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By Reid Rosefelt had breakfast recently with Jaie LaPlante, the Executive Director of the Miami International Film Festival. Jaie has healthy 13,000 fans on his Facebook page, but like most people, he's hungry for more.
I explained that he shouldn't worry much too much about the number of fans--the thing that matters is how active his page is--he should be concerned with the number of likes, comments and shares. What was he doing to stir up traffic? Jaie said he had a guy named Igor Shteyrenberg who was merrily posting all day long. "He shouldn't posting so often," I said, repeating a truisms I'd rattled off so often in blogs and lectures. "All Facebook research has proven that you should never post more than two or three times a day."
Umm….wrong. Rules don't apply when you have great content.
Despite--or maybe because of--the constant postings, I later discovered that Miami had one of the liveliest festival pages I'd ever seen. Igor turned out to be the George Takei of movies, generating a potpourri of funny, interesting cinema and pop culture graphics he'd excavated from the web. The page gave the festival a lively personality-- hip, and buoyant and fun. Adjusting the numbers proportionately for number of fans, the Miami page had much better metrics than the pages for all of the world's top festivals. Posting "too often" didn't matter.
I was happy for Jaie, but the wonderful Miami page made me think of something that I don't like to think about: my own page. There was a lot of room for improvement there. The advice I give centers around creating square images that are funny and interesting and shareable. Why couldn't I put it into practice myself? I worked hard on my Facebook- related graphics, but they weren't all that exciting; movies are intrinsically more fun than social media advice. There were people creating the square images and having luck with them, so I ran examples on my page, but I couldn't rely on them to be a regular source of content. I had been experimenting with offering different kinds of information on the page, but when I saw the Miami page, it kicked me in the ass--I knew I could do better.
For the first time I asked myself the questions I ask every potential client: what's your goal? What do you want the page to do for you? I decided there were three main reasons: first, I write a blog and I want to announce the new posts; second, I want to announce my lectures; and third, and most importantly, I want the page to be a place to post examples of people putting my advice into action. So I thought, "why don't I make my own cinema-themed content to show people what I'm advising them to do?" It would vividly illustrate my approach and at the same time give people a sense of what I'm like.
I did my first graphic on December 1st, a picture of Jean-Luc Godard:
People liked it, and so I made more: Christopher Walken, Marilyn Monroe, Abbas Kiarostami, Louise Brooks, Quentin Tarantino, Groucho Marx, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Steven Spielberg, Michel Gondry, Woody Allen, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Pedro Almodovar, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, and Tim Burton.
The activity on my page has gone up ten times.
There's an important lesson here and it's not limited to social media. Don't give up. Keep trying until you find a solution that's right for you.
Reid Rosefelt coaches filmmakers in how to market their films using Facebook, and lectures frequently on the topic. His credits as a film publicist include "Stranger Than Paradise," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," and "Precious."
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Connecticut cleans up Seton Hall
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The blizzard that dumped almost three feet of snow in Connecticut forced the men's basketball team to ride the bus to New Jersey for five to six hours on Saturday for a game against Seton Hall, so it's not surprising the Huskies appeared a little out of sorts.
Connecticut needed a little time to find its game and once Shabazz Napier took over, the Huskies were more than enough for struggling Seton Hall.
Napier had 22 points, nine assists and six steals and led a second-half comeback that carried Connecticut to a 78-67 victory over Seton Hall on Sunday.
"We feed off him and feed off his energy," said Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie, who had to be picked up in Hartford by the team bus because he could not get to the campus in Storrs. "That's what the great ones do. When you need him, he's there. He's been consistent all year. He's doing a great job leading this team, and without him I don't know where we'd be."
Ryan Boatright added 20 points and Omar Calhoun had 10 points as the Huskies (16-6, 6-4 Big East) rallied from a seven-point deficit and handed Seton Hall (13-11, 2-9) its fifth straight loss and ninth in 10 games.
Aaron Cosby had a career-high 25 points to lead Seton Hall, while Fuquan Edwin, playing with a sprained ankle, added 19 points.
Napier scored 18 of his 22 points in the second half and finished 8 of 12 from the field while playing 39 minutes. He hit a free throw, a fast-break layup and a 3-pointer in a 9-0 run that gave Connecticut the lead for good.
"The first half, I wanted to be more of a distributor and I didn't want to mess up the chemistry," Napier said. "In the second half, I had to be more aggressive and stay in control of things. Fortunately, I got good shots and I made the shots."
The Huskies, who shot 54.2 percent from the field, didn't get to New Jersey until around midnight, but Napier said the trip wasn't bad.
"Things happen for a reason," the junior said. "It took us a little while to get to New Jersey and to the hotel. But we had so much fun on the bus. Even though we were stuck a few times, we took the time, and since we were having fun we didn't realize how long we were on the bus. We just had fun."
The Huskies got sloppy in the final eight minutes of the first half and blew a 13-point lead.
Seton Hall led by one at the half and pushed the margin to 43-36 early in the second half as Cosby and Edwin hit 3-pointers to ignite an 8-0 spurt.
Reserve R.J. Evans came off the bench and scored four points and Tyler Olander scored off an assist from Napier to cut the deficit to 43-42.
After Seton Hall pushed the lead back to 46-42, Napier, who didn't make his first basket until late in the first half, took over. He scored six in the nine-point run with Niels Giffey adding a three-point play.
Seton Hall stayed within striking distance the rest of the way, but Boatright put the game out of reach with a long 3-pointer and a dunk off a fast-break setup by Napier, who had a steal with about four minutes to play.
"After they took the lead in the second half, we came out with more energy and intensity," Boatright said. "That's what we have to do. We turned the ball over and over and over in the first half and they turned them into points. We then had to spring right back and play with some effort."
Playing with Brandon Mobley and Brian Oliver sidelined, Seton Hall didn't seem to have the talent to stay with the Huskies early. Connecticut used an early 11-0 run that featured a four-point play by Boatwright in taking a 13-5 lead, and it upped the margin to 25-12 with a 7-0 run that included four points by DeAndre Daniels.
