Thursday, May 31, 2012

Lackluster growth may be the new normal

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Don't expect to see a jobs comeback on Friday.
CNN
Lackluster growth, however, may be the new normal, said Patrick O'Keefe, director of economic research for JH Kohn, an accounting firm. The nation has a more limited ability to create jobs these days in part because of increased globalization and ... 

Andrew Rannells on His Girls Character, Slapping Marnie, and His New Ryan ...
Vulture
We chatted with Rannells about the altercation, whether he thinks Elijah was a jerk for hiding the true nature of his sexuality while dating Hannah, and his role as a gay father-to-be on Ryan Murphy's upcoming NBC comedy The New Normal.

Morning Meme: Matthew Mitcham Makes the Team, Prince Harry Talks About Granny...
AfterElton.com
and he has Ryan Murphy's The New Normal coming up. He talks about how he approaches gay roles, "I want to make him as fully fleshed out and human as possible. Because chances are he's gonna represent somebody who's a real person. With TheNew Normal, ...

AfterElton.com

Impeccable logic from the lowly newspaper man: iLIVE
Times LIVE
I am an avid reader of Mondli Makhanya's weekly dishes of logical pearls of observation about our 'New Normal' under the current administration of Mr Zuma. I call it our 'new normal' because as a nation we are so far gone into the deep hole of ...

Times LIVE

NeNe Leakes Says Reality TV Has 'Gone Too Far'
Gather Celebs News Channel
Fans weren't sure she'd be returning after all of her success in acting—she's starring in a new sitcom, The New Normal, which premieres this fall. "We've been shooting for about three weeks," she tells VIBE. "It was really a hard decision for me to ...

Toll Road Idea Delays Independence Blvd Project
FOX Charlotte
by ISRAEL BALDERAS by PHOTOJOURNALIST JAMES SIELAFF CHARLOTTE, NC - Call it the "new normal" when it comes to funding road construction - you use it, you pay! Widening Independence Blvd was suppose to start in July. Struggling businesses were counting ...

Earth Year: Take opportunities to become literate about natural history
Corvallis Gazette Times
Roberts notes that humankind tends to suffer from “shifting baseline syndrome,” in which the present becomes the new normal. Most people visiting Key West today are not aware of the huge shift in fish populations. The 5-pound average has become the new ...

Is Congress Getting Dumber? Probably Not, Study Finds
National Journal
Brevity and simplicity of speech may be the new normal for Congress, in part, because it makes good business sense. C-SPAN began televising House proceedings to Americans in March 1979; more than seven years later, it began broadcasts from the Senate.

Another playoff format proposal pushes playoff even further away
CBSSports.com
Those in the room trying to shape a new normal suddenly can't agree on the timing of potty breaks. In this corner, still undefeated (at least in the last six national championship games), for the moment, remains the SEC. "All the interest in this is to ...

Players continue to spar with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell
Detroit Free Press
And given the new normal in NFL vs. NFLPA strife, more battles loom. The odds that Goodell will lose this legal skirmish seem long. Last week, University of Pennsylvania professor Stephen Burbank, who oversees CBA disputes, upheld the NFL's system when ...

Andrew Rannells: 'I am Gay in Real Life'
Towleroad
With The New Normal, I feel even a larger responsibility because it's sort of a new idea for a lot of viewers and Americans, to see Justin Bartha and I play this very much in love couple who just wants to have a baby. We're telling that story for the ...

NBA Playoffs 2012: 15 Things We've Learned in This Year's Postseason
Bleacher Report
If this becomes the new normal for being 36 in the NBA, sign me up for the nearest NBA training camp. Remember the mid-2000s, when the defensively-oriented San Antonio Spurs won an NBA championship every other year by seemingly lulling their opponents ...

Bleacher Report

Attention CXOs: There's something you need before you BYOD.
ZDNet (blog)
Third, BYOD is the new normal. In five years (my prediction), more than 90% of companies with 100 or more employees will have a BYOD program in place. It's a win-win for the company and the employee. Finally, corporate BYOD programs must be managed.

Mission trip: A learning experience
Utica Observer Dispatch
They were rebuilding their homes and their lives, focusing on getting to a “new normal,” one that protects against this kind of thing happening again in the future. Seven youth and five adults from Morrisville, Baldwinsville, Liverpool, Dolgeville, ...

Murtz On The Scene: Citytv / Rogers Upfront 2012 – Citytv & Rogers Announce ...
Inside Pulse
There's great gay characters on Glee, Modern Family, and Smash and there's great new shows coming out like The New Normal and Partners and each of them tackle their own issues,” he said. “The responsibility we have is really tackling the idea of the...

Inside Pulse

Businesses Backing Vets: Pro Bono Aid for Homeless Heroes
Huffington Post
A Billion + Change hopes that one day skills-based volunteering will be the 'new normal' in every workplace. Given how companies like Merck are changing the lives of veterans through pro bono services, I look forward to this new normal being a ...

