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As state and local officials continue their search for escaped prison inmate Timothy Buffington, a 911 tape revealed more details about events leading up to the escape and a key witness against Buffington in his 1999 murder trial said Tuesday he is apprehensive that Buffington could be coming after him.
Buffington, 47, walked away from the housing area of the Pine Bluff Complex on Saturday evening and a search of the heavily wooded area near Princeton Pike that began after the escape has so far been unsuccessful. He was serving a 20-year sentence for first-degree murder from Logan County and at the time of his escape, had been in prison for 15 years. He was a trusty.
At 10 p.m. Tuesday, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Shea Wilson said in an email, "We are in Grant County, just over [the] line. Man says he saw him in field. [We] have dogs running and National Guard helicopter is in air."
Shortly before press time at midnight she said they were still looking in the area.
The 911 call, which The Commercial obtained a copy of Tuesday, was made by a female who said she lived on the grounds of the Arkansas Department of Corrections and said she had been "kidnapped and just got away."
The woman said "he is armed and he will shoot" and said she "needed some assistance as soon as possible."
The tape goes on to say "he has a shotgun," and later the female says the man, who was determined to be Buffington, had ammunition as well as keys to all the houses in the area that are occupied by DOC personnel, as well as the keys to a state-owned vehicle.
Tuesday afternoon, Wilson said Buffington tried to get the woman to drive him off the prison grounds but she was able to get away and ran to the Randall Williams complex where she called 911.
Regarding the keys, Wilson said they have all been accounted for and there are no vehicles missing.
Wilson said Buffington was able to obtain a loaded shotgun by breaking into a safe room at the house. The door was locked with a deadbolt but Buffington was able to enter the room by kicking the door frame out.
Previous reports that he also had a backpack with extra ammunition were not accurate, she said. At this time, correction officials believe he only has the ammunition that was in the gun when it was stolen. He was also able to obtain a camouflage hat and clothing but it is unclear where those items came from.
Buffington was wearing the camouflage clothing when he tried to break into a house in the Princeton Pike area Saturday at about 7:20 p.m., according to video obtained by the Department of Corrections and released to the media.
That video shows Buffington approaching the back door of a house several times, knocking on the door and finally trying to force the door open with his shoulder. The barrel of the shotgun was clearly visible in the video, which prison officials obtained from the residents of the house, who were not at home Saturday and only discovered the attempt when they watched the video and turned it over to officials Monday.
Wilson said prison officials believe Buffington ran through the woods after leaving the prison grounds before trying to break into that house.
There was also a third sighting Saturday night which leads officials to believe that Buffington is still hiding in the area and why they're continuing to search that area, Wilson said.
"We have no information that would indicate that he was taken away from the area and if we receive information that he has possibly gone somewhere else, we will investigate that," Wilson said, adding that corrections officials have continued to push the search westward and on Tuesday were working backward from the Grant County line, an area that is sparsely populated and heavily wooded.
"We've had tips from that area and as long as we continue to get tips, we're going to stay in that area till we get something that leads us somewhere else," she said.
Wilson said in a press release Tuesday morning that the department's focus is on public safety and getting Buffington back into custody. A full investigation on the issues surrounding his escape will be conducted after he is back in custody.
Buffington was convicted of first-degree murder in 1999 in the shooting death of his ex-wife, Rhonda Combs, 23, who was shot in the back of the head while she sat in a pickup truck with her boyfriend near the Booneville city limits, according to archive articles from the Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith.
That man, Wayne Fletcher, said in a phone interview Tuesday that after Combs was shot, he drove to the Booneville police station where he contacted police.
He said he saw Buffington shoot Combs and had to testify against him in court.
"I was pretty upset when I found out he had escaped and I'm still upset," Fletcher said. "He's been locked up this whole time and I thought, 'What if he's coming after me?'"
He said Combs and Buffington were involved in a custody battle over their two children. Combs had custody of a girl while Buffington had custody of a boy that she was also trying to get custody of.
"They had been divorced for a few years and she had been married and divorced after that so it wasn't like they were still married," he said.
Fletcher also said he had not been contacted by anyone from the Logan County Sheriff's Office since the escape.
"None of the sheriff's department people or the sheriff came out to tell me," he said. "A friend told me about it after seeing it on Facebook."
Fletcher also said he believed the sheriff's department should have contacted him by telephone to be sure that he was all right but that hasn't been done.
An attempt to contact the sheriff's office at Booneville late Tuesday afternoon was unsuccessful.
Wilson said Tuesday afternoon that corrections officials have contacted law enforcement agencies in areas where Buffington was known to have contacts or relatives.
The Southwest Times Record at Fort Smith reported Tuesday that a dispatcher at the Logan County Sheriff's Office said law enforcement agencies in the area have been made aware of Buffington's escape and have been receiving updated information from state law enforcement officials.
Buffington is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 182 pounds. He should be considered armed and dangerous.
Wilson said rumors that Buffington has cancer or is terminally ill are false. Wilson also said it would not have been out of the ordinary for a trusty to be on that part of the grounds on a weekend evening.
Anyone with information about Buffington should contact 911 or local law enforcement.


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The Los Angeles Angels have shown a willingness to discuss trading either 1B/OF Mark Trumbo or OF Peter Bourjos in return for young starting pitching, reports Buster Olney of ESPN.
Los Angeles has been vocal about their desire to acquire cost-controlled starters. Jason Vargas is a free agent this offseason while Jerome Williams and Joe Blanton were mostly ineffective in 2013. So was Tommy Hanson, when he was healthy. Garrett Richards may stick as a back-end starter. That leaves the team with Jered Weaver and C.J. Wilson at the top of the rotation, and a mess behind them.
A poor farm system means the Angels have very little relief coming up the pipeline, as well. The team's lone top pitching prospect, Nick Maronde, pitched solely out of the bullpen in 2013.
Both Trumbo and Bourjos could be very attractive pieces in a trade. In three full seasons, Trumbo has already hit 95 home runs and does not look to be slowing down anytime soon. However, he is not great defensively nor does he get on base well with a career .299 OBP. That could limit the upside of any players Los Angeles would get in return.
The Royals, Pirates and Mariners all contacted the Angels mid-season to enquire about Trumbo's availability, though no team came close to a deal.
Bourjos, on the other hand, is regarded as one of the best defensive outfielders in the league. However, his bat leaves much to be desired. He has a career 704 OPS, though his speed could allow him to put up nice stolen base numbers in a full season. He played in just 55 games in 2013 due to a myriad of injuries.
