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California's jobless rate stalled at 9.8 percent this winter, with only a few new jobs created in January.
The state's Employment Development Department reported Tuesday that the unemployment rate remained unchanged in January and December
November's jobless rate was revised upward a tenth of a percentage point to 9.9 percent, when the rate dropped below 10 percent for the first time since the beginning of the recession.
Department spokeswoman Loree Levy says the good news is that revised figures show an overall gain of 327,400 jobs last year.
That's an increase of 101,500 jobs over previous estimates.
Preliminary figures, which may be revised later this week, showed increases since January 2011 in leisure and hospitality jobs, construction, and professional and business services. The jobless numbers for February are due to be released next week.
California jobless rate stalled at 9.8 percent
California's jobless rate stalled at 9.8 percent this winter, with only a few new jobs created in January.
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on July 14, 2013 - 12:01 AM
On a recent night, Loretta Jones slept five hours before thoughts of Hawk Creek Wildlife Center accelerated her mind to the point that sleep became impossible. And so she stands before the bathroom window in the gray predawn light, with a forgotten mug of tea in her hands, her mind already down the long driveway with the animals.
The renaissance festival this weekend and next marks the 26th anniversary of Hawk Creek in East Aurora. Multicolored flags, extending from buildings, cages and the weathered split-rail fences, rest limp and still as if in silent anticipation of the celebration. The tents are erect, and the towering points catching the first sun seem impossibly white against the darkness of the trees.
A car turns into the bottom of the driveway. Loretta wonders if someone is dropping off another injured animal, perhaps found on the way to work. Then she recognizes both the car and the practiced arc with which the driver parks. One of the volunteers has arrived to help with the feeding, cleaning of and caring for the more than 80 resident species at the center.
Loretta is almost to the Hawk Creek main gate. It is hard to say whether she is recognized by the pattern of her steps, the flash of her blond hair or by some subtle energy that precedes her; whatever it may be, the moment Loretta walks into the center, she is greeted by a chorus of chuffing, grunting, chirping and chortling. The African pied crow bounces and repeats, high-pitched and childlike, "Hi, hello, hi," between showing off his prized miniature stuffed gorilla.
Hawk Creek is the sight, sound and touch of an intangible dream made tangible. But there is not often time for play. The time-hungry demands of education and fundraising keep Loretta moving across the crushed stone, past the otter and the lynx and the two hissing servals to a crowded second floor office attached to the barn.
Loretta would be living a shell of her vision without education outreach programs. She knows that the greater community needs a more enlightened understanding of the natural world, and that real change needs to be embraced by more than a handful of dedicated volunteers.
Fundraising is the beast that keeps everything going – the rehabilitation, the breeding programs and the education. Without private funding, the center would not last long. The animals would be portioned off to various wildlife centers and some would be euthanized. Then the cages would be torn down. Loretta says this not to elicit some emotional response – it's just the way it is.
While most of her peers migrate to warmer climates during the long winter months, Loretta is still shoveling snow and cleaning wildcat enclosures. She is fixing cages, setting wings and force-feeding wasted, shivering animals. This is what she has created for herself. This is the responsibility she has taken on in this lifetime.
But it is hard to say whether Loretta chose this life, or if it selected her. Perhaps her surrender to this path in 1987 simply creates the illusion of choice to an outside observer. Hawk Creek was certainly born in name in 1987, but it existed long before – held as a sleeping vision in the heart of a young girl.
Perhaps the Hawk Creek story began in the early 1950s in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn. Loretta, not even 3, was playing with her sister in a small fenced-in patch of dirt and grass, with her dog, a boxer named Dutchess, tethered in the corner. Her mother went inside moments before Loretta opened the gate to chase an overthrown ball. Squealing brakes and skidding tires brought her mother outside. Dutchess, with a broken leash dragging on the ground, still held Loretta by the shirt, and continued to tug and pull her farther onto the curb, away from the smell of rubber and the shouts of the taxi driver.
Maybe the story began when Loretta, age 7 and living on a farm in Connecticut, helped her mother set the wing of an injured crow they named Peter and then released at the end of the summer. Mother and daughter even devised a formula to feed baby birds they rescued from the cat, or found abandoned about the farm.
Loretta carried her passion and empathy for animals from age to age. While attending the University of Connecticut, her peers were quick to identify Loretta as having an odd communion with the natural world. Then again, she was the only student with a pet skunk.
In the early 1980s, now living in East Aurora and a young mother of two, Loretta still had not named her vision. But she was rehabilitating again, songbirds and young gray squirrels fallen from nests, and she was educating her children. Loretta knew it was time to teach them about the importance of conservation. So what changed in 1987 – the year Hawk Creek was officially established?
