allen Ginsburg regarding Ginsburg's poem Howl.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965). Several letters from the legendary poet, in various collections.
James Facos (1924- ). Manuscripts and correspondence from the noted Vermont poet, playwright and author.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919- ). Six letters, dated 1959, 1968, and 1969, in the Roger Shattuck Collection; additional letters in other collections.
Wallace Fowlie (1908-1998). Manuscripts and correspondence from the distinguished American poet, scholar, educator, and translator of French literature.
Richard Frost (1929- ). Manuscripts and correspondence from the noted American poet and educator.
Robert Frost (1874-1963). A significant collection of manuscripts, correspondence, and other items from the legendary American poet, including early notebooks and numerous letters.
Stella Gibbons (1902-1989). Manuscripts, notebooks, and poetry from the English writer and author of Cold Comfort Farm.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). Several handwritten letters from the groundbreaking American poet, in various collections; including a long, significant letter concerning Howl, in the Richard Eberhart Collection.
Nikki Giovanni (1943- ). A large collection of manuscripts, correspondence, printed items, and other material, comprehensively documenting the long career of one of America's greatest poets. Currently closed to researchers.
Caroline Glyn (1947-1981). Manuscripts, notebooks, artwork, and other items from the prominent English poet, novelist, and artist.
Rumer Godden (1907-1998). Manuscripts, research, photographs, correspondence, and more from the distinguished English novelist, poet, and children's author.
Bernard Grebanier (1903-1977). Manuscripts, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other items from the distinguished American poet and literary critic, best known for his studies of William Shakespeare.
Arthur Gregor (1923- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, and other items from the acclaimed poet and author, known for incorporating spirituality and mysticism into his themes and style.
James W. Hackett (1929- ). Manuscripts, notebooks, and a scrapbook from the American master of the haiku form.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). Three letters and a signed photograph from the great English poet; in the Robert and Sylvia Lynd Collection, the Richards Manuscript Collection and the Manuscript File.
William Heyen (1940- ). A large collection of manuscripts, correspondence, and other items from the acclaimed American poet, editor, and literary critic.
John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988). A significant collection of manuscripts, correspondence, diaries and journals, photographs, notebooks, and much more, from the groundbreaking American poet, novelist, critic, and seminal figure of the Beat Generation.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967). Manuscripts and other material from the legendary poet and author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Constance Hunting (1925-2006). Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and more from the renowned New England poet, editor, and publisher.
Colette Inez (1931- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, journals, artwork, and other material from the acclaimed poet and memoirist.
Josephine Jacobsen (1908-2003). Manuscripts, correspondence, and other items from the lauded poet, short story writer, critic, and U.S. Poet Laureate from 1971 to 1973.
Judson Jerome (1927-1991). Manuscripts, correspondence, research material, and other items from the venerable American poet and longtime author of a column on poetry for Writer's Digest; the collection includes letters from Robert Bly, John Ciardi, Langston Hughes, Frank O'Hara, John Crowe Ransom, Gary Snyder, and others.
Ted Joans (1928-2003). Manuscripts for several poems, includes audio recordings of Joans reading his work.
Gayl Jones (1949- ). Several manuscripts of various works by the groundbreaking, acclaimed African-American novelist and poet, including her novels Eva's Man and Mosquito.
Bob Kaufman (1925-1986). Manuscripts, printed items, and several audio recordings of readings from this significant member of the Beat Generation.
William Knott (1940- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, and other material from the iconoclastic and influential poet.
Herbert Kuhner(1935- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, audio recordings, and other items from the acclaimed Austrian poet, writer, and translator.
Maxine Kumin (1925- ). Manuscripts and correspondence from the beloved poet and children's author.
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). Draft of a poem and a letter from the influential English poet and author; in the Manuscript File.
Miriam Levine (1939- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, and other documents from the prominent poet, novelist, and memoirist.
Robert Lowell (1917-1977). Typed draft of a poem titled "Beyond the Alps," with notes by Lowell and John Berryman, in the Manuscript File; also, letters from Lowell in the Max Ascoli, Amiya Chakravarty, and Partisan Review Collections.
Robert (1879-1949) and Sylvia (1888-1952) Lynd. Manuscripts, correspondence, and other material from the prominent Irish writers, including letters from Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, and other literary figures.
Edwin Markham (1852-1940). Manuscripts, correspondence, and other items from the great American poet; in the Manuscript File, Robert Frost, and Richards Manuscript Collections.
Lenore G. Marshall (1897-1971). Manuscripts from the recognized American poet, novelist, and social activist.
Theodore Martin (1816-1909). A bound volume of letters to Martin and other items, from the English author and translator known for his translations of poetry from various languages to English.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). Photographs and other documents from Millay's teenage years, compiled by a friend of hers, in the Martha Knight Collection.
