15 sobering predictions, cures for economy Oct 29, 2009
Page 1 of 2 (10/21/2009 7:50 PM EDT). AUSTIN, Texas -- The IC recovery is here, but what about the overall economy. (EETimes)
U.S. antitrust regulators probing Sony unit Oct 27, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO Sony Corp.'s U.S. subsidiary, Sony Optiarc America Inc., received a subpoena from the U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division seeking information about its optical disk drive business. The Japanese electronics giant said in a statement issued Oct. 23 that the Justice Department and agencies outside the U.S. are investigating competition in optical disk drives ... According to a the subpoena to Sony's subsidiary is part of a larger criminal antitrust investigation into the... (EETimes)
New Juaben Assembly bans use of pan latrines Oct 27, 2009
He expressed worry that some land lords and land ladies did not prov= ide toilet facilities adding that the rental laws enjoined them to provide th= ose facilities because public toilets were not for domestic use. Mr Asamoah said the performance audit of the management of toilets i= n the municipality was ready and the interim management committee has paid a total of GH6, 298 cedis to the assembly this month. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Salesforce.com, Adobe Partner on Flash Toolkit Oct 26, 2009
and Adobe Systems on Monday announced Flash Builder for , an IDE (integrated development environment) for building rich Internet applications deployable through browsers and on desktops. The Eclipse-based IDE provides more than 100 reusable user interface components, charting and animation capabilities, and an integration with Adobe's LiveCycle Data Services that allows developers to sync data from Salesforce ... com platform with a client-side data store. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Destination New Baltimore Oct 25, 2009
Published: Sunday, October 25, 2009 2:18 AM EDT NEW BALTIMORE Heavy rainfall didn't dampen the spirits of New Baltimore residents who came out in droves Saturday to celebrate Fall Harvest Day and Art Show ... Many of the town's talented residents displayed and sold wares including ceramics, multimedia art, landscape paintings and watercolors ... Renowned author and illustrator of the Golden Field Guide: Eastern Birds, James Coe, exhibited a selection of his Plein Air Landscapes. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Korea's IC industry seen on shaky ground Oct 24, 2009
HDD roadmap: The hard disk drive (HDD) industry finds its lifeblood in a technology roadmap. The areal density roadmap describes the number of magnetic bits per unit area on the disk platter--thereby defining the storage capacity. (EETimes)
Clunkers leads to backlog at recycling yards Oct 24, 2009
I recently went to a local wrecking yard to find a side window for my car ... We encourage a free and open exchange of ide 00001B48 as in a climate of mutual respect, but any post that violates someone's right to use and enjoy fresnobee ... Before you post, please read the and obey these simple guidelines. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Priest Found Slain in His N.J. Church Oct 24, 2009
Go into his computer's hard disk drive. This is where you will find his soul. (CBS News)
PHP 6 to boost internationalization with Unicode Oct 23, 2009
The PHP 6 platform also will feature the ability to use Unicode characters for identifiers ... Another capability being considered is traits, allowing horizontal reuse of code ... Read-only properties and scalar type hints are being considered for the PHP 6 platform. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
"Big Brother" Winner in Big Trouble Oct 22, 2009
Video and Galleries from Entertainment ... President Obama, Sen ... Conservative Pair Who Posed as Pimp, Prostitute Try to Reignite Controversy Amid Video Battle. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Windows 7 May Help Kickstart Delayed Corporate Spend Oct 22, 2009
The entire computer food chain, from chipmakers like Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices to disk drive makers like Seagate Technology, stands to benefit from a robust push by companies to replace PCs. 1. (ABC News -- Wire)
Researcher paves alternate path for hard drives Oct 20, 2009
A professor at Carnegie Mellon University is developing a technology seen as a dark horse in the race toward tomorrow's ultra-dense hard disk drives. Jimmy Jian-Gang Zhu is developing a prototype of his microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technique he believes will pack three terabits of data in a square inch of a spinning disk. (EETimes)
JetBrains readies open source version of its Java IDE Oct 18, 2009
