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By the 1970s, the American retail industry was beginning to shift. Strip malls began emerging to compete with traditional malls and department stores, and discounters like Walmart, Target, and Kmart expanded, chipping away at Sears' low-price advantage. Like much of the department-store sector, Sears began to lose mark...
Sears further did itself in by closing its catalog business and supporting warehouses in 1993, right before the dawn of the internet, and moving away from its traditional strength in retail, pivoting to financial products like insurance and credit cards. Sears sold that business in 2003 to Citigroup for $32 billion and...
The story of Sears is another reminder that everything changes, and retail dominance today is no guarantee of leadership tomorrow.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos seems to intuitively understand this, and a fear of losing his company's competitive edge underscores his "Day One" mantra. Bezos tells Amazon employees that it's always Day One at the company, meaning the company must always think like an innovative start-up rather than a staid incumbent, even as...
Bezos's philosophy is clear. Even the most successful companies can't afford to rest or relax, lest a competitor come along and take their business, and even today, nearly 25 years after its founding, Amazon continues to embody that philosophy. Amazon is pushing new boundaries in areas like voice-activated technology, ...
Walmart, on the other hand, resembles Sears in the 1980s in some ways. Though it's still the largest retailer in the world, it has been rapidly losing market share to Amazon as it ignored the threat from e-commerce, aggressively opening new supercenters as recently as 2014. However, that strategy has changed as CEO Dou...
It's worth remembering that Sears was at the forefront of American retail for about a century, so Amazon and Walmart could continue to dominate for decades to come. Still, businesses, even dominant ones, need to always be evolving. That's why Bezos has ingrained upon his employees that "It must be always Day One."
The man accused of fatally shooting three people in Coal Creek Canyon this spring is set for a two-week murder trial in late 2018.
Garrett Coughlin, 24, pleaded not guilty in Boulder District Court on Wednesday morning to three counts of first-degree murder after deliberation, three counts of felony murder and one count of aggravated robbery.
At the request of attorneys, District Judge Judith LaBuda set Couglin for a 10-day trial beginning Dec. 3, 2018. Coughlin is also set for a status conference on Feb. 8 and two motions hearings on April 5 and Sept. 6.
All six of the murder counts carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. The counts also are eligible for the death penalty, but Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett already has said he would not be pursuing it in this case.
Coughlin appeared at Wednesday's hearing in custody and waived his right to a speedy trial in order to set the trial date in late 2018. He is being held without bond at the Boulder County Jail.
Coughlin is accused of shooting Wallace White, 54, Kelly Sloat-White, 56, and Emory Fraker, 39, whose bodies were found on April 15 in a home in the 800 block of Divide View Drive in Boulder County.
White and Sloat-White lived at the home, and Fraker was White's brother and lived in Broomfield.
Investigators say they linked Coughlin to the gun reportedly used in the homicide, and to the home on Divide View Drive via phone records and documents associated with the house. Coughlin also was reportedly four hours late for work on the morning of April 13, when police believe the three were killed.
Witnesses told investigators they saw Coughlin with large amounts of marijuana packaged in a manner consistent with the marijuana owned by the victims, as well as large amounts of cash following the homicides. Deputies removed 100 plants from the property during the investigation.
The ultimate Dinner Concert party continues! It's happening oceanside at Taino by the Sea, Saturday April 27th, 2019 as the Uppercut 242 Dinner & Free Concerts continue at the ultimate Oceanfront party spot, Taino by the Sea. There'll be a super special Dinner Menu, cool refreshing drink specials and loads of waterside...
The ultimate Dinner Concert party celebrating Spring 2019 is On! It's happening oceanside at Taino by the Sea, Saturday March 30th, 2019 as the Uppercut 242 Dinner & Free Concerts continue at the ultimate Oceanfront party spot, Taino by the Sea. There'll be a super special Dinner Menu, cool refreshing drink specials an...
REPRESENTING THE FUTURE CITY GIRLS "TWERK" "BLOW A BAG" "TAKE YO MAN"
FLIFF on Location: Grand Bahama Island – Take 4! March 16 and 17 at Pelican Bay Hotel.
In 2011, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) entered into a three-year partnership with the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, to present a mini fest on Grand Bahama Island.
Organizers of the upcoming Buju Banton: Long Walk To Freedom concert confirmed Wednesday that their All-Access tickets are sold out.
Paradise Productions, which is staging the concert, said VIP and Platinum tickets are also moving fast.