Both players are just hitting arbitration for the first time this offseason and are set to become more expensive. With a number of bloated contracts on the roster, a trade could also help the Angels shed some payroll.
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Sweets and Treats in Lancaster County
Those with a sweet tooth will certainly not be disapointed during a visit to Lancaster County, where homemade baked goods, jams, jellies, local chocolates, specialty cookies and many more delectable desserts are found in abundance. Don't forget to sample PA Dutch favorites like the whoopie pie and shoo fly pie!
Bird-in-Hand Bakery & Creamery
2715 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird-in-Hand, PA 17505
(717) 768-1501 (800) 524-3429
Baked goods from the recipes of Grandma Smucker's kitchen including our famous wet-bottom Shoofly Pie, large oversized apple dumplings, and more!
Hershey's Courtyard Cafe Food Court and Hershey's Dessert Creation Studio
800 Park Boulevard, Hershey, PA 17033
(717) 534-4900 (800) 437-7439
Grab a quick bite at the Courtyard Cafe Food Court or create your own delicious dessert at the Hershey's Dessert Creation Studio.
Next-door Neighbors explore the region
Uncle Leroy's Ice Cream & Candy Kitchen
226 Gap Road, Strasburg, PA 17579
Come watch candy being made before your eyes and try a FREE sample!
Hammond Pretzel Bakery, Inc
716 South West End Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17603
We have been voted #1 hard pretzel in Lancaster County Magazine the past 21 years!
Downtown Lancaster explore the region
Stoltzfus Meats and Deli
14 Center Street, , Intercourse, PA 17534
(717) 768-7287
Where "Meating you is our pleasure!" Fresh meats, baked goods and Amos' Place Restaurant with seating available.
Cafe Chocolate of Lititz
40 E. Main Street, Lititz, PA 17543
(717) 626-0123
Love the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate! Enjoy our main dishes, soups, salads, specialty drinks and sweets from around the World.
Small Towns & Northern Countryside explore the region
Dutch Haven Shoo-fly Pie Bakery
2863 Lincoln Highway East, Ronks, PA 17572
(717) 687-0111
"The place that made shoo-fly pie famous."
Bird-in-Hand Bake Shop
542 Gibbons Road, Rt. 340 to Beechdale Rd. to Gibbons Rd., Bird-in-Hand, PA 17505
(717) 656-7947 (800) 340-8558
This local, no-chain bakery offers some of the world's finest, freshest homemade goodies.
Achenbach's Pastry
375 East Main Street, Leola, PA 17540
(717) 656-6671
Great tasting baked goods made from scratch with no preservatives added. Featuring a taste of Lancaster County baked from family recipes.
Sweet Legacy Gourmet
2710 Old Philadelphia Pike, Bird-in-Hand Farmer's Market, Bird-in-Hand, PA 17540
Gourmet cookies, fudge, caramel and more hand-crafted right before your eyes! Located in the center of the renowned Bird In Hand Farmers Market. Stop by for a free sample of one of our uniquely indulgent fudge flavors.
Fisher's Bakery & Roadside Stand
328 North Belmont Road, Gordonville, PA 17529
You will enjoy your visit at our Amish owned roadside stand.
Mr. Sticky's Homemade Sticky Buns
501 Greenfield Road, Lancaster, PA 17601
(717) 413-9229
Warning! Extremely addictive homemade sticky buns! (Open March through December.)
Strasburg Country Store & Creamery, The
One West Main Street, Strasburg, PA 17579
(717) 687-0766
Featuring fresh deli-style sandwiches, homemade ice cream and waffle cones, sundaes and shakes. Wander through the Country Store and Candy Kitchen for other made-on-site treats.
Yofro Sweets Frozen Yogurt & Juice Bar
2405 Covered Bridge Drive, Lancaster, PA 17602
Lancaster's first self-serve frozen yogurt shop now serving your favorite juices!
Kitchen Kettle Village
3529 Old Philadelphia Pike, Intercourse, PA 17534
(717) 768-8261 (800) 732-3538
Village of 42 country shops and restaurants built around our nationally celebrated Jam & Relish Kitchen. Don't miss our fun food festivals celebrating everything from rhubarb to tailgating!
Village Greens Golf Snack Shoppe
1444 Village Road, Route 741 West of Strasburg, Strasburg, PA 17579
(717) 687-6933
Fuel up before or after your golf game.
Pepper Lane Fudge & Sweets
3529 Old Philadelphia Pike, Kitchen Kettle Village, Intercourse, PA 17534
(717) 768-3740 (888) 753-8434
Stroll down Pepper Lane in Kitchen Kettle Village and watch fudge being made.
Miller's Bakery & Gift Shop
2811 Lincoln Highway East, Route 30 one mile east of Route 896, Ronks, PA 17572
(717) 687-6621 (800) 669-3568
Just one taste and you'll know it's homemade. Wet-bottom shoofly and chocolate pecan pies, stickies, pigtails, fresh baked breads and more.
Intercourse Canning Company
13 Center Street, Intercourse, PA 17534
(717) 768-0156
Tempt your tastebuds with a variety of pickled vegetables, fruit, relishes, salsas, bbq and hot sauces, jams, jellies, gourmet coffees, dip mixes and much more. Freshly canned by Amish & Mennonite folks. Free samples.
Greenfield Food 'N Fuel
1741 Hempstead Road, Lancaster, PA 17601-5845
(717) 392-1010
Refueling for your body and your vehicle - all under one roof!
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I've got a special power
that I'm not afraid to use
Come on, this is my adventure
this is my fantasy,
it's all about living in the ocean,
being wild and free
'Cause I'm no ordinary girl
I'm from the deep blue underworld,
land or sea
I've got the power if I just believe
'Cause I'm no ordinary girl
I'm from the deep blue underworld,
land or sea the world's my oyster, I'm the pearl
no ordinary girl
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We gotta stick together
'Cause the best things come in three
I want it to last for ever
All the magic and fun at sea
so come on this is our adventure
There's no telling where we'll go
All I want is just to live amongst the H2O
Come along it just gets better
So much to do in just so little time
because it all depends on whether
you want to leave the land and thoughts behind!
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It is rare for us to reproduce someone else's blog in full. But in this blog first published a couple of weeks ago on the Oxfam blog, Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford's Saïd Business School, elegantly says what we have been trying to say here.
"The first time I heard the term "social entrepreneur" I thought it referred to business people who liked to party. That was about twenty years ago, when the term was just beginning to surface, said to have been coined by Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka. Ashoka was the first entity that identified and supported such individuals – innovators with a "bold idea" aimed at changing a system that was at the root of a major social or environmental problem.
