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For now, the store is bustling as usual.
"We still have new things coming in every day," Harris said. "The UPS guy came today and brought 15 boxes (of merchandise). He said, 'I thought you were going out of business.'"
"We're still going full tilt," said Liner. "I was in New York yesterday."
But the end is near. Already, the sisters are discounting merchandise by 10 percent — and 20 percent with purchases of $250 or more.
And a common theme is heard these days as customers try to convince them not to close.
"I've had protesters with signs, people crying," Liner said. "It was a big deal to us that we were closing, but I never imagined it would become such a topic of conversation."
"We spend the whole day telling people we're sorry," Harris said.
Longtime customer Lois Kramer, of Roland Park, was shocked when Liner told her, "We're retiring."
"Why?" Kramer said, her voice rising. "There's no such word. What are you going to do? You'll be bored."
But that's to be expected when you're as close with your customers as Liner and Harris are.
"We specialized in customer service and bonding with our customers," Liner said. "We treated everybody as if they were our friends."
Harris and Liner won't say goodbye forever. They're keeping their mailing list.
Said Liner, "You never know what we'll have planned for the next 50 years."
Julie Harris, the daughter of The Bead co-owner Idy Harris, sells a purse at the store in Kenilworth Mall on Nov. 15. Julie Harris has been instrumental in moderninizing the store's merchandise to attract a younger crowd, and in getting The Bead on social media, her mother says.
Mosul was declared liberated from jihadists almost six months ago, but judging by its current state it could take years to clear the debris. Most of the city appears uninhabitable, although people can be found living in the ruins.
An estimated 90 percent of Mosul was destroyed or significantly damaged during the nine-month siege by Iraqi forces supported by the US-led coalition. But in the months since its recapture from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), the city has mostly disappeared from public view in the West, sidelined by new stories. The people who live in the Iraqi city now feel abandoned and desperate, an RT crew discovered.
If you live in Mosul today, you most likely have to borrow money to feed your family, or scour the deadly ruins full of decomposing bodies and unexploded bombs for anything valuable to sell, such as scrap metal. A boy aged 11 told the RT crew that this was his daily task.
And Islamic State fighters, who have supposedly been ousted from the city, are still there, local security officials said. They may be disorganized and in hiding, but militia patrols prefer to walk with guns in their hands, cocked and ready to shoot – just in case.
“The world has forgotten Mosul. It’s out of fashion, no longer trending. And locals have a well-founded suspicion that this was never about saving them,” RT’s Murad Gazdiev reported.
We have been running the AS-SSD Benchmark app for over some time now and found that it gives a broad result set. The programmer has worked very hard on this software and continues to make updates often so if you use it, show him some love and send him a donation. There are now three tests that are found within the tool and we’ll show the results from all three of them.
Benchmark Results: On AS SSD, the Micron 1100 512 GB drive had an overall score of 1,122 points with sequential read speeds of 496.88 MB/s and 492.17 MB/s write.
Benchmark Results: For this benchmark chart you would ideally want to see a straight line as you don’t want any compression performance loss as the test goes from 0% compressible to 100% compressible data during the benchmark test period. The Micron 1100 512 GB M.2 SATA looked good on the read test and had just a handful of small performance dips on the write side.
Before we wrap things up we wanted to see how real-world was when writing a 30GB folder containing five 4K movies over to the SSD. For this test, we are going to simply stress write performance by transferring over a 30.6GB folder of movies off of a PCIe NVMe SSD to the drive being tested to see how performance looks.
This is one of our favorite tests as many enthusiasts and gamers move large folders of data around at one time or another. The Micron 1100 started out fast, but once the SLC cache was full the write performance dropped down to 200 MB/s at the end of the file transfer. This is one of the downsides to most all TLC NAND based drives and is expected once the cache is filled.
It seems that "13 hardened Democrats" or "angry Democrats" did not deliver a politically motivated, illegitimate hit job after all. Based on what we know so far, the special counsel's office reported that it did not find evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. This is a fabulous vindication of the integrity of the system.
No one is noticing that. Instead, the Trump team is gorging on schadenfreude, and the anti-Trump team is choking on bile.
It's fair to say that those who spent hour upon cable TV hour lovingly anticipating that President Donald Trump would be frog-marched from the White House in handcuffs after the delivery of this report have egg on their faces. It isn't clear which hurts more, the disappointment about being wrong or the worry about drooping ratings.
