Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Biglaw's New Normal Isn't Great For New Talent

Biglaw's New Normal Isn't Great For New Talent
Above the Law
By Elie Mystal As we mentioned in Morning Docket, the Wall Street Journal has a good article about how various recession-era cutbacks have become entrenched in Biglaw. If you have been paying attention or are a current law student, you know the issues: ...

Compuware's Latest Innovations Enable Enterprises to Successfully Navigate the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Under the New Normal, the surge in mobile banking and other types of e-commerce has made mainframe applications key to connecting businesses with customers. This means IT organizations must integrate new cloud and mobile applications with legacy ...

Real estate market may have found new normal
Bellevue Reporter
By LINDA BALL Home sales in Bellevue and across the Eastside seem to have stabilized in 2011 with, a trend, realtors say, that may become the look of the future as buyers and sellers move into 2012. Cory Brewer, operations manager for Windermere ...

Adapting: How to help employees adjust to the new normal
Denver Business Journal (blog)
Since the economy tanked three years ago, many of us have had to lay off employees, reduce salaries and freeze bonuses. Now that business has begun to inch back, employees understandably are asking: When can we get back to normal?

Distressed Real Estate Inventory; The Drain is Still Clogged
PR Web (press release)
Pro Teck Valuation Service's HomeValueForecast.com explores why there are variations from one state to another in distressed real estate inventory and how this is affecting the path to recovery and the “new normal” for the housing market.

GLEN MILLS: Informal settlements could be our cities of the future
Business Day
SHANTYTOWN is the new normal in our cities. SA is one of the world's biggest manufacturers of shantytowns, commonly known as informal settlements. According to official reports, there are about 2700 informal settlements in SA.

The Dow's 10 Biggest Bargain Stocks
Seeking Alpha
As we come to terms with the new normal of low interest rates and choppy markets, the combination of large companies paying dividends is certainly appealing. We now take a slightly different slant to come up with ideas for the long term investor.

Toyota Latest Manufacturer to Identify Rare Earth Metal Product Substitutes
MetalMiner
... as Gareth Hatch (who will also lead the Rare Earth Metal afternoon break-out session at our conference, Commodity Edge: Sourcing Intelligence for the New Normal) remain skeptical about some of these types of “breakthrough research” announcements.

The New Normal: Products of the future
ICIS (subscription)
The global economy is moving into a difficult period, as it transitions to the New Normal. Debt levels are high, and incomes are under pressure, particularly for the large numbers of people moving into retirement. Cost must be the key criteria when ...

Europe Seen Leading the Way in Hand-Held Computing
Education Week News
And although there has been a push at some American mobile learning gatherings to bring in more elements of what could be considered a European approach, many in Europe sense the American vision may be more sustainable in "the new normal" after the ...

Education Week News

Why Are So Many Portland Neighbors Hungry?
Neighborhood Notes
“It's indicative of a new normal,” Shawn DeCarlo, Metro Services Manager for the Oregon Food Bank, explained after presenting at the anti-hunger conference in Corvallis. “The number of food boxes doesn't even represent the number of people who need ...

Neighborhood Notes

Value, Customer Connections Highlighted in Nielsen Webinar
CSNews Online
Retailers should focus on the "new normal," he advised. Today's consumer is focused and pragmatic, and needs to be analyzed in order to figure out what they're looking for. While circumstances are improving, they're not back to pre-recession levels.

Zynga Accused Of Ripping Off Another Competitor's Game
TechCrunch
... Zynga is the company being targeted here in terms of stealing its “inspiration,” (especially since Zynga itself once targeted its own copycats via lawsuits), game developers ripping off each others' work seems to be the new normal for the industry.

Senate race all set
Kennebec Journal
Now, with the economy holding steady -- which he described as "the new normal" -- he wants back in the Senate. "I've worked across the aisle; that's my strength," he said. "I do what the people ask in the sense that they want us to go to Augusta and ...

Corner office: Harry Pozycki
NJBIZ
It's time we adopt 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 ...

Adam Smeltz: Attention to Long-Entrenched Penn State Problems Can't Fade Now
State College News
In our "new normal" -- an overused phrase, I admit, but it fits -- perhaps it may be easy to regard pre-November Penn State as a halcyon era, a relatively happy and innocent time before reality crumpled illusions. Happy Valley's Camelot disintegrated ...

2012 Buick LaCrosse eAssist: The Guide To Future Hybrids?
Tom's Guide
... and affordable way for manufacturers to boost fuel efficiency in their worst-performing models. For the LaCrosse, it may not make perfect sense yet, but the approach is something we could experience as the new normal in the not-too-distant future.

'Mercer Mess'
The Seattle Times
"We are experiencing the new normal. We are embarking on a whole lot of congestion, and development projects, at the same time," Philips said. About 80000 cars, trucks, transit riders, cyclists and pedestrians now pass through the area daily, ...

Sleeping Power House? Latinos Combat Voter Apathy
Christian Broadcasting Network
Latino evangelical leaders say their stories are the new normal for today's church. "Every pastor in every Latino church in the country has undocumented immigrants somewhere in their community, either directly worshipping in their place of worship or ...

