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"I want to REALLY THANK Alyssa, the Associate I worked with at this location. This move for our Family has been the most stressful move we've ever had an we needed a place to store our things in between moves. Alyssa had OUTSTANDING Customer service skills and beyond that she was Kind, Empathetic and very knowledgeable.. I cannot thank her enough and would HIGHLY reccomend Anyone that needs a storage space to come here. The process was made easy, units were so clean and safe. Above all of that.. I'm so Thankful for Alyssa. ??. She didn't just treat me like a customer... she Cared.. Excellent experience!!!!"
"Everything was GREAT! Thanks for being there when you need the extra storage space and Help!"
"I wasn't made aware of my storage price climb into the coming up month and I was already paying over a 100.00 also was told I'd get a free month a free month is 30 days 0 dollars down. I do appreciate the use of the money truck at the discounted rate."
"Statt at the Glendale AZ site were extraordinary! So friendly, accommodating, resourceful and professional. Great clean facility and I'll miss the unit; but happy to have my house now in one place. Recommend highly. Uncle Bob's / Life Storage. "
"I was surprised how nice and clean the facility was. Gabrielle was a pleasure to work with. I am very happy with choosing your facility. Thanks, Dave"
"would recommend the storage facility. very pleasent to do business with."
"Good service, Clean grounds, easy to manage doors. Hours are easy to work with. "
"Associate answered all of my questions and didn't try to sell me anything extra I didn't need. She even told me about other services you provide such as paper shredding that I'll find useful in the future."
"The day I opened my account the manager on duty was AMAZING and SO HELPFUL and PATIENT!(curly hair, female) The day I went to rent rent my truck the new assaint manger(male) there was also DELIGHTFUL to be around and answered all my questions with kindness! I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS LOCATION!!!!!!!!!!!"
"I was pleasantly surprised at how efficiently we were able to rent a space . We we in a hurry to get to an event and the gentleman who helped us was very accommodating. I wish I had the same service experience at other places as I had here. Thank you!"
"I think the employees are wonderful and love helping the customers with everything they need life storage is wonderful "
"Quick and easy process. Explained everything well. I have no questions. He stayed a few minutes after hours to help me choose a bigger space."
"Top-notch service. I've never used storage before and was really happy with you. I would highly recommend. The unit was clean and pest-free. The office manager and staff were also very friendly and courteous."
"The person I spoke to on several occasions, Paul was great. Excellent customer service skills. If definitely use Life Storage again."
"Paul at the 59th and Thunderbird facility is very professional and helpful since day one of my move from NM. "
"Very nice help. Free truck service. Up front on all total cost. I will recommend to anyone who needs a storage unit. "
"The whole process was efficient and quick. I was impressed with the friendliness and informative nature of the associate."
"This is the second time I have utilized Uncle Bob's Storage. Each time, you have had very friendly and helpful staff. I have no doubt that my items are secure and if I ever have any difficulty, your staff will be there to assist. Thank you for making my experiences with Uncle Bob's Storage a pleasant one."
"Excellent service at this particular storage facility clean and professional"
"Our experience was exceptional! Paul Brocker treated us extremely well. He really cared that we were getting what we wanted and how to use your services! We very much appreciated such wonderful customer service!!! He is the type of employee that you want to work for your company!!!"
"They were extremely kind n even let us use the truck to let me move my stuff in at the last minute. Someone else was scheduled to use it but they called them to c when they were coming in to use it, n then came out and asked how far I was going, I said within a 2 mile radius, they said we could use it but had to be bak before noon. I was so grateful for them checking."
"Paul was extremely nice and informative, thank you so much!"
"I was very pleased with my Uncle bobs experience. I was able to rent a very affordable storage unit the same day I called to inquire. My storage unit was indoors but not climate controlled. I was very pleasantly surprised with how clean and cool the building was. My things were in storage about 1-2 years and I was very very pleased to find that when I returned for my belongings that the inside of the storage unit was still very clean, dust and bug free. I have had outdoor units in the past at other facilities that were very dirty and dusty when I returned with bugs and spiders inside. I was also very pleased that although the building is not climate controlled that it seemed to stay moderately cool inside. The staff was always wonderful, very helpful, friendly and professional. The online account management and auto pay features are very helpful."
"Everybody I worked with at the 59th and Thunderbird location was awesome. Very helpful and courteous. The manager went well above and beyond, he even saw that I was unloading the storage unit alone and asked if I was doing ok and gave me three bottle of water. I never used Uncle Bob's [Life Storage] before but anytime I need storage in the future, the first thing I will do is call Uncle Bob's [Life Storage]. Thank you to the staff and especially management for everything!!"
"The only thing I did NOT mark as strongly agree was - "I was offered helpful advice and products" I wasn't offered the facility's preferred lock per se, I was told I had to have it. It's a lock that really isn't applicable for anything other than a similar locking mechanism, of which I've never found elsewhere. The better thing to do is to RENT out the locks we are required to use. I'm out $16 for a lock i'll never really use again. Other than that, I'd say this is hands down the best storage facility I've come across. "
"Professional, clean, and organized. I only met the office staff a few times since I moved out of state but he was very nice and helpful. Happy Easter"
"The actual space is 20% smaller than advertised. You would not accept 20% less payment, so I feel cheated by your headquarters."
"I have an Uncle Bob's storage space in Raleigh, NC that we've had since may 2009. I've rented a space at the 83rd Avenue Uncle Bob's in Phoenix briefly, to store a car. (We went on a two-week trip to Texas and needed a place to put our car, as we flew.) Naturally, when we decided to rent a space to store some things here in Phoenix, we went straight to Uncle Bob's. We have always been treated more than fairly at all facilities we used, and all were so VERY CLEAN!!!! I am really impressed! This not only makes for a care-free stay at Uncle Bob's, but I can rest my mind knowing that my things in storage are safe. Thank you, Uncle Bob's Storage! Thank you to all the people who have been so helpful at all the locations we have used. We will continue to use Uncle Bob's as needed. We aren't "looking for the best price" or anything else. We have found exactly what we need - peace of mind, knowing that your employees are so considerate and have a desire to help. That means"
"Will certainly call upon this location in the future for any temporary storage needs."
"Always a pleasure dealing with the people at Uncle Bob's [Life Storage]. This was our 4th time to use them."
"My only negative experience was being left with a lock and keys that couldn't be used anyplace else and that I couldn't return to you."
"A very good clean & affordable facility with very good people when & if I need any assistance. I am happy to recommend them. "
"The manager at the 59thave and Thunderbird location was very helpful and nice. I recommend him to be employee of the year. "
"Thank you for being so kind and considerate. We feel safe in knowing that our items in storage are safe & secure."
"Both over the phone and in person associates were surpurb, best costumer service I have received in a long time, I will recommend/use uncle bobs storage in the future. Thank you for making storage/moving a lot less stressful!"
"I wish I knew the names of the people who I have come in contact with at Uncle Bob's [Life Storage]. No one, NO ONE, has disappointed. You have excellent management and they obviously know how to hire and train an excellent staff! Thank you for being so kind, what 'should be' business basics are so lacking in business, but YOU have found that taking care of me, the customer, is all that truly matters. "
"I wasn't sure what size I needed and they got me into the perfect size unit right away. (The one I originally picked wouldn't have been big enough)"
"Managers Christina and Adam are always very helpful at my storage facility at 59th Ave and Thunderbird in Phoenix."
"I was very satisifed with the service & unit, & would recommend you guys to others that need that service."
"Nice place, very clean. Employee was very helpful and put our mind at rest. First time renting a storage unit, needed it to store some item till they rebuild our home after the fire."
"we have rented numerous times from uncle bobs at two locations and we have always been satisfied with the service. keep up the great work."
"The manager, Christina, went over and above to provide customer service. --She provided 4 one-gallon jugs of water for the 3 movers and me when our items were being moved in. --She saved me money by informing me that my cost could be pro-rated as long as I paid by the 5th of the month, which gave me time to decide if we would be vacating early in the month or at the end of the month (based on when we could move into our rental home). --She even said she would take care of any sweeping that might be needed once we did move out, which saved me a trip back to the facility on the day we moved. She is fantastic!"
"Christine and Adam are great to work with and recognize me when I call. very helpful."
"No I am happy with the service and compared with other facilities I have used it is superb. Hank"
"We needed a temporary storage while our on sight storage was built. It is such a pleasure to work with people like Christina who make you feel like an old friend. WE will always recommend this facility to our residents."
"The employees at Uncle Bob's storage were polite, helpful, and knowledgeable. I believe they went the "extra mile" to offer fantastic customer service. So, yes, I would absolutely use Uncle Bob's storage again for my storage needs. thank you kindly. Vicki."
"I was very impressed with both the facility and the customer service I received. I was in and out in a mere 20 minutes and was treated with respect and courtesy by the young man on duty. The storage unit itself was clean, down to the paint on the door looking fresh, and I feel that the price was reasonable. All of this was even more appreciated by myself and my wife as we had not one but two extremely unsatisfactory experiences with UHaul the day before at two separate UHaul facilities. So this Uncle Bob's is not only doing well on it's own, it's also beating the hell out of it's competition. "
"Why do you not make your dumpster available to your clients? It seems odd to me that we are forced to haul items and basic clean up out of the storage to a dumpster- it is there - but only available to Management???? Weird???"
"Adam was very helpful and very professional. He was very knowledgeable. "
"We are treated as family by the staff at our Uncle Bob's [Life Storage]. "
"Christine is always pleasant and professional. Her professionalism and great attitude, will ensure, that Uncle Bob's [Life Storage] will always have my business."
"This is the best managed and maintained storage facility I have ever used, and I have already recommended it to several family members & friends. Great service, and clean grounds are always a pleasant sight while visiting our storage unit."
"It was all so easy! The grounds and halls are consistently kept clean, access to my belongings was never a problems, and the staff was always professional! Thank you so much!"
"When storm damage was done you replaced the door and mailed me keys as I am in California and was not able to travel to get the door replaced."
"Christine is a real asset to the company, I have rented from her 4X now."
"Christina was absolutely wonderful. I came to the office a week after I had my furniture moved into the storage unit and she remembered my name. I was very impressed by this and the customer service she and Adam, I think that was his name, provided. I would definitely recommend this site. Thank you."
"Christine was very helpful and she is an absolute sweetheart. She made sure I got the refer a friend discount due to my sister just getting a storage too. "
"Christina was always very enjoyable to work with - she is very professional, courteous and friendly."
"I can't say enough about Christina, she was always a professional, always had a smile and was willing to help with any questions or concerns. I had property stolen from another storage unit (travel trailer) and Christina went out of her way to not only assure me of Uncle Bobs [Life Storage] commitment to security, but to give me suggestions on dealing with the other storage company. Thank you Christina, Don "
"The manager (or the staff member that lives on site) who's name is escaping me at the moment, is AMAZING. She is so helpful and great to work with. She really makes the difference and is why we continue to rent with Uncle Bob's [Life Storage]."
"Christina's customer service made the difference in where I decided to store!!"
"Thank you for making everything so easy, and you have a wonderful Staff."
"I just want to say Thank you!! We were always treated with a friendly smile and courtesy. I have used storage before (in another state) and this was the best yet. I would highly recommend you to anyone needing storage needs. :)"
"This was our second time using this particular location. If we need a third, we will definitely use them again. The young lady that works here actually remembered me from the first time we were there. That meant a lot to me!"
"I have rented with Uncle Bobs once before and my reason for returning is the wonderful customer service.The manger Christina and her team make you feel so stress free as we all know moving is really stressful. Thank you all so much.... "
"your Manager Christina and staff are very professional and helpful. "
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Historic day for equal pay
Ivana Bacik
Heralding an historic day for equal pay in Ireland, Labour Senator Ivana Bacik has congratulated all campaigners, including Work Equal and the National Women's Council, following the passage of the Gender Pay Gap Information Bill today. Having first brought forward gender pay gap legislation four years ago in 2017 with the support of the trade union movement, Senator Bacik said there is still more to be done to achieve gender equality in the workplace. Noting her Reproductive Health Related Leave Bill which would provide women with leave in the event of an early miscarriage or having to take time off work for IVF treatment, Senator Bacik reiterated her call for Ireland to catch up with other jurisdictions that have passed similar legislation.
Senator Bacik said:
"Today is an historic day as the Gender Pay Gap bill has been passed, having completed its final stage in the Seanad. It is four years since I first brought forward legislation on this and unfortunately we have seen unnecessary delay since then. Ireland's gender pay gap of 14.4% effectively means women work for free from 9th November each year. Put another way, women stop getting paid at around 4pm every day. This continued discrimination against women in the workplace must be meaningfully addressed through enacting this vital piece of legislation without delay.
"In 2017-18, my Bill to tackle the gender pay gap – the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap Information) Bill 2017 – passed through all stages in the Seanad and through Second Stage in the Dáil with strong support from across both Houses, including from Minister O'Gorman's colleagues in the Green Party. The previous government failed to progress this Bill further, choosing instead to introduce its own, weaker legislation. The Government's bill which has now passed is still less ambitious than our Labour Bill, which would have required any organisation with more than fifty employees to publish gender pay gap data. I put down several amendments today at report stage seeking to strengthen the Bill and extend its reach, and was glad to engage constructively with the Minister during an important debate this afternoon.
"Ireland has made significant strides towards achieving gender equality in the workplace, but there is still some distance to go. Legislation to provide for increased workplace flexibility, a universal public childcare scheme, targeted measures to tackle low pay and union density, strengthened collective bargaining rights, and the introduction of statutory sick pay and reproductive health related leave are all essential components of the package of progressive measures needed to support women – and men – at work.
"Labour's Reproductive Health Related Leave Bill would provide an entitlement to reproductive health related leave of up to 20 days for women who suffer a miscarriage, and up to 10 days for those seeking treatments such as IVF. Aside from the practical supports for employees that this Bill would provide, it would also mark another step towards opening up conversations around reproductive health in Ireland, and information campaigns about the introduction of this new leave entitlement would encourage greater public awareness about this hidden issue. Traditionally, these experiences are not shared in the workplace and thus they remain hidden; stigma means that reproductive health is not perceived by some as an appropriate topic for watercooler chat. This Bill would go a long way in breaking down this stigma, as well as building more compassionate workplaces."
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The Medieval Tower
What do you think when you picture this building in your mind?
Do you see a dirty, frightened face peering from behind two clenched fists that cling to two cold iron bars or do you see, as depicted here, a clean tall structure with ivy and roses trailing round its brickwork.
Medieval towers can be found in the inner sections or enclosures of a castle as well as on the outside walls. Often these tall buildings had up to three or four floors and sometimes even a cellar or basement, all reached by spiral staircases that were built into the walls. The floors were always made of wood that were covered with reeds and sweet smelling herbs. Only the third and fourth floors had windows, the first two floors would have only had arrow holes. The fourth floor was not usually a room at all but an open platform that circled the building, whose wall on all sides were capped with what are called Merlons, those zig zaggy patterned walls we all drew on our castle pictures as children.
This platform lead to the final floor, which was the lookout tower that was sometimes topped with a conical roof. These towers were not only used for defending the castle, their other uses were as a chapel, a prison, servants quarters or even a separate area for guests. The chapel tower was often quite different from the normal tower in that it had one room that was two stories high with small stained glass windows and an alter. The family would sit in the first floor and look down whilst other church goers would stand on the wooden floor above the basement. The prison towers were, as we would imagine, a hole dug or cut into rock that was reached through a trap door from above where the guards would live. They were dismal and dark with shackles attached to the damp slimy walls.
The most famous of all towers is our Tower of London, which would have been clearly seen from the River Thames. The tower is made up of three enclosures, the central of which contains the White Tower which has square capped towers on each of its corners. Encircling the tower is the north, east, and west enclosures, built during the reign of Richard the Lionheart. Finally, there is the outer enclosure which surrounds the castle, this was built during the reign of Edward I.