It just so happened to be the year Loretta was told no – that she could not rehabilitate wild animals, that she could not do something she had done her entire life.
One morning a neighbor arrived with an injured raccoon. It was stunned and shaking, and had an abdominal abscess from a fall from a tree. Loretta rushed it to the local veterinarian, but the veterinarian could not accept the animal. Loretta had no permits to possess the animal, and so the veterinarian would be breaking the law if he, after treatment, returned the raccoon to her care. Bewildered, she left with the animal still in her care with no one else to call. At the time the SPCA did not take wild animals.
The raccoon died that evening. The confused tears of her own children and that of the neighbors attending the small burial sent her to a place of intense reflection and deep questioning. She left the small ceremony feeling helpless and impotent, and with a burning in her stomach she could not name. She woke the next morning ready for clear and deliberate action.
And 25 years later she has 16 state and federal licenses, an FCF accredited wildlife center and a host of international conservation awards, including being named a Blue Planet Hero by National Geographic. She has been on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," "Rachel Ray Show," PBS and CBS' "The Early Show."
Last year, Hawk Creek performed 2,400 educational programs, reaching an estimated 275,000 people. It reached another 350,000 through local and national media. Events included programs for Central Park, Bronx Zoo and even the Native American Music Awards, and for companies such as Land Rover, Dos Equis and Princess Cruise Lines.
When Loretta started Hawk Creek in 1987, she never imagined it would evolve into what it is today. And even now, she cannot tell you what it will become. That is because, for a long time, it has not been her dream to dream alone. A singular vision has become a collective. Modern Hawk Creek is shaped by all of the volunteers, donors small and large and the greater needs of the community.
Hawk Creek continues to evolve, and part of that evolution is getting comfortable with a future without its founder. This is her life purpose and passion, and she's not done yet. To that end, Loretta recently coordinated the purchase of land for the next chapter of Hawk Creek Wildlife Center. The center, with its collective vision and shared purpose, will continue because it must.
In the beginning there were more animals than cages. Baby robins, crows, blue jays and unidentified brown birds crowded the counters in the kitchen. Raccoons waddled and squirrels bounced around the floor. One bathroom often smelled like fish from some grebe recovering in the bathtub. Another bathroom contained the latest hawk or owl recovering from shock in a cardboard box, though they often found their way out.
Hawk Creek has evolved, and Loretta is a little older now, but one thing has remained constant: Be careful what you tell Loretta Jones she cannot do.
Justin Jones, of Rochester, is the son of David and Loretta Jones. Hawk Creek is holding an open house/renaissance festival this weekend and July 20-21. More information can be found at www.hawkcreek.org.

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The race for Erie County comptroller may not sound terribly sexy, but voters should definitely mark it down as one to watch.
The race pits an Army reservist and former town clerk against a well-known television news personality and public relations spokesman.
Appointed Democratic incumbent David J. Shenk has touted his fiscal experience, in-house accomplishments and long military service, while Republican Stefan Mychajliw has promoted his working-class origins, investigative reporting work and commitment to political independence.
Both are getting their message out to voters through TV commercials and aggressive ground-level campaigning. They've each worn through multiple pairs of shoes and said they are devoting every spare minute to meeting residents.
Shenk, 42, served as Boston town clerk from 1992 until this past February, when he was appointed comptroller to fill the vacancy created when then-County Comptroller Mark C. Poloncarz was elected county executive. Shenk has raised about $51,000 as of the last campaign finance report, and also lent money to his own campaign.
He has been endorsed by the Good Government Club and a dozen unions, and hopes to capitalize on the county's Democratic enrollment edge in this presidential election year, which traditionally leads to high turnout.
But Mychajliw, 38, poses a serious threat.
He enjoys huge name recognition as a former reporter for WKBW, then for WGRZ from 2001 to 2007. He's co-founder of a public relations firm and has stayed in the news as a spokesman previously representing the Buffalo Public Schools and then-County Executive Chris Collins. He has raised about $76,000 as of his last filing and is likely to outspend Shenk as he works toward a campaign goal of $150,000 by Election Day.
Mychajliw said he's particularly proud of his daily hours of door-to-door campaigning, and he recounted his visit to a trailer home in Hamburg where a resident had an Obama sticker on his car.
"He had this look of shock on his face," Mychajliw said. "He said, 'You know, I've lived in this trailer park for 20 years, and nobody has ever knocked on my door and asked for my vote.' He said, 'I'm an Obama Democrat. I'm going to vote for our president, but I'm also going to vote for you.' "
Drawing on his past career as an investigative reporter and his coverage of the county's red/green budget crisis, Mychajliw said he'll continue the fight for accountability and against the patronage culture in County Hall.