Fundraisers hope to eradicate rare disease
Community Advocate
This has become our new normal.” Ryan's skin becomes extremely itchy and needs to be gently rubbed with special cream. He must sit on soft protective pads. Being outdoors presents challenges like corneal abrasions and blistering.

Community Advocate

Sounders Vs. Santos Laguna Tickets Go On Sale Today
Sounder At Heart
It's not clear whether or not the Sounders plan on opening seating beyond the 38500 that is the new "normal" capacity, but even if they don't a sellout would be a pretty strong message to send to the world about how we view CCL.

Sustainability reporting: immediate choices for the future
The Guardian (blog)
By making sustainability reporting the new normal, regulators, competitors, investors - indeed anyone reading a report - can raise informed questions and suggest improvements. Only by making sustainability everybody's business will we make the business ...

The Guardian (blog)

Moving forward: Amputee shares her story
Marietta Daily Journal
Her husband and kids have adjusted to what Smith calls, “the new normal.” She said her boys — ages 6, 8 and 12 — have “responded really well. They're just glued to me.” If amputation was the first hurdle, rehabilitation was the second.

For a few (hundred million) dollars more – star bankers or traders might stay
Financial News
Indeed, most seem to be resigned to a new normal in which volumes and activity are structurally lower for several years to come, while regulatory pressures make the industry systemically less profitable. But at the same time, few investment banks have...

Financial News

ECB's Nowotny: ECB does not only have madate for stable prices
FXstreet.com
Sees recession in euro region during parts of 2012 3-year LTRO not the new normal of ECB policy SMP is not quantitative easing Must fight inflation and deflation alike ECB can support growth as long as there are no price risks Sounds like the ECB is ...

The New Normal - Waggle Room
By TwoNuse
"You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality." - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free Tiger Woods walks, talks and looks basically the same as...
Waggle Room

The New Normal tv show | gay tv shows | Allison Adler new show ...
By Fabulous Rob
NBC has ordered Allison Adler (pictured) and Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy's new half-hour gay-themed comedy pilot entitled The New Normal, according to the industry website Deadline Hollywood.

BT 2020: To Thrive In The Empowered Era, You'll Need Software ...
By "Phil Murphy"
It's Time To Face The Music: Empowered, Momentous Change Is The New Normal; Your Social, Empowered Customer Base Is Growing And Shifting; Software Will Increasingly Be The Heart Of Your BT World In 2020; Cartels Will Offer ...
Forrester Research: Forrester Whole View

ECB's Nowotny: ECB does not only have madate for stable prices ...
Sees recession in euro region during parts of 2012; 3-year LTRO not the new normal of ECB policy; SMP is not quantitative easing; Must fight inflation and deflation alike; ECB can support growth as long as there are no price risks. Sounds like ...
ForexLive

Win an advanced copy of THE AGE OF MIRACLES by Karen ...
By Selby McRae
As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues. With spare, graceful prose and the emotional wisdom of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker has created a singular narrator in Julia, a resilient and insightful young ...
Random House Publishing Group...

Williston Walmart becomes a mecca for oil boom job seekers ...
By Ken Paulman
Williston Walmart becomes a mecca for oil boom job seekers. >> Bismarck Tribune. Share/Bookmark. The Walmart parking lot has become notorious even for Williston, where the new normal is people from all over the country pulling in every ...
Midwest Energy News

Expert Reveals The Biggest Mistakes People Make Writing an ...
Would you like to create financial security for yourself and your family, and not have to work until you're 80 years old-which will be the new normal for baby boomers? If so, then consider ebooks.With the new technology, ebooks are HOT!
Business - Latest News

3 Steps to Turn a Terrible Password Into a Great One | Apartment ...
By Taryn Fiol
... although it is decent. i was making an account for a site the other day and it has to have the letters, caps, numbers, symbols and be longer then normal. so it made me revise MY normal password i use...which means i need a new normal.
Apartment Therapy

[trends] Learning 5 in 5 : diminishing hurdles for technology | Homo ...
By Bert De Coutere
Watch this TED Brussels video where Peter Hinssen explains the magic that happens after the flip, when digital becomes the new normal. We are there, but slightly less in education. Still in its infancy, 'brain power' interfaces are available as ...
Homo Competens Blog

Apple, Internet & the constant New Normal | iPhone World's iNews ...
Apple, Internet & the constant New Normal | iPhone World's iNews Aggregator.
iPhone World's iNews Aggregator

What's Wrong With Interviews? The Top 50 Most Common Interview ...
By Dr. John Sullivan
Using historical information to predict the future — interviews cover what happened in the past. Unfortunately, “the way you did something yesterday” simply wouldn't work in today's “new normal.” Interview questions are not directly related to ...
ERE.net

Apple, Internet & the constant New Normal - Digg
... known startup Pinterest had cracked the social network top-ten, we were surprised. We shouldn't be-- this is the new normal for our technology-driven society.
digg.com/news/story/apple_internet_the_constant_new_normal

Apple, the Internet and the constant new normal – MacDailyNews ...
So why is it then that buying an Apple product like an iPhone or an iPad is the new normal?” Read more in the full article – recommended – here. [Thanks to ...
macdailynews.com/.../apple-the-internet-and-the-constant-new...

