Thursday, August 2, 2012

Megadrought is the New Normal

North America may face 'megadrought'
Disaster News Network
The drought in western North America from 2000 to 2004 was the strongest in 800 years but may be a "new normal" for most of the coming century, scientists say. Such climatic extremes as the extended drought that left dying forests and depleted river basins ... 

Extreme Drought Contributes to Global Warming Trend « EcoWatch ...
By mpeters
Global circulation patterns are expected to shift in a way that would create drier conditions across western North America, expanding the region that is already chronically dry and making today's drought conditions the new normal. “At this point ...
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of... 

Megadrought, the new normal — High Country News
Even the weeds are dying in this megadrought, and long time farmers are losing their crops in New Mexico.
www.hcn.org/wotr/megadrought-the-new-normal/ 

New News on Extreme Weather and Global Warming, This Game is Getting Old
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
More solutions exist to cut this pollution and protect our health, but unless we put more of them in place right away, the extreme weather we are seeing this year will become the new normal. According to the new Environment America study, When It Rains It ...

Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)

Study: "Megadrought" The New Normal In The West
Boise State Public Radio
The drought that hit the West from 2000-2004 is not only the worst in 800 years, but it could be the new “normal”. That's according to new research in the journal Nature Geoscience. You'd have to go back to the middle ages to find a period as dry as ...

Summer 2012: Not An Anomaly But The New Normal
KMOX.com
Summer 2012: Not An Anomaly But The New Normal. Brett Blume. July 31, 2012 11:49 AM. Share this. View Comments. More Activity. Facebook Activity. What's this? Add to Timeline - What's This. Click "Log in" to publish what you read to Facebook. See what ...

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How to Talk to Kids About the New Normal
Huffington Post (blog)
These days, it's becoming more and more impossible to define "normal." That's a good thing. Go into nearly any classroom and you'll see the physical landscape of children looks vastly different than it did a generation ago. And that's before we even meet their ...

Long-distance commutes the new normal for many Canadians
Financial Post
Kirk Penney has endured commutes of eight-hour flights and one-hour refuelling stops between his home in Charlottetown, Newfoundland, and Canada's booming oil industry out west for the past five years. The 30-year-old electrician works 14 days in and ...

Financial Post

Glee's Ryan Murphy Tweets Spoilers: The First Group Song, Sam's New Lady ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The showrunner behind Glee, American Horror Story and NBC's upcoming comedy The New Normal has only been on Twitter for a day, but he seems to be taking to the 140-character format very quickly. In his first day on the social networking site, the Emmy ...

Photo Flash: First Look - Rannells, Barkin in THE NEW NORMAL
Broadway World
Rannells received a Tony nomination for his performance in BOOK OF MORMON. He previously appeared on Broadway in JERSEY BOYS and HAIRSPRAY. Barkin's theater credits include The Normal Heart, Short Talks on the Universe, Eden Court, Fool for ...

The (New) Skills You Need to Succeed in Sales
blogs.hbr.org (blog)
On the one hand, commentators and academics are repeatedly telling us that transactional selling is outmoded and that relational selling is the 'new normal.' On the other hand, most businesses are operating with traditional models of salesperson recruitment ...

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Report: Heavy Rains Up 85 Percent In New England
WBUR
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Nearly a year after the remnants of Hurricane Irene unleashed devastating floods in much of Vermont, a new report by an environmental group says extreme downpours and snowfalls are the new normal – up 85 percent in New England ...

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BuddyTV
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'Real Housewives' star NeNe Leakes wants a day off, but keeps filming
Examiner.com
At the moment, NeNe is filming two shows; “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” and “The New Normal,” a sitcom set to premiere this fall on NBC. And while she is thankful for her new work in Hollywood, she is getting tired of having cameras in her face all the ...

Examiner.com

'Real Housewives of Atlanta' star NeNe Leakes discusses working on two shows
Examiner.com
Her role on "Glee" has garnered rave reviews, and "The New Normal" is certain to be a hit with viewers when it premieres this September. The cast of "Real Housewives of Atlanta," has reportedly been filming the new season, and it is highly-anticipated by the ...

Examiner.com

Ryan Murphy Joins Twitter, Promises Unreleased 'Glee' Scene
NewNowNext
Ryan Murphy, the showrunner behind Glee, American Horror Story and the upcoming The New Normal, finally joined Twitter yesterday with a welcome from his Glee star, Lea Michele. Today, Murphy has started engaging with fans of Glee who were ripe with ...

