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Nobody wanting to give up guns and people freaking when guns are sighted?
Similar I guess in thought to a person taking a pic until a child gets in the frame then he becomes a perv.
I saw a person just taking a video (you tube) - people freaked. They don't freak when on camera all day throughout the city. But put some guy there and whamo..
I don't think we want to become this Nation, but we will, like so many things that was not intended for example our now... less social economic mobility etc..,etc...
Could the original call, supposedly placed 30 minutes after the fact, have been bogus in the first place? Hard to tell, but seems like it could be a possibility.
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Sweet Loft in ancient Bologna
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Apartment | 1 bedrooms | sleeps 4
Key Info |
Central, modern, bright and very silent loft on the ground floor of a XV century monastery, completely furnished. Composed of a loft space with furnished living room and kitchen, 1 bedroom at separate level (with a king-size bed a bunk bed), 2 bathrooms (1 with tub and the other with shower).
The apartment is equipped with every comfort: air conditioning, independent heat, 1 television, SAT-TV,
region 1 (for US and Japan) blu-ray DVD-player, region 2 (for UK and europe) blu-ray dvd player, internet access and wi-fi, color laser printer, hair dryer, nespresso coffee and cappucino machine, iron and ironing board and oven.
Size | Sleeps up to 4, 1 bedrooms |
Nearest beach | 80 km |
Will consider | Corporate bookings, Long term lets (over 1 month), Short breaks (1-4 days) |
Access | Car not necessary |
Nearest Amenities | 300 m |
Nearest travel links | 25 km, 2 km |
Family friendly | Great for children of all ages, Suitable for people with restricted mobility |
Notes | No pets allowed, No smoking at this property |
Features and Facilities
Luxuries | Internet access, DVD player |
General | Air conditioning, TV, Video player, CD player, Telephone, Safe, Satellite TV, Wi-Fi available |
Standard | Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer |
Utilities | Dishwasher, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine |
Rooms | 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms of which 2 Family bathrooms |
Furniture | 1 Sofa beds, Single beds (2), Double beds (1), Dining seats for 8, Lounge seats for 6 |
Other | Linen provided, Towels provided |
Outdoors | Shared garden |
Access | Parking |
The Emilia-Romagna region
Bologna represents (even for Italians) a superb example of the best of the dolce vita. History, architecture, culture, sophistication and the best of Italian cuisine.
Bologna's fame is closely linked to the reputation and prestige of the Alma Mater Studiorum (the university), founded in 1088. Renowned throughout Europe, the University of Bologna has always attracted students from all over the world. Bologna is not a city which attracts mass tourism, but instead it welcomes the more discerning visitor.The political and religious heart of the city can be found on the Medieval Piazza Maggiore, which can be accessed via the symbolic Piazza del Nettuno on which stands a statue of the Roman god Neptune.
Very close to the apartment building (5 minutes walking distance) there is "Piazza Maggiore". It is a big square bordered by medieval buildings, including the unfinished "Basilica of San Petronio". In the square stands the fountain to Neptune by "Giovanni da Bologna". From the Piazza lead miles of porticoed streets (25 miles to be exact). Sheltering beneath the porticoes are shops to suit every taste, from dusty book shops to exclusive boutiques, all the top Italian designers are represented. There are many antique shops in Bologna, some specialising in certain periods, the pottery of "Emilia Romagna" is wonderful, there are several outlets in Bologna.
There is a daily market (except Sundays) in "Via Pescherie Vecchie" where an amazing array of fresh fish and vegetables can be bought. Every second week-end of the month an antiques market is held in the beautiful "Piazza Santo Stefano", this is an open air market where stall holders display and sell their treasures. Other sites of interest include: the Gothic Cathedral, the national Picture Gallery, the Basilica of Santa Stefano, the Archiginnasio. Bologna is world renown for it's gastronomy, visitors are spoilt for choice when it comes to either pizzerias, osterias, trattorias and restaurants. There are also innumerable cafes where you can linger over a coffee and a pastry watching the stylish Bolognese go about their business.!
There are many antique shops in Bologna, some specialising in certain periods, the pottery of Emilia Romagna is wonderful, there are several outlets in Bologna. Do bear in mind that generally shop opening hours are between 09.30 to 13.00 and 16.00 to 19.00 and are closed all day on Thursdays. There is a daily market (except Sundays) in via Ugo Bassi where an amazing array of fresh fish and vegetables can be bought. It's well worth visiting to take in the atmosphere and to see the exotic produce against the backdrop of dark buildings and cobbled streets. Every second week-end of the month an antiques market is held in the beautiful Piazza Santo Stefano, this is an open air market where stall holders display and sell their treasures.
Other sites of interest include:
· the Gothic Cathedral
· the national Picture Gallery
· the Basilica of Santo Stefano
· the Archiginnasio
Bologna is in the region of Emilia Romagna, famed for being the homeland of Giuseppe Verdi, it therefore seems fitting that Bologna should have one of Italy's finest Opera Houses, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. The Teatro has a full programme of classical music and world-class opera throughout the year. For more information visit the opera houses web site
Bologna is world renown for it's gastronomy, visitors are spoilt for choice when it comes to either pizzerias, osterias, trattorias and restaurants. There are also innumerable cafes where you can linger over a coffee and a pastry watching the stylish Bolognese go about their business.
Bologna also has a thriving nightlife scene. The large student community ensuring the bars and clubs are lively and up-to-the-minute.
The apartment is the perfect choice for a stay in Bologna, being located at the centre of this historic and exquisite city.
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"Modern spot in the very centre of Bologna"
Situated just some minutes from the Piazza Maggiore, this appartment offers everything you might need for a city stay. Equipped in a very modern style and with all kitchen and bath utensils.
I appreciated especially that there is no mobile coverage in the basement where you sleep.
Thanks and see you soon!
