Saturday, February 18, 2012

Debunking the New Normal

ED YARDENI: This Chart Debunks The 'New Normal'
Business Insider
PIMCO, California's trillion dollar asset management firm, declared that the economy had entered a "new normal": an extended period of subpar economic growth and high unemployment rates. Stock market guru Ed Yardeni isn't completely convinced that the ... 

County budget needs to adjust to a 'new normal'
Belgrade News
While talk of an economic recovery is debated in greasy spoons and governmental halls, Gallatin County Finance Director Ed Blackman said Tuesday the salad days have long gone and the county needs to adjust to a “new normal.” Before the budget season ...

UK President Says New Funding Source Is Abroad
LEX18 Lexington KY News
"We live in a new normal," Capilouto said. Capilouto said state and federal funding sources are expected to be flat and may even drop for the next several years. Speaking on Thursday to the Frankfort Rotary Club, Capilouto said overseas collaborations ...

New family rules reflect new reality
Minnesota Lawyer
By Barbara L. Jones The new normal in family court is: Get in, get talking, get done or get to trial. That's the result of alternative dispute resolution procedures that started in Hennepin County about 10 years ago and have spread through the state.

HUL gets real, goes premium
Hindustan Times
The mantra, as Nitin Paranjpe, chief executive officer and managing director, HUL, puts it: volatility is the new normal, so stop cribbing and get on with work, and life. “We have made sure our business is geared to be dynamic, by making course ...

Hindustan Times

If You Thought It Was Hot Last Summer . . .
OPB News
What are now considered to be unusually hot summer temperatures are likely to be the new normalin just a few decades. In a trend that fits with manmade global warming, a new study shows the odds of unusually warm summers have already increased in much ...

In An Ideal World, Ron Paul Would Win
Business Insider
... anti-police state message to be one I am increasingly attracted to, especially after several warrantless molestation incidents by the TSA -- the new normal is getting your testicles squeezed before boarding a domestic flight, evidently, ...

Business Insider

Research provides pointers to psychosocial recovery in Chch
Voxy
"Individuals, families and communities will gradually settle into a 'new normal' and that is a long-term process," she says. Ms Mooney says the advisory group is encouraging agencies to focus on empowerment and building resilience (community strengths) ...

Coffee & Power's Dream Of The 2020s Is Alive In Portland
ReadWriteWeb
Portland will now be the third front in Coffee & Power's campaign to provide an economic backbone for the new normal: remote, independent, project-based work. Whether you're a Web developer, a costume designer or a little bit of both, Coffee & Power ...

Individual difference suffers in the neverending explosion of mental illness
The Australian
With the proposed expansion of the number of disorders it is likely that mental illness will become the new normal. Even former advocates of the DSM have become disturbed by this manual's promiscuous definition of a disorder.

It could have been worse. Really?
FederalNewsRadio.com
Confusion is the new normal. One congressional compromise worked out this week (subject to failure) would reportedly raise $15 billion in revenue to extend unemployment benefits. That would happen by raising by 0.75 percent the biweekly amount you pay ...

Joint Venture Silicon Valley Wants Changes to Prop 13
Fox and Hounds Daily
The report authored by Stephen Levy, Director and Senior Economist of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, a long time Proposition 13 critic, argued that a “new normal” of a weak California housing market means that property taxes ...

Afraid of Your Child's Math Textbook? You Should Be.
Salon (blog)
Because the “new normal” among too many publishers is a severe lack of oversight in the quality of curriculum being produced, and a frightening prevalence of apathy to do anything about it. The root of problem begins with this key fact: There are only ...

Sticky Bomb Creates Sticky Situation For India – Analysis
Eurasia Review
This then becomes a decision point: do you start taking sides or at least 'tilt' in favour of one over the other; or do you establish a 'new normal' ie stick to your position of neutrality but demonstrate your commitment to not becoming the ...

New modernism pairs style, energy efficiency
The Desert Sun
“Main Street has joined the tree-huggers,” Modernism Week Chairman Jacques-Pierre Cassin said, referring to green building's evolution from a fringe movement to the new normal. Topping the list of cool stuff at Thursday's preview is a wireless lighting ...

Parallels Summit 2012: The cloud world in 2022
IT PRO
Beloussov then moved on to detail how he thinks cloud will shape the computing landscape in the years to come, suggesting it will effectively become the new normal. Established players such as Apple, Facebook, Google and Salesforce will still have a...

IT PRO

Opinion: Vote No on Ossining School Bond
Patch.com
This is the "New Normal" and the school board had better learn to cope with new financial realities that this decade demands. They will be forced to one way or another. For the complete dollar by dollar detail of these proposed long-term expenditures, ...

Street Smarts: Footloose and fancy in Toronto's Yorkville
National Post (blog)
Empty nesters, such as Mr. Saunderson, are also the new normal, drawn in by the dozens of condominium projects on the go or in planning stages. The buildings come in all shapes and sizes, from luxury low-rise structures like seven-storey 36Hazelton ...

National Post (blog)

Fewer Foreclosures Could Mean Lower Home Prices
CNBC.com
“$200K to $300K is the new normal for home builders,” says Rick Palacios of John Burns Real Estate Consulting. “Since new home prices peaked in 2007, new single-family sales of over $500K have been more than cut in half, dropping from 13% to just 6% of ...

Jeremy Lin joins the Rising Stars Challenge, an experimental event
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
It's a crazy turn of events for a guy who was close to out of the league a few weeks ago, but it's also the new normal for Lin. Kudos to the league for getting it done. All-Star Weekend is often discussed as if it were primarily intended as a ...