Monday, January 30, 2012

Apple, the Internet and the New Normal

Apple, Internet & the constant New Normal
GigaOm
The second book which I often go back to is The New Normal by Roger McNamee, a long time technology investor in both public and private markets. McNamee might have become a punchline in Silicon Valley (thanks to his ill-timed bet on Palm) but when it ...

NBC Picks Up "The New Normal" TV Pilot, Starring Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells
Playbill.com
By Andrew Gans NBC, Deadline.com reports, has given the go-ahead for the new comedy pilot "The New Normal," which will co-star Andrew Rannells, who longs for sunny Orlando but ends up in the less-than-welcoming Uganda in the Tony-winning musical The ...

Playbill.com

Finding value amid austerity - the new normal
Hong Kong Standard
The "new normal" is now the consensus, Owen said. "We face a multi-year period of deleveraging in the developed world where the current huge levels of debt will get paid down which means higher savings and less spending, and therefore a much more muted ...

Hong Kong Standard

Weekend Meme: Ryan Murphy's "The New Normal" Gets a Pilot, Red Hot Chili ...
AfterElton.com
The international trailer for This Means War doesn't have a lot of new footage, and I'm more than a little disappointed to find out that they had to edit out some of the sexual content in order to achieve a PG-13 rating. I guess that means the naked ...

With $100 a Barrel Oil, Why Isn't Green Tech Better?
CNBC.com
Voser added that price volatility and cyclicality are “the new normal” in energy prices. The price of oil has fluctuated in recent years as worries about the economic crisis, demand from emerging markets and unrest in the Middle East dominated the ...

Forum: Sympathy for the devil
Computerworld New Zealand
Is this level of response “the new normal” in white collar crime cases or was it influenced in by the presence in Auckland of four FBI officers? Much more disturbing is the apparent ease with which essentially private US interests have managed to ...

From the Editor: Future depends on doing things differently
Bemidji Pioneer
One of the most interesting seminars, “Minnesota and the New Normal,” was hosted by Tom Gillaspy, the state demographer, who focused on employment, economic and budget trends. Many of the long-term numbers don't look good for the state, which has been ...

Mild winter disappoints snow enthusiasts
Jackson Sun
So last January, weather experts said frequent snowfall and cold temperatures might become thenew normal for the area. Tell that to the disappointed kiddies this year. Here we are at the end of January with only a trace of snow so far and no snow days ...

Dollar Democracy – OpEd
Eurasia Review
It's the new normal. How can the 99 percent respond? The dark humor of the oppressed has historically made it easier to bear. “I think I can say and say with pride that we have some legislators that command higher prices than any in the world.

EUGENE'S HALLS OF NOT LEARNING
The Register-Guard
But this is the new normal at Eugene School District high schools. Students arrive late, leave early, or find something to do in the middle of the day because they can't get all the classes they need or want. Cuts that have reduced the district's ...

Pinellas students slip behind peers in Florida, analysis shows
Tampabay.com
A push to make Advanced Placement classes the new normal in high school. Flop or not, Hillsborough can say it wasn't afraid to think big. Last year, superintendent Alberto Carvalho told lawmakers that his gigantic district — the one with the highest ...

Tampabay.com

The pain lingers on
San Jose Mercury News
But her quest for a "new normal" leaves her with more questions than answers. "One of the things I've done is look at the numbers," she said. "We lost almost 5000 (soldiers in Iraq). Compared to Vietnam, compared to 40000, not that bad, you know?

Who is Sheldon Adelson and why is he buying Newt Gingrich?
AMERICAblog (blog)
Watch for much more of this stuff; it's the new normal. Ten million dollars is nothing to the Adelsons ($23 billion strong), and there are many more Adelsons in this world than we realize. (Note, I said "in this world." Do you think this is just a ...

Williston Walmart becomes a mecca for oil job seekers
Bismarck Tribune
The parking lot has become notorious even for Williston, where the new normal is people from all over the country pulling in every day looking for work. Many of them pull into Walmart, which has a national reputation for allowing people on the move to ...

Denial of the truth or just apathy?
BlueRidgeNow.com
I have used the phrase a "new normal" to describe how I read what is happening to our world, and I believe that conclusion to be valid because many of the factors influencing our world are neither normal nor minimal; but if our political leaders of ...

Pam Stone: Here's real reason for VFW show
Spartanburg Herald Journal
And here's a confession: As much as I've wanted to give a night of laughter to those readjusting to the new “normal” in their lives, I had an ulterior motive. ... I have been dying to know what goes on in those VFW posts my entire life.

LA's hunt for federal funds
Los Angeles Times
Should we try to win more? Of course — always. Applying for grants is part of Los Angeles' new normal, and expertise in the process should be built up in the mayor's office — and anywhere else it can do the city some good. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Los Angeles Times

Taylor Morrison adds to Lakewood Ranch's housing menu
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The new normal is for builders to construct fewer inventory homes and concentrate on filling orders to meet demand, said Longenecker, who noted that Taylor Morrison's regional division has only 100 completed, unsold houses in its 25 communities.

Boatright attorney blasts NCAA after probe
NBCSports.com
But after falling short in Abu Dhabi, is this the new normal for Tiger Woods? Andrew Brownbill / AP Novak Djokovic wore down Rafael Nadal in the longest Grand Slam singles final ever, winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after 5 hours, 53 minutes to ...