Seton Hall suddenly picked up its defense and got 10 straight points from Edwin in a 16-0 run that gave the Pirates a 28-25 lead.
Connecticut got within a point three times in the half but didn't regain the lead until Napier scored in the lane on the first possession of the second half.
"We don't feel sorry for ourselves," Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard said. "We're disappointed we lost, but it's a matter of us figuring out how to win more or less than losing. Every time we do good things, like in Pittsburgh we played good defense and struggled on offense. Tonight we had two turnovers and missed free throws. We are playing hard but not capitalizing on opportunities that we are giving ourselves."
Edwin and Cosby scored 44 of the Pirates' points, while Kevin Johnson added nine off the bench.
"We continue to kick ourselves, said Edwin, who was 7 of 19 from the field. "We make too many turnovers (16) and we weren't getting any stops. That's the ball game right there. We didn't get a chance to get up and down at all. We have to try to play through this and be a little wiser with the ball. We have to be more aware of what's going on."

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This post is for cat lovers or anyone who has a cat but hates it.
I got myself a 4 month old tuxedo cat last october. Tuxedos are a coat type, not a breed. As for breed, they are domestic shorthairs or longhairs, both of which are catspeak for mutts. My kitty is very vocal, so I named her Squeaky. Here's a picture of her curled up in my bathroom sink:
They are called tuxedos because they have a white chest and white "gloves." Some of them have white on the face as well.
I picked her out at the animal shelter because she's black. I had heard on TV that black cats are harder to place, and you can guess why.
One benefit of getting her from an animal shelter is that, at this shelter, the kittens got a lot of gentle handling by the staff. As soon as I walked into their cat room, several of the kittens reached out from where they were sitting, beckoning me to pick them up. The most eager was Squeaky, as if to say "Take me! Take me!" She was totally unafraid of me or any humans and has remained so.
Whenever I have visitors, she doesn't hide. She may stand off waiting to see if they seem dangerous, but soon she's introducing herself. She's the most gregarious cat I've ever encountered.
The first time my sister came by with her Maggie, a Jack Russell terrier, Squeaky freaked. She did the whole arched back, ears laid back, hissing thing. Now Maggie lives with another cat named Nigel, so cats are nothing new to her, and beside my sister has her trained to behave with cats in general. So, before long Squeaky was sniffing Maggie's butt. After determining that "It's not another cat. I don't know what it is," she became very nonchalant with Maggie, except that on one occasion Maggie came by to sniff, getting a lightning-fast swat from one of Squeaky's front paws.
Maggie backed off, for which I'm thankful, for Squeaky would be pretty quick work for a hostile Jack Russell. To Maggie, she'd be hardly more of a handful than a squirrel. All terriers are built for the hunt, and generally very aggressive with anything they regard as a prey item. Maggie's jaw is a good five times larger than Squeaky's and she has a thick, muscular neck. Jack Russells kill by shaking. Despite being only twice as big as my cat, she could shake her like a rag doll if it came to it because of that muscular neck. Squeaky wouldn't even get a chance to fight back.
Squeaky is NOT declawed and never will be. Yes, I do get scratched every now and then pretty badly in the beginning) but Squeaky is maturing (she's 9 months old now) and plays a bit less rough than she did at the start.
Cat anatomy is amazing. They are almost unbelievably flexible. If I scoop her up by putting my hand under her tummy, she'll droop like a big piece of spaghetti. She can stretch out to almost 3 ft long, but she can curl up into a circle barely 9" in diameter. Cats are extremely quick because of that flexible spine. By contrast, most dogs have a rather inflexible spine, with the exception of the particularly quick dogs generally referred to by dog people as "the sight hounds." These are breeds like the Greyhounds, Salukis, Afghans, and Whippets.
People talk about "reflexes like a cat," and boy they are not kidding. I mentioned Squeaky's lightning-like swats with her front paws. I have a little cat shelter that's built like a tent. If you touch the fabric, she'll strike that spot so quickly it's unbelievable. It's like a gunshot. I also play with her using some toys that are like feather or fur lures at the end of a cord tied to the end of a wand. Now, cats are pounce predators and she can pounce on the feather or fur item so quickly it takes your breath away.
Speaking of predation, every morning I put birdseed out on my apartment balcony. Soon pigeons and sparrows come in. They will return throughout the day to see if they missed anything. If there's a bird out on the balcony, Squeaky's attention is totally fixed on it.
I can also fix her attention on other things. She's obsessed with the drawer of my Blu Ray. No matter where she is, if she hears that drawer come out, she's there like a shot. When the drawer starts going in, she's on top of it trying to snag it before it goes all the way in, Frequently she catches it and the drawer comes back out. I often use this fascination of hers if she's bothering me, like hanging around me while I'm eating dinner. I'll just start up the Blu Ray player and, boom, she's gone.
Another fixation of hers is my computer printer. There are actually Youtube videos showing cats obsessed with printers. She's obviously convinced it's the spawn of Satan.
While cats on the whole are perceived as more standoffish than dogs, in fact they seem to like bodily contact in a sensuous way you won't find in dogs. Squeaky will choose the time and place, but she often likes to curl up on my lap or next to my thigh while I'm sitting on the couch. She'll jump up on my bed at night and press her boday against my stomach or back or even my calves.
When my daughter had a cat, I explained to her that cats are heat-seeking animals (due to being desert dwellers originally). This probably explains their desire for physical contact, but still it feels kind of nice for a reserved, cautious, half-wild critter like a cat to want to snuggle.
Then there's something every other cat owner will recognize: Crazy Cat Time. Once or twice a day Squeaky goes absolutely bonkers, jetting around the apartment, careening off her cat tree, chasing what I can only assume are imaginary mice. This goes on for about 10-20 minutes, then suddenly I have my serene little kitty cat back.
Anyway, that's the first installment about my own cat. Show us and tell us about yours.
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I hear it tastes a lot like civet.
Speaking of laughing, I always tell people that having a cat is the next best thing to having a monkey. She can play with the most unexpected things, like a rubber band I accidentally drop on the floor. She'll get more entertainment out of that than a toy I spent $25 dollars on. She follows me around to see what I'm up to and will insist on getting involved. Like most cats, she likes a bag or a box to play with.