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"Intriguing apartment in great location"
This apartment was lovely and very conveniently located for the town centre (8 minutes walk once you knew the back routes). Restaurants and shops were very close. The modern furnishings in the 15th century building were attractive and we very much appreciated the use of the computer and the nespresso coffee machine (complete with capsules!). The road on which the apartment is set is a fairly busy rat run but the apartment itself is set at the rear of a courtyard so far back that there was no noise. The kitchen is tiny but adequately equipped and the living area more than makes up for it in size - loved the sofas! The one downside is the spiral staircase down to the bedroom. This is a slight challenge to those of more mature years! The fact that there is a bathroom both upstairs and downstairs means that it is not really a problem but anyone who is not steady on their feet (or anyone who is extremely overweight - it is narrow at the top!) might find it a problem. The bath looked dauntingly uncomfortable (but very stylish) and we didn't use it but the shower was wonderful. A word of warning: despite all the windows being covered with mosquito screens we were still lavishly bitten at night - take precautions.
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An all-around cragging shoe designed for bouldering and moderate climbs, Patagonia's Cragmaster delivers support, durability, and IdroGrip traction in a low-profile design for excellent feel.
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- Protective rubber toe and heel add durability on rocky scrambles
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- Made in China
Country of Origin: Imported
PATAGONIA Men's Cragmaster Hiking Shoes, Cardamom
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Spent the afternoon trying on every approach shoe I could find (not just at EMS). The Patagonia Cragmaster was on another level in terms of fit and comfort. Most of the shoes I tried let my foot slide forward on the downhill slope, but the Cragmaster held my foot securely and has best-in-class arch support. Highly recommended.
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27 And he said to her, Suffer thou, that the children be fulfilled first [Suffer thou, that the sons be filled first]; for it is not good to take the bread of children, and give [it] to hounds. | 27 "First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs." |
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Wait though, does this one have the plastic joints that don't have any "teeth" and start slipping? I had one like this (don't remember the brand) and it started slipping and you couldn't tighten it. The nut/bolt part slipped as well since it was plastic like the other parts.
cycokiller wrote:Wait though, does this one have the plastic joints that don't have any "teeth" and start slipping? I had one like this (don't remember the brand) and it started slipping and you couldn't tighten it. The nut/bolt part slipped as well since it was plastic like the other parts.
in the specs: Features a brass tightening nut
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Acculturation Erodes The Diet Quality Of U. S. Hispanics.
By 2020, Hispanics are expected to account for 16% of the U.S. population. Hispanics would become the second largest segment of the population, lagging non-Hispanic Whites at 64% and exceeding non-Hispanic Blacks at 13%.The U.S. Hispanic population poses a number of policy puzzles because its health and mortality record is in some respects more favorable than that of the general population, despite economic and educational disadvantages. If traditional diet patterns contribute to this favorable record, adoption of typical American eating patterns may erode it.
Examination of Hispanic diets reveals that less acculturated Hispanics--those who don't use English--eat somewhat more healthful diets than acculturated Hispanics--those who use English. Nutrition education programs for Hispanics need to emphasize retaining their traditional diets' reliance on grains and beans, while advocating change toward lower fat dairy products and less use of fat in cooking.
Status of Hispanics Varies by Origins
In 1997, Hispanics accounted for 11% of the U.S. population. (The Census Bureau defines Hispanics as those who indicate their origins as Mexican-American, Chicano, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Hispanic when shown a "flash card" listing ethnic origins.) In general, the Hispanic population is younger, poorer, less educated, and in larger households than the non-Hispanic population.
Median earnings for Hispanic males working full time in 1996 were $21,055, compared with $34,163 for non-Hispanics. Economic disadvantages reflect education disadvantages. Only 61% of Hispanics age 25-34 were high school graduates, compared with 91% of non-Hispanics.
The Hispanic population varies significantly by regional origins. The Census Bureau categorizes Hispanics for informational purposes by Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central and South American, and other origins.
The largest and relatively most disadvantaged Hispanic subgroup is of Mexican origin. This group records the lowest median earnings for full-time workers and the lowest percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds that are high school graduates. In addition, the Mexican-origin population is younger and consists of larger households. The very small Cuban-origin population is relatively the most advantaged among Hispanic groups, although it is has not yet achieved the income and education of the general U.S. population. Puerto Rican-origin and "other Hispanics" are similar in income and education to Cuban-origin Hispanics. U.S. Hispanics of Central and South American origins come close to Mexicans in earnings, but have a higher level of high school graduates among 25- to 34year-olds.
Disease and Mortality Puzzle Policymakers
Despite lower incomes and educational attainments, the Hispanic population enjoys a health and mortality record that in many respects is more favorable than that of the general population. Cutberto Garza, a physician and professor at Cornell University, comments that despite higher poverty and teenage fertility rates and less awareness of major risk factors for cancer and cardiovascular disease:
"Hispanics in the Southwest have 99% of the life expectancy at birth of non-Hispanic whites. Even more remarkable, however, is that the lower than expected deaths due to heart disease, stroke, and cancer and lower than expected infant mortality are sufficient to compensate almost completely for the extraordinarily high mortality due to homicide and unintentional injury. The major exception ... is excess deaths due to diabetes among Hispanic women. ... The most striking challenge is the identification and preservation of factors that promote health before they are lost in the assimilation of Hispanic-Americans."
The higher death rates of Hispanic women from diabetes, compared with the general population, may be due to genetic factors. Garza also reports that Native Americans of the Southwest experience high incidences of diabetes that are hypothesized to result from a genetic ability to store excess energy, an advantage for populations at risk of severe food shortages. When food is plentiful, diabetes and obesity may result.
Further evidence comes from Paul Sorlie and associates whose research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, estimated age-adjusted death rates by Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, other Hispanic, and all Hispanic origins. Their research used the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and the National Death Index developed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Death rates for men and women over 65 in all groups, except Puerto Rican women, were lower than non-Hispanic rates, as were many rates in the 45-64 age group. Hispanics had lower mortality from cancer and cardiovascular disease, but higher mortality from diabetes and homicide (men). The authors note that the lower rates of the diseases did not seem to be explained by the major known risk factors for these diseases, such as smoking.
The authors explored the possibility that the presence of recent immigrants in the Hispanic population lowered death rates because immigrants tend to be healthier than non-immigrants. However, Hispanic mortality rates remain lower even adjusted for country of birth.
