Saturday, April 30, 2011

Weekly Wrap-up

Gwent man in Tokyo gets used to the 'new normal'
South Wales Argus
But, while Alfie Goodrich, says things are back to normal, he says it is a "new normal", with 1100 aftershocks in the past month and people in the Japanese capital worried about radiation and the possibility of a massive earthquake hitting Tokyo itself ...
Retirement confidence hits new low
Washington Blade
Results of the 2011 RCS released in March reveal that the economy, unemployment, government fiscal crises, investment returns, and health care costs are creating a “New Normal” in which retirees are delaying retirement. Meanwhile, confidence and saving ...
Cautious Projections Reveal Aerospace Upside — Just Don't Buy Defense
Forbes (blog)
As with undue fears of capital markets meltdown two years ago, incipient worldwide depression, new normal and other gloomy shibboleths, natural disaster and Arab Spring haven't even budged the global integrated growth needle. Pulling in billions of new ...
First Quarter Report 2011
Reuters (press release)
European banks face large challenges with the costs of new regulation. Nordea is committed to take the necessary steps to maintain its position in the top league. In our New Normal plan, we will focus on increased ROE and take measures to increase ...
Pat's Place: Everyday Things That Inspire Me
The Myeloma Beacon
I get so caught-up in trying to help multiple myeloma patients and caregivers get a handle on their “new normal” lives, I forget how important it is for all of us to just try to stay positive—and inspiration can definitely help with that. ...
Green Car Makers Travel Different Roads to Sustainability
GreenBiz.com (blog)
There's widespread agreement on the reason automakers are going green: $4 gasoline is the "new normal," environmental regulations are tightening and headlines calling for freedom from oil spills and autocrats are all over the news. ...
Most-deadly day of tornadoes in USA since 1974
USA Today
"It will take years to find the new normal in this part of Tuscaloosa." Contributing: , Steve Marshall, John Bacon and Carolyn Pesce in McLean, Va.; the Associated Press. For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's. ...
Nordea Q1 tops expectations, to cut costs
Reuters
The "New Normal" plan contains measures to increase capital efficiency, cost efficiency and return on equity. "We will adjust the group initiatives to mainly support efficiency and profitability," the company said in a statement. ...
Committee hears departmental requests at second hearing
Carthage Press
The message was that city belts are cinched as tight as they can go, and there's no room to punch new holes. It sounded like a crisis situation, but Short has called the current economic climate “the new normal.” Department heads said they have been ...
US storms: What is it like to live in 'tornado alley'?
BBC News
You have to find what we call here, the 'new-normal'." Four years later, Greensburg, Kansas, is rebuilding as a "green city". The city council passed a law saying that all city buildings would have to be up to standards developed by the US Green ...