Ursule Molinaro (1916-2000). Manuscripts and other papers by this prolific and celebrated novelist, playwright, poet, and translator, including her final, unpublished novel.
Marianne Moore (1887-1972). A typed draft of her poem "What Are Years," in the Paul C. Richards Collection; and several letters in various collections.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852). A letter from the acclaimed Irish poet and singer, in the Richards Manuscript Colletion; and song lyrics, correspondence, and other items, in the Manuscript File.
Philip Murray (1924- ). Manuscripts from the noted poet.
Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970). Manuscripts and letters from the acclaimed poet, including two unpublished poetry collections.
Anais Nin (1903-1977). Several letters from the popular French poet, author, and diarist; in various collections.
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). A significant letter from the acclaimed English poet, written shortly before his death on the front lines of World War I.
Rochelle Owens (1936- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and other items from the trailblazing and influential avant-garde playwright, poet, and short story writer.
Deborah Saltonstall Pease (1943- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, and personal papers from the recognized poet, fiction writer, and publisher, including several letters from May Sarton, Dana Gioia, Mary McCarthy, and others.
Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882). Three letters from the celebrated English poet, translator, and artist.
Sonia Sanchez (1934- ). Photographs and published writings from the legendary and influential poet.
Aram Saroyan (1943- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, audio recordings, diaries, and other items from the American poet and author.
May Sarton (1912-1995). Manuscript drafts of several poems, as well as some correspondence from the revered poet, author, lecturer, diarist, and essayist.
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). Several letters from the great English poet, known for his poetry regarding World War I.
Francis Scarfe (1911-1986). Manuscripts and correspondence, including letters from Henry Steele Commager, Cyril Connolly, T. S. Eliot, Robert McClellan, Herbert Read, Laura Riding, Stephen Spender, Ruthven Todd, and several others.
Ruth Lisa Schechter (1927-1989). Manuscripts, correspondence, audio recordings, and other items from the recognized and prolific poet, educator, and therapist.
Gladys Schmitt (1909-1972). Typed draft of her poem "Sonnets for an Analyst," with handwritten markings; in the Manuscript File Collection.
Webster Schott (1927- ). Manuscripts and correspondence from the recognized poet, critic, and editor.
Elizabeth Sewell (1919-2001). Manuscripts, correspondence, research, diaries, audio, and other material from the distinguished and prolific poet, novelist, scholar, and critic.
Anne Sexton (1928-1974). Manuscripts for several short works by the great American poet.
Karl Shapiro (1913-2000). Several letters by the recognized American poet; in various collections.
Jane Shore (1947- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, audio recordings, and much more from the acclaimed poet and educator.
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964). Correspondence and some manuscripts from the influential avant-garde poet, memoirist, and critic.
Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969). Manuscripts and correspondence from the English poet and playwright, including letters from T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and other literary figures.
Sacheverell Sitwell (1897-1988). Manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks, a diary, and other items from the English poet, critic, and memoirist.
Paul Smyth (1944-2006). Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and other material from the recognized American poet, author, and teacher.
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Letters from the acclaimed American poet; in the Partisan Review Collection.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1982). A draft of a poem and a letter from the great English poet, in the Richards Manuscript Collection; and a letter in the Manuscript File.
Peter Thomas (1928-1997). Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, and other items from the poet and translator, known for his work tutoring, translating, and promoting the work of poets from Nigeria.
Arturo Vivante (1923-2008). Manuscripts from the Italian poet and short story writer.
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989). Several letters from the iconic American poet; in various collections.
Rosanna Warren (1953- ). Manuscripts for the anthology The Art of Translation, edited by Warren, presenting outstanding guest presentations at the Boston University Translation Seminar.
Afaa Michael Weaver (1951- ). An extensive collection of manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, printed material, photographs, professional material, and other material from the acclaimed African-American poet, writer, and educator. Partially restricted.
Gordon Weaver (1937- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, audio recordings, photographs, memorabilia, and much more, from the recognized poet, novelist, and short story writer.
Franz Wright (1953- ). Manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks, and other items from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Several letters from the great poet; in the Richards Manuscript Collection and other collections.
Curtis Zahn (1912-1990). Manuscripts and correspondence from the noted poet and playwright, including letters from John Ciardi, Anais Nin, and others.
The Favorite Poem Project. A large collection of original video recordings of various individuals reading their favorite poems aloud. Partially restricted.

