WHEAT RIDGE, Colo., Nov. 9, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Able Planet Incorporated, one of the top selling active noise cancellation companies in the world, announced today the nationwide launch of its award-winning Personal Sound(TM) Amplifier, PS2500AMP. Cited as "The most impressive new PSAP" by Melinda Beck of the Wall Street Journal, Personal Sound(TM) was released for a limited premarket sale on September 11, 2012 that sold out in less than 48 hours. Able Planet is launching its Personal Sound(TM), nationwide. Currently available at ableplanet.com, the product will roll out to leading eCommerce sites and US retailers over the next 60 days.

Personal Sound(TM) PS2500AMP is the first ever In-Ear Amplifier with Linx DSP(R). It provides a natural sound by preserving the directivity of the ear and enhances hard to hear sounds with preset environmental filters. The small size is highly invisible and is held secure by a patent pending D-ring that is easy to position and ensures a comfortable fit for long wear. When the environment situation changes, simply 2TAP(TM) near the device to change your Personal Sound(TM).

Personal Sound(TM) Amplifier has 8 channels, 12 bands, active noise reduction, an adaptive feedback manager and 4 preset programs that alter the frequency response, amplification and noise reduction to accommodate for varying listening environments. 2TAP(TM), a patent-pending controller, continuously senses the pressure in the ear canal enabling you to switch among programs by lightly tapping on the ears. This "switch" changes the program and generates an indicator tone without requiring push-button activation. Wax guards prevent earwax from damaging the miniature speaker. The amplifier is powered by 1.35V battery (Type 10A).

"Hearing abilities are like fingerprints and everyone is unique," said Able Planet CEO Kevin Semcken. "Struggling to hear in noisy places, like on an airplane, in a crowded restaurant, or at your local pub is common to people with all levels of hearing abilities. Even hearing the TV can sometimes be difficult. Just because you have difficulty hearing in certain situations does not mean you need to incur the expense of a hearing aid. When hearing others becomes a challenge, simply put in your Personal Sound(TM), and you'll Hear the Difference(R)."

Personal Sound(TM) has won several of the world's most prestigious audio and technology awards, including a 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show Innovations and Design Award, as well as, Popular Science's Product of the Future. Linx DSP is a Hear the Difference(R) technology that enhances sound quality and clarity for People with All Levels of Hearing(TM).

About Able Planet

Expert in Audiology and Speech Language Sciences, Able Planet was founded on a hearing technology that enables people with profound hearing loss to distinguish hard to hear sounds, many of whom have reported to be able to hear new sounds for the first time in their lives. Over the past 7 years, the company has become a leader in audio and communication devices through the development of products and technologies that not only address hearing impairments, but are also preferred by experts in consumer audio. Today, Able Planet designs and manufactures products that enhance sound quality, clarity and speech intelligibility for all people. And, while the company continues to focus developments on products that connect people with hearing loss to the world of sound, it is equally as motivated by technologies that help preserve hearing for those with normal hearing. All Able Planet products are based on proprietary Hear the Difference(R) technologies.