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Control a PC with body motions
Updated: Jan. 13, 2012, 4:32 p.m.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Don't trash your keyboard and mouse just yet. But three companies at the International Consumer Electronics Show demonstrated depth-sensing cameras that let you to control your computer by moving your hands or body.
Microsoft's Kinect add-on for the Xbox 360 console has already popularized these cameras for gaming. Now, the technology is being set loose for use on other devices. However, like many gadgets shown at the annual Las Vegas-based extravaganza of phones, PCs and TVs, the cameras aren't quite ready for the mass market.
The companies showed off their cameras to give software developers and gadget makers a chance to work with the technology and incorporate it in their products. For the rest of us, it's a taste of what the future might hold.
WHY IT'S HOT: The cameras represent another challenge to the keyboard-and-mouse regime, which is already being eroded by touch screens. If you're in front of a depth-sensing camera, you don't have to touch the screen to control it with your fingers or hands. (This works with non-depth-sensing cameras as well, but they're not as good at figuring out what you're doing.) At the PrimeSense booth, visitors could browse and play the contents of a digital video library with hand gestures — basically, anything you'd do with a mouse today. The Israeli company's camera goes into the Kinect and is now sold separately as the Asus Xtion.
BEHIND THE LENS: The cameras can tell how far away things are in their field of vision. PrimeSense does this by sending out an invisible pattern of light, and registering how it's deformed when it hits objects. SoftKinetics' camera works almost like radar, but with light: it sends out infrared light and measures how fast it comes back. Where it takes longer, it figures out that that part of the image is further away.
THE DOWNSIDE: If you buy one of these now, there isn't much you can do with it, unless you're a software developer. The Asus Xtion comes with a few simple Kinect-like games for your PC. For all of these cameras, the depth-sensing range is limited to about 12 feet, and at the far end of the range, accuracy is reduced. That means finger gestures may not be picked up from across the living room.
AVAILABILITY: Microsoft said it will start selling a "Kinect for Windows" camera starting Feb. 1st, for $249. Asus started selling the Xtion in December for $149. SoftKinetics, a Belgian company, started selling its camera around the same time for $499.
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Khloé Kardashian slammed by fans for 'Love Thy Neighbor' Instagram post
by: Emily Barrett
Well, folks, it's been a little while since the last bout of Kardashian drama, so it's about time we got some fresh stuff in, don't you think?
We've had the whole cheating scandal, the Jordyn Woods/Kylie Jenner breakup/make-up, and Taylor Swift's belated call-out of Kim Kardashian for her 'snake' comments all those years back. Now, it's time for Khloé's 'Love Thy Neighbor' Instagram post, which is making waves of the not-so-good kind on social media.
The post in question showed what appeared to be a T-shirt with the following words printed on it:
"Love Thy Neighbor
Thy Homeless neighbor
Thy Muslim Neighbor
Thy Black Neighbor
Thy Gay Neighbor
Thy White Neighbor
Thy Jewish Neighbor
Thy Athiest Neighbor
Thy Racist Neighbor
Thy Addicted Neighbor"
Above the image, Khloe wrote: "Love is the only cure."
Credit: Instagram
As sweet as the sentiment may seem at a quick glance, a read-through of the instructions will very quickly reveal a glaring odd one out. Need a hint about which one Kardashian fans are upset about? Well, here's just some of the hundreds of outraged Twitter users who noticed it:
Yes, Khloé Kardashian (who has a mixed race child) seemingly thought it was fine to encourage people to love their racist neighbours.
Every other item on the list is something that can't be controlled (race/sexuality etc.) or something that should be treated with acceptance or empathy (religion/addiction problems/homelessness) - but some people have argued that racism does not deserve that kind of tolerance.
Then, as if she hadn't already dug herself a deep enough hole, she decided to offend her fans even more by showing her ignorance when someone tweeted about not being able to afford a pair of her jeans.
Credit: Twitter
And, once again, people weren't happy, with one tweeter describing Khloé Kardashian as "tone-deaf".
There's basically only two conclusions we can draw from both these instances: either Khloé Kardashian is selectively ignoring posts on social media, or she can't read. Either way, the 34-year-old's got a lot to answer for.