Twenty years ago I fell in love with "social entrepreneurship", its promise, and most of all, the stories of the champions that practiced this approach. They didn't take "it can't be done" as a deterrent – in fact, as one of them described to me, "'it's impossible' is our clarion call to action". As the first Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, an entity supported by World Economic Forum's founder Klaus Schwab and his wife, Hilde, I spent eight years identifying, celebrating and supporting such individuals, providing them with opportunities to enter the coveted corporate enclave that is the annual meeting of the WEF at Davos – which in turn gave them access to networks of power they had never been able to tap. Many of these social entrepreneurs formed strong and lasting relationships with members of the corporate C suite, heads of philanthropic foundations and the media leaders that attend Davos. It was difficult not to become infected with the bug of "social entrepreneurship".
The Schwab Foundation certainly was not the only social entrepreneurship organization on the scene. A host of other organizations were created at around the same time, including Echoing Green, the Skoll Foundation, the Omidyar Network, Acumen, Mulago, to name just a few. These were primarily based in the USA, but the UK quickly followed suit along with countries on the European continent, Asia, Latin America, Africa and Australia. Governments, led by the UK, embraced "social enterprise" as the "third way" – income-generating charities that did not depend wholly on public coffers but dealt with the increasing number of social problems that defied government solutions.
My main concern about this viewpoint is that it stripped the notion of innovation and systems change – the essence of social entrepreneurial endeavour – right out of the approach. In the UK and those countries that have followed, social enterprises have become part of the "social enterprise industrial complex", sub-contractors to government and feeding into a dysfunctional system. But that is for another blog.
The point is, all of a sudden, social entrepreneurship was everywhere and everyone wanted to be one. But there was one question that was raised at every national and international gathering of social entrepreneurs. As former President Bill Clinton noted in a speech about the challenge of school reform "Nearly every problem has been solved by someone somewhere. The frustration is that we can't seem to replicate [those solutions] anywhere else." Why is it that the only system-changing approach that has managed to go to scale is microfinance? Yet we forget that it took 30 years and an estimated US$20 billion in subsidies from major foundations and individual philanthropists to transform microfinance from an undefined effort sitting between philanthropy, aid and the market, to something much closer to mainstream investing.
This begs the question as to whether the only way social entrepreneurship will scale is by becoming part of the mainstream market system. As someone who is now working in a business school environment, this idea carries significant weight.
I do believe that transformational systems change will never be achieved on a massive scale by non-profit organizations or even by well-meaning "hybrids". I very much
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believe that the way forward is through business. And so I have come to feel increasingly uncomfortable with the term "social entrepreneurship" and its main actor, the "social entrepreneur".
But the reason is not because I have bought into the notion that capitalism as we now practice it is the solution – but because I firmly believe that every entrepreneur has to be a "social entrepreneur". The way business has operated in the last 50 years must be disrupted because we will not survive as a society or a planet if we do not tear down the walls that compartmentalise economic, social and environmental activity. That is why I am now working in business schools. The way we approach business education has to change.
There is no doubt that the term "social entrepreneurship" served its purpose at one point in time, mainly because we needed to highlight what type of entrepreneurial practice we were referring to – but today it only serves to further dichotomise entrepreneurial practice into the "social" and the "commercial" ("non-social"?). It creates a false separation between "this is where we make money, and this is where we do good". And that is EXACTLY what is wrong with capitalism today.
It is hard for us who have been born and raised under capitalism and the large corporation to reflect on the fact that it was only relatively recently – not many centuries ago – that humankind finally began to achieve a surplus, something more than the necessities for survival.
The central precept of all early corporations that began to take shape around the 16th century was that even though they were chartered as private entities and possessed special privileges and monopoly rights, they were still expected to carry out activities with a public purpose. That has changed and needs to be revisited if the world is to advance.
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There is no doubt that the modern corporation as we know it today has empowered individual genius and bestowed great social benefits. Yet it has also done social harm. Many of the ills of modern life – non-sustainable levels of personal and institutional debt, toxic air and water, workplace injury, loss of livelihoods for communities, political bribery – can be traced to corporate lack of responsibility to one or more constituencies. This is not intentional. No one wants to cause poverty, pollution, disease, unemployment and corruption. Rather, they want to make profits. But in that pursuit, they may find anti-social behaviour pays. To achieve profits in the short term, corporations exact a "social and environmental price" and that price is high and rising.
The key to sustainable capitalism is reasonable profits as opposed to maximizing profits. In the current system, a segment of society is trying to maximize profits without concern for the impact on the well being of the society as a whole, while another segment of social organizations have to deal with the fall out. The system is not working.
Fortunately, there are a growing number of people, particularly among the young, who embrace the notion of "entrepreneurship for society" rather than commercial or social entrepreneurship. They are not waiting until they are 50 years old when they have "made their money" and can "give back". I am optimistic that through the new breed young professionals, we can go back to the future and base our economies on activities that uphold social and environmental goals without eschewing financial sustainability".
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There were two goals to the Peterborough Social Impact Bond, launched in 2010 by Social Finance:
- To address the failure of the system to intervene with short sentence male offenders other than by imprisoning them – by seeking to rehabilitate them.
- To test a pioneering new way to divert taxpayers money to civil society organisations able to solve social problems that would otherwise go unsolved, and in the process deliver savings.
Since then, the idea has captured the imaginations of policy makers across the world and stimulated a global arms race to explore its potential. This is not surprising when one thinks it through. If successful, it promises not only to create value for taxpayers, but also for citizens who would otherwise have been victims of the unaddressed social problem; for charities and social enterprises by lowering their cost of capital and enabling them to scale their activities as businesses can; for investors who can make money by solving social problems. The applications of the idea are not restricted to criminal justice, but extend to all areas of social need. The implications could be huge.
Today, the initial results are announced. So, how did it go?
The headline outcome is that the One Service, the implementation vehicle for the Peterborough Social Impact Bond investors, has successfully delivered an 8.4% reduction in re-offending versus the control group. This is in line to beat the minimum hurdle of 7.5% to trigger the repayment of investor capital, along with a modest return.
A more detailed look at the numbers reveals an even more positive story – that outcomes achieved are getting progressively better, as the One Service gets better at co-ordinating the local interventions and services to greater effect. Should current momentum be maintained, investors can expect to make a significant return.
So the charities, government agencies and social enterprises that have combined to solve a social problem under the co-ordination of the One Service have proved they can deliver. Tangibly deliver, for all of those stakeholders. A favourable verdict, then.