JetBrains, which has provided its IntelliJ Idea Java IDE as a commercial product, now is offering a preview of a free, version of the IDE.. The company on Thursday unveiled the free Community Edition of IntelliJ Idea, downloadable ... The upcoming version of the IDE marks the first time the product will be offered in two editions, with the commercial product to be called the Ultimate Edition. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Taking a Behind the Scenes Look at Storage TCO Oct 16, 2009
Disk drive prices have historically declined 30% year-over-year according to Gordon Moore in his April 1965 article Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits ... Fewer disk drives means less maintenance, reduced licensing fees, and lower power and cooling requirements. (CIO Information Network)
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JetBrains readies open source version of its Java IDE by InfoWorld: Yahoo ... JetBrains readies open source version of its Java IDE ... JetBrains, which has provided its IntelliJ Idea Java IDE as a commercial product, now is offering a preview of a free, version of the IDE.. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
How to Reduce Hard Drive Crashes Oct 15, 2009
Much of this remains relevant when formulating disk drive failure reduction strategies today ... Virtually all disk drives suffer from surface defects on the magnetic media that actually stores data inside the drive assembly ... Choose your disk drives carefully. (Datamation)
Magnetic Nanotags Spot Cancer In Mice Earlier Than Methods Now In Clinical Use Oct 15, 2009
"It is the same sensor you are using in a hard disk drive to read a hard disk back," he said. "Very similar to that.". (Science Daily)
A puzzling play by Sony Oct 15, 2009
Sony PSP Go $250 Eliminates disk drive; all games downloaded and stored in memory; can also play downloaded movies and music; sleek, comfortable design; expensive games; uses nonstandard memory cards; can t play older PSP games. iPod Touch $199 with eight gigabytes of memory; $299 with 32 gigabytes; or $399 for 64 gigabytes Plays music, videos, and games downloaded from Apple s popular iTunes Store. (Boston Globe)
2 Young Developers Get Old Mainframers’ Jobs Oct 14, 2009
Tim said IBM and most other firms whose businesses depend on mainframes are also dealing with this industry-wide problem. Since the 1980 s, PC s and UNIX machines were supposed to have taken over the computing world, relegating mainframes to the scrap heap alongside rotary-dial telephones, suitcase-size boom boxes, and Plymouth Reliants ... Since 2000, the processing power of mainframes has quadrupled in terms of MIPS. According to IBM, the top 25 world banks run mainframes, 80% of the world s... (Datamation)
* Acer initiates worldwide recall of notebook lines Oct 13, 2009
Although shortages of key components such as optical disk drive, DDR III and 500GB HDD will likely continue, Acer remains confident to achieve 10 percent sequential sales growth in the fourth quarter, Citigroup said in a report yesterday. One of the driving forces came from China, where Acer indicated that its market share should easily reach 10 percent by years end, from 8 percent in the first half of the year, the report said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Fail-in-place systems: Avoiding hard disk drive failure Oct 8, 2009
Examples of these difficult side effects include pulling the wrong drive and causing inadvertent data loss; delaying the replacement of a failed HDD, which defers rebuild starts and increases data loss risk; or using spare drives that may not have been recently tested, which may result in a second hard disk drive failure ... A storage pack is a collection of hard disk drives operating in concert with a certain percentage of capacity allocated for sparing ... Hard disk drive failures are... (Search Storage)
Estimation of physician supply by specialty and the distributionimpact of increasing female physicians in Japan Oct 7, 2009
Soichi Koike , Shinya Matsumoto , Tomoko Kodama , Hiroo Ide , Hideo Yasunaga and Tomoaki Imamura. BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:180doi:10. (BioMed Central)
Obituaries for Monday, October 5, 2009 (832) Oct 6, 2009
grandson Peter Farr and sister Julia Halm Ide of Sante Fe, N.M. ... In lieu of flowers or monetary gifts, consider contributions to Lihu e United Church or Wilcox Health Foundation. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Staff appointment before Butte council Oct 6, 2009
Chief Executive Paul Babb recently selected Lindsey Ide, who has served since March as interim personnel director ... Babb said Ide was selected from a pool of 20 candidates who applied for the job, including five who were interviewed ... Ide would replace longtime personnel director Tim Clark, who resigned earlier this year after 38 years with the city-county. (Montana Standard, MT)