The Academy will once again host live Oscar® viewing parties in New York and London for its members and invited film industry guests on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2019. The Oscars® will be televised live by the ABC Television Network at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT.
In a world filled with heartache and heartbreak, nothing provides relief faster than a good belly laugh that rumbles from down deep within and doesn’t stop till it roars.
A play opening February 14 at Atlantis provides just that kind of laughter, a guarantee or your money back cure-all for anything that’s gone wrong.
Oscar® producer Donna Gigliotti, and co-producer and director Glenn Weiss, today announced the first round of presenters for the Academy Awards®. The show will honor the incredible slate of nominees – from blockbusters to independent films – and embrace the diversity of the global movie-going audience. The Oscars® airs...
The new year started off with a bang for Zamar productions as the company was responsible for the world-class lighting, sound and staging provided for four major concerts scheduled around new year's celebrations at two of the major hotels in the country.
The Recording Academy™'s GRAMMY Recordings® and Republic Records announce the release of the 2019 GRAMMY® Nominees album—which is now available in stores and via all digital retailers.
Actor-comedian and Oscar®–nominated writer Kumail Nanjiani and actress–producer–director Tracee Ellis Ross announced the 91st Oscars® nominations today (January 22), live from the Academy’s headquarters in Beverly Hills via a global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org, the Academy’s digital platforms, a satellite feed...
Now into its fourth week, word has been spreading through the entertainment community that the Nassau Night Market (NNM) is a dynamic platform for upcoming artists to perform and gain exposure. This week, the NNM stage is being taken over by The Art1st and Geovanni Robinson.
Consider the humble T-shirt. It lives in your closet. It lives in your drawers. Whether folded neatly, hung on hangers or crumpled in piles on the closet floor, it's at least a part of your wardrobe, and everybody else's wardrobe, too.
Even Hillary Clinton wears (or sells) a T-shirt every now and then.
Yet the T-shirt industry is no more sustainable than it was a decade, or even two decades ago. It still takes thousands of liters of water to produce one (1!); most dyes are still polluting waterways to color it; most screen printing (even water based) still uses formaldehyde in its process to finish it. And T-shirts a...
In spite of the fact that if you search the archives of TreeHugger you'll find a hundred examples of good-hearted good intentions to remake the classic T to be "good," we're not there yet. In fact, the fashion industry stats are shocking, and, well, depressing.
So fashion maven Marci Zaroff, who started the Under the Canopy organic line of goods and has been in sustainable fashion for 25 years, decided to approach the problem from the manufacturing end of things.
Zaroff got together with Cas Shiver, who had started a tie-dye business after being inspired at a Grateful Dead concert. Shiver also developed a seaweed-based dye process called SeaInk. Zaroff and Shiver's business, MetaWear, is producing T-shirts (darker print on lighter shirts) that are the only in the U.S. to get GO...
MetaWear's T-shirts' real promise lies in the potential for larger T-shirt producers – think The Gap and American Apparels of the world – to custom order.
And the potential for all of us as well. If it's time to create next year's Little League team T, it might be time for a seaweed-ink T.
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fibre in his fur with a yelp.
near forgotten limestone mass rocks.
* Patrick Cotter is the director of Munster Literature Centre, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Festival and the Cork Spring Poetry Festival. His poem ‘Madra’ won the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry 2013.
West Ham's Luis Boa Morte has signed a new contract only a month after lambasting co-owner David Sullivan.
The 32-year-old Portuguese midfielder returned in April after nine months out with a serious knee injury.
But in a TV interview in May he criticised Sullivan for "hammering" the players, who were involved in a relegation battle. He later apologised.
Boa Morte, who signed a two-year deal, said he looked forward to working with new manager Avram Grant.
He said: "I am delighted to sign the contract and can't wait to get started. The new manager is going to play an attacking style and I hope to get involved in that.
"I am very happy to be at West Ham and look forward to scoring more goals and doing everything I can for the team."
Boa Morte, who signed for £5m from Fulham in 2007, said: "To be honest I did have more options and more offers from other people, but I wanted to stay here.
"When the season finished a few clubs came to me about signing for them but West Ham believed in me and things are looking positive here."
He added: "We have a new manager and I have seen he has done good things with Chelsea and Portsmouth, reaching major finals twice. The fans also had an impact on my decision to stay and I look forward to playing for them again."
The campaign of presidential candidate Gary Johnson lifted a Florida branding agency’s web designs–but botched the execution.