Shenk has his own advantages in this campaign.
He has a bachelor's degree in management and is a sergeant in the Army Reserve, serving since 1998. He has been deployed three times, most recently to Afghanistan from November 2010 to November 2011 as a hospital administrator tracking the care and movement of patients.
Shenk said his military leadership training and duties as a town clerk and collector of taxes provide experience that sets him apart from his opponent.
"I've been tested under extreme conditions," he said. "I'm better prepared to hold this office."
As comptroller, he said, he has conducted audits of the County Clerk's Office, the county's Medicaid transportation provider, and the Sheriff's Office. The audits have saved the county hundreds of thousands of dollars, he said.
His office is conducting the first comprehensive audit of the Erie County Water Authority in more than a decade, he said, an example of how there are no "sacred cows" in his approach.
If elected, Shenk said, he would continue to investigate waste, fraud and abuse; put more guidelines in place to safeguard the county's minimum fund balance, and focus on improving the county's credit ratings.
Mychajliw described Shenk as a political appointee beholden to Democratic party bosses for his job, making Shenk incapable of being a true independent watchdog when it comes to the Democratic county executive.
He called the current situation a case of "the fox guarding the henhouse."
Mychajliw also criticized Shenk for supporting Poloncarz's decision to borrow county money without going through the county's state-appointed financial control board, which could borrow more cheaply.
In response, Shenk pointed to letters he has written raising concerns about Poloncarz's midyear budget report, long-term fiscal plan and proposed 2013 budget.
"I know I've been more against him than with him in the time that I've been here," Shenk said. "He and I are not cozy."
He also noted that Mychajliw was campaign spokesman in Collins' failed re-election bid for county executive last year, and described him as a man with an ax to grind and a weak financial background who is more interested in "sound bites" than solutions.
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He repeatedly mentioned his roots as the child of frugal, hardworking Polish and Ukrainian immigrants. A broadcast journalism graduate from Syracuse University, Mychajliw said he knows the value of a dollar and referred to his 1999 Oldsmobile, which is pushing 140,000 miles.
If elected, Mychajliw said, he will use audits to hold politicians accountable, save taxpayers money by encouraging borrowing through the control board, and propose ways to build up county reserves by cutting government spending.
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Program attempts to help public understand Islam
October 4, 2013
With the growth of the Islamic religion in not only the country but the world, the James V....
One event that claimed 270 American service members their lives in the name of peace. This maybe chump change to you, after all it was 30 years ago. It's been 12 years since 9/11, guess we should brush that off too.
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fiojo1961: you are the one who said that you learned all you needed to know 30 years ago from one event. I was simply taking your statement as you said it.
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The following is a list of acts or attempted acts of terrorism committed by Islamic extremists for the purpose of achieving varying political and/or religious ends. The total number of deaths as a result of the acts of terrorism listed on this page (from 1970–present) is over 10,000.
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Another thought: On one hand we have Colonel Maietta, who has extensive experience with and knowledge of Islam, treating Islam with respect, tolerance and moderation. On the other hand we have fiojo1961 basing his opinion of Islam on one event 30 years ago.
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belive done of what you hear and only belive half of what yo see
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Imagine if you heard someone say, "Everything I needed to know about Christianity, I learned from "Snake Salvation".
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Everything I needed to know about Islam, I learned 30 years ago in Beirut Lebanon., and watching the news. I owe these people nothing, if you don't like it here go home. If you come into MY house, I'm not changing the way I speak or dress, nor am I going to be sensitive about your religious beliefs, you are guest. There will never be peace in the middle east, as long as we keep kissing these people A**. I gave peace a chance it didn't work.
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Apparently "desire" is a dirty word!
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Maybe you should attend the program USA
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Islam......a CULT organized in the 7th century by a sexual PERVERT! Muhammad with 12 marriages, sex with children, slaves and concubines, rapes, warfare, conquests, and unmerciful butcheries.
Islam is a caustic blend of paganism and twisted Bible stories. Muhammad it's lone prophet, who made no prophecies, and conceived his cult to satiate his*****for power, sex and money.
To put it simply, the madman was a terrorist.
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"The God that Islam worships is seen as the same one in the Christian and Jewish faiths, Maietta said.
"Religion traditions are fluid," he said. "They bend and merge."
...And, include the same cast-o'-characters...
List of people in both the Bible and the Quran [Wikipedia]
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Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet, Khulna and Dhaka divisions and at one or two places over Barisal and Chittagong divisions in 24 hours till 6 pm today.
Moderately heavy to heavy falls are also likely at places over the country, Met Office said.