NBCSports.com

Volunteers cleaning up damaged trees
Cleveland Daily Banner
The Green-Shirts is one of many faith-based response organizations who have helped during the past nine months as the new-normal is sought. “Still so much is to be done,” Mountain said last week prior to the first day of cleanup.

Weekend Meme: Ryan Murphy's "The New Normal" Gets a Pilot ...
By AfterElton.com - Because visibility matters via PinkBananaWorld.com
Weekend Meme: Ryan Murphy's "The New Normal" Gets a Pilot, Red Hot Chili Peppers Still Haven't Bought Shirts, and What Are They Drinking On "Fear Fa.
PinkBananaWorld.com

Day 19 | Mark Batterson
By mark
We need a new normal. Prayer meetings should be normal. Miracles that are the byproduct of prayer should be normal. Radical conversions should be the normal. But there is a price to be paid. The price is prayer. Are you willing to pray the ...
Mark Batterson

Economist's View: Harmful Austerity
By Mark Thoma
But this is the new normal at Eugene School District high schools. Students arrive late, leave early, or find something to do in the middle of the day because they can't get all the classes they need or want. Cuts that have reduced the district's ...
Economist's View

Autostraddle — Sunday Funday is Good News for Gays and a Total G
By Carmen
"The New Normal" Goes Mainstream. NBC recently ordered a pilot for "The New Normal," a television family comedy "centering on a gay couple and the woman who becomes their surrogate." ...
Autostraddle

Opinion Briefing: New Normal Unclear for U.S., Pakistan
Pakistanis' increasingly sour views of the U.S. in 2011 underscore how difficult it will be for the two nations to reset their relationship.
www.gallup.com/.../opinion-briefing-new-normal-unclear-pak...

Left In Alabama:: The "New Normal." USDA Revised Planting Map ...
“At a time when the 'normal' climate has become a moving target, this revision of the hardiness zone map gives us a clear picture of the 'new normal,'” Wolfe ...
www.leftinalabama.com/.../the-new-normal-usda-revised-plant...

The New Normal « Kendra's Blog
The New Normal. The end is in sight. Our 23 days of Florida sunshine will be over next Wednesday. Oops, I should say 22 days of sunshine….It did rain that one ...
kendradueck.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/the-new-normal/

RealClearWorld - New Normal Unclear for U.S., Pakistan
With Pakistani disapproval of U.S. leadership soaring to an all-time high of 85% last year, hopes for achieving some normalcy between the nations appear ...
www.realclearworld.com/.../new_normal_unclear_for_us_paki...

Saturday, January 28, 2012

NBC Greenlights Ryan Murphy Comedy THE NEW NORMAL

NBC Greenlights Ryan Murphy Comedy THE NEW NORMAL; McG to Direct and Produce ...
Collider.com
First up, Deadline reports that NBC has given a pilot order for The New Normal. The half-hour comedy was created by Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler and revolves around a blended family of a gay couple and a woman who becomes their surrogate.

Collider.com

Is High, Single-Digit Unemployment the 'New Normal?'
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Neal Lipschutz Ask ManpowerGroup Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Joerres if there's a “new normal” of higher-than-desired unemployment in the US He will agree. “There's no reason to suspect any time in the next three years we will find ourselves ...

Stressed? It's the new normal
Financial Times
For the generation now entering the working world for the first time, such instability and pain might almost be the new normal. Earlier this week, for example, I met students from America, Europe and Asia at a London School of Economics conference, ...

Financial Times

ABI chief defines insurance industry “new normal”
Insurance Daily
The Association of British Insurers' (ABI) director general, Otto Thoresen, has set out the “new normal” for the UK insurance industry. Speaking yesterday at the Insurance Institute of London, Mr Thoresen outlined three core shifts that the industry ...

Modest recovery expected in 2012 as region seeks new normal
Washington Examiner
The Washington real estate market, at times a bright star helping to lead the nation out of its housing woes, will continue its slow recovery in 2012, local experts said, after ending 2011 on a down note. The region saw soft sales in December and ...

Trends : What is the new normal?
San Antonio Business Journal
Looking for a repeat of 2008, when the local construction sector reported $2.6 billion worth of work? That could be a long wait. Instead, contractors need to strive for a new normal. But what is the new normal? Three industry leaders give their take on ...

On The Money: Prediction time: head for the hills
National Business Review
In his Investment Outlook for January 2012, ominously entitled Towards the Paranormal, Mr Gross moves beyond his company's previous position that what lies ahead after the end of the global financial crisis is the “New Normal.” “The New Normal as Pimco ...

I am the 20 per cent tipper and I bet you are, too
Macleans.ca (blog)
I'm telling you this to help explain why I'm so flabbergasted over how a Toronto Star story published last week on tipping 20 per cent being “the new normal” still has legs, and the gams won't stop growing! If you haven't been following it, ...

The Sun Sets on the Age of Volatility
Minyanville.com
By Conor Sen Jan 27, 2012 9:40 am The "new normal" is likely to excite old-fashioned stock pickers and frustrate volatility junkies. Recently, Kevin Depew was telling me what the stock market was like in the 1990s, and he told me that he'd talk to ...