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Fraserburgh murder: Neighbours describe hearing "shouting" and "loud bangs" before death
By Jamie Ross
June 19, 2017, 4:48 am Updated: June 19, 2017, 11:59 am
Dean Leech was jailed for three years for attacking two prison guards - he was among eight men sentenced to almost 100 years for killing Gary Clampett.
Murder investigation launched after body found in Fraserburgh property
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A murder inquiry has been launched after a man was stabbed at a house in Fraserburgh.
Police were called to a large-scale disturbance in the town's Fernie Place early yesterday, with neighbours hearing shouting and banging.
Gary Clampett was found seriously injured inside a property, but could not be saved.
It is understood he was stabbed during an argument in a house on the street.
The 39-year-old is well-known in the Fraserburgh area, and was married to the daughter of Gordon Graham – who was allegedly murdered in a flat fire in the town nearly 20 years ago.
Yesterday, police sealed off the cul-de-sac and told neighbours to stay indoors as they focused their investigation on two properties.
Forensic officers could be seen going in and out of two houses scouring for clues, photographing shards of glass and examining a grey Suzuki Carisma within the cordon.
Detective Inspector Gary Winter last night confirmed they were treating Mr Clampett's death as murder, and said inquiries were at an early stage.
"An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the murder of Gary Clampett is under way," he said. "Our thoughts are with Gary's family and friends.
"Police will remain in the area while our inquiries are ongoing. We are following a number of lines of inquiry.
"I would appeal to anyone with any information in relation to this incident or private CCTV in the area of Fernie Place, Fraserburgh, to please come forward."
While the forensic team examined the scene, police officers in body armour stormed a nearby home.
Residents were meanwhile told to remain inside their homes.
One woman, who lives in Fernie Place, said she had been told by officers she would not be able to leave for work.
Explaining that she had slept through the apparent incident, she added: "A police officer told me that I couldn't go.
"I called to my boss and explained situation and the police officer also talked with him because it didn't sound like something real.
"There's still police outside. We aren't allowed to drive in and out from our street."
Residents of Hamilton Road, adjacent to the crime scene, said they were woken up by the sound of people shouting and a series of loud bangs.
A mum who lives overlooking the street said: "I just remember being woken up through the night by people shouting.
"I didn't want to look in case my kids woke up.
"The next thing I knew the police were arriving."
Her neighbour added: "I had just come home from a nightclub and went straight to bed.
"There was a lot of shouting at about 4am and then bangs."
Another said he had also been woken up at about the same time by the sounds of people shouting.
"There was shouting, then a scream," he said.
Former handyman Mr Clampett was married to Sharon Graham, whose family have lived in the north-east since the mid 1990s.
They were first hit by tragedy when her father, Gordon, died in a flat fire on High Street on May 3, 1998. Her oldest brother James later was killed in a car crash near Rosehearty.
The flat fire was initially ruled to have been an accident, but the investigation was reopened in 2009.
Barry Henderson, 42, has now appeared in court charged with the murder of Mr Graham and the attempted murder of his wife, Anne. He denies the charge and is due to go on trial next month.
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50 Years Ago, SF Film 'Behind The Green Door Launched The Porn Industry
1972 was a great year for film. Anti-heroes are born, supporting characters become main events, and life reappears on the screen from the shadows of society.
Deliverance became Burt Reynolds' breakthrough performance, Last House on the Left launched the true crime horror genre that still captivates audiences today, and The Godfather, perhaps the greatest and perhaps most misunderstood American film of all time, was released on March 24 .
But there is one film that stands out even among the genre-defining classics. It was made cheaper and made more money for its budget than any other film. He made a career, a broken heart and ruined life. He created an empire that eventually failed to sustain itself. Half a century later, he is widely credited with helping start a $4 billion-a-year industry.
Movie: "Behind the Green Door". Location: San Francisco.
"Failure, as all pornography should be, becomes art"
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Released 50 years ago this month (December 17, 1972), Behind the Green Door is the brainchild of a pair of brothers who grew up 45 minutes northeast of San Francisco in the Contra County city of Antioch. They built a porn empire out of Tenderloin offices and soon tapped into San Francisco's rich history of pushing the boundaries of sex work.
The Mitchell Brothers' most popular film, which had a budget of $60,000, grossed nearly $50 million over a multi-year run and became the second biggest adult film of all time, behind Deep Throat. earlier that year.
A story of loss of innocence, a smooth young girl is kidnapped and taken to an underground sex club, where she is thrown into a wonderful world of the occult. Early reviews of Behind the Green Door were about as uneasy as you'd expect, in contrast to audiences unsure what to make of an R-rated film that had three seemingly contradictory elements: story, nuance… and a rough base of sex.
"Behind the Green Door" may have the modest critical distinction of being the only pornographic film shot 20 minutes before the first sexual intercourse," he said in a 1973 line in the film. "After that, the restraints naturally disappear. , and you need a calculator to keep calculating how many numbers and their combinations. … If it is not, as all pornography should be, an art, hardcore is still a profession.
While the absurdities of Behind the Green Door may seem distasteful by today's standards, the film spawned pornographic stereotypes and underlying myths that are still pervasive in mainstream media.
Siblings Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen adapted the Mitchell brothers' biography and starred in the film X-Rated in 2000. And "Behind the Green Door" also had the short "Cannonball Race" in 1982.
Beginning in 1889 and for nearly a century thereafter, Antioch was known for its largest company, the Fiberboard Company, which operated a paper mill there. The East Bay industrial empire began with one insulation plant opened in Emeryville in 1884 and eventually expanded its empire to Tahoe, owning and operating Northstar-at-Tahoe and Sierra-at-Tahoe. During the Halcyon days. In the early 90s.
From the shadows of the factory emerge two brothers born of a paper shark and an early baby boomer teacher, Jim and Artie Mitchell. It's a quote from the working-class "Okies from Antioch," said former Mercury News reporter and editor John Hubner, Mitchell's biographer. Two young men don't have a chance to leave the foggy shores of the Sacramento Delta until they buy a camera.
After graduating from Antioch High School in 1962 and 1964 respectively, Jim and Artie moved to town just in time for the Summer of Love and started making amateur solos with friends and acquaintances. Jim first attended San Francisco State, where he took several film classes and became a "protest marcher and acid leftist," according to a 1987 profile in the Contra Costa Times. He was eventually released after the police chased him down a campus street during a protest.
"When they started, [mostly] nude pornography was playing volleyball and men and women with sticks in their eyes," Hooper's biographer said, referring to the way individuals hid their identities. "…Jim and Artie were in the right place at the right time, which was San Francisco in the '60s."
The City of San Francisco began to recognize the biennial as a way to protect and promote sex workers and the sex work industry by giving heritage status to companies from that era. Along with the recent recognition of The Condor Club, the city is also recognizing Eros, a queer sex club, and Good Vibrations, an adult toy retailer, writes SFGATE's Dan Gentile.
By 1969, the brothers had made enough money from their amateur ventures to begin promoting their legacy, purchasing a dying building in the middle of Softwood and turning it into their own theater and production facility at O'Farrell and Polk Streets. As of July 4th, their website is fully operational.
Described as a "stunning mansion" by SFGATE's Ariana Bendman, the O'Farrell Brothers Mitchell Theater was for more than half a century "a matte-rich empire [that] offered everything from bare lap dancing to tongue-in-cheek -the-pick" torch displays. '" Bendman wrote after the theater closed permanently. In October 2020, "Strange Clients of the Strip Club" at the Francisco Theatre.
Jim Mitchell was arrested just three weeks after the theater opened for "the production and performance of obscene material", the first of more than 200 lewd incidents during the brothers' career. Several arrests began in the 1980s by then-San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, whose deputy repeatedly tried to shut down the club and arrest the brothers. Despite, or perhaps because of, the legitimate business hype, the venue quickly flourished and remained in the adult entertainment realm.
hunters. Thompson, who also worked there as a night manager, called it "America's Carnegie sex hall," and the O'Farrell Theater provided the brothers with enough energy and space to independently produce their own feature films. With vertical integration in mind, the brothers began writing and released their first adult feature in 1972.
The twist of fate that angered them and earned them unprecedented fortunes came in the form of Marilyn Chambers, the 18-year-old lead actress and model who starred in Barbra Streisand's 1970 drama The Owl and the Pussycat. of Ivory Snow detergent. On a whim, he decides to audition.
He left their office after submitting to auditions, Chambers told the San Francisco Examiner, the brothers reported. "Jim and Art were at the top of the stairs and they saw me and yelled, 'Hey! He said, 'Wait, we want to talk to you.' And that's what happened. He was cast as the main character.
The 72-minute film was released around the same time as the Ivory Snow laundry soap campaign, and audiences quickly learned that Chambers was the girl with the baby in the box of a product she claimed was "44/100 percent pure." When the media found out that Ivory Snow's face was also in a shocking adult film, she rose to fame and became one of the role models for the entire industry.
"He was the first adult crossover star," Stephen Hirsch, co-chairman of Vivid Entertainment Group, told the Associated Press when he learned of Chambers' death on April 14, 2009, at age 56. "That girl is Ivory Snow, and when she decides to take a big step, it's big news.
"The first adult film was so much more than a bunch of sex scenes," Hirsch added. She is an actress and bringing her skills to the set of Behind the Green Door is part of what made this film so successful.
While the brothers fought censorship alongside porn mogul Larry Flynt, they also focused on the AIDS crisis that hit their area and San Francisco in the 1980s, and turned their attention to safe sex. Behind the Green Door in 1986. The film, starring a 25-year-old actress named Missy, became the first adult film aimed at the opposite sex with only safe sex. The following year, Mitchell Brothers released the G-rated Missy's Guide to Safer Sex, a half-hour tutorial on how to have safe sex with a porn star showing how to do it (think 2004's The Girl Next door).
But the trip wouldn't last forever for the Mitchell brothers. Jim shoots and kills Artie after the brothers' feud comes to a head on a rainy, drunken night in 1991. Jim arrives at Artie's house in Corte Madeira armed with a .22 caliber rifle, revolver and knife to save himself. He kicked him out of his drug and alcohol frenzy and got him into rehab, but ended up shooting him three times.
After a lengthy fratricide trial that shocked the Bay Area and the nation, Big Brother pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and served three years in San Quentin. He was released in 1997 and died peacefully of heart failure at his home in Sonoma County a decade later.
Fifty years later, not much of the Mitchell brothers' legacy remains. COVID-19 was the last straw at their base in San Francisco, and the trio went behind the Green Door. Perhaps it is the tragic end of an industry-changing film that redefines the norms that captivate a nation and change everything about our generation.
Or him?
"Sex must always remain a mystery," Chambers concluded in a 1973 interview with the Honolulu Advertiser. It must be a personal relationship between two people.
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Les Petits Bourgeois (en , ) est un drame de l'écrivain russe Maxime Gorki, composé en 1901.