The Council on Scientific Affairs reviewed Hispanic use of health services and disease incidence, noting that Hispanics, particularly Mexican Americans, have lower rates of premature births and lower rates of low-birth-weight babies, major risk factors for infant mortality, than the general population. This outcome contradicts expectations that would be formed from the lower income and education levels of Hispanics. The authors also note that with acculturation, the risk of low-weight births increases, which might be due to increased smoking by pregnant women.
Hispanics Surpass Non-Hispanics in Diet Quality
Diet could contribute to the lower than expected incidence of cancer and cardiovascular disease incidence in the U.S. Hispanic population. Sylvia Guendelman and Barbara Abrams with the University of California at Berkeley compared dietary quality of immigrants and following generation of Mexican Americans with non-Hispanic Whites. The researchers used the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey of 1982-1984 and the National Health and Nutrition Evaluation survey of 1976-1980. They concluded that as Mexican-origin women move from the first to the second generation, the quality of their diet deteriorates and approximates that of White non-Hispanic women.
The researchers found that lower incomes were associated with less healthful diets among non-Hispanics, but with more healthful diets among first-generation Mexican-Americans. Among second-generation Mexican Americans, they found no relationship between income and diet quality.
An earlier study by USDA's Economic Research Service examined the interaction of Hispanic ethnicity, income, and education levels on intake of fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol, separating the direct effect of Hispanic ethnicity from the indirect effect of less nutrition knowledge as a result of lower education and income.
The direct effect of Hispanic ethnicity was to reduce fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol intake. However, the indirect effect, through less knowledge as a consequence of lower income and education levels, offset these direct effects.
... Especially Spanish-Speaking Hispanics
In this study, we examined whether the quality of Hispanic diets differed based on acculturation. The 1994-96 Continuing Survey of Intake by individuals (CSFlI) provides detailed information on intake of individuals as well as other information about them. The information includes whether the person was interviewed in Spanish. Thus, using interviews in Spanish as a proxy for acculturation, it is possible to compare the diets of non-acculturated Hispanics (Spanish speakers) with acculturated Hispanics (English speakers) and non-Hispanic Whites, the largest population category.
Dividing the Hispanic survey respondents into Spanish speakers and English speakers highlights the economic disadvantages of Spanish speakers. Adult Spanish speakers lived in households that attained a median household income of 110% of the poverty level, compared with 201% for English speakers and 300% for non-Hispanic Whites. Households with youth were more likely to be in poverty, which is based on the number of people in the household as well as income. Spanish-speaking youth (17 and under) lived in households with a median household below the poverty level, at 82%, compared with 131% of the poverty level for English-speaking youth and 291% for non-Hispanic White youth. (The median income divides households exactly in half--50% have higher incomes and 50% have lower; it is not necessarily the average.)
We used scores on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Healthy Eating Index (HEI) to determine whether acculturation erodes diet quality. The HEI, developed by USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, measures how well a diet conforms to 10 dietary recommendations in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide Pyramid (see "Many Americans Falsely Optimistic About Their Diets" elsewhere in this issue). All six populations (adult and youth Hispanic English speakers, adult and youth Hispanic Spanish speakers, and adult and youth non-Hispanic Whites) fall below the 80-100 range that indicates a healthful diet. Properly designed and successful nutrition education programs would benefit all six populations.
Despite their economic disadvantages, Spanish speakers eat more healthful diets than do non-Hispanic Whites and Hispanic English speakers. But the effects of acculturation, which is accompanied by improved economic circumstances, erode diet quality. Adult Spanish speakers average 65.11 on the HEI, exceeding the 63.41 average of non-Hispanic Whites. English speaking Hispanic adults do not score as well, averaging 62.73. The results for youth are even more striking. Spanish speaking youth score 69.44 on the HEI, well above non-Hispanic White youth at 66.49, while Hispanic English speakers drop to 64.96.
Differences in fat, cholesterol, and fiber intake contribute to the Spanish speakers' HEI scores. Adult Spanish speakers average approximately 4.6 grams per day less total fat and 1.9 grams per day less saturated fat than non-Hispanic Whites. However, Spanish speakers' consumption of cholesterol exceeds recommended levels, while cholesterol consumption of the other groups stays below recommended levels. Spanish speakers consume approximately 3.4 more grams of fiber per day than non-Hispanic Whites, but the Spanish speakers still fall short of the standard of 25 grams per day, averaging only 19.4. Hispanic English speakers lag Spanish speakers by 2.9 grams of fiber per day.
We measured people's attitude toward the importance of a healthful diet from the Diet and Health Knowledge Survey. This survey contacts a subsample of the respondents to the CSFII and asks questions on the importance of avoiding too much of nutrients such as fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol in their diets. We measured diet-disease awareness by yes or no answers to another question on whether the respondent had heard about health problems related to several nutrients. Nutrient content knowledge was measured by correct choices between pairs of foods on the basis of higher or lower fat and nutrient contents.
Spanish speakers' higher HEI scores are not the result of better nutritional knowledge. Spanish speakers know less about nutrients in foods and diet-disease connections than do non-Hispanic Whites and Hispanic English speakers, although Spanish speakers attach more importance to having a healthful diet. Limited knowledge could reflect Spanish speakers' limited access to advertising and labeling information in English.
Non-Hispanic Whites record more knowledge, less emphasis on the importance of a healthful diet, and lower HEI scores. One explanation is that non-Hispanic Whites' higher incomes may lead them to seek convenience foods and away-from-home foods more often.
Prior ERS studies have found that these foods are more likely to have increased fat and cholesterol levels and lower fiber than home-prepared foods.
Nutrition education programs for Hispanic populations need to advocate both preservation and change in diets. Noting that some aspects of traditional diets are healthful, nutritionists have incorporated them in recommended diets. For example, Diva Sanjur of Cornell University has developed sample Mexican and Mexican-American menus based on the U.S. dietary guidelines. These menus maintain reliance on beans, rice, and tortillas, but emphasize low-fat dairy products in place of traditional ones and fry beans in small amounts of vegetable oil.
Thus, it is possible and desirable to incorporate many components of traditional Hispanic foods in nutrition education guidelines. An exchange of food habits between the Hispanic and non-Hispanic populations might even help both groups achieve needed dietary improvements.
