Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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VIDEO - New business models required to survive in the New Normal
ICIS
The financial crisis currently enveloping mature economies in Europe and the US is the result of policy-makers' refusal to plan for the New Normal, said Hodges. “The business models we had simply won't work any more. We're in crisis and we don't know ...
Are Equities Cheap Right Now? No, UBS Says
Forbes
One of them, UBS' macro team notes, is the “new normal” backdrop, characterized by slow growth, deleveraging, and balance sheet repair. At the same time, systemic risk in Europe over the possibility of a Greek default, contagion, and even a Euro break ...
Longer day starts at 6 city schools
Chicago Sun-Times
Fiske added more time to reading, math and science and squeezed in a new recess to its extra 90 minutes. “It's the new normal,” said Fiske Principal Cynthia Miller. “The money was not an incentive for us. We're doing what's right for children.”
Seven Ways Checking Accounts Cost You More
Fox Business
"We're in a new normal where someone must anticipate some kind of a maintenance fee, unless you somehow exchange value and subsidize that maintenance fee," he says. Bankrate's data come from surveying the five largest banks and five largest thrifts in ...
7 Jobs Questions We Hope Obama Answers
MainStreet
Is it possible for this country to create enough jobs – and just as importantly, enough well-paid full-time positions – to reemploy all those who are now out of work, or does the country need to prepare for a new normal? And finally, what other jobs ...
Millennials Spur Independent Job Revolution
Bizjournals.com
For Millennials, those born between 1980 and 2000, a “new normal” for work is a landscape where jobs are replaced by projects. In fact, over the past two years, we've seen nearly a 250 percent jump in Millennials electing an independent career as ...
Portrait Photographer Shoots to Bring Out the Best in Subjects
Patch.com
“You learn a new normal.” Now that Stevn is recovered, Alavekios is ready to expand her world again. She has scheduled business trips to San Francisco and New York. The couple, who have locations in Italy and France, and a home in Greece, are planning ...
Local briefs
Mail Tribune
A new topic will be introduced each week, such as "Managing the Effects of Trauma," "Discovering the New 'Normal,' " "Re-building Trust," etc. Classes will include incorporating a new skill or activity, such as breathing exercises, art, music, ...
Gold Star Mother's Day
WTVA
You establish a new normal." Mounce remembers her son every day, but especially now, because the last Sunday of September is a special holiday. It is Gold Star Mother's day, a day that recognizes mothers who have a lost a son or daughter in any battle. ...
Dickson warns of lurking risk
Advisor.ca
“This is the new normal and it's not nice, especially for the unemployed, for investors saving for retirement, for people living in countries undergoing huge structural adjustments.” It is also the new reality in which financial institutions as well as ...
Chapter five of 'Boom, gloom and the new normal - how Western baby boomers are ...
ICIS (subscription)
Once completed this ebook will help you to fully appreciate the changes that will affect chemical demand, and to adjust your focus to profit from the new opportunities ahead. This chapter studies the key changes underway, and how they are impacting ...
They're still grieving in neighborhood ravaged by tornado
al.com (blog)
I don't know what our new normal is going to be." After much soul-searching, including conversations with the counselor helping the Cunningham family deal with the emotional trauma, they have decided not to rebuild on the same lot. ...
Real estate embarks on slow road to recovery
The Lawyer
That said, real estate lawyers constantly talk about stricter fee conditions and reduced deal volume as 'the new normal', so perhaps comparisons with that point in time are unhelpful. 2010-11's figures are cause for lawyers to celebrate, though perhaps ...
Investors should stick to strategic asset allocation and not try to time the ...
mydigitalfc.com
Slow global growth, combined with recession fears and news-driven violent market movements, would be the new normal at least for a couple of years. You cannot have robust growth with both pillars of spending (consumer and government) being constrained. ...
Workers comp claim frequency posts first rise since 1997: NCCI
Business Insurance
It remains to be seen if the 2010 frequency uptick is part of a new normal or a minor blip in the long-term decline in frequency, NCCI said. While frequency is up, growth in average indemnity and medical cost per claim slowed in 2010, the NCCI analysis ...
Can your kids 'catch' your stress?
Pakistan Daily Times
Between the still-weak economy and our increasingly isolated modern lifestyle, “stressed out” has become the new normal. The push to be the perfect parent is also ratcheting up the stress levels—and harming children rather than helping them. ...
"Democrats Decided to Pick a Fight"
Slate Magazine (blog)
Yes, cuts-for-aid are the new normal, and yes, in the past Democrats had the reasonable position of demanding tax hikes to pay for aid. That's the choice -- borrowing, taxing, or cutting. The GOP offered one choice: Cuts, now. They picked the fight.