La maison d'édition  l'a publié  en  et la pièce est créée le  à l'occasion d'une représentation  par le Théâtre d'art de Moscou à Saint-Pétersbourg.

Aperçu
Le riche petit bourgeois de 58 ans Wassilij Wassiljew Bessemjonow, maître de la guilde des peintres dans une ville de province anonyme, n'a aucune joie avec ses trois enfants. L'étudiant de 26 ans Piotr est expulsé de la faculté de droit de Moscou pour la raison, dit-il, que « Le diable m'a poussé à participer aux stupides émeutes ». Tatiana, enseignante de 28 ans, n'a jamais eu de mari. Lorsque Nil, le fils adoptif, 27 ans, conducteur de train, et Polja, 21 ans, parent éloigné des Bessemyonov, veulent se marier, la famille s'effondre. L'oiseleur de 50 ans Pertschichin  exprime ce que les autres avaient supposé jusqu'à présent : . Tatiana fait une tentative de suicide après une déception avec Nil. Après tout, Tatiana n'est pas à la hauteur de son père autoritaire et est désespérée. Elle avoue au chanteur d'église Birkhahn (russ. Тетерев, Teterew) , pensionnaire des Bessemjonows et philosophe ainsi que bouffon dans la pièce : . Son frère Piotr est complètement différent : à la fin de la pièce, le vieux Bessemjonow doit se rendre compte que Piotr ne demandera pas de reprendre des études de droit. Le fils quitte la famille avec la veuve de 24 ans Jelena Nikolajewna Kriwzowa  et veut  voler de ses propres ailes. Birkhahn, qui se dit ivrogne et qui voit dans tous les héros un imbécile omniprésent, pense que la pomme ne tombera pas loin de l'arbre. Piotr reviendra après la fuite et s'assiéra dans le nid qui a été fait.

Titre
Dans la citation de Tatiana ci-dessus, Gorki a déjà esquissé la petite bourgeoisie. Ce n'est pas suffisant. Birkhahn gronde non seulement Piotr, mais aussi son père, le vieux Bessemyonov, un petit bourgeois. Presque une définition gorkienne du petit bourgeois, Birkhahn dit face au vieux Bessemjonow : . Cette caractéristique correspond à la vision du vieux Bessemjonow des événements actuels dans son environnement. Par exemple, il évalue la tentative de suicide de Tatiana avec sa femme Akulina Ivanovna avec la déclaration : . Ou le vieil homme déteste les ouvriers d'usine qui se bousculent : .

Pyotr confirme à Jelena qu'il est dans le . Birkhahn : .

Contenu
Pourquoi le vieux Bessemyonov devient-il de plus en plus intolérant envers ses semblables d'acte en acte de cette pièce ? Pourquoi chasse-t-il finalement tout le monde hors de sa maison, de sorte qu'à la fin il s'assoit seul avec une femme aveuglément obéissante et une fille désespérée ? Dans le premier acte, il dit à Tatiana à propos de ce problème de génération : . Contrairement à la jeune génération, le vieil homme va à l'église avec sa femme et lit le Psautier à la maison. Mais en fait, il ne s'agit pas de ce genre de chose. L'attrapeur d'oiseaux Perchikhin prononce l'un des déclencheurs de toutes les querelles dans la maison des Bessemjonov : parce que la fille de Perchikhin, Polja, .

Au début, le vieux Bessemyonov ne veut pas que sa tête passe à travers le mur. Au contraire, le père inquiet cherche la cause du  de sa fille et en arrive à la conclusion qu'il . Maintenant, il est trop tard. Tatiana manque de foi parce qu'on lui a appris à utiliser son esprit dans les écoles. Mais rien n'est encore perdu. Tatiana est censée se marier. Ensuite, le père lui paie cinquante roubles par mois. Mais quand Nil se tourne vers la jeune Polja, le vieil homme amer déclare l'heureux couple comme son adversaire et dit à Nil : . Lorsque Tatiana boit de l'alcool de salmiak et se brûle l'œsophage, il appelle Polja un serpent venimeux, une mendiante.

Mais le vieux Bessemjonow ne fait pas le poids face au jeune couple Jelena et Piotr. Jelena surprend le vieil homme en admettant que c'est elle qui a réussi à courtiser son fils bien-aimé.

Philosophie
Des discours grandioses se produisent partout dans la pièce. Par exemple, Piotr démissionne : . Le spectateur ne manque pas - le logicien Gorki a étudié son Kant et Schopenhauer. La non-philosophe Jelena  présente la philosophie concentrée dans de tels fragments qu'elle doit avoir un effet amusant sur l'auditeur : Il y a la phrase "merveilleuse" de la raison suffisante avec ses racines quadruples : , a claironne Jelena, existerait également toujours.

