As the name suggests, aspiring bands from all participating Universities are pitted against each other in a League-style battle of the bands competition, with a variety of opportunities and prizes up for grabs. All bands will be heard by music industry professionals and get their material exposed in various ways. From performing at some of London's trendiest venues, to the winner recording an EP with a top producer in a fantastic studio, the benefits for all contestants are endless. With some of the biggest bands like Blur, Coldplay and Queen emerging out of Universities ...

GPRS Recruitment. A new report commissioned by permanent recruitment specialists, GPRS Recruitment, reveals that a majority (23%) of qualified professionals employed by businesses providing training in the workplace would consider moving to another employer, while (41%) stated they believe they could earn more with an alternative employer. Other key findings point to the reasons for this dissatisfaction: 67% of those surveyed receive no long service bonus, 58% have received no pay increase in the past 24 months, and 37% said that their salary reviews are currently on hold. ...

Softheme, a Ukrainian provider of high-end software outsourcing solutions, today announced its participation at the employment fair held at one of the biggest universities of Ukraine, the National Technical University of Ukraine Kiev Polytechnic Institute, on November 22, 2012. At the beginning of October, Softheme had already participated in a similar employment fair held at the Taras Shevchenko National University, "Impulse-Expo 2012". An employment fair is like an undiscovered ocean of opportunities for everyone who participates in it. For the company it ...

A new achievement added for Buckler Aquatics team. Over 42 years of swimming training experience has made a mark - Voted the best swim school in the GTA by the readers of 'City Parent' Magazine. Head says, at Buckler our team always looks for trying something new and exciting to train kids & adults the lifesaving skills which are undeniably beneficial in drowning prevention. Our instructors do a lot of individual coaching & apply variety tips to make classes interesting. Every year Buckler Aquatics make a mark in preparing competitive swimmers of all ages. Buckler ...

Now in its sixth year, the iGB Affiliate Awards will now be accepting nominations. A number of enhancements have been made to this year's awards, including the addition of new awards categories - Most Improved Affiliate Program, Financial Affiliate, Financial Affiliate Program and Best Financial Affiliate Manager. Nominations will close on the 9th of November 2012. Anyone working within the iGaming Affiliate industry enter the iGB Affiliate Awards whether nominating themselves and their organisation or on behalf of a third party individual/organisation. "Every ...

The new Aplusclick eBook with illustrated challenging math puzzles for MBA students and graduates features 100 problems and answers. The eBook for iPad includes many practical and thinking-outside-the-box problems, logic puzzles, and brainteasers. The problems can be solved without using a calculator. People with an itch for math will enjoy it. The exercises concentrate on understanding, spatial reasoning, and problem solving rather than math rules and theorems. Math Puzzles for MBAs features a collection of challenging math puzzles that people with masters of business ...

TURCK introduces new overmolded Mil-Spec Cordsets for rugged applications. Offering a more robust connectivity solution than field-assembled versions, these Mil-Spec Cordsets are 100 percent factory tested to ensure optimal performance for applications in harsh environments, including automotive, mobile equipment and oil and gas. Featuring a unique overmolded design, TURCK Mil-Spec Cordsets eliminate field assembly, soldering and wiring--allowing operators to reduce downtime and maintenance labor and costs. Overmolded cordsets also provide the flexibly to seal to a wide ...

Banner Engineering introduces the SureCross B2Q Gateway Module, developed to provide embeddable, dependable and cost-effective communication capabilities for the company's Q45 wireless sensor network. The module features discrete outputs and DIP switches to map inputs from up to two wireless sensors to the Gateway's outputs. With its board-level design and easy mounting capabilities, the Banner Q45 B2Q Gateway is easily embedded inside equipment, enclosures and on control panels. "The SureCross B2Q Gateway module features a cost-efficient design with a single board ...