Bowman, S.A., M. Lino, S.A. Gerrior, and P.P. Basiotis. The Healthy Eating Index: 1994-96. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, CNPP-5, 1998.
Council on Scientific Affairs. "Hispanic Health in the United States." Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 265, No. 2, January 9, 1991, pp. 248-252.
Garza, Cutberto. "Diet-Related Diseases and Other Health Issues." Chapter 6, in Hispanic Foodways, Nutrition, and Health, ed. Diva Sanjur, Allyn and Bacon, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995.
Guendelman, Sylvia, and Barbara Abrams. "Dietary Intake among Mexican American Women: Generational Differences and a Comparison with White Non-Hispanic Women." American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 85, No. 1, January 1995, pp. 20-25.
Sanjur, Diva. Hispanic Foodways, Nutrition, and Health. Allyn and Bacon, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995.
Sorlie, Paul D., Eric Backlund, Norman J. Johnson, and Eugene Hogot. "Mortality by Hispanic Status in the United States." Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 270, No. 20, November 24, 1993, pp. 2464-2468.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Hispanic Population of the United States. Current Population Survey-- March 1997, Summary Tables, released August 1998.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. "Hispanic Population Nears 30 Million, Census Bureau Reports." Press Release, August 7, 1998.
Variyam, Jayachandran N., James Blaylock, and David Smallwood. DietHealth Information and Nutrition: The Intake of Dietary Fats and Cholesterol. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Technical Bulletin 1855, 1997.
Lorna Aldrich and Jayachandran N. Variyam are the authors of this study. Both are economists with the Food and Rural Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA.
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Tell us what you think: the 2010 Brickset user survey
Posted by Huw,For the second year running, I'm conducting a user survey to find out what you like about the site and what you don't. Here's your chance to let me know what you think and to tell me your ideas and suggestions.
Last year's survey was a great success, with about 800 responses. Some great suggestions emerged and many of them have been implemented. This year I've bought the survey 'in house' (last year's was done at survs.com) which means I can do more with the data and can also make it publicly available on the site once the survey has ended.
So, don't hold back: tell me what you think!. Brickset thrives on user suggestions and its future direction will be influenced by this survey, so now's your chance to have a say. Please do so by the end of October.
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Thanks Huw! I have some good ideas...
Great survey. Just finished it now
Cool! I've just taken it!
That was a good survey. I did my best to give as many new ideas and areas of weakness, improvement, and excellence as possible. Looking back over the site in the past year or so since I joined, I have to say it just keeps getting better, and it was hard to think of areas for improvement.
I approve of the...SIX star rating system. now your score higher than most surveys;.
Just finished it :)
^^ 1-6 just means that you can't sit on the fence like you can when you score 3 on a scale of 1-5.
Just got finished my average was a 5 star.
I just done it. That was a very good idea.
I usually don't take surveys, but for a site like Brickset that I visit so frequently I couldn't resist! :D
Gahhh!!! I only got to put in my e-mail because I accidentally hit 'enter' and it submitted the survey! :(
Just taken it, same as aaronptrck, I think I have some good ideas. Hopefully they'll be implemented!
^^ that's not good, is it. Perhaps someone should suggest I should make the surveys more robust ;-)
Clear your cookies for the domain or use another browser, then you can do it again. Don't tell anyone else though :-)
Just finished it, well done, and nice to see that we users influence the site so much! :)
Did it for a SECOND time; I added suggestions! ;) A forum would be much appreciated...
Easy survey to complete, a great idea, and, quoting Krogh, it's "nice to see that we users influence the site so much".
@Huw: Thanks!
just got done with the survey. i like the fact that you are asking the users what they want and think. this is really a great user based site. should have a payment meter for how much is needed for the site, then if we wanted we could make a donation to help in the upkeep.
I like how you guys take opinions from your users :D. Unlike some other LEGO Communities....:(
@everyone: ultimately it comes down to why the site is run: is it for your benefit or mine?
Without users the site would die, then I certainly wouldn't benefit, so it makes sense to listen to you and make sure it meets your needs, otherwise you'll go somewhere else that does.
That's true for any good website.
Thanks for the survey...hope it helps!! Well done!
I did the survey when I wasn't loged in so it probably won't appear under my user name in the places where you had to type I didn't do so well since I'm a horrible typer
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No need to be logged in, the survey is anonymous unless you enter your email address.
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I took the Survey. I can't think of anything that can be improved or added.
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There already doing us a favor Moderating are comments and reviews, and the Comments are already like a mini forum. In my opinion, I think brickset is fine the way it is.
I just filled out my survey. One thing I want is stricter moderating on reviews, I am a grammar freak and can not stand when people type like they are texting (f.e. u, fav, etc.). I would find misspellings all right especially if English is not your first language but I am easily annoyed. On the other hand, A feature that I would find useful is to comment on Bricklists and maybe even entire themes/subthemes.
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DrathMaul1997-That wasn't my exact point, but I still agree with you.
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Another Important Indication of Chief Supply Chain Officer Agenda
As we have stated in previous commentaries, Supply Chain Matters does not tend to comment on the huge plethora of opinion research studies concerning the discipline and state of global supply chain management unless we feel the research is meaningful and based on sound research practices. By our view, there are too many outlets, beyond experienced analyst anchored firms, producing so called research vs. opinion of the day among a limited set of respondents.
In an October 2013 Supply Chain Matters commentary we highlighted some important findings from the Chief Supply Chain Officer Report conducted and compiled by SCM World. We were impressed with the research approach as well as the key findings. This year, we were able to obtain a copy of The Chief Supply Chain Officer Report 2014, Pulse of the Profession. Our thanks to Supply Chain Matters Sustaining Sponsor E2open for providing us with a copy of the 2014 report. We further had the opportunity to speak with Matt Davis, former Gartner analyst who recently joined SCM World in the role of Senior Vice President of Research.
This year's report has a reported level of over 1000 cross-industry survey participants responding to over a hundred questions and sub-questions. As was the case last year, the goal of our commentary is not to re-produce the findings but rather to add some of our impressions and takeaways to the findings. SCM World, the authors of the report have done a great job of articulating individual findings.
