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Decemberists, The / Hazards Of Love, The
Album: Hazards Of Love, The Collection: General
Artist: Decemberists, The Added: Apr 2009
Label: Capitol Records Inc.
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Add Date: 2009-04-05 Pull Date: 2009-06-07
Week Ending: Jun 7 May 31 May 24 May 10 May 3 Apr 26 Apr 19 Apr 12
Airplays: 2 1 3 2 3 2 1 1
Recent Airplay
1. May 02, 2015: Mix Tape
The Abduction Of Margaret 4. Feb 09, 2011: NickAndNoah: TheRadioShow
The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid
2. Nov 17, 2012: Music Casserole
The Hazarrds Of Love 2 (Wager All) 5. Nov 05, 2010: Everyday Commotion
A Bower Scene
3. Mar 21, 2011: &tc.
The Rake's Song 6. May 23, 2010: Uncross My Arms, or, The Unbirthday Tape
Adam Pearson
Reviewed 2009-04-05
The Hazards of Love – The Decemberists
Proggy folk indie rock. I will first preface this by acknowledging that this probably won't get any airplay here at KZSU. The Decemberists aren't appealing to the mainstream of Coldplay and U2, yet the Pitchfork/indie kid/post-hipster community has completely abandoned them. Where does that lead them? It thrusts them squarely in the alternative rock radio scene currently inhabited by the likes of Death Cab, Interpol, The White Stripes, The Arcade Fire, Muse, The Strokes, Feist, etc. Kind of a bizarre series of events when alternative rock radio passes the gauntlet from Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Green Day to indie-pop-gone-major-label phenoms in a matter of 10 years.
The Decemberists were at a crossroads in their career after the release of The Crane Wife. Yes it was major label release, but it was still not a dramatic drop off in quality from Picaresque. They could have gone on and pulled the 'Death Cab' and just settled for nullifying any relevance they ever had with a record like Plans or they could have pushed back and tried to retain some sort of artistic integrity. This is Colin Meloy's attempt to 'push back' from the inevitability of being absorbed into the alternative mainstream. As a result, we get an album without any 'radio-friendly' songs. (Though I'm not really sure what the Decemberists' current audience is. If the indie kids write them off, and the middle-schoolers don't hear a catchy riff, how are they going to sell records? Unless of course, the indie kids secretly buy the record and pretend they don't like them, which is possible.) The Decemberists are outcasts to every music circle.
Originally conceived as a play (what the fuck?), The Hazards of Love is a concept album. It follows some story about two lovers Margaret and William, or something along those lines, complete with ridiculously pretentious lyrics. Proggy synths and organs layer most tracks. Every track blends into the next, so be mindful of that if you decide to play this. As usual, The Hazards of Love is neither the trash that Pitchfork/indie-site-of-choice claim it is, nor the transcendent glory that Rolling Stone/mainstream-publication-of-choice claim it is. It is a flashy, puzzling, ambitious mess with some nice moments and some drudgery. This was numbing by the end. I really can't see this record as a commercial success…which achieves what Colin was going for, I guess? To quote Bart Simpson, "you're damned if you do, damned if you don't." At least they didn't fold like a lawn chair…like Death Cab.
1.Organs/synths drone along a dark instrumental-ish opening. (3:04)
2. Folksy guitars open, backing vocals, percussion is light, catchy lyrical refrains, upright bass is all over the place, drums come in halfway through. First of four title tracks. (4:19)
3. Thicker guitars churn along, organs, dulcimer, whole song is a buildup to the end. (2:09)
4. Takes the previous song and breaks it down to an almost prog-funk groove. Lead female vox, drums are simplistic, refrains are catchy, and poppy. Colin comes in with a little more than a minute left for sappy acrobatics, returns to the groove. (4:07)
*5. Sounds romantic, guitar work is nice, and vocals are polished. This reminds me of some of their older stuff with a new maturity. Interesting. Second of four title tracks. It really isn't that original, but I think it's an interesting move. (4:25)
6. Brief instrumental of banjo and whining violins. (0:29)
7. A little NMH conjured up, accordion, steel pedal guitar, more lead female vocals over sleepy acoustic guitar, prominent synths, a waltz. (3:39)
8. Harpsichord? Really? Pop rock/classical/proggy mess. All over the place in true progressive rock fashion. This sounds like it could have come out of a new 'rock musical'. Even has darker sounds for when the 'bad' characters sing. Maybe he should have wrote the fucking play. I can see it now. The Hazards of Love, a new Broadway rock musical! To make matters worse, parts also recall their lead single off The Crane Wife "O Valencia!" (6:26)
9. Simpler interlude with acoustic, electric guitars, bouzouki. Somewhat pleasant. Electric guitars sound almost new-agey. (1:40)
*10. I think this may be the single, but I don't know. Kind of repetitive, so it's definitely possible. Heavy, intense, banging percussion comes in over the droney lead melody. It's actually kind of cool. (3:16)
11. This is like 3. Fast paced punk?-esque strumming, recalls a motif from earlier. I really can't tell which track because it all has sort of blended together. (2:07)
12. This is like 4. Slow, almost stoner-rock feel to this. Lead female vocals. Feedback-laden guitars, phaser effects and shit screech around. Seriously, this does have a stoner-rock/prog feel. Black Mountain-esque. (3:56)
*13. Hurdy gurdy? Really full instrumentation here, mandolin, hammered dulcimer, synths, accordion, interesting percussion, and organs on top of usual. Folk guitar. This definitely has that progressive folk thing going for it. (5:11)
14. Recalls an earlier track, but I can't be bothered to find which one. So I just figured out that Colin is singing William's part as well as some villain? That's hella confusing. Some great voice-crackage on this too. Strings weep. (3:08)
15. Title track number 3. More harpsichord for comic relief. Some choir delivers Shakespearean verse over squeaky noises and tense atmospherics. Finally, we get the pleasure of electronic drums in the vein of The Smashing Pumpkins' worst. (3:22)
16. Recalls a particularly poppy refrain from earlier, with sweet backing vocals. This has an Arcade Fire feel to it. Noisy conclusion. (1:31)
*17. A real song? Slow, brooding acoustic guitar. I really couldn't follow the story so I'm going to guess that this is a tragedy and the woman died or dies or will die. Full, sweet backing vocals (I guess Jim James is trapped in here somewhere). Oh yes, some folk-alt country for good measure: steel pedal, banjo show up while strings cry. (5:57)
1. Prelude 9. An Interlude
2. The Hazards Of Love (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle The Thistles Undone) 10. The Rake's Song
3. A Bower Scene 11. The Abduction Of Margaret
4. Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga) 12. The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing
5. The Hazarrds Of Love 2 (Wager All) 13. Annan Water
6. The Queen's Approach 14. Margaret In Captivity
7. Isn't It A Lovely Night? 15. The Hazards Of Love 3 (Revenge!)
8. The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid 16. The Wanting Comes In Waves (Reprise)
17. The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned)


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On The Road: 24 Vintage Photos Of Hobo Life In America
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A hobo sits against a fence with his dog. Hoboken, New Jersey. Circa 1910 Library of Congress/Flickr
An elderly hobo walks through a field carrying a heavy pack. Australia. Circa 1901.Wikimedia Commons
A group of men in suits gather around a table full of food at a hobo convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. 1912.Library of Congress
The Hobo Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1923. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
A man in a hobo jungle in Minneapolis, Minnesota kills a turtle to make soup. 1939.Wikimedia Commons
Florence Owens Thompson, also known as "Migrant Mother" in Dorothea Lange's iconic photo, sits in a makeshift tent at a pea pickers camp in Nipomo, California. 1936. Dorothea Lange/Wikimedia Commons
A hobo in ragged clothing sits on a fence. Napa, California. Circa 1920.Wikimedia Commons
A hobo "jungle" along a riverfront in St. Louis, Missouri. 1936 Library of Congress
Men wash dishes at the Hotel de Gink, a hotel for "hobos" and itinerant workers located at Centre and Worth Streets near the Bowery, New York. 1915. Flickr and The New York Times via Library of Cpngress
James Eads Howe, founder of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, an aid society for hobos. Howe was born to a wealthy St. Louis family but chose instead to live his life as a hobo. Location unspecified. 1922.Library of Congress
Two hobos walk along railroad tracks after being put off of a train. Location unspecified. Circa 1900.Wikimedia Commons
An artist's depiction of a hobo scratching a message as part of the "hobo code," an esoteric language comprised of symbols intended to allow hobos to communicate with one another. Wikimedia Commons
A hobo prepares to board a freight train to find work elsewhere. Location unspecified. Circa 1955. Three Lions/Getty Images
A hobo wakes up early in the morning from his bed alongside a corral in Imperial Valley, California. 1939. Library of Congress
A hobo sits by the railroad tracks. Yakima Valley, Washington. 1939. Dorothea Lange/Library Of Congress/Getty Images
On a beautiful estate, 60 lucky hobos live by the benevolence of Mrs. John Howard Child, who lives with a gardener and caretaker, both former hobos. When there are extra chores to be done, Mrs. Child will hire men from the camp to do the work. Santa Barbara, California. 1945. Bettmann/CORBIS/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
A migrant worker sleeps in a field on bed of straw, hat over his face, barefoot. United Kingdom. Date unspecified.Time Life Pictures/Pix Inc./The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
A "gentleman of the road" poses for a photo. United Kingdom. Circa 1890.Past Pix/SSPL/Getty Images
Three hobos sit under a covered structure known as a hobo "jungle" in Chicago, Illinois. 1929. Wikimedia Commons
A hobo cooks over a campfire, using a tin can on a stick. Location unspecified. 1935 Alan Fisher/Library of Congress
A hobo tips his hat as he accepts a sandwich from a hand reaching out of a doorway. Location unspecified. 1935 Alan Fisher/Library of Congress
An elderly hobo walks along train tracks with a pack of belongings strapped to his back. Location unspecified. 1938.Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
The tiny home of a hobo named William McDavid. The roof is held down by stones and license plates block a hole in the wall. Palm Springs, California. 1962.Nat Farbman/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images
William McDavid uses a wheelbarrow. Palm Springs, California. 1962. Nat Farbman/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images
Often depicted sleeping in a train car or carrying a tiny bindle over their shoulder as they meander across the countryside, the American hobo often gets unfairly branded as lazy or unsavory, but a closer look reveals hard-working men and women just looking for a fair day's work.
Not to be confused with "bum" or "tramp," "hobo" is a term that came about around the conclusion of the American Civil War, and was used to describe the countless, now homeless, veterans traveling from coast to coast in search of work. Seeking new sources of income and a possible place to settle, hobos were nothing more than migrant workers in search of their next honest dollar.
Most hobos took to the railroads as an easy and efficient method of traversing the American countryside, hopping onto freight trains until reaching their ever-changing destinations and sometimes even finding paid work on the very rails they relied on for transportation and housing.
Although life on a moving train may sound like an adventure to some, the life of the hobo was anything but, as they faced harsh elements, angry rail workers, police, and everyday citizens determined to make life harder for an already stigmatized and underserved group of people.
With the onset of the Great Depression, entire families would embark on this rugged lifestyle, packing what belongings they still owned into, usually, a covered wagon, and hitting the road, children in tow.
At this time, an entire language, known as "the hobo code" was created to help these migrant workers communicate with one another, aiding their fellow travellers in finding a safe space to rest for the night, or a home that might offer a warm meal, while simultaneously warning others of a mean dog or an even meaner judge that lives on the property they're about to trespass upon, saving them from a possible night in jail.
Today, nearly a century after the start of the Great Depression, hobo culture lives on — although the difficulty of finding work is no longer what it once was. Instead, contemporary hobo culture, from the 1950s to the present, is more accurately classified as a counterculture movement, attractive to those rejecting conventional norms in favor of a more untethered life.
Above, see historic images of hobo life in decades past.
For a closer look at how hobos communicated, check out the hobo code created by the migrant workers of the late 19th century. Then, see these heartbreaking photos taken at the height of the dust bowl.
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just 10 min movie ?
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This statistic describes the percentage of U.S. physicians providing direct patient care 31 hours or more per week and working evening and weekend hours in 2009-2010. In that period, some 40 percent of the generalist physicians worked evening or weekend hours, while the percentage of speciality physicians working evening or weekend hours amounted to 19 percent.
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NTU is one of the largest "new" universities in the country, with around 25,000 students. They are spread over three campuses - one in the city centre, another about five miles away and a third in the country about 12 miles out of town. Guess which one has its own dairy farm.
The university is one of the top places in the country for graduate employment. NTU has close links with over 6,000 employers across the world; most courses here are vocational, with many students spending up to a year on work placements in the UK or further afield. The student community here is diverse, with a wide range of nationalities and backgrounds represented.
Nottingham is a vibrant city with a proud history. The city centre has the full range of leisure options, from sleek cocktail bars to grungy clubs.
£3,145 for full-time undergraduates in 2008.
£1,050 a year for those on full maintenance grants, then on a sliding scale between £650 and £350 for those on partial grant. Those whose family lives in Nottinghamshire get an extra £110 to £260. Scholarship bursaries of £2,000 a year go to at least 25 students on full grant.
All new students get university-allocated accommodation. Self-catering accommodation is from £69 to £105 a week.
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Leunig – Elbow people
Craig Kelly on The Kyle & Jackie O Show
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/239-the-kyle-jackie-o-show-27242949/episode/pedro-drags-craig-kelly-in-96990873/
Cash, attracts all the chicks.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Santa Monica 54
One is a Bulldozer, the other is a Brandon.
Let's Elbo Brandon!
It's understood a dispute over who would pay for a bronze statue of Peris
Wouldn't M0ntifa tear it down, da Grik Olympics movement representing Western colonisation and all?
Former US President George W Bush drew nervous laughter from a Texas audience when he accidentally described the 2003 invasion of Iraq as "brutal" and "wholly unjustified" instead of Russia's invasion of Ukraine this year.
Wasn't Donnie Dumbbell's "missile that hit the Pentagon" worth it?
Well done, blokes.
Adventures with Purpose:
Episode 3… Now that we've found 38-year-old James "Jimmy" Amabile at the bottom of Darby Creek in his 2002 Green Ford Explorer, it's time for the long and meticulous recovery of Jimmy before the SUV can be pulled from 24′ below the Ridley Township Municipal Marina.
This 4 part series documents Adventures With Purpose's search for James Amabile, following the clues left behind, from a cell phone ping, last phone call, information from his family about insulin levels, and knowing that James woke up in a panic that he was late picking up his daughters from the babysitters, all playing a role in leading to the discovery of where James Amabile and his SUV had gone missing in the river 19-years earlier.
SOLVED: [Ep 3] James Amabile – Dangerous Underwater Recovery
Bank of England acting like a 'hysterically hyperbolic headless chicken'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Iyrj1sw3Q
LIVE – Coverage of the Launch of the NASA's Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test-2
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Launch scheduled for 8:54am AEST (6:54pm US EST)
That footage of Mick Swivel-Rivulet was bizarre, to say the least. Definitelyintimidation. He had a look in his eyes like Numberwang eyeing off a prozzie on R&R.
6:54pm US EDT
Seems they got the thing in orbit.
