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 ...
Big Peace - http://bigpeace.com/

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/

Unacceptable acceptance of "New Normal"

Brown: Acceptance of 'New Normal' is Unacceptable
GOPUSA
By Susan Stamper Brown April 28, 2011 11:39 am We've heard a lot of pep-talks recently that it might be time to for Americans to reduce their living standards and expectations in order to accept the “New Normal” that is inevitable if Washington'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. ...

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, ...

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. ...

Poll: Despite record low approval, Obama tied with generic Republican in Pa. The Hill (blog) “Or, perhaps, this is a 'new normal' and we are unlikely to see the surges usually experienced at the start of a recovery. Times are different; government, with new taxes and more restrictions, is a larger drag on the small-business community. ...

Schizophrenia is the New Normal?

US Military: Schizophrenia Is the New Normal FavStocks By Diana West on 04/27/2011 – 8:23 am PDT -- Headlines The caption on this EPA photo is: “Afghan Army soldiers secure the military base after a shooting incident.” The killer of nine NATO troops and a contractor was an Afghan Air Corps officer. ...

Living a New Normal Life The Vancouver Observer VANCOUVER, BC – For Chinese-Canadian, Linda Tang, a normal life is about planning one simple task each day – like walking to the grocery store – to keep her connected to the world. “It's about intentional living when you live with a disease like ...

A New 'Normal' for Unemployment; Are Syrian Protest Videos Being Manipulated? The Takeaway With national unemployment figures at over 8.8 percent, some economists fear America will have to accept a new "normal" when it comes to the unemployment rate; as citizen journalism in the form of viral videos galvanizes support for Syria's opposition, ...

Kresge Foundation president says Memphis nonprofit groups need to adjust to ... Memphis Commercial Appeal “My sense is that we're entering a new normal, not simply passing through a phase,” Rapson told the nearly 200 people gathered at Opera Memphis for the annual conference of the Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence. “We are indisputably in the midst of a ...

Eveleth Murder Suspect Finally Sentenced; Victim's Family Mourns FOX 21 Online You learn to, like Robin (Megan's mother) said, the new normal, and you go on with life but it's going to be a long haul for everybody,” Tibbetts said. "I pray that the new normalwon't be too terribly h ful,” Anderson-Hegg said. ...

Business strategy research and white paper highlights success for Next Economy WebWire (press release) The paper's executive summary states: “Challenging, unfamiliar and frequently turbulent economic conditions appear to be the new normal. In this new economy – “the Next Economy” – winners and losers will emerge not as a consequence of picking the right ...

Blank Sabbath: Sens. Sponsor Bill to Curb Wage Theft Religion Dispatches (blog) What should interest us is why employer cheating is now taken for granted as part of the New Normal in a country where conservatives so often invoke a Judeo-Christian heritage. Most folks who claim to revere the Good Book should know that screwing ...

New Mobile Engagement Platform SparkQuest Raises $2.5 Million to Bring ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) SparkQuest believes this signifies a possible "deal overload" trend among consumers, and a call for a new normal in how marketers and merchants approach mobile deals and location-based marketing. The new SparkQuest platform addresses the key consumer ...

Prognosis good on city`s finances Journal-Advocate "It is widely believed that local governments are experiencing what is considered a 'new normal,'" it states. "As local governments continue to face challenges related to economy, natural disasters, demographic changes and other governments` policy ...

Weak Investment-Bank Profits Weigh on Earnings at Barclays, Credit Suisse Bloomberg “Investors are struggling to find out what the new normal is.” Barclays dropped 14.35 pence to 287.5 pence, reducing the gain this year to 9.9 percent. Credit Suisse advanced 1 centime to 39.31 francs in Switzerland. The stock is up 4.4 percent since ...

New Normal seminar in Frankfurt in June ICIS (subscription) (blog) This will create plenty of opportunities for companies to increase their sales, at the expense of those who remain stuck in the Old Normal. This challenge is the basis for the next New Normal seminar, to be held in Frankfurt, Germany on June 16-17. ...