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Chico State October 11, 2019
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Richard Perry (Geology, '81) fell in love with geology in community college while digging for fossils in the desert and studying the landscape of Death Valley. After earning his bachelor's at Chico State, he earned his master's at the University of Nevada, Reno, and has transformed his passion into a nearly 30-year career in the mining, water resources, and geothermal industries. Today, as the administrator of the Nevada Division of Minerals, he is one of eight distinguished alumni the University is honoring this fall. He spoke with us to reflect on his success, his career, and his Chico Experience.
When and how did you discover mining is what you wanted to do with your life?
I was a business major coming out of community college but I was also taking a geology class each semester for a minor. I loved geology and I loved being outdoors. I remember sitting in a cost accounting class in my second year at Chico State, and I told the professor I was changing all my classes. I just had an epiphany that the sciences were what drove me and where I needed to be. I became an economic geologist—Chico is one of the few universities in California that has an economic geology program—to study the wide field of how to extract minerals from the earth to feed society's needs. There is an old saying: "If it isn't grown, it has to be mined."
What has been one of your greatest opportunities?
At Newmont [Mining Corp.], they offered me every assignment they thought I might be able to handle—plant engineering, grade control geologist, mill superintendent—and I worked my way up and eventually went overseas twice. Once was to start a mine in the Republic of Uzbekistan in the mid-90s. And in 1998, they had found an enormous copper deposit on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. I went over there as the first operations director to help get the mine started up. I took about 20 people out of Nevada with me, and we hired 3,500 Indonesians and trained them. Ultimately, we got that copper mine up and running, and received an award for the environmentally sensitive way that we did that. It set a standard in Indonesia.
How did your global experience shape your life?
I lived in Indonesia with my family in a little township for three years. We learned to speak the language and had many Indonesian friends. And we had monkeys and pythons and wild pigs and all kinds of different critters. It was like living in National Geographic for a while. I would recommend it to anybody who gets an opportunity to work in a developing country or any country outside the United States. It helps you understand other people's points of view. It helps you appreciate the United States, and how we have evolved and made democracy work here after 250-something years. The systems we have in place, standards are of living, how we resolve disputes—you can't take it for granted because in many countries out there, they have not gone through that evolution yet. That was very evident in Uzbekistani and Indonesia. And it gave me an appreciation of different religions and how they form the social fabric in a country like Indonesia. I had employees that were Muslim, Christian, and Hindu. They all got along well together, but that's the social net in many of those countries. After being in Uzbekistan, it also shocked me at how communism had wiped out religion and how devoid its spirituality was.
What is your aspiration for the future of the mining industry?
That the industry continues to do a good job of environmental compliance. I was a metal miner my whole life. The things that were produced were gold, silver, and copper, and they are all needed by society—whether they are needed for jewelry or wiring in a Tesla. Someone has to produce it. We compete on an international stage, and many companies are not required to operate to the environmental and permitting requirements that the United States holds ourselves to. We are a net importer of far too many mineral commodities, and that creates a dependence on production in some very unstable parts of the world. We have global competitors who are trying to lock up as many of these commodities so they can control them. That is a risk to our country, and I would like to see our mining industry be a part of helping.
What has been the most rewarding part of your career so far?
I've had a lot of experiences and technical successes, but the most rewarding thing was always to see that the operation was safe, environmentally sound, and profitable so I could employ people so they had an occupation and could take care of their families—whether in Nevada, where I had 2,500 employees working in seven different locations, or in Indonesia, where we hired and trained 3,500 Indonesians from scratch. I remember when we hired the last 500 people in the program, we had 50,000 applications. Mining has a negative connotation in some circles, but people who work in it make a good living and most are not degreed professionals like me. In Nevada, the average wage of a miner is $90,000 a year, and the City of Elko is one of the rare bright spots in the economy where there is no poverty. And I think that's kind of a testament to the industry that people don't regularly hear.
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The rehabilitation of Trump national security officials says a lot about Washington
Matt Pottinger, special assistant to then-President Donald Trump and National Security Council senior director for East Asia, in Beijing, China, in 2017. | Mark Schiefelbein/Getty Images
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Matt Pottinger served four years on President Donald Trump's National Security Council, including 15 months as deputy adviser, and then resigned mid-insurrection. "The events of that day, January 6, were for me a red line. Decided that it was time to go, and I resigned that afternoon," he said six months later. But he hasn't said much about it since then.
Maybe it's because he's been busy, as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank affiliated with Stanford University. He's also chair of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a business consultant at the firm Ergo. Pottinger is most closely associated with Trump's hardline China policy, an approach that Republicans and Democrats have come to broadly support.
Many observers initially predicted that working for Trump would turn into a scarlet letter. But service in the Trump White House in the lead-up to the "Stop the Steal" violence hasn't necessarily been an obstacle for rejoining Washington's establishment.
Top-level personnel, like adviser Stephen Miller and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, haven't been rehabilitated, and former acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller has stayed under the radar since he testified on the Capitol riot. But senior officials and staffers a few rungs below — and former Trump officials who questioned the election results — have done fine.
This isn't a phenomenon unique to the Trump administration. Whether it's George W. Bush and his Iraq War or Barack Obama's Afghanistan surge, foreign policy officials have time and time again been able to transcend their president and return to positions of power. That speaks to the unique mores of Washington, where subject matter expertise is the entry key to the elite club. Members of the foreign policy establishment protect their own — as long as they stay within the bounds of the mainstream policy ideas of the moment. This same principle protected many of the technocrats and appointees who supported the 2003 Iraq War. Their success in reestablishing themselves as trusted experts has paved the way for other acts that have been forgiven.
Trump's foreign policy was divergent from the Washington norm: He visited Saudi Arabia as his first overseas visit, valued personal diplomacy over longstanding protocol with dictators like Kim Jong Un, and wanted to ditch NATO entirely, among many other erratic moves. But Trump's undemocratic actions at home were even more divergent.
Critics have said that anyone who stood by Trump's side — in any capacity — should have to answer for the former president's anti-democratic behavior. Pottinger, for example, never publicly pushed election denialism. But critics say that's insufficient for a national security staffer, when the US's foreign policy is (at least purportedly) based on advancing democracy around the world.
"You can have the most well-crafted China policy in the world, but if Donald Trump prevails in his efforts to dismantle US democracy, what is the point? What are we defending?" said Ben Rhodes, who served as Obama's deputy national security adviser. "That runs so counter to everything that the American national security establishment is supposed to claim to represent, and it kind of makes a mockery of it."
But that subject matter expertise — plus the patina afforded by resigning on January 6 — has helped Pottinger, a former journalist, expertly navigate the post-Trump landscape. He even emerged as the White House hero of the initial Covid-19 chaos in New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright's chronicle of "The Plague Year."
Pottinger declined an interview request from Vox, and his attorney Mary Boies responded on his behalf. "Matt led the way resigning promptly on January 6 and that action makes spoken denunciation unnecessary and certainly not disqualifying from public service. With Matt's counsel, the U.S. reversed decades of failed policy toward China, and the new policy has continued under the Biden Administration," Boies wrote. "This country needs the kind of sound policy that Matt helped craft, not aggressive rhetoric that only further divides the nation."
Yet a lot of that aggressive rhetoric has come from the president whom he served. And the siege of the Capitol was a red line for Pottinger, but apparently not Trump's previous questioning of the integrity of the election that gave rise to the attempt to overturn it, or any number of other incidents.