Hint: This is a homemade toy she gets lots of entertainment from: take an empty 12 or 16 oz plastic Coke or Pepsi (or whatever) bottle, stick it in a cotton or wool sock and tie the end off. Squeaky attacks that just like she's captured a big rat.
I was doing taxes and was sitting on the floor in front of my couch. I was going through papers and putting them in appropriate piles. There were 7 or 8 piles in front of me, well Sqeaky took a mad dash from the side and skidded across them like a kid on one of those soft plastic waterslides you can put out on your lawn, and yes I had to do it all over again.
People talk about the cat's sharp smell and hearing, but have you noticed how cats like to touch things with their paw? They use their sense of touch as well. Of course one reason Squeaky likes to touch things is to see if she can knock them to the floor so she can play with them down there. However, she's already broken two small glasses that way.
Cats have more of a capacity to play on their own than dogs do. Typically, your dog is waiting for you to do something. And it's amazing the things cats can get into. With their relatively narrow and flexible bodies, there aren't many places they could fit into that they can't get into.
And they're so stealthy. Twice now I've put on my jacket and gone out only to find when I got home Squeaky wasn't there to greet me. I looked all around and gave up trying to find her in all the usual places. I opened up the front closet door to put my jacket away and out walks Squeaky, cool as a cucumber. She didn't even meow after I got home, which is strange because if I put her in my bedroom to keep her away from something I'm doing she'll meow constantly.
"Speaking of laughing, I always tell people that having a cat is the next best thing to having a monkey."
Difference is that when your cat reaches puberty it wont try to rape you.
"but have you noticed how cats like to touch things with their paw?"
My cat loves it if I get little bits of sticky tape and leave them on the bench, sticky side up- he then goes along, puts his paw on the bits so they stick to him, then he shakes them off. Thats the game - he loves it.
He also loves me to line things up on a bench - say pegs for example - then he walks along and flicks them all off. Then he waits for me to line them up again
very autistc.
My kitty is still very young, just a year old, and she may have been feral at one point, before I got her. Most of the time she will only let me pet her. Others she bites and scratches. She also gets into little moods where she decides to hunt me. I have to put her down on the ground while I am on the bed and put her back down if she jumps up. She will soon get distracted by some other thing. She hates being held.
She is a bed cat, but not a lap cat. I give her a special spot on the bed to curl up on, with a blanket just for her, and when I wake up in the morning, she climbs on my chest and rubs her face against mine and licks my face/hands. She never bothers me while I am sleeping, but whenever I am awake she instantly knows it.
@futilewinds May I suggest watching My Cat from Hell? Jackson Galaxy often has to deal with neurotic cats who attack strangers and even their owners. They are insecure and often respond to certain therapies. In some cases, they may benefit from a medical solution. Maybe this episode will help:
I'm watched a lot of that show.
Is that you?
I had two cats as a child. Tealeese was a striped, orange mutt and Lucky was an all black mutt who I rescued from underneath a van as a kitten. Tealeese got leukemia and we had to get rid of Lucky because of my allergies (I'm told she actually did go to a farm to live out her days tormenting mice). I thought I would never be the same with my cats but then I got a cuddly, sweet dog. Now I'm a dog person.
Hey, I had a lot of allergies as a kid, and most of the stuff I was allergic to then doesn't seem to bother me anymore. Cats and dogs can get along. I think you have to start with the dog and let them know the cat is now part of the family. Even so, cats who are used to being around dogs try to play with them as if the dog was another cat. My sister has a Jack Russell terrier bitch and a male cow cat (a cat with the Holstein-like black and white markings). That cat will sometimes charge her terrier. My sister was over last night and brought her dog with her. Squeaky is now very familiar with the dog and seems to like stalking it. She made a run at the dog twice, charging her and stopping just short of contact. The dog just looked bored. Used to that cat behavior, I suppose.
We have four cats at the moment.
11 yr old grey short hair (probably Main Coon/Tabby mix)
6 yr old all black short hair
5 yr old orange and white long hair
2 yr old short hair tortoise shell
They all have personalities all their own. I love 'em! We have an old Cocker-Spaniel too. But I'm far more of a cat person than a dog person.
Hey, anyone who hasn't joined the cats group yet, go ahead before someone asks "Hey, what do cats have to do with atheism anyway?"


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A preliminary investigation into the Fort Walton Beach High School band has concluded that a few policies might need to be touched up but no serious violations have occurred.
FORT WALTON BEACH � A preliminary investigation into the Fort Walton Beach High School band has concluded that a few policies might need to be touched up but no serious violations have occurred.
The Okaloosa County School District launched an investigation into the program and band director Randy Folsom after parents came forward and said Folsom had discriminated against their child by not allowing the teenager into the symphonic band, according to the investigative summary report.
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The parents and student alleged that Folsom not only lacked clear requirements for students to get into the symphonic band, but that he had deliberately kept the student and two others from joining the elite band, the report states.
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�All three of us deserve to be in symphonic band and he could easily make room for us,� the student states in the preliminary report. �He simply doesn�t want us in there and he has made that public knowledge.
�That is hurtful and wrong in addition to being unethical and unprofessional.�
When district investigator Arden Farley started looking into the allegation, several additional issues came to light.
People alleged to Farley that students were verbally abused, that the close relationship between Folsom and the school�s principal made it impossible to take complaints to her and that Folsom hired someone to work with the band without filing all the appropriate paperwork with the district.
They also cited a lack of transparency with the budget and violations of the Interstate Compact for Military Children.
By the end of the 20-page report, Farley concluded that although some of the allegations had merit, �insufficient evidence� existed that Folsom had discriminated against the student.
In an interview, Folsom denied discriminating against the student and states the student simply did not meet the requirements necessary to join the program at Fort Walton Beach High School.
Folsom did acknowledge that he had �slammed� his clipboard during a rehearsal and had told students in the past to �take your diaper off.�
Neither Folsom nor principal Charlene Couvillon could be reached for comment Monday.