Black Ball says:
Time to revisit Piers Akerman. Seems Labor haven't changed, as I will reproduce Terry McCrann shortly who examines Albo's latest proclamations.
Terry McCrann:
'Bizarrely, wannabe PM Anthony Albanese and his two would be money managers Jim Chalmers and Katy Gallagher have come right out and admitted the Prime Minister is exactly right: yes, we, Labor, will deliver bigger budget deficits and add yet more billions to the debt.
They've tried to admit to only an extra 7.4 billion dollars – of both budget deficits and government debt.
We – and they- wish.
On their own figures, and making the most optimistic and generous assumptions, it has to be between that and 19 billion; and in my judgement closer to the $19 billion.
That's the figure the trio say Labor's promised new spending or cost in, just, the 4 years of the normal budget figures.
They are claiming they will make over $11 billion in cuts, so the $7.4 billion is the claimed net increase in spending, in the budget deficits, and the increase to government debt.
First off, all these numbers only go out four years.
The new spending doesn't all come to a full stop in 2025-26.
Not only does it keep going, every year after that, it will keep getting bigger.
Anytime a government – Labor or Liberal – initiates a new program it starts a never-ending ever-rising spend.
Look at the NDIS. Worthy as it undoubtedly is, in 2021/22 it soaked up $30 billion.
You know how much it is going to cost, just four years later in 2025-26? Try $46 billion.
Furthermore, that $46 billion in 2025-26 will almost certainly be an under-estimate.
The budgets always underestimate what programs end up costing.
Again, just look at the NDIS.
Politicians and bureaucrats don't seem to understand that when you offer the equivalent of a "free lunch" a lot of people you didn't expect turn up to have a feed.'
There's more but having trying to put it here, deleted the second half 🤬 so the toys are out of the cot
Scheduled to dock with the ISS around 7 p.m. EDT (9am AEST) tomorrow, i.e. 24 hours post launch.
I'll just say it. The bloke in the graduation garb not knowing how long a decade is in years…. loser. How much did he pay for his education? FMD.
I would expect most here to know these answers. Keep in my mind these interviews are selective, so there could have been many who knew the answers but not put to screen…I have my doubts though.
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A: Ummm
Scary sh*t.
Via Fleccas Talks:
Another wild one from Justin. How many states are in the US stumped too many people. Imagine wearing a cap and gown and not knowing what 3x3x3 is. My fav was "Kennedy" (the guy who fought in the Civil War apparently). I think she was going for "confederacy"? lol… Make sure you guys give Justin a follow, he's a super smart up-and-comer. This was a great collab, follow him, he's the man!
INSANE: Young Americans Don't Know ANYTHING!
I've just arrived in Davos to EXPOSE the global elites
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Unbeaten boxer dies after heart attack during fight
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Stew Peters doesn't hold back.
I doubt RT will get him back on.
Stew Peters Blasts Satanists and P*dophiles on RT
Is the monkeypox outbreak confined to the vaxxed?
Any stats?
Thanks, Black Ball. Appreciated.
Boyz, please don't get all worked up about the latest distraction squirrel – 'monkeypox' – the name sounds straight out of an advertising agency.
JK Rowling defends girl 'driven out of school for questioning trans ideology'
JK Rowling has condemned the "utterly shameful" treatment of a teenage girl who felt forced to leave her school after pupils hounded her for challenging the views of a visiting speaker.
The author waded into the row after a teacher at the school claimed the unnamed girl was treated like a heretic for questioning a politician's assertions about sex.
Utterly shameful.
Add this to the tottering pile of evidence that people in education and academia who're supposed to have a duty of care towards the young have succumbed to an outbreak of quasi-religious fanaticism. The girl's crime? Saying 'sex exists.'
Who do you vote for?
Here's some guidance from the ever-reliable MSM.
A stunning editorial endorsement from the
Sydney Morning Herald.
While Kevee oh Sevenee complains about
NewsCorp.
How many times does one pull out the victim-humble beginnings-council house card, if one aspires to be PM and lead a country for the next three years?
AA takes walk down memory lane in final election ad
This comment says it:
Anthony Albanese is not the only one who has done it hard throughout life. I was just talking to a man who's father came from Iran many years ago. His father reminds him that we live in a lucky country not because of our democracy, but because here we have a problem if we step over rubbish in the street. In Iran they stepped over dead bodies. If Albo wants to lead the country he can start by not playing the victim. We live in a very lucky country and we should all appreciate that.
And His father was witness to his best mate being shot in the face. So sorry Albo your boo hoo story does not stack up in the grand scheme of being a victim.
As for Scotty
Scott Morrison has spent the last six weeks
reminding voters of his conservative values – it may not be enough
If Scott Morrison loses the election on Saturday despite a weak opposition leader, it will be because of the way he governed, not the way he campaigned…
That's why an underwhelming challenger is now a good chance to lead Australia, despite Morrison's acknowledged record on pandemic management.
Now, because Morrison has failed to govern with conviction, a Labor win would allow the ALP to claim a mandate for its convictions.
Probably not – Stew was pretty angry in that interview. I think a lot of decent people in the USA must be getting the same. Something's going to break soon.
Last week some of the bugs on the blog were fixed.
Mainly – the Save my name checkbox which means that by checking the box you can see your comments immediately after posting rather than a time delay for non-registered commenters.
There is still a pending list of bugs. I have noticed that the B-Quote function adds a lot of extra space sometimes and at other times it deletes spaces. I have discussed this with the software developer who is fixing the bugs.
He told me that this is due to something in the WordPress core function that cannot be changed. He is looking into it to see if there is any other way to fix it.
Feedback please.
What is your experience while commenting? Are there issues that affect either commenting or viewing of comments? Let me know. I can pass that on to the developer to fix, if the code allows.
Is Bill Gates not going to save us from Monkeypox?
Bill, why have thou forsaken us?
Why aren't there more Pedros who will drag in Craig Kelly and other freedom-friendly party leaders/candidates to their radio shows?
For Craig to get a chance to speak on what is a lefty/woke hosts-audience show is an excellent opportunity. And both Kyle and Jackie treated him with courtesy and were interested in what he was saying. On some points, they were in agreement with him, too.
Kyle took up the issue of censorship, disinformation and truth and brought up the example of Biden's laptop that turned from fake to fact.
A few more radio platforms giving a chance to the true freedom-party/independent candidates would educate the public and help them see the choices they have.
Has Scummo got the Dancing-Monkey-Pox variant?
George W Bush:
"The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUEr7TayrmU
Victorian CHO Brett Sutton says a Melbourne man in his 30s has monkeypox.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-20/monkeypox-case-in-sydney-and-melbourne/101084864
In this video, Sutton say monkeypox has been noted "in the community of men who have sex with men".
Didn't that used to be called the gay community?
Anyway, let's hope Australians tomorrow say "a monkeypox on both your houses".
You'll never guess where monkeypox is showing up
Kristina Keneally's campaign in Fowler
Kristina Keneally's bid to keep the southwestern Sydney seat of Fowler in Labor hands has suffered a setback after posters authorised by the party featuring independent candidate Dai Le were ordered to be removed
Ms Keneally's campaign was on Thursday sent a legal letter from the Australian Government Solicitor on behalf of the Australian Electoral Commission…
The posters included a photoshopped image of Ms Le standing next to Prime Minister Scott Morrison with the words: "Dai Le and Scott Morrison: Don't risk a Liberal government".
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Andre Antunes:
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata (3rd movement) (Electric guitar)
In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.
But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.
Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold … 🍿
And right on cue,
A SpaceX flight attendant said …..
Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence.
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Half of Joe Biden's Twitter Followers Are Fake, Audit Reveals
Almost half of President Joe Biden's current 22.2 million followers on Twitter are fake accounts, according to an audit tool provided by software company SparkToro.
