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Amazon makes ad-supported Kindle pricing the new normal
VentureBeat
How the heck did Amazon make it's new Kindle e-readers so cheap? By slyly making its ad-supported “Special Offers” pricing, which includes sponsored screensavers and ads on the home screen, the new standard for its e-readers. ...
The New Normal of Extreme Couponing
Smartmoney.com (blog)
By Quentin Fottrell J'aime Kirlew is glad she won't be on Season Two of “Extreme Couponing,” which starts tonight. Get your scissors ready: It's time to start clipping coupons like you've never clipped before. Or maybe just wave them in anger and ...
Credit Suisse's Asset Management Division Releases New White Paper and Video ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Authored by Yogi Thambiah and Nicolo' Foscari from the Investment Strategies and Solutions (ISS) team, the paper tackles a key issue challenging institutional investors today: How to build an optimized real assets portfolio under a "new normal" ...
Volatility Is the New Normal: Pimco
CNBC.com
"Volatility is part of the new normal, it's here to stay, it's been with us for a few years. It's certainly going to be with us for the next few years and so investors need to have a long term horizon if they want to invest in equities right now," ...
Breast Cancer: For Cancer Patients, Surviving Is the New Normal
NorthJersey.com
That's what we call the new normal," she said. "They've (Patients have) gone on a detour and we're here to help them back to their life. To get back to living - that's my biggest message." The new therapies available offer less toxic options for ...
THE NEW NORMAL: Climate norms undergo 10-year revisions
San Angelo Standard Times
By Denise Morris Everyone knows this summer was far from it. After a summer that broke numerous records for heat, another big one was toppled on Tuesday when the thermometer reached 102: the double-triple, or 100 100-degree days. ...
Housing slump: The new normal?
CBS News
Foreclosures are putting an enormous amount of [downward] pressure on prices. Schiller's point is even after prices stabilize, history shows us that we shouldn't expect much of an increase. As he pointed out, this may very well be the new normal."
New life for stalled Shandon neighborhood
The State
The signs of life for the neighborhood, on Woodrow Street at Millwood Avenue, also are a case study of the housing-market crash and its slow climb back to a “new normal.” Mungo Homes has taken over Shandon Square off Woodrow Street. ...
Congress caught in a cycle of standoffs
Los Angeles Times
Political warfare is the new normal on Capitol Hill, and observers see little hope for compromise. House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has shown he cannot always control the "tea party" Republican wing. (Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images / September 28 ...
Australia's Gillard: Strong currency is new normal
MarketWatch
By Enda Curran SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- A strong Australian dollar is the new status quo, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Wednesday as her government begins a major study on the impact for Australia of Asia's burgeoning economic strength. ...
A Sweet New Year
Patch.com
Eventually, things went back to a new normal. A year passed. I recovered from childbirth, then survived sleep deprivation, teething, nap training, car seats, spit-up, etc. When my baby's first birthday approached, it felt like I was celebrating my ...
Report: Food pantries meant to give emergency aid become a monthly mainstay ...
Washington Post
The report “really puts kind of a fine point on the fact that food banks are becoming the new normal for a large percentage of the population,” she said. It's not the role they were created for, she said, “but we are doing that right now because we ...
Hey Couch Potato, Here Are 3 Ways To Stop Stalling And Land One Of The 3.2 ...
Business Insider
You need to embrace something that I call Survival is the New Normal. Determination is a survival state. Willingness to adapt and change is a survival state. Our instinct for “fight or flight” comes from the most ancient part of our brain that quickly ...
Getting Better Behavior Without Yelling
Life360 Now (blog)
In order for him to change, he needs to experience a new normal. A normal where most comments are about things you want him to be doing. In order for him to make the switch from being fed by yelling, to being fed by cooperating and applause, ...
Over the Fence: My dogs take me for granted, but I love it
Freeport Journal-Standard
Starting this week, I had to begin a new normal for my evenings. I no longer have All My Children to watch each evening. Monday, I felt the void. I spoke of it with my dogs, who seemed not to care. Now that the nights are growing cooler, I find myself ...
Declining Tax Revenue Leaves Half of U.S. Cities Strapped for Cash
Go Banking Rates
... many cities are facing may be something we all have to grow accustomed to with the slim likelihood that we will see improvements in the near future. “Lower property values and declining sales may portend something entirely new, a 'new normal.' “
Short-Term Fixes That Take Time and Resolve Little
New York Times
... if unintentionally, the broader institutional failure now bedeviling Congress: Short-term spending legislation, cobbled together with an eye toward passing a divided Congress rather than achieving a higher civic goal, is the new normal. ...
The Early Word: Listed
New York Times (blog)
That dubious standard of achievement underscores, if unintentionally, the broader institutional failure bedeviling Congress: the new normal is cobbled-together solutions that are more focused on passing a divided Congress than attaining a higher civic ...