In the 2013 report supply chain leaders had indicated that they were caught in the middle of rising customer demands and expectations and the global growth ambitions of their firm's management teams. The conundrum of objectives was directed at continued reductions in costs while helping to grow the business. This year's report describes 2014 attitudes as increasingly "schizophrenic, with operating cost reduction dominant as ever but closely followed by agility in meeting customer needs." The authors summarize that supply chains are trying to be all things to all people including areas of enhanced customer service, accelerated NPI and stronger supply relationships. That pretty much tracks with the various supply chain developments Supply Chain Matters has highlighted this year, particularly in the consumer products sector. External pressures for increased, very short-term stockholder value, accelerating structural changes in market and customer behavior, conflict we needs for the supply chain to become more responsive or agile to the rapid industry changes that are occurring. It is a rather difficult challenge that has increasingly manifested itself for many years, challenges that cannot be addressed solely from a focus on financial-based performance outcomes.
A very significant 2014 finding indicates that senior supply chain leaders are intending to move away from the outsourced core competence model of prior years and moved toward more highly vertically integrated strategies in manufacturing and distribution in support of direct-to-customer delivery needs. The forces of Omni-channel commerce are definitely real. What should be of upmost interest to our community is the SCM World conclusion that today, a return to more emphasis on vertical integration and in-house production strategies are clearly underway. A quarter of the SCM World respondents further indicate pursuit of modular push-pull platform strategies managed internally, where final customer demand will be accommodated by a fulfillment network of third-party factories, retailers or partners located closest to customers. There is also a corresponding bombshell statement indicating that supply chain strategies going forward are less likely to depend on contract manufacturing, especially for critical elements of the production process. While we were not surprised by that conclusion, given the many examples that have unfolded this year, some of readers will be.
Other important SCM World findings relate to sourcing procurement strategies. Once again, the findings point to a consolidation of the supply base along with a need for deeper collaborative relationships with suppliers, more sharing of demand plans and deeper levels of collaboration on intellectual property innovation as well as cost savings opportunities. This is obviously another method to try to balance continued needs for cost savings while supporting broader business needs for customer responsiveness and managing important tenets of supply chain risk mitigation. The most attractive markets for growth again point to China, but at the same time, respondents indicate that China is the fifth most likely to be considered "too risky" to operate within.
Finally, no supply chain executive survey these days neglects to manifest the crrent challenges related to supply chain talent management. The 2014 SCM World CSCO respondents pointed to ever more challenges in building and managing supply chain teams over the past two years, nearly double the frustration expressed in 2011. SCM World points to raw recruitment as the most cited problem despite rising interest in supply chain among universities and significant investment in supply chain focused professional organizations. The need for well-rounded generalists possessing broader supply chain functional, business and team collaboration skills seems to remain an important need, with implications for significant job rotation across business areas. This obviously remains a key area of concern among senior industry supply chain leaders and consistent with predictions and findings from other industry analyst firms including the Ferrari Consulting and Research Group. It a challenge requiring far more concerted actions and supporting efforts involving academia, industry, professional organizations and supply chain professionals themselves.
Readers can download a summarized version of SCM World's Chief Supply Chain Officer 2014 at this web link or view an SCM World blog posting by Kevin O'Marah which highlights the top 10 supply chain facts brought forward from the 2014 report. Alternatively, E2open is providing a download link on its web site Resource Center.
Aceelerating Productivity Needs of Supply Chain Reference Model Initiatives
As many of our readers may be aware, the Supply-Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR) was developed by the Supply Chain Council (now APICS Supply Chain Council) to assist multi-industry and organizational supply chain organizations make meaningful and rapid improvements in supply chain business processes. This model's methodologies describe the Plan, Source, Make, Deliver and Return activities associated with supporting customer and business fulfillment needs and have become a common language to articulate industry supply chain capabilities.
We all know that today, industry supply chains are driven by customer requirements and service needs, and the SCOR model is a tool that helps organization's with a single standard reference upon which to understand the processes that make-up the supply chain along with their relationships to performance metrics. The power of SCOR is that it does not document the supply chain in the lens of functions (planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, etc.) but rather that of business process inputs and outcomes.
This author has been both trained in SCOR methodologies and has volunteered in various positions of the Supply Chain Council, including being a prior member of that organization's North America Leadership Team. I can therefore attest that SCOR is a rather versatile tool that has assisted many industry and service focused supply chain teams to describe the depth and breadth of their supply chains as well as provide the basis for supply chain improvement or transformational initiatives.
The multi-level SCOR framework maps all customer interactions, all physical and informational transactions, planning and fulfillment processes. SCOR is a hierarchical and highly defined model which can capture the detail of supply chain processes with their relationships to the all-important performance attributes of responsiveness, agility, cost or assets associated to a supply chain. Those teams that have had experience with SCOR know that the real power of the tool is in understanding how all processes relate to one another and where processes need to be adjusted or modified to meet changing business or customer requirements. SCOR is an important tool that brings detailed understanding of the entire makeup of a supply chain, including best practices derived from other multi-industry supply chains.
The power of a comprehensive process definition tool is in providing common taxonomy and detailed cross-organizational and management understanding of the many supply chains that can exist within a particular company. Too often, teams get bogged down in documenting and updating the SCOR framework models which takes away from broad cross-functional support and from the timeliness or effectiveness of the framework as a reference to support decision-making. This is where technology can provide needed assistance.
Supply Chain Matters has previously called attention to highly focused system integrators, such as Bristlecone, who have developed self-contained service offerings that address very specific business needs. These are fixed-cost, managed scope application accelerators developed from prior successful implementations and industry best practices.
To assist firms that utilize SAP's supply chain management applications the BristleconeStore offers ProcessesNow, a series of pre-built process maps based on the SCOR framework. ProcessesNow provides a central repository of process maps that extend the SCOR model by additional three levels . It uniquely links these processes to the various transactions within SAP's APO or Oracle's Demantra planning application helping teams to better align the process maps with the transactions that enable them, hence, enhancing user adoption of the related planning solutions. Teams can interact with SCOR models both online and offline utilizing an easy to navigate expand and collapse structure.
