Imperial Valley News Center
Trump social media summit shows power of social networks
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- Written by Joseph Paul
West Lafayette, Indiana - President Donald Trump recently hosted a social media summit at the White House featuring a who’s-who of conservative influencers. The meeting comes as many Americans begin to sound alarms about the subversive potential of social media to censor or sway voters during the 2020 general election, similar to tactics deployed by partisans and foreign actors during the last presidential election cycle.
Pretty potholes
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- Written by John Grimaldi
Chicago, Illinois - Pothole ridden streets are dangerous and unsightly but a local artist in Chicago may have come up with a way to give commuters a smooth and esthetically soothing ride, says the Association of Mature American Citizens. Jim Bachor is an accomplished mosaic artist who came up with the idea of filling the potholes with unique works of art on a trip to Pompeii. He uses a technique that employs shards of marble and glass just as mosaic artists did 2,000 years ago.
New NROTC Midshipmen Graduate from New Student Indoctrination at Navy's Only Boot Camp
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- Written by USNavy
Great Lakes, Illinois - Nearly 400 Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) midshipmen candidates from across the United States completed New Student Indoctrination (NSI) July 1-22 at the Navy’s only boot camp, Recruit Training Command (RTC).
FTC’s $5 billion Facebook settlement: Record-breaking and history-making
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- Written by Lesley Fair - FTC
Washington, DC - If you’ve ever wondered what a paradigm shift looks like, you’re witnessing one today. The FTC’s $5 billion civil penalty against Facebook for violations of an earlier FTC order is record-breaking and history-making. In addition, the settlement requires Facebook to implement changes to its privacy practices, its corporate structure, and the role of CEO Mark Zuckerberg that are seismic in scope. Simply put, when it comes to the business of consumer privacy, it’s no longer business as usual at Facebook.
NIST Workshop on Standards for Microbiome Measurements
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- Written by IVN
Gaithersburg, Maryland - This workshop will focus on the need for standards to support the burgeoning biotech and pharma industries developing clinical applications that target the human microbiome. Informed regulatory decision making requires an understanding of the analytical performance of the assays being used to verify the identity, purity, potency and stability of these biomanufactured Live Biotherapeutic Products (LBPs). Additionally, clinical microbiome laboratory tests must be validated before being used for donor screening, monitoring engraftment or evaluating other changes that occur in a patient’s microbiome before, during and after therapeutic intervention.
Rejected and unfilled prescriptions for new, more expensive cholesterol drugs tied to higher heart, stroke risk
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- Written by Bridgette McNeill
Dallas, Texas - Patients appear to be at higher risk of heart problems or stroke when prescriptions for the newest cholesterol-lowering drugs are rejected by insurance companies or unfilled by patients, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal.
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