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New Normal For Fast Food: Price Cuts and Stagnant Sales

2013-05-18T00:00:00.000+12:00

The New Normal For Fast Food: Price Cuts and Stagnant Sales Wall Street Journal Burger sales are falling at McDonald's, which on Wednesday reported its fourth monthly global same-store sales decline since October, when sales at restaurants open at least 13 months fell for the first time in nine years. While not unexpected, the ... Innovations in 5: 'Wait, what now?!' is the new normal, and the

Drug-Sniffing Dogs and the New Normal

2013-05-16T00:00:00.000+12:00

Are Drug-Sniffing Dogs the New Normal? Boston magazine's Boston Daily (blog) ... Secretary of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS), said in an interview that the video and a March 6 memo, which Commissioner Luis Spencer sent to the 11,500 prisoners, are attempts to prepare Massachusetts for the new normal. In nursing, specializing is 'the new normal' Globe and Mail The role

NBC cancels The New Normal

2013-05-14T00:00:00.000+12:00

NBC axes 'Go On,' 'New Normal,' and 'Smash'; renews 'Community'Examiner.comYesterday, the Peacock network went on a cancellation spree which as of last night now includes rookie comedies “Go On” and “The New Normal.” However, the network did decide to spare longtime bubble show “Community,” which was part of complicated ...'Smash' and 'The New Normal' Cancelled, NeNe Leakes ReactsAllMediaNY'Smash

Buffett Ignores Gross's New Normal, Pities Bond Investors

2013-05-11T00:00:00.000+12:00

Buffett Ignores Gross's New Normal, Pities Bond Investors Businessweek Gross's firm, Pacific Investment Management Co., coined the term “new normal” in 2009 to describe an era of lower returns, heightened regulation and shrinking U.S. clout in the world economy following the 2008 financial crisis. The view contrasts with ... Buffett Ignores Grosses New Normal, Pities Bond Investors Bloomberg

The new new normal in food safety

2013-05-09T00:00:00.000+12:00

Welcome to the new normal in food safety Troy Media Even so, the challenge of tracking food products and ingredients upstream and downstream touches on the core of what is required to manage risks posed by the new normal in the business of food and agriculture. The new normal presents a number of ...(read more at link above) Situation new normal: Another year of solid but slow growth

New Normal State Budgets

2013-05-07T00:00:00.000+12:00

WATCHBLOG: The new normal – or – two charts that demonstrate how screwed Pennsylvania is | PA Independent: " . . . Think the $1.5 billion the state is spending on pensions this year is causing budget problems? The total will crank up to around $6 billion in fiscal year 2034-35. And the annual contribution will increase every single year for the next two decades, at least. The pension crisis is

New Normal Oil (video)

2013-05-04T00:00:00.000+12:00

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The Gay New Normal

2013-05-02T00:00:00.000+12:00

Comment: The New Normal? What is the cost of the new gay idealism? - PinkNews.co.uk: "When it comes to the squeaky cleanness of the new pinkwashed dream, I can’t help but thinking of Dolly Parton’s response when asked if she believed in equal marriage: “Sure, why can’t they get married? They should suffer like the rest of us do”. Gay experience is full of the same emotional turmoil, joy, neurosis

System Crises, New Normal

2013-04-30T00:00:00.000+12:00

New Normal System Crises-- Peter Bjerregaard: System Crises Is the New Normal: " . . . The financial crisis wasn't an isolated event, but a manifestation of a new normal. A new normal characterized by extreme turbulence and an unprecedented connectivity between different global crises (economic crisis, climate crisis, food crisis, resource crisis, etc.). The global economy exceeds the planetary

Creating the New Normal

2013-04-27T00:00:00.000+12:00

zenhabits: "Here’s the process: (Habit Mastery: Creating the New Normal)-- Start small. What’s the smallest increment you can do? Do this for at least 3 days, preferably 4-5. Get started. Starting the change each day is the most important thing. Want to run? Just get out the door. Want to meditate? Just get on the cushion. Enjoy the change. Don’t look at this as a sacrifice. It’s fun, it’s

New Normal Weather Extremes

2013-04-25T00:00:00.000+12:00

Weather Service chief: We face 'new normal' of extremesUSA TODAYThe onslaught of wild weather that has battered the USA in recent years — from Hurricane Sandy and deadly tornado outbreaks to extremes of drought and floods -- looks to be part of a "newnormal" for weather patterns in the U.S., new National Weather ...read more at link above more New Normal News below Follow @NewNormalNews

New Normal Positive Deviance, part 3 video

2013-04-23T00:00:00.000+12:00

A “New Normal” for social change interventions: Focus on the positive deviants-- Let Go of the Tiger's Head - 30% of community sex workers in East Java are under the age of 18. In 2003 a PD project was piloted in Village Gadungsari to prevent girl trafficking. Positive Deviance is documented as an approach to social change that values local wisdom and resources. Interviews with different