NeNe Leakes Is Shopping for a House in Beverly Hills!
Wetpaint
It seems like NeNe has been teasing a move to California at least once a week now, but with her acting gigs on Glee and The New Normal, we wouldn't be shocked if she finally made the move to California and said goodbye to RHoA after Season 5.

Spending debate creates an opportunity for Romney
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Obama took what was supposed to be a one-time emergency expenditure and made it part of the new normal. Factor out TARP and the bailouts, and Obama comes in second to Lyndon Johnson in terms of spending, according to the Cato Institute's Dan Mitchell.

Indian IT companies turn job creators in overseas markets
Hindu Business Line
“The 'new normal' has brought in a new set of challenges that is changing the market dynamics in unprecedented ways,” Mr Naveen Narayanan – Head Talent Acquisition, HCL Technologies, said. He said the economic slowdown across the world, especially in ...

For Canada, US Debates Are Old News
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
"You try to create a new normal, a new level of acceptance," she said. But if there's a single issue that absorbs Ms. Campbell, a consultant on the advancement of women and democracy, it is women's rights -- an area where Canada has a mixed record.

To everything there is a season
The Tribune
Our life stories are unique, yet our needs are the same as we transition from one season to another: time to mourn, time to heal, time to prepare, time to establish a new “normal,” time to count our blessings, and time with those who love and support ...

This Week in Foodservice for May 29, 2012
Foodservice Equipment & Supplies
At least one economist feels that 375000 new claims a week is the new "normal" when in the past normal was considered to be 350000. Then, too, even a decline in jobless claims doesn't necessarily translate into more people being hired.

Internet traffic to grow fourfold by 2016: survey
Phys.Org
... web-enabled TVs, or desktop video conferencing, the sum of our actions not only creates demand for zettabytes of bandwidth, but also dramatically changes the network requirements needed to deliver on the expectations of this new normal.

Why the Greek Will Never Opt to Leave the EU
MarketWatch
They are slowly getting used to the new normal - just like Americans learned to accept the normalcy of a $4 gallon of gasoline. And they will continue to want to hold on to that sacred European membership. At any cost.

Hard drive supply is back in full force, but prices remain high
Afterdawn.com
In fact, higher prices have now become the "new normal." Before the flood, the average 2GB HDD was selling for anywhere between $70 and $90 from top manufacturers like Seagate and Western Digital. When the flood first hit, those prices were jacked up ...

Afterdawn.com

It's called majority governing
Ottawa Citizen
Welcome to majority government, the new normal in Ottawa. Or as Stephen Harper put in his campaign refrain: “A strong, stable, national, Conservative majority government.” He ran on it, and he won on it, in a realignment election. Get used to it.

Obama's Kill List and the End of the Post-9/11 World
Esquire (blog)
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out the window ...

Esquire (blog)

Within companies, creating shared value means treating employees properly as ...
HRmagazine.co.uk
Co-founder of CSR consultancy, Article 13 and executive coach, Neela Bettridge is addressing the 5D Business Conference on 6 June. New Normal, Radical Shift is co-authored with Philip Whiteley and will be published in early 2013. meetings - 22 - jpg.

HRmagazine.co.uk

India Can Lead in the Global Trend towards Energy Efficient Real Estate
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
... can help India become a leader in the shifting landscape of the global real estate market – where the new normal places an increased value for energy saving buildings and a diminished value for underperforming and energy expensive buildings.
 
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)

Rise of UnderGround Economy and Pay Freezes Picture of New ...
By Sneha Shah
The New Normal which marked low to negative economic growth,high unemployment in developed countries of the West began after the Lehman Crash in 2008. It has led to a new paradigm in employment and jobs, with informal jobs showing ...
Green World Investor

Blogulator Radio Episode 56 – New Crap Airing This Fall Pt. 2 ...
By FPG Post-O-Matic
Oh and they also talk about a bunch of new shows including but not limited to The Carrie Diaries, Animal Practice, The New Normal, Arrow, 1600 Penn, Ben & Kate, Go On, and The Following. Coming soon: Qualler and Brigitte talk the season ...
Fancy Pants Gangsters

Adventus: Goin' Rogue
By Rmj
This has been the new normal since September 11. Everyone knows, but nobody says, that if something happens again, the elite consensus in this country, and the overwhelming consensus of the citizenry, will be to pitch the Bill of Rights out ...
Adventus

Strategies For Before You Start A House Advancement Project ...
By RollinsonKrajewski208
When venture residence remodeling inside your kitchen or bathroom, it really is a smart idea to install new normal water-resistant wall surface board instead of the current normal wall board. This “environmentally friendly board”, as it is ...