Bibliographie
  Kleinbürger, allemand par Werner Creutziger, avec une postface et des commentaires d'Ilse Stauche, p. 5–121, in: Maxim Gorki: Dramen II, 672 pages, Bd. 21, in: Eva Kosing (Hrsg.), Edel Mirowa-Florin (Hrsg.), Maxim Gorki: Gesammelte Werke in Einzelbänden, Berlin : Aufbau-Verlag, 1974
 Nadeshda Ludwig, Maxim Gorki. Leben und Werk, Reihe Schriftsteller der Gegenwart, Berlin : Volk und Wissen, 1984.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Pièce de théâtre russe
Pièce de théâtre de 1901
Drame (théâtre)
Œuvre de Maxime Gorki

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I recently enrolled in another on-line jewelry class from the awesome Deryn Mentock. This is my forth on-line class with Deryn, and although I've never met her, I feel like we've made a real connection. She is not only an excellent teacher but fabulously creative and artistic. Her jewelry is featured on the cover of the current (Spring 2012) Belle Armoire magazine. The class I'm taking now is called the Art of Closure and we're learning to make cool handmade closures. Why use a boring purchased clasp when you can create your own.
Here's a necklace I made using Deryn's closure techniques including: handmade jump rings, S hooks, a stacked bead closure, wrapped fabric loops and a single ball hook. This necklace closes on the left with a stacked closure made with beads and a bronze metal disk. The chartreuse colored sari silk loops around the stacked closure. Although not taught in this class, I soldered my jump rings closed to give them more stability. I also made a metal etched bronze disk that I attached (on the left) between the small turquoise bead and the small coral beads.
Another view of the necklace.
Close up of the focal and bronze disk. I added a piece of the chartreuse sari ribbon to the focal - this is the same colored ribbon that I've used as the loop closure. I made the jump rings and soldered the big one closed - I like the look of the rustic solder showing.
Close up of the stacked closure which is made from a bronze disk which I cut, distressed and formed on the dapping block. I added a large carnelian bead, a rhinestone bead, metal heishi and attached it all with a balled end wire; on the other end I formed a loop and attached it to a jump ring which I soldered closed. The sari ribbon forms a loop which acts as a buttonhole for the stacked closure bead. I added tiny carnelian beads to a wire and wrapped it around the loop.
I love the colors and variety of shapes!


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Q: Skip the first group in a grouped dataframe I have a pandas df that I have grouped, like so:
gQ = df.groupby('Date', as_index=False)['Quantity']
and it returns:

0  0      135.68
   1     1054.68
   2      101.12
1  3      131.74
   4     1025.47
   5       97.40
2  6     1078.07
   7      101.93
3  8     1075.92
   9      102.06
4  10    1085.37
   11     102.80
   12    1656.58
5  13    1081.65
   14     104.27
   15    1659.42
Name: Price, dtype: float64
I want values from all groups except the first group, i.e.,

0  0      135.68
   1     1054.68
   2      101.12

Is it possible to filter out just that?

A: Use MultiIndex and levels - see https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/advanced.html - there are many examples: choose the best for your needs. BR

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LAUREN A. MELSO
Lauren A. Melso is currently the Rights & Clearances Supervisor for The Drew
Barrymore Show (CBS), where she is responsible for securing rights for all
licensed in photos, clips and acting as a liaison between the show's
production team and music licensing.
Prior to joining the show, she was the Director of Licensing at The Octave
Group, overseeing licensing for OG's services Touchtunes and PlayNetwork in
New York City. Her team was responsible for licensing all requested music
for the company's 400+ clients. In addition, she also focused on industry
relations and innovative proactivity.
Prior to beginning at PlayNetwork, Lauren held multiple roles at ASCAP in
both Business and Legal Affairs as well as New Media Licensing. Before
joining ASCAP, Lauren developed and led the Rights & Clearances team at
Leftfield Entertainment, worked in Music & Media Licensing at Viacom and
held various roles, including managing the digital copyright division, at
Sony Music. Lauren has been working in the industry for about 15 years.
On the side, Lauren also teaches ESL and participates in a mentor program
for her alma mater, The Ohio State University.
Lauren graduated from OSU in 2002 and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Japanese and a minor in Marketing


There are those who believe that a business should be ready for sale at all times. Barry Evans is not one of them.
As partner at Acquisition Services Group, a business brokerage firm based in San Diego, CA, Evans argues that if a business is operated based on the objective of being sold at any point in time, it's unlikely that it will succeed in meeting targets. "Your target should be doing what is best for your business with respect to future growth, profitability, stability, and risk reduction," he said. Instead, business owners who are contemplating a sale should take the time—and that could be several years—to prepare their business for market.
In many cases sellers have unrealistic expectations associated with the value of their businesses.Part of this preparation involves determining how much your company is actually worth. Evans relays that in many cases sellers have unrealistic expectations associated with the value of their businesses—a natural and understandable phenomenon, since business owners are usually so closely linked with their organizations. But seller beware: By attaching an unrealistic asking price to your business, you risk wasting time, money… and never making a sale. This is where it's necessary to enlist the services of a business valuation expert, preferably one that is familiar with the systems integration industry.
"As business owners we all have report cards, and it's usually our profit and loss statement. That's not a very good report card when it comes to being an entrepreneur," said John Warrillow, founder of Sellability Score, a business sellability "scorecard" service, and author of Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You (Portfolio, 2011). While a profit-and-loss statement is necessary, so, too he underlines, is a valuation statement.
Each business is valued slightly differently, but most buyers share some common concerns: Is it profitable? Does it boast established earning power? And what are the risks? If, for example, a business is profitable, but 80 percent of its revenues are derived from one customer, it's not a very attractive purchase. "If you have customer concentration issues, that's kind of a deathblow because it is not ordained that existing customers will continue to exist in the future," Evans said. The same, he added, applies to vendors.
Recurring revenue is also extremely valuable to buyers, and can drastically affect your price. Warrillow noted that with security companies specializing in installation work only, for example, acquirers will generally value install revenue at 75 cents on the dollar: If the business generated $1 million dollars in revenue, the offer would be $750,000. But if that security company derives revenue from monthly monitoring contracts, the price goes up dramatically: suddenly, the acquirer will pay $2 for every $1 of that recurring revenue. And suddenly, the price goes up to $2 million.
Evans explained that the due diligence process should be as detailed as possible, creating what he terms a "litigation defense wall". "What we want to do is disclose, in writing, every aspect of the business," he said. This prevents buyers from coming back to you after the sale, claiming that you did not make them aware of certain problems within the business. "If you put it in writing as part of the documentation process, and have all of the due diligence materials and exhibit them as legal documents, the only way you get in trouble is to have lied in writing." In which case, he only half-jokes, you deserve to be sued.
One of the trickiest aspects of selling a business is keeping the fact that it's for sale a secret. Confidentiality, however, is paramount if you wish to maintain strong relationships with your lenders, vendors, customers, and especially employees. According to Warrillow, a few top managers may need to know about the sale ahead of time. "Those people are the ones that you need to bring into the fold, and explain to them the process that you are going through," he explained. "As you bring those people in, you ask each of them to sign a confidentiality agreement so that they keep the news confidential." You may also give them an incentive that is associated with the sale of the business. The rest of the staff, however, should not be aware of it until the business is actually sold.
Warrillow has sold four businesses so far, and happily recounts that he has not experienced seller's remorse. He attributes this to having made plans, before the sale, for what he was going to do after exiting each company. However, he acknowledges that while some sellers feel remorseful post-sale because they feel they have lost their identity, others have regrets about how they handled the sale. "Oftentimes, entrepreneurs get seller's remorse when they negotiate with only one buyer," he said. "They don't hire an intermediary that creates a market for the business, and they don't seek other bids from other companies." Six months later they wake up and begin questioning whether or not they got a fair price—and they will never really know the answer.
What is the most important factor that makes a company ready for sale?
* Strong, accurate financial information.
* A client list with many long-term, happy customers on it.
* A company that can operate efficiently without the current owner.
* A competent management group, each in charge of their own area, while functioning as a group, all with the same goals and vision.
* The best deals appear to be done when the existing business can stand on its own and create a reasonable ROI for the new owner without the founder or current owner at the wheel. This works well for both parties as it enables the current owner to head off into the sunset, which is most likely his/her goal and it enables the new owner to take control of a self-sustaining business that is not wholly reliant on one or two key people to survive.
* Having a realistic understanding of the value of their business.
* If Verrex were looking to acquire a company, our strategy would be to filter based on a company's innovative approach to service delivery, office location or regional knowledge, key employees, and undervalued assets. Generally we see companies that may have one or two of these attributes, but not all.
* The real key is the owner actually having a compelling reason to sell. Whether the motivation is retirement, illness, working capital pressures, the strong desire to be part of a larger organization with better upside potential, or simply fatigue, if the seller doesn't really want out the price will never be reasonable (to the buyer) and the deal will never happen.
Because of the nature of the systems integration industry, AV firms are most often associated with their owners. While this serves to establish strong bonds with clients, manufacturers, and other partners, it can be a detriment when you put your business up for sale.