There are a number of key design points underpinning this success. The discipline of a well-structured outcomes-focussed contract with government; the social purpose of the legal structure that investors invested in; the social purpose of the intermediary that structured it; the combined social and financial track record of both the investors and the intermediary. For both the investors and the intermediary, the verdict is also favourable.
But returning to the strategic goals for the project, can it be judged a success?
Versus strategic goal (1), the jury is out but it looks like unless something changes then a fail verdict will be returned. The Ministry of Justice's Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms have led to the Peterborough SIB being prematurely discontinued, unavoidable given that it's a national reform program. But in their current form, the TR contracts for do not provide for the investment in short sentence male offenders, in the aligned contract structure, that would result in meaningful outcomes such as those achieved in Peterborough.
Versus strategic goal (2), the jury remains out. Something important has been proven. The global momentum for this idea will continue to be built. But the idea is only any good if governments can act as a rational counter-party. And this is where the wheels look like they might fall off.
Imagine if investors invested in a start-up business in Peterborough. Imagine that it demonstrated a brand new approach that delivers materially superior results to the traditional market. Imagine that by being rolled out nationally it could transform that market and create massive financial and social value in the process. Imagine that this business continues to deepen relationships and refine its new approach, and as a result can demonstrate ever better results from its already high base. Imagine then that the investors decided to shut it down.
And then imagine no more, because this is precisely what the UK government have decided to do with the One Service – albeit that they are going to continue to fund it until the implementation of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms, with their (currently) inadequate incentives for its value-creative activities.
So what we know today is that civil society organisations, charities & social enterprises have demonstrated that, under the right structures, they can deliver material value for society which may warrant the taxpayer making unlimited capital available to them, so that they can deliver that material value by solving social problems.
What remains to be seen is whether the representatives elected by the taxpayer are capable of claiming this potentially remarkable victory.


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The Zvox Z-Base 420 offers an uncluttered look and solid sound at a budget price, but its quirks might give some buyers pause.
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The Zvox Z-Base 555 has a nearly perfect sound-bar design and a solid feature set, but it won't please critical listeners.
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Where to buy a computer or computer parts in Eugene Oregon, Computer Stores
Living in Eugene, Oregon there are limited options for buying a new or used computer locally. The following guide is a list of computer stores in Eugene where you can buy a new computer or computer parts.
BEST BUY – The store with the best selection is Best Buy in the Gateway Mall, but I don't recommend them for several reasons. They only have a 15 day return policy, unfriendly staff that are generally unhelpful and inexperienced. They also try and get customers to use their Geek Squad repair service, which is a huge rip off. Check their reviews on Google Places or Yelp, and you'll see what I mean. There is a reason they are going out of business.
STAPLES – Better return policy than best buy. Decent selection
OFFICE DEPOT - I've had good experiences here although I've noticed that a lot of the computers and printers they have on display they don't have in their inventory.
VOS COMPUTERS- People have told me mixed things about VOS. I've heard they are slightly over priced, but they are local and family owned, and they parts in stock that nobody else in town likely has.
NEXTSTEP RECYCLING- Personally I feel like they are way over-priced on a lot of items like used computers and cell phones, but have good deals on some parts and other items. They don't have a return policy. They have a limited exchange policy and with a very short period after purchase. I've noticed their used computers tend to be over priced, and you can get a much better deal on a used computer off of Craigslist.
RADIOSHACK- Radioshack just isn't the store they used to be. They have a very small inventory, and high prices. They do have a somewhat decent selection of electronics parts.
CRAIGSLIST- Craigslist is one of the best way to find good deals on Computers and Parts in Eugene. Just make sure to do a full check on everything you buy, and their is always a small risk you take when buying from a stranger online.
MAC STORE- If you like apple products, the Mac store is the place to go.
EUGENE COMPUTER GEEKS- We don't sell computers but we will help you find the right computer for you, free of charge. For Computer Repair Services or web design, please try EUGENE COMPUTER GEEKS.
If you don't mind the wait, the best deals and selections can be found online. The Internet is a buyers market and you can find great deals if you know where to look.
Newegg.com- Excellent prices and selection. Good return policy.
Amazon Market Place- Amazon Market Place is an excellent way to buy computers, electronics or parts in new or used condition from sellers from around the world. This is not to be confused with regular Amazon.com. Make sure the seller you buy from has lots of positive reviews and feedback.
Ebay- Now days, Ebay has become a buyer's market.
Google Shopping- Google has added a shopping feature to their search, which allows you to search for millions of stores on the Internet. I also use it to look up a certain item and get a good price comparison.
Thanks for reading my guide. I hope you now have a better idea of what the best computer stores in Eugene Oregon are. Please Comment and Share.
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Dubai: A cleaner and a cook who were having unmarried sex confessed to the affair after the woman fell ill and was rushed to hospital, where doctors told her she was carrying a two-month-old dead foetus.
The 39-year-old Filipino cook, G.A., rushed his 29-year-old countrywoman girlfriend, C.M., to hospital because she suddenly fell ill and complained of feeling cold on June 20.
The cleaner immediately admitted to doctors that she had been having out-of-wedlock sex with G.A. when they discovered that she was carrying a two-month-old dead embryo inside her womb.
The Dubai Misdemeanour Court sentenced the defendants to one year in jail.
"The couple will be deported following the completion of their punishments," said presiding judge Mohammad Shawqi in courtroom 11 on Tuesday.
The defendants entered a guilty plea and admitted having consensual sex when they defended themselves in court.
Court records said when the cleaner felt sick and cold, her boyfriend rushed her in a taxi to hospital.
When doctors examined C.M., they discovered that she was two-months pregnant but her foetus was already dead.
"I met C.M. earlier this year and we fell in love. She moved into my place in Muraqabat… we used to have consensual sex very often," said G.A.
"We were waiting for the nearest opportunity to travel to Philippines to get married.
"It was 2.30pm when she started shivering and got tired. I rushed her to hospital where they told us about her pregnancy. The last time we had sex was two months prior to our arrest."
Court records cited the cook apologising for violating the UAE laws.
The cleaner claimed during questioning: "I came to work as a cleaner for a private company. When I fell in love with G.A., I moved in to live at his residence. I stayed with him nearly six months until the day when he rushed me to hospital. I agreed to sleep with him after he promised to marry me at the nearest opportunity. We used to have sex once a week," claimed C.M.
Prosecution records said hospital officials reported the defendants to the police after the discovery.