Ultimately, Farley recommended closing the discrimination charge, but also recommended briefing all band personnel about the Code of Ethics and Principles of Professional Conduct for Educators. Farley also recommended putting better interventions in place to handle issues between band parents and school personnel, a detailed budget sheet and an immediate audit of the budget.
To resolve the original issue, the parents and district personnel including the principal, Farley and Mike Foxworthy, the chief human resources officer for the district, met to �decide an appropriate alternative musical setting for student in question,� the report states.
That group met this month and Foxworthy ultimately decided that the student qualified to be a part of the symphonic band and that she would join it.
In the letter, Foxworthy said that while he worries about the relationship between Folsom and the student�s parents, he opted to still go forward with his recommendation.
�I have every confidence after meeting with the parties, that both Mr. Folsom and (the student) have enough personal integrity to conduct themselves professionally in a difficult situation for the rest of the year,� Foxworthy concluded.
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Seventy-plus years ago, in the winter of 1943, LIFE's William Vandivert made this photograph from the deck of an Allied ship. The photo led off an article titled, simply, "The Oceans" — a multi-page paean to the waters that "rule the Earth and hold most of its life." Unsurprisingly, the war raging in Europe, the Pacific and North Africa was a central element of the story — as it was an element, to varying degrees, in virtually every issue that LIFE magazine published in the first half of the 1940s.
"Far out in the North Atlantic," read the caption beneath Vandivert's picture in the a May 1943 issue of LIFE, "gray waves that will batter and freeze a man to death in 30 minutes are whipped high by a sudden midwinter squall." At the time, World War II's Battle of the Atlantic was at its peak; for many of LIFE's readers, even a photograph as seemingly peaceful as Vandivert's — an empty seascape; the winter sun's rays breaking through clouds — could spark decidedly macabre thoughts of the threat lurking beneath the whitecaps: namely, "wolf packs" of German U-boats that hunted Allied ships and sailors in those dark, frigid waters.
From late 1939 until mid-1945, in every season, the German Navy's submarines attacked Allied military and merchant ships in the Atlantic, killing tens of thousands of sailors and civilians (while losing tens of thousands of their own sailors to the destroyers that escorted convoys between North America, England and Europe). It's unlikely that any man, woman or school-age child in America or Great Britain — or in Germany, for that matter — would look upon Vandivert's stunning picture when it first appeared in 1943 and see anything but a vast, eerily unpopulated theater of war.
Today, Vandivert's photograph retains an almost primal power — not because a contemporary viewer would immediately equate the raw, black-and-white image with stealth warfare and violent death, but because of the manifestly primordial nature of the scene itself. Nothing of humanity or modernity mars the picture's purity: we see the ocean and the sky, and that's all. With a little imagination, we can convince ourselves that this might well be what the world looked like long before some unknowable, gasping creature pulled itself from the ancient seas on to the land and began the long, stumbling, evolutionary crawl toward homo sapiens.
For countless others, meanwhile, the picture will inevitably bring to mind mysterious and redolent lines from the book of Genesis: "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
In the end, neither Scripture nor Darwin really comes close to explaining why Vandivert's photo exerts such a hold. Seven decades is a long time for any photograph to endure. But all these years later, Vandivert's picture of the North Atlantic's iron-gray waves under a bleak, wintry sun commands our gaze — and perhaps chills our blood — not merely because it's beautiful, but because the beauty it captures is so pitiless, and so forbidding.
— Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com


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These small medicine boxes or 'pill boxes' as they are sometimes called, have been popular for decennia and can be found in many households. Some people decorate their window sill with them or keep a small collection, others simply store small valuables in their pretty pill box. We offer a wide range of these beautiful pottery boxes, in all sorts of shapes, differing sizes, and elegant decorations. So buy your pill box or medicine box today in our online headshop at grasscompany.com.
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Gay Mitchell recently stated that he has defended the state. The state sent a threatening letter to the late Mrs. Bridgid Mac Coll in Donegal as she lay dying of hepatitis c, contracted following a blood trans fusion. The party of which Mr. Mitchell is a prominent member was the ruling party at the time, Mr. Mitchell was a member of that government.
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WASHINGTON (AP) � Regulators on Friday closed two small banks in Florida and one in Missouri, bringing to 46 the number of U.S. bank failures this year.
WASHINGTON (AP) � Regulators on Friday closed two small banks in Florida, including one based in Destin, and one in Missouri, bringing to 46 the number of U.S. bank failures this year.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized GulfSouth Private Bank and First East Side Savings Bank, both in Florida. Regulators also shuttered Excel Bank in Missouri.
Even so, the three bank failures are expected to cost the deposit insurance fund $86.1 million.
U.S. bank closures are running at a much slower pace than in 2011. By this time last year, 80 banks had failed.
GulfSouth, based in Destin, had about $159.1 million in assets and $151.1 million in deposits as of June 30.
SmartBank, based in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., agreed to assume GulfSouth's deposits and purchase its assets.
Regulators arranged for Stearns Bank NA in St. Cloud, Minn., to buy First East Side's $67.2 million in assets. Stearns also assumed the Tamarac-based lender's $65.9 million in deposits.
Excel Bank, based in Sedalia, had $200.6 million in assets and $187.4 million in deposits.
Simmons First National Bank, based in Pine Bluff, Ark., purchased Excel's assets and agreed to take on its deposits.
The FDIC entered into a loss-share transaction with Simmons on $126.6 million of Excel's assets.
Bank closures peaked in 2010 in the wake of the financial crisis. In 2007, just three banks went under. That number jumped to 25 in 2008, after the meltdown, and ballooned to 140 in 2009.
In 2010, regulators seized 157 banks, the most in any year since the savings and loan crisis two decades ago. The FDIC has said 2010 likely was the high-water mark for bank failures from the Great Recession. They declined to a total of 92 in 2011.
From 2008 through 2011, bank failures cost the deposit insurance fund an estimated $88 billion. The fund fell into the red in 2009. But with failures slowing, the fund's balance turned positive in the second quarter of last year. By June 30, it stood at $22.7 billion, up from $15.3 billion at the end of March.