Another neat feature is that Bristlecone has augmented ProcessesNow to support certain industry unique process needs. According to Bristlecone, this tool can typically save 4-8 months of framework documentation efforts, allowing teams to more productive time to analyze and iterate their SCOR models, and the tool itself typically can be installed in about a week. As with DemandPlanningNow which has previously highlighted, this application is built upon acquired knowledge, best practices and technical expertise acquired from prior supply chain implementations.
Bob Ferrari
Disclosure: Bristlecone is a client of the Ferrari Consulting and Research Group
HP's Proposed Corporate Split- A Supply Chain Matters First-Take Perspective
Today, business and general media have been echoing the blockbuster news of the Hewlett Packard announcement indicating that HP desires to split itself into two separate companies. In this posting, we share our initial Supply Chain Matters impressions of this proposed breakup from both a global supply chain and information technology provider perspectives.
According to HP's announcement, the company's recently combined personal computer and printer business will split from its corporate hardware and services operations. The former is proposed to be named HP Inc. and will have Dion Weisler, a current executive in that operation, as its new CEO while the latter will be named Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and have current HP CEO Meg Whitman at the helm. However, most of HP's current profits have come from the combined PC and printer side.
Both of the split entities would have an equal portion of upwards of $50 billion in revenues, but the various reports we have been reading indicate that the strategy for HP Inc. will be more about generating cash while HP Enterprise will be positioned for growth in enterprise and cloud computing areas. Reports further indicated that HP management has suggested that the current near $20 billion in outstanding debt may be placed on the HP Inc. unit itself, allowing the Enterprise unit more options in further strategic deals.
The stated goal for this split is to provide both businesses with a sharper, more focused response to changing customer requirements. We are not all convinced, at this point. Wall Street interests obviously will have a far different view.The proposed split has been targeted to be completed by the end of fiscal year 2015, subject to regulatory and stockholder approval.
Needless to state, there is no shortage of opinions regarding this significant announcement, especially since Ms. Whitman, three years ago, declared to customers and stockholders that HP will remain a single innovative company. Since that time, HP has already shed upwards of 36,000 people as a result of various subsequent re-structuring programs with the ultimate goal being a range of between 45,000-50,000 job cuts. With today's proposed split announcement, the number is now pegged at 55,000 total job cuts.
In 2011, HP proposed a spinoff of its PC division, an announcement that ultimately led to the short CEO leadership reign of Leo Apotheker. Our Supply Chain Matters perspective at the time was that such a decision would unwind the global supply chain high volume leverage benefits that HP had garnered in the strategic procurement of hardware components, as well as raise yet another round of uncertainty for HP's customers and supply chain partners. That view was later reinforced in a Wall Street Journal report published after our commentary.
The same concern remains with today's announcement, although the combination of PC's and printers retains some leverage. To calm such fears, we read one report stating that CEO Whitman has indicated that the two companies will have a "supply chain arrangement" that allows them to jointly negotiate strategic purchases. We are not that confident that such an arrangement has been all that successful among other large firms. Further, if one of the entities is burdened with the current total debt load that may not help in negotiating or consummating long-term, multi-year supplier agreements that often require up-front cash. Today, overall supply chain leadership is decentralized among HP's business units. With this split, that model will have special significance.
In its reporting last week and this weekend, the Wall Street Journal revealed that for most of the year, HP held merger talks with storage systems provider EMC Corp, a deal that would have created an estimated $130 billion in combined revenues. Although those talks were reported as ended, the WSJ speculates that today's proposed split could pave the way for a combination of HP Enterprise and EMC down the road. If that indeed is the strategy being played out, than the global supply chain leverage benefits from a combined HP/EMC, or another existing IT infrastructure hardware provider can buffer some of the loss of global supply chain volume leverage.
From an overall supply chain,B2B business network and applications perspective, the proposed split affords the HP Enterprise entity the opportunity to more aggressively innovate products in cloud-based systems, big-data analytics and decision-making as well as support for IT business process and cloud outsourcing. That may well depend on what ultimately transpires in further announcements in the coming months. There is the possibility that HP Enterprise could be adsorbed within another enterprise provider's business strategy.
These past weeks, there has been speculation that HP's printer business was in final stages of announcing some breakthrough technology directed at 3D printing applications in manufacturing and other uses. If that product comes to market, our speculation is that it will have dependence on HP Enterprise services. How such applications are apportioned under the proposed split is an obvious concern for HP's current and future customer base.
Finally, in observing other high profile corporate splits, issues of how corporate-wide business shared services, such as procurement, data centers, B2B business network infrastructure and EDI systems, ERP, business and specialized supply chain focused applications, third-party logistics and online customer fulfillment are split out becomes a task of significant proportions. With so many job cuts that have already occurred to-date, and more expected to come, inherent business process knowledge and dedicated internal resources to shepherd the transition workloads are going to be challenging. With speculation of even more strategic changes down the road, the notion of two split companies that can respond faster to changing customer and market needs could be slowed-down by the need for adaptive business systems.
There is obviously more to come regarding the HP business split and we urge readers to stay tuned for further Supply Chain Matters commentaries and updates.
Bob Ferrari
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The All-Important Apple Product Availability Weekend- Supply Chain Fulfillment Put to the Test
Today marks simultaneous but select global-wide product availability release of Apple's latest announced iPhone 6 models, and as noted in our previous Supply Chain Matters commentary, the supply chain is again being again put to the test in assuring customer fulfillment expectations. Consumers from Hong Kong, select European countries and the U.S. now have the opportunity to get their hands on the new models.
The Apple marketing gods pay special attention in hyping sales in the first weekend of iPhone availability. It adds to the optics of long lines of consumers queuing-up to get their hands on the latest and greatest smartphones and motivating consumers to buy now, while there is still some in-stock. Like other consumer focused companies, revenues in the upcoming holiday quarter can account for a substantial portion of expected financial results.