Yahoo! Sports (blog)

Spring gas pain is early this year
San Luis Obispo Tribune
But this is not the new normal,” said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for the Oil Price Information Service. “It's an episode. We've seen this during most springs for the last 12 years. There's always a spring rally. We should be used to it by now.

"Predisease": A concept whose time has come?
Clinical Advisor
Who will be the arbiter of what constitutes the "new normal"? Research design challenges. Because the benefits of intervention in low-risk populations are inherently less clear-cut, they are less easily demonstrable. They require large, expensive, ...

Clinical Advisor

Small electrical businesses see surge in grant-funded jobs
TribLocal
“As the public becomes more aware of what is out there, this will become the new normal. I think as the public is still becoming educated, it is still being considered the green thing to do,” Mrozowski said.

CPV Startup Energy Innovations Seeking Strategic Acquirer
Greentech Media (blog)
The new normal for solar startups and struggling public solar firms is investment from Asian and European strategic investors. (Rob Day recently weighed in on the topic.) Examples of the strategic investment from a corporate entity include Total's ...

Greentech Media (blog)

Pebble Partnership: ready to permit as early as FY 13
Juneau Empire
“And we are working on that closure plan right now,” he said. “Does that mean we won't be treating water in perpetuity?” Taylor asked. “I'm not going to say that, that could well be true,” Taylor said. The Pebble mine is the new normal globally, ...

Scammers getting more creative online
KKCO-TV
Being a victim of a scam is nothing new. "Normal people that just got caught up in something like this. It's not always obvious this is a scam," Lewis said. The sheriff's office says people need to do research before they hand over their information.

Fear Factor Decreases for Cloud Computing Services
CNBC.com (blog)
SMB Group calls cloud computing “the new normal,'' and says, whether business owners realize it or not, the cloud is a part of their office operations. “There are very few people out there not using any cloud service,'' said SMB Group partner Laurie ...

CNBC.com (blog)

Morning letters: Fundraisers stop traffic, irk residents
OCRegister
It's the new normal, and it starts at the top. President Barack Obama has blamed George W. Bush for our economy and everything else for three years. Now, Obama blames the “do-nothing” Congress for everything that ails America while he proposes a budget ...

Weekly Roundup: Adulthood delayed, perspectives on Pinterest and ...
By Marian Berelowitz - New York
-“Down and out” is becoming the new normal for British youth facing long-term unemployment, reports The New York Times. -The Atlantic looks at the ways in which the recession has caused young people to postpone adulthood. -A Financial ...
JWT Intelligence

Chicago Police Superintendent Just Not That Into Using Tear Gas at ...
By Kevin Gosztola
Also surprising—especially if one thinks the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the Oakland Police Department (OPD)'s handling of protests is the new normal for law enforcement in America—is the fact that McCarthy said that he had ...
Firedoglake

Review: 30 Rock - The Tuxedo Begins: Why so SERIOUS? - HitFix ...
HitFixs Alan Sepinwall reviews The Tuxedo Begins, the February 16 episode of NBCs 30 Rock, in which Liz tries to game the system, Jack reacts to a mugging and Jenna embraces a new normal.
Television (TV) | Breaking News,...

Has your newspaper improved in the past 10 years? | Media, disrupted
By John Robinson
Determine the new normal. Decide what size staff you're going to have and stick with it for longer than the next quarterly report. The readers you have now have stayed with you through the hard times. They aren't going to leave you.
Media, disrupted

Say Anything » Is North Dakota Prepared For A Bakken Bubble ...
By Rob Port
Tiny Williston, in the heart of the oil boom, isn't going to outstrip mighty Fargo in tax revenues forever, and yet our policymakers have been spending as though that were the new normal. Even those that are campaigning for office this cycle ...
Say Anything

New arts technology? Make sure you have the behavior change ...
By Ron
Unfreezing — Getting people on board that the current status quo is not acceptable; Movement — Identifying new behavior/systems that will be the new “normal,” communicating this, and adopting it as the new way of doing things; Refreezing ...
Groupofminds Arts Marketing +...

Safe & Sound - Taylor Swift
By Gail
It's infinitely bizarre to me that people accept this landscape as the new normal - see the prior post on Wit's End for pictures of how trees are supposed to look, and used to look...before we started remorselessly poisoning them with air pollution.
Wit's End

New Normal News: US Economy Transitioning To A New Normal
The US economy is transitioning to a new normal in which businesses invest less and consumers spend less than before the recession, Goldstein told The ...
www.newnormalnews.com/.../us-economy-transitioning-to-ne...

The New Normal - Seacoast Church
In The New Normal we will study the book of Galatians to examine the reality of this transformation and the new way of living that comes with it. The problem is ...
www.seacoast.org/resources/the-new-normal/

Compuware Beefs Up Product Line for the "New Normal of ...
The new tools help address what the vendor calls the "new normal of the mainframe," Dennis O'Flynn, director of product management for the Mainframe ...
www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80409

Learning to live with the “New Normal” - Economics in business
By Andrew Sentance, Senior Economic Adviser Since the depths of the financial crisis in late 2008 and early 2009, economies around the world have started to ...
pwc.blogs.com/.../learning-to-live-with-the-new-normal.html

Jerry and Julie Slemp: Finding A New Normal After Tragedy ...
It is profound and sobering how life can change in an instant. Just ask Jerry and Julie Slemp of Louisa, Virginia. They know all too well how lives can be turned ...
gohorseshow.com/article/Our.../Our...and.../37069
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