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Aboriginal Canadians face racism, stereotyping in urban health care: report
The cover image from the report 'Empathy, dignity, and respect: Creating cultural safety for Aboriginal people in urban health care' released by the Health Council of Canada on Dec. 11, 2012. (Health Council of Canada)
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TORONTO -- A new report suggests aboriginal Canadians frequently face racism and stereotyping when using health care services in urban centres, a situation which can breed a degree of mistrust deep enough for some to avoid seeking professional help when sick.
The 74-page document, titled "Empathy, dignity, and respect: Creating cultural safety for Aboriginal people in urban health care," was released by the Health Council of Canada on Tuesday.
The independent national agency is now calling for "culturally competent" care and environments in which aboriginal patients can be treated with understanding and respect.
"When aboriginal patients present themselves -- whether it's in an emergency room or in any health centre -- they're not necessarily seen for who they are and consequently they're not respected, they're not engaged as fellow human beings and as a result the care they get suffers," John G. Abbott, CEO of the Health Council of Canada told The Canadian Press.
"I think this is one area which has been under reported, understated in the Canadian health care system."
According to the report, while factors like poverty and the impact of colonization are known to have an impact on aboriginal health, a "Western approach to health care" often reinforces stereotypes which alienate and intimidate some patients.
As some aboriginal patients avoid seeking care or drop out of treatment programs, the report says ailments are diagnosed later, when they are harder to treat, and the benefits of preventative care measures, like immunizations and screening tests, may be missed.
"If they're not feeling safe or respected, they're not going to communicate as effectively as they should, and they're not going to follow up on their treatment plan and they're not going to come back," said Abbott.
The report was based on meetings with health care providers across the country, many of whom were aboriginal.
In one example shared with researchers, the report said some aboriginal patients were refused painkillers even when in severe pain because of a belief they were at a higher risk of becoming addicted or were already abusing prescription drugs.
In another, the report said an aboriginal man who was beaten and bloodied was brought to an emergency room where he was not allowed to lie on a bed. When a doctor asked why, the report said a nurse explained that the man was dirty and would return to the street to engage in the same risky behaviour that had landed him in hospital. In fact, the report said, the patient was employed, owned a home, and had been attacked on his way home from work.
"Part of it is ignorance...some of it racism...part of it is just general stereotyping," said Abbott in detailing the possible reasons for the way many aboriginal patients say they are treated.
"There is inefficient attention paid to training people on the front lines in particular to really be receptive to a different culture and a different way of life, particularly when they're dealing with healthcare."
The situation is all the more concerning because aboriginal people often have poorer health and shorter life expectancies than other Canadians, he said.
The report -- which points out that aboriginal patients often felt most safe when they had some sort of interaction with aboriginal staff -- suggests having aboriginal patient navigators and cultural interpreters in place to support patients and healthcare providers, measures which have been a success in some Canadian facilities.
It also suggests an increased emphasis on aboriginal history and cultural sensitivity during post-secondary and on-the-job training of those in the health sector.
"This is a fairly complicated issue, but there are solutions. But they need to happen at the front line and they need to be supported continuously. It's not so much an issue of money as it is an issue of leadership," Abbott said.
"Many Canadians come up through the mainstream western European model of health care and then when an aboriginal person comes in ... they're just not exposed to their way of life, their thinking, their approach to health care."
The report does point out that cultural competency and cultural safety are becoming a priority for many governments and health care providers, and said many people interviewed while research was being conducted expressed a sense of "hope and anticipation."
The report will be presented to health officials at provincial and federal levels, and will be shared with health-care providers as well.
"Individual initiatives are certainly good in themselves but I think each provincial government as well as the federal government...they really need to put in the policies and programs that make sure this issue is addressed," Abbott said.
"(We must) get to a zero tolerance on this particular aspect of health care."
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Dodgers pushing past parade of injuries
ST. LOUIS -- Although they are two wins away from reaching the World Series, the overriding storyline of the Dodgers for much of 2013 has been, and continues to be, how endless injuries could keep them from getting there.
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"We obviously talk about it a little bit because we want to know if Hanley and Andre are playing, just like we want to know if anybody else is playing," said Clayton Kershaw, who starts Game 6 on Friday night (5:30 p.m. PT, TBS).
"But I think at the end of the day, we've got such a good group of guys that it doesn't really matter as far as mentality when we hit the field. Now, obviously, the talent of Andre and Hanley is something you can't really replace and we understand that. But at the same time, it doesn't do any good to think about what-ifs. We realize that. We understand that, and we're looking forward to hopefully having both those guys on the field."
General manager Ned Colletti hoarded players because so many of the ones he has are brittle. The Dodgers had 25 placements on the disabled list this year.
Of the eight starting pitchers with guaranteed salaries whom the Dodgers took to Spring Training, Chad Billingsley and Josh Beckett were lost for the season after combining for one victory. Ted Lilly was released after going on the disabled list three times. Chris Capuano was on the DL twice, won a huge playoff game against the Braves out of the bullpen, then was left off the NLCS roster. Zack Greinke, the Game 5 winner, missed a month with a broken collarbone suffered in a brawl.
"Everybody said we had too many starting pitchers," said Colletti. "Then we didn't have enough."
Same thing with the starting outfielders. Once Yasiel Puig arrived, many believed the Dodgers had to trade either Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier or Carl Crawford. If they had, they wouldn't be in St. Louis on Friday.
Kemp, deserving of the MVP two years ago, had a second injury-marred season end with a broken foot and shoulder surgery. Ethier is scuffling through this series with a microfracture of his lower left leg. The broken rib is the fourth serious injury of the season for Ramirez after surgery for a torn thumb ligament, a hamstring strain and an inflamed sciatic nerve.
Then there were assorted injuries requiring DL stints for Crawford, A.J. Ellis, Mark Ellis, Jerry Hairston, Scott Elbert, Scott Van Slyke, Stephen Fife, Shawn Tolleson and Jose Dominguez.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Haft-Baked Ideas, and follow him on Twitter at @sfgiantsbeat.