Al Hunt | Obama Pretty Much Following Bush's Terror Poliicies He ...
By Doug Brady
... that administration's tactics, writes: “The Obama administration would continue almost all of its predecessor's policies, transforming what had seemed extraordinary under the Bush regime into the 'new normal' of American counter-terrorism ...
Conservatives4Palin

OH: NeNe Leakes--With Ex-Husband Greg--HONORED At The ...
By _YBF
She also dishes on "The New Normal" and her personal growth. Here are the highlights: VIBE: Are you still ... Why leave the show when you can still do the show and you can still do The New Normal? So we're going to see how doing ...
The Young, Black, and Fabulous

Game over for the climate? | Machines Like Us
By NLN
It is a sign of how we have accepted as the new normal those things that should rightly be beyond the pale of accepted political discourse. Unfortunately the evidence in favor of global warming keeps piling up. A recent study by scientists in ...
Top stories

Nene Leakes Would Love To Leave RHOA, So Why Won't She ...
By Brande Victorian
Why leave the show when you can still do the show and you can still do The New Normal? So we're going to see how doing everything works. We'll see what happens. We're taking a little bit of a chance.” In a lot of ways, Nene has made some ...
Madame Noire | Black Women's...

NeNe Leakes | Real Housewives of Beverly Hills | Atlanta | All-Stars ...
By Donovan
Given that Leakes has roles on two shows this upcoming Fall season- “Glee” and NBC's “The New Normal“- she'll be spending a lot of time in Los Angeles. Could a cameo on Beverly Hills be in the works? God, I hope so. How awesome would ...
homorazzi.com

When soldiers come home from war – Peacebuilder Online
By steinll
Expect that finding the new normal will take time. During the time away, the soldier has changed. So has the family who stayed behind. Roles have shifted. Family dynamics are affected. The readjustment won't happen overnight. Refrain from ...
Peacebuilder Online

Inside the Law School Scam
By LawProf
Another correspondent emphasizes that neither middle-aged boomers nor Kids Today have yet adjusted to an increasingly grim new normal, in which the wave of economic devastation that swept over much of the American working class in ...
Inside the Law School Scam

AFP Blog: Recent News of Note: How to build grantees' network ...
By Reed
Collaboration, coordination, and working in networks are becoming the new normal, as leaders across sectors work to move the needle on today's most pressing problems. It is fast becoming a new kind of capacity for nonprofits to build, but ...
AFP Blog: Recent News of Note

The Antidote to Stress-Induced Premature Aging ~ Life:Unmasked ...
By Joy
We used to belong to a community center with a lap pool. That was the highlight of my day. Now that we havea kid on the way, I have a feeling that some early morning walks will become the new normal! ed cyzewski recently posted.
Joy in this Journey

Japan's New Normal | Slog
Where there's crisis, there's opportunity: Mobile phone operator Softbank Corp said on Tuesday it would soon begin selling smartphones with radiation detectors ...
slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/.../japans-new-normal

New Normal Panel Recap | Solomon McCown &
Thank you to all who joined us on May 16 for our expert panel event exploring how we live, work and play in the "New Normal." The topic generated a sizable ...
www.solomonmccown.com/.../new-normal-panel-recap.aspx

Where Are My Keys?: The new "normal", here to stay with IUC?
Not much change from last week, which didn't show much change from the previous week, which was pretty much the same as.. you get the picture. This week ...
wherearemykeys.typepad.com/.../the-new-normal-here-to-stay...

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

New Normal Global Employability Crisis Persists

Global Employability Crisis Persists; One in Three Employers Worldwide Cannot ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Surprisingly, employers are now less concerned about the impact of these shortages on customers and investors, a perspective which signals acceptance of the new normal. "Employers should not presume that stakeholders will continue to look past ...

Apple: RBC Pounds Table, Outlines New Normal for iPhone Sales
Barron's (blog)
By Tiernan Ray As I mentioned earlier this morning, RBC Capital's Amit Daryanani this morning reiterated an Outperform rating on shares of Apple (AAPL) and a $700 price target, writing that that the pullback in the stock is “an attractive entry point,” ...

V Exclusive: Nene Leakes Talks 'Housewives,' Says Reality TV Has 'Gone Way Too ...
Vibe
Instead, she's slowly taking over Hollywood, landing roles on Glee and the upcoming NBC comedy The New Normal, which premieres this fall. VIBE recently chatted with Nene about that role for an upcoming issue, during which we also asked about her future ...

Vibe

Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle and Build the Right Workforce ...
MarketWatch (press release)
While the talent mismatch crisis is an old problem, accepting it as the new normal is no way to compete in this increasingly volatile economy, a hallmark of the Human Age. "If employers don't think leaving important positions unfilled is a problem now, ...

NeNe Leakes Supports Gay Marriage and Asks Ryan Murphy for a Movie Role
Wetpaint
“To me, same-sex marriage is like the new normal. I don't give a shit. If two gay people want to get married it doesn't bother me. If two people say they love each other and they want to be together, they should be together,” she said.