Kids Travel Zone, the Ohio-based maker of personalized embroidered children's luggage, backpacks, accessories, school gear and other items, is celebrating 10 years in business with the launch of a do-it-yourself drawing tool that allows kids to draw their own images for embroidered products. Kids Travel Zone and its online retail site kidstravelzone.com are celebrating their 10-Year Anniversary with the new do-your-own doodle tool that allows kids to take an interactive approach to selecting their own customized travel gear, backpacks, accessories, child luggage and ...

"We are thrilled to be able to bring the full scope of general, medical, surgical and laser eye care to Athol patients. Whether patients need routine eye exams for glasses and contact lenses, evaluation for LASIK, exams for cataracts, cataract surgery & lens implants, exams and treatment of glaucoma or diagnosis and treatment of retina problems such as diabetic eye disease or age related macular degeneration-we can provide it for them, " stated Francis A. D'Ambrosio, Jr., M.D., Medical Director of D'Ambrosio Eye Care. "Our team of Athol eye doctors includes ...

SalesPortal (http://www.salesportal.com), the first partnership marketing network for enterprises with contact centers, today announced it has promoted Sujay Rao to vice president of product management. SalesPortal enables companies with contact centers to present their customers with relevant offers from marketing partners at the end of sales and service calls, generating new revenue streams in the process. Interested customers are live-transferred to the partnering companies, providing these partners with a new low-cost, high-quality customer acquisition channel. ...

Julius Nagy, President of J&N Realty, Inc., has been selected as an Honored Member of the Covington Who's Who Executive and Professional Registry. The selection recognizes Julius Nagy's commitment to excellence in Real Estate and Property Management. Nagy, who began working in the field in 1990, now serves as president of his organization, overseeing the entire operations. He boasts over twenty years of hands-on experience in the property and condominium management industry. "It was my desire to build one of the best property management companies in the industry ...

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated is pleased to invite the public to a reception to celebrate its fifth anniversary in Oyster Bay. The event will be held on Thursday, October 25, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the Sagamore Yacht Club, located at 1 Bay Avenue in Oyster Bay. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served. All are welcome; to R.S.V.P., please call (516) 624-2702. The Oyster Bay office is under the direction of Alex Gallego, Branch Manager and Senior Vice President/Investments. Mr. Gallego is a 15-year investment industry veteran who has served ...

There's still time to buy a new home this year, and move in before the holidays, at Pardee Homes' Canyon Hills master planned community. Nestled among scenic rolling hills and preserved open space in Lake Elsinore, are three new home neighborhoods by Pardee with 'buy today/move-in this year' availability. "With interest rates still at historic lows, and the end of 2012 in sight, it couldn't be better time to finally make that move to a new, energy-efficient home," said Matt Sauls, director of marketing for Pardee Homes. "As the master developer of Canyon ...

Jones Bridge Dental Care is redefining the phrase "put your money where your mouth is." This Halloween, trick-or-treaters can bring their excess candy to Jones Bridge Dental Care in Alpharetta and receive $1 per pound, for up to 5 pounds of candy. Dr. Leo Yelizarov is leading this anti-decay movement by giving away dollars in exchange for cavity-provoking candy. "Ditch the candy, that's what we're saying. Visiting your dentist twice a year and brushing daily are great preventative measures, but doing away with excess sweets altogether would really give ...

The Funding for Lending Scheme was launched in September in order to boost lending to mortgage borrowers and businesses who are struggling to get loans. The scheme was launched for banks and building societies to sign up to the scheme to enable them to lend at a cheaper interest rate to house buyers and mortgage borrowers. The lenders would be able to borrow Treasury bills up to 5 per cent of the amount they lend currently for up to four years and would use the bills to buy money for lending cheaply on the financial markets. The Funding for Lending Scheme is designed ...

Business owners use different kinds of tools to help them create extensive growth plans. More often than not, tools used are complicated to use and deliver less than exceptional results. Topo.ly is a mapping application that enables businesses to build maps from Excel spreadsheet locations in just three minutes or less. With their hands tied in operating and managing their businesses, building easy maps in a snap is what most companies need. Then they can easily spend their time where it should be spent in driving performance. According to Inez Steele of Realty Guild, ...