Happy Birthday
All Access Music Group
ALL ACCESS Happy Birthday wishes on WEDNESDAY (8/1) to NEW NORMAL NETWORKS' TOM LEYKIS, WFYV/JACKSONVILLE's DOUG “THE GREASEMAN” TRACHT, former KNST-KWFM-KWMT/TUCSON PD CHRIS PATYK, WRQX/WASHINGTON ...

Leaner, Meaner State U.
Inside Higher Ed
... large research institutions, can change their underlying financial models to accommodate a "new normal” of decreased state appropriations and increased emphasis on tuition revenue, while dealing with increase political pressure to constrain tuition prices.

City budget braced for next audit review
Port Townsend Leader
The City of Port Townsend is looking for long-term solutions to the “new normal” revenue picture, while city tax collections are still dogged by the collapsed real estate market. As year one of a five-year plan to regain financial strength, 2012 has been described ...

BlackRock: An Undervalued, Industry-Leading Asset Manager To Pick Up
Seeking Alpha
We followed that up with a report comparing BlackRock's "Investing for a New World" Campaign is a more practical and useful investment marketing message than the wonky technocratic "New Normal" mantra spouted by PIMCO's resident Keynesians.

Groundbreaking for Midtown Connector
WSET
But now construction has shut down parts of Kemper Street and Park Avenue, and crews expect that to be the new normal for about seven months. Right now in phase 1, drivers should steer clear of Park Avenue between Miller Park and Kemper. This road will ...

'Stocks Are Dead!' Cries a Faithless Bill Gross
Investorplace.com
“If GDP growth itself is slowing significantly due to deleveraging in a New Normal economy, then how can stocks appreciate at 6.6% (after inflation)? They cannot, absent a productivity miracle that resembles Apple's wizardry.“ In the short term, sure, the ...

Why Bill Gross Should Stick To Bonds
Seeking Alpha
If there ever was a "New Normal," the post-war era defines it. Let's review Mr. Gross' assessment about the death of the cult of equities. I'll keep this mostly qualitative as he does in his discussion. "If wealth or real GDP was only being created at an annual rate ...

Bill Gross Is Latest to Join 'Stocks Are Dead' Club
CNBC.com
But Gross says that the dawn of what the firm has coined the "New Normal" — a prolonged slow-growth period — will thwart gains for both stocks and bonds. "Together then, a presumed 2 percent return for bonds and an historically low percentage nominal ...

The Vacation Paradox: Why Some Companies Are Paying Workers To Go Away
Forbes
In fact, for some workers this is the new normal. More young companies like Netflix, Evernote, Zynga and FullContact are rethinking traditional vacation policies. Some are cutting through bureaucracy and offering employees the autonomy to decide how much ...

Pimco's Gross: Death of Equities Is Imminent
Wall Street Journal (India)
I'm ... anti LGBT growth has been running at like three point five percent for for decades now and now we are in the new normal is how we create an economic growth is not going to ... to grow as much as it has been in the past and so ... I if the economy is ...

We shouldn't need a booklet for things like this
Las Vegas Review - Journal
It adds that people should "take note of the two nearest exits in any facility you visit," which speaks to the simmering fear that's apparently the new normal in an era of mad gunmen. The basic advice: Evasion and escape. If you can run, do it. If you can't, hide ...

New Smyrna Beach fire chief doesn't know when 9-year-old fire victim died ...
Headline Surfer
"That's our new normal. The folks at the News-Journal told us she died. We have never formally released that. To this day, I don't have anything formal that she died." "If we give the media the initial point of information that's all we can do," the fire chief said.

Headline Surfer

Big Ten heads into unusual season with PSU, OSU
Huffington Post
How to Talk to Kids About the New "Normal". Sec. Kathleen Sebelius. Giving Women Control Over Their Health Care. Keli Goff. Why Are Some Olympic Sports Whiter Than Others? Michael Smerconish. 'You Didn't Build That!' in Context. David Shuster ...

How to Talk to Kids About the New Normal - Huffington Post by ...
By neskoriko
These days, its becoming more and more impossible to define normal. Thats a good thing. Go into nearly any classroom and youll see the physical landscape of children looks vastly different than it did a generation ago. And thats before we ,
My Blog by neskoriko | English,...

