Wednesday, July 18, 2012

3 Percent Salary Increase 'New Normal'

3 Percent Salary Increase 'New Normal'
ABC News (blog)
How much higher can those fortunate enough to have a job expect their salaries to rise in the next year? The answer is 3 percent, according to a study by the consulting firm, Hay Group. According to the consulting firm's research, executives, middle ...

How are enterprises adjusting to the 'new normal' of mobile?
ComputerworldUK (blog)
Results from the European biannual sample of IDC's 2012 EMEA Enterprise Mobility CIO Survey, fielded in April/May of this year, illustrate that many are struggling to keep up. In Europe, we telephone survey approximately 420 CIOs, IT managers and ...

Responsible investing is the new normal
ITInews
Building environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into the transaction life cycle or investment process across all asset classes is fast becoming the new normal - so agree 300 of the world's leading asset managers and owners who...

ITInews

Turning Garage Sale Finds Into Online Gold
ABC News (blog)
Previous Now Touchable: Eliot Ness Items At Auction. Next 3 Percent Salary Increase 'New Normal'. By Eliza Murphy. Jul 16, 2012 1:49pm. Turning Garage Sale Finds Into Online Gold. Email 1 Smaller Font Text Larger Text | Print. For a lot of people out ...

Extreme weather the new normal, claims study
Legalbrief (subscription)
Extreme weather the new normal, claims study. Published in: Legalbrief Environmental Date: Tue 17 July 2012. Category: Climate Change Issue No: 0270. Severe droughts, floods and heat waves rocked the world last year as greenhouse gas levels climbed, ...

'RHOA' NeNe Leakes Freaks Out Over Lost TV Channels
Gather Celebs News Channel
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes has been busy filming several shows, including Glee, The New Normal, and The Real Housewives of Atlanta. So, when she has the night off, NeNe just wants to relax in her home. One could imagine that she ...

Fighting the fear and finding peace after a cancer diagnosis
MiamiHerald.com
Controlling anxiety and learning how to live with the 'new normal' goes a long way in boosting recovery from cancer.

MiamiHerald.com

Rethinking the Meaning of “System Reliability”
Energy Collective
Now, we seem to be emerging into a New Normal, as suggested by recent events in the Mid-Atlantic this summer, or last winter in New England, or [insert recent massive grid outage here]. Now, it seems the outages of my personal recollection are far less ...

'Girls' Season 2: Andrew Rannells On Living With Hannah
Huffington Post
... to TVLine, Patrick Wilson will play Hannah's new love interest Joshua, a forty-something doctor who Hannah develops a crush on. For more on Rannells, who is also starring in NBC's "The New Normal" this fall, head over to Vulture. Loading Slideshow .

Majority of Americans will work remotely while on vacation: survey
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Is thus the new normal? Has email become the great tether? Are we so hyper-connected via the Web and mobile devices that work follows us wherever we go? These findings were released by TeamViewer, which commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct ...

Is It 'I Do' or 'I Plan' That Divides Us?
New York Times (blog)
If there is any obvious takeaway from this and the earlier news that for younger mothers, out-of-wedlock births are the new normal, (leading to elevated risks of falling into poverty for children), it would seem to be this: first comes love, then comes ...

O'Connell Eyes Continued Growth as He Takes the Reins at Wolf & Company
Business West
Firms had to adjust to a changing climate in which there was little if any new growth, and many ventures went out of business, downsized their operations, or had trouble paying their bills — all key contributors to that “new normal” he described.

Rex Huppke: Go ahead -- be weird at work
The Republic
Weird isn't quite the new normal, but it's gaining traction. Some companies are starting to see that when you encourage employees to be authentic — to not worry about seeming weird or thinking differently — good things happen. Smart ideas rise up, ...

ProPublica's New App Explains Why the President Sent You That Email
All Things Digital
But since 2000, reliance on things like targeted emails and online voter databases has become the new normal. As the New York Times Magazine's Jon Gertner noted in 2004: … someone who appears nonpartisan, someone who might even think of himself...

All Things Digital

Storm Victims Line Up For Food Cards
Ohio News Network
Rhodes does not normally get food assistance, but June marked a new normal for families in Montgomery County. "A lot of people had their electricity off for days," added Rosemary Dannin. Dannin runs the food bank in Dayton and ran an assembly line of ...

Coryell EDC focuses on use of resources to draw businesses
Killeen Daily Herald
"The new normal throughout the country is 'do you have the skilled workforce?'" said board member Fred Chavez. "It used to be green fields and buildings. ... Then people thought it was (tax) incentives. None of those things are the case now." Coryell ...

Secondary Sources: Housing Bottom?, Wealth Poll, Stimulus Criticism
Wall Street Journal (blog)
5. Five Things to Watch for in Bernanke Testimony. 1. Do the Rich Deserve Their Wealth?123 Comments. 2. Is 8% the New Normal for Unemployment?36 Comments. 3. Number of the Week: Public Workers More Likely to Have Health Benefits34 Comments ...