Behind the Mask: Ex-CIA disguise specialists have new assignment : 2011-09-27
Washington Times
For the Mendezes, this is the new normal, an unexpected second act. The situation was grave. November, 1979: Following the Iranian revolution, Islamist militants seized control of the US Embassy in Tehran and took dozens of American hostages. ...
Blackstone Says Slowdown in High-Yield Debt Market Will Turn
San Francisco Chronicle
The lull in activity isn't the "new normal," Coleman said. "It's just a moment," said Coleman, a senior managing director at New York-based Blackstone, the world's biggest private-equity firm and this year's busiest buyout dealmaker. ...
Why Small Businesses Should Be Adding More Green Jobs
Forbes
US businesses can participate in the race to a cleaner and greener future where environmentally friendly is the new normal. This is no longer just a better environmental strategy; it is a necessary response to a fundamentally different market, ...
Wednesday State News Briefs: Walker to call special session of legislature
Pierce County Herald
US House Republican Paul Ryan of Janesville told a health care forum near San Francisco today that Wisconsin's political environment is “the new normal.” After he spoke about health care reform, an audience member at the conservative Hoover Institution ...
Flooded Farmers Learn to Be Creative
New York Times
“Every year there's these extremes of weather, and it seems like that's the new normal,” he said. “So it seems like a greenhouse could possibly help with that.” For farmers who run Community Supported Agriculture programs, the last month has been a ...
MACHINE HEAD Frontman On 'Unto The Locust': 'We Really Set Out To Challenge ...
Blabbermouth.net
At some point, what was the limit of our abilities became the new normal. So when we got done touring, it was like, "I don't want to be stuck with this box around what we can and can't do. Let's just go for it and see what happens." And we did. ...
Strain tapped by CSD
Big Bear Grizzly
“Adapting to the new normal is the latest thing,” Strain said. “We're taking a good look at every penny we spend to keep rates low and re-evaluating the organization and things like retirement programs.” Along the same lines, the CSD finance office is ...
What is an in-service 401(k) rollover?
Explorer News
As triple digit moves in the stock market have become the “new normal,” the ride to retirement just got a little bumpier. For those of us who suffer from motion sickness, it's been a little tough as of late! Many people have the majority of their ...
Federal Budget Makes Case FEMA Reforms Needed
Heritage.org
For perspective on FEMA's “new normal,” Hurricane Irene—barely a Category 1 hurricane when it finally struck the US—resulted in Major Disaster Declarations for 12 states, largely for flooding. In sharp contrast, just six years ago, ...
Housing market prompts revaluation scrutiny
Waynesville Smoky Mountain News
Maybe we are living in the new normal,” Corbin said. Macon Commissioner Bobby Kuppers, a US Naval Academy graduate and former commander of a submarine, said the board should be clear in the message it sends to the county's citizens. ...
State superintendent talks education funding
Pauls Valley Daily Democrat
Barresi also told gala attendees that Oklahoma was adjusting to a new normal, and focus on innovative education techniques would be critical. She praised grants given by the Stillwater Public Education Foundation that went to programs ranging from DNA ...
Best Buy staff cut adds to fears over UK
Evening Standard
That's not just a blip, that's the new normal." That led to chatter that it may also be scaling back here. A spokesman said: "We always said we would open 11 stores and then conduct a strategy review. We are now conducting our evaluation with our ...
Raising awareness must alter behaviour
Business Daily Africa
Intensive and purposeful conversations will also need to take place if large numbers of individuals are to start doing this and stop doing that, day after day, as a new national habit, a new 'normal'. Before I conclude, I want to transpose my ...
Investors Should Really Be Finding Safety In Dividends
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
We eventually return to some semblance of normalcy — even if it's a new "normal" of lower global economic growth. Obviously, under scenario A., US Treasuries are going to fare no better than any other paper asset. Meanwhile, under scenario B. — which ...
The Geography of the “New Normal” : Fairweather Consulting
By Fairweather Consulting
The Geography of the “New Normal” · Fairweather Consulting | September 28, 2011 | 0 Comments. In case you missed the report in Monday's New York Times, the last few years may have produced a dramatic change in how various sections ...
Fairweather Consulting
U.S. cities' fiscal pain may become chronic: survey | Breaking Story
By The Breaking Story
The National League of Cities, which represents city leaders across the country, said finance officers are growing accustomed to a “new normal,” defined by lower property values and declining home sales. Yet, a great unknown hangs over ...
Breaking Story
why seth godin says we are all weird now + what this means for your ...
By justine
Isn't there a contradiction in this post? If we gather around us like minded weirdos then with in that group we are no longer weird? We have established a new normal within the group. Hmmm….. I had a very different reason for starting a blog. ...
Justine Musk
Congress caught in a cycle of standoffs
Political warfare is the new normal on Capitol Hill, and observers see little hope for compromise.Just as Congress appeared to have prevented a government shutdown, attention turned to how to avoid another one when the stopgap funding ...
NewsOnFeeds.com US News
Food Assistance Becoming the "New Normal"
Visit Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Feeding America's helps provide food to over 37 millions Americans each year.
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