Hays, in conjunction with the Top 50 Call Centres for Customer Service initiative, has reported that UK call centres are attracting more graduate employees. Hays Contact Centres revealed that over two in five (43%) call centre managers have experienced a rise in graduate applications over the last twelve months and 35% of call centre workers are now educated to an undergraduate university level, compared to 25% in 2009. The level of interest from graduates is not surprising, given that there are currently around 70 graduates for every job vacancy compared to just ...

5pm.co.uk, the restaurant reservation and reviews website, and free business newspaper Business7 have announced that nominations for The Scottish Restaurant Awards 2011, which take place on Monday 28th February 2011 at the Glasgow Science Centre, are now open. Dining out is a multi-million pound industry in Scotland and a big part of daily life, with the restaurant trade a vital component both as an employer and as a service provider to millions of customers every year. The Scottish Restaurant Awards celebrate and reward Scotland's very best eating establishments, whether ...

Northern Rock's new interactive mortgage website has been commended by a leading magazine for its 'best use of digital by sector'. The new Northern Rock mortgage site was launched in April this year and managed to fight off stiff competition to win the prestigious accolade at the Communicate Magazine's Digital Impact Awards. The award presentation was held at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill in order to celebrate excellence in digital stakeholder communications. Northern Rock, along with digital agency TH_NK, who helped design the website, succeeded in beating off ...

Guoman's five-star The Royal Horseguards has scooped the prestigious accolade of London Hotel of the Year, receiving the sought-after award at the renowned AA Hospitality Awards 2010 - 2011. AA Hotel Services group area manager Giovanna Grossi said: "We selected The Royal Horseguards Hotel as AA Hotel of the Year for London because this historic hotel has risen from the ashes, successfully managing the transformation from a commercial four star hotel to an impressive five star property. A stylish refurbishment programme, heavy investment in staff training and development, ...

Promethean, the interactive learning technology provider, organised a rare opportunity for pupils from Maidenhead and Reading to see a life size replica of the Bloodhound Supersonic Car. They were also able to meet and question Richard Noble OBE about the Bloodhound project, and its attempts to set a new World Land Speed Record and exceed the 1,000mph milestone for the first time. The event was organised by Promethean to mark the official opening of its new offices in Maidenhead. The company is the Bloodhound project's official interactive education technology partner ...

ChamonixInfo.com is an expert on all things Chamonix and the portal has decided to make the most of this knowledge to expand the services offered on its website by launching an online hotel booking service with live availability. Chamonix is one of the most popular alpine resorts in France, with a high demand for accommodation year round. Online booking has become a lifestyle choice, unlike traditional ways of organising holidays, which is why more and more travellers are choosing to arrange and book their own independent holiday to resorts such as Chamonix for added ...

British Airways is to increase the number of flights to the Caribbean starting from March 27, 2011 due to the success of its long-haul leisure routes departing from London Gatwick. The airline continues to show its commitment to the Caribbean with a total of 15 destinations to choose from, making it even easier and more convenient than ever before for customers to book their dream Caribbean holidays. Flights to Barbados will increase from 10 to 12 services a week, Antigua will increase from five to six services a week and the St Lucia - Port of Spain service will ...

After recalling 93,000 hip implants and admitting a shocking 13 percent failure rate, Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Orthopaedics is now blaming victims of the defective hip implants, arguing that they were careless and caused their own injuries. At the same time, an insurance adjuster hired by DePuy may be recording phone calls with patients injured by the defective hip, and DePuy may attempt to use these recordings against the victims. Seeger Salvas LLP, a law firm that represents victims of DePuy's hip replacement recall, warns patients to be aware that DePuy may record their ...

Chicago's own 7th heaven band will be featured on stage at the official 1985 Chicago Bears Reunion, Allstate GLORY DAYS 'Legends of the '85 Chicago Bears.' The band will play in the event's opening and closing, and throughout the show while accompanying Coach Mike Ditka, Dan Hampton, Jim McMahon, Gary Fencik, Willie Gault and the '85 Chicago Bears team on stage. These Legends of the Chicago Bears are reuniting after 25 years to reminisce together and share never-before-heard personal stories from the '85 season and Super Bowl XX. "To play at the Bears Reunion show ...

The 20th Anniversary ZAP Festival consists of four events in three days, showcasing approximately 250 wineries, pouring their barrel samples and new releases, together with educational seminars, culinary demonstrations and decadent food pairings. The ZAP Festival is the most comprehensive showing of Zinfandel wines in the world. Main Festival Events: - Thursday January 27, 2011: "Good Eats and Zinfandel Pairing", Fort Mason Center, San Francisco: 6:00 to 9:00pm. Foodies rejoice! Enjoy delectable pairings from 50 restaurants and 50 wineries. Cost: $140 public/$100 members - ...

Fairies With Children (The Yes on hate Episode) opens October 22nd at the Meta Theatre on Melrose. The show is a drag musical spoof of the popular 90s sitcom. A group of gay activists move to the suburbs disguised as the famous American sitcom family to better understand conservatives. Unknowingly, they find a foreclosed upon home right next door to Senator Bavid Breier and his live-in ... assistant. The character of Senator Bavid Breier is loosely based on Congressmen David Dreier, once a Republican favorite until he was ousted from his closet by Mike Rogers on his BlogActive ...

In a two-year investigation many of the deep dark secrets, rumors and stories surrounding Carole Lewis Baskin and Big Cat Rescue of Tampa Florida now have more light shed on them than many people would wish for. During a recent tour of Big Cat Rescue, this reporter and two other affiliates paid $25.00 to take a tour with approximately 25 other people to see this wonder billed as an accredited Big Cat Rescue. Our tour consisted of a jungle of rusty wire (which they call beautiful cages), filthy living conditions, and cats being forced to sleep in dens full of trash, feces ...