Canada benefits from Asia's economic miracle Business News Network As for how high prices for oil can go, Rule says the recent run-up in energy prices is thenew normal. “Oil prices will not only be higher but in fact sharply higher five years from now than they are today,” he says. “I wouldn't be surprised by $175 ...

Plummeting Dollar: A New Wave of Treasuries and Toxic Waste Center for Research on Globalization Bill called it the new normal. We call it the road to fiscal and monetary perdition. Confidence is gone and well it should be. We lost confidence in 1960; it obviously takes others longer. In our minds there is no question the dollar is going lower, ...

Facing Long Term Unemployment The Takeaway With national unemployment at over 8.8 percent, there is a fear that the United States could be on the brink of a “new normal” when it comes to the number of citizens we employ. For a personal look at the nation's economic situation we speak with ...

DHS's Mission to Build Safe Internet GovInfoSecurity.com And, Reitinger says he sees the paper as the beginning of a broad, technical conversation with others in government, the private sector and citizens on achieving what he characterizes as the "new normal." "The truth about Internet right now is that ...

Fantasy, Strategy and the New Normal

Exit Fantasy, Exit Strategy, or the New Normal? Exit Strategy, or New Normal | Institute for New Economic Thinking Exit Strategy, or New Normal. War Reparations, or Prosperity. In September 2008, when the Fed first began to expand its balance sheet while the U.S. ... “we are nowhere near having dealt with the debt mess. In the U.S., we have moved a good chunk of private debt onto the public balance sheet, and urged “extend and pretend” for the rest, but that is all.” ineteconomics.org/blog/money-view/exit-strategy New leadership for the 'new normal' at the UW TheNewsTribune.com (blog) Such is the “new normal,” as the UW's interim president Phyllis Wise puts it. State universities face enormous challenges to stay true to their public mission by preserving college opportunity for state students. At UW's Seattle campus, ...

BYOD Is the New Normal, at Least for Smartphones IT Business Edge (blog) By date: Good Technologies' latest quarterly survey, as reported at InfoWorld, offers some interesting data points. Perhaps the most intriguing is that the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has taken firm root – but more for smartphones than tablets. ...

NJ Schools Learn to Go Lean Wall Street Journal It seems to be, in the governor's words, the new normal. Most school districts are keeping proposed increases in property-tax collections below a new 2% state-imposed limit, and a handful of towns and districts are asking voters to raise taxes above ...

How America Is Still Spending Stupidly TIME (blog) The new normal. While America was suffering through the financial crisis, a chorus of economists, consumer behavior experts, and journalists predicted that the psychological scars of the Great Recession would permanent change spending habits (and they ...

The moment of truth for RBI Business Standard Thus, it is possible to argue that unless some of these issues get resolved, we might just be stuck in what is being described as a “new normal”. Inflation rates could, at least for a while, remain higher than the RBI's historical tolerance limit of 5 ...

Biz battles crunch on tentpole vfx Variety Such pics now routinely fit the description of a "troubled" project, with "troubled" the new normal. And key players in the f/x biz say that with crunches mounting, it's only a matter of time before some f/x-heavy tentpole can't meet its delivery date ...

Harvard group presents O.C. growth event OCRegister This year's theme is Thriving in the New Normal and will include workshops for investors as well as entrepreneurs and business executives. 5:20 pm: James F. Rothenberg, chairman, Capital Research and Management Group, one of the world's largest mutual ...

Fed Press Conference: A New Way To Lie Benzinga One candidate for this new propaganda is “new normal”. Having heard the media parrots on Canada's business news network spouting this phrase several times in recent days, it could be an indication that a new “script” has been dispensed to the media. ...

Facing Long Term Unemployment The Takeaway With national unemployment at over 8.8 percent, there is a fear that the United States could be on the brink of a “new normal” when it comes to the number of citizens we employ. For a personal look at the nation's economic situation we speak with ...

Investors: Beware of Another Bubble in Silver Prices Seeking Alpha In regards to $5 to $10 per ounce during "normal economic times", I believe that we have no reason to expect the price to decline to that level anytime soon with the so called "new normal". Please Chad, $5 to $10 silver? Bring it on. ...