Thus far, published product reviews concerning the new models have been positive, which adds to positive consumer perceptions. At this same time last year, Apple set a record of 9 million iPhone 5 smartphones being sold on the initial full weekend. That performance came in the midst of ongoing production yield challenges with the premium iPhone 5s model, which demonstrated the highest consumer demand. In 2012, 5 million iPhones were sold on the initial weekend. Wall Street analysts are floating a number indicating an expectation of 10 million as the bogey for iPhone 6 sales in the first weekend. The bar of expectations grows ever higher.
Earlier this week Apple reported that it had more than 4 million preorders in-hand among the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models during the first 24 hours since the product launch event. Apple also indicated that many of these pre-orders will be delivered in October, a sign of setting proper supply chain realities. Indeed, smartphone carriers such as AT&T, Sprint and Verizon are quoting October availability with the U.S., with the Plus model being especially stretched-up for availability.
One rather critical difference this year is that Apple has not been able to extend planned availability of the new model iPhone within China. Last year, China was included in first weekend sales availability. A published article in the New York Times last week (paid subscription or free metered view) reported that Apple communicated a last-minute decision to delay availability to the three state-owned mobile service providers even though these carriers had already queued advertising and launch campaigns. Increased speculation across Wall Street and business media corridors is that China's regulators are still voicing concerns regarding national security associated with the iPhone itself. No specifics as to when these concerns will be alleviated has led to added speculation that a grey market for both the new iPhone 6 and older iPhone 5 models will become rampart during the weeks leading up to the end of the year.
However, if Apple's supply chain planners had factored availability of new models for China on weekend launch, they well may be scrambling to re-configure that inventory to satisfy pent-up demand in adjacent regional markets.
As a community, we often commiserate on the dynamic tensions and often conflicting goals among sales and marketing and supply chain teams which often manifests itself in the S&OP process. Apple's supply chain teams are not immune to such tension. Over the coming weeks, as the marketing and sales machine cranks-up consumer motivations to buy, the supply chain will deal with the realities of limited supply, production hiccups and product allocation conflicts among various channels that invariably come up in such situations. Air freight capacity is already allocated and we can all look for the clear signs of scramble and response.
While some supply chains are challenged with collaborating with sales and marketing on stimulating and shaping product demand, Apple has the current challenge of meeting very high expectations involving an outsourced supply network with many moving parts. They have pulled miracles in the past, and the stakes get even higher.
Let's look to observe the new collection of rabbits out of the hat with the ongoing 2014 iPhone fulfillment launch.
Stay tuned for updates.
A Month of Noteworthy Enterprise, Supply Chain and B2B Business Network Technology Announcements
September is a unique month. Folks return from summer vacations, outings and getting closer to family, and then, the marketing juices ramp-up. These past two week alone have featured non-stop significant announcements concerning enterprise, B2B and supply chain management focused technology which we will capsule.
On the enterprise and ERP software front, the blockbuster news is the announcement that the founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison, is stepping aside, but alas, he is instead assuming a different role.
Larry Ellison to Step Aside
Business and social media is buzzing with today's stunning announcement that Oracle founder Larry Ellison will step aside from his CEO role in favor of two Co-CEO's. The Wall Street Journal's alert story termed the announcement as: "one of the momentous corporate handovers in the history of Silicon Valley." Well stated!
Other publications equate the significance to when Bill Gates gave-up the CEO role at Microsoft in favor of Steve Ballmer.
Both Safra Catz and Mark Hurd, two other senior leadership executives will assume the role of Co-CEO's. But there's more. Ellison will supposedly assume the role of Oracle's Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Isn't that interesting?
Twitter is lit-up with all forms of reactions, one tweet equates Ellison stepping down to assume the CTO position the equivalent of Vladimir Putin stepping down to become Prime Minister of Russia. Somewhat humorous but perhaps insightful.
Obviously, there is more to this announcement which is timed just before the kickoff of Oracle's annual OpenWorld customer conference that begins this weekend.
Supply Chain Matters has been on-record of not inclined toward the Co-CEO model at technology companies. We did not see it as productive when it was previously practiced at SAP, AspenTech and other firms. The broader organization plays favorites as to whom will prevail as the ultimate successor and strategic initiatives suffer from internal political maneuvering and jousting. Just make a frikkin decision on whom is the top dog and let the chips fall.
Look for lots more buzz emanating from San Francisco and Redwood Shores in the coming days.
SAP Announces Next Iteration of Collaborative Supply Chain Management
The latest significant announcement from Walldorf concerns SAP Supply Chain Orchestration, an initial significant milestone from SAP's prior acquisition of sourcing and procurement provider, Ariba. The application is described as integrating functionality of SAP Supply Chain Network Collaboration (SNC) and Ariba's Collaborative Supply Chain application. The combined application will be made available as a private cloud-based delivery platform which includes the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service.
For existing customers utilizing either SAP SNP or Ariba Collaborative Supply Chain, the obvious questions will be on depth of support for both indirect and direct materials procurement collaboration, along with license pricing structures incorporated in this new application. There are obvious implications regarding other SAP applications supporting supplier network connectivity.
Supply Chain Matters is in the process of gathering additional data and will provide a follow-up commentary.
Infor Announces Updated Release Supporting Sales and Operations Planning
ERP provider Infor announced Infor Sales and Operations Planning 10x. The 10.4 version of the application is reported to feature Infor's 10x technology platform and includes a built-in social collaboration engine, Infor Ming.le, to aide in facilitating and recording internal discussions across all process participants. The enhanced application reportedly features a single point to review planning alerts, exceptions, tasks and workflows along with enabling escalations from process stakeholders.
A rather neat feature is a termed playbook component to assist in organizing those time-consuming pre-S&OP meeting reports into structured chapters along with generating formatted Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. A built-in GIS capability provides users with a visualization of where various product demands are occurring, along with other data.
SPS Commerce and Bristlecone Partner for Cloud Transaction Automation
SPS Commerce, a technology provider with a focus on retail industry cloud services has partnered with specialty SI firm Bristlecone in expanded support for Oracle Applications to the SPS Universal Network, a broad retail industry trading partner network consisting of 55,000 members.
The announcement indicates that joint customer, Fruit of the Loom, recently deployed the Cloud Transaction Automation offering for Oracle. The Cloud Transaction Automation Solution is the latest addition to SPS Commerce's portfolio of services.