Score.ly unlocked its own achievement when it landed the top prize held recently at a Startup Weekend event in New York City. AOL Ventures awarded a $10,000 scholarship to fund the concept and bring a beta to the masses. Score.ly allows users to collect, manage and share their achievements with the world. "Above all else, we chose the team that we believe had the highest potential to execute and move forward as a world-class company," said Shirley Xu, an associate with AOL Ventures and a judge at the event. "We liked many of the concepts at Startup Weekend, but the Score.ly ...

Teijin Aramid and Avantium announced today that they have entered into an R&D partnership to explore high-performance polymers. The partnership builds on Teijin Aramid's world leading position of polyaramids and Avantium's catalytic technology for producing building blocks for green materials and fuels. Avantium is a research and technology company that is unlocking a new generation of biobased chemical building blocks, under the brand name YXY. The companies will work together to explore the properties and commercial potential of high-performance polymers containing ...

iSCSI SAN expert Qsan will showcase its 10GbE iSCSI storage solutions at VMworld Europe 2010. Qsan P500Q high availability systems are VMware ready and embedded with advanced data protection features including QSnap writeable snapshot, volume cloning, and QReplica remote replication. It is also able to achieve higher IOPS than VMware can support which is great for virtualization and cloud applications; with up to 220K IOPS, IT administrators can install multiple VMware ESX servers in a shared Qsan storage system without performance impact. The VMware ESX servers can ...

After a month-long search and poring over thousands of entries, Whataburger announces the winners in its "Tell Us Why You're Our Biggest Fan" online contest, launched in August in celebration of the Southern burger icon's 60th Anniversary. Carol and Karl Hoepfner of Rockport, Texas, who have been customers since 1963 and enjoy breakfast together daily at their local Whataburger, are the grand prize winners and will receive a prize package worth more than $10,000, including gift cards for "60 Years of Free Whataburger." In their winning entry, the Hoepfners wrote, ...

InfoTech, a leading technology provider in the Government and Financial and Media industries based in New York, New York with offices in Minot, North Dakota, announces the release of its new Mobile Research Library Access for iPad/iPhone software application to the financial industry. The newly released application fully leverages the benefits provided by the iPad/iPhone mobile computing platform including: - Provides a major competitive edge to users of the application over the competition. - Allows fast and convenient access to the clients' latest research data. - ...

Today the National Association of Construction Contractors Cooperation (NACCC), a nonprofit 501-C-3 Corporation headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., launches the nation's first National Registry of HUD Section 3 Certified Business Concerns. The National Registry, accessible online at www.NACCCUSA.org, will enable governmental agencies, housing developers and general contractors constructing HUD Section 3 covered housing projects the ability to easily locate and authenticate business concerns claiming Section 3 Certification. For the first time in the 42-year history of ...

With the worrying rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs like MRSA, scientists from a wide range of disciplines are teaming up to identify alternative therapies to keep them at bay. One long-considered solution is the use of lytic enzymes which attack bacteria by piercing their cell walls. Lytic enzymes are proteins that are naturally present in viruses, bacteria and in body fluids such as tears, saliva and mucus. However, until now, largely ad-hoc methods have been used to calculate the enzymes' killing abilities. New research published tomorrow, Monday 4 October, ...

The exploration vessel Nautilus, with a team of experts of the University of Haifa's Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, headed by Prof. Zvi Ben Avraham, discovered for the first time an area of reefs with deep-sea corals in the Mediterranean, offshore of Israel. This area apparently stretches over a few kilometers, 700 meters under the surface and some 30-40 km off the coast of Tel Aviv. According to the researchers, this southeastern region of the Mediterranean has only sparse sea life and therefore the discovery is in fact parallel to discovering an oasis in ...

Tucked within its double-helix structure, DNA contains the chemical blueprint that guides all the processes that take place within the cell and are essential for life. Therefore, repairing damage and maintaining the integrity of its DNA is one of the cell's highest priorities. Researchers at Vanderbilt University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a fundamentally new way that DNA-repair enzymes detect and fix damage to the chemical bases that form the letters in the genetic code. The discovery is reported in an advanced online ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Interactive gaming devices can cause a broad range of injuries, from abrasions and sprains to shoulder, ankle and foot injuries, according to research presented Monday, Oct. 4, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco. While relatively new, interactive gaming devices, such as Nintendo Wii, are tremendously popular. They differ from traditional video games in that they require participants to physically mime the movements of a particular sport or activity while competing against a real or computer-generated ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Implementing a Medical Home practice model in a health clinic allows physicians and staff to provide comprehensive care to more patients, and to offer preventive programs and services. This can improve patients' compliance with their doctors' recommendations and reduce emergency room visits and hospital admissions, according to research presented Monday, Oct. 4, 2010, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco. The study, "Doing Well by Doing Good," outlines the evolution of a federally qualified health ...

SAN FRANCISCO – New mothers who smoke are less likely to breastfeed. But those who quit smoking during or just prior to becoming pregnant were significantly more likely to remain smoke free and continue breastfeeding if they received support and encouragement during the first eight weeks following child birth, according to a study presented Monday, Oct. 4, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco. Mothers who smoke are more than twice as likely to quit breastfeeding before their child is 10 weeks old, and more than ...

SAN FRANCISCO – While more American mothers are breastfeeding today, non-Hispanic Black/African American women are less likely to initiate and continue breastfeeding, primarily due to a lack of desire and lack of self-efficacy, according to research presented Monday, Oct. 4, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco. Fifty-four percent of black women initiate breastfeeding, compared to the 73 percent national average. In the study, "Barriers to Breastfeeding Reported by Exclusively Formula Feeding Mothers," urban ...