Talk about your new normal
Nashville Post (subscription) (blog)
Adjusting for the political cannibalism and retirement-spree forced by the redrawn state map, Forrester told The City Paper “the line” is now somewhere around 24 seats in the House and eight in the Senate, making Tennessee Democrats a minority almost ...

7 weeks after sailboat accident, boy leaves hospital
DL-Online
“Isaiah and daddy will be staying with friends for the Memorial Day weekend before going back to thenew normal,” Sara Staley, an aunt, wrote on the boy's CaringBridge website. “Thanks for all the prayers.” Isaiah also won't have to take medications, ...

Do You Think NeNe Leakes Would Make a Good Addition to The Real Housewives of ...
Wetpaint
Evidently NeNe — who is currently living in LA while filming her comedy series The New Normal — would love to join RHoBH. “It would be fun. It would be hilarious to be a Beverly Hills housewife,” she tells The Advocate. She's already pals with Kyle ...

TV: Being different not easy, even for an economy
Broker News Australia
According to economist Paul Bloxham from HSBC, consumers are used to things being on the up and up, and maybe it's time they adjusted to the new normal. “We are in a different economy than we were five years ago,” Bloxham said.

Mother's book remembers Afghan hero
Lancashire Evening Post
The process of madness continues to be part of my new normal. I now have a new life which I'm trying desperately to come to terms with and follow Cyrus's words in his last letter to us, 'chin up, head down'." The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families ...

Wounded soldier shares his struggles to Memorial Day crowd
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
After 18 months of attempting to find a new normal, Widner plunged into what he describes as "the darkest days of my life" -- that is, until someone from the Wounded Warrior Project reached out a hand to save him. "An area outreach coordinator knocked ...

'Treat us fairly,' top contractor tells clients
Construction Week Online
While this has been cause for concern since the downturn, Taylor's fear is that such an approach has in effect become the 'new normal'. He adds that cash flow and liquidity continue to be problem areas as well. “What we have tried to do is really work ...

Boy who survives boating accident is out of the hospital
WDAY
Isaiah Risland's aunt wrote on his CaringBridge site that he's with his father and family, and they are embarking on their "new normal." The family was boating near Bemidji last month when their boat capsized. All 3 boys were wearing life jackets, ...

The 10%/10% Club: BlackRock International Growth & Income Trust
Seeking Alpha
Many market participants believe that we are entering a "new normal" and the de-leveraging of the household, corporate, banking, and government sectors, combined with demographic headwinds, will necessitate lower capital market returns in future ...

Survey shows no let-up in 'skills gap'
Financial Times
Manpower said this indicated a “new normal” in which “organisations have become more comfortable and adept at conducting business in an uncertain environment where systematic shortages of talent persist”. Jeff Joerres, Manpower chief executive, ...

Why investors must adapt to biggest market shift in 25 years
Investment Week
Williams said fund managers will have to adapt quickly and be willing to change their strategies if they are to make money in 'the new normal'. One aspect of this will be a move away from benchmarks, which he expects to be a significant change in ...

Information Technology Risk Management
Financier Worldwide
Some organisations simply refuse to believe that they are targets for cyber attackers, but with the IT landscape shifting at a tremendous rate, they must alter this mindset and approach IT threats as the 'new normal'. To shy away from IT risk exposures ...

Both sides will need to raise their game
Channel News Asia
The "new normal" has become a powerful meme in local political discourse. But it must result in the PAP and the Opposition alike raising their game, resulting in better policymaking, a more engaged and committed citizenry and enhanced social cohesion.

Marketwatch - May 2012
Mortgage Strategy
This seems to be the new normal, with lenders dipping in and out of the market to take their fill and then backing off to keep service levels in play. It is a sensible policy. Meanwhile, Lloyds TSB Scotland has tweaked its Spearhead mortgage rates.

Mortgage Strategy

RealClearPolitics - Bush Terror Overreach Is New Normal Under ...
By Al Hunt, Bloomberg
Critics of President George W. Bush's anti-terrorism efforts, mainly Democrats and some Republicans, rejoiced when Barack Obama was elected. They were convinced that what they considered the post-Sept. 11 trampling of constitutional ...
RealClearPolitics - Homepage

The New Rules of Modern Medicine | Psychology Today
By Dr. Tamara McClintock Greenberg, Psy.D.
Although technology is not the only change impacting today's medical encounter, relative relational detachment is the "new normal" when we spend time with our medical clinicians. We need to adapt in order to get what we need. Today's ...
Psychology Today Blogs

The New Rules of Modern Medicine | Articles on Psychology ...
Relational detachment is the "new normal" when we spend time with our doctors. We need to adapt in order to get what we need.read more... read more... Share |. Published By: Relationships - PsychologyToday - Yesterday ...
Psychology | Articles on Psychology...

