Imperial Valley News Center
Governor Brown to Attend Metropolitan Water District Board Meeting, Participate in Drought Forum
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Los Angeles, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will attend the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Board Meeting tomorrow and will later join Austin Beutner, publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune, for a conversation on the state’s drought as part of a new event series sponsored by the Times called “The California Conversation.”
Brain Food
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- Written by John Grimaldi
Imperial, California - Fish oil may help improve cognitive flexibility in seniors, according to researchers at the University of Illinois. The Association of Mature American Citizens reports that there have been several studies in recent years that suggest fish may indeed be "brain food," as our parents used to tell us.
CDFA’s commitment to eradicate the Japanese Beetle
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Sacramento, California - The California Department of Food and Agriculture is currently working on a pair of Japanese Beetle eradication projects in Sacramento County, in the communities of Carmichael and Fair Oaks. The beetle has been called perhaps the most devastating pest of urban landscape plants and turf grasses in the eastern United States; that region is generally infested with the pest, while California is not. The Japanese Beetle poses a double-barreled threat - grubs remain underground, feeding on grasses, while adults roam above the surface, feeding on roughly 300 species of plants and trees, including fruit trees.
Researchers discover molecular rules that govern autoimmune disorders
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- Written by Bill Kisliuk
Los Angeles, California - An international team led by researchers at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and California NanoSystems Institute has identified an unexpectedly general set of rules that determine which molecules can cause the immune system to become vulnerable to the autoimmune disorders lupus and psoriasis.
UCLA Anderson Forecast: California can expect steady improvement in unemployment
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- Written by Elise Anderson
Los Angeles, California - UCLA Anderson Forecast’s second quarterly report in 2015 for the United States indicates that the nation’s economic growth, for the second year in a row, was slowed due to inclement weather experienced during the first quarter of the year. The U.S. is expected to return to a 3 percent GDP growth rate by the third quarter, and that pace should hold through the end of 2016.
Scientists explain mechanism that makes their mouthwash so effective against tooth decay
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- Written by Andrea Parada
Los Angeles, California - In 2011, UCLA’s Dr. Wenyuan Shi developed a mouthwash that could eliminate the bacteria that is the principal cause of tooth decay.
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