New Normal Positive Deviance, part 2 video

2013-04-20T00:00:00.000+12:00

A “New Normal” for social change interventions: Focus on the positive deviants-- Between 1986 and 2007 over 50,000 children in Northern Uganda were abducted by the Lords Resistance Army. Children were exploited as porters, sex slaves, and soldiers. As the conflict died down many children escaped or were rescued. However, the return of the children to the community was met with resistance since

New Normal Positive Deviance, part 1 video

2013-04-18T00:00:00.001+12:00

Reflections on Positive Deviance There are a lot of great resources on positive deviance but you might start with some of Arvind’s stories. You’ll catch the reflections of one of the pioneers of positive deviance, Monique Sternin A “New Normal” for social change interventions: Focus on the positive deviants Borderzine The new normal for social change interventions: Focus on the characteristics

Law School New Normal

2013-04-16T00:00:00.000+12:00

Simple Justice: The New Normal at St. Louis University LawIf there was a way to bet the outcome, I would have gone all in that St. Louis Law School's interim dean, Tom Keefe, would fail. Keefe — a local plaintiffs attorney ...read more at link belowblog.simplejustice.us/.../the-new-normal-at-st-louis-law.aspx more New Normal News below Follow @NewNormalNews

Amputee Vets Find Their New Normal

2013-04-13T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amputee vets on the slopes: 'They find their new normal here'Today.com (blog)I first met David Rozelle at the bottom of Vail, Colo. mountain almost 10 years ago. At the time his rank was Captain and he'd just returned home from Iraq where he left part of one leg behind. He was taking part in a program called "Vail Veterans ...read more at link above more New Normal News below Follow @

New Normal Fast Capital

2013-04-11T00:00:00.000+12:00

Fast capital? Welcome to the 'new normal'Artemis.bm (blog)Third-party investor capital's increasing interest and growing influence in the insurance and reinsurance markets is something that insurers and reinsurers are going to have to get used to as a 'new normal', according to the Chairman of ACE European ...read more at link above more New Normal News below Follow @NewNormalNews

System Crises Is the New Normal

2013-04-09T00:00:00.000+12:00

System Crises Is the New Normal Huffington Post The financial crisis wasn't an isolated event, but a manifestation of a new normal. A new normalcharacterized by extreme turbulence and an unprecedented connectivity between different global crises (economic crisis, climate crisis, food crisis ...read more at link above more New Normal News below Follow @NewNormalNews

New Normal Income Inequality

2013-04-06T00:00:00.000+12:00

Income Inequality May Be The New Normal, Study Finds If you're poor, you have a smaller chance of getting rich now than in the 1980s, a new study suggests. The study, released Thursday by the Brookings Institution, ...read more at link below www.huffingtonpost.com/.../income-inequality-study_n_2925... more New Normal News below Follow @NewNormalNews

New Normal Grantmaking Formula

2013-04-04T00:00:00.000+12:00

The Grantmaking Formula for the New NormalThe Nonprofit QuarterlyGiven the complexity of the new normal, nonprofits cannot sit still; they cannot be static. They must be nimble and deploy resources carefully and creatively. Modest sums invested in technical assistance can yield important changes in how nonprofit ...read more at link above more New Normal News below Follow @NewNormalNews

Politics of the New Normal

2013-04-02T00:00:00.000+12:00

The Politics of the New Normal: Maggie Gallagher on Marriage National Review Online (blog) Maggie Gallagher has been writing about marriage for much longer than our media attention spans seem capable of focusing on a topic. She is co-author, most recently, of Debating Same-Sex Marriage from Oxford University Press. She talks about some of ...read more at link above more New Normal News below

Buy and Hold in the New Normal

2013-03-30T00:00:00.000+12:00

Even in 'New Normal', Buy and Hold Still Beating Market TimersNASDAQEven in 'New Normal', Buy and Hold Still Beating Market Timers. By Validea, . . . Since equity markets peaked in 2007, macroeconomic factors have by and large been the driving force behind stocks. The U.S. ...read more at link abovemore New Normal News below Follow @NewNormalNews

The Abnormal In New Normal Joblessness

2013-03-28T00:00:00.000+12:00

RealClearMarkets - There's Lots of 'Abnormal' In 'New Normal' Joblessness: "February's job report showed nonparticipants at 89.3 million. That's almost a million more than 2012's annual rate (88.3 million) and almost 10 million more than 2008's annual rate (79.5 million). Looked at another way: If 2008's labor force participation rate of 66% prevailed today, instead of February's depressed 63.5%

The New Normal for Seniors

2013-03-26T01:00:00.000+12:00

6 Realities of the 'New Normal' for SeniorsU.S. News & World Report (blog)When President Obama gives the State of the Union address Tuesday, it will doubtless be filled with aspirational calls to improve lives in the United States and throughout the world. It will call for action on many fronts. It will positively frame ...U.S. News & World Report (blog) The new normal Christian Science

The new normal of higher education

2013-03-23T01:00:00.000+12:00

Professors reject the new normal The Australian PROFESSORS in the US have pushed back against what they called the “new normal” of higher education – namely that it can no longer be free or at least affordable – during a forum organised by the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education last week. The New Normal | Parent Revolution The New Normal. This week – on Tuesday, February 12 – the