The New Geopolitics of Food REVE ... accelerate the shift to smaller families and stabilize the world population sooner rather than later, the ranks of the hungry will almost certainly continue to expand. The time to act is now -- before the food crisis of 2011 becomes the new normal.

Real estate picture brightens Omaha World-Herald But Smith said traffic also drops off some weeks, and buyers seem more susceptible to economic bumps such as gas price increases. “I still think we're in for a long, steady climb to whatever is the new normal.”

Business white paper reveals corporate strategy alignment for Next Economy success eNewsWire (press release) The paper's executive summary states: “Challenging, unfamiliar and frequently turbulent economic conditions appear to be the new normal. In this new economy – “the Next Economy” – winners and losers will emerge not as a consequence of picking the right ...

The New Normal ~ Stephen's Web "I don't think schools go away in the interaction, the 'new normal' will be a focus on personalization not standardization, where we focus more on developing learners, not knowers, and where students will create works of beauty that ... Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily - http://www.downes.ca/

The "New" Normal | Edutopia By Will Richardson - 254 Author and blogger Will Richardson posits that big changes are ahead in education, and they won't be without some pain. Edutopia RSS - http://www.edutopia.org/edutopia_rss.xml

Another Day, Another "Hackers Steal Customer Information" Story | Slog By Paul Constant because I think stories like this are the new normal. In other compromised information news, Borders announced that the names and e-mail addresses of some of their Borders Rewards customers were accidentally published on a publicly ... The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/10/06/member.php?u=72624

Fly Buy: SHLD, PLAB | Stock Picks and Discussion at iBankCoin ... By The Fly Bringing the New Normal in valu-pak sizes… Reply. Aventura11 says: April 26, 2011 at 1:30 pm. The market looks strong but as I look through the tape there is an interesting development…Please check VXX…It seems that from this point ... Stock Picks and Discussion at... - http://ibankcoin.com/flyblog/

Adapting to Climate Change | Environment | AltWeeklies.com We know climate change is coming. How will we adapt to it? Here's what we'll have to do to live in the new normal. AltWeeklies.com - http://altweeklies.com/?s=make+money+online&q=http://www.etoro.com/B503_A25509_TClick.aspx

How America Is Still Spending Stupidly - The Curious Capitalist ... By Sean Gregory The new normal. While America was suffering through the financial crisis, a chorus of economists, consumer behavior experts, and journalists predicted that the psychological scars of the Great Recession would permanent change spending ... The Curious Capitalist - http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/

Weblogg-ed » The “New” Normal And while I don't think schools go away in the interaction, the “new normal” will be a focus on personalization not standardization, where we focus more on ... weblogg-ed.com/2011/the-new-normal/

Latest “New Normal” Sighting: Divorce Rebound « naked capitalism To the extent that housing and suburbanization coupled with cheap oil were the engine of the postwar boom, the “new normal”, if that's what we want to call ... www.nakedcapitalism.com/.../latest-new-normal-sighting-divo...

Investors: Decline of dollar 'new normal' | Wichita Eagle Last month, Warren Buffett went shopping — abroad. www.kansas.com/2011/.../investors-decline-of-dollar-new.htm...

Harsh Times - A New Normal - International Business Times Soaring food prices have created instability in countries across Northern Africa and the Middle East- The odds seem in favour of further rises for food ... www.ibtimes.com/articles/.../harsh-times-a-new-normal.htm

The 'new normal' is inadequate for N.J. schools | NJ.com By Barbara Buono in·ad·e·quate adj. Not adequate to fulfill a need or meet a requirement; insufficient. The need, in this case, is for each and every one of ... blog.nj.com/njv.../the_new_normal_is_inadequate_f.html

New leadership for the 'new normal' at the UW Such is the “new normal,” as the UW's interim president Phyllis Wise puts it. State universities face enormous challenges to stay true to their public ... blog.thenewstribune.com/.../new-leadership-for-the-new-norm...

Reducing Your Technology Footprint—The New Normal - The Infor Blog During the economic downturn, many families decided that the prudent thing was to downsize their lives by purchasing smaller homes and vehicles, ... blogs.infor.com/.../reducing-your-technology-footprintthe-ne...

