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Dialog Semiconductor plc (DLG.F), a provider of highly integrated innovative power management, audio and short range wireless technologies, today announced Jabra has adopted the company's short-range wireless audio ICs to create the Jabra PRO(TM) 9450 Flex JP headset, which connects with office phones and PCs running VoIP calling software, such as Skype or Microsoft Lync.

The Jabra PRO 9450 Flex JP is a stylish, high-performance, lightweight wireless headset and is the first system to use Dialog's chips for the Japanese variant of the DECT standard. It has up to a 120-metre range, delivers up to 10 hours of talk time and integrates Dialog's SC14480 single-chip CAT-iq IC in the headset, with Dialog's LMX4180 DECT transceiver and SC14450 high-end baseband processor in the base-station.

The Jabra PRO 9450 Flex JP is optimised for noisy work environments, while providing industry leading wireless audio quality. The headset runs Dialog's Perfect Acoustic Echo Canceller (PAEC) and background noise cancellation with a wideband audio codec.

For wireless audio applications, the DECT standard enables energy efficiency enhancements, easy pairing, wide-band audio data rates and secure connectivity. Dialog is the market leader in this segment and its portfolio covers all regional versions of DECT plus the 2.4 GHz DCT protocol and also includes the DECT ULE family of products; SmartPulse. The adoption by Jabra further extends the recent deployment of Dialog's DECT technologies into a broader range of short range wireless audio applications; including professional headsets, wireless microphones and gaming.

'A growing number of OEMs are realising the potential that DECT has in enabling long range, high-performance, low power robust systems with ample bandwidth; integrating the technology into a greater range of applications,' said Asmund Tielens, Vice President & General Manager Connectivity and Automotive & Industrial Business Group of Dialog. 'Jabra was among the first to see this potential and is a brand renowned for innovation, exceptional quality and sleek design; and the 9450 Flex JP is no exception,' concluded Tielens.

The SC14480 is the world's first monolithically integrated DECT/DCT solution in standard CMOS and integrates Flash memory and a high-performance Gen2DSP core, which provides the processing power to support the superior voice quality of the CAT-iq standard and other features. The SC14480 can operate directly from Li-ion cells, reducing external component costs and makes the chip ideal for headset applications.

The SC14450 processor uses a multi-core architecture and delivers 240 MIPS of processing power. It features a 16-bit CompactRISC(TM) processor, plus two user-programmable Gen2DSPs and runs multiple audio codecs with best-in-class acoustic echo cancellation alongside other embedded applications. In addition, the SC14450 supports a variety of external memories, and features an integrated class D amplifier, power and battery management options, a white LED driver and a wide variety of peripheral interfaces including master / slave PCM, UART, SPI, dual-access bus and USB client.

The LMX4180 CMOS RF transceiver supports a variety of DECT variants including standard (1880-1900 MHz) and DECT 6.0 (1920-1930 MHz). It is fully compatible with Dialog's advanced basebands enabling customers to have a complete solution.

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LONDON, August 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

A book entitled A Life in Food, a personal perspective on cooking and hospitality by the pioneer of boutique hotels, is proving to be a big winner for a new children's kidney centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Written by Bea Tollman, the Founder and President of Red Carnation Hotels, the book has been so successful that it is being reprinted for the third time. Its earlier two editions have completely sold out, selling nearly 8000 copies. Patients with kidney conditions at Great Ormond Street Hospital are benefitting from this remarkable success, with the full selling price of the book going towards Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.[1]

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A Life in Food is part cookery book, part autobiography. It charts Bea Tollman's remarkable career in the hospitality industry. In three continents, and in a career spanning more than 50 years, she has been at the forefront of the trend towards boutique hotels. The lavishly-illustrated account of her life is interspersed with recipes for many of the 'signature' dishes which she has created at her restaurants and hotels.

Bea Tollman said, "Over the years, many people have asked me how I learned to cook, and where my journey with both fine dining and comfort food began. A Life in Food is the result. I hope it brings to others a little of the pleasure which cooking has given me all my life. And I am delighted that proceeds from the book are going to such an important cause."

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Red Carnation owns and operates 14 award-winning luxury boutique hotels. These are situated in the UK, the Channel Islands, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States. They are predominantly 5-star, providing a level of service considered by many to be unparalleled. Not only is this reflected in the countless industry and media awards which the hotels have won, but in the words and actions of regular guests, whose repeat business, reviews and recommendations to others are a source of enormous pride for everyone involved.

In London, Red Carnation has the Milestone, 41, Egerton House, The Chesterfield (Mayfair), The Montague and The Rubens. In Evershot, Dorset, it has Summer Lodge, an outstanding country house hotel. In St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Red Carnation has two hotels - The Old Government House and the Duke of Richmond. In Geneva, Red Carnation has the Hotel d'Angleterre, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva. And in Palm Beach, Red Carnation has The Chesterfield (Palm Beach). Finally, in South Africa, Red Carnation has three hotels - the Twelve Apostles, just outside Cape Town; Bushman's Kloof, a Relais & Chteau hotel located in the heart of the bush, nearly 130 miles from Cape Town; and the Oyster Box at Umhlanga.