Lee ready to put in the hours to secure Test recall Oct 5, 2009
Chloe Saltau reports from Johannesburg, the Kiwis' dogged determination may overr 00004000 ide the statistics in the finals this week ... Lee has played just one first-class match since last summer's Boxing Day Test, in which he strained a side muscle that ruled him out of the Ashes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
How mobiles threaten game makers Oct 5, 2009
TOKYO: Tetsuya Ide doesn't own an iPhone, but the teenage computer buff is betting that Apple's hit gadget is the key to having a new generation of video game players in the palm of his hand ... Video game console titans Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are facing growing competition from the increasing popularity of games played on mobile telephones or Internet-enabled gizmos ... "A game's creativity used to depend on the hardware," said Ide, a 19-year-old computer programming student who is... (India Times, India)
Toshiba completes purchase of Fujitsu unit Oct 2, 2009
said Thursday it has completed the takeover of 's hard disk drive business and will introduce a new operating structure ... Toshiba is now the world's largest manufacturer of mobile hard disk drives and is gaining an entry position into the enterprise HDD market for servers and data storage system applications ... Earlier Fujitsu Computer Products -- an arm of Fujitsu Ltd. -- said 90 percent of employees in the company's hard disk drive division will transition to a new company following the... (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Drive makers at crossroads over next generation Sep 30, 2009
But the question the disk drive industry is weighing in the next twelve months is which comes first. "I think next year will be pivotal," said Tom Coughlin, president of market watcher Coughlin Associates, Inc. (Atascadero, Calif. (EETimes)
'Dogs' Mathews handles heavier workload Sep 30, 2009
Increased workload coincides with improved health, maturity ... When he did, his eyes widened ... When he did, his eyes widened. (Fresno Bee -- Sports)
Genuitec readies Eclipse IDE update Sep 25, 2009
0 Java IDE based on the Eclipse 3 ... 0 can be used as a stand-alone tool outside of MyEclipse to profile any Java application, Eclipse plug-in, or applet, said ... Anotherfeature is MyEclipse Lite technology for removing, adding, or upgrading specific portions of the IDE, addressing concerns about IDE bloat, the company said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Southwest Montana Snapshots Sep 25, 2009
Butte gets new personnel chief in Lindsey Ide Chief Executive Paul Babb promoted an employee Thursday to serve as Butte-Silver Bow's new personnel director. Lindsey Ide was selected from a pool of 20 candidates who applied for the job, including five who were interviewed, according to a news release ... Ide holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in human resources and marketing, and a minor in sociology. (Montana Standard, MT)
Linux Code Quality: Getting Better or Worse? Sep 25, 2009
Chou noted that Coverity currently has an IDE () plug-in for both the open source Eclipse IDE as well as Microsoft's Visual Studio for some desktop scanning ... Chou added that Coverity is also planning on having some kind of support of other IDEs as well over time. (Datamation)
Review: SimpleTough USB 2.0 Portable Drive Sep 23, 2009
When the drive is plugged in, driver software automatically installs and SimpleTough appears as a disk drive in My Computer. Was the product splash screen supposed to automatically pop up at this point. (SmallBusinessComputing)
OSGi framework helps you manage Java components Sep 23, 2009
The idea behind OSGi (formally standing for Open Services Gateway initiative, now simply OSGi) is a framework for creating modular Java components which can be installed and managed remotely as part of a larger service. The idea appears to have started with a Java Community Process proposal JSR 8 in 1999, but it quickly got turned over to the independent non-profit OSGi Alliance ... Inside a bundle, OSGi recognizes one or more "services" defined by a Java interface plus accompanying properties. (Search Webservices)
Macintosh Plus Auction Sep 18, 2009
The system was first introduced in 1986 and bears the serial number F4200NUM0001, 1MB of RAM, a floppy disk drive, 9-inch display, and the original short keyboard, mouse, and an external floppy disk drive. For more on the auction, check out Profiles in History's. (IGN Gear)
Addressing storage performance bottlenecks in ... Sep 17, 2009