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VERBATIM: Pompeo says Putin has not yet 'received the message'
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Trump taps hostage negotiator to replace Bolton
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Sex, Alzheimer's and Boomers: Trouble for Nursing Homes
By Lisa McElroy , August 07, 2013 02:37 PM
Romance - for many, it's one of life's great pleasures. But for those living in a nursing home sex can get a bit more complicated. Having Alzheimer's disease or some other form of dementia calls into question whether the individuals involved have the ability to give legal consent. Nursing homes regularly struggle to make that call, and this problem will only grow worse as the number of older Americans grows as the the boomer generation joins their ranks.
Related: Sex and Dementia: What Are Our Rights When We're Not Ourselves Any More?
Take, for example, the case of Windmill Manor in Coraville, Iowa, the focus of a recent Bloomberg story. Staff at the nursing home discovered two residents, both with dementia, having what appeared to be consensual sex. Because neither the man nor the woman seemed hurt or upset about the encounters - in fact, both protested when they were asked to stop - administrators decided there was no need to report the incidents to authorities.
The state disagreed, fined the home and threatened to revoke its privileges to collect Medicare and Medicaid payments. The family of the woman sued the home's parent company, and eventually settled out of court.
Federal law says that nursing home residents have a right to privacy - but also a right to safety. People with dementia may be able to consent to sexual activity, some psychiatrists say. But other experts disagree, saying that because it's too difficult to tell whether a person with dementia is able to consent, sex between dementia patients amounts to assault.
Should nursing homes prevent residents with dementia from having sex, even if it appears that they want to? Or should they acknowledge that sex can be a natural - and highly pleasurable - human activity for any adult? Tell us what you think below.
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(Glossogobius giuris) is a freshwater fish native to Mainit Lake. It is called "biya" in Tagalog and "white goby or tank goby" in English. The term "pidjanga" is also sometimes fondly used to refer to the Mainitnons, the people of the Municipality of Mainit, a town in Southern Philippines. This blog hopes to capture potentials of Migrants Pidjangas for the Development of our Town by attempting to document development issues, folk stories, and current concerns, about the Pidjanga — both the fish and the people.
Mapaso Hot Springs 2008
A fellow Surigaonon Blogger, The Islander, (www.insulare.blogspot.com) visited Mapaso Hotsprings (in Mainit, Surigao del Norte) lately, to take a break from his routine city life.
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Bank Manager Forced to Rob Own Bank After Gunmen Strap 'Bomb' to Her Stomach
A Bank of America branch manager claims she was ordered to rob her own East LA bank after masked gunmen kidnapped her and strapped a device they said was a bomb to her stomach.
32-year-old Aurora Barrera was reportedly taken hostage by the two men Tuesday night at her Huntington Park home and brought to the bank the following morning with an alleged explosive device attached to her body.
"She was told that it was explosives and she was ordered to go into the bank and take out all the money," LA County sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker told the Associated Press. "She did do that in fear for her life."
The bomb squad later determined that the device was not a bomb, but by then the robbers were long gone with "a decent amount" of money.
The suspects remain at large; investigators say they are looking into the possibility that the women knew her captors.
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Louis Vuitton Volta Taurillon Leather Replica Bag ReviewCategories:Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton is a legendary purse designer that has manufactured some of the most unique and sophisticated handbags that the world has ever seen. Its products are symbols of style and elegance, accessories adored by countless fashionistas across the world. To have such a purse means the ultimate fashion extravagance.
Out of the numerous beautiful and successful LV handbags, one has caught my full attention. This chic and gorgeous city purse is one of its latest designs. It was created for those women who know how to appreciate luxury and blend it beautifully with the casual look of the traditional messenger bag.
The name of this amazing LV bag is Volta Taurillon and its key assets are represented by a comfortable and light body that is exquisitely manufactured from supple Taurillon leather, the removable strap iconic for messenger bags, the elegant handles and the versatile carrying options. The interior of the Volta is perfect for organizing and accommodating all your important office or travel items. One of the best additions that secure your belongings are the signature LV metal and leather clasp.
The Volta Taurillon is a spacious, but modest sized handbag that comes in the following size: 11.8 x 11.0 x 5.1 inches. It looks great both on your hand or across your body. It is the kind of purse that complements nicely either your work attire or your casual clothing.
The rectangular shape of the Louis Vuitton Volta with the oversized front flap cover is defined by using the remarkable Taurillon cowhide leather. This very high quality material is incredibly sturdy and firm, but has a nice and elegant surface that shines distinctively.
The LV Volta Taurillon Leather bag comes in 9 different color choices, like Khaki, Galet, Grenat, Rubis, Magnolia, Coquelicot, Petale and Noir. Every single one of this variations looks incredibly nice, but the one that I consider to be the lushest and sophisticated is the Cocquelicot. This bright red looks gorgeous with a stylish silky blouse and a pencil skirt or with a little black dress.
The hardware of the Louis Vuitton Volta consists of nicely crafted golden metallic pieces and every single part is carefully engraved with the LV logo. This metal and color choice complements very nicely the overall design of the purse.
On the front part of the LV Volta Taurillon we notice the signature LV clasp closing system that has the oversized golden brand's logo. This accentuates the elegance of the bag. Furthermore, the purse comes with an adjustable removable shoulder strap that makes it so much easier to comfortably carry it around even when it is full and really heavy.
Regarding its functionality, the Louis Vuitton Volta manages to impress greatly. At the inside it has two large compartments for accommodating all your important belongings, one flat pocket and one zipped central pocket. Whereas at the outside there is one outside back flat pocket.
At the inside of the bag there is a very elegant microfiber lining that is usually available in a very warm sand color. Don't get tricked by other color or fabric variations for its inside lining.
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FORT WORTH, Texas - A publisher says a former top Navy SEAL sniper and best-selling author who was fatally shot at the weekend had a second book in the works.
Sharyn Rosenblum says Chris Kyle was working on "American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms" with co-author William Doyle. Rosenblum is a spokeswoman for publisher William Morrow.
