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Alimento is about good, real food. To that end, we offer several services that highlight the bounty of the Pacific Northwest, specifically the lower Columbia region around Astoria, Oregon. The following services can be personalized to fit your needs.
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Every bite counts. We want people to have healthy food no matter what. Bite Meals was founded on the premise of providing healthy meals to those that may not have the time or energy to do it on their own. From that idea the "Fresh never Frozen" meal prep delivery company was born. We place extreme value on the quality of our products. We wanted to offer the ultimate convenience for our customers while being a company that they can trust.
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Burgabox is a meal delivery kit that ships all the ingredients you need, with instructions, to make the best burgers of the planet from your own casa! If you want a mind blowing meal, you should get to know BurgaBox. Just picture Celebrity Chef Paul Malvone creating a concept meal, making each ingredient from scratch, tasting and testing, and cooking for you.Then putting everything into an insulated cooler and dropping off at your doorstep for you to simply throw in the oven. Guaranteed each and every time to be an epic meal!
Hundreds Of Choices At Chef'd, we have over 650 meal kits from renowned chefs and food brands from around the world. Personalized Recommendations Vegetarian? Pescatarian? Carnivore? Tell us what you like and we'll help you discover meals that fit your lifestyle. No Subscriptions Get fresh, pre portioned ingredients to make amazing recipes delivered right to your door without ever signing up for a subscription.
Dinner made simple! Each month, we send 8–10 of the highest-quality authentic Italian ingredients and recipes right to your doorstep in our Chef's Select box, which serves eight. Enjoy it on your own or gather friends and family for a dinner party. Our select team of Italian kitchen masters in Italy chooses the highest-quality Italian foods to fill our boxes each month. We import only the most traditional staples found in every kitchen across Italy. From artisanal pasta to handcrafted pestos, each box delivers an authentic Italian dining experience.
Diet-to-Go is a meal delivery company focused on making healthy eating both easy and affordable. Our goal is to change perceptions of what it means to eat healthy and help our customers achieve and maintain a healthy weight for life. We want to help people establish a common sense approach to healthy eating, an approach that can be sustained so that making smart food choices becomes a way of life. Working with some of the best chefs in the business and cooking in our USDA-certified kitchen, we provide our customers fresh, delicious, low-calorie, nutritionally balanced meals to help them lose weight or simply support an already healthy weight and lifestyle. We are constantly working to improve our products and service, in our aim to provide the best tasting, healthiest, low-calorie meals possible. And to do that, we need your input. We want your ideas, feedback and yes, even your complaints.
We bring families back to the dinner table by providing kid tested, yet sophisticated meals that can be ready in minutes with no prepwork EVER! What's Inside? A super simple recipe card. We've done all of the chopping for you! Ingredients to prepare the dinner you ordered, separated in bags so you can add what you want and leave out what your kids don't. Use the brown paper wrapping as a cooking mat, wrap it up and toss it in the recycling bin. All packaging is 100% recyclable. A delicious and easy dinner, family time and getting back to the dinner table with healthy food you and your kids love
Eatology Paleo-Zone is poised to revolutionize this nation by curing obesity. What makes us different is that our mission is not about food at all, its about restoring nutrition in this nation and making people feel good about themselves again. When people feel good, they are happy and when they are happy…they are more able to find their purpose. Our mission is to help people find their purpose in life. What makes our menu unique is the "comfort food" and "table favorites" we have reconstructed into clean, healthy, Paleo-Zone meals.
Elite Lifestyle Cuisine is a gourmet food company committed to help guide you to a healthy lifestyle without applying dietary restrictions. Elite Lifestyle Cuisine will allow you to enjoy the cuisine you love while maintaining the level of health you desire. We offer an extensive product line; all chef-prepared with your health and well-being in mind. Our selections are fully cooked and flash-frozen. They arrive to your door ready to heat and eat. Simply put, consuming Elite Lifestyle Cuisine is the most convenient way to satisfy your desirable healthy lifestyle! Ordering from Elite Lifestyle Cuisine can help you with weight-loss, high blood-pressure, fight pre-diabetes and help with existing diabetes. It can help assist your elders, will make a great gift and of course make your life easier and free of burdensome cooking endeavors! Our meals are fully cooked and ready to eat in minutes! Delivered in microwavable containers, you simply remove the lid, heat and eat! Not a microwave fan? Simply place the contents in an oven-safe pan for an enjoyable, oven-fresh treat! We make it simple for you to mix and match which meals you will receive by setting your preferences upon subscribing and will assist you with any questions you may have.