Mark Collins - Killing by Drone, Decision-Making, and the Decider-in ...
By admin
We must now accept that technologies that remove humans from the battlefield, from unmanned systems like the Predator to cyber-weapons like the Stuxnet computer worm, are becoming the new normal in war… The Decider-in-Chief: ...
The 3Ds Blog

Be and Sense Home - Just One Thing | Dr. Rick Hanson - Author of ...
By Rick Hanson
When we experience chronic stress (even if it's mild), this state of affairs – in which the body gets worn down and depleted, and the mind gets frazzled, pressured, prickly, worried, and blue – becomes the new normal, a kind of ongoing inner ...
Dr. Rick Hanson - Author of Buddha's...

Capitol Confidential » Elizabeth Crowley's Texting During Queens ...
By The Daily Politics
EriK: @jdunphy, That marketwatch article was a joke. see http://blog.american.com/2012/05/washingtons-new-normal-o... Cuomo forgets to endorse Senate Democrats in speech (12). mike from saratoga: i agree with what the majority of the ...
Capitol Confidential

Twice (a Month) - the New Normal? - Christian Reformed Church
In my tradition, twice was the norm. Growing up in the Christian Reformed Church , attending church twice every Sunday was a non-negotiable, a near creational ...
network.crcna.org/content/pastors/twice-month-new-normal

The New Normal | Liberty Unbound
Science is the inspiration of those techno-libertarians who hold that evolutions in technology will ultimately lead to revolutions in political freedom. A commitment ...
www.libertyunbound.com/node/810

Knoxville's Extreme Makeover home family finds 'new normal'
It's been four months since Daniel and Mandy Watson got a new lease on life with the building of their Extreme Makeover home in West Knoxville.
www.wate.com/.../knoxvilles-extreme-makeover-home-family...

HARDOCP - HDD Pricewatch: Higher Prices Are the New Normal
The floods are just a distant memory, production of hard disk drives is getting back to normal and the prices are……still high. Granted, the prices hav.
www.hardocp.com/.../hdd_pricewatch_higher_prices_are_new...

'The New Normal' TV family - USATODAY.com Video
Actors Andrew Rannells, Ellen Barkin and Georgia King star in upcoming TV show 'The New Normal' which tells the story of a gay couple and their surrogate ...
www.usatoday.com/video/the-new-normal.../1660663999001

'The New Normal' TV family - Yahoo!
Watch the video ''The New Normal' TV family' on Yahoo! omg!.
omg.yahoo.com/.../the-new-normal-tv-family-29493006.html

'The New Normal' TV Family - The Washington Post
Actors Andrew Rannells, Ellen Barkin and Georgia King star in upcoming TV show 'The New ...
www.washingtonpost.com/...tv.../gJQAzHHQyU_video.html

How Firms Can Thrive in the "New Normal"
The legal profession reached a point where upheaval is the new normal. Certainly large law fi rms are changing in response to recession, technology and client ...
www.lawbiz.com/How-Firms-Can-Thrive.php

What is Ben Bernanke's New Normal? | WealthLift INSIDER™
Bernanke's statement testifies to the fact that we have entered a 'new normal' as a global economy. Particularly, he mentioned that we should expect to see 7 to ...
www.wealthlift.com/blog/ben-bernankes-new-normal/

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

High Yields Are Europe's New Normal

Roubini Strategist: High Yields Are Europe's New Normal - EU - CNBC
Europe is entering a new normal, where higher bond yields for peripheral countries like Italy, Spain, and Portugal are here to stay, according to David ...
www.cnbc.com/.../Roubini_Strategist_High_Yields_Are_Euro...

'Book of Mormon'--Broadway's Biggest Hit--Losing Key Cast Members
Forbes
He heads to his own new series, “The New Normal,” also on NBC this fall. Another Tony winner, Nikki James, will be out for a big part of the summer filming a movie musical said to be in pre-production, directed by Lynn Ahrens.

Forbes

Veteran Graduate of 'Boots to Suits' Program on Dealing With PTSD
PBS
The intense combat, the feelings of anger and violence, and the constant threat of insurgents became his new "normal". "When you see a big, shocking incident, it changes you. It's terrifying. You don't know what to think or say; your training just ...

PBS

Is this as good as it gets for jobs?
Omaha World-Herald
So the current employment situation could be a “new normal” for Nebraska? “It's possible, yeah,” said Lang. “I think there's still growth in the economy, so I'm not sure we're all the way back to normal, but it's great that our unemployment rate is so ...

Nene Leakes Of The Real Housewives of Atlanta To Crossover On The Real ...
SheKnows.com
NeNe Leakes, cast member of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Glee, and The New Normal, is aiming to add another credit to her IMDB. She says she wants to be a Real Housewife of Beverly Hills! She will be filming The New Normal in Los Angeles, ...

A different world awaits soldiers returning home
Tulsa World
The new normal for his wife and six children still changes, but for the most part, his wife runs the show. "Now that I've been home only since December, we're still kind of in the same growing phase even though we've been married those 10 years," ...