The primary judgement remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
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The congressman had already announced his retirement back in October, and his resignation this late in the cycle will not trigger a special election for the end of his term, according to the Bee.
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Party Loyalty Is For Hacks, Fools, And Operatives
Only Operatives have an excuse, and theirs is pretty poor.
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Because, my friends and colleagues of the left, 2014 promises to be yet another race to the bottom. The administration and the Democrats are going to continue with their festival of arrogance, incompetence, and obfuscation. They will continue treating the Fourth Amendment like a suggestion and foreign civilians like targets in a hideous videogame...
...And somehow the Republicans will prove that they're even worse!
It's mystifying. Every year it seems that Team Jackass lowers the bar as much as they can and every year the Republicans grease themselves up and somehow limbo under that mother. I really don't know how they do it.
But if you're a citizen and a writer of any sort, your job is clear. It's not to make excuses. It's to raise standards. It's to demand the basics. And it's always, always to cut through the spin and tell the truth - even when it looks bad for your side.
I remember how the Other Guys failed to do that during the last administration, and it - God, I hate this phrase - "tarnished the brand." But there are more important things than brands. If you have any integrity and self-respect, you already understand that. We can't allow the country to continue acting like a Gilded Age version of Skynet. When our guys are wrong, we have to demand better. It's a smart long-term strategy for Dems. But it's also the right thing to do.
Does this seem like a New Year's resolution? Not at all. This is the kind of thing we should always be doing, and many of us are. I try to do it. But reminders are nice.
UPDATE: I have a blog and one of the readers suggested I put a link here.
2nd UPDATE: There's a contingent on this thread that suggests my criticism of the drone war and 4th Amendment violations makes me some kind of Libertarian/Ron Paul nut. My question to readers is "Do you really have to support drone strikes and current NSA procedures to be a good Democrat?" My follow-up question is "Seriously? I mean, are you f-ing kidding me or what?"
3rd UPDATE: It's been brought to my attention that I am part of the corporate propaganda machine, and I am trying to sabotage the Democratic Party and possibly end life on earth. If this is true, somebody tell me where to pick up my check, because that crap sounds like it would really pay well.
4th Update: It's been brought to my attention that a number of you have little flecks of spit in the corners of your mouths. Go ahead and do something about it.
5th Update: It's been brought to my attention that a number of you, all issues of tone and style aside, really do think Democrats ought to just support drone strikes. My response to that is like the middle part of the "Aristocrats" joke, so I will not actually write it.
I couldn't keep up with the madness, so at some point I had to go offline. I don't think anyone will ever read this update, but if you stumble upon it you should know that this was the most fun I've ever had on DU. Seriously. But one of best parts of this experience for me was the confirmation that DU, the progressive movement, and the Democratic Party have a sizeable number of people who really do believe that ideas drive your party affiliation, not the other way around. It was pretty inspiring. I think we honestly have more of those people than the other side, and it's a real strategic advantage. If you read DU regularly, you probably already know this.
Jeez, somebody needs to open a couple windows in here and run a vacuum or something. Ugh.
Posted by paulbibeau | Wed Jan 1, 2014, 10:12 AM (448 replies)
You totally have the right to say stupid things, Duckboy
No one's arguing that. Not at all. The FEMA guys with the truncheons aren't coming.
You totally have a right to say stupid things about gay people and their anuses, and get poetic about the orifices you think Jesus approves of.
And the gay people? They totally have a right to get mad and call for the soulless hacks at your network to dump you.
And the soulless hacks? With their suits and their creepy smiles and their inability to cast shadows? They totally have the right to dump you and run another program for redneck ignorami.
And your friends? Fellow conservatives? They also have rights. They have the right to act like you're some kind of hillbilly Anne Frank, and that what's happening to you is Exactly What Orwell Predicted.
And I have the right to make fun of how idiotic they're being.
And publications like the National Review have the right to run articles about it on their website. And a horde of mouthbreathers - I mean a real Mos Eisley-style collection of freaks, cranks and bigots here... everything that can creep or crawl its way into a voting booth and pull the lever for whoever does the best Reagan impersonation... they have the right to log on and give vent to whatever ugly, nasty, hateful thing is rattling around in their heads. And they are. Oh boy. You should read it. Mean-spiritedness and ignorance, the floridly scatological and frighteningly eschatological, are all on display in that space, completely unimpeded. Free.
Yes, rights. You social conservatives have the right to tell us exactly what you're thinking. And I - and many other people - have the right to use your words to make sure normal people understand that you jackasses aren't qualified to run a lemonade stand.
Your problem isn't that anyone is stopping you from saying what's on your mind. That's not why you're losing elections. Your problem is you can't stop yourselves.
And I, for one, am very grateful.
Posted by paulbibeau | Sun Dec 22, 2013, 09:03 PM (17 replies)
"We're Not White Guys, Megyn Kelly" By Jesus and St. Nicholas
Hey Megs:
Santa, here. I was hanging out with your Lord and Savior, stringing some popcorn in heaven, and we figured we'd drop you a line. We don't want to make too big a deal about this -- we're both pretty multicultural -- but we want to get the record straight.
We're not white people.
I'm sorry if this bothers you. But it's the truth. St. Nick and Jesus are not, and never have been, from the dry part of the bird.
First of all, modern concepts of whiteness just plain don't apply to a first century Jew and a third century ethnic Greek from what is now Turkey. We're not anywhere on your little crumbled Saltine Venn diagram.
But there's something else that deeply infuriates us, and it needs to be said. Your viewers - and a large chunk of your country - hate and fear folks who look like us. Do you realize that?
Look at a reconstruction of my face by the St. Nicholas Center. Really look at me. I am a bearded, sienna-shaded gent from the Near East. Your network spends all day flashing pictures of guys who resemble me to justify drone strikes, profiling, and torture. I'm not a jolly elf to a Fox News viewer. I am the freakin' bogeyman. And, I'd like to point out, so is my Nazarene buddy over here, whose birthday is coming up. Sarah Palin pretends she's ghost-writing for the guy, but she wouldn't get in a cab he was driving.
If Jesus Christ and I got seats together on the flight next to any of your viewers, they'd piss themselves and demand that TSA goons zip-tie us both. They would. And many, many other Americans -- even folks who call themselves liberals -- feel the same way.
Posted by paulbibeau | Thu Dec 12, 2013, 01:07 PM (39 replies)
"Stop Sending Us Messages," By The Universe
Crab Nebula, here. I just wanted to tell you you can stop wasting time pestering me and the rest of the universe. Stop sending us messages. Stop "just putting something out there." Quit it with the "positive energy." Do not transmit, leave, or communicate anything to us ever again. Whatever it is, is just getting lost. I would say it's cluttering up the place, but we've got so much room it sort of doesn't matter.
