Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The Electric Car and the New Normal

The Electric Car and the New Normal
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
About halfway between St. Louis and Chicago, nestled in the fertile corn and soybean fields of Illinois, a quiet electric car revolution is sprouting up in the town of Normal, a town that in some ways is anything but. That's because this vibrant, ...

Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)

Compuware revs portfolio for 'new normal of mainframe'
Computer Business Review (blog)
Performance management firm Compuware yesterday announced some enhancements to its application performance management technologies aimed at the mainframe. But perhaps just as interesting was what Compuware is seeing amongst its mainframe customer base ...

Compuware Workbench 3.1.6 upgrade to tackle 'New Normal'
ComputerworldUK
Compuware describes this as the “New Normal,” singling out the recent surge in mobile banking and other types of e-commerce as creating particular challenges. “Mainframe applications power the top retailers, banks, insurance companies, ...

First Niagara Survey Shows More Upstate NY Business Leaders Optimistic Than ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... predict they will worsen as executives continue to cautiously operate their companies within the "new normal" created by the recession of 2008-09, according to First Niagara's Fifth Annual Survey

Talent transformation is critical to create new leaders
Deccan Herald
The latter view is however increasingly gathering momentum in the current context of organisations world over trying to cope with the 'new normal' in the marketplace. With prevailing uncertainty and unpredictability of the business environment, ...

Deccan Herald

AutoTrader.com Experts to Host NADA Workshop on How Dealers Can Increase ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Tori Morandi and Rick Wainschel of AutoTrader.com will discuss the "new normal" in the auto industry and share insights on how dealers who embrace transparency can effectively influence shoppers. ATLANTA, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ...

Commodity Edge: Showcasing Technology to Mitigate/Manage Commodity Volatility
Spend Matters
We are extremely excited about how our March conference, Commodity Edge: Sourcing Intelligence for the New Normal, is shaping up. With contributions and participation from a number of leading category analysts from the industry and commodity worlds, ...

Take 15: The “New Normal,” Cap-Weighted Indexing, and Passive Strategies in ...
CFA Institute Enterprising Investor (blog)
Lower expectations for economic growth and capital markets returns stem from increasing indebtedness and deficits, as well as from demographic trends in the “New Normal.” Jason Hsu discusses the implications for passive index strategies and ...

Mary HK Choi on the Art of Sidling
Wired News
The crazy thing is, that behavior is the new normal. This kind of person can use other people's networks to get freelance work, find a new job, or simply infiltrate a clique higher on the social ladder. Is there someone who follows you and your friends ...

Wired News

State of the Union address nothing more than a campaign speech
Shore News Today
I heard this rationale recently: The Obama apologists are now trying to make the case that the "new normal" in America is 7 percent unemployment. The media savaged President George W. Bush when unemployment was 6 percent. Now we have to get used to a ...

Mobile, cloud, and big data pros in high demand for 2012
InfoWorld
One comes from research company Hackett Group, titled "2012 IT Key Issues: Coming to Terms with the 'New Normal'." It identifies Global 1000 companies' key priorities for the year. The other is IT staffing company Bluewolf's "2012 IT Salary Guide," ...

Church Adapts to Needs
CBS42
(WIAT)- "When you go through tragedy, or when people go through a terrible divorce, there's a new normal that sets in. So we're trying to help them do that." The words of Clearview Baptist Church Pastor Robbie Weems ring clear in the midst of ...

Greece needs to get done right away
FXstreet.com
Europe in a permanent state of crisis and holding an endless series of summit that accomplish almost nothing has become the “new normal.” Traders quickly absorb new bad news into the general background and as long as fresh news meets expectations and ...

Students aren't getting the facts about marijuana
Macleans.ca
It's simply the new normal. A loosening of cultural attitudes, particularly in the media, helps explains the shift. “We had Cheech and Chong in the 1970s, but that was a very stereotypical portrayal,” says Hathaway. “Now we have shows like Weeds that ...

Macleans.ca

Scared Straight
Apartment Finance Today
While LIBOR is an internationally set benchmark, US monetary policy exerts a strong influence, and many expect this “new normal” to continue. “It's a very artificial situation and one that the Fed has explicitly said they're going to continue for some ...

Apartment Finance Today

The Secret of American Health Care
Slate Magazine
In 2010, for example, Republican leaders of the Senate Finance Committee grilled him about whether he “still distrusted the free market” and made it his goal to “make health care rationing the new normal.” The furor over Berwick reflects a broader, ...

Slate Magazine

Too Much Of A Good Thing Can Spoil Ag's Party
CropLife
... values will create a massive acceleration in the ongoing farm consolidation, especially for those farmers who have allowed their cost structures to balloon, due to the expectation that high, $5 to $7 per bu. corn prices were the “new normal.”

Do People Control the Laws of Economics or Are They Part of Human Existence ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
James says that there are consequences to abusing the economic laws too often and too long, because the market eventually "adjusts" to the new normal of interference and stops being a market. The snap back of market forces when the interference stops, ...