The Clipper Connect Business series was established to act as a catalyst for conversation and collaboration between race partners, crew, alumni and the different business hubs the Clipper Race engages with throughout the race. The series aims to build a global community that inspires courageous leadership and provides a platform for like-minded people throughout the world to build their own personal and professional networks.
The 2017-18 edition of the race saw Clipper Connect Business Series events take place in eight Host Ports around the globe including; UK, South Africa, Australia, China, the USA and Northern Ireland.
Co-hosted in collaboration with several prestigious organisations and Partners including Liverpool city's Mayoral 100 club, Wesgro, Invictus Games Sydney 2018, Sanya Serenity Coast, the Qingdao Organising Committee, Seattle Sports Commission, Nasdaq, and the Derry City and Strabane District Council/Londonderry Chamber of Commerce, the events focused on topics such as global connections, economic opportunities, entrepreneurs and sport, travel and tourism, international waterfront development, women as leaders, data futures and building international connections.
During the Clipper Race stopover in New York, the business series had the opportunity to co-host an event with Team Partner Nasdaq at its impressive Marketsite location in Times Square. Centered around 'A Data Future` theme, the evening explored how data is used in the world of sport, business, financial and social sectors with main discussion points exploring how big data will be utilised to problem solve, revolutionise, and create positive impact across the globe.
Speakers at the event included Mike O'Rourke, Vice President, Global Head of Machine Intelligence & Data services, Nasdaq; Kevin Ashley, Sr. Architect Evangelist, Microsoft; Antony Phillipson, Her Majesty's Trade Commissioner for North America and Hamish Young, Chief, Humanitarian, Action and Transitions, Unicef.
Whether taking place in Times Square, at a Town Hall, a Museum, or even on board a boat, all events were attended by leaders in their fields who educated guests and answered questions through speeches and panel Q&A sessions providing insight from various backgrounds and industries on a range of distinct themes.
At all of the Clipper Connect events attendees were given the opportunity to grow their own personal connections through networking sessions, having the opportunity to link with new contacts, spark ideas and conversations and creating opportunities to develop new and exciting collaborations.
Throughout all the different venues and all the different themes, the Clipper Connect Business Series once again demonstrated how the Clipper Race can be used as a diverse platform for business that works for brands and destinations in different ways, such as brand awareness, research and development, press opportunities or by simply building connections and creating collaboration opportunities.
The Clipper 2017-18 Race offered Official Partners the opportunity to leverage their partnership by hosting customers, prospects, partners and media on sailing experiences, in-port events and yacht tours, providing the perfect backdrop to strengthen existing relationships, showcase products and services and create new opportunities.
Debut Clipper Race Fleet Partner, Dell, maximised the opportunity to drive awareness of its Latitude Rugged portfolio during the 2017-18 edition hosting events for customers, prospects, industry leaders and journalists in Cape Town, Qingdao, New York and Derry-Londonderry. As part of the partnership, Dell supplied the Clipper Race fleet with its Latitude Rugged laptops allowing teams to operate and communicate in some of the most challenging conditions on the planet as they raced around the globe. Hosting talks, yacht tours and sail days allowed Dell to showcase the Latitude Rugged portfolio and how the products are capable of withstanding the harshest conditions, to a variety of different audiences.
In South Africa the Dell Latitude Rugged team hosted an engaging press event to showcase the portfolio and demonstrate its capabilities to partners. During the event, press had the opportunity to learn about the products and hear from Clipper Race Dell ambassadors who shared their experiences of using Dell Latitude Rugged products on board. They also listened to Clipper Race Chairman and Co-Founder, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who spoke about the benefits of having Dell products and how technology has evolved throughout the history of the race.
Whilst in New York, the Clipper Race fleet once again provided the perfect backdrop for a Dell product showcase event. Damon Munzy, Corporate Communications for Dell, and Craig Brandt, Dell Rugged Product Marketing Director, used the Clipper Race to speak about the Rugged range and boldly demonstrated its resilience by freezing one of the laptops in an ice sculpture of a Clipper 70 yacht, successfully demonstrating its ability to work in such an extreme environment condition.
Whilst in Derry-Londonderry,Dell showcased the latest Dell Rugged/OEM, featuring IoT Technology specific to the Marine industry to guests from across the EMEA including representatives from Costa Crociere, Safehaven Marine and the UK Ministry of Defence and Royal Navy. The two-day event included talks from Clipper Race Co-Founder and Chairman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Trevor Austin from the UK's Ministry of Defence, and Dan Eden from Dell EMC. The talk was followed by a private yacht tour on-board a Clipper 70, which gave guests an opportunity to explore the yachts ahead of their sailing experience the following day. It also gave guests the chance to see the extreme capabilities of the Dell Rugged range first-hand as the products were demonstrated and put through a series of tests.
Clipper Race Official Suppliers also took the opportunity to host events for customers and prospects during the 2017-18 race. Official Standing Rigging Partner Sta-Lok Terminals recently celebrated ten years of being established in the United States by inviting staff and partner suppliers in both the marine and construction industries to a sailing experience in New York on board a Clipper 70.
Official Supplier's Marlow Ropes and Coppercoat also both hosted sail days, with Marlow Ropes hosting customers in Sydney and Coppercoat choosing to leverage stopovers in both Sydney and New York by inviting customers to join them on board a Clipper 70 for a sailing experience.
From a CSR perspective, Charity Partner Unicef leveraged its partnership with the Clipper Race by inviting business guests, key stakeholders and partners in Australia to showcase its involvement with the race and reinforce key commercial relationships. Hosting a sailing experience on Sydney Harbour, Unicef Australia invited guests from Ikea, Qantas, Australian Rugby Union, DLA Piper and 3P Learning, as well as senior representatives from the Unicef New York office to enjoy a day out on the water on the Unicef branded Clipper 70.
Whilst in Cape Town, South African wine brand, Stormhoek, took full advantage of the Clipper Race fleet's stay in Cape Town by taking out three Clipper70s to entertain customers, suppliers and employees whilst raising the profile of its partnership with the Clipper Race. Split into groups, the morning session saw Stormhoek entertain wine makers, shipping agents, industry governing bodies and local customers to recognise those that have been invaluable to the business and enhance business relationships for future success.
Stormhoek's guests donned their bright orange Stormhoek buffs and jumped aboard the yachts for an exhilarating morning sail in Table Bay. In between morning and afternoon sails, Stormhoek hosted a large lunch at Mitchell's for all guests and crew to debrief and enjoy. Afterwards, an afternoon sailing session with employees of Stormhoek and Origin Wines engaged employees in the Stormhoek brand and its values.
With Corporate Social Responsibility becoming increasingly important for many businesses, the Clipper Race provided the perfect unique platform for Race Partners to activate around this important business goal.
Charity Partner Unicef led the way with a number of varying activations kicking off in South Africa when Clipper Race Crew and CEO William Ward visited the Isibindi Safe Park in Grabouw. Initiated in response to the HIV epidemic which has left many children orphaned or vulnerable, Isibindi is a community-based programme that strengthens families and helps to protect children from abuse, neglect and violence. The model is a community-based response to the HIV/AIDS crisis as well as the children who have been made vulnerable for other reasons. As part of the itinerary crew visited the homes of families that are also supported by the Isibindi programme.
Following the visit from crew to the Isibindi Safe Park, children were excited to then step on board the Unicef yacht and try their hand at many sailing activities including testing their strength on the coffee grinders which help to hoist the sails. This provided huge inspiration to the children, all of which had never ventured down into Cape Town, let alone onto a 70ft ocean racing yacht.
As the fleet passed through Australia Unicef utilised its unique partnership with the race to showcase more of the important work it does internationally, this time raising its profile in how they are working towards the combat of climate change in Fiji. Although 1,700 nautical miles apart, the Unicef crew linked up with Unicef Fiji via Skype where a number of Fijian children spoke about the impact climate change has had on their lives and the important initiatives Unicef is doing in their communities to combat it. Unicef's objective of the activation was to profile and raise awareness of the long-term work that Unicef does in communities related to the welfare of children. At times this work gets overshadowed by the aftermath and relief work that Unicef is heavily involved with immediately following on from a disaster. The interactive Skype call story was widely covered by regional tv and online media, including outlets such as the Fiji Times, Fiji Sun Online, and at a broader scale ABC, providing great exposure for Unicef's local programmes.
In the final stopover of the race Derry City and Strabane District Council launched themselves as the first Unicef 'Child Friendly Community' in Northern Ireland. With expert training and guidance from Unicef UK, the ambitious three-year partnership will see local politicians, staff and volunteers from Derry-Londonderry turning to children's rights to guide decisions that affect children and young people. The partnership was announced on board the Unicef Clipper 70 docked in Derry-Londonderry; providing a unique platform to showcase the Unicef UK brand. The Derry City and Strabane District Council joins four other councils in the UK taking part in the 'Child Friendly Cities& Communities'programme, which transforms cities and communities into places where children's rights are respected and their voices heard. Launched in 1996, Child Friendly Cities is a global Unicef programme that reaches close to 30 million children in 38 countries.