Mild heat wave is sweeping over the regions of Rangamati, Chandpur, Maijdee Court, Feni, Rajshahi, Ishwardi and Khulna and it may continue.
Day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.
The sun sets in the capital today at 6:49pm and rises tomorrow at 5:12am.
Country's highest temperature 36.8 degree Celsius was recorded today at Khulna and lowest 24.6 degrees at Dinajpur.


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on December 22, 2012 - 12:05 AM
The Miami Dolphins' receiving corps is banged up heading into Sunday's game with the Buffalo Bills.
The Dolphins on Friday ruled receiver Davone Bess out because of a back injury, while listing fellow wideout Brian Hartline as questionable, also because of a back injury. Hartline, who has 1,002 receiving yards on the season, was a limited participant in Friday's practice after sitting out Thursday.
He's played in every game so far this season. Bess missed his first game of the season in last week's 24-3 win against Jacksonville.
There is a huge drop-off in production for Miami receivers after Hartline and Bess. The team's next-leading receiver is Marlon Moore, who has just nine catches for 65 yards and a touchdown.
The Dolphins had been enjoying a season relatively free of serious injuries up until last week. Tight end Charles Clay and running back Daniel Thomas suffered season-ending injuries in Week 15. Even kicker Dan Carpenter is done for the season. He was placed on injured reserve Friday because of a groin injury. To take his place, the team signed former Chargers kicker Nate Kaeding.
In addition to Bess, the Dolphins also ruled out linebacker Koa Misi (ankle). Cornerback Nolan Carroll, who practiced Friday on a limited basis for the first time all week, is questionable with a knee injury.
Also questionable for Miami are defensive tackle Randy Starks, who didn't practice all week because of a non-injury situation, and tight end Jeron Mastrud (hamstring).
It looks like the Bills will have center Eric Wood back on the field Sunday. Wood has missed the past two games with a partially torn MCL in his left knee.
"Barring any unforeseen setback, I'll be out there on Sunday," he said following practice Friday.
"Eric we're going to list as questionable. He did a lot of work again [Friday], but I think we still need to list him there just in case there's a flair up between now and game time," coach Chan Gailey said, adding he was very encouraged by the progress Wood has made.
The Bills ruled defensive end Mark Anderson out. He was active last week against Seattle, but did not play. Anderson hasn't played since getting hurt in Week Five against San Francisco. Gailey, though, would not rule him out of the season finale Dec. 30 at home against the New York Jets.
Linebacker Chris White (hamstring) and receiver Marcus Easley (hamstring) also were ruled out after missing practice all week.
Wood is the only player listed as questionable. The team lists 11 players as probable. They are: DE Mario Williams (wrist), CB Aaron Williams (knee), RB C.J. Spiller (shoulder), TE Lee Smith (back), DT Marcell Dareus (knee, wrist), FS Jairus Byrd (foot), CB Justin Rogers (foot), LB Nick Barnett (knee), DT Kyle Williams (ankle), G Andy Levitre (knee) and TE Scott Chandler (foot).
The Dolphins' playoff hopes are faint, but not quite extinguished. To reach the postseason, Miami would need to win its following two games, have Cincinnati lose its last two, Pittsburgh to lose to Cleveland and the Jets to lose once.
If that scenario unfolded, the Dolphins would hold the tiebreaker over the Bengals and Steelers for the AFC's playoff spot.
Here's Gailey on the importance of finishing the season 3-3 in the AFC East, something the Bills haven't done since the 2007 season, when they went 4-2.
"We keep talking about winning the last two, you have to win one before you have a chance at winning the last two," he said. "I look at it as a positive to be able to finish the division .500, but you want to win these last two -- I don't care who you play."