Oregon exploring private capital for public projects
Portland Business Journal
Shrinking budgets are the new normal at legislatures across the nation, though the need to finance major projects continues to grow. That's why, as I report in today's Portland Business Journal (subscription required), the states of Oregon, ...

Friday Finds: All the Climate Scientists' Men
unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog)
Climate change is causing a “new normal” for the nation's 80 million gardeners that's reflected in milder temperatures and plants that can now survive farther north. Though the new map won't show up until next year's seed packets come out, ...

9th Annual People in Need Forum provides valuable resources
TribLocal
Belcher is also involved with leading a federal grant to help transform the way services are delivered to military personnel and their families as they find a new normal in integrating into community life. “The grant strives to pave the way for ...

Apparel Retailers' High Voltage Bet On Neon
CNBC.com
Retailers are trying to make the new normal of slow economic growth feel better, according to Eric Beder, a retail analyst at Brean, Murray, Carret & Co. So, it's in with the 1980's-inspired fluorescent colors and out with the greys, ...

GM launches ad campaign touting Chevy Volt safety [w/video]
Autoblog (blog)
GM has also released a new "normal" ad that calls the Volt "the car America had to build." You can watch the 30-second clip, which may appear in or around the Super Bowl, after the jump. Akerson spoke Wednesday in a hearing with the Committee on ...

FINS.com: Where Finance Jobs Are In 2012
Fox Business
Some analysts claim a shrunken Street will eventually become the new normal. Others, like Goldman Sachs Chief Financial Officer David Viniar, say the industry is facing a cyclical downturn, not a secular decline, and that things will be back to ...

Women tell their story of recovery
Bloomington Pantagraph
I made some incredible friends from that group and we watched each other grow and get back to our new normal together." Megan said, "It meant a lot to her. It made her happier." One of Andrea's GriefShare friends, Rhonda Crutcher of Bloomington, ...

Every new iPhone and upgrades in it put the carriers in dilemma – Part 1
News Pakistan
... said he is concerned that while more people will use smartphones, there will really never be a any real rebound in profit from iPhone customers because of the constant upgrade cycle. “Is the iPhone margin effect transitory, or is it a 'new normal'?

News Pakistan

Duke Realty's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
As the overall economy continues with this new normal recovery at slow growth rates, there continues to be a relatively modest demand for space across all product types, particularly suburban office. There has been virtually no new supply of space over ...

Uphill Battle
Memphis Daily News
The uncertainty that has penetrated the national economy over the past several years has resulted in what's being called “the new normal,” which, according to Yancy, is defined largely by rampant competition. Large corporations have scaled back, ...

Weather Blog: Chillier Nights And Your Garden
KHOU (blog)
It's part of the "new normal" reflected in recent temperature trends. The 1990 map was based on temperatures from 1974 to 1986, the new map from 1976 to 2005. The nation's average temperature from 1976 to 2005 was two-thirds of a degree higher than it ...

Twitter Mailbag: Talking UFC on FOX 2, Hackers, Testosterone, and More
MMAFighting.com
Injuries may be the new normal for him. The bigger question is, will Sonnen be able to avoid the same fatal mistake the second time around? On that one, I still have my doubts. @Jtbrinkman if rashad wins, will Jon jones come in the cage to ruin his ...

DAVIN O'DWYER
Irish Times
“There's no question that the new normal is the old normal,” he says, explaining his optimism. “What I mean by the old normal is that you go back hundreds of years, and you look around the world and you see the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China ...

Manpower CEO on High Unemployment
MarketWatch
ManpowerGroup CEO Jeff Joerres agrees a 'new normal' of high unemployment exists in the US He talks with Dow Jones Newswires Managing Editor Neal Lipschutz. Join MarketWatch's quarterly earnings-focused stock competition. Beat the stock-picking pros ...

Friday photo fun
Stuff.co.nz (blog)
If we're living in the "new normal" this may be the "new politeness". It makes me remember all the little things that I have to be grateful for...like my legs.* In the first days and weeks following February 22 there were a lot of rushed decampments ...

Stuff.co.nz (blog)

Superior Court judge steps down from sentencing
Bellingham Herald
Rennebohm, 62, and Toregrase, 46, have said they feel cheated by the justice system because Sehnert will serve a relatively short prison term while their future is uncertain as they learn to function again and adjust to a new normal.

4 industry issues plaguing healthcare CEOs in 2012
Healthcare Finance News
... funding healthcare,” said Christopher Olivia, SVP for Strategic Planning and New Venture Development at Highmark. “We're in a rate/volume business model today that will not survive. We're not going to get to the 'new normal' by marginal changes.

One month of 520 tolls: Too soon to draw conclusions
MyNorthwest.com
Tobin said it will probably be six months before the driving patterns on the bridge settle into a "new normal." The Good to Go program appears to be working too. Seventy percent of cars going over the bridge have transponders installed.

It isn't the case that banks are not lending
Minneapolis Star Tribune
But understand that in today's banking environment, there is something of a "new normal." The banks may require more documentation to ensure that you are creditworthy, because bank examiners are reviewing new loans very closely to make sure they ...