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust is the country's leading centre for treating sick children, with the widest range of specialists under one roof. With the UCL Institute of Child Health, we are the largest centre for paediatric research outside North America and play a key role in training children's health specialists for the future.

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The Three Forks formation lies below the Bakken in many of the same areas in North Dakota and Montana and saw additional testing and development by oil and gas operators active in the area during the second quarter of 2012.

Leader

Continental Resources (NYSE: CLR) has done more development in the Three Forks formation than any other operator active in the area. The company has delineated the play into four separate benches, or zones, and has drilled two successful wells into the second bench of the Three Forks in different areas on its acreage.

Continental Resources plans to drill wells into the first and third benches to test the productivity of these zones. The companys long term plan is to drill eight wells per 1280 acre section, with four into the Bakken and four into the Three Forks.

Continental Resources has grown rapidly on the strength of its Bakken program and will also benefit from the development of the Three Forks. In June 2012, the company increased its oil and gas production to over 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) per day.

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Murphy Oil (NYSE: MUR) is just starting the companys Three Forks development program and reported during the recent quarter that its first well in the Alberta Basin was producing 280 barrels of oil per day after being on production for almost seven months. The companys second completed well into the Three Forks was producing 100 barrels of oil per day after 70 days.

While these production rates might seem low to some investors, it is common for to see low rates at the start of development while operators refine their well design and completion techniques. Murphy Oil plans to drill a third well into the Three Forks in the fourth quarter of 2012.

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A Cawthron Institute scientist appearing for New Zealand King Salmon yesterday told the hearing considering whether to allow the company to expand its farms that his personal opinion was that there should be no marine farming in the Marlborough Sounds.

Professionally, he believed the effects of extra salmon farms on the water column would be minor, and he was confident that monitoring systems could be set up to mitigate any effects from additional salmon farms in the Sounds.

Paul Gillespie was questioned by Sustain Our Sounds lawyer Warwick Heal about Cawthron's role in the application, and whether the company supported King Salmon's proposal.

Dr Gillespie said he did not accept any suggestion that Cawthron was pushing the company's proposal.

Cawthron scientists had assessed the application according to science. Scientists' personal views, which they kept separate from their professional views, could be totally different.

He had worked in circumstances where that was the case, and he had to be very careful.

Mr Heal asked Dr Gillespie for his personal view on the King Salmon application, and he said on a personal basis in this case, he had some bias.

"My personal opinion, I'm a reactionary. I don't like to see any development in any sort of natural environment. I'm a keen fisherman, I spend a lot of my time on the water. I have a place in the Sounds. I don't like to see any development, mussels or salmon. I like to see it wide open. That's just me.

"My professional experience and professional opinion is in my two briefings of evidence."

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By: Mitch Hodge | SCNOW Published: August 29, 2012 Updated: August 29, 2012 - 1:21 PM

WHAT I READ: I never went to college, so I used books as my college. I love business and personal development books.

LAST BOOK READ: The last book I read was Entreleadership by Dave Ramsey -- awesome book about leadership and how to grow a business.

BOOK THAT MOVED ME: Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki was the first book I ever read by choice, and it began the journey of success and personal development.

ALL-TIME FAVORITES: I could easily list 15 favorite books, so this is a hard one. Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill, The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale

FAVORITE AUTHOR AND WHY: My favorite author would have to be Jim Rohn. He has a way of simplifying concepts to be used for success in life and success in business.

WHAT I READ AT THE BEACH: I can never be caught on a plane or on a vacation without some kind of fitness magazine!

IVE BEEN MEANING TO READ: Any book by Warren Buffet -- I have yet to read any of his books.

-- Originally from Sumter, Mitch Hodge moved to Florence four years ago to pursue a real estate career and found his passion in life as a Realtor and property manager at Eaddy Company. He has been married to his wonderful wife, Danielle, for three years. The Hodges have a black lab they consider their child (Sometimes its ridiculous, Mitch says). When theyre not spoiling their lab, the Hodges never pass up a chance to travel. Mitch said he and his wife consider themselves blessed to live the life they do and never take it for granted.

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ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire -08/29/12)- CORE Education and Consulting Solutions, Inc. (CORE ECS), a leading global education company providing assessments, interventions and content solutions for districts and states serving Pre-K, K-12, Employability, Special Education and Higher Education sectors, today announced that Nicole Neal has been appointed President of their Assessment and Solutions Division.

Neal will oversee all US education marketing, sales, client services and product development of CORE's marquee suite of assessment solution offerings, including:

Neal will report directly to Mr. Sanjeev Mansotra, Chairman and Global CEO of CORE ECS' parent company CORE Education & Technologies Ltd.