SparkToro's tool found that 49.3 percent of accounts following the official @POTUS Twitter account are "fake followers" based on analysis of a number of factors, including location issues, default profile images and new users.
WashPo
Clive Palmer, mining billionaire dubbed 'Australia's Trump,' stirs up election
By Rachel Pannett
May 20, 2022 at 2:45 a.m. EDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/20/clive-palmer-australia-election-independents/
Auction house Sotheby's
expects Pablo Picasso's 1932 portrait depicting his muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, to sell for more than $60 million
It sold for $67.5M at auction.
She has to be trolling?
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Memes.
Complete Clown 🤡
Another walk with Cash. The reactions from people are gold.
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Abnahme von Prüfungen (Examen)

Prüfungsausschuss an Hochschulen
Der Prüfungsausschuss setzt sich zusammen aus Mitarbeitern einer Universität oder einer anderen Hochschule, die nicht alle notwendigerweise Professoren sein müssen. Er entscheidet über die Zulassung zur Zwischenprüfung und zur Abschlussprüfung, sowie über die Anerkennung von Leistungsnachweisen. Des Weiteren hat er oftmals weitgehende Befugnisse bei der Auslegung, Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung von Studien- und Prüfungsordnungen. Der Prüfungsausschuss agiert außerdem als Klage- und Revisionsinstanz bei Auseinandersetzungen bezüglich des Ablaufs und der Bewertung von Prüfungsleistungen.

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Die IHK-Prüfungen in der Berufsausbildung und in der Weiterbildung werden von ehrenamtlich berufenen Prüfern durchgeführt. Dem Prüfungsausschuss gehört mindestens ein Lehrer an.
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 Wirtschaftsprüfer
 Steuerberater

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Funkbetriebszeugnis
Lehrprobe
Staatsexamen
Laufbahnprüfungen

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Prüfungsausschuss in Firmen
Aufsichtsgremien von Firmen richten vielfach einen Ausschuss zur Prüfung der Rechnungslegung ein (Audit Committee).

Prüfungsausschuss staatlicher Institutionen
In Österreich hat der Prüfungsausschuss "die Aufgabe, als nachprüfendes Kollegialorgan festzustellen, ob die Gebarung sparsam, wirtschaftlich und zweckmäßig sowie in Übereinstimmung mit dem Gemeindevoranschlag geführt wird, ob sie den Gesetzen und sonstigen Vorschriften entspricht und richtig verrechnet wird. Der Prüfungsausschuss hat sich auch von der Richtigkeit der Kassenführung und der Führung der Vermögens- und Schuldenrechnung sowie des Verzeichnisses des Gemeindeeigentums zu überzeugen."

Siehe auch
 Verwaltungsrecht

Einzelnachweise

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I have a Kenwood DNX9180DABS in-car system. I notice that this model is not mentioned on your database downloads - is there a compatible download?
Thanks for this. As there seems to be no mention anywhere of the DNX9180DABS anywhere, am I correct in thinking that all DNX units are compatible then?
Incidentally, these installation instructions are slightly different to the Kenwood manual ??
Pointing out the differences might be useful.
As far as I'm aware, yes. All Garmin's use the same method of using the database. The only difference may be whether you use a USB stick or memory card.
Out of interest, what does the Kenwood manual say and how do they differ? It may just be a software update over the years that means we need to update the Kenwood instructions a little.
OK, many thanks for that.
Regarding the differences in installation, I have found two different methods, both on Kenwood/Garmin website/literature.
Although this unit has an SD card, one said that the POILoader should go on a USB drive (and the database on the SD card) and one said to put both on the SD card !!!!
POILoader is software that needs installing to your PC (Windows and Mac both available).
You then run that software and select a destination for the data to be sent to - either SD Card or USB drive.


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Главная Persons Shchepkin Vasily
Shchepkin Vasily
Shchepkin Vasily (born in 1986), researcher at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 2007 graduated from Irkutsk State Linguistic University, the Department of Oriental Languages, and then entered the PhD program of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental studies, RAS. In 2011 he defended a dissertation entitled "Hayashi Shihei's "Kaikoku Heidan" as a significant military and political treatise of the Edo period (1603-1867)". From November, 2010 a junior researcher, from June, 2013 a researcher at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of Russian Academy of Sciences.
In January, 2012 took a short-term training at Hokkaido University (Japan). In February and March, 2013 took part in Japan Foundation support program for young researchers from Russia. In 2013-2014 - visiting researcher at Hokkaido University Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies. In 2011-2014 participated in a joint project of IOM RAS and Hokkaido University Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies on comparative study of manuscripts "Higashi ezo iko" (from the collection of IOM RAS) and "Ezo seikei zusetsu" (from the collection of Tokyo University).
Field of research: history and culture of Japan, history of Japan's foreign relations, history of Russia-Japan relations, history of Ainu of Hokkaido, Sakhalin and Kuril Islands, Japanese manuscripts and woodblock-printed books.
He teaches: History of Japan, History of Japanese Culture, Japanese language, and Japanese historical texts
Winner at the Association of Japanese Studies Award for the best academic paper about Japan in 2012 (category: history, 1st award).
List of publications:
ロシア科学アカデミー東洋古籍文献研究所所蔵「二十五国人物中華地球之図」 ["Niju-go-koku Jinbutu Chuka Chikyu no Zu" at the Insitute of Oriental Manuscripts of Russian Academy of Sciences] // 北海道・東北史研究 [Journal of the History of Hokkaido and Tohoku Regions of Japan], 9 (2014): 1-4.
ロシア科学アカデミー東洋古籍文献研究所所蔵「東蝦夷彙考」翻刻・解題 : 北海道大学アイヌ先住民研究センター古文書プロジェクト報告書2 ["Higashi Ezo Iko" from the collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS. Reproduction and bibliographical essays]. 札幌 [Sapporo]: 北海道大学アイヌ先住民研究センター [Hokkaido University Center for Ainu and Indigneous Studies], 2014. 152 p.
Влияние возвышения маньчжуров на формирование внешней политики Японии в 1-ой пол. XVII в. [The Influence of the Manchus' rise on the formation of Japan's foreign policy in first half of 17th century] // Страны и народы Востока [Countries and Peoples of the East]. Вып. XXXIV [Vol. XXXIV] (2013): 73-83.
Восприятие сопредельных стран в Японии XVIII в. (на материале трактата Хаяси Сихэй «Сангоку цу:ран») [Reception of the neighboring states in 18th century Japan (on the base of Hayashi Shihei's Sangoku Tsuuran)] // Вопросы философии [The issues of philosophy], 7 (2011): 174-179.
«Эдзо си» («Описание Эдзо») Хаяси Сихэя (вступительная статья и перевод с японского языка В.В. Щепкина) [Ezo shi (Description of Ezo) by Hayashi Shihei (introduction and translation from Japanese by V. V. Shchepkin)] // Письменные памятники Востока [Written monuments of the Orient], 1 (14) (spring-summer 2011): 5-17.
«Кайкоку хэйдан» («Военные беседы о морском государстве») Хаяси Сихэй. Предисловие. Перевод с японского и комментарии В.В. Щепкина ["Kaikoku Heidan" by Hayashi Shihei. Introduction. Translation from Japanese and comments by V. V. Shchepkin] // Письменные памятники Востока [Written monuments of the Orient] 1 (12) (spring-summer 2010): 52-58.
Дискуссия японских мыслителей XVIII-XIX вв. о морской обороне [The discussion of naval defense by Japanese thinkers of the 18th-19th centuries] // Страны и народы Востока [Countries and Peoples of the East]. Вып. XXXIII [Vol. XXXIII] (2010): 167-175.