These Dems spin better than Rumpelstiltskin
Boston Herald
Unemployment rate of 8.5 percent under Obama — the new normal. The Patriot Act under Bush — incipient fascism. The Patriot Act under Obama — yawn. Words and phrases you haven't heard since January 2009: “no blood for oil ... Cindy Sheehan ... not ...

NBC Picks Up 'New Normal' Family Comedy Pilot From Ryan ...
By NELLIE ANDREEVA
It's officially a go for NBC's comedy project from the Glee duo of Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler. The network has given a pilot order to The New Normal, a.
Deadline.com

In 2012 the New Normal in Sales Is . . . « Sales and Sales ...
By Paul McCord
As with the beginning of almost every year we have a number of commentators and pundits proclaiming what the “new normal” is. We're told that the old normal was the government strove to keep unemployment below 5% and that the “new ...
Sales and Sales Management Blog

NBC Orders Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler Family Comedy Pilot
By Megan Masters
The potential series, titled The New Normal, is a single-camera sitcom about a blended family made up of a gay couple and the surrogate helping them have a baby of their own. As previously reported, Book of Mormon star Andrew Rannells ...
TVLine

Fundraising Campaigns Smaller but Omnipresent in the 'New Normal'
Fundraising Campaigns Smaller but Omnipresent in the 'New Normal'
About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs

XE.com - LPC: Higher volatility, less liquidity the new normal in loans
Increased volatility has become the new normal for credit investors, as liquidity seeps out of the secondary markets. Portfolio managers will likely face heightened premiums for actively traded paper as well as increased transaction costs, ...
XE Forex News

27 « January « 2012 « Staffing Today
By admin
Is High, Single-Digit Unemployment the 'New Normal?' Leading Economic Indicators Rise 0.4% in December U.S. GDP Rises 2.8% Fed's Lacker Says Economy May Warrant Earlier Rate Increase Legal Watch Labor Board Chief to Push ...
Staffing Today

Americans for the Arts Annual Convention Coming to San Antonio ...
By admin
Americans for the Arts Annual Convention Coming to San Antonio. The New Normal—we hear about it every day, but what does it mean to your organization? The 2012 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention this June 8–10 in San Antonio, ...
Austin Creative Alliance

Trusting God with Your Tomorrows - Girlfriends in God
By gwen
Then God interrupted Moses's new normal. He made it undeniably clear that His plans for Moses were different. Bigger. God's intentions were for freedom—the freedom of His people, the Israelites, who were captives, slaves to Egypt.
Girlfriends in God

Health tests: Are you getting too many?
By admin
On CBS This Morning, Dr. Holly Phillips and Lee Woodruff took a look next to particular of the new normal over-used therapeutic tests identified by the American College of Physicians and why and once you might need persons tests.in the ...
Twitterformats

Employment Opportunity: Early Learning Center | The New Normal ...
We're getting closer every day to launching the Early Learning Center - one of the major efforts in TheNew Normal Project. A big step toward completing our ...
www.thenewnormalproject.com/.../employment-opportunity-e...

The New Normal: Flux | Merge
We've heard the cliches and the rhetoric about the New Normal, which many dismiss and assume things will go back to normal. Merge has seen this Newness ...
www.mergeweb.com/blog/2012/01/23/new-normal-flux

Friday, January 27, 2012

Economic stagnation may be the “new normal”

To the barricades, British defenders of open markets!
The Economist (blog)
Inside Downing Street, there is much discussion of Tyler Cowen, an American economist who argues that, for many Western workers, economic stagnation may be the “new normal”. Jesse Norman, a Conservative MP whose ideas for reforming capitalism found ...

This Awkward Time
BusinessWeek
Everything “Big” has access to capital, is up-to-their-eyeballs in cash and is managing expenses to Gross and El-Erian's New Normal. There are serious discussions. I have learned things. I have been humbled by the reach of Surveillance, Deux.

Retirement Planning in the New Normal
Fox Business
In November 2007, “Bill” is getting ready to retire. After a severe downturn in his portfolio in 2000, 2001, and 2002, Bill has finally recovered most losses. He is confident that with the $2.5 million 401K he's worked hard to build up, he can retire a ...

Tail Events, Isolation, New Normal
Gold Seek
The new normal is of a caravan file of broken cars and trucks sputtering down the road, using the false fuel of hyper monetary inflation and the offensive paint of phony financial accounting, the tell-tale sign being the ugly rancid smoke out of their ...

Gold Seek

Raid that freed Somalia hostages could be military's new normal
Stars and Stripes
Undated images provided by the Danish Refugee Council show Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, left, and American Jessica Buchanan, who were rescued from Somali pirates by US forces. US Special Operations forces rescued an American hostage and her Danish ...

Stars and Stripes

Farmers adjust to new weather norm
Agri News
January temperatures are 2.2 degrees warmer under the new normal, with April, September, November and December all a degree or more warmer warmer with the new normal. The greatest increase in precipitation comes in June and September, up 0.47 inches ...

Opinion Briefing: New Normal Unclear for US, Pakistan
Gallup.com (blog)
Policy Implications: The US and Pakistan have a long way to go before they can establish a "new normal" in relations and as Nuland said, "get back to the full range of business together." A full reset is likely impossible before the next US ...