Turning to the environment, the Port of Seattle used its status as Team Supporter of the Visit Seattle yacht to implement pioneering scientific environmental research around the US coast-line. The port teamed up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – an agency within the US Department of Commerce – as well as the University of Washington, Sunburst Sensors, Visit Seattle and the Clipper Race to raise public awareness of its Ocean Acidification Program, which studies changes in ocean chemistry in response to increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, associated with climate change.
In order to conduct the research, Visit Seattle was fitted with a special sensor for monitoring the effects of ocean acidification as the yacht makes its journey around the USA coastline from Seattle to New York via the Panama Canal. This Sunburst Sensor, the recent winner of a $2 million XPRIZE ocean health award, monitored ocean acidification during the 6,000nm US Coast-to-Coast leg of the race. Readings were taken every 30mins through the Sunburst Sensor, which has enabled researchers to access unique data around the ocean acidity levels in the water surrounding the USA coastline and holds great hope for the future of addressing environmental change in the USA and further afield.
Our Chinese Host Port and Team Partners Sanya Serenity Coast and Qingdao launched Ambassador Programmes for the 2017-18 race to help meet their partnership and CSR objectives. First time partner Sanya Serenity Coast designed its ambassador programme to help promote the city as a tourist destination and support the long-term development strategy of combining sports and tourism, as well as showcasing Sanya as a sailing destination in China. The sixteen Sanya Ambassadors selected were aged between 23 to 55 and from a broad range of backgrounds including yacht managers, dive and travel tour guides, television presenters, CEOs, marketeers, language interpreters, ocean race organisers and sailing school staff.
Returning for a seventh time as a Host Port and Team Partner, Qingdao's Ambassador Programme continued from strength to strength, with fourteen ambassadors chosen to represent China's 'Sailing City'. In addition to their Ambassador Programme, working closely with the Qingdao Organising Committee, the Clipper Race developed an all-encompassing community engagement programme to help showcase the development of sailing in Qingdao. This included a series of school and university visits to engage local children and young adults in the sport. Students were given private tours of the Clipper70 racing yachts by intrepid crew members to find out what life is like on board.
As an aside to the Clipper Race, Clipper Ventures was proud to partner with the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 ahead of the RSHYR. Two Clipper 68s, crewed by wounded, injured and ill army veterans going through the recovery process, took each other on along with the rest of the 102-strong fleet. The Invictus Games Sydney 2018's key objectives for partnering with Clipper Ventures were to leverage the Clipper 68s to promote the games in Sydney in 2018. It also gave 16UK and Australian veterans and defence personnel a unique sailing opportunity, and acted as a catalyst to build the Australian veterans' sailing program into an entity that parallels that of the UK. Billed as the "Ashes on the Water", the British crewed Invictus Games Sydney 2018 yacht 'GAME ON' was joined by Clipper Race Founder and Chairman, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, and beat the Australian crewed Invictus Games Sydney 2018 'DOWN UNDER' into Hobart by just under 11 hours. The fascinating race between the two crews generated extensive coverage across key media outlets including Fox Sports Australia, Sky News Australia, Australian Business Corporation and national newspaper, The Australian.
The above are just a few examples of how partners have leveraged their CSR objectives throughout the Clipper 2017-18 Race edition. First time Team Partner Dare To Lead was also unique amongst the Clipper Race fleet, promoting an inspirational concept instead of a brand or destination. Sailing under the flag of teamwork, determination and leadership, Dare To Lead aimed to inspire its diverse crew of racers. It seeks to help them apply the life skills learnt during this ocean adventure to become catalysts for positive change in their personal lives, professional careers and social communities and enabled youths from South Africa the chance to represent the foundation and sail in a leg of the Clipper 2017-18 Race edition.
The 2018-18 edition of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race provided cities across the globe the perfect platform to promote their destination to the rest of the world. Whether through public engagement or media promotion, each destination had the opportunity to showcase the best it has to offer to the race's ever-growing global audience.
After departing Punta del Este, the Clipper Race fleet raced across the South Atlantic to Cape Town, South Africa, before tackling the testing conditions of the Southern Ocean towards Australia. The first of four Australian Stopovers was on the west coast in Fremantle, followed by a Christmas break in Sydney, where the fleet took part in the famous Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, a real highlight for the majority of crew.
Whilst in Sydney,a Visit Seattle delegationhosted a series of high-end events for leading members of the Australian Tourism Industry members with the aim of promoting Seattle as a key tourism and trade destination for Australians. In conjunction with the delegation's visit, Visit Seattle hosted two sailing experiences on board the yacht Visit Seattle to showcase the partnership with the Clipper Race and build relationships between the American city and Australian media and travel trade customers and consumers.
To support its objective, Visit Seattle also launched a radio campaign with Sydney's premier talk radio station 2GB, airing a series of destination interviews with Visit Seattle President and CEO, Tom Norwalk. The campaign featured a competition to win a half day sailing experience on board the Visit Seattle yacht, which was also aired through destination spots on 2GB's show "Talking Lifestyle".
The Visit Seattle sailing experiences targeted tourism industry contacts through a competition which was put out through Flight Centre's NSW Network, and consumer and trade media journalists, including publications from Boss Hunting, Fairfax Media, The Carousel and CIM news. The feedback from all three demographics has been very positive providing Visit Seattle with the perfect platform to build on in promoting and raising awareness of Seattle as the 'new' hot destination for tourism and trade for Australasians.
The final stopover in Australia was in the beautiful Whitsundays where the crew were able to mark the halfway mark of the circumnavigation with a long and enjoyable stopover in the heart of the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef.
Queensland Tourism and Events and the Whitsundays Regional Council used the Clipper Race Stopover to promote the Whitsundays as the premier sailing hub on the east coast of Australia and hosted a Media Familiarisation trip that included representatives from outlets/properties such as Ocean Media, Afloat, and Newscorp.
The two bodies also hosted the inaugural Whitsundays Clipper Race Carnival; a fortnight of entertainment and world-class events which showcased some of the best attractions the Whitsundays has to offer. Speaking before the Carnival, Tourism Whitsundays CEO Craig Turner said: "The Whitsundays Clipper Race Carnival will be one of the biggest fortnights of entertainment the region has ever seen". That prediction proved to be true, with events such as the long table lunch on the pristine silica sands of Whitehaven Beach and an Australia Day rodeo in Bowen proving to be a hit with crew, locals, and visitors alike.
Following the Whitsundays, the fleet raced on to the Chinese island of Hainan for the inaugural Stopover in Sanya. The 'Hawaii of the Orient' made its debut as both a Host Port and Team Partner in the Clipper 2017-18 Race and the tropical resort city was a much-anticipated stop for crew. The idyllic destination put its major sailing event hosting capabilities, including the Platinum Level 5 Gold Anchor Accredited Sanya Serenity Marina on display when the entire Clipper Race fleet took to the water for the inaugural Sanya Serenity Coast In-Port Regatta, the first in-port regatta in Clipper Race history. Streamed live via nineteen online channels and on television in Sanya, people from all over the world were able to watch the In-Port race, with 567,646 people watching live in the Sanya region alone.
The seventh consecutive Clipper Race Stopover in China's Sailing City of Qingdao will go down as one to remember with the Clipper Race fleet becoming the first to test out the impressive newly constructed Wanda Marina and Yacht Club on Starry Island in the West Coast New Area. Like the former stopover site of the Olympic Sailing Centre, this location is set to become a key sailing venue which will further develop sailing in Qingdao.
The stunning Welcome Ceremonies set the tone of the entire Stopover, with the teams welcomed by an army of dancers and drummers. The Qingdao Organising Committee gave both Clipper Race Crew and Race Crew Supporters the chance to learn more about the West Coast New Area, arranging a visit to the ShiMen Temple, as well as an opportunity to take part in a host of local cultural experiences such as a local neighbourhood and school visits to learn more about the local culture, art, and dance of Qingdao.
In order to increase awareness of this new stopover location, which is set to become a hugely significant Chinese sailing hub, the Qingdao Organising Committee pulled out all the stops, creating a strategic branding campaign which lined the route from Qingdao Airport to Wanda Marina. Working closely with the Qingdao Organising Committee, the Clipper Race developed an all-encompassing community engagement programme to help showcase the development of sailing in Qingdao and to support Qingdao's status as China's Sailing City. The programme included a series of school and university visits to engage local children and young adults in the sport.
The fleet left Qingdao on March 23 and made its way 5,600 nautical miles across the world's most remote ocean, the North Pacific, towards Seattle. During its second consecutive time as a Host Port and Team Partner, Seattle put on an incredible Stopover, organising a number of tourism activities and business networking events to showcase how versatile the city is in both its trade and tourism offerings.
After a much-loved stopover, the Clipper Race Crew bid Seattle a fond farewell and embarked on the US Coast-to-Coast Leg 7 which took the fleet through the Panama Canal and onto New York. From New York, the eleven teams completed their sixth and final ocean crossing – the North Atlantic – on the way to arriving to a heroes' welcome in Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