But look at what that red line bought Pottinger. The act of resigning set him apart from his boss, National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, who stayed on through the handoff to President Joe Biden two weeks later. In that role early last January, O'Brien was mostly worried about antifa counterprotesters to the insurrectionists rather than the pro-Trump insurrection itself, according to the Washington Post. O'Brien hasn't emerged with the same prestige. He's been working as a mediator for a Los Angeles law firm, an atypical role for a former security chief. He recently started a consulting firm with other officials from the Trump White House since many of them had difficulty securing coveted jobs, according to Bloomberg.
Yet after a full term alongside Trump, things are going well for Pottinger. This summer, he was the only former Trump White House staffer on the schedule of the eminent Aspen Security Forum. He hopped off early from a panel to serve as an expert witness at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. This year, Pottinger has appeared twice on CBS's 60 Minutes to talk about the Wuhan lab leak theory of Covid-19's origins, which he has advanced, and China's aggressive economic policies. Neither time was he asked about Trump.
Experts get a pass
One reason that Matt Pottinger was welcomed back into the establishment is that, unlike some of Trump's unconventional appointees, he had already been a part of the elite.
Pottinger has become the go-to expert on China's economic and security outlook. He speaks fluent Mandarin, and as China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, he broke news on companies and took risks to cover politically complex stories about the Communist Party. He changed careers to become a Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then worked at one of the world's largest hedge funds. Other Trump national security appointees with strong credentials before the administration — like onetime National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster or national security staffers Dina H. Powell McCormick and Nadia Schadlow — have landed similarly well.
Policy officials have often found ways to transcend party politics, even as they work for partisan leaders. In previous administrations, "there is a lot of respect on both parties for the other sides' experts even when they vehemently disagree. Policy disagreements are normal and helpful," said Elizabeth Saunders, a professor at Georgetown University who focuses on the presidency and foreign policy.
In some ways, this is a practical consideration. "Someone's got to keep the lights on. Someone's got to run China policy no matter how much you think the president's good, bad, antidemocratic," explains Saunders.
A concern raised by scholars of US foreign policy is the thin bench of potential staffers for a future Republican administration. If the Democrats were to lose in 2024, it will have been over a decade since a mainstream GOP candidate took the executive branch, and there are thousands of jobs that would need to be filled.
This pursuit of Republican foreign policy thinkers — to serve on public panels, testify to Congress, or author articles for prestigious journals like Foreign Affairs — has made it appealing to hear from people like Pottinger or McMaster, who do have recent high-level government experience.
President Donald Trump stands with National Security Council official Matt Pottinger and White House chief of staff John Kelly at an economic summit in Vietnam, in 2017.
But that deference extends mainly to policy staffers and experts who hew to Washington's established worldview. It is worth emphasizing the Biden administration's continuity with Trump in implementing many of the hawkish China policies of tariffs, sanctions, and strategic competition put forward by Pottinger. "There is a very narrow range of acceptable opinion, and if you're within it you can weather a lot. Both Pottinger and O'Brien in many respects are inside the Beltway consensus on the big issues of the day," said Michael Desch, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame.
It's part of the unwritten rules of the elite club of Washington. "If you criticize NATO enlargement or Israel or some of the more foundational cornerstones of post-Cold War American foreign policy, you are more likely to be cast aside than if you worked for years for Donald Trump. And that's just crazy," Rhodes said.
Lack of accountability is self-perpetuating
There certainly are former Trump advisers who haven't been welcomed back, like the short-lived National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and has encouraged challenges to the 2020 election's integrity. Steve Bannon isn't speaking at any centrist think tanks or universities anytime soon. But their cases are exceptions that prove the rule. "For me, the real story is the ability of inside-the-Beltway people to escape accountability for dumb things they did when in office, and I think it's broader than just the Trump administration," Desch said.
Many attribute the reentry of some Trump officials to Washington to a broader lack of reckoning for the enablers of the Iraq War. It's well established at this point that President George W. Bush's primary rationale for invading Iraq, Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, was an outright lie. "The Bush administration had to work assiduously and I think at times dishonestly to make the case for war, and observing after the fact, I can't point to anyone who was sanctioned for supporting the war," said Christopher Preble of the Atlantic Council, a global affairs think tank in Washington.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who planned the war, and Secretary of State Colin Powell, who advocated for it at the United Nations, both maintained platforms before their deaths this year, as have their acolytes. Consider David Frum, the speechwriter who coined the "Axis of Evil" tagline that helped sell the war, who has rebranded himself as a popular columnist for the Atlantic.
And powerful Democrats (Joe Biden, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton) voted for the war. It's not just that there were never trials or prosecutions for the Bush officials, or tough questions to their cheerleaders in academic, media, and think tank circles; support for the Iraq debacle has never really been an impediment to career advancement. Quite the opposite: None of the 33 scholars who signed onto an anti-Iraq War ad in the New York Times two decades ago have ascended to government roles, notes scholar Stephen Walt in The Hell of Good Intentions.
It's rare that those who perpetuated foreign policy disasters are even asked about them; one of the few times a journalist did pose such a question produced a revealing sound bite.
Broadcast journalist Mehdi Hasan asked John Bolton, the senior Bush diplomat who went on to be Trump's national security adviser from 2018 to 2019, whether he regretted advocating for the Iraq War, especially in light of the hundreds of thousands of civilians who died. "You don't know what you're talking about," Bolton said, and called the war a "brilliant military victory by the United States and other coalition forces."
Me: "All those innocent Iraqi civilians. All the men and women, children killed by U.S. airstrikes. Some in massacres…None of those weigh on your conscience? None of those keep you up at night?"
John Bolton: "You don't know what you're talking about."pic.twitter.com/nSMmZGg1cJ
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 15, 2020
The persistent failures of US foreign policy since the Cold War, and the lack of accountability for those failures, helped give rise to Trump, argues Walt. He writes that "perhaps the greatest barrier to genuine accountability is the self-interest of the foreign policy establishment itself. Its members are reluctant to judge one another harshly and are ready to forgive mistakes lest they be judged themselves."
Other experts have a more generous interpretation of how Washington slouched toward Baghdad. Kori Schake, a former Bush official now at the American Enterprise Institute, told me that policymakers are implementing decisions based on imperfect information and short timelines. "If you are going to have in government people who have never made an inaccurate judgment on foreign and defense policy, you are going to have almost no one who meets this standard," she said.
There may be other analogues for the current moment. Few of the Ronald Reagan officials associated with the Iran-Contra arms scandal were rehabilitated. Robert McNamara, the former defense secretary during seven of the most devastating years of the Vietnam War, repudiated his views and still was never really welcomed back into the establishment. "At the end of the day, it comes down to questions of integrity," Schake said. "Do you judge that these are people of good faith trying to do the right thing? Or do you think they're a danger and need to be cordoned off from potential future roles?"
As Pottinger said last summer, "I'm proud of a lot of things that the administration did, and I think I'll look back on those years as ones that I'm proud of."
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Q: Generic method returning a List while instantiating the generic Type passed in the method I have been struggling for quite a bit of time and have looked up on a few resources trying to comprehend how could i use generics to get what i am trying to achieve but have not been able to find an example that provides what i need .
Some examples included the use of Supplier Interface or have suggested having a generic class and then instantiating it .
What i am trying to achieve is to specify the Type i want the method to return while Instantiating the same type in the method and adding it to the list and then return that list .
Thanks in advance . Would appreciate any help
public List<Doctor> queryDoctor() {
    Statement statement = null;
    ResultSet results;