On Neal's appointment, Mr. Sanjeev Mansotra stated that: "CORE's vision is to be a global leader in the education domain by providing the best-of-breed end-to-end solutions. Dominance in the US is a critical aspect of how we will achieve our vision. The wealth of experience that Nicole brings to our senior management team will not only ensure that CORE ECS' record of cutting edge assessment and learning platforms continues to uniquely serve the needs of students, parents and educators but also will be instrumental in supporting our US growth trajectories."

Said Nicole Neal on joining CORE ECS: "I am thrilled to be joining CORE at a point in time when the education industry is thirsting for innovation and creative solutions, to old and new educational challenges. CORE ECS' state-of-the-art products and transformative approach to solving problems makes it well poised to have a real impact on the lives of learners and teachers. I am sure it will be an enriching experience for me to be a part of a global education company with market leadership in the UK and India, and a strong presence in emerging markets like the Middle East and Africa."

Most recently Neal served as Senior Vice President of Major Accounts and State Services at Pearson Education Inc., one of the world's largest education publishing and technology companies. Prior to Pearson, Neal served as Senior Vice President of Client Services with Schoolnet, Inc. where she played an important part in helping to drive the company's accelerated growth, leading to Pearson's acquisition of Schoolnet.

As a seasoned business executive with more than two decades of experience and a series of successes with large and mid-sized firms, particularly focused on operations and emerging educational and business strategies, CORE is confident that Neal is the right person to lead the next chapter of CORE's leadership in the US education domain.

Neal holds a bachelor's degree with honors in Computer Science Engineering from Binghamton University's Watson School of Engineering and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Maryland University College with a master's degree in Business Administration.

CORE ECS is the US subsidiary of listed Indian global education leader CORE Education & Technologies Ltd. with a market capitalization of about $600 million as of August 28th, 2012.

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Your education doesn't have to stop once you leave schoolfreedom from the classroom just means you have more control over what you learn and when you learn it. We've put together a curriculum of some of the best free online classes available on the web this fall for our third term of Lifehacker U, our regularly-updating guide to improving your life with free, online college-level classes. Let's get started.

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Fountain Hills Unified School District maintains a partnership with Mesa Distance Learning for online education options but, back in 2009, the local district was approved to lay the groundwork for its own online program.

FHUSDs online classes have been operated under probationary status for the past three years, set for final approval by the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year.

While Superintendent Tom Lawrence said he does not foresee any complications preventing the districts online program from reaching final approval, he said that funding for a fully fleshed out offering simply isnt in the cards at this time.

[Average Daily Membership] is a big part of it, Lawrence said.

You basically need seed money to get something like this up and going and we dont have a source for that yet.

In 1998, the Arizona Legislature created the TAPBI Program to improve student achievement and extend academic options beyond the traditional classroom.

The original group of schools included the Mesa Distirct, Peoria, and a handful of other district and charters, Lawrence said.

The Arizona Online Initiative opened it up to a second wave of schools a few years ago and we jumped in on that. We received approval and began our pilot program.

FHUSD was approved for every course it submitted, including oral communication, written communication, honors/pre-AP English, world history and geography, United States history, economics/free enterprise, education professions 1, elements of design, photography II, photography III, advanced placement studio art and 2D design, graphics intern and boys health.

The high school offered social studies, U.S. history and sophomore English during its pilot year in 2010-11 and, since then, have had a handful of students take advantage of the program each year.

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COME National Day, yoga enthusiasts of all ages from Malaysia and overseas will be gathering to celebrate freedom and liberate their body of pain and stress at the Malaysian International Yoga Competition (MIYC) 2012.

Some 800 yoga practitioners and 5,000 spectators are expected to converge at Kandiah Hall, SJKT Vivekananda, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, for the event that will be held on Aug 31 from 9am to 6pm.

The event is organised by the Malaysian Yoga Society (MYS) with the support of Malaysian Association of Yoga Instructors (Mayi).

MIYC, which was held at a national level during its initial two years, expanded to include international yoga practitioners last year.

It is expected to have 25% of this years participants hailing from countries such as Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, India, Sri Lanka, Iran and Australia.

MYS and Mayi founder Mani Sekaran said the event aims to create awareness that yoga is for everybody, serve as a platform to network and meet people with similar interests, and encourage a healthy lifestyle.

It is also an opportunity for the public to see for themselves the benefits of yoga and dispel myths associated with the practice the prevalent ones being that one needs to be of a certain gender, weight and age to practice yoga, he said.

Yoga is accessible to all regardless of age, size, background and physical limitations.

It provides an avenue for everyone to become healthy, both physically and mentally, without needing any special athletic skills.

Mani, who has 35 years experience in yoga including 15 years as instructor, said yoga is a mind and body practice that requires practitioners to focus on their breathing and be mindful of their body.

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