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2019 Bentley Continental GT Review: The New GT Is Smarter and Still Completely Iconic
May 14, 2018 Cars By Alex Kalogianni Photo by Bentley
The 2019 Bentley Continental GT is the third generation of the automaker's two-door grand tourer, a car that practically defines what Bentley stands for. "The GT is the very essence of our brand," says Mark Del Rosso, President and CEO of Bentley Americas. Though slightly outsold last year by the new Bentagya SUV, the Continental GT is still very much Bentley's bread and butter. So much so that dealers have been holding deposits from dedicated customers for years in advance of the car's reveal. The Crewe-based team had the not-so-insignificant task of not only creating a car that satisfies loyal Bentley buyers but create something that broadens appeal to new ones, all while setting the benchmark for what a luxury grand tourer should be. No pressure, right?
Buy Now: $214,600 MSRP
The Good: The luxury of it all is incredibly satisfying. Knurled knobs and switches feel weighty and purposeful; everything that isn't meant to be heavy is supple to the touch. There's something about knowing the stitch count of your likely customized diamond-quilted leather that's oddly gratifying. (310,675 stitches, for the record.) Superb sound baffling goes a long way to keep outside noise from harshing the vibe. This is only matched by the 6.0-liter twin-turbocharged W12 centerpiece. It has 626 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque to give up, which it does willingly, and very low in the rev band.
Who It's For: The older affluent crowd who see a winner and sticks with it. The Continental has a very solid customer base that recognizes the Continental's consistency. Dutiful in its role as a usable status symbol, current customers are sure to re-up once this car is available in the spring of 2019. However, with the Bentayga now in the same showroom, newer Bentley buyers might stray away from the Conti.
Watch Out For: For all the good derived from the W12, the exhaust note is the most disappointing. Its timbre isn't as low and syrupy as you'd expect, judging by the looks of the car. It's something out of mind for most of the journey thanks to the sound baffling. The car isn't a screamer, and though it can be coerced, it's just better to let the Continental make a statement in other ways. Also, the optional rotating display: this takes the 12.3-inch touchscreen and fits it to a tumbler that will rotate the screen away to either show more veneer or three (admittedly lovely) analog gauges. It's fun luxury theater that will be used in a handful of demonstrations and then forgotten about quickly.
Alternatives: The Mercedes-AMG S-Class Coupe, particularly the S 65, which brings its own 12-cylinder engine to the party. A more elegant and significant threat to the Bentley's Grand Tourer title would be the Aston Martin DB11 V12.
Whether or not you're new to the brand, there's a certain expectation for any Bentley, particularly one as ubiquitous in luxury crowds as this one. The Continental GT has been the go-to car for the affluent for so long, it's almost too familiar in certain circles. It's for good reason, too, as the Continental has held up its end of the bargain of being a versatile daily driver that delivers a premium luxury experience since its debut in 2003. This latest iteration doesn't disappoint in that regard, and with its upgraded looks, it'll probably be a while before people get used to it.
The latest Conti largely retains the general footprint of the previous generation, but a shift to some of its proportions have brought forth changes in its visual character. The front axle moves 135mm forward, giving the GT a shorter front overhang and a longer, level hood (or "bonnet," in this case), making for a more graceful profile. It wears the signature Bentley face of the matrix grille and large, jewel-like headlamps, but new Continental is higher and wider across the front for a more dominant presence. This is complemented by meaty haunches at the rear that meet with the fastback slope at new, simplified lip-shaped tail lights. All told, it's a visual package that has a bold presence, and thanks to the "superforming" process of its aluminum body, the Continental GT's curves look muscular, not bulbous.
The contemporary Continental awaited me in Kitzbüehel, Austria, where we would take a vivacious drive through the Alps and into northern Italy. It would be a journey befitting a grand tourer: mountain hairpins, rural backroads, and stretches of motorway to feed to a hungry 6.0-liter twin-turbo W12 engine.
Right from the start, the luxury experience takes hold in the Continental GT, and sitting behind the wheel feels like donning a tailored suit. The interior is replete with luxury appointments like diamond quilted leather, diamond knurled switches fitted with bronze inserts, and ten square meters of veneer that's taken nine hours of craftsmanship to implement. The center console has an optional aluminum surface machined in Côtes de Genéve, a pattern familiar to those who know their Swiss watches. It's all so lovely, you'd be compelled to rebuke occupants from touching things if it all didn't invite tactile indulgence. Of all the expectations this Bentley is burdened with, its interior is the highest, and it meets it effortlessly.
If interior luxury is the highest expectation, then ride comfort and performance jockey for second place. Built on an all-new chassis and saddled with a new powertrain, the new Continental endeavors to surpass its predecessor in both. Each takes advantage of the Bentley Dynamic Ride system, a series of 48-volt actuators that can react in 0.3 seconds to counter body roll. It all rides on three-chamber air suspension and, depending on the setting, the Continental can absorb bumps like so much plush carpeting. Even in its most stiff, sport-ready setting, the ride is never remotely harsh.
The W12 under the bonnet is eager to serve up generous portions of power, proving to be the Continental's defining feature. 664 pound-feet of torque is in play at just 1,350 rpm, which will easily push your head back into the embroidered headrests. Bentley's claim of a 3.6-second 0 to 60 launch and 207 top speed is all the more impressive considering the car's weight. Unladen, the Continental weighs a hair under 5,000 lbs, so wide open throttle on the Autostrada feels like being strapped to a runaway steam engine. 420mm, 10-piston front brakes make sure the Bentley stops as fast as it goes. With all that said, the Continental is surprisingly adept at corners. Entering the mountain switchbacks, I could really feel the Bentley's heft, but active torque vectoring and an electronic center diff made rounding the repeated hairpins a much more manageable endeavor. It won't eat a sports car's lunch, but it's far from a letdown. It very much reminded me of the Mercedes-AMG S 63 Coupe, where its mass was very palpable. The Continental was inexplicably capable, but you had to put the work into it, though it delivers a far smoother experience by comparison. The eight-speed dual-clutch gearbox – a Bentley first – is also a significant plus, making incredibly smooth, near seamless shifts throughout my Alpine horseplay. It's fun to flick through in manual, but it's surprisingly capable on its own, which I don't say flippantly. There were a couple instances where I was about to initiate a gear change, only to have the Conti react a fraction of a second faster. This is a nice thing to be surprised by.
Verdict: Its very safe to say that the new Bentley Continental GT ticks all the boxes a generational progression requires: sharper looks, improved performance, and an overall FOMO-inducing level of refinement. The Bentley faithful will certainly upgrade, though it's difficult to say how many new customers it will bring to the brand. It's a gentleman's car, but a gentleman who's still eager to demonstrate his virility. The traditionally older cigar-chomping customer will fit seamlessly in its classical luxury appointments while a younger buyer will probably wait for a "speed" edition and forcefully insert carbon fiber throughout, as previous patterns have shown. To each their own, but whoever indulges in the new Continental GT will be thoroughly satisfied. It's a crowd used to getting exactly what they want, and the Continental GT absolutely delivers.
• "True to its name, the coupe is perhaps the truest grand touring car on the market — comfort happily married to speed." — Jason Harper, Autoblog
• "The long-travel throttle allows for meting out all that power precisely, but once the engine comes alive, it's an absolute rocket." — Jake Holmes, Motor1
• "Don't get me wrong, the Bentley likes to rev, and at full-throttle acceleration is nothing short of ferocious, but it tends to sound more like a blown six rather than the more meaty V12 growl." — Anthony Crawford, Caradvice.com.au
Engine: 6.0-liter, twin-turbocharged W12 TSI
Transmission: Eight-speed dual-clutch
Horsepower: 626 Horsepower
Torque: 664 ft-lbs
Weight: 4,947 lbs kerb weight
0-60: 3.6 secs
Alex Kalogiannis is a freelance automotive writer and editor based in the New york area.