Michael Zucconi

Able Planet

mzucconi@ableplanet.com

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Ruby Tuesday Giveback Weekend to benefit Swan Center Outreach Bring the Ruby Tuesday Giveback flyer with you anytime this weekend to enter drawing for a $200 gift certificate to Alpine Mountain Recreation (AMR) Ski/Board Shop. Ruby Tuesday will donate 20 percent of your bill back to Swan Center Outreach, home to rescued horses and provider of leadership and personal development programs for youth and adults. Drawing for the $200 AMR gift certificate will be the following weekend at Horse Cents Thrift Store in Silverthorne on Nov 17 at 2 p.m. For copies of the Ruby Tuesday Giveback flyer, visit and print from our Facebook page at:http://www.facebook.com/swancenteroutreachor call (614) 477-9161. Elks breakfast for veterans Join the Elks for breakfast on Sunday, Veterans Day, from 9 a.m. to noon. Tickets are $12 at the door (or $10 if reserved in advance call 468-2561). Profits will help to support a Disabled American Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in 2013 at which injured veterans will be aided in their rehabilitation process. This is a great cause so please come along and enjoy some of the Elks' famous bacon and other breakfast goodies. The breakfast fundraiser will be held at the Summit County Elks Lodge, 1321 Blue River Pkwy., in Silverthorne. For more information call (970) 468-2561. Contribute to East Coast recovery efforts The superstorm Sandy has delivered a hugely devastating blow to the East Coast. The Rotary Club of Summit County is encouraging all in Summit County to contribute to its rescue by sending checks to the Summit County Rotary Charitable Foundation, and specify Sandy relief in the memo. All of these funds will be aggregated (no administrative reductions whatsoever) and sent to a Rotary fund established to afford relief in New Jersey, New York and other hard-hit areas. Please make out checks to Summit County Rotary Charitable Foundation and send to PO Box 4401, Frisco 80443. Children's religious school class with Rabbi Schwartzman Rabbi Schwartzman will be conducting a religious school class for Jewish children ages 5-12 from 10-11:30 a.m. on Sunday. For more info, contact Sue Payer at (970) 468-9529, or by email at: spayer@yahoo.com. Team Summit Colorado coach hiring clinic Team Summit Colorado is looking to hire new coaches for all programs for the 2012/2013 Ski season. The ideal candidate has experience working with children, has PSIA and/or USSA certification and had been a competitive athlete in their own right. If you are interested in working with the premier ski team in Colorado. Now is the time!

Contact Jerry Karl at (970) 390 6680 to get more details and to sign up for our on hill hiring clinic.

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NEW YORK, Nov. 9,2012 /PRNewswire/ --HBA Global Expo is seeking speaker proposals for its renowned educational program taking place June 18-20, 2013 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. Thought-leaders and savvy marketers in all areas of the health, beauty, and personal care business are encouraged to submit an application and share their experiences, best practices and case studies as well as address current industry trends and key topics.

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HBA Global (www.hbaexpo.com) is the leading source in the beauty and personal care space for product development initiatives. The trade show and conference annually attracts 16,000 industry professionals including the world's top beauty and personal care brands and suppliers from mass market to prestige.

The three-day HBA educational program will cover subject areas of high industry relevancy and focus on Innovation, Brand Development, Skin Care, Natural & Sustainable, and Packaging. The HBA conference department is looking for speaker proposals from beauty and personal care professionals from consumer products companies as well as joint presentations from design, marketing, technical or supplier firms and their brand owner partners.

"We look forward to working with the top minds in the business in providing conference delegates with unparalleled industry knowledge that generates new ideas and foster business growth and professional development," said Dina-Marie Nicovic, Conference & Education Director at HBA Global.

Those interested in speaking at HBA are encouraged to submit an on-line speaker application here: http://www.hbaexpo.com/speaker-submission-form.

Submission guideline and tips can be found here: http://www.hbaexpo.com/submission-guidelines and the deadline is November 16, 2012. More information about HBA, including this past year's sessions and speakers, can be found at: http://www.hbaexpo.com/2012-conference or contact Ms. Nicovic at dinamarie.nicovic@ubm.com or call 609-759-7611.

About HBA Global Expo & Conference http://www.hbaexpo.com produced by UBM Live, is the premier product development sourcefrom concept to marketfor the cosmetics, personal care, skin care, fragrance and wellness industries and features a comprehensive educational program and exhibits floor. HBA visitors comprise the top prestige, mass and emerging beauty and personal care brands worldwide. The HBA Global Digital Trade Show that took place in September can be viewed on demand here: http://www.hbaexpo.com/reconnect-ondemand. The next HBA Global Expo & Conference will take place June 18-20, 2013 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. Connect with the HBA Global communities on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter.

About UBM Live UBM Live connects people and creates opportunities for companies across five continents to develop new business, meet customers, launch new products, promote their brands and expand their markets.Through premiere brands such as MD&M, CPhI, IFSEC, TFM&A, Cruise Shipping Miami, the Concrete Show and many others, UBM Live exhibitions, conferences, awards programs, publications, websites and training and certification programs are an integral part of the marketing plans of companies across more than 20 industry sectors.