Our service is simple, and created to take the hassle and time out of eating healthier. Here is how it works: 1. We Chef: We choose the best tasting, most nutrient dense ingredients you'll find on God's green earth, and put them all together to freshly cook your meals to order. 2. We Deliver: Choose your delivery day and our freshly prepared meals arrive chilled and ready to pop in the microwave or over. Keep them in the fridge if you plan to at them in 4 - 6 days, or freeze them to make them last longer. 3. You Thrive: Heat, eat, and be merry. Upgrade your nutrition and use the time you save to do things you love better. We have now taken our service a step further, by introducing meal plan. You tell us the foods you love, foods you hate, and things you are allergic to, and we create a taste profile for you. Then, just tell us what day and how many meals you want, and they will arrive weekly at your doorstep. Each week, we'll let you know what meals are coming, and you can customize your order if you'd life, or pause delivery at any time. It's quick, easy, and hassle-free
FlexPro Meals is the Top Meal Delivery Company in the United States. We deliver great tasting healthy meals to you front door every week customized to your lifestyle! Tired of spending countless hours in the gym only to find you coming up short of your fitness goals? We were too. The truth is that the beginning of fitness starts in the kitchen. When striving to reach your fitness goals, proper nutrition is 75% of the task! The bottom line is that if you're not eating the proper diet to reach your fitness goals, YOU will NOT reach those goals! The problem today is that many do not know what to eat in order to reach their goals; even if they did, they wouldn't have time to cook it! Our goal is to eliminate that burden delivering convenience at its finest right to your door! You tell us your fitness goals, and we will design a professional nutrition plan just for you! We're telling you what to eat and when to eat it! FlexPro doesn't stop there; we prepare your meals and ship them right to your door. It doesn't get any easier than this! All you have to do is throw it in the microwave or the oven for the recommended amount of time! Here at FlexPro, we're dedicated to helping you conquer your fitness goals by making proper nutrition that you need easily accessible. So come join our team and be a part of our online community! Membership at FlexPro is completely FREE! At FlexPro, we're not simply changing diets, we're changing lives!
Fresh n' Lean healthy food delivery service offers wholesome, convenient, and nutrient-dense food at your doorstep. Finding time to cook a healthy meal can be a challenge on a day-to-day basis. Save time and let our team of gourmet chefs prepare your meals that are always healthy and delicious. We believe in using premium ingredients that are always fresh in creating meals for you that are perfectly suited for healthy eating and weight loss.
Helping people fuel their fitness lifestyle by delivering freshly cooked healthy meals to their doorsteps nationwide! At Fuel Meals we allow you to pick from our menu that our chefs have created; or you can build out your meals according to your specific dietary requirements; a luxury we were the first in the industry to provide. We don't limit our clients on choices and don't believe in a one size fits all approach. We understand that every client is different and has different needs and goals. Whether you're a bodybuilder, endurance athlete, soccer mom, traveling business professional, vegan, or subscribe to a Paleo lifestyle Fuel Meals has something to help you reach your goals for living a more healthy and productive life.
With the ability to be cooked in 3 easy steps and often times with only 1 pan, our dinner kits are perfect for the uber-busy professional & families who want to spend more time around the table and less time shopping, chopping, and cleaning up. Our executive chef prepares new menus weekly that cater to every diet & lifestyle and our personal dashboard allows you to easily customize menus each week. Simply put, we create #dinnerheroes every night.


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Brian Colbert is the vp of mobile advertising sales at Pandora. He spoke to us recently about the massive growth in mobile ad revenue the company is seeing—$100 million last year—and how Pandora is handling it.
JE:Your claim that Pandora books more mobile ad revenue than iAd, and that you're second to Google, fascinates me. How big is Google's mobile ad revenue?BC: $750 million. A good chunk of the 750 is search, obviously. That's from 2011, last year. So from our standpoint — we are second to them in mobile ad revenue. Our goals are very, very lofty. Mobile is basically half our revenue at this point and will continue to be that way and hopefully will grow even more to be even closer to 70 percent, which will mirror our consumption patters. But it's clear we are making a big bet on mobile. For us as a company, it is clearly our lifeblood. For some publishers, it's kind of a nice luxury and kind of a side thing. But for us it's obviously crucial to our future.JE:And the flip-over from desktop to mobile was extremely recent, right?BC: Yeah. Again, from a two year period we went from being 38 percent mobile in, I think, January of 2010 to 70 percent mobile as of this month.JE:That's an extremely fast change of pace. Did that take you by surprise or did you know it would happen?BC: It has taken us by surprise a little bit. Obviously, like everybody else we know smartphones are proliferating and going through the roof, but I think we have seen that shift much faster than even we as a company first anticipated. Which is a challenge. It's a challenge for us because the mobile ad marketplace is not quite there yet where we need it to be. So we're kind of at the forefront to push the marketplace forward faster because it's so important to us.JE:Could this actually threaten your revenues because mobile ads are so much cheaper and the visual experience you are delivering is not as big or luxurious as on desktop?BC: We don't see it that way. I think we see it — look in terms of performance, our mobile ads perform very, very well. Just as good if not better as our desktop ads. Pricing-wise, we've really