But there's plenty of egg to go around. Team Trump spent nearly two years denouncing the Mueller investigation as a "rigged witch hunt." By one count, the president used the term "witch hunt" more than 1,100 times. He mercilessly eviscerated his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, for the sin of following Justice Department guidelines instead of corruptly abusing his office to shield Trump from scrutiny. At various times, the president has also suggested that the inquiry was a sinister plot of the "deep state;" a ploy by supporters of "crooked" Hillary Clinton to extract revenge (while also suggesting that the real collusion was between Democrats and the Russians); or an "illegal hoax" perpetrated by the "fake news" media. Trump claimed that the Mueller probe was staffed by "very bad and conflicted people," and that the investigation was a "disgrace to our nation."
The battle space was thus prepared for a Mueller report that would be devastating to the president. His supporters wouldn't believe anything that reflected badly on Trump because the investigation itself, along with the law enforcement bodies tasked with carrying out their responsibilities in an impartial fashion, had been discredited.
Yet, when it turned out that the investigators did not invent or plant evidence, did not default to process crimes like lying to investigators, did not spring a perjury trap, and, above all, did not permit their own feelings or political preferences to taint the administration of justice, there has been no embarrassment from team Trump. On a dime, they have reversed themselves completely. A totally corrupt witch hunt has become a total vindication. (It wasn't that. Even Attorney General William Barr's letter acknowledged that the report did not "exonerate" the president on the charge of obstruction of justice.) But even if it had been a clean bill of health, how can they trust the Mueller people? Weren't they thoroughly corrupt? A disgrace?
Trump has a long history of impugning anyone or anything he perceives as a threat to his own interests and flattering anyone he thinks can help him. When he feared he would lose an election, he denounced the voting as "rigged." Judge Curiel became a "Mexican" judge when Trump feared he might rule against him in the Trump University case. Gold star parents, deceased heroic senators, Charles Krauthammer, S.E. Cupp, Jeff Bezos and an endless list of others have joined the ranks of the slighted. On the other hand, if you repent and join the Trump fan club -- as pretty much the entire invertebrate Republican Party has done -- then you are swiftly forgiven and elevated. Lindsey Graham went from a "nasty" and "dumb mouthpiece" to a favorite golfing buddy in a trice.
This transparently solipsistic approach to the world would be of little interest if it were just a quirk of a New York businessman. But when Trump employs the tactic to undermine confidence in institutions like the justice system, he does lasting damage.
The "witch hunt" was nothing of the kind. Honorable people did the right thing. Politics did not taint a criminal investigation. But that reality is buried under an avalanche of bad faith.
(Reuters) - The National Labor Relations Board filed an official complaint against a California warehouse serving some of the largest U.S. retailers after finding evidence it violated workers’ rights to organize, according to a filing by the agency.
The complaint against California Cartage Company, LLC, and an affiliated firm means allegations of wrongdoing submitted by a worker group last year will move forward and be heard by an NLRB administrative law judge in June, the filing showed.
According to the complaint, which consolidated two cases, managers at the Long Beach facility discouraged employees from organizing and threatened them with dismissal in violation of labor law.
The filing says that the California Cartage and its affiliated company must file an answer to the agency’s consolidated complaint by the first week of April.
The case is the latest sign that labor activists are making headway in their efforts to shine a light on what they say are consistently poor working conditions at the ports and warehouses vital to the retail industry’s sprawling supply chain.
The California Cartage facility serves Amazon.com Inc, Lowe’s Companies Inc, New Balance, and Sears Holdings Corp, according to Warehouse Workers Resource Center, or WWRC, the Ontario, California-based labor group that submitted claims of wrongdoing to the NLRB last year.
Sears declined to comment. New Balance did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Al Latham, a lawyer representing California Cartage and Orient Tally Company Inc, the affiliated firm named in the complaint, said the companies could not comment on ongoing litigation. Amazon and Lowe’s did not immediately respond to emails requesting comment.
None of the retailers were named in the NLRB complaint.
Celene Perez, co-director of WWRC, said the decision by the NLRB to issue an official complaint was significant because it showed that the company had violated the workers’ rights to join their co-workers in improving their working conditions.
“What is also significant is that it applies to temp workers as well as direct employers. The complaint made very clear that California Cartage and Orient Tally violated the rights of both workers,” said Perez.
Workers can file labor complaints with regional directors of the NLRB, an independent federal agency, and it is up to the director to issue a complaint and post a hearing after an investigation. The NLRB filing on the California Cartage case was signed by Olivia Garcia, the regional director of the agency in Los Angeles.