This is the universe we're talking about, okay? We don't care if you find someone who loves you, or get a new job, or keep your current job, or whatever chump-change projects you've got going on. We're like Mr. Spock, the island of Manhattan, honey badger, and 15 of your coldest exes lumped together and multiplied by 93 billion. We do not care.
I could understand if you wanted to conceptualize some kind of anthropomorphic deity and then hassle it with your problems - I mean, you'd have to grapple with the burden of evidence, the vaguaries of revelation, and the problem of evil, but at least you'd be going somewhere. But to just sort of blurt out some whiny plea to what you admit is a massive, inanimate object full of gas and dust... Well, that is pathetic. It's philosophically incoherent. It's theologically lazy. I could go on, but my outer ring is expanding at half the speed of light, and at my core is a neutron star rotating 30 times a second and beaming huge jets of intense energy. I have stuff to do, you know?
Posted by paulbibeau | Thu Nov 14, 2013, 01:18 PM (8 replies)
"Happy Veteran's Day!" By An Obese Man Eating A Corndog At A Mattress Sale
God, these things are good. Perfect amount of crackle, you know? Whoever is working the fryer knows what he's doing. Anyway, they're free for customers, so I thought I'd come in and browse.
I felt guilty on the way over here. I'm spending the day checking out the sales and grazing sample food, and in a bunch of countries I know nothing about, there are American soldiers probably doing horrible things and getting shot. Am I really commemorating their sacrifice by getting my complimentary Sleep-Rite Profile?
But then this thought occurred to me: Why the hell not? Like I said, I am completely ignorant of their mission, and I certainly don't understand how it relates to my actual freedom. Maybe they just took out a terrorist who was about to level my local shopping mall. Then again, maybe they just murdered someone for no good reason. How should I know? US foreign policy is classified, redacted... a total black box. I can't support something if I don't know what it is. And how can you call this a free country when I don't have any control over what it's doing? Oh Christ, my esophagus is on fire.
I have to go lie down on that reinforced Double-King over there, so I'll make this simple: You guys can pretend you're defending my liberty with secret operations and drone strikes, but I get to pretend I'm supporting you with parades and fried food. Sure, we're both lying to each other, but we're going to keep at it until you or I get killed.
I'm not sure which it will be. I might get blown up tomorrow over some stupid thing you did and didn't tell me about. Also, right now I can't feel the left side of my face.
Anyway, I honor your service. God bless whatever.
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Posted by paulbibeau | Mon Nov 11, 2013, 12:50 PM (0 replies)
A Message To Conservatives From A Civil War Reenactor
I hope this sounds coherent. I've been awake and violently ill for 72 hours with this stomach bug all the guys in the unit have. No one wants to take antibiotics, because they weren't around - we're really into authenticity, you know? The good part is it's helping me make my goal of losing a third of my body weight in time for the campaign. Anyway, I've had a lot of time to think.
Here's what I realized at 3 am while I was soaking my buttons in urine:
"What's okay in one time period is absolutely crazy in another."
I mean, right now I'm shaking, my body is producing a strange smell like bad cheese, and the fever's giving me hallucinations of Shelby Foote dancing in a Rockettes outfit. If I were suffering like this while serving in the Army of the Potomac more than a hundred years ago, folks would say it couldn't be helped. I was just doing my duty. But I'm a real estate broker with a solid health plan, and I am less than five miles away from my Volvo. There's even a Rite-Aid close to the parking lot.
There is no excuse for what I'm doing. None. My wife said that when she took the kids to her sister's. I am surrounded by the 21st century, and I just don't want to live in it. That's nuts. Completely insane. Which brings me to you guys.
Posted by paulbibeau | Fri Oct 18, 2013, 02:14 PM (19 replies)
A Message To The GOP From The Passenger Pigeon
Things don't look good, bro. I have seen this stage before.
You guys are thinning out, and folks over at the National Review are getting nervous. They used to see people like you everywhere, and now it's just one or two cranky old guys at the bus stop or US Senate. Sad, really. Or it would be sad, if you hadn't tried to sabotage the government.
And this is the trouble with you: You've reached the part where you want to act cute and nice, so someone will put a pair of you in a zoo. Keep the species alive. You'd have a realistic habitat for Tom Coburn - it would probably look like a hunting lodge sometime in the 1950s - and people would try to get Ann Coulter in there and leave them both alone for awhile, only she'd keep scratching his eyes out. But no one wants to do this. They know the result of any pairing would be hideous.
You see? You guys have the worst of both worlds. Your numbers say "endangered," but your actions say "invasive species."
Posted by paulbibeau | Fri Oct 18, 2013, 07:35 AM (3 replies)
A Message To Republicans From Lord Humungus
There has been too much violence, too much pain. It is time for us to end it. You can not fight me and the other Democrats; We are too powerful. You will not get away. Look around you! Where can you go? How can you possibly escape?
But I come to you from the office of Harry Reid. I come with an honorable compromise. Bring us the one you call Ted Cruz. He has harmed my people, and I want his skull to bejewel and fill with the wine of victory.
Ted Cruz has betrayed you and led you into this terrible predicament! God has delivered him into my hand for his many transgressions. Ted Cruz has raised a force of extremists among your ranks, and they have broken your support in the polls with their wild ramblings. He and his kind have snatched the White House from you and many other prizes. Send him unto me that I may have his head, and then he will no longer trouble you.
You are crushed and beaten. You cower in your think tanks and your cloakrooms, but you can not hold out there forever. Fear is my ally. The fear of electing people who don't believe in evolution and take their social policy from the bad parts of the Bible. This fear will allow my dogs of war to sweep into every seat and every statehouse eventually. It is only a matter of time.
Give me the one you call Cruz! Give him to me, and I will give you safe passage through the wastelands. You can still flourish in gerrymandered parts of Georgia and Mississippi. You can still find a home in northern Florida. You will not perish there.
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Posted by paulbibeau | Thu Oct 17, 2013, 10:00 AM (7 replies)
You Already Know The Future Of Ted Cruz
We've seen how this ends. We know what happens to Ted Cruz, because it's happened before. Many, many times. I'm certain, and so are you, and so is everyone else - probably everybody but Cruz himself. Reporters and pundits, paid to have memories like goldfish, won't say it. But I don't make any money at this, so I don't mind. Here it is:
Ted Cruz runs for president. Jackasses in Iowa talk about his honesty and his directness. They portray him as an outsider, a renegade, a fresh new face. What they mean is something else, something darker. Anyway, soon after that - because of dropping polls, stories of infighting, and some hideous thing he says into a hot mike or on hidden camera - his campaign turns into a space shuttle made of balsa.