Morning Meme: Andrew Rannells Returning To "Girls," Rob Gronkowski ...
AfterElton.com
It doesn't look like Andrew Rannells' starring role on The New Normal will keep him from appearing in the next season of Girls on Andrew Rannells HBO. In fact, he's going to be moving in with his ex, Hannah. He also give the apartment a gay makeover.

AfterElton.com

Low Water Levels On The Mississippi River A Major Threat To Commerce: 'This ...
ThinkProgress
As far as I can determine there is no plan B for the New Orleans water supply if these new river levels are the 'new normal.' Reply. Janat says: July 16, 2012 at 8:47 pm. If this isn't testimony to STOP FRACKING which will use in one well what 79000 ...

ThinkProgress

Beware Shrinking Growth Rate Expectations
iStockAnalyst
Indeed, investors are only now coming to terms with what PIMCO termed "the new normal" of balanced sheet restructuring/deleveraging-induced low, unstable secular growth. In other words, if one dispels the myth that the Fed can keep stock prices ...

iStockAnalyst


WNY Iraq War Vet Getting Kudos for New Book
WGRZ-TV
"The old me is coming back, but I've settled in with a new me and new normal," he says. "Those are my buzzwords. I've never been into self-help, but I'm more at peace with the new me by not focusing on what's not there anymore." He calls the path he ...

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Things That Make You Go Hmmm - Such As QE3 Marking An ...
By Tyler Durden
Dollar up, stocks down is the new normal - which includes the "all bad news is good news" concept of pushing us closer to QE3. Bernanke announcing "We are not doing ANY QE until there is law in place to resolve long term debt." breaks the ...
ZeroHedge

The New Artisan Economy Requires New Skills
By Ray Fisman, Slate
If Hurst is right, we're now adjusting to a new normal, one in which there are fewer manufacturing jobs to go around and no housing boom to absorb all the unskilled workers who could have found work in a less globalized and computerized ...
RealClearPolitics - Homepage

The links between cancer and depression and what to do about it ...
By Andrea Fairbairn
The new normal. We also stretch and grow in strange but beautiful ways during cancer and cancer treatment. We find ourselves perhaps wiser, stronger, deeper and very brave. We might yearn for old interests and friends but don't find ...
Breast Cancer Nirvana

Get ready for the coming permanent food crisis | Liberal Conspiracy
By Adam Ramsay
So, surely the time has come to stop thinking of ourselves as lurching from shock crisis to shock crisis, and start seeing that crisis is the new normal: food prices are going to get higher – up to 30% higher this decade than last, according to the ...
Liberal Conspiracy

Inside the Law School Scam: Risky decisions
By DJM
Law schools have rather reluctantly admitted that 2010 and 2011 job outcomes are the “new normal.” That is ... Firms are increasing the number of staff attorneys, career associates, contract attorneys, and other “new normal” positions. No one ...
Inside the Law School Scam

No, no, our appeal just becoming more selective : The Boar's Head ...
By Justin
Yet as we're seeing with South Carolina (i.e. “Actual Episcopalians”) and others in TEC, for those not leaving a strained relationship with the church seems to be the new normal. I suspect for a number of those in the ELCA these days the ...
The Boar's Head Tavern

Is There A Huge Age Gap Between Your Kids? « 104.3 K-Hits Chicago
By Staff Writer
Eddie V has both a granddaughter and a daughter that are roughly the same age. Is that the new normal? Check out the situations these callers to the Eddie and Jobo had! ...
104.3 K-Hits Chicago

Brokers Invest in Their Future at Real Estate CEO Exchange ...
By susanne
Brokers will discuss how they have changed their business and/or operations model to survive and thrive in real estate's “new normal.” From replacing bricks and mortar with virtual and regional locations to innovative solutions for retaining top ...
RISMedia

Get used to not-so-new normal | TBO.com
There's a wonderful scene in Mel Brook's "Young Frankenstein," where Gene Wilder as Dr. Frankenstein asks Marty Feldman's Igor just whose brain it was that ...
www2.tbo.com/.../memeto1-get-used-to-not-so-new-normal-ar...

Policing's 'new normal' doesn't work with white folks | Davis Enterprise
These are campus cops using the new normal police strategies — the police experts agree — on white people. It turns out, the public isn't as comfortable with ...
www.davisenterprise.com/.../policings-new-normal-doesnt-wo...

Say Anything "Quote Approval" Is The New Normal For The National ...
If you're reading a news story and you see some candidate or official quoted, chances are the reporter had to get those quotes approved by the source before ...
sayanythingblog.com/.../quote-approval-is-the-new-normal-fo...

The New Normal: San Francisco's 'Crazy Hot' Housing Market
Here's another in the Business Times' ongoing "new normal" look at signs that the ... Read more: San Francisco Busines Times The new normal: San Francisco's ...
www.sfced.org/.../the-new-normal-san-franciscos-crazy-hot-h...

Is crazy the new normal?
by Ola Jachtorowicz Cosmos Online PSYCHIATRY HAS a shady history. For a long time, the sanctioned medical response to patients hearing voices or harming ...
www.abcforums.com/showthread.php?1703-Is-crazy-the...

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