'Revolution' voted most exciting new NBC show by Digital Spy readers
Digital Spy UK (blog)
A fair way behind in second place was Matthew Perry's new sitcom Go On - which still managed a respectable 16.2% - while third position in the vote went to The New Normal, the comedy from Glee's Ryan Murphy, which scored 12%. The appeal of a shirtless ...

Economic Forecast Is for Little Change in June 2012
Global Economic Intersection
The Econintersect Economic Index is built of mostly non-monetary “things” that have shown to be indicative of direction of the Main Street economy at least 30 days in the future. the “New Normal” economy is pulsing or growing in unpredictable spurts.

Global Economic Intersection

Boy who survived sailboat accident released from hospital
Pioneer Press
Isaiah Risland and his father, Dan Risland of Leonard, are with family during the Memorial Day weekend and will embark on their "new normal," wrote Sara Staley on CaringBridge . Doctors decided that Risland no longer needed the iron and blood pressure ...

73-year-old woman scaling Everest proves you can age well
USA TODAY
When Janet Evans, 40, started her comeback last summer after taking 15 years off from Olympic-level swimming, Joyner said, "This is the whole new normal emerging." Watanabe is still climbing in the foothills of the Himalayas and hasn't commented on her ...

USA TODAY

Minn. boy who survived boating accident that claimed brothers' lives is ...
The Republic
She says Isaiah and his father are with family during the Memorial Day weekend and are embarking on their "new normal." Sara Staley is Isaiah's aunt. A St. Paul Pioneer Press report (http://bit.ly/JIbjYS ) says she wrote on her nephew's CaringBridge ...

Beyond Memorial Day, Support for Survivors
WNYC
“The research shows it takes five to seven years for people to reach a new normal after suffering a traumatic loss of a loved one,” said Neiberger-Miller, who now works as the TAPS public affairs officer, helping other families share their stories ...

Southeast tries to work with persistent drought
MiamiHerald.com
Dry weather has almost become the new normal in South Carolina, where the US drought monitor has had some part of the state in at least a severe drought since last May, and for nearly four of the past six years. That followed a more than two-year ...

End debate at the water's edge
The Bridgeton News - NJ.com
While our experience in Vietnam shook our sensibilities to some degree, it's been the war on terror that's really created the new normal. It's no small thing, because if past wars were the work of one generation, than the war on terror is likely to be ...

The Bridgeton News - NJ.com

Joe Bonham Project of wounded in war on tour
Allentown Morning Call
"This is the reality of war — their lives have been changed forever and they are struggling to adjust to a new normal," said Bates, who finished boot camp three days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "My job is to make sure their stories are not ...

Allentown Morning Call

Minn. boy who survived boating accident goes home
KARE
A St. Paul Pioneer Press report says she wrote on her nephew's CaringBridge site that Isaiah was released from the hospital Friday. She says Isaiah and his father are with family during the Memorial Day weekend and are embarking on their "new normal."

Press back in heart of city
The Press
Cramped conditions and longer commutes for many of our staff became the new normal. We have worked hard to present the biggest story in our community's history on the pages of The Press, The Mail, The Northern Outlook and Central Canterbury News, ...

The Press

Light at the end of the tunnel for consumers, says ITEM Club report
Cambridge News
“It's still a tough trading environment for UK retailers and there are going to be winners and losers on every high street as businesses adapt to the 'new normal'.” Concluding, Goodwin says that downside risks dominate the forecast: “We still need to ...

Finding That Pay-For Sweet Spot
National Journal
The Highway Trust Fund is clearly unsustainable, but is this the new normal? Is this simply the future of infrastructure investment? Or is there a politically viable alternative to what amounts to Congress searching the couch cushions for funding ...

May 27, 2012 Newsletter
Over the course of a year a new dance will be forged and a new “normal” created and a comfortable relationship established – one that doesn't depend on drinking. The keys? Good will, good humor, awareness, and patience. After all, the ...
http://www.non12step.com/

Pot vs. Kettle: Nene Leakes Packs On Pounds But Shades Sheree's ...
By ATLien
Leakes, who recently secured a spot on NBC's “The New Normal,” a new series about a gay couple starting a family, has been making the rounds promoting her upcoming projects. Nene appeared at NBC's Upfront awards and also The ...
StraightFromTheA [SFTA] - Atlanta ...