Does it stop there? Christ, no. Because then Ted Cruz finds what he was meant to do all along. He's going to get a TV show, a radio gig, or an income stream from giving speeches to the kind of folks who think the UN is a totalitarian plot and gay people are poisoning our water supply. Maybe Fox picks him up at first. Eventually, though, he gets a niche market, a place in our culture where he can really cash in on those qualities he showed among the mouth-breathers in the Hawkeye State. Because those qualities are narcissism, paranoia, and shamelessness.
There's a kind of conservative who has these traits. The kind of person who wants nothing more than to peddle conspiracy theories, throw sand in the machinery, and call everyone around him or her a Nazi...
Posted by paulbibeau | Fri Sep 27, 2013, 10:40 AM (16 replies)
The GOP Crackup Can Be Described In One Sentence...
A team of Ayn Rand clones who don't play well together - imagine that.
Posted by paulbibeau | Thu Sep 26, 2013, 01:25 PM (1 replies)


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This is my new cross cut sled for my new /used table saw .
I build this double bottom sled with a adjustable fence to be able to tune it anytime without much trouble.
The sled is build on a bottom layer of 8mm /3/8" MDF with maple guides which I cut slightly smaller then the mitre grooves to allow for seasonal expansion and contraction .
The fences are attached with bolts and T-nuts at the rear fence and screws at the leading or front fence with no glue .
As I assemble the sled I insert wedges between the bottom halves and this removes any play as both outsides of the guides are forced against the mitre slots removing any play and giving the maple guides room to expand in the mitre slots .
The rear fence is adjustable with a bolt into a brass threaded insert making it a very easy procedure .
The top layer is replaceable and can be adjusted to any blade width as required giving me a zero clearence insertand in all tilt positions ,the red thumb screws are the locking device for this ( see pic three )
The rear fence also has a removable insert which is housed in a dovetailed recess and adjustable by four screws . ( I have several inserts for different blades )
The stop blocks ride on halve dove tails on the fences and are locked with clamp bolts and wing nuts.
I left the bottom and back of the stop blocks with some clearence to keep sawdust away from the index face.
I will install tapes for the stop blocks (left and right ) and hope this sled works as well a I think it will.
I have done the five cut test and got it perfect in three attempts and the adjustment bolt made it very easy as the fence pivot on the left tee nut only which fits tight in the hole ( the three other bolt holes are oversize) giving the fence room to move during the adjustment procedure .
I hope to add a travel stop in the near future as I accidently cut threw the blade guard already ( see extra piece added )
Any comments and questions welcome ,good or bad !
-- Kiefer 松
37 comments so far
#1 posted 911 days ago
Holy Bat sleds batman a piece of furniture for in the shop! Great sled.
-- John, Colorado's (Wooden Wizard)
#2 posted 911 days ago
Looks like a well thought out sled,it should serve you well. a really good build.
-- http://artisticwoodstudio.com Custom furniture
#3 posted 911 days ago
Where do I sign up for engineering school to learn and run this.Moe thought put into this than building a et of wall t wall cabinets.Well thought out
-- Grandpaj
#4 posted 911 days ago
That's PURDY!
Nice design.
-- Randy-- I may not be good...but I am slow! If good things come to those who wait.... Why is procratination a bad thing?
#5 posted 911 days ago
Great Sled! After I dropped mine once, I too converted the rear fence to an adjustable configuration!
-- Smitty
#6 posted 911 days ago
-- Kiefer 松
#7 posted 911 days ago
Thanks Smitty
-- Kiefer 松
#8 posted 911 days ago
could you post some more pics of the entire sled? Cant really see the whole thing. Ive been studying on making one kinda like yours, well maybe not as nice, but I been thinking lol
-- Jimi _ Measure twice, cut once.......@#%#$@!!!......measure twice, cut....
#9 posted 911 days ago
Excellent idea with the adjustable fence and inserts. These will be going into my next one. Looks great too.
-- Z, Rockwall, TX
#10 posted 911 days ago
That's too nice to be a sled, I would put that on the coffee table in my house & show it off
-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.
#11 posted 911 days ago
Thanks Jimi
-- Kiefer 松
#12 posted 911 days ago
Can't imagine how anyone could have bad comments. Great job!!! I particularly like your half dovetail stop blocks and the replaceable bed.
#13 posted 911 days ago
Nice job! Several good ideas here.
-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive
#14 posted 911 days ago
My sled here isnt as pretty as yours, but I made my back fence adjustable as well – I can get this puppy accurate! Mine uses two bolts at either end. I use a paper to shim it to as close to square as i can get it. So far it works pretty nicely! Just have to add some safety measures and some accessories to it
-- Hey you dang woodchucks, quit chucking my wood!!!!
#15 posted 911 days ago
Thanks Steve
-- Kiefer 松
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- [08/29] Military pilot was killed in Virginia F-15 crash
- [08/29] Flight diverts to Boston over reclined-seat upset
- [08/29] Ebola in mind, US colleges screen some students
Product Liability
- [08/28] US to begin safety testing Ebola vaccine next week
- [08/26] New York City subway train goes wrong way
- [08/26] Even if attacked, airline could be liable in crash
- [08/29] Flight diverts to Boston over reclined-seat upset
- [08/29] Ebola in mind, US colleges screen some students
- [08/29] Military pilot was killed in Virginia F-15 crash
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[08/26] Yau v. Santa Margarita Ford
In this suit brought by plaintiff-employee against his former employer for wrongful termination and intentional infliction of emotional distress, the trial court's dismissal of the action is: 1) affirmed in part as to the dismissal of the intentional infliction of emotional distress cause of action, as physical and emotional injuries sustained in the course of employment are pre-empted by the workers' compensation scheme and generally will not support an independent cause of action; and 2) reversed in part, where plaintiff adequately alleged his wrongful termination cause of action applied to statutes proscribing theft and fraud.
[08/20] Thompson v. Miles
In this suit brought by plaintiff-buyer to recover damages for repairs he made to newly purchased property after discovering a number of problems with the property, alleging breach of contract, fraud, and negligent misrepresentation, summary judgment entered in favor of defendants is affirmed, where: 1) Maine's implied warranty of habitability did not apply under the circumstances of this case; and 2) defendants had no duty of disclosure.