seen the price really stabilize. There's not that much of a discrepancy from what we are seeing on the desktop to the mobile side. So in terms of a threat to business, we actually think we are positioned very well to capitalize when the marketplace does really start to hum. I think we are as well positioned as any publisher to really start to crank and make a lot of money with mobile. We are already so much further ahead of the marketplace.JE:So how many clients do you have running on your network at any one time?BC: It runs the gamut. It depends on the time of the year. In any given month between, I don't know, anywhere between 500 and 700 campaigns running. Some big, some small. You know you've got, you've got some local advertising, you've got the big national brands, you've got regional brands. You've really got a broad swathe. That's really our secret sauce, advertising-wise, we can play in all these different businesses.JE:So how big is your ad salesforce?BC: We've got about 515 employees in the company right now and I'd say you know almost half of those are dedicated to sales in some way shape or form. Whether that's on the street or as a support person.JE:Talk a little about creativity. One of the things that has impressed me about ads on Pandora is that, particularly in the last two years, the ad display, and the way it changes and the way it reacts to what you are doing, that has become a much richer, more impressive visual experience. Does mobile hurt that?BC: We think mobile can be even more interactive than desktop. There's a really key difference with mobile where is it's not just sight, which is display ads, but there's also touch. And unique to mobile is the phone and interactive calendar, and all these kind of additional interactive functions that the desktop will never be able to mimic. So, again in terms of are we bullish on mobile? We really are, but we think actually that mobile ads can be better than desktop ads if you create the right kind of ads. So we are really investing heavily in rich media to really make sure that we are giving the most robust interactive ads we can. So we are very bullish on what mobile can do. We have certainly seen from the click-through rates, the response rates -- it's way way above our expectations.JE:Let's talk about the big national brands rather than the local people. Are they running brand image campaigns or are they running sort of very specific direct response campaigns?BC: You know, it really varies. We've had some clients that even in the same kind of campaign will have two different messages. One very DR focused, one very brand-focused. So, it really depends on what the objectives are. We've had several clients who look it at from both a DR perspective and a brand and image perspective.JE:The key thing with Pandora that I cannot get past on the business model is, what's going to happen to the royalty structure in 2015? If that goes wrong for you guys, you are in a lot of trouble. Do you have a solution to this? [Song royalty fees are set to go up that year fundamentally threatening Pandora's profitability, unless the company can strike a new deal with the industry.]BC: I think we're, we're happy with the business model we have. We are optimistic that in 2015, you know we'll be able to negotiate the rates and be able to sustain the business and grow the business. It's hard to predict the future. I wish we're fortune tellers, we really can't see completely in the future. But, it's our hope that we think we have a great business model in place, and we're not, we really relish the challenge of making the business growing even further.JE:Do you hear from artists? Do you know what their opinion is? Because it seems to me, if I'm an artist, I'm like -- on the one hand I would want to get paid a lot of money, you know -- I wouldn't want to give away my music for free. But on the other hand, Pandora is clearly a huge music discovery tool and as a band it might be worth my while to accept a lower royalty rate to keep my songs out there. What do artists say? Do you know?BC: I do. And it's probably one of my favorite things about Pandora, is getting that artist feedback. And I'm talking artists as big as, you know, you know, Adele, Jay-Z, down to your local garage band who is just kind of breaking out. They love Pandora because, for one, we do believe in paying the artists. We are not about, you know, we are just going to play your stuff for free.JE:So what did Adele tell you about Pandora?BC: I'm just using her as an example. We've had several artists that I can't name specifically for confidentially reasons. But, you know, we've had several artists reach out to us and say look -- how am I doing in the Midwest? Or how am I doing in the South? Because we have all this great user data, we can tell them exactly how many stations have been created in Atlanta for this particular artist, how many, how many, you know, listens are they getting. So, they really rely on us to some degree as a little of a data warehouse to kind of gauge, not their popularity, but just kind of how they are trending.

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Your Highness,
Dear Prince Amyn,
I have the very great honour of welcoming you here today as individuals who are cosmopolitan in essence, pluralist by religion, and outward-looking through education, and who have magnificently perpetuated a long family tradition of advocating pluralism and social and cultural engagement throughout the world. Of Italian and British parentage, your culture is Indian, you grew up in Nairobi and were educated in Switzerland and America: the planet is truly your home; openness, tolerance and inter-faith dialogue are your heritage. You have each made your mark on the contemporary world.
In paying tribute to you this evening, we are reminded that the Ismaili faith, through its message of peace and bridge-building, is more than ever at the forefront of dialogue between the great monotheist religions. Wherever Ismailis live, we find the particular combination of meditation, tolerance and solidarity that characterises your community. Since the nineteenth century the Ismaili faith has masterfully demonstrated, through its international network of charitable organisations, that its spiritual beliefs are anchored in the secular world.