China Tops Value-Creators Ranks
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The report offers corporates some tips on managing uncertainty and risk in the “new normal” economy, defined by low growth, high debt levels and inflationary pressures. One big takeaway: set goals relative to the current environment. ...
Chemical companies must plan now for future demographic changes
ICIS (subscription)
Chapter five in the free ICIS/International eChem eBook: "Boom, gloom and the new normal: How Western baby boomers are changing chemical demand patterns, again," describes how companies need to adapt their business models to this new normal...
The Error-Proof Portfolio: Bond Investors, Too, Are Vulnerable to the Star ...
Morningstar.com
Meanwhile, PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian, while not a manager of any one product, has also achieved guru status, having helped coin the now-ubiquitous "new normal" phrase. DoubleLine Total Return manager Jeffrey Gundlach recently made the front page of ...
Woman Badly Injured In Crash Trains For Half-Marathon
WGAL Lancaster
Life might change, you might have a new normal, but you can still do what you can do with what you have where you are. Do the best you can and it's amazing how far you can go," Oberholtzer said. Oberholtzer has also written a book about her experiences ...
The “New Normal” « Feeding America Blog
By Dan Michel
The media likes to talk about the “new normal” as it applies to many trends. The “new normal” is kids today know how to use computers and mobile phones from the moment they start walking. The “new normal” after 9/11 was to have stricter ...
Feeding America Blog
Political Brinkmanship Becomes the New Normal for Boehner : Roll ...
It didn t take long for the era of good feelings to end on Capitol Hill. But for Speaker John Boehner and his GOP lieutenants, taking the government to the brink is ...
www.rollcall.com/.../political_brinkmanship_becomes_new_n...
The new normal is increasingly poor - Boulder Daily Camera
Presidential hopeful Rick Perry has been both praised and excoriated for his record as Texas governor on jobs.
www.dailycamera.com/editorials/ci_18887009
Environment, Reality and the New Normal: Scientific American
When it comes to the environment, is what's considered normal changing ... and getting downright weird?
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=environment...

Weird Weather - is this the "New Normal?"
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
This is “the new normal,” a condition that scientists from all over are agreeing on will continue unless something drastic is done to slow the effects of climate change. Both a decrease in snow and an increase in extreme weather events “[is] now ...
Bridge closure tells of "new normal" for region's infrastructure
North Country Public Radio
Flick (0:12): You know, “a new normal” is probably not a bad turn of phrase for where we're at. We really have to look harder than we have in the past at where we're gonna spend our money. The DOT Region 7 – which includes Clinton, Franklin, Jefferson, ...
Retail weakness the 'new normal' – UBS says growth will be poor for two or ...
SmartCompany.com.au
Retail conditions aren't weak - they're the new normal, investment bank UBS says. And save for an interest rate or a post-Christmas sales flurry, they're unlikely to pick up any time soon. In a report entitled Cautious consumer –the 'new normal', ...
Five Things: New Hampshire
CNN
Economists have been saying lately that the United States has entered into a new normal. Frugality and conservation are essential. You have to take what you have and stretch it to the max. That's just the way things are these days, the experts say, ...
The New Reality: 3 Mega-Cap Dividend Bargains
Seeking Alpha
There is no such thing as a “new normal.” Instead, we have a “new reality” where top-of-the-line, first rate dividend paying mega-caps are selling at deep discounts to their intrinsic values. In this article, we explore three such companies. ...
Political Brinkmanship Becomes the New Normal for Boehner
Roll Call (subscription)
By John Stanton Speaker John Boehner had hoped Members would be ready to work together after recess, but some conservatives last week demanded deeper cuts than those already agreed to for the CR. It didn't take long for the era of good feelings to end ...
New Facebook Features: 4 Privacy Concerns
PCWorld
Using the Internet out in the open may become the new normal, as everyone feels the pressure to share. For this, there's no easy solution. Follow Jared on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ for even more tech news and commentary.
Ask Emma: Starting Over
Albany Times Union
Well, because the Internet is the new normal. Meg and her old husband met on an airplane. What is normal about that? A lot of people who have been out of dating for a while look at Match.com and OkCupid and it feels as if they are putting themselves in ...
Danger! Article Up Ahead!
Fast Company
Fear and stress, and our vigilance against them, have become our new normal--the problem being, in my experience, that fear and stress rob us of any and all perspective. Among the victims of today's new stressed-out, fear-based normal? Children. ...
GIVING BACK: Local recyclers rule
Crossville Chronicle
Obviously, the poll is not the most scientific sample of county opinion as readers of the Chronicle tend to be more educated and aware of our community, but the results clearly announce that recycling has become the new “normal” for our community. ...

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