    try {
        statement = connection.createStatement();
        results = statement.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM " + TABLE_DOCTOR);

        List<Doctor> doctors = new ArrayList<>();
        while (results.next()) {
            Doctor doctor = new Doctor();
            doctor.setId(results.getInt(1));
            doctor.setUserName(results.getString(2));
            doctor.setPassword(results.getString(3));
            doctor.setPassword_salt(results.getString(4));
            doctor.setRole(results.getInt(5));
            doctors.add(doctor);

        }
        return doctors;
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        System.out.println("Query failed: " + e.getMessage());
        return null;
    } finally {
        try {
            if (statement != null) {
                statement.close();
            }
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

A: You would need to pass in a Function<ResultSet, T>:
<T> List<T> queryDoctor(Function<ResultSet, T> fn)

and use this in the loop:
doctors.add(fn.apply(results));

This function would create the appropriate concrete type:
List<Doctor> doctors = queryDoctor(results -> {
       Doctor doctor = new Doctor();
        doctor.setId(results.getInt(1));
        doctor.setUserName(results.getString(2));
        doctor.setPassword(results.getString(3));
        doctor.setPassword_salt(results.getString(4));
        doctor.setRole(results.getInt(5));
        return doctor;
});

or
List<Nurse> nurses = queryDoctor(results -> {
       Nurse nurse = new Nurse();
       // ...
       return nurse;
});

A: It sounds like you are attempting your own simple ORM solution where you supply a method with an SQL string and a type, the method loads the results and then instantiate the type, mapping the result set to the object's fields via setters.
If so, you're reinventing the wheel.
A full solution would be to use an ORM tool like Hibernate or Top Link but that might be running before you can walk. If you prefer baby steps, consider using Spring's Jdbc Template to handle a lot of the boilerplate code.
UPDATE
OK,I asked if you were looking for a method that took a resultset and mapped it to an arbitrary class and you said yes. This should do something like that:
public <T> List<T> map(ResultSet rs, Class<T> clazz) throws Exception {
    //// Build a list of columns that are in the resultset
    List<String> columns = new LinkedList<>();
    ResultSetMetaData metaData = rs.getMetaData();
    for(int i=0; i < metaData.getColumnCount(); i++) {
        columns.add(metaData.getCatalogName(i));
    }

    //// Create a list to hold all the beans we are going to create from the resultset
    List<T> rows = new LinkedList<>();

    //// Iterate over each row in the resultset, creating beans for each row and setting the values
    while(rs.next()) {
        //// Create a new instance of the class passed in (must have a no-args constructor)
        T row = clazz.newInstance();

        //// Now for the magic. This bit is very noddy and ORM packages will do this much better
        for(String col : columns) {
            //// For each column that is in the resultset, find the setter in the bean class
            String columnValue = rs.getString(col);
            String mutator = "set"+capitalizeFirstCharacter(col);
            Method m = clazz.getMethod(mutator, String.class);
            //// Invoke the setter, passing in the value from the resultset
            m.invoke(row, columnValue);
        }

        rows.add(row);
    }

    return rows;
}

private static String capitalizeFirstCharacter(String s) {
    return s.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
}

Beware that this code does not deal with exceptions, only works with resultsets filled with Strings and only deals with beans that have String fields to populate. Once you start trying to write more complex code to deal with more complex types and reflection... you are reinventing ORM. Try not to do that.

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Baseball falls to Johns Hopkins on walk-off home run
No. 17 Salisbury
No. 20 Johns Hopkins
No. 17 Salisbury (6-4-1) 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 9 1
No. 20 Johns Hopkins (8-1) 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 1
2B: Jimmy Monaghan; Jay Perry
2B: Austin Sacks
HR: Tim Kutcher; Chris Festa; Matt Ritchie
BALTIMORE – The No. 17 Salisbury University baseball team traveled to No. 20 Johns Hopkins University for its first road game on Sunday afternoon, but came up short, falling to the Blue Jays on a ninth-inning walk-off home run, 4-3.
Johns Hopkins (8-1) struck first with two out in the bottom of the first inning. Starting pitcher Clayton Dwyer served up a pitch to Chris Festa, which he abruptly sent over the left field fence for a solo home run to make it 1-0.
Salisbury (6-4-1) answered back in the top of the second inning. With two outs, Jay Perry smacked a double into left field before Will Gutekunst followed up with a single into center that traveled just far enough to allow Perry to finish his trip around the bases and tie things up a 1-1.
The Blue Jays pulled ahead once again in the bottom half of the second inning. With a runner on second base and one out, Matt Ritchie took a pitch from Dwyer and sent just beyond the reach of Brad Haas' glove and over the left field fence to put the home team up, 3-1.
The Sea Gulls pulled even once again in the top half of the fifth inning. Haas and Cameron Hyder were each able to reach base on singles before Jimmy Monaghan cracked a two-run double into the gap in left-center field to score both baserunners and make it 3-3.
After allowing two home runs in the first two innings, Dwyer was able to settle in and pitch effectively over the course of the next 5 2/3 innings and keep the game even. He recorded five strikeouts and allowed only one walk before being pulled from the game with two outs in the eighth inning.
With the game still tied at three apiece in the bottom of the ninth, Tim Kutcher stepped to the plate for the Blue Jays, offered at the first pitch he saw, and sent a no-doubter over the left field fence to give his team the walk-off victory.
Salisbury will return home on Tuesday, March 12 to host the Hood College Blazers. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.