The Low-Down: Return of the New Normal: Economic Recovery Prompts ... Return of the New Normal: Economic Recovery Prompts Divorce Increase. During the economic crisis, divorce rates plummeted because the combatants could not ... www.thelowdownblog.com/.../return-of-new-normal-economi...

New Normal déjà vu

New Normal déjà vu: http://goo.gl/yuG1y  (see next story)

Investors: Decline of dollar 'new normal' Kansas.com Gross said the decline of the dollar is part of a longer-term trend that Pimco calls "the new normal." "We are in this new-normal type of economy in which the developing world is growing at a far faster pace than the developed world," he said. ...

Inflation hurting the growth process The Hindu Despite significant actions on policy rates and liquidity by the Reserve Bank, inflation remains high, giving rise to some very fundamental questions: is this high rate of inflation, previously believed to be unacceptable, now the new normal? ...

Despite Disappointing Earnings, I Wouldn't Bet Against Goldman Sachs Seeking Alpha There is a growing concern that this is the new normal for Goldman Sachs since the company's results were a far cry from their first quarter earnings of 2010. So, is Goldman Sachs losing its golden touch? Here are the highlights from the past quarter. ... 'A new normal' Carthage Press “However, if the experts are correct in saying that the current situation is the new normal, then the city should start preparing to develop a budget where revenues and expenditures are equivalent. Basically, live within our means. ...

'Treme' Season Two Premiere PopMatters The second season is New Orleans 14 months after, and something like a “new normal” seems to have taken hold. But Simon's interest in cities has always been how they happen: how do particular practices and ideas become normalized, and how do these ...

Eric Sharp: High gas prices making waves Detroit Free Press "The new normal is going to be shorter distances and going out maybe to just have dinner on the water. I've heard people say they can fly to Las Vegas cheaper than running the boat to Put-in-Bay. That doesn't mean anything, because flying to Vegas ...

Harvest never looked sweeter Monroe News Star "I don't think they will be the new normal, but I do believe they'll be higher than in the past." Still, even with prices at record levels, farmers have to dodge hurricanes and droughts to bring in a harvest. "The outlook is good with normal yields, ...

Peru Election Is Evidence of Reinvigorated Region Newsweek Repentance, circumspection, and sober—even orthodox—economics are the new normal for Latin America's erstwhile revolutionaries. Political pretenders have had little choice but to play along. Exactly how much is the Lula effect guiding Peru's future? ...

How are India's top economists reading concerns of 2011? Moneycontrol.com Sen: You cannot talk about a 6% new normal. That would be more or less competing suicide. This is a transition. I am almost certain that once the western economies come out of this slowdown, they will actively start sucking liquidity back. ...

''Capital not a restraint,but era of abundant leverage is over'' MSN India "The era of abundant leverage and effortless return is certainly over and the scenario is likely to remain so at least for the next five years," Grant Thornton said in a whitepaper titled ''Navigating the New Normal''. Though capital will be available, ...

SC poised for job growth Myrtle Beach Sun News A new normal, however, is emerging as "the recession has taught us that we need good people doing multiple jobs." Bruce Yandle, dean emeritus of Clemson University's College of Business and Behavioral Science, said the different regions of South ...

Can the Republicans save President Obama? Washington Examiner In normal times, that kind of poll number would be catastrophic for a president about to enter the re-election season. But these are not normal times. A new Washington Post/ABC News poll says that despite the country's dour mood, Obama would still beat...

Trump Must Call, Fold, or Bet Firedoglake I support Trump because someone needs to discuss the New Normal and the Middle Class Reset. Obama, Washington Democrats, and Republicans have sold-out the middle class to corporate America, China, and India. After 2 years in the White House, ...

Public libraries feel strain of budget cuts Bradenton Herald Whether this becomes the “new normal” is unclear. But with state and local funds limited by slow revenue growth and a strong anti-tax climate, public libraries are at a critical juncture. “I think there's going to be some library systems that look very ...

Easter gift: stories of hope, redemption San Diego Union Tribune “There's a better way to do life — a new kind of normal — that isn't about feverishly trying to avoid every pain,” Kuehl wrote. “Because of Easter, when I see a difficult storm approaching I say, 'I may not want this, I may not like this, ...

