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The “new normal” never is. And what some are calling Bubble 2.0 (social media/social networks) is more accurately personal digital tech's potential Bubble 4.0. It wouldn't be the last, either. When hype leads to hyperactive froth, expect a lather of ...

RBA's new normal on interest rates Sydney Morning Herald The view is different from the top of the Reserve Bank headquarters in Sydney's Martin Place. While most of us can't see past the thicket of headlines trumpeting the latest possible disaster or hear ourselves above the political screaming match and the ...

Jay Cronley: Extreme heat becomes new normal Tulsa World By JAY CRONLEY World Staff Columnist So there I was, in the backyard with a hose, dollar signs along with the water coming out of the nozzle, trying to recall what the experts had said about the best times and amounts to water grass that could ...

Georgia Report Touts Members' Financial Gains Credit Union Times By Michelle A. Samaad From auto lending to small business loans, Georgia's credit unions are helping members adopt a “new normal” lifestyle of saving and frugality. The 2011 REAL Deal Outreach Report highlights the impact credit unions in Georgia made ...

Second Quarter Report 2011 Reuters (press release) Nordea's relationship strategy has laid a solid foundation for our New Normal ambition to reach an ROE in the top league of European banks of around 15%. In the autumn, we will continue to improve capital efficiency and implement plans to contain cost ...

Farmers help protect scarce water supply Delta Farm Press Just as economic forecasters say we are facing a “new normal” in the US economy and must adjust our spending habits to those conditions, Georgians are adjusting their water-use habits to meet our new normal in the water supply. ...

MT Anderson to Keynote SLJ/LJ Virtual Ebook Summit, Register Now School Library Journal To register, and for more information on Ebooks: The New Normal and Patron Profiles, visit www.ebook-summit.com. Ebooks: The New Normal is sponsored at the Platinum level by Overdrive and EBSCO and at the Gold level by 3M, Baker & Taylor, ...

Despite Harper, conservatism not Canada's new norm Vancouver Sun Conservatism is not necessarily the new normal. Consider, 39.6 per cent of voters voted Conservative on May 2. But that's 39.6 per cent of just 60 per cent of Canadians who voted. Moreover, provincially, 75.6 per cent of Canada's population lives in ...

JACK COWAN: The bright side of hot days: bragging rights San Angelo Standard Times The reader is supposed to experience a sense of peril, but these days I find myself thinking that actually that wouldn't be such a bad way to go. For now, let's just start thinking about those T-shirts. Maybe, "100 — The new normal."

College budget cutbacks go outside the box USA Today It may be hard to swallow, but budget-cutting is the new normal at the nation's 6700-plus post-secondary schools. Creative cuts don't save much money, but they symbolize deep overall cuts. With funding down and enrollment up, state support per student ...

From stretcher to where? Asian Age As terror strikes on civilian targets become the “new normal”, it is time to draw up a laundry list of things which we, ordinary citizens of this country, want. “Security preparedness” is the talking point of the day. ...

Advertising infidelity Hindustan Times “Probably, the negative is the new positive or the new normal. These ads glorify what is happening in our society. And they might work only for a certain section,” says, Anurag Batra, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, exchange4media group. ...

Grieving Online: The New Normal Big Think (blog) A byproduct of broadcasting our lives on social networking sites for nearly a decade, researchers are just now figuring out whether it does any good as a grief management tool. "Anywhere from 1.8 to 3 million Facebook users will die in 2011, ...

Post-9/11, biggest terror threat is underground BusinessWeek "This is the new normal," Inspector Scott Shanley of the NYPD's Counterterrorism Division says. "The only people who sometimes get raised up are tourists." Since terrorists brought down the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, subways have been bombed in ...

Death of DJs is greatly exaggerated Sydney Morning Herald Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, recently told US business channel CNBC: "...there's always a new normal. I mean … the normal of my youth is gone now…the world is evolving all the time. I think it's evolving (in) a very ...

Mark Wilson / Getty Images msnbc.com “At the end of the day, she will really need to establish her own new normal,” said Georgia Lerner, executive director of the New York-based nonprofit Women's Prison Association. Her new life would have to be one that allows her to accept herself and ...

Sixth Grader Advocates for School Supplies – President Obama Responds The White House (blog) Secretary Duncan calls this tough economic climate for schools “the new normal.” To address the new normal, the Department of Education recently offered promising practices to states and communities on the effective, efficient and responsible use of ...

The End of Trading at Goldman Sachs? The Atlantic The question for investors is whether this is the new normal for Goldman or whether the traders--or whatever they're called these days--will be unleashed once again. Is this the end of trading at Goldman?

The coming storm: 9 million retiring Baby Boomers National Post (registration) He says the 'new normal' is an extended period of lower economic and return expectations for the aging and debt-ridden developed world. The height of the Boomer retirement cycle in the United States will be 2025, Hsu says, at which point there will be ...

A statement for government redesign, goal-setting, and budgeting for outcomes Twin Cities Planet (blog) Minnesota can lead the country in demonstrating structural changes that respond to the “New Normal.” As other states and the federal government continue to debate cutting and taxing, Minnesota should again become a leading state by showing that there ...

State of backwardness BusinessWorld Online With the depth and breadth of the Great Recession, some economists forecasted that the world economy would go through a long period of “new” normal growth. That forecast is fast gaining ground. With it, economists are predicting that it might take at ...

Carpocalypse Pow! National Review Online For a couple of brief, shining moments, our lefty vision of a carless society took root, right in here in LA on a summer weekend, thus giving us a chance to claim that this could be the new normal of a fundamentally transformed country to come. ...

General Mills taps into 'frugality fatigue' as Americans tuck in to affordable ... BakeryAndSnacks.com “The new normal emerging market consumer wants to serve up traditional meals without sacrificing family time. To establish their status, the merging middle class sees their ability to afford western products as a sign of class. Brands are badges....