The name of this medicine is TAXOTERE. The common name is docetaxel. Docetaxel is a substance derived from the needles of yew trees.
Docetaxel belongs to the group of anti-cancer medicines called taxoids.
The name of this medicine is TAXOTERE. The common name is docetaxel . Docetaxel is a substance derived from the needles of yew trees .
Docetaxel belongs to the group of anti-cancer medicines called taxoids .
For the treatment of cancer, head and neck cancer , TAXOTERE is administered in combination with cisplatin and 5- fluorouracil .
Before each treatment with TAXOTERE, you will be given a blood test to determine whether you have enough blood cells and sufficient liver function to receive TAXOTERE. In case you have a disorder of white blood cells may experience associated fever or infections.
Tell your doctor , hospital pharmacist or nurse if you have vision problems . In the case of vision problems , especially blurred vision, you should immediately take stock of the eyes and vision.
If you have signs of acute or worsening lung problems (fever , shortness of breath or cough) , tell your doctor , hospital pharmacist or nurse. Your doctor may stop your treatment immediately .
You will be asked to take premedication consisting of an oral corticosteroid , such as dexamethasone, one day prior to TAXOTERE and one or two days afterwards, in order to reduce some of the side effects that may occur after the infusion of TAXOTERE, especially allergic reactions and fluid retention ( swelling of the hands , feet, legs or weight gain ) .
During treatment, you may be given other medicines to maintain the number of blood cells.
TAXOTERE contains alcohol . Discuss with your doctor if you suffer from alcohol dependence or liver disorder . See also section "TAXOTERE contains ethanol ( alcohol ) " below .
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking or have recently taken any other medicines , including medicines obtained without a prescription. This is because TAXOTERE or the other drug may not work as expected and there may be more likely to have an adverse reaction.
Ask your doctor before taking any medicine .
TAXOTERE must NOT apply if you are pregnant, unless specifically directed by your doctor.
Should not become pregnant during treatment with this medicine and must use an effective method of contraception during treatment as TAXOTERE can harm your baby. If during pregnancy occurs , you should inform your doctor immediately.
You should not breastfeed while being treated with TAXOTERE.
If you are a man being treated with TAXOTERE, are advised not to father a child during and up to 6 months after treatment and to seek advice on conservation of sperm prior to treatment because docetaxel may impair male fertility.
No studies on the effects on ability to drive and use machines.
This product contains 50 % by volume of ethanol ( alcohol ), i.e. to 1.58 g ( 2 ml) of the vial , equivalent to 40 ml of beer or wine , 17 ml per vial.
To take into account if you are pregnant or breast-feeding, children and high-risk groups such as patients with liver disease or epilepsy.
The amount of alcohol in this medicinal product may alter the effects of other drugs.
The amount of alcohol in this medicinal product may impair your ability to drive and use machines.
TAXOTERE will be administered by a healthcare professional .
The dose will depend on your weight and your general condition . Your doctor will calculate your body surface area in square meters (m2) and will determine the dose you should receive.
TAXOTERE will be given by infusion into one of your veins ( intravenous ) . The infusion will last approximately one hour during which you will be in the hospital.
You should usually receive your infusion once every 3 weeks.
Your doctor may change the dose and frequency of dosing depending on your blood tests , your general condition and your response to TAXOTERE. Please tell your doctor , especially in the case of diarrhea, mouth ulcers , feeling of numbness or tingling , fever and give her / him the results of your blood tests . Such information will allow her / him to decide whether a dose reduction . If you have any further questions on the use of this medicine, ask your doctor or hospital pharmacist.
Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them .
Your doctor will discuss this with you and will explain the potential risks and benefits of treatment.
The most commonly reported side effects of TAXOTERE alone are: decrease the number of red blood cells or white blood cells, alopecia , nausea, vomiting , mouth sores , diarrhea and tiredness .
The severity of adverse reactions to TAXOTERE may be increased when TAXOTERE is given in combination with other chemotherapeutic agents.
May experience more severe reactions.
Your condition will be closely monitored by hospital staff during treatment . Tell them immediately if you experience any of these reactions .
gain or loss of weight.
elevated liver enzymes ( hence the need for regular blood tests) .
reducing the sodium in the blood.
If you get any side effects, tell your doctor , hospital pharmacist or nurse. This includes all listed in this leaflet . You can also report side effects directly through the National Reporting System . As reported side effects , you can do your bit to get more information on the safety of this medicine.
Do not use this medicine after the expiry date stated on the carton and on the vial label after " EXP " or "EXP". The expiry date refers to the last day of that month.
Do not store above 25 ° C.
Store in the original package to protect from light.
Use the vial immediately after opening. If not used immediately, storage times and conditions during use are the responsibility of the user.
From a microbiological point of view, reconstitution / dilution must be done in controlled and validated aseptic conditions.
Use the medicine immediately after its addition to the infusion bag. If not used immediately, storage times and conditions during use are the responsibility of the user and would normally not be longer than 6 hours below 25 ° C, including infusion time of 1 hour.
Furthermore, the physical and chemical stability during the use of the infusion solution prepared according to the guidance shown in the bags , which are not of PVC, is up to 48 hours when stored between 2 to 8 ° C.
Docetaxel infusion solution is supersaturated , therefore may crystallize over time. If crystals appear , the solution should not be used and should be discarded .
Do not dispose of medications in the sewer. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medicines no longer required . These measures will help to protect the environment.
The active substance is docetaxel ( as trihydrate ) . Each ml concentrate for solution for infusion contains 20 mg docetaxel .
The other ingredients are polysorbate 80 , anhydrous ethanol and citric acid .
TAXOTERE concentrate for solution for infusion is a pale yellow to brownish solution. The concentrate is supplied in 7 ml clear glass vial with a purple aluminum seal and plastic flip purple cap.
Each box contains one vial of 4 ml concentrate ( 80 mg docetaxel) .
It is important to read the successive stages of this manual before preparing TAXOTERE infusion.
Docetaxel is an antineoplastic agent and, as with other potentially toxic compounds, caution should be exercised when handling and preparing of its solutions . The use of gloves.
If TAXOTERE concentrate or infusion solution should come into contact with skin, wash immediately and thoroughly with soap and water. If you come into contact with mucous membranes, wash immediately and thoroughly with water.
Do not use other medicines with docetaxel , consisting of 2 vials (concentrate and solvent) with this medicinal product (TAXOTERE 80 mg / 4 ml concentrate for solution for infusion , which contains only 1 vial) .
TAXOTERE 80 mg / 4 ml concentrate for solution for infusion requires NO prior dilution with a solvent and is ready to add to the infusion solution.
Aseptically withdraw the required amount of concentrate for solution for infusion with a graduated syringe with needle 21G.
In TAXOTERE 80 mg / 4 ml vial , the concentration of docetaxel is 20 mg / ml.
As with all parenteral products, infusion solution should be visually inspected prior to use, solutions containing a precipitate should be discarded.
All materials used for dilution and administration should be disposed of in accordance with standard procedures. Do not dispose of medications in the sewer. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medicines no longer required . These measures will help to protect the environment.