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Santa Catalina is the place for me. We fly there often since Joe has an annual pass which waives the landing fee and also gives us free fresh baked cookies. It takes about 10 minutes from Long Beach and we generally pack all three dogs into the plane and treat ourselves to breakfast and a three mile hike on the airport loop trail. And that's just what we did today.
Flying over Long Beach for the 26 mile flight to Catalina. That's our dog beach on the upper left.
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I collected some dried up, dead branches today. Thought they'd make a good display for earrings. I plan to put them in some sort of pot and pour in cement to firmly hold them. The only problem is it'll be cumbersome to transport. Future project....I think so.
Getting ready to land at the Long Beach Airport.
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One of the Boeing C17 buildings is on the airport and behind Airflite which is the FBO Joe uses.


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Adding Keytruda to Chemotherapy Improves Overall Survival in Metastatic, Strongly PD-L1-Positive Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
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Tags: Planning/Considering Chemotherapy, Chemotherapy for Metastatic Cancer, Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel), Abraxane (chemical name: paclitaxel), Gemzar (chemical name: gemcitabine), HER2/neu Negative Cancer, Progesterone-Receptor Negative, Estrogen-Receptor Negative, Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Metastatic/Advanced-stage: Stage IV, Locally Advanced-stage: Stage IIIC, Locally Advanced-stage: Stage IIIB, Keytruda (chemical name: pembrolizumab), Preparing for/Undergoing Immunotherapy, and Immunotherapy for Metastatic Cancer
Adding the immunotherapy medicine Keytruda (chemical name: pembrolizumab) to chemotherapy improved overall survival more than chemotherapy alone in people diagnosed with metastatic triple-negative, strongly PD-L1-positive breast cancer, according to the KEYNOTE-355 study's final results.
The research was presented on Sept. 19, 2021, at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2021. Read the abstract of "KEYNOTE-355: Final results from a randomized, double-blind phase III study of first-line pembrolizumab + chemotherapy vs placebo + chemotherapy for metastatic TNBC."
Hope Rugo, M.D., professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, presented the research. Dr. Rugo is also a member of the Breastcancer.org Professional Advisory Board. She recently joined the Breastcancer.org Podcast to discuss the KEYNOTE-355 study.
Metastatic breast cancer is cancer that has spread to parts of the body away from the breast, such as the bones, liver, or brain.
Overall survival is how long people live, whether or not the cancer grows.
About triple-negative breast cancer
About Keytruda
About the KEYNOTE-355 study
Triple-negative breast cancer is:
estrogen-receptor-negative
progesterone-receptor-negative
HER2-negative
Triple-negative breast cancers are usually more aggressive, harder to treat, and more likely to come back (recur) than cancers that are hormone-receptor-positive or HER2-positive. Triple-negative breast cancers don't usually respond to hormonal therapy medicines or medicines that target the HER2 protein.
Keytruda is a type of immunotherapy medicine known as an immune checkpoint inhibitor. To start an immune response to a foreign invader, the immune system has to be able to tell the difference between cells or substances that are "self" (part of you) and "non-self" (not part of you and possibly harmful). Your body's cells have proteins on their surfaces or inside them that help the immune system recognize them as "self."
Some of the proteins that help your immune system recognize "self" cells are called immune checkpoints. Cancer cells sometimes find ways to use these immune checkpoint proteins as shields to avoid being identified and attacked by the immune system.
Immune system cells called T cells roam throughout the body looking for signs of disease or infection. When T cells meet another cell, they analyze certain proteins on the cell's surface, which helps the T cells identify the cell. If the surface proteins signal that the cell is normal and healthy, the T cells leave it alone. If the surface proteins suggest the cell is cancerous or unhealthy in another way, the T cells start to attack it. Once T cells start an attack, the immune system begins to make more specialized proteins that prevent this attack from damaging normal cells and tissues in the body. These specialized proteins that keep healthy cells and tissues safe are called immune checkpoints.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors target these immune checkpoint proteins and help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells. Immune checkpoint inhibitors essentially take the brakes off the immune system by blocking checkpoint inhibitor proteins on cancer cells or on the T cells that respond to them.
For example, PD-1 is a checkpoint protein on T cells. PD-L1 is another checkpoint protein found on many healthy cells in the body. When PD-1 binds to PD-L1, it stops T cells from killing a cell. Some cancer cells have a lot of PD-L1 on their surfaces, which stops T cells from killing these cells. These types of cancers are considered PD-L1-positive. Keytruda stops PD-1 from binding to PD-L1 and allows T cells to attack the cancer cells.
In 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the combination of Keytruda and chemotherapy to treat unresectable locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative, PD-L1-positive breast cancer. Locally advanced breast cancer is breast cancer that has spread to tissue near the breast, but not to parts of the body away from the breast. Unresectable means the cancer can't be removed with surgery.
The FDA based its approval on earlier results from the KEYNOTE-355 trial, which showed that a combination of Keytruda and chemotherapy offered better progression-free survival than chemotherapy alone as the first treatment for PD-L1-positive, metastatic or unresectable locally advanced triple-negative breast cancer.
Progression-free survival is how long people live without the cancer growing.
These latest results from the KEYNOTE-355 study presented overall survival data.
"In a disease like this, overall survival is a critical endpoint," Dr. Rugo told Breastcancer.org. "We always call it the gold standard. It is really important for us to see overall survival, if we can."
The KEYNOTE-355 study included 847 people diagnosed with either:
metastatic triple-negative breast cancer that had not been treated with chemotherapy yet
triple-negative breast cancer that had come back in the breast area and could not be removed with surgery; these people had been considered disease-free for at least 6 months after treatment for the initial breast cancer
The researchers looked at whether the cancers had the PD-L1 protein on the surfaces of their cells, as well as how much PD-L1 was on the cells' surface. Cancers that scored 10 or higher on the PD-L1 test were considered to have high levels of PD-L1. Cancers that scored 1 or higher were considered PD-L1-positive.
The people were randomly assigned to two treatment regimens:
566 people received Keytruda every 3 weeks plus the researchers' choice of one of three chemotherapy regimens: Abraxane (chemical name: albumin-bound or nab-paclitaxel), Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel), or Gemzar (chemical name: gemcitabine)/carboplatin
281 people received a placebo (an injection that was just like Keytruda, but contained no medicine) plus the researchers' choice of Abraxane, Taxol, or Gemzar/carboplatin
The researchers followed half the people for about 44 months and followed half for shorter periods of time.
The results showed that adding Keytruda to chemotherapy improved overall survival by almost 7 months and reduced the risk of dying from breast cancer by 27% in people with cancers that scored 10 or higher on the PD-L1 test.
About 75% of the cancers scored 1 or higher on the PD-L1 test, and about 39% of the cancers had a score of 10 or higher on the test.
Overall survival was:
23 months for people with cancers scoring 10 or higher on the PD-L1 test who received Keytruda and chemotherapy
16.1 months for people with cancers scoring 10 or higher on the PD-L1 test who received chemotherapy alone
17.6 months for people with cancers scoring 1 or higher on the PD-L1 test who received Keytruda and chemotherapy
16.0 months for people with cancers scoring 1 or higher on the PD-L1 test who received chemotherapy alone
17.2 months for all the people in the study who received Keytruda and chemotherapy
15.5 months for all the people in the study who received chemotherapy alone
The difference in overall survival between people with cancers scoring 10 or higher on the PD-L1 test who received Keytruda and chemotherapy and people who received chemotherapy alone was statistically significant, which means that it was likely because of the difference in treatment and not just due to chance.