These values have been upheld and embodied by your family to the highest degree. In welcoming you here this evening we also pay homage to the memory of your grandfather, His Highness the 48th Imam, who had the onerous task of being Secretary General of the League of Nations in 1937 and 1938, in a political climate requiring courage from all who were advocates for peace. We also recall his French wife, Begum Mata Salamat, Mother of Peace, who will always be remembered, particularly by all those she helped, and who rests by her husband's side on the banks of the Nile in Aswan. I am also thinking of the much-missed Prince Sadruddin, your uncle, who was United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at a key period in the history of this institution with its vitally important mission, and of course of your father Prince Ali Khan, beloved by all, whom fate did not permit to deploy his extraordinary culture and spirit of civilisation to their full extent.
Your Highness the Aga Khan,
I should like today to salute your exceptional cultural work, in all its richness and diversity, and in so doing I hope not to offend your modesty, as I know that, as a man of great worth, you are extraordinarily modest, often distancing yourself from your actions, working silently, far preferring influence to power, and discretion to the spotlight.
You are at once the illustrious descendant of a dynasty entrusted with a faith and a history, and a man resolutely grounded in your own time. A committed humanist, pragmatic idealist and businessman bursting with ideas, you have a thousand and one lives and projects, which you pursue always with the same ardour, convinced of the importance of vitality and creativity. You place your talents primarily at the service of others, and in particular your own people, the Ismailis. More than a passion, this is for you a vocation.
It was in 1957 that you succeeded your grandfather to become 49th Imam of the Ismailis, a direct descendant of the Prophet. At a time of major political and economic change, you played a crucial role in ensuring the cohesion of a faith community of almost 15 million, scattered across 25 countries throughout the world. Having inherited an open understanding of Islam, for you intelligence has a primordial role in faith; first and foremost you advocate compassion, tolerance and the preservation of human dignity. You are both a spiritual and temporal leader, concerned with the well-being of all Muslims, open to pluralism in a way that does you credit. As a head of state without a country, it is your commitment that is your territory.
Your dynamism and creativity as a businessman emerged during your studies at the prestigious Harvard University. A spirited, idealistic student, you were also an apprentice entrepreneur brimming with ideas. At the age of 22 you launched The Nation, the daily newspaper of African independence opposed to British colonialism and a symbol of freedom, later to become one of East Africa's most prestigious daily newspapers.
Skilfully combining theory with practice, convinced of the importance of a spirit of initiative in development, your advanced thinking on your faith and your sense of personal responsibility led you to carry out aid and development work, the scale, engagement and underlying principles of which were without precedent. This is the Aga Khan Development Network, whose mission is to "improve living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or gender". Support for private initiative, which is central to your work, reflects your central credo that human beings are responsible for their own destiny, in accordance with your vision of Islam and its tradition of service to humanity.
Many countries have benefited from your dynamism: from Tanzania to Kenya, a country where you have lived, as well as others including Uganda, Mozambique and Tajikistan. Among the very many development initiatives you have launched I shall single out tonight your exemplary work in the Gilgit region, surrounded by the magnificent landscapes of the Hunza valley. Not only has this region attained self-sufficiency in food production, it has also doubled its per capita income in ten years. Experts from the World Bank have made several trips to the aptly-named Karimabad to take note of the prodigious transformation of a difficult, isolated region into a land of plenty, where you have prioritised health, rural development and the education of women, in the shadow of the apricot trees and the soaring peaks of the Karakorams.
All these initiatives are carried out in line with the attention to perfection that is your hallmark; you apply the criteria of excellence to philanthropy. Your demanding standards are admired. Your hospitals, schools and banks are exemplary models, and organisations bearing the name Aga Khan offer a guarantee of quality to all.
For you culture is a means to peace and a forward-looking tool for Islam. It has a special place amid your many undertakings, convinced as you are of its importance in the global process of improving communities' living conditions. This belief prompted you to say recently that you had, and I quote, "placed culture at the very heart of the question of development". It was in this spirit that, in 1988, you founded a specialist agency, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
Inheriting from your forebears a passion for heritage, you have been particularly interested in architecture, which, you believe, carries within it "the process of change", through the impact that it has on people's individual, material lives. The prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture, which you founded in 1977, seeks to reward projects that offer innovative solutions for social development using local resources, and is a source of new inspiration for architecture in the Islamic world. In 1987 it was awarded to the French architect Jean Nouvel for his design for the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. In 1992 you also established an extensive programme of support for historic cities, seeking to preserve and restore buildings and urban spaces in the Muslim world, this revitalisation being at once an excellent driver of development and a powerful moral lever. Your work extends across the Muslim world, from Afghanistan to Mali, and also to Europe, in Bosnia Herzegovina.
As a great advocate of culture, fascinated by places that embody a strong cultural identity, you have saved a jewel of French culture, of which the Princess of Cleves said, "of all the places under the sun, there is not one to match it". I refer, of course, to Chantilly. Like Le Nôtre embarking on a twenty-year plan to create gardens worthy of the estate, you too decided to support an immense twenty-year project for the entire site through your foundation. The estate of Chantilly, its history, salons and collections, are greatly indebted to you. Thanks to you, it will regain its former glory, through the restoration of both the chateau and the collections, the renovation of the grounds and the implementation of a comprehensive improvement plan. The ambition of the great French princes has now been taken up by Your Highness; you have become the architect of a spectacular renaissance, which you mention with great modesty.
