Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Discover eDiets for a Successful New Year

eDiets.com, Inc. is an online service offering professional dietary, nutritional, and exercise advice through its website. The company was formed in 1997. Originally called Practi-cal the original 12 week weight management program was based on Weighting For Wellness, written by Donna DeCunzo, RD,LD. The program incorporated nutrition, fitness, behavior modification and stress management as part of its tenets. Steve Johnson
programmed the database and Dave Humble wrote the business plan.

As of June 30, 2006, eDiets.com had over 2 million consumers worldwide and has received the Forbes Spring 2004 and 2005 "Best of the Web" award in the diet and nutrition category, and PC Magazine "Editors' Choice" in May 2004 and 2005.

In 2006 a 45% stake in eDiets was purchased by Prides Capital, a special investment firm that invests in companies poised for rapid growth. eDiets also announced the launch of a meal delivery service called Deliciously Yours making it the only diet company offering delivery of fresh cooked meals. The service was fully rolled out throughout late 2007 and 2008.

eDiets bases customer programs on a large diet and food information database which allows customers to personalize diet plans to their own preferences. eDiets is similar to may of the various diet delivery companies in the United States. The food is pre-prepared in a kitchen and frozen or freeze dried, then delivered to customers nationally. The operate as Tesco Diets in Britain.

All in all, you will be hard pressed to find nutritional and weight management help and products any more effective than eDiets.com

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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Dave Brubeck - Master of Jazz

Tonight, the Kennedy Center focused on extreme talent of the country's greatest artists, one of whom was Dave Brubeck.

Dave Brubeck is one of the people that defined the sound of the American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to wild, reflecting both his mother's attempts at classical training to his improvisational skills. His music is known for using unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities. The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s defining masterpiece, Time Out is one of the most rhythmically innovative albums in jazz history, the first to consciously explore time signatures outside of the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4-waltz time. Columbia Records wasn't to happy releasing such an artsy fartsy project, and many critics initially roasted him for tampering with jazz's rhythmic foundation. But for once, the public’s taste was more advanced than that of the critics. Boosted by a hit single “Take Five” written by long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, and Time Out became an unexpectedly huge success, and has endured as a jazz classic and best seller since.

No one has ever even come close to the sound that is Dave Brubeck.