Buyers' Biggest Challenges in 2012
ThomasNet Industrial News Room
"Volatility is the new normal. This is especially true in terms of predicting what will be noteworthy in commodities in 2012 as pricing could have 20 percent-plus swings," Lisa Anderson, founder and president of LMA Consulting Group, says.

Feeding the beast
Livemint
A more robust fiscal strategy will be needed if economic growth settles lower at a new normal. Are we slouching towards higher taxes? AK Bhattacharya, a veteran reader of the New Delhi tea leaves, hinted at the possibility in a recent column in the ...

KCTV 5Women's stories highlight reason to be aware of heart health
KCTV Kansas City
"This is our new normal," said Hayden. "In the back of your mind, you're always wondering, am I going to have another one?" Womenheart.org is a great resource for women with heart problems to find support and information.

Most hyperbolic campaign ever?
Washington Post (blog)
To take a brief step back from the heat of the campaign is to ponder these and others — including whether the incendiary rhetoric that has marked national politics over the past several months is thenew normal or just a momentary detour on the way to ...

United Parcel Service's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
Over the last several years, we have migrated gradually some of the new normal for fuel into base rates. So the absolute amount of the surcharges is lower than it was in historical. And our plan for the year assumes fuel somewhere plus or minus near ...

Investors Scramble as Fed Extends Low Rate Policy
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
Learning to live with 3 percent bond yields looks like the new normal for fixed-income investors. Even scarier is Utkus' view of where future retirement funds will come from: "The bulk of long-term wealth accumulation over the next decade is likely to ...

US economy gearing up
Feedstuffs
... nine quarters of the last three recoveries -- 1991, 2001 and 2009 -- has been slower than the four previous recoveries before the mid-1980s, and the 2009 recovery has been the slowest on record, Paulsen noted, asking if this would be "a new normal.

Letter writers, I need your help
Rockford Register Star (blog)
If you haven't been contacted about your letter, or if you were and you've wondered what happened to it, call me and we can expadite the process and get it published. I expect things will be at a new normal within a week.

Was I selfish to have fertility treatments?
Salon
And especially at a time when twins are becoming the new normal: Recently, the CDC reported that 1 in every 30 babies born in the United States today is a twin. Part of my self-consciousness came from the fact that infertility treatments are an ...

Salon

After the Birth of the iPod and the Death of the TouchPad, What Next for ...
Forbes
Gutsy in themselves, these choices turned out to be prescient: after a necessary period of complaint, this became the new normal. The single Thunderbolt port and disdian for optical media of the modern MacBook Air follows a direct line from that ...

Forbes

Your Thyroid — The New Normal
By IRMS
Your Thyroid — The New Normal. Submitted by IRMS on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 05:09. a blog by Serena H. Chen, M.D., IRMS Reproductive Medicine at Saint Barnabas, January 31, 2012. How do you know what is “normal”? In medicine, “normal” ...
Fertility Authority

The Electric Car and the New Normal | SierraActivist
By NRDC Switchboard
Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC: About halfway between St. Louis and Chicago, nestled in the fertile corn and soybean fields of Illinois, a quiet electric car revolution is sprouting up in the town of Normal, a town that ...
SierraActivist

Al Stevens talks Cloud Computing at the NFAIS Annual Conference ...
By JD Thomas
Born of Disruption: An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape. The emergence of e-journals, search engines, and the Web triggered the disruption of the information landscape more than twenty years ago. Accelerated by the ...
Unlimited Priorities

Housing market distress remains severe | Politics blog
By john
The housing boom that lasted long enough to seem like “the new normal” was actually anything but. It was a bubble, based on unsound lending practices. Efforts to revive the economy and return to pre-bust levels of employment are not going ...
Politics blog

Day 21 | Mark Batterson
By mark
He emptied me so He would fill me. He stretched me so He could strengthen me. And I don't want it to stop. It's my new normal. The 21-day prayer challenged raised the ceiling, but that ceiling is the new foundation. I'm going to press in and ...
Mark Batterson

Rush not sure Santorum vote would go to Gingrich » The Right ...
By The Right Scoop
Is this the new normal that conservative bloggers, writers, pundits, and talk show hosts are going to be making endorsements all over the place? Endorsements are overrated when they come from politicians, let alone bloggers. poljunkie ...
The Right Scoop

Fired By Minn. Senate, Anderson Takes Dayton Offer « CBS ...
By Sara Boyd
It's better than that, new normal. She will get to apply that against her years in the state senate to triple her pension thanks to Dayton. It's good to be a crony of the winner. The rest of us will pay the extra million dollars in pension she will draw ...
CBS Minnesota

Twitter, Facebook, Storytelling, and the 2012 Super Bowl ...
By edward boches
After the whopping success of VW's The Force in 2011, pre-releasing one's Super Bowl spot appears to be the new normal. They're on Hulu, on YouTube, on blogs and all over Twitter and Facebook. Not everyone welcomes the loss of ...
Creativity_Unbound

New Normal News: Economic stagnation may be the “new normal”
Everything “Big” has access to capital, is up-to-their-eyeballs in cash and is managing expenses to Gross and El-Erian's New Normal. There are serious ...
www.newnormalnews.com/.../economic-stagnation-may-be-ne...

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