This photograph, known as 'Grace,' was taken in 1918.
Eric had long embraced its meaning, leading his family in grace before every meal. His third-born, Warren, tagged along on fishing trips and photo shoots of Minnesota's Scenic State Park. Warren watched his dad shoot panoramas, turning a slow circle that seemed to sweep in every detail.
Warren went on to work as a construction superintendent, and throughout his life, "Grace" was never far from him. His wife embroidered the image. "She won first prize in that category at the Texas State Fair," he boasted.
Today, Warren is 95, one of five or six residents at Juliette Fowler Homes in Dallas who hung a "Grace" portrait in his apartment to make it feel like home.
Recently, we experienced our first snow of the season. I woke and grabbed my camera, shooting the old oak that had been made new. Friends exercised the same impulse, blogging in their pajamas.
Deep down we understood what Pope John Paul II wrote to artists, that beauty is "an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future." The holidays can be dizzying, but we have the ability to press pause, to wade through scattered wrapping paper, grab a camera and process the world through its grateful lens.
Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights. Contact her at Christina@ReadChristina.com.
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Teacher Opinion: A Level Results, A "Fiasco"
As the outcry over the A Level results grows since their release on Thursday WhichSchoolAdvisor was contacted by a teacher & examiner based in the UAE keen to provide their analysis of events to date
By James Mullan
Saturday 15 August, 2020
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Following what can only be described as the A level examination grade awarding fiasco (and we have more to come next week with GCSE), I thought I would put forward my thoughts as a teacher/head of department of 25+ years on the very upsetting lack of consistency that has been applied in awarding the 2020 series.
As well as being a teacher, I have been an examiner for one of the UK exam boards since 1999 and have worked in both UK and Independent schools and internationally on and off for 10 years. I currently teach here in the Middle East.
So let's start with the algorithm that has been used by the UK exam boards. It's certainly a good starting point to use the last three years of exam trends. But, wait a moment - first and foremost this does not credit developing departments, changes in specifications and teachers.
Then we hear that this algorithm was used for subjects with high numbers of cohorts and subjects with small numbers had their centre assessed grades (CAGs) simply accepted. The CAGs were essentially the predicted grades made by the professional judgement of us, the teachers who know the students best.
As a Deputy Head of Academic at a leading UK independent school told me: ''Not accepting the CAGs undermines our professionalism and suggests a lack of integrity in not trusting our judgement. Scotland seems to think differently.
"In our school there is also a bias against STEM subjects as they have applied the algorithm meaning this year if a student took three sciences and Maths, they would likely receive lower grades than a counterpart who opted for languages or creative subjects where there were smaller cohorts.''
Let's now go to more inconsistency: AS (that some schools do) versus what was the old A2 (the linear A level now). Talking to my colleagues in the UK, AS seems to be largely untouched but the A Level grades have been downgraded.
I spoke to a former colleague in the UK today who manages a Maths department in a large Sixth Form College and she said with dismay that her AS results stayed the same but A Level Maths and Further Maths were downgraded even though they based their CAGs on the three year trend, and had the same tewo teachers who have taught these courses for the last six years.
As she told me: ''I would like to find the algorithm and apply it directly and see what I get. So if they went on three year trend (same teachers) and the fact the cohort was small.... surely our data should have been similar if not better than previous years?''
Well, yes, if common sense had prevailed.
Exam boards are now saying that students on appeal can take their mock grades from earlier this year. That is great but what about those students who didn't sit mocks for example in China when it went into lockdown.
On the topic of exam boards, International A Level (IAL) subjects are still modular and so many of these students were awarded grades who had sat external exams this year and therefore had some grades banked so to say. IB students had their Internal Assessments (IAs) externally marked this year and this was used in awarding. Again all very inconsistent.
There is also the possibility that students can sit exams in the October/November series this year, possibly remotely. As an examiner, the alarm bells are already ringing. It also seems that rankings were used by exam boards but our predicted grades were largely ignored so I would question a) why did we bother doing predicted grades at all and b) clearly our professionalism means nothing in the sector we work in.
This is yet another example of how undervalued we are by the UK Government. I hate to say it but a game of paper, scissors, stone might have generated more realistic grades. So what should have been used? Simply put - teacher predictions.
The argument for not using teacher predictions was that overall results would have been overinflated. To me this is nonsense. Everyone knows what has happened this year so surely give students the break they deserve having had their final year of their school education ruined. Employers in years to come will know that 2020 was a washout year out and can figure out if the degree and degree class a student has gone on and achieved makes them worth employing.
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'I think they're going to trump us.' A mother's concern about her in-laws present choices.
Billi FitzSimons
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What would Christmas time be, if not with a hint of family drama.
Tension-filled in-law relationships are a timeless tale, and as Christmas day approaches so to does an impending anxiety, for many, of seeing their partner's parents.
One mum has posted to Mumsnet with her concerns that her in-laws have bought her children better, more expensive gifts for Christmas this year.
The mum, who identifies as "coffeeneeded" on the forum site, explained she had put a lot of thought into what to get her children this year and has "bought them things that I know they want and will love."
"I sent a list of other things they need to the in laws (they asked for a list)," she shared. "They have announced that they have got some of the items on my list but they have also got other things which they know the kids want."
Which is seems fine.
But the issue, the mum says, is that she is "90% certain they have got them the things I have got them – and probably spent more money on them as well…
"We are going to the in laws for Christmas."
Holly Wainwright speaks about her psychic mother and sister-in-law saying that her son has 'the gift', on this episode of 'This Glorious Mess'.
Hence the mum has shared the story in hope of finding advice of how to handle the situation
"AIBU [Am I being unreasonable] to be utterly pissed off?" she asks fellow parents.
The post attracted nearly 100 responses, with many users divided.
"Unless you told your in laws what you were buying, I think yabu [you are being unreasonable]," responded one user.
One mum, however, thought it was completely reasonable that "coffeeneeded" be annoyed, saying: "Jeepers that is bang out of order."
Another provided a simple solution, saying "Your partner asks what they've got and tells them that they can't trump Santa. Very bad form if they do."
What do you think? Let us know in the comments section below!
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LAM 3 years ago
My MIL asked what to buy our daughter for Christmas. We told her one thing that daughter really wanted and suggested she could buy that. Come Christmas Eve, not only had she bought desired gift but she had filled a whole stocking full of gifts - at least 20! On the way home, daughter exclaimed that she really hoped Santa wouldn't come because she was sick of opening presents. I was gutted as this was the first year daughter had 'got' the whole presents thing. I'd been carefully buying presents throughout the year and was really looking forward to watching our daughter opening them Christmas morning. MIL knew how we felt about overindulging our child and how we felt about useless crap ending up in landfill - we're not the fun-police, we're just trying to raise a grateful, balanced child. Thankfully, but for totally different reasons, that was the last Christmas we had with the inlaws. We've been happily estranged for 20 years.
FLYINGDALE FLYER 3 years ago
Dosent really matter,after the first ten presents kids are over it and then you get the parents desperately trying to whip enthusiasm into the kids as they continue unwrapping the Himalayan mountain of presents that will be cast aside to landfill in a few weeks