TMT: “Good!” | It Rains… You Get Wet
By le0pard13
Of course, it included the new normal we now lived under: that of children, baby daycare arrangements while we were at work, pre-school for my oldest, and the latest level of domesticity that threaten an 11 on the This is Spinal Tap volume dial ...
It Rains... You Get Wet

A soldier's burden on his back - Military - The Olympian - Olympia ...
The Army uses words like these to describe U.S. soldiers in the post-9/11 era who have had to adapt to the new normal of repeat combat tours. The same words apply to the spouses, children and other loved ones of oft-deployed troops.
The Olympian Online -- South Sound

Press House: The Press Back In Heart Of City | Stuff.co.nz
By General manager Andrew Boyle
Cramped conditions and longer commutes for many of our staff became the new normal. We have worked hard to present the biggest story in our community's history on the pages of The Press, The Mail, The Northern Outlook and Central ...
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The toll of war now includes more amputees | WTVR.com - WTVR 6
By Nick Dutton
Their spirit, the way they work so hard to get back to living every day in what is their new normal.” Nicely said his new home, being built in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, will lift a big burden. “Having to rely on my wife to do a lot of things for me ...
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The 14 Components of an Agile Talent Management Strategy - ERE ...
By Dr. John Sullivan
Agility requires talent management to be scalable, which means talent management leaders must have a plan to handle both a higher and a lower volume of work and to shift their cost structure up or down in order to meet the “new normal.” ...
ERE.net
Blasphemes: New Normal
New Normal. CDC The New (Ab)normal Might have been a tad more informative to show the rise in diabetics and children with type to diabetes as well?
blasphemes.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-normal.html

My New Normal - Gen Y Wanderer
Today's my one-year anniversary of leaving home. The past few weeks have been crazy with starting different jobs (plural), a surprising new social agenda and ...
wanderlustandlipstick.com/blogs/.../2012/.../my-new-normal/

Why so many children have diabetes | jacksonville.com
Supersize, it seems, is the new normal. Once there were smaller, kiddie cones for children. Now, or at least in this particular shop, the sugar cone — which used ...
jacksonville.com/.../why-so-many-children-have-diabetes

Redefining the New Normal « Pie Consulting & Engineering
Recently, Col. Michael Mullane (USAF, Ret. and former NASA Astronaut), gave an inspired presentation that addressed guarding against a “Normalization of ...
blog.pieforensic.com/2012/05/16/redefining-the-new-normal/

Wilson Cruz: We need a new normal | GLSEN
Wilson Cruz: We need a new normal. Earlier today Wilson Cruz, an actor and activist who recently joined our Board of Directors, wrote an email to GLSEN ...
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OPINION: The new normal - CommerceNewsTODAY
By Susan Harper My sister recently commented that she didn't see why she couldn't have a normal dog like everybody else. I turned around and looked in the ...
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Monday, May 28, 2012

Bush's Terror Overreach Becomes 'New Normal' Under Obama

Bush's Terror Overreach Becomes 'New Normal' Under Obama
Bloomberg
... that administration's tactics, writes: “The Obama administration would continue almost all of its predecessor's policies, transforming what had seemed extraordinary under the Bush regime into the 'new normal' of American counter-terrorism policy.

The toll of war now includes more amputees
CNN
Their spirit, the way they work so hard to get back to living every day in what is their new normal." Nicely said his new home, being built in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, will lift a big burden. "Having to rely on my wife to do a lot of things for me ...

Massachusetts tornadoes, 1 year later: Impact still seen in landscape, lives
MassLive.com
By Jack Flynn, The Republican Along the 39-mile trail carved by the June 1 tornadoes, life is inching back toward normal – a new normal that seems louder, brighter and more unsettling than a year ago. In Springfield, harsh sunlight invades Helen L.

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Life in the new normal
Interest.co.nz
Yes. Fix for 1 year at 5.2% now offered by the banks. RBNZ will start hiking the OCR early next year. These low rates won't last forever. Yes. Fix for 2 years at around 5.5%. This economy is recovering as we rebuild Christchurch.

Atchison's hard work helps turn around 'pen
Boston Herald
By Rich Thompson The super-sized workload of Red Sox [team stats] reliever Scott Atchison has become his new normal. Atchison accentuated his status as the American League's busiest middle relief pitcher in Friday night's 7-4 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays ...

THE SHORT LIST SHOWBIZ: Eurovision Song Winner Crowned
Queerty
Ryan Murphy's new comedy about expectant gay dads for CBS, The New Normal, has a trailer out (below). We're not peeing our pants laughing but for the network responsible for Two & A Half Men and 2 Broke Girls, it ain't half bad. [EW]

Paying cash can save money at some gas stations
Scranton Times-Tribune
By Denise Allabaugh (Staff Writer) As gasoline prices per gallon at $3-plus become thenew normal, one way motorists can save money at the pump is to pay cash. At the PSC gas station in Wilkes-Barre, a sign informs motorists the price of gas for cash ...

Scranton Times-Tribune

Slashdot: Higher Hard Drive Prices Are the New Normal
NewsFactor Network
An anonymous reader tips an article looking at the state of HDD pricing now that the market has had time to recover from the flooding in Thailand and a round of consolidation among manufacturers. Prices have certainly declined from the high they ...