Chantilly is also known for its magnificent stables, the world of equestrianism to which you are linked by a strong family tradition, from the legendary epic of the First Aga Khan's departure from Persia, on horses said to be the finest on earth, to the equally legendary successes of your thoroughbreds. With the renovation of the hippodrome, completed in 2004, you have enabled the racing tradition established in the eighteenth century to continue today with the Prix de Diane and Prix du Jockey Club, celebrations at once festive and prestigious for French equestrianism.
As an Associate Foreign Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, you are also a keen proponent of cultural diversity and dialogue between the Muslim and western worlds in particular. The two magnificent exhibitions we admired this year at the Louvre, Chefs d'œuvre islamiques de l'Aga Khan museum and Le chant du monde, l'art de l'Iran safavide reflect this belief. You also wish the future Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, designed by the architect Fumihiko Maki, a former student of Kenzo Tange, to be an illustration of the historical, cultural and geographical diversity of Islamic culture and a forum for sustained exchange between the Islamic and western worlds; the future Maritime Museum of Zanzibar, dedicated to presenting the different maritime cultures of the Indian Ocean, is also intended as a centre for dialogue between Africa, the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent.
At the launch of the Avignon Forum three years ago you said, "I believe in the power of plurality, without which there is no possibility of exchange". It is in reconciling pragmatism with idealism that your extraordinary commitment to art and culture has its place in history. It reinforces your tireless struggle to avert the dangers of what you called, at the launch of the Avignon Forum in 2008, the dangers of the gulf between cultures.
Your family has chosen to reside in France, and our secular Republic has become your country. I see this as a sign of the very strong links between republican values and your conception of action.
Your Highness, in the name of the French Republic, we present you with the insignia of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Prince Amyn Aga Khan,
It is an immense pleasure and a real honour to pay tribute tonight to a man of the arts, a man of refinement with a keen interest in heritage, and a passionate devotion to French and international culture.
A worthy heir to a family that continually expresses its support for cultural pluralism and has been involved in international work for several generations, you are today the head of many prestigious institutions working to improve the lives of peoples across the world. Like your grandfather, who was President of the League of Nations, and your father, Pakistani Ambassador to the United Nations, after attaining academic success, you now work within the prestigious institution that keeps daily watch on the world, the same United Nations, where you have been a member of the Economic and Social Council since 1965.
In 1968 you were already bringing your dynamism and open-mindedness to the administration of the Imamat's main development institutions. The strength of your international network and the influence you have demonstrated enable you to play a crucial role there, notably within the Aga Khan Development Network. As a Director of the Aga Khan Foundation, your work in over fifteen countries has enabled you to strengthen and modernise the philanthropic tradition of the Ismaili Muslim community.
As a member of the Board, and Executive Committee Chairman of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), which aims to promote entrepreneurship and the creation of healthy, sustainable economic organisations in the world's developing regions, you have brought a new vitality and fresh opportunities to populations too often forgotten or isolated. You generously believe that any return on investment must benefit the populations of the countries involved, and them alone.
You have also, with exemplary dedication, contributed to the development of Tourism Promotion Services (TPS), which seeks to develop tourism in certain areas of developing countries, notably in more isolated regions, by building, renovating and managing the tourist accommodation that is crucial to the vitality of local economies.
But, in all these exceptional activities, culture remains a priority. As a Director of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), you play a major role in revitalising the physical, social, cultural and economic environment of communities in the Muslim world. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme, the Music Initiative in Central Asia, the ArchNet online resource centre and the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are all remarkable awards, organisations and projects, reflecting the dynamism and pertinence of your work.
I must not forget your function as administrator in an institution dear to my own heart: the World Monuments Fund (WMF), the world's leading private international organisation devoted to the preservation of historic monuments and sites on all five continents. Since its foundation in 1965, the WMF has brought public and private partners together in joint projects that have permitted the restoration of an unprecedented number of historic buildings in over 80 countries.
Lastly I should like to recall, of course, your work as a patron of French culture and heritage. As a great art collector, with an informed passion for heritage, you regularly work alongside prestigious institutions to support them in carrying through their cultural projects.
The greatest French cultural institutions have benefited from your assistance. Reeling off a list of names is not sufficient to illustrate the scope of your engagement. I am thinking of course of the Association pour le rayonnement de l'Opéra de Paris [organisation promoting the development and influence of the Paris Opera], and also of the Louvre, of which you are a patron and with which you are actively involved as a Board member of the Société des Amis du Louvre [Friends of the Louvre]. In 2007, at the opening of a season dedicated to the art and culture of the Muslim world, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture was also involved in an exhibition entitled Chefs-d'œuvre islamiques de l'Aga Khan Museum, which presented almost 80 works from the Aga Khan collections in the galleries of the Louvre. I should like to think that this exhibition was no more than a foretaste of the treasures to be displayed at the new Aga Khan Museum, due to open in Toronto in 2013. Nor should we forget that you were a patron of the exhibition Purs décors ? Chefs-d'œuvre de l'Islam aux Arts décoratifs at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 2007 and 2008.