Oracle Introduced Cloud Support for Transportation and Global Trade Management
Finally, we conclude our technology capsule commentary with news that Oracle has released Oracle Transportation Management Cloud and Oracle Global Trade Management Cloud applications. According to the announcement, Oracle has now made the functionality of its applications in this segment available for either on premise or cloud deployment. Both applications are noted to be designed for phased, rapid deployment from either Oracle Consulting or other Oracle specialized partners.
Readers may recall that the basis of Oracle's transportation management support offerings is from the former acquisition of G-Log. These cloud-based deployment options were part of the multi-year product roadmap involving support in supply chain transportation, trade and supply chain execution areas.
Bob Ferrari
Disclosure: Bristlecone is a current client of the Ferrari Consulting and Research Group
Accelerating Productivity for Existing SAP APO Planning Teams
In previous Supply Chain Matters commentaries, we have observed that utilization of SAP's supply chain focused applications can serve as both a blessing and a curse. The blessing comes from the structural rigor for integrating enterprise-wide transactional, operational execution and master data with supply and demand planning. This rigor is often cited as the curse, since today's highly dynamic supply chain business processes are expected to respond to ever increasing levels of network-wide complexity. Adding supplemental supply chain suppliers, partners or planning locations can cause planners to fall behind and become the critical stumbling block. The problem exists both in rather large as well as growing supply chain organizations.
In the specific case of SAP's APO (Advanced Planning & Optimization), many SAP customers have deployed the Demand Planning application incorporated within SAP APO. It is probably the most widely deployed module, and for good reasons. Many industry supply chains are focused on being far more product or service demand-driven, thus sensing and responding to various multi-channel demand is a critical process capability.
Highly experienced users of the various components of SAP APO are either often promoted to higher levels of broader supply-chain wide responsibility, or they jump to other organizations that are willing to compensate more for APO-specific skills. As less experienced supply chain planners step-in, productivity and planning effectiveness suffers because the new planners lack the experience to manage input data, master data synchronization, and planning optimization results. Planners revert to their more comfortable Microsoft Excel skills to massage planning data for the broader organization and APO begins to become an operational data store rather than a planning solution. These types of challenges will likely increase as SAP migrates many of its supply chain planning capabilities toward it cloud-based, S&OP Powered by HANA platform that has integrated business planning as its prime objective.
To specifically help industry supply chain organizations respond to these challenges, Supply Chain Matters has been raising awareness to a cadre of smaller but highly focused system integrators who have developed self-contained, capsulized service offerings that address very specific business problem needs, including those related to SAP APO. Their focus remains targeted scope technology and services that can springboard and overcome business process or systems challenges on a far more timely basis.
One such firm is Bristlecone, a laser-focused services company primarily addressing supply chain deployment and time-to-value challenges. The firm's client list spans a broad swath of industry supply chains including consumer products, chemical, energy, high-tech, industrial, and pharmaceutical. As our readers are well aware, each has its own unique supply chain planning process needs and requirements. Bristlecone has been populating its Bristlecone Online Store with a collection of fixed-cost, application accelerators developed from prior successful customer implementations.
To specifically address the challenges of SAP APO Demand Planning productivity, the firm has packaged a fixed-price service, best practices and enhanced productivity offering termed Demand PlanningNow™ that augments SAP APO with offline and online augmented capabilities. Demand PlanningNOW provides a flexible Microsoft Excel front-end interfacing directly with SAP APO Demand Planning as the back-end. According to Bristlecone, the service offering helps SAP APO teams by providing added flexibility and versatility for working with large data sets and multiple partners utilizing Microsoft Excel as a more familiar user front end tool. The packaged tool further provides an offline mode that allows users to perform simulations prior to uploading data as well as tracking data changes, providing front-end data validation and user alerts to unaligned data. As an added plus, Demand PlanningNOW™ can leverage SAP's built-in security and does not require additional system security capability.
Bristlecone informed Supply Chain Matters that this productivity accelerator has been deployed with user training and software in less than 2 days at some customer sites, although the documentation quotes a conservative two weeks. In either case, Bristlecone's Demand PlanningNow™ provides yet another example of a fixed scope, fixed-price technology accelerator application built on a niche supply chain planning SI firm's acquired knowledge, best practices and technical expertise acquired from numerous implementations and supply chain team interactions.Your SAP focused supply chain planning organization may want to explore these available collections of application productivity accelerators from smaller but highly focused SAP systems integrators as an alternative to more expensive wider scope services.
Bob Ferrari
Disclosure: Bristlecone is a current client of the Ferrari Consulting and Research Group.


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Jesse Jackson Jr. resigns from Congress
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**Written by Doug Powers
Are you ready for the "Chicago politician resigns amid corruption investigation" story for the century decade year month week?
The Chicago Tribune reported earlier today that Jesse Jackson Jr. was expected to submit his resignation to House Speaker Boehner, and the AP confirms that has happened:
BREAKING: Boehner's spokesman says he received letter of resignation from Ill. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 21, 2012
No word yet on whether or not Jackson will receive disability benefits from now on, as was reportedly part of his plea deal for stepping down. Jail time is also a good possibility. The investigation is ongoing:
The FBI investigation has been looking at Jackson's alleged use of campaign funds to decorate his home and to buy a $40,000 Rolex watch for a female friend. The investigation into misused campaign funds has now expanded to include Jackson's wife, Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, according to reports. Investigators are scrutinizing whether Mrs. Jackson was aware of or complicit in her husband's alleged misuse of campaign money. Investigators have not yet indicated whether they plan to charge Sandi Jackson.
Jackson's resignation will trigger a special election:
Jackson's resignation will spark a special election in his Chicago-area House seat, a heavily Democratic enclave. Illinois state law requires that an election must beheld within 115 days after the seat is vacated.
Local news reports have said possible Democratic candidates include Cook County Chief Administrative Officer Robin Kelly, state Sen. Toi Hutchinson, and state Sen. Kwame Raoul, who holds the legislative seat once held by President Obama.
Too bad Blago is still in the tank, because he could probably sell that seat in fairly short order.
Update: Jackson's resignation letter. More on the letter's substance here.
**Written by Doug Powers
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