Homebuilders back at work in Pierce County
Bellingham Herald
“One of the things we've been struggling with is, what's the new normal?” said Dennis Hanberg, Pierce County's director of Planning and Land Services. Builders say thenew normal is low prices and high style. A combination of cheap lots, trouble with ...

Bellingham Herald

Weekend Meme: Gareth Thomas Strips Down, an Extended Look At "Partners," and ...
AfterElton.com
I'm not all that excited about this one, but on the other hand, it feels a lot more like a How I Met Your Mother, where it will have a slow burn and become a fan favorite, as opposed to The New Normal, which seems to have an outrageous hook to explode ...

Economic forum
Citizens Voice
... given that that perhaps would be in line with what we can call the new normal or the new natural rate of unemployment. … The question arises … where we would be getting these jobs from? … Now, the manufacturing jobs are not really coming back ...

On Our Radar – The Legacy Of A Gay Soldier
The New Civil Rights Movement
Try to establish a new normal, even though nothing is ever going to seem normal again. When Minnesota passed their constitutional amendment in spite of his best efforts, it could easily have been the bucket of cold water that propelled Jeff back to the...

The New Civil Rights Movement

Low hits out at 'character assassination'
TODAYonline
Said Mr Low: "I was optimistic that the so-called new normal after General Election 2011 would see Singapore becoming more of a First World society, with freedom of political choice and fair play. "Hougang voters have given their mandate to Png, ...

WP chief Low lashes out at PAP and media
Straits Times
He began by saying he had been optimistic after the last general election that in the so-called new normal, Singapore would move to become a first-world society, with freedom of political choice and fair play being respected. The results in the Hougang ...

Straits Times

Toni Bolis' family reflects on dangers of distracted driving one year later
Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
As the family sat around discussing the tumultuous loss, the idea there will never be anew normal for them, giggling Mia sat in her father's lap, playing with her macaroni and cheese more than she was eating it and pausing every few seconds to nuzzle ...

Gloucester County Times - NJ.com

Many Metro riders endure weekend delays because they see no other choice
Washington Post
Metro's leaders have told us why this is the new normal: Lack of investment in the transit infrastructure led to alarming deterioration, and it will take a massive — and disruptive — repair program to bring it back. To lessen the disruption by ...

Local view: Should we sacrifice our brains to the Internet?
Duluth News Tribune
Constant distraction is starting to become the new normal. In his recent book, “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,” Nicholas Carr suggests that such behavior may come at a significant cost. The Internet literally may be rewiring ...

So Much Catching Up To Do | SteveAndJohnnie's "Both Sides Now ...
By steveandjohnnie
Yes, we're working on some projects, but a lot of our time has been spent adjusting to what our new “normal” is. Hopefully, in a year or so, we'll be able to figure out just what that new “normal” is but, for now, we're just taking things day by day ...
SteveAndJohnnie's "Both Sides Now" Blog

Links 5/27/12 « naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether
The new normal… PG&E Violated Pipeline Safety Rules, Investigators Say WSJ. Killings, cancer, corruption and Azerbaijan: Eurovision in the Islamic Republic of BP Greg Palast. From Baku, With Love (And Intolerance) Slate. You can identify ...
naked capitalism

Seeding the Future of UW System | The Education Optimists
By Sara Goldrick-Rab
This is the new normal. It's time to adapt." These are not the Americans you want to follow. Instead, look to the Menominee and others like them who refuse to give up. They say this: "If you need to ask a question, ask it. If you need to say ...
The Education Optimists

Higher Hard Drive Prices Are the New Normal - Slashdot
An anonymous reader tips an article looking at the state of HDD pricing now that the market has had time to recover from the flooding in Thailand and a round of ...
hardware.slashdot.org/.../higher-hard-drive-prices-are-the-new...

'The New Normal' Gay Couple Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha ...
On Friday, I posted a promo photo from The New Normal, the upcoming Also just released is a ...
www.towleroad.com/2012/05/surogate.html

The New Normal? Show about Gay Couple Pursuing Surrogacy Set ...
First came Modern Family, a television comedy that features a gay couple with an adopted child. Now, here comes The New Normal, set to premiere on ...
www.psychologytoday.com/.../the-new-normal-show-about-g...

Trailer: NeNe Leakes' New Sitcom 'The New Normal' | ..::That Grape ...
As previously reported, Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes landed a recurring role on new sitcom 'The New Normal' - the brand-child of Glee.
thatgrapejuice.tv/2012/.../trailer-nene-leakes-sitcom-the-norma...

KPMG expanding, adapting to new normal - Atlanta Business ...
Most of the clients of KPMG LLP have decided to start doing business again in an ...
www.bizjournals.com/.../kpmg-expanding-adapting-to-new-n...

The New Normal
The New Normal, coming this fall to NBC! www.nbc.com/. ... The New Normal: Two gay dads and a baby mama create a totally new kind of family comedy.
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New Normal - Google News

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