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"A Day of Remembrance 2014" featuring a talk by Dr. Kiron Skinner, director of the Center for International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University, a Dream Center, prayer service, dinner, multimedia presentation and a re-creation of Dr. King's historic speech will be included in a day-long series of events at Saint Vincent College on national Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 20, in honor of the late civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968. All events except the evening program, which includes dinner, are free and open to the public. Tickets for the evening program are required for entry and can be obtained or reserved at the Campus Life Office in the Robert S. Carey Student Center during the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Members of the Visionaries of H.O.P.E. and the Office of Multicultural Student Life will create a Dream Center in the lounge of the Carey Student Center, open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., where historic posters of Martin Luther King will be shown along with an exhibit of art and the unique opportunity to participate in a fused glass workshop. The evening program will take place in the Fred M. Rogers Center from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Doors will open for this program beginning at 4 p.m. An invitational reception for members of the Visionaries of H.O.P.E. and guests will begin at 4:30 p.m. At 4:35 p.m., Br. Norman W. Hipps, O.S.B., president of Saint Vincent College, and Jeffrie Mallory, director of the Office of Multicultural Student Life, will welcome guests and deliver remarks. A scripture reading along with video clips of the later Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" Speech will follow the opening remarks. The commemorative reflection will be given by Dr. Skinner at 5 p.m. with dinner and student presentations to follow as the evening concludes. Tickets are required for entry to the evening program. "The goal of the day as always is to honor, respect and remember the great things Martin Luther King, Jr. did in his lifetime," Mallory said. "We want to remember what he fought for and that he was a man who respected everyone and wanted everyone to be respected as well." "We are emphasizing the educational dimension in our program," he concluded. "We are honored to have Kiron Skinner as our featured speaker. Attendance at our observance has been growing every year and we look forward to hosting an even larger group of students, faculty, staff and people from the area." Skinner, a renowned expert in international relations, U.S. foreign policy and political strategy, is an academic administrator and public servant. At CMU, she is founding director of the Center for International Relations and Politics, university adviser on national security policy, associate professor of international relations and political science and director of the International Relations and Politics undergraduate major. In addition, Skinner is a Distinguished Fellow at CyLab, a research center in the College of Engineering and holds courtesy faculty positions at CMU's Heinz College and the Institute for Software Research, an academic department in the School of Computer Science. She has also taught political science courses at Hamilton College, Harvard University and the University of California, Los Angeles. At Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Skinner is the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow and a member of the Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy. Skinner is an award-winning and best-selling author. Her coauthored books Reagan, In His Own Hand (2001) and Reagan, a Life in Letters (2003) were New York Times best sellers. Reagan, In His Own Hand won the Hoover Institution's Uncommon Book Award and was serialized in the New York Times Magazine on Dec. 31, 2000. Reagan, A Life in Letters was selected as one of the best books of 2003 by the Los Angeles Times, was Time magazine's cover story on Sept. 29, 2003, and was the subject of a Sept. 29, 2003, editorial written by the New York Times editorial board. The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin (2007), a book Skinner coauthored with Serhiy Kudelia, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Condoleezza Rice, was excerpted on the opinion page of the New York Times on Sept. 15, 2007. A frequent contributor of opinion essays, Skinner has written for CNN.com, Foreign Policy.com, National Review Online, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She also regularly provides scholarly commentary on national and international television and radio programs. Among Skinner's numerous awards are the Truman Scholarship for the State of California (1979); Glamour magazine's Top Ten College Competition for Women (1981); Harvard University's Sidney Matz Prize for excellence in advising undergraduates (1989); Delegate to the Bellagio "New Faces" Conference sponsored by the Arms Control Association and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (1989); University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow (1996-98); Olin Foundation Faculty Fellowship (1999-2001 and 2001-2002); BMW Transatlantic Forum Fellow (U.S. and Germany, 2004 and 2005); and Kennedy Middle School Hall of Fame (Redwood City, California, 2005). Skinner's government service includes membership on the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Policy Board as an adviser on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (2001–07); the Chief of Naval Operations' (CNO) Executive Panel (2004–present); the National Academies Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security (2009–11); and the National Security Education Board (2004–11). In 2010, Skinner was appointed to the advisory board of the George W. Bush Oral History Project. She served as a foreign policy surrogate for the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign in 2004, a senior foreign policy adviser in 2011-12 to Speaker Newt Gingrich during his presidential campaign, and a senior foreign policy adviser in the fall of 2012 to the Governor Mitt Romney for President campaign. In 2012, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett appointed Skinner to the Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs. Skinner serves on the boards of the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington, D.C.; Propel Schools in the Pittsburgh area; and Saint Vincent College. She is a life member of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. Skinner holds master of arts and Ph.D. degrees in political science and international relations from Harvard University and undergraduate degrees from Spelman College and Sacramento City College. She received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Molloy College, Long Island. In her leisure time, she enjoys hiking in California's foothills and mountains. Skinner's website is found at kironmemo.com, and she may be visited on Twitter @KironSkinner. For further information about the Day of Remembrance or to reserve tickets please contact the Office of Campus Life at 724-805-2564 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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It is not clear whether myeloma that develops after MGUS is identical to myeloma with an unknown prior history. Genetic abnormalities associated with myeloma can be detected in MGUS, and although some of these are associated with poor prognosis in myeloma, they are also associated with MGUS that is stable for years. Dr. Drach proposed that post-MGUS myeloma appears to be a separate entity with a different outcome than myeloma with an unknown prior history. Those patients with post-MGUS MM with only deletion 13 had a much better survival, and those with t(11;14) a much poorer survival. His group is looking at epigenetic changes in plasma cells that might be associated with development of myeloma, e.g., aberrant methylation of promoter regions in tumor suppressor genes. Demethylating agents such as 5-aza-2-deoxycytidine and/or trichostatin A were used to treat cell lines, and about 470 unique genes were induced in at least one of the lines. Of these, 88% were shown to have CpG islands, and therefore to be genuine methylation targets. Although all chromosomes contained some of these genes, an obvious cluster occurred on chromosome 6 at 6p21. This process selected some genes that have previously been identified in other cancers that were not previously known to be associated with myeloma, including genes involved in the cell cycle, cell adhesion, signaling, and DNA repair. Methylation was higher in an analysis of DNA from 111 patients with myeloma than from 25 patients with MGUS. Methylation seems to be associated with poorer outcome. Analysis of proteins using gel electrophoresis followed by nanoflow liquid chromatography revealed some potentially important methylation targets that might be useful in predicting response, including apoptosis-inducing factor 1, several cell adhesion molecules, serine/threonine protein kinase, adenosine deaminase, estradiol 17-beta dehydrogenase, and NF-κB inhibitory interacting ras-like protein 2.