Only change is constant
San Luis Obispo Tribune
Be open to new things. Meet new people. Become involved in new activities.   Get a new pet. This time in your life may have a different look. Allow that to be OK. • Trust yourself. Yes, change is unnerving. But life will resume a new normal...
NJ voters approve far more school budgets this year than last
Newsworks.org
... were fired, class numbers ballooned. "They went through some tough times last year," said Mooney. "This year, their public rallied behind them." But, he said, this year's budgets are still very lean--symptomatic of the Garden State's "new normal."
Florida's E&S Commercial Property Market: Is Change Coming?
PropertyCasualty360
While Florida agents and brokers have become adept at adjusting to this “new normal” of stagnant rates and reduced premiums, there are reasons to believe change may be on the way. More carriers and reinsurers are global entities, if not in their ...
Brain-injured deserve happy ending
Arizona Republic
Our families talk about finding the 'new normal.' That is what we encourage them to do. But when you are struggling with an insurance company and with the state, it is really hard. If, for instance, the family's breadwinner was injured, ...
Sparkfly's New Mobile Engagement Platform Connects Merchants and Consumers at ...
Point of Sale
SparkQuest aims to solve the problem of “deal overload” among consumers, and create a new normal in how marketers and merchants approach mobile deals and location-based marketing. Tabor continues, “We're currently connected with the most widely-used ...
Can Ike Davis sustain his hot start for the Mets?
Amazin' Avenue
But don't be disheartened that he eventually has to fall back to Earth once the Mets' current hot streak cools off. He could regress to a new normal, which may exceed and improve on what we expected from our first baseman on Opening Day. ...
How Do Mexicans Propose Marriage?
OC Weekly
In honor of your monumental victory, I have officially made my last Guatemalan joke: Your people have finally, truly made it in this country. And   for the haters who'll inevitably whine about Vives' former illegal status? Welcome to the new normal...
Reform insurance contracting
Asbury Park Press
It's time we settle into a “new normal” in contracting for insurance coverage. Just as citizens introduced strong pay-to-play reform in professional and no-bid contracts, citizens need to bolster protections in insurance procurement to ensure that our ...
Spring Floods Contribute To Lake Champlain Pollution
Vermont Public Radio
Louis Porter of the Conservation Law Foundation says if more rainfall is the new normal, then society will have to adjust the ways it handles water pollution. (Porter) "And what that means is that we have to have more capacity in all of the prevention ...
Danier Leather Maintains Only Mild Attraction
Seeking Alpha
This was Danier's most profitable year since 2002, so counting on these profits as the new normal going forward may be a bit optimistic. Market forces (including competition, cost pressures, etc.) could bring profits lower; they certainly have in the ...
Real estate market to be topic
Lake Forester
... of the current real estate market, from both a national and local perspective, and will discuss the challenges and procedure for assessing the value of property, and the strategy and best practices for selling and buying in "the new normal...
End of the second-home era for Aspen?
Aspen Times
Therefore, Ireland said he's not convinced Aspen and Pitkin County is looking   at a “new world order or a new normal.” “We could easily see another speculative bubble,” Ireland said. Westkott will discuss economic issues with officials again today from ...
School Budget Sure To Irritate
RhinoTimes.com Greensboro
Daniels angered Duncan by quoting from an article by US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (no relation) that described school systems having less money as "the new normal," and said that school systems will have to do more with what they have. ...
Blood Sport: A Brief Look at the Sometimes Violent Resistance to Public ...
Infoshop News
One can't help but notice the "welcome to the new normal" nature of that comment, where a foreclosure and moving in with your wife's family barely merit as serious problems in the current economy. But the tribune reports that health care costs began to ...
Boise Cascade Acquires Filler King:
Building-Products.com
Others will be offered conditional employment offers, subject to normal new employee pre-screening. The deal was expected to close April 29. A day after the acquisition was announced, Boise revealed that it will be mothballing its own laminated beam ...
US Military: Schizophrenia Is The New Normal
By Diana West
Eureka: The US military has just made schizophrenia the new normal. My friend John Bernard has trenchant comments about all of this. A former Marine 1st Sergeant, John is the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard,   who was killed in ...
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Forecasts are hard, especially about the future « Modeled Behavior
By Karl Smith
Thus I see a strong demand for new construction building. This drill down has risks as well, and they are basically the inverse. What if there is a “new normal” in household size. In that case I will be waiting for a boom that never ...
Modeled Behavior - http://modeledbehavior.com/
Japan's new post-quake orphan problem | CNNGo.com
By Jessica Ocheltree
New normal. For the second tier, the project will address counseling needs and provide therapeutic activities. While there will be a focus on providing the mental-health services needed, Tohoku Kids Support Project aims to facilitate ...
CNNGo.com - http://www.cnngo.com/
GCS board chair blasts education sec'y | Piedmont Publius
By SamH
Daniels angered Duncan by quoting from an article by US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (no relation) that described school systems having less money as “ the new normal,” and said that school systems will have to do more with what ...
Piedmont Publius - http://triad.johnlocke.org/blog/
5-Star Healthcare Dividend Stocks
As the economy progresses back to normal, people will return to their doctors, utilization rates will pick up, and cash flow will improve. As many large healthcare leaders struggle to find new growth avenues, though, many of these ...
Investopedia.com Headlines - http://www.investopedia.com/
Who Sees 'The New Normal' Most Clearly? Law Firms, Law Departments ...
One of the many benefits of writing about the New Normal is that I get involved in lots of interesting conversations about New Normalcy.
www.abajournal.com/.../who_sees_the_new_normal_most_cle...
The New Normal: One Year Later « Arizona Commission on the Arts
Title of Resource: The New Normal: One Year Later Published: Spring 2010, 11 pages. Publishing Organization: Theatre Communications Group ...
www.azarts.gov/news.../the-new-normal-one-year-later/

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