Experience the Mediterranean with Best Cruises and Travel Now Through a Master Chefs Eyes on a Roundtrip Cruise from Rome on the Holland America Noordam

Westport, CT (Vocus/PRWEB) April 12, 2011

Chef Pietro Scotti is a fine artist in the kitchen and he has turned out culinary masterpieces at his acclaimed Westport restaurant, Da Pietros, for close to 25 years. Pietro has earned a stellar reputation among reviewers, fans and The James Beard Foundation for his timeless, classic cuisine.

In 1987, he took a chance, opening Da Pietros on a waterside street lined with antique shops in Westport. He decorated the restaurants cozy, jewel-like dining room with plush banquets and framed Hermes scarves. Pietros Italian and French fare quickly became the talk of the town - and of reviewers. Zagat gave Da Pietros a 27 rating for food, calling it Extraordinary. And Patricia Brooks of The New York Times granted the restaurant an Excellent rating.

Summertime in the Mediterranean with Pietro:

Sail with Best Cruises and Travel Now aboard Holland America's glorious Noordam for a ten night culinary cruise in the Mediterranean, leaving August 6 from amazing Rome (Civitavecchia) to Dubrovnik, Croatia; Corfu, Greece; Katakolon (Olympia), Greece; Santorini, Greece; Ephesus, Turkey; Piraeus (Athens), Greece; Messina, Sicily and two luxurious days at sea, filled with Pietro's wonderful cooking classes, a welcome cocktail party, plus additional optional wine tastings and visits to markets., orchards and restaurants at the ports.

Aboard the Holland America Cruise:

The Noordam, is an all-inclusive, premium, luxurious, stress-free vacation aboard an elegant ship. Holland America has won many top awards: Conde

TMR Announces Release of Fan Cost Experience -- a New iPhone App for Sports Fans

Wilmette, IL (PRWEB) November 02, 2011

Team Marketing Report recently released the Fan Cost Experience, a brand-new iPhone application tailor-made for fans looking to get the best deals on beer, tickets, and food at sports events. Sports fans can also use the app to see how their team's prices compare to those around the country.

As one of the leading authorities on ticket prices for sports in North America, Team Marketing Report is uniquely qualified to put out such a product. Since 1991, Team Marketing Report has published the well-known Fan Cost Index (TM), a survey of pricing for the four major sports of North America. Now, with the Fan Cost Experience app, fans can report what theyre buying and how much theyre spending on tickets and concessions.

The Fan Cost Index measures the cost of a family of four to attend a sporting event. The FCI total consists of four tickets (using season ticket pricing), two beers, four soft drinks, four hot dogs, parking for one car, two programs and two hats. TMR recently released the Fan Cost Index for the 2011-12 NHL season, which is available at the Fan Cost Experience website.

TMR has historical FCI packages for sale on its website at fancostexperience.com. If you are interested in purchasing the FCI package, please contact Dan Bulla at dbulla(at)teammarketing(dot)com.

The FCI, and Team Marketing Report, gets major media attention from the Associated Press, CNBC, MarketWatch, the New York Times, and many other outlets. TMR executive editor Jon Greenberg has done countless interviews as a sports marketing expert.

The Fan Cost Experience was borne out of TMRs desire to see what fans are actually buying at games, and for how much.

The FCE app, which is available for 99 cents at the Apple Store, allows users to enter pricing for tickets, where they bought tickets (online, at the stadium, or through secondary markets), and where they are seated. Concession-wise, there are many options outside the normal FCI purview, including nachos, gluten-free foods, hamburgers, etc. Fans can report how much they spent on each item (as most parks have different pricing options) and where they purchased the item.

The pricing entries then go into a TMR-controlled database, which gives the user an idea on how their purchases relate to other ones in the stadium or arena. It also gives ever-evolving averages for the stadium or arena.

TMR hopes to use the data to compile written reports that compare static FCI data with Fan Cost Experience information taken over time.

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Wallop Redefines the Social Networking Experience and Unlocks the Potential of Self-Expression Online

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) September 26, 2006

DEMOfall Wallop, a company spun out of Microsoft and backed by veteran venture capital firms, today at DEMOfall launched its beta product, a breakthrough innovation in the social networking space with a unique business model. Wallop, an invitation-only network, for the first time combines a social computing site with a marketplace, enabling an entirely new way to self-express and enhance a persons increasingly important online image. Wallop also announced today that it has secured a $ 10 million series B round of funding led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). Previous investors, Bay Partners and Consor Capital, also participated in this round.

Now that social networking has become all the rage, we need to step back and examine whether current sites present the best images and practices for social networking, said Mark Levitt, IDC's VP for Collaborative Computing and the Enterprise Workplace. Wallop offers an innovative business model and user interface that is designed to attract select groups of users who will prefer to use their creative skills to express themselves on their sites without having to learn any programming and without advertising.

More than four years of research at Microsoft combined with Wallop founders Karl Jacob and Sean Uberoi Kellys vision for leapfrogging existing social networks, led Wallop to focus on the larger trend of self-expression online with the simplicity people experience in the real world. Wallop created an invitation-only, social experience that taps into the $ 3 trillion-a-year offline industry of self-expression as it moves online. A revolutionary new user interface evolved by the legendary Frog Design brings point-and-click simplicity to social networking and makes it dramatically easier to express a users individuality.

I am addicted to social networking, but like my friends, am sick of how hard everything is. I spend all my time browsing and searching and dealing with pop-ups on every page, said Katie Starkey, a 23-year-old private beta tester from Jacksonville, Illinois. The best thing about Wallop is that it really is easy, and I love that Im not interrupted by annoying ads. Im totally going to switch to Wallop!

Wallop unlocks the true potential for self-expression online with free, one-click customization versus the hassle of HTML coding necessary to personalize other social networking platforms. In addition, Wallops marketplace model empowers people to further enhance their online image by purchasing ready-made, interactive graphics and features, called Mods, from millions of the best Adobe