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- Non Taxable Sales
- Additional Information
Yours may be among the many businesses taking advantage of changing technology to market products over the Internet. Despite all of the publicity surrounding Internet commerce, one essential fact is often overlooked—there is no general tax exemption for sales made over the Internet. This publication is intended to help you determine if you must pay California's sales and use taxes on your Internet sales.
Businesses physically located in California
If your business is located in California, your Internet sales of physical products are generally taxable unless they qualify for a specific tax exemption or exclusion (see Non Taxable Sales). Internet sales are treated just like sales you make at retail stores or other outlets, through sales representatives, over the telephone, or by mail order. You can register on our website at www.boe.ca.gov by selecting New Registration, and then select Register a business activity with BOE. You can also register in person at any of our field offices. Please contact our Customer Service Center for assistance at 1-800-400-7115 (TTY:711).
Businesses located outside of California
If your business is located outside of California, your sales of physical products delivered to California locations are generally subject to the state's use tax. While your customers are responsible for the use tax, you must collect it from them and pay it to us if you:
- Have a permanent or temporary business location in California, including a warehouse, sales room, or office; or you
- Have any kind of representative or agent in the state, even temporarily, who makes sales, takes orders, installs or assembles merchandise, or makes deliveries for you.
If either of the conditions above applies to your operations, you are required to register with the BOE and obtain a Certificate of RegistrationUse Tax Account. You can register on our website at www.boe.ca.gov by selecting New Registration, and then select Register a business activity with BOE. You can also register in person at any of our field offices. Please contact our Customer Service Center for assistance at 1-800-400-7115 (TTY:711). If you do not register and collect the use tax, your customers must pay the tax directly to us (see Voluntary collection . . ., below).
Special case—leases: Even if the criteria above do not apply to your business, generally, you must register, collect, and pay use tax on payments you receive from the lease of merchandise including vehicles, vessels and aircraft, located in California. This is true whether you negotiate the lease over the Internet or by any other means.
The use tax rate is the same as the sales tax rate for any given California location; please see California City and County Sales and Use Tax Rates. Transactions that are exempt from sales tax are usually exempt from use tax.
Voluntary collection of use tax
As noted above, your customers must pay the use tax to us if you do not collect it from them. You may wish to voluntarily register and collect the use tax as a customer service even if you are not required to do so.
Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Surcharge
If you are an out-of-state business that sells or ships prepaid wireless phone cards and services to California customers, you must register with the BOE as a prepaid MTS seller, collect the surcharge from customers, and pay the amounts collected to the BOE.
Beginning January 1, 2016, sellers of prepaid wireless phone cards and services are required to collect a prepaid mobile telephony services (MTS) surcharge from customers and pay it to the BOE for all retail transactions occurring in this state. The surcharge is imposed as a percentage of the sales price of prepaid wireless cards/services sold in retail transactions occurring in this state. If you are an out-of-state retailer, your sales of prepaid wireless services and products to consumers are considered to occur in California when one of the following applies:
- The item is shipped to, or picked up by, a customer at a California location.
- Your records show that the customers address is in California.
- Your customer provided you with an address in California during the sales transaction.
- The mobile phone number is associated with a California location.
If your sales of prepaid wireless products and services occur in California (as stated above), you must register with the BOE as a prepaid MTS seller. The prepaid MTS account is a separate account from a sellers permit for the sales of tangible personal property.
For more information about this program, please read our guide Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services (MTS) Surcharge.
Note: This publication summarizes the law and applicable regulations in effect when the publication was written, as noted above. However, changes in the law or in regulations may have occurred since that time. If there is a conflict between the text in this publication and the law, decisions will be based on the law and not on this publication.