For example, while a storage system may appear to be slow, a disk drive may have failed or a controller might have taken proactive action to rebuild onto a hot spare disk drive ... Items that impact performance on storage systems include , the number and type of disk drives in a RAID set or volume group, the type of drives and their performance capabilities, as well as host server front-end ports and back-end device ports ... Background tasks, including parity and data scrubbing, or disk drive... (Search Storage)
Jaspersoft Announces New JasperReports Professional With Enhanced Data Visualization Sep 16, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Jaspersoft, provider of the world's most widely used business intelligence (BI) software, today announced the immediate availability of JasperReports Professional, now with Flash-based geo-visualization and advanced charting capabilities ... "Both large and small organizations are looking to enterprise BI tools to provide the same kind of interactive and dynamic visualization features they experience on the web every day," said Lyndsay Wise, president,... (PR Newswire)
Texchem enters joint venture Sep 15, 2009
In a statement to Bursa yesterday, TRB said the rationale for the JV was because the group was involved in the manufacture and sale of packaging products for the electronics, electrical, semiconductor and disk drive industries. The JV would also enable the group to tap on GPIs technical expertise and experience to reinforce its manufacturing activities and derive synergistic benefits out of TXAP and enlarge business opportunities of the TRB group. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Artists are not mavericks Sep 14, 2009
And whereas, in the clear light of day, performing artists should see their art form as a forum for ideas and social benefit, it seems we have become unwitting apologists for our governments' dysfunctional funding model, drunk on the lure of public acceptance and the false sense that a successful funding application means the work we are doing is creatively validated ... Reviewers often misunderstand live performance in the same way that governments do, rarely engaging with the creative ideas... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Toshiba Gets Antitrust Clearance to Buy Fujitsu's Hard-Disk Drive Unit Sep 13, 2009
Toshiba Gets Antitrust Clearance to Buy Fujitsu Unit (Update1) - Bloomberg. Updated: New York, Sep 13 04:15 London, Sep 13 09:15 Tokyo, Sep 13 17:15. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Inbox: How will battles pan out in 2010? Sep 11, 2009
I continue to keep some of the ones I wasn't able to use filed away for future Inbox consideration ... Tabata may have had an outside possibility at making an appearance in Pittsburgh, but management determined that sending him to the Arizona Fall League would be the best path for his development ... Simply based on terms of upside and affordability, it's hard to argue that this current team isn't better than the one that started the season. (MLB.com -- Pittsburgh Pirates)
Talking Points Sep 10, 2009
Led by NBC News and The New York Times, the left-wing media went nuts, and ultimately Scooter Libby, a top adviser to Vice President Cheney, was convicted of a crime ... GINSBERG: What they did was try and find out who the names and the ide 000033EC ntities of the people who tortured, illegally tortured people because the government won't turn over that information, and people in this country have a right to defend themselves ... Valerie Plame's identity was disclosed by the vice president of... (Fox News)
Adaptec Launches MaxIQ(TM) SSD Cache Performance Solution for Maximum Application Acceleration in Data Center Environments Sep 9, 2009
Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ) today announced the first solution for building and managing High-Performance Hybrid Arrays (HPHAs) - storage arrays that use both solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) - delivering up to five times the I/O performance, up to 50 percent savings in capital and operating expenses, and a dramatic reduction in power consumption over HDD-only arrays ... Adaptec Intelligent Power Management (IPM) - user-directed power... (PR Newswire)
Hutchinson predicts better-than-expected earnings Sep 9, 2009
The Hutchinson-based maker of disk drive parts expects to be near break-even in its quarter ended this month, with sales of $100 million to $107 million ... -based that it would phase out its procurement of disk drive suspension assemblies from Hutchinson. (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)
37 Suspected Militants Killed In Pakistan Sep 6, 2009