The fourth consecutive Clipper Race Stopover in Derry-Londonderry was another huge success with record numbers experienced across the duration of the ten-day Foyle Maritime Festival. The Festival got off to a record-breaking start with 32,000 people turning out for the opening day, whilst an estimated total of 220,000 people enjoyed the packed programme of activities along the picturesque bank of the River Foyle.
As a unique platform, the Clipper 2017-18 Race has enabled partners to successfully showcase their brand to an external audience in a host of different ways.
With a strong presence in the USA, first time Team Partner HotelPlanner.com utilised its partnership with the Clipper Race to drive hotel and media awareness in Seattle. Through securing three live media spots on local channel Seattle FOX Q13, HotelPlanner.com generated local media exposure securing approximately 150k views through the morning broadcast. In addition, the Seattle Times' Christine Willemson wrote a story on the Clipper Race in Seattle which rated as one of the top stories of the day with an estimated viewership of 40-70k.
In a different context, PSP Logistics decided to explore new business development opportunities in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and in Sanya, China, two new stopovers for the 2017-18 race edition. In preparation for his trip to Punta del Este, Darron Strange, Finance Director, spent time researching and exploring key target businesses, and ended up meeting a number of South American agents and buyers based in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
During the stopover Darron also hosted a static networking event on board the PSP Logistics team yacht in Punta del Este. The objectives of this event were to enable a number of local agents and buyers to network in a unique environment, developing South American relationships and business opportunities.
As a direct result of the networking event and business development trip, PSP Logistics' relationships with Schandy has developed greatly and as a result, PSP Logistics is looking at future business opportunities together. In addition to activating in Uruguay, PSP Logistics took advantage of the debut stopover in Sanya, China, to concentrate on its business grown strategy within the Asian market through hosting a client sail day during the stopover in the tropical resort to entertain guests from Simpson Marine, Asia's leading yacht dealership. The Official Logistics Supplier for the Clipper Race continues with plans to develop with its partners in the region and has recently confirmed that it will be exhibiting at Seawork Asia, the largest commercial marine and workboat exhibition in the Asia region, in Shanghai at the end of the year.
Third time Team Partner the GREAT Campaign engaged with numerous external audiences throughout the course of the race through a variety of different activations. In Cape Town, the GREAT Campaign held a panel session led by Emma Wade-Smith OBE speaking about the Clipper Race, ongoing pollution to the world's ocean and the leadership qualities needed in Clipper Race crew members. With the support of the Embassy and the GREAT campaign team in London, the morning session welcomed guests who had been specifically selected for their potential to do business with the UK and the afternoon session welcomed key stakeholders and clients of the British Chamber of Commerce.
In Australia, the UK Secretary of State for International Trade, Dr Liam Fox, shone a light on the strong and growing links between the UK and Australia. A highlight of his visit was a 'GREAT for Partnership' event with the Australian British Chamber of Commerce, where one of Clipper Ventures' training yachts was specially branded and used as part of the government's 'Best of British' theme alongside Sydney's stunning Opera House and Harbour Bridge. The Best of British theme supported Liam Fox's Dr Fox keynote speech to a 240 strong business audience, highlighting the strength of the relationship between the two countries and their future opportunities.
Whilst in the USA, Clipper Race Team Partners GREAT Britain and Liverpool 2018 put their sporting rivalry aside and joined forces at an event hosted by British Ambassador to the USA, Sir Kim Darroch, and International Business Festival Director Ian McCarthy. The event brought together senior executives from State of Washington based companies to celebrate and showcase what the UK has to offer in trade and business. The reception was part of a special programme of events ahead of the International Business Festival, which is one of Liverpool 2018's programme of events and is also supported by the GREAT Britain campaign.
As the fleet raced south into Panama, the British Embassy hosted an event to celebrate The Queen's Birthday and its Sport is GREAT Britain week using the Clipper Race team entry GREAT Britain as a focal point. Following a football match between Northern Ireland and Panama in the lead up to Panama's first World Cup, the reception was hosted by the British Ambassador to Panama, Damion Potter. In addition to a showcase of GREAT British sport, celebrating the Queen's birthday the Ambassador noted other significant business ties between Panama and the UK.
In Qingdao we welcomed The Vice Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor Gary Millar, as part of his relationship strengthening visit to China. In addition to greeting the Liverpool 2018 team, Councillor Millar also took the opportunity to meet with the team from the China-Britain Innovation Park, which is located within the Qingdao Economic & Technical Development Zone of the West Coast New Area which is home the Liverpool Showcase Exhibition. The Liverpool showcase was an opportunity for the business community of Qingdao to learn about Liverpool's businesses and exports in order to drive the message of collaborative working between these two great maritime cities.
Team Partner Nasdaq took advantage of the Clipper Race stopover in New York by showcasing footage from the race on its world-famous billboard in Time's Square. In addition, Official Wine Supplier Stormhoek had a strong experiential presence within the Race Start and Race Finish villages in Liverpool to engage passers-by. At Race Finish Stormhoek created the world's largest 'Bag in a Box' enabling consumers to sample and purchase its wine, the objective being to raise awareness of its brand and to also generate an online social media following. Team Partner and Official Supplier Garmin also had a presence within the Race Village enabling consumers to purchase its range of products.
Official Timekeeper Elliot Brown activated in a unique way by implementing a yearlong endurance test alongside the race. The concept was to mount a watch to the bow of one of the Clipper 70s to see how it would cope travelling 40,000Nm, crossing six oceans, being exposed to millions of pressure and thermal shocks, eleven months of constant salt water attack and everything else mother nature (and ocean debris) could throw at it. The objective was to welcome Clipper Race crew and the Elliot Brown watch home after circumnavigating the globe to see if the watch could survive the extreme harsh conditions that it would face, being placed on the bow of a Clipper 70. After successfully retrieving the watches, Elliot Brown plans to translate the story into retail points of sale via graphics, story boards and video content, showcasing its product's durability to withstand exceptionally extreme conditions for extended periods of time.
Alongside a number of Race Partners, Ocean Safety leveraged its partnership with the race through its race crew brand ambassador programme. By receiving blogs and imagery from its brand ambassador at different points throughout the race, Ocean Safety built up internal and external engagement in the race and what daily life was like on board a Clipper 70. This was hugely popular internally with Ocean Safety employees. In addition, ahead of the start of the race MaxSea worked closely with Race Skippers to create videos showcasing their product which were used online to engage a wide audience. Another example of how to utilise its partnership rights was ClipperTelemed+ by PRAXES, which, alongside other Race Partners, utilised its partnership with the race by naming the race from Fremantle into Sydney which was aptly named the ClipperTelemed+ Tasman Test.
The Clipper 2017-18 Race saw the creation of the third series of The Race of Their Lives, the award-winning official documentary series about the Clipper Race.
The Race of Their Lives is produced by 1080 Media and in 2016 the series won 'Best Sports Documentary – UK' at the TMT Media Awards. Following this success, this edition was aired across global channels including Sky Sports, Fox Australia, Fox Asia, Fox Europe, Fox Africa, OSN, beIn sport (Asia and Australia), Astro Malaysia, Arena Sport (Baltics), Eleven Network (Poland, Taiwan, USA, Singapore, Belgium and Italy), Nautical channel (available worldwide), Supersport (Pan Southern Africa), Kwese (Pan Africa), IYQI (China), Watersports World (available worldwide) and Virgin Bulgaria.
The Race of Their Lives 3 showcases the inside story and challenges faced by everyday people who undertook the 2017-18 edition of the world's greatest ocean adventure and also provides valuable brand exposure for Clipper Race partners on worldwide television. Previous editions of the series are available to purchase via bookharbour.com, the online shop for our Official Nautical Chart Services Partner, ChartCo.
The conclusion of the eleventh edition of the race has also seen the creation of the Clipper Race Partnerships: 2017-18 Race Review video. The video highlights just some of the 237 business activations that 33 race partners have co-hosted, or had the opportunity to attend, during the previous 11 months and 13 international stopovers.
The video showcases the variety of different exciting and creative events that partners utilise to increase brand awareness and reinforce and build new relationships. It also features interviews from the British Ambassador to the USA, Sir Kim Darroch, Marketing Director at Dell, Craig Brandt and Mayor of Punta del Este, Enrique Antia, who talk about how the Clipper Race provides the perfect platform for today's modern world of international business.
History was made in Liverpool on Saturday 28 July when Australian Sailor Wendy Tuck became the first woman to ever win a round the world yacht race after leading her Sanya Serenity Coast team to clinch overall victory in the Clipper 2017-18 Race.
Despite the sprint positions, it was Sanya Serenity Coast that managed to hold the overall lead and in an additional win for women's sport, second place overall went to British Sailor Nikki Henderson, 25, the Skipper of Visit Seattle.
Celebrations continued throughout the weekend, with a programme of entertainment, workshops, free yacht tours and talks which took place throughout the following week.


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