"These results support pembrolizumab/chemotherapy as a new standard-of-care treatment regimen for patients with locally recurrent unresectable or metastatic [triple-negative breast cancer] whose tumors express PD-L1 with a [PD-L1 test score of 10 or higher]," Dr. Rugo said during her presentation.
Rates of side effects were similar between the two treatment groups. Of all the people who had at least one treatment-related side effect:
96.3% of the people received Keytruda and chemotherapy
95.0% of the people received chemotherapy alone
Rates of serious side effects — grade 3 to 5 — were:
68.1% in people who received Keytruda and chemotherapy
66.9% in people who received chemotherapy alone
Two people who received Keytruda and chemotherapy died from a treatment-related side effect. No people who received chemotherapy alone died from a treatment-related side effect.
The most common side effects were:
anemia (low red blood cell counts)
low white blood cell counts
Overall, because of side effects:
18.3% of people receiving Keytruda and chemotherapy stopped treatment
11.0% of people receiving chemotherapy alone stopped treatment
Because Keytruda is an immunotherapy medicine, the researchers looked specifically at side effects that affected the immune system. Of all the people who had an immune-related side effect:
26.5% of people received Keytruda and chemotherapy
6.4% of people received chemotherapy alone
About 5% of people who received Keytruda and chemotherapy had a grade 3 to 5 immune-related side effect, but no one died from an immune-related side effect.
"Safety was consistent with the known profiles of each regimen," Dr. Rugo said. "There were no new safety concerns."
If you've been diagnosed with metastatic triple-negative, strongly PD-L1 positive breast cancer, these latest results from the KEYNOTE-355 study are very reassuring.
After 44 months of follow-up time, Keytruda continues to offer benefits, including significantly improving overall survival.
Learn more about Keytruda.
To talk with others about this study and immunotherapy, join the Breastcancer.org Discussion Board forum Immunotherapy - Before, During, and After.
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Corporate Responses to Shareholder Activists: Considering the Dialogue Alternative.Kathleen Rehbein, Jeanne M. Logsdon & Harry J. Van Buren - 2013 - Journal of Business Ethics 112 (1):137-154.details
This empirical study examines corporate responses to activist shareholder groups filing social-policy shareholder resolutions. Using resource dependency theory as our conceptual framing, we identify some of the drivers of corporate responses to shareholder activists. This study departs from previous studies by including a fourth possible corporate response, engaging in dialogue. Dialogue, an alternative to shareholder resolutions filed by activists, is a process in which corporations and activist shareholder groups mutually agree to engage in ongoing negotiations to deal with social issues. (...) Based on a unique dataset of resolutions filed by member organizations of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility from 2002 to 2005 and the outcomes of these resolutions, our analysis finds that corporate managers are more likely to engage in dialogue with shareholder activists when the firm is larger, is more responsive to stakeholders, the CEO is the board chair, and the firm has a relatively lower percentage of institutional investors. (shrink)
Corporate Governance in Applied Ethics
Shareholder Activism in Applied Ethics
Human Rights in the Oil and Gas Industry: When Are Policies and Practices Enough to Prevent Abuse?Michelle Westermann-Behaylo, Annie Snelson-Powell, Kathleen Rehbein & Tricia Olsen - 2022 - Business and Society 61 (6):1512-1557.details
Multinational enterprises are aware of their responsibility to protect human rights now more than ever, but severe human rights violations, including physical integrity abuses, continue unabated. To explore this puzzle, we engage theoretically with the means-ends decoupling literature to examine if and when oil and gas firms' policies and practices prevent severe human rights abuse. Using an original dataset, we identify two pathways to mitigate means-ends decoupling: while human rights policies alone do not reduce human rights abuses, firms with a (...) high-quality human rights policy over the long-term reduce severe human rights abuses; firms that combine preparedness—which we define as a firm's capabilities, practices, and engagement—with a long-term human rights policy also reduce the likelihood of human rights abuses. Preparedness, we argue, can lead to reinforcement dynamics between long-term policy efforts and additional capabilities that provide a more holistic understanding of firm behavior. (shrink)
Human Rights in Social and Political Philosophy
Business and Society Research in Times of the Corona Crisis.Andrew Spicer, Kathleen Rehbein, Colin Higgins, Jill A. Brown, Frank G. A. de Bakker & Hari Bapuji - 2020 - Business and Society 59 (6):1067-1078.details
Building on Its Past: The Future of Business and Society Scholarship.Andrew Spicer, Kathleen Rehbein, Colin Higgins, Hari Bapuji, Frank G. A. de Bakker & Jill A. Brown - 2022 - Business and Society 61 (5):967-979.details
This Special Issue commemorates the 60th anniversary of Business & Society with nine rigorous literature reviews that address important societal problems and provide opportunities for theory development in the business and society field; in this introduction we present an overview of the Special Issue. With the theme "Building on Its Past," the nine articles address a host of contemporary issues, including climate change, wicked problems, business and human rights, human health, certifications standards, the governance of artificial intelligence, stakeholder engagement, stakeholder (...) theory, and corporate political activity. Together, these reviews offer a wealth of suggested themes, theories and approaches that can drive our research forward for the next decades in business and society research and practice. Using the lens of a miner-prospector continuum to categorize the diversity of articles within this special issue, a common theme emerges across the portfolio of reviews: they all call for a more systemic and integrative perspective toward studying the complex interactions that link business and society actors and issues. Building on these findings, we encourage future scholars to fill long-standing researched gaps through a more open systems approach, which supports both contextually sensitive and multi-level and multi-disciplinary approaches to address grand societal challenges. We conclude with specific suggestions as to how business and society scholars might use an open systems approach, including embracing methodologies to address complex causal pathways, theorizing with a view towards spanning external and internal elements of an organization, and reflecting on the temporal and spatial dynamics of complex systems. (shrink)
Something Old, Something New: Continuity and Change at Business & Society.Andrew Spicer, Kathleen Rehbein, Colin Higgins, Frank G. A. de Bakker, Jill A. Brown & Hari Bapuji - 2020 - Business and Society 59 (5):791-798.details
Fad and Fashion in Shareholder Activism: The Landscape of Shareholder Resolutions, 1988–1998.Samuel B. Graves, Sandra Waddock & Kathleen Rehbein - 2001 - Business and Society Review 106 (4):293-314.details
Financial Ethics in Applied Ethics
The Role of Female Directors in the Boardroom: Examining Their Impact on Competitive Dynamics.Kathleen Rehbein, Margaret Hughes-Morgan & Kalin D. Kolev - 2021 - Business and Society 60 (4):811-843.details
This study contributes simultaneously to research on women board members and competitive dynamics by investigating two unresolved research questions: What is the effect of female directors on the firm's competitive repertoire? Under what conditions is this effect more pronounced? Leveraging the "Awareness-Motivation-Capability" framework, we predict that having women on the board of directors should impact the complexity, heterogeneity, and volume of the firm's competitive moves. Relying upon a sample of U.S. pharmaceutical firms for the years 2000 to 2017, we find (...) that adding female directors on the board positively affects the complexity and volume of a firm's competitive moves, but negatively impacts the heterogeneity of competitive actions. In addition, the presence of a female CEO moderates these effects, leading to more complex competitive actions and increased volume. Thus, our study lends a greater understanding of how female board members influence competitive dynamics and shape the strategic direction of the firm. (shrink)
The filtering role of the firm in corporate political involvement.Douglas A. Schuler & Kathleen Rehbein - 1997 - Business and Society 36 (2):116-139.details
A test of environmental, situational, and personal influences on the ethical intentions of CEOs.Sara A. Morris, Kathleen A. Rehbein, Jamshid C. Hosselni & Robert L. Armacost - 1995 - Business and Society 34 (2):119-146.details
Is Corporate Political Activity a Field?Colby D. Green, Kathleen Rehbein & Douglas A. Schuler - 2019 - Business and Society 58 (7):1376-1405.details
This article focuses upon answering the following question: Does corporate political activity stand as an academic field? Following Hambrick and Chen, we consider three elements of the emergence of an academic field—differentiation, mobilization, and legitimacy. Utilizing a variety of data sources, we find CPA to be well differentiated from other academic fields; to have undertaken a number of activities to mobilize CPA as a field, but short of large-scale unification; and to have earned low to moderate legitimacy within management, but (...) little legitimacy outside of management. All in all, at this time, CPA does not squarely meet the elements necessary to emerge as a field. (shrink)
Understanding Shareholder Activism: Which Corporations are Targeted?Kathleen Rehbein, Sandra Waddock & Samuel B. Graves - 2004 - Business and Society 43 (3):239-267.details
Testing the firm as a filter of corporate political action.Kathleen A. Rehbein & Douglas A. Schuler - 1999 - Business and Society 38 (2):144-166.details
Corporate Political Activity and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Workshop Report.Kathleen Rehbein, Frank G. de Bakker, Patrick Bernhagen & Andrew Crane - 2011 - Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 22:300-308.details
This paper contains a short outline of the rationale behind a workshop aimed at seeking connections between corporate social responsibility and corporate political activity. Two 'provocateurs' gave their view on these connections. After this kick-off two groups of ~10 persons each engaged in lively discussions on these connections, identifying a range of issues for further research and an interest in keeping this issue on the agenda.
