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Retail Week Live: Omnichannel is dead, long live 'total retail', says futurologist
Omnichannel retail is outdated, tomorrow’s shoppers are all about “total retail”, according to trend forecaster The Future Laboratory.
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NewsWatch our live blog with minute by minute updates on activity in Abacus Kitchen
Who are the biggest tea drinkers at Abacus? Who like their coffee unadorned with milk and sugar. These and other burning questions will be answered in the course of this live blog.
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Russlynn Ali + The Case Against Teacher Tenure
Teacher tenure has been a flashpoint in school reform debates, and in California an innovative class action suit aims to topple it. Advocate Russlynn Ali sat down with OZY to explain the plaintiff’s side of the story.
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Abacus staff enjoy tapas lunch
Analysts and project managers got together to enjoy a shared tapas lunch. Twitter comment
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FeaturesEvery Recorded Meteorite Impact on Earth
Ramon Martinez of Health Intelligence created this Tableau viz displaying every registered meteorite that has impacted on Earth. A total of 34,513 meteorites has been registered, most of them (33,277 meteorites, 96% of total) with a mass less than 10Kgs.
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FeaturesSongwriters golden years
A tableau visualisation by Kyle Biehle illustrating the rise and fall of famous songwriters as they age, based on ratings from RateYourMusic. Compare an artist’s average ranking during each decade of their life, or see each individual album’s ranking.
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Earthquakes on the rise
An example graph from Tableau Software As used by the Wall Street Journal
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Scribd reading page
Scribd is the world’s largest social reading and publishing company. We’ve made it easy to share and discover entertaining, informative and original written content across the web and mobile devices. Our vision is to liberate the written word, to connect people with the information and ideas that matter most to them.
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Find Abacus's offices
Google map Our London office By Rail The nearest rail station is Charing Cross. It’s 10 minutes walk from Charing Cross station to Regent Street. By Tube The nearest London underground station is Piccadilly Circus which can be reached via the Piccadilly and Bakerloo lines. Come ...
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FeaturesRetail Week Live: Omnichannel is dead, long live 'total retail', says futurologist
Omnichannel retail is outdated, tomorrow’s shoppers are all about “total retail”, according to trend forecaster The Future Laboratory.
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NewsSteve the sturgeon found after Romsey flood escape
A metre-long fish that escaped from an aquatic centre during recent flooding has been found in a deep puddle by car wash staff a mile away. The sturgeon, named Steve, swam out of World of Water in Romsey, Hampshire when it was inundated by flood water in early February. But ...
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ResearchThe great Chinese takeaway - Chinese companies invest in overseas assets
Over the past five years, China’s three National Oil Companies - China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) - have invested somewhere between $80 billion and $100 billion in oil and gass assets overseas (at least $40 billion of that in North America).
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FeaturesOil & Gas: Middle East lifts refining capacity
Both companies and governments are investing in new refineries
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NewsSnowdonia walker in shorts rescued
Three walkers, one wearing shorts, have been rescued from a peak in Snowdonia in “atrocious weather”, rescuers say. Aberglaslyn Mountain Rescue Team was called at 17:14 BST on Saturday after the walkers became lost near the summit of 689m (2,269ft) Cnicht. The three walkers, in their 50s, were on holiday ...
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NewsRecord top grades in GCSE results
A record proportion of GCSE entries were awarded the top grades in this year’s exams, results show.
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NewsTurner considers Wales move
Coventry City centre half Ben Turner may represent Wales at Under-21 level.
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NewsArwel handed leading Neath role
Former Wales international outside-half Arwel Thomas has been named as captain of Neath..
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FeaturesNovice hikers stretch rescuers
Mountain rescue teams across England and Wales say they are working flat out to deal with a growing number of calls from novice walkers.