Media Contact: Annie Scully, 908-824-7938, annie.scully@ubm.com

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FE News (www.fenews.co.uk) is the largest online news site in the Further Education, Skills and Welfare to Work sector. Here is a video explaining a couple of advertising options on FE News.... ranging from site wide online advertisements, conference video coverage through to Executive / Principal job advertising on FE News and FE Careers.From:fenewsViews:11 0ratingsTime:02:21More inEducation

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The Minerva Project aims to create a high-status online university. Instead, it may be the sign of a venture-capital bubble in online education.

Harvard, by many measures the most prestigious college in the U.S., has been at it for nearly 400 years. Ben Nelson, founder of an online education startup called the Minerva Project, says he can do equally well in just three.

Minerva is one of the least-publicized but also most well-funded and audacious of the current crop of online education startups. Funded with $25 million from Benchmark Capitalone of the well-known venture-capital firm's largest-ever investmentsMinerva says it will begin accepting applicants in 2015 for an entirely Web-based college program. The resulting undergraduate degree, it promises, will have all the prestige of anything the Ivy League can offer, but at half the cost.

Many people would dismiss Minerva's notion of some sort of instant online Harvard as the fever dream of someone who had sat through one too many TED talks. But the for-profit company's assumptions about how the Internet will change education can be found, to varying degrees, in most of the scores of startups now getting venture money to do instruction online.

The level of venture-capital investments in education has nearly doubled in 2011, and now rivals figures last seen during the dot-com boom. Representative of the crop is Courseraformed by two Stanford computer scientistswhich offers a growing list of free online classes (see The Technology of Massive Open Online Courses). Even though Coursera has no clear plans for how to make money, an investor involved in its initial $16 million financing said other top VCs pleaded by phone and e-mail to get in on the deal, regardless of the price. It's the sort of enthusiasm that often signals a tech investing bubble.

Some of the new online startups are offering free "massive open online courses," or MOOCs, that lead not to a traditional college degree but to a "certification" in a specialized field like computer programming. Minerva, though, is an entirely different pedagogical species. The San Francisco-based company aims at a soup-to-nuts undergraduate education, resulting in a traditional bachelor's degree, but all via the Web, and with all of the social cachet of the country's priciest sheepskin.

It's that last claim that raises the most questions, especially since Nelson, its 36-year-old founder, has no experience in education; his previous gig was with Snapfish, a photo-sharing site bought in 2005 by Hewlett-Packard. But Nelson managed to not only score a huge investment from Benchmarkthe same VC firm that backed the likes of eBay, Yelp, and Mintbut also persuaded a group of A-list luminaries, including former Harvard president Larry Summers, to be on its board of advisors.

They no doubt responded to Nelson's high-energy personality, fully on display in a recent interview in a San Francisco coffee shop. (Minerva not only lacks an ivy-coated administration building; it doesn't even yet have a permanent office.)

Nelsons aim is nothing less than to remake higher education, in part via technology, but also by rethinking the college experience. For example, freshmen won't take traditional introductory classes, but instead will be trained in how to think. Topics will include the likes of complex systems analysis and "multi-modal communications," the latter, says Nelson, being a 21st century update on the ancient art of rhetoric.

After that, students will branch out, much as they do in a traditional liberal arts college, with a few differences. For one, Minerva won't offer anything resembling a lecture or introductory class; if students want to learn the history of philosophy, they will need to learn it themselves, perhaps by taking a class via Coursera.

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Checking accreditation and graduation rates can help students choose a reputable online degree program.

Advances in technology over the past decade have propelled colleges and universities into the realm of online education, creating a crowded market for students considering an online degree.

But not all programs are a safe bet.

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Online colleges have been criticized for putting profits over students; some have even been the subject of lawsuits claiming misrepresentation or fraud. To avoid scams, students need to be savvy consumers and do their research before signing up for an online degree program, experts say.

These indicators that can help students tell a good online program from a bad one.