He might not have much chance of winning, and he may not command the same attention in the news cycle, but there’s another hopeful in the 2016 presidential election besides Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump: libertarian Gary Johnson, a socially liberal, fiscal conservative whose campaign rests on the idea that he can bri...
Then things got weird. Without crediting Spark or paying for the work, a contractor for the Johnson campaign stole Spark’s brand identity wholesale. To add insult to injury, the contractor didn’t even steal the work correctly. The execution was so bad, Spark felt obliged to publicly release a style guide to its own pil...
Between the time the Johnson campaign sent me that statement and I wrote this story, the official website for Gary Johnson has tweaked its design. For instance, it has a new color scheme. However, many other elements, including a two-color design and the use of fonts, remain identical.
But that’s not how the Johnson campaign is using it. As of noon yesterday, Johnson’s campaign website had adopted Spark’s red, white, blue, and purple motif– which has since been changed to yellow and blue–as well as Spark’s choice of Hurme Geometric Sans for a typeface. But it ignored the central concept of the identi...
And hey, at least it was Johnson, not Trump who stole their ideas. “Based on the way he’s managed other aspects of his campaign, and his history paying contractors, I think we can make some assumptions about how that dialog would have gone,” Bedinghaus laughs.
While gridlock has taken hold in a paralyzed Washington, D.C. mayors across the country are taking a pragmatic approach to solving local problems and its time for tech to reach out to them.
“For years now, Washington, D.C., has been paralyzed by partisan gridlock… Rather than complaining, cities have started innovating, and we’ve seen this incredible appetite for ideas among mayors,” Jonathan Bowles, executive director of the Center for an Urban Future (CUF), a New York think tank, told Fast Company.
The United States has 3,0007 counties. And all of them have an appetite to shift the momentum from the federal government to the communities where people live and work. This can’t just involve coastal cities or urban areas within states. Rather, after Trump’s election, now is the moment to redouble policy efforts in co...
Cities from Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, to New York have been leading the way to think about how to provide better services and engagement opportunities. They’ve been exciting places where rich networks of talent from academia to philanthropy have been helping foster ecosystems to catalyze new policy solutions.
Several cities across the country are launching new roles and responsibilities, including Chief Technology Officers, Chief Innovation Officers, Chief Data Analytics, Data Scientists, even roles on Financial Justice and Financial Empowerment.
Fellowships are attracting top talent into city government and bringing in creative and diverse backgrounds, including ethnographers and designers, to fill these new roles. Innovation units, often located within Mayor’s offices, are working to engage diverse stakeholders to be a part of the process of governance.
One of the challenges of federalism is that by design a structure which works in one community is not a one-size-fits-all model.
Part of re-focusing energy on localities requires the time and commitment to the smaller cities, rural, and exurban communities across the country. It is not enough to have a few star cities in the United States. This risks only furthering the deep divides across cities. The cultural aversion to change within bureaucra...
One of the challenges of federalism is that by design a structure which works in one community is not a one-size-fits-all model. Following the election of President Trump, now is the moment for deeper research and analysis on the opportunities and challenges of what we should (and shouldn’t) replicate.
The lessons from the “smart” cities need to be translated, re-mixed, and even debunked to ensure that we are not creating deeper cleavages between some communities and others in our country.
There are a host of illustrative experiments occurring across communities that are leveraging policy innovation, data, and technology for more responsive and inclusive governance. The engagements that work focus on process to ensure that diverse stakeholders are a part of decision making.
There are many civic organizations already doing this work, there is no need reinvent the wheel. Rather much more attention on processes that produce improved outcomes need the policy attention typically relegated to the federal level. Below is three examples which may serve as instructive for the ecosystem of stakehol...
In Eau Claire, Wisconsin a local organization called Clear Vision is teaming up with stakeholders on a poverty summit to reduce the number of people living poverty in income insecurity and build more resilient and inclusive communities. Citizen action groups will work on key issues they identify as part of the engageme...
A key component of this poverty summit is to bring in traditionally marginalized communities into the process including low-income households, rural poor, youth and black and Hispanic communities. There is even a community-supported, nonprofit journalism site to support the local work in Eau Claire, Chippewa, and Dunn ...
In Oregon, a “Kitchen Table” is enabling residents from across the state to contribute ideas, resources, and feedback to inform public policy. The Kitchen Table enables public officials to consult with representatives about key policy areas, crowdfund, and micro-lend for local startups and community businesses.