[08/15] United National Maintenance v. San Diego Convention Center
Judgment in favor of defendant for intentional interference with contractual relationship, antitrust violations, and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, is: 1) reversed in part, where plaintiff, a vendor of trade show cleaning services, intentionally interfered with contracts of a convention center and the tort of intentional interference also applies to parties for whom there is a legitimate interest in the result of the underlying conduct, which includes plaintiff; and 2) affirmed in part, where the district court committed instructional error by not interpreting the terms of the contracts to enable the jury to understand whether the competing maintenance company's performance was disrupted, and such error was prejudicial and warrants a new trial.
[08/15] Russell v. Absolute Collection Servs.
Judgment as a matter of law in favor of plaintiff-debtor over defendant debt collector is affirmed in its entirety, where defendant's conduct violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) 15 U.S.C. section 1692-1692p and the North Carolina Collection Agency Act section 58-70-1 by falsely reporting the status of the debt and threatening to report the paid-off debt to credit bureaus as past due.
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[08/06] LeFiell Manufacturing Co. v. Superior Court (Watrous)
In an action brought by plaintiff-employee under Labor Code section 4558, which provides an exception to the exclusivity of the workers' compensation system for employees injured as a result of the employer's knowing removal of, or knowing failure to install, a point of operation guard on a power press, the trial court erred in denying defendant-employer's motion for summary judgment, where: 1) the door that was removed from the Fenn 5F swaging machine operated by plaintiff-employee is not a point of operation guard as a matter of law; and thus, 2) defendant -employer is entitled to summary judgment.
[07/18] Benavides v. WCAB
The decision of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board rescinding petitioner's disability rating is annulled, where there was good cause for the Workers' Compensation Judge (WCJ) to reopen the case and therefore the appeals board is directed to reinstate the WCJ's award of a 72 percent disability rating. (Opinion after rehearing)
[06/27] Old Republic Construction Program Group v. Boccardo Law Firm
The trial court's order denying defendants' motion under the anti-SLAPP law, to strike three causes of action asserted against them by plaintiff, alleging that defendants law firm and attorney wrongfully withdrew settlement funds derived from a now-defunct lawsuit, which they had deposited in their trust account pursuant to a stipulation requiring plaintiff's consent to any withdrawal, is affirmed, where: 1) in determining whether a cause of action arises from conduct protected by the statute, the focus is on the wrongful, injurious conduct identified in the complaint, and whether that conduct comes within the statute's description of protected conduct; 2) unless the wrongful conduct is communicative in character, it is protected by the statute only if it was undertaken in connection with an issue of public importance; and here, 3) because the withdrawal of funds underlying the causes of action at issue was neither communicative nor related to an issue of public interest, the trial court properly denied a motion to dismiss those causes of action.
[06/26] Salas v. Sierra Chemical Co.
In an action brought under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) alleging that defendant-employer failed to reasonably accommodate plaintiff's physical disability and refused to rehire him in retaliation for plaintiff's having filed a workers' compensation claim, the Court of Appeal's decision holding that plaintiff's action was barred by the doctrines of after-acquired evidence and unclean hands based on the defendant-employer's later discovery that plaintiff had used another man's Social Security number to gain employment with defendant, is reversed and remanded, where: 1) Senate Bill No. 1818, which extends state law employee protections and remedies to all workers "regardless of immigration status," is not preempted by federal immigration law except to the extent it authorizes an award of lost pay damages for any period after the employer's discovery of an employee's ineligibility to work in the United States; and 2) contrary to the Court of Appeal's holdings, the doctrines of after-acquired evidence and unclean hands are not complete defenses to a worker's claims under California's FEHA, although they do affect the availability of remedies.
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Love this image of him. I could have so much fun with it! Here we have him starring in the actual Virgin advert that that memey little kid starred in originally. Have to say – Diggers pose is far better.
Roy Hodgson Looking Clueless
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Spotted this Roy Hodgson picture and instantly these words popped into my head. I don't know why... Do you? If you have any interesting quotes for the pic - please do let me know.
Jack Wilshere – They Took Our Jobs
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Jack jack jack. Willy willy Wilshere. What are you on about. One of the best players ever to grace the field for England wasn't English. He was Jamaican. His name was John Barnes.
Merry Christmas From @FeintZebra
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I found a great blog post by Tom Petrus that summarizes the power of the APEX tree here: http://tpetrus.blogspot.be/2013/01/working-with-tree-in-apex.html
The post details a number of different attributes of the tree and how to interact with it. It starts simple and shows how to get a tree reference and gradually gets more and more detailed, including how to search the tree and how to handle when a node is selected or even double clicked.
For all of you attending Oracle OpenWorld 2013 then you should check out http://apex.oracle.com/oow.
This application will run on both desktop and mobile*
{* The mobile application requires you to sign with your OTN credentials. The desktop application only requires logging in when you enter the challenge}
Looks like the Oracle APEX team's annual OOW site is live here: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=67165:1 This site provides a list of APEX-related sessions at OOW in both a calendar and list view. It is also mobile friendly, which will make it nice to have while at the conference itself.
But the big news is spelled out right on the home page:
A new patch set of Oracle Application Express (APEX) is available for download, the latest version of APEX is now 4.2.3.00.08.
As we are used to patch releases; it contains bug fixes, updated external libraries and updated or new packaged applications. This release is not different; for example Twitter Bootstrap 3.0 and AnyGantt 4.3 are now included and two new packaged app called Data Reporter and Opportunity Tracker are available.
I'm going to be busy.
Here's my list of events:
Just in time for Oracle OpenWorld 2013, Oracle Application Express 4.2.3 is now released and available for download. If you wish to download the full release of Oracle Application Express 4.2.3, you can get it from the Downloads page on OTN.
I had the opportunity to sit through two APEX 5.0 presentations yesterday at APEXposed in Montreal - one by Joel Kallman, and the other by David Peake.
By far, the most anticipated feature is the new page layout UI. This interface is designed to do two things: make arranging regions and items easier, and allowing for batch updating of common item attributes. While the demonstrations were a bit rough and the UI is clearly not finished, this direction represents a lot of promise for APEX developers, as it is the one area that APEX has been lacking since day one.
Wow, it's been almost a year since I've blogged. Guess that's what happens when you get busy!
If you're going to Oracle Open World and will be there for the ODTUG Sunday APEX Symposium, then you're in for quite an interesting set of sessions. When discussing what would be a good topic for this year's set of presentations, we wanted to focus on an area within APEX from which everyone could gain some benefit.