Company Info Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Description Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. is an investment company, which engages in the research, production, marketing, and sale of sedans and related automobile components. It operates through the following geographical segments: People's Republic of China, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Central and South America, and Other Countries. The company was founded on January 1, 1973 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
Key People Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Shu Fu Li, 55 Chairman Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Sheng Yue Gui, 54 Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Dong Hui Li, 48 Vice Chairman Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Cong Hui An, 49 Executive Director Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Mei Wei, 49 Executive Director Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Jian Yang, 54 Vice Chairman Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Siu Lun Ang, 55 Executive Director Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., Honbridge Holdings Ltd.
Sau Hung Yeung, 66 Independent Non-Executive Director Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Cheuk Yin Lee, 46 Independent Non-Executive Director Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., U-Home Group Holdings Ltd., Tiangong International Co. Ltd.
Qing Heng An, 72 Independent Non-Executive Director Changchun Yikong Automotive Electronics Co. Ltd., Yechiu Metal Recycling (China) Ltd., Liaoning SG Automotive Group Co. Ltd., Henan Province Xixia Automobile Water Pump Co., Ltd., Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Yang Wang, 41 Independent Non-Executive Director Xunlei Ltd., Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Average Growth Rates Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Insider Trading Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Ownership Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
Raphael Bob-Waksberg says writing a new season of BoJack Horseman "always feels impossible"
Each new season of BoJack Horseman is usually accompanied by an avowal from fans to consume the whole thing as quickly as possible, mental health and circadian rhythms be damned. But the fifth season might be the most talked about outing for Raphael Bob-Waksberg and his team of writers—the newest episodes resonate all the more thanks to their sophisticated handling of the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements.
Season five ends with BoJack (Will Arnett) checking into rehab after his latest downward spiral—while high on painkillers, a sleep-deprived BoJack attacked his Philbert co-star Gina Cazador (Stephanie Beatriz) on set. Although it’s clearly a step forward for BoJack, the mood is considerably less optimistic than in that of the season-four finale, “What Time Is It Right Now.” So how do BoJack and BoJack Horseman come back from that ending? Even Bob-Waksberg isn’t sure, and he writes the damn thing. But, as he tells The A.V. Club, creating a new season of a show that’s usually binge-watched despite his own recommendations always seems impossible.
The A.V. Club: There have been some rumblings—mostly on Twitter—about new writers joining the show, though Netflix hasn’t announced a sixth season yet. Are you guys back at work?
Raphael Bob-Waksberg: Netflix has not announced a sixth season yet. I think we can leave it at that. Yeah, that’s the answer that I can give you at this point.
AVC: Do you think it’ll be harder to write a season premiere after a finale like “The Stopped Show”? Technically, you could reset as you please, but if you don’t, how do write an episode that can follow that season-five finale?
RBW: Oh, I don’t know. It always feel impossible to me. [Laughs.] Every time I have to make another episode of this show, it’s a nightmare. In theory, I’m always happy to do more, and I really enjoy having done it, but I don’t know how to do it. We’re now five seasons in, and if you said, “How do you make a television show?” I couldn’t describe it.
We just came out with a book called The Art Before The Horseman that I would recommend if you’re a fan of the show, because we go into detail on how an episode of the show gets made from the writing, through the animation, every step of the way. I describe thoroughly how I make this show—and I still have no idea how to do it.
Every time I’m looking at a blank white board, or a clean white sheet of paper, or a blank computer screen is a total nightmare, and I take no comfort in having done it before. If anything, it gets harder every season just because of the pressure of “oh, people still like it for some reason.” Well, I always think this is the season that’s really going to let people down, and I’m always astonished and terrified that people still like it. I go, “Okay, next season, now the pressure is even higher.” So, I don’t know if I would say this is a particularly hard show to think about moving forward because this show has always felt impossible to me.
Didier Drogba scored a dramatic late equaliser when Chelsea beat Bayern Munich on penalties in the Champions League final six years ago.
Ivory Coast and Chelsea great Didier Drogba announced his retirement on Wednesday after a 20-year career. The 40-year-old scored 164 goals in 381 appearances for Chelsea, winning four Premier League titles, four FA Cups and the 2012 Champions League, while he is also Ivory Coast's all-time record goalscorer with 65. He spent the last 18 months of his career with US side Phoenix Rising, the club he co-owns. "I wanna thank all the players, managers, teams and fans that I have met and made this journey one of a kind," he wrote in a statement on Twitter.
Drogba did not play top-flight football until the age of 23, when French side Guingamp signed him from Ligue 2 Le Mans in January 2002.