Kyle's book, "American Sniper," written with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice, was released last January. As of Tuesday morning, "American Sniper" was Amazon's No. 1 seller.
Rosenblum says no release date has been set for the new book.
Kyle left the Navy in 2009 after four tours of duty in Iraq, where he earned a reputation as one of the military's most lethal snipers.
Eddie Ray Routh has been charged in Kyle's killing Saturday.


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Obese drivers more likely to die in car accidents, study finds
Being obese may put you at greater risk for dying in a car crash, according to new research.
More than one-third of U.S. adults are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Obesity has been linked to heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer. Now, researchers say that it also may be a factor in fatal motor vehicle accidents.
"This adds one more item to the long list of negative consequences of obesity," lead author, Thomas M. Rice, an epidemiologist with the Transportation Research and Education Center of the University of California, Berkeley, told the New York Times. "It's one more reason to lose weight."
Researchers analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) for 1996 to 2008. A total of 57,491 road traffic collisions were recorded during this time period.
They looked at accidents in which two passenger vehicles were involved, where the most influential component in the death of one or both of the drivers was the impact of the crash. In selected 3,403 pairs of drivers that had similar weights, ages, seat belt use and air bag deployment were selected. About half the drivers -- 46 percent -- were at a normal weight, 33 percent were overweight and about 18 percent were obese. Two-thirds of drivers were male, and about one in three were between the ages of 16 and 24. In addition, one in three drivers did not use a seat belt properly, and the airbag deployed in only 53 percent of the cases.
After looking at the data, researchers found that people who had a World Health Organization classification of obesity level I (people with a BMI of 30.0 to 34.9) were 21 percent more likely to die than normal weight drivers. Those in obesity level II (BMI of 35 to 39.9) were 51 percent more likely to die, and those with the highest level, obesity III (BMI of 40.0 or greater), were 80 percent more likely to die from the accident than normal weight drivers.
Obese women were at a greater risk of dying from the crash, with those with obesity level I having a 36 percent higher chance of experiencing a car crash fatality. The number jumped to twice as likely for people in obesity level II and III respectively.
Underweight men were also more likely to die in a collision compared to normal weight people.
What explains the added risk?
The researchers believe the lower body of obese drivers is pushed forward further on impact before the seat belt reaches the pelvis because of the extra soft tissue, while the upper body is kept restrained. This stops the driver from moving forward, which may cause fatal injuries, according to the researchers.
While obese drivers may have greater health problems that may cause their death and should try to lose weight, the researchers also said that car design may have to change to protect these drivers.
"Vehicle designers are teaching to the test -- designing so that crash-test dummies do well," Rice said. "But crash-test dummies are typically normal size adults and children. They're not designed to account for our nation's changing body types."
Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center, said to HealthDay that it make sense that car manufactures should adjust their products since people's body shapes are changing.
"We have a serious and pernicious problem of anti-obesity bias in the United States. Efforts to address that may at times invite us to pretend that size doesn't matter, but, in fact, it does," he said.
The study was published online on Jan. 21 in the Emergency Medicine Journal.


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Davidson takes positive long-term view after trade
CHICAGO -- The goal for Matt Davidson, even before he makes his first appearance at Camelback Ranch in mid-February, is to break from Spring Training as the starting White Sox third baseman.
But there's a deeper goal possessed by the 22-year-old slugger that understandably could have him opening the season at Triple-A Charlotte and spending some 2014 time playing with the Knights.
CHICAGO -- The goal for Matt Davidson, even before he makes his first appearance at Camelback Ranch in mid-February, is to break from Spring Training as the starting White Sox third baseman.
But there's a deeper goal possessed by the 22-year-old slugger that understandably could have him opening the season at Triple-A Charlotte and spending some 2014 time playing with the Knights.
"I want to stick in the big leagues. I don't want to be up and down," said Davidson. "I trust whatever decision they make. Whether it's starting in Triple-A, I'm OK with that. My long-term goal is sticking there."
Davidson must have been listening in on general manager Rick Hahn's Monday conference call, after the White Sox traded closer Addison Reed to the D-backs in exchange for what immediately became the organization's top prospect. Hahn basically wouldn't commit to Davidson as the No. 1 player at third, not with Conor Gillaspie and Jeff Keppinger presently in the mix and, more importantly, Davidson possibly needing more Minor League time to develop.
Hahn did put forth Davidson's same overall premise in that when he arrives, he will be with the White Sox to stay. It's a slightly different feeling than the one the California native had in Arizona.
Martin Prado was locked in at third and National League Most Valuable Player candidate Paul Goldschmidt was set at first. In one move made between the White Sox and D-backs, Davidson went from looking for some sort of on-field fit to becoming part of the White Sox offensive core alongside Avisail Garcia, Adam Eaton and Jose Abreu.
It's a change in mindset that certainly won't change an already strong work ethic. It does give Davidson an extra boost of confidence emanating from the White Sox support.
"You are almost waiting for an injury whenever you get in and maybe put too much pressure on yourself and are trying to prove too much with a handful of at-bats," said Davidson of his previous mindset in Arizona. "It's cool, now you get time to relax and settle down and try to hone your game for the future and the long run."
Power is the name of the game for Davidson, who has hit 80 homers, 150 doubles and posted a .452 slugging percentage over five Minor League seasons. During 76 at-bats with Arizona in '13, Davidson knocked out three homers and six doubles.
His strikeout total surpassed 125 in each of his last four seasons, but Davidson believes they've come more in bunches over a certain series or two. When he gets to a hitter-friendly park such as U.S. Cellular Field, he won't be swinging for the fences. Not when Davidson reiterated a point from Monday that he wants to be a complete hitter who has power.
"I'm always going to be working on improving that because I hate looking at that column," said Davidson of strikeouts. "It's more about my approach and being more consistent where I trust it and stick with that.
"If I stay in a positive approach, a line-drive approach, home runs will start coming. When I try to do too much, like any hitter, you get long and strike out."
Defense at third is another target of improvement for Davidson, but he's made progress since entering the professional ranks as the 35th overall pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft out of Yucaipa High School. Davidson admitted that his defense was pretty bad coming out of the Draft and that he learned basic skills such as how to dive on the fly as a Minor Leaguer.