And now, if I may, I should like to return to the Château de Chantilly, whose Grande Singerie [Great Monkey Room], centrepiece of the grand apartment of the Princes of Condé and the chateau's finest decorative ensemble, was restored in 2007 through the joint action of the World Monuments Fund and the Fondation pour la sauvegarde et le développement du domaine de Chantilly [Foundation for the Protection and Development of the Chantilly Estate], founded on the initiative of your brother.
Since you are, among other things, the best minister of culture His Highness, your brother, could dream of, dear Prince Amyn, in the name of the French Republic, we present you with the insignia of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.


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James and Deb Knabe announce the birth of Stephen Lawrence, with great gratitude to God his Creator. He was born on November 26, 2010 and is smothered in kisses from his brothers and sister, Jay (10), Philip (8), Carissa (7), David (5) and Jonathan (2). Grandparents are Larry and Joyce Buchholz of Traer and William and Judith Knabe of Iowa City.
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Lake Catholic High School students in Mentor, Ohio, are receiving a bottom-line lesson in finance by co-operating a credit union on-site at their school thanks to the $166 million Cardinal Community Credit Union.
The branch, which the credit union said is the first of its kind in Northeast Ohio, will offer students a chance to not only frequent a credit union on their campus, but it will teach them about financial literacy, said Cardinal CEO Christine Blake. "We want the students to be able to have a hands-on experience and introduce them to the mindset that being financially smart is more than learning to balance a checkbook."
Officially co-branded as the SmartStart Cougar Branch, the operation is located in a kiosk on the campus of about 800 and will be staffed by Lake Catholic student volunteers. The campus CU will be under the supervision of Cardinal and run by teens who applied for the job with Cardinal's human resource department.
"We were able to also give the students tips on how to better their resumes as well as teach them how to interview others," Blake said. "I really believe that this will be beneficial to both the students and the community."
Blake, a Lake Catholic alumna herself, has been a trailblazer in forging partnerships with area schools and colleges to help foster greater financial independence among young residents. She first began working at Cardinal in college as a teller and now years' later is the President and CEO.
"The student branch program is a boon to all involved," she said. "You just never know who is going to want to have a career in the credit union industry."
The teens working as tellers will learn real-world skills in a positive, safe environment and other students that become credit union members will have a chance to cash in on financial education, valuable job skills and real-world lessons on the art of being a discerning consumer. The school meets the state standards and benchmarks without additional training or resources, which Blake said are one of the keys to making the program a success. CUNA lists contact information for 250 credit unions across the country that offers similar programs for schools. "The timing could not be better because the state is putting greater emphasis on financial literacy. and we're setting the foundation for a substantive program," said Lake Catholic President Sal Miroglotta.


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"The internet is the industrial revolution of our generation," said Justin Stanford, Co-founder and CEO, 4Di Group at Big Tent Johannesburg on September 5 2013.
Google hosts "Big Tents" around the world to stimulate and facilitate discussion about the socioeconomic impacts of the internet. APC's Alexandra Groome, Emilar Vushe, and Phil Mincher attended, enthusiastic about the first Big Tent in sub-Saharan Africa.
Insightful lightning talks were made by Chike Maduegbuna (founder and CEO of FansConnect Online and Afrinolly) and Evan Robinson (founder of the famous TaxTim).
"This is our time," said Maduegbuna. And what better time could there be than now? According to a study commissioned by Dalberg Global Development Advisors on the impact of the internet on socioeconomic growth, less than 20% of Africa has access to the internet and less than 10% of businesses are online – yet a 1.38% growth in broadband results in a 10 fold increase in GDP growth. What this means is that there is massive unfulfilled potential but also huge opportunity – particularly for a country like South Africa with an unemployment rate of 26-28%.
Marlon Parker, founder of RLabs, emphasised the power of inclusive access. "It brings power to the masses," he said. Knowledge is power. On the other hand, he pointed out that tension is a catalyst for innovation – a key speed bump for South Africa. While the digital revolution can exacerbate the digital divide, it also has huge potential to reduce it.
The Dalberg study also found that policymakers are not regarding policy as a cross cutting enabler of ICT and innovation when it is such a critical component. In fact, several speakers describe South Africa's regulatory environment as unfriendly. The exchange control laws, dating back to the 1960s, "are a disincentive for high growth entrepreneurs to stay here," said Stanford. Venture capital is discouraged as well.
Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist of Google (one of the most unique titles I have ever encountered), spoke compellingly about his career history. Cerf is widely regarded as one of the founders of the internet. He spoke of emerging technologies that will change the world, amongst them: shared spectrum (such as the Cape Town TV White Spaces trial), Project Loon, and O3b Networks. Check them out!
While Big Tent was very informative and inspiring, it was disheartening that there was not a single civil society voice amongst the speakers. Nonetheless, it was heartening to hear South Africa's Minister of Communications, Yunus Carrim, make an impactful statement in his key note address: "Civil society needs to be organised and put pressure on government to deliver on ICT goals." Thanks for that, Carrim.


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Diabetes and Indigestion while Undergoing Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy
- How will side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy affect his diabetes problems?
- How do I manage the food intake and blood sugar levels?
Ellen Sweeney, RD, registered dietitian at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
Depending on the type of chemotherapy drugs along with the radiation he receives, he could experience several side effects. These side effects may include nausea, loss of appetite, change in the taste of foods, constipation and/or diarrhea. Any side effects that end up affecting the amount he eats can obviously affect his blood sugar levels. If he does not have a loss of appetite and is able to eat normally, then he would continue to treat his diabetes with his current insulin regimen. If his appetite is poor through treatment, then it becomes more important for him to get his calorie and protein needs met for weight and protein store maintenance than to follow a diabetic diet. Diabetic patients' diets are liberalized during cancer treatment and those patients are allowed to eat differently during treatment, especially if their appetite is poor. It becomes more important to maintain weight in order to prevent nutritional compromise during treatment. Typically, physicians will adjust oral blood sugar medication or insulin regimens to compensate for the diet changes through treatment. It will be important to track his blood sugars daily to watch for possible treatment or eating related effects. If his sugars drop or increase during treatment it is recommended to contact his primary care physician for insulin adjustments and instruction.
With indigestion, foods containing caffeine, alcohol, and peppermint, in addition to acidic foods (citrus juices and tomato products) and fried foods should be avoided. The diet should not be overly restricted, however, because of indigestion. You may want to consider consulting your father's primary care or oncology physician for medication to help control indigestion.
During cancer treatment, Dietitians will also encourage patients to avoid low fat products. For example, using whole milk versus skim milk, regular ice cream, margarine or butter is recommended to get extra calories when appetite and intake is low. Basically, "whatever works" food wise is appropriate until treatment is over and the patient's appetite returns.
Other good high calorie and protein sources to include in your father's diet, (if solid food intake decreases), are liquid supplements such as Ensure Plus or Boost Plus. There are also liquid supplements that are specially formulated for diabetics such as Glucerna and Choice. They are readily available in supermarkets and drugstores. Additionally, they are good liquid sources of nutrients after a stroke if his swallowing or eating of solid foods has been affected. Considering your father's age and medical history, I would recommend that you ask for a consult with an oncology dietitian where he is being treated (if available) to assess his calorie and protein needs and provide individual nutrition counseling. For additional information on managing nutritional side effects during treatment (i.e. nausea, loss of appetite, bowel problems, etc.) look for the Eating Hints for Cancer Patients booklet.


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National Motor Vehicle Titling Information System (NMVTIS)
The National Motor Vehicle Titling Information System (NMVTIS) is a national titling information system for motor vehicles designed to help prevent the trafficking of stolen vehicles by allowing participating states to verify the validity of titles before issuing new ones.
NMVTIS has improved the security of the titling process across the country, including time and cost savings for state motor vehicle titling agencies, reductions in consumer wait times, decreases in motor vehicle thefts, improved recovery rate of stolen vehicles, increased ability to identify fraudulent use of vehicle identification numbers (VIN) prior to title issuance, and improved investigative abilities.
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NMVTIS provides benefits:
- Allows state motor vehicle administrators to verify and exchange vehicle titling and brand data
- Provides law enforcement officials, consumers and others the ability to track vehicles as they are sold and transferred between states
- Receives automobile information from states, insurance carriers, and the salvage industry
- Provides law enforcement the ability to track a vehicle's status from state to state with direct system access
- Provides information to insurers, auto recyclers, salvage yards, and junk yards
NMVTIS provides consumer information:
- Vehicle's full title record from the state of record, when available
- Vehicle's brand history
- Odometer data
- Other basic vehicle information
Prior to purchasing a vehicle, visit the NMVTIS web site to find information on the vehicle's title, most recent odometer reading, brand history, and in some cases, historical theft data.


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- Play a superb Yamaha GC2 Grand Piano.
- Relax to the sounds of the world's greatest music.
- Let Disklavier E3 help you create your own music.
- Preserve your musical memories.
Relax to the sounds of the world's greatest music
1) Start listening the same day it arrives in your home.
There is no special software to install, and you don't need to purchase any music. Special music CDs come included with every E3. You can literally start listening as soon as the E3 is delivered to your home. With over 200 songs prepared for you by Yamaha, all you have to do is sit back and let the E3 turn your living room into a concert hall.