Business Ethics in Applied Ethics
More Than an Umbrella Construct: We Can (and Should) Do Better With CSR by Theorizing Through Context.Hari Bapuji, Frank G. A. de Bakker, Colin Higgins, Kathleen Rehbein, Andrew Spicer & Jill A. Brown - 2022 - Business and Society 61 (8):1965-1976.details
Lawrence and Weber's Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, and Public Policy, 13th Edition.Kathleen Rehbein - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics Education 7:265-267.details
Building Political Relationships: An Empirical Investigation of Corporate Choices.Kathleen Rehbein & Douglas A. Schuler - 2006 - Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 17:227-231.details
The objective of this study is to evaluate empirically a firm's political relationships with elected officials. A general premise is that firms with certaincharacteristics are in a better position for developing political relationships and gaining benefits from these relationships. We draw upon the resource dependency, resource based, and political strategy choice literatures to consider certain factors that lead firms to seek political relationships with elected officials. We test a model drawing upon measures from each of these areas on a sample (...) of large companies with U.S. operations. (shrink)
Conference Chair Remarks.Kathleen Rehbein - 2008 - Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 19:3-4.details
Social Responsibility Ratings and Corporate Responses to Activist Shareholder Resolutions: Is There a Relationship?Jeanne M. Logsdon, Harry van Buren Iii & Kathleen Rehbein - 2008 - Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 19:307-317.details
The conventional view of the relationship between ratings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and responses to activist shareholder resolutions is that firms with low CSR ratings are likely to resist activist's pressures to change corporate policies and behavior. By contrast, firms with high CSR ratings are more likely to support such activist shareholder efforts. In the IABS discussionsession and this paper, we argue that the conventional view of corporate responses to shareholder resolutions is inadequate to explain the motivations, strategies, and (...) tactics of firms when they respond to activist shareholders. (shrink)
Does Shareholder Activism Improve Corporate Governance?: A Normative Perspective.W. Trexler Proffitt Jr & Kathleen Rehbein - 2009 - Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 20:239-242.details
Examining Strategy Documents on the Internet: How Companies Express Multi-Voicedness and Stakeholder Inclusion.Hanna Lehtimäki, Johanna Kujala & Kathleen Rehbein - 2006 - Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 17:261-266.details
Due to continual challenges in their external environment, corporations are facing an increased demand for public participation and stakeholder inclusion. As aresult, companies are seeking ways to improve communication with their stakeholders. The emergence of the Internet has provided new corporate channelsfor offering information to stakeholders. This paper suggests that the information contained in company web pages reflects strategic information about the company. In addition to offering information to the public, web pages signal which issues a company holds as strategically (...) important. The objective of this paper is to begin the process of examining how companies express their understanding of multiple stakeholder interests and their efforts to include stakeholders in their strategy documents. The theoretical premise of this paper draws from the strategic management and the stakeholder literatures. The empirical section examines the content of the web pages of two companies from the pulp and paper industry. Based on the results of meaning making analysis, we synthesize the content of the strategy documents with three dimensions: strategic actors, strategic activities, and strategic actions. (shrink)
Creating the Syllabus: A Workshop.Jerry Calton, Sandra L. Christensen, Kathleen Getz, Kathleen Rehbein & Craig V. Vansandt - 2005 - Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 16:363-365.details
This workshop brought together people who are interested in or concerned about the course syllabus. Participants' concerns and discussion centered on issues such as: 1) the purpose of the syllabus; 2) writing objectives for the course; and 3) evaluation of a syllabus.
Determining an industry's political effectiveness with the US International Trade Commission.Kathleen Rehbein & Stefanie Lenway - 1994 - Business and Society 33 (3):270-292.details
Sixty and Strong.Andrew Spicer, Kathleen Rehbein, Colin Higgins, Jill A. Brown, Hari Bapuji & Frank G. A. de Bakker - 2021 - Business and Society 60 (1):3-6.details
Linking Corporate Community Programs and Political Strategies: A Resource-Based View.Kathleen Rehbein & Douglas A. Schuler - 2015 - Business and Society 54 (6):794-821.details
This article examines the relationship between an aspect of a firm's corporate social responsibility, corporate community programs, and the effectiveness of its corporate political activity. Developing a conceptual model based on resource-based view of the firm, the authors argue that the mechanism linking a firm's CCP to CPA mechanism is the effect of CCPs on the development of firm level resources. Specifically, the intensity of a firm's CCPs enhances a firm's human capital, organizational capital, and geographic resources, which in turn (...) improve the effectiveness of two key aspects of CPA: information and constituency-building political strategies. This linkage of CCPs to CPA effectiveness may be particularly relevant when the firm faces unfavorable political markets. (shrink)


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One of the largest employers in Sioux Falls is ramping up operations after being closed for nearly a month.
Smithfield Foods near Falls Park was closed on April 12 due to an outbreak of COVID-19. The plant became the number one coronavirus 'hotspot' in the nation with over 800 workers being diagnosed with the disease and two deaths, Dakota News Now reports.
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After a plant tour, BJ Motley, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 304A said, "Smithfield is doing everything they can for the employees and their safety. We stand with Smithfield to get this plant back open."
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School Diversity Advisory Group
In June 2017, as part of the Equity and Excellence for All: Diversity in New York City Public Schools plan, the DOE established a School Diversity Advisory Group (SDAG) to make formal policy recommendations to the Mayor and Chancellor.
The group named three Co-chairs - José Calderón, President of the Hispanic Federation, Hazel Dukes, President of the NAACP New York State Conference and Maya Wiley, Senior Vice President for Social Justice and Henry Cohen Professor of Urban Policy and Management at the New School. The three co-chairs and two additional members - Amy Hsin, Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and Richard Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation - make up the group's Executive Committee.
The broader SDAG includes over 40 members, who bring a range of personal and professional perspectives to the group. Members include city government stakeholders, local and national experts on school diversity, parents, teachers, advocates, students, and other community leaders. The SDAG members were identified by the City and the Executive Committee and began meeting in December 2017.
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