NORWALK, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TMC and Crossfire Media today announced that the SIP Tutorial will return to ITEXPO on February 2-4, 2011, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. TMC and Crossfire Media also announced that a full-day SIP Tutorial will take place next Wednesday at the Liberty Hotel in Boston, MA, on December 8th. The SIP Tutorial provides updates on the latest Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) services, including: messaging; server types; security; firewall and NAT operation; SIP

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The craze for online degree programs has been increasing. Many people are eying on this degree for better prospectus in their career. To cater to the needs of these people, many Universities and institutions have come up with online MBA degree programs. This is because most of the desiring candidates do not have sufficient time to go to a business school and complete the course. Moreover, getting themselves admitted in a traditional business school costs lot more than an online program. Therefore, many students from across the world are opting to the distance learning programs.If you are one of the aspiring candidates who always wanted to get an MBA degree but never got time to fulfill this dream then it is the time you should start researching for a good university that offers online executive MBA. If you have got the minimum work experience of three years that most of these Universities ask as eligibility criterion then you can easily enroll in an online MBA program. The online courses are designed in a comprehensive manner that students can easily access from any place and at any time according to their convenience. Most of these Universities provide their students with online course material and virtual classrooms where professors of concerned subjects deliver lectures. Students are intimated of the timings of these classes well in advance. These easy to access and benefit of virtual classes has made online MBA degree much more popular.There are certain things that you should know if you want to enroll in an online executive MBA. The first thing is that you have to be skilled enough to use the online tools and should be able to acquaint yourself with this form of e learning. You should also remember that there are no class room restrictions and you have to impose rules and regulations upon you and adhere to the deliverables, assignments and examinations. You will have to access the online course using a user name and a password provided by the University. You can also get support from the support center. Online executive MBA is one of the most sought out programs that most of the working professionals opt for. Once you are clear with all the aspects of online executive MBA then it is just enrolling and maintaining self discipline to complete the course and get the certificate. Many subject matter experts, instructional designers, graphic designers and other software professionals work together to create online modules. These modules give ample scope for easy navigation and easy to understand modules. Online executive MBA is what most professionals complete among many online MBA degrees.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS ANNOUNCES GRANT TO MEXICAN HERITAGE CORPORATION of San Jose, California

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Jerusalem, Israel (TML) – Beautiful women may get first dibs for a place on the cheerleading squad or for a partner on the dance floor, but when it comes to the job market they would do better to hide their looks, a new study by Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has found.

Conventional wisdom has it that beautiful people are the most likely to be hired, even though laboratory tests and studies using hypothetical situations have found exactly the opposite to be the case. Two Ben-Gurion economists, however, broke new ground in their study “Are Good-Looking People More Employable?” by sending resumes — some with photographs of attractive women, some with pictures of Plain Janes and some with no picture at all — to real advertised job listings.

It was a bad day for the beautiful. Pictureless resumes were the most likely to get a call-back for an interview — 22% more than the resumes of Plain Janes and 30% more than for attractive women.

“I assumed the beauty premium for women was higher, but it was not,” Dr. Bradley Ruffle, one of the two economists who conducted the study, told The Media Line. “I suspected the order would go attractive, no picture and then plain. This was the exact result with the male applicants, but female candidates were treated differently.”

Attractive males elicited a callback on their resumes 19.9% of the time, while among ordinary ones the rate was 13.9%, the study found. Pictureless resumes got the lowest response rate of all, with just 9.2% getting a call-back. The difference is quite significant for job seekers: An attractive male need only send five resumes to perspective employer to get an interview, while his ordinary-looking rival has to send out 11, said Ze’ev Shtudiner, a PhD candidate and Ruffle’s colleague.

“This really goes against what I would assume about the hiring process,” Ayelet Hazie, the public relations manager at Manpower Israel told, The Media Line. “The results are very interesting and not at all expected.”

Israel was the ideal testing site for the study because, unlike most other countries, there is no set standard on whether or not to include a photo in a job application.

“In Anglo-Saxon countries, it’s taboo to send a picture, whereas in continental Europe it is the norm and in China the process of attaching a picture is regulated. In Israel, it’s an in-between case, and people are free to choose and the results shed light on when or when not to use a picture,” Ruffle said.

If female beauty is a handicap to employment, blame other women. A follow-up call to the companies posting jobs revealed that 96% of the time the first-line decision maker on whether to pursue an application was in the hands of a woman. Not only that, she was likely to be young (the average age was 29) and single (67%), two characteristics associated with a “jealous response” when confronted with a young, attractive rival in the workplace, the study said.

“Companies don’t discriminate against men, they treat all males alike. And the companies treat the women without pictures the same as the plain,” Ruffle said. “But the attractive women are discriminated against.”

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Chicago, IL, United States (AHN) – Walking may slow the progression of mental decline in adults with mild cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study.

Researchers with the University of Pittsburg said in a statement that walking five miles per week protects the brain structure for more than 10 years in people with cognitive disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease. This is especially true for the areas of the brain’s key memory and learning centers.

Lead researcher Cyrus Raji said regular walkers with Alzheimer’s disease also had a slower decline in memory loss over five years.

Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and cognitive skills. Between 2.4 million and 5.1 million Americans have the disease, and that number is expected to increase significantly in the next 10 years, the researchers said.

Raji presented his findings at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

He said because there is no cure, medical researchers are looking for ways to alleviate the disease’s progression or symptoms in people already suffering from it.

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Education is one of the necessary elements needed in one’s life for better livings and for maintaining standard in the society. Some people pursue education not for their earnings but for maintaining their image and standard in the educated society. On other hand time management is an important factor that decides the success of any effort that one takes. Most people have the quest to pursue their higher education but fail due to lack of time. People with present jobs and professionals find it hard to carry their higher education and in last they stated what they want from the education path. With the change in time and fashion, the trends of education are also getting change and now it took an unexpected turn towards online mode of studies where it got unlimited benefit of flexibility in terms of location and time. No restrictions over the education environment, over the regular classes and over the collection of study material that makes students favor towards online education mode of study.