Some Internet sales are not taxable
Common exempt transactions
Some of your Internet sales—including sales for resale, sales of cold food products, and sales delivered outside of California—may not be subject to California sales or use tax. Common exemptions are described in publication 73, Your California Seller's Permit. More detailed information is found in publication 61, Sales and Use Taxes: Exemptions and Exclusions.
Products electronically transmitted to customers
Your sale of electronic data products such as software, data, digital books (eBooks), mobile applications, and digital images is generally not taxable when you transmit the data to your customer over the Internet or by modem. However, if as part of the sale you provide your customer with a printed copy of the electronically transferred information or a backup data copy on a physical storage medium such as a CD-ROM, your entire sale is usually taxable.
An eBook is an electronic version of a traditional print book that can be read by using a tablet computer or by using an eBook reader. Users can purchase an eBook on diskette or CD, but the most popular method of getting an eBook is to purchase a downloadable file of the eBook without purchasing any physical storage medium. A mobile application, also known as a "mobile app", is computer software designed for use on a smartphone or tablet computer. The transfer of a downloadable file such as an eBook or an "app" without purchasing any physical storage medium is not a taxable transaction.
If your company sells canned (noncustom) software programs to customers who download them from a server, those sales are generally not subject to tax. However, if you also provide your customers with a backup copy on a CD-ROM, the entire transaction is taxable. Similarly, if you transmit a stock (noncustom) database to your customer over the Internet and also provide a printed copy of the contents, the entire sale is subject to tax. For more information regarding the sale of computer programs and data processing services, you may wish to obtain a copy of Regulation 1502, Computers, Programs, and Data Processing.
For more information
Additional regulations and publications that relate to this topic:
1528 Photographers, Photocopiers, Photo Finishers, and X-Ray Laboratories
1620 Interstate and Foreign Commerce
1660 Leases of Tangible Personal Property-In General
1661 Leases of Mobile Transportation Equipment
1684 Collection of Use Tax by Retailers
1685 Payment of Use Tax by Purchasers
1699 Permits
1827 Collection of Use Tax by Retailers (for special district taxes)
68 Photographers, Photo Finishers, and Film Processing Laboratories
100 Shipping and Delivery Charges
101 Sales Delivered Outside California
103 Sales for Resale
107 Do You Need a California Seller's Permit?
177 Internet Auction Sales and Purchases


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Immigration 'reforms' must wait
December 7, 2013
"Comprehensive immigration reform" appears to be dead for this year, and it probably will remain dead until after the mid-term elections next fall....
You had us until we got to the point where illegals get to stay. Illegals are here due to incentives like a job, birth right citizenship or entitlements through the baby.
Why arent you suggesting removing those incentives by mandating e verify for all work including independent contractor work? Using a govt issued photo id; which proves you are who you are and that ssn belongs to you; we can weed out 7 to 8 millions jobs being dont by illegals currently and open them up to US citizens who badly need a job and or more pay.
Second birthright citizen. We have alot more people in this country they we would have due to this. Parents also use their babies born here to advocate for their right to stay too. Thats why we have terrorists and others as US citizens. If you dont have one parent here legally and permanently; there is no reason a baby born here should get automatic US citizenship.
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Excellent analysis. I suppose we will adopt a "don't ask, don't tell" attitude towards the illegals. Like ticketing speeders on the highway, you only need to cite a few speeders in order for every speeder to get the message. We do need to end birth tourism, elevate illegal presence to a felony, and we do need to end chain migration. The glory days of the US as an emigrant destination are long over. We are no longer the empty continent, neither are we a rich country. We are all just sick and tired of getting hammered by foreigners.
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solutions, we're only 'stuck with them' IF we keep on allowing our government to aid and abet them. Enforcement does work IF it is allowed. I like in Arizona and before SB1070 was ever even signed into law there were illegals packing their bags and heading out of our state. When it was signed, even more left. Unfortunately, our government is working overtime to stop any state attempts to do the job that the feds shoud be doing... so SB1070 was picked apart. The very fact that illegals were leaving before it became law should tell everyone that enforcement works. Combine that with ending the lures of jobs, birthright citizenship and all of the government assistance that it gets them and they will stay home. If they can't get jobs they can't pay for rent, food, etc. and if they can't get assistance by popping out an anchor baby they've got no way to stay. Knowing that they WILL be deported if caught, nobody will hire them and they can have no anchor babies would keep most home.