Accreditation: Like a stamp of approval, accreditation tells students that a school or degree program meets certain academic standards. It also tells employers that graduates of the program are likely to be prepared for the workforce.

"If you really want a credential for a job, the most secure bet is to go to a regionally accredited institution," says Janet Moore, chief knowledge officer at the Sloan Consortium, a research organization specializing in online education.

While most colleges list their accreditation on their websites, students should do their legwork to ensure the school's credentials are legitimate. Some institutions tout phony credentials from accrediting bodies that either don't exist or aren't reputable, warns Anne Johnson, director of the advocacy group Campus Progress.

The Accrediting Council for Distance Education, for example, claims to be an "internationally recognized, independent and private education accrediting body," but is not recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or the Department of Education.

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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education is proud to welcome its first online cohort of Master of Education in Advanced Instruction students. The program's inaugural class began in September. Modeled after the school's popular online Master of Arts in Teaching program, the immersive online program is designed for current teachers who are ready to develop advanced teaching methods. Working closely with fellow educators, candidates explore leadership opportunities in their own schools and communities. Unlike many other Master's of Education programs, USC Rossier allows teachers to expand their practice while participating in live, online face-to-face class sessions and completing fieldwork in their own classroom.

"At USC Rossier, we pride ourselves on bringing innovation to the way that teachers are prepared for the classroom, giving them the tools and skills to be the most effective teachers for today's diverse student body," said Karen Symms Gallagher, Ph.D., Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education. "Now, being able to offer the Master of Education in Advanced Instruction online means that we can educate current teachersand ultimately improve student outcomesall over the country and the world."

The Master of Education in Advanced Instruction prepares experienced kindergarten through 12th grade teachers to acquire the advanced research and effective teaching methods needed to help transform the lives of all students in three core subject areas: differing abilities, humanities and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Students also have the option to earn an additional Special Education Credential and Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Certificate. These specializations are designed to prepare teachers to develop and improve the specialized knowledge and skills needed to recognize and respond to individual differences among students with special education needs.

The online program, delivered through a virtual classroom environment and interactive platform developed by 2U, formerly known as 2tor, includes the same academically rigorous curriculum as the on-campus program, and classes are taught by the same USC faculty. Students benefit from an experience that is similar to a traditional brick-and-mortar classroom experience: a unique blend of live, face-to-face class sessions and self-paced coursework. Essentially, this program is the same online as it would be on-campus; it's simply offered through a different method of delivery.

When students enter the online classroom they see a "Brady Bunch" style grid of live-stream video that fosters interaction and collaboration among 10-12 other students and the professor. During class, students can take notes, view slides, discuss questions in a chat pod, break into groups, or "raise their hand" to answer a question. At any time, students can view their wall in a format that is similar to other familiar social media sites; check their class schedule or grades; catch up on missed reading; watch a supplementary video or join any number of the thousands of online social groups or communities.

This rich online experience is paired with critical hands-on field-based teaching experiences.

"I know my online students just as wellsometimes even betterthan I know the students I have in my in-person courses," said Dr. Laila Hasan, Associate Professor of Clinical Education at USC Rossier. "This program isn't just watching a few videos and taking a few quizzes. It's real, rigorous, graduate-level education."

Unlike nearly all other Master's of Education programs, USC's Master's of Education students complete their fieldwork in the context of their own classrooms, with their own students and within their own communities. They video record their practicum exercises and are evaluated by Rossier faculty. The program takes a unique approach to helping students apply their new skills to overcome relevant, real world challenges in education. Students are required to complete an action research project that identifies an education-related problem of practice and develop an action research project to address the problem. The Master's of Education program extends USC's ongoing commitment that USC Rossier graduates will enter their profession fully prepared and able to improve learning in urban education.

"Because of our successful online Master of Arts in Teaching program, we know that delivering high-quality teacher preparation online is possible with the right technology and the right mindset," says Dean Gallagher. "We will continue exploring new ways, like bringing the Master of Education online, to produce more well-prepared teachers."

For more information, visit http://rossieronline.usc.edu/academics/masters-of-education-program/

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