The offensive was launched late last month after a suicide bombing at a border checkpoint killed 19 police ... Video and Galleries from World ... the side making the fewest errors will win. (CBS News)
Jeremy Willis » Sep 5, 2009
No sci-fi football movie here: This third-person game is about to become a first-person, immersed virtual reality experience and could be coming to a football team in the near future, said Albert Tsai, vice president for advanced research at XOS Technologies. XOS' first offering, the Thunder PlayAction Simulator, was a video-game-style practice tool that allowed coaches to upload plays and players to practice on a computer with controls that mirror some of the popular football video games on the... (ESPN -- Recruiting)
Introducing the ASUS N61 and N71 Multimedia Notebooks - Awe-inspiring Entertainment and True-to-life Sound Sep 4, 2009
Finally, the ASUS N71 features 1-terabyte of hard disk drive storage*, enabling users to carry more multimedia and other forms of data with them while out and about. Sept 4, 2009 From the Japan Corporate News Network http://www. (JCN Network, Japan)
Area Districts Wont Require Students To Watch Obamas Speech Sep 4, 2009
Area Districts Wont Require Students To Watch Obamas Speech Major Central Texas school districts said Thursday they wont require students to watch a speech Tuesday on the importance of education by President Barack Obama thats aimed at children and generating nationwide controversy ... (September 3, 2009)Major Central Texas school districts said Thursday they wont require students to watch a 17-minute speech President Barack Obama will deliver at 11 a.m. Tuesday CDT,... (KWTX.com, TX)
Tony Beasley and Garrett Jones Sep 3, 2009
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Cardiac Surgeons Implant World's First New DeBakey Heart Assist Device Sep 2, 2009
2, 2009) At the end of July 2009, a team of cardiac surgeons headed by Professor Dr. Matthias Karck, Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Heidelberg University Hospital, was the first in the world to implant the HeartAssist 5 ventricular assist device, the modern version of the DeBakey VAD. ... The heart pump can also be used as a bridge-to-transplant while the patient waits for a matching donor heart, says Dr. Arjang Ruhparwar, senior registrar in the Department of Cardiac Surgery... (Science Daily)
ASUS adds to Seashell netbook range Sep 2, 2009
While conserving power, the Eee PC Seashell has a 160GB hard disk drive with an additional 10GB complimentary Eee Storage for the first 18 months, making storage of music, videos and movies easy. The coup de grce is the multi-touch track pad that allows users to intuitively zoom in or out of pictures via pinching, or navigating up and down pages by sliding along the touchpad. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Author Yulin Yao Publishes The Fulfillment of Promises Made -- New Novel Follows a Striking Love Story During the Sino-Japanese War Sep 2, 2009
In a review by Ide Katims, a Professor of the State University of New York, he states, "Yours is a remarkable story, and I am honored to have had the opportunity to read it. The strongest features of the book, I think, are the story itself and your way of telling it, which is direct, brutal at times, distinctly non-Western in sensibilities and language, and tenacious in the recounting of details." ... Quotes and other information supplied by independent providers identified on the Yahoo ... All... (Primezone Releases)
HD player for the home Sep 1, 2009
Unlike most multimedia players, however, the WD TV doesnt itself come integrated with a hard disk instead the device comes with two USB ports, into which you can plug in any external hard disk drive or flash drive. Apart from the standard composite RCA AV outputs, the WD TV offers HDMI output, capable of displaying 1080p video. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Connected in Pompano Aug 31, 2009
It gained in popularity not so much through radio airplay but by being passed from one disk drive to the next, and the song actually mutated through time the song on The Wanderer is not quite the same song with which the band closed their show Saturday at Pompano Beach Amphitheatre. Not that it stopped the nearly packed house from seeming to know every single word, every twist and turn, every solo by guitarist Richard On, bassist Benj Gershman or sax player Jerry DiPizzo in the long song. (The Palm Beach Post)
Oscar Smith (Va.) wins on national stage Aug 30, 2009
Perhaps the biggest play of the game came with two seconds left in the first half when the Oscar Smith defense stiffened, holding Burton and the Indians out of the end zone on a 4th ide the 10-yard line ... Venice was 0-for-4 on fourth downs, including three times they were stopped inside the 15-yard line of Oscar Smith ... Junior defensive back Jason George had a career-high 11 tackles, Steward chipped in 8 stops and linebacker Jeremy Majette, a transfer from Bayside in the off-season, made 8... (Prep Sports Sports -- Rivals.com)