Online learning comprises wide range of online degree courses in different themes including law, teaching, criminal justice, online mba degrees, sociology, paralegal, online health degree, psychology, Biology and online science degrees. In these day you will find number of online universities and colleges that offers wide verities of online programs at different levels like Western Governor’s University, Strayer University, Jones International University, Kaplan University, DeVry University Online, Grand Canyon University, Westwood College Online, University of Phoenix, Capella University and American Intercontinental University Online are some of the famous and world known online universities that offers bachelors, masters and doctoral level online programs.

Apart from these, many of the leading institutions and colleges have now started offering online degrees courses in almost all the streams. All these universities with online mba degrees welcome students from all over the world. Online education facilitates education from any remote location. It doesn’t matters where you are if you are connected with internet you can carry with your education that also facilitates easy conference among instructors and other course fellows through online technology.

During your travel or working with your present business you can continue with your higher education. It is one of the easiest modes of pursuing higher learning in order to accomplish your future plan and aims. People can have their degree courses while on their go. The biggest ever advantage is that people can have their study materials and online reference books in the electronic format which they can go through the portions whenever they get time. With the increase use of internet and online technology the demand of online degree courses has also risen at the very massive rate. From previous two years online mba degrees have got tremendous popularity and favorability among the students for pursuing their higher education. In these days you will find number of resources on the web like that offers complete information about online middle schools, high schools and online universities that welcomes students from all over the world.

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LONDRA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), provider del software di modelling avanzato gPROMS e di servizi tecnici correlati basati sui modelli, ha oggi annunciato i primi classificati nell’edizione 2010 del prestigioso riconoscimento PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize. I vincitori del primo premio, del valore di € 3.000, sono Ala Eldin Bouaswaig e il professor Sebastian Engell del Process Dynamics and Operations Group della Technische Universität Dortmund (Germania) per la ricerca

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Rome, Italy (AHN) – To protest against the Berlusconi administration’s education reform plans, which will see a cut of $12 billion and loss of 130,000 education-related jobs, Italian students on Thursday protested on the top of two major tourist attractions, forcing authorities to evacuate tourists from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Colosseum.

Some protesters hung a banner reading “No Cuts, No Profit!” from the medieval tower’s top tier, while hundreds of students jumped over turnstiles to protest inside the ancient amphitheater.

Nearly 2,000 students formed a human chain in Pisa around the tower and prevented tourists from entering it.

They also marched across the city. The Italian Parliament is scheduled to vote on the reforms next Tuesday.

Before leaving the sites, the students also lit red smoke flares and shouted anti-reform slogans.

There were also reports of student protests in other Italian cities and reports of student-police clashes in Florence and Milan.

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Criminal justice is an entirely different subject which serves an important purpose of providing services to the nation to abide by its law enforcement system. Increasing activities of felonious nature have triggered citizens to take upon interest in this subject and thus, there has been a great uproar for degree programs in this line. Keeping in mind the busy schedules and the nature of degree program, criminal justice online schools have been set up and have led to the introduction of various online degree courses.

Criminal justice online schools offer associate’s, bachelors, masters and even certificate courses for criminal justice. With the increasing rave for criminal justice study, the number of courses and specialization subjects are increasingly high and students are provided a wide variety of options to choose from. Paralegal studies are becoming very popular as paralegals work along with the attorneys and assist them in every dimension of work.
Forensic sciences are turning out to be an interesting topic to study which deals with having an eye for observation and analysis of crime facts.

The purpose of providing educational services through online schools is to make the education procedure as simple as possible and to help working people and others to be able to study courses at their homes with flexible programs and enabling them to study at times convenient and comfortable for them with the only purpose of being able to spread knowledge through such a genuine means.

University of Phoenix is a dedicated online school providing courses in masters of the subject with special majoring subjects as juvenile justice, corrections, law enforcement and forensics. Keiser University is an online institution providing associate’s, bachelors and master’s degree in criminal justice and provides variety of introductory lessons related to street gangs, victimology, drug control and forensic psychology. Kaplan University enjoys a position of respect amongst other online colleges and offers a range of criminal justice programs in associate’s, bachelors and master’s level. Everest University Online adopts a career-focused outlook and is intent on providing its students with the realties of working scenarios which will help them in the long run to be successful at their jobs. Lincoln College Online, US Career Institute, Colorado Technical University Online, Liberty University Online, University of Cincinnati, Ashford University Online, Walden University, Virginia Colleges are the names of a few important colleges and universities which provide online degrees in criminal justice.

The medium of online education is spreading like quick fire and has become easily acceptable to the people. Criminal justice online schools have been providing a chance to the masses to take a dip in this vast subject.

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Marka, Somalia (AHN) – Three children have died from diarrhea while more than 10 others are suffering from the disease in southern Somalia, local residents reported Saturday.

The children are said to have died in the last 24 hours in the village of Saraar-goobo in the Lower Shabelle region.

Locals told the press the disease commonly occurs in those areas, particularly in the hot season.

Most of the victims were reported taken to medical facilities in the Somali capital Mogadishu for treatment.

Hajji Ali Mohamoud, an elderly man in the village, called on relief agencies to reach at them soon. His statement comes as the whole region, which controlled by Al Shabaab, is experiencing severe drought.

The extremist group has banned more than 20 aid agencies from operating in southern Somalia.

In late October, three people died of thirst in the villages of Lego and Dudun gudud in the region after a severe drought struck the area, causing wells and lakes to run dry.

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