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Arsenal are still looking to sign target players in January to help Mikel Arteta build a stronger squad.
The Daily Express and ufabet report that Arsenal are planning to reinforce Arteta in the next transfer window next January. After the results of the competition came back into the way.
"When you think about which club has had the best window, you can certainly make a case for it being Arsenal. Simply because, Mikel Arteta said there would be two halves. He needed to send people out on loan and he needed cut the wage bill and he needed to reduce the number of players in the squad in the first half.
This makes the legs of the Spanish head coach stronger. According to reports, Arsenal director Edu will add three more positions to the squad during the January transfer window.
Even last summer, the Gunners were the team that spent the most. From signings for Ben White 50 million pounds, Martin Odegaard 30 million pounds, Aaron Ramsdale 24 million pounds (potentially increasing to 30 million pounds, Takehiro Tomiyasu 16 million pounds, Albert Zambi Loconka £15.75 million, Nuno Tavares £7.2 million
In the first three Premier League defeats in a row, Arteta has been hit hard. and became the favorite to be fired But later came back to win three games in a row.
Especially the latest win over Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 in the North London derby. Causing the Spanish coach to turn the situation back to have a stable future again.
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Warp drive could be described as the bread and butter of Star Trek, but it was far from the only means to get from point A to point B in the universe of our favorite franchise.
One was using a generator on a planetary surface that generated Soliton waves that would accelerate a starship to warp speeds. A second generator was required at the destination planet in order to create a counterwave to slow the incoming starship down. A civilization could be lucky enough to find alternate means of interstellar travel on their doorstep like the Vaadwaur, and their subspace corridors. Another Delta quadrant species, the Sikarians, possessed impressive transporter like technology with a range of 40,000 light years – no starship needed, just hop on the trajector pad! And who can forget the Iconians, with their Gateways to rule a vast empire? Even Starfleet, with a little Borg ingenuity, developed the Quantum slipstream drive.
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Dialing up transparency with Andy Bond at Asda
A grocery store with glass brick walls? Now that's transparency. Asda CEO Andy Bond makes me smile. Check out his Wikipedia entry (if not squelched yet it describes him as James Bond's brother), and the Aisle Spy blog. I appreciate Bond trying to DO everything he can to communicate transperancy, not just talking about it. More details about their innovative experiments with transparency at Reuters.
WSJ.com: Grocer Asda Turns to Customers for Advice, 2009-Oct-2, by Lilly Vitorovich
Asda, the second-biggest supermarket chain by U.K. market share behind Tesco, is hoping that involving customers more in business decisions will gain their loyalty as much as specially tailored discounts. "My ambition for Asda is to actively involve customers in every aspect of the business, to lift the lid on how we do things, and enable our customers to help make decisions that have an impact on what we sell and how we sell it," Mr. Bond said.
"It's about entering a new partnership, working with customers rather than simply working on behalf of them," he added. Asda also unveiled a new blog, "Aisle Spy," and introduced a number of webcams within its operations -- including a dairy farm, a carrot-processing plant, and its head office in Leeds. It will also open a new "transparent" store in Gorseinon, South West Wales, next year. Glass walls will replace brick walls to expose areas of the supermarket normally kept out of view.


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Latter-day Saint bishop in Utah held without bail after child pornography investigation
By: KSTU Staff
KAYSVILLE, Utah — A bishop with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being held without bail after investigators said they located thousands of images of child pornography at his home, and investigators believe he may have sexually abused children.
In August, Skype informed Utah law enforcement officials that a user had uploaded child pornography under the username "timhallows."
Investigators determined that account originated at a home in Kaysville, Utah, owned by 61-year-old Timothy James Hallows. Other tips submitted October 3 also showed accounts uploading child porn that linked back to Hallows' IP address in Kaysville.
Hallows is a bishop for the LDS Church, and a church website indicates he oversaw the Wellington Ward in Kaysville.
Officers served a warrant and said Hallows admitted to distributing child pornography, admitting to owning more than 100 images.
"Hallows stated the children are not real, and provided several incidents of justification or rationalization for the conduct," the documents state.
The probably cause statement indicates Hallows "refused to take a polygraph examination with questions regarding hands on sexual contact with young children … He described camping trips with children, where he took pictures of children, expressing that this could lead to a failed polygraph. He did these camping trips while acting in his role as a Bishop for the LDS church."
Investigators located thousands of images of child pornography, "including many images of child sexual abuse" during the warrant service.
Capt. Taylor West of the Davis County Sheriff's Office said they are still trying to determine the identity of the victims.
"We know that there are multiple images that he has in his possession at the time of his arrest, and that may mean there are multiple victims," West said. "We are still further investigating who the victims of this case are."
Officers requested that Hallows be held without bail, noting that he holds a special position of trust due to his role as a bishop in Kaysville.
"This includes unfettered access to children in his congregation and in private," investigators wrote in that request. "Hallows made several concerning statements that led investigators to believe he has had sexual contact with children."
West also said Hallows made comments that lead them to believe more investigation is needed. He urges anyone who was victimized by the man to contact police.
"We encourage any victim to come forward and talk to authorities, go to a person in law enforcement or a trusted person in your family or community — an adult that you trust if you're an underaged person — and please come talk with us," West said. "We'd like to hear from you, regarding this case or any other case."
A judge granted a request to hold Hallows without bail Thursday. He has been booked into jail and faces eight counts of enticing a minor by internet or text, which are second-degree felonies.
A church spokesman said Hallows was removed "from any position that would place him in close contact with youth or children" immediately after the allegations were reported. See below for their full statement:
"The allegations against this individual are serious and deeply troubling. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has no tolerance for abuse of any kind, including child pornography, and teaches its members and leaders that such behavior is offensive to God and to His Church. When local leaders learned of these allegations, this individual was immediately removed from any position that would place him in close contact with youth or children. This is done to ensure the safety of others and to allow this individual to address these serious allegations."
This story was originally published on KSTU.


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