He moved to Marseille 18 months later - and the following year completed a reported 24 million pound move to Chelsea, where he had the best spell of his career.
Drogba then spent six months with Shanghai Shenhua and a year and a half with Galatasaray before returning to Chelsea.
He scored seven goals in 2014-15, winning a fourth Premier League title and a third League Cup, leaving the club as their fourth highest scorer of all time.
HARRISBURG -- A casino has been proposed for an area that includes Shippensburg.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Thursday announced that Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment Inc., which operates the Parx Casino in Bucks County, secured a location for a mini-casino.
The company's bid of $8.1 million secured a location within a 15-mile radius of a point in South Newton Township, Cumberland County. A rough outline of the area includes the boroughs of Shippensburg, Newburg, Newville, Biglerville, York Springs, the villages of Scotland Fayetteville and possibly Mount Holly Springs and southern Carlisle.
Most of the municipalities within the circle have opted out of hosting a mini-casino, and many do not allow the retail sale of alcohol. South Newton Township supervisors have voted not to host a casino, and the township is dry.
In fact, only a few municipalities in the area welcome a casino. Shippensburg and Hopewell townships in Cumberland County did not refuse to host a casino, and both are "wet." Lurgan Township in Franklin County also is wet,did not opt out and hosts the Blue Mountain interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Greene Township in Franklin County and Southampton Township in Cumberland County did not opt out of hosting a casino, but both townships are "dry."
To serve alcohol, a casino is required to get a restaurant liquor license. Casinos enjoy a number of exceptions to the state's Liquor Code, but the gaming code does not appear to make an exception to the wet-dry restrictions of the Liquor Code, according to Liquor Control Board spokesman Shawn Kelly.
The gaming board has awarded four of 10 Category 4 licenses available.
More: Gambling odds: Could a 'mini casino' open in Franklin County?
Greenwood’s bid was second highest of the bid amounts submitted on the previous day, but a bid from high bidder Sands Bethworks Gaming LLC was later determined invalid. Sands Bethworks' location, centered in Hempfield Township in Mercer County, intruded into a 15-mile radius area earlier secured by Mount Airy #1 LLC.
Greenwood is required to pay the bid price to the state within two business days, and then has up to six months to submit an application for the Category 4 Slot Machine License.
The application will contain the precise site of the proposed Category 4 casino, as well as detailed plans and information concerning the proposed building plan, amenities, employment projections and other related information. Once the application is received and determined to be complete, the board will post public information about the project on its website for interested persons to review.
Many municipalities in Greenwood's 30-mile-diameter circle have chosen not to host a casino. They include the boroughs of Shippensburg, Carlisle, Mount Holly Springs, Newville, Newburg, Biglerville, Bendersville, Arendtsville and York Springs. The following townships in Franklin County have also opted out Guilford, Southampton and Letterkenny.
A Category 4 Slot Machine License would permit the entity to operate between 300 and 750 slot machines. The entity also could petition for permission to initially operate up to 30 table games for an additional fee of $2.5 million and add 10 tables games after its first year of operation.
January 10: Mountainview Thoroughbred Racing Association LLC, which operates Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course, was the high bidder with a bid of $50.1 million. The center of the Category 4 location is in the Borough of Yoe in York County.
January 24: Stadium Casino LLC, which holds a Category 2 license and will construct a casino in Philadelphia, was the high bidder with a bid of $40.1 million. The center of the Category 4 location is in Derry Township in Westmoreland County.
February 8: Mount Airy #1 LLC which operates the Mount Airy Casino Resort, was the high bidder with a bid of $21.2 million. The center of that Category 4 location is in the City of New Castle in Lawrence County.
The Gaming Control Board plans to hold its next public auction on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. in its Harrisburg Public Hearing Room in Strawberry Square just prior to its regularly scheduled Board meeting.
The state’s casino industry has of 10 stand-alone and racetrack casinos and two smaller resort casinos. Together the facilities employ 18,000 people and annually generate approximately $1.4 billion in tax revenue from slot machine and table games play. The largest portion of that money is used for property tax reduction to all Pennsylvania homeowners.
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Whoa! You know it's too hot when even food historians are at each other's throats. In case you haven't heard, an ice cream battle has erupted between Wisconsin and New York over which one's the legit birthplace of the sundae. Want to stay out of this mess? Sundaes aren't the only cold desserts to take you back to an era when there was a fountain on every corner of Chicago. These local haunts serve fantastic fountain creations with a side of nostalgia.
Reminds us of: The candy shop from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" mixed with Frosty Palace from "Grease."