2) Hear subtle sounds with crystal clarity.
The volume on the E3 can be adjusted to meet your particular needs and ensure that your entertainment never disturbs. With the volume set at its lowest levels, the E3 can play whisper-soft sounds while retaining all of the clarity you expect from a Yamaha acoustic piano.
3) The convenience of DisklavierRadio.
With the E3's Internet Direct Connection (IDC), you can listen to DisklavierRadio by "streaming," receiving radio-type broadcasts from the Internet. DisklavierRadio offers uninterrupted streams of music on over 25 different channels full of tunes to match your mood.
Let Disklavier™ E3 help you create your own music
1) Simple and easy controls.
Sleek and elegant controls employ a minimum of buttons to keep things simple. The clear and logically laid-out remote is designed to be easy to read as well as easy to use; anyone can quickly and effortlessly enjoy all the E3 has to offer.
2) Built-in amplified speaker system.
The E3 is more than just a top-quality piano. With its genuine Yamaha speaker system, it is truly an all-in-one entertainment system. Each speaker is angled to create a spacious overall sound that beautifully complements the sound quality of the acoustic piano. Whether playing the piano yourself or listening to recordings, the E3's state-of-the-art speaker system will bring your music to life like never before.
3) Bright and clear Display.
The E3 features a cutting-edge, easy-to-see display panel called an organic electro-luminescent display. Not only is it bright and easily readable from any angle, but it can be seen clearly from a distance as well.
Preserve your musical memories
1) Easy recording and ample storage space.
The E3 also comes with enough built-in digital storage to hold literally hundreds of hours of music and still have room to spare. So feel free to record whatever and whenever you want, all with just the touch of a button.
2) Listen to music directly from USB memory.
Listening to your favorite music is as easy as plugging a USB memory stick into one of the E3's USB ports. Transfer music from anywhere and listen to it on your E3, or replay your own performances for friends and family.
3) CD synchronized recording.
The E3 allows you to effortlessly record yourself playing along with commercial CDs of your favorite artists, bands, and symphony orchestras. Your entire performance, including all key presses, pedal movements, and dynamics, will be recorded as MIDI data and stored in the E3's internal memory. Then, your recorded piano performance will play back in perfect time with the music from your audio CD.
Controlling Disklavier™ with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
With the latest firmware update for Disklavier™ Mark IV and E3 it is possible to control a Disklavier™ remotely using an iPhone, iPod touch or an iPad.
To enable this convenient function and begin using these devices to choose music, record and connect to DisklavierRadio, you must ensure that the instrument has the latest firmware installed.
For Mark IV models you need version 4.0 or later, and for E3 models version 3.0 or later. To update the Disklavier™ please consult your user manual on how to use the network update function. Alternatively, download the latest update from the download section.
You can control basic Disklavier™ functions including: Media Select, Start / Stop, Tempo / Transpose, New Recording, Connect to DisklavierRadio, Volume Control and more.
|149cm (59")
|101cm (40")
|173cm (5'8")
|335kg (739lbs)
Control Interface
|Number of Keys
|Key Surfaces - White
|Acrylic resin
|Key Surfaces - Black
|Phenolic resin
|Key Sensors
|Non-contact optical fiber/grayscale shutter sensing system for 88 keys(senses the key position, keying velocity, and key releasing velocity)
|Pedal Sensors
|Sustain & shift pedals: Incremental, optical position-sensing system, Sostenuto pedal: Optical ON/OFF, detection sensing system
|Key Drivers
|DSP servo drive system (servocontrolled solenoids)
|Pedal Drivers
|DSP servo drive system (servocontrolled solenoids)
|Prop Positions
|Prop Safety Stop
|Key Cover
|Lid/Fallboard Locks
|Soft-Close Fallboard
|Tone Generation
|Tone Generating Technology
|Advanced Wave Memory 2 (AWM2)
|Number of Polyphony (Max.)
|Featured Voices
|Normal Voices: 676Drum Voices: 21 kits total
|Overall Controls
|Set at A=440, tunable ±50 cents in 1-cent increment
Storage and Connectivity
|Compatible Storage Media
|Internal Memory
|Audio CD (ISO 9600-compliant), Data CD (ISO 9600-Level1-compliant)
|USB Flash Memory (Optional)
|Yamaha does not assure the operation of the commercially available USB flash memories.
|USB Hard Disk (Optional)
|FAT32 format (Yamaha does not assure the operation of the commercially available USB hard disks)
|USB Floppy Disk Drive (Optional)
|Yamaha UD-FD01 floppy drive (Yamaha does not assure the operation of other commercially available USB floppy drives)
Power Supply
|Power Requirements
|Local AC current, 120V, 60Hz
|Included Accessories
|Control Unit (1), control unit suspension bracket (1), monitor speaker (2), monitor speaker installation kit (1), speaker cord (2), remote control (1), battery for remote control (2), sample Pianosoft CD software (2), quick reference (1), operation manual (1)
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