Enterprise Technologies Will Change the Consumer PC Market Aug 29, 2009
So you have small NAS boxes getting more affordable and disk drive costs dropping significantly, but the performance to move data to a new system is constant or at best a bit faster, so with so much more data, it is a big problem to reliably move it all ... So at best this current crop of NAS boxes is much slower than disk drives, between one-half and one-third the performance of current disk drive technology ... They are not fast enough to replace local disk drives yet and the latency is high,... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Elmer Wohlschlaeger Aug 28, 2009
A private family graves ide ceremony took place at Sunset Memorial Gardens in St. Louis, Missouri on Saturday August 22, 2009. Memorials can be made to St. Luke's Hospital, Chesterfield, Mo. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Cheney Refuted Aug 26, 2009
Extensive details about al-Qaida's anthrax program had been revealed a year and a half before Sheikh Mohammed's arrest, thanks to the Wall Street Journal's of Ayman al-Zawahiri's disk drive, which it promptly turned over to authorities. To be fair, Sayf al-Rahman Paracha, whom Sheikh Mohammed gave up in March 2003they'd plotted to bring explosives into the U.S. for an attack on New York Citymay still have been trying to blow something up in New York when he was captured five months later. (Slate)
Fujitsu Releases Notebook PC with "CLEARSURE" Security Solution Aug 26, 2009
Tokyo, Aug 26, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced that it will begin sales of the new FMV-LIFEBOOK model FMV-S8390, a high-performance notebook PC for enterprise customers with the CLEARSURE technology, allowing data stored on the PC's hard disk drive (HDD) to be deleted remotely in the event of loss or theft. The new PC will be available from early September onward in Japan only. (JCN Network, Japan)
An Eee PC thats easy to upgrade Aug 25, 2009
66GHz processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 160GB hard disk drive, wireless 802. 11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Stranded belugas swim free Aug 25, 2009
A group of endangered beluga whales is stranded in the mud near Anchorage during an abnormally low t 00003E62 ide ... KNIK ARM: Trapped by a low tide, the whales created a pool and kept cool ... About 20 beluga whales that became stranded in mud during a low tide over the weekend have apparently freed themselves, bringing relief to biologists who have been closely monitoring their plight. (Anchorage Daily News)
Swede, Aussie in triathlon crown duel Aug 22, 2009
The pair will be locked in a head-to-head duel at the grand final on the Gold Coast next month to decide the championship ... Norden prevailed in hot and humid conditions, taking the initiative at the start of a sprint finish to beat home New Zealand's Andrea Hewitt and local hope Juri Ide ... Chile has detected the H1N1 swine flu virus in turkeys which according to authorities is the first time the virus has been found outside humans and pigs. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Knights looking for second week on bounce Aug 22, 2009
What the Cowboys say: Coach Neil Henry has also talked about the necessity to cut down time on the ball for key men in the opposition side ... KNIGHTS: KGidley (capt), KLulia, JSau, AMacDougall, CVuna, BRogers, JMullen, MTaufua, Ide Gois, CHouston, S Simpson, ZTaia, MHilder. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
HeartWare International Surpasses 50 Implants in the US Aug 21, 2009
HeartWare's ADVANCE Clinical Trial is an FDA approved IDE study designed to evaluate the HeartWare((R))( )Ventricular Assist system as a bridge to heart transplantation for patients with end-stage heart failure ... Under the IDE, a total of 150 patients will be enrolled across a maximum of 28 centers ... Despite new treatment strategies for patients with end-stage heart failure, the number of patients who die with this disease is of epidemic proportion. (PR Newswire)
Kohl's to donate 'Melon' money Aug 20, 2009
The Kohl's department store, 737 Disk Drive, sponsors special sales and gives proceeds to the helmet safety project, sponsored by Rapid City Regional Hospital. Store officials will present the donation at 10 a.m. Saturday, then trainers will help children with correct fitting of helmets, instructions on use and how to protect themselves, and give helmets to children who need them until 1 p.m.. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