Glee's Ryan Murphy Tweets Spoilers: The First Group Song, Sam's ...
The showrunner behind Glee, American Horror Story and NBC's upcoming comedy The New Normal has only been on Twitter for a day, but he seems to be taking to the 140-character format very quickly. In his first day on the social networking ...
eWallstreeter

RSOE EDIS - Climate Change Monitoring - News : Report: USA's ...
Nearly a year after the remnants of Hurricane Irene unleashed devastating floods in much of Vermont, a new report by an environmental group says extreme downpours and snowfalls are the new normal — up 85 percent in New England ...
RSOE EDIS - Climate Change News

What's Adam Levine Up To On American Horror Story? « New York's ...
By mreal197
Murphy only recently joined Twitter and has already used it to release details about the upcoming seasons of Glee and American Horror Story with promises of info on his newest sitcom The New Normal to come. Levine seems to be taking his ...
New York's 92.3 NOW

Seeker Spotlight: AARP Foundation | Perspectives on Innovation
By Steve Bonadio
Uncertainty is the new normal – one in four workers has burned through their savings and many are living from paycheck to paycheck. They have worked hard, paid their taxes, and served their communities and country, but now they're on the ...
Perspectives on Innovation

Is Alzheimer's World an Irrational Place? | Alzheimer's Reading Room
By Bob DeMarco
I changed the way I viewed my mother's action and I accepted them as her "new normal." ... If that is the case, aren't they the "new normal". Much of what ... Amazingly, once I accepted the "new normal" something amazing happened. Instead of ...
Alzheimer's Reading Room

Pet Product Retail Channel and Consumer Shopping Trends in the ...
By admin
Shorter term, since 2008, the Great Recession and its New Normal aftermath of economic sluggishness have pressured pet product retailers of all kinds. Budget-conscious consumers demand more value in the products they buy, chart out ...
Healthcare Store Online

Cut through the Fog of the Cloud
By Bob Dirkes
So much hype has spun around cloud computing during the last few years, they could be asking: Is this the new normal? Is every solution going to the cloud? If my firm doesn't whip together some cloud services – and soon – are we missing ...
CompTIA Blog

Ethical capitalism, ethical socialism | Radical Shift
By Neela Bettridge
This includes a wide range of social programmes in the communities it serves, and to continual improvement on environmental protection. The full Westpac case study appears in the Radical Shift blog and will be in the book New Normal, ...
Radical Shift

Pat Robertson: Gay Marriage Support May Be 'Death Wish' for ...
By Billy Hallowell
NBC has a new show that they have been pushing really hard called The New Normal where the only 2 guys in it are gay. Here is ... They are pushing the abnormal as the new normal….so I guess all of us that are normal are now abnormal.
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ALLEN WEST TERRIFIES THE LEFT: MATTHEW VADUM ...
By Ruth King
“If we don't take him down now, he's raising millions of dollars, and he's going to set what thenew normal is for the Republican Party.” Bond bragged that her group is harassing West (“bird dogging him at every attempt,” in her words) in order ...
RUTHFULLY YOURS

South Region MSDC Business Connections Conference ...
By cknecht
The theme is Powerful Business Alliances:L The New Normal. Highlights of the two-day event include: 300+ Corporate Leaders, Minority Entrepreneurs and Procurement Professionals; Golf Classic Relocated to one of Birmingham's Top ...
MBEConnect

The New Normal: Meet the Gillennial
I was recently introduced to the term Gillennial, which according to Ford defines a new breed of consumer that is a trail blazer in shaping the new normal.
www.moorecommgroup.com/.../the-new-normal-meet-the-gill...

Ryan Murphy's 'The New Normal' Targeted by ... - TheWrap.com
NBC's upcoming series "The New Normal," from "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy, comes under fire from One Million Moms for same-sex couple portrayal.
www.thewrap.com/.../ryan-murphys-new-normal-targeted-fam...

The New Normal | Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance Blog
After a cancer diagnosis, a patient's life and the lives of their loved ones are never the same. When Heather is asked by newly diagnosed mesothelioma patients ...
www.mesothelioma.com/blog/authors/.../the-new-normal.htm

NBC's 'The New Normal'
The Comcast owned NBC network will air a new show this fall called "The New Normal" with the subtitles "A post-modern family" and "She's Having Their Baby.
onemillionmoms.com/.../nbc’s-‘the-new-normal’-is-anything-...

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