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For information about FDIC coverage limits andrequirements, visit or call toll-free 1-877-ASK-FDIC DFI supervises 700 state financial institutions. Maintaining the integrity offinancial services remains the primary mission of the Department. The DFI isresponsible for administering state laws regulating state-licensed financialinstitutions: banks, credit unions, industrial banks, trust companies, officesof foreign banks, issuers of travelers` checks and payment instruments (moneyorders), and money transmitters. In addition to posting information aboutlicensees, the DFI Web site features consumer tips on a variety of financialtopics.

DFI reports to Business, Transportation & Housing Agency Secretary DaleE Bonner and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. California Department of Financial InstitutionsAlana Golden, 916-323-7012 or 916-322-5966Public Information Officer Business Wire 2009. It was announced yesterday that Max Unger, Oregon's starting center, has been added to the Rimington Trophy watch list.The Rimington Trophy, named after Nebraska's two-time All-America center Dave Rimington, is awarded annually to the exceptional college offensive center in NCAA Division I-A. He is also on the watch list for the 2008 Outland Trophy.Unger, who is a senior this year, has started in 38 consecutive games for the Ducks.GO DUCKS! This article is also featured on The Wines Family. (For full coverage of the flu outbreak, click on [nFLU]) Stocks  |  Global Markets  |  Mexico * New mixture of viruses in flu never seen before * Eight cases in California and Texas, none in Canada * WHO says Mexico, U.S.

well-equipped to handle outbreak * Big public events suspended in Mexican capital (Adds Canadian govt paragraph 14, Schwarzenegger para 19) By Alistair Bell and Noel Randewich MEXICO CITY, April 24 (Reuters) – A strain of flu neverseen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and alsoappeared in the United States, where eight people were infectedbut recovered, health officials said on Friday. Mexico’s government said at least 20 people have died ofthe flu and it may also be responsible for 40 other deaths. It shut down schools and canceled major public events inMexico City to try to prevent more deaths in the sprawling,overcrowded capital. Authorities said they had enough antiviralmedicine to treat about 1,000 suspected cases reported so far. The World Health Organization said tests showed the virusfrom 12 of the Mexican patients was the same genetically as anew strain of swine flu, designated H1N1, seen in eight peoplein California and Texas [nLO274836] “Our concern has grown as of yesterday,” Dr RichardBesser, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Controland Prevention told reporters in a telephone briefing.

Global health officials were not ready to declare apandemic — a global epidemic of a new and deadly disease suchas flu. “So far there has not been any change in the pandemicthreat level,” Besser said. But the human-to-human spread of the new virus raised fearsof a major outbreak. Mexico’s government suspended classes formillions of children in Mexico City, where scared residentsrushed out to buy face masks and kept their kids at home. “We’re frightened because they say it’s not exactly flu,it’s another kind of virus and we’re not vaccinated,” saidAngeles Rivera, 34, a government worker who fetched her sonfrom a public kindergarten that was closing. Close analysis showed the disease is a mixture of swine,human and avian viruses, according to the CDC. [nN24420522] Humans can occasionally catch swine flu from pigs butrarely have they been known to pass it on to other people.

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