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What the United States needs to do is put a "Zero" immigration policy in place until this mess can be sorted out. Then they need to actively hunt down anyone who is not here legally and deport them. Along with that, the "Anchor Baby" needs to be done away with. As usual, the Mexican's especially, have been abusing it. Next, it should be made a criminal offence with mandatory jail time for anyone hiring illegal aliens. It's not that difficult to find out whether or not they are here illegally. We should also adopt Mexico's immigration law pertaining to Demographics. In Mexico, it is illegal for anyone to move into an area in sufficient numbers to change the demographics of that area. We need to change everything about immigration in this country.
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And one more thing, we need to limit how many people we allow into the US from trouble spots, like the Middle East, Columbia, Russia. We have scores of people in the US right now that wish us harm that shouldn't be here, and wouldn't have been here, had we paid attention to the Bible. You just don't let the ememy into your camp, and that's exactly what we've done for the last 60 years.
Since WWII, we have failed miserably at keeping the enemy out of America, and we can thank the worthless liberals for that.
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Solutions; you have to try and enforcement has not been tried. Second we need to take away the incentives so they dont have a reason to be here. Canada doesnt allow birthright citizenship unless one parent is Canadian,
If they arent reporting their income; how do they get unemployment benefits? Not even sure they can get them if they are here illegally. As for dealing drugs or worse; they can go to jail for that though thats costly for America.
Alot of people left AZ after 1070. They did the same in SC? so we need to at least try it for a while and also actually deport illegals instead of giving them a pass like Obama is helping OHS to do.
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We have read alot of stories about how bad it is in Central and South America. The USA doesnt have civil wars and alot of drug traffic violence but we do have alot of people living in poverty, on food stamps; etc. We also have a 17 trillion dollar national debt and going up.
We cant afford to take care of the worlds poor when we arent doing a very good job taking care of our own poor. It also doesnt make sense we allow businesses to exploit illegals when those jobs could be done by our own; our own who pay income and other taxes and dont live 12 people to a 2 room apt.
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These illegals are here by breaking our laws. America doesn't need MORE lawbreakers. Ship them back ASAP! Come in the legal way or stay out! It's the LAW! (Except when Obama is in office).
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Tiffin reports
Two bad checks were reported Wednesday afternoon in the 200 block of Sixth Avenue.
A 200-block North Sandusky Street caller reported Wednesday afternoon shingles were stolen from a house.
A bicycle was reported stolen Wednesday evening in the first block of Coe Street.
A 100-block Main Street woman reported Wednesday evening she found her house broken into a few nights ago.
A 100-block South Sandusky Street man reported Wednesday evening he found the locks cut off on his garage door.
A first-block Noble Street man reported Wednesday night another man assaulted him. He had also reported the same man assaulted him earlier in the day.
County reports
A man reported Wednesday evening his father's residence in the 15000 block of East CR 34 was broken into and equipment was taken.
A man went to the station Thursday afternoon to report his son had been stealing from him for two years.
Fostoria reports
A 600-block Northview Drive woman reported Wednesday night her back door had been broken.
A juvenile was arrested early Thursday morning after a shoplifter was reported at Kroger, 126 W. High St.
A man reported early Thursday morning he was assaulted by a group of people in the area of McDougal and North Town streets. The man was dropped off at his sister's house and charges are pending.
A 200-block West Crocker Street woman reported early Thursday morning a man was on her porch looking into a window and jiggling a door handle. Police were unable to locate the man.
A 300-block West Fremont Street woman reported early Thursday morning her garage was broken into and cars were entered. Various items were taken.
A 200-block North Union Street woman reported Thursday morning her garage was broken into overnight. Nothing was taken.
An 800-block Cory Street woman reported Thursday morning someone had been going through her unlocked car and put a hole in one of its tires.
A 500-block Monroe Street man reported Thursday morning someone went through his car overnight and items were missing. Cars in the 1000 block of Kennedy Lane and the 800 block of Lincoln Avenue also were reported entered.
A bicycle was reported stolen Thursday afternoon in the 700 block of Spruce Street.
A caller from Rite Aid, 113 N. Countyline St., reported Thursday afternoon a juvenile stole from the store more than a week ago.
State Patrol
Larry K. Shrode, 55, of Tiffin, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and operating a vehicle while intoxicated Thursday.
Tiffin fire
Firefighters were called to 180 Summit St. Wednesday afternoon for an unintentional alarm system activation.
Firefighters were called to 545 W. Market St. Wednesday afternoon for an unintentional smoke detector activation.
Firefighters were called to 45 St. Lawrence Drive Wednesday evening for a smoke detector activation due to a malfunction.
Firefighters were called to 25 Shaffer Park Drive Wednesday evening for a brush fire.
County fire
Bascom firefighters were called to West SR 18 Wednesday night for an accident.
NBS firefighters were called to West TR 96 Thursday afternoon for a lift assist.