US Fourth Quarter Bank Earnings: Thankfully Not The New Normal
NASDAQ
All that leads analysts to ask, what of what we saw in 2011 will be the new normal? I believe that that is too pessimistic a view. Tentative US economic growth manifested itself in a pick-up in commercial lending activity for small and medium sized ...

NO SUCH THING AS Normal [Mortgage Banking]
Insurance News Net (press release)
But for there to be a new normal would imply that there was an old normal. * With continuous changes in the supply of capital, demand for capital, space needs, construction and many other key market drivers, it seems fair to say there is no such thing ...

Can Hedge Fund Managers Master Market Volatility?
Advanced Trading
Volatile markets are the new normal. But while some thrill-seeking hedge fund managers are enjoying the wild ride, others can't wait for it to end. By Phil Albinus Since the Arab Spring turned into the Euro Summer, the capital markets have been on a ...

4 Govs At DC Conference
Governors Journal
By GoJo Staff on January 26, 2012 The first topic covered by the two day conference will be the state of the economy and how “the new normal” is impacting state and local governments. David Walker, the former comptroller general of the United States ...

Governors Journal

League of Women Voters of Wayland presents forum on water
Wicked Local
Janot Mendler de Suarez, co-chair of the Global Oceans Forum working group on Oceans & Climate, has been a research consultant with Oxfam America on “Volatility: The New Normal?”She will speak on global water concerns as the context for Wayland's own ...

Recommended: New climate controversy? US map shows warmer planting conditions
msnbc.com
"At a time when the 'normal' climate has become a moving target, this revision of the hardiness zone map gives us a clear picture of the 'new normal,' and will be an essential tool for gardeners, farmers, and natural resource managers as they begin to ...

Verdi's Fearsome Hun, With Destruction Writ Large in Neon Green
New York Times
The recession may have left in its wake a “new normal” of lower donations and more selective ticket buying. But that must not keep opera companies from leading audiences in new directions. “Attila” continues through Saturday at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall ...

New York Times

Celestica Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Celestica announced expected launch of share repurchase plan Celestica has announced its expectation to file with the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), a notice of intention to commence a new Normal Course Issuer Bid (NCIB). Subject to the acceptance of ...

Bakery Trends Show Balance Between Delight and Lite
Food Processing
"A new normal may be just around the corner where product developers start with the goal of producing a delicious lower-calorie and healthier product, even though the product will not necessarily be labeled as low or reduced fat," says Janelle Litel, ...

Housing Help Will Run Up Against Lending Standards
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Any expanded policy actions, however, will run up against a formidable obstacle: the New Normal in the mortgage process. Lax lending practices fueled the housing boom and created the wave of subprime mortgages that then imploded and pulled down the ...

Santa Monica: Heal the Bay's Mark Gold sets his sights on new venture
Marina del Rey Argonaut
“This is like a new wave, and things like rain gardens in Playa Vista are becoming the new normal. “We can really look at Santa Monica Bay and see that the ecological health of the bay has improved so dramatically, but we still have a long way to go ...

Resolutions Not Sticking? "August Method" Hypnotherapy Audios Can Lead to Success
MarketWatch (press release)
To achieve the best results with hypnosis, people must see themselves succeeding with their desired resolution outcome by listening to the audio repeatedly until it becomes the "new normal". "The subconscious mind is either a success machine or a ...

We're losing control of our digital privacy
CNN
The result is the "new normal": surveillance, often of questionable legality and sometimes clear illegality, against which Americans have little effective recourse, on the rare occasions that we even know that violations are taking place.

DAVOS: Anshu Jain: Broad Economic Picture Improving, Caution Remains
Wall Street Journal
The financial executive said that volatility in the markets is the "new normal we just need to live with." However, he added that the market is much better prepared for negative tail events than in 2008, with much of the possible bad news already ...

The Future of a Revenue Manager 2.0 - Part Human, Part Computer, All Profits ...
Hospitality Net
An acceptance that the "new normal" for global market conditions is one of rapidly changing dynamics: past data is only one part of today's – and tomorrow's – revenue equation. What's more, the shrinking booking window, thanks to these above-mentioned ...

Platinum Luxury Auctions Offers Professional Athlete's Oceanfront Mansion at ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"This is an excellent example of the 'New Normal' in luxury real estate," according to Trayor Lesnock, president and founder of Platinum. "Two younger, highly successful individuals - in this case seller and agent - realizing the value of the ...

The sharp side: BC hospitals aim to safeguard health professionals from sharp ...
Vancouver Sun
... may not be practical — such as when surgeons can't take their eyes off the operating site, or when the scene in the operating room is frantic and a patient is bleeding profusely — the expectation is that the new protocol must become the new normal.

In our view / Perils of instant gratification M's wise to resist splurging
HeraldNet
With general agreement among economists that the "new normal" won't come close to resembling our pre-recession revelry, it seems prudent to start emulating the tortoise more than the hare. As a metaphor for this emerging ethos, we commend the Seattle ...

Joining a Noble Profession | From the Bell Tower
Library Journal
The prospect of a job for life, when “rightsizing” is the new normal, is rare to other sectors of the library profession, and has real value. Academic librarians may also take advantage of opportunities to advance their education through tuition ...