More than 100 providers declare securing patient data a primary concern as clinicians increasingly use mobile devices to access medical information, according to the 2012 "Mobile Applications: Can Enterprise Vendors Keep Up?" report. Among other issues, healthcare organizations are also concerned about how they manage and track all of those different devices with increasing numbers of clinicians using their own personal mobile devices to access patient data. "With the increased use of personal mobile devices in healthcare becoming more prevalent, providers ...

As many industries are starting to show signs of recovery from the impact of the recent recession, some experts believe the housing market is also expected to make a turnaround. According to a recent article from the Associated Press, "U.S. builders spent more to construct homes in August, further evidence of a housing rebound. Still, the increase [could not] offset cuts in public projects and commercial real estate." As CEO of the Lightstone Group--one of the largest and most successful privately held real estate companies in the United States--David Lichtenstein ...

Journal of Accountancy reports that the starting salaries for accounting and finance professionals in the United States are expected to rise in 2013. Although the strength of the economy remains uncertain, this particular field anticipates a starting salary increase between 2.7 and 4.5 percent next year, as compared to the statistics from the beginning of 2012. Kevin Den Adel, accounting lecturer and the Director of the Undergraduate Accounting Program at the University of Iowa, notes that the actual increase pertains to corporate accounting employees and depends upon the ...

King Jewelers cosponsored the Nashville Business Journal's 3rd Annual CFO Awards with Jaeger-LeCoultre at the elegant Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Monday, October 15th. Over 400 guests enjoyed an elegant evening hosted by Vaco, King Jewelers, Ernst & Young, NovaCopy, Oracle, and SunTrust Bank. Guests enjoyed a cocktail hour with a special Jaeger-LeCoultre watch exhibition with the presentation of the new Rendez-vous collection. The NBJ 2012 CFO Awards cocktail hour was followed by a dinner that honored this year's finalists and winners, all finalists received not ...

Dr. Jeffrey Skupny, dentist in Naples, Fl, has recently been honored with a Fellowship from the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. The Fellowship recognizes Dr. Skupny as a skilled implant dentist. "I am very excited to be honored with this Fellowship. I am highly trained in dental implants and I believe they are the best option to replace a lost tooth. I look forward to continuing to treat my patients with dental implants in the future," said Dr. Skupny, Naples dentist. To achieve the Fellowship, Dr. Skupny had to meet a few requirements. ...

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013 were released on October 4. Visix congratulates its customers who ranked high on this year's list of world class universities. Current Visix clients include four of the top 10, 12 of the top 25, 26 of the top 100, and 36 of the top 200. Each of these universities is using Visix digital signage software and many have custom interactive wayfinding designs from the company's creative services division. "We're thrilled for our clients to have achieved such high rankings in such a prestigious listing," ...

German Shepherd Breeder, I-Guard International traveled to the 2012 Rose City Working Dog Association (RCWDA) Regional Dog Trial and Conformation Show last month in Woodburn, Oregon. Jacqueline Lungu and the I-Guard team competed with three German Shepherds in the trial portion of the event and ten dogs competed in the conformation show. Two out of three dogs were awarded titles in the trial and nine of ten placed in the show and were awarded trophies. The highlights from the event included being awarded 1st place in the 9-12 month old category in the conformation ...

If you've never been skiing or snowboarding before, then you might feel put off by the technical jargon, specialist equipment and knowing exactly what kit you need. However, there is no longer the need to feel daunted as ski holidays specialist, Mark Warner has put together some special ski weeks for adult beginners to help you on your way to finding your ski legs! The specially selected weeks include all you need to get you on your way to discovering the amazing world of wintersports: ski or snowboard hire, lift passes and five half days of group ski or snowboard school, ...