Uskowi on Iran - اسکویی در باره ایران: Ahmadinejad Challenging ... By Nader Uskowi After all, it is Ahmadinejad who is proclaiming a new normal, challenging the authority of the supreme leader and the clergy, and emphasizing a nationalistic narrative of the country, all agreeable to the youths and what is left of the ... Uskowi on Iran - اسکویی... - http://www.uskowioniran.com/

GOOD MONEY: GAS PRICES—HOW TO COPE! | East County Magazine By miriamg April 24, 2011 (San Diego's East County) -- Friends, we need to view current gas prices as the “new normal” and not assume that this is a temporary condition. Most people were shocked at the gas prices when they rose in 2008, ... East County Magazine - http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/

$15 wine: the new normal - Los Angeles Times There are signs the American economy is improving, at least as far as wine shops are concerned. But if you think that means a return to the glory days of ... articles.latimes.com/2011/.../la-fo-economical-wines-2011041...

Latest “New Normal” Sighting: Divorce Rebound « naked capitalism To the extent that housing and suburbanization coupled with cheap oil were the engine of the postwar boom, the “new normal”, if that's what we want to call ... www.nakedcapitalism.com/.../latest-new-normal-sighting-divo...

Is $4 A Gallon The New Normal? - Matthew de Paula - Auto Insider ... The average price of gasoline has jumped more than 19 cents in less than a month . Some analysts are wondering how long before $4 a gallon becomes the norm. blogs.forbes.com/.../2011/04/.../is-4-a-gallon-the-new-normal/

Investors: Decline of dollar 'new normal' | Wichita Eagle Last month, Warren Buffett went shopping — abroad. www.kansas.com/2011/.../investors-decline-of-dollar-new.htm...

Fine wines at great prices - WNEP Instead, most wine store owners, far from declaring business as back to normal, are describing a new normal, one in which the high-margin sales of wines in ... www.wnep.com/.../la-fo-economical-wines-20110414,0,6439...

The 'new normal' is inadequate for N.J. schools | NJ.com By Barbara Buono in·ad·e·quate adj. Not adequate to fulfill a need or meet a requirement; insufficient. The need, in this case, is for each and every one of ... blog.nj.com/njv.../the_new_normal_is_inadequate_f.html

"New normal" means Brown Shoe CEO's pay nearly doubles Brown Shoe's compensation committee declared a "new normal" for compensation practices in 2010, and for Chief Executive Ronald Fromm that. www.stltoday.com/.../article_395a155c-677a-11e0-b588-0019...

Investors: Decline of dollar 'new normal' Gross said the decline of the dollar is part of a longer-term trend that Pimco calls "thenew normal." "We are in this new-normal type of economy in which ... www.kansas.com/2011/.../investors-decline-of-dollar-new.htm...

Harsh Times - A New Normal - International Business Times Soaring food prices have created instability in countries across Northern Africa and the Middle East- The odds seem in favour of further rises for food ... www.ibtimes.com/articles/.../harsh-times-a-new-normal.htm

The New Normal | Granny Nanny News One Response to The New Normal. Sally Kabak. April 21, 2011 | 11:03 pm ... Trackback URL http://www.grannynannynews.com/2011/04/21/the-new-normal/trackback / ... www.grannynannynews.com/2011/04/21/the-new-normal/

Accepting my new normal That this new state of being—suspended between badly injured and totally healed— is going to be my new normal for a while. A. Long. While. ... www.manicmommies.com/index.../accepting-my-new-normal/

The New Normal The New Normal. April 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Economy. Every month the media reports that local retail sales have declined 5-6% compared to the previous ... www.vexedbermoothes.com/the-new-normal/

The New Normal « From the Scriptorium The New Normal. April 17, 2011. by Morfudd. I had hoped this whole ordeal of uncertainty would be over by early next week, but that isn't how it is going to ... woolnest.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/the-new-normal/

Frugal America: The New Normal | IdeaFeed | Big Think Frugal America: The New Normal. Big Think Editors on April 11, 2011, 5:06 AM. Pennies. What's the Big Idea? After decades of American profligacy, ... bigthink.com/ideas/37824