Tail Events, Isolation, New Normal | Jim Willie | FINANCIAL SENSE
By Jim Willie
The new normal is of a caravan file of broken cars and trucks sputtering down the road, using the false fuel of hyper monetary inflation and the offensive paint of phony financial accounting, the tell-tale sign being the ugly rancid smoke out of ...
Financial Sense

Master's Pub: The New Normal and the Changing Labor Market ...
By MBCEditor
Master's Pub: The New Normal and the Changing Labor Market. Friday, February 24, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Universityof St. Thomas, Opus Hall, Room 201. Presenter: Tom Gillaspy, Minnesota state demographer will share insights on the changing ...
MBC News & Events

Is the labor market still stuck at its “new normal”? « Multiplier Effect
By Greg Hannsgen
Is the labor market still stuck at its “new normal”? Greg Hannsgen | January 26, 2012. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) noted on its website yesterday that in 2011, “annual totals for [layoff] events and initial claims were at their lowest levels ...
Multiplier Effect

A three-step programme to re-civilise capitalism » TripleCrisis
By Triplecrisis
When in the 1980s finance was deregulated, both nationally and internationally, crises became thenew normal, first in much of the developing world and then in the developed countries. The process of extreme liberalisation also contributed ...
TripleCrisis

Redux: Think like a client. The trick now is to win cheap.
By JD Hull
However, our enduring global recession (or "new normal", perhaps) is certainly a good time for business clients to push for ADR (including mediation) over litigation. Not because ADR is cheaper, faster and better; often it's clearly not ...
What About Paris?

Early Warning: Another Terrifying Drought Paper
By Stuart Staniford
Note the scale - the dark brown is a full -4 shift: the new normal will be extreme drought by the standards of the past. So if this map is right, you can basically kiss Mexico goodbye altogether and the mountain west and great plains look terrible ...
Early Warning

December New Home Sales Worst On Record | Sweetness & Light
By Steve
So we have a glut of debt, the money has drained off into undefined holes and we're stuck with a National Expectation that this Sudden Real Estate Syndrome is the new normal. Bwa-hahahaha. Bovine Scatology. Follow The Freaking Money ...
Sweetness & Light

Domestic Politics will Buffet US-China Relations in 2012 | Andrew S ...
By andrewserickson
Welcome to the “new normal” for U.S.-China relations. Now many challenges directly affect each country's national interests and politics, yet cannot be easily sidestepped, finessed, or bargained away because of unprecedented participation of ...
Andrew S. Erickson

Jonathon Porritt: We need growth, but not heedless growth | Green ...
By Jonathon Porritt
Welcome to the 'new normal'. I nicked that phrase from Vice-President Al Gore, who I heard give a cracking talk back in October. He did something I've not heard anyone do before, by concentrating purely on the weather-related data from the ...
Green Futures Articles

The New Normal: Economic Weakness and Decline | Veterans Today
by Stephen Lendman. On Friday, S & P cut credit ratings for nine EU countries, including France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Malta, Slovenia, Slovakia and ...
www.veteranstoday.com/.../the-new-normal-economic-weakne...

Navigating the New Normal (Again)
How did so many followers of a particular trading strategy just go away this year?
realmoney.thestreet.com/.../navigating-new-normal-again?puc...

The New Normal - Washington Post - Jewish Ideas Daily
Jewish Ideas Daily. In spite of the Islamist ideology of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, Turkey may prove to be a key U.S. ally in the Middle East during the ...
www.jidaily.com/280aB

'Peak Timber' Is The New Normal State of Human Resource ... - Topix
'Peak Timber' Is The New Normal State of Human Resource Usage. Full story: TreeHugger. Avid or even semi-avid TreeHugger readers no doubt have heard ...
www.topix.com/.../peak-timber-is-the-new-normal-state-of-hu...

Sub-par the New Normal. | Two Boot
Sub-par the New Normal. Posted on January 16, 2012 by Two Boot. While listening to the radio the other day, I heard an advertisement for CenturyLink's 5 year ...
www.twoboot.com/2012/01/sub-par-the-new-normal/

Santee short sales-The new normal? | Shannon Anderson Short ...
Short sales are the “new normal”. A Short Sale is a real estate transaction where the homeowner owes the lender more than the property is worth. For a short ...
inside-real-estate.com/.../santee-short-sales-the-new-normal/

The Hedge Fund Implode-O-Meter News Pick-ups: New Normal on ...
New Normal on Wall Street: Smaller and Restrained. 2012-01-20 — nytimes.com . "With firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reporting weak results for ...
hf-implode.com/.../2012-01-20_NewNormalonWallStreetSmal...

The New Normal - You 2.0
It was on Friday morning, the day after this past Thanksgiving, that my father and I sat watching the news while mother fixed breakfast. In the midst of a friendly ...
www.you2pointzero.com/2012/01/the-new-normal.html

Was 2011 "the new normal" for the pace of home sales in ...
Regardless of the actual numbers, my conclusion based on the data above is that 791 home sales per year (as in 2011) is not the new normal for our market.
www.scottprogers.com/blog/.../01/.../index.php?...

New Normal - Google News

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