Imperial Valley News Center
Governor Brown Signs Legislation
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Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed the following bills:
Pioneers Memorial Invests in New Radiology System To Better Patient Safety
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- Written by Frank G. Salazar
Brawley, California - In order to improve clinical and operational capabilities and reduce radiation dose in CT imaging, Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District has upgraded its existing TOSHIBA Aquilion 64 CT SYSTEM with the VeloCT console. This new technology will improve image quality without having to sacrifice patient safety and the radiation dose on this upgraded system is 40% less than the previous version.
NIST Reveals Valuable Fundamentals of a Stacked, Cracked Jack of All Trades
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- Written by Chad Boutin
Washington, DC - There is a crack in everything, Leonard Cohen sang; that’s how the light gets in. Now a team led by scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has explored the properties of a promising class of materials with new capabilities that depend on those cracks. Their results could help open the way for practical applications from nonvolatile computer memory to quick-dimming windows.
Fifty-nine organizations fighting international food waste
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Sacramento, California - It’s no secret that food loss and food waste are big problems. At least 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted every year—in fields, during transport, in storage, at restaurants, and in markets in industrialized and developed countries alike. In rich countries alone, some 222 million tons of food is wasted, which is almost as much as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa. And according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), wasted food costs some $680 billion in industrialized countries and $310 billion in developing countries.
Counternarcotics Arrangement Signed During Third Counternarcotics Technical Exchange Between the United States and Cuba
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Washington, DC - The United States and Cuba held their third Counternarcotics Technical Exchange July 21 in Havana. The U.S. delegation included working-level representatives from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), U.S. Coast Guard (USGC), Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations (ICE/HSI), and the Department of State.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Conducts First OIR Missions from Arabian Gulf
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Arabian Gulf - Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike), with embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3, began missions in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) from the Arabian Gulf
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