Another practice in Oregon is the Citizens Initiative Review, where a representative sampling of citizens convenes for deliberations over several days to discuss state ballot measures. After being established by the state’s bipartisan legislature in 2009, there have been six random representative samples of citizens fo...
Penn State Professor John Gastil’s research demonstrates: the majority of Oregon voters were aware of the process; roughly ⅔ of those who read the statements compiled by their fellow citizens found them helpful; those who read the citizen statement learned more about ballot measures than those who read other portions f...
Part of re-focusing energy on localities requires the time and commitment to the smaller cities, rural, and exurban communities across the country.
NYU Wagner and the Center for an Urban Future recently put out a report, “Innovation and the City”, which spotlights several cities across the globe that are leveraging innovative practices.
“TalentABQ” in Albuquerque, New Mexico is one example where public and private employers are testing a new employee hiring method. Instead of judging applicants only on their educational attainment, employers are committing to train workers with relevant skills on the job. With funding from the Kellogg foundation, Albu...
These centers provide resources, computer access, and free access to courses. Residents can take a nationally validated WorkKey exam at one of the 31 centers to assess job readiness in core skills that include critical thinking and teamwork. Participating employers integrate skill-based hiring into their hiring practic...
As of June 2016, more than 6,000 job postings were on the TalentABQ website. The goal is to generate an indicator beyond educational attainment or a traditional resume to signal an employee’s ability to perform a job.
Further research is needed to test the outcomes of this type of employee skill-based initiative as well as ensure that systemic biases and discrimination are not amplified on the test. There is always the risk that tests become “weapons of math destruction” as Cathy O’Neil outlines in her recent book. Yet, the move tow...
These examples suggest that across the United States there are community organizations and new pilots to re-engage citizens in the workforce and in the hard work of revitalizing and improving our communities.
It is critical to take a county by county level approach and not fall into the trap of focusing only on cities. The so-called divides between those in New York City and the rustbelt are mirrored across Washington state between Seattle and Spokane.
… people would say: All the decisions are made in Madison and Milwaukee and nobody’s listening to us. Nobody’s paying attention, nobody’s coming out here and asking us what we think. Decisions are made in the cities, and we have to abide by them.
There is no easy answer to make people empowered. We have to start by deliberatively engaging people across the country — not only in the big cities or the smaller cities; but across all communities.
This requires tapping into existing networks and civic organizations, leveraging data, technology and policy innovations, and re-shifting our focus from federal policy towards building an infrastructure of governance that is durable through collective development and buy-in from people.
President Robert Mugabe listens to his wife, Grace Mugabe, at a rally of his ruling Zanu-PF in Harare.
Just when you thought coups had fallen out of favour, here comes a good old-fashioned African coup, with generals in fatigues once again, tanks rolling in the streets, journalists being kicked out of the country and dictators being held under house arrest.
Old Bob must have started to think that at 93 he was invincible. He'd successfully marginalised any opposition, even if Morgan Tsvangirai did eventually end up prime minister for six years, though he'd been roughed up quite badly a few times before that grudging power share took place.
Mugabe also ruthlessly drove his countrymen to poverty and starvation while he and his merry band of cronies followed the despot's playbook and bled the country's coffers dry.
So what took the generals so long? For unyielding autocrats like Mugabe, keeping the military happy is key.
But it's a mistake to think that the only way to do so is by dispensing largesse here and there. Sometimes they sense the winds of change and change allegiances as a result.
Sometimes they just can't stand the person anointed to take charge upon a dictator's death.
Normally, the idea of a woman rising to power to rule a nation is cause for celebration - that is, until the regret sets in.
I'm talking about you, Aung Sang Su Kyi. And you, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. You too, Benazir Bhutto. Evita Peron. Cristina Kirchner. Dilma Rousseff. The list goes on and on.
But rumours of Grace Mugabe consolidating power in preparation for her takeover once her husband went were not received with much grace.
It's unlikely that the generals took kindly to the prospect of taking orders from Madame Mugabe, she with the short fuse and rather feudalistic tendencies when it comes to striking out against those who offend her.
After all, Grace is the lady who kept her diamond-encrusted rings on when she punched a photographer in Hong Kong not once, but 10 times, in the face and head.
And good old Grace hit her son's girlfriend with an extension cord, aiming the plug at the model's face.
Did Grace Mugabe find an extension cord in the room or bring it with her?

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