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Overview:
The big yacht called Le Grand Bleu is one of the largest super yachts. Her length is 370ft (114m) and it was built in Bremen (Germany) at the Bremer Vulkan shipbuliding company. Yacht was designed by Stefano Pastrovich, construction by Kuch Yacht and was lunched in year 2000. Pair of 3,600-horsepower Wartsila engines with a crew of 50. International attention was received in Monaco as the home base for Roman Abramovich during Chelsea F.C attempt to beat AS Monaco in the UEFA.

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Owners:
First owner was John McCaw Jr. an American businessman who sold this luxury yacht to Roman Abramovich in 2002. Roman want a little bit more and had it refitted to his own preferences by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft. In year 2006 Abramovich gave Le Grand Bleu to a friend Eugene Shvidler. Yacht was refitted again in Jackon (Florida) with a "green" wastewater treatment system as well as Lloyd's certified system, which allows the mega yacht to reuse wastewater after treatment rather than discharging wastewater into the sea.

Features:
Pair of 3,600-horsepower Wärtsilä engines with a crew of 50 and 2 onboard boats 67ft (20m) speedboat and 74ft (22m) sailboat on her deck with room for a helicopter. Interior of the yacht was designed by Terence Disdale.

Current Name: Le Grand Bleu
Type: Motor
Build: 2000
Length overall: 370 ft / 112.78 m
Beam: 58 ft / 17.68 m
Owner: Eugene Shvidler
Crew: 50
Charter: Private
Guests: 24
Builder: Bremer Vulkan, GER
Refit: 2004, 2008
Hull/Structure: Steel/Aluminum
Engine: 2x 3408kW Deutz MWM SBV16M diesels
Range: 5001 - 6000
Max speed: 17 kts / 19.56 miles/h
Cruise speed: 15 kts / 17.26 miles/h
Tonnage: 5317 gross tons
Address: Bue Ocean Yacht Management

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http://myluxury-yachts.com/legrandbleu

Their new bakery still has the same name, but it is located out in Hillsboro in a business complex. The original Goldberg's was a fine dining restaurant located at him Lloyd Center Mall in Northeast Portland. The owner's father died and passed the business down to her daughter and her new husband who worked for her father back in the 60's. The new owners opened up in Hillsdale and only baked and ran a deli. They were no longer a fine dining restaurant. People would always ask "Is this the same Goldberg's from Lloyd Center?" The response would be "Same family just different operation."

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After having a bakery out of Hillsdale in the late 70's they moved about a mile away to a location in Southwest Portland. Their marketing concept was simple; they wanted to have an old fashioned Jewish bakery because the family was Jewish. The décor was photographs of the original family including the father (owner) hanging in the bakery. The bagels served were all hand rolled and actually boiled before being baked. That is clearly the old fashioned way. The sandwiches were all made from the bread baked in the bakery side of the establishment.

On Fridays, certain braided bread called "challa" was baked. I guess it is Jewish tradition to eat this every Friday. That would be the busiest day. It was clear to see who the clientele was for that day of the week. There would be fresh roasted turkey put on the sandwiches which were very popular. It was just like baking a Thanksgiving turkey and putting the meat directly onto a sandwich. People would come from miles around. They were regular customers and once again it was clear who the clientele was. The food was Kosher and Jewish customers can't eat any other kind of bread and bagels unless it was certified.
There was plenty of competition especially around the holidays. Customers would hunt all around town for the perfect dinner roll. There were many other bakeries around town. These included Elephant's, Grand Central, Noah's and Albertson's bakery department. I think the customers chose Goldberg's because they have already been going there for many years.

The products were mainly loafs of breads, bagels, sandwiches, and items such as ficcocia bread. There would be an option of having the bread sliced or unsliced. The price was reasonable. It was .50 for a loaf of heavy bread. There were always four kinds to chose from wheat, white, light rye, and dark rye. I never did find out how much the other local bakeries charged for their loaves.

The location wasn't the best, but it wasn't the worse. It was located in a small strip mall in a neighborhood. There was a Jewish community center less than half a mile down the street. I knew and so did the owners that that had to bring in extra revenue. The main promotion would be a bagel, cream cheese and a coffee for one dollar. That might have been a losing item for the establishment, but I never did ask. I'm sure if there was a profit involved, it was very much.

One more marketing strategy they had was a sign saying a free bagel and cream cheese if it was your birthday. But that was minor compared to them not having a billboard in front of their building. I think they just didn't have the money for that.

Conclusions:

The male owner who did most of the baking suffered a brain aneurism. He was unable to work and the place had to shut down for about a year and a half. They never did re-open at that location. Instead they re-opened out in Hillsboro, and they are now hidden in a business complex. Their main source of income is having stands out in Portland selling their goods. They just use the business complex to bake their goods and transport them to the stands.

When I recently visited the owners at he new location, I noticed a hand written note on the door saying "We are open again and the tradition continues" I thought that was great. Honestly, I don't see them expanding much more than that. They are getting old.

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Herat Tribal Weaving (herat.com): Herat Ltd. specializes mainly in Baluch, Afshar and South Persian rugs and carpets. Their website has an Online Catalog that features a selection of their current inventory. The company, located in Miami, Florida, is owned by Edward Koch whose initial interests in Baluch and the tribal weavings of South Persia (especially those of the Afshari) extended to Turkish village rugs and some of the more primitive weavings of non-Turkmen, Central Asians.

Olcarpet.com: According to the website, it provides only "Real Persian Rugs & Carpets" - those made in Iran and not in other major Oriental rug making countries such as India, China, Turkey or Pakistan. Founded in 1877, the business originated in the town of Tabriz, northwest of Iran, is located in Brea, California, and has attended many antique shows and rugs exhibitions all around the United States.

Persian Gallery Co., Inc. (persiangalleryny.com): Founded in 1971 by the Hakim brothers in New York, Persian Gallery Co., Inc. is a wholesale dealer of antique and semi-antique oriental carpets and period tapestries, supplying carpet retailers and interior designers throughout the United States.

S&H Rugs (shrugs.com): S&H has a huge collection ranging from Persian Antique & Semi-Antique to Fine New Oriental Rugs, which includes Vegetable Dye rugs, Silk, formal and informal. The rug business was started in 1990 and continue to import rugs from Persia, Pakistan, China and India ever since. He Company is located in New Jersey.

Sobco International Ltd. (sobcoweb.com): Sobco is an award-winning importer and manufacturer of handmade rugs and flat weaves with more than 50 years of experience in the Persian carpet trade, serving customers in the U.S., Europe and in various different countries around the world. Their headquarters is located in West Los Angeles, California.

Thomas Cole Antique rugs and textiles (tcoletribalrugs.com): This private rug dealer specializes in Turkmen, Uzbek, Kirghiz, Baluch and Persian tribal (oriental) rugs, bagfaces and weavings as well as Central Asian silk embroidery and textile art. The website provides images of an eclectic collection assembled by the owner of the business, Thomas Cole.

Tschebull Antique Carpets (tschebullantiquecarpets.com): Deals in rugs such as Pre World War One Iranian "city" dozars, 19th century kelleh format rugs from Iranian Kurdistan and Kirman dozar rugs. Tschebull Antique Carpets was founded in 1982, and is located in the center of Darien, Connecticut.

1001persianrugs.com: is an online seller that has one of the largest collections of Persian rugs, ranging from Oversize Rugs, Large Rug, Room Size Rugs, Small Rugs, Runners, Antique Rugs to Silk Rugs. Their collection is listed by type in alphabetical order. Headquarters is located in Kew gardens, New York.

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