He also made a steadfast promise that even with the steps forward taken over the past few years, Davidson won't stop working. The goal is to be a complete player, as well as a complete hitter.
This development will be taking place for years to come in Chicago, a city Davidson has never visited. The closest he came was playing for South Bend in the Midwest League in 2010.
Making the new start with Eaton, who came to the White Sox as part of a three-team deal sending Hector Santiago to the Angels at the Winter Meetings, will help Davidson ease the transition. One of the good friends of Davidson's mom also just happens to be Aaron Rowand's brother, the same Rowand who helped drive the White Sox 2005 World Series championship run.
Rowand soon can be expecting a call from Davidson to find out a little bit more about the White Sox organization.
"To know I'm wanted. The White Sox organization wanted me so much that they made that trade. Addison is a great closer, had 40 saves," said Davidson, who worked out with Reed at EM Speed and Power Training facility in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., during this offseason.. "It helps a lot that they believe in me. That's what any player wants."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin.


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We procrastinate for a variety of reasons. Fear. Intimidation. Laziness. Distractions. All reasonable obstacles. But if you're prioritized your tasks and projects correctly, the work still needs to get done.
I've found that procrastination can be the single-largest hurdle keeping individuals at all levels from being more productive and getting more done.
It's a silent killer, easy to justify in the moment, until that high-potential time has passed and you still aren't done.
Everybody I know who has a proactive strategy to fight procrastination still suffers from it regularly, but there are several tricks and best practices that can help you win the fight far more often than you lose it. Here are seven tips to get you started:
1. Break what you're doing into smaller tasks
The project at hand can seem too large and intimidating. So instead of tackling it all at once, break it down to individual tasks. If you're writing a column like this, for example, start with a brainstorm of ideas or an outline. That's likely the first step of the project anyway, and getting that done gives you both progress and momentum.
2. Use the 10-minute rule to get started
No matter how big or intimidating the task in front of you, giving yourself a limit of just 10 minutes to get it started often feels far more manageable and something you could get rolling on immediately. Most of the time, you'll get through that 10 minutes quickly but also feel like you're already on a roll and will want to continue. Sometimes all it takes is getting started to break through the procrastination. Worst case, you stop after 10 minutes but already, mentally, have a far better picture of what it'll take to finish (which, in turn, will make future procrastination for that specific project far less likely).
3. Put a reward at the finish line
What do you get when you finish? What do you NOT get until you finish? Make it something fun and motivational – a coffee run, a piece of chocolate, 15 minutes reading your favorite blogs, something enjoyable that will further motivate you to get off your duff and get started already.
4. Eliminate distractions
It's way too easy to entertain distractions when you'd prefer to do almost anything but the job in front of you. It's hard enough not to sift through email, the stack of papers on your desk, or click the RSS feed tab on your browser. When it's really time to work, turn off as many distractions as possible. Close your email and your browser if possible, close your office door or put on headphones (even if there's nothing coming through them), and put your phone on forward. Eliminate anything and everything that could be a distraction (especially for those critical first 10 minutes you need to gain some momentum with the project).
5. Shorten your to-do list
Sometimes procrastination rears its ugly head when you have too many things to choose from. If your to-do list is too long, that alone could be intimidating enough to draw your attention elsewhere. What's the most important thing to do on that list? What things can you explicitly put on an "optional" list, or even just a list that can be tackled tomorrow, so that today's list is both prioritized and manageable? Getting through 2-3 critical tasks is much easier than staring at 8-10 on your list.
6. Create uninterrupted time to focus
Much has been written about how massively distracting it is to start and stop projects all day. Eliminating distractions around you will help, but try to set up longer periods of time to focus and execute. Brad Feld recently talked about this in his blog, referring to one of his portfolio company's desire to be a "monastic startup" – meaning they focus on giving their developers as much long, uninterrupted time to work as possible. When you have something important to get done, block your calendar and give yourself the time you need to mentally and fully engage.
7. Cancel unimportant commitments on your calendar
I'm sure your calendar is full, but is that next meeting really that important? Is it more important than getting today's most important project or task completed? Attending optional or less-important meetings is a form of procrastination. Cancelling, delegating or deferring non-critical meetings not only eliminates this particular procrastination excuse, but allow for more of the "monastic" time you need to get things done.
These are all easier said than done, and (if you're like me) you'll still suffer from occasional bouts of procrastination. This column, after all, was supposed to be written yesterday.
Matt Heinz is president of Heinz Marketing, a Redmond-based sales & marketing firm. You can connect with Matt via email, Twitter, LinkedIn or his blog. He writes occasionally on GeekWire under the column Productivity Porn. Previous columns…An introduction to productivity porn: How to be lazy, productive & successful… 15 New Year Resolutions for Entrepreneurs.
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This page last reviewed May 22, 2018
In this area, we provide some background materials concerning the problems of air pollution. In addition, we provide access to some documents which explain ways we can help reduce air pollution in our communities. For more information, please contact Dimitri Stanich at (916) 322-2990.
|50 Things You Can Do
|This pamphlet shows you how to reduce air pollution.
|Buyer's Guide to Cleaner Cars
|This DriveClean.ca.gov website guide can help you quickly identify the cleanest cars sold in California.
|Bicycle Awareness Program
|People choosing to pedal rather than drive usually replace short automobile trips that are disproportionately high in pollutant emissions.
|A buying guide for clean and efficient vehicles
|Resources to all Californians in order to reduce their environmental impact and take action to stop climate change. Realizing local governments, businesses, schools and individuals have different needs, the webpages are customized for each audience.
|Fact Sheets/FAQs and Videos
|ARB has produced a series of general-interest easy-to-read fact sheets, "frequently asked questions," brochures, and videos concerning many aspects of our air quality management program.
|File an Air Pollution Complaint
|Help reduce air pollution by reporting smoking vehicles or idling vehicles or other general air pollution complaints.
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|Indoor Air Quality Program
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|Voluntary Accelerated Vehicle Retirement
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