Tuesday, January 17, 2012

New Normal: life on links ain't what it used to be

As golf declines, life on links ain't what it used to be
USA TODAY
"We're entering a new normal," said Pete Halter, chairman of The Halter Companies, an Atlanta firm that advises developers. "We can't think this will be over soon. Things have changed for good." •Fewer people play golf, and Baby Boomers don't have the ...

USA TODAY

The New Normal: Annual Library Budgets Survey 2012
Library Journal
This is our new normal,” she wrote. The sentiment was not isolated. A full 78 percent of the respondents said that in order to cope with staff cuts (77 percent of which came through attrition or a hiring freeze) they had to absorb a greater workload ...

Library Journal

VUCA: the New Normal for Talent Management and Workforce Planning
ERE Media
by Dr. John Sullivan Jan 16, 2012, 5:13 am ET If you are among the many strategic leaders frustrated with your inability to anticipate and handle the volatility and the speed of change in the talent management environment, you should take a few minutes ...

ERE Media

Reach out to the east
The Press
Living in Christchurch means coming to terms with the "new normal" post-quakes. We all have a different view of what that means. For some, it is putting up with minor inconveniences, negotiating new traffic patterns, or heading off in a different ...

'Mad Men' Creator Matthew Weiner Teases Season 5
Hollywood Reporter
Is that the new normal? “Yeah. And I feel like that's the way it is right now. That's what I feel we're undergoing -- such tremendous change. Technological, cultural, social, our perception of ourselves as a country, our perception of each other. ...

Hollywood Reporter

Seen And Heard January 16, 2012
Live Design
... have executed this simple, witty concept with great skill, as the man (who recalls Buster Keaton in his everyman costume by Heather McCrimmon) constantly adjusts to this new normal while seeking some measure of relief from his circumstances. ...

Live Design

Get used to living with Mom and Dad
Salon
But if you fast-forward another 20 years, when virtually everyone has been affected by this trend toward short-term employment and high housing costs, it's going to become the new normal and there won't be a contrast, and it won't be age-graded because ...

Salon

Loveland man needs new kidney
ReporterHerald.com
This is our new normal." Semple, who has end-stage renal disease, needs to have the machine do the work of his kidney, a vital organ that removes waste products and excess fluid from the body. He has permanent grafts in his arm, which Semple uses to ...

Brace for pain at passing of the old order
Sydney Morning Herald
In 2009, the world's biggest bond investor PIMCO described it in an investment sense as the “new normal”. But the big leap one must make - of imagination and logic - is to conclude that this is a permanent change, not a passing crisis. ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Happy Birthday Miltie
Patch.com
We almost lost him then, and it was a long, slow road back to what would become his new normal. But in many ways his new normal was better than his old normal, and we went on to celebrate milestone after milestone that I knew my dad never expected he ...

" Sheriff asks for tax raise, cuts staff; Blanton says changes will help his ...
Bend Bulletin
“Maybe we should hope it's not going to get any worse than it is, and we're bouncing along the bottom and this is the new normal,” Blanton said in an interview. “It's just a little dose of reality and making contingency plans where hopefully next year ...

IBM Kicks Off Lotusphere with Focus on Social Business
eWeek
“Connected healthcare is becoming the new normal,” said Hatzidakis. “For patients, this means greater certainty that they will get the most effective treatment possible. For Premier, it means providing a platform that continues enabling our partners to ...

Executive Q&A: Employee incentive biz grew from 'bad situation'
Wisconsin State Journal
However, we have seen this as our best opportunity to rethink how we conduct our business and how we are going to adapt to the "new normal." Our biggest challenge since the economy worsened is helping organizations deliver the same experience with a ...

Greg Linnemanstons column: top marketing trends alter online world
Appleton Post Crescent
With new-normal austerity becoming a business and consumer habit, and behavioral data avail¬able to anyone committed to measuring, demonstratng return becomes a management expectation. And with the potential wealth of quality analytics most businesses ...

Onofrychuk continues on road to recovery
Lethbridge Herald
The ordeal has brought the Onofrychuk family closer together as they establish their "new normal" life. "Our day-to-day life, it's not how it used to be by any stretch of the imagination, but it's our new normal," said Darryl. "We definitely don't take ...

Providing a road map to adapting to cancer
Guelph Mercury
“You have to find out ways ... to adapt ... to find a new normal.” Bucher realized many others are in her situation and could benefit from a magazine exposing them to change and its myriad possibilities for a good life. “Say you're undergoing some sort ...

With Coming Budget Cuts, Opportunities Arise for Small Security Firms and ...
Security Debrief
This new normal can spell terrific opportunity for firms that are willing to shed comfortable habits and plunge into the maelstrom with courage. Some of the outlines of the new future may already be emerging, including these possibilities: Next ...

Asian hedge fund size increasing as managers embrace better corporate governance
Hedge Funds Review Magazine
This is another step in the direction of what Gordon calls the 'new normal' for hedge funds in Asia. Adoption of counterparty risk solutions are at the heart of the 'new normal' in Asian hedge fund success stories, he says. Good governance should help...

Hedge Funds Review Magazine

3 Very Different Kinds Of Mortgage REITs
Seeking Alpha
There are other commercial mortgage REITs formed since the Panic which have invested under the conditions of the "new normal" and may be more stable but may also offer a bit less upside. Starwood Properties (STWD) ($19.05) (9.3%) falls into this ...

Standard tip in Toronto restaurants now 20 per cent
Toronto.com
A 20 per cent tip could be the new normal. A small but growing number of Toronto restaurants are urging customers to tip more than the customary 15 per cent. Diners at new Roncesvalles Ave. restaurants The Westerly and The Ace are prompted to tip 20...

Toronto.com

Tough decisions for banks as cash cows run dry
Financial News
It also points out that banks have failed to come to terms with the new normal, allowing their asset management businesses to drift along without a clear sense of direction. European banks are among the worst offenders, although US banks have also ...

Adjusting to a New Normal » MomsBudgetPlan
For every one it is different, but whether temporary or permanent, it is change that for however long, becomes your new normal. If you follow me on Twitter, you ...
momsbudgetplan.com/adjusting-to-a-new-normal/

Multisourcing Is The New Normal For Global Telecom Services ...
Forrester regularly receives requests from IT clients about the preferred sourcing approaches of large multinational corporations (MNCs